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This listing page belongs to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography, spun out of the “missing article” project, and is concerned with checking whether Wikipedia has articles for all those listed in the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), a 63-volume British biographical dictionary published 1885-1900 and now in the public domain. This page relates to volume 14 running from name Damon to name D'Eyncourt.

Scope of the subproject:

It is envisaged that the following work will be done:

  • Checks made that links on this page point to a wikipedia article about the same person;
  • Addition of new articles for all red-links based on DNB text;
  • Checking whether blue-linked articles would benefit from additional text from DNB.

Listings are posted as bulleted lists, with footnotes taken from the DNB summaries published in 1904. The listings and notes are taken from scanned text that is often corrupt and in need of correction. Not all the entries on the list correspond to actual DNB articles; some are “redirects” and there are a few articles devoted to families rather than individuals.

If you are engaged in this work you will probably find quite a number of unreferenced articles among the blue links. You are also encouraged to mention the DNB as a reference on such articles whenever they correspond to the summary, as part of the broader campaign for good sourcing. A suggested template is {{DNB}}.

Locating the full text:

DNB text is now available on Wikisource for all first edition articles, on the page s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Vol 14 Damon - D'Eyncourt. Names here are not inverted, as they are in the original: Joe Bloggs would be found at Wikisource s:Bloggs, Joe (DNB00). The text for the first supplement is available too: NB that this Epitome listing includes those supplement articles also.

List maintenance and protocols:

List maintenance tasks are to check and manipulate links in the list with piping or descriptive parenthetical disambiguators, and to mark list entries with templates to denote their status; whilst as far as possible retaining the original DNB names:

  • piping: [[Charles Abbot]] -> [[Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester|Charles Abbot]]
  • descriptive parenthetical disambiguators [[Charles Abbot]] -> [[Charles Abbot (botanist)]]
  • both combined [[Charles Abbot]] -> [[Charles Abbot (botanist)|Charles Abbot]]

The work involves:

  • Checking that bluelinks link to the correct person; if so, {{tick}} them. If not, try to find the correct article and pipe or disambiguate the link.
  • Check whether redlinks can be linked to an article by piping or disambiguation.
  • Create articles based on the DNB text for redlinks for which no wikipedia article can be found
  • Check whether existing blue-linked articles could benefit from an input of DNB text (e.g. the article is a stub), and if so, update the article from DNB

A number of templates are provided to mark-up entries:

  • {{mnl}} the link runs to a wrong person; - produces the text: [link currently leads to a wrong person]. It is preferable to amend the link by adding a disambiguator to make it red, if an article for the correct person cannot be found
  • {{dn}} the link runs to a dab page - produces the text [disambiguation needed]. It is preferable to amend the link by adding a disambiguator to make it red, if an article for the correct person cannot be found
  • {{tick}} the link has been checked and runs to the correct person - checkY
  • {{tick}} {{tick}} the text of the linked article has been checked against DNB text and would not benefit from additional DNB text - checkY checkY
  • {{tick}} {{cross}} the text of the linked article looks short enough to suggest it would benefit from additional DNB text - checkY ☒N

Note that before creating new articles based on DNB text you should undertake searches to check that the article's subject does not already have an article. It is easily possible that the disambiguation used in this page is not the disambiguation used in an existing wikipedia article. Equally, feel free to improve upon the disambiguation used in redlinks on this page by amending them.

Supplement articles:

Because of the provenance of the listing, a number of the original articles will not in fact be in the announced volume, but in one of the three supplement volumes published in 1901. Since the DNB did not include articles about living people, this will be the case whenever the date of death is after the publication date of the attributed volume. In due course there will be a separate listing.

General thoughts:

This project is intended as a new generation in “merging encyclopedias”, as well as being one of the most ambitious attempted. For general ideas of where we are, and some justification of the approach being taken, see the essay Wikipedia:Merging encyclopedias.

Helpful access templates:

helpful templates

There are two templates to help link to the correct page: {{Cite DNBIE}} and {{DNBIE}}. The page number automatically link to the correct url for the page at the Internet Archive site.

{{Cite DNBIE|title=Dove, John|page=358}}
Public Domain Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Dove, John". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 358.

and

{{DNBIE|title=Dove, John|page=358}}
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainLee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Dove, John". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 358.

if a wstitle= parameter is used in place of title= then the templates also link the DNB article on Wikisource:

{{cite DNBIE|wstitle=Dove, John (d.1665?)|page=358}}
Public Domain Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Dove, John (d.1665?)". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 358.


