DIXON, HAROLD BAILY, brother of William Jerrold Dixon (qv); b. 11 Aug 1852; adm. 15 Jun 1865; QS 1867; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1871, matr. 27 May 1871; 3rd cl. Classics (Mods) 1873, 1st cl. Natural Science 1875; BA 1875; MA 1878; played Association Football against Cambridge; Millard Lecturer, Trin. Coll. Oxford 1879-86, Bedford Lecturer, Balliol Coll. Oxford 1881-6; Fellow of Balliol Coll. 1886-7; Natural Science Examiner, Oxford 1886-8, 1899-1900; FRS 4 Jun 1886, Royal Medal 1913; Professor of Chemistry, Owen’s Coll., Manchester Univ., 1886-1922, Hon. Professor from 1922; member, Royal Commission on Explosions of Coal Dust in Mines 1891-4, Royal Commission on Coal Supplies 1902-5; President, Chemical Society 1909-11; member, Home Office Executive Committee on Explosions in Mines 1911-4; Deputy Inspector of High Explosives, Manchester area, during 1914-18 War; CBE 7 Jun 1918; Chairman, Selective Committee for NW District, Ministry of Labour 1922; Superintendent of Research on Ignition of Gases under Safety in Mines Research Board 1927; author, The Conditions of Chemical Change in Gases, 1884, and other works; m. 1st, 14 Jul 1885 Olive Beechey, dau. of Edward Martin Hopkins, Montreal, Canada; m. 2nd, 26 Aug 1918 Muriel Agnes Mary, dau. of William Kinch, Henley, Oxfordshire; d. 18 Sep 1930.

DIXON, WILLIAM JERROLD, eldest son of William Hepworth Dixon, St. James’s Terrace, Regent’s Park, London, author and journalist, and Marian, dau. of James MacMahon, Ardwick Green, Manchester; b. 24 Mar 1848; adm. 13 Mar 1862; QS 1863; left Dec 1866; while helping to save lives in the terrible ice accident in Regent’s Park on 15 Jan 1867 he caught a severe chill which rendered him more or less an invalid for the rest of his life; adm. Inner Temple 15 Apr 1867, called to bar 26 Jan 1870; South-Eastern Circuit; Hon. Secretary, Savage Club; Secretary to Dublin Sanitary Commission 1879; author, Married Another, and of numerous magazine articles; d. unm. at Dublin 20 Oct 1879.

DOBSON, WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev. William Dobson DD, President of Trinity Coll. Oxford, and Jane, sister of Samuel Bowdler (qv); b. 1 Nov 1681; adm.; KS 1697; left 1701; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Feb 1700/1, aged 16 (sic); BA 1704; MA 1707; ordained priest (Oxford) 18 Dec 1709; Vicar of Middleton Tyas, Yorks., from 31 Mar 1713; m. Anna Maria ---; d. 1717.

DOCKWRA, WILLIAM, son of William Dockwra, London; b.; adm.; KS 1696; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1700, matr. 25 Jun 1700, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1700 - void 1735, presumably on death; BA 1704; MA 1707; ordained; Perpetual Curate of Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire; death noted by Thomas Hearne shortly before 28 May 1735. [Evidently William Dockwra, son of William Dockwra and Rebecca ---, bapt. St. Andrew Undershaft, London 24 Mar 1680 (IGI)]

DOD, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

DOD, NATHANIEL, second son of Francis Dod, London, citizen and haberdasher, and Mary, dau. of George Dalton, London, goldsmith; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1582, matr. 1 Feb 1582/3, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1595; BA 1586; MA 1589; BD 14 Apr 1600; DD 17 Jul 1600; ordained; Rector of Llanwenarth, Monmouthshire, 1595; Prebendary of Chester 17 Jan 1595/6- Nov 1607; m. Anne Garnet.

DODD, JAMES WILLIAM, son of James William Dodd, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, actor, and Martha Dodd, actress; b.; adm. 24 Sep 1770; KS 1774; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1779, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1779, scholar 7 Apr 1780, matr. Mich. 1781; BA 1783; MA 1786; Minor Fellow 2 Oct 1784, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1785; Westminster School Usher 1784 – death 27 Aug 1818, when described as “Second Usher” ; House Usher to Mrs Clough (by 1796), Mrs.Glover and Mrs.Packharness (Dames, qvv), successive Dames of the Centre House on the Terrace, Dean’s Yard; Vicar of Swineshead, Lincs., 7 Apr 1800-11; Rector of North Runcton, Norfolk, 20 Apr 1811; author, Ballads of Archery, Sonnets etc., 1818; m. 1st, ---; m. 2nd, 16 [check] May 1811 Ann Whitaker, St. Pancras, Middlesex; d. 27 Aug 1818, aged 58. Buried in the East Cloister, Westminster Abbey, memorial tablet in Dark Cloister.

DODD, THOMAS, b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1577, adm. scholar 1578, matr. Lent 1577/8; BA 1581/2; MA 1585; ordained deacon and priest (Lincoln) 16 Dec 1586; Rector of Eastwell, Leics., from 21 Dec 1586; d. 1628.

DODDINGTON, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; QS in 1570; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1574, but never adm.

DODGSON, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Dodgson, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Capt., 4th Dragoon Guards, and Lucy, sister of James Deacon Hume (qv); b. 2 Nov 1800; adm. 14 Jan 1811; KS (Capt. ) 1814; Capt. of the School 1817; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1818, matr. 5 May 1818, Westminster Student; 1st cl. Mathematics and 1st cl. Classics 1821; BA 1822; MA 1824; ordained deacon 1823, priest 1824; Perpetual Curate, Daresbury, Cheshire 27 Mar 1827-43; Examining Chaplain to Charles Thomas Longley (qv), Bishop of Ripon, 1836-56; Rector of Croft, Yorks., 9 Jun 1843; Canon Residentiary of Ripon from 18 Dec 1852; Archdeacon of Richmond from 7 Jun 1854; author, The Controversy of Faith, 1850, and other works; m. 5 Apr 1827 his cousin Frances Jane, dau. of Charles Lutwidge, Holmrook, Cumberland, by whom he was the father of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (“Lewis Carroll”), the author and mathematician; d. 21 Jun 1868.