Note.—He served more than 84 years, being the longest service on record.
DURNFORD, Anthony William (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Manor-hamilton, co. Leitrim 24 May 1830; ed. at Düsseldorf and royal military academy; 2 lieut. R.E. 27 June 1848, lieut. col. 11 Dec. 1873 to death; served in South Africa 1871–76 and 1877 to death; killed by the Zulus at Isandhlwana 22 Jany. 1879. bur. in the camp cemetery at Pietermaritzburg 12 Oct. A. Wylde’s My Chief and I 1879, portrait; A soldier’s life and work in South Africa, edited by his brother lieut. col. E. Durnford 1882, portrait; Graphic xix, 212 (1879), portrait.
DURNFORD, George. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Nov. 1805, lieut. col. 1 April 1844 to 5 April 1845 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 24 Aug. 1866. d. Turner’s hill, Cheshunt 23 Sep. 1870.
DURRANT, John Rowland. Member of stock exchange, City of London; member of Drury Lane theatre committee; founded the Garrick club in King st. Covent Garden 1831; purchased in June or July 1835 for sum of £1000 Charles Mathews’s gallery of theatrical portraits containing authentic likenesses of most of the theatrical celebrities of the past two centuries; he allowed the Garrick club use of pictures during his lifetime and bequeathed the collection by his will to the club. d. 96 Newgate st. London 13 July 1853 in 79 year. bur. Highgate cemetery 20 July. G.M. May 1877 pp. 561–83.
DU TERREAUX, Louis Henry French. Author of The last of the barons, burlesque produced at Strand theatre 18 April 1872; Vokins’s Vengeance, comic operetta, St. George’s 19 June 1872; A cabinet secret, comedy in 2 acts, Philharmonic 19 Oct. 1872; The broken branch, opera in 3 acts, Opera Comique 22 Aug. 1874; author with S. Clarke of Love wins, comedy in 3 acts produced at T.R. Cambridge 11 Aug. 1873. d. Liverpool 31 March 1878 aged 37.
DUTNALL, Martin. Served as a British volunteer officer under Garibaldi in Italy 1860; edited a Journal in United States for several years down to 1867; wrote many pieces chiefly for the Surrey theatre, London, among which were The Queen of Hearts; Harlequin King Pumpkin, or Richard ye Lion Hearte, pantomime played at Surrey theatre from 26 Dec. 1864 to 30 Jany. 1865 when theatre was burnt down; Mad Fred; Colleen drawn from an authentic source; author of an entertainment entitled Funny Cards in which he performed with the Vokes family. d. of disease of the lungs at Eastbourne 8 Sep. 1867 aged 29. bur. Woking cemetery with 5 of his brothers and sisters who all died young. The Era 15 Sep. 1867 p. 10.
DUTTON, Francis Stacker (son of Henry Hampden Dutton, British consul at Cuxhaven on the Elbe, who d. 30 March 1856). b. Cuxhaven 1818; went to South America 1833; discovered the Kapunda copper mine near Adelaide 1843 (the first discovery of copper in Australia) which he sold 1845; member of legislative council of South Australia 1851–57, member of house of assembly 1857–65; comr. of crown lands Sep. 1857 to June 1859 and in 1863; comr. of public works March to Sep. 1865; formed an administration in 1863 which lasted 11 days, another in 1865 which lasted 6 months; special comr. to international exhibition, London 1862; agent general in London for South Australia 1865 to death; brought out no less than 12 public loans amounting together to about £3,000,000 every loan except one being a great financial success; C.M.G. 30 Nov. 1872; K.C. Franz Joseph 1873; A.I.C.E. 6 Feb. 1866; author of South Australia and its mines 1846. d. 134 Inverness terrace, Hyde park, London 25 Jany. 1877. Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. xlix, 268–70 (1877).
DU VAL, Charles. b. Manchester; ed. for the law; Monologue entertainer; founded and edited a newspaper at Cape of Good Hope; served with D’Arcy’s Carabineers at siege of Pretoria during the Boer war, Dec. 1880; performed at St. James’s hall, London and toured in England and Ireland 1887; performed in South Africa, March-Dec. 1888; committed suicide by jumping overboard from steamship Oceana in the Red Sea 23 Feb. 1889. C. Du Val’s With a show through Southern Africa 2 vols. (1882), portrait.
DUVAL, Charles Allen. b. Ireland 1808; an artist at Liverpool, at Manchester about 1833 to death; exhibited 20 portraits and subject pictures at the R.A. 1836–72; exhibited ‘The Giaour’ 1842, ‘Columbus in chains’ 1855 and many others in local exhibitions; author of five pamphlets on American civil war 1863 and of papers in North of England Mag. d. Alderley, Cheshire 14 June 1872.
DUVAL, Claude. One of the French masters at Manchester gr. sch. 9 years; author of Fanny, Sonnets and Poems 1880. d. 48 Portsmouth st. Chorlton, Manchester 22 Jany. 1884 aged 40.