DUCKWORTH, GEORGE HENRY, only son of Adm. Sir John Thomas Duckworth, Bart. GCB MP, and his first wife Anne, only child of John Wallis, Trenton, Cornwall; b. 25 Jun 1782; adm. 28 Apr 1794 (Clapham); KS (aged 14) 1795; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1799, matr. 22 May 1799, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1799 - deprived 2 Dec 1802; Ensign, 39th Foot 18 Jul 1801; Lieut. , 68th Foot 6 Oct 1801; 11th Foot, 7 Nov 1801; Capt. , 60th Foot 24 Sep 1803; 55th Foot 14 Jul 1804; 7th Foot, 23 Feb 1805; 59th Foot, 19 Nov 1805; Maj. , York Light Infantry Volunteers 26 Jul 1806; 67th Foot, 7 Oct 1806; Lieut. -Col. , 1st West India Regt. 16 Jan 1808; 48th Foot, 18 Jun 1808; served in Peninsular War; m. Sep 1806 Penelope, dau. of Capt. Robert Fanshawe, Royal Navy; killed at battle of Albuera 16 May 1811.

DUCKETT, PAUL, b.; adm.; KS 1636; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1638, adm. pens. 3 Jun 1638, scholar 1639; BA 1642/3; ordained; Rector of Grinstead, Essex 1660-2; Rector of St. Leonard’s, Colchester, Essex 1661-2; Vicar of Boreham, Essex, and Rector of Rettendon, Essex, from 1662; d. 1670. [Presumably Paul Duckett, son of Rev. Gregory Duckett (or Dackett) DD, Rector of St. Andrew, Holborn, and Prebendary of St. Paul’s, and Margaret (Watts ?), bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 23 Feb 1619 (IGI); and perhaps Paul Duckett who m. at St. Bartholomew the Less 20 Sep 1646 Joan Munday (IGI)]

DUCK, NATHANIEL, son of John Duck, Ridge, Herts., and Ellen Pearce (IGI); bapt. Ridge, Herts. 9 Mar 1617 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1629; KS 1630; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1635, matr. 26 Jun 1635, Westminster Student to 1641.

DUCASSE, PETER, son of Peter Ducasse, St. Clements Danes, London, linen draper, and Marie Dumaurisson; bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 7 May 1710 (IGI); adm. (aged 12) Jan 1722/3; KS (Capt. ) 1726; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1730, but never adm.; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Jun 1730; an Usher at the School c. 1736.

DU PRE, HENRY RAMUS, son of Rev. Henry Ramus Du Prè, Rector of Shellingford, Berks., and Anne Cuthbert, youngest dau. of John Cuthbert Joyner, Denmark Hill, Surrey; b. 3 Sep 1848; adm. 7 Jun 1860; QS 1863; left Whitsun 1867; a farmer in Manitoba, Canada; subsequently resident in California, U. S. A.; m. Sophia Pruden.

DRYWOOD, GEORGE, eldest son of George Drywood (qv); b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1618, adm. scholar 1619; BA 1622/3; MA 1626; living at Shaxtons, Writtle, Essex, in 1634.

DRYWOOD, GEORGE; b.; adm.; QS in 1566; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1569, adm. scholar 1570, matr. Mich 1570; BA 1573/4; MA 1577; BD 1586; Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1576- c. 1594, Senior Dean 1588; Deputy Public Orator, Cambridge Univ., 18 May 1582; ordained deacon and priest (Peterborough) 28 May 1583; Rector of Mistley cum Manningtree, Essex 10 Jan 1585/6-90; Rector of South Ockendon, Essex, from 31 Aug 1590; Rector of Holy Trinity the Less, London, 11 May 1603-5; Rector of Chadwell, Essex, from 11 Jun 1605; lic. to m. 1st, 8 Dec 1593 Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Sampson, Kersey, Suffolk; m. 2nd, 28 Jun 1597 Mary, dau. of William Keltredge, St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London; buried at South Ockendon 2 Jun 1611.

