DAGLISH, Robert (3 son of the preceding). b. Wigan 1809; partner in firm of Lee, Watson & Co. iron founders, St. Helens 1830; with John Smith worked the traffic of the St. Helen’s and Runcorn Gap railway 1839–48; erected his first cotton mill at Wigan 1845; built many railway bridges in Lancashire and Yorkshire 1846–49; constructed Preston extension of East Lancashire railway 1850; sole proprietor of the foundry from 1851 until 1869 when joined by his nephew George H. Daglish, M.I.C.E.; erected coal drops at Garston near Liverpool 1852; extended his foundry works so that they covered an area of 22,400 square yards in 1882; assoc. of Instit. of C.E. 1852 and member 1874. d. 6 May 1883. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiv, 283–5 (1883).
D’AGUILAR, Sir George Charles (son of Joseph D’Aguilar, captain 2 dragoon guards). b. Winchester, Jany. 1784; ensign 86 foot 24 Sep. 1799; major 1 Greek light infantry 1 April 1813 to 24 Feb. 1816 when regiment was disbanded and he was placed on h.p.; major Rifle brigade 6 March 1817 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; major 3 foot 22 June 1820 to 13 Sep. 1821 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in Ireland 22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; commanded troops in China 1843–48; col. of 58 foot 5 Feb. 1848, col. of 23 foot 31 Jany. 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 6 April 1852; author of The practice and forms of Courts Martial 1843, 5 ed. 1867. d. Lower Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 21 May 1855. United Service Mag. Aug. 1847 pp. 622–27.
DAINTREE, Richard. b. Hemingford Abbotts, Hunts. Dec. 1831; ed. at Bedford gr. sch. and Ch. coll. Cam.; went to Melbourne 1852; assistant geologist of colony of Victoria 1854–56; field geologist on geological survey of Victoria 1858–64; government geologist for North Queensland 1869–72; entrusted with collection sent to Exhibition at South Kensington 1871 but steamer “Queen of the Thames” containing collection was wrecked near Cape Agulhas about 200 miles from Cape Town 18 March 1871; agent general in London for colony of Queensland, March 1872 to 1876; C.M.G. 1875. d. Holyrood house, Beckenham, Kent 20 June 1878. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxv, 51–3 (1879); Geol. Mag. v, 336, 429–32 (1878).
D’ALBERT, Charles (son of a captain of cavalry in French army). b. Nienstellen near Hamburg 1808 or 1809; pupil in London of F. W. M. Kalkbrenner the pianist; studied music and dancing at Académie Royale, Paris; maître de ballet and first dancer at Covent Garden theatre; teacher of music in London; wrote various musical albums 1848–53; an exceedingly popular composer of innumerable waltzes, polkas and galops. d. 14 Alexander sq. South Kensington, London 26 May 1886 in 78 year. Illust. news of the world viii (1861), portrait.
DALE, James. b. Brancepeth near Durham; succeeded his father as head gardener to 6 Viscount Boyne at Brancepeth Castle 1854; a great judge of fruit and flowers; kept a splendid stock of plants and fruit but never exhibited; known as “The King of Pine growers”; a clever naturalist and ornithologist; it is stated in Loudon’s Natural History that Mr. Dale was the only man in England who ever took a siskin’s nest, which he did in a pine tree; left a valuable collection of stuffed animals and preserved fish. d. Brancepeth 1 April 1882 aged 66.
DALE, James Murray (son of Very Rev. T. Dale 1797–1870). b. 20 July 1822; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; a solicitor in London 1843–73; author of Clergyman’s Legal handbook 1858, 6 ed. 1881; Church extension law 1864; Legal ritual, Judgments of privy council and dean of arches 1871. d. Cromer 2 March 1877.
DALE, John. b. Settle, Yorkshire 1 March 1803; articled to Reay and Collison, surgeons, Liverpool; played under Samuel Russell’s management in the provinces 1823; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Rob Roy 5 Oct. 1825; went to Paris with the Kean, Macready, Kemble company 1827; the original Adrastus in Talfourd’s tragedy Ion at Covent Garden, May 1836; played Cromwell to Macready’s Wolsey at Covent Garden; acted at Surrey and Victoria theatres; one of his best characters was Creve Cœur in The Bohemians. d. Manchester 25 Oct. 1872. Theatrical Times iii, 137, 146 (1848), portrait.
DALE, Joseph. Gardener to Society of the Middle Temple, London 1843 to decease, where he arranged annual exhibitions of chrysanthemums in November; greatly assisted and encouraged the plantation of trees in various parts of London; presented with a testimonial at the Salutation tavern, Newgate st. London 31 Jany. 1878; author of On the cultivation of the chrysanthemum 1856. d. Vicarage road, Leyton 31 Dec. 1878 aged 65. Gardener’s Magazine xxi, 59 (1878), xxii, 7, 80 (1879).
DALE, Very Rev. Thomas (son of William Dale of Pentonville, London). b. Pentonville 22 Aug. 1797; ed. at Christ hospital 1805–17 and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1870; C. of St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London 1822–26; professor of English language and literature at London Univ. 1828–30, at King’s coll. London 1836–39; minister of St. Matthew’s chapel, Denmark hill 1830–35; V. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 3 Jany. 1835 to 1846; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 1840–1849; preb. of St. Paul’s, March 1843 to Feb. 1846; canon of St. Paul’s 20 Oct. 1843 to 1870; V. of St. Pancras, July 1846 to March 1861 when that parish was subdivided into 20 incumbencies; R. of Therfield, Herts. 26 March 1861 to 1870; declined deanery of Ely 1869; dean of Rochester 23 Feb. 1870 to death, installed April 1870; author of The widow of Nain and other poems 1817; The outlaw of Taurus 1818; The tragedies of Sophocles translated into English verse 2 vols. 1824; Poetical works 1836; The sabbath companion being essays on first principles of Christian faith and practice 1844, 3 ed. 1853 and about 70 other books. d. 2 Amen corner, St. Paul’s, London 14 May 1870. Palmer’s St. Pancras (1870) 43, 142, 159–61; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, fourth series (1860), portrait; Church of England photographic portrait gallery 1859, portrait 24; I.L.N. xxxv, 647 (1859), portrait, lvi, 563, 643 (1870).
DALGAIRNS, Rev. John Dobree (son of Wm. Dalgairns). b. Guernsey 21 Oct. 1818; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey and Ex. coll. Ox., scholar 27 May 1837; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; joined J. H. Newman’s band of disciples at Littlemore; received into R.C. church 29 Sep. 1845, ordained at Langres in France 1846; a preacher and confessor at the London Oratory King William st. Strand 1849 to 1853 and 1856 to 1863, at Birmingham Oratory 1853–56; superior of London Oratory, Brompton 1863–65; wrote some of the lives in J. H. Newman’s Lives of the English saints; author of The devotion to the heart of Jesus with an introduction on the history of Jansenism 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The German mystics of the fourteenth century 1858; The Holy Communion, its philosophy, theology and practice 1861 frequently reprinted, and of many articles in the British Critic, Dublin Review and Contemporary Review. d. in monastery of the Cistercians at Burgess hill, near Brighton 6 April 1876. bur. in private cemetery of the Fathers of the Brompton oratory at Sydenham. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 3–5 (1885).