General Notes

Oliver D'Oyly, of Cambridge, A.M. LL.D., the eldest son and heir of John D'Oyly of Albourne, by Lucy Nicholas, was the last heir-male of his family. He was born at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, about 1616; and, destined for a learned profession, was entered of King's College, Cambridge, where, in 1633, he was admitted a scholar in the place of Dove Williams, and, after taking his A.B. degree in 1638, became a Fellow of his college, and thence made Cambridge his permanent place of residence, maintaining a distinguished position at the University.[470] He was proctor of the university about l665;[471]b and Cole, the Cambridgeshire antiquary, commemorates him as a subscriber to the repairs of King's College Chapel, in the latter part of the seventeenth century.[472] His degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him in 1690.[473]— He made his will May 1693, styling himself "Oliver D'Oyly, Doctor of Laws, and senior Fellow of King's College, Cambridge." He speaks of his possessions in St. James's, Westminster, and mentions having acquired property from his late brother Colonel Edward D'Oyly; names several nephews and niece's, the children of his sisters, as well as relations called Putt, Grime, and Haddon; requests burial in King's College Chapel, directing that his coat of arms be placed upon his monument; and appoints his nephews William Peake and Isaac Bayley[474] executors. He died on the 25th Aug. 1693,[475] unmarried, and ætat. about 77; and his will was proved 4th Dec. 1694, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. —Dr. Edward D'Oyly, like his brother Edward, attained distinction in his particular pursuits; and undoubtedly both brothers inherited their talents from their maternal ancestry, the eminently gifted house of St. John. As no male D'Oylys are mentioned by either brother in their wills, it is reasonable to suppose that the representation of D'Oyly of Albourne devolved, on the death of Oliver, on their sisters, or the issue of those ladies, as coheirs.