DOLBEN, WILLIAM, only son of John Dolben, Haverfordwest, Pembs., and Alice, dau. of Richard Myddelton, Denbigh, and niece of Sir Hugh Myddelton MP, projector of the New River; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1603, matr. 10 Feb 1603/4, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1607; BA 1607; migrated to All Souls Coll.; MA 1610 (incorp. Cambridge 1614); BD 1617; DD 1619; ordained; Rector of Stackpole Elidor, Pembs., 1616-8; Rector of Lawrenny, Pembs., 28 Sep 1620-3; Rector of Llanynys, Denbighshire, 1623; Rector of St. Bartholomew by the Exchange, London 11 Jul – Nov 1623; Rector of Stanwick and of Benefield, Northants., from 8 Nov 1623; Prebendary of Lincoln from 31 Aug 1629; his great-grandson Sir John Dolben, Bart. (qv), claimed that he was nominated Bishop of Gloucester shortly before his death, but it seems more probable that the intended diocese was Bangor; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Hugh Williams, Coghwillan, Caernarvonshire, and niece of Most Rev. John Williams DD, Archbishop of York; buried Stanwick, Northants. 19 Sep 1631. DNB.

DOLBEN, JOHN, son of John Dolben (adm. 1676, qv); b.; adm.; QS 1705; left 1708; mentions in his will his schoolfellow Thomas Moore (QS 1705, qv); d. in eighteenth year 27 Mar 1708.

DOLBEN, SIR JOHN, BART., only son of Sir Gilbert Dolben, Bart. (qv); b. 12 Feb 1683/4; adm. Rugby Sch. 26 Sep 1693; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1700; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 May 1702; BA 22 Jan 1704/5; MA 1707; BD and DD 1717; ordained; Sub-Dean, Chapel Royal 20 Apr 1713 - Mar 1718; Vicar of Finedon, Northants., from 30 Sep 1714; Prebendary of Durham from 2 Apr 1718, holding the “golden” stall there from 17 Jul 1719; Rector of Burton Latimer, Northants., from 14 Mar 1718/9; succ. father as 2nd baronet 22 Oct 1722; Visitor of Balliol Coll. Oxford from 22 Jun 1728; a warm friend of Francis Atterbury (qv); Anthony Alsop (qv) inscribed a number of his Latin odes to Dolben; m. 28 Jul 1720 Hon. Elizabeth Digby, second dau. of William Digby, 5th Baron Digby (I); d. 20 Nov 1756. DNB.

DOLBEN, JOHN, eldest son of William Dolben (elected Oxford 1603, qv); b. 24 Mar 1624/5; adm.; KS 1637; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1640, matr. 3 Jul 1640, Westminster Student 1640 - 7 Jul 1648, when deprived for refusing to submit to the Parliamentary Visitors; BA and MA 9 Dec 1647; BD and DD 3 Oct 1660; joined royalist army as volunteer, wounded at Marston Moor and again during siege of York; promoted for his bravery to the ranks of Capt. and Major; returned to studies at Oxford 1646; ordained deacon (Chichester) 1656; with John Fell and Richard Allestree continued to hold the services of the prescribed Church of England in the house of Dr Thomas Willis in Oxford, an act of loyalty commemorated by Sir Peter Lely in his picture of the three divines in Christ Church Hall; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford 27 Jul 1660- Nov 1666; Rector of Newington cum Britwell, Oxfordshire 1660; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II; Prebendary of St. Paul’s 21 Apr 1661 – Nov 1666; Archdeacon of London 11 Oct 1662- May 1664; Vicar of St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, 15 Nov 1662 - res 18 Mar 1663/4; Dean of Westminster 3 Dec 1662 - Aug 1683; he and the Westminster Scholars assisted in saving St. Dunstan in the East from the Great Fire 3 Sep 1666 (Autobiography of William Taswell, Camden Soc. Pub. lv, 12); Clerk of the Closet 1664 - Dec 1667, deprived on Clarendon’s fall; consecrated Bishop of Rochester 25 Nov 1666; Lord High Almoner 21 Oct 1675 - Mar 1684; Archbishop of York from 16 Aug 1683; FRS 29 Mar 1665; a prelate of great presence and courage, and one of the most popular preachers of the day; the subject of lines 868-9 of John Dryden (qv)’s Absalom and Achitophel; m. 14 Jan 1657/8 Catherine, dau. of Ralph Sheldon, Stanton, Derbs. [check], and niece of Most Rev. Gilbert Sheldon DD, Archbishop of Canterbury; d. 11 Apr 1686. DNB.

DOLBEN, SIR JOHN ENGLISH, BART., only surviving son of Sir William Dolben, Bart. (qv), and his first wife; b. 4 May 1750; adm.; KS 1763; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1768, matr. 1 Jun 1768, Westminster Student 29 Dec 1768 - void by marriage 30 Oct 1779; BCL 1775; DCL 1788; succ. father as 4th baronet 20 Mar 1814; FSA 6 Apr 1780; the mural monument to Edward Wortley Montagu (qv) in the West Cloister was erected by Dolben in memory of his old schoolfellow; m. 26 Oct 1779 Hannah, dau. of William Hallett, jun., Canons, Little Stanmore, Middlesex; d. 27 Sep 1837.

DOLBEN, SIR GILBERT, BART., eldest son of John Dolben (elected Oxford 1640, qv); b. 16 Nov 1658; adm.; KS 1671; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1674, matr. 18 Jul 1674, aged 15, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1674 - void 1679; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 28 Nov 1680, Bencher 1706, Treasurer 1721; MP Ripon Mar 1684/5 - Jul 1687, Peterborough Jan 1688/9 - Jul 1698, Jan 1700/1 - Sep 1710, Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) Oct 1710 - Jan 1714/5; Puisne Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Ireland 24 Jun 1701-20; created baronet 1 Apr 1704; in the debate on the Aylesbury case in Jan 1704 Dolben maintained the exclusive jurisdiction of the House of Commons in election questions; mentioned by John Dryden (qv) in the postscript to his translation of the Aeneid; m. Anne, dau. of Tanfield Mulso, Finedon, Northants.; d. 22 Oct 1722. DNB.

DOIDGE, JAMES; b.; adm.; KS 1694; d. 1696/7.

DODSWORTH, JOHN HENRY, son of John Dodsworth, Thornton Watlass, Yorks., and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Henry Stapylton, Bart.; b.; adm.; QS 1707; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1712, adm. 12 Jun 1712, aged 18, scholar 1 May 1713, did not matr.; adm. Gray’s Inn 10 Feb 1720/1; m. 8 Feb 1718/9 Henrietta, dau. of John Hutton, Marske, Yorks., and sister of Most Rev. Matthew Hutton DD, Archbishop of Canterbury; buried 28 May 1760.

DODSON, PAUL AUGUSTUS, brother of William Francis Dodson (qv); b. 13 Mar 1819; adm. 25 Jun 1830 (Stelfox's); KS 1833; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 May 1838; BA 1844; MA 1847; ordained deacon 1844, priest 1845 (both Lincoln); Curate, Sutterby-with-Gunby, Lincs., 1844-7; Vicar of Haugh, Lincs., from 1847; d. unm. 10 Dec 1884.