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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.

DUROURE, CHARLES PIERRE, brother of Francis Duroure (qv); bapt. French Huguenot Chapel, Spring Gardens 13 Apr 1717 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Jun 1732; left 1735; apprenticed to Samuel Torin, citizen and broderer, 26 Apr 1737; d. unm. 6 Jun 1752.

DUROURE, FRANCIS, son of Scipio Duroure, Col. 12th Foot, and his cousin Marguerite, dau. of Capt. Charles de Vignolles; b. 13 Jun 1715; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1726; in school list 1731; apprenticed to Richard Sutton, Lincoln’s Inn, attorney-at-law, 8 Dec 1732; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jan 1732/3; an attorney-at-law, in partnership with Peter Delande (qv); a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1755-78); FRS 10 Nov 1774-97; erected monument in East Cloister, Westminster Abbey, in memory of his father and of his uncle Lieut. -Gen. Alexander Duroure; m. 12 Jul 1746 Susanna Elizabeth, dau. of Daniel Crespin, St. Stephen’s, Walbrook, London; d. 16 Feb 1808.

DUROURE, JOHN, son of Francis Duroure (qv); bapt. 15 Jul 1749; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1764; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 20 Jun 1768; Lieut. and Capt., 3 Jun 1774; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 15 Mar 1779; retd. 15 Dec 1789; FRS 25 May 1780; FSA 16 Nov 1780; m. 2 Jun 1790 Sarah, eldest surviving dau. of Thomas Winn, Ackton, Yorks.; d. 28 Feb 1801.