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This officer is a son of the late William
King, of Southampton, Esq., and a brother of Captain Andrew
King, RN. He first went to sea in the Director of
64 guns, commanded by Captain Thomas West, in June 1789,
and from that period served in various ships till 1794 when
he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, for his good
conduct as a Midshipman on board the Barfleur, a
second rate, bearing the Flag of Rear Admiral Bowyer, in
the memorable actions between Earl Howe and M Villaret de
Joveuse, an account of which will be found in our first
volume. After serving for some time with the present Sir
Edward Thornbrough, in the Robust 74, Mr. King joined
the Dryad of 44 guns and 251 men, and he was the
senior Lieutenant of that ship when she captured, after
a spirited action, Proserpine, a French frigate
of 42 guns and 348 men. His behavior on that occasion procured
him the official commendations of his Captain, Lord Ameluis
Beauclerk, and he was in consequence advanced to the rank
of Commander. but we have reason to believe, did not obtain
an appointment as such till June 1798, when he was commissioned
to the Gaite sloop of war, in which vessel he cruised
with considerable success against the enemy's privateers
and trade on the Leeward Lands station, until Sept 28, 1800,
when he was promoted into the Leviathan 74, bearing
the flag of Rear Admiral Duckworth. whom he served under
at the reduction of the Swedish and Danish West India colonies,
in March 1801. He subsequently removed into the Andromeda
frigate, and continued to command her till the end of the
war when he was obliged through ill health to return to
England. In April, 1805 he was appointed acting Captain
of the Endymion, during the absence of the Hon. Charles
Paget and in that tine frigate, we find him employed off
Cadiz under the gallant Collingwood.
A few days previous to the arrival of
the combined French and Spanish fleets, Captain King was
detached on a particular service, and when off Cape St.
Mary fell in with the enemy, whose force consisted of twenty-six
sail of the line, and nine frigates. Finding it impracticable
to pass a-head of their line for the purpose of communicating
with his Admiral, whom he had left in shore with only four
line-of-battle ships, and after being chased by two sail
of the line and a frigate, he took up a position in their
rear, and by repeated signals let them to suppose that he
was in communication with a fleet astern. This ruse
de guerre had the desired effect and M Villeneuve, who commanded
the combined force, put into Cadiz. where he was closely
reconnoitered by Captain King, who lost no time in reposing
what had occurred to his chief, whom he joined at the entrance
of the Straits The ability and zeal which Captain
King had thus displayed, were fully testified by Vice Admiral
Collingwood in his public dispatches.
Captain King continued in the Endymion
till the latter end of 1806. In the following spring
he was appointed to the Monmouth of 64 guns, and
ordered to the East Indies, from whence he convoyed home
a valuable fleet of Indiamen. He subsequently commanded
the Rodney 74, on the Mediterranean station, and
in Nov 1814, was appointed to the Cornwallis, another
third rate, fitting for the flag of Rear Admiral Buriton,
but the bad state of his health at that period preventing
him from undertaking a voyage to India, he resigned the
command of' that ship previous to her quitting port, since
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Is a brother to Captain
Edward Durnford King, R.N., This officer served as a Midshipman
on board the Bellenon 74, bearing the flag of Rear
Admiral Pasley, in the battle of May 28 and 29, and the
glorious battle of June 1, as senior Lieutenant of the Andromeda
frigate, commanded by Captain Henry Inman, when that officer
attempted to destroy a French squadron in Dunkirk harbour,
1799, as first on la Desiree, under the same commander,
at the defeat of the Danish line of defense before Copenhagen,
April 2, 1801, (on which occasion he was commended), and
as fourth Lieutenant of Nelson's flagship, in ever memorable
conflict with the combined fleets near Cape Trafalgar, Oct
21, 1805. His promotion to the rank of Commander took place
Jan 22, 1806. Captain King commanded the Hebe hired
armed ship, and was several times warmly engaged with the
enemy' s batteries and flotilla, during the siege of Copenhagen
in 1807. From thence he returned home in the Waldemaar,
a Danish 80, the equipment of which ship was greatly expedited
by his zealous exertions. His post commission bears date
Oct 13, 1807 In the summer of 1808, Captain King was
appointed the Tempore, to the Venerable 74.
and in her he assisted at the reduction of Flushing, August
15, 1809 We subsequently find him commanding the Hannibal
74, bearing the flag of Sir Thomas Williams, Royal Georue
a first rate, Rainbow of 26 guns, and Iphigenia
frigate, the three latter on the Mediterranean station.
