DONOVAN, Sir Henry (son of John Donovan of Tralee, co. Kerry). b. 1822; sheriff of Kerry 1873–4; knighted by Earl Spencer lord lieutenant of Ireland, at Dublin Castle 25 Feb. 1874; chairman of Tralee town commission. d. Seafield, Tralee 16 July 1886.
DONOVAN, Michael. Chemist; invented Donovan’s Solution the liquor arsenici et hydrargyri hydriodalis of the Dublin pharmacopœia 1839; author of Observations and experiments concerning Mr. Davy’s hypothesis of Electrochemical affinity 1811; A treatise on chemistry 1832 (Cabinet cyclop. vol. 106); On the extemporaneous preparation of hydrocyanic acid from cyanide of potassium, in Pharmaceutical Journal, March 1843 pp. 573–83. d. April 1876. Pharmaceutical Journal 29 April 1876 p. 879.
DOO, George Thomas. b. 6 Jany. 1800; produced his first published engraving “The Duke of York” 1824; opened an academy for study of the antique, and of the life in the Savoy, London 1826; historical engraver in ordinary to William iv 1836–37, to Queen Victoria 1842; a member of many foreign academies; A.R.A. 1855, R.A. 1856; published many plates; pres. of Artists’ Annuity fund 1861; chairman of committee of class 40 (engravings and etchings) at International Exhibition 1862; F.R.S. 5 June 1851 to 1860; granted civil list pension of £70, 19 June 1868. d. Sutton, Surrey 13 Nov. 1886. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 324 (1862).
DORAN, John (only son of John Doran of London, contractor, who d. 1824). b. London 11 March 1807; writer on the Literary Chronicle 1826–28; author of The Wandering Jew produced at Surrey theatre 2 Sep. 1832; Ph.D. Univ. of Marburg, Prussia; literary editor of The Church and State Gazette 1841–52; wrote for the Athenæum 1854 to death, edited it several times during Hepworth Dixon’s absence; edited Notes and Queries 1 Oct. 1872 to death; F.S.A. 19 May 1859; author of Lives of the Queens of England of the house of Hanover 2 vols. 1855, 4 ed. 1874; Monarchs retired from business 2 vols. 1857; “Their Majesties Servants,” Annals of the English stage from T. Betterton to E. Kean 2 vols. 1864, 2 ed. 1865, new ed. by R. W. Lowe 3 vols. 1888 and 15 other works. d. 33 Lansdowne road, Notting hill, London 25 Jany. 1878. J. Doran’s New pictures and old panels 1849, portrait; London Society xlii, 29–37 (1882), portrait; Temple Bar lii, 460–94 (1878); I.L.N. lxxii, 133 (1878), portrait.
DORATT, Sir John. b. about 1779; ed. at Westminster school and Univ. of Leyden, M.D. 1805; physician to British embassy at St. Petersburgh 1835–37; physician to Earl of Durham, governor general of British North America 1838–40; knighted at St. James’s palace 14 Feb. 1838. d. 9 North terrace, Alexander sq. Brompton, London 4 Sep. 1863.
DORIN, Joseph Alexander. b. Edmonton near London 15 Sep. 1802; assistant to accountant general at Calcutta 1821; secretary to Bank of Bengal; deputy accountant general; first financial sec. Jany. 1843; a member of supreme council of India 1853 to May 1858. d. St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight 22 Dec. 1862.
DORNFORD, Rev. Joseph (only son of Josiah Dornford of Deptford, Kent). b. Deptford 9 Jany. 1794; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., commoner 4 Dec. 1813, scholar; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; Michel fellow of Queen’s coll. 1817–19; fellow of Oriel 1819–36, tutor 1823, dean 1828, classical examiner in the schools 1826–28; proctor 1830 when nicknamed the University Corporal; ascended Mont Blanc with Dr. Joseph Von Hamel 18–20 Aug. 1820 when three of the guides were lost in a crevasse and he narrowly escaped same fate; R. of Plymtree, Devon 1832 to death; hon. canon in Exeter cath. 1844 to death. d. Plymtree 18 Jany. 1868. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 55–77 (1882); G.M. Sep. 1820 p. 365.
DORNIN, Thomas Aloysius. b. Ireland about 1800; midshipman United States navy 2 May 1815; sailed round the world 1829–30; commanded the “Portsmouth” 1851; prevented invasion of Nicaragua by Wm. Walker the filibuster 1851; captain 1855; commodore on the retired list 16 July 1862; in charge of the fifth light house district 1865 to death. d. Norfolk, Virginia 22 April 1874.
DORRIAN, Most Rev. Patrick. b. Downpatrick, co. Down 29 March 1814; ed. at Downpatrick; entered Maynooth college 23 Aug. 1833; ordained priest 23 Sep. 1837; C. at Belfast 1837–47; parish priest of Loughlin island 1847–60; coadjutor bishop of Down and Connor 4 June 1860, bishop 1865 to death; consecrated in St. Malachy’s ch. Belfast 19 Aug. 1860. d. Dublin 3 Nov. 1885.
D’ORSAY, Gillion Gaspard Alfred de Grimaud, Comte (younger son of Albert D’Orsay, Comte D’Orsay, general in French army). b. Paris 4 Sep. 1798; in the Garde du corps of Charles x, 1815–23; became acquainted with the Earl and Countess of Blessington 1822, travelled with them in South of Europe. m. at Naples 1 Dec. 1827 Harriett Anne Frances dau. of 1 Earl of Blessington, they separated 1829, she was b. 5 Aug. 1812, m. (2) 1 Sep. 1852 hon. Charles Spencer Cowper and d. 17 Dec. 1869; the leader of fashion in London 1830–49; lived at 22 Curzon st. Mayfair 1833–36, at 4 Upper Gore, Kensington 1836–45; most intimately associated with Lady Blessington, they fled to Paris to escape imprisonment for debt April 1849, where she d. 4 June 1849 aged 60; 120 profile sketches by him of celebrities of the day were lithographed by R. J. Lane and published by Mitchell of Bond st; the handsomest man of his time. d. at house of his sister Duchesse de Gramont in Paris 4 Aug. 1852. bur. at Chambourcy near Paris 7 Aug. next to Lady Blessington. R. R. Madden’s Literary life of the Countess of Blessington i, 318–72 (1855), portrait, ii, 406–72; J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters ii, 191–204 (1841); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, second series ii, 198–224; W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 284–90, portrait; Gore House, Bentley’s New Monthly Mag. June 1849 pp. 135–51; H. Melton’s Hints on hats (1875) 33–8, portrait; Baily’s Mag. xli, 153–55 (1883); Colburn’s New Monthly Mag. xcvi, 112–26 (1852); Grantley Berkeley’s My Life (1866) iii, 201–31; S. Sidney’s Book of the horse 1886 p. 257, portrait.