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GB-2014-WSA-06164 · Person · 1842-1940

DICKSON, ROBERT BRUCE, brother of Sir John Frederick Dickson (qv); b. 25 Mar 1842; adm. 7 Jun 1855 (James'); QS 1857; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1861, adm. pens. 25 May 1861. Matr. Mich. 1861; BA 1865; MA 1868; ordained deacon 1865 (London), priest 1866 (Oxford); Curate, Holy Trinity, Brompton 1865-6, Coleshill, Bucks., 1866-74, High Wycombe, Bucks., 1874-7; Curate in charge, Ashtead, Surrey 1878; Vicar of Cadmore End, Bucks., 1878-90; Vicar of Stewkley, Bucks., 1890-1905; Vicar of Speen, Berks., 1905-22; m. 1st, 28 Apr 1877 Augusta Catherine, dau. of Henry Hugh Hilder MRCS LSA, Berkhampstead, Herts.; m. 2nd, 7 Jul 1881 Grace Agnes, third dau. of Rev. Clement Francis Broughton, Rector of Norbury-cum-Snelston, Derbs.; d. 3 Mar 1940.

GB-2014-WSA-06165 · Person · 1883-1921

Dickson, Sigurd Ayton, youngest son of Sir John Frederick Dickson (q.v.); b. July 16, 1883; adm. May 6, 1897 (G); left July 1902; a District Commissioner in West Africa, and subsequently in South Africa; became a rubber-planter in the Federated Malay States; returned home on account of Great War I; 2nd Lieut. R. F. A. (Spec. Res.) Nov. 20, 1915; went out to the western front and was attached to 2nd Brigade; killed in action near Ypres Feb. 1, 1917; unm.

Didier, Andrew, 1722-1756
GB-2014-WSA-06167 · Person · 1722-1756

DIDIER, ANDREW, son of John Didier, St. James’s, Westminster, and Catherine --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 2 Jan 1722 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Jul 1733; left 1737; apprenticed to Thomas Tribe, citizen and apothecary, 23 Dec 1737; MD Aberdeen 10 Dec 1753; LRCP 23 Dec 1754; Physician to Middlesex Hospital 3 Jan 1755; m. 1754 Ann Bruce, widow; d. 28 Jun 1756.

Didsbury, ---, fl. 1767
GB-2014-WSA-06168 · Person · fl. 1767

DIDSBURY, ---; b.; in school lists 1764, 1765, 1767; left Whitsun 1767. [note John Didsbury, St. Anne’s, Soho, will proved PCC 7 Nov 1803]

Diemar, George, d. 1756
GB-2014-WSA-06169 · Person · d. 1756

DIEMAR, GEORGE; b.; adm. Jul 1738 (Morel's); left 1744; a clerk in Secretary of State’s Office Nov 1753 -c. 1755. [perhaps George Augustus Charles, Baron Diemar, Chamberlain of the Elector of Cologne (will proved PCC 28 Apr 1756), who m. 19 Dec 1754 Mary Green (IGI)]

Dietrichsen, ---, fl. 1791
GB-2014-WSA-06170 · Person · fl. 1791

DIETRICHSEN, ---; b.; at school 1791 or 1792. [perhaps John Augustus Dietrichson, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 24 Jan 1780, son of Christian Dietrichson, and Elizabeth --- (IGI)]

Digby, Charles, 1743-1811
GB-2014-WSA-06171 · Person · 1743-1811

DIGBY, HON. CHARLES, brother of Edward Digby, 6th Baron Digby (I) (qv); b. 22 Apr 1743; in school list 1754; KS 1758; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1761, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1761 - void 6 Jun 1768 (expiry year of grace as R. Kilmington); BA 1765; MA 1770; ordained deacon (Oxford) 22 Jun 1766; Rector of Kilmington, Somerset, from 1766; Prebendary of Wells from 13 Dec 1774, also Canon Residentiary from 1 Jul 1794; Perpetual Curate of Moddington [check], Wilts., in 1783; Vicar of Oborne, Dorset, from 1789; a Brother of St. Katherine’s Hospital by the Tower, London, 1801; Canon of Windsor from 23 Jan 1808; m. 5 Jan 1775 Priscilla, dau. of William Mellier [or Mellior ?], Castle Cary, Somerset; d. 10 Sep 1811.