DONERAILE, Hayes St. Leger, 3 Viscount (elder son of 2 Viscount Doneraile 1755–1819). b. Doneraile house, co. Cork 9 May 1786; succeeded 8 Nov. 1819; a representative peer of Ireland 15 March 1830 to death; colonel of South Cork militia to death. d. Doneraile, co. Cork 27 March 1854.
DONKIN, Bryan. b. Sandoe, Northumberland 22 March 1768; apprenticed to Mr. Hall of Dartford, Kent, paper maker; practically developed paper making machines of which he constructed 191, 1802–51; introduced improvements in printing machinery; invented and first used the composition printing roller 1816; a civil engineer in London 1815 to death; received 2 gold medals from Society of Arts; a founder of Institution of Civil Engineers 1818; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1838. d. 6 The Paragon, New Kent road, London 27 Feb. 1855. W. Walker’s Memoirs of distinguished men of science of Great Britain (1862) 75–7, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. vii, 586–89 (1855).
DONKIN, William Fishburn. b. Bishop Burton, Yorkshire 15 Feb. 1814; ed. at St. Peter’s sch. York and St. Edmund hall, Ox.; classical scholar Univ. coll. 1834, fellow 1836; double first class 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Savilian professor of astronomy in Univ. of Ox. 1842 to death; F.R.S. 13 Jany. 1842; F.R.A.S.; author of A defence of voting against propositions to be submitted to convocation 1845; Acoustics 1866. d. from phthisis 34 Broad st. Oxford 15 Nov. 1869.
DONKIN, William Frederick (eld. son of the preceding). Educ. at Eton; matric. from Magd. coll. Ox. 17 Oct. 1864 aged 18, demy 1864; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; lecturer on natural science at Keble coll. 1875–77, tutor 1877–80; professor of practical chemistry at St. George’s hospital, London 1880 to death; sec. of the Alpine Club, London to death; sec. of Photographic Soc. of Great Britain to death; his photographs of the higher Alps were quite unique in their character; went to the Caucasus on an exploring expedition, July 1888, started from Balkar in the vale of the Terch with Mr. Harry Fox and two Swiss guides 30 Aug.; all the party probably lost their lives by an accident on the mountain known as Shkara about 1 Sep. 1888.
DONNADIEU, Alexander. b. France; served in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army; decorated with the legion of honour; came to England about 1829; gained his living as a talented musician and singer; collected autographs which he sold; lived for many years in chambers at 8 Duke st. Piccadilly where he d. 8 Jany. 1861 aged about 70.
DONNE, William Bodham (only son of Edward Charles Donne of Mattishall, East Dereham, Norfolk, who d. 1819). b. 29 July 1807; ed. at Bury St. Edmunds’ gr. sch. and Caius coll. Cam.; lived at Mattishall to 1846 and at Bury St. Edmunds 1846–52; declined editorship of Edinburgh Review 1852; librarian of the London library, London 1852–57; deputy examiner of stage plays, Aug. 1849, examiner 27 March 1857 to June or July 1874; author of Old roads and new roads 1852; Essays on the Drama 1858, 2 ed. 1863; edited The correspondence of George III with Lord North 1867; contributed the Euripides and Tacitus to Lucas Collins’s Classics for English readers. d. 25 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 20 June 1882.
DONNELLY, Thomas Lester. b. London 31 Dec. 1832; became an actor 1854; appeared at Wood’s theatre, Cincinnati 1855 under stage name of Thomas Lester; managed a company in the Western States; lessee of Brooklyn Olympic, New York 1867–75; joint lessee with John F. Poole of the Grand Opera house, New York 1876 to death; one of best actors of Irish characters in America. d. 224 West Twenty-fourth st. New York 5 July 1880.
DONNELLY, William. b. 1804; called to Irish bar 1833; registrar general of marriages in Ireland 1844, of births, deaths and marriages to 1876; superintendent of agricultural and emigration statistics 1851–1876; C.B. 13 June 1857. d. Auburn, Malahide, co. Dublin 25 Oct. 1879.
DONOUGHMORE, John Hely-Hutchinson, 3 Earl of (eld. son of Francis Hely-Hutchinson 1759–1824, collector of customs, Dublin). b. 1787; ensign Grenadier guards 25 Sep. 1807, lieut. 19 Nov. 1812 to 27 May 1819 when placed on h.p.; assisted in the escape of Comte Antoine de Lavalette (who had been sentenced to death as an accomplice of Napoleon Bonaparte) by secreting him in his rooms in Paris during the night of 20 Dec. 1815; tried 22 April 1816 and sentenced to 3 months imprisonment, struck off British army list but afterwards restored; M.P. for co. Tipperary 1826–30 and 1831–32; succeeded his uncle as 3 Earl 29 June 1832; lord lieut. of Tipperary 14 Aug. 1832 to death; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland 17 Nov. 1834; a comr. of charitable donations and bequests in Ireland 18 Dec. 1844 to 17 Feb. 1851; known by the sobriquet of Lavalette Hutchinson. d. Palmerston house near Dublin 12 Sep. 1851. P. Burke’s Celebrated naval and military trials (1866) 376–99; G.M. xxxvi, 539–40 (1851); The trial of Sir R. T. Wilson and captain J. H. Hutchinson for aiding the escape of general Lavalette 1816.
DONOUGHMORE, Richard John Hely-Hutchinson, 4 Earl of (only son of the preceding). b. Dublin 4 April 1823; ed. at Harrow; ensign 98 foot 18 June 1841, lieut. 1843–45; lieut. col. South Tipperary artillery 24 July 1849 to death; paymaster general and vice pres. of Board of Trade 6 April 1858, pres. 3 March 1859 to 18 June 1859; P.C. 6 April 1858. d. 52 South Audley st. London 22 Feb. 1856. bur. Knocklofty near Clonmel 2 March. I.L.N. xxi, 402 (1852), portrait, xxxii, 385 (1858), portrait.