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DRUMMOND, ROBERT, second son of Adm. Sir Adam Drummond KCH, Megginch Castle, Perthshire, and Lady Charlotte Murray, widow of Sir John Menzies, Bart., and eldest dau. of John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl (qv); nephew of John Drummond (adm. 1765, qv, if correctly identified); b. 22 Jun 1804; adm. 22 Apr 1818 (Packharness'); Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. 14 Mar 1823; migr. Trin. Coll. Camb., adm. pens. 30 Jun 1823; BA 1827; MA 1831; ordained deacon 1828, priest 1829 (both Lincoln); Vicar of Feering, Essex 20 Jun 1829-66; m. 19 Jan 1841 Hon. Charlotte Olivia Elizabeth Strutt, second dau. of Joseph Holden Strutt MP, Col. South Essex and West Essex Militias, and Charlotte, Baroness Rayleigh; d. 1883.

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.

DYKE, THOMAS HART, second son of Sir Percival Hart Dyke, Bart. (adm. 1776, qv); b. 11 Dec 1801; adm. 9 Dec 1816 (Packharness'); left Christmas 1818; went to Harrow School Jan 1819; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Dec 1820, Canoneer Student 1821 - still 1829; BA 1824; MA 1827; played cricket for Kent in one match 1827; ordained deacon 1824, priest 1825 (both Oxford); Rector of Lullingstone, Kent, from 3 Jul 1828; Rector of Long Newton, co. Durham, from 2 Mar 1832; m. 4 Feb 1833 Elizabeth, second dau. of Thomas Lodington Fairfax, Newton Kyme, Yorks. ; d. 25 Jun 1866.

DYOTT, RICHARD, elder son of Gen. William Dyott, Freeford Hall, near Lichfield, Staffs., and Eleanor, dau. of Samuel Thompson, Green Mount, co. Antrim; b. 26 May 1808; adm. 16 Jun 1819 (Packharness'); left Jun 1826; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Jun 1824, matr. 1826; Ensign, 63rd Foot 11 Oct 1827; 70th Foot 17 Sep 1829; Lieut., half-pay, unattached, 14 Jun 1831; 53rd Foot, 21 Jun 1831; Capt., 31 Aug 1838, half-pay 1 Jul 1842; 36th Foot 25 Feb 1848, retired same day; DL Staffordshire, JP 1842, High Sheriff 1856; MP (Cons) Lichfield 1865-80; m. 6 Dec 1849 Ellen Catherine, only dau. of Charles Smith Forster MP, Lysways Hall, Staffs.; d. 13 Feb 1891.

DYOTT, WILLIAM HERRICK, brother of Richard Dyott (qv); b. 13 Nov 1809; adm. 16 Jun 1819 (Packharness'); KS 1824; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1828, adm. pens. 16 May 1828, scholar 1829, matr. Mich. 1828, readm. pens. 13 Jan 1833; BA 1834; MA 1837; ordained deacon 25 May 1834, priest 14 Jun 1835 (both Lincoln); Vicar of Ansty, Warwicks., from 1844; Domestic Chaplain to Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere (qv), Nov 1844; m. 21 Jan 1846 Matilda Sophia, third dau. of Donatus O’Brien, Tixover House, Rutland; d. 26 Oct 1883.

ELLIS, WILLIAM MAY, only son of Rev. Thomas Ellis, Vicar of Great Milton, Oxfordshire, and his second wife Mary, dau. of William May, Buryfield, Berks.; half-brother of Charles Willatts Ellis (qv); b. 16 Jan 1804; adm. 16 Sep 1816 (Packharness'); Min. Can. 1818; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1821; BA 1825; MA 1829; ordained; Rector of Ickford, Bucks., from 25 Jul 1838; d. 21 Jul 1846.

FERRERS, PROBY JOHN, eldest son of John Bromfield Ferrers (qv); b. 19 Apr 1802; adm. 13 Jan 1817 (Packharness'); Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 29 May 1821; BA 1825; MA 1829; ordainred deacon 29 May 1825, priest 17 Dec 1826 (both Winchester); Curate, Beddington, Surrey; d. unm. 20 Jun 1830.

FLUDYER, SIR JOHN HENRY, BART. , third son of George Fludyer (adm. 1771, qv); b. 19 Dec 1803; adm. 10 Jan 1815 (Packharness'); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 15 Dec 1821, matr. Mich. 1822; BA 1826; MA 1829; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1826, priest 23 Dec 1827 (both Peterborough); Curate, Ayston, Rutland 1826-34; Rector of Thistleton, Rutland, 19 Mar 1834-70; Rector of Ayston, Rutland, from 20 May 1834; succ. his cousin as 4th baronet 12 Mar 1876; Chairman Rutland QS for more than thirty years; Trustee and Governor, Uppingham Sch. ; m. 7 May 1832 Augusta, sister of Sir Edward Richard Borough, Bart. (qv); d. 4 Aug 1896.

FORESTER, CECIL WILLIAM, brother of George Townshend Forester (qv); b. 2 Apr 1808; adm. 15 Jun 1819 (Packharness'); Ensign, 52nd Foot 1 Aug 1826; Lieut., 14 May 1829; Capt., 4 Dec 1835; Maj., 16 Jan 1846; Lieut. -Col., 22 Aug 1851; half-pay 80th Foot 3 Jun 1853; 3rd West India Regt., 7 Jun 1854, retired same day; Assistant Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Commons; m. 7 Dec 1852 Henrietta Maria, widow of Capt. Lord Henry Russell, Royal Navy, and dau. of Adm. Hon. Sir Robert Stopford GCB MP, Royal Navy; d. 6 Dec 1881.

FREER, RICHARD LANE, brother of John Lane Freer (qv); b. 10 Feb 1806; adm. 14 Jan 1819 (Packharness'); left Dec 1823; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 Apr 1824; BA 1828; MA 1830; BD 1839; DD 1858; ordained deacon 1830, priest 1831 (both Worcester); Curate, Congleton, Cheshire, 1830, afterwards of Handsworth, Staffs.; Rector of Bishopstone and Vicar of Hazor, Herefs., from 23 Mar 1839; Vicar of Mansel Lacy, Herefs., 17 Feb 1840 - res Aug 1853; Prebendary of Hereford from 21 Jun 1847; Archdeacon of Hereford from Apr 1852; Praelector, Hereford Cathedral, from 1861; JP Herefordshire; m. 16 May 1848 his cousin Harriet, dau. of Rev. John Clutton DD, Canon of Hereford; d. 11 Aug 1863.