DALE, GODFREY, brother of James Ernest Dale (qv); b. 28 Jul 1861; adm. 5 Apr 1875 (G); QS (Capt. ) 1876; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1879, matr. 10 Oct 1879; BA 1885; MA 1897; ordained deacon 1886, priest 1887 (both Rochester); Curate, St. Peter’s, Rochester, Kent 1886-9; joined Universities Mission to Central Africa 1889; missionary in Zanzibar 1889-97; member, College of St. Saviour’s, Southwark 1897-9; Vicar of All Saints, Newmarket, Cambs. , 1899-1902; rejoined Universities Mission 1902; Canon of Zanzibar 1903 - , Chancellor 1908-18, Archdeacon 1917-22; Rector of Sternfield, Suffolk 1925-; author, The Contrast between Christianity and Mohammedanism, 1905, and of several translations from English into Swahili; m. 19 Sep 1899 Jane Hamilton, dau. of James Vincent Bell MD FRCS LRCP, Star Hill, Rochester.

DALE, GERALD, brother of James Ernest Dale (qv); b. 17 Nov 1859; adm. 12 Jun 1873 (G); QS 21 Jan 1875; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1878 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 20 Jun 1878, sizar 1881, matr. Mich. 1878; BA 1882; MA 1886; schoolmaster (1901 Census); m. 29 Jul 1911 Clarissa Elizabeth, widow of Rev. John Morse Macdonald, and dau. of Frederick Dawson King.

DALBY, THOMAS WEEKES, son of Francis Dalby, Souldern, Oxfordshire [and of St. Martin’s, Ludgate ?], and Mary Weekes (IGI) [or Ann Weekes, Winfrith, Dorset ?]; b. 16 Aug 1745 (bapt. Souldern, Oxfordshire 7 Sep 1745 (IGI)); adm.; KS (aged 14) 1761; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1765, matr. 7 Jun 1765, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1765 - 14 Mar 1778, expiry year of grace as V. Chippenham; ordained deacon 29 Dec 1769, priest 23 Dec 1770 (both Oxford); Vicar of Chippenham, Wilts., from 7 Mar 1777; Rector of Leigh Delamere, Wilts., from 1794; Vicar of West Farleigh, Kent, from 1794; d. 15 Oct 1815.

DAKINS, WILLIAM, son of Rev. William Dakins, Vicar of Ashwell, Herts.; b.; at school (aged 13) 2 Jul 1582; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1586, adm. scholar 1587, matr. Dec 1586; BA 1590/1; MA 1594; BD 1601; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 3 Oct 1593, Major Fellow from 16 Mar 1593/4, Junior Dean 2 Oct 1606; ordained; Vicar of Trumpington, Cambs., 1603-5; Professor of Divinity, Gresham Coll., London, from 14 Jul 1604; one of the divines responsible for the Authorised Translation of the Bible; d. Feb 1606/7. DNB.

DACRES, HUMPHREY, son of George Dacres, Old Warden, Beds.; b. 13 Oct 1665; adm.; KS 1680; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1685, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1685, scholar 26 Apr 1686; BA 1688/9; MA 1692; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. Cambridge 2 Oct 1691, Major Fellow 2 Oct 1692 - c. 1695.

Da Costa, Stanley Campbell, son of Surg.-Major Edward Ronald Da Costa, I.M.S.; b. Aug. 1, 1892; adm. Sept. 26, 1907 (R); left Easter 1909.

D’OYLY, THOMAS, only son of Thomas D’Oyly (qv); b. 21 Oct 1820; adm. 26 May 1834 (Benthall's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1839; BA 1843; adm. Middle Temple 13 Feb 1843; became a strolling actor in the provinces.

D’OYLY, SAMUEL, only son of Charles D’Oyly, Westminster, and Martha ---; bapt. St. Margaret’s, Westminster 24 Nov 1681; adm.; BB 1691; KS (Capt. ) 1697; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1700, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1700, scholar 2 May 1701, matr. 1703; BA 1703/4; MA 1707; Minor Fellow, Trin. Coll., 2 Oct 1706, Major Fellow 25 Apr 1707, Tutor 1707; ordained; Vicar of St. Nicholas, Rochester, Kent, from Nov 1710; was “of such uncommon corpulence that he was prevented attending his duty as army chaplain in Flanders in the war of 1741 for no horse, it is stated, could carry him” (Bayley, History of the D’Oyly Family, 1845, 160); author, Christian Eloquence in Theory and Practice, made English from the French original, 1718, and joint translator with John Colston of Calmet’s Dictionnaire de la Bible, 1732; m. Frances ---; buried Rochester Cathedral 9 May 1748. DNB.

D’OYLY, SIR JOHN, BART., son of Matthias D’Oyly (qv); b. 6 Jun 1774; adm. 15 Sep 1787; KS 1788; succeeded Robert Hugh Kennedy (qv) as Capt. of the School 1791; not allowed to present himself for Election 1792 on account of his conduct when Capt. during a sudden “insurrection” of the School, when all the boys, leaving their forms and their masters, went down school to watch a “mill” in Green, and refused to return until it was finished (see Elizabethan vi, 247 and xii, 324, reproducing extracts from the London Post and Public Advertiser); left 1792; Corpus Christ Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1792, matr. Lent 1793; Sir W. Browne’s Medal for Latin Ode 1795, Chancellor’s Second Medal 1796; BA 1796; MA 1799; Fellow of Corpus Christi Coll. 1798-1801; went out to Ceylon 1801; Collector, Colombo 1802; Secretary to Government, Ceylon 1810; the only Singalese scholar in the Ceylon Civil Service; head of intelligence department in Gen. Brownrigg’s campaign against the King of Kandy 1814-5; Resident and First Commissioner, Kandy Provinces; created baronet 29 Aug 1821; d. unm. at Kandy 25 May 1825. DNB.

D’OYLY, JOHN WALPOLE, brother of Francis D’Oyly (qv); b. 23 Dec 1821; adm. 3 Oct 1834 (Scott's); left to go to Winchester Coll. 1836; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 May 1840, but did not reside; Ensign, 11th Foot 17 Sep 1841; Lieut., 5 Sep 1843; Capt., 15 Jun 1849; Maj., 13 Jul 1858; Lieut. -Col., 17 Sep 1861; Brevet Col., 17 Sep 1866, half-pay 8 May 1867; Major-Gen., 1 Oct 1877; retired as hon. Lieut. -Gen., 1 Jul 1881; m. 2 Jan 1884 Frances Maria, widow of Capt. Lord Amelius Wentworth Beauclerk, Royal Navy, and only dau. of Charles Harrison MP, Bedford Row, London, solicitor; d. 5 Apr 1897.