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  1. ^ William Damon or Daman (16th cent.), musician to Queen Elizabeth; first composer to set the psalms in the vernacular to part-music, 1679.
  2. ^ Thomas Dampier (1748–1812), bishop of Ely; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1774; D.D., 1780; dean of Rochester, 1782; bishop of Rochester, 1802-8; bishop of Ely, 1808-12; celebrated for his collection of books and prints.
  3. ^ William Dampier (1662–1716), pirate; captain R.N., and hydrographer; assistant-manager of a Jamaica plantation, 1674; sailor on board ketch bound for Bay of Campeachy, 1676; log-wood cutter, 1675 and 1676: joined buccaneers in West Indies, 1679; separated, with some others, from the main body and took service on a French pirate ship, 1081; boarded Danish ship at Sierra Leone; ravaged the coast of South America with a fleet of free i-niisi-rs under one Captain Davis; set sail for East Indies; reached Guam, 1686; marooned on Nicobar island, 1688; eventually escaped to Acheen; master-gunner of the fort, Bencoolen; escaped from this position of captivity, 1691; published in England his Voyage round the World 1697, and a Discourse of Winds 1699; surveyed for government north, east, and south coasts of New Britain, 1699; sailed for England, and was shipwrecked on Ascension, 1701; rescued by an East Indiamau, 1701; fined by a court-martial for excessive severity to his lieutenant, 1702; incompetently commanded privateer in the South Seas, 1703-7; pilot on board the Duke privateer, which rescued Alexander Selkirk, 1708; died in London,
  4. ^ Earls Op Danby . See DANVERS, HENRY, 1573–1644; OSBORNE, SIR THOMAS, first earl of the second creation, 1631-1712.
  5. ^ Francis Danby (1793–1861), painter; native of Ireland; came to London, 1813; A.R.A., 1825; left England owing to domestic troubles, and lived near the Lake of Geneva, 1829-41; excelled as a painter of ideal and poetic landscapes, among which may be mentioned Sunset at Sea after a Storm 1824, and The Departure of Ulysses from Ithaca 1854.
  6. ^ James Francis Danby (1816–1875), painter; son of Francis Danby; exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution from 1847.
  7. ^ John Danby (1767–1798), musician; member of the Royal Society of Musicians, 1785; organist to chapel of Spanish embassy; well known for his collections of glees.
  8. ^ Sir Robert Danby (d. 1471?), chief-justice of common pleas; serjeant-at-law, 1443; king's serjeant; raised to bench of common pleas, 1452; chief-justice. 1461-71; knighted, c. 1461.
  9. ^ Thomas Danby (1817?–1886), painter; son of Francis Danby; copied pictures at the Louvre; exhibited landscapes in the style of Claude; member of the Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1870.
  10. ^ William Danby (1752–1833), miscellaneous writer; high sheriff of Yorkshire, 1784; visited by Southey, 1829; chief works, Ideas and Realities 1827, and Poems 1831.
  11. ^ Charles Dance (1794–1863), dramatist: son of George Dance the younger; registrar, taxing officer, and chief clerk in the insolvent debtors court; author of comediettas and extravaganzas.
  12. ^ George Dance , the elder (1700–1768), architect and surveyor to the corporation of London; designed the Mansion House, 1739.
  13. ^ George Dance , the younger (1741–1825), architect; son of George Dance (1700-1768); city surveyor, 1768-1815; rebuilt Newgate, 1770; built St. Luke's Hospital and the front of Guildhall; F.S.A., 1794; professor of architecture at the Royal Academy, 1798-1806.
  14. ^ James Dance alias Love (1722–1774), comedian ; son of George Dance the elder; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and St. John's College, Oxford: attracted the notice of Sir Robert Walpole by a party poem; manager of an Edinburgh theatre: invited to Drury Lane, 1762; published Cricket; an heroic poem 1740, Pamela (comedy), 1742, and some pantomimes.
  15. ^ Nathaniel Dance (1734–1811). See Nathaniel Dance-Holland.
  16. ^ Sir Nathaniel Dance (1748–1827), commander under the East India Company; brother of George Dance the younger; commodore of the East India Company's homeward-bound fleet, 1804; deceived into flight a French squadron by show of force off Pulo Aor, 1804; knighted, 1804.
  17. ^ William Dance (1765–1840), musician : member of the King's Theatre orchestra, 1775-93; led at th Handel festival in Westminster Abbey, 1790; director and treasurer of the Philharmonic Society, 1813-40.
  18. ^ Mrs Ann Dancer (1734–1801). See Ann Spranger Barry.
  19. ^ Daniel Dancer (1716–1794), miser; left all his wealth to widow of Sir Henry Tempest, who nursed him in his last illness, 17J4.
  20. ^ John Dancer (fl. 1675), translator and dramatist; probably at one time in the Duke of Ormonde's service; translated, among other works, Corneille's Nicomede 1671, Quinault's Agrippa 1675, and Tasso's Aminta 1660, the first two in rhyming couplets.
  21. ^ Thomas Dancer (1755?-1810), botanist; physician to the Bath waters, 1784; M.D.; resigned his position as island botanist in Jamaica, the proposals of his Observations respecting the Botanic Garden not being adopted by the House of Assembly, 1804.
  22. ^ Henry Danckerts (1630?–1680?), landscape painter and line-engraver; born at the Hague; painted landscapes and views of the royal palaces for Charles II; decorated panelling in the house of Pepys, the diarist, 1669; left England in consequence of the popish plot 1679; engraved portraits of Charles II and of some Dutch dignitaries.
  23. ^ John Danckerts (fl. 1660), painter ; brother of Henry Danckerts; dean of the guild of St. Luke at the Hague, 1650-2; painted historical subjects.
  24. ^ Bartholomew Dandridge (fl. 1750), portrait painter,
  25. ^ James Danell (1821–1881), Roman catholic bishop of Southwark; canon of Southwark, 1867; vicar-general of the diocese, 1862; D.D.; bishop, 1871.
  26. ^ Thomas Danett (fl. 1566–1601), translator of De Commines's Historic 1601, and part of Guicciardini, 1593.
  27. ^ Thomas Danforth (1622–1699), magistrate in New England; taken to America by his father, 1634; deputy-governor of Massachusetts, 1679-86; president of Maine, 1681-6; judge of the superior court of Massachusetts; a zealous supporter of the old charter of Massachusetts; treasurer and benefactor of Harvard College.
  28. ^ Thomas Dangerfield (1650?–1685), false witness; rambled over Europe; coiner in England; escaped from prison and was outlawed, 1675; befriended by Mrs. Elizabeth Cellier, the popish midwife, 1 1679; revealed an apocryphal plot of the Duke of Monmouth to Charles II, 1679; appeared against Mrs. Elizabeth Cellier, 1680; supported Gates as second witness against the Earl of Castlemaine, but was discredited, 1680; accused the Duke of York and others of being privy to the Sham Plot before the House of Commons, 1680; personated the Duke of Monmouth and claimed miraculous gifts of healing, 1686; convicted of perjury, 1685; died from a blow inflicted by one Robert Frances, 1685.
  29. ^ François André Danican (1726–1795). See Philidor.
  30. ^ Saint Daniel, more correctly Deinol (d. 684?), bishop of Bangor; founded numerous churches in Wales and an abbey at Bangor; bard, and one of the seven happy cousins.
  31. ^ Daniel or according to Baeda Danihel (d. 745), bishop of the West-Saxons; made Winchester his episcopal see, 705; literary coadjutor of Baeda and correspondent of St. Boniface.
  32. ^ Daniel à Jesu (1572–1649). See John Floyd.
  33. ^ Alexander Daniel (1599–1668), diarist; born at Middleburg, Walcheren; entered Lincoln College, Oxford, 1617; left in manuscript a Brief Chronologicalle of Letters and Papers of and for Mine Own Family, 1617-1668 and Meditations.
  34. ^ Edward Daniel (d. 1657), Roman catholic divine; entered the English college at Douay, 1618; student and, in 1640, D.D. of Don Pedro Continho's recently founded college at Lisbon; president of the college, 1642-1648; regent of the Douay college, 1651: dean of the chapter in England, 1653; author of Meditations 1649.
  35. ^ George Daniel, of Beswick (1616–1667), cavalier poet; wrote a panegyric To the Memorie of the best Dramaticke English Poet, Ben Jonson 1638; author of Trinarchodia 1649, Idyllia 1660, and Scattered Fancies 1646.
  36. ^ George Daniel (1789–1864), miscellaneous writer and book-collector; engaged through life in business; published in early life squibs on royal scandals, some of which were suppressed; satirised contemporary poetasters in The Modern Dunciad, 1814; friend of Charles Lamb and Robert Bloomfield; edited John Cumberland's British Theatre 1823-31, and Davison's Actable Drama; wrote two farces for Drury Lane Theatre, and humorous and religious poems. At his residence, 18 Canonbury Square, London, he brought together a splendid collection of Elizabethan books, black-letter ballads, and theatrical curiosities, which were dispersed at his death.
  37. ^ Henry Daniel (fl. 1379), Dominican friar; left manuscripts of medical and natural science,
  38. ^ John Daniel (fl. 1625), musician ; brother of Samuel Daniel: Mus. Bac. Christ Church, Oxford, 1604; inspector of the children of the queen's revels, 1618; publishedSongs for the Lute, Viol, and Voice 1606.
  39. ^ John Daniel (1745–1823), last president of the English college, Douay; president, 1792; imprisoned at Arras and Donrlens, 1792; permitted to return to England, 1795; founded Ushaw College, 1795.
  40. ^ Nehemias Daniel (d. 1609?). See Donellan.
  41. ^ Robert Mackenzie Daniel (1814–1847), novelist; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh University; editor of the Court Journal and of the Jersey Herald 1845-6; author of society novels.
  42. ^ Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), poet ; entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1579; tutor to William Herbert, third earl of Pembroke; publishedDelia collection of sonnets, 1592, The Complaynt of Rosamond narrative poem, 1592, andCleopatra a tragedy in the style of Seneca, 1594; advised by Spenser, who admired his love poems, to attempt tragedy, 1595; published Musopbilus, or A General Defence of Learning a poem of great beauty, 1599; maintained, against Campion, the fitness of the English language for rhyme, 1602; produced a I tragedy on the story of Philotas, which he had to defend against the charge of covertly apologising for Essex's reI bellion, 1605: issued a new edition of hisCivill Warres I (of York and Lancaster), extended to eight books, 1609; issued a history of England in prose, 1612-17; composed numerous masques for court festivities, including Tethys Festival 1610, and Hymen's Triumph 1615; inspector of the children of the queen's revels, 1615-18. His poems were sharply criticised by Ben Jonson, with whom he was at jealousies but praised for their sweetness of ryming by Drummond of Hawthornden, and for their purity of language by Sir John Harington.
  43. ^ Thomas Daniel (1720–1779).
  44. ^ William Daniel or O'Domnhuill (d. 1628), archbishop of Tuam; fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1593; M.A., 1596; D.D., 1602; translated the New Testament into Irish, 1602; translated the Book of Common Prayer into Irish, 1608; archbishop of Tuam, 1609; privy councillor of Ireland, 1611; repaired Tuam Cathedral, 1612.
  45. ^ William Barker Daniel (1753?-1833), sporting writer: M.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1790; took orders; published Rural Sports 1801.
  46. ^ Edward Thomas Daniell (1804–1843), archaeologist; took orders; died at Adalia in Syria while searching for antiquities in Asia Minor with Edward Forbes; sketches by him preserved in British Museum.
  47. ^ John Frederic Daniell (1790–1845), physicist; F.R.S.,1813; invented Dauiell's hygrometer, 1820; published Meteorological Essays 1823; constructed water barometer for Royal Society, 1830: professor of chemistry, , King's College, London, 1831-45 invented DanieU's constant battery; Copley medallist, 1836; member of admiralty commission on best way of protecting ships from lightning, 1839; honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1842.
  48. ^ Samuel Daniell (1775–1811), artist and traveller; secretary and draughtsman on a mission for exploring Bechuanaland, 1801: died in Ceylon; exhibited 1 landscapes at the Society of Artists and the Royal Academy: author of books of travel.
  49. ^ Thomas Daniell (1749–1840), landscape-painter : went to India with his nephew, William Daniell, 1784; R.A., 1799; F.R.S., F.R.A.S., and F.S.A.; published books of views, including Oriental Scenery 1808,Views in Egypt and A Picturesque Voyage to China
  50. ^ William Daniell (1769–1837), landscape painter: visited India, 1784; returned to England, 1794: R.A., 1822; exhibited Indian and British views, 17951837; author, among other works, of Zoography (with William Wood), and a Picturesque Voyage to India
  51. ^ William Freeman Daniell (1818–1865), botanist; M.R.C.S., 1841; M.D.; assistant-surgeon to army on coast of West Africa, where he made a study of the frankincense tree; published Medical Topography and Native Diseases of the Gulf of Guinea 1849; Phrynium Danielli and Daniellia named after him.
  52. ^ John Feltham Danneley (1786–1834?), musician; teacher of music at Ipswich, 1812; organist at St. Mary-of-the-Tower, Ipswich; best known work, An Encyclopaedia or Dictionary of Music 1825.
  53. ^ William Dansey (1792–1856), canon of Salisbury ; Stapledon scholar, Exeter College, Oxford, 1811; M.A., 1817: Med. Bac., 1818; prebendary of Salisbury, 1841-56; translated Arrian on Coursing 1831, and wrote Horae Decanicae Rurales 1835.
  54. ^ Thomas Danson (d. 1694), nonconformist divine ; chaplain of Corpus Ohristi College, Oxford, 1648; B.A. and fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1649; M.A.; minister at Sandwich, Kent; ejected, 1660; ejected from the living of Sibton, Suffolk, 1662; wrotelargely against the quakers and in defence of predestination,
  55. ^ Sir Charles Danvers (1568?–1601), soldier; knighted by Lord Willoughby in the Netherlands, 1588; M.A. Oxford, 1590; outlawed with his brother, Henry Danvers, earl of Danby, who had killed one Henry Long in a duel; fled to France; pardoned, 1598; colonel under Essex in Ireland, 1599; beheaded for complicity in Essex's rebellion, 1601, in which he was probably induced to engage through his intimacy with Henry Wriothesley, earl of Southampton.
  56. ^ Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby (1573–1644), statesman; accompanied Sir Philip Sidney to the Low Countries as his page; commanded under Maurice, count of Nassau, 1591; killed one Henry Long, who had challenged his brother, Sir Charles Danvers, in a duel, or, according to another account, without provocation, 1594; escaped to France with his brother; pardoned, 1598; sergeant-major-general of the army in Ireland, 1602; created Baron Danvers of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, 1603; lord president of Minister, 1607-15; governor of Guernsey, 1621-44; created Earl of Danby, 1626; privy councillor, 1628; K.G., 1633; commissioner of the regency, 1641; established the Botanic Gardens at Oxford in 1622.
  57. ^ Henry Danvers (d. 1687), anabaptist and politician; colonel in the parliament army and governor of Stafford; placed under arrest for supposed conspiracy against Cromwell's life, 1657; published a seditious libel about the death of the Earl of Essex, 1684; undertook to raise London in favour of Monmouth, but deserted his leader, 1685; died at Utrecht; author of Theopolis 1672, and some other treatises of anabaptist theology.
  58. ^ Sir John Danvers (1688?–1655), regicide; brother of Sir Charles Danvers; laid out Italian garden at Chelsea; knighted by James I; M.P. for Oxford University, 1625, 1626, 1628, and 1639; colonel in the parliament army, 1642; M.P., Malmesbury, 1645; signed death-warrant of Charles 1, 1649; member of the council of state, 1649-53.
  59. ^ Robert Danvers alias Villiers, alias Wright, called Viscount Purbeck (1621?-1674), Fifth-monarchy man: natural son of Frances, daughter of Sir Edward Coke, and wife of Sir John Villiere, viscount Purbeck; married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Dauvers, assuming her surname; M.P. for Westbury, Wiltshire, 1659; expelled from the House of Commons for delinquency, 1659; M.P. for Malmesbury, 1660; imprisoned for the expression of republican principles, 1660; surrendered his title of viscount, 1660; became a Fifth-monarchy man; died an exile in France.
  60. '^ Frances D'Arblay (1752-1840). See Frances Arblay.
  61. ^ Abraham Darby (1677–1717), iron manufacturer ; founded the Baptist Mills Brass Works at Bristol; patented a method of casting iron-ware in sand, 1708; dissolved connection with the Baptist Mills, 1709, and leased furnace at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire,
  62. ^ Abraham Darby (1711–1768), manager of ironworks; son of Abraham Darby (1677-1717); devised, when manager of the Coalbrookdale Ironworks, a method of smeltinj iron ore by the use of coke.
  63. ^ Abraham Darby (1750–1791), manager of ironworks; son of Abraham Darby (1711-1763); manager of the Coalbrookdale Ironworks; built across the Severn at Coalbrookdale the first iron bridge ever constructed (opened, 1779).
  64. ^ George Darby (d. 1790), vice-admiral ; lieutenant in the navy, 1742; served at reduction of Martinique, 1761; vice-admiral, 1779; commander-in-chief, 1780; admiralty lord, 1780; relieved Gibraltar, 1781; rearadmiral of Great Britain, 1781.
  65. ^ John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), Plymouth brother and founder of the Darbyites; educated at Westminster; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1819; resigned curacy and joined Plymouth brethren, 1827; founded the Darbyites, or exclusive party among the Plymouth brethren, 1847; visited Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the West Indies, France, and the United States; published devotional and controversial works.
  66. ^ Thomas Darbyshire (1518–1604), Jesuit; B.A. Broadgates Hall (Pembroke College), Oxford, 1544; D.C.L., 1556; prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1543; chancellor of the diocese of London; deprived of numerous livings at the accession of Elizabeth; obtained decree from council of Trent against temporising with the protestants; became a Jesuit at Rome, 1563; sent on a mission to Scotland; professed father of the Society of Jesus, 1572; died at Pont-a-Mousson in Lorraine.
  67. ^ Abraham Darcy or Darcie (fl. 1625), author; native of Geneva; his works include The Honour of Ladies, a prose treatise, 1622.
  68. ^ John Darcy (d. 1347), baron ; sheriff of Nottingham, Derby, and Yorkshire; lord justice of Ireland; fought in Scotland, 1333, in France, 1346, and in Flanders; ambassador to Scotland and France, 1337.
  69. ^ Patrick Darcy (1598–1668), Irish politician; member of the House of Commons in the Dublin parliament, 1640; member of the supreme council of confederated catholics at Kilkenny during the revolt, 1641; maintained exclusive right of Irish parliament to legislate for Ireland, 1641.
  70. ^ Count Patrick D'Arcy (1725-1779), marechal-de-camp in the French army; studied mathematics in France; captured by the English while on expedition to assist Prince Charles Edward, 1745; treated as French prisoner of war; captain under Conde, 1749; fought as colonel at Rosbach, 1757; marechal-de-camp, 1770; wrote against Maupertuis's principle of least action 1750, and on artillery, 1760.
  71. ^ Robert D'Arcy, fourth Earl of Holderness (1718-1778), diplomatist; educated at Westminster and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; lord-lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1740; ambassador to Venice, 1744-6; minister plenipotentiary at the Hague, 1749-51; secretary of state, 1751-61; privy councillor, 1761; dismissed for party reasons, 1761.
  72. ^ Thomas Darcy, Baron Darcy (1467–1537), statesman and rebel leader; served in the army of Henry VII, 1492; pursued James IV on his retreat into Scotland, 1497; captain of Berwick, 1498; constable and marshal of England to punish Perkin Warbeck's following, 1600; warden of the east marches, 1505; named Baron Darcy, 1505; K.G., 1509; volunteered to aid Ferdinand of Spain against the Moors, but returned to England as his services were not wanted, 1611; raided Scottish borders, 1523; at first approved, but subsequently, 1532, opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Arragon; began to intrigue with Chapuys, the imperial ambassador, 1534; surrendered Pomfret Castle to the insurgents of the Pilgrimage of Grace, ostensibly of necessity, 1536; regarded by Henry VIII as a rebel leader, but pardoned in consideration of his efforts for the suppression of Sir incis Bipod's rebellion, 1537; betrayed by a treasonable letter to Robert Aske, 1537, which was intercepted; beheaded, 1537.
  73. ^ William Darell or Dorell (d. 1580), antiquary; M. A. Corpus Ohristi College, Cambridge; chaplan to Queen Elizabeth; sub-dean of Canterbury, 1560; chancellor of Bangor, 1665-70; prebendary of Lichfield, 1568; author of a Latin treatise on the Kentish castles.
  74. ^ William Dargan (1799–1867), Irish railway projector; constructed the Ulster canal and the chief Irish railways; declined a baronetcy, 1853.
  75. ^ George Darley (1795–1846), poet and mathematician; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1820; travelled in Italy, and wrote for the Athenaeum on Italian art; edited Beaumont and Fletcher, 1840, and drew up mathematical works for Taylor's series of scientific treatises. His chief works were Nepenthe a poem, 1839, Sylvia 1827, The Labours of Idleness 1826, and two tragedies.
  76. ^ John Richard Darley (1799–1884), bishop of Kilmore, Elphin, and Ardagh; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1827; D.D., 1875; head-master of the grammar School of Dundalk, 1826, and of the royal school of Dungannon, 1831; bishop, 1874; published The Grecian Drama 1840, and Homer 1848.
  77. ^ Sir Charles Henry Darling (1809–1870), colonial administrator; military secretary in the West Indies, 1833-6, in Jamaica, 1836-9; lieutenant-governor of St. Lucia, 1847, of Cape Colony, 1851; governor of Newfoundland; captain-general of Jamaica, 1857; governor of Victoria, 1863; K.C.B., 1865; recalled from Victoria, 1866.
  78. ^ George Darling (1782?–1862), physician ; educated at Edinburgh; L.R.O.P.; published anonymously 4 An Essay on Medical Economy 1814.
  79. ^ Grace Horsley Darling (1815–1842), heroine ; daughter of a lighthouse-keeper on the Fame islands; rescued four men and a woman from the wreck of the Forfarshire steamboat, 1838.
  80. ^ James Darling (1797–1862), bookseller and publisher; founded Metropolitan Library, 1839; brought out in two volumes Cyclopaedia Bibliographica 1854, 1859.
  81. ^ Sir Ralph Darling (1775–1858), general ; assisted in suppressing negro insurrection in Grenada, 1793; lieutenant, 1795; commanded 51st regiment in Spain, 1808; deputy adjutant-general in Walcheren expedition, 1809; lieutenant-general and governor of New South Wales, 1825; incurred much unpopularity in consequence of excessive severity to two soldiers who had committed larceny with a view to getting their discharge, 1826; alleged to have been influenced by favouritism in disposal of crown lands; recalled, 1831; acquitted by a parliamentary committee and knighted, 1835; general, 1841.
  82. ^ William Darling (1802–1884), anatomist; studied at Edinburgh and the University Medical School, New York, being in the latter professor of anatomy, 18621884; M.R.C.S., 1856; published anatomical works.
  83. ^ Darlington, third Earl of (1766–1812). See William Harry Vane.
  84. ^ John of Darlington (d. 1284), archbishop of Dublin and theologian; Dominican friar; assisted in preparing an edition of the Concordances of Hugh of Saint-Cher; member of Henry Ill's council, 1256; sided with Henry III against the barons; helped to formulate provisions of Oxford, 1258; obtained for Edward I from Pope Nicholas III the tenth of ecclesiastical revenue assigned for crusading purposes by the council of Lyons, 1278, collecting it with difficulty; consecrated archbishop of Dublin, 1279.
  85. ^ Saint Darlugdach (d. 522), second abbess of Kildare, and St. Brigit's favourite pupil.
  86. ^ Matthew Darly (fl. 1778), engraver, caricaturist, and artists colourman.
  87. ^ Sir John Darnall , the elder (d. 1706), lawyer; clerk to the parliament during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate; king's Serjeant, 1698; knighted, 1699.
  88. ^ Sir John Darnall , the younger (1672–1735). serjeant-at-law; son of Sir John Darnall (d. 1706); serjeant-at-law, 1714; knighted, 1724; ruled that George I was entitled to the custody of his grandchildren equally with his subjects, 1717.
  89. ^ George Darnell (1798–1857), master of a day school at Islington; started a series of copybooks, r. 1840.
  90. ^ Sir Thomas Darnell (d. 1640?), patriot; created baronet, 1621; imprisoned for having refused to subscribe to the forced loan of 1627; released from custody, 1628.
  91. ^ William Nicholas Darnell (1776–1866), theological writer and antiquary; fellow and tutor, Corpus Christi College, Oxford; M.A., 1800; B.D. 1808; F.S.A., 1804; university examiner, 1801, 1803, 1804; select preacher, 1807: prebendary of Durham, 1816-31; published some sermons and an edition of the Book of Wisdom; author of The King of the Picte and St Cuthbert, a well-known ballad.
  92. ^ Earl of Darnley (1545–1567). See Henry Stewart.
  93. ^ Risdon Darracott (1717–1759), independent minister; pastor at Penzance, 1738-9; at Wellington, Somerset, 1741-59; published Scripture Marks of Salvation 1755 or 1756.
  94. ^ John Darrel (c. 1562–1602), exorcist; B.A. Queens' College, Cambridge, 1579; preacher at Mansfield; prohibited from preaching by reason of his exorcist impostures, 1598; imprisoned by an episcopal commission, 1599.
  95. ^ Thomas Darrell (ft. 1572), Roman catholic divine; educated at New College, Oxford; D.D. Douay, 1572; chaplain to a French bishop.
