Dowbiggin

"Dowb." was Captain Dowbiggin, a relative of Lord Panmure's.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

Efficiency was not incompatible with purchase, but it was incompatible with "taking care of Dowb" -- not the only reference in Punch to the historic telegram of Lord Panmure to Lord Raglan on behalf of his protégé and relative, Captain Dowbiggin.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

His favourite nephew, Captain Dowbiggin, was at the front, and to one of his telegrams to the Commander-in-Chief the Minister had taken occasion to append the following carefully qualified sentence—“I recommend Dowbiggin to your notice, should you have a vacancy, and if he is fit.

Florence Nightingale: Part III 1918

D. on him for his distinguished learning and great services to theological scholarship, Saunderson, who was delighted when Dowbiggin of Muirtown got the honour for being an ecclesiastic, would have refused it for himself had not his boys gone out in a body and compelled him to accept.

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

"If it were Dowbiggin or ... any man except you, I would n't care one straw, rather enjoy the debate, but you whom we have loved and looked up to and boasted about, why, it's like ... a father turning against his sons."

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

Dowbiggin of Muirtown got the honour for being an ecclesiastic, would have refused it for himself had not his boys gone out in a body and compelled him to accept.

Rabbi Saunderson Ian Maclaren 1878

"If it were Dowbiggin or ... any man except you, I wouldn't care one straw, rather enjoy the debate, but you whom we have loved and looked up to and boasted about, why, it's like ... a father turning against his sons."

Rabbi Saunderson Ian Maclaren 1878

I am expressly proud of George Dowbiggin, Lady Teviot; I must beg you to admire these curls.

The Semi-Attached Couple 1860

Ah, Dowbiggin, glad to see you; I expected you would have been off after the grouse.

The Semi-Attached Couple 1860

The supply of gas had been purposely stinted to save the credit of young Mr. Theodore Dowbiggin, who had announced his intention to become "an intrepid aeronaut," but had thought better of it as the time drew near.

The Semi-Attached Couple 1860