Doyle, John [pseud. H. B.] (1797–1868), cartoonist and painter
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Doyle, John [pseud. H. B.] (1797–1868), cartoonist and painter
D'Orsay, Gédéon Gaspard Alfred de Grimaud (1801–1852), artist and dandy
Donny, François (1791-1872), lawyer and politician
Donaldson, Stuart Alexander (1854-1915), Anglican cleric and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Master of Magdalene College, 1904 - 1915.
Born in Sydney, Australia, son of Sir Stuart Donaldson, the first premier of New South Wales.
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated in 1873). He graduated with first class honours in Classics in 1877.
From 1878 to 1904 he served as a master at Eton. He was ordained as deacon in 1884 and priest in 1885.
In 1904 he was appointed as the Master of Magdalene College.
He was awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Divinity in 1905 and Doctor of Divinity in 1910. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1912 to 1913.
Donaldson married Lady Albinia Frederica Hobart-Hampden, granddaughter of Augustus Edward Hobart-Hampden, the 6th Earl of Buckinghamshire in 1900.
He suddenly became ill in the College Chapel on Sunday 24 October and died on 19 October 1915.
Arms in Hall glass, E3. Memorial brass in Chapel.
College Magazine
Obituary: College Magazine, vol. IV, No. 20, December 1915, pp. 1-5
Doignon, Charles (1790-1864), lawyer and politician
Doetecum, Lucas van (active 1554-1572), engraver
Doetecum I, Johannes van (1528/32–1605), engraver
Dodd, Francis (1874–1949), artist
A British portrait painter, landscape artist and print maker. Dodd was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, the son of a Wesleyan minister. He trained at the Glasgow School of Art. During World War I, in 1916, he was appointed an official war artist by Charles Masterman, the head of the War Propaganda Bureau, WPB. Serving on the Western Front, he produced more than 30 portraits of senior military figures.
Ditmar, Johannes (c.1538–1603), engraver
D'Israeli, Isaac (1766–1848), writer
Writer on history and literature.
Dighton, Robert (c. 1752-1814), artist and caricaturist
An English portrait painter, printmaker and caricaturist, he was the founder of a dynasty of artists who followed in his footsteps.
Dickinson, Lowes Cato (1819–1908), portrait painter and Christian Socialist
Lowes Cato Dickinson was an English portrait painter and Christian socialist. He taught drawing with John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He was a founder of the Working Men's College in London.
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776–1847), bibliographer
Promoter of book collecting among the aristocracy, and promoter of first-hand examination of books in the compilation of bibliographies.
Dias, Reginald Walter Michael (1921–2009), lawyer and President of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Born into one of the leading Singhalese families (from the time of the Kingdom of Kandy onwards) – that of Dias Bandaranaike. ‘Mickey’ was a third-generation Law student at Trinity Hall, where his grandfather, F. R. Dias, was one of the earliest Asians admitted. His father became a High Court Judge in Ceylon.
Dias was elected a Fellow of Magdalene in 1955, when Asian Fellows were still a rarity in Cambridge. For almost half a century he was the presiding genius of Law in the College, and many of his pupils went on to become distinguished members of the bar and bench. He became President for three years in 1988 at the advanced age of 67, without holding any other previous College office except that of Director of Studies, though he served as Senior Proctor (1987-1988). A University Lecturer, his specialities were jurisprudence, Roman law, and the law of tort.
Further Reading:
Article: 'Forty Years On Mr Dias and Law in Magdalene, College Magazine, vol. 40 (1995-96) pp. 42-43
Obituary by R. Hyam, College Magazine, vol. 54, 2009-10, pp. 14-18
d'Hoffschmidt de Resteigne, Constant Ernest (1804-1873), politician and industrialist
Belgian liberal politician and industrialist.
Dewasme-Plétinckx, Antoine (1797-1851), engraver and lithographer
Belgian engraver and lithographer.
Devaux, Paul (1802-1880), statesman and political writer
Desmanet de Biesme, Vicomte Charles (1793-1865), politician
Denikin, Anton Ivanovich (1872-1947), lieutenant general in Imperial Russian Army
Mentioned by George Mallory in a letter to his wife Ruth.
Anton Ivanovich Denikin was a Russian Lieutenant General in the Imperial Russian Army (1916), later served as the Deputy Supreme Ruler of Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. He was also a military leader of South Russia (as commander in chief).
Delpierre, H. (19th century), painter and lithographer
Della Robbia, Luca (1399/1400–1482), Sculptor
An Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence. Della Robbia is noted for his colourful, tin-glazed terracotta statuary, a technique which he invented.
Delfosse, Noël (1801-1855), lawyer and politician
Delepierre, Joseph Octave (1802–1879), author and antiquary
Decker, Pierre de (1812-1891), politician
Dechamps, Adolphe (1807-1875), publicist and politician
Decazes, Élie, duc (1780-1860), judge and politician
French judge and politician.
Début, Marcel (1865–1933), sculptor
A French sculptor best known for his Art Nouveau bronze depictions of historic figures like Mozart and Gaelic warriors, scenes from Greek mythology, rustic peasants in Tunisia, and pedigreed animals. Born in 1865 in France, he studied with his father the famed sculptor Jean Didier Début, who specialized in more traditionally realistic figurative work, as well as under Henri Michel Antoine Chapu, a renowned sculptor of bronze and marble, at the École des Beaux-Arts. Début began exhibiting both as a painter and sculptor at the Salon of 1883 up until the start of World War I, when the Salon was suspended. The artist died in 1933 in France.