  96. ^ William Darrell (1651–1721), Jesuit, 1671; procurator of the province in Paris, 1696 and 1712: professor of casuistry at Liege; rector of the college, 1708-12; chief works, A Vindication of St. Ignatius (Loyola) from Phanaticism 1688, and a treatiseOf the Real Presence 1721.
  97. ^ John Dart (d. 1730), antiquary; curate of Yateley, Hampshire, 1728-30; author ofHistory and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury 1726, and Westmonasterium (published 1742).
  98. ^ Joseph Henry Dart (1817–1887), conveyancer; M.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1841; Newdigate prizeman; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1841; senior conveyancing counsel to the high court of justice, 1875-86; published Compendium of the Law relating to Real Estate 1851.
  99. ^ Charles Dartiquenave (1664–1737), epicure and humorist; probably of French descent; paymaster of the royal works, surveyor-general of the king's gardens, and (1731) surveyor of the king's private roads; referred to by Swift as a punster, and by Pope as an epicure
  100. ^ Earls of Dartmouth . See LEGGE, WILLIAM, first EARL, 1672-1750; LEGGE, WILLIAM, second EARL, 1731-1801; LEGGE, GEORGE, third EARL, 1755-1810.
  101. ^ Dartmouth, first Baron (1648–1691). See George Legge.
  102. ^ Nicholas Darton (1603–1649?), divine ; B.A. ; Exeter College, Oxford, 1622; incumbent of Kilsby, I Northamptonshire, 1628-45; author of the True and Absolute Bishop 1641.
  103. ^ Frances Darusmont , better known by her maiden name of Frances Wright (1796-1862), philanthropist; friend of Lafayette; formed a settlement of negro slaves in the state of Tennessee, hoping that they would work out their liberty, but failed, 1824: conducted a socialistic journal in Indiana with the assistance of Robert Dale Owen; one of the original advocates of female suffrage.
  104. ^ Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1883), naturalist; grandson of Erasmus Darwin; educated at Shrewsbury, Edinburgh University, and Christ's College, Cambridge; embarked as naturalist, by invitation of Captain Fitz Roy, on board the Beagle, bound for South America on a scientific expedition, 1831; worked at South American geology: returned to Knelaml, 1836; published Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle 1840; secretary to mphical Society, 1838-41; wroteThe Volcanic Islands 1844, and other works in retirement necessitated by ill- health: first gave definite written shape to his theory of evolution by natural selection, 1844; induced by his friend Lyell, the geologist, to write out the results of his experiments, 1856; received a manuscript from the naturalist, A. R. Wallace, containing a theory of the origin of species identical with his own, 1868; published Wallace's esay and a letter of his own, addressed to Dr. Asa Gray, in 1857, containing a sketch of his theory; produced Origin of Species 1859: developed theory of Pangenesis in his Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication 1868: published The Descent of Man 1871, andThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals 1872; elaborated a paper which he had read before the Geological Society in 1838 into a book on theFormation of Vegetable Mould through the action of Worms 1881. In the domain of botany he resuscitated Sprengel's theory of the fertilisation of plants in his Fertilisation of Orchids,* 1862 (supplemented by his Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation 1876), and publishedThe Movements and Habits of Climbing j Plants 1864, Different Forms of Flowers (the latter being an investigation of heterostyled plants), 1877, 'Insectivorous Plants 1875, and The Power, of Move- I inent in Plants in which was formulated his theory of circumnutation, 1880. In 1879 he wrote a biography of Erasmus Darwin for Dr. E. Krause's Essay
  105. ^ Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), physician: Exeter scholar, St. John's College, Cambridge; B. A., 1754; M.B., 1755; corresponded with Rousseau; established a dispensary at Lichfield and founded the Philosophical Society at Derby, 1784; declined invitation of George III to become his physician; formed botanical garden near Lichfield, 1778; published The Loves of the Plants 1789, and the Economy of Vegetation 1792, both form- i ing parts of his poetic work, Botanic Garden and wrote 4 The Temple of Nature, or the Origin of Society (published, 1803). He was also the author of a few prose works, maintaining a form of evolutionism which was subsequently expounded by Lamarck.
  106. ^ Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), Scandinavian scholar; born in St. Vincent; educated at Westminster and Magdalen Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1843: D.C.L., 1852; secretary to Sir Thomas Cartwright; British envoy at Stockholm, 1840-5; studied Scandinavian literature and mythology; assistant editor of the Times 1845-70; called to bar at Middle Temple, 1852: professor of English literature and modern history at King's College, London, 1853; civil service commissioner, 1870-92; knighted, 1876; commissioner of historical manuscripts, 1870. He published many translations from Norse, including Popular Tales from Norse 1859, the Story of Burnt Njal 1861, and The Story of Gisli the Outlaw 1866, besides various essays and other writings.
  107. ^ Francis Dashwood, Baron Le Despencer (1708-1781), chancellor of the exchequer; son of Sir Francis Dashwood, baronet, whom he succeeded, 1724: lived riotous life on continent: entered household of Frederick Lewis, prince of Wales; leading member of Dilettanti Society, 173G, and was arch-master, 1746; M.P. for New Romney, 1741, 1747, and 1754, and for Weymonth and Melcombe Regis, 1761 and 1762: F.R.S., 1746; D.C.L. Oxford, 1749; founded Hell-fire Club or society of the monks of Medmenham Abbey, c. 1756: first colonel of Buckinghamshire militia, 1757: chancellor of exchequer, 1762-3: keeper of wardrobe, 1763: succeeded, ! as fifteenth Baron Le Despencer, his uncle, John Fane, seventh earl of Westmorland and fourteenth baron Le Despencer, 1763; joint postmaster-general, 1770-81.
  108. ^ George Henry Dashwood (1801–1869), antiquary; M.A. Lincoln College, Oxford, 1825: FA A., 1844: vicar of Stow Bardolph, 1852; wrote on the archeology and antiquities of Norfolk.
  109. ^ James Anthony Dassier (1716–1759), medallist: son of John Dassier; appointed assistant engraver to the English mint, 1741; worked on the coinage of Elizabeth of Russia, c. 1756; struck medals of Pope Clement XII and the most distinguished Englishmen of the time.
  110. ^ John Dassier (1676–1763), medallist; born at Geneva: employed at the Geneva mint; member of the Geneva council of Two Hundred, 1738: issued numerous sets of medals, including a series of celebrated men of the age of Louis XIV, 1720, and a series of English sovereigns ( William I to George II), 1731.
  111. ^ Marius D'Assigny (1643-1717), author and translator; B.D. Cambridge, 1668; translated Drelincourt's Christian's Defence 1701, and Pierre Gautruche's Histoire Poetique adding two appendices of his own on Roman curiosities and Egyptian hieroglyphics respectively, 1671; published also theological works.
  112. ^ John Dastin, Dastyn or Daustin (fl. 1320), alchemist; correspondent of Pope John XXII and Cardinal Adrian of Naples: left in manuscript a Rosarium and a Visio super Arteni Alchemicam.
  113. ^ Giles Daubeney, first Baron Daubeney (d. 1508), soldier and statesman: commanded four men-atarms and fifty archers under Edward IV in France, 1475; fled to the Earl of Richmond in Brittany on the failure of Buckingham's rebellion, and was attainted, 1483; privy councillor, 1485: master of the mint, 1485: lieutenant of Calais, 1486: created Baron Daubeney, 1486: K.Q., 1487: arranged the fi rst treaty for the marriage of Prince Arthur with Catherine of Arragon, 1488; took Ostend, 1489; commander of a force sent to assist the Duchess Anne in Brittany, 1490; negotiated treaty of Etaples, 1492; lord chamberlain, 1495; put down the second rebellion of Perkin Warbeck and the Cornish revolt, 1497; accompanied Henry VII to Calais, 1500.
  114. ^ Charles Daubeny (1745–1827), archdeacon of Salisbury: educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, 1774; prebendary of Salisbury. 1784; minister (1798) of Christ Church, Walcot, Bath, the first free and open church in the country, to the erection of which he was the chief subscriber; archdeacon of Salisbury, 1804: D.O.L. Oxford, 1822; author of numerous theological works, partly anticipating the tractarian movement.
  115. ^ Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1795–1867), chemist and botanist: educated at Winchester and Magdalen College, Oxford: B.A., 1814; lay-fellow of Magdalen: studied medicine at Edinburgh, 1816-18: M.D. Oxford: professor of chemistry at Oxford, 1822-55: professor of botany, 1834, of rural economy, 1840; F.R.S.; chief works, A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanoes largely based on investigations in Auvergne, 1826, and an 'Introduction to the Atomic Theory 1831.
  116. ^ Charles Daubuz (1673–1717), divine; born in Guienne; came to England, his father having been allowed to leave France on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, 1685; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and QueensCollege, Cambridge; master of Sheffield grammar school, 1696-9; M.A., 1697: vicar of Brotherton, Yorkshire, 1699-1717; chief work,A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation of St. John (published, 1720).
  117. ^ John Dauglish (1824–1866), inventor of aerated bread: studied medicine at Edinburgh, 1852; M.D., 1855: took out his first patent for an improved method of making bread 1856, silver medalist of the Society of Arts. 1860.
  118. ^ John Dauncey or Dauncy (fl. 1663), translator of Perefixe's Histoire de Henri le Grand 1663: published histories of Charles II, 1660, of Henrietta Maria, 1660, and of Portugal, 1661.
  119. ^ Achilles Daunt (1832–1878), dean of Cork : gold medallist in classics at Dublin, 1863; vicar of St. Matthias, Dublin, 1867-78: D.D.; representative canon for the united diocese of Dublin and Glendalough; dean of Cork.
  120. ^ John Daus (fl. 1561), translator of 'Sleidanes Commentaries 1660.
  121. ^ Edward D'Auvergne (1660-1737), military historian; born in Jersey; M.A. Pembroke, College, Oxford, 1686; chaplain to the Scots guards in Flanders, 1691: rector of Great Hallingbury, 1701-37: published narratives of William Ill's campaigns in Flanders,
  122. ^ Edmund Davall (1763–1798), botanist ; F.L.S. ; gave name to Davallia genus of ferns; resided at Orbe, Switzerland; left an unfinished work on the Swiss flora.
  123. ^ Charles Davenant (1656–1714), political economist: son of Sir William D'Avenant; entered Balliol College, Oxford, 1671; M.P., St. Ives, Cornwall, 1685; LL.D.; M.P., Great Bedwin, 1698 and 1700; attacked the clergy in hisEssays upon the Ballance of Power 1701; secretary to the commissioners appointed to trwit for the union with Scotland, 1702: inspectorgenerul of imports and exports, 1705-14; published An Essay upon the Ways and Means of Supplying the War 1695, andAn Essay on the East India Trade in which, while upholding the mercantile system, he questioned its applicability to this particular subject, 1697.
  124. ^ John Davenant (1576–1641), bishop of Salisbury ; fellow of QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1597; D.D., 1609; Margaret professor of divinity, 1609-21; master of Queens 1614; represented the church of England at the synod of Dort, 1618; bishop of Salisbury, 1621; accused before Archbishop Laud of Calvinism, 1631; best-known work, a commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Oolossians, 1631. D'AVENANT, Sm WILLIAM (1606-1668), poet and dramatist; educated at Oxford; earliest drama The Tragedy of Alboviue, King of the Lombards 1629; wrote masques for the court; printed Madagascar and other Poems 1635; published The Platonick Lovers (tragicomedy), 1636; his comic masterpiece, The Wits acted, 1633, published, 1636; poet-laureate, 1638; produced the Unfortunate Lovers 1643, and Love and Honour 1649, in the opinion of Pepys a very good play; fled to Prance when threatened by parliament with arrest on account of his active support of Charles I's cause, but returned; was knighted by Charles (1643) at the siege of Gloucester; carried a letter of advice from Henrietta Maria, then in France, to Charles 1, 1646; sent by Henrietta Maria on a mission to Virginia, but was captured on the way by a parliament ship, 1650; imprisoned in the Tower, 1650-2; published (1651) the first edition ofGondibert practically founded the English opera by his Siege of Rhodes 1656; opened Drury Lane Theatre, 1658; produced The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru 1658, and The History of Sir Francis Drake 1659; imprisoned for complicity in the rising of Sir George Booth (1622-1684), 1659; established theDuke's Theatrical Company 1660, in spite of the opposition of Sir Henry Herbert, master of the revels; in conjunction with Dryden adapted Shakespeare's 'Tempest 1667; produced versions of other of Shakespeare's plays.
  125. ^ William Davenant (d. 1681), translator; son of Sir William D'Avenant; M.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1680: held a living in Surrey; translated into English Notitia Historicorum Selectorum 1678; drowned in the Seine, 1681.
  126. ^ Christopher Davenport (1598–1680), Franciscan; better known as Fransciscus a Sancta Clara; left Merton College, Oxford, and went to Douay, 1615; became a Franciscan at Ypres, 1617; graduated at Salamanca; chaplain to Queen Henrietta Maria; gained friendship of Archbishop Laud by his liberal construction of the Romish position; chaplain to Catherine of Braganza; chief work, Deus, Natura, Gratia 1634.
  127. ^ Sir Humphrey Davenport (1566–1645), judge ; studied at Balliol College, Oxford; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1590: serjeant-at-law, 1623; knighted, 1624; puisne judge of common pleas, 1630-1; president of court of exchequer, 1631; maintained legality of ship-money, but gave judg- I mi-lit for Hampden on a technical point, 1637; impeached by Long parliament, but passed over, 1641.
  128. ^ John Davenport (1597–1670), puritan divine; educated at Merton and Magdalen colleges, Oxford; M.A. and B.D., 1625; fled from Laud's hostility; co-pastor of the English church at Amsterdam, 1G34-5; founded colony of New Haven, Quinnipiac, 1638; argued against the Half Way Covenant 1662; published theological works.
  129. ^ Mary Ann Davenport (1765?–1843), actress ; nte Harvey; first appeared as Lappet in Fielding's Miser 1784; engaged at Oovent Garden, 1794; most successful in the role of an old woman.
  130. ^ Richard Alfred Davenport (1777?–1852), miscellaneous writer; published The History of the Bastile 1838,A Dictionary of Biography 1831, and numerous other works, besides editing various British poets, Robertson's histories, 1824, Mitford's History of Greece 1835, and Pilkington's Dictionary of Painters, 1852; died from an overdose of opium.
  131. ^ Robert Davenport (ft. 1623), poet and dramatiBt; publishedA Crowne for a Conquerour and Too Late to call backe Yesterday 1623; author of King John and Matilda (tragedy), published 1655, A New Trick to Cheat the Divell 1639, and The City Night Cap licensed, 1624.
  132. ^ Samuel Davenport (1783-1867), line-engraver; engraved portraits for biographical works and (1828-42) plates for the Forget-me-not Annual.
  133. ^ David or Dewi, Saint (d. 601?), patron saint of Wales; bishop of Menevia (St. David's); credited with the foundation of monasteries at Glastonbury, Leominster, Repton, Crowland, Bath, and Raglan; commemorated 1 March; canonised by Pope Calixtus in 1120.
  134. ^ David (d. 1139?), generally called 'David the Scot,' but probably of Welsh descent; teacher at Würzburg: chaplain to the Emperor Henry V, 1110; attended Henry in his expedition against Pope Paschal II, of which he wrote an account, 1110; chosen bishop of Bangor by the influence of Gruffudd, king of Gwynedd, 1120; took part in Archbishop William of Corbeil's council at Westminster, 1127.
  135. ^ David I (1084–1153), king of Scotland; son of Malcolm Canmore; became an English baron by his marriage with Matilda, countess of Northampton; introduced the feudal organisation into Cumbria on becoming its prince, 1107; king of Scotland, 1124; declared for the Empress Matilda against Stephen, but was defeated at the Battle of the Standard, 1138; concluded an advantageous peace at Carlisle, but subsequently (1140) joined Matilda in her flight to Winchester; unsuccessfully invaded England, 1149; founded the sees of Brechia, Dunblane, Caithness, Ross, and Aberdeen; introduced into Scotland the new regular orders of the monastic clergy, especially favouring the Cistercians; founded the burghs of Edinburgh, Berwick, Roxburgh, Stirling, and perhaps Perth; made Norman feudal law the law of Scotland, organised a feudal court, and established the office, of chancellor for the administration of the laws and the publishing of the royal charters.
  136. ^ David II n (1324–1371). See David Bruce.
  137. ^ David (d. 1176), called David the Second, bishop of St. David's; consecrated bishop of St. David's by Archbishop Theobald, on condition of waiving the claims of his see to metropolitan rank, 1148; involved in constant disputes with his chapter and with Mabel, lord of Brecon, who disliked David's Norman connections and policy; attended council of Tours, 1163.
  138. ^ David ap Gwilym (14th cent.), Welsh bard ; said to have studied in Italy; imprisoned for eloping with Morvydd of Anglesey, but released on the payment of his fine by the men of Glamorgan; chief bard of Glamorganshire; wrote love poems and satires on his personal enemies and the monastic orders.
  139. ^ David ab Llewelyn (d. 1415). See David Gam.
  140. ^ Edward David or Dafydd (d. 1690), Welsh poet; lampooned Cromwell's Welsh expedition; editor of 'Cyfrinach y Beirdd a treatise on the rules of Welsh poetry; president of Gorsedd Morgan wg, 1660.
  141. ^ Thomas William Davids (1816–1884), ecclesiastical historian; congregational minister at Colchester, 1840-74: secretary of the Essex Congregational Union; author of Annals of Evangelical Nonconformity in the County of Essex 1863, and (unfinished)Annals of Reformers before the Reformation
  142. ^ Alexander Dyce Davidson (1807–1872), divine; educated at Aberdeen University; D.D., 1854; minister of the South church, Aberdeen, 1832, of the West church, 1836; led the evangelical movement in Aberdeen, 1843.
  143. ^ Harriet Miller Davidson (1839–1883), authoress: daughter of Hugh Miller; removed to Adelaide with her husband, the Rev. John Davidson, 1869. A tale, entitledA Man of Genius published in an Adelaide journal, is considered the best of her writings. xiv. 1241
  144. ^ James Davidson (1793–1864), antiquary and bibliographer; published numerous works on the topography and history of Devonshire, also a Glossary of the Obsolete and Unused Words and Phrases of the Holy Scriptures in the Authorised English Version 1850.
  145. ^ James Bridge Davidson (d. 1885), miscellaneous writer; son of James Davidson; contributed to various journals.
  146. ^ John Davidson (1549?–1603) Scottish church leader; regent of St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews; quarrelled with the regent Morton, and fled from Scotland; allowed to return, 1577; minister of Liberton, Edinburgh, 1579; opposed James VI's desire to restore prelacy with much plain speaking; excommunicated Montgomery, bishop of Glasgow, at the desire of the general assembly, 1682; minister of Prestonpans, 1596; opposed James VI's proposal that certain of the clergy should vote in parliament, 1599; interdicted from going beyond his own parish, 1601; author of Memorials of his Time.
  147. ^ John Davidson (d. 1797), Scottish antiquary; writer to the signet and crown agent; printed privately works on the legal history of Scotland, 1771-92.
  148. ^ John Davidson (1797–1836), African traveller : originally a pupil at St. George's Hospital and student at Edinburgh University: F.R.S., 1832; travelled as a physician in the sultanate of Morocco, 1835; murdered in the great desert at Swekeza, on his way to Timbuctoo, 1836; an expert in egyptology and the topography of the near East; his notes of travel printed posthumously, 1839.
  149. ^ Samuel Davidson (1806–1899), theologian and biblical scholar; born in co. Antrim; studied for presbyterian ministry at Royal Academical Institution, Belfast; licensed preacher, 1833; professor of biblical criticism at Belfast, 1835-41; LL.D. Aberdeen, 1838; professor of biblical literature and ecclesiastical history at Lancashire Independent College, Manchester, 1843-57; published, 1856, as part of an edition of Home'sIntroduction The Text of the Old Testament considered which was objected to on doctrinal grounds by the Lancashire College committee; resigned professorship in consequence, 1857; engaged in tuition at Hatherlow, Cheshire; scripture examiner at London University, 1862; published numerous theological writings.
  150. ^ Thomas Davidson (1747–1827), theologian ; educated at Glasgow and Leyden; D.D.; minister atlnchture, 1771-3, at the outer high church, Glasgow, 1773, at Lady Tester's church, Edinburgh, and subsequently, 1785, at the Tolbooth church, Edinburgh.
  151. ^ Thomas Davidson (1838–1870), Scottish poet; of English extraction; entered Edinburgh University. 1865; licensed preacher of the united presbyterian church, 1864; wrote songs, including Myspie's Den andThe Auld Ash Tree and Yang-Tsi-Kiang an extravaganza.
  152. ^ Thomas Davidson (1817–1885), palaeontologist ; educated in France, Italy, Switzerland, and Edinburgh; medallist of the Royal Society, 1870; LL.D. St Andrews, 1 882; wrote a monograph on the British fossil brachiopods for the Palaeontological Society, 1850-70.
  153. ^ William Davidson (1766?–1796?), privateersman; able seaman on board H.M.8. Niger, 1791; found in possession of a journal, 1791, which showed that he and other pirates on board a Russian privateer had plundered numerous ships with horrible atrocities in the Levant, 1788-9; deserted, 1794.
  154. ^ Adam Davie (fl. 1308?). See Davy.
  155. ^ Benjamin Davies (1814–1875), hebraist ; Ph.D. Leipzig, 1838; LL.D.; president of Stepney Baptist College, 1844-7; professor at McGill College, Montreal, 1847; professor of oriental and classical languages at Stepney Baptist College, 1857; one of the revisers of the Old Testament; translated Gesenius's Grammar and Lexicon.
  156. ^ Catherine Davies (1773–1841?), authored of 'Eleven YearsResidence in the Family of Murat, King of Naples published by subscription, 1841; governess in Murat's family, 1802-16.
  157. ^ Cecilia Davies (1750?-1836), vocalist; visited Vienna, and sang before Duke Ferdinand of Parma, 1769; taught the archduchesses, Matia Theresa's daughters, singing; engaged at the King's Theatre in Italian opera, 1773; returned to Italy, where she was the first Englishwoman to appear on the stage; subsequently appeared in oratorios at Drury Lane, 1791.
  158. ^ Christian Davies, alias Mother Ross (1667-1739), female soldier; born in Dublin; enlisted tinder the name of Christopher Welsh, c. 1693; fought in Flanders; at the battle of Blenheim, 1704; her sex revealed by an operation necessitated by a wound at Ramillies, 1706; dismissed the service, but still followed the army; pensioned, 1712; thrice married, all her husbands being soldiers.
  159. ^ David Davies (d. 1819?), writer on poor laws ; M.A. Jesus College, Oxford, 1785; D.D., 1800; rector of Barkham, Berkshire; publishedThe Case of Labourers in Husbandry stated and considered 1795.
  160. ^ David Charles Davies (1826–1891), Welsh presbyterian divine; educated at University College, London; M.A., 1849; ordained pastor of a bilingual church at Builth, 1852, and 1856-8; at English church in Windsor Street, Liverpool, 1853-6, Newtown, 1858-9, Welsh church at Jewin Crescent, London, 1859-76, and at English church, Menai Bridge, 1876; principal of Trevecca, 1888-91; published numerous contributions to Welsh theological literature.
  161. ^ David Christopher Davies (1827–1885), geologist and mining engineer; fellow of the Geological Society, 1872; opened quarries in North Wales, in the south of France, 1880-5, and in Germany; published 'Treatise on Slate and Slate Quarrying 1878, and Treatise on Metalliferous Minerals and Mining
  162. ^ Edward Davies (1756–1831), Welsh antiquary ; master of the grammar school at Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, 1783-99; chancellor of Brecon, 1816; associate of the Royal Society of Literature, 1824; chief work, Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions, and Language of the Ancient Britons 1804.
  163. ^ Lady Eleanor Davies , (d. 1652), daughter of George Touchet, baron Audley; married, firstly, e. 1608, Sir John Davies (1669-1626), and, secondly, Sir Archibald Douglas. She published several fanatical books of prophecy.
  164. ^ Evan Davies (1805–1864), independent minister ; sent to Penang by the London Missionary Society, 1836; superintendent of the Boys Mission School, Walthamstow, 1842-4; pastor of the congregational church, Richmond, 1844-57; publishedChina and her Spiritual Claims 1845, with other religious works.
  165. ^ Francis Davies (1605–1675), bishop of Llandaff ; M.A. Jesus College, Oxford, 1628; fellow and B.D., 1640; ejected from his rectory of Llangan under the Commonwealth; archdeacon of Llandaff, 1660; D.D. 1661; bishop of Llandaff, 1667.
  166. ^ George Davies (d. 1811). See Harley.
  167. ^ Griffith Davies (1788–1865), actuary; gained repute by his Key to Bonnycastle's Trigonometry 1814; permanent actuary of the Guardian Assurance Company, 1823-56; published Tables of Life Contingencies 1825; engaged to report on various Indian funds 1829-51; F.R.S., 1831: compiledTables for the Use of Friendly Societies 1847.
