DUNTON, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1565-9 (Chapter Muniments 54005-18, 54020).

DUPORT, JAMES, fourth son of Rev. John Duport DD, Master of Jesus Coll. Cambridge, and Rachel, dau. of Right Rev. Richard Cox DD, Bishop of Ely; b. 1606; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1622, adm. scholar 1623; 4th in “ordo” and BA Jan 1626/7; MA 1630; BD 1637; DD 1660; Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1627-c. 1666, Tutor 1635-64, a Senior Fellow 1654, Vice-Master 1655-65; Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge Univ., 13 Jul 1639 - 54, ejected; ordained; Archdeacon of Stow 14 Aug 1641- res 12 Nov 1641; Prebendary of Lincoln from 14 Aug 1641 (ejected by Parliamentary Visitors 1643, reinstated at Restoration); Lady Margaret Preacher 1646; at Restoration appointed Chaplain to King Charles II and reinstated as Regius Professor of Greek, but soon afterwards resigned his Professorship to make way for his pupil Isaac Barrow; Dean of Peterborough from 27 Jul 1664; Master of Magdalene Coll., Cambridge, from 1668; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ. 1669; Rector of Boxworth, Cambs., 1668; Rector of Aston Flamville, Leics., Jan 1672/3-77; the most eminent Greek scholar of his day; author, Threnothriambos (Greek translation of Book of Job), 1637, Homeri Gnomologia duplici Parallelismo illustrata, 1660 (of which the preface contains an enthusiastic and grateful address to the School), and other works; d. 17 Jul 1679. DNB.

DUPPA, BRIAN, second son of Jeffrey Duppa, Lewisham, Kent, Purveyor of the Buttery to Queen Elizabeth I and Brewer to King James I, and Lucrece Maresall; b. 10 Mar 1588/9; adm.; QS; “here”, said Henry King (qv), Bishop of Chichester, in his sermon at Duppa’s funeral in Westminster Abbey, “he had the greatest dignity, which the School could afford put upon him, to be the Paedonomus at Christmas, Lord of his Fellow-Scholars” (p. 34); elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1605, matr. 9 Jul 1605, Westminster Student to 1611; BA 1609; MA 1614; BD and DD 1625; Fellow All Souls Coll. Oxford 1612; Junior Proctor 1619; ordained; in 1620s successively Chaplain to Prince Palatine and to Earl of Dorset; Vicar of Westham, Sussex 7 Mar 1625/6-38; Vicar of Hailsham, Sussex 22 Dec 1626-26/7; Vicar of Withyham, Sussex 5 Feb 1626/7-38; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 28 Nov 1629- Jun 1638; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ. 1632-4; Prebendary and Chancellor of Salisbury 6 Jan 1634- Jun 1638; tutor to Prince of Wales and Duke of Gloucester 1638; Rector of Petworth, Sussex 19 May 1638-41; consecrated Bishop of Chichester 17 Jun 1638; translated to Salisbury 14 Dec 1641; on suppression of the episcopacy he retired to Oxford, and subsequently to Richmond, Surrey; carried out private ordinations of priests and deacons during the Commonwealth, and interested himself in the preservation of the episcopal succession; translated to Winchester 4 Oct 1660; Lord Almoner from 24 Jul 1660; author of a few published sermons and of Jonsonius Virbius, a collection of thirty poems on the death of Ben Jonson (qv), 1637; m. 23 Nov 1626 Jane, dau. of Nicholas Killingtree, Longham, Norfolk; d. 26 Mar 1662. Buried in North Ambulatory, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

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; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1745/6 (Preston's); in school lists 1746-9.

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, 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.

DURY, ALEXANDER, brother of John Bourchier Dury (qv); b. 2 Aug 1859; adm. (G) 3 Apr 1872; left Christmas 1874; “agent to W. H. Wilberforce” (1881 Census); “land agent”, living Lincoln (1901 Census); of The Moss, Ripley, Yorkshire.