DOWNS; b.; KS at Midsummer 1638 (WAM 34165).
DOWNTON, PAUL; b.; adm.; QS in 1596 (Chapter Muniments 33651); a contributor to the collection of verses written by QSS on the death of Lady Elizabeth Cecil 1597, preserved among Salisbury MSS, Hatfield House.
Dowson, Lawrence Stephen, son of Henry Martin Dowson, of Oxford; b. Oct. 20, 1897; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); left July 1914; Wadham Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1914; R. M.C. Sandhurst; 2nd Lieut. Oxf. and Bucks Light Infantry Sept. 15, 1915; Lieut. Dec. 20, 1916; was wounded while serving in Great War I.
Doyle, Douglas Lippiatt, brother of John Lionel Cyril Doyle (q.v.); b. June 6, 1904; adm. Jan. 18, 1917 (H); left Dec. 1919; South Eastern Agricultural Coll.; London Univ.; B.Sc. (Agric.) 1925; a farmer in Wilts; later a manufacturer of weighing machines; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. Dec. 31, 1939; Sqdn.-Ldr.; mentioned in despatches L.G. June 14, 1945; m. Jan. 5, 1931, Frances Anne, daughter of. John Bustin Bowman, of Great Yarmouth; d. 1965.
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.
DRAKE, JAMES WILLIAM, second son of John Drake (in school lists 1795-7, qv), and his first wife; b. 31 Oct 1809; adm. 30 May 1823 (Stelfox's); entered Royal Navy; Mate, 3 Aug 1831; m. 29 Jan 1846 Sarah, youngest dau. of Robert Thornton Heysham, Weston Lordship, Herts.; d. 28 Jun 1862.
DRAKE, JAMES, son of James Drake MD FRS FRCP, London, a vigorous Tory pamphleteer; b.; adm.; in under school list 1715; KS (aged 14) 1718; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Jul 1720, matr. 1720; MD 1728; practised medicine at Salisbury; d. 12 Mar 1736.
DRAKE, JOHN MINSHULL, eldest son of John Drake, Commissary-Gen. HM Forces, and Maria Story (IGI); b. 31 May 1807; adm. (G) 12 Jan 1818; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1824; Ensign, 46th Native Infantry 14 Aug 1825; Lieut., 1 Apr 1828; Capt. (in the Army) 27 Jun 1841; 46th Native Infantry, 26 Oct 1844; Brevet Maj., 11 Nov 1851; 46th Native Infantry, 17 Apr 1856; Lieut. -Col., 65th Native Infantry 11 Sep 1859; served in Indian Mutiny; m. 1st, 22 May 1838 Caroline, youngest dau. of Capt. G. H. Grimes, Royal Artillery; m. 2nd, at Lahore, India, 21 Mar 1850 Margaret McLean, widow of Robert John Dring, Calcutta, merchant, and dau. of John Todd; d. at Dinapore 6 Jul 1861.
DRAKE, MONTAGU GARRARD, son of William Drake, Adderbury, Oxfordshire; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1723/4; KS 1725; buried Amersham, Bucks., 14 Aug 1725. [presumably Mountagu (sic) Drake, son of William Drake, bapt. Souldern, Oxfordshire 9 Aug 1709]
DRAKE, THOMAS, brother of William Drake (adm. 1738, qv); b. 25 Jul 1727; adm. Sep 1735 (Playford's); KS 1741; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Feb 1744/5; BCL 1751; DCL 1759; ordained; Rector of Amersham, Bucks. , from 26 Oct 1753; Rector of St. Luke’s, Chelsea, Middlesex, from 3 Aug 1770; m. 31 Mar 1755 Elizabeth, dau. of Isaac Whittington MP, Orford, Suffolk, a Clerk in Chancery; d. 12 Apr 1775.