DOLPHIN, Lt-Cmdr Peter Western (1924-2019)

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 26 November 2019: Peter Western, died peacefully at home in Woolton Hill, Newbury on 21 November 2019, aged 95. Sadly missed by Sally and all his family. Funeral service on Friday 6 December at St Thomas' Church, Woolton Hill ... at 12 noon.

He was s of Lt-Cmdr Edgar Hippisley DOLPHIN DSO (1892-1930) and Helen Douglas (1887-1978) d of Sir Alexander Ludovic DUFF GCB KCVO (1862-1933), scion of the Scots gentry family of that name of Knockleith, and his 1st w Janet Douglas DUFF (1856-1908), scion of the Scots gentry family of that name of Hatton and the URQUHART family of Meldrum. He m 1st 1948 (div 1953) Anne Marion (1925-2010) d of Maj James E E GALBRAITH DSO by his 1920 m (ref 818/3 Dalton) to Margaret Elizabeth d of Maj William MURRAY OBE MP (1865-1923), scion of the Scots gentry family of that name of Murraythwaite and Evelyn BRUCE.. He m 2nd 1955 Margaret Sally (b 1931 reg Q3 Hampshire) d of Cmdr Patrick Rycroft MAURICE OBE (1906-94) by his 1930 m (reg Q3 Berkshire) to Irene Daphne Vida KER (1907-49), and had a son and two daus.

[G. Willis]

The Dolphin family are treated in Ruvigny's Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Essex Volume, but I don't have it and can't see the full pedigree on Google books. BFI gives 'Dolphin of Turoe', but there doesn't appear to be a link.

E. H. Dolphin was son of Rev. John Maximilian Dolphin (1837-), educ. Oriel Coll., Oxon. (B.A. 1860), vicar, formerly perpetual curate, of Coddington, Notts., and his wife Rose, dau. of Per Alumni Oxonienses, his father was Rev. John Dolphin, of Antingham, Norfolk. This elder Rev. John Dolphin, per Walford's County Families (1864 and 1871), was b. 1804, s. of another Rev. John Dolphin (-1830), of Copford, Essex, and Martha, dau. of Lock Rollinson, of Chadlington, Oxon. He was educ. Eton and Trinity Coll., Cantab. (B.A. 1828) and m. 1833, Mary, dau. of 'the late Admiral Western, of Tattingston, Suffolk'. In addition to being rector of Antingham, he was vicar of Thorpemarket, and a magistrate for Norfolk [some details, including his death in 1889, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dolphin_(cricketer)].

The origin of the 'Hippisley' name in the Dolphin family is indicated by the appearance- in at least several pre-1900 editions of BLG, the pedigree of Hippisley of Lamborne (descended from which family were the Hippisley-Coxes) [per BFI this is later 'Hippisley of Ston Easton'; it also gives 'Hippisley Coxe (see Buller; and Hippisley-Cox)'] - of a John Hippisley, of Stone (sic) Easton, Somerset, who m. 2ndly, 1843, 'Georgiana, second dau. of the late Rev. John Dolphin, rector of Wakes Colne, and Pebmarsh, Co. Essex.' Given the dates, this Rev. John Dolphin is presumably he of Copford, who d. 1830 (see above) [a check of BMD records shows Georgiana, b. 1808 to John Dolphin and Martha, corroborating this]. Per his death notice in 'The Gentleman's Magazine', vol. 149 (1831): 'At Stanway, Essex, the Rev. John Dolphin, Rector of Pebmarsh and Colne Wake, and Prebendary of York. He was of Christchurch, Oxf. M.A. 1799; was collated to the prebend of Riccall in the cathedral of York in 1818 by Archbishop Vernon, presented to Pebmarsh in 1823 by the Earl of Verulam, and to Colne Wake by the same patron'. A marriage record shows that he married Martha Rollinson in 1803 at Cheltenham; no parents' names are given. Alumni Oxonienses, however, provides: 'Dolphin, John, s. John, of Shenstone, co. Stafford, arm. CHRIST CHURCH, matric. 3 June, 1791, aged 16; B.A. 1795, M.A. 1799, preb. of York 1813, rector of Pebmarsh and Colne Wake, Essex, 1823, until his death 1831.' A 1774 birth record for John Dolphin at Shenstone corroborates his father as John, and gives mother as 'Margret'. Annoying not to be able to see the Ruvigny volume which might go further back!

[G. Willis]

EDIT: corrected an error resulting from haste

Forgot to include: Rev. John Maximilian Dolphin d. 1899. His wife was Rose, dau. of Rev. John Byron.

Also, some details of the Dolphin family at Shenstone: http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1715-1754/member/dolphin-john-1659-1724 and https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Shenstone/Pitt1817

From the former link: 'The Dolphin family appears to have been settled in Staffordshire since the sixteenth century. John Dolphin, who practised at Stafford as an attorney, was steward to the Duchess of Hamilton and the Earl of Uxbridge, acquiring a considerable property with his first wife. Since he stood jointly with Thomas Foley, he was presumably a Tory. He died 24 May 1724.'

The M.P. John Dolphin (1659-1724), to whom pertains the first link, given the dates, location etc, seems not unlikely (given he is mentioned to have had three sons) to be the ancestor (great-grandfather?) of the John Dolphin b. 1774 as above.

[colinp]

The late Peter Dolphin was also in remainder to the Baronetcy Dunbar of Hempriggs (NS 1706) (through the female line in which this baronetcy may descend).  His grandfather Sir Alexander Duff was the 4th son of Col James Duff of Knockleith yst brother of the de jure 5th Baronet, son of the 4th Baronet's sister Louisa who m 1805 Garden Duff of Hatton, Aberdeenshire