DILLON, Mr. b. about 1830; clerk in general post office, London; went to France about 1850; on the staff of Paris paper Le Sport; killed by Duc de Gramont-Caderousse in a duel with swords in Forest of St. Germain near Paris 21 Oct. 1862; his widow obtained an order in the Court of Versailles, Nov. 1862 obliging the Duke to pay her an annuity of 3600 francs. Larouse’s Grand Dictionaire (1870) vi, 855–56.
DILLON, Sir William Henry (son of Sir John Talbot Dillon, a baron of the Holy Roman empire). b. Birmingham 8 Aug. 1779; entered navy May 1790; a prisoner in France 1803–6; captain 21 March 1808; naval equerry to Duke of Sussex; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 June 1835; V.A. 5 March 1853. d. Monaco 9 Sep. 1857. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xiv, 191 (1858).
DILLWYN, Lewis Weston (son of Wm. Dillwyn of Higham Lodge, Walthamstow, minister of Society of Friends, who d. Sep. 1824 aged 81). b. Ipswich 21 Aug. 1778; head of the Cambrian pottery, Swansea 1802; published Natural history of British Confervæ in parts 1802–1809, and other works on natural history; wrote with Dawson Turner The Botanists Guide 2 vols. 1805; pres. of Royal Institution of South Wales from its foundation 1835 to his death; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1818; alderman of Swansea 1835–40, mayor 1839; M.P. for Glamorganshire 17 Dec. 1832 to July 1837; F.L.S. 1800, F.R.S. 1804. d. Sketty hall near Swansea 31 Aug. 1855. Proc. of Linnæan society (1856) 36–39.
DIMOCK, Rev. James Francis. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell’s scholar 1830; 29 wrangler 1833; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; minor canon of Southwell 1846–63; R. of Barnborough, Yorkshire 1863 to death; preb. of Lincoln 1869 to death; author of Explanation of the Thirty-nine articles 2 vols. 1845; Southwell church, views with architectural description 1854; edited A metrical life of St. Hugh of Lincoln 1860; Magna vita S. Hugonis 1864; Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, vols. 5 and 6, 1867–69. d. Barnborough 21 April 1876 aged 65.
DINNEFORD, William. b. London; first appeared in America at Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 1823, leading actor there; made his début in New York at Lafayette theatre 1826; became manager of the Bowery theatre and of the Franklin theatre, New York; travelled with strolling companies all over the United States from Maine to California; an actor, author, manager, auctioneer, broker and merchant; opened a lodging and eating house at 157 Broadway, New York called the Byron 1845. d. Panama 8 Dec. 1852. Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i, 405 (1866).
DINORBEN, William Lewis Hughes, 1 Baron (eld. son of Rev. Edward Hughes of Kinmel park near St. Asaph, who d. 1815). b. 10 Nov. 1767; M.P. for Wallingford 5 July 1802 to 10 Sep. 1831 when created Baron Dinorben of Kinmel park, co. Denbigh; militia aide-de-camp to the Queen 7 Feb. 1840 to death. d. Kinmel park 10 Feb. 1852.
DINSDALE, Frederick. Educ. at Chr. coll. Cam., LLB. 1829, LLD. 1835; barrister M.T. 23 May 1834; judge of Court of Requests at Oldham 1843 to March 1847; judge of county courts, circuit No. 22 (Warwickshire), March 1847 to death; changed his name from Trotter to Dinsdale 1847; author of A glossary of provincial words used in Teesdale 1849, anon. d. Tachbrooke house, Leamington 8 July 1872.
DIPROSE, John (eld. son of John Diprose of London, bookbinder). b. Bell Alley, Temple Bar, London 1814; bookseller at Newington Butts 1837, at 312 Strand 1841, at 16 Portugal st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, at 9 Sheffield st. 1876 to death; began his career as a publisher by issuing The royal song book 1840; wrote or edited upwards of 30 minor works which he styled books for the non-reading public; author of Some account of the parish of St. Clement Danes past and present 2 vols. 1868–76, vol. 2 has the date 1876 on the title page but was not published till 1880. d. 131 Kennington park road, London 20 June 1879. Diprose’s St. Clements ii, v-xxiii (1876).
DIRCKS, Henry. b. Liverpool 26 Aug. 1806; a practical engineer conducting railway canal and mining works to 1842, a consulting engineer 1842–58; patented several inventions 1840–57; invented optical delusion exhibited at Polytechnic, London under name of Pepper’s Ghost, July 1863; author of Jordantype, otherwise called Electrotype 1852; Perpetuum mobile or search for self-motive power 1861, second series 1870; Joseph Anstey or the patron and protégé 1863, a novel published under pseud. of D. S. Henry; The life of the Second Marquis of Worcester 1865 and other books. d. Brighton 17 Sep. 1873. H. Dircks’s Inventors and Inventions 1867, portrait; H. Dircks’s Nature-Study 1869, portrait; H. Dircks’s Naturalistic poetry 1872, portrait; Notes and Queries 6 S. xii, 309, 477 (1885).
DISBROWE, Sir Edward Cromwell (son of Col. Edward Disbrowe of Walton, Derbyshire, who d. 30 Nov. 1818). Educ. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Oct. 1808 aged 18; M.P. for Windsor 11 Feb. 1823 to 2 June 1826; entered diplomatic service 1826; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at the Hague 28 Oct. 1835 to death; G.C.H. 1831. d. The Hague 29 Oct. 1851. The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 406–8.