DRYDEN, JONATHAN, son of Rev. Jonathan Dryden, Vicar of Camberwell, Kent, and Prebendary of Hereford, and Martha, dau. of Eleanor Vaughan, Hereford, widow; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1656, adm. pens. 14 May 1656, scholar 1656, matr. Lent 1656/7; BA 1659/60; MA 1663 (incorp. Oxford 6 Apr 1665); Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1661-c. 1669, Tutor 1663; ordained deacon (Ely) 19 Sep 1663, priest (London) May 1665; Rector of Cheriton, Kent 1668-76; Rector of Keighley, Yorks., 1676-9; Rector of Scrayingham and of Londesborough, Yorks., from 1680; Prebendary of York from 7 Jun 1682; a letter in Latin written by him to Richard Busby (qv), dated “Prid. Cal. Feb. 1659”, is preserved among the Birch MSS in the British Museum; m. 27 Nov 1690 Margaret, widow of Samuel Mancklin, York, merchant, and afterwards of Charles Wood, York, merchant, and dau. of Henry Harrison, Holtby; d. 25 Aug 1702, aged 63.

DRYDEN, JOHN, second son of John Dryden (elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1650, qv); b. 1667; adm.; KS 1682; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1685, but did not take up his election and was placed by his father under the care of Rev. Obadiah Walker, Master of Univ. Coll. Oxford and a Roman Catholic; as a Roman Catholic convert nominated Fellow of Magdalen Coll. Oxford by James II 31 Dec 1687, admitted 11 Jan 1687/8, but removed by the Visitor 25 Oct 1688; went to Rome with his brother Charles Dryden (qv), and officiated as his brother’s deputy and perhaps replacement in the Papal household; accompanied Hon. William Cecil to Naples, Sicily and Malta Oct 1700- Jan 1701, his account of their tour being published posthumously in 1776; translated the 14th satire of Juvenal for his father’s English version; author, The Husband, his own Cuckold, a play performed at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1696; d. unm. at Rome 16 Apr 1703. DNB.

DRYDEN, JOHN, son of Erasmus Dryden, Titchmarsh, Northants., and Mary, dau. of Rev. Henry Pickering, Rector of Aldwincle All Saints, Northants.; b. 19 Aug 1631; adm.; KS; wrote while a KS an elegy on the death of Lord Hastings, published by R. B. in Lachrymae Musarum, 1649; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1650, adm. pens. 18 May 1650, scholar 2 Oct 1650; “walled” for a fortnight and not allowed to go outside the college “excepting for sermons” Jul 1652, for disobedience to the Vice-Master (W. W. Rouse Ball, Cambridge Papers, 218-9); forfeited scholarship by non-residence and thus ineligible for a Fellowship; BA 1653/4; MA Lambeth 17 Jun 1668; mourned Cromwell’s death in Heroic Stanzas 1658; celebrated the Restoration in Astraea Redux 1660, and Charles II’s Coronation in a Panegyric 1661; one of original Fellows of Royal Society 20 May 1663; author, Annus Mirabilis 1667; Poet Laureate and Historiographer 18 Aug 1670 - 11 Dec 1688; Sir Martin Mar-All, one of his most successful plays, was produced in 1667, Aurungzebe, his finest rhymed tragedy, in 1675, and All for Love, his finest play, in 1678; his Absalom and Achitophel was published in 1681; defended Anglicanism in Religio Laici, 1682; Collector of Customs, Port of London 17 Dec 1683; a Roman Catholic convert 1686; author, The Hind and the Panther, 1687; translations by him of Juvenal and Persius were published in 1693, and of Livy in 1697; wrote Alexander’s Feast 1697 [check] and Fables Ancient and Modern, 1700; his complete works, with a life by Sir Walter Scott, were published in 1808; in a note to the third satire of Persius Dryden wrote “I remember I translated this satire when I was a King’s Scholar at Westminster School, for a Thurday-night exercise; and believe, that it, and many others of my exercises of the nature in English verse, are still in the hands of my learned master the Rev. Dr. Busby” (Works, xiii, 230); Dryden refers to Busby’s excessive use of the rod in a letter to Charles Montagu (ibid., xviii, 159-60) and to the curious custom of “custos” in Hall in a letter to Busby (ibid., xviii, 98); Dryden’s “form” was long preserved up School; m. 1 Dec 1663 Lady Elizabeth Howard, eldest dau. of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham; d. 1 May 1700. His body lay in state at the College of Physicians for ten days, and he was buried in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. DNB.