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.
DORINGTON, MARMADUKE, son of Rev. Francis Dorington, Rector of Warboys, Hunts.; b.; at school (aged 12) 2 Jul 1582; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1587, adm. scholar 1588; BA 1591/2; MA 1595 (incorp. Oxford 15 Jul 1617); Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1593-1602.
DORINGTON, RICHARD, b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1605, adm. scholar 1606, matr. Easter 1606; BA 1609/10; MA 1613; ordained deacon (London) 19 Sep 1613, aged 26; Rector of West Stoke, Sussex, from 12 Nov 1615; m.; buried West Stoke, Sussex 29 May 1626.
Dorling, Anthony Lionel, son of Col. Liane Henry Godfrey Dorling MC OBE RA, of Horley Row, Surrey, and Charlotte Patricia Hazel, d. of Col. William Elliot; b. 11 Oct. 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (R); left Dec. 1941; RA 1943-5 (Capt. ); Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1947, BA 1950; Fisons Ltd. 1950-8; commercial dir. Fisons (Pty) Ltd. South Africa 1958-64; Omnia Fertilisers Ltd. 1964-78; m. 1st, 2 Aug. 1952 Philippa, d. of Samuel Leonard Shannon of Walkerburn, Peebles; 2nd, 2 May 1981 Joanna Bland.
DORMER, THOMAS; b.; adm.; QS 14 Feb 1553/4 (Acts of Chapter).
DORNFORD, JAMES WILLIAM, son of James Dornford, St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London, and Mary --- (Hatt ? (IGI)); b. 16 Oct 1783; at school 1793; in school lists 1795, 1797; boarder (Clapham) 13 Jan 1796; KS 1798. [will PCC 24 Apr 1812, as of Greenwich, Kent]
DORRIEN-MAGENS, JOHN, only son of Magens Dorrien-Magens MP, Hammerwood, East Grinstead, Surrey, and Hon. Henrietta Cecilia de Cardonnel, eldest sister of George Talbot Rice, 3rd Baron Dinevor (qv); b. 8 Feb 1803; adm. 31 May 1815 (Packharness'); left 29 Jul 1818; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Apr 1821; a banker, firm Dorrien, Magens, Magens, Mello & Co, Finch Lane, London; m. 24 Apr 1828 Mary Stephana, dau. of Lieut. -Col. Thomas Rudsdell, 61st Foot; d. 7 May 1879.
Doswell, Algernon Michael, son of Algernon George Doswell, accountant, of Sydenham, Kent; b. 1 June 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (G); left July 1936; Univ. of Lond., fenced for the University 1939; MN radio officer, lost in the Norwegian SS Polyana, sunk by enemy action Apr. 1941.
Algernon Michael Doswell was born at Torquay, Devon on the 1st of June 1918 the only son of George Algernon Doswell, an accountant for a railway company, and Hilda Elizabeth (nee Fortune) Doswell of 17, Crescent Wood Road, Camberwell in Kent, later of 22, Ingleby Road, Ilford in Essex. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from September 1931 to July 1936. He was a member of the Fencing team in 1934 and 1935, winning the Foil Medal in 1935, and was appointed as Captain. He represented the school in the Public Schools Fencing Championship in April 1934. He went on to the University of London where he studied Architecture and fenced for the university in 1939.
He trained as a wireless operator with the General Post Office from the 6th of May 1940 before enlisting in the Merchant Navy. He was posted to the steam merchant SS Polyana.
The SS Polyana, under the command of Master Karl Jacobsen, set sail from Sutherland on the 22nd of March 1941 bound for Oban where she was to join a convoy. She set sail from Oban on the 7th of April 1941 as part of Convoy OG-58 but detached from the convoy on the 14th of April 1941 and sailed on unescorted bound for Freetown where she was due to arrive on the 30th of April.
At 11.57pm on the 24th of April 1941, the SS Polyana was sailing alone, about 250 miles to the west south west of Cape Verde Island, when the U Boat U-103, under the command of Korvettenkapitän Viktor Schütze, fired a torpedo at her which missed. At 12.38am on the 25th of April 1941 U-103 fired a second torpedo which struck her close to the bridge and she sank about one minute later with the loss of her entire crew of twenty five.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission record the date of his death as having occurred on the 23rd of April 1941 but all other records have the loss of the SS Polyana as having occurred on the 25th of April 1941.
He is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial Panel 82.
Doughty, Peter Arthur, son of Donald Arthur Doughty of Streatham and Evelyn Grace, d. of Henry Edward Merry; b. 12 July 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (A); left July 1954; a computer consult.; m. 29 Feb. 1964 Judie Francis Elizabeth Barrow; d. 28 Apr. 2006.
DOUGLAS, CHARLES, EARL OF DRUMLANRIG, younger son of Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry (S) and 2nd Duke of Dover (GB) PC, Lord Justice General of Scotland, and Lady Catherine Hyde, second dau. of Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon; b. 17 Jul 1726; at Winchester Coll. 1734-41; adm. Feb 1741/2 (Preston's); left 1744; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 May 1745; MP Dumfriesshire Jul 1747 - 18 Nov 1755; styled Lord Charles Douglas to 1754, becoming Earl of Drumlanrig by courtesy on his elder brother’s death 19 Oct 1754; at Lisbon at date of the great earthquake of 1 Nov 1755; member, Society of Dilettanti 1753; d. unm. 24 Oct 1756.