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COTTON, SIR ST. VINCENT, BART., elder son of Sir Charles Cotton, Bart. (qv); b. 6 Oct 1801; adm. 29 Mar 1815 (Packharness'); left 3 Dec 1817; succ. father as 6th baronet 23 Feb 1812; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Feb 1820; Cornet, 10th Light Dragoons (Hussars), 13 May 1826; Lieut., 13 Dec 1827; retd. on half-pay 19 Nov 1830; DL JP Cambridgeshire; a well-known sportsman in the hunting, shooting, racing, gaming, and puglistic world; played cricket for the Gentlemen against the Players 1832, 1835; gambled away his estates, and for many years made a living by driving The Age stagecoach on the London and Brighton road; m. a few days before his death Hepzibah Dimmick; d. 25 Jan 1863. DNB.

CURTEIS, EDWARD BARRETT, second son of Edward Jeremiah Curteis (qv); b. 25 Jul 1804; adm. 3 Feb 1815 (Packharness'); shot snipe in osier beds close to the Willow Walk, in the Long Meadow, and in the osiers of the Chelsea Waterworks at Battersea; master of a pack of beagles, kept in the kitchen of 1 Vincent Square, which hunted in Battersea Fields (Elizabethan ii, 130); left 1821; Ensign, 33rd Foot 5 Dec 1822; Lieut., 1st Royal Dragoons 4 Aug 1825; Capt., 7th Dragoon Guards 12 Apr 1827; Maj., 17 Oct 1834; sold out 8 Jul 1836; MP Rye 1832-7; author, Exposure of the corrupt system of elections at Rye, 1853; m. 1st, 9 Mar 1837 Charlotte Lydia, youngest dau. of Thomas Law Hodges MP, Hempstead Park, Kent; m. 2nd, 15 Sep 1841 Frances, eldest dau. of William Kenrick MP, Broome Park, Surrey; d. 14 Dec 1879.

DESANGES, FRANCIS GEORGE MARCH, son of Sir Francis Desanges, Kt., Finsbury Square, London, Sheriff of London, and Amelia, dau. of G. Kuse; b. 11 Apr 1809; adm. 18 May 1818 (Packharness'); left Whitsun 1823; m. 6 Jun 1835 his cousin Amelia Frances Maria, sixth dau. of James Soames, Lee Park, Blackheath, Kent.

DICKINSON, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Dickinson (adm. 1781, qv); b. 12 May 1804; adm. 22 Jan 1816 (Packharness'); left Whitsun 1816; d. 4 Jun 1820.

DIXON, JOHN, only son of John Dixon, Rotterdam, Netherlands; b. 6 Nov 1804; adm. 16 Apr 1817 (Packharness'); left Midsummer 1817; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Apr 1822; BA 1829.

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.

DOUGLAS, JOHN, elder son of Rev. William Douglas, Precentor and Canon Residentiary of Salisbury, and Prebendary of Westminster, and Anne, second dau. of Baron --- de Brackel, Yverdun, Switzerland; b. 1 Jan 1805; adm. 25 Jun 1817 (Packharness'); left 27 Apr 1819; at Charterhouse Sch., foundation scholar 1819-25; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Mar 1825, aged 19; Ensign, 64th Foot 12 Dec 1826; Lieut., 29 Jul 1830; d. unm. at Port Royal, Jamaica 20 Aug 1834.

DOUGLAS, WILLIAM, brother of John Douglas (adm. 1817, qv); b. 1 Jul 1806; adm. 25 Jun 1817 (Packharness'); left Whitsun 1819; at Haileybury Coll. 1822-4; Writer, EICS Madras 6 Oct 1824; Senior Assistant to Register of Sudder Court, 20 Jan 1829; Deputy Register, Sudder Adawlut 24 Sep 1830, Acting Senior Register 27 May 1833, Register 22 Sep 1835; Additional Government Commissioner for Carnatic Claims 21 Oct 1834; Register, Sudder and Foujdarry Adawlut 1835; Judge and Criminal Judge, Madura 1843; Civil and Sessions Judge, Tinnevelly 1844; Civil Auditor and Superintendent of Stamps 1853; resigned in India 1 Jul 1853; subsequently of Lansdowne House, Bath; m. 1st, 15 Jan 1828 Selina Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Maj. -Gen. Sir Henry Willoughby Rooke CB KCH, Pilston House, Monmouthshire; m. 2nd, 5 Jul 1834 Caroline, second dau. of Capt. Joseph Hare, 22nd Light Dragoons; d. 5 Dec 1885.

DOWDESWELL, JOHN CHRISTOPHER, younger son of John Edmund Dowdeswell (qv); b. 10 Aug 1806; adm. 12 Jun 1816 (Packharness'); left 1822; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 May 1823; BA 1827; MA 1830; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 27 Jan 1832; Oxford Circuit; Recorder of Tewkesbury; m. 29 Aug 1833 Sophy, only dau. of Charles Godfrey Mundy, Burton Hall, near Loughborough, Leics.; d. 18 Sep 1850.

DOWDESWELL, WILLIAM, elder son of John Edmund Dowdeswell (qv); b. 8 Oct 1804; adm. 12 Jun 1816 (Packharness'); left 1822; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1822; BA 1826; MA 1829; of Pull Court, Worcestershire; MP (Cons) Tewkesbury 1835-47; DL Worcestershire, JP 1831, High Sheriff 1855; JP Gloucestershire; m. 19 Mar 1839 Amelia Letitia, youngest dau. of Robert Graham, Cossington House, Somerset; d. 6 Feb 1887.