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William Drury: '''William Drury''' (1. [[1589]]), civilian; LL.B. ! Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1553; regius professor of civil DRUMMOND-HAY, Sm JOHN HAY (1816-1893), lavv% 1659. LL.D., 1560; advocate at DoctorsCommons, diplomatist; educated at Charterhouse; attache at Con- j 1661. consulted by Elizabeth on points of international stantinople, 1840; consul-general at Morocco, 1845, charge j aw rged by the intrigues of the Bishop of Ross on behalf d'affaires, 1847-60, minister resident, 1860-72, and minister plenipotentiary, 1872-86: K.C.B., 1862; G.C.M.G., 1884; privy councillor, 1886; published Western Barbary and
William Drury: '''William Drury''' (fl. [[1641]]), Latin dramatist ; imprisoned as a Roman catholic, but released through intercession of the Spanish ambassador, c. 1616; taught poetry and rhetoric at the English College, Douay, 1618; of Mary Stuart, 1571; master of the prerogative court of Canterbury, 1577; master in chancery, 1685. other writings.
Hew Dalrymple Drummore: '''Hew Dalrymple Drummore''' , LORD ([[1690]]1765).
Sir Dru Drury: '''Sir Dru Drury''' or DRUE ([[1631]] ?-[[1617]]), courtier ; brother of Sir William Drury; gentleman- usher of the privy chamber to Elizabeth and James I; knighted, 1579; joint-warder of Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringay, 1586.
Dru Drury: '''Dru Drury''' ([[1725]]-[[1803]]), naturalist ; silversmith in the Strand; entomological collector; F.L.S.: correspondent of Linnaeus, Kirby, and Fabricius; wrote on natural history and entomology and published Thoughts on the Precious Metals 1801.
Henry Drury: '''Henry Drury''' ([[1812]]-[[1863]]), archdeacon of Wilts : educated at Harrow and Oaius College, Cambridge: Browne medallist, 1833 and 1835: M.A., 1840; classical lecturer at Caius, 1838-9: prebendary of Salisbury, 1865: chaplain to the House of Commons, 1867; archdeacon of Wilts, 1862-3; projected and published Arundines Cami 1841. author of two Latin tragi-couiedies and farce. Mora a Latin
Sir Richard Dry: '''Sir Richard Dry''' ([[1815]]-[[1869]]), Tasmaniau statesman; born at Elphin, Tasmania; nominated to the old council (1844) by Lieuteuant-Govemor Sir John Eardley Wilmot; opponent of Wilmot's financial schemes, and one of the * patriotic six: member for Lauuceston in new legislative council, 1851; speaker of new legislative council, 1851-5; procured abolition of transportation, 1853; knighted, 1858; colonial secretary and premier, 1866-9.
Jonas Dryander: '''Jonas Dryander''' ([[1748]]-[[1810]]), botanist: native of Sweden, and graduate of Lund; original fellow and librarian of the Royal Society; vice-president of the Linnean Society; compiled a valuableCatalogus Bibliothecse Historico-Naturalis Josephi Banks, Baronetti 1790-1800.
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Ducarel: '''Ducarel'''
Charles Dryden: '''Charles Dryden''' ([[1666]]-[[1704]]), chamberlain to Pope Innocent XII: eldest sou of John Drydeu (16311700); educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Oxford: translated Juvenal's seventh satire for bis father's version, 1692: his horoscope calculated by his father; drowned in the Thames.
Sir Erasmus Henry Dryden: '''Sir Erasmus Henry Dryden''' ([[1669]]-[[1710]]), third son of John Dryden (1631-1700); scholar at the Charterhouse; studied at Douay; sub-prior of the convent of Holy Cross, Bornheim, 1697-1700; missioner in Northamptonshire; baronet by succession, 1710.
John Drydebt: '''John Drydebt''' ([[1631]]-[[1700]]), poet ; scholar of Westminter and Trinity College, Cambridge: B.A., 1654; clerk to his cousin, Sir Gilbert Pickering, Cromwell's chamberlain: bewailed Cromwell's death in Heroic Stanzas 1658; published *Astnea Redux 1660, and a 'Panegyric* in honour of the Restoration, 16(51: M.R.S., 1662: failed in his first play, The Wild Gallant 1663; brought out the * Rival Ladies," 1663, and the Indian Emperor 1665; wrote Annus Mirabilis in 1666 or 1667, and published an Essay on Dramatic Poesy defending the use of rhyme in tragedy, 1668; M.A. Lambeth, 1668; poet laureate and historiographer, 1670; wrote about fourteen plays between 1668 and 1681; produced Amboyna a tragedy designed to exasperate England against the Dutch, 1673, andThe Spanish Friar an attack on the papists, 1681; wrote Tyrannic Loveand 1752; exposed her father's heartlessness in Poems by a Lady of Quality 1764; publishedTheodora(novel), 1770, and The Lady's Polite Secretary 1772.
Bois Dti: '''Bois Dti''' , EDWARD ([[1622]]-[[1699]] ?), painter ; brother of Simon Du Bois; studied antiques in Italy, and executed some works for Charles Emmanuel, duke of Savoy; painted landscapes and historical subjects. DU BOIS, EDWARD (1774-1860), wit and man of letters; barrister, Inner Temple, 1809; conducted the European Magazine nnd edited the Lady's Magazine and the Monthly Mirror: friend of Sir Philip Francis ; assistant judge in the court of requests; treasurer and secretary of the Metropolitan Lunacy Commission, 1833-46. His works include tales, verses, and a satire on Sir John Carr's travels, entitled My Pocket-book 1807, which Jed Carr to bring against him a lawsuit which failed, 1808. DU BOIS, SIMON (d. 1708), painter; of Dutch or Flemish origin; took to painting cattle pictures after a course of instruction from Wouvermans; sold many of his pictures as the works of the great masters; came to England as a portrait-painter, 1686: befriended by Lordchuncellor Soiners. Among his sitters were Archbishop Tenison and William Bentinck, first earl of- Portland. DU BOSC, CLAUDE (1682-1 745?), engraver 3; born in Almanzor and Almahide 1669 and 1670; produced France; temporarily assisted (Sir) Nicholas Dorigny Aurengzebe his last rhymed tragedy, 1675; planned an engraving the cartoons of Raphael at Hampton Court, epic poem; produced All for Love his finest play, 1678; adapted Shakespeare'sTempest and (1679) Troilus and Cressida; his rhyming tragedies ridiculed in the Rehearsal 1671; involved in a literary controversy with Elkanah Settle, 1673; assaulted, probably at the instigation of John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester, 1679; satirised Shaftesbury in Absalom and Achitophel 1681: published The Medal a satire on the ignoramus of the grand jury at Shaftesbury's trial, 1682; lampooned his detractor, Shadwell, in Mac Flecknoe 1682; revised the whole of the second part of Absalom and Achitophel 1682; defended Anglicanism in his poem Religio Laici 1682; collector of customs in the port of London, 1683; panegyrised Charles II in Albion and Albaniusand King Arthur two operas, 1685; converted j Legion 1696. Raphael at Hampton 1712: engraved plates illustrative of the battles of Marlborough and Prince Eugene, 1714-17.
Isaac Dubourdieu: '''Isaac Dubourdieu''' ([[1597]] 7-[[1692]] ?), French protestant minister at Montpellier; minister of the Savoy Chapel, London: publishedA Discourse of Obedience unto Kings and Magistrates 1684.
Jean Dubourdieu: '''Jean Dubourdieu''' ([[1642]]?-[[1720]]), French protestant minister; son of Isaac Dubourdieu; pastor at Montpellier; argued with Bossuet on mariolatry, 1682; Duke of Schomberg's chaplain at the battle of the Boyne, 1690; chaplain to his son, Duke Charles, at Marsiglia, 1693: pastor of the French church in the Savoy: published An Historical Dissertation upon the Thebean to Roman Catholicism, 1686: employed by James II to answer Stillingfleet; published The Hind and the Panther 1687; deprived of the laureateship, 1689; finished his career as a playwright withLove Triumphant a tragi -comedy, 1694; translated Juvenal and Persius, 1693; published a translation of Virgil which pleased the public, but was sharply criticised by Swift and Bentley, 1697; wrote Alexander's Feast for a London musical society, 1697; publishedFables, Ancient and Modern 1700.
John Dryden: '''John Dryden''' ([[1668]]-[[1701]]), writer: second son of John Dryden (1631-1700); educated at Westminster and University College, Oxford: died at Rome; translated Juvenal's fourteenth satire for his father's version, and wrote one mediocre comedy.
John Drysdale: '''John Drysdale''' ([[1718]]-[[1788]]), Scottish divine; entered Edinburgh University, 1732; presented to Lady I Tester's Church, Edinburgh, 1762; D.D. Marischal Col- DUI lege, Aberdeen, 1765: minister of the Tron Church, Edin- reputed founder of the bishopric of Llandaff. The 1 * 1 " v
Jean Armand Dubourdieu: '''Jean Armand Dubourdieu''' (d. [[1726]]), controversialist; son or nephew of Jean Dubourdieu; pastor of the Savoy French church; rector of SawtreyMoynes, 1701; cited before the bishop of London for lampooning Louis XIV, 1713; published pamphlets and sermons.
George Dubourg: '''George Dubourg''' ([[1799]]-[[1832]]), author of 'The Violin, being an account of that leading Instrument and its most eminent Professors 1836; grandson of Matthew Dubourg
Matthew Dubourg: '''Matthew Dubourg''' ([[1703]]-[[1767]]), violinist : played a solo at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, 1715: master of the viceroy of Ireland's band, 1728-67: played at Handel's Oratorio concerts at Co vent Garden, 1741 and 1742; on one occasion loudly applauded by Handel; master of George IPs band, 1752.
Dubrictus: '''Dubrictus''' (in Welsh DYFRIG), SAINT (d. [[612]]), burgh, 1767; royal chaplain; principal clerk of the general assembly, 1785; friend of Adam Smith
Matthew Duane: '''Matthew Duane''' ([[1707]]-[[1785]]), coin collector, antiquary, and conveyancer: F.R.S. and F.S.A.; pub- j lished Explication de quelques Medailles Pheuiciennes du i Cabinet de M. Duane 1774.
Dubhdalethe: '''Dubhdalethe''' (rf. [[1064]]), primate (comharb) of , Armagh, 1049; made war on the abbot of Clonard, 1055: i wrote Annals of Ireland adopting chronology of the Phri-tian era.
Charles Dubois: '''Charles Dubois''' (d. [[1740]]), treasurer to the East j India Company: cultivated exotics at Mitcham, Surrey; contributed observations to the third edition of Ray's 'Synopsis 1724. DU BOIS, LADY DOROTHEA (1728-1774), authoress: I daughter of Richard Annesley, sixth earl of Anglesey , who repudiated his marriage and disinherited his twelfth century Lectiones de vita Sancti Dubricii describe him as founder of a university at Henllan on the Wye, and grandson of Pebiau, a British king. Geoffrey of Monmouth fabulously state? that he crowned Arthur king of Britain and was archbishop of Caerleon.

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Maccu Lugir Dubthach: '''Maccu Lugir Dubthach''' (5th cent,), chief poet and brehon of Laogaire, king of Ireland: baptised by St. Patrick; author of three poems on Leinster history preserved in theBook of Leinsterand a poem in the Book of Rights one of the nine who drew up theSon cli us Mor code (completed A.I). 441).
Andrew Coltee Ducarel: '''Andrew Coltee Ducarel''' ([[1713]]-[[1785]]), civilian and antiquary; born in Normandy: scholar at Eton and gentleman commoner. St. John's College, Oxford: D.C.L., 1742; member of the College of Advocate?, 1743; commissary and official of the city and diocese of Canterbury. 1758; F.S.A., 1737; F.R.S., 1762: keeper of the Lambeth library from 1757 until his death: arranged the archives children, 1740; married Du Bois, a French musician, of the state paper office (1763) and augmentation office;
Duchah: '''Duchah'''
Dudley: '''Dudley''' made frequent antiquarian tours. Among his printed works isA Tour through Normandy ITS I. He left in MS.Tcstaim-nta LumbethuiKi (1312-1636)
Dtjchal: '''Dtjchal''' .IAMK.- ( ic.'.i? -1T.l ). Irish presbytrrian divine; M.A. (tlasirow ll--: Imdor of the non-subscribing presbyterians in Antrim, 17:10; D.D. Glasgow, :v; renowned as a liberal thinker and sermon-writer.
Ducie: '''Ducie''' second KAKI, OK ([[1802]]-[[1853]]). See MORKTOX,
John Ki Hkxry: '''John Ki Hkxry''' :VNOI,IS-.
Duck: '''Duck''' Sm ARTHUR ([[1580]]-[[1648]]), civilian: B.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1599; M.A. Hart Hall, 1602; fellow of All Souls 1C04: LL.D., 1612; advocate at DoctorsCommons. lt;l I: M.T.. MinHiead, 1024 and Ui4(i: chancellor of the diocese of London, c. 1628; chancellor of Bath and Wells. 1635; pleaded an ecclesiastical case on behalf of Laud, 1633; master in chancerv, 1645: published a LatinLife of Chiehely 1617. A book by him on Roman civil law appeared 1653.
Sik Duck: '''Sik Duck''' .JOHN", first baronet (d. [[1691]]), mayor of Durham; mayor, 16HO: created baronet. 1686; his prosperity said to have been prognosticated by a raven dropping a gold Jacobus at his feet.
Nicholas Duck: '''Nicholas Duck''' ([[1570]]-[[1628]]). lawyer; entered Exeter College, Oxford, 1584: barrister of Lincoln's Inn; governor of the Inn, 1615-28; recorder of Exeter, 1618.
Stephen Duck: '''Stephen Duck''' ([[1705]]-[[1756]]), poet: agricultural labourer in Wiltshire: made yeoman of the guard by Queen Caroline. 1733: publishedPoems on Several Occasions 1736; rector of Byfleet, 1752: wrote, in imitation of Denham, Caesar's Camp on St. George's Hill 1755; drowned himself in a fit of dejection.
Robert Duckenfield: '''Robert Duckenfield''' ([[1619]]-[[1689]]), colonel in the parliamentarian army; defeated at Stockport bridge, 1644; governor of Chester, 1650; reduced the Isle of Man. when governor designate, 1651; M.P., Cheshire, 1653; assisted in suppressing Sir George Booth's Cheshire Rising 1659; imprisoned, 1665-c. 1667.
Andrew Ducket: '''Andrew Ducket''' (d. [[1484]]).
George Duckett: '''George Duckett''' (d. [[1732]]), author ; M.P., Calne, 1705, 1708, and 1722; commissioner of excise, 1722-32: issued, perhaps in conjunction with Sir Thomas Burnet (1694-1753), Homerides an unfavourable criticism of Pope'sHind 1715; publishedA Summary of all the Religious Houses in England and Wales (anonymous), 1717.
James Duckett: '''James Duckett''' (d. [[1601]]), bookseller : hanged for having Roman catholic books in his possession.
John Duckett: '''John Duckett''' ([[1613]]-[[1644]]), Roman catholic priest: educated at the English college, Douay; misBioner in Durham; executed by the parliamentarians.
William Duckett: '''William Duckett''' ([[1768]]-[[1841]]), United Irishman; contributor to the revolutionary Northern Star; outlawed by the Irish parliament; settled in Paris (1796), where he was regarded with unfounded suspicion by Wolfe Tone: professor at the resuscitated college SainteBarbe, Paris, c. 1803; issued a Nouvelle Grammaire Anglaise 1828.
Duckworth: '''Duckworth''' Sin JOHN THOMAS, first baronet (1748-1817), admiral: left Eton, and served as a volunteer at the battles of Lagos Bay and Quiberon Bay, 1759; lieutenant, 1771; flag-captain to Rear-admiral Sir Joshua Rowley in Jamaica, 1780; officially mentioned by Howe after action off Usbant, 1794; rear-admiral of the white, 1799; took possession of St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, and other Swedish and Danish possessions in West Indies, 1801; K.B., 1801: commander-in-chief at Jamaica, 18031805; acquitted by court-martial of the charge of usintr the frigate Acasta as a private merchantman, 1806; completely defeated French squadron off San Domineo. 1806; sent to dictate conditions at Constantinople, but prevented by local circumstances from approaching within eight mile? of the city, 1K07: governor and commanderin-chief of Newfoundland, 1810-13; admiral, 1810; created baronet, 1813.
Richard Duckworth: '''Richard Duckworth''' (.rf. [[1695]]), author of works on campanology; M.A. New Inn Hall, Oxford, 1653; B.D. and fellow of Brasenoee; rector of Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, 1679; principal of St. Alhan Hall, 1692.
Andrew Ducrow: '''Andrew Ducrow''' ([[1793]]-[[1842]]), equestrian performer; son of a Flemish strong man: chief equestrian at Astley's, 1808: pantomimist at the Royal Circus, St. George'ri Fields, 1813; travelled professionally through Francf and Flmiders; pnxluoed spectacles at Drury Lane, 1833; patronised by William IV.
William Dudgeon: '''William Dudgeon''' (fl. [[1765]]), philosophical writer.
William Dudgeon: '''William Dudgeon''' ([[1753]]7-[[1813]]), poet and farmer: author of The Maid that tends the Goats and other songs; commended by Robert Burns.
Viscounts Dudhope: '''Viscounts Dudhope''' . See STRYNHU'OUH, JOHN, d. 1643; SCKYMOKOUR. JAMKS, second VISCOUNT, rf. 1044; SCRYMOKOUR, JOHN, third VISCOUNT, d. 1668.
Dudley: '''Dudley''' first EARL OK ([[1781]]-[[1833]]). See WARP,
William John: '''William John''' .

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Alice Dudley: '''Alice Dudley''' , DUCHESS DUPLKY (d. [[1669]]), wife of Sir Robert Dudley (1573-1649): deserted by her husband, 1605; created Duchess Dudley in her own right, 1645.
Ambrose Dudley: '''Ambrose Dudley''' , EARL OP WARWICK ([[1528]]?1590), third son of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland ; knighted, 1549: convicted of treason for supporting his sister-in-law. Lady Jane Grey, but pardoned, 1554; assisted Spaniards at siege of St. Quentin, 1557: master of the ordnance, 1660; succeeded his father as Earl of Warwick, 1561: sent to help the protestants of Havre, 1562: expelled the inhabitants of Havre, his life being threatened: besieged in Havre, Prince Cond6 having come to terms with the catholics, 1563; capitulated, 1563; M.A. Cambridge, 1564; D.C.L. Oxford, 1666; privy councillor, 1573: lieutenant of the order of the Garter, 1575: took part in the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, who appealed to his sense of justice, 1586.
Lady Amye Dudley: '''Lady Amye Dudley''' , ([[1532]] ?-l[[560]]), n& Robsart : married Robert Dudley, afterwards earl of Leicester, 1550; found dead at the foot of a staircase in Cumnor Hall, Oxfordshire, where she was residing; her death probably due to suicide, though laid by common report to Leicester's charge.
Sir Andrew Dudley: '''Sir Andrew Dudley''' (d. [[1559]]). adherent of Lady Jane Grey: son of Edmund Dudley; admiral of the northern seas, 1547; knighted, 1547; keeper of the palace of Westminster and captain of Guisnes; K.G., 1653: condemned for supporting Lady Jane Grey, but set at liberty, 1555.
Dud Dudley: '''Dud Dudley''' ([[1599]]-[[1684]]), ironmaster : summoned from Balliol College, Oxford, to superintend his father's ironworks at Pensnet, Worcestershire, 1619: first to use pit-coal successfully in smelting iron ore: patentee, 1619 and 1639: colonel under Charles I: general of the ordnance to Prince Maurice; condemned, but not executed, 1648; published Metallum Martis 1665.
Edmund Dudley: '''Edmund Dudley''' ([[1462]]?-! [[510]]), statesman and lawyer; student at Oxford, 1478; studied law at Gray's I Inn; privy councillor, 1485 ?; nnder-sherift of London, I 1497; associated Sir Richard Empson with himself in work of rearranging taxes and feudal dues under Henry VII; speaker in the House of Commons, 1504; ; suspected of corruption: argued for absolute monarchy ! in his Tree of Commonwealth (privately printed, 1859); I executed on a charge of constructive treason, 1510, inconsequence of his having bidden his friends arm themselves i in the event of Henry VII's death.
Edward Dudley: '''Edward Dudley''' , fourth BAROX DUPLKY (d. 1586): served in Ireland (1536) and Scotland (1546); I knighted, 1563; lieutenant of Hampnes, Picardy, 1556-8; entertained Queen Elizabeth at Dudley Castle, 1576.
Lord Guildford Dudley: '''Lord Guildford Dudley''' (d. [[1554]]), husband of : Lady Jane Grey: fourth son of John Dudley, duke of j Northumberland; married to Lady Jane Grey in I accordance with the self-aggrandising policy of Northumberland, 1553: beheaded, 1654.
Lord Henry Dudley: '''Lord Henry Dudley''' ([[1531]] ?-[[1557]]), fourth son of i John Dudley, duke of Northumberland; arrested for complicity in his father's conspiracy, 1553, but pardoned, 1654; killed at battle of St. Queutiu.
Dudley: '''Dudley'''
Duff: '''Duff'''
Sir Henry Dudley: '''Sir Henry Dudley''' (rf. [[1565]] ?), conspirator ; son of John (Sutton) de Dudley, sixth baron Dudley: captain of guards at Boulogne, 1547; captain of the guard, 1550; captain of Guisnes, 1551; knighted, 1551; vice-admiral of the Narrow Seas, 1652; devised plot to rob exchequer, marry Princess Elizabeth to Courtt-nuy, and depose Philip and Mary, 1556; proclaimed traitor iu England, but received by French king, Henry II, and continued intrigues iu France; probably returned to England before 1564, and died c. 1565.
Sir Henry Bate Dudley: '''Sir Henry Bate Dudley''' , first baronet ([[1745]]1824), journalist; curate of Hendon, c. 1773; editor of the Morning Post; started theMorning Herald 1780; nicknamed the Fighting Parson; imprisoned, 1781, for libel on Duke of Richmond; bought the advowson of Brad well- juxta-Mare, Essex, 1781, but, in consequence of charges of simony, was never instituted: chancellor of Ferns, 1805; created baronet, 1813; prebendary of Ely, 1817; author of a satire, comic operas, and dramatic adaptations.
Howard Dudley: '''Howard Dudley''' ([[1820]]-[[1864]]), wood engraver; wrote, printed, and engraved description of part of Sussex and Hants, 1835, and a similar work, 1836.
Lady Jane Dudley: '''Lady Jane Dudley''' , ([[1537]]-[[1554]]), commonly called LADY JANE GIIKY, daughter of Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk; Greek scholar and humanist; married to Lord Guildford Dudley, in pursuance of plot for altering succession from Tudor to Dudley family, 1553; proclaimed queen, 1553; her short and unsought sovereignty ruined on the dispersion of the troops under her father-in-law, Northumberland, 1553; executed, after Wyatt's rebellion, 1554.
John Dudley: '''John Dudley''' (SUTTON) DR, sixth BARON DUDLEY (1401 ?-1487), statesman; regularly summoned to parliament from 1440 to 1487; viceroy of Ireland, 1428-30; employed on various diplomatic missions; K.G., 1451; taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the battle of St. Albnns, 1455; received into favour by Edward IV.
John Dudley: '''John Dudley''' , DUKK OP NORTHUMBERLAND (15027-1553), sou of Edmund Dudley; knighted by the Duke of Suffolk in France, 1523; deputy-governor of Calais, 1638; warden of the Scottish marches, 1542; created Viscount Lisle; great admiral, 1542-7; privy councillor and K.G., 1543; led the assault on Boulogne, 1544; governor of Boulogne, 1544-6; joint-regent, acquiescing in Somerset's sole protectorate, 1547: created Karl of Warwick, and high chamberlain of England, 1647; defeated the Scots at Pinkie, 1547, and Ket's followers at Dussindale, 1549: created earl marshal and Duke of Northumberland, 1551; procured the execution of Somerset, 1552; chancellor of Cambridge University, 1552; obtained from Edward VI letters patentfor the limitation of the crown and, with the same object of altering the succession, married his son. Lord Guildford Dudley, to Lady Jane Grey, 1553; executed for resisting actively the succession of Mary to the throne, 1553; avowed himself a Roman catholic upon the scaffold.
John Dudley: '''John Dudley''' , LORD LISLE and EARL OP WAR-
Wick: '''Wick''' (rf. [[1554]]), son of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland; master of the horse to Edward VI, 1552; condemned to death as a supporter of Lady Jane Grey, but pardoned, 1554.
John Dudley: '''John Dudley''' ([[1762]]-[[1856]]), miscellaneous writer ; second wrangler, Clare College, Cambridge, 1785; fellow, 1787; tutor and M.A., 1788; vicar of Sileby, 1795-1856; chief works, Naology 1846, and The An ti- Materialist 1849.
Lettice Dudley: '''Lettice Dudley''' , COUNTESS OF LEICESTER ([[1641]] ?1634), eldest daughter of Sir Francis Knollys; married as her first husband Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex; married as hor second husband Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, 1578.
Robert Dudley: '''Robert Dudley''' , EARL OP LEICESTER ([[1532]] ?1588), Queen Elizabeth's favourite; fifth son of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland; knighted in Edward VI's reign: married Amye Robsart, 1560 see DUDLEY, AMYE, LADY: M.P., Norfolk, 1553; proclaimed his iieter-in-law, Lady Jane, at King's Lynn, 1553; par doned by Queen Mary for Mropattng Lady Jane, 1554; master of the ordnance before St. Quentin, 1557: K.f}. and I privy councillor, 1559; favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who, to encourage him, affected to disdain the suit of the Archduke Charles, 1660; supposed by some, including the author ofLeicester's Commonwealth(printed 1584), to have brought about the murder of his wife Amye, 1660; attempted, with the queen's consent, to obtain Spanish support for his projected marriage with Elizabeth at the price of acknowledging the papal supremacy, 1561; displeased Elizabeth by his presumptuous behaviour, 1563; high steward of Cambridge University, 1562; created Baron Denbigh and Earl of Leicester, 1564; his efforts for the hand of Elizabeth opposed by Cecil and the nobility; chancellor of Oxford University, 1564; induced by his dislike of Cecil to abet the rebellion of the northern earls, 1569: secretly married Lady Sheffield, 1573, whose husband he was said to have poisoned; entertained the queen with masques at Kenilworth, 1675; took part in Drake's expedition, 1577; married Lettice Knollys, countess of Essex, 1578; charged by Elizabeth with being in league with the Prince of Orange, an imputation which he admitted, 1581; suggested association for the protection of the queen's person, 1584; commanded expedition to assist United Provinces against Spain, 1585, and was chosen absolute governor, 1586; allowed by Elizabeth, after some insincere manifestations of displeasure, to remain in the post; carried on an indecisive campaign against the Spaniards; finally recalled, 1587; diedof a continual fever or, according to some authorities, of poison, 1588. Roger Ascham credits him with literary taste. He showed interest in the drama.
Sir Robert Dudley: '''Sir Robert Dudley''' , styled DUKE OP NORTH-
Umberland: '''Umberland''' and EARL OP WARWICK ([[1673]]-[[1649]]), naval commander and inventor; son of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester; entered Christ Church, Oxford, 1587; explored Guiana, 1594; knighted by Essex at Cadiz, 1596; repudiated his marriage with Alice Leigh, 1605, and settled at Florence with one Elizabeth Southwell; refused to return and answer a charge of having assumed the title of Earl of Warwick, 1607; suggested the building of a new class of warships, called Gallizabras, for the English navy, 1612; created Earl of Warwick, and Duke of Northumberland in the Holy Roman Empire, 1620; drained the morass between Pisa and the sea; died at Villa Castello, the gift of Cosmo II, duke of Tuscany. Chief work, DellArcano del Mare dealing with naval architecture, navigation, and kindred subjects, published 1646 and 1647.
Thomas Dudley: '''Thomas Dudley''' (fl. [[1670]]-[[1680]]), engraver; executed etchings representing the life of -Esop, 1678, and portraits of John IV and Peter II of Portugal.

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William Dudley: '''William Dudley''' (rf. [[1483]]), bishop of Durham ; son of John (Sutton) de Dudley, sixth baron: M.A. University College, Oxford, 1457; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1468-73; dean of Windsor, 1473; prebendary of Wells, 1476; bishop of Durham, 1476; chancellor of Oxford University, 1483.
William Duesbury: '''William Duesbury''' ([[1725]]-[[1786]]), china manufacturer; learnt the art of making china figures from Andrew Planche, a French refugee; founded the Derby ceramic industry.
William Duesbury: '''William Duesbury''' ([[1763]]-1 79G), china manufacturer; son of William Duesbury (1725-1786); proprietor of the Duesbury China Works, Derby.
Duff: '''Duff''' (Dubh, the Black) (rf. [[967]]), king of Celtic Alban (Scotland): killed at Forres, fighting against the usurper Colin. There is a legend that the sun did not shine till his body was found and buried.
Alexander Duff: '''Alexander Duff''' ([[1806]]-[[1878]]), missionary; studied at St. Andrews: opened mission school at Calcutta, 1830; encouraged by Lord William Cavendish Bentinck i governor-general: wrote against Lord Auckland's policy of making a compromise betweenOrientalist* and European education for India, 1839; chairman of the general assembly of the Free church, 1861; D.D. Aberdeen: LL.D. New York, 1864; condemned Canning's policy inThe Indian Mutiny: its Causes and Result1868; assisted in framing the constitution of Calcutta University; founded missionary chair in New College,
Duff: '''Duff'''
Duke: '''Duke''' Edinburgh; first missionary professor: published pamphlets ou the church of Scotland aud higher education iu India.
Andrew Ualliday Duff: '''Andrew Ualliday Duff''' ([[1830]]-[[1877]]). See
Ualliuay: '''Ualliuay'''
Jam Ks Duff: '''Jam Ks Duff''' . s-TOMd Kvui. OK I- IKK ([[1729]]-18O9) : M.I for Bauflf, 1754, 1761, 1768, 1774, un.l 17MO, for Khin county, 1784; created Baron Fife, 1790; lord-lieutenant of county Banff; did much for the improvement of agriculture and cattle-breeding.
Duff: '''Duff''' Sin JAMES ([[1752]]-[[1839]]), general: lieutenant and captuin, grenadier guards, 1775; knighted, 1779; major-general, 1794; received command of Limerick ill trict, 1797; kept Limerick quiet during insurrection of 1798; general, 1809.
James Duff: '''James Duff''' , fourth EARL OK FIFE ([[1776]]-[[1857]]), Spanish general: volunteered to help the Spaniards against Napoleon; fought at Talavera as major-general in the Spanish service, 1809; fourth Earl of Fife In Scottish peerage. 1811; M.P., Banffshire, 1818; created Baron Fife in British peerage and K.T., 1827.
James Grant Duff: '''James Grant Duff''' ([[1789]]-[[1858]]), historian : educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; East India cadet, 1805; adjutant and Persian interpreter, Bombay grenadiers; assistant to Mountstuart Elphiustone, resident of Poona: served against the Peishwa Bit jee Rao; resident of Sattara, 1818-22: published in Scotland a History of the Mahrattas 1826.
Robert Duff: '''Robert Duff''' (d. [[1787]]). vice-admiral ; when senior officer of a squadron on the south coast of Bretague, drew the French into the main body of the English fleet, the battle of Quiberon Bay ensuing,! 759; commander-in-chief at Newfoundland, 1775-7; vice-admiral, 1778; co-operated at siege of Gibraltar, 1779.
Sir Robert William Duff: '''Sir Robert William Duff''' , for some time styled
William Dufp Abercromby Robkrt: '''William Dufp Abercromby Robkrt''' ([[1835]]-[[1895]]), governor of New South Wales: entered navy, 1848, and was commander, 1865: liberal M.P. for Banffshire, 1861-93: junior lord of treasury and liberal whip, 1882-5; junior lord of admiralty, 1886; privy councillor, 1892; G.C.M.G. and governor of New South Wales, 1893-6.
William Duff: '''William Duff''' ([[1732]]-[[1815]]), miscellaneous writer : M.A.; appointed to the ministry of various parishes by the Scottish presbytery; father of the synod; published 'An Essay on Original Genius 1767, andRhedi an oriental tale, 1773, and ethical writings.
Duff: '''Duff''' -GORDON, LUOIE or LUOY, LADY ([[1821]]1869), author and translator; only child of John Austin (1790-1869); married Sir A. 0. Duff -Gordon, bart., 1840; their house in London a rendezvous for English and foreign celebrities; lived in Egypt from 1862 and died at Cairo; translated Niebuhr'sAncient Greek Mythology (1839), Meinhold's Mary Schweidlet (1844). Ranke's Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg (1847), and Ferdinand I and Maximilian II (1863), and Moltke's Russians in Bulgaria (1854); edited Van Sybel's History of the Crusades(1861); published Letters from Egypt
Lady Dufferin: '''Lady Dufferin''' ([[1807]]-[[1867]]). See SHERIDAN,
Selina Helen: '''Selina Helen''' .
Thomas Duffet: '''Thomas Duffet''' (fl. [[1678]]), dramatist : travestied contemporary plays, including Dryden and D'Avenant's alteration of Shakespeare's Tempest 1675.
Alexander James Duffield: '''Alexander James Duffield''' ([[1821]]-[[1890]]), Spanish scholar; engaged as mining chemist in Bolivia and Peru: travelled widely in Spain and in various parts of the world; published a valuable translation of Don Quixote 1881, and other writings, including novels and works relating to his travels.
William Duffield: '''William Duffield''' ([[1816]]-[[1863]]). still-life painter ; studied at the Royal Academy, and worked under Baron Wappers at Antwerp.
Edward Duffy: '''Edward Duffy''' ([[1840]]-[[1868]]), Fenian leader in Connaught; sentenced to fifteen yearspenal servitude, 1867.
Nicolas Gouin Dufief: '''Nicolas Gouin Dufief''' ([[1776]] ?-[[1834]]), French teacher; native of Nantes; served under Count d'Hector, 1792; emigrated to America, 1793; taught French in America and England; chief work, Nature displayed iu her Mode of teaching Language to Man Itflb.

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Samuel Dugard: '''Samuel Dugard''' ([[1645]] V-[[1697]]), divine : scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, 1662: fellow and M.A., 1667; rector of Forton; prebendary of Liohneld, 1097; pul.li-hed ethical writings.
William Dugard: '''William Dugard''' ([[1606]]-[[1662]]), schoolmaster : M.A. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1630; master of Stamford (1630), and Colchester grammar schools, 1637143; head- master of Merchant Taylors 1644-50: dismissed and imprisoned by council of state for printing Salmasius's Defensio regia pro Carolo priino 1650; reinstated by Bradshaw, 1650; dismissed by the governors, 1661; published works on Latin and Greek,
John Dugdale: '''John Dugdale''' ([[1628]]-[[1700]]), herald ; son of Sir William Dugdale: Norroy herald, and knighted, 16H6; wrote continuation of his father's autobiography first published in 1827.
Richard Dugdale: '''Richard Dugdale''' (fl. [[1697]]), Surey demoniac : enabled by his liability to hysterical fits to pose as a prophet.
Stephen Dugdale: '''Stephen Dugdale''' ([[1640]] ? - [[1683]]), informer ; steward to Lord Aston at Tixall, Staffordshire, 1677; intimate with Romanist priests; speciously pretended knowledge of the Popish plot 1678; appeared airainst hia old associate, Stephen College, 1681.
Sir William Dugdale: '''Sir William Dugdale''' ([[1605]]-[[1686]]), Garter kiugof-arms; employed by Sir Symon Archer, to collect material for a history of Warwickshire; Rouge Croix pursuivant, 1639; commissioned to prepare drawings of monuments and armorial bearings in Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's, and other churches, 1041; accompanied Charles I to Oxford; M.A., 1642: Chester herald. 1644: brought out the first volume of Monasticon Anglicanum conjointly with Roger Dodsworth, 1655 (second volume, 1661); issuedAntiquities of Warwickshire 1656; proclaimed Charles II at Coleshill, 1660: Norroy, 1660: produced a History of Imbanking and Drayuing of divers Fenns and Marshes 1662, and Originee Juridteiales, 1666; brought out the third volume of Monasticon 1673; theMonasticon admitted as circumstantial evidence in the courts at Westminster; Garter king-ofarms and knighted, 1677; published theBaronage of England 1676-6; correspondent of Sir Thomas Browne
Gabriel Dugres: '''Gabriel Dugres''' (. [[1643]]), grammarian ; born at Saumur; Huguenot refugee, 1631; taught French at Cambridge, and subsequently at Oxford: best known by hisRegulae Pronunciandi 1652, and other works on French grammar. DU GUERNIER, LOUIS (1677-1716), engraver: born in Paris; member of the Great Queen Street academy: assisted Claude du Bosc in engraving Marlborough's battles, 1714.
Bartholomew Thomas Duhigg: '''Bartholomew Thomas Duhigg''' ([[1750]]?1813), Irish legal antiquary; librarian to King's Inns, Dublin; assistant-barrister for co. Wexford: wrote on the insolvent laws and (1806-6) the history of Kind's Inns.
Patrick Duigenan: '''Patrick Duigenan''' ([[1735]]-[[1816]]), Irish' politician; scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, 1756; M.A. and fellow, 1761-71; LL.D., 1765: called to Irish bar, 1767; king's counsel; king's advocate-general of the high court of admiralty of Dublin, 1785; vicar-general of Armagh, Meath, and Elphin; judge of the consistorial court of Dublin; M.P. for Old Leighlin in Irish House of Commons, 1790; privy councillor of Ireland: professor of civil law, Trinity College, Dublin; M.P. for the city of Armagh in the first united parliament, 1801; violently opposed catholic emancipation in Ireland.
Edward Duke: '''Edward Duke''' ([[1779]]-[[1862]]), antiquary ; M.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1807; Wiltshire magistrate: .subsequently engaged in clerical work; fellow of the Linnean Society"; P.S.A.; maintained the existence ofa vast planetarium on the Wiltshire "downs in Druidical Temples of the County of Wilte 1846.
Richard Duke: '''Richard Duke''' ([[158]]-[[1711]]), poet and divine.: educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1682; fellow, 1683; prebendary of Gloucester, 1688;
Dumaresq: '''Dumaresq''' 370
Duncan: '''Duncan''' chaplain to Dr. Jonathan Trelawney, 1707, who (1710) grave him the living of Witney; queen's chaplain; fru-n I of Atterbury and Prior; published occasional poems, including a satiricalPanegyrick upon Gates and (1683) an Ode on the Marriage of Prince George of Denmark and the Lady Anne
Dumares: '''Dumares''' ft, PHILIP ([[1650]] ?-[[1690]]), seigneur of Samares, Jersey; navy captain; jurat of the royal court, 1681: presented James II with a manuscript account of the Channel islands, 1685; friend and correspondent of John Evelyn.
Maurier Dti: '''Maurier Dti''' , GEORGK LOUIS PALMELLA
Busson: '''Busson''' ([[1834]]-[[1896]]), artist in black and white and novelist; born in Paris, where he was educated; studied chemistry at University College, London, 1851: studied art under Gleyre in Paris, 1856-7, and under De Keyser and Van Lerius at Antwerp, 1857-60; worked at book illustrations in London, 1860; contributed occasional drawings to Punch 1860; joined regular staff of Punch 1864, as successor to John Leech, and beuwn literary contributions, in verse and prose, 1865; illustrated stories for 'Cornhill Magazine 1863-83. He published, in the first instance serially, inHarper's Magazine three novels, 'Peter Ibbetson(1891),Trilby(1894), andThe Martian (posthumously, 1896), the first two of which recorded numerous incidents in his own life; Trilby was dramatised and produced at the Haymarket, London, 1895. His artistic work forPunchchiefly satirised middle-class society in the spirit of Thackeray.
Earl of Dumbarton: '''Earl of Dumbarton''' ([[1636]] ?-[[1692]]). See DOUGLAS,
George Lord: '''George Lord''' .
John Op Dumbleton: '''John Op Dumbleton''' (fl. [[1340]]), schoolman ; of Dnmbleton. Gloucestershire; incumbent of Rotherfield Peppard, 1332-4; fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, 1341, also of Merton College; left manuscripts including 'Summa Logicae et Naturalis Philosophic
Sir David Dumbreck: '''Sir David Dumbreck''' ([[1805]]-[[1876]]), army medical officer; licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1825; M.D. Edinburgh, 1830; surgeon-major in the army, 1847-54; senior deputy inspector-general during the Russian war of 1854-5: inspector-general of the medical department, 1859-60; K.C.B., 1871. xvi. 147? DU MOULIN.
Lord Dun: '''Lord Dun''' ([[1670]]-[[1758]]).
Sir Daniel Dun: '''Sir Daniel Dun''' (d. [[1617]]).
Finlay Dun: '''Finlay Dun''' ([[1795]]-[[1853]]), musician; educated at Edinburgh University; first viola player at the San Carlo Theatre, Naples; published solfeggi, 1829; edited collections of Scottish songs.
John Dun: '''John Dun''' ([[1570]] ?-[[1631]]).
Sir Patrick Dun: '''Sir Patrick Dun''' ([[1642]]-[[1713]]), Irish physician ; probably studied at Aberdeen and on the continent; five times president, Dublin College of Physicians; M.D. Dublin; M.P. in Irish House of Commons for Killileagh, 1692, for Mulliugar, 1695 and 1703; obtained new charter for Dublin College of Physicians, 1692; knighted, 1696; physician-general to the army, 1705; left money to found professorship of physic in Dublin College of Physicians; his portrait painted by Kneller.

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Dunan: '''Dunan''' or DONAT ([[1038]]-[[1074]]), first diocesan bishop of Dublin; au Easterling: founded Christ Church, Dublin, c. 1040.
Earl Op Dunbar: '''Earl Op Dunbar''' (d. [[1611]]). See HOME, SIR
George: '''George'''
Dunbar: '''Dunbar''' first VISCOUNT (d. [[1646]]). See CONSTABLE,
Henry: '''Henry'''
Agnes Dunbar: '''Agnes Dunbar''' , COUNTESS OF DUNBAR, called 'BLACK AGNES(1312 ?-1369), daughter of Sir Thomas Randolph, first earl of Moray q. v.1; married Patrick, tenth earl of Dunbar; spiritedly defended Dunbar Castle against the English, 1338, when her husband rebelled against Edward III.
Oolumba Dtjnbar: '''Oolumba Dtjnbar''' ([[1370]]?-[[1436]]), bishop of Moray: grandson of Patrick and Agnes, earl and countess of Dunbar; dean of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth, c. 1403; bishop of Moray, 1422; restored Elgin Cathedral.
Gavin Dunbar: '''Gavin Dunbar''' ([[1455]]7-[[1632]]), bishop of Aberdeen; dean of Moray, 1487; clerk register and privy councillor in Scotland, 1503; confirmed a league between Scotland and France, 1512; bishop of Aberdeen, 1518; imprisoned for his, adherence to the regent Albany by the queen-mother, 1524; released, on the remonstrance of Pope Clement VII, 1524; completed Bishop Elphinstone's bridge across the Dee, and improved St. Machar's Cathedral,
Gavin Dunbar: '''Gavin Dunbar''' (d. [[1547]]), tutor of James V; nephew of Gavin Dunbar (1455V-1532); educated at Glasgow University; dean of Moray and tutor to James V; archbishop of Glasgow, 1525-47; solicited Pope Clement VII for exemption from the jurisdiction of the archbishop of St. Andrews; privy councillor, 1526; lord high chancellor, 1628-39; a lord of the regency, 1536; resigned the chancellorship to David Beaton, cardinal archbishop of St. Andrews, 1539.
George Dunbar: '''George Dunbar''' ([[1774]]-[[1851]]), classical scholar; of humble origin; M.A. and professor of Greek, Edinburgh, 1807-51; edited Herodotus, 1806-7; endeavoured to derive Sanscrit from Greek, 1827; compiled Greek lexicon, with E. H. Barker, 1831.
James Dunbar: '''James Dunbar''' (d. [[1798]]), philosophical writer ; regentat King's College, Aberdeen, 1766; LL.D.; wrote on primitive man, 1780.
Patrick Dunbar: '''Patrick Dunbar''' , tenth EARL op DUNBAR and second EARL OF MARCH (1285-1369), sheltered Edward II after the battle of Bannockburn, 1314; put himself under Edward Ill's protection, 1333; renounced his allegiance to Edward III, 1334; fought against English at Durham, 1338; rebelled against David II, king of Scotland, 1363; surrendered his earldoms to his son George, 1368.
Robert Nugent Dunbar: '''Robert Nugent Dunbar''' (d. [[1866]]), poet ; wrote in verse of the West Indies, where he had resided.
William Dunbar: '''William Dunbar''' ([[1465]] ?-[[1530]] ?), Scottish poet; possibly M.A. of St. Andrews; wrecked off Zealand while carrying out a diplomatic mission for James IV; for a time a Franciscan friar; pensioned, 1500; accompanied embassy to negotiate marriage between James IV and Margaret Tudor: wrote The Thrissill and the Rois his first great poem, hi 1503; produced a satire, entitled The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis between 1503 and 1508, The Goldyn Targe (allegorical poem), and the Lament for the Makaris a magnificent elegy; described Queen Margaret's visit (1511) to the North of Scotland inThe Quenis Progress at Aberdeen; by some supposed to have fallen at Flodden (1513), by others to have written the Orisone after 1517.
Baron Dunboyne: '''Baron Dunboyne''' (d. [[1800]]).
Duncan: '''Duncan''' I (d. [[1040]]), king of Scotland ; probably appointed king over the Strathclyde Welsh, c. 1018; his Cumbrian subjects harried by Eadulf, earl of the Northumbrians, 1038; made yearly progresses through Scotland to restrain oppression; defeated and slain, some say assassinated, by Maelbaethe or Macbeth, mormaer of Moray.
Duncan: '''Duncan''' n (d. [[1094]]), king of Scotland : eldest son of Malcolm Oanmore; released from captivity in Normandy and knighted by Robert, William I's sou, 1087; supported by the Normans against the usurpation of his uncle. Donald Bane, but compelled, when conqueror, to dismiss his allies; treacherously slain at Donald Bane's instipation.
Adam Duncan: '''Adam Duncan''' , VISCOUNT DUNCAN ([[1731]]-[[1804]]), admiral; naval lieutenant, 1755; present at the blockade of Brest, 1769: commanded the Royal Exchange, a hired i vessel, employed hi petty convoy service, till it was put I out of commission, 1769-60; helped to reduce Belle Isle, i 1761, and Havana, 1762; eat on the court-martial on Keppel, with whom he showed much sympathy, and on i that on Sir Hugh Palliser, 1779; admiral, 1795; commander- in-chief in the North Sea, 1795-1801; prevented the mutiny of 1797 from extending to his flagship, the Venerable; defeated the Dutch admiral, Le Winter, off Camperdowu, 1797; created Baron Duncan of Lundie and Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, 1797.
Duncan: '''Duncan''' 371
Dunoannon: '''Dunoannon'''
Duncan: '''Duncan''' .* MU!:Y, the elder([[1744]]-[[1828]]), physician and professor, tMinlmrgh University; M.A. St. Andrews, . tiiiii-s pivMlrnt. of tin- Koyal Medical Sncu-ty; surgeon on board the East ludiaman, Asia, bound for Cli ina, 1708; M.D. St. Andrews, 1769; founder of the Koyal 1'ublic Dispensary, Edinburgh (incorporated, 1818); instituted Medical and Philosophical Commentaries a quarterly journal, 1773; president of the Edinburgh College ofPhysicians, 1790 and 1824; professor of physiology, Edinburgh, 1790-1821; obtained charter for erecting public lunatic asylum in Edinburgh, 1807; published 'Elements of Therapeutics 1770, and other works.
Andrew Duncan: '''Andrew Duncan''' , the younger ([[1773]]-[[1832]]), physician and professor, Edinburgh University; son of Andrew Duncan the elder: M.A. Edinburgh, 1793; M.D., 1794; studied on the continent; F.C.P. of Edinburgh; first professor of medical jurisprudence and medical police at Edinburgh, 1807-19; joint-professor with his father of the institute of medicine (physiology), 1819; professor of materia medica, 1821-32; discovered the isolability of ciuchonin; published medical works.
Daniel Duncan: '''Daniel Duncan''' ([[1649]]-[[1735]]), physician ; born at Montauban; M.D. Montpellier, 1673; physician-general to the army before St. Omer; assisted the French refugees; professor of physic at Berlin and physician to Frederick I of Prussia, 1702-3; settled in England (1714), where he refused all fees; published iatro-chemical works.
Edward Duncan: '''Edward Duncan''' ([[1804]]-[[1882]]), landscape-painter, etcher, and lithographer; exhibited at the Old WaterColour Society, 1859 and 1860.
Eleazar Duncan: '''Eleazar Duncan''' (d. [[1660]]).

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Francis Duncan: '''Francis Duncan''' ([[1836]]-[[1888]]), colonel; M.A. Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1855; obtained commission in royal artillery, 1855; served in Nova Scotia and Canada, 1857-62; captain, 1864; major, 1874; instructor in gunnery at the repository, Woolwich, 1877; chairman of committee of management of Oxford military college, 1877; lieutenant-colonel, 1881; commanded Egyptian artillery, 1883-5; colonel and C.B., 1885; conservative M.P. for Holborn division of Finsbury, 1885 and 1886; LL.D. Aberdeen; D.C.L. Durham.
Henry Duncan: '''Henry Duncan''' ([[1774]]-[[1846]]), founder of savings banks: studied for two sessions at St. Andrews; minister of Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, 1798-1846; brought Indian com from Liverpool in a time of scarcity; instituted at Ruth well the first savings bank, 1810; D.D. St. Andrews, 1823; discovered the Ruthwell runic cross; pointed out the footmarks of quadrupeds on the new red sandstone of Corncockle Muir; moderator of the general assembly, 1839; published The Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons 1835-6, and other works.
James Matthews Duncan: '''James Matthews Duncan''' ([[1826]]-[[1890]]), physician; M.A. Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1843; M.D., 1846; assistant in Edinburgh to James Young Simpson , 1847; F.R.C.P. Edinburgh, 1851; lectured on midwifery; physician for diseases of women in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, 1861; obstetric physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, 1877; F.R.O.P. London, and F.R.S., 1883; published works relating principally to obstetrics.
John Duncan: '''John Duncan''' ([[1721]]-[[1808]]), miscellaneous writer ; grandson of Daniel Duncan; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and St. John's College, Oxford; M.A., 1746; chaplain of the forces during the siege of St. Philip's, Minorca; D.D., 1757; incumbent of South Warnborough, 1763-1808; wrote Essays on Happiness (verse) and on religious philosophy.
John Dunoan: '''John Dunoan''' ([[1805]]-[[1849]]), African traveller; sailed on the Niger expedition of 1842 as master-at-arms in the Albert; wounded by a poisoned arrow in the Capo de Verde isles; reached Adofidiah in Dahomey, 1845; published Travels in Western Africa in 1845 and 1846 1847; made vice-consul at Whydah, 1849, but died at sea on voyage out.
John Duncan: '''John Duncan''' ([[1796]]-[[1870]]), theologian ; studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen; ordained to Milton Church, Glasgow, 1836; LL.D., 1840; appointed missionary to the Jews at Pesth, 1840; professor of oriental languages at New College, Edinburgh, 1843-70; edited Robinson's Lexicon of the Greek New Testament 1838.
John Duncan: '''John Duncan''' ([[1794]]-[[1881]]), weaver and botanist ; appreuticed to a Drumlithie weaver; formed herbarium, which he presented to Aberdeen University, 1880; founded by will prizes for the encouragement of natural science in schools of the Vale of Alford.
John Shute Duncan: '''John Shute Duncan''' (Jl. [[1831]]), writer; brother of Philip Bury Duncan; keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, until 1826; chief work, Analogic* of Organised Beings 1831.
Jonathan Duncan: '''Jonathan Duncan''' , the elder ([[1756]]-[[1811]]), governor of Bombay; resident and superintendent at Benares, 1788; first resident to combat infanticide at Benares; governor of Bombay, 1795-1811; instituted in the Bombay presidency the policy of recognising petty chieftains as sovereign princes.
Jonathan Duncan: '''Jonathan Duncan''' , the younger ([[1799]]-[[1865]]), currency reformer; son of Jonathan Duncan (1756-1811) ; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1821; denounced S. J. Loyd's monetary system and the silly sophisms of Peel in 4 Jorrold's Weekly News His works include, The Religions of Profane Antiquity:... founded on Astronomical Principles 1830 ?, and The National Anti-Gold Law League 1847.
Mark Duncan: '''Mark Duncan''' ([[1570]] ?-[[1640]]), professor of philosophy in the university of Saumur; a native of Maxpoffle, Roxburghshire; M.D.; published Institutiones Logics 1612; irritated the clergy in his Discours de la Possession des Religieuses Ursulines de Loudun, 1 1634, by ascribing to melancholia some reputed cases of demoniacal possession.
Mark Duncan: '''Mark Duncan''' , who adopted the additional surname of DE CKRISANTIS (. 1648), diplomatist and Latin poet; son of Mark Duncan (1570 ?-1640); agent of Richelieu at Constantinople, 1641; left the French for the Swedish service; Swedish ambassador resident in France, 1645; secretary to the Duke of Guise, 1647; mortally wounded in an engagement with the Spaniards, 1648.
Peter Martin Duncan: '''Peter Martin Duncan''' ([[1821]]-[[1891]]), geologist ; M.B. London, 1846; practised at Colchester, 1848-60, and at-Blackheath, 1860; professor of geology. King's College, London, 1870, and at Cooper's Hill College, c. 1871; F.G.S., 1849, secretary, 1864-70, and president, 1876-8; Wollaston medallist, 1881; F.Z.S., F.L.S.; F.R.S., 1868; made a special study of corals and echinids.
Philip Bury Duncan: '''Philip Bury Duncan''' ([[1772]]-[[1863]]), keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, 1792; M.A., 1798; called to the bar, 1796; keeper of the Ashmolean, 1826-55, in succession to his brother John Shute Duncan; honorary D.O.L., 1855; established at Bath and Oxford a savings bank and a society for the suppression of mendicity; published Reliquiae Romanse 1836.
Thomas Duncan: '''Thomas Duncan''' ([[1807]]-[[1845]]), painter ; studied at the TrusteesAcademy, Edinburgh, eventually becoming head-master; professor of colour, and subsequently professor of drawing, to the Scottish Academy; A.R.A., 1843; exhibited portraits, genre pictures, aiid scenes from Scottish history at various institutions.
William Duncan: '''William Duncan''' ([[1717]]-[[1760]]), professor of philosophy at Aberdeen; M.A. Mariscbal College, Aberdeen, 1737; professor of natural and experimental philosophy, Marischal College, 1753-60; translated Caesar's Commentaries 1753, and edited, with a translation, Cicero's Select Orations
William Augustine Dunoan: '''William Augustine Dunoan''' ([[1811]]-[[1885]]), journalist; studied at the Scots Benedictine College, Ratisbon, and the new Blairs College, Kincardine; emigrated to Sydney, New Bouth Wales, 1838; editor ofAustralasian Chronicle,* a newly established Roman catholic journal, 1839-43; issued Duncan's Weekly Register oi Politics, Facts, and General Literature 1843; collecto of customs for New South Wales, 1859-81; O.M.G., 1881; translated a treatise of 1610 on Australia by Pedro Fernaudes de Queiros, 1874.
Barons Duncannon: '''Barons Duncannon''' . See PONBONBY, JOHN
William: '''William''' first BARON, [[1781]]-[[1847]] ; PONSONBY, FRE-
George Brabazon Derick: '''George Brabazon Derick''' , third BARON, [[1816]]-[[1895]]. BB2
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Dundas: '''Dundas'''
Robert Duncanson: '''Robert Duncanson''' (rf. [[1705]]), colonel : second in command to Lieutenant-colonel James Hamilton: delegated conduct of Glencoc massacre, with which Inwas entrusted, to Captain Robert Campbell, 1692; colonel, 33rd regiment, 1705; fell before Valencia, 1705. xvi. 1741
Edmund Dunch: '''Edmund Dunch''' ([[1657]]-[[1719]]), politician and bonvivant; M.P.. Cricklade, 1701-2, and 1705-13, Boroughbridge, 1713-15, and Wallingford, 1715-19; master of the royal household, 1708, 1714; member of the Kit-Cat Club.
Henry Dunckley: '''Henry Dunckley''' ([[1823]]-[[1896]]), journalist : studied for baptist ministry at Accrington, Lancashire; M.A. Glasgow, 1848; LL.D., 1883; baptist minister at Salford, 1848-55; editor of Manchester Examiner and Times fliberal), 1855-89: contributed a number of letters, signed Verax on constitutional and political questions to Manchester Weekly Times and Manchester Guardian successively, from 1877.

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John Duncomb: '''John Duncomb''' ([[1765]]-[[1839]]).
Sir Charles Duncombe: '''Sir Charles Duncombe''' (d. [[1711]]), banker and politician; apprenticed to Edward Backwell, a London goldsmith; receiver of the customs under Charles II and James II, annoying the latter monarch by refusing 1,6001. to carry him over sea 1688; M.P., Dowuton, 1695-8, and 1702-11; opposed, for party reasons, the inception of the Bank of England; expelled from parliament, 1698, for having falsely endorsed certain exchequer bills; tried, and acquitted through a mistake in the information, 1699; knighted, 1699; nominated lord mayor, 1700 and 1701; elected, 1708; died the richest commoner in England.
John Buncombe: '''John Buncombe''' ([[1729]]-[[1786]]), miscellaneous writer: son of William Duncombe; M.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1752; fellow of Corpus; held livings of St. Andrew and St. Mary Bredman, Canterbury; one of the six preachers of Canterbury Cathedral; wrote on Kentish archaeology and other subjects.
Susanna Duncombe: '''Susanna Duncombe''' ([[1730]] ?-[[1812]]), poetess and artist; nit Higbmore; wife of John Buncombe; wrote Fidelio and Honoria for the Adventurer; furnished a frontispiece to John Duncombe'sLetters of John Hughes 1773, and contributed to thePoetical Calendar
Thomas Slingsby Duncombe: '''Thomas Slingsby Duncombe''' ([[1796]]-[[1861]]), radical politician; educated at Harrow; lieutenant, 1815; retired from the army, 1819; M.P. for Hertford, 1826, 1830, and 1831; radical M.P. for Finsbury, 1834; exerted himself in defence of Lord Durham, 1838; presented chartist petition, 1842; concerned in Prince Louis Napoleon's escape from Ham, 1846; member of council of 1 Friends of Italy 1851; worked on behalf of Kossuth in the matter of the Hungarian notes, 1861.
William Duncombe: '''William Duncombe''' ([[1690]]-[[1769]]), miscellaneous writer; clerk in the navy office, 1706-25: part proprietor of Whitehall Evening Post; wrote against the Beggar's Operaas immoral, 1728, thereby gaining the friendship of Dr. (afterwards Archbishop) Herring; brought out Lucius Junius Brutusat Drury Lane, 1734; reprinted a sermon (of Arbuthnot's) on the evil of rebellion, 1745; unsuspectingly compiled (1749) from the fraudulent lips of Archibald Bower a narrative of Bower's pretended escape* from the inquisition.
Edmund Duncon: '''Edmund Duncon''' (d. [[1673]]), clergyman ; brother of Eleazar Duncon; sent by Nicholas Ferrar to visit George Herbert in bis last illness; promoted the publication of Herbert's A Priest to the Temple: LL.B.; rector of Friern Barnet, Middlesex, 1663-73.
Eleazar Duncon: '''Eleazar Duncon''' (d. [[1660]]), royalist divine : B.A. Caius College, Cambridge: fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1618; prebendary of Durham, 1628, of Winchester. 1629; D.D., 1633; prebendary of York, 1640; chaplain to Charles I; stripped of all his preferments by parliament; died at Leghorn.
John Dunoon: '''John Dunoon''' (ft. [[1648]]), biographer : brother of Eleazar Dnncon; held a cure in Essex, c. 1646; wrote a religious biography of Lettice, viscountess Falkland, 1648.
Samuel Duncon: '''Samuel Duncon''' (A [[1600]]-[[1659]]), political writer; thrice distrained on for refusing to pay ship-money, n;-H):damnified about 300 by the commissariescourt and the court of arches; high collector of assessments for the parliament; suggested in two tracts, 1651 and 1659, appointment of peacemakers or public arbitrators as a means of lessening litigation.
John Duncumb: '''John Duncumb''' ([[1765]]-[[1839]]), topographer: M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1796; editor and printer of 1'ugh's Hereford Journal 1788-90; incumbent of varioas parishes; engaged (1790) by Charles, duke of Norfolk, to compile a history of Herefordshire (second volume completed, 1866, third volume issued by Judge W. H. Cooke); published a General View of the Agriculture of Hereford 1805.
Charles Dundas: '''Charles Dundas''' , BARON AMESBURY ([[1751]]-[[1832]]), twice M.P. for Richmond; barrister; M.P. for Orkney and Shetland, 1781-4, and for Berkshire, 1794-1832; was nominated speaker in opposition to Abbot, but withdrew from the contest, 1802; created Baron Amesbury, 1832.
Sir David Dundas: '''Sir David Dundas''' ([[1735]]-[[1820]]), general; lieutenant fireworker in the royal artillery, 1754: lieutenant, 56th regiment, 1766; present at the attack on St. Malo, the capture of Cherbourg, and the fight at St. Cas: served in Cuba, 1762; colonel, 1781: major-general, 1790; wrote drill-books which were issued as the official orders for the army: defeated the French at Tuyl, 1794; lieutenantgeneral, 1797; accompanied Duke of York to the Helder, 1799; general, 1802; K.B., 1804; commander-in-chief, 1809-11; privy councillor, 1809; tactician of Frederick the Great's school in hisPrinciples of Military Movements, chiefly applicable to Infantry 1788.
Dundas: '''Dundas''' Si DAVID ([[1799]]-[[1877]]), statesman ; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; student, 1820: M.A., 1822; barrister, Inner Temple, 1823; went the northern circuit; M.P., Sutherlandshire, 1840-52, and 1861-7; Q.O., 1840; knighted, 1847; judge-advocategeneral and privy councillor, 1849.
Francis Dundas: '''Francis Dundas''' (d. [[1824]]), general : son of Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston the younger; lieutenant and captain, 1st foot guards, 1778: surrendered with Cornwallis at York Town, 1781; took part as adjutant-general in capture of Martinique and Guadaloupe, 1794: acting governor of the Cape, 1798-9, and 1801-3; general, 1812.
Henry Dundas: '''Henry Dundas''' , first VISCOUNT MKLVILLK ([[1742]]1811), son of Robert Dundas. Lord Arniston the elder ; educated at Edinburgh High School and University; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1763; solicitorgeneral for Scotland, 1766: M.P. for Midlothian, 1774-90, except for few months in 1782 when he sat for Newtown, Isle of Wight: lord advocate, 1775-83; supported Powys's amendment for the repeal of the Massachusetts charter, 1778; lord rector of Glasgow University, 1781-3; carried resolution that Warren Hastings be recalled from India, 1782; privy councillor and treasurer of the navy, 1782-3 and 1784-1800; keeper of the Scottish signet, 1782; defended Hastingss Rohilla war, 1786; chancellor of St. Andrews, 1788; LL.D. Edinburgh, 1789; M.P., Edinburgh, 1790-1802; home secretary, 1791-4; president of the board of control, 1793-1801; spoke in support of the East India Company, 1793; secretary of war, 1794-1801: keeper of the privy seal of Scotland, 1800; planned and carried out the Egyptian campaign of 1801 against the opinion of Pitt and the king; created Viscount Melville of Melville, and Baron Dunira, 1802; first lord of the admiralty, 1804-5; erased from the roll of the privy council, 1805, and impeached, 1806, for malversation: guilty of negligence, but acquitted, 1806; restored to the privy council, 1807.
Henry Dundas: '''Henry Dundas''' , third VISCOUNT MELVTLLE ([[1801]]1876), general; son of Robert Saunders Dundas, second viscount Melville; captain, 83rd regiment, 1824: active in suppressing the Canadian rebellion, 1837; colonel and aide-de-camp to Qneen Victoria, 1841; second in command at the capture of Multan, 1847; general, 1868; G.O.B., 1870.
Sir James Dundas: '''Sir James Dundas''' , LORD ARNISTON (d. [[1679]]), educated at St. Andrews; knighted, 1641: M.P., Edinburgh, 1648; member of committee of estates, 1648; lord of session as Lord Arniston, 1662-3; refused to renounce the covenant, and resigned, 1663.
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James Dundas: '''James Dundas''' ([[1842]]-[[1879]]), captain, royal engigeers; V.C. for distinguished bravery in storming a blockhouse in Bhootau, 105; killed in attempt to blow up a fort near Cubul, 1879.
Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas: '''Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas''' ([[1786]]1862), admiral; commander in the Baltic, 18u7; took the surname of Duudas, 1808; frequently sat for Greenwich after the passing of the Reform Bill; C.B., 1839; viceadmiral, 1852; remiss, when in command of the chief naval operation* in the Russian war, 1854; G.C.B.; admiral, 1857.
Sir Richard Saunders Dtjndas: '''Sir Richard Saunders Dtjndas''' ([[1802]]-[[1861]]), vice-admiral; son of Robert Saunders Dundas, second vi.-rotmt Melville; educated at Harrow; navy captain, 1824; O.B. for his services in the first Chinese war, 1841; junior lord of the admiralty, 1853-61; commanderin-chief of the Baltic fleet, 1855-61; K.O.B., 1866; grand officer of the Legion of Honour; vice-admiral, 1858.
Robert Dundas: '''Robert Dundas''' , LORD ARNISTON (d. [[1726]]), ordinary lord of session; eldest sou of Sir James Dundas (i. 1679); M.P., {Midlothian, 1700-2, and 1702-7; Jord of session, 1689.
Robert Dundas: '''Robert Dundas''' , LORD ARNISTON, the elder (1685-1753), judge; second son of Robert Dundas (d. 1726); solicitor-general for Scotland, 1717-20; lord advocate, 1720; dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1721; M.P., Midlothian, 1722-7, 1727-34, and 1734-7; chief adviser of Lord Ilay's opponents; lord president of session, 174H-53; re-introduced into Scottish juries the possible findingsguiltyornot guiltyas againstproven* or not proven 1728.

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Robert Dundas: '''Robert Dundas''' , LORD ARNISTON, the younger (1713-1787), judge; eldest son of Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston the elder; educated at Edinburgh University; studied Roman law at Utrecht; solicitor-general for Scotland, 1742-6; lord-advocate, 1754; M.P., Midlothian, 1754; lord-president of session, 1760; lost popularity by giving his casting vote against Archibald (Stewart) Douglas in the Douglas peerage case, 1767.
Robert Dttndas: '''Robert Dttndas''' , OP ARNISTON ([[1758]]-[[1819]]), judge; son of Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the younger ; solicitor-general for Scotland, 1784; lord advocate, 1789; M.P., Edinburghshire, 1790-6; chief baron of the exchequer in Scotland, 1801.
Robert Saunders Dundas: '''Robert Saunders Dundas''' , second VISCOUNT
Melville: '''Melville''' ([[1771]]-[[1851]]), statesman ; son of Henry Dundas, first viscount; M.P., Hastings, 1794, Rye, 1796; keeper of the signet for Scotland, 1800; M.P., Midlothian, 1801; privy councillor, 1807; president of the board of control, 1807 and 1809; Irish secretary, 1809; first lord of the admiralty, 1812-27; chancellor of St. Andrews University, 1814; K.T., 1821. Melville Sound was so named in recognition of his interest in Arctic exploration.
Thomas Dundas: '''Thomas Dundas''' ([[1750]]-[[1794]]), major-general; served as major 65th foot in America and the West Indies; M.P. for the stewartry of Orkney and Shetland, 1771, 1774, and 1784; joint-commissioner for arranging the capitulation at York Town, 1781; major-general, 1793; died at Quadaloupe after distinguished services in the West Indies, 1794.
William Dundas: '''William Dundas''' ([[1762]]-[[1845]]), politician ; son of Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the younger; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1788; M.P. for Kirkwall, Wick, Dornoch, Dingwall, and Tain, 1796 and 1797; privy councillor, 1800; M.P., Sutherland, 1802 and 1806, Cullen, 1810, and Edinburgh, 1812-31; secretary-at-war, 1804-6; keeper of the signet, 1814; lord clerk register, 1821.
Dundee: '''Dundee''' first VISCOUNT ([[1649]] 7-[[1689]]). See GRA-
John Ham: '''John Ham''' .
Earls Op Dundonald: '''Earls Op Dundonald''' . See OOCHRANR, SIR
William: '''William''' first EARL. d. [[1686]] ; COCHRANE, ARCHIBALD, ninth EARL, 1749-1831; COCHRANE, THOMAS, tenth EARL, 1775-1860.
Lord Dundrennan: '''Lord Dundrennan''' ([[1792]]-[[1851]]). See MAIT-
Thomas Land: '''Thomas Land''' .
Earls Op Dunfermldte: '''Earls Op Dunfermldte''' . See SKTON, SIR
Alexander: '''Alexander''' first EARL, [[1555]] ?-[[1622]] ; SKTON, OHARLKS, second EARL, d. 1673.
Baron Dunfermline: '''Baron Dunfermline''' ([[1776]]-[[1858]]). See ABER-
Jamks Cromby: '''Jamks Cromby''' .
Dunoal: '''Dunoal''' (ft. [[811]]-[[827]]), Irish monk in deacon's orders ; driven from Ireland by the Danish invasions; invited by Charlemagne (81 1) to explain two rumoured solar eclipses of 810; recognised as an authoritative teacher at Pavia in a capitular of Lothair, 823.
Viscounts Dungannon: '''Viscounts Dungannon''' . See TREVOR, MARCUS, first VISCOUNT of the first creation, 1618-1670; TREVOR, ARTHUR HILL-, third VISCOUNT of the second creation, 1798-1862.
Dunglis: '''Dunglis''' 80N, ROBLEY ([[1798]]-[[1869]]X medical writer; M.D. Erlangen, 1824; professor in the university of Virginia, 1825-33; professor of the institutes of medicine in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1836-G8; published aHuman Physiology aHistory of Medicine and other medical works.
Samuel Astley Dunham: '''Samuel Astley Dunham''' (d. [[1868]]), historian ; LL.D.; author of works published in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia including (1832-3) a famousHistory of Spain and Portugal
George Montagu Dunk: '''George Montagu Dunk''' , second EARL ov
Halifax: '''Halifax''' (1J16-[[1771]]); educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; colonel, 1745; president of the board of trade, 1748-61; privy councillor, 1749; aided foundation of colony of Nova Scotia, the town of Halifax being thereupon named after him, 1749; styled the 'Father of the Coloniesfor his success in extending American commerce; lieutenant-general, 1759; lordlieutenant of Ireland, 1761-3; first lord of the admiralty, 1762; secretary of state, 1762;triumvirwith Lords Egremont and Grenville, 1763; K.G., 1764; lord privy seal, 1770; secretary of state, 1771.
Robert Dunkarton: '''Robert Dunkarton''' (fl. [[1770]]-[[1811]]), engraver of portraits in mezzotint.
Alfred John Dunkin: '''Alfred John Dunkin''' ([[1812]]-[[1879]]), antiquary and historian; son of John Dunkin; educated at the Military College, Vendome; original member of the British Archaeological Association; wrote on old English customs and the antiquities of Kent; printed and translated the works of Radulphus, abbot of Coggeshall, supposing himself the original editor, 1856.
John Dunkin: '''John Dunkin''' ([[1782]]-[[1846]]), topographer ; original member of the British Archaeological Association; published Outlines of the History and Antiquities of Bromley in Kent 1815, and other antiquarian works.