  168. ^ Henry Davies (1782-1862), physician: M.C.S., 1803; M.D Aberdeen, 1823; L.R.C.P., 1823; physician to the British Lying-in Hospital, and lecturer on midwifery at St. George's Hospital; published The Young Wife's Guide 1844.
  169. ^ Herbert Davies (1818–1885), physician; son of Dr. Thomas Davies (1792-1839); scholar of Gonville and Oaius College, Cambridge, 1838; B.A., 1842; fellow of Queens* College, Cambridge, 1844; M.D., 1848; F.R.C.P., 1850; physician to the London Hospital, 18541874; hisLectures on the Physical Diagnosis of the Diseases of the Lungs and Heart 1851, translated into German and Dutch.
  170. ^ Hugh Davies (1739?–1821), botanist ; educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge; rector of Aber; published 'Welsh Botanology 1813, and edited second edition of Pennant's Indian Zoology 1790.
  171. ^ James Davies (1820–1883), classical scholar; scholar and graduate of Lincoln College, Oxford; headmaster of Ludlow grammar school; translated Babrius, In verse, 1860, and Hesiod, Theognis, and Callimachus in proee.
  172. ^ Sir John Davies (. 1595), marshal of Connaught under Queen Elizabeth.
  173. ^ Sir John Davies (. 1599), master of the ordnance in Ireland.
  174. ^ Sir John Davies (. 1601 ), conspirator ; sentenced to death for his share in Essex's conspiracy, 1601; pardoned.
  175. ^ John Davies (1565?–1618), poet and writingmaster; published Microcosmos 1603, Humours Heau'n on Earth As also The Triumph of Death 1605, being a description of the plague ot 1603, the Holy Rcode 1609, Wittes Pilgrimage (by Poeticall Essaies) 1611,The Muse's Sacrifice containing the author's famousPicture of an Happy Man 1612, andWit's Bedlam 1617. He also issued an Anatomy of Fair Writ1633. Some of his epigrams are valuable for their of Ben Jonson, Fletcher, and other contemporary poets.
  176. ^ Sir John Davies (1569–1626), attorney-general for Ireland and poet; educated at Winchester and Queen's College, Oxford; B.A., 1590; barrister, Middle Temple, 1695; M.P., Corfe Castle, 1601; solicitor-general for Ireland, the miserable state of which country he recounted in his letters to Cecil, 1603; attorney-general for Ireland, 1606-19; serjeant-at-law, 1606; used his influence for the banishment of Romanist priests from Ireland; on commission for plantation of Ulster, 1608; Serjeant, 1609; M.P., co. Fermanagh, and speaker of the Irish parliament, 1613; M.P., Newcastie-under-Lyme, 1614 and 1621; appointed chief-justice as a reward for maintaining the legality of Charles I's forced loans, 1626, but died before entering on office. In 1622 he collected in one volume, Orchestra 1694, Astraea and a set of quatrains on the immortality of the soul, entitled Nosce Teipsnm 1699. He wrote also. A Contention betwixt a Wife, a Widdow, and a Maide which was performed before the queen In 1602, a treatise on taxation (published 1656), and a discussion on recent Irish discontent, 1612.
  177. ^ John Davies (1670?–1644), lexicographer ; B.A. Jeeus College, Oxford, 1593; rector of Mallwyd, Merionethshire, 1604-8; B.D. Lincoln College, 1608; D.D., 1616; prebendary of St. Asaph, 1607; his most important work, 'Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Dictionarium Duplex 1632: assisted Dr. Richard Parry in the preparation of his Welsh translation of the bible, 1620.
  178. ^ John Davies (1627?–1693), translator ; educated at Jesus College, Oxford, and St. John's College, Cambridge. His translations include Treatise against... Descartes 1654, Les Provinciales 1656, Scuderi's Clelia 1656, Appian'sHistory 1679, and a few Spanish romances.
  179. ^ John Davies (1679–1732), president of Queens' College, Cambridge; educated at Charterhouse and QueensCollege, Cambridge; fellow, 1701; M.A., 1702; rector of Fen Ditton, Cambridge, 1711; prebendary of Ely, 1711; LL.D., 1711; president of Queens College, 1717; D.D., 1717; vice-chancellor, 1726; edited many of Cicero's philosophical treatises and works of other classical authors.
  180. ^ John Scarlett Davies or Davis (fl. 1841), painter; visited Amsterdam, 1841; devoted himself more especially to painting interiors; lithographed twelve heads from studies by Rubens.
  181. ^ Jonathan Davies (1736–1809), provost of Eton; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1763; cunon of Windsor, 1781 91; provost of Eton, 1791; founded an exhibition at Eton and the Davies scholarship at Cambridge; bequeathed 2,0007. to King's College.
  182. ^ Lady Lucy Clementina Davies (1796–1879), authoress; daughter of Lord Leon de Melfort, titular earl of Perth; married, 1823, Francis Henry Davies; publishedRecollections of Society in France and England 1872.
  183. ^ Marianne Davies (1744–1816?), musician ; performed In public on the armonica, an invention of Benjamin Franklin, which became her exclusive property, 1762; travelled in Italy and visited Vienna,
  184. ^ Miles Davies (1662–1715?), bibliographer; admitted into the Engk'sh college at Rome, 1686; priest, 1688; missioner in Worcestershire and adjacent counties; recanted, 1705; possibly adopted legal profession; wrote and personally hawked his own works, which include 'Athenae Britannicae a miscellany, 1716-16.
  185. ^ Owen Davies (1752–1830), superintendent of the Welsh Wesleyan Mission; religious writer,
  186. ^ Richard Davies (rf. 1581), bishop of St. David's ; educated at New Inn Hall, Oxford; vicar of Burnham, 1560; D.D.; fled to Geneva in Mary's reign; reinstated, and (1560) consecrated bishop of St. Asaph; bishop of St. David's, 1661; member of the council of Wales and adviser of Archbishop Parker and Cecil on Welsh affairs; commissioner for the suppression of Welsh piracy, 1578; founded Carmarthen grammar school in conjunction with Walter Devereux, earl of Essex, 1676; informed Cecil that there were no recusants in his diocese, 1577; collaborated with William Salisbury or Salesbury in translating the New Testament into Welsh, 1567; revised part of first edition of Bishops Bible 1568.
  187. ^ Richard Davies (1635–1708), Welsh quaker; originally an independent, but became a professed quaker while working as a hatter in London, 1659; imprisoned, 1660; obtained the release of some of his followers on their promising to appear at Shrewsbury assizes, 1660; friend of the third Lord Herbert of Cherbury; excommunicated, but restored with other quakers to his former privileges by Dr. Lloyd, bishop of St. Asaph, 1680; a religious autobiography appeared, 1710.
  188. ^ Richard Davies (d. 1762), physician ; fellow of Queens College, Cambridge; M.A.,,1734; M.D M 1748; F.R.S., 1738; practised at Bath and Shrewsbury; author of an essay on the blood, 1760, and a treatise on university training, 1759.
  189. ^ Robert Davies (1684–1728), Welsh antiquary and collector of Welsh manuscripts.
  190. ^ Robert Davies (1769?–1835), Welsh poet; better known as Bardd Nantglyn and Robin Ddu o'r Glyn; occupied the bardic chair for Powis at the Wrexham Eisteddfod, 1820; published a Welsh grammar, 1808.
  191. ^ Robert Davies (1793–1875), antiquary of York; solicitor, 1814; town clerk of York, 1827-48; F.S.A., 1842; wrote on the antiquities of York; edited York municipal records.
  192. ^ Rowland Davies (1649–1721), dean of Cork; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1681; LL.D., 1706; prebendary of Cork, 1671, 1674, and 1679; prebendary of Cloyne, 1673 and 1676; dean of Ross, 1679; left Ireland, 1689; chaplain to one of William Ill's regiments at the Boyne, 1690; dean of Cork, 1710; wrote Journal (printed 1857) and theological pamphlets.
  193. ^ Rowland Davies (1740–1797), composer of sacred music; pupil of Handel; ordained Roman catholic priest at the college of Douay, 1765.
  194. ^ Sneyd Davies (1709–1769), poet; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; fellow; archdeacon of Derby, 1756; prebendary of Lichfield; author of Latin poems, imitations of Milton, and verses in the manner of Swift.
  195. ^ Thomas Davies (1511?–1573), bishop of St. Asaph; rector of Llanbedr and vicar of Caerhun, 1535; studied at St. John's and Queens' Colleges, Cambridge; LL.D., 1548; chancellor of Bangor, 1546: received custody of spiritualities of Bangor from Cardinal Pole, 1558; bishop of St. Asaph, 1561-73; issued charge to his clergy, 1561; founded scholarship at Queens' College, Cambridge, and left money for Bangor school.
  196. ^ Sir Thomas Davies or Davis (1631–1679), lord mayor of London and bookseller; educated at St. Paul's School; sheriff, 1667; knighted. 1667; twice master of the Stationers Company, 1668 and 1669; lord mayor, 1676-7.
  197. ^ Thomas Davies (1712?–1785), bookseller; educated at Edinburgh University, 1728; played Pierre in Venice, Preserved 1746; engaged at Drury Lane Theatre, 1753; said to have been driven from the stage (1762) by a sneer in Churchill's Rosciad; introduced Boawell to Johnson, 1763; published a pirated edition of Johnson's writings, but was forgiven by the author, 1773; wrote a Life of Garrick 1780, and Dramatic Miscellanies 1785; republished Elizabethan and Jacobean works.
  198. ^ Thomas Davies (1792–1839), physician; M.D. Paris, 1821; assistant-physician to the London Hospital, 1827; F.R.C.P., 1838; published Lectures on the Diseases of the Lungs and Heart 1835.
  199. ^ Thomas Davies (1837–1891), mineralogist; son of William Davies (1814-1891); assistant in mineral department at.British Museum, 1858; editor o fMineralogical Magazine; P.Q.S., 1870.
  200. ^ Thomas Stephens Davies (1795–1851), mathematician and writer on science; F.R.S. of Edinburgh, 1831- mathematical master, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1834; F.S.A., 1840; developed in his works a new system of spherical geometry.
  201. ^ Walter Davies (1761–1849), Welsh bard and essayist; B.A. All Souls College, Oxford, 1795; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1803; rector of Llanwyddelau, Montgomeryshire, of Manafon, 1807-37, and vicar of Llanrhaiadyr-yn-Mochnant, Denbighshire, 1837-49; author of a book on Welsh industries, 1810, 1813, and 1816, and of poems in the ancient bardic style; edited works of Lewis Glyn Cothi, 1807, and Hugh Morris, 1823.
  202. ^ William Davies (d. 1593), Roman catholic divine ; studied in the English college at Rheims; missioner in Wales, 1585; imprisoned at Ludlow, Bewdley, and Beaumaris; formed a small religious community in Beaumaris prison, 1592; executed as a priest, 1593.
  203. ^ William Davies (fl. 1614), traveller ; taken captive when serving in a trading-ship off Tunis by some Florentine galleys and condemned to slavery at Leghorn; released by the influence of Robert Thornton, an English captain, and taken as ship's doctor on a voyage to the Amazon: imprisoned by the Inquisition in Italy; escaped and published A True Relation of his travels, 1614.
  204. ^ William Davies (d. 1820), bookseller; partner with Thomas Cadell the younger; published fourth to eighth editions of Boswell's Life of Johnson
  205. ^ William Davies (1814–1891), palaeontologist; obtained post in British Museum, 1843, and worked successively on mineralogy and vertebrate palaeontology; retired, 1887; F.G.S., 1877.
  206. ^ William Edmund Davies (1819–1879), betting man; known as the Leviathan; originated the betting list system, 1846; left to the corporation of Brighton 60,000l., of which his widow obtained the enjoyment till her death, 1879; noted for professional honesty and the magnitude of his transactions.
  207. ^ Charles Davis (d. 1755), bookseller and publisher; one of the first to issue priced catalogues of second-hand books.
  208. ^ David Davis (1745–1827), Welsh poet ; ordained co-pastor at Llwyn-rhyd-owen, Cardiganshire, 1773; conducted school at Castle Howel, 1783; initiated resolutions of condolence with Dr. Priestley from Cardiganshire nonconformist 1791; translated Sconenill'sLife of God in the Soul of Man into Welsh, 1779, and published Telyn Dewi 1824.
  209. ^ David Daniel Davis (1777–1841), physician; M.D. Glasgow, 1801; physician to the Sheffield infirmary, 1803-13; L.R.C.P., 1813; attended the Duchess of Kent at the birth of Queen Victoria, 1819; obstetric physician to University College Hospital, 1834-41; chief work,The Principles and Practice of Obstetric Medicine 1836.
  210. ^ Edward Davis (fl. 1683–1702), buccaneer and pirate; joined Cook's band, 1683; commissioned to fish and hunt in Hispaniola in reality to plunder, by the governor of Petit Goave, 1684; defeated by Spaniards in Panama Bay, 1685; burnt Leon, 1685; accepted king's pardon; settled in Virginia, 1688; commissioned as privateer by the governor of Jamaica, 1702; formed alliance with the Indians of the islands of San Bias, under whose guidance he sailed up a river, possibly the Atrato, and sacked a Spanish settlement.
  211. ^ Edward Davis (1833–1867), subject painter ; first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854; died in Rome.
  212. ^ Henry Edwards Davis (1756–1784), opponent of Gibbon: B.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1778; published an Examination of Gibbon's account of the origin of Christianity, but was overmatched, 1778; priest, 1780; fellow and tutor of Balliol, 1780.
  213. ^ Henry George Davis (1830–1857), topographer ; left in manuscript Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge(published, 1869), Recollections of Piccadilly and an account of Pimlico.
  214. ^ James Davis (d. 1755), Welsh satirist; M.A. Jesus College, Oxford, 1729; M.B. 1732; published Origines Divisianae; or the Antiquities of the Devizes, 1 a satire on the contemporary school of etymologists, 1754.
  215. ^ John Davis (1550?–1605).
  216. ^ John Davis (d. 1622), navigator ; made voyage to the East Indies as pilot and captain; captured by the Dutch at Pularoon, 1617; released, 1618; died at Batavia, 1622; wroteA Ruter...for Readie Sailings into the East India 1618, published inPurchas his Pilgrimes
  217. ^ John Philip Davis (called 'Pope' Davis) (d. 1862), painter; calledPopefrom his picture of theTalbot family receiving the Benediction of the Pope, painted at Rome, 1824; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1811-43; published a criticism on the Royal Academy and National Gallery, 1858. His Thoughts on Great Painters appeared in 1866.
  218. ^ John Bunnell Davis (1780–1824), physician; M.D. Montpellier, 1803; imprisoned at Montpellier and Verdun by Bonaparte; released in 1806 by the influence of Corvisart, Bonaparte's physician, to whom he showed his Observations oa Precipitate Burial; M.D. Edinburgh, 1808; L.R.O.P., 1810; physician to the troops invalided home from Walcheren.
  219. ^ John Ford Davis (1773–1864), physician; M.D. Edinburgh, 1797; L.R.C.P., 1808; physician to the General Hospital, Bath, 1817-34; chief work 4 An Inquiry into the Symptoms and Treatment of Carditis 1808.
  220. ^ Sir John Francis Davis (1795–1890), diplomatist; writer in East India Company's factory at Canton, 1813; accompanied Lord Amherst on embassy to Pekin, 1816; president of factory at Canton, 1832; joint commissioner in China with Lord Napier, 1834; British plenipotentiary and chief superintendent of British trade in China, and governor and commander -in-chief at Hongkong, 1844-8; created baronet, 1845; K.C.B., 1864; D.C.L. Oxford, 1876; published works on China.
  221. ^ Joseph Barnard Davis (1801–1881), craniolegist; surgeon on an Arctic whaler, 1820; M.C.S., 1843; M.D. St. Andrews, 1862; chief work, Crania Britannica 1866.
  222. ^ Lockyer Davis (1719–1791), bookseller; nephew of Charles Davis; member of the booksellers club which produced Johnson's Lives of the Poets 1778; translated La Rochefoucault's Maxims and Moral Reflections 1749.
  223. ^ Mary Davis or Davies (fl. 1663–1669), actress in the company of Sir William D'Avenant, 1660; performed in various plays by Etherege, Drycien, and Shirley; mistress of Charles II, 166H; fruqueutly mentioned by Pepys as a dancer and court beauty.
  224. ^ Nathan Davis (1812–1882), traveller and excavator; resided in an old Moorish palace near Tunis; engaged on behalf of the British Museum ia excavations at Carthage and Utica, 1856-8. His works include A Voice from North Africa 1844, and Israel's true Emancipator 1852.
  225. ^ Richard Barrett Davis (1782–1864), animal painter; exhibited at the Royal Academy (1802-53), the British Institute, and the Suffolk Street Exhibition; animal painter to William IV, 1831.
  226. ^ Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845), poet and politician: graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, 1836; called to the bar, 1838; in conjunction with Duffy and Dillon founded the Nation newspaper, to which he contributed some stirring ballads, 1842; developed Young Ireland party out of the extremists who were dissatisfied with O'Connell's constitutional methods, 1845.
  227. ^ William Davis (1627–1690), highwayman on Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Worcestershire roads; known as the Golden Farmer from his habitually paying with gold coin to avoid identification of his plunder; lived unsuspected as a farmer till 1690, when he was identified and hanged.
  228. ^ William Davis (1771–1807), mathematician and editor of the Companion to the Gentleman's Diary; bookseller and publisher (1803) of Motte's translation of Sir Isaac Newton's Principles; largely wrote or edited works on fluxions.
  229. ^ William Davis (1812–1873), landscape and portrait painter; professor of painting, Liverpool Academy; exhibited landscapes at the Royal Academy, 1851-72.
  230. ^ Alexander Davison (1750–1829), government I contractor; member of legislative council of Quebec, 1784; friend of Nelson; prize-agent of Lord Nelson after battle of the Nile, 1798; clothing contractor to the army and agent for the purchase of barrack supplies, 1795; fined and imprisoned for fraudulently accepting government commission on the sale of private stock, 1808.
  231. ^ Edward Davison (1576?–1624?). See Dawson.
  232. ^ Edward Davison (1789–1863), divine; M.A. University College, Oxford, 1819; rector of Harlington, 1822, and of St. Nicholas, Durham, 1825-56; published 'Tentamen Theologicum(manual on preaching), 1850.
  233. ^ Francis Davison (fl. 1602), poet; son of William Davison (1541? -1608); member of Gray's Inn, 1593; travelled in Italy, 1595; contributed some of its best poems toA Poetical Rapsody 1602; left in manuscript metrical translations from the Psalms,Tabula Analytlca Poetica and some historical pamphlets.
  234. ^ James William Davison (1813–1885), journalist; studied at the Royal Academy of Music; composed songs; wrote monograph on Chopin, 1849; musical critic to the Times 1846-85; trained popular taste to appreciate Berlioz and Mendelssohn.
  235. ^ Jeremiah Davison (1695?–1750?), portraitpainter. Among his sitters were Frederick, prince of Wales, 1730, and Admiral Byng.
  236. ^ John Davison (1777–1834), theological writer; educated at Durham Cathedral school and Christ Church, Oxford; Craven scholar, 1796; fellow of Oriel, 1800; rector of Washington, Durham, 1818, of Upton-upon-Severn, 1826; prebendary of St. Paul's and (1826) of Worcester. Hia most important works are the Discourses on Prophecy emphasising the moral aspect of prophetic revelations, and An Inquiry into the Origin and Intent of Primitive Sacrifice 1825.
  237. ^ Maria Rebecca Davison (1780?–1858), actress ; played children's parts in Dublin, Liverpool, and Newcastle; played Lady Teazle and Rosalind at Drury Lane, 1804;createdJuliana in theHoneymoon 18U5; last appeared at Drury Lane in 1829; styled by Leigh Hunt the best lady of the comic stage.
  238. ^ Walter Davison (1581–1608?), poet; son of William Davison (1541 ?-1608); educated at King's College, Cambridge: served in Low Countries, c. 1602; author of poems in Poetical Rapsody 1602.
  239. ^ William Davison (1541?–1608), secretary of Queen Elizabeth; resident agent at Antwerp, 1577; obtained for the States-General a loan of 60,000l. from the English government, 1579; sent to Scotland to prevent a proposed French alliance, 1583; commander of Flushing, 1585; returned to England to explain the Earl of Leicester's acceptance of the governorship of the Low Countries without instructions from home, 1586; privy councillor and secretary to Queen Elizabeth, 1586; member of the commission for the trial of Mary Queen of Scot*, 1588: fined and imprisoned in the Tower, 1587-9, formisprision and contempt being unfairly charged by the queen with undue precipitation in securing her signature to the deathwarrant of Mary Queen of Scots,; subsequently custos brevium in the king's bench and clerk of the treasury, by a reversion dating from 1579.
  240. ^ William Davison or Davidson (fl. 1635-1660), chemist and physician; physician to the king of France; keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden of Paris, 1648-50; senior surgeon to the king of Poland, 1650; follower of Paracelsus in Philosophia Pyrotechnica complete edition, 1641; published prolegomena on the philosophy of Severinus, 1660.
  241. ^ Adam Davy (fl. 1308?), fanatical rhymer; formerly supposed to be the author of Alisaunder and the entire Bodleian MS. Laud, 622; claimed to predict the destiny of King Edward (III ?) in his Dreams
  242. ^ Charles Davy (1722–1797), miscellaneous writer; M.A. Caius College, Cambridge, 1748; held incumbencies in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1764-97; published Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetical Writing 1772, and Letters in which was embodied a translation ofEuclid's Section of the Canon, and Treatise on Harmonic 1787.
  243. ^ David Elisha Davy (1769–1861), Suffolk antiquary and collector; B.A. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1790; receiver-general for Suffolk; left manuscripts on the genealogical history and heraldry of Suffolk families, now in British Museum.
  244. ^ Edmund Davy (1785–1857), professor of chemistry : operator and assistant in the laboratory of the Royal Institution, 1804-13; professor and secretary of the Royal Cork Institution, 1813; professor of chemistry of the Royal Dublin Society, 1826; F.R.S. and F.O.S.; author of papers on agricultural chemistry, electro-chemistry, and metallurgy.
  245. ^ Edward Davy (1806–1885), scientific investigator ; M.R.O.S., 1829; invented Davy's diamond cement 1835; invented needle telegraph, 1837; sailed, as medical superintendent of an emigrant ship, to Australia, 1839; editor of theAdelaide Examiner 1843-5; in charge of the government assay office at Adelaide, 1852, and at Melbourne, 1853-4; surgeon at Malmesbury,Victoria, where he died; published An Experimental Guide to Chemistry 1836.
  246. ^ Henry Davy (fl. 1829), architect and landscapepainter; executed etchings of the country seats and antiquities of Suffolk, 1818 and 1827.
  247. ^ Sir Humphrey Davy (1778–1829), natural philosopher; instructed in the rudiments of science by a saddler of Peuzance; educated at Penzance grammar school and at Truro; wroteThe Sons of Genius a poem, 1796; introduced to Dr. Edwards, the chemist, who directed his attention to some phenomena of what was afterwards known as galvanic action; superintendent of the laboratory of the Pneumatic Institution at Bristol, 1798-9; visited London, 1799; published the first volume of theWest-Country CollectionsandResearches, Chemical and Philosophical, chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide and its Respiration 1799; nearly died in attempt to breathe carburetted hydrogen gas, 1800; lectured on galvanism and pneumatic chemistry at the Royal Institution, where he was appointed director of chemical laboratory, 1801; chemistry professor, Royal Institution, 1802; F.R.S., 1803; Copley medallist of the Royal Society, 1805; demonstrated the elementary existence of potassium, sodium, and chlorine by the agency of the galvanic battery, 1807; discovered he actual constitution of oxymuriatic acid, 1807; gained the Napoleon prize from the Institute of France for his discoveries; honorary LL.D. Dublin, 1811; knighted, 1812; appointed Faraday his assistant in the laboratory of the Royal Institution, 1812; experimented in Italy on ancient pigments and combustion of diamond, 1812-13; invented safety-lamp, 1815; created baronet, 1818; P.R.S., 1820; invented an ultimately abandoned system of protectors for preserving the copper sheathing of the bottoms of ships, 1823; died, worn out, at Geneva, 1829.
  248. ^ Jane Davy , LADY (1780–1855), wife of Sir Humphry Davy after the death of her first husband, Sir Shuckburgh Ashby Apreece, in 1807; nee Kerr; a prominent figure in the society of both Rome and London; commended by Madame de Stael.
  249. ^ John Davy (1763–1824), musical composer ; articled to William Jackson (1730-1803), organist of Exeter Cathedral; organist at Exeter; violinist in the orchestra of Covent Garden Theatre, 1800; set to music various dramatic pieces; composed overture for Shakespeare's Tempest; popular song- writer in his day.
  250. ^ John Davy (1790–1868), physiologist and anatomist; brother of Sir Humphry Davy; M.D. Edinburgh, 1814; championed his brother's discovery of the constitution of muriatic acid; army surgeon and inspector-general of army hospitals; FRS., 1814; published An Account of the Interior of Oeylon 1821, Discourses on Agriculture 1849,Physiological Researches 1863, and other works of science and travel.
  251. ^ Martin Davy (1763–1839), physician and master of Gains College, Cambridge; M.D. Caius College, Cambridge, 1797; master of Caius, 1803-39; D.D., 1811; prebendary of Chichester; vice-chancellor, 1803 and 1827; adherent of the Brunonian system of medicine.
  252. ^ Robert Davy (d. 1793), portrait-painter ; studied at Rome; under drawing-master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; exhibited at the Free Society of Artists, 1762-8, and at the Royal Academy, 1771-82.
  253. ^ William Davy (d. 1780), lawyer; entered the Middle Temple, 1741; serjeant-at-law, 1754; king's serjeant, 1762; defended the runaway slave Sommersett against the claims of the slave-owner, 1772; famous as a cross-examiner and humorist.
