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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.