Real memorial obituaries – Combe Down, Monkton Combe, Midford

In memoriam et celebrationem

In memorial and celebration

DEATH OF CAPT. DAUBENY

CRUSADER'S DESCENDANT WHO SERVED IN SARAWAK

OLD BATH FOOTBALLER

Bath residents, and especially those residing in the Combe Down and Monkton Combe districts, will hear with deep regret of the death of Captain Charles W. Daubeny.

Following a short illness, he passed away at his residence, "The Brow." Combe Down, on Wednesday evening.

Late of the 3rd Battalion, the Somerset Light Infantry, and formerly of the Sarawak Government Service, he had lived in the Bath district for the greater part of his
life, as had his father before him.

He took a keen interest in local government and for 15 years represented Combe Down on the old Bath Rural Council (subsequently Bathavon RD.C.).

Throughout that time he had to contest his seat only once. This was in March, 1934, when he defeated Mr. W J. Bray, who stood in the Labour interest. He served for three years after that and then announced his retirement.

He was a staunch Conservative and chairman of the local association for a number of years.

CROQUET EXPERT

He had many other interests, among them being croquet, at which sport he was an expert, and for a great number of years he acted as secretary of the committee of the Bath Croquet Tournament.

Capt. Daubeny came of an old and distinguished family, whose history can be traced back in an unbroken line to Ivar, Jarl of the Uplands of Norway. circa. 800 A.D.

Born in November, 1859, Capt. Daubeny was the only son of the late Charles Daubeny and Maria, fourth daughter of the Rev. Henry Cripps, D.L., Rector of Preston and Stonehouse (Glos.).

In 1863 the late Mr. Daubeny purchased the Brow Estate, and in 1868 Capt. Daubeny, then a boy of nine, was sent to Somerset College, which he left, after two years, for a preparatory school at Worthing.

SERVICE IN SARAWAK.

In 1873 he went to Winchester on a headmaster's nomination and remained there for five years. Shortly afterwards he proceeded to Keble College, Oxford, remaining there until obtained a commission in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment.

In 1883 he obtained an appointment in the Sarawak Government Service. For two years he was extra officer at Batam, and for three years had charge of the Batam Residency.

For the last 18 years of his time he was Chief of the Political Prison Department. He retired on pension in 1906.

On the death of his mother in that year he came to reside at “The Brow.”

In his youth Capt. Daubeny was a keen athlete and a well-known "miler" in the west of England, frequently competing also in London. where he was known as "the fleet Westerner."

PLAYED FOR BATH IN '81.

In 1880 and 1881 he played Rugby football for Bath. It is thought there are not more than two members of the team in those days now surviving.

On returning from the East he joined the Militia as a captain in the 4th Battalion of the County Regiment, and was subsequently transferred to the 3rd Battalion.

He retired in 1909.

Rejoining on the outbreak of war, he served as a Captain in the 7th K.S.L.I.. until January,
1919.

He was initiated into the Royal Sussex Lodge (53) in 1907, filled the chair in 1919, and was a Past Provincial Senior Grand Warden Somerset. In the Mark Degree he was in the chair of the Royal Sussex Lodge (177) in 1926, and was a Past Provincial Senior Grand Warden of Somerset. In the Royal Arch Chapter (53) he was First Principal in 1927, and was a Past Provincial Grand Scribe N of Somerset.

AN OLD FAMILY.

Capt. Daubeny married in 1891 Edith Henrietta, youngest daughter of the late Rev. John Gore, Vicar of Shalbourne (Wilts) and a Minor Canon of Windsor. Mrs. Daubeny died in 1931.

There were three daughters and one son. The son, Capt. C. J. O. Daubeny, 3rd Somerset L.L was killed in action in 1917, and to his memory there is a memorial window in Combe Down Church.

The eldest daughter, Miss A. Daubeny lived with her father. The second daughter, Miss J. Daubeny. married in 1932 Capt. Henry Mildmay St. John, of Lydiard Park, Wilts, formerly of the Gloucestershire Regiment.

The youngest daughter, Miss D. Daubeny, married in 1923 Ivo Murray, youngest son of the late Hon. Francis Parker, of Bagley Wood, Oxon., a
grandson of the 6th Earl of Macclesfield.

The family is one of the oldest in England, Capt. Daubeny being directly descended from William Albini, a Norman knight who settled in England and married the heiress of Belvoir Castle.

The funeral service took place at Combe Down Church on Friday after- noon, followed by interment at Monkton Combe.