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DONALDSON, HUMPHREY, son of Humphrey Donaldson, London, army agent; b. ; in school list 1795, sixth form list 1796; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Oct 1796, aged 17, matr. Mich. 1796; BA 1801; MA 1806; accompanied Sir James Stirling (qv) on his return to Western Australia 1834; Sheriff of the Swan River Settlement from 9 Sep 1834; m. ; d. at Perth, Western Australia May 1835, aged 55.

DONELLAN, JOHN, son of Lieut. -Col. --- Donellan; b. 6 Nov 1737; adm. Jan 1750/1 (Porten's); in school list 1752; RMA Woolwich; Gent. Cadet 4 Mar 1753; Ensign, 39th Foot 13 Nov 1755; Capt. Company of Foot, EICS Bengal 15 Dec 1757; served on expedition to Golconda and wounded at Chumbole 14 Dec 1758; court-martialled and dismissed the service 28 Apr 1759; on return to England became known as “Diamond” Donellan from a stone which he brought back from India; Master of Ceremonies at Brighton, and at The Pantheon, Oxford Street, London; restored to rank of Capt, half-pay, 39th Foot, c. 1772; convicted at Warwick Assizes Mar 1781 of having poisoned his brother-in-law Sir Theodosius Edward Allesley Boughton, Bart., at Lawford Hall, Warwickshire, with a dose of laurel water; m. Jun 1777 Theodosia, only dau. of Sir Edward Boughton, Bart.; hanged at Warwick 2 Apr 1781. [Perhaps bapt. Saddleworth, Yorks., 3 Nov 1737 (sic), son of Richard Donellan and Mary Whitehead (IGI)]

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.