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Comerford Comberford: '''Comerford Comberford''' , or aUEMERFORD,
Nicholas: '''Nicholas''' ([[1544]]7-[[1599]]), Jesuit; born at Waterford ; B.A. Oxford, 1563; went to Louvain; D.D., 1575; joined the Jesuits, 1578; published controversial tracts.
Viscount Combermere: '''Viscount Combermere''' . See COTTON, SIR
Stapleton: '''Stapleton''' [[1773]]-[[1865]].
John Comerford: '''John Comerford''' ([[1762]]7-[[1832]]?), miniaturepainter in Dublin; exhibited in London, 1804-9.
Saint Comgall: '''Saint Comgall''' (6th cent.), Latinised as FAUSTUS ; commemorated on 10 May; native of Antrim: a soldier; pupil of SS. Finuiau and Ciaran; missionary priest; recluse on Lough Erne; founded Baugor Abbey, co. Down, c. 558, and other monasteries; friend of St. Columba; author of a monastic rule copied by his pupil St. Oolumban
Comines Comtn: '''Comines Comtn''' , or CUMIN, ROBERT DK, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND (d. 1069), accompanied William the Conqueror to England; created Earl of Northumberi land, and deputed to reduce the north of England, 1068; killed in a tumult at Durham; reputed ancestor of the Comyn family.
Comman: '''Comman''' or COMMOC of Ross-Commain, SAINT, 550); commemorated on 26 Dec., of a noble Ulster ily; pupil of St. Finnian; missionary in Connaught; founded Roscommon and other monasteries,
Commius: '''Commius''' (fl. B.C. 57-51), ambassador from Julius Caesar to the Britons; a Belgic Gaul set over the Atrebates by Julius Caesar, B.C. 57; sent, as envoy, to Britain, B.C. 55; served against the Menapii, B.C. 53; joined the 1 revolted Gauls, B.C. 52-61; possibly withdrew to Britain, where three sous of Commius are found inscribed on coins.
Compotista: '''Compotista''' orCOMPUTISTA, ROGER (fl. [[1360]]?), monk and prior of Bury St. Edmunds; compiled Expo fami sitiones vocabulorum Bibliae
Henry Compton: '''Henry Compton''' ([[1632]]-[[1713]]), bishop of London ; younger son of Spencer Compton, second earl of Northampton; possibly served in the civil war; nobleman of Queen's College, Oxford, 1649-62; travelled in Italy; possibly served in Flanders; cornet in the horse guards, 1660; M.A. Cambridge, 1661; incorporated at Christ Church, Oxford, 1666; rector of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire; advanced in the church by his family influence and the favour of Danby; master of St. Cross, Winchester, 1667; canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and D.D., 1669; bishop of Oxford, 1674; translated to London, 1675; dean of the Chapel Royal, 1675; privy councillor, 1676; proI cured the banishment of Joannes Lyserus; religious instructor of Princesses Mary and Anne; his hopes of the see of Canterbury frustrated by the opposition of the Duke of York, 1677; assisted the persecuted French protestants, 1681; strongly opposed repeal of Test Act, 1685; dismissed from the privy council and the deanery of the Chapel ; Royal, 1685; suspended from episcopal functions for refusing to inhibit John Sharp at the king's order, 1686; agreed to support William of Orange, 1687; joined the revolutionary committee, 1688; signed the invitation to William, 30 June 1688; reinstated in his see, 1688; joined the bishopsprotest against James II's illegal acts, October and November 1688; conveyed Princess Anne to Nottingham; marched, as colonel of a regiment, to Oxford; welcomed William in London, December 1688; ordered omission of prayers for James II and the Prince of Wales, 1689; voted for declaring the throne vacant; reinstated as privy councillor and dean of the Chapel Royal; crowned
Compton: '''Compton''' 268
Concanen: '''Concanen''' William and Mary, April 1689; acted as primate during Bancroft's suspension, 1689-90; supported the toleration bill, 1691; lord almoner, 1702; voted for Sacheverell, 1710; collected foreign plants; spent his revenues in charity; published translations from French and Italian, 1666-77, and Letters and Charges to his clergy, 1679-1701.
Henry Compton: '''Henry Compton''' ([[1805]]-[[1877]]), comedian; real name CHARLKS MAOKKNZIK; merchant's clerk in London; went on the provincial stage; first acted in London, 1837; at Dublin, 1840-1; acknowledged to be the best Shakespearean clown of his epoch; last acted, at Liverpool, 1877.
Sib Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton: '''Sib Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton''' (1770-1846), judge: army officer in India; journalist in London; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1808; advocate-general at Madras and Calcutta; knighted, 1831; chief-justice of Bombay, 1831-9.
Spencer Compton: '''Spencer Compton''' , second EARL OF NORTHAMP-
Ton: '''Ton''' " ([[1601]]-[[1643]]), educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; K.B., 1616; styled Lord Compton, 1618; M.P., Ludlow, 1621-2; master of the robes to Charles, as prince of Wales, 1622, and as king, 1625-8; accompanied Prince Charles to Spain, 1623; called to the peers as Baron Oompton, 1626; succeeded to the earldom, 1630; supported Charles I against the Scots and the parliament, 1639-42; commissioned to raise Warwickshire for the king, 1642; fought in several actions, and was killed at Hopton Heath, 1643.
Spencer Compton: '''Spencer Compton''' , EARL OF WILMINGTON ([[1673]] ?1743), third son of the third Earl of Northampton; M.P., 1698-1710 and 1713-27, and speaker of the house, 17151727; acted with the whigs; flattered the court; paymaster-general, 1722-30; K.B., 1725; created Baron Wilmington, 1728, and Earl, 1730: lord privy seal, 1730; lord president of the council, 1730; turned against Waipole, 1739; first lord of the treasury, 1742 till death. r NE, second
Spencer Joshua Alwy Compton: '''Spencer Joshua Alwy Compton''' 3
of Northampton Marquis: '''of Northampton Marquis''' ([[1790]]-[[1851]]), styled Lord Compton; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1810: styled Earl Comptou; M.P., 1812-20; voted with the whigs; in Italy, 1820-30; succeeded as marquis, 1828; president of the Royal Society, 1838-49; published verses,
Compton: '''Compton''' alias CARLETON, THOMAS ([[1593]]?1666), Jesuit; born in Cambridgeshire; joined the Jesuits, 1617; ordained priest at Douay, 1622; sent to England, 1625; professor at St. Omer and Liege; published Latin scholastic and theological treatises.
Sir William Oompton: '''Sir William Oompton''' ([[1482]] ?- [[1528]]), soldier; inherited Oompton, Warwickshire, 1493; in personal attendance on Henry VIII, 1509-23; knighted at Tournay, 1613; absentee chancellor of Ireland, 1513-16: served in the Scottish war, 1523.
Sir William Compton: '''Sir William Compton''' ([[1625]]-[[1663]]), royalist; third son of Spencer Compton, second earl of Northampton; fought bravely at taking of Banbury, 16 12; knighted, 1643; royalist governor of Banbury, 1642: besieged, 1644; surrendered, 1646; took part in the Kentish rising, 1648; imprisoned, 1648, 1655, and 1658; master of the ordnance, 1660; M.P., 1661.
Alexander Comrie: '''Alexander Comrie''' ([[1708]]-1 [[774]]), writer against rationalism; a Scot: merchant's clerk in Holland; Ph.D. Leyden, 1734; pastor of Woubrugge, 1734-73: wrote in Dutch.
Alexander Comyn: '''Alexander Comyn''' , second EARL OF BUCHAX (d. 1289), constable of Scotland; succeeded to earldom, 1233; member of the king's council, 1244; justiciary of Scotland. 1253; banished from court, 1255; again in power, 1257; head of Comyn family, 1258; plundered the revolted Western Isles, 1264; inherited great estates in Galloway, 1264; sheriff of Wigtou, 1266; constable of Scotland, 1270; pledged himself to support the Maid of Norway, 1283; one of the regents, 1286.

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John Comyn: '''John Comyn''' (rf. [[1212]]), archbishop of Dublin; Henry II's emissary against Becket to the emperor, 1168, and the pope, 1166; excommunicated by Becket: justice itinerant, 1169; envoy to Spain. 1177: a justiciar, 1179; elected, by King Henry's command, archbishop of Dublin. 1181; first visited Ireland, 1184-6: sided with Prince Richard, 1188; founded St. Patrick's, Dublin, 1190; set on foot controversy with see of Armagh as to precedence ! excommunicated the viceroy, 1197; imprisoned in Norj mandy; restored, 1198; taken into favour by Kin John, ! 1199; returned to Ireland, 1203.
John Comyn: '''John Comyn''' (d. [[1274]]), justiciar of Galloway ; held large estates in Nithsdale and Tynedale; in power at the Scottish court, 1249-55; recovered power, 1257; conspired against Henry III, 1258; took Henry Ill's part a.Mim-t the barons, 1263; captured at Lewes, 12G4: rowan led by Henry III, 1265.
John Comyn: '''John Comyn''' , the elder (rf. [[1300]]?), claimant to Scottish throne; suruamed THK BLACK; son and lu-ir of John Comyn (d. 1274); inherited Badenoch, 1258; assented to marriage of Princess Margaret with Eric II of Norway, 1281; acknowledged her daughter Manraret's title to throne, 1284; one of the regents, 1286-92; claimed the throne, 1291; supported his brother-in-law, John deBaliol (1249-1315); banished south of Trent by Edward L 1296; restored, 1297.
John Comyn: '''John Comyn''' , the younger (rf. [[1306]]), surnamed
Red The: '''Red The''' ; son of John Comyn the elder ; fought for his uncle, John Baliol, against Edward 1, 129G: taken prisoner at Dunbar; released, 1297; visited France; fought at Palkirk, 1298; elected joint-guardian of Scotland by the nobles, 1299; expelled Edward I's officials, 1302, and defeated his officer, 1303; driven northward by Edward I; submitted, 1304; pardoned, on payment of a fine, 1305; murdered at Dumfries by Robert Bruce's followers.
John Comyn: '''John Comyn''' , third EARL OF BUCHAN (d. [[1313]] ?), constable of Scotland; son of Alexander Comyn, second earl; succeeded, 1289; friendly to Edward I, 12901293; summoned to serve in Gascony, 1294; joined John Baliol, 1296; banished south of Trent; sent to Scotland to suppress Wallace's rising, 1297: elected joint-guardian of Scotland, 1299: envoy to request French intervention, 1303; his English estates forfeited, 1304, but soon restored; acknowledged Edward I as king of Scotland, 1305; at blood-feud with Bruce for the murder of his cousin, John Comyn the younger; opposed by his wife Isabella, who crowned Bruce at Scone, 1306; defeated by Bruce, 1307 and 1308; his estates seized by Robert Bruce, c. 1313.
Sir Robert Buckley Comyn: '''Sir Robert Buckley Comyn''' ([[1792]]-[[1853]]), judge; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool: M.A. St. John's College, Oxford, 1815; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1814; knighted, 1825; justice of Bengal, 1825; chiefjustice of Madras, 1835-42; published legal and historical works.
Walter Comyn: '''Walter Comyn''' , EARL OF MENTEITH (d. [[1268]]), half-brother of Alexander Comyn, second earl of Buchan ; in attendance on Alexander II, 1221-7; acquired Badenoch, 1229; acquired the earldom of Menteith by marriage, 1230; built castles in Galloway, 1235: acquired the chief power in Scotland, 1249; put down by Henry III, 1255; regained power, 1257.
Sir John Comyns: '''Sir John Comyns''' (d. [[1740]]), judge ; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1690; M.P., Maldon, 1701-26; serjeant-at-law, 1705; baron of the exchequer, 1726; justice of common pleas, 1736; chief baron of exchequer, 1738: wrote in law-FrenchReportsand aDigest of English Law since translated.
Conjetts: '''Conjetts''' (d. [[1640]]).
John Conant: '''John Conant''' ([[1608]]-[[1694]]), theologian: entered Exeter College, Oxford, 1627: fellow, 1633-47; M.A., 1 1634; D.D., 1664; withdrew from Oxford, 1642; preached in Somerset and London; chaplain to George, baron i Chandos, at Uxbridge; rector of Exeter College, 1649-62; regius professor of divinity, 1654-60: vice-chancellor, 1667-60; ejected from his headship for nonconformity, 1662; ordained priest, 1670: vicar of All Saints, North I ainptou, 1671; archdeacon of Norwich, 1676; prebendary j of Worcester, 1681; became blind; published sermons.
John Conant: '''John Conant''' ([[1664]]?-[[1723]]), biographer*!' son of : John Conant: fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1676-87: D.C.L., 1683: practised at DoctorsCommons; I wrote a life of his father (published, 1823).
Matthew Concanen: '''Matthew Concanen''' ([[1701]]-[[1749]]), author: born in Ireland; brought out a comedy and poems, 1721-2;
Conches: '''Conches''' 2G9
Conington: '''Conington''' back- writer and government journalist in London: befriended by William Warburton, 1726; wrote against Pope, 1728, and was accordingly placed in the Dunoiad 17 i".i: attorney-general of Jamaica, 1732-48.
William De Conches: '''William De Conches''' (d. [[1154]]).
John Gonde: '''John Gonde''' (fl, [[1785]]-[[1800]]), engraver ; of French nationality; engraved portraits of celebrities,
Henry Condell: '''Henry Condell''' , or CUNDKLL (d. [[1627]]), actor; partner in the Globe and Blackfriars theatres; acted leading parts in plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont and Flrtrher. YlisU-r, and Murston, 1598-1623: member of the lord chamberlain's company, and, 1603-25, of the king's company of players; received a mourning ring by will from Shakespeare, 1616; with John Heming, edited the first folio of Shakespeare's plays, 1623.
Henry Condell: '''Henry Condell''' ([[1757]]-[[1824]]), composer ; violinist in London orchestras; composed stage-music, 1803-8, also catches, songs, and duets.
James Conder: '''James Conder''' ([[1763]]-[[1823]]), numismatist ; youngest son of John Conder; published a catalogue of modern Provincial Coins, Tokens &c., 1798.
John Conder: '''John Conder''' ([[1714]]-[[1781]]), congregational minister; educated in London; pastor at Cambridge, 1739-54; D.D.; theological tutor in a London dissenting academy, 1754-81; preacher in London.
Josiah Conder: '''Josiah Conder''' ([[1789]]-[[1855]]), bookseller and author; son of a London bookseller; assistant in his father's shop, 1802; wrote verses for periodicals, 1806; bookseller in London, 1811-19; edited the Eclectic Review 1814-37, thePatriot 1832-55, nonconformist periodicals; brought out the Modern Traveller thirty volumes of travels, 1825-9; published also verses, essays, and religious tracts.
of Kildare Condlaed: '''of Kildare Condlaed''' , latinised CONLIANUS (d. 520), bishop and saint; commemorated on 3 May; a relative of St. Brigit q. v.j; spiritual director of Brigit's convent at Kildare; devoured by wolves in co. Wicklow.
John Conduitt: '''John Conduitt''' ([[1688]]-[[1737]]), master of the mint ; at Westminster School, 1701, and Trinity College, Gambridge, 1705; travelled: judge-advocate in Portugal, 17lf; captain of dragoons; M.P., 1715-37; married Sir Isaac Newton's niece, 1717: master of the mint, 1727; wrote on the coinage, 1730; collected materials for a life of Newton.
Condy: '''Condy''' or CTJNDY, NICHOLAS ([[1793]] ?-[[1857]]), landscape painter in water-colours; ensign, 1811; served in the Peninsula; lieutenant, 1818; resided at Plymouth; exhibited in I.ondon, 1830-45; joint-author of a book describing Cotehele, on the Tamar.

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Nicholas Matthews Condy: '''Nicholas Matthews Condy''' ([[1818]]-[[1851]]), artteacher at Plymouth; son of Nicholas Condy or Cundy ; exhibited sea-pieces in London, 1842-5.
John Coney: '''John Coney''' ([[1786]]-[[1833]]), draughtsman and engraver; exhibited architectural drawings, 1805-21; published engravings of Warwick Castle, 1815, London churches, 1820. English ecclesiastical antiquities, 1842, and continental buildings, 1832; other volumes appeared posthumously, 1842-3.
Congallus: '''Congallus''' I, in Gaelic CONALL, third reputed king of the Scots of Dalriada (511-535 ?), son of Domangart, son of Fergus Mor Mac Bare.
Congalltjs: '''Congalltjs''' H, in Gaelic OONALL, sixth reputed king of the Scots of Dalriada (557-574), son of Oongallus I; gave lona to St. Columba; fought against the Picts, 574.
Ih Congallus: '''Ih Congallus''' , in Gaelic OONALL CRANDONNA (d. 660), king or joint-king of the Scots of Dalriada (642660), son of Eocha Buidhe; perhaps subdued by the Britons.
Barons Congleton: '''Barons Congleton''' . See PARNELL, HENRY
Brooke: '''Brooke''' first BARON, [[1776]]-[[1842]] ; PARNELL, JOHN VESEY, second BARON, 1805-1883.
Richard Congreve: '''Richard Congreve''' ([[1818]]-[[1899]]), positivist ; educated at Rugby and Wadham College, Oxford; M.A., 1843; fellow and tutor; met Barthelemy St.-Hilaire and Anguste Comte in Paris nnd adopted positivism; founded positivist community in London, 1855; studied medicine; M.R.O.P., I860; took part in founding propaganda in Chapel Street, Lamb's Conduit Street, London; published political, historical, religious, and other writings.
William Congreve: '''William Congreve''' ([[1670]]-[[1729]]), dramatist; taken as a boy to Ireland; educated at Kilkenny and (1685) Trinity College, Dublin, being schoolfellow and fellowstudent of Swift; entered the Middle Temple; published, as Cleophil, Incognita a feeble novel; contributed to Dryden's metrical versions ofJuvenal 1692, and Vinril 1697; brought out his comedies, theOld Bachelor 1693, the Double Dealer 1693, Love for Love 1695, and i the Way of the World 1700, and his tragedy, the ; Mourning Bride 1697: replied to Jeremy Collier's i Short View 1697; published his collected works, 1710; well provided for by a commissionership of hackney coaches, 1695-1707, of wine licences, 1705-14, the secretaryship of Jamaica, 1714, and other offices; affected to be a man of fashion: flattered by Alexander Pope; visited by Voltaire: favoured by the second Duchess of Marlborough; buried in Westminster Abbey,
Sir William Congreve: '''Sir William Congreve''' ([[1772]]-[[1828]]), inventor j (1808) of the Congreve rocket; eldest son of the comptroller of the Royal Laboratory, Woolwich; officer of the royal artillery, 1791; attached to the Royal Laboratory, 1791, and was comptroller, 1814-28; directed to form two rocket companies, 1809; M.P., 1812-28: served with a rocket company at Leipzig, 1813, and in South France, 1814; succeeded as second baronet, 1814; wrote on currency and his own inventions.
James Coningham: '''James Coningham''' ([[1670]]-[[1716]]), presbyterian ; M.A. Edinburgh, 1694; presbyterian minister at Penrith, 1694, Manchester, 1700, and London, 1712; tutor of the Manchester dissenting academy, 1705-12.
Edmund Coningsbtjrgh: '''Edmund Coningsbtjrgh''' (.*. [[1479]]), archbishop of Armagh; LL.D. Cambridge; resided in Cambridge, 1465-72; non-resident rector of St. Leonard, Foster Lane, London, 1448, vicar of South Weald, 1450, rector of Copford, Essex, 1451, and rector of St. James's, Colchester, 1470; envoy to the pope, 1471; made archbishop of Armagh, 1477; resigned in deference to the pope, 1479.
Coningsby: '''Coningsby''' Sin HARRY (fl. [[1664]]), translator: knighted, 1660; printed a metrical paraphrase of Boethius de Consolatione and a memoir of his father, Thomas Coningsby.
Sir Humphrey Coningsby: '''Sir Humphrey Coningsby''' (. [[1480]]-[[1527]]), serjeant-at-law, 1495: justice of the king's bench and knighted, 1509.
Sir Thomas Coningsby: '''Sir Thomas Coningsby''' (d. [[1626]]), soldier; of Herefordshire; visited Italy, 1573; served in Normandy, 1591; knighted, 1591; M.P., Hereford, 1693 and 1601; i founded hospital at Hereford, 1614; wrote an account of j his French campaign (printed 1847).
Thomas Coningsby: '''Thomas Coningsby''' , EARL CONINGSBY ([[1656]] ?1729), M.P., Leominster, 1679-1710, and 1716; a strong I whig; wounded at the Boyne, 1690; one of the lordsjustices of Ireland, 1690-2; vice-treasurer of Ireland, 1693-4 and 1698-1702; suspected of peculation; created Baron Coningsby of Clanbrassil in Ireland, 1692; granted crown lands in England, 1697; a commissioner to investigate the intrigues ending in the peace of Utrecht, and to impeach Harley, 1715; baron in the English peerage, 1715; created earl, 1719; involved in lawsuits as to his title to the manors of Leominster and Mardeu, Herefordshire,
Sir William Coningsby: '''Sir William Coningsby''' (d. [[1540]]?), judge; second son of Sir Humphrey Couingsby; educated at Eton; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; of the Inner Temple; justice of the king's bench, and knighted, 1540.
Francis Thirkill Conington: '''Francis Thirkill Conington''' ([[1826]]-[[1863]]), chemist; fellow of Corpus Cbristi College, Oxford, 18491863; M.A., 1853; published aHandbook of Chemical Analysis 1858.
John Conington: '''John Conington''' ([[1825]]-[[1869]]), claesical scholar; educated at Rugby, demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1843; scholar, 1846. and fellow, 1848-55, of University
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Constable: '''Constable''' College, Oxfonl; contributed to the Morning Chronicle 1849-60; professor of Latin, Oxford, 1854-69; edited .lEschylus's Agamemnon 1848, and Choephoroe 1857; edited Virgil and Persius; published verse translations of Horace, 1863-9, the -Sneid 1866, and half the Iliad 1868; his Miscellaneous Writings published posthumously.
of The Hundrkd Battlks Conn: '''of The Hundrkd Battlks Conn''' (d. [[157]]), in Irish
Oead Cathach Conn: '''Oead Cathach Conn''' , king of Ireland ; son of King Fedlimidthe Lawgiver: succeeded to the throne, 123; defeated Leinster and Munster at Castlekuock, killing Cumhal; forced to surrender South Ireland to Mogh Nuadat, of the Ebereans; after fourteen yearswar, killed Mogh Nnadnt at Kilbride, King's County; acknowledged king of all Ireland; slain at Tar a.
Conn: '''Conn''' -NA-MBOCHT (d. [[1069]]), Conn of the Paupers ' ; head of the Ciildees of Ireland and bishop of Clonmacnois; endowed Culdce hospital at Iseal Chiarain.
Conn: '''Conn''' (CONJETTS), GEORGE (d. [[1640]]), Scottish catholic: educated at Douay, Paris, Rome, and Bologna: secretary to Cardinals Montalto, 1623, and Barberini, and to the congregation of rites; papal agent at Queen Henrietta Maria's court, 1636-9; died at Rome; published, in Latin, tracts on Scottish affairs and, 1624, a life of Mary Queen of Soots.

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Sir John Connell: '''Sir John Connell''' ([[1765]] ?-[[1831]]), lawyer ; advocate, 1788; sheriff -depute of Renfrewshire, 1806; law adviser of the church of Scotland, 1806; judge of the Scots admiralty court, 1816-30; knighted, 1822; wrote on Scottish ecclesiastical law.
Owen Connellan: '''Owen Connellan''' ([[1800]]-[[1869]]), Irish scholar; transcribed manuscripts for the Royal Irish Academy: Irish historiographer royal, 1822-37; professor of Irish at Cork, 1846-69; published Irish linguistic tracts, 1830-44, and translatedThe Four Masters 1846, and a bardic tale, 1860.
Thaddeus Connellan: '''Thaddeus Connellan''' (d. [[1854]]), author of Irish linguistic works, 1814-25.
Connor: '''Connor''' or O'CONNOR, BERNARD ([[1666]] ?-[[1698]]), author: born in Kerry; studied medicine in France; M.D. Rheims, 1691; physician to King John Sobieski; came to London, 1695; F.R.S., 1695; licentiate of the London College of Physicians, 1696; lectured in Oxford and London, 1695, and at Cambridge, 1697: published scientific papers, 1691-5, an attack on miracles, entitled E vangelium Medici 1697, and, 1698, a History of Poland
Charles Connor: '''Charles Connor''' (d. [[1826]]), comedian; born in Ireland; of Trinity College, Dublin; represented Irish characters in London, 1816-26. f xii. 23
George Henry Connor: '''George Henry Connor''' ([[1822]]-[[1883]]), divine; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1851; vicar of Newport, Isle of Wight, 1852-83; dean of Windsor, 1883; published sermons.
Robert Conny: '''Robert Conny''' ([[1645]]?-[[1713]]), physician; B.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1676; M.D., 1685; naval physician at Deal, 1692; practised at Rochester.
Arthur Oonolly: '''Arthur Oonolly''' ([[1807]]-[[1842]] ?), traveller ; educated at Rugby and Addiscombe; cornet of Bengal cavalry, 1823; captain, 1838: published, 1834, a description of his overland journey (1829-31) to India; official in Rajpootana, 1834-8; travelled through Turkey in Europe and Asia to India, 1839; sent to Oabul, 1840, to Merv, Khiva, and Bokhara; imprisoned at Bokhara, 1841; murdered in prison; contributed to the Asiatic Society's 'Journal
Edward Barry Conolly: '''Edward Barry Conolly''' ([[1808]]-[[1840]]), captain of Bengal cavalry; brother of Arthur Conolly; killed near Oabul; contributed to the Asiatic Society's Journal
Erskine Conolly: '''Erskine Conolly''' ([[1796]]-[[1843]]), writer of Scottish songs; bookseller's apprentice at Anstruther; solicitor in Edinburgh.
Henry Valentine Conolly: '''Henry Valentine Conolly''' ([[1806]]-[[1855]]), Indian civilian; brother of Arthur Conolly; educated at Rugby; civil servant at Madras, 1824-56; murdered by fanatics.
John Conolly: '''John Conolly''' ([[1794]]-[[1866]]), physician; of Irish extraction; ensign in the militia, 1812-16; lived at Tours; medical student at Edinburgh, 1817; M.D. Edinburgh, 1821; practised medicine at Ohichester: removed to Stratford-on-Avon, 1822-7; visitinir physician of Warwickshire asylums; medical professor at University College, London, 1828; resident at Warwick, 1830-8, visiting asylums; refident, 1839-44, and visiting, 1844-52, physician to Hanwell Asylum, introducing the humane treatment of lunatics; hon. D.O.L. Oxford, 1852; published treatises on insanity and asylum methods, 1847-56; contributed to medical journals.
John Balfour Conolly: '''John Balfour Conolly''' (d. [[1842]]), lieutenant of Bengal infantry; brother of Arthur Conolly; died at Oabul. xii. 26
Thomas Conolly: '''Thomas Conolly''' ([[1738]]-[[1803]]), Irish politician; M.P. for Malmesbury, 1759, and for Chichester, 1768-84; M.P. for Londonderry in the Irish parliament, 1761-1800; held various offices in Ireland; advocated the union.
William Conolly: '''William Conolly''' (d. [[1729]]), Irish politician ; an Irish barrister; speaker of the Irish House of Commons, 1715-29; frequently a lord justice of Ireland, 1717-29; chief commissioner of Irish revenues.
John Tricker Conqjjest: '''John Tricker Conqjjest''' ([[1789]]-[[1866]]), accoucheur; M.D. Edinburgh, 1813; L.R.O.P., 1819; published insignificant medical treatises.
Florence Conry: '''Florence Conry''' , in Irish FLATHRI
Chonaire: '''Chonaire''' ([[1561]]-[[1629]]), Irish Roman catholic prelate; educated in Spain and the Spanish Netherlands; Observant friar at Salamanca; provincial of the Observants in Ireland; sent by Philip II to foment rebellion in Ireland; archbishop of Tuam, 1609; died at Madrid; wrote theological tracts in Latin, published 1619-44, and two in Irish, published 1616 and 1625.
Francis Const: '''Francis Const''' ([[1751]]-[[1839]]), lawyer ; barrister, Middle Temple, 1783; chairman of the Westminster sessions.
Archibald Constable: '''Archibald Constable''' ([[1774]]-[[1827]]), publisher; bookseller's apprentice in Edinburgh, 1788; bookseller in Edinburgh, 1795; began to publish pamphlets and sermons, 1798; commenced the Farmer's Magazine, 1 1800; proprietor of theScots Magazine 1801; started the Edinburgh Review 1802; part-publisher of Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy 1802, Lay of the Last Minstrel 1805, and Marmion 1807; requested Scott to edit Swift, 1808; partner in a London publishing firm, 1808-11; acquired copyright ofEncyclopaedia Britannica 1812, and brought out supplementary Dissertations; advised Scott to publish Waverley 1814; deserted by Scott, through the sinister influence of James Ballantyne; bankrupt through the failure of his London agents, 1826; began Constable's Miscellany 1827.
Outhbert Constable: '''Outhbert Constable''' (d. [[1746]]), antiquary: known as Cuthbert Tnnstall, educated at Douay, 1700; M.D. Montpellier: took the name Constable, 1718, on inheriting a Yorkshire estate; a Roman catholic; collected manuscripts.
Henry Constable: '''Henry Constable''' ([[1562]]-[[1613]]), poet ; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1580: embraced Roman Catholicism; withdrew to Paris; in friendly correspondence with the English authorities, 1584-5; published Diana a volume of sonnets, 1592, which he enlarged, 1694; failed to obtain his recall to England, 1595; papal envoy to Edinburgh, 1599: pensioned by the French king; came to London, 1603; imprisoned in the Tower, 1604; released, 1604; died at Liege: verses by him embodied in various collections, 1591-1610; collected works published, 1869.
Henry Constable: '''Henry Constable''' , VISCOUNT DUNBAR (rf. 1645), succeeded to Burton Constable estate, Yorkshire, 1608: knighted, 1614: a Roman catholic; created Viscount Dunbar, in the Scottish peerage, 1620.
John Constable: '''John Constable''' (ft. [[1520]]), epigrammatist; educated at St. Paul's School: M.A. Oxford, 1515; published Latin Epigrammata 1520.
John Constable: '''John Constable''' ([[1676]] ?-[[1744]]X Jesuit ; educated at St. Omer, as John Lacey: joined the Jesuits, 1695; chaplain to the Fitzherberts of Swinnerton, Staffordshire; wrote, frequently as Clerophilus Alethes against Anglican orders, Charles Dodd's Church History and in reply to other controversialists.

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John Constable: '''John Constable''' ([[1776]]-[[1837]]), landscape-painter ; educated at Dedham school, Esisex: encouraged by Sir George Beaumont: art-student in London, 17961797; learnt etching; resided in London, except for summer tours, from 1799; sketched in water-colours; painted ; exhibited his first landscape at the Royal Academy, isic; painted two altar-pieces for Suffolk churches, 1804 and Isnt; painted in his own style quiet English land;;7, vithoutrecognition in England; employed in painting portraits and making copies of pictures: made a great impression at the French Salon, 1824; inherited a competency, 1828; R.A., 1829; twenty of his landscapes engraved by David Lucas, 1833; lectured on Landscape Art 1833 and 183C.
Sir Marmaduke Constable: '''Sir Marmaduke Constable''' ([[1455]] ?-[[1518]]), landowner and soldier, of Flamborough, Yorkshire; served in France, 1475 and 1492; knighted; served at the siege of J5erick, 1482; steward of Tutbury, Staffordshire, 1 ts:i; sheriff of Staffordshire, 1486-7, and of Yorkshire, 1487-8 and 1509-10; inherited Flamborough, 1488; attached to the personal service of Henry VII; cominissiimer to Scotland, 1509-10; commanded left wing at Flodden, 1513. Scholarships were founded in his name at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1522.
Constable: '''Constable''' Sm MARMADUKE ([[1480]] ?-[[1545]]), second son of Sir Marmaduke Constable (1465 7-1518) ; knighted for service at Flodden, 1513; sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1513-14; in personal attendance on Henry VIII, 1520; served in Scotland, 1522-3; M.P., Yorkshire, 1529; sheriff of Yorkshire, 1532-3; member of the council of the north, 1537-45; obtained a grant of Drax Priory, Yorkshire, 1538.
Sir Robert Constable: '''Sir Robert Constable''' ([[1478]]7-[[1637]]), Roman catholic insurgent; eldest son of Sir Marmaduke Constable (1455 ?-1518); knighted at Blackheath for service against the Cornish insurgents, 1497; a leader in the Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536, seizing Hull; pardoned; refused to come to London; taken prisoner to the Tower, 1637; executed at Hull.
Thomas Constable: '''Thomas Constable''' ([[1812]]-[[1881]]), printer and publisher; youngest son of Archibald Constable; learnt printing in London; queen's printer in Edinburgh In partnership with his father, 1839, and with his son, 1869; publisher in Edinburgh, bringing out mainly schoolbooks, 1847-60; wrote memoirs of his father, 1873, and other works.
Constable: '''Constable''' Sm THOMAS HUGH CLIFFORD (1762-1823), author; known as Thomas Hngh Clifford; of a Roman catholic family; educated at Liege and Paris; travelled in Switzerland; inherited Tixall, Staffordshire, 1786; created baronet, 1815; took the name Constable on inheriting Burton Constable, Yorkshire, 1821; died at Ghent; wrote both of topography and flora of Tixall, 1817; wrote devotional works.
Constable: '''Constable''' Sm WILLIAM (d. [[1655]]), regicide; served under Essex in Ireland, 1599; knighted at Dublin; pardoned for his share in Essex's revolt, 1601; created baronet, 1611; M.P., 1626, 1628, and 1642; refused to pay the forced loan, 1627; sold Flamborough, Yorkshire, 1636; raised regiment for the parliament; fought at Edgehill, 1642; routed the Yorkshire royalists, 1644; sided with the army against the parliament, 1647; joint-gaoler of Charles I at Carisbrook, January 1648; governor of Gloucester, 1648-51; regular in his attendance as one of the king's judges, 1649; member of the Commonwealth councils of state; his estates confiscated, 1660.
Walter De Constantiis: '''Walter De Constantiis''' (d. [[1207]]). See Cou-
Walter Dk Tances: '''Walter Dk Tances''' .
Constantine: '''Constantine''' I (d. [[879]]), king of Alba (Scotland, north of Forth), 863-79; son of Kenneth Macalpine; raided by the Norse kings of Dublin, 865-79; fell in battle.
Ii Constantine: '''Ii Constantine''' (d. [[952]]), king of Alba (Scotland, north of Forth), 900-43; sou of Edh; raided by the northmen, W3; crushed the invaders, 904; held council at Scone to make agreement between the Pictish and Scottish churches, 906; made his brother Donald king of Ptrathclyde, 908; raided by Danish pirates under Regnwald, 912; defeated by Regnwald, 918, and driven out of Northumberland; his Bright to Northumbria challenged by jEthelstan of Wessex, c. 926; part of his dominions ravaged by thelstan, 933-4, bis counter-invasion repnl i d at Brunanburh, Yorkshire, 937; resigned his crown, 943; became a Culdee monk at St. Andrews,
Hi Constantine: '''Hi Constantine''' (d. [[997]]), king of Scotland, [[995]]-7 ; eonot Colin, his predecessor; murdered.
Mac Fergus Constantine: '''Mac Fergus Constantine''' (d. [[820]]), king of tin- Picts, 807-20; founded a monastic church at Dunkeld; possibly ruled also over the Scots of Dalriada; harassed by the Norsemen (lona being ravaged, 806).
George Constantine: '''George Constantine''' ([[1501]] 7-[[1559]]), protestant reformer; bred a surgeon; bachelor of canon law, Cambridge, 1524; adopted protestantism; wrote in conjunction with William Tyndal at Antwerp; surgeon in Brabant; came to England to sell protestant books; arrested, 1530; saved himself by turning king's evidence; returned to Antwerp, 1631; returned to England before 1536; vicar of Llawhaden, Pembrokeshire: registrar of St. David's diocese, c. 1546; archdeacon of Carmarthen, 1549; substituted a movable table for the altar, 1649: an accuser of Bishop Robert Ferrar, 1555; archdeacon of Brecon, 1569.
Anne Conway: '''Anne Conway''' , VISCOUNTESS COSWAY (d. [[1679]]), daughter of Sir Henry Finch; married, 1651, Edward, third viscount Conway; an hysterical invalid; corresponded with Henry More of Cambridge; joined the quakers; reputed authoress of a philosophical tract, published, 1690.
Edward Conway: '''Edward Conway''' , first VISCOUNT CONWAY (d. 1631), son of Sir John Conway; knighted for service in the Cadiz expedition, 1596: governor of Brill; M.P., 1603 and 1624; secretary of state, 1623-30: lord president of the council; envoy to Prague, 1623-5; governor of the Isle of Wight, 1625; created Baron Conway, 1625, Viscount Killultagh, in Ireland, 1626, and Viscount Conway, 1627.
Francis Seymour Conway: '''Francis Seymour Conway''' , MARQUIS OF
Hertford: '''Hertford''' ([[1719]]-[[1794]]), nephew of Sir Robert Walpole : succeeded as second Baron Conway, 1732; created Earl of Hertford, 1750, and Marquis, 1793; lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1765-6; lord chamberlain, 1766-82.
Henry Seymour Conway: '''Henry Seymour Conway''' ([[1721]]-[[1795]]), fieldmarshal; nephew of Sir Robert Walpole; given a commission when a boy; M.P. Antrim, in the Irish parliament, 1741; M.P. for various pocket boroughs in the British parliament, 1741-84; served in Flanders, 1742; present at the battles of Dettingen, 1743, Fontenoy, 1745, Culloden, 1746, and Lauffeld, 1747; aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland, 1746; secretary to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1756-6; major-general, 1756; failed in the Rochfort expedition, 1757, his behaviour becoming the subject of several pamphlets, 1758; lieutenantgeneral, 1759; served under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, 1761-3; dismissed from his offices and employments for opposing George Ill's arbitrary measures, 1764; secretary of state, 1765-8: lieutenant-general of the ordnance, 1767-72; general, 1772; governor of Jersey, where he occasionally resided, 1772-95; opposed the continuance of the American war, 1775-81: commander-inchief, 1782-3; joined Fox in attacking Pitt, 1784; withdrew from politics, 1784; dabbled in forestry and versewriting; field-marshal, 1793.
Sir John Conway: '''Sir John Conway''' (d . [[1603]]), governor of Ostend ; of Arrow, Warwickshire; knighted, 1559; governor of Ostend, 1586; imprisoned, 1688; published devotional tracts and verses.
Roger of Conway: '''Roger of Conway''' (d. [[1360]]), Franciscan ; D.D. Oxford; provincial of the English Franciscans; wrote in defence of the mendicant orders against Richard FitzRalph, archbishop of Armagh, e. 1367.
William Augustus Conway: '''William Augustus Conway''' ([[1789]]-[[1828]]X real name RUGG; appeared on the provincial stage, c. 1808; performed in Dublin, 1812, London, 1813-16, Bath, 18171820, and London, 1821; attacked by Theodore Hook, 1821; acted in America, 1824-8; committed suicide.
William Cony: '''William Cony''' (d. [[1707]]), naval captain, [[1704]]: taken prisoner by a French squadron, 1705; wrecked off Scilly.

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John Conybeaee: '''John Conybeaee''' ([[1692]]-[[1755]]), bishop of Bristol ; fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 1710; M.A., 1716; DJX,
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Cook: '''Cook''' 1730: rector of Exeter College, 1730-33; dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 1733-55: bishop of Bristol, 1750; published sermons, and Defence of Revealed Religion 1732, against Matthew Tiudal.
John Josias Conybeare: '''John Josias Conybeare''' ([[1779]]-[[1824]]), geologist : student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1800-13; M.A., 1804; vicar of Batheaston, Somerset; professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, 1807-12, and of poetry, 1812-21; published tracts, geological, 1817-24, chemical, 1822-3, and theological, 1824; translations from Anglo-Saxon by him published, 1826.
William Daniel Conybeare: '''William Daniel Conybeare''' ([[1787]]-[[1857]]), geologist; educated at Vestminster and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1811; vicar of Axminster, Devonshire, 1836-44: dean of Llaudaff, 1845-57: published geological papers; first to describe the ichthyosaurus.
William John Conybeare: '''William John Conybeare''' ([[1815]]-[[1857]]), divine; eldest son of William Daniel Conybeare; educated at Westminster; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1837: principal of Liverpool Collegiate Institution, 1842-8; vicar of Axminster, Devonshire, 1848-54; published essays and a novel, 1856; joint-author (with J. S. Howson) of Life of St. Paul 1851.
Conyers: '''Conyers''' Sm JOHN (. [[1469]]). See ROBIN OF
Redesdale: '''Redesdale'''
Hexry Conyngham: '''Hexry Conyngham''' , first MARQUIS COXYXGHAM (1766-1832), succeeded as third baron, 1787; created viscount, 1789, earl, 1797, and marquis, 1816, in the Irish peerage; representative Irish peer, 1801; created Baron Minster, in the British peerage, 1821; lord steward of the household, 1821-30; his wife possessed great influence over George IV.
Richard Conyngtok: '''Richard Conyngtok''' (rf. [[1330]]), Franciscan; D.D. Oxford; lectured at Oxford and Cambridge: provincial of the English Franciscans, 1310; wrote on scholastic philosophy and theology.
Sir John Coode: '''Sir John Coode''' ([[1816]]-[[1892]]), civil engineer ; articled to James Meadows Rendel of Plymouth; practised as consulting engineer in Westminster, 1844-7; resident engineer in charge of works at Portland harbour, 1847, and engineer-in-chief, 1856-72; knighted, 1872; K.C.M.G., 1886; M.I.O.E., 1849; president, 1889-91: associated with several important harbour works in various parts of the world, including (1874-85) those at Colombo, Ceylon; author of professional reports and papers.
Cook: '''Cook'''
Edward Dutton Cook: '''Edward Dutton Cook''' ([[1829]]-[[1883]]), dramatic critic; son of a London solicitor; educated at King's College School, London; brought out a melodrama, 1859; dramatic critic of London journals, 1867-83; published novels, 1861-77, and essays on the stage.
Eliza Cook: '''Eliza Cook''' ([[1818]]-[[1889]]), poet ; began to write at early age and published Lays of a Wild Harp 1835; contributed to * Weekly Dispatch in which appeared the Old Arm Chair the most popular of her poems, 1837, and to other periodicals; conducted Eliza Cook's Journal 1849-54. Her complete collected poems were published, 1870.
Frederic Charles Cook: '''Frederic Charles Cook''' ([[1810]]-[[1889]]), editor of the Speaker's Commentary; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1844; chaplain in ordinary to the queen, 1857; preacher. at Lincoln's Inn, 1860-80: canonresidentiary at Exeter,1864; chaplain to bishop of London, 1869; precentor of Exeter Cathedral, 1872: appointed, 1864, editor of theSpeaker's Commentary(published 1871-81, 10 vols.), a critical commentary on the bible occasioned by the appearance of Essays and Reviews
George Cook: '''George Cook''' ([[1772]]-[[1845]]), Scottish church leader ; son of a St. Andrews professor: educated at St. Andrews; M.A., 1790; D.D., 1808: minister of Laurencekirk, Kinrardineshire, 1796-1829; professor of moral philosophy, St. Andrews, 1829-45; moderator of the church, 1825; a leader of the moderate party in the patronage question, 1833-43; published histories of theReformation in Scotland 1811,and of theChurch of Scotland 1815, and other works, biographical and theological.
Henry Cook: '''Henry Cook''' ([[1642]]-[[1700]]), painter; studied art in Italy; employed in England as a decorative artist; fled to Italy to escape justice: returned; repaired Raphael's cartoons; painted altar-pieces and portraits,
James Cook: '''James Cook''' (d. [[1611]]), divine: educated at Winchester; perpetual fellow of New College, Oxford, 1592; D.C.L., 1608; rector of Houghton, Hampshire, 1609; published a controversial tract.
James Cook: '''James Cook''' ([[1728]]-[[1779]]), circumnavigator; a I labourer's son; seaman in the Baltic trade; common seaman in t lie navy, 1755; master, 1759: surveyed the St. Lawrence, 1759; employed on the North American station, 1759-67; published hisSailing Directions 1766-8; lieutenant, 1768; sailed, 1768, in the Endeavour, for Tahiti, round Cape Horn; observed the transit of Venus, 3 June: charted the coasts of New Zealand, the east coast of Australia, and part of New Guinea, 1769-70; returned by the Cape of Good Hope, reaching the Downs, 1771; commander, 1771: sailed in the Resolution to disprove the existence of an Antarctic continent, 1772; rounded the Cape of Good Hope, 22 Nov. 1772; visited many Pacific islands: skirted the Antarctic icefields, 1773-5; reached Plymouth, 1775, having, by new hygienic rules, escaped scurvy and fever; captain, 1775; attempted to sail round North America from the Pacific, 1776; passed the Cape of Good Hope, and (1778) discovered the Sandwich islands; charted the Pacific coast of North America, 1778; touched at Hawaii, 1779; driven off by storm, and on putting back to refit was murdered by natives.
John Cook: '''John Cook''' (rf. [[1660]]), regicide ; travelled ; barrister. Gray's Inn; appointed by parliament to conduct the prosecution of Charles I; master of St. Cross, Winchester, 1649; justice in Munster, 1649: granted Irish lands, 1653; justice of the upper bench, Ireland, 1655; in England, 1657-9; arrested in Ireland, 1660; executed in London; published political and legal pamphlets.
John Cook: '''John Cook''' ([[1771]]-[[1824]]), professor of Hebrew ; M.A. St. Andrews, 1788; minister of Kilmany, Fifeshire, 17981802; D.D.; professor of Hebrew, St. Andrews, 1802-24; moderator of the church, 1816.
John Cook: '''John Cook''' ([[1808]]-[[1869]]), professor of ecclesiastical history; eldest son of John Cook (1771-1824); M.A. St. Andrews, 1823; D.D., 1848; minister of St. Leonards, St. Andrews, 1845-63; moderator of the church of Scotland, 1869: professor of ecclesiastical history, St. Andrews, 1860-8; published sermons and theological and legal pamphlets.
John Cook: '''John Cook''' ([[1807]]-[[1874]]), Scottish divine : eldest son of George Cook; M.A. St. Andrews, 1823; D.D., 1843; minister at Haddington, 1833-74; moderator of the church of Scotland, 1866.
John Douglas Cook: '''John Douglas Cook''' ([[1808]]7-[[1868]]), journalist; born in Aberdeenshire; for some time in India; wrote for 4 Times and Quarterly Review; edited the Morning Chronicle 1848-54, and theSaturday Review 1856-68.
John Mason Cook: '''John Mason Cook''' ([[1834]]-[[1899]]), tourist agent ; son of Thomas Cook (1808-1892); engaged in business as printer; partner with his father from 1864; extended the firm's connections with America and the continent, and became agent for developing traffic to many railways in England and abroad: appointed by Khedive government agent for passenger traffic on Nile, 1870; opened branch office at Cairo, 1873: granted by Egyptian government exclusive right of carrying mails, specie, and civil and military officials between Assiout and Assouan, 1889; made a like contract with the English government, and performed valuable services in the Nile campaigns, 1885-6; greatly developed touring arrangements in Norway from 1875; acquired railway up Mount Vesuvius; carried out schemes for travelling in India; devised plans for the safer travel and better treatment of pilgrims to Jeddah and Yambo, and to Mecca and Medina; made arrangements for the German Emperor's visit to the Holy Land, 1898.

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Richard Cook: '''Richard Cook''' ([[1784]]-[[1857]]), historical painter; art student in London: exhibited, 1808-22; illustrated many books; R.A., 1822.
Robert Cook: '''Robert Cook''' (d. [[1693]]?), herald and portraitpainter; of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1653: M.A 1561; Chester herald, 1562: Clarenceux king-of-arms, 1667; commissioned to visit his province, 1568: took out a grant of arms, 1577: acted as Garter, 1584-6; left manuscript collections, heraldic and genealogical.
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Robert Oook: '''Robert Oook''' : ([[1646]] 7-[[1726]]?), vegetarian; an eccentric Waterford landowner; reaided in Ipswich and Bristol, 1688-92; nicknamedLinen Cook
Samuel Oook: '''Samuel Oook''' ([[1806]]-[[1859]]), water-colour painter; housr-jiainUT at Plymouth; exhibited coast scenes in London, 1830-59.
Samuel Edward Cook: '''Samuel Edward Cook''' (. [[1856]]). See WIDDRINO
Ton: '''Ton'''
Thomas Cook: '''Thomas Cook''' ([[1744]] ?-[[1818]]), engraver, of London ; much employed in engraving portraits and book illustrations; copied all Hogarth's works for Hogarth Restored 1806.
Thomas Cook: '''Thomas Cook''' ([[1808]]-[[1892]]), tourist agent ; apprenticed as wood-turner; entered a printing and publishing firm at Loughborough; joined Association of Baptist-; travelled as missionary in Rutland, e, 1828-9; wood-turner at Market Harborough, and secretary to the branch there of the South Midland Temperance Association, in connection with which he organised the first publicly advertised excursion by train in England, 1841; induced by the success of this excursion (Leicester to Loughborough and back) to make the organising of excursions at home and abroad a regular occupation; published handbooks for tourists, and subsequently issued coupons for hotel expenses; issuedExcursionist monthly magazine, from . 1846; removed to London, 1864.
William Cook: '''William Cook''' (d. [[1824]]), miscellaneous writer; squandered his own and his wife's fortune; barrister, Middle Temple, 1777; published poems, memoirs of actors, and a comedy, 1775-1815.
Cooke: '''Cooke'''
Alexander Cooke: '''Alexander Cooke''' ([[1564]]-[[1632]]), divine; entered Brasenose College, Oxford, 1581; fellow of University College, 1587; B.D., 1596; vicar of Louth, Lincolnshire, 1601; vicar of Leeds, 1615-32; published bitter antiRomanist tracts, 1610-25.
Sir Anthony Cooke: '''Sir Anthony Cooke''' ([[1504]]-[[1676]]), politician : of Gidea Hall, Romford, Essex; father-in-law of Lord Burghley; tutor to Edward, prince of Wales; K.B., 1647; M.P., 1547; served on several ecclesiastical commissions, 1547-9; obtained church lands, 1552; imprisoned, 1553; withdrew to Strasburg, 1554; returned to England, 1558; M.P., Essex, 1559-67; served on various commissions, 1559-76.
Benjamin Cooke: '''Benjamin Cooke''' ([[1734]]-[[1793]]), musician ; son of a London music-seller; pupil of J. C. Pepusch; deputy-organist, 1746, choir-master, 1757, and organist, 1762-93, of WestminsterAbbey; Mus.Doc. Cambridge, 1775, and Oxford, 1782; librarian, 1749, and conductor, 1752-89, of Academy of Ancient Music; organist of St. MartinV in-the-Fields, 1782-93.
Edward Cooke: '''Edward Cooke''' (Jt. [[1678]]), author of a tragedy, Love's Triumph 1678.
Edward Cooke: '''Edward Cooke''' ([[1772]]-[[1799]]), naval officer; lieutenant, 1790; captain, 1794; served at Toulon, 1793, Calvi, 1794, and in East Indies, 1796-9; mortally wounded in action.
Edward Cooke: '''Edward Cooke''' ([[1755]]-[[1820]]), under-secretary of otate; son of William Oooke (1711-1797); educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; B.A., 1777; official in Ireland, 1778; under-secretary in the Irish military department, 1789-95, and civil department, 17961801; M.P., Leighlin, 1790-1800: quarrelled with Earl Fit.william, 1795; a favourite of Castlereagh: wrote, 1798, and intrigued for the union, 1800; under-secretary in London for war, 1807, and for foreign affairs, 1812-17. 0), m
Edward William Cooke: '''Edward William Cooke''' ([[1811]]-[[1880]]), marine painter: sou of George Cooke (1781-1834); drew plants for botanical books; etched coast scenes; made drawings of the progress of new London Bridge, 1825-31: travelled on the continent, 1830-46; R.A., 1864; a frequent exhibitor. CjOKE, GEORGE (1781-1834), line engraver; pupil of James Basire; a prolific workman; illustrated numerous works on landscape and antiquities,
Sir George Cooke: '''Sir George Cooke''' ([[1768]]-[[1837]]), lieutenant-general; ensign, 10th foot guards, 1784; captain, 1792; served in Flanders, 1794, and in Holland, 1799; captain and lieutenant-colonel, 1798; major-general, 1811; at Cadiz, 1H11-13; commanded first division of guards at Waterloo, 1815; K.C.U. aud colonel, 1815; lieutenant-general, 1821.
George Cooke: '''George Cooke''' ([[1807]]-[[1863]]), actor ; first appeared on provincial stage, 1828, and in London, 1837; committed suicide.
George Frederick Cooke: '''George Frederick Cooke''' ([[1756]]-[[1811]]), actor; printer's apprentice at Berwick; first appeared on provincial stage, 1776, and in London, 1778; a favourite in Newcastle, Manchester, and other northern towns; reappeared in London, 1801-10, at first with success: well received in New York, 1810; occasionally a brilliant performer, but uncertain through intemperance,
George Leigh Cooke: '''George Leigh Cooke''' ([[1780]]7-[[1853]]), mathematician; scholar, 1797, and fellow, 1810-15, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; B.D., 1812; professor of natural philosophy, 1810-53; beneficed in Warwickshire, 1824; edited part of Newton'sPrincipia 1850.
George Wingrove Cooke: '''George Wingrove Cooke''' ([[1814]]-[[1865]]), man of letters: B.A. Jesus College, Oxford, 1834; barrister, Middle Temple, 1835; employed by the tithe and enclosure commissions; copyhold commissioner, 1862; Times correspondent in China, 1857, and Algeria; published memoirs of Bolingbroke, 1835, and Shaftesbnry, a history of party politics. 1837, legal treatises, 1844-57, and notes of travel, 1856-60.
Henry Cooke: '''Henry Cooke''' (d. [[1672]]), musician : chorister of the Chapel Royal; entered Charles I's army, 1642, and became captain; teacher of music in London before 1655, several of his pupils becoming afterwards distinguished composers; part-composer of the music for Sir William D'Avenant's operas, 1666; choir-master of the Chapel Royal; composed the music for the coronation service, 1661; composer to Charles II, 1664; marshal of the Corporation of Musicians, 1670.

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Henry Cooke: '''Henry Cooke''' ([[1788]]-[[1868]]), Irish presbyterian leader; entered Glasgow University, 1802: studied science and medicine at Glasgow, 1815-17, and Dublin, 1817-18; D.D. Jefferson College, U.S.A., 1829; LL.D. Dublin, 1837; presbyteriau minister at Duneaue, 1808, and Donegore, co. Antrim, 1811, at Killeleagh, co. Down, 1818, and I Belfast, 1829-68; professor of ethics, Queen's College, Belfast, 1847; leader of the orthodox party in the controversy, 1821-40, which excluded the Arian ministers from j the presbyterian church; strongly opposed disestablishment of Irish episcopal church: published sermons, i pamphlets, and hymns; a voluminous contributor to periodicals; reputed one of the most effective of Irish 1 preachers and debaters.
Jo Cooke: '''Jo Cooke''' . (. [[1614]]), author of 'Greene's TuQuoque, 1 comedy, printed 1614; possibly also of Epigrams 1604.
Cooke: '''Cooke''' Sill JOHN ([[1666]]-[[1710]]), civilian: entered Merchant TaylorsSchool, 1673: entered St. John's College, Oxford, 1684; lieutenant of foot at the Boyne, 1689; D.O.L., 1694; advocate at DoctorsCommons, 1694; knighted, 1701; dean of arches, 1703; vicar-general of see of Canterbury.
John Cooke: '''John Cooke''' ([[1763]]-[[1806]]), naval officer: entered navy, 1776; captain, 1794: put on shore by the Spithead : mutineers, 1797; killed at Trafalgar.
John Cooke: '''John Cooke''' ([[1731]]-[[1810]]), London bookseller ; issued annotated bibles, British poets, and other works in weekly sixpenny parts.
John Cooke: '''John Cooke''' ([[1738]]-[[1823]]), chaplain of Greenwich Hospital: M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1764: rector of Denton, Buckinghamshire, 1773: published a history of Greenwich Hospital, 1789, memoirs of Lord Sandwich, 1799, and sermons.
John Cooke: '''John Cooke''' ([[1756]]-[[1838]]), physician: dissenting preacher in Lancashire; studied medicine in London, Edinburgh, and Leydcn: M.D. Leyden; medical practitioner and lecturer in London; physician to the General Dispensary and, 1784-1807, to the London Hospital; published A Treatise on Nervous Diseases 1821-3.
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Robert Cooke: '''Robert Cooke''' ([[1550]]-[[1616]]), divine; fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, 1573-90; proctor, 1582-3; B.D., 1584; vicar of "Leeds, 1590-1615; prebendary of Durham, 1614: wrote and preached actively against Romanism.
Robert Cooke: '''Robert Cooke''' (d. [[1814]]), musician ; son of Benjamin Cooke: organist of St. Martin's-in-theFields, 1793, and of Westminster Abbey, 1802; drowned himself: composed songs and glees.
Robert Cooke: '''Robert Cooke''' ([[1820]] ? -[[1882]]), Irish Roman catholic divine; mission priest in Leicestershire, Yorkshire, 1847, and London; published biographies of Roman catholics, 1875-82.
Roger Cooke: '''Roger Cooke''' (ft. [[1563]]), astrologer ; assistant of John Dee, 1567-81; perhaps published an almanack, 1586.
Cooke: '''Cooke''' Sm THOMAS (d. [[1478]]), lord mayor of London; a warden of the DrapersCompany, 1439; intermediary between Jack Cade and the citizens, 1450; sheriff of London, 1453, alderman, 1464, lord mayor, 1462; K.B., 1465; began Oidea Hall, Romford, 1467; imprisoned and heavily fined by Edward IV, 1467 and 1471.
Thomas Cooke: '''Thomas Cooke''' ([[1703]]-[[1756]]), author, commonly called HESIOD COOKE; son of a Braintree innkeeper; educated at Felstead school; whig journalist and pamphleteer in London, 1722; attacked, anonymously, Pope and Swift, 1725 and 1728, and consequently won a place in the Duuciad; wrote against Pope, 1729-31; published poems, 1726-42; author or joint-author of four dramatic pieces, 1728-39; translated Bion and Moschus, 1724, Hesiod, 1728, Terence, 1734, and parts of Cicero and Plautus, 1754; edited Virgil, 1741; edited the Craftsman from 1741.
Thomas Cooke: '''Thomas Cooke''' ([[1722]]-[[1783]]), eccentric divine; educated at Durham school and, 1743, Queen's College, Oxford; dismissed from the curacy of Embleton, Northumberland, for his strange behaviour; street preacher in London; confined in Bedlam; published two comedies, 1762-71, and sermons.
Thomas Cooke: '''Thomas Cooke''' ([[1763]]-[[1818]]), lecturer and writer on physiognomy.
Thomas Cooke: '''Thomas Cooke''' ([[1807]]-[[1868]]), optician; taught school at AUerthorpe, 1823, and York, 1829-36; made his mark as a constructor of astronomical telescopes, 1851; invented appliances for facilitating telescopic observation, and was largely employed as a maker of turret clocks.
Thomas Potter Cooke: '''Thomas Potter Cooke''' ([[1786]]-[[1864]]), actor ; son of a London surgeon; served in the navy, 1796-1802; appeared on the London stage, 1804; stage manager of the Surrey Theatre, 1809; made a great success at the Lyceum, 1820; acted in Paris, 1826, and Edinburgh, 1827; reputed the best sailor... that ever trod the stapre; last appearance on the stage, 1860.
Thomas Simpson Cooke: '''Thomas Simpson Cooke''' ([[1782]]-[[1848]]), composer ; member of the Dublin orchestra; sang in opera; came to London, 1813; principal tenor, 1815, and musical director, 1821-42, of Drury Lane; an esteemed singing-master; composed stage music and glees; published a manual of singing.
William Cooke: '''William Cooke''' (d. [[1553]]), judge; educated at Cambridge; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1530; recorder of Cambridge, 1645; scrjeanfc-at-law, 1646; justice of common picas, 1552.
William Cooke: '''William Cooke''' (d. [[1780]]), numismatist ; vicar of Enford, Wiltshire, 1733-80; rector of Oldbury, Gloucestershire; translated Sallust, 1746; wrote on Druidical religion, 1764; hisMedallic History of Imperial Rome published posthumously, 1781.
William Cooke: '''William Cooke''' ([[1711]]-[[1797]]), divine ; entered Harrow, 1718, Eton, 1721, and King's College, Cambridge, 1731; fellow, 1734; B.A., 1736; D.D., 1766; head-master of Eton, 1743-6; vicar of Sturminster-Marshall, Dorset, 1745-8; fellow of Eton, 1748; rector of Denham, Buckinghamshire, 1748, and of Stoke Newington, 1768; provost of King's College, Cambridge, 1772; dean of Ely, 1780; published verses, 1732, and sermons.
William Cooke: '''William Cooke''' (f. [[1824]]), Greek professor ; son of William Cooke (1711-1797); fellow of King's Col lepc; professor of Greek, Cambridge, 1780-93; rector of Hfinpatead, Norfolk, 1785-1824: edited Aristotle's Poetics 1785; wrote on the Apocalypse, 1789; became insane.
William Cooke: '''William Cooke''' ([[1757]]-[[1832]]), legal writer; educated at Harrow and Caius College, Cambridge: I. A.. 1776; called to bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1782; published a manual of Bankrupt Laws 1785; practised in chancery and bankruptcy cases; sent to Milan to collect evidence against Queen Caroline, 1818; retired, 1825.

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William Bernard Cooke: '''William Bernard Cooke''' ([[1778]]-[[1855]]), lineengraver; a prolific engraver of landscapes for illustrated books; excelled in sea-views.
Cooke: '''Cooke''' Sm WILLIAM FOTHERGILL ([[1806]]-[[1879]]), electrician; educated at Durham and Edinburgh; army officer in India, 1826-31; studied medicine at Paris and Heidelberg; shown the principle of electric telegraphy by Professor Mlincke, 1836; patented, jointly with Sir Charles Wheatstone, telegraphic apparatus, 1837, and produced a workable instrument, 1845; quarrelled with Wheatstoue; knighted, 1869; pensioned, 1871.
William John Cooke: '''William John Cooke''' ([[1797]]-[[1865]]), line-engraver ; employed in illustrating books; withdrew to Darmstadt, c. 1840.
Sir Thomas Cookes: '''Sir Thomas Cookes''' (d. [[1701]]), baronet, of Bentley Pauncefot, Worcestershire; benefactor of Bromsgrove and Feckenham schools; bequeathed 10,OOOZ. to Oxford University, with which Gloucester Hall was converted into Worcester College.
William Gifford Oookesley: '''William Gifford Oookesley''' ([[1802]]-[[1880]]), classical scholar; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1827; assistant master at Eton; vicar of St. Peter's, Hammersmith, 1860; rector of Tempsford, Bedfordshire, 1868; published classical school-books, 1838-61; sermons, 1843-4, and pamphlets, 1845-67.
George Cookson: '''George Cookson''' ([[1760]]-[[1835]]), general ; entered navy, 1773; transferred to the royal artillery, 1778; served in the West Indies, and, 1793, the Netherlands; brevetmajor, 1800; served with distinction in Egypt, 1801; lieutenant-colonel, 1802; served at Copenhagen, 1807, and with Sir John Moore, 1808; major-general, 1814; lieutenant-general, 1830.
Henry Wilkinson Cookson: '''Henry Wilkinson Cookson''' ([[1810]]-[[1876]]), master of Peterhouse; godson of Wordsworth; educated at Sedbergh and, from 1828, at Peterhouse, Cambridge; D.D.;. master of Peterhouse, 1847 till death; rector of Glaston,, Rutland, 1847-67.
James Cookson: '''James Cookson''' ([[1752]]-[[1835]]), divine: rector of Colmer, Hampshire, 1775; entered Queen's College, Oxford, 1777; M.A., 1786: vicar of Harting, Sussex, 1796; master of Churcher's College, Petersfield, c. 1783; F.S.A., 1814; published theological pieces, 1782-4.
William Cookwoethy: '''William Cookwoethy''' ([[1706]]-[[1780]]), porcelainmaker; quaker preacher; discovered kaolin (chinaclay) andpetunze(china-stone) near St. Austell, 1756, specimens of which from Virginia had been shown him in 1746; obtained patent for porcelain factory at Plymouth, 1768; sold the patent, 1777.
Thomas Cooley: '''Thomas Cooley''' ([[1740]]-[[1784]]), architect; originally a carpenter; designed the Royal Exchange, Dublin, 1769, the Four Courts, 1784, and other buildings in Ireland.
William Desborough Cooley: '''William Desborough Cooley''' (d. [[1883]]), geographer; published History of... Discovery 1830-1; exposed Douville's fictitious Voyage au Congo 1832; pensioned, 1869; honorary free member, Royal Geographical Society of London, 1864; published papers on African geography, 1841-74, and a manual ofPhysical Geography 1876.
Cooling: '''Cooling''' or COLDfG, RICHARD (d. [[1697]]), clerk of the privy council, 1689, and gossip of Samuel Pepys; secretary to the lord chamberlain of the household, 16601680; hon. M.A. Oxford, 1666.
Robert Coombes: '''Robert Coombes''' ([[1808]]-[[1860]]), champion sculler ; a Thames waterman; rowed his first sculling race, 1836; champion of the Thames, 1846-52; coached the Cambridge crew, 1852; died insane.
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William Henry Coombes: '''William Henry Coombes''' ([[1767]]-[[1850]]), Roman catholic divine: born in Somerset; educated at Douay; priest, 1791; driven from France by the revolution; professor of divinity at Old Hall Green; D.D., by the pope, 1801; priest at Shepton Mallet, 1810-49; published devotional tracts and translations.
Abraham Cooper: '''Abraham Cooper''' ([[1787]]-[[1868]]), battle and animal painUT; patronised by (Sir) Henry Meux, 1809; R.A., 1820; over four hundred pieces by him exhibited, 1812-69.
Alexander Cooper: '''Alexander Cooper''' (fl. [[1630]]-[[1660]]), miniature painter; withdrew to Amsterdam, and to the court of Queen Christina of Sweden; possibly painted also landscapes,
Andrew Cooper: '''Andrew Cooper''' or, probably erroneously,
Anthony: '''Anthony''' (fl. [[1660]]), author of ' SrpaToAoyui,' a metrical history of the'civil war, byAn. Cooper 1660: identified with Andrew Cooper, a uewswriter, author of A Speedy Post, 1 1042.
Anthony Ashley Coopee: '''Anthony Ashley Coopee''' , first BAROX ASHLET and first EARL OK SBAFTKSBURY (1621-1683), succeeded at? second baronet, 1631, inheriting large estates, including (through his mother, it. 1628) Wimborne St. Giles, Dorset; put into the court of wards; plundered by the law officers; appealed for protection to attorney-general Noy, 1634; entered Exeter College, Oxford, 1637, and Lincoln's Inn, 1638; elected M.P. for Tewkesbury, for the Short Parliament, 1640, but did not sit; elected, on a double return, for Dowuton, Wiltshire, for the Long parliament, 1640, but consideration of his election shelved by the Commons; with Charles I, but not committed to him, at Nottingham and Derby, 1642; brought to Oxford an offer of the Dorset gentry to rise for Charles I, 1643: raised, at his own expense, foot and horse for King Charles's service; promised the governorship of Weymouth; had great difficulty in obtaining it, 1643; resigned his commissions to Charles I, 1644; attached himself to the parliamentarians; obtained command of the parliamentary forces in Dorset, 1644; captured royalist strongholds and helped to relieve Taunton, 1644; vainly tried to obtain his seat in parliament, 1645; took Oorfe Castle, 1646; withdrew from public affairs, but continued to attend to local administration, serving as parliamentary high sheriff for Wiltshire, 16461648; sat for Wiltshire in Cromwell's parliaments, 1653-8; Berveil on the council of state, 1653-4; led the parliamentary opposition to Cromwell, 1656-8; sat for Wiltshire in Richard Cromwell's parliament, 1659. opposing the government; claimed his seat for Downtou in the Rump parliament, 1659; sat on the council of state; imprisoned as a political suspect, 1659; promised to co-operate with Monck, 1659; seized the Tower and persuaded the fleet to declare for parliament, December 1659; sat on the new council of state; took his seat for Downton, and became colonel of Fleetwood's horse, 1660; urged the admission of the excluded members; negotiated with Charles II, March 1660; M.P. for Wiltshire in the Convention parliament, April; one of the commissioners to recall Prince Charles; admitted privy councillor, May 1660; received a formal pardon for the past, June 1660; opposed the vindictive actions of the royalists; created Baron Ashley, 1661; under-treasurer, 1661-7: chancellor of the exchequer, 1661-72; steadily opposed Clarendon's repressive measures, the Corporation Act, 1661, Act of Uniformity, 1662, and the Five-mile Act, 1665; advi3ed and supported Charles II's first Declaration of Indulgence, 1662-3; received a grant of Carolina, 1663, and an interest in the Bahamas, 1670; treasurer of prizes in Dutch war, 1665-8; made the acquaintance at Oxford, 1666, of John Locke, who became his one intimate friend; lord-lieutenant of Dorset, 1667; attached himself to Buckingham, 1669, and became a strong partisan of the scheme to legitimise Moumouth, 1670; kept in ignorance of the secret provisions of the treaty of Dover, negotiated by Clifford, December 1670; assented to declaration of war with Dutch; opposed the raising of funds for the war by the stoppage of exchequer payments, 1672; approved Charles II's Declaration of Indulgence for protestant dissenters, 1672; created Earl of Sbaftesbury, 1672; president of the board of trade, 1672-6: refused the lord high treasurership; lord chancellor, 1672-3; offended the Commons by issuing writs to fill up the vacant seats; alienated the king's mistresses by refusing to pass grants of money to them, and Lauderdale by interfering with his despotic rule in Scotland: discovered the deceit practised on him by the king and Clifford in 1670, in the treaty of Dover; contrary to his own principles, supported the Test Act, 1673; dismissed from the chancellorship and ordered to withdraw from London, 1673; rejected overtures of accommodation by Charles and by Louis XIV; set himself, in parliament and in the city of London, to fan the apprehension of a Romanist revival, January 1674; dismissed from the privy council and removed from the lord-lieutenancy of Dorset, 1674; withdrew to Wimborne St. Giles; led agitation for dissolution of parliament, 1675-6; led the opposition to Danby, 1675-6; refused to leave London on an order from Charles II, 1676; imprisoned, with Buckingham, Salisbury, and Wharton, by order of the House of j Lords, 1677; released on his submission, 1678; rejected overtures of accommodation with the Duke of York; encouraged the popish plot frenzy as a weapon against the government, 1678; led the opposition in parliament, 1679; accepted presidentship of privy council, 1679; passed the Habeas Corpus Act, 1679; supported the Exclusion Bill, May 1679; dismissed from office, October 1679; brought Monmouth back to London, November 1679; agitated for the re-assembling of parliament; tried to make capital out of an alleged Irish popish plot 1680; tried to prosecute the Duke of York as a popish recusant, June 1680; I foiled, by Halifax, in bis attempt to carry the Exclusion Bill, 1680; petitioned Charles II against holding parliament at Oxford, 1681; lodged in Balliol College; brought in a bill to repeal the penalties against protestant dissenters, 1681; committed to the Tower on a charge of high treason; asked leave from Charles to withdraw to Carolina, October 1681; released, the charge against him being dismissed by the whig grand jury, 1681; satirised by Dryden inAbsalom and Achitophel; planned a revolt in London, the west, and Cheshire, 1682; fled to Harwich and sailed for Holland, 1682; reached Amsterdam and, was admitted a burgher of that city, 1682; died there; buried at Poole, Dorset.
Anthony Ashley Cooper: '''Anthony Ashley Cooper''' , third EAHL OP
Shaftksbury: '''Shaftksbury''' ([[1671]]-[[1713]]), moral philosopher; styled Lord Ashley, from January 1683; travelled in Italy, France, and Germany; M.P., Poole, 1695 8; advocated allowing counsel to prisoners charged with treason, 1695; visited Holland and came under Pierre Bayle's influence; his Inquiry concerning Virtue published surreptitiously, 1699; succeeded as third Earl of Shaftesbnry, 1699; voted with the whigs, 1700-2; dismissed from the vice-admiral ship of Dorset by Anne, 1702; withdrew to Holland, 1703-4; left England for Naples, 1711; died there; possible originator of the phrase moral sense in its philosophic signification; issued his collected writings, as Oharacteristicks of Men &c., 1711; his Letters published, 1716, 1721, and 1830.
Antony Ashley Cooper: '''Antony Ashley Cooper''' , seventh EARL OP
Shaftesbury: '''Shaftesbury''' ([[1801]]-[[1885]]). philanthropist; styled Lord Ashley from May 1811; educated at Harrow and Clirist Ohnrch, Oxford; M.A., 1832; D.O.L., 1841; M.P., 18261851; held minor offices, 1828 and 1834; urged reform of lunacy laws, 1829, and the protection of factory operatives, 1833-44, colliery workers, 1842, and chimney-sweeps; joined whig party, 1847; advocated ragged schools and the reclamation of juvenile offenders, 1848; succeeded to the earldom, 1851; advocated the supervision of lodging houses, 1851, and the better housing of the poor; chairman of the sanitary commission in the Crimea; an active member of religious associations.

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Sir Astley Paston Cooper: '''Sir Astley Paston Cooper''' ([[1768]]-[[1841]]), surgeon; fourth son of Samuel Cooper (1739-1800); pupil of Henry Cline; studied in London, Edinburgh, and Paris; anatomy demonstrator, 1789, and lecturer, 1791-1825, at St. Thomas's Hospital; acquired a lucrative practice; lecturer on anatomy, 1793-6, and on comparative anatomy, 1813-15, to the College of Surgeons; surgeon, 1800, and consulting surgeon, 1825, to Guy's Hospital; F.R.S., 1802; created baronet, 1821; published surgical and anatomical treatises, 1800-40, and contributed much to professional journals.
Charles Henry Cooper: '''Charles Henry Cooper''' ([[1808]]-[[1866]]), Cambridge antiquary; settled in Cambridge, 1826: admitted a solicitor, 1840; coroner, 1836, and town clerk of Cambridge, 1849-66; publishedGuide to Cambridge 1831, Annals of Cambridge 1842-53, Atbenae Cautabritrien T2
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Coopep: '''Coopep''' x, 1818-61, and Memorials of Cambridge 1868-66; left much biographical material in manuscript; his memoir of Margaret, counter of llichmoud, published, 1874.
Chaules Purton Cooper: '''Chaules Purton Cooper''' ([[1793]]-[[1873]]), lawyer ; entered Wadhaui College, Oxford, 1810; took double-first honours, 1814: M.A., 1817; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1816; an equity draughtsman; queen's serjeant for the duchy of Lancaster; secretary of the second record commission; published law tracts and reports, 1828-68, an account of the public records, 1832, and pamphlets, 1860-7; died at Boulogne.
Daniel Cooper: '''Daniel Cooper''' ([[1817]]?-[[1842]]), naturalist; medical student; zoological assistant. British Museum; curator of the Botanical Society, London: compiled a Flora Metropolitaua and a list of London shells; lectured on botany; army surgeon, 1840.
Cooper: '''Cooper''' or COWPER, EDWARD (. [[1725]]?), a leading London printseller from c. 1685.
Edward Joshua Cooper: '''Edward Joshua Cooper''' ([[1798]]-[[1863]]), astronomer; educated at Eton, and, 1816-18, Ohrist Church, Oxford; travelled extensively on the continent and in the East; published Views in Egypt 1824; manager of his imbecile uncle's estates at Markree, Sligo, 1830; succeeded to the estates, 1837: M.P., Sligo county, 1830-41, and 1867-9; built observatory at Markree; accumulated astronomical and meteorological observations, 1833-63; publishedCatalogue of Stars observed at Markree, 1861-6, and Oometic Orbits 1862; F.R.S., 1853.
Elizabeth Cooper: '''Elizabeth Cooper''' (. [[1737]]), authoress: an auctioneer's widow; publishedThe M usesLibrary vol. i. 1737, a selection of English verse; brought out two dramas, The Rival Widows 1735, and The Nobleman 1736.
George Cooper: '''George Cooper''' ([[1820]]-[[1876]]), organist ; son of a London organist: organist of various London churches, 1834-76; assistant organist of St. Paul's, 1838-76; organist of the Chapel Royal. 1856-76; organist of Christ's Hospital, 1843; composed hymn-tunes; published manuals for the organ.
Sir Grey Cooper: '''Sir Grey Cooper''' (d. [[1801]]), politician ; barristerat-law; published pamphlets in defence of the Rockingham ministry, 1766; pensioned by the ministry: M.P., 1766-90; a secretary of the treasury, 1705-82: a commissioner of the treasury, 1783.
John Cooper: '''John Cooper''' (d. [[1626]]). See Corrauiuo, GIO-
Vanni: '''Vanni'''
John Cooper: '''John Cooper''' (fl. [[1810]]-[[1870]]), actor : went on the Bath stage, 1811; appeared in London, 1811; acted in the provinces, 1812-20; a favourite London actor, 18201858.
John Gilbert Cooper: '''John Gilbert Cooper''' ([[1723]]-[[1769]]), miscellaneous writer; educated at Westminster, and, 1743, Trinity College, Cambridge; contributed verses, as Philaretes to Dodsley's Museum from 1746; published treatises on questions of aesthetics, 1745 and 1754, a life of Socrates, 1749, collected poems, 1764, and other works,
Richard Cooper: '''Richard Cooper''' , the elder (. [[1764]]), engraver; pupil of John Pine; studied art in Italy: settled in Edinburgh; much employed in engraving portraits.
Richard Cooper: '''Richard Cooper''' , the younger ([[1740]] ?-[[1814]] ?), painter and engraver: son of Richard Cooper the elder ; studied in Paris under J. P. Le Has: exhibited drawings and engravings in London, 1761-4; visited Italy; published tinted drawings of scenes near Rome, 1778-9: exhibited drawings at the Iloyal Academy, 17781809; drawing-master at Eton.
Robert Cooper: '''Robert Cooper''' ( ff . [[1681]]), geographer; entered Pembroke College, Oxford, 167: H.A., 1670; fellow; M.A., 1673; rector of Hurlingtou, Middlesex, 1681; published an optical tract, 1679, and anIntroduction to Geography 1680.
Robert Cooper: '''Robert Cooper''' (. [[1800]]-[[1836]]), engraver; much cmplovod in illustrating books and engraving portrait".
Samuel Cooper: '''Samuel Cooper''' ([[1609]]-[[1672]]), miniature painter ; painted portraits of celebrities of the Common wealth nnd Restoration; visited Kraiu-e and Holland,
Samuel Cooper: '''Samuel Cooper''' ([[1789]]-[[1800]]), divine: B.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1760; D.D., 1777; published sermons and pamphlets; provoked merriment by publishing a dull poem,The Task shortly after William Oowper's Task
Samuel Cooper: '''Samuel Cooper''' ([[1780]]-[[1848]]), surgical writer; studied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1800; qualified as surgeon, 1803; army surgeon, 1813-15; practitioner in London; published treatise on cataract, 1805, and Surgical. Dictionary 1809; surgeon of University College Hospital, 1831; F.R.S., 1846.
Cooper: '''Cooper''' or COUPER, THOMAS ([[1517]] 7-[[1594]]), bishop of Winchester; son of an Oxford tailor; chorister of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1531; B.A., 1539; fellow, 1539-45; M.A., 1543; master of Magdalen College school, 1549-68; qualified for M.B., 1566 satirised for his wife's misconduct: issued an enlargement of Eliot's Latin dictionary, 1648, a continuation of Languet'sChronicle Cooper's Chronicle A.H. 17-1547), 1549,An Answer in defence of Jewel, 1562, and Thesaurus Lingua; Romanae known asCooper's Dictionary 1565; D.D., 1567; dean of Christ Church, 1667; vice-chancellor of Oxford, 1567-70; dean of Gloucester, 1669; bishop of Lincoln, 1570; published aBrief Expositionof the Sunday lessons, 1573, and sermons, 1575-80; bishop of Winchester, 1584-94; lampooned byMartin Mar- Prelate 1588-9; published an Admonition in his own defence, 1589.
Couper Cooper: '''Couper Cooper''' , or COWPER, THOMAS (Jf. 1626), divine; educated at Westminster; student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1598; B.D., 1600; vicar of Great Budwortb, Cheshire, 1601-4; vicar of Holy Trinity, Coventry, 1604-10; preacher to the fleet, 1626; published tracts against the Gunpowder plot, 1606-9, against witchcraft, 1617, and murder, 1620.
Thomas Cooper: '''Thomas Cooper''' ([[1759]]-[[1840]]), natural philosopher and lawyer; entered University College, Oxford, 1779; studied law and medicine; barrister, Inner Temple, 1787; went as democratic envoy to Paris, 1792; attacked by Edmund Burke; defended himself in a pamphlet; failed as a bleacher at Manchester; a lawyer in Pennsylvania from before 1799 to 1811: M.D.; professor of chemistry in various colleges, 1812-34; published political pamphlets and manuals of American law, 1800-40, and a scientific encyclopedia, 1812-14.

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Thomas Cooper: '''Thomas Cooper''' ([[1805]]-[[1892]]), .chartist; apprenticed as shoemaker at Gainsborough, where after private study he opened a school, 1827; engaged in journalistic and other work at Lincoln and in London; joined staff of Leicester Mercury 1840; became chartist and edited the chartist Midland Counties Illuminator; imprisoned on charge of sedition and conspiracy, 1843-5; subsequently took no part in chartist movements; published a political epic entitledThe Purgatory of Suicides 1845, and other works in verse and prose.
Thomas Henry Cooper: '''Thomas Henry Cooper''' ([[1759]] ?-[[1840]] V), botanist ; compiled a list of Sussex plants, 1835.
Thomas Thornville Cooper: '''Thomas Thornville Cooper''' ([[1839]]-[[1878]]), traveller; travelled In Australia; merchant's clerk at Madras, 1859-61; travelled in India and Burmah; at Shanghai, 1863; published A Pioneer of Commerce describing an attempt, Janunry-Novemter 1868, to travel from China through Thibet, andMishmee Hills narrating his endeavours, 1869, to reach China from Assam; employe of the India Office; ixrtitical agent at Bamd, Burmah, 1876; murdered at Bam6.
William Cooper: '''William Cooper''' (fl. [[1663]]), puritan ; vicar of Ringmerc, Sussex; chaplain to Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia, at the Hague, 1644-8: ejected from St. Olave's, Southwark, 1662; imprisoned, 1681; published sermons.
William Durrant Cooper: '''William Durrant Cooper''' ([[1812]]-[[1875]]), anti quary: folicitor, 1832; journalist: solicitor to the Reform I Club, 1837, and to St. Pancras vestry, 1858; published a IParliamentary Historyof Sussex, 1834, a glossary of Sussex words, 1836, and memoirs of Sussex poets, 1812; contributed to archaeological journals.
William Ricketts Cooper: '''William Ricketts Cooper''' ([[1843]]-[[1878]]), oriental student; secretary to the Society of Biblical A n-hirology. 1870-6; published papers on Egyptian and A-yrian antiquities, 1873-7.
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Wilma Cooper: '''Wilma Cooper''' .M WHITK ([[1816]]-[[1886]]), surgeonooulist; qualified it.s;i surgeon, 1H;18; ophthalmic surgeon to St. Mary's Ho-pital, PaddingtOO; wrote on professional arid miscellaneous subjects.
Sir Charles Coote: '''Sir Charles Coote''' (d. [[1642]]), soldier ; went to Ireland as captain, 1600; fought at Kinsale, 1602; provost-marshal, 1605, and vice-president, 1620, of Connuiitf lit; a nat Oonnaught landowner; created baronet, 1621; M.P., Queen's County, 1639; governor of Dublin, 1641: fought vigorously against the Irish rebels, 1641-2; killed in action.
Coote: '''Coote''' Sin CHARLES, EARL OK MOUNTRATH (d. 1661), eldest son of Sir Charles Coote (d. 1642); M.P., Leitrim, 1639: fought vigorously against the Irish rebels, 1641-2; succeeded to baronetcy, 1642; provostiii:ir-hul, 1642, and president, 1645, of Connaught; continually in -rms against the Irish royalists and rebels, 1649-62; a commissioner to govern Ireland, 1669; joined Roger Boyle, baron Tiroghill, in securing Ireland for Charles II, 1CCO; reuppoiuted president of Couuaught, granted the lands of barony of Yestmeath, and named a lord malice of Ireland, 1660; created Earl of Mountrath, 1661.
Charles Coote: '''Charles Coote''' (17G1-[[1836]]), historian : son of a London bookseller; at St. Paul's School, 1773-8; B.A. Pembroke College, Oxford, 1782: fellow, 1784; D.C.L., 1789; an advocate at DoctorsCommons, 1789; published an English grammar, 1788, a history of England (to 1802), 1791-1803, a history of the union with Ireland, 1802, and lives of English civilians, 1804; published (1818-27) continuation of Russell's Modern Europe
Edmund Coote: '''Edmund Coote''' (ft. [[1597]]), grammarian; often wrongly given as EDWARD; entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1566; M.A., 1583; master of Bnry St. Edmunds school, 1596-7; published The English Schoolmaster a method of learning English. 1597, which went through some fifty editions before 1704.
Sir Eyre Coote: '''Sir Eyre Coote''' ([[1726]]-[[1783]]), general; served against the Scottish insurgents, 1745; sailed for India, 1754; captain, 1765: voted for immediate action at Plassey, and led a division in the battle, June 1757; lieutenant-colonel, 1759; assumed command of the troops in Madras, and took Wandewash, 1759; crushed Lally at Wandewash, 1760; took Pondicherry, 1761; returned to England, 1762; bought West Park, Hampshire; colonel, 1765; M.P., Leicester, 1768; went to Madras as commander-in-chief, 1769, but resigned; K.B., 1771: majorgeneral, 1775; lieutenant-general, 1777; named commander-in-chief in India, 1777; assumed command at Calcutta, 1779; sent to Madras to cope with Hyder Ali; raised the siege of Wandewash, 1781; repulsed at Ohelambakam, 1781; routed Hyder Ali at Porto Novo, 1 July, and in several later engagements, August-December, 1781; died at Madras.
Sir Eyre Coote: '''Sir Eyre Coote''' ([[1762]]-[[1824]]?), general; nephew and heir of Sir Eyre Ooote (1726-1783); educated 1775 at Eton; ensign, 1774; served in America, 1775-81; lieutenant-colonel, 1788; served in the West Indies, 1793 and 1795; major-general, 1798; fought at Ostend, 1798, and Bergen, 1799; served in Egypt, 1801: K.B., 1802; M.P., Queen's County, 1802; governor of Jamaica, 1805-8; besieged Flushing, 1809; general, 1814; M.P., Barnstaple, j 1807-38; his autobiography published, 1857. 1810-18.
John Copcot: '''John Copcot''' (*. [[1590]]), divine ; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1562; B.A., 1566; fellow; D.D., 1682; an instrument of Burghley in Cambridge; vicechancellor, 1686-7; made master of Christ's College, Cambridge, 1587: rector of St. Dunstan-in-the-East, London; published sermons.
Alan Cope: '''Alan Cope''' (d. [[1678]]), Roman catholic divine : fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1549; M.A., 1552; student of civil law; withdrew to Flanders, 1560, and to Rome; created D.D. by the pope; canon of St. Pett-rV, Rome; died in Home; published Syntaxia Histories Evangelicte 1672; edited Nicholas Harpsfleld'sDialog! sex against the English reformers, 1566.
Sir Anthony Cope: '''Sir Anthony Cope''' (d. [[1551]]), author; of Hanwell, Oxfordshire; travelled; chamberlain to Queen Catherine Parr; knighted, 1647; sheriff of Oxfordshire, 1548; publishedThe Historic of... Anniball 1644, andA Moditacion upon... Psalmes 1647.
Sir Anthony Cope: '''Sir Anthony Cope''' ([[1548]] ?-16l4X high sheriff of Oxfordshire, 1581; of Hanwell, Oxfordshire; M.P., Banbury, 1586-1604; imprisoned as a puritan, 1687; knighted, 1690.
Charles West Cope: '''Charles West Cope''' ([[1811]]-[[1890]]), historical painter; studied at Sass's academy, 1827, and the Royal Academy, 1828, and subsequently in Paris, Naples, and Florence; exhibited at Royal Academy, Paolo and Francesca, 1837, Osteria di Campagna 1838, and Poor Law Guardians 1841; obtained prize of 300J. in competition for decoration of houses of parliament, 1843; was one of the six painters commissioned, 1844, to prepare decorations for the House of Lords, and executed several f rescof *; studied fresco painting in Italy and at Munich; R.A., 1818; exhibited "The Firstborn 1849, and subsequently reduced many paintings and frescoes illustrating incidents in history and romance; professor of painting to Royal Academy, 1867-75; one of committee of artists employed in decoration of Westminster Palace, 1871; exhibited, 1876, The Council of the Royal Academy now in council-room of the Academy.
Edward Meredith Cope: '''Edward Meredith Cope''' ([[1818]]-[[1873]]), classical scholar; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1837; senior classic, 1841; fellow, 1842; M.A., 1844; tutor, 1845; became insane, 1869; translated Plato's Phsedo and edited Aristotle'sRhetoric
Sir John Cope: '''Sir John Cope''' (d. [[1760]]), lieutenant-general ; cornet, 1707; K.B. and lieutenant-general, 1743; commander-inchief in Scotland, 1745; marched from Stirling against the Jacobite insurgents, August 1745; reached Inverness and came by sea to Dunbar; routed by Prince Charles at Prestonpans, 21 Sept. 1745; stationed in Ireland, 175,1.
Michael Cope: '''Michael Cope''' (ft. [[1557]]), English protestant refugee at Geneva: preached in French at Geneva: published Expositions of Ecclesiastes and Proverbs, 1557 and 1564.
Richard Cope: '''Richard Cope''' ([[1776]]-[[1856]]), congregationalist minister; educated at Hoxton Theological College, 1798-9; minister and proprietor of a boarding-school at Launceston, 1800-20; hon. M.A. Aberdeen, 1819; minister in Wakefield, 1822-9, Abergavenny, 1829-36, and Penryn, Cornwall, 1836-56; published sermons, tracts, and verses,
Henry Charles Coote: '''Henry Charles Coote''' ([[1815]]-[[1885]]), lawyer ; son of Charles Coote; proctor in DoctorsCommons, 1840; solicitor, 1857; published legal treatises, 1846-60, and historical essays, pointing out Roman influence on Anglo-Saxon civilisation, 1864 and 1878.