  254. ^ William Davy (1743–1826), divine; B.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1766; vicar of Winkleigh, Devonshire, 1825-6; author of a System of Divinity on the Being, Nature, and Attributes of God which he printed himself, 1795-1807; his work highly praised after his death.
  255. ^ Davydd I (d. 1203), king of North Wales; son of Owain Gwynedd; fought vigorously against Henry IPs troops in Wales, 1157; slew his rival, Howel, and became lord of Gwynedd, 1170; allied himself with Henry II, in the hope of getting his help against rival chieftains, 1176; entertained Archbishop Baldwin at Rhuddlan Castle, 1188; overpowered and dethroned by Llewelyn, son of lorwerth, 1194,
  256. ^ Davydd II (1208?–1246), prince of North Wales ; son of Llewelyn ab lorwerth; did homage to Henry III, 1229; married to Isabella, the daughter of William de Braose, 1230; defeated Gruffudd, his half-brother and rival for the succession, 1238; recognised as prince and knighted by Henry III, 1240; became alienated from him by refusing, in 1241, to liberate Gruffudd, whom he had treacherously imprisoned; capitulated to an invading force led by King Henry in person, 1241: sent Welsh troops for the French war, 1242; invaded Herefordshire, 1244; attempted, but ultimately failed, to enlist the sympathies of the pope against Henry III, 1245; carried on a border warfare till his death.
  257. ^ Davydd III (d. 1283), last native prince of North Wales; son of Gruffudd; joined his brother Llewelyn in his opposition to the designs of the king of England, 1268; defeated the marcher lords of south-west Wales, 1258; accompanied Edward I in his expedition against Llewelyn, 1277; arranged a treaty between Edward and Llewelyn, for which he was rewarded, though his lands were handed over to his brother; driven to revolt by Edward's excessive demands and the contempt he showed for the Welsh laws, 1282; excommunicated by Archbishop Peckham for refusing to go on a crusade, 1282; betrayed by his own countrymen, 1283; executed and gibbeted, 1283.
  258. ^ George Davys (1780–1864), bishop of Peterborough; educated at Christ's College, Cambridge; fellow, 1806; M.A., 1806; tutor to the Princess Victoria, 1827; rector of Allhallows-on-the-Wall, London, 1829-39; dean of Chester and D.D., 1831-9; bishop of Peterborough, 18391864; compiled educational works and wrote on the English liturgy,
  259. ^ John Davys (1550?–1605), navigator ; in company with his friend, Adrian Gilbert, and Dr. John Dee, explained the possibility of the north-west passage to Walsingham, 1583; discovered Davys Strait, and explored Baffin's Bay, 1587; commanded the squadron which captured the Uggera Salvagnia, 1690; accompanied Thomas Cavendish in the south seas on his second voyage, for the failure of which he was unjustly blamed, 1591-3; publishedSeaman's Secrets 1594, and theWorld's Hydrographical Description maintaining existence of northwest passage, 1595; embarked, at the suggestion of the Earl of Essex, as pilot of the Leeuw, a Dutch East Indiaman, 1598; pilot of the Tiger, 1604; killed in an affray with Japanese pirates off Singapore, 1605.
  260. ^ Mary Davys (fl. 1756), dramatist and novelist ; corresponded with Dean Swift; author of society comedies and tales.
  261. ^ George Dawe (1781–1829), portrait-painter and mezzotint engraver; gold medallist of the Royal Academy for his picture of Achilles rejecting the Consolations of Thetis 1803; R.A., 1814; commissioned by Alexander of Russia to paint a series of portraits of the higher Russian officers who had fought against Napoleon, 1819; painted portraits of the king of Prussia and the Duke of Cumberland at Berlin, 1828.
  262. ^ Henry Edward Dawe (1790–1848), painter and mezzotint engraver; son of Philip Da we; member of the Society of British Artists, 1830; exhibited at Suffolk Street, 1824-45, the Royal Academy, and the British Institution; employed by Turner upon the Liber Studiorum.
  263. ^ Philip Dawe (fl. 1780), mezzotint engraver; friend of George Morland; contributed to the first exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1763.
  264. ^ Lancelot Dawes (1580–1654), divine; M.A. and fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, 1605: incumbent of Ashby, Westmoreland, a charge of simony having been invalidated, 1618-54; prebendary of Carlisle; D.D. St. Andrews, c. 1618.
  265. ^ Manasseh Dawes (d. 1829), miscellaneous writer; author of numerous publications, including an Essay on Intellectual Liberty 1780, and an Epitome of the Law of Landed Property 1818.
  266. ^ Richard Dawes (1708–1766), Greek scholar and schoolmaster; fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1731; M.A., 1733; master of Newcastle grammar school and St. Mary's Hospital, Newcastle, 1738; resigned school in consequence of differences with the governors, 1749; published Miscellanea Critica containing his canons of Greek moods and tenses, 1745; severely criticised Bentley.
  267. ^ Richard Dawes (1793–1867), dean of Hereford; fourth wrangler, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1817; M.A., 1820; mathematical tutor and bursar of Downing College, 1818; rector of King's Somborne, Hampshire, 18361850; founded a model lower-class school in his parish, 1842; D.D.; dean of Hereford, 1850; author of some pamphlets on the education of the poorer classes.
  268. ^ Sophia Dawes or Daw, Baronne de Feuchères (1790-1840), adventuress; daughter of a fisherman at St. Helen's, Isle of Wight: became, in London in 1811, mistress of the Duke of Bourbon, son of the Prince de Oonde; married at Paris by the Duke of Bourbon to Baron Adrien Victor de Feucheres, 1818; forbidden the French court by Louis XVIII on being separated from her husband for adultery, 18-2: readmitted to the French court by Charles X, 1830; reputed to be concerned iu the apparent suicide of the Duke of Bourbon, 1830, and in the gudden death of her nephew, James Dawes.
  269. ^ Sir William Dawes, third baronet (1671–1724), archbishop of York: entered Merchant Taylors School, IGHii; wrote devotional work entitled The Duties of the Closet, c. 1691; fellow of St. John's College, Oxford; master of St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, 1696; D.D., 1696; chaplain in ordinary to William III, 1696; prebendary of Worcester, 1698; bishop of Chester, 1708; archbishop of York, 1713; edited the works of Blackall, bishop of i:ftcr, 1723, and wrote religious poems and treatises.
  270. ^ William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868), astronomer; educated at Charterhouse; studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and practised at Haddenham, Buckinghamshire; contributed to the Royal Astronomical Society's Memoirs Micrometrical Measurements of 121 Double Stars, taken at Ormskirk during the years 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833 M.R.A.S., 1830; in charge of the observatory at South Villa, Regent's Park, 1839-44; gold medallist of the Astronomical Society, 1855; controverted Nasmyth's supposed discovery of solar willow-leaves; invented the wedge photometer, exhibited 1865; established the non-atmospheric character of the redness of Mars, 1865; F.R.S., 1865.
  271. ^ James Dawkins (1722–1757), archaeologist and Jacobite; born in Jamaica; educated at St. John's College, Oxford: D.C.L., 1749; travelled on continent; assisted James Stuart (1713-1788) and Nicholas Revett in taking measurements of Greek architecture at Athens; visited with Robert Wood ruins of Palmyra and Baalbec, 1751; engaged in Jacobite intrigues in Paris, 1751-4; sent by George Keith, tenth earl Mariscbal, as envoy to Frederick the Great; returned to England, 1754; M.P. for Hindon Borough, Wiltshire, 1754-7.
  272. ^ Ichabod Dawks (1661–1730), printer ; son of Thomas Dawks the younger; startedin script Dawks's News- Letter 1696; mentioned in theTatler 1709, 1710, and in the Spectator 1712.
  273. ^ Thomas Dawks , the elder (d. 1670), printer.
  274. ^ Thomas Dawks , the younger (ft. 1636), printer : son of Thomas Dawks the elder; entered Merchant TaylorsSchool, 1649; employed as compositor 011 Walton's Polyglott bible, 1653-7; master-printer at Blackfriars, 1674.
  275. ^ Abraham Dawson (1713?–1789), biblical scholar; M.A.; rector of Ringsfield, Suffolk, 1754-89; published various translations, with notes, of the earlier chapters of Genesis.
  276. ^ Ambrose Dawson (1707–1794), physician; M.D. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1735; F.R.O.P., 1737; Harveian orator, 1744; physician to St. George's Hospital, 1745-60; best known by hisThoughts on the Hydrocephalus Internus 1778.
  277. ^ Benjamin Dawson (1729–1814), divine and philologist; brother of Abraham Dawson; M.A. Glasgow, 1753; presbyterian minister, 1764-60: rector of Burgh, Suffolk, 1760-1814; LL.D.. 1763: Lady Meyer's lecturer, 1764; wrote The Necessitarian a defence of necessitarianism, 1783; published first part of a Philological and Synonymical Dictionary of the English Language 1806.
  278. ^ Edward Dawson or Davison (1576?–1624?), Jesuit; studied in Spain and was sent on the English mission; imprisoned, and in 1606 exiled; became a Jesuit at Louvain, 1606 or 1609; twice missioner in England: died of the plague at Brussels; translated Lives of many Saints from the Spanish, 1615.
  279. ^ George Dawson (1637–1700), jurist : M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1662; vicar of Sunninghill; wrote Origo Legum in seven books, 1694.
  280. ^ George Dawson (1821–1876), preacher, lecturer and politician; entered Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1837, and Glasgow University, 1838; M.A. Glasgow; baptist pastor, Mount Ziou, Birmingham, 1844-6; pastor of the Church of the Saviour Birmingham, a new institution on broad and undenominational lines, 1847-76; friend of Oarlyle and Emerson, whose teachings he popularised in his lectures and writings; helped to found the Shakespeare Memorial Library at Birmingham; sympathised with the patriots and exiles of Poland,
  281. ^ Henry Dawson (1811–1878), landscape-painter: originally employed in the lace-making industry, for which he invented a machine; competed for the decoration of the Houses of Parliament with a picture of Charles I raising his standard at Nottingham, 1847: praised as a colourist by Husk in: exhibited at the British Institution and the Royal Academy: best known by his later pictures in the style of Turner, such as Greenwich (1874),Wooden Walls Houses of Parliament and Durham
  282. ^ James Dawson (1717?–1746), Jacobite: pensioner, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1737; left the university and joined the Young Pretender, 1745: captain. 1745; executed, his betrothed dying of grief the same day, 1746.
  283. ^ John Dawson (1734–1820), surgeon and mathematician; studied medicine at Edinburgh; surgeon and teacher of mathematics at Sedbergh, eight senior wranglers being among his pupils, 1781-94: attacked Priestley's doctrine of philosophical necessity, 1781; controverted William Emerson's Newtonian analysis; published, 1768, Four Propositions against Stewart's Son's Distance
  284. ^ Sir John William Dawson (1820–1899), geologist: born at Pictou, Nova Scotia; educated at Edinburgh University; made geological survey of Nova Scotia: superintendent of education for common schools in Nova Scotia, 1850; professor of geology and principal at McGill College and University, Montreal, 1855-93: F.G.S., 1854; F.R?., 1862; first president of Royal Society of Canada; hon.LL.D. McGill University, 1857. and Edinburgh, 1884: D.C.L. Bishop's College, Quebec, 1881; C.M.G., 1882; knighted, 1884: Emeritus principal, professor, and honorary curator of Redpath Museum, 1898; published numerous works and papers on subjects connected with geology and natural history.
  285. ^ Matthew Dawson (1820–1898), trainer of racehorses; presided over James Merry's stable at Russley, 1860-6; started as public trainer at Newmarket, 1866; had charge of Lord Falmouth's stud, 1869-84. He trained winners for six Derbies, seven St. Legers, and four Gold Cups at Ascot.
  286. ^ Nancy Dawson (1730?–1767), dancer; figuredancer at Sadler's Wells; joined Covent Garden Theatre and made her reputation by dancing the hornpipe in the Beggar's Opera 1769, the tune becoming popular.
  287. ^ Robert Dawson (1776–1860), topographical artist; assistant-draughtsman on the ordnance survey of Great Britain, 1794: first-class draughtsman of the royal military surveyors, 1802; taught at the Royal Military College and, 1810, at the East India Company's military seminary, Addiscombe; excelled in the artistic employment of oblique light.
  288. ^ Robert Kearsley Dawson (1798–1861), lieutenant-colonel royal engineers: son of Robert Dawson ; employed on the Scotch and Irish surveys; head surveyor of the commons enclosure and copyhold commission; C.B., civil division.
  289. ^ Thomas Dawson (1726?–1782), physician; brother of Abraham Dawson; M.D. Glasgow, 1753; physician to the Middlesex Hospital, 1769-61; L.R.C.P., 1762; physician to the London Hospital, 17641770.
  290. ^ William Dawson (1773–1841), Wesleyan; lay and (from 1837) itinerant preacher.
  291. ^ Alexander Day (1773–1841), painter and art dealer; lived at Rome, 1794, and was detained by the French during their war with Naples; painted medallions; imported into England many valuable pictures.
  292. ^ Alfred Day (1810–1849), musical theorist; took a medical degree at Heidelberg, and practised homoeopathy in London; published A Treatise on Harmony 1846.
  293. ^ Angell Day (fl.–1586), miscellaneous writer; chief works, The English Secretorie (letter-writing manual), 1686, and Daphnis and Ohloe (translated from Longus), 1587.
  294. ^ Daniel Day (1683–1767), founder of Fairlop fair, a popular festival which arose out of his custom of yearly feasting his tenants on his estate near Fairlop Oak in Hainault forest.
  295. ^ Francis Day (d. 1642), founder of Madras; founded a factory at Armagaum, 1625; built Fort St. George on a site less exposed to Dutch attacks, 1639; died at Madras.
  296. ^ Francis Day (1829–1889), ichthyologist ; educated at Shrewsbury; studied medicine at St. George's Hospital, London; M.R.C.S., 1851; entered Madras medical service, 1852; served in second Burmese war; inspector-general of fisheries in India; retired as deputy surgeon-general, 1876; C.I.E., 1885; honorary LL.D. Edinburgh, 1889; F.Z.S., 1864; F.L.S., 1857; published numerous writings relating to ichthyology. Collections formed by him are in the British Museum (natural history) and at Cambridge.
  297. ^ George Day (1501?–1556), bishop of Chichester ; master of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1537; provost of King's College, 1538-c. 1547; public orator; member of commission which drew up the Necessary Doctrine and Erudition of a Christian Man 1540; bishop of Chichester, 1543; assisted in drawing up first English prayer-book, 1548, but voted against its use, 1549; deprived of his bishopric for contempt by the council, 1551, and imprisoned in the Tower; released at Mary's accession, 1553, and restored to bishopric of Chichester.
  298. ^ George Edward Day (1815–1872), physician; M.A. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1840; F.R.C.P., 1847; Ohandos professor of anatomy and medicine at St. Andrews, 1849-63; M.D. Giessen, 1849; translated Russian and German works on pathological anatomy, and publishedChemistry in its Relations to Physiology and Medicine 1860.
  299. ^ James Day (ft. 1637), verse-writer ; published ' A New Spring of Divine Poetrie 163.7.
  300. ^ John Day, Daye, or Daie (1522–1584), printer : imprisoned for his protestant ardour by Queen Mary; printed first church-music book in English, 1560; produced first English edition of Foxe's Martyrs 1563; printed earliest collection of psalm-tunes published in England, 1563; first to cast Anglo-Saxon type in England, using it for an edition of Ifric's Homily 1567, Asser's Life of Alfred 1574, and other works; printer of ABO and catechisms by a monopoly which led to litigation in 1582; master of the Stationers Company, 1580; introduced a new italic, a Roman, and a Greek type.
  301. ^ John Day (fl. 1606), dramatist ; at Caius College, Cambridge, 1592-3; referred to with dislike by Ben Jonson, 1619. Among his extant plays are The He of Gvls 1606, Law-Trickes (a play in many points resembling Pericles), 1608, and Humour out of Breath (rhyming comedy), 1608. His best piece isThe Parliament of Bees a moral allegory, 1607 (?). Works first collected by Mr. A. H. Bullen in 1881.
  302. ^ John Day (1566–1628), divine : son of John Day (1522-1584): commoner of St. Alban Hall, Oxford, 1582; fellow of Oriel College, 1588; M.A. and B.D.; vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford, 1609-22; chief works, Oommentarii in octo libros Aristotelis de Auscultatione Physica 1689, and Day's Dyall 1614.
  303. ^ Matthew Day (rf. 1663), classical scholar ; M.A. King's College, Cambridge, 1637; rector of Everdon, Northamptonshire; ejected, 1644; master of the free school, Lewisham; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1660: D.D. Cambridge, 1661; published Excerpta in sex priores Homeri Iliados libros 1652.
  304. ^ Richard Day, Daye, or D'Aje (1552–1607?), printer, translator, and divine; son of John Day (15221584); educated at Eton; fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 1574; B.A., 1575; vicar of Reigate, 1683-4; printedThe First Part of the Key of Philosophic, by Paracelsus 1580; edited Gilby's translation of The Testamentes of the Twelve Patriarches 1581.
  305. ^ Stephen Day (1610?–1668). See Daye.
  306. ^ Thomas Day (1748–1789), author of 'Sandford and Merton; educated at Charterhouse and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; barrister of the Middle Temple, 1776; formed friendship with Richard Lovell Edgeworth; educated two orphan girls, intending to marry one and apprentice the other, but subsequently (1778) married a Miss Esther Milnes; took a farm at Anniugsley, Surrey, and did something to work out his schemes of moral and social reform among the poor, 1781; published social and philanthropic pamphlets and theHistory of Sandford and Merton vol. i. 1783, vol. ii. 1787, and vol. iii. 1789. in which he attempted to reconcile Rousseau's naturalism with a sounder morality.
  307. ^ William Day (1529–1596), bishop of Winchester ; brother of George Day, bishop of Chichester; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; fellow, 1548; M.A., 1553; prebendary of York, 1560; elected provost of Eton, 1561; B.D., 1562; destroyed all traces of Catholicism in Eton College chapel; offended De Foix, the French ambassador, when staying at Eton, by requiring his submission to discipline and causing his subsequent removal, 1563; dean of Chapel Royal, 1572; dean of Windsor, 1572; registrar of the order of the Garter, 1584; chancellor of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1587; bishop of Winchester, 1595; published sermons.
  308. ^ William Day (fl. 1666), divine ; brother of Matthew Day; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; fellow of King's; M.A., 1632; M.A. Oxford, 1635; vicar of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, 1637; divinity reader in St. George's Chapel, c. 1660; published scripture commentaries.
  309. ^ Stephen Daye (1610?–1668), first printer in New England; employed by President Dunster of Harvard, 1639-49; printed in America the Freeman's Oath and a complete metrical translation of the Psalms, known as the Bay Psalm Book, 1640.
  310. ^ Edward Dayes (1763–1804), water-colour painter and engraver in mezzotint; exhibited miniatures, landscapes, and classic and scriptural subjects, at the Royal Academy, 1786-1804, and the Society of Artists; draughtsman to the Duke of York; committed suicide, 1804.
  311. ^ Solomon Dayrolles (d. 1786), diplomatist: master of the revels to George II, 1744; secretary to Lord Chesterfield, his godfather, when ambassador to The Hague for the second time, 1745; gentleman usher of the black rod to Chesterfield, when lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1745; resident at the Hague, 1747-51, at Brussels, 1751-7; assisted Maty in writing his Life of Chesterfield
  312. ^ James Deacon (d. 1750), miniature-painter.
  313. ^ Thomas Deacon (1697–1753), physician and nonjuring bishop: agent in the Jacobite rising of 1715; physician at Manchester, 1720 (?); was consecrated a nonjuring bishop, 1733; supported Prince Charles Edward, 1745; founded The True British Catholic Church at Manchester; translator of Tillemont and author of some liturgical and theological works.
  314. ^ William Frederick Deacon (1799–1846), journalist and author; educated at St. Catharine Hall, Cambridge; editor of The Dejeune 1820: critic to the Sun; published The Innkeeper's Album 1823, Warreniana (burlesque), 1824, and the Exile of Erin a tale, 1835.
  315. ^ Thomas Dealtry (1796–1861), third bishop of Madras; LL.B. St. Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1829; D.D.; appointed to a chaplaincy in Bengal by the influence of Charles Simeon, 1829; archdeacon of Calcutta, 1835-48; bishop of Madras, 1849-61.
  316. ^ William Dealtry (1775–1847), archdeacon of Surrey; educated at St. Catharine Hall and Trinity College, Cambridge; fellow of Trinity, 1798-1814; M.A., 1799; D.D., 1829; professor of mathematics at the East India College, Haileybury; chancellor of the diocese of Winchester, 1830; archdeacon of Surrey, 1845; published The Principles of Fluxions 1810.
  317. ^ Richard Dean (1727?-1778), divine and author ; wrote 4 An Essay on the Future Life of Brutes 1767.
  318. ^ Thomas Dean (18th cent.), musician ; organist at Warwick and Coventry; Mus. Doc. Oxford, 1731; wrote music for Oldmixon's Governor of Cyprus 1703.
  319. ^ William Dean (d. 1688), Roman catholic divine ; educated in the English college, liheims; sent on the English mission, 1582; executed, 1688.
  320. ^ Sir Anthony Deane (1638?–1721), shipbuilder; friend of Pepys; master shipwright at Harwich, 1664; mayor of Harwich, 1676 and 1682; commissioner of the navy, 1675; knighted; built yachts for Louis XIV, 1675; M.P., New Shoreham, 1678, Harwich, 1679 and 1685; inventor of Punchinello cannon; P.B.S., 1681.
  321. ^ Henry Deane (d. 1503), archbishop of Canterbury; councillor of Henry VII; chancellor of Ireland, 1494; elected bishop of Bangor, 1494; deputy-governor of Ireland, 1496: deputy and justiciary, 1496; built a wall to protect the English pale, 1496; retired, 1496; rebuilt Danger Cathedral, 1498, and vindicated its right to the Skerries fisheries; keeper of the great seal, 1500-2; archbishop of Canterbury, 1501; chief commissioner for negotiating the marriage of Margaret, daughter of Henry VII, with James IV of Scotland, 1502.
  322. ^ Richard Deane (1610–1653), admiral and general at sea; commanded parliament artillery in Corn wall, 1644, and at Naseby, 1645; commanded right wing at Preston, 1648; assisted in framing theRemonstrance of the Army 1648; showed great energy as commissioner for the trial of Charles 1, 1649; general at sea. in charge of the coast from Portsmouth to Milford Haven, 1649; fought as major-general at Worcester, 1651; commanderin-chief of the army in Scotland, his chief achievement being the pacification of the highlands, oy an agreement with the Marquis of Argyll, 1662; imprisoned Ogilvie, governor of Dunnottar Castle, and Grainger, a minister, on the charge of having made away with the Scotch regalia, 1652; associated with Blake in the battle off Portland, 1653; paid great attention to the details of the administration of the fleet; killed in action off Solebay, 1653.
  323. ^ Thomas Deane (1651–1735), Roman catholic controversialist; M.A. University College, Oxford, 1676; tutor and follow, 1684-9; declared himself a Romanist, 1685; pilloried at Charing Cross, 1691; published a work to prove that Luther was neither a catholic nor a protestant, 1688.
  324. ^ Sir Thomas Deane (1792–1871), builder and architect in Cork; mayor of Cork, 1830; knighted, 1830; designed many of the public buildings in Cork, the Venetian addition to Trinity College, Dublin, and the museum at Oxford; president of the Institute of Irish Architects.
  325. ^ Sir Thomas Newenham Deane (1828–1899), architect; son of Sir Thomas Deane (1792-1871); educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Dublin; B.A., 1849; entered his father's firm, 1850; his most important works, the Science and Art Museum and the National Library of Ireland, Dublin, 1885-90; knighted, 1890; inspector of national and ancient monuments. His other works include the Clarendon Laboratory and Examination Schools and the Physiological Laboratory and Anthropological Museum, Oxford.
  326. ^ William John Deane (1823–1895), theological writer; B.A. Oriel College, Oxford, 1847; M.A., 1872; ordained deacon, 1847; priest, 1849; rector of South Thoresby, Lincolnshire, 1852-3, and of Ashen, Essex, 1853-95; published a number of exegetical works. -1873), architect
  327. ^ William Wood Deane (1825-1873), architect and painter; cashier at the Bank of England; silver medallist of the Royal Academy, 1844; associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1848; relinquished practical architecture in disappointment, 1856; made impressionist sketches of architecture and local incident at Rome, 1850, at Venice, 1865, and in other parts of Europe; associate of the Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1870.
  328. ^ John Deare (1759–1798), sculptor : sent by the king and the Royal Academy to Rome, where he settled, 1785; imprisoned by the commander of the French troops, who had fallen in love with Deare's wife, 1798; his death sometimes ascribed to this cause.
  329. ^ Joseph Deare (1 8049–1835), sculptor: nephew of John Deare; exhibited marble groups and portrait busts at the Royal Academy, 1826-32.
  330. ^ Sir David Deas (1807–1876), naval medical officer ; educated at Edinburgh University and high school; licentiate of the College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1827; surgeon R.N., 1836; served off Syria, subsequently at Sehastopol, 1854; inspector-general of hospitals and fleete, 1855-72; K.O.B., 1867.
