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DETHICKE, GERARD, only son of George Dethicke, Covent Garden, London, tailor, and Mary, sister of Robert Griffith; b.; adm.; KS; in school lists 1656; elected to Christ Church, Oxford (aged 18) 1659, matr. 9 Dec 1659, Westminster Student; BA 1663; MA 1666.

DETHICKE, GILBERT, eldest son of Sir Henry Dethicke, Kt, Poplar, Middlesex, and Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Thomas Best, Ratcliff, Middlesex; grandson of Sir William Dethicke, Kt, Garter King of Arms; bapt. St. Dunstan, Stepney 21 Jun 1621 (IGI); adm.; KS 1638; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1639, matr. 5 Jul 1639, aged 17, Westminster Student; adm. Gray’s Inn 28 Jun 1641, called to bar 12 May 1648; d. unm. Oct 1649.

DEVAUX, WILLIAM, third son of Thomas Devaux, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London, apothecary, and Magdalen ---; brother of Sir Theodore Devaux MD FRS; bapt. 6 Dec 1629; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1648, matr. 27 Feb 1650/1, Westminster Student; ordered by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. Ch. in 1650 to be “publicly whipped in the House and afterwards sent home to his father for twelve months” for “divers gross and scandalous acts” (Thompson, Christ Church, 75) : BA 1652; adm. Middle Temple 17 Nov 1651; Secretary to Col. John Reynolds on his expedition to Mardike; drowned near the Goodwin Sands on his passage back from Mardike 12 Dec 1657.

DEVEREUX, ---; b.; adm.; KS; left 1656 (School List 1656, first quarter).

Devereux, Almeric Clifford Eustace, son of Maj. William Charles Devereux MB of Tewkesbury, Gloucs, and Ethel Mary, d. of Thomas Phillips of Kemerton Court, Tewkesbury; b. 21 Oct. 1905; adm. Sept. 1920 (R); left July 1923; Selwyn Coll. Camb., matric. 1923, BA 1926, MA 1931; 2nd Lieut. RA Feb. 1926, Lieut. Feb. 1929, Capt. June 1937, Maj. Feb. 1943, Lieut.-Col. Apr. 1949, Col. Apr. 1952; CRA 49th Armoured Divn (TA) 1951-4; CO 64th AA Bde 1954, Brigadier Apr. 1956; CO Plymouth Garrison 1957; retd Nov. 1957; m. 20 Apr. 1938 Jeanne Evelyn, d. of John Mervvn Dallas Wrench CIE, Indian State Railway Service, of Sherborne St John, Hants; d. 22 Apr. 1980.

Devereux, David William Mervyn, son of Almeric Clifford Eustace Devereux (qv); b. 1 Mar. 1941; adm. Sept. 1954 (R); left July 1959; Selwyn Coll. Camb., matric. 1959, BA 1962; Carnegie-Mellon Univ. USA 1969-72, MSc; man. dir. C. & J. Clark (S. Africa) Ltd. 1972; subsequently man. dir. Clarks Overseas Shoes Ltd.; m. Dec. 1962 Jacqueline Wood; d. 12 Oct. 1988.

DEVEREUX, EDWARD, 12TH VISCOUNT HEREFORD, second son of Edward Devereux, 11th Viscount Hereford, and Catherine, sister of Devereux Mytton (qv); b. 19 Feb 1740/1; at school under Markham (Steward of Anniversary Dinner 1767); Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 11 Aug 1759, retd. 30 Jul 1762; succeeded father as 11th Viscount Hereford 22 Aug 1760; DL Montgomeryshire 1762; m. 2 Jun 1774 Hon. Henrietta Charlotte Tracy Keck, Maid of Honour to Queen Charlotte, dau. of Anthony Keck MP, Great Tew, Oxfordshire; d. 1 Aug 1783.