DENT, ROBERT, son of William Dent, Guisborough, Yorks.; b.; adm.; KS 1670; Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 May 1672, matr. 1672; adm. Middle Temple 13 Jul 1674.
DENT, CHARLES, son of Rev. Thomas Dent DD, Lawford Hall, Essex, Prebendary of Westminster and Rector of Fiskerton, Lincs., and Alice Ayloffe, St. Andrew’s, Holborn; b.; adm.; KS 1701; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 5 Jul 1704, aged 16, scholar 2 May 1705; BA 1707/8; adm. Middle Temple 12 Feb 1704/5, called to bar 30 May 1712; a Commissioner of Salt Duties from 16 Dec 1714; m. 10 Apr 1716 Mary Southele, St. Michael Bassishaw, London; d. 31 Dec 1718.
DENNY, WILLIAM, son of Rev. William Denny, Rector of East Harling, Norfolk, and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm.; KS 1685; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1690, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1690, aged 19, scholar 24 May 1691; BA 1693/4; MA 1697; Chaplain, Trin. Coll. 1700-4; ordained priest (Peterborough) 24 Feb 1710/1; m. Margaret, dau. of Richard Legh, Lyme, Cheshire; buried Thurlton, Norfolk 27 Sep 1725.
Denniston, Robin Alastair, son of Cdr. Alexander Guthrie Denniston CMG CBE RNVR, intelligence officer, head of Govt. Code and Cipher School, Bletchley Park, and Dorothy Mary, d. of Arthur Gilliat (qv, Vol. I); b. 25 Dec. 1926; adm. Sept. 1940 (KS); Capt. of the Sch. 1945; left July 1945; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1945, BA 1949, MA 1952; sen. editor Wm Collins Ltd. 1950-9; promotion man. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. 1960-4, editorial dir. 1966, man. dir. 1968-72; dep. chmn. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. 1973-5; dir. Thomson Publications Ltd. 1975-7; Academic Publisher OUP 1978-88; Student of Christ Church 1978-88; ord. deacon 1978, priest 1979; hon. Curate Clifton-on-Teme, Worcs 1978, New with South Hinksey, Oxon 1985; priest-in-charge, Great and Little Tew, Oxon 1987-90, 1995-2002 (with an interval as Episcopalian Minister, Burntisland, Fife, 1990-3); author of The Young Musicians 1956; Partly Living 1967, and other books; m. 1st, 15 July 1950 Anne Alice Kyffin, music teacher, d. of Arthur Geoffrey Evans MD FRCP, consult. physician, of Harpley House, Worcs; 2nd, 1987 Rosa Susan Penelope Beddington DPhil FRS, embryologist, Nat. Inst. for Medical Research; d. 6 Apr. 2012.
DENMAN, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 18 Jan 1549/50 (Acts of Chapter).
DELBOE, SIMON, son of Simon Delboe, London, merchant, and Anna, dau. of Gillis Vanbrugh, London, merchant; b.; adm.; KS 1672; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1676, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1676, aged 18, scholar 1677; BA 1679/80; MA 1683; Fellow of Trinity Coll. from 1682; d. 21 Jul 1685.
DELAPLACE, WILLIAM, son of Dennis Delaplace, headmaster of a preparatory school at Marylebone, and Catharine ---; bapt. 10 May 1727; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1742; Lieut., 26th Foot 2 Oct 1755; Capt. -Lieut., 29 Nov 1760; Capt. 18 Apr 1766; last mentioned in Army List 1777.
Deighton, Edmund Anthony, son of Cecil Deighton, asst. master Boston GS, Lincs, and Doris Scott, d. of Thomas Briggs of Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham; b. 23 Feb. 1942; adm. Sept. 1955 (QS); left Dec. 1960; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1961, BA 1964, MA 1968; m. Kay Rosamond Blundell Jones, Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, d. of Geoffrey Blundell Jones, orthopaedic surgeon; d. 22 Feb. 1975.
DEHANY, GOODIN, brother of Philip Dehany (qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1748/9 (Hart's); KS 1752; Glasgow Univ., matr. 1754; Ensign, 24th Foot 27 Sep 1757.
DEGGE, HERVEY, brother of Staunton Degge (qv); b.; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1720; KS 1722; elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1726, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1726, scholar 14 Apr 1727; 1st in “ordo” 1729/30; BA 1729/30; Minor Fellow. Trin. Coll., from 2 Oct 1732; d. 22 May 1733.