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Iiolmks Coote: '''Iiolmks Coote''' ([[1817]]-[[1872]]), surgeon ; studied in London; surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1863; published professional treatises, 1849-67.
Richard Coote: '''Richard Coote''' , first EARL OP BELLAMONT ([[1636]]1701), governor of New York; succeeded as second Baron Coote of Coloony, 1683; M.P., Droitwich, 1688-95; served in Ireland, 1689; created Earl of Bellamont, 1689; appointed governor of New England to repress piracy, 1698; commissioned ship for Captain William Kiild to arrest pirates; reached New York, 1697; arrested Kidd, 1699; died at New York.
Sir Walter Cope: '''Sir Walter Cope''' (d. [[1614]]), politician: built Cope Castle (now Holland House), Kensington, 1607; chamberlain of the exchequer, 1609; master of the wards, 1613.
Thomas Copeland: '''Thomas Copeland''' ([[1781]]-[[1865]]), writer on surgery ; studied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital; qualified as a surgeon, 1804; army surgeon in Spain, 1809; an eminent practitioner in London; F.R.S., 1834 published Diseases of the Rectum 1810, and other works.
William John Copeland: '''William John Copeland''' ([[1804]]-[[1886]]), divine ; at St. Paul's School, 1815-24; scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, 1824; M.A., 1831: fellow, 1832-49; B.D.,1840; rector of Farnham, Essex, 1849-85.
William Taylor Copeland: '''William Taylor Copeland''' ([[1797]]-[[1868]]X , porcelain manufacturer of Stoke-on-Trent; made a i specialty of parian groups and statuettes; sheriff of Lon1 don, 1829; lord mayor, 1835; M,P., 1831-66.
Coperab: '''Coperab''' 1O 278
Coram: '''Coram'''
Coperario: '''Coperario''' or COPRARIO, GIOVANNI (d. [[1626]]) musician; said to be an Kii.u'lii-hinan, JOHN Corn-Kit: trained in Italy: published Funeral Teares 1606, ami 'Songs of Mourning (for Prince Henry), 1613; composed music for court masques, 1607-13; composer to Charles I, 1625; teacher of William and Henry Lawes; left much unpublished music in manuscript.
William Copinger: '''William Copinger''' (d. [[1416]]), clerk ; to him Bale and Pits erroneously assigned two manuscript treatises on theology.
James Copland: '''James Copland''' ([[1791]]-[[1870]]), physician; M.D. Edinburgh, 1815; visited the Gold Coast; travelled in France and Germany; L.R.O.P., 1820; F.R.S., 1833: practitioner in London; contributed to professional journals; publishedDictionary of Practical Medicine 1832, and other medical works.
Patrick Copland: '''Patrick Copland''' ([[1749]]-[[1822]]), professor at Aberdeen of natural philosophy, 1775-9 and 1817-22, and of mathematics, 1779-1817; LL.D.; formed a museum of natural philosophy.
Robert Copland: '''Robert Copland''' (. J [[508]]-[[1547]]), author and printer: pupil of Wynkyu de Worde; issued books with his imprint, 1515-47: translated from the French, The Kalender of Shepeherdes 1508, The Rutter of the See 1528, three romances and devotional and metrical pieces; his best-known poems, The Hye Way to the Spyttel Hous Jyl of Breyntford's Testament and The Seuen Sorowes that Women have
William Copland: '''William Copland''' (. [[1556]]-[[1569]]), printer; succeeded Robert Copland in business, 1548; member of the StationersCompany, 1556; issued books with his imprint, 1548-61; compiledA boke of... Herbes 1552.
Edward Copleston: '''Edward Copleston''' ([[1776]]-[[1849]]), bishop of Llandaff; scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1791; B.A., 1795; fellow of Oriel, 1795-1814; tutor, 1797; vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford, 1800; professor of poetry, 1802-12; D.D., 1815; provost of Oriel College, 1814-28; dean of Chester, 1826; bishop of Llandaff and dean of St. Paul's, 1828-49; published pamphlets on education, the currency, and pauperism; worked hard for his diocese; published charges to his clergy.
Anthony Copley: '''Anthony Copley''' ([[1567]]-[[1607]]?), poet; third son of Sir Thomas Copley; withdrew to Rouen, 1582, and to Rome, 1584; resided in the Low Countries, 1586-90; prisoner in the Tower, 1590; pardoned; published Wits, Fittes, and Fancies containing verses, and jests from the Spanish, 1595, and a "poem,A Fig for a Fortune 1596; wrote for the secular priests against the Jesuits, 1601-2; conspired to place Arabella Stuart on the throne, 1603; turned king's evidence and was pardoned; in Rome in 1606.
Sir Godfrey Copley: '''Sir Godfrey Copley''' (d. [[1709]]). founder of the Royal Society's Copley medal; succeeded as second baronet, 1684; M.P., Aldborough, 1678-81, Thirsk, 1695-1705; F.R.S., 1691; controller of army accounts, 1704.
John Copley: '''John Copley''' ([[1577]]-[[1662]]), divine ; youngest son of Sir Thomas Copley; born at Lou vain; a Roman catholic priest; published * Reasons for embracing protestantism, 1612; vicar of Bethersden, 1612-16; rector of Pluckley, Kent, 1616; ejected by parliament, 1643: restored, 1660.
John Singleton Copley: '''John Singleton Copley''' , the elder ([[1737]]-[[1815]]), portrait-painter in oil and crayons; born at Boston, Massachusetts; taught by his step-father, Peter Pelham (d. 1761), portrait- painter and engraver, of Boston; began painting and engraving portraits, 1753; painted George Washington's portrait, 1755; exhibitedThe Boy with the Squirrel in London, 1766; left America, 1774, having executed nearly three hundred pictures; visited London; visited continental galleries, 1774-6; settled in London, 1776; employed as a portrait-painter: exhibited his first imaginative picture,A Youth rescued from a Shark 1779; became famous as an historical painter by painting Chatham's last Appearance in the Lords Repulse of the Spanish Floating Batteries at Gibraltar 1790, and Charles I demanding the surrender of the Five Members (began 1785).
John Singleton Copley: '''John Singleton Copley''' , the younger, BARON
Lyndhurbt: '''Lyndhurbt''' ([[1772]]-[[1863]]), lord chancellor; son of John Singleton Copley the elder; born in Boston. Massachusetts: brought to England, 1775; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1790; second wrangler, ITt 1; follow. 1795-1804; M.A., 1796: went to Boston to try to recover his father's property, 1795; toured in the United States; took chamber* as a special pleader; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1804; joined the Midland circuit; became popular at Nottingham by defending a Luddite rioter, 1812; serjeant-at-law, 1813; became responsible for his father's debts, 1815; increased his reputation by gaining the bobbin-net lace case, 1816, and defending Arthur Thistle wood, 1817; engaged by the crown as prosecuting counsel, 1817; toryM.P., 1818-26; chief-justice of Chest cr, 1819; solicitor-general, 1819; conducted the prosecution of Arthur Thistlewood for treason, and that of Queen Caroline before the lords, 1820: knighted; attorneygeneral, 1824-6; master of the rolls, 1826; recorder of Bristol, 1826; lord-chancellor, 1827-30; created Baron Lyndhurst, 1827; chief baron of the exchequer, 1831-4; again lord chancellor, 1834-6: took a leading part in the debates in the Lords, 1835-41; high steward of Cambridge University, 1840; a third time lord chancellor, 1841-6; benefited by operations for cataract, 1849-52; declined a fourth tenure of the lord chancellorship, 1851; last speech in the Lords, 1861.
Sir Thomas Copley: '''Sir Thomas Copley''' ([[1534]]-[[1584]]), of Gatton, Surrey, and Roughay, in Horsham parish, Sussex; knighted abroad; created baron by Philip II, and so often styled LORD COPLEY; claimed the barony of Hoo and Hastings; M.P. for Gatton, a private borough, 15531567; opposed the measures of Philip and Mary, 1558; a favourite with Elizabeth; embraced Roman Catholicism: imprisoned as a recusant; went abroad, 1670; entered the Spanish service; died in Flanders.
Thomas Copley: '''Thomas Copley''' ([[1594]]-[[1652]] ?), Jesuit : of Gatton, Surrey; took part in planting the colony of Maryland.
Abiezer Coppe: '''Abiezer Coppe''' , alia* HIGHAM ([[1619]]-[[1672]]), fanatic: of disordered mind and disorderly life; servitor of All SoulsCollege, Oxford, 1636; post-master of Mertou College: baptist preacher in Warwickshire and other midland counties; joined the ranters; his Fiery Flying Roll burnt, as blasphemous, by order of parliament, 1650; imprisoned at Warwick, and, 1651, in Newgate; released, on his recantation, 1651; practised physic, after 1660, at Barnes, Surrey, as Dr. Higham
Coppin: '''Coppin''' or COPPING, JOHN (d. [[1583]]), Brownist : disciple of Robert Browne; subjected to nominal imprisonment, 1676; taught his fellow-prisoners that Queen Elizabeth was an idolater and perjured: executed for treason.

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Richard Coppin: '''Richard Coppin''' (?. [[1646]]-[[1659]]), universalist ; Anglican, presbyterian (1646), independent, and baptist; claimed to have had a special revelation to preach, 1648; patronised, 1649, by Abiezer Ooppe; preached, 1649-54, in several midland counties; often indicted for heresy, but leniently treated; preacher to familists at Rochester, 1655; published pamphlets, 1649-59.
Edmund Coppinger: '''Edmund Coppinger''' (d. [[1692]]), fanatic; supported William Hacket, who claimed to be the Messiah; died in prison.
James Coppocz: '''James Coppocz''' ([[1798]]-[[1857]]), election agent: draper's clerk, then silk-mercer, in London; qualified as a solicitor, 1836; employed in disputed election cases.
Coppock: '''Coppock''' or CAPPOCH, THOMAS ([[1719]]-[[1746]]), Jacobite: B.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1742; a clergyman: joined Prince Charles at Manchester; executed at Carlisle; popularly thought to have been named bishop of Carlisle by the Pretender; subject of various pamphlets.
Copsige Copsi: '''Copsige Copsi''' , or 00X0, EARL OP NORTHUM-
Bkrlaxd: '''Bkrlaxd''' (d. [[1067]]), thegn of Northumberland under Tostig, 1065; submitted to William I at Barking, 1066: created earl and sent to reduce Northumberland; slain by Oswulf,
Thomas Coram: '''Thomas Coram''' ([[1668]]?-[[1751]]), philanthropist; born at Lyme, Dorset; shipbuilder at Taunton, Massachusetts, 1694; merchant in London, 1720; a trustee for Georgia, 1732; planned colonisation of Nova Scotia, 1735; advocated the establishment of Foundling Hospital; obtained a charter, 1739; opened the building, 1745; received an annuity by subscription, 1749. xii. 194 J
Corbaux: '''Corbaux''' 279
Corcoran: '''Corcoran'''
Marie Francoise Catiikiunh Corbaux: '''Marie Francoise Catiikiunh Corbaux'''
Doetteu: '''Doetteu''' ([[1812]]-[[1883]]), painter; usually called FANNY
Corbaux: '''Corbaux''' ; painted in oil- and water-colours : first exhibited, 1827; book illustrator; wrote on Old Testament history; pensioned, 1871.
Ctjrbttil Corbeil: '''Ctjrbttil Corbeil''' , or CORBEUIL, WILLIAM OP (d. 11H6), archbishop of Canterbury; born at one of the Corbeilrt in Normandy: pupil of Anselm at Laon; clerk of lianulf Flnmbard, bishop of Durham; present at the dedication of Durham Cathedral, 1104; became a canon regular of St. Augustine: prior of St. Osyth, Essex: chosen, under pressure from Henry I, archbishop, and consecrated, 1123; went to Rome for the pallium: opposed there by Thurstan, archbishop of York: his contention with Thurstan left undecided at a legatine court held at Westminster by John of Crema, 1126; summoned to Rome by Thurstan; obtained from Honorius II the position of legate in England and Scotland: took the oath to secure the succession to Matilda, 1126; held council at London to proceed against married clergy, 1129; built Rochester Castle and helped to rebuild the cathedral; completed Canterbury Cathedral and dedicated it, 1130; consented to the election of Stephen, whom he crowned in 1135.
Clement Corbet: '''Clement Corbet''' (d. [[1652]]), civilian ; scholar of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1592: fellow, 1598; LL.D., 1605; professor of law, Gresham College, London, 1607-13; muter of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1611-26; advocate at DoctorsCommons, 1612; chancellor of Chichester; vicargeueral of the bishop of Norwich, 1625.
Edward Corbet: '''Edward Corbet''' (d. [[1658]]), divine; fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1624; M.A., 1628; member of the Westminster Assembly, 1643; one of the parliamentary visitors of Oxford University, 1647; intruded canon of Christ Church, Oxford, 1648; D.D., 1648; rector of Great Hasely, Oxfordshire, 1649-68.
John Corbet: '''John Corbet''' ([[1603]]-[[1641]]), divine : M.A. Glasgow, 1623; minister of Bonhill, Dumbartonshire, 1637; deposed, 1639; withdrew to Ireland; attacked presbyterianism in 'The Ungirding of the Scottish Armour," andThe Epistle Congratulatorie of Lysimachus Nicanor 1639-40; incumbent of Killaban, Queen's County; murdered in the rebellion.
Sir John Corbet: '''Sir John Corbet''' ([[1594]]-[[1662]]), patriot ; of Shropshire; created baronet, 1627; probably not the Sir John Corbet who was imprisoned for refusing to pay the forced loan, 1627; high sheriff of Shropshire, 1629; imprisoned in the Fleet for speaking against the mustermaster wages, 1629; again imprisoned, 1635; M.P. for Shropshire, 1640, in the Long parliament; took the parliament side.
John Corbet: '''John Corbet''' ([[1620]]-[[1680]]), puritan; son of a Gloucester shoemaker; B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1639; incumbent and under-schoolmaster of St. Mary-de-Crypt, Gloucester, 1640; chaplain to Colonel Edward Massey, parliamentary governor; published a narrative of events at Gloucester, 1645; preacher at Bridgwater, and afterwards at Chichester; rector of Bramshot, Hampshire: ejected, 1662; resided in Richard Baxter's house; nonconformist minister at Chichester, 1671-80; published controversial and devotional tracts; his Remains published, 1684.
Miles Corbet: '''Miles Corbet''' (d. [[1662]]), regicide: of a Norfolk family; barrister, Lincoln's Inn; M.P., Great Yarmouth, 1628, and in the Long parliament; active against Laud; chairman of the committee of examinations; clerk of the court of wards, 1644; registrar of the court of chancery, 1648; attended one meeting of the commission and signed Charles I's death-warrant, 1649; a commissioner for settling Irish affairs, 1650; chief baron of the exchequer in Ireland, 1655; arrested in Dublin, 1669; M.P., Yarmouth, 1660, but his election annulled; went abroad; arrested in Holland, 1662; brought to London and executed.
Reginald Corbet: '''Reginald Corbet''' (f. [[1566]]), judge; of a Shropshire family; reader of the Middle Temple, 1551; justice of the queen's bench, 1559.
Richard Corbet: '''Richard Corbet''' ([[1582]]-[[1635]]), bishop of Oxford and of Norwich: son of a Surrey gardener; educated at Westminster; student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1599; M.A., 1605; proctor, 1612; D.D., 1617; vicar of Cassiugton, near Oxford; chaplain to James I; prebendary of Salisbury, 1620-31; vicar of Stewkley, Berkshire, 1620-36; dean of Christ Church, 1620-28; bishop of Oxford, 1628; translated to Norwich, 1632; withdrew from the Walloon congregation the use of the bishop's chapel, 1634; his collected poems issued, 1647.
Robert Corbet: '''Robert Corbet''' (d. [[1810]]), naval officer ; of a Shropshire family; lieutenant, 1796; served off Egyptian coast, 1801: commander, 1802; captain, 1806; his men incited to mutiny by his inhuman cruelty to them, 1808; censured by the admiralty, 1809; served with distinction off the Isle of Bourbon, 1809; a mutiny nearly caused by his appointment to the Africaine, 1810; killed in battle with the French, strange stories being current about the bad management of his ship in action.
William Corbet: '''William Corbet''' ([[1779]]-[[1842]]), Irish rebel; entered Trinity College, Dublin, 1794; joined the United Irishmen; expelled from Trinity College for seditious practices, 1798: went to France; given a captain's commission; attached to Humbert's expedition, but never landed; arrested at Hamburg, 1798; imprisoned at Kilmainham, 1799; escaped to Paris, 1803; served on French side in Peninsula, 1810-13, and in German campaigns, 1813-14; colonel, 1815: slighted by the Bourbons; went with the French expedition to Greece, 1828; general of brigade; commanded French troops in Greece, 1831-2; general of division, 1833. CORBETT, THOMAS (d. 1751), secretary to Admiral George Byng in the Sicilian expedition, 1718-20; senior secretary of the admiralty, 1742.
William Corbett: '''William Corbett''' (d. [[1748]]), violinist and composer; composed music for Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, 1700-3; leader of the opera band, 1705-11; visited Italy, c. 1711-13; member of the court band, 1714-47; visited Italy, c. 1716-24, collecting music and musical instruments; supposed government spy on the Jacobites; returned to England, 1724; composed flute and violin music; published concertos, 1728 and 1742.
Corbie: '''Corbie''' or CORBINGTON, AMBROSE ([[1604]]-[[1649]]), Jesuit; son of Gerard Corbie; born near Durham: educated at St. Omer, 1616, and Rome, 1622; joined the Jesuits, 1627; rhetoric lecturer at St. Omer; minister at Ghent, 1645; died at Rome; wrote lives of Jesuits.

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Corbie: '''Corbie''' or CORBINGTON, GERARD ([[1558]]-[[1637]]), Roman catholic exile; native of Durham; withdrew to Ireland and to Belgium; joined the Jesuits, 1628.
Corbie: '''Corbie''' or CORBINGTON, RALPH ([[1598]]-[[1644]]), Irish Jesuit; son of Gerard Corbie; educated in Belgium and Spain; joined the Jesuits, 1626; mission priest in Durham, 1631-44; hanged at Tyburn.
Saint Corbmac: '''Saint Corbmac''' (6th cent.), son of Eogan ; commemorated on 13 Dec.; born in Munster; founded a monastery in co. Mayo.
Henry Corbould: '''Henry Corbould''' ([[1787]]-[[1844]]), painter; son of Richard Corbould; studied art in London; first exhibited, 1807; much employed as a book-illustrator; employed by the British Museum to make drawings of the Greek marbles.
Richard Corbould: '''Richard Corbould''' ([[1757]]-[[1831]]), painter; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1776-1811; a fine bookillustrator.
Thomas of Corbridge: '''Thomas of Corbridge''' (d. [[1304]]), archbishop of York; D.D.: prebendary of York; chancellor of York, 1279-90; visited Rome on cathedral business, 1281; resigned chancellorship on becoming sacrist of St. Sepulchre's Chapel, York, 1290; went to Rome in hope of recovering his chancellorship, 1290, but failed; sacrist, 1290-9; elected archbishop of York, 1299; involved in ecclesiastical disputes with the prior of Beverley, the bishop of Durham, and the archbishop of Canterbury; lost favour with the king over a question of patronage.
Michael Corcoran: '''Michael Corcoran''' ([[1827]]-[[1863]]), American general; born in co. Sligo: emigrated, 1849: post office clerk in New York; colonel of militia; wounded at Hull's Run, 1861; brigadier-general, 1862.
Cordell: '''Cordell''' 280
Cornish: '''Cornish'''
Charle Cordell: '''Charle Cordell''' ? ([[1720]]-17tfl), Roman catholic divine: of English birth: educated at Douay: chaplain at Arundel Castle, 1748: priest in Yorkshire, Isle of Man, and (1705-91 ) at Nevcastle-on-Tyne; published theological and biographical works.
Sir William Cordell: '''Sir William Cordell''' (rf. [[1581]]), master of the rolls; educated at Cambridge: barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1544; M.P., Steyuing, 1553; solicitor-general, 1553; conducted prosecution of Sir Thomas Wyatt. 1554; knighted; master of the rolls, 1657-81; M.P Suffolk, and speaker of House of Commons, 1558; M.P. for Middlesex, 1663, and for Westminster, 1672.
William Oorden: '''William Oorden''' ([[1797]]-[[1867]]), painter ; painted china for the Derby works; painted miniature portraits on ivory and china.
William Corder: '''William Corder''' ([[1804]]-[[1828]]), murderer; murdered Maria Marten, near Ipswich, 1827; executed, amid popular execration, 1828.
Jeremy Corderoy: '''Jeremy Corderoy''' ( ft. [[1600]]), divine ; B.A. St. Alban Hall, Oxford, 1581; M.A., 1684; chaplain of Mertou College, 1590; published theological tracts, 1G04 and 1608.
Charles Cordiner: '''Charles Cordiner''' ([[1746]] ?-[[1794]]), antiquary; minister of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Banff, 17691794. His works includeAntiquities of the North of Scotland 1780.
James Cordiner: '''James Cordiner''' ([[1775]]-[[1836]]), traveller: third son of Charles Cordiner; M.A. Aberdeen, 179?; army chaplain at Madras, 1797, and at Colombo, 1798 1804; minister of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen, 1807-34; published A Description of Ceylon 1807, and A Voyage to India 1820.
John Corey: '''John Corey''' (ft. [[1700]]-[[1731]]), actor ; a favourite London actor, 17012-31; brought out a comedy, 1701, and a farce, 1704.
Arthur Thomas Corfe: '''Arthur Thomas Corfe''' ([[1773]]-[[1863]]), organist ; third son of Joseph Corfe; chorister of Westminster Abbey; organist of Salisbury Cathedral, 1804-63; composed anthems, and wrote on The Principles of Harmony and Thorough-bass
Charles William Corfe: '''Charles William Corfe''' ([[1814]]-[[1883]]), organist of Christ Church, Oxford, 1846-82; younger sou of Arthur Thomas Corfe; Mus.Doc. Oxford, 1852; composed glees and anthems.
John Davis Corfe: '''John Davis Corfe''' ([[1804]]-[[1876]]), organist of Bristol Cathedral; eldest sou of Arthur Thomas Corfe
Joseph Corfe: '''Joseph Corfe''' ([[1740]]-[[1820]]X composer ; chorister, lay vicar, and organist, 1792-1804, of Salisbury Cathedral; gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1783; composed church music, anthems, and glees.
Earls of Cork: '''Earls of Cork''' . See BOYLE, RICHARD, first EARL, 1566-1643; BOYLE, RICHARD, second EARL, 1612-1697; BOYLE, RICHARD, fourth EAHL, 1695-1753; BOYLE, JOHN, fifth EARL, 1707-1762.
Oouxtess Ok Core: '''Oouxtess Ok Core''' ([[1746]]-[[1840]]). Sec MONCKTOX,
Mary: '''Mary'''
James Corker: '''James Corker''' or MAURUS ([[1636]]-[[1715]]), Benedictine monk; a Yorkshiremau; embraced Romanism; Roman catholic chaplain in England, 1665-77; arrested, 1678; sentenced to death, 1680; released, 1685; built a monastery at Olerkenwell; received at court as envoy from Cologne, 1688; abbot of Lambspring, Germany, 1690-6; lived in London, 1696-1715; published memoirs of Viscount Stafford and otherpopish plot" victims, 1681-3, and theological tracts, 1680-1710.

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Mac Art Cormac: '''Mac Art Cormac''' , also known as CORMAC I-A Ct'ixx and CORMAC ULKAOA (. 260), king of Ireland: procured the murder of Lugaid Mac Con, 217, and of Fergus Dubhdeadach, 218, and so became king, 218; frequently at war with the tribal chiefs; once an exile in Scotland; introduced the first water-mill into Ireland: abdicated, 254; composed laws in retirement at sknvn, near Tara: said to have become a Christian: buried at ROB na righ.
Presbyter Cormac: '''Presbyter Cormac''' (6th cent.)
Cormac: '''Cormac''' ([[836]]-[[908]]), king of Caehel ; son of Cuilenuan ; chief bishop in Leth Mogha; became king of Cashel, 900; defeated Flann, king of Ireland, at Tullamore, 906; i and slain by Flann; traditional author of Sanas inaii-; an ancient glossary (printed, 1862).
Cormack: '''Cormack''' Sin JOHN ROSE ([[1815]]-[[1882]]), physinan ; M.I). Edinburgh, 1837; M.D. university of Frani-c. lK7n; jihysi-i:in to Edinburgh Infirmary, c. 1840-5; practitioner in London, 1H47-66, and in Paris, 1869-82; knighted, 1872; wrote on medical subject?.
Vis Cornbury: '''Vis Cornbury''' .-OUXT ([[1710]]-[[1753]]). See
Hexry: '''Hexry'''
Lucas Corneusz: '''Lucas Corneusz''' ([[1495]]-[[1562]] ?), painter ; m pupil of Cornells Eugelbrechtsen, a Ley den artist; also DK KOK, as being a cook; painted in oil and temper; came to London, c. 1527; designer for taj works at Ferrara, 1535-47.
Cornelius: '''Cornelius''' A SANCTO PATRICIO (?. [[1650]])
John Cornelius: '''John Cornelius''' ([[1557]]-[[1594]]), Jesuit; of Ir descent; fellow of Exeter College. Oxford. 1676-8; drew to Rheims, and, 1580, to Rome; Roman catholic chaplain in England, 1583; arrested and executed, 1694.
Theresa Cornelys: '''Theresa Cornelys''' ([[1723]]-[[1797]]), ball-manager; tide Imer; daughter of an actor; born at Venice; married Pompeati, a dancer; directress of theatres in the Austrian Netherlands, as Mme. Trenti; as Mme. Ponjpeati, sang in London, 1746 and 1761; as Mme. Comely*, at Carlisle House, Soho Square, gave subscription balls and masquerades, 1760-72, and concerts, 1764-72; bankrupt, 1772; hotel keeper at Southampton, 1774-6; lived obscurely as a huckstress, under name of Smith; died in the Fleet.
George Richard Corner: '''George Richard Corner''' ([[1801]]-[[1863]]), antiquary; a London solicitor; F.S.A., 1833; vestry clerk of St. Olave's, South wark, 1835; contributed papers, chiefly on Southwark antiquities, to archaeological journals, 1834-60.
John Corner: '''John Corner''' (. [[1788]]-[[1825]]), engraver ; issued Portraits of Celebrated Painters 1816.
Julia Corner: '''Julia Corner''' ([[1798]]-[[1875]]), writer for the young ; published educational works, stories, and plays.
Adrian De Corneto: '''Adrian De Corneto''' ([[1460]] ?-[[1521]] ?). See
De Castello Adriax: '''De Castello Adriax''' .
Charles Cornewall: '''Charles Cornewall''' ([[1669]]-[[1718]]), vice-admiral ; spelt his name CORXWALL, from May 1709; entered navy, 1683; commanded ship in Mediterranean, 1693-6 and 1705-8; M.P., 1708-9; comptroller of the navy, 1714; rear-admiral, 1716; commanded against Sallee corsair?, 1716-17; vice-admiral, 1717; second in command off Cape Passaro, 1718; died at Lisbon.
Folliott Herbert Walker Cornewall: '''Folliott Herbert Walker Cornewall''' (1754-1831), bishop of Worcester; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1780; chaplain to House of Commons, 1780; D.D.; canon of Windsor, 1784; dan of Canterbury, 1792; bishop successively of Bristol, 1797, Exeter, 1803, and Worcester, 1808-31; published sermons,
James Cornewall: '''James Cornewall''' ([[1699]]-[[1744]]), navy captain ; captain, 1724; served on North American station, 1724-8, off Morocco coast, 1732-4, off Guinea coast, 1737-8, and in Mediterranean, 1741-3; killed in action off Toulon.
Bolton Corney: '''Bolton Corney''' ([[1784]]-[[1870]]), critic ; ensign, [[1803]] ; clerk at Greenwich Hospital: very deaf, and a literary recluse: wrote on the Bayeux tapestry, 1836; criticised D'Israeli'sCuriosities of Literature 1837, and theGeneral Biographical Dictionary of Hugh James Rose, 1839; contributed to literary journals.
William Op Cornhill: '''William Op Cornhill''' (. [[1223]]), bishop of Coventry and Lichfleld; one of King John's clerks; an offlcenof the exchequer, 1204; rector of Maidstone, 1206; justiciar, 1208; bishop of Coventry and Lichtield, 121E; much employed by King John and faithful to him to the last; supported Henry ill; benefactor of Lichfield Cathedral.
Henry Cornish: '''Henry Cornish''' (rf. [[1685]]), alderman of London : presbyterian and whig; elected sheriff of London, 1680, against the strongest court pressure; took leading part in petition for a session of parliament, 1681; witness in
Cornish: '''Cornish''' 281
Gorki: '''Gorki''' favour of Edward Fitzharris, 1681: one of the committee to protect the city charter, 1682; prosecute!. 1682, for Inciting riots (condemned, and fined, May H1H3); unsiicil candidate, through court intrigue, for the lord inayorship, 1682; condemned and executed for alleged Implication (1683) in the Hye Hou-e plot; his attainder n-v.-rsi-.i parliament, 1689.
Joseph Cornish: '''Joseph Cornish''' ([[1750]]-[[1823]]), nonconformist divine: entered Hoxton Academy, 1767; adopted Arian vifws; minister, 1772-1823, and private schoolma-trr, 1782-1819, at Colyton, Devonshire: published pamphlet* and tracts, 1772-90, and historiesof the Puritans 1772, andof Nonconformity 1797.
Cornish: '''Cornish''' Sin SAMUEL (d. [[1770]]), vice-admiral; lieutenant, 1739: served at Cartagena, 1741, and in the Mediterranean, 1742-4; rear-admiral, 1759; took Manila and the Philippines, 1762; vice-admiral, October 1762; created baronet, 1766.

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Earls Op Cornwall: '''Earls Op Cornwall''' . See RICHARD, [[1209]]-[[1272]] ;
Bdmuxd: '''Bdmuxd''' second EARL, [[1250]]-[[1300]]; UAVESTOX, PIERS, d. mi; JOHN, 131G-133G.
Baruy Cornwall: '''Baruy Cornwall''' ([[1787]]-[[1874]]). See PROCTER,
Waller Ukyax: '''Waller Ukyax''' .
Charles Wolpran Cornwall: '''Charles Wolpran Cornwall''' ([[1735]]-[[1789]]), politician; educated at Winchester; barrister, Gray's Inn; M.P., 1768-89; speaker of the House of Commons, 1780-9.
Henry of Cornwall: '''Henry of Cornwall''' ([[1235]]-[[1271]]).
John Op Cornwall: '''John Op Cornwall''' (. [[1170]]).
Caroline Frances Cornwallis: '''Caroline Frances Cornwallis''' ([[1786]]-[[1858]]), authoress; lived much in Italy; friend of Sismondi; published Philosophical Theories 1842, and othersmall books on great subjects; contributed to journals; her Letters published, 1864.
Sir Charles Cornwallis: '''Sir Charles Cornwallis''' (d. [[1629]]), diplomatist; second son of Sir Thomas Cornwallis; knighted, 1603; ambassador in Spain, 1605-9; treasurer of the household to Prince Henry, 1610-12; a commissioner on Irish affairs, 1613; imprisoned in the Tower for hostility to the Scots, 1614; wrote memoir of Prince Henry, 1626.
Charles Cornwallis: '''Charles Cornwallis''' , first MARQUIS and second EARL CORNWALLIS (1738-1805), governor-general of India; educated at Eton; styled Viscount Brome from June 1763-62; ensign, 1756; aide-de-camp to the Marquis of Granby in Germany, 1758-9; M.P., 1760; lieutenantcolonel, 1761; served in Germany, 1761-2: succeeded as second Earl Cornwallis, 1762; acted with the whig peers, 1765-9; constable of the Tower, 1770-83, and 1786-1805; major-general, 1776; sent out with reinforcements to North America, 1776; given command of the reserve division; subdued New Jersey, 1776; occupied Philadelphia, 1777; given the second command in America, 1778, but kept inactive by Sir Henry Clinton's supineness; left in command at Charleston, 1780; invaded Virginia, 1781; ordered to hold Yorktowu, bjit forced to capitulate, 1781; petitioned to be governor-general and commander-iH-chief in India, to reform abuses, 1782, 1785, and 1786; took command at Calcutta, 1786; spent three years in reforming the civil and military administration; took command against Tippoo Sultan, at Madras, 1790; took Bangalore, 1791; defeated Tippoo near Seringapatam, 1791; fell back on Bangalore; invested Seringapatam, 1792; dictated terms of peace to Tippoo; created Marquis Cornwallis. 1792; tried to settle Bengal by making the zemindars owners of the soil, 1793; reorganised the law courts; general, 1793; resigned office, October 1793: reached England, 1794; despatched to the continent to encourage the allied forces, 1794; master-general of the ordnance, 1795-1801; was named governor-general of India, 1797, but did not take up the appointment; appointed viceroy and commander-in-chief in Ireland, 1798, to crush an expected rebellion; ordered the arrest of the ringleaders, and forced the French under Humbert to capitulate, 1798; supported Castlereagh in carrying the act of union by bribery, 1799-1800; resigned office, 1801, in consequence of the king's refusal to grant catholic emancipation; negotiated the unfavourable treaty of Amiens, 1801-2; sent to India to try to conclude a lasting peace with the native powers, 1805; took command at Calcutta, 1805, but died the same year at Ghazipore.
Charles Cornwallis: '''Charles Cornwallis''' , second MARQCTS OOR-
Wallis: '''Wallis''' ([[1774]]-[[1823]]), only son of Charles Cornwallis, first marquis; styled Viscount Brome; styled Karl Cornwallis after August 1792; succeeded as recond marquis, 1805.
Frederick Cornwallis: '''Frederick Cornwallis''' ([[1713]]-[[1783]]), archbishop of Canterbury; younger son of Cliarles, fourth Baron Cornwallis; educated at Eton; U.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1736; fellow; D.D., 1748; heueflced in Suffolk and Norfolk, 1740; canon of Windsor, 1746; bishop of Lichfleld and Coventry, 1760. dean of St. Paul's, 1766; archbishop of Canterbury, 1768; noted for his hospitality at Lambeth; published four sermons. I CORNWALLIS. JAMES, fourth EARL CORXWALLW (1742-1824), bishop; third son of Charles, first earl Cornwallis; educated at Eton; B.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1763; fellow of Merton; M.A., 1769; a pluralist rector in Kent, 1769-81; D.C.L., 1775; dean of Salisbury, 1 1776; bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1781-1824; dean of Windsor, 1791; dean of Durham, 1794; succeeded as fourth Earl Cornwallis, 1823; published five sermons.
Jane Cornwallis: '''Jane Cornwallis''' , LADY OOBNWALUB ([[1581]]1659), nfe Meautys: second wife of Sir William Cornwallis, of Brome, Suffolk, 1608-11; afterwards wile of Sir Nathaniel Bacon, of Culford, Suffolk, 1613; herCorrespondence (1613-44) published, 1842.
Sir Thomas Cornwallis: '''Sir Thomas Cornwallis''' ([[1519]]-[[1604]]), diplomatist; of Brome Hall, Suffolk; knighted, 1548; sent against the Norfolk insurgents, 1549; sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1553; commissioner to treat with Scotland, i 1553; sent to escort Princess Elizabeth to London, 1564; commissioner for trial of Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1664; treasurer of Calais, 1554-7; popularly supposed to have sold Calais to France; comptroller of the household, 1567-8; M.P., Suffolk, 1558; catholic recusant.
Thomas Cornwallis: '''Thomas Cornwallis''' ([[1663]]-[[1731]]), commissioner of lotteries; a younger son of Charles, second baron Cornwallis; educated at Cambridge, 1676; officer in the guards; devised parliamentary lotteries, 1709.
Sir William Cornwallis: '''Sir William Cornwallis''' (d. [[1631]] ?), essayist ; son of Sir Charles Cornwallis; knighted, 1602; published essays, 1600-17.
Sir William Coknwallis: '''Sir William Coknwallis''' ([[1744]]-[[1819]]), admiral ; a younger son of Charles, first earl Cornwallis; entered navy, 1755; commander, 1762; in constant service, 1755-87, taking part in the actions off Grenada, 1779, St. Kitts, 1782, and Dominica, 1782; commander-in-chief in East India waters, 1789-93; rear-admiral, 1793; viceadmiral, 1794; brought his squadron off safely on meeting a great French fleet, 1795; quarrelled with the admiralty, 1796; admiral, 1799; commanded Channel fleet, 1801 and 1803-6; G.C.B., 1816.
William Corjtysshe: '''William Corjtysshe''' (d. [[1524]]?), musician; member of the Chapel Royal, 1493, and master of the chapel children, 1509-22; combed music for, and acted in court pageants for Henry V 1 1 and Henry VIII; imprisoned in the Fleet for satirising Sir Richard Empson, 1504; forced Wolsey to give up one of his choristers to the Chapel Royal, 1518: attended Henry VIII to France, 1518; obtained corrodies in Thetford and Malmeshurv monasteries, 1523. Little of his music has survived,
Cromm Corpre: '''Cromm Corpre''' , i.e. Corpre the bent, SAIXT (rf. 900); confused in the Martyrology of Donegalwith Corpre Cromm, an Irish prince (ft. 640); commemorated on 6 March; son of Decill; became abbot of Clonmacnois, 886; harassed by Oonnaughtmen, 895.
Antonio De Corranus: '''Antonio De Corranus''' ([[1527]]-[[1591]]).
Corro: '''Corro''' See
Domenico Corri: '''Domenico Corri''' ([[1746]]-[[1825]]), musician; of orchestras at Rome, 1756; pupil of Porpora at Naples, 1763-7; conductor of concerts in Edinburgh, singingmaster, and (in partnership with Natale Oorri, his brother) music publisher, 1771-87; published Scottish and English songs, Country Dances 1797,Art of Fingering aMusical Dictionary 1798, andSinger's Preceptor 1810: produced two successful operas, 1774 and 1806; insane in later life, * 26'J
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Archibald Corrie: '''Archibald Corrie''' ([[1777]]-[[1867]]), agriculturist ; gardener in Edinburgh, 1797; estate manager in Perthshire; wrote on agriculture in the journals,
Daniel Corrie: '''Daniel Corrie''' ([[1777]]-[[1837]]), bishop of Madras; educated at Cambridge; disciple of Charles Simeon; Bengal cbapluin, 1806-15; senior chaplain at Calcutta, 1817; LL.D.; archdeacon of Calcutta, 1823; bishop of Madras, 1835.
George Elwes Corrie: '''George Elwes Corrie''' ([[1793]]-[[1886]]), divine; B.A. St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1817; tutor, 1817-49; Norrisian professor of divinity, 1838-54; master of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1849, and rector of Newton, Cambridgeshire, 1851-85; wrote papers on English church history; edited works of Anglican theology,
Corrigan: '''Corrigan''' Sin DOMINIC JOHN ([[1802]]-[[1880]]), physician; born in Dublin; M.D. Edinburgh, 1825; acquired the leading practice in Dublin; created baronet, 1866; M.P., Dublin city, 1870-4; published medical tracts.
Antonio Pe Corro: '''Antonio Pe Corro''' , otherwise CORRAXUS and
Bellkrive: '''Bellkrive''' ([[1527]]-[[1591]]), theologian; born at Seville; a Spanish monk; adopted protestantism, 1557; resided in Prance and Flanders, 1558-68; doctor of a foreign university; came to London, 1568; by Cecil's influence, was pastor of the Spanish congregation, London, 1568-70, and Latin divinity lecturer at the Temple, 1571-4; by Leicester's influence, was lecturer on divinity in Oxford, 1578-86; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1585; accused of heresy; published theological treatises, 1567-79; compiled a Spanish grammar, 1590.
Henry Thomas Lowry Corey: '''Henry Thomas Lowry Corey''' ([[1803]]-[[1873]]), politician: second son of Somerset Oorry, second earl of Belmore; B.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1823: M.P., Tyrone, 1826-73; junior lord, 1841-5, secretary, 1845-6 and 1858-9, and first lord, 1867-8, of the admiralty.
Isaac Corry: '''Isaac Corry''' ([[1755]]-[[1813]]), Irish politician; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; M.P., Newry, in the Irish parliament, 1776-1800; attached to the government as surveyor of the ordnance in Ireland, 1788, and a commissioner of revenue, 1789-98; chancellor of the Irish exchequer, 1798-1804; surveyor of Irish crown lands, 17991813; chief government speaker in favour of the union, 1799-1800; fought a duel with Henry Grattan, 1800; M.P., 1800-4.
John Corry: '''John Corry''' (fl. [[1825]]), topographer ; journalist in Dublin, and, 1792, in London; published, 1782-1820, verses, tales, and memoirs, and, 1810-25, histories of Liverpool, Bristol, Macclesfield, and Lancashire.
Cor: '''Cor''' 8ER, THOMAS ([[1793]]-[[1876]]), bibliographer ; educated at Manchester grammar school, 1808-12; M.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1818; rector of Stand, near Manchester, 1826, and non-resident vicar of Norton, near Daventry, 1828-76; F.S.A., 1860; collected a fine library of early English poetry, described in Collectanea AngloPoetica 1860-80.
Henry Cort: '''Henry Cort''' ([[1740]]-[[1800]]), ironmaster ; navy agent in London, 1765-75; bought premises near Fareham, Hampshire, in which to carry on processes (patented 1783-4) for purifying iron bypuddling; ruined, 1789, by the prosecution of his partner, Adam Jellicoe, for embezzlement of naval funds; pensioned, 1794.
Joannes Cohvtjs: '''Joannes Cohvtjs''' (ft. [[1512]]-[[1544]]), painter ; real name Jan Rave, of Bruges; came to England. His protraits include Bishop Richard Fox (after 1522) and the Princess Mary, 1544.
Isaac Preston Cory: '''Isaac Preston Cory''' ([[1802]]-[[1842]]), miscellaneous writer; fellow of Caius College, Cambridge; M.A., 1827.
William Johnson Cory: '''William Johnson Cory''' ([[1823]]-[[1892]]), poet and master at Eton; son of Charles Johnson of Torrington; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; won chancellor's medal for English poem, 1843: fellow, 1845-72; B.A., 1845; assistant master at Eton, 1845-72; assumed name of Cory and retired from fellowship and mastership, 1872; published educational works, besides several volumes of poems, some of which give him a permanent place among English lyrists.
George Coryate: '''George Coryate''' (rf. [[1607]]), divine; educated at Winchester; fellow of New College, Oxford, 1560-70; M.A., 1569; rector of Odcombe, Somerset, 1570-16U7; prebendary of York, 1594; wrote copies of Latin verses to the nobility.
Thomas Coryate: '''Thomas Coryate''' ([[1577]] 9-[[1617]]), traveller ; son of George Corate; entered Gloucester Hall, Oxford, 1696; a buffoon at court; of Prince Henry's household; travelled, mainly on foot, through France to Venice, and thence by Switzerland, Germany, and Holland to London, 1608; "published his narrative Coryats Crudities with commendatory verses from the wits, and two appendices,OoryatsCrambeandThe Odcombian Banquet 1611; visited Constantinople (1612), Asia Minor, Greece, and Egypt; travelled through Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Persia, to India, reaching Agra, October 1616; died at Surat; someletters from him published, 1616 and 1618.
William Coryton: '''William Coryton''' (. [[1651]]), politician; vicewarden of the stannaries, 1603-27 and 1630-40; M.P M 1623-9; imprisoned, 1627-8, for refusing to pay the forced loan, and, 1629-30, for abetting Sir John Eliot March 1629); M.P., 1640. in the Short parliament; elected to the Long parliament, but unseated and dismissed from hf employments for malpractices.
Alexander Cosby: '''Alexander Cosby''' ( ft. [[1580]]), soldier : eldest son of Francis Cosby; killed in skirmish with the Irish.
Arnold Cosby: '''Arnold Cosby''' (. [[1580]]), soldier ; second son of Francis Cosby; served in Flanders, 1587.
Francis Cosby: '''Francis Cosby''' (d. [[1580]]), Irish general ; serve against the Irish, 1548-58; granted Stradbally Abbey, Queen's County, 1562; assisted in slaughter of the O'Mores, 1567; killed in battle.
Sir Henry Augustus Montagu Cosby: '''Sir Henry Augustus Montagu Cosby''' (1743-1822), lieutenant-general: volunteer at the taking of Gheria, 1766; in active service at Madras, 1760-75, becoming lieutenant-colonel, 1773; commander of the nawab of Arcot's cavalry, 1778: served against Haidar Ali, 1780; invalided to England, 1782; knighted; left India, 1786; lieutenant-general, 1822.
Phillips Cosby: '''Phillips Cosby''' ([[1727]] 7-[[1808]]), admiral : born in Nova Scotia; entered navy, 1745; commander, 1760; on active service. 1745-70; receiver-general of St. Kitts, 1771-8; on the North American station, 1779-81; held Mediterranean command, 1786-9; rear-admiral, 1790; admiral, 1799.
Cosin: '''Cosin''' or COBYN, EDMUND (. [[1558]]), vice-chancellor of Cambridge; B.A. King's Hall, Cambridge, 1535; fellow; M.A., 1541; vicar of Grendon, Northamptonshire, 1538-41; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1546; B.D., 1647; a strong catholic; master of St. Catharine's Hall; pluralist in Norfolk and (1558-60) vice-chancellor of; Cambridge; resigned his preferments, 1560; went abroad, 1568.
John Cosin: '''John Cosin''' ([[1594]]-[[1672]]), bishop of Durham : fellow of Caius College, Cambridge; chaplain to Overall, bishop of Lichfield; friend of Laud and Richard Montague: prebendary of Durham, 1624, archdeacon of the East Riding, 1625, and rector of Ehvick and Brancepeth, Durham, 1626; defended Montague'sAppello Csesarem 1626: compiled, by request of Charles I,Collection of Private Devotions, 1 1627; at once accused of Romanist leanings; introduced ornate ornaments and services into Durham Cathedral, 1627-33; D.D., 1628; procured the ejection of Peter Smart, puritan prebendary of Durham, 1628; was appointed master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1635, where he introduced ornate chapel ornaments and services; vice-chancellor of Cambridge, 1639, and dean of Peterborough, 1640; accused by Smart to the Long parliament, and deprived of his benefices, 1640; sent Peterhouse plate to Charles 1, 1642; ejected from the mastership, 1644; chaplain to the Anglican royalists at Paris, 1642-60; wrote, but did not publish, a treatise against Romanism (published 1675), and, 1652, an explanation of Anglicanism (published 1707); resumed his ecclesiastical preferments, 1660; bishop of Durham, 1660; member of the Savoy conference, 1661; proposed several slight changes in the liturgy, 1661; visited his diocese, 1661-2: used his ex-officio powers as lord-lieutenant of Durham to employ the militia to drive nonconformists to church, sold the offices in his patronage, and was most exacting in levying dues to provide money for his buildings at
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Cotterell: '''Cotterell''' Auckland and Durham, for the library at Durham, for scholarships at Cambridge, for provision for his family, ami for general charity; published History of the Canon of Scripture 1657; bis collected works published, 1843-55, I and his correspondence, 1868-70.
Richard Cosin: '''Richard Cosin''' ([[1549]]?-[[1597]]X civilian; fellow of ! Trinity College, Cambridge; LL.D., 1580; dean of the I archer, 1583;.M.I, 1586-9; a master iu chancery, 1588; published treatises on ecclesiastical law.
Earl of Northumberland Cospatric: '''Earl of Northumberland Cospatric''' (fl. [[1067]]). See Gosi'ATRic.j
Emanuel Mkndes Da Costa: '''Emanuel Mkndes Da Costa''' ([[1717]]-[[1791]]), naturalist; son of a London Jew; studied conchology and collected fossils; F.R.S., 1747-63; imprisoned, 1767-72; published treatises on fossils and shells, 1757-78.
Costa: '''Costa''' Sin MICHAEL ([[1810]]-[[1884]]), composer; born and trained at Naples; composed for Italian theatres, 1825-9; employed at the King's Theatre, London, 1830-46, reforming the orchestra, 1832, and producing four ballets and two operas, 1831-44; director of music at Covent Garden Theatre from 1846; conductor of the Philharmonic concerts, 1847-54; conducted the festivals at Birmingham, 1849-79, and Leeds, 1874-80, and the Handel festivals, 1857-77; produced two oratorios, Eli 1855, and Naaman 1864; knighted, 1869; director of the Italian opera from 1871.
George Costard: '''George Costard''' ([[1710]]-[[1782]]), astronomical writer; fellow of Wadham College, Oxford; M.A., 1733; vicar of Whitchurch, Dorset: vicar of Twickenham, 1764-82; published tracts on biblical criticism, 1733-62, and treatises on the history of astronomy, especially in antiquity, 1746-67.
Pierre Coste: '''Pierre Coste''' ([[1668]]-[[1747]]), translator; a Frenchman; Huguenot minister at Amsterdam, 1690; translated two of Locke's tracts into French; French tutor in England; translated Locke'sEssay under Locke's supervision, 1697; translated Newton's Optics; annotated French standard authors.
Guillaume Costeley: '''Guillaume Costeley''' ([[1531]]-[[1606]]), composer of French chansons, published 1554-97; of Scottish extraction; organist to Henry II and Charles IX of France; lived at Evreux, 1571-1606.
Dudley Costello: '''Dudley Costello''' ([[1803]]-[[1865]]), journalist: of Irish extraction; ensign, 1821; stationed at Bermuda, 1824-8; copyist of illuminated manuscripts at Paris; lived in London, 1833-8; foreign correspondent of London journals; wrote for periodicals; pensioned, 1861; published novels and notes of travel, 1845-61.
Louisa Stuart Costello: '''Louisa Stuart Costello''' ([[1799]]-[[1870]]), artist and author; sister of Dudley Oostello; miniaturepainter in Paris, 1814, and London; copyist of illuminated manuscripts; pensioned, 1852; lived latterly at Boulogne; published poems, 1815-56, Specimens of the Early Poetry of France 1835, notes of travel, 1840-6, novels, and memoirs, 1844-55.
William Birmingham Costello: '''William Birmingham Costello''' ([[1800]]-[[1867]]), Burgeon: native of Dublin; M.D.; practitioner in London, 1832; withdrew to Paris; wrote on medical topics.
Maria Cecilia Louisa Cosway: '''Maria Cecilia Louisa Cosway''' (fl. [[1820]]), miniature-painter; n6e Hadfield; born in Florence; of English extraction; educated in Rome; miniature-painter in London of portraits and mythological subjects; first exhibited, 1781; married, 1781, Richard Cosway; lived much abroad: a prolific etcher and book- illustrator.
Richard Cosway: '''Richard Cosway''' ([[1740]]-[[1821]]), painter; artstudent in London; drawing-master; designer of snuffbox lids; dealer in old pictures; R.A., 1771; in great request as portrait-painter in oil and miniature; a favourite of the prince regent: his art collection sold, IMI-_;;i folio volume of his designs published by his widow, Florence, 1826.
Cosworth: '''Cosworth''' or COSOWARTH, MICHAEL (fl. 1600), metrical translator of psalms; of Cornish family; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1580.
Francis Cotes: '''Francis Cotes''' ([[1725]]?-[[1770]]), portrait-painter in crayons and oil; of Irish extraction; R.A.; worked in London and Bath.
Roger Cotes: '''Roger Cotes''' ([[1682]]-[[1716]]), mathematician; educated at St. Paul's School; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1705; M.A., 1706; Plumian professor of astronomy, 1706; helped Newton in the reissue of the Principia 1709-13; F.R.S., 1711; published Logometria a treatise on ratios, 1713; partially observed the total solar eclipse, April 1715: his mathematical papers published, 1722 and 1738, and his correspondence, 1850.
Samuel Cotes: '''Samuel Cotes''' ([[1734]]-[[1818]]), miniature-painter: taught by his brother, Francis Cotes; executed crayon portraits and miniatures on enamel and ivory; exhibited, 1760-89; fellow of the Incorporated Society of Artists.
John Cotgrave: '''John Cotgrave''' (fl. [[1655]]), author of 'The English Treasury... of... Dramatick Poems and Wit's Interpreter 1655.
Randle Cotgrave: '''Randle Cotgrave''' (rf. [[1634]]?), compiler of the French-English dictionary, 1611 (second edition, 1632); scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1587; secretary to William Cecil, afterwards second Earl of Exeter.
John Sell Cotman: '''John Sell Cotman''' ([[1782]]-[[1842]]), landscapepainter, chiefly in water-colours; art-student in London, 1798; exhibited in London, 1800-6; drawing-master in Norwich, 1807-34; painted portraits and landscapes; etched plates of buildings and antiquities, chiefly in Norfolk, 1811-39; published, 1822, etchings of Architectural Antiquities of Normandy," taken 1817-20; exhibited again in London, 1825-39; drawing-master in King's College, London, 1834-42.
Joseph John Cotman: '''Joseph John Cotman''' ([[1814]]-[[1878]]), landscapepainter; son of John Sell Ootman; drawing-master in Norwich, 1836; became mentally deranged,
Miles Edmund Cotman: '''Miles Edmund Cotman''' ([[1810]]-[[1858]]), landscapepainter and etcher; eldest son of John Sell Cotman: drawing-master in Norwich, 1834, and in London, 1836c. 1845; exhibited river and sea views in oil- and water colours, 1835-56.
Cotta: '''Cotta''' or COTTEY, JOHN ([[1675]] ?-[[1650]] ?X physician; scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1590-6; M.A. Corpus Ohristi College, Cambridge, 1597; M.D., 1603; practised medicine in Northampton, 1603 till death: published * Discoverie of... Ignorant Practisers of Physicke 1611,The Triall of Witchcraft 1616, andCotta contra Antonium 1623 (against Francis Anthony )
Thomas Cottam: '''Thomas Cottam''' ([[1549]]-[[1582]]), Jesuit ; born in Lancashire: M.A. Braseuose College, Oxford, 1572; schoolmaster in London: embraced Roman Catholicism; withdrew to Douay; afterwards lived at Rome and at Rheims; .joined the Jesuits; imprisoned in London, 1580-2; executed at Tyburn.
Earl Op Cottenham: '''Earl Op Cottenham''' ([[1781]]-[[1851]]). See PKPT8

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Christopher Charles: '''Christopher Charles''' .
George Sackville Cotter: '''George Sackville Cotter''' ([[1755]]-[[1831]]), translator; educated at Westminster School, and, 1771, Peter.house, Cambridge; M.A., 1779; beneficed in co. Cork, Ireland; published poems, 1788; translated Terence, 1826, and Plautus, 1827.
Patrick Cotter: '''Patrick Cotter''' ([[1761]] ?-[[1806]]), Irish giant; born at Kinsale; a bricklayer: exhibited himself in Great Britain as O'BBIKN, 1779-1804; his height sometimes given as over eight feet.
Sir Charles Cotterell: '''Sir Charles Cotterell''' ([[1616]]-[[1687]] ?), courtier : knighted, 1644; master of the ceremonies, 1641-9; at Antwerp, 1649-52; steward at the Hague to Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia, 1652-4; secretary to Henry, duke of Gloucester, 1655-GO; master of the ceremonies, 1660-86; master of requests, 1670-86; M.P., Cardigan, 1663-78; translated French romances and histories, andThe Spiritual Year a Spanish devotional tract.
Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell: '''Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell''' ([[1654]]1710), courtier; son of Sir Charles Ootterell; LL.D. Trinity College, Cambridge: knighted, 1687; master of the ceremonies, 1686-1710; published memoir of Prince George of Denmark, 1708.
Sir Clement Cotterell: '''Sir Clement Cotterell''' (d. [[1758]]), courtier ; son of Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell; knighted, 1710; master of the ceremonies, 1710-58; assumed the name DORMKR, 1741, on inheriting Rousham, Oxfordshire,
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Cotton: '''Cotton'''
William Cotterell: '''William Cotterell''' (d. [[1744]]), bishop in Ireland : son of Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell; dam of Raphoe, 1725; D.D. Oxford, 1733; bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, 1743.
Thomas Cottisford: '''Thomas Cottisford''' (d. [[1555]]), protestant divine : M.A. Cambridge: imprisoned as n protestaut, 1641; resigned rectories at Walpole, Norfolk, 1544; vicar of Littlebury, Essex, 1545: rector of St. Martin's, Ludgate, 1553, but withdrew to the continent; died at Frankfort; published theological and devotional tracts, 1543-53.
Cotte: '''Cotte''' 8LOE, BARON ([[1798]]-[[1890]]). See FUKMANTLK,
Francis Thomas: '''Francis Thomas''' .
Lewis Nockalls Cottingham: '''Lewis Nockalls Cottingham''' ([[1787]]-[[1847]]), architect; builder's apprentice at Ipswich; architect in London, 1814; much employed in restoration of churches; published drawings of Westminster Abbey and Hall, and other architectural treatises.
Nookall Cottingham: '''Nookall Cottingham''' 3 JOHNSON ([[1823]]-[[1854]]), architect: older sou of Lewis Nockalls Cottingham; drowned at SMI.
Francis Cottington: '''Francis Cottington''' , BARON OOTTINGTON (1678 ?-1652), diplomatist; attached to Sir Charles Oornwallis's embassy at Madrid, 1605-9; English agent at Madrid, 1609-11; consul at Seville, 1612; clerk of the council, 1613-16; again envoy to Spain, 1616-18; secretary to Charles, prince of Wales, 1622; created baronet, 1623; ordered to accompany Prince Charles to Madrid, 1623; professed Romanism there; a leader of the party favourable to Spain; dismissed from court by Buckingham's influence, 1623; privy councillor, 1628: chancellor of the exchequer, 1629-42; ambassador to Spain to conclude peace, 1629-31; created Baron Oottington, 1631; a commissioner on Irish affairs, 1634; master of the court of wards, 1635-41; a commissioner of the treasury, and in conflict with Laud, 1635-6; a commissioner on Scottish affairs, 1638; built Hanworth House, Middlesex; constable of the Tower, 1640; joined Charles I at Oxford, 1643: lord treasurer, 1643; went to Rouen, 1646; joined Prince Charles at the Hague, 1648: unsuccessful in an embassy to Spain to raise money for Prince Charles, 1649; embraced Roman Catholicism and settled at Valladolid, 1651; died at Valladolid.
John Cottisford: '''John Cottisford''' (. [[1540]]?), vice-chancellor of Oxford; B.A. Oxford, 1505; fellow of Lincoln College, 1509-18, and rector, 1519-39; D.D., 1525; vice-chancellor, 1527-32; directed to suppress protestant books; arrested Thomas Garret, 1*28; canon of Henry VIII's Oxford college, 1532; prebendary of Lincoln, 1538.
Amos Simon Cottle: '''Amos Simon Cottle''' ([[1768]] ?-[[1800]]), translator; B.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1799; wrote verses; translated, in metre, the Edda of Saemund, 1797.
Joseph Cottle: '''Joseph Cottle''' ([[1770]]-[[1853]]), author ; bookseller in Bristol, 1791-9; met Coleridge and Southey, 1794; brought out Coleridge'sPoemsand Southey'sJoan of Arc 1796, and Coleridge and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads 1798; published verses and essays, 1798-1829, andEarly Recollections of Coleridge and Southey, 1837.
Sir Arthurthomas Cotton: '''Sir Arthurthomas Cotton''' ([[1803]]-[[1899]]),general, and irrigation engineer; studied at East India Company's college, Addisoombc; obtained commission in Madras engineers, 1819; assistant engineer in Madras, 1821; accompanied expeditionary force to Burmah, 1824: placed in charge, 1828, of irrigation works in Tanjore, which he greatly extended and improved by construction of anicnts on the Coleroon, 1835-6; constructed an anicut across Godavery river below Rajahmundry for irrigation of Godttvery district, 1847-52; subsequently projected the anicut on the Krishna river, the construction of which was carried out by Major-general Charles Orr; knighted, 1861; second class K.C.S.I., 1866; retired from government service, 1862, but continued to give his attention to irrigation schemes; retired from army with rank of general, 1877.
Bartholomew Ok Cotton: '''Bartholomew Ok Cotton''' (d. [[1298]]?), historian ; monk of Norwich: compiled Historia Anglicana in which the events of 1291-8 seem to be described from personal knowledge.
Charles Cotton: '''Charles Cotton''' ([[1630]]-[[1687]]), poet ; of Beresford, Staffordshire; travelled; single copies of Ms verses printed (1049-74), but they circulated chiefly in manuscript; lecame deeply involved in debt; army captain in ireland, 1670: published burlesques of Virgil, 1664, and of Lucian, 1675, and translations from the French, 1667-74; reputed author of The Complete Gamester 1674; published The Planter's Manual of fruit-trees, 1676, a second partof Walton's Complete Angler, 1 167C,The Wonders of the Peak 1681, and a standard translation of Montaigne's Essays 1685; his poems collected, 1689, and his works. 1715. "
Sir Charles Cotton: '''Sir Charles Cotton''' ([[1753]]-[[1812]]), admiral; entered navy, 1772; commander, 1779; succeeded as fifth baronet of Madiugley, Cambridgeshire, 1795; in active service, 1772-83, and 1793-1801; rear-admiral, 1797; vice-admiral, 1802; held command in Tagua, 1807-8, in Mediterranean, 1810; in command of Channel fleet, 1812.
George Edward Lynch Cotton: '''George Edward Lynch Cotton''' ([[1813]]-[[1866]]X bishop of Calcutta; educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge; a house-master at Rugby, 1837-52; head-master of Marlborough, 1852-8; D.D.; bishop of j Calcutta, 1868; founded schools for poor European and ! Eurasian children; opposed presbyterian claim to use government churches; drowned in the Ganges.
Henry Cotton: '''Henry Cotton''' ([[1789]]-[[1879]]), bibliographer and historian; at Westminster School, 1803-7; student of I Christ Church, Oxford, 1807-19; M.A., 1813; D.C.L., I 1820; sub-librarian of the Bodleian, 1814-22; treasurer of Christ Church, Dublin, 1832-72; titular dean of Lismore, ! 1834-72; became blind; published a bibliography (1505 I 1820) of the English bible, 1821, and a bibliography of English Roman catholic versions, 1855,Typographical Gazetteer 1824, Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicje 1845-78, and other works.
Sir Henry Cotton: '''Sir Henry Cotton''' ([[1821]]-[[1892]]), judge; son of William Cotton (1786-1866); educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1843; called to bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1846; practised in equity courts; standing counsel to Bank of England; Q.C., 186; standing counsel to Oxford University, 1872; appointed lord justice of appeal, sworn privy councillor, and knighted, 1877; honorary D.O.L. Oxford, 1877.

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John Cotton: '''John Cotton''' (12th cent.?), author of a treatise on music (published 178i).
John Cotton: '''John Cotton''' ([[1584]]-[[1652]]), nonconformist divine : M.A. Trinity OollegeCambridge, 1606; fellow of Emmanuel College, c. 1607; later, was dean; B.D., 1613; vicar of Boston, Lincolnshire, 1612; temporarily suspended for disuse of theceremonies 1615, but subsequently indulged in his nonconformity with James I's sanction; took theological pupils; cited for nonconformity by high commission court, 1633, resigned living, and sailed with Thomas Hooker and others for New England; joint-minister at Trimountain, the name of which town was at tliis time changed to Boston; rendered considerable assistance in consolidating the Massachusetts government. His numerous publications include sermons, works on church government, doctrinal questions, and controversial and expository treatises.
Cotton: '''Cotton''' Sin JOHN ([[1621]]-[[1701]]), eldest son of Sir Thomas Cotton; succeeded as third baronet, 1662; offered the Cottonian Library to the nation, 1700.
Sir John Cotton: '''Sir John Cotton''' ([[1679]]-[[1731]]), succeeded his grandfather as fourth baronet, 1701; transferred the Oottonian Library; to the nation, 1702; M.P., Huntingdonshire, 1711.
Sir John Cotton: '''Sir John Cotton''' (l. [[1752]]), son of Sir Robert Cotton; sixth and last baronet.
Sir John Hynde Cotton: '''Sir John Hynde Cotton''' (rf. [[1752]]), Jacobite; succeeded (1712) as fourth baronet of Madingley, Cambridgeshire; M.A. Cambridge, 1706: M.P., 1708-52; a pronounced tory; forced on George II as treasurer of the chamber, 1744-6.
Joseph Cotton: '''Joseph Cotton''' ([[1745]]-[[1825]]), mariner; son of Nathaniel Cotton; entered the navy, 1760; entered marine service of East India Company; an elder brother of the Trinity House, 1788-1808; a director of the East India Company, 1796-1823; compiled history of Trinity House, 1818,.
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Coubayer: '''Coubayer'''
Nathaniel Cottoit: '''Nathaniel Cottoit''' ([[1705]]-[[1788]]). physician : studied medicine at Leyden, 1729; medical practitioner and keeper of a lunatic asylum at St. Albans, 1740-88; wrote verses, which were collected and published, 1791.
Richard Lynch Cotton: '''Richard Lynch Cotton''' ([[1794]]-[[1880]]), provost of Worcester College, Oxford; educated at the Charterhouse; B.A. Worcester College, Oxford, 1815, fellow, 1816-38 and provost, 1839-80; D.D., 1839; vicur of Denchworth, Berkshire, 1823-38; vice-chancellor of Oxford, 1852-7; published sermons.
Robert Cotton: '''Robert Cotton''' (fl. [[1300]]).
Sir Robert Cotton: '''Sir Robert Cotton''' ([[1669]]-[[1749]]), son of Sir John Ootton (1621-1701); succeeded his nephew as fifth baronet, 1731.
Cotton: '''Cotton''' Sm ROBERT BRUOE ([[1571]]-[[1631]]), antiquary; of Connington, Huntingdonshire; educated at W.*tminster School and Jesus College, Cambridge; B. A., 1585; settled inCotton House Westminster, and collected manuscripts and coius; gave free use of hie library to Bacon,. Camden, Ralegh, Selden, Speed, Ussher, and other scholars; made an antiquarian tour with Camdi-M to (arlisle. 1600: wrote papers on questions of precedents and other antiquarian topics; sent a gift of manuscripts to the Bodleian Library on its foundation, 1601; rebuilt Connington House, 1602; knighted by James I, 1603; M.I, Huntingdon, 1604; his advice in public affairs sought by the king; created baronet, 1611; contributed to Speed's History of England 1611; bequeathed valuable manuscripts by Arthur Agard, 1614; contributed to Oamden's Elizabeth 1615; imprisoned for trying to screen the Earl of Somerset by altering dates of letters, 1615-16; received valuable papers by bequest from Camden, 1623; M.P., Old Sarnm, 1624, and Tbetford, 1625, attaching himself to Eliot and the parliamentary party; ojwuly affronted by Charles I in consequence, 1626; wrote against debasing the coinage, 1626; published political tracts, History of Henry III 1627, and Dangers wherein the Kingdom now standcth 1628; M.P., Castle Rising, 1628-9, acting throughout with Eliot; excluded in consequence from his library by order of Charles I, 1629-31; papers by him printed posthumously, 1641-1771. The rottoiiian Library was transferred to the nation, 1702; placed iii Essex House, 1712; removed to Ashburnham House, 1730, where it suffered severely in the fire of October 1731; deposited in Westminster School, 1731, and removed to the British Museum, 1753. Catalogues of it appeared in 1696, 1732, and 1802.
Roger Cotton: '''Roger Cotton''' (.ft. [[1596]]), poet ; draper in London; published a devotional tract entitled * A Direction to the Waters of Lyfe 1590, and two devotional poems, An Armor of Proofe and A Spirituall Song 1596.
Cotton: '''Cotton''' Sm ST. VINCENT ([[1801]]-[[1863]]), sixth baronet of Madingley, Cambridgeshire; eldest son of Sir Charles Ootton; educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford; lieutenant of dragoons, 18271830; played cricket, 1830-5; patron of sport; gambled away his estates; made a living by driving the stage coach between London and Brighton.
Cotton: '''Cotton''' Sm STAPLETON, VISCOUNT OOMBKR-
Merk: '''Merk''' ( [[1773]]-[[1865]]), field-marshal; at Westminster School 1785-9; lieutenant of foot, 1790; lieutenant-colonel of horse, 1794; served in Flanders, 1793-4, at Cape Town, 1795, and against Tippoo Sahib, 1799; returned to England, 1800; major-general, 1805; M.P., Newark, 1806-14; commanded cavalry division in Peninsula, 1808-12; succeeded as sixth baronet of Combermere, 1809; lieutenantgeneral, and invalided by wounds, 1812; served in Pyrenees campaign, 1813-14; created Baron Combermere and pensioned, 1814; commanded the allied cavalry in France, 1815-16: governor of Barbados, 1817-20: commauder-inchief in Ireland, 1822-5; general, 1825;commander-in-chief in India, 1825-30; captured Bhurtpore, 1826; created Viscount Combermere, 1827; separated from his wife, 1830; constable of the Tower, 1852; field-marshal, 1865.
Sir Sydney John Cotton: '''Sir Sydney John Cotton''' ([[1792]]-[[1874]]), lieutenant-general; comet (1810) and lieutenant (1812) of dragoons; captain of foot, 1822; lieutenant-colonel, 1843; served in India, in Burmnh, and Australia, 1810-58; K.(J.U. uud major-general, 1858; lieutenant-general, 1866; governor of Chelsea Hospital, 1872; wrote on military subjects, 1857-ttS.
Sir Thomas Cotton: '''Sir Thomas Cotton''' ([[1594]]-[[1662]]), son of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton; M.P., St. Germans, 1828-9; succeeded as second baronet, 1631; obtained, with difficulty, possession of his father's library; M.P. for Huntingdon, 1640 (the Short parliament); left Cotton House in the hands of the parliament.
William Cotton: '''William Cotton''' (. [[1621]]), bishop of Exeter : M.A. QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1576; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1677-98; bishop of Exeter, 1598-1621; "precentor of Exeter, 1599-1606: probeivlary of Exeter, 16081621; rector of Silvertou, Devonshire, 1600-21; opposed the puritans.
William Cotton: '''William Cotton''' ([[1786]]-[[1866]]), philanthropist: third son of Joseph Cotton; managing partner of a Limehouse rope-factory, 1807-38; resided at Leytoustone, 1819-66; a director of the Bank of England, 1821-65; inventor of the sovereign weighing-machine, 1844; unweariedly advocated school and church extension from 1811.
William Charles Cotton: '''William Charles Cotton''' ([[1813]]-[[1879]]), writer on bee*; brother of Sir Henry Cotton; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1836; held living of Frodshaui, Cheshire, 1857 till death; first secretary of Apiarian Society.
Cotton: '''Cotton''' Sm WILLOUGHBY ([[1783]]-[[1860]]), general ; educated at Rugby; ensign, 1798; lieutenant, 1799; served in Hanover, 1805, at Copenhagen, 1807, and in the Peninsula, 1809-11 and 1813-14; lieutenant-colonel, 1821: served in Burmah, 1825-6; K.O.H. and major-general, 1830; governor of Jamaica, 1829-34; commanded a division in the Afghan war, 1838-9; lieutenant-general, 1841; commander-iu-chief in Bombay, 1847-50; general, 1854.
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Jonathan Couch: '''Jonathan Couch''' ([[1789]]-[[1870]]), naturalist : studied medicine in London; medical practitioner at Polperro, 1809-70; published Illustrations of Instinct 1847, History of British Fishes 1860-5, History of Polperro and 'Cornish Fauna
Richard Quiller Couch: '''Richard Quiller Couch''' ([[1816]]-[[1863]]), naturalist; eldest son of Jonathan Couch: medical practitioner at Peuzauce, 1845-63; an able zoologist; contributed to scientific journals.
William Couche: '''William Couche''' ([[1732]]-[[1763]]), Jesuit ; a Cornishman; educated at St. Omer; joined the Jesuits, 1749: died at Liege.
Walter Coulson: '''Walter Coulson''' ([[1794]] ?-[[1860]]), journalist and lawyer; a Oornishmau; amanuensis to Jeremy Bentham; parliamentary reporter of the Morning Chronicle; editor of theGlobe 1823; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1828; conveyancer; counsel for the home office; friend of Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt.
William Coulson: '''William Coulson''' ([[1802]]-[[1877]]), surgeon; surgeon's apprentice at Penzance; studied surgery in London and, 1824-6, Berlin; on the staff of the Lancet 1823; qualified as a surgeon, 1826; practised in London; senior surgeon of St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington; published surgical treatises, 1836-54; contributed to professional journals.
David Trevena Coulton: '''David Trevena Coulton''' ([[1810]]-[[1857]]), journalist; conducted the Britannia newspaper, 1839-50, and thePress 1864-7; published a novel, 1853, and anInquiry into the Authorship of the Letters of Juniiis
Couper: '''Couper'''
Robert Couper: '''Robert Couper''' ([[1750]]-[[1818]]), author; student at Glasgow, 1769; tutor in Virginia; medical student in Glasgow, 1776; M.D.; modical practitioner in Wiijtoushire and, 1788-1806, at Fochnbers, Banffshire; published 'Poetry, chiefly in the Scottish Language 1804.
Albert Etienne Jean Baptiste Couperie: '''Albert Etienne Jean Baptiste Couperie'''
De La Terrien: '''De La Terrien''' (d. [[1894]]).
Pierre Francois Courayer: '''Pierre Francois Courayer''' us ([[1681]]-[[1776]]), French divine; born at Rouen; joined the fraternity of St. Genevieve; appellant against the bull UnigcnituF 1714; corresponded with Archbishop Wake, 1721-3;
Ooubci: '''Ooubci'''
Oourtenay: '''Oourtenay''' published a dissertation admitting the validity of Anglican orders, 1723, aDefenceof the dissertation, 1726, and 'Historical Relation a further defence, 1729; hon. D.D. Oxford, 1727; pensioned by the government; translated into French Father Paul's Council of Trent 1736, and Sleidan's Reformation 1769-77; published theological tracts of Sociuiau tendency.
John Dk Courci: '''John Dk Courci''' (d. [[1219]] ?), conqueror of Ulster : went to Ireland with William FitzAldelm, Henry II's minister, 1176; seized Downpatrick, 1177; after fire years righting, subdued Uladh (i.e. Down and Antrim); married, 1180, Affreca, a daughter of the king of Man justic mr of Ireland from 1185; savagely revenged the murder of his brother Jordan by a native, 1197; outlawed in Ireland by William de Lacy, King John's officer, 1200, and his English estate forfeited; raided by Hugh de Lacy, 1203; taken prisoner by Hugh de Lacy, 1204; obtained his freedom by giving hostages; withdrew to Tyrone; submitted, and recovered his English estate, 1205; rebelled on Hugh de Lucy's being granted his lauds in Ulster, 1205; collected a pirate fleet and ravaged Antrim, but was defeated; licensed to visit England, 1207; pensioned, and in personal attendance on King John, 1210-16.
Sir Peter Courten: '''Sir Peter Courten''' (d. [[1625]]), baronet ; of Aldington, Northamptonshire; sou of Sir William Oourten or Ourteeue; created baronet, 1622.
Courten: '''Courten''' or CURTEENE, SIR WILLIAM ([[1572]]1636), merchant; sou of a London silk merchant, a protestant refugee from Meuiu, Flanders; factor at Haerlem for his father's business; returned to London, 1600; partner in Council and Money, silk and linen merchants, 1606; heavily fined by the Star-chamber, 1619; had a fleet of twenty ships trading with Guinea, Spain, and the West Indies; knighted, 1622; lent large sums, never repaid, to James I and Charles I; obtained grants of Barbados (discovered by one of his ships in 1624), and sent colonists there, 1625 and 1628; his colonists forcibly expelled by the Earl of Carlisle, 1629; bought Northamptonshire estates, 1628-33; traded with the East Indies; sent to China two ships, which were lost.
William Oourten: '''William Oourten''' , the younger (d. [[1655]]), merchant; younger sou of Sir William Courten or Curteene; his East India ships seized by the Dutch, 1641; became bankrupt, 1643; withdrew to Italy; died at Florence.
William Courten: '''William Courten''' ([[1642]]-[[1702]]), naturalist; went sometimes by the name of Oharleton; son of William Courteu the younger; studied at Moutpellier; resided in England, 1663-70; tried to enforce his grandfather's claims on money lent to the crown and on Barbados, 1660 and 1677; lived abroad, 1670-84; opened botanical museum in London, 1684.
Courtenay: '''Courtenay'''
Edward Courtenay: '''Edward Courtenay''' , EARL OK DEVONSHIRE (d. 1509), created earl, and granted large estates in Devonshire, 1485; defended Exeter against Perkin Warbeck, 1497.
Edward Oourtenay: '''Edward Oourtenay''' , EARL OP DKVONSHIRB ( 1526 ?-l556X son of Henry Courteuuy, marquis of hxc-ter ; prisoner iu the Tower, 1538-53; attainted, 1539; released and taken into favour by Queen Mary, August 1553; lived dissolutely; created Earl of Devonshire, September 1553; his attainder reversed, October 1553; disappointed in his hope of marrying Queen Mary; formed designs of marrying Princess Elizabeth and making her queen, December 1553; imprisoned, 1554; exiled, 1555; died at Padua; translated an Italian devotional treatise, 1548 (printed, 1856).
Gertrude Courtenay: '''Gertrude Courtenay''' , MARCHIONESS or
Exkter: '''Exkter''' (d. [[1558]]), daughter of William Blouut, fourth baron Mount joy; second wife of Henry Courtenay, marquis of Exeter; a devout Roman catholic; patronised Elizabeth Barton; prisoner in the Tower, 1538; attainted, 1539; her attainder reversed, 1553; lady-in-waiting to Queen Mary.
Henry Courtenay: '''Henry Courtenay''' , MARQUIS OF EXETER and
of Devonshire Earl: '''of Devonshire Earl''' ([[1496]]?-[[1538]]), son of Sir William Oourtenay; cousin of Henry VIII; allowed to succeed to earldom of Devonshire, 1511; served against France, 1513; privy councillor and gentleman of the privy chamber 1520: attended Henry VIII to France, 1521; granted estates and offices, 1521-3; constable of Windsor Castle, 1525; created Marquis of Exeter, 1525; envoy to France, 1525; supported Henry VIII in his divorce proceedings, 1529-33; king's agent to seize the lands of the smaller monasteries, 1535; commissioner to try Anne Boleyn, 1636; sent to suppress the Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536; lord steward to try Thomas, lord Darcy, 1537; sent to the Tower as an aspirant to the crown, 1538; beheaded and attainted.

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Henry Reginald Courtenay: '''Henry Reginald Courtenay''' ([[1741]]-[[1803]]), bishop of Exeter; at Westminster School, 1755-9; tutor of Christ Church, Oxford, 1763-8; M.A., 1766; D.C.L., 1774; rector of Lee, Kent, 1773; rector of St. George's, Hanover Square, 1774-1803; prebendary of Exeter, 1772-94, of Rochester, 1773-4 and 1783-97; bishop of Bristol, 1794; bishop and archdeacon of Exeter, 17971803; published sermons and charges.
John Courtenay: '''John Courtenay''' ([[1741]]-[[1816]]), politician ; private secretary to George, viscount Townshend, 1767-82; M.P., 1780-1807 and 1812; surveyor-general of the ordnance, 1783; spoke against Warren Hastings, 1786; advocated abolition of slavery; defended French revolution; published essays and verses, 1772-1811.
Peter Courtenay: '''Peter Courtenay''' (rf. [[1492]]), bishop of Winchester; of the Powderham, Devonshire, family; studied at Oxford and Padua; doctor of laws; dean of Windsor, 1477; bishop of Exeter, 1478-87; attainted by Richard III for raising insurrection in the west, 1484; fled to Brittany; keeper of the privy seal to Henry VII, 1485-7; bishop of Winchester, 1487-92.
Richard Oourtenay: '''Richard Oourtenay''' (d. [[1415]]), bishop of Norwich; of Powderham, Devonshire; studied in youth at Oxford; doctor of civil and canon law; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1394, Lincoln, 1401,~and York, 1403; precentor of Chichester, 1400; dean of St. Asaph, 1403; archdeacon of Northumberland, 1410; dean of Wells, 1410; inherited his father's lands, 1406; resided in Oxford, where he was chancellor, 1407 and 1411-12, unsuccessfully resisting, 1411, Archbishop Ar under s title to hold a metropolitan visitation of Oxford University, and organising Thomas de Cobham's library; friend to Henry V, when prince, and treasurer of his household, 1413; non-resident bishop of Norwich, 1413; envoy to France, 1414 and 1415; accompanied Henry V to France, August 1415, and died at Harfleur.
Thomas Peregrine Courtenay: '''Thomas Peregrine Courtenay''' ([[1782]]-[[1841]]), politician; younger son of Henry Reginald Courtenay ; M.P., Totnes, 1810-31; secretary to the India commission, 1812-28; vice-president, board of trade, 1828-30; published pamphlets, 1808-40, Commentaries on Shakespeare's Historical Plays 1840, and a memoir of Sir William Temple, 1836.
William Courtenay: '''William Courtenay''' ([[1342]] 7-[[1396]]), archbishop of Canterbury; fourth son of Hugh, second earl of Devon; studied at Oxford; doctor of canon and civil law; the first chancellor of Oxford elected independently of the bishop of Lincoln, 1367; prebendary of Exeter, Wells, and York; bishop of Hereford, 1370; opposed papal and royal exactions, 1373; bishop of London, 1375; commissioner to regulate the realm, 1376; censured for excommunicating the London Florentine merchants at the pope's bidding, 1376; proceeded against Wycliffe for heresy, 1377; lord keeper, 1381; archbishop of Canterbury, 1381; held synod to condemn Wyclifle's opinions, 1382; obtained the kiug'slicence to repress the lollards. 1382; crushed the lollards at Oxford, November; commenced the visitation of bis province, 1382, and persevered in it, in spite of the resistance of the bishops of Exeter and Salisbury; reproved Richard II for his bad government, 1385; one of the regents, 1386; crushed the lollards at Leicester, 1389; opposed the statute of pro visors, 1390; helped to carry the statute of praemunire, 1393.
Sir William Courtenay: '''Sir William Courtenay''' (d. [[1512]]), courtier of Henry VII; son of Edward Courtenay, earl of Devonshire (d. 1509); K.B., 1487; attainted, 1503, as a possible claimant to the crown; prisoner in the Tower, 1503-9; allowed his succession to the earldom by Henry VIII, 1511, but died before reversal of the attainder.
William Reginald Courtenay: '''William Reginald Courtenay''' , eleventh
Earl: '''Earl''' ov DEVON ([[1807]]-[[1888]]), politician and philaii
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Coventry: '''Coventry''' thropist; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1828; B.O.L., 1831; fellow of All Souls College, 1828-31; D.C.L., 1838; called to bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1832; conservative and I'eolite M.P. for South Devon, 1841-9; secretary to pxr law board, 1850-9, and president, 1867-8; succeeded to peerage, 1859; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster, 1866-7; privy councillor, 1866.
Raphael Courteville: '''Raphael Courteville''' or RALPH (d. [[1772]]), organist and political writer; author ofMemoirs of... BurK'k'h 173H; editor of the Gazetteer,* a government oruan, and so nicknamedCourt-evil He has been doubtfully identified with Ralph Courteville, formerly chorister of the Chapel Royal, composer of instrumental and vcx-al music, l(90-5, who was appointed organist of St. James's, Westminster, in 1691.
William Courthope: '''William Courthope''' ([[1808]]-[[1866]]), genealogist clerk in the HeraldsCollege, 1833; barrister, Inner Temple, 1851; Somerset herald, 1854; edited Debrett and Sir Harris Nicolas's peerages.
Nathaniel Courthopp: '''Nathaniel Courthopp''' (d. [[1620]]), sea-captain ; entered the East India Company's service, 1609; held captive by the Turks at Aden and Mocha; agent in Borneo; held Pulo Roon against the Dutch, 1616-20; killed in action.
Courtney: '''Courtney'''
Edward Courtney: '''Edward Courtney''' ([[1599]] ?-[[1677]]), Jesuit; real name LEEDES; born in Sussex; educated at St. Omer and Rome; joined the Jesuits, 1621; political prisoner in London, 1634; rector of the colleges at St. Omer, Rome, and Liege; published Latin complimentary speeches, 1621-56, and a memoir of Peter Wright, Jesuit.
Kenton Couse: '''Kenton Couse''' ([[1721]]-[[1790]]), architect ; employed by the board of works; designed Richmond bridge, 1774
John Cousen: '''John Cousen''' ([[1804]]-[[1880]]), line-engraver of landscapes: pupil of John Scott; much employed as a bookillustrator; engraved largely after Turner.
Samuel Cousins: '''Samuel Cousins''' ([[1801]]-[[1887]]), mezzotint engraver ; apprentice (1814) and assistant to S. W. Reynolds; engraved on his own account, 1826-83; instituted a fund for the relief of indigent artists.
Coutances: '''Coutances''' (DE CONSTANTIIS), WALTER DB (d. 1207), statesman; one of Henry IPs clerks; styled chaplain of Blythe; rector of Woolpit, Suffolk; canon of Rouen, 1173; vice-chancellor of England, 1173; envoy to Flanders and to France, 1177; sealbearer to Henry II, 1180; bishop of Lincoln, 1183; archbishop of Rouen, 1184; ambassador to France, 1186 and 1188; took the cross, 1188; invested Richard I with the dukedom of Normandy, 1189; in attendance on Richard I in England and Sicily, 1189-90: sent back to govern England, 1191; took over Nottingham and other castles from Prince John; became chief justiciar (1191) in place of Longchamp, the chancellor; caused the bishop of Bath to be translated to Canterbury; caused Hubert Fitz Walter to be elected to Canterbury; drove Longchamp to Normandy and excommunicated him; made efforts to raise Richard I's ransom, 1193; joined Richard in Germany and became hostage for him, 1194; returned to Normandy, 1194; quarrelled with Richard for taking church land to build Chateau Gaillard, 1196; accepted com penRation; invested John with the dukedom of Normandy, 1199; invested Philip II of France with the dukedom, 1204.
John Coutts: '''John Coutts''' ([[1699]]-[[1751]]), merchant ; commission agent and bill negotiator, Edinburgh; lord provost, 17421744. *
Thomas Coutts: '''Thomas Coutts''' ([[1735]]-[[1822]]), founder and, [[1778]], sole partner of the London banking firm, Ooutts & Co.; fourth son of John Ooutts
Morgan Cove: '''Morgan Cove''' ([[1763]] ?-[[1830]]), divine ; LL.B. Cambridge, 1776; D.O.L. Oxford, 1810; rector of EatonBishop, Herefordshire, 1799; prebendary of Hereford, 1800; published pamphlets on tithe, 1795 and 1800.
Covell Covel: '''Covell Covel''' , or COLVELL, JOHN ([[1638]]-[[1722]]), traveller; B.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1658; fellow; M.A., 1661; chaplain at Constantinople, 1670-6; collected plants; visited Asia Minor, 1677; travelled in Italy, 1677-9; D.D., 1679; rector of Littlebury, Essex, 1680, and of Kegworth, lyeicestcrshirc, 1681; chaplain to the Princess of Orange at the Hague, 1681-5; chancellor of York, 1687; master of Christ's College, Cambridge, 1688; published an account of the Greek church, 1722; his manuscript travels preserved in the British Museum.
William Covell: '''William Covell''' (. [[1614]] ?), sub-dean of Lincoln ; fellow of QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1589; D.D., 1601; beneficed in Kent; sub-dean and prebendary of Lincoln; wrote in defence of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity 1603, and of church ceremonies, 1604-6.

