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DOW DOW succeeding George Cromer. In February 1550, after the accession of Edward VI., he was deprived of the primacy for refusing to adopt the English ritual. Ware says: "I do not find that he was stripped of his bishoprick, but his high stomach could not digest this affront. He went into voluntary banishment." He was recalled by Queen Mary, and in 1554 restored to his primacy. A commission was then issued to him and others to deprive all married bishops and clergy of their livings. He died in London, 15th August 1558.  Downes, George, A.M., author, was born in South King-street, Dublin, about 1790. He was a man of great and versatile genius, exhibited chiefly in some shorter pieces of poetry, and was an accomplished scholar in the Norse languages. His numerous works of continental travel met with little acceptance from the public. In 1827 he was principal of the Literary and Agricultural Seminary, established by a committee at Fallowlee, near Londonderry. For a time he was engaged with his friend Petrie on the Ordnance Survey. He was the author of some papers read before the Royal Irish Academy. The latter part of his life was spent in Trinity College, employed upon the catalogue of the Library. He died at Dalkey, 23rd August 1846, aged 56, and was buried at Ballitore, County of Kildare.  Downie, George, Captain, E.N., was born at New Ross, and was the son of a clergyman. He entered the navy at an early age, was at Camperdown, and served in the West Indies and elsewhere. The year 1812 found him in command of a squadron of British gunboats on the Canadian lakes. According to the official dispatches, as quoted in the Gentleman's Magazine, his own vessel, at least, was insufficiently equipped. He fell in an action on Lake Champlain, gallantly fighting a United States flotilla under Macdonough, 11th September 1814.  Downing, Sir George, Bart., a lawyer, was born in Dublin in 1624. (His father emigrated to New England in 1638, where he represented Salem in the General Court, 1638-'43. His mother was a sister of Governor John Winthrop.) Returning to England in 1645, the young man became a preacher amongst the Independents, then a chaplain to one of Cromwell's regiments, and in 1653 was appointed Commissary-General to the army in Scotland. He was member for a Scottish borough in 1654 and 1656, and agent in Holland two years afterwards. Becoming a royalist, he was knighted by Charles II., entered Parliament, and was again envoy to Holland. There he basely caused the arrest, transmission to England, and consequent execution of three of his former companions in Cromwell's government, who had been judges of Charles I. Through his agency principally the New Netherlands were wrested from the Dutch and annexed to the English possessions as New York. In 1663 he was created a baronet. Sent in 1671 on a mission to Holland, he returned before completing his errand to the satisfaction of the King, and was imprisoned in the Tower, but was again received into favour. He was a man of ability and natural aptitude for politics, and was the author of some tracts on state affairs. Downing-street, in London, perpetuates his name, and his grandson. Sir George, founded Downing College, Cambridge. He died at East Hatley, Cambridgeshire, in 1684, aged about 60.  Doyle, Sir Charles William, C.B., military officer, was born in Ireland. Entering the army in 1793 as Lieutenant of the 14th Foot, he was actively employed for upwards of thirty-seven years in Holland and Flanders, the Mediterranean, the West Indies, Egypt, and the Peninsula. He distinguished himself in the Peninsula by his capture of Bagur in 1810, and his defence of Tarragona in 1811. He was appointed Commander-in-chief of the army of reserve raised and disciplined at Cadiz during the siege. Sir Charles attained the rank of Colonel in 1813, Major-General in 1815, and Lieutenant-General in 1837, and received the decorations distributed to the officers who served in the allied armies in the campaigns against Napoleon. He died in 1843.  Doyle, James Warren, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, was born at New Ross in 1786, the posthumous son of a respectable farmer: his mother (Anne Warren, of Quaker extraction) was living in poverty at the time of his birth. He was a quick-witted, intelligent child. At eleven years of age lie witnessed all the horrors of the battle of Ross. He received his early education at the school of a Mr. Grace, and in 1800 was placed under the care of the Rev. John Crane, an Augustine monk, in New Ross. In 1805 he entered upon his novitiate at the convent of Grantstown, near Carnsore Point, and in the following year took the vows of voluntary poverty, obedience, and chastity, and was received into the order of St. Augustine. From 1806 to 1808 he spent in the monastery of Coimbra, in Portugal, completing has education. During the Peninsular War he shouldered his musket for 155