The Iphigenia formed part of Sir Josias Rowley's
squadron at the capture of Genoa in April 1814, and was
afterwards ordered to conduct a fleet of transports from
Gibraltar to Bermuda. In Oct 1815. We find her proceeding
to the East Indies, from whence Captain King returned home
in command of the Cornwallis 74. His last appointment
was Dec 28, 1821, to the Active 46, in which frigate
he continued until about Sept 1824. He married, Mar
5 1821, Mary, eldest daughter of Charles Lewin, of St. Albans.
Co. Hens.
Source:
John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography,
(London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, (1823-1835),
Volumes No. 9, p.257 - published 1827. As extracted
from the volume held in the Admiralty Library and provided
courtesy of CPO Peter Lockyer - HMS Victory, Portsmouth
Naval Base. For the names of the officers and ratings on
the Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar - see the
official crew list.
Note: The Commissioned
Sea Officers of the Royal Navy, 1660-1815, ed. David
Syrett and R.L. DiNardo (Aldershot: Scolar press for the
Navy Records Society, 1994) would be a source for
the likely 1835 death date of Capt. Andrew King. |
Books:
W.R.W.
Stephens (ed.), Memoir of
Richard Durnford, D.D., Sometime Bishop of Chichester, with
Selections from his Correspondence (John Murray, 1899) |
Obituary from the Pall Mall
Gazette: To have been born in 1802 and to have
lived till 1895; to have been Mr. Gladstone's senior at
Eton: to have been flogged by Keate (note: famous headmaster
at Eaton known for his flogging), and subsequently to
have married his daughter; to have taken his degree while
George IV was King; to have been ordained in the year
that Williams IV came to the throne: to have been a Bishop
for twenty-seven years—these achievements would
have been established a record for Dr. Durnford had he
no other claims to fame. He was a churchman of the old
school of "high and dry" who, caring for the
due and proper performance of the ritual of the Church,
cared more for the things which the ritual symbolized.
He took very literally the pastoral view of a clergyman's
functions, and he busied himself more with the welfare
of his own flock than with the conflicts that were disturbing
other sheepfolds. There were never any troubles in his
parish or in his diocese. And so his name scarcely came
before the public. Yet he was a ruler and those over whom
he ruled so long will deeply regret the disappearance—even
at the ripe age of ninety-two—of him who was till
yesterday, Bishop of Chichester.
Richard Durnford had two sons, Richard
Durnford Jr., former secretary of the Charity Commission,
and Sr. Walter Durnford.
Bishop
Durnford's tomb at Chichester Cathedral
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Second son of Rt. Rev. Richard Durnford,
he was the Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and a Fellow
of Eton College. Born on February 21, 1987 and died at the
age of 79 on April 7, 1926. He attended Eton in 1859. He
was elected a Fellow of King's and returned to Eton as a
master in 1870. He retired from Eton in 1899 and went to
reside as a fellow at his old college in Cambridge where
he spent his retirement on various boards and councils.
He held the Mayoralty of Cambridge in 1905 and was a magistrate
fro the Borough, and Principal of the Cambridge Training
College for Schoolmasters. He was elected Vice-Provost of
King's in 1909 and Provost in 1918. In 1919 he was made
G.B.E. He was an avid gardener and thespian, often appearing
on stage. His retreat, Pit House, in Bembridge on the Isle
of Wight was were he indulged his passion for gardening.
Sir Walter Durnford was unmarried. Obituary.
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Vanity
Fair caricature of Sir Walter Durnford
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Grandson of Bishop Durnford
and nephew of Sir. Walter Durnford. Born 1891, died 1967.
