Warren D'Oyly

Warren Hastings D'Oyly
Born 3 August 1867
Died 22 March 1950
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch  Royal Navy
Rank Vice-Admiral
Battles/wars First World War

Vice-Admiral Warren Hastings D'Oyly (3 August 1867 - 22 March 1950) was a British officer of the Royal Navy who saw service in the First World War.

Early life and family

Warren Hastings D'Oyly was born on 3 August 1867, the third son of Warren Hastings D'Oyly, later tenth Baronet, who worked in the Bengal Civil Service, and his wife Henrietta Mary Halliday, a daughter of Sir Frederick James Halliday, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. He was baptised at Bhagalpur, Bengal on 24 November 1867.[1]

In 1912, D'Oyly married Sylvia Agnes Alicia Hart, daughter of General Sir Reginald Clare Hart. They had one son: Lieutenant Reginald Clare Hastings D'Oyly (1918–1941), who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and died on 31 March 1941, while stationed on HMS Bonaventure, which was sunk south of Crete.[2][3]

D'Oyly was educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academys[4] and enrolled in the Royal Navy on 15 January 1881.[5] He was promoted to lieutenant in 1891,[6] to commander on 26 June 1902,[7] and to captain in 1908.[8] He served in the South African War 1899–1902, in command of the composite gunboat HMS Thrush. Later in 1902 he took part in the Aro and River Niger Expeditions, followed by the Anglo-French expedition in 1905, and the Haitian insurrection of 1914, before serving in the First World War.[4] By 1913, D'Oyly was the captain of HMS Lancaster, an armoured cruiser.[9] By 1917, he was the captain of HMS Donegal, another armoured cruiser.[10] After the conclusion of the First World War, D'Oyly was listed in the London Gazette as being one of the "Officers and Men ... brought to the notice of the Admiralty for valuable services in the prosecution of the War".[11] He was promoted to rear-admiral in 1919 and vice-admiral in 1925.[8]

D'Oyly died at Clare Mount in Broadstone, Dorset, on 22 March 1950.[4] He left an estate worth over £2,000.[12]

Ancestry

References

Citations

  1. ↑ National Archives, ADM 196/89/31 ; Family History Library microfiche records, batch number C75021-2, GS Film number: 499029 ; Burke, Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, 1865, p. 354 ; Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, 1931, p. 805 ; de Ruvigny, Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, "Essex" volume, p. 211 ; Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, 1929, vol. i, p. 565
  2. ↑ Fox-Davies, Armorial Families, 1929, vol. i, p. 565
  3. ↑ "Lost in the Bonaventure". Lincolnshire Echo. 18 April 1941. p. 4. – via British Newspaper Archive (subscription required). Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 "Vice-Admiral W. H. D'oyly". The Times. 27 March 1950 (issue 51650). p. 7
  5. ↑ ADM 196/89/31
  6. ↑ The London Gazette, 31 July 1891, issue 26188, p. 4070
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 27448. p. 4198. 26 June 1902.
  8. 1 2 Navy List, July 1931, p. 550.
  9. ↑ K. Smith (ed.), "HMS LANCASTER - September 1913 to March 1915, UK out, 4th Cruiser Squadron West Indies, North America and West Indies Station (Part 1 of 3)", naval-history.net (accessed 4 August 2014).
  10. ↑ "HMS DONEGAL - January 1917 to October 1918, West Africa convoys (9th Cruiser Squadron), North America & West Indies Station, North Atlantic convoys, British waters (Part 2 of 2)", naval-history.net (accessed 4 August 2014).
  11. ↑ The London Gazette, 12 September 1919, issue 31553, p. 11581
  12. ↑ National Probate Calendar, 1950.
  13. ↑ Cokayne (1903), p. 282
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Cokayne (1903), p. 283
  15. ↑ Cokayne (1903), p. 282 ; widow of William Cotes of Calcutta ; daughter of William Rochfort, brother of the 1st Earl of Belvedere.
  16. ↑ Cokayne (1903), p. 283 ; Member of the Supreme Council at Calcutta
  17. 1 2 Dod (1865), p. 304
  18. 1 2 Walford (1869), p. 418
  19. ↑ Both sources state she was the second daughter of Rev. James Morrice.
  20. ↑ See for his full name: The calcutta Monthly Journal ... for the Year 1836, p. 41

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