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Dolhey, Roger Clarke, son of Thomas Hamer Dolbey, of Bayswater, London, barrister-at-law; b. March 26, 1884; adm. from Dulwich Coll. Jan. 20, 1898 (A); left July 1901; Trin. Hall, Camb., matric. Lent 1907; B.A. 1911; M.A. 1919; spent several years in Burma and Borneo, where he had many interests in forests and plantations; served in Great War I: 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. K. O. S. B. June 1, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; was twice wounded; mentioned in despatches; d. July 3, 1958.

Doll, John Christopher Shaboe, brother of Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll (qv); b. 8 Sept. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (G); left July 1937; RAFVR 1939-5 (Flight Lieut.); DFC Oct. 1943; camer­aman MGM studios 1946-54; BBC TV producer 1954-69; freelance TV producer and director 1970-; produced and directed Life of Sir Francis Chichester, and Prince Charles (BBC2 1975); m. 1st 4 Mar. 1946 Joan Frances Leak; 2nd 8 June 1954 Josephine Douglas, d. of Bernhard Rickett of Huddersfield; d. 13 Oct. 2004.

Doll, Sir William Richard Shaboe, son of Henry William Doll MRCS and Amy Kathleen Shaboe, concert pianist, d. of Richard Shaboe; b. 28 Oct. 1912; adm. Apr. 1925 (G), KS 1927; left July 1931; won an exhibition to Caius Coll. Camb., but did not matriculate; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MB BS 1937; MRCP 1939; RAMC 1938-45 (Maj.), despatches (Middle East) June 1943; MD 1945; statistical res. unit MRC 1948, dep. Dir. 1959, Dir. 1961-9; OBE Jan. 1956; FRCP 1957, DSc (Lond.) 1958; UN award for cancer research 1962; FRS 1966; DM (Oxon.) 1969; Regius Prof. of Medicine, Univ. of Oxford, 1969-79; Kt 1971; hon. DSc Newcastle 1969, Belfast 1972; Buchanan Medal Royal Society 1972; Gold Medal New York Acad. of Sciences 1974; hon. DM Tasmania 1975; Prix Griffuel (Paris) 1976; first Warden of Green College Oxford 1979-83; Gold Medal BMA 1983; chairman man. committee Inst. of Cancer Research 1979-; hon. Dir. Imp. Cancer Research Fund's Cancer Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Res. Unit 1978-83, acting Dir. 1983-; Royal Medal of the Royal Society 1986; hon DSc Harvard Univ. 1988; a Governor of the school 1967-77; author of Prevention of Cancer: Pointers from Epide­miology 1967, The Causes of Cancer 1981; m. 4 Oct. 1949 Joan Mary Faulkner MB, d. of Charles Duncan William Blatchford of Winchester; 24 Jul 2005.

DOLLING, JOHN SAUNDERS, eldest son of Robert Ratcliffe Dolling (qv); bapt. Aldenham, Herts. 28 Jan 1777 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. 1790; KS (aged 14) 1791; d. while at school c. 1794.

DOLLING, ROBERT RATCLIFFE, son of James Dolling, Great Russell Street, London, and Mary, only child of J. Ratcliffe, Hatton Garden, London; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1761; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1765, matr. 7 Jun 1765, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1765 - void 27 May 1772 (expiry year of grace as R. Etchingham); BA 1769; MA 1772; BCL 1775; ordained deacon 21 May 1769, priest 10 Jun 1770 (both Oxford); Rector of Etchingham, Sussex 25 May 1771-5; Vicar of Aldenham, Herts., 17 Jun 1775-94; Rector of Titsey, Surrey from 19 Mar 1776; Rector of Bolnhurst, Beds., from 20 Mar 1794; JP Hertfordshire (occurs 1783-4); m. Mar 1776 Mary, dau. of Paul Saunders, Bloomsbury, London; d. c. 1803 (will proved PCC 12 Nov 1803).

Dolton, Percy Harold Irvine, brother of Walter William Dolton (qv); b. 12 May 1902; adm. Jan. 1917 (A); left July 1919; chairman timber import co.; d. 9 Aug. 1990.

Dolton, Walter William, son of Walter Charles Dolton, of Blackheath, Kent, by Margaret Isabella, daughter of Irvine David Mitchell, of Belfast; b. Oct. 1, 1897; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (A); left July 1914; joined the Inns of Court O.T.C.; managing director of the Delta Metal Co. Ltd. and of the Delta Group of companies; president of the British Non-Ferrom Metals Federation 1959; m. March 8, 1927, Marie Frances Duval, daughter of the Rev. Francis Henry Rice, Vicar of St. Swithin, Hither Green, Kent.

DOMEIER, AUGUSTUS EDWARD, son of William Domeier MD, Gosport, Hampshire, originally from Hannover, Physician to Duke of Sussex, and Lucy Bernard; b. 20 Feb 1804; adm. 3 May 1816; KS 1818; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1822, adm. pens. 18 May 1822, scholar 1823, matr. Mich. 1822; BA 1826; MB 1828; Lic. Med. 1831; d. 29 Jan 1845.

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)]

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.