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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.

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, MATTHIAS, eldest son of Ven. Thomas D’Oyly DCL, Archdeacon of Lewes and Chancellor of Chichester, and Henrietta Maria, dau. of Robert Godfrey, London; b. 23 Nov 1743; at school under Markham (Bayley, History of the D’Oyly Family, 1845, 82); Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Jan 1761, matr. Mich. 1762; ; BA 1765; MA 1768; Fellow, St. John’s Coll. 1766; ordained deacon 20 Sep 1767, priest 1 Dec 1767 (both Ely); Vicar of Pevensey, Sussex, from 9 Dec 1767; Prebendary of Ely 1 Feb 1770 - res Feb 1787; Domestic Chaplain to Right Rev. John Warren, Bishop of Bangor, 23 Feb 1787; Rector of Buxted, Sussex, from 1787; Archdeacon of Lewes 29 Apr 1806 - res 9 Feb 1815; m. 22 May 1770 Mary, dau. of George Poughfer, Leicester and Kensington Square, London; d. 13 Nov 1815.

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, THOMAS, eldest son of Matthias D’Oyly (qv); b. 16 Nov 1772; adm. 15 Sep 1787; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1790; BA 1795; BCL 1800; DCL 1804; Fellow of All Souls Coll. 1795; adm. Middle Temple 7 Nov 1793, called to bar 9 Nov 1798; Home Circuit; Serjeant-at-Law 9 Feb 1819; patent of precedence 25 Apr 1834; Recorder of Salford; Chairman, West Sussex Quarter Sessions 1834; edited, with Edward Vaughan Williams (qv), Burn’s Justice of the Peace, 1836; m. 4 Jan 1820 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Nicholas Simons, Rector of Ickham, Kent; d. 14 Jan 1855.

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.

DA COSTA, GEORGE, brother of Thomas Da Costa (qv) (IGI); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 1 Aug 1743; adm. (aged 7) Mar 1750/1; in school list 1754. [Perhaps George Da Costa, EICS Bengal, Ensign Bengal Army 31 May 1767, Lieut., 4 Apr 1769, Capt. 2 Apr 1777, d. at Farrukhabad, U. P., India 5 Aug 1777]

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.

DA COSTA, THOMAS, son of Isaac Da Costa, and Anne --- (IGI); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 9 Dec 1739 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Mar 1750/1; in school list 1754; Ensign, 3rd Foot 4 Feb 1756; Lieut., 26 Sep 1757; Capt., 25 May 1772; Maj., late 99th Foot, half-pay 19 Mar 1783; still in half-pay list Army List 1808; will proved PCC 22 Mar 1809 (as of St. Clement Danes, Middlesex).