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DELAVAL, ROBERT, brother of Sir Francis Blake Delaval (qv); b. 5 Mar 1733; adm. May 1744 (Gibson's); left 1747; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 29 Apr 1754 - retirement 14 Oct 1755; Capt., European Grenadier Co. (raised by him personally), EICS Bengal 26 Apr 1758; d. on voyage to India 11 Dec 1758.

DELAVAL, THOMAS, brother of Sir Francis Blake Delaval (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1741; left 1745; apprenticed to Jacob Bosanquet, citizen and salter, 12 Aug 1748; a merchant at Hamburg; subsequently resided at Clapham, Surrey; contested Newcastle 1774 and 1780; m. 22 Sep 1768 Cecilia, dau. of Joel Watson, Clapham, Surrey; d. 31 Aug 1787.

DELBOE, SIMON, son of Simon Delboe, London, merchant, and Anna, dau. of Gillis Vanbrugh, London, merchant; b.; adm.; KS 1672; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1676, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1676, aged 18, scholar 1677; BA 1679/80; MA 1683; Fellow of Trinity Coll. from 1682; d. 21 Jul 1685.

Delgado, Frank Gershom, son of Gershom Delgado, of St. John's Wood, by Sophia, daughter of Fred Cohen; b. March 29, 1903; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (G); left Dec. 1920; a fine art publisher; m. April 3, 1935, Aileen, younger daughter of A. E. Simonsen; d. Aug. 27, 1937.

DELISLE, ROBERT; b.; adm.; left Bartholomewtide 1805.

Deller, Peter John Ralph, son of Sir Edwin Deller LLD, Princiral Officer Univ. of London, and Betty, d. of Benjamin Willey Betts, embosser and chaser, of Homsey; b. 23 Jan. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (A); left Apr. 1935; Trin. Hall Camb., matric. 1935, BA 1938, MA; Univ. Coll. Hosp., MRCS LRCP 1941, MB BChir 1942; RAMC 1942-5 (Capt.), wounded (Normandy) 1944; med. adviser Min. of Defence 1952-74; OBE 1974; m. 1951 Patricia Reece, d. of Nicholas Emrhys Palmer of Wallasey; d. 30 Oct. 1977.

DEMAINBRAY, STEPHEN CHARLES TRIBOUDET, son of Stephen Triboudet de Mainbray, St. Martin’s in the Fields, Huguenot refugee, and Marie, dau. of Rev. Alexandre de Schivac, Minister of French Church, Bristol; b. 20 Feb 1710; at school under Freind (Lysons, Environs of London, iii, 317); (Desaguliers'); Leiden Univ.; Edinburgh Univ., LLD; lectured at Edinburgh on experimental philosophy; fought as volunteer in English army at Prestonpans 21 Sep 1745; kept boarding school for young ladies, Edinburgh; afterwards went to Dublin, Bordeaux, Montpelier and Lyon; tutor in mathematics, physics and natural history to the future King George III when Prince of Wales 1754-60; Astronomer, Royal Observatory, Kew, from 1768; held “three remunerative offices in the Custom House”, as Examiner of Out-Port Books (by 1769), Surveyor of the East India Warehouse (appointed Jul 1765), and Inspector of Un-rated East India Goods (by 1760); m. 1st, before leaving school, Mary Warshare, Embden [sic : in Netherlands ?]; m. 2nd, 1 Feb 1755 Sarah, sister of John Horne Tooke (qv); d. 20 Feb 1782. DNB.