Warren D'Oyly

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.

Warren Hastings D'Oyly
Born	3 August 1867
Died	22 March 1950
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Rank	Vice-Admiral
Commands held	HMS Wildfire
Battles/wars	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]

Naval career

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] He served in the South African War 1899–1902, in command of the composite gunboat HMS Thrush. In early 1902 he took her to help a British force in Nigeria re-open trade routes on the Lower Niger (River Niger Expedition), closed by piracy of the locals during the Aro-Anglo war. For his service he was mentioned in despatches by the commander of the British force during the war, and by the High Commissioner of other Nigeria.[7] Promoted to commander on 26 June 1902,[8] he was back in the United Kingdom when he was on 8 October 1902 appointed in command of HMS Wildfire, shore establishment at Sheerness, for duties with the Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.[9]

He later took part in the Anglo-French expedition in 1905, and was promoted to captain in 1908.[10] By 1913, D'Oyly was the captain of HMS Lancaster, an armoured cruiser.[11] He was present at the Haitian insurrection of 1914, before serving in the First World War.[4] By 1917, he was the captain of HMS Donegal, another armoured cruiser.[12] 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".[13] He was promoted to rear-admiral in 1919 and vice-admiral in 1925.[10]

D'Oyly died at Clare Mount in Broadstone, Dorset, on 22 March 1950.[4] He left an estate worth over £2,000.[14]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Warren D'Oyly

8. Sir John Hadley D'Oyly, sixth Baronet[15] 4. Sir John Hadley D'Oyly, eight Baronet[16] 9. Diana Rochfort[17] 2. Sir Warren Hastings D'Oyly, tenth Baronet[16] 10. John Fendall[18] 5. Mary Fendall[16] 11. ? 1. Vice-Admiral Warren Hastings D'Oyly 12. Thomas Halliday[19] 6. Sir Frederick James Halliday[16] 13. Maria Morrice[19][20][21] 3. Henrietta Halliday[16] 14. General John Alexander Paul MacGregor[16][20][22] 7. Eliza MacGregor[16] 15. ?

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. "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. "No. 27473". The London Gazette. 12 September 1902. pp. 5879–5886.
8. "No. 27448". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 June 1902. p. 4198.
9. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36895). London. 10 October 1902. p. 10.
10. Navy List, July 1931, p. 550.
11. 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).
12. "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).
13. The London Gazette, 12 September 1919, issue 31553, p. 11581
14. National Probate Calendar, 1950.
15. Cokayne (1903), p. 282
16. Cokayne (1903), p. 283
17. Cokayne (1903), p. 282 ; widow of William Cotes of Calcutta ; daughter of William Rochfort, brother of the 1st Earl of Belvedere.
18. Cokayne (1903), p. 283 ; Member of the Supreme Council at Calcutta
19. Dod (1865), p. 304
20. Walford (1869), p. 418
21. Both sources state she was the second daughter of Rev. James Morrice.
22. See for his full name: The calcutta Monthly Journal ... for the Year 1836, p. 41

Bibliography

• B. Burke (1865), Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage.
• A.P. Burke (1931), Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage.
• A.C. Fox-Davies (1929), Armorial Families, 7th ed., volume 1. London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd.
• Marquess de Ruvigny (1907), The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, "Essex" Volume