DAMPIER, John Lucius (2 son of Sir Henry Dampier 1758–1816, justice of Court of King’s Bench). b. 19 Bloomsbury sq. London 23 Dec. 1792; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow of his coll.; barrister L.I. 22 May 1819; recorder of Portsmouth 1837–38; a comr. to enquire into rights and claims connected with New Forest and Waltham forest 1849; a comr. for investigating state of Univ. of Ox. 1850; vice warden of Stannaries in county of Devon 16 Dec. 1850 to death. d. 33 Pulteney st. Bath 24 May 1853. G.M. xl, 94–5 (1853).
DANBY, Francis (3 son of James Danby of Common near Wexford, farmer). b. Common 16 Nov. 1793; landscape painter especially of sunsets; exhibited 48 pictures at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1820–60; A.R.A. 7 Nov. 1825; lived in Paris and on the lake of Geneva 1829–41, at Lewisham, Kent 1841–47, and at Exmouth 1847 to death; his picture ‘The Deluge’ exhibited in London 1840 was chief artistic feature of Dublin Exhibition 1853. d. Shell house, Exmouth 17 Feb. 1861. Sandby’s History of the royal academy ii, 68–71 (1862); Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 437–49 (1866); W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie (1869) 7–10.
DANBY, James Francis (eld. son of the preceding). b. Bristol 1816; member of Soc. of British Artists; exhibited 35 landscapes at R.A., 42 at B.I. and 46 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–76. d. 54 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 22 Oct. 1875. Graphic xii, 518 (1875), portrait.
DANBY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. about 1817; copied pictures at the Louvre, Paris for his living 1830–41; exhibited 30 pictures at R.A. and 42 at B.I. 1842–76; associate of Soc. of Painters in Water-colours 1867, member 1870, his landscapes were among the chief ornaments of the Society’s exhibitions. d. 11 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 25 March 1886.
DANCE, Charles (son of George Dance of London, architect 1740–1825). b. about 1794; clerk in Court for relief of Insolvent Debtors, London, registrar and auditor 1851, taxing officer 1853, chief clerk May 1858 to Oct. 1861 when he retired on pension of £800 a year; wrote many extravaganzas alone and with J. R. Planché; called the founder of modern burlesque; of his 30 dramatic pieces the Bengal Tiger, Delicate Ground, A morning call, Who speaks first, and Naval Engagements are still sometimes played. d. Lowestoft 5 Jany. 1863. Planche’s Extravaganzas ii, (1879), portrait.
DANCER, John Benjamin. b. London 1812; optician at Manchester 1835 to death; suggested application of photography in connexion with the magic lantern; constructed the optical chromatic fountain since further developed at South Kensington exhibitions; constructed the first perfectly accurate thermometer in England; produced the first cheap good microscopes; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society; F.R.A.S. d. Manchester about 6 Dec. 1887.
DANELL, Right Rev. James (son of Mr. Danell of London). b. Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London 14 July 1821; ed. at St. Edmund’s college near Ware and St. Sulpice, Paris; ordained priest 6 June 1846; served mission at St. George’s, Southwark 1846–70; canon of Southwark 27 Jany. 1857, vicar general 16 May 1862, vicar capitular 2 June 1870; bishop of Southwark 10 Jany. 1871 to death, consecrated by Abp. Manning at St. George’s cathedral 25 March 1871. d. The Bishop’s house, St. George’s cathedral, Southwark 14 June 1881. The Tablet 18 and 25 June 1881.
DANIEL, George. b. City of London 16 Sep. 1789; clerk to a stockbroker in Tokenhouse yard; contributed many poems to Ackerman’s Poetical Magazine 1808–11; author of The Times, a prophecy 1811 anon.; Miscellaneous poems 1812; Dick Distich 3 vols. 1812 anon.; published several squibs on royal scandals under pseud. of P—— P——, poet laureate; author of The modern Dunciad a satire with notes, biographical and critical 1814, 2 ed. 1816; edited Chef d’Œuvres from French authors 2 vols. 1821; his interlude Doctor Bolus was acted at English opera house 21 July 1818, and his musical farce The disagreeable surprise at Drury lane 1 Dec. 1819; edited Cumberland’s British Theatre with remarks, biographical and critical 39 vols. 1823–31, for each of the plays (nearly 300) he wrote a preface under the initials D—— G——; edited Cumberland’s Minor Theatre 14 vols. 1831–32; author of Remarks on Miss Mitford’s tragedy of Rienzi 1828; Ophelia Kean, a dramatic legendary tale 1829 anon., a scurrilous attack on Edmund Kean; Garrick in the green room 1829; Merrie England in the olden time 2 vols. 1842, reprinted 1874; The Missionary 1847 a religious poem; Democritus in London, to which are added Notes festivous and the Stranger Guest 1852; Love’s last labour not lost 1863. d. at his son’s house, The Grove, Stoke Newington, London 30 March 1864. Memoir of D—— G—— prefixed to Colman’s Blue Devils in Cumberland’s British theatre vol. xxxix (1838), pp. 3–8, portrait; G.M. 1864 pt. 2, pp. 450–5.
DANIEL, William Shand. Educated at Univ. of Glasgow; contributed poetical pieces to Glasgow college Albums; wrote part of a drama which appeared in Collections of miscellaneous poetical pieces Edin. 1843–44; sheriff clerk depute of Dumbarton 1844 to death; edited History of the abbey and palace of Holyrood by Duncan Anderson 1852. d. 2 Dec. 1858. R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland 1868 p. 130.
DANIELL, Edmund Robert (son of George Daniell of London, barrister, who d. 1833). Barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1816; joint comr. with John Balguy of Birmingham court of bankruptcy 21 Oct. 1842 to death; F.R.S. 5 June 1828 to 1850; author of Reports of cases argued on the equity side of the Court of Exchequer 1824; The practice of the high Court of Chancery 3 vols. 1837–41, 6 ed., 3 vols. 1882–84; Practical observations on the new Chancery orders 1841, 2 ed. 1842. d. Meriden hall near Coventry 21 March 1854.