DOD, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
DOCKWRA, WILLIAM, son of William Dockwra, London; b.; adm.; KS 1696; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1700, matr. 25 Jun 1700, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1700 - void 1735, presumably on death; BA 1704; MA 1707; ordained; Perpetual Curate of Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire; death noted by Thomas Hearne shortly before 28 May 1735. [Evidently William Dockwra, son of William Dockwra and Rebecca ---, bapt. St. Andrew Undershaft, London 24 Mar 1680 (IGI)]
DOBSON, WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev. William Dobson DD, President of Trinity Coll. Oxford, and Jane, sister of Samuel Bowdler (qv); b. 1 Nov 1681; adm.; KS 1697; left 1701; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Feb 1700/1, aged 16 (sic); BA 1704; MA 1707; ordained priest (Oxford) 18 Dec 1709; Vicar of Middleton Tyas, Yorks., from 31 Mar 1713; m. Anna Maria ---; d. 1717.
DIXON, WILLIAM JERROLD, eldest son of William Hepworth Dixon, St. James’s Terrace, Regent’s Park, London, author and journalist, and Marian, dau. of James MacMahon, Ardwick Green, Manchester; b. 24 Mar 1848; adm. 13 Mar 1862; QS 1863; left Dec 1866; while helping to save lives in the terrible ice accident in Regent’s Park on 15 Jan 1867 he caught a severe chill which rendered him more or less an invalid for the rest of his life; adm. Inner Temple 15 Apr 1867, called to bar 26 Jan 1870; South-Eastern Circuit; Hon. Secretary, Savage Club; Secretary to Dublin Sanitary Commission 1879; author, Married Another, and of numerous magazine articles; d. unm. at Dublin 20 Oct 1879.
DIXON, HAROLD BAILY, brother of William Jerrold Dixon (qv); b. 11 Aug 1852; adm. 15 Jun 1865; QS 1867; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1871, matr. 27 May 1871; 3rd cl. Classics (Mods) 1873, 1st cl. Natural Science 1875; BA 1875; MA 1878; played Association Football against Cambridge; Millard Lecturer, Trin. Coll. Oxford 1879-86, Bedford Lecturer, Balliol Coll. Oxford 1881-6; Fellow of Balliol Coll. 1886-7; Natural Science Examiner, Oxford 1886-8, 1899-1900; FRS 4 Jun 1886, Royal Medal 1913; Professor of Chemistry, Owen’s Coll., Manchester Univ., 1886-1922, Hon. Professor from 1922; member, Royal Commission on Explosions of Coal Dust in Mines 1891-4, Royal Commission on Coal Supplies 1902-5; President, Chemical Society 1909-11; member, Home Office Executive Committee on Explosions in Mines 1911-4; Deputy Inspector of High Explosives, Manchester area, during 1914-18 War; CBE 7 Jun 1918; Chairman, Selective Committee for NW District, Ministry of Labour 1922; Superintendent of Research on Ignition of Gases under Safety in Mines Research Board 1927; author, The Conditions of Chemical Change in Gases, 1884, and other works; m. 1st, 14 Jul 1885 Olive Beechey, dau. of Edward Martin Hopkins, Montreal, Canada; m. 2nd, 26 Aug 1918 Muriel Agnes Mary, dau. of William Kinch, Henley, Oxfordshire; d. 18 Sep 1930.
Dix, George Eglington Alston, son of the Rev. George Henry Dix, Principal of St. John's Coll., Battersea, by Mary Jane, daughter of James Eteson Walker, of Preston, Lancs; b. Oct. 4, 1901; adm. as K.S. Sept. 23, 1915; left (with Triplett) July 1920; Merton Coll. Oxon., exhibitioner (history), matric. Michaelmas 1920; B.A. 1923; lecturer at Keble Coll. 1923 and 1924-26; professed as Dom Gregory Dix, O. S. B., 1926; Prior 1948; author of The Shape of the Liturgy (1944) and other works; d. May 12, 1952.
DITCHFIELD, JOHN, second son of Edward Ditchfield, St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, London, and Edmonton, Middlesex, and his second wife Katharine, dau. of John Whittingham, Middlewich, Cheshire; bapt. 19 Jan 1617/8; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1638, matr. 23 Nov 1638, aged 18; BA 1642; MA 1645; ordained; buried St. Albans, Herts. 22 May 1658.
DISBROWE, JOHN, son of Samuel Disbrowe, Westminster; b.; in under school list 1715; KS (aged 13) 1717; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1721, matr. 10 Jun 1721, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1721 - void 3 Jul 1728; BA 1725.
DIGBY, HON. WILLIAM, brother of Edward Digby, 6th Baron Digby (qv); b. 21 Jan 1733/4; adm. Mar 1744/5 (Watts'); KS (Capt. ) 1748; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1752, matr. 4 Jun 1752, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1752 - void 2 Apr 1761, expiry year of grace as R. Kilmington; BA 1756; MA 1759; DCL 1765; ordained deacon 28 Sep 1759, priest 2 Mar 1760 (both Oxford); Rector of Kilmington, Somerset, 26 Apr 1760; Vicar of Coleshill, Warwicks., from 1763; Rector of Sheldon, Warwicks., from 1766; Chaplain in Ordinary to King George III 1761 -c. 1770; Prebendary of Exeter 17 Apr 1762-79; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford 23 Jul 1765-9; Dean of Worcester 29 Aug 1769 - res by Jan 1778; Master of St. Oswald’s Hospital, Worcester 1770-8; Dean of Durham from 18 Sep 1777; m. 14 Apr 1766 Charlotte Lepel, dau. of Joseph Cox, Stanford, Berks.; d. 18 Sep 1788.
DIGBY, THOMAS, of Warwickshire; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1592, matr. 15 Dec 1592, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1601, Faculty Student 1601-4; BA 1596; MA 1599.