DARVALL, Edward. Ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1823; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sep. 1866 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on retired list; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Acton place, Suffolk 20 Oct. 1885 in 80 year.
DARVALL, Sir John Bayley (son of Edward Darvall, captain 9 dragoons). Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838, admitted to bar of N.S.W. 16 Sep. 1839; practised at Sydney, N.S.W. 1839–67; Q.C. 1853, member of senate of Univ. of Sydney 1850–67; solicitor general N.S.W. 1856–7, attorney general 1857–67; C.M.G. 23 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. 23 Upper Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 28 Dec. 1883.
DARVILL, Sir Henry (eld. son of John Darvill). b. 1812; solicitor at Windsor 1834 to death; mayor of Windsor 1853, town clerk 1854 to death; registrar of Windsor county court; knighted at Osborne 20 April 1883. d. Chirbury, Shropshire 30 Sep. 1883. bur. Windsor cemetery 5 Oct.
DARWIN, Charles Robert (5 child of Robert Waring Darwin of Shrewsbury, physician 1766–1848). b. The Mount, Shrewsbury 12 Feb. 1809; ed. at Shrewsbury, Univ. of Edin. and Christ’s coll. Cam.; B.A. Cam. 1832, M.A. 1837, hon. LLD. 1877; naturalist to the Beagle on her surveying voyage round the world Dec. 1831 to Oct. 1836; F.G.S., sec. 1838–41; lived at 12 Gower st. London 1839–42, at Down near Beckenham, Kent 1842 to death; F.R.S. 24 Jany. 1839, royal medallist 1853, Copley medallist 1864; author of Narrative of the surveying voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle, vol. 3, entitled Journal and Remarks; Geology of the voyage of the Beagle 3 parts 1842–46; On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life 1859; The descent of man and selection in relation to sex 1871, and other books. d. Down 19 April 1882. bur. Westminster Abbey 26 April, statue of him by J. Boehm, R.A. placed in Natural history museum, South Kensington 1885. Life and letters of C. Darwin edited by his son F. Darwin 3 vols. 1887, portrait; Charles Darwin, Nature series 1882; Illust. Review ii, 289–91 (1871), portrait; Nature x, 79 (1874), portrait; The Examiner 11 Oct. and 12 Nov. 1879, 2 portraits.
DARWIN, Sir Francis Sacheverell (2 son of Erasmus Darwin of Derby, M.D., F.R.S. 1731–1802). b. parish of All Saints, Derby 17 June 1786; ed. at Repton and Emm. coll. Cam.; M.D. Edin.; physician at Lichfield; knighted by George iv at Carlton house 10 May 1820 on presenting an address from city of Lichfield. d. Breadsall priory near Derby 6 Nov. 1859. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii, 195 (1861).
DASENT, John Bury (eld. son of John Roche Dasent, attorney general of St. Vincent). b. 22 Dec. 1806; ed. at Westminster school and Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1830; barrister M.T. 19 April 1833; judge of Bow and Shoreditch county courts (circuit No. 40) 2 Oct. 1858 to Jany. 1884 when he retired on a pension. d. 15 Warwick road, Maida hill, London 7 April 1888.
DASHWOOD, Rev. George Henry (son of Rev. James Dashwood, R. of Doddington, Isle of Ely). b. Downham Market, Norfolk 21 Oct. 1801; ed. at Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1825; C. of Stow Bardolph, Norfolk 1840, Vicar 1852 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1844; printed at his private press Vice-Comites Norfolciæ, or sheriffs of Norfolk from the first year of Henry the Second to the fourth of Queen Victoria 1844; author of Sigilla Antiqua 1847, and of many papers in the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society’s Norfolk Archæology vols. 1–5. d. Quebec house, East Dereham, Norfolk 9 Feb. 1869. Register and mag. of biog. i, 310–12 (1869).
DASHWOOD, William Bateman. b. 1 Sep. 1790; entered navy 3 Aug. 1799; lost his right arm in action 29 Nov. 1811; granted pension for wounds 4 April 1816; captain 21 Oct. 1818, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 22 April 1862. d. suddenly at Geneva 9 May 1869.
DAUBENY, Charles Giles Bridle (3 son of Rev. James Daubeny, R. of Stratton, Gloucs. who d. 9 Feb. 1817). b. Stratton 11 Feb. 1795; ed. at Winchester and Magd. coll. Ox., demy 1810, lay fellow 1815 to death, bursar 1828, vice pres. 1830; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, B.M. 1818, M.D. 1821; M.D. Dublin 1835; Aldrichian professor of chemistry at Oxford, Oct. 1822–1855, professor of botany there 1834 to death, professor of rural economy 1840 to death; physician to Radcliffe infirmary 1826–30; pres. of British Association at Cheltenham 1856; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1822; author of A description of active and extinct volcanoes 1826, 2 ed. 1848; An introduction to the atomic theory 1831, 2 ed. 1850; Lectures on Roman husbandry 1857; Lectures on Climate 1863; Miscellanies on scientific and literary subjects 2 vols. 1867. d. Botanic gardens, Oxford at 12.5 a.m. 13 Dec. 1867. Proc. of Royal Society xvii, 74–80 (1869); Quarterly Journal of Geological society xxiv, 33–36 (1868).
DAUBENY, Henry. Ensign 84 foot 8 July 1795, lieut. col. 11 Dec. 1813 to 21 Nov. 1822 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1832; edited C. Daubeny’s Guide to the Church 1830. d. Rome 10 April 1853.