DOWNMAN, Hugh. b. Plymouth 29 Oct. 1765; entered navy 10 Oct. 1776; captain 26 Dec. 1798; admiral 24 April 1847; awarded pension 1 July 1851. d. Hambledon, Hants. 4 Jany. 1858.
DOWNMAN, Sir Thomas Charles Francis (eld. son of Col. Francis Downman, Royal artillery). b. St. Neots, Hunts. 1776; 2 lieut. R.A. 24 April 1793; lieut. col. R.H.A. 20 Dec. 1814, col. commandant 28 Sep. 1843 to death; commanded Woolwich district and garrison 1848 to death; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; K.C.H. 1831; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. d. Royal arsenal, Woolwich 11 Aug. 1852.
DOWNSHIRE, Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, 4 Marquis of (eld. child of 3 Marquis of Downshire 1788–1845). b. Hillsborough castle, co. Down 6 Aug. 1812; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign Royal South Down militia 4 June 1833, col. 30 July 1845 to death; M.P. for co. Down 30 Aug. 1836 to 12 April 1845 when he succeeded; K.P. 24 May 1859. d. Dolphin hotel, Herne Bay 6 Aug. 1868.
DOWTON, John. b. Uxbridge 1820; tutor at Haileybury; professor of Hindustani at University college, London and at Staff college, Sandhurst 1855–77; author of Grammar of the Urdu or Hindustani language 1862; Classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, history and literature 1879; edited from the papers of Sir H. M. Elliott History of India as told by its own historians 8 vols. 1867–77. d. Sandhurst lodge, East Worthing 23 Aug. 1881.
DOWTON, William (son of Mr. Dowton of Exeter, Innkeeper). b. Exeter 25 April 1764; joined a company of strolling players at Ashburton 1781; acted with Mrs. Baker’s company in Kent 1791–96; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane as Sheva in The Jew 11 Oct. 1796, continued at Drury Lane 36 years playing at the Haymarket in the summer; manager of theatres at Canterbury and Maidstone; acted in New York, June to Nov. 1836; one of the most versatile actors of his time. d. Brighton terrace, Brixton 19 April 1851. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iv, 253–62 (1826), portrait; Bentley’s Miscellany xli, 318–30 (1857); Cumberland’s British Theatre xxvii, 7–8, portrait; British Stage, Nov. 1819 pp. 25–6, portrait; Tallis’s Dramatic Mag. June 1851 pp. 235–6, portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news 30 Oct. 1880 pp. 160, 162, portrait.
DOWTON, William (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1793; manager of the Kent circuit 1815–35; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane theatre 3 Dec. 1832 as Tangent; a brother of the Charterhouse 1846 to death. d. the Charterhouse, London 19 Sep. 1883.
DOXAT, Lewis. b. British West Indies 1773; employed on the Morning Chronicle in London 25 years; manager of the Observer 1804–57; manager of the Morning Chronicle 1821–34. d. 13 Queen’s crescent, Haverstock hill, London 4 March 1871 aged 98.
DOYLE, Andrew (3 son of Andrew Doyle of Dublin, merchant). b. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister L.I. 10 June 1842; inspector of poor law board, Feb. 1848 to 1871, of local government board 1871–76, his district included nearly all Wales; prepared elaborate reports on vagrancy 1849 and 1865, on pauper education 1850 and 1862, and a detailed report on sanitary state of his district on passing of first Public Health act 1872; assistant comr. on agricultural depression in England for Western district 1879–80. d. Pendarren, Crickhowell, Breconshire 14 Dec. 1888.
DOYLE, Sir Charles Hastings (eld. son of Sir Charles Wm. Doyle, C.B. 1770–1842). b. 10 April 1803; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 87 foot 23 Dec. 1819; A.A.G. in Ireland 1847; inspector general of militia in Ireland 1856–61; commanded the troops in Nova Scotia 1861–68; lieut. governor of New Brunswick Oct. 1866 to Oct. 1867; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia, Oct. 1867 to May 1873; col. of 70 foot May 1868, of 87 foot 10 Oct. 1870 to death; commanded forces in British North America 1870–74, and Southern district of England 1874–77; general 15 March 1877, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.M.G. 23 June 1869. d. at his lodgings 18 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 19 March 1883.
DOYLE, Sir Francis Hastings Charles, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1 baronet 1783–1839). b. Nun Appleton, Yorkshire 22 Aug. 1810; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1877; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1835–45 and 1872–77; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1837; assistant solicitor of the Excise 1845–46; receiver general of Customs 1846 to Nov. 1869; comr. of Customs, Nov. 1869 to 1883; professor of poetry at Oxford 20 June 1867 to June 1877; author of Miscellaneous Verses 1834; Two Destinies, a poem 1844; Return of the guards and other poems 1866; Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford 1868, second series 1877; Reminiscences and opinions 1886. d. 46 Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 8 Feb. 1888.