  331. ^ Sir George Deas (1804–1887), Scottish judge; studied law at Edinburgh; called to the Scottish bar, 1828; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty, 1850-1; solicitorgeneral, 1851-2; permanent lord ordinary of session, with title of Lord Deas, 1853; exchequer judge, 1853; lord commissioner of justiciary, 1854; knighted, 1858.
  332. ^ William Dease (1752–1798), surgeon ; studied medicine at Paris and Dublin; professor of surgery, Surgeons College, Dublin, 1785; president, 1789; died of an internal wound under mysterious circumstances; published medical works.
  333. ^ Rickard Deasy (1812–1883), Irish judge; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1847; called to the Irish bar, 1835; queen's counsel, 1849; M.P., co. Cork, 1855-61;  ; attorney-general for Ireland, 1860; LL.D. Dublin, 1860; exchequer baron in Ireland, 1861-78; lord justice of ap j peal, 1878.
  334. ^ Jacobus de Baan (1673-1700), portrait-painter; son of Johannes de Baan; bora at the Hague; painted in England portraits of William III and his nobility, and in Italy pictures for the Grand Duke of Tuscany; died at Vienna.
  335. ^ Johannes de Baan (1633-1702), painter; born at Haarlem; director of the Painters Guild of St. Luke at the Hague; invited to England by Charles II; executed portraits of Charles II, Catherine of Braganza, and the Duke of York, and, on his return to Holland, of eminent Dutchmen; formed Louis XIV's collection of Dutch masters; three times escaped being assassinated by his rivals.
  336. ^ Hugh Debbieg (1731–1810), general ; cadet-gunner, royal artillery, 1745; studied at Royal Military Academy, I Woolwich; engineer extraordinary in Flanders, 1747; practitioner engineer in Brabant, 1748; engaged in survey operations in Scotland and north of England, 1748-51; sub-engineer at Chatham, 1751: lieutenant in 37th foot, 1756, and in royal engineers, 1757; captain-lieutenant, 1758; served in North America and Canada; captain, 1759; chief engineer in Newfoundland, 1765; went on secret mission to examine seaports of France and Spain, 1767-8; brevet-major, 1772; brevet lieutenant-colonel, 1777; chief engineer on staff of Jeffrey, lord Amherst, 1777; chief engineer at Chatham, 1778; had charge of defences of public build ings during no popery riots, 1780; subdirector and major in royal engineers, 1781; colonel, 1782; censured and temporarily deprived of rank, owing to disputes with third Duke of Richmond, who was master-general of ordnance, 1789; major-general, 1793; lieutenant-general, 1798; general, 1803.
  337. ^ John Debrett (d. 1822), publisher and compiler : compiled a Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1802, and a Baronetage of England 1808.
  338. ^ Dirk de Brie, or Theodore (1528-1598), engraver; born at Liege: engraved plates for Boissard's 'Roman Antiquities and executed The Grand Funeral Procession of Sir Philip Sidney a series, 1587.
  339. ^ Theodore de Bruyn, (d. 1804), landscape-painter; born in Switzerland; exhibited landscapes at the Royal Academy; decorated chapel at Greenwich Hospital in monochrome imitation of bas-relief.
  340. ^ Isaac de Caus (fl. 1644), mathematician; son or nephew of Salomon de Caus; laid out the gardens at Wilton House; restated the hydraulic theorems of Salomon de Caus, 1644.
  341. ^ Salomon de Caus, de Cauls, or de Caux (1576-1626?), engineer and architect; native of Normandy; mathematical tutor to Henry, prince of Wales; laid out gardens at Heidelberg Castle, 1613; left the service of the elector palatine to return to France, 1623. His works include Institution Harmonique 1615, and a book on the motive power of water, in which he anticipated the steam-engine, 1615.
  342. ^ Sir Matthew Decker (1679–1749), writer on trade; born in Amsterdam; settled in London, 1702; director of the East India Company; M.P. for Bishops Castle; sheriff of Surrey, 1729; created baronet, 1716; much interested in landscape gardening. InSerious Considerations on the High Duties he advocated a single excise tax on all the houses of Great Britain, 1743. His * Essay on the Causes of the Decline of the Foreign Trade (1744) adversely criticised by Adam Smith,
  343. ^ Thomas Decker (1570?–1641?). See Dekker.
  344. ^ Saint Declan (fl. 600–650), bishop of Ardmore, co. Waterford; became in Gaul possessed of theiluibhin a supernatural gift, which was possibly a black altar-cross; crossed to Ireland in a ship which was miraculously supplied to him; founded church and monastery at Meath and Ardmore.
  345. ^ Charles Edward de Coetlogon (1746?-1820). See Coetlogon.
  346. ^ Henry Francis de Cort (Hendrik Frans) (1742-1810), landscape-painter; born at Antwerp; secretary to the new Antwerp Academy, 1788; exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1790.
  347. ^ Emmanuel de Critz (fl. 1723), sergeant-painter; son of John de Critz (d. 1642); painted scenery for court masques.
  348. ^ John de Critz, the younger (fl. 1610), sergeant-painter; son of John de Critz (d. 1642); sergeant-painter by reversion, 1610; killed on the royalist side at Oxford.
  349. ^ John de Critz (d. 1642), sergeant-painter from 1605; native of Flanders; extolled in Meres'sPalladis Tamia 15a8; painted portraits of Queen Elizabeth, Walsingham, and Sir Philip Sidney; repaired the royal barges, 1631.
  350. ^ Decuman or Degeman, Saint (d. 706?), Welsh hermit; miraculously crossed the Bristol Channel; hermit near Dunster Castle, Somerset.
  351. ^ Arthur Dee (1679–1651), alchemist; son of John Dee; travelled in Germany, Poland, and Bohemia; educated at Westminster School, 1592; cited before the College of Physicians as an unlicensed practitioner; appointed physician to the czar on James I's recommendation; author of a Rosicrucian Fasciculus Chemicus 1631.
  352. ^ Duncan Dee (1657–1720), pleader ; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and St. John's College, Oxford; common serjeant of the city of London, 1700; defended Sacheverell before the House of Lords, 1710.
  353. ^ Francis Dee (d. 1638), bishop of Peterborough; scholar of Merchant TaylorsSchool, 1591; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1603; D.D., 1617; chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral, 1619; assistant in the foundation of Sion College, 1630; dean of Chichester, 1630; bishop of Peterborough, 1634-8; benefactor of St. John's College, Cambridge.
  354. ^ John Dee (1527–1608), mathematician and astrologer; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1545; foundation-fellow, e. 1546; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where the clever stage effects he introduced into a performance of the Peace of Aristophanes procured him his life-long reputation of being a magician, 1546; M.A. Cambridge, 1548; studied at Louvain, 1548 lectured at Paris on Euclid, 1550; rector of Upton-upon-Seveni, 1553: acquitted by the Star-chamber when accused of practising sorcery against Queen Mary's life, but put under the surveillance of Bishop Bonner as a possible heretic; suggested to Queen Mary the formation of a royal library of ancient; manuscripts, 1556; acquired at Antwerp (c. 1662) a manuscript of Trithemius's Steganographia; visited Venice, 1563; made a voyage to St. Helena; travelled to Hungary to present his * Monas Hieroglyphica to Maximilian II, 1563; explained the appearance of n new star, 1572; described hit* magic glass to Queen Elizabeth, 1675; sent to Germany to consult physicians on the queen's health, 1578; drew up hydrographical and geographical description of newly discovered countries for Queen Elizabeth, at her request, 1580; made calculations to facilitate adoption in England of Gregory XIII's calendar, 1583; practised crystallomancy in conjunction with Albert Laski, palatine of Siradz, 1584; went to Prague and had interviews with the Emperor Rodolph II, 1584, and Stephen of Poland, 1585; compelled to leave Prague by representations of Bishop of Piacenza, 1586; head of a small confraternity, which dissolved in 1589, for seeking the philosopher's stone and invoking the angels; warden of Manchester College, 1595-1604; fruitlessly petitioned James I to be formally cleared of the imputation of being a magician, 1604. Among his numerous works were De Trigono 1565, Navigationis ad Cathayam.. delineatio Hydrographica 1680, and a Treatise of the Rosie Crucian Secrets
  355. ^ George Charles Deering (1695?-1749), botanist; native of Saxony; secretary to Baron Schach; Russian envoy extraordinary to Queen Anne, 1713; graduated at Rheims and Leyden, 1718; member of Dillenius and Martyn's English Botanical Society, 1721; gave up medicine and enlisted as an ensign in the Nottingham foot regiment, 1745.
  356. ^ John Peter Deering formerly Gandy (1787-1850), architect; travelled in Greece, 1811-13; M.P., Aylesbury; R.A., 1838; high sheriff of Buckinghamshire. 1840; designed numerous public buildings in London, and published theRural Architect 1805. also assisting Sir William Gell inPompeiana 1817-19.
  357. ^ Daniel Defoe (1661?–1731), journalist and novelist; changed his name from Foe to Defoe, c. 1703; hose factor, 1685; joined Monmouth's rebellion, 1685; joined William Ill's army, 1688; accountant to the commissioners of the glass duty, 1695-9; published an Essay upon Projects 1698; advocated war with France inThe Two Great Questions considered 1700; publishedThe True-born Englishman, a Satyr 1701; wroteThe Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England examined and asserted in approval of the liberation of the lately imprisoned Kentish petitioners 1701: wrote theMock Mourners a lament for William III, 1702; published (1702) The Shortest Way with the Dissenters a satiric pamphlet which was designed to teach highchurchmen the logical result of suppressing the privilege ofoccasional conformity and for which he was fined, imprisoned, and pilloried while the people drank his health, 1703: composed a Hymn to the Pillory; started theReview(suppressed 1713) during his imprisonment, 1704; sent into Scotland on a secret mission by the government, 1705; published Jure Divino a long political satire, 1706; published aHistory of the Union with Scotland 1709; supported Marlborough and Godolphin against the growing discontent with the French war; defended Sacheverell's impeachment in theReview wrote in Harley's interest, 1710; wrote in favour of peace with France; contributed to the Mercator a journal of economics, 1713; anti- Jacobite pamphleteer, 1712-13; prosecuted by the whigs for treasonable publications, 1713; condemned, but pardoned under the great seal, 1713; published his; Appeal to Honour and Justice an apologetic, 1715; convicted (1715) of libelling Lord Annesley, Bolingbroke's emissary to Ireland; escaped punishment by favour of Lord Townshend, secretary of state; published 'History of the Wars of Charles XII 1715; started Mercurius Politicus a monthly paper in the service of the government, 1716; redactor of Mist's Journal a Jacobite organ, 1717-24: published the first volume of his best-known work,Robinson Crusoe 1719, andSerious Reflections during the life... of Robinson Crusoe a sequel, 1720, both widely pirated; published The Anatomy I of Exchange Alley an attack on stockjobbers, and the Chimera 1720; published Captain Singleton, 1720, Moll FlandersandColonel Jacque 1722, andRoxana 1724; author ofJournal of the Plague Year 1722, and a New Voyage Round the World 1726, two works of fiction; produced didactic works, as well as books of vulgar supernaturalism and economic and social pamphlets; adopted pseudonym of Andrew Morton, 1726; became acquainted with Henry Baker (1698-1774), who married his daughter, Sophia Defoe, 1729, but apparently quarrelled with him later; published over 260 works.
  358. ^ John Peter de Gex (1809-1887), law reporter: M.A. Jesus College, Cambridge, 1834; barrister of Lincoln's Inn, 1835; published a volume of Cases in Bankruptcy reported by himself, 1852; represented the appellant against the decision of the bankruptcy court that the Duke of Newcastle was exempt from the law of bankruptcy, 1869; treasurer of Lincoln's Inn, 1882; knighted, 1882.
  359. ^ Sir Simon Degge (1612–1704), author of the 'Parson's Counsellor; barrister, Inner Temple, 1663; justice of the Velsh marches, 1662; knighted, 1669; bencher of the Inner Temple, 1669; high sheriff of Derbyshire, 1673: published the Parson's Counsellor and Law of Tithes, 1676.
  360. ^ Lucas de Heere or D'Heere (1534-1584), painter and poet; born at Ghent; adopted the reformed religion; set up a school of painting at Ghent, and became a member of the Chamber of Rhetoric; published Der Hof en Boomgaerd der Poesien 1665; banished, 1568; lived in England, 1568-77; painted in England some portraits, including (1564) one of Queen Mary, and an allegorical picture of Queen Elizabeth, 1569; employed in mural decoration; designed the pageants at the entry o f the Prince of Orange Into Ghent, 1577.
  361. ^ Deicola or Deicolus, Saint (d. 625); attended St. Columbauus for a time in East Auglia and France, 690, as one of the twelve companions; founded, and placed under papal protection, a monastery at Luthra (Lure).
  362. ^ Saint Deiniol (d. 584?).
  363. ^ Laurence Deios (fl. 1607), divine : fellow of St. John's College, Oambru ?e, 1573; M.A., 1576; B.D., 1583; Hebrew lecturer and junior dean of St. John's College; rector of East Horsley, Surrey, 1590-1.
  364. ^ Kings of Deira . See MLL. d. 588 ; Enwix, 585 ?-633; 08BIC, d. 634; OSWIN, d. 651.
  365. ^ William de Keyser (1647-1692?), painter: native of Antwerp, where he painted altar-pieces; tried his fortune in England; his prospects ruined by the overthrow of his patron, James II.
  366. ^ Thomas Dekker (1570?–1631?), dramatist and pamphleteer; engaged by Philip Henslowe to write plays (most of which are now lost), in collaboration with Drayton, Ben Jonson, Day, and many others; published in 1600 The Pleasant Comedie of Fortunatus: ridiculed in Ben Jonsons Poetaster 1601, on which he retorted in the 'Satiroinastix 1602; wroteThe Batchelors Banquet a tract founded on Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage 1603; publishedThe Seuen deadly Shines of London and 'Newes from Hell an imitation of Nash, 1606; wrote The Belman of London a social satire, J608; published 'The Gnls Hornebooke 1609, and Fowre Birds of Noahs Arke a prose devotional work, 1609; collaborated with Middleton in Roaring Girl 1611, and Massinger in * The Virgin Martyr 1622; published Match Mee in London a tragi-comedy, 1631; composed the lyrical passages of Ford'sSun's Darling(published 1656) and, with Ford and Rowley, produced Witch of Edmonton (published 1658). His dramatic works were collected by Mr. R. H. Shepherd in 1873, and his miscellaneous works by Dr. Grosart in The Huth Library
  367. ^ Alexander Delamaine (. 1654–1683), Muggletonian; quaker, 1654; composed song dealing with Muggleton's trial, 1677.
  368. ^ Richard Delamaine , the elder (fl. 1631), mathematician; tutor to Charles I in mathematics; chief work, Grammelogia or the Mathematicall Ring 1631.
  369. ^ Richard Delamaine , the younger (.fl 1654), mathematician; son of Richard Delamaine (fl. 1631); published computation of rates due on lands in Ireland, 1641; preacher, 1648; helped to defend Hereford against the royalists.
  370. ^ Peter de la Mare (fl. 1370). speaker of the House of Commons; knight of the shire for Hereford and speaker of the Commons in the Good parliament, 1376; imprisoned at Nottingham by the influence of the Duke of Lancaster, 1376-7; M.P., Herefordshire, 1377; again speaker, 1377.
  371. ^ Delamer or De La Mer, BARONS. See BOOTH. , GEORGE, first BARON, 1622-1684; BOOTH, HKXKY, second BARON, 1662-1694; BOOTH, GEORGE, third BARON, 16751758.
  372. ^ Freeman Gage De La Motte (d. 1862). author of works on alphabets and illimiiniuion; son of William de la Motte; friend of Turner.
  373. ^ Philip De La Motte (d. 1805), lieutenant-colonel and (1803) author of a work on British heraldry: cousin of William de la Motte
  374. ^ William De La Motte (1776-1863), painter; by j descent a Huguenot refugee; contributed landscapes, sea! scenes, and architectural pictures to the Royal Academy I exhibitions, 1796-1848;fellow exhibitorof the Water! Colour Society, exhibiting in 1806, 1807, and 1808; published Thirty Etchings of Rural Subjects 1816.
  375. ^ Oliver De Lancey , the elder (1749-1822), general; descended from a Huguenot family, which had emigrated to America; lieutenant, 14th dragoons, 1770; captain, 17th dragoons, 1773; brigadier-general of American loyalists, 1774; fought at Brooklyn and White Plains, 1776; present at the surrender of Charleston, 1781; ! lieutenant-colonel, 17th dragoons, 1781; major-general, 1794; M.P., Maidstone, 1796-1802; removed, in con! sequence of culpable carelessness in the keeping of his j accounts as barrack-master, 1 804; general, 1812.
  376. ^ Oliver De Lancey, the younger (1803-1837), Christinist officer; son of Oliver de Lancey the elder ; second lieutenant, 60th rifles, 1818; aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-general Sir Charles Colville, G.O.B., at Bombay, 1821; captain, 1829; relieved Santander, 1835; deputy adjutant-general to the legion; killed while repelling Carlist attack on San Sebastian, 1837.
  377. ^ Sir William Howe Delancey (d. 1815), colonel, quartermaster-general's staff; bom of a Huguenot family at New York; lieutenant, 16th light dragoons, 1793; served in East Indies, 1795; fought in Spain as assistant quartermaster-general and deputy quartermaster-general, 1809-14; present at capture of Ciudad Rodrigo, 1811, and battle of Vittoria, 1813; K.C.B.; killed at Waterloo, 1815.
  378. ^ Dennis Delane (d. 1750), Irish actor; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; appeared first at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 1728; appeared at Goodman's Fields as Chamont in the Orphan 1730; played Alexander, Antony, Falstaff, Volpoue, and other characters of Elizabethan drama at Covent Garden, 1735; engaged at Drury Lane, 1741; created Mahomet in Miller's adaptation from Voltaire, 1744; resented the hostility of Garrick, and returned to Covent Garden, 1748.
  379. ^ John Thadeus Delane (1817–1879), editor of the Times; educated at King's College, London, and Magdalen Hall, Oxford; B.A., 1839; barrister of Middle Temple, 1847; editor of the Times 1841-77; organised a special "Timesexpress from Alexandria to London, 1845; published information which compelled Lord Palmerston to apologise to the Neapolitanj?overnment for assisting insurgents, 1849: attacked the government for neglecting Crimean commissariat; prevented the government from assisting Denmark, 1864.
  380. ^ Solomon Delane (1727–1784?), landscapepainter; settled at Rome, where he painted two landscapes for the Royal Academy exhibition, 1771; returned to England, 1782.
  381. ^ Mary Delany (1700–1788), friend of Swift; rufc Gran ville; married, firstly, against her will to oae Alexander Pendarves, of Roscrow, Cornwall, 1718; married, secondly, Patrick Delany, 1743; invented flower mosaic 1774; corresponded with Swift and introduced Miss Burney, the novelist, at court.
  382. ^ Patrick Delany (1685?–1768), divine; senior fellow and tutor, Trinity College, Dublin; an intimate friend of Sheridan and Swift, the latter styling him the most eminent preacher we have; made chancellor of Christ Church Cathedral by Lord Carteret, 1727; chancellor of St. Patrick's, 1730; started the Tribune, a periodical, 1738: appointed to the deanery of Down by the influence of his wife, Mary Delany, 1744: published Revelations examined with Candour 1732, 1734, and 1736, Reflections upon Polygamy 1738, and a defence of Swift against Lord Orrery, 1754.
  383. ^ John Delap (1725–1812), poet and dramatist: educated at Trinity and Mapdalene Colleges, Cambridge; fellow of Mapdalene, 1748: M.A., 1750; D.D., 1762; incumbent of Iford and Kingston, Sussex, 1766-1812, of Woollavington, Sussex, 1774-1812; wrote mediocre tragedies for Drury Lane and elegies.
  384. ^ Francis Delaram (d. 1627), engraver ; engraved portraits of Tudor notabilities.
  385. ^ Thomas De La Rue (1793-1866), printer; native of Guernsey; founded firm in card and ornamental paper trade in London; chevalier of the Legion of Honour, 1865.
  386. ^ Warren De La Rue(1816-1889), inventor; son of Thomas De la Rue; born at Guernsey; educated in Paris; entered his father's printing firm; studied science; F.R.S., 1850; invented first envelope-making machine, 1851: formed friendship with Wilhelm Hofmann (1818-1892); erected, c. 1850, observatory at Oanonbury, which was removed to Cranford, Middlesex, 1857; eminent in celestial photography; devised Kew heliograph for taking daily photographs of sun, 1858; directed expedition to observe solar eclipse at Rivabellosa, Spain, 1860; observed sun spots with Balfour Stewart and Mr. Benjamin Loewy, 1862; engaged in chemical researches, with Dr. Hugo Müller, on Rangoon tar and glyceric acid (1859), terephthalic acid (1861), and on electric discharge through gases, 1868-83; received gold medals from Astronomical (1862) and Royal societies (1864): D.C.L. Oxford; original member of Chemical Society and president, 1867-9, and 1879-80; president, Royal Astronomical Society, 1864-6; published scientific papers.
  387. ^ Jean Marie Delatre or Delattre (1745–1840), engraver; born at Abbeville; assistant to Bartolozzi.
  388. ^ Gideon Delaune or Delawne (1565?–1659), apothecary; son of William Delaune (d. 1610); born at Rheims; apothecary to Anne of Denmark, queen of James I; worked for incorporation of ApothecariesCompany; inventor of Delaune's pills.
  389. ^ Paul Delaune (1684?–1654?), physician: M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1610; M.D. Padua, 1614, Cambridge, 1615; senior censor of the College of Physicians, 1643; professor of physic in Gresham College, 1643-52; went to Hispaniola and Jamaica as physiciangeneral to Cromwell's fleet.
  390. ^ Thomas Delaune (d. 1685), nonconformist writer; converted to protestantism when clerk to the proprietor of a pilchard fishery near Kinsale; imprisoned for libel on account of his Plea for the Nonconformists 1683; died in Newgate, 1685.
  391. ^ William Delaune (d. 1610), divine and physician; native of France, where he became a protestant minister; studied medicine at Paris and Montpellier; Huguenot refugee in England; L.R.C.P., 1582; epitomised Calvin's Institutions, 1 1583.
  392. ^ William Delaune (1659–1728), president of St. John's College, Oxford; educated at Merchant Taylors and St. John's College, Oxford; M.A., 1683; D.D., 1697; president of St. Johns, 1698-1728; canon of Winchester, 1701: vice-chancellor of Oxford, 1702-6; accused of embezzling university funds; Margaret lecturer in divinity, 1715; one of Queen Anne's chaplains.
  393. ^ Edward Hussey Delaval (1729–1814), chemist ; M.A. and fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge: F.R.S., 1759: gold medallist of the Royal Society; manufactured the completest set of musical glasses then known in England; chief work, The Cause of Changes in Opaque and Coloured Bodies 1777.
  394. ^ Sir Ralph Delavall (d. 1707), admiral ; commander of the York, 1688; vice-admiral of the blue, 1690; knighted, 1690; commanded the rear squadron in the battle of Beachy Head, 1690; as president of the court martial acquitted Lord Torrington of remissness in that action; vice-admiral of the red squadron at Barfleur, 1692;as Jacobite removed from command, 1693; M.I 1., Great Bedwin, 1695-8.
  395. ^ Earls of De La Warr. See WEST, JOHN, first EARL, 1693-1766; WEST, SIR CHARLES RICHARD SACKVILLK-, sixth EARL, 1815-1873. DE LA WARR, BARONS OP. See WEST, SIR THOMAS, ninth BARON, 1472 ?-1654; WEST, THOMAS, third or twelfth BARON, 1577-1618; WEST, JOHN, sixth BARON, 1693-1766; WEST, SIR CHARLES RICHARD SACKVILLE-, twelfth BARON, 1815-1873.
  396. ^ Joseph Octave Delepierre (1802–1879), author and antiquary; born at Bruges; doctor of laws of Ghent; avocat, andarchiviste de la Flandre Occidentale in Bruges; visited England, 1843; Belgian consul, 1849; Belgian secretary of legation; F.S.A.; published, 'Ohroniques, traditions, &c., de 1'ancienne histoire des Flamands 1834, Macaroneana 1852, A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature 1860, and other works.
  397. ^ Ambrose Lisle March Philipps De Lisle (1809-1878), Roman catholic writer; converted to Roman Catholicism, 1824; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1826; gave 230 acres of land in Charnwood Forest to found a Cistercian monastery, 1835; received habit of Third Order of St. Dominic, at Rome, 1837; principal founder of the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom 1857; high sheriff of Leicestershire, 1868; published theological works.
  398. ^ Rudolph Edward Lisle March Philipps De Lisle (1853-1885), sub-lieutenant in the navy; son of Ambrose de Lisle; killed at Abu Klea, 1885.
  399. ^ Henry Dell (fl. 1766), bookseller; author or adapter of four plays and (1766) of a poem called The Bookseller
  400. ^ Jonas Dell (d. 1666), quaker ; served in the parliamentary army; styled the quaking soldier; published theological polemics.
  401. ^ Thomas Dell (1740?-1780).
  402. ^ William Dell (d. 1664), master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; M.A., 1631; secretary to Laud; master of Caius, 1649-60; declaimed against the gospel of Christ understood according to Aristotle 1653; ejected from his living of Yelden, Bedfordshire, 1662; anticipated the university extension movement in hisRight Reformation of Learning, Schools, and Universities
  403. ^ Caesar à Delmariis (d. 1569). See Caesar Adelmare.
  404. ^ John Louis De Lolme (1740?-1807), writer on the English constitution; born at Geneva; came to England, 1769; publishedThe Constitution of England (first English edition, 1775), the theory of which led D'Israeli to call its author the English Montesquieu; subsequently member of the Geneva Council of Two Hundred, and sous-prefet under Napoleon; published also The History of the Flagellants adapted from the Abb6 Boileau, 1777, The British Empire in Europe 1787, and other works.
