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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).

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.

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.

DOLBEN, WILLIAM, only son of John Dolben, Haverfordwest, Pembs., and Alice, dau. of Richard Myddelton, Denbigh, and niece of Sir Hugh Myddelton MP, projector of the New River; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1603, matr. 10 Feb 1603/4, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1607; BA 1607; migrated to All Souls Coll.; MA 1610 (incorp. Cambridge 1614); BD 1617; DD 1619; ordained; Rector of Stackpole Elidor, Pembs., 1616-8; Rector of Lawrenny, Pembs., 28 Sep 1620-3; Rector of Llanynys, Denbighshire, 1623; Rector of St. Bartholomew by the Exchange, London 11 Jul – Nov 1623; Rector of Stanwick and of Benefield, Northants., from 8 Nov 1623; Prebendary of Lincoln from 31 Aug 1629; his great-grandson Sir John Dolben, Bart. (qv), claimed that he was nominated Bishop of Gloucester shortly before his death, but it seems more probable that the intended diocese was Bangor; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Hugh Williams, Coghwillan, Caernarvonshire, and niece of Most Rev. John Williams DD, Archbishop of York; buried Stanwick, Northants. 19 Sep 1631. DNB.

DOLBEN, JOHN, son of John Dolben (adm. 1676, qv); b.; adm.; QS 1705; left 1708; mentions in his will his schoolfellow Thomas Moore (QS 1705, qv); d. in eighteenth year 27 Mar 1708.

DOLBEN, SIR JOHN, BART., only son of Sir Gilbert Dolben, Bart. (qv); b. 12 Feb 1683/4; adm. Rugby Sch. 26 Sep 1693; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1700; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 May 1702; BA 22 Jan 1704/5; MA 1707; BD and DD 1717; ordained; Sub-Dean, Chapel Royal 20 Apr 1713 - Mar 1718; Vicar of Finedon, Northants., from 30 Sep 1714; Prebendary of Durham from 2 Apr 1718, holding the “golden” stall there from 17 Jul 1719; Rector of Burton Latimer, Northants., from 14 Mar 1718/9; succ. father as 2nd baronet 22 Oct 1722; Visitor of Balliol Coll. Oxford from 22 Jun 1728; a warm friend of Francis Atterbury (qv); Anthony Alsop (qv) inscribed a number of his Latin odes to Dolben; m. 28 Jul 1720 Hon. Elizabeth Digby, second dau. of William Digby, 5th Baron Digby (I); d. 20 Nov 1756. 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.

DOLBEN, SIR JOHN ENGLISH, BART., only surviving son of Sir William Dolben, Bart. (qv), and his first wife; b. 4 May 1750; adm.; KS 1763; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1768, matr. 1 Jun 1768, Westminster Student 29 Dec 1768 - void by marriage 30 Oct 1779; BCL 1775; DCL 1788; succ. father as 4th baronet 20 Mar 1814; FSA 6 Apr 1780; the mural monument to Edward Wortley Montagu (qv) in the West Cloister was erected by Dolben in memory of his old schoolfellow; m. 26 Oct 1779 Hannah, dau. of William Hallett, jun., Canons, Little Stanmore, Middlesex; d. 27 Sep 1837.

DOLBEN, SIR GILBERT, BART., eldest son of John Dolben (elected Oxford 1640, qv); b. 16 Nov 1658; adm.; KS 1671; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1674, matr. 18 Jul 1674, aged 15, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1674 - void 1679; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 28 Nov 1680, Bencher 1706, Treasurer 1721; MP Ripon Mar 1684/5 - Jul 1687, Peterborough Jan 1688/9 - Jul 1698, Jan 1700/1 - Sep 1710, Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) Oct 1710 - Jan 1714/5; Puisne Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Ireland 24 Jun 1701-20; created baronet 1 Apr 1704; in the debate on the Aylesbury case in Jan 1704 Dolben maintained the exclusive jurisdiction of the House of Commons in election questions; mentioned by John Dryden (qv) in the postscript to his translation of the Aeneid; m. Anne, dau. of Tanfield Mulso, Finedon, Northants.; d. 22 Oct 1722. DNB.