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Andrew Coventry: '''Andrew Coventry''' ([[1764]]-[[1832]]), agriculturist; educated at Edinburgh University; member of Medical Society, 1782; M.D., 1783; first professor of agriculture at Edinburgh, 1790-1831; frequently arbitrated on land questions; published works on agricultural subjects.
Anne Coventry: '''Anne Coventry''' , OOUXTHW OF ([[1673]]-[[1763]]), author of Meditations and Reflections 1707; daughter of the first Duke of Beaufort; married, e. 1700, Thomas, second earl of Coventry (d. 1710).
Anne Coventry: '''Anne Coventry''' , COUNTKSS . OP ([[1690]]-[[1788]]), ntfe Masters; married Gilbert, fourth earl of Coventry (d. 1719), and 1725, Edward Pytts; obtained a verdict in her favour, 1724, with reference to a settlement made on her first marriage.
Francis Coventry: '''Francis Coventry''' ([[1598]]-[[1680]]). See DAVEX-
Christopher Port: '''Christopher Port''' .
Francis Coventry: '''Francis Coventry''' (f. [[1759]]?), verse-writer; M.A. Cambridge, 1752; incumbent of Edgware; published verses and satires, 1750-3.
Henry Coventry: '''Henry Coventry''' ([[1619]]-1 [[686]]), secretary of state ; a younger son of Thomas, first baron Coventry; fellow of All SoulsCollege, Oxford; B.O.L., 1638; attended Charles II in exile; envoy to Sweden, 1664-6 and 1671, and to Holland, 1667; secretary of state, 1672-9.
Henry Coventry: '''Henry Coventry''' (f. [[1752]]), fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge: M.A., 1733: published a theological work,Philemon to Hydaspes 1736-44.
Sir John Coventry: '''Sir John Coventry''' (d. [[1682]]), after whom the Coventry Act against mutilation was named; M.P., Evesham, 1640; unseated as a royalist, 1645: K.B., 1661; M.P., Weymouth, 1667-82; waylaid by ruffians and his nose slit, 21 Dec. 1670, for having alluded to Charles IPs relations with actresses.
John Coventry: '''John Coventry''' ([[1735]]-[[1812]]), maker of telescopes and hygrometers.
Maria Coventry: '''Maria Coventry''' , COUNTESS OF ([[1733]]-[[1760]]), daughter of a poor Irish squire; a famous beauty in London, 1751; married, 1752, George William, sixth earl of Coventry.
Sir Thomas Coventry: '''Sir Thomas Coventry''' ([[1647]]-[[1606]]), judge; B.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1565; fellow, 1666; barrister, Inner Temple; serjeant-at-law, 1603; justice of the common pleas and knighted, 1606. xii. 360}
Thomas Coventry: '''Thomas Coventry''' , first BARON COVENTRY (1578-1640), lord-keeper; eldest son of Sir Thomas Coventry ; entered Balliol College, Oxford, 1692; barrister, Inner Temple, 1603; recorder of London, 1616; solicitorgeneral and knighted, 1617; attorney-general, 1621: M.P., Droitwich, 1621: lord-keeper, 1625; opened the parliaments of February 1626 and March 1628: created Baron Coventry of Aylesborough, 1628; tried to mediate between Charles I and the parliamentary leaders, 1629; judge of Star-chamber; assented to the levying of shipmoney, 1634.
Walter of Coventry: '''Walter of Coventry''' (. [[1293]] ?), reputed author of an historical compilation, Memoriale of value for the period 1199-1225; possibly a monk of York.
William of Coventry: '''William of Coventry''' (ft. [[1360]]). See WIL-
Liam: '''Liam'''
Sir William Coventry: '''Sir William Coventry''' ([[1628]] P-[[1686]]), politician : n younger son of Thomas, first baron Coventry; entered Queen's College, Oxford, 1642; captain of foot in Charles I's service; withdrew to France; secretary to the Duke of York, 1660-7; M.P., Great Yarmouth, 16611679; commissioner of the navy, 1C62, and so friend of
Coverdale: '''Coverdale'''
Cowper: '''Cowper''' Samuel Pepys: kniphted, 1665; spoke against Clarendon, 1667; quarrelled with Buckingham: imprisoned, 1668; published pamphlets, 1673 and 1685; reputed author of Character of a Trimmer published 1688.
Miles Coverdale: '''Miles Coverdale''' ([[1488]]-[[1568]]), translator of the bible; studied at Cambridge (bachelor of canon law 1631); ordained priest, 1514; resident in the Austin friary, Cambridge, 1514-26: friend of Thomas Cromwell ; adopted Lutheran views; assisted Robert Barnes in his defence on a charge of heresy, 1626; preached against images; went abroad; published translations of two theological tracts, 1534; translated at Antwerp, apparently in the pay of Jacob van Meteren, the bible and Apocrypha from German (Zurich, 1531), and from Latin versions with aid of Tyndale's New Testament; his translation first printed perhaps by Christopher Froschouer of Zurich, and brought into Englauc by James Nicolson of South wark, 1635; modified his version. 1537; translated theological tracts, 1537; superintended the printing of the 1539Great Bibleat Paris, 1838-9, and in London, 1539; superintended Cranmer's Bible 1640; publishedGoostly Psalmes translations from German hymns, e. 1540; went abroad, 1540; D.D TUbingen; pastor and schoolmaster at Bergzabern in Deux- Fonts, 1543-7, under the name of Michael Anglus returned to England, 1548; employed to preach against anabaptists, 1549-50, and the Devonshire insurgents, 1551, and to visit Magdalen College, Oxford, 1551; translated theological tracts, 1550; bishop of Exeter, 1551-3 allowed to leave England, 1554; returned to Bergzabern. in Geneva, 1558; returned to England: joined in the consecration of Archbishop Parker, 1559; D.D. Cambridge, 1563; published Letters of Saintes his last book, 1564; rector of St. Magnus, London Bridge, 1563; resigned for puritanical reasons, 1566; preached privately in London, 1567-8; his collected works published, 1844-6.
James Coward: '''James Coward''' ([[1824]]-[[1880]]), .organist ; chorister of Westminster Abbey; organist at Lambeth and other churches; organist of the Crystal Palace; composed glees, songs, and other music.
William Coward: '''William Coward''' ([[1657]] ?-[[1725]]). physician; scholar of Wadhain College, Oxford, 1675; fellow of Merton, 1680; M.D., 1687; practitioner in Northampton, and, 1693-1706, in London; published medical tracts; rendered notorious by his Second Thoughts concerning Human Soul 1702, arguing its mortality,The Grand Essay 1704, andThe Just Scrutiny and Ophthalmoiatria 1706, deistical pamphlets; published didactic poems, 1705 and 1709.
William Coward: '''William Coward''' (d. [[1738]]), London merchant and Jamaica planter; provided funds for courses of nonconformist sermons in London, 1730-5; bequeathed money for the education of nonconformist ministers,
Gowden: '''Gowden''' -CLARKE, See CLAKKE, CHARLES Cow-
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John Cowell: '''John Cowell''' ([[1554]]-[[1611]]), civilian ; educated at Eton, and, 1570, King's College, Cambridge; LL.D.; advocate of DoctorsCommons, 1584; regius professor of civil law, Cambridge, 1594-1610; master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1698-1611; vicar-general of the archbishop of Canterbury, 1608; published Institutiones Juris Anglicani 1605, and "The Interpreter a law dictionary, 1607, censured for its absolutist opinions, 1610.
Joseph Leathley Cowell: '''Joseph Leathley Cowell''' ([[1792]]-[[1863]]), actor; real name, HAWKINS VnrnKrr; midshipman, royal navy, 1805-9; first appeared (1812) on the Plymouth stage; acted in London and the provinces till 1821; scene-painter; acted in the United States, 1821-46; published an autobiography, 1844.
Samuel Houghton Cowell: '''Samuel Houghton Cowell''' ([[1820]]-[[1864]]), actor ; son of Joseph Leathley Cowell; taken to America, 1822; appeared on the stage at Boston, 1829; acted in most American theatres: came to Edinburgh and became a favourite comic singer between acts: acted in London, Glasgow, Belfast, and Dublin; confined himself latterly to character singing wrote songs,
Sir Joseph Cowen: '''Sir Joseph Cowen''' ([[1800]]-[[1873]]), radical M.P. for Newcastle, 1865-73.
Joseph Cowen: '''Joseph Cowen''' ([[1831]]-[[1900]]), politician and jouruuliat; ecu of Sir Joseph Cowcu; educated at Edin burgh University; interested himself in revolutionary movements on the continent, 18-18, and became active supporter of chartists and member of northern reform league (founded 1858); contributor to, and subsequently was proprietor and editor of, Newcastle Chronicle; established monthly Northern Tribune libenil M.P. for Newcastle, 1873-85.
William Cowen: '''William Cowen''' (Jl. [[1811]]-[[1860]]), painUr and etcher; sketched in Great Britain,.Switzerland, Italy, i and (1840) Corsica; exhibited landscapes, 1811-60; published etchings, 1817-48; wrote Six Weeks in Corsica j 1848.
William Cowherd: '''William Cowherd''' ([[1763]]-[[1816]]), founder of the Bible Christians or Cowherdites; tutor in a dissenting academy; Swedenborgian preacher in Manchester; built a chapel in Salford, in which he preached as a Swedenborgian, 1800-9, but afterwards founded a new church, requiring vegetarianism and teetotalism; opened a boarding school, 1810; a dispensing chemist, known as Dr. Cowherd; published hymns for the use of his sect.
Benjamin Morgan Cowle: '''Benjamin Morgan Cowle''' ([[1816]]-[[1900]]), dean of Exeter; senior wrangler, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1839; M.A., 1842; B.D., 1855; D.D., 1880; fellow, 1839-43; entered Lincoln's Inn, 1837; ordained priest, 1842; principal ami senior mathematical lecturer at college for civil engineers, Putney, 1844-51; select preacher at Cambridge, 1852 and 1866; Hulsean lecturer, 1853 and 1854; professor of geometry, Gresham College, London, 1855; fifth minor canon and succentor of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1856; rector of St. Lawrence Jewry, 1857; chaplain in ordinary to the queen, 1871; dean of Manchester, 1872, and of Exeter, 1883; published religious works.
Robert Cowie: '''Robert Cowie''' ([[1842]]-[[1874]]), author of ' Shetland, Descriptive and Historical; M.A. Aberdeen; M.D. Edinburgh; practitioner in Lerwick.
Cowley: '''Cowley''' first EARL ([[1804]]-[[1884]]). See WELLESLEY,
Richabd Charles Henry: '''Richabd Charles Henry''' .
Baron Cowley: '''Baron Cowley''' ([[1773]]-[[1847]]). See WKI.LKMLEY,
Henry: '''Henry'''
Abraham Cowley: '''Abraham Cowley''' ([[1618]]-[[1667]]), poet: kin-'? scholar at Westminster; publishedPoetical Blossoms 1633, and Sylva 1636; scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1637; fellow, 1640; M.A., 1642; published Love's Riddle a pastoral drama, 1638; brought out, at Cambridge, Naufragiuui Joculare a Latin comedy, 1638, and The Guardian a comedy, 1641; ejected by the parliament, 1644; resided in St. John's College, Oxford; went to France, 1646; publishedThe Mistress poems, 1647, andMiscellanies with other poems, including four books of the Davideis a sacred epic, 1656; cipher secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria, c. 1647; royalist spy in England, 1666; M.D. Oxford, 1667; withdrew to France; published odes on the Restoration and against Cromwell, 1660-1; was refused the mastership of the Savoy, 1661; P.R.S.; published Verses upon several Occasions 1663: a competence provided for him by Earl of St. Albans and Dukeof Buckingham; his collected works published 1668.
Hannah Cowley: '''Hannah Cowley''' ([[1743]]-[[1809]]), dramatist; mfe Parkhouse; married, c. 1768; brought out thirteen dramatic pieces, 1776-95, includingThe Belle's Stratagem 1782; published poems, 1780-94; contributed weekly sentimental verses to the World as Anna Matilda
Cowper: '''Cowper'''
Sir Charles Cowper: '''Sir Charles Cowper''' ([[1807]]-[[1876]]), Australian statesman; son of William Cowper (1780-1858); born in Lancashire: government clerk in New South Wales, 1825-33; sheep farmer; uiemtjer of the legislature, c. 1843; advocated colonial railways, 1846; opposed further transportation of convicts, 1850; several times minister, 1856-70: agent-general for New South Wales, 1870: knighted, 1872.
Douglas Cowper: '''Douglas Cowper''' ([[1817]]-[[1839]]), painter; artstudent in London;exhibited, 1837-9.
Ebenezer Cowper: '''Ebenezer Cowper''' ( [[1804]]-[[1880]]), manufacturer of printing machines in partnership with his brother Edward Cowper
Oowper: '''Oowper''' 289
Cox: '''Cox'''
Edward Cowper: '''Edward Cowper''' ([[1790]]-[[1852]]), inventor; patented a wall-paper printing machine, J816; a printer, 1818: patented process for Hinmltaneoii.-ly printing both sides of paper, 1818; invented, jointly with Augustus AppleL'arth, the newspaperfour-cylinderpress, 1827.
Henry Cowper: '''Henry Cowper''' ([[1758]]-[[1840]]), lawyer ; barrister, Middle Temple, 1775; published law report*, 1783; clerk of the House of Lords.
Mary Cowper: '''Mary Cowper''' , first OoVNTKBS COWPKR ([[1685]]1724), nfe Olavering; married William, first earl Cowper q. v.l, 1706; lady of the bedchamber to the Princess of Wales, 1714; her diary published, 1864.
Spencer Cowper: '''Spencer Cowper''' ([[1669]]-[[1727]]), judge; educated at Westminster; barrister; controller of the Bridge House estates, 1690; acquitted of the murder of Sarah Stout of Hertford, 1699; M.P., Beeralston, 1705, 1708, Truro, 1711; chief- Justice of Chester, 1717; justice of common pleas, 1727

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Spencer Cowper: '''Spencer Cowper''' ([[1713]]-[[1774]]), dean of Durham, 1746-74; youngest son of William, first earl Cowper ; M.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1734; D.D., 1746; rector of Fordwich, Kent; published sermons.
Cowper: '''Cowper''' or COUPER, WILLIAM ([[1568]]-[[1619]]), bishop of Galloway; M.A. St. Andrews, 1583; usher at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire; minister of Bothkennar, Stirlingshire. 1587, and at Perth, 1595; assented to episcopacy, 1608; dean of the Chapel Royal, Edinburgh, and bishop of Galloway, 1612-19; published devotional tracts, 1611-18; bis works published, 1623.
Cowper: '''Cowper''' or COOPER, WILLIAM ([[1666]]-[[1709]]), surgeon; surgeon's apprentice in London, 1682; qualified as a surgeon, 1691; practised in London; F.R.S., 1696; published (1694) Myotomia Reforuiata a treatise on the muscles, and (1698) The Anatomy of Humane Bodies; defended himself, 1701, against Godefridus Bid loo, a Leyden professor; published, 1702, a description ofOowper's glands; contributed to medical journals.
William Cowper: '''William Cowper''' , first EARL COWPEK (d. [[1723]]), barrister, Middle Temple, 1688; volunteered for the Prince of Orange, November 1688; recorder of Colchester, 1694; M.P n Hertford, 1695 and 1698, Beeralston, 1701; crown prosecutor, 1694-9; lord-keeper, 1705; a commissioner for the union with Scotland, April 1706; succeeded as second baronet, 1706; created Baron Oowper, November 1706; first lord chancellor of Great Britain, May 1707-September 1710; presided at Sacheverell's trial, 1710; spoke in the whig interest in the Lordsdebates, 1711-14; helped to dismiss Bolingbroke from the secretaryship of state, 1714; again lord chancellor, 1714-18; wrote out a description of English parties for George I's guidance, 1714; presided at the trial of the Earl of Winton for rebellion, 1716; supported the Mutiny bill, 1718; created Earl Oowper, 1718; took a leading part in the Lordsdebates, 1718-23.
William Cowper: '''William Cowper''' ([[1701]]-[[1767]]), antiquary; studied medicine at Leyden, 1719; medical practitioner at Chester; published a life of St. Werburgh, 1749, and II Penseroso: an Evening's Contemplation in... Chester 1767; left manuscript collections relating to Chester and Cheshire.
William Cowper: '''William Cowper''' ([[1731]]-[[1800]]), poet ; son of John Oowper, rector of Great Berkhampstead; barbarously treated at a private school, 1737-8, in Hertfordshire: at Westminster School, 1741-9; articled to a solicitor, 17601752; took chambers in the Middle Temple, 1752; first attacked by melancholia, c. 1753; barrister. Middle Temple, 1754; proposed to marry his cousin, Theodora Jane Oowper (d. 1824), but his Intention frustrated by her father, who had noticed Cowper's morbidity, 1756; contributed verses to various papers, 1756-61; a commissioner of bankrupts, 1759-64; offered a clerkship of the House of Lords by his cousin, William Oowper, clerk of the parliaments, 1763; thrown into a nervous fever by fear of opposition to his appointment; tried to commit suicide; an inmate of Nathaniel Cotton's private asylum, 1763-5; a boarder in Morley Unwin's house at Huntingdon, 1765; ceased corresponding with his cousin Harriet (d. 1807), wife of Sir Thomas Hesketh, in consequence of her indifference to his new pietistic zeal; removed with Mary, Morley Unwin's widow, to Olney, 1767; lay-reader and district visitor to John Newton, the evangelical curate of Olney; composed hymns (sixty-seven appearing i in Newton'sOluey Hymns 1779); became engaged to I Mrs. Unwin; again deranged, 1773; a guest in Newton's i house, 1773-4; recovered before 1776; acquainted with William Bull; wrote much verse, 1777-81; publishedAnti-Thelyphthora 1781, against hia cousiu Martin Madan's Thelyphthora *; published poems, 1782; at the suggestion of Ann (d. 1802), widow of Sir Robert I Austen, wrote John GUpin November 1782, and The Task 1783; quarrelled, through Mrs. Uuwiu's jealousy, with Lady Austen, 1784; began to translate Homer, 1784; resumed his correspondence with Lady Hesketh, October 1786; again became insane, 1787, and never entirely recovered; published his translation of Homer by subscription, 1791; undertook to edit Milton; received a government pension, 1794; removal by his cousin, John Johnson, with Mrs. Unwiu (d. 1796), to East Dereham, Norfolk, 1796; wrote The Castaway 1798. His life was ; written by William Hayley, 1803; his Milton papers pub1 lished, 1808-10, his letters, 1824, and hiscomplete works 1834-7.
William Cowper: '''William Cowper''' ([[1780]]-[[1858]]), Australian divine ; born in Lancashire; incumbent of St. Philip's, Sydney, 1809; archdeacon, 1848.
Cowper: '''Cowper''' (afterwards COWPER- TEMPLE), WIL-
Francis Liam: '''Francis Liam''' , BAROX MOUNT-TKMPLK ([[1811]]-[[1888]]), educated at Eton; cornet In royal horse guards, 1827; lieutenant, 1832; brevet major, 1852; M.P. for Hertford, 1835-63, and South Hampshire, 1868-80; junior lord of treasury, 1841; lord of admiralty, 1846-52, and 1852-5; under-secretary for home affairs, 1855; president of board of health and privy councillor, 1855; vice-president of committee of council on education, 1857-8, and of board of trade, 1859; commissioner of works, 1860-6; raised to peerage, 1880.
Robert Cowton: '''Robert Cowton''' (ft. [[1300]]), Franciscan ; educated at Oxford and Paris; D.D. of the Sorbonne; confessor in Oxfordshire, 1300; wrote scholastic treatises; traditionally known as doctor amoeuus
Cox: '''Cox'''
Captain Cox: '''Captain Cox''' , of Coventry (ft. [[1575]]), collector of ballads and romances; present at Keuil worth on Queen Elizabeth's visit, 1575.
Anne Cox: '''Anne Cox''' ([[1766]]-[[1830]]).
Coxe Cox: '''Coxe Cox''' , or COCESS, BENJAMIN (ft. [[1646]]), baptist minister; entered Christ Church, Oxford, 1609; M.A. Broadgates Hall, 1617; beneficed in Devonshire; retracted puritan opinions, 1639; baptist preacher at Bedford; imprisoned at Coventry, 1643; baptist preacher in London, 1645; conformed, 1662; again became a baptist; published controversial tracts, 1645-6.
Daniel Cox: '''Daniel Cox''' (d. [[1750]]), physician; M.D. St. Andrews, 1742; physician to the Middlesex Hospital, 17461749; published medical tracts.
David Cox: '''David Cox''' ([[1783]]-[[1859]]), landscape-painter in water-colours; son of a Birmingham blacksmith; taught drawing by Joseph Barber; apprenticed to a Birmingham locket-painter; assistant to De Maria, an Italian scene-painter; scene-painter in London, 1804; sold sketches of Thames scenery near London; sketched in Wales, 1805-6; drawing-master at Dulwich; drawn for the militia, and forced to leave home; went to Hastings, 1812, and sketched in oils; drawing-master at Hereford, 1 814-26, making summer sketching-tours; began to etch on copper, 1812: published A Treatise on Landscape Painting 1814,Lessons in Landscape 1816, Views of Bath 1820, and Young ArtistsCompanion 1826: taught by W. J. MUller to paint in oils, 1839; removed to neighbourhood of Birmingham, 1841, visiting Bettws-y-Ooed yearly (1844-56); his merits unrecognised during his lifetime.
David Cox: '''David Cox''' , the younger ([[1809]]-[[1886]]), water-colour painter; only child of David Cox (1783-1869); educated at Hereford; exhibited in London, 1827.
Edward William Cox: '''Edward William Cox''' ([[1809]]-[[1879]]% serjeant-atlaw; educated at Taunton; published verses, 1829-30: barrister, Middle Temple, 1843; proprietor and conductor of the Law Times 1843-79, the County Courts Chronicle 1846, theField theQueen 1861, and other periodicals; recorder of Falmoutb, 1857-68: M.P., 1865; U cox 290
Cozens: '''Cozens''' serjeant-at-law. 1868; recorder of Portsmouth, 1868-79; publishal law reports and legal treatises, 1846-78, political pamphlets, 1852-66, and spiritualistic pamphlets, 1877-8.
Francis Augustus Cox: '''Francis Augustus Cox''' ([[1783]]-[[1853]]), baptist preacher; a wealthy man: M.A. Edinburgh; baptist minister in Northamptonshire, 1806, and at Hackney, 1811-53; honorary LL.D. Glasgow, 1824; librarian of London University, 1828; published biographical and biblical works.
George Valentine Cox: '''George Valentine Cox''' ([[1786]]-[[1875]]), author of Recollections of Oxford 1868: M.A. New College, Oxford, 1808; an esquire bedell of Oxford University, 18061866; published a norel, 1837, and translations of German works ou ancient history, 1845-51.
Leonard Cox: '''Leonard Cox''' (fl. [[1572]]), schoolmaster ; B.A. Cambridge: asked M.A. at Oxford, 1530; schoolmaster at Reading, 1541-6; travelled: taught school at Caerleon; schoolmaster at Coventry, 1672; published Rhetoryke,* 1524, a grammatical tract, 1540, and translations.
Richard Cox: '''Richard Cox''' ([[1500]]-[[1581]]), bishop of Ely : educated at Eton: fellow of King's College, Cambridge: B.A., 1524; canon of Wolsey's Oxford college, 1526; M.A. Oxford, 1526; head-master of Eton; D.D. Cambridge, 1537; favourite of Archbishop Cranmer; prebendary of Lincoln, 1642-7; lord almoner; tutor to Prince Edward, 1644-50; dean of Osney, 1544, and of Christ Church, Oxford, 1547-53; vice-chancellor of Oxford, 1547-52, destroying popish statues, pictures, and books; rector of Harrow, 1547; canon of Windsor, 1548; on the commission to draw up the English liturgy, 1 548-50; dean of Westminster, 1549; imprisoned, 1553; in exile, 1554-8, chiefly living at Frankfort, where he led the opposition to John Knox: one of the commission to visit Oxford University, 1559; bishop of Norwich, 1559: bishop of Ely, 1559-80; alienated much property of the see to court favourites; resigned, 1580.
Cox: '''Cox''' Sin RICHARD ([[1650]]-[[1733]]), Irish judge; a strong protestunt; an Irish attorney; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1673; practised law in Ireland; withdrew to Bristol, 1685; wrote in favour of the Prince of Orange, 1689; published a trite history of Ireland, 1689-90; present at the Boy ne, 1690; justice of the common pleas, 1690; military governor of Cork, 1691-2; Irish privy councillor and knighted, 1 692; removed from the privy council for urging observance of the treaty of Limerick, 1695; published pamphlets on Irish affairs, 1696-8; chief-justice of the common pleas, 1701-3: lord chancellor, 1703-7; created baronet, 1706; publishal theological tracts, 17091713; chief-justice of the queen's bench, 1711-14.
Robert Cox: '''Robert Cox''' ([[1810]]-[[1872]]X anti-Sabbatarian writer ; writer to the signet, Edinburgh; edited thePhrenological Journal advocated Sunday trains, 1850; published treatises on the Sabbath question, 1853-65.

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Samuel Cox: '''Samuel Cox''' ([[1826]]-[[1893]]), theological writer; apprenticed at London docks: studied for baptist ministry at Stepney College; pastor of baptist chapel, St. Paul's Square, Southsea, 1852, at Ryde, 1854-9, and at Mansfield Road, Nottingham, 1863-88; contributed to religious periodicals; editor of the Expositor 1875-84; D.D. St. Andrews, 1882; published numerous theological works, of which the most influential wasSalvator Mundi 1877.
Thomas Cox: '''Thomas Cox''' (d. [[1734]]), topographer; rector of Ohignal-Smealy, 1680-1704: vicar of Broomfleld, 16851734, and rector of Stock- Harvard, Essex, 1703-34; published translations ami sermons, 1694-1726; edited a meritorious recension of Camden's Britannia 1720-31. CpX, WALTER (1770-1837), Irish journalist; a Dublin gunsmith; edited two violent newspapers, The Union Star 1797, andIrish Magazine 1807-16; pensioned; resident in New York, 1816, and France, 1820; forfeited his pension by returning to Irelrnd, 1835.
William Sands Cox: '''William Sands Cox''' ([[1802]]-[[1876]]),iurgeon ; studied medicine in Birmingham, London, 1821-3, and Paris, 1824; lectured on anatomy in Birmingham, 1825; joint* founder of the Birmingham School of Medicine, 1828, the Queen's Hospital, 1841, and Queen's College, Birmingham, 1843; publishal medical treatises.
Francis Coxe: '''Francis Coxe''' (ft. 15CO), quack doctor ; for sorcery, 1561; published an Unfained Retrartat'on. 1 I another pamphlet against necromancy, and, 1575,lie oleis... conficiendis a volume of receipts.
Henry Octavius Coxe: '''Henry Octavius Coxe''' ([[1811]]-[[1881]]), palirogra pher; educated at Westminster; M.A. Worcester College, I Oxford, 1836; assistant in the manuscript department, British Museum, 1833; sub-librarian, 1838, and librarian, 1860-81, of the Bodleian Library; made an archaeological tour in the Levant, 1857; rector of Wytliain, Berkshire, 1868; edited historical manuscripts, 1840-50; catalogued manuscripts in the Bodleian and Oxford college libraries, 1852-4; superintended cataloguing of Bodleian printed books, 1859-80.
Coxe: '''Coxe''' or COCKIS, JOHN ( fl. [[1572]]), translator of some treatises by Bullinger..
Peter Coxe: '''Peter Coxe''' (d. [[1844]]), poet; a London auctioneer; published pamphlets and verses, 1807-23.
Coxe: '''Coxe''' or COX, RICHARD (rf. [[1596]]), divine; B.A. Cambridge, 1582; M.A. Oxford, 1584; rector of Diss, Norfolk, 1589; published a catechism, 1591, and sermon*.
Richard Charles Coxe: '''Richard Charles Coxe''' ([[1800]]-[[1865]]), divine; j M.A. Oxford, 1824; vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1841; I vicar of Eglingham and archdeacon of Lindisfarne, 1853; canon of Durham, 1857; published sermons and verses.
Thomas Coxe: '''Thomas Coxe''' ([[1615]]-[[1685]]), physician in the parliamentary army: M.A. Cambridge, 1638: M.D. Padua, 1641; F.O.P., 1649; died, a bankrupt, in France.
William Coxe: '''William Coxe''' ([[1747]]-[[1828]]), historian ; educated at Eton; fellow, King's College, Cambridge, 1768; M.A., 1772; occasionally travelled, as tutor, on the continent; vicar of Kingston-on-Thame?, 1786-8; rector of Bemerton, 1788-1828, holding also other benefices; archdeacon of Wiltshire, 1804; published notes of travel, 1779-1801; compiled memoirs of the House of Austria, 1807, of the Spanish Bourbons, 1813, of Walpole, 1798, Marlborough, 1818-19, Shrewsbury, 1821, and Henry Pelham, posthumously published, 1829.
Thomas Coxeter: '''Thomas Coxeter''' ([[1689]]-[[1747]]), literary antiquary ; enteral Trinity College, Oxford, 1705, collected old English plays; forged titles of plays; "his name attached to a worthless edition of Massinger, 1759.
Thomas Coxon: '''Thomas Coxon''' (fl. [[1609]]-[[1636]]).
Thomas Coxon: '''Thomas Coxon''' ([[1654]]-[[1735]]), Jesuit; born in Durham; joined the Jesuit?, 1676; mission priest in England, 1695-1724; died at St. Omer.
Henry Coxwell: '''Henry Coxwell''' (TRACEY) ([[1819]]-[[1900]]), aeronaut; apprenticed as surgeon-dentist, 1836; made his first balloon ascent, 1844; projected and editedThe Balloon 1845; entrusted with management of a balloon at Brussels, 1848, and subsequently made ascents in British Islands and on the continent; attained, 1862, with Dr. James Glaisher, F.R.S., with whom he had made meteorological observations, greatest height on record (about seven miles); managed war balloons for the Germans in Franco-German war, 1870; made his. last ascent, 1885; published My Life and Balloon Experiences 1887-9.
Joseph Stirling Coyne: '''Joseph Stirling Coyne''' ([[1803]]-[[1868]]), dramatist; journalist in Dublin; brought out three farces in Dublin, 1835-6; settled as journalist in London, 1836; wrote nearly sixty dramatic pieces.
William Beeston Coyte: '''William Beeston Coyte''' ([[1741]] 7-[[1810]]), botanist; M.B. Cambridge, 1763: medical practitioner in Ipswich; published botanical tracts, 1785-1807.
Alexander Cozens: '''Alexander Cozens''' (d. [[1786]]), landscape-painter in water-colours; born in Russia; reputal son of Peter the Great; studied art in Italy; settled in England, 1746; exhibited, 1760-81: drawing-master at Eton, 1763-8; published tracts on art, 1771-85.
John Robert Cozens: '''John Robert Cozens''' ([[1752]]-[[1799]]), landscapepainter in water-colours; son of Alexander Cozens; exhibited, 1767; made sketching tour in Switzerland, 1776 and Italy; returned to England, 1782; insane, 1794-9.
Okab: '''Okab''' 291
Craio: '''Craio'''
Roger Crab: '''Roger Crab''' ([[1621]] ?-[[1680]]), ascetic; hocamc a. vegetariun ami watrr-rlrinkor, 1641; in the parliamentary army, 1642-9; hatter at Gheabam, 1649-51; quack doctor near Uxbridge; imprisoned in London, 1665; vulgarly said to have foretold the Restoration and the accession of William of Orange; published an autobiography, 1655, and tracts against the Quakers.
George Crabb: '''George Crabb''' ([[1778]]-[[1851]]), miscellaneous writer; studied German at Bremen, 1801; published German textbooks; entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1814; M.A., 1822; barrister, Inner Temple, 1829; compiled technical and historical dictionaries and published law treatises.
Habakkuk Crabb: '''Habakkuk Crabb''' ([[1750]]-[[1794]]), congregational minister; educated at Daventry academy, 1766; minister at Stowmarket, 1772-6, subsequently in other towns; hold Arian opinions; his sermons published posthumously, 1796.
James Crabb: '''James Crabb''' ([[1774]]-[[1851]]), Wesleyan methodist; private schoolmaster at Romsey, and preacher at Southampton; missionary to the New Forest gipsies; promoted Southampton educational charities.

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George Crabbe: '''George Crabbe''' ([[1754]]-[[1832]]), poet ; born at Aideburgh, Suffolk; mostly self-taught; worked in a warehouse; servant to a country doctor, 1768-75; met Sarah Elmy, his future wife, 1771; published verses, 1772-5; studied botany and surgery; practised surgery at Aideburgh; went to London and published the.Candidate 1780; befriended by Edmund Burke; published the 'Library 1781; curate of Aldeburgh, 1781; chaplain at Belvoir to the Duke of Rutland, 1782-5; published the Village 1783; beneficed, but non-resident, in Dorset; LL.B. Lambeth; curate at Stathern, Leicestershire, 1785; published theNewspaper 1785; rector of Muston, Leicestershire, and non-resident vicar of Allington, Lincolnshire, 1789; inherited property; wrote, and burned, novels and a treatise on botany; absented himself for many years from Muston rectory; recalled thither by the bishop, 1805; published the Parish Register 1807; the Borough 1810, and Tales in Verse 1812; resident rector of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1814-32, and non-resident vicar of Oroxton, Leicestershire; published Tales of the Hall,* 1819; visited Edinburgh, 1822; his collected works published, 1834.
George Crabbe: '''George Crabbe''' ([[1785]]-[[1857]]), biographer ; son of George Orabbe (1754-1832); B.A. Cambridge, 1807; vicar of Bredfield, Suffolk, 1834; published a life of his father, 1834.
Orabtree: '''Orabtree''' or KRABTREE, HENRY (fl. [[1685]]), astrologer; published an almanack, Merlinus Rusticus," 1685; curate of Todmorden, Lancashire.
William Orabtree: '''William Orabtree''' ([[1610]]-[[1644]]?), astronomer; educated at Manchester grammar school; a cloth merchant; studied astronomy: jointly with Jeremiah Horrox observed the transit of Venus, 1639.
Frederick Grace: '''Frederick Grace''' ([[1779]]-[[1859]]), architectural decorator in London; from 1818, collected maps (1560-1859) and views of London; his collections catalogued, 1878, and bought by the British Museum, 1880.
Clayton Mordaunt Craoherode: '''Clayton Mordaunt Craoherode''' ([[1730]]1799), bibliophile; entered Westminster School, 1742; student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1746-99; M.A., 1763; curate of Binsey; a great buyer of books from 1775; bequeathed his books and prints to British Museum.
Edward Cradock: '''Edward Cradock''' (. [[1571]]), alchemist: student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1552; M.A., 1559; D.D., 1565; Lady Margaret professor of divinity, 1565-94; published a devotional tract, The Shippe of Assured Safetie 1571; left manuscript treatises on the philosopher's stone.
John Cradock: '''John Cradock''' ([[1708]] ?-[[1778]]), archbishop of Dublin; fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge: B.A., 1728; D.D., 1749; rector of Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, and of St. Paul's, Covent Garden; chaplain to the lordlieutenant of Ireland, 1757; bishop of Kilmore, 1757; translated to Dublin, 1772; published sermons and charges.
Sir John Francis Cradock: '''Sir John Francis Cradock''' ([[1762]]-[[1839]]). See
Oaradoc: '''Oaradoc'''
Cradock: '''Cradock''' Ji-SEPlM 17-42-[[1820]]), author; ofUumley, Leicestershire, entered Kmmamicl College, Cambridge, 1769; honorary M.A-, 1766; a patron of the London stage; adapted Voltaire's Les Scythes 1771; published a pamphlet against John Wilkes, 1773, account of u tour in Wales, 1777, a tragedy, a novel, essays, and, 1:, Literary Memoirs
Marmaduke Cradock: '''Marmaduke Cradock''' ([[1660]]7-[[1716]]), wrongly called Luke painter; house-painter's apprentice in London: painted, without recognition, animals, birds, and still-life; some of his pictures engraved, 1743.
Matthew Cradock: '''Matthew Cradock''' (d. [[1641]]), first governor (1628-9) of the Massachusetts Company; London merchant; traded with East Indies, 1618; resigned governorship, 1629, to allow headquarters to be transfern-. 1 to New England; sent help to the colony, 1630-6; M.P., London, in Long parliament; opposed to the king.
Samuel Cradock: '''Samuel Cradock''' ([[1621]] ?-[[1706]]), congregational divine; fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1645-56; B.D., 1651; rector of North Cadbury, Somerset, 1656-62; inherited Geesings, Suffolk, 1662; kept a congregational chapel and academy there, 1672-96; congregational preacher near Bishop's Stortford, 1696-1706; published theological treatises, 1659-90.
Walter Cradock: '''Walter Cradock''' ([[1606]] 7-[[1659]]), congregational minister; curate at Cardiff and Wrexham: chaplain to Sir Robert Harley of Herefordshire; congregational minister at Llanvaches, Monmouthshire; preacher in London, 1646; published sermons, 1646-51; his works collected, 1800.
Zachary Cradock: '''Zachary Cradock''' ([[1633]]-[[1695]]), provost of Eton ; fellow of QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1654; chaplain at Lisbon, 1656; canon of Ohichester, 1670; fellow of Eton, 1671, and provost, 1681-95; published sermons.
William Craft: '''William Craft''' H. (*. [[1805]]?), enamel-painter; exhibited decorative and portrait enamels, 1774-95; employed at Battersea enamel works.
James Craggs: '''James Craggs''' , the elder ([[1657]]-[[1721]]), postmastergeneral; army clothier; imprisoned, 1695, for refusing a parliamentary commission access to his books; M.P., Grampound, 1702-13; member of committee, East India Company, 1702; secretary of the ordnance office till 1714; clerk of the deliveries; agent of Sarah, duchess of Marlborough; joint postmaster-general, 1715-20; accumulated great wealth; proceeded against for promoting the South Sea Company, 1721.
James Craggs: '''James Craggs''' , the younger ([[1686]]-[[1721]] ), secretary of state; younger son of James Craggs the elder; travelled; friend of George, elector of Hanover; M.P., 1713; secretary at war, 1717; secretarv of state, 1718; implicated in the South Sea Company scandal; friend of Alexander Pope.
Alexander Craig: '''Alexander Craig''' ([[1567]] 7-[[1627]]), poet ; M.A. St. Andrews, 1586; publishedPoetical Essayes flattering James I, 1604; pensioned, 1605; publishedAmorose Songes 1606, Poetical Recreations 1609 and 1623, and, posthumously,The Pilgrime and Heremite wrote commendatory verses in books; his works collected, 1873-4.
James Craig: '''James Craig''' (d. [[1795]]), architect ; of Edinburgh; published designs for laying out Edinburgh New Town, 1767; continued his architectural designs, 1786.
Sir James Gibson Craig: '''Sir James Gibson Craig''' ([[1765]]-[[1860]]), politician ; born James Gibson; took the name Craig on inheriting Riccarton, Midlothian, 1823; writer to the signet, Edinburgh, 1786-1850; an ardent whig; created baronet, 1831; opposed the disruption of the church, 1843.
Sir James Henry Craig: '''Sir James Henry Craig''' ([[1748]]-[[1812]]), general ; ensign, 1763; captain, 1771; served in North America, 1774-81; lieutenant-colonel, 1781; served in the Netherlands, 1794; major-general, 1794; took Cape Colony, 1795; governor at the Cape, 1795-7; K.B., 1797; in India, 17971802; lieutenant-general, 1801; commanded troops in Italy and Sicily, 1806-6; governor of Canada, 1807-11; general, 1812.
Craig: '''Craig''' 292
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James Thomson Gibson Craig: '''James Thomson Gibson Craig''' ([[1799]]-[[1886]]), antiquary; second son of Sir James Gibson Craig; educated at Edinburgh High School and University: writer to the signet, Edinburgh; book collector.
John Craig: '''John Craig''' ([[1512]]?-[[1600]]), Scottish divine; educated at St. Andrews; became a Dominican friar; im;r soned for adopting protestaut tenets, 1536; visited Cambridge; employed in Italy on Dominican missions; rector of the Dominican convent, Bologna; read Calvin's 'Institutes sentenced to death by the inquisition at Rome; escaped to Vienna, and, 1560, to England; minister at Holyrood, Edinburgh, 1561; John Knox's colleague in the High Church, Edinburgh, 1562-71; approved Rizzio's murder; protested against Mary Stuart's marriage with Both well; chaplain to James VI, 1579-94; urged the abolition of episcopacy, 1575-81, and opposed its restoration, 1584; offended the violent presbyteriaus, 1685; drew up, 1581, a confession of faith (the original of the Covenant, and a form for examination before communion, 1590.
John Craig: '''John Craig''' (rf. [[1620]]), physician ; third son of Sir Thomas Craig; M.D. Basle; physician to James VI, whom he accompanied to England; M.D. Oxford, 1605; corresponded with Tycho Brahe.
John Craig: '''John Craig''' (rf. [[1655]]), physician; son of John Craig (d. 1620); physician to James I; F.C.P.; M.D.; declared that James I had died by poison; physician to Charles I.
John Craig: '''John Craig''' (d. [[1731]]), mathematician ; prebendary of Salisbury, 1708; published mathematical treatises, 1685-1718.
Sir Lewis Craig: '''Sir Lewis Craig''' , LORD WRIGHTSLANDS ([[1569]]1622), Scottish judge; eldest son of Sir Thomas Craig ; M.A.Edinburgh, 1597; studied law at Poitiers; advocate, 1600; a lord of session and knighted, 1605.
Robert Craig: '''Robert Craig''' ([[1730]]-[[1823]]), Scottish advocate, 1764; a judge of the Edinburgh commissary court, 17561791; wrote in favour of the French democracy, 1795; Inherited Riccarton, Midlothian, 1814.
Sir Thomas Craig: '''Sir Thomas Craig''' ([[1538]]-1 [[608]]), Scottish feudalist; educated at St. Andrews; studied law at Paris, 1555-61; advocate, 1563; as justice-depute, presided over criminal trials, 1664-73; sheriff-depute of Edinburgh, 1573; knighted, 1603; published Jus Feudale 1603; attended James I to England, 1603; a commissioner for the union, 1604; wrote, but left unpublished, treatises in vindication of James VI's title to the English crown, against the English claim for homage from Scotland, and in favour of the union, 1603-6; advocate for the Scottish church, 1606; published complimentary Latin verses, 1566, 1603. -181
William Craig: '''William Craig''' , LORD CRAIG ([[1745]]-[[1813]]), Scottish jndge; educated at Edinburgh; advocate, 1768; sheritf -depute of Ayrshire, 1787; a lord of session, 17921813; contributed to the Mirror and Lounger
Sir William Gibson Craig: '''Sir William Gibson Craig''' ([[1797]]-[[1878]]), second baronet, of Riccarton, Midlothian; eldest son of Sir James Gibson Craig; advocate, 1820; travelled; M.P., Midlothian, 1837-42, and Edinburgh, 1842-52; lord clerk register, 1862-78.
William Marshall Craig: '''William Marshall Craig''' (. [[1788]]-[[1828]]), painter; exhibited miniature-portraits, landscapes in water-colours, and other paintings, 1788-1827; a popular book-illuHtrator; published manuals on drawing, 17931821.
Lord Craighall: '''Lord Craighall''' ([[1605]] ?-[[1654]]). See HOPE, SIR
John: '''John'''
David Oraigie: '''David Oraigie''' ([[1793]]-[[1866]]), physician; MJX Edinburgh, 1816; practitioner in Edinburgh; published Pathological Anatomy 1828, and other medical works.
Robert Craigie: '''Robert Craigie''' ([[1685]]-[[1760]]), Scottish judge; advocate, 1710; lord advocate, 1742; president of the court of session, 1764.
Mbs Crack: '''Mbs Crack''' . DINAH MARIA ([[1836]]-[[1887]]). See
Mclock: '''Mclock'''
George Lillie Craik: '''George Lillie Craik''' ([[1798]]-[[1866]]X author; studied divinity at St. Andrews; tutor, 1816; editor of the Star a local newspaper; wrote for Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; professor of English literature and history at Belfast, 1849-G6; chief orks, 'Spenser and his Poetry 1845, and The Pictorial History of England 1837-1841.
Richard Crakanthorpe: '''Richard Crakanthorpe''' ([[1567]]-[[1624]]), divine; student at Queen's College, Oxford; fellow, 1598; appointed one of the chaplains to Lord Evers, ambassador extraordinary to the emperor Rudolf II, c. 1603; admitted to the rectory of Black Notley, Essex, 1605, of Puu'lesham, 1617; defended with vigour and learning church of England against Antonio de Dominis; chief works,: * 'Defensio Ecclesise Anglicante(against De Dominis), 1625 (posthumously published), and Logicoe libri quinque de Praedicabilibus 1622.
Augustine David Crake: '''Augustine David Crake''' ([[1836]]-[[1890]]), devotional writer; B.A. London, 1864; second master and chaplain of All Saintsschool, Bloxham, 1865-78; vicar of St. Peter's, Haveustreet, Isle of Wight, 1879-86, of Cholsey, near Walliugford, 1885-90; published devotional works, and stories relating to church history, besides 'History of Church under Roman Empire," 1873.
William Crakelt: '''William Crakelt''' ([[1741]]-[[1812]]), classical scholar ; master of Northfleet grammar school; vicar of Chalk, 1774; edited Entick's Latin dictionaries and translated Mauduit'sNew Treatise of Spherical Trigonometry 1768.
Franz Cramer: '''Franz Cramer''' or FRANQOIS ([[1772]]-[[1848]]), violinist; son of Wilhelm Cramer; born at Schwetzingen: member of the Royal Society of Musicians, 1794; one of the first professors of the Royal Academy of Music.
Johann Baptist Cramer: '''Johann Baptist Cramer''' ([[1771]]-[[1858]]), pianist ; son of Wilhelm Cramer; born at Mannheim; studied in boyhood under Clementi and G. F. Abel, 1785, becoming the foremost performer of his tune; met Haydn, 1788, Berlioz and Beethoven later: resided both in England and on the continent. His Eighty-four Studiesis still a classic composition.
John Antony Cramer: '''John Antony Cramer''' ([[1793]]-[[1848]]), dean of Carlisle, 1844; born at Mittoden, Switzerland; educated at Westminster; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1817; D.D., 1831; regius professor of modern history, 1842; principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, 1831-47; wrote on classical geography.
Wilhelm Cramer: '''Wilhelm Cramer''' ([[1745]] ?-[[1799]]), violinist ; born at Mannheim; originally a member of the elector's band; came to London in 1772; member of the Royal Society of Musicians, 1777; appeared in most of the musical performances of his time.

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John Mookett Cramp: '''John Mookett Cramp''' ([[1791]]-[[1881]]), baptist minister; founded the baptist church at St. Peter's, Isle of Thanet; D.D.; president of the baptist college, Montreal, 1844, and of Accadia College, Nova Scotia, 1851-69; theological essayist and conductor of periodicals.
Sir John Fiennes Twisleton Crampton: '''Sir John Fiennes Twisleton Crampton''' (1805-1886), diplomatist; son of Sir Philip Orampton ; became secretary of legation at Berne, 1844; transferred to Washington, 1845; recalled, 1856, from fear of complications with the U.S.A. government, which he had offended by recruiting soldiers in America for the Crimean war; K.O.B., 1856; minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary at Hanover, 1857.
Sir Philip Crampton: '''Sir Philip Crampton''' ([[1777]]-[[1858]]), surgeon; studied medicine in Dublin; surgeon to the Meath Hospital, Dublin, 1798; graduated at Glasgow, 1800; surgeon in ordinary to the queen; created baronet, 1839; F.RA; interested in zoology.
Thomas Russell Crampton: '''Thomas Russell Crampton''' ([[1816]]-[[1888]]), railway engineer; assistant, 1839-44, to the elder Brunei, and later to (Sir) Daniel Gooch, and John and George Ronnie; began business independently, 1848; patented design for Crampton engine, 1843; received gold medal at Great Exhibition, 1861, for locomotive; laid transmarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1851; constructed lines in Kent, now merged in London, Chatham, and Dover Railway; M.I.O.E., 1864.
Crampton: '''Crampton''' 203
Oranstoun: '''Oranstoun'''
Victoire Crampton: '''Victoire Crampton''' , LADY ([[1887]]ringer; second daughter of Michael William Halfe; born iu Paris; appeared first at the Lyceum, 1857, as Ainina in Sonuambula; married Sir John Kiennes Twisletou Crampton; dial at Madrid,
Cranborne: '''Cranborne''' first VISCOUNT ([[1563]] ?-[[1612]]). See Ci: II., KollKKT.
John Cranch: '''John Cranch''' ([[1751]]-[[1821]]), painter; self-taught; contributed pictures to the Society of Artiste and, 1808, the British Institution, excelling in thepokerstyle; wrote discussion on way to improve British art.
Edward Crane: '''Edward Crane''' ([[1721]]-[[1749]]), presbyterian minister; assistant minister, Norwich, 1746; began to preach to the Dutch congregation there, 1749, though not approving the Heidelberg catechism.
Crane: '''Crane''' Si FRANCIS (rf. [[1636]]), director of the tapestry works established at Mortlake by James I; clerk of the parliament, 1606; secretary to Charles 1 when lYincr of Wales; M.P., Penryn, 1614 and 1621, Lauuceston, 1624; reported in 1619 to have received the valuable uriviKvc of creating three baronets, in 1623 ten or twelve at-law at 6007. apiece; envied by courtiers for the numerous manors granted him by the king as security for advances; died at Paris.
John Crane: '''John Crane''' ([[1572]]-[[1652]]), apothecary ; sheriff of Cambridgeshire, 1641.
Lucy Crane: '''Lucy Crane''' ([[1842]]-[[1882]]), art critic : daughter of the miniaturist Thomas Crane; musician and redactor of nursery tales; delivered lectures on Art and the Formation of Taste which her brothers Thomas and Walter issued, 1882.
Nicholas Crane: '''Nicholas Crane''' ([[1622]] ?-[[1588]] ?), presbyterian; educated at Christ's College, Cambridge; imprisoned for performing service out of the Geneva prayer- book, 1568-9; subsequently inhibited; died in Newgate.
Ralph Crane: '''Ralph Crane''' (. [[1625]]), poet ; educated for the law; a transcriber of popular works; publishedThe Workes of Mercy, both Oorporeall and Spirituall 1621.
Thomas Crane: '''Thomas Crane''' ([[1631]]-[[1714]]), divine and theological writer; ejected from the living of Rampisham at the Restoration.
Thomas Crane: '''Thomas Crane''' ([[1808]]-[[1859]]), artist ; gold medallist, Royal Academy, 1825; miniature-painter; produced lithographic views of North Wales; treasurer of the Liverpool Academy, 1841.
William Crane: '''William Crane''' (fl. [[1530]]), master of the children of the Chapel Royal; water-bailiff for the town and harbour of Dartmouth, 1509-10; controller of the tonnage and poundage of customs in the port of London, 1514; licensed to export merchandise not belonging to the staple of Calais, 1514; appointed master of the Chapel Royal choristers, 1526, and water-bailiff of the port of Lynn, 1536.
Lionel Cranfield: '''Lionel Cranfield''' , EARL OF MIDDLESEX ([[1675]]1645), originally apprenticed to llichard Shephard, a merchant adventurer; member of the Company of Mercers: appearing in its behalf before the privy council, attracted the notice of James I, the Earl of Northampton, and subsequently of the Duke of Buckingham; appointed receiver of customs for Dorset and Somerset, 1606; surveyorgeneral of customs, 1613, master of the great wardrobe, 1618, and master of the court of wards, and chief commissioner of the navy, 1619; checked waste in all these departments; privy councillor, 1620; attacked Bacon, disliking his views on patents and monopolies, 1621; created Baron Cranfield of Cranfield, 1622, and Earl of Middlesex, 1622; charged by Coke with corrupt practices as master of court of wards, and condemned, 1624; released from the Tower, 1624; pardoned, 1625.
James Cranford: '''James Cranford''' ([[1592]]?-[[1657]]), presbyterian divine; M.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1624; rector of St. Christopher, London, 1643; wrote a Confutation of the Anabaptists Haereseomachia 1646, and various prefaces,
James Cranke: '''James Cranke''' ([[1746]]7-[[1826]]), portrait-painter, of the school of Reynolds; a successful copyist of great pictures.
Thomas Cranley: '''Thomas Cranley''' ([[1337]]?-[[1417]]), archbishop of Dublin; D.D. Oxford, and fellow of Merton, 1366; first warden of Winchester College, 1382: principal of Hart Hall, 13K4; warden, New College, Oxford, 1389-96; chancellor of the university, 1390; archbishop of Dublin, 13971417; chancellor of Ireland under Henry IV.
Thomas Cranley: '''Thomas Cranley''' (fl. [[1635]]), poet and friend of George Wither q. v.J; published Amanda 1635.
George Cranmer: '''George Cranmer''' ([[1563]]-[[1600]]), secretary to Davison. secretary of state, subsequently to Sir Henry Killitfrew; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and Corpus Ohristi College, Oxford; wrote a letter to Hooker 'Concerning the new Church Discipline 1598; killed in skirmish with Irish rebels at Carlingford.
Thomas Cranmer: '''Thomas Cranmer''' ([[1489]]-[[1556]]), archbishop of Canterbury; studied philosophy, logic, and classics at Cambridge; M.A., 1515; forfeited fellowship at Jesus College by marriage; re-elected; D.D.; public examiner in theology; expressed privately an opinion that the establishment of the invalidity of Henry VIII's marriage with Catherine of Arragon would justify a divorce, 1529; propounded these views in a treatise; attended the Earl of Wiltshire, ambassador to Charles V, 1530; returned to England, 1533, being appointed archbishop of Canterbury; gave formal sentence of the invalidity of the king's marriage with Catherine of Arragou, 1533; pronounced King Henry's marriage with Anne Boleyn to be lawful; granted bulls and dispensations; maintained the king's claim to be the supreme head of the church of England; pronounced his marriage with Anne Boleyn null and void, 1536; promulgated ten articles of doctrine, 1536; in conjunction with Cromwell had the supposed relics of St. Thomas of Canterbury investigated, 1638, but did not take part in the suppression of the monasteries; unsuccessfully opposed the Act of the Six Articles for Abolishing Diversity of Opinions 1539; became an instrument for the divorce of Anne of Cleves; did not oppose the bill of attainder against Thomas Cromwell, 1540; conveyed to the king information of the infidelity of his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, 1541; defended theGreat Bible against the criticisms of Bishop Gardiner, 1642; vindicated by Henry VIII against charges of heresy; appointed one of the council to govern during the minority of j Edward VI, 1547; supervised the production of the first prayer-book, 1548; deserted the falling Protector Somerset, 1549; made overtures to Melanchthon with the view of promoting union of reformed churches; wrote against transubstautiation; made a revision of the prayer-book, but could not induce the Princess Mary to recognise the new use, which was authorised (1552) by an Act of Uniformity; promulgated forty-two articles of religion (afterwards reduced to thirty-nine), 1552; joined in signing a will of Edward VI excluding the Princess Mary from the succession, 1553; committed to the Tower for disseminating seditious bills against the mass and for having been a partisan of Lady Jane Grey, 1553; released that he might argue in justification of his alleged heresies, 1554; adjudged to be in the wrong at a discussion held at Oxford; formally cited to appear before the pope, 1665; refused to recognise papal jurisdiction; condemned for heresy by Cardinal Pole, recently appointed archbishop of Canterbury; degraded, 1656; signed six documents admitting the supremacy of the pope and the truth of all Roman catholic doctrine except transubstantiation, iu vain; burned at the stake repudiating these admissions, 21 March 1556; compiled a Reformatio Legum Ecclfsiasticnrum 1560, and wrote on Anglican discipline and theology.

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David Cranstoun: '''David Cranstoun''' (.fl. [[1509]]-[[152]]C), professor of belles-lettres at the College of Montucute, Paris; Theol. Doc.: wrote additions to the Moralia of Aliuain, 1526, and to the Parva Logicalia of de Villascusa, 1520.
George Cranstoun: '''George Cranstoun''' , LORD COREHOUSE (d. [[1850]]X Scottish judge; advocate at the Scottish bar, 1793; sheritTdepute for Sutherland, 1806; dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1823; raised to the bench as Lord Corehouse, 1826; friend of Sir Walter Scott; author of a skit entitled The Diamond Beetle Case
Helen Cranstoun: '''Helen Cranstoun''' D'ARCY ( 1 [[766]]-1 [[838]]), songwriter; sister of George Cranstoun, lord Corehouse; wife of Dugald Stewart
Cranstoun: '''Cranstoun''' 294
Crawford: '''Crawford'''
James Cranstoun: '''James Cranstoun''' , eighth BARON ORANSTOUN (1755-1796), naval officer; fought against the French in Basseterre roads, 1782; captain, 1782; commanded Rodney's flag-ship, 1782; died just after being made governor of Grenada island, 1796.
William Hbnry Cranstoun: '''William Hbnry Cranstoun''' ([[1714]]-[[1752]]), disowned his marriage with Anne Murray of Leith, 1746, in order to marry Mary Blandy The latter murdered her father for remonstrating, but there is no proof that Oranstoun was implicated.
John Cranwrll: '''John Cranwrll''' (d. [[1793]]), poet: fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; M.A., 1751; incumbent of Abbott's RipUm; translator of two modern Latin poems.
Baron Cranworth: '''Baron Cranworth''' ([[1790]]-[[1868]]). See ROLFE,
Monsey Robert: '''Monsey Robert''' .
Richard Crashaw: '''Richard Crashaw''' ([[1613]]7-[[1649]]), poet; son of William Crashaw; educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; fellow of Peterhouse, 16371643; M.A., 1638; expelled from Peterhouse for refusing to accept the Solemn League and Covenant, 1643; entered the Roman catholic church and travelled to Paris; introduced by Queen Henrietta Maria to Cardinal Palotta of Rome; went to Italy, 1648 or 1649; sub-canon of the Basilica-church of Our Lady of Loretto, 1649; died at Loretto the same year, probably from overheating himself in the journey thither. His Steps to the Temple appeared 1646, another edition, containing designs by himself, 1652. The book includes a section of secular poems, entitled * Delights of the Muses iii. 33
William Crashaw: '''William Crashaw''' ([[1572]]-[[1626]]), puritan divine and poet; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1592V; M.A., 1595; nominated by Queen Elizabeth to the bishop of Ely's fellowship, 1594; B.D., 1603; prebendary of Ripou, 1604; ordered by the archbishop of Canterbury to retract his Translation of the Life of the Marchese Caraccioli 1609; prebendary of York, 1617; incumbent of St. Mary, Whitecha pel, London, 1618-26; wrote, among other works, Romish Forgeries and Falsifications 1606, and aDialogue betwixt the Soule and the Bodie of a damned Man 1616.
William Cratfield: '''William Cratfield''' (d [[1415]]), Benedictine; camerarius and, 1390-1414, abbot of Bury St. Edmunds; compiled a Registrum of his house.
William Crathorne: '''William Crathorne''' ([[1670]]-[[1740]]), Roman catholic divine; student, subsequently professor at the English college, Douay; missioner at Hammersmith; translated a Life of St. Francis of Salesand an Historical Catechism from the French.
Crauftjrd: '''Crauftjrd'''
Sir Charles Gregan Cratjftjrd: '''Sir Charles Gregan Cratjftjrd''' - ([[1761]]-[[1821]]), lieutenant-general; lieutenant, 1781; equerry to the Duke of York, 1785; translated Tielke's work on military science and the history of the Prussian, Austrian, and Russian war from 1766 to 1763, 1787; representative of the English commander-in-chief in the Netherlands at the Austrian headquarters; major-general, 1803; M.P., East Retford, 1806-12; lieutenant-general, 1810; G.C.B., 1820.
James Oraufurd: '''James Oraufurd''' , LORD ARDMILLAN ([[1805]]-[[1876]]), Scottish judge; educated at the burgh school, Edinburgh, and at Edinburgh and Glasgow universities; advocate, 1829; solicitor-general for Scotland, 1853; lord of the court of session and lord of justiciary, 1855-76.
John Walkinshaw Crattfttrd: '''John Walkinshaw Crattfttrd''' ([[1721]]-[[1793]]), lieutenant-colonel; fought, as cornet, at Dettingen, 1743, and Fonteuoy, 1745; king's falconer for Scotland,, 1761; lieutenant-colonel, 1772; laird of Craufurdlaud, Ayrshire.
Quintin Craufurd: '''Quintin Craufurd''' ([[1743]]-[[1819]]), author; servant of the East India Company till 1780; adhered to the French royal family during the revolution, having settled at Paris; published a history of the Bastille, 17'JH, researches on the Hindoo civilisation, 1817, and essays on French literature, 1803.
Robert Craufurd: '''Robert Craufurd''' ([[1764]]-[[1812]]), major-general; brother of Sir Charles Gregan-Oraufurd; fought, as captain, against Tippoo Sultan, 1790, 1791, and 1792; lieutenant-colonel, 1797: served as deputy quartermastergeneral of Ireland against the Irish rebels, 1798; com manded light brigade in attack on Buenos Ayres, 1807; served in Peninsula with distinction as commander of light troops, 1807 and 1809; major-general, 1811; killed at Oiudad Kodrigo.
Elizabeth Craven: '''Elizabeth Craven''' , COUNTKSS OF ([[1750]]-[[1828]]).
John Craven: '''John Craven''' , BARON ORAVKN OFRYTON (d. [[1649]]), founder of scholarships; second sou of Sir William Craven; Baron Craven, 1643; founded the Craven scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge.
Keppel Richard Craven: '''Keppel Richard Craven''' ([[1779]]-[[1851]]), traveller; settled at Naples, 1805; chamberlain to the Princess of Wales, 1814; friend of Sir William Gell; publishedExcursions in the Abruzzi 1838, andItalian Scenes 1825.
Louisa Craven: '''Louisa Craven''' , COUNTESS OK ([[1786]] V-[[1860]]), actress; nie Brunton; made her debut as Lady Townley in the Provoked Husbandand Beatrice in Much Ado 1803; married William, first Earl of Craven, of the second creation, 1807.
Craven: '''Craven''' Mas. PAULINE MARIE ARMANDE

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Aglae: '''Aglae''' ([[1808]]-[[1891]]), authoress; daughter of Comte Auguste Marie de La Ferronays, a French emigrant in London; married Augustus, son of Keppel Richard Craven, 1834, and lived successively at various continental, towns where her husband was attached to English legations; published, 1866,Recit d'uue Sueur relating the history of her family, which met with success. Her subsequent writings include novels and historical and autobiographical works.
Sir William Craven: '''Sir William Craven''' ([[1648]] ?-[[1618]]), lord mayor of London; originally apprenticed to Robert Hulsou, merchant taylor; entered into partnership with him, having obtained the freedom of the Merchant TaylorsCompany, 1569; warden of the company, 1593; gave 50. towards the building of the (library, St. John's College, Oxford; founded a grammar school at Burnsall, Yorkshire, 1602; knighted, 1603; lord mayor of London, 1610; president of Christ's Hospital, 1611-18.
William Craven: '''William Craven''' , EARL OF OHAVEN ([[1606]]-[[1697]]), eldest son of Sir William Craven; entered the service of Maurice, prince of Orange, 1623; knighted on returning to England, 1627; commanded English troops fighting for Gustavus Adolphus, 1681; contributed 30,OOOZ. to the cause of the palatine house, 1637; fought beside Prince Rupert at Limgea; taken prisoner by the imperialists, 1637; purchased his liberty, 1639; aided Charles I with money; drafted a protest for the then exiled Elizabeth of Bohemia against the parliament's stoppage of her pension; deprived of his estates for loyalty to Charles 1, 1651; recovered his lands at the Restoration; privy councillor, 1666 and 1681; created Viscount Craven of Ufflugton and Earl of Craven, 1664; offered bis London mansion, Drury House, to Elizabeth i of Bohemia, 1661; said, without much probability, to have ; been privately married to her; lieutenant-general of the forces, 1686; bidden by James II to hand over the duty of guarding Whitehall to the Dutch troops under Soltns, 1G88. He was early a fellow of the Royal Society.
Crawford: '''Crawford'''
Earls Ok Crawford: '''Earls Ok Crawford''' . See LINDSAY, SIR DAVID, first EARL, 1365 ?-1407; LINDSAY, ALEXANDER, fourth EARL, d. 1454; LINDSAY, DAVID, fifth EAJIL, 1440 ?1495; LINDSAY, DAVID, tenth EARL, d. 1574; LINDSAY, DAVID, eleventh EARL, 1547?-1607; LINDSAY, LUDOVIC, sixteenth EARL, 1600-1652?; LINDSAY, JOHN, seventeenth EARL, 1596-1678; LINDSAY, DAVID, twelfth EARL, d. 1621; LINDSAY, WILLIAM, eighteenth EARL, d. 1698: LINDSAY, JOHN, twentieth EARL, 1702-1749; LINDSAY, ALEXANDER WILLIAM, twenty-fifth EARL, 1812-1880.
Adair Crawford: '''Adair Crawford''' ([[1748]]-[[1795]]), physician and chemist; professor of chemistry at the military academy, Woolwich, and physician at St. Thomas's Hospital; published work maintaining the phlogiston hypothesis, 1779; wrote On Cancer and the Aerial Fluids 1790, and anInquiry into the Effects of Tonics on the Animal Fibre published 1817.
Ann Crawford: '''Ann Crawford''' ([[173]] 1-[[1801]]). See BIRRY, ANN Sl'RANOKK.
Crawford: '''Crawford''' 295
Creech: '''Creech'''
David Crawford: '''David Crawford''' ([[1665]]-[[172]](5), historiographer for Scotland; educate! at Glasgow University; wrote two comedies. Hi- Memoirs from 1567 to hisown times on the Scottish revolution, published 170G, were asserted by Laiug to be untrustworthy.
Edmund Thornton Crawford: '''Edmund Thornton Crawford''' ([[1806]]-[[1883]]), landscape and marine painter, and one of the earliest memlxjr!; of the Koyal Scottish Academy.
John Crawford: '''John Crawford''' ([[1816]]-[[1873]]), Scottish poet; wrote Doric Lays 1850, andMemorials of Alloa a posthumous publication.
Lawrence Crawford: '''Lawrence Crawford''' ([[1611]]-[[1646]]), soldier; served under Gustavus Adolphus and Christian of Denmark; commanded foot regiment in Ireland, 1641: refused to fight against the parliament, and was obliged to leave Scotland, 1G43; sergeant-major-general, 1644; quarrelled with Cromwell, but fought bravely for the parliament; killed at the siege of Hereford.
Roberta Crawford: '''Roberta Crawford''' . [[1733]]), author of 'Tweedsideand other well-known Scottish songs; contributed to Ramsay'sTea-table Miscellany
Crawford: '''Crawford''' or CRAUFURD, THOMAS ([[1530]]?1603), soldier: taken prisoner at Pinkie, 154V; entered the service of Henry II of France, 1550; became one of the gentlemen of Lord Darnley, 1561; expressed an opinion that Mary treated Darnley too much like a prisoner; joined association for bringing Darnley's murderers to trial; unsuccessfully demanded justice on Maitland and Sir James Balfour as the murderers, 1569; captured castle of Dumbarton, 1571; received the surrender of Edinburgh Castle, 1573; rewarded with a grant of lands at Dairy, 1578.
Thomas Jackson Crawford: '''Thomas Jackson Crawford''' ([[1812]]-[[1875]]), Scottish divine; educated at St. Andrews University; D.D. St. Andrews, 1844; professor of divinity, 1859; dean of the Chapel Royal; moderator of the general assembly, 1867; died at Genoa; wrote various theological works on presbyterian lines.
William Crawford: '''William Crawford''' ([[1739]]?-[[1800]]), Irish presbyterian minister and historian; minister of Strabane, co. Tyrone, 1766-98; M.A. Glasgow; D.D. 1785; promoted volunteer movement, 1778; founded an unsectarian academy at Strabane, 1785; admitted into the Antrim presbytery, 1798; wrote a critique on Chesterfield's 'Letters to his Son 1776, and published aHistory of Ireland in the form of letters, 1783.
William Crawford: '''William Crawford''' ([[1788]]-[[1847]]), philanthropist ; obtained an appointment in the naval transport office, 1804; secretary to the London Prison Discipline Society; sent to examine United States prison system, 1833; helped to introduce system of separate cells in England; inspector of prisons for the London and midland district, 1835-47.
William Crawford: '''William Crawford''' ([[1825]]-[[1869]]), painter; studied at Rome; especially famous for his crayon portraits.
William Sharman Crawford: '''William Sharman Crawford''' ([[1781]]-[[1861]]), politician: sheriff of Down, 1811; advocated Roman catholic emancipation; M.P. for Duudalk, 1835-7; brought forward a bill to compensate evicted tenants for improvements, 1835, which was not carried; supported the chartists, 1837: M.P. for Rochdale, 1841-62; procured the formation of the Tenant Right Association in Ulster, 1846; promulgated thefederal schemefor an Irish parliament in opposition to O'Counell, 1843.
Crawftjrd: '''Crawftjrd'''
Archibald Crawftird: '''Archibald Crawftird''' ([[1785]]-[[1843]]), Scottish poet: apprenticed to a baker in boyhood; obtained an enLMement in the family of General Hay of Ranues; publishedSt. James's in an Uproar," 1819; started two periodicals, The Correspondent and The Gaberlunzie, 1 and (1824) wrote Tales of a Grandfather
George Crawftird: '''George Crawftird''' (d. [[1748]]), genealogist and historian; enabled by his researches Simon Fraser to i obtain the barony of Lovat, but was not recompensed; wrote on Scottish history and genealogy.
John Crawftird: '''John Crawftird''' ([[1783]]-[[1868]]), orientalist; army I doctor in N.W. Provinces of Iiidiu; held appointments under Iml Minto in Java from 1811; envoy to the court of Siam; appointed to administer government of.Singapore, 1823; envoy to the court of Ava; published History of the Indian Archipelago 1H20, and A Grammar an-i Dictionary of the Malay Language 1852.
Crawftird: '''Crawftird''' or CRAWFORD, THOMAS (d. [[1662]]), professor; educated at St. Andrews University; M.A., 1621; professor of humanity, Edinburgh, 1626; rector of the high school, Edinburgh, 1630; professor of mathematics at Edinburgh, 1640-62; wrote a History of the University of Edinburgh from 1580 to 1646 (published, 1808).

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Crawley: '''Crawley''' 8m FRANCIS ([[1584]]-[[1649]]), jmlw : scholar of Caius College, Cambridge, 1592; studied law at Staple Inn and Gray's Inn: serjeant-at-law, 1623: counsel for the Earl of Bristol, 1026; pirsne judge in the common pleas, 1632; knighted, 1632; maintained legality of shipmoney, 1636; impeached and restrained from going on circuit, 1641.
Richard Crawley: '''Richard Crawley''' ([[1840]]-[[1893]]), scholar: educated at Marlborough and University College, Oxford: B.A., 1866; fellow of Worcester College, 1866-80; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1869: translated Thucydides, 1866-74, an-1 wrote in verse and prose.
Robert Thompson Crawshay: '''Robert Thompson Crawshay''' ([[1817]]-[[1879]]), ironmaster; son of William Crawshay; acting manager of Cyfarthfa ironworks; sole manager, 1867; assented to combination of masters to meet workmen's strikes; closed works on the invention of the Bessemer steel process.
William Crawshay: '''William Crawshay''' ([[1788]]-[[1867]]), ironmaster; proprietor of the Oyfarthfa ironworks; sheriff of Glamorganshire, 1822; subscribed 600. on behalf of the Hungarian refugees in Turkey, 1849.
Peter Creaoh: '''Peter Creaoh''' (d. [[1707]]), Roman catholic bishop of Cork and Cloyne, 1676; archbishop of Dublin, 1693; died an exile at Strasburg.
Richard Creagh: '''Richard Creagh''' ([[1626]] ?-[[1685]]), Roman catholic archbishop of Armagh; studied at Louvain; B.D. of the Pontifical College, 1556; archbishop of Armagh, 1564; committed to the Tower of London, 1565; tried for high treason in Dublin, 1567; acquitted, but died in the Tower, 1585: wrote works of Irish philology, theology, and an Ecclesiastical History
Henry Hope Crealock: '''Henry Hope Crealock''' ([[1831]]-[[1891]]), soldier, artist, and author; educated at Rugby; lieutenant 90th light infantry, 1852; captain, 1854; served in Crimea; in China, 1856-8; lieutenant-colonel, 1868; in India, 1858-9; military secretary to Lord Elgin in China, 1860; majorgeneral, 1870; served in Zulu war, 1879; O.M.G., 1879; retired as lieutenant-general, 1884. His Deer Stalking in Highlands of Scotland was published posthumously, 1892, with illustrations from his own drawings. ID (1812-1
Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy: '''Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy''' ([[1812]]-[[1878]]X historian; educate! at Eton; fellow, King's College, Cambridge, 1834; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1837; professor of modern and ancient history, London University, 1840; knighted, 1860; chief-justice of Ceylon, 1860; best known by his Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World 1852.
Thomas Creech: '''Thomas Creech''' ([[1659]]-[[1700]]), translator; scholar of Wadham College, Oxford, 1676; M.A., 1683; B.D., 196; fellow of All Souls, Oxford, 1683; head-master of Sherhorne, 1694-6; committed suicide from disappointed love and pecuniary difficulties, 1700. He translated Lucretius, 1682 (verse), the Ode?. Satires, and Epistle? of Horace, 1684 (verse), Theocritus, 1684, Manilius, 1697 (verse), the XHIth satire of Juvenal, 1693, and parts of Plutarch and less famous Greek and Latin writers.
William Creech: '''William Creech''' ([[1746]]-[[1815]]), Edinburgh publisher and lord provost of Edinburgh; studied at Edinburgh University: partner with the publisher Kincaki, 1771; on the withdrawal of Kincaid, 1773, leenme the foremost publisher in Scotland, and was first to bring out the works of Blair, Beattie, Mackenzie, and Burns; quarrelled with Burns; helped to found the Speculative Society: contribute! under the pseudonym ofTheophrastus essays to the newspapers; lord provost of Edinburgh, 1811-13.
Creed: '''Creed''' 296
Crew: '''Crew'''
Gary Creed: '''Gary Creed''' ([[1708]]-[[1775]]), etcher; published plates from the marbles at Wiltou House.
Elizabeth Creed: '''Elizabeth Creed''' ([[1644]]?-[[1728]]), philanthropist; nit Pickering; married John Creed, of Oundle, 1668; gave free instruction to girls in drawing and needlework; painted altar-pieces for churches near Oundle.
John Creed: '''John Creed''' (.f. [[1663]]), official; deputy-treasurer of the fleet, 1660; secretary to the commissioners for Tangier, 1662; F.R.S., 1663.
Creed: '''Creed''' or CREEDE, THOMAS (d. [[1616]] ?), stationer ; printed the 1599 quarto of Romeo and Juliet 'Richard III(1598 quarto), andHenry V (1600 quarto).
William Creed: '''William Creed''' ([[1614]] V-[[1663]]), divine; scholar of St. John's College, Oxford, 1631; M.A., 1639; B.D., 1646; regius professor of divinity, Oxford, 1660; archdeacon of Wiltshire, 1660; prebendary of Salisbury; rector of Stockton, Wiltshire.
Creighton: '''Creighton'''
Mandell Creighton: '''Mandell Creighton''' ([[1843]]-[[1901]]), bishop of London; fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1866; B.A., 1867; tutor; held living of Embleton, Northumberland, 1875-84; rural dean of Alnwick, 1879; took prominent part in organising new diocese of Newcastle, 1881; was examining chaplain to Bishop Wilberforce, 1882; honorary canon of Newcastle, 1883; published, 1882, the first two volumes of his History of the Papacy (vols. iii. and iv. appearing in 1887, vol. v. 1894); honorary D.D. Cambridge; first Dixie professor of ecclesiastical history, and fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1884; first editor ofEnglish Historical Review 1886-91; canon of Worcester, 1885; canon of Windsor, 1890; bishop of Peterborough, 1891; represented English church at coronation of Emperor Nicholas II at Moscow, 1896; first president of Church Historical Society, 1894-1901; Hiusean lecturer, 1893-4, and Rede lecturer, 1895, at Cambridge; Romanes lecturer at Oxford, 1896; bishop of London, 1897; opposed the extravagances of some of the ritualistic clergy; D.D. Oxford and Cambridge; hou. LL.D. Glasgow and Harvard; hon. D.C.L. Oxford and Durham; hon. Litt.D. Durham. His works include The Age of Elizabeth 1876,Cardinal Wolsey 1888,Queen Elizabeth 1896, and numerous sermons, lectures, and historical and other writings. He contributed several memoirs to the Dictionary of National Biography
Creighton: '''Creighton''' or CRICHTON, ROBERT ([[1593]]-[[1672]]), bishop of Bath and Wells; educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1621; professor of Greek, 1625-39; public orator, 1627-39; prebendary of Lincoln, 1631; dean of St. Burians, Cornwall, 1637; chaplain to Charles I; dean of Wells; restored Wells Cathedral; signalised himself by his outspokenness on the sins of Charles IPs court; bishop of Bath and Wells, 1670; translated Sguropulus, 1660.
Creighton: '''Creighton''' or CREYGHTON, ROBERT ([[1639]]?1734), precentor of Wells; son of Robert Oreighton; M.A. Cambridge, 1662; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1662; professor of Greek, Cambridge, 1662-74; canon and precentor of Wells, 1674; D.D. 1678.
Drue Cressener: '''Drue Cressener''' ([[1638]] ?-[[1718]]), protestant writer; fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambndge, 1662; M.A., 1685; D.D., 1708; prebendary of Ely, 1700; wrote on the Apocalypse.
Hugh Cressingham: '''Hugh Cressingham''' (. [[1297]]), treasurer of Scotland; originally steward of Eleanor, queen of Edward I; audited the debts due to Henry III, 1292; prebendary in several English churches; defeated and slain fighting against Wallace at Catnbuskcimeth, 1297.
Oreb: '''Oreb''' 8WELL, MADAM (. [[1670]]-[[1684]]), courtesan and self-proclaimed religious devotee; satirised by Rochester.
Cre: '''Cre''' 8SWELL, SIR CRESSWELL ([[1794]]-[[1863]]), judge ; educated at Charterhouse and Emmanuel College, Cambridge;wooden spoon*; M.A., 1818: barrister, Inner Temple, 1819; together with Alexander, leader of the northern circuit; king's counsel, 1834; M.P. for Liverpool, 1837 aixl 1841; puisne judge of the court of common pleas, 1842-58; first judge in ordinary and organiser of the probate and divorce court, 1868-63.

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Daniel Cresswell: '''Daniel Cresswell''' ([[1776]]-[[1844]]), divine and mathematician; fellow of Trinity College, CambridgeD.D., 1823; vicar of Enfleld, 1822-44; F.R.S.; J.P. for Middlesex, 1823; published mathematical works.
Joseph Cresswell: '''Joseph Cresswell''' ([[1557]]-[[1623]] ?), Jesuit ; rector of the English college, Rome, 1589-92; worked also in Spain; rector of the college at Ghent, 1621; died at Ghent; published polemical treatises and religious biographies, also a Relacion del Estado de Inglaterra en el gobieruo de la Reina Isabella (unpublished).
Hugh Paulinus Cressy: '''Hugh Paulinus Cressy''' or SERENUS ([[1605]]1674), Benedictine monk; B.A. Oxford, 1623; fellow of Merton College, 1626; M.A., 1629; chaplain to Thomas, lord Wentworth; prebendary of Christ Church, Dublin, and St. Patrick's, Dublin, 1636; dean of Leighlin, 1637; publicly renounced protestantism at Rome, 1646; studied theology at Paris; D.D.; confessor to the English nuns at Paris, 1651; servant of Catherine of Braganza, queen of Charles II; definitor of the southern province, 1666; cathedral prior of Rochester, 1669. His chief works were Exomologesis being reasons for his conversion, 16471653, and The Church History of Brittany, or England in two parts (part I. published 1668). He also edited various books of catholic mysticism.
Robert Cressy: '''Robert Cressy''' (?. [[1450]] ?), Carmelite ; wrote a book of Homiliae
Andrea Crestadoro: '''Andrea Crestadoro''' ([[1808]]-[[1879]]), bibliographer; born and educated at Genoa: Ph.D. Turin; professor of natural philosophy, Turin; took out patents in England which proved useless, one being for aerial locomotion, 1852, 1862. 1868, and 1873; chief librarian of the Manchester Free Libraries, 1864; wrote Italian treatises, and a book on the Art of making Catalogues
Thomas Creswick: '''Thomas Creswick''' ([[1811]]-[[1869]]), landscapepainter; studied under John Vincent Barber; exhibited for more than thirty years at the Royal Academy, also at the Suffolk Street Gallery, and the British Institution; R.A., 1851; member of the Etching Club; favourably criticised by Ruskin.
William Creswick: '''William Creswick''' ([[1813]]-[[1888]]), actor ; played in travelling companies, and appeared at Queen's Theatre, London, 1835; joined Phelps's company at Sadler's Wells, 1846; at Princess's, 1847, and Haymarket, 1847-8; joint-manager of the Surrey, 1849-62; at Drury Lane, 1862-6; toured in America and Australia; last appeared at Drury Lane, 1886. His parts included Hotspur, Hamlet, Othello, lago, Macbeth, lachimo, and King John.
Edward Cresy: '''Edward Cresy''' ([[1792]]-[[1858]]), architect and civil engineer; travelled in England and on the continent, drawing and measuring ancient buildings; F.S.A., 1820; member of the British Archaeological Association; wrote on sanitary engineering, and the architecture of mediaeval Italy, also an Encyclopaedia of Civil Engineering 1847.
John Crew: '''John Crew''' , first BARON CHEW of Stene ([[1598]]1679), son of Sir Thomas Crew; M.P. for Amersham, 1625, for Brackley, 1626, 1640, for Banbury, 1628, for Northamptonshire, 1640; voted against Stratford's attainder, 1641; supported the self-denying ordinance; arrested among the secluded members for not approving Charles I's trial, 1648; M.P. for Northamptonshire, 1654, 1660: one of the council of state, 1660: met Charles II at the Hague; created Baron Crew of Stene, 1661.
Nathaniel Crew: '''Nathaniel Crew''' , third BAROX CREW of Stene (1633-1722), bishop of Durham: sou of John, first baron Crew of Stene; B.A. Lincoln College, Oxford, 1656: fellow; rector, 1668; dean of Chichester, 1669; bishop of Oxford, 1671; married Duke of York to Maria d'Este, 1673; bishop of Durham, 1674; privy councillor, 1676; rewarded for subserviency to James II with deanery of Chapel Royal; helped to administer diocese of London, 1686; specially exoepted from general pardon, 1690, but retained as bishop of Durham; benefactor of diocese of Durham and Lincoln College.
Crew: '''Crew''' or CREWE, RANDOLPH ([[1631]]-[[1657]]), artist ; grandson of Sir Rauulphe Crew; executed a map of Cheshire; died from violence at Paris.
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Crispin: '''Crispin'''
Crew: '''Crew''' or ORE WE, SIR RANULPHE or RAX-
Dolim: '''Dolim''' f n55S-.lt; It;), judsre; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1584; M., lirackley, 1597; bencher of Lincoln's Inn, 1600; knighted, 1(514; speaker, 1(514..-crjrant-at-law, 1615; commissioner for the examination of Edmond Peacham, 1615, also of We? ton, as the murderer of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1615; maintained the contention of the Lords that the Commons had no right to pass sentence on Floyde for litwlling the princess palatine, 1621; lord chief-justice of the kind's bench, 1625; removed for denying the legality of forced loans, 1626.
Thomas Crew: '''Thomas Crew''' (ft. [[1580]]), author of 'A Nosegay of Moral Philosophy 1580.
Crew: '''Crew''' or CREWE, SIR THOMAS ([[1565]]-[[1634]]), speaker of the House of Commons; Lent reader, Gray's Inn, 1612; M.P. for Lichfield, 1603, for Northampton, 1621, for Aylesbury, 1623, for Gatton, 1625; declared the liberties of parliament to be matters of inheritance 1621; placed on an Irish commission, 1622; speaker, 1623 and 1625; knighted, 1623; member of the ecclesiastical commission, 1633.
Isaac Crewdson: '''Isaac Crewdson''' ([[1780]]-[[1844]]), author: minister of the Society of Friend*, 1816-c. 1836; seceded, 1836; author of several works, includingA Beacon to the s.x-ii-ty of Friends 1835, and Trade to the East Indies e. 1827.
Jane Crewdson: '''Jane Crewdson''' ([[1808]]-[[1863]]), poetess ; nte Fox ; publishedLays of the Reformation 1860, and other poems, chiefly religious.
Frances Anne Crewe: '''Frances Anne Crewe''' , LADY CRKWK (. [[1818]]), daughter of Fulke Greville; married John (afterwards Lord) Crewe, 1776; a fashionable beauty and friend of Fox, Burke, and Sheridan.
John Crewe: '''John Crewe''' , first BARON OREWE of Crewe (1742-1829), educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; sheriff of Cheshire, 1764; M.P., Stafford, 1765, Cheshire, 1768; carried bill for disfranchising excise officers, 1782; created Baron Crewe, 1806.
Creyghton: '''Creyghton'''
Tom Cribb: '''Tom Cribb''' ([[1781]]-[[1848]]), champion pugilist ; champion, 1808; sparred before the emperor of Russia and the king of Prussia, 1814; guarded the entrance to Westminster Hall at the coronation of George IV.
Crichton: '''Crichton'''
Crichton: '''Crichton''' Sm ALEXANDER ([[1763]]-[[1856]]), physician; M.D. Leyden, 1785; studied at Paris, Stuttgard, Vienna, and Halle; abandoned surgery and became L.C.P., 1791; physician, Westminster Hospital, 1794; F.L.S., 1793; F.R.S., 1800; F.G.S., 1819; physician in ordinary to Alexander I of Russia, 1804; decorated with various Russian and Prussian orders; wrote on medical and geological subjects.

