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DUNCOMBE, HENRY, brother of Thomas Duncombe (qv); bapt. Helmsley, Yorks. 23 Jan 1728 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Jan 1736/7 (Wynniate's); left 1745; Lincoln Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Oct 1745; adm. Middle Temple 6 Apr 1747; probably “Henrique Documbe” recorded as visiting Capua, Italy, in Jan 1753; of Copgrove, Yorkshire; MP Yorkshire 1780-96; d. 10 Apr 1818.

DUNCOMBE, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Duncombe MP, Duncombe Park, Helmsley, Yorks., and Mary, Maid of Honour to Queen Anne, dau. of Sir Thomas Slingsby, Bart.; b.; adm. (aged 8) Dec 1732; left 1740; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 May 1742; succeeded to family’s Yorkshire estates on death of father in 1746, and to Wiltshire estates of Anthony Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham (qv), in 1763; Grand Tour (Italy) 1747; MP Downton 12 Apr 1751-4, Morpeth 1754-68, Downton 1768- 14 Feb 1775 and from 8 Sep 1779; member, Society of Dilettanti 1747; m. 1st, 9 Feb 1748/9 Lady Diana Howard, younger dau. of Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle; m. 2nd, 24 Feb 1772 Anne, dau. of Sir Philip Jennings Clerke, Bart., MP (qv); m. 3rd, 25 Jun 1778 Charlotte, dau. of William Hale, King’s Walden, Herts.; d. 25 Nov 1779.

DUNDAS, SIR DAVID, third son of James Dundas, Ochtertyre, Perthshire, Writer to the Signet, and Elizabeth, dau. of William Graham, Airth, Stirlingshire; b. 24 Jan 1799; adm. 29 Jan 1810; KS 1812; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1816, matr. 25 May 1816, Westminster Student; BA 1820; MA 1822; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 7 Feb 1823, Bencher 1840, Treasurer 1853; QC Apr 1840; MP (Whig/Liberal) Sutherlandshire Apr 1840 - Jul 1852, Mar 1861 - May 1867; Solicitor-General 10 Jul 1846 - Mar 1848, resigning on grounds of health; knighted 4 Feb 1847; Judge Advocate-General 30 May 1849 - Feb 1852; Privy Councillor 29 Jun 1849; inherited Ochtertyre estate 1842; Trustee, British Museum 1861-7; Busby Trustee 5 May 1855-75; Chairman of committee chosen at meeting of OWW held in Jun 1860 to consider the question of the removal of the School into the country; presented a small collection of Greek and Roman coins to the School 1873; d. unm. 30 Mar 1877. DNB.

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.

DYKE, SIR THOMAS, BART., eldest son of Sir Thomas Dyke, Kt., Horeham, Sussex, and Catherine, third dau. of Sir John Bramston, Kt., Skreens, Essex, Lord Chief Justice of England; b.; at school 1661-6; a boarder in Busby’s house from 7 Apr 1662 “but was here afore” (Busby’s Account Book); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jun 1666, aged 16; adm. Middle Temple 17 Apr 1667; created baronet 3 Mar 1676/7; High Sheriff Sussex 1684, but did not serve; MP Sussex 1685-7, East Grinstead Jan 1688/9-98; a Commissioner of Public Accounts 1696; one of the original trustees of Busby’s will; m. Philadelphia, eldest dau. of Sir Thomas Nutt, Kt., Mays, Sussex; d. 31 Oct 1706.

DYOTT, RICHARD, elder son of Gen. William Dyott, Freeford Hall, near Lichfield, Staffs., and Eleanor, dau. of Samuel Thompson, Green Mount, co. Antrim; b. 26 May 1808; adm. 16 Jun 1819 (Packharness'); left Jun 1826; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Jun 1824, matr. 1826; Ensign, 63rd Foot 11 Oct 1827; 70th Foot 17 Sep 1829; Lieut., half-pay, unattached, 14 Jun 1831; 53rd Foot, 21 Jun 1831; Capt., 31 Aug 1838, half-pay 1 Jul 1842; 36th Foot 25 Feb 1848, retired same day; DL Staffordshire, JP 1842, High Sheriff 1856; MP (Cons) Lichfield 1865-80; m. 6 Dec 1849 Ellen Catherine, only dau. of Charles Smith Forster MP, Lysways Hall, Staffs.; d. 13 Feb 1891.