  405. ^ Thomas Deloney (1543?–1607?), ballad writer and pamphleteer; by trade a silk-weaver; author of ballads and broadsides (three on the Spanish Armada, 1588); collected ballads in Garland of Good Will 1604, and Strange Histories before 1607.
  406. ^ Deloraine, first Earl of (1676–1730). See Henry Scott.
  407. ^ Carlo Antonio Delfini (d. 1828), pantomimist and scene-mechanician at Drury Lane (1774), Covent Garden, and the Haymarket; acted afterwards in Robinson Crusoe Don Juan and the Deserter of Naples; stage manager at the opera.
  408. ^ Jean Andre Deluc (1727–1817), geologist and meteorologist; native of Geneva; member of the Council of Two Hundred, 1770; settled in England, 1773; reader to Queen Charlotte; F.R.S.; honorary professor of geology at Gottingen, 1798; endeavoured to reconcile science with Mosaic cosmogony; publishedBacon W qu'il est 1800,Geological Travels 1803, and an Introduction & la Physique Terrestre 1803.
  409. ^ Laurent Delvaux (1695–1778), sculptor ; born at Ghent; studied at Home, 1728; chief sculptor to the Archduchess Marie Elizabeth and the Emperor Charles VI, 1734-50; chief sculptor to Charles, duke of Lorraine, 1750-78; executed works in England in bronze and marble; died at Nivelles.
  410. ^ Barons Delvin . See NUGENT, SIR RICHARD, tenth BARON, d. 1460?; NUGENT, RICHARD, twelfth BARON, d. 1538 ?; NUGENT, SIR CHRISTOPHER, fourteenth BARON, 15-14-1602; NUGENT, SIR RICHARD, fifteenth BARON, 1583-1642.
  411. ^ Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray (1710–1782), electrician and astronomer; of Huguenot extraction; educated at Westminster School and Leyden; LL.D. Edinburgh; discovered influence of electricity in stimulating growth of plants; fought at Prestonpans, 1745; tutor to George III, when Prince of Wales, 1764; astronomer at the Royal observatory, Kew, 1768-82.
  412. ^ Stephen George Francis Triboudet Demainbray (1760–1854), astronomer; son of Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray; fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 1778-99; B.D., 1793; astronomer at the Royal observatory, Kew, 1782-1840; rector of Somerford Magna, Wiltshire, 1799-1854.
  413. ^ Robert Demaus (1829? –1874), biographical writer; M.A. Edinburgh, 1850; schoolmaster at Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Alnwick, 1856, and Aberdeen, 1858; deacon, 1860, and priest, 1862; chaplain to Thomas George Suther, bishop of Aberdeen, 1860-5; senior curate of St. Luke's, Chelsea, 1865-74; principal of Whitelands Training College, 1869; published biographies of Latimer (1869) and Tyndale (1871) and other works.
  414. ^ Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754). See Moivre.
  415. ^ Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871), mathematician; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1823; fourth wrangler, 1827; professor of mathematics, University College, London, 1828; resigned, 1831, but was reappointed, 1836; resigned his professorship, regarding the refusal of the council of University College to elect James Martineau to the chair of mental philosophy and logic as a piece of religious intolerance, 1866; first president of the Mathematical Society, 1865; follower of Berkeley; chief works,Formal Logic 1847; Essay on Probabilities 1838,Trigonometry and Double Algebra 1849, and a Budget of Paradoxes collected 1872.
  416. ^ Campbell Greig De Morgan (1811-1876), surgeon; brother of Augustus de Morgan; educated at University College, London, and at the Middlesex Hospital; surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital; F.R.S.; professor of anatomy, 1845; published work on theOrigin of Cancer 1872.
  417. ^ George Dempster (1732–1818), agriculturist; educated at Edinburgh and St. Andrews; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1755; M.P., Forfar and Fife burghs, 1762-90; provost of St. Andrews, 1780; director of the East India Company, but subsequently withdrew and supported Fox's India Bill; promoted society for extension and protection of Scottish fisheries. His works include Magnetic Mountains of Oannay and a disquisition on the agriculture of Forfarshire, 1794.
  418. ^ Thomas Dempster (1579?–1625), biographical and miscellaneous writer; entered Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in his tenth year; travelled in France, then in a disturbed state, and was sent from the university of Louvain to be educated at Rome; graduated at Douay; graduated in canon law at Paris; appointed professor of humanities at Toulouse; elected professor of oratory of Nlmes; refuted William Oowper (1568-1619) in a theological controversy at Perth; professor in the Colleges des Grassins, de Lisieux, and de Plessy, Paris; published an enlarged edition of Rosinus's Antiquitatum Romanarum Corpus absolutissimum (1620); appointed professor of civil law at Pisa by Cosmo II, grand duke of Tuscany; left Pisa, when an Englishman, whom he bad insulted, attempted to assassinate him; became professor of humanities at Bologna; accused of heresy by his English enemy, to whom he was subsequently reconciled by a court of arbitration at Rome; knighted by Urban VIII; died at Bologna; edited Claudian, was famous as a Latin poet, and wrote Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum(published 1627),De Etruria Regali (printed 1723-4), and an autobiography.
  419. ^ Earls of Denbigh . See FEILDING, WILLIAM, first EARL, d. 1643; FEILDING, BASIL, second EARL, d. 1675.
  420. ^ Walter Cooper Dendy (1794–1871), surgeon ; studied at Guy's and St. Thomas's hospitals; M.C.S., 1814; president of the Medical Society of London; published numerous medical and some speculative works, such as Zone 1841, Psyche 1853, and a Gleam of the Spirit Mystery 1861.
  421. ^ William Dene (fl. 1350), chronicler ; notary public to Haymo, bishop of Rochester; probably author of Annales Roffenses (British Museum, Faustina, B 5).
  422. ^ Dixon Denham (1786–1828), lieutenant-colonel and African traveller; entered Merchant TaylorsSchool, 1793; served in the Peninsular war as second lieutenant, 23rd royal Welsh fusiliers, 1812; first lieutenant, 1813; received the Waterloo medal, 1815; volunteered to explore the country between Timbuctoo and the north coast of Africa, 1821; crossed the Tebu Desert and reached Kuka, 1823; took part in inter-tribal warfare, 1823; partially explored Lake Tchad, 1824; superintendent of liberated Africans on the west coast, the post being specially created for him, 1825; lieutenant-governor of Sierra Leone, where he died, 1828.
  423. ^ Henry Denham (fl. 1591), printer; underwarden of the Stationers Company, 1586 and 1588; printed the first edition of the New Testament in Welsh, 1567, and the first English translation of Ovid's Heroycall Epistles by Turbervile.
  424. ^ Sir James Steuart Denham, the elder (1712-1780), political economist; assumed surname of Denham, 1733; son of Sir James Steuart; studied law at Edinburgh; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1735; attended Prince Charles Edward at Edinburgh, 1745; excepted by name from the Act of Oblivion, 1747; wandered about the continent, finally returning to Edinburgh in1763. His chief work,Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy 1767, written from the standpoint of the mercantile system, was the first systematic exposition of the science in English.
  425. ^ Sir James Steuart Denham, the younger (1744–1839), general; son of Sir James Steuart Denham the elder; captain 105th royal highlanders, 1763; lieutenant-colonel 13th dragoons, 1776; succeeded as baronet of Coltness and West Shields, 1780; M.P., Lanarkshire, 1781-1801; colonel, 1782; organised regiments of fencible cavalry in Scotland, 1795; local lieutenant-general in Munster, where he behaved with great intrepidity and conciliatoriness during troubled times, 1797-9; lieutenant-general, 1798; general, 1803.
  426. ^ Sir John Denham (1559–1639), judge; barrister of Lincoln's Inn, 1587; lord chief-baron of Irish exchequer, 1609; knighted, 1609; privy councillor, 1611; lord chiefjustice of king's bench in Ireland, 1612; baron of the English exchequer, 1617; sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1622; on the high commission, 1633; wrote a brief opinion in Hampden's favour, 1638.
  427. ^ Sir John Denham (1616–1669), poet; son of Sir John Denham (1569-1639); matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, 1631; studied law at Lincoln's Inn; published The Sophy an historical tragedy, 1642; compelled to surrender Farnham Castle, of which he was governor, to Sir William Waller, 1642; published Cooper's Hill his best-known poem, 1642; petitioned Charles I to pardon Wither, of whose poems Denham thought meanly; councillor of Charles I, and attendant of Henrietta Maria at Paris; sent to Holland with a letter of instructions for Charles II, 1649; published a translation of Virgil's jEneid II 1656; licensed by Cromwell to live at Bury in Suffolk, 1658; surveyor-general of works, 1660; K.B., 1661; became mad for a short period, 1666, in consequence of the faithlessness of his second wife, Lady Margaret Denham; lampooned by Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras 1667; published occasional verses and satires. His 'Cooper's Hill is the earliest example of strictly descriptive poetry in English.
  428. ^ Michael Aislabie Denham (. 1859), collector of folklore; merchant at Piersebridge, Durham; published numerous compilations of proverbs and North British folklore.
  429. ^ James Denholm (1772–1818), teacher of drawing in Glasgow; president of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, 1811-14; publishedAn Historical and Topographical Description of the City of Glasgow 1797.
  430. ^ Sir Peter Denis (rf. 1778), vice-admiral ; sou of a Huguenot refugee; lieutenant, 1739; took part in Anson's fight with De la Jonquiere and carried home the despatches, 1747; M.P., Hedon, Yorkshire, 1754; fought at Quiberon Bay, 1769; created baronet, 1767; vice-admiral of the blue, 1775; died vice-admiral of the red, 1778.
  431. ^ Albert Denison , first Baron Londesborough (1806-1860), son of Henry Conyngham, first marquis Conyngham; educated at Eton; secretary of legation at Florence, 1826, and at Berlin, 1829-31; K.C.H., 1829; deputy-lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire; M.P., Canterbury, 1835-41 and 1847-50; F.S.A., 1840; created Baron Londesborough, 1850; assumed surname of Denison, 1849; F.R.S., 1850; president of the British Archaeological Association, 1843, and of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1855; student of AngloSaxon antiquities.
  432. ^ Edward Denison , the elder (1801–1854), bishop of Salisbury; educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford; fellow of Merton College, 1826; M.A.; select preacher, 1834; opposed the admissiou of dissenters to the colleges at Oxford, 1835; D.D. and bishop of Salisbury, 1837; author of sermons and charges.
  433. ^ Edward Denison , the younger (1840–1870) philanthropist; son of Edward Deuison the elder; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; built and endowed a school in the Mile End Road, 1867; M.P., Newark, 1868; committeeman of the Society for Organising Charitable Relief, 1869; died at Melbourne, whither he had gone for the sake of his health and to study the workings of colonisation.
  434. ^ George Anthony Denison (1805–1896), archdeacon of Taunton; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1830; fellow of Oriel College, 1828; took holy orders, 1832; college tutor, 1830-6, and treasurer, 1836; vicar of Broadwinsor, Dorset, 1838-51, and of East Brent, Somerset, 1861; prebendary of Sarum, 1841, and of Wells, 1849; archdeacon of Taunton, 1851; examining chaplain to bishop of Bath and Wells, but resigned, 185:, owing to disagreement ou the part of the bishop with his eucharidtic doctrine; having defined his doctrinal position, was prosecuted in the ecclesiastical courts, and deprived, 1856, but the decision was reversed, 1857; edited Church and State Review 1862-6; took a prominent part in religious controversy as a high churchman of the old school; published religious and other writings, including a violent political diatribe against Gladstone (1885).
  435. ^ John Denison (d. 1629), divine; student and graduate of Balliol College, Oxford; D.D.; chaplain to James I; head-master of the free school, Reading, and successively vicar of the three churches in that town, 1604-29; author of some theological works, including (1621) a polemic against Cardinal Bellarmine.
  436. ^ John Evelyn Denison , first Viscount Ossington (1800-1873); speaker of the House of Commons; educated at Eton ami Christ Church, Oxford: M.A., 1828: M.P.for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1823, and Hastings, 1826: appointed one of the council of the Duke of Clarence (afterwards William IV), 1827, M.P.for Nottinghamshire, 1831, and for South Nottinghamshire, 1833 and 1835, for Malton, 1841, 1847, and 1852, and for North Nottinghamshire, 1857; privy councillor, 1857; speaker, 1867-72; honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1870; created Viscount Ossington, 1872.
  437. ^ William Joseph Denison (1770–1849), millionaire; senior partner of Denison, Hey wood & Kennard, bankers, Lombard Street; M.P. for Camelford, 1796-1802, for Kingston-upou-Hull, 1806, and for Surrey, 1818-49.
  438. ^ Sir William Thomas Denison (1804–1871), lieutenant-general, colonial and Indian governor; brother of John Evelyn Denison; entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1819; constructed the Rideau Canal, Canada, 1827-31; in charge of the works at Woolwich dockyard, 1837; knighted, 1846; lieutenant-governor of Van Diemen's Land, 1846-64; opened the first session of the new representative assembly, 1852; consolidated system of public works and education; governor of New South Wales, 1854-61; established parliament in New South Wales, 1856; civil K.C.B., 1856; governor of Madras, 1861-6; opposed establishment of legislative councils in minor presidencies and provinces and native representation; carried out Sitana expedition as acting governor-general, 1863; published essays on social and educational topics at Sydney.
  439. ^ George Denman (1819–1896), judge; son of Thomas, first baron Denman; educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1842; fellow, 1843: M.A., 1846; auditor of Trinity, 1852-65; called to bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1846; joined home circuit; counsel to Cambridge University, 1867; Q.C., 1861; M.P. for Tiverton, 1859-65, and 1866-72; responsible for Evidence further Amendment Act, known as Denman's Act, 1869; succeeded Sir James Shaw Willes in court of common pleas, 1872; justice of common pleas division of high court, 1875; judge of high court of justice, queen's bench division, 1881-92; retired, 1892; privy councillor, 1893; published translations in Greek, Latin, and English verse.
  440. ^ Thomas Denman, the elder (1733–1815), physician; studied medicine at St. George's Hospital, 1753; surgeon in the navy, 1757-63; M.D. Aberdeen, 1764; physician accoucheur to the Middlesex Hospital, 1769-83; licentiate in midwifery of the College of Physicians, 1783; published works on obstetrics.
  441. ^ Thomas Denman , first Baron Denham (1779–1864), lord chief-justice; son of Thomas Denman the elder; sent to Eton, 1788; entered St. John's College, Cambridge, 1796; barrister of Lincoln's Inn, 1806; deputy-recorder of Nottingham, and M.P. for Wareham, 1818; M.P. for Nottingham, 1820; solicitor-general to Queen Caroline, 1820; procured the withdrawal of Lord Liverpool's bill of pains and penalties against Queen Caroline, whose innocence he maintained before the bar of the Lords, 1820; common serjeant, 1822-30; pointed out defects in the law of evidence in a review of Dumont's Traité de Legislation 1824; took silk, 1828, the Duke of Wellington having with difficulty pacified George IV, who looked on Denman as a slanderer; again M.P. for Nottingham, 1830; attorney-general, 1830; knighted, 1830; drafted Reform Bill, 1831; undertook prosecution of Reform rioters, 1832; privy councillor and lord chief-justice, 1832; gazetted Baron Denman of Dovedale, 1834; speaker of the House of Lords, 1835; opposed privilege of the House of Commons in the libel case Stockdale v. Hansard, 1837; carried two bills abolishing death-penalty for forgery and some other offences, 1837; supported proposal to hold sittings in bane at other times than during the legal terms; condemned Moxon, publisher of Shelley's complete works, for blasphemy, 1841; published pamphlets and spoke in favour of the extinction of the slave trade, 1845-54; secured retention of squadron to intercept slavers on the west coast of Africa, 1848; resigned lord chief- justiceship, 1860.
  442. ^ Thomas Denman , second Baron Denman (1805-1899), son of Thomas Deuman, first baron; educated at Eton and Brasenoee College, Oxford; called to bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1833; succeeded to peerage, 1864.
  443. ^ Prince of Denmark (1663–1708). See George.
  444. ^ Henry Denne (d. 1660?), puritan divine; educated at Cambridge University; one of the ministers I selected for preferment by the House of Commons, 1641; imprisoned for holding baptist opinions, 1644; obtained I the living of Elsly (Eltisley), Cambridgeshire, 1646; published controversial works.
  445. ^ John Denne (1693–1767), antiquary; M.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1716; tutor and fellow of his college; archdeacon and prebendary of Rochester, 1728; D.D. Cambridge, 1728; wrote on ecclesiastical subjects and arranged archives of Rochester Cathedral.
  446. ^ Samuel Denne (1730–1799), antiquary; ion of John Denne; M.A Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1766: held various incumbencies in Kent; F.8.A., 1783; published "The Histories and Antiquities of Rochester and its Environs 1772, and other works on English antiquities.
  447. ^ John Dennett (1790–1852), inventor and antiquary; invented Dennett's Life-Saving Rocket Apparatus 1832; custodian of Carisbrooke Castle; contributed to journal of British Archaeological Association,
  448. ^ William Henry Dennie (1785?-1842), colonel, 13th light infantry; major, 22nd foot, 1821; served in India, 1804-5, at the capture of Mauritius, 1810, in the Channel islands and Ireland, and in Burmah; brevet lieutenant-colonel and G.B.; captured Ghuznee, 1839; defeated Dost Mahomed at Bameean, 1840; aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria; defended Jellalabad during Afghan war, and was slain in a sortie from that city, 1842.
  449. ^ James Blatch Piggott Dennis (1816–1861), histologist; B.A. Queen's College, Oxford; ordained, 1839; elected member of the Geological Society for his scientific discoveries; read a paper before the British Association On the Mode of Flight of the Sterodactyles of the Coprolite bed near Cambridge 1860.
  450. ^ John Dennis (1657–1734), critic ; B.A. Caius College, Cambridge, 1679; M.A. Trinity Hall, 1683; appointed royal waiter in the port of London by the influence of the Duke of Marl borough, 1705; author of -Rinaldo and Annida 1699, and other tragedies, one of which, Appius and Virginia acted at Drory Lane, 1709, was satirised for its bombast by Pope, to whom Dennis replied in his Reflections, Critical and Satirical 1711; defended the stage against Law and Collier; wroteGibraltar 1705, and some other comedies; died in distressed circumstances. He is best known as a critic, producing The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry 1701, "Three Letters on... Shakespeare 1711, and Remarks on "The Fable of the Bees," 1724.
  451. ^ Sir Thomas Dennis or Denis (1480?–1560?), privy councillor; chancellor of Anne of Cleves and custos rotulorum of Devon; frequently sheriff of Devon between 1508 and 1556; recorder of Exeter, 1514-44; put Exeter in a posture of defence against the projected rising of Sir Peter Carew, 1554.
  452. ^ James Dennistoun (1803–1855), Scottish antiquary; educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1824: travelled in Italy and Germany collecting antiques, 1825-6 and 1836-47; deputylieutenant for Renfrewshire; edited papers and documents illustrative of the history of Scotland, and published among other worksMemoirs of the Dukes of Urbino 1851.
  453. ^ Sir Anthony Denny (1501–1549), favourite of Henry VIII; educated at St. Paul's School and St. John's College, Cambridge; privy councillor; obtained grants of various manors and the lands of dissolved monasteries; knighted at Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1544; appointed by Henry VHI counsellor to his son and successor, Edward VL 1547: M.P.. Hertfordshire, 1547; assisted in of Kett's rebellion, 1549.
  454. ^ Edward Denny, Earl of Norwich (1565?-1630), grandson of Sir Anthony Denny; M.P. for Liskeard, 1585-6, for Tregony, 1597-8, and for Essex, 1604; knighted, 1587; created Baron Denny of Waltham, 1604, and Earl of Norwich, 1626.
  455. ^ Henry Denny (1803–1871), entomologist : curator of the museum of the Literary and Philosophical Society, Leeds; wrote on British parasitic insects.
  456. ^ Sir William Denny (rt. 1653), author of 'Pelecanicidium 1653, and of The Shepheards Holiday 1653, a pastoral poem; created baronet, 1642.
  457. ^ John Dennys (d. 1609), author of The Secret of Angling (1613), a poem quoted in Isaak Walton's Compleat Angler
  458. ^ Arthur Dent (d. 1607), puritan divine: MA. Christ's College, Cambridge. 1579; rector of South Shoebury, Essex, 1580-1607; one of the signatories of a petition declining to recognise the scriptural validity of the prayer-book; author of sermons and turtiifs of puritan
  459. ^ Edward John Dent (1790–1853), chronometer maker; employed by the admiralty and the East India Company; supplied a Graham's escapement for the transit clock of Greenwich observatory; associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1833; established clock-making manufactory, 1843; presented with a gold medal by the emperor of Russia, 1843; published A Treatise on the Aneroid 1849, and works on the construction and working of chronometers.
  460. ^ Peter Dent (d. 1689), naturalist; M.B. Lambeth, 1678; incorporated at Cambridge, 1680; physician at Cambridge; assisted Ray in his Historia Plantarum.
  461. ^ Henry Denton (1633?–1681), writer: M.A. Oxford, 1659; fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, 1660; chaplain to the English ambassador at Constantinople, 1664-1672; translated Georginos's Description of the Present State of Samoa, Nicaria, Patmos, and Mount Athos 1678.
  462. ^ James Denton (d. 1533), dean of Lichfield; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1492: fellow of King's College; student and doctor of canon law at Valencia; prebendary of Lichfield, 1509, of Lincoln, 1514; dean of Lichfield, 1522-33; chancellor to Mary, sister of Henry VIII and wife of Louis XII, whom be had attended in France; chancellor to the council of the Princess Mary, with jurisdiction over the Welsh marches, 1526; benefactor of King's College and St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
  463. ^ John Denton (1625–1708), nonconformist divine; entered at Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1646; ejected from Oswaldkirk, Yorkshire, 1662, but subsequently given living of Stonegrave and prebend at York: friend of TUloteon.
  464. ^ Nathan Denton (1634–1720), last survivor of the ejected ministers; entered at University College. I Oxford, 1652; taught grammar school at Oawthorne,  ; Yorkshire; ejected from the perpetual curacy of Bolton,  : 1662.
  465. ^ Richard Denton (1603–1663), divine; B.A. Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1623; gave up Coley Chapel and emigrated to New England, 1640; died at Hempstead, Long Island.
  466. ^ Thomas Denton (1724–1777), miscellaneons writer; M.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1752; rector of Ashtead, Surrey, 1754-77; published, in the style of Spenser, two poems, Immortality 1754, and "The House of Superstition 1762.
  467. ^ Thomas Denton (d. 1789), bookseller and artificer; made speaking and writing automata; translated a French book of parlour-magic, 1784; hanged for coining.
  468. ^ William Denton (1605–1691), physician and political writer; educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford; M.D. Oxford, 1634; physician to Charles I, 1636; physician in ordinary to the household of Charles II, 1660; F.R.C.P.; author of theological works largely directed against the Roman catholics.
  469. ^ William Denton (1815–1888), divine; B.A. Worcester College, Oxford, 1844; M.A., 1848; ordained priest, 1845: vicar of St. Bartholomew, Cripplegate, 1850-88; published pamphlets relating to social and political questions, and several religions and historical works, including England in the Fifteenth Century 1888.
  470. ^ Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste Andre Timothée D'Éon de Beaumont (1728-1810), chevalier; born at Tonnerre in Burgundy; educated as a boy, though his sex was long held to be doubtful; secret agent of the king of France at St. Petersburg, 1755; instrumental in bringing about an alliance between Russia, France, and Austria; received lieutenancy of dragoons as reward for bis celerity in carrying news of battle of Prague to Versailles, 1757; secretary to the French embassy at St. Petersburg, 1757-60; captain of dragoons, 1758; minister plenipotentiary in London, secretly correwith the king of Prance on a projected invasion England; obtained a true bill against Count de Guercby, the French ambassador, for plotting his assassination; was generally suspected of being a woman; Derationed by the French government on condition of wearing woman's clothes, 1774; adopted female attire, 1777: returned to England, 1786; made a living by exhibiting his skill as a swordsman; discovered to be a man at his death, 1810: left in manuscript materials for a life of the Count de Vauban; published historical and autobiographical pamphlets.
