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DE CHAIR, LEWIS, brother of Henry De Chair (qv); b. 2 Sep 1720; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1733/4 (as Lewis Dacier), left 1737 (in school lists as Lewis De Chair 1734-6); adm. Inner Temple 23 May 1737; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 May 1738, aged 17. [will Lewis Dechair, Berkhamstead, Herts., proved PCC 22 Jul 1746]

DE COURCY, HON. ---; b.; adm. 20 Jun 1764; left 1765. [Probably one of the younger sons of John De Courcy, 26th [or 25th ?] Baron Kinsale (I)].

de Courcy-Baldwin, William Langford, son of the Rev. W. H. de Courcy Baldwin, by Mary Osborne, daughter of the Rev. George Rowe, Principal of the Diocesan Training College, York; b. June 6, 1898; adm. as K.S. Sept. 26, 1912; left July 1915; R.M.A. Woolwich; 2nd Lieut. R.E. Feb. 19, 1916; Lieut. Aug. 19, 1917; served on the western front July 11, 1917, to Nov. 11, 1918; Capt. Aug. 15, 1925; Major Sept. 24, 1934; Lieut.-Col May 1, 1941; served on the western front 1939-40 and 1944-45; retired 1949; assumed the name de Courcy as a surname; employed with a firm of consultant engineers; d. 2 Feb. 1986.

DE CROUSAY, FRANCIS, son of Col. John De Crousay, and Susanna Rouse, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; b. 20 Oct 1749; at school for nine years under Markham, Hinchliffe and Smith (R. F. Scott, ed., Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb., pt iii, 176); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Jul 1767; d. 1769.

DE FONBLANQUE, JOHN ANTHONY (subsequently FONBLANQUE, JOHN DE GRENIER), second son of Jean Grenier De Fonblanque, London, merchant and banker, and Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Bagshawe, London; b.; adm. 24 Jan 1774; left Christmas 1774; at Harrow School 1774-6; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Nov 1780, aged 21; adm. Middle Temple 24 Sep 1777, called to bar 4 Jan 1783, Bencher 1 Jun 1804, Reader 1808, Treasurer 1815; KC 28 Apr 1804; MP Camelford 1802-6; assumed additional name of De Grenier by royal licence May 1828; regarded at his death as the “father of the English Bar”; writer on legal subjects; m. 30 May 1786 Frances Caroline, dau. of Col. John Fitzgerald; d. 4 Jan 1837. DNB.

DE FONBLANQUE, MILDMAY BARRINGTON, eldest son of Edward Barrington de Fonblanque, Deputy Comptroller, Commissariat Department, and Lavinia, dau. of Capt. Joseph Foot, Toronto, Canada; b. 15 Jun 1845; adm. 23 Jun 1859 (James'); left Aug 1861; d. 27 Dec 1861.

De Gans, David Anthony, son of David De Gans, nautical consult., of Ash, Kent, and Irene, d. of Harry Richardson of Bath; b. 7 Mar. 1947; adm. Sept. 1960 (W); d. 18 July 1965.

de Grelle-Rogier, Charles Henry Vincent, son of Henry De Grelle-Rogicr, of Hampsted, Belgian Vice-Consul, by Marion Winter, daughter of James Hearne Shirley-Russell of Brantford, Ontario; b. Sept. 8, 1888; adm. April 23, 1902 (G); left Dec. 1903; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 13th Batt. Royal Sussex Regt. Jan. 8, 1915; a clerk in the Ministry of Labour 1930; m. June 7, 1918, Gwendoline Ada, daughter of Henry Band, of Eastbourne.

de Hailes, Janies Phayre, only son of Alfred James De Hailes, of Wimbledon, Surrey, by Sibella Caroline, daughter of Lieut.-Col. James Raymond Johnstone Dewar, R. A., of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset; b. June 1, 1891; adm. May 4, 1905 (H); left July 1908; 2nd Lieut. A. S. C. Oct. 13, 1914; Lieut. Aug. 1, 1915; Capt.; served in France and Belgium Jan. 1915 - Aug. 1920; mentioned in despatches L. G. May 29, 1917; a mechanical engineer; m. March 8, 1917, Marjory, eldest daughter of Charles Christie Brown Douglas, of Redhill, Surrey; d. 17 Dec. 1978.