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William Dunkin: '''William Dunkin''' ([[1709]] ?-l [[765]]), poet; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1729; D.D., 1744; received an annuity from Trinity College, Dublin, as stipulated in the will of his aunt, a benefactor of the college; ordained, 1735; master of Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, 17461765; friend of Swift; author of some clever poems in English and Latin, including Bceotia 1747, and Vindication of the Libel a poem attributed to Swift.
Alexander Dunlop: '''Alexander Dunlop''' ([[1684]]-1 [[747]]), Greek scholar ; son of William Dunlop, the elder; professor of Greek in Glasgow University, 1706-42; published a Greek grammar, 1736.
Alexander Colquhoun Dunlop: '''Alexander Colquhoun Dunlop''' -STIRL-
Ing: '''Ing''' -MURRAY- ([[1798]]-[[1870]]), church lawyer and politician; earnestly supported the non-intrusion party in the church, which he professionally defended on all occasions; M.P., Greenock, 1852-68; carried bill abolishing Gretna Green marriages; attacked government of Lord Palmerston, 1861, for tampering with the despatches of Sir Alexander Burnes, envoy at the Afghan court in 1839; published a treatise on the law of Scotland relating to the poor, 1825, another on the law of patronage, 1833, and a third on parochial law.
Frances Anne Wallace Dunlop: '''Frances Anne Wallace Dunlop''' ([[1730]]-[[1815]]), friend of Robert Burns; nte Wallace; married John Dunlop of Dunlop, Ayrshire, 1747; became a correspondent and friend of Bums on the publication of his Cottar's Saturday Night but afterwards deserted him.
James Dunlop: '''James Dunlop''' (rf. [[1832]]), of Dunlop* Ayrshire, lieutenant-general; accompanied the old 82ud foot to
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Dttnster: '''Dttnster''' Nova Scotia; lieutenant, 1779; despatched to Charlestown with the news of seizure of Chesapeake estuary, 1781; subsequently stationed at Halifax; served against Tippoo Sultan, 1791; lieutenant-colonel, 1795; commanded brigade at Sedaseer and at capture of Seriugapatnm, 1799; brigadier-general, 1805; M.P. for the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, 1813-26; commanded 6th division at Fuenfcesde Ouoro, 1811; lieutenant-general, 1817.
James Dunlop: '''James Dunlop''' ([[1795]]-[[1848]]), astronomer; keeper (1823-7) of the Brisbane observatory at Paramatta; made most of the observations for the * Brisbane Catalogue of 7,385 southern stars (completed 1826); gold medallist of the Astronomical Society, 1828; F.R.A.S., 1828; the number of nebulae claimed as his discoveries subsequently found to be greater than that actually existing; director of the Paramatta observatory, 1829-42; author of An Account of Observations made in Scotland on the Distribution of the Magnetic Intensity 1830.
John Dunlop: '''John Dunlop''' ([[1756]]-[[1820]]), song-writer ; lord provost of Glasgow, 1796; collector of customs at Borrowptounness and subsequently at Port Glasgow; author of the well-known lyrics Oh dinna ask me gin I lo'e ye and Here's to the year that's awa
John Oolin Dunlop: '''John Oolin Dunlop''' (d. [[1842]]), author ; son of John Dunlop; advocate, 1807; sheriff depute of Renfrewshire, 1816-42; published a learnedHistory of Fiction which was criticised with unwarranted severity by Hazlitt, 1814, a History of Roman Literature, from the earliest period to the Augustan Age 1823-8, and Memoirs of Spain during the Reigns of Philip IV and Charles II 1834.
William Dunlop: '''William Dunlop''' , the elder ([[1649]] ?-J [[700]]), principal of Glasgow University; emigrated to California, remaining there till 1688; minister of Ochiltree and afterwards of Paisley; principal of Glasgow University, 1690; director of the Darien Company; historiographer for Scotland, 1693.
William Dunlop: '''William Dunlop''' , the younger ([[1692]]-[[1720]]), professor of church history in Edinburgh University; son of William Dunlop the elder; licensed by the presbytery of Edinburgh, 1714; appointed by George I professor of divinity and church history, Edinburgh.
Viscounts Dunlttce: '''Viscounts Dunlttce''' . See MACDONNELL, Sir
Randal: '''Randal''' first VISCOUNT, d. [[1636]] ; MACDONNKLL, RANDAL, second VISCOUNT, 1609-1683.
Earls Dunmore: '''Earls Dunmore''' op. See MURRAY, LORD
Charles: '''Charles''' first EARL, [[1660]]-[[1710]] ; MURRAY, JOHN, fourth
Earl: '''Earl''' [[1732]]-[[1809]].
Sir Daniel Dunn: '''Sir Daniel Dunn''' (d. [[1617]]).
Robert Dunn: '''Robert Dunn''' ([[1799]]-[[1877]]), surgeon ; licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, 1825; F.K.C.S., 1852; contributed to medical and psychological reviews,
Samuel Dunn: '''Samuel Dunn''' (d. [[1794]]), mathematician ; inventor of the universal planispheres, or terrestrial and celestial globes in piano 1757; master of an academy at Ormoud House, Chelsea, 1758-63; mathematical examiner to the East India Company. His works includeThe Navigator's Guide to the Oriental or Indian Seas 1775, and The Astronomy of Fixed Stars part L 1792.
Samuel Dunn: '''Samuel Dunn''' ([[1798]]-[[1882]]), expelled Wesleyan minister; first Wesleyan minister in the Shetland islands, 1822; supposed to have taken part in the publication of theFly Sheets pamphlets advocating reforms in the Wesleyan governing body, 1847; called upon to discontinue his monthly Wesley Banner and Revival Record and expelled for contumacy, 1849; D.D. of one of the United States universities.
William Dunn: '''William Dunn''' ([[1770]]-[[1849]]), mechanic and agriculturist; proprietor of the Dalnotter Ironworks, 1813; built mills at Duntocher for cotton-spinning and weaving.
Gabriel Dunne: '''Gabriel Dunne''' (d. [[1558]]).
John Dunning: '''John Dunning''' , first BARON ABHBURTON ([[1731]]1783), barrister, Middle Temple, 1756; drew up a defence of the English East India Company against the Dutch, 1762; solicitor-general, 1768-70; M.P. for Oalne in whig interest, 1768; re-elected for Calne, 1774; carried a resolution that *the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished 1780; again returned for Calue, 1780; privy councillor, 1782; created Baron Ashburton bf Ashburton, 1782; author of anInquiry into the Doctrines lately promulgated concerning Juries, Libels, &c. 1764, which Horace Walpole consideredthe finest piece... written for liberty since Lord Somers

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Dunraven: '''Dunraven''' third EARL op ([[1812]]-[[1871]]). See Quix,
Richard Windham Wyndham Edwin: '''Richard Windham Wyndham Edwin'''
Joannes Scotus Duns: '''Joannes Scotus Duns''' , known as the DOCTOR
Subtilis: '''Subtilis''' ([[1265]] ?-[[1308]] ?), schoolman ; said, without evidence, to have been fellow of Merton College. Oxford, and in 1301 professor of divinity at Oxford; stated to have beenregentof Paris University; nicknamed Doctor Subtilis; possibly died at Cologne, there being a tradition that he was buried alive. Duns was the author of a philosophic grammar, entitled,De Modis Significandi sive Grammatica Speculative(printed, 1499), of logical Quaestiones (edited, 1474), of a work on metaphysics called De Rerum Principle (edited, 1497), and of the Opus Oxoniense (printed, 1481), a commentary on the Sententiee of Peter Lombard. A conceptualist in logic, he borrowed from Ibn Gebirol (fi. 1045) the theory of a universal matter, the common basis of all existences, while in theology he denied the possibility of rationalism.
Dunsany: '''Dunsany''' ninth BARON (d. [[1668]]). See PLUNKET,
Patrick: '''Patrick'''
Lord Dunsinane: '''Lord Dunsinane''' ([[1731]] ?-[[1811]]). See NAIRNE,
William Sir: '''William Sir''' .
John Dunstable: '''John Dunstable''' (d. [[1453]]), musician and mathematician; mentioned in the Proportionale of Johannes Tinctoris (1445-1611) as the chief musician hi England; mentioned in a Seville manuscript of 1480; compiler of a manuscript collection of latitudes and longitudes, 1438.
John Dunstall: '''John Dunstall''' (fl. [[1644]]-[[1675]]), engraver ; published two drawing-books.
Saint Dunstan: '''Saint Dunstan''' ([[924]]-[[988]]), archbishop of Canterbury; educated by Irish scholars at Glastonbury Abbey; favourite of King j&thelstan; falsely accused of being a wizard, and expelled the court; made his profession of monastic vows to Elfheah, bishop of Winchester; practised the arts of metal-working, painting, and transcription; councillor of King Eadmund, narrowly escaping a second dismissal on false charges; abbot of Glastonbury e. 945; laid the foundation of a new church, and modified the constitution of the abbey, making it also a famous school; treasurer and chief adviser of King Eadred: procured arrest of Wulfstan, archbishop of York and leader of the Danish insurgents, 962; rebuked King Edwy for leaving the coronation feast to visit a mistress; retired to Flanders in disgrace, 956, Count Arnulf I assigning him a residence at Ghent; appointed by Eadgar bishop of Worcester, 957; bishop of London, retaining Worcester, 959-61; archbishop of Canterbury, 961; concentrated his energies on making the Danes an integral part of the nation; in company with Oswald, archbishop of York, crowned Eadgar at Bath, 973; imposed penance on Eadgar for incontinence; sympathised with the Benedictine movement and the abolition of secular monasteries; formulated ecclesiastical discipline in the Pemtentiale; averted civil war by crowning Eadward, 975; foretold to King Ethelred the calamities by which the nation would expiate the murder of Eadward.
Dunstan: '''Dunstan''' alias KITCHIN, ANTHONY ([[1477]]-[[1663]]).
Jeffrey Dunstan: '''Jeffrey Dunstan''' ([[1759]]?-[[1797]]), 'mayor' of Garrett; brought up as a foundling; dealer in old wigs; elected, in 1785, mock mayor, according to custom, of the Garrett association for protecting Garrett common from encroachment; successful at three successive elections.
Baron Dunstanville: '''Baron Dunstanville''' ([[1757]]-[[1836]]). See BASSET,
Francis: '''Francis'''
Charles Dtjnster: '''Charles Dtjnster''' ([[1750]]-[[1816]]), miscellaneous writer; B.A. Oriel College, Oxford, 1770; rural dean of
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Dukel: '''Dukel''' West Sussex; published works on the gospels and an attempt (1HOO) to demonstrate Milton's obligations to Josuah Sylvester L xvl - 281 J
Henry Dunster: '''Henry Dunster''' (d. [[1659]]), president of Harvard College in Massachusetts; M.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1634: emigrated to America, 1640; president of Harvard College, 1640, resigning (1654) as an anti-pffidobaptist: procured the Harvard charters of 1642 and 16 50, revised Eliot's Bay Psalm-Book
Samuel Dunster: '''Samuel Dunster''' ([[1675]]-[[1754]]), translator of Horace; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1700; D.D., 1713; prebendary of Salisbury, 1717-48, of Lincoln, 1720;. vicar of Rochdale, 1722-54; author of Anglia Redmya 1699: translated into mechanical verse The Satyrs and Epistles of Horace 1710, publishing a second edition, Including the Art of Poetry 1717.
Edward Dunsterville: '''Edward Dunsterville''' ([[1796]]-[[1873]]), commander R.N. and hydrographer; second master of H.M.S. Valorous, 1824; completed survey of Mosquito coast, 1833-5 lieutenant in operations off Syria, 1840; hydrographer's assistant at the admiralty, 1842-70: produced 'Admiralty Catalogue of Charts, Plans, Views, and Sailing Directions 1860.
William Dunthorn: '''William Dunthorn''' (d. [[1489]]), town clerk of London; fellow of Peterhouse. Cambridge, 1455; common clerk of London, 1461; compiled the extant Liber Dunthorn; a devoted Yorkist.
John Dunthorne: '''John Dunthorne''' (fl. [[1783]]-[[1792]]), artist ; of Colchester; exhibited small genre pictures at the Royal Academv 1783-92; his son John was also an artist.
John Dunthorne: '''John Dunthorne''' , the younger ([[1798]]-[[1832]]), painter; son of John Dunthorne the elder: assisted the painter John Constable; exhibited landscapes at the Royal Academy, 1827-32.
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Richard Dttnthorne: '''Richard Dttnthorne''' ([[1711]]-[[1775]]), astronomer ; butler of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and scientific assistant to Dr. Roger Long; worked on Long's 'Astronomy 1770; conducted a survey of the fens, when superintendent of the works of the Bedford Level Corporation; published The Practical Astronomy of the Moon 1739, arid assigned to the acceleration of the moon's mean motion the secular rate of 10"; expert in computing on the basis of mediaeval observations.
John Dunton: '''John Dunton''' ([[1659]]-[[1733]]), bookseller : educated for the church, but, being of a restless temperament, was apprenticed to a bookseller; emigrated, and wandered over New England, learning something of Indian customs; bookseller in London; issued theAthenian Gazette 1690-6; published The Dublin Scuffle narrating rambles in Ireland, to which domestic discomforts impelled him, 1699; published Life and Errors of John Dunton 1705; attacked Oxford and Bolingbroke in Neck or Nothing one of a large number of political satires; issued Athenianism, or the New Projects of John Dunton 1710; made a fruitless appeal for recognition (1723) to George I.
Gainsborough Dttpont: '''Gainsborough Dttpont''' ([[1754]] ?-[[1797]]), portraitpainter and me.zotint engraver; nephew of Thomas Gainsborough; first exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1790; engraved in mezzotint from portraits by Gainsborough; painted landscapes in the style of Poussin.
James Duport: '''James Duport''' ([[1606]]-[[1679]]), master of Magdalene College, Cambridge; son of John Duport; educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge; fellow of Trinity, 1627; M.A., 1630; regius professor of Greek, 1639-54; prebendary of Lincoln, and archdeacon of Stow, 1641; Lady Margaret's preacher, 1646; ejected from his professorship by the parliamentarians, 1654; vice-master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1655; king's chaplain, and again regius professor, 1660; D.D., 1660; dean of Peterborough, 1664; master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1668; vice-chancellor, 1669; benefactor of Magdalene College and Peterborough grammar school. His works consist of translations Into Greek verse of parts of the Old Testament, Latin lectures on Theophrastus, a Homeri Gnomologia 1660, and Latin poems.
John Duport: '''John Duport''' (d. [[1617]]), biblical scholar ; of Norman extraction; M.A. and fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, before 1580; rector of Fulham, 1583: precentor of St. Paul's, 1586; D.D.; master of Jesus College, 1590; four times vice-chancellor of Cambridge, and (1609) prebendary of Ely; one of the translators of the bible (1611).
Brian Duppa: '''Brian Duppa''' ([[1688]]-[[1662]]), bishop of Winchester: educated at Westminster: student of Christ Church, 1605, and fellow of All SoulsCollege, Oxford, 1612; M.A., 1614; D.D., 1626; dean of Christ Church, 1629-38; vicechancellor, 1632 and 1633; chancellor of Salisbury, 1634; tutor to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester; bishop of Chichester, 1638-41: bishop of Salisbury, 1641; corresponded with Sheldon and Sir Edward Hyde on the re-establishment of episcopacy, 1659; bishop of Winchester, 1660; lord almoner; benefactor of his colleges and bishoprics.
Richard Duppa: '''Richard Duppa''' ([[1770]]-[[1831]]), artist and author; student of the Middle Temple, 1810; LL.B. Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1814; F.S. A.; published the Life and Literary Works of Michael Angelo Buonarotti 1806, Classes and Orders of Botany 1816, and other works.
Thomas Sanders Dupuis: '''Thomas Sanders Dupuis''' ([[1733]]-[[1796]]), musician; M.R.S.M., 1758; organist and composer to the Chapel Royal, 1779-96; Mus. Doc. Oxford, 1790; composed cathedral music.
David Durand: '''David Durand''' ([[1680]]-[[1763]]), French protestant minister and author; born at Sommieres; taken prisoner at Almanza, fighting among French refugees, 1707: pastor at Rotterdam; successively pastor of Martin's Lane and the Savoy French churches after 1711; F.R.S., 1728; chief works, a history of the sixteenth century (1725-9), and a history of painting in antiquity, 1725, both in French.
Sir Henry Marion Durand: '''Sir Henry Marion Durand''' ([[1812]]-[[1871]]), major-general royal engineers; second lieutenant, Bengal engineers, 1828: blew up Oabul gate of Ghaziii, 1839: private secretary to Lord Ellenborough, 1841; captain, 1843; commissioner of Tenasserim provinces, 1844-6: served in the Sikh war; political agent at Gwalior and Bhopal; appointed to Central India agency, 1857; held Indore and reconquered Western Malwa, 1857; C.B.; member of council of India, 1859; foreign secretary in India, 1861; major-general and K.C.S.I., 1867; lieutenantgovernor of the Punjab, 1870-1.
Durant: '''Durant''' or DURANCE, JOHN (Jl. [[1660]]), puritan divine; denounced in Edwards's Gangraena: ordered to discontinue his preaching in Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1660; published theological works.
Duras: '''Duras''' or DURFORT, LOUIS, EARL OP FKVERSHAM (1640 ?-1709), general: Marquis de Blanquefort in tie French peerage; naturalised in England, 1665; colonel ot the Duke of York's guards, 1667; created Baron Durus of Holdenby, 1673; English ambassador at Nimeguen, 1676; succeeded as Earl of Feversham, 1677; submitted proposals at French court for treaty of peace with Flanders, 1677; lord chamberlain to the queen, 1680; privy councillor, 1685; commanded James II's troops at the battle of Sedgemoor, 1685; K.G., 1685: commander-inchtef of James IPs forces, 1686; voted for a regency, 1689. D'URBAN, SIR BENJAMIN (1777-1849), lieutenantgeneral; captain queen's bays, 1794; served in the Netherlands, Westphalia, and (1796) San Domingo; major, 25th light dragoons; superintendent of the junior department of the Royal Military College, 1803-5; majorgeneral in the Portuguese, and colonel in the English, army, 1813; K.C.B.; K.O.H., 1818; lieutenant-governor and commander-in-chlef of British Guiana, 1821-5, of Barbados, 1825-9; lieutenant-general, 1837: G.O.B., 1840; governor and commander-in-chief of the Cape, 1848-7: occupied Natal, 1843; died at Montreal in command of the forces in Canada.
John Durel: '''John Durel''' ([[1625]]-[[1683]]), dean of Windsor; entered Merton College, Oxford, 1640; M.A. of the Sylvaniau DtT&ELL 376
Dtjrno: '''Dtjrno''' College, Oaen, 1644; assisted in the royalist defence of Jersey, 1647; founded the Savoy French episcopal chapel, 1660; became first minister, 1660; selected by Charles II to translate English prayer-book into French for use in Channel islands; king's chaplain, 1662; prebendary of Salisbury, 1663, of Windsor, 1664; completed translation of revised prayer-book, 1670; prebendary of Durham, 1668; D.D., 1670; dean of Windsor and Wolverhampton, 1677; published Sanctac Ecclesiae Anglican... Vindiciae 1669.
David Durell: '''David Durell''' ([[1728]]-[[1776]]), divine; M.A. Pembroke College, Oxford, 1753; fellow, and from 1757 principal of Hertford College; D.D., 1764; vicar of Ticehurst; prebendary of Canterbury, 1767: vice-chancellor of Oxford, 1766 and 1767; published works includingThe Hebrew Text of the Parallel Prophecies of Jacob and Moses relating to the Twelve Tribes with the SamaritanArabic and Arabic versions, 1763. D'URFEY, THOMAS (1653-1723), poet and dramatist; generally known as Tom Durfey; by descent a French Huguenot; wrote a bombastic tragedy, entitled 4 The Siege of Memphis 1676; produced Madam Fickle 1677, and The Virtuous Wife 1680: lampooned by Tom Brown (1663-1704); incidentally replied to the strictures of Jeremy Collier in his Campaigners a comedy, 1698; author of Wonders in the Sun a comic opera, in which an imaginary picture of bird-life was presented; issued various recensions of hia songs and poems, first using the title, An Antidote against Melancholy, made np in Pills in 1661; published an Elegy upon Charles II and a Panegyric on James II 1685; issued Tales, Tragical and Comical 1704, and Tales, Moral and Comical 1706; wrote The Modern Prophets and The Old Mode and the New two social comedies, 1709: satirised Bellarmine, Porto-Carrero, and the HarleyBolingbroke ministry; buried in St. James's church, Piccadilly, at the expense of the Earl of Dorset. He had been an intimate of Charles II and James II. Many of his burlesque poems and songs are still heard in Scotland.
Durham: '''Durham''' first EARL OF ([[1792]]-[[1840]]). See LAMB-
John Geobgk Ton: '''John Geobgk Ton''' .
James Durham: '''James Durham''' ([[1622]]-[[1658]]), covenanting divine : studied at St. Andrews; captain of a troop in the civil war; divinity student at Glasgow; chaplain to the king; professor of divinity, Glasgow, 1650; inducted into the Inner Kirk Glasgow; traditionally reported to have impressed Cromwell by his preaching; published religions works.
Joseph Durham: '''Joseph Durham''' ([[1814]]-[[1877]]), sculptor; A.R.A., 1866; his finest work, Leander and the Syren exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1875; excelled in figures of boyathletes,
Sir Philip Charles Henderson Durham: '''Sir Philip Charles Henderson Durham'''
Oalderwood: '''Oalderwood''' ([[1763]]-[[1845]]), admiral; acting-lieutenant of the Victory, 1781; saved from the sinking of the Royal George, 1782; present at the relief of Gibraltar, and battle off Cape Spartel; brought home convoy from Mediterranean, 1794; took part in French defeat off Tory island, 1798; fought In the action off Cape Finisterre, 1805; wounded at Trafalgar, 1805; rear-admiral, 1810; commander-in-chief of the Leeward islands station, 1813-16: co-operated in reduction of Martinique and Guadaloupe, 1815; G.O.B. and admiral, 1830.
Simeon of Durham: '''Simeon of Durham''' (fl. [[1130]]).
William of Durham: '''William of Durham''' (rf.[[1249]]).
William Durham: '''William Durham''' ([[1611]]-[[1684]]), divine; M.A. New Inn Halt, Oxford, 1633; preacher at the Rolls Chapel; B.D., 1649; ejected from his living of Tredington at the Restoration; rector of St. Mildred's, Bread Street 1663-84; published a life of Robert Harris, D.D., 1660.
William Durham: '''William Durham''' (d. [[1686]]), clergyman : son of William Durham (1611-1684); scholar of the Charterhouse and Corpus Ohristi College, Oxford; M.A., 1660; univeraity proctor, 1668; rector of Leteomb-Bassett, Berkshire, and chaplain to James, duke of Monmouth; D.D. Cambridge, 1676; published sermons.

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Lords Durie: '''Lords Durie''' . See GIBSON, SIR ALEXANDER, . 1644; GIBSON, SIR ALKXANDER, d. 1666.
Andrew Durie: '''Andrew Durie''' (d. [[1558]]), bishop of Galloway and abbot of Melrose; brother of George Durie; appointed by Archbishop James Beaton ((. 1639) to the abbacy of Melrose, 1526, against the will of James V, and by means of forged letters of recommendation to the pope; bishop of Galloway, 1541; persecuted the protestants.
George Durte: '''George Durte''' ([[1496]]-[[1561]]), abbot of Dunfermline and archdeacon of St. Andrews; brother of Andrew Durie; abbot of Dunfermline under the direction of his uncle, Archbishop James Beaton (d. 1539); independent abbot on the archbishop's death, 1539; endeavoured to avenge Cardinal Beaton's murder, 1546; sat in parliament, 1640, 1542, 1543, and 1554: keeper of the privy seal, 1564; member of the regent Arran's privy council, 1645; Scottish privy councillor, 1547; forced on the battle of Pinkie, 1547; deputed to the French court to represent the situation of the Scottish catholics, 1560: attempted to stir up Mary Stuart's religious zeal, 1560; beatified, 1563.
John Durie: '''John Durie''' (d. [[1687]]), Scottish Jesuit; son of George Durie; educated at Paris and Lou vain; joined the Society of Jesus; assailed the theological position of William Whitaker, 1582.
John Duree: '''John Duree''' ([[1537]]-[[1600]]), presbyterian minister; suspected of heresy when a monk at Dunfermline, and condemned to imprisonment for life; escaped at the time of the Reformation; minister at Leith, ardently supporting John Knox; minister at Edinburgh, e. 1573; imprisoned for inveighing against the court; ordered to leave Edinburgh for reflecting on Lennox, 1682; was soon afterwards accorded an ovation by the people of Edinburgh; pensioned by James VI, 1590.
John Durie: '''John Durie''' ([[1596]]-[[1680]]), protestant divine; son of Robert Durie; minister to the English Company of Merchants at Elbing, West Prussia, 1628-30; formed scheme for uniting all the evangelical churches, which Gustavus Adolphus, whom he visited, approved, but Oxenstiern disallowed; ordained priest, 1634; king's chaplain; worked at his idea without success in Sweden and Denmark, but was welcomed by the Dukes of Brunswick, Hildesheim, and Zelle; chaplain and tutor to Mary, princess of Orange, at the Hague; favourably received in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and North Germany, having the approbation of Cromwell and the English universities, 1664-7; his plans finally rejected by the Great Elector, 1668; published theological treatises and writings on Christian unity, including Maniere d'expliquer 1'Apocalyse 1674.
Robert Durie: '''Robert Durie''' ([[1555]]-[[1616]]), presbyterian minister; son of John Durie (1537-1600); studied at St. Mary's College, St. Andrews; minister of Abercrombie, Fifeshire, 1588, of Anstruther, 1690; visited the island of Lewis on a civilising and Christianising mission, 1598: banished (1606) for attending the prohibited general assembly at Aberdeen, 1605; first minister of the Scots church at Leyden.
Anthony William Durnford: '''Anthony William Durnford''' ([[1830]]-[[1879]]), colonel, royal engineers; second lieutenant, royal engineers, 1848; served in Ceylon, 1851-6: adjutant at Malta; major, 1871; accompanied mission appointed to attend Cetshwayo's coronation; sent to seize Bushman's River pass on revolt of Ama Hlubi tribe, 1873; nearly killed by his horse falling over a precipice, 1873; demolished Drakensberg passes, 1874; lieutenant-colonel, 1873; colonel, 1878; raised a Basuto column, 1879; killed while covering the retreat at Isandhlwana, 1879.
Richard Durnford: '''Richard Durnford''' ([[1802]]-[[1895]]), bishop of Chichester; educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford; one of the founders of the Oxford Union, and was first president, 1823; M.A., 1827; fellow of Magdalen College, 1828, and honorary fellow, 1888; ordained priest, 1831; held living of Middleton, Lancashire, 18331870; rural dean and honorary canon of Manchester, c. 1848; archdeacon of Manchester, 1867; canon residentiary of Manchester Cathedral, 1868; bishop of Ohichester, 1870-95.
James Durno: '''James Durno''' ([[1750]]7-[[1795]]), historical painter: assisted his master, Benjamin West, in preparing repetitions of his pictures: member of the Society of Incorporated Artists; died at Rome.
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Dyer: '''Dyer'''
Alan Durward: '''Alan Durward''' , EARL OF ATHOLI., otherwise i known as ALANUS OSTIARIUS, HOSTIARICS. DYKWARTLK USHKR(d. 1268); juticiar of Scotland before 1246: leafier of the English party after the death (1249) of Alexander II; accused of treason for attempting to get his children by a natural daughter of Alexander II legitimatised, 1261; fled to England, 1252; attended Henry III on his Gascon expedition, 1253; member of the new rouncil appointed under English auspices to gorru Scotland for seven years, 1255; again high justiciar, 1255; shielded by Henry III from the consequences of Alexander Ill's new anti-English policy, 1258; one of the four temporary regents of Scotland, 1260; Earl of Atholl by marriage.
Thomas Dusgate: '''Thomas Dusgate''' (d. [[1532]]), protestant martyr ; scholar of Christ's College and fellow of Corpus Christi, Cambridge; M.A., 1524; dissuaded by Luther from becoming a priest; put up bills on the doors of Exeter Cathedral denouncing the Roman catholic doctrines preached there; burned near Exeter, 1532.
Dtjssek: '''Dtjssek''' afterwards BUCKLEY, OLIVIA ([[1799]]-[[1847]]).
Sophia Dtjssek: '''Sophia Dtjssek''' ([[1775]]-[[1830]] ?), musician and composer; daughter of Domenico Oorri; deserted by her husband, 1800; performed as a harpist and pianist iu Ireland and Scotland, appearing for one season in opera.
Louis Dtjtens: '''Louis Dtjtens''' ([[1730]]-[[1812]]), diplomatist and man of letters; Huguenot refugee; chaplain to the embassy at Turin, 1758; charge d'affaires at Turin, 1760-2 and 1763-6; presented by the Duke of Northumberland to the living of Elsdon, 1766; historiographer to the king, and F.R.S.; nominated secretary to Lord Walsingham's embassy to Spain, 1786, but did not actually go, Walsingham's appointment being cancelled; edited Leibnitz, 1769, and published (1805) Memoires d'un Voyageur qui se repose; wrote also works on literary and philosophical topics, which appeared first in French.
Charles Allen Luval: '''Charles Allen Luval''' ([[1808]]-[[1872]]), painter ; exhibited portraits and subject-pictures at the Royal Academy, 1836-72; best-known works, a characteristic portrait of Daniel O'Oonnell and The Ruined Gamester a subject-picture from which Punch designed a cartoon caricaturing Sir Robert Peel.
Claude Dttval: '''Claude Dttval''' ([[1643]]-[[1670]]), highwayman : born at Domf ront, Normandy; came to England at the Restoration in attendance on the Duke of Richmond; took to the road, and became notorious for his gallantry and daring; captured in London and executed. Samuel Butler satirically commemorated his death in a Pindaric ode.
Lewis Duvai: '''Lewis Duvai''' ([[1774]]-[[1844]]), conveyancer; LL.B. Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1796; fellow of Trinity Hall; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1804; famous as a chamber practitioner; acknowledged to be facile prin&ps of contemporary conveyancers: placed on the real property commission, writing the greater part of its second report, 1830.
Philip Duvai: '''Philip Duvai''' (d. [[1709]]?), painter; of French nationality; settled in England, c. 1670; painted a picture of Venus receiving from Vulcan the armour for JEneas 1672; received an annuity from the Hon. Robert Boyle
Robert Duvai: '''Robert Duvai''' ([[1644]]-1 [[732]]), painter; born at the Hague; director of William Ill's collections; sent over to England to assist in cleaning and repairing Raphael's cartoons; director of the Hague Academy,
Sir Fortunatus William Lillet Dwarris: '''Sir Fortunatus William Lillet Dwarris''' (1786-1860), lawyer; born in Jamaica; educated at Kugby and University College, Oxford; B.A., 1808; barrister, Middle Temple, 1811; commissioner to inquire into law of West Indies, 1822; knighted, 1838; master of the queen's bench; treasurer of the Middle Temple, 1859; F.R.S.; F.S.A.; vice-president of the Archaeological Association; author of A General Treatise on Statutes 1830-1, some books on the law of the West Indies, 4 Alberic, Consul of Rome (drama, 1832), and Some New Facts and a Suggested New Theory as to the Authorship of Juntas 1850, with other works.
John Dwight: '''John Dwight''' (jf. [[1671]]-[[1698]]), potter; B.C.L. Christ Church, Oxford, 1661; patentee for the manufac ture of porcelain 1671 and 1684; established works at Fulham; achieved production of ware resembling oriental porcelain; executed stoneware statuettes of contemporaries and mythological figures (Mara and Meleager), for which he is doubtfully said to have employed Italian modellers.
Samuel Dwight: '''Samuel Dwight''' ([[1669]]7-[[1737]]), physician ; son of John Dwight; educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1693; L.R.O.P., 1731; practised at Fulham: published De Hydropibus 1725, and other medical works. DWlfN, LEWYS, or more properly LKWYS AP RHYS AP OWAIN (d. 1616 ?), deputy-herald for Wales (1586) and bard. His collections of pedigrees, interspersed with poems by himself, were edited by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick in 1846. Transcripts by him of bardic verses are among the Peniarth MSS.

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Michael Dwyee: '''Michael Dwyee''' ([[1771]]-[[1826]]), Irish insurgent: took part in insurrections of 1798 and 1803, but disapproved Emmet's attempt upon Dublin, 1803; surrendered, 1803: sentenced to transportation, dying, according to Grattan, before leaving Britain, though, according to Ross, he was subsequently for eleven years high constable of Sydney.
Alexander Dyce: '''Alexander Dyce''' ([[1798]]-[[1869]]), scholar; educated at the Edinburgh High School and Exeter College, Oxford; B.A., 1819; held two country curacies; published 'Specimens of British Poetesses 1825; edited Collins's poems, 1827; edited George Peele, 1828 and 1839; published Demetrius and Enanthe (Fletcher's Humorous Lieutenant), 1830; published edition of Shakespeare in nine volumes, 1857. He edited also the works of Thomas Middleton, 1840, Beaumont and Fletcher, 1843-6, Marlowe, 1850, Gifford's Ford, 1869, Robert Greene, 1831, John Webster, and others. His library was bequeathed to Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington,
William Dyce: '''William Dyce''' ([[1806]]-[[1864]]), painter; cousin of Alexander Dyce; M.A. Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1822; studied at the Royal Academy and at Rome; first exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1827; originated pre-Raphaelite school of painting in England with Madonna and Child 1828; Blackwell prizeman at Marischal College for essay on Electro-magnetism; F.R.S. of Edinburgh, 1832; director and secretary to council of school of design, 1840-3; professor of fine arts, King's College, London, 1844; R.A., 1848; was entrusted with the decoration in fresco of the House of Lords, 1846, and of the queen's robing-room, 1848, but did not fully carry out the former contract; an accomplished musician and glass painter; leader in the high church movement. His paintings comprise both portraits and historical subjects; his frescoes consist largely of allegorical and sacred figures.
Dyce: '''Dyce''' -SOMBRE, DAVID OOHTERLONY ([[1808]]1851), an eccentric character; born at Sirdhana, Bengal; great-grandson of one Walter Reinhard, a native of Strasburg, who became satrap of Sirdhana under the Mogul emperor, 1777; inherited a large fortune from his fostermother, the Begum Sombre, 1836; chevalier of the order of Christ; M.P., Sudbury, 1841; unseated for bribery, 1842; held to be of unsound mind by a commission de luncUico inquirendo, 1843; published a refutation of the charges of lunacy previously advanced against him, 1849; lived mainly in France; died in England, on a visit undertaken in the hope of obtaining a superseded!, 1861.
Thomas Dyche: '''Thomas Dyche''' (!. [[1719]]), schoolmaster; master of Stratford Bow school after 1710; convicted of libel for attempting to expose the peculations of the notorious John Ward of Hackney, 1719; compiled English and Latin grammars and vocabularies.
Sir Edward Dyee: '''Sir Edward Dyee''' (d. [[1607]]), poet and courtier ; educated either at Balliol College or Broadgates Hall, Oxford; introduced at court by the Earl of Leicester, at one time falling under the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth; commissioner for the attachment of forfeited lands in Somerset, 1586; sent on a diplomatic mission to Denmark, 1589; chancellor of the order of the Garter, and knighted, 1596; intimate friend of Sir Philip Sidney; reputed Rosicrucian. His most famous poem is the description of contentment beginning My mind to me a kingdom is
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Dyson: '''Dyson''' Meres mentions him as famous for elegy and, according to Collier, he translated part of Theocritus.
George Dyer: '''George Dyer''' ([[1755]]-[[1841]]), author; educated at Christ's Hospital and Emmanuel Gollege, Cambridge; B.A., 1778: usher at Dedham grammar school, 1779, subsequently in a school at Northampton; converted to unitariauism by Robert Robinson (1735-1790): mentioned by Charles Lamb aa a gentle and kindly eccentric; nearly drowned in the New River while in a fit of abstraction, 1823. His works include The Complaints of the Poor People of England 1793,Poems 1801, and Poems and Critical Essays 1802.
Gilbert Dyer: '''Gilbert Dyer''' ([[1743]]-[[1820]]), antiquary and bookseller; formed collection of theological works when bookseller at Exeter; published A Restoration of the Ancient Modes of bestowing Names on the Rivers, Hills, AT. of Britain tracing back their names to the Gaelic, 1805, Vulgar Errors, Ancient and Modern and a pamphlet against atheism 1796.
Sir James Dyer: '''Sir James Dyer''' ([[1512]]-[[1582]]), judge; barrister, Middle Temple, c. 1537; M.P., Cambridgeshire, 1547; king's Serjeant and knighted, 1552; M.P., Cambridgeshire and speaker of the House of Commons, 1553; judge of the queen's bench; president of the court of common pleas, 1559; compiled what Coke thought fruitful and summary collections of cases covering the period 1573-82, reports which constitute the transition from the yearbook to the modern system.
John Dyer: '''John Dyer''' ([[1700]] ?-[[1758]]), poet ; educated at Westminster School; itinerant artist in South Wales, publishing his poem of Grongar Hill in 1727; studied painting in Italy; returned to England and held various livings; LL.B. Cambridge, 1752; published The Fleece 1757.
Joseph Ohessborough Dyer: '''Joseph Ohessborough Dyer''' ([[1780]]-[[1871]]), inventor; born at Stonnington Point, Connecticut; devoted himself to naturalising American inventions in England; patented improvement of Danforth's roving frame for cotton-spinning, 1825; joint-founder ofNorth American Review 1816, and of Manchester Guardian 1821; aided in establishing Royal Institution and MechanicsInstitution at Manchester; abolitionist and free trader.
Samuel Dyer: '''Samuel Dyer''' ([[1725]]-[[1772]]), translator: matriculated at Leyden, 1743; translated the lives of Pericles and Demetrius for Tonson's Plutarch's Lives 1758; F.R.S., 1761; obtained war office appointment; lived on intimate terms with Burke, who wrote an obituary notice of him; believed by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Malone to have written Junius's Letters
Thomas Henry Dyer: '''Thomas Henry Dyer''' ([[1804]]-[[1888]]), historian; contributed to Dr. William Smith's classical and biographical dictionaries; published Tentamina Eschylea 1841; published A History of the City of Rome 1865, andThe History of the Kings of Rome 1868, the latter to confute Niebuhr; LL.D. St. Andrews; explored and published accounts of sites in Pompeii and Athens; investigated origin and nature of European concert in his History of Modern Europe 1861-4.
William Dyer: '''William Dyer''' (d. [[1696]]), nonconformist divine ; minister of Ohesham, and subsequently of Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire; ejected, 1662; published theological treatises resembling in literary style those of John Bunyan.
Dyfrio: '''Dyfrio''' (d. [[612]]).
John Dygon: '''John Dygon''' (ft. [[1512]]), Benedictine monk and musician; Mus. Bac. Oxford, 1512: possibly prior of St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury; composer of a piece printed in John Hawkins's History of Music ii. 518.
Daniel Dyke: '''Daniel Dyke''' (d. [[1614]]), puritan divine ; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1596; M.A. Sidney Sussex College, 1599; follow of Sidney Sussex, and B.D. 1606; minister of Coggeshall, Essex; suspended, 1583; his restoration refused, though Lord Burghley interceded for him; published theological tracts.
Daniel Dyke: '''Daniel Dyke''' ([[1617]]-[[1688]]), baptist divine: son of Jeremiah Dyke; M.A. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; rector of Great Hadham, Hertfordshire, 1645-60; chaplain in ordinary to Oliver Cromwell, 1651; trier for the approval of ministers, 1653.
Jeremiah Dyke: '''Jeremiah Dyke''' (d. [[1620]]?), puritan divine: brother of Daniel Dyke (d. 1614); graduate of Sidney Sussex Collage, Cambridge; incumbent of Epping, 1009 till death; published tracts.
John Bacchus Dykes: '''John Bacchus Dykes''' ([[1823]]-[[1876]]), musician and theologian; grandson of Thomas Dykes; senior optime, St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, 1847; minor canon, 1849, and precentor of Durham, 1849-62; Mus. Doe. Durham; vicar of St. Oswald's, Durham, 1862; composed numerous hymn-tunes.
Thomas Dykes: '''Thomas Dykes''' ([[1761]]-[[1847]]), divine; B.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge; built St. John's Church, Hull, 1791; first incumbent, 1792; founder of female penitentiary, Hull, 1812; master of the Charterhouse at Hull, 1833; a moderate Calvinist; published sermons.
Roger Dymock: '''Roger Dymock''' (. [[1395]]), theologian ; D.D. Oxford; possibly a Dominican friar; author of an unpublished treatise,Ad versus dnodecim errores et haereses Lollardorum
James Dymocke: '''James Dymocke''' (d. [[1718]]?), Roman catholic divine; missioner in England; prior of St. Arnoul, near Ohartres; chief work, Le Vice ridicule et la Vertu louee 1671.

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Dymoke: '''Dymoke''' Sm HENRY, first baronet ([[1801]]-[[1865]]), king's champion at George IV's coronation, 1821; created baronet, 1841.
Sir John Dymoke: '''Sir John Dymoke''' (d. [[1381]]), king's champion; owed his advancement to a marriage with Margaret de Ludlow; knighted, 1373; M.P., Lincolnshire, 1372, 1373, and 1377; claimed, as lord of the manor of Scrivelsby, to act as king's champion at the coronation of Richard II; his right challenged by Sir Baldwin de Freville, but upheld by a decision of the lord steward.
Sir Robert Dymoke: '''Sir Robert Dymoke''' (d. [[1546]]), king's champion ; son of Sir Thomas Dymoke; knight-banneret; sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1484, 1502, and 1509; champion at the coronations of Richard III, Henry VII, and Henry VIII; distinguished himself at the siege of Tournay.
Robert Dymoke: '''Robert Dymoke''' (d. [[1580]]), son of Sir Robert Dymoke; imprisoned for recusancy at Lincoln.
Sir Thomas Dymoke: '''Sir Thomas Dymoke''' ([[1428]]?-[[1471]]) ; aided his brother-in-law, Sir Robert Wells, in collecting a Lancastrian force in Lincolnshire, 1471; beheaded, 1471.
Jonathan Dymond: '''Jonathan Dymond''' ([[1796]]-[[1828]]), quaker moralist : founded an auxiliary peace society at Exeter, 1825: chief work, Essays on the Principles of Morality and on the Private and Political Rights and Obligations of Mankind (published 1829), written against Paley's utilitarianism.
Saint Dympna: '''Saint Dympna''' (6th or 9th cent.), Christian daughter of a pagan king in Ireland; fled to Antwerp from the incestuous designs of her father; overtaken and slain by her father with his own hand.
William Dyott: '''William Dyott''' ([[1761]]-[[1847]]), general ; lieutenant, 4th regiment, 1782; major, 103rd regiment, 1794; commanded 25th regiment at capture of Grenada, 1796; colonel, 1800; aide-de-camp to George III, 1801; commanded brigade in battle of Alexandria, 1801, and hi Walcheren expedition, 1809; lieutenant-general, 1813.
Dysart: '''Dysart''' first EARL OP ([[1600]] ?-[[1651]]). See MURRAY,
William: '''William'''
Countess Op Dysart: '''Countess Op Dysart''' (d. [[1697]]). See MURRAY,
Elizabeth: '''Elizabeth'''
Charles Dyson: '''Charles Dyson''' ([[1788]]-[[1860]]), professor of AngloSaxon at Oxford; grandson of Jeremiah Dyson; scholar of Corpus Ohristi College, Oxford; friend of Keble and Arnold; M.A., 1816; Rawlinsonian professor of Anglo-Saxon, 1812-16; incumbent successively of Nunburnholme, Nasing, and Dogmerafleld.
Jeremiah Dyson: '''Jeremiah Dyson''' ([[1722]]-[[1776]]), civil servant and politician; studied at Edinburgh University; matriculated at Leyden, 1742; settled a pension on his friend Mark Akenside; friend of Richardson; purchased clerkship of House of Commons, 1748; became a tory
Dyve: '''Dyve''' 379
Eardley: '''Eardley''' after George Ill's accession; discontinued the practice of, DYVE, SIR LEWIS (1599-1669), royalist; knighted, selling the clerkships subordinate to his office: M.P., Yar- 1620; attended Prince Charles at Madrid; M.P., Bridport, mouth, Isle of Wight, 1762-8, Weymouth and Melcotnbe 1625,1626, Weymouth, 1628; arrested by Hotham, governor Regis, 1768-74, and Horsham, 1774: commissioner for the of Hull, for conspiracy with ultimate object of admitting board of trade, 1764-8; a lord of the treasury, 1768-74; Charles I into that town, 1642; fled to Holland; returned, privy councillor, 1774: supported Lord North's treat-, and was wounded at skirmish at Worcester, 1642; fought rnent of the American colonies: nicknamed Mungo I under Rupert at relief of Newark, 1644; sergeant-ma jor(the ubiquitous negro slave in Isaac Bickers taffe's Pad-. general of Dorset, 1644, storming Weymouth, 1645; imlock) from his omnipresence in parliamentary business;, prisoned in the Tower, 1645-7; served in Ireland, pubiefended Akenside'sPleasures of Imaginationagainst lishing (1650) an account of events there from 1648 to Warburton. i 1650; finally took refuge in France. E
John Eachaed: '''John Eachaed''' ([[1636]] ?-[[1697]]), master of Catharine Hall, Cambridge; fellow of Catharine Hall, 1658; M.A., Ibbu: master, 1675-97; D.D., 1676; vice-chancellor of Cambridge, 1679 and 1695; appointed to justify the vicechancellor's action in disobeying the mandamus of James II to confer the degree of M.A. without oaths on the Benedictine monk, Alban Francis, 1687; published two Dialogues on the philosophy of Hobbes, 1672 and 1673, and a satirical work entitled The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy aud Religion enquired into 1670.
Laurence Eachaed: '''Laurence Eachaed''' ([[1670]] ?- [[1730]]). See
Bcuard: '''Bcuard'''
Jeodbald Eadbald: '''Jeodbald Eadbald''' , JETHELBALD, or ATTDTT-
Waid: '''Waid''' (. [[640]]), king of Kent ; son of Ethelberht ; broke off his incestuous connection with his father's wife on being converted to Christianity; said to have built a church at Canterbury and another church for Folkestone nunnery; married his sister Ethelburh to the Northumbrian king Eadwine on condition of her being allowed to remain a Christian.
Eadbeet: '''Eadbeet''' or EADBEEHT, SAixr(d. [[698]]), bishop of Liadisfarne, 688; buried in the grave which had held St. Cuthbert, whose remains he had translated,
Eadbeet: '''Eadbeet''' or EADBESHT (d. [[768]]), king of the Northumbrians; divided the government between himself and his brother Ecgberht, archbishop of York; made alliances with the Franks and Picte; reduced Dumbarton, 756; joined the monastery of St. Peter's, York, in grief for the destruction of his army in 756.
Eadbeet: '''Eadbeet''' or EADBEYHT PBJEH (Jt. [[796]]), king of Kent; forsook the cloister and headed a revolt against Mercia, founding the independent kingdom of Kent, 796; defeated and mutilated by Cenwulf of Mercia, 798.
Eadbttrh Eadbuega: '''Eadbttrh Eadbuega''' , BTJGGA, or BTJGG!

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Saixt: '''Saixt''' (*. [[751]]), abbess of Minster ; daughter of Centwine , king of the West-Saxons; abbess of the nunnery founded in Thanet by the mother of St. Mildred, near which she built a new convent: friend and correspondent of St. Boniface; taught Lioba the art of poetry.
Eadbtiegh Eadbtjega: '''Eadbtiegh Eadbtjega''' . or EADBUEH (fl. [[802]]), queen of the West-Saxons; daughter of Offa; prepared poison for a favourite of her husband Beorhtric. king of the West-Saxons, which the king accidentally drank himself, 802: fled to the court of Charlemagne, who made her abbess of a nunnery; expelled for nnchastity and reduced to beg in the streets of Pa via.
Zadfrid: '''Zadfrid''' or EADFETTH (d. [[721]]), bishop of Lindisfarne, 698: ruled as a monastic bishop of the Celtic type, though following Rome on points of ritual; promoted the committal of his master St. Cnthbert's acts to writing; began the compilation of the Lindislarne gospels manuscripts.
John Eadie: '''John Eadie''' ([[1810]]-[[1876]]), theological author : studied at Glasgow University: minister of the Cambridge Street united secession congregation, Glasgow, 1835; professor of biblical literature in the United Secession Divinity Hall, Glasgow, 1843-76; LL.D. Glasgow, 1844; D.D. St. Andrew's, 1850; moderator of synod, 1857; author of a popularBiblical Cyclopaedia 1848, and an Analytical Concordance 1856; published commentaries on the Greek text of the Epistles to the Ephesians(1854), the Colossians (1856), the Philippians (1857), the Galatiaus (1869), and the Thessalonians (the last appearing posthumously).
Eadkee: '''Eadkee''' or EDKEE (d. [[1124]] ?), historian : monk of Canterbury; biographer of St. Anselm; chronicler of contemporary events in Historia Novorum; elected archbishop of St. Andrews, but, in consequence of the rivalry between the northern and southern primates, never consecrated.
Eadnoth: '''Eadnoth''' (d. [[1067]]), staller, or master of the horse, under Eadward the Confessor and William I; slain IP battle with the sons of Harold, 1067.
Eadeic: '''Eadeic'''
Eadsike Eadsige: '''Eadsike Eadsige''' , EDSEE, or ELSI (d. [[1050]]), archbishop of Canterbury; one of the chaplains of Cnnt: archbishop, 1038; crowned Harthacnut; said to have helped Earl Godwine to seize Folkestone.
John Eagee: '''John Eagee''' ([[1782]]-[[1853]] ?), organist ; organist to the corporation of Yarmouth, 1803-33; defended and introduced J. B. Logier's chiroplast to the public; wrote pianoforte sonatas, songs, and glees.
Eagles: '''Eagles'''
John Eagles: '''John Eagles''' ([[1783]]-[[1855]]), artist and author ; son of Thomas Eagles; admitted to Winchester College, 1797; studied art in Italy, trying to form his style on Gaspard Poussin and Salvator Rosa; M.A. Wadham College, Oxford, 1818; took orders; contributed to Blackwood's Magazine 1831-55; wrote sonnets and a Latin macaronic poem; translatedOdyssey books i. and ii. and five cantos of Orlando Furioso
Thomas Eagles: '''Thomas Eagles''' ([[1746]]-[[1812]]), classical scholar; entered at Winchester College, 1757; merchant and collector of customs at Bristol; F.S.A., 1811; translated part of Athenaeus; contributed toThe Crier a periodical essay (in Felix Farley's Bristol Journal), and left dissertations on the Rowley controversy.
Ealdulf: '''Ealdulf''' (d. [[1002]]).
John Eakes: '''John Eakes''' (d. [[1744]]), dissenting tutor; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool; theological tutor in the Fund Academy, Moorfields; F.RJS.,and friend of Sir Isaac New-ton; edited Isaac Watts's Knowledge of the Heavens and Earth made easy 1726.
Eahbald: '''Eahbald''' I (d. [[796]]), archbishop of York; with Alcuin superintended rebuilding of York Minster; archj bishop, 780; crowned Eardwulf, 796.
Eajtbald: '''Eajtbald''' H (d. [[810]] ?), archbishop of York ; sent by ! the church of York to consult his master, Alcuin, on the , succession, 796; archbishop, 796; helped Cenwulf of Mercia to depose Eardwnlf of Northumbria, 807; received letters of advice from Alcnin.
Eanfued: '''Eanfued''' (&. [[626]]), qneen of Northumbria; first Northumbrian to be baptised, 626; brought up at the court of her uncle Eadbald, king of Kent; married to Oswiu of Northnmbria, 643; hastened the synod of I Whitby by her adherence to the Roman ritual, while her j husband practised the Celtic; joint-abbess of Whitby with her daughter Inaed, c. 63*.
Sir Culling Eardley Eardley: '''Sir Culling Eardley Eardley''' ([[1805]]-[[1863]]), religious philanthropist; educated at Eton and Oriel Col I lege, Oxford; M.P., Pontefract, 1830: founded the Evan 1 gelical Alliance, 1846. Under his direction the Alliance
Eardwtj: '''Eardwtj''' iLF 380
Eastlake: '''Eastlake''' secured the independence of the Bulgarian church, 1861, and the abolition of the penal laws against Roman catholics in Sweden, 1858; he obtained firmans of religious liberty from the sultan of Turkey (1866) and from the khedive of Egypt.
Eardwtjlf: '''Eardwtjlf''' or EARDTJLF (d. [[810]]), king of Northnmbria; said to have been executed by order of Ethelred. but to hare been miraculously restored to life; king of Northumbria, 796; expelled by Alfwold, 808, but restored (809) by Charlemagne.
Erasmus Earle: '''Erasmus Earle''' ([[1590]]-[[1667]]), serjeant-at-law; barrister of Lincoln's Inn; bencher, 1635-41: reader, 1639; M.P., Norwich, 1647; serjeantrat-law, 1648 and 1660; counsel to the state, 1653.
Giles Earle: '''Giles Earle''' ([[1678]]7-[[1758]]), politician and wit; colonel in the army and follower of John, second duke of Argyll; M.P., Ohippenham, 1715-22, Malmesbury, 17221747; clerk-comptroller of the king's household, 1720; treasury lord, 1 737-42; chairman of committees of election, 1727-41; boon companion of Walpole.
Eart: '''Eart''' F., HENRY ([[1789]]-[[1838]]), surgeon ; third son of Sir James Earle; M.R.C.S., 1808; surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1827: professor of anatomy and surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1833; president of the Royal Medical and Ghirurgical Society, 1835-7; surgeon-extraordinary to Queen Victoria, 1837; published Practical Observations in Surgery 1823: maintained, against Sir Astley Paston Cooper, the possible uniting of fracture of the neck of the thigh-bone.
Jabez Earle: '''Jabez Earle''' ([[1676]] ?-[[1768]]), presbyterian minister ; pastor in Drury Street, Westminster, 1706; established a Thursday-morning lecture at Hanover Street; D.D. Edinburgh, 1728; D.D. King's College, Aberdeen; chaplain to Archibald, duke of Douglas (1694-1761); published sermons and religious poems.

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Sir James Earle: '''Sir James Earle''' ([[1755]]-[[1817]]), surgeon ; surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1784-1815; surgeonextraordinary to George III; president of the College of Surgeons and knighted, 1802; lithotomist; improved treatment of hydrocele; chief work, A Treatise on the Hydrocele 1791.
John Earle: '''John Earle''' ([[1601]] ?-[[1665]]), bishop of Salisbury ; B.A. Merton College, Oxford, and fellow, 1619; M.A., 1624; rector of Bishopston, Wiltshire, 1639; tutor to Charles, prince of Wales, 1641; D.D. Oxford, 1640: unexpectedly appointed one of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 1643; chancellor of Salisbury, 1643; deprived, as a malignant; chaplain and clerk of the closet to Charles II in France; dean of Westminster, 1660; bishop f Worcester, 1662-3; bishop of Salisbury, 1663-5; opposed both the Conventicle and the Five-mile acts; author of Microcosmographie 1628, and Hortus Mertonensis a Latin poem.
John Earle: '''John Earle''' ([[1749]]-[[1818]]), Roman catholic divine ; educated at the English college, Douay; priest at Spanish ambassador's chapel, Dorset Street, Manchester Square, London; published poem on Gratitude 1791, and critique (1799) on Geddea's translation of the bible.
William Earle: '''William Earle''' ([[1833]]-1 [[885]]), major-general; educated at Winchester; lieutenant, 49th regiment, 1854; promoted captain in the Crimea, 1855; captain and lieutenant-colonel, grenadier guards, 1863; served in Nova Scotia, 1862 and 1863; colonel, 1868; military secretary to Lord Northbrook in India, 1872-6; C.S.I., 1876; majorgeneral, 1880; commanded garrison of Alexandria, 18821884; O.B.; killed at Kirbekan during the war in the Soudan.
William Benson Earle: '''William Benson Earle''' ([[1740]]-[[1796]]), philanthropist; educated at Salisbury Cathedral school, Winchester College, and Merton College, Oxford; M.A., 1764; published descriptions of continental tour extending from 1765 to 1767; bequeathed large sums to learned and charitable institutions.
Richard Earlom: '''Richard Earlom''' ([[1743]]-[[1822]]), mezzotint engraver; studied under G. B. Cipriani, admiration for whose allegorical paintings on the lord mayor's state coach induced him to become an artist; achieved a fine style in the chalk manner, and in mezzotint representation of the texture of flowers; executed prints after Claude Lorraine to further the detection of spurious works.
Laurence Earnshaw: '''Laurence Earnshaw''' (d. [[1767]]), mechanician ; constructed an astronomical clock; invented a machine to spin and reel cotton simultaneously, 1753, which he destroyed, under the impression that it would lessen the demand for labour.
Thomas Earnshaw: '''Thomas Earnshaw''' ([[1749]]-[[1829]]), watchmaker ; first to bring chronometers within the means of private individuals; invented cylindrical balance spring and detached detent escapement.
John Parsons Earwaker: '''John Parsons Earwaker''' ([[1847]]-[[1895]]), antiquary; M.A. Merton College, Oxford, 1876; studied at Middle Temple; honorary secretary of Oxford Archaeological Society; F.S.A., 1873; publishedEast Cheshire 1877-81, and other writings, relating chiefly to Cheshire and Lancashire; edited Court Leet Records of Manor of Manchester 1884-90.
East: '''East''' Sm EDWARD HYDE ([[1764]]-[[1847]]), chief -justice of Calcutta; born in Jamaica; barrister. Inner Temple, 1786; M.P., Great Bedwin, 1792; knighted; chief-justice of the supreme court at Fort William, Bengal, 1813-22; chief promoter of the Hindoo College; created baronet, 1823; M.P., Winchester, 1823-30; member of judicial committee of privy council; F.R.S., and bencher of the Inner Temple; published * Pleas of the Crown 1803; compiled case reports.
East: '''East''' Sm JAMES BULLER ([[1789]]-[[1878]]), barrister : eldest son of Sir Edward Hyde East; educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1824; D.C.L., 1834; barrister, Inner Temple, 1863; reader, 1869; M.P., Winchester, 1830-2 and 1835-64; deputy-lieutenant for Gloucestershire.
East: '''East''' (also spelt EST, ESTK, and BASTE), MICHAEL (15807-1680?), musical composer; probably son of Thomas East; wrote Hence, stars too dim of light a madrigal, for theTriumphs of Oriaua (printed, 1601); choirmaster of Lichfield Cathedral, c. 1618; author of Madrigales pastorals, Neopolitanes and anthemes His hist book, comprising Duos for two Base Viols and Ayerie Fancies of 4 parts appeared in 1638.
East: '''East''' (also spelt EST, ESTK, and EASTB), THOMAS (1540 ?-1608 ?), printer and music-publisher; published Burd's Bassus 1587; printed a new edition of Damon's psalter, showing the ancient and modern methods of harmonising tunes for congregational use, 1591; edited 'The Whole Booke of Psalmes an early example of 'score 1592; published (1603)The Triumphs of Oriana,* a collection of madrigals in honour of Queen Elizabeth; connected with most of the musical publications of the time.
East: '''East''' - ANGLES, KINGS OF. See REDW A LD, d. [[627]] ? ; , SIGEBKRT, d. 637?; ETHELBERT, rf. 794; EDMUND, 841i 870.
Richard Eastcott: '''Richard Eastcott''' ([[1740]]7-[[1828]]), writer on music; deprecated the custom of writing fugal music for voices in Sketches of the Origin, Progress, and Effects of Music 1793; chaplain of Livery Dale, Devonshire.
Richard Eastcotjrt: '''Richard Eastcotjrt''' ([[1668]]-[[1712]]). See EST
Court: '''Court'''
Kennet Easter: '''Kennet Easter''' , LORD (d. [[1594]]). See HAT,
Alexander: '''Alexander'''
Sir John Easthope: '''Sir John Easthope''' ([[1784]]-[[1865]]), politician and journalist; M.P., St. Albans, 1826-30, Banbury, 1831, and Leicester, 1837-47; magistrate for Middlesex and Surrey, and chairman of various companies; purchased the Morning Chronicle 1834; created baronet, 1841.
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake: '''Sir Charles Lock Eastlake''' ([[1793]]-[[1865]]), president of the Royal Academy; entered Charterhouse j School, 1808; studied art under Benjamin Robert Haydon and in the Royal Academy schools; returning J from studying the Louvre masterpieces (1816) to Plymouth, was enabled to visit Italy by the proceeds of a 1 portrait of Napoleon I, devoting himself to landscapepainting at Rome; visited Athens, Malta, and Sicily, on a sketching tour; exhibited banditti pictures at the British Institution, 1823; exhibited at Koyal Academy after 1827; praised by Haydon for the Titianesque simplicity of his Champion; twice refused the chair of fine arts at the London University, 1833 and 1836;
Eastlake: '''Eastlake''' 381
Eccardt: '''Eccardt''' secretary of the Fine Arts Commission; commissioner for the exhibition of 1851; president of the Royal Academy, 1850-65; director of the National Gallery, 1855; died at Pisa; F.R.S. and honorary D.C.L. Oxford; published 4 Materials for the History of Oil-painting some books of art criticism, aud a translation of Goethe'sTheory of Colours 1840.
Elizabeth Eastlake: '''Elizabeth Eastlake''' , LADY ([[1809]]-[[1893]]), authoress; daughter of Edward Rigby (1747-1821); travelled in Germany and Russia, and published, 1841, 4 A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic; contributed, from 1842, numerous articles toQuarterly In one of which (1848) tshe attackedJane Eyre married Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, 1849. Her works include translation of Waagen's 4 Treasures of Art in Great Britain 1864-7, Five Great Painters 1883, and a revised edition of her husband's issue of KUgler's Handbook of Painting: Italian School? 1874. Her 4 Journals and Correspondence appeared, 1895.
William Eastmead: '''William Eastmead''' (d. [[1847]]?), dissenting minister; pastor at Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire; publihed two theologico-moral essays, also (1824) 4 Historia Rievallensis

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Adam Easton: '''Adam Easton''' (d. [[1397]]), cardinal: of humble parentage; doctor in theology, Oxford; erroneously (loi-ribed as bishop of Hereford or of London; cardinal-priest after 1381; nominated by papal provision to the deanery of York, 1382; thrown into a dungeon at Nocera by Urban II for being concerned in the cardinalsplot against the pope's despotic rule, 1385; liberated by the intervention of Richard II, but degraded from the cardinalate; reinstated by Boniface IX, 1389; prebendary of Salisbury before 1392; incumbent of Hecham; died at Rome. Of his numerous writings, among which may be mentionedPerfectio Vitse Spiritualis and 4 Hebraica Saraceui none are extant.
East: '''East''' -SAXONS, KINGS OF. See SEBEKT, -. [[616]] ? ;
Skxked: '''Skxked''' d. [[626]] ; SIGEBKRT, ft. [[626]] ; SIGKBKRT, ft. [[653]] ;
Sighkri: '''Sighkri''' !. [[665]] ; SKBBI, d. [[695]] ? ; SIGHARD,.*. [[695]] ; OFFA, ft. 709; SKLRKD, d. 746; SIGKRED,J. 799.
Edward Backhouse Eastwick: '''Edward Backhouse Eastwick''' ([[1814]]-[[1883]]), orientalist and diplomatist; educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford; given political employment in Kattiawar and Sindh; professor of Hindustani at the East India College, Haileybury, 1845; assistant political secretary at the India Office, 1859; barrister, Middle Temple, 1860; secretary of legation to the Persian court, 1860-3; commissioner for arranging a Venezuelan loan, 1864 and 1867; O.B.; M.P., Penryn and Falmouth, 1868-74: translated Sa'di's 4 Gulistan 1852, and some Hindustani classics, besides writing works dealing with his diplomatic experiences.
Jonathan Eastwood: '''Jonathan Eastwood''' ([[1824]]-[[1864]]), topographer; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1849; incumbent of Hope, Staffordshire; wrote a 4 History of the Parish of Ecclesfield in the County of York 1862, and a 4 Bible Word-book published 1866.
Eata: '''Eata''' (d. [[686]]), bishop of Hexham and Lindisfarne ; disciple of St. Aidan and, in 651, abbot of Melrose; consecrated bishop of the Bernicians, 678; b}shop of Lindisfarne alone, and subsequently of Hexham alone, his see having been divided in 681.
Mrs Beaton: '''Mrs Beaton''' . CHARLOTTE ANN ([[1788]]-[[1859]]). See
Daniel Isaac Eaton: '''Daniel Isaac Eaton''' (d. [[1814]]), bookseller; indicted for selling the second part of Paine's Rights of Man 1793, and for a supposed libel on George III in 4 Politics for the People 1794, but acquitted: fled to America, and was outlawed, 1796; translated Helvetia's 4 True Sense and Meaning of the System of Nature 1810; pilloried, 1812: tried, for publishing 4 Ecoe Homo 1813, but, being an old man, was not brought up for judgment. fxvi. 336
John Eaton: '''John Eaton''' (ft. [[1619]]), divine ; M.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1603; vicar of Wickham Market, Suffolk, 1604-19; deprived, as a suspected antinomian, 1619; imprisoned; published works including The Honey-Combe of Free Justification by Christ alone 1642.
Nathaniel Eaton: '''Nathaniel Eaton''' ([[1609]] ?-[[1674]]), president-designate of Harvard College, Massachusetts; brother of Theophilus Eaton; educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge: emigrated to America, 1637; president-designate of Harvard College, 1638-9; dismissed by order of the court at Boston for cruelty to his pupils aud ushers, 1639; doctor of philosophy and medicine, Padua, 1647; vicar of Bishops Castle, Shropshire, 1661; rector of Bidefoni, 1668; died a prisoner for debt in the king's bench.
Samuel Eaton: '''Samuel Eaton''' ([[1596]] ?-[[166]]B), independent divine: M.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1628; brother of Theophilus Eaton; colleague of John Davenport at New Haven; returned to England (1640) for the purpose of gathering a company to settle Toboket, but did not go back to America; assistant to the parliamentary commissioners of Cheshire; an influential preacher: teacher of a congregational church at Dukinfield, Cheshire; wrote against the Socinians and quakers.
Theophilus Eaton: '''Theophilus Eaton''' ([[1690]] 7-[[1658]]), first governor of New Haven; friend of John Davenport, at New Haven; deputy-governor of the East Land Company; agent of Charles I to the court of Denmark; original patentee and magistrate of Massachusetts, 1629; founded settlement of New Haven, 1638; annually reelected governor of New Haven, 1639-58; drew up the 4 blue code of laws, so named from its whimsicality and severity (printed 1656); treated Dutch and Indians fairly and prudently.
Ebba: '''Ebba''' or JEBBE, SAINT (d. [[679]] ?), abbess of Coldingham; daughter of Ethelfrith, king of Northumbria; founded monastery at Ebchester on the Derwent; abbess of Coldiugham, Berwickshire, a mixed monastery of monks and nuns, which was burnt down in 679 as a divine punishment on the disorderliness of its inmates, according to the dream of a monk named Adamnan; said to have healed Queen Eormenburh of a malady caused by demoniacal possession.
Ebba: '''Ebba''' (ft. [[870]]), abbess of Coldingham when the house was destroyed by the Danes.
Thomas Ebdon: '''Thomas Ebdon''' ([[1738]]-[[1811]]), organist of Durham Cathedral, 1763-1811. His 4 Morning, Communion, and Evening Service in C is still occasionally heard.
John Ebers: '''John Ebers''' ([[1785]] ?-l [[830]] ?), operatic manager; lessee of the King's Theatre, opening it in 1821 with 4 La Gazza Lad ru; produced, with alternate success and failure, representative Italian operas; sublet the theatre to Beuelli, his assistant stage. manager, who absconded in 1824; ruined by the enormous rent of the theatre, 1826: became a bookseller, publishingSeven Years of the King's Theatre 1828.
Eborard: '''Eborard''' or EVERARD ([[1083]] V-l [[150]]), second bishop of Norwich; archdeacon of Salisbury in 1121: consecrated bishop of Norwich, 1121; one of the bishops who attested the great charter issued by Stephen, 1135; deposed, according to Henry of Huntingdon, for his cruelty, c. 1145; built the church of Fontenay Abbey; died, a Cistercian monk, at Fonteuay, 1150.
Ebor: '''Ebor''' mS or EBTJRIUS (ft. [[314]]), bishop of Eboracum or York; one of the three bishops from the Roman province of Britain who attended the council of Aries, 314.
Joseph Ebsworth: '''Joseph Ebsworth''' ([[1788]]-[[1868]]), dramatist and musician; baritone singer at Covent Garden Theatre; actor and prompter at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; abandoned the stage to become choir-leader at St. Stephen's Church: friend of Charles Dibdin the younger; author of numerous short dramas and a collection of songs in manuscript.
Mary Emma Ebsworth: '''Mary Emma Ebsworth''' ([[1794]]-[[1881]]), dramatist ; wA? Fairbrother; married to Joseph Ebsworth, 1817; author of works published in Cumberland's Acting Drama.*
Baron Ebtjry: '''Baron Ebtjry''' ([[1801]]-[[1893]]). See GROSVEXOR,
Robert: '''Robert'''
Eccardt: '''Eccardt''' or ECXHARDT, JOHN GILES (Jo-
Hanxes: '''Hanxes''' EGIDIUS) (d. [[1779]]), portrait-painter; native of Germany; succeeded to the practice of his master, Vanloo; painted portraits of Beutley, Gray, and Mrs. Wofflngton.