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Andrew Crichton: '''Andrew Crichton''' ([[1790]]-[[1855]]), biographer and historian; educated at Dumfries and Edinburgh University; LL.D. St. Andrews. 1837; licensed preacher; contributor to periodicals and theEdinburgh Cabinet Libraryseries; editor of theEdinburgh Advertiser 1832-51.
George Crichton: '''George Crichton''' ([[1555]] ?-[[1611]]), jurist and claseical scholar; studied the classics at Paris and jurisprudence at Toulouse: regent, College Harcourt, 1583: professor of Greek, College Royal; doctor of canon law, Paris, 1609. His works consist chiefly of public orations in Latin.
James Crichton: '''James Crichton''' , 'TiiK ADMIRABI.K' ([[1560]]1585 V), scholar; son of Robert Orichton of Eliock; M.A. St. Andrews, 1575; travelled to Paris, 1577, where he is said to have disputed on scientific questions in twelve languages; served in French army; visited Genoa, 1579, and Venice, 1580; introduced to the learned world at Venice by the scholar-printer, Aldus Manutius; disputed doctrines of Thomists and Scotists; entertained by Cornelius Aloisi at Padua, 1581; successfully challenged the university there; a good swordsman; killed in a brawl at Mantua. His authentic and extant works consist mainly of odes and orations addressed to Italian nobler and scholars. His title of Admirable originated in Sir Thomas Urquhart's narrative of his career, 1652.
Jami Crichton: '''Jami Crichton''' -N. VIM-..I-XT FiiKVintAriiHT (rf. 1650), descendant of William, Baron Crichtou; created Viscount Frendraught, 1642; killed himself at the battle of Invercharran, from grief at Moutrose's defeat, 1650.
Robert Crichton: '''Robert Crichton''' (d. [[1586]]?), of Eliock, lord advocate of Scotland, 1662-73 and 1573-81; sole advocate and senator of the College of Justice, 1581.
Sir Robert Crichton: '''Sir Robert Crichton''' (. [[1604]]), son of Robert Orichton of Eliock; forcibly removed his halfsister Marion from her guardians at Ardoch Castle, 1591; denounced by the privy council, 1593; forfeited his property by non-appearance when charged with assaulting a courtier in James VI's presence, 1602.
Robert Crichton: '''Robert Crichton''' , sixth BAROX SANQUHAR (. 1612), assassin; hanged in Great Palace Yard for having hired two men to assassinate Turner, a fencing-master, who had accidentally deprived him of one eye.
Sir William Crichton: '''Sir William Crichton''' , BARON ORICHTON . 1454), chancellor of Scotland; knighted, 1424; ambassador to Eric of Norway, 1426; privy councillor of Scotland; self-appointed guardian of James I of Scotland's infant sou, 1437; allied himself with Livingston, who had been sent by the queen's influence to arrest him in Edinburgh Castle, 1437; supported the young king against Livingston and Douglas; created Baron Orichton, 1445; arranged marriage between James II and Mary, daughter of the Duke of Gueldres, 1448.
Ceeighton Crichton: '''Ceeighton Crichton''' , or CREITTON, WIL-
Liam: '''Liam''' (. [[1615]]), Jesuit ; enabled de Gouda, the pope's legate, to escape from Scotland, 1 662; intrigued unsuccessfully to convert James VI to Catholicism; saved by Queen Elizabeth from execution in Holland for supposed complicity in the murder of the Prince of Orange, 1684; planned rising in England, 1586; sent to Rome in the interest of Scottish catholics, 1592; forced to flee from Scotland, 1595; founded seminary at Douay.
Fhiderious Cridiodttntjs: '''Fhiderious Cridiodttntjs''' (d. [[838]]), bishop of Utrecht; said by William of Malmesbury to have been nephew of St. Boniface; more probably a Frisian, and unconnected with the saint.
John Marten Cripps: '''John Marten Cripps''' (rf. [[1853]]), traveller and antiquary; educated at Jesus College, Cambridge; F.S.A., 1805; travelled over Europe and the near East: naturalised kohl-rabi, a Russian vegetable.
Sir Nicholas Crisp: '''Sir Nicholas Crisp''' ([[1599]] ?-[[1666]]), royalist ; received from Charles I the exclusive right of trading to Guinea, in company with five others, 1632; one of the body which contracted for the great and petty customs farms, 1640; knighted, 1641; M.P. for Winchelsea, but expelled from parliament as a monopolist, 1641; fined for having collected duties on merchandise without parliamentary grant; raised regiment for Charles I, 1643; received commission to equip fifteen war- vessels, 1644; his property sequestered by the parliament, 1645; fled to France; supported Monck at the Restoration, 1660; compounded the king's debt to the East India Company, 1662; customs farmer; created baronet, 1665.
Samuel Crisp: '''Samuel Crisp''' (d. [[1783]]), dramatist; soured by the severe criticism to which his tragedy of Virginia was subjected, 1754.
Stephen Crisp: '''Stephen Crisp''' ([[1628]]-[[1692]]), quaker; separatist, then baptist, 1648, and quaker, 1(155; imprisoned, 1656: visited Holland, 1663 and 1667, and also Germany and Denmark as a missionary; fined for infringing the Conventicle Act, 1670; tried to get the penal laws suspended, 1688; wrote tracts in Dutch and English.
Tobias Crisp: '''Tobias Crisp''' ([[1600]]-[[1643]]), antinomian ; brother of Sir Nicholas Crisp; educated at Cambridge; subsequently removed to Balliol College, Oxford; M.A., 1626; rector of Newiugton Butts, also of Brink worth, Wiltshire, 1627; his discourses published posthumously.
Gilbert Crispin: '''Gilbert Crispin''' (. [[1117]]?), abbot of Westminster: educated at Bee; made abbot by Lanfranc, 1085; exhumed the body of Edward the Confessor, 1102; ambassador to Theobald of Blois, 1118: author ofVita Herluini and Disputatio Jud;ui cum Christiano
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Joshua Ceistall: '''Joshua Ceistall''' ([[1767]]-[[1847]]), painter in oil and water colours; china dealer at Kotherhithe; china- j painter; first president of reconstituted Water-colour. Society, 1821; founded the Sketching Society; leader in the English school of water-colours.
George Critchett: '''George Critchett''' ([[1817]]-[[1882]]), ophthalmic snrgeon; studied at the London Hospital: M.R.C.S., 1839: F.R.O.3., 1844: demonstrator of anatomy and, 1861-3, surgeon to the London Hospital; member of council of College of Surgeons, 1870; ophthalmic surgeon and lecturer, Middlesex Hospital, 187G-82.
Charles Crocker: '''Charles Crocker''' ([[1797]]-[[1861]]), poet: shoemaker's apprentice; sexton, Ohichester Cathedral, 1845; bishop's verger; his poems published by subscription, the sonnet To the British Oak being specially praised by Southey.
Johann Crocker: '''Johann Crocker''' ([[1670]]-[[1741]]). Sec CHOKER,
John: '''John'''
William Crockford: '''William Crockford''' ([[1775]]-[[1844]]), proprietor of Orockford's Club; originally a fishmonger; set up his famous gambling club, 1827, out of which lie amassed 1,200,000. in a few years.

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Edward Croft: '''Edward Croft''' (. [[1601]]), sou of Sir James Croft (rf. 1591); M.P. for Leominster, 1571 and 1586; accused of having caused the death of Leicester, his father's enemy, by magic, 1588.
George Croft: '''George Croft''' ([[1747]]-[[1809]]), divine: educated at the grammar school of Boltou Abbey and University College, Oxford; servitor and bible clerk, 1762; chancellor's English essay prizeman, 1768; M.A., 1769; fellow of his college, 1779; vicar of Arncliffe, 1779; head-master of Brewood school, 1780-91; Hampton lecturer, 1786; rector of Thwing, 1802; author of sermons and tractates, theological and political.
Sir Herbert Croft: '''Sir Herbert Croft''' (d. [[1622]]), Roman catholic writer; son of Edward Croft; educated at Christ Church, Oxford: M.P. for Carmarthenshire, 1589, for Launeeston, 1597, for Herefordshire, 1592, 1601, 1604, and 1614; Benedictine monk at Douay, 1617; wrote controversial works.
Herbert Croft: '''Herbert Croft''' ([[1603]]-[[1691]]), bishop of Hereford; son of Sir Herbert Croft (d. 1622); student at Oxford, 1616; placed by his father in the English college, St. Omer, Jiud converted to Catholicism; con victor in the English college, Rome, 1626; brought back to the church of England by Morton, bishop of Durham; prebendary of Salisbury, 1639; D.D., 1640; chaplain to Charles 1; prebendary of Worcester, 1640: canon of Windsor, 1641; dean of Hereford, 1644; ejected in the great rebellion; bishop of Hereford, 1661-91; dean of the Chapel Royal, 1668-70; wrote controversial pamphlets against Roman Catholicism.
Sir Herbert Croft: '''Sir Herbert Croft''' , bart. ([[1751]]-[[1816]]), author ; matriculated at University College, Oxford, 1771; entered at Lincoln's Inn; barrister; B.C.L., 1785; vicar of Prittlewell, Essex, 1786-1816; imprisoned for debt at Exeter, 1795: withdrew to Hamburg: presented with a gold medal by the king of Sweden; returned to England, 1800; died at Paris, in receipt of a pension of 200. per annum from the English government. He contributed a memoir of Young to Johnson's Lives of the Poets and planned a new edition of Johnson's Dictionary but could not proceed for want of subscribers, 1793. In his Love and Madness which he published in 1780, he introduced letters concerning Chatterton that he had obtained from Chatterton's relations, it is said, under false pretences and without remunerating their owners. Among his works areThe Abbey of Kilkhamptou being a collection of satirical epitaphs, 1780, Horace eclairci par la 1 met nation 1810, andThe Will of King Alfred a translation, 1788.
Croft: '''Croft''' Sin JAMES (d. [[1591]]), lord deputy of Ireland and controller of Queen Elizabeth's household; knighted, 1547; governor of Haddington, 1649; served in the Calais marches, 1550; pacified Cork, but was unable to conciliate Ulster and Oonnaught, 1551; implicated in Wyatt's rebellion, and (1555) fined 500.; Heneschalof Hereford and governor of Berwick, 1569; corresponded with Knox on Scottish affairs; M.P. for Herefordshire, 1564, 1670, and 1585-7; privy councillor, 1570; commissioner for the trial of Mary Queen of Seotn, 1686; had treawnnM.- inter course with the Duke of Parma, when on an emba-y, 1588.
Croft: '''Croft''' Sin JAMES, the youngei (.I. [[1603]]), son of Sir James Croft(d. 1591 ); gentleman-pensioner to Qn.vu Elizabeth; knighted, 1603.
John Croft: '''John Croft''' ([[1732]]-[[1820]]), antiquary: learnt wine trade at Oporto; sheriff of York, 1773: author ofAnnotations on the Plays of Shakespear 1810, andKxcerpta Autiqua 1797, the outcome of researches at York.
Sir Richard Croft: '''Sir Richard Croft''' , bart. ([[1762]]-[[1818]]), accoucheur : brother of Sir Herbert Croft (1751-1816); attended the Duchess of Devonshire; accused of negligence in connection with the Princess Charlotte's accouchement, 1817; shot himself, 1818.
William Croft: '''William Croft''' ([[1677]] ?-[[1727]]), musician ; chorister of the Chapel Royal: organist of St. Anne's, Westminster, 1700-11; organist of the Chapel Royal, 1707; organist, Westminster Abbey, 1708; Mus. Doc. Oxford, 1713; wrote various anthems, as composer at the Chapel Royal.
Zachary Crofton: '''Zachary Crofton''' (. [[1672]]), Irish nonconformist divine; educated at Dublin; expelled from the living of Wrenbury, Cheshire, for refusing to take the engagement, 1651; vicar of St. Botolph, Aldgate; ejected at the Restoration; committed to the Tower for maintaining that the Solemn League and Covenant was still binding on the English nation, c. 1660: published controversial tracts.
Crofts: '''Crofts''' or CROFT, ELIZABETH (ft. [[155]] 1), impostor ; denounced the projected marriage of Mary and Philip of Spain from within a wall in Aldersgate Street.
Crofts: '''Crofts''' or CRAFTE, GEORGE (d. [[1539]]), divine; fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, 1513-19; B.A., 1513: rector of Shepton Mallet and Winford, Somerset, 1524; chancellor of Chichester Cathedral, 1631; executed for affirming the pope's supremacy, 1539.
James Crofts: '''James Crofts''' , DCKK OF MONMOUTH ([[1649]]-[[1685]]).
William Crofts: '''William Crofts''' , BARON CROFTS OF SAXHAM (1611 ?-1677), captain of Queen Henrietta Maria's guards before outbreak of civil war, during which he continued in attendance on the king and queen; given manors in Essex and Suffolk, 1645; gentleman of bedchamber to Charles II, 1652; created peer, 1658; employed on several royal missions after the Restoration.
George Croghan: '''George Croghan''' (d. [[1782]]), captain or colonel, Passayunk, Pennsylvania; British crown agent with the Indians; trader, 1746; deputy-agent with the Pennsylvania and Ohio Indians, 1756; formed settlement near Fort Pitt, 1766.
Sir Alexander Croke: '''Sir Alexander Croke''' ([[1758]]-[[1842]]), lawyer and author; educated at Oriel College, Oxford; D.O.L., 1797; member of the College of Advocates, 1797; answered the strictures of Schlegel, a Danish lawyer, upon the English admiralty court, 1801; judge in the vice-admiralty court, I Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1801-15; knighted, 1816; wrote on I law and on genealogy and rhyming Latin verses; author of the Progress of Idolatry a poem, 1841.
Chakles Croke: '''Chakles Croke''' (d. [[1657]]), professor ; third son of Sir John Oroke; tutor of Christ Church College, Oxford; D.D.; professor of rhetoric, Gresham College, London, 1613-19; rector of Waterstock, Oxfordshire. 1616; died in Ireland.
Sir George Croke: '''Sir George Croke''' ([[1560]]-[[1642]]), judge and law reporter; educated at Oxford; barrister, Inner Temple, 1584 ( treasurer, 1609; M.P., Beeralston, Devonshire, 1597; knighted, 1623; justice of the king's bench, 1628; spoke against ship-money and the prosecution of Hampden, 1638. His reports, written in Norman-French, extend over ! sixty years (1580-1640).
John Croke: '''John Croke''' (d. [[1554]]), lawyer; descended from ! the family of Le Blouut to which Sir Thomas Blount (d. 1400) belonged: scholar of King's College, Cambridge, 1507; serjeant-at-law, 1646; M.P., Chippenham, 1547; master in Chancery, 1549; author of Ordinances upon the Estate of the Chancery Court 1564.
Sir John Croke: '''Sir John Croke''' ([[1553]]-[[1620]]), judge and recorder of I London; grandson of John Crokc; entered the
Choke: '''Choke''' Inner Temple, 1570; treasurer of his Inn, 1697; M.P. for London, 1597 and 1601; speaker of the House of Commons, 1601; king's Serjeant, 1603; knighted, 1603.
Choke: '''Choke''' or CROCUS, RICHARD ([[1489]]7-[[1558]]), Greek scholar and diplomatist; educated at Eton and Kind's College, Cambridge; B.A., 1510; studied at Paris, 1513; recommended to Oolet by Erasmus for pecuniary assistance without elTeet: Greek lecturer at Leipzig, 1515-17, where he taught Camerarius; M.A. Cambridge, 1517; taught Henry VIII Greek; lecturer at Cambridge, 1518; fellow of St. John's College, 1623; D.D., 1524; sent to Italy to collect the opinions of canonists on the king's divorce, 1629; deputy vice-chancellor, Cambridge, 1531; rector of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, 1531; D.D. Oxford, 1632; canon and sun-dean of Cardinal's College, after wards Christ Church, 1532: testified to Cranmer's heresy at Oxford, 1655; his chief work was an edition of Ausonius, 1515.
Unton Choke: '''Unton Choke''' (. [[1658]]), parliamentarian colonel ; son of UutonCroke(1594V-1671); colonel in parliamentary army; B.C.L. Oxford, 1649; barrister, Inner Temple, 1653; high sheriff of Oxfordshire, 1658.
Unton Croke: '''Unton Croke''' ([[1594]] V-[[1671]]), fourth son of Sir John Oroke; bencher of the Inner Temple, 1635; M.P. for Walliugford, 1626 and 1640; commissioner for treason trials, 1656.

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John Croker: '''John Croker''' , or CROCKER, JOHANN ([[1670]]1741 X engraver of English coins and medals; born at Dresden; came to England, 1691; chief engraver at the mint, 1705; public medallist.
John Wilson Croker: '''John Wilson Croker''' ([[1780]]-[[1857]]), politician and essayist; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin: student at Lincoln's Inn, 1800; attached to the Munster circuit; JO*, for Downpa trick, 1807; temporarily chief secretary for Ireland, 1808; friend of Canning; contributor to the * Quarterly Review, 1 1809, and afterwards famous for his scathing criticism of Keats's Eudymion 1818; secretary to the admiralty, exposing (1810) defalcations; offended the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV; privy councillor and friend of Sir Robert Peel; resigned his office at the admiralty, 1830; spoke against the Reform Bill, 1831; edited Boswell's Life of Johnson 1831, and was severely criticised by Macaulay; retired from parliament on the passing of the Reform Bill, 1832; introduced the term conservatives 1830; while in retirement supported Sir Robert Peel until Peel gave in his adherence to Cobden's policy, 1845; the supposed original of Rigby in Disraeli's novelConingsby attacked Macaulay'sHistory of England 1849. Besides his edition of Boswell's Johnson* in 1831, his works includeAn Intercepted Letter from Canton (satire on Dublin society), 1804, Military Event* of the French Revolution of 1830 1831, and Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution 1857.
Marianne Croker: '''Marianne Croker''' (rf. [[1854]]), artist; wife of Thomas Crofton Croker
Temple Henry Croker: '''Temple Henry Croker''' ([[1730]] ?-[[1790]]?), miscellaneous writer; educated at Westminster School; scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, 17-16; removed to Oxford; M.A., 1760; chaplain to the Earl of Hillsborough: rector of Igtham, Kent, 1769-73; rector of St. John's, Capisterre, St. Christopher's, in the West Indies. He translated the Orlando Furioso 1755, the Satires of Ariosto 1759, wrote on Experimental Magnetism 1761, and compiled a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences 17641766.
Thomas Crofton Croker: '''Thomas Crofton Croker''' ([[1798]]-[[1864]]), Irish antiquary; friend of Tom Moore, to whom he forwarded fragments of ancient Irish poetry, 1818: clerk at the admiralty in London, 1818-50; helped to found the Camden Society, 1839, the Percy Society, 18-10, and the British Archaeological Association, 1843; best-known works, The Fairy Legenda and Traditions of the South of Ireland 1825, and Popular Songs of Ireland 1839; edited memoirs and books connected with the topography and archax)logy of Ireland.
Richard Dk Crokesley: '''Richard Dk Crokesley''' (d. [[1258]]), ecclesiastic and judge; abbot of St. Peter's, Westminster, 1247; archdeacon of Westminster; arranged marriage between Prince Edward and the daughter of the Duke of Brabant, ll'47; L-haplain to the pope at Lyons, 1251, whither he 299 I
Cromb: '''Cromb''' bad been sent to bring about a meeting between the pope and Henry III; unsuccessful in his negotiations for the restoration of Henry Ill's French provinces, 1257; arbitrator for Henry III at the Oxford conference, 1258; baron of the exchequer, 1250 and 1257.
Francis Croll: '''Francis Croll''' ([[1826]] ?-[[1854]]), line engraver; articled to an Edinburgh draughtsman; executed engravings for the Art Journal and for the Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland.
James Croll: '''James Croll''' ([[1821]]-[[1890]]), physical geologist : apprenticed as wheelwright at Collace; worked as joiner at Banchory; kept temperance hotel at Blairgowrie, 1862-3; keeper of Andersonian University and Museum, Glasgow, 1859; keeper of maps and correspondence of Geological Survey of Scotland, 1867-80; F.R.S. and LL.D. St. Andrews, 1876; retired owing to ill-health. 1880; published 'Climate and Time 1875,Philosophic Basis of Evolution 1890, and other writings chiefly on questions in physical geology.
William Crolly: '''William Crolly''' ([[1780]]-[[1849]]), Roman catholic archbishop of Armagh; entered Maynooth, 18ol; priest, 1806; professor at Maynooth; parish priest of Belfast, 1812-26; bishop of Down and Connor, 1825; archbishop of Armagh, 1835.
George Croly: '''George Croly''' ([[1780]]-[[1860]]), author and divine ; educated at Trinity College, Dublin: licensed to an Irish curacy, 1804; settled in London, 1810; dramatic critic to the New Times and contributor to the Literary GazetteandBlack wood's Magazine; gained reputation for eloquence when rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, 1835-47; afternoon lecturer at the Foundling, 1847; wroteSalathiel a romance, 1829, Catiline a tragedy, 1822, Paris in 1815 a poem, 1817, Divine Providence, or the Three Cycles of Revelation 1834, Marston a novel, 1846, and numerous narrative and romantic poems.
Earls of Cromarty: '''Earls of Cromarty''' . See MACKENZIE, GEORGE, first EARL, 1630-1714; MACKENZIE, GEORGE, third EARL, d. 1766.
Count Cromarty: '''Count Cromarty''' , in the Swedish peerage ([[1727]]1789).
Alexander Crombie: '''Alexander Crombie''' ([[1762]]-[[1840]]), philologist and schoolmaster: educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. Aberdeen, 1777; LL.D., 1798; licentiate of the church of Scotland; kept private school in Highgate; wroteA Defence of Philosophic Necessity 1793,Gymnasium sive Symbola Oritica 1812, and Natural Theology 1829, also tractates on questions of political economy,
James Crombie: '''James Crombie''' ([[1730]]-[[1790]]), presbyteriau minister; M.A. St. Andrews, 1752; presented to the living of Lhanbryd, near Elgin, 1760; tutor in the family of the Earl of Moray; co-pastor in the first non-subscribing presbyterian congregation of Belfast, 1770; sole pastor, 1781-90; D.D. St. Andrews, 1783; founder of the Belfast Academy, 1786, and its principal; wrote An Essay on Church Consecration 1777, and a tion of Sabbath observance. tractate on the ques
Edward Crome: '''Edward Crome''' (d. [[1562]]),protestaut divine; M.A. Cambridge, 1507; D.D. 1526; fellow of Gouville Hall: j university preacher, 1516; maintained the nullity of : Henry VIIPs marriage with Catherine of Arragon, 1530; j in sympathy with Roman catholic doctrine; parson of ! St. Antholin's, London, and subsequently of St. Mary Aldermary; preached against the mass, 1546; recanted; ; managed to escape the stake in Mary's reign,
John Crome: '''John Crome''' ([[1768]]-[[1821]]), landscape-painter; born ! in humble circumstances; apprenticed to a sign-painter, 1783; introduced the art of graining at Norwich; picked up an informal education in art from Thomas Harvey of Oatton, Norfolk, who allowed him access to his collection of Flemish and Dutch pictures; taught drawing; founded the Norwich school of painting and a joint-stock assoI elation of accomplishments and worldly goods which exhibited from 1805 to 1833; exhibited at the Royal Aca: demy, first in 1806. His painting of trees was exceptionally { sympathetic in its treatment of the subject, the Oak at Poringland and the k Willow being among the best picture* in their kind.
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John Bernay Crome: '''John Bernay Crome''' ([[1794]]-[[1842]]), painter ; son of John Crome: educated at Norwich grammar school; landscapes by him exhibited (1811-43) at the Royal Academy, and other institutions; travelled in France, Holland, Belgium, and Italy.
Robert Hartley Cromek: '''Robert Hartley Cromek''' ([[1770]]-[[1812]]), engraver; studied under Bartolozx.i; published an edition of Blair's Grave with etching* after Blake by Schiuvonetti; compiled Reliques of Burns 1808, and Select Scottish Songs 1810.
George Choicer: '''George Choicer''' (rf. [[1642]]), archbishop of Armagh, 1622; lord chancellor of Ireland, 1532; opposed Henry VIII's attempt to make the reformatory measures passed at Westminster binding upon the parliament of Dublin, 1636; refused to recognise the king as supreme head of the church; intrigued with the pope and the Duke of Norfolk to prevent the Reformation setting foot in Irelaud,
Samuel Cromleholme: '''Samuel Cromleholme''' ([[1618]]-[[1672]]), head-master of St. Paul's School; M.A. Corpus Christi College, Oxford; master of the MercersChapel School, London; surmaster of St. Paul's School, 1647-61; master of Dorchester grammar school, 1661-7; headrmaster, St Paul's School, 1667-72.
Samuel Crommelin: '''Samuel Crommelin''' -LOUIS ([[1662]]-[[1727]]), director of Irish linen enterprise; born at Armandcourt, Picardy; his family compelled to leave France upon the revocation of the edict of Nantes; arrived at Lisburn, Ireland, by invitation of William III, for the pin-pose of inquiring into the linen manufacture of the French colony there, 1698; overseer of the royal linen manufacture of Ireland; thanked by the Irish parliament, 1707; promoted settlements for the manufacture of hempen sail-cloth in southern Ireland, 1717; wrote on his work, 1706.
Sir Charles John Crompton: '''Sir Charles John Crompton''' ([[1797]]-[[1866]]), justice of the queen's bench; graduated at Trinity College, Dublin; barrister, Inner Temple, 1821; joined the northern circuit; postman in the exchequer; counsel for the board of stamps and taxes; assessor of the court of passage, Liverpool, 1836; knighted, 1862; raised to the bench, 1862.

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Hugh Crompton: '''Hugh Crompton''' (. [[1667]]), poet; published Poems by Hugh Crompton, the Son of Bacchus and Godson of Apollo 1667, and Pierides 1668 (?).
John Crompton: '''John Crompton''' ([[1611]]-[[1669]]), nonconformist divine; M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge; lecturer at All Saints Derby; rector of Brailsford; forced to retire at the Restoration; vicar of Arnold, near Nottingham; ejected by the Act of Uniformity.
Richard Crompton: '''Richard Crompton''' (fl. [[1573]]-[[1699]]), lawyer; educated at Brasenose College, Oxford; bencher of the Inner Temple; summer reader, 1573; Lent reader, 1678; edited Fitzherbert's Office et Aucthoritie de Justices de Peace 1583; wrote L'Authoritie et Jurisdiction des Courts de la Maiestie de la Uoygne 1594, and The Mansion of Magnanirnitie 1599.
Samuel Crompton: '''Samuel Crompton''' ([[1753]]-[[1827]]), inventor of the spinning mole; induced by the imperfections of Hargreaves's spinning- jenny to invent a substitute, 1779; gave it to the public, but received no pecuniary advantage; granted 6,0001. by the House of Commons, 1812.
William Crompton: '''William Crompton''' ([[1599]] V-[[1642]]), puritan divine; son of Richard Crompton; educated at Brasenose College, Oxford; M.A., 1623; lecturer at Barnstaple, 1828-40; pastor of the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Launeeston. Hi chief work, St. Austin's Religion 1624, was written to prove that St. Aiiftiuagreed with the religion of the protestants
William Crompton: '''William Crompton''' ([[1633]]-[[1696]]), nonconformist divine; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and Christ Church, Oxford; ejected from his living of Collumptou, Devonshire, for nonconformity at the Restoration; author of some puritan tractates.
Edward Cromwell: '''Edward Cromwell''' , third BARON CUOMWKI.L (1559 7-1607), politician; pupil of Richard Bancrof t at Jesus College, Cambridge; M.A., 1893; colonel under Essex when sent to aid Henri IV in Normandy, 1891; served against Spain, 1697; accompanied Essex to Ireland. 1599; sent to the Tower for complicity in Essex's rebellion, 1601; fined 6,000. and released, 1601; privy councillor, 1603; appointed governor of Lecale, 1606.
Henry Cromwell: '''Henry Cromwell''' ([[1628]]-[[1674]]), sou ""' Oliver Cromwell; entered the parliamentary army; colonel, 1660; defeated Lord Inchiquin near Limerick, 1650; entered at Gray's Inn, 1654; represented Ireland in the Barebones parliament, 1653; sent to Ireland to counteract the influence of the anabaptists; major-general of tho forces in Ireland, and member of the Irish council, 1(154; remonstrated against the oath of abjuration imposed upon Irish catholics in 1667, but did not mitigate the rigour of the transplantation; lord-deputy, 1657; attempted to relieve the financial difficulties of the Irish administration, but was thwarted from home; urged his father to refuse the title of king, 1667; advised the remodelling of the army, 1658; governor-general of Ireland, 1658; unsuccessfully solicited by partisans of Prince Charles, 1659; returned to England and went into retirement, 1659; lost his lands at the Restoration, but subsequently had his possessions in Meath and Oonuaught confirmed to his trustees in compensation,
Oliver Cromwell: '''Oliver Cromwell''' ([[1699]]-[[1658]]), the Protector ; matriculated from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1616; said to have been a member of Lincoln's Inn; married Elizabeth Bourchier, 1620; M.P. for Huntingdon, 1628; J.P. for Huntingdon, 1630: said to have intended emigrating to America: became a religious enthusiast, 1638; M.P. for Cambridge, 1640; moved the second reading of Strode's bill for reviving the old law of Edward III for annual parliaments, 1640; proposed committee to put the kingdom in a posture of defence, 1642; fought at EdgehiU in the army of Essex, 1642; converted his troop of horse into a regiment, 1643; suppressed a royalist rising at Lowestoft, 1643; recaptured Stamford, 1643; governor of the Isle of Ely, and second in command to the Earl of Manchester, 1643; lieutenant-general, 1644; took part in the siege of Lincoln, 1644; commanded the left wing at the victory of Marston Moor, 1644; urged toleration for differences of religious opinion in the parliamentary army, and demanded the dismissal of Major-general Crawford, an intolerant presbyteriau, but subsequently forgave him; fought at Newbury, 1644; accused the Earl of Manchester of half-hearteduess, who retaliated by charging him with contempt for the Scots and presbyteriaus, 1644; largely helped the remodelling of the army and the passing of theSelf-denying Ordinance which he was excused from obeying, 1644; relieved Tauntou, 1645; fought with success in Oxfordshire and at Naseby, 1645; took part in the sieges of Bridge water, Sher borne, and Bristol, 1645; captured Devizes, Winchester, and Basing House, 1645; thanked by the House of Commons, 1646; assisted in negotiations for surrender of Oxford, 1646; recognised the grievances of the army in its quarrel with parliament, 1647; restored military subordination when commissioner, 1647; supposed to have planned the seizure of Charles I, 1647; his policy based on the assumption that terms might ultimately be arrived at with the king; entered into an engagement with the soldiers for the redress of their wrongs, 1647; induced parliament to vote that no further address should be made to the king, the case seeming hopeless, 1648; accused by Lilburn of apostacy and double-dealing, 1648; subdued a Welsh insurrection, 1648; routed the Scots at Preston, 1648; denounced the treaty made by parliamentwith Charles 1 at Newport, 1648; active in the prosecution of Charles I, 1648; temporary president of the council of state after Charles's execution; opposed the anarchical designs of the levellers 1649; commander-in-chief and lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1649; stormed Drogheda and Wexford, massacring their garrisons, 1649; compelled to raise the siege of Waterford, 1649; reduced Cahir, Cashel, Kilkenny, and Clonmel, 1660; treated non-combatants with leniency, but forbade the exercise of catholic worship; returned to Encrland, 1660; commauder-iu-chief, 1650; defeated the Scots at Duubar, 3 Sept. 1650; stirred up dissension among the Scots, some of them being convinced by his arguments and humane policy; captured Perth, 1651; defeated the Scots, in whose army was Prince Charles, at Worcester, 3 Sept. 1651; procured the Act of Pardon and Oblivion, 1652; dissolved the Long parliament, which had shown itself unequal to dealing satisfactorily with the complaints of the army, 1652; convoked the Little parliament; dissolved
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Crook: '''Crook''' it in consequence of its rejection of a scheme for the appointment and maintenance of the clergy; installed as protector and head of the executive power, 1G53; during the aljeyance of parliament issued ordinances, having the force of law until parliament otherwise ordered, providing for the administration of justice in Scotland, the representation of Ireland in the IJriti.-h parliament, and the re-organisation of the church in Kugland ou comprehensive lines, 1653-4; reorganised the court of chaiiivry, recommended the revision of the criminal code, 1657, and appointed new judges; engaged in negotiations for the acquisition of Dunkirk, 1652; signed au advantageous peace with the Dutch States-General, 1654: concluded commercial treaties with Sweden and Denmark, li)6l, the latter country having been recently in open hostility to England; ended a war with Portugal by a commercial treaty, 1653; failed to get unanimous recognition of the authority which had been conferred on him by the army from parliament, 1664: dissolved parliament, the Commons having delayed a vote of supplies, 1656; became the object of conspiracies, which were speedily foiled, 1665; parcelled out the country into twelve divisions, each under the command of a majorgeneral, 1655; imprisoned lawyers for impugning the validity of his ordinances, and dismissed malcontent judges; prohibited the use of the prayer-book, 1665; found himself compelled to prosecute the anabaptists, but protected the quakers and Jews; sent Blake to bombard Tunis, 1655; championed the cause of the persecuted Vaudois, and, by the influence of Cardinal Mazarin, obliged the Duke of Savoy to respect their rights as his subjects, 1665; made a treaty with France against Spain, 1655; at war with the latter country owing to its aggressive Catholicism and exclusive colonial policy; refused the title of king, 1657; installed Protector a second time, that being a style to which the army did not object, as it objected to the royal title, 1657; acquired right to appoint his own successor; concluded offensive and defensive alliance with France, 1657; formed league with Sweden against the Austrian Hapsburgs; dissolved the parliament of 1658 in consequence of its restiveness; again intervened on behalf of the Vaudois; humbled the Spaniards at Dunkirk, 1658; alleged to have prejudiced the interests of trade by friendship for Holland and hostility to Spain, 1659; assailed by plots, Gerard's, 1654, and Sindercombe's, 1657; denounced in a pamphlet entitled Killing no Murder 1657; died of a tertian ague, 3 Sept. 1658; buried in Westminster Abbey, 23 Nov.; disinterred and hung ou the gallows at Tyburn, 30 Jan. 1661.
Oliver Cromwell: '''Oliver Cromwell''' ([[1742]] ?-[[1821]]), biographer; solicitor in the Strand and clerk to St. Thomas's Hospital; wrote Memoirs of the Protector Oliver Cromwell, and of his sons, Richard and Henry," from whom he was descended.
Ralph Cromwell: '''Ralph Cromwell''' , fourth BARON CROMWELL (1394 ?-1466), lord treasurer of England; fought at Agincourt, 1415; first summoned to parliament, 1422; chamberlain of exchequer, c. 1423-32; lord treasurer, 1433-43; served at relief of Calais, 1436; master of king's me WB and falcons, 1436: constable of Nottingham Castle, and warden of Sherwood Forest, 1445; led attack on Suffolk, 1449; founded a college at Tattershall.
Richard Cromwell: '''Richard Cromwell''' ([[1626]]-[[1712]]), Lord Protector; third son of Oliver Cromwell; member of Lincoln's Inn, 1647; M.P for Hampshire, 1654, for Cambridge, 1656; member of committee of trade and navigation, 1656; chancellor of Oxford University, 1657; member of the council of state, 1657; sat in Cromwell's House of Lords; twice nominated as his father's successor, 31 Aug. and 2 Sept. 1658; proclaimed protector amid apparent satisfaction; refused the petition of a number of officers that a commander-in-chief should be appointed, and increased the pay of the soldiers, 1658; compelled to assent to the retirement of his chief adviser, Thurloe, 1658; inclined to ignore his father's treaty with Sweden; recognised as his father's successor by parliament, 1659; retained the right to make peace or war; opposed by parliament in the matter of supplies and by Fleetwood, who took advantage of the grievances of the army to stir up mutiny; driven to throw in his lot with the army and dissolve parliament, 21 April 1659; obliged to recall the Long parliament, 7 May 1659; said, probably without much foundation, to have intrigued for the restoration of the Stuarts: practically deposed by the army, May 1669; appealed to Monck for pecuniary assistance, arrangein. ! its formulated by parliament for the payment of his debts having, come to nothing, 1660; retired to the continent and lived at Paris under the name of John Clarke, 1G60; returned to England, c. IGso, and lived in retirenumt.
Thomas Cromwell: '''Thomas Cromwell''' , EARL OP ESSKX ([[1485]]?1540), statesman; compelled to leave England when young owing to a misdemeanor; said to have been present at the battle of Garigliano, 1503; escaped to Florence in a state of destitution; much of his early history uncertain in point of date, its obscurity being increased by the fact that he was sometimes called Thomas Smyth; clerk at Antwerp; visited Italy a second time, and introduced himself to Pope Julius II, in company with one Geoffrey Chambers; stated by Cardinal Pole to have been clerk to a Venetian merchant; engaged in money-lending, legal practice, and cloth dressing in England, c. 1513; appointed by Wolsey collector of the revenues of the see of York, 1514; entered parliament, 1523; humoured the king's designs upon France, while deprecating their immediate execution; member of Gray's Inn, 1524; one of the commissioners appointed by the influence of Wolsey to in r're into the state of the smaller monasteries, 1625; wed great harshness when on this commission; receiver-general of Cardinal's College, Oxford; managed all Wolsey's legal business, as his secretary, drawing up the deeds for the foundation of Cardinal's College and Ipswich College; pleaded Wolsey's cause in the House of Commons, 1529; suggested to Henry VIII the policy of making himself head of the church of England, and so facilitating his divorce from Catherine of Arragon; attempted to convert Cardinal Pole to the doctrines of Machiavelli, 1529; privy councillor, 1531: master of the jewels and master of the king's wards, 1532; obtained grant of the lordship of Romney in Newport, South Wales, 1532; medium of communication between Henry VIII and Chapuys, the imperial ambassador; chancellor of the exchequer, 1633; king's secretary, 1534; master of the rolls, 1534; endorsed the frivolous charge of treason against Bishop Fisher, 1534; vicar-general, 1535; commissioned to hold a general visitation of churches, monasteries, and clergy, 1535; chancellor of the university of Cambridge; took a great part in procuring the dissolution of the smaller monasteries 1536; conveyed Anne Boleyn to the Tower, 1536; made lord privy seal and Baron Cromwell of Oakham, 1536; knight of the Garter, 1537; dean of Wells, 1537; appointed to oversee the printing of the bible for five years, 1539; rewarded with confiscated lands of the larger monasteries, 1538-40; lord great chamberlain of England, 1539; negotiated the marriage of Henry VIII with Anne of Cleves, 1539; created Earl of Essex, 1540; accused of treason by the Duke of Norfolk and executed, the king, who was dissatisfied with Anne of Oleves and the German protestant alliance, not interposing, 1540.
Thomas Cromwell: '''Thomas Cromwell''' , fourth BARON CROMWELL (d. 1653X son of Edward Cromwell; created Viscount Lecale, 1624, and Earl of Ardglass, 1645.
Thomas Cromwell: '''Thomas Cromwell''' ([[1792]]-[[1870]]), dissenting minister; entered literary department of Messrs. Longmans; Unitarian minister, Stoke Newington Green, 1839-64; F.S.A., 1838; minister of the old presbyterian congregation at Canterbury; chief works, * Oliver Cromwell and his Times 1821, The Soul and the Future Life 1869, The Druid: a Tragedy 1832, and a History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Colchester 1825.
Saint Cronan: '''Saint Cronan''' (7th cent.), abbot and founder of Roscrea, Tipperary; born in Munster; travelled over the south and west of Ireland founding monasteries; appeased the auger of Fiugen, king of Cassel, against the people of Ely, a district on the borders of Counaught and Munster.
Robert Crone: '''Robert Crone''' (d. [[1779]]), landscape-painter; a native of Dublin; exhibited paintings of Italian scenery at the Society of Artists, 1768-9, and the Royal Academy, 1770-8. xiii. 2031
John Crook: '''John Crook''' ([[1617]]-[[1699]]), quaker ; knight of the shire for Bedfordshire, 1653; commissioner of the peace; joined quakers, and lost his commission, 1654; tried at the Old Bailey for refusing the oath of allegiance, 1662;
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Cross: '''Cross''' remanded to priiou, but soon liberated: imprisoned again, 1669; author of An Apology for the Quakers, 1 1662, and numerous books of quaker exegesis.
Helkiah Crooke: '''Helkiah Crooke''' ([[1576]]-[[1635]]), physician; scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1591; B.A., 1596; M.U. Leyden, 1597; M.D. Cambridge, 1604; physician to James I; F.C.P., 1620-35; anatomy reader, 1629; governor of Bethlehem Hospital, 1632; took no notice of Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood; chief work, Mikrokosrnographia, u Description of the Body of Man 1616.
Samuel Crooke: '''Samuel Crooke''' ([[1575]]-[[1649]]), divine; son of Thomas Orooke; educated at Merchant Taylors School; scholar of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; B.D. Cambridge; fellow of Emmanuel College; rhetoric and philosophy reader in the public schools; rector of Wrington, Somerset, 1602; parliamentarian in his leanings, but submissive to the royal commissioners, 1643; ono of the ministers appointed to superintend the district of Bath and Wrington, under a scheme for the presbyterian government of Somerset, 1648.
Thomas Crooke: '''Thomas Crooke''' (fl. [[1582]]), divine; scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1562; fellow; M.A., 1566; D.D., 1578; rector of Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, 1574; took part in conferences between English churchmen and Roman catholics, 1582; urged Oartwright to publish his book 011 the Rhemish translation of the New Testament.

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Crooksha: '''Crooksha''' 1TKS, JOHN ([[1708]]-[[1795]]), navy captain ; lieutenant, 1734; captain of the Lowestoft frigate, 1742; appeared unwilling to risk fighting on three occasions, thereby causing general discontent, 1742, 1746, and 1747; charged with neglect of duty, and dismissed by courtmartial at Jamaica, 1747; brought groundless accusations of unfairness against the court, 1759 and 1772; restored to the half-pay of his rank. ultimately
Croone: '''Croone''' or CROTTtfE, WILLIAM ([[1633]]-[[1684]]), physician; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool; fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; professor of rhetoric, Gresham College, London, 1659-70; M.D. Cambridge, 1662; F.R.S., 1663; anatomy lecturer on the muscles to the Company of Surgeons, 1670-84; F.O.P., 1675; left money to the Royal Society, also funds to establish algebra lectures at Cambridge and the Croonian lecture; published De ratione motus Musculorum 1664.
John Crophill: '''John Crophill''' (ft. [[1420]]), astrologer ; his writings preserved among the Harleian MSS. (British Museum, 1735).
James Cropper: '''James Cropper''' ([[1773]]-[[1840]]), philanthropist; founded mercantile house of Cropper, Benson & Co., Liverpool; worked for abolition of slavery in West Indies and amelioration of social conditions among Irish poor; director of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, 1830; started agricultural industrial school near Warrington, 1833.
Andrew Crosbie: '''Andrew Crosbie''' (*. [[1786]]), Scottish advocate ; stated to have been the original of * Councillor Pleydell inGuy Mannering friend of Johnson and Boswell; died in distressed circumstances.
Allan James Crosby: '''Allan James Crosby''' ([[1835]]-[[1881]]), archivist; educated at Worcester College, Oxford; B.A., 1858; clerk in the Record Office; barrister, Inner Temple, 1865; edited, 1871-81,Calendar of State Papers(Foreign Series) from 1558.
Brass Crosby: '''Brass Crosby''' ([[1725]]-[[1793]]), lord mayor of London ; attorney in London; city remembrancer, 1760; sheriff, 1764; alderman, 1766; M.P. for Honiton, 1768-74; lord mayor, 1770; refused to back the press warrants, 1770; committed to the Tower for releasing from custody one Miller, printer of theLondon Evening Post who had been summoned to the bar of the House of Commons, and had refused to attend, 1771; returned to the Mansion House at the close of the session, 1771; president of Bethlehem Hospital, 1772; governor of the Irish Society, 1786.
Sir John Crosby: '''Sir John Crosby''' (d. [[1475]]), alderman of London ; M.P. for London, 1466; alderman, 1468; sheriff, 1470; helped to repel Falconbridge's attack on London, 1471; knighted, 1471; despatched on missions to tbt Duke of Burgundy, 1472 and 1473; mayor of the Staple of Calais; built a mansion of some fame in Bishopsgate Street.
Thomas Crosby: '''Thomas Crosby''' (. [[1740]]), author of History of the Baptists; deacon of the baptist church, Horsleydown; chief works, a History of the English Baptist? from the Reformation to the beginning of the Reign of George I 1738-40, and The Book-keeper's Guide 1749.
John Crosdhl: '''John Crosdhl''' ([[1751]] ?-[[1825]]), violoncellist; member of the Royal Society of Musicians, 1768; principal 'cello at the Concerts of Antient Music, 1776; violist of the Chapel Royal, 1778-1825; chamber musician to Queen Charlotte, 1782; principal violoncellist at the Handel festival in Westminster Abbey, 1784.
George Crosfield: '''George Crosfield''' ([[1785]]-[[1847]]), botanist: elder in the Society of Friends, 1815; published Calendar of Flora 1810,Memoirs of S. Fothergill 1837, and religious works.
Thomas Croskery: '''Thomas Croskery''' ([[1830]]-[[1886]]), theologian and reviewer; entered at the old college, Belfast, 1845; reporter in connection with the Belfast press; licensed to preach, 1851; ordained, 1860; in charge of the presbyteriau congregation at Creggan, at Clouakilty, 1863, and at Waterside, Londonderry, 1866; professor of logic and belles-lettres, Magee College, Londonderry, 1875-9; professor of theology, 1879-86; D.D. of the Presbyterian Theological Faculty, Ireland, 1883; published Plymouth Brethrenism: a Refutation of its Principles and Doctrines 1879, and Irish Presbyterianism 1884.
Mrs Crosland: '''Mrs Crosland''' . CAMILLA DUFOUR([[1812]]-[[1895]]X CR08LY, DAVID (1670-1744), baptist minister; originally stonemason at Walsden; minister at Tottlebank, near Lancaster, 1695-1705; pastor of the particular baptist church, CurriersHall, London Wall, 1705; groundlessly slandered, and expelled, 1718; kept school at Goodshaw; correspondent of George Whitefield; published sermons and (1720) a poem, entitled Adam, where art Thoui
John Cross: '''John Cross''' ([[1630]]-[[1689]]), Franciscan; provincial of his order in England for three years, 1674-7; re-elected, 1686; D.D.; established a small community at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1687; compelled to retire from the place by popular violence, 1688; died at Douay; published devotional works and a treatise, De Dialectica
Sir John Cross: '''Sir John Cross''' ([[1766]]-[[1842]]), judge in bankruptcy ; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1795; king's Serjeant, 1827; attorney-general of the duchy of Lancaster, 1827; judge in bankruptcy, 1831; knighted, 1831; subsequently became chief judge.
John Cross: '''John Cross''' ([[1819]]-[[1861]]), painter; studied at St. Quentin; director of the old French classical school; unsuccessful candidate for the decoration of the houses of parliament, 1844; exhibited a picture, by which he became famous, called The Clemency of Richard Oceur-deLion towards Bertrand de Gourdon at the exhibition of 1847; sent historical pictures to the Royal Academy; broke down under pecuniary failure.
Mary Ann Cross: '''Mary Ann Cross''' or MARIAN ([[1819]]-[[1880]]), novelist under the name of GEORGE ELIOT; nie Evans; was sent to school at Coventry, 1832; reproduced much of her early history in her novels; converted from evangelism to more liberal views by the influence of Charles Bray, a ribbon manufacturer of Coventry, 1842: finished Miss Brabant's translation of Strauss's Life of Jesus,* 1846; visited Geneva, 1849; on returning to England contributed to the Westminster Review of which she became (1861) assistant editor; resigned the post, 1853; translated Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity 1854; attracted by positivism; formed a lifelong union without legal form with George Henry Lewes, 1864; visited Berlin, 1854; published Amos Barton serially in 'Blackwood's Magazine 1887, under the pseudonym of George Eliot published Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858, 'Adam Bede 1859,The Mill on the Floes 1860, and Silas Marner 1861; visited Florence, 1860 and 1861, in search of material for an Italian story of the time of Savonarola; published Uomolain serial instalments in theOornhill Magazine 1862-3; finishedFelix Holt
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Crouch: '''Crouch''' 1866; travelled in Spain, 1867: producedThe S Gypsy 1868; published Middleman in parts, 1871-2, andDaniel Deronda in the same way, 1874-6; wrote the Impressions of Thcophrastns Such 1878 (published, 1H79); founded, after Lewes's death in 1878 theGeorge Henry Lewps Studentship 1879; married Mr. J. W. Cross, then;i bunker at Nrw York, t May 1880. In addition to her novels she publishedAgatha a poem, 18C.9,Jtibal and other 1'ot-tiis 1H74, and many pssays. She claimed in all IUT books to be an {esthetic teacher and to interpret philosophical ideas. Most of her novel?, despite the tendency to didacticism, stand in the lir.-t rank of literary fiction.
Michael Cross: '''Michael Cross''' (. [[1630]]-[[1660]]), painter; copied pictures for Charles I in Spain and Italy; reported to have executed a copy of a Madonna by Raphael so accurately that it was interchangeable with the original.
Nathaniel Cross: '''Nathaniel Cross''' (18th cent.), English violinmaker; worked in partnership with Barak Norman; excelled as a maker of violoncello? on the model of Jacob Stainer.
Nicholas Cross: '''Nicholas Cross''' ([[1616]]-[[1698]]), Franciscan; provincial, 1662, 1671, 1680, and 1689; chaplain to Anne, diH'hfs-= of York; died at Douay, 1698; publishedThe Cyuosura a paraphrase on the 50th Psalm, 1670.
Thomas Cross: '''Thomas Cross''' (fl. [[1632]]-[[1682]]), engraver: employed in engraving portraits of authors and celebrities as frontispieces to books; engraved music,
Andrew Crosse: '''Andrew Crosse''' ([[1784]]-[[1855]]), electrician: educated at Braseuose College, Oxford, 1802; lived, at Fyne Court in Somerset, the life of an amateur scientist; experimented on electro-crystallisation and metallurgy; gained notoriety by announcing the appearance of insects of genus Acants in connection with the arrangements of a voltaic battery, 1837.
John Crosse: '''John Crosse''' ([[1739]]-[[181]] 6), vicar of Bradford: studied at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; B.A., 1768; ordained; appointed to the Lock Chapel, London; incorporated B.A. at Cambridge, 1776; M.A. King's College, Cambridge; incumbent of Todmorden and Halifax in Yorkshire, also of White Chapel, Cleckheaton; presented to the vicarage of Bradford, 1784; published religious pamphlets.

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John Crosse: '''John Crosse''' ([[1786]]-[[1833]]), writer on music ; F.S.A. ; published History of the York Festivals, 1 1825.
John Green Crosse: '''John Green Crosse''' ([[1790]]-[[1850]]), surgeon ; studied at St. George's Hospital and the school of anatomy, Windmill Street, London; demonstrator, Trinity College, Dublin; surgeon, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, from 1826; famous as a lithotomist: F.R.S., 1836; president of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, 1846: wrote on the urinary calculus (Jacksonian prize-essay, 1833), and (1820) on the variolous epidemic which occurred in 1819 at Norwich.
Lawrence Crosse: '''Lawrence Crosse''' ([[1650]] ?-[[1724]]), miniaturepainter; imitated Samuel Cooper (1609-1672); said to have created an erroneous type of the features of Mary Queen of Scots by renovating a portrait of her.
Richard Crosse: '''Richard Crosse''' ([[1742]]-[[1810]]), miniature-painter ; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1770-95, and other institutions; painter in enamel to the king, 1790; portraitpainter in water-colours and oil.
Robert Crosse: '''Robert Crosse''' ([[1605]]-[[1683]]), puritan divine ; fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, 1627; B.D., 1637; nominated to the assembly of divines, 1643; declined regius professorship of divinity at Oxford, 1648; vicar of Chew Magna, Somerset, c. 1648-83; entered into controversy with Joseph Glanvill on the Aristotelian philosophy; published Aovov dAovut a denial of reason in matters of faith, 1655.
William Crosse: '''William Crosse''' (fl. [[1630]]), poet and translator ; educated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1613; preacher to Sir Edward Horwood's regiment at Cadiz, 1626, and to the company of the Nonsuch at Rochelle, 1630; wrote a boo of verses on the Spanish ware in Holland, 1625; collaborator in Edward Grimestone'sHistoric of the Netherlands 1627; translated Sallust, 1629.
David Crossley: '''David Crossley''' ([[1670]]-[[1744]]).
Sir Francis Crossley: '''Sir Francis Crossley''' ([[181]] 7-1 [[872]]), carpet manufacturer and philanthropist; with his father, John Crossley, and brothers, constituted the firm of J. Cropsley k Sons, carpet manufacturers, Halifax; applied machinery to carpet-making, driving out the hand-looms; mayor of Halifax, 1849 and 1850; M.P. for Halifax, 1852-9, for the West Hiding of Yorkshire, 1H59, for the northeni division of the West Hiding, 1869-72; erected almshouses at Halifax. 1H55; presented a park to the townspeople, 1857; built orphan school on Skircout Moor, 1860; created baronet, 1863; gave 20,0007. to the London Missionary Society, 1870.
James Crossley: '''James Crossley''' ([[1800]]-[[1883]]), author; articled to Thomas Ainsworth, solicitor, 1817: wrote for Blackwood's Magazine and for the Retrospective Review 1820: assisted Lockhart in the Quarterly Review; edited Sir Thomas Browne'sTracts 1822; wrote theFragment on Mummies generally ascribed to Sir Thomas Browne, for Wilkin's edition of that author; partner with Thomas Ainsworth, 1823; president of the Incorporated Law Association of Manchester, 1840 and 1857; president of the Manchester Athenteum, 1847-50; formed Chetham Society, 1843. becoming president, 1848; edited Dr. John Worthington's Diary 1848-52.
Samuel Grossman: '''Samuel Grossman''' ([[1624]]7-[[1684]]), divine and poet; educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge; B.D., 1660; rector of Little Henny, Essex; ejected, 1662; prebendary of Bristol, 1667; dean of Bristol, 1683-4: published homiletic poems and sermons.
Lord Crossrig: '''Lord Crossrig''' ([[1643]]-[[1707]]). See HCMK, Sm
David: '''David'''
Thomas Croston: '''Thomas Croston''' ([[1603]]7-[[1663]]?). See OROX-
Tox: '''Tox'''
William Crotch: '''William Crotch''' ([[1775]]-[[1847]]), composer; performed on the organ in London, 1779; studied at Cambridge, 1786, at Oxford, 1788; organist at Christ Church, Oxford, 1790-1807, at St. John's College, 1787, and at St. Mary's, Oxford; professor of music, 1797-1806; Mus. Doc., 1799; published six etchings of Christ Church, 1809; member of the Philharmonic Society, 1814-19; first principal of the Royal Academy of Music, 1822-32; played the organ at a Handel festival, Westminster Abbey, 1834; composed two oratorios of note,Palestine 1812, and The Captivity of Judah 1834, besides a juvenile work, 'The Captivity of Judah 1789; published anthems, lectures on music, and (1812)Elements of Musical Composition
William Grotty: '''William Grotty''' (d. [[1742]]), Irish highwayman and rapparee; hanged at Waterford.
Anna Maria Crouch: '''Anna Maria Crouch''' ([[1763]]-[[1805]]), vocalist ; nie Phillips; played Mandane in Arne's Artaxerxes 1780; appeared as Clarissa in Lionel and Clarissa 1781, and as Venus in Dryden and Purcell's King Arthur; generally performed at Drury Lane; married Crouch, a lieutenant in the navy, 1785; taught Michael Kelly English, 1787; separated from her husband, 1791; retired from the stage and society, 1801.
Crouch: '''Crouch''' or CROWCH, HUMPHREY (fl. [[1635]]1671), ballad- writer and pamphleteer; published a folio broadside in verse entitledA Whip for the back of a backsliding Brownist 1640?; wrote numerous poems and ballads, including Love's Court of Conscience 1637, 'The Heroic History of Guy, Earl of Warwick,*The Madman's Morris andThe Welch Trareller 1671, as well as a few prose tracts.
John Crouch: '''John Crouch''' (fl. [[1660]]-[[1681]]), royalist verse- writer : probably brother of Humphrey Crouch; at one time servant to Robert Pierrepoint, marquis of Dorchester; author of numerous elegies, panegyrics, and verses on the events of his time.
Nathand Crouch: '''Nathand Crouch''' 3L ([[1632]]7-[[1725]]?), miscellaneous author under initials R. B; apprenticed to a London stationer, 1656; made free of the StationersCompany, 1663; issued several journals.
William Crouch: '''William Crouch''' ([[1628]]-[[1710]]), qaaker ; apprenticed to an upholsterer of Oornhill, 1646; Imprisoned for refusing to pay tithes; declined to be parish constable, 1662; complained of the persecution of his sect to Archbishop Bancroft, 1683; publishedThe Enormous Sin of Oovetousness detected 1708.
Croune: '''Croune''' 304
Croyland: '''Croyland'''
William Crottne: '''William Crottne''' ([[1633]]-[[1684]]).
Francis Crow: '''Francis Crow''' (d. [[1692]]), nonconformist divine ; M.A.; vicar of Hundon, Suffolk; ejected, 1(562; preached at Ovington, Essex, and Bury St. Edmund; retired to Jamaica, 1686; returned to Kssox -upon K. J.-imesV liberty publishedThe Vanity and Impiety of Judicial Astrology in Jamaica, 1690; his Meusalia Sacra published posthumously.

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Hugh Grow: '''Hugh Grow''' ([[1765]]-[[1829]]% voyager; captain of a merchant vessel in the African trade; his Memoirs posthumously published, valuable for their descriptions of the west coast of Africa.
Mitpord Crow: '''Mitpord Crow''' (d. [[1719]]), colonel; as British diplomatic ageut in Catalonia espoused the cause of the Archduke Charles; governor of Barbados, 1707-11; M.P., Southampton; friend of Swift.
Crowder: '''Crowder''' or CROWTHER, ANSELM ([[1588]]-[[1666]]), Benedictine monk; sub-prior and professor of philosophy, Douay; deflnitor, 1621; cathedral prior of Rochester, 1633, of Canterbury, 1657; provincial of Canterbury, 1653-66; died in the Old Bailey; wrote devotional works.
Sir Richard Budden Crowder: '''Sir Richard Budden Crowder''' ([[1795]]-[[1859]]), judge: educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; barrister of Lincoln's Inn, 1821; joined western circuit, 1821; Q.C., 1837; M.P., Liskeard, 1849-54; puisne justice in the court of comuiou pleas and knighted, 1854; counsel to the admiralty and judge-advocate of the fleet.
Catherine Crowe: '''Catherine Crowe''' ([[1800]]9-[[1876]]), novelist and writer on the supernatural; n&e Stevens; chief works, the Night Side of Nature 1848, Spiritualism, and the Age we live in 1859, and two novels, Susan Hopley 1841, and 'Lilly Dawson 1847; translated Kerner'sSeeress of Prevorst 1845.
Eyre Evans Crowe: '''Eyre Evans Crowe''' ([[1799]]-[[1868]]), historian; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; visited Italy, 1822; Paris correspondent of the Morning Chronicle; editor of the Daily News 1849-51; contributed a History of France to Lardner's Encyclopaedia 1830; published The Greek and the Turk 1853, History of Louis XVIII and Charles X 1854, and novels, 1825-53.
Crowe: '''Crowe''' Sm JOSEPH ARCHER ([[1825]]-[[1896]]), journalist, art-critic, and commercial attache; son of Eyre Evans Crowe; became correspondent for Morning Chronicle and DailyNews 1843; correspondent to Illustrated London News in Crimea, and to Times during Indian Mutiny, 1857, and war between Austria and Italy, 1859; consul-general for Saxony, 1860; consul-general for Westphalia and Rhenish Provinces, 1872; commercial attache to embassies at Berlin and Vienna, 1880; commercial attachd for whole of Europe, residing at Paris, 1882; O.B., 1885; K.O.M.Q., 1890; published in collaboration with Cavalcaselle,an Italian painter, works relating to Italian painting.
William Crowe: '''William Crowe''' ([[1616]]-[[1675]]), bibliographer ; educated at Oaius College, Cambridge; chaplain and schoolmaster of the hospital of Holy Trinity, Croydon, 1668-75; committed suicide. His bibliographical work was exclusively concerned with the scriptures.
William Crowe: '''William Crowe''' (d. [[1743]]), divine ; educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge; fellow, 1713; M.A., 1717; D.D., 1728; rector of 8k Botolph's, Bishopsgate, 1730, of Finchley, 1731-43; chaplain in ordinary to George II.; said to have lent his notes on Greek literature to Bentley; published sermons.
William Crowe: '''William Crowe''' ([[1745]]-[[1829]]), poet and divine; scholar of Winchester College, 1758; fellow of New College, Oxford, 1767; B.C.L., 1773; rector of Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, 1787-1829; public orator, Oxford, 1784-1829; lectured on poetry at the Royal Institution; author of Leweadon Hill a poem, 1788, and of several sermons and orations; edited Collins's poems, 1828. 7-1876), Hebrew
John Rustat Crowfoot: '''John Rustat Crowfoot''' ([[1817]] , and Syriac scholar; foundation scholar at Eton; B.A. Oaius College, Cambridge, 1839: fellow, 1840; M.A., 1842; B.D., 1849; curate, Great St. Mary's, Cambridge, 1851-3; vicar of Wangford-cum-Reydon, Suffolk, 1860; issued pamphlets on university matters; travelled in Egypt in search of ByrUc manuscripts of the gospels, 1873; published FragmeuU Evangelica, 1 1870.
Nicholas Joseph Crowley: '''Nicholas Joseph Crowley''' ([[1819]]-[[1857]]), painter: exhibited The Eventful Consultation at the Royal Academy, 1835; member of the Ro3 r al Hibernian Academy, 1838; painted historical pictures and portraits.
Peter Crowley: '''Peter Crowley''' O'NEILL ([[1832]]-[[1867]])! U Feniau I shot in a skirmish with the constabulary at Kilclooney Wood, 1867.
Crole Crowley: '''Crole Crowley''' , or CROLETJS, ROBERT (1518 ?-1588), author, printer, and divine; demy, Magdalen College, Oxford; probationer-fellow and B.A., 1542; printed his metrical version of the Psalms, 1549; printed three impressions of theVision of Pierce Plowman 1550; exile at Frankfort, 1554; returned to England on the death of Queen Mary; archdeacon of Hereford, 1559; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1563; opposed Archbishop Parker on the question of the surplice, 1564; vicar of St. Lawrence Jewry, 1676-8; published a few satirical writings, sermons, and controversial tractates, several of which have been reprinted by the Early English Text Society.
John Crowne: '''John Crowne''' (d. [[1703]]?), dramatist; returned to England from Nova Scotia, whither his father had been compelled to emigrate; became gentleman-usher to a lady early in Charles II's reign; wrote Pandion and Amphigenia (romance), 1666, Juliana, or the Princess of Poland (tragi-oomedy), 1671, and History of Charles the Eighth a rhyming tragedy, 1672; satirised Settle's 'Empress of Morocco 1673; preparedCalisto a court masque, 1676; producedSir Courtly Nice comedy, 1685, 'Darius tragedy, 1688, andDseneids burlesque poem, 1692; publishedThe Married Beau,* a comedy, 1694; wrote songs and a few other dramas, including Thyestes founded on Seneca's play, 1681.
Alfred Crowbill: '''Alfred Crowbill''' (pseudonym) ([[1804]]-[[1872]]).
James Crowther: '''James Crowther''' ([[1768]]-[[1847]]), botanist ; worked as draw-boy at a loom and as porter; assisted J. B. Wood in compiling the Flora Mancuniensis; first to discover the lady's-slipper orchid at Malham, Yorkshire.
Jonathan Crowther: '''Jonathan Crowther''' ([[1760]]-[[1824]]), methodist preacher; sent to Scotland by John Wesley, 1787; president of conference, 1819; president of the Irish conference, 1820; author of two books on methodism and a life of Thomas Coke, D.O.L.
Jonathan Crowther: '''Jonathan Crowther''' ([[1794]]-[[1856]]), Wesleyan minister; nephew of Jonathan Crowther (1760-1824) ; head-master of Kings wood school, Gloucestershire, 1823; general superintendent of the Wesleyan missions in India, 1837-43; classical tutor in the Wesleyan Theological Institution at Didsbury, Lancashire, 1849; examiner at Wesley College, Sheffield.
Samuel Adjai Crowther: '''Samuel Adjai Crowther''' ([[1809]] ?-[[1892]]), negro bishop of the Niger territory from 1864 till death; born of negro parents in the Yoruba country, West Africa; carried off as slave, but recovered by British, 1821; studied at Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone; ordained in England, 1843; missionary in Yoruba country.
Rodney Croxall: '''Rodney Croxall''' (.ft. [[1745]]), brother of Samuel Oroxall; prebendary of Hereford. 1732; treasurer, 1746.
Samuel Croxall: '''Samuel Croxall''' (d. [[1752]]), miscellaneous writer ; educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1717; D.D., 1728; prebendary of Hereford, 1727 and 1730; vicar of St. Mary Somerset and St. Mary Mounthaw, London, 1731-62; archdeacon of Shropshire, 1732; chancellor of Hereford, 1738; built a house with the materials of an ancient chapel in Hereford Cathedral; publishedAn Original Canto of Spencer (*tc) 1713 and 1714 (satire on the Earl of Oxford),The Vision 1715, a translation of Ovid'sMetamorphoses 1717,The Fair Circassian an indelicate adaptation of the Song of Solomon, first printed in 1720, a translation of -rEsop's Fables 1722, andScripture Politics 1735.
Thomas Croxton: '''Thomas Croxton''' ([[1603]] ?-[[1663]] ?), colonel in the parliamentarian army, 1650; militia commissioner for Chester, 1650; defended Chester Castle against Sir George Booth's royalists for three weeks, 1659; arrested for conspiracy, 1663; possibly released.
Roger of Croyland: '''Roger of Croyland''' (d. [[1214]] ?).
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Crystakl: '''Crystakl'''
Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier: '''Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier''' ([[1796]]?1848), navy-captain; went to the Cape of Good Hope as mate of the Doterel sloop, 1818; accompanied Captain Parry in Arctic voyages, 1821-7; lieutenant, 1826; served off Portugal, 1831-5; commander of the Cove, 1837; went with Iloss to explore Antarctic Ocean, 1839; discovered north-west passage in company with Sir John Franklin (record found, 1859); lost in Arctic regions, 1848.
Alexander Cruden: '''Alexander Cruden''' ([[1701]]-[[1770]]), author of the Biblical Concordance: educated at Mariscbal College, Aberdeen; M.A.; amanuensis to the tenth Earl of Derby, 1729; discharged on account of his ignorance of French, 1729; tutor in the Isle of Man; bookseller in the Itoyal Exchange, London, 1732: published his Concordance 1737; became insane, 1738; escaped from confinement, 1738; corrected works of learning for the press; believed himself divinely appointed to reform the nation; received with great respect at Oxford and Cambridge, 1755; wrote pamphlets on his experiences and contemporary events; repulsed by the daughter of Sir Thomas Abney, to whom he paid his addresses, 1755; founded bursary at Marischal College, Aberdeen.
William Cruden: '''William Cruden''' ([[1725]]-[[1785]]), Scottish divine; M.A. Aberdeen, 174S; minister of the Scottish presbyterian church, Covent Garden, 1773; chief work, Nature Spiritualised a book of religious poems.
George Cruikshank: '''George Cruikshank''' ([[1792]]-[[1878]]), artist and caricaturist; son of Isaac Cruikshunk; his earliest important caricatureSir Francis Burdett taken from his house, No. 80 Piccadilly, by warrant of the Speaker of the House of Commons 1810; supplied etchings to The Scourge a satirical periodical, 1811-16, and to "The Meteor 1813-14; produced caricatures of Bonaparte, Joanna Southcott, the purchase of the Elgin marbles, and contemporary events; did much to put an end to the death-penalty for forgery of bank-notes by a cartoon entitledBank-note not to be Imitated 1818; produced coloured etchings for theHumourist(series of tales), 1819-21, and two volumes of etchings for Grimm's 'Popular Tales 1824-6, by some considered his masterpiece; produced Phrenological Illustrations 1826; sub- j stitnted wood-engraving for etching, 1828; issued the firs tn umber of the Comic Almanack 1835; engraved for Dickens's Sketches by Boz 1836 and 1837; designed a cover and supplied 126 plates for Bentley's Miscellany 1837-43; illustrated Ainsworth's Tower of London 1840, and Guy Fawkes 1841, alsoAinsworth'sMagazine 1842-4; claimed, without much show of reason, to have suggested to Dickens the story of Oliver Twist and to Ainsworth the general I plan of theMiser's Daughter startedThe Table I Book a miscellany, 1845; illustrated for it Thackeray's Legend of the Rhine; published The Bottle a famous picture, 1847, andThe Drunkard's Children 1848, in support of the cause of total abstinence; essayed a new Cruikshank's Magazine which he soon dropped, 1854; ! supplied frontispiece to Lowell's Biglow Papers 1859; issued satirical pamphlet against General W. Napier's aspersions on the British volunteers of 1803, 1860, and another against spiritualistic seances, 1863; exhibited oil paintings at the Royal Academy on humorous subjects, such asMoses dressing for the Fair 1830, and, his magnum oput, a cartoon entitled The Worship of Bacchus: or, the Drinking Customs of Society 1862. In the treatment and moral tone of his drawings he resembled Hogarth.
Isaac Cruikshank: '''Isaac Cruikshank''' ([[1766]] 7-[[1811]] ?), caricaturist and water-colour painter; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1790 and 1792; designed frontispiece for the Witticisms and Jests of Dr. Samuel Johnson 1791: executed caricatures of Gillray and Rowlandson type, some political and some social.
Isaac Robert Cruikshank: '''Isaac Robert Cruikshank''' , or ROBERT (1789-1856), caricaturist and miniature-painter; son of Isaac Cruikshank; midshipman in the East India Company's ship Perseverance; gave up a seaman's life for an artist's; satirised social extravagances; published cartoon urging neutrality on England, 1823; illustrated various books dealing with the humours of English, and especially London, life, including the English Spy 1825, and The Orphan a translation of the MathSde of Eugene Sue.
William Cumberland Cruikshank: '''William Cumberland Cruikshank''' ([[1745]]1800), anat.mist; M.A. Glasgow, 1767; French and Italian scholar; assistant to Dr. William Hunter, 1771; partner with Hunter in the Windmill Street school; F.R.S., 1797; proved the effluence of carbolic acid from the skin; chief work, The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body 1786.
William Cruise: '''William Cruise''' (d. [[1824]]), legal writer ; member of Lincoln's Inn, 1773; licensed conveyancer; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1791, a statute of William III, which excluded him as a catholic, having been repealed; published 'An Essay on the Nature and Operation of Fines and Recoveries 1783,A Digest of the Laws of England respecting Real Property 1804, and a few other legal
Jodocus Crull: '''Jodocus Crull''' (d. [[1713]]?), miscellaneous writer; native of Hamburg; M.D. Leyden, 1679; M.D. Cambridge, 1681; L.R.C.P., 1692; translated and compiled for the booksellers; among other bookti translated Pufendorf, On the Nature and Qualification of Religion, in reference to Civil Society 1698, and published an account of The Autient and Present State of Muscovy 1698.
Crumleholme: '''Crumleholme''' or CRUMLUM, SAMUEL ([[1618]]1672).
Henry Crump: '''Henry Crump''' (. [[1382]]), theologian ; Cistercian of the monastery of Baltinglass, co. Wicklow; probably fellow of University College, Oxford; D.D.; preached against Wycliffe's scheme of putting church property under secular control; subscribed to the document condemning Wycliffe's doctrine of the sacrament, 1381; suspended from his academical acts by Robert Rygge , the chancellor, 1382; reinstated by the king, 1382; condemned for heresy and opposition to mendicant orders at Meath, 1385; returned to Oxford; compelled to abjure, 1392; wrote polemics against the friars and a book of scholastic logic, all lost.
Samuel Crumpe: '''Samuel Crumpe''' ([[1766]]-[[1796]]), Irish physician; M.D. Edinburgh, 1788; author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Properties of Opium 1793, and An Essay on the best Means of providing Employment for the People of Ireland 1793.
Lewis Crusius: '''Lewis Crusius''' ([[1701]]-[[1775]]), biographer ; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1737; head-master of the Charterhouse School, 1748-69; prebendary of Worcester, 1751; F.R.S., 1764; rector of Stoke Prior, Worcester, 1754, St. John's, Bedwardine, 1764; prebendary of Brecknock; published The Lives of the Roman Poets a critical and historical work, 1733.
John Cruso: '''John Cruso''' (rf. [[1681]]), civilian; entered Cains College, Cambridge, 1632; fellow; M.A. Oxford, 1639; lost his Cambridge fellowship on account of his royalist views; LL.D., 1662; member of the College of Advocates, 1662; chancellor of St. David's; wrote books on military science and Euribates a drama.
Timothy Cruso: '''Timothy Cruso''' ([[1656]] ?-[[1697]]), presbyterian minister; studied in the Newington Green Academy; M.A. of one of the Scottish universities; pastor at Crutched Friars, 1688; appointed to PinnersHall merchantslectureship, 1694; published homilies and sermons.
Clement Cruttwell: '''Clement Cruttwell''' ([[1743]]-[[1808]]), author and compiler; surgeon at Bath; took orders; published Bishop Wilson's bible and works, with a life, 1786, a 'Concordance of the Parallel Texts of ScriptureGazetteer of France 1793,Gazetteer of the Netherlands 1794, and the Universal Gazetteer 1798.
Richard Cruttwell: '''Richard Cruttwell''' ([[1776]]-[[1846]]), writer on the currency; educated at Exeter College, Oxford; B.C.L., 1803; chaplain of H.M.S. Trident, and secretary to Rearadmiral Sir Alexander John Ball; perpetual curate of Holmfirth, Yorkshire; rector of Spexhall, Suffolk, 1822-46; wrote Treatise on the State of the Currency (against Ricardo), 1825, The System of Country Banking defended 1828, Reform without Revolution 1839, and other works on monetary and social questions.
Crystal: '''Crystal''' !, THOMAS (d. [[1536]]), abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Kinloss, Morayshire: recommended in youth by his musical talent to Galbraith, abbot of Kinloss; novice, 1487; monk, 1488; abbot, 1499; recovered by legal processes the property of his foundation; erected X
Cubbon: '''Cubbon''' 306
Ctjlltjm: '''Ctjlltjm''' mills at Strathisla and repaired abbey buildings of Kinloss; benefactor of monastery mid church at Ellon; as visitor of his order restored the foundations of Deer and Culross; patronised learning.
Cubbon: '''Cubbon''' Sm MARK ([[1784]]-[[1861]]), commissioner of Mysore; cadet, Madras infantry, 1800; captain, 1816; deputy commissary-general, Madras Presidency, 1822, and a commissioner to inquire into Mysore rebellion, 1831; colonel, 1831; commissioner of Mysore, 1834-61; lieutenant-general, 1852; K.C.B., 1859; died at Suez on his way home, 1861.
Joseph Cubitt: '''Joseph Cubitt''' ([[1811]]-[[1872]]), civil engineer ; son of Sir William Cubitt; constructed the Great Northern railway, the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, and part of the London and South- Western; built the new Blackfriars Bridge.
Thomas Ctibitt: '''Thomas Ctibitt''' ([[1788]]-[[1855]]), builder ; In early life made a voyage to India as ship-carpenter; master carpenter in London, 1809; built the London Institution, Pinsbury Circus, 1815; carried out building operations in London; built east front of Buckingham Palace; supported Thames embankment scheme; guaranteed a sum of money to the Great Exhibition of 1851; much interested in sewage questions.
Sir William Cubitt: '''Sir William Cubitt''' ([[1785]]-[[1861]]), civil engineer; invented self-regulating windmill sails, 1807; chief engineer of Messrs. Ransome's establishment, Ipswich, 1812-21; partner, 1821-6; invented the treadmill, 1818; constructed Oxford canal and the Liverpool Junction canal; F.R.S., 1830; constructed docks at Cardiff and Middlesborough; constructed South-Eastern railway; consulting engineer to the Great Northern railway and to the Boulogne and Amiens railway; constructed the waterworks of Berlin; president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1850, 1851; knighted, 1851.

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William Cubitt: '''William Cubitt''' ([[1791]]-[[1863]]), lord mayor of London; partner in the building firm of his brother, Thomas Oubitt, at Gray's Inn Road; subsequently sole proprietor; M.P., Andover, 1847-61, 1862; sheriff of London, 1847; lord mayor, 1860-1, 1861-2; president of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Ambrose Cuddon: '''Ambrose Cuddon''' (fl. [[1827]]), Roman catholic publisher and journalist; began the publication ofThe Catholic Miscellany 1822; publishedA Complete Modern British Martyrology 1824-5.
Richard Cudmoee: '''Richard Cudmoee''' ([[1787]]-[[1840]]), musician ; pupil of Salomon; led the band at the Chichester Theatre, 17991808; solo pianist and violinist in London after 1808; led the Gentlemen's Concerts, Manchester; composed The Martyr of Antioch an oratorio.
Ralph Ctjdworth: '''Ralph Ctjdworth''' ([[1617]]-[[1688]]), divine; M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1639; fellow and tutor, 1639; master of Clare Hall, 1645; regius professor of Hebrew, 1645-88; presented to the living of North Cadbury, Somerset, 1650; D.D., 1651; master of Christ's College, Cambridge, 1654; consulted with a committee of the House of Commons on a proposed revision of the translation of the bible, 1657; originated theory of a plastic nature to combat doctrines of chance and constant divine interference; chief works, The True Intellectual System of the Universe 1678, and aTreatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality published posthumously.
Cuff: '''Cuff''' or CUFFE, HBNRY ([[1563]]-[[1601]]), author and politician; scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, 1578; fellow 1683; tutor at Mertou, 1586: M.A., 1589; lecturer at Queen's College; professor of Greek, 1590-6; accompanied Essex to Cadiz as secretary, 1596; faithful to his master when in disgrace, but a reckless adviser; imprisoned for complicity in Essex's treason, 1601; executed, 1601. Cuff wroteThe Differences of the Ages of Man's Life 1600, and assisted Columbanus in his edition of Longus's Pastoral of Daphnia and Ohloe
James Dodsley Cuff: '''James Dodsley Cuff''' ([[1780]]-[[1853]]), numismatist; employed in the Bank of England; F.S. A.; contributed descriptions of coins to Hearne'sSupplement* to Ainslie'sIllustrations of the Anglo-French Coinage 1830.
Cuit: '''Cuit''' or CUITT, GEORGE, the elder ([[1743]]-[[1818]]), painter; sent to study in Italy by Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1769: exhibitedThe Infant Jupiter fed with goat's milk and honey at the Royal Academy, 1776.
George Cuitt: '''George Cuitt''' , the younger ([[1779]]-[[1864]]), etcher; son of George Cuit, or Ouitt, the elder; published etchings of anctent buildings in England and Wales, 1810.
Robert Culbertson: '''Robert Culbertson''' ([[1766]]-[[1823]]), Scottish divine; educated at Edinburgh University; pastor of the associate congregation, Leith, 1791; editor of theChristian Magazine and author of secessionist treatises of divinity.
Culen: '''Culen''' or COLIN ([[967]]-[[971]] ?), king of Scotland ; defeated Dubh, who had taken the crown by the law of tanistry, 967; slain by the Britons, 971.
Patrick Culln: '''Patrick Culln''' (d. [[1534]]), bishop of Clogher ; prior of St. John without Newgate, in Dublin, till 1531; bishop of Clogher, 1516; compiled a register of the antiquities of his church, 1525.
Lords Cullen: '''Lords Cullen''' . See GRANT, SIR FRANCIS, [[1658]]: 1726; CULLEN, ROBERT, d. 1810.
Paul Cullen: '''Paul Cullen''' ([[1803]]-[[1878]]), cardinal; studied at Carlow College and in the Urban College of the Propa j ganda, Rome; made a doctor by the pope in person, 1 828; priest, 1829; rector of the Irish College, Rome; rector of the Propaganda College, 1848-9, which he saved from j Mazzini by placing it under American protection, 1848; archbishop of Armagh, 1849-52; summoned synod of Irish catholic clergy at Thurles, 1850; archbishop of Dublin, 1852; delegate apostolic for the foundation of a catholic university in Ireland; opposed the Fenian brotherhood; cardinal-priest, 1866; presided at the synod of Maynooth, 1875.
Robert Cullen: '''Robert Cullen''' , LORD OULLEN (d. [[1810]]), Scottish judge; son of William Oullen; educated at Edinburgh University; advocate, 1764; introduced bill for reform of Scottish representation, 1785; lord of session, 1796; lord justiciary, 1799.
William Cullen: '''William Cullen''' ([[1710]]-[[1790]]), physician ; studied at Glasgow University; studied at the Edinburgh Medical School, 1734-6; M.D. Glasgow, 1740; professor of medicine, Glasgow, 1751-5; professor of chemistry, Edinburgh, 1756; i clinical lecturer, 1757; professor of the theory of physic, 1 1766; president of the Edinburgh College of Physicians, 1773-5; F.R.S., 1777; attacked by John Brown (17351788), founder of the Brunonian system; chief works, An Essay on the Cold produced by Evaporating Fluids 1755, and First Lines of the Practice of Physic 1776-84.
George Culley: '''George Culley''' ([[1735]]-[[1813]]), cattle-breeder ; pupil of Bakewell; author of works on agriculture,
Isaac Cullimore: '''Isaac Cullimore''' ([[1791]]-[[1852]]), egyptologist ; began to publish the oriental seals and cylinders of the British Museum, 1842.
Sir Dudley Cullum: '''Sir Dudley Cullum''' , third baronet ([[1657]]-[[1720]]), horticultural writer; grandson of Sir Thomas Cullum ; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1675; corresponded with Evelyn; recorded his horticultural experiments at Hawsted, Suffolk, in the Philosophical Transactions 1694; high sheriff, 1690; M.P., 1702.
Sir John Cullum: '''Sir John Cullum''' , sixth baronet ([[1733]]-[[1785]]), anti j quary and divine of Hardwick, Suffolk; educated at ! Catharine Hall, Cambridge; fourth junior optime, 1756; fellow; rector of Hawsted, 1762; vicar of Great Thurlow, I 1774; F.S.A., 1774; F.R.S., 1775; published The History and Antiquities of Hawsted and Hardwick in the County of Suffolk; an accomplished botanist.
Sir Thomas Cullum: '''Sir Thomas Cullum''' ([[1687]]?-[[1664]]), sheriff of j London; apprenticed to John Rayney, draper; alderman and member of the DrapersCompany; sheriff, 1646; imprisoned in the Tower as a royalist, 1647; created baronet, 1660; compelled to disburse a large sum, 1663, in connection with the excise, of which he had formerly been commissioner.
Sir Thomas Gery Cullum: '''Sir Thomas Gery Cullum''' ([[1741]]-[[1831]]), Bath 1 king-at-arms; educated at the Charterhouse; member of the Corporation of Surgeons, 1800; practised at Bury St. Edmunds; printed privatelyFlorae Anglicse Specimen imperfectum et ineditum 1774.
Oulmer: '''Oulmer''' 307
Gundy: '''Gundy'''
Richard Cttlmer: '''Richard Cttlmer''' (.*. [[1660]]), fanatical diviue ; educated at the King's School, Canterbury; B.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1619; rector of Goodnestone, Kent, 1630; suspended for refusing to read the Book of Sabbath Sports 1635; rector of Ohartham, Kent, 1643; appointed by the parliament to destroy the monuments and stained glass of Canterbury Cathedral, 1643; appointed to the living of Minster, Thanet, 1644; excited great dislike by his fanaticism and personal peculiarities; ejected, 1660; arrested for supposed complicity In Venner's conspiracy, but liberated.
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Nicholas Culpeper: '''Nicholas Culpeper''' ([[1616]]-[[1654]]), writer on astrology and medicine; astrologer and physician in Spitalfields, 1640; fought for parliament in civil war; published a translation of the College of Physicians Pharmacopeia for which he was virulently lampooned, 1649; published The English Physician Enlarged 1653, 'Semeiotica Uranica 1651, and other quaint medleys of astrology and medicine; many of his manuscripts published posthumously.
Sir Thomas Culpeper: '''Sir Thomas Culpeper''' , the elder ([[1578]]-[[1662]]), writer on usury; entered Hart Hall, Oxford, 1591; student at one of the Inns of Court; knighted, 1619; published Tract against the high rate of Usurie 1621.
Sir Thomas Culpeper: '''Sir Thomas Culpeper''' , the younger ([[1626]]-[[1697]]), writer on usury; son of Sir Thomas Culpeper (15781662); B.A. University College, Oxford, 1643; probationer-fellow All SoulsCollege; knighted; wrote pamphlets against usury.
Nathanael Culverwel: '''Nathanael Culverwel''' (d. [[1651]]?), divine ; M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1640: fellow, 1642; author of theLight of Nature 1662; one of the Cambridge platoiiists.
David Culy: '''David Culy''' (d. [[1725]]), sectary ; founded the Culimite sect of anabaptists.
Dukes of Cumberland: '''Dukes of Cumberland''' . See RUPERT, [[1619]]1682; GEORGE, PRINCE OF DENMARK, 1653-1708; WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, 1721-1765; HENRY FREDERICK, 17451790; ERNEST AUGUSTUS, 1771-1851.
Earls of Cumberland: '''Earls of Cumberland''' . See CLIFFORD, HENRY DE, first EARL, 1493-1542; CLIFFORD, HENRY DE, second EARL, d. 1670; CLIFFORD, GEORGE, third EARL, 15581605; CLIFFORD, HENRY, fifth EARL, 1591-1643.
Countess of Cumberland: '''Countess of Cumberland''' ([[1560]] ?-[[1616]]). See
Margaret Clifford: '''Margaret Clifford''' .
Richard Cumberland: '''Richard Cumberland''' ([[1631]]-[[1718]]), bishop of Peterborough; educated at St. Paul's School and at Magdalene College, Cambridge; fellow, 1656; M.A., 1666; M.A. Oxford, 1657; B.D. Cambridge, 1663; rector of Brampton, Northamptonshire, 1658-67; respondent at the public commencement, Cambridge, 1680; bishop of Peterborough, 1691; published De Legibns Naturae Disquisitio philosophica 1672, in opposition to the doctrines of Hobbes; author of a translation of Sanchoniatho, published 1720.
Richard Cumberland: '''Richard Cumberland''' ([[1732]]-[[1811]]), dramatist; great-grandson of Richard Cumberland (163 1-1 718); educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge; fellow-; private secretary to Lord Halifax in the board of trade; Ulster secretary, 1761; clerk of reports in the board of trade; secretary to the board of trade, c. 1776; sent to Spain to arrange a separate treaty with England, 1780; wrote pieces of the sentimental comedy type, his best play being the West Indian acted 1771; with Sir James Bland Burges wrote an epic called the Exodiad 1808; author of some tragedies, a translation of Greek comic fragments, and the Clouds of Aristophanes, two novels, Arundel 1789, and Henry 1795, and the Observer, 1 a periodical.
Richard Francis Cumberland: '''Richard Francis Cumberland''' G. ([[1792]]1870), captain; grandson of Richard Cumberland (17321811); captain 3rd foot guards, 1814; aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington in Peninsula.
Cumu: '''Cumu''' fE AILBHE or FINN ([[657]] ?-[[669]] ?), seventh abbot of Hy; of the race of Conall Gulban; attempted to introduce into the ancient Irish church the Roman cycle for calculating Easter; author of a life of St. Oolnmba, published by Mabillon, 1733; his day, 24 Feb.
Cumino: '''Cumino'''
Cuming: '''Cuming''' or GUMMING, SIR ALEXANDER ([[1690]]?1776), chief of the Cherokees; called to the Scottish bar, 1714; sailed to America, 1729; chosen lawgiver of the Cherokee nation, 1730; presented seven Cherokee chiefs in audience to George II, 1730; drew up an 4 agreement* with them in the name of the British nation, 1730; ineffectually proposed to settle Jewish families in the Cherokee mountains; accused of having defrauded settlers of South Carolina; imprisoned, 1737; poor brother of the Charterhouse, 1765.
Hugh Ouming: '''Hugh Ouming''' ([[1791]]-[[1866]]), naturalist ; sail-maker at Valparaiso, 1819; collected shells and living orchids in the Pacific, on the coast of Chili, and in the Philippine islands, 1835; finally returned to England, 1839.
Gumming: '''Gumming'''
Alexander Gumming: '''Alexander Gumming''' ([[1733]]-[[1814]]), mathematician and mechanic; F.R.S.; wrote largely on the mechanical laws and action of wheels.
Sir Arthur Gumming: '''Sir Arthur Gumming''' ([[1817]]-[[1893]]), admiral ; studied at Royal Naval College, Portsmouth; mate and lieutenant, 1840; served with distinction off South America; commander, 1846; captain, 1854; served in Baltic, 1864, and Black Sea, 1855-6; with Channel fleet, 1859-63; C.B., 1867; commander-in-chief in East Indies, 1872-6; vice-admiral, 1876; admiral, 1880; K.O.B., 1887.
James Gumming: '''James Gumming''' (d. [[1827]]), official in the India Office; head of the revenue and judicial department under the board of control, 1807-23; collaborator hi a House of Commons report on the government of Madras.
James Gumming: '''James Gumming''' ([[1777]]-[[1861]]), professor of chemistry at Cambridge; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1801; fellow, 1803; professor of chemistry, 1815-60; an independent discoverer of thermo-electricity, publishing A Manual of Electro-Dynamics 1827.
John Gumming: '''John Gumming''' ([[1807]]-[[1881]]), divine; M.A. Aberdeen, 1827; licensed to preach, 1832; appointed to the National Scottish Church at Crown Court, Covent Garden, 1832; took part in Maynooth controversy, 1845; opponent ofpapal aggression 1860; published (1848-70) books on the Apocalypse, maintaining that thelast vial was to be poured out between 1848 and 1867.
Cummd: '''Cummd''' fG, JOSEPH GEORGE ([[1812]]-[[1868]]), geologist and divine; senior op time, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1834; vice-principal of King William's College, Isle of Man, 1841-56; warden and professor, Queen's College, Birmingham, 1858; rector of Mellis, Suffolk, 1862-7; wrote on the history and geology of the Isle of Man, 1848.
Roualeyn George Gordon Gumming: '''Roualeyn George Gordon Gumming''' - ([[1820]]1866), African lion-hunter; cornet, Madras cavalry, 18381840; joined the Cape mounted rifles, 1843; resigned, to take up a sportsman's life, 1843; published on his return to England Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa 1850.
Thomas Gumming: '''Thomas Gumming''' (d. [[1774]]), quaker ; successfully organised expedition against French posts in South Barbary.

