DONKIN, SIR RUFANE SHAW, only son of Gen. Robert Donkin, and Mary, dau. of Rev. Emanuel Collins; b. Sep 1772; adm. 8 Apr 1782; left 1787; Ensign, 44th Foot 21 Mar 1778; Lieut., 9 Sep 1779; Capt., 31 May 1793; Maj., 1 Sep 1795; Lieut. -Col., 11th Foot 24 May 1798; on staff Quartermaster-General’s Dept., May 1805; Brevet Col., 24 Apr 1808; Maj. -Gen., 4 Jun 1811; Lieut. -Gen., 19 Jul 1821; Col. 80th Foot 20 Apr 1825, 11th Foot 15 Mar 1837; Gen., 25 Jun 1838; served in West Indies 1794, 1796 (invalided home from Martinique), on expedition to Ostend 1798 (wounded, prisoner), and as Assistant QMG at Copenhagen 1807; Assistant QMG, Portugal 1808-9; as Col. on the Staff commanded a brigade in operations on the Douro and at the battle of Talavera; QMG Sicily 1810-3; commanded second field division in Mahratta War 1817-8; KCB 14 Oct 1818; invalided to Cape of Good Hope, where he acted as Governor in Lord Charles Somerset’s absence 1820-1; GCH 1825; MP (Whig) Berwick on Tweed 1832-7, Sandwich from Feb 1839; Surveyor-Gen. of the Ordnance from 25 Apr 1835; FRS 23 Feb 1826; one of the original Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society; author, A Dissertation on the Course and probable Termination of the River Niger, 1829, and a contributor to various periodicals; m. 1st, 30 Aug 1815 Elizabeth Frances, eldest dau. of George Markham (adm. 1769, qv); m. 2nd, 5 May 1832 Lady Anna Maria Elliot, dau. of Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto PC; committed suicide 1 May 1841. DNB.
DONNE, JOHN, eldest son of Very Rev. John Donne DD, Dean of St. Paul’s and poet, and Anne, dau. of Sir George More MP, Loseley, Surrey, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter and Lieut. of the Tower of London; b. 1604; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1622, Westminster Student to 1632; BA 1626; MA 1629; ordained; Vicar of Tillingham, Essex 1631; tried for the manslaughter of a child of eight years old before Vice-Chancellor Laud 1633, but acquitted; went abroad; LLD Padua (incorp. Oxford 30 Jun 1638); Rector of High Roding, Essex 10 Jul 1638; Rector of Ufford, Northants., 29 May 1639; Rector of Fulbeck, Lincs., 10 Jun 1639; Chaplain to Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh; edited his father’s Poems, 1649; author, Donne’s Satyr, 1662; m. 27 Mar 1627 [sic : check] Mary Stapley, Camberwell, Kent; buried St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London 3 Feb 1662/3. DNB.
DONNELLY, ---; b.; at school 1793; in school list 1795.
DONNELLY, ROBERT; b.; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1726/7; in under school list 1728.
Dormer, Richard Geoffrey Patrick Egerton, son of Richard Dormer, HM the Railway Sch., Dehra Dun, India; b. 17 Sept. 1917; adm. Apr. 1931 (B); left Dec. 1935; d. 1960.
DONNING, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) May 1717; left Christmas 1717.
DORANT, ---; b.; adm. Christmas 1808; left 1809.
DORATT, SIR JOHN; b. 1779; at school under Vincent (Walford, County Families, 1860, 185); MD Leyden 1805; physician to British Embassy at St. Petersburg 1835-7 and to Earl of Durham when Governor-Gen. of Canada 1838-40; knighted 14 Feb 1838; m. 6 May 1802 Maria Theresa Louisa, eldest dau. of John Zoffany, R. A., painter; d. 4 Sep 1863.