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Eccles: '''Eccles'''
Eden: '''Eden'''
Ambrose Eccles: '''Ambrose Eccles''' (d. [[1809]]), Shakespearean scholar; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; editedyiiiH-line 1793,King Lear 1793, and Merchant of Venice 1805, transposing scenes which he thought wrongly placed.
Henry Eccles: '''Henry Eccles''' (ft. [[1720]]), violinist : son of Solomon Eccles; member of the king's baud, 16941710; member of the French king's band; published in Paris Twelve Excellent Solos for the Violin 1720.
John Eccles: '''John Eccles''' (d. [[1735]]), musical composer ; son of Solomon Eccles; contributed songs to about fortysix plays; master of Queen Anne's band, 1704; composed new-year and birthday songs for the court,
Solomon Eccles: '''Solomon Eccles''' ([[1618]]-[[1683]]), musician and quaker; abandoned music on bacoming a quaker, 1660; wandered naked through London streets, prophesying divine wrath, during the plague of 1665; accompanied George Fox to the West Indies, 1671; banished from New England, 1672, and from Barbados, 1680; published A Musick-Lector 1667, and The Quakers Challenge 1668, the latter making physical endurance in spiritual exercises a proof of the true religion.
Thomas of Eccleston: '''Thomas of Eccleston''' (. [[1250]]), Franciscan ; studied at Oxford; wrote 4 De Adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam (printed 1858).
Thom Eccleston: '''Thom Eccleston''' *AS ([[1659]]-[[1743]]), Jesuit; educated at St. Omer and the English college, Rome: captain in James II's army after 1688; professed of the four vows, 1712; missioner in Yorkshire; chaplain to Lord Petre.
Ecclestone: '''Ecclestone''' or EGGLESTONE, WILLIAM (fl. 1605-1623), actor; joined the king's company of actors associated with the Blackfriars and Globe theatres after 1605, performing in Jonson'sAlchemist 1610; joined Henslowe's company at the Fortune Theatre, 1611.
Laurence Echard: '''Laurence Echard''' ([[1670]] ?-[[1730]]), historian; M.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1695; prebendary of Lincoln, 1697; archdeacon of Stow, 1712-30; F.S.A.; chief work,A History of England 1707 and 1718; translated Terence and part of Plautus, 1694, writing also various compendiums; translated D'OrleansHistory of the Revolutions in England (1603-1690) (second edition, 1722).
Tn Ecttt: '''Tn Ecttt''' , ROBERT (d. [[1635]]), bishop of Down and Connor; M.A. St. Andrews, 1596; in charge of second congregation of Inverkeithing, 1601; bishop of Down and Connor, 1613; procured commission to inquire into causes of impoverishment of his diocese, 1615; abandoned policy of toleration and deposed (1634) the presbyterian ministers, Livingstone and Robert Blair.
John Ecton: '''John Ecton''' (d. [[1730]]), compiler ; receiver of the tenths of the clergy in Queen Anne's Bounty office; F.S.A., 1723; bequeathed his manuscripts and books to Oxford University; author of two works of reference in connection with Queen Anne's Bounty Fund.
Saint Edbttrge: '''Saint Edbttrge''' (d. [[751]]).
Jedde Eddi: '''Jedde Eddi''' , or EDDIUS (fl. [[669]]), biographer; assumed the name of Stephanus, probably on taking orders; brought to Northumbria by Bishop Wilfrid to teach the Roman method of chanting, 669; monk at Ripon; wrote a Vita Wilfridi Episcopi which William of Malmesbury consulted.
Eddisbttry: '''Eddisbttry''' first BARON ([[1802]]-[[1869]]). See STAN-
Edward John Ley: '''Edward John Ley''' .
Saint Edelburge: '''Saint Edelburge''' (d. [[676]] ?).
Gerard Edema: '''Gerard Edema''' ([[1652]]-[[1700]] ?), landscape-painter : native of Friesland; travelled in Guiana, Norway, and Newfoundland; came to England, c. 1670. His paintings of novel and unknown scenery earned for him the title of the Salvator Rosa of the North
Sir Ashley Eden: '''Sir Ashley Eden''' ([[1831]]-[[1887]]), Indian official; third son of Robert John Eden; educated at Rugby and Winchester; magistrate at Moor.shedabad, 1856, doing much to prevent disaffection there, 1857; secretary to the governor of Bengal, 1860-71; envoy to Bhutan, where he was constrained to sign a disadvantageous treaty, 1863; I chief eoumiL iicmcr of British Burmah, 1871; lieutenantgovernor of Bengal, 1877-82; K.C.S.I., 1878; member of j the secretary of state's council, 1882.
Charles Page Eden: '''Charles Page Eden''' ([[1807]]-[[1885]]), clerical author I and editor; bible clJrk, Oriel College, Oxford, 1825; B.A., 1829; Ellerton and chancellor's prizeman; fellow 01 Oriel, 1832; vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford, 1843-50; prebendary of York, 1870; edited Gunning's Paschal or Lent Fast 1845, Andrewes'sPattern of Catechistical Doctrine 1846, and Jeremy Taylor's works,
Emily Eden: '''Emily Eden''' ([[1797]]-[[1869]]), novelist and traveller ; daughter of William Eden, first baron Auckland; accompanied her brother, George Eden, to India; published Portraits of the People and Princes of India 1844, Up the Country 1866, and two novels, The Semidetached House 1869, andThe Semi-attached Couple I860.
Sir Frederick Morton Eden: '''Sir Frederick Morton Eden''' ([[1766]]-[[1809]]), writer on the state of the poor; nephew of William Eden, first baron Auckland; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1789; chairman of the Globe Insurance Company; applied the principles of Adam Smith to investigations into the condition of the poor; chief work, The State of the Poor; or an History of the Labouring Classes in England from the Conquest to the present period 1797.
George Eden: '''George Eden''' , first EARL OP AUCKLAND ([[1784]]1849), statesman and governor-general of India; second son of William Eden, first baron Auckland; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1808; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1809; M.P., Woodstock, 1810-12, re-elected, 1813; president of the board of trade, 1830-4 and 1835, and master of the mint, 1830-4; first lord of the admiralty, 1834; G.O.B.; governor-general of India, 1836; instituted famine relief works in the north-west provinces, 1838; adopted the policy of reinstating Shah Shuja as ameer of Afghanistan, 1837; created Earl of Auckland on successful termination of first Afghan campaign, 1839; recalled by Peel after catastrophe of November 1841; first lord of the admiralty, 1846; president of the Royal Asiatic Society and of the senate of University College, London.
Henry Eden: '''Henry Eden''' ([[1797]]-[[1888]]), admiral; cousin of George Eden; navy lieutenant, 1817; commanded the Martin off the coast of Greece during the Greek revolution, 1822-4; flag-captain to Sir Graham Moore, commander-in-chief at Plymouth, 1839-42; admiralty 1 lord, 1855-8; rear-admiral, 1854; admiral, 1864.
Morton Eden: '''Morton Eden''' , first BARON HENLEY ([[1752]]-[[1830]]), diplomatist; matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 1770; minister plenipotentiary to the elector of Bavaria; envoy extraordinary at Copenhagen, 1779, at Dresden, 1782; K.B., 1791; ambassador to the Austrian court, 1793; privy councillor, 1794: envoy extraordinary to Vienna, 1794-9: created peer of Ireland as Baron Henley of Chardstock, Dorset, 1799; F.R.S.

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Richard Eden: '''Richard Eden''' ([[1521]] ?-[[1576]]), translator ; studied at QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1535-44; cited before Bishop Gardiner for heresy, and deprived of his place in the English treasury of the Prince of Spain; entered service of Jean de Ferrieres, vidame of Chartres, 1562; translated Mifnster'sCosmography 1553, and John Taisner's De Natura Magnetis 1574, and published 'The Decades of the Newe Worlde, or West India 1555. Me
Robert Eden: '''Robert Eden''' ([[1804]]-[[1886]]), bishop of Moray, Roes, and Caithness; son of Sir Frederick Morton Eden; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1827; bishop of Moray and Ross, 1851: D.D., 1851; primus of the Scottish church, 1862; founded St Andrew's Cathedral. Inverness; worked for recognition of Scottish orders by the English church; founder of the Representative Church Council; published tracts.
Robert Henley Eden: '''Robert Henley Eden''' , second BARON HENLEY (1789-1841), son of Morton Eden, first baron; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1814; barrister of Lincoln's Inn, 1814; mastery in chancery, 1826-40; M.P., Fowey, 1826-30; wrote on bankruptcy laws and ecclesiastical questions.
Robert John Eden: '''Robert John Eden''' , third BARON AUCKLAND (1799-1870), bishop of Bath and Wells; son of
Eden: '''Eden'''
Edgcumbe: '''Edgcumbe''' Kden, first baron Auckland; M.A. Magdalene Col lege, Cambridge, 1819; D.D., 1847; royal chaplain, 1H31-7, and 1837-47; bishop of Sodor and Man, 1S47-54; bishop of Bath and Wells, 1854-09; published pamphlets and edited -Journal of William, lord Auckland, 1860.
Thomas Eden: '''Thomas Eden''' (d. [[1645]]), master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; scholar of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1696; fellow, 1699: LL.B., 1613; professor of law, Gresham Collcu". London, ItUGtO; member of College of Advocates at DoctorsCommons, 1615; LL.D., 1616; M.P. for Cambridge University, 1626, 1628, and 1640; master of Trinity Hall, 1626; chancellor of Ely, 1630; took the solemn national league and covenant, 1644; member of the admiralty committee, 1646; benefactor of Trinity Hall.
William Eden: '''William Eden''' , first BARON AUCKLAND ([[1744]]1814), statesman and diplomatist: educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford: M.A., 1768; barrister, Middle Temple, 1769: under-secretary of state, 1772; M.P., Woodstock, 1774 and 1778-84; a first lord of the board of trade and plantations, 1776; privy councillor of Ireland; sat for Dungannon in the Irish parliament: established National Bank of Ireland; vice-treasurer of Ireland, 1783; privy councillor; M.P., Heytesbury, 1784; negotiated commercial treaty with France, 1786; created Baron Auckland in Irish peerage, 1789; concluded a treaty on the settlement of Holland with the Emperor Leopold and the king of Prussia, 1790; ambassador extraordinary at the Hague during the French revolution; created Baron Auckland of West Auckland, Durham, 1793; joint postmaster-general, 1798-1804, under both Pitt and Addington; excluded from Pitt's second administration, 1804; president of board of trade in Grenville's of All the Talents 1806-7; publishedPrinciples of Penal Law 1772, and a History of New Holland 1788.
Alfred Edersheim: '''Alfred Edersheim''' ([[1825]]-[[1889]]), biblical scholar ; born of Jewish parents at Vienna; studied at Vienna University; embraced Christianity; studied theology in Edinburgh and Berlin; entered presbyterian ministry, 1846; preached as missionary at Jassy, Roumania; minister of free church, Old Aberdeen, 1848, and of presbyterian church at Torquay, 1861-72; held living of Loders, near Bridport, Dorset, 1876-82; Warburtonian lecturer at Lincoln's Inn, 1880-4; M.A. Oxford, 1881; select preacher to university, 1884-5; Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint, 1886-8 and 1888-90; publishedLife and Times of Jesus the Messiah 1883 Bible History (of Old Testament), 1876-87, and other religious writings.
Edes: '''Edes''' or EEDES, RICHARD ([[1555]]-[[1604]]), dean of Worcester; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; student, 1571; M.A., 1578; D.D., 1590; prebendary of Sarum, 1584, of Christ Church Cathedral, 1586, and of Hereford, 1590; treasurer of Hereford, 1596; queen's chaplain; dean of Worcester, 1697; chaplain to James I; prevented by death from taking part in the translation of the bible.
Davod Aur Edeyrn: '''Davod Aur Edeyrn''' , Le. THE GOLDEN-TONGUED (fl. 1270), Welsh bard and grammarian; said to have compiled a Welsh grammar and prosody.
Edgae: '''Edgae''' or EADGAK ([[944]]-[[975]]), king of the English ; younger son of Eadmund the Magnificent see EDMUND, 922 ?-946; chosen king of the land north of the Thames by the northern rebels, 957; appointed Dunstan his chief minister: chosen king by the whole people, 959; imposed on the rebellious prince of North Wales a tribute of three hundred wolvesheads for four years, c. 968; pacified Northumbria, 966: entrusted the province to Earl Oslac, 966; said to have purchased the goodwill of Kenneth, king of Scotland, by the grant of Lothian; allowed limited self-government to the Danes of the north; appointed Oswald, a Northumbrian Dane, archbishop of York, 972; solemnly crowned at Bath, possibly as an enunciation of the consummation of English unity 973; received homage of eight British princes at Chester, 973; made an alliance with the emperor Otto the Great; dispossessed clerks in favour of Benedictine monks at Chertsey, Milton, Exeter, Ely, Peterborough, Thorney, and throughout Mercia; organised a system of naval defence against the northern pirates, and used the territorial division of the hundred as the basis of an efficient police system; according to legend, was ordered by Dunstan to dp penance for incontinence; report* of the looseness of his private life probably exaggerated by the national party, which disliked hi* Danish sympathies.
Edgar: '''Edgar''' ([[1072]]-[[1107]]), king of Scotland; sou of Malcolm Oanmore; fled to England on Donald Bane's usurpation 1093; placed on the Scottish throne by William Rufus, 1097; compelled by the Norwegian king Majmus Barefoot, to surrender all the western islands round which he could steer a helm-carrying vessel, 1098; friend to the church. xvi 3701
Athkling Edgar: '''Athkling Edgar''' or EADOAR the THELINO (fl. 1066-1106), king-elect of England; son of Eadward the Exile; born in Hungary: chosen king by the two archbishops and the northern earls, Eadwine and Morkere, after Harold's defeat, 1066; compelled by defection of his supporters to submit to William I (1068), who received him graciously; took part in insurrections of 1068 and 1069; allied himself with the Danes, 1069; wandered about among the courts of Scotland, Flanders, and France lived at William I's court, c. 1074-86; joined the Normans in Apulia, 1086; resided at the court of Duke Robert of Normandy; led expedition to Scotland to set his nephew Edgar (1072-1107) on the throne, 1097: crusader, 1099; fought for Robert of Normandy against Henry I at Tenchebrai, where he was taken prisoner, 1106: released, H06
John Edgar: '''John Edgar''' ([[1798]]-[[1866]]), theologian and philanthropist; educated at Glasgow and Belfast universities; minister of a Belfast congregation, 1820-48; professor of theology in the secession branch of the presbyterian church, 1826: D.D. Hamilton College, U.S.A., 1836; moderator of the united presbyterian church, 1842; LL.D. New York, 1860; warmly championed temperance, although he disapproved of teetotal movement; visited America to enlist sympathy for the starving Irish peasants, 1859.
John George Edgar: '''John George Edgar''' ([[1834]]-[[1864]]), miscellaneous writer; travelled on mercantile business in the West Indies; first editor of Every Boy's Magazine; published 'The Boyhood of Great Men 1853, andFootprints of Famous Men 1853.
George Edgcumbe: '''George Edgcumbe''' , first EARL OF MOUNT-
Edgcumbe: '''Edgcumbe''' ([[1721]]-[[1795]]), son of Richard, first baron Edgcumbe; navy lieutenant, 1739; took part in blockade of Brest and battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759; lordlieutenant of Cornwall, 1761; admiral, 1778: created Viscount Mouut-Edgcumbe, 1781, and Earl of MountEdgcumbe, 1789; one of the vice- treasurers of Ireland, 1771-3, and 1784-95.
Sir Piers Edgcumbe: '''Sir Piers Edgcumbe''' (d. [[1539]]), son of Sir Richard Edgcumbe (d. 1489); K.B., 1489; sheriff of Devonshire, 1493, 1494, and 1497; made knight-banneret for his services at the battle of Spurs, 1513.
Edgcumbe: '''Edgcumbe''' or EDGECOMBE, SIR RICHARD (d. 1489), statesman; M.P., Tavistock, 1467; escheator of Cornwall, 1467: took part in the Duke of Buckingham's rebellion, escaping to Brittany after its failure, 1484; knighted by Henry VII for valour at Bosworth Field, 1485; erected a chapel in honour of the victory; privy councillor and chamberlain of the exchequer; sheriff of DevonPhire, 1487; ambassador to Scotland; administered the oaths of allegiance in Ireland, 1488: despatched to negotiate truce with Anne, duchess of Brittany, 1488; died at Morlaix.
Edgcumbe: '''Edgcumbe''' or EDGECOMBE, SIR RICHARD ([[1499]]1562), country gentleman, calledthe good old knight of the castle*; son of Sir Piers Edgcumbe; knighted, 1537; sheriff of Devon, 1543 and 1544; commissioner of muster in Cornwall, 1557.
Richard Edgcumbe: '''Richard Edgcumbe''' , first BARON EDGCUMBE (1680-1758); M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1698; M.P., Cornwall, 1701, Plympton and St. Germans, 1702; treasury lord, 1716 and 1720; vice-treasurer, receiver-general, treasurer of war, and paymaster-general of George I's revenues in Ireland, 1724; adherent of Walpole; raised to the peerage, 1742, to prevent his being examined as to the management of the Cornish boroughs; chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, 1743-58; privy councillor, 1744.
Richard Edgcumbe: '''Richard Edgcumbe''' , second BARON EDGCCMBE (1716-1761), son of Richard, first baron: majorgeneral in the army; M.P., Lostwithiel, 1747-51, Penryn,
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Edmondson: '''Edmondson''' 1754; admiralty lord, 1755-6: comptroller of his majesty's household, 1756; privy councillor, 1756: friend of Horace Walpole; one of the first to recognise the genius of Reynolds.

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Richard Edgcttmbe: '''Richard Edgcttmbe''' , second KARL OP MOUNTr.MBK (1764-1839), sou of George, first earl; D.O.L. Christ Church, Oxford, 1793; M.P., Fowey, 17861795; captain of the band of gentlemen-pensioners, 18081812; privy councillor, 1808: wrote, for private circulation, Musical Reminiscences of an Old Amateur
De Firmont Edgeworth: '''De Firmont Edgeworth''' , HEN H Y ESSEX (1745-1807), confessor to Louis XVI; son of an Irish clergyman; educated by the Jesuits of Toulouse and at Paris; took name De Firmont when ordained; declined an Irish see, preferring to work among the poor of Paris: confessor to the French Princess Elizabeth, 179 1; attended Louis XVI on the scaffold as friend and confessor, 1793; eventually accepted Pitt's offer of a pension, from fear of becoming a burden to the exiled Louis XVIII, who had appointed him chaplain; died of a fever contracted while attending French prisoners at Mittau.
Maria Edgeworth: '''Maria Edgeworth''' ([[1767]]-[[1849]]), novelist; daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth; undertook her brother Henry's education; defended female education inLetters to Literary Ladies 1795; published, in conjunction with her father, two volumes on Practical Education 1798, adopting, with modifications, the ideas of Rousseau'sE"mile publishedCastle Rackreut 1800, and Belinda 1801; issued Essay on Irish Bulls 1802; published Moral Tales 1801: brought out Popular Tales and The Modern Griselda 1804, Leonora 1806, and two series ofTales of Fashionable Life 1809 and 1812; brought out her father's Memoirs amid the distractions of domestic troubles and society calls, 1820; complimented by Scott on her descriptions of Irish character, 1823; published Helen her last novel, 1834; did much to relieve the sufferers in the Irish famine, 1846; gave much literary advice to Basil Hall.
Michael Pakenham Edgeworth: '''Michael Pakenham Edgeworth''' ([[1812]]-[[1881]]), botanist; son of Richard Lovell Edgeworth; studied at the Charterhouse and at Edinburgh; member of Indian civil service, 1831-81: contributedTwo HoursHerborization at Aden to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal describing forty species, eleven quite new, which, 1831, he had collected there; commissioner for the settlement of the Punjab, 1850; author of papers on the botany of India, a volume on Pollen 1878, and a Grammar of Kashmiri
Richard Lovell Edgeworth: '''Richard Lovell Edgeworth''' ([[1744]]-[[1817]]), author; fellow commoner, Trinity College, Dublin, 1761; left Dublin in disgust at his idleness, and entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1761; led to invent a plan for telegraphing by a desire to know the result of a race at Newmarket; silver medallist of the Society of Arts for a new hind-measuring machine, 1768; friend of Thomas Day. Miss Seward, and Erasmus Darwin; visited Rousseau and settled at Lvons, 1771; settled on his estates in Ireland, 1782; aide-de-camp to Lord Charlemont, 1783; succeeded in getting a government telegraph line erected between Dublin and Galway, 1804; raised a corps against the rebels at Edgeworthstown, 1798, and sat in the last Irish parliament; served on a board for inquiring into Iri.-h education, 1806-11; four times married; published works on educational and mechanical subjects.
Roger Edgeworth: '''Roger Edgeworth''' (d. [[1560]]), Roman catholic divine: B.A. Oxford, 1507; fellow of Oriel, 1608; D.D., 1526; prebendary of Bristol, 1542; canon of Wells and Salisbury; chancellor of Wells, 1554; prebendary of Salisbury; benefactor of Oriel College; published works on church discipline.
David Edguard: '''David Edguard''' (. [[1532]]), anatomist ; educated at Oxford and Cambridge; published De Indiciis et Praecognitionibus 1532, andIntroductio ad Anatomicen 1532.
Duke of Edinburgh: '''Duke of Edinburgh''' ([[1844]]-[[1900]]). See ALKRKD
Albert Ernest: '''Albert Ernest''' .
William Edington: '''William Edington''' op(rf. [[1366]]), bishop of Winchester and chancellor: prebendary of Lincoln, 1342-6, of Salisbury, 1344-6; bishop of Wincliester, 1346; prebendary of Hereford, 1345; king's treasurer, 1345-66; carried out an issue of base coinage, 1351; chancellor, 1356-63; refused the archbishopric of Canterbury on account of illhealth, 1366; founded a college of reformed Austin friars at Westbury, Wiltshire, c. 1347; commenced recasing of Walkelin's nave in Winchester Cathedral.
Edith: '''Edith''' or EADGYTH, SAINT ([[962]] ?-[[984]]), daughter of kins; Eadgar and Wulfthryth by ahand-fastmarriage; built church at Wilton; greatly venerated ad a suint. Ksulwii
Edith: '''Edith''' or EADGYTH (d. [[1075]]), queen of Eadward the Confessor; daughter of Earl Godwine; divorced from King Eadward and immured either in Wherwell or Wilton nunnery, 1051; brought back to the court on the reconciliation of the king and Earl Godwine, 1052; obtained the abolition of the custom which empowered bishops and abbots to receive kisses from ladies; commended by the dying Eadward to the care of her brother Harold, whose cause she deserted, 1066.
Edlin: '''Edlin''' or EDLYN, RICHARD ([[1631]]-[[1677]]), astrologer; contributed to his noble science Observationes Astrological 1669, and Prae-Nuncius Sydereus 1664.
Sir Clement Edmondes: '''Sir Clement Edmondes''' ([[1564]]?-[[1622]]), clerk to the council; matriculated as chorister at All SoulsCollege, Oxford, 1586: fellow, 1590; M.A., 1593; remembrancer of the city of London, 1605-9: clerk of the council for life, 1609; mustermaster-general, 1613; commissioner to treat with Holland concerning disputes as to throwing open the East India trade and the Greenland fisheries, 1614; knighted, 1617; M.P., Oxford, 1620-1; nominated secretary of state, 1622; wrote mainly on military tactics.
Edmondes: '''Edmondes''' SlR THOMAS ([[1563]] ?-[[1639]]), diplomatist; English agent to Henry IV at Paris. 1592, 1597, and 1598; owed his advancement to Sir Robert Cecil; French secretary to Elizabeth, 1596; given a clerkship of the privy council for his careful negotiations with the Archduke Albert at Boulogne, 1598; M.P., Liskeard, 1601; knighted, 1603: M.P., Wilton, 1604; aimed at preserving peace between Spain and the States-General, when ambassador to the archduke at Brussels, 1605; suppressed a despatch instructing him to open negotiations for the marriage of Prince Charles with Princess Christina, sister of Louis XIII, immediately after the death of Prince Henry, 1612; privy councillor, 1616; treasurer of the royal household, 1618; succeeded by reversion to clerkship of crown in king's bench court, 1620; royalist M.P., Bewdley, 1620, Chichester, 1624, Oxford University, 1625, and Penryn, 1628.
Richard Edmonds: '''Richard Edmonds''' ([[1801]]-[[1886]]), scientific writer: publishedThe Land's End District: its Antiquities, Natural History, Natural Phenomena, and Scenery 1862; attributed marine disturbances off the Cornish coast to submarine earthquakes; wrote also on antiquarian subjects,
Sir William Edmonds: '''Sir William Edmonds''' (d. [[1606]]), Scottish colonel in the Dutch service; in command of a regiment of Scots foot cut to pieces at Lefflngen, 1600; killed during defence of Rhineberg, 1606.
William Edmonds: '''William Edmonds''' ([[1550]] 7-[[1616]]).
George Edmondson: '''George Edmondson''' ([[1798]]-[[1863]]), promoter of education, originally a bookbinder's apprentice; master of a boarding-school at Broomhail; visited Russia as tutor to Daniel Wheeler's children, 1817; reclaimed the bog land round St. Petersburg, 1825; principal of Queen wood Hall, Hampshire, an Owenite school; added agriculture to the curriculum; an early promoter of the College of Preceptors.
Henry Edmondson: '''Henry Edmondson''' ([[1607]]?-[[1659]]), schoolmaster : tabarder of Queen's College, Oxford; fellow of Queen's; M.A., 1630; master of Nort bleach free school, Gloucestershire, 1655-9; chief work Lingua Linguarum a method of learning languages, 1655.
Joseph Edmondson: '''Joseph Edmondson''' (d. [[1786]]), herald and genealogist; led to study heraldry by his employment of emblazoning coat-armour on carriages: Mowbray herald extraordinary, 1764; F.8.A.; compiled Complete Body of Heraldry 1780, and genealogical works,
Thomas Edmondson: '''Thomas Edmondson''' ([[1792]]-[[1851]]), inventor; brother of George Edmondson; quakcr; railway clerk at Milton, near Carlisle; inventor of printed railway tickets, 1837.
Edmondston: '''Edmondston''' 385
Edric: '''Edric'''
Arthur Edmondston: '''Arthur Edmondston''' ([[177]]G V-[[1841]]), writer on the Shetland isles; army surgeon in Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercromby; M.D.; subsequently surgeon at Lerwick; wrote two treatises on ophthalmia, and aView of the Ancient und Present State of the Zetland Islands 1809.

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Laurence Edmondston: '''Laurence Edmondston''' ([[1795]]-[[1879]]), naturalist; brother of Arthur Edmondston: studied medicine at Edinburgh, and practised in Unst; M.D.; familiarised the public with the Shetland chromnte of iron; experimented in agriculture nnd acclimatised trees in the Shetlands; Scandinavian scholar, and author of scientific pamphlets.
Thomas Edmondston: '''Thomas Edmondston''' ([[1825]]-[[1846]]), naturalist; sou of Laurence Edmouston, of Shetland; kept a herbarium, in which was found Arenaria nonxgica, then first discovered as a native plant; assistant-secretary to the Edinburgh Botanical Society; left Edinburgh University after a supposed aff ront; elected professor of botany and natural history in Anderson's University Glasgow, 1845; issuedFlora of Shetland 1845; naturalist on board the Herald; accidentally shot in Peru, 1846.
Sir Archibald Edmonstone: '''Sir Archibald Edmonstone''' , third baronet (1795-1871), traveller and author: B.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1816; published account of his travels in Egypt, 1822,Tragedies 1837,Leonora 1832, and religious works.
Sir George Frederick Edmonstone: '''Sir George Frederick Edmonstone''' ([[1813]]1864), Indian civilian; sou of Neil Benjamin Edmonstone ; commissioner and superintendent of the CisSutlej states; secretary in foreign, political, and secret department, 1856; drew up proclamation confiscating the land of Oudh; lieutenant-governor of the north-western provinces, 1859-63; created new government of central provinces; K.C.B., 1863.
Neil Benjamin Edmonstone: '''Neil Benjamin Edmonstone''' ([[1765]]-[[1841]]), Indian civilian; writer to the East India Company, 1783; Persian translator to government, 1794; accompanied Lord Morningtou's expedition against Tippoo Sultan, 1799, translating and publishing Tippoo's secret documents; secretary to the foreign, political, and secret department, 1801; probably suggested Lord Wellesley's policy of subsidiary treaties; chief secretary to government, 1809; member of the supreme council at Calcutta, 1812-17.
Robert Edmonstone: '''Robert Edmonstone''' ([[1794]]-[[1834]]), artist ; exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy, 1818; twice visited Italy; successful with child subjects.
Edmund: '''Edmund''' or EADMUND ([[841]]-[[870]]), king of the East Angles, martyr and saint; born at Nuremberg; son of King Alkmund; adopted by Off a, king of the East Angles, c. 854; succeeded to Off a's throne, 855; defeated by the Danes at Hoxne (870), though according to another account he surrendered to avoid further slaughter; bound to a tree, scourged, and beheaded on refusing to renounce Christianity; interred at Hoxne; subsequently enshrined at Bury; canonised.
Edmund: '''Edmund''' or EADMUND ([[922]] ?-[[946]]), king of the English: son of Edward the elder; besieged the independent kings of the north, Olaf and Wulfstan, at Leicester, 943; after a truce expelled both of them from Mercia and the Five Boroughs, 944: handed over Cumbria to Malcolm of Scotland, on condition that he should be his fellow- worker 945; demanded the release of his nephew, King Lewis, from Hugh, duke of the French; named the deed-doer or the magnificent; stabbed by Liofa, a bandit. His laws were framed with a view to the reformation of manners of clergy and laity.
Edmund: '''Edmund''' or EADMUND, called IRONSIDE ([[981]]?1016), king; son of jfithelred the Unready; married Ealdgyth, widow of the Danish earl Sigeferth, and received the submission of the Five Boroughs of the Danish confederacy, 1015; crowned in London, 1016: defeated Cnut at Peu in Somerset and at Sheraton, Wiltshire: utterly routed at Assandun (Ashington in Essex); gave the north of England to Cnut by a treaty made in Olney, island of the Severn, 1016; his death due to a sudden sickness, or possibly to the murderous resentment of Eadric (rf. 1017); famous for hia bodily strength.
Edmund: '''Edmund''' (RICH),SAiNT([[1170]]?-[[1240]]), archbishop of Canterbury; brought up in ascetic habit*; sent to study at Paris (? 1185-1190); taughtat Oxford, where he showed great tenderness towards his pupils(? 1195-1200); studied theology at Paris; returned to Oxford as a teacher of divinity; treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral, c. 122U; preached the crusade at Gregory IX's bidding, e. 1227 prebendary of Calne, c. 1233; archbishop of Canterbury, 1234; procured the dismissal of Heury Ill's favourite* by the threat of excommunicating the king, 1234; bade Henry III interrogate his conscience when he disclaimed the murder of Richard, earl marshal, the recognised head of the national party, 1234; defended himself at Rome on charges arising out of the exercise of his archiepiscopal authority, 1238; acknowledged himself baffled by pope and king; died at Soisy while on his way to Pontigny to become a monk; canonised, 1248; author ofSpeculum canonised, Kcelesiaj and other works. Speculum
Earl of Lancaster Edmund: '''Earl of Lancaster Edmund''' ([[1245]]-[[1296]]). See
Lancaster: '''Lancaster'''
Edmund: '''Edmund''' second EARL OF CORNWALL ([[1250]]-[[1300]]), a younger son of Richard, earl of Cornwall, and nephew of Henry III; knighted, 1272; joint-guardian of the realm, 1272 and 1279; guardian and lieutenant of England, 1286-9.
of Woodstock Edmund: '''of Woodstock Edmund''' , EARL OF KENT ([[1301]]1330), youngest son of Edward I; summoned to parliament, 1320; created Earl of Kent, 1321; joined Edward II in his war against the barons, 1322; besieged Lancaster's stronghold of Pontefract and witnessed his execution, 1322; lieutenant of the king in the northern marches, 1323; after showing himself a weak diplomatist at the French court, was made lieutenant of Aquitaine (1324), where he was soon invaded by Charles of Valois; joined conspiracy against Edward II, 1 326; one of the standing council appointed to govern for the young king, Ed. ward III, 1327; resisted the ascendency of Queen Isabella and Mortimer, who consequently lured him into treasonable designs against Edward III, and procured his execution.
Edmund: '''Edmund''' surnamed DE LANOLEY, first DUKE OF
York: '''York''' ([[1341]]-[[1402]]).
Tudor Edmund: '''Tudor Edmund''' , EARL OF RICHMOND ([[1420]] ?-l[[456]]
John Edmunds: '''John Edmunds''' (*. [[1544]]), master of Peterhouse; M.A., 1507; fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1517, of St. John's, 1519; D.D., 1520; master of Peterhouse, 1522; vice-chancellor, 1623, 1528, 1529, and 1541-3; chancellor and prebendary of Salisbury; assisted in compilingThe Institution of a Christian Man
William Edmundson: '''William Edmundson''' ([[1627]]-[[1712]]), quaker; fought in Cromwell's army at Worcester and in the Isle of Man, 1651; tradesman at Antrim; quaker, 1653; frequently imprisoned for religious reasons; worked with George Fox hi Virginia and West Indies, 1671; imprisoned for not paying tithes (1682), but released by the intervention of the bishop of Kildare; remonstrated with James II on the persecution of the Irish protestants, 1689; thrown into a dungeon at Athlone, 1690; worked against an act enabling the Irish clergyo recover tithes in the temporal courts; published quaker pamphlets; his Journal appeared, 1715.
Ednyved: '''Ednyved''' eurnamed VYCHAN (Vaughan), i.e. the Little (fl. 1230-1240), statesman and warrior; signed a truce between Henry III and Llewelyn ab lorwerth, 1231; took part in the treatyapud Alnetum near St. Asaph, 1241; ancestor of the Tudors.
Edred: '''Edred''' or EADRED (d. [[955]]), king of the English ; son of Edward the elder; crowned 946; burnt Ripon to punish the rebellion of Wulfstan, archbishop of York; caught and imprisoned Wulfstan when heading a second insurrection, 952; fought with Eric Bloodaxe, the Danish king of Northumbria, till Eric's death in 954; conferred, by the advice of Duustan, a limited autonomy on the Danes.
Edrig: '''Edrig''' or EADRIC, STREONA (d. [[1017]]), ealdonnan of the Mercians, 1007; married Eudgyth, a daughter of King Sthelred, 1009; frequently dissuaded Jtholred f rom attacking the Danes: treacherously slew Sigeft rth and Morkere, chief thegns of the Danish confederacy of the CO
Edrio: '''Edrio''' 386
Ii Edward: '''Ii Edward''' 4 Seven (or Five) Boroughs,* 1015; said to have endeavoured to betray Edmund Ironside to Cnut. and poss.bly to murder him, 1015; marchei with ("nut into Mercia, 1016; reputed to have spread a rumour of Edmund's death during the battle of Sherston, in order to secure a victory for the Danes, as also at Assandun, 1016; proposal peace of Olney, 1016; probably planned murder of Edmund Ironside; slain by Cnut from fear of his treacherous character.
Edric: '''Edric''' or EADRIC (fl. [[1067]]-[[1072]]), called the WILT ; held lands in Herefordshire and Shropshire under Edward the Confessor; submitted to William I, 10G6, but joined tin- Welsh in ravaging Herefordshire, 1067, and burning Shrewsbury, 1069: accompanied William I on his Scottish expedition, 1072.

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Henry Edridge: '''Henry Edridge''' ([[1769]]-[[1821]]), miniature-painter ; F.S.A., 1814; travelled in Normandy, 1817 and 1819; A.R.A., 1820; executed portraits, landscapes, and architectural studies.
Eadward Edward: '''Eadward Edward''' , or EADWEARD, called THK
Elder: '''Elder''' (rf. [[924]]), king of the Angles and Saxons ; son of Alfred; chosen king by the witan 901; defeated and slew his rival, Ethelwald, 905; obtained co-operation of Guthrum Eohricssou, Danish under-king of East Anglia, in promoting a code which recognised Danish customs; defeated Danish forces at Tettenhall, 910, and at Wodensfleld, 911; received the submission of the Danes of East Anglia, Essex, and Cambridge, 918; annexed Mercia after the death of his sister, Ithelnajd, Lady of the Mercians 919; subdued the Welsh, who were abetting Danish inroads, 921; extended his dominion to the Hurnber; introduced the West-Saxon shire-division into Mercia; increased the number of sees in southern England.
Edward: '''Edward''' or EADWARD THK MARTYR ([[963]] ?-[[978]]), king of the English; sou of Eadgar; chosen king after some opposition, 975; his ecclesiastical policy directed by Dunstan; assassinated by the thegns of his step-mother, .Slfthryth; officially styled martyr as early as 1001.
Edward: '''Edward''' or EADWARD, called THE CONFESSOR (d. 1066), king of the English; son of Ethelred the Unready; brought up at the monastery of Ely; kept out of the sovereignty by Cnut; resided at the court of Harthacnut, 1041-2: crowned, 1043; allied himself with Henry, king of the French; received homage of Magnus of Norway; married Eadgyth, daughter of Earl Godwine of Wessex, 1045; favoured monasticism; entrusted the administration of government to personal favourites; appointed a coadjutor-archbishop of Canterbury with Godwine's co-operation, 1044: fitted out a fleet to meet a threatened Scandinavian Invasion; sent representatives to Council of Hheims, 1049; built Westminster Abbey as the price of papal absolution for breaking his vow to make a pilgrimage to Rome; rejected .Elfric, a kinsman of Godwine, who had been canon ically elected to the archbishopric of Canterbury, for Robert of Jumieges, bishop of London, 1051: discontinued the heregeld, a tax for the maintenance of the fleet, 1051; quarrelled with Godwine, and entertained William, duke of the Normans, (afterwards William I), at his court: reconciled to Godwine, who, with his son Harold, had undertaken an invasion of England, 1052; intended to make his nephew, Eadward the JEtheling, heir; banished jElfgar, earl of the East-Angles, who in revenue assisted Grnffydd, prince of north Wales, to make war on England; compelled to part with his favourite Tostig, against whose government of Northumbriu the Danish population had risen in revolt, 1065; buried in the newly consecrated Westminster Abbey; canonised, 1161. His so-called laws are said to have been drawn up from declarations made on oath by twelve men of each shire in 1070.
Edward: '''Edward''' I ([[1239]]-[[1307]]), king of England ; eldest son of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence: married to Eleanor of Castile, sister of Alfonso X, 1254, his father giving him Gascony, Ireland, Wales, Bristol, Stamford, and Grantham; countenanced his lieu tenant in Wales, Geoffrey Langley, in forcing on the Welsh the English system of counties and hundreds, thereby provoking a war with Llywelyn, prince of Wales, 1256; acted with Simon, earl of Leicester, in obtaining the formulation of the provisions of Westminster, 1259; made war upon the Welsh, who sympathised with the, burouial malcontents, 1263; attacked North ampton, capturiiiSimon de Montfort the younper, 12fi4; caused his father Henry Ill's defeat at Lewes by nn illadvised pursuit of the retreating Londoners, lifii-4: lpfeated the barons at Kvcsham, 12C.5; received the submission of the Oinqm- ports, 1266: compelled the surrender of Kenilworth Castle on conditions, 1266; overawed into submission the rebel lords who had been disinherited after Eveshara, and were then occupying the Isle of Ely, lit; 7; steward of England, 1268; warden of the city and Tower of London, 1268; gamed popularity by abolishing the levy of customs from the city of London, and by urging a statute forbidding the Jews to acquire the property of Christians by means of pledges, 1269: sailed for Syria as a crusader, 1271; relieved Acre, and won a victory at Haifa: wounded with a poisoned dagger by an envoy of the emr of Jaffa, 1272; made a truce with the emir, 1272; succeeded to the English crown, 1272; made a triumphal progress through Europe, and defeated the Count of Chalons at thelittle battle of Chalons an ostensible tourney, 1273; crowned king of England, 1274; legislated with a view to the overthrow of feudalism and the growth of the parliamentary system; promulgatedStatute of Westminster the First 1276; made war upon Llywelyn of Wales, who had repeatedly refused to attend any of the king's parliaments, and (1276) obtained his submission; promulgated Statute of Gloucesterto amend working of territorial jurisdictions, 1278; caused all the Jews and goldsmiths in England to be arrested on the charge of clipping the coin, 1278; did homage to Philip of France for Ponthieu, and surrendered all claim to Normandy, 1279; defeated and slew Llywelyn in Radnorshire, 1282; determined that David, Llywelyn's brother, should be tried before a full representative of the laity which sentenced him to be drawn, hanged, beheaded, disembowelled, and quartered, 1283; assimilated the administration of Wales to the English pattern by the 'Statute of Wales 1284; publishedStatute of Westminster the Second 1285; spent much time in France and Gascony, 1286-9; returned to England, 1289; appointed commissioners to inquire into the misdemeanours of his judges during his long absence, 1289: forbade sub-infeudation in the statute Quia emptores 1290; banished the Jews, 1290; lost his queen, Eleanor of Castile, 1290; appointed (1290) Antony Bek governor of Scotland, the throne of which was soon afterwards claimed by thirteen competitors; put John Baliol in seisin of the Scottish kingdom, 1292; deprived of Gascony by Philip IV, 1294; received grants for the settlement of Welsh, French, and Scottish difficulties from- a parliament in which the three estates of the realm were perfectly represented, 1295; stormed Berwick to punish Baliol for contemplating revolt, 1296; accepted Baliol's surrender of Scotland, 1296: compelled the clergy to make a grant for the defence of the kingdom, 1297; met with protracted opposition from his barons in regard to proposed campaign in Gascony, 1297; set sail for Bruges in pursuance of a promise to help the Count of Flanders against the French, 1297; induced by Boniface VIII to make a truce with France, by which he recovered Gascony, but deserted his ally, the Count of Flanders, 1298; defeated William Wallace on Linlithgow Heath, 1298; confirmed the Great Charter, but added proviso in favour of the rights of the crown to the confirmation of the Forest Charter 1299; made second expedition to Scotland, refusing demand of Scottish lords that Baliol be allowed to reign, 1300; denounced as a marauder by Archbishop Robert de Winchelsea, 1300; his troubles with the baronage ended by the death of Humphrey Hoi inn, earl of Hereford; captured Stirling Castle, 1304; ordered execution of Wallace, who had been betrayed, 1305; suspended his old enemy, Archbishop Winchelsea, by the connivance of the new pope, Clement V, 1306; died at Burgh-on-Sauds while on his way northward to crush the rebellion of Robert Bruce, who threatened to undo the judicial system recently drawn up for Scotland; was buried in Westminster Abbey on 27 Oct. 1307.
Edward: '''Edward''' H OP CARNARVON ([[1284]]-[[1327]]), king of England; son of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile; regent during his father's absence in Flanders, 1297-8; created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, 1301: served on the Scottish campaigns of 1301, 1303, and 1304, carrying his habits of extravagance into camp-life; knighted, 1306; devastated the Scottish borders, 1306; succeeded to the crown, 1307; made Aymer de Valence guardian of Scotland, 1307; created Piers Gaveston, his favourite, Earl of.
Itt Edward: '''Itt Edward''' 387
Iv Edward: '''Iv Edward''' Cornwall, 1307: married Isabella, daughter of Philip the Fair, king of France, 1308; appointed Gaveston repent of Jrcl.iiid, 1308, hems? compelled by the council to banish him; undermined baronial opposition, and achieved Gaveston's restoration to his earldom, 1309; comjx'11.1 by threats of withdrawal of allegiance to consent to the appointment of twenty-one lords ordainers, 1310; marched northwards under the pretence of attacking Bruce, really to avoid Lancaster, his chief opponent, and the ordainers, 1310; allowed Guveston to be exiled, 1311; committed to a civil war by the return of Gaveaton, 1312, who was soon afterwards seized by the Earl of Warwick and murdered, June, 1312; supported by Hugh le Despenser and the Earls of Pembroke and Warenne; granted an amnesty to the malcontents, 1313; took the field against Bruce, and, neglecting the Earl of Gloucester's warning not to join battle under unfavourable circumstances, was defeated at Bannockburn, 1314; forced to submit to Lancaster, 1314; regained his authority on Lancaster's failure to suppress Irish, Welsh, and Scottish disaffection, 1316: negotiated with Lancaster, 1318; failed to take Berwick, 1319; made a favourite of Hugh le Despenser the younger : reluctantly agreed to the banishment of both Deapensers, 1321; besieged Leeds Castle, which had closed its gates against the queen, 1321; conducted a campaign in the west against the Mortimers, 1321; recalled the Despensers, 1322; slew the Earl of Hereford and captured Lancaster, who was beheaded without a hearing at Boroughbridge, 1322; vainly attempted to subdue Scotland, 1322; concluded truce with Scotland for three years, 1323: alienated Queen Isabella by his fondness for the younger Despenser, 1324; allowed Isabella to go to France in his stead to pay homage for Aquitaine and Ponthieu, whence she returned (1326) to dethrone him; fled westward, and after many wanderings was taken at Neath; forced to resign the throne, 1327; brutally treated by his gaolers in Berkeley Castle, and murdered; currently reported in the next generation to have died a hermit in Lombardy.
Hi Edward: '''Hi Edward''' ([[1312]]-[[1377]]), king of England : eldest son of Edward II; Earl of Chester, 1320; received county of Ponthieu and duchy of Aquitaine, 1325; proclaimed guardian of the kingdom in the name of his father, 1326; chosen king, 1327; was for four years the figure-head of his mother Isabella and of Mortimer's rule; out-manoeuvred in Scotland by Moray and Douglas, 1327; gave up all claim to Scotland by the treaty of Northampton, 1328; married Philippa of Hainault, 1328; claimed the French throne through his mother Isabella, but was set aside for Philip of Valois, 1328; paid homage to Philip VI for his French fiefs, 1329, refusing liege homage; executed Mortimer, and placed the queen-mother in honourable confinement, 1330; performed liege homage for Guyenne and Ponthieu, 1331; invited Flemish weavers to come to England and teach the manufacture of fine cloth, 1332; secured recognition of Edward de Baliol as king of Scotland, 1332; defeated Scots at Halidon Hill, 1333, and restored Baliol twice: his seneschals expelled from Agenois by Philip VI, 1336; laid a heavy customs duty on sacks of wool and woolfells to raise money for a war with France, 1337; gained the goodwill of James van Artevelde, a citizen of Ghent, who procured him an alliance with Ghent, Ypres, Bruges, and Cassel; made treaty for hire of troops with the Emperor Lewis of Bavaria, thereby displeasing Pope Benedict XII, 1337; appointed imperial vicar by Lewis of Bavaria, 1338; laid siege to Cambray, 1339. when cannon is said to have been first used; assumed title of king of France in order to retain Flemish support, 1340; returned to England to get supplies voted by parliament; defeated French fleet in the Sluys, 1340; reproached John de Stratford, archbishop of Canterbury, for retarding supplies, though he had urged him to undertake the war, 1341; landed at Brest in consequence of an offer from John of Montfort to hold Brittany of him conditionally, 1342; made truce with the king of France for three years at Ste. Madeleine, 1343; built round tower of Windsor Castle, 1344; wrote to the pope that Philip had broken truce and that he declared war upon him, 1345; sacked Barfleur, Valonges, Carentan, St. L6, and Caen, 1346; executed strategic movements culminating in total destruction of French army atCrecy, near Abbeville, 1346; the Scots routed at Nerill's Cross by his generals, 1346; blockaded Calais, which surrendered at discretion (1347), after the withdrawal of a French relief force; spared the lives of the citizens of Calais at the request of bis queen, 1347; returned to England, 1347; founded the order of the Garter, 1349; lot his daughter, Joan, by the black death pestilence; passedStatute of Labourers 1351; defeated a Spanish fleet in the service of France off Winchelsea, 1360: enacted theStatute of Provisors 1351,of TreAsons 1352, andof Pra?munire 1353; released King David of Scotland from the Tower, 1357; gained Aquitaine, Calais, Guisnes, and Ponthieu by the treaty of Bretlgny, in which he renounced all claim to the French crown, 1360; entertained knight* from Spain, Cyprus, and Armenia, who had come to solicit aid against the Mahometans, 1362; erected Gascony and Aquitaine into a principality, 1362; passed statute ordering discontinuance of French in the law courts, 1362; concerted project with David II for union of England and Scotland, 1363; forbade payment of Peter's pence, 1366, from annoyance at the pope's attempt to recover arrears of the tribute promised him by King John: endeavoured by the Statute of Kilkenny (1367) to check the adoption of Irish customs by the English colonists; disapproved of the depredations of the English free companies in France; sent the Black Prince to help Pedro of Castile against his half-brother, Henry of Trastaniare, 1367; involved In a second French war by Charles V's complaints of the free companies, 1369; carried on a desultory warfare in Poitou and Touraine, in revenge for which the French burnt Portsmouth, 1369; gave himself up to the influence of Alice Ferrers, a concubine, on the death of his queen, 1369; dissented from the Prince of Wales's conduct of the French war; laid hands on church property in order to raise supplies, 1371; renewed league with Brittany, 1371, and made treaty with Genoa, 1372; the Earl of Pembroke, his lieutenant in Aquitaine, defeated by a French and Spanish fleet at Rochelle, 1372; despatched armament against Du Guesclin in Brittany, 1373; lost Aquitaine, 1374; his latter years embittered by national discontent and the rivalry between his chief minister, Lancaster, and the Commons. During the first part of his reign he inaugurated an enlightened commercial policy, and devoted so much attention to naval administration as to be entitled by parliament the king of the sea
Iv Edward: '''Iv Edward''' ([[1442]]-[[1483]]), king of England ; son of Richard, duke of York; born at Rouen; Earl of March; attainted as a Yorkist, 1459; returned from Calais with the Yorkist earls, Warwick and Salisbury, and defeated Henry VI's force at Northampton, 1460; swore fealty to Henry VI, 1460; defeated Henry's restless queen, Margaret, at Mortimer's Cross, 1461; proclaimed himself king, 1461; utterly defeated the Lancastrians at Towton, 1461; crowned, 1461; captured Margaret's strongholds in the north of England, 1463; believed himself, on insufficient grounds, to have conciliated Somerset, a prominent Lancastrian, 1463; privately married Elizabeth Woodville, widow of Sir John Grey, 1464, ultimately disclosing the fact to his council when a match with Bona of Savoy was under consideration; married his sister Margaret to Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, 1468; his position threatened by the intrigues of the Earl of Warwick, who was offended by his rejection of the French marriage alliance which he had proposed, and was, with the Duke of Clarence, plotting his overthrow; taken prisoner by ths archbishop of York, one of the leaders in insurrection of Robin of Redesdale, 1469; released by Warwick, who, with Clarence, offered his assistance in putting down, a rebellion (1470) which he had himself organised; de. feated the rebels at Losecoat Field, 1470; proclaimed Warwick and Clarence traitors, 1470; compelled to seek refuge in Holland by the joint-attack of Warwick and Clarence, as concerted with Margaret of Anjou, 1470; enabled by the money of the Duke of Burgundy to return to England, 1471; reconciled to Clarence; took Henry VI, who had just been reappointed king, in the field, and defeated and slew Warwick at Barnet, 1471; captured Queen Margaret at the battle of Tewkesbury, 1471, and slew her son immediately afterwards; quelled the Kent rising under the Bastard Falconbridge see FAUCOMIKKU, THOMAS, whom he compelled to surrender Sandwich and the navy he had brought from Calais, 1471; raised money by means of benevolences and in other unprecedented ways for a projected invasion of France, 1474; actually invaded France, but was beguiled by the astuteness of Louis XI, who succeeded in making him desert his ally, the Duke of Burgundy, by a seven yearstreaty at Picquigny, 1475; imprisoned and murdered his brother Clarence, who had aspired to the hand of Mary, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy, 1478; ignored the appeal of C C 2
Edward: '''Edward''' V 388
Edwards: '''Edwards''' Mary of Burgundy for protection against Louis XI from fear of losing his French pension and the stipulated marriage of his daughter to the dauphin, both secured by the treaty of Picquigiiy; undertook a partially successful expedition against Scotland to dethrone James III on the plea of illegitimacy, and to procure the abandonment of the old French alliance, 1482; died, as French writers believed, of mortification at the treaty of Arras (1482), by which it was arranged between Maximilian of Burgundy and Louis XI that Margaret, daughter of the former prince, should be married to the dauphin.
Edwaed: '''Edwaed''' V ([[1470]]-[[1483]]), king of England ; eldest son of Edward IV, by his queen, Elizabeth Woodville see ELIZABETH (1437 ?-1492); created Prince of Wales, 1471; entrusted by his father to the care of a council of control, of which his uncles, Clarence and Gloucester, and his maternal uncle, Earl Rivers, were members, 1471; justiciar of Wales, 1476: succeeded to the crown, 1483; conducted to London by the Duke of Gloucester, who had previously imprisoned Earl Rivers and Lord Richard Grey at Pomfret, 1483; sent to the Tower with his brother, the Duke of York, 1483; deposed by an assembly of Lords and Commons, at which was brought in a roll, setting forth Gloucester's right to the crown, by the alleged invalidity of Edward IVs marriage with Elizabeth Woodville; murdered, with the Duke of York, by order of Gloucester, then Richard III, according to an irrefragable account first given in detail by Sir Thomas More.
Vi Edward: '''Vi Edward''' ([[1537]]-[[1553]]), king of England ; son of Henry VIII, by Jane Seymour; his education entrusted to Richard Cox, Sir John Oheke, Sir Anthony Cooke, and Roger Ascham; a finished Greek, Latin, and French scholar; luteuist and amateur astronomer; knighted by the Earl of Hertford, his uncle and protector of the realm, 1547; appointed Hertford Duke of Somerset, 1547; crowned, 1547; made John Knox and Bishop Ridley, Latimer, and Hooper court preachers; commended by Martin Bucer in a letter to Calvin; agreed to the execution of Lord Seymour (1549), who had attempted to displace his brother, Somerset, taking advantage of Somerset's departure to Scotland to enforce a treaty, by which Edward was to marry Mary Queen of Scots; his marriage with Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Henry II of France, settled in 1551, but deferred; nonchalantly agreed to the execution of Protector Somerset on charges brought by Warwick, then Duke of Northumberland, 1552; instructed by William Thomas, clerk of the council, in statecraft; preserved neutral attitude in war between the emperor and the French king, 1552; showed deep concern at the illness of Sir John Cheke, his friend and tutor, 1552; attacked by consumption, 1553; gave palace of Bridewell to corporation of London as a workhouse 1553; converted the old Grey Friars monastery into Christ's Hospital, 1553; induced by Northumberland todevise the succession to Lady Jane Grey, 1553. Numerous portraits of Edward are extant, most of them by Holbein.
Prince Op Walks Edward: '''Prince Op Walks Edward''' ([[1330]]-[[1376]]), called the
Prince Black: '''Prince Black''' , and sometimes EDWARD IV and EDWARD OF WOODSTOCK; eldest son of Edward III; created Duke of Cornwall, 1337; guardian of the kingdom in his father's absence, 1338, 1340, and 1342; created Prince of Wales, 1343; knighted by his father at La Hogne, 1346; commanded the van at Orecy, his father intentionally leaving him to win the battle, 1346; named the Black Prince after the battle of Orecy, at which he was possibly accoutred in black armour; took part in Edward Ill's Calais expedition, 1349; appointed king's lieutenant in Gascony, and ordered to lead an army into Aquitaine, 1355; pillaged Avignonet and Casteluaudary, sacked Carcassonne, and plundered Narbonne, 1355; ravaged Auvergne, Limousin, and Berry, 1366; failed to take Bourges, 1356; offered terms of peace to King John, who had outflanked him near Poitiers, but refused to surrender himself as the price of their acceptance, 1356; routed the French at Poitiers, and took King John prisoner, 1356; returned to England, 1357; negotiated the treaty of Bretiguy, 1360; created Prince of Aquitatue and Gascony, 1362; hifl suzerainty disowned by the lord of Albret and other Gascon nobles; directed by h.s father to forbid the marauding raids of the English and Gascon free companies, 1364; entered into an agreement with I*n Pedro of Castile and Charles of Navarre, by which Pedro covenanted to mortgage Castro de Urdiales and the province of Biscay to him as security for a loan; a passage was thus secured through Navarre, 13i;r; rfvtil letter of defiance from Henry of Trastumare, Don Pedro's half-brother and rival, 1367; defeated Henry at N after an obstinate conflict, 1367; failed to obtain either the province of Biscay or liquidation of the debt from Don Pedro, 1367; prevailed on the estates of Aquitaine to allow him a hearth-tax of ten sous for five years, 1368, thereby alienating the lord of Albret and other nobles; drawn into open war with Charles V of France, 1369; took Limoges, where he gave orders for an indiscriminate massacre (1370) in revenge for the voluntary surrender of that town to the French by its bishop, who had been his private friend; returned to England, 1371; resigned the principality of Aquitaine and Gascony, 1372; led the commons in their attack upon the Lancastrian administration, 1376; buried in Canterbury Cathedral, where his surcoat, helmet, shield, and gauntlets are still preserved.
Prixck Edward: '''Prixck Edward''' op WALES ([[1453]]-[[1471]]), only son of Henry VI; created Prince of Wales, 1454; taken by his mother, Queen Margaret, for safety to Harlech Castle after the Lancastrian defeat at Northampton, 1460; disinherited in parliament, 1460; present at the second battle of St. Albans, 1461; knighted by his father, 1461; carried by Margaret into Scotland, 14tl, and into Brittany and France, 1462; ultimately given, together with his mother, j a refuge in Lorraine; his cause favoured by Louis XI and ! Rene of Lorraine, who arranged with the Earl of Warwick a temporarily successful invasion of England, 1470; set sail for England too late to follow up this advantage; defeated at Tewkesbury, 1471, and slam, after being j brutally insulted, by order of Edward IV.
Earl Op Warwick Edward: '''Earl Op Warwick Edward''' ([[1475]]-[[1499]]), eldest son of George, duke of Clarence; brought up, after his father's murder, by his aunt, Anne, duchess of Gloucester; knighted by Richard III, 1483; imprisoned in the Tower I by Henry VII, 1485; personated by Simnel in Ireland, j 1487, in consequence of which Henry VII showed him for ! one day in the streets of London; personated by Wilford, ; 1498; beheaded on the ridiculous pretence that he had conspired against Henry VII, though he had merely helped Warbeck to plan the escape of both from prison.
Dafydd Edward: '''Dafydd Edward''' (d. [[1690]]). See DAVID, ED-
Ward: '''Ward'''
Thomas Edward: '''Thomas Edward''' ([[1814]]-[[1886]]), the Banff naturalist; settled in Banff to work at his trade of shoemaker, 1834; exhibited at the Banff fair a taxodermic collection, j formed by himself, 1845; discovered twenty new species ! of British sessile-eyed Crustacea; curator of the museum i of the Banff Institution; associate of the Linnean Society, 1866; placed on the civil list, 1876.
Edwarde: '''Edwarde''' 8, SIR HERBERT BENJAMIN ([[1819]]1868), Indian official; attended classes at King's College, London, 1837; cadet, Beneral infantry, 1841; second lieutenant, Bengal fusiliers, 1842; Urdu, Hindi, and Persian interpreter* to his regiment: contributed to theDelhi Gazette'Letters of Brahminee Bull in India to his cousin John in England; aide-de-camp to Sir Hugh Gough at the battles of Moodkee (1845) and Sobraon (1846), and assistant (1847) to Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, resident of Lahore; reformed civil administration of Banu, 1847; twice routed, on his own responsibdity, the rebel Diwan Mulraj, prince of Multan, 1848; brevetmajor and C.B.; D.O.L. Oxford, 1850; founded Abbottabad, 1853; commissioner of Peshawur, 1853-9; prevailed upon Sir John Lawrence to make a treaty of non-interference with the amir of Afghanistan; induced Sir John Lawrence to sanction the levy of a mixed force, which was employed against the mutineers, 157; knighted; LL.D. Cambridge; K.B.; commissioner of Umballa, 1862; returned to England finally, 1865; major-general and C.S.I.; vice-president of the Church Missionary Society.
Amelia Ann Blanfohd Edwards: '''Amelia Ann Blanfohd Edwards''' (18:U 189 2), novelst and egyptologist: contributed to'Cham bers's Journal Household NS'onls and All the Year Hound and served on staff otSaturday Rev.ew and Morning Post; published e.ght novels between 1855 and j 1880; first visited Kgypt, 1873-4, and began study of i egyptology; did much to bring about foundation of 1 Egypt Exploration Fund, 1882, and was first joint houo
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Edwabds: '''Edwabds''' rary secretary; lectured in United States, 1889-90, and published lectures asPharaohs, Fellah.*, and Explorer? 1891. She bequeathed her egyptologieal library and collections to University College, London, together with money to found a chair of egyptology.
Arthur Edwards: '''Arthur Edwards''' (d. [[1743]]), major; F.S.A., 1725; first major of the second troop of horse guards iu lirosv. nor r-tnrt, London; gave 7.UUOJ. and bequeatlied two thousand volumes of printed books to the Cotton Library.
Bhyan Edwards: '''Bhyan Edwards''' ([[1743]]-[[1800]]), West India merchant; partner in, and ultimately possessor of, an uncle's business in Jamaica; member of the colonial assembly, attacking taritf against United States; West India merchant in England, establishing a bank at Southampton, 1792; M.I, Grumpouud, 1796; anti-abolitionist; satirised Peter Pindar; chief works, The History of the British Colonies in the West Indies 1793, and an Historical Survey of the Trench Colony in the Island of St. Domingo 1797.
Charles Edwards: '''Charles Edwards''' (d. [[1691]] ?), Welsh author ; entered at All Souls College, Oxford, 1644; expelled by the parliamentary visitors, 1648; elected scholar of Jesus College, Oxford, 1648; honorary fellow, 1649; B.A., 1649; presented to the sine cura of Llanrhaiadr, 1653; deprived, 1GOO. His works includeHanes y Ffydd Dditl'uaut a kind of history of Christianity, 1671, and Hebraicorum Cambro-Britannicorum Specimen maintaining the Hebrew origin of the Welsh language, 1875.
Edward Edwards: '''Edward Edwards''' ([[1738]]-[[1806]]), painter; of humble origin; gained premium of the Society of Arts for his Death of Tatius 1764; A.R.A., 1773; travelled in Italy, 1775-6; professor of perspective at the Royal Academy, 1788; published fifty-two etchings, 1792.
Edward Edwards: '''Edward Edwards''' ([[1803]]-[[1879]]), marine zoologist ; improved construction of aquaria by hia invention of a 'dark- water chamber slope-back tank
Edward Edwards: '''Edward Edwards''' ([[1812]]-[[1886]]), librarian ; supernumerary assistant in the printed book department of the British Museum, 1839, where he catalogued the Great Rebellion tracts; published returns, occasionally untrustworthy, of library statistics in the Athenaeum e. 1846; materially assisted William Ewart, the originator of free library legislation, 1850; first librarian of the Manchester Free Library, 1850-8. His works include Memoirs of Libraries 1859, Lives of the Founders of the British Museum 1870, and a biography of Sir Walter Ralegh, 1865.
Edwin Edwards: '''Edwin Edwards''' ([[1823]]-[[1879]]), painter and etcher ; at one time examining proctor iu the admiralty and prerogative courts; exhibited Cornish coast scenes at the Royal Academy; published a. work uponOld Iniia of England profusely illustrated with etchings, two legal treatises, andEcclesiastical Jurisdiction 1833.
George Edwards: '''George Edwards''' ([[1694]]-[[1773]]), naturalist; arrested as a presumable spy by Danish soldiers at Friedrichstadt, 1718; librarian of the Royal College of Physicians, 1733: F.R.S.; F.S.A., 1762; chief work, a History of Birds 1743-64.
George Edwards: '''George Edwards''' ([[1762]]-[[1823]]), author; M.D. Edinburgh, 1772; author ofThe Practical System of Human Economy 1816, and other books of applied sociology.
George Nelson Edwards: '''George Nelson Edwards''' ([[1830]]-[[1868]]), physician; medical student at Gonville and Cams College, Cambridge; studied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.D. Cambridge, 1451); lecturer on forensic medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1866; physician to the hospital, 1 ao 7-8; became gradually blind; published The Examination of the Chest in a Series of Tables 1862.
Henry Thomas Edwards: '''Henry Thomas Edwards''' ([[1837]]-[[1884]]), dean of Bangor; Williams exhibitioner at Westminster; B.A. Jesus College, Oxford, 1860; vicar of Aberdare, 1866-9, .marvon, 1869; dean of Bangor, 1876; addressed a letter to W. E. Gladstone entitledThe Church of the Cymry explaining the prevalence of dissent in Wales, 1870; published sermons and religious pamphlets; committed suicide,
Humphrey Edwares: '''Humphrey Edwares''' (d. [[1658]]). regicide ; joined parliamentarianc, finding loyalty to Charles I pecuniarily unprofitable; M.P. for Shropshire; signed Charles I's death-warrant, 1649; thrust himself into the chief u.-hership of the exchequer, 165U; commissioner of South Wales, 1651.
James Edwards: '''James Edwards''' ([[1757]]-[[1816]]), bookseller and bibliographer; purchased the Pinelli library at Venice, 1788, and sold it by auction, 179; purchased (1786) the Bedford Missal (temp. Henry VI); theRinaldoof Dibdin.
Edwards: '''Edwards''' or EDWARDES, JOHN (fl. [[1638]]), Sodleiau reader at Oxford; educated at Merchant Tuylon and St. John's College, Oxford; probationer-fellow, 1617; head-master of Merchant Taylors 1632-4; Sedleian reader of natural philosophy, 163d-48; deprived, 1648; M.D.
John Edwards: '''John Edwards''' (Siox TREREDVN) (fl. [[1651]]), translator; translated the Marrow of Modern Divinity into Welsh, 1651; ejected from living of Tredynock.
John Edwards: '''John Edwards''' ([[1637]]-[[1716]]), Calvinistic divine: son of Thomas Edwards (1699-1647); educated at Merchant Taylorsand St. John's College, Cambridge; B.A., 1657: fellow, 1659; M.A., 1661; lecturer of Bury St. Edmunds; resigned his fellowship and became minister of St. Sepulchre's, Cambridge; D.D., 1699; wrote largely against Sociniauism and the Armenians, also against Locke's Reasonableness of Christians
John Edwards: '''John Edwards''' (Siox Y POTIAU) ([[1700]] 7-[[1776]]), poet and translator (1767-8) of the Pilgrim's Progress into Welsh.
John Edwards: '''John Edwards''' ([[1714]]-[[1785]]), dissenting minister of Leeds; published theological works.
John Edwards: '''John Edwards''' (SioN OKIRIOO) ([[1747]]-[[1792]]), Welsh poet; joint-founder of the Venedotian Society. 1770, and president, 1783; poet, orator, and astronomer.
John Edwards: '''John Edwards''' ([[1751]]-[[1832]]), poetical writer; lieutenant-colonel of light dragoons in the volunteer army of Ireland; published Interests of Ireland 1815, Kathleen (a ballad of Irish history), 1808, and Abradates and Pauthea: a Tragedy 1808.
Jonathan Edwards: '''Jonathan Edwards''' ([[1629]]-[[1712]]), controversialist; B.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1659; fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 1662; principal, 1686; rector of Kiddington, and, in 1681, of Hinton-Ampuer; D.D., 1686; vice-chancellor, 1689-91; treasurer of LlandatT, 1687; treated Socinus as the founder of a new religion in A Preservative against Socinianism 1693-1703.
Lewis Edwards: '''Lewis Edwards''' ([[1809]]-[[1887]]), Welsh Calviuistic methodist; studied at London and Edinburgh universities; first Calvinist M.A. of Edinburgh; ordained, 1837; editor of Y Traethodydd The Essayist), 1845-65; principal of Bala College for fifty years, lecturing on classics, ethics, metaphysics, and theology; D.D. Edinburgh, 1865; best- known work Athrawiaeth yr lawn Atonement, 1860.
Richard Edwards: '''Richard Edwards''' ([[1523]] ?-[[1566]]), poet and play. Wright; B.A. Corpus Christ! College, Oxford, J544; fellow, 1544; student of Christ Church, and M.A., 1547; master of the children of the Chnpel Royal, 1561; competed 1 Palamon and Arcite for Queen Elizabeth's entertainment at Oxford, 1666; eulogised by Meres. The Excellent Comedie of... Damon and Pithias 1571, is his only extant play.
Roger Edwards: '''Roger Edwards''' ([[1811]]-[[1886]]), Welsh Calviuistic methodist; editor ofCrouicl yr Oes an early Welsh political paper, 1835-9: secretary of the Calviuistic Methodist Association, 1839-74; D.D.; editor of theDrytorfa 1846-86.

