DE LA SAUSSAYE, Sir Richard (son of Richard Sausse of Carrick-on-Suir, co. Tipperary). b. 1807; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign in Spanish royal foot guards 1827; served with distinction during civil war 1833–40 attaining rank of brigadier general; sent on a special mission to Great Britain 1854; commanded a division in campaign to Africa against the Moors 1859–60 where he was made major general; chamberlain to Queen of Spain; military governor of fortress of Carthagena and of province of Murcia; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Aug. 1841 for services performed while in command of British auxiliary brigade in north of Spain; received Grand Cross of order of Isabel the Catholic. d. Paris 27 Oct. 1872.
DE LASAUX, Thomas Thorpe. b. Canterbury 1797; solicitor there 1820 to death; coroner for East Kent 1820 to death being the oldest coroner in England; coroner for Canterbury many years; said to have held 4000 inquests. d. Canterbury 21 May 1884 in 87 year.
DELAWARR, George John Sackville West, 5 Earl (only son of 4 Earl Delawarr 1758–95). b. Savile row, London 26 Oct. 1791; succeeded 28 July 1795; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox.; chief friend of Lord Byron at Harrow; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1819; hon. D.C.L. Cam. 1828, hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; lord chamberlain 8 Sep. 1841 to 8 July 1846, and 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841; took name of Sackville before West 6 Nov. 1843. d. Buckhurst park, Tunbridge Wells 23 Feb. 1869. Portraits of eminent conservatives, second series (1846), portrait.
DELAWARR, Charles Richard Sackville-West, 6 Earl (2 son of the preceding). b. Upper Grosvenor st. London 13 Nov. 1815; ensign 43 foot 26 July 1833; lieut.-col. 21 foot 9 March 1855 to 15 Aug. 1856 when placed on h.p.; commanded a brigade in expedition to Kinburn 1855 and a brigade at Shorncliffe 1856; M.G. 29 Oct. 1864; C.B. 5 July 1855; knight of the Medjidie 2 March 1858; K.C.B. 20 May 1871; a comr. for abolition of army purchase 30 Sep. 1871; drowned himself in the river Cam at Cambridge 22 April 1873. United Service Mag. 1873 part 3, 39–49; I.L.N. lx, 157, 158 (1872), portrait.
DELEPIERRE, Joseph Octave (son of Joseph Delepierre, receveur-général of province of West Flanders). b. Bruges, Belgium 12 March 1802; ed. at Univ. of Ghent; an avocat; archiviste de la Flandre Occidentale, Bruges; came to London 1843; sec. of Belgian legation, Aug. 1849 to 1874; Belgian consul in London 1 Oct. 1849 to 14 April 1875; hon. sec. of the Philobiblon Society 1853, contributed 22 papers to its privately printed Miscellanies; hon. F.S.A. 1 May 1845; author of Heures de loisir, essais poétiques 1829; Old Flanders, traditions and legends of Belgium 2 vols. 1845, and of 53 other books. d. 29 Upper Hamilton terrace, London 18 Aug. 1879. J. O. Delepierre In memoriam, by N. Trubner 1880, portrait; Le Livre, Paris, Jany. 1880 pp. 22–28, 291–92; R. Blakey’s Memoirs (1879) 208–12, 230, 239.
DELEVANTI, George, assumed name of George Crippin. b. London 29 July 1848; pupil of John Delevanti the clown 1854; entered the profession as an acrobat; champion somersault rider of the world at one time; performed in nearly every part of the globe; leading equestrian at Renz’s circus, Berlin. d. 34 Headland park, Plymouth 3 May 1887.
DELF, Thomas. b. London; a bookseller in Bow lane, afterwards at 168 New Bond st. 1853 to death; partner with Nicholas Trubner 1851–2; projected The Artist, The Children’s Journal 1863, The photographic art Journal 1862, The royal cook 1858; author under pseudonym of Charles Martel of The principles of colouring in painting 1855; The principles of form in ornamental art 1856; Love letters of eminent persons 1859; On the materials used in painting with remarks on varnishing and cleaning pictures 1859; The principles of harmony and contrast of colours by M. E. Chevreul, translated by C. Martel 1854, 3 ed. 1859. d. 23 July 1865 aged 55.
DE LIEFDE, Jacob. b. Holland; Daily News war correspondent outside Paris 1870–71; author of Six months among the charities of Europe 2 vols. 1865, new ed. 1872; Romance of charity 1867; Truth in Tales 1870; The great Dutch admirals 1873, new ed. 1880. d. Twickenham 6 Feb. 1878 aged 31.
DE L’ISLE and DUDLEY, Philip Charles Sidney, 1 Baron (only son of Sir John Shelley Sidney, 1 baronet 1771–1849). b. 11 March 1800; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; member of Sidney Sussex coll. Cam., D.C.L. Cam. 1835; M.P. for Eye, Suffolk 19 Oct. 1829 to Feb. 1831; K.C.H. 1830, G.C.H. 1831; surveyor general of Duchy of Cornwall, March 1832 to March 1849; created Baron De L’Isle and Dudley by patent dated 13 Jany. 1835; succeeded as 2 baronet 14 March 1849. (m. 13 Aug. 1825 Sophia eld. child of King Wm. iv, by Mrs. Jordan the actress, she d. 10 April 1837). d. Penshurst, Kent 4 March 1851.
DE LISLE, Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps (eld. son of Charles March Phillipps of Garendon park, Leics. 1779–1862). b. Garendon 17 March 1809; received into R.C. church 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam. 1826–28; gave 230 acres of land in Charnwood Forest for re-establishment of Cistercian order 1835, exactly 3 centuries after its suppression; received the habit of third order of St. Dominic at Rome 1837; built R.C. church at Sheepshed 1842; a principal founder of Association for the promotion of the unity of Christendon 1857; assumed name of De Lisle 1862; sheriff of Leics. 1868; translated from the Italian The lamentations of England by Father Dominic, Passionist 1831; A vindication of Catholic morality by Count Alexander Manzoni 1836 and other books. d. Garendon 5 March 1878. Two sermons preached on the death of A. L. M. P. De Lisle, March 1878, preceded by a short sketch of his life, privately printed 1878; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 38–47 (1885).