DUNLOP, JAMES, son of John Dunlop, Petersburg, Virginia, USA, and Mary Ruffin Gillian; b. 7 Aug 1805; adm. (G) 15 Jan 1816; lived for some years in Netherlands and afterwards settled in USA; agent of the Clyde Ironworks owned by the Dunlop family in America; d. 1870.
Dunlop, Donald Mackenzie, 1806-1874
DUNLOP, DONALD MACKENZIE, brother of James Dunlop (qv); b. 29 Oct 1806; adm. (G) 15 Jan 1816; KS 1821; Capt. of the School 1825; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1826, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1826, scholar 1827, matr. Mich. 1826; adm. advocate 16 Dec 1829; adm. Inner Temple 10 May 1827, called to bar 6 Jun 1834; practised as a barrister in Bath; m. 3 Jun 1845 Eliza Herculina, eldest dau. of Col. William Swinton, EICS Bengal; d. 30 Dec 1874.
Dunlap, Andrew Robert, 1816-1852
DUNLAP, ANDREW ROBERT, brother of James Dunlap (qv); b. 19 Feb 1816; adm. 29 Mar 1826 (Singleton's); entered Royal Navy as 1st cl. Volunteer, HMS Tyne, 18 Nov 1830; Midshipman, 26 Nov 1833; Sub-Lieut., 17 Dec 1837; Lieut., 21 Jun 1842; entered Coastguard Service 14 Sep 1850; d. 2 Apr 1852.
DUNCAN, FRANCIS, eldest son of Dr Francis Duncan, New Road, Middlesex, and Ann --- (IGI); b. 17 Nov 1806 (IGI); adm. 11 Jan 1819 (Du Brieux's); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 May 1825, matr. Mich. 1826; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 17 Nov 1825; ordained deacon (Worcester) 1831, priest 1 Feb 1835; Rector of West Chelborough, Kent, from 11 Dec 1839; m. 12 Apr 1830 (IGI) Louisa Augusta, dau. of Maj. -Gen. Richard Goodall Elrington CB; d. 23 Aug 1872. [Was his father Francis Duncan MD, Surgeon EICS Madras ? (see will proved PCC 18 Dec 1824, as of Paddington, Middlesex)]
DUNCAN, ALEXANDER, brother of Francis Duncan (qv); b. 16 Dec 1809; adm. 13 Jan 1823 (Singleton's); KS 1824; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 May 1828, matr. Mich. 1828; MA 1834.
DRYDEN, JOHN, son of Erasmus Dryden, Titchmarsh, Northants., and Mary, dau. of Rev. Henry Pickering, Rector of Aldwincle All Saints, Northants.; b. 19 Aug 1631; adm.; KS; wrote while a KS an elegy on the death of Lord Hastings, published by R. B. in Lachrymae Musarum, 1649; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1650, adm. pens. 18 May 1650, scholar 2 Oct 1650; “walled” for a fortnight and not allowed to go outside the college “excepting for sermons” Jul 1652, for disobedience to the Vice-Master (W. W. Rouse Ball, Cambridge Papers, 218-9); forfeited scholarship by non-residence and thus ineligible for a Fellowship; BA 1653/4; MA Lambeth 17 Jun 1668; mourned Cromwell’s death in Heroic Stanzas 1658; celebrated the Restoration in Astraea Redux 1660, and Charles II’s Coronation in a Panegyric 1661; one of original Fellows of Royal Society 20 May 1663; author, Annus Mirabilis 1667; Poet Laureate and Historiographer 18 Aug 1670 - 11 Dec 1688; Sir Martin Mar-All, one of his most successful plays, was produced in 1667, Aurungzebe, his finest rhymed tragedy, in 1675, and All for Love, his finest play, in 1678; his Absalom and Achitophel was published in 1681; defended Anglicanism in Religio Laici, 1682; Collector of Customs, Port of London 17 Dec 1683; a Roman Catholic convert 1686; author, The Hind and the Panther, 1687; translations by him of Juvenal and Persius were published in 1693, and of Livy in 1697; wrote Alexander’s Feast 1697 [check] and Fables Ancient and Modern, 1700; his complete works, with a life by Sir Walter Scott, were published in 1808; in a note to the third satire of Persius Dryden wrote “I remember I translated this satire when I was a King’s Scholar at Westminster School, for a Thurday-night exercise; and believe, that it, and many others of my exercises of the nature in English verse, are still in the hands of my learned master the Rev. Dr. Busby” (Works, xiii, 230); Dryden refers to Busby’s excessive use of the rod in a letter to Charles Montagu (ibid., xviii, 159-60) and to the curious custom of “custos” in Hall in a letter to Busby (ibid., xviii, 98); Dryden’s “form” was long preserved up School; m. 1 Dec 1663 Lady Elizabeth Howard, eldest dau. of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham; d. 1 May 1700. His body lay in state at the College of Physicians for ten days, and he was buried in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
