DALZELL, ROBERT, son of John Thomas Robert Dalzell, Wallingford, Berks., and Sarah, eldest dau. of Mark Morrel, Wallingford, Berks.; grandson of Robert Dalzell (qv); b. (Wallingford) 7 May 1794; adm. Bartholomewtide 1806; Min. Can. 1808; KS 1809; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1813, adm. pens. 29 May 1813, scholar 1814, matr. Mich. 1813; BA 1817; MA 1822; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 19 Apr 1822, called to bar 13 May 1825; practised as a conveyancer; joint author with J. H. Leigh of A Treatise on the Equitable Doctrine of Conversion of Property, 1852; m. 8 Jan 1828 Margaret, illegitimate dau. of Thomas Peter Legh MP, Lyme Park, Cheshire, Col. Lancashire Fencible Cavalry; d. 14 Jan 1878.

DALE, WALTER CLARE, brother of James Ernest Dale (qv); b. 16 Apr 1864; adm. 21 Jun 1878 (R), exhibitioner; QS (Capt. ) 1879; joint Mure scholar with Clement Charles Julian Webb (qv) 1881; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1882 (with Triplett), adm. sub-sizar 10 Oct 1882; BA 1885; MA 1889; Assistant Master (Classics), Woodbridge School; Assistant Master, St. Edmund’s Sch., Canterbury 1902-.

DALE, JAMES MURRAY, brother of James Ernest Dale (qv); b. 4 Jan 1867; adm. 12 Jun 1879 (D); QS 25 Oct 1881; left Nov 1882; m. 4 Jul 1893 Mabel Catherine, youngest dau. of Rev. John Cave-Browne, Vicar of Detling, Kent, previously Chaplain EICS; d. 4 Dec 1921.

DALE, GERALD, brother of James Ernest Dale (qv); b. 17 Nov 1859; adm. 12 Jun 1873 (G); QS 21 Jan 1875; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1878 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 20 Jun 1878, sizar 1881, matr. Mich. 1878; BA 1882; MA 1886; schoolmaster (1901 Census); m. 29 Jul 1911 Clarissa Elizabeth, widow of Rev. John Morse Macdonald, and dau. of Frederick Dawson King.

DALBY, THOMAS WEEKES, son of Francis Dalby, Souldern, Oxfordshire [and of St. Martin’s, Ludgate ?], and Mary Weekes (IGI) [or Ann Weekes, Winfrith, Dorset ?]; b. 16 Aug 1745 (bapt. Souldern, Oxfordshire 7 Sep 1745 (IGI)); adm.; KS (aged 14) 1761; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1765, matr. 7 Jun 1765, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1765 - 14 Mar 1778, expiry year of grace as V. Chippenham; ordained deacon 29 Dec 1769, priest 23 Dec 1770 (both Oxford); Vicar of Chippenham, Wilts., from 7 Mar 1777; Rector of Leigh Delamere, Wilts., from 1794; Vicar of West Farleigh, Kent, from 1794; d. 15 Oct 1815.

DAKINS, WILLIAM, son of Rev. William Dakins, Vicar of Ashwell, Herts.; b.; at school (aged 13) 2 Jul 1582; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1586, adm. scholar 1587, matr. Dec 1586; BA 1590/1; MA 1594; BD 1601; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 3 Oct 1593, Major Fellow from 16 Mar 1593/4, Junior Dean 2 Oct 1606; ordained; Vicar of Trumpington, Cambs., 1603-5; Professor of Divinity, Gresham Coll., London, from 14 Jul 1604; one of the divines responsible for the Authorised Translation of the Bible; d. Feb 1606/7. DNB.

DACRES, HUMPHREY, son of George Dacres, Old Warden, Beds.; b. 13 Oct 1665; adm.; KS 1680; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1685, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1685, scholar 26 Apr 1686; BA 1688/9; MA 1692; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. Cambridge 2 Oct 1691, Major Fellow 2 Oct 1692 - c. 1695.

D’OYLY, SAMUEL, only son of Charles D’Oyly, Westminster, and Martha ---; bapt. St. Margaret’s, Westminster 24 Nov 1681; adm.; BB 1691; KS (Capt. ) 1697; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1700, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1700, scholar 2 May 1701, matr. 1703; BA 1703/4; MA 1707; Minor Fellow, Trin. Coll., 2 Oct 1706, Major Fellow 25 Apr 1707, Tutor 1707; ordained; Vicar of St. Nicholas, Rochester, Kent, from Nov 1710; was “of such uncommon corpulence that he was prevented attending his duty as army chaplain in Flanders in the war of 1741 for no horse, it is stated, could carry him” (Bayley, History of the D’Oyly Family, 1845, 160); author, Christian Eloquence in Theory and Practice, made English from the French original, 1718, and joint translator with John Colston of Calmet’s Dictionnaire de la Bible, 1732; m. Frances ---; buried Rochester Cathedral 9 May 1748. DNB.

D’OYLY, SIR JOHN, BART., son of Matthias D’Oyly (qv); b. 6 Jun 1774; adm. 15 Sep 1787; KS 1788; succeeded Robert Hugh Kennedy (qv) as Capt. of the School 1791; not allowed to present himself for Election 1792 on account of his conduct when Capt. during a sudden “insurrection” of the School, when all the boys, leaving their forms and their masters, went down school to watch a “mill” in Green, and refused to return until it was finished (see Elizabethan vi, 247 and xii, 324, reproducing extracts from the London Post and Public Advertiser); left 1792; Corpus Christ Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1792, matr. Lent 1793; Sir W. Browne’s Medal for Latin Ode 1795, Chancellor’s Second Medal 1796; BA 1796; MA 1799; Fellow of Corpus Christi Coll. 1798-1801; went out to Ceylon 1801; Collector, Colombo 1802; Secretary to Government, Ceylon 1810; the only Singalese scholar in the Ceylon Civil Service; head of intelligence department in Gen. Brownrigg’s campaign against the King of Kandy 1814-5; Resident and First Commissioner, Kandy Provinces; created baronet 29 Aug 1821; d. unm. at Kandy 25 May 1825. DNB.

D’EVEREUX, SIMEON; b.; adm.; KS 1671; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1675, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1675, scholar 1676, matr. 1677; 3rd in “ordo” 1678/9; BA 1678/9; MA 1682; ordained; Chaplain, Trin. Coll. 1681-9; Perpetual Curate of Nackington, Kent, from 1686; Minor Canon and Sacrist of Canterbury from c. 1690; Minor Canon of St. Paul’s 23 Feb 1691/2 - 1 Jun 1698; Rector of Harbledown, Kent, from 1731; Vicar of Brookland, Kent, from 1731; d. 6 Jul 1733.