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Sydenham Teak Edwards: '''Sydenham Teak Edwards''' ([[1769]]P-[[1819]]), natural historical draughtsman; founder of the Botanical Magazine executed drawings from 1788 for the Botanical Magazine and Flora Londiuieusis; started the Botanical Register; supplied plates for the New Botanic Garden 1805-7.
Thomas Edwards: '''Thomas Edwards''' (fl. [[1595]]), poet ; author of t o long narrative poems (recently discovered),Cephaliw
Edwards: '''Edwards''' J nnl Procris andNarcissus contributed to Adrianus Romauus's Parvum Theatrum Urbi urn," fifty-five Latin hexameters on the cities of Italy, 1595; possibly identical v:th a Thomas Edwards (fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; D.C.L., 1590), who became chancellor to the bishop of London.
Thomas Edwards: '''Thomas Edwards''' ([[1599]]-[[1647]]), author of 'Gangraena; M.A. QueensCollege, Cambridge; university preacher at Cambridge, where he became known as 'Young Luther ordered to recant, 1628; licensed to preach in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, 1629; suspended by Laud; a zealous presbyterian, attacking the independents in Antapologia 1644; published Gangraena; or a... Discovery of many Errours, Heresies, Blasphemies, and pernicious Practices 1646, an intemperate polemic; died in Holland.
Thomas Edwards: '''Thomas Edwards''' ([[1652]]-[[1721]]), divine and orientalist; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1677; engaged to assist in the Coptic impression of the New Testament, 1685; chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford; rector of Aldwinckle All Saints, 1707-21; left a Coptic lexicon ready for the press.
Thomas Edwards: '''Thomas Edwards''' ([[1699]]-[[1757]]), critic ; entered at Lincoln's Inn, 1721; F.S.A., 1745; published, on the appearance of Warburton's edition of Shakespeare (1747), an ironical supplement, subsequently namedThe Canons of Criticism; friend of Samuel Richardson; wrote Miltonic sonnets.
Thomas Edwards: '''Thomas Edwards''' ([[1729]]-[[1785]]), divine; M.A. Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1754; fellow; master of the free grammar school and rector of St. John the Baptist, Coventry, 1758-79; D.D., 1766; publishedProlegomena in Libros Veteris Testamenti Poeticos 1762, and wrote against doctrine of irresistible grace, 1759.
Thomas Edwards: '''Thomas Edwards''' (. [[1810]]), divine ; son of Thomas Edwards (1729-1785) q. v.j; LL.B. Clare College, Cambridge, 1782; fellow of Jesus College, 1787; LL.D.; published treatise on free inquiry in religion, 1792.
Thomas Edwards: '''Thomas Edwards''' ([[1775]] ?-[[1845]]), law reporter ; LL.D. Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1805; fellow of Trinity Hall and advocate at DoctorsCommons; Surrey magistrate; compiled a collection of admiralty cases, 1812.
Thomas Edwards: '''Thomas Edwards''' (CAERFALLWCH) ([[1779]]-[[1858]]), Welsh author; published An Analysis of Welsh Orthography 1845, and an English and Welsh Dictionary 1850.
Thomas Charles Edwards: '''Thomas Charles Edwards''' ([[1837]]-[[1900]]), divine; eon of Lewis Edwards; M.A. London, 1862; B.A. Lincoln College, Oxford, 1866; M.A., 1872; first principal of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1872-91, of Welsh Oalvinistic methodiat theological college, Bala, 1891; D.D. Edinburgh, 1887, University of Wales, 1898; published religious works.
William Edwards: '''William Edwards''' ([[1719]]-[[1789]]), bridge-builder in South Wales; originated (1761) the invention of perforated haunches to remove the pressure to which the single arch of his bridge over the Taff had succumbed; independent minister.
William Camden Edwards: '''William Camden Edwards''' ([[1777]]-[[1855]]), engraver, mainly of portrait-plates. "
Thomas Edwardston: '''Thomas Edwardston''' (d. [[1396]]), Augustinian friar; D.D. Oxford; prior of Clare, Suffolk; accompanied Lionel, duke of Clarence, to Italy as confessor; acted as archbishop of some English diocese.
Edwin: '''Edwin''' or EADWINE, Lat. Atouixus ([[585]]?633), king of Nortlmmbria; eon of lla, king of Deira, on whose death in 688 he fled before JEthelric of Bernicia, conqueror of Deira, to Cearl of Mercia: subsequently sought asylum with Raedwald, king of the East-Ansles, 617; his surrender promised by Raedwald to Jthelfrith, .fithelric's son and successor; accosted by Paulinus, who gave him a sign for future recognition, soon after which Raedwald defeated and slew.Ethelfrith, 617. Edwin thereupon became king of Deira, and, annexing Bernicia and neighbouring territory, formed the united Northumbrian kingdom; extended his power in all directions; in 625 married.fflthelburh, sister of Eadbald, king of Kent; converted to Christianity by the action of Paulinus in re- !
Ega: '''Ega''' 3ST minding him of the sign given him at Rredwald's court; baptised, 627; appointed Paulinus archbishop of York; defeated and slain in battle with Peuda of Mnvin.
Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin: '''Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin''' ([[177]]*1 ?-l [[854]]), actress; nte Richnrds; appeared, when eight years old, at I the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin; acted at Covent Garden in Murphy'sCitizen 1789; the original Lady Traffic in Riches, or the Wife and Brother at the Lyceum, 1810; I played, 1821, the Duenna in Sheridan's comic opera at j Drury Lane, where she had been engaged at the recommendation of T. Sheridan.
Sir Humphrey Edwin: '''Sir Humphrey Edwin''' ([[1642]]-[[1707]]), lord mayor of London; wool merchant in Great St. Helens; master of the Barber-SurgeonsCompany, 1688; member of the SkinnersCompany; sheriff of Glamorganshire, and knighted, 1687; present as sheriff of London and Middlesex (1688-9) at the proclamation of William and Mary; commissioner of excise, 1689-91; captain of a trainband regiment and of the horse volunteers: cashiered from his military appointments for nonconformity, 1690; lord mayor, 1697; acquiesced in an order to discontinue his much ridiculed practice of attending nonconformist meetings in full civic state, 1697.
John Edwin: '''John Edwin''' , the elder ([[1749]]-[[1790]]), comedian; secretary for one year to the South Sea Trust; took comic parts at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, and at Bath; for a long time the mainstay of the Hay market; appeared at Covent Garden after 1779; associated with John O'Keeffe, who wrote comic songs for him; created Figaro in the Spanish Barber and Punch in Pleasures of the Town (adaptation from Fielding); played Dogberry, Cloten, Sir Anthony Absolute, and similar characters; praised by Column as a burletta singer.
John Edwin: '''John Edwin''' , the younger ([[1768]]-[[1805]]), actor ; son of John Edwin the elder; appeared at the Haymarket as Hengo inBoriduca 1778, and as Blister in 'The Virgin Unmasked 1792; committed suicide from mortification at a lampoon.
Edwy: '''Edwy''' or EADWIG (d. [[959]]), king of the English ; eldest son of Eadmund and St..Slfgifu; became king, 955; exiled Dunstan for refusing to authorise his proposed marriage with Elfgifu; forced by the witan to resign the country north of the Thames to his brother Eadgar, 957; appointed two opponents of Dunstan's monastic reforms to the see of Canterbury,
Lord Edzell: '''Lord Edzell''' ([[1651]] ?-[[1610]]). See LINDSAY, SIR
David: '''David'''
John Eedes: '''John Eedes''' ([[1609]] ?-[[1667]] ?), divine; B.A. Oriel College, Oxford, 1630; ejected from his ministry in the isle of Sheppey during the civil war; published The Orthodox Doctrine concerning Justification by Faith asserted and vindicated 1654.
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Richard Eedes: '''Richard Eedes''' (d. [[1686]]), presbyterian divine; M.A. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1634; subscribed the covenant; vicar of Beckford, 1647-58; attempted, without success, to conciliate the court party after the Restoration; published homilies.
Effingham: '''Effingham''' first EARL of the second creation (1767-1845).
Barons Effingham: '''Barons Effingham''' . See HOWARD, LORD WIL-
Liam: '''Liam''' first BARON, [[1510]]?-[[1573]]; HOWARD, CHARLES, second BAROK, 1536-1624.
James Egan: '''James Egan''' ([[1799]]-[[1842]]), mezzotint engraver ; of humble origin: learnt his art while employed in laying mezzotint grounds for S. W. Reynolds (1773-1836); died before attaining success.
John Egan: '''John Egan''' ([[1750]] ?-[[1810]]), chairman of Kilmainham, co. Dublin; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1773; called to the Irish bar, 1778; bencher of King's Inns, Dublin, 1787; LL.D., honor-is causd, Dublin, 1790; chairman of Kilmainham; sat for Tallagh in the Irish House of Commons.
Pierce Egan: '''Pierce Egan''' , the elder ([[1772]]-[[1849]]), author of Life in London; attacked the Prince Regent and Mrs. Robinson in The Mistress of Royalty; or the Loves of Florizel and Perdita 1814; issued Boxiana; or Sketches
Egan: '''Egan''' 391
Egerton: '''Egerton''' of Modern Pugilism a monthly serial, 1818-24; brought out Life in London; or. The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn... and... Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic in monthly numbers from 1821, a book which was frequently dramatised and pirated: published a didactic sequel, 1828: furnished the slang, phrasesto Francis Grose'sDictionary of the Vulgar: Tongue 1823; commenced Pierce Main's Life in London and Sporting Guide a weekly newspajHT, 1824; completed his serial, Pierce Egan's Book of Sports and Mirror of Life 1832; dedicated to Queen VictoriaThe Pilgrims of the Thames in Search of the National 1838.
Pierce Egan: '''Pierce Egan''' , the younger ([[1814]]-[[1880]]), novelist; son of Pierce Bgan the elder; executed etchings for The Pilgrims of the Thames in Search of the National,* 1837; published novels of the feudal period; edited the 4 Home Circle 1849-61; contributed to London Journal and other periodicals; best-known works, Eve: or the Angel of Innocence 1867, and The Poor Girl 1862-3; pioneer of cheap literature.
Egbert: '''Egbert''' or ECGBERHT. SAINT ([[639]]-[[729]]), a noble Angle, whovisited the cells of the masters to study in Ireland after 652; priest and monk in accordance with a vow; remonstrated with the Northumbrian king, Ecgfrith, on his unprovoked war with the Irish, c. 684;, visited St. Columba's monasteries in lona, 716; successfully advocated the Roman Easter in lona, 716, introducing also the Roman tonsure, 718.
Egbert: '''Egbert''' or EGGBERHT (. [[766]]), archbishop of York; cousin of Oeolwulf, king of Northnmbria; archbishop of York, 732-66; obtained his pall from Rome, 735; supreme in ecclesiastical matters, issuing also coins ( bearing his own name along with that of his brother Eadbert, king of Northumbria; founded the j cathedral schol of York, in which he himself taught; wrote Latin ecclesiastical works.
Ecgberht Egbert: '''Ecgberht Egbert''' , or ECGBRYHT (. [[839]]), king of the West-Saxons: son of Ealhmund, an underking of Kent: banished from England by Offa of Mercia and Beorhtric of Wessex, the latter conceiving his throne to be endangered by Egbert's ancestral claims; lived at the court of Charlemagne till 802; accepted as king by the West-Saxons, 802; routed a force of Cornishmen, c. 826; regained the kingdom of Kent; received final submission of Mercia, 828; overlord of Northumbria, and eighth Bretwalda, 829; defeated by Scandinavian pirates at Charmouth, 835; probably brought the shire military organisation to its completion in Wessex; agreed to a perpetual alliance with the archbishop of Canterbury at Kingston, 838; defeated nortbmen and Cornishmen at Hengestduue, 837.
Charles Chandler Egerton: '''Charles Chandler Egerton''' ([[1798]]-[[1885]]), surgeon; learnt medicine at the then united hospitals of St. Thomas's and Guy's; assistant-surgeon on the Bengal establishment to deal with eye-disease among the IndoEuropean lads of the lower orphan school, 1823; oculist at the Indian Eye Hospital: first surgeon at the Calcutta Medical College Hospital.
Daniel Egerton: '''Daniel Egerton''' ([[1772]]-[[1835]]), actor ; bred to the law; member of the Covent Garden Company, Henry VIII, Tullus Aufidius, Syphax, and Clytus being esteemed his best parts in tragedy; manager of the Olympic, 1821, and of Sadler's Wells, 1821: ruined by the failure (1834) of the Victoria Theatre, of which he was proprietor.
Francis Egerton: '''Francis Egerton''' , third and last DITKB ov
Bridgewater: '''Bridgewater''' ([[1736]]-[[1803]]) ; devoted himself, after making the grand tour, to the development of his coal mines at Worsley, Lancashire, 1759; called the founder of British inland navigation on account of the canal which he employed James Brindley to construct from Worsley to Manchester, 1760; constructed, under great pecuniary difficulties, a canal connecting Manchester and Liverpool, 1762-72; subscribed lOO.OOO. to the loyalty loan;the first great Manchester man
Francis Egerton: '''Francis Egerton''' , first EARL op EI.LESMERE (1800-1857), statesman and poet; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; captain in the Staffordshire regiment of yeomanry, 1819; M.P., Bletchingley, 1822-6; an early promoter of free-trade and the London University; M.P. for Sutherland, 1826 and 1830, for South Lancashire, 1835, 1837, and 1841-6; privy councillor, 1828; privy councillor for Ireland, 1828; secretary at war, 1830; D.O.L. Oxford, 1834; rector of Kind's (olleee, Aberdeen, 1838; first president of Caimli-n Society, 1H3H; pn of the British Association, 1842, and of other learned bodies; created Viscount Brackley of Brackley and Earl ,t Kll.-smere of Kllesmere, 1846; K.G., 1855. HiB translations includeFaust... and Schiller's Song of the Ik-li; 1823, and Araari'aHistory of the War of the Sicilian Vespers 1850, bin original works Donna Charitea, poems and aGuide to Northern Archneology 1848.
Francis Henry Egerton: '''Francis Henry Egerton''' , eighth EARL OF
Bridokwater: '''Bridokwater''' ([[1756]]-[[1829]]), founder of the 'Bridgewater Treatises son of John Egerton, bishop of Durham ; educated at Eton, Christ Church and All Souls Oollege, Oxford; M.A., 1780; fellow of All Souls, 1780; prebendary of Durham, 1780: held livings in Shropshire: F.R.S., 1781; F.S.A., 1791; prince of the Holy Roman Empire: succeeded as Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackley, and Baron Ellesmere, 182H: left 8.000J. for tinbest work on The Goodness of God as manifested in the Creation which was divided among the eight authors of theBridgewater Treatises published translations, family biographies, and other works.
John Egerton: '''John Egerton''' , first EARL OP BKIDOKWATER (1579-1649), son of Sir Thomas Egerton, baron Ellesmere ; served in Essex's Irish expedition, 1599; M.P., Shropshire, 1601; knighted, 1603; honorary M.A. of Oxford, whither he accompanied James 1, 1605; created Earl of Bridgewater, 1617: privy councillor, 1626; lordlieutenant of Wales, 1631, Milton's Comus being written for the festivities held at Ludlow Castle (1634) on the occasion of his taking up the appointment,
John Egerton: '''John Egerton''' , second EARL OK BRIDOEWATER (1622-1686), eldest surviving son of John, first earl: represented the Elder Brother in Milton's Oomus at its first performance, 1634; high steward of Oxford University, 1663; M.A., 1663: privy councillor, 1666 and 1679: a commissioner to inquire into fche expenditure of the Dutch war vote, 1667.
John Egerton: '''John Egerton''' , third EARL OP BRIDGEWATEK (1646-1701), eldest surviving son of John, second earl ; K.B., 1660; knight of the shire for Buckinghamshire, 1685; succeeded as earl, 1686; removed from lordlieutenancy of Buckinghamshire, as disaffected, 1687: re-instated by William III; privy councillor; first lord of the admiralty, 1699; lord-justice of the kingdom, 1699.
John Egerton: '''John Egerton''' ([[1721]]-[[1787]]), bishop of Durham : educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford; prebendary of Hereford, 1746; king's chaplain, 1749; dean of Hereford, 1750; D.O.L.: bishop of Bangor, 1756-68: bishop of Lichfield, 1768-71: prebendary of St. Paul's, 1768; bishop of Durham, 1771; granted a new charter to the city of Durham, 1780.
Sir Philip De Malpas Grey Egerton: '''Sir Philip De Malpas Grey Egerton''' - ([[1806]]1881), palaeontologist: educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1828; travelled with a friend over Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, in quest of fossil fishes; M.P. for Chester, 1830 and 1835-68, for West Cheshire, 1868-81; contributed to the Decades of the Geological Survey of Great Britain F.G.S., 1829; F.R.S., 1831; Wollaston medallist of the Geological Society, 1873; published antiquarian works and catalogues of his collections.

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Sarah Egerton: '''Sarah Egerton''' ([[1782]]-[[1847]]), actress ; nAt Fisher : appeared at Bath, 1803: overshadowed as a tragedian at Covent Garden (1811-13) by Mrs. Siddons; the original Ravina in Pocock's Miller and his Men 1813: excelled in melodrama.
Stephen Egerton: '''Stephen Egerton''' ([[1555]] ?-[[1621]] ?), puritan divine; M.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1579; leader in formation of presbytery at Wandsworth; suspended for refusing to subscribe Whitgift's articles, 1584; imprisoned, 1590: minister of St. Anne's, Blackfriars, 1698-c. 1621; introduced petition to the lower house of convocation for a reformed prayer-book, 1604; published sermons.
Sir Thomas Egerton: '''Sir Thomas Egerton''' , BARON ELLRSMERK and
Bracklky Viscount: '''Bracklky Viscount''' ([[1640]] ?-[[1617]]), lord chancellor ; barrister of Lincoln's Inn, 1572; governor of the inn, 1580; treasurer, 1587; solicitor-general, 1681; attorney-general, 1592; knighted, 1593; master of the rolls, 1694-1603;
Egg: '''Egg''' 392
Elderton: '''Elderton''' lord-keeper, 1596 and 1603; privy councillor: employed by Elizabeth on diplomatic commission*; befriended Francis Bacon, and (1599) counscllcil K-sex to show greater prudence; made Baron RUeNMVeaad lord.-hancellor, 1603; obtained a Star-ch:unber declaration that the deprivation in 1605 of puritan ministers was legal: enforced the catholic penal laws: helped to determine the Act of Union between England and Scotland (1606 and 1607), maintaining the right of a Scotsman born after James I's accession to hold land in England, 1608; chancellor of Oxford, 1610-17; obtained from Bacon an opinion in favour of the equity court against Coke, 1616; created Viscount Brackley, 1616; resigned the lord chancellorship, 1617; complimented by Sir John Davies, Camden, Ben Jouson, and Samuel Daniel; left in manuscript judicial and legal treatises.
Augustus Leopold Ego: '''Augustus Leopold Ego''' ([[1816]]-[[1863]]), subjectpainter; student in the Royal Academy, 1836, exhibiting hisSpanish Girl 1838: R.A., 1860. His first work of importance,The Victim was engraved in theGems of European Art
Robert Egglesfield: '''Robert Egglesfield''' (d. [[1349]]). See EGLES
Kikli: '''Kikli''' ).
William Egglestone: '''William Egglestone''' (Jt. [[1605]]-[[1623]]). See
Ecclestonb: '''Ecclestonb'''
Francis Egotton: '''Francis Egotton''' ([[1737]]-[[1805]]), painter on glass ; partner with Boulton in the production ofmechanical paintings or l polygraphs the process having been perfected by himself; established a factory at Birmingham, in which he revived glass-painting, in the form of transparencies on glass; given commissions for various ecclesiastical buildings. , FRANCIS (1775-1823), engraver: nephew of Francis Eginton (1737-1805); illustrated topographical and historical works.
Robert Op Eglesfield: '''Robert Op Eglesfield''' (d. [[1349]]), founder of the Queen's College, Oxford; said to have been B.D. of Oxford; chaplain to Queen Philippa, and rector of Burgh, Westmoreland; established theHall of the Queen's Scholars of Oxford" by royal charter, 1341; drew up statutes for his foundation, 1341; possibly identical with Robert de Eglesfield, knight of the shire for Cumberland in 1328.
William Eglet: '''William Eglet''' ([[1798]]-[[1870]]), miniature-painter ; exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy from 1824 and at other institutions.
Earls of Eglinton: '''Earls of Eglinton''' . See MONTGOMERIE, HUGH, first EARL, 1460?-1545; MONTOOMERIK, HUGH, third EARL, 15317-1585; MONTGOMERY, ALEXANDER, sixth EARL, 1588-1661; MONTGOMERIB, HUGH, seventh EARL, 1613-1669; MONTGOMERIE, ALEXANDER, ninth EARL, 16607-1729; MONTGOMERIE, ALEXANDER, tenth EARL, 1723-1769; MONTGOMERIE, ARCHIBALD, eleventh EARL, 1726-1796; MONTGOMERIE, HUGH, twelfth EARL, 17391819; MONTGOMERIE, ARCHIBALD, thirteenth EARL, 18121861.
George Eglisham: '''George Eglisham''' (fl. [[1612]]-[[1642]]), Scottish physician and poet; M.D., probably of Leyden; physician to James VI, 1616; undertook in hisDuellum Poeticum to prove that George Buchanan had been guilty of impiety towards God, perfidy to his prince, and tyranny to the muses 1618; published (1626)Prodromus Vindictee a pamphlet charging the Duke of Buckingham with being a poisoner; retired to Brussels from the anger of the duke, 1626.
Earls Op Egmoht: '''Earls Op Egmoht''' . See PERCEVAL, JOHN, first
Earl: '''Earl''' [[1683]]-[[1748]] ; PERCEVAL, JOHN, second EARL, [[1711]]
Earls Op Egremont: '''Earls Op Egremont''' . See WTNDHAM, SIR
Charles: '''Charles''' second EARL, [[1710]]-[[1763]] ; WYXDHAM, SIR
George: '''George''' O'BRIEN, third EARL, [[1751]]-[[1837]].
Georg Dionysius Ehret: '''Georg Dionysius Ehret''' ([[1710]]-[[1770]]), botanic draughtsman; born at Erfurt; contributed the drawings to Linnaeus'B 4 Hortus Cliffortianus 1737; befriended in England by the Duchess of Portland, Dr. Mead, and Sir Hans Sloane; chief published works, Plant Selectee 1750, andPlant et Papiliones selectee 1748-50.
Eineon: '''Eineon''' (Jl. [[1093]]), Welsh prince and warrior; in accordance with promise to Testin, prince of Morganwsr. secured Norman aid for him against Rhys, chief king of South Wales, on the condition that he should marry Testin's daughter: organised a revolt which gave South Wales to the Normans, lestin having ignored his agreement when victorious
Philalethes Eirenjeus: '''Philalethes Eirenjeus''' (fc. [[1622]]?), alchemist; real name unknown: claimed to have discovered philosopher's stone, 1645; friend of Robert Boyle and George Starkey; published works on alchemy, 1G54-84.
Sir Charles Ekins: '''Sir Charles Ekins''' ([[1768]]-[[1855]]), admiral; son of Jeffery Ekins; served at the relief of Gibraltar, 1782: lieutenant, 1790: invalided home from the West Indies with despatches, 1801; took part in expedition against Copenhagen, 1807, operations off Portugal, 1808, ami Baltic cruise, 1809; wounded at Algiers, 1816: C.B. and C.W.N.: admiral, 1841: G.C.B., 1852: published work on recent British naval engagements, 1824.

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Jeffery Ekins: '''Jeffery Ekins''' (d. [[1791]]), dean of Carlisle: educated at Eton; fellow of King's College, Cambridge: M.A., 1758: assistant-master at Eton; chaplain to the Earl of Carlisle; rector of Quainton, 1761-75, of Morpeth, 1775, and of Sedgefield, 1777; D.D. Cambridge, 1781: dean of Carlisle, 1782; friend of Richard Cumberland; poet, and translator of The Loves of Medea and Jason from Apollonius Rhodius, 1771.
Lord Elchies: '''Lord Elchies''' ([[1690]]-[[1754]]). See GRANT, PA-
Trick: '''Trick'''
Lord Elcho: '''Lord Elcho''' ([[1721]]-[[1787]]).
George Eld: '''George Eld''' ([[1791]]-[[1862]]), antiquary ; editor of the Coventry Standard; last mayor of Coventry before the Municipal Reform Act, 1834-5; restored the fourteenth-century interior of the mayoress's parlour, Coventry, 1834-5.
Charles Elder: '''Charles Elder''' ([[1821]]-[[1851]]), historical and portrait painter; sent to St. Paul's School, 1834; commenced exhibiting at the Academy with a Sappho 1845.
Edward Elder: '''Edward Elder''' ([[1812]]-[[1858]]), head-master of Charterhouse; educated at Charterhouse: scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, 1830; Ellerton prizeman; M.A., 1836; tutor of Balliol; head-master of Durham Cathedral grammar school, 1839; head-master of Charterhouse, 1853; D.D., 1853; contributed articles to Smith'sDictionary of Classical Biography and Mythology
John Elder: '''John Elder''' (ft. [[1555]]), Scottish writer ; studied at St. Andrews, Aberdeen, and Glasgow universities: presented Henry VIII with aplot* or topographical description of Scotland, 1542; denounced Cardinal David Beaton in a letter to Henry VIII; converted to Romanism, 1553.
John Elder: '''John Elder''' ([[1824]]-1 [[869]]), marine engineer and shipbuilder; continued Randolph, Elder & Cos shipbuilding business, 1868; successfully constructed compound engines; read before the United Service Institute a paper onCircular Ships of War, with increased motive power 1868; president of the Glasgow Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, 1869: regarded as an authority on the capital and labour problem.
Thomas Elder: '''Thomas Elder''' ([[1737]]-[[1799]]), lord provost of Edinburgh, 1788-90, 1792-4, and 1796-8; broke up the Edinburgh meeting of the British Convention unaided, 1793; first colonel of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, 1794; postmaster-general for Scotland, 1795; procured rebuilding of Edinburgh College.
William Elder: '''William Elder''' (fl. [[1680]]-[[1700]]), engraver; an expert engraver of writing; engraved portrait of Ben Jonson for the folio edition of Jonson's works of 1692.
Christopher Elderfield: '''Christopher Elderfield''' ([[1607]]-[[1652]]), divine ; M.A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford; chaplain to Sir William Goring, Burton, Sussex; author of The Civill Right of Tythes 1650, and a theological work.
William Elderton: '''William Elderton''' (d. [[1692]]?), ballad-writer; master of a company of comedians; attorney in the Sheriff's Court: published scurile balates on Campion's execution, 1581. The opening of one of his ballads is quoted in Much Ado about Nothing v. 2.
Eldin: '''Eldin''' 2
Lord Eldin: '''Lord Eldin''' ([[1757]]-[[1832]]).
Eldon: '''Eldon''' first EARL OF ([[1751]]-[[1838]]). See SCOTT,
John: '''John'''
John Eldred: '''John Eldred''' ([[1552]]-[[1632]]), traveller ; visited, in company with some brother merchants (1583), Tripoli, A-leppo, and Bassorah; wrote account of voyage; took cargo of spices from Bassorah to Bagdad; journeyed through Palestine and Arabia; member of the first court of directors of the East India Company, 1600; patentee for the pre-emption of tin, customs farmer, and commissioner for the sale of lands under James I.
Thomas Eldred: '''Thomas Eldred''' (ft. [[1586]]-[[1622]]), mariner of Ipswich; nailed in one or both of the voyages of Thomas Cavendish; commander or factor under the Eabt India Company, 1600-9.
William Eldred: '''William Eldred''' (ft. [[1646]]), master gunner of Dover Castle; mentions his service as gunner in Germany and the Low Countries in The Gunner's Glasse 1646, an account of the great gun exercise as then practised.
Aleenor Eleanor: '''Aleenor Eleanor''' , or JENOR, DUCHESS OF
Quken Aquitaink: '''Quken Aquitaink''' successively of FRANCE and ENGLAND (1122 ?-1204), queen of Henry II; daughter of William X, duke of Aquitaine; married by her father's arrangement to Louis VII of France, 1137; intrigued with her uncle, Raymond I, prince of Antioch, while attending her husband on a crusade, 1146; helped Louis to pacify Aquitaine, 1152; divorced from Louis by a church council on the ostensible plea of consanguinity, 1152; married Henry, count of Anjou and duke of Normandy, afterwards Henry II of England. 1152; enabled by her ancestral claims to induce Henry II to attack Toulouse, 1159; abetted her children's conspiracy against their father, Henry II, 1173; arrested and put under strict guard at Salisbury or Winchester, 1173; present at the reconciliation of Henry II and his sons, 1184; released, 1185; secured the undisturbed recognition of Richard I as king, 1189; prevented John, who was meditating treachery against his brother, from crossing to France, and exacted an oath of fealty to Richard I from the lords of the realm, 1192; organised force to resist contemplated invasion of John and French king, 1193; laid waste Anjou, which had declared for her grandson Arthur against King John, 1199; relieved by John when Arthur and Geoffrey de Lusignan besieged her in Mirabeau Castle, 1202; buried in Fontevraud Abbey, where she had once lived in retirement,
of Oastile Eleanor: '''of Oastile Eleanor''' (d. [[1390]]), queen of Edward I ; daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile; married to Prince Edward, afterwards Edward I, at Las Huelgas, 1254, thereby giving the English crown claims on Gascony and her mother's possessions of Ponthieu and Montreuil; entered London, 1255; refugee in France, 1264-5; accompanied her husband (1270) on his crusade; sometimes said to have saved Edward I's life by sucking a poisoned wound; crowned, 1274; acquired estates by help of Jewish usurers. Edward I marked the route taken by her funeral procession from Nottinghamshire to London by erecting crosses at its halting-places.
of Provenck Eleanor: '''of Provenck Eleanor''' (d. [[1291]]), queen of Henry
Iii: '''Iii''' ; daughter of Raymond Berenger IV, count of Provence; married to Henry III, 1236; lost popularity by her alleged partiality to Poitevin adventurers in England; reconciled Henry III and the earl marshal, 1241; accompanied her husband on his abortive expedition to Gascony 1242; joint-governor of England with the king's brother, 1253; summoned council of Westminster, 1254: impoverished herself, the king, and the archbishop of Canterbury, to support the ambition of Thomas of Savoy, 1255; collected mercenaries at Sluys to fight for Henry in the baronswar, 1264; died a nun at Amesbury.

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John Philip Elers: '''John Philip Elers''' (ft. [[1690]]-[[1730]]), potter ; of Saxon descent; came to London with the Prince of Orange, 1688; established pottery works near Burslem, c. 1690; with his brother produced a red unglazed ware having slight raised ornamentations of an oriental character; introduced salt-glazing into Staffordshire.
Elfleda: '''Elfleda''' or JELFUED ([[654]]-[[714]]?), abbess of Whitby; dedicated to the church by her father, Oswiu, as a thankoffering; for his victory over Penda, 655; abbess of
Eliot: '''Eliot''' Whitby, jointly with her mother, Eanflaxl, 680; on the side of Wilfrith at the Northumbrian synod, 705.
Elfleda: '''Elfleda''' (d. [[918]] ?).
Richard Elford: '''Richard Elford''' (d. [[1714]]), vocalist; gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1702; lay vicar at St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey; took part in the performance before Queen Anne of Eccles's Birthday Songs 1703; famous as a singer of sacred music.
Sir William Elford: '''Sir William Elford''' ([[1749]]-[[1837]]), banker, politician, and amateur artist; mayor of Plymouth, 1797; M.P., Plymouth, 1796-1806, and Westbury; M.P., Rye, 1807-8; lieutenant-colonel of the South Devon militia iii Ireland, 1798-9; F.R.S., 1790; created baronet, 1800; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1774-1837; friend of William Pitt (1759-1806).
Elfrida → Ælfthryth, Queen of England: '''Elfrida''' ([[945]]-[[1000]]).
Earls of Elgin: '''Earls of Elgin''' . See BIIUCK, ROBERT, second
Earl: '''Earl''' d. [[1685]] ; BRUCE, THOMAS, third EARL, [[1665]] ?1741; BRUCE, THOMAS, seventh EARL, 1766-1841; BRUCE, JAMES, eighth EARL, 1811-1863.
Elgiya: '''Elgiya''' (. [[956]]).
John Elias: '''John Elias''' ([[1774]]-[[1841]]), Welsh Calvinistic methodiet; taught in the first Sunday school in Carnarvonshire; itinerant preacher in Carnarvonshire; learnt English and studied the Greek and Hebrew scriptures; ameliorated moral and religious condition of Anglesey; ordained, 1811; helped to draw up the methodists articles of faith, 1823; opposed Anninian methodism and catholic emancipation; a famous preacher; published religious tractates in Welsh.
Ney Elias: '''Ney Elias''' ([[1844]]-[[1897]]), explorer and diplomatist : F.R.G.S., 1865; went to Shanghai in employment of a mercantile house, 1866: led expedition to examine courses of Hoang-ho, 1868; travelled across Gobi desert from great wall to Nijni Novgorod, 1872; received founder's medal of Roj al Geographical Society, 1873: his services secured by Indian government; held diplomatic posts in India; made numerous journeys in various parts of Asia, solving on one occasion the problem as to which was the upper course of the Oxus; retired from service, 1896; published works relating to bis journeys.
Lord Embank: '''Lord Embank''' (d. [[1621]]). See MURRAY, SIR
Gideon: '''Gideon'''
Eubank: '''Eubank''' fifth BARON ([[1703]]-[[1778]]). See MURRAY,
Patrick: '''Patrick'''
Lord Eliook: '''Lord Eliook''' ([[1712]]-[[1793]]).
Eliot: '''Eliot''' See also ELIOTT, ELLIOT, ELLIOTT, and
Elyot: '''Elyot'''
Edward Eliot: '''Edward Eliot''' , BARON ELIOT ([[1727]]-[[1804]]), politician; visited Montesquieu in company with Lord Charlemont; knight of the shire for Cornwall; M.P., St. Germans, 1748-68, Liskeard, 1768-75, Cornwall, 17751784; created Baron Eliot of St. Germans, 1784; commissioner of board of trade and plantations, 1760-76; severed his connection with Lord North by voting against employment of Hessian troops in America, 1776; acquaintance of Dr. Johnson and patron of Sir Joshua Reynold?.
Earl: '''Earl'''
Edward Granville Eliot: '''Edward Granville Eliot''' , third EARL OF ST.
Germans: '''Germans''' ([[1798]]-[[1877]]), diplomatist ; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; M.P., Liskeard, 1824-32; secretary of legation at Madrid, 1823, at Lisbon, 1824; envoy extraordinary to Spain, where he induced the Carlists and royalists to make the Eliot Convention for the humaner treatment of prisoners, 1834; M.P., East Cornwall, 1837-45; deputy-lieutenant of Cornwall, 1841; chief secretary for Ireland, 1841-5: carried bill for registration of firearms, 1843: honorary LL.D. Dublin, 1843; succeeded as Earl St. Germans, 1845; appointed postmaster-general and (1852) lord-lieutenant of Ireland; Irish viceroy during Palmerston's premiership, 1855.
Francis Perceval Eliot: '''Francis Perceval Eliot''' ([[1756]] ?-[[1818]]), writer on finance; commissioner of audit at Somerset House; chief work, Observations on the Fallacy of the supposed Depreciation of the Paper Currency of th Kingdom 1811.
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Elizabeth: '''Elizabeth'''
George Eliot: '''George Eliot''' (pseudonym). See CROSS, MARY
Ann: '''Ann''' [[1819]]-[[1880]].
Sir John Eliot: '''Sir John Eliot''' ([[1592]]-[[1632]]), pntriot ; studied at Exeter College, Oxford, 1607-10, and at one of the Inns of Court; sat in the Addled parliament for St. Germans, 1614; knighted, 1618; vice-admiral of Devon, 1619: M.P., Newport, Cornwall. 1624, sympathising with Buckingham's policy of war with Spain; urged the enforcement of the catholic penal laws when M.P. for Newport, 1625: declared his distrust in a war policy which extended to Denmark, Savoy, Germany, and France, 1625; M.P., St. Germans, 1626; attacked Buckingham, 1626, for the Cadiz disaster; summed up the charges against Buckingham, whom he compared to Sejanus, 1626; imprisoned for refusing to pay his share of the forced loan, 1627; M.P., Cornwall, 1628; insisted on the full acceptance of the Petition of Right, 1628; read three resolutions in parliament against the king's religious proceedings and claim to levy provisionally tonnage and poundage without consent of parliament, 2 March, 1629; imprisoned for conspiracy to resist the king's lawful order for the adjournment of parliament on 2 March, 1629, to calumniate the ministers of the crown, and to assault the speaker; sentenced to a fine of 2,000, 1630; died in prison. He left in manuscript 4 The Monarchic of Man * and a vindication of himself in * An Apology for Socrates also Negotium Posterorum and De Jure Majestatis(all first printed, 1879-82).
John Eliot: '''John Eliot''' ([[1604]]-[[1690]]), styled the 'Indian Apostle B.A. Jesus College, Cambridge, 1622; emigrated, 1631;teacherof the church at Roxbury, near Boston, Massachusetts, 1632-90; bore witness against the religious enthusiast, Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, 1637; preached his first sermon to the aborigines in their own tongue at Nonantum, Massachusetts, 1646: obtained an ordinance in parliament (1649) for the advancement of civilisation and Christianity among the Indians: encouraged by the formation of a society (1649), which afterwards found funds for building an Indian college; founded at Natick the first township of praying Indians 1651; his Christian Commonwealth suppressed by the governor and council of New England, 1660; translated Baxter's 4 Call in. to the dialect of the Massachusetts Indians, 1664; his translation of the bible into the same dialect issued by the press, 1663; published The Indian Grammar begun,* 1666, an Indian Primer 1669, and a Logick Primer 1672; showed great solicitude for the natives during King Philip's war, 1675-6; published The Harmony of the Gospels 1678; died at Roxbury; narrated the progress of his work in Indian tracts
Sir Thomas Eliot: '''Sir Thomas Eliot''' ([[1490]] ?-[[1546]]).
Sir Daniel Eliott: '''Sir Daniel Eliott''' ([[1798]]-[[1872]]), Indian civilian ; educated at the Edinburgh Academy; nominated to the East India Company's civil service; deputy Tamil translator, 1822; Ma rat ha translator to the Madras government, 1823; member of the board of revenue, 1836; Madras member of the Indian law commission, 1838; president of the revenue, marine, and college boards, Madras, 1850-3; Madras member of the legislative council, 18541859; K.C.S.L, 1867.
George Augustus Eliott: '''George Augustus Eliott''' , first BARON HEATH-
Field: '''Field''' ([[1717]]-[[1790]]), general and defender of Gibraltar: educated at Leyden University and the military college of La Fere; volunteer in the Prussian army, 1735-6; cornet 2nd life guards and field engineer, 1739; present as adjutant at Dettingen, 1743, and Fontenoy, 1745; aide-decamp to George II, 1755; major-general, 1762; second in command in the Cuban expedition; lieutenant-general, 1763; commander-in-chief of the forces in Ireland, 1774-5; governor of Gibraltar, 1775; defended Gibraltar against DArson and the Spaniards, 1779-83; K.B.; created Baron Heathfleld of Gibraltar, 1787.
Elizabeth: '''Elizabeth''' queen of Edward IV ([[1437]] ?-[[1492]]), daughter of Sir Richard Woodville, afterwards Earl Rivers: married Sir John Grey, who (1461) was killed at St. Albans; privately married to Edward IV, whom she personally petitioned for her husband's forfeited lands, 1464; crowned, 1465; withdrew into sanctuary at Westminster on Edward IV's flight, 1470; principal executrix of the will made by her husband in 1475; accused by Clarence of having caused the death of his wife by sorcery, 1476; favoured a match, which the council of Flanders rejected, between her brother Anthony aud Mary, daughter of Charles the Bold, late Duke of Burgundy, 1477: took sanctuary at Westminster from the auger of Gloucester and Buckingham after Edward IV's death, 1483; persuaded by Cardinal Bourchier to deliver up the young Duke of York, 1483; her marriage with Edward IV pronounced invalid in a parliament controlled by Richard III, 1484; persuaded by Richard III to quit her sanctuary on a promise of providing for herself and her daughters, by which he long postponed, although he intended to prevent, the marriage arranged for her daughter with the exiled Earl of Richmond, 1484; placed by Henry VII in full possession of her rights as queendowager, 1486; her lands forfeited (1487) for the perfidy she was alleged to have shown in 1484; retired to the abbey of Bermondsey. She refounded and endowed Queens College, Cambridge.
Elizabeth: '''Elizabeth''' queen of Henry VII ([[1465]]-[[1503]]), of York; daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville: her marriage with the dauphin made a condition of peace between Edward IV and Louis XI, 1475, but never performed; promised in marriage to the Earl of Richmond, then an exile plotting the dethronement of Richard III, an arrangement which was temporarily frustrated, 1484, by the king's specious promises of protection to her mother; reported to have received a proposal of marriage from Richard HI; mentioned in the Song of the Lady Bessy,* a contemporary composition, as having induced Lord Stanley to join Richmond; married to Henry VII, 1486, in pursuance of a petition presented to the king by parliament, 1485; crowned, 1487, after the suppression of the Earl of Lincoln's rebellion; received grant of her mother's forfeited lordships and manors of the duchy of Lancaster, 1487; her death attributed to grief occasioned by the decease of her eldest son, Prince Arthur. An elegy upon her was written by Sir Thomas More.
Elizabeth: '''Elizabeth''' ([[1533]]-[[1603]]), queen of England and Ireland; only child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn; declared illegitimate by parliament in the interest of her father's third wife, Jane Seymour, mother of Edward VI, 1536; refused (1547) the hand of Sir Thomas Seymour, lord high admiral, who, however, did not abandon his suit till his execution, 1549; read Latin and Greek with Roger Ascham; refused to use her influence to save the Duke of Somerset, 1552; rode by the side of her elder half-sister, Queen Mary, at the latter's triumphal entry into London, 1553; refused to compromise herself by taking part in the insurrection of Sir Thomas Wyatt, who wished her to marry Edward Courtenay, a kinsman of the blood royal, 1554; thrown into the Tower at the instance of Gardiner, 1554; released from custody at Woodstock, 1554; refused to engage in plots against Queen Mary: proclaimed queen, in succession to Mary, November 1558, most of her friends and foes alike being already dead; crowned by Owen Oglethorpe, bishop of Carlisle, nearly all the bishops refusing to recognise her as head of the church, 1559; made a proclamation that the English litany should be read in the London churches, 1559; refused the hand of Philip II of Spain; declared to the House of Commons that she had no intention of marrying, 1559; played off three suitors, Eric of Sweden, Adolphus,duke of Holstein, and the Archduke Charles, against one another, 1559; appointed Grindal bishop of London and Parker archbishop of Canterbury, 1559; disturbed by the cordiality existing between Scotland and France, although a treaty had been signed (1559) between those countries and England: signed treaty with Scotland through her agent, Cecil, in which it was laid down that Mary Stuart should give up using the title of queen of England and that the French should quit Scotland, 1560; called in the debased coinage, 1560; pretended a passion for Robert Dudley, afterwards created Earl of Leicester; sent help to Conde, leader of the French protestants in their war with the Duke of Guise; compelled, 1563, by the reduction of the garrison after the peace of Amboise to surrender Havre, which, with Dieppe, had been the price of her support; promulgated the Thirty-nine Articles and extended the range of the oath of supremacy, 1563; made writing in defence of the papal authority liable to the penalties of the statute of Prtemunire, 1563; suggested that her favourite, Dudley, should marry Mary Queen of Scots; encouraged the advances of the Archduke Charles, while maintaining in parliament her aversion to marriage in itself, 1664: grudgingly thanked Sir Henry Sidney for his services against Shaen O'Neill ill Ireland, 1567; imprisoned Mary
Elizabeth: '''Elizabeth'''
Eklerton: '''Eklerton''' Queen of Scots, 1568 and 15G9; excommunicated by I Pius V, 1670; encouraged the vindictive measure-; mlopt.-il in the nortli on the suppression of the catholic rebellion, 1571; executed the Duke of Norfolk, 1572, soon after the discovery of the Hulolfi plot; forbade parliament to proceed with the bill of attainder against Mary Stuart; received from Charles IX of France a proposal of marriage with his brother, the Duke of Anjou, 1571; gave orders for the execution of Northumberland, whom the Scots had sold to Lord Hunsdon, 1572; accepted Francis, duke d'Alencon, as a suitor, 1572-34; vainly attempted to get the regent Morton to pay for his English auxiliaries in Scotland, 1573; sent a force to help the United Provinces against Spain, though not fully understanding the significance of her action or Lord Burghley's policy, 1572: recalled Sir Humphrey Gilbert, her general in the Netherlands, 1572; undertook to act as peacemaker between Philip II and the Low Countries, the sovereignty of which phe declined, 1573; put in force the penal laws against Romanists and especially against the seminarist priests of Douay, who, after receiving their education at Douay, returned to England to work quietly as missioners 1674; suspended Griudal, archbishop of Canterbury, for refusing to suppress the prophesyings of the puritans, 1577; the protection of her person guaranteed by a sort of plebiscite, which was signed among others by Mary Queen of Scots, 1584; betrayed into greater severity by the discovery of the Guise conspiracy; transferred Mary Queen of Scots to the custody of Sir Amyas Paulet at Tutbury, at a time when the treasonable acts of Mary's adherents were compromising her safety, 1585; sent troops under Leicester (1585) to fight with the insurgents of the Netherlands against Parma, but soon necessitated his return by withholding supplies, 1586; ordered the torture and execution of the Babington conspirators, 1580; shrank, in fear of the moral condemnation of the world, from signing the deathwarrant of Mary Stuart, but ultimately consented, after having ineffectually suggested to Mary's warders the desirability of a secret assassination, 1 587; recognised James VI as king of Scotland, 1687; drawn into a war with Spain by Drake's action in destroying a Spanish squadron off Cadiz, 1587; disregarded the advice of WaLnngham and her council to precipitate an attack upon the Spanish Armada, 1588; caused the death of many of the sailors by reducing the commissariat of the fleet below the level of bare necessity, 1588; reviewed her troops at Tilbury, 1688; supported Henry of Navarre's claim to inherit the French crown, 1590 and 1691; lost her bravest commanders, Drake and Hawkins, in an expedition to the Spanish main, despatched 1596; deprived by death of the services of her treasurer, Lord Burghley, 1598; her marshal in Ireland, Sir Henry Bagnal, defeated by Tyrone, the leader of an insurrection prompted by maladministration and the abolition of the ancient Brehon law, 1598; appointed Essexlieutenant and governor-general of Ireland in which post he failed signally, 1599; humoured the Commons by the revocation of monopolies, 1601; threw upon the church courts the burden of dealing with puritans and sectaries; kept many of the sees vacant in order to use their revenues for governmental purposes; sent Essex to the scaffold, his attempted insurrection leaving her no option, 1601; sanctioned a plundering expedition to the coast of Spain, which failed to secure any treasure, 1602; died at Richmond of the effects of a cold supervening on health already broken, 2* March 1602-3; buried in Westminster Abbey, 28 April 1603.
Elizabeth: '''Elizabeth''' ([[1635]]-[[1650]]), princess ; second daughter of Charles I; appealed to the lords to be allowed to retain in her service the principal members of her household, 1642; devoted herself, when separated from her parents, to the study of languages and theology, in which she made great proficiency; dedicatee of Alexander Bowley's biblical lexicon of Greek and Hebrew, 1648; named 'Temperance 1 from her gentle bearing; facilitated the escape of the Duke of York, 1648; panegyrised by Christopher Wase in his translation of SophoclesElectra 1649; died a prisoner at Carisbrooke Castle,
Elizabeth: '''Elizabeth''' ([[1596]]-[[1662]]), queen of Bohemia; daughter of James VI of Scotland: represented the nymph of the Thames in Daniel's Tethys's Festival at Whitehall, 1610; married, after the falling through of many other political plans, to the Elector Palatine, Frederick V, 1613; her husband chosen king of Bohemia, till then an appanage of the empire, 1619; crowned, 1619; found a temporary refuge with George William, elector of Bran denburg, aft? r her husband's defeat by the Emperor Frederick II at Prague, 1B20; the seizure of her husband'H dominions by Maximilian, duke of Bavaria, confirmed at the conference of Katisbon, 1623; named the Queen of Hearts for her winning demeanour; her:uisi: ineffectually championed by her chivalrous cousin, Duke Christian of Brunswick, 1623; her charm immortalized in a poem by.Sir Henry Wottou; lost her eldest son, 1629, and her husband, 1632, soon after the death of GU-T Adolphus at Lutzeii; levied a small army on behalf of her eldest surviving son, Charles Lewis, 1633, to whom part of the Palatinate was restored by the peace of Westphalia, 1648; subsidised by William, first earl of Craven ; deserted by her children, Charles Lewis allowing his mother to remain dependent on the generosity of Holland; granted 10,000*. by the parliament of the Restoration, 1660; pensioned by her nephew, Charles II, who had at first looked coldly on her coming to England; bequeathed to her favourite son, Prince Rupert, most of her jewellery, 1662; dial at Leicester House, Leicester Fields, London, 13 Feb. 1661-2, and buried in Westminster Abbey; long regarded as a martyr to protestantism.
Princess of England Elizabeth: '''Princess of England Elizabeth''' and LAND-
of Hesse Gravine: '''of Hesse Gravine''' -HOMBURG ([[1770]]-[[1840]]), artist ; daughter of George III; designed a series of pictures, entitled. 'The Birth and Triumph of Cupid 1795; established society at Windsor for giving dowries to poor girls, 1808; married, 1818, Frederick Joseph Louis, hereditary prince of Hesse- Homburg, who died 1829; set apart 6.000. a year to reduce the deficits of Hesse- Homburg; reissued her sketches Power and Progress of Genius to benefit the poor of Hanover, 1834.
George Richards Elkington: '''George Richards Elkington''' ([[1801]]-[[1865]]), introducer of electro-plating; Birmingham magistrate, 1856; introduced, in conjunction with his cousin, Henry Elkington, the industry of electro- plating and electro-gilding, at first using the voltaic pile and subsequently Wright's solution; patentee for mercurial gilding 1836 and 1837.
Henry Elkington: '''Henry Elkington''' ([[1810]]-[[1852]]), inventor ; cousin of G. R. Elkington; invented and patented the pautascopic spectacles.
Ella: '''Ella'''
John Ella: '''John Ella''' ([[1802]]-[[1888]]), violinist and director of concerts; first appeared in the orchestra of Drury Lane Theatre, 1821; founded the Saltoun Club of Instrumentalists and the Societa Lirica, c. 1826; musical editor of theAthenseum c. 1826; wrote aVictoria March 1837; inaugurated the Musical Union a set of chamber concerts; musical lecturer to the London Institution, 1865; published A Personal Memoir of Meyerbeer and Musical Sketches Abroad and at Home 1869.
Ellacombe: '''Ellacombe''' or ELLICOMBE, HENRY THOMAS (1790-1885), divine and antiquary; B.A. Oriel College, Oxford, 1812; M.A., 1816; vicar of Bitton, 1835-50, and rector of Clyst St. George, 1850-86; restored or built various churches; invented apparatus enabling one man to chime all the bells in a steeple; wrote on campanology and the antiquities of Bitton and Clyst St. George.
Earl of Ellenborough: '''Earl of Ellenborough''' ([[1790]]-[[1871]]). See LAW
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Barons Ellenborough: '''Barons Ellenborough''' . See LAW, EDWARD, first BARON, 1760-1818; LAW, EDWARD, second BARON, 1790-1871.
Sir Ralph Ellerker: '''Sir Ralph Ellerker''' (d. [[1646]]), warrior; knighted on Flodden Field, 1513; possibly MJ for Scarborough, 1529; J.P. for the East Riding; M.P., Yorkshire, 1541; marshal of the English army in France; took the crest from the dauphin at the capture of Boulogne, 1544; buried at Boulogne.
Thomas Ellerker: '''Thomas Ellerker''' ([[1738]]-[[1795]]), Jesuit; emigrated from Liege to Stonyhurst, 1794; published Tractatus Theologicus de Jure et Justitia 1767, and De Incamatione
Edward Ellerton: '''Edward Ellerton''' ([[1770]]-[[1851]]), founder of Hcholurships; M.A. University College, Oxford, 1796; master of Magdalen College School, 1799; fellow of Magdaleu; D.D., 1815; held various country curacies: founded
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Elliot: '''Elliot''' the Ellerton theological essay prize, 1825, and exhibitions :it Magdalen and Richmond School; joint-founder of the 1'ii-t-y and Klk-rton scholarships, 1832; wrote against Tractarianism, 1846.
John Lodge Ellerton: '''John Lodge Ellerton''' , formerly JOHN LODGE (1801-1873), amateur musical composer; M.A. Braseuoee College, Oxford, 1828: studied counterpoint at Rome; produced Paradise Lost a successful oratorio, 1867, but failed in his English operaDomenica 1838; member of the Musical Union, 1847-71; published poems.
Baron Ellesmeee: '''Baron Ellesmeee''' ([[1640]] 7-[[1617]]). See EUERTOX,
Thomas Sir: '''Thomas Sir''' .
Ellesmere: '''Ellesmere''' first EARL OF ([[1800]]-[[1867]]). See Kiii.uiMN, FRANCIS.
Sir John Elley: '''Sir John Elley''' (d. [[1839]]), lieutenant-general ; distinguished himself at Gateau, 1794; lieutenant colonel by purchase, 1808: served in Peninsula; fought at Waterloo, 1816; K.C.B.: governor of Qalway, 1820; colonel, 17th lancers, 1829; M.P., Windsor, 1836; lieutenantgeneral, 1837.
Sir Charles Hay Ellice: '''Sir Charles Hay Ellice''' ([[1823]]-[[1888]]), general ; nephew of Edward Ellice the elder; studied at Sandhurst; ensign and lieutenant, 1839; captain, 1845; served in India, 1846; major, 1849; lieutenant-colonel, 1861; colonel, 1864; served in Indian mutiny: C.B., 1868; commanded second battalion of 24th in Mauritius, 1860-2; major-general, 1865; lieutenant-general, 1873; general, 1877; K.O.B., 1873; G.C.B., 1882.
Ed Ward Ellice: '''Ed Ward Ellice''' , the elder ([[1781]]-[[1863]]), politician ; educated at Winchester and Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A., 1800; engaged in the Canada fur trade, 1803; amalgamated North-west, X.Y., and Hudson's Bay companies, 1821; M.P., Coventry, 1818, 1820, 1830, and 1831-63; secretary to the treasury, and whip in Lord Grey's government, 1830-2; proposed, when secretary at war (1832-4), that appointments in the army should be made directly from his office; helped to found Reform Club, 1836; supported Palmerston as premier; D.C.L. St. Andrews; privately urged French government to send troops into Spain, 1836; deputy-governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Edward Ellice: '''Edward Ellice''' , the younger ([[1810]]-[[1880]]), politiciau; son of Edward Ellice the elder; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1831; private secretary to Lord Durham in Russia, 1832, in Canada, 1838; M.P. for Huddersfield, 1836, and subsequently for St. Andrews burghs; free-trader and advocate of Irish disestablishment; proposed that there should be some nominated members in the House of Commons, 1869; condemned the Highland administration of the poor law in The State of the Highlands in 1854 1855.
Eujcombe: '''Eujcombe'''
Sir Charles Grene Ellicombe: '''Sir Charles Grene Ellicombe''' ([[1783]]-[[1871]]), general, royal engineers; educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; first lieutenant, royal engineers, 1801; associated in the direction of attack on Ciudad Rodrigo, 1812; brigade-major to the corps of royal engineers at the siege of San Sebtistiau, 1813; majorgeneral, 1841; general and colonel commandant of royal engineers; K.C.B., 1862.
Edward Ellicott: '''Edward Ellicott''' (d. [[1791]]), sou of John EUicott ; clockmaker to the king.
John Ellicott: '''John Ellicott''' ([[1706]] ?-[[1772]]), clockmaker and man of science; olockmaker to George III; improved the pyrometer, 1736; invented a compensated pendulum, 1752; F.R.S., 1738; made observations of the transit of Venus, 1761; publishedEssays towards discovering the Laws of Electricity 1748.
Elliot: '''Elliot'''
Adam Elliot: '''Adam Elliot''' (. [[1700]]X traveller ; B.A. Caius College, Cambridge, 1668; taken captive by the Moore, aud sold into slavery, 1670; ordained priest, 1672; accused by Titus Oates of being a Jesuit priest aud a Mahommedan; author of aNarrative of my Travails, Captivity, aud Escape from Salle, in the Kingdom of Fez bouud up with au attack on Oates, lo*2.
Sir Charles Elliot: '''Sir Charles Elliot''' ([[1801]]-[[1875]]), admiral ; son of Hugh Elliot; present at the bombardment of Algiers, 1816; lieutenant on the Jamaica station, 1822; advanced to post rank, 1828: protector of slaves in Guiana, 1830-3: chif superintendent and plenipotentiary on the China Trade Commission, 1687; forced to surrender 4.000.000. worth of opium, 1839; virtually directed hostilities in China; ransomed Canton; governor of lirnmiiki, 1846-54, of Trinidad, 1864-6, and of St. Helena, 18G3-9; K.C.B., 1856; admiral, 1865.
Sir George Elliot: '''Sir George Elliot''' ([[1784]]-[[1863]]), admiral ; second son of Sir Gilbert Elliot, first earl of Minto; present in the battles of Cape St. Vincent and the Nile; commander, 1802; highly esteemed by Nelson; served at the reduction of Java, 1811; secretary of the admiralty, 18341835; commauder-in-chief at the Cape of Good Hope, 1837-40; commander-iu-chief aud joint-plenipotentiary with Sir Charles Elliot in China, 1840; admiral, 1863; K.C.B., 1862.
Sir Gilbert Elliot: '''Sir Gilbert Elliot''' , LORD MINTO ([[1651]]-[[1718]]), judge; writer in Edinburgh; helped to organise the Earl of Argyll's rising, and was forfeited, 1685; condemned to death, but pardoned; advocate, 1688; knighted; clerk of the privy council, 1692; created baronet, 1700; M.P. for Roxburghshire from 1703; judge of session, with the title of Lord Miuto, 1705; opposed the union.
Sir Gilbert Elliot: '''Sir Gilbert Elliot''' , LORD MIXTO ([[1693]]-[[1766]]), Scottish judge; son of Sir Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718) ; advocate, 1715; M.P. for Roxburghshire, 1722-6; lord of justiciary, 1733-66; justice clerk, 1763-6; narrowly escaped seizure by Prince Charles Edward's highlauders, 1746; said, rather doubtfully, to have introduced the German flute into Scotland.
Sir Gilbert Elliot: '''Sir Gilbert Elliot''' , third baronet of Miuto (1722-1777), statesman, philosopher, aud poet; sou of Sir Gilbert Elliot (1693-1766); studied at Edinburgh and Leydeu universities; called to the Scottish bar, 1742; M.P. for Selkirkshire, 1754 and 1762-5, for Roxburghshire, 1766-77; admiralty lord, 1756; keeper of the signet in Scotland, 1767; treasurer of the navy, 1770; at first a supporter of Pitt and the GrenviUes, afterwards of Lord Bute; overruled Lord North by haranguing on the threatened liberties of the house, at the time of the Loudon riots, 1771; encouraged George Ill's policy towards America; declined, from dislike of the sceptical philosophy, to co-operate in his friend Hume's Dialogues of Natural Religion; died at Marseilles. His fame as a song-writer rests upon his pastoral ditty, Araynta and in a less degree uponTwas at the hour of dark midnight 1745.

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Sir Gilbert Elliot: '''Sir Gilbert Elliot''' , first EAKL OF MIXTO (1751-1814), governor-general of India; son of Sir Gilbert Elliot (1722-1777); schoolfellow of Mirabeau at the Pension Militaire, Fontainebleau; gentleman commoner, Christ Church, Oxford, 1768; barrister of Liucoin's Inn, 1774; M.P. for Morpeth, 1776-84: M.P. for Berwick, 1786-90: carried motion condemning Sir Elijah Impey's conduct at Fort William, 1787; M.P. forHelston, Cornwall, 1790; opposed Fox, 1793; D.C.L. Oxford, 1793; constitutional viceroy of Corsica, 1794-6; expelled General Paoli; created Barou Minto of Minto, 1798; minister plenipotentiary at Vienna, 1799; F.R.S., 1803: president of board of control, 106; goveruor-geueral of ladia, 1807-13; subsidised Shah Shuja, ameer of Afghanistan, to secure his loyalty, 1809; annexed Amboyna, the Molucca islands, and, in 1H1 1, Java, whither he weut in person; projected the establishment of colleges for Indian Mahommedaus; created Viscount Melgund and Earl of Miuto, 1813.
Gilbert Elliot: '''Gilbert Elliot''' , second EARL OK MINTO ([[1782]]1869), eldest sou of Sir Gilbert Elliot, first earl; educated at Edinburgh University: whig M.P. for Ashburtou, 1806-14; privy councillor; British ambassador to Berlin, 1832-4; G.C.B.; first lord of the admiralty, 18351841; lord privy seal, 1846; prevailed on king of Naples to grant Sicily a separate parUauieu t; F. Jl.S.
Sir Henry Miers Elliot: '''Sir Henry Miers Elliot''' ([[1808]]-[[1853]]), Indian civil servant and historian; educated at Vun-in--u-r: first competition wallah for an immediate post in India 1826; secretary to the Sudder board of revenue lor the uorth-wtt provinces; foreign becroutry to the
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Ellis: '''Ellis''' erovernor-general in council, 1847; negotiated the Sikh treaty of 1849; K.C.B.; died at Simon's Town; published first volume of Bibliographical Index to the Historians of Mohammaoan India 1849.
Hugh Elliot: '''Hugh Elliot''' ([[1752]]-[[1830]]), diplomatist; schoolfellow of Mirabeau at Paris; studied at Christ Church, Oxford, 1768-70; minister plenipotentiary atMuuich, 1773; minister plnnpou-niiary to Prussia, 1777, to Denmark, 1782; instigated by the queen of Naples, when envoy plenipotentiary, to forbid Sir James Henry Craig to withdraw his English troops from Italy, 1803: recalled; governor of the Leeward islands, 1808-13; privy councillor and governor of Madras, 1814.
Jane Elliot: '''Jane Elliot''' or JEAN ([[1727]]-[[1806]]), poet ; daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot (1693-1766); outwitted her lather's highland pursuers, 1746; authoress of Flowers of the Forest a celebrated ballad, 1766.
John Elliot: '''John Elliot''' ([[1725]]-[[1782]]), antiquary; articled to a solicitor; F.S.A., 1780; furnished information on the feudal barony to the Hev. John Watson (1726-1783)
John Elliot: '''John Elliot''' (rf. [[1808]]), admiral ; third sou of Sir Gilbert Elliot (1693-1 766): navy lieutenant, 1756; captured the French frigate Miguoune, 1759; defeated Thurot's squadron oti the Isle of Mann 1760; fought at Cape St. Vincent, 1780, and under Kempenfelt, 1781; governor and commander-in-chief at Newfoundland, 1786-9; admiral, 1796.
Elliot: '''Elliot''' or SHELDON, NATHANIEL ([[1706]]-[[1780]]), jeeuit; professed of the four vows, 1741; rector of St. U trier College, 1748-56, of the English College at Home, 1756-62, of the Greater College, Bruges, 1766-80; provincial in England, 1766; translated Pinamouti's Cross in its True Light 1776.
Robert Elliot: '''Robert Elliot''' (fl. [[1822]]-[[1833]]), captain R.N. and topographical draughtsman, 1822-4; his sketches published as Views in the East 1830-3.
Sir Walter Elliot: '''Sir Walter Elliot''' ([[1803]]-[[1887]]), Indian civil servant and archaeologist; sent to Haileybury College, 1818; assistant to the magistrate of Salem, 1823; private secretary to Lord Elphinstone, 1836; deputed to investigate the revenue difficulties of Guntur, 1845; commissioner for the administration of the Northern Sirkars till 1864; member of the council of the governor of Madras, 1854; K.O.S.I., 1866; F.R.S., 1877; LL.D. Edinburgh, 1878; deputy-lieutenant and magistrate for Roxburghshire; published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society a paper on Hindu Inscriptions 1837, and wrote a treatise on the coins of Southern India, 1888.
Elliot: '''Elliot''' 80N, JOHN ([[1791]]-[[1868]]), physician; educated at Edinburgh and Jesus College, Cambridge; M.D., 1821; professor of the practice of medicine to London University, 1831-8; procured the foundation of University College Hospital; founder and first president of the Phrenological Society; professor of clinical medicine, London, 1831; compelled to resign the professorship of the practice of medicine for his unauthorised interest in mesmerism, 1838; Harveian orator, 1846; established a mesmeric hospital, 1849; started the Zoist a journal of mesmeric healing; first to use the stethoscope; published his Lumley lectures (1829) on diseases of the heart, 1830.
Elliott: '''Elliott'''
Charlotte Elliott: '''Charlotte Elliott''' ([[1789]]-[[1871]]), hymn-writer : friend of Caesar Malan; wrote many religious poems, including (1834) Just as I am
Ebenezer Elliott: '''Ebenezer Elliott''' ([[1781]]-[[1849]]), 'the corn-law rhymer; commended by Southey for his * Tales of the Night; started in business in the Sheffield iron trade, 1821; withdrew from the chartists on their dissenting from the corn-law agitation; bitterly condemned the bread-tax to which he attributed all the national misfortunes, inCorn-Law Rhymes 1831,The Ranter 'The Village Patriarch 1829, and The Splendid Village
Edward Bishop Elliott: '''Edward Bishop Elliott''' ([[1793]]-[[1875]]), divine ; brother of Henry Venn Elliott; third senior optiine, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1816; fellow, 1817; Seatonian prizeman, 1821 and 1822; prebendary of Heytesbury, Wiltshire, 1863; incumbent of St. Mark's, Brighton; chief work Horae Apocalypticte 1844.
Grace Dalrymple Elliott: '''Grace Dalrymple Elliott''' ([[1758]] ?-[[1823]]), ntt Dalrymple; married Sir John Elliott; eloped with Lord Valentia, 1774: gave birth to a child whom the Prince of Wales considered his son, 1782; described her life in France during the Revolution in a Journal in which she claimed to have received an offer of marriage from Bonaparte.
Henry Venn Elliott: '''Henry Venn Elliott''' ([[1792]]-[[1865]]), divine; scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1811; B.A., 1814; fellow of Trinity, 1816; travelled to Greece, Constantinople, and Jerusalem, 1817; held the priory of St. John's, Wilton; first preacher of St. Mary's proprietary chapel, Brighton, 1827: originated (1832) and helped to manage school for daughters of poor clergymen.
John Elliott: '''John Elliott''' (rf. [[1691]]), adherent of James II ; M.D. Cambridge, 1681; F.R.O.P. and censor, 1687; imprisoned, and released on bail, 1690, for publishing a soidisaut manifesto of James II, 1689.
Sir John Elliott: '''Sir John Elliott''' ([[1786]]-1 [[788]]), physician ; surgeon to a privateer; M.D. St. Andrews, 1769; L.R.C.P., 1762; knighted, 1776; created baronet, 1778; physician to the Prince of Wales; published The Medical Pocket-Book 1781, and superficial compilations on physiology and hygiene.
John Elliott: '''John Elliott''' ([[1747]]-[[1787]]), physician; M.D. ; discharged a pistol at a Miss Boydell, his sweetheart, 1787; tried for murder and acquitted as insane; rearrested for assault; died in Newgate.
Elliott: '''Elliott''' or ELLIOT, WILLIAM ([[1727]]-[[1766]]), engraver of landscapes; exhibited, 1761-6.
William Elliott: '''William Elliott''' (d. [[1792]]), lieutenant R.N. and marine painter; president of the Incorporated Society of Artists, 1791; exhibited paintings of the naval actions between 1780 and 1790 at the Royal Academy and other works at various institutions.
Sir William Henry Elliott: '''Sir William Henry Elliott''' ([[1792]]-1 [[874]]), general; ensign, 1809; lieutenant, 1812; served in Peninsula; fought at Waterloo, 1816; lieutenant-colonel, 183s; commanded the 51st in Australia, Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand, and at Bangalore till 1852; discovered, when commandant at Rangoon, a plot to massacre the English inhabitants, 1863; G.C.B., 1870: general, 1871.

