DOYNE

William Thomas ( 2 son of Rev. J. Doyne, P.C. of Old Leighlin, co. Carlow ). b. April 1823; articled to Edward Dixon, C.E. 1840; resident engineer of Rugby and Leaming ton railway 1847–50; in charge of the Army works corps consisting of about 2400 navvies and artificers, at Balaclava 1855–56; practised at Melbourne 1866 to death; consulting engineer to government of Western Australia 1869; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849, M.I.C.E. 9 Nov. 1852; author of The causes which have retarded the construction of railways in India 1860; Report upon the plains and rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand 1864. d. Melbourne 29 Sep. 1877. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li , 270–73 (1878). DRAKARD, John . Printer and bookseller at Stamford; started a weekly paper called The Stamford News 15 Sep. 1809; sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment in Lincoln Castle and fined £200 at Lincoln 13 March 1811 for a seditious libel, an article in his paper of 24 Aug. 1810 entitled ‘One you sand lashes’; started a weekly paper called The Champion of the East 5 Jany. 1830, the name was changed to the Stamford Champion ; both his papers ceased 1834; published Drakard’s Edition of the public and private life of Colonel Wardle, Stamford n.d. ; author of The history of Stamford 1822. d. Ripon 25 Jany. 1854 aged 79. Howell’s State Trials xxx i , 495–544 (1823).