  471. ^ Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), author of Confessions of an Opium Eater; educated at Bath grammar school and at Winkfield, Wiltshire; sent to Manchester grammar school, 1801; became acquainted with Roscoe, Ourrie, and Lady Oarbery, who consulted him in her Greek and Latin studies; left school and rambled about in Wales, 1802, finally going to London, where he led a Bohemian life and met the Ann of his Confessions; studied Hebrew and German at Worcester College, Oxford, where he matriculated, 17 Dec. 1803, and first began opium-eating; made the acquaintance of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey, 1807, of Lamb and Sir H. Davy, 1808; read German metaphysics and drew up a Prolegomena of all future systems of Political Economy on the lines of Ricardo, 1819; editor of the Westmoreland Gazette 1819-20; wrote hisConfessions of an English Opium-Eater in London, 1821, for the London Magazine; translated the Laocoon 1826, and wrote the first part of Murder as one of the Fine Arts 1827, for Blackwood's Magazine; published Klosterheim at Edinburgh, 1832: contributed reminiscences of the Lake poets to Tait's Magazine 1834; published The Logic of Political Economy 1844. He aimed at popularising German philosophy and reviving the English prose style of the seventeenth century.
  472. ^ Earls of Derby . See FERRERS, ROBERT DE, 1240 ?-1279 7; STANLEY, THOMAS, first EARL, 1435 ?-1504: STANLEY, EDWARD, third EARL, 1608-1572; STANLEY, HENRY, fourth EARL, 1531-1593; STANLEY, FERDINANDO, fifth EARL, 1559-1594; STANLEY, JAMES, seventh EARL, 1607-1651; STANLEY, EDWARD SMITH, thirteenth EARL, 1776-1851; STANLEY, EDWARD GEORQK GEOFFREY SMITH, fourteenth EARL, 1799-1869; STANLEY, EDWARD HENRY, fifteenth EARL, 1826-1893.
  473. ^ Countesses of Derby . See STANLEY, Charlotte 1599–1664 ; FARREN, ELIZABETH, 1759?–1829.
  474. ^ Alfred Thomas Derby (1821–1873), painter; son of William Derby: painted figure-subjects, portraits, and scenes from Sir Walter Scott's novels.
  475. ^ William Derby (1786–1847), water-colour and miniature-painter; drew for Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain 1825; exhibited at the Royal Academy and other institutions, 1811-42.
  476. ^ Samuel Derham (1655–1689), physician; M.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1679; M.D., 1687; published an Account of Ilmington Waters in Warwickshire 1685, which established the reputation of the place.
  477. ^ William Derham (1657–1735), divine; B.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1679; vicar of Wargrave, 1682, of Upminster, Essex, 1689; F.R.S., 1702; Boyle lecturer, 1711 and 1712; chief works, Physico-Theology (his Boyle lectures), published, 1713, and Astro-Theology 1715, two statements of the argument from final causes.
  478. ^ William Derham (1702–1767), president of St. John's College, Oxford; son of William Derham (16571735); entered Merchant Taylors' School, 1714; fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, 1724; M.A., 1729; Whyte's professor of moral philosophy, 1737; D.D., 1742; president of St. John's, 1748-57.
  479. ^ Edward Dering (1540?–1576), puritan divine; B.A., and fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge, 1560; M.A., 1663; university proctor, 1666; chaplain of the Tower of London; prohibited from preaching in consequence of his denunciations of the clergy, 1570; prebendary of Salisbury, 1671; lectured on the first part of the Epistle to the Hebrews, 1572; summoned before the Star-chamber for unorthodox teaching, but acquitted, 1573; his collected works published, 1614.
  480. ^ Sir Edward Dering (1598–1644), antiquary and politician: educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge; knighted, 1619; created baronet, 1627; lieutenant of Dover Castle; M.P. for Kent in the Long parliament, 1610: moved the first reading of the Root and Branch Bill, 1641; became an episcopal royalist by his vote on the Grand Remonstrance, 1641; imprisoned, 1642; escaped and took up arms for the king, but resigned his commission, 1643; accepted the parliament's pardon, 1644.
  481. ^ Heneage Dering (1666–1750), antiquary and divine: entered of the Inner Temple, 1678; pensioner of Clare College, Cambridge, 1680; barrister, Inner Temple, 1690; LL.D., per literas regias, 1701; prebendary of York, 1705-50; dean of Ripon, 1711; author of Reliquiae Eboracenses 1743, and De Senectute 1746, two Latin poems.
  482. ^ Richard Dering or Deering (d. 1630), musician; studied music in Italy; organist to the English convent at Brussels, 1617; organist to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1625; publishedCantiones Sacrae sex vocumcum basso continue ad organum at Antwerp, 1697.
  483. ^ John Dk Derlington (d. 1284). See Darlington.
  484. ^ Macmurragh Dermod (1110?–1171). See Diarmid Mac Murchada.
  485. ^ Thomas Dermody (1775–1802), Irish poet; served abroad as second lieutenant in the wagon corps; published Poems Moral and Descriptive 1800, Poems on various Subjects 1802, and a pamphlet entitled The Rights of Justice 1793.
  486. ^ Laurence Dermott (1720–1791), freemason; deputy grand-master of the Antient masons of Atholl, 1771-87; wrote Ahiman Rezon, a masonic work, 1756.
  487. ^ Barons De Ros. See Ros.
  488. ^ Samuel Derrick (1724–1769), author ; friend of Dr. Johnson; published translations from the French, letters, books of minor criticism, and a few poems; edited Dryden's Works 1760.
  489. ^ John Derricks (fl. 1578), author of the ' Image of Ireland a poem, published, 1581.
  490. ^ Derwentwater third Earl of (1689–1716). See James Radcliffe.
  491. ^ William De Ryck (1636-1697), history painter; born at Antwerp and bred as a goldsmith; visited England in the reign of William III and became a painter.
  492. ^ John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744), natural philosopher; born at La Rochelle; brought to England by his father, a Huguenot refugee, 1686; B.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1710; lecturer on experimental philosophy at Hart Hall, Oxford, 1710: M.A., 1712; F.R.S., 1714; presented to the living of Whitchurch, Middlesex, 1714; LL.D. Oxford, 1718; invented the planetarium: published works on physics, astronomy, and mechanics, also The Contributions of the FreeMasons 1732.
  493. ^ Thomas Desaguliers (1725?-1780), lieutenant-general and colonel-commandant of royal artillery; son of John Theophilus Desaguliers; cadet in the royal artillery, 1740; captain, 1745; engaged at Fontenoy, 1745; lieutenant-colonel, 1757; in charge of siege operations at Belleisle, 1761; Invented a method of firing small shot from mortars and an instrument for verifying the bores of cannon; colonel commandant of the royal artillery, 1762; F.R.S., 173; lieutenant general, 1777.
  494. ^ Joseph Frederick Walsh Desbarres, or Wallet (1722-1824), military engineer; of Huguenot origin; lieutenant 60th regiment, 1766: made successful expedition against North American Indians, 1767; retook Newfoundland, 1762; surveyed coast of Nova Scotia, 1763-73; lieutenant-governor of Cape Breton, 1784-1805, of Prince Edward's island, 1805-13: colonel, 1798; published charts of the Atlantic and North American coasts.
  495. ^ John Desborough, Desborow, or Disbrowe (1608–1680), major-general; commanded Oromwellian horse at storming of Bristol, 1646; colonel, 1648: fought as major-general at Worcester, 1661; commissioner of the treasury, 1663; general of the fleet, 1653; M.P. Cambridgeshire, lf,54, Somerset, K5tl: privy councillor, 1657; ted the army's opposition to Hichanl Cromwell, 1G59; given a colonel's commission by the Rump parliament, but soon cashiered, 1659; imprisoned on suspicion of being concerned in a plot to kill l'h.irlc II and Queen Hcnricttii Maria. 1060; imprisoned for intriguing in llolhind, 1666: released, 1667; nicknamed the grim Grant Desborough in a pasquinade of 1661.
  496. ^ Samuel Desborough (1619–1690), statesman : brother of John Desborough; one of the original settlers of Guilford, Conuecticuit, 1641; keeper ol tingreat seal of Scotland, 1657; represented Midlothian in parliament, 1656, and Edinburgh, 1658-9.
  497. ^ Noel Joseph Desenfans (1745–1807), pieturedoalcr: horn at Douay: commissioned by Stanislaus, hist kintr of Poland, to collect pictures in England for a Polish national collection; sold this collection, 1802, Poland being dismembered and Russia repudiating the debt,
  498. ^ David Des Granges Des (fl. 1625–1675), miniature painter; engraver; limner to Charles II in Scotland, 1651.
  499. ^ Pierre Desmaizeaux (1673?-1745), miscellaneous writer: born in Auvergne; came to England with the third Lord Shaftesbury, 1699; F.R.S., 1720: gentleman of his majesty's privy chamber, 1722: friend of Joseph Addisou and Anthony Collins; consulted by Hume on hisTreatise of Human Nature 1739; edited Saint-Evremond, 1705, and Bayle's works. 1725-31, translated Telemaque 1742, and was the author of some biographies and compilations.
  500. ^ Earls of Desmond . See FITZTHOMAS, MAURICE, first EARL, d. 1356; FITZGERALD, GERALD, fourth EARL, d. 1398; FITZQKRALD, THOMAS, eighth EARL, 1426 ?-1468; FITZGERALD, JAMES (FITZMADRICK), thirteenth EARL, d. 1540; FITZGERALD, JAM MS (FITZJOHN), fourteenth EARL, d. 1558; FITZGERALD, GERALD, fifteenth EARL, d. 1583: FITZGKRALD, JAMES, the town EARL, 1570 V-1601; FITZOKRALD, JAMES, the Sugan EARL, d. 1608.
  501. ^ Jean D'Espagne (1591-1659), French protestant pastor and theologian; pastor at Orange, 1620; published Antiduello a discussion on the morality of the duel, 1632; pastor to a French congregation in London, which came to regard him as a schismatic.
  502. ^ Edward Marcus Despard (1751–1803), officer in colonial service; served in Jamaica as lieutenant, 50th regiment, 1772; commandant of the island of Rattan on the Spanish main, 1781; captured the Spanish possessions on the Black River, 1782; superintendent of his majesty's affairs in Yucatan, 1784-90; suspended on frivolous charges by Lord Grenville; imprisoned on account of his claim for compensation, 1798; devised in London plot against the government, 1802; executed for high treason at Newington.
  503. ^ John Despard (1745–1829). general; brother of Edward Marcus Despard; fought in the seven years war; lieutenant in the 12th regiment, 1762; lieutenant, 7th regiment, 1767: fought in the American war of independence; taken prisoner at York Town; released, 1782; colonel, 1795; commandant of troops at Cape Breton, 1799-1807; general, 1814.
  504. ^ Edward le Despenser (d. 1376), warrior; grandson of Hugh le Despenser the younger; fought in Edward Ill's French campaigns and under Pope Urban V in 1369; K.G.
  505. ^ Henry le Despenser (d. 1406), bishop of Norwich; canon of Salisbury: nominated by Urban V to the bishopric of Norwich, 1370; defeated the Norfolk peasants in their entrenchments at North Walsham, 1381; commanded for Pope Urban VI against the antipppe's adherents, in Flanders, whom he defeated at Dunkirk, 1383; raised siege of Ypres; came to terms with the French, September 1383; deprived of his temporalities; denounced as a fighting bishop by Wyeliffe; helped to repel the French invasion of Scotland, and was restored to his temporalities, 1386; persecuted the lollards, 1389; imprisoned for his loyal adherence to Richard II; reconciled to Henry IV, 1401.
  506. ^ Hugh le Despenser (d. 1265), last justiciary of England; accompanied Richard, king of the 1 tomans, to Germany, 1257; named commissioner for the barons by the Provisions of Oxford 1258; justiciary of the barons, ri.ii; reappointed justiciary, 1263; foujrht for the barons at Lewes, 12G-J; arbitrator for arranidntr tvrms of peace, 1264: summoned to Simon de Moutfort's parliament, liJI: kilh-d at Bwbutt, U
  507. ^ Hugh le Despenser, the older, Earl of Winchester (1262-1 32(i), son of Hugh le Dt-p. II.T -. 1265); fought at Dunbar; took part in Edward I's expedition to Flanders, 12H7; obtained a bull from Clement V absolving Edward I from the oaths he had taken to his people, 1305; upheld Gaveston, Edward II's favourite, 1308; forced to withdraw from the court and the council, 1314; supported Edward II at the parliament of Northampton, 1318; banished, together with his son, Hugh le Despenser the younger, the king giving way to a coalition of the nobles, 1321; returned, and was made Earl of Winchester, 1322; captured by Queen Isabella, whom he hail induced the king to outlaw, and executed, 1326.
  508. ^ Hugh Le Despenser , the younger (d. 1326), baron: son of Hugh le Despenser the elder; knighted, 1306; king's chamberlain, 1313: attacked by a confederacy of the barons under the Earl of Hereford, partly on account of his desertion to the side of the king, 1321; banished, 1321: recalled, 1322; employed to negotiate a truce with Scotland, 1323: attempted to weaken the barons by enlisting the common people on the side of the king; caught at Llantrissaint by the followers of Queen Isabella, and executed at Hereford, 1326.
  509. ^ Thomas Le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester (1373-1400), son of Edward le Despenser; upheld Richard II against Gloucester, Arundel, and Warwick, 1397; created Earl of Gloucester, 1397; accompanied Richard II to Ireland, 1399; commissioner for pronouncing the sentence of deposition on Richard II, 1399: accused of poisoning the Duke of Gloucester, and degraded from his earldom, 1399; joined in a conspiracy which was betrayed by the Earl of Rutland; beheaded, 1400.
  510. '^ Augustus Frederick D'Este (1794-1848), son of the Duke of Sussex, who displeased his father, George III, by an illegal marriage; present as aide-decamp to Sir John Lambert at the attack on New Orleans, 1814; lieutenant-colonel, 1824; colonel, 1338; knight-commander of the Hanoverian Guelphic order, 1830; unsuccessfully claimed his father's title, 1843.
  511. ^ Barons De Tabley. See LEICESTER, SIR JOHN FLEMING, first BARON, 1762-1827: WARREN, JOHN BYRNK LEICESTER, third BARON, 1835-1895.
  512. ^ Sir Gilbert Dethick (1519?-1584), Garter king-of-arms: probably of Dutch extraction and naturalised; Rouge Croix pursuivant, 1540; Richmond herald, 1540; Garter king-of-arms, 1550: knighted, 1561: accompanial Somerset in his Scottish expedition, 1547; member of the old Society of Antiquaries.
  513. ^ Sir William Dethick (1543–1612), Garter king-of-arms: son of Sir Gilbert Dethick: Rouge Croix pursuivant, 1567: York herald, 1570: Garter king-of-arms, 1586; suspended for unduly extending his prerogative, but restored by the queen's clemency; member of the old Society of Antiquaries, 1593; proclaimed Essex a traitor, 1601; knighted, 1603; deprived of Garter for irregularities at the investiture of the Duke of WUrtemberg, 1605; author of some heraldic works and papers on antiquities, printed in Hearne's Curious Discourses
  514. ^ Rowland Detrosier (1800?–1834), popular lecturer and political reformer; self-educated; supervised Swedenborpian school at Hulme; framed a liturgy for his chapel at Stockport; corresponded with Bentham and founded mechanicsinstitutions in Hulme and Salford; founder and president of the Banksian Society, Manchester, 1829; secretary of the National Political Union, 1831: lectured on science at Manchester and Stratford, advocating moral and political instruction for the working classes.
  515. ^ Deusdedit (d. 663?), sixth archbishop of Canterbury and the first of English origin.
  516. ^ Emanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch (1829–1873), Semitic scholar: lxrn in Silesia; proceeded to the theological faculty of Berlin, 1845; assistant in the library of the British Museum, 1856-70; best known by his essay on the Talmud in the Quarterly Review 1867; deciphered Phoenician inscriptions; died of cancer at Alexandria.
  517. ^ Sir Aubrey De Vere, second baronet (1788-1846), poet; educated at Harrow: succeeded to baronetcy, 1818: published historical dramas and (1842) The Song of Faith, Devout Exercises and Sonnets.
  518. ^ Robert Deverell formerly Pedley (1760-1841), author; seventh wrangler, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1781; fellow, 1784; M.A. 1784: M.P., Saltash, 1802: published some eccentric works on the knowledge of the ancients, and propounded in Hieroglyphics and other Antiquities (1813) a strange theory that Shakespeare's characters and incidents were suggested by lunar appearances.
  519. ^ Sir John Devereux , second Baron Devereux (d. 1393), warrior: fought with Du Guesclin against Don Pedro in Spain, 1366; governor of Limousin, 1370; defeated by Du Guesclin, 1373; served with the English fleet afsea, 1377; governor of Calais, 1380: commissioner to negotiate a peace with France, 1382; warden of the Cinque Ports, 1387: K.G., 1388.
  520. ^ Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex (1566-1601), eldest son of Walter Devereux, first earl ; matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1579; M.A. 1581: created knight banneret for his bravery at Zutphen, 1586; became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth and master of the horse, 1587; quarrelled with Charles Blount, earl of Devonshire (1563-1606), and offended Ralegh: K.G., 1588; joined the faction of Don Antonio, a claimant to the throne of Portugal, 1589; married Frances, the widow of Sir Philip Sidney, thereby displeasing Elizabeth, 1590: supposed to favour puritanism, 1591; commanded a force sent to the help of Henry of Navarre, 1591; took Gournay, 1591; recalled, 1592; privy councillor, 1593; unsuccessfully appealed to Elizabeth on two occasions to give some preferment to Francis Bacon, then a struggling barrister; received political advice and literary assistance from Bacon; assisted by Don Antonio, tracked out the plot of Roderigo Lopez against the queen's life, 1594; established a sort of foreign intelligence department, 1595; defeated the Spaniards in a naval battle off Cadiz, and took the town, 1596;.mistakenly dissuaded by his colleagues from patting out to intercept the Spanish treasure fleet; master of the ordnance, 1597; advised by Bacon to study Irish affairs; set out on an expedition to the Azores, which proved a failure, and was nearly intercepted by Spanish ships at Falmouth on his return, 1597; earl-marshal, 1597; opposed Burghley's policy of peace with Spain, 1598; affronted the queen when discussing the appointment of a lord deputy in Ireland, 1598; chancellor of Cambridge University, 1598; appointed, amid popular rejoicing, lieutenant and governor-general of Ireland, 1599; punished his soldiers by decimation after a defeat at Arklow, 1599; forbidden to return to England, and ordered to proceed against Ulster, 1599; made a truce, renewable every six weeks, with Tyrone, and set out for London, arriving there 28 Sept. 1599; accused before a specially constituted court of leaving his government and entering into adishonourable and dangerous treatywith Tyrone, 5 June 1600; set at liberty, August 1600; induced by Mountjoy, Southampton, and others (1601) to contrive a plot for securing the dismissal of Elizabeth's counsellors; attempted to raise citizens of London, and was proclaimed traitor, February 1601: tried at Westminster Hall, where his former friend and protege Bacon spoke for the prosecution, and sentenced to death, 19 Feb.; executed 25 Feb. 1601. Elizabeth is said to have been ready to pardon him had he asked forgiveness, but the story of the ring and of its suppression by the Countess of Nottingham is doubtful. Essex wrote numerous sonnets, and was credited by Wotton with special skill in masques; as a patron of literature he was panegyrised by Daniel, Chapman, Spenser, and Ben Jonson.
  521. ^ Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex (1591–1646), parliamentary general: son of Robert, second earl of Ewex; restored in blood and honour by act of parliament, 1604; vice-admiral in the Cadiz expedition, 1625; supported the Petition of Right, 1628; voted for disallowing Charles I's appeal for assistance to the House of Lords, 1640; privy councillor, 1641, voting for the death of Strafford contrary to Charles I's expectations; general of the parliamentary army, 1642; fought at Edgehill, 1642; took Reading, 1643; declared in favour of Pym's policy of continuing the war, 1643; relieved Gloucester, August 1G43: fought without substantial success at Newbury, 1643: resigned from irritation at Cromwell's hostility to the Scots, 1645.
  522. ^ Walter Devereux , first Viscount Hereford (d. 1558), joint-constable of Warwick Castle, 1511; went to act with the Spaniards in an intended invasion of Guienne, 1512; fought under Admiral Howard off Conquet, 1513; K.G., 1523; chief-justice of South Wales. 1525; privy councillor, 1550; created Viscount Hereford, 1550.
  523. ^ Walter Devereux, first Earl of Essex and second Viscount Hereford (1541?-1576), Irish adventurer: succeeded to his grandfather's titles, Lord of Chartley and Viscount Hereford, 1558; raised a troop to aid in suppressing the northern rebellion of 1569; K.G., 1672; created Earl of Essex, 1572; undertook to conquer Ulster, 1573: attempted to rid Ulster of the Scots under Sorley Boy, but subsequently decided to ally himself with the Scots against the Irishry of O'Neill; treacherously seized and executed Sir Brian Mac Phelim, 1574; earlmarshal of Ireland, 1575; made a useless and cruel raid in Rathlin, and was recalled, 1575; reappointed earlmarshal, 1576; groundlessly reported to have been poisoned at the instigation of the Earl of Leicester, who married his widow.
  524. ^ George Devey (1820–1886), architect : fellow of the Royal Institute cf Architects; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1841-8; added to, and altered many of the English mansions.
  525. ^ Arthur Devis (1711?-1787), portrait-painter; exhibited at the Free Society of Artists, 1762–80: restored Sir James Thornhill's paintings in the hall at Greenwich.
  526. ^ Arthur William Devis (1763–1822), portrait and history painter; son of Arthur Devis; appointed draughtsman in a voyage projected by the East India Company, e. 1783: wrecked on the Pelew islands; proceeded to Canton and thence to Bengal; painted portraits and historical subjects, sixty-five of which he exhibited (1779-1821) at the Royal Academy.
  527. ^ Louis Devisme (1720–1776), diplomatist; of Huguenot origin; educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1746: represented England at diet of Ratisbon; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Stockholm; died at Stockholm.
  528. ^ Devon, eleventh Earl of. See William Reginald Courtenay–1807–1888.
  529. ^ Dukes of Devonshire . See CAVENDISH, William, first DUKE, 1640–1707; CAVENDISH, WILLIAM, fourth DUKE, 1720-1764; CAVENDISH, WILLIAM GEORGE SPENCER, sixth DUKE, 1790-1858; CAVENDISH, SIR WILLIAM, seventh DUKE, 1808-1891.
  530. ^ Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806). See Georgiana Cavendish.
  531. ^ Devonshire or DEVON, EARLS OF. See Humphrey Stafford, 1439–1469; COURTENAY, HENRY, 1496 7-1538: OouRTENAY, EDWARD, 1526 V-1556; BLOUNT, CHARLES, 1563-1606; OAVKNDISH, WILLIAM, first EARL, d. 1626: CAVENDISH, WILLIAM, second EARL, 1591 ?1628; CAVENDISH, WILLIAM, third EARL, 1617-1684; CAVENDISH, WILLIAM, fourth EARL, 1640-1707.
  532. ^ Countess of Devonshire (d. 1675). See Christiana Cavendish.
  533. ^ James Dewar (1793–1846), musician ; organist at St. George's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, 1815-35; conducted the Edinburgh Musical Association.
  534. '^ Gerrard D'Ewes, or Dewes, Geerardt or Garret (d. 1591), printer; descended from the ancient lords of Kessel In Guelderland; under-warden of the Stationers Company, 1581.
  535. ^ Giles Dewes or Duwes (d. 1535), writer on the French language: librarian to Henry VII and (from 1509) Henry VIII; taicher of French ta Prince Arthur; French teacher to the Princess Mary, 1627, for whom he wrote a French grammar, supplemented by dialogues, 1628.
  536. '^ Paul D'Ewes or Dewes (1567-1631), one of the six clerks in chancery; son of Uerrard D'Ewes.
  537. ^ Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1602-1650), antiquarian writer; grandson of Gerrard D'Ewes: entered St. John's College, Cambridge, 1618; barrister, Middle Temple, 162IJ; joined Sir Robert Cotton, who had introduccd him to Selden, in establishing the claim of Robert Vere to the earldom of Oxford, 1626; knighted, 1626; high sheriff for Suffolk, 1639; M.P., Sndbury, 1640; created baronet, 1641; expelled from parliament by Colonel Pride, 1648: compiled an Anglo-Saxon dictionary (never printed): author ofJournals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Kl i;tbeth (published, 1682), of anAutobiography(first published, 1845), and of unpublished transcripts of monastic cartularies and registers.
  538. ^ George James De Wilde (1804-1871), editor of the Northampton Mercury and friend of Leigh Hunt, the Cowden Clarkes and Sir James Stephen; son of Samuel de Wilde.
  539. ^ Samuel De Wilde (1748-1832), portrait-painter; born in Holland of Dutch parents; exhibited at the Society of Artists (1776) and the Royal Academy; painted portraits of actors in character.
  540. ^ Peter De Wint (1784-1849), landscape-painter; member of the Society of Painters in Water-colours; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1807-28; painted also in oils; his chief subject being the scenery of northern and eastern England.
  541. ^ William Dewsbury (1621–1688), quaker preacher and author; joined the parliament army for a time; converted to quakerism by hearing George Fox preach; frequently imprisoned for his religious opinions; wrote religious tracts.
  542. ^ Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt (1784-1861), politician; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1818; barrister, Inner Temple, 1806; whig M.P. for Great Grimsby, 1818-26, for Bletchiugley, 1826-31, and for Stamford, 1831; F.S.A., F.R.S., 1829; M.P. for Lambeth, 18321862; privy councillor, 1832: deputy-lieutenant for Lincolnshire; advocated the repeal of the corn and navigation laws.