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William Gumming: '''William Gumming''' (fl. [[1797]]-[[1823]]), portraitpainter; one of the first fourteen academicians of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1821.
William Gumming: '''William Gumming''' ([[1822]] ?-[[1866]]), pioneer of modern ophthalmology; demonstrated that light falling on the retina might be reflected back to an observer's eye, 1846.
Sir Samuel Cunard: '''Sir Samuel Cunard''' ([[1787]]-[[1865]]), shipowner; merchant at Halifax, Nova Scotia; established British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 1839; F.R.G.S., 1846; created baronet, 1859.
James Gundy: '''James Gundy''' ([[1792]]-[[1826]]), sculptor ; sou of Thomas Cundy the elder
Joseph Gundy: '''Joseph Gundy''' ([[1796]]-[[1875]]), architect in Belgravia ; son of Thomas Oundy the elder
Gundy: '''Gundy''' 308
Cunningham: '''Cunningham'''
Nicholas Wiloocks Cundy: '''Nicholas Wiloocks Cundy''' (ft. [[1778]]), architect; brother of Thomas Oundy the elder; designed the Pantheon, Oxford Street, London.
Samuel Cunly: '''Samuel Cunly''' (d. [[1866]]), architect ; son of James Candy; employed on restorations at Westminster Abbey and St. Albans.
Thomas Cundy: '''Thomas Cundy''' , the elder ([[1765]]-[[1825]]), architect and builder. His name is associated with Ha warden Castle, Siou House,.Osterley Fark, and other famous buildings.
Thomas Cundy: '''Thomas Cundy''' , the younger ([[1790]]-[[1867]]), architect; son of Thomas Oundy (1765-1825); surveyor to Earl Qrosvenor's London estates, 1825-66; built numerous churches in west end of London.
Cungab: '''Cungab''' or CYNGAK, SAINT (fl, [[500]] ?), anchorite ; Raid to have been the son of an emperor of Constantinople; founded oratories at Congresbury in Somerset and Morgan wy in Glamorganshire; granted land by King Iva.
Cuningham: '''Cuningham''' See also CUNNINGHAM and Cux YNU
Ham: '''Ham'''
Cuningham: '''Cuningham''' or KENINGHAM, WILLIAM Of- 1586), physician, astrologer, and engraver; M.B. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1557; M.D. Heidelberg, 1559; public lecturer at SurgeonsHall, 1563; chief works, The Cosmographicall Glasse 1559, Commentaria in Hippocratem and Organographia
Cunliffe: '''Cunliffe''' -OWEN, SIR FRANCIS PHILIP ([[1828]]1894).
Alexander Cunningham: '''Alexander Cunningham''' , first EARL OF GLEN-
Cairn: '''Cairn''' (d. [[1488]]), lord of parliament with the title Lord Kilmaurs, c. 1450; created Earl of Gleucairn, 1488; slain at the battle of Sauchieburn, 1488.
Alexander Cunningham: '''Alexander Cunningham''' , fifth EARL OF GLEN-
Cairn: '''Cairn''' (d. [[1574]]), principal promoter of the reformation in Scotland; surrendered by his father as pledge for performance of treaty against England, 1544; invited Knox to return from Geneva, 1557; prevented the queen-regent of Scotland from advancing against the Scottish reformers in Perth, 1559; signed letter to Queen Elizabeth for assistance against the queen-regent, 1559; ambassador to England to claim aid from Elizabeth in repelling French invasion, 1560; commissioned to destroy the monasteries and monuments of idolatry in western Scotland, 1561; privy councillor of Scotland, 1561; declared guilty of lesemajesty for not appearing before Mary Queen of Scots to answer a charge of rebellion in having accompanied Moray in an attack on Edinburgh, 1565; commanded the insurgents under the Earl of Morton; commanded a division at Langside, 1568; nominated for the regency, but defeated by the Earl of Morton, 1671.
Alexander Cunningham: '''Alexander Cunningham''' ([[1655]] ?-[[1730]]), critic ; educated in Holland and at Edinburgh; professor of civil law, Edinburgh, 1698; ousted for political reasons, 1710; retired to the Hague, 1710; attacked Bentley's edition of Horace, 1721; published an edition of Horace, 1721; friend of Burmann and Leclerc; famous as a chess-player; edited Virgil, published, 1743, and Phaedrus, published, 1757.
Alexander Cunningham: '''Alexander Cunningham''' ([[1654]]-[[1737]]), historian; sometimes confused with Alexander Cunningham, (1655 7-1730); tutor to John, marquis of Lome, 1697: employed by William III as a spy upon the French military preparations, 1701; travelling tutor to Lord Lonsdalein Italy, 1711; British envoy to Venice, 1715-20; wrote in Latin a history of Great Britain from the Revolution in 1688 to the accession of George I which was translated and published in 1787.
Sir Alexander Cunningham: '''Sir Alexander Cunningham''' ([[1703]]-[[1785]]). See
Dick: '''Dick'''
Sir Alexander Cunningham: '''Sir Alexander Cunningham''' ([[1814]]-[[1893]]), soldier and archaeologist; son of Allan Cunningham (17841842); educated at Christ's Hospital and Addiscombe; second-lieutenant, Bengal engineers, 1831; aidede-camp to Lord Auckland, 1836; executive engineer to King of Oudh, 1840, and at Gwalior, 1844-5; field-engineer in first Sikh war, 1846, and in second, 1848-9; lieutenant-colonel; chief engineer in Burmab, 1856-8, and in north-western provinces, 1858-61; retired as major general, 1861; archaeological surveyor to government of India, 1861-5; director-general of Indian archajolosrical survey, 1870-85; O.S.I., 1871; C.I.E., 1878; K.C.I.E., 1887; published valuable treatises on Indian archaeology and numismatics, including The Ancient Geography of India (Buddhist period), 1871, andCoins of Mediaeval India posthumously, 1894.

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Allan Cunningham: '''Allan Cunningham''' ([[1791]]-[[1839]]), botanist; botanical collector to the royal gardens, Kew, 1814; travelled on a botanical expedition in South America, 1815, in Australia, 1817, and subsequently in Tasmania: declined post of colonial botanist to New South Wales in favour of his brother Richard, 1832; colonial botanist on his brother's death, 1835; reached Sydney, 1836; resigned, 1836; buried at Sydney.
Allan Cunningham: '''Allan Cunningham''' ([[1784]]-[[1842]]), miscellaneous writer; friend of Hogg the Ettrick shepherd; provided R. H. Cromek with old ballads of his own composition, 1809; published in London Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song 1810; parliamentary reporter to the 'Day 1810-14; secretary to Francis Chantrey, 1814-41; contributed Recollections of Mark Macrabin, the Cameronian to * Blackwood's Magazine 1819-21; published Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry 1822,The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern," including the famous A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea 1825,Lives of the most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects 1829-33, and an edition of Burns, 1834.
Sir Charles Cunningham: '''Sir Charles Cunningham''' ([[1765]]-[[1834]]), rearadmiral; first lieutenant of the Hinchingbroke with Nelson, 1779; attached to Mediterranean fleet on outbreak of war with France, 1793; practically ended the mutiny at the Nore, 1797; rear-admiral, 1829; knight commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, 1832.
Cunningham: '''Cunningham''' or CALZE, EDMUND FRANCIS (1742 ?-1795), portrait-painter; son of a Jacobite refugee; studied in Italy; exhibited at the Royal Academy under the name Oalze, 1770-81; entered the service of Catharine II of Russia; went to Berlin, 1788; painted portraits of Frederick the Great's court.
Francis Cunningham: '''Francis Cunningham''' ([[1820]]-[[1876]]), commentator on Ben Jonson; son of Allan Cunningham (1784-1842) j; field-engineer at Jellalabad; member of the Mysore ; commission; edited Marlowe, 1870, Massinger, 1871, and Ben Jouson, 1871.
James Cunningham: '''James Cunningham''' (d. [[1709]] ?), botanist ; surgeon i to the East India Company's factory, Emotii, China, 1698; escaped massacre at Pulo Condore, 1705; driven from i Banjar-Massin by a native rising, 1707; chief of Banjar, 1707, under the East India Company; botanical collector in China; author of meteorological and geographical papers.
James Cunningham: '''James Cunningham''' , fourteenth EARL OF GLEN-
Cairn: '''Cairn''' ([[1749]]-[[1791]]), friend of Burns ; captain in the West Fencible regiment, 1778; Scottish representative peer, ! 1780.
Sir John Cunningham: '''Sir John Cunningham''' (d. [[1684]]), lawyer ; defended Argyll, 1661: created baronet of Nova Scotia, 1669: suspended by Charles II for maintaining the right of appeal from the court of session to parliament, 1674; M.P. for Ayrshire, 1681.
John Cunningham: '''John Cunningham''' ([[1729]]-[[1773]]), poet; published Love in a Mist a farce, 1747; strolling actor; author of The Contemplatist 1762, Fortune, an Apologue 1765, and Poems, chiefly Pastoral 1766.
John Cunningham: '''John Cunningham''' ([[1819]]-[[1893]]), historian ; edui cated at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities; minister of Crieff, Perthshire, 1846-86; successfully advocated introduction of instrumental music into church, 1867; modeI rator of general assembly and principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews, 1886; D.D. Edinburgh, 1860; LL.D. Glasgow, 1886; honorary LL.D. Dublin, 1887; published 'Church History of Scotland 1859. and other works.
John William Cunningham: '''John William Cunningham''' ([[1780]]-[[1861]]), evangelical divine; fifth wrangler, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1802; fellow, 1802; vicar of Harrow, 1811-61; editor of the Christian Observer, 1860-8; wrote on missions and religious work.
Cunningham: '''Cunningham''' 300
Cubran: '''Cubran'''
Joseph Davey Cunningham: '''Joseph Davey Cunningham''' ([[1812]]-[[1851]]), historian of the Sikhs; son of Allun Cunningham (1784-1842) ; nominated to the Bengal engineers, 1831; fortifu 1 -! Firozpur, 1 H37; entrusted with various important missions in the Sikh country; fought at Sobraon; captain, 1845: political agent at Bhopal, 1846: published History of the Sikhs 1849; removed for having revealed governmental secrets in his History 1860.
Peter Cunningham: '''Peter Cunningham''' (d. [[1805]]), poet ; curate at Eyam, near the Peak, 1775-90 V; author of Leith Hill 1789, and of St. Anne's Hill 1800.
Pethr Cunningham: '''Pethr Cunningham''' ([[1816]]-[[1869]]), author and critic; son of Allan Cunningham (1784-1842); educated at Christ's Hospital; chief clerk in the audit office; treasurer of the Shakespeare Society; edited Walpole's 'Letters 1857, and the works of Drummond of Hawthornden, 1833; compiled a Handbook to London 1849.
Peter Miller Cunningham: '''Peter Miller Cunningham''' ([[1789]]-[[1864]]), navy surgeon; assistant-surgeon to the English fleet off Spain, 1810; surgeon, 1814; surgeon-superintendent of convict ships sailing to New South Wales; failed as settler in Australia; served at Alexandria, 1840; wrote Two Years In New South Wales 1827, and a book on the influence of galvanic action on the human constitution, 1834.
Richard Cunningham: '''Richard Cunningham''' ([[1793]]-[[1835]]), botanist; colonial botanist at Sydney, 1833-6; murdered by natives.
Thomas Mounsey Cunningham: '''Thomas Mounsey Cunningham''' ([[1776]]-[[1834]]), Scottish poet; foreman superintendent of Fowler's chain cable manufactory, London; contributed to the Scots Magazine 1806, and to theEdinburgh Magazine 1817; author ofThe Hills oQallowa and other songs and satires.
Timothy Cunningham: '''Timothy Cunningham''' (d. [[1789]]), antiquarian ; F.S.A., 1761; founded Cunningham prize in Royal Irish Academy; compiled legal and antiquarian works.
William Cunningham: '''William Cunningham''' , fourth EARL OF GLEN-
Cairn: '''Cairn''' (d. [[1547]]), lord high treasurer of Scotland, [[1526]] ; sent to France to conclude a treaty for James V's marriage with Mary of Guise, 1538; taken prisoner at Sol way Moss, 1542; supported the reformers; acknowledged Henry VIII as protector of Scotland, 1544; defeated by the Earl of Arran, 1544; treacherously lost the battle of Coldingham in the interests of England, 1544; went over to the queen-regent, 1544.
William Cunningham: '''William Cunningham''' , ninth EARL OF GLEN-
Cairn: '''Cairn''' ([[1610]] ?-[[1664]]), privy councillor and commissioner of the treasury, 1641: lord justice-general, 1646; privy to the attempted rescue of Charles I, 1648; commissioned by Charles II to command the lung's forces in Scotland, 1653; defeated at Dunkeld, 1654; arrested by Monck, 1655; excepted from Cromwell'sgrace and pardon chancellor of Glasgow University, 1660; lord chancellor of Scotland, 1661.

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William Cunningham: '''William Cunningham''' ([[1805]]-[[1861]]), church leader and theologian; educated at Edinburgh University; minister of Trinity College Church, Edinburgh, 1834; D.D. Princeton, New Jersey, 1842; professor of church history in the Free church, New College, 1845; principal, 1847; Calvinist controversialist and writer ofHistorical Theology
William Cunnington: '''William Cunnington''' ([[1754]]-[[1810]]), antiquary; F.S.A.; excavated numerous barrows in Wiltshire.
Cunobelinu: '''Cunobelinu''' 8 (d. 43 ?), British king ; supposed son of Oassivelaunus; ally of Augustus and paramount ruler of Britain. Shakespeare's Cymbeline is named after him, but is not historical.
Sir Arthur Augustus Thur Cunynghame: '''Sir Arthur Augustus Thur Cunynghame''' -
Low: '''Low''' ([[1812]]-[[1884]]), general ; second lieutenant 60th royal rifles, 1830; aide-de-camp to Lord Saltoun, 1841; present at the investment of Nankin; brevet-colonel, 1854; fought at Inkermann and held the fortress of Kertch, 1855; K.C.B., 1869; commanded in South Africa, 1874-8; general, 1877.
William Cure: '''William Cure''' (d. [[1632]]), statuary ; master-mason to James I; worked under Inigo Jones at the Banqueting House, Whitehall
Sir Charles Cureton: '''Sir Charles Cureton''' ([[1826]]-[[1891]]), general; son of Charles Robert Oureton; ensign in East India Company's army, 1843; major-general, 1870; general, 1888; served in Sutlej and Punjab and north-west frontier campaigns, 1846-52; in Indian Mutiny, 1857, and in north-west frontier campaign, 1860; commanded Oude division, Bengal army, 1879-84; K.C.B., 1891.
Charles Robert Cureton: '''Charles Robert Cureton''' ( [[1789]]- [[1848]]),' brigadier-general; ensign in Shropshire militia, 1806; lieutenant; fled from creditors and enlisted, 1808; served in Peninsular war; gazetted ensign in 40th foot, 1814; lieutenant 20th li-ht dragoons, 1816; adjutant, 1816; captain, 16th lancers, 1826; major, 1833; brevet colonel, 1846; served in India, 1822-6, Afghanistan, 1839, and Gwalior campaign, 1843; C.B., 1844; commanded cavalry in Satlaj campaign, 1846; colonel and aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, 1846; adjutant-general in East Indies, 1846; killed in action at Ramnagar in second Sikh war.
Edward Burgoyne Cureton: '''Edward Burgoyne Cureton''' ([[1822]]-[[1894]]), lieutenant-general; son of Charles Robert Oureton; ensign, 13th foot, 1839; major-general, 1878; colonel, 12th lancers, 1892; served in India and in the Kaffir and Crimean wars.
William Cureton: '''William Cureton''' ([[1808]]-[[1864]]), Syriac scholar ; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1833; D.O.L., 1868; chaplain of Christ Church; chaplain in ordinary to the queen, 1847; canon of Westminster, 1849-64; discovered (1846), when assistant-keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum, the epistles of St. Ignatius among manuscripts from the Nitrian monasteries, also theCuretonian Gospels; edited Arabic texts.
Hippolitus Curle: '''Hippolitus Curle''' ([[1592]]-[[1638]]), Scottish Jesuit ; studied in the Scots seminary, Douay; rector, 1633.
Henry Curling: '''Henry Curling''' ([[1803]]-[[1864]]), novelist; captain in the 52nd foot.
Edmund Curli: '''Edmund Curli''' ([[1675]]-[[1747]]), bookseller; pamphleteer during the Sacheverell controversy, 1710; offended Pope by ascribing to him the authorship of Court Poems 1716; published a pirated edition of the trial of the Earl of Wintoun, 1716; convicted of printing j immoral books, 1725; claimed to have unearthed a plot ! against the government, but was ignored, 1728; accused by Pope of selling forged letters under the name of Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for thirty years 1735; published among other books Swift's Meditation upon a Broomstick 1710, John Bale'sDiscourse 1720, and Betterton's History of the English Stage from the Restoration to the Present Times," 1741.
Walter Ctjrll: '''Walter Ctjrll''' ([[1575]]-[[1647]]), bishop of Winchester; entered at Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1592; fellow; D.D., 1612; chaplain to James I; dean of Lichfield, 1621; bishop of Rochester, 1628-9*; bishop of Bath and Wells, 1629; bishop of Winchester, 1632; helped to defend Winchester Castle against Cromwell, 1645; compelled to surrender and deprived of his private property and episcopal income, 1645.
John Philpot Curran: '''John Philpot Curran''' ([[1750]]-[[1817]]), Irish judge; sizar at Trinity College, Dublin, 1769; studied law at the Middle Temple, 1773; studied declamation in private; called to the Irish bar, 1775; gained a verdict for Neale, a Roman catholic priest, who sued Lord Doneraile for assault, 1780; king's counsel, 1782; M.P., Kilbeggan, 1 Westmeath, 1783; joined Grattan's party; M.P., liathcorj mac, co. Cork; spoke in favour of Flood's motion for pari liamentary reform, 1783; fought a duel with Fitzgibbon, ( an old friend, in consequence of a quarrel at a debate on the abuse of attachments in the king's bench, 1785; reI fused at the price of a judgeship to vote for the adoption by the Irish parliament of Pitt's measure limiting the power of the regent, 1786; spoke on the question of the Portugal trade, 1786; lost his chancery practice in consequence of the hostility of Fitzgibbou (then chancellor and Lord Clare), 1789: attacked the extravagance of the administration, and was indirectly led thereby into fighting one of his five duels, 1790; spoke on Roman catholic disabilities, 1792; defended Archibald Hamilton Rowan, secretary of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen, when prosecuted for a seditious publication, 1794; spoke on the disarming of Ulster, 1797; supported Ponsonby's scheme for parliamentary reform and catholic emancipation,
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Cusins: '''Cusins''' 1797; defended all the leaders of the United Irishmen conspiracy when brought to trial, 1798; refused to be intimidated; sympathised with Robert Emmet's insurrection of 1803; troubled by domestic misfortunes; appointed master of the rolls, with a seat in the privy council, by the whig ministry of 1806; a famous orator.
Frances Mary Richardson Cueeee: '''Frances Mary Richardson Cueeee''' ([[1785]]- j 1861), book-collector; possessed a library of fifteen thousand volumes (catalogued 1820 and 1833); printedExtracts from the Literary and Scientific Correspondence of Richard Richardson, M.D. 1835.
Frederick Cueeey: '''Frederick Cueeey''' ([[1819]]-[[1881]]X mycologist; educated at Eton; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1844; secretary of the Linnean Society, 1860-80; translated Hofmeister's Higher Oryptogamia; fungi Curreya named after him.
Sir Frederick Cueete: '''Sir Frederick Cueete''' , first baronet ([[1799]]1875), Indian official; educated at Charterhouse and the East India Company's College, Haileybury; cadet, Bengal civil service, 1817; judge of sudder adawlut, N.W. Provinces, 1840-2; foreign secretary to the Indian government, 1842-9; drew up the treaty with the Sikhs after Sobraon; created baronet, 1847; member of the supreme council, 1849-53; chairman of the East India Company, 1867; vice-president of the council of India; honorary D.O.L. Oxford, 1866.
James Cuerie: '''James Cuerie''' ([[1756]]-[[1805]]), physician; entered Dumfries grammar school, 1769; trader in Virginia, U.S.A., 1771; sailed for Greenock, 1776, and after many hardships, his goods being confiscated by the revolted colony, reached London, 1777; studied medicine and metaphysics at Edinburgh University; graduated at Glasgow, 1780; physician at Liverpool from 1780; advocated abolition of slave trade, 1787; F.R.S., 1792; published brochure against war with France, 1793; published 'Medical Reports on the Effects of Water, cold and warm, as a Remedy in Fever 1797.
Lords Curriehill: '''Lords Curriehill''' . See SKEXE, SIR JOHN, 1543 ?-1617; MARSHALL, JOHN, 1794-1868.
John Cueey: '''John Cueey''' (d. [[1780]]), historian ; studied medicine at Paris and obtained a diploma at Rheims; published an Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland 1775, in defence of the Irish catholics, and an Essay on ordinary Fevers 1743.
Son Cur: '''Son Cur''' . DE COURgON, DE CORCEONE, or DE
Robert Cuechun: '''Robert Cuechun''' (rf. [[1218]]), cardinal; born at Kedleston, Derbyshire; studied at Oxford and Paris; canon of Paris, 1211; cardinal-priest, 1212; legate a latere in France and preacher of a crusade, 1213; held a council in Paris, 1213; arranged truce between King John and Philip of France after battle of Bouvines, 1214; actively opposed the heretics of Toulouse a'nd handed over their laud to Simon of Moutfort, 1215; died at Damietta.

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Richard Cueteys: '''Richard Cueteys''' ([[1532]] ?-[[1582]]), bishop of Ohichester; scholar, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1550; M.A., 1556; senior fellow, 1559; university proctor, 1563; dean of Chichester, 1566; D.D., 1569; bishop of Ohichester, 1570; an active reformer of abuses, though bigoted; chief work,The Truthe of Christes uaturall Bodye 1577.
John Cuetis: '''John Cuetis''' (. [[1790]]), landscape-painter; exhibited A View of Netley Abbey at the Royal Academy, 1790, and a battle-piece, 1797.
John Curtis: '''John Curtis''' ([[1791]]-[[1862]]), entomologist ; writing clerk in lawyer's office; placed with an engraver at Bungay, where he learned to dissect, draw, and describe insecte and engrave them on copper; executed engravings for many eminent uaturaliste; F.L.3., 1822; produced hi parts, 1824-39, his British Entomology; president of Entomological Society, 1855. His writings include Farm Insecte 1860,Guide to arrangement of British Insects 1829, and numerous papers in scientific journals.
Patrick Cuetis: '''Patrick Cuetis''' ([[1740]]-[[1832]]X Roman catholic archbishop of Armagh: regius professor of astronomy and natural history at Salamanca; rector at the Irish college; arrested as a spy by the French, 1811; returned to Ireland, 1818; archbishop of Armagh, 1819; advocated catholic emancipation before a committee of the Lords, 1825; corresponded with the Duke of Wellington on the subject.
Sir Roger Cuetis: '''Sir Roger Cuetis''' ([[1746]]-[[1816]]), admiral ; served on the coasts of Africa and Newfoundland; lieutenant, 1771; commander of Lord Howe's flagship, 1777; blockaded by the French at Minorca, 1781; destroyed floating batteries at Gibraltar, 1782; knighted, 1782; rear-admiral, 1794; created baronet, 1794; admiral, 1803; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, 1809; G.O.B., 1815.
Samuel Cuetis: '''Samuel Cuetis''' ([[1779]]-[[1860]]), florist: succeeded to the proprietorship of theBotanical Magazine* by his marriage, 1801.
William Cuetis: '''William Cuetis''' ([[1746]]-[[1799]]), botanist and entomologist; translated Linuseus's Fundainenta Entomologiae 1772; undertook the Botanical Magazine 1781; publishedBritish Grassesand some entomological pamphlets.
Sir William Cuetis: '''Sir William Cuetis''' ([[1752]]-[[1829]]), lord mayor of London: alderman of the Tower ward, 1785; established the present bank of Robarte, Lubbock & Co.; sheriff, 1789; M.P. for London, 1790-1818, and 1820; lord mayor, 1795; created baronet, 1802; M.P. Bletchingley, 1819, Hastings, 1826; friend of George IV.
Wen Cue: '''Wen Cue''' , HENRY ([[1845]]-[[1892]]), journalist; educated at Rossall school; worked in London for John Camden Hotten, the publisher; went to India, 1876; chief editor of Times of India 1880; a joint-proprietor, 1889; published novels, compilations, and volumes of short stories, translations, and essays, including, Echoes from French Poets 1870, and Sorrow and Song 1874.
Cuewen: '''Cuewen''' or COEEN , HUGH (d. [[1568]]), archbishop of Dublin; B.O.L. Cambridge, 1510; vicar of Buckden, Huntingdonshire, 1614; chaplain to Henry VIII; D.O.L. Oxford, 1632; defended Henry VIII's marriage with Anne Boleyn, 1533; dean of Hereford, 1541; archbishop of Dublin, 1555-67; consecrated according to the form of the Roman pontifical, 1555; lord chancellor of Ireland, 1556; lord justice of Ireland, 1557; became a protestant at Elizabeth's accession; compelled to resign his archbishopric by the hostility and suspicions of Loftus, archbishop of Armagh, and others, 1567; bishop of Oxford, 1567.
John Cuewen: '''John Cuewen''' ([[1816]]-[[1880]]), writer on music ; in charge of the independent chapel, Plaistow, 1844; first to advocate the tonic sol-fa system, 1842; compiledPeople's Service of Song 1849-60; judge at the Welsh National Eisteddfod, 1873; founded the Tonic Sol-fa College (incorporated 1875); published numerous books on music.
Thomas Curwen: '''Thomas Curwen''' (fl. [[1665]]), quaker ; imprisoned at Lancaster, probably for refusing to take the oath of allegiance, 1660, 2663; imprisoned, together with his wife, at Boston, as a quaker missionary, 1678; sent to Newgate, 1683.
Robert Curzon: '''Robert Curzon''' , fourteenth BARON ZOUCHK (or DK LA ZOUCHE), of Harringworth (1810-1873); educated at the Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford; M.P., Clitheroe, 1831; travelled in Egypt and Palestine in search of manuscripts, 1833-4; visited Mount Athos, 1837; attache at the embassy at Constantinople, 1841; joint-commissioner for defining the boundary between Turkey and Persia, 1843; decorated by the shah and the sultan; student of the early history of handwriting; published a Visit to the Monasteries in the Levant 1849, and anAccount of the most celebrated Libraries of Italy 1864; succeeded his mother in barony of Zouche, 1870.
Cusace: '''Cusace''' or CUSAKE, SIR THOMAS ([[1490]]-[[1671]]), lord chancellor of Ireland; recommended the extension of English law to every part of Ireland; lord chancellor, 1551; lord justice, 1552; again lord chancellor, 1563.
Sir William George Cusens: '''Sir William George Cusens''' ([[1833]]-[[1893]]), pianist and conductor; studied under Fetis at Brussels, and at Royal Academy of Music, London, where he was subsequently professor; organist of Queen Victoria's private chapel, Windsor, 1849; conducted concerts of Philharmonic Society, 1867-83; master of the music to
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Cyples: '''Cyples''' Queen Victoria, 1870; professor of pianoforte at Guildball, 1885; knighted, 1892; published musical compositions and writings on musical subjects.
John Edwin Cussans: '''John Edwin Cussans''' ([[1837]]-[[1899]]), antiquary : engaged in commercial pursuits; adopted authorship as profession, 1863; published genealogical and heraldic works.
Sir Edward Ctjst: '''Sir Edward Ctjst''' ([[1794]]-[[1878]]), general and j military historian; educated at Eton; lieutenant, 1810; I fought in most of the battles of the Peninsular war; M.P., Orantham, 1818-26, Lostwithiel 1826-32; knight commander of the Quelphic order of Hanover, 1831; master of the ceremonies to Queen Victoria, 1847; honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1853; colonel, 16th light dragoons, 1859; general, 1866; created baronet, 1876; author of Annals of the Wars of the Eighteenth Century
Sir John Oust: '''Sir John Oust''' ([[1718]]-[[1770]]), baronet, speaker of the House of Commons; educated at Eton; barrister, Middle Temple, 1742; M.A. Corpus Ohristi College, Cambridge, 1739; M.P., Grauthani, 1743-70; speaker, 1761; privy councillor, 1762; again speaker, 1768-70.
Rochetaillade Cutcliffe: '''Rochetaillade Cutcliffe''' , or DE RUPESGI88A, JOHN (fl. 1345), Franciscan; native of Dammage, Devonshire; studied at Toulouse; became a Franciscan monk; imprisoned at Figeac for criticising the abuses of the church, 1345; imprisoned at Avignon by Alexander VI, 1349; doubtfully said to have been burnt at Avignon; author of books on alchemy and prophetical writings.
Saint Ctjthbert: '''Saint Ctjthbert''' (d. [[687]]), bishop of Lindisfarne ; kept sheep on the hills near the Lauder, a tributary of the Tweed, 651; entered the monastery of Melrose, 651; guest-receiver at the monastery of Ripon, but expelled for refusing to adopt the Roman usages, 661; prior of Melrose; adopted the Roman usages, 664; abbot of Lindisfarne; anchorite on Fame island, 676; accepted see of Lindisfarne, 684; retired to Fame island, 686; died in his cell, 687; reputed a worker of miracles. His body, which was said to have remained in a state of incorruption for many years, was finally transferred to Durham Cathedral, 1104.
Ctjthbert: '''Ctjthbert''' (d. [[758]]), archbishop of Canterbury; abbot of Liminge, Kent; bishop of Hereford, 736; archbishop of Canterbury, c. 740; assessor of Ethelbald, king of Mercia, at a council held at Clovesho, 742; summoned council at Clovesho to regulate the monastic life and duties of priests, 747; friend of Boniface, archbishop of Mentz; built a chapel to St. John Baptist at the east end of Canterbury Cathedral.
Cttthburh: '''Cttthburh''' or CTJTHBTTRGA, SAINT (fl. [[700]]), sister of Ine, king of the West-Saxons; founder and abbess of Wimborne, Dorset.
Ctjthred: '''Ctjthred''' (d. [[754]]), over-lord of the West-Saxon kingdom; defeated JEthelbald of Mercia at Burford, Oxfordshire, 752; defeated the Welsh, 753.

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Cutler: '''Cutler''' Sm JOHN ([[1608]]?-[[1693]]), London merchant; promoted the subscriptions raised by the city of London for Charles II, 1660; created baronet, 1660; treasurer of St. Paul's, 1663; founded lectureship on mechanics at Gresham College, London, 1664; honorary F.R.S., 1664; four times master warden of the Grocers Company; benefactor of the College of Physicians, 1679; benefactor of the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, 1682; personally parsimonious, and the occasion of Wycherley's Praise of Avarice play Bac.
William Henry Cutler: '''William Henry Cutler''' (6. [[1792]]), musician ; yed pianoforte concerto at the Haymarket, 1800; Mus. Oxford, 1812; organist, St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, 1818-23; organist at Quebec Street Chapel, 1823; founded an academy, which proved unsuccessful, for teaching music on the Logierian system.
Moll Ctttptjrse: '''Moll Ctttptjrse''' ([[1584]] 7-[[1659]]). See FRITH,
Mary: '''Mary'''
Sir Roger Cuttance: '''Sir Roger Cuttance''' (fl. [[1650]]-[[1669]]), navy captain; commanded the Sussex in the Dutch war, 1652-3; assisted in reduction of Porto Farina, 1655; flag-captain of the Naseby, 1657; knighted, 1665; captain of the fleet, 1665.
Franois Cutttnge: '''Franois Cutttnge''' (16th cent. ),lutenist and composer; contributed music to Barley'sNew Booke of Tabliture 1596: possibly identical with Thomas Cuttinge, lutenist to the king of Denmark, 1607.
John Cutts: '''John Cutts''' , BARON Ourre of Gowran, Ireland (1661-1707), lieutenant-general; fellow-commoner, Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1676; publishedLa Muse de Cavalier 1685; volunteer against the Turks in Hungary, 1686; adjutant-general to the Duke of Lorraine, 1686; colonel, 1st foot guards; fought for William III at the Boyne, 1690; created Baron Cutts of Gowran, 1690; honorary LL.D. Cambridge; hero of siege of Namur, 1695; took part in negotiating treaty of Ryswick, 1697; with Marlborough in Holland, 1701; captured Fort St. Michael, 1702; lieutenant-general, 1702; fought at Blenheim, 1704; commander-in-chief in Ireland, 1705; M.P. for Cambridgeshire, 1689-1701, and for Newport, 17021707.
Thomas Ctttwode: '''Thomas Ctttwode''' (fl. [[1599]]), poet; published Caltha Poetarum: or the Bumble Bee a satire on contemporary poets, which the archbishop of Canterbury condemned to the flames, 1599.
Cwichelm: '''Cwichelm''' (d. [[636]]), king of the West-Saxons ; son of, and co-ruler with, Cynegils; defeated Britons at Beandun, 614; beaten by Eadwine of Northumbria, 626; baptised, 636.
Ctjbi Cybi: '''Ctjbi Cybi''' , or KEBI (fl. [[560]]?), Welsh saint; visited Ireland, but was expelled by Crubthir Fintam, a local chief; founder, abbot, and bishop of monastery on Holyhead island.
Cyfeiawg: '''Cyfeiawg''' (d. [[927]]).
Cymbeline: '''Cymbeline''' (d. 43 ?).
Cynegils: '''Cynegils''' or KINEGILS (d. [[643]]), king of the WestSaxons; together with his son Cwichelm, defeated the Britons at Beandun, 614; defeated by Eadwine of Northumbria, 626; conquered the East-Saxons, 626; baptised, 635; founder of the see of Dorchester, Oxfordshire.
Cynewuxf: '''Cynewuxf''' or CYNWULF (fl. [[750]]), Anglo-Saxon poet; probably a Northumbrian minstrel. The poems ascribed to him are contained in the Exeter Codex and theVercelli Codex two manuscript collections of AngloSaxon verse. Many poems in them may be by Cynewulf; four certainly are his, viz. The Christ The Passion of St. JulianaElene andThe Dream of the Cross Cynewulf s poems first printed, 1842; translated into modern English or into German by various hands between 1871 and 1889.
Cynewulf: '''Cynewulf''' (d. [[785]]), king of the West-Saxons; fought with the Welsh; defeated by Offa, 777; slain by the followers of Cyneheard the setbeling, a prince whom he had ordered into banishment.
Cynric: '''Cynric''' (d. [[560]]?), king of the Gewissas or WestSaxons; probably son, and perhaps grandson, of Cerdic , whom he is said to have succeeded, 534; traditionally defeated the Britons at Searobyrig, 552.
William Cyples: '''William Cyples''' ([[1831]]-[[1882]]), philosophica writer; published an Inquiry into the Process of Human Experience 1880; author of Pottery Poems and Satan Restored 1859.
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Dale: '''Dale''' D
Robert Daborne: '''Robert Daborne''' (rf. [[1628]]), dramatist and divine ; dean of Lismore, 1621; collaborated with Field aud Massinger; wrote several plays, two of which, A Christian tarn'd Turke 1612, andThe Poor-man's Comfort are still extant.
Barons Dacre: '''Barons Dacre''' . See FIKNNES, THOMAS, ninth
Baron: '''Baron''' [[1617]]-[[1541]] ; FIKNNES, GREGORY, tenth BARON, 1539-1594; LENNARD, FRANCIS, fourteenth BARON, 16191662.
Baroness Dacre: '''Baroness Dacre''' . See FIENNES, ANNE, d. [[1595]] ;
Barbabjna Brand: '''Barbabjna Brand''' , [[1768]]-[[1854]].
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Sir Henry Bouverie William Brand: '''Sir Henry Bouverie William Brand''' .
Leonard Dagre: '''Leonard Dagre''' (d. [[1573]]), promoter of the Northern rebellion in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; defeated near Carlisle by Lord Hunsdon, who had been ordered to arrest him, 1570; fled to Scotland, and sat in a convention of the nobles at Leith, 1570; died at Brussels.
Arthur Dacres: '''Arthur Dacres''' ([[1624]]-[[1678]]), physician; B.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1645: fellow, 1646; M.D., 1654; assistant-physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1653-78: professor of geometry, Gresham College, 1664; censor of the College of Physicians, 1672.
Sir Richard James Dacres: '''Sir Richard James Dacres''' ([[1799]]-[[1886]]), fieldmarshal; captain in the royal artillery, 1837; brevetmajor, 1851; commanded the royal horse artillery at the Alma, 1854; engaged in the bombardments of Sebastopol; general, 1867; G.O.B., 1869; field-marshal, 1886.
Sir Sidney Colpots Dacres: '''Sir Sidney Colpots Dacres''' ([[1806]]-[[1884]]), admiral; brother of Sir Richard James Dacres; lieutenant in navy, 1827; reduced Kastro Morea, and received the crosses of the Legion of Honour and of the Redeemer of Greece, 1828; commanded the Sans Pareil before Sebastopol, 1854; captain of the Mediterranean fleet, 1859: commander-in-chief in Channel, 1683; viceadmiral, 1865; G.O.B., 1871.
William Dade: '''William Dade''' ([[1740]] ?-l [[790]]), antiquary ; rector of St. Mary's, Castlegate, York, and Barmston; F.S.A., 1783: hisHistory of Holderness published by Poulson, 1840-1
James Datforne: '''James Datforne''' (d. [[1880]]), writer on art ; contributed to the Art Journal; published The Life and Works of Edward Matthew Ward, R.A. 1879, and translated De la Oroix'sArts of the Middle Ages
Thomas Daffy: '''Thomas Daffy''' (d. [[1680]]), inventor of Daffy's elixir salutis; rector of Harby, Leicestershire, 1647, and of Redmile, Leicestershire, 1666-80.
Richard Datt: '''Richard Datt''' ([[1835]]-[[1900]]), cricketer ; amateur, 1857; played for Gentlemen, 1858, and as professional for Nottinghamshire, 1858-81; took team to Canada and United States, 1879; published Kings of Cricket 1893. D'AGAR, JACQUES (1640-1716), painter; court painter at Copenhagen; visited London, c. 1700; died at Copenhagen.
Richard Dagley: '''Richard Dagley''' (d. [[1841]]), subject-painter and engraver; educated at Christ's Hospital; exhibited sixty pictures at the Royal Academy, 1785-1833; illustrated the elder D'laraeli's Flim-flams; author of Gems selected from the Antique 1804, and other works. D'AGUILAR, SIR GEORGE CHARLES (1784-1865), lieutenant-general: lieutenant, 1802; brigade-major, 1806; served against the Marathas; sent by Lord William Bentinck on a military mission to Yanina and Constantinople; major in the rifle brigade, 1817; commanded in the i Chinese war, receiving the submission of Canton, 1847: lieutenant-colonel and K.C.B., 1851; author of manuals of military discipline.
Michael Dahl: '''Michael Dahl''' ([[1666]]-[[1743]]), portrait-painter; born at Stockholm; portrait-painter in London from 1688: patronised by Queen Anne and most of the nobility: undeservedly styled the rival of Kneller.
Richard Daintree: '''Richard Daintree''' ([[1831]]-[[1878]]), geologist ; educated at Bedford grammar school and Christ's College, Cambridge; student in the Royal School of Mines, 1856; field geologist on the geological survey of Victoria, 18681864; government geologist, North Queensland, 1869-72; examined the auriferous strata of Queensland; agentgeneral for Queensland, 1872-8; C.M.G., 1878.
Daircell: '''Daircell''' or TAIRCELL, otherwise MOLLINO (d. 696), Irish saint and bishop; founded a monastery and church at Ross Broc, on the river Barrow; settled the boundary between Leiuster and the territories of Diarmuid and Blathmac. kings of Ireland; procured a remission of the boruma tax by stratagem from King Finnacbta in favour of the Leinstermen; supposititious author of the Baile Moiling a prophetic rhapsody.
William Dakins: '''William Dakins''' (d. [[1607]]), divine ; educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge; major fellow, 1594; M.A., 1594; B.D., 1601; vicar of Trumpington, 1603-5; professor of divinity, Gresham College, London, 1604; junior dean, Trinity College, 1606-7; took part in the authorised translation of the bible,
Sir James Charles Dalbiac: '''Sir James Charles Dalbiac''' ([[1776]]-[[1848]]), lieutenant-general; captain, 4th light dragoons, 1798; fought, as lieutenant-colonel, at Talavera, 1809, and at Salamanca, 1812; commanded the Goojerat district of the Bombay army, 1822-4; president of court-martial for trial of Bristol rioters, 1831; K.C.H.; M.P., Ripon, 1835-7; lieutenant-general, 1838.
John Dalbier: '''John Dalbier''' (d. [[1648]]), soldier ; perhaps in service of Count Mansfeld during thirty yearswar; entered English service, c. 1627, and accompanied Buckingham to Isle of Re; in service of Sweden, c. 1628-32; quartermaster-general and captain of troop of horse under Essex in civil war; commanded forces at siege of Basing; took Donnington Castle, 1646; joined royalists, 1648; killed after defeat at St. Neots.
Isaac Daisy: '''Isaac Daisy''' ([[1744]]-[[1824]]), mathematician : mathematical master in the naval school, Chelsea, 1781: trigonometrical surveyor for connecting meridians of Greenwich and Paris, 1787; assisted in trigonometrical survey of England and Wales; professor of mathematics, Sandhurst College, 1799-1820; published books on mathematics, especially trigonometry.
Robert Dalby: '''Robert Dalby''' (d. [[1589]]), Roman catholic divine ; ordained priest at Douay: sent back to England as a missiouer, 1588; executed, 1589. DA1DERBY, JOHN DE (d. 1320), bishop of Lincoln: archdeacon of Carmarthen, 1283: chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral; bishop of Lincoln, 1300; denied the right of Edward I to tax ecclesiastics without consent of pope, 1301; papal commissioner to try the templars, 1308; present at the appointment of the ordainers 1310.
David Dale: '''David Dale''' ([[1739]]-[[1806]]), industrialist and philanthropist; fixed on New Lanark as a site for the erection of cotton-mills in conjunction with Arkwright; partner in cotton-mills at Catrine; established the first Turkeyred dyeing works in Scotland, 1785; imported at his own risk food-stuffs for the poor in times of dearth.
Robert William Dale: '''Robert William Dale''' ([[1829]]-[[1895]]), congregatioual divine; joined congregational church, 1844; usher successively at Brixton Hill and Leamington; studied theology at Spring College, Birmingham; M.A. London, 1863; assistant minister at Carr's Lane Chapel, Birmingham, 1853; sole pastor, 1859; lecturer on literature, philosophy, and homiletics at Spring Hill, 1858; presided over international council of congregational churches, 1891; LL.D. Glasgow, 1883; published numerous theological works, and compiledThe English Hymn Book 1874.
Samuel Dale: '''Samuel Dale''' ([[1659]] ?-[[1739]]), physician ; practised at Braintree, Essex, 1686; chief work, Pharmacologia 1693; wrote an appendix to Taylor'sHistory and Antiquities of Harwich and Dovercourt 1730. xiiL 386J
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Ington Dall: '''Ington Dall'''
Dale: '''Dale''' Sm THOMAS (d. [[1619]]), naval commander; served in the Low Countries; marshal of Virginia, 1609; governor of Virginia, 1611 and 1614-16; defeated the Dutch off Jacatra, Java, 1618.
Thomas Dale: '''Thomas Dale''' ([[1729]]-[[1816]]), physician ; educated at St. Paul's School and Edinburgh University; M.D. Edinburgh, 1775; L.R.C.P., 1786; one of the originators of the Hoynl Literary Fund.

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Thomas Dale: '''Thomas Dale''' ([[1797]]-[[1870]]), dean of Rochester; educated at Christ's Hospital and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; M.A., 1826; vicar of St. Bride's, Fleet Street, 1835; professor of English at London University, 1828-30, and at King's College, 1836-9; prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1843; vicar of St. Pancras, 1846-61; dean of Rochester, 1870; D.D. Cambridge, 1870: published theological writings and poems, includingThe Widow of Nain 1817, and The Outlaw of Taurus 1818; translated Sophocles, 1824.
Thomas Pelham Dale: '''Thomas Pelham Dale''' ([[1821]]-[[1892]]), ritualistic divine; son of Thomas Dale (1797-1870); educated at King's College, London, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; M.A., 1848; rector of StVedast's, Foster Lane, with St. Michael-le-Querne, London; instituted ritualistic practices and, after protracted legal proceedings, was lodged in Holtoway gaol, 1880; afterwards became rector of Sausthorpe-cum-Aswardby, Lincolnshire; published religious writings.
Valentine Dale: '''Valentine Dale''' (d. [[1589]]), civilian and diplomatist; fellow of All SoulsCollege, Oxford, 1542; B.O.L., 1545; D.C.L. Orleans; LL.D. Cambridge, 1562; ambassador in Flanders, 1563; in France, 1573-6; M.P., Chichester, 1572, 1584, 1586, and 1589: dean of Wells, 1575; assisted at trial of Mary Queen of Scots, 1586; ambassador to Prince of Parma, 1588-9.
John Dobree Dalgairns: '''John Dobree Dalgairns''' , in religion BERNARD (1818-1876), priest of the Oratory; born in Guernsey; M.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1842; converted to Catholicism, 1845; superior of the Oratory at Brompton, 1863-5; assisted in translating theCatena Aurea a mediaeval compilation from St. Thomas Aquinas, 1841-5, and wrote mystical and metaphysical works.
George Dalgarno: '''George Dalgarno''' ([[1626]] ?-[[1687]]), pasigraphist : educated at the university of New Aberdeen; master of Elizabeth School, Guernsey, 1662-72; chief works,Didascalocophns 1680, and the Ars Signorum 1661, an attempt to formulate a philosophical language; the latter is alluded to by Leibnitz.
William Dalgllesh: '''William Dalgllesh''' ([[1733]]-[[1807]]), theological writer; D.D. Edinburgh, 1786; minister at Peebles, 17611807; published The Self-existence and Supreme Deity of Christ defended 1777, in justification of hisTrue Sonship of Christ investigated 1776.
Marquis Op Dalhottsie: '''Marquis Op Dalhottsie''' ([[1812]]-[[1860]]). See RAM-
Jamks Andrew Broun Say: '''Jamks Andrew Broun Say''' .
Earls of Dalhousie: '''Earls of Dalhousie''' . See RAMSAY, WILLIAM, first EARL, d. 1674; RAMSAY, JAMKS ANDREW BKOUN, tenth EARL, 1812-1860; MAULK, Fox, eleventh EARL, 1801-1874; RAMSAY, GEORGE, twelfth EAHL, 1806-1880; RAMSAY, JOHN WILLIAM, thirteenth EAHL, 1847-1887.
Sir William Dalison: '''Sir William Dalison''' (d. [[1559]]), judge; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1537; reader, 1548 and 1552; justice of the county palatine of Lancaster, 1554; knighted, 1556; justice of the king's bench, 1656.
Nicholas Thomas Dall: '''Nicholas Thomas Dall''' (d. [[1777]]), landscapepainter; a Dane; in London, c. 1760; A.R.A., 1771.
George Dallam: '''George Dallam''' (17th cent.), organ- builder ; added a choir organ to Harris's instrument at Hereford Cathedral, 1686.
Am Pali: '''Am Pali''' , RALPH (d. [[1672]]), organ-builder; built organs at Rugby, Hackney (1665), and Lynn Regis, as well as one for St. George's Chapel, Windsor, which proved unsatisfactory.
Robert Dallam: '''Robert Dallam''' ([[1602]]-[[1665]]), organ-builder : son of Thomas Dallam; member of the Blacksmiths Company; built organs for Durham Cathedral, York Minster, 1634, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1634, and New College, Oxford, 1661.
Thomas Dallam: '''Thomas Dallam''' (fl. [[1615]]), organ-builder ; member of the BlacksmithsCompany; built organs for King's College, Cambridge, 1606, and for Worcester Cathedral, 1613.
Saint Dallan: '''Saint Dallan''' (fl. [[600]]), Irish saint; otherwise
Forgaill: '''Forgaill''' ; wrote verse panegyric on Columba, made public after Golumba's death, 597, also panegyrics on Bishop Seuan and Abbot Conall Coel.
Alexander Robert Charles Dallas: '''Alexander Robert Charles Dallas''' ([[1791]]1869), divine; son of Robert Charles Dallas; treasury clerk, 1805; present at Waterloo, 1816; gentleman-commoner, Worcester College, Oxford, 1820; vicar of Yardley, Hertfordshire, 1827; prebendary of Llandaff, 1827; chaplain to Bishop Sumner; M.A. Lambeth; founded the Society for Irish Church Missions, 1843; wrote theological works.
Elmslie William Dallas: '''Elmslie William Dallas''' ([[1809]]-[[1879]]), artist; gold medallist of the Royal Academy, 1834; assisted in decoration of garden pavilion at Buckingham Palace, 1840; exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, 1842-68.
Eneas Sweetland Dallas: '''Eneas Sweetland Dallas''' ([[1828]]-[[1879]]), journalist and author; born in Jamaica; educated at Edinburgh University; publishedPoetics 1862, "The Gay Science 1866, and an abridgment of Richardson's Clarissa Harlo we 1 868.
George Dallas: '''George Dallas''' ([[1630]]-[[1702]]?), lawyer; writer to the signet; deputy- keeper of the privy seal of Scotland, 1660 till death; published A System of Stiles 1697.
Sir George Dallas: '''Sir George Dallas''' ([[1758]]-[[1833]]), political writer; educated at Geneva; writer in the East India Company's service, 1776; superintendent of the collections at Rajeshahi; created baronet, 1798; M.P., Newport, 1800-2; published pamphlet in vindication of Warren Hastings, 1789, a defence of the Marquis Wellesley's policy in India, 1806, Letters on the Political and Commercial State of Ireland 1797, and tractates against the French revolution.
Sir Robert Dallas: '''Sir Robert Dallas''' ([[1756]]-[[1824]]), judge; educated at Geneva; barrister of Lincoln's Inn, 1782; counsel for Warren Hastings, 1787: counsel for Lord George Gordon, 1788; king's counsel, 1795; M.P., St. Michael's, Cornwall, 1802-5, Kirkcaldy, 1805-6; solicitor-general, 1813; knighted, 1813; chief-justice of common pleas, 1818-23; privy councillor, 1818.
Robert Charles Dallas: '''Robert Charles Dallas''' ([[1754]]-[[1824]]), miscellaneous writer; born in Jamaica; lived on the continent, in Jamaica, and hi America; prohibited by Lord Eldon from publishing his friend Lord Byron's letters, 1824; died in Normandy; wrote tales, poems, a History of the Maroons 1803, and ethical treatises.
Sir Thomas Dallas: '''Sir Thomas Dallas''' (d. [[1839]]), lieutenant-general ; great-grandson of George Dallas; fought in the Camatic and at the siege of Seringapatam.

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James Dallaway: '''James Dallaway''' ([[1763]]-[[1834]]), topographer and miscellaneous writer; scholar of Trinity College, Oxford; M.A., 1784; appointed to a curacy near Stroud; F.S.A., 1789; M.B. Oxford, 1794; secretary to the earl marshal, 1797-1834; prebendary of Chichester, 1811; edited Burrell's manuscript History of the Three Western Rapes of Sussex 1811; w.rote on heraldry, English architecture, and ancient sculpture, and edited The Letters and other Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1803, and Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting 1826-8.
William Bede Dalley: '''William Bede Dalley''' ([[1831]]-[[1888]]), Australian politician; born in Sydney; educated at Sydney and St. Mary's colleges; called to bar, 1856; Q.O., 1877; member for Sydney in first constitutional parliament, 1857, and for Cumberland boroughs, 1858; solicitorgeneral, 1858-9; attorney-general, 1875-7, 1877, and 1883: acting premier and foreign secretary, 1885; carried out plan of sending troops to aid the imperial forces in Egypt; privy councillor, 1887.
And Bttlwer Dalling: '''And Bttlwer Dalling''' , BARON ([[1801]]-[[1872]]). See
William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer: '''William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer''' .
Sir Robert Dallington: '''Sir Robert Dallington''' ([[1561]]-[[1637]]), master of Charterhouse; educated at Cambridge; gentleman of the privy chamber in ordinary to Prince Henry; master of
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Dalrymple: '''Dalrymple''' Charterhouse, 1624-37; knighted, 1624; publishedA Survey of the Great Duke's State of Tuscany 1605, and part of Quiccinrdini's history, 1613.
John Henry Dallmeyer: '''John Henry Dallmeyer''' ([[1830]]-[[1883]]), optician; born in Westphalia: educated and apprenticed at OsnabrUck; came to England, 1851; workman in, and subsequently scientific adviser to, the firm of Andrew Ross; F.R.A.S., 1861; received the cross of the Legion of Honour and the Russian order of St. Stanislaus; supplied photo-heliographs to the Wilna observatory, 1863, and to the Harvard College observatory, 1864; executed five photo-heliographs for government, 1873; famous as a maker of photographic lenses and object-glasses for the microscope.
Alexander Dalrymple: '''Alexander Dalrymple''' ([[1737]]-[[1808]]), hydrographer to the admiralty; writer in the East India Company's service, 1752-4; as deputy-secretary, effected a commercial treaty with the sultan of Sulu; attempted to open up trade with Sulu, but failed, 1762; published chart of northern part of Bay of Bengal, 1772; member of council, Madras, 1775-7; hydrographer to the East India Company, 1779; hydrographer to the admiralty, 1795; died broken-hearted on his dismissal, 1808; published an Account of Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean before 1764 1767.
Sir David Dalrymple: '''Sir David Dalrymple''' , first (Nova Scotia) baronet of Hailes(d. 1721), Scottish politician; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1688; created baronet of Nova Scotia, 1700; solicitor-general to Queen Anne; M.P. for Culross in the Scottish parliament, 1703; M.P. for Haddington in the parliament of Great Britain, 1708-21; commissioner for the treaty of union, 1706; auditor to Scottish exchequer, 1720.
Dalrymple: '''Dalrymple''' Sm DAVID, LORD HAILES ([[1726]]1792), Scottish judge; educated at Eton; studied civil law at Utrecht; admitted to the Scottish bar, 1748; judge of the court of session as Lord Hailes, 1766; refused to revise Hume's Inquiry considering its principles atheistic, 1753; friend and correspondent of Dr. Johnson, who revised Hailes's Annals of Scotland 1 776; judge of the criminal court, 1776; wrote against Gibbon, 1786. Other of his works are An Examination of some of the Arguments for the High Antiquity of Regiam Majestatem, and an Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Leges Malcolmi 1769, a translation of the Octavius of Minucius Felix, 1781, Ancient Scottish Poems, published from the Manuscript of George Bannatyne, 1568 1770, and The Canons of the Church of Scotland 1769.
Sir Hew Dalrymple: '''Sir Hew Dalrymple''' , LORD NORTH BERWICK (1652-1737), lord president of session; third son of Sir James Dalrymple, first viscount Stair; commissary of Edinburgh; M.P. for New Galloway burgh, 1690, and for North Berwick burgh, 1702, in the Scots parliament; dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1695; created baronet of Nova Scotia, 1698; lord president of session, 16981737; commissioner for the articles of union between England and Scotland, 1702 and 1703.
Dalrymple: '''Dalrymple''' Ho. SIR HEW ([[1690]]-[[1755]]), lord justiciary, 1745; son of Sir Hew Dalrymple; lord of session as Lord Drummore, 1726.
Sir Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple: '''Sir Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple''' , baronet (1750-1830), general; great-grandson of Sir James Dalrymple, first viscount Stair; lieutenant, 1766; major 77th royals, 1777; knighted, 1779; colonel, 1790; lieutenant-governor of Guernsey. 1796-1801; commander of the Gibraltar garrison, 1806-8; signed convention of Ciutra, 18U8; general, 1812; created baronet, 1815; governor of Blackness Castle, 1818.
Sir James Dalrymple: '''Sir James Dalrymple''' , first VISCOUNT STAIR (1619-1695), Scottish lawyer and statesman: art graduate of Glasgow University, 1637; commanded a troop under William, earl of Gleucairn; repent of Glasgow University, 1641-7; admitted to the Scottish bar, 1648; secretary to commissions for treating with Charles II, 1649 and 1650; judge of the reformed court of session, 1657-60; advised Mouck to call a full and free parliament, 1660; judge of the court of session under Charles II, 1661; allowed to make a proviso in taking the declaration against the Solemn League and Covenant, 1664; president of session, 1670; issued regulations for the conduct of judicial business and advocatesfees; M.P. for Wigtownshire, 1672 and 1673-4; privy councillor of Scotland, 1674; protested aeaiust Lauderdale's persecution of the covenanters, 1677; attempted to lessen the severity of the Test Act, 1681; fled from its operation to London; published Institutions of the Law of Scotland 1681; driven by the hostility of the Duke of York and Olaverhouse to Leyden, 1682; published * Physiologia Nova Experimentalis 1686; sailed to England with William of Orange, 1688; created Viscount of Stair, Lord Glenluce and Stranraer, 1690; member of the privy council which advised that Glencoe's oath should not be taken after the day originally appointed, 1692; furnished a report on which was grounded the Act for the Regulation of the Judicatures, 1696; publishedA Vindication of the Divine Perfections 1695.
Sir James Dalrymple: '''Sir James Dalrymple''' , first (Nova Scotia) baronet of Borthwick (fl. 1714), Scottish antiquary; second son of Sir James Dalrymple, first viscount Stair; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1675; commissary of Edinburgh; principal clerk of the court of session; created baronet of Nova Scotia, 1698; chief work,Collections concerning the Scottish History preceding the death of King David the First hi 1153 1705.
Sir John Dalrymple: '''Sir John Dalrymple''' , first EARL OF STAIR (1648-1707), son of Sir James Dalrymple, first viscount Stair; knighted, 1667; Scottish advocate, 1672; imprisoned, through the hostility of Graham of Olaverhouse, in Edinburgh Castle, 1682-3; imprisoned in the Tolbooth, 1684; king's advocate, 1686-88: lord justiceclerk, 1688; moved in convention of estates that James Stuart had forfeited the crown of Scotland, 1688; as lord advocate represented William Ill's government in the Scottish parliament; opposed by Sir James Montgomery, an extreme covenanter; conciliated the presbyterians by establishing presbyterian church government; Master of Stair, 1690; joint-secretary of state, 1691; commissioned the privy council to make an offer of indemnity to the highland clans, in the hope that its conditions would not be accepted, 1691; bitterly hostile to the Macdonalds of Glencoe, and implicated in the massacre of that clan, 1692; accused by parliament of exceeding instructions in the matter, 1695; resigned office, 1695; succeeded as Viscount Stair, 1695; privy councillor, 1702; created Earl of Stair, 1703; supporter of the Act of Union, 1707.
John Dalrymple: '''John Dalrymple''' , second EARL OP STAIR ([[1673]]1747), general and diplomatist; son of Sir John Dalrymple, first earl of Stair; studied at Leyden: present at the battle of Steenkerk, 1692; master of Stair, 1695; lieutenant-colonel in Scots guards; aide-de-camp to Marlborough, 1703; colonel of a regiment in the Dutch service, 1705; colonel of the Oameronians, 1706; sent home with the despatches of the battle of Oudenarde, 1708; major-general, 1709; ambassador to Augustus, elector of Saxony, 1709; knight of the Thistle, 1710; covered the siege of Bouchain, 1711; general, 1712; privy councillor, and ambassador at Paris, 1716; secured expulsion of James Edward, the Old Pretender, from Paris; revealed schemes of Alberoni and Oellamare; recalled, 1720; vice-admiral of Scotland, 1720-33; rural economist; opponent of Sir Robert Walpole; deprived of his viceadmiralty for asserting the right of the Scottish peers to elect representative peers without governmental interference, 1733; field-marshal, 1742; governor of Minorca, 1742; fought at Dettingen, 1743; commander-in-chief in south Britain, 1744; general of the marines, 1746.
John Dalrymple: '''John Dalrymple''' , fifth EARL OF STAIR ([[1720]]1789), army captain; advocate of the Scottish bar, 1741; captain in the army; representative peer, 1771; presented a petition on behalf of Massachusetts, 1774; published pamphlets on the national finances.
Sir John Dalrymple: '''Sir John Dalrymple''' , fourth baronet of Oranstoun (1726-1810), Scottish judge; educated at Edinburgh University and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; advocate at the Scottish bar, 1748; exchequer baron, 1776-1807; discovered the art of making soap from herrings; chief works, Essay towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain 1757, andMemoirs of Great Britain and Ireland (1681-1692) 1771.
John Dalrymple: '''John Dalrymple''' , sixth EARL OF STAIR ([[1749]]1821), son of John, fifth earl of Stair; captain 87th foot; served in the first American war; minister plenipotentiary to Poland, 1782, and to Berlin, 1786.
Dalrymple: '''Dalrymple''' 315
Yell Dal: '''Yell Dal'''
John Dalrymple: '''John Dalrymple''' ([[1803]]-[[1852]]), ophthalmic surgeon; son of William Dalrymple (1772-1847); M.R.O.S., 1827; surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, 1843; F.R.S., 1850; writer on ophthalmic science.
Dalrymple: '''Dalrymple''' Sm JOHN HAMILTON MAOGILL, eighth EARL OP STAIK (1771-1863), son of Sir John Dalrymple (1726-1810); served as captain in Flanders, 1794 and 1795; general, 1838; devised a substitute for corporal punishment in the army; M.P. for Midlothian, 1832; keeper of the great seal of Scotland, 1840-1, and 1846-52; created Baron Oxenford of Couslaud, 1841; K.T., 1847.

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William Dalrymple: '''William Dalrymple''' ([[1723]]-[[1814]]), religious writer; minister of the first charge at Ayr, 1756; D.D. St. Andrews, 1779: moderator of the general assembly, 1781; eulogised in Burns's Kirk's Alarm
William Dalrymple: '''William Dalrymple''' ([[1772]]-[[1847]]), surgeon; surgeon of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, 1814-39; successful as an operator in tying the common carotid artery, and in lithotomy.
John Dalton: '''John Dalton''' ([[1709]]-[[1763]]), poet and divine ; taberdar, Queen's College, Oxford, 1730; M.A., 1734; adapted Milton's Comus for the stage, 1738; fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, 1741; canon of Worcester, 1748; rector of St. Mary-at-Hill, 1748; D.D., 1750; published sermons and didactic and descriptive poems.
John Dalton: '''John Dalton''' ([[1726]]-[[1811]]), captain under the East India Company; as second lieutenant in the 8th marines was employed on the Coromandel coast, 1745; captain of European grenadiers under the East India Company, 1749; defended Trichinopoly, 1753; returned to England, 1754.
John Dalton: '''John Dalton''' ([[1766]]-[[1844]]), chemist and natural philosopher; kept a Quaker's school, 1778; assistant and subsequently partner in a school at Kendal, 1781-93; commenced meteorological journal, 1787; studied mathematics, zoology, and botany, compiling a Hprtus Siccus; professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, New College, Manchester, 1793-9; publishedMeteorological Observations and Essays maintaining electrical origin of aurora borealis, 1793; revealed his discovery of colourblindness, 1794; constituted meteorology a science by his papers on theConstitution of Mixed Gases and on The Expansion of Gases by Heat 1801; discovered the law of chemical combinations, and tabulated the atomic weights of various elements, 1805; president of the Manchester Philosophical Society, 1817-44; foreign associate of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1830; prizeman of the Royal Society for his development of the chemical theory of Definite Proportions 1825; honorary D.O.L. and LL.D. of Oxford and Edinburgh respectively, 1832 and 1834; publishedA New System of Chemical Philosophy 1808 and 1827, in which he partly anticipated (1808) Dulong and Petit's law of specific heats, and wrote the article Meteorology in Rees's Cyclopaedia DALTON, JOHN (1792-1867), Irish historian, genealogist and biographer; graduate of Trinity College, Dublin: law student of the Middle Temple, London, 1811; called to the Irish bar, 1813; medallist, Royal Irish Academy, 1827, and prizeman, 1831: published a 4 Treatise on the Law of Tithes a poem entitled Dermid Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin 1838, a History of the County of Dublin 1838, and the Annals of Boyle
John Dalton: '''John Dalton''' ([[1814]]-[[1874]]), Roman catholic divine ; missioner at Northampton, Norwich, and Lynn; member of the chapter of the diocese of Northampton; translated Latin and Spanish devotional works, also aLife of St. Winif rede from a British Museum manuscript, 1857.
Laurence Dalton: '''Laurence Dalton''' (d. [[1561]]), Norroy king-ofarrns; Rouge Croix pursuivant, 1546; Richmond herald, 1547; Norroy king-of-arms, 1557.
Michael Dalton: '''Michael Dalton''' (d. [[1648]] ?), legal writer : J.P. for Cambridgeshire; commissioner of sequestrations for the county of Cambridge, 1648; author of The Countrey Justice 1618, and Offlcium Vicecomitum, or the Office and Authorise of Sheriffs 1623.
Richard Dalton: '''Richard Dalton''' ([[1715]]?-[[1791]]), draughtsman, engraver, and librarian; studied art in Rome; travelled, 1749, in Greece, Constantinople, and Egypt, publishing first drawings of monuments of ancient art in those countries; librarian to George III as Prince of Wales and as king; keeper of pictures and antiquarian to George III; one of original committee which drew up project for establishment of Royal Academy, 1765; original member, 1765, and treasurer of Incorporated Society of Artists; antiquarian to Royal Academy; F.S.A., 1767.
Daly: '''Daly''' or O'DALY, DANIEL or DOMINIC ([[1595]]1662), ecclesiastic and author; a native of Kerry; Dominican monk at Lugo, Galicia, with the name of Dominic de Rosario; professor at the Irish Dominican college of Lou vain; established an Irish Dominican college at Lisbon, and was appointed rector, 1634; enlisted men in Limerick for the Spanish service; founded nunnery for Irish Dominicans at Lisbon, 1639: Portuguese envoy to Charles I and Charles II; urged Charles II to give the Irish civil and religious liberty, 1649; bishopelect of Ooimbra and president of the Portuguese privy council; author of an account in Latin of the Geraldine Earls of Desmond, 1655, published at Lisbon,
Denis Daly: '''Denis Daly''' ([[1747]]-[[1791]]), Irish politician ; educated at Christ Church, Oxford; M.P. for Galway county, 1768-90, for Galway town, 1790; opposed the measure of independence, 1780: muster-master-general, 1781; opposed Flood's bill for parliamentary reform, 1783.
Sir Dominick Daly: '''Sir Dominick Daly''' ([[1798]]-[[1868]]), governor of South Australia; assistant-secretary to the government of Lower Canada, 1825-7; provincial secretary for the united provinces of Canada, 1840-8; member of the council, 1840; lieutenant-governor, Tobago, 1851-4; lieutenant-governor, Prince Edward island, 1854-9; knighted, 1856; governor of South Australia, 1861-8.
Sir Henry Dermot Daly: '''Sir Henry Dermot Daly''' ([[1821]]-[[1895]]), general ; ensign 1st Bombay European regiment, 1840; brevetcolonel, 1864; major-general, 1870; lieutenant-general, 1877; general, 1888; served in Sikh war, 1848-9, and against Afridis, 1849; with field force under Captain Coke, 1851, and under Sir Colin Campbell, 1852; served at Delhi and Lucknow and in campaign in (hide, 1858; commander of Central India Horse and political assistant at Augur for Western Malwa, 1861; agent to governorgeneral for Central India at Indore and opium agent in Malwa, 1871; K.C.B., 1875; O.I.E.. 1880; G.C.B., 1889.
Richard Daly: '''Richard Daly''' (d. [[1813]]), actor and theatrical manager; fellow-commoner, Trinity College, Dublin: first appeared on the Dublin stage as Lord Townley; opened Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 1781; became proprietor of Crow Street Theatre; patentee for a theatre royal at Dublin, 1786; obtained decision for libel against Magee, a journalist, 1790; surrendered his claim to the theatre royal, 1797; pensioned, 1798.
Robert Daly: '''Robert Daly''' ([[1783]]-[[1872]]), bishop of Cashel and Waterford; son of Denis Daly; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1832; D.D., 1843; dean of St. Patrick's Dublin, 1842; bishop of Cashel and Waterford, 1843; edited Bishop O'Brien's Focaloir Gaoidhilge-Sax-Bhearla, or Irish-English Dictionary 1832.
Dalyell: '''Dalyell''' Sm JOHN GRAHAM ([[1775]]-[[1851]]), antiquary and naturalist; studied at Edinburgh University; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1796; vice-president, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1797; knighted, 1836; president, Society of Arts for Scotland, 1839-40; preses of the board of directors of the Zoological Gardens, Edinburgh, 1841; published works, includingScottish Poems of the Sixteenth Century 1801,The Darker Superstitious of Scotland 1834, and The Powers of the Creator displayed in the Creation (vol. L 1851, vol. ii. 1853).
Dalyell: '''Dalyell''' or DALZELL, ROBERT, second EARL OF
Oarnwath: '''Oarnwath''' (d. [[1654]]), privy councillor for Scotland, [[1641]] ; hostile to the covenanters; fined 10,0007. Scots for refusing to appear in answer to a charge of treasonable correspondence with the queen, 1642; said to have caused the royalist defeat at Naseby by his over-caution, 1646; declared guilty of treason, 1645; committed to the Tower, 1651.
Dalyell: '''Dalyell''' or DALZELL, SIR ROBERT, sixth
of Caknwath Earl: '''of Caknwath Earl''' (d. [[1737]]), educated at Cambridge ;
Dalyell: '''Dalyell''' 316
Dancer: '''Dancer''' captured on Stuart side at Preston, 1715; condemned to death by the House of Lords for favouring the Pretender, 1716, but finally protected by the indemnity,
Sir Robert Anstruther Dalyell: '''Sir Robert Anstruther Dalyell''' ([[1831]]1890), Indian civilian; educated at Haileybury; entered Madras civil service, 1851; secretary of Madras government revenue department, 1868; member of board of revenue and chief secretary to Madras government, 1873; vice-president of council of secretary of state for India, 1883-4; O.S.I., 1879; K.C.I.E., 1887.
Dalyell: '''Dalyell''' or DALZELL, THOMAS ([[1599]] ?-[[1686]]), of Binns; general; took part in Rochelle expedition, 1628; colonel in Ireland, 1642; in charge of the customs at Oarrickfergus, 1649; proclaimed banished from Scotland, 1650; taken prisoner at Worcester, and committed to the Tower, 1651; escaped to the continent, 1662; assisted in the Scottish rebellion, 1654; as lieutenantgeneral in the Russian army, fought against the Poles and Turks; commander-in-chief in Scotland, 1666-79; defeated the covenanters in the Pentlands, 1666; privy councillor, 1667; M.P. in the Scottish parliament for Linlithgow, 1678-85; reapppinted commander-in-chief, 1679; commissioner of justiciary to punish the rebels of Bothwell Bridge, 1679; enrolled the Scots Greys, 1681; commander-in-chief with increased powers, 1685.
Andrew Dalzel: '''Andrew Dalzel''' ([[1742]]-[[1806]]), classical scholar ; M.A. Edinburgh; collaborator in Dr. Alexander Adam's Latin Grammar 1772; professor of Greek, Edinburgh University, 1779-1805; corresponded with Heine; helped to found the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783; principal clerk to the general assembly, 1789; compiledAvaAeKTo. 'EAATjiiKa "Ho'O'Oi'a 1789,AvaAcxraEAAijfiKa Metbpa 1805 translated Chevalier's Tableau de la Plaine de Troye 1791, and wrote a History of the University of Edinburgh published 1862.

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Niool Alexander Dalzell: '''Niool Alexander Dalzell''' ([[1817]]-[[1878]]), botanist; M.A. Edinburgh, 1837; assistant commissioner of customs, Bombay, 1841; conservator of forests, Bombay, 1841; retired, 1870; author ofThe Bombay Flora 1861, and other works on Indian botany.
Robert Dalzell: '''Robert Dalzell''' ([[1662]]-[[1768]]), general; said to have been in the direct line of succession to the earldom of Oarnwath; town-major of Portsmouth, 1 702; fought as lieutenant-colonel under Marlborough in the Netherlands, 1705-6; served in Spain as colonel, 1708; lieutenant-general, 1727; commander of the forces in North Britain, 1732; general, 1745; sold his regimental commissions, 1749; chairman of the directors of the Sun Fire Office, 1750.
Alexander Damascene: '''Alexander Damascene''' (d. [[1719]]), musician ; a Frenchman by birth; naturalised in England 1682; gentleman extraordinary of the Ohapel Royal, 1690; gentleman of the Ohapel Royal, 1695; composed numerous eongs.
Anne Seymour Damer: '''Anne Seymour Damer''' ([[1749]]-[[1828]]), sculptress ; daughter of Field-marshal (Henry Seymour) Conway ; studied under Oeracchi and Cruikshank; married John Darner, lord Milton, 1767; friend of Nelson, Waipole, Josephine de Beauharnais, and Napoleon; made a statue of George III for the Edinburgh register office; executed heads of Thame and Isis for Henley Bridge, 1785; executrix and residuary legatee of Horace Wai pole, 1797; presented Napoleon with a bust of Fox, and the king of Tanjore with a bronze cast of her bust of Nelson, 1826.
Damon: '''Damon''' or DAMAN, WILLIAM (16th cent.), musician to Queen Elizabeth; first composer to set the psalms in the vernacular to part-music, 1679.
Thomas Dampiee: '''Thomas Dampiee''' ([[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.
William Dampiee: '''William Dampiee''' ([[1662]]-[[1716]]), pirate; captain R.N., and hydrographer; assistant-manager of a Jamaica plantation, 1G74; 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 Fnglaud 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,
Earls Op Danby: '''Earls Op Danby''' . See DANVERS, HENRY, [[1573]]1644; OSBORNE, SIR THOMAS, first earl of the second creation, 1631-1712.
Francis Danby: '''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.
James Francis Danby: '''James Francis Danby''' ([[1816]]-[[1875]]), painter ; son of Francis Danby; exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution from 1847.
John Danby: '''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.
Sir Robert Danby: '''Sir Robert Danby''' (d. [[1471]] ?), chief-justice of common pleas; serjeant-at-law, 1443; king's ser jeant; raised to bench of common pleas, 1452; chief-justice. 1461-71; knighted, c. 1461.
Thomas Danby: '''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.
William Danby: '''William Danby''' ([[1752]]-[[1833]]), miscellaneous writer; high sheriff of Yorkshire, 1784; visited by Southey, 1829; chief works, Ideas and Realities 1827, and Poems 1831.
Charles Dance: '''Charles Dance''' ([[1794]]-[[1863]]), dramatist: son of George Dance the younger; registrar, taxingofflcer, and chief clerk in the insolvent debtorscourt; author of comediettas and extravaganzas.
George Dance: '''George Dance''' , the elder ([[1700]]-[[1768]]), architect and surveyor to the corporation of London; designed the Mansion House, 1739.
George Dance: '''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.
Dance: '''Dance''' alias LOVE, JAMES ([[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. B HOLL
Nathaniel Dance: '''Nathaniel Dance''' ([[1734]]-[[1811]]). See HOLLAND,
Nathaniel Dance Sir: '''Nathaniel Dance Sir''' -.
Sir Nathaniel Dance: '''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.
William Dance: '''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.
Mrs Dancer: '''Mrs Dancer''' . ANN ([[1734]]-[[1801]]). See BARRY, MRS.
Spranqbr Ann: '''Spranqbr Ann''' .
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Daniell: '''Daniell'''
Daniel Dancer: '''Daniel Dancer''' ([[1716]]-[[1794]]), miser ; left all his wealth to widow of Sir Heiiry Tempest, who nursed him in his last illness, 17J4.
John Dancer: '''John Dancer''' (Ji. [[1675]]), translator and dramatist ; probably at one time in the Duke of Ormonde's service; translated, among other works, Corneille's Nicomede 1C71, Quinault'BAgrippa 1675, and Tasso'sAminta 1660, the first two in rhyming couplets.
Thomas Dancer: '''Thomas Dancer''' ([[1755]]7-[[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.
Henry Danckerts: '''Henry Danckerts''' ([[1630]] ?-[[1680]] ?), landscapepainter 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.
John Dancxerts: '''John Dancxerts''' (. [[1660]]), painter ; brother of Henry Danckerts; dean of the guild of St. Luke at the Hague, 1650-2; painted historical subjects.
Bartholomew Dandrldge: '''Bartholomew Dandrldge''' (. [[1750]]), portraitpainter,
James Danell: '''James Danell''' ([[1821]]-[[1881]]), Roman catholic bishop of Southwark; canon of Southwark, 1867; vicar-general of the diocese, 1862; D.D.; bishop, 1871.
Thomas Danett: '''Thomas Danett''' (fl. [[1566]]-[[1601]]), translator of De Oommines's Historic 1601, and part of Guicciardini, 1593.
Thomas Danforth: '''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.
Thomas Dangerfleld: '''Thomas Dangerfleld''' ([[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.
Fran Danican: '''Fran Danican''' gOIS ANDRE" ([[1726]]-[[1795]]). See
Puiudor: '''Puiudor'''
Saint Daniel: '''Saint Daniel''' , more correctly DEINIOL (d. [[684]]?), bishop of Bangor; founded numerous churches in Wales and an abbey at Bangor; bard, and one of theseven happy cousins."
Daniel: '''Daniel''' or according to Bceda DANIHEL (d. [[745]]), bishop of the West-Saxons; made Winchester his episcopal see, 705; literary coadjutor of Baeda and correspondent of St. Boniface.
Daniel: '''Daniel''' A JEST! ([[1572]]-[[1649]]).
Alexander Daniel: '''Alexander Daniel''' ([[1599]]-[[1668]]), diarist; bora at Middleburg, Walcheren; entered Lincoln College, Oxford, 1617; left in manuscript a Brief Chronologicalle of Letters and Papers of and for Mine Own Family, 16171668 and Meditations
Edward Daniel: '''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, 16421648; regent of the Douay college, 1651: dean of the chapter in England, 1653; author of Meditations 1649.
George Daniel: '''George Daniel''' , of BESWICK ([[1616]]-[[1667]]), cavalier poet; wrote a panegyricTo the Memorie of the best Dramaticke English Poet, Ben Jonson 1638; author of 'Trinarchodia 1649, Idyllia 1660, andScattered Fancies 1646.
George Daniel: '''George Daniel''' ([[1789]]-[[1864]]), miscellaneous writer and book-collector; engaged through life in business; j published in early life squibs on royal scandals, some of I which were suppressed; satirised contemporary poetasters I inThe Modern Dunciad, 1 1814; friend of Charles Lamb iiml Robert Bloomfield; edited John Cumberland's Bri ! tiah Theatre 1823-31, and Davison'sActable Drama I wrote two farces for Drury Lane Theatre, and humorous j and religious poems. At his residence, 18 Canonbury i Square, London, he brought together a splendid collection of Elizabethan books, black-letter ballads, and theatrical curiosities, which were dispersed at his death,
Henry Daniel: '''Henry Daniel''' (. [[1379]]), Dominican friar ; left manuscripts of medical and natural science,
John Daniel: '''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.
John Daniel: '''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.
Nehemias Daniel: '''Nehemias Daniel''' (d. [[1609]] 7).
Robert Mackenzie Daniel: '''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.

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Samuel Daniel: '''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.
Thomas Daniel: '''Thomas Daniel''' ([[1720]]-[[1779]]).
Daniel: '''Daniel''' or O'DOMHNULLL, WILLIAM (d. [[1628]]), 1 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.
William Barker Daniel: '''William Barker Daniel''' ([[1753]]7-[[1833]]), sporting writer: M.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1790; took orders; published Rural Sports 1801.
Edward Thomas Daniell: '''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.
John Frederic Daniell: '''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.
Samuel Danlell: '''Samuel Danlell''' ([[1775]]-[[1811]]X 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.
Daniell: '''Daniell''' 318
Darcy: '''Darcy'''
Thomas Daniell: '''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
William Daniell: '''William Daniell''' ([[1769]]-[[1837]]), landscapepainter: 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
William Freeman Daniell: '''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.
John Feltham Danneley: '''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.
William Dansey: '''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.
Thomas Danson: '''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,
Sir Charles Danvers: '''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, 1699; 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.
Henry Danvers: '''Henry Danvers''' , EARL OP 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.
Henry Danvers: '''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 ofTheopolis 1672, and some other treatises of anabaptist theology.
Sir John Danvers: '''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.
Danvers: '''Danvers''' alia* VII.LIERS, aliat WRIGHT, ROBERT, called VISCOUNT PURBEOK (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. D'ARBLAY, FRANCES (1752-1840). See ARBLAY, FRANCES (BURNEY), MADAME D
Abraham Darby: '''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,
Abraham Darby: '''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.
Abraham Darby: '''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).
George Darby: '''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.
John Nelson Darby: '''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.

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Thomas Darbyshlre: '''Thomas Darbyshlre''' ([[1518]]-[[1604]]), Jesuit ; B.A. Broadgates Hall (Pembroke College), Oxford, 1544; D.O.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.
Darcy: '''Darcy''' or DARCIE, ABRAHAM (fl. [[1625]]), author ; native of Geneva; his works include The Honour of Ladies a prose treatise, 1622.
John Darcy: '''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.
Patrick Dargy: '''Patrick Dargy''' ([[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.. D'ARCY, PATRICK, COUNT (1725-1779), marechalde-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. D'AROY, ROBERT, 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.
Thomas Darcy: '''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, 1632, opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Arragou; began to intrigue with Chapuys, the imperial ambassador, 1634; surrendered Pomfret Castle to the insurgents of the Pilgrimage of Grace, ostensibly of necessity, 1636;
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Darwin: '''Darwin''' by Henry VIII as a rebel leader, but pardoned 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.
Darell: '''Darell''' or DORELL, WILLIAM (d. [[1580]]), anti ny; M. A. Corpus Ohristi College, Cambridge; ciiiiplnin }ueen Elizabeth; sub-dean of Canterbury, 1560; chancellor of Bangor, 1665-70; prebendary of Lichfield, 1568; author of a Latin treatise on the Kentish castles.
William Dargan: '''William Dargan''' ([[1799]]-[[1867]]), Irish railway projector; constructed the Ulster canal and the chief Irish railways; declined a baronetcy, 1853.
George Barley: '''George Barley''' ([[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.
John Richard Darley: '''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; publishedThe Grecian Drama 1840, and Homer 1848.
Darling: '''Darling''' Sm CHARLES HENRY ([[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.
George Darling: '''George Darling''' ([[1782]] ?-[[1862]]), physician ; educated at Edinburgh; L.R.O.P.; published anonymously 4 An Essay on Medical Economy 1814.
Grace Horsley Darling: '''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.
James Darling: '''James Darling''' ([[1797]]-[[1862]]), bookseller and publisher; founded Metropolitan Library, 1839; brought out in two volumes Cyclopaedia Bibliographica 1854, 1859.
Sir Ralph Darling: '''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.
William Darling: '''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.
Darlington: '''Darlington''' third EARL OF ([[1766]]-[[1812]]). See
William Harry Vane: '''William Harry Vane''' .
John of Darlington: '''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.
Saint Darlugdach: '''Saint Darlugdach''' (f. [[522]]), second abbess of Kildare, and St. Brigit's favourite pupil.
Matthew Darly: '''Matthew Darly''' (. [[1778]]), engraver, caricaturist, and artistscolonrman.
Sik John Darnall: '''Sik John Darnall''' , the elder (d. [[1706]]), lawyer ; clerk to the parliament during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate; king's Serjeant, 1698; knighted, 1B99.
Sir John Darnall: '''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.
George Darnell: '''George Darnell''' ([[1798]]-[[1857]]), master of a day school at Islington; started a series of copybooks, r. 1840.

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Sir Thomas Darnell: '''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.
William Nicholas Darnell: '''William Nicholas Darnell''' ([[1776]]-[[1866]]), theological writer and antiquary; fellow and tutor, Corpus Christi College, Oxford; M.A., 1800; BJX, 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 ofThe King of the Picte and St Cuthbert a well-known ballad.
Earl of Darnley: '''Earl of Darnley''' ([[1545]]-[[1567]]). See STEWART,
Henry: '''Henry'''
Risdon Darragott: '''Risdon Darragott''' ([[1717]]-[[1759]]), independent minister; pastor at Penzance, 1738-9; at Wellington, Somerset, 1741-59; publishedScripture Marks of Salvation 1755 or 1756.
John Darrel: '''John Darrel''' (. [[1562]]-[[1602]]), exorcist; B.A. QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1579; preacher at Mansfield; i prohibited from preaching by reason of his exorcist impostures, 1598; imprisoned by an episcopal commission, 1599.
Thomas Darrell: '''Thomas Darrell''' (ft. [[1572]]), Roman catholic divine; educated at New College, Oxford; D.D. Douay, 1572; chaplain to a French bishop.
William Darrell: '''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.
John Dart: '''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).
Joseph Henry Dart: '''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.
Charles Dartiquenave: '''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 I to by Swift as a punster, and by Pope as an epicure.
Earls of Dartmouth: '''Earls of Dartmouth''' . See LEGGE, WILLIAM, first EARL, 1672-1750; LEGGE, WILLIAM, second EARL, 1731-1801; LEGGE, GEORGE, third EARL, 1755-1810.
Dartmouth: '''Dartmouth''' first BARON ([[1648]]-[[1691]]). See
George Legge: '''George Legge''' .
Nicholas Darton: '''Nicholas Darton''' ([[1603]]-[[1649]] ?), divine ; B.A. ; Exeter College, Oxford, 1622; incumbent of Kilsby, I Northamptonshire, 1628-45; author of theTrue and Absolute Bishop 1641.
Frances Darusmont: '''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.
Charles Robert Darwin: '''Charles Robert Darwin''' ([[1809]]-[[1883]]), naturalist; grandson of Erasmus Darwin; educated at Shrewsbury, Edinburgh University, and Christ's College,
Darwin: '''Darwin''' 320 D'ATJVERGNE 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, andThe 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
Erasmus Darwik: '''Erasmus Darwik''' ([[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 i Society at Derby, 1784; declined invitation of George III j to become his physician; formed botanical garden near Lichfield, 1778; publishedThe 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.
Sir George Webbe Dasent: '''Sir George Webbe Dasent''' ([[1817]]-[[1896]]), Scan- ! dinavian scholar; born in St. Vincent; educated at Westminster and Magdalen Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1843: D.O.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 NjaL1861, andThe Story of Gisli the Outlaw 1866, besides various essays and other writings.
Francis Dashwood: '''Francis Dashwood''' , BAKOX LK DESPKNCKK (1708-1781), chancellor of the exchequer; son of Sir Francis Dash wood, 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.O.L. Oxford, 1749; foundedHell-fire Club or; society of the monks of Medmenham Abbey, e 1756: first colonel of Buckinghamshire militia, 1757: chancellor of j exchequer, 1762-3: keeper of wardrobe, 1763: succeeded, ! as fifteenth Baron Le Despencer, his uncle, John Fane, I seventh earl of Westmorland and fourteenth baron Le Despencer, 1763; joint postmaster-general, 1770-81.
George Henry Dashwood: '''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.
James Anthony Dassier: '''James Anthony Dassier''' ([[1716]]-[[1759]]), medal- j list: son of John Dassier; appointed assistantengraver to the English mint, 1741; worked on the coin- ! age of Elizabeth of Russia, c. 1756; struck medals of Pope Clement XII and the most distinguished Englishmen of the time.
John Dassier: '''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. D'ASSIGNY, MARIUS (1643-1717), author and translator; B.D. Cambridge, 1668; translated Drelinooott'i Ohristian'fl 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.
Da Dastin: '''Da Dastin''' 8TYN, or DAUSTIN, JOHN (Jl. [[1320]]), alchemist; correspondent of Pope John XXII and Cardinal Adrian of Naples: left in manuscript a Rosarium * and aVisio super Arteni Alchemicain

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Giles Dattbeitey: '''Giles Dattbeitey''' , first BAROX DAUBKNKY (.. 1608), 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.
Charles Daubeny: '''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.
Charles Giles Bridle Dattbeny: '''Charles Giles Bridle Dattbeny''' ([[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.
Charles Dattbuz: '''Charles Dattbuz''' ([[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).
John Dauglish: '''John Dauglish''' ([[1824]]-[[1866]]), inventor of aerated bread: studied medicine at Edinburgh, 1852; M.D., 1855: took out his first patent foran improved method of making bread 1856, silver medallist of the Society of Arts. 1860.
Datincey: '''Datincey''' or DATTUCY, JOHN (.I. [[1663]]), translator of Perefixe'sHtstoire de Henri le Grand 1663: published histories of Charles II, 1660, of Henrietta Maria, 1660, and of Portugal, 1661.
Achilles Daunt: '''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.
John Daus: '''John Daus''' (fl. [[1561]]), translator of 'Sleidanes Commentaries 1660. D'AUVERGNE, EDWARD (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,
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Edmund Davall: '''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.
Charles Davenant: '''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.
John Davenant: '''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 I (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.
William Davenant: '''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.
Christopher Davenport: '''Christopher Davenport''' ([[1598]]-[[1680]]), Franciscan; better known as FRANCISCUS 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.
Sir Humphrey Davenport: '''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.
John Davenport: '''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.
Mary Ann Davenport: '''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.
Richard Alfred Davenport: '''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'sHistory of Greece 1835, and Pilkington's Dictionary of Painter*, 1 1852; died from an overdose of opium.
Robert Davenport: '''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 DivelV 1639, and The City NightCap licensed, 1624.
Samuel Davenport: '''Samuel Davenport''' (1T83-[[1867]]), line-engraver ; engraved portraits for biographical works and (1828-42) plates for the Forget-me-not Annual
Davers: '''Davers'''
David: '''David'''
David: '''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.
David: '''David''' (d. [[1139]] ?), generally called 'David the Scot,' but probably of Welsh descent; teacher at WUrzburg: 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 Gruff udd, king of Gwynedd, 1120; took part in Archbishop William of Oorbeil's council at Westminster, 1127.

