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Admitted 22 May, 1828.

Eldest son of Rev. Richard Durnford of Chilbolton, Southampton. He was born at Sandleford, Berks, 3 Nov. 1802. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he graduated B. A. in 1826, and M.A. 1827. He became a Fellow of Magdalene in 1828 and was ordained deacon in 1830. In 1833 he was presented to the living of Middleton, Lancashire, by Lord Suffield, to whose son he had been tutor, and there remained for thirty-five years, when he became Canon Residentiary at Manchester, and two years later was nominated to the bishopric of Chichester, and consecrated 8 May, 1870. He presided over this diocese with great prudence and distinction till his death, 14 Oct 1895.

DURSLEY, VISCOUNT. See.

Admitted 18 May, 1803.

Eldest son of William Dwarris, of Warwick. He was born in Jamaica 23 Oct. 1786. He was educated at Rugby and Oxford, where he graduated 1808. He was called to the Bar 28 June, 1811. He was appointed a Commissioner to inquire into the law in the Colonies in the West Indies, and was knighted for his ser\ices in 1838. He was elected a Bencher of the Inn in 1850, Reader in 1853, and served as Treasurer in 1859-60, the year in which the foundation stone of the new Library was laid. For some years he was a Master in the Queen's Bench. He died 20 May, 1860. He was the author of Juvenile Essays in Verse (1805); A General Treatise of the Statutes (1830—31); A New Theory of the Authorship of Junius (1850), and other writings.

Son of Richard Dyer of Wincanton, Somersetshire. He was born at Roundhill, Somersetshire. There is no record of his admission, but he was Reader at the Middle Temple in 1552, and the same year Serjeant-at-Law. Being elected member for Cambridgeshire in the same year, he was chosen Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1556 he was made a judge of the Common Pleas, and transferred to the Queen's Bench the following year. In 1558 he was re-transferred, and in 1559 made President of the court in place of Sir A. Browne (q.v.), and knighted. He died in 1582. His Reports, so highly commended by Lord Coke and others, were not published till ten years after his death, but they have since been frequently reprinted. He has left besides several Law Tracts, and his Reading on Wills was published with Brograve on Jointures and Risden on Forcible Entry, 4to (1648).

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Admitted 8 January, 1858.

Third son of Robert William Eastwick of Brompton, Middlesex. He was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, whence he proceeded to India, where he became proficient in the Eastern languages, and on his return to Europe