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Alexander John Ellis: '''Alexander John Ellis''' ([[1814]]-[[1890]]), philologist and mathematician; educated at Shrewsbury, Etou, and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1837; entered Middle Temple; wrote extensively on mathematical subjects and published Algebra identified with Geometry 1874; arranged with (Sir) Isaac Pitman a system of printing called phouotypy, which aimed at the accurate representation of sounds in print; published Fouettc Frend 1849, and Spelling Reformer 1849-60, periodicals advocating reform of spelling; published, in five part*, 'Early English Pronunciation 1869-89; honorary LL.D. Cambridge, 1890; F.R.S., 1864; F.S.A., 1870; president of Philological Society, 1872-4 and 1880-2; fellow of London Mathematical Society, 1866. His works include numerous treatises on philological, mathematical, musical, and other subjects.
Alfred Burdon Ellis: '''Alfred Burdon Ellis''' ([[1852]]-[[1894]]), soldier and writer; lieutenant in 1st West India regiment, 1873; served in Ashauti war, 1873; seconded for service with Gold Coast constabulary, 1877; captain, 1879; attached to intelligence department in Zulu campaign; major, 1884; commanded troop on Gold Coast, 1881 and 1886, and in Baham..., 1889; lieutenant-colonel, 1891; local colonel in West Africa, 1892; C.B., 1892; died of fever contracted after expedition against the Sofas, 1893; published works relating to native peoples among whom he had been stationed.
Anthony Ellis: '''Anthony Ellis''' ([[1690]]-[[1761]]).
Arthur Ayres Ellis: '''Arthur Ayres Ellis''' ([[1830]]-[[1887]]), Greek Testament critic; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1852; fellow, 1854; M.A., 1865; divinity lecturer at Christ's College; vicar of Stotfold, 1860-87: published Bentley's Critica Sacra 1862.
Sir Barrow Helbert Ellis: '''Sir Barrow Helbert Ellis''' ([[1823]]-[[1887]]), AngloIndian; educated at University College School, London University, and Haileybury; chief commissioner in Sindu,
Ellis: '''Ellis'''
Ellis: '''Ellis''' 1857; chief secretary of the Bombay povcrmnent: member (1865) of the Bombay council; member of the viceroy's council, 1870; K.C.S.I.: M.U.A.S., 1876: left 2,500J. for the poor of Rntnnjiri, his first charge; edited Stack's Dictionary of Sindhi and English, 1 1855.
Charles Augustus Ellis: '''Charles Augustus Ellis''' , sixth BARON
De Waldkn Howard: '''De Waldkn Howard''' and second BARON SKAFonn (1799-1868), diplomatist; elder son of Charles Rose Kills, M.P.; educated at Eton; captain, 8th regiment, 1822; appointed by Canning under-secretary of state for foreign affairs, 1824; minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary at Stockholm, 1832, at Lisbon, 1833; moulded Portuguese policy during the Miguelite and Pedroite war; G.O.B., 1838, and grand cross of the Tower and the Sword, 1841; minister plenipotentiary at Brussels, 1846; died at Lesve near Namur.
Charles Rose Ellis: '''Charles Rose Ellis''' , first BARON SEAPOKD (1771-1845); M.P, for Heytesbury, 1793, for Seaford, 1796-1806 and 1812-26, for East Grinstend, 1807; head.of the West Indian interest and friend of Canning: created Baron Seaford, 1826.
Clement Ellis: '''Clement Ellis''' ([[1630]]-[[1700]]), divine and poet; taberdar of Queen's College, Oxford: fellow, 1657; M.A., 1656; received, while at Oxford, remittances from anonymous benefactors; celebrated the Restoration in a dull panegyric, 1660; domestic chaplain to William, marquis of Newcastle, 1661; prebendary of Southwell, 1693; published theological works.
Edmund Ellis: '''Edmund Ellis''' (Jl. [[1707]]).
Edwin Ellis: '''Edwin Ellis''' ([[1844]]-[[1878]]), musician ; solo violinist at Cremorne Gardens, 1851; general musical director at the Adelphi, c, 1867; published selections for small orchestra.
Francis Whyte Ellis: '''Francis Whyte Ellis''' (d. [[1819]]), orientalist; writer in the East India Company's service at Madras, 1796; collector of Madras, 1810; Tamil and Sanskrit scholar; student of Mirusi right; died at Ramnad; published commentary on "The Sacred Kurral 1816, and dissertations on the Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalim languages; proved the Sanskrit MSS. at Pondicherry to be Jesuit forgeries.
George Ellis: '''George Ellis''' ([[1753]]-[[1815]]), author; produced Poetical Tales by Sir Gregory Gander 1778; a favorite at Versailles, 1783; accompanied Sir James Harris's embassy to the Hague, 1784, where he obtained material for liis history of the Dutch revolution (published, 1789); M.P., Seaford, 1796; founded the Anti- Jacobin in concert with Canning; F.R.S. and F.S.A.; published Specimens of Early English Romances in Metre 1805; friend of Sir Walter Scott.
George James Welbore Agar Ellis: '''George James Welbore Agar Ellis''' -, first
Dover Baron: '''Dover Baron''' ([[1797]]-[[1833]]) ; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1819; M.P., Heytesbury, 1818, Seaford, 1820; suggested to government purchase of Angerstein collection and formation of national gallery, 1823; M.P., LudgershalL, 1826, Okehampton, 1830; privy councillor, 1830; chief commissioner of woods and forests, 1830; created Baron Dover, 1831; wrote, among other works, a Life of Frederick the Second, King of Prussia 1832; edited Horace Wai pole's Letters 1833.
Henry Ellis: '''Henry Ellis''' ([[1721]]-[[1806]]), traveller, hydrographer, and colonial governor; hydrographer, surveyor, and mineralogist to the north-west expedition, 1746; published an itinerary which overthrew the idea that the northwest passage must lie through Hudson's Bay, 1748; F.K.S., 1749; governor of Georgia and Nova Scotia; died at Naples.
Sir Henry Ellis: '''Sir Henry Ellis''' ([[1777]]-[[1855]]), diplomatist ; negotiated treaty of peace with Persia, 1815; third commissioner in Earl Amherst's embassy to China, 1816; wrecked on return journey and forced to make for Java in an open boat; published an authorised account of the mission, 1817; commissioner of the board of control, 1830-5; advised the East India Company to abandon exclusive privileges; privy councillor, 1832; special envoy to the Brazils, 1843; K.C.B., 1848.
Sir Henry Ellis: '''Sir Henry Ellis''' ([[1777]]-[[1869]]), principal librarian of the British Museum; educated at Merchant Taylors and St. John's College, Oxford; fellow; assistant in the Bodleian, 1798; B.O.L., 1802; keeper of printed books in the British Museum, 1806-27; re-catalogued the printed books, 1807-19; secretary to Society of Antiquaries, 1814; edited Additamenta toDomesday Book 1816; published Original Letters illustrative of English History 1824, 1827, and 1846; principal librarian of the museum, 1827; knight of Hanover, 1833; virtually superseded in consequence of his unprogressive methods, 1836.
Sir Henry Walton Ellis: '''Sir Henry Walton Ellis''' ([[1783]]-[[1815]]), colonel ; named ensign in the 89th foot, 1783; captain, 23rd fusiliers, 1796; served in the descent on Ostend, 1798, in Egypt, 1801, at Copenhagen, 1807; shared in the expedition against Martinique, 1809; distinguished himself at Albuhera, 1811; wounded at Badajos, 1812; colonel and K.O.B.; mortally wounded at Waterloo.
Humphrey Ellis: '''Humphrey Ellis''' (*. [[1676]]), Roman catholic divine, really named WARING; student at Douay and an original member of the English College, Lisbon; D.D. and president of the English College; dean of the chapter in England, 1657-76.
James Ellis: '''James Ellis''' ([[1763]] ?-[[1830]]), antiquary and solicitor ; communicated border traditions to Sir Walter Scott.
John Ellis: '''John Ellis''' ([[1599]] ?-[[1665]]), divine ; M.A. Hart Hall, Oxford, 1625; fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 1628; B.D., 1632; D.D. St. Andrews, 1634; rector of Wheatfleld and subsequently of Dolgelly; published theological works.
John Ellis: '''John Ellis''' ([[1606]]7-[[1681]]), author of 'Vindiciae Oatholicse; fellow and B.D. St. Catharine Hall, Cambridge; incumbent of the third portion of the rectory of Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire; publishedVindici Catholicae, or the Rights of Particular Churches rescued 1647, which he retracted at the Restoration; rector of Waddesdon, 1661-81.

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John Ellis: '''John Ellis''' ([[1643]] 7-[[1738]]), under-secretary of state ; educated at Westminster School; student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1664; friend of Humphrey Prideaux ; secretary to Sir Leoline Jenkins at the Nimeguen conference, 1675; obtained from the States-General recognition of Lord Ossory's claims to the rank of general, 1680; under-secretary of state, 1695-1705; M.P., Harwich, 1705-8; contributed to the Peckwater buildings, Christ Church, Oxford; paramour of the Duchess of Cleveland.
John Ellis: '''John Ellis''' ([[1701]]-[[1757]]).
John Ellis: '''John Ellis''' ([[1710]] ?-[[1776]]), naturalist ; agent for West Florida, 1764, for Dominica, 1770; F.R.S., 1754; published An Essay towards the Natural History of the Corallines 1755; described Dionaa Muscipula in Directions for bringing over Seeds and Plants from the East Indies 1770.
John Ellis: '''John Ellis''' ([[1698]]-[[1790]]), scrivener and political writer; partner with one Tanner, a London scrivener; four times master of the ScrivenersCompany; member of Dr. Johnson's circle; travestied Maphueus, 1758; published The South Sea Dream a poem in Hudibrastie verse, 1720; translated, but never published, Ovid's Epistles
John Ellis: '''John Ellis''' ([[1789]]-[[1862]]), member of parliament and railway chairman; promoted Leicester and Svvannington railway; M.P., Leicester, 1848-52; J.P. for Leicestershire; chairman of Midland Railway, 1849-58.
Philip Ellis: '''Philip Ellis''' , in religion MICHAEL ([[1652]]-[[1726]]), Roman catholic prelate; son of John Ellis (1606?1681); foundationer of Westminster School, 1667; professed at St. Gregory's convent, Douay, 1670; missioner in England, and chaplain to James II; vicarapostolic of the western district of England, and bishop in partibus of Aureliopolis, 1688-1705; arrested and imprisoned at the revolution: unofficial agent of the exiled James II at Rome: bishop of Segni, 1708; died at Segni.
Sir Richard Ellis: '''Sir Richard Ellis''' ([[1688]] ?-[[1742]]).
Robert Ellis: '''Robert Ellis''' (CYNDDELW) ([[1810]]-[[1875]]), baptist minister and Welsh poet; minister of Llanelian, 1837, ami in Denbighshire, Monmouthshire, and Carnarvon; a learned and popular lecturer on ancient Welsh thought and society; author of works, mainly theological, in Welsh and English.
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Ellys: '''Ellys'''
Robert Ellis: '''Robert Ellis''' ([[1820]]7-[[1886]]), classical scholar: scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1839; fifth niiiL'kT, 1840: fellow, 1841; M.A., 1843; ordained, 1HJ5: B.D., 1850; chiefly known l.y hi controversy with William John Law on the topography of Hannibal's passage of the Alp-, is.vi-ti: a-rnb.it an Armenum origin to the Etruscans; published ethnological works.
Robert Leslie Ellis: '''Robert Leslie Ellis''' ([[1817]]-[[1859]]), man of science ami letters; senior wrangler, and fellow of Trinity College, 'aii:bril'_rr, IMUI; M.A., 1843; undertook, in conjunction with Heath and Spedding, to edit Francis Bacon's works, with annotations; edited Cambridge Mathematical Journal
Ellis: '''Ellis''' Sm SAMUEL BURDON ([[1787]]-[[1865]]), general; second lieutenant, royal marine light infantry, 1804; fought at Trafalgar, 1805; lieutenant, 1806; served in the Walcheren expedition, 1809, and at Guadeloupe, 1810; distinguished himself in naval operations preliminary to siege of Bayomie; brought off the political resident of 1 in -h i iv during a revolt, being then commander of marines; commanded advance on Canton, 1841; lieutenant-colonel l brevet, and C.B.; colonel, 1851; K.O.B.,1860; general, 1862.
Sarah Stiokney Ellis: '''Sarah Stiokney Ellis''' (d. [[1872]]), authoress; married William Ellis (1794-1872); much interested in temperance and the education of women; chief works, 1 The Poetry of Life and Northern Roses
Thomas Ellis: '''Thomas Ellis''' ([[1625]]-[[1673]]), Welsh antiquary; B. A. Jesus College, Oxford, 1644; fellow, 1646; fought for Charles I in garrison of Oxford, 1644; M.A., 1646; B.D., 1661; rector of St. Mary's, Dolgelly, 1665; undertook to assist Robert Vaughan in editing Powell'sHistory of Cambria but desisted on finding that he had been forestalled; left history of Owen Gleudowr, published 1775.
Thomas Flower Ellis: '''Thomas Flower Ellis''' ([[1796]]-[[1861]]), law reporter; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1818; fellow; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1824; prepared for publication his friend Macaulay's posthumous essays; a commissioner to determine the boundaries of parliamentary boroughs in Wales, 1831; recorder of Leeds, 1839; part author of three series of law reports.
Welbore Ellis: '''Welbore Ellis''' ([[1651]] ?-[[1734]]), bishop of Meath ; educated at Westminster School; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1687; prebendary of Winchester, 1696; D.D. by diploma, 1697; bishop of Kildare, 1705-31; bishop of Meath, and privy councillor of Ireland, 1731.
Welbore Ellis: '''Welbore Ellis''' , first BARON MKXDIP ([[1713]]-[[1802]]) ; son of Welbore Ellis (1651 ?-1734); educated at Westminster; student, Christ Church, Oxford, 1732; B.A., 1736; M.P., Cricklade, 1741; admiralty lord, 1747-55; M.P., Weymouth, 1747, 1754, 1774, 1780, and 1784, Melcombe Regis, 1747; vice-treasurer of Ireland, 1755-62, 1765-6, and 1770; privy councillor, 1760: M.P., Aylesbury, 1761: secretary at war, 1762-5; M.P., Petersfield, 1768 and 1791; D.C.L. Oxford, 1773; treasurer of the navy, 1777; secretary of state for America, 1 782; frightened by the progress of the French revolution into supporting Pitt, 1793; created Baron Mendip of Mendip, 1794; F.R.: called by Horace Walpole Fox's 'Jackal
Sir William Ellis: '''Sir William Ellis''' ([[1609]]-[[1680]]), judge; M.A. Gams College, Cambridge, 1636; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1634; M.P. for Boston in the Short and Long parliaments, 1640; solicitor-general, 1654; sat for Boston, 1654, for Grantham, 1656 and 1659; created baronet by Cromwell; returned for Grantham, 1660, but unseated as a republican; reader at Gray's Inn, 1664: king's serjeant, and knighted, 1671; judge of common pleas, 1673-6 and 16791680; M.P., Boston, 1679.
Sir William Ellis: '''Sir William Ellis''' (d. [[1732]]), secretary of state ; second son of John Ellis (1606 ?-1681); foundationer of Westminster: student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1665; B.A.., 1669; M.A., per literal regias, Cambridge, 1671: customer, comptroller, and searcher for Leinster and Munster, 1678; knighted, 1686; privy councillor to James II in Ireland, 1690; attainted, 1691; secretary to James 11 at St. Germain; died at Rome.
William Ellis: '''William Ellis''' (d. [[1758]]), writer on agriculture ; fanner at Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire; travelling agent for seeds and the sale of farmiug implements; engaged as a writer by Osborne the bookseller. His work*, which contain fabulous anecdotes and unscientific notrums toetade'Tbfl Modern Husbandman 1750.
William Ellis: '''William Ellis''' ([[1747]]-[[1810]]), engraverTexhibited at the Society of Artists, 1780; worked also in aquatint.
William Ellis: '''William Ellis''' ([[1794]]-[[1872]]), missionary"; ordained, 1815, and appointed missionary, first to South Africa and afterwards to the South Sea islands; commenced a new mission at Huahine, 1818; returned to England, 1825; chief foreign secretary to the London Missionary Society; sent to Madagascar to ascertain and improve the condition of native converts under Queen Ranavoloua, but three times denied access to the capital; helped the government of Madagascar to checkmate French interference, 1861-5; published three books on Madagascar and Polynesian Researches
William Ellis: '''William Ellis''' ([[1800]]-[[1881]]), economist; assistant, underwriter to the Indemnity Marine Insurance Company, 1824: chief manager, 1827; director; advocated teaching of political economy in elementary education, for which object he personally founded (1848-52) the Birkbeck schools; governor of the school of the Middle-class Corporation, which he helped to establish; utilitarian philosopher; published Lessons on the Phenomena of Industrial Life and similar works.
Wynne Ellis: '''Wynne Ellis''' ([[1790]]-[[1875]]), picture oilec'tor : London mercer, 1812-71; M.P., Leicester, 1831-4 and 1839-47; free-trader; J.P. for Hertfordshire and Kent; left 402 pictures to the nation, forty-four of which were selected by the National Gallery.

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Henry Twiselton Elliston: '''Henry Twiselton Elliston''' ([[1801]] ?-[[1864]]), composer of church music and inventor; son of Robert William Elliston: organist at Leamington parish church; librarian of the Leamington public library, 1863; invented a transposing piano; composed church services.
Robert William Elliston: '''Robert William Elliston''' ([[1774]]-[[1831]]), actor: educated at St. Paul's school; played Tressel in Richard IIIat the Bath Theatre, 1791, and Romeo, 1793; appeared at the Haymarket and at Covent Garden, 1796; engaged by Colman at the Haymarket, 1803; played Rolla at Drury Lane, 1804; manager of the Royal Circus, renamed the Surrey Theatre, 1809; opened the Olympic, and temporarily managed the Leicester theatre; acted Hamlet at re-opening of Drury Lane, 1812; lessee and manager of Drury Lane, 1819-26; inaugurated Drury Lane's reputation for scenery; bankrupt, 1826; again lessee of the Surrey, 1827-31; lived an eccentric life: lauded by Charles Lamb in the lines beginning Joyousest of once embodied spirits; joint-author of No Prelude 1803, and author of The Venetian Outlaw 1805.
John Ellman: '''John Ellman''' ([[1753]]-[[1832]]), agriculturist ; breeder of Southdown sheep; suggested to Lord Egremont formation of Sussex Agricultural Association: took part in institution of Smithfield cattle show; gold medallist for best cultivated farm in Sussex, 1819; commissioner of taxes; maintained school for labourerschildren at Glynde; assisted Arthur Young in compiling his Annals of Agriculture
Thomas Ellwood: '''Thomas Ellwood''' ([[1639]]-[[1713]]), quaker and friend of Milton; educated at Thame free school; converted to Quakerism by the preaching of Edward Burrough, 1659; published An Alarm to the Priests 1660; formed a friendship (1662) with John Milton, who taught him the foreign mode of pronouncing Latin; committed to Newgate for refusing to take the oath of allegiance, 1662; suggested to Milton by a chance remark the writing of 'Paradise Regained 1665; travelled with George Fox through the west of England to organise the quakers; endeavoured to protect the quakers against the Conventicle Act; controversialist and author of Davideis a sacred poem, 1712, and of an autobiography (1st ed. 1714).
Anthony Ellys: '''Anthony Ellys''' ([[1690]]-1 [[761]] X bishop of St. David's; M.A. Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1716: D.D., 1728; fellow: prebendary of Gloucester, 1724; favoured the Test Act; bishop of St. David's, 1752; published anonymouslyRemarks on Mr. Hume's Essay concerning Miracles 1752. Parts of bis projected Defence of the Reformation appeared posthumously.
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Elphinstone: '''Elphinstone'''
Ellys: '''Ellys''' or ELLIS, JOHN ([[1701]]-[[1757]]), portraitpainter; of the Kneller school; tapestry maker to the crown: master keeper of the lions in the Tower; principal painter to the Prince of Wales, 1736.
Sir Richard Ellys: '''Sir Richard Ellys''' ([[1688]] ?-[[1742]]), theological writer; became a Greek and Hebrew scholar in Holland; M.P., Boston, 1719, 1722, and 1727; published Fortuita Sacra; qulbns subiicitur Oommentarius de Cymbalis 1727. Qronovius dedicated to him his edition of Elian's 'VariaHistoria
Elmer: '''Elmer''' (d. [[1137]]).
Elmer: '''Elmer''' Of. 1 [[260]]).
John Elmer: '''John Elmer''' ([[1521]]-[[1594]]).
Stephen Elmer: '''Stephen Elmer''' (d. [[1796]]), painter of still-life ; member of the Free Society of Artists, 1763; A.R.A., 1772.
William Elmer: '''William Elmer''' (fl. [[1799]]), painter of still-life ; nephew of Stephen Elmer: exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1783 and 1799.
Lonsdale Harvey: '''Lonsdale Harvey''' ([[1818]]-[[1847]]), architect; son and pupil of James Elmes; designed St. George's Hall, Liverpool, 1836, also the county lunatic asylum at West Derby; died in Jamaica.
James: '''James''' ([[1782]]-[[1862]]), architect and antiquary; admitted at Merchant Taylors 1796; silver medallist of the Royal Academy; vice-president of the Royal Architectural Society, 1809-48; editor of The Annals of the Fine Arts 1816-20, printing poems by Keats and Wordsworth; chief works, Lectures on Architecture 1823, andMemoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren 1823. FT.MTTAM, THOMAS (d. 1440 ?), historian; treasurer of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, 1407; prior of Lenton: vicar-general for England and Scotland, 1416; commissary-general for vacant benefices of Cluniac order in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1426; author of Historia Monasterii Sancti Augustini Cantuariensis Yitaet Gesta Henrici V and Liber Metricus de Henrico W
Alfred Elmore: '''Alfred Elmore''' ([[1815]]-[[1881]]), painter ; studied in Italy; his reputation established by his Origin of the Guelph and Ghibelline Quarrel 1846; R.A., 1877.
Elmsley: '''Elmsley''' or ELM8LY, PETER ([[1736]]-[[1802]]), bookseller; helped to form the club of booksellers which produced Johnson'sLives of the Poets intimate with Wilkes.
Peter Elmsley: '''Peter Elmsley''' ([[1773]]-[[1825]]), classical scholar; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1797; incumbent of Little Horkesley, 1798-1825; superintended development of Herculaneum papyri in company with Sir Humphry Davy, 1819; D.D., 1823; principal of St. Alban Hall, Oxford, 1823-5; Camden professor of ancient history, Oxford, 1823-5; best known for his critical labours on Sophocles and Euripides.
Elphece: '''Elphece''' ([[954]]-[[1012]]).
James Elphinston: '''James Elphinston''' ([[1721]]-[[1809]]), educationalist ; educated at Edinburgh University: started academy at Brompton, 1753, keeping it at Kensington, 1763-76; published An Analysis of the French and English Languages 1753; publishedEducation, a Poem 1763; his translation of Martial (1782) ridiculed by Burns, 1788; displayed an arbitrary system of phonetic spelling in Inglish Speech and Spelling under Mutual Guides 1787, and similar works; published his correspondence with Geniusses ov boath Sexes 1791 and 1794.
John Elphinston: '''John Elphinston''' ([[1722]]-[[1785]]X captain R.N. ; rear-admiral in the Russian service; lieutenant, 1746; served at the capture of Quebec, 1759; superintended transport service during siege of Havana, 1762; rearadmiral in the Russian service, 1769; ordered as a foreign admiral to discontinue his practice of setting the watch in Portsmouth harbour, 1770; defeated and blockaded Turkish squadron in Gulf of Nauplia, 1770; defeated Turkish fleet in Chesme Bay, though his proposed manoeuvre to establish a local superiority was rejected by the jealousy of the Russian officer*. 1770; abandoned Russian service; commanded the Magnificent in the battle oft* Grenada, 1779, and in Rodney's encounters with De Guichen, 1780.
Alexander Elphinstone: '''Alexander Elphinstone''' , fourth BAROX
Elphinstonr: '''Elphinstonr''' ([[155]]i-[[1648]]?), member of the new privy council of Scotland, 1699; lord high treasurer of Scotland, 1599; lord of the articles, 1604 and 1607; commissioner for the union, 1604.
Arthur Elphinstone: '''Arthur Elphinstone''' , sixth BARON BAL-

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Merino: '''Merino''' ([[1688]]-[[1746]]), Jacobite ; threw up his command in Shannon's regiment and joined the Jacobites after Sheriffmuir, 1715; escaped to the continent; pardoned by government without his knowledge, 1733; joined Prince Charles Edward, 1745; colonel and captain of the prince's guards; present at the battle of Falkirk; delivered up by the Grants after Oulloden, 1746; executed.
George Keith Elphinstone: '''George Keith Elphinstone''' , VISCOUNT
Kkith: '''Kkith''' ([[1746]]-[[1823]]), admiral ; made a voyage to China, 1767; navy lieutenant, 1770; served on shore at the reduction of Charleston, 1780; M.P., Dumbartonshire, 1780, Stirlingshire, 1790; took possession of Fort La Malgue, near Toulon, 1793; rear-admiral, 1794; commander-inchief of the Indian squadron, 1795; compelled the Dutch to retire from their camp at Muizenberg, 1795; anticipated by Rear-admiral Rainier in taking possession of Ceylon, 1796; received the surrender of a Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay, 1796; created Baron Keith of Stonehaven Marischal, 1797; the suppression of the Sheerness mutiny largely due to his efforts, 1797; allayed disaffection among the Plymouth sailors; commander in Spanish waters, 1799; pursued a French fleet, which eluded him, from the Mediterranean to Brest, 1799; entered the harbour of Genoa, which he had blockaded in cooperation with an Austrian force, 1800; declined to sanction El Arish Convention, 1800; demanded, but did not enforce, the surrender of the ships of war in Cadiz, and withdrew with Abercromby, 1800; admiral, 1801; commander-in-chief in the North Sea, 1803; created viscount, 1814; intermediary of the government in its correspondence with Bonaparte relative to his being sent to St. Helena.
Hester Maria Elphinstone: '''Hester Maria Elphinstone''' , VISCOUNTESS
Keith: '''Keith''' ([[1762]]-[[1857]]), daughter of Henry and Hester Thrale ; her education directed by Dr. Johnson; gave herself up to the study of Hebrew and mathematics when her mother married Piozzi; married George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount Keith, 1808.
Sir Howard Elphinstone: '''Sir Howard Elphinstone''' ([[1773]]-[[1846]]), majorgeneral; second lieutenant, royal engineers, 1793; served at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, 1795; captainlieutenant in India, 1800; attached to embassy to Portugal, 1806; commanding royal engineer in Peninsula. 1808; wounded at Rolica; major by brevet, 1812; commanding royal engineer at the battles of Nivelle and the Nive, 1814; created baronet and O.B.
Sir Howard Crawfurd Elphinstone: '''Sir Howard Crawfurd Elphinstone''' (1829-1890), major-general; educated at Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; second lieutenant, royal engineers, 1847; lieutenant, 1851; first captain, 1862; major, 1872; lieutenant-colonel, 1873; colonel, 1884; major-general, 1887; served in Crimea, and received Victoria cross, 1855; governor to Prince Arthur (duke of Connaught), 1859-71, and treasurer and comptroller of his household, 1871-90; O.B. civil, 1865, and military, 1871; O.M.G., 1870; K.C.B., 1871; aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, 1877; accidentally drowned off Ushant while journeying to Tenerlffe.
James Elphinstone: '''James Elphinstone''' , first BARON BALMERINO (1553 7-1612), one of theOctavians 1595; secretary of state in Scotland, 1598; created Baron Balmerino, 1604; commissioner to discuss the union with England, 1604; president of session, 1605; appointed secretary of state; disgraced and attainted for having, when secretary of state for Scotland, written a letter (1599), which James I (then James VI of Scotland) signed without knowing its contents, to Pope Clement VIII in commendation of the Roman catholic faith; condemned to death; imprisoned, but subsequently released.
John Elphinstone: '''John Elphinstone''' , second BARON BALMKRINO (d. 1649), son of James, first baron; restored to blood and peerage, 1613; sentenced to death for tnisprisiou
Elphinstone: '''Elphinstone''' 4U
Elton: '''Elton''' of treason, 1635, as having read, interlined, and secretly handled a petition against Charles I'a ecclesiastical measures, which the kiu had declined to look at; pardoned: to appease popular feeling, 1035; advised the covenanters I to complain to Louis XIII against Charles I; president of the Scots parliament, 1641; privy councillor and extraordinary lord of session, 1641; a commissioner to England, 1644.
John Elphinstone: '''John Elphinstone''' , third BARON BALMKRINO (1623-1704); fined 6,000. Scots for having conformed under the Commonwealth, 1662.
John Elphinstone: '''John Elphinstone''' , fourth BARON BALMERINO j (1652-1736), privy councillor, 1687-1714; opposed the! union; representative of the peers, 1710 and 1713-14.
John Elphinstone: '''John Elphinstone''' , thirteenth BARON ELPH IN-
Stone: '''Stone''' ([[1807]]-[[1860]]), captain in the royal horse guards, ! 1832; lord-in-waiting to William IV, 1835-7; G.C.H. and privy councillor, 1836; governor of Madras, 1837-42; explored Cashmere; governor of Bombay, 1853-9; prevented a rising hi Bombay, 1857: G.O.B., 1858; created Baron Elphinstoue in peerage of United Kingdom, 1859.
Margaret Mercer Elphinstone: '''Margaret Mercer Elphinstone''' , OOMTKSSE DE FLAHAULT, VISCOUNTESS KEITH, and BARONESS NAIRN (1788-1867), daughter of George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount Keith; confidante of Princess Charlotte; married the Comte de Flahault, 1817.
Mountstuart Elphinstone: '''Mountstuart Elphinstone''' ([[1779]]-[[1859]]), governor of Bombay; appointed to the Bengal civil service, 1796; escaped from Vazir All's massacre of Europeans, 1798; assistant to the governor-general's agent at the peshwa of Poona's court, 1801; military attache at the battle of Assaye, 1803; charged with the cavalry at Argaum, 1803; resident of Nagpur; ambassador to Shah Shuja at Oabul, 1808; resident of Pooua, 1810-16; ! demanded justice from the peshwa of Poona on one of his favourites, who had murdered a Mahratta envoy, i 1815; superseded, 1816; took part in a repulse of ! Mahratta troops, 1817; instructed to annex Poona, 1817; governor of Bombay, 1819-27; prepared code for j Bombay presidency; declined the governor-generalship on retiring; author of aHistory of IndiaandThe j Rise of British Power in the East published 1887.
William Elphinstone: '''William Elphinstone''' ([[1431]]-[[1514]]), bishop of Aberdeen and founder of Aberdeen University; M.A., Glasgow, 1452; regent of Glasgow University, 1465; i rector of St. Michael's Church, Trongate, 1465: doctor of decrees at Paris; rector of Glasgow University, c. 1474; official of Glasgow, and (1478) of Lothian; made archdeacon of Argyll for his services as ambassador to Louis XI, 1479; bishop of Ross, 1481; privy councillor, 1483; bishop of Aberdeen, c. 1488-1614; sent to arrange a marriage between James III and Edward IV's niece Anne, 1484; lord auditor of complaints, Edinburgh; consistently supported James III; lord high chancellor, 1488; keeper of the privy seal, 1492-1514; concluded a treaty between Scotland and Holland, 1493; obtained charter from James IV to found King's College, Aberdeen, 1498; rebuilt choir of Aberdeen Cathedral; introduced printing into Scotland; his end said to have been hastened by distress at the English victory at Flodden.
William George Keith Elphinstone: '''William George Keith Elphinstone''' (1782-1842), major-general; lieutenant, 41st regiment, 1804; major, 8th West India regiment, 1811; fought at Waterloo, 1815; C.B.; aide-de-camp to the king, 1825: major-general, 1837; unfortunate in his command of the troops at Oabul, 1841, where he died just before the final catastrophe.
Elphlnstone: '''Elphlnstone''' -HOLLOWAY, WILLIAM OUTH-
Bert: '''Bert''' ([[1787]]-[[1850]]), colonel, R.E. ; son of Sir Charles Holloway (1749-1827); second lieutenant, royal engineers, 1804; lieutenant, 1805; captain, 1813; lieutenant-colonel, 1828; colonel, 1841; served in Peninsula, 1810-12; commanding royal engineer in Cape of Good Hope, 1818-31, in Canada, 1843-9, and in western military district, 1849 till death; O.B., 1831; took surname of Elphinstone, 1825.
Charles Richard Elrlngton: '''Charles Richard Elrlngton''' ([[1787]]-[[1850]]), regius professor of divinity in Dublin University; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1805; mathematical and Hebrew prieman; fellow, 1810-29; M.A., 1811; Donnellan lecturer, 1819; D.D., 1820; chancellor of Ferns, 1832-40; regius professor of divinity, 1829-50; rector of the union of Armagh, 1841; commenced publication of Archbishop Ussher's complete works, 1847; specialised on the recent ecclesiastical history of Ireland.
Thomas Elrington: '''Thomas Elrington''' ([[1688]]-[[1732]]), actor; first appeared at Drury Lane, 1709, as Oroouoko; deputymaster of the revels and steward of the king's inns of court; played Hamlet at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1716; frequently appeared at Drury Lane.
Thomas Elrington: '''Thomas Elrington''' ([[1760]]-[[1835]]), bishop of Leighlin and Ferns; scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, 1778; fellow, 1781-1806; M.A., 1785; Donnellan divinity lecturer, 1 794; D.D., 1795; Archbishop King's lecturer, 1795; Smith's professor of mathematics and (179'J) of natural philosophy; provost of Trinity College, Dublin, 1811-30; bishop of Limerick, 1820-2, of Leighliu and Ferns, 1822-35; published ecclesiastical and other works: edited Locke's Two Treatises on Government as well as Juvenal and Persius.
Robinson Elsdale: '''Robinson Elsdale''' ([[1744]]-[[1783]]), autobiographer, narrating his adventures as a privateer (1762-79) off Hispaniola and the west coast of Africa.

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Samuel Elsdale: '''Samuel Elsdale''' (d. [[1827]]), master of Moulton grammar school; sou of Robinson Elsdale; M.A. Lincoln College, Oxford, 1809; fellow.
Elsi: '''Elsi''' (d. [[1050]]).
Elizabeth Elstob: '''Elizabeth Elstob''' ([[1683]]-[[1766]]), Anglo-Saxon scholar; sister of William Elstob; published English-Saxou Homily on the Nativity of St. Gregory with translation, 1709; given 100. by Queen Caroline; commenced edition of Jlfric's Homilies and published Anglo-Saxon grammar, 1715.
William Elstob: '''William Elstob''' ([[1673]]-[[1715]]), divine ; claimed to descend from Welsh princes; educated at Eton and Catharine Hall, Cambridge; tfellow of University College, Oxford, 1696; M.A., 1697; incumbent of St. Swithin and St. Mary Bothaw, London, 1702-15; edited Roger Ascham's Letters 1703; made proposals for re-editing the Saxon laws.
Renold Elstracke: '''Renold Elstracke''' (RENIER) (fl. [[1590]]-[[1630]]), engraver; of Belgian origin; executed engravings of the kings of England for Henry Holland (1583-1650 ?), 1618; engraved, among other portraits, a double wholelength of Mary Stuart and Darnley.
John Elsum: '''John Elsum''' (. [[1700]]-[[1705]]), author; collected 'Epigrams upon the Paintings of the most eminent Masters, Antient and Modern 1700, and wrote on painting, 1703-4.
Henry Elsynge: '''Henry Elsynge''' ([[1598]]-[[1654]]), clerk of the House of Commons; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford: B.A., 1625; resigned his clerkship of the House of Commons to avoid implication in proceedings against Charles I, 1648.
John of Eltham: '''John of Eltham''' , EARL OF CORNWALL ([[1316]]-[[1336]]).
Sir Charles Abraham Elton: '''Sir Charles Abraham Elton''' ([[1778]]-[[1853]]), author; educated at Eton; captain, 48th regiment; served in Holland; translated Hesiod and selections from other Greek and Roman poets; defended unitariauism, 1818, but a6jured it in Aevrtpai *poiri'5, 1827.
Charles Isaac Elton: '''Charles Isaac Elton''' ([[1839]]-[[1900]]), lawyer and antiquary; B.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1862; fellow of Queen's, and Vineriau law scholar, 1862; called to bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1865; Q.C., 1885; conservative M.P. for West Somerset, 1884-5, and for Wellington division, 18861892; F.S.A., 1883; published numerous writings on historical, archteological, legal, and literary topics.
Edward William Elton: '''Edward William Elton''' ([[1794]]-[[1843]]), actor; trained for the law; appeared at the opening of the Garrick Theatre in Whitechapel, 1831; the original Beauseant in the Lady of Lyons at Covent Garden; played Romeo and Rolla at Drury Lane, 1839-40; perished by shipwreck, 1843; famous in the r6le of Edgar in Lear
James Frederic Elton: '''James Frederic Elton''' ([[1840]]-[[1877]]), African explorer; took part in reKef of Delhi and Lucknow, 1857; present at capture of Pekin, 1860; joined staff of French D D
Elton: '''Elton'''
Emes: '''Emes''' army in Mexico, 1866; sent to report on South African gold and diamond fields, 1871; member of Natal executive and legislative council; political agent and vice-consul at Zanzibar to assist in the suppression of the slave-trade, 1873: British consul at Mozambique, 1875; explored the Makua country, 1877; endeavoured to ascertain the possibility of a route from the north end of Lake Nyassa to Quiloa, 1877; died of malarial fever in Ugogo.
John Elton: '''John Elton''' (d. [[1761]]), adventurer in Persia ; seacaptain in Russian service, c. 1735-8; formed scheme for British trade through Russia Into Persia and central Asia by way of Caspian Sea, which was temporarily adopted by the Russian company, c. 1741; entered service of shah and was appointed admiral of Caspian; espoused cause of Muhammad Hassan Khan, 1751, and was shot by members of the rival faction.
Richard Elton: '''Richard Elton''' (fl. [[1650]]), military writer : lieutenant-colonel, and governor-general of Hull, 1656; author of The compleat Body of the Art Military 1660.
Sir George Job Elvey: '''Sir George Job Elvey''' ([[1816]]-[[1893]]), organist and composer; chorister of Canterbury Cathedral; studied music, and was organist of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, 1835-82; Mas. Bac. New College, Oxford, 1838; Mas. Doc. by special dispensation of chancellor of university, 1840; knighted, 1871. He was a prolific writer of church music, and composed several anthems for royal marriages and other occasions.
Stephen Elvey: '''Stephen Elvey''' ([[1805]]-[[1860]]), organist and composer; organist of New College, Oxford, 1830; Mas. Doc. Oxon., 1838; organist of St. Mary's Church, and (1846) of St. John's College; university choragus, 1848-60; composed Evening Service (1825), and settings of the Psalter.
Edmund Elvlden: '''Edmund Elvlden''' (. [[1670]]), poet; published A Neweyere's gift to the Rebellious Persons in the North partes of England 1570, The Closit of Counsells 1569, and a Metaphorical! History of Pesistratas and Catanea
Edward Elwall: '''Edward Elwall''' ([[1676]]-[[1744]]), Sabbatarian; defended the presbyterian meeting-house at Wolverhampton from a high church mob, 1716; successively a Unitarian, a churchman, and an Ebionite; wore at one time 1 Turkish habit from respect to the unitarianism of Islam; 'transient memberof the Sabbatarian baptists, 1720; prosecuted for blasphemy at Stafford, but discharged by Alexander Deiiton, 1726; published Unitarian, Sabbatarian, and other religious pamphlets. EL WES, Sm GERVASE (1661-1615).
of Mbgqott Elwes: '''of Mbgqott Elwes''' , JOHN ([[1714]]-[[1789]]), miser ; educated at Westminster; became an expert in riding at Geneva; heir to his uncle's estate, 1763; M.P. for Berkshire, 1774-87; trimmed between the party of Pitt and Fox; lived a parsimonious rather than a selfish life.
Whitwell Elwin: '''Whitwell Elwin''' ([[1816]]-[[1900]]), prose- writer ; B.A. Caius College, Cambridge, 1839; ordained priest, 1840; curate of Hardington, Somerset, 1840-9; rector of Booton, 1849-1900; contributed toQuarterly Review 1813-86; editor, 1853-60. His works include five volumes (1871-2) of the edition of Pope which Mr. W. J. Courthope completed.
Humphrey Ely: '''Humphrey Ely''' (d. lfi()4), Roman catholic divine: studied at Brasenose College, Oxford; scholar of St. John's College, Oxford; licentiate in the canon and civil laws, Donny; LL.D.; made by a mistake gaoler of one of his travelling companions, when visiting England disguised as a merchant, 1580; priest, 1582; professor of the canon and civil laws at Pout-a-Mousson, 1586-1604; wrote 'Certaine Briefe Notesoil the archpriest controversy, 1603.
Nicholas Ely: '''Nicholas Ely''' op (d. [[1280]]), chancellor; archdeacon of Ely, 1249; prebendary of St. Paul's; elevated to the keepeivhip of the great seal soon after the provisions of Oxfoni, becoming chancellor, 1260; dismissed, 1261; treasurer, 1262: reappointod chancellor, but restricted to signing ordinary writs, of which the justiciar was witness, 1263: reappointed treasurer, 1264; bishop of Worcester, 1266-8; one of the board appointed to arrange term* for the submission of the disinherited barons, 1266; bishop of Winchester, 1268-80: involved in an obstinate quarrel with the chapter of Winchester relative to hi? nomination of a prior: nvon.stituted the monastery and appointed Adam of Farcham prior, 1278.
Thomas of Ely: '''Thomas of Ely''' (. [[1175]]).

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William Ely: '''William Ely''' (d. [[1609]]), Roman catholic divine; brother of Humphrey Ely; M.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1549; refused to shake hands with Cranmer at the stake, 1556; B.D., 1557; second president of St. John's College, Oxford, 1559-63, having temporarily conformed; removed on refusing to acknowledge the queen's supremacy over the English church, 1563; missioner in Herefordshire; died in Hereford gaol.
Sir Richard Elyot: '''Sir Richard Elyot''' ([[1450]] ?-[[1522]]), judge : commissioner for the collection of an aid in Wiltshire, 1503; serjeant-at-law, 1503; attorney-general to the queen, c. 1604; judge of assize on the western circuit; J.P. for i Cornwall, 1509; judge of the common pleas, 1513; i knighted before 1517; summoned to the first three parliai ments of Henry VIII's reign.
Elyot: '''Elyot''' Siu THOMAS ([[1499]] ?-[[1546]]), diplomatist and author; son of Sir Richard Elyot; studied Galen and other medical writers; clerk of assize on the western circuit, 1511-28; J.P. for Oxfordshire, 1522; clerk of the privy council, 1523-30; knighted, 1530; owed his appointment (1531) as ambassador to Charles V to hisBoke called the Govemour (published, 1531); directed, against his inclination, to obtain the emperor's assent to Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Arragon; again ambassador to the emperor, 1535; insisted in a letter to Cromwell that, though intimate with Sir Thomas More, he was no catholic, 1536; M.P., Cambridge, 1542. His works, written under the influence of Erasmus and the Italian humanists, include The Doctrine of Princes... translated out of Greke into Euglishe (from Isocrates), 1534, a Latin-English dictionary, 1538, The Image of Governance translated from a Greek manuscript of Eucolpius (first published, 1540), and Platonic dialogues and compilations from the fathers.
Edmund Elys: '''Edmund Elys''' (fl. [[1707]]), divine and poet; probationer fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1655-9; M.A., 1658; rector of East Allington, 1659-89; imprisoned on suspicion of being a royalist, 1659; deprived, 1689; published quaker and auti-Socinian pamphlets and religious
William Emerson: '''William Emerson''' ([[1701]]-[[1782]]), mathematician ; unsuccessful as a private teacher; keenly interested in , practical mechanics, incidentally constructing a spinningI wheel for his wife; declined, on grounds of economy, to i become a member of the Royal Society; published treatise on Fluxions 1749, and mathematical manuals for young students, including Cyclomathesis 1763,The Arithmetic of Infinites 1767, and Dialling 1770.
Edward Emery: '''Edward Emery''' (d. I[[860]]?), numismatist; produced the imitations of coins known as Emery's forgeries; exposed, 1842.
John Emeey: '''John Emeey''' ([[1777]]-[[1822]]), actor ; performed at the Brighton Theatre; appeared at the Haymarket inColman'sHeir-at-Law1800; member of the Coveht Garden j Company, 1801-22; exhibited, mainly sea-pieces, at tht ! Royal Academy, 1801-17; declared by Leigh Hunt to be jalmost perfectin his representation of rustics.
Samuel Anderson Emery: '''Samuel Anderson Emery''' ([[1817]]-[[1881]]), actor ; son of John Emery; engaged at the Queen's Theatre, c. 1884 j played in Scotland and the Midlands; i played Giles in theMiller's Maidand Lovegold in the jMiserat the Lyceum, 1843; stage-manager at the Surrey, but not permanently identified with any theatre; ! excelled in the parts of old man and countryman.
John Emes: '''John Emes''' (. [[1786]]-[[1805]]), engraver and watercolour painter; exhibited landscapes at the Royal Academy, 1790 and 1791; best known by his engraving of Jeffefys's Destruction of the Spanish Batteries before Gibraltar 1786.
Thomas Emes: '''Thomas Emes''' (d. [[1707]]), known as the prophet ' ; quack doctor; his resurrection expected by the Camisard fraternity, to which he belonged, 1707; derided Colbatch's
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Engklajnd: '''Engklajnd''' theory of alkali being morbific and acid being curative iu A Dialogue between Alkali and Acid 1698; published 'The Reasonableness and Union of Natural and the True Christian lu-ligion," 1698.
Kdward Emily: '''Kdward Emily''' ([[1617]]-[[1657]]), Harveiau orator; M.D. Leyden, 1640: M.D. Oxford; L.C.P., 1641; censor, j 1652 and 1653; Gulstonian lecturer, 1649; attacked tinCommonwealth in his Uarveian oration, 1656.
Bakox Emly: '''Bakox Emly''' ( [[1812]]-[[1894]]).
Henry Emlyn: '''Henry Emlyn''' ([[1729]]-[[1815]]), architect ; published A Proposition for a New Order in Architecture (founded on a division of the upper portion of the shaft into two; columns), 1781; introduced the order into the tetra-style; portico at Beaumont Lodge, near Windsor, c. 1785.
Sollom Emlyn: '''Sollom Emlyn''' ([[1697]]-[[1754]]), legal writer ; son of Thomas Emlyn; studied at Leyden; member of Lincoln's* Inn; disparaged the civil law, the criminal law, and the ecclesiastical courts in the preface to his I (second) edition of the State Trials 1730.
Thomas Emlyn: '''Thomas Emlyn''' ([[1663]]-[[1741]]), first Unitarian minister in England; domestic chaplaia to Letitia, countess of Donegal, a presbyterian lady, 1683-8; chaplain to Sir Robert Rich, 1689-91; colleague to Joseph Boyse at Dublin, 1691-1702; made confession of his heresy to u suspicious elder of his congregation, 1702; virtually dismissed, 1702; put to pressAn Humble Inquiry into the Scripture Account of Jesus Christ,* 1702, for which he i was sentenced in the court of queen's bench to a year's j imprisonment, to be extended until he had paid a fine of 1,OOOJ. and found security for good behaviour during life, 1703; the reduction of his fine mooted by Boyse and subsequently allowed by Ormonde, the lord-lieutenant; re- I leased on payment of 907., 1705; occasionally preached at the general baptist church in the Barbican (Paul's Alley);: probably the first preacher who described himself as a unitarian, the term originated by Thomas Firmin; friend of Samuel Clarke (1675-1729); published unitarian pamphlets.
Emma: '''Emma''' (d. [[1052]]), called .&LFGIFU, queen ; daughter of j Richard the Fearless, duke of the Normans; called the gem of the Normansin Henry of Huntingdon's chro- j nicle; married to King Ethelred II, the Unready, 1002; adopted the English name Elfgifu: said to have ! defended London against Cnut, 1016; married to Cnut, 1017; endeavoured to make her son Harthacnut king, but ! was opposed by her step-son Harold, who seized England to the north of the Thames, 1035; secured for Harthacnut: recognition as king in Wessex, 1035; banished by Harold L the men of Wessex being tired of Harthacnut's prolonged absence, 1037; fled to the court of Baldwin V, count of j Flanders; wielded considerable influence during the reign of Harthacnut, 1040-1; despoiled of her wealth by King; Edward the Confessor, her son by Ethelred, 1043.
Christopher Temple Emmet: '''Christopher Temple Emmet''' ([[1761]]-[[1788]]), barrister; brother of Robert Emmet; scholar, Trinity College, Dublin, 1778; called to the bar in Ireland, 1781; king's counsel, 1787; predicted downfall of England, unless Irish wrongs were redressed, in his Decree," an allegorical poem.
Robert Emmet: '''Robert Emmet''' ([[1778]]-[[1803]]), United Irishman; entered Trinity College, Dublin, 1793; took his name off the books when brought up at the visitation held to discover the political sympathies of the students, 1798; visited ! Paris; interviewed Talleyrand and Napoleon, the latter of I whom promised to secure Irish independence, 1802; fell in love with Sarah Curran, daughter of John Philpot Curran included the seizure of the person of the viceroy; lost heart at the violence of his followers and retired to Rath- I farnham; arrested and executed, 1803. EttMET, THOMAS ADDIS (1764-1827), United Irishman; brother of Robert Emmet; scholar of Trinity College, Dublin 1781; B.A., 1783; M.D. Edinburgh; LL.B. Dublin; called to the Irish bar, 1790; took the oath of the United Irishmen in open court, 1796; one, of the directors of the Society of the United Irishmen, 1797; arrested with his colleagues, 1798; agreed to I Oastlereagh's proposal that he should be transported to j America, but, in consequence of the American minister's objection, wab transferred to Fort St. George iu Scotland, 1799; sent to Holland, 1802: assisted MacSheehy in hi* scheme for raising a battalion of Irish iu the pay of France; joined the New York bar, 1804; died at New York.
Anthony Emmett: '''Anthony Emmett''' ([[1790]]-[[1872]]), major-general, royal engineers; second lieutenant, royal engineers, 1808; wounded while leading a column to the assault of Badajoz, 1812; captain, 1813; fought at Ortnes and Toulouse, 1814; commanding royal engineer at St. Helena; retired a-i major-general.
Emp: '''Emp''' 80N or EMSON, SIR RICHARD (d. [[1610]]), statesman and lawyer; M.P. for Northamptonshire, 1491; speaker, 1491-2; knighted, 1504; high steward of Cambridge University, 1504; chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, 1504; associated with Edmund Dudley in the exaction of taxes and crown fines during Henry VII's reign; executed on a charge of constructive treason, suggested by his having armed his friends during Henry VII's last illness.
William Empson: '''William Empson''' ([[1791]]-[[1852]]), editor of the Edinburgh Review; educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1815; his article on Bentham in theEdinburgh Review(1843) answered by John Stuart Mill; professor of general polity and the laws of Englandat the East India College, Haileybury, 1824-52; editor of the Edinburgh Review 1847-52.
Enda: '''Enda''' or, in the older spelling, ENNA, SAINT, of Arran (fl. 6th cent.), son of a chief of Oriel (in county Louth); persuaded by his sister, St. Fanche, to become a monk; crossed over to Britain; ordained presbyter after living with St. Ninian; founded monastery of Latinum; missionary in Ireland, founding ten monasteries in Arran of the Saints.
John Endecott: '''John Endecott''' ([[1588]] ?-[[1665]]), governor of New England; probably born at Dorchester; joined in purchasing a patent of Massachusetts Bay territory, 1628; in charge of Nanmkeag (afterwards Salem), 1628; conducted expedition to Mount Wollastou (now Quincy), and rebuked the inhabitants for their lawlessness; friend of John Winthrop, the first regularly elected governor of New England; member of his council of assistants, 1630 and 1636; disqualified from holding office for one year by judicial sentence, for having insulted the red cross of St. George, 1634; sent on an expedition against the Block Island and Pequot Indians, 1636; governor, 1644, 1649, 1651-3, and 1655-65; sergeant major-general of Massachusetts, 1645; persecuted the quakers; coined money, 1652-65; informed that Charles II was ready to take the colony under his protection, provided that it submitted to be a dependency of the English crown, 1662; the royal commissioners refused a hearing by his court, 1664; his dismissal recommended by Secretary Sir William Morrice, 1665.

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Edward Enfeeld: '''Edward Enfeeld''' ([[1811]]-[[1880]]), philanthropist; grandson of William Enfield; literary student at Manchester College, York; moneyer at the mint; president of the senate of University College, London, 1878-80; treasurer of the University College Hospital, 1867-80; president of Manchester New College, London; worked with the domestic mission society for the poor of East London.
William Enfield: '''William Enfield''' ([[1741]]-[[1797]]), divine and author ; tutor in belles-lettres and rector of the Warriugton academy, 1770-83; LL.D. Edinburgh, 1774; pastor of two presbyterian congregations; published The Speaker 1774, a popular schoolbook, Institutes of Natural Philosophy 1785, and translations and religious works.
George England: '''George England''' (fl. [[1735]]), divine and author ; incumbent of two country parishes; published An Enquiry into the Morals of the Ancients 1737.
George England: '''George England''' (. [[1740]]-[[1788]]), organ-builder ; built an organ for St. Stephen's, Walbrook (1760), and for various other churches.
George Pike England: '''George Pike England''' ([[1766]] ?-[[1814]]), organbuilder; son of George England (fl. 1740-1788); built organs for numerous churches, including one, conjointly with Nicholls, for Durham Cathedral, 1816. D D 2
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John England: '''John England''' ([[1786]]-[[1842]]), bishop of Charleston; founded female penitentiary and poor schools for both sexes while a student at Carlow College; lecturer at Cork Cathedral and chaplain to the Presentation Convent, 1808; D.D.; president of the diocesan college of St. Mary, 1812-17; Roman catholic bishop of Charleston, U.S.A., 1820; established the pioneerUnited States Catholic Miscellany; befriended the negroes of his diocese; papal legate to the government of Hayti, 1833: his collected works (dealing with topics of controversial theology) published, 1849.
Sir Richard England: '''Sir Richard England''' ([[1793]]-[[1883]]), general; born at Detroit, Upper Canada; lieutenant, 1809; lieutenant-colonel, 1825; brigadier-general during the Kaffir war, 1836 and 1837; colonel, 1838; assisted Nott in defeating Akbar Khan on the Khojak Heights, but suffered some reverses, 1841; K.C.B., 1843; distinguished himself at Inkernian, 1854: directed attack on I; - Inn. 1855; G.O.B.; colonel, 41st regiment, 1861; general, 1863.
Thomas Richard England: '''Thomas Richard England''' ([[1790]]-[[1847]]), biographer; brother of John England; catholic parish priest in Ireland; published biographies of some Koman catholic ecclesiastics.
Sir Francis Englefield: '''Sir Francis Englefield''' (d. [[1596]]?), Roman catholic exile: knighted at Edward VI's coronation, 1547; imprisoned for celebrating mass before the Princess Mary, 1551; privy councillor, 1553; knight of the shire for Berks; placed on the witchcraft commission, 1556; fled to Valladolid, 1559; outlawed for high treason, committed at Namur, 1564; attainted and forfeited, 1586, Elizabeth seizing even the estates he had alienated; pensioned by the king of Spain; corresponded with the pope and the king of Spain on behalf of Mary Stuart, 1586; buried at Valladolid.
Sir Henry Charles Englefield: '''Sir Henry Charles Englefield''' ([[1752]]-[[1822]]), antiquary and scientific writer; F.S.A., 1779: P.S.A.; directed the society's issue of engravings of English cathedrals and churches, 1797-1813; F.R.S., 1778; gold medallist of the Society of Arts for his Discovery of a Lake from Madder; published miscellaneous works.
Francis Engleheart: '''Francis Engleheart''' ([[1775]]-[[1849]]), engraver; nephew of George Engleheart; engraved for books from drawings by Richard Cook; engraved Sir David Wilkie's Duncan Gray and The Only Daughter; exhibited at the Society of British Artists,
George Engleheart: '''George Engleheart''' ([[1752]]-[[1839]]), miniaturepainter; of Silesian extraction; pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds; miniature-painter to the king, 1790; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1773-1812.
John Cox Engleheart: '''John Cox Engleheart''' D1LLM AN ([[1783]]-[[1862]]), miniature-painter; nephew of George Engleheart; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1801-28.
Thomas Engleheart: '''Thomas Engleheart''' (d. [[1787]] V), sculptor and modeller in wax; brother of George Engleheart; gold medallist of the Royal Academy for a bas-relief of 'Ulysses and Nausicaa 1772; exhibited wax busts and models at the Royal Academy, 1773-86.
Timothy Staxsfeld Engleheart: '''Timothy Staxsfeld Engleheart''' ([[1803]]1879), engraver; enernved Gui'io lU-ni'sKoce Homo 1840, and plates inThe British Museum Marbles
Hester English: '''Hester English''' ([[1571]]-[[1624]]).
Sir John Havvkeh English: '''Sir John Havvkeh English''' ([[1788]]-[[1840]]), surgeon-in-chtef to the Swedish army; decorated with the order of Gustavus Vasa, 1813; knighted, 1816; M.D. Guttiugen, 1814: M.D. Aberdeen, 1823; L.R.C.P., 1823.
Josfas English: '''Josfas English''' (d. [[1718]]?), amateur etcher: etched in the style of Hollar from Olein's designs; bis I'To-t important etching,Christ and the Dimples at hmuiaus after Titian.
William English: '''William English''' (. [[1350]]).
William English: '''William English''' (d. [[1778]]), Irish poet; Augustininn monk and writer of ballads, including the wellknown Oaahel of Monster
Enni: '''Enni''' 8KILLEN, second BARON OF ([[1616]]-[[1645]]). See
Cmxxor Mauukk: '''Cmxxor Mauukk''' or CORNELIUS.
William Ensom: '''William Ensom''' ([[1796]]-[[1832]]), engraver; silver medallist of the Society of Arts for a pen-and-ink portniit ot William Blake (1767-1827), 181ft: engraved lor 1 annuals; executed engravings from portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence.

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George Ensor: '''George Ensor''' ([[1769]]-[[1843]]), political writer ; B.A. : Trinity College, Dublin, 1790; author of a philosophical essay, entitled The Independent Man 1 806, and assailant of the English government of Ireland in such books as Anti-Union 1831, andA Defence of the Irish 1825; wrote against Malthusianism, 1818.
Sir George Ent: '''Sir George Ent''' ([[1604]]-[[1689]]), physician; of Dutch parentage; M.A. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1631: M.D. Padua, 1636; F.O.P., 1639; Gulstonian lecturer, 1642; knighted, 1665; P.C.P., 1670-5, 1682, and 1684; F.R.S.; vindicated Harvey's discovery with an Apologia pro circuitioue sauguinis 1641.
John Entick: '''John Entick''' ([[1703]] ?-[[1773]]), schoolmaster and author; published aSpeculum Latinum 1728; brought out Phajdri Fabulse with accents and notes, 1754; attacked the government in Shebbeare and Scott's antiministerialMonitor obtained damages in 1766 for seizure of his papers by the government three years before; published histories and compiled English and Latin dictionaries.
Joseph Entwisle: '''Joseph Entwisle''' ([[1767]]-[[1841]]), methodist minister; preached before his sixteenth year; sent on the Oxfordshire circuit by Wesley, 1787; first missionary I secretary, 1805; president of conference, 1812 and 1825; 1 house governor of the Hoxton Theological Institution, 1834-8; published an Essay on Secret Prayer 1820.
John Enty: '''John Enty''' ([[1675]]?-[[1743]]), presbyteriuu minister: I of humble origin; pastor of a presbyteriau congregation at Plymouth, 1698; leader of the conservative party in the assembly of united ministers; published theological ! pamphlets.
Saint Eoghan: '''Saint Eoghan''' and BISHOP (d. [[618]]), kinsman of the chieftains of Ulster and Leinster; carried off to Britain by pirates in boyhood; educated by St Ninian; taken to Armorica by Gaulish raiders; returned to Ireland and ! founded a monastery at Hy Cualann, co. Wicklow; humanised the chieftains of Ardstraw, and helped his friend, Tigeruach, to found monasteries in North Ireland.
Chevalier Eon: '''Chevalier Eon''' u' ([[1728]]-[[1810]]). See D'EoN DE I BKAUMONIV
Francesca Margherita Dk Epine: '''Francesca Margherita Dk Epine''' L' (d. 1746), Tuscan vocalist; became associated with the establishment of Italian opera in England by singing in 'Thamyris 1707, Almahide 1710, Handel'sPastor Fido 1712, and similar pieces: divided London society i into factions by her jealousy of Mrs. Tofts, the Drury I Lane favourite, 1704.
George Napoleon Epps: '''George Napoleon Epps''' ([[1816]]-[[1874]]), homoeo ! pathic practitioner; half-brother of John Epps; , M.R.C.S., 1845; surgeon to the Honvuopathic Hospital, Hanover Square, 1846; chief work,Spinal Curvature, its Theory and Cure 1849.
John Epps: '''John Epps''' ([[1805]]-[[1869]]), homoeopathic physician ; M.D. Edinburgh, 1826; published Evidences of Ohris tianity deduced from Phrenology; medical director of the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution, c. 1830: issued Homoeopathy and its Principles Ex 1 plained 1841, and other works in defence of Hahnemann's system; lecturer on materia medica at the Homoeopathic Hospital, Hanover Square, 1861; issued theChristian Physician and Anthropological Magazine 1836-9; friend of.Ma..ini and Kossuth.
Saint Erard: '''Saint Erard''' and BISHOP (fi. [[730]]-[[754]]); left Ireland to look for his brother Hildulph, who had gone i out as a missionary to Germany, and, finding him a hermit in the Vosges, induced him to teach publicly; ; baptised Ottilia, daughter of the Duke of the Allemauui; possibly a monastic bishop at Ratisbon, where he was buried; canonised, 1052.
William Erbury: '''William Erbury''' ([[1604]]-[[1664]]), independent divine; B.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1623: incumbent of St. Mary's, Cardiff, 1623-38; pronounced a schismatic by the bishop of Llandaff, 1634; forced to resign his living, 1638; chaplain of Skippon's regiment; acconliutf
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Erskine: '''Erskine''' to Edwards, taught universal redemption; denied the divinity of Christ, lG4f; maintained in v;ir.ous theological treatises that the Holy Spirit departed about the end of the apostolic period. Lxvii. 383
Thomas Op Erceldoune: '''Thomas Op Erceldoune''' , called also the Hn YMKK ami LKAKMONT (Ji. mo V-1297 ?), seer and poet; meuli.m.il in the chartulary (1294) of the Trinity House of Soltra as having inherited lands in Erccldoune, a Berwickshire village; said to have predicted the death of Alexander HI, king of Scotland, under the figure of a destructive gale, 1285, ako the battle of Bannoekburu; traditional fountain of many (fabricated) oracles, one of which foretold the accession of James VI to the English throne; reputed author of a poem on the Tristrem story, which.-ir Walter Scott considered genuine; it probably emanated from a French source. The romance of Thomas and the ladye gaye popularly attributed* to him, may be placed after 14ul (edited by Dr. J. A. H. Murray, 1875).
Sampson Erdeswicke: '''Sampson Erdeswicke''' (d. [[1603]]), historian of Staffordshire; studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, 15531554; worked at hisViewor Survey of Staffordshire from 1593 to 1603; said to have written his pupil William Wyrley'sTrue Use of Armorie 1592; commended by the antiquary Camden.
Sir John Eric Eeichsen: '''Sir John Eric Eeichsen''' ([[1818]]-[[1896]]), surgeon ; born at Copenhagen; studied medicine at University College, London; M.R.C.S., 1839; F.R.O.S., 1845; joint lecturer on anatomy and physiology at Westminster Hospital, 1844, and joint lecturer on anatomy, 1846-8; assistant-surgeon, 1848, and full surgeon, 1850-75, to University College Hospital; professor of surgery iu University College, 1860-66; Holme professor of clinical surgery, 1866: F.R.S., 1876; honorary LL.D. Edinburgh, 1884; surgeon-extraordinary to Queen Victoria, 1877; created baronet, 1895; president of council of University College, 188 7-96; published Science and Art of Surgery 1863, and other surgical works.
John Erigena: '''John Erigena''' (.f. [[850]]).
Erkenwald: '''Erkenwald''' or EARCONWALD, SAINT (d. [[693]]), bishop of London; founded a monastery with the help of Frithewald, under-kiug of Surrey, at Chertsey, and another at Barking; consecrated bishop of the EastSaxons, 676, practically founding his see.
Thomas Erle: '''Thomas Erle''' ([[1650]] ?-[[1720]]), general ; M.P. for Wareham, 1678-97, and 1699-1718, for Portsmouth, 1698; deputy lieutenant for Dorset, 1685; colonel of foot, 1689; fought for William III in Ireland, 1690-1, and at Steinkirk, 1692; wounded at Landen, 1693; commanderin-chief in Ireland, 1702; lord justice in Ireland, c. 1702; lieutenant of the ordnance on Marlborough's recommendation, 1703; commanded the centre as lieutenant-general at Almanza, 1707; coumiauder-in-chief at siege of Lille. 1708; commauder-in-chief in South Britain and governor of Portsmouth, 1709-12; nominated general of foot in Flanders, 1711.
Ert: '''Ert''' E, SIR WILLIAM ([[1793]]-[[1880]]), judge ; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow; B.G.L. 1818; barrister, Middle Temple, 1819; bencher, Inner Temple, 1834; M.P. for city of Oxford, 1837; counsel to the Bank of England, 1844; serjeant-at-law, 1844; knighted, 1845; lord chief- justice of common pleas, 1859-66; privy councillor, 1859; member of the Trades Union Commission, 1867; published The Law relating to TradesUnions 1869-80.
Augustus Ernest: '''Augustus Ernest''' , DUKE OF YORK AND
Albany: '''Albany''' ([[1674]]-[[1728]]), fifth sou of Ernest Augustus, elector of Hanover and brother of George I; saw military service under the emperor; created Duke of York and Albany and Earl of Ulster, 1716; K.G.; prince bishop of Osuaburg, 171G-28.
Augustus Ernest: '''Augustus Ernest''' , DUKE OF CUMBERLAND and
of Hanover King: '''of Hanover King''' ([[1771]]-[[1851]]), fifth son of George III ; K.G., 1786; sent to Gbttingen University, 178; lieutenantcolonel, 9th Hanoverian hussars, 1793; major-general in the English and Hanoverian armies, 1794; wounded at the first battle of Tournay, 1794; created Duke of Cumberland and Earl of Armagh, 1799; general, 1803; chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin, 1805; opposed all relaxation of the catholic penal laws, 1808; voted against the regency bill, 1810; narrowly escaped assassination in his bed, 1810; deputy-elector of Hanover, 1813; field marshal in the British army, 1813; G.OJJ., 1815; resigned his colonelcy of the blues, 1830; opposed the Reform Bill of 1832; insulted by Brougham in parliament; gr:.n-l master of Irish Orangemen; succeeded on Willi.im IV's death, in acconlance with provisions of Salic law, as King Ernest I of Hanover, 1837: cancelled William IV's constitution, and made himself absolute monarch; gained popularity by the contrast he showed to the absenteeism of hia predecessors; granted Hanover a constitution on democratic lines, 1840; died at Herrenhauaen.

