DURAND, ---; b.; in school list 1743.
DURAND, SIMON, b.; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1720; in school list 1729; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 12 May 1729, subsequently pens., matr. 1729; BA 1732/3; MA 1736; ordained; d. c. 1744 (will of Simon Durand, clerk, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, proved PCC 1 Jun 1744).
Silversmith. Apprenticed to Omar Ramsden 1929-1938. Established workshop in partnership with Leonard Moss in 1945. CBE 1976. Studio taken over by Hector Miller in 1976.
DURELL, DAVID, son of David Durell, St. Saviour’s, Jersey, and Marie, dau. of Jean Aubin, Denonciateur, Royal Court of Jersey; b. 18 Jun 1762; adm. 23 Sep 1772; KS 1777; convicted with four other Westminster boys at Middlesex Quarter Sessions 21 May 1779 of a gross assault on a man in Dean’s Yard, but was only fined one shilling, as it was doubtful whether he was one of the principal offenders (Annual Register, 1779, 213); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1781, matr. 30 Jun 1781, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1781 - void 29 Sep 1792, expiry year of grace as V. Mongewell from 15 Oct 1791; BA 1785; MA 1789; DD Durham [check date]; ordained; Perpetual Curate, Hampton Magna, Worcs., 3 Jul 1789-91; Rector of Mongewell, Oxfordshire, from 1791; Rector of Twining, Gloucs., 1791-1802; Rector of Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire, 1793-1843; Prebendary of Durham from 4 Dec 1801; m. Ann, dau. of Philip Robin, Jersey; d. 15 Jan 1852.
DURELL, JOHN DURELL, elder son of Durell Durell, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, and Anne, third dau. of Joseph Hamer, Demerara, West Indies; b. 21 May 1812; adm. 28 May 1823; New Inn, Oxford, matr. 16 Feb 1837; played cricket for Oxford 1838; BA 1840; ordained deacon (Norwich) 10 Jan 1841, priest (Winchester) 12 Dec 1841; Vicar of Barton Stacey, Hampshire, 1847-60; Perpetual Curate of Marchwood, Hampshire 1860-78; m. Florence Arabella, third dau. of Matthew Henry Lister (qv); d. 11 Jun 1879.
DURELL, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1745/6 (Preston's); in school lists 1746-9.
DURHAM, JOHN; b; adm. 17 Sep 1778, chorister.
Durham, Shelton, son of John Stephens Durham, attorney-at-law and civil engineer, of Philadelphia, USA, and Constance, d. of Robert Shelton Mackenzie MD DLitt, of Edinburgh and Philadelphia; b. 26 Nov. 1900; adm. Jan. 1915 (A); left Apr. 1919; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1919, BA 1923, MA 1939; Lond. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1931; MB BCh (Oxon.) 1939; Dip. in Tropical Medicine & Health 1940; RAMC in WW2 (Lieut.); MO Tanganyika Territory and later Cameroons Devel. Corpn; regional malariologist Papua New Guinea 1961-6; MO Durban, South Africa, 1967-72; m. 1st 1940 Eve Hart; 2nd 4 Oct. 1979 Mabel Simmons; d. 12 Nov. 1992.
Durnford, John Nigel Livingstone, son of Dudley Silas Victor Durnford, schoolmaster, and Winifred Marjorie, d. of Alfred Smith Lamb, evangelist and missionary in N. Africa; b. 21 Mar. 1928; adm. Sept. 1941 (G); left July 1943; RASC in WW2, serving in Trieste and Palestine; asst. master St David’s Sch., Queen’s Gate, London; d. 6 Mar. 1994.