Note.—A satire on him with a portrait was published in 1844 entitled D’Horsay or the follies of the day, By A Man of Fashion. Disraeli dedicated to him Henrietta Temple 1837, which contains a flattering portrait of him as Count Mirabel. His character and peculiarities furnished Eugene Sue with the idea of the hero of his novel Le Marquis de Létorière ou L’Art de plaire 1845. He was much satirized by Gilbert A’Beckett in Figaro in London 1832–34.
DOTTIN, Abel Rouse (son of Abel Dottin of Granada hall, Barbados, who d. 1782). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 24 May 1786 aged 17; M.P. for Gatton, Surrey 17 June 1818 to 29 June 1820; M.P. for Southampton 9 June 1826 to 23 April 1831, and 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 June 1841. d. 31 Argyll st. Oxford st. London 7 June 1852. Portraits of eminent conservatives, first series (1836), portrait.
DOUBLEDAY, Henry (elder son of Benjamin Doubleday of Epping, Essex, tradesman, who d. 1848). b. Epping 1 July 1808; grocer at Epping 1848–70; introduced the now familiar plan of ‘sugaring’ for moths 1842; an original member of Entomological Soc. of London 1833; published A nomenclature of British birds 1838, 4 ed. 1845; The Zoologists’ Synonymic list of British butterflies and moths 1847, 2 ed. 1859, 2 supplements 1865 and 1873; in a lunatic asylum 1871; the chief lepidopterist England has produced, his collections of lepidoptera have been at Bethnal Green museum since Feb. 1876. d. Epping 29 June 1875. Entomologist x, 53–61 (1877), portrait.
DOUBLEDAY, Thomas (son of George Doubleday of Newcastle, soap manufacturer). b. Newcastle, Feb. 1790; helped forward reform agitation 1832; sec. to Northern political union; junior partner in firm of Doubleday and Easterby, soapmakers, Newcastle; became insolvent; registrar of births, marriages and deaths in St. Andrew’s parish, Newcastle; secretary to the Coal trade to death; author of The true law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people 1842, 3 ed. 1853; The eve of St. Mark, a romance of Venice 2 vols. 1857; A Financial, monetary and statistical history of England 1847; On mundane moral government 1852, and 10 other books. d. Bulman village (now Gosforth) near Newcastle 18 Dec. 1870. Monthly Chronicle of north country lore, Nov. 1888 pp. 485–88, portrait.
DOUDNEY, Rev. George David. b. 1811; a tailor at 97 Fleet st. London, retired 13 Nov. 1847; preached his first sermon at Clapham Asylum 21 Jany. 1848; matric. Corpus coll. Camb. 3 Feb. 1848; went to Ireland as a missionary and studied the Irish language; ordained by Bp. of Derry 23 Dec. 1848; Incumbent of Dunlewey, Donegal where he preached his first sermon in Irish 25 April 1849; Incumbent of Charles church, Plymouth 26 Jany. 1852 to death; preached 245 sermons 1852; author of Sermons preached in Charles’ Chapel, Plymouth 1866–67, 2 vols. d. Mannamead, Plymouth 19 May 1865. Recollections of Rev. G. D. Doudney 1866, portrait.
DOUGAL, Neil. b. Greenock 9 Dec. 1776; a sailor 1792 to 14 June 1794 when he lost his eyesight by an accident; kept a tavern in Greenock 1824 and then a boarding house; teacher of singing in Greenock 1799; composed about 100 psalm and hymn tunes of which ‘Kilmarnock’ is one of the standard melodies in Presbyterian church service; author of Poems and Songs 1854. d. Greenock 1 Dec. 1862.
DOUGLAS, Andrew Snape. Secretary of legation at Court of Palermo 1809; sec. of embassy at the Hague 1 Oct. 1824, minister plenipotentiary 6 Nov. to 6 Dec. 1824 and 22 Jany. to 25 April 1825; retired from the service 5 Jany. 1829, granted a pension 15 Sep. 1829. d. 7 Onslow sq. Brompton 19 Nov. 1869.
DOUGLAS, Sir Charles Eurwicke (natural son of Right Hon. Charles Philip Yorke 1764–1834). b. 12 May 1806; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, private sec. to Viscount Goderich at Colonial office, Nov. 1830 to March 1833; king-at-arms of order of St. Michael and St. George 1832–59; M.P. for Warwick 1837–1852, for Banbury 1859–1865; contested Durham city 1853; comr. of Greenwich hospital 8 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Oct. 1832; K.C.M.G. 1859. d. 27 Wilton crescent, London 21 Feb. 1887.
DOUGLAS, Claude. Ensign 10 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; major 14 N.I. 10 June 1842; col. 56 N.I. 1 May 1858, col. 65 N.I. 1859–70; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. Bognor 11 April 1883 in 84 year.
DOUGLAS, Francis William Bouverie (2 son of 7 Marquis of Queensberry 1818–58). b. Harleyford near Marlow 8 Feb. 1847; ed. at Eton; came out first in examination for direct commissions in the army 1865; killed by a fall whilst descending the Matterhorn, Switzerland 14 July 1865. E. Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880) 273–95.