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Ernulf: '''Ernulf''' or ARNULF ([[1040]] - [[1124]]), bishop of Rochester; of French origin; Benedictine monk at Beauvais; made prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, by Archbishop Anaelm; abbot of Peterborough, 1107-14; appointed bishop of Rochester against his will and to the sorrow of his monks, 1114; author of theTextus Roffeusis a collection of laws, papal decrees, and documents relating to the church of Rochester (published by Thomas Hearne, 1720).
Sir Thomas Erpingham: '''Sir Thomas Erpingham''' ([[1357]]-[[1428]]X soldier ; in service of John of Gaunt, 1380: accompanied him to Spam, 1386; went with John of Gauut's son, Henry, earl of Derby (afterwards Henry IV), on expeditions to Lithuania, 1890 and 1392, and accompanied him during his banishment, 1398-9; constable of Dover Castle and warden of Cinque ports, 1399-1409; K.G. and chamberlain of king's household, 1400; accompanied Thomas, duke of Clarence (1388?-1421),- in Ireland, 1401-3; privy councillor and steward of royal household, 1404; took part in Agincourt campaign, 1415; sent with John Wakering, bishop of Berwick, to Calais and Beauvais, to treat with king of France, 1416.
Anthony Errington: '''Anthony Errington''' ([[1719]] V), Roman catholic divine; D.D.; dedicated Catechistical Discourses to the Princess Henrietta Maria, 1654.
George Errington: '''George Errington''' ([[1804]]-[[1886]]), Roman catholic archbishop; educated at St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, 1814-21; D.D. of the English college, Rome, 1827; vicerector, 1832; presided over St. Mary's College, Oscott, 1843-7; first bishop of Plymouth, 1850-5; archbishop of Trebizond in partibus, 1855; coadjutor to Cardinal Wiseman, 1856-62; assistant at the pontifical throne, 1856; in charge of St. Paul's College, Prior Park, 1870-86.
John Edward Errington: '''John Edward Errington''' ([[1806]]-[[1862]]), civil engineer; resident engineer of the Grand Junction railway; constructed harbour works of Greenock, 1841; brought forward the entire system of railways from Lancaster to Inverness; vice-president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1861-2; engineer to London and Southwestern Railway; his plan for the line from Yeovil to Exeter accepted, 1856.
William Errington: '''William Errington''' ([[1716]]-[[1768]]), Roman catholic divine; student and professor at the English college, Douay; established school at Sedgley Park, Staffordshire, 1763; archdeacon and treasurer of the chapter in London.
Errol: '''Errol''' ninth EARL OF (d. [[1631]]). See HAY,
Francis: '''Francis'''
Charles Erskine: '''Charles Erskine''' ([[1680]]-[[1763]]), lord justice clerk ; regent of Edinburgh University, 1700-7; first professor of public law, Edinburgh, 1707; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1711; M.P., Dumfriesshire, 1722, 1727, and 1734; M.P., Dumfries burghs, 1734; solicitor-general for Scotland, 1725; lord advocate, 1737-42; M.P. for the Wick burghs, 1741; raised to the bench as Lord Tiuwald, 1744; lord justice clerk, 1748.
David Erskine: '''David Erskine''' , second BAROX OARDROSS ([[1616]]1671), royalist; fined and excluded from parliament (1649) for having promoted the engagement 1648.
David Erskine: '''David Erskine''' , LORD DUN ([[1670]]-[[1758]]), Scottish judge; studied at Paris and St. Andrews; member of the Scottish bar, 1698; M.P., Forfarshire, 1690-1, 1693, 1695, and 1696; opposed the union; ordinary lord, with title of Lord Dun, 1710-53; lord of justiciary, 1714-44; published Friendly and Familiar Advices 1764.
Sir David Erskine: '''Sir David Erskine''' ([[1772]]-[[1837]]), dramatist and antiquary; natural sou of David Steuart Erskine; professor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; knighted, 1&30; FJS.A. Scot.; a founder of the Scots
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Erskine: '''Erskine''' Military and Naval Academy, Edinburgh: author of King James the First of Scotland 1827, King James the Second of Scotland 1828, and other plays, also of 'Annals and Antiquities of Dryburgh 1836. 2, DAVID MONTAGU, second BARON ERSKINE (1776-1865), diplomatist: eldest son of Thomas, first baron Erskine; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1802; M.P., Portsmouth, 1806; minister plenipotentiary to the United States, 1806-9, at Stuttgard, 1825-8, at Munich, 1828-43.
David Steuart Erskine: '''David Steuart Erskine''' , eleventh EARL OF
Buchan: '''Buchan''' ([[1742]]-[[1829]]), brother of Henry Erskine ([[1746]]1817); studied at Glasgow University and Robert Foulis's academy; nominated secretary to the embassy to Spain, but did not go, possibly because the ambassador was his inferior by birth, 1766; freed the election of Scottish representative peers from governmental interference; originated Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1780; founded annual festival in commemoration of James Thomson, 1791; presented Washington with a snuff-box made from the tree which sheltered Wallace, 1792; contributed to numerous publications and wrote literary biographies and essays.
Ebenezer Erskine: '''Ebenezer Erskine''' ([[1680]]-[[1754]]), founder of Scottish secession church; M.A. Edinburgh, 1697: ordained by the presbytery of Kirkcaldy to Portmoak, 1703; consistently refused the oath of abjuration; one of thetwelve apostleswho signed therepresentation 1721; admitted to the third charge of Stirling, 1731; moderator of the synod of Stirling and Perth; preached against an act of the. assembly to regulate the election to vacant churches, failing presentation by the patron, 1732; censured by the synod, 1732; deposed for protestiutr against the censure of the assembly, 1733; seceded, and formed an associate presbytery, 1733; issued, in company with three others, his judicial testimony against the church of Scotland, 1736: formally deposed with his followers, 1740; headed two companies ofseceders against the Pretender, 1746; professor of divinity to the 'associate synod 1747-9, his followers having become divided into two parties by varying interpretations of the civic oath taken by the burgesses of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Perth; deposed from the ministry (1748) by the antiburgher synod.
Edward Moiikis Erskine: '''Edward Moiikis Erskine''' ([[1817]]-[[1883]]), diplomatist; son of David Montagu, second baron Erskine ; secretary of legation at Florence, 1852, at Washington, and at Stockholm, 1858-60; secretary of embassy to St. Petersburg and Constantinople, 1860; minister plenipotentiary to Greece, 1864-72; on the Stockholm legation, 1872-81; C.B., 1873.
Henry Erskine: '''Henry Erskine''' , third BARON CAUDROSS ([[1660]]1693), covenanter; son of David, second baron Cardross ; fined and imprisoned on account of his own and his wife's presbyterian leanings; released, 1679; denied all redress by Charles II; emigrated; expelled by the Spaniards from his plantation at Charlestown Neck, South Carolina; accompanied the Prince of Orange to England, 1688; fought at Killiecrankie, 1689; privy councillor, and general of the mint, 1689; lieutenant-colonel, 1689.
Henry Erskine: '''Henry Erskine''' ([[1624]]-[[1696]]), presbyterian minister; minister of Cornhill, Northumberland, 1649; ejected, 1662; his sentence of fine and imprisonment by a committee of privy council commuted to banishment from Scotland; released from imprisonment at Newcastle, 1685; allowed to preach by royal indulgence, 1687.
Sir Henry Erskine: '''Sir Henry Erskine''' or HARRY (d. [[1766]]), fifth baronet of Alva and Cambuskenneth; lieutenant-general; deputy quartermaster-general and lieutenant-colonel in expedition to L'Orient, 1746; M.P., Ayr, 1749, Anstruther, 1754-61; removed from the army for political reasons, 1 756; subsequently became lieutenant-general; secretary of the order of the Thistle; endeavoured to prevent publication of Ludy Mary Wortley Montagu's letters: erroneously credited with the authorship of the Scottish march, Garb of Old Gaul
Henry Erskine: '''Henry Erskine''' ([[1746]]-[[1817]]), lord advocate; studied at St. Salvator and St. Leonard's, Edinburgh, and Glasgow; lord advoriite, 1783 and 1806; advocate and state councillor to the Prince of Wales in Scotland, 1783: dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1785-95; condemned theseditionandtreasonbills as unconstitutional, 1795, and so was not re-elected dean, 1796; M.P., Haddington burghs, 1H06, Dumfries burghs, 1806-7; a commissioner to inquire into administration of justice in Scotland, 1808; friend of the poor; published The Emigrant, an Eclogue 1773, and other poems.
Henry Napier Bruce Erskine: '''Henry Napier Bruce Erskine''' ([[1832]]-[[1893]]), commissioner of Scinde, 1879-87; son of William Erskine (1773-1852)
James Erskine, 6th Earl of Buchan: '''James Erskine''' , sixth EARL OF BUCHAN (d. 1640), son of John, second or seventh earl of Mar; j Earl of Buchan by marriage; lord of the bedchamber to ; Charles 1, 1625.
James Erskine, Lord Grange: '''James Erskine''' , LORD GRANGE ([[1679]]-[[1754]]), judge; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1705; lord of justiciary, 1707; lord justice clerk, with the title of Lord Grange, 1710; secretly intrigued with Jacobites, though professing loyalty to Hanoverian dynasty; denied the qualification of heritors, as heritors, to elect a minister, 1731; publicly celebrated his wife's funeral, 1732, though she was still alive in the Hebrides, a prisoner to prevent the disclosure of Jacobite secrets; resigned his judgeship in order to sit in parliament; M.P., Stirlingshire, 1734; opposed Walpole and (1736) the abolition of the statutes against witchcraft; secretary to Frederick, prince of Wales.

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James Erskine, Lord Alva: '''James Erskine''' ([[1722]]-[[1796]]), Scottish judge: son of Charles Erskine; advocate, 1743; sheriff depute of Perthshire, 1748; exchequer baron in Scotland, 1754; knight-marshal of Scotland, 1758; sessions judge as Lord Barjarg, 1761, afterwards as Lord Alva.
James Claudius Erskine: '''James Claudius Erskine''' ([[1821]]-[[1893]]), member of Indian civil service; son of William Erskine (17731852); judge of Bombay high court, 1862-3.
Sir James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn: '''Sir James St Erskine''' . CLAIR, second EARL OF ROSSLYN''' ([[1762]]-[[1837]]), general; son of Sir Henry Erskine (d. 1765); lieutenant, 38th regiment; lieutenant, 2nd dragoons, 1778; assistant adjutant-general in Ireland, 1782; M.P., Castle Rising, 1781-4, Morpeth, 1784; one of the managers of Warren Hastings's impeachment; M.P., Kirkcaldy burghs, 1790-1805; served as adjutantgeneral before Toulon, 1793, and in Corsica; aide-de-camp to the king, and colonel, 1795; major-general, 1798; commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean; lieutenant-general, 1805; succeeded his uncle as Earl of Rosslyn, 1805; sent with Simcoe (1806) on a special mission to Lisbon, which resulted in the despatch of Sir Arthur Wellesley to the Peninsula; general, 1814; G.O.B.; lord privy seal and privy councillor; lord president of the council, 1834
John Erskine: '''John Erskine''' , sixth BARON ERSKINE, and first or sixth EARL OF MAR of the ERSKINE line (d. 1572), regent of Scotland; put in charge of Edinburgh Castle, 1554; disregarded the warning of the lords of the congregation not to allow the queen regent to fortify Leith, 1559; refused to subscribe the Book of Discipline though a hearer of Kuox, 1560: privy councillor, 1561; favoured the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and Darnley; created, or possibly recognised as, Earl of Mar, 1565; assisted in suppressing Moray's rebellion, 1566; signed the order for Mary's commitment to Lochleven Castle, 1567; member of the council of government, 1567; fought at Langside, 1568; implored the assistance of Queen Klizabeth, when the safety of the young king, James VI. his ward, was endangered by Moray's murder, 1569; regent on the death of Lennox, 1571; proclaimed Morton, the real governor, lieutenant-general of the forces, 1671; consented to the extradition of the Duke of Northumberland in order to obtain Elizabeth's assistance, 1672: joined Morton in agreeing to the proposal of Killigrew, the English ambassador, that Mary should be delivered up to the extreme reformers, 1572.
John: '''John''' ([[1509]]-[[1591]]), of Dun, Scottish reformer; educated at King's College, Aberdeen: brought from the continent a French gentleman, Petrus de Marsiliers, whom he established at Montrose to teach Greek, 'nocht heard of beforein Scotland; friend of the reformer Wishart; supported the queen dowager, 1647; signed the first bond of the Scottish reformers inviting
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Erskine: '''Erskine''' Kuox to return from Geneva, 1567; signed tbe act suspending the queen regent, who had broken faith, 15! appointed superintendent for Angus and Mearns, 1560; allayed the anger of Mary Queen of Scots at the denunciations of Knox: remonstrated with the regent for proclaiming certain letters dismissing the collectors of the thirds of the benefices, 1571: agreed to the modified episcopacy introduced at tbe Leith convention, 1572; assisted in the compilation of the Second Book of Discipline 1578; member of the king's council, 1579; superintendent of the general assembly, 1589.
John Erskine: '''John Erskine''' , second or seventh EARL OK MAR of the EKSKINK line (1558-1634), lord high treasurer of Scotland; son of John, first or sixth earl: educated with James VI, who called him Jocky oSclaittis (slates); obtained the government of Stirling Castle and the guardianship of the young king, James VI, by stratagem, 1578; authorised, by the influence of Morton, to apprehend all uoh persons as entered Stirling Castle in arms while the king was there, 1579; accompanied the king from Stirling to Holyrood, 1579: foiled a plot of Lennox to carry off the king, 1680; excluded from the counsels of the kine 1 after Morton's arrest; regained possession of the king's person by theraid of Ruthven 1582; favourably received at court, the king bavin* escaped from hiskeeping, 1583; banished from England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1584: returned, and captured Stirling Castle in the protestant interest, 1584; found refuge in England from the resentment of King James; forfaulted 1584; returned to Scotland in arms; privy councillor of Scotland, 1585: great master of the household; guardian of the young Prince Henry, 1595; instrumental in preventing the success of the Gowrie conspiracy, 1600: ambassador to Elizabeth, at first as a cloak for assisting Essex's rebellion, but subsequently to negotiate James VI's accession to the English throne, 1601; member of the English privy council; K.G., 1603; created Baron Cardross, 1604; lord high treasurer of Scotland, 1616-30.
John Erskine: '''John Erskine''' , sixth or eleventh EARL OP MAR of the ERSKINE line (1675-1732), Jacobite leader; joined court party, 1696; privy councillor, 1697; K.T.; left court party, 1704; rejoined it, 1705: commissioner for the union, 1705: secretary of state for Scotland; keeper of the signet; Scottish representative peer, 1707, 1708, 1710, and 1713; privy councillor, 1708; advocated the repeal of the union, 1713; secretary of state, 1713; dismissed, though professing loyalty, 1714: set up James Edward, the Old Pretender's, stand ard at Braemar, 1715; his projected attack on Edinburgh foiled by the rapidity of Argyll's movements; defeated at Sheriffmuir, 1715; created duke by the Old Pretender, 1715: escaped with the Pretender to Gravelines; treated with George I for a partial restoration of tbe Stuarts, possibly to commend himself at the Hanoverian court, 1717: memorialised the regent of France with a proposal for dismembering the British empire, 1723; lost the confidence of the Pretender,
John Erskine: '''John Erskine''' ([[1695]]-[[1768]]), Scottish lawyer; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1719; professor of Scots law, Edinburgh, 1737-65; gave a connected view of the entire Scots law inPrinciples of the Law of Scotland 1754, and Institutes of the Law of Scotland published, 1773. 5, JOHN (1721 V-180U), theologian: son of John Erskine (1695-1768); educated at Edinburgh University; partially adopted Warburton's views; minister of Kirkintilloch, 1744-53, of Culross, 1753-8, of the New Greyfriars, 1758-67, and from 1767 of the Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh; D.D. Glasgow, 1766; friend of Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards; published pamphlets deprecating war with America, c. 1774; corresponded with Edmund Burke and lords Kames and Hailes; published controversial and theological works.
Ralph Erskine: '''Ralph Erskine''' ([[1685]]-[[1752]]), Scottish seceding divine and poet; son of Henry Erskine (1624-1696); possibly M.A. Edinburgh; minister of the second charge, Dunfermliue, 1711, of the first charge, 1716; one of the twelve apostles of 1721; seceded, 1737; deposed, with his colleagues, 1740; publishedFaith no Fancy to discountenance Whitefield's revival, 1742, also Gospel Sonnets(25th edit. 1797) andScripture Songs collected, 1754.
Thomas Erskine: '''Thomas Erskine''' , first EARL OF KELLIK, first
Fkxtox Viscount: '''Fkxtox Viscount''' and first BARON DIKLKTON ([[1566]]1639); educated with James VI; gentleman of the bedchamber, 1685; privy councillor in Scotland, 1601: captain of the yeomen of the guard, 1603-32; created Baron Dirleton, 1604, Viscount Fenton, 1606; K.G., 1616: rewarded for his scheme of respite of homage with the earldom of Kellle, 1619.
Thomas Erskine: '''Thomas Erskine''' , first BAHON EH.SKINK ([[1750]]1823), lord chancellor: midshipman in the West Indies, 1764-8: bought commission in 1st royal regiment of foot, 1768; published a pamphlet on * Abuses in the Army; advised by Lord Mansfield to go to the bar: studied at Lincoln's Inn, 1775; gentleman commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1776; honorary M.A., 1778: called to the bar, 1778; gained the day for his client, Thomas Baillie , by a fierce onslaught on the opposing party, Lord Sandwich, first lord of the admiralty, 1778; obtained a verdict of not guilty for Lord George Gordon, 1781; did much to mould English commercial law, an almost new department of jurisprudence; first barrister to refuse to go on circuit except for a special fee; intimate friend of Sheridan and Fox; M.P. for Portsmouth on formation of coalition government, 1783; attorney-general to the Prince of Wales, 1783: spoke ineffectively on Fox's East India bill; denounced Pitt's India bill, 1784; lost his seat at the dissolution, 1784; hissed for unsparing abuse of Pitt in his speech as counsel for the East India Company, 1788; contributed by bis speech on a libel caw to the passing (1792) of Fox's Libel Act; successfully defended Stockdale on a charge of libelling the managers of Hastings's impeachment, 1789: M.P., Portsmouth, 17901 806; lost his office of attorney -general to the Prince of j Wales by appearing on behalf of Thomas Paine, 1792; procured acquittal for most of those prosecuted by j the government for conspiracy or constructive treason, ! 1793-4; issued Causes and Consequences of the War with I France 1797; supported Peace of Amiens in parliament i and spoke (1795) against Seditious Meetings Bill; lord ! chancellor, though ignorant of equity, 1806; created ! Baron Erskine of Restormel, 1806; his decisions unfairly 1 termed theApocrypha presided at Lord Melville's ! trial, 1806; resigned the seals, 1807; moved that the king's : personal inclinations ought not to be binding on minisi ters; became an advocate of negro emancipation; retired into private life, studied farming, and wrote Armata a political romance; K.T.; opposed the second reading of the bill of pains and penalties against Queen Caroline, 1820, and the Six Acts, 1819 and 1820; protested j against the Corn Law Bill, 1822; worked for the cause of I Greek independence, 1822-3.
Thomas Erskine: '''Thomas Erskine''' ([[1788]]-[[1864]]), judge; son of Thomas, first baron Erekine; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1811; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1813: king's counsel, 1827; chief judge in bankruptcy, 1831-42: privy councillor; judge of common pleas, 1839-44; friend of Charles Kingsley.
Thomas Erskine: '''Thomas Erskine''' ([[1788]]-[[1870]]), advocate and theologian; grandson of John Erskine (1695-1768); educated at Edinburgh High School and University: member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1810; espoused and developed John M'Leod Campbell's doctrine ofuniversal atonement 1831; friend of Carlyle, Dean Stanley, and F. D. Maurice; seemed to Prevost-Paradol, a kind of old prophet upheld Calvinism as makingGod all in all published Christian apologetics and expository works, includingRemarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth of Revealed Religion 1820.
Thomas Alexander Erskine: '''Thomas Alexander Erskine''' , sixth EARL OP
Kklltk: '''Kklltk''' ([[1732]]-[[1781]]), musical dilettante: studied music in Germany; director of the St. Cecilia concerts at Edinburgh; notorious for his coarse joviality. A collection of his minuets was published in 1836.
William Erskine: '''William Erskine''' (d. [[1685]]) : son of John, second or seventh carl of Mar; master of Charterhouse, 1677-85; cupbearer to Charles II; M.R.S.
Erskine: '''Erskine''' Sin WILLIAM ([[1769]]-[[1813]]), major-gene, ral; lieutenant, 15th light dragoons, 1788; captain, 1791; created baronet, 1791: one of the officers who saved the Emperor Leopold at Villiers-en-Couche, 1793; M.P., Fifeshire, 1796 and 1802-5; major-general, 1808; commanded the light division at Torres Vedras, though too recklessly
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Estye: '''Estye''' to be successful: commanded Hills's cavalry in the advance on Madrid, 1812; cashiered as insane; killed himself at Lisbon.
William Erskine: '''William Erskine''' , LORD KINNBDER ([[1769]]-[[1822]]), friend of Sir Walter Scott; educated at Glasgow University: advocate at the Scottish bar, 1790; guided Scott in his studies of German drama and romance: negotiated for Scott's translation of Lenore 1796: sheriff depute of Orkney, 1809: promoted to the bench as Lord Kinneder, 1822; ruined in health by a groundless accusation of immorality: wrote Scottish songs.
William Erskine: '''William Erskine''' ([[1773]]-[[1852]]), historian and orientalist; educated at Edinburgh; apprenticed as lawyer; accompanied Sir James Mackintosh to India, 1804; stipendiary magistrate; master in equity in recorder's court of Bombay, 1820; member of committee of three which drew up Bombay code of regulations; accused of defalcations and deprived of offices, 1823; settled in Edinburgh, 1826; provost of St. Andrews, 1836-9. He had made a careful study of Persian, and published in 1826 a translation ofBabar's Memoirs with valuable preface, introduction, and notes. His writings include 4 History of India under Babar and Humayun 1864.

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Harry Escombe: '''Harry Escombe''' ([[1838]]-[[1899]]), premier of Natal ; educated at St. Paul's School; went to Natal, 1860; attorney-at-law; solicitor and standing counsel for Durban; member for Durban in legislative council, 1872; served in Durban rifles through Zulu campaign, 1879-80, and Transvaal war, 1881; again member for Durban, 1879-85; on executive council, 1880-3; member of council for Newcastle, 1886, Klip River, 1888, and Durban, 1890-7; attorney-general, 1893: premier, 1897; privy councillor and LL.D. Cambridge, 1897.
James Esdahe: '''James Esdahe''' ([[1808]]-[[1859]]), surgeon and mesmerist; M.D. Edinburgh, 1830: put in charge of East India Company's Hooghly hospital, 1838; adopted and successfully employed mesmerism for production of anaesthesia, 1845; entrusted with hospital in Calcutta for purposes of experiment, 1846; presidency surgeon, 1848; marine surgeon, 1850; published records of his cases and works on mesmerism.
William Esdaile: '''William Esdaile''' ([[1758]]-[[1837]]), banker and printcollector; employed in the firm of Esdaile, Hammet & Co., Lombard Street: retired, broken down, 1832; visited Italy, 1825 and 1835; possessed a very complete set of Rembrandt etchings and Claude drawings.
Viscount: '''Viscount''' ([[1815]]-[[1899]]). See BRETT, WIL-
Baliol Liam: '''Baliol Liam''' .
Lord Eskgrove: '''Lord Eskgrove''' ([[1724]] ?-l [[804]]). See RAK, SIR
David: '''David'''
Sir Laurence Esmonde: '''Sir Laurence Esmonde''' , BARON ESMONDE (1570 ?-1646), governor of Duncannon: served in the Netherlands and (1599) in Ireland; knighted, 1599; governor of Duncannon, 1606-46; joint-commissioner to survey confiscated territory in Wexford, 1611; charged with packing juries and torturing witnesses in order to deprive the O'Byrnes of their land, 1619; created Baron I ESTLIN, JOHN BISHOP (1785-1855), sui Esmonde, 1622. of John Prior Estlin; studied at Guy's
Countess of Essex: '''Countess of Essex''' ([[1794]]-[[1882]]). See STEPHENS,
Catherine: '''Catherine''' :, ALFRED (.f. 1837), artist; son of William Essex; executed plates for Muss; published paper on painting in enamel, 1837.
James Essex: '''James Essex''' ([[1722]]-[[1784]]), builder and architect: designed and built west front of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1775, with other collegiate buildings; executed restorations and alterations in Ely Cathedral, 1757-62; put up the four spires and battlement of the central tower at Lincoln, 1775; F.S.A., 1772; published architectural pamphlets.
Timothy Essex: '''Timothy Essex''' ([[1765]] ?-[[1847]]), composer ; Mus.Doc. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1812; organist to St. George's Chapel, Albemarle Street; composed canzonets, duets, and sonatinas.
William Essex: '''William Essex''' B. ([[1822]]-[[1852]]), artist ; son of William Essex; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1845-61.
William Essex: '''William Essex''' ([[1784]] ?-[[1869]]), enamel-painter to Princess Augusta, Queen Victoria (1839), and the prince consort; exhibited at the Royal Academy and other institutions,
Este Est: '''Este Est''' , or EASTE, MICHAEL ([[1680]] ?-[[1680]] ?).
Estcour: '''Estcour''' T, EDGAR EDMUND ([[1816]]-[[1884]]), canon of St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham; M.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1840; converted to Roman Catholicism, 1845; diocesan aeconomus in the western district, 18501884; best-known work, The Question of Anglican Ordinations discussed 1873.
James Bucknall Buoknall Estcotjrt: '''James Bucknall Buoknall Estcotjrt''' (1802-1855), major-general; ensign, 1820: superintended magnetic experiments in Euphrates Valley expedition, 1834-6; M.P., Devizes, 1848; fought at Inkerman and the Alma, 1854: major-general, 1864; unfairly blamed for sufferings of Crimean troops; died in Crimea.
Richard Estcotjrt: '''Richard Estcotjrt''' ([[1668]]-[[1712]]), actor and dramatist; travelling actor, 1683; first appeared at Drury Lane, 1704; specially selected by Farquhar for the part of Sergeant Kite; commended by his friend Steele; published a drama and an interlude.
Thomas Henry Sutton Sothe Estcotjrt: '''Thomas Henry Sutton Sothe Estcotjrt''' -
Ron: '''Ron''' ([[1801]]-[[1876]]), statesman; educated at Harrow and Oriel College, Oxford; M.A., 1826; D.C.L., 1857; conservative M.P., Marlborough, 1829, Devizes, 1835-44, and North Wiltshire, 1844-65; privy councillor, 1858; home secretary, 3 March-18 June 1859.
Charles Este: '''Charles Este''' ([[1696]]-[[1746]]), bishop of Waterford ; queen's scholar, Westminster; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1722; bishop of Ossory, 1736-40; D.D. Dublin, 1736: bishop of Waterford, 1740.
Este: '''Este''' or EST, THOMAS ([[1540]] ?-[[1608]] ?).
Walter Espec: '''Walter Espec''' (d. [[1153]]), founder of Rievaulx Abbey, 1131, of Warden Abbey, 1135; itinerant justice in the north during Henry I's reign; a leader in the Battle of the Standard, 1138; died a recluse,
Kings Op Essex: '''Kings Op Essex''' .
Earls of Essex: '''Earls of Essex''' . See MANDEVILLE, GEOFFREY DE, first EARL, d. 1144; MANDEVILLB, WILLIAM DE, third EARL, d. 1189; FITZPETER, GKOFFKKY, fourth EARL, d. 1213; BOHUN, HUMPHREY DE, first EARL of the second creation, d. 1274; BOHUN, HUMPHREY DE, second EARL, d. 1298; BOHUN, HUMPHREY DE, third EARL, 1276-1322; BOURCHIKR, HENRY, first EARL of the third creation, d. 1483; BOURCHIER, HKNRY, second EARL, d. 1539; CROMWELL, THOMAS, first EARL of the fourth creation, I486 ?1640; PARR, WILLIAM, first EARL of the fifth creation, 1513-1571; DEVEREUX, WALTER, first EARL of the sixth creation. 1541 ?-1576; DEVEREUX, ROBERT, second EARL, 1667-1601; DEVERKUX, ROBERT, third EARL, 1591-1646: OAPEL, ARTHUR, first EARL of the seventh creation, 1681-1683; OAPEL, WILLIAM, third EARL, 1697-143. rereon; son 5 Hospital: established (.1812) and" conducted (1812-48) ophthalmic dispensary at Bristol; F.R.C.S., 1843; published Remarks on Mesmerism 1845.

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John Prior Estlin: '''John Prior Estlin''' ([[1747]]-[[1817]]), Unitarian minister; co-pastor at Lewin's Mead, Bristol, 1771: LL.D. l Glasgow, 1807; friend of Coleridge, Southey, and Robert Hall; his Familiar Lectures published, 1818.
Adam Eston: '''Adam Eston''' (d. [[1397]]).
Estwick: '''Estwick''' or EASTWICK, SAMPSON (d. [[1739]]), musician: M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1680; B.D., 1692; minor prebendary of St. Paul's, 1692; superinten ! dent of the choir, 1698-1739; sacrist, 1699; the Sam of Henry Aldrich's famous smoking catch; published ser I inon on The Usefulness of Church Musick 1696.
George Estye: '''George Estye''' ([[1566]]-[[1601]]), divine; B.A. Caius College, Cambridge, 1581; fellow; M.A., 1584; B.D., 1591; preacher of St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmunds, 1598 1601; author of Calvinistic expositions of scripture. I
Ethelbald: '''Ethelbald''' 409
Ethel: '''Ethel''' W uLF
Aid Ethels: '''Aid Ethels''' or JETHELBALD (d. [[757]]), king of Mercia, 716; overlonl as far north as the Humber; in- i vaded Wesscx, 733; defeated at Burford by the revolted Outhred of Wessex, 752; liberal to the church; slain at Seccandune (Seckington).
Ethelbald: '''Ethelbald''' or JETHELBALD (d. [[860]]), king of the i West-Saxona; supplanted his father, -,Ethelwulf, 856: married Judith, his father's widow, 858; said, without foundation, to have separated from her at St. Swithun's ! instance.
Jethelberht Ethelbert: '''Jethelberht Ethelbert''' , or JEDLLBERCT (552 ?-616), king of Kent, 660: defeated by the WestSaxons, 568; married Bertha, daughter of the Prankish king, Clmribert, giving her St. Martin's Church, Canterbury: baptised by St. Augustine, 597: promulgated a code of In ws,according to the Roman fashion; built a cathedral at Rochester.
Jethelberht Ethelbert: '''Jethelberht Ethelbert''' . JEGELBRIHT, or
Albert: '''Albert''' s.iNT(rf. [[794]]), king of the East- Angles ; be1 leaded, by command of Off a, king of the Mercians, 794, ooomng to one legend, through thn machinations of Cynethryth, Offa's queen, who suspected him of designs on Mercia; venerated at Hereford as patron of the cathedral,
Ethelbert: '''Ethelbert''' or JETHELBERHT (rf. [[866]]), king of the West-Saxons and Kentishmen; king of Wessex, 860, of Kent, according to Asser, 855: harassed by Danish marauders.
Ethelbttrga: '''Ethelbttrga''' or JETHELBTTRH, SAINT (d. [[676]] ?), abbess of Barking: appointed abbess of Barking by her brother, Erkenwald, bishop of London.
Saint Etheldreda: '''Saint Etheldreda''' ([[630]] ?-[[679]]), queen of Northumbria and abbess of Ely; married Tonbert, prince of the fen-men, 652, and, subsequently, Egfrid, son of Oswy of Northumbria; disowned marriage duties; induced by Wilfrid to enter a monastery; founded an abbey at Ely; consecrated abbess of Ely, 673; eulogised by Baeda. The present cathedral of Ely was subsequently erected over her tomb.
Jethelfljed Ethelfleda: '''Jethelfljed Ethelfleda''' , or JELFLED (7. 918?), thelady of the Mercians daughter of King Alfred; married to JEthelred, ealdorman of the Mercians, e. 880: made alliance with Welsh and Scots of Ireland; inspired defence of Chester against Ingwar, a Norwegian chief who had been given land in the neighbourhood; 'Lady of the Merciansafter jEthelred's death in 912; built fortresses in Mercia; stormed Brecknock, 916. rxviii. 21
Jethelfrith Ethelfrid: '''Jethelfrith Ethelfrid''' , or AEDILFRID (.. 61 7), king of the Northumbrians, 593; called Flesaurs; defeated Scots, British, and Irish at Dtegsastane, 603: defeated Welsh near Chester, 613; defeated and slain by Raedwald of East Anglia.
Jethelgar Ethelgar: '''Jethelgar Ethelgar''' , or ALGAR (d. [[990]]), archbishop of Canterbury; abbot of Newminster (Hyde Abbey), near Winchester, when JEthelwold expelled the secular clergy, 964; bishop of Selsey, 980; archbishop of I Canterbury, 988.
Ethelgiva: '''Ethelgiva''' (. [[956]]).
Jethelheard Ethelhard: '''Jethelheard Ethelhard''' , ADELARD, or
Edelred: '''Edelred''' (d. [[805]]), archbishop of Canterbury ; elected archbishop of Canterbury, 791; consecrated, 793, the delay being due to the Kentish men's dislike of a prelate interested in maintaining the primacy of Li ch field; refugee at the Mercian court, 797-8; recognised as metropolitan, 803.
Elmer Ethelmjer: '''Elmer Ethelmjer''' , or JELMER (,l. [[1137]]), also called HERLKWIN, ascetic writer; prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, 1128; supported Archbishop William of Corbeuil against the convent, 1136; wroteDe exercitiis spiritualis vitae also a volume of letters destroyed in the Oottonian Library fire, 1731.
Ethelmjer: '''Ethelmjer''' (d. [[1260]]). See AYMER (or ETHELM.ER) DE VALENCK (or DE LUSIGNAN).
Jethelnoth Ethelnoth: '''Jethelnoth Ethelnoth''' , Lat. EGELNODKS or
Ednodus: '''Ednodus''' (d. [[1038]]), archbishop of Canterbury ; related i to kings of Wessex; one of Onut's chaplains; archbishop of Canterbury, 1020; supported Harthacnut; called the Good
Ethelred: '''Ethelred''' or JETHELRED I (d. [[871]] kiug of tl 5 West-Saxons and Kentishmen; king, 866; saved Mercia from Danish invaders, 868: defeated by the Danes near Reading, 871; routed the Danes at Ashdown in a battle c upposed to be commemorated by the White Horse at Dfflngton; mortally wounded at Mertou.

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Ethelred: '''Ethelred''' or JETHELRED (d. [[889]]), archbishop of Canterbury; monk of Christ Church, Canterbury: archbishop, 870-89.
Ethelred: '''Ethelred''' or JETHELRED LT, the USREADY (i.e. the resourceless) (968 7-1016), king of England; son of Eadgar; came to the crown (978) through the murder of his brother Edward the Martyr; induced by covetousness anil the representations of his favourite, thelsine, to ravage the pee of Rochester. 986; bought the alliance of the Norwegian invader, Olaf Tryggvapon, 991; defeated Olafs fleet, 992; bought off an attack by Olaf and Swend, 994; published laws regulating bail and surety and (997) a police code; unsuccessfully invaded Cotentin, 1000: married Emma, daughter of Richard the Fearless, duke of Normandy; massacred the Danes settled in England, 1002; attacked by Malcolm, king of Scots, 1006; promulgated code of military regulations, 1008; ordered the whole nation to be called out against the Danes; crippled by Danish sympathies of his favourite, Edric or Eadric Streona; bought off the Danes for 48,000?., 1012; fled to Rouen (1013") after Swend of Denmark had been formally chosen king of England, 1013; brought back to England by Olaf and the witan after Swend's death, 1014; expelled King Cnut, 1014; implicated in the assassination of the Danish thegns Sigeferth and Morkere, 1015.
Jethelred Ethelred: '''Jethelred Ethelred''' , AILRED, or AELRED (1109 ?-1166), historical writer; in the service of Prince Henry of Scotland; abbot of Revesby: abbot of Rievaulx, 1146-66: brought about meeting of Henry II of England and Louis VII of France with Pope Alexander III at Tonci, 1162; composed rhythmical prose eulogy of St. Cuthbert; missionary to Galloway Picts, whose chief he persuaded to become a monk; canonised, 1191. His works includeVita et Miracula S. Edwardi Regis et Confessoris De Bello Standardii and Chronicon ab Adam ad Henricum I
Jethelstan Ethelstan: '''Jethelstan Ethelstan''' , or JELFSTAN ( rt. 946), ealdorman of East Anglia, c. 929; member of the royal house of Wessex; nicknamed the Half-king by reason of his great power; became a monk at Glastoubury, 956.
Ethelwerd: '''Ethelwerd''' or JETHELWEARD (d. [[998]] ?), chronicler; styled himself Patricius Consul Fabius Quaestor (ealdorman) in his Latin chronicle; possibly the ealdorman who persuaded Olaf of Norway to conclude the treaty of Andover with yEthelred II, 994; compiled a history extending from the creation to 973 A.D., first edited by Savile, 1596.
Jethelwine Ethelwine: '''Jethelwine Ethelwine''' , or ALLWTN (d. 992), ealdorman of East Anglia: son of the ealdorman Ethelstan; ealdorman, 962; built and endowed Benedictine monastery in the isle of Ramsey in Huntingdonshire at the suggestion of Oswald, bishop of Worcester, 968; abbot, though a layman, with Oswald; defended the monasteries of East Anglia against the Mercian faction, 975; chief ealdorman, 983.
Jethelwold Ethelwold: '''Jethelwold Ethelwold''' , or ALELWOLD,
Saixt: '''Saixt''' ([[908]] ?-[[984]]), bishop of Winchester ; dean of Glastonbury Abbey; refouuded a monastic house at Abingdon, c. 964; introduced the strict Benedictine rule from Fleury; bishop of Winchester, 963; forcibly expelled the secular clerks from Winchester, Ohertsey, Milton, and Ely, with King Eadgar's support; narrowly escaped being poisoned; rebuilt church of Peterborough; built a new cathedral at Winchester; restored the nunnery at Winchester: author of a treatise on the circle and translator of theRegularis concordia
Jethelwttlf Ethelwttlf: '''Jethelwttlf Ethelwttlf''' , ADELWLF, or
Athttlf: '''Athttlf''' (d. [[858]]), king of the West-Saxons and Kentishmen; bishop of Winchester; made king of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey by his father, Ecgberht, 828; king of Weseex, 839; defeated by the Danes in a naval engagement, 842; routed the Danes at Ockley, 852; freed a tenth part of the folclands from all burdens except the tfinoda necessitat, c. 854; made a pilgrimage to Rome, possibly originating the payment of Peter's pence; married Judith, daughter
Ethereg: '''Ethereg''' -E 410
Evans: '''Evans''' of Charles the Bald, at Verberie, 856: declined to make war upoii his rebellious son Etbelbald, and allowed him V-sex; by his will charged every ten hides of his property with the support of a poor man (857 ?).
Etherege: '''Etherege''' or ETHRYGG, GEORGE, in Latin
Edrycus: '''Edrycus''' (.?. [[1588]]), classieal scholar ; scholar of Corpus Christ! College, Oxford, 1534; probationer-fellow, 1539; M.A., 1543: M.B., 1545; regius professor of Greek, 16471550 and 1664-9: deprived as a catholic, 1659. His works include a Latin translation of part of Justin Martyr.
Sir George Etherege: '''Sir George Etherege''' ([[1635]] V-[[1691]]), dramatist : employed by Charles II and James II on diplomatic missions; knighted; produced Comical Revenge 1664, She would if she could 1667, and The Man of Mode 1676, three comedies; helped to popularise rhyme in comedy.
John Wesley Etheridge: '''John Wesley Etheridge''' ([[1804]]-[[1866]]), Wesleyan minister; second minister in the Brighton circuit, 1831: Ph.D. Heidelberg, 1847; principal work, The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch, &c. 1862 and 1865.
James Etkins: '''James Etkins''' ([[1613]] ?-[[1687]]).
William Etty: '''William Etty''' ([[1787]]-[[1849]]), painter; studied in the Royal Academy school at Somerset House; first exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1811; travelled on the continent; made a great impression with Cleopatra 1821; R.A., 1828; sold his Joan of Arc pictures for 2,500?. Some minor works are in National Gallery, London, and at South Kensington.
Eugene: '''Eugene''' (*. [[618]]).
Eugenius: '''Eugenius''' I, unhistorical king of Scotland, (according to Buchanan) thirty-ninth king after Fergus Mac Ferchard.
Etjge: '''Etjge''' nluS H, (according to Buchanan) forty-first king of Scotland; supposed sou of Fergus Mac Earc.
Hi Ettgenius: '''Hi Ettgenius''' , (according to Buchanan) forty-sixth king of Scotland.
Iv Eugentus: '''Iv Eugentus''' , (according to Buchanan) fifty-first king of Scotland; identified with Eocboid Buidhe (reigned 606-29).
Eugentus: '''Eugentus''' V, (according to Buchanan) fifty-sixth king of Scotland; identified with Eocboid Rinnenhail (c. 670). EU GENIUS VI (. 650), (according to Buchanan) fifty-seventh king of Scotland; also called Eogan and Ewen; contemporary with Adamnan.
Vti Eugenius: '''Vti Eugenius''' , (according to Buchanan) fifty-ninth king of Scotland; reigned 680-97.

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Eugenius: '''Eugenius''' Vni, (according to Buchanan) sixtysecond king of Scotland; reigned 761-4.
Phtlalethes Eugenius: '''Phtlalethes Eugenius''' (pseudonym). See
Thomas Vaughan: '''Thomas Vaughan''' , [[1622]]-[[1666]]. EU8DEN, LAURENCE (1688-1730), poet laureate; scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1706; M.A., 1712; fellow, 1712; given the laureateship (1718) by the Duke of Newcastle, whose marriage he bad celebrated, 1717; rector of Coningsby; the L. E of Pope and Swift's treatise on bathos; published metrical panegyrics and translations from Clnudian and Statins.
Eustace: '''Eustace''' ((. [[1215]]), bishop of Ely : vice-chancellor, keeper of the royal seal, and (1197) chancellor: dean of Salisbury; bishop of Ely, 1197; sent by Richard I to remonstrate with Philip Augustus of France on alleged infringements of the five yearspeace; one of three prelates selected by Pope Innocent III to urge King John to recognise Stephen Langton as primate, 1208; pronounced the interdict and escaped, 1208; associated with Archbishop Langton in procuring from Rome sentence of deposition on King John.
James Eustace: '''James Eustace''' , third VISCOUNT BALTIXOLAS (f. 1585); headed an Irish catholic insurrection in 1680; escaped to Sim in; outlawed and attainted; died in Spain.
John Chetwode Eustace: '''John Chetwode Eustace''' ([[1762]] ?-18l6), classical antiquary; took the habit at St. Gregory's Convent, Douay; priest: friend of Edmund Burke; recorded hi* continental travels inA Tonr through Italy 1813, written in a latitudinariun spirit
Roland Fitz Eustace: '''Roland Fitz Eustace''' , BARON POKTI .KSTKK (rf. 1496), lord- treasurer in Ireland, 1454 (confirmed 1461): created Baron Portlester, 1461: twice accused of treason falsely; chancellor in Ireland, 1472-82 and 1488-96: took part in the Lambert Simnel rebellion, 1487. xviii. 531
Abel Evans: '''Abel Evans''' ([[1679]]-[[1737]]), divine and poet; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool; probationer-fellow, St. John's College, Oxford, 1692; M.A., 1699; D.D., 1711; expelled from chaplaincy of his college, but reinstated by Duchess of Maryborough's influence; famous for his satire on The Apparition: a dialogue betwixt the Devil and a Doctor concerning the rights of the Christian Church 1710; epigrammatist.
Anne Evans: '''Anne Evans''' ([[1820]]-[[1870]]), poet and musical composer; daughter of Arthur Benoni Evans
Arise Evans: '''Arise Evans''' (b. [[1607]]). See EVANS, RHYS or
Rice: '''Rice'''
Arthur Benoni Evans: '''Arthur Benoni Evans''' ([[1781]]-[[1854]]), miscellaneous writer; son of Lewis Evans (1755-1827); M.A. St. John's College, Oxford, 1820; D.D., 1828; professor of classics and history in the Royal Military College, 1805-22; held country curacies; head-master of Market Bosworth grammar school, 1829-54. His works include Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs 1848, and poems and sermons.
Benjamin Evans: '''Benjamin Evans''' ([[1740]]-[[1821]]), Welsh congregational minister; published abolitionist and sectarian works in Welsh.
Brooke Evans: '''Brooke Evans''' ([[1797]]-[[1862]]), nickel refiner ; partner with a gunmaker in New York; indigo planter and merchant in Central America; amateur navigator; associated with one Askin in a venture for refining nickel from nickelspeiss; built works at Birmingham, 1835; obtained nickel from nickel-ore containing cobalt.
Caleb Evans: '''Caleb Evans''' ([[1831]]-[[1886]]), geologist ; educated at University College School; clerk in the chancery pay office, 1852-82; F.G.S., 1867; first English geologist to divide Croydou and Oxted limestone into zones.
Charles Smart Evans: '''Charles Smart Evans''' ([[1778]]-[[1849]]), vocalist and composer; gentleman of Chapel Royal: alto singer in the chorus of the Ancient Concerts of 1798; composed part-songs, motetts, and aMagnificat
Christmas Evans: '''Christmas Evans''' ([[1766]]-[[1838]]), one of the great Welsh preachers; originally a farm labourer; baptist minister in Anglesey, 1792-1826, ruling autocratically: called the Bunyan of Wales; his sermons published in Welsh.
Cornelius Evans: '''Cornelius Evans''' (. [[1648]]), impostor ; a native of Marseilles; impersonated Charles, prince of Wales, at Sandwich, 1648; escaped from Newgate, 1648.
Daniel Evans: '''Daniel Evans''' ([[1774]]-[[1835]]), independent minister in North Wales, 1796-1835; published Welsh memoirs and sectarian works.
Daniel Evans: '''Daniel Evans''' ([[1792]]-[[1846]]), Welsh poet ; commonly called DANIEL Du o GERKDIGION: fellow of Jesus College, Oxford; M.A., 1817; B.D., 1824; took orders; committed suicide, 1846; published Welsh poems,
David Morier Evans: '''David Morier Evans''' ([[1819]]-[[1874]]), financial journalist; assistant city correspondent on theTimes started the Hour 1873; bankrupt on its failure; published financial works.
Edward Evans: '''Edward Evans''' ( rf. [[1615]]), divine ; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford: M.A., 1602; fellow, 1595-1604; published sermons, 1616.
Edward Evans: '''Edward Evans''' ([[1716]]-[[1798]]), Welsh poet and bard of Druidic descent; pastor at Aberdare, 1772-98. xvin. 60 j
Edward Evans: '''Edward Evans''' ([[1789]]-[[1835]]), printseller ; published Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved Portraits.
Edward David Evans: '''Edward David Evans''' ([[1818]]-[[1860]]), printeeller ; I son of Edward Evans (1789-1835)

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Evan Evans: '''Evan Evans''' ([[1731]]-[[1789]]), Welsh poet and antiquary: studied at Merton College, Oxford; took orders; embodied his researches inSome Specimens of the... Antient Welsh Bards, translated into English 1764; published one English and several Welsh poems; granted an annuity by Paul 1'auton of Anglesey on condition of bequeathing him his manuscripts.
Evan Evans: '''Evan Evans''' ([[1804]]-[[1886]]), founder and pastor (1881-6) of the first Welsh church in Arkansas, U.S.A.; known as EVANS BACH NAXTYGLO; published nonconformist treatises in Welsh.
Evan Berber Evans: '''Evan Berber Evans''' ([[1836]]-[[1896]]), Welsh divine : studied at Normal College, Swansea, and Memorial College, Brecon; ordained pastor of Libanus Church, Morriston, 1862; pastor of Salem Church, Carnarvon, 1865-94; lecturer on homiletics at Bala-Bangor Congregational College, 1891: became principal, 1894; editor of Y Dysgedydd The Instructor), 1880-96: popular preacher. NOWKN
Evans: '''Evans''' Sin FREDERICK JOHN OWEN ([[1815]]-[[1885]]), hydrographer; second-class volunteer in the navy, 1828; surveyed the Coral Sea, the great barrier reef, and Torres Straits, 1841-6: published, when superintendent of the compass department, a Report on Compass Deviations in the Royal Navy 1860; captain, 1872; hydrographer to the admiralty, 1874-84; K.C.B., 1881.
George Evans: '''George Evans''' ([[1630]] ?-[[1702]]), antiquary ; fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge; canon of Windsor, 1660; D.D. Cambridge, 1665: his collections on the history of St. George's Chapel printed in Ashmole's Berkshire 1719.
Sir George De Lacy Evans: '''Sir George De Lacy Evans''' ([[1787]]-[[1870]]), general ; ensign, 1807; served against Amir Khan, 1807; lieutenant, 1809; served in Peninsula; twice wounded before New Orleans, 1814 and 1815; engaged at Waterloo, 1815; lieutenant-colonel by brevet, 1815; M.P., Rye, 1831, Westminster, 1833: commanded British legion aiding Christina of Spain against Don Carlos, 1835-7; rendered great services to the Spanish government at Bilbao, Heruani, and elsewhere; K.O.B., 1837; grand cross of St. Ferdinand and Charles III; M.P., Westminster, 1846, 1852, 1857, and 1859-65; repulsed sortie from Sebastopol, 1854; G.C.B., 1855; honorary D.O.L. Oxford; general, 1861. of Meath:
John Evans: '''John Evans''' (d. [[1724]]), bishop of Meath : B.A. Jesus College, Oxford, 1671; minister at Fort St. George, Madras, 1692; engaged in merchandise; bishop of Baugor, 1702; opposed the peace, 1712; bishop of Meath, 1716-24.
John Evans: '''John Evans''' ([[1680]]9-[[1730]]), divine ; congregational minister at Wrexham, 1702-4; sole pastor of the Hand Alley meeting-house, Westminster, 1716; honorary D.D. Edinburgh and Aberdeen: completed part of a history of nonconformity from the Reformation to the civil war.
John Evans: '''John Evans''' ([[1693]] ?-[[1734]] ?), actor ; joint-manager of Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.
John Evans: '''John Evans''' (d. [[1779]]), curate of Portsmouth : published a Harmony of the Four Gospels in Welsh, 1765.
John Evans: '''John Evans''' (. [[1812]]), author ; B.A. Jesus College, Oxford, 1792; author of North Wales 1812, and kindred works.
John Evans: '''John Evans''' ([[1767]]-[[1827]]), baptist minister; matriculated at King's College, Aberdeen, 1787; M.A. Edinburgh; general baptist pastor, Worship Street, London, 1792-1827; F.S.A., 1803-25: LL.D. Brown University, 1819; published miscellaneous writings.
John Evans: '''John Evans''' ([[1774]]-[[1828]]), printer: printed and edited the Bristol Observer 1819-23; published work on psalmody, 1823, and a history of Bristol, 1824; killed by the sudden falling of the Brunswick Theatre, Well Street.
John Evans: '''John Evans''' (d. [[1832]]), miscellaneous writer ; kept private schools in Bristol and London; published essays and topographical notices of Bristol.
John Evans: '''John Evans''' , OP LLWYNPPORTUN ([[1779]]-[[1847]]), Welsh methodist; methodist deacon, 1808; curate in the episcopal church; returned to methodism: a famous preacher.
John Evans: '''John Evans''' ([[1814]]-[[1875]]), better known as I. D
Ffraip: '''Ffraip''' Welsh poet and Calviuistic methodist miuiter ; published poems, 1835, and a History of the Jews 1830, in Welsh; translated the Night Thoughts and Paradise Lost into Welsh.
John Evans: '''John Evans''' , 'EOLWYSBACH' ([[1840]]-[[1897]]), Welsh Wesleyan divine; shepherd; ordained, 1865; pastor at Liverpool, 1866-9, and 1872-8, Bangor, 1869-72, and 1886-9, Oswestry, 1889-90, and London, 1878-86 and 18901893; member of Legal hundred of Wealeyau conference, 1884, and chairman of South Wales district, 1895; organised and conductedforward movement mission in Glamorgan: frequently styledthe Welsh Spurgeon; published biographical and religious writings in Welsh.
Lewis Evans: '''Lewis Evans''' (fl. [[1574]]), controversialist; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1557; B.D., 1662; offended Bishop (Jrindal by his zealous Catholicism, and fled the country; published at Antwerp an attack on protestantism, 1565; published attacks on Romanism after 1568.
Lewis Evans: '''Lewis Evans''' ([[1755]]-[[1827]]), mathematician ; matriculated at Merton College, Oxford, 1774; vicar of Froxfleld, Wiltshire, 1788-1827; first mathematical master, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1799-1820; F.R.S., 1823; F.A.S.; contributed to Philosophical Magazine.*
Philip Evans: '''Philip Evans''' ([[1645]]-[[1679]]), Jesuit ; studied at St. Omer; missioner in North Wales, 1675; executed during Popish plot persecution.
Rhys Evans: '''Rhys Evans''' or RICE (6. [[1607]]), fanatic ; adopted name of ARISE EVANS; independent; imprisoned on the charge that he had declared himself to be Christ, 1647: petitioned Cromwell to restore Charles II, 1653; published mystical tracts.
Richard Evans: '''Richard Evans''' ([[1784]]-[[1871]]), portrait-painter and copyist; painted in Rome a fresco which he afterwards found hanging at South Kensington as an antique; exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy from 1816.

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Robert Harding Evans: '''Robert Harding Evans''' ([[1778]]-[[1857]]), bookseller and auctioneer; son of Thomas Evans (1742-1784); educated at Westminster; sold the Duke of Roxburghe's library, 1812; edited Thomas Evans'sOld Ballads 1810, and other works.
Robert Wilson Evans: '''Robert Wilson Evans''' ([[1789]]-[[1866]]), archdeacon of Westmoreland and author; educated at Shrewsbury and Trinity College, Cambridge; fellow, 1813; M.A.,1814: B.D., 1842; archdeacon of Westmoreland, 1856-65. His works include Tales of the Ancient British Church 1840.
Samuel Evans: '''Samuel Evans''' (d. [[1835]]?), landscape-painter: taught the daughter of George III drawing: drawingI master at Eton.
Theophilus Evans: '''Theophilus Evans''' ([[1694]]-[[1767]]), divine ; educated ! at Shrewsbury; clergyman in South Wales, 1728-67. published aHistory of Modern Enthusiasm 1752 and i 1759, and an uncritical relation of Welsh antiquities.
Thomas Evans: '''Thomas Evans''' (. [[1633]]), poet: M.A. Corpus Christ! College, Cambridge, 1616; B.D., 1628; rector of Little Holland, 1618-33: published a poem, (Edipus 1615, which is now very rare.
Thomas Evans: '''Thomas Evans''' ([[1742]]-[[1784]]), bookseller; edited, among other works, Shakespeare'sPoems 1774, and Prior's * Works 1779; published collection of Old Ballads 1777.
Thomas Evans: '''Thomas Evans''' ([[1739]]-[[1803]]), bookseller; publisher of the Morning Chronicle; printed in his London Packeta letter reflecting on Oliver Goldsmith and Miss ; Horneck, 1773.
Thomas Evans: '''Thomas Evans''' (TOMOS GLYN COTHI) ([[1766]]-[[1833]]), i Welsh poet: pilloried and imprisoned for singing a I Welsh songOn Liberty 1797; minister at Aberdare, 1811-33; published theological works.
Thomas Evans: '''Thomas Evans''' (TEI,YXOG) ([[1840]]-[[1865]]), Welsh poet; sailor, and subsequently collier; his poetical works collected, 1866.
Thomas Simpson Evans: '''Thomas Simpson Evans''' ([[1777]]-[[1818]]), mathematician; son of Lewis Evans (1755-1827); assistant at Greenwich Observatory, 1800-5: mathematical master at Woolwich, 1803-10, at Christ's Hospital, 1813-18: LL.D.; translated Caguoli's Trigonometria piana e sferica
Evans: '''Evans''' 412
Ewart: '''Ewart'''
William Evans: '''William Evans''' (d. [[1720]]?), presbyterian divine; pastor in Carmarthenshire, 1688-1718; founder of the Welsh academy system; published theological work in Welsh, 1707.
William Evans: '''William Evans''' (rf. [[1776]] ?), Welsh lexicographer ; presbyterian minister; compiled English- Welsh dictionary, 1771.
William Evans: '''William Evans''' ([[1811]] 7-[[1868]]), landscape-painter : styled Evans of Bristol; his best-known work Traeth Mawr
William Evans: '''William Evans''' ([[1798]]-1 [[877]]), water-colour painter: son of Samuel Evans; exhibited at the Old Society of Painters in Water-colours from 1828; drawing-master at Eton, 1818-27; house-master at Eton, 1840-77; helped to reform the school.
Sir William David Evans: '''Sir William David Evans''' ([[1767]]-[[1821]]), lawyer ; educated at Harrow; attorney, 1789: barrister, Gray's Inn, 1794: stipendiary magistrate for Manchester, 18131818; knighted, 1819: recorder of Bombay, 1819-21: translated Pothier's Law of Obligations and Contracts 1806, and wrote legal works.
William Edward Evans: '''William Edward Evans''' ([[1801]]-[[1869]]), divine and naturalist; educated at Shrewsbury; scholar of Clare Hall, Cambridge; M.A., 1826; prebendary and praelector of Hereford, 1846; canon, 1861; published * The Song of the Birds 1846.
Edward Evanson: '''Edward Evanson''' ([[1731]]-[[1805]]), divine: M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1753; incumbent of Longdon; prosecuted in the consistory court for unitarianism, 1771; chaplain to Wedderburne, the solicitorgeneral, 1775; assailed trinitarianism in A Letter to Dr. Hurd 1777: resigned Longdon, 1778: established school at Mitcham, 1778. His works includeThe Dissonance of the four... Evangelists 1792.
John Eveleigh: '''John Eveleigh''' ([[1748]]-[[1814]]), provost of Oriel College, Oxford: B.A. Wadham College, Oxford, 1770; fellow of Oriel, 1770: M.A., 1772: B.D.,1782; D.D.,1783; dean of Oriel, 1775-81; provost, 1781: vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford, 1778-81, and of Aylesford, 1782-92; prebendary of Rochester, 1781.
Evelyn: '''Evelyn''' Sm GEORGE AUGUSTUS WILLIAM
Shuckburgh: '''Shuckburgh''' - ([[1751]]-[[1804]]). See SHUCKBURGH-
Evelyn: '''Evelyn'''
John Evelyn: '''John Evelyn''' , the younger ([[1655]]-[[1699]]), translator: son of John Evelyn (1620-1706): entered Trinity College, Oxford, 1667: admitted of the Middle Temple, 1672; a commissioner of revenue hi Ireland, 16921696; translated Rapinus's Latin poemOf Gardens 1673.
John Evelyn: '''John Evelyn''' ([[1620]]-[[1706]]), virtuoso; student at the Middle Temple, 1637; fellow commoner at Balliol. 1637; joined Charles I, 1642; travelled; boughtrare tables of veins and nerves at Padua, 1645; travelling companion of the poet Waller, 1646: translated La Mothe Le Vayer'sOf Liberty and Servitude 1649; settled at Sayes Court, Deptford, 1653: proposed to Robert Boyle a scheme which was afterwards developed into the Koyal Society; member of council of foreign plantations, 1671; a commissioner for privy seal, 1686-7; secretary to Royal Society, K.72; his property at Sayes Court wantonly desecrated by Peter the Great when tenant, 1698; appointed Bentley to first Boyle lectureship; a recognised authority on numismatics, architecture, and landscape gardening. His works include Sculptura 1662, Sylva 1664, andA Character of England 1659. HisDiary was first published in 1818 and 1819.

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Everard: '''Everard''' ([[1083]] 7-[[1150]]).
John Evehaed: '''John Evehaed''' (fl. [[1611]]), Roman catholic student, converted to Catholicism at Clare Hall, Cambridge: probationer in the English College at Rome, 1610: published Britanno-Komanvs (autobiography), 1611.
John Everard: '''John Everard''' ([[1675]] 7-[[1650]] ?), divine and mystic : M.A. Clare College, Cambridge, 1607: D.D., 1619; imprisoned for censuring Spanish outrages in the Indies, 1621 and 1622; deprived by the high commission court of his living at Fairetead, 1636; fined 1,000., 1639; translated thePomanderof Hermes Trismegistus, 1660. His 'Parai'le of Two Drops reasoning togetherwas repubIibedinl866.
Mathias Everard: '''Mathias Everard''' (d. [[1857]]), major-general; ensign, 1804; captured by the French, 1806; led the forlorn hope at Monte Video, 1807: fought at Ooruna ami siege of Flushing, 1809: commanded flank battalion at storming of Bhurtpre, 1825; C.B. and brevet lieutenantcolonel; major-general, 1851: knight of Hanoverian order.
Robert Everard: '''Robert Everard''' (. [[1664]]), Roman catholic writer; captain during the civil war; published work vindicating his conversion to Catholicism, 1664.
Everarl: '''Everarl''' alias KVKUKTT, THOMAS ([[1560]]-[[1633]]), Jesuit; studied at Cambridge and (1592-3) at Rheims; socius and master of Jesuit novices at Louvain; missioner hi England, 1604 and 1617; banished, 1621; subsequently missioner in Suffolk; translated Latin and Italian religious works.
Silvester De Everdon: '''Silvester De Everdon''' (d. [[1254]]), bishop of Carlisle: held livings in Northamptonshire from 1219; keeper of great seal, 1244: archdeacon of Chester, 1245; bishop of Carlisle, 1246: justice itinerant, 1251-2; joined other bishops in enforcing Magna Carta, 1253. 1-1866), m
Everest: '''Everest''' Sm GEORGE ([[1790]]-[[1866]]), military engineer: East India cadet, 1806; made survey of Java for Sir Stamford Raffles, 1813-15; superintendent of survey, Hyderabad, 1823: surveyor-general of India; lieutenant-colonel, 1838: C.B., 1861; knighted, 1861; F.R.A.S. and F.R.G.S.: published two accounts of measurements on the Meridional Arc of India, 1830 and 1847. Mount Everest is named after him.
James Everett: '''James Everett''' ([[1784]]-[[1872]]), miscellaneous writer ; expelled from Wesleyan conference and ministry, 1849, as author of Wesleyan Takingsand the suspected author of the Fly Sheetsof 1845 and after: established United Methodist Free Church 1857; first president of secessionist assembly, 1857; published memoirs, brochures, and histories of methodism.
Allen Edward Everitt: '''Allen Edward Everitt''' ([[1824]]-[[1882]]), artist ; executed water-colour drawings of mediseval remains in the midlands, Belgium, France, and Germany; hon. secretary of Royal Society of Artists of Birmingham, 1858-82, of archaeological section of Midland Institute, 1870.
Eversden: '''Eversden''' or EVERISDEN, JOHN OF (.!. [[1300]]), chronicler; cellarer of the Benedictine abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, 1300; proctor for his abbot, 1307; hisSeries temporum ah initio mundi originally supposed a continuation of Florence of Worcester.
Viscount Eversley: '''Viscount Eversley''' ([[1794]]-[[1888]]). See SHAW-
Charles Lefkvre: '''Charles Lefkvre''' .
Hugh Op Evesham: '''Hugh Op Evesham''' (d. [[1287]]), cardinal; called Atratns, II Nero, and Le Noir; studied at Oxford and Cambridge and in France and Italy; nicknamed 'Phrenix archdeacon of Worcester, 1275: prebendary of York, 1279; physician to Pope Martin IV, 1280: cardinal, 1281; author of Canones Medicinales Distinctions predicabiles and other works.
Walter Op Evesham: '''Walter Op Evesham''' (fl. [[1320]]).
Alexander Charles Ewald: '''Alexander Charles Ewald''' ([[1842]]-[[1891]]), historical writer: clerk in public record office, 1861; senior clerk, 1890; published popular historical works and assisted in compilation of a calendar and precis ofNorman Rolls Henry V
Christian Ferdinand Ewald: '''Christian Ferdinand Ewald''' ([[1802]]-[[1874]]X missionary; took Anglican orders, 1836; laboured in Jerusalem for London Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Jews from 1841.
Joseph Ewart: '''Joseph Ewart''' ([[1759]]-[[1792]]), diplomatist; educated at Dumfries and Edinburgh University: envoy plenipotentiary to Prussia, 1788-91; succeeded in getting the Prince of Orange re-established as stadtholder; arranged marriage treaty between Duke of York and Frederick William's daughter.
William Ewart: '''William Ewart''' ([[1798]]-[[1869]]), politician; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; Newdigate prizeman, 1820; B.A., 1821; barrister, Middle Temple, 1827; M.P., Bletchingley, 1828-30, Liverpool, 1830,1831, 1832, and 1835, Wigan, 1839, and Dumfries burghs, 1841
Ewbank: '''Ewbank''' 413
Eyre: '''Eyre''' 1868; tree trader; brought about an act for restricting i-apital punishment, 1837; carried bill establishing free public libraries, 1850; published speeches.
John Ewbank: '''John Ewbank''' W. ([[1799]] ?-[[1847]]), painter ; foundation memler of Iloyal Scottish Academy, 1830; painted historical pieces and marine subjects.
Thomas Ewbank: '''Thomas Ewbank''' ([[1792]]-[[1870]]), writer oil practical mechanics; manufacturer of lead, tin, and copper tubing in New York, 1819-36; related his travels in Life in Brazil 1856; commissioner of patents, 1849-52; president of American Ethnological Society; published * The World a Workshop 1855, and works on physics and hydraulics.
John Ewen: '''John Ewen''' ([[1741]]-[[1821]]), supposed author of '0 wed may the boutie row hardware retailer in Aberdeen; left 14,(XAM. by a will (disallowed by the House of Lords) to found an educational charity in M on trust-.
Ewens: '''Ewens''' alias NEWPORT, MAURICE ([[1611]]-[[1687]]).

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Ewers Ewer: '''Ewers Ewer''' , or EWRES, ISAAC (d. [[1650]]), regicide; parliamentarian colonel of foot; custodian of Charles I in Hurst Castle; signed death-warrant, 1649.
John Ewer: '''John Ewer''' (d. [[1774]]), bishop of Bangor; educated at Eton; B.A. King's College, Cambridge, 1728; fellow; M.A., 1732; canon of Windsor, 1738; prebendary of Hereford, 1751; D.D., 1756; bishop of Llaudaff, 1761-8, of Baiigor, 1768-74; preached against the American colonists as profligates, 1767.
William Ho Well Ewin: '''William Ho Well Ewin''' ([[1731]] 7-[[1804]]), usurer ; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1756; LL.D., 1766; J.P. for Cambridgeshire; suspended from his degrees by the vice-chancellor, 1778, for lending money at usury to a student; restored in 1779, there being no university statute against his offence; deprived of his commission, 1781.
Greville Ewing: '''Greville Ewing''' ([[1767]]-[[1841]]), congregational minister; studied at Edinburgh; first secretary, Edinburgh Missionary Society, 1796; forbidden by the East India Company to go as missionary to India; abandoned church of Scotland; superintended congregational charge at Glasgow, 1799-1836; tutor of the Glasgow Theological Academy, 1809-36; published Greek grammar and lexicon lor New Testament students, 1801.
Juliana Horatia Ewing: '''Juliana Horatia Ewing''' ([[1841]]-[[1885]]), writer for the young; nde Gatty; her first story published in the Monthly Packet 1861; produced Melchior's Dream 1862; startedAunt Judy's Magazine," 1866; married Major Alexander Ewing, 18ti7; wrote many soldier-stories.
Dukks of Exeter: '''Dukks of Exeter''' . See HOLLAND, JOHN, [[1352]] ?1400; BEAUFORT, SIR THOMAS, d, 1427; HOLLAND, JOHN, 1395-1447.
Marquis of Exeter: '''Marquis of Exeter''' (1*[[967]]-[[1538]]). See COURTENAY,
Henry: '''Henry'''
Marchioness of Exeter: '''Marchioness of Exeter''' (d. [[1558]]). See COUR-
Gertrude Tenay: '''Gertrude Tenay''' .
Exeter: '''Exeter''' first EARL OF ([[1542]]-[[1622]]). See CECIL,
Thojias: '''Thojias'''
John of Exeter: '''John of Exeter''' (d. [[1268]]).
Joseph of Exeter: '''Joseph of Exeter''' (. [[1190]]).
Stephen of Exeter: '''Stephen of Exeter''' (fl. [[1265]]).
Walter of Exeter: '''Walter of Exeter''' (. [[1301]]), Cluniac monk ; wrote a variant of the Guy of Warwick romance.
William of Exeter: '''William of Exeter''' (. [[1330]] ?), author of 'Determinatioiies against Ockiiam; D.D.; canon of Exeter.
William of Exlter: '''William of Exlter''' (ft. [[1360]]?), physician to Queen Phihppa; precentor of Lincoln.
William of Exetir: '''William of Exetir''' (d. [[1365]] ?), author of sermons on the Beatitudes.
Exle: '''Exle''' I", THOMAS (d. [[1855]] ?), mathematician ; M.A. : joined the Rev. William Moore Johnson in bringing out 'The Imperial Encyclopedia 1812. His other writings include- Physical Optics 1834. xviii. 97J
William Exmew: '''William Exmew''' ([[1507]] 7-[[1535]]), Carthusian ; eduiu-1 at Christ's College, Cambridge: steward of the i London Charterhouse, 1635 (?); hanged for denying the I king's supremacy, 1535.
Exmouth: '''Exmouth''' first VISCOUNT ([[1757]]-[[1833]]). See PKL I.KV, EDWARD.
Charles Exshaw: '''Charles Exshaw''' (d. [[1771]]), painter and engraver; first exhibited, 1764; etched mainly after Rembrandt.
John Exton: '''John Exton''' ([[1600]] 7-[[1665]]?), admiralty lawyer; M.A. Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1623; LL.D., 1634; admiralty judge, 1649-65; published The Maritime Dicaeologie 16C4.
Sir Thomas Exton: '''Sir Thomas Exton''' ([[1631]]-[[1688]]), admiralty lawyer ; son of John Exton; educated at Merchant Taylors J School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge: LL.D., 1662; member of Gray's Inn, 1648; knighted; admiralty judge before 1678; advocate-general; M.P. Cambridge University, 1679, 1881, and 1685; master of Trinity HalL Cambridge, 1676-88.

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Charles Eyre: '''Charles Eyre''' ([[1784]]-[[1864]]), miscellaneous writer; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1807; took orders; Unitarian; newspaper proprietor at Colchester; committed suicide. His Fall of Adam (1852) is an amended edition of Paradise Lost. 1
Edmund John Eyre: '''Edmund John Eyre''' ([[1767]]-[[1816]]), dramatist; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; played Jaques at Drury Lane, 1806; published Maid of Normandy (tragedy), 1794, and Consequences (comedy), 1793.
Sir Giles Eyre: '''Sir Giles Eyre''' (d. [[1695]]), judge ; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1661; recorder of Salisbury; M.P., Salisbury, 1688-9; justice of the king's bench and knighted, 1689.
Sir James Eyre: '''Sir James Eyre''' ([[1734]]-[[1799]]), judge; scholar of Winchester, 1747; matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford, 1749; treasurer of Gray's Inn, 1766: recorder of London, 1763; counsel for Wilkes in Wilkes v. Wood, 1763; refused to present to the king London's remonstrance on the exclusion of Wilkes from parliament, 1770; knighted, 1772; president of court of exchequer, 1787; chief commissioner of great seal, 1792-3; chief-justice of common pleas, 1793.
James Eyre: '''James Eyre''' ([[1748]]-[[1813]]), philologist; educated at Catharine Hall, Cambridge; head-master of Solihull grammar school; country clergyman; annotated Johnson's English Dictionary (in manuscript).
Sir James Eyre: '''Sir James Eyre''' ([[1792]]-[[1857]]), physician ; M.R.C.S., ! 1814; mayor of Hereford, 1830; knighted, 1830; M.B. Edinburgh, 1834; M.R.C.P., 1836; wrote medical works.
John Eyre: '''John Eyre''' ([[1764]]-[[1803]]), evangelical clergyman ; dissenting minister; matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1778; priest, 1779; minister of Homerton, 1785; helped to found London Missionary Society, 1795; originated scheme (1796) which developed into Hackney Theological College (opened, 1803).
Sir Robert Eyre: '''Sir Robert Eyre''' ([[1666]]-[[1735]]), judge ; son of Sir Samuel Eyre: barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1689; recorder of Salisbury, 1696; M.P., Salisbury, 1698-1710; solicitor-general, 1708; manager of Sacheverell's impeachment; judge of queen's bench, 1710; knighted, 1710; lord chief baron, 1723; lord chief- justice of common pleas, 1726.
Sir Samuel Eyre: '''Sir Samuel Eyre''' ([[1633]]-[[1698]]), judge ; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1661; justice of king's bench, 1694; upheld the murderer Knollys's claim to privilege of peerage, 1698.
Thomas Eyre: '''Thomas Eyre''' ([[1670]]-[[1715]]), Jesuit ; student at St. Omer; chaplain to James II at St. Germain; professor of theology, Liege, 1701-4; professed Jesuit, 1706; socius to his provincial, 1712.
Thomas Eyre: '''Thomas Eyre''' ([[1748]]-[[1810]]), Roman catholic divine; professor at the English college, Douay; president of Crook Hall, 1795-1808, subsequently removing it to Ushaw; edited John Goter's Spiritual Works 1790.
Eyre: '''Eyre''' SlK VINCENT ([[1811]]-[[1881]]), general ; gazetted to Bengal establishment, 1828; commissary of ordnance
Eyre: '''Eyre''' 114
Fahie: '''Fahie''' to (ibul field force, 1839; surrendered:is hostage to Akbar Khan, 1842; rescued by Sir George Pollock, 1843: :ited to command artillery ofGwalior contingent," 1844; founded Esapore, colony for destitute families of Portuguese natives: defeated a lanre native force, 1857; took part in the relief of Lucknow, 1857: lieutenantcolonel and C.B., 1857; lieutenant-general, 1863; K.C.S.I., 1867.
Sir William Eyre: '''Sir William Eyre''' ([[1805]]-[[1859]]), major-general ; educated at Rugby; ensign, 1823; received company in 73rd regiment, 1829; major, 1839; served in first Kaffir war, 1847; lieutenant-colonel, 1847; defeated Kaffirs at Quibi?ui River and Committee's Hill, 1851; C.B., aidede-camp to the queen, and colonel, 1852; fought in Crimean war; major-general, 1854; K.C.B., 1855; decorated by France and Turkey, 1856.
Bernard Eyston: '''Bernard Eyston''' ([[1628]]-[[1709]]), Franciscan friar ; called in religion Bernard a Sum-to Francisco; lector of divinity at St. Bonaventure's Convent, Douay; D.D.; died at Douay; wrote The Christian Duty compared 1684.
Charles Eyston: '''Charles Eyston''' ([[1667]]-[[1721]]), antiquary; chief work, a historv of Glastonbury abbey and town, 1716. (Ifi89 ?-1652 V). See KlNfj.
Bakox Eythan: '''Bakox Eythan'''
James: '''James'''
Robert William Eyton: '''Robert William Eyton''' ([[1815]]-[[1881]]), antiquary; educated at Rugby; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1845; rector Df Ryton, 1841-63; maintained in Key to Domesday 1877, fiscal character of domesday hide of land; published The Antiquities of Shropshire 1861.
Eyton: '''Eyton''' or EDON, STEPHEN (fl. [[1320]] ?), chronicler : ; canon of Warter; wrote Acta Edwardi II
Thomas Campbell Eyton: '''Thomas Campbell Eyton''' ([[1809]]-[[1880]]), naturalist; correspondent of Agassiz and Darwin; opponent of j Darwinism; his chief works, A History of the Oyster and Oyster Fisheries 1858, and l Osteologia Avium 1871-8.
Abraham Ezekiel Ezekiel: '''Abraham Ezekiel Ezekiel''' ([[1757]]-[[1806]]), miniature-painter and scientific optician; engraved portraits,
Solomon Ezekiel: '''Solomon Ezekiel''' ([[1781]]-[[1867]]), Jewish writer ; son of Abraham Ezekiel Ezekiel; settled at Penzance; published letter to Sir Rose Price, which led to suspension of efforts to convert Jews of Penzance to Christianity; published lectures on the lives of Abraham and Isaac, 1844-5.
Peter Fabell: '''Peter Fabell''' (fl. 15th cent.), magician and dabbler in alchemy; hero of the Merry Devil of Edmonton a play, which has been wrongly attributed to Shakespeare (first edition, 1608).

