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DOUGLAS, CHARLES; b.; adm. 14 Mar 1785. [Doubtless kin (brother ?) of William Douglas, adm. same day]. [Identified by Whitmore as Charles Douglas, 3rd Baron Douglas, second son of Archibald James Edward Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas (qv); b. 26 Oct 1775; at Eton Coll. 1785-92; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Apr 1793; BA 1797; MA 1803; migr. to All Souls Coll., Fellow 1803-34; adm. Lincoln’s Inn [check date], called to bar 26 May 1802; MP Lanark 12 Aug 1830-2; succ. brother as 3rd Baron Douglas 27 Jan 1844; d. unm. 10 Sep 1848]

DOUGLAS, HON. FREDERICK SYLVESTER NORTH, only son of Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie PC KC FRS FSA, and Hon. Catherine Anne North, eldest dau. of Frederick North, Lord North PC KG MP (afterwards 2nd Earl of Guilford), Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury; b. 8 Feb 1791; adm. 4 [or 5] Mar 1801; left 1805; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1806, Canoneer Student; 1st cl. Classics 1809; BA and MA 1813; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 Dec 1807; MP Banbury from 1812; FRS 1 May 1817; author, An essay on certain points of resemblance between the Ancient and Modern Greeks, 1813; m. 19 Jul 1819 Harriet, eldest dau. of William Wrightson MP, Cusworth, Yorkshire; d. 21 Oct 1819. DNB.

DOUGLAS, JOHN ST. LEGER, eldest son of John Douglas, St. Kitts, West Indies, and Susanna, widow of Richard Holmes, and dau. of Michael Lambert, Governor of St. Kitts; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1742/3 (Smalridge's); left 1748; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 22 Oct 1748, did not matr.; MP Hindon 1768-74, Weobley from 1774; m. 1st; m. 2nd, 30 Dec 1765 Caroline Otway; d. 23 May 1783. [second wife perhaps a sister of Charles Otway (qv)]

DOWDESWELL, JOHN EDMUND, son of William Dowdeswell (adm. 1730, qv); b. 3 Mar 1772; adm. 14 Jun 1779; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 Apr 1789, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1792 - void by marriage 17 Sep 1800; BA 1793; MA 1795; adm. Inner Temple year 1793/4, called to bar 6 May 1796, Bencher 1834, Treasurer 1842; Recorder of Tewkesbury 1798-1833; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1806-20 (occurs in annual lists 1807-21); a Master in Chancery 8 Feb 1820-50; MP Tewkesbury 1812-32; inherited Pull Court estate 1828; m. 4 Sep 1800 Caroline, dau. of Charles G. Brietzcke, a Senior Clerk in the Treasury; d. 11 Nov 1851.

DOWDESWELL, WILLIAM EDWARD, eldest son of William Dowdeswell (adm. 1816, qv); b. 13 Jun 1841; adm. 7 Jun 1855; left (with Triplett) Whitsun 1859; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Jun 1859; MP (Cons) Tewkesbury 1865 - Mar 1866, West Worcestershire Mar 1866 - Jun 1876; of Pull Court, Worcestershire; DL Worcestershire, JP 1863; m. 2 Jan 1869 Emily, second dau. of Sir Thomas George Augustus Parkyns, Bart.; d. 12 Jul 1893.

DOWDESWELL, WILLIAM, elder son of William Dowdeswell MP, Pull Court, Bushley, Worcs., and his second wife Anne, sister of James Hammond (qv); stepson of Noel Broxholme (qv); b. 12 Mar 1721; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1730; left 1736; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 2 Apr 1737; Leyden Univ. 1745; Grand Tour 1746-7 (said to have travelled in Italy, Sicily and Greece)[but Greece seems a little unlikely : check]; of Pull Court, Worcestershire; MP Tewkesbury 1747-54, Worcestershire from 1761; one of the leaders of the Rockingham Whig party in the House of Commons; Chancellor of the Exchequer 13 Jul 1765 - Jul 1766; Privy Councillor 10 Jul 1765; declined to remain in office under Chatham; carried a motion for the reduction of the land tax against the government Jan 1767; a leading opposition politician until his health broke down in 1774; described by Burke as “a senator for twenty years, a minister for one, a virtuous citizen for his whole life”; Busby Trustee from 16 Mar 1769; m. 15 Nov 1747 Bridget, sister of Sir William Codrington, Bart. (qv); d. at Nice 6 Feb 1775. DNB.

DOWDESWELL, WILLIAM, son of William Dowdeswell (adm. 1730, qv); b. 27 Feb 1760; adm. 19 Jan 1770; in school lists 1775; adm. Inner Temple year 1779/80; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 6 May 1780; Lieut. and Capt. 4 May 1785; Capt. and Lieut. -Col. , 8 Feb 1794; Col. (brevet) 25 Jun 1797; Lieut. -Col, 60th Foot 18 Jan 1798; 86th Foot, 24 Feb 1803; Major-Gen. , 25 Sep 1803; Lieut. -Gen. , 25 Jul 1810; Gen. , 19 Jul 1821; MP Tewkesbury 19 Mar 1792 - Nov 1797; served in Netherlands 1793; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Bahama Islands 1797-1801; went out to Madras 1802 as private secretary to Lord William Cavendish-Bentinck (qv); served in Mahratta War 1804-5; Commander-in-Chief, India 1807, but soon afterwards compelled to return to England on health grounds; retired from active service 1811 on inheriting Pull Court estate; a famous collector of engravings and one of the first to make a speciality of grangerising; FSA 24 Dec 1795; d. unm. 1 Dec 1828. DNB.

DOWDESWELL, WILLIAM, elder son of John Edmund Dowdeswell (qv); b. 8 Oct 1804; adm. 12 Jun 1816 (Packharness'); left 1822; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1822; BA 1826; MA 1829; of Pull Court, Worcestershire; MP (Cons) Tewkesbury 1835-47; DL Worcestershire, JP 1831, High Sheriff 1855; JP Gloucestershire; m. 19 Mar 1839 Amelia Letitia, youngest dau. of Robert Graham, Cossington House, Somerset; d. 6 Feb 1887.

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.

DRAKE, WILLIAM, second son of Montague Garrard Drake MP, Shardeloes, Bucks., and Isabella, widow of ---, and dau. of Thomas Marshall, St. Michael Bassishaw, London, merchant; b. 12 May 1723; adm. Aug 1738 (Heath's); Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 Oct 1739; DCL 12 Apr 1749; Grand Tour (Italy) 1743-5; MP Amersham 26 Feb 1746-96; of Shardeloes, Bucks.; m. 9 Feb 1746/7 Elizabeth, only dau. and heiress of John Raworth, Boyland Hall, Norfolk, and Sambrook Court, Basinghall Street, London, a director South Sea Co.; d. 8 Aug 1796.