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VENN: as Des Voeux. B.A. incorp. from Dublin, 1820; M.A. 1820. Adm. at EMMANUEL, July 3, 1821. Doubtless the Rev. Henry Desvoeux, 3rd s. of Charles Philip Vinchon, 1st Bart., M.P., of Indiville, Queen's Co., and Woodhall, Yorks.; adm. at Trinity College, Dublin, July 4, 1803, age 17; B.A. 1807. His grandfather, the Rev. Martin Anthony Vinchon De Bacquecourt, who assumed the surname of Des Voeux, and took up his abode at Portarlington, Queen's Co., was formerly of Bacquecourt, Normandy, and had incurred the [p.285] displeasure of his family by abandoning the Church of Rome. Henry, s. of the Rev. Henry, became 5th Bart.; and his son, Charles Champagne, succeeded as 6th Bart. Henry married (1) 1812, Frances, only dau. and heiress of Daniel Dalrymple, of Barrow, Co. Derby, and had issue; (2) 1828, Fanny Elizabeth, eldest dau. of George Hutton, of Carlton, Notts.; (3) 1839, Julia Grace, dau. of John Denison, of Ossington, and had issue. [A Henry De (not Des) Voeux, B.A., is in Clergy List, 1841-6, of Horley Lodge, Reigate, Surrey; in Clergy List, 1847-55, name only; in 1856 and 1857, of Leamington. Died Sept. 30, 1857, in consequence of an accident at Interlaken.] (Al. Dubl.; Burke, P. and B., 796; G.E.C.; Clergy List.)