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Frederick William Faber: '''Frederick William Faber''' ([[1814]]-[[1863]]), superior of the London Oratory; educated at Shrewsbury and Harrow; matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, 1832; scholar of University College, 1834; Newdigate prizeman, 1836: B.A., 1836; fellow of University, 1837; M.A., 1839; rector of Elton, 1842-6: formed catholic community of Brothers of the Will of God, 1845; joined oratory of St. Philip Neri, 1848; established London Oratory, 1849; created D.D. by Pius IX, 1854; friend of Wordsworth and Newman; published poems and devotional treatises.
George Stanley Faber: '''George Stanley Faber''' ([[1773]]-[[1854]]), controversialist: scholar of University College, Oxford, 1790; fellow of Lincoln, 1793; M.A., 1796; Bampton lecturer, 1801; B.D., 1803; vicar of Stockton-upon-Tees, 1805-8; master of Sherburn Hospital, 1832-54; prebendary of Salisbury, 1831. Characteristic works are The Origin of Pagan Idolatry a pre-scientific dissertation, 1816, and Letters on Tractarian Secessions to Popery 1846, and 'The Revival of the French Emperorship, anticipated from the Necessity of Prophecy 1852.
John Faber: '''John Faber''' , the elder ([[1660]] ?-[[1721]]), draughtsman and mezzotint engraver; native of the Hague; engraved portraits of founders of Oxford (1712) and Cambridge Colleges.
John Faber: '''John Faber''' , the younger ([[1695]]7-[[1756]]), mezzotint engraver; son of John Faber the elder; engraved portraits of Charles II, Ignatius Loyola, and others.
Fabrigiu: '''Fabrigiu''' 3 (.?. [[1429]]). See CARPKNTKR, ALKX
Axdki: '''Axdki''' l.
Robert Fabyan: '''Robert Fabyan''' (d. [[1513]]), chronicler : sheriff of London, 1493; held Newgate and Ludgate against Cornish rebels, 1498; expanded his diary intoThe Concordance of Histories a compilation extending from the arrival of Brutus in England to the death of Henry VII (first printed, 1516; edited by Ellis in 1811).
Jean Christophe Faccio: '''Jean Christophe Faccio''' (d. [[1720]]), brother of Nicolas Faccio; F.R.S., 1706; described in the 'Philosophical Transactions a solar eclipse which he had observed at Geneva, 1706; died at Geneva,
Nicolas Faccio: '''Nicolas Faccio''' ([[1664]]-[[1753]]), of Duillier, mathematician and fanatic: citizen of Geneva, 1678; developed Casaini's theory of zodiacal light. 1685; showed how to utilise a ship's motion for grinding corn, sawing, &c.; betrayed conspiracy to kidnap the Prince of Orange, 1686; F.R.S., 1688; befriended by Newton; disparaged Leibnitz for personal reasons, 1699; chief of the French prophets; exposed at Charing Cross as an impostor; wandered into Asia to propagate his theories; chief works Epistola... de mari aeneo Salomonis 1688, and Navigation Improv'd 1728.
Saint Fachtna: '''Saint Fachtna''' and BISHOP (fl. 6th cent.), bishop and abbot of Dairinis Maelaufaidh (Molanna, near Lismore); founded school of Ross (Ros Ailithir); miraculously cured of blindness.
Thomas Faed: '''Thomas Faed''' ([[1826]]-[[1900]]), painter; studied at Edinburgh School of Design; associate of Scottish Academy, 1849; exhibited at Royal Academy, London, from 1851, principally incidents in humble Scottish life; R.A.,
Robert Fagan: '''Robert Fagan''' (d. [[1816]]), diplomatist and amateur portrait- painter; consul-general for Sicily and the Ionian i islands; purchased from Prince Altieri Claude's Landing of.Eneas and Sacrifice of Apollo which he refused to deliver up to the French authorities, and was consequently imprisoned; succeeded in conveying (1799) the two paintings by Claude to Palermo; exhibited three portraits at the Royal Academy.
Sir John Fagg: '''Sir John Fagg''' (d. [[1701]]), parliamentarian ; colonel : M.P., Rye, 1640: commissioner for Charles I's trial, 16481649; M.P., Sussex, 1664, 1656 (unseated), and 1659; imprisoned for attempting to raise forces in Sussex to support Haslerig and Morley, 1659; state councillor, 1659; created baronet, 1660; M.P., Steyuing, Sussex, 1661-1701.
Charles Hilton Fagge: '''Charles Hilton Fagge''' ([[1838]] -LS83), physician; nephew of John Hilton (1804-1878); M.D. London, 1863; F.R.C.P., 1870; examiner in medicine to London University; demonstrator of morbid anatomy, lecturer on pathology, and curator of the museum at Guy's; wrote medical dissertations.
Fagiti: '''Fagiti''' 8, PAUL ([[1504]]-[[1549]]), divine; born at Rheinzabern in the Palatinate; pastor at Isue, 1537-42: established Hebrew printing-press at Isne; professor of Hebrew at Strasburg, 1544-6, at Heidelberg, 1646-9; deposed for questioning the Interim, 1549; Hebrew reader at Cambridge, 1649.
James Fahey: '''James Fahey''' ([[1804]]-[[1885]]), water-colour painter : studied anatomy at Paris; first exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1825; secretary of the New Society of Painters in Water-Colours, 1838-74; drawing-masterat Merchant TaylorsSchool, 1856-83.
Sir William Charles Fahie: '''Sir William Charles Fahie''' ([[1763]]-[[1833]]), vice-admiral; entered navy, 1777; assisted at capture of
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Fairfax: '''Fairfax''' Danish We?t India islands, 1807; served at redaction of Guadeloupe, 1810; commander of the order of St. Ferdinand and Merit; commander-in-chief on Leeward islands station, 1820, at Halifax, 1821-4; K.O.B., 1824; vice-admiral, 1830; died at Bermuda.
Patrick Fairbairn: '''Patrick Fairbairn''' ([[1805]]-[[1874]]), theologian; studied at Edinburgh; presented by the crown to North Ronaldhay, Orkney, 1830; professor of divinity in the free church theological college, Aberdeen, 1853-6; D.D. Glasgow; principal of the free church college of Glasgow, 1856-74; moderator of the general assembly, 1865; chief work,Typology of Scripture 1845 and 1847; edited theImperial Bible Dictionary
Sir Peter Fairbaibn: '''Sir Peter Fairbaibn''' ([[1799]]-[[1861]]), engineer and inventor; brother of Sir William Fair bairn; improved flax-spinning machinery by modification of roving-frame and introduction of screw and rotary gills; established foundry for manufacture of war material; knighted; mayor of Ieeds. 1857-8, and 1858-9.
Fairbairn: '''Fairbairn''' Bin WILLIAM ([[1789]]-[[1874]]X engineer : of humble origin: befriended by George Stephenson: constructed two water-mills at Zurich, which worked regularly, whatever the height of the river, 1824; M.I.C.E., 1830; chief fabricator of machinery for the Turkish government in England, 1839; superintended construction of tubular Meuai Straits bridge in conjunction with Stcpheusou, 1848, but found his position untenable, 1849; patented his new principle of wroughtiron girders; honorary LL.D. Edinburgh, 1860, Cambridge, 1862; president of the British Association, 1861, of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1854; created baronet, 1869. F AIRBORNE, SIR PALMES (1644-1680), governor of Tangiers; captain in the Taugiers regiment of foot, 1661; knighted; major, 1664; governor of Tangiers, 1676-8; constructed a mole across the harbour; quelled mutiny of troops provoked by the neglect of the home government, 1677; superseded, 1680; defended Tangiers against Muley Hassan, 1680; mortally wounded in skirmish with Moors.
Sir Stafford Fairborne: '''Sir Stafford Fairborne''' (d. [[1742]]), admiral of the fleet; son of Sir Palmes Fairborne; commanded the Warspite at battle of Beachy Head, 1690: present at battle of Barfleur, 1692; scattered Newfoundland pirates, 1700: rear-admiral of the blue, 1701; knighted, 1701; vice-admiral of the red, 1703; present at capture of Barcelona, 1705, and reduction of Ostend, 1706; admiral of the fleet, 1708.
Thomas Fairchild: '''Thomas Fairchild''' ([[1667]] ?-[[1729]]), gardener; established, c. 1690, as nurseryman and florist at Hoxton; conducted experiments which helped to establish the existence of sex in plants; first to produce scientifically an artificial hybrid; published The City Gardener,* 1722, and contributed to Catalogue of Trees and Shrubs propagated near London published 1730.
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Richard Fairclough: '''Richard Fairclough''' ([[1621]]-[[1682]]), nonconformist divine; son of Samuel Fairclough (1594-1677) ; M.A. and fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; delivered assize sermon in Somerset; rector of Mells, 1643; ejected by the Act of Uniformity.
Samuel Fairclough: '''Samuel Fairclough''' ([[1594]]-[[1677]]), nonconformist divine; B.A. QueensCollege, Cambridge; lecturer at Lynn Regis, 1619; cited by the bishop of Norwich for omitting the sign of the cross in baptism; retired; rector of Barnardiston, 1623; rector of Kedington, 1629-1662; signed the petition of 1646; ejected, 1662; published The Pastor's Legacy 1663, and other works.
Samuel Fairclough: '''Samuel Fairclough''' ([[1625]] ?-[[1691]]), ejected minister; fellow of Caius College, Cambridge; ejected from his rectory of Houghton Conquest, 1662.
Blackerby Fairfax: '''Blackerby Fairfax''' (fl. [[1728]]), physician ; son of Nathaniel Fairfax: M.A. Corpus Ohristi College, Cambridge, 1693; M.D., 1728; M.D. Leyden, 1G96; physician in the navy; wrote on the Union 1702; published Oratio Apologetica pro Re Herbaria contra Medicos Mathematicos 1718.
Brian Fairfax: '''Brian Fairfax''' , the elder ([[1633]]-[[1711]]), politician son of Henry Fairfax (1688-1665); M.A. and LL D Trinity College, Cambridge; sent on a mission to General Monck, 1659; equerry to Charles II, 1670-85; equerry to William III, 1689-92. His works include poema life of Buckingham, and an edition of Fairfax's Short Memorials, 1699.
Brian Fairfax: '''Brian Fairfax''' , the younger ([[1876]]-[[1749]]), commissioner of customs, 1723-49; son of Brian Fairfax the elder; queen's scholar, Westminster, 1690; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1698; M.A., 1700.
Fairfax: '''Fairfax''' SiK CHARLES (fl. leoJtoldier brother of Thomas, first baron Fairfax routed Velasco at siege of Sluys, 1604.
Charles Fairfax: '''Charles Fairfax''' ([[1597]]-[[1673]]), antiquary and genealogist; son of Thomas, first baron Fairfax; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1611; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1618; parliamentarian colonel of foot governor of Kingston-upon-Hull, 1660-1; pensioned: assisted Roger Dodsworth in collecting and preservingDodsworth MSS; left in manuscript, Analecta Fairfaxiana
Charles Fairfax: '''Charles Fairfax''' (d. [[1723]]), dean of Down and Connor, 1722-3; son of Brian Fairfax the elder ; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford.
Edward Fairfax: '''Edward Fairfax''' (d. [[1635]]), translator of Tasso'p Gerusalemme Liberata; imagined two of his daughters bewitched, 1621; author of Godfrey of Bulloigne (1600), a translation of Tasso, which solaced Charles I in prison.
Ferdinando Fairfax: '''Ferdinando Fairfax''' , second BAROX FAIRFAX of Cameron in the peerage of Scotland (1584-1648X son of Thomas, first baron; M.P., Boroughbridge, 1622, 1624, 1625, 1626, and 1627: M.P. for Yorkshire in the Long parliament, 1640; commanded parliamentarians in Yorkshire, 1642; defeated on Adwalton Moor, 1643; governor of Hull, 1643-4; commanded infantry at Marston Moor, 1644; governor of York from 1644 to 1645: resigned, 1645.
Ferdinando Fairfax: '''Ferdinando Fairfax''' (ft. [[1697]]), son of Brian Fairfax the elder; educated at Westminster; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1697.
Sir Guy Fairfax: '''Sir Guy Fairfax''' (rf. [[1495]]), judge ; member of Gray's Inn, 1463; king's serjeant, 1468; recorder of York, 1476; judge of king's bench, 1477; chief-justice of Lancaster under Edward V.
Henry Fairfax: '''Henry Fairfax''' ([[1588]]-[[1665]]), friend of George Herbert; son of Thomas, first baron Fairfax; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1608; took part in the unsuccessful movement to obtain a university for the north, c. 1640; rector of Boltou Percy, 1646-60.
Henry Fairfax: '''Henry Fairfax''' ([[1634]]-[[1702]]), dean of Norwich; son of Charles Fairfax (1597-1673); D.D. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1680; senior fellow, 1687; signed petition to James II against decree naming Anthony Farmer president, 9 April 1687; expelled from Magdalen, October 1687; restored, 1688; dean of Norwich, 1689-1702.
John Fairfax: '''John Fairfax''' ([[1623]]-[[1700]]), ejected minister ; B.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; fellow, 1645-50; rector of Barking-cum-Needham, 1650-62; ejected, 1662; in charge of nonconformist congregation at Ipswich, 1680-6, of presbyterians alone, 1687-1700; published jermons.
John Fairfax: '''John Fairfax''' ( [[1804]]-[[1877]]), journalist and member of legislative council. New South Wales; emigrated, 1838, being unable to pay costs of suit arising out of his Leamington journal; boughtSydney Morning Herald 1841; sole proprietor ofSydney Herald 1853; member of legislative council, 1874-7.
Nathaniel Fairfax: '''Nathaniel Fairfax''' ([[163]]T-[[1690]]), divine and physician; M.A. Corpus Ohristi College, Cambridge, 1661; ejected from perpetual curacy of Willisham, 1662; MJ). Leyden, 1670: publishedA Treatise of the Bulk nnl Selvedge of the World 1674. xyiii. 137J
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Falconek: '''Falconek'''
Fairfax: '''Fairfax''' or FAYRFAX, ROBERT (d. [[1529]]), moBiciau; organist at St. Albans: Mus. Doc. Cambridge, 1604, Oxford, 1511: gentleman of the King's Chapel iu 1509; poor knight of Windsor, 1614; wroU out musicbooks, a prycke-songe book and a balet boke; comlosed masses and part-songs; his That was my woo is nowe my moat gluduesse possibly addressed to Henry VII in 1486.
Robert Fairfax: '''Robert Fairfax''' ([[1666]]-[[1725]]X rear-admiral: grandson of Sir William Fairfax q. v.j; present at the battle in Bantrv Bay and relief of Londonderry, 1689: court-murtialleil for failing to overtake a French squadron off Gape Palos, but acquitted, 1704; took part in reduction of Gibraltar, of Barcelona, 1705, and in battle of Malaga, 1704: retired in mortification at the cancelling of his appointment as vice-adminil of the blue, 1708; rearadmiral, 1708; M.P. for York city, 1713-14; lord mayor of York, 1715.
Thomas Fairfax: '''Thomas Fairfax''' , first BARON FAIRFAX of Cameron in the Scottish peerage (1660-1640); employed by Elizabeth on diplomatic communications with James VI; knighted before Rouen, 1591: served in the Low Countries; created Baron Fairfax of Cameron, 1627; country gentleman at Denton, Yorkshire, writing, but not publishing, The Order for the Government of the House at DentonConjectures about Horsemanship and tractates on similar subjects.
Thomas Fairfax: '''Thomas Fairfax''' , third BARON FAIRFAX OP
Camkkon: '''Camkkon''' ([[1612]]-[[1671]]), general ; sou of Ferdinando, second baron Fairfax; matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1626; engaged at siege of Bois-le-Duc, 1629; commanded during flrst Scottish war; knighted, 1640; became a general for the parliament, 1642; recaptured Leeds for the parliament, 1643: captured Wakefield, 1643; defeated at Adwalton Moor, 1643; commanded detachment at Marstou Moor, 1644; commander-in-chief of the parliamentary army, 1645; remodelled the army, in accordance with a parliamentary ordinance, 1645; defeated Charles I at Naseby, 1645, where he captured a standard with his own hand: stormed Bristol, 1645; reduced Oxford, 1646; thanked by parliament, 1646; directed to appease the army's resentment at its contemplated reduction, 1647; Charles I seized against his will, 1647; sided with the peace party, 1647; suppressed the levellers; urged parliament to provide for the soldierspay; reduced Colchester, 1648; transmitted to the Commons the army's demand for Charles I's punishment, 1648; one of the king's judges, 1649, endeavouring to prevent his execution; state councillor, 1649: M.P., Cirencester, 1649; commander-inchief, 1649: D.C.L. Oxford, 1649; resigned from unwillingness to invade Scotland, 1650; M.P. for Yorkshire in Kichard Cromwell's parliament; M.P., Yorkshire, 1660; headed commission sent to Charles II at the Hague, 1660; bequeathed twenty-eight manuscripts to the Bodleian; author of poems, translations, and two autobiographical works. Milton wrote a sonnet, calling on him to undertake the settlement of the kingdom, 1648.

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Thomas Fairfax: '''Thomas Fairfax''' ([[1656]]-[[1716]]), Jesuit ; studied at St. Omer; priest, 1683; D.D. Treves; fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1688; removed from his fellowship at the revolution. 1688; professed of the four vows, 1693; procurator of the English province, 1701 and 1704; published works, including The Secret Policy of the Jesuits (2nd edit.), 1702.
Thomas Fairfax: '''Thomas Fairfax''' , sixth BARON FAIRFAX of Cameron (1692-1782); held commission in the blues; intimate with Bolingbroke, Addison, and Steele; retired to his maternal estates of the Northern Neck in Virginia, 1747; trained and encouraged the young George Washington; died broken-hearted soon after the surrender of Cornwallis, 1781.
Sir William Fairfax: '''Sir William Fairfax''' ([[1609]]-[[1644]]), soldier; knighted, 1630; commanded regiment under Essex, 1642; commanded detachments at Nantwich and Marston Moor, 1644; mortally wounded before Montgomery Oastle.
Sir William George Fairfax: '''Sir William George Fairfax''' ([[1739]]-[[1813]]), vice-admiral; navy lieutenant, 1757; took part in the St. Lawrence operations, 1769; prisoner, 1778-82; fought at Oauaperdown, 1797; knight- banneret; vice-admiral, 1806. Charles F AIRFIELD, CHARLES (1761 ?-1804), painter; copied paintings of Dutch and Flemish masters; his original pictures undeservedly neglected.
Charles Fairholm: '''Charles Fairholm''' ([[1566]]-[[1617]]). See FKRM,
Charlrs: '''Charlrs'''
Frederick William Fairholt: '''Frederick William Fairholt''' ([[1814]]-18B6), engraver and antiquarian writer; of German origin; Isis melallist of Society of Arts; illustrated Charles Knight's publications, Halliwell'sSir John Maundeville 1839, and other works; F.S.A., 1844; author of antiquarian researches, including Costume in England 1846; bequeathed prints to the British Museum, and Shakespearean collections to Strat ford-on- A von. F AIRLAND, THOMAS (1804-1852), lithographer and portrait-painter: student at Royal Academy; Raphael's Virgin and Child his most famous contribution to the new art of lithography.
Fairles: '''Fairles''' 8, THOMAS KERR ([[1825]]-[[1853]]). landscapepainter; exhibited at the Royal Academy and other institutions, 1848-51.
Robert Francis Fairlie: '''Robert Francis Fairlie''' ([[1831]]-[[1886]]), civil engineer; superintendent and general manager of Londonderry and Coleraine railway, 1853; obtained post on Bombay and Baroda railway; patenteddouble-bogie engine 1864; invited to design and construct railways in Venezuela, 1873; compelled by jungle fever to return to England, 1874.
William Faithorne: '''William Faithorne''' , the elder ([[1616]]-[[1691]]), 1 engraver and portrait-painter; banished for refusing to ! take the oath to Oliver Cromwell; allowed to return to England, 1650; print-seller in London; executed crayon , portraits; engraved frontispieces and prints, also two maps, one of London and Westminster, the other of Virginia and Maryland.
William Faithorne: '''William Faithorne''' , the younger ([[1656]]-[[1701]] ?), mezzotint engraver; son of William Faithorne the elder v.; engraved portraits of Queen Anne, Charles I, II, and John Dryden.
Falconberg: '''Falconberg''' or FALCONBRIDGE, the BASTARD (rf. 1226).
Falconberg: '''Falconberg''' or FALCONBRIDGE, BASTARD OF (d. 1471).
Alexander Falconbridge: '''Alexander Falconbridge''' (d. [[1792]]), surgeon ; surgeon, from poverty, on slave-ships: accepted commission from St. George's Bay Company to found settlement for the homeless colonists formerly sent by government to the river Sierra Leone, 1791; founded Granville Town, 1791; superseded in presidency of Sierra Leone Company's council; dismissed, 1792.
Anna Maria Falconbridge: '''Anna Maria Falconbridge''' (fl. [[1794]]), wife of Alexander Falconbridge; published autobiographical Narrative defending the slave trade and ridiculing her dead husband, 1794.
Alexander Falconer: '''Alexander Falconer''' , BARON FALCONER OF
Halkertoun: '''Halkertoun''' (d. [[1671]]), judge ; ordinary lord of session, 1639 and 1641; represented Kincardineshire in the convention, 1643-4, and in parliament, 1644-5 and 1645-7; commissioner of exchequer, 1645; created Baron Falconer, 1647; removed from College of Justice, 1649, for having subscribed the engagement; reappoiuted, 1660; commissioner of excise, 1661.
Sir David Falconer: '''Sir David Falconer''' , of Newton ([[1640]]-[[1686]]), lord president of session; advocate, 1661; knighted; lord of justiciary, 1678; president of session, 1682; M.P., Forfarshire, 1685: lord of the articles; collected decisions of court of session (November 1681-January 1686).
Edmund Falconer: '''Edmund Falconer''' ([[1814]]-[[1879]]), actor and dramatist; really EDMUND O'ROURKK; wroteThe Cagot, or Heart for Heart, 1 a drama, acted at Lyceum, 1856; manager of Lyceum, 1858-9 and 1861-2: his Irish drama, Peep o Day played in London from November 1861 till December 1862; joint-lessee of Drury Lane, 1862-6; attempted to popularise Shakespearean drama; opened Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, withOonagh, 1 1866; appeared at New York, 1867.
Forbes Falconer: '''Forbes Falconer''' ([[1805]]-[[1853]]), Persian scholar ; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and at Paris;
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Fane: '''Fane''' -sor of oriental languages in University College, London; edited poems by Jami; published selfct'i.n from the Bustuu Is3i.
Huoh Falconer: '''Huoh Falconer''' ([[1808]]-[[1865]]), palaontologist and botanist; M.A. Aberdeen, 1826; M.D. Edinburgh, 1H29: assistant-surgeon on the East India Company's Bengal establishment, 1830; superintendent of the Saharanpur botanic garden, 1832; discovered fossil mammals and ivpti:c in Sivalik hilN, 1832; superintended imimifurttirv ot first Indian tea, 1834; discovered assafoetida ot r.numerce in valley of Astore; appointed to superintend Arrangement of Indian fossils in the British Museum, 1844; commenced Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis 1846: professor of botany, Calcutta Medical College, 1848-65; proved that the cave fauna of England contained elephas antiquus and rhinoceros hemitcechus, 1860; vice-president of the Koyal Society.
John Falconer: '''John Falconer''' (fl. [[1547]]), merchant. 'Maister Falkonner's Boke is the earliest English record of an herbarium of dried plants.
Falconer: '''Falconer''' or FALKNER, JOHN ([[1577]]-[[1656]]), Jesuit; studied at St. Mary's Hall and Gloucester Hall, Oxford; joined expedition of Essex to Spain; professed of the four vows, 1619; confessor at Liege and Ghent; helped to defend Wardour Castle, where he was chaplain, 1643; translated hagiological and devotional works.

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Randle Wilbraham Falconer: '''Randle Wilbraham Falconer''' ([[1816]]-[[1881]]), medical writer; son of Thomas Falconer (1772-1839) ; graduated in medicine at Edinburgh, 1839; mayor of Bath, 1857; physician to Bath General Water Hospital; wrote on therapeutics.
Thomas Falconer: '''Thomas Falconer''' ([[1738]]-[[1792]]), classical scholar; matriculated at Brasenpse College, Oxford, 1754; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1760; his Observations on Pliny's account of the Temple of Diana at Ephesuspublished, 1794, and 'Chronological Tablespublished, 1796; left materials for edition of Strabo.
Thomas Falconer: '''Thomas Falconer''' ([[1772]]-[[1839]]), classical scholar: on of William Falconer (1744-1824); scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1788; M.A. and fellow, 1795: Bampton lecturer, 1810: M.D.Oxford, 1822; published, among other works, edition of Strabo, 1807, based on materials left by Thomas Falconer (1738-1792): edited Hanno's * Voyage with translation, 1797.
Thomas Falconer: '''Thomas Falconer''' ([[1805]]-[[1882]]), county court judge; son of Thomas Falconer (1772-1839): barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1830; arbitrator on behalf of Canada for determining boundaries between Canada and New Brunswick, 1850 T colonial secretary, Westeni Australia, 1851; resigned, 1851; judge of Rhayader district and Glamorganshire and Breconshire county courts, 1851-81; published works mainly legal.
William Falconer: '''William Falconer''' ([[1732]]-[[1769]]), poet; servant of Archibald Campbell (. 1767) q. v.}, who encouraged his literary tastes; second mate on a ship in the Levant trade, which was wrecked between Alexandria and Venice; drew on his own experience for hU chief poem,The Shipwreck 1762; patronised by the Duke of York; became purser on various ships; published The Universal Marine Dictionary 1769; lost in the Aurora.
William Falconer: '''William Falconer''' ([[1744]]-[[1824]]), miscellaneous writer; M.D. Edinburgh, 1766; studied at Leydeii, becoming (1767) M.D.: extra-licentiate O.P., 1767; physician to Chester Infirmary, 1767-70; F.R.S., 1773; physician to Bath General Hospital, 1784-1819; intimate with Dr. Parr; published essays on the Bath waters, and miscellaneous tracts.
William Falconer: '''William Falconer''' ([[1801]]-[[1885]]), translator of 'Strabo; son of Thomas Falconer (1772-1839); B.A. Oriel College, Oxford, 1823; M.A., 1827; Petrean fellow of Exeter College, 1827; university mathematical examiner, 1832-3 and 1836-8; rector of Bushey, 18391885: brought out his father's manuscript translation of Strabo'sGeographyinBohn's Classical Library 1854-6-7.
Peter Falconet: '''Peter Falconet''' ([[1741]]1791), portrait-painter; born in Paris; exhibited occasion ally at the Royal Academy; executed blacklead portraits of eminent artiste.
John Faldo: '''John Faldo''' ([[1633]]-[[1690]]), nonconformist minister ; pastor at Tla-U-mV Hall, Al.J.-riimnhiir.v. 1684-90. His 'Quakerism no Christianity 1673, lei to an animated controversy with Wllllum IVm..
Thomas Fale: '''Thomas Fale''' {fl. [[1604]]), mathematician; M.A. Corpus Cliristi College, Cambridge, 15K6; B.D., 1597; li.M;ii-l physician, 1604. His Horologiographia (1593) contains what is probably the earliest trigonometrical table printed in England.
Edward Falkener: '''Edward Falkener''' (1K14-[[1896]]), architect: articled to John Newman (1786-1859); studied at Royal Academy; studied architectural remains in Europe, Asia, and Egypt: practised in London; honorary F.R.I.B.A., 1895; published works relating to classical architecture.
Viscouvts Falkland: '''Viscouvts Falkland''' . See GARY, 8m HBNRY, first VISCOUNT, d. 1633; and GARY, Lucius, second VISCOUNT, 1610 ?-1643.
Elizabeth Falkland: '''Elizabeth Falkland''' , VISCOUNTESS ([[1585]]-[[1639]]).
Sir Everard Falkner: '''Sir Everard Falkner''' ([[1684]]-[[1758]]). Sea F VWKKNKH.
John Falkner: '''John Falkner''' ([[1577]]-[[1656]]). See FALCONER,
John: '''John'''
Thomas Falkner: '''Thomas Falkner''' ([[1707]]-[[1784]]), Jesuit missionary, surgeon on board a slave phip: nursed through an illness by Buenos Ayres Jesuits, 1731; Jesuit missionary in Paraguay and Tucu man: expelled from South America as a Jesuit, 1768; joined English province, c. 1771; wrote on medicine and natural history of South America.
William Falkner: '''William Falkner''' (d. [[1682]]), divine ; M.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1656; rector of Glemsford, 1679-82; D.D. Cambridge, 1680: wrote in defence of the church of England.
Philip Falle: '''Philip Falle''' ([[1656]]-[[1742]]), historian of Jersey; native of Jersey; entered at Exeter College, Oxford, 1C69; M.A. Alban Hall, 1676; incumbent of Trinity parish, Jersey, 1681-7; incumbent of St. Saviour's, Jersey, 1689-1709; deputed by States of Jersey to request William Ill's protection, 1693; king's chaplain, 1694; prebendary of Durham, 1700; his chief work, an Account of Jersey 1694 (expanded 1734).
Fearon Fallows: '''Fearon Fallows''' ([[1789]]-[[1831]]), astronomer: of humble origin; third wrangler, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1813; mathematical lecturer at Corpus Christi College and fellow of St. John's, Cambridge; M.A., 1816; director of astronomical observatory planned for Cape of Good Hope by commissioners of longitude, 1820; F.R.S., 1823; catalogued chief southern stars, 1824; completed observatory, 1829; died at Simon's Bay.
Falmottth: '''Falmottth''' first EARL op ([[1787]]-[[1841]]). See Bos-AWEN, EDWARD.
Falmouth: '''Falmouth''' first VISCOUNT (d. [[1734]]). See Bos-
Hugh Cawen: '''Hugh Cawen''' .
Samuel Fancotjrt: '''Samuel Fancotjrt''' ([[1678]]-[[1768]]), dissenting minister and projector of circulating libraries; minister and tutor in Salisbury, 1718-30; established subscription library in London, 1730 (dissolved, 1745); established The Gentlemen and LadiesGrowing and Circulating Library 1746: failed of success; published Essay concerning Liberty, Grace, and Prescience 1729, and similar works.
Sir Edmund Douglas Veitoh Fane: '''Sir Edmund Douglas Veitoh Fane''' ([[1837]]1900), diplomatist; educated at Merton College, Oxford; altered diplomatic service, 1858; minister at Belgrade, 1893-1900; K.O.M.G., 1899.

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Francis Fane: '''Francis Fane''' , first BARON BCRGHERSH and first
of Westmorland Earl: '''of Westmorland Earl''' ([[1583]]-[[1628]]), son of Sir Thomas Fane; K.B., 1603; created earl, 1624.
Sir Francis Fane: '''Sir Francis Fane''' (d. [[1689]]?), dramatist: grandson of Francis Fane, first earl of Westmorland; K.B., 1660; bequeathed money for Olveston poor; wrote 'Love in the Dark(comedy), 1675,The Sacrifice (tragedy"), 1686, and a masque. FA1TE 418
Faraday: '''Faraday'''
Francis William Henry Fane: '''Francis William Henry Fane''' , twelfth EARL OP WESTMORLAND (1825-1891), educated at Westminster: and Sandhurst; ensign, 1843; lieutenant, 1844; captain, I 1848: served in India and Crimea; O.B., 1885; succeeded to earldom, 1859; retired as colonel, 1860.
Sir Henry Fane: '''Sir Henry Fane''' ([[1778]]-[[1840]]), general: cornet, 1792; captain, 1793; M.P., Lyme Regis, 1796-1818; colonel and aide-de-camp to the king, 1805; turned ! Laborde's right at Rolica, 1808; major-general, 1810; de- i fcated Villatte, 1813; fought at Vittoria, 1813, and Orthes, 1814; colonel, 1814; lieutenant-general, 1819; O.O.B., 1825; M.P., Sandwich, 1829; commander-in-chief in India, 1835; secured unhindered passage of English troops through Siud into Afghanistan, 1839; died off St. Michael's Island in the Azores.
John Fane: '''John Fane''' , seventh EARL OP WESTMORLAND (1682 ?-1762), distinguished himself under the Duke of Marlborough; lieutenant-colonel, 1710; created Baron Oatherlough, 1733; M.P., Hythe, 1708-10, Buckingham, 1726-7 and 1727; knight of the shire for Kent, 1715; Earl of Westmorland, 1736; lord-lieutenant of Northamptonshire, 1737; lieutenant-general of the forces of the kingdom, 1739; chancellor of Oxford University, 1758.
John Fane: '''John Fane''' , ninth EARL OF WESTMORLAND ([[1728]]1774), educated at Westminster; M.P., Lyme Regis, 1761 and 1762.
John Fane: '''John Fane''' , tenth EARL OP WESTMORLAND ([[1759]]1841), son of John Fane, ninth earl; educated at Charterhouse and Emmanuel College, Cambridge; M.A., 1778; privy councillor, 1789; lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1790-5; opposed catholic emancipation; recalled by Pitt, 1795; lord privy seal, 1798-1827; K.G., 1793; lord-lieutenant of Northamptonshire..
John Fane: '''John Fane''' , eleventh EARL OP WESTMORLAND (1784-1869), son of John Fane, tenth earl; educated ! at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1808;; M.P., Lyme Regis, 1806-16; assistant adjutant-general in: Sicily, 1806-7: served in Peninsula, 1808-10; minister plenipotentiary to Florence, 1814; LL.D. Cambridge, i 1814; signed convention of Caza Lanza, 1815; -privy councillor, 1822; D.O.L. Oxford, 1834; resident minister at Berlin, 1841-51; G.C.B., 1846; general, 1854; founded Royal Academy of Music, 1823; musical composer, and author of military memoirs.
Julian Henry Charles Fane: '''Julian Henry Charles Fane''' ([[1827]]-[[1870]])' diplomatist and poet; son of John Fane, eleventh earl of Westmorland; educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; chancellor's medallist, 1850; M.A., 1851; secretary of legation at St. Petersburg, 1856-8; first secretary and acting charge d'affaires at Paris, 1865-7 and 1868 issued Poems 1852, and a translation of Heine, 1854.
Mildmay Fane: '''Mildmay Fane''' , second EARL OF WESTMORLAND
Francesco Fanelli: '''Francesco Fanelli''' (fl. [[1610]]-[[1665]]), statuary; native of Florence; worked in metal in Knjiland; styled himself Scultore del Ue della Gran Bretagna; published engravings, 1642.
Ydmund Fanning: '''Ydmund Fanning''' ([[1737]]-[[1818]]), colonial governor ; born in Long Island; graduate of Yale, 1757; colonel of militia, North Carolina, 1763; member of the legislature; compelled to leave North Carolina (1771) for his m;iU practices when recorder of deeds; surveyor-general, 1774; D.C.L. Oxford, 1774; lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, 1783-7, of the island of St. John, 1787-99, of Prince Edward island, 1799-1804; British general, 1808.
Anne Fanshawe: '''Anne Fanshawe''' , LADY ([[1626]]-[[1680]]), n& Harrison; wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe; lutenist, singer, and French scholar; shared in all her husband's wanderings and diplomatic missions; refused offer of pension from the Spanish government on condition of becoming a catholic, 1666; wrote memoir of Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1676 (first printed in 1829).
Catherine Maria Fanshawe: '''Catherine Maria Fanshawe''' ([[1765]]-[[1834]]X poetess; exchanged verses with Cowper; commended by Scott; best-known poem, a riddle on the letter H; several of her pieces included in Joanna Baillie'sCollection (1823).
Sir Henry Fanshawe: '''Sir Henry Fanshawe''' ([[1569]] ?-[[1616]]), remembrancer of the exchequer; son of Thomas Fanshawe ; student of the Inner Temple, 1586; remembrancer, 1601; M.P., Westbury, 1588 and 1593, Boroughbridge, 1597; knighted, 1603; friend of Prince Henry: horticulturist and Italian scholar.
Sir Richard Fanshawe: '''Sir Richard Fanshawe''' ([[1608]]-[[1666]]), diplomatist and author; son of Sir Henry Fanshawe; fellow-commoner, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1623; entered the Inner Temple, 1626: given credentials for Spain by Charles 1, 1647; ordered to Spain to procure money for the king's cause, 1650; created baronet, 1650; taken prisoner at battle of Worcester, 1651; master of requests and Latin secretary to Prince Charles at the Hague, 1660; M.P., Cambridge University, 1661; privy councillor of Ireland, 1662; ambassador to Portugal, 1662-3; privy councillor, 1663; ambassador to Spain, 1664-6; recalled (1666) for compromising the home government; died at Madrid; left unpublished poems. His published works include translations of Guarini's Pastor Fido 1647, and of Camoeus's Lusiad 1655.
Thomas Fanshawe: '''Thomas Fanshawe''' ([[1530]] ?-[[1601]]), remembrancer of the exchequer; of Jesus College, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple; remembrancer, J568; M.P., Rye, 1671, and Arundel; M.P., Much Wenlock, 1597; wrote Practice of the Exchequer Court(published, 1658) andAn Answer... concerning the Lord Treasurer's Office
Sir Thomas Fanshawe: '''Sir Thomas Fanshawe''' , first VLSCOUNT FAN (d. 1665), eldest son of Francis Fane, first earl; SHAWE of Dromore, in the peerage of Ireland (1596-1665), educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; M.P. Peter- remembrancer of the exchequer, 1616: son of Sir Henry borough, 1621; K.B., 1626; fined and sequestrated by parliament, 1642; his sequestration discharged, 1644; joint lord-lieutenant of Northamptonshire, 1660; privately printed Otia Sacra 1648, and left manuscript poems.
Priscilla Anne Fane: '''Priscilla Anne Fane''' , COUNTKSS op WESTMOR-
Land: '''Land''' ([[1793]]-[[1879]]), artist; nte Wellesley-Pole ; married John Fane, afterwards eleventh Earl of Westmorland fa. v., 1811; exhibited at various institutions, 1833-41, 1842, and 1867.
Fane: '''Fane''' or VANE, SIR RALPH (d. [[1552]]), alleged conspirator; knighted before Boulogne, 1644: fought at Muaselburgh, 1547; knight-banneret, 1547; charged with conspiring to murder Northumberland, 1561; executed.
Robert George Cecil Fane: '''Robert George Cecil Fane''' ([[1796]]-[[1864]]), bankruptcy commissioner; educated at Charterhouse; matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, 1813; demy and fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1824-38; M.A., 1819; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1821; a commissioner of th Thirteenth List 1823; a commissioner of bankruptcy, 1831; wrote mainly on bankruptcy reform.
Sir Thomas Fane: '''Sir Thomas Fane''' (d. [[1589]]), politician ; attainted for share in Wyatt's rebellion, but pardoned, 1564; knighted, 1573; deputy-commissioner for breeding of In Kent, 1580. Fanshawe; K.B., 1626; M.P. for Hertford, 1624, 1625, and 1640; M.P., Lancaster, 1626 and 1628; fought for Charles I at Edgehill, 1642; sequestrated, 1642; created Viscount Fanshawe, 1661; M.P., Hertfordshire, 1661.

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Thomas Fanshawe: '''Thomas Fanshawe''' , second VISCOUNT FAN I RHAWE, in the peerage of Ireland (1639-1674), sou of Sir Thomas Faushawe, first viscount; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge; K.B., 1661; remembrancer, 1665; M.P., Hertford, 1661-74.
Michael Faraday: '''Michael Faraday''' ([[1791]]-[[1867]]), natural philosopher; apprenticed to Riebau, a London bookseller, 1804; engaged by Sir Humphry Davy as assistant, on showing interest in science, 1812: travelled as Davy's amanuensis in France, Switzerland, Italy, and the Tyrol, I 1813-16; treated as a menial by Lady Davy; published I in the Quarterly Journal of Science analysis of caustic ! lime from Tuscany, 1816: professed Sandemanianism, ! 1821; wrote History of the Progress of Electro- MagI nettem 1821; analysed hydrate of chlorine, thereby ! facilitating Davy's discovery of chlorine, 1823; liquefied chlorine and other gases; announced discovery of benzol, ; 1825; Bakerian lecturer, 1829; the chromatrope sug! gested by his paperOn a Peculiar Class of Optical Deceptions 1831; discovered magneto-electricity, 1831; regarded position of iron filings round a magnet as deter
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Farnham: '''Farnham''' mined bylines of fom-; discoveredextra current* by help of facts furnished by one William Jenkin, 1835; pensioned by Lord Melbourne, 1836; decided in favour of 'identity of electricities sought to invent neutral terminology for theory of voltaic pile: constructed a voltameter declared medium necessary for transmission of electric induction; scientific adviser to Trinity House, 1 83G; propounded rotation of plane of polarisation by nugiintn and electric currents 1845; established diamagnetic repulsion; originated theory of atom as centre of force; dial in a house given him by Queen Victoria at Hampton Court.
John Farey: '''John Farey''' ([[1766]]-[[1826]]), geologist; consulting surveyor and geologist in London, 1802, following William Smith's principles; published Survey of the County of Derby 1811-13, and scientific papers.
John Farey: '''John Farey''' ([[1791]]-[[1851]]), civil engineer; son of John Farey (1766-1826); gold medallist Society of Arts, 1813; constructed ironworks in Russia, 1819; introduced use of steam-engine indicators; M.I.O.E., 1826; published * A Treatise on the Steam Engine,* 1827.
Frederick John Fargus: '''Frederick John Fargus''' ([[1847]]-[[1885]]), novelist; under pseudonym of HUGH OONWAY; auctioneer of Bristol from 1868; his first story published in Thirteen at Table 1881; published Called Back a highly successful sensational novel, 1883; contributed tales to various periodicals; producedDark Days 1884; valued and catalogued Strawberry Hill collection; died at Monte Carlo.
Farictiis: '''Farictiis''' (d. [[1117]]), abbot of Abingdon ; native of Arezzo; physician to Henry I; abbot of Abingdon, 1100; obtained grants for the abbey; his election to the archbishopric of Canterbury prevented by opposition of suffragan bishops, 1114; wrote a Life of St. Aldhelm
Anthony Farindon: '''Anthony Farindon''' ([[1598]]-[[1658]]), royalist divine ; scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, 1612; fellow, 1617; M.A., 1620; B.D., 1629; vicar of Bray, 1634; divinity lecturer in the Chapel Royal at Windsor, 1639; ejected during the civil war; friend of John Hales; minister of St. Mary Magdalene, Milk Street, 1647-56; dispossessed, 1656; famous as a preacher; moderate latitudiuarian; a hundred and thirty of his sermons are extant.
Fabingdon: '''Fabingdon''' alias COOK, HUGH (d. [[1539]]), abbot of Reading, 1520; sent Henry VIII books on matrimonial law to enable him to find justification for divorcing Catherine of Arragon; trier of petitions from Qascony, 1523; in parliament, 523-39; J.P. for Berkshire; executed for supposed complicity in northern rebellion.
George Farington: '''George Farington''' ([[1752]]-[[1788]]), artist; gold medallist of the Royal Academy. 1780; died at Moorshedabad, when making studies for a grand picture of the nabob's court.
John Farington: '''John Farington''' ([[1603]]-[[1646]]).
Joseph Farington: '''Joseph Farington''' ([[1747]]-[[1821]]), landscapepainter; R.A., 1785: best known by two collections of engraved views of the English lakes.
William Farish: '''William Farish''' ([[1759]]-[[1837]]), Jacksonian professor at Cambridge; senior wrangler, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1778; fellow; MA., 1781; professor of chemistry, 1794; incumbent of St. Giles's, Cambridge, 1800; Jacksonian professor of natural and experimental philosophy, 1813-36; B.D., 1820.
Charles Farley: '''Charles Farley''' ([[1771]]-[[1859]]), actor and dramatist; instructor of Joseph Grimaldi; excelled in melodrama; superintended Oovent Garden pantomimes, 1806-34, writing a few himself.
James Lewis Farley: '''James Lewis Farley''' ([[1823]]-[[1885]]), writer on eastern affairs; chief accountant of Ottoman bank at Beyrout; accountant-general of state bank of Turkey at Constantinople, 1860; traced extension of British trade throughout Turkish empire to the Greeks in Resource? of Turkey 1862; published Turks and Christians 176, some of its suggestions being subsequently forced upon the Porte: consul for the sultan at Bristol, 1870-84; fellow of Statistical Society; privy councillor in Bulgarian public works department.
Farmer: '''Farmer'''
Anthony Farmer: '''Anthony Farmer''' (Jl. [[1687]]), president-designate of Magdalen College, Oxford; matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1672; scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1676; M.A., 1680; joined Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1683; asked to migrate to Magdalen College, 1685, being a disorderly and quarrelsome man; vainly nominated by James II to presidency of Magdalen, 1687; charges brought against him by the fellows substantiated, 1687.
George Farmer: '''George Farmer''' ([[1732]]-[[1779]]), navy captain: lieutenant in West Indies and on home station: assisted in suppressing riot at Norwich, 1766; appointed commander (1768) on the representations of the Norwich magistrates; shipwrecked off Patagonia, 1770; promoted to post rank, 1771; perishwl in the burning of his ship during encounter with French, 1779.
Hugh Farmer: '''Hugh Farmer''' ([[1714]]-[[1787]]), independent minister and theological writer; afternoon preacher at Salters Hall, 1761-72, and one of the preachers at the merchantslecture 1762-80; trustee of Dr. Williams's foundations, 1762; published theological works.
John Farmer: '''John Farmer''' (fl. [[1591]]-[[1601]]), composer ; dedicated to his friend Edward de Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford , a book containing examples in two-part counterpoint of different orders, 1591, and "The First Set of English Madrigals 1599; contributed a madrigal to The Triumphs of Oriana 1601.
Richard Farmer: '''Richard Farmer''' ([[1735]]-[[1797]]), master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; senior optime, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1757; M.A. and tutor, 1760; F.S.A., 1763; publishedEssay on the Learning of Shakspeare 1767, maintaining that Shakespeare knew the classics through translations only: master of Emmanuel College, 1775; D.D. Cambridge, 1775; vice-chancellor of Cambridge, 1775-6 and 1787-8; broke open the building in which the university seal was kept in order to prepare the address voted to George III in support of his American policy, 1775; prebendary and chancellor of Lichfield, I 1780; prebendary of Canterbury, 1782, of St. Paul's, 1788; introduced statuary into St. Paul's,
Thomas Farmer: '''Thomas Farmer''' (fl. [[1685]]). composer ; Mus. Bac. Cambridge, 1684; contributed to musical collections; published consorts 1686 and 1690.
John Farmery: '''John Farmery''' (d. [[1690]]), physician : M.A. King's College, Cambridge, 1568; F.C.P., 1589; M.D. Leyden, 1589; assisted in drawing up formulae for Pharmacopoeia 1589.
Giles Farnaby: '''Giles Farnaby''' (fl. [[1598]]), composer ; Mus. Bac. Oxford, 1692; published canzonets, 1598.

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Thomas Farnaby: '''Thomas Farnaby''' ([[1575]]7-[[1647]]), schoolmaster and classical scholar; postmaster. Merton College, Oxford, 1590; studied at a Jesuit college in Spain; sailed in Drake and Hawkins's last voyage; opened school in Goldsmiths Alley, which his abilities made famous; corresponded with G. J. Vossius, 1630-42; commissioned by Charles I to prepare a new Latin grammar, 1641; detained at Ely House, Holborn, 1644-5; friend of Ben Jonson; edited most of the classical authors, co-operating with Meric Oasaubon in an edition of Terence, issued in 1651; published among other works an Index Hhetoricus 1626.
Lady Farnborough: '''Lady Farnborough''' ([[1762]]-[[1837]]). See LONG,
Amelia: '''Amelia'''
Baron Farnborottgh: '''Baron Farnborottgh''' , of Bromley Hill Place (1761-1838).
Baron Farnborottgh: '''Baron Farnborottgh''' , of Farnborougb ([[1815]]1886).
Ellis Farneworth: '''Ellis Farneworth''' (d. [[1763]]), translator ; educated at Eton and Jesus College, Cambridge; M.A., 1738; vicar of Rostherne, 1758-62; rector of Carsington, 1762-3. His translations include Davila'sCivil Wars of France 1758, and a widely circulated version of Machiavelli, 1762.
Richard Farnham: '''Richard Farnham''' (d. [[1642]]), fanatic ; a weaver by profession; together with John Bull (d. 1642) pave himself out to be a prophet, 1636; imprisoned by high commission court, 1636; vainly petitioned Laud for his release; gained some followers. BT8 2
Fabnworth: '''Fabnworth''' 420
Fastolf: '''Fastolf'''
Richard Farnworth: '''Richard Farnworth''' (rf. [[1666]]), qnaker ; minister. 1651; imprisoned at Banbury for not uncovering to the nmyor, 1655; published theological works.
Sir Arthur Farqjjhar: '''Sir Arthur Farqjjhar''' ([[1772]]-[[1843]]), rearn.lmiral; entered navy when the French war broke out; commander, 1802; captured in charge of convoy, 1805; advanced to post rank, 1805: senior naval officer in the north German operations, 1813-14; O.B., 1816; helped to suppress West Indian negro revolt; knighted, 1833; rearadmiral, 1837.
George Farqtjhar: '''George Farqtjhar''' ([[1678]]-[[1707]]), dramatist; sizar of Trinity College, Dublin, 1694-5; patronised by Bishop Wiseman; gave up the stage in consequence of tvccidentally wounding a fellow-actor; advised by Wilkes to write a comedy; produced Love and a Bottle 1699, theConstant Couple 1700,Sir Harry Wildair 1701, The Inconstant 1702, The Twin Rivals 1702, 4 The Stage Coach 1704,The Recruiting Officer 1706, and The BeauxStratagem 1707; served in Holland, 1700; died of mortification at not receiving the captaincy Ormonde had promised him.
John Farqtjhar: '''John Farqtjhar''' ([[1751]]-[[1826]]), millionaire; dangerously wounded when cadet on Bombay establishment; improved government powder factory at Pultah, and was made superintendent, subsequently sole contractor; partner in Basset, Farquhar & Cos agency house, London.
Far: '''Far''' aUHAR, SIR ROBERT TOWNSEND ([[1776]]1830), politician; sou of Sir Walter Farquhar; lieutenant-governor of Penaug; commissioner for transference of Moluccas to Batavian Republic, 1802; governor and commander-in-chief of Mauritius, suppressing slave trade there, 1812-23; created baronet, 1821; M.P., Newton, 1825, Hythe, 1826-30.
Far: '''Far''' aTTHAR, SIR WALTER ([[1738]]-[[1819]]), physician : M.A. King's College, Aberdeen; studied medicine at Edinburgh and Glasgow; army surgeon in Howe's expedition, 1761; M.D. Aberdeen, 1796; L.R.C.P., 1796; created baronet, 1796; physician in ordinary to the Prince of Wales, 1796.
Far: '''Far''' dTTHARSON, JAMES ([[1781]]-[[1843]]), scientific writer; M.A. King's College, Aberdeen, 1798; minister of Alford, 1813; traced aurora borealis to development of electricity, 1830; F.R.S., 1830; LL.D. King's College, Aberdeen, 1837; published A New Illustration of the Latter Part of Daniel's Last Vision and Prophecy 1838, and.essays and scientific papers.
Far: '''Far''' aUHARSON, JOHN ([[1699]]-[[1782]]), Jesuit ; studied at Scots College, Douay, 1729; missioner in Scotland; professed Jesuit, 1736; formed collection of Gaelic poetry, including work assigned to Ossian, which was deposited (1772) in the Scote College, Douay, and forgotten; it was not known to Macpherson.
Samuel Farr: '''Samuel Farr''' ([[1741]]-[[1795]]), physician ; educated at Edinburgh; M.I). Leyden, 1766; translated Hippocrates's 4 History of Epidemics; and wrote on medical topics.
William Farr: '''William Farr''' ([[1807]]-[[1883]]), statisticia'studied medicine at Paris, 1829-31; L.A.S., 1832; inaugurated a new science by hisVital Statisticsin Macculloch's Account of the British Empire 1837; compiler of abstracts in registrar-general's office, 1838-79; honorary M.D. New York, 1847; F.R.S., 1855; honorary D.O.L. Oxford, 1857; commissioner for census of 1871; president of Statistical Society, 1871 and 1872; C.B., 1880; retired from public service, 1879. A selection of his works was edited by Noel Humphreys, 1885.
Richard Farrant: '''Richard Farrant''' (ft. [[1564]]-[[1580]]), composer: gentleman of the Chapel Royal before 1564; organist of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, 1564-9: presented two plays before the queen, 1568; possibly one of the first to set lessons for the viollyra-way composed various anthems and a High Service
John Farrar: '''John Farrar''' ([[1802]]-[[1884]]), president of Wesleyan methodist conference; classical tutor at Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond, 1843-58; chaplain and governor of Woodhouse Grove school, 1868-68; fint governor of Headingley College, Leeds, 1868-76; president ot Wesluyan conference, 1854 and 1870; compiled dictionaries of the bible and ecclesiastical history.
Arthur Farre: '''Arthur Farre''' ([[1811]]-[[1887]]), obstetric physician : son of John Richard Farre; educated at Charterhouse and Caius College, Cambridge; studied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital f M.D. Cambridge, 1841; professor of obstetric medicine at King's College and physicianaccoucheur to King's College Hospital, 1841-62: councillor, Royal College of Physicians; Harveian orator. 1872; examiner in midwifery, Royal College of Surgeons, 1852-75; physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria,
Frederic John Farre: '''Frederic John Farre''' ([[1804]]-[[1886]]), physician ; son of John Richard Farre; educated at the Charterhouse and St. John's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1830; M.D. Cambridge, 1837; physician to St. Bartholomew's, 1854-70, to Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, 1843-86; vice-president, College of Physicians, 1885; one of the editors of the first British Pharmacopoeia 1864.
John Richard Farre: '''John Richard Farre''' ([[1775]]-[[1862]]), physician; born in Barbados; went to France on Lord Moira's expedition, 1793: practised as physician in Barbados; M.D. Aberdeen, 1806; L.R.C.P., 1806: co-founder of Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, and physician there; published pathological works, 1812-14.
Elizabeth Farren: '''Elizabeth Farren''' , COUNTESS OF DERBY (1759 ?-1829), actress; appeared at the Haymarket, 1777: the original Nancy Lovel in Colman'sSuicide 1778; appeared at Drury Lane, 1778; married Edward Stanley, twelfth ear of Derby, and retired, 1797; commended by Hazlitt for her fine-lady airs and graces

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Henry Farren: '''Henry Farren''' ([[1826]] ?-[[1860]]), actor ; son of William Farren: played Charles Surface at the Haymarket, c. 1847; manager of Brighton Theatre; manager of the theatre at St. Louis, U.S.A., where he died.
William Farren: '''William Farren''' ([[1786]]-[[1861]]), actor ; played Sir Peter Teazle at Covent Garden, 1818; occasionally took such parts as Meg Merrilies and Miss Harlow in the 'Old Maid sued by Covent Garden management for appearing at Drury Lane, 1828; manager of Strand and (1850-3) of Olympic theatres; excelled in rdle of old man.
Sir Thomas Henry Farrer: '''Sir Thomas Henry Farrer''' , first BARON
Farrer: '''Farrer''' ([[1819]]-[[1899]]), civil servant ; educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. B.A.,1840; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1844; assistant-secretary of marine department of board of trade, 1850; assistant-secretary to the board, 1854, and permanent-secretary, 1865-86; created baronet, 1883: member of London County Council, 1889-98; for several years vice-chairman; raised to peerage, 1893; published writings on economic subjects.
Robert Faeriee: '''Robert Faeriee''' ([[1796]]-[[1879]]), painter : exhibited miniature portraits, domestic subjects, and scenes from schoolboy life at the Royal Academy after 1818.
Sir Anthony Farrington: '''Sir Anthony Farrington''' ([[1742]]-[[1823]]), baronet and general; lieutenant-fireworker, 1755: served at Gibraltar, 1759-63; captain, 1764; fought in early engagements of American war of independence; colonel, 1791; commanded artillery in North Holland, 1799; general, 1812; inspector-general of artillery, 1812; created baronet, 1818; honorary D.O.L. Oxford, 1820.
Farrington: '''Farrington''' Sm WILLIAM (fl. [[1412]]), soldier and diplomatist; knighted by the Duke of Lancaster, 1366: governor of Saintes; imprisoned in the Tower for negligently allowing a prisoner of war to escape, 1876; heavily fined for taking part in crusade led by the bishop of Norwich to support claim of Urban VI to papacy; with the Duke of Lancaster in Galicia; envoy to Portugal, 1390; commander of Bordeaux Castle, 1412.
Joseph Farrow: '''Joseph Farrow''' ([[1652]]?-[[1692]]), nonconformist divine; M.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge; friend of John Locke; private tutor; episcopally ordained chaplain in various country families.
Sir John Fastolf: '''Sir John Fastolf''' ([[1378]] ?-[[1459]]), warrior and landowner; undertook to serve Henry V in France, 1415; distinguished himself at Agincourt, 1416; governor of Conde-snr-Noirean, 1417; knighted before 1418; governor of the Bastille, 1420; king's lieutenant and recrent in Normandy, 1423; governor of Anjou uiul Maine, 1423-6; -b'AUOIT 421
Fawcett: '''Fawcett''' bunm.Tet: took prisoner John II, duke of Alenjon, at the battle of Vtrueml, 1424; K.G., 1426; defeated the French atthe Battle of the Herringsnear Orleans, 1429: grouudlessly accused of cowardice for retreating at Patay, 1 l:; assisted in negotiating peace of Arras, 1434; privy councillor; retired to the Tower on the outbreak of Cade's insurrection, 1450; built castle at Gaister, his birthplace; friend of John Paston (1421-1466) q. v.j, author of the greater number of the Paston Letters; contributed towards building the philosophy schools at Cambridge; left will (widely suspected to be a forgery) by which John Paston became owner of Caister Castle. Funds which Fastolf bequeathed to establish a college at Caister were ultimately transferred to the foundation of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1474. The few coincidences between the careers of Fostolf ami Shakespeare's creation of Sir John Falstaff are accidental.
Helena Saville Faucit: '''Helena Saville Faucit''' , afterwards LADY
Maktin: '''Maktin''' ([[1817]]-[[1898]]), actress ; known as HELEN FAUCIT : appeared first as Juliet at Richmond, 18?3; engaged, 1836, at Oovent Garden, at the Hay market, 1839-41, and in Dublin and Birmingham, 1842-3; played in company with Alacready, her parts including Constance King John), Queen Katherine Henry VIII), Desdemona, Cordelia, Miranda, Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, and Portia Julius Caesar 1 ); in Paris with Macready, 1842; played, with great success, Antigone, at Dublin, 1845; married Mr. (after wards Sir) Theodore Martin, 1851; played Imogen to (Sir) Henry Irving's Pisanio, Edinburgh, 1867, and Lady Macbeth to Phelps's Macbeth at Her Majesty's, 1858; terminated last engagement in London, 1866, and appeared for the last time on stage at Manchester, 1879; published a book On some of Shakespeare's Female Characters 1885.
Earl Fauconberg: '''Earl Fauconberg''' ([[1627]]-[[1700]]). See BELASYSE,
Thomas: '''Thomas'''
Baron Fauconberg: '''Baron Fauconberg''' (d. [[1463]]). See NEVILLE,
Earl of Kent Wllliam: '''Earl of Kent Wllliam''' .
Thomas Fauconberg: '''Thomas Fauconberg''' , THE BASTARD OP, sometimes called THOMAS THE BASTARD (d. 1471), rebel; ordered to raise the county of Kent on behalf of Warwick and Henry VI, 1471; burnt part of London; his ships destroyed at Sandwich; beheaded.
Eustace De Fauconbridge: '''Eustace De Fauconbridge''' (d. [[1228]]), bishop of London; royal justice, 1199 and after; treasurer, 1217; prebendary of St. Paul's; bishop of London, 1221-8; commissioned to demand Normandy from Louis VIII, 1223; ambassador to France, 1204, 1223, and 1225.
Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkner: '''Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkner''' ([[1779]]-[[1845]]), physician to the forces; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin; M.D. Edinburgh, 1803; incorporated M.A. of Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1805, and M.D. of Pembroke College, Oxford, 1806; F.R.C.P., 1808; physician to the forces; distinguished himself by investigating the plague and directing quarantine procedure at Malta, 1813; knighted, 1815; published account of Malta plague, 1820, narratives of continental travel, and piquant pamphlets on supposed abuses in church and state.
Benjamin Ra Wlinson Faulkner: '''Benjamin Ra Wlinson Faulkner''' ([[1787]]-[[1849]]), portrait-painter: originally Gibraltar agent for an English firm; exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1821.
George Faulkner: '''George Faulkner''' ([[1699]] ?-[[1775]]), bookseller ; bookseller and printer in Dublin; started Dublin Journal 1728; reprimanded by Irish House of Lords for reflecting on the honour of their house 1733; committal to Newgate for publishing Hort's pamphlet containing a satiric reference to Serjeant Bettesworth, 1736; pirated Richardson's Pamela 1741; acknowledged by Lord Chesterfield, viceroy of Ireland, as his authoritative adviser; withdrew from publication of Richardson'sSir Charles Grandisonon finding out that other Dublin booksellers had obtained advance sheets, 1753; turned Roman catholic, 1758; satirised by Foote, 1762; alderman of Dublin, 1770; published Ancient Universal History 1774; friend of Swift; published Swift's works with notes, 1772.
George Faulkner: '''George Faulkner''' ([[1790]] ?-[[1862]]), the supposed 1 originator of the foundation of Owens College, Manchester; friend and partner of John Owens in a Manchester firm; suggested that Owens, who thought of I making him his heir, should leave money for the ioumJa tion of an undenominational university collage; first chairman of the trustees of Owens College, 1851-8,
Joshua Wilson Faulkner: '''Joshua Wilson Faulkner''' (jf. Z [[1809]]-[[182]]U), portrait-painter; brother of Benjamin Hawlinson Faulkner; exhibited miniatures at the Royal Academy.
Thomas Faulkner: '''Thomas Faulkner''' ([[1777]]-[[1855]]), topographer of Chelsea; F.S.A. of Normandy; published history of Chelsea, 1810, Fulham, 1813, Kensington, 1820. Hammersmith, 1839, and Brentford, Chiswick, and Ealing, 1846.
Robert Faulknor: '''Robert Faulknor''' ([[1763]]-[[1796]]), navy captain ; fought at battle of Grenada, 1779; specially complimented by Admiral Jervis, and promoted to post rank for capturing Fort Royal alone, 1794; foremost at capture of St. Lucia, Guadeloupe, and Fort Fleur d'Epee, 1794; killed on board the Blanche while endeavouring to lash bowsprit of the French frigate, Pique, to his capstan.

