DYKES, Rev. John Bacchus (son of William Hey Dykes of Hull). b. Hull 10 March 1823; ed. at Wakefield and St. Cath. coll. Cam.; a founder of Cambridge university musical soc.; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1851; Mus. Doc. Durham 1861; C. of Malton 1847; minor canon of Durham 1849 to death, precentor of Durham 1849–62; V. of St. Oswald’s, Durham 1862 to death; author of many sermons and letters; composed many hymn tunes most of which appeared first in Hymns ancient and modern 1862, of which collection they are the most popular; wrote several services and anthems. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 22 Jany. 1876. bur. St. Oswald’s churchyard, Durham 28 Jany. In Memoriam J. B. Dykes 1876.
DYMOKE, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (elder son of Rev. John Dymoke 1764–1828, R. of Scrivelsby, Lincs.) b. Scrivelsby 5 March 1801; in the navy; officiated as deputy for his father the King’s Champion at coronation of George the 4th, 19 July 1821; created a baronet 23 Aug. 1841; vice lieut. of co. Lincoln 1857 and 1859; grand prior of order of St. John of Jerusalem. d. Portman square, London 28 April 1865. W. Jones’s Crowns and Coronations (1883) 128–40, 318 (1883); Once a Week xii, 593–98 (1865); Gent. Mag. xci, pt. 2, 109, 395 (1821), portrait.
DYMOND, Robert (eld. son of Robert Dymond of Exeter, estate agent, who d. 1866). b. St. Edmund’s, Exeter 8 Sep. 1824; estate agent at Exeter; hon. sec. of Devon and Exeter Institution 1875 to death; F.S.A. 27 March 1873; author of many pamphlets, and papers on antiquarian and historical subjects in the Herald and Genealogist, Transactions of the Devonshire Association, and Bath and West of England Journal. d. Blackslade, Widecombe-in-the-Moor near Ashburton 31 Aug. 1888. Notes and Gleanings 15 Sep. 1888 pp. 129–31.
DYNELY, Thomas. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1801, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 20 June 1854, col. commandant 4 Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 16 Dec. 1856; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. 78 Upper Berkeley st. London 21 June 1860 aged 78.
DYNEVOR, George Talbot Rice, 3 Baron. b. 8 Oct. 1765; M.P. for Carmarthenshire 28 June 1790 to 14 March 1793 when he succeeded to the peerage; lord lieut. of Carmarthenshire 1804 to death; col. of Carmarthenshire militia to death. d. Barrington park, Gloucs. 9 April 1852.
DYNEVOR, George Rice, 4 Baron (eld. child of the preceding). b. 5 Aug. 1795; ed. at Westminster; M.P. for Carmarthenshire 1830–31 and 1832 to 9 April 1852 when he succeeded; lieut. col. of Carmarthen militia 28 Jany. 1831, col. 12 Aug. 1861 to death; militia aide-de-camp to the Queen 24 April 1852 to death. d. Great Malvern 7 Oct. 1869. I.L.N. xxviii, 72 (1856), portrait.
DYOTT, John. b. Dublin 1812; acted at T.R. York and other country theatres 1834–44; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York as Iago 2 Sep. 1844; a leading actor in New York to about 1866; edited a newspaper at New Rochelle, New York to death. d. New Rochelle 22 Nov. 1876.
DYSART, Lionel William John Tollemache, 7 Earl of. b. 18 Nov. 1794; M.P. for Ilchester 22 Feb. 1827 to 24 July 1830; succeeded 22 Sep. 1840. d. 34 Norfolk st. Strand, London 23 Sep. 1878, personalty sworn under £1,700,000, 14 Dec. 1878.
DYSON, Rev. Charles (son of Jeremiah Dyson, clerk of House of Commons, who d. 14 Sep. 1835 aged 78). Educ. at Southampton; matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 6 Dec. 1804 aged 17, scholar of his coll.; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1812; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorkshire 1818–28; V. of Nazing, Essex 1828–36; R. of Dogmersfield, Hants. 1836 to death; Rawlinsonian professor of Anglo-Saxon at Ox. 1812–1816, delivered one lecture only; contributed 4 poems under signature of D to the volume entitled Days and Seasons 1845. d. Dogmersfield rectory 24 April 1860 aged 73. Sir J. T. Coleridge’s Memoir of Rev. John Keble, 3 ed. (1869) i, 19, 35–46, 74, 99, 146, 245, 464.
DYSON, David. A weaver; went to the United States about 1843, crossed the country from New York to St. Louis; returned to England with upwards of 18,000 specimens of insects, birds, shells and plants 1844; twice explored Central America and made another very large collection; curator of the Museum of Earl of Derby; left a private collection of 20,000 shells. d. Rusholme near Manchester 10 Dec. 1856 aged 33.