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DEMAINBRAY, STEPHEN CHARLES TRIBOUDET, son of Stephen Triboudet de Mainbray, St. Martin’s in the Fields, Huguenot refugee, and Marie, dau. of Rev. Alexandre de Schivac, Minister of French Church, Bristol; b. 20 Feb 1710; at school under Freind (Lysons, Environs of London, iii, 317); (Desaguliers'); Leiden Univ.; Edinburgh Univ., LLD; lectured at Edinburgh on experimental philosophy; fought as volunteer in English army at Prestonpans 21 Sep 1745; kept boarding school for young ladies, Edinburgh; afterwards went to Dublin, Bordeaux, Montpelier and Lyon; tutor in mathematics, physics and natural history to the future King George III when Prince of Wales 1754-60; Astronomer, Royal Observatory, Kew, from 1768; held “three remunerative offices in the Custom House”, as Examiner of Out-Port Books (by 1769), Surveyor of the East India Warehouse (appointed Jul 1765), and Inspector of Un-rated East India Goods (by 1760); m. 1st, before leaving school, Mary Warshare, Embden [sic : in Netherlands ?]; m. 2nd, 1 Feb 1755 Sarah, sister of John Horne Tooke (qv); d. 20 Feb 1782. DNB.

Dempster, Charles Ian, son of John Dempster; b. 19 June 1925; adm. May 1939 (A); left Dec. 1939; d. 2000.

DENBOW, RICHARD; b.; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1718/9; in under school list 1720.

DENEW, ---; b.; in under school lists 1715, 1716.

DENHAM, BENJAMIN, son of Richard Denham, London, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); bapt. St. Mary Le Strand, London 3 Sep 1620 (IGI); at school under Osbaldeston and Busby (J. Peile, Biog. Register of Christ’s Coll. , i, 460); Min. Can. 1637; Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 15 May 1639, aged 17; BA 1642/3; MA 1650; ordained; Chaplain, Levant Company, at Constantinople, subsequently at Livorno Feb – Sep 1666.

Dening, Harold, son of Col. Lewis Dening, D.S.O., of the Indian Staff Corps, by his second wife, Beatrice C., daughter of E. J. Scott, of Southsea, Hants; b. July 18, 1879; adm. Jan. 19, 1893 (A); left Dec. 1894; 2nd Lieut. R.M.A. Sept. 1, 1897; Lieut. July 1, 1898; 2nd Lieut. (unattached) Oct. 24, 1901, Indian Army Nov. 26, 1902; Lieut. July 6, 1903; Capt. July 21, 1907; Major Sept. 1, 1915; Lieut.-Col. July 21, 1924; served in the Waziristan expedition 1901-2, mentioned in despatches L. G. Aug. 8, 1902; d. 1933