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DUNSTER, CHARLES, only son of Rev. Charles Dunster, Worcester, Prebendary of Salisbury, and Mary, dau. of Rev. Thomas Inett DD, Prebendary of Worcester; grandson of Samuel Dunster (qv); bapt. 25 Jul 1750; in school lists 1764, 1765; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Feb 1767, aged 16; BA 1770; migrated to Baliol Coll. Oxford 1771 and to Trin. Coll. Oxford 1773; MA 1775; ordained; Domestic Chaplain to George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (qv), 12 Mar 1774; Rector of Oddingley, Worcs., 17 Feb 1776-89; Rector of Naunton Beauchamp, Worcs., 1776; Rector of Mordiford, Herefs., 14 Mar 1777 - res Feb 1787; Rector of Stoke Edith, Herefs., 17 Feb 1787 - res Nov 1788; Rector of Petworth, Sussex, from 23 Mar 1789; Rector of Tillington, Sussex, from 9m Apr 1789; resided for many years at New Grove, Petworth; author, The Frogs of Aristophanes, 1785, and other works; m. Mary Bridges, Herefordshire; d. 17 Apr 1816. DNB.

DUNSTER, SAMUEL, son of James Dunster, Westminster; b. Sep 1675; at Merchant Taylors’ School 1688-9; adm.; KS 1690; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1693, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1693, scholar 20 Apr 1694; BA 1696/7; MA 1700; DD 1713; ordained deacon 2 Nov 1698, priest 11 Jun 1700 (both London); Perpetual Curate of St. James, Paddington, Middlesex [by 1705 ?]; Rector of Chinnor, Oxfordshire 12 Jul 1716; Prebendary of Lincoln from 6 Jun 1720; Prebendary of Salisbury 19 Jul 1720 - res Oct 1748; Vicar of Rochdale, Lancs., from 23 Apr 1722; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716); Chaplain, 13th Dragoons, to Mar 1740; author, Anglia Rediviva, 1699, The Satyrs and Epistles of Horace done into English, 1710, and other works; m. 1 Jul 1705 Mary Hammond; d. 19 Jul 1754. DNB.

DUPORT, JAMES, fourth son of Rev. John Duport DD, Master of Jesus Coll. Cambridge, and Rachel, dau. of Right Rev. Richard Cox DD, Bishop of Ely; b. 1606; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1622, adm. scholar 1623; 4th in “ordo” and BA Jan 1626/7; MA 1630; BD 1637; DD 1660; Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1627-c. 1666, Tutor 1635-64, a Senior Fellow 1654, Vice-Master 1655-65; Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge Univ., 13 Jul 1639 - 54, ejected; ordained; Archdeacon of Stow 14 Aug 1641- res 12 Nov 1641; Prebendary of Lincoln from 14 Aug 1641 (ejected by Parliamentary Visitors 1643, reinstated at Restoration); Lady Margaret Preacher 1646; at Restoration appointed Chaplain to King Charles II and reinstated as Regius Professor of Greek, but soon afterwards resigned his Professorship to make way for his pupil Isaac Barrow; Dean of Peterborough from 27 Jul 1664; Master of Magdalene Coll., Cambridge, from 1668; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ. 1669; Rector of Boxworth, Cambs., 1668; Rector of Aston Flamville, Leics., Jan 1672/3-77; the most eminent Greek scholar of his day; author, Threnothriambos (Greek translation of Book of Job), 1637, Homeri Gnomologia duplici Parallelismo illustrata, 1660 (of which the preface contains an enthusiastic and grateful address to the School), and other works; d. 17 Jul 1679. DNB.

DUPPA, BRIAN, second son of Jeffrey Duppa, Lewisham, Kent, Purveyor of the Buttery to Queen Elizabeth I and Brewer to King James I, and Lucrece Maresall; b. 10 Mar 1588/9; adm.; QS; “here”, said Henry King (qv), Bishop of Chichester, in his sermon at Duppa’s funeral in Westminster Abbey, “he had the greatest dignity, which the School could afford put upon him, to be the Paedonomus at Christmas, Lord of his Fellow-Scholars” (p. 34); elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1605, matr. 9 Jul 1605, Westminster Student to 1611; BA 1609; MA 1614; BD and DD 1625; Fellow All Souls Coll. Oxford 1612; Junior Proctor 1619; ordained; in 1620s successively Chaplain to Prince Palatine and to Earl of Dorset; Vicar of Westham, Sussex 7 Mar 1625/6-38; Vicar of Hailsham, Sussex 22 Dec 1626-26/7; Vicar of Withyham, Sussex 5 Feb 1626/7-38; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 28 Nov 1629- Jun 1638; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ. 1632-4; Prebendary and Chancellor of Salisbury 6 Jan 1634- Jun 1638; tutor to Prince of Wales and Duke of Gloucester 1638; Rector of Petworth, Sussex 19 May 1638-41; consecrated Bishop of Chichester 17 Jun 1638; translated to Salisbury 14 Dec 1641; on suppression of the episcopacy he retired to Oxford, and subsequently to Richmond, Surrey; carried out private ordinations of priests and deacons during the Commonwealth, and interested himself in the preservation of the episcopal succession; translated to Winchester 4 Oct 1660; Lord Almoner from 24 Jul 1660; author of a few published sermons and of Jonsonius Virbius, a collection of thirty poems on the death of Ben Jonson (qv), 1637; m. 23 Nov 1626 Jane, dau. of Nicholas Killingtree, Longham, Norfolk; d. 26 Mar 1662. Buried in North Ambulatory, Westminster Abbey. DNB.