He joined the Royal Navy in 1904 at the age of 13. He served
in World War I; naval advisor to White Army, Russia (1919-1920);
Imperial Defense College (1936); Chief Staff Officer, Malta
(1937-1939); World War II; Second Naval Member, Australian
Commonwealth Naval Board (1941-1942); Director, RN Staff
College (1944); Director of Naval Training, Admiralty (1945-1947).
He served on the HMS Argyll,
HMS Shannon and Submarine P 39 (1914-1918). He was the Commanding
Officer of the HMS Suffolk (1939-1940) and HMS Resolution
(1942-1943);. Married to Marie Durnford, He retired in 1948
to Chelsea, England, where he served as local Mayor prior
to his death.
Photo of the launching of
the HMAS Mildura by Marie
Durnford, wife of Acting Chief of Naval Staff, Commodore
J.W. Durnford, RN.
Papers at the IMPERIAL WAR
MUSEUM, LONDON: Papers, chiefly 1924-1952 (ref: P142, 143),
including; semi-official correspondence 1924-1949; including
two letters from V Adm Sir Thomas Hope Troubridge on the
importance of training 1945; also two letters from AF Sir
Algernon Usbourne Willis on the progress of operations in
the Mediterranean 1943; typescript unpublished autobiography,
written after his retirement in 1948, covering his career
1904-1948; photograph album relating to Durnford's career
1911-1920, including; photographs relating to his service
in HMS ARGYLL, HMS SHANNON and Submarine P 39 1914-1918;
photographs of the British Military Mission to South Russia
1919-1920: photographs relating to the Allied Control Commission,
Constantinople, Turkey 1920. |
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Born 1911, died 1981.
United States Foreign Service officer. 1958-1962 Ambassador
to Iraq. 1965-1967 Ambassador to Algeria |
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Gertrude Durnford was one of the ten
children of the reverend Thomas Durnford, vice chancellor
of Rockbourn and Witchbury and sister to Stillingfleet Durnford.
She married Sir Rowland Alston, sixth and last baronet of
Alston of Odell, Beds, who died in June 29, 1790, aged 64.
Upon his death the title became extinct as there were no
children. The family property, by the will of his father,
Sir Thomas Alston, M.P., was passed onto Sir Thomas' illegitimate
son. Lady Alston died March 1807.
ODELL, a parish the hundred of WILLEY,
county of BEDFORD, 1¼ mile (N.E by N.) from Harrold,
containing 439 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated
in the king's books at £19. T. Alston, Esq. was patron
in 1798. The church is dedicated to All Saints. This place
formerly possessed a market, granted to William Fitzwarren,
in 1222, which has been long disused; but a fair is held
on the Thursday and Friday in Whitsun-week. Odell castle,
the seat of the Alston family, a small part of which constitutes
the remains of the ancient building of the same name, stands
conspicuously on an eminence, commanding a fine view of
the river Ouse. (Lewis, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary
of England, 1831)
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Gertrude Durnford Alston
by Thomas Gainsborough
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Although the Durnford-Slaters
carry the name Durnford they are not Durnfords by birth.
A distant relative of the Slaters, Henrietta de Courcy,
was married to George Durnford (son of Elias Walker).
Henrietta de Courcy, willed the Havelet House in Guernsey
to the Slater family with the stipulation that they carry
the Durnford name in honour of a "good man." |
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A family of Durnfords were
among the 438 passengers in the first four ships to arrive
in Canterbury, New Zealand. William Durnford (35),
his wife Elizabeth (33) sons Edward (14), Williams (12w),
Charles (10), Henry (7), Jacob (5), George (3) and daughter
Martha (8), arrived on the CRESSY,
a 720 ton ship that sailed from Gravesent Sept. 7, 1850
and arrived in Lyttlton (Christchurch harbour) on Dec. 27,
1850. They were steerage passengers.
The passenger list clearly
states DURNFORD, but subsequent information, including the
historical plaque in Christchurch states DUNFORD. (David
Durnford in Christchurch has brought this oversight to the
city, but he doubts they'll change the plaque just for us!)
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Colonel Dewey F. Durnford
Jr. U.S. Marine Corps, veteran of WW II, Korea and Vietnam.
