DELAVAL, ROBERT, brother of Sir Francis Blake Delaval (qv); b. 5 Mar 1733; adm. May 1744 (Gibson's); left 1747; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 29 Apr 1754 - retirement 14 Oct 1755; Capt., European Grenadier Co. (raised by him personally), EICS Bengal 26 Apr 1758; d. on voyage to India 11 Dec 1758.

DELBOE, SIMON, son of Simon Delboe, London, merchant, and Anna, dau. of Gillis Vanbrugh, London, merchant; b.; adm.; KS 1672; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1676, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1676, aged 18, scholar 1677; BA 1679/80; MA 1683; Fellow of Trinity Coll. from 1682; d. 21 Jul 1685.

Delgado, Frank Gershom, son of Gershom Delgado, of St. John's Wood, by Sophia, daughter of Fred Cohen; b. March 29, 1903; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (G); left Dec. 1920; a fine art publisher; m. April 3, 1935, Aileen, younger daughter of A. E. Simonsen; d. Aug. 27, 1937.

Deller, Peter John Ralph, son of Sir Edwin Deller LLD, Princiral Officer Univ. of London, and Betty, d. of Benjamin Willey Betts, embosser and chaser, of Homsey; b. 23 Jan. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (A); left Apr. 1935; Trin. Hall Camb., matric. 1935, BA 1938, MA; Univ. Coll. Hosp., MRCS LRCP 1941, MB BChir 1942; RAMC 1942-5 (Capt.), wounded (Normandy) 1944; med. adviser Min. of Defence 1952-74; OBE 1974; m. 1951 Patricia Reece, d. of Nicholas Emrhys Palmer of Wallasey; d. 30 Oct. 1977.

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.

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

Denison, Christopher; son of John Edmund Denison, of Bekesbourne, Kent, by Maude Forster; b. March 11, 1903; adm. Sept. 21, 1916 (R); left April 1919; joined the R.A.F. with his great friend at school, Charles William Anderson Scott (q.v.), in 1922; posted in 1926 to an aircraft carrier at Malta and killed in a flying accident there.

Denlow, George Doesschate (known at school as George Otto Jorissen ten Doesschate), brother of Lodewyk Dirk Sylvester ten Doesschate (qv); b. 30 Mar. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (H); left July 1934; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1941; Lieut. RAMC Apr. 1942; in practice at Derby; m. 14 Oct. 1950 Brenda, d. of Frank Collar of Lympstone, Devon; d. Nov. 1992.

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.