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DACRES, Field Marshall Sir Richard James GCB 1799-1886 |
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28 Palmeira Square [residence 1886, deathplace] |
DACRES, Admiral Sir Sidney Colpoys GCB 1806-1884 |
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• 47 Brunswick Square [residence 1884, deathplace] |
D'AGUILAR, Major-General Sir George Charles 1784-1855 |
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• 30 Brunswick Square [residence 1852-1855] |
DALRYMPLE, Major-General Sir Adolphus John bt 1784-1866 |
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• 5 Brunswick Terrace |
DALTON, Sam (William John) |
Eccentric character comedian, singer and composer of humorous songs. Little is known about him, other than appearances on the variety stage from 1889 to 1910. In 1901, when briefly the landlord of the King's Head in West Street, he appeared in six films by James Williamson. In November 1901 he was in the variety bill at the Empire Theatre of Varieties, New Road, with Lilian Travellie performing Fun in a Garden. He was living in Rotherham, Yorkshire in 1908. | • King's Head, 9 West Street [residence 1900] |
DARE, Phyllis 1890-1975 |
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• Flat 19, Mitre House, 149 Western Road [residence 1949-1965] • 68 Sedgwick Road (now Bramble Way), Hollingbury [residence 1966-c1975] |
DARLING, Alfred 1861-1931 |
![]() On 18 September 1896 he was commissioned to carry out repairs to a film camera for Esmé Collings. Among early clients were G A Smith and James Williamson. The latter ascribed the early start of film-making in the area and his own beginnings to the contribution made by Darling. With Alfred Wrench he designed a 35mm camera, which they patented in 1897. For Charles Urban in 1899, he designed and built the Biokam camera for amateur and semi-professional use, which used 17.5mm film. As well as cameras and projectors, his company made film printers, perforators, winders and tripods. In 1901, when he was still listed in the census as a railway engine fitter, he was commissioned by Urban to make a prototype three-colour camera to a design by Edward Turner, whose work—the basis of G A Smith's work that led to Kinemacolor—was backed by Urban. When Charles Urban Trading Company was set up in 1903, Darling was an investor and, for a time, a director of the company. His company moved from Ditchling Rise to South Street, Preston in the north of Brighton in 1926. Alfred Darling left nearly £26,000 and is buried in Hove cemetery. |
• 47 Chester Terrace • 25 Ditchling Rise • 83 Ditchling Rise |
DARLING, General Sir Ralph 1772-1858 |
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• 39 Brunswick Square [residence c1851-c1856] |
DAVIDSON, W Lascelles 1870-1944 |
Born into a military family (his father was a lieutenant-colonel on the Madras staff), Captain Davidson of the 6th Sussex King’s Militia (late of the 4th Battalion The King’s (liverpool) Regiment) was an experimenter in colour photography and cinematography. His first patent, in 1898, was for a three-lens camera, each lens with a filter of one of the primary colours. The following year he introduced a practical colour photography system. At the time of the 1901 census he and his wife, recently returned from Ireland, where their infant son was born, were occupying three rooms in the lodging house of Mrs Elizabeth Groves at 8 White Rock Road, Southwick. In subsequent years, now with four children, they lived in Southview road, Southwick. In May 1901 Davidson bought a Kammatograph camera/projector—images were recorded in a spiral on a glass disc—which he used in colour cinematography experiments in collaboration with Dr Benjamin Jumeaux, who lived around the corner. They patented a two-colour system in 1903, using light-splitting prisms in the camera and projector. Their test films were processed by G A Smith in his plant at St Ann’s Well Gardens but were not considered to be of acceptable quality. The ‘laboratory for natural colour photography’ in the name of Davidson and Jumeaux was at 20 Middle Street, Brighton, where Davidson was also listed as an occupant in directories between 1904 and 1907 (in 1905 the listing is for ‘Davidson’s Patents’, which merited its own listing). In 1906 he and William Friese Greene demonstrated a two-colour film system at the Royal Institution and later that year at the Photographic Convention of Great Britain in Southampton. However, Davidson seems to have abandoned the work, on which he spent £3,000, following the patenting by Smith and Charles Urban of the two-colour system that became known as Kinemacolor. |
• 20 Middle Street [workshop c1904-1905] |
DAVIES, William Edmund 1819-1879 |