DOLBEN, JOHN, eldest son of William Dolben (elected Oxford 1603, qv); b. 24 Mar 1624/5; adm.; KS 1637; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1640, matr. 3 Jul 1640, Westminster Student 1640 - 7 Jul 1648, when deprived for refusing to submit to the Parliamentary Visitors; BA and MA 9 Dec 1647; BD and DD 3 Oct 1660; joined royalist army as volunteer, wounded at Marston Moor and again during siege of York; promoted for his bravery to the ranks of Capt. and Major; returned to studies at Oxford 1646; ordained deacon (Chichester) 1656; with John Fell and Richard Allestree continued to hold the services of the prescribed Church of England in the house of Dr Thomas Willis in Oxford, an act of loyalty commemorated by Sir Peter Lely in his picture of the three divines in Christ Church Hall; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford 27 Jul 1660- Nov 1666; Rector of Newington cum Britwell, Oxfordshire 1660; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II; Prebendary of St. Paul’s 21 Apr 1661 – Nov 1666; Archdeacon of London 11 Oct 1662- May 1664; Vicar of St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, 15 Nov 1662 - res 18 Mar 1663/4; Dean of Westminster 3 Dec 1662 - Aug 1683; he and the Westminster Scholars assisted in saving St. Dunstan in the East from the Great Fire 3 Sep 1666 (Autobiography of William Taswell, Camden Soc. Pub. lv, 12); Clerk of the Closet 1664 - Dec 1667, deprived on Clarendon’s fall; consecrated Bishop of Rochester 25 Nov 1666; Lord High Almoner 21 Oct 1675 - Mar 1684; Archbishop of York from 16 Aug 1683; FRS 29 Mar 1665; a prelate of great presence and courage, and one of the most popular preachers of the day; the subject of lines 868-9 of John Dryden (qv)’s Absalom and Achitophel; m. 14 Jan 1657/8 Catherine, dau. of Ralph Sheldon, Stanton, Derbs. [check], and niece of Most Rev. Gilbert Sheldon DD, Archbishop of Canterbury; d. 11 Apr 1686. DNB.
Dickson, John Frederick, 1835-1891
DICKSON, SIR JOHN FREDERICK, eldest son of Robert Dickson MD FRCP, Hertford Street, Mayfair, London, and Cambridge Lodge, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, and Anna Maria, dau. of John Coope, Cumberland Place, London; b. 17 Sep 1835; adm. 30 Jan 1847 (Rigaud's); readm. Mar 1850; QS 1851; Capt. of the School 1854; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1855, matr. 7 Jun 1855; 1st cl. Classics (Mods) 1857; BA 1859; MA 1873; Writer, Ceylon Civil Service Feb 1859; in Colonial Secretary’s Office, Ceylon 1859-62; Police Magistrate, Dambool 1862, Galle 1865; acting Government Agent, Southern Province 1879, Central Province 1882; CMG 24 May 1883; Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements, from Sep 1885; member, Legislative Council; KCMG 24 May 1888; m. 1st, 30 Jun 1859 Annie, dau. of Randle Jackson Waters (qv); m. 2nd, 31 Mar 1875 Emily Ayton, youngest dau. of George Lee, Dickleburgh, Suffolk; d. 21 Dec 1891.
De Bruyn, Peter Philip Van Virgilo, 1808-1832
DE BRUYN, PETER PHILIP VAN VIRGILO, son of Philip De Bruyn, and Lucy Sisum; b. 11 Oct 1808; at Harrow School 1820; adm. 16 Apr 1823 (Singleton's); left Christmas 1825; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1826; Ensign (unattached) 13 May 1827; Bengal Native Infantry 31 Jan 1828; d. at sea 15 Jul 1832. [mother perhaps dau. of William Sisum (IGI)]
DAY, GEORGE, son of John Day, Norwich, Norfolk, and Catherine, dau. of Rev. George Sandby DD, Chancellor of Norwich and Rector of Denton, Norfolk; b. 15 Jun 1788; adm. 24 Jan 1801 (Clapham); KS 1802; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1806, but went to Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 May 1806; BA 1810; ordained; Rector of Earsham, Norfolk, from 24 Jul 1812; m. 9 Feb 1810 Mary Jones (IGI); d. 10 Jul 1831. [perhaps George Day, MA, Minor Canon, Norwich from 1817 (still 1829)]