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David: '''David''' I ([[1084]]-[[1153]]), king of Scotland; son of Malcolm Oanmore; 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.
David: '''David''' n ([[1324]]-[[1371]]).
David: '''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.
Ap Gwilym David: '''Ap Gwilym David''' (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.
Ab Llewelyn David: '''Ab Llewelyn David''' (d. [[1415]]). See GAM,
David: '''David'''
David: '''David''' or DAFYDD, EDWARD (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.
Thomas William Davids: '''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
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Alexander Dyce Davidson: '''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.
Harriet Miller Davidson: '''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
James Davidson: '''James Davidson''' ([[1793]]-[[1864]]), antiquary and bibliographer; published numerous works on the topography and history of Devonshire, also aGlossary of the Obsolete and Unused Words and Phrases of the Holy Scriptures in the Authorised English Version 1850.
James Bridge Davidson: '''James Bridge Davidson''' (d. [[1885]]), miscellaneous writer; son of James Davidson; contributed to various journals.
John Davidson: '''John Davidson''' ([[1549]]?-[[1603]]X 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
John Davidson: '''John Davidson''' (d. [[1797]]), Scottish antiquary; writer to the signet and crown agent; printed privately works on the legal history of Scotland, 1771-92.
John Davidson: '''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.
Samuel Davidson: '''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.
Thomas Davidsok: '''Thomas Davidsok''' ([[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.
Thomas Davidson: '''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.
Thomas Davidson: '''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.
William Davidson: '''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.
Adam Davie: '''Adam Davie''' (A [[1308]]?).
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Benjamin Davies: '''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.
Catherine Davies: '''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.
Cecilia Davies: '''Cecilia Davies''' ([[1750]]7-[[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.
Christian Davies: '''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.
David Davies: '''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.
David Charles Davies: '''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.
David Christopher Davies: '''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
Edward Davies: '''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.
Eleanor Davies: '''Eleanor Davies''' , LADY (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.
Evan Davtes: '''Evan Davtes''' ([[1805]]-[[1864]]), independent minister ; sent to Penang by the London Missionary Society, 1836; superintendent of the BoysMission School, Walthamstow, 1842-4; pastor of the congregational church, Richmond, 1844-57; publishedChina and her Spiritual Claims 1845, with other religious works.
Francis Davies: '''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.
George Davies: '''George Davies''' (d. [[1811]]).
Griffith Davies: '''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.
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Davies: '''Davies''' DA VIES, HENRY (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; publishedThe Young Wife's Guidt1844.
Herbert Davies: '''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.
Hugh Davies: '''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.
James Davies: '''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.
Sir John Davies: '''Sir John Davies''' (. [[1595]]), marshal of Connaught under Queen Elizabeth.
Sir John Davies: '''Sir John Davies''' (. [[1599]]), master of the ordnance in Ireland.
Sir John Davies: '''Sir John Davies''' (. [[1601]] ), conspirator ; sentenced to death for his share in Essex's conspiracy, 1601; pardoned.
John Davtes: '''John Davtes''' ([[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.
Sir John Davies: '''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.
John Davies: '''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.
John Davies: '''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.

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John Davies: '''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 QueensCollege, 1717; D.D., 1717; vice-chancellor, 1726; edited many of Cicero's philosophical treatises and works of other classical authors.
Davies: '''Davies''' or DAVIS, JOHN SCARLETT (Jl. [[1841]] X painter; visited Amsterdam, 1841; devoted himself more especially to painting interiors!; lithographnl twHvr heads from studies by Rubens.
Jonathan Davies: '''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.
Lady Lucy Clementina Davies: '''Lady Lucy Clementina Davies''' ([[1796]]-[[1879]]X authoress; daughter of Lord Leon de Melfort, titular earl of Perth; married, 1823, Francis Henry Davies; publishedRecollections of Society in France and England 1872.
Marianne Davies: '''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,
Miles Davies: '''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.
Owen Davies: '''Owen Davies''' ([[1752]]-[[1830]]), superintendent of the Welsh Wesleyan Mission; religious writer,
Richard Davies: '''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 ofBishopsBible 1668.
Richard Davies: '''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.
Richard Davies: '''Richard Davies''' (d. [[1762]]), physician ; fellow of QueensCollege, 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.
Robert Davies: '''Robert Davies''' ([[1684]]-[[1728]]), Welsh antiquary and collector of Welsh manuscripts.
Robert Davtes: '''Robert Davtes''' ([[1769]] 9-[[1835]]), Welsh poet ; better known as BARDD NANTGLYN and ROBIN DDC O'R GLYN; occupied the bardic chair for Powis at the Wrexham Eisteddfod, 1820; published a Welsh grammar, 1808.
Robert Davies: '''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.
Rowland Davies: '''Rowland Davies''' ([[1649]]-[[1721]]X denn 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.
Rowland Davies: '''Rowland Davies''' ([[1740]]-[[1797]]), composer of sacred music; pupil of Handel; ordained Roman catholic priest at the college of Douay, 1765.
Sneyd Davies: '''Sneyd Davies''' ([[1709]]-1 [[769]]), poet; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; fellow; archdeacon of Derby, 1756; prebendary of Lichfleld; author of Latin poems, imitations of Milton, and verses in the manner of Swift. i 2
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Thomas Davies: '''Thomas Davies''' [[0511]]?-[[1573]]),bi8hopofSt.Asaph; , rector of Llanbedr and vicar of Oaerhun, 1535; studied at St. John's and QueensColleges, Cambridge; LL.D., 1548; i chancellor of Bangor, 1546: received custody of spiritualities of Bangor from Cardinal Pole, 1558; bishop of St. j Asaph, 1561-73; issued charge to his clergy, 1661; founded; scholarship at QueensCollege, Cambridge, and left money for Bangor school.
Davies: '''Davies''' or DAVIS, SIR THOMAS ([[1631]]-[[1679]]), lord mayor of London and bookseller; educated at St. Paul's School; sheriff, 1667; knighted. 1667; twice master of the StationersCompany, 1668 and 1669; lord mayor, 1676-7. I
Thomas Davies: '''Thomas Davies''' ([[1712]] 7-[[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'sRosciad introduced Boawell to Johnson, 1763; published a pirated edition of Johnson's writings, but was forgiven by the author, 1773; wrote a Life of Qarriok 1780, andDramatic Miscellanies 1785; republished Elizabethan and Jacobean works.
Thomas Davies: '''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.
Thomas Davies: '''Thomas Davies''' ([[1837]]-[[1891]]), mineralogist ; son of William Davies (1814-1891); assistant in mineral department at.British Museum, 1858; editor ofMineralogical Magazine *; P.Q.S., 1870.
Thomas Stephens Davies: '''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.
Walter Davies: '''Walter Davies''' ([[1761]]-[[1849]]), Welsh bard and essayist; B.A. All SoulsCollege, 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.

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William Davies (priest): '''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.
William Davies: '''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.
William Davies: '''William Davies''' (d. [[1820]]), bookseller; partner with Thomas Cadell the younger; published fourth to eighth editions of Boswell's Life of Johnson
William Davies: '''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.
William Edmund Davies: '''William Edmund Davies''' ([[1819]]-[[1879]]), bettingman; known as the LKVIATHAN; originated the bettinglist system, 1846; left to the corporation of Brighton 60,000*., of which his widow obtained the enjoyment till her death, 1879; noted for professional honesty and the magnitude of his transactions.
Charles Davis: '''Charles Davis''' (d. [[1755]]), bookseller and publisher ; one of the first to issue priced catalogues of second-hand books.
David Davis: '''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.
David Daniel Davis: '''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.
Edward Davis: '''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.
Edward Davis: '''Edward Davis''' ([[1833]]-[[1867]]), subject painter ; first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854; died in Rome.
Henry Edwards Davis: '''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.
Henry George Davis: '''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.
James Davis: '''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.
John Davis: '''John Davis''' ([[1550]] ?-[[1605]]).
John Davis: '''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
Davis: '''Davis''' J. P. (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.
John Bunnell Davis: '''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.
John Ford Davis: '''John Ford Davis''' ([[1773]]-[[1864]]), physician; M.D. Edinburgh, 1797; L.R.O.P., 1808; physician to the General Hospital, Bath, 1817-34; chief work 4 An Inquiry into the Symptoms and Treatment of Carditis 1808.
Sir John Francis Davis: '''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.O.L. Oxford, 1876; published works on China.
Joseph Barnard Davis: '''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.
Lookyer Davis: '''Lookyer 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.
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Davis: '''Davis''' or DA VIES, MARY (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.
Nathan Davts: '''Nathan Davts''' ([[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 includeA Voice from North Africa 1844, and Israel's true Emancipator 1852.

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Richard Barrett Davis: '''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.
Thomas Osborne Davis: '''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.
William Davis: '''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.
William Davis: '''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.
William Davis: '''William Davis''' ([[1812]]-[[1873]]), landscape and portrait painter; professor of painting, Liverpool Academy; exhibited landscapes at the Royal Academy, 1851-72.
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Alexander Davison: '''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.
Edward Davison: '''Edward Davison''' ([[1576]] 7-[[1624]] ?).
Edward Davison: '''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.
Francis Davison: '''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.
James William Davison: '''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.
Jeremiah Davison: '''Jeremiah Davison''' ([[1695]]?-[[1750]]?), portraitpainter. Among his sitters were Frederick, prince of Wales, 1730, and Admiral Byng.
John Davison: '''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-uponSevern, 1826; prebendary of St. Paul's and (1826) of Worcester. Hia most important works are theDiscourses on Prophecy emphasising the moral aspect of prophetic revelations, and An Inquiry into the Origin and Intent of Primitive Sacrifice 1825.
Maria Rebecca Davison: '''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.
Walter Davison: '''Walter Davison''' ([[1581]]-[[1608]]?), poet; son of William Davison (1541 ?-1608); educated at King's College, Cambridge: served in Low Countries, e, 1602; author of poems in Poetical Rapsody 1602.
William Davison: '''William Davison''' ([[1541]] ?-[[1608]]), secretary of Queen Elizabeth; resident agent at Antwerp, 1577; obtained for the States-General a loan of 60,000*. 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.
Davison: '''Davison''' or DAVIDSON, WILLIAM (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.
Adam Davy: '''Adam Davy''' (fl. [[1308]] ?), fanatical rhymer ; formerly supposed to be the author of Alisaanderand the entire Bodleian MS. Laud, 622; claimed to predict the destiny of King Edward (III ?) in his Dreams
Charles Davy: '''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.
David Elisha Davy: '''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.
Edmund Davy: '''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.
Edward Davy: '''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.
Henry Davy: '''Henry Davy''' (fl. [[1829]]), architect and landscapepainter; executed etchings of the country seats and antiquities of Suffolk, 1818 and 1827.
Davy: '''Davy''' Sm HUMPHRY ([[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
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Dawes: '''Dawes''' 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.
Jane Davy: '''Jane Davy''' , LADY ([[1780]]-[[1855]]), wife of Sir Humphry Davy after the death of her first husband, Sir Shuckburgh Ashby Apreece, in 1807; ne Kerr; a prominent figure in the society of both Rome and London; commended by Madame de Stael.
John Davy: '''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.
John Davy: '''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; FJLS., 1834; published An Account of the Interior of Oeylon 1821, Discourses on Agriculture 1849,Physiological Researches 1863, and other works of science and travel.
Martin Davy: '''Martin Davy''' ([[1763]]-[[1839]]), physician and master of Gains College, Cambridge; M.D. Oaius College, Cambridge, 1797; master of Gains, 1803-39; D.D., 1811; prebendary of Chichester; vice-chancellor, 1803 and 1827; adherent of the Brunonian system of medicine.
Robert Davy: '''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.
William Davy: '''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.
William Davy: '''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.
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Davydd: '''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,
Davydd: '''Davydd''' H ([[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.
Davydd: '''Davydd''' m (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.
Davy: '''Davy''' 8, GEORGE ([[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,
John Davys: '''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.
Mary Davys: '''Mary Davys''' (fl. [[1756]]), dramatist and novelist ; corresponded with Dean Swift; author of society comedies and tales.
George Dawe: '''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.
Henry Edward Dawe: '''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
Philip Dawe: '''Philip Dawe''' (ft. [[1780]]). mezzotint engraver: friend of George Morland; contributed to the first exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1763.
Lancelot Dawes: '''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.
Manasseh Dawes: '''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.
Richard Dawes: '''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.
Richard Dawes: '''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.
Dawes: '''Dawes''' or DAW, SOPHIA, BAKONNB DK FEUCHfcRES (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
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Sir William Dawes: '''Sir William Dawes''' , third baronet ([[1671]]-[[1724]]), archbishop of York: entered Merchant TaylorsSchool, IGHii; wrote devotional work entitled The Duties of the Closet,* e. 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.
William Rutter Dawes: '''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 thewedge photometer exhibited 1865; established the non-atmospheric character of the redness of Mars, 1865; F.R.S., 1865.
Dawk: '''Dawk''' 3NS, JAMES ([[1722]]-[[1757]]), archaeologist and Jacobite; born in Jamaica; educated at St. John's College, Oxford: D.O.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.
Ichabod Dawks: '''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.
Thomas Dawks: '''Thomas Dawks''' , the elder (d. [[1670]]), printer.
Thomas Dawks: '''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.
Abraham Dawson: '''Abraham Dawson''' ([[1713]] 9-[[1789]]), biblical scholar ; M.A.; rector of Ringsfield, Suffolk, 1754-89; published various translations, with notes, of the earlier chapters of Genesis.
Ambrose Dawson: '''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.
Benjamin Dawson: '''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.
Dawson: '''Dawson''' or DAVISON, EDWARD ([[1576]]?-! [[624]]?), 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.
George Dawson: '''George Dawson''' ([[1637]]-[[1700]]), jurist : M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1662; vicar of Sunninirhill; wroteOrigo Legum in seven books, 1694.
George Dawson: '''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 insti tution 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,
Henry Dawson: '''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 aft Greenwich (1874),Wooden WallsHouses of Parliament and Durham
James Dawson: '''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.
John Dawson: '''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
Sir John William Dawson: '''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.
Matthew Dawson: '''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.
Nancy Dawson: '''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.
Robert Dawson: '''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.
Robert Kearsley Dawson: '''Robert Kearsley Dawson''' ([[1798]]-[[1861]]), lieuj tenant-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.
Thomas Dawson: '''Thomas Dawson''' ([[1726]] 7-[[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.
William Dawson: '''William Dawson''' ([[1773]]-[[1841]]), Wesleyan : lay and (from 1837) itinerant preacher.
Alexander Day: '''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.
Alfred Day: '''Alfred Day''' ([[1810]]-[[1849]]), musical theorist: took a medical degree at Heidelberg, and practised homoeopathy in London; publishedA Treatise on Harmony 1846.
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Dean Angell: '''Dean''' , ANGELL (. 1586), miscellaneous writer; chief works, l The English Secretorie (letter-writing manual), 1686, and Daphnis and Ohloe (translated from Longus), 1587.
Daniel Day: '''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.
Francis Day: '''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.
Francis Day: '''Francis Day''' ([[1829]]-[[1889]]), ichthyologist ; educated at Shrewsbury; studied medicine at St. George's Hospital, London; M.R.O.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.
George Day: '''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.
George Edward Day: '''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.
James Day: '''James Day''' (ft. [[1637]]), verse-writer ; published ' A New Spring of Divine Poetrie 163.7.
Daye Day: '''Daye Day''' , or DATE, JOHN ([[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 StationersCompany, 1580; introduced a new italic, a Roman, and a Greek type.
John Day: '''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.
John Day: '''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.
Matthew Day: '''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.
Daye Day: '''Daye Day''' , or D'AJE, RICHARD ([[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.
Stephen Day: '''Stephen Day''' ([[1610]] ?-[[1668]]).
Thomas Day: '''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.
William Day: '''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.
William Day: '''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.
Stephen Daye: '''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.
Edward Dayes: '''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.
Solomon Dayrolles: '''Solomon Dayrolles''' (*. [[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
James Deacon: '''James Deacon''' (d. [[1750]]), miniature-painter.
Thomas Deacon: '''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.
William Frederick Deacon: '''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.
Thomas Dealtry: '''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.
William Dealtry: '''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.
Richard Dean: '''Richard Dean''' ([[1727]] 9-[[1778]]), divine and author ; wrote 4 An Essay on the Future Life of Brutes 1767.

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Thomas Dean: '''Thomas Dean''' (18th cent.), musician ; organist at Warwick and Coventry; Mus. Doc. Oxford, 1731; wrote music for Oldmixon'sGovernor of Cyprus 1703.
William Dean: '''William Dean''' (d. [[1688]]), Roman catholic divine ; educated in the English college, liheims; sent on the English mission, 1582; executed, 1688.
Sir Anthony Deane: '''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.
Henry Deane: '''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.
Richard Deanz: '''Richard Deanz''' ([[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.
Thomas Deane: '''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.
Deane: '''Deane''' Sm THOMAS ([[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.
Deane: '''Deane''' Sm THOMAS NEWENHAM ([[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.
William John Deane: '''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
William Wood Deane: '''William Wood Deane''' ([[1825]] 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.
John Deare: '''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.
Joseph Deare: '''Joseph Deare''' (1 [[8049]]-[[1835]]), sculptor: nephew of John Deare; exhibited marble groups and portrait busts at the Royal Academy, 1826-32.
Dbas: '''Dbas''' Sm DAVID ([[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.
Sir George Dbas: '''Sir George Dbas''' ([[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.
William Dbase: '''William Dbase''' ([[1752]] 9-[[1798]]), surgeon ; studied medicine at Paris and Dublin; professor of surgery, SurgeonsCollege, Dublin, 1785; president, 1789; died of an internal wound under mysterious circumstances; published medical works.
Rickard Deasy: '''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. DE BAAN, JACOBUS (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. DE BAAN or DE BAEN, JOHANNES (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.
Hugh Debbieg: '''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.
John Debrett: '''John Debrett''' (d. [[1822]]), publisher and compiler : compiled a Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1802, and a Baronetage of England 1808. DE BETE, DIRK or THEODORE (1528-1598), engraver; born at Liege: engraved plates for Boissard's 'Roman Antiquities and executedThe Grand Funeral Procession of Sir Philip Sidney a series, 1587. DE BRUYN, THEODORE (d. 1804), landscapepainter; born in Switzerland; exhibited landscapes at j the Royal Academy; decorated chapel at Greenwich Hospital in monochrome imitation of bas-relief. DE CAUS, ISAAC (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. DE CAUS, CAULS, or CAUX, SALOMON (15761626 ?), 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 work*
Decker: '''Decker''' 330 BE GEX include Institution Harmonique 1615, and a book on the motive power of water, in which he anticipated the steam-engine, 1615.
Sir Matthew Decker: '''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,
Thomas Decker: '''Thomas Decker''' ([[1570]]?-[[1641]] ?).
Saint Declan: '''Saint Declan''' (. [[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. DE COETLOGON, CHARLES EDWARD (1746?1820). DE GORT, HENRY FRANCIS (HKXDRIK TRANS) (1742-1810), landscape-painter; born at Antwerp; secretary to the new Antwerp Academy, 1788; exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1790. DE CRITZ, EMMANUEL (fl. 1723), sergeant-painter; son of John de Critz (d. 1642); painted scenery for court masques. DE CRITZ, JOHN, the younger (fl. 1610), sergeantpainter; son of John de Critz (d. 1642); sergeantpainter by reversion, 1610; killed on the royalist side at Oxford. DE CRITZ, JOHN (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.
Decuman: '''Decuman''' or DEGEMAN, SAINT (d. [[706]] ?), Welsh hermit; miraculously crossed the Bristol Channel; hermit near Dunster Castle, Somerset.
Arthur Dee: '''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.

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Duncan Dee: '''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.
Francis Dee: '''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 Cbichester, 1630; bishop of Peterborough, 1634-8; benefactor of St. John's College, Cambridge.
John Dee: '''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
George Charles Deering: '''George Charles Deering''' ([[1695]]7-[[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.
Deering: '''Deering''' formerly GANDY, JOHN PETER ([[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.
Daniel Defoe: '''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 1 acquainted with Henry Baker (1698-1774), who married his daughter, Sophia Defoe, 1729, but apparently ! quarrelled with him later; published over 260 works. DE GEX, SIR JOHN PETER (1809-1887), law reporter: M.A. Jesus College, Cambridge, 1834; barrister j of Lincoln's Inn, 1835; published a volume of Cases in
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Delany: '''Delany''' ikruptcy reported by himself, 1852; represented the pliant against the decision of the bankruptcy court __At the Duke of Newcastle was exempt from the law of bankruptcy, 1869; treasurer of Lincoln's Inn, 1882; knighted, 1882.
Sir Simon Degge: '''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, 1 1676.
Degrey: '''Degrey''' DE HEERE or D'HEERE, LUCAS (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 De 1 1. * i, IJoomgnerd 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.
Deicola: '''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).
Saint Deiniol: '''Saint Deiniol''' (rf. [[584]] ?).
Laurence Deios: '''Laurence Deios''' (. [[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.
Kings of Deira: '''Kings of Deira''' . See MLL. d. [[588]] ; Enwix, 585 ?-633; 08BIC, d. 634; OSWIN, d. 651. DE KEYSER, WILLIAM (1647-1692 V), 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.
Thomas: '''Thomas''' ([[1570]] ?-[[164]]l ?), 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
Delacy: '''Delacy'''
Alexander Delamaine: '''Alexander Delamaine''' (. [[1654]]-[[1683]]), Muggletonian; quaker, 1654; composed song dealing with Muggleton's trial, 1677.
Richard Delamaine: '''Richard Delamaine''' , the elder (. [[1631]]), mathematician; tutor to Charles I in mathematics; chief work, Grammelogia or the Mathematicall Rin? 1631.
Richard Delamaine: '''Richard Delamaine''' , the younger (. [[1654]]), mathematician; son of Richard Delamaiue (.I. 1631) ; published computation of rates due on lands in Ireland, 1641; preacher, 1648; helped to defend Hereford against the royalists. DE LA MARE, SIR PETER (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.
Delamer: '''Delamer''' or DE LA MER, BARONR. See BOOTH. , GEORGE, first BARON, 1622-1684; BOOTH, HKXKY, second BARON, 1662-1694; BOOTH, GEORGE, third BARON, 16751758. DE LA MOTTE, FREEMAN GAGE (d. 1862). author of works on alphabets and illimiiniuion; son of William de la Motte; friend of Turner. DE LA MOTTE, PHILIP (d. 1805), lieutenant-colonel and (1803) author of a work on British heraldry: cousin of William de la Motte DE LA MOTTE, WILLIAM (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. DE LANCEY, OLIVER, the elder (1749-1822), geue, ral: 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. DE LANCEY, OLIVER, 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.
Sir William Ho Delancey: '''Sir William Ho Delancey''' VE(rf. [[1816]]), 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.
Dennis Delane: '''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.
John Thadeus Delane: '''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 theTimes 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.
Solomon Delane: '''Solomon Delane''' ([[1727]]-[[1784]] ?), landscapepainter; settled at Rome, where he painted two landscapes for the Royal Academy exhibition, 1771; returned to England, 1782.
Mary Delany: '''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.

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Patrick Delany: '''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 theTribune, 1 a periodical, 1738: appointed to the deanery of Down by the influence of his wife, Mary Delauy, 1744:
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Deluc: '''Deluc''' publishedRevelations examined with Candour 1732, 1734, and 1736,Reflections upon Polygamy 1738, an.l a defence of Swift against Lord Orrery, 1754.
John Delap: '''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. DE LA POLE.
Francis Delaram: '''Francis Delaram''' (d. [[1627]]), engraver ; engraved portraits of Tudor notabilities. DE LA RUE, THOMAS (1793-1866), printer; native of Guernsey; founded firm in card and ornamental paper trade in London; chevalier of the Legion of Honour, 1865. DE LA RITE, WARREN (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 MUller, 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.
Delatre: '''Delatre''' or DELATTRE, JEAN MARIE ([[1745]]1840), engraver; born at Abbeville; assistant to Bartolozzi.
Delaune: '''Delaune''' or DELAWNE, GIDEON ([[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.
Paul Delaune: '''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.
Thomas Delatjke: '''Thomas Delatjke''' (d. [[1685]]X 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.
William Delaune: '''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'sInstitutions, 1 1583.
William Delaune: '''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.
Edward Hussey Delaval: '''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.
All Delay: '''All Delay''' , SIR RALPH (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. DE LA WARR, EARLS OP. 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.
Joseph Octave Delepierre: '''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. DE LISLE, AMBROSE LISLE MARCH PHILLIPPS (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, DE LISLE, RUDOLPH EDWARD LISLE MARCH PHILLIPPS (1853-1885), sub-lieutenant in the navy; son of Ambrose de Lisle; killed at Abu Klea, 1885.
Henry Dell: '''Henry Dell''' (. [[1766]]), bookseller; author or adapter of four plays and (1766) of a poem called The Bookseller
Jonas Dell: '''Jonas Dell''' (d. [[1666]]), quaker ; served in the parliamentary army; styled the quaking soldier; published theological polemics.
Thomas Dell: '''Thomas Dell''' ([[1740]]7-[[1780]]).
William Dell: '''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
Ojesar Delmarhs: '''Ojesar Delmarhs''' A (d. [[1569]]). See OESAR
Adelmare: '''Adelmare''' DE LOLME, JOHN LOUIS (17407-1807), 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.
Thomas Deloney: '''Thomas Deloney''' ([[1543]]7-[[1607]]?), ballad writer and pamphleteer; by trade a silk- weaver; author of ballads and broadsides (three on the Spanish Armada, 1588); collected ballads inGarland of Good Will 1604, and Strange Histories before 1607.
Deloraine: '''Deloraine''' first EARL OP ([[1676]]-[[1730]]). See
Henry Scott: '''Henry Scott''' .
Carlo Antonio Delfini: '''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.
Jean Andre Deluc: '''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

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Denham: '''Denham''' geology at Gottingen, 1798; endeavoured to reconcile science with Mosaic cosmogony; publishedBacon W qu'il est 1800,Geological Travels 1803, and anIntroduction & la Physique Terrestre 1803.
Laurent Delvaux: '''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.
Barons Delvin: '''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.
Stephen Charles Tribou Demainbray: '''Stephen Charles Tribou Demainbray''' -
Det: '''Det''' ([[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.
Stephen George Francis Demainbray: '''Stephen George Francis Demainbray'''
Triboudet: '''Triboudet''' ([[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.
Robert Dematts: '''Robert Dematts''' ([[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. DE MOIVRE, ABRAHAM (1667-1754). DE MORGAN, AUGUSTUS (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 Pn babilities 1838,Trigonometry and Double Algebra 1849, and a Budget of Paradoxes collected 1872. DE MORGAN, CAMPBELL GREIG (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.
George Dempster: '''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.
Thomas Dempster: '''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.
Earls of Denbigh: '''Earls of Denbigh''' . See FEJLDINO, WILLIAM, first EARL, d. 1643; FEILDING, BASIL, second EARL, d. 1675.
Walter Cooper Dendy: '''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.
William Dene: '''William Dene''' (fl. [[1350]]), chronicler ; notary public to Haymo, bishop of Rochester; probably author of Annales Roff enses (British Museum, Faustina, B 5).
Dixon Denham: '''Dixon Denham''' ([[1786]]-[[1828]]), lieutenTntcolonel 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.
Henry Denham: '''Henry Denham''' (. [[1691]]), printer; underwarden of the StationersCompany, 1586 and 1588; printed the first edition of the New Testament in Welsh, 1567, and the first English translation of Ovid'sHeroycall Epistles by Turbervile.
Sir James Steuart Denham: '''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.
Sir James Steuart Denham: '''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.
Sir John Denham: '''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.
Sir John Denham: '''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; publishedCooper'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 1 is the earliest example of strictly descriptive poetry in English.
Denham: '''Denham''' 334
Denne: '''Denne'''
Michael Aislabie Denham: '''Michael Aislabie Denham''' (. [[1859]]), collector of folklore; merchant at Piersebridge, Durham; published numerous compilations of proverbs and North British folklore.
James Denholm: '''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.
Sir Peter Denis: '''Sir Peter Denis''' (rf. [[1778]]), vice-admiral ; sou of a Huguenot refugee; lieutenant, 1739; took part in Anson's fight with De la J onquiere and carried home the despatches, 1747; M.P., Hedon, Yorkshire, 1754; fought at Quiberou Bay, 1769; created baronet, 1767; vice-admiral of the blue, 1775; died vice-admiral of the red, 1778.

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Albert Denison: '''Albert Denison''' , first BARON LONUKRBOROCGH (1806-1860), son of Henry Oonyngham, first marquis Oonyngham; 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.
Edward Denison: '''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.
Edward Denison: '''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.
George Anthony Denison: '''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 Tauntou, 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).
John Denison: '''John Denison''' (rf. [[1629]]), divine; student and Graduate of Balliol College, Oxford; D.D.; chaplain to ames 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.
John Evelyn Denison: '''John Evelyn Denison''' , first VISCOUNT OSSINGTx (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.O.L. Oxford, 1870; created Viscount Ossington, 1872.
William Joseph Denison: '''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.
Sir William Thomas Denison: '''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.O.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 governorgeneral, 1863; published eesays on social and educational topics at Sydney.
George Denman: '''George Denman''' ([[1819]]-[[1896]]), judge; son of Thomas, first baron Denman; educated at Reptou 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.
Thomas Denman: '''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.
Thomas Denman: '''Thomas Denman''' , first BARON DENMAN ([[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 Trait6 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 Moxou, 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, I860.
Thomas Denman: '''Thomas Denman''' , second BARON DKNMAN ([[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.
Princk of Denmark: '''Princk of Denmark''' ([[1663]]-[[1708]]).
Henry Denne: '''Henry Denne''' (d. [[1660]]?), puritan divine; edui cated 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.
John Denne: '''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.
Samuel Denne: '''Samuel Denne''' ([[1730]]-[[1799]]), antiquary; ion of John Denne; M.A Corpus Christi College, Cum
Dennett: '''Dennett''' 335 D'EON bridge, 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.
John Dennett: '''John Dennett''' ([[1790]]-[[1852]]), inventor and antiqnary; invented Dennett's Life-Saving Rocket Apparatus 1832; cnetodiau of Carisbrooke Oastle; contributed to journal of British Archaeological Association,
William Henry Dennie: '''William Henry Dennie''' ([[1785]] 7-[[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.
Dennis: '''Dennis'''
James Blatoh Piqgott Dennis: '''James Blatoh Piqgott 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.
John Dennis: '''John Dennis''' ([[1657]]-[[1734]]), critic ; B.A. Cains 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," 1 724.
Dennis: '''Dennis''' or DENTS, SIR THOMAS ([[1480]]?-[[1560]]?, privy councillor; chancellor of Anne of Cleves and cnstos 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.
James Dennistottn: '''James Dennistottn''' ([[1803]]-[[1855]]X 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.
Sir Anthony Denny: '''Sir Anthony Denny''' ([[1501]]-[[1549]]), favourite of Henry VHI; 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.

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Eahl Op Norwich Edward: '''Eahl Op Norwich Edward''' ([[1565]]?1630X 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.
Henry Denny: '''Henry Denny''' ([[1803]]-[[1871]]), entomologist : curator of the museum of the Literary and Philosophical Society, Leeds; wrote on British parasitic insects.
Sir William Denny: '''Sir William Denny''' (rt. [[1653]]), author of 'Pelecanicidium 1653, and of The Shepheards Holiday 1653, a pastoral poem; created baronet, 1642.
John Dennys: '''John Dennys''' (d. [[1609]]X author of ' The Secret* of Angling 1613, a poem quoted in Isaak Walton's Compleat Angler
Arthur Dent: '''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
Edward John Dent: '''Edward John Dent''' ([[1790]]-[[1853]]X 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.
Peter Dent: '''Peter Dent''' (d. [[1689]]), naturalist ; M.B. Lambeth, 1678; incorporated at Cambridge, 1680; physician at Cambridge; assisted Ray in his Historia Plantarum
Henry Denton: '''Henry Denton''' ([[1633]]7-[[1681]]), writer: M.A. Oxford, 1659; fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, 1660; chaplain to the English ambassador at Constantinople, 16641672; translated Georginos's Description of the Present State of Samoa, Nicaria, Patmos, and Mount Athos 1678.
Jambs Denton: '''Jambs Denton''' (d. [[1533]]), dean of Lichfield; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; MJL, 1492: fellow of King's College; student and doctor of canon law at Valencia; prebendary of Lichfield, U09, of Lincoln, 1614; 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.
John Denton: '''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.
Nathan Denton: '''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.
Richard Denton: '''Richard Denton''' ([[1603]]-[[1663]]), divine; B.A. Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1623; gave up Ooley Chapel and emigrated to New England, 1640; died at Hempstead, Long Island.
Thomas Denton: '''Thomas Denton''' ([[1724]]-[[1777]]), miscellaneons writer; M.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1752; rector of j Ashtead, Surrey, 1754-77; published, in the style of Spenser, two poems, Immortality 1754, and "The House of Superstition 1762.
Thomas Dentof: '''Thomas Dentof''' (d. [[1789]]), bookseller and artificer; made speaking and writing automata; translated a French book of parlour-magic, 1784; hanged for coining.
William Denton: '''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.
William Denton: '''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. D EON DE BEAUMONT, CHARLES. GENEVIEVE LOUIS AUGUSTE ANDRE TIMOTHBE (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, DE QUINCEY 33G
Desbobough: '''Desbobough''' 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. DE aUINCEY, THOMAS (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.
Earls Op Derby: '''Earls Op 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.
Countesses of Derby: '''Countesses of Derby''' . See STANLEY, CHAR-
Lotte: '''Lotte''' [[1599]]-[[1664]] ; FARREN, ELIZABETH, [[1759]] ?-[[1829]].
Alfred Thomas Derby: '''Alfred Thomas Derby''' ([[1821]]-[[1873]]), painter ; son of William Derby: painted figure-subjects, portraits, and scenes from Sir Walter Scott's novels.
William Derby: '''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.
Samuel Derham: '''Samuel Derham''' ([[1655]]-[[1689]]), physician; M.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1679; M.D., 1687; published an Account of Hmington Waters in Warwickshire 1685, which established the reputation of the place.
William Derham: '''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, andAstro-Theology 1715, two statements of the argument from final causes.
William Derham: '''William Derham''' ([[1702]]-[[1767]]), president of St. John's College, Oxford; son of William Derham (16571735); entered Merchant TaylorsSchool, 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.

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Bering: '''Bering'''
Derh: '''Derh''' fO, EDWARD ([[1640]]7-[[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.
Sir Edward Dering: '''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.
Heneage Dering: '''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.
Dering: '''Dering''' or DEERING, RICHARD (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.
John Dk Derlington: '''John Dk Derlington''' (d. [[1284]]). See DARLING
Ton: '''Ton'''
Macmurragh Dermod: '''Macmurragh Dermod''' ([[1110]] ?-[[1171]]). See MAC M0RCHADA, DlARMID.
Thomas Dermody: '''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 entitledThe Rights of Justice 1793.
Laurence Dermott: '''Laurence Dermott''' ([[1720]]-[[1791]]), freemason; deputy grand-master of the Antient masons of Atholl, 1771-87; wrote Ahiman Rezon a masonic work, 1756. DE ROS, BARONS.
Samuel Derrick: '''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.
John Derricks: '''John Derricks''' (fl. [[1578]]), author of the ' Image of Ireland a poem, published, 1581.
Derwentwater: '''Derwentwater''' third EARL OP ([[1689]]-[[1716]]). DE RYCK, WILLIAM (1636-1697), history painter; born at Antwerp and bred as a goldsmith; visited England in the reign of William III and became a painter.
John Theophilus Desagttliers: '''John Theophilus Desagttliers''' ([[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, alsoThe Contributions of the FreeMasons 1732.
Thomas Desagulters: '''Thomas Desagulters''' ([[1725]] 7-[[1780]]), lieutenantgeneral 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. DE SAUMAREZ. DE8BARRE8, JOSEPH FREDERICK WALSH 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.
Desborow Desborough: '''Desborow Desborough''' , or DISBROWE,
John: '''John''' ([[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.,
Desborotjgh: '''Desborotjgh''' 237
Deusdedit: '''Deusdedit''' Cambridgeshire, lf,54, Somerset, K5tl: privy councillor, 1657; ted the army's opposition to Hichanl Cromwell, 1G59; pi ven a colonel's % omuii8~ion by the Rump parliament, but ptxni na-Oiieri-d, In r 9; iinprisonc.1 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.
Samuel Desborough: '''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.
Noel Joseph Desenfans: '''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,
Granges Des: '''Granges Des''' , DAVID (fl. [[1625]]-[[1675]]), miniaturepainter; engraver; limner to Charles II in Scotland, 1651.
Pierre Desmaizeaux: '''Pierre Desmaizeaux''' ([[1673]] 7-[[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.
Eajils of Desmond: '''Eajils 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. D'ESPAGNE, JEAN (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.
Edward Marcus Despard: '''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.

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John Despaed: '''John Despaed''' ([[1745]]-[[1829]]). general; brother of Edward Marcus Despard; fought in the seven yearswar; lieutenant hi 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.
Despen: '''Despen''' 8ER, EDWARD LE (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.
Despenser: '''Despenser''' or SPENCER, HENRY LE (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.
Hugh Despenser: '''Hugh Despenser''' i.i-:(.. [[125]]), 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
Hugh Li Despenser: '''Hugh Li Despenser''' :, the older. HUM, nr i-
Chkstkh: '''Chkstkh''' ([[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.
Hugh Le Despenser: '''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.
Thomas Le Despenser: '''Thomas Le Despenser''' , EARL OF GLOIVKSTKK (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. D'ESTE, SIR AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (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. DE TABLEY, BARONS. See LEICESTER, SIR JOHN ! FLEMING, first BARON, 1762-1827: WARREN, JOHN BYRNK LEICESTER, third BARON, 1835-1895.
Sir Gilbert Dethick: '''Sir Gilbert Dethick''' ([[1519]] V-[[1584]]), Garter kingof-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.
Sir William Dethick: '''Sir William Dethick''' ([[1543]]-[[1612]]), Garter kingof-arms: son of Sir Gilbert Dethick: Rouge Croix pursuivant, 1567: York herald, 1570: Garter king-ofarms, 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
Rowland Detrosier: '''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.
Deusdedit: '''Deusdedit''' (d. [[663]] ?), sixth archbishop of Canterbury and the first of English origin. Z
Deutsch: '''Deutsch''' 338 D'EWES
Emanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch: '''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 theTalmud in theQuarterly Review 1867; deciphered Phoenician inscriptions; died of cancer at Alexandria. DE VERE. DE VERE, SIR AUBREY, second baronet (17881846), poet: educated at Harrow: succeeded to baronetcy, 1818: published historical dramas and (1842)The Song of Faith, Devout Exercises and Sonnets
Deverell: '''Deverell''' formerly PEDLEY, ROBERT ([[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.
Sir John Devereux: '''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.
Robert Devereux: '''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.
Robert Devereux: '''Robert Devereux''' , third EARL op 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.
Walter Devereux: '''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.
Walter Devereux: '''Walter Devereux''' , first EARL OF ESSEX and second VISCOUNT HEREFORD (1541 7-1576), 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.
George Devey: '''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.
Arthur Devis: '''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.
Arthur William Devis: '''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.
Louis Devisme: '''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.
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Reginald Liam: '''Reginald Liam''' , [[1807]]-[[1888]].
Dukes of Devonshire: '''Dukes of Devonshire''' . See CAVENDISH, WIL-
Liam: '''Liam''' 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.
Duchess of Devonshire: '''Duchess of Devonshire''' ([[1757]]-[[1806]]). See
Gborgiana Cavendish: '''Gborgiana Cavendish''' .
Devonshire: '''Devonshire''' or DEVON, EARLS OF. See STAF-
Humphrey Ford: '''Humphrey Ford''' , [[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.
Countess of Devonshire: '''Countess of Devonshire''' (d. [[1675]]). See
Christiana Cavkndish: '''Christiana Cavkndish''' .
James Dewar: '''James Dewar''' ([[1793]]-[[1846]]), musician ; organist at St. George's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, 1815-35; conducted the Edinburgh Musical Association. D'EWES or DEWES, GERRARD, GEERARDT, or GARRET (.. 1691), printer; descended from the ancient lords of Kessel In Guelderland; under- warden of the StationersCompany, 1S81.
Deweb: '''Deweb''' 339
Dick: '''Dick'''
Dewzs: '''Dewzs''' or DUWES, fHLE3(. [[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. D'EWES or DEWES, PAUL (1567-1631), one of the six clerks in chancery; son of Uerrard D'Ewes D'EWES, SIR SIMONDS (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 ScMi-n, 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. DE WILDE, GEORGE JAMES (1804-1871), editor of the Northampton Mercury and friend of Leigh Hunt, the Cowden Clarkes and Sir James Stephen; son of Samuel de Wilde DE WILDE, SAMUEL (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. DE WIHT, PETER (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.
William Dewsbttry: '''William Dewsbttry''' ([[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. D'EYNCOURT, CHARLES TENNYSON (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. D'HELE or D'HELL, THOMAS (1740 7-1780). See HALKS, THOMAS.
Hugh Welch Diamond: '''Hugh Welch Diamond''' ([[1809]]-[[1886]]), photographer; of Huguenot origin; M.R.O.S., 1834; resident superintendent of female patients at the Surrey County Asylum, 1848-58; secretary to the London Photographic Society, 1863; said to have invented the paper or cardboard photographic portrait.
Thomas Dibben: '''Thomas Dibben''' (d. [[1741]]), Latin poet : educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge; fellow, 1698; M.A., 1703; D.D., 1721; chaplain to lord privy seal at congress of Utrecht, 1713: precentor of St. Paul's, 1714; translated Prior'sCarmen Secularefor 1700 into Latin verse.
Charles Dibdin: '''Charles Dibdin''' ([[1746]]-[[1814]]), dramatist and songwriter; composed The Shepherd's Artifice a pastoral operetta, 1762; acted at Richmond Theatre, 1762, and later at Covent Garden: composed music for Garrick's Shakespeare jubilee at Stratford, 1769; quarrelled with Garrick, but was reconciled, 1769; discharged by Garrick on account of his ill-usage of a Miss Pitt, his mistress; hisCoblerandWatermanproduced at the Haymarket; satirised Garrick inThe Comic Mirror a puppet-play; wrote theSeraglio containingBlow high, blow low the earliest of his sea-songs, 1776; producedProfessional VolunteersThe Rent Day; A Thanksgiving and Commodore Pennant his last pieces, at the Lyceum, 1808; composed entertainments and sketches in which were introduced the nautical songs by which he u best remembered, as well as a History of the Stage 1795, fin autobiography and two novels, Hannah He wit 1792, the Younger Brother 17'J3.
Charles Dibdin: '''Charles Dibdin''' , the younger ([[1768]]-[[1833]]), proprietor and acting-manager of Sadler's Wells Theatre, for which he wrote plays, songs, and spectacles; natural sou of Charles Dibdtn
Henry Edward Dibdin: '''Henry Edward Dibdin''' ([[1813]]-[[1866]]), musician ; son of Charles Dibdin the younger; played the harp at Paganini's last concert, Covent Garden Theatre, 1832; organist of Trinity Chapel, Edinburgh, 1833-66; published theStandard Psalm Book 1867, andThe Praise Book 1865.
Thomas Frognall Dibdin: '''Thomas Frognall Dibdin''' ([[1776]]-[[1847]]), bibliographer; nephew of Charles Dibdin (1745-1814); born in India; educated at St. John's College, Oxford; M.A., 1825; D.D., 1825; brought under the notice of Lord Spencer by his Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics 1802; publishedBibliomania 1809; was an original member of the Roxburghe Club, 1812; catalogued Lord Spencer's library at Althorp, though hampered by his ignorance of Greek; published a Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour(1821), the outcome of travels on the continent; rector of St. Mary's, Bryanston Square, from 1824. His reprints and bibliographical writings, although valued by book-collectors, are often inaccurate.
Thomas John Dibdin: '''Thomas John Dibdin''' ([[1771]]-[[1841]]), actor and dramatist; illegitimate son of Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) ; shown on the stage as Cupid to Mrs. Siddons's Venus, 1775; apprenticed to London upholsterer; ran away, and obtained theatrical engagement at Eastbourne under name of Merchant; wrote operas and dramatic trifles for Sadler's Wells, 1796; prompter and joint stage manager at Sadler's Wells; wrote The British Raft a piece containing The Snug Little Island a song which became very popular, 1797; composed, in honour of Nelson's victory, The Month of the Nile while performing on a seven yearsengagement at Covent Garden, 1798; produced (1801-2) The Cabinet his first and best opera; prompter and pantomime writer at Drury Lane Theatre, when reopened after the fire of 1809; financially ruined by his ill-success as proprietor of the Surrey Theatre, 1822; wrote nearly two thousand songs and about two hundred operas and plays.
Edward Dicconson: '''Edward Dicconson''' ([[1670]]-[[1752]]), Roman catholic prelate; educated at the English college, Douay: professor of poetry, 1708-9, of syntax, 1709-10, and of philosophy, 1711-12; D.D.: vice-president and professor of theology, 1714-20; vicar-apostolic of the northern district of England, 1740; bishop of Malla in partibus infldelium, 1741.
Ralph Dk Diceto: '''Ralph Dk Diceto''' (. [[1202]] ?), dean of St. Paul's ; archdeacon of Middlesex, 1152; dean of St. Paul's, 1180; made survey of capitulary property of deanery, 1181; built deanery- house and chapel within cathedral precincts; author of Abbreviations Chronicorumand Ymagines Historiarum two works on contemporary history; frequently mediated between Henry II and the ecclesiastics.
Sir Alexander Dick: '''Sir Alexander Dick''' ([[1703]]-[[1785]]), physician: studied medicine at Edinburgh and Leyden; M.D., 1725: M.D. St. Andrews, 1727: succeeded to the baronetcy of Dick, 1746; president of the College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1766-63; assisted in obtaining charter for Royal Society of Edinburgh; gold medallist of Society of Arts for best specimen of rhubarb 1774; correspondent of Dr. Johnson.
Anne Dick: '''Anne Dick''' , LADY (d. [[1741]]), verse- writer; nte Mackenzie; married Sir William Dick of Prestonfield; notorious for the eccentricity of her habits and her virulent epigrams.

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John Dick: '''John Dick''' ([[1764]]-[[1833]]), theological writer : studied at King's College, Aberdeen; published The Conduct and Doom of False Teachers to combat Unitarian thought, 1788: maintained plenary inspiration in an Essay on the Inspiration of the Scriptures 1800: minister of Grey friars, Glasgow, 1801-33; D.D. Princeton College, New Jersey, 1815; theological professor to the associate synod. 1820-33. z2
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Robert Dick: '''Robert Dick''' ([[1811]]-[[1866]]), geologist and botanist ; solf-taught; apprenticed to a baker; re-discovered northern holy-grass, 1834; furnished information to Hugh Miller, for whom he also procured fossils.
Sir Robert Henry Dick: '''Sir Robert Henry Dick''' ([[1785]] ?-[[1846]]), majorgeneral; lieutenant 62nd regiment, 1802; captain 1;--Bhire buffs, 1804: served in Kgypt, 1807; major, 1808; commander of battalions in Peninsula, 1809; lieutenantcolonel, 1812; senior major in Flanders, 1815; colonel, 1825; major-general. 1837; K.O.B., 1838; acting commauder-in-chief at Madras, 1841-2; commanded third Infantry division in Sikh war; killed at Sobraon.
Thomas Dick: '''Thomas Dick''' ([[1774]]-[[1857]]), scientific writer; entered Edinburgh University, 1794: teacher in secession school at Methven, where he did much to popularise science, and at Perth; LL.D. New York: M.R.A.S., 1853; chief works,The Christian Philo;opher 1823, nnd 4 The Sidereal Heavens 1840.
Sir William Dick: '''Sir William Dick''' ([[1680]] ?-[[1655]]), provost of Edinburgh; advanced 6.000. to James VI, 1618; customs and excise farmer; lord provost of Edinburgh, 1 638 and 1639; extended the trade of the Firth of Forth; advanced money for the cause of Montrose, 1639; knighted by Charles 1, 1642; created baronet of Nova Scotia, c. 1642; reduced to destitution by fine imposed by parliament for lending 20,(XXM. to Charles II in 1650.
Charles Dickens: '''Charles Dickens''' ([[1812]]-[[1870]]), novelist ; son of a government clerk; employed in making up parcels in an office at Hungerford Stair?, c. 1823; shorthand reporter of debates in the Commons to the True Sun and, in 1835, to the Morning Chronicle; contributed to 4 Monthly Magazine 1833-5, and to Evening Chronicle 1835; these articles were collected and published as Sketches by Boz 1836; commenced Pickwick Papers 1836; producedOliver Twist* in Bentley'sMiscellany 1837-9, andNicholas Nickleby 1838-9, in monthly numbers; wroteMaster Humphrey's Clock a serial, 1840-1, in which first appearedOld Curiosity Shop andBarnaby Rudge editedPic-Nic Papersfor the benefit of the widow of his old publisher, Macrone, 1841; sailed for America (1842), where he advocated international copyright and abolition of shivery; commenced Martin Chuzzlewitin serial form, 1843; assisted Miss Coutts, afterwards the Baroness Burdett Coutts, in philanthropic work; wrote the Christmas Carol 1843; settled at Genoa, where he wrote the Chimes and learned Italian, 1844; first editor of Daily News January 1846, resigning in February; wrote in Switzerland, 1846,Dombey and Son(published, 1848) andThe Battle of Life manager of a theatrical company which performed Elizabethan dramas and modern comedies in the great provincial towns, 1847; started two journals, Household Words 1849, and subsequently All the Year Round; published The Haunted Man 1848, and David Copperfieldin monthly numbers, 1849-50; producedBleak House in serial form, 1852-3, Hard Times 1854, and Little Dorrit 1855-7; began to give public readings, 1858; published his Tale of Two Cities in All the Year Round 1859; producedGreat Expectations 1860-1, and Our Mutual Friend 1864-5, both in monthly instalments; gave public readings in America, 1867 and 1868, and in England on his return, 1868; commencedThe Mystery of Edwin Droodin 1870, but died suddenly before completing it. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, 14 June 1870. His novels have probably had the largest number of readers of any English works of fiction.
Charles Dickens: '''Charles Dickens''' ([[1837]]-[[1896]]), compiler ; eldest son of Charles Dickens, the novelist: educated at King's College, London, and Eton; entered Baring's bank, 1855; set up in business in city, 1861; sub-editor of All the Year Round 1869, and sole proprietor on his father's death; chief partner in printing firm of Dickens & Evans; I published series of dictionary-guides, 1879-84; gave read- j ings from his father's works in America, 1887; reader in I firm of Macmillan & Co., c. 1887.
John Dickenson: '''John Dickenson''' (fl. [[1594]]), romance- writer ; j author ofArisbas 1594,Greene in Conceipt... The j Tragiqne Historic of Faire Valeria of London, 1 1698, and I a pastoral poem in English hexameters. *
George Dickie: '''George Dickie''' ([[1812]]-[[1882]]), botanist ; M.A. Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1830; professor of natural history, Belfast, 1849-60; M.D., professor of botany, Aberdeen, 1860-77; specialised on algae, and published works on flora of nst Scotland nnd Ulster.
Charles Dickinson: '''Charles Dickinson''' ([[1792]]-[[1842]]), bishop of Meath; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1820; chaplain of the Female Orphan House, Dublin, 1822; vicar of St Anne's, Dublin, 1833: D.D., 1834: bishop of Meath, 1840-2; published sermons and tracts.
Dickinson: '''Dickinson''' or DICKENSON, EDMUND (1G241707), physician and alchemist; educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford; probationer- fellow, 1647; M.A., 1649; M.D., 1656: induced by Muudanus, a French adept, to study chemistry; F.O.P., 1677; physician in ordinary to diaries II and James II; published Delphi Phcenicizantes 1666, andPhysica vetuset vera claiming to base a philosophy on the Pentateuch, 1702.
James Dickinson: '''James Dickinson''' ([[1659]]-[[1741]]), quaker; quaker minister, 1678; made three missionary voyages to America, visiting Barbados in 1692;commandedto proclaim the Divine wrath at the death of Queen Mary, 1694. Fxv 341
John Dickinson: '''John Dickinson''' ([[1815]]-[[1876]]), writer on India; educated at Eton; published Letters on the Cotton and Roads of Western India 1851; founded India Reform Society (1853), which insisted on leniency after the mutiny of 1857; corresponded with Holkar, maharajah of Indore; publishedIndia, its Government under Bureaucracy 1852, Dhar not Restored 1864-5, and other pamphlets.
Joseph Dickinson: '''Joseph Dickinson''' (d. [[1865]]), botanist ; M.A. and M.D. Dublin and Cambridge, 1843; physician to the Royal Infirmary (1839) and other Liverpool institutions; F.R.S. and F.R.O.P.; publishedFlora of Liverpool 1861.
William Dickinson: '''William Dickinson''' ([[1756]]-[[1822]]), topographer and legal writer; fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge; M.A., 1780; justice of the peace for Nottingham, Lincoln, Middlesex, Surrey, and Sussex; wrote on Nottinghamshire antiquities and justice law.
William Dickinson: '''William Dickinson''' ([[1746]]-[[1823]]), mezzotint engraver; awarded premium by Society of Arts, 1767; printseller, 1773: died in Paris; engraved chiefly after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Maria Dickons: '''Maria Dickons''' ([[1770]] ?-[[1833]]), vocalist ; nie Poole ; made her debut at Covent Garden as Ophelia, 1793; appeared at the Lyceum as Clara in Sheridan's Duenna 1811, and at the King's Theatre as the Countess in Mozart's 'Nozze di Figaro 1812; honorary member of the Institute Filarmonico of Venice.
Adam Dickson: '''Adam Dickson''' ([[1721]]-[[1776]]), writer on agriculture : M.A. Edinburgh; incumbent of Whittinghame in East Lothian, 1769-76; chief works, The Husbandry of the Ancients published 1788. and a Treatise on Agriculture vol. i. 1762, vol. ii. 1770.
Sir Alexander Dickson: '''Sir Alexander Dickson''' ([[1777]]-[[1840]]), majorgeneral, royal artillery; second lieutenant, royal artillery, 1794; acting engineer at siege of Valetta, 1800; commander of artillery in South America, 1807; brigade, major in the operations before Oporto, 1809; major and lieutenant-colonel in the Portuguese service; superintended artillery operations in Peninsula, 1811 and 1812; commanded allied artillery at Vittoria, 1813; fought at Waterloo, 1816; inspector of artillery, 1822; directorgeneral of the field-train department, 1833; major-general, 1837; G.C.B., 1838; F.R.G.S.
Alexander Dickson: '''Alexander Dickson''' ([[1836]]-[[1887]]), botanist; graduated in medicine at Edinburgh, 1860; professor of botany at Dublin, at Glasgow, 1868, and at Edinburgh, 1879; regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1879; LL.D. Glasgow; F.R.S. Edinburgh; published scientific papers.
Dickson: '''Dickson''' or DICK, DAVID ([[1583]]7-[[1663]]), Scottish divine: M.A. and professor of philosophy, Glasgow; minister at Irvine, 1618; deprived for declining the jurisdiction of the high court of commission, before which he was cited as an assailant of the five articles of Perth, 1622; permitted to return, 1623; professor of

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Digby: '''Digby''' divinity at Glasgow, 1640-50; chaplain in the covenanters army, 1639; professor of divinity at Edinburgh, 1650-60; ejected for refusing the oath of supremacy, 1660: commentator on scripture.
David Dickson: '''David Dickson''' , the elder ([[1764]]-[[1820]]), theologian ; studied at Glasgow aud Edinburgh; minister first of the College Church and then of the New North Church, Edinburgh; opponent of Dr. MGU1.
David Dickson: '''David Dickson''' , the younger ([[1780]]-[[1842]]), presbytorian divine; educated at Edinburgh University: D.D. Edinburgh, 1824; senior minibter of St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, 1827-42; published The Influence of Learning on Religion 1814, and other works.
Elizabeth Dickson: '''Elizabeth Dickson''' ([[1793]]7-[[1862]]), philanthropist; nee Dalzel; married John Dicksou; visited Algiers; made revelations about piracy (1809), which led to Lord Exmouth's expedition; died at Tripoli.
James Dickson: '''James Dickson''' ([[1737]] 7-[[1822]]), botanist ; of humble origin; author ofCatalogus Plantarum Cryptogamicarum Britanniae 1795, and some other botanical publications,
Sir James Robert Dickson: '''Sir James Robert Dickson''' ([[1832]]-[[1901]]), Australian statesman; served in City of Glasgow Bank: emigrated to Victoria, 1854, and entered Bank of Australasia; auctioneer in Queensland, 1862; member for Enoggera of Queensland House of Assembly, 1872-87, and, 1876-87, held office in ministry; member for Bulimba, 1892, 1893, and 1896; premier, 1898-9; advocated formation of Australian commonwealth; delegate for Queensland; discussed project for commonwealth in London, 1900; minister for defence in first government of United Australia, 1900; K.O.M.G., 1901; honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1900.
Robert Dickson: '''Robert Dickson''' ([[1804]]-[[1876]]), physician; M.D. Edinburgh, 1826; P.R.O.P., 1855; lectured on botany at St. George's Hospital.
Samuel Dickson: '''Samuel Dickson''' ([[1802]]-[[1869]]), author of the 'Chrono-thermal System of Medicine pupil of Liston at Edinburgh: assistant-surgeon in the 30th regiment of foot at Madras; M.D. Glasgow, 1833; published Revelations on Cholera 1848; attacked received systems in The Fallacy of Physic as taught in the Schools 1836, and similar writings; originated hypothesis of the periodicity and intermittency of all vital actions.
William Dickson: '''William Dickson''' ([[1745]]-[[1804]]), Irish bishop; educated at Eton and Hertford College, Oxford; M.A., 1770; friend of Charles James Fox; bishop of Down and Connor, 1783.
William Gillespie Dickson: '''William Gillespie Dickson''' ([[1823]]-[[1876]]), legal writer; educated at the Edinburgh Academy and University; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1847; procureur and advocate-general of Mauritius, 1856-67: sheriffdepute of Lanark, 1874; honorary LL.D. Edinburgh, 1874; publishedTreatise on the Law of Evidence in Scotland 1855.
William Steel Dickson: '''William Steel Dickson''' ([[1744]]-[[1824]]), United Irishman; entered Glasgow College, 1761; denounced England's treatment of the American colonies, 1776; advocated enrolment of catholics as volunteers, 1779; minister at Portaferry, 1780; D.D. Glasgow; member of Wolf Tone's society of United Irishmen, 1791: instrumental in bringing about Catholic Relief Act, 1793; adjutant-general of the United Irish forces for co. Down, 1798; imprisoned for sedition at Belfast and, in 1799, at Fort George, Inverness-shire; released, 1802; minister of Second Keady, co. Armagh, 1803; resigned in broken health, 1815; died in poverty.
Dictjil: '''Dictjil''' (fl. [[825]]), Irish geographer; author of a Liber de Mensura Orbis Terras professing to be based on a survey of the world carried out by Theodosius (I ?), and embodying the reports of recent travellers.
Adriaen Van Diest: '''Adriaen Van Diest''' ([[1656]]-[[1704]]). See VAX DlEST.
Everard Digby: '''Everard Digby''' (. K[[590]]), divine and author; sizar of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1567: scholar, 1570; Lady Margaret fellow, 1573; M.A., 1674: B.D., 1581; senior fellow, 1585; deprived for alleged insubordination and Romanist tendencies, 1587; author of the earliest treatise on swimming published in England, 1587; suggested classification of sciences in hisDe Duplici Methodo libri duo 1580, andTheoria Analytica 1579; propounded a theory of perception basal on the active correspondence of miiid and matter.
Digby: '''Digby''' Siu EVERARD ([[1578]]-[[1606]]), conspirator; converted to Catholicism at court by John Gerard, 159B; knighted, 1603; told off to excite a rising in the Midlands at the time of the Gunpowder plot, 1606; deserted hi companions when besieged in Holbeach House, Staffordshire, 8 Nov. 1605; executed, 1606.
George Digby: '''George Digby''' , second EARL OF BRISTOL ([[1612]]1677), son of John Digby, first earl of Bristol; born at Madrid; entered Magdalen College, Oxford, 1626; M.A., 1636; attacked Roman Catholicism in correspondence with Sir Kenelm Digby, 1638-9; M.P., Dorset, 1640; opposed third reading of bill for Strafford's attainder, though on committee for his impeachment, 1641; succeeded* as Baron Digby, 1641; fled to Holland (1642) and was impeached by default for levying royalist troops; fought for Charles I at Edgehill, 1642, but gave up his command after a quarrel with Prince Rupert; secretary of state aud privy councillor, 1643; high steward of Oxford University, 1643: lieutenant-general of the king's forces north of the Trent, 1645; defeated at Carlisle Sands; retired to France and took part in the Fronde, 1648; lieutenant-general in French army, 1661; detected in an intrigue against Mazariu, and forced to leave France; reappointed secretary of state to Charles II, 1657; subsequently deprived of the seals as a catholic; K.G., 1661; ineffectually impeached Clarendon (1663), who had foiled his scheme of an Italian marriage for the king; wrote comedies and, according to Walpole, translated from French first three books of Cassandra
John Digby: '''John Digby''' , first EARL OP BRISTOL ([[1580]]-[[1653]]), diplomatist and statesman; fellow-commoner of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1595; knighted, 1607; sent on a fruitless embassy to negotiate a marriage between Prince Henry and Anne, the Spanish infanta, 1611, and between Prince Charles and the Infanta Maria, 1614; vice-chamberlain and privy councillor, 1616; again sent to Spain (1617) to arrange the Spanish match, which was temporarily broken off by James I's refusal to grant liberty of conscience to English catholics; created Baron Digby, 1618; commissioned to negotiate peace between elector palatine and Ferdinand II, emperor of Germany, 1621; returned to Spain in 1622 to reopen marriage treaty of 1618; created. Earl of Bristol, 1622; offended Prince Charles and Buckingham at Madrid, 1623; vainly demanded a trial in parliament to appease the hostility of Charles I, 1626; impartial in debates over Petition of Right, 1628; refused to vote on the attainder bill against Strafford, 1641; advised Charles I to conciliate the independents, 1644; his expulsion from the court demanded by the parliament in propositions for peace at Oxford, 1643; went into exile after capitulation of Exeter, 1646; died at Paris.
Sib Kenelm Digby: '''Sib Kenelm Digby''' ([[1603]]-[[1665]]), author, naval commander, and diplomatist; son of Sir Everard Digby (1578-1606); entered Gloucester Hall (Worcester College), Oxford, 1618; visited Paris and Angers, 1620; removed to Florence to escape the importunities of Marie de Medicis; joined Prince Charles and Buckingham at Madrid, 1623; knighted, 1623; defeated French and Venetian fleet in Scanderoon harbour, 1628; returned to England, 1629; professed protestantism after 1630, but soon returned to Roman Catholicism; published A Conference with a Lady about Choice of a Religion 1638; his removal from the royal councils requested by the House of Commons (1641) for having appealed to the English Roman catholics to support Charles I in Scotland; fought a duel at Paris in defence of Charles 1, 1641: published a criticism on Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici 1643: wroteOf BodiesandOf the Immortality of Man's Soul 1644; chancellor to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1644; pleaded Charles I's cause with Pope Innocent X, but quarrelled with him and left Rome, 1646; returned to England and was banished, 1649; visited by Evelyn at Paris, 1651; became acquainted with Descartes; returned to England on permission, 1664; worked in Cromwell's interest on the continent, 1656; returned to England, 1660, retaining the office of Queen Henrietta's chancellor; forbidden the court, 1664; member of the council of the Royal Society when first incorporated, 1663. He discovered the necessity of oxygen to the life of plants, and
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Dillon: '''Dillon''' claimed to Lave discovered a sympathetic powder for the cure of wounds (it was of no medicinal value). In philosophy he followed the schoolmen, writing by the aid of Thomas White Institutionum Peripateticarum libri quinque 1651. His Private Memoirswere first printed in 1827.
Kexelm Hknhy Digby: '''Kexelm Hknhy Digby''' ([[1800]]-[[1880]]), miscellaneous writer; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1819; converted to Roman Catholicism; author of The BroadStone of Honour 1822, Mores Catholici 1831-40, some books on the emotional aspects of Catholicism, and a few poems.
Lettice Digby: '''Lettice Digby''' , LADY ([[1588]]7-[[1658]]); created Baroness Offaley: heiress-general to the Earls of Kildare on the death of her father, Gerald Fitzgerald; married Sir Robert Digby of OoleshUl, 1608; held Geashill Castle against Irish rebels, 1642.
Robert Digby: '''Robert Digby''' ([[1732]]-[[1815]]), admiral : great-grandson of William, fifth baron Digby; commanded the Dunkirk at the battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759; commanded in Palliser's division off Ushant, 1778; rearadmiral, 1779; second in command in Rodney's expedition for relief of Gibraltar, 1779; commander-in-chief in North America, 1781; admiral, 1794.
Venetia Digby: '''Venetia Digby''' , LADY ([[1600]]-[[1633]]) ;n*e Stanley ; married Sir Kenelm Digby, 1625; commemorated in elegies by Ben Jonson and others.

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William Digby: '''William Digby''' , fifth BARON DIGBY ([[1661]]-[[1752]]); B.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1681; D.O.L., 1708; M.P., Warwickshire, 1689; included in the Act of Attainder passed by James II's parliament at Dublin, 1689; member of the common council for Georgia, 1733.
Sir Dudley Digges: '''Sir Dudley Digges''' ([[1583]]-[[1639]]), diplomatist and judge; son of Thomas Digges; B.A. University College, Oxford, 1601; knighted, 1607; founded a com-: pany to trade with the East by the supposed north-west, passage, 1612; authorised to lend 10,000*. from the funds of the East India Company to the emperor of Russia, I 1618; M.P., Tewkesbury, 1621, 1624, 1625, and 1626; opened case against Duke of Buckingham, 1626; M.P., j Kent, 1628; influential in preparing the Petition of Right,, 1628; sharply maintained right of House of Commons to ! criticise ministers of state, 1628; placed on the high commission, 1633; master of the rolls, 1636; joint-author with his father ofFoure Paradoxes or Politique Discourses 1604.
Dudley Digges: '''Dudley Digges''' ([[1613]]-[[1643]]), political writer ; son of Sir Dudley Digges; M.A. University College, Oxford, 1635; fellow of All Souls Oxford, 1633; wrote in support of doctrine of passive obedience.
Leonard Digges: '''Leonard Digges''' (d. [[1571]]?), mathematician; studied at University College, Oxford; author of Tectonicon 1656,A Geometricall Practise, named Pantometria(published, 1571), and An Arithmeticall Militare Treatise, named Stratioticos (published, 1579); said to have anticipated invention of telescope.
Leonard Digges: '''Leonard Digges''' ([[1588]]-[[1635]]), poet and translator: son of Thomas Digges; M.A. University College, Oxford, 1626; translated Claudian's Rape of Proserpine 1617, and Mlerardo a Spanish novel, 1622; wrote two poenis in praise of Shakespeare.
Thomas Digges: '''Thomas Digges''' (d. [[1596]]), mathematician ; son of Leonard Digges (d. 1571 V); M.A. QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1557; M.P., Wallingford, 1572, Southampton, 1685; muster-master-geueral of the English forces hi the Netherlands, 1586; commissioned, with others, to equip expedition for exploration of Cathay and Antarctic seas, 1590; published some of his father's works, and wrote works on applied mathematics, highly esteemed by Tycho Brahe.
West Digges: '''West Digges''' ([[1720]]-[[1786]]), actor : appeared first at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, as Jaffier in Venice Preserved 1749; played Cato at the Haymarket, 1777; an admirable exponent of Shakespeare's Wolsey.
Denis Dighton: '''Denis Dighton''' ([[1792]]-[[1827]]), battle painter; military draughtsman to the Prince of Wales, 1815; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1811-25; died at St. Servan, Brittany.
Robert Dighton: '''Robert Dighton''' ([[1762]] 7-[[1814]]), portrait-painter, caricaturist, and etcher; etched a Book of Heads cari caturing leading counsel, military officers, actors, and actresses, 1795; discovered to Lave abstracted etchings and prints from the British Museum, 1806.
Charles Digntjm: '''Charles Digntjm''' ([[1765]]7-[[1827]]), vocalist; first appeared at Drury Lane inLove in a Village 1784; particularly successful as Tom Tug in the Waterman and as Crop in No Song, No Supper; sang at Drury Lane oratorios.
Ashton Wentworth Dilke: '''Ashton Wentworth Dilke''' ([[1850]]-[[1883]]), traveller and politician; younger son of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke; scholar of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; travelled in Russia and Central Asia; editor of the 'Weekly Dispatch M.P. for Newcastle, 1880; died at Algiers; translated Tourguenieff'sVirgin Soil 1878.
Charles Went Worth Dilke: '''Charles Went Worth Dilke''' ([[1789]]-[[1864]]), antiquary and critic; brought out continuation of Dodsley's 'Old Playsbetween 1814 and 1816: acquainted with Charles Armitage Brown, Keats, Shelley, and Hood; edited the Athenaeum 1830-46, procuring contributions from continental writers an innovation in English journalism; manager of the Daily News 1846; discussed in theAthenaeumafer 1847 the authorship of the Letters of Juuius his cnticism being mainly destructive of the claim of Sir Philip Francis; wrote in defence of Wilkes and Peter Pindar; threw much light on Pope's career and writings in papers published in theAthenaeum and Notes and Queries
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke: '''Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke''' , first baronet (1810-1869); son of Charles Wentworth Dilke; educated at Westminster and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; B.A., 1834; among the first to propose the International Exhibition of 1851, and one of the executive committee; created baronet, 1862; M.P., Wallingford, 1865-8; died at St. Petersburg.
Sir Thomas Dilkes: '''Sir Thomas Dilkes''' ([[1667]] 7-[[1707]]), rear-admiral ; lieutenant under James II; fought at La Hogue, 1692; brought home West Indies squadron, 1697; rear-admiral of the white, 1703; captured French merchantmen at Avranches, 1703; knighted, 1704; defeated French blockading squadron at Gibraltar, 1705; died at Leghorn.
Dillen: '''Dillen''' nJS, JOHN JAMES ([[1687]]-[[1747]]), botanical professor at Oxford; born at Darmstadt; M.D. Giessen; first professor of botany at Oxford, 1728-47; M.D. Oxford, 1735; highly esteemed as a scientist by Linnaeus; chief work, Historia Muscorum 1741.
Francis Dillingham: '''Francis Dillingham''' (fl. [[1611]]), divine ; fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1590; B.D., 1699; renowned as a disputant; presented to the living of Wilden, Bedfordshire; one of the translators of the authorised version (1611), and a protestant controversialist,
Theophilus Dillingham: '''Theophilus Dillingham''' ([[1613]]-[[1678]]), master of Clare Hall, Cambridge; M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1637; fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1638; D.D.; master of Clare Hall, 1654; vice-chancellor of the university, 1655, 1656, and 1661; ejected from his mastership at the Restoration; prebendary of York, 1662.
William Dillingham: '''William Dillingham''' ([[1617]] ?-[[1689]]), Latin poet and controversialist; fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1642; M.A., 1643; master of Emmanuel College, 1663-62; D.D., 1655; vice-chancellor of the university, 1669; deprived of mastership by the Act of Uniformity, 1662; rector of Woodhill, Bedfordshire, 1672-89; published Latin poems, 1678,Egyptus triumpbata 1680, and other poems and English tractates.
Arthur Dillon: '''Arthur Dillon''' ([[1670]]-[[1733]]), general in the French service: colonel of a Jacobite regiment serving in France, 1690; marechal-de-camp, 1704; lieutenantgeneral under Tesse in Provence, 1707; superintended entrenchments at siege of Barcelona, 1714; Pretender's agent at Paris; died at St. Germain.
Arthur Richard Dillon: '''Arthur Richard Dillon''' ([[1750]]-[[1794]]), general in the French service; nephew of Archbishop Arthur Richard Dillon; colonel, under Louis XV, 1767; governor of St. Kitt's; brigadier-general, 1784; governor of Tobago and deputy for Martinique in the National Assembly: Jacobin general; served in the Argonne, 1792; supplanted by Dumourie-, 1792; guillotined, 1794.
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Arthur Richard Dillon: '''Arthur Richard Dillon''' ([[1721]]-[[1806]]), French prelate; son of Arthur Dillon (1670-1733): bishop of Kvreux, 1753; archbishop of Toulouse, 1758, and of Narbonne, 17(1.1; his diocese abolished by a concordat: died iu London.
Kdou Dillon: '''Kdou Dillon''' .VRD ([[1751]]-[[1839]]), French general and diplomatist; colonel of the Provence regiment: formed a new Dillon nimt-nt at Ooblenz, 1791; lieutenant-general, 1814; ambassador to Saxony, 1816-18, and to Tuscany, 1819.
Dillon: '''Dillon''' Sm JAMES (. [[1667]]), the first Dillon who served in foreign armies; lieutenant-general and governor of Atbloue and Connaught; took part in Leinster revolt, 1652; excepted from pardon under Act of Settlement, 1652; brigadier-general in service of Spain ami the Fronde: pensioned by Charles II for his loyalty, 1662.

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John Blake Dillon: '''John Blake Dillon''' ([[1816]]-[[1866]]), Irish politician : graduate and moderator, Trinity College, Dublin: called to the Irish bar, 1841; joint-founder of the Nation newspaper, 1842; led rebels, 1848, at Mullinahone and Killenance, eventually escaping to the United States; secretary to the Irish National Association, 1865; M.P., Tipperary, 1865; repealer; opponent of fenianism.
Sir John Talbot Dillon: '''Sir John Talbot Dillon''' ([[1740]] ?-[[1805]]), traveller, critic, and historical writer; M.P. for Blessington, in the Irish parliament, 1776-83; made a free baron of the Holy Roman Empire at Vienna, previous to 1780; created baronet, 1801; published Travels through Spain 1780, a history of Spanish poetry in the form of letters, 1781, memoirs of the French Revolution, 1790, and Sketches on the Art of Painting translated from the Spanish, 1782.
Sir Lucas Dillon: '''Sir Lucas Dillon''' (*. [[1593]]), chief-baron of Irish exchequer; son of Sir Robert Dillon (1500 7-1580); solicitor-general for Ireland, 1565; attorney-general, 1566; M.P., 1569; chief baron of court of Irish exchequer, 1570; knighted, 1576; seneschal of Kilkenny West, 1583; one of lords justices appointed to administer government pending arrival of Sir John Perrot, 1584; commissioner for plantation of Munster, 1587.
Peter Dillon: '''Peter Dillon''' ([[1785]] ?-[[1847]]), navigator in South Seas; engaged in sandal- wood trade between West Pacific islands and China, and, 1822-5, was employed in timbertrade for the East India market; went in search of lost ships of La Perouse, whose expedition was wrecked on the Santa Cruz group, 1827-8, and published account of voyage, 1829.
Sir Robert Dillon: '''Sir Robert Dillon''' ([[1500]] ?-[[1580]]), Irish judge ; attorney-general for Ireland, 1634; second justice of queen's bench, 1554; chief-justice of court of common pleas, 1559-80.
Sir Robert Dillon: '''Sir Robert Dillon''' (d. [[1597]]), Irish judge; second justice of presidency of Connaught, 1569; chancellor of Irish exchequer, 1572; second justice of court of common pleas, 1577; chief -justice, 1581; accused of corruption and cruelty, imprisoned, and compelled to resign chief -justiceship, 1593; declared innocent; restored to chief-justiceship of Ireland, 1595.
Robert Crawford Dillon: '''Robert Crawford Dillon''' ([[1795]]-[[1847]]), divine ; M.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1820; D.D., 1836; chaplain to Alderman Venables when lord mayor, 1826, whom he accompanied on an official visit to Oxford: published a turgid and puerile account of this visit, which the lord mayor vainly requested him to suppress, 1826; suspended for immorality from his proprietary chapel in Charlotte Street, Pimlico, 1840: founded a new church in Friar Street, Blackfriars; first presbyter
Theobald Dillon: '''Theobald Dillon''' ([[1745]]-[[1792]]), general in the French service; lieutenant-colonel in Dillon's regiment, 1780; took part in attack on Grenada, 1779; knight of St. Louis, 1781; brigadier-general, 1791; murdered by his own republican troops in a panic at Ton may, 1792.
Thomas Dillon: '''Thomas Dillon''' , fourth VISCOUNT DILLON ([[1615]]?1672 ?), lord of the privy council in Ireland, 1840; joint governor of co. Mayo, 1641; served under Charles 1, 1642, being deputed by the Irish parliament to present a statement of its grievances to the king; lord president of Couuaught; joined the Marquis of Ormonde's rising, 1649; appointed custos rotulornm by Charles II, 1662.
Dillon: '''Dillon''' or DE LEON, THOMAS ([[1613]]-[[1676]]?), Jesuit; novice of the.Society of Jesus at Seville, 1627; professed father; professor of humanities at Cadiz, 16401676 ?; a skilled orientalist and theologian.
Wentworth Dillon: '''Wentworth Dillon''' , fourth EARL OF ROSCOM-
Mox: '''Mox''' ([[1633]] ?-[[1685]]) ; educated at the protestant university of Caen; studied Italian and numismatics at Rome; member of the Irish parliament, 1661; captain of the band of gentlemen pensioner*, 1661; honorary LL.D. Cambridge, 1680; D.C.L. Oxford, 1683; chief works, a blank verse translation of Horace's Ars Poetica 1680, and an Essay on Translated Verse 1684. He was the first critic who publicly praised Milton's Paradise Lost
Sir William Henry Dillon: '''Sir William Henry Dillon''' ([[1779]]-[[1857]]), admiral; son of Sir John Talbot Dillon; co-operated with the army as naval lieutenant off Wexford and arrested Skallian, 1798: seized by the Dutch commodore, Valterbach (1803), and handed over to the French for detention; commander, 1805; with one sloop defeated a Danish man-of-war brig, 1808; served at Walcheren, off Spain and in East Indies: K.O.H., and knighted, 1835; vice-admiral of the red, 1853.
Dlllon: '''Dlllon''' -LEE, HENRY AUGUSTUS, thirteenth VIS-
Dillon Count: '''Dillon Count''' ([[1777]]-[[1832]]), writer : colonel in the Irish brigade, 1794; M.P., Harwich, 1799; knight for co. Mayo, 1802, 1806, 1807, and 1812; published work* of political jurisprudence, an edition of.-Elian'sTactic? 1814, andThe Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Mnltravers (novel), 1822.
Lewis Weston Dillwyn: '''Lewis Weston Dillwyn''' ([[1778]]-[[1865]]), naturalist; published his Natural History of British Conferva? 1802-9; in charge of the Cambrian pottery atj Swansea, 1802; trained public taste for natural-history designs; high sheriff of Glamorganshire, 1818; M.P., Glamorganshire, 1832-41; wrote Flora and Fauna of Swansea for the British Association, 1848.
Charles Dllly: '''Charles Dllly''' ([[1739]]-[[1807]]), bookseller; at one time in partnership with his brother Edward; noted for the hospitality that he extended towards the writers of the day; published Boswell's Tour in the Hebrides 1780, and theLife of Johnson 1791; master of the StationersCompany, 1803.
Edward Dllly: '''Edward Dllly''' ([[1732]]-[[1779]]), bookseller ; brother of Charles Dilly; exported works of dissenting theology to America.
John Dllly: '''John Dllly''' ([[1731]]-[[1806]]), brother of Charles Dilly ; Boswell's Squire Dilly; high sheriff of Bedfordshire, 1783.
James Dimock: '''James Dimock''' (d. [[1718]] ?).
James Francis Dimock: '''James Francis Dimock''' ([[1810]]-[[1876]]), divine; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1833; M.A., 1837; minor canon of Southwell, 1846-63; rector of Barnborough, 1863 till death: prebendary of Lincoln, 1869-76; published works relating to ecclesiastical and mediaeval history.
Thomas Dimsdale: '''Thomas Dimsdale''' ([[1712]]-[[1800]]), physician ; volunteer under the Duke of Cumberland, 1745; M.D., 1761; inoculated for small pox the Empress Catherine, various Russian princes, and the Hawaiian Ornai; councillor of state in Russia with hereditary title of baron, 1768; M.P., Hertford, 1780 and 1784; wrote on inoculation,
Dlneley: '''Dlneley''' -GOODERE, SIR JOHN (d. [[1809]]), poor knight of Windsor; succeeded to baronetcy of Burhope in Wellington, Herefordshire, 1761; subsequently poor knight of Windsor; cherished delusive claims to certain (mythical) estates.
Robert Dingley: '''Robert Dingley''' ([[1619]]-[[1660]]), puritan divine; M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford; parliamentarian preacher and rector of Brightstone, Isle of Wight; published religious works.
Dingley: '''Dingley''' or DINELEY, THOMAS (d. [[1695]]), antiquary; student of Gray'3 Inn, 1670; attended Sir George Downing (1623 ?-1684) when ambassador to the United Provinces, 1671; died at Louvain; left in manuscript Travails through the Low Countreys, Anno Domini 1674 an account of travels in Ireland, a description of Wales, and aHistory from Marble dealing with English epigraphy and church architecture (published 1867-8).