Bookmaker, nicknamed 'The Leviathan'. Born in London, where he worked for the building firm Cubitt & Co. During a working visit to Newmarket he started taking bets. His clientele grew on the basis of his readiness to pay out whatever the size of the stake and the odds. He retired in 1857 and moved into the King and Queen Hotel in Marlborough Place, Brighton before buying his final home. Described in the 1861 census as 'holder of railway shares', he left £60,000 of these shares to Brighton Corporation, of which £50,000 was used to buy Preston Park in 1883. | • 18 Gloucester Place [residence 1858-1879, deathplace] • Preston Park |
D'AVIGDOR-GOLDSMID, Sir Osmond E 4th bt 1877-1940 |
See Goldsmid. | • Osmond Road • Davigdor Road |
de CHASSIRON, Alice Margueretta Crichton 1868-1938 |
(née Vincent). Her first husband was William John Crichton; her second, married in 1910, was Baron Guy Marie de Chassiron (1864-1932). She was the founder of the Bluebell Time Charity. She left £31,271 2s 2d. | • Pier Lodge, 94 King's Road [residence 1930-1936] • 19 Brunswick Terrace [residence 1936-1938] |
DELVE, Sir Frederick ('Freddy') William Delve 1902-1995 |
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• 2 Baker Street [childhood home] |
DE ROSAZ, Chevalier François 1799-1876 |
Doctor and financier, founded the Female Orphan Asylum in Western Road in 1822, which moved to Gloucester Street and then in 1853 to a new building in Eastern Road (now the Latilla Building of the Royal Sussex County Hospital). | • 51 Upper Bedford Place • 1 Arundel Terrace • Rosaz House, Bristol Gate |
DEVIS, Arthur 1712-1787 |
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DEVONSHIRE, Duke of | See William George Spencer Cavendish. | |
DEWÉ, William Tombs JP 1826-1904 |
Solicitor. Born in Weston-on-Trent, Derbyshire, son of a farmer, he was a farmer of 700 acres at Sapperton, Gloucester by 1853 and retained the farm throughout his life. He was a Brighton councillor for St Nicholas ward -1891, Montpelier ward bef1895-1900. Sometime colonel of 1st Volunteer Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, master of Brighton Harriers, lord of the manor of Coates, Cirencester | • 28 Buckingham Place [residence 1878-1896] • 90 Montpelier Road [residence 1899] • 2 Goldsmid Road [residence 1901-1903] • 4 Powis Villas [residence -1904] |
DICKENS, Charles 1812-1870 |
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• Bedford Hotel, King's Road • Grand Concert Hall, 78 West Street |
DICKINS, Charles Scrase JP 1794-1875 DICKINS, Charles Spencer Scrase 1830-1884 DICKINS, Charles Robert Scrase DL JP 1857-1947 |
Charles Scrase Dickins was born in Brighton and baptised at St Nicholas' Church. He married Lady Frances Elizabeth Smith Compton, daughter of Charles Compton, 1st Marquess of Northampton, who inherited the Coolhurst estate at Horsham from her mother, where they lived. Owned one moiety of the Manor of Brighton1. Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Sussex. Charles Spencer Scrase Dickins, son of Charles Scrase Dickins. Born in Hove. Landowner, including York Hotel, Old Steine1. He lived at Newells, Lower Beeding, died in Cannes, France and left £21,613 16s 7d. Charles Robert Scrase Dickins. Landowner. Born in Hove, son of Charles Spencer Scrase Dickins. President of the Royal Sussex County Hospital. Lived at Coolhurst, Horsham (for the gardens at which he was awarded the RHS Victoria Medal for Horticulture in 1934), Chester Square, London and 11 Chichester Terrace. Left £12,596 1s 8d, plus settled land valued at £247,248 4s 8d. |
1Poll Book 1856 • 11 Chichester Terrace [C R S Dickins' residence] |
DODSON, Sarah Paxton Bell 1847-1906 |
Artist born in Philadelphia, daughter of an engraver. Studied in Paris 1873-1876 and returned to the USA in 1885 but went back to France, influenced by French symbolism, the Pre-Raphaelites and fairy painting. She moved to Brighton in 1891. Her 'Honey of Hymettus' ('Butterflies') sold in 2017 for £70,000. | • 50 Rose Hill Terrace [residence] |
DORSET, Earls/Dukes of | Landowners. See Sackville family. | • Dorset Buildings • Dorset Gardens • Dorset Street • New Dorset Street • Dorset Court, Carlisle Road • Hangleton Manor • Dyke Road Drive |
DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred Bruce 1870-1945 |
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• 35 Fourth Avenue [residence 1927-1935] • 1 St Ann's Court, 15 Nizells Avenue [residence 1935-1945] |
D'OYLY-JOHN, Cecil Rochfort 1906-1993 |
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• 79 Marine Parade [residence 1959-1961] |
DREWITT, Stanley 1874-1964 |
Actor, born in Rosario, Argentina. He died in Hove. | • 27 New Steine [residence] |
DUFF, Alexander William George, 1st Duke of Fife KG, KT, GCVO, VD, PC 1849-1912 |
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• 1 Lewes Crescent (Fife House)* [residence 1896-1924] |
DYER, Anson 1876-1962 |
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• 55 William Street • 43 Chester Terrace |
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