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Day, Maurice, brother of Harold Benjamin Day (q.v.); b. Dec. 21, 1891; adm. Sept. 27, 1906 (A); left July 1909; was articled to an architect, and was just out of his articles when Great War I began; enlisted in the 28th Batt. London Regt. (Artists' Rifles) and went out to the western front in the autumn of 1914; 2nd Lieut. 2nd Batt. Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire) Regt. March 20, 1915; killed in action in France May 9, 1915; unm.

DAY, RALPH, son of Thomas Day, Carshalton, Surrey; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1629; KS 1630; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1634, matr. 1 Sep 1634, Westminster Student to 1646; BA 1638; MA 1641; adm. to practice medicine 2 Nov 1654.

DAY, WILLIAM FERDINAND, son of William Day, Queen Street, Mayfair, London, solicitor; b. 29 Dec 1863; adm. (R) 31 May 1877; left Aug 1878.

DAYE, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 16) Sep 1715.

DAYRELL, SIR MARMADUKE, second son of Sir Thomas Dayrell, Kt, Shudy Camps, Cambs. , and Sarah, dau. of Sir Hugh Wyndham, Bart. ; b. ; at school under Busby (Adm. Reg. , Magdalene Coll. Camb. ); Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Oct 1664, aged 16, matr. 1644; adm. Gray’s Inn 21 Nov 1668, called to bar 9 Nov 1680, ancient 25 Jun 1688; knighted 22 Mar 1684/5; m. 1st, 12 Nov 1678 Mary, dau. of Sir Justinian Isham, Bart. , MP; m. 2nd, 23 Feb 1681/2 Mary, dau. of William Glascock, Farnham, Essex; d. 17 Oct 1729.

Day-Winter, Alan John, son of Percy Day-Winter, co. chairman, of Brighton, and Nellie, d. of Thomas Felix Davey, mining engineer, of Snaresbrook, Essex; b. 27 May 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (H), (B) Jan. 1935; left July 1937; Univ. of Maine, USA, 1939-41; RCAF 1941-5 (Flt Lieut.); self­ employed in grocery, later toy trade; Freeman City of London; m. 1st 29 Mar. 1941 Pauline Clarice, d. of Col. Clare James Herbert USAF, of Castine, Maine; 2nd 27 Mar. 1965 Violet May, d. of Alfred Thomas Stephenson.

de Bathe, Sir Christopher Albert, Bart., son of Capt. Patrick Wynne de Bathe, of Westminster, by Violet Lindsay, elder daughter of Nicholas Wood, M. P.; b. Sept. 17, 1905; adm. April 26, 1918 (R); left April 1919; went to Rugby School; 2nd Lieut. Highland Light Inf. 1925; retired 1927; Hon. Attache to the British Embassy at Constantinople 1930, and at Brussels 1931; correspondent for The Times in Persia 1932-3; succeeded his grandfather as 6th baronet Aug. 1940; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. Aug. 19, 1940; m. Jan. 11, 1932, Edna, daughter of Arthur Terrell, of Melbourne, Australia; killed on active service June 3, 1941.

Sir Christopher Albert de Bathe was born in London on the 17th of September 1905 the only son of Captain Patrick Wynne de Bathe Bt., HM Diplomatic Service, and Violet Lindsay (nee Wood later Compton) de Bathe of 121, Rue de la Commerce, Brussels, later of “Blackwater”, Lyndhurst in Hampshire. He was christened at St Paul’s Church, Wilton Place, Knightsbridge on the 17th of October 1905. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from the 26th of April 1918 to April 1919. He went on to Rugby School where he was in Cotton House from May 1919 to December 1921.
He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst from 1923 before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry on the 29th of January 1925. He resigned his commission on the 19th of March 1927. He served as Hon Attaché in HM Diplomatic Service at Constantinople in 1930 and at Brussels in 1931. He was the Persia correspondent for the Times newspaper from 1932 to 1933.
He was married at St Michael’s Church, Pimlico on the 22nd of January 1932 to Edna Winifred (nee Terrell); they had a daughter, Charlotte Louise, born on the 24th of September 1934.
He succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his uncle in August 1940, becoming the 6th Baron de Bathe of Knightstown. He was a member of the Naval and Military Club.
He was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on the 19th of August 1940.
On the 3rd of June 1941 Christopher de Bathe and a group of Royal Air Force officers were gathered on a golf course in Berkshire to watch some twin engined aircraft practicing dive bombing. He and three others were walking across the practice ground when he was struck and decapitated by the propeller of an aircraft which was flying at very low level.
His funeral took place at 3pm on the 10th of June 1941 and a memorial service was held in his memory at 3pm the following day at St Mark’s Church, South Audley Street, London.
He is buried at St Andrew’s Church, West Stoke.

DE BEAUVOIR, SIR JOHN EDMOND, BART., eldest son of Sir John Edmond Browne, Bart., and Margaret, second dau. of Matthew Lorinan, Ardee, co. Louth; b. 10 Dec 1794; adm. 23 Jul 1807; left 1812; familiarly known as “Paddy” Browne; his mill in fighting green with John Francis Miller Erskine, later 9th Earl of Mar and 11th Earl of Kellie (qv), was witnessed by Princess Charlotte (Albemarle, Fifty years of my life, i, 299); Ensign, 26th Foot 3 Mar 1814, 104th Foot (half-pay) 14 May 1818; assumed surname of De Beauvoir in lieu of Browne 14 Oct 1826; claimed honour of knighthood as of right and was accordingly knighted by Lord Lieut. Ireland 9 Mar 1827; MP Windsor Jan - Apr 1835; succeeded father as 2nd baronet 5 Sep 1835; the present coat of arms over the school doorway was presented by him to replace the former one which he had broken in his school days (see Elizabethan v, 234-5); m. 1st, 1825 Mary, widow of Vice Adm. John Macdougall, and only dau. of Richard Wright, East Harling Hall, Norfolk; m. 2nd, 16 Mar 1867 Letitia, younger dau. of Rev. Charles Mann, Denvir Hall, Downham, Norfolk, Rector of Southery, Norfolk; d. 29 Apr 1869.