DARLING, Sir Ralph (son of Christopher Darling, adjutant 45 foot). b. 1775; ensign 45 foot 15 May 1793; lieut.-col. 69 foot 17 July 1801 to 8 May 1806; lieut.-col. 51 foot 8 May 1806 to 4 June 1813; deputy adjutant general at the Horse Guards 1814–18; commanded troops in Mauritius 1818–23; col. 90 foot 9 Oct. 1823 to 26 Sep. 1837; governor in chief of New South Wales 19 Dec. 1825 to 21 Oct. 1831; col. 41 foot 26 Sep. 1837 to 5 Feb. 1848; general 23 Nov. 1841; col. 69 foot 5 Feb. 1848 to death; G.C.H. 2 Sep. 1835. d. Brunswick sq. Brighton 2 April 1858. Braim’s History of New South Wales i, 53–74 (1876).
DARLING, William. b. Belford 7 Feb. 1786; lighthouse keeper at the Longstone or Outer Farn or Faroe island 1815 to Dec. 1860 when he retired on full pay; went out to the wreck of the steamboat Forfarshire (with his daughter Grace Darling 1815–43) and rescued the 9 survivors of the crew 7 Sep. 1838, the boat in which they went out was on view during the summer of 1883 at the Fisheries Exhibition, South Kensington, and on 9 Nov. it was carried through the streets of London in the Lord Mayor’s show. d. The Wynding house, Bamburgh 28 May 1865. Journal of W. Darling 1795–1860, (1886); I.L.N. xlvi, 553 (1865).
DARLING, William. b. Demse, Scotland; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; studied and taught anatomy in New York 1830–42; M.D. New York 1842; M.R.C.S. 1856, F.R.C.S. 1866; studied in London and Paris 1856–66; professor of anatomy in Univ. of New York 1867; censor of New York college of Veterinary surgeons 1868; professor of anatomy in Univ. of Vermont 1873; author of Anatomography or graphic anatomy 1879; author with A. L. Renney of Essentials of anatomy 1880. d. Univ. of New York 25 Dec. 1884 aged 82.
DARLING, William Lindsay. Ensign 99 foot 13 Dec. 1801; captain 51 foot 18 April 1811 to 1814; col. 98 foot 17 April 1854 to death; general 15 Dec. 1861. d. Strote house near Chepstow 8 Oct. 1863.
DARNELL, George. Established and conducted a large day school at Islington, London; started Darnell’s Copybooks about 1840 when he introduced plan of giving a line of copy in pale ink to be first written over by the pupil then to be imitated by him in the next line, the copy being thus always under his eye; author of Short and certain road to reading 1845; Grammar made intelligible to children 1846; Reading lessons 6 numbers 1855; Arithmetic made intelligible to children 1855, all of which had a great sale. d. 70 Gibson sq. Islington 26 Feb. 1857 aged 58.
DARNELL, Rev. William Nicholas (son of Wm. Darnell of Newcastle, wine merchant). b. Newcastle 14 March 1776; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch. and C.C. coll. Ox., Durham scholar, fellow, tutor; B.A. 1796, M.A. 1800, B.D. 1808; R. of St. Mary-le-bow, Durham 1809–15; V. of Stockton 1815–20; V. of Lastingham, Yorkshire 1815–28; preb. of ninth stall in Durham cath. 12 Jany. 1816, of sixth stall 12 Oct. 1820 to 1831; Inc. of St. Margaret’s, Durham 1820–27; V. of Norham, co. Durham 1827–31; R. of Stanhope, co. Durham 1831 to death, a living worth £6000 a year; author of Sermons 1816; The correspondence of Isaac Basire with a memoir 1831; An arrangement and classification of the Psalms, with a view to render them more useful for private devotion 1839, and of sermons, charges and other works. d. Stanhope rectory 19 June 1865. bur. Durham cathedral churchyard 24 June.
DART, Joseph. Deputy sec. H.E.I. Co. 1814, sec. 1818–29. d. Budleigh Salterton, Devon 29 Nov. 1866 aged 93.
DART, Joseph Henry (eld. son of the preceding). b. India house, Leadenhall st. London 1817; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., Newdigate prizeman for his poem The Exile of St. Helena 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1841, bencher Feb. 1885; one of the six conveyancing counsel to Court of Chancery 1860; senior conveyancing counsel to high court of justice 1875–86; a verderer of New Forest 1877; author of A compendium of the law and practice of vendors and purchasers of real estate 1851, 6 ed. 2 vols. 1888; The Iliad of Homer in English hexameter verse 1862. d. Beech house, Ringwood, Hants. 27 June 1887. Law Journal xxii, 373, 381 (1887).
DARTMOUTH, William Legge, 4 Earl of (eld. son of 3 Earl of Dartmouth 1755–1810). b. in parish of St. George, Hanover sq. London 29 Nov. 1784; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1805, D.C.L. 1834; succeeded his father 1 Nov. 1810; colonel of Staffordshire militia 15 April 1812 to death; F.R.S. 7 Nov. 1822. d. Patshull near Wolverhampton 22 Nov. 1853.
DARUSMONT, Frances, known as Fanny Wright (dau. of Mr. Wright of Dundee, merchant, who d. 1798). b. Miln’s buildings, Nethergate, Dundee 6 Sep. 1795; brought up in England by her aunt; spent two years in the U.S. 1818–20; produced a tragedy ‘Altorf’ in New York 19 Feb. 1819; lived in Paris 1821–24; purchased 2000 acres of land on the river Nashoba in Tennessee and settled negro slaves upon it 1824, this experiment failed and the slaves were liberated and sent to Hayti; joined Robert D. Owen in his socialistic scheme at New Harmony, Indiana and edited the New Harmony Gazette; lectured in chief cities of U.S. on social questions 1829–30 and 1833–36, these lectures led to the formation of Fanny Wright Societies; one of the first advocates of female suffrage; author of Views of society and manners in America 1821; A few days in Athens 1822. (m. 1838 Phiquepal-Darusmont a French reformer, from whom she separated). d. Cincinnati, Ohio 14 Dec. 1852. R. D. Owen’s Threading my way (1873) 264–72; Mrs. Trollope’s Domestic manners of the Americans (1831) i, 96–100, ii, 76–77; S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record, 2 ed. (1855) p. 842.