DOWNS; b.; KS at Midsummer 1638 (WAM 34165).
DOWNS, ---; b.; in under school list 1715 (name spelled Downes on p. 1 of Dr. Freind’s admission book).
DOWNTON, PAUL; b.; adm.; QS in 1596 (Chapter Muniments 33651); a contributor to the collection of verses written by QSS on the death of Lady Elizabeth Cecil 1597, preserved among Salisbury MSS, Hatfield House.
Dowson, Lawrence Stephen, son of Henry Martin Dowson, of Oxford; b. Oct. 20, 1897; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); left July 1914; Wadham Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1914; R. M.C. Sandhurst; 2nd Lieut. Oxf. and Bucks Light Infantry Sept. 15, 1915; Lieut. Dec. 20, 1916; was wounded while serving in Great War I.
DOYLE, SIR CHARLES WILLIAM, eldest son of William Doyle KC (I), Bramblestown, co. Kilkenny, a Master in Chancery (I), and his second wife Cecilia, dau. of Gen. --- Salvini, Austrian Army; b. (Dublin); adm.; at school 1791; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1792; Ensign, 105th Foot 28 Apr 1783, half-pay 1783; Lieut., Capt. Grey’s Independent Co. Foot, 12 Feb 1793; Capt. Hardy’s Independent Co. Foot, 7 Mar 1793; 91st Foot, 30 Oct 1793; Capt. -Lieut., 108th Foot 21 Jun 1794; 87th Foot, 3 Sep 1795; Capt., 1 Aug 1798; Maj., 61st Foot 9 Jul 1803; Lieut. -Col., 87th Foot 22 Aug 1805; Col., 4 Jun 1813; half-pay, 84th Foot 25 Dec 1818; Maj. -Gen., 12 Aug 1819; Lieut. -Gen., 10 Jan 1837; served in Netherlands 1793, wounded at siege of Valenciennes and battle of Lannoy; in West Indies 1796-8; on Abercromby’s expedition to Egypt, wounded 21 Mar 1801; sent by British government to help insurgents in Spain, with local ranks of Brig. and Maj-Gen.; wounded at battle of Col de Balaguer and in defence of Tarragona; made Lieut. -Gen. in Spanish Army for his brilliant services in Catalonia; Director and Inspector-General of Military Instruction, Cadiz 1811-4; knighted 1815; CB 3 Feb 1817; KCH 1821; GCH 1837; m. 1st, 15 May 1802 Sophia Cramer, dau. of Sir John Coghill, Bart., MP (I); m. 2nd, 1828 Sophia, widow of William Stair; d. at Paris 25 Oct 1842. DNB.
Doyle, Douglas Lippiatt, brother of John Lionel Cyril Doyle (q.v.); b. June 6, 1904; adm. Jan. 18, 1917 (H); left Dec. 1919; South Eastern Agricultural Coll.; London Univ.; B.Sc. (Agric.) 1925; a farmer in Wilts; later a manufacturer of weighing machines; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. Dec. 31, 1939; Sqdn.-Ldr.; mentioned in despatches L.G. June 14, 1945; m. Jan. 5, 1931, Frances Anne, daughter of. John Bustin Bowman, of Great Yarmouth; d. 1965.
DOYLE, PERCY WILLIAM, youngest son of Sir Charles William Doyle (qv), and his first wife; b. 4 Feb 1809; adm. (G) 21 Feb 1823; attaché, British Mission, Washington 2 Jun 1825, Madrid 9 Dec 1829, and to Sir Robert Adair’s special mission to Belgium 1832; attaché, Constantinople 12 Mar 1834; Secretary of Legation, Mexico 6 Dec 1842 - Dec 1851, Minister Plenipotentiary there 24 Dec 1851 - retirement 19 Feb 1858; CB 4 Mar 1858; d. unm. 21 Feb 1887.
DRAKE, ---; b.; adm. Apr 1659; a boarder; left 1660 (Busby’s Account Book).
DRAKE, E.; adm. 1803; in school list Oct 1803.