DE LISLE, Rudolph Edward Lisle March Phillipps (son of the preceding). b. Gracedieu manor 23 Nov. 1853; midshipman R.N. 28 July 1868; lieut. 24 May 1877; lieut. Alexandra 12 guns 9 Jany. 1883; served in naval brigade attached to the Upper Nile expedition, Aug. 1884 to death; killed at battle of Abu Klea 17 Jany. 1885. Memoir of Lieut. Rudolph De Lisle by Rev. H. N. Oxenham (1886), portrait.
DELLAGANA, Bartolomeo. b. Annigino canton Ticino, Switzerland; stereotyper at 61 Red Lion st. Clerkenwell, London 1855, moved to Shoe Lane 1857; effected great improvements in stereotyping by using papier mâché; stereotyped the Illustrated London News, Times, Daily Telegraph and other papers; naturalised in England 7 Jany. 1867. d. The Terrace, Kennington park, London 26 May 1882 in 50 year.
DEMAINBRAY, Rev. Stephen George Francis Triboudet (only son of Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray 1710–82, astronomer to royal observatory at Kew). b. Ealing, Middlesex 7 Aug. 1759; ed. at Harrow and Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1781, M.A. 1782, B.D. 1793; fell. of his coll. 30 June 1778 to 4 Feb. 1799; astronomer at Kew observatory 1782–1840 when it was given up; Whitehall preacher 1794; V. of Long Wittenham, Berks 9 Aug. 1794 to 4 Feb. 1799; R. of Broad Somerford, Wilts. 4 Feb. 1799 to death; one of His Majesty’s chaplains at Kew 1801; chaplain in ord. at St. James’s palace 1802; author of The poor man’s best friend 1831. d. Broad Somerford rectory 6 July 1854. G.M. xlii, 193–94 (1854).
DE MAULEY, William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, 1 Baron (3 son of 3 Earl of Bessborough 1758–1844). b. Cavendish sq. London 31 July 1787; M.P. for Poole 1826–31, for Knaresborough 1831–32 and for Dorset 1832–37; created baron De Mauley of Canford, Dorset 10 July 1838; chairman of Submarine electric telegraph company. d. 21 St. James’s place, London 16 May 1855.
DEMAUS, Rev. Robert. Educ. at Univ. of Edin., signet medallist, M.A. 1851; chaplain to bishop of Aberdeen 1860–65; C. of St. Luke, Chelsea 1865–72; principal of Whiteland’s training college, Chelsea 1872 to death; author of Class book of scripture history 1863; English literature and composition 1866; William Tyndale, a contribution to history of English Bible 1871; The Jesuits, a historical sketch 1873. d. of apoplexy 11 St. Leonard’s terrace, Chelsea 15 March 1874 aged 45.
DE MORGAN, Augustus (5 child of John De Morgan, col. in Madras army, who d. 1816). b. Madura, Madras 27 June 1806; lost his right eye soon afterwards; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1825, fourth wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827; student at Lincoln’s Inn 1827; professor of mathematics in London University 23 Feb. 1828 to 24 July 1831; fellow of Astronomical Soc. May 1828, member of council 1830–61, hon. sec. 1831–38 and 1848–54; professor of mathematics in University college, London, Oct. 1836 to 10 Nov. 1866; pres. of Mathematical Soc. 7 Nov. 1864; granted civil list pension of £100, 21 Jany. 1870; author of Elements of arithmetic 1830, 6 ed. 1876; Formal Logic 1847; Trigonometry and double algebra 1849; Book of almanacs 1851, 2 ed. 1871; Budget of Paradoxes 1872, and nearly one sixth of articles in Penny Cyclopædia 1833–58. (m. 1837 Sophia Elizabeth dau. of Wm. Frend of London, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 25 July 1871). d. Merton road, Regent’s park, London 18 March 1871. Memoir of A. De Morgan by S. E. De Morgan 1882, portrait, with list of his writings at pp. 401–17; Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxx, 11, 112–18 (1872).
DE MORGAN, Campbell Greig (brother of the preceding). b. Clovelly, Devon 1811; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1835, F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon Middlesex hospital 1842, surgeon 1848 to death; lectured on forensic medicine there 1841, afterwards on physiology and surgery to death; professor of anatomy 1845; F.R.S. 6 June 1861; author of The origin of Cancer 1872, and of the article Erysipelas in Holmes’s System of surgery 1860. d. 29 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 12 April 1876. Medical Circular iv, 67 (1854); Medical Times and Gazette i, 483–5 (1876).
DEMPSTER, William Richardson. b. Keith, Scotland 1809; went to the United States when young, and became naturalised; a successful composer and public singer; set Tennyson’s May Queen to music; composed music for most of the songs found in Tennyson’s longer poems. d. London 7 March 1871.
DENBIGH, William Basil Percy Fielding, 7 Earl of. b. Berwick house, Salop 25 March 1796; succeeded his grandfather as 7 Earl 14 July 1800; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; lord chamberlain to Queen Adelaide, Jany. 1833; P.C. 4 Feb. 1833; G.C.H. 1833; master of the Horse to Queen Adelaide 15 Dec. 1834 to 2 Dec. 1849 when she died. d. Hampstead 25 June 1865.
DENDY, Walter Cooper. b. at or near Horsham, Sussex 1794; M.R.C.S. 1814; practised in City of London; fellow of Medical Soc. of London, president; senior surgeon to Royal infirmary for children, Waterloo Road; author of Practical remarks on the diseases of the skin 1837, 2 ed. 1854; The philosophy of mystery 1841; Psyche, a discourse on the birth and pilgrimage of thought 1853; The beautiful islets of Britaine 1857, 2 ed. 1860, and other books. d. 25 Suffolk st. Haymarket, London 10 Dec. 1871. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections (1874) 441–9; Medical Circular iv, 155–6 (1854).