DANIELL, William Freeman. b. Liverpool 1818; M.R.C.S. 1841; assistant surgeon in the army 26 Nov. 1847; served on coast of West Africa; staff surgeon 11 March 1853; wrote a paper on the frankincense tree of West Africa which led to establishment of genus Daniellia, Benn. called after him; author of Medical topography and native diseases of the Gulf of Guinea 1849; On the Cascarilla plants of the West Indies 1862. d. Southampton 26 June 1865. bur. Kensal Green cemetery, London 3 July.
DANSEY, Charles Cornwallis. Second lieut. R.A. 19 July 1803, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to death; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. London 21 July 1853.
DANSEY, Rev. William (son of John Dansey of Blandford, Dorset). b. Blandford 1792; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., Stapledon scholar 1811–12; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, M.B. 1818; R. of Donhead, St. Andrew, Wilts. 1820 to death; preb. of Salisbury 10 Aug. 1841 to death; translated Arrian on Coursing 1831; edited A brief account of the office of Dean Rural by J. Priaulx 1832; author of Horæ Decanicæ Rurales being an attempt to illustrate the name, title and functions of rural deans with remarks on the rise and fall of rural bishops 2 vols. 1835, 2 ed. 1844. d. Weymouth 7 June 1856.
DANSON, George. b. Lancaster 4 June 1799; scene painter at theatres in London many years; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1823–48; the following pictures by him were shown at Surrey Zoological gardens, Mount Vesuvius 1837–8 reproduced 1846, Iceland and its volcanoes 1839, the City of Rome occupying 5 acres 1841 reproduced 1848, Temple of Ellora 1843, London and the great fire of 1666, 1844, Edinburgh 1845, storming of Badajoz 1849, Napoleon’s passage of the Alps 1850. d. 711 Wandsworth road, London 23 Jany. 1881. Daily Telegraph 1 Feb. 1881 p. 5, col. 3.
DARBY, George (4 son of John Darby of Markly, Sussex, who d. 1834). b. 1798; ed. at Westminster and St. Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1821; M.P. for East Sussex 1 Aug. 1837 to Jany. 1846; an inclosure comr. for England and Wales 21 Aug. 1846 to 1852; a copyhold inclosure and tithe comr. 1852 to death. d. Down st. Piccadilly, London 16 Nov. 1877. bur. Markley 21 Nov.
DARBY, Rev. John Nelson (brother of the preceding). b. London 18 Nov. 1800; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist 1819, B.A. 1819; called to Irish bar about 1825; C. in Wicklow 1826–27; joined the ‘Brethren’ at Dublin 1827; worked in Switzerland 1838–40, many congregations of Darbyites were founded in cantons Vaud, Geneva and Bern; started a separate assembly at Plymouth 28 Dec. 1845, this division spread to Bristol, London and other places and Darbyism became established in England; travelled in America, New Zealand and West Indies; a most voluminous writer under his own name, his initials J. N. D., and anonymously. d. Bournemouth 29 April 1882. Collected writings of J. N. Darby ed. by W. Kelly 32 vols. 1867–83; Herzog’s Religious Encyclopædia iii, 1856–9, 2592–3 (1884); Estéoule’s Le Plymouthisme d’autrefois et le Darbyisme d’aujoud’hui 1858; A. N. Grove’s Darbyism, its rise and development 1866; The close of 28 years association with J. N. D. by W. H. D. 1866.
DARBY, Jonathan George Norton (eld. son of George Darby 1798–1877). b. 1829; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; barrister L.I. 9 June 1854; author with F. A. Bosanquet of A practical treatise on the statutes of limitations in England and Ireland 1867. d. 29 Westbourne park road, London 17 March 1870 in 41 year.
DARBY, Joseph. Second lieut. R.A. 1 July 1802, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 April 1844 when placed on retired full pay; general 1 Jany. 1868. d. Clifton 21 May 1869 aged 83.
DARBY-GRIFFITH, Christopher. b. 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1826; M.P. for Devizes 1857–68. d. Padworth house near Reading 19 March 1885.
D’ARCY, George Abbas Kooli. Ensign 94 foot 21 April 1837, adjutant 3 Aug. 1838 to 5 Jany. 1841, captain 9 Nov. 1846 to 6 July 1852; major 3 West India regiment 6 July 1852, lieut. col. 7 July 1854 to 7 May 1858 when he sold out; aide-de-camp to 5 successive governors of Bombay; governor and commander in chief of the Gambia, June 1859 to Jany. 1867 when presented with a sword of honour value £120; governor of the Falkland Islands 24 Feb. 1870 to 1876. d. 9 Leigham villas, Plymouth 22 Oct. 1885 aged 67.