EARDLEY-WILMOT, JOHN, second son of Sir John Eardley Wilmot (qv); b. 1750; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1781); University Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Jan 1766, aged 16; BA 1769; Fellow, All Souls Coll. 1769; adm. Inner Temple year 1766/7, called to bar 24 Nov 1773; a Master in Chancery 1781-1804; MP Tiverton 20 May 1776-84, Coventry 1784-96; an opponent of the policy which precipitated the American War; assumed additional surname of Eardley 20 Jan 1812; FRS 18 Nov 1779, FSA 23 Jun 1791; author, Memoirs of his father, 1802, and other works; m. 1st, 20 Apr 1776 Frances, only dau. of Samuel Sainthill; m. 2nd, 29 Jun 1793 Sarah, only dau. of Lieut. -Col. Anthony Haslam, 5th Foot; d. 23 Jun 1815. DNB.

EDMONDSTONE, SIR CHARLES, BART., third son of Sir Archibald Edmondstone, Bart., MP, and his first wife Susanna Mary, sister of Benjamin Harenc (qv); b. 9 Oct 1764; adm. 4 Dec 1772; left 1777 [sic : said to have been at Eton Coll. 1775-80]; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 May 1780; BA 1784; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Dec 1779, called to bar 10 Apr 1788; one of the Six Clerks in Chancery 1797-1807; MP Dumbartonshire 1806-7, Stirlingshire from 1812; succ. father as 2nd baronet 20 Jul 1807; m. 1st, 1 Jun 1794 Emma, sister of Randle Wilbraham (qv); m. 2nd, 4 Dec 1804 Hon. Louisa Hotham, youngest dau. of Beaumont Hotham, 2nd Baron Hotham (qv); d. 1 Apr 1821.

Edwards, Roger Nicholas, Baron Crickhowell, brother of David William Wood Edwards (qv); b. 25 Feb. 1934; adm. Sept. 1947 (B); left July 1952; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. Welch Fusileers 1952-4; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1954, BA 1957, MA 1968; Wm Brandts Sons & Co. Ltd., bankers, 1957-76, dir. 1972-6; member of Lloyd’s 1976, dir. A. L. Sturge 1970-6, PA Internat. & Sturge 1977-9; MP (Cons. ) Pembroke 1970-87; Sec. of State for Wales 1979-87; PC 1979; Hon. Fellow Univ. Coll. Cardiff 1985; created Baron Crickhowell 1987; pres. Univ. of Wales at Cardiff 1988-98; chmn. Nat. Rivers Authority 1989-96, Cameron May 1992-4, ITNET 1995-2004; dir. Welsh National Opera 1988-92; pres. Contemporary Art Soc. for Wales 1988-93; pres. SE Wales Arts Assn. and Contemporary Art Soc. for Wales; Hon. LLD Univ. of Glamorgan 2001; member House of Lords EU Sub-Committees 2000-10, Science and Tech. Committee 2007-10, Constitution Committee 2010-5; m. 26 Jan. 1963 Ankaret, d. of William James Healing, co. dir., of Tewkesbury, Gloucs.; d. 17 Mar. 2018.

EGERTON, THOMAS, 1ST EARL OF WILTON, second son of Sir Thomas Grey Egerton, Bart., MP, and Catherine, dau. of Rev. John Copley, Batley, Yorks., Rector of Thornhill and of Wakefield, Yorks.; b. 14 May 1749; succ. father as 7th baronet 7 Aug 1756; at Manchester GS 1757; in school lists 1764; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Feb 1767; MA 1769; MP Lancashire 4 Feb 1772-84; created Baron Grey de Wilton 15 May 1784 and Earl of Wilton 26 Jun 1801; Lieut. -Col. in Army 21 Jul 1779, during service with Royal Lancashire Volunteers, of which he was Lieut-Col. commanding from 5 Oct 1779; travelling in Italy 1785, 1788; m. 12 Sep 1769 Eleanor, second dau. of Sir Ralph Assheton, Bart.; d. 23 Sep 1814.