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Charles Diodati: '''Charles Diodati''' ([[1608]] 7-[[1638]]), friend of Milton ; son of Theodore Diodati; scholar of St. Paul's School, where he first became acquainted with Milton: M.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1628; M.A. Cambri. -, 1629; practised physic near Chester. Miltou addressed to him two Latin elegies and an Italian sonnet, and bewailed his death in Epitnphium Damouis 1645.
Theodore Diodati: '''Theodore Diodati''' ([[1574]]7-[[1651]]), physician: born at Geneva of a Lucca family; brought up in Eughunl as a physician; attended Prince Henry and Princess Klinht-th: M.D. Leyden, 1615; L.C.P. London, 1617; assisted Florio in his translation of Montaigne,
Henry Dircks: '''Henry Dircks''' ([[1806]]-[[1873]]), civil engineer and author; life member of the British Association, 1837; consulting engineer; invented Pepper's Ghost an optical illusion, 1858; chief works, Jordantype, otherwise called Electrotype 1852, Perpetuum Mobile 1861, and A Biographical Memoir of Samuel Hartlib 1865.
Lord Dirleton: '''Lord Dirleton''' ([[1609]]7-[[1687]]). See NISBET, SIR
John: '''John'''
Alexander Dirom: '''Alexander Dirom''' (d. [[1830]]), lieutenant-general ; deputy adjutant-general in the second Mysore war, 1790-2; F.R.S., 1794; published account of the campaign against Tippoo Sultan in 1792, An Inquiry into the Corn Laws 1796, and Plans for the Defence of Great Britain and Ireland 1797.
Saint Disibod: '''Saint Disibod''' ([[594]] 7-[[674]]), bishop; son of an Irish chieftain: elected bishop against his will; wandered into Alemannia (Baden), where he founded a Benedictine community.
John Disney: '''John Disney''' ([[1677]]-[[1730]]), divine; magistrate for Lincolnshire; rector of St. Mary's, Nottingham, 1722-30; wrote on the reformation of manners.
John Disney: '''John Disney''' ([[1746]]-[[1816]]), Unitarian clergyman; grandson of John Disney (1677-1730); at Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1764: vicar of Swinderby and rector of Panton, Lincolnshire, 1769-82; LL.B., 1770; D.D. Edinburgh, 1775: F.S.A., 1778; threw up preferments (1782) and assisted Theophilus Lindsey at Essex Street Unitarian church; sole minister, 1793; published memoirs and theological works; helped to secuie the act of 1813 'to relieve persons who impugn the doctrine of the Holy Trinity from certain penalties
John Disney: '''John Disney''' ([[1779]]-[[1857]]), collector of classical antiquities; son of the Rev. John Disney (1746-1816); hon. LL.D. Cambridge, and F.R.S.; barrister, Inner Temple; founded Disney professorship of archaeology at Cambridge, 1851, to which university he bequeathed his Roman marbles; published two legal works,
Sir Moore Disney: '''Sir Moore Disney''' ([[1766]]7-[[1846]]), general: lieutenant and captain, first grenadier guards, 1791; colonel, 1802; commandant of Messina, 1808; detailed to cover Sir John Moore's retreat, 1808; fought at Betaiizos and Coruna, 1809; major-general, 1809; commanded first brigade of guards at Walcheren, 1809; colonel, 15th regiment, 1814; K.C.B., 1815; general, 1837.
William Disney: '''William Disney''' ([[1731]]-[[1807]]), professor of Hebrew; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. and senior wrangler, 1753; M.A., 1756; major fellow, 1756; regius professor ot Hebrew, 1757-71; vicar of Pluckley, Kent, 1777-1807; D.D., 1789.
Benjamin Disraeli: '''Benjamin Disraeli''' , first EARL op BEACONSriELn (1804-1881), statesman and man of letters; eldest son of Isaac D'lsraeli; entered Lincoln's Inn, 1824; publishedVivian Grey his first novel, which attracted attention by it* brilliance, 1826; produced Vindication of the British Constitution 1835, and some political pamphlet*; publishedThe Young Duke 1831,Oontarini Fleming 1832, Alroy 1833, The Rise of Iskander The Revolutionary Epic 1834, Venetia,* 1837, and Henrietta Temple 1837; M.P., Maidstone, 1837; his first speech a failure, 1837; spoke in favour of the chartist petition, 1839; conservative M.P. for Shrewsbury, 1841; a meinbsr of the Young England party; declared himself a supporter of the corn laws on political and social grounds, 1843; violently attacked Sir Robert Peel for repealing the corn laws, 1846; publishedConingsby 1844, and Sybil 1845, two novels advocating a combination of monarchy, a sort of social democracy, and Anglicanism as a political creed, and attacking the wins? principles of the upper and middle classes; published Tailored 1K47; a champion of the protectionists, 1845-5D: M.l for Buckinghamshire, 1847-76: chancellor of the exchequer in Lord Derby's first government, February 1812, but resigned in December, his party being defeated on his budget; attacked the Aberdeen administration in the Press a paper conducted under his influence, 1853; chancellor of the exchequer and leader of the House of Commons under Lord Derby's second government, February 1858- June 1859: introduced a reform bill, which was defeat til liy Lord John Russell's amendment, 1869; criticised Mr. Gladstone's financial system, 1860 and 1862, and Lord John Russell's foreign policy yearly till 1866; on defeat of Lord John Russell's reform bill, June 1866, became chancellor of the exchequer in Lord Derby's third government; carried a bill for giving franchise to all ratepayers, 1867; prime minister on Lord Derby's retirement, February 1868: resigned after general election, December 1868; published Lothair 1870; criticised Mr. Gladstone's Irish and foreign policy, 1868-73; prime minister for the second time, 1874; caused Queen Victoria to assume the title of Empress of India, 1876: created Earl of Beacousfield, 1876; became intimate friend of Queen Victoria; sought to check the predominance of Russia in Eastern Europe, 1877-8; English plenipotentiary at the congress of Berlin, which he forced upon Russia at the close of the Russo-Turkish war, 1878: K.G., 22 July 1878; procured the occupation of Cyprus, and the retention of Caudahar; resigned on the tory defeat at the general election, April 1880; publishedEudymion his last novel, 1880; died in London, 19 April 1881; buried at Hughenden. A public monument in his memory was erected in Westminster Abbey. D'ISRAELI, ISAAC (1766-1848), author; descended from a Jewish family which had fled from Spain to Venice in time of persecution; son of Benjamin D'lsraeli, who came from Italy to settle in England in 1748; studied at Amsterdam; issued anonymously Curiosities of Literature 1791; published Calamities of Authors 1812-13, 1 Quarrels of Authors 1814, and some novels; withdrew from the Jewish congregation, of which he and his family had hitherto been members, in 1817; published between 1828 and 1830Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles I D.C.L. Oxford, 1832; published anonymously the Genius of Judaism 1833; completed his Amenities of Literature though blind, 1840.
Diss: '''Diss''' or DYSSE, WALTER (f. [[1404]]7), Carmelite; D.D. Cambridge: subscribed the Blackfriars council's condemnation of Wycliff e's twenty-four conclusions, 1382: named papal legate by Pope Urban VI, to give the character of a crusade to John of Gaunt's expedition into Castile, 1386, where the rival pope, Clement VII, had much influence; never went to Spain; left theological works in manuscript
Humphrey Ditton: '''Humphrey Ditton''' ([[1675]]-[[1715]]), mathematician ; master of a new mathematical school at Christ's Hospital, 1706; devised an impracticable scheme with William Whiston, for ascertaining longitudes by the firing of a shell timed to explode at a certain height, 1713; published mathematical works.
Dive: '''Dive''' or DIVES, SIR LEWIS ([[1599]]-[[1669]]). See
Dyvk: '''Dyvk'''
John Dix: '''John Dix''' , alias JOHN Ross ([[1800]]7-[[1865]]7), biographer of Chatterton; surgeon at Bristol; published a Life of Chatterton containing a disputed portrait of the poet, 1837; published miscellaneous works.
John Dixey: '''John Dixey''' (. [[1820]]), sculptor and modeller : sent by the Royal Academy to complete his art studies in Italy; vice-president of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1812; employed in the embellishment of private and public buildings in the United States.
Sir Wolstan Dixie: '''Sir Wolstan Dixie''' ([[1525]]-[[1594]]), lord mayor of London; sheriff of London, 1575: lord mayor, 1585, when George Peele wrote the pageant; president of Christ's Hospital, 1690: benefactor of Christ's Hospital, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Market Bosworth school.
George Dixon: '''George Dixon''' (t. [[1800]] 7), navigator ; served on the Resolution under Cook; com
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George Dixon: '''George Dixon''' ([[1820]]-[[1898]]), educational reformer ; entered a foreign mercantile house in Birmingham, l-cs, became partner, 1844, and was ultimately head of the firm; entered town council, 1863; mayor, 1866; took active intere-t in quorum of popular education; assisted in forming Uirmintrham Education Aid Society, and, in 1808, with Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, John Sandford (1801-1873), George Dawson (1821-1876), and Robert William Dale, the National Education League, of which he was first president, 1869; liberal M.P. for Birmingham, 1867-76; member of first Birmingham School Board, 1870, and was re-elected, 1873 and 1876; chairman, 187(5-97; M.P. for Edgbaston division of Birmingham, 1885 till death; joined liberal unionists, 1886.
Henry Hall Dixon: '''Henry Hall Dixon''' ([[1822]]-[[1870]]), sporting writer; known as The Druid: educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1846; clerk to an attorney at Doncaster; contributed to Bell's Life; called to bar, 1853, and practised on midland circuit; wrote regularly forSporting Magazinefrom c. 1853, and subsequently for Illustrated London News Mark Lane Express and Daily News His works include The Law of the Farm 1858,Breeding of Shorthorns 1865,Post and Paddock 1856,Silk and Scarlet 1859, and Scott and Sebright 1862.
James Dixon: '''James Dixon''' ([[1788]]-[[1871]]), Wesleyan minister president of the Wesleyan conference, 1841: president o 1 the Canada conference; English representative at United States conference, 1847; D.D.: a celebrated preacher; published works on the history and development of inethodism.
John Dixon: '''John Dixon''' (rf. [[1715]]), miniature and crayon painter; pupil of Sir Peter Lely; keeper of the king's picture closet to William III.
John Dixon: '''John Dixon''' ([[1740]]?-[[1780]]?), mezzotint engraver; engraver of silver plate in Ireland; engraved, while in England, after the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds; member of the Incorporated Society of Artiste, 1766.
Joseph Dixon: '''Joseph Dixon''' ([[1806]]-[[1866]]), Irish catholic prelate : dean of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth; professor of sacred scripture and Hebrew at Maynooth: D.D.; archbishop of Armagh, 1852-66; published A General Introduction to the Sacred Scriptures 1862, and The Blessed Cornelius 1854.
Joshua Dixon: '''Joshua Dixon''' (d. [[1825]]), biographer : M.D. Edinburgh, 1768; practised at Whitehaven; author of The Literary Life of William Browurigg, M.D., F.R.S. 1801.
Richard Watson Dixon: '''Richard Watson Dixon''' ([[1833]]-[[1900]]), historian, poet, and divine; son of Dr. James Dixou; educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Pembroke College. Oxford; formed close friendship with (Sir) Edward Burne- Jones and W'illiam Morris ; projected with Morris Oxford and Cambridge Magazine; B.A., 1857; ordained curate of St. Mary-theLess, Lambeth, 1858; curate of St. Mary, Newiugton Butts, 1861: second master at Carlisle high school, 18631868; minor canon and honorary librarian of Carlisle Cathedral, 1868-75; vicar of Haytou, Cumberland, 18751883, and of Warkworth, Northumberland, 1883 till death: honorary canon of Carlisle, 1874; rural dean of Brampton, 1879, and of Alnwick, 1884; proctor in convocation, 1890-1: honorary D.D. Oxford, 1899; published poetical and religious works, besides an elaborate History of Church of England from Abolition of Roman Jurisdiction 1877-1900.
Robert Dixon: '''Robert Dixon''' ' (d. [[1688]]), royalist divine ; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1638; imprisoned in Leeds Castle, Kent, for refusing the solemn league and covenant, 1644; rector of Tunstall, Kent, 1647; sequestered; restored, 1660; prebendary of Rochester, 1660; D.D., per liter as reyias, Cambridge, 1668; author of The Doctrine of Faith, Justification, and Assurance... farther cleared 1668, and other theological works, possibly also of 1 Canidia a satire on society, 1683.
Thomas Dixon: '''Thomas Dixon''' ([[1680]]V-[[1729]]), nonconformist tutor; studied at Manchester, 1700-5; minister of a dissenting congregation at Whitehaven (1708-23), where he founded an academy for the education of nonconformist ministers; hon. M.A. Edinburgh, 1709; M.D. Edinburgh; practised as a physician.
Thomas Dixon: '''Thomas Dixon''' ([[1721]]-[[1754]]), nonconformist minister; son of Thoma- Di.xon (1680 ?-1729); assistant to Dr. John Taylor at Norwich, 1750-2, where he began a Greek concordance; ordained, 1753.
William Henry Dixon: '''William Henry Dixon''' ([[1783]]-[[1854]]), clergyman and antiquary: M.A. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1809; canon o'f Ripon, canon-residentiary of York, rector of Ettou, and vicar of Bishopthorpe: F.S.A., 1821; left in manuscript a recension of James Torre's manuscript annals of the members of the cathedral of York (part published, with additions, 1863).
William Hepworth Dixon: '''William Hepworth Dixon''' ([[1821]]-[[1879]]), historian and traveller; barrister, Inner Temple, 1864; controverted Macaulay in aLife of William Penn 1861; published a life of Admiral Blake, 1852; editor of the 'Athenseum 1853-69; publishedThe Story of Lord Bacon's Life 1862, and other works embodying researches into Bacon's history; helped to found the Palestine Exploration Fund; published The Holy Laud 1865; discovered (1866) a collection of English state papers in the public library at Philadelphia, which were subsequently restored to the British government; J.P. for Middlesex and Westminster, 1869; member of the London School Board, 1870; published The Switzers 1872, and, while in Spain on a foreign bondholdersmission, wrote his History of Two Queens 1873: embodied the results of a tour through North America in The White Conquest 1875; travelled in Cyprus, 1878; published part of Royal Windsor 1878, andBritish Cyprus 1879; F.S.A. and F.R.G.S.
John Dixwell: '''John Dixwell''' (rf. [[1689]]), regicide ; M.P., Dover % 164(5: commissioner for the trial of Charles I, 1649; member of council of state, 1651 and 1659; excluded from Act of Indemnity, 1660; became burgess of Hanau; settled at Newhaven, Connecticut, 1665.
Dobb: '''Dobb''' 8, ARTHUR ([[1689]]-[[1765]]), governor of North Carolina; represented Carrickfergus in the Irish parliament of 1727-30; surveyor-general in Ireland, 1730: wrote an Essay on the Trade and Imports of Ireland 1729 and 1731; induced admiralty to send expedition to search for north-west passage, 1741; published An Account of the Countries adjoining Hudson's Bay 1744, which led to an expedition for diverting the fur trade from the Hudson's Bay Company, 1746. As governor of North Carolina (1754-65) he persistently upheld the royal pre ; rogative and consulted the interests of the Indians.
Francis Dobbs: '''Francis Dobbs''' ([[1750]]-[[1811]]), Irish politician; I graduate of Trinity College, Dublin: called to the Irish bar, 1773; published pamphlets against legislative union with England; issued a volume of poems, 1788; member for Charlemont in the Irish House of Commons, 1799, where in a famous speech he opposed the Union Bill on scriptural grounds, 18UO; published aUniversal History 1800.
Sydney Thompson Dobell: '''Sydney Thompson Dobell''' ([[1824]]-[[1874]]), poet and critic; privately educated at his parentshouse at Cheltenham; resided for most of his adult life in Gloucestershire; owing to delicate health often wintered abroad; published The Roman a dramatic poem inspired by sympathy with oppressed nationalities, 1860; published 4 Balder 1853; issued sonnets on the Crimean war, 1855; lived in Scotland, 1854-7; published a volume of verse entitled England in Time of War 1856; one of the first to apply the principle of co-operation in trade: injured by a fall among the ruins of Pozzuoli, 1866, and was thenceforth an invalid.
Peter Paul Dobree: '''Peter Paul Dobree''' ([[1782]]-[[1825]]), Greek scholar: fourth senior optime, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1804; fellow, 1806; M.A., 1807: professor of Greek at Cambridge, 1823-5; edited Porson's manuscript Aristophanica 1820: wrote in theMonthly Reviewand Valpy'sClassical Journal which latter IK: helped to found in ?810; edited Porson's transcript of Photius, with a lexicon, 1822; left
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Dodd: '''Dodd''' notes on the Greek historians and orators, which were published by Scholefield in -Adversaria 1831-3; i!r.-fk epigraphist.
George Ed Ward Dobson: '''George Ed Ward Dobson''' ([[1848]]-1 [[895]]), zoologist ; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1866; M.B. and M.Oh., 1867; M.A., 1875; entered army medical department, 1868; served in India; retired as surgeon-major, 1888; F.L.S., 1874; F.R.S., 1883; F.Z.S.; curator of Royal Victoria Museum, Netley, c. 1878; published Catalogue of Chiroptera in Collection of British Museum 1878, and other writings on chiroptera and insectivora.
John Dobson: '''John Dobson''' ([[1633]]-[[1681]]), puritan divine ; M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1669; perpetual fellow, 1662; expelled for writing a libel in vindication of Dr. Thomas Pierce, 1663, but soon restored; B.D., 1667; held various clerical preferments.
John Dobson: '''John Dobson''' ([[1787]]-[[1865]]), architect ; designed for Newcastle-on-Tyne public buildings, new streets, and central station; reputed pioneer in the modern Gothic revival.
Susannah Dobson: '''Susannah Dobson''' (d. [[1795]]), translator; ne Dawson; married Matthew Dobson; translated SalntePalaye'sLiterary History of the Troubadours 1779, andMemoirs of Ancient Chivalry 1784, besides Petrarch's View of Human Life 1791.
William Dobson: '''William Dobson''' ([[1610]]-[[1646]]), portrait-painter; introduced to Charles I by Vandyck; sergeant-painter, 1641; one of the earliest English subject and portrait painters of eminence.

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William Dobson: '''William Dobson''' ([[1820]]-[[1884]]), journalist and antiquary; editor of the Preston Chronicle; wrote on the history and antiquities of Preston.
William Charles Thomas Dobson: '''William Charles Thomas Dobson''' ([[1817]]1898), painter; studied in Royal Academy schools; headmaster of government school of design, Birmingliam, 1843-5; exhibited at Royal Academy from 1842; studied in Italy and Germany, and subsequently gained considerable reputation as painter of scriptural subjects in oil- and water-colour; R.A., 1872; retired, 1895. DO CHART Y, JAMES (1829-1878), landscape-painter; at one time engaged in pattern designing at Glasgow; exhibited highland scenes at the Royal Scottish Academy, associate Royal Scottish Academy, 1877; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1865-77.
Thomas Op Docking: '''Thomas Op Docking''' (fl. [[1250]]), Franciscan ; D.D., and seventh Franciscan reader in divinity in Oxford University; left in manuscript scriptural commentaries.
Docxwray: '''Docxwray''' or DOCXWRA, WILLIAM (d. [[1716]]), London merchant; established a penny po&tal system in the metropolis, 1683; cast in a suit instituted by the Duke of York to protect his monopoly; comptroller of the penny post, 1697-1700; dismissed on charges of maladministration, 1700.
Docwra: '''Docwra''' Sm HENRY, first BARON DOCWRA in Irish peerage (1660 ?-1631), general; captain under Sir Richard Binghain in Ireland; constable of Dungarvan Castle, 1584: commanded under Essex in the Netherlands and in Spain; knighted; received submission of Art O'Neill and founded modern city of Deny, 1600; governor of Derry, 1603-8; treasurer of war in Ireland, 1616; created Baron Docwra of Culmore, 1621; joint-keeper of the great seal of Ireland, 1627.
Sir Thomas Docwra: '''Sir Thomas Docwra''' (d. [[1527]]), prior of the knighte of St. John at Clerkenwell, 1502; negotiated treaty for Henry VII's marriage with Margaret of Savoy, 1606; received from Louis XII formal acknowledgment of the arrears of tribute due to England, 1510; attended Henry VIII in France, 1513; sent to Terouenne to settle mercantile disputes witJi the French, 1517; took part in search for suspicious characters in London, 1519-25: attended Wolsey when arbitrating between the French and the tmparUMi at Calais, 1521: commissioned by Henry VIII to draw up treaty with the imperial ambassador for joint invasion of France, 1524.
Charles Roger Phipps Dod: '''Charles Roger Phipps Dod''' ([[1793]]-[[1855]]), autlwr of the Parliamentary Companion; connected with the Times for twenty-three years, contributing obituary notices and redacting the parliamentary reports; compiled Parliamentary Pocket Companion 1832, and Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage 1841.
Henry Dod: '''Henry Dod''' ([[1550]] ?-[[1630]] ?), poet; published ' Certaine Psalmes of David in meter 1603, and Al the Psalmes of David, with certaine Songes and Canticles 1620.
John Dod: '''John Dod''' ([[1549]]?-[[1645]]), puritan divine; scholar and fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge; incumbent of Hanwell, Oxfordshire; suspended for nonconformity, 1604; rector of Fawsley, Northamptonshire, 1624-46; reputed author of a famous sermon on malt; called Decalogue Dod from his exposition of the Ten Commandments (published 1604).
Peirce Dod: '''Peirce Dod''' ([[1683]]-[[1754]]), medical writer; B.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1701: fellow of All Souls; M.A., 1705; M.D., 1714; Harveian orator, 1729; censor, College of Physicians, 1724, 1732, 1736, and 1739; physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1725-64; F.R.S., 1730; attacked for his book against inoculation (1746) in A Letter to the real and genuine Pierce (sic) Dod, M.D. 1746.
Robert Phipps Dod: '''Robert Phipps Dod''' (d. [[1865]]), compiler ; son of Charles Roger Phipps Dod; captain, 64th Shropshire regiment of militia, 1855; assisted in his father's compilations.
Timothy Dod: '''Timothy Dod''' (d. [[1665]]), nonconformist divine: son of John Dod fq. v.; preacher at Daventry, 1640; ejected, 1662.
Charles Dodd: '''Charles Dodd''' ([[1672]]-[[1743]]), Roman catholic divine ; real name, HUGH TOOTKL; studied philosophy at Douay, 1688; received the minor orders at Cambray, 1690; B.D. at the English seminary of St. Gregory, Paris; in charge of a congregation at Harvington, Worcestershire, 1726-43; published The Church History of England 1737-39-42, The Secret Policy of the English Society of Jesus 1715, severely criticising the order, and A Philosophical and Theological Dictionary
Daniel Dodd: '''Daniel Dodd''' (fl. [[1760]]-[[1790]]), painter; member of the Free Society of Artists. His works consist principally of oil and crayon portraits and scenes of fashionable life.
George Dodd: '''George Dodd''' ([[1783]]-[[1827]]), engineer ; son of Ralph Dodd; resident engineer under John Rennie, the designer of Waterloo Bridge: resigned his post, and died, refusing all medicine, in the compter, 1827.
George Dodd: '''George Dodd''' ([[1808]]-[[1881]]), miscellaneous writer ; edited the Cyclopaedia of the Industry of all Nations 1851; wrote for Oliarles Knight'sWeekly Volumesand other serials; compiled guide-books for Messrs. Chambers'a publishing firm; best-known work, The Food of London 1856.
James Solas Dodd: '''James Solas Dodd''' ([[1721]]-[[1805]]), surgeon, lecturer, and actor: member of the corporation of surgeons, London, 1751; publishedAn Essay towards a Natural History of the Herring 1752; produced A Physical Account of the Case of Elizabeth Canning 1753: mastersurgeon on board the Hawke, 1762-3: delivered a series of comic lectures onHeartsandNosesat Exeter Exchange, 1766; acted in London in a play written by himself after De Lafont'sLe Naufrage 1779; tricked into accompanying Major John Savage, a soi-disant ambassador to the Russian court, 1781; actor and lecturer at Edinburgh, 1782: translated the Ancient and Modern History of Gibraltarfrom the Spanish, 1781.
James William Dodd: '''James William Dodd''' ([[1740]] 7-[[1796]]), actor; first appeared at Drury Lane, 1765; at Drury Lane, 1765-96; favourably criticised by Charles Lamb for his sympathetic impersonation of Sir Andrew Aguecheek; retired after his failure in Oolman's Iron Chest 1796.
Philip Stanhope Dodd: '''Philip Stanhope Dodd''' ([[1776]]-[[1852]]), divine; fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; M.A., 1799; chaplain to the lord mayor, 1806: rector of St. Mary-atHill, 1807-12; published a work basing arguments for Christianity on the ministry of St. Paul, 1837.
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Dodson: '''Dodson'''
Ralph Dodd: '''Ralph Dodd''' ( [[1756]]-[[1822]]), civil engineer; published 1 Account of the principal Canals in the known World 1795; largely occupied in forming projecte for the construction of canals and a dry tunnel from Qravesend to Tilbury; promoter of steam navigation.
Robert Dodd: '''Robert Dodd''' ([[1748]]-[[1816]] ?), marine painter and engraver: exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1782-1809; distinguished for his rendering of storm effects.
Sir Samuel Dodd: '''Sir Samuel Dodd''' ([[1652]]-[[1716]]), judge ; barrister, Inner Temple, 1679; bencher, 1700; employed by various bankers upon a question of the liability of the crown for interest on loans to Charles II. 1693 and 1700; negotiated fusion of old with New East India Company, 1701; counsel for Sacheverell, 1710; knighted, 1714; serjeant, 1714; lord chief -baron, 1714.
Thomas Dodd: '''Thomas Dodd''' ([[1771]]-[[1860]]), auctioneer and printseller; opened day-school near Battle Bridge, St. Pancras, 1794; print-seller, 1796; his dictionary of monograms anticipated by Brulliot, 1817; auctioneer in Manchester, 1819; projected a scheme which was ultimately realised in the Royal Manchester Institution, 1823; commenced publication of his Connoisseur's Repertorium 1825; catalogued Douce collection of prints in the Bodleian Library, 1839-41.

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William Dodd: '''William Dodd''' ([[1729]]-[[1777]]), forger ; entered at Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1746; B.A., 1750; acted as chaplain of the Magdalen House 1758; editor of the * Christian Magazine 1760-7; chaplain to the king and prebendary at Brecon, 1763; LL.D., 1766; founded Charlotte Chapel in Pimlico; nick-named the macaroni parson; rector of Hockliffe ami vicar of Chalgrove, 1772; struck off the list of royal chaplains for improper solicitation of preferment from the lord chancellor, 1774; forged a bond for 4,2007. in the name of his former pupil, the fifth Lord Chesterfield, 1777: executed (1777), though numerous petitions were presented on his behalf, one being written for him by Dr. Johnson. His numerous publications include 'Beauties of Shakespeare 1752, a translation of the Hymns of Callimachus 1754, Reflections on Death 1763, and Thoughts in Prison 1777.
Doddridge: '''Doddridge''' or DODERIDGE, SIR JOHN ([[1556]]1628), judge; B.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1677; serjeantat-law and Prince Henry's serjeant, 1604; solicitor-general, 1604; M.P., Horsham, Sussex, between 1603 and 1611; knighted, 1607; justice of the king's bench, 1612; M.A., honoris cauxd, Oxford, 1614; signed the letter refusing to stay proceedings at the instance of the king in the eommendam case of 1616, but subsequently gave way; directed to soften the rigour of the statutes against popish recusants, 1623. His published work includes 4 The English Lawyer 1631, and A Compleat Parson (the substance of some lectures on advowsons), 1630. D3DDRIDGE, PHILIP (1702-1761), nonconformist divine: minister at Kibworth, 1723; declined overtures from Pershore, Worcestershire, and HaberdashersHall from unwillingness to subscribe the Toleration Act, a probable condition of ordination, 1723; co-minister with his friend, David Some, at Market Harborough, 1725-9; opened an academy at Market Harborough, 1729, subsequently removing it to Northampton: presbyter, 1730; publishedFree Thoughts on the most probable means of reviving the Dissenting Interest 1730: tolerant of Arinnism, though rejecting its claims; D.D. of the two universities of Aberdeen, 1736; lectured on philosophy and divinity in the mathematical or Spinozistic style; founded charity school at Northampton, 1737; took part in the institution of a county infirmary, 1743; died at Lisbon; a celebrated hymn-writer; published The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul 1745. A Course of Lectures on Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity appeared posthumously in 1763.
James Dodds: '''James Dodds''' ([[1813]]-[[1874]]), lecturer and poet; studied at Edinburgh University; solicitor in London: friend of Leigh Hunt and Thomas Carlyle; author of Lays of the Covenanters posthumously published by the Rev. James Dodds of Dunbar, andThe Fifty Years Struggle of the Covenanters, 1638-1688
James Dodds: '''James Dodds''' ([[1812]]-[[1885]]), religious and general writer; studied at Edinburgh University; minister at Humbie in East Lothian, and, after joining the Free Church, at Dunbar, 1843-86; friend of Thomas Oarlyle; published Famous Men of Dumfriesshire A Century of Scottish Church History and theological works and memoirs.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: '''Charles Lutwidge Dodgson''' ([[1832]]-[[1898]]), writer of books for children under the pseudonym of LKWIS QABBOLL, and mathematician; educated at Rugby I and Christ Church, Oxford; nominated student of Christ Church, 1852; B.A., 1854; mathematical lecturer, 1855-81; M.A., 1867; ordained deacon, 1861: resided at Oxford, where he published occasionally humorous pamphlet* on matters of local interest. His most popular works areAlice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865, and Through the Looking Glass 1871, both illustrated by Sir John Tenniel. His other publications include, The Hunting of the Suark 1876, andSylvie and Bruno 1889, besides various mathematical writings, of which the most valuable is Euclid and his Modern Rivals 1879.
George Haydook Dodgson: '''George Haydook Dodgson''' (iSllSeO), wittercolour painter; prepared plans for Whitby and Pickering railway, while apprentice to George Stephenson; exhibited at the Royal Academy n Tribute to the Memory of Sir Christopher Wren (study in architectural drawing), 1838; member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours, 1852; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1838-50.
Bartholomew Dodington: '''Bartholomew Dodington''' ([[1536]]-[[1595]])', Greek j scholar; Lady Margaret's scholar, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1547; Lady Margaret's fellow, 1552; M.A., 1565; senior fellow, 1558; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, c. 1560; regius professor of Greek, 1562-86; ; wrote Greek poems and Greek and Latin orations.
George Bu Dodington: '''George Bu Dodington''' .BB, BARON MELCOMBE i (1691-1762); M.P., Winchelsea, 1715; envoy extraordinary to Spain, 1715; took the surname Dodington on : succeeding to his uncle's estate, 1720; M.P., Bridgewater, 1722-54; lord of the treasury, 1724; adherent of Walpole; favourite of Frederick, prince of Wales; attached himself to the Duke of Argyll and attacked AValpole, 1742; treasurer of the navy in Pelham's administration, 1744; paid court to the Pelhams, and hi 1754 to the Duke of Newcastle; M.P., Weymouth; treasurer of the navy under Newcastle and Fox, 1755; spoke against the execution of Byng, 1767; created Baron Melcombe of Melcombe Regis, 1761; wit, patron of literature, writer of occasional verses, and political pamphleteer.
Marcus Dods: '''Marcus Dods''' ([[1786]]-[[1838]]), theological writer; educated at Edinburgh; presbyterian minister, Belford, 1810-38; D.D.; published a work On the Incarnation of the Eternal Word criticised Edward Irving's doctrine of the incarnation.
James Dodsley: '''James Dodsley''' ([[1724]]-[[1797]]), bookseller; brother of Robert Dodsley; produced an improved edition of Isaac Reed's Collection of Old Plays 1780, and re-edited Reed's Collection of Poems 1 782; member of the Congeries, a well-known booksellersclub; suggested plan of receipt tax to Rockingham's administration, 1782.
Robert Dodsley: '''Robert Dodsley''' ([[1703]]-[[1764]]), poet, dramatist, and bookseller; while a footman in service of the Hon. Mrs. Lowther publishedServitude, a Poem in the Country Journal 1729 (afterwards reissued as The Footman's Friendly Advice to his Brethren of the Livery; bookseller, 1735; wrote the playsThe King and the Miller of Mansfield 1737, andSir John Cockle at Court a sequel, 1738; published for Pope, Young, and Akeuside; published aSelect Collection of Old Plays his best-known work. 1744; started The Publick Register 1741,The Museum 1746, andThe Preceptor; suggested to Johnson the scheme of an English dictionary; published Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes andIrene(both in 1749); published an ode entitled Melpomene 1758; his tragedy, Oleone acted atCoveut Garden 1758; foundedThe Annual Register 1758; published with his brother James Dodsley. Goldsmith's Polite Learning 1759, and, with Johnson and Strahan, Johnson's Rasselas 1769; friend of Shenstone, some of whose narrative poems appeared in Dodsley's Select Fables 1761.
James Dodson: '''James Dodson''' (rf. [[1767]]), teacher of mathematics and master of the Royal Mathematical School, Christ's Hospital; F.R.S., 1755; master at Christ's Hospital,
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Dolben: '''Dolben''' 1755-7; prepared the way for ultimate incorporation of Equitable Society: published The Anti-Logarithmic Canon 1742; and an Accountant, or a Method of Book-keeping 1750.
Sir John Dodson: '''Sir John Dodson''' ([[1780]]-[[1858]]), judge of the prerogative court; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and Oriel College, Oxford; M.A., 1804; D.C.L., 1808; advocate of the College of Doctors of Laws, 1808; M.P., Rye, 1819-23; advocate-general and knighted, 1834; barrister, Inner Temple, 1834; judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury, and dean of the arches court, 18521857; privy councillor, 1852.
John George Dodson: '''John George Dodson''' , first BARON MONK-
Bretton: '''Bretton''' ([[1825]]-[[1897]]), politician ; son of Sir John Dodson ; educated at Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1847; M.A., 1851; called to bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1853; travelled: liberal M.P. for East Sussex, 1857-74, Chester, 1874-80, and Scarborough, 1880-4; chairman of committees and deputy speaker of House of Commons, 1865-72: privy councillor, 1872; president of local government board with seat in cabinet, 1880; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster, 1882-4; raised to peerage, 1884; liberal unionist from 1886.
Michael Dodson: '''Michael Dodson''' ([[1732]]-[[1799]]), lawyer ; educated at Marlborough grammar school; barrister, Middle Temple, 1783: commissioner of bankruptcy, 1770-99; Unitarian; edited Sir Michael Foster'sReport on the Commission for the Trial of Rebels in the Year 1746 and published A New Translation of Isaiah 1790.
Roger Dodsworth: '''Roger Dodsworth''' ([[1585]]-[[1654]]), antiquary ; studied in London in the library of Sir Robert Cotton; designed an English baronage, a history of Yorkshire, and a Monasticon Anglicanum, published as Monasticon Boreale 1655, with name of Dugdale as joint-compiler.
William Dodsworth: '''William Dodsworth''' ([[1798]]-[[1861]]), Roman catholic writer: M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1823; adopted Tractarian opinions and became minister of Margaret Street Chapel, Cavendish Square, London; perpetual curate of Christ Church, St. Pancras, London, 1837; joined the Roman catholic church after the Gorham judgment, 1851: published Advent Lectures 1837, Anglicanism considered in its results 1851, and catholic apologetics.
Edward Dodwell: '''Edward Dodwell''' ([[1767]]-[[1832]]), traveller and archaeologist; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1800: collected vases, including the well-knownDodwell Vase from Corinth, and marbles and coins in Greece and the Archipelago; settled (1806) in Italy, where he enjoyed the friendship of the pope; published A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, 1819, and views and descriptions of ancient remains; died at Rome.
Henry Dodwell: '''Henry Dodwell''' , the elder ([[1641]]-[[1711]]), scholar and theologian; scholar and fellow of Trinity College, Dublin; resigned his fellowship from unwillingness to take holy orders, 1666; Camden professor of history at Oxford, 1688-91; deprived for refusing oath of allegiance, 1691; returned (1710) to the established church, from which be had been excluded as a nonjuror; published a Book of Schism which was controverted by Richard Baxter; Annales Thucydideani for Hudson's Thucydides; * A Discourse concerning the Time of Phalaris 1704, and other learned works.
Henry Dodwell: '''Henry Dodwell''' , the younger (d. [[1784]]), deist; son of Henry Dodwell the elder; B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1726; published Christianity not founded on Argument a deistical pamphlet, which some mistook for a defence of Christianity, 1742.
William Dodwell: '''William Dodwell''' ([[1709]]-[[1785]]), archdeacon of Berks and theological writer; son of Henry Dodwell (1641-1711); M.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1732; prebendary of Salisbury; D.D. Oxford, 1760; archdeacon i of Berks: published controversial works, including, 1743, j 'Two Sermons on the Eternity of Future Punishment in answer to Whiston, and, 1745, Two Sermons on the j Nature, Procedure, and Effect* of a Rational Faith in I answer to hi? brother, Henry Dodwell the younger.
John Doooet: '''John Doooet''' (d. [[1501]]), provost of King's i College, Cambridge; educated at Eton; M.A. and fellow, I King's College, Cambridge; prebendary of Lincoln, 1474; ambassador to Sixtus IV and the princes of Sicily and Hungary, 1479; chaplain to Richard III, 1483; vicargeneral, Sarum, 1483, and chancellor of Lichfield, 1489: doctor of canon law at Bologna; provost of King's College, 1499-1501; benefactor of King's College.

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Thomas Doggett: '''Thomas Doggett''' (d. [[1721]]), actor; 'created' Ben in Oongreve's Love for Love 1695; author of the 'Country Wake,* a comedy, in which he acted himself, 1696; friend of Cougreve and Colley Gibber; his dignified style praised by Gibber; joint-manager of the Haymarket, 1709-10, subsequently of DruryLane; founded hi 1716, in honour ot the anniversary of George I's accession, a prize for a rowing competition for Thames watermen, which is still continued.
Dogherty: '''Dogherty'''
Thomas Dogherty: '''Thomas Dogherty''' (d. [[1805]]), legal writer : of Irish origin; member of Gray's Inn: special pleader, c. 1785; clerk of indictments on the Chester circuit; wrote theCrown Circuit Assistant 1787.
Dogmael: '''Dogmael''' also called DOGVAKL, SAINT (6th cent.), reputed founder of a monastery at Cemmes, opposite Cardigan, and of some churches in modern Pembrokeshire,
John Doharty: '''John Doharty''' ([[1677]]-[[1755]]).
John Doherty: '''John Doherty''' ([[1783]]-[[1850]]), chief-justice of Ireland; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1806; LL.D., 1814; called to the Irish bar, 1808; M.P., New Ross, 1824-6, Kilkenny, 1826,; solicitor-general, 1827; lord chief-justice of common plea's and privy councillor, 1830: spoke against O'Connell in the debate on the Doueraile conspiracy 1830.
David Doig: '''David Doig''' ([[1719]]-[[1800]]), philologist ; M.A. St. Andrews; rector of the grammar school at Stirling; honorary LL.D. Glasgow; fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; wrote Two Letters on the Savag State 1792, against Lord Kames's views see HOME, HENRY, LORD KAMES, a friendship resulting between author and critic; published Extracts from a Poem on the Prospect from Stirling Castle 1796.
Doket: '''Doket''' or DUCKET, ANDREW (d. [[1484]]), first president of QueensCollege, Cambridge; rector of St. Botolph, Cambridge, 1444-70; prebendary of Lichfield, 1467, and chancellor, 1470-6; authorised by royal charter in 1447 to found the College of St. Bernard of Cambridge which was ultimately called QueensCollege in honour of its patronesses, Margaret of Anjou and Elizabeth Woodville.
David Dolben: '''David Dolben''' ([[1581]]-[[1633]]), bishop of Bangor; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1609: vicar of Hackney, Middlesex, 1618-33; prebendary of St. Asaph, 1625; D.D., 1627; bishop of Bangor, 1631-3.
Dolben: '''Dolben''' Sm GILBERT ([[1658]]-[[1722]]), judge ; son of John Dolbcii (1625-1686); educated at Westminster School and at Oxford; barrister of the Inner Temple, 1681; M.P., Ripon, 1685, Peterborough, 16891707; puisne judge in the Irish court of common pleas, 1701; maintained exclusive jurisdiction of the House of Commons in election questions, 1704: created baronet, 1704; M.P., Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 1710 and 1714.
John Dolben: '''John Dolben''' ([[1625]]-[[1686]]), archbishop of York : son of William Dolben (d. 1631); educated at Westminster under Dr. Busby: student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1640-8; fought for Charles I at Marston Moor, 1644; captain and major: M.A. by accumulation, 1647; deprived of his studentship, 1648: privately maintained the proscribed church of England service; canon of Christ Church, 1660; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1661: dean of Westminster, 1662-83: maintained the immunity of Westminster Abbey from diocesan control: bishop of Rochester, 1666: suspended at the time of Clarendon's fall, 1667; lord high almoner, 1676: archbishop of York, 1683-6; reformed cathedral discipline.
John Dolben: '''John Dolben''' ([[1662]]-[[1710]]), politician : son of John Dolben (1625-1686); studied at Christ Church, Oxford; barrister of the Temple; spent his fortune; withdrew to the West Indies; M.P., Liskeard, 1707-10; manager of Sacheverell's impeachment, 1709.
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Donaldson: '''Donaldson'''
Dolben: '''Dolben''' Sill JOHN (1 [[684]]-[[1751]]1), divine : son of Sir Gilbert Dolbc-n; canon's student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1702; M.A., 1707; prebendary of Durham, 171s and 1719; rector of Burton Latiuit-r and vicar of Kim-don, 1719; succeeded as baronet, 1722; visitor of Balliol College, Oxford. 17's; suh-dcaii of Qutvn Caroline's cliapi-1; friend of Bishop Atterbury, paying him an annuity when exiled.
William Dolben: '''William Dolben''' (d. 1G31), prebendary of Lincoln, bishop designate; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; rector of Stanwick and lieuefield, 1623; D.D.; prebendary of Lincoln. 1629; said by his great-grandson. Sir John Dolben (1684-1756), to have been nominated bishop of Gloucester.
Dolben: '''Dolben''' Siu WILLIAM (d. [[1694]]), judge; son of William Dolben (d. 1631); barrister of the Inner Temple, 1655; recorder of London and knighted, 1676; serjeant-at-law, 1C77; king's Serjeant and steward of the see of Canterbury; puisne judge of the king's bench, 1678-83, and 1689.
William Dolben: '''William Dolben''' ([[1726]]-[[1814]]), abolitionist ; son of Sir John Dolben; M.P. for Oxford University, 1768-1800.
Charlotte Helen Sainton Dolby: '''Charlotte Helen Sainton Dolby''' - ([[1821]]1885).
William Dolle: '''William Dolle''' (ft. [[1670]]-[[1680]]), engraver; employed by the booksellers in engraving portraits and frontispieces, including portraits of Sir Henry Wotton and Richard Hooker in Izaak Walton's Lives(1670).
George Dollond: '''George Dollond''' ([[1774]]-[[1852]]), optician; partner with his uncle. Peter Dolloud, 1805; invented an improved altazimuth, 1821,u double altitude instrument 1823, and an atmospheric recorder; F.R.S., 1819; F.R.G.S. i; of Huguenot
John Dollond: '''John Dollond''' ([[1706]]-[[1761]]), optician origin: read his Account of some Experiments concern ing the diff erent Refrangibility of Light before the Royal Society (1758); Copley medallist, 1758; inventor of triple objectives, 1767-8; his invention of the achromatic telescope independently made by Chester Moor Hall; invented modern heliometer, 1754; F.R.S. and optician to the king, 1761.
Peter Dollond: '''Peter Dollond''' ([[1730]]-[[1820]]), optician ; eldest son of John Dollond; optician in the Strand, 1750; invented improved triple achromatic object-glasses; improved Hadley's quadrant by a device for bringing the back-observation into use; member of the American Philosophical Society.
Charles Dolman: '''Charles Dolman''' ([[1807]]-[[1863]]), Roman catholic publisher; entered into partnership with his cousin, Thomas Booker, a Roman catholic publisher in London, 1840; set on foot new series of the Catholic Magazine 1838, andDolman's Magazine 1845; noted for the elaborateness of his typography.
Adam of Domerham: '''Adam of Domerham''' (d. after [[1291]]).

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Alfred Domett: '''Alfred Domett''' ([[1811]]-[[1887]]), colonial statesman and poet; entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1829; barrister of the Middle Temple, 1841; emigrated to New Zealand, 1842; friend of Robert Browning, who lamented his departure in Waring 1842; M.P. for Nelson, 1865; prime minister of New Zealand, 1862-3, and registrargeneral of land, 1865; returned to England, 1871; C.M.G., 1880: author of Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea Day Dream 1872,Flotsam and Jetsam 1877, and some official publications.
Sir William Domett: '''Sir William Domett''' ([[1754]]-[[1828]]), admiral ; navy lieutenant, 1777; present in the action off Ushant, 1778, and in the engagement of the Chesapeake, 1781; signal officer at St. Kitta and off Dominica, 1782; sent to England with Sir George Rodney's despatches, 1782; nag captain during the French war of 1793: captain of Baltic fleet, 1801; admiral, 1819; G.C.B., 1820.
De Rosabio Domlnicus: '''De Rosabio Domlnicus''' ([[1595]]-[[1662]]). See DALY,
Daniel: '''Daniel''' or DOMINIC.
Marco Antonio de Domini: '''Domini''' 8, MARCO ANTONIO DK ([[1566]]-[[1624]]), divine ; born in the island of Arbe off Dalmatia; professor of mathematics at Padua, of logic and rhetoric at Brescia; bishop of Segui; archbishop of Spalatro; migrated to England (1616) from annoyance at the pope's imposition of u tax upon the see of Spalatro to be paid to the bishop of Segui; defended his action inCousilium Profeetionis 1616: dean of Windsor and master of the Savoy, 1617; published first part of De Uepublica Ecclesiastic* (1617), maintaining right* of national churches; left England, to the annoyance of James I, 1622; wrote a recantation entitled Concilium Reditus; promised pardon by Pope Gregory XV; imprisoned by the inquisition,
Domvllle: '''Domvllle''' aliat TAYLOR, SILAS ([[1624]]-[[1678]]), antiquary; educated at Westminster and New Inn Hall, Oxford; captain in the parliamentary army, and subsequently sequestrator in Herefordshire; commissary for ammunition under Sir Edward Harley at Dunkirk, 1660; surreptitiously obtained from the library of Worcester Cathedral an original grant of King Edgar, dated 964; publishedThe History of Gavelkind 1663; left in manuscript collections for a history of Herefordshire.
David Don: '''David Don''' ([[1800]]-[[1841]]), botanist; made the acquaintance of Humboldt and Cuvierat Paris, 1821; fellow of the Linnaeau Society; professor of botany, King's College, London, 1836-41; publishedProdromus Florae Nepalensis 1825.
Sir George Don: '''Sir George Don''' ([[1754]]-[[1832]]), general; lieutenant, 51st regiment, 1774; lieutenant-colonel at Gibraltar, 1789; adjutant-general in the Netherlands, 1794; major-general, 1798; commanded the third division at the Helder, 1799; prisoner in France till 1800; second in command of the forces of Scotland, 1804; lieutenant-general, 1803; lieutenant-governor of Jersey, 1806-14; general, 1814; lieutenant-governor of Gibraltar (1814), where he died; G.C.B., 1820; G.C.M.G., 1825.
George Don: '''George Don''' ([[1798]]-[[1856]]), botanist ; collector on behalf of the Royal Horticultural Society in Brazil, the West Indies, and at Sierra Leone, 1821; fellow of the Liunaean Society, 1831; published A General System of Gardening and Botany, founded upon Miller's w Gardener's Dictionary," 1832-8.
Sir William Henry Don: '''Sir William Henry Don''' ([[1825]]-[[1862]]), actor; seventh baronet of Newtondon, 1826; educated at Eton; lieutenant, 5th dragoon guards, 1845; appeared on the stage at New York, 1850, and at the Haymarket, 1857; played, in Australia, female characters in burlesques; died at Hobart Town, Tasmania.
Iv Donald: '''Iv Donald''' , BREAC (the Speckled or Freckled) (d. 643), Celtic king of Scottish Dalriada; fought on the side of Congall Claeu, king of the Cruthnigh (Picts), against Donald, king of Ireland, at the battle of Rath, Ireland, 637; slain in battle at Strathcarron by Owen, king of the Strathclyde Britons.
Donald: '''Donald''' V, MACALPIN (d. [[864]]), king of Alban, the united kingdom of the Scots and Rets; established the rights and laws of Aedh, a Dalriad king of the eighth century, at Forteviot; according to one account was killed at Scone, 864.
Vi Donald: '''Vi Donald''' (d. [[900]]), king of Celtic Scotland ; son of Constantine I; made peace with the Danish chiefs, Ronald and Sitric: di&i, worn out by his exertions in reducing the highland robber tribes.
Adam Donald: '''Adam Donald''' ([[1703]]-[[1780]]), called 'the prophet of Bethelnie; necromancer and quack physician,
James Donaldson: '''James Donaldson''' (ft. [[1713]]), Scottish miscellaneous writer: left farm to serve in regiment of Earl of Angus; disbanded, 1690; published Husbandry Anatomized 1697-8, Money encreas'd and Credit rais'd 1706, and other efforts in political economy and verse- writing.
James Donaldson: '''James Donaldson''' (yr. [[1794]]), writer on agriculture; land surveyor at Dundee; drew up county surveys for the board of agriculture; published Modern Agriculture 1795-6.
James Donaldson: '''James Donaldson''' ([[1751]]-[[1830]]), founder of Donaldson's Hospital, Edinburgh; proprietor and editor of the 'Edinburgh Advertiserafter 1764; left 220.000. for the maintenance and education of three hundred poor children.
John Donaldson: '''John Donaldson''' (d. [[1865]]), professor of music ; called to the Scottish bar, 1826; Reid professor of music, Edinburgh, 1845-65; investigated acoustic problems.
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Donne: '''Donne'''
John Donaldson: '''John Donaldson''' ([[1799]]-[[1876]]), author of ' Agricnltural Biography,* 1854, and other works on agricultural subjects.
John William Donaldson: '''John William Donaldson''' ([[1811]]-[[1861]]), philologist; brother of Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson; sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1831; second in classical tripos, 1834; fellow and tutor of Trinity: published New Oratylus practically starting the science of comparative philology in England, 1839; D.D.; headmaster of King Edward's School, Bury St. Edmunds, 1841-55; published Varronianus advancing theory of the Gothic affinities of the Etruscans, 1844; resigned head-mastership, 1855; classical examiner to the university of London: completed K. O. Muller'sHistory of Greek Literature 1858; the main author of the Theatre of the Greeks; edited Pindar's Epinician Odes and the 'Antigoneof Sophocles; publishedJashar(1854), to prove that a book of Jashar constitutedthe religious marrow of the scriptures
Joseph Donaldson: '''Joseph Donaldson''' ([[1794]]-[[1830]]), author of ' Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier; fdught in Peninsular war, 1811-14; discharged as sergeant, 1815; enlisted in the East India Company's service; head-clerk in the Glasgow district staff-office; surgeon at Obau, 1827..
Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson: '''Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson''' ([[1812]]1867), Australian statesman; brother of John William Donaldson; magistrate of New South Wales, 1838: realised a fortune hi wool and sperm oil; was member of the council of New South Wales, 1848-69; first minister and colonial secretary in accordance with the New Constitution Act, 1856; finance minister, 1856-57; returned to England, 1859; knighted, 1860.
Thomas Leverton Donaldson: '''Thomas Leverton Donaldson''' ([[1795]]-[[1885]]), architect and author; in merchant's office at Cape of Good Hope, 1809; silver medallist of the Royal Academy, 1817; visited Greece, Italy, and Asia Minor, studying ancient buildings; president of the Institute of Architects, 1864; member of the Institut de France: emeritus professor of architecture at University College, London, 1841-64; designed various London churches and mansions. His works include, Handbook of Specifications 1859, and * Architecture Numismatica 1859.

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Walter Donaldson: '''Walter Donaldson''' (fl. [[1620]]), philosophical writer; attached to embassy sent by James VI of Scotland to Denmark, 1594; LL.D. Heidelberg; principal of the protestant college of Sedan; published a survey of Greek philosophy in the form of extracts from Diogenes Laertius, 1612, and Synopsis OSconomica 1620.
Donat: '''Donat''' ([[1038]]-[[1074]]).
Saint Donattts: '''Saint Donattts''' (fi. [[829]]-[[876]]), bishop of Fiesole ; of Irish birth; wandered about Europe visiting sacred places; appointed bishop of Fiesole as one divinely sent, e. 829; obtained new charter for church of Fiesole from the Emperor Louis, son of Lothair, 866; his day, 22 Oct.
Doncaster: '''Doncaster''' first VIBCOUNT (d. [[1636]]). See HAT,
James: '''James'''
Donegal: '''Donegal''' first EARL OF ([[1606]]-[[1675]]). See OHICHKS- I
Arthur Ter: '''Arthur Ter''' .
Nehemias Donellan: '''Nehemias Donellan''' (d. [[1609]] ?X archbishop of Tuam; sizar of King's College, Cambridge, 1580; B.A. ! Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1582; archbishop of Tuam, 1595-1609; continued Walsh and Kearney's translation of New Testament into Irish.
Bryan Donkin: '''Bryan Donkin''' ([[1768]]-[[1855]]), civil engineer and inventor; erected paper-making machine at Froginore, Kent, 1804; invented polygonal printing-machine, 1813, and composition printing-roller; devised process of tinning meat and vegetables, 1812; F.R.S., 1838; M.R.A.S.; gold medallist of Society of Arts for invention of counting-engine and a machine for registering velocities of rotation.
Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin: '''Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin''' ([[1773]]-[[1841]]), general ; educated at Westminster School; lieutenant, 44th foot, 1793; major, 1795; served at St. Lucia, 1796; commanded brigade at Talavera, 1809; major-general, 1811; served in Mahratta war, 1817-18: K.O.B., 1818; acting-governor, Cape of Good Hope, 1820; founded Port Elizabeth; lieu tenant-general, 1821; F.R.S. and F.R.G.S.; M.P., Berwick, 1832 and 1835, and subsequently for Sandwich; surveyor-general of the ordnance, 1835; colonel, llth foot, 1837; general, 1838; author of A Dissertation on the Course and Probable Termination of the Niger 1829, and some unpublished tractates.
William Fishburn Donkin: '''William Fishburn Donkin''' ([[1814]]-[[1869]]), astronomer; entered St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1832; double first-class, 1836; Johnson mathematical scholar, 1837: M.A., 1839; fellow of University College; Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford, 1H42-69; F.R.S. and F.R.A.S.; contributed to learned periodicals; a fragment of his projected work on acoustics published, 1870.
Andrew Donlevy: '''Andrew Donlevy''' ([[1694]] ?-[[1761]] ?), Irish ecclesiastic; prefect in the Irish college at Paris; licentiate of laws, Paris University; D.D.; published The Catechism, or Christian Doctrine 1742, extant in Irish and English, with an appendix on The Elements of the Irish Language
Donn: '''Donn''' or DONNE, BENJAMIN ([[1729]]-[[1798]]), mathematician; started mathematical academy at Bristol; master of mechanics to the king; published maps of South-western England, charts of the western ocean, and works on mathematics and book-keeping,
James Donn: '''James Donn''' ([[1758]]-[[1813]]), botanist ; curator of the Cambridge Botanic Garden, 1790-1813; fellow of the Linnean Society; best known as having named Claytonia perfoliata.
Donne: '''Donne''' or DUNN, SIR DANIEL (d. [[1617]]), civilian ; educated at All SoulsCollege, Oxford; D.O.L., 1580; principal of New Inn, 1580; dean of arches and master of requests, 1598; member of commission for suppression of English piracy, 1601; appointed Whitgift's vicar-general; master in chancery; commissioner for proposed fisheries treaty with Denmark, 1602; knighted; M.P. for Oxford, 1604 and 1614; a recognised authority on marriage-law.
Donne: '''Donne''' or DUNNE, GABRIEL (d. [[1558]]), Cistercian monk; member of St. Bernard's College, Oxford, and M.A.; planned the arrest of William Tyndale at Antwerp, 1535; abbot of Buckfastleigh, Devonshire, which he surrendered to Henry VIII in 1539: keeper of the spiritualities of St. Paul's, 1549; benefactor of Trinity Hall, Cambridge,
John Donne: '''John Donne''' ([[1573]]-[[1631]]), poet and divine ; brought up by his mother in the Roman catholic religion; entered Hart Hall, Oxford, at an early age to avoid the necessity of taking the oath of supreniacy, 1584; friend of Sir Henry Wotton and Henry Fitzsimon; admitted at Lincoln's Inn, 1592; sailed in Essex's expedition to Cadiz, 1596; secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, keeper of the great seal, 1596; dismissed hi consequence of an imprudent marriage, 1601; strongly urged by Thomas Morton (1564-1659), one of the king's chaplains, whom he bad assisted in writing an Apologia Christiana to take orders and accept the living of Long Mars ton in Yorkshire; refused, for religious reasons, 1607: produced the * Pseudo-Martyr in answer to Bellarmine's justification of the popish recusants, 1610; M.A. Oxford, by decree of convocation, 1610; wrote An Anatomy of the World an elegy on the death of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Drury, 1611; wrote a funeral elegy on Prince Henry, 1612; published an Epithalamium on the marriage of the count palatine and the Princess Elizabeth, 1013; wrote Essayes in Divinity (published 1661) about this time; admitted a conditional right of suicide in Biathanatos(printed 1644); ordained, 1615; chaplain to James I, 1615; D.D. Cambridge; rector of Keyston, Huntingdonshire, and Sevenoaks, Kent, 1616; divinity reader at Lincoln's Inn, preaching sermons which rank among the best of the seventeenth century, 1616; preached at Heidelberg before the Princess Elizabeth, 1619; dean of St. Paul's, 1621-31; prolocutor of convocation, 1623 and 1624; frequently preached before Charles I. Collections of his Poems by J. D appeared hi 1633 and 1649, and Lettersby him in 1661. He was one of themetaphysical* poets of the seventeenth century.
John Donne: '''John Donne''' , the younger ([[1604]]-[[1662]]), miscellaneous writer; son of John Donne (1573-1631); educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford; tried for the manslaughter of a child eight years old, but
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Dornford: '''Dornford''' acquittal, 1633; doctor of laws, Padua: incorporated at Oxford, 1(138; held various livings; author of Donnes Sutyr a ribald production, 1M1-2.
William Bodham Donne: '''William Bodham Donne''' ( [[1807]]- [[1882]]), examiner of plays; studied at Caiu* College, Cambridge: librarian of the London Library, 1852-7; examiner of plays in the lord chamberlain's office, 1867-74; published Old Roads and New Road?, 1 1852, andEssays upon the Drama 1858.
James Donnegan: '''James Donnegan''' (l. [[1841]]), lexicographer ; graduate in medicine of a foreign university; medical practitioner in London, 1820-35; published A New Greek and English Lexicon 1826.
Sir Ross Donnelly: '''Sir Ross Donnelly''' ([[1761]] 7-[[1840]]), admiral ; lieutenant, 1781: commander, 1794: captain, 1795; served successively in Mediterranean, 1801-5, at Cape of Good Hope, 1805, Buenos Ayres, at capture of Monte Video, and Cadiz, 1808; rear-admiral, 1814; admiral, 1838; K.C.B., 1837.
Earls of Donoughmore: '''Earls of Donoughmore''' . See HKLY-HUTCHIN-
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John Son: '''John Son''' , second EARL, [[1757]]-[[1832]] ; HELY-HUTCHINSON,
John: '''John''' third EARL, [[1787]]-[[1851]].
Edward Donovan: '''Edward Donovan''' ([[1768]]-[[1837]]), naturalist and author; founded London Museum and Institute of Natural History, 1807: published works of natural history, illustrated with drawings by himself, includingThe Nests and Eggs of British Birds and General Illustrations of Entomology 1805.
Samuel Doody: '''Samuel Doody''' ([[1656]]-[[1706]]), botanist; apothecary, 1696: assisted Ray in the * Historia Plantarum; F.R.S.; curator of the ApothecariesGarden, Chelsea, 1693-1706; specialist on cryptogams.
Thomas Doolittle: '''Thomas Doolittle''' ([[1632]] ?-[[1707]]), nonconformist tutor; M.A. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; pastor of St. Alphage, London Wall, 1653; ejected, 1662; opened boarding-school at Moorfields; licensed by the indulgence of 1672 to a meeting-house in Mugwell Street; his academy ruined by its enforced removal from place to place, 1687; published theological treatises, including his catechetical lectures as A Complete Body of Practical Divinity 1723.
Anthony Dopping: '''Anthony Dopping''' ([[1643]]-[[1697]]), bishop successively of Kildare and Meath: fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1662; M.A., 1662; D.D., 1672: chaplain to the Duke of Ormonde: bishop of Kildare, 1679; privy councillor and bishop of Meath by letters patent, 1682; suggested to William III the proclamation of a fast during the struggle with James II; published orations, theological treatises, and political pamphlets.
John Doran: '''John Doran''' ([[1807]]-[[1878]]), miscellaneous writer ; of Irish parentage; author of Justice, or the Venetian Jew a melodrama, 1824: doctor of philosophy, Marburg; literary editor of the Church and State Gazette 18411852; editor of theAthenaeum 1869-70; published 'The Queens of the House of Hanover 1855,Knights and their Days 1856, and an historical account of the English stage, entitled Their MajestiesServants 1860.
Marquises of Dorchester: '''Marquises of Dorchester''' . See PIERREPONT,
Henry: '''Henry''' [[1606]]-[[1680]]: PIERRKPONT, EVELYN, first marquis of the second creation, 1666 7-1726.
Countess of Dorchester: '''Countess of Dorchester''' ([[1657]]-[[1717]]). See
Catharine Sedley: '''Catharine Sedley''' .
Viscount Dorchester: '''Viscount Dorchester''' ([[1573]]-[[1632]]). See CARLE-
Sir Dudley Ton: '''Sir Dudley Ton''' .
Dorchester: '''Dorchester''' first BARON ([[1724]]-[[1808]]). See CARLE-
Guy Ton: '''Guy Ton''' .
Sir Nicholas Dorigny: '''Sir Nicholas Dorigny''' ([[1658]]-[[1746]]), painter and engraver: born at Paris; studied painting and etching at Rome; engraver of pictures of the various Italian schools; invited to engrave Raphael's tapestries in the Vatican; came to England to study some of the original cartoons, 1711; presented two complete sets of engravings after Raphael to George 1, 1719; knighted, 1720; member of the French Academy, 1725; exhibited paintings at the Salon exhibitions, 1739-1743; died at Paris,
Joseph Alexander Dorin: '''Joseph Alexander Dorin''' ([[1808]]-[[1872]]), Indian official; nominated to Jk-ntfal branch of East India Company's service; assistant to the accountant-general, 1K21; deputy accountant-general; entrusted by Lord Ellenborough with re-organisation of Indian finance, 1842; financial secretary, 1843; member of Lord Dalhousie's council, 1853; advocated annexation of Oude, when president of council; assailed in the Red Pamphlet as a member of Lord Canning's government at the time of the Indian mutiny, 1857.
Dorion: '''Dorion''' 8m ANTOINE AIMK ([[1818]]-[[1891]]), Canadian judge: born in Canada; advocate, 1843: Q.O., 1868: joined party founded by Louis Joseph Papineau; member for Montreal, 1854-61, and Hochelaga, 1862: provincial secretary, 1862; attorney-general east and leader of French-Canadian liberals, 1863-64: member for Napierville, 1872; minister of justice and privy councillor, 1873: chief-justice of court of queen's bench, Quebec, 1874; knighted, 1877.
Isaac Dorislatts: '''Isaac Dorislatts''' ([[1595]]-[[1649]]), diplomatist, born at Alkmaar, Holland; LL.D. Leyden: Grenville lecturer on history, Cambridge, 1627: practically compelled to resign for defending the Dutch resistance to Spain, 1627; member of the College of Advocates, 1645; friend of Wotton and Selden; judge of the admiralty court, 1648; prepared the charge of high treason against Charles I, 1648; assassinated, when envoy to the States-General, by royalists at the Hague.
Isaac Dorislatts: '''Isaac Dorislatts''' , the younger (d. [[1688]]), manager of the post office, 1660; son of Isaac Dorislaus (15951649); entered Merchant TaylorsSchool, 1639; translator and interpreter to Thurloe; accompanied embassy to Holland, 1651; solicitor to the court of admiralty, 1653; F.R.S., 1681.
Thomas Dorman: '''Thomas Dorman''' (d. [[1577]]7), Roman catholic divine: educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; gave up a prospective fellowship for religious reasons; fellow of All SoulsCollege, 1564; B.O.L., 1558: B.D. Douay, 1565; D.D.; died in possession of a benefice at Tournay; published controversial works,
James Dormer: '''James Dormer''' ([[1679]]-[[1741]]), lieutenant-general; lieutenant and captain, 1st foot guards, 1700; wounded at Blenheim, 1704; levied the present 14th hussars, 1715; colonel of the 6th foot, 1720: envoy extraordinary at Lisbon, c. 1728; lieutenant-general and colonel, 1st troop of horse-grenadier guards, 1737; governor of Hull, 1740.
Jane Dormer: '''Jane Dormer''' , DUCHESS OF FKRIA ([[1538]]-[[1612]]), companion of Queen Mary; second daughter of SirWilliam Dormer; married in 1558 Don Gomez Suarez de Figueroa, count of Feria, who came to England with Philip U: joined her husband in Flanders, 1569; promoted papal i interests; took the habit of the third order of St. Francix and founded a monastery near Villalva.
John Dormer: '''John Dormer''' ([[1636]]-[[1700]]), Jesuit : his real name
Huddleston: '''Huddleston''' ; professed Jesuit father, [[1673]] ; preacher to James II; rector of the college of Liege, 1688-91: died at Liege; defended the taking of interest inUsury Explain'd 1696.

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John Dormer: '''John Dormer''' ([[1734]] 7-[[1796]]), officer in the Austrian army; first rittmeister in the Kleinhold cuirassier regiment, 1763; transferred to Serbelloni's cuirassier regiment, 1768; major, 1782; died at Grau.
Robert Dormer: '''Robert Dormer''' , EARL OF CARNARVON (d. [[1643]]), royalist; created Viscount Asaot and Earl of Carnarvon, 1628; commanded a regiment in the second Scottish war, 1641; fought for Charles I at Edgehill, 1642; took part in capture of Cirencester, 1643; advised Lord Wilmot to concentrate his forces against Haselrig's cuirassiers at Roundway Down, 1643: effected submission of Dorset, 1643; fell at the first battle of Newbury, 1641.
Sir Robert Dormer: '''Sir Robert Dormer''' ([[1649]]-[[1726]]), judge ; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1675; chancellor of Durham; M.P., Ayleibury, 1699: M.P. for Buckinghamshire, 1701, for Northallerton, 1702, and for Buckinghamshire again; justice of common pleas, 1706.
Joseph Dornford: '''Joseph Dornford''' ([[1794]]-[[1868]]), divine; halfbrother of Josiah Dornford; served as a volunteer in the Peninsular war, 1811; B.A. Wadham College,
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Douglas: '''Douglas''' Oxford, 1816; Michel fellow of Queen's College. Oxford, 1817; fellow of Oriel, 1819: M.A., 1820: de:m and proctor of Oriel: rector of Plymtree, Devonshire, 1832; prebendary of Exeter, 1844; published sermons,
Josiah Dornford: '''Josiah Dornford''' ([[1764]]-[[1797]]), miscellaneous writer; M. A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1792: LL.D. Gottingen; barrister, Lincoln's Inn; inspector-general of the army accounts in the Leeward islands, 1795: died at Martinique; translated Putter's Historical Developement of the Present Political Constitution of the Germanic Empire 1790, and publishedThe Motives and Consequences of the Present War impartially considered 1793.
William Dorrell: '''William Dorrell''' ([[1651]]-[[1721]]). See DARRKLL,
William: '''William'''
Dorru: '''Dorru''' fGTON, THEOPHILUS (d. [[1715]]), controversialist; studied medicine at Leyden, 1680; published an account of his travels (1698) in Holland and Germany; rector of Wittersham, Kent, 1698-1716; M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1710: translated PuffendorfsDivine Feudal Law 1703, and wrote against the tenets of the dissenters. D'ORSAY, ALFRED GUILLAUME GABRIEL, COUNT (1801-1852), artist; served in the Bourbonsbodyguard, though of imperialist sympathies; visited England at the coronation of George IV, 1821; mentioned by Byron as an ideal Frenchman of the ancien regime; joined the Countess of Blessington in establishing a fashionable coterie in London, 1831: painted the last portrait of the Duke of Wellington; left London in consequence of pecuniary embarrassments, 1849; appointed director of the fine arts by Prince Louis Napoleon, 1852, shortly before his death.
Dukes of Dorset: '''Dukes of Dorset''' . See SACKVILLE, LIONEL ORAN-
Pikld: '''Pikld''' first DUKE, [[1688]]-[[1766]] : SACKVILLK, CHARLES, second DUKE, 1711-1769; SACKVILLK, JOHN FREDERICK, third DUKE, 1745-1799.
Marquises of Dorset: '''Marquises of Dorset''' . See GREY, THOMAS, first
Marquis: '''Marquis''' [[1451]]-[[1501]] ; GREY, THOMAS, second MARQUIS, 1477-1630; GREY, HBNRY, third MARQUIS, d. 1554.
Earls of Dorset: '''Earls of Dorset''' . See BEAUFORT, SIR THOMAS, first EARL of the second creation, d. 1427; BEAUFORT, EDMUND, first EARL of the third creation, d. 1455; SACKVILLK, THOMAS, first EAHL of the fourth creation, 15361608; SACKVILLK, ROBKRT, second EARL, 1561-1609; SACKVILLK, EDWARD, fourth EARL, 1591-1652; SACKVILLK, CHARLKS, sixth EARL, 1638-1706; SACKVILLE, RICHARD, fifth EARL, 1622-1677.
Countess of Dorset: '''Countess of Dorset''' ([[1590]]-[[1676]]). See CLIFFORD,
Anne: '''Anne'''
St Dorset: '''St Dorset''' . JOHN (pseudonym) ([[1802]]-[[1827]]). See
Hugo John Belfour: '''Hugo John Belfour''' .
Catherine Ann Dorset: '''Catherine Ann Dorset''' ([[1750]] ?-[[1817]] ?) poetess ; nie Turner; married, c. 1770, Captain Michael Dorset; author of The Peacock " at Home," a poem for children, 1807, and probably of The Lion's Masquerade a poem, 1807.
Edward Doubleday: '''Edward Doubleday''' ([[1811]]-[[1849]]), quakcr entomologist; brother of Henry Doubleday; published papers occasioned by an entomological expedition ( 1835) to the United States; assistant in the BritishMuseum, 18391849; secretary of the Entomological Society; commenced 'Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera 1846.
Henry Doubleday: '''Henry Doubleday''' ([[1808]]-[[1875]]), quaker naturalist; introduced practice* of capturing moths at sallowblossoms and sugaring; published A Nomenclature of British Birds 1838; member of the Entomological Society of London, 1833; attempted to establish a uniform system of entomological nomenclature by hisSynonymic List of British Lepidoptera 1847-50.
Thomas Doubleday: '''Thomas Doubleday''' ([[1790]]-[[1870]]), poet, dramatist, radical politician, and political economist; agitated for reform, 1832; secretary to the northern political union; joined in presenting address to Karl Grey pointing out deficiencies in the newly passed reform bill, 1832; published Essay on Mundane Moral Government 1832, The True Law of Population shown to be connected with the Food of the People 1842, The Eve of 8k Mark (poem), and drama; and other works.
Francip Dotjce: '''Francip Dotjce''' ([[1757]]-[[183]]-0. antiqn:ir : at one time keeper of the manuscripts in the British Museum: published Illustrations of Shakespeare 1807; assisted Scott in the preparation of * Sir Tristram; edited 'Arnold's Chronicle 1811; editedThe Recreative Review 1821-3; published with a dissertationThe Dance of Death,* 1833: bequeathed his manuscripts, prints, and coins to the Bodleian Library, and his unpublished essays to the British Museum.
David Alfred Doudney: '''David Alfred Doudney''' ([[1811]]-[[1894]]), educational pioneer; entered printing firm in London, 1832, and started business independently, 18:!5; editor and proprietor ofGospel Magazine 1840; ordained priest, 1847; vicar of Kilrush and curate of Monksland, co. Waterford, 1847-59; established industrial schools at Bunmahon and, later, at Bedminster, where he was perpetual curate of St. Luke's, 1859 till death; published religious works.

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All Doug: '''All Doug''' , JOHN ([[1760]]-[[1822]]), miscellaneous writer ; studied at Edinburgh University; private secretary to General Melville; chief works, The Modern Preceptor 1810, and The Cabinet of Arts 1821.
Neil Dougall: '''Neil Dougall''' ([[1776]]-[[1862]]), Scottish poet and musical composer; served on board a government privateer, and was accidentally wounded by a shot during the rejoicings at Lord Howe's victory, 1794; composed psalm and hymn tunes; published Poems and Songs 1854.
John Dougharty: '''John Dougharty''' ([[1677]]-[[1765]]), mathematician ; of Irish extraction; published Mathematical Digests and aGeneral Gauger 1750.
Doughtie: '''Doughtie''' or DOUGHTY, JOHN ([[1598]]-[[1672]]), divine; B.A., and fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1619: M.A., 1622; joined the cavalier forces; D.D., and prebendary of Westminster Abbey, 1660; rector of Oheam, 1662.
William Doughty: '''William Doughty''' (d. [[1782]]), portrait-painter and mezzotint engraver; pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds: painted a portrait of the poet Gray from description and profile outline; excelled in mezzotint engraving; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1779; captured by a French squadron while on the way with his wife to India; died at Lisbon.
Sir Alexander Douglas: '''Sir Alexander Douglas''' ([[1738]]-[[1812]]), physician ; son of Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie; M.D. St. Andrews, 1760; L.R.O.P., 1796; physician to the king's forces in Scotland.
Alexander Hamilton Douglas: '''Alexander Hamilton Douglas''' , tenth DUKE OF HAMILTON (1767-1852), premier peer in the peerage of Scotland; colonel of Lanarkshire militia and lord-lieutenant of the county, 1801; M.P. for Lancaster, 1803; privy councillor and ambassador to St. Petersburg, 1806; succeeded as Duke of Hamilton, 1819; E.G., 1836; F.R.S. and F.S.A.; claimed to be the true heir to the throne of Scotland.
Andrew Douglas: '''Andrew Douglas''' (d. [[1725]]), navy captain; helped to burst the boom at the siege of Londonderry, 1689; commander of the Norwich, 1701; cashiered, on the charge of having used his commission for private ends at Port Royal, 1704; reinstated, 1709.
Andrew Douglas: '''Andrew Douglas''' ([[1736]]-[[1806]]), physician ; educated at Edinburgh University: surgeon in the navy, 1756-75; M.D.Edinburgh, 1775; L.R.C.P., 177G; published works on uterine surgery.
Sir Archibald Douglas: '''Sir Archibald Douglas''' ([[1296]]7-[[1333]]), regent of Scotland; youngest son of Sir William of Douglas, the Hardy: Scottish leader during the minority of David II; defeated Edward de Baliol, the newly crowned king, at Annan, 1332: regent, 1333; defeated and slain at -Halidon, 1333.
Archibald Douglas: '''Archibald Douglas''' , third EARL OF DOUGLAS, called THE GRIM (1328 ?-1400 ?), natural son of the Good Sir James Douglas (1286 7-1330); knighted during a period of detention in England; constable of Edinburgh, 1361; warden of the western marches, 1364 and 1368; ambassador from David II to the French court, 1369; renewed the Frencli alliance by the treaty of Vincennes, 1371; lord of Galloway by the purchase of land, 1372; established and rigorously administered the feudal regime
Douglas: '''Douglas'''
Douglas: '''Douglas''' in Galloway; succeeded as Earl of Douglas, 1386; nicknamed theBlack Douglas invaded England, 1389; worked towards including Scotland in the peace between Kiijlaud nnd France, 1389 and 1391; codified the laws of the marches.
Archibald Douglas: '''Archibald Douglas''' , fourth KARL OF DOUGLAS, first DUKK OK TouiiAiNK(136'J ?-l 424), calledTVNEMAX sou of Archibaldthe Grim(1328?-1400?); married Margaret, daughter of Kobert III, 1390; keeper of Edinburgh Castle, 1400; warden of the marches; allied himself with the Duke of Albany, then forming designs upon the throne of Scotland, 1402; probably implicated in murder of Rothesay; defeated and taken prisoner at Milfield, Northumberland, by the Earl of March and Hotspur, 1402; fought on the side of Hotspur at Shrewsbury, 1403, when he was again made prisoner; ransomed, 1408; concluded a treaty with Jean Sans Peur, duke of Burgundy, at Paris, 1412; unsuccessfully besieged Roxburgh, 1417; conciliated by Henry V in 1421; led Scottish contingent to the help of Charles VIII, regent of France, 1423; rewarded by a lieutenant-generalship and the duchy of Touraine; canon of the cathedral of Tours; defeated by the Duke of Bedford at Yerneuil and slain: buried at Tours.
Archibald Douglas: '''Archibald Douglas''' , fifth EARL OP DOUGLAS and second DUKE OF TOURAIXK (1391 ?-1439), son of Archibald, fourth earl; fought for Charles VI against the English at Beauge, 1421; conducted James I home from his English captivity: arrested by James I for disaffection; released, but (1431) again kept in custody for a short time; member of the council of regency, 1437; lieutenant-general of the kingdom, 1438-9.
Archibald Douglas: '''Archibald Douglas''' , fifth EARL OF ANGUS,
Great Earl Tub: '''Great Earl Tub''' ' (Bell-the-Oat) ([[1449]] ?-[[1514]]), sou of George Douglas, fourth earl; warden of the east marches, 1481; took part in the alliance which the Scottish nobles formed with Edward IV declared to his confederates that he wouldbell the cat i.e. kill Robert Cochrane, Earl of Mar, the hated favourite of James III; followed up his words by leading an attack on Cochrane, after whose execution the king was made prisoner; shared in Albany's intrigues with Edward IV, which he renounced in 1483; intrigued with Henry VII, 1491; received into favour by James IV, 1493; chancellor, 1493-8; tried to dissuade James IV from fighting at a disadvantage at Flodden, 1513; died at Whithorn Priory, Wigtownshire, while engaged iu his duties of justiciar.
Sib Archibald Douglas: '''Sib Archibald Douglas''' ([[1480]] ?-[[1640]] ?), of Kilspiudie; high treasurer of Scotland; son of Archibald Douglas, fifth earl of Angus; provost of Edinburgh, 1519 and 1526-8; member of the privy council of Scotland; searcher-principal for preventing the export of bullion; lord high treasurer, 1526; outlawed in consequence of a change in the government of Scotland; fled to. the court of Henry VIII; returned to Scotland, 1584, to ask forgiveness from James V, who sent bun to France, where he died in exile.
Archibald Douglas: '''Archibald Douglas''' , sixth EARL OF Ax;rs (14897-1557), grandson of Archibald Douglas, fifth earl q. v.1: privately married in 1514 to the queen-dowager, Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII's sister, whom the privy council declared to have forfeited the regency in consequence: deprived Beaton, archbishop of Glasgow, of the great seal for his influence over the privy council; joined Argyll iu declaring the Duke of Albany protector, 1515; required by Albany to give up the possession of the young king James V, Margaret's son, a demand which the queen resented, though her husband temporised; withdrew to Forfarshire, while Margaret was besiegal in Stirling, 1515; appointed member of council of regency by Albany, theu just leaving for France; contested the supreme power with the Earl of Arran, whom Maria rot favoured; defeated Arran in the streets of Edinburgh, 1520: sent into exile in France on the return of the Duke of Albany, 1520; escaped to the court of Henry VIII, 1524; returned to Scotland, where Margaret had obtained the recognition of her son, a boy of twelve, as King James V, 1524; ordered by Margaret to leave Edinburgh, 1524: trusting to support of Henry VIII and Scottish nobles, demanded that Margaret should give up the custody of her son: liculuiant of the east and middle marches, 1626; guardian of Margaret's son, James V, in turn with the Earl of Arran and some other nobles, but refused to hand over the custody of him at the end of his allotted time; declared the king's majority, 1526: chancellor, 1526; maintained his hold over the young king against the will of the latter, who was an accomplice in most of the attempts to rescue him from Angus's custody; defeated and slew his rival, Lennox; a divorce from him obtained by Margaret, 1528; was ordered to live north of the Spey, but disobeyed, 1528; forfeited for high treason, 1528: his pardon demanded by Henry VIII, but not granted; lived in England till 1542; returned to Scotland on the death of James V, a ruthless enemy of the Douglas family; privy councillor, 1543; lieutenant-general, 1543; entered into hostilities with the regent Arran, but subsequently made compact with him to resist the English; lieutenant of Scotland south of the Forth, 1544; commanded the van at Pinkie, 1547; repelled Lonl Whartou's invasion, 1548; recognised, though with some show of ill-humour, the regency of the queeudowager, Mary of Guise, 1554.
Archibald Douglas: '''Archibald Douglas''' (. [[1565]]-[[1686]]), parson of Glasgow; extraordinary lord of session, 1565; fled to France after murder of Rizzio, favourite of Mary Queen of Scots, in which he was implicated, 1566; lord of session, 1568; made parson of Glasgow after some objections from the kirk, 1572; imprisoned in Stirling Castle for sending money to the party of Mary Queen of Scots, 1572; accused before the council of being concerned in Darnley's murder, 1580; fled to England; degraded from the bench and forfeited, 1581; pardoned for all acts of treason, and acquitted of the murder of Daruley by a packed jury, 1586; ambassador to Queen Elizabeth and witness against Queen Mary.
Archibald Douglas: '''Archibald Douglas''' , eighth EARL OF ANGUS (1555-1588), nephew of James Douglas, fourth earl of Morton; supported the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to Darnley, in return for her confirmation of the charter granted by James V to the sixth earl; studied at St. Andrews; member of the privy council, 1573; lieutenant-general south of the Forth, 1674; warden of west marches, 1577; adhered to the Earl of Morton, his uncle and guardian, when removed from the regency, 1578; lieutenant-general of the king, on Morton's return to power; planned an invasion of Scotland with Randolph, the English envoy, but was detected and fled to England; friend of Sir Philip Sidney; pardoned by the influence of the Earls of Mar and Gowrie, 1582; attainted for his share in their unsuccessful insurrection, 1584; his removal to Cambridge suggested by the Earl of Arran, with the consent of Elizabeth, 1585; took Stirling town and castle in pursuance of a plot formed in exile against Arrau, 1585; lieutenant-general, 1586; his death, the result of consumption, attributed to sorcery, 1588.
Archibald Douglas: '''Archibald Douglas''' , EARL OF ORMOND and
Angus Loku: '''Angus Loku''' ([[1609]]-[[1655]]), eldest son of William, eleventh earl of Angus; member of the privy council of Scotland, 1636; vacillated hi his opinions on the new i service-book, originally (1636) approving its use; extraj ordinary lord of session, 1631; signed the covenant, but was unwilling to take up arms in its defence; commissioner for the covenanters in England, 1643; colonel of Douglas regiment in France, 1646; member of committee of estates, 1650; created Earl of Ormond, 1651; fined 1,000. by Cromwell's act of grace, 1664.
Archibald Douglas: '''Archibald Douglas''' (d. [[1667]]), captain ; refused to retire before De Kuyter's fleet in the Medway, and perished in the burning of his ship, the Royal Oak.
Archibald Douglas: '''Archibald Douglas''' , first EARL OK FOUFAR (1653-1712), son of Archibald, earl of Ormond; created Earl of Forfar, 1661; sat in parliament, 1670; took important part in invitation to Prince of Orange, 1688; lord of the Scots treasury; built the modern Bothwell Castle.

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Archibald Douglas: '''Archibald Douglas''' , second EARL OF FORFAR (1693-1715), son of Archibald Douglas, first earl; colonel of the 10th regiment of infantry, 1713; envoy extraordinary to Prussia, 1714; killed on the king's side at Sheriff muir, 1715.
Archibald Douglas: '''Archibald Douglas''' , third MARQUIS and first
of Douglas Duke: '''of Douglas Duke''' ([[1694]]-[[1761]]), son of James, second A A
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Douglas: '''Douglas''' mrmjuis of Douglas: Duke of Douglas by patent, 1 7ii.": raided mrimriit for the king and fought nt slicrilTniuir, 171ft; actively resented the secret marriage of his sister, Lady Jane Douglas, but, on investigating the circumstances of the case after her death, settled his estates on her son, Archibald James Edward
Douglas: '''Douglas''' (formerly STKWART), ARCHIBALD .1 A M KS EDWARD, ftrst BARON DOUGLAS OF DOUGLAS (1748-1827); claimant in the great Douglas lawsuit; son of Lady Jane Douglas; educated at Rugby and Westminster: his right to the Douglas estates assailed by the Duke of Hamilton, heir male of the family, on the ground that he was not a real son of Colonel Stewart and Lady Jane Douglas; the estates confirmed to him by the House of Lords on appeal from the court of session, 1769; lord-lieutenant and M.P. for Forfarshire; created Baron Douglas of Douglas, 1790.
Douglas: '''Douglas''' Miss ARCHIBALD RAMSAY ([[1807]]1886), miniature-painter; daughter of William Douglas (1780-1832); exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1834, 1836, and 1841.
Brice Dk Douglas: '''Brice Dk Douglas''' (rf. [[1222]]).
Catherine Douglas: '''Catherine Douglas''' , DUOHKSS OF QT-KKNS-
Berry: '''Berry''' (rf. [[1777]]), an eccentric woman of fashion ; second daughter of Henry Hyde, earl of Clarendon and Rochester; wife of Charles Douglas, third duke of Queensberry; correspondent of Swift and friend of Congreve, Thomson, Pope, Prior, and Whitehead.
Charles Douglas: '''Charles Douglas''' , third DUKE OF QCEKNSBKRRY and second DUKK OF DOVKR (1698-1778). son of James Douglas, second duke of Queensberry and first duke of Dover; privy councillor and vice-admiral of Scotland; took up the cause of Gay, when a license for his opera Polly was refused, 1728: quarrelled with George II and resigned his appointments, 1728; keeper of the great seal of Scotland, 1760; lord justice-general, 1763-78.
Sir Charles Douglas: '''Sir Charles Douglas''' , first baronet (d. [[1789]]), rear-admiral: prevented by ice in the St. Lawrence from carrying stores and reinforcements to Quebec, 1775; relieved Quebec, 1776: created baronet, 1777: captain of the fleet at the battle of Dominica, 1 782; sometimes credited wrongly with personally planning the manoeuvre of breaking the French line which led to the victory: commander-in-chief on the Halifax station, 1783-6; rearadmiral, 1787; invented improvements in naval gunnery.
David Douglas: '''David Douglas''' ([[1798]]-[[1834]]), botanist and traveller; collected in United States for Royal Horticultural Society, 1823: discovered Douglas's spruce and introduced into Europe various plants, including the common ribes: fellow of the Linnean, Geological, and Zoological societies: gored to death by a wild bull in the Sandwich islands, 1834.
Francis Douglas: '''Francis Douglas''' ([[1710]] 7-[[1790]] ?), miscellaneous writer: started theAVierdeeu Intelligencer a Jacobite organ, 1750: rewarded with the life-rent of Abbots-Inch farm, near Paisley, for a pamphlet maintaining claim of Archibald Douglas (1748-1827) to Douglas estates. His works include History of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746 1755, andLife of James Crichton of Clunie1760?).
Frederick Sylvester North Douglas: '''Frederick Sylvester North Douglas''' (1791-1819), author; son of Sylvester Douglas: educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1813; M.P., Banbury, 1812 and 1818; published An Essay on certain Points of Resemblance between the Ancient and Modern Greek* 1813.
Gawin Douglas: '''Gawin Douglas''' or GAVIN ([[1474]] ?-l [[522]]), Scottish poet and bishop; third son of Archibald, fifth earl of Angus; studied at St. Andrews, 1489-94, and perhaps at Paris; provost of St. Giles, Edinburgh, 1501: named abbot of Aberbrothock and archbishop of St. Andrews, 1514; ousted from the abbacy by James Beaton, archbishop of Glasgow, 1614, also from the archbishopric by Hepburn, the prior. 1514: nominated bishop of Dunkeld by Queen Margaret (1515), but imprisoned by the Duke of Albany for receiving bolls from the pope; released on the remonstrance of Leo X: bishop of Dunkold. 1516-20; accompanied Albany to France, 1617; deprived of his bishopric for going to the Knglish court in the interest of the sixth Earl of Angus, lf.M; friend of Polydore i Vergil; died of the plague, 1522. Douglas wrote two 1 allegorical poems, entitled, The Palic* of Honour(first published, 1553 V), andKing Hart(first printed, 1786), also a translation of the JEneid with prologues (first edition, 1553), which constitutes him the earliest clas-icul , translator in the language.
George Douglas: '''George Douglas''' , first EARL OF ANGUS ([[1380]]7 1403); created Earl of Angus by a charter of Robert II, 1389; fought under Archibald Douglas at Homildon, an-l I was taken prisoner, 1402; died of the plague in England, 1403.
George Douglas: '''George Douglas''' , fourth EARL OF Axom mid
of Lord: '''of Lord''' Doi -(;i. AS ( 1 12 7-[[1462]]) ; commanded James II's forces against the Douglases at Arkinbolm, 1455; defeated Douglas and Percy, 1468; supported Henry VI against Yorkists, 1461: resisted queen-dowager's schemes for regency on death of James I: transferred power of Angus Douglases from Forfarshire to the border.
Sir George Douglas: '''Sir George Douglas''' , of Pittendriech, MASTER OF ANGUS (1490 7-1552), younger brother of Archibald, sixth earl of Angus; diplomatic leader of the English party in Scotland; master of the household, when James V was in the hands of his brother; negotiated reconciliation between his brother and Governor Arran, 1542: imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, 1544; favoured, but would never actively support, English aggression.
Lord George Douglas: '''Lord George Douglas''' . EARL OF DUMBARTON (1636?-1692), colonel of the Douglas regiment in the service of Louis XIV; created Earl of Dumbarton, 1675; suppressed Argyll's rising, 1685; accompanied James II to France: died at St. Germain-en- Lay e.
George Douglas: '''George Douglas''' , fourth BAKON MORDINGTON (d. 1741), author; defended constitutional monarchy in 'The Great Blessing of a Monarchical Government, when... bounded by the Laws 1724.
Sir Howard Douglas: '''Sir Howard Douglas''' , third baronet ([[1776]]-[[1861]]) ; general; son of Rear-admiral Sir Charles Douglas; first lieutenant, royal artillery, 1794; commanded regiment at Quebec-, employed on mission to the Cherokees, 1797; served with Congreve's mortar-brigade, 1803-4; captain, royal artillery, 1804; major-general and inspector-general of instructions in the Royal Military College, High Wycombe; fought as assistant quartermaster-general at Coruna, 1809; took part in the attack on Flushing, 1809; succeeded to baronetcy, 1809; patentedDouglas's reflecting circle 1811; sent by Lord Liverpool to report on Spanish armies in Galicia and Asturias, 1811; F.R.S., 1812: major-general, 1821; published work on military bridges, 1816, treatise on Carnot's system of fortification, 1819, and another treatise on naval gunnery, 1820: governor of New Brunswick, 1823-8, and founder of the university of Fredericton; publishedNaval Evolutions 1832, maintaining that his father had originated the manreuvre of breaking the line; G.C.M.G.. 1836; lord high commissioner of the Ionian islands, for which he drew up the Douglas code, 1835-40; colonel, 99th foot, 1841: G.C.B., civil division, 1841; M.P., Liverpool, 1842-6: general, 1851; F.R.G.S.
Sir James Douglas: '''Sir James Douglas''' , of Douglas, 'the Good,'
of Douglas Lord: '''of Douglas Lord''' ([[1286]]7-[[1330]]), son of William dc Douglas, the Hardy; deprived of his inheritance by Pidward I; three times destroyed an English garrison in his castle of Douglas, which he burnt twice: joined Bruce in raiding the Lord of Lome; frequently raided England; knighted at Bannockburn. 1314; warden of the marches; defeated the archbishop of York and the bishop of Ely at Mitton in Yorkshire, the engagement being known as the Chapter of Mitton from the large number of ecclesiastics slain, 1319: surprised troops led by Edward III, after which the English army was dismissed and peace followed; set out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, carrying the heart of Bruce, in accordance with that king's dying wish, but was killed on the way, or some s-ay on his return journey, while fighting against the Moors in Andalusia.

