DE’ATH, GEORGE HANBY, brother of Harry Holmes De’Ath (qv); b. 16 Sep 1861; adm. (G) 22 Jan 1874; left Easter 1878; Guy’s Hospital; MRCS 1884, LSA 1885; practised at Buckingham; Coroner for Winslow division of Buckinghamshire; m. 5 Aug 1886 Margaret Fair, youngest dau. of Edward Zimmermann, Castle Hill, Ealing, Middlesex, South American merchant; d. 7 Jul 1901.

Dearmer, Geoffrey, son of Percy Dearmer (qv); b. 21 Mar. 1893; adm. Jan. 1907 (G); left July 1910; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1912; Lond. Regt Sept. 1914 (Lieut.), RASC 1916; served Gallipoli, Egypt and France 1914-20; examiner of plays, Lord Chamberlain's Office; programme divn BBC, editor Children's Hour programmes 1939-59; MVO 1958; author of Poems 1918, The Day's Delight 1922; m. 14 Mar. 1936 Margaret Helen, d. of Sir Henry Edward Edlestone Procter CBE; d. 18 Aug. 1996

DEARMER, PERCY, brother of Thomas Edgar Dearmer (qv); b. 27 Feb 1867; adm. (G) 22 Jan 1880; left May 1881; subsequently at private school in Vevey, Switzerland; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1886; BA 1890; MA 1896; BD and DD 1911; ordained deacon 1891, priest 1892; Curate, St. Anne’s, Lambeth 1891-4, St. John’s, Great Marlborough Street, 1894-7, Berkeley Chapel, Mayfair, 1897, St. Mark’s, Marylebone Road, 1898-1901; Vicar of St. Mary’s, Primrose Hill, Hampstead, Middlesex 1901-15; Secretary, London Christian Social Union 1891-1912; Chaplain to British Red Cross in Servia 1915; YMCA Lecturer, France 1916, Delhi 1917-8, Japan and USA 1918-9; a liturgical scholar and hymnologist; Professor of Ecclesiastical Art, King’s Coll. London, from 1919, also Fellow King’s Coll. London; Canon Residentiary, Westminster, from 1931; joint editor, The English Hymnal; author, numerous publications on religious art, the liturgy and social questions; m. 1st, 1891, Mabel, artist and writer, dau. of Surgeon-Maj. William White; m. 2nd, 19 Aug 1916 Nancy, sister of Denis Knowles (qv); d. 29 May 1936. DNB Supp.

DENMAN, FRANCIS LEMOINE, eldest son of James Lemoine Denman, Kensington Gardens Square, London, wine merchant, and his first wife Georgina Sarah, younger dau. of William Heading, Crimplesham, Norfolk; b. 18 Jan 1856; adm. (G) 22 Sep 1871; left Aug 1874; for several years in father’s business; Corpus Christ Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Jan 1885, matr. Lent 1885; BA 1887; MA 1891; ordained deacon 1888 (Peterborough), priest 1889 (Bishop Mitchinson for Peterborough); Curate, Oundle, Northants., 1888-92; missionary with London Jews’ Society 1892-1900, Secretary 1900-14; Vicar of Cold Harbour, near Dorking, Surrey 1914-26; author, Christ in Holy Scripture, 1914; m. 11 Aug 1890 Florence, younger dau. of Richard Barnes Roscow MRCS LSA, Accrington, Lancs., surgeon; d. 27 May 1939.

DICKSON, GEORGE COCHRANE, son of Maj. Richard Lothian Dickson, 1st Life Guards, and Julia Diana, youngest dau. of Major-Gen. Thomas Cox, First Major, 1st Foot Guards; b. 1 Oct 1808; adm. (G) 28 Feb 1823; left 1825; Ensign, 85th Foot 5 Apr 1831; Lieut., 24 Nov 1835; Capt., 1 Nov 1839; 84th Foot, 8 Apr 1842; d. at Moulmein, Burma 17 Nov 1842.

DIGNAM, JOHN JAMES; b. 4 Apr 1827; adm. (G) 9 Apr 1839. [Perhaps he and William Dignam (qv) were sons of James Dignam, Gerrard Street, Soho, solicitor : mother Anne Scott ? (IGI)].

Dillon, Harold George Sydney, son of Emil Joseph Dillon, journalist and author, by his first wife; b. Sept. 24, 1889; adm. April 30 1903 (G); left July 1907; Christ's Coll. Camb., scholar, matric. Michaelmas 1907; B.A. 1910; took part in a gold-prospecting expedition in the Lena River District, Siberia, 1912-3; served in R.A.F. in 1917, and in R. N. V. R. as Lieut. in 1918; Vice-Consul at Libau, Courland, 1919-21; employed in the Enemy Debts Clearing House in London 1921-2; m.; d. 1922.

Doll, John Christopher Shaboe, brother of Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll (qv); b. 8 Sept. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (G); left July 1937; RAFVR 1939-5 (Flight Lieut.); DFC Oct. 1943; camer­aman MGM studios 1946-54; BBC TV producer 1954-69; freelance TV producer and director 1970-; produced and directed Life of Sir Francis Chichester, and Prince Charles (BBC2 1975); m. 1st 4 Mar. 1946 Joan Frances Leak; 2nd 8 June 1954 Josephine Douglas, d. of Bernhard Rickett of Huddersfield; d. 13 Oct. 2004.

DOWNIE, ALEXANDER FRANCIS MACKENZIE, son of Sir Alexander Mackenzie Downie MD, Physician in Ordinary to Duke of Cambridge and Physician to British Embassy, Frankfurt, and Mary Ann, dau. of Charles Hare, Berkeley Square, Bristol; b. Germany 23 Oct 1844; at Marlborough Coll. Feb-Dec 1855; adm. (G) 3 Jun 1858; QS May 1860; left Whitsun 1863; adm. solicitor Easter 1870; practised at Alton, Hants.; Clerk to Magistrates, Alton division, and Registrar and High Bailiff of County Court there; m. 17 Aug 1876 Henrietta Hall (IGI); d. 6 Mar 1929.

DOYLE, PERCY WILLIAM, youngest son of Sir Charles William Doyle (qv), and his first wife; b. 4 Feb 1809; adm. (G) 21 Feb 1823; attaché, British Mission, Washington 2 Jun 1825, Madrid 9 Dec 1829, and to Sir Robert Adair’s special mission to Belgium 1832; attaché, Constantinople 12 Mar 1834; Secretary of Legation, Mexico 6 Dec 1842 - Dec 1851, Minister Plenipotentiary there 24 Dec 1851 - retirement 19 Feb 1858; CB 4 Mar 1858; d. unm. 21 Feb 1887.