DOHERTY, Henry Edward. b. 20 April 1817; cornet 14 light dragoons 31 Dec. 1833, lieut.-col. 23 Nov. 1848 to 25 Aug. 1857 when placed on h.p.; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Vernon house, Weston park, Bath 15 Sep. 1885.
DOHERTY, Sir Richard (son of Leonard O’Dogherty of Coolmoyne, co. Tipperary). b. Garculea house near Golden, co. Tipperary 1785; lieut. 90 foot 22 Nov. 1804; major 21 foot 16 Sep. 1824; lieut.-col. 1 West India regt. 6 Dec. 1827 to 4 Sep. 1835; lieut.-col. 89 foot 4 Sep. 1835 to 10 Aug. 1838; lieut.-col. royal African colonial corps 10 Aug. 1838 to Oct. 1840; lieut.-col. 3 West India regt. Oct. 1840 to 1 Aug. 1845 when placed on h.p.; knighted by patent 27 Nov. 1841; inspecting field officer 1 Jany. 1847 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 11 foot 5 Sep. 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858; governor of Sierra Leone 27 March 1837 to 1840; commander in chief at Jamaica 1853–55. d. Charles st. St. James’s, London 2 Sep. 1862.
DOLBY, Anastasia Marice. Embroideress to the Queen; author of Church embroidery, ancient and modern 1867; Church vestments, their origin, use and ornament 1868. (m. Edwin Thomas Dolby of London, artist). d. 12 Southwood terrace, Highgate 18 Feb. 1873 aged 49.
DOLBY, Thomas (son of Thomas Dolby of Sawtry, Hunts., ploughman). b. Sawtry 6 July 1782; a woodcutter and thatcher; attendant on Brigadier General Charles William Este, April 1804 to 1808; bookseller at 34 Wardour st. London 1808, at 299 Strand 1819, and at 17 Catharine st. Strand 1824–25 when he became bankrupt; edited Dolby’s Parliamentary Register, 67 numbers Jany. to June 1819; imprisoned for selling Sherwin’s Register 1819; tried 21 Oct. 1822 for publishing Political Dictionary, required to enter into recognizances, Nov. 1823; published Dolby’s British Theatre 84 numbers, which became Cumberland’s British Theatre in 1823; author of A letter to the friends of liberty 1819; The Shaksperian Dictionary 1832; The literary cyclopædia 1834; The school of reform in church and state 1835; Floreston, or the new Lord of the manor, a tale of humanity 1839, anon. d. Edward st. Portman sq. London 24 June 1856. Memoirs of T. Dolby 5 parts 1827.
DOLLOND, George. b. London 25 Jany. 1774; apprenticed to his uncle Peter Dollond of St. Paul’s churchyard, optician 1788, partner with him Nov. 1804 to 1819, carried business on alone 1819 to death; assumed by royal permission surname of Dollond instead of Huggins 1804; F.R.S. 23 Dec. 1819; an active founder of Astronomical Soc. 1820; F.R.G.S. 1830; invented the Atmospheric recorder for which he received council medal of Great Exhibition 1851. d. Camberwell terrace north, London 13 May 1852.
DOLMAN, Charles (only son of Charles Dolman of Monmouth, who d. 1807). b. Monmouth 20 Sep. 1807; R.C. publisher at 61 New Bond st. London 1837–58 when he formed his business into the Catholic Bookselling and publishing company which failed; published the Catholic Mag. April 1838 to June 1844; Dolman’s Mag., March 1845 to 1849; Lingard’s History of England, 5 ed. 10 vols. 1849 and other books. d. 64 Rue du Faubourg, St. Honoré, Paris 31 Dec. 1863. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 87–90 (1885).
DOMBRAIN, Sir James (son of Abraham Dombrain of Canterbury). b. Canterbury 1793; entered navy 1808; deputy comptroller general of coast guard in England 1816; comptroller general of coast guard in Ireland 1819–49, introduced and organised that force; knighted by Earl De Grey, lord lieut. of Ireland at Kingstown, Dublin 1844 after an inspection of the Irish squadron of revenue cruisers. d. Woodstock, Sandford near Dublin 24 Sep. 1871.
DOMETT, Alfred (son of Nathaniel Domett of Camberwell Grove, Surrey). b. Camberwell Grove 20 May 1811; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; went to New Zealand 1842; colonial sec. for New Munster (the Middle island of New Zealand) 1848; sec. for New Zealand 1851; comr. of crown lands, and resident magistrate of Hawke’s Bay 1853–6; M.P. for Nelson 1855; prime minister 1862–3; registrar general of lands 1865; administrator of confiscated lands 1870–71; author of Venice 1839 a poem; Narrative of the Wairoan massacre 1843; Ordinances of New Zealand classified 1850; Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea day dream 1872, 2 ed. 1883; Flotsam and Jetsam, rhymes old and new 1877. d. 32 St. Charles sq. North Kensington, London 2 Nov. 1887. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886) 134, portrait.
DOMVILE, Sir John Compton, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Pocklington, M.P. for co. Dublin, who assumed surname of Domvile and d. April 1810). Ensign 6 foot 23 May 1800; captain 5 garrison battalion 8 Oct. 1807; captain 68 foot 1 Dec. 1808 to 1809 or 1810; assumed name of Domvile by r.l. 25 March 1815; created baronet 22 May 1815; M.P. for Bossiney, Cornwall 18 June 1818 to 2 June 1826, for Oakhampton 10 June 1826 to 24 July 1830, for Plympton 23 Dec. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832; custos rotulorum of co. Dublin 1823 to death. d. 5 Grosvenor sq. London 23 Feb. 1857.
DOMVILLE, Henry Jones (3 son of James Domville, M.D. of Greenwich, who d. 28 June 1846). Assistant surgeon R.N. 18 May 1839; surgeon 9 Nov. 1846; M.R.C.S. 1844; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; deputy inspector general of hospitals 1864, inspector general 13 Feb. 1875 to 17 Dec. 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867; granted good service pension 7 Oct. 1882. d. South Hill, Paignton, Devon 8 July 1888.