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James Douglas: '''James Douglas''' , second EARL OF DOT-OLA* (13587-1388): married by papal dispensation to Isabel, daughter of Robert II, 1373; assisted against Knsrland by Sir John de Vienne, admiral of France, 1385: acquiesced, on payment of a subsidy, in the departure of hi? French allies, who were weary of their subordinate position, 1386;
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Douglas: '''Douglas''' defeated (lie two son* of the Earl of Northumberland at the battle of Otterburu, but was slain before the victory was assured.
Douglas: '''Douglas''' .JAMKS. ~c vnth EARL OP DOUGLAS, 'theGrossor Fat( 1IJ71 ?-1443), sou of Archibald the Grim third earl (132s V-l-KH) V); supported the regent Albany, who allowed him to make profit out of the customs; sat on the;issi,c- which tried the Duke of Albany, 1425; granted lauds and baronies at some distance from the bonier by James I; created Earl of Avondale, 1437; possibly connived at the murder of his grandnephew, William, whom he succeeded in the earldom.
James Douglas: '''James Douglas''' , ninth EAIIL OF DOUGLAS ([[1426]]1488), second son of James the Gross seventh earl; *made a journey to Rome, 1450; denounced James 11 as a traitor after the assassination of his brother William, eighth earl of Douglas, 1452; overawed into submission after the forfeiture of his allies, Crawford and Lindsay, promising to do his duty as warden of the marches and relinquish the earldom of Wigtou and lordship of Stewarton, 1452; married his brother's widow, the Maid of Galloway, 1453; commissioner for arranging a truce with England, 1453; forced to fly to England, 1455, his brothers and adherents having been routed; forfeited, 1465; knight of the Garter in return for his services to Edward IV. While raiding Scotland he gave himself up, that an old retainer might earn the promised reward for his capture, and died a monk in the abbey of Lindores.
James Douglas: '''James Douglas''' , fourth EARL OF MORTON (rf. 1581), regent of Scotland; son of Sir George Douglas of Pittendriech; Earl of Morton in right of his wife, Elizabeth Douglas, 1553; subscribed the first bond of the Scottish reformers, 1557, but withdrew his support in 1559; privy councillor on arrival of Mary Queen of Scots in Scotland: assisted in suppressing Huntly's conspiracy, 1562; lord chancellor, 1563; supported marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and Darnley, but without much enthusiasm, 1565; procured the murder of Rizzio, Mary's favourite, and joined Ruthven and Maitland in signing a bond which promised the crown matrimonial to Darnley, 1566; tied to England, 1566, being denounced by Darnley; ordered into retirement, 1566; pardoned by the influence of Bothwell, Mary's new favourite, December 1566; disapproved of the murder (1567) of Darnley, but refused to serve as a juryman on the trial of Bothwell; signed bond for Both well's marriage with the queen, 1567; seized Edinburgh and called upon the citizens to join the confederacy against Bothwell, whom, however, he allowed to escape on the surrender of Mary at Carberry Hill, 1567; suggested Mary's imprisonment in the fortalice of Lochleven, 1567; lord chancellor and member of the council of regency, 1567; led the van at Langside, 1568; adviser of the regent Moray, whom he prepared to support at Maitland's trial for the murder of Darnley; induced Elizabeth to declare for the young king James VI, in anger at the assassination of Moray, 1569; prac tically controlled the government during the regency of Lennox, 1569; quarrelled with Lennox; lord-general of the kingdom at the commencement of the Earl of Mar's regency; approved the proposal of Queen Elizabeth that Mary should be handed over to the reformers, 1572; regent, 1572: pronounced a funeral eulogy over John Knox, 1572; obtained promises of support from Elizabeth, and induced Huntly and the Hauiiltous to desert the cause of Mary, 1573; reduced Edinburgh Castle, 1573: passed an act against ryding and incursions in Ingland 1575; established justice eyres to levy fines for criminal acts and nonconformity to protestantism; endeavoured to perpetuate the episcopal system and bring about a practical union with England; accused of avarice for taking into his own hands the management of the third part of the revenues of the benefices, which had been set apart for the support of the reformed clergy; refused to be bribed by Prance into recommending Mary's liberation; ousted from the regency by Argyll and Atholl, who prevailed on James VI to assume the government, 1578; re-established himself at the head of affairs by consent of a parliament held at Stirling Castle, 1578; had the Hamilton estates sequestrated in retaliation for the murder of Moray and Lennox; accused by Bsme Stuart, earl of Lennox, with the connivance of James VI, of having contrived Darnley's murder; brought to trial and convicted of being council, concealing, and being art and part of the king's murder; executed, 1581.
Lord James Douglas: '''Lord James Douglas''' or WILLIAM ([[1617]]1645), military commander; second son of William, first marquis of Douglas; commanded Louis XIII's Scots regiment, 1637; killed in a skirmish near Arras.
James Douglas: '''James Douglas''' , second EARL OK QI-KKSSIIKKRY (d. 1671); taken prisoner when on his way to join Montrose after the battle of Kilsyth; final for his allegiance to Charles I, 1645 and 1654.
James Douglas: '''James Douglas''' , second MARQUIS OP DOUGLAS (1646 ?-1700), grandson of William Douglas, first marquis of Douglas; became Earl of Angus by the death of his father, 1656; financially ruined by his factor, William Lawrie.
James Douglas: '''James Douglas''' , second DUKK OF QUKKXSBKKUY and first DUKK OF DOVER (1662-1711), eldest son of William, first duke of Queensberry; educated at Glasgow University; privy councillor, 1684; lieutenantcolonel of Dundee's regiment of horse; joined William III, 1688, and was appointed colonel of the 6th horse guards; privy councillor; lord high treasurer, 1693; keeper of the privy seal; king's commissioner at a meeting of the Scottish estates called to further the prosecution of the Darien enterprise, of which he procured the abandonment, 1701; K.G., 1701; one of the secretaries of state for Scotland, 1702; encouraged the Jacobites by his undecided attitude on the question of the settlement, 1703; deluded into unconsciously furthering Jacobite designs of Simon Fraser (1703); withdrew from the government; reinstated as lord privy seal, 1706; commissioner of the estates, 1706; procured signing of treaty of union in face of Scottish opposition, 1706; created Duke of Dover, Marquis of Beverley, and Earl of Ripon, 1708; third secretary of state, 1709.
James Douglas: '''James Douglas''' , fourth DUKB OF HAMILTON (1658-1712), eldest son of William Douglas, third dnke of Hamilton; educated at Glasgow University; ambassador extraordinary to Louis XIV, 1683-5; commanded regiment of horse against Monmouth, 1685; knight-companion of the Thistle, 1687; accompanied James II to Salisbury as colonel of the Oxford regiment, 1688; acquitted of conspiracy on surrendering to a warrant, 1696; Duke of Hamilton by resignation of his mother, 1 698; promoted the African Company in the Scottish parliament, 1700; leader of the Scottish national party, 1702; his project for a commercial treaty with England frustrated; spoke against the treaty of union in the last session of the last parliament of Scotland, but prevented armed opposition, 1707; foiled in his scheme of petitioning Anne for a new parliament; taken prisoner to London for complicity in the attempted French invasion of Scotland, 1708; chosen one of the sixteen Scottish representative peers by whig influence, 1708; rewarded for his support of Sacheverell by the lord-lieutenancy of Lancashire, 1710; privy councillor, 1710; mastergeneral of the ordnance, 1712; K.G.; named ambassadorextraordinary to France on the eve of the conclusion of the peace of Utrecht; killed in a duel before starting by Lord Mohun, who had given the lie to, and subsequently challenged, him. The duel was alleged at the time to be a whig plot.
James Douglas: '''James Douglas''' ([[1675]]-[[1742]]), physician; M.D. Rheims; F.R.S.. 1706; published Myographiee Comparatae Specimen 1707: compiled a general bibliography of anatomy, 1715; wrote a Description of the Peritoneum and of the Membrana Cellularis which is on its outside in connection with the question of tapping in dropsy and the high operation for stone in the bladder; nearly anticipated the discovery of auscultation; physician to Queen Caroline; referred to by Pope as a bibliophile as well as an obstetric practitioner: published The History of the Lateral Operation for the Stone 1726.
James Douglas: '''James Douglas''' , fourteenth EARL OK MORTON (1702-1768); M.A. King's College. Cambridge, 1722; helped to transform the Medical Society of Edinburgh into the Society for Improving Arts and Sciences; first president, 1739; K.T., 1738: lord of the bedchamber and a representative peer of Scotland, 1739; owner of Orkney AA2
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Sir James Douglas: '''Sir James Douglas''' , first baronet ([[1703]]-[[1787]]), admiral; member of the court-martial which condemned Admiral Byng, 1757; served at reduction of Quebec, 1759; commander-iu-chief on Leeward islands! station, 17CO-2; captured Dominica, 1761; second in command at reduction of Martinique, 1762; admiral, 1778; created baronet, 1786; M.P. for Orkney.
James Douglas: '''James Douglas''' ([[1753]]-[[1819]]), divine, antiquary, and artist; entered the Austrian army as a cadet, and, being sent by Prince John of Liechtenstein to purchase horses in England, procured a lieutenancy in the Leicester militia; entered Peterhouse, Cambridge; took orders; chaplain to the Prince of Wales; F.S.A., 1780; vicar of Keuton, Suffolk, 1803; painted oil and miniature portraits of his friends. His works include A Sepulchral History of Great Britain 1793.
James Douglas: '''James Douglas''' , fourth and last BARON DOUGLAS (1787-1857), fifth son of Archibald, first baron, rector of Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, 1819-25; rector of Broughton, Northamptonshire, 1825-57.
Sir James Da Wes Douglas: '''Sir James Da Wes Douglas''' ([[1785]]-[[1862]]), general; aide-de-camp to Major-general Sir James Duff; friend of Napier, the military historian; captain, 42nd regiment, 1804; deputy-assistant quartermaster-general in South America, 1806; present at the battles of Roliea, Vimeiro (1808), and Corufia, 1809; lieutenant-colonel, 8th Portuguese regiment, and major, 1809; fought at Busaco, 1810; lieutenant-colonel, 1811; commanded the 7th Portuguese brigade at the battles of the Pyrenees, 1813, and in southern France, 1814; major-general, 1825; lieutenantgovernor of Guernsey, 1830-8; G.O.B., 1846: general, 1854.
Lady Jane Douglas: '''Lady Jane Douglas''' ([[1698]]-[[1753]]), daughter of James, second marquis of Douglas; her engagement to Francis, earl of Dalkeith, broken off, 1720; hindered from entering a foreign convent by her mother and brother; married Colonel John Stewart, 1746, a step which she concealed for fear that her brother, Archibald, first duke of Douglas, might withdraw her allowance: became the mother (1748) at Paris of twin sons, Archibald and Sholto; deprived of her allowance on informing her brother of their birth; disowned by her brother. Her only surviving son, Archibald James Edward Douglas, claimed successfully the Douglas estates in great Douglas lawsuit.
Janet Douglas: '''Janet Douglas''' , LADY GLAUM (rf. [[1537]]), granddaughter of Archibald, fifth earl of Angus; married John, sixth lord Glamis, e. 1520; forfeited (1531) for disloyalty: indicted on a charge of poisoning her husband, which was abandoned; charged with conspiring the death of James V, and burnt at the stake in Edinburgh, * without any substauciall ground according to Henry VIII's representative in Scotland.
John Douglas: '''John Douglas''' (d. [[1743]]), surgeon: brother of James Douglas (1675-1742); F.R.S.; surgeonlithotomist to the Westminster Hospital; lectured on anatomy and surgery: keen controversialist in medicine; published An Account of Mortifications, 1729, and advocated the high operation for stone, which he claimed as essentially his own discovery, in Lithotomia Douglassiaua 1720.
John Douglas: '''John Douglas''' ([[1721]]-[[1807]]), bishop of Salisbury ; M.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1743: present, as chaplain to the 3rd regiment of foot guards, at the battle of Fontenoy, 1745: Snell exhibitioner at Balliol, 1746; vicar of High Ercall, Shropshire, 1750-61: exposed forgeries of William Lander, 1750; attacked Hume's argument against miracles, publishing the Criterion 1762; attacked the Hutchinsonians in anApology for the Clergy 1755; D.D., 1758; canon of Windsor, 1762; P R.S. and FJS.A., 1778; bishop of Carlisle, 1787-91; dean of Windsor, 1788; bishop of Salisbury, 1791-1807; edited Clarendon'sDiary and Letters 1763.
Douglas: '''Douglas''' 8m JOHN SHOLTO, eighth MARQUIS OF QUKKNSBKRRY (1844-1900); succeeded his father, seventh marquis, 1858; sat as representative peer for Scotland, 1872-80. He is chiefly known as a patron of boxing, the Queensberry rules being drawn up under his supervision, 1607.
Douglas: '''Douglas''' formerly MACKENZIE, SIR KENNETH, first baronet (1754-1833), lieutenant-general; lieutenant, 33rd regiment, 1775; served in West Indies and throughout Netherlands campaign of 1793 under paternal naino of Mackenzie; cuptain and major in the neuly raisM Perthshire Light Infantry, 1794: lieutenant-colonel lotservices at capture of Minorca, 17'J8: appointed lieutenantcolonel of the 44th before Alexandria, 1801; governor of Antwerp, 1814 and 1815; lieutenant-general, 1821; made baronet of Gleubervie (a second creation), 1831; took the name of Douglas by royal licence, 1831.

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Lady Margaret Douglas: '''Lady Margaret Douglas''' , COUNTESS OF
Lennox: '''Lennox''' ([[1515]]-[[1578]]), mother of Lord Darnley : daughter I of Archibald Douglas, sixth earl of Angus, 1 i Margaret Tudor; placed by Henry VIII in the Princo.- t ! Mary's establishment at Beaulieu, 1531; friend of IV Mary; displeased the king by her private betrothal to Lord ! Thomas Howard, Anne Boleyn's uncle, and was imi prisoned in Syon Abbey; married Matthew Stewart, earl : of Lennox, 1544; excluded from the English succession for her Roman catholic leanings, 1546; planned marriage between her son, Lord Daruley, and Mary Queen of Scots; arrested before its accomplishment for her treasonable intentions towards Elizabeth, 1562; rej leased, but on successfully carrying out her scheme was I sent to the Tower; denounced Mary Queen of Scots at i the court of Elizabeth for Daruley's murder; reconciled to i Mary, c. 1572. Her aspirations were substantially fulI filled by the accession of her grandson, James VI, to the throne of England.
Neil Douglas: '''Neil Douglas''' ([[1750]]-[[1823]]), poet and preacher; educated at Glasgow University; appeared as a social reformer in A Monitory Address to Great Britain 1792: minister of Relief Charge at Dundee, 1793-8; published 'The Lady's Scull a poem, 1794; wrote (1799) his Journal of a Mission to part of the Highlands of Scotland; uuiversalist preacher 1809: a vigorous abolitionist; arraigned before the high court of justiciary at Edinburgh for comparing George III to Nebuchadnezzar, 1817; acquitted.
Sir Neil Douglas: '''Sir Neil Douglas''' ([[1779]]-[[1853]]), lieutenant-general ; captain, Cameron Highlanders, 1804; fought at Cortina, 1809, and at the siege of Copenhagen, 1807, and Flushing, 1809: wounded at Busaco, 1810: major, 1811; lieutenantcolonel, 1812; commanded battalion in south of France, 1814, and at Waterloo, 1815; knighted, 1831: majorgeneral and K.C.B., 1837; lieutenant-general, 1846.
Philip Douglas: '''Philip Douglas''' ([[1758]]-[[1822]]), master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; educated at Harrow and Corpus Christi, Cambridge; M.A., 1784; tutor, 1787: D.D. and master of Corpus Christi, 1795-1822: vicar of Gedney, Lincolnshire, 1796; vice-chancellor, 1795-6 and 1810-11.
Robert Douglas: '''Robert Douglas''' , VISCOUNT BKLHAVKN ([[1574]] ?1639); knighted, 1609; master of the household and privy councillor under Charles I; created Viscount Belhaven, 1633; blind.
Robert Douglas: '''Robert Douglas''' ([[1594]]-[[1674]]), presbyterian divine; reputed grandson of Mury Queen of Scots; M.A. St. Andrews, 1614; chaplain to a Scots brigade sent to the assistance of Gustavus Adolphus, e. 1630; minister of the Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh, 1641-2; presented the solemn league and covenant to the parliament, 1649; officiated at the coronation of Charles II at Scone, 1661: largely helped to bring about the Restoration; declined bishopric of Edinburgh, refusing to recognise episcopacy.
Douglas: '''Douglas''' Sm ROBERT ([[1694]]-[[1770]]), baronet of Glenbervie, genealogist; compiler of The Peerage of Scotland 1764, and of aBaronage of Scotland vol. i. 1798.
Sylvester Douglas: '''Sylvester Douglas''' , BARON GLENBERVIE (1743-1823), educated at Aberdeen University: graduated at Leyden, 1 766; barrister of Lincoln's Inn, 1776; king's counsel, 1793; member of the Irish parliament for Irishtown, Kilkenny: privy councillor of Ireland and, in 1794, of England; M.P. for Fowey, Cornwall, 1795, for Midhurst, Sussex, 1796; lord of the treasury, 1797-1800; nominated governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 1800, but did not take the office; created Baron Olenbervie of Kincardine (in Irwh peerage), 1800; M.P., Plymptou
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Douglas: '''Douglas''' Earls, 1801, Hustings, 1802-6; first chief commissioner of the united laud and forest department, 1810-14; chairman of the secret committee appointed to inquire into the advance of 100,0007. for secret naval services, 1805: published histories of controverted elections, 15 and 16 George II I, 1775 and 1777.
Thomas Douglas: '''Thomas Douglas''' (fl. [[1661]]), divine ; ejected from the living of St. Olave's, Silver Street, London, at the Restoration; M.D. Padua: published l Weajwjros, or the Great Mysterie of Godlinesse 1661.
Thomas Douglas: '''Thomas Douglas''' , fifth EAKLOF SKLKIHK, BAKON
Dakk: '''Dakk''' and Siioinri.KurH ([[1771]]-[[1820]]) ; educated at Klinlnip_'li University: settled emigrant)* from the highlands of Scotland in Prince Edward's island, 1803, intending to direct towards British colonies the unavoidable emigration of the highlauders; Scottish representative peer, 1806 and 1807; F.R.S., 1808; sent out pioneers to colonise the lied River valley; his colonists twice driven from their settlements, Forts Douglas and Daer, by soldiers of the North-west Company, 1815 and 1816; personally led an attack on Fort William, the chief post of the North-west Company, and re-established his colony under the name Kildonau, 1817; fined 2,000. by Canadian courts on the charge of having plotted the ruin of the North-west Company, 1818: died at Pau: published Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland 1805, in defence of his colonisation scheme.
Sir Thomas Montkath Douglas: '''Sir Thomas Montkath Douglas''' ([[1787]]-[[1868]]), general; lieutenant, 35th regiment of Bengal infantry, 1808; fought in the Bundelkhand campaigns, 1809 and 1810, against the Pindaris, 1818, and against the Mere, 1820; lieutenant-colonel, 1834; took part in capture of Cabal, 1838; second in command at defence of Jellalabad, 1841-2; colonel of his old regiment, 1845; took additional surname of Douglas, 1851; K.C.B., 1865; general, 1865.
William Dk Douglas: '''William Dk Douglas''' , the Hardy ' (. [[1298]]) ; a crusader and knighted lord of Douglas, 1288; recognised Baliol as king, after some hesitation; captured at the taking of Berwick, after Baliol's abdication, and imprisoned; released; again took up arms, and, his confederates submitting to Edward I at Irvine water (1297), was imprisoned in the Tower till his death.
Sir William Douglas: '''Sir William Douglas''' , KNIGHT OP LIDDESDALE (1300?-1353), keeper of Lochmaben Castle and warden of the west marches, 1332; slew the Earl of Atholl, Edward Baliol's lieutenant, 1337; given the lordship of Liddesdale by David II, 1342; ambassador to the French court; treacherously wounded and starved in prison Sir Alexander Ramsay, to whom David II had given Roxburgh Castle, not knowing that it was in the possession of Douglas; pardoned, and appointed constable of Roxburgh Castle; taken prisoner by the English at Durham, 1346; released on condition of becoming Edward Ill's liegeman; murdered by his kinsman, the Lord of Douglas.
William Douglas: '''William Douglas''' , first EARL OF DOUGLAS (1327 ?-1384), younger son of Sir Archibald Douglas (d. 1333); trained in arms in France; returned to Scotland, c. 1348, and restored Ettrick Forest to the Scottish allegiance; took part in treaty of Newcastle, by which David II's ransom from captivity in England was arranged, 1354; slew his kinsman, the Knight of Liddesdale, 1353; present at the battle of Poitiers, 1356; warden of the east marches, and, in 1358, created Earl of Douglas; took up arms against David II, who was supposed to have appropriated the money raised for his ransom and to be intriguing with England; submitted, 1363; swore homage to Robert II, 1371; justiciary south of the Forth from 1371; Earl of Mar, probably by marriage, 1374; defeated Sir Thomas Musgrave at Melrose in a border raid, 1378; negotiated truce with John of Gaunt at Berwick, 1380.
Sir William Douglas: '''Sir William Douglas''' , LORD OF NITHSDALE (rf. 1392 ?X illegitimate son of Archibald, third earl of Douglas; married Egidia, daughter of Robert II, at the same time receiving the lordship of Nithsdale, 1387; made retaliatory raid on Ireland, burning Carlingford and plundering the Isle of Man, 1388; commanded maritime expedition sent from Danzig against the Lithuanians, 1391.
William Douglas: '''William Douglas''' , second EAHL OK ANGUS (1398?-1437), elder son of George, first earl; knighted by James I; sat on the assize at Albany's trial, 1425; warden of the middle marches, 1433; defeated English force at Piperden, 1435.
William Douglas: '''William Douglas''' , sixth EARL OK DOUGLAS and third DUKE OF TOURAINK (1423 ?-1440), eldest son of Archibald Douglas, fifth earl; said to have behaved as a claimant to the Scottish crown; treacherously seized and beheaded after a banquet at Edinburgh, to which he and his brother David had been invited by James II, 1440.
William Douglas: '''William Douglas''' , eighth EARL op DOUGLAS (1425 V-1452), son of James Douglas, the Gross seventh earl; used his influence with James II to dispossess the chancellor, Sir William Orichton.of office, 1443; burnt Alnwick, 1448; negotiated the marriage of James II to Mary of Gueldres, 1449; assisted the king and Sir William Crichton to overthrow the Livingstones, 1449; made journey to Rome, 1450; warden of the marches; murdered McLellau, a partisan of the king: inveigled into Stirling Castle, and attacked and killed by James II and his follower*.
William Douglas: '''William Douglas''' , ninth EARL OF ANGUS in right of entails (1533-1591); sided with Mary Queen of Scots against the Earl of Huntly at Oorrichie, 1662; chancellor of the assize which convicted Francis, earl of Bothwell; privy councillor of Scotland.
Sir William Douglas: '''Sir William Douglas''' , of Lochleven, sixth or seventh EARL OF MORTON ((. 1606); denounced as one of the murderers of Rizzio, favourite of Mary Queen of Scots, 1566; joined confederacy for avenging murder of Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scots; entrusted with the custody of Mary Queen of Scots after her surrender at Carberry Hill, 1567; commanded in the rear guard at Langside, 1568; surrendered to Queen Elizabeth, for 2,OOOZ., the Earl of Northumberland, who had been delivered into his charge by the regent Moray, 1572; friend of the regent Morton; signed bond of confederate nobles to stand by James VI, 1582; banished by the counterrevolution at St. Andrews, 1583: i organised a plot, while in France, which led to the overthrow of Arran in 1585; succeeded as Earl of Morton, 1588, the same title being held by Lord Maxwell in 1592.
William Douglas: '''William Douglas''' , tenth EARL OP ANGUS ([[1554]]1611), son of William, ninth earl; studied at St. Andrews; converted to Catholicism at the French court; reconciled the Earls of Atholl and Huntly, 1592; imprisoned for his share in the Spanish Blanks conspiracy; escaped, 1593; forfeited along with the Earls of Huutly and Atholl; made a successful descent on Aberdeen, 1594; returned with his two confederates to presbyterianism, 1597; released from his forfeiture, 1597: royal lieutenant of the borders, 1597; excommunicated by the Scottish church, 1608; died near the abbey of St. Germain-desPres, Paris.

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Sir William Douglas: '''Sir William Douglas''' , first EARL OF QUKKXS-
Berry: '''Berry''' (rf. [[1640]]) ; created Viscount of Drumlanrig, [[1617]] ; created Earl of Queeusberry (1633), on the occasion of Charles I's visit to Scotland.
Lord William Douglas: '''Lord William Douglas''' ([[1617]]-[[1645]]). See
Lord James Douglas: '''Lord James Douglas''' .
William Douglas: '''William Douglas''' , seventh or eighth EARL OF
Morton: '''Morton''' ([[1582]]-[[1650]]), lord high treasurer of Scotland; grandson of Sir William Douglas of Lochleven (d. 1606) ; privy councillor and gentleman of the chamber to James VI: commanded Scots regiment in Rochelle expedition, 1627; lord high treasurer of Scotland, 1630-5; K.G. and privy councillor of England, 1635; sat in the Scottish parliament, 1641; nominated by Charles I for the chancellorship, but prevented from obtaining it by the rancour of the Earl of Argyll, 1641; rewarded for advances of money to Charles I by a charter of the Orkney and Shetland islands, 1643.
William Douglas: '''William Douglas''' , eleventh EARL OF ANGUS and first MARQUIS OF DOUGLAS (1589-1660X son of William, tenth earl; brought up in the reformed religion: created Marquis of Douglas, 1633; went to England to assist Charles I, 1639; signed the covenant, 1644, but fought at Philiphaugh on the side of Mont-rose, 1645; imprisoned, 1646; member of committee of estates, 1651; fined by Cromwell, 1654.
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Doveton: '''Doveton'''
William Douglas: '''William Douglas''' , third DUKK OF HAMILT.-N (1635-1694), eldest son of William, first marquis of Douglas: fined 1,0007. by Cromwell, 1654; created Duke of Hamilton on the petition of his wife, Anne, duchess of Hamilton: privy councillor in Scotland, 16601G76: at first opposed, and then ignored, in the interests of the Scottish nobility, the governor Laudenlale's land tax of a year's assessment, 1672; opposed Laudenlale's demand for supplies to carry on the Dutch war, 1673; ejected from the council, 1676; went to London to lodge complaints against Lauderdale, who intended to have a writ of law-burrows issued against him; refused to commit himself by detailing his grievances in writing, 1678 and 1679; K.G.; commissioner of the treasury, and, in 1687, privy councillor of England; royal commissioner under William III, 1689 and 1G93.
William Douglas: '''William Douglas''' , third EARL and first DUKK OF
Queensberry: '''Queensberry''' ([[1637]]-[[1695]]), son of James, second earl of Queensberry; privy councillor, 1667; lord justicegeneral of Scotland, 1680-6; lord high treasurer of Scotlaud, 1682-6; created Duke of Queensberry, 1684; refused to support James II's measures against the established church, 1685; president of the council, 1686; accused of maladministration by the Earl of Perth, and stripped of his appointments, 1686; one of the lords of privy council of both kingdoms, 1687.
William Douglas: '''William Douglas''' , third EARL OF MARCH and fourth DUKE OF QUBENSBERRY (1724-1810), latterly known as Old Q; notorious for his escapades and dissolute life; endeavoured to develop horse-racing into a science; K.T., 1761; representative peer for Scotland, 1761; vice-admiral of Scotland, 1767-76; succeeded his cousin Charles in dukedom of Queeusberry, 1778; created Baron Douglas of Amesbury in British peerage, 1786; friend of Prince of Wales; removed from the office of lord of the bedchamber (1789) for having recommended a regency in 1788; satirised by Burns.
William Douglas: '''William Douglas''' ([[1780]]-[[1832]]), miniature-painter to Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, 1817; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1818, 1819, and 1826.
William Alexander Anthony Douglas: '''William Alexander Anthony Douglas'''
Archibald: '''Archibald''' eleventh DUKK OF HAMILTON ([[1811]]-[[1863]]), son of Alexander Hamilton Douglas, tenth duke; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1832: knight-marisclial of Scotland and lord-lieutenant of Lanarkshire; married the Princess Marie Amelie, Napoleon Ill's cousin, 1843; died in Paris.
Sir William Fettes Douglas: '''Sir William Fettes Douglas''' ([[1822]]-[[1891]]), artist and connoisseur; assistant in Commercial Bank, Edinburgh; studied drawing and adopted profession of artist, 1847; exhibited in Royal Scottish Academy from 1845; associate, 1851, full member, 1854, and president, 1882; curator of National Gallery of Scotland, 1877-82; knighted, 1882; LL.D. Edinburgh, 1884; collector of objects of art. Among his best pictures are The Alchemist 1855, and The Rosicruciaus 1856. 5-1888), editor of
William Scott Douglas: '''William Scott Douglas''' ([[1815]] a library edition of Burns. 1877-9; wrote Picture of the County of Ayr 1874.
Sir James Nicholas Douglass: '''Sir James Nicholas Douglass''' ([[1826]]-[[1898]]), engineer; apprenticed to Messrs. Hunter & English at Bow; manager to Messrs. Laycock on the Tyne; engineer successively on Gun Fleet Pile, Smalls Rock, and Wolf Rock lighthouses, 1854-70; chief engineei to corporation of Trinity House, 1862; designed and executed new Eddystoue lighthouse, 1878-82; knighted, 1882; M.I.O.E., 1861; F.R.S.,1887; published pamphlets relating to lighthouses.
John Douglass: '''John Douglass''' ([[1743]]-[[1812]]), Roman catholic prelate; professor of humanities, 1768, and subsequently of philosophy at the English college, Valladolid; D.D.: vicar-apostolic of the London district, 1790: bishop of Centuria in partibus, 1790; suggested the employment of the Irish oath of allegiance of 1778 to meet the requirement* of the Catholic Relief Act, 1 791.
Sir Henry Doultoh: '''Sir Henry Doultoh''' ([[1820]]-[[1897]]), potter: educated at University College School, London; entered his lather's pottery at Lambeth, 1836, and greatly extended it: began, e, 1870, to developsgraffitoware, which rapidly gained wide reputation; received, 1886, gold Albert medal of Society of Arts, of which he was vicepresident, 1890-4; knighted, 1887. D'OUVILLY,;I;OK;K;KKKIKR (A 1661), dramatist and translator; of DtiU-h origin; captain in Lord I Craven's regiment in the Nethi;rhmds; publishedThe False Favourite Disgrac'd a tragi-comedy, 1657; translated biographies by Andre Thevet.
John Freeman Milward Dovaston: '''John Freeman Milward Dovaston''' ([[1782]]1854), miscellaneous writer: M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1807; barrister of the Middle Temple, 1807; published 4 Lectures on Natural History and National Melody 1839, and poetical works.
Henry Dove: '''Henry Dove''' ([[1640]]-[[1695]]), archdeacon of Richmond; educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1665: vicar of St. Bride's, Fleet Street, 1673; D.D., 1677: archdeacon of Richmond, 1678; chapkin to Charles II, James II, and William III; recommended by Pearson for the mastership of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1683; published sermons.
John Dove: '''John Dove''' ([[1561]]-[[1618]]), divine; scholar of Westminster: M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1586; D.D., 1596; I rector of St. Mary Aldermary, London, 1596-1618; author , of A Confutation of Atheism 1605, and other works.
John Dove: '''John Dove''' (. [[1665]] ?), regicide : M.P. for Salisbury, 1645; commissioner for Charles I's trial, 1649; high sheriff of Wiltshire, 1655; taken prisoner by royalist conspirators at Salisbury, 1655; submitted at the Restora . tion.

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Nathaniel Dove: '''Nathaniel Dove''' ([[1710]]-[[1754]]), calligrapher : I master of an academy at Hoxton; contributed to the Universal Penman published, 1743; clerk in the victualling office, Tower Hill.
Patrick Edward Dove: '''Patrick Edward Dove''' ([[1815]]-[[1873]]), philo-' sophic writer; farmer near Ballantrae, Aryshire, from 1841; published The Theory of Human Progression, and Natural Probability of a Reign of Justice 1850, a book which earned the praise of Oartyle; author of Elements of Political Science 1854; inventor of rifled cannon. Though a strong individualist, his attitude on the question of rent anticipated that of Henry George.
Thomas Dove: '''Thomas Dove''' ([[1555]]-[[1630]]), bishop of Peterborough ; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool; Wattesscholar, ! Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1571; original scholar of Jesus College, Oxford; chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, who admired his eloquence; dean of Norwich, 1589; bishop of j Peterborough, 1601; charged with remissness for allowing siienced ministers to preach, 1611 and 1614.
Dukes of Dover: '''Dukes of Dover''' . See DOUGLAS, JAMES, first DUKE, 1662-1711; DOUGLAS, CHARLES, second DUKK, 1698-1778.
Barons Dover: '''Barons Dover''' . See JKRMVN, HENRY, [[1636]]-[[1708]]; j YORKE, JOSEPH, first baron of the second creation, j 1724-1792; ELLIS, GKORGK. I AMKS WKLBORE AGAR-, first i BARON of the third creation, 1797-1833.
John Dover: '''John Dover''' (d. [[1725]]), dramatist ; demy of Mag1 dalen College, Oxford, 1661: barrister, Gray's Inn, 1672; rector of Dray ton, Oxfordshire, 1688; author of The i Roman Generalls 1667, a rhyming tragedy.
Captain Robert Dover: '''Captain Robert Dover''' ([[1575]] ?-lC41), founder of j the Cotswold games on Cotswold Hills, near Evesham, I c. 1604, which were celebrated by the poets in Annalia i Dubrensia 1636: attorney at Barton-on-the-Heath, Warwickshire,
Thomas Dover: '''Thomas Dover''' ([[1660]]-[[1742]]), physician: sailed with the ships Duke and Duchess on a privateering voyage, as captain of the Duke, 1708; sacked Guayaquil in Peru, and cured a hundred and seventy-two of his sailors of the plague, 1709; rescued Alexander Selkirk from the island of Juan Fernandez, 1709: M.D.; L.C.P., 1721; called thequicksilver doctorfrom his exaggerated encomiums of metallic mercury; inventor of Dover's powder.
Sir John Doveton: '''Sir John Doveton''' ([[1768]]-[[1847]]), general : captain, 1st Madras light cavalry, 1800; colonel, 1813; brigadiergeneral of the Hyderabad contingent, 1814; defeated Apa Sahib, raja of Nagpur, who was in league with the Pinduris, and brought about the evacuation of Nagpur, 1817; lieutenant-general and U.C.B., 1837; died at Madras.
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Downing: '''Downing'''
Dow: '''Dow''' .LRADKK . [[1779]]), hi-torian and dramatist: workc-d Ids v:iy t Ii-in-oolM. ami became swretury to tinirovurnor: raptain in tlm K:i-t India Company- Mrn.Ml iiii'iintry, 17iit; lieutenant-colonel, irtii;.li.il at l.iM.Mlpur: bil tni'edies, ingis 176, and Scthoii 17M, noted at Drury Lane; translated Ferishtu's history ot Hindostan, 1708.
Dowdall: '''Dowdall''' (IKOIKJI-: ([[1487]]-[[1558]]), archbishop of Armagh; prior of the hospital of St. John of Ardee, Armagh; archbishop of Annairh. 1513; reluctantly submitted to Kd van I VI's order for the public u-r of the Knirlish litunry in Ireland, 1550: deprived of the primacy ol all Ireland. 1550: reinstated, 1553; member of the Irish privy council, 1556.
William Dowdeswell: '''William Dowdeswell''' ([[1721]]-[[1775]]). politician ; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; studied at Lcyden, 1715; M.P., Tewkesbury, 1747-54, Worcester, 1761-75; chancellor of the exchequer, 1765-6; received thanks of the mercantile interest, 1766; privy councillor, 17C5; refused to be president of the board of trade or joint- paymaster in Lord Chatham's government, 1766; carried a motion for the reduction of the land tax, 1767; died at Nice.
William Dowdeswell: '''William Dowdeswell''' ([[1761]]-[[1828]]), general and
Tiiady Dowling: '''Tiiady Dowling''' ( [[1544]]-1G28), author of Annales Hibernite evli-siiistiral treasurer (c. 1590) and chancellor (1591) of the see of Leighlin, co. Carlov.
Vincent George Dowling: '''Vincent George Dowling''' ([[1785]]-[[1852]]), journalist; elder brother of Sir James Dowling; engaged with the Star newspaper and, in 1809, with the Day; crossed the Channel in an open boat to give the Observer the first news of Queen Caroline's return, 1820; editor of Bell's Life 1H24-52; issued annually, from 1840, Fistiana; claimed to have originated scheme of new police system.
John Downe: '''John Downe''' ([[1570]]?-[[1631]]), divine; B.D. and fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge; vicar of Winsford, Somerset: Latin poet; hisTreatise of the True Nature and Definition of Justifying Faith published, 1635.
Barons Downes: '''Barons Downes''' . See DOWXKS, WILLIAM, first
Baron: '''Baron''' [[1752]]-[[1826]] : Buuuu, SIR ULYSSES BAUEXAL, second BARON, 1788-1863. print-collector; third son of William Dowdeswell; lieutenant and captain, grenadier guards, 1785; M.P., J Bhurtpore, 1805; commander-in-chief in India, 1807 lieutenant-general, 1810; collected prints by old engravers, and made a specialty of grangerising
Stephen Dowell: '''Stephen Dowell''' ([[1833]]-[[1898]]), legal and historical writer; B.A. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1855; M.A., 1872; assistant solicitor to board of inland revenue, 1863-96.
John Dowland: '''John Dowland''' ([[1563]]7-[[1626]]7), lutenist and composer; made several journeys to Italy and Germany, becoming acquainted with Gregory Howet of Antwerp, Luca Marenxio, and other famous musicians; Mus. Bac. Oxford, 1588; published three books ofSonges or Ayres of Fonre Partes with Tableture for the Lute 1597, 1600, and 1603; dedicated his Lachrymae to Anne of Denmark, apparently as her court lutenist, 1605: lutenist to Charles 1, 1625.
Robert Dowland: '''Robert Dowland''' (17th cent), musician ; son of John Dowland; published a Varietie of LuteLessons and a collection of English and continental airs, entitledA Mvsicall Banqvet 1610;musician in ordinary for the consort 1626.
Richard Dowley: '''Richard Dowley''' ([[1622]]-[[1702]]), nonconformist divine; matriculated at All SoulsCollege, Oxford, 1639; demy of Magdalen, 1640; B.A., 1643; minister of Stoke Prior, Worcestershire, 1656; ejected at the Restoration; licensed to hold meetings in his own house by the Declaration of Indulgence, 1672; preached at Godalming after the Toleration Act of 1689.
Alfred Septimus Dowling: '''Alfred Septimus Dowling''' ([[1805]]-[[1868]]), law reporter; brother of Sir Jamas Dowling; barrister of Gray's Inn, 1828; judge of county courts, circuit No. 15, Yorkshire, 1849; commissioner on the management of the county courts, 1853: published collections of statutes passed 11 George IV 3 William IV; compiled case reports.

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Andrew Downes: '''Andrew Downes''' ([[1549]] 7-[[1628]]), Greek professor at Cambridge: Lady Margaret scholar, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1567; M.A., 1574; senior fellow, 1581; B.D., 1582; regius professor of Greek, the study of which he had helped to revive, 1585-1624; one of the translators of the Apocrypha for the authorised version; edited the Tewkesbury, 1792: fought at Valenciennes and in the j Eratosthenes of Lysias, 1593: published Pnelectiones battles before Dunkirk, 179:!; governor of the Bahamas, n Philippicam de Pace Demosthenis 1621. 1 797-1 H02; colonel, 1797: commanded under Lake at
John Downes: '''John Downes''' (fl. [[1666]]), regicide ; sat for Arundel in the Long parliament, 1642; prevailed upon, partly against his will, to sign Charles I's death-warrant; member of the council of state, 1651 and 1659; commissioner for the revenue, 1659; arrested (1660) for his share in the execution of Charles I, and kept a close prisoner in Newgate.
John Downes: '''John Downes''' (. [[1662]]-[[1710]]), writer on the stage ; prompter to Sir William D'Avenaut's company at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1662; published Roscius Anglicanus, or an Historical Review of the Stage 1708.
Theophilus Downes: '''Theophilus Downes''' (. [[1726]]), nonjuror ; M.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1679; fellow; ejected for refusing oath of allegiance, 1690; published anonymously A Discourse concerning the Signification of Allegiance (1689 ?).
William Downes: '''William Downes''' , first BARON DOWNKS ([[1752]]1826), chief-justice of the king's bench in Ireland; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1773; called to the Irish bar, 1776; M.P. for Donegal; lord chief-justice of the king's bench, 1803-22; vice-chancellor of Dublin University, 1806-16; created Baron Downes of AghanviUe, 1822.
Downham: '''Downham''' or DOWNAME, GEORGE (d. [[1634]]), bishop of Derry; elder son of William Downham, bishop of Chester q. v.j; fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, 1585; university professor of logic; chaplain to James I; bishop of Derry, 1616: published a sermon against Arrainianism, 1631, for the suppression of which Laud procured royal letters; treated the presbyterians with moderation; publishedA Treatise concerning Antichrist... against... Bellarmine 1603, and a Commeutarius In Rami Dialecticam 1610.
Frank Lewis Dowling: '''Frank Lewis Dowling''' ([[1823]]-[[1867]]), journalist ;
Downham: '''Downham''' or DOWNAME, JOHN (d. [[1652]]), puri Elivlne; son of William Dowuham, bishop of Chester ,; B.D. Christ's College, CamL-idge; rector of Allws the Great, 1630-52; signed petition against Land's son of Vincent Georee DowViiig"q."vo";barrister," Middle i Jxk of canons, 1640; licenser of the press, 1643; wrote Temple, 1848; edito? of Bell's Life 1851, and Fistiana Iar 8 elv on religious subjects. fxv. 3891 DOWNHAM, WILLIAM, whose name is sometimes spelt DOWNAME and DOWNMAN (1505-1577), bishop of Chester; M.A. and fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1643; canon -of Westminster, 1560: bishop of Chester, 1561-77; reported to the council for remissuess in enforcing the Act of Uniformity, 1561 and 1570; D.D.
Sir James Dowling: '''Sir James Dowling''' ([[1787]]-[[1844]]), colonial judge ; admitted to St. Paul's School, London, 1802; barrister, Middle Temple, 1815; author of The Practice of the Superior Courts of Common Law 1834: puisne judge of the court of New South Wales, 1827: chief- justice, 1837; knighted, 1838; died at Darlinghurst, Sydney,
John Goulter Dowling: '''John Goulter Dowling''' ([[1805]]-[[1841]]), divine ; B.A. Wadham College, Oxford: head-master of the Crypt Grammar School, Gloucester, 1827-41; rector of St. Maryde-Crypt with St. Owen, Gloucester, 1834-41; student of patristics; wrote An Introduction to the Critical Study of Ecclesiastical History Oxford, 1566.
Calybute Downing: '''Calybute Downing''' ([[1606]]-[[1644]]), divine; B.A. Oriel College, Oxford, 1626: M.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge: LL.D. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1637; vicar of Hackney, London, 1637-43; chaplain to Lord Robartes's regiment in the Earl of Essex's army: licenser of books of divinity, 1643; probably became an independent.
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Sir Qeorqb Downing: '''Sir Qeorqb Downing''' , first baronet [[023]] ?-[[1684]]), soldier and politician; second graduate of Harvard College; scout- master-general of Cromwell's army in vSootland, 1650; M.P. for Edinburgh, 1654, for Carlisle and Huddini:ton boroughs, 1656; headed movement for offering crown to Cromwell: sent to remonstrate with Louis XIV on Vaudois massacre, 1655; resident at the Hague, 1657, 1659, aud 1660: teller of the exchequer, 1660; procured tin- arrest of three regicides, Barkstead, Okey, and Corbet, at Delft, 1662; created baronet, 1663; began the custom of the appropriation of supplies during the Dutch war, which he promoted, 1665; M.P., Morpeth, 1669-70: resident at the Hague, 1671: compelled by bis unpopularity to leave the Hague, 1672. Colbert called him le plus grand querelleur des diplomates de son temps
Sir George Downing: '''Sir George Downing''' , third baronet ([[1684]]?1749), founder of Downing College; grandson of Sir George Downing (1623?-1684); M.P., Dunwich, Suffolk, 1710, 1713, and 1722-49; K.B., 1732: left estates in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, and Suffolk, with which, in default of heirs, to buy land for building a college at Cambridge. After much litigation, Downing College was founded by charter in 1800.
Hugh Downman: '''Hugh Downman''' ([[1740]]-[[1809]]), physician and poet : B.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1763; M.A. Jesus College, Cambridge; medical practitioner at Exeter, 1770: author of three tragedies and of a poem, Infancy, or the Management of Children 3 parts, 1774, 1775, aud 1776.
Downman: '''Downman''' ,KHN (} [[750]]- [[1824]]), portrait and subject painter: A.H.A., 1795; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1769-1819.
Sir Thomas Downman: '''Sir Thomas Downman''' ( [[1776]]-[[1852]]), lieutenantgeneral; served with the guards in the Netherlands, 1793 and 1794; taken prisoner at Mouveaux, 1794; served in San Domingo from 1798 to 1800; commanded cavalry engaged in covering Sir John Moore's retreat from run ifn i, 1809; present in the chief battles and sieges of the Peninsular war; lieutenant-colonel, royal horse artillery, 1814; knighted, 1821; lieutenant-general, 1851; K.C.B., 1852.
William Downman: '''William Downman''' ([[1505]]-[[1577]]). See Dor
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Wills Hill: '''Wills Hill''' .
Nicholas Downton: '''Nicholas Downton''' (rf. [[1615]]), commander under the East India Company; sailed about among the Ilc.l Sea ports establishing a trade, in company with Sir Henry Middleton, 1611; brought home Middleton's disabled ship, the Peppercorn, 1613; general of the company's ships in the East Indies; compelled the Portuguese,. under the viceroy of Goa, to retire, after three weeksfighting off Surat, 1615; undermined by Edwardes, his second in command; set out, in face of a threatened Portuguese attack, for Bantam, where he died.
Anne Dowriche: '''Anne Dowriche''' (fl. [[1589]]), poetess: nte Edgcumbe: wrote The French Hiatorie a poem in alexandrines describing three events in the religious history of contemporary France, 1589.
Hugh Dowriohe: '''Hugh Dowriohe''' (. [[1596]]). husband of Anne Dowriche; published Aerj*oi;Aa, the Taylors Oon version 1596.

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Richard Dowse: '''Richard Dowse''' ([[1824]]-[[1890]]), Irish judge ; graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, 1849; called to Irish bar, 1862: Q.O., 1863; queen's serjeant-at-law, 1869: liberal M.I, Londonderry, 1868 and 1870; solicitor-general for Ireland, 1870; attorney-general, Irish privy councillor, and baron of Irish court of exchequer, 1872.
William Dowsing: '''William Dowsing''' ([[1596]]9-[[1679]]?), iconoclast; parliamentary visitor of the Suffolk churches, 1644; employed also in Cambridgeshire, where an eye-witness described him as having battered and beaten downe all our painted glasse 1643.
John Dowson: '''John Dowson''' ([[1820]]-[[1881]]), orientalist: tutor at Haileybury; professor of Hindustani at University College, London, and the Staff College, Sandhurst, 1855-77: published an Urdu grammar, 1862, History of India as told by its own Historian* 1867-77,and a dictionary of Hindu mythology and culture, 1879; Indian epigraphist.
Henry Dowton: '''Henry Dowton''' (b. [[1798]]), actor; son of William Dowtou (1764-1851)
William Dowton: '''William Dowton''' (17fi4-[[1851]]). actor ; appeared at Drury Lane as Sheva in Cumberland's comedy of the 'Jew 1796; considered the best representative of Malvolio on the English stage; frequently acted in sentimental comedy.
William Dowton: '''William Dowton''' (d. 18S3), actor ; son of William Dowton (1764-1851); manager of the Kent circuit, 1815-35; brother of the Charterhouse, 1840-83.
Lewis Doxat: '''Lewis Doxat''' ([[1773]]-[[1871]]), journalist; born in the British West Indies; manager of the Observer; manager of the Morning Chronicle after 1821.
Sir Charles Hastings Doyle: '''Sir Charles Hastings Doyle''' ([[1805]]-[[1883]]), general; son of Lieutenant-general Sir Charles William Doyle; ensign, 87th regiment, 1819; captain, 1825: lieutenant-colonel, 1846; colonel, 1854; invalided home from Varna, 1854; commanded in Nova Scotia, 1861; lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, 1867-73: K.O.M.G., 1869; general, 1877.
Sir Charles William Doyle: '''Sir Charles William Doyle''' ([[1770]]-[[1842]]), lieutenant-general: lieutenant, 14th regiment, 1793; brigademajor hi the Netherlands, 1793: aide-de-camp to Abercromby at the battle of Lannoy, and (1797) hi the West Indies; served as brigade-major at Cadiz, at Malta, 1800, and in Egypt, 1801: sent by government to help the insurgents in Spain, 1808; distinguished in the campaigns of 1810 and 1811, and made a Spanish lieutenant-general; director and inspector-general of military instruction, 1811; colonel in the English army, 1813; O.B. and knighted; lieutenant-general, 1837; G.O.H., 1839; died in Paris.
Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle: '''Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle''' , second baronet (1810-1888), poet; grand-nephew of Sir Jolin Doyle (1750?-1834); educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford: B.A., 1832; B.C.L., 1843: M.A., 1867; fellow of All Souls 1835-44; barrister, Inner Temple, 1837; succeeded to baronetcy, 1839: receiver-general of customs, 1846-69; professor of poetry at Oxford, 1867-77; honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1877; commissioner of customs, 1869-83; published several volumes of verse, including ballads on contemporary events.
Henry Edward Doyle: '''Henry Edward Doyle''' ([[1827]]-[[1892]]), director of National Gallery of Ireland, 1869 till death: son of Joh Doyle; honorary secretary to National Portrait Gallery, London, 1865-9; C.B., 1880.
James Warren Doyle: '''James Warren Doyle''' ([[1786]]-[[1834]]), Roman catholic bishop of Kildare and Leighlin: Augustinian monk, 1806: entered the university of Coimbra, 1806: volunteer under Sir Arthur Wellesley; accompanied Colonel Murray with the articles of convention to Lisbon, 1808; successively professor of rhetoric, humanity, and theology at Carlow College, 1813-19; bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, 1819; reformed discipline of his diocese and attacked established church; examined by parliamentary committees on the condition of Ireland, 1825, 1830, and 1832; built a cathedral at Carlow; published Letters on the State of Ireland 1824, 1825; wrote much under initials J. K. L
James William Edmund Doyle: '''James William Edmund Doyle''' ([[1822]]-[[1892]]), son of John Doyle; published Official Baronage of England 1886.
Sir John Doyle: '''Sir John Doyle''' ([[1750]] 7-[[1834]]), general : served at the siege of Charleston, 1780; brigade-major to Lord Ooriiwallis, 1780; M.P. for Mullingar in the Irish House of Commons, 1783: secretary at war, 1796-9: raised the 87th regiment, 1793, and served with it in the Netherlands, 1794; fought at Alexandria and Marabout, 1801; constructed roads in Guernsey and organised the defences of the island when lieutenant-governor, 1804-15; created baronet, 1805; K.B., 1812; general, 1819.
John Doyle: '''John Doyle''' ([[1797]]-[[1868]]), portrait-painter and caricaturist: produced in lithograph, under the signature of H.B. satiric portraits of the political celebrities of contemporary England, 1829-51.
Sir John Milley Doyle: '''Sir John Milley Doyle''' ([[1781]]-[[1856]]), colonel: nephew of Sir John Doyle (1760 ?-1834): lieutenant in the 108th regiment, 17U4: assisted in the suppression of the Irish insurrection, 1798; aide-de-camp to Brigadier.
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Drake: '''Drake''' general John Doyle before Alexandria, 1801; lieutenantcolonel in Portuguese service, 1809; fought at Fueutes de Onoro and the capture of Ciudad Rodrigo, 1812; lieutenant-colonel in the English army, 1811; K.O.B.; took part in Portuguese affairs, 1823; imprisoned by Dom .Miguel for actively aiding his rival Don Pedro, 1823; M.P., co. Oarlow, 1831-2; his financial claims on the English government repudiated, 1834.
Richard Doyle: '''Richard Doyle''' ([[1824]]-[[1883]]), artist and caricaturist; son of John Doyle: contributor to Punch 1843-50: designed the cover of Punch; contributed to 4 Punch cartoons and the Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe 1849: resigned his connection with the paper in consequence of its hostility to papal aggression, 1850; illustrated Ruskin's King of the Golden River 1851, Thackeray'sNewcomes 1853-5, and other books; poetically treated moorland scenes in water-colour,
Thomas Doyle: '''Thomas Doyle''' ([[1793]]-[[1879]]), Roman catholic divine; D.D.; provost of the cathedral chapter of Southvark, 1850; the building of St. George's Cathedral, St. George's Fields, mainly due to his exertions,
Welbore Ellis Doyle: '''Welbore Ellis Doyle''' (. [[1797]]), general; brother of Sir John Doyle (1750 ?-1834); commanded the 14th regiment in the attack on Famars, 1793; commander-in-chief in Ceylon.
Doyley: '''Doyley''' or DOYLY, EDWARD ([[1617]]-[[1675]]), governor of Jamaica; fought for parliament during civil war; lieutenant-colonel in expedition to West Indies, 1654; commander-in-chief of forces in Jamaica, 1655-6 and 1657-61; defended island against several Spanish attempts at recouquest. D'OYLIE or D'OYLY, THOMAS (1548?-1603), Spanish scholar; M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1569; friend of Francis Bacon; M.D. Basle, c. 1581; held medical appointment in the army at Antwerp: censor, London College of Physicians, 1593, 1596, and 1598; assisted in the compilation of Percival's Bibliotheca Hispanica 1691; drew up a Spanish grammar and dictionary in Spanish, Latin, and English, licensed, 1590, which he withdrew in favour of Percival's book. D'OYLY, SIR CHARLES, seventh baronet (1781-1845), Indian civilian and artist; assistant to the registrar of the Calcutta court of appeal, 1798; collector of Dacca, 1808; opium agent at Behar, 1821; commercial resident at Patna, 1831; senior member of the marine board, 1833; an amateur artist of Indian and Anglo-Indian life. D'OYLY, SIR FRANCIS (rf. 1815), colonel'T'brother of George and Sir John D'Oyly; assistant adjutantgeneral in the Peninsular campaigns; K.C.B.; killed at Waterloo. D'OYLY, GEORGE (1778-1846), theologian and biographer; brother of Sir Francis and Sir John D'Oyly ; second wrangler. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1800: fellow, 1801; moderator in the university, 1806-9, and select preacher, 1809-11; Hulsean Christian advocate, 1811; D.D.; rector of Lambeth, Surrey, and of Sundridge, Kent, 1820-46: published Life of Archbishop Bancroft 1821, and theological works. D'OYLY, SIR JOHN, first baronet (1774-1824), resident of Knndy; brother of George and Sir Francis D'Oyly ; educated at Westminster; collector of Colombo, 1802; secretary to the government of Ceylon, 1810; largely instrumental, as head of General Brownrigg's intelligence department, in the overthrow of the king of Kandy, 1814 and 1815; created baronet, 1821; resident and first commissioner of government in the Kandyan provinces: died at Kandy. D'OYLY, SAMUEL (d. 1748), translator: scholar of Westminster, 1697; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge: M.A., 1707; vicar of St. Nicholas, Rochester, 1710-48; published Christian Eloquence in Theory and Practice a translation from Blaise Gisbert, 1718. D'OYLY, THOMAS (fl. 1585), antiquary; admitted at Gray's Inn, 1555; D.C.L.: read archaeological papers before the Society of Antiquaries, founded c. 1572.
William Drage: '''William Drage''' ([[1637]] ?-[[1669]]), medical writer; apothecary at Hitchin; author of A Physical Nosonomy 1665, and * Pretologie, a Treatise concerning Intermitting Fevers 1665; a believer in the occult sciences,
Giovanni Battista Draghi: '''Giovanni Battista Draghi''' (17th cent.), Italian musician: wrote instrumental interludes for Shadwell's Psyche 1674; organist to Queen Catherine of Braganza, 1677; a skilful player on the harpsichord; left manuscripts and printed songs; adopted the English style of music.
Domenioo Dragonetti: '''Domenioo Dragonetti''' ([[1755]] ?-[[1846]]), performer on the double-bass; native of Venice; succeeded his master, Berini, in the orchestra at St. Mark's; visited England, 1794; left Venice for good, 1797; friend ot Beethoven, Haydn, and Sechter: engaged in England at concerts and the opera; played on one occasion in 1'uns before Napoleon, who desired him to ask a favour on hi instrument, his speech being unintelligible; composed sonatas and three canzonets.

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John Drakard: '''John Drakard''' ([[1775]]7-[[1854]]), newspaper proprietor and publisher; started theStamford News 1809; fined and imprisoned for an article denouncing corporal punishment in the army, 1810; proprietor of the Stamford Champion 1830-4,
Sir Bernard Drake: '''Sir Bernard Drake''' (d. [[1586]]), naval commander ; sent to seize all Spanish ships off Newfoundland, in retaliation for the detention of English ships in Spain, 1585; knighted, 1586; died of gaol fever or plague caught at the trial at Exeter of the crew of a Portuguese ship, the Lion of Viana, which he had captured off Brittany.
Charles Francis Tyrw Drake: '''Charles Francis Tyrw Drake''' 1874), naturalist and explorer in the Holy Land; educated at Rugby, Wellington, and Trinity College, Cambridge; explored, in company with Professor Edward Henry Palmer, mountains west of the Arabah and parts of Eflom and Moab, 1869; investigated, for Palestine Exploration Fund, inscribed stones at Hamah, 1870; died of fever at Jerusalem. Chief works: Notes on the Birds of Tangier and Eastern MoroccoIbis 1867, 1869), and part of Unexplored Syria 1872.
Sir Francis Drake: '''Sir Francis Drake''' ([[1540]]?-[[1596]]), circumnavigator and admiral; commanded the Judith in John Hawkyns's ill-fated expedition, 1567 see HAWKINS, SIR JOHN; made three voyages from Plymouth to the West Indies, 1570, 1571, and 1572; landed at Nombre de Dios, and would have plundered the town, had not his men become disheartened at a wound which their commander received, 1572; burnt Portobello, 1572; sacked Venta Cruz, 1573; returned to Plymouth, 1573; served under Essex in Ireland; reduced Rathlin, 1575; set sail from Plymouth for the River Plate, 1577; executed Thomas Doughty, a deposed officer of his following, on a charge of conspiracy, 1578; sailed through the Straits of Magellan, 1578; plundered Valparaiso, 1579; captured a ship from Acapulco, commanded by one Don Francisco de Qarate, who sent the viceroy of New Spain a letter, still extant, giving an account of Drake, 1579; reached Pelew islands and Mindanao, 1579; sailed through the Indian Archipelago, and, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, touched at Sierra Leone, 1580; knighted at Deptford in 1581 by Queen Elizabeth, who justified him to the Spanish ambassador; mayor of Plymouth, 1582; his assassination plotted by one John Doughty, an agent of the king of Spain, 1583; M.P., Bossiney, 1584-5; commissioned by Elizabeth with the command of a fleet and letters of marque, 1585: burnt St. lago and plundered Vigo, 1585; took San Domingo and Cartagena, by the aid of the land forces under Carleill; brought back to England the first colonists of Vir finia, 1586; commissioned to commit acts of war against pain, in accordance with which he destroyed an armament in the harbour of Cadiz, not being aware that the order, in so far as it related to Spanish territory, had been countermanded, 1587; superseded his vice-admiral, William Borough, from his command, 1587: urged Elizabeth to forestall a Spanish invasion by attacking the king of Spain at home, 1588; stationed off Ushant with one of the three divisions of the English fleet to intercept the Spanish Armada: driven back to Plymouth by a southerly wind, July 1688; defeated the Armada off Gravelines and pursued it to the north of Scotland; quarrelled with Sir Martin Frobisher about spoil of Rosario, a ship captured by Drake in the Channel, 1688: associated with Sir John Norris in expedition against coasts of Spain and Portugal, which plundered Coruna, burnt Vigo, and destroyed much Spanish shipping, 1589; regulated the water supply of Plymouth by bringing the
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Drayton: '''Drayton''' Meavy into the town, 1590: M.P., Plymouth, 1593; commanded an unsuccessful expedition to the West Indies (1595) with Sir John Hawkyns; died off Portobello, 1596; hero of many popular legends.
Fkancis Drake: '''Fkancis Drake''' ([[1696]]-[[1771]]), author of 'Eboracum; city surgeon, York, 1727: published with numerous copper-plate engravings Eboracum: or, the History :md Antiquities of the City of York 1736; dedicated Eboracum to the Earl of BntiiDgton, whose influence procured his release when imprisoned in the Fleet for it debt contracted by incautiously signing n bond for Sir Harry Slingsby; F.S.A., 1736: investigated local antiquarian problems, such as the Micklegate Stone and the site of Delgovitia.
Khanois Drake: '''Khanois Drake''' ([[1721]]-[[1795]]), clergyman; son of Vrancirf Drake (1G96-1771); Trapp's scholar, Lincoln College, Oxford, 1739; M.A., 1746; fellow of Magdalen, 1746; D.D., 1773; rector of Winestead, Holderness, 1775-96.
Sir Francis Samuel Drake: '''Sir Francis Samuel Drake''' , first baronet (d. 1789), rear-admiral; served in West Indies, 1757-8; present at the defeat of the French in Quiberon Bay, 1759: rear-admiral, 1780; detached under Sir Samuel Hood to blockade Martinique, 1781: commanded under Rodney in the battle of Dominica, 1782; created baronet, 1782; M.P., Plymoutli, 1789; junior lord of the admiralty, 17X9.
James Drake: '''James Drake''' ([[1667]]-[[1707]]), political writer: educated at Eton and Cains College, Cambridge; M.A.; M.D., 1694; F.R.S., 1701; F.R.C.P., 1706; prosecuted for his tory pamphlet, The History of the Last Parliament but acquitted, 1702; part author of The Memorial of the Church of England (1705), the authors of which would have been prosecuted had their identity been established; publishedThe Antieut and Modern Stages Reviewed 1700, and Anthropologia Nova 1707.
John Poad Drake: '''John Poad Drake''' ([[1794]]-[[1883]]), inventor and artist; painted a picture of Napoleon on board the Bellerophon; visited Montreal; patented a diagonal arrangement of ribs and planking for ships and a screw trenail fastening, 1837; said to have discovered the principle of the Snider Enfield gun, 1835.
Nathan Drake: '''Nathan Drake''' ([[1766]]-[[1836]]), literary essayist and physician; M.D. Edinburgh, 1789; practised at Sudbury, 1790-2, and at Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1792-1836; published Shakespeare and his Times 1817,Memorials of Shakespeare, 1 1828, and miscellaneous essays; advocated use of digitalis in consumption.
Roger Drake: '''Roger Drake''' ([[1608]]-[[1669]]), physician and divine; M.A. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1631: M.D. Leyden, 1639; defended Harveian doctrine of the circulation of the blood against Dr. James Primrose, 1641; arrested for share in Love's plot, but pardoned, 1651; minister of St. Peter's Cheap, 1653; published Sacred Chronologic 1648, and religious tractates and medical dissertations.
Samuel Drake: '''Samuel Drake''' (d. [[1673]]), royalist divine ; fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1643: M.A., 1644; ejected from fellowship for refusing to take the covenant; fought at Newark; incumbent of Pontefract, 1660; D.D., 1661; prebendary of Southwell, 1670-1.
Samuel Drake: '''Samuel Drake''' ([[1686]] ?-[[1753]]), antiquary ; brother of Francis Drake (1696-1771); M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1711; D.D., 1724; recfor of Treeton, Yorkshire, 1728-53, and vicar of Holme-on-Spalding Moor, 1733-53; wrote on Christian ritual; edited Bartholomew Clerke's Latin translation of Castiglione'sCourtier 1713.
William Drake: '''William Drake''' ([[1723]]-[[1801]]), antiquary and philologist; son of Francis Drake (1696-1771): B.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1744; master of Felstead grammar school, 1750-77; vicar of Isleworth, Middlesex, 1777-1801; F.S. A., 1770; contributed paper? on the origin of the English language to Archseologia
Augusta Theodosia Drake: '''Augusta Theodosia Drake''' ([[1823]]-[[1894]]), historian and poet; brought up in established church, but joined Roman catholics, 1860: postulant, 1852, in Dominican convent, Clifton (removed to Stone, 1853): pronounced vows, 1866; prioress, 1872-81; mother provincial of order, 1881-94: published numerous historical, biograplrcul, and poetical works, chiefly of a religious tendency.
Thomas Drant: '''Thomas Drant''' (.. [[157]]SV), divim and pm-t ; :.. and fellow St. John's olk'Lc.;iinbri(l,15t;i: M.A., i:t;l: domestic chaplain to Archbishop Grindal: B.D., 15G'J; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1569; prebendary of Chichester, 157(1; archdeacon of Lewes, 1570-8; translated Horace's epistles, satires, andAre Poetica into English verse, 1667; published Sylva a collection of Latin poems, c. 1576; advocated the use of classical metres in English verse.
Jan Drapentier: '''Jan Drapentier''' (ft. [[1674]]-[[1713]]), engraver: native of Dordrecht: engraved portraits for London booksellers and views for Chauncy'sHertfordshire; engraver to the mint.
Edward Alured Draper: '''Edward Alured Draper''' ([[1776]]-[[1841]]), colonel : cousin of Sir William Draper: educated at Eton: page of honour to George III; lieutenant and captain, 3rd foot guards, 1796; brevet-major and military secretary to Lieutenant-general Grinfield, 1802, bringing home despatches after capture of St. Lucia, 1803; executive official in Mauritius, taking the popular side in opposing the home government's nomination ot a Mr. Jeremie as procureur-general, 1832; recalled: subsequently colonial treasurer of Mauritius.
Mrs Draper: '''Mrs Draper''' . ELI7A ([[1744]]-[[1778]]). friend of Laurence Sterne; born at Aujeugo in India: daughter of May Sclater: married at Bombay Daniel Draper, H.E.I.C.S. (17257-1805); met on a visit to London, 1766-7, Sterne, who addressed to her amorous letters and a Journal to Eliza: returned, 1767, to India, where she lived unhappily with her husband, and ran away from him, finally settling in England; eulogised by Abbe Raynal and James Forbes inOriental Memoirs died at Bristol and buried in cathedral cloisters there.
John William Draper: '''John William Draper''' ([[1811]]-[[1882]]), chemist; studied at the London and Pennsylvania universities: M.D. Pennsylvania, 1836; professor of chemistry and physiology, Hampden Sidney College, Virginia, 1836, and at New York, 1839; LL.D.; first to produce daguerreotype portraits, 1839: president of the New York University, 1850-73; brought outScientific Memoirs, hciiiLr Experimental Contributions to a Knowledge of Radiant. Energy 1878; devoted special study to ultra- violet rays of spectrum; published historical works.
Sir William Draper: '''Sir William Draper''' ([[1721]]-[[1787]]), lieutenantgeneral; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; fellow of King's College; M.A., 1749; ensign in Lord Henry Beauclerk's regiment, 1744: adjutant, 1st foot guards, 1746: lieutenant and captain, 1749; commanded the 79th regiment, raised by himself, at the siege of Fort St. George, 1758-9; colonel, 1762; captured Manilla, 1762, ransoming it for 1,000,000. in bills on Madrid, which was never paid; colonel, 16th foot, 1765: K.B., 1766; defended the Marquis of Grauby against Junius 1769; lieutenantgeneral, 1777; lieutenant-governor of Minorca, 1779-82; preferred unfounded charges of misconduct against Lieutenant-general Hon. James Murray, who had suspended him, 1782; reprimanded by a general court-martial, 1783.
Thomas Draxe: '''Thomas Draxe''' (rf. [[1618]]), divine : B.D. Christ's College, Cambridge; vicar of Dovercourt-cum-Harwich, 1601; author of Treasurie of Ancient Adagies and Sententious Proverbes," 1633, and other works.
Anthony Draycot: '''Anthony Draycot''' (d. [[1571]]), divine ; principal of White Hall and Pirye Hall, Oxford; doctor of canon law, 1622: rector of Dray cot: prebendary of Lincoln, 1539, of Lichfield, 1566; chancellor of Lincoln, Coventry, and Lichfield; stripped of all his preferments except Draycot, 1559.

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Michael Drayton: '''Michael Drayton''' ([[1663]]-[[1631]]), poet: at one time probably page to Sir Henry Goodere of Powlesworth; published Idea. The Shepheards Garland. Fashioned in nine Eglogs 1593: published three historical poems, Piers Gavestou 1593, Matilda(Fit* water), 1594, and The Tragicall Legend of Robert, Duke of Normandie 1596; composed in rhymed heroicsEndymion and Phoebe c. 1594: publishedIdeas Mirrovr a series of sonnets in honour of a lady otherwise unknown, 1594; republished his Mortimeriados as The Barrens Wars 1603; collaborated in dramatic work with Henry Chettle , Thomas Dekker, and John Webster (1580 ?1625 ?): possibly employed by Queen Kliabeth on a diplomatic mission to Scotland; published The Owle
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Drummond: '''Drummond''' a satire, 1604; produced, e. 1605, Toemes Lyrick ami Pastorall containing the famous Ballad of Agincourt; published ( 1 (07)The Legt;nd ir.-at romwell included in the 1610 edition of Mirour for Magistrates: ttnished 4 Poly-Olbion a long poetic topography of Kntrlaml, 1622; published Nimphidia and other poems, 1G27: frit-mi 01 Shakespeare; highly esteemed by Drummond of Hawthornden.
Nicholas Dk Drayton: '''Nicholas Dk Drayton''' (fl. [[1376]]), ecclesiastic and judge: warden of King's College, Cambridge, 13C3; imprisoned for heresy, 1369: exchequer baron, 1376.
Oornelis Drebbel: '''Oornelis Drebbel''' ([[1672]]-[[1634]]), philosoplu-r :iml scientific inventor; born at Alkmaar; invented machine for producing perpetual motion, which he presented to his patron, James I; visited the court of Kudolph II; imprisoned on the capture of Prague by the elector palatine, 1620: released at James I's intercession; sent in charge of fireships on the Kochelle expedition, 1G27; credited with invention of telescope, microscope, and thermometer; author of a Dutch work on the Nature of the Elements 1608.
Lord Dreghorn: '''Lord Dreghorn''' ([[1734]]-[[1796]]). See MACLAURIX,
John: '''John'''
Peter Drelincourt: '''Peter Drelincourt''' ([[1644]]-[[1722]]), dean of Armagh: son of a Huguenot minister: M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1681: LL.D., 1691; archdeacon of Leighlin, 1683: dean of Armagh, 1691-1722.
William Drennan: '''William Drennan''' ([[1754]]-1 [[820]]), Irish poet; M.A. Glasgow, 1771; M.D. Edinburgh, 1778; formulated original prospectus of the Society of United Irishmen, 1791; chairman, 1792 and 1793; tried for sedition, and acquitted, 1794; writer of patriotic lyrics; first Irish poet to call Ireland the Emerald Isle
Edward Drew: '''Edward Drew''' ([[1542]] ?-[[1598]]), recorder of London ; scholar, Exeter College, Oxford; admitted Inner Temple, 1560; serjeant-at-law, 1689; M.P. for Lyme Regis, 1584, for Exeter, 1586 and 1588; recorder (1592-4) and M.P. for London, 1592; queen's Serjeant, 1596.
Frederick Drew: '''Frederick Drew''' ([[1836]]-[[1891]]), geologist ; studied at Royal School of Mines; joined geological survey, 1855; entered service of maharajah of Kashmir, 1862, and became governor of province of Ladakh; F.Q.S., 1858; science master at Eton, 1875-91; published geographical and geological writings.
George Smith Drew: '''George Smith Drew''' ([[1819]]-[[1880]]), Hulsean lecturer; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1843; M.A., 1847; vicar of Holy Trinity, Lambeth, 1873-80; Hulseau lecturer (1877) onThe Human Life of Christ revealing the order of the Universe 1878.
John Drew: '''John Drew''' ([[1809]]-[[1857]]), astronomer ; schoolmaster at Southampton, c. 1847: part founder of the Meteorological Society, 1860; doctor in philosophy, Bale. His works includeChronological Charts illustrative of Ancient History and Geography 1835, and a Manual of Astronomy 1845.
Samuel Drew: '''Samuel Drew''' ([[1765]]-[[1833]]), metaphysician; of humble origin; Wesleyan preacher, 1788: published Remarks upon Paines " Age of Reason," 1799; styled theCornish metaphysician" on the publication of an 'Essay on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul 1802; superintendent from 1819 of the Caxton press, first at Liverpool and then in London.
Rawlins Dring: '''Rawlins Dring''' (fl. [[1688]]), physician ; fellow and M.A. Wadham College, Oxford, 1682; medical practitioner at Sberborne; endeavoured to disprove invariability of configurations assumed by crystallising salts,
John Drinkwater: '''John Drinkwater''' ([[1762]]-[[1844]]). See BETHUXE,
Dkixkwater John: '''Dkixkwater John''' .
John Droeshout: '''John Droeshout''' ([[1596]]-[[1652]]), engraver ; brother of Martin Droeshout; engraved a set of plates for De Souza's Lusitauia Liberata
Martin Droeshotit: '''Martin Droeshotit''' (. [[1620]]-[[1651]]), engraver ; born in London, of Flemish parentage; engraved portrait of Shakespeare prefixed to First Folio, 1623.
Drogheda: '''Drogheda''' first MARQUIS and sixth EARL op (1730-1822). I See MOORE, CHARLES.
Viscounts Drogheda: '''Viscounts Drogheda''' . 9ee M..KI-:, sm GARRET, first VISCOUNT, 1560?-1627; MOORK, SIR CHARLKS, second Visrorxr, 1603-1643.
John De Drokensford: '''John De Drokensford''' (d. [[1329]]), bishop of Bath ami Wells; accompanied Edward I against the Scots, 1291, 1296, and probably also in 130J; rector of Droxford, ! Hampshire, ami prebendary of Southwell, Lichfield, Lincoln, and Wells; chancellor of the exchequer, 1307; , bishop of Bath and Vt-lls. 1309-29: petitioned for ap, poiutment of oniainers, 1310; regent, 1313; took oath to support Queen Isabella and her eon Edward III, 1327.
Thomas Dromgoole: '''Thomas Dromgoole''' ([[1750]] ?-[[182]]G ?), Roman : catholic agitator; native of Ireland; M.D. Edinburgh; I settled as a physician in Dublin: denounced in 1813 all i compromise in struggle for Catholic Emancipation, thereby delaying its grant by parliament; died at Rome.
Francis Drope: '''Francis Drope''' ([[1629]]7-[[1671]]), arboriculturist; demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1645; ejected, 1648; M.A., 1660; fellow, 1662; B.D., 1667: prebendary of Lincoln, 1670; his Short and Sure Guide in the Practice of Raising and Ordering of Fruit-trees published, 1672.
John Drope: '''John Drope''' ([[1626]]-[[1670]]), physician and poet; brother of Francis Drope: demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1642; fought for Charles I in the garrison of Oxford; fellow, 1647; master at John Fetiplace's school, Dorchester, c. 1654; M.A., 1660; physician at Borough, Lincolnshire; published poems.

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John Drout: '''John Drout''' (. [[1570]]), poet ; attorney, of Thavies Inn; issued, 1570, a poetic tale from the Italian ofThe I
Thomas Drue: '''Thomas Drue''' (fl. [[1631]]), author of 'The Life of the Dvtches of Svffolke an historical play, 1631.
The Druid: '''The Druid''' (pseudonym) ([[1822]]-[[1870]]). See DIXON,
Hall Henry: '''Hall Henry''' .
Robert Druitt: '''Robert Druitt''' ([[1814]]-[[1883]]), medical writer; F.R.C.S., 1845; F.R.C.P., 1874; M.D. Lambeth; editor of the Medical Times and Gazette 1862-72; president of the Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of Health, 1864-72; published The Surgeon's Vade-Mecum 1839, and other writings.
Lord Drumcairn: '''Lord Drumcairn''' , EARL OF MELROSE ([[1563]]-[[1637]]).
Alexander Drummond: '''Alexander Drummond''' (d. [[1769]]), published 'Travels through.... Germany, Italy, Greece, and parts of Asia 1754; consul at Aleppo, 1754-6.
Annabella Drummond: '''Annabella Drummond''' ([[1350]] ?-[[1402]]), queen of Robert III of Scotland; daughter of Sir John Drummond of Stobhall; married John Stewart of Kyle (afterwards Robert III), 1367: crowned queen, 1390; proposed a marriage between a relation of Richard II and one of the royal children of Scotland, 1394. David Stewart, duke of Rothesay, her sou, was murdered, while regent, shortly after her death.
Edward Drummond: '''Edward Drummond''' ([[1792]]-[[1843]]), civil servant: private secretary to the Ear 1, of Ripon, Canning, Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel; shot, in mistake for Peel, by one Macnaghten.
George Drummond: '''George Drummond''' ([[1687]]-[[1766]]), six times lord provost of Edinburgh; said to have calculated financial details for the union, 1705; accountant-general of excise, 1707-15; raised a company of volunteers for service against the Earl of Mar, 1715; member of council, Edinburgh, 1715; lord provost, 1725, 1746, 1760-1. 1754-5, 1758-9, and 1762-3: established a medical faculty and five professorships in Edinburgh University: joined Sir John Cope, 1745; organised schemes for improvement of Edinburgh.
Sir Gordon Drummond: '''Sir Gordon Drummond''' ([[1772]]-[[1854]]), general; lieutenant, 41st regiment, 1791; lieutenant-colonel, 8th regiment, 1794; distinguished himself at Nimegueu; colonel, 1798; fought at the capture of Alexandria and Cairo, 1801: major-general, 1805; commanded division in Jamaica, 1805; lieutenant-general, 1811; defeated Americans at Niagara, 1814; general, 1825; G.C.B., 1837.
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Drummond: '''Drummond'''
Henry Drummond: '''Henry Drummond''' ([[1786]]-[[1860]]), politician; studied at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford: M.I, Plympton Earls, 1810; carried an act against embezzlement by bankers of securities entrusted to their safekeeping, 1812: settled near Geneva, and continued Haldane's movement against Soeini;mism in the venerable L-ompanv and the consistory; founded professorship of political economy at Oxford. 1825; joint-founder of the Irvingite church; M.P., West Surrey, 1847-60.
Henry Drummond: '''Henry Drummond''' ([[1851]]-[[1897]]), theological writer; educated at Edinburgh University; studk-d divinity at New College, Edinburgh; joined, 1873, evangelical movement initiated by Dwight L. Moody and IraD. Sankey; lecturer in natural science at the Free Church College, Glasgow, 1877: published Natural Law in the Spiritual World 1883: made scientific exploration of Lake Nyasa and Tanganyika district for African Lakes Corporation, 1883-4, and publishedTropical Africa 1888; proftssor of theology in New Church, 1884; ordained in College Free Church, 1884; supported studentsmission in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and made tour of American and Australian colleges: published 4 Ascent of Man 1894.
James Drummond: '''James Drummond''' , first BARON MADRRTT ([[1540]]?1623),comineudatorof Inchaffray; lord of the bedchamber to James VI, 1585; made depositions concerning the so-called Cowrie plot, 1600.
James Drummond: '''James Drummond''' , fourth EARL and first titular
of Perth Dukk: '''of Perth Dukk''' ([[1648]]-[[1716]]) ; educated at St. Andrews ; supported Laudenlale's policy of giving up the disaffected western shires of Scotland to highland raids, 1677; member of Lauderdale's Scottish privy council, 1678; subsequently joined Hamilton's faction; partner with William Penn in the settlement of East New Jersey, 1681; justicegeneral, 1682; extraordinary lord of session, 1682: lord chancellor, 1684; introduced use of thumb-screw; converted to Roman Catholicism; K.T., 1687; imprisoned in Stirling Castle, 1689; released on a bond to leave the kingdom, 1693: created K.G. by the exiled James IT; ereated Duke of Perth by James II's will; died at St. Germain.
James Drummond: '''James Drummond''' , fifth EARL, and second titular
Op Perth Dukk: '''Op Perth Dukk''' ([[1675]]-[[1720]]), eldest son of James Drummond, fourth earl; studied at Paris; imprisoned as a Jacobite, 1708; commanded rebel cavalry at Sheriff muir, 1715; attainted; attended James Edward, the Old Pretender, on the continent; died at Paris,
James Drummond: '''James Drummond''' , sixth EARL and third titular
of Pkrth Duke: '''of Pkrth Duke''' ([[1713]]-[[1747]]), eldest sou of James Drurnmond, fifth earl; educated at Douay: styled himself Duke of Perth in spite of his father's attainder; eluded government attempt to arrest him, 1745; surprised camp of Lord London, a royalist leader, 1746; commanded the Young Pretender's left wing at Culloden, 1746.
James Drummond: '''James Drummond''' ([[1784]]7-[[1863]]), botanical collector; elder brother of Thomas Drummond (d, 1835) ; associate of Linnean Society, 1810; made up sets of the indigenous vegetation of Western Australia for sale: died in Western Australia.
James Drummond: '''James Drummond''' ([[1816]]-[[1877]]), subject and history painter; academician, Royal Scottish Academy, 1852; curator of the National Gallery, 1868; painted scenes from later Scottish history.
James Lawson Drummond: '''James Lawson Drummond''' ([[1783]]-[[1853]]), professor of anatomy; brother of William Hamilton Drummond; navy surgeon in Mediterranean. 1807-13; M.D. Edinburgh, 1814; first professor of anatomy at the Academical Institution, Belfast, 1818-49; published botanical and anatomical works.

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John Drummond: '''John Drummond''' , first BARON DRUMMONM. (l. 1519), statesman; commissioned to negotiate a marriage between James, prince of Scotland, and Annede la Pole, 1484; created Baron Drummond, 1488; privy councillor, 1488; justiciary of Scotland, 1488; routed the rebel forces under the so-called Earl of Lennox, 1489; imprisoned by Albany (1515), really for opposing his election as regent, nominally for striking Lyon king-at-arms; forfeited, but soon reconciled to Albany (1516), whom he supported against Henry VIII and the queen-dowager Margaret,
John Drummond: '''John Drummond''' , first EARL and titular DI:KK OK MKJ.KOHT (1649-1714), lieutenant-general and master of ordnance, 1680: secretary of state for Scotland, 1684; J created Earl of Melfort, 1686; converted to Roman catho j licisin: together with his brother James, fourth Karl of Perth, practically ruled Scotland: advocated a wholesale seizure of iufiuential whigs, 1688; attended James 11 for a time in Ireland; Jacobite envoy to Rome: made K.G. at St. Germain, 1691; attainted, 1695; wrote to his brother, then at St. Germain, a letter from Paris, which was intercepted in London, ascribing to L.OIUS XIV the intention of restoring James II, 1701; suspected of treachery to Jacobite interests, and sent to Angers; died at Paris.
John Drummond: '''John Drummond''' , fourth DCKK OF PERTH (d. 1747), brother of James, sixth earl of Perth; educated at Douay; raised the Royal Scots regiment, and was sent from France to join Prince Charles Edward, 1745; called on six thousand Dutch soldiers to withdraw, as having previously capitulated in Flanders; mainly contributed to the Jacobite victory at Falkirk, 1746; fought at Culloden, 1746; died before Bergen-op-Zoom.
Margaret Drummond: '''Margaret Drummond''' ([[1472]] ?-[[1501]]), mistress of James IV of Scotland; daughter of John, first baron Drummond; poisoned, together with her two sisters, one of them being wife of Lord Fleming, 1501. The triple murder has been sometimes attributed to Lord Fleming.
Peter Robert Drummond: '''Peter Robert Drummond''' ([[1802]]-[[1879]]), biographer; bookseller at Dundee; farmer, and collector of pictures and engravings: cliief works, Perthshire in Bygone Days 1879, andThe Life of Robert Nicoll, poet (published 1884).
Robert Hay Drummond: '''Robert Hay Drummond''' ([[1711]]-[[1776]]), archbishop of York; educated at Westminster, where Queen Caroline remarked him, and at Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1735; royal chaplain, 1736; took the additional surname of Drummond, 1739; attended George II on his German campaign, 1743; D.D., 1745; bishop of St. Asapb, 1748-61; successfully defended Bishop Johnson of Gloucester and two other friends on a charge of Jacobitisin, 1753; bishop of Salisbury, 1761; archbishop of York, 1761-76; made additions to the archiepiscopal palace.
Samuel Drummond: '''Samuel Drummond''' ([[1765]]-[[1844]]), portrait and historical painter; exhibited at the Royal Academy after 1791; A R.A., 1808; curator of the Royal Academy painting school.
Thomas Drummond: '''Thomas Drummond''' (d. [[1835]]), botanical collector; brother of James Drummond (1784 ?-1863); assistant-naturalist in Sir John Franklin's second (1825) land expedition; made a botanical tour in Texas, sending collections of plants to England; died at Havana.
Thomas Drummond: '''Thomas Drummond''' ([[1797]]-[[1840]]), engineer and administrator; studied at Edinburgh University; entered the royal engineers, 1815; introduced Drummond limelight; improved heliostat; head of the boundary commission in connection with the great Reform Bill; undersecretary at Dublin Castle, 1835-40; organised the Dublin police and appointed stipendiaries to control the local I magistrates: told the landlords that property had its duties as well as its rights; supported by O'Connell; his i administration vindicated by a commission of inquiry, ! 1839.
William Drummond: '''William Drummond''' , of Hawthornden ([[1585]] 1649), poet; related to the royal family of Scotland through Aunabella Drummond; M.A. Edinburgh, 1606; attended law lectures at Bourges and Paris, 1607 and 1608; laird of Hawthornden, 1610; lamented Prince Henry in Tears on the Death of Meliades 1613: friend and correspondent of (Sir) William Alexander of Menstrie and of Michael Drayton, and an acquaintance of Ben Jonsou; issued * Flowers of Zion (religious verse), andThe Cypresse Grove a prose meditation on death, J 1623; patented sixteen mechanical inventions, conipri.! ing weapons and scientific instruments, 1627; drew up a genealogy of the Drummoud family, and sent Charles I I a manuscript tractate, in which he rebutted the claim of William Graham, seventh earl of Menteith, to the earldom of Struthearu, 1632; wrote History of Scotland
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Dryander: '''Dryander''' (first printer! 1656); wroteIrenein the interest of concord during the Scottish political tunn.nl of 1(338: protested against the solemn league and covenant in Remoras for the National League between Scotland and England 1643; wrote in favour of negotiation with Charles 1, 1646; his death ascribed to grief for Charles 1's execution. The first collected edition of his poems issued in 1656. As a sonnetteer Drummond was much influenced byGuariui. He invented the metre employed in Milton's Hymn of the Nativity
William Dktjmmond: '''William Dktjmmond''' , first VISCOUNT OFSTRATHAI.LAX (1617 ?-1688), royalist general; studied at St. Andrews; commanded royalist brigade at battle of Worcester, and was taken prisoner, 1651; escaped and entered the Russian service, becoming lieutenant-general of the strangers and governor of Smoleusko; majorgeneral of the forces in Scotland, with seat on the council, 1666; popularly supposed to have introduced the thumbscrew; urged the necessity of a standing army upon Charles II, 1667; knighted, c. 1680; represented Perthshire in Scottish parliament, 1669-74, 1678, 1681-2, and 1685-6; lieutenant-general of the forces in Scotland, and treasury lord, 1685: created Viscount Strathallau and Baron Drummond of Cromlix, 1686; disapproved James Il's proposal of exclusive toleration for Romanists, 1686.
William Drummond: '''William Drummond''' , fourth VISCOUNT OF
Strathallan: '''Strathallan''' ([[1690]]-[[1746]]), Jacobite ; taken prisoner at Sheriff muir, 1715; released by the act of grace, 1717; killed while commanding under the Young Pretender at Cullodeu, 1746.
Drummond: '''Drummond''' Silt WILLIAM ([[1770]] 7-[[1828]]), scholar and diplomatist; M.P., St. Mawes, 1795, Lostwithiel, 1796 and 1801: F.R.S., 1799; D.O.L. Oxford, 1810; privy councillor, 1801; minister plenipotentiary to Naples, 1801 and 1806; ambassador to the Porte, 1803-6; his chief works,Origines 1824-9. andffidipus Judaicus which explained Old Testament stories as astronomical allegories, 1811.,
William Abernethy Drummond: '''William Abernethy Drummond''' ([[1719]] ?1809), bishop of Edinburgh; of the Abernethy family at Salton; M.D.; episcopalian minister at Edinburgh; assumed his father-Lu-law's surname of Drummond, 1760; bishop of Brechin, 1787; bishop of Edinburgh, 1787-1805; urged episcopalians to submit to Hanoverian dynasty after Prince Charles Edward's death, 1788.
William Hamilton Drummond: '''William Hamilton Drummond''' ([[1778]]-[[1865]]), poet and controversialist; educated at the Belfast Academy and Glasgow College; ordained by the Antrim presbytery to Second Belfast, 1800; D.D. Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1810; colleague to James Armstrong at Strand Street, Dublin, 1815; defended unitarianism in his 4 Doctrine of the Trinity 182 7, and wrote an enthusiastic life of Servetus, 1848; published poems and (1862) I Ancient Irish Minstrelsy
Henry Joseph Thomas Drury: '''Henry Joseph Thomas Drury''' ([[1778]]-[[1841]]), scholar; sou of Joseph Drury; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; fellow of Kind's; M.A., 1804; master of Harrow lower school; edited for Harrow selections from the classic*.
Joseph Drury: '''Joseph Drury''' ([[1750]]-[[1834]]), head-master of Harrow; scholar of Westminster, 1765; elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1 768; assistant-master at Harrow, 1769; head-master, 1785-1805; D.D., 1789: helped to establish Edmund Keau, at Drury Lane Theatre; prebendary of Wells. 1812; repeatedly mentioned as a great schoolmaster by his pupil Byron.
Sir Robert Drury: '''Sir Robert Drury''' (rf. [[1536]]), speaker of the House of Commons; educated at Cambridge; barrister-at-law of Lincoln's Inn; governor, 1488-9, 1492-3, and 1497; knight of the shire for Suffolk; speaker, 1495; took part in attempts to conciliate the Scottish borderers, 1510-13; knight for the body, 1516; commissioner for collection of loan for French war, 1524; member of legal committee of privy council.
Robert Drury: '''Robert Drury''' ([[1567]]-[[1607]]), Roman catholic divine; educated at Douay; ordained priest at Philip Il's College, Valladolid; missiouer in London, 1593; subscribed protestation of allegiance, 1603; executed for remaining in England contrary to 27 Eliz.
Robert Drury: '''Robert Drury''' ([[1587]]-[[1623]]), Jesuit; son of William Drury (rf. 1589); studied in London, and at Douay, St. Omer, and Posua; rector of the college at St. Omer, 1620; missioner in England; Jesuit professed of the four vows, 1622; lost his life at the Fatal Vespers when the floor of a room in the French ambassador's residence at Blacktriars collapsed, 1623.
Robert Drury: '''Robert Drury''' (.#.[[1729]]), traveller; forced to laud in Androy, Madagascar, on his return from Bengal, the ship being disabled; escaped from the massacre of his comrades, and subsequently from slavery; captured by the Sakalavas; ransomed by his father; made a subsequent voyage to Madagascar as a slave trader; published a narrative of his travels, 1729.
Drury: '''Drury''' Sm "WILLIAM ([[1527]]-[[1579]]), marshal of Berwick, and lord-justice to the council in Ireland; educated at Gonville Hall, Cambridge; took part in sieges of Boulogne and Montreuil, 1544; assisted in suppressing Devonshire rising, 1549; declared for Queen Mary, 1553, but, being a protestant, retired into private life; marshal and deputy-governor of Berwick, 1664-76; with Earl of Sussex raided Scotland, 1570; knighted, 1570; commissioned to negotiate a peace in the interest of James Vl's party in Scotland, 1571 and 1672; narrowly escaped assassination on several occasions; reduced Edinburgh Castle, 1573; president of Munster, 1576-8; suppressed the practice of coyue and livery; lord-justice, 1678.

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