DELAMAINE, Charles Henry. Entered Bombay army 1820; retired colonel 24 April 1854; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. Dinan, France 19 June 1870.
DELAMERE, Thomas Cholmondeley, 1 Baron (eld. son of Thomas Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, Northwich, Cheshire 1726–79, M.P. for Cheshire). b. Beckenham, Kent 9 Aug. 1767; high sheriff of Cheshire 1792; M.P. for Cheshire 11 June 1796 to 29 Sep. 1812; created Baron Delamere on coronation of King George 4th, by patent dated 17 July 1821. d. 12 Hereford st. London 30 Sep. 1855.
DELAMERE, Hugh Cholmondeley, 2 Baron (eld. son of the preceding). b. Vale Royal 3 Oct. 1812; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Denbighshire 1840–41 and for Montgomery 1841–47; col. 1 Royal Cheshire militia 28 Aug. 1840 to death. d. Vale Royal 1 Aug. 1887.
DE LA MOTTE, Freeman Gage (son of Wm. De La Motte 1775–1863). Author of Examples of modern alphabets 1859; Embroiderer’s book of design 1860; Primer of the art of illumination 1860; Mediæval alphabets and initials for illuminators 1861; Book of ornamental alphabets 9th to 19th century 1858, 5 ed. 1863. d. of apoplexy 15 Beaufort buildings, Strand, London 16 July 1862 aged 48.
DE LA MOTTE, Peter. Entered Bombay army 1797; col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 27 April 1826 to death; general 16 June 1860; C.B. 28 July 1838. d. 15 Craven hill gardens, London 5 Feb. 1861 aged 79.
DE LA MOTTE, William Alfred (eld. son of Peter De La Motte of Weymouth, postal agent). b. Weymouth 2 Aug. 1775; pupil of Benjamin West, R.A.; drawing master at royal military colleges, Great Marlow and Sandhurst 1803–43; published Thirty etchings of rural subjects 1816; exhibited 53 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1793–1850; author of Smoking and Smokers 1845, anon.; Historical sketch of priory and hospital of St. Bartholomew 1846. d. The lawn, St. Giles’s fields, Oxford 13 Feb. 1863.
DELANE, John Thadeus (2 son of the succeeding). b. South Molton st. London 11 Oct. 1817; ed. at King’s college, London and Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1839; barrister M.T. 28 May 1847; engaged upon the Times 1839, editor May 1841 to Nov. 1877; organised with aid of Lieut. Thomas Waghorn a special Times express from Alexandria to London 1845; exposed and stopped the railway mania 1845, at an immense cost by loss of advertisements. d. Ascot Heath house near Ascot 22 Nov. 1879. Macmillan’s Mag., Jany. 1880 pp. 267–72; Kinglake’s Crimean war, 6 ed. vol. vii, chapter ix, pp. 214–72; Hatton’s Journalistic London 1882 p. 81, portrait; Times 25 Nov. 1879 p. 7, cols. 3–5; I.L.N. lxxv, 548 (1879), portrait.
DELANE, William Frederick Augustus. Financial manager of Times newspaper; barrister G.I. 26 Jany. 1831; manager of Morning Chronicle to 1847; treasurer of county courts of Kent and part of Surrey (circuits 47, 48, 49 and 50), March 1847 to death; author of A collection of decisions in the courts for revising the lists of electors for the counties of Berks [and other counties, cities and boroughs] 1834, 2 ed. 1836; The present laws for regulating highways 1835. d. Hellesdon, Norwich 29 July 1857 aged 64.
DELANY, Most Rev. William. b. Bandon 25 Dec. 1803; ed. at Dunboyne; parish priest of Bandon 1845; R.C. bishop of Cork 1847 to death, during which period there was a great revival of church architecture and multiplication of religious institutions. d. Blackrock near Cork 14 Nov. 1886.
DE LA RUE, Thomas. b. Guernsey 24 March 1793; printer there 1815; manufacturer of straw hats in London; invented bonnets of embossed paper; founded house of De La Rue and Sons, card and ornamental paper makers; introduced several new printing inks; invented embossing of bookbinder’s cloths; patented fixing of iridescent films on paper; Chevalier of Legion of Honour 1855. d. 84 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 7 June 1866.