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DE LA FONTAINE, ELIAS BENJAMIN, son of Elias Benjamin De La Fontaine, London, and Catherine Chandler, eldest dau. of Richard Champneys, Orchardleigh, Somerset; bapt. Hand Alley Dissenters Chapel, London 27 Sep 1763 (IGI); adm. 27 Jun 1776; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 7 Mar 1781; BA 1784; MA 1795; ordained; Perpetual Curate, Northmoor, Oxfordshire 11 Jun 1786-99; Rector of Great Ponton, Lincs., from 18 May 1796; d. 25 Mar 1808.

de Lichtenberg, William Adolf, son of William Theodore de Lichtenberg, of Knightsbridge; b. Jan. 4, 1893; adm. Sept. 27, 1906 (H); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1911, matric. Michaelmas 1911; served in Great War I; Aide-Major Milit. Auxiliary Hospital No. 28, 17th French Army Corps; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. (S. R.) Dec. 25, 1916; Lieut. June 11, 1918; assumed with his father the prefix of 'de ' to the surname of Lichtenberg Nov. 22, 1917; m. Aug. 4, 1928, Ruth Elizabeth Turner, daughter of Henry Riley, of Kew Gardens, Surrey; d. as the result of an accident June 20, 1935.

DE LIGNE, DANIEL, eldest son of Erasmus De Ligne, Lincolnshire, and his first wife Penelope, dau. of Sir Simon Archer MP, Tanworth, Warwicks.; b.; adm.; BB 1671; KS 1673; of Harlaxton, Lincs.; lic. to m. 1st, 10 May 1681 Mary Horne, Stroxton, Lincs.; m. 2nd, 14 Feb 1683/4 Frances Palmer, Stoke Doylie, Northants.; d. 12 Dec 1730, aged 74.

DE MALNOE, CHARLES, son of M. de Malnoé, Paris, “an advocate of parliament”; b.; adm.; BB 1681; in Oct 1683 he was “in the third form, and about fifteen years old and not likely to pass as King’s Scholar to the University”; his father is described by Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston (qv), then Ambassador at Paris, as “a very honest man and a good Protestant” (HMC Graham MSS, 289, 375).

de Meray, Reginald Henry, only son of Henry de Meray, of Bloomsbury, notary public; b. Sept. 10, 1889; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (R); left Dec. 1903; adm. a notary public Aug. 1912; practised in London, firm John Venn and Sons, Cornhill; d. Nov. 26, 1919.

DE MICHELE, CHARLES EASTLAND, brother of Frederick Woolly De Michele (qv); b. 27 Feb 1810 [or 1809 (IGI)]; adm. 26 Jun 1822; editor, The Morning Post c. 1834 – c. 1844; Consul at St. Petersburg Oct 1849 - Jul 1866; m. 28 Feb 1835 Mary, dau. of John Llewellyn, Morriston Hall, Swansea, Glamorgan; d. 19 Feb 1898.

DE MICHELE, CHARLES LLEWELLYN, eldest son of Charles Eastland De Michele (qv); b. 21 Sep 1839; adm. 22 Jan 1849; translator and clerk, Consulate, St. Petersburg Sep 1856; champion amateur sculler on river Neva, St. Petersburg; gentleman steeplechase rider for Prince Soltikov; presented with a cup for gallantry by Tsar Alexander II; d. unm. at St. Petersburg 1863.

DE MICHELE, FREDERICK WOOLLY, son of Giuseppe Enrico De Michele, Charlotte Street, Portland Place, London, and Susanna (IGI), dau. of Cotton Manning; b. 20 Oct 1807; adm. 26 Jun 1822; d. unm. soon after leaving school.

DE MICHELE, LEOPOLD JOHN MANNERS, son of Charles Eastland De Michele (qv); b. 2 Feb 1845; adm. 24 Jan 1856 (James'); Min. Can. 1860; left Dec 1862; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 2 Jul 1863, matr. Mich. 1863; adm. Inner Temple 12 Apr 1867, called to bar 26 Jan 1870; South-Eastern Circuit; Junior Counsel for Treasury for Surrey and South London 1881; “he was a complete humbug, but as he was the type of humbug whom everybody saw through, nobody disliked him” (Sir H. S. Morris, The Barrister, 1930, 125); m. 4 Mar 1876 Constance Emma Juliet, youngest dau. of Philip Augustus Browne (qv); d. 10 Nov 1920.

DE MICHELE, VITALI DOMENICO, fourth son of Charles Eastland De Michele (qv); b. 11 Nov 1848; adm. 5 Oct 1861 (James'); left Aug 1862; apprenticed to Robert Stephenson & Co., engineers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1863-8; manager cement works of Messrs. Francis & Co., Cliff Creek 1868-77; AMICE 1 Dec 1874, MICE 8 Dec 1891; in practice as an engineer at Rochester, Kent; a recognised authority on manufacture and application of Portland cement and concrete; m. 15 Feb 1882 Beatrice Theodosia, dau. of William Lake, Rochester, Kent; d. 21 Mar 1906.