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DUNN, RICHARD DUCKWORTH, only son of Capt. Richard Dalling Dunn, Royal Navy, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Charlotte Frances, dau. of James Templer, Stover, Devon [or George Templer : check]; b. 25 Oct 1811; adm. (G) 14 Jun 1824; KS 1825; left 1829; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1829; Cornet, 2nd Dragoon Guards 9 Mar 1832; Lieut., 13 Sep 1833; Capt., 28 Oct 1837; retired 18 Dec 1840; m. 2 Aug 1838 Isabella Pallmer, fourth dau. of James Massy-Dawson MP, Ballinacorte, co. Tipperary; d. 10 Jan 1892.

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.

DUNNING, FRANCIS; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1746/7 (Ashby's); left 1747.

Dunning, James Edmund, son of Maj. James Edmund Dunning DSO, of Chelsea, and Isabel Backus of Rochester, NY, USA; b. 24 Nov. 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (A); left Mar. 1923; RAFVR (A & SD) 1940-5 (Sqdn Ldr), despatches Sept. 1943; OBE Jan. 1943; US Legion of Merit Mar. 1944.

Dunscombe, Clement, son of Clement Dunscombe, M. lnst. C. E., of Streatham, by Gertrude Hannah, daughter of Alfred Clark, of Wood Dailing, Norfolk; b. April 30, 1897; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (H); left July 1914; Downing Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1914; B.A. 1917; M.B., B. Chir. 1920; M.A. 1921; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; L.R.C.P. (London) and M.R.C.S. (Eng.) 1919; a physician specializing in public health work; Asst. Medical Officer of Health, Wiltshire County Council 1924; served in R.A.M.C. during Great War I as dresser, 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge; resident in Natal; d. 25 Sept. 1979.

Dunscombe, Nicholas Dunscombe, brother of Clement Dunscombe (q.v.); b. Nov. 21, 1898; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (H); left July 1915; Downing Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1915; B.A. 1917; M.A. 1921; St. Thomas's Hosp.; M.B., B. Chir. 1921; D. P. H. 1923; a physician specializing in public health work; M. O. H. Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury, 1934-39; Glos. Combined Dists. (Stroud area) 1939-50; called to the Bar at the Inner Temple June 20, 1928; served in Great War I as Surgeon Probationer, R. N. V. R.; resident in Natal; m. July 3, 1937, Irene Elizabeth, eldest daughter of P. W. Chandler, a Master of the Supreme Court.

DUNSTER, SAMUEL, son of James Dunster, Westminster; b. Sep 1675; at Merchant Taylors’ School 1688-9; adm.; KS 1690; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1693, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1693, scholar 20 Apr 1694; BA 1696/7; MA 1700; DD 1713; ordained deacon 2 Nov 1698, priest 11 Jun 1700 (both London); Perpetual Curate of St. James, Paddington, Middlesex [by 1705 ?]; Rector of Chinnor, Oxfordshire 12 Jul 1716; Prebendary of Lincoln from 6 Jun 1720; Prebendary of Salisbury 19 Jul 1720 - res Oct 1748; Vicar of Rochdale, Lancs., from 23 Apr 1722; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716); Chaplain, 13th Dragoons, to Mar 1740; author, Anglia Rediviva, 1699, The Satyrs and Epistles of Horace done into English, 1710, and other works; m. 1 Jul 1705 Mary Hammond; d. 19 Jul 1754. DNB.

DUNTON, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1565-9 (Chapter Muniments 54005-18, 54020).

DUPORT, JAMES, fourth son of Rev. John Duport DD, Master of Jesus Coll. Cambridge, and Rachel, dau. of Right Rev. Richard Cox DD, Bishop of Ely; b. 1606; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1622, adm. scholar 1623; 4th in “ordo” and BA Jan 1626/7; MA 1630; BD 1637; DD 1660; Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1627-c. 1666, Tutor 1635-64, a Senior Fellow 1654, Vice-Master 1655-65; Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge Univ., 13 Jul 1639 - 54, ejected; ordained; Archdeacon of Stow 14 Aug 1641- res 12 Nov 1641; Prebendary of Lincoln from 14 Aug 1641 (ejected by Parliamentary Visitors 1643, reinstated at Restoration); Lady Margaret Preacher 1646; at Restoration appointed Chaplain to King Charles II and reinstated as Regius Professor of Greek, but soon afterwards resigned his Professorship to make way for his pupil Isaac Barrow; Dean of Peterborough from 27 Jul 1664; Master of Magdalene Coll., Cambridge, from 1668; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ. 1669; Rector of Boxworth, Cambs., 1668; Rector of Aston Flamville, Leics., Jan 1672/3-77; the most eminent Greek scholar of his day; author, Threnothriambos (Greek translation of Book of Job), 1637, Homeri Gnomologia duplici Parallelismo illustrata, 1660 (of which the preface contains an enthusiastic and grateful address to the School), and other works; d. 17 Jul 1679. DNB.

DUPPA, BRIAN, second son of Jeffrey Duppa, Lewisham, Kent, Purveyor of the Buttery to Queen Elizabeth I and Brewer to King James I, and Lucrece Maresall; b. 10 Mar 1588/9; adm.; QS; “here”, said Henry King (qv), Bishop of Chichester, in his sermon at Duppa’s funeral in Westminster Abbey, “he had the greatest dignity, which the School could afford put upon him, to be the Paedonomus at Christmas, Lord of his Fellow-Scholars” (p. 34); elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1605, matr. 9 Jul 1605, Westminster Student to 1611; BA 1609; MA 1614; BD and DD 1625; Fellow All Souls Coll. Oxford 1612; Junior Proctor 1619; ordained; in 1620s successively Chaplain to Prince Palatine and to Earl of Dorset; Vicar of Westham, Sussex 7 Mar 1625/6-38; Vicar of Hailsham, Sussex 22 Dec 1626-26/7; Vicar of Withyham, Sussex 5 Feb 1626/7-38; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 28 Nov 1629- Jun 1638; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ. 1632-4; Prebendary and Chancellor of Salisbury 6 Jan 1634- Jun 1638; tutor to Prince of Wales and Duke of Gloucester 1638; Rector of Petworth, Sussex 19 May 1638-41; consecrated Bishop of Chichester 17 Jun 1638; translated to Salisbury 14 Dec 1641; on suppression of the episcopacy he retired to Oxford, and subsequently to Richmond, Surrey; carried out private ordinations of priests and deacons during the Commonwealth, and interested himself in the preservation of the episcopal succession; translated to Winchester 4 Oct 1660; Lord Almoner from 24 Jul 1660; author of a few published sermons and of Jonsonius Virbius, a collection of thirty poems on the death of Ben Jonson (qv), 1637; m. 23 Nov 1626 Jane, dau. of Nicholas Killingtree, Longham, Norfolk; d. 26 Mar 1662. Buried in North Ambulatory, Westminster Abbey. DNB.