A fighter ace with 7 victories and holder of the following
awards: Legion of Merit with Combat V, Distinguished Flying
Cross (4 awards), Air Medal (10 awards) and numerous unit
and campaign awards. Graduate of North High School, 1941
and the University of Maryland, 1958. Raised in Columbus,
OH. Col. Durnford served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 29
years. Col. Durnford passed away on April 22, 1999
at the age of 76. Obit
U.S. Navy's list of Aces.
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A native Montrealer, John
Durnford earned a BA in 1949 and a BCL in 1952 from McGill
University, Montreal. He was admitted to the Bar in 1953
and practiced law in Montreal for several years before joining
McGill as an associate professor in 1959. He served as the
Dean of Law between 1969 and 1974 and was appointed the
Sir William Macdonald Professor of Law in 1977. Prior to
his appointment as dean, Durnford was the representative
of the Quebec Bar to the Conference of Commissioners on
Uniformity of Legislation in Canada and a member of the
Advisory Council on the Administration of Justice. The Law
Students' Association teaching award is named after him;
the John W. Durnford Teaching Excellence Award. In 1995
Durnford was the recipient of the Canadian Tax Foundation's
Douglas J. Sherbaniuk Distinguished Writing Award. |
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Miss Texas, 1981.
Representing El Paso, Texas. Was semi-finalist at
Miss USA. You
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Obituary: Hugh Durnford,
managing editor of the book department of the Reader’s
Digest Association (Canada) and for 20 years, a Montreal
Star reporter, writer and editor, died suddenly Friday at
the Montreal General Hospital. He was 48. Hugh Mckenzie
Elliott Durnford was born in Montreal in 1931, the son of
Col. And Mrs. Elliott Durnford. He was educated at St. George’s
School, Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario and
McGill University, where he graduated in 1953. Hugh served
the Star in various capacities from 1954 to 1974 and then
joined the Digest as a book editor. An ardent lover of Canada,
he took special delight in heading the team that over a
two year period produced Heritage of Canada, a popular history
that was subsequently published in French as Heritage du
Canada. Mr. Durnford was a founding member and former president
of the Vintage Automobile Club of Montreal and for years
edited its magazine, Le Chauffeur. He is survived by his
wife Nancy, three daughters, Sally, Megan and Kendra, his
mother, Mrs. Amy Durnford and a sister, Mrs. Jacis Stead,
all of Montreal. Funeral service will be at 2pm Tuesday
at St. George’s Anglican Church, thence to the Mount
Royal Crematorium.
He co-authored the book “Cars of
Canada” and made many major contributions to the hobby.
Hugh’s death at 48 in 1979 was a shock. The old car
hobby in both the US and Canada owe Hugh a lot… but
the VAE and its members owe him even more. Recognizing Hugh
Durnford with our Big E is little and it’s late but
it’s truly deserved. Article
from Vermont Automobile Enthusiasts
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Megan Durnford is a researcher/writer
whose work has been published in a wide variety of media
including; newspapers, magazines, web sites, CD ROMs and
non-fiction books. Megan's writing portfolio features scientific/medical
projects, including a web site about the future of genetic
engineering and a book about medical technology for the
general public. And Ms. Durnfords abiding interest in Canadian
history has led her to work on a series of popular history
projects, such as The War of 1812 companion web site as
well as a biography of René Lévesque. In 2007,
Megan directed Just a Lawn—a documentary film about
a local
anti-pesticide campaign. |
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Isaac Durnford is the
son of Max and Janet-Lynne Durnford of Francois, Newfoundland
and is a budding actor. He has appeared or will be appearing
on the big screen in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
(Young boy in ball); and, A Dennis the Menace Christmas
(Jack Bratcher). In television he appeared in the Eyewitness
episode of Blue Murder (Jack Garret) and commercials
for KFC, Campbell's Soup, The Bay, Maple Leaf Pillsbury,
Egg Farmers of Ontario, and Canadian Tire.
Isaac's IMDb
page.
Egg Farmers of Ontario
commercial
(he's the He's the child talking about missing practice.
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