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DEWHURST, ROBERT, son of Sir Bernard Dewhurst, Kt, Cheshunt, Herts., Secretary to Lord Burleigh, and Anne Warde; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1595, adm. scholar 1596, matr. c. 1595; adm. Gray’s Inn 9 Jun 1600; Custos Brevium, Court of King’s Bench; of Cheshunt Nunnery, Herts.; m. 1st, 7 Sep 1620 Prudence, dau. of Sir Thomas Dacres, Cheshunt, Herts.; m. 2nd, 9 Dec 1630 Anne, dau. of Roger Dye, St. Mary Woolnoth, London; m. 3rd, Julia, dau. of Beckenham Boteler, Tewin, Herts.; d. 4 May 1645, aged 68.

Dewsbery, George Stewart; b. Oct. 31, 1902; adm. Sept. 21, 1916 (R); left July 1919.

Diack, Philip George Anthony, son of Sir Alexander Henderson Diack KCIE CVO CBE, Finan­cial Commissioner Punjab, and his second wife Mylsie, d. of Robert Alfred Molloy, Indian PWD; b. 20 Feb. 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (R); left July 1929; LSE, BSc 1933; resident in Australia; dir. of cos associated with Calico Printers Assn Ltd; m. 8 July 1940 Mary, d. of William Henry Barlow of Colne, Lancs.; d. 1990.

DIBBEN, THOMAS, second son of Richard Dibben, Clare Market, London; b.; adm.; KS 1692; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1696, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1696, aged 18, scholar 23 Apr 1697, readm. as fellow commoner 1702, matr. 1699; BA 1699/1700; MA 1703; BD 1710; DD 1721; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Jun 1699; ordained deacon (London) 16 Jun 1700, dispensation for priest’s orders 12 Jul 1701; Rector of Fontmell Magna, Dorset, from 16 Jul 1701; Chaplain to Right Rev. John Robinson, Bishop of Bristol, at Congress of Utrecht 1713; Precentor of St. Paul’s from 16 Jun 1714; Proctor for Bristol diocese in Convocations of 1715 and 1727; several references to “Dirty Dibben of Dorsetshire” will be found in HMC Bath MSS, vol. iii; became mentally deranged and lost all his money; a Latin poet of some celebrity; translated the Carmen Saeculare of Matthew Prior (qv) into Latin verse, 1700; m.; d. in The Poultry Compter, London 5 Apr 1741. DNB.

DICK, ABERCROMBY, brother of Sir Robert Henry Dick (qv); b. 11 Nov 1794; at school 1805; left 1810; Writer, EICS Bengal 30 Apr 1810; at Haileybury Coll. 1810-2; arrived in India 6 Nov 1813; held various official apppointments; officiating Special Commissioner, Calcutta 1839; Judge of Courts of Sudder Dewannee and Nizamut Adawlut, Calcutta 1844; resigned on return to England 1 May 1857; m. 28 Jul 1815 Louisa Jane Wintle; d. 13 Dec 1879.

DICK, ALEXANDER BALLANTYNE, brother of Sir Robert Henry Dick (qv); b. 19 Apr 1789; adm. 20 Sep 1798 (Clapham); in school lists 1801, 1803; Cadet, EICS 18 Jan 1804; Military Academy, Woolwich, to Apr 1805; Writer, EICS Prince of Wales Island 18 Apr 1805; d. unm. on board ship Cumberland 14 Sep 1805.

Dick, Alexander Walter Henry, son of Alexander Frederick Henry Dick, man. dir. Delta Metal Co., of Blackheath, and Eileen Isabel, sister of Walter William Dolton (qv); b. 29 Feb. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (R); left July 1938; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1938 but joined Delta Metal Co. 1939; Univ. of Lond., BSc 1950; FIM 1956; chief chemist Delta Metal Co. 1946-56; educational staff Diocese of Tanganyika 1957; Principal Alliance Sec. Sch. Dodoma, Tanganyika, 1959-67, Edo Nat. Coll. Iguobazuwa, Nigeria, 1969-71; ord. deacon 1974, priest (Salisbury) 1975; Curate Totnes 1974-7; first Vicar of Estover, Plymouth, 1980-1; Priest-in-charge Kelly, Devon, 1981-6; retd 1986; m. 3 Jan. 1964 Valerie Ann Barton, deaconess, d. of Harold Charles Barton, co. director, of Eastbourne; d. 16 Aug. 2008.