DOBSON, John. b. Chirton, North Shields 1788; executed designs for damasks 1800; pupil of David Stephenson, architect, Newcastle 1803–10; architect at Newcastle 1811 to death; became most noted architect in North of England; said to be real author of modern Gothic revival in actual practice; restored many churches; designed or erected greatest part of the public buildings and finest new streets in Newcastle; pres. of Northern Architectural Assoc. 1859. d. New Bridge st. Newcastle 8 Jany. 1865 in 77 year. Memoirs of John Dobson (1885), portrait.
DOBSON, Thomas. Assistant sec. of Excise, Somerset House, London 1856–60; joint sec. to Board of inland revenue 1860–63 when his services were acknowledged in a special treasury minute laid before Parliament; granted a pension of £1010 a year 1863; presented with a service of plate by 2489 officers of excise surveying department 1863; discovered with Mr. Phillips the method of testing gravities of beer, and substitution of duty free malt in distilleries in room of malt drawback; invented method of levying duties on spirits. d. Yarrow lodge, Sydenham 19 June 1885 in 88 year. I.L.N. 17 Oct. 1863 p. 401.
DOBSON, Rev. William. b. 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; fellow of his coll. 1834–41; V. of Tuxford, Notts 1840–48; principal of Cheltenham college 1841–61. d. Cheltenham 31 Dec. 1867. Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences i, 170–74 (1882).
DOBSON, William (son of Lawrence Dobson of Preston, stationer). b. Preston 1820; stationer at Preston; edited the Preston Chronicle to March 1868; member of Preston town council 1862–72 and 1874–83; member of Chetham Society; author of History of the parliamentary representation of Preston during the last hundred years 1856, 2 ed. 1868; Rambles by the Ribble 3 series 1864–83 and other books. d. Churton road, Chester 8 Aug. 1884.
DOBSON, William Burdett. Entered navy 11 Dec. 1806; inspecting commander in coast guard 5 May 1834 to July 1837; captain on half pay 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on half pay 24 May 1867. d. Lyde house, Bath 22 March 1872 aged 79.
DOCHARTY, James b. Bonhill, Dumbartonshire 1829; a pattern designer in Glasgow to about 1862; a landscape painter about 1862 to death; A.R.S.A. 14 Nov. 1877; exhibited many pictures in Glasgow and Edinburgh; exhibited 13 landscapes at the R.A. 1865–77. d. Pollokshields, Glasgow 5 April 1878.
DOCKRAY, Robert Benson. b. 13 Nov. 1811; resident engineer at Birmingham of the London and Birmingham railway 7 March 1838, engineer for the entire line 12 June 1840 to 18 Sep. 1852; M.I.C.E. 13 June 1834, Telford medallist 1849. d. Dalton square, Lancaster 8 Sep. 1871. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 213–15 (1872).
DOD, Charles Roger Phipps (only son of Rev. Roger Dodd, V. of Drumlease, Leitrim). b. Drumlease 8 May 1793; entered King’s Inns, Dublin 30 July 1816; settled in London 1818; compiled summary of parliamentary debates for the Times and wrote nearly all the memoirs of deceased celebrities; changed spelling of his name from Dodd to Dod 1847; published Parliamentary pocket companion 1833–42; Parliamentary Companion 1843–55; Peerage, baronetage and knightage 1841–55; A manual of dignities, privileges and precedents 1842; The annual biography 1843; Electoral facts from 1832 to 1852 impartially stated, 1852, 2 ed. 1853. d. 5 Foxley road, North Brixton, London 21 Feb. 1855.
DOD, Robert Phipps (only son of the preceding). Educ. at King’s coll. London; captain in Shropshire militia 26 Jany. 1858 to death; privately printed Birth and worth, an enquiry into the practical use of a pedigree 1849; published Parliamentary Companion 1856 to death; Peerage, baronetage and knightage 1856 to death. d. Nant Issa hall near Oswestry 9 Jany. 1865.
DODD, George. b. 1808; miscellaneous writer of books chiefly for the publishers Charles Knight and Messrs. Chambers; edited and wrote in Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations 1851; some of his papers were collected and published under titles of Days at the factories 1843 and Curiosities of industry 1852; author of The textile manufactures of Great Britain 6 vols. 1844–6; The food of London 1856 and many other books; contributed papers to the Companion to the British Almanac 30 years; found dead at Torriano avenue, Kentish Town, London 21 Jany. 1881.