DORNFORD, JAMES WILLIAM, son of James Dornford, St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London, and Mary --- (Hatt ? (IGI)); b. 16 Oct 1783; at school 1793; in school lists 1795, 1797; boarder (Clapham) 13 Jan 1796; KS 1798. [will PCC 24 Apr 1812, as of Greenwich, Kent]
DORMER, THOMAS; b.; adm.; QS 14 Feb 1553/4 (Acts of Chapter).
Dorling, Anthony Lionel, son of Col. Liane Henry Godfrey Dorling MC OBE RA, of Horley Row, Surrey, and Charlotte Patricia Hazel, d. of Col. William Elliot; b. 11 Oct. 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (R); left Dec. 1941; RA 1943-5 (Capt. ); Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1947, BA 1950; Fisons Ltd. 1950-8; commercial dir. Fisons (Pty) Ltd. South Africa 1958-64; Omnia Fertilisers Ltd. 1964-78; m. 1st, 2 Aug. 1952 Philippa, d. of Samuel Leonard Shannon of Walkerburn, Peebles; 2nd, 2 May 1981 Joanna Bland.
DORINGTON, RICHARD, b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1605, adm. scholar 1606, matr. Easter 1606; BA 1609/10; MA 1613; ordained deacon (London) 19 Sep 1613, aged 26; Rector of West Stoke, Sussex, from 12 Nov 1615; m.; buried West Stoke, Sussex 29 May 1626.
DORINGTON, MARMADUKE, son of Rev. Francis Dorington, Rector of Warboys, Hunts.; b.; at school (aged 12) 2 Jul 1582; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1587, adm. scholar 1588; BA 1591/2; MA 1595 (incorp. Oxford 15 Jul 1617); Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1593-1602.
Dormer, Richard Geoffrey Patrick Egerton, son of Richard Dormer, HM the Railway Sch., Dehra Dun, India; b. 17 Sept. 1917; adm. Apr. 1931 (B); left Dec. 1935; d. 1960.
DONNE, JOHN, eldest son of Very Rev. John Donne DD, Dean of St. Paul’s and poet, and Anne, dau. of Sir George More MP, Loseley, Surrey, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter and Lieut. of the Tower of London; b. 1604; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1622, Westminster Student to 1632; BA 1626; MA 1629; ordained; Vicar of Tillingham, Essex 1631; tried for the manslaughter of a child of eight years old before Vice-Chancellor Laud 1633, but acquitted; went abroad; LLD Padua (incorp. Oxford 30 Jun 1638); Rector of High Roding, Essex 10 Jul 1638; Rector of Ufford, Northants., 29 May 1639; Rector of Fulbeck, Lincs., 10 Jun 1639; Chaplain to Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh; edited his father’s Poems, 1649; author, Donne’s Satyr, 1662; m. 27 Mar 1627 [sic : check] Mary Stapley, Camberwell, Kent; buried St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London 3 Feb 1662/3. DNB.
DONELLAN, JOHN, son of Lieut. -Col. --- Donellan; b. 6 Nov 1737; adm. Jan 1750/1 (Porten's); in school list 1752; RMA Woolwich; Gent. Cadet 4 Mar 1753; Ensign, 39th Foot 13 Nov 1755; Capt. Company of Foot, EICS Bengal 15 Dec 1757; served on expedition to Golconda and wounded at Chumbole 14 Dec 1758; court-martialled and dismissed the service 28 Apr 1759; on return to England became known as “Diamond” Donellan from a stone which he brought back from India; Master of Ceremonies at Brighton, and at The Pantheon, Oxford Street, London; restored to rank of Capt, half-pay, 39th Foot, c. 1772; convicted at Warwick Assizes Mar 1781 of having poisoned his brother-in-law Sir Theodosius Edward Allesley Boughton, Bart., at Lawford Hall, Warwickshire, with a dose of laurel water; m. Jun 1777 Theodosia, only dau. of Sir Edward Boughton, Bart.; hanged at Warwick 2 Apr 1781. [Perhaps bapt. Saddleworth, Yorks., 3 Nov 1737 (sic), son of Richard Donellan and Mary Whitehead (IGI)]
DOMEIER, AUGUSTUS EDWARD, son of William Domeier MD, Gosport, Hampshire, originally from Hannover, Physician to Duke of Sussex, and Lucy Bernard; b. 20 Feb 1804; adm. 3 May 1816; KS 1818; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1822, adm. pens. 18 May 1822, scholar 1823, matr. Mich. 1822; BA 1826; MB 1828; Lic. Med. 1831; d. 29 Jan 1845.
Dolton, Walter William, son of Walter Charles Dolton, of Blackheath, Kent, by Margaret Isabella, daughter of Irvine David Mitchell, of Belfast; b. Oct. 1, 1897; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (A); left July 1914; joined the Inns of Court O.T.C.; managing director of the Delta Metal Co. Ltd. and of the Delta Group of companies; president of the British Non-Ferrom Metals Federation 1959; m. March 8, 1927, Marie Frances Duval, daughter of the Rev. Francis Henry Rice, Vicar of St. Swithin, Hither Green, Kent.