DUCASSE, PETER, son of Peter Ducasse, St. Clements Danes, London, linen draper, and Marie Dumaurisson; bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 7 May 1710 (IGI); adm. (aged 12) Jan 1722/3; KS (Capt. ) 1726; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1730, but never adm.; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Jun 1730; an Usher at the School c. 1736.

DUBERLY, CHARLES, second son of Sir James Duberly, Gaynes Hall, Hunts., and his second wife Etheldred, elder dau. of Charles St. Barbe, Lymington, Hants.; b. 28 Jan 1810; adm. 27 Sep 1823 (Stikeman's); left Mar 1828; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 May 1828; BA 1832; ordained deacon 29 May 1836, priest 21 May 1837 (both Lincoln); Perpetual Curate of Coundon, Derbs. [check], 1844-56; Rector of Wolsingham, co. Durham, from 1856; m. Fanny Potts [perhaps m. 1843 Emily Potts (IGI)]; d. 8 Dec 1876.

DU PRE, HENRY RAMUS, son of Rev. Henry Ramus Du Prè, Rector of Shellingford, Berks., and Anne Cuthbert, youngest dau. of John Cuthbert Joyner, Denmark Hill, Surrey; b. 3 Sep 1848; adm. 7 Jun 1860; QS 1863; left Whitsun 1867; a farmer in Manitoba, Canada; subsequently resident in California, U. S. A.; m. Sophia Pruden.

Du Pasquier, Arthur Edmund, son of Francis John Du Pasquier, of Kensington; b. Oct. 6, 1873; adm. April 27, 1887 (H); left April 1890; a director of the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Export Co.; m. July 28, 1898, Laura, daughter of William Lyle, Trinity House Superintendent at Pembroke Dock; d. May 20, 1933.

DRYWOOD, GEORGE, eldest son of George Drywood (qv); b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1618, adm. scholar 1619; BA 1622/3; MA 1626; living at Shaxtons, Writtle, Essex, in 1634.

DRYWOOD, GEORGE; b.; adm.; QS in 1566; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1569, adm. scholar 1570, matr. Mich 1570; BA 1573/4; MA 1577; BD 1586; Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1576- c. 1594, Senior Dean 1588; Deputy Public Orator, Cambridge Univ., 18 May 1582; ordained deacon and priest (Peterborough) 28 May 1583; Rector of Mistley cum Manningtree, Essex 10 Jan 1585/6-90; Rector of South Ockendon, Essex, from 31 Aug 1590; Rector of Holy Trinity the Less, London, 11 May 1603-5; Rector of Chadwell, Essex, from 11 Jun 1605; lic. to m. 1st, 8 Dec 1593 Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Sampson, Kersey, Suffolk; m. 2nd, 28 Jun 1597 Mary, dau. of William Keltredge, St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London; buried at South Ockendon 2 Jun 1611.

Dryden's was established in 1976. It is named after John Dryden (1631-1700), a King's Scholar and the first Poet Laureate. An official magazine, Private Parts: Dryden’s Organ, ran briefly in 1981.

DRYDEN, JONATHAN, son of Rev. Jonathan Dryden, Vicar of Camberwell, Kent, and Prebendary of Hereford, and Martha, dau. of Eleanor Vaughan, Hereford, widow; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1656, adm. pens. 14 May 1656, scholar 1656, matr. Lent 1656/7; BA 1659/60; MA 1663 (incorp. Oxford 6 Apr 1665); Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1661-c. 1669, Tutor 1663; ordained deacon (Ely) 19 Sep 1663, priest (London) May 1665; Rector of Cheriton, Kent 1668-76; Rector of Keighley, Yorks., 1676-9; Rector of Scrayingham and of Londesborough, Yorks., from 1680; Prebendary of York from 7 Jun 1682; a letter in Latin written by him to Richard Busby (qv), dated “Prid. Cal. Feb. 1659”, is preserved among the Birch MSS in the British Museum; m. 27 Nov 1690 Margaret, widow of Samuel Mancklin, York, merchant, and afterwards of Charles Wood, York, merchant, and dau. of Henry Harrison, Holtby; d. 25 Aug 1702, aged 63.

DRYDEN, JOHN, second son of John Dryden (elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1650, qv); b. 1667; adm.; KS 1682; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1685, but did not take up his election and was placed by his father under the care of Rev. Obadiah Walker, Master of Univ. Coll. Oxford and a Roman Catholic; as a Roman Catholic convert nominated Fellow of Magdalen Coll. Oxford by James II 31 Dec 1687, admitted 11 Jan 1687/8, but removed by the Visitor 25 Oct 1688; went to Rome with his brother Charles Dryden (qv), and officiated as his brother’s deputy and perhaps replacement in the Papal household; accompanied Hon. William Cecil to Naples, Sicily and Malta Oct 1700- Jan 1701, his account of their tour being published posthumously in 1776; translated the 14th satire of Juvenal for his father’s English version; author, The Husband, his own Cuckold, a play performed at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1696; d. unm. at Rome 16 Apr 1703. DNB.

DRYDEN, JOHN, son of Erasmus Dryden, Titchmarsh, Northants., and Mary, dau. of Rev. Henry Pickering, Rector of Aldwincle All Saints, Northants.; b. 19 Aug 1631; adm.; KS; wrote while a KS an elegy on the death of Lord Hastings, published by R. B. in Lachrymae Musarum, 1649; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1650, adm. pens. 18 May 1650, scholar 2 Oct 1650; “walled” for a fortnight and not allowed to go outside the college “excepting for sermons” Jul 1652, for disobedience to the Vice-Master (W. W. Rouse Ball, Cambridge Papers, 218-9); forfeited scholarship by non-residence and thus ineligible for a Fellowship; BA 1653/4; MA Lambeth 17 Jun 1668; mourned Cromwell’s death in Heroic Stanzas 1658; celebrated the Restoration in Astraea Redux 1660, and Charles II’s Coronation in a Panegyric 1661; one of original Fellows of Royal Society 20 May 1663; author, Annus Mirabilis 1667; Poet Laureate and Historiographer 18 Aug 1670 - 11 Dec 1688; Sir Martin Mar-All, one of his most successful plays, was produced in 1667, Aurungzebe, his finest rhymed tragedy, in 1675, and All for Love, his finest play, in 1678; his Absalom and Achitophel was published in 1681; defended Anglicanism in Religio Laici, 1682; Collector of Customs, Port of London 17 Dec 1683; a Roman Catholic convert 1686; author, The Hind and the Panther, 1687; translations by him of Juvenal and Persius were published in 1693, and of Livy in 1697; wrote Alexander’s Feast 1697 [check] and Fables Ancient and Modern, 1700; his complete works, with a life by Sir Walter Scott, were published in 1808; in a note to the third satire of Persius Dryden wrote “I remember I translated this satire when I was a King’s Scholar at Westminster School, for a Thurday-night exercise; and believe, that it, and many others of my exercises of the nature in English verse, are still in the hands of my learned master the Rev. Dr. Busby” (Works, xiii, 230); Dryden refers to Busby’s excessive use of the rod in a letter to Charles Montagu (ibid., xviii, 159-60) and to the curious custom of “custos” in Hall in a letter to Busby (ibid., xviii, 98); Dryden’s “form” was long preserved up School; m. 1 Dec 1663 Lady Elizabeth Howard, eldest dau. of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham; d. 1 May 1700. His body lay in state at the College of Physicians for ten days, and he was buried in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. DNB.