DOYLE, John. b. Dublin 1797; portrait painter in London 1821; published 6 plates entitled The life of a racehorse 1822; issued under initials of H. B. a series of lithographed caricatures entitled Political sketches of H. B., Nos. 1–917 a series of coloured lithographic prints 9 vols. 1829–51, there was a key to them entitled A Key to the political sketches Nos. 1–600 of H. B. 11 vols. 1831–43; paid £300 by the War Office for an improved Tent 1856. d. 54 Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 2 Jany. 1868. Everitt’s English caricaturists (1886) 238–86; J. Paget’s Paradoxes and puzzles (1874) 461–3; The Month viii, 392–411 (1868).
DOYLE, Sir John Milley (2 son of Rev. Nicholas Milley Doyle, R. of Newcastle, co. Tipperary). b. 1781; ensign 107 foot 31 May 1794; lieut. col. Portuguese army March 1809; commanded sixth Portuguese brigade 1813–14; lieut. col. on half pay 11 May 1820; retired from service as col. 27 May 1825; M.P. for co. Carlow 1831–32; served in Portuguese army 1832 to May 1834; military knight of Windsor, July 1853; serjeant at arms to the Queen, June 1854 to death; nominated K.T.S. 12 Oct. 1812, gazetted 20 March 1813; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 28 July 1814; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; published pamphlets and petitions 1829–46 by which he got the mixed commission appointed to liquidate claims of English officers who served in Portuguese army. d. Lower ward, Windsor castle 9 Aug. 1856.
DOYLE, Percy William (brother of Sir Charles Hastings Doyle 1803–83). b. 1806; attached to British mission at Washington 2 June 1825; sec. of legation to Mexican republic 6 Dec. 1842, minister plenipotentiary 24 Dec. 1851 to 19 Feb. 1858 when he retired on pension; C.B. 4 March 1858. d. 5 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 21 Feb. 1888.
DOYLE, Richard (2 son of John Doyle 1797–1868). b. London, Sep. 1824; published The Eglinton Tournament or the days of chivalry revived 1839; kept a manuscript ‘Journal’ 1840, issued in facsimile 1885; contributed sketches and cartoons to Punch 1843–50; designed the cover for Punch now used; his Manners and customs of ye Englyshe appeared in Punch 1849; published The foreign tour of Brown, Jones and Robinson 1854; illustrated The Newcomes by Thackeray 1854 and other books; contributed Birds’-eye views of society to Cornhill Mag. 1861–63; many water-colours by him were exhibited at Grosvenor gallery, London 1885; drawn by Leech in his cartoon entitled “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch vol. xii, p. 14, Jany. 1847, as the clarionet player in the orchestra. d. 7 Finborough road, South Kensington, London 11 Dec. 1883. Everitt’s English caricaturists (1886) 381–94; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 101–3 (1885); W. M. Rossetti’s Fine Art (1867) 289–91; Blackwood’s Mag. April 1885 pp. 485–91; Graphic xxviii, 608 (1883), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 13 (1884), portrait.
DOYLE, Rev. Thomas. b. 21 Dec. 1793; ed. at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, ordained priest 1819; priest at Royal Belgian chapel, London road, Southwark 1820, senior priest there 1829; St. George’s R.C. cathedral in St. George’s Fields was built owing to his exertions, consecrated 4 July 1848; Provost of cathedral chapter of Southwark 1850 to death; wrote letters in The Tablet and other periodicals under signature of ‘Father Thomas.’ d. St. George’s Cathedral, London 6 June 1879. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 103–5 (1885).
DOYLE, Sir William Henry (son of Edward Doyle). b. Nassau, Bahamas 1823; barrister M.T. 8 May 1846; registrar of court of bankruptcy for Bahamas 1847–58; assistant justice of general court of Bahamas 1858, chief justice and pres. of legislative council 14 Sep. 1865 to 31 March 1875; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1873; chief justice of Leeward Islands 31 March 1875; chief justice of Gibraltar, judge of vice admiralty court and court of requests 14 May 1877 to death. d. 8 Montpellier villas, Cheltenham 27 April 1879.
DOYLEY, Henry (youngest son of Ven. Matthias Doyley, archdeacon of Lewes, who d. 13 Nov. 1815 aged 71). b. 21 April 1780; ensign Grenadier guards 2 Aug. 1797, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 28 June 1838; col. 33 foot 28 Sep. 1847 to death; general 30 Jany. 1855. d. Nevill park, Tunbridge Wells 26 Sep. 1855.
DOYLEY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. London 16 Nov. 1774; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1795, B.C.L. 1800, D.C.L. 1804; fellow of All Souls’ college 1800–20; barrister M.T. 9 Nov. 1798; serjeant at law 9 Feb. 1819, received patent of precedence 1834; chairman of quarter sessions, West Sussex; edited with E. V. Williams Burn’s Justice of the Peace 5 vols. 1836. d. Rottingdean near Brighton 14 Jany. 1855.
DOYNE, William Thomas (2 son of Rev. J. Doyne, P.C. of Old Leighlin, co. Carlow). b. April 1823; articled to Edward Dixon, C.E. 1840; resident engineer of Rugby and Leamington railway 1847–50; in charge of the Army works corps consisting of about 2400 navvies and artificers, at Balaclava 1855–56; practised at Melbourne 1866 to death; consulting engineer to government of Western Australia 1869; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849, M.I.C.E. 9 Nov. 1852; author of The causes which have retarded the construction of railways in India 1860; Report upon the plains and rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand 1864. d. Melbourne 29 Sep. 1877. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li, 270–73 (1878).
DRAKARD, John. Printer and bookseller at Stamford; started a weekly paper called The Stamford News 15 Sep. 1809; sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment in Lincoln Castle and fined £200 at Lincoln 13 March 1811 for a seditious libel, an article in his paper of 24 Aug. 1810 entitled ‘One thousand lashes’; started a weekly paper called The Champion of the East 5 Jany. 1830, the name was changed to the Stamford Champion; both his papers ceased 1834; published Drakard’s Edition of the public and private life of Colonel Wardle, Stamford n.d.; author of The history of Stamford 1822. d. Ripon 25 Jany. 1854 aged 79. Howell’s State Trials xxxi, 495–544 (1823).