DUNN-GARDNER, JOHN, eldest surviving son of John Margetts, St. Ives, Hunts., brewer, and Sarah, wife of George Ferrers Townshend, 3rd Marquis Townshend, and dau. of William Dunn Gardner, Chatteris, Isle of Ely; b. 20 Jul 1811; adm. 16 Jun 1819 (Packharness'); left Nov 1828; assumed surname of Townshend in lieu of Margetts 1823, and known for some years as Lord John Townshend; subsequently assumed courtesy title of Earl of Leicester, but was declared by an Act of Parliament passed in 1843 to have no right to that title; assumed surname of Dunn-Gardner in lieu of Townshend 10 Aug 1843; MP (Cons) Bodmin 1841-7; DL Cambridgeshire, High Sheriff Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire 1859; JP Isle of Ely; a collector of early English and foreign silver (sold Christies Apr 1902 for £39, 020); m. 1st, 9 Dec 1847 Mary, sister of Richard Lawson (qv); m. 2nd, 15 Mar 1853 Ada, dau. of William Pigott, Dullingham House, Newmarket, Cambs.; d. 11 Jan 1903.
DUNNING, FRANCIS; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1746/7 (Ashby's); left 1747.
Dunning, James Edmund, son of Maj. James Edmund Dunning DSO, of Chelsea, and Isabel Backus of Rochester, NY, USA; b. 24 Nov. 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (A); left Mar. 1923; RAFVR (A & SD) 1940-5 (Sqdn Ldr), despatches Sept. 1943; OBE Jan. 1943; US Legion of Merit Mar. 1944.
DUNNING, RICHARD BARRE, 2ND BARON ASHBURTON, only surviving son of John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton PC, successively Solicitor-General and Chancellor Duchy of Lancaster, and Elizabeth, only dau. of John Baring, Larkbeare, near Exeter, Devon; b. 20 Sep 1782; succeeded father as 2nd Baron Ashburton 18 Aug 1783; in school list 1795, sixth form list 1796; Edinburgh Univ.; a friend and contemporary at Edinburgh of Lord Palmerston, the future Prime Minister; m. 17 Sep 1805 Anne Selby, dau. of William Cuninghame, Lainshaw, Stewarton, Ayrshire; d. 15 Feb 1823.
Dunscombe, Clement, son of Clement Dunscombe, M. lnst. C. E., of Streatham, by Gertrude Hannah, daughter of Alfred Clark, of Wood Dailing, Norfolk; b. April 30, 1897; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (H); left July 1914; Downing Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1914; B.A. 1917; M.B., B. Chir. 1920; M.A. 1921; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; L.R.C.P. (London) and M.R.C.S. (Eng.) 1919; a physician specializing in public health work; Asst. Medical Officer of Health, Wiltshire County Council 1924; served in R.A.M.C. during Great War I as dresser, 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge; resident in Natal; d. 25 Sept. 1979.
Dunscombe, Nicholas Dunscombe, brother of Clement Dunscombe (q.v.); b. Nov. 21, 1898; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (H); left July 1915; Downing Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1915; B.A. 1917; M.A. 1921; St. Thomas's Hosp.; M.B., B. Chir. 1921; D. P. H. 1923; a physician specializing in public health work; M. O. H. Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury, 1934-39; Glos. Combined Dists. (Stroud area) 1939-50; called to the Bar at the Inner Temple June 20, 1928; served in Great War I as Surgeon Probationer, R. N. V. R.; resident in Natal; m. July 3, 1937, Irene Elizabeth, eldest daughter of P. W. Chandler, a Master of the Supreme Court.
DUNSTER, CHARLES, only son of Rev. Charles Dunster, Worcester, Prebendary of Salisbury, and Mary, dau. of Rev. Thomas Inett DD, Prebendary of Worcester; grandson of Samuel Dunster (qv); bapt. 25 Jul 1750; in school lists 1764, 1765; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Feb 1767, aged 16; BA 1770; migrated to Baliol Coll. Oxford 1771 and to Trin. Coll. Oxford 1773; MA 1775; ordained; Domestic Chaplain to George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (qv), 12 Mar 1774; Rector of Oddingley, Worcs., 17 Feb 1776-89; Rector of Naunton Beauchamp, Worcs., 1776; Rector of Mordiford, Herefs., 14 Mar 1777 - res Feb 1787; Rector of Stoke Edith, Herefs., 17 Feb 1787 - res Nov 1788; Rector of Petworth, Sussex, from 23 Mar 1789; Rector of Tillington, Sussex, from 9m Apr 1789; resided for many years at New Grove, Petworth; author, The Frogs of Aristophanes, 1785, and other works; m. Mary Bridges, Herefordshire; d. 17 Apr 1816. DNB.
DUNSTER, SAMUEL, son of James Dunster, Westminster; b. Sep 1675; at Merchant Taylors’ School 1688-9; adm.; KS 1690; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1693, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1693, scholar 20 Apr 1694; BA 1696/7; MA 1700; DD 1713; ordained deacon 2 Nov 1698, priest 11 Jun 1700 (both London); Perpetual Curate of St. James, Paddington, Middlesex [by 1705 ?]; Rector of Chinnor, Oxfordshire 12 Jul 1716; Prebendary of Lincoln from 6 Jun 1720; Prebendary of Salisbury 19 Jul 1720 - res Oct 1748; Vicar of Rochdale, Lancs., from 23 Apr 1722; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716); Chaplain, 13th Dragoons, to Mar 1740; author, Anglia Rediviva, 1699, The Satyrs and Epistles of Horace done into English, 1710, and other works; m. 1 Jul 1705 Mary Hammond; d. 19 Jul 1754. DNB.
DUNSTON, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1740; left 1742.
DUNTON, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1565-9 (Chapter Muniments 54005-18, 54020).