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Arthur Faunt: '''Arthur Faunt''' , in religion LAURENCK ARTHUR (1554-1591), Jesuit:.entered Merton College, Oxford, 1568; placed in the Jesuit college at Louvain, 1670; B.A. ! Louvain; M.A. Munich; befriended by Pope Gregory XIII; first rector of Jesuit college at Posen, 1581; professor of Greek, moral theology, and controversy at Posen; highly esteemed by the Polish estates; died at Wilna; published 1 theological and philosophical works, writing also on Polish secular and ecclesiastical dissensions.
Nicholas Faunt: '''Nicholas Faunt''' (fl. [[1572]]-[[1608]]), clerk of the signet; educated at Caius and Corpus Christi Colleges, Cambridge; brought news of St. Bartholomew massacre to England, 1572; secretary to Sir Francis Walsingham, c. 1580; M.P., Boroughbridge, 1585; clerk of the signet, 1603; friend of Anthony Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon; wroteA Discourse touching the Office of Principal Secretary of State 1592 (imprinted),
Fauntler: '''Fauntler''' pY, HENRY ([[1785]]-[[1824]]), banker and forger; partner in his father's bank of Marsh, Sibbald & Co., London, 1807-1824; arrested (1824) for fraudulently selling stock (1820) and for forging the trusteessignatures to a power of attorney; claimed to have been impelled by the desire of keeping up the credit of his banking house; executed, though numerous petitions were signed on his behalf, 1824.
Fau: '''Fau''' aUIER, FRANCIS ([[1704]]7-[[1768]]), lieutenantgovernor of Virginia; F.R.S., 1753; lieutenant-governor of Virginia, 1758; dissolved Virginian House of Burgesses on passing of Patrick Henry's resolutions about taxation, 1765; published An Essay on Ways and Means of Raising Money for the present War without Increasing the Public Debts 1756; died at Williamsburg.
Bryan Faussett: '''Bryan Faussett''' ([[1720]]-[[1776]]), antiquary; M.A. University College, Oxford, 1745; endeavoured to organise Jacobite volunteer corps, 1746; fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; rector of Monk's Horton; F.S.A., 1762; excavated Anglo-Saxon barrows in Kent and formed collection largely consisting of Anglo-Saxon ornaments.
Thomas Godfrey Faussett: '''Thomas Godfrey Faussett''' , afterwards T. G.
Godfrey: '''Godfrey''' -FAUSSETT ([[1829]]-[[1877]]), antiquary ; scholar and fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; F.S.A., 1859; barrister, 1862; honorary secretary, Kent Archaeological Society, 1863-73; auditor to Canterbury dean and chapter, 1866-77; contributed to archaeological journals.
Sham Favee: '''Sham Favee''' , SIMON OF (fl. [[1300]]).
John Favour: '''John Favour''' (d. [[1623]]), divine : educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, 1578; LL.D. Oxford, 1592; vicar of Halifax, 1594; warden of St. Mary Magdalen's Hospital at Ripon, Yorkshire, 1608 or 1616: prebendary and chantor of York, 1616; residentiary and chaplain to the archbishop; I published a controversialAutiqvitie trivmphing over j oveltie 1619; lawyer and physician.
Benjamin Fawcett: '''Benjamin Fawcett''' ([[1715]]-[[1780]]), dissenting minister; minister of Paul's Meeting, Taunton, 1741-6, of Kidderminster, 1745; publishedCandid Reflections laying stress on the number of legitimate interpretations of Trinitarianism, 1777.
Fawcett: '''Fawcett''' 422
Fearn: '''Fearn'''
Henry Fawcett: '''Henry Fawcett''' ([[1833]]-[[1884]]), statesman ; edu- i cated at Ring's College School, London, and Peterhouse, Cambridge; B.A. Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1856; fellow of Trinity Hall, 1866; student at Lincoln's Inn, 1864; lost his eyesight by a shooting accident, 1858; published I 4 Manual of Political Economy 1863; professor of politi- i cal economy at Cambridge, 1863-84; issued pamphlets in favour of proportional representation, 1860; liberal.M.I for Brighton, after many defeats, 1865; largely contributed to passing of Reform Bill of 1867; re-elected for Brighton, 1868; M.P., Hackney, 1874; obtained appointment of committees upn Indian finance, 1871-3 and 1874; popularly known as themember for India; advocated decided action in the matter of the Bulgarian atrocities, 1876; co-operated with Lord Lawrence in trying to make the Afghan war unpopular; re-elected for Hackney, 1880; postmaster-general in Gladstone's second administration, 1880; established the parcels post, 1882; introduced stamp slip deposits scheme; doctor of political economy, WUrzburg, 1882; F.R.S., 1882; corresponding member of the Institute of France, 1884; honorary LL.D. Glasgow, and lord rector, 1883; a consistent follower of John Stuart Mill. Most of his Cambridge lectures on political economy subsequently appeared in book form.
James Fawcett: '''James Fawcett''' ([[1752]]-[[1831]]), Norrisian professor at Cambridge; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1777; Constable fellow, 1777; Lady Margaret's preacher, 1782; B.D., 1785; Norrisian professor of divinity, 1795-1816; vicar of St. Sepulchre's, Cambridge, and (1801-31) rector of Thursford and Great Snoring.
Fawce: '''Fawce''' rT, JOHN (d. [[1793]]), actor ; played at Drury Lane and Covent Garden, and in Dublin.
John Fawoett: '''John Fawoett''' ([[1740]]-[[1817]]), baptist theologian; baptist minister at Halifax; D.D.; best known by his 'Devotional Commentary on the Holy Scriptures 1811.
John Fawcett: '''John Fawcett''' ([[1768]]-[[1837]]), actor and dramatist; son of John Fawcett (d. 1793); entered St. Paul's School, 1776; acted in Tate Wilkinson's company at York, 1787; played Jemmy Jumps in O'Keeffe's Farmer having been advised to devote his attention to low comedy; engaged for Covent Garden, 1791; held to eclipse all his contemporaries except Cooke as Falstaff in. the Merry Wives of Windsor 1796; played Dr. Pangloss in Column's Heir-at-Law 1797; stage-manager of the Haymarket, 1799-1802; superseded in the management of Covent Garden, 1829; treasurer and trustee of the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund, 1808-37; composed some pantomimes and spectacular ballets.
John Fawcett: '''John Fawcett''' , the younger ([[1825]] ?-[[1857]]), organist; son of John Fawcett the elder; organist of St. John's Church, Farnworth, 1826-42, of Earl Howe's Curzon Street church, and of Bolton parish church; Mus. Bac. Oxford, 1862.
John Fawcett: '''John Fawcett''' , the elder ([[1789]]-[[1867]]), composer; organist, professor of music, and composer at Bolton: choirmaster of three chapels ac Kendal and others in the midlands; upheld Lancashire sol-fa system of notation: composed anthems and psalm and hymn tunes.
Joseph Fawcett: '''Joseph Fawcett''' (d. [[1804]]), dissenting minister and poet; morning preacher at Walthamstow, 1780-7; Sunday-evening lecturer at the Old Jewry; published sermons and poems, including War Elegies 1801.
Joshua Fawcett: '''Joshua Fawcett''' (d. [[1864]]), miscellaneous writer ; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1836; honorary canon of Ripon, and chaplain to the bishop, 1860; published 'A Harmony of the Gospels 1836, and miscellaneous works, largely on the archaeology of Yorkshire churches.
Sib William Fawcett: '''Sib William Fawcett''' ([[1728]]-[[1804]]), general; ensign during the45; volunteer before Maestricht, 1748; ensign, 1751; adjutant; translated Marshal Saxe's Reveries or Memoirs of the Art of War 1757; aide-de-camp to General Eliott in Germany, 1757: announced victory of Warburg to George II in German, and was rewarded by a lieutenant-colonelcy, 1760; enlisted Hessians and Brunswickers to serve against America, c. 1775; governor of Gravesend; major-general, 1782; K.B., 1786; superseded as adjutant-general after the disastrous campaign in .c landers, 1784-6; general, 1796; privy councillor, 1789. xviii. 26ij
Sir Everard Fawkener: '''Sir Everard Fawkener''' ([[1684]]-[[1758]]), merchant and official; London merchant, probably in the silk and cloth trade; intimate with Voltaire, who began to write Brutus at his house; knighted, 1735: ambassador to Constantinople, 1,735; censured for precipitancy, 1736; secretary to the Duke of Cumberland; witness against his acquaintance, Lord Lovat, who declined to examine him, 1747; joint postmaster-general, 1745-68.
Francis Fawkes: '''Francis Fawkes''' ([[1720]]-[[1777]]), poet and divine; scholar of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1742; M.A., 1748; given church preferment by Archbishop Herring; bewailed Herring's death inAurelius an elegy, 1767; curate of Downe, 1774-7; translated Theocritus, 1767 Auacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus, 1760; modernised parts of Gawiu Douglas, 1752 and 1754; composedThe Brown Jug a famous comic song; considered by his contemporaries the best translator since Pope.
Guy Fawkes: '''Guy Fawkes''' ([[1570]]-[[1606]]), conspirator; of protestant parentage; adopted Roman Catholicism; disposed of his estate; enlisted (1593) in the Spanish army in Flanders; present at capture of Calais, 1595; had no share in originating Gunpowder plot; accompanied Catesby to a secret meeting with Velasco, the constable of Castile, 1604; deputed to fire the powder under the Houses of Parliament, 1605; undertook to watch the cellar by himself, unaware that the plot had become known at court, 3 Nov. 1605; discovered, 4 Nov. 1606; revealed under torture the names of his fellow-conspirators, 9 Nov. 1605; exoneratedthe holy fathers from all share in the conspiracy; executed,

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Walter Ramsden Fawkes: '''Walter Ramsden Fawkes''' ([[1769]]-[[1825]]), miscellaneous writer; M.P., Yorkshire, 1802-7; abolitionist; high sheriff of Yorkshire, 1823; an early patron of Turner; agriculturist and cattle-breeder; chief work, The Chronology of the History of Modern Europe 1810.
John Pasooe Fawknee: '''John Pasooe Fawknee''' ([[1792]]-[[1869]]), Australian settler; son of a convict; practised various trades in Tasmania; undertook the Launceston Advertiser,* clianging ite name to Tasmanian Advertiser 1829; did much to stimulate and direct his associates, the founders of Victoria; started Melbourne Advertiser 1838; commenced Port Phillip Patriot 1839; helped to bring about final separation of Victoria from New South Wales ;n 1850 by getting Melbourne to choose as its representative in the legislative council at Sydney first Lord Grey and then five of the leading English statesmen; member for Anglesea, Dalhousie, and Talbot in the new council of Victoria; helped to found Australian League, 1851.
Nicholas Fazakerley: '''Nicholas Fazakerley''' (d. [[1767]]), lawyer and politician; barrister, Middle Temple; an authority on conveyancing; occasionally retained in state trials; M.P., Preston, 1732-67; recorder of Preston, 1742-67; resolutely opposed the marriage clause in Lord Hardwicke's Regency Bill, 1751; Jacobite.
George Fead: '''George Fead''' ([[1729]]7-[[1815]]), lieutenant-general ; colonel-commandant, fourth battalion royal artillery; lieutenant-fireworker royal artillery, 1756; present at siege of Louisburg, Cape Breton, 1768; commanded artillery in Minorca, 1774-81, subsequently in Jamaica; lieutenant-governor of Port Royal and lieutenant-general, 1810.
Christopher: '''Christopher''' (fl. [[1645]]-[[1660]]), Fifthmonarchy man; vicar of All Saints, Hertford, 1646; vicar of Christ Church, Newgate, 1649; vilified Cromwell, 1653; liberated from confinement, 1656; published millenarian writings and attacks on the quakers.
Fearchatr: '''Fearchatr''' or FERCHARDTJS I ([[622]]?-[[636]]?), fifty-second king of Scottish Dalriada according to Boece and Buchanan, ninth according to the rectified list of Father Innes. FE ARCH AIR FAD A The Long) or FERCHARDTJS II (d. 697), fifty-fourth king of Scottish Dalriada according to Boece and Buchanan, twelfth according to Father Inues; possibly led a revolt against the Britons and Angles.
Fearoal: '''Fearoal''' (d. [[785]]).
Henry Noel Fearn: '''Henry Noel Fearn''' - ([[1811]]-[[1868]]). See CHBLST
Mas: '''Mas''' llK.NUV.
Feabn: '''Feabn''' 1 _
Felix: '''Felix'''
John Fearn: '''John Fearn''' ([[176]]H-[[1837]]), philosopher; served in the royal navy; professed to base on induction a philosophy which he unfolded in A Manual of the Physiology of Mind 1829, and other works.
Charles Fearne: '''Charles Fearne''' ([[1742]]-[[1794]]), legal writer: educated at Westminster; resided for some time at the Inner Temple; discovered new process of dyeing morocco; compared by Lord Campbell to Pascal or Sir Isaac Newton for his Essay OB the Learning of Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises 1772.
John Feary: '''John Feary''' (Jl. [[1770]]-[[1788]]), landscape-painter; obtained premium from the Society of Arts for a drawing from Duke of Richmond's gallery, 1766: exhibited at the Free Society of Artists, 1770-1, at the Royal Academy, 1772-88.
Isaac Earl Featherston: '''Isaac Earl Featherston''' ([[1813]]-[[1876]]), New Zealand statesman; M.D. Edinburgh, 1836; settled at Wellington, New Zealand, 1840; advocated cause of settlers under New Zealand Company, his action ultimately leading to New Zealand Constitution Act of 1853: -superintendent of the province of Wellington; supported 1 provincialism; denounced Maori war, 1860; agentgeneral for New Zealand, 1871-6.
Featley: '''Featley''' or FAIRCLOTTGH, DANIEL ([[1582]]-[[1645]]), controversialist; scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1594; B.A., 1601; probationer-fellow, 1602; M.A., 1605; domestic chaplain to Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury, till 1625; D.D., 1617; rector of Lambeth, 1619, of All Hallows, Bread Street, before 1625, of Acton, 1627; published, by direction of Archbishop Abbot, report of conference between Featley and some Jesuits, 1624; engaged, with James I, in a scholastick duel 1625; composed Ancilla Pietatis a devotional manual, much used by Charles 1, 1626; provost of Chelsea College, 1630; re(used to turn the communion table in his church at Lambeth altar-wise; one of the sub-committee to settle religion 1641; narrowly escaped being murdered, 16421643, as an adherent of the church of England; reported jome proceedings against him before the exchequer court (1643) inSpongia 1644; member of the Westminster assembly, 1643; best-known work, KaTaa7rrirTai u The Dippers dipt 1645.
Featley: '''Featley''' or FAIRCLOTJGH, JOHN ([[1605]] ?-[[1666]]), divine; nephew of Daniel Featley; chorister of All Souls.College, Oxford; B.A., 1624;first preacher of the Gospelin St. Christopher's, 1626; chaplain to Charles I, 1639-43; chaplain extraordinary to the king, precentor of Lincoln, and prebendary, 1660: D.D. Oxford, by royal mandamus, 1661.
Richard Featley: '''Richard Featley''' ([[1621]]-[[1682]]). See FAIR
Clouoh: '''Clouoh'''
Saint Fechin: '''Saint Fechin''' (d. [[664]]), bom in Connaught : bade Themaria, queen of Diarmait, king of Meath,flnd the way of her salvation in dressing the sores of a leper; founded the abbeys of Cong and Eas-dara with ten other religious houses.
Charles Albert Fechter: '''Charles Albert Fechter''' ([[1824]]-[[1879]]), actor and dramatist; of German origin; made, as pensionnaire, his debut at the Comedie Franchise in 1844; performed at Berlin, 1846; first appeared in London with a French company in version of Sophocles's Antigone * at St. James's Theatre, 1847; played Armand Duval in La Dame aux Camelias with brilliant success at the Vaudeville, Paris, 1852; abandoned the French for the English stage in 1860, and thenceforth acted in English; gave famous representation of Hamlet at the Princess's Theatre, 1861; failed as Othello, 1861; lessee of the Lyceum, 1863-7, acting in English translations or adaptations, sometimes his own, from the French melodrama; manager of the Globe Theatre, New York, 1870-1; excelled in the rSle of lover; died near Philadelphia.
John De Feckenham: '''John De Feckenham''' ([[1618]]7-[[1585]]), last abbot of Westminster: of humble origin; admitted into Evesham monastery; B.D. Gloucester Hall, Oxford, 1539; rector of Solihull; chaplain to bishops Bell and (1543-9) Bonner; private chaplain and confessor to Queen Mary, 1553; prebendary, and subsequently dean, of St. Paul's, 1654; saved twenty-eight at one time from the stake in Mary's reign; D.D. Oxford, 1556: mitred abbot of the refounded abbey of St. Peter's, Westminster, 1656: revived privileges of sanctuary, 1657; lost the favour of Elizabeth by stoutly maintaining hi- religious faith, removed from the abbey, 1669; sent to the Tower fur railing against the changes that had been made: committed to the charge of Richard Cox, bishop of Kly. 1577; known to have writtenCommentaries on the Psalms, and some theological treatises.
Edward Feild: '''Edward Feild''' ([[1801]]-[[1876]]), bishop of Newfoundland; educated at Rugby and Queen's Collegre, Oxford; M.A., 1826; Michel fellow, 1825-33: curate of Kidllngton, 1827-34; incumbent of English Bicknor, 1834-44; built schools in both these parishes; inspector of schools, 1840; D.D., 1844; bishop of Newfoundland, 1844; procured building of a cathedral at St. John's; worked energetically for his diocese; refused diocese of Montreal, 1868; died in Bermuda.
John Feild: '''John Feild''' ([[1525]] ?-[[1587]]).
Feilde: '''Feilde''' or FIELD, JOHN (d. [[1688]]), puritan divine ; educated at Oxford University; imprisoned, as a heretic, in Newgate, with Thomas Wileox for presenting to parliament An Admonition and a petition for relief, 1572-3; preacher and catechist of St. Mary Aldermary, 1573-7; inhibited by Aylmer, 1577; suspended, 1684; published A Caveat for Parsons Hovvlet 1581, A Godly Exhortation 1583, and translations from several foreign divines.

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Feilding: '''Feilding'''
Feildh: '''Feildh''' fG, BASIL, second EARL OF DENBIGH (d. 1674), eldest sou of William Feilding, first earl; educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; K.B., 1626; summoned to Lords as Baron Feilding of Newnham Pad dox, 1628; volunteer at the siege of Bois-le-Duc, 1629; ambassador extraordinary to Venetian republic, 1634-9; , fought for parliament at Edgehill, 1642; commauder-inchief of parliamentarian forces in Warwick, Worcester, I Stafford, Shropshire, Coventry, and Lichfield, 1643; defeated royalists near Dudley, 1644; suspected of halfheartedness, and superseded, 1644; a commissioner for the treaty of Uxbridge, 1645; refused to have any share in the trial of Charles I, 1648; state councillor, 1649-51; gradually went over to the royalists; created Baron St. Liz, 1664.
Robert Feilling: '''Robert Feilling''' , called BKAC FEILDING ([[1651]] ?1712), related to the Denbigh family; given a regiment by James II, whom he followed to Ireland; sat in Irish parliament for Gowran, 1689: married, on 9 Nov. 1705, Mary Wadsworth, whom a matchmaker had enabled to personate Mrs. Deleau, a rich widow; on 25 Nov. 1706 he also married the Duchess of Cleveland; convicted of bigamy, 1706; ridiculed by Swift.
William Feilding: '''William Feilding''' , first EARL OP DENBIGH (d. 1643), educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge: knighted, 1603; married Buckingham's sister, and became (1622) master of th great wardrobe; created Baron Feilding, 1620, and Earl of Denbigh, 1622; followed Buck i iugham and Prince Charles to Spain, 1623; commanded ! fleet despatched to relieve Rocbelle, 1628; member of council of Wales, 1633; made voyage to India, 1631; volunteer under Prince Rupert; mortally wounded in Rupert's attack on Nottingham.
Gregor von Fedtaigle: '''Gregor von Fedtaigle''' ([[1765]] ?-[[1819]]), mnemc I nist; born at Baden; lectured on local and symbolical ! memory at Paris, 1806; ridiculed on the stage by Dieula foy in Les filles de memoire; lectured in England and Scotland, 1811; published The New Art of Memory ; 1812, a system founded on the topical memory of Cicero and Quiutilian. A mnemonic school was placed under his personal superintendence at Dublin.
Saint Felix: '''Saint Felix''' (d. [[647]] ?), bishop of Dunwich ; a 1 native of Burgundy; consecrated bishop of East-Anglia by Honorius; founded school, perhaps at Cambridge, ami, according to the Liber Elieusis monastery at Soham, near Ely; his day, 8 March.
John Felix: '''John Felix''' (.!. [[1498]]), Benedictine monk of WentI minster: wrote life of John Estuey, abbot of Westminster I from 1474 to 1498.
Felix: '''Felix''' N. (pseudonym). See WANOSTROCHT.NICUOi LAS, 1804-1876.
Fell: '''Fell''' 424
Feltojm: '''Feltojm'''
Charles Fell: '''Charles Fell''' ([[1687]]-[[1763]]), Roman catholic divine; of French extraction; his real name UMKKKVIM.K; studied at Paris and Douay: priest, 1713; D.D., 1716: missioner in England; irregularly elected member of chapter, 1732; deposed by a court of appeal; financially ruined by his Lives of Salute 1729.
Henry Fell: '''Henry Fell''' (ft. [[1672]]), quaker ; missionary in the West Indies; travelling preacher in England: nearly killed (1660) in the Fifth-monarchy rising: his project of preaching in Prester John's country and China thwarted by the action of the East India Company, 1661; died probably hi Barbados; published quaker pamphlets.
John Fell: '''John Fell''' ([[1625]]-[[1686]]), dean of Christ Church and bishop of Oxford; son of Samuel Fell; student of Christ Church, 1636; M.A., 1643; ejected from studentship, 1648; dean of Christ Church, 1660; D.D. Oxford, and chaplain to the king, 1660; built the tower over the principal gateway of Christ Church, to which he transferred the re-cast bell,Great Tom; procured every year the publication of some classical author, giving each member of his college a copy; vice-chancellor of Oxford, 1666-9; friend of Humphrey Prideaux; projected printing of a Malay gospel; bishop of Oxford, 1675; reluctantly expelled John Locke from Christ Church, 1684; summoned the undergraduates to take up arms against Monmouth, 1685; theme of Tom Brown's epigram I do not like yon, Dr. Fell His chief publication was i critical edition of St. Cyprian, 1682.
John Fell: '''John Fell''' ([[1735]]-1 [[797]]), congregational minister and classical tutor; minister of congregational church at Thaxted, Essex, 1770-87; classical tutor at Homerton, 1787-97; compelled to resign by insubordination of students, 1797: controverted views of Hugh Farmer and Joshua Toulmin, D.D.
Leonard Fell: '''Leonard Fell''' (d. [[1700]]), quaker: repeatedly im- j prisoned for interrupting services between 1654 and 1657; j imprisoned for refusing to pay tithes, 1666; worked in: North Wales and Cumberland; so impressed a highwayman on one occasion by his Christian charity that his stolen property was returned.
Margaret Fell: '''Margaret Fell''' ([[1614]]-[[1702]]), qnakeress; ntc j Askew; married, c. 1632, Thomas Fell; converted by George Fox when her guest, 1652; entreated Oliver Crom- J well to protect the quakers, 1655-7; called Charles Il's j attention to his declaration at Breda; prevailed on j Charles II to release more than four thousand Friends ! from prison, 1661: exempted by Charles II from liability to sentence of prsemunire, 1664; sentenced by a Lancashire magistrate to the penalties of praemnnire, 1664; released from prison, 1668; married, as second husband, George Fox, 1669; petitioned Charles II for the release. of her husband, but refused a pardon, considering him j innocent, 1673; published religious works,
Samuel Fell: '''Samuel Fell''' ([[1684]]-[[1649]]), dean of Christ Church : educated at Westminster; M.A. Christ Chnrch, Oxford, 1608; D.D., 1619; chaplain to James I; canon of Christ; Church, 1619-37; Lady Margaret professor of divinity, 1626-37; dean of Lichfleld, 1638; dean of Christ Church, 1638; wrote to Laud about the exces-ive number of alehouses in Oxford, 1637; vice-chancellor, 1645-7; deprived, 1647; died of grief at Charles I's execution,
Thomas Fell: '''Thomas Fell''' ([[1598]]-[[1658]]), vice-chancellor of the , duchy of Lancaster: barrister, Gray'a Inn, 1631: J.P. for I Lancashire, 1641; M.P., Lancaster, 1645; vice-chancellor; of the duchy and attorney for the county palatine, 1649; bencher of Gray's Inn, 1651; judge of assize for Chester and North Wales circuit, 1651; lent hia house, Swarth- I more Hall, for quaker meetings; withdrew from public life, disapproving of the Protector's assumption of autho-; rity.
William Fell: '''William Fell''' ([[1758]] V-l [[848]]), author; school- ! master at Manchester, Wilinslow, and Lancaster; pub- i lished, among other works, A System of Political Eco- j nomy 1808.
James Fellowes: '''James Fellowes''' (ft. 17 10-[[1730]]), portrait-painter : j known for portraits of eminent clergymen of hia time; j represented Dr. White Keunett as Judas Iscariot. I
Sir James Fellowes: '''Sir James Fellowes''' ([[1771]]-[[1867]]), physician : brother of Sir Thomas Fellowes; educated at Eton and Peterhouse, aixHionvillc and Cains College, Cambridge; Perse fellow; M.D., 1803; F.R.C.P., 18d5; physiclan to the force?: sent to investigate and treat pestilential fever in San Domingo, 1804: knighted, 1809; chief of the medical staff at Cadiz till 1815; described in 1815 the Andalusian pestilence.
Robert Fellowes: '''Robert Fellowes''' ([[1771]]-[[1847]]), philanthropist; M.A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1801; editor ofCritical Review 1804-11; friend of Dr. Parr and Queen Caroline; LL.D.; benefactor of Edinburgh University; a promoter of London University; instituted Fellowes medals in University College, London; advocated Jewish emancipation; liberal thinker in religion: published, among other works, Morality united with Policy 1800, and The Religion of the Universe 1836.
Sir Thomas Fellowes: '''Sir Thomas Fellowes''' ([[1778]]-[[1853]]), rearadmiral; brother of Sir James Fellowes; master's mate in royal navy, 1797; lieutenant, 1807; heroically spiked battery at Guadeloupe, 1809; commanded gunboats at Cadiz, 1810-11; decorated by Greece and Russia for his services at the battle of Navarino, 1827; knighted, 1828; D.C.L. Oxford, 1830; rear-admiral, 1847.
Fellows: '''Fellows''' Sm CHARLES ([[1799]]-[[1860]]), traveller and archaeologist; member of the British Association, 1820; discovered ruins of Xauthus and of Tlos. 1838; published Journal 1839; discovered thirteen ancient cities in Lycia, after 1839: obtained firman from Constantinople permitting him to explore, 1841; published An Account of Discoveries in Lycia 1841; published, to refute misstatement, The Xauthian Marbles, their Acqnisition and Transmission to England 1843; knighted, 1845; Lycian numismatologist.
Owen Felltham: '''Owen Felltham''' ([[1602]] ?-[[1668]]), author of 'Resolves; published, c. 1620, Resolves a series of moral essays, when eighteen years of age; secretary or chaplain to the Earl of Thomond; contributed to Jonsonus Virbius 1638; called the dead Charles I Christ the Second; pubTishiii Brief Character of the Low Countries 1652.

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Henry Felton: '''Henry Felton''' ([[1679]]-[[1740]]), divine; educated at Wcr.tminster, Charterhouse, and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford: M.A., 1702; in charge of the English church at Amsterdam, 1708-9; domestic chaplain to three dukes of Rutland; presented to rectory of Whitwell, 1711; D.D., 1712; controverted Locke's theory of personality and identity, 1725: his Lady Moyer lectures (1728-9) published asThe Christian Faith asserted against Deists, tc. 1732.
John Felton: '''John Felton''' (ft. [[1430]]), divine; fellow of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford; professor of theology and vicarius Magdalensis Oxonii extra muros; presented books to Balliol College, 1420: left sermons and anAlphabetum theologicum ex opusculis Rob. Grost. collectum
John Felton: '''John Felton''' (d. [[1570]]), Roman catholic layman ; affixed Pius V's excommunication of Elizabeth to the gates of the bishop of London's palace, 1570: arrested and hanged, 1670.
John Felton: '''John Felton''' ([[1595]] ?-[[1628]]). assassin of the Duke of Buckingham; of a good Suffolk family; lieutenant at Cadiz, 1625; his application to Buckingham for a captain's commission scornfully refused, 1627; was incited by readingThe Golden Epistlesto plan Buckingham's assassination, 1628: stabbed Buckingham at Portsmouth, 1628; described as a national benefactor in popular ballads; hanged.
Nicholas Felton: '''Nicholas Felton''' ([[1656]]-[[1620]]), bishop of Ely; son of a sailor; fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1583; M.A., 1584; D.D., 1602; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1616; bishop of Bristol, 1617-19; master of Pembroke, 1617-19; bishop of Ely, 1619; favoured puritans; compiled statutes for Merchant Taylorsin reference to annual probation days; helped to translate Epistles for Authorised Version.
Sir Thomas Felton: '''Sir Thomas Felton''' (d. [[1381]]), seneschal of Aquitaine: took part in battle of Crecy, 1346, and capture of Calais, 1347; fought at Poitiers, 1356; signatory to treaty of Bretigny, 1360; seneschal of Aquitaine; despatched to conduct Don Pedro of Castile to his intending ally, the Black Prince; taken prisoner by Heury oi Trastamare's
Felton: '''Felton''' I-:,
Fenton: '''Fenton''' forces, 1367; joint-governor of Aquitaine, 1372; seneschal of Bordeaux; caused Guillsume de Pommiers and bis secretary to be beheaded for treason, 1377; K.G., 1381.
Thomas Felton: '''Thomas Felton''' ([[1567]] ? - [[1588]]), Franciscan friar; son of John Felton (d. 1570); received the first tonsure at Rheims, 1583; returned to England, being unable to endure Minims austerities; hanged for refusing the oath of supremacy.
Felton: '''Felton''' Sin WILLIAM (d. [[1367]]), seneschal of Poitou; took part in battle of Halidon Hill, 1333; fought at Crecy, 1346: lord justice of all the king's lands in Scotland, 1348; fought at battle of Poitiera, 1356; seneschal of Poitou, 1360; accompanied Black Prince on Spanish campaign, 1367; called by Ghandos herald 1 Felleton Guilliam qui ot coeur de lyoii; killed in skirmish at Inglesmundi in Alava.
William Felton: '''William Felton''' ([[1713]]-[[1769]]), composer ; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1745; chaplain to the Princess Dowager of Wales; composed three sets of six concertos, modelled on Handel's; composed the glee, 1 Fill, fill, fill the glass
Eleanor Fenn: '''Eleanor Fenn''' , LADY ([[1743]]-[[1813]]), author ; wife of Sir John Fenn; wrote, under the names of Mrs. Lovechild and Mrs. Teach well, educational works for the young.
Humphrey Fenn: '''Humphrey Fenn''' (rf. [[1634]]), puritan divine; B.A. QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1573; M.A. Peterhouse, 1576; vicar of Holy Trinity, Coventry, 1578-84: suspended (1584) for refusing to subscribe Whitgift's three articles; restored, 1585; again suspended, 1590; cited before the Star-chamber, 1591: remanded, 1591; released, 1592; protested against episcopacy in his will.
James Fenn: '''James Fenn''' (d. [[1584]]), Roman catholic priest ; scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1554; fellow, 1558; B.A., 1659, but put aside for refusing the oath of supremacy; ordained priest at Chalons-sur-Marne, 1580; missioner in Somerset; executed as a priest,
John Fenn: '''John Fenn''' (d. [[1615]]), Roman catholic divine; brother of James Fenn; chorister of Wells; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; perpetual fellow, 1552; schoolmaster at Bury St. Edmunds; confessor to English Augustinian nuns at Louvain, where he died; martyrologist, hagiologist, and writer or translator of Italian devotional works.
Fenn: '''Fenn''' Sm JOHN ([[1739]]-[[1794]]), antiquary : M.A. Oaius College, Cambridge, 1764; J.P.for Norfolk; M.S. A.; edited manuscript of Paston letters, which he acquired from Thomas Worth, a chemist at Diss; knighted, 1787; sheriff of Norfolk, 1791.
Joseph Finch Fenn: '''Joseph Finch Fenn''' ([[1820]]-[[1884]]), honorary canon of Gloucester; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1846; fellow, 1844-7; B.D., 1877; perpetual curate of Christ Church, Cheltenham, 1860; chaplain to the bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, 1877; honorary canon, 1879; promoted free library movement in Cheltenham.
James Fennell: '''James Fennell''' ([[1766]]-[[1816]]), actor and dramatist; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; entered Lincoln's Inn; engaged at Theatre lloyal, Edinburgh, 1787; appeared at Covent Garden as Othello, 1787; objected to a proposal that he should play Pierre instead of Jaffier in Venice Preserved at Edinburgh; after some legal difficulties occasioned by the subsequent riot consented to a compromise, 1788; reappeared at Covent Garden as Othello; brought out at Richmond his Linda and Clara a comedy, 1791; acted in New York, Boston, and elsewhere, 1797-1806; kept an academy at Charlestown, Massachusetts; established saltworks near New London, Connecticut, 1814.
John Greville Fennell: '''John Greville Fennell''' ([[1807]]-[[1885]]), artist, naturalist, and angler; drew pictures of the tournament at Eglinton Castle for the Illustrated London News; member of * Field staff from 1853; intimate with Dickens, Thackeray, and other literary men; published The Rail and the Rod and The Book of the Roach 1870.
Dudley Fenner: '''Dudley Fenner''' ([[1658]]?-[[1587]]), puritan divine; fellow-commoner of Peterhouse, Cambridge. 1576: expelled for puritanical tendencies; followed Thomas Oart wright to Antwerp; induced by the tolerant spirit of Archbishop Grindal to return to England: curate at Cranbrook, 1583; suspended for refusing to subscribe Whitgift's three articles, 1584; published works including Sacra Theologia 1586, and, posthumously,The Whole ne of the Sacramentes 1588, as well as verserendering The Song of Bongs 1587 and 1694; died in charge of the reformed church at Middleburg.
Edward Fenner: '''Edward Fenner''' (d. [[1612]]), judge; barrister, Middle Temple; reader, 1676; Serjeant, 1577; J.P. for Surrey; justice of king's bench, 1590.
George Fenner: '''George Fenner''' (d. [[1600]]?), naval commander; engaged in trading to Gold Coast, 1566, and Low Countries, 1570; as freebooter came frequently into conflict with Spanish and French ships; accompanied Essex on IslandsVoyage, 1597; brought news of supposed approach of Armada to Plymouth, 1697, which occasioned naval mobilisation, 1597.
Thomas Fenner: '''Thomas Fenner''' (d. [[1590]] ?), naval commander ; flag-captain under Drake on Indies voyage, 1686; probably rear-admiral in Drake's Cadiz expedition, 1587; vice-admiral against Armada, 1588, and in expedition to Corufia, 1589.
William Fenner: '''William Fenner''' ([[1600]]-[[1640]]), puritan divine; M.A. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1619; forced to leave cure of Sedgley on account of his puritanical principles, c. 1627; B.D., 1627; incumbent of Rochford, 1 629-40; wrote theological treatises.
Elizabeth Fenning: '''Elizabeth Fenning''' ([[1792]]-[[1815]]), criminal; hanged for mixing arsenic in the food of her employer, Orlibar Turner; strongly asseverated her innocence; verdict against her twice reconsidered by home office: hanged, 26 June 1815.

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Fenton: '''Fenton''' first VISCOUNT ([[1566]]-[[1639]]). SeeERSKiNK,
Thomas: '''Thomas'''
Edward Fenton: '''Edward Fenton''' (d. [[1603]]), captain and navigator; commanded under Sir Henry Sidney in Ireland, 1566; published Certaine Secrete Wonders of Nature 1569, recently discovered to be a translation of Boaistuau's compilation of Greek and Roman anecdotes; sailed in Frobisher's second voyage to discover north-west passage to Cathay and Meta Incognita, 1577; built a house for the members of Frobisher's third expedition upon the Countess of Warwick's (Kod-lu-aru) Island, 1578; sent on a trading expedition to Moluccas and China by way of Cape of Good Hope, nominally to discover the north-west passage, 1582; thought of making himself king of St. Helena; served against Spanish Armada, 1588.
Edward Dyne Fenton: '''Edward Dyne Fenton''' (d. [[1880]]), author; lieutenant, 1849; captain, 1858; served at Gibraltar, 1860-70; published sketches, includingSorties from Gib. in quest of Sensation and Sentiment 1872.
Elijah Fenton: '''Elijah Fenton''' ([[1683]]-[[1730]]), poet; B.A. Jesus College, Cambridge, 1704; secretary to Earl of Orrery in Flanders; head-master of Sevenoaks grammar school; published poems (1707) which attracted attention of Duke of Marlborough; instructed Craggs, secretary of state, in literature, 1720; translated the first, fourth, nineteenth, and twentieth books of the Odyssey for Pope, completely catching Pope's manner; edited Milton and (1729) Waller. His poems include a successful tragedy, Mariamiie 1723.
Sir Geoffrey Fenton: '''Sir Geoffrey Fenton''' ([[1539]] ?-[[1608]]), translator and statesman; dedicated to Lady Mary Sydney, from Paris, a collection of novels by Bandello translated from French versions of Boaistuau and Belleforest, 1567; published Mouophylo, a Philosophical Discourse and Division of Love 1572; translated from the French Guicciardini's Wars of Italy 1579; served on an Irish campaign, 1580; principal secretary of state in Ireland from 1580: thrown into the debtorsprison at Dublin by Lord deputy Perrot, against whom he had laid accusations, 15S: knighted, 1589; joint-secretary for Ireland with Sir Kichard Coke; advocated assassination of Earl of Desmond as means of ending Munster rebellion.
Lavinia Fenton: '''Lavinia Fenton''' , afterwards DUCHESS OF BOLTOX (1708-1760), actress; learned new songs when a girl from a comedian belonging to the old house; appeared at the Haymarket as Monimia in Otway's Orphans 1726; appeared at Lincoln's Inn Fields as Polly Peacbam in
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Ferguson: '''Ferguson''' Gay's Beggar's Opera 1728, after which she became the rage; played Ophelia inHamlet 1728; mistress, and (1761) wife, of Charles Paulet, third duke of Bolton
Richard Fenton: '''Richard Fenton''' ([[1746]]-[[1821]]), topographer and loet: educated at St. David's cathedral school; barrister. Middle Temple; left manuscript translation of the Deipnosophistft 1 His works include Poems 1773, A Catholicism, and subsequently to protestantism; poor j student at Oxford, where he taught Hebrew; matriculated I at Cambridge, 1596; professor at Leyden, where he died; I translated into Latin from the Hebrew a work on the Mo-aic law, 1597.
Febebe: '''Febebe''' or FERIBYE, or FERRABEE. GEORGE (Jl. 1613), composer; chorister of Magdalen College. HistoricalTour through Pembrokeshire 1811, and I Oxford: M.A., 1595; vicar of Bishop's Cannings; enterMemoirs of an Old Wig 1815. tained Anne, the queen consort, with a four-part song set I to wind-instrument music, 1613, and was made chaplain ! to the king.
Roger Fenton: '''Roger Fenton''' ([[1565]]-[[1615]]), divine ; fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; vicar of OhigweU, 1606; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1609: preacher to the readers at Gray's Inn; D.D.; published A Treatise of Usurie 1611: took part in translation of bible; his theological writings published posthumously.
Lord Fentonbarns: '''Lord Fentonbarns''' (d. [[1616]]). See PRESTON,
John Sir: '''John Sir''' .
Francis Fenwick: '''Francis Fenwick''' ([[1645]]-[[1694]]), Benedictine monk; doctor of the Sorbonne; D.D.; agent of James II at the papal court: abbot-president of St. Gregory's College at Rome; died in Rome.
George Fenwick: '''George Fenwick''' ([[1603]] ?-[[1657]]), parliamentarian ; barrister at Gray's Inn, 1631; ancient, 1650: agent for the patentees of Connecticut, and governor of Saybrook fort, 1639-44; sold Saybrook to Connecticut under pledges which he broke, 1644; M.P. for Morpeth, 1645; commanded regiment of northern militia for parliament; governor of Berwick, 1648; commissioner for the trial of Charles I, but did not act, 1648; took part in Cromwell's invasion of Scotland; governor of Lei th and Edinburgh Castle, 1650: one of the commissioners for the government of Scotland, 1651; M.P. for Berwick, 1654 and 1656; excluded, 1656.
Fenwick: '''Fenwick''' or FENWICKE, SIR JOHN ([[1579]]-[[1658]] ?), politician: M.P. for Northumberland, 1623-44; fcaronet by purchase, 1628; commissioner for suppression of violence in border districts, 1635; deputy-lieutenant of Northumberland; muster-master-general of the king's army, 1640; excluded from the House of Commons, 1644; readmitted, 1646; high sheriff of Northumberland.
Fenwick: '''Fenwick''' verb CALDWELL, JOHN ([[1628]]-[[1679]]), Jesuit; of protestaiit parentage; Jesuit, 1656; procurator at St. Omer, 1662, and afterwards; professed father, 1675; procurator in London of St. Omer's College, 1675; executed on the information of Titus Gates, 1679.
Sir John Fenwick: '''Sir John Fenwick''' ([[1645]] ?-[[1697]]), conspirator ; colonel of foot, 1675; general, 1688; M.P., Northumberland, 1677, and at intervals till 1685; brought up the bill of attainder against Monmouth, 1685; insulted Queen Mary, 1691; privy to plot for William Ill's assassination, 1695, and Barclay and Oharnock's plot, 1696; named major-general of the troops to be raised for King James; attempted to bribe two men who were likely to be vitnesses against him, and was indicted on the information of one of them, 1696; arrested, 1696; offered for a pardon to reveal all that he knew of thu Jacobite conspiracies, but did no more than cast aspersion on the whig leaders, 1696; examined before the king and the House of Commons; attainted, the law requiring the evidence of two witnesses in cases of treason being dispensed with; shrank from adopting Monmouth's advice to save himself by challenging inquiry into the truth of his allegations against the whig leaders; beheaded.
George Fenwicke: '''George Fenwicke''' ([[1690]]-[[1760]]), divine; fellowof ' St. John's College, Cambridge, 1710; rector of Hallaton, 1722-60; B.D.; published devotional works,
John Fenwicke: '''John Fenwicke''' (d. [[1658]]), parliamentarian; master of Sherborne Hospital, 1644: lieutenant-colonel in parliamentarian army; defeated Irish rebels near Trim, 1647; mortally wounded in battle of the Dunes, 1658.
Feologeld: '''Feologeld''' (d. [[832]]), archbishop of Canterbury; abbot of a Kentish monastery, 803; archbishop of Canteroury, 832.
Ferchard: '''Ferchard''' kings of Scotland,
Philip Ferdinand: '''Philip Ferdinand''' ([[1855]] ?-[[1598]]), hebraist ; born in Poland of Jewish parents; converted to Roman
Francis Paul Fero: '''Francis Paul Fero''' ! (1689-1740), painter: born in Vienna; gained reputation at I Dresden for small landscapes, sea-pieces, and peasant scenes; employed in Chelsea china manufactory; died of want in London.

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Fergil: '''Fergil''' or VniGILIUS, SAINT (d. [[785]]), bishop of Salzburg; a descendant of Niall of the Nine Hostages; abbot of Aghaboe till 746; abbot of St. Peter's at Salzburg, c. 747; accused to Pope Zachary by St. Boniface of maintaining the existence of antipodes; his expulsion from the church directed by Zachary; bishop of Salzburg, 756; sent missionaries to" Carinthia (part of his diocese); Apostle of Carinthia; travelled through Carinthia and as far as Slavouia; concealed his episcopal orders; called 4 the Geometer; canonised, 1233.
Fergus: '''Fergus''' I (Jl. [[330]] B.C. ?), son of Ferchard, the first king of Scotland, according to Boece and Buchanan's fictitious chronology; said to have come to Scotland from Ireland to assist the Scots against the joint-attack of the Picts and Britons, and to have been drowned on his return to Ireland, c. 330 B.C.
Fergus: '''Fergus''' H (d. [[501]]), the first Dalriad king in Sootland; came from Ulster with his brothers, Lorn and Angus, and took possession of Cantyre and adjacent islands.
John Fergushill: '''John Fergushill''' ([[1592]] ?-[[1644]]), Scottish divine ; educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow universities and in France: laureatus of Glasgow, 1612; suspended from cure of Ochilttee for declining jurisdiction of high commission court, 1620; reinstituted; transferred to Ayr, 1639.
Adam Ferguson: '''Adam Ferguson''' ([[1723]]-[[1816]]), professor of philo- J sophy at Edinburgh: bursar of St. Andrews; M.A. St. Andrews, 1742; studied divinity at Edinburgh; present as chaplain of Black Watch at battle of Fontenoy, 1745: abandoned clerical profession, 1 754; librarian, Advocates Library, 1757; professor of natural philosophy, Edinburgh, 1769; professor ofpneumatics and moral philosophy Edinburgh, 1764-85; published anEssay on Civil Society 1766, which was unfavourably regarded by Hume; LL.D. Edinburgh, 1766; republished his lecture notes in Institutes of Moral Philosophy 1772; dismissed on account of absence, but reinstated (1776) after legal proceedings; visited Voltaire at Ferney; secretary to British commissioners at Philadelphia, 1778; regarded Macpherson's Ossian as genuine: published History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic 1782; professor of mathematics, 1785: publishedPrinciples of Moral and Political Science 1792.
Sir Adam Ferguson: '''Sir Adam Ferguson''' ([[1771]]-[[1855]]), keeper of the regalia in Scotland; sou of Adam Ferguson; companion of Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh University, and afterwards: captain, 101st regiment, 1808; read the Lady of the Lake canto VI, to his company in the lines of Torres Vedras; keeper of the regalia of Scotland, 1818; knighted, 1822.
David Ferguson: '''David Ferguson''' (d. [[1598]]), Scottish reformer : glover; sent to Dunfermline as minister; preached before the regent against appropriation of church property to governmental purposes, 1572: moderator of the general assembly, 1573 and 1678; formed one of a deputation which admonished James VI to beware of innovations in court 1683; compiled a collection ofScottish Proverbs (published 1641), and wrote a critical analysis of the Song of Solomon
James Ferguson: '''James Ferguson''' ([[1621]]-[[1667]]). Scottish divine: graduate of Glasgow, 1638: ministerof Kilwinuing, 1643;
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Fergusson: '''Fergusson''' appointed to the Glasgow professorship of divinity, 1661, but did not take it up; resolntioner; his Refutation of the Errors of Toleration fcc., published, 1692.
James Ferguson: '''James Ferguson''' (rf. [[1705]]), major-general, rolonel of the Cameronians: brother of Robert hYnriison tinPlotter; served in Holland as quartermaster in the Scots brigade, 1677: summoned to join royalist forces airain -t Monmouth, 1686; captain, l(iH7: landed with Williamof Orange at Torbay, 1688; reduced the western MM; fought at Steinkirk, 1692; led the 1st Cameronians at Landen, 1693, and at siege of Namur, 1695; colonel, 1693; fought at Blenheim, 1704; major-general; his .-udden death at Bois-le-Duc possibly due to poison.
James Ferguson: '''James Ferguson''' ([[1710]]-[[1776]]), astronomer; displayed original genius in mechanics when nine years old; constructed terrestrial globe from Gordon's * Geographical Uniminar patronised by Sir James Dunbar and Lady Dipple, the latter of whom enabled him to become a; portrait-painter; contrivedastronomical rotula con-, .structed orrery, 1742; invented a tide-dial, an eclipsareon ( 1754, anda universal dialling cylinder 1767: published Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Principles 1756: observed transit of Venus with six-foot reflector; F.R.S., 1763; presented to the Royal Society (1763) a 1685; accompanied expedition of William of orauge to Torbay, 1688; published pamphlet* in support of William III; housekeeper at the excise; became a Jacobite, his hopes of reward being unsatisfied; declared the revolut'on to have been a design of the Vatirtui in hi* Hi-tury of the Revolution 1700; superseded at the excise. 1692; askedWhether the 1'arlianu-ut lw not in Law dissolved by the death of the Princess of Orange ? 1695; privy to Sir George Barclay's plot; gave information which led to frustration of the machinations of Simon Fraser, twelfth lord Lovat againat the Duke of Atholl, 1703: committed to Newgate for treason, 1704; admitted to bail and never tried.
Robert Ferguson: '''Robert Ferguson''' ([[1750]]-[[1774]]).
Son: '''Son''' See FKRGUB
Robert Ferguson: '''Robert Ferguson''' ([[1799]]-[[1865]]), physician ; born in India: studied at Heidelberg and Edinburgh; M.D. Edinburgh, 1823; physician to the Westminster Lying-in Hospital; founded London Medical Gazette 1827; professor of obstetrics, King's College, London, 1881; censor, C.P.; physician-accoucheur to Queen Victoria, 1840; published works on obstetrics.
Ferguson: '''Ferguson''' Sm RONALD CRAUFURD ([[1773]]-[[1841]] ), general; captain, 1793; lieutenant-colonel, 1794: coprojection of the partial solar eclipse of 1764; lectured on j operated from India in reduction of Cape of Good Hope, electricity; publishedThe Young Gentleman's and j 1795; colonel, 1800; quitted Pulteney on his refusing to Lady's Astronomy 1768; frequently discussed mechanics witli George III; unhappy in his domestic relations; published, though ignorant of geometry,The Art of Drawing in Perspective 1776.
James Frederic Ferguson: '''James Frederic Ferguson''' ([[1807]]-[[1855]]), Irish antiquary; of French descent; born at Charleston; indexed Irish Exchequer Records; clerk and secretary to commission for arranging records of Irish courts, 1850-2; purchased at his own cost some Irish records in the possession of a Suabian baron, having travelled to Switzerland for the purpose; contributed to Topographer and Genealogistpapers illustrative of law and society in seventeenth-century Ireland; chief work,Remarks on the Limitations of Actions Bill intended for Ireland 1843.
John Ferguson: '''John Ferguson''' ([[1787]]-[[1856]]), founder of the Ferguson bequest; settled at Irvine, Ayrshire, after arranging an uncle's business concerns in America, 1810; gave 400,000*. for advancement of religious education in South of Scotland; founded six scholarships in connection with Scottish universities.
Patrick Ferguson: '''Patrick Ferguson''' ([[1744]]-[[1780]]), inventor of the first breech-loading rifle used in the British army; commanded company in the 70th foot against the revolted negroes of Tobago; patented effectual plans of breechloading, 1776; wounded at the battle of Brandy wine, 1777; employed with artillery at siege of Charleston, 1779; major, 71st Highlanders, 1779; accompanied Lord Cornwallis in his march through the Carolinas; lieutenantcolonel; surprised and killed at King's Mountain, North Carolina.
Richard Saul Ferguson: '''Richard Saul Ferguson''' ([[1837]]-[[1900]]), antiquary; educated at Shrewsbury, and St. John's College, Cambridge: M.A., 1863; LL.M., 1874; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1862; joined northern circuit; travelled in Egypt, Australia, and America, 1871-2; devoted himself to study of local antiquities at Carlisle; president of Cumberland and Westmorland Archaeological and Antiquarian Society, 1886; mayor of Carlisle. 1881 and 1882; chancellor of diocese of Carlisle, 1887; F.S.A., 1877; F.S.A. Scotland, 1880; published and edited antiquarian works relating to Cumberland and Westmorland.
Robert Ferguson: '''Robert Ferguson''' (rf. [[1714]]), suruamed the 4 Plotter; possibly educated at Aberdeen; incumbent of Godmersham, e. 1660; expelled by the Act of Uniformity, 1662; wrote a Sober Enquiry into the Nature, Measure, and Principle of Moral Virtue 1673; maintained that the story of the Black Box and documents therein contained proving the marriage of Monmouth's mother to Charles II was invented by those who wished to discredit Monmouth's title to the crown, 1680; one of the chief contrivers of the Ry*e House plot, though probably disapproving of assassination, 1682; outlawed, 1683: author of Mon month's manifesto, and chaplain in the rebel army, attack Ferrol, 1800; served in Sir David Baird's expedi tion to recapture Cape of Good Hope, 1805; M.P., Kirk caldy burghs, 1806-30, Nottingham, 1830-41; majorgeneral, 1808; twice turned Laborde's right at Rolia, 1808; general, 1830; G.C.B., 1831.
Sir Samuel Ferguson: '''Sir Samuel Ferguson''' ([[1810]]-[[1886]]), poet and antiquary; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1832; called to the Irish bar, 1838; Q.O., 1859; deputy-keeper of the public records of Ireland, 1867; thoroughly organised the public records department; knighted, 1878; LL.D., honoris causd, Trinity College, Dublin, 1864; published, among other" works,Lays of the Western Gael 1865, and Congal, an Epic Poem 1872. Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland edited, 1887, is his most important antiquarian work.
William Ferguson: '''William Ferguson''' ([[1820]]-[[1887]]), botanist and entomologist; member of the Ceylon civil service, 18391887; died in Ceylon; wrote Ceylon Ferns The Timber Trees of Ceylon and similar works.
William Gouw Ferguson: '''William Gouw Ferguson''' ([[1633]]?-[[1690]]? painter of still-life; native of Scotland; lived at the Hague, 1660-8; his works sometimes attributed to Weenix.
Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson: '''Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson''' ([[1800]]1849), fifth baronet, of Kilkerran; educated at Harrow; advocate, 1822; originated Ayrshire Educational Associa: tion; protectionist.

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David Fergusson: '''David Fergusson''' (rf. [[1598]]).
George Fergusson: '''George Fergusson''' , LORD HERMAXD (rf. [[1827]]), 1 Scottish judge; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1765; lord of session as Lord Hermaud, 1799-1826; lord justiciary, 1808-26; an enthusiastic admirer of Sir Walter Scott's novel of Guy Mannering
Fergusson: '''Fergusson''' Sm JAMES, LORD KILKKRRAN ([[1688]]1769), Scottish judge; studied law at Leyden; advocate, 1711; M.P., Sutherlandshire, 1734-6; lord of session as Lord Kilkerran, 1735; justiciary lord, 1749; collected and arranged decisions of court of session from 1738 to 1752 (published, 1775).
James Fergusson: '''James Fergusson''' ([[1769]]-[[1842]]), Scottish legal writer; studied at Edinburgh University; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1791; consistorial judge, clerk of session, and keeper of the general record of entails for Scotland; published legal works.
Fekgusson: '''Fekgusson''' Sm JAMES ([[1787]]-[[1865]]), general; ensign, 1801; captain. 1806; wounded at Vimeiro, 1808; wounded in assaults on Badajoz and Ciudad Rodrigo; major, 1812; fought in the battles of Nivelle and Nive; aide-de-camp to William IV; lieutenant-general, 1861: general commanding troops at Malta, 1853-5: governor and commander-in-chief at Gibraltar, 1855-9; general, 1860; G.O.B., 1860. 128 FiUKKAK
Jamks Fergusson: '''Jamks Fergusson''' ( [[1808]]-[[1886]]), writer upon architecture; started an indigo factory in India; employed in a Calcutta firm: publishedPicturesque Illustrations of Ancient Architecture in Hindustan F.K.A.S., 1840; maintained in An Historical Enquiry into the true Principles of Beauty in Art (1849) that the r.ivK t.-inples were lighted by a triple roof and clerestory: published work proposing to substitute earthworks for nmsonry in fortification, 1849; member of royal commission to inquire into defences of the United Kingdom, 1857: inspector of public building* and monuments: gold medallist of the Institute of British Architects, 1871; maintained the comparatively recent erection of Stonehenge; recast his earlier writings in * A History of Architecture in all Countries from the Earliest Times to the Present Day 1865-7; published Fire and Serpent Worship... from the Sculptures of the Buddhist Topes at Sanchi and Amravati 1868.
Robert Fergtjsson: '''Robert Fergtjsson''' ([[1750]]-[[1774]]), Scottish poet ; matriculated at St. Andrews. 1765; extracting clerk in commissary clerk's office, and for a time in sheriff clerk's office: contributed pastorals to Ruddiinan'sWeekly Magazine 1771; published Poems 1773, and subsequently the Farmer's Ingle the prototype of Burns's Cottar's Saturday Night 1773; died insane from the effects of a falL
Robert Cutlar Fergusson: '''Robert Cutlar Fergusson''' ([[1768]]-[[1838]]), judge advocate-general; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1797; defended John Allen on a charge of high treason, 1798; fined and imprisoned (1799) for his alleged share in the attempted rescue of Arthur O'Connor from the dock at Maidstone, 1798; attorney-general at Calcutta; liberal M.P., Kirkcudbright stewartry, 1826; judge advocate-general, and privy councillor, 1834; advocated cause of Poland.
William Fergusson: '''William Fergusson''' ([[1773]]-[[1846]]), inspectorgeneral of military hospitals; M.D. Edinburgh; assistantsurgeon in the army in Holland, theWest Indies, the Baltic, the Peninsula, and Guadaloupe: pointed out and discussed the frequent occurrence of malarial fevers on arid soils; his Notes and Recollections of a Professional Life published posthumously.
Fergusson: '''Fergusson''' Sm WILLIAM ([[1808]]-[[1877]]), surgeon ; educated at Edinburgh High School and University; surgeon to Edinburgh Royal Dispensary, 1831-6; tied subclavian artery, 1831; surgeon to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, 1836-40; professor of surgery, King's College, London, 1810-70; created baronet, 1866; sergeant-surgeon to Queen Victoria, 1867: P.R.C.S., 1870; honorary LL.D. Edinburgh, 1875; F.R.S.; clinical professor of surgery and senior surgeon at King's College Hospital; a great conservative surgeon and dissector; principal work, 4 System of Practical Surgery 1842.
Duchkss Op Feria: '''Duchkss Op Feria''' ([[1538]]-[[1612]]). See DOIIMER,
Jane: '''Jane'''
Richard De Ferings: '''Richard De Ferings''' (d. [[1306]]), archbishop of Dublin; friend of Archbishop Peckham; archdeacon of Canterbury, 1281-99; archbishop of Dublin, 1299; composed feud between Christ Church and St. Patrick's, Dublin, by giving equality to both and precedence to Christ Church, 1300; endowed St. Patrick's, 1303; summoned to the English parliament, 1303.
Ferme Ferm: '''Ferme Ferm''' . FARHOLME, or FAIRHOLM,
Charles: '''Charles''' ([[1566]]-[[1617]]), principal of Fraserburgh University; of humble origin: M.A. Edinburgh, 1588; regent, 1590; accepted the charge (1598) of Philorth, Aberdeeusliire, incorporated in 1613 under the name of Fraserburgh,where Sir Alexander Fraser (1537-1623) had obtained a royal grant for the erection of a college and university; principal, 1600. Fraserburgh University came to an end at his death.
Fermanagh: '''Fermanagh''' third VISCOUNT ([[1712]] ?-[[1791]]). See
Kalimi Verney: '''Kalimi Verney''' .
Lord of Fermanagh: '''Lord of Fermanagh''' (rf. [[1600]]). See MAOUIRE,
Hugh: '''Hugh'''
Henrietta Louisa Fermor: '''Henrietta Louisa Fermor''' , COUNTESS OF PoMFRET(rf. 1761), letter-writer; nte Jeffreys: married Thomas Ferrnor, second baron Leominster, 1720; lady of the bedcliamber to Queen Caroline till 1737; wrote a lifeof Vandyke at Rome; prtcieuse ridicule, and writer of dull and affected letters.
Sik Fermor: '''Sik Fermor''' .[[101]] IX (. [[1571]]), son of Richard IVi,ur M. v.; knighted, 1553; M.P. for NorthamptonI shire, 1S53 and 1555; sheriff, 1557.
Fermor: '''Fermor''' or FERMOUR, RICHARD (d. [[1552]]), merchant of the staple of Calais; licensed to export six hundred sacks of wool, 1615; personally assists v, agent in Florence, 1524; sheriff for Bedford and Buckingham, 1532 and 1533; stripped of all his lands under the statute of premnnire, 1540; restored to his property. 1550.
Thomap William Fermor: '''Thomap William Fermor''' , fourth EARL OP
Pomkret: '''Pomkret''' ([[1770]]-[[1833]]), general; ensign, [[1791]] ; present at Lincelles and the sieges of Valenciennes and Dunkirk, 1793; lieutenant, 1794; P.R.S. and F.S.A.; took part in Helder expedition, 1799; major-general, 1813; received medal for battle of Salamanca, 1812; knight of the Tower and Sword; lieutenant-general, 1825.
Farmer Fermor: '''Farmer Fermor''' , or FERMOUR, Sm WILLIAM . (1623 ?-1661), royalist; created baronet, 1641; privy councillor to Prince Charles; compounded with the Commonwealth; privy councillor, 1660; M.P. for Brackley, and deputy-lieutenant for Northamptonshire, 1661; K.B., 1661.

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William Fermor: '''William Fermor''' , BARON LEOMINSTER (ef. [[1711]]), connoisseur; sou of Sir William Fermor; created Baron Leominster, 1692; laid out country seat at Easton Nestou, adorning it with some of the Arundel marbles.
Fermoy: '''Fermoy''' seventh VISCOUNT ([[1573]] ?-[[1635]]). See
David Roche: '''David Roche''' .
Henry Ferne: '''Henry Ferne''' ([[1602]]-[[1662]]), bishop of Chester ; son of Sir John Ferne; educated at Uppingham and St. Mary Hall, Oxford: pensioner (1620) and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; archdeacon of Leicester, 1 1641; D.D. Cambridge, 1642; joined royal forces at Nottingham; chaplain extraordinary to Charles I: chaplain in ordinary; obliged to abandon his living of Medbourne for writing in support of Charles I, 1643; D.D. Oxford, 1643; given patent for next vacancy in mastership of Trinity College, Cambridge; censured Harrington'sOceana 1656; master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1660-2; vice-chancellor, 1660 and 1661: dean of Ely, 1661; bishop of Chester, 1662; published theological pamphlets, 1647-60.
Sir John Ferne: '''Sir John Ferne''' (d. [[1610]] ?), writer on heraldry ; studied at Oxford and the Inner Temple; brought out 'The Blazon of Gentrie 1586, of which the second part dealt with Albertus a Lasco's provedly untenable claim to be descended from the Lacy family; knighted, 1604; joint-secretary and keeper of the signet in the north, 1604.
John Ferneley: '''John Ferneley''' ([[1782]]-[[1860]]), animal painter: given commissions to paint hunting, and occasionally racing or coaching, scenes.
George Ferrabee: '''George Ferrabee''' (fl. [[1613]]).
Ferrabosco: '''Ferrabosco''' or FERABOSCO, ALFONSO (. 1544-1587), musical composer; of Italian origin*; pensioned by Elizabeth, 1567; composed, with William Byrd, Medulla Musicke (settings ofMiserereplain-song), published. 1603; composed madrigals; took service at the ducal court of Savoy.
Ferrabosco: '''Ferrabosco''' or FERABOSCO, ALFONSO (. 1628), lutenist and composer; son of Alfonso Ferrabosco (1544-1587): introduced the new Italian style of music into England; extraordinary groom of the privy chamber and musical instructor to Prince Henry, 1605: author of Ayres 1609, and a Fantasie and Pavin 1610; composer in ordinary, 1626.
Alfonso Ferrabosco: '''Alfonso Ferrabosco''' (d. [[1661]]), musician and composer; son of Alfonso Ferrabosco (d. 1628); viol in the king's baud, and musician in ordinary, 1628.
John Ferrabosco: '''John Ferrabosco''' (d. [[1682]]), organist of Ely Cathedral; Mus. Bac., per lileras regias, Cambridge, 1671: possibly introduced Chanting Service into Ely Cathedral,
Nicholas Ferrar: '''Nicholas Ferrar''' ([[1592]]-[[1637]]), theologian ; B.A. and fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1610; M.A.; attend.- 1 Elizabeth, queen of Bohemia, to Holland, 1613; devoted
Ferrar: '''Ferrar''' 429
Ffennell: '''Ffennell''' himself to the affairs of the Virginia Company, 1619; declined readership of geometry at Gresham College, 1619; assisted a- member of parliament in the impeachment of the Eurl of Middlesex, 1024; retired to Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire, 1625; deacon, 1G26; chaplain of an Anglican community at Little Gidding, composed of his brother's and brother-in-law's families; introduced bookbinding trade Into his brotherhood; visited by manuscript harmony of the Gospels, and also of the Books of Kings and Chronicles.
Robert Ferrae: '''Robert Ferrae''' (d. [[1555]]), bishop of St. David's ; studied at Cambridge; Augustinian canon and monk of St. Muv's I'rinry, Oxford; converted to Lutherauism, but (1528) compelled to recant; accompanied William Barlow (d. 1568) on his embassy to Scotland, 1635; prior of St. Oswald's at Nostell; D.D.; bishop of St. David's, 1548-54; gospeller; technical errors in the wording of his commission discovered by hia prejudiced chapter; kept in prison till Queen Mary's accession, after being cited to answer charges of praemunire; deprived of his bishopric, 1554; charged by Gardiner with having violated his monastic vow of chastity; burnt at the stake, 1555.
Baron Ferrard: '''Baron Ferrard''' ([[1663]]-[[1731]]). See TICHBORNE,
Henry Sir: '''Henry Sir''' .
Ferrars: '''Ferrars''' first BAROX DE([[1755]]-[[1811]]). See TOWNS-
George Henp: '''George Henp''' .
of Groby Ferrers: '''of Groby Ferrers''' , eighth BARON ([[1432]]-[[1461]]).
Ferrers: '''Ferrers''' third BARON (d. [[1558]]). See DKVEREUX,
Walter: '''Walter'''
Earls Ferrers: '''Earls Ferrers''' . See SHIRLEY, LAURENCE, fourth
Earl: '''Earl''' [[1720]]-[[1760]]; SHIRLEY, WASHINGTON, fifth EARL, 1722-1778.
Benjamin Ferrers: '''Benjamin Ferrers''' (d. [[1732]]), portrait-painter; deaf and dumb from birth.

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Edward: '''Edward''' (d. [[1564]]) ; confounded byWood, who describes him as a distinguished dramatist (after Putteuham and Meres), with George Ferrers
George Ferrers: '''George Ferrers''' ([[1500]] ?-[[1579]]), poet and politician; bachelor of canon law, Cambridge, 1631; translated Magna Charta into English, 1534; member of Lincoln's Inn; M.P., Plymouth, 1542, 1545, and 1553; said to have murdered some Scots with great barbarity when campaigning with the Duke of Somerset, 1548; master of the king's pastimes 1551 and 1552; lord of misrule to Queen Mary, 1553; assisted in suppressing Wyatt's rebellion, 1554; M.P., Brackley, 1654 and 1555, St. Albaus, 1571; devised (with Baldwin) the series of historical poems entitled 1 Mirror for Magistrates (complete edition, 1678); wrote tragedies and court masques.
Henry De Ferrers: '''Henry De Ferrers''' (fl. [[1086]]), Domesday commissioner; Norman baron; fought at Hastings, 1066.
Henry Ferrers: '''Henry Ferrers''' ([[1549]]-[[1633]]), antiquary ; son of Edward Ferrers; educated at Oxford, probably at Hart Hall; collected materials (utilised by Dugdale) for the history of Warwickshire, his native county.
John Ferrers: '''John Ferrers''' ([[1271]] [[1324]]), ton of Robert Ferrers, carl of Derby or Ferrers; joined Bohun and Bigod in the struggle for the charters; summoned to parliament, 1299.
Joseph Ferrers: '''Joseph Ferrers''' ([[1725]]-[[1797]]), Carmelite friar; professed abroad, 1745; provincial of the English Carmelites,
Richard Ferrers: '''Richard Ferrers''' (. [[1690]]).
Robert De Ferrers: '''Robert De Ferrers''' (d. [[1139]]), warrior; son of Henry de Ferrers; one of the English leaders at Northallerton, 1138; created earl, 1138. xviii. 386J
Robert Ferrers: '''Robert Ferrers''' , EARL OF DERBY or FERRERS (1240 ?-1279 ?); married one of Henry Ill's Poitevin relatives, 1249; took Prince Edward prisoner, 1263; defeated royalists at Chester, 1264; shut up in the Tower by Montfort to save him from the king's auger, 1265; headed the d; mhiTited 1266; specially exempted from the general composition of the Dictum de Keiiilworth 12M: re leased from prison, 1269.
Ferrey: '''Ferrey''' u:.JAMIN ([[1810]]-[[1880]]), architect; of Huguenot origin; employed on the detail drawings of the National Gallery; part-author of - Antiquities of the Priory Church of Christchurch, Hants 1834; restored, when hon. diocesan architect, 1841-80, nave, transepts, and Lady Chapel of Wells Cathedral, 1842; twice vicepresident of Royal Institute of British Architects: F.S.A., 1HG3: published recollections of the two Pugins, 1861.
John Ferriar: '''John Ferriar''' ([[1761]]-[[1815]]), physid:uK M.D. Edinburgh, 1781; his essay on Massinger reprinted in Gifford's edition (1805); physician of the Manchester Infirmary, 1789-1815; introduced many sanitary reforms when on the Manchester bonrd of health; published works includingMedical Histories and Reflections 1792-5-8, and Illustrations of Sterne 1798.
James Frederick Ferrier: '''James Frederick Ferrier''' ([[1808]]-[[1864]]), metaphysician; studied at Edinburgh University and Magdalen College, Oxford; B.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, i 1831; advocate, 1832; studied German philosophy at i Heidelberg, 1834; professor of civil history, Edinburgh, i 1842-5; professor of moral philosophy and political economy at St. Andrews, 1845-64; published Institutes of Metaphysic 1854, re-interpreting Berkeley in the light of German idealism.
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier: '''Susan Edmonstone Ferrier''' ([[1782]]-[[1854]]), , novelist; visited Sir Walter Scott, 1811, 1829, and 1831; I publishedMarriage 1818,The Inheritance 1824, and !Destiny 1831, three novels.
Ferris: '''Ferris'''
Richard Ferris: '''Richard Ferris''' (fl. [[1590]]), adventurer ; a mes. .senger in Queen Elizabeth's household; rowed in an open boat from London to Bristol, 1590.
Sir Francis Worgan Festing: '''Sir Francis Worgan Festing''' ([[1833]]-[[1886]]), major-general; second lieutenant, royal marines, 1850; commaudal mortar off Sebastopol, 1855; present as I adjutant of artillery at bombardment of Canton; defeated Ashantees, burning Ehina, 1873; virtually administered government of Gold Coast, 1874; colonel, 1874; C.B., 1874; K.C.M.G., 1874; aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, 1879; colonel commandant, royal marine artillery, 1886.
Michael Christian Festing: '''Michael Christian Festing''' (d. [[1752]]), vioi linistand composer; member of George IPs baud; director I of the Italian opera, 1737; director of the Philharmonic 1 Society; initiated Royal Society of Musicians from subscription for the indigent family of a German oboei player, 1738; composed concertos, solos, sonatas for stringed instruments, and Sylvia a cantata.
Richard Fetherston: '''Richard Fetherston''' (d. [[1540]]), Roman catho j lie martyr; chaplain to Catherine of Arragon; school i master to the Princess Mary; wrote against Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Arragon; hanged for refusing the oath of supremacy.
Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh: '''Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh''' (rf. [[1661]]), royalist; member of Gray's Inn, 1620; knighted, 1628; taken prisoner at bat tie of Wigan Lane; beheaded.
Sir William Fettes: '''Sir William Fettes''' ([[1750]]-[[1836]]), founder of, j Fettes College, Edinburgh; merchant, underwriter, and contractor for military stores; lord provost of Edin I burgh, 1800 and 1805: created baronet, 1804; devoted, part of his estate to form endowment for education of orphan or otherwise needy children, 1830, a scheme which developed into the present Fettes College,
Baronne De Feucheres: '''Baronne De Feucheres''' ([[1790]]-[[1840]]). See
Sophia Dawes: '''Sophia Dawes''' .
Earls Ok Feversiiam: '''Earls Ok Feversiiam''' . See SONDES, SIR GEORGE, first EARL, 1600-1677; DURAS, Louis, second EARL. , 1640?-170U.
William Joshua Ffennell: '''William Joshua Ffennell''' ([[1799]]-[[1867]]), fishery reformer; J.P., 1834; called attention with Lord Glengall to the neglected state of the Suir salmon fisheries; brought about the salmon-fishery acts of 1842, I 1844, and 1845, and Ffennell's Act 1848: inspector 01 salmon fisheries for England and Wales, 1861.
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Fielden: '''Fielden'''
Ffraid: '''Ffraid''' I. D. ([[1814]]-[[1875]]).
Fiacre: '''Fiacre''' or FIACHRACH, SAINT (d. [[670]] ?), Irish noble; founded monastery at Breuil, on land given him by Faro, bishop of Meaux; chiefly celebrated for his miraculous cure of a tumour, since known as le tic de St. Fiacre"; enshrined in Meaux Cathedral, 1568; part of his body given to the grand-duke of Tuscany, 1617, part to Cardinal Richelieu, 1637. The saint's name was given to the French hackney carriage from 1640, because at the Hi'itvl de St. Fiacre in Paris hackney carriages were then first kept on hire.
Fych Fich: '''Fych Fich''' , or FYCHE, THOMAS (d. [[1517]]), ecclesiastic and compiler; studied at Oxford; sub-prior of convent of Holy Trinity, Dublin; author of a Latin necrology of the convent, entitled Mortiloginm (printed by the Irish Archaeological Society, 1844), and of the White Book of Christ Church, Dublin FIDDES, RICHARD (1671-1725), divine and historian; B.A. University College, Oxford, 1691: non resident rector of Halsham, 1696; chaplain of Hull, by Swift's influence, 1713-14; chaplain to the Earl of Oxford, 1713-14; published Theologia Speculative1718, andTheologia Practica 1720; D.D. Oxford; attacked Mandeville in A General Treatise of Morality 1724; unfairly represented as a papist on account of his Life of Cardinal Wolsey 1724.
Barron Field: '''Barron Field''' ([[1786]]-[[1846]]), lawyer and miscellaneous writer; son of Henry Field; intimate with Lamb, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Hazlitt, and Leigh Hunt; barrister, Inner Temple, 1814; theatrical critic to the Times; advocate-fiscal in Ceylon; judge of supreme court of New South Wfrtes, 1817-24; engaged in party conflicts; chief- justice of Gibraltar; published (1811) an analysis of Blackstone's Commentaries (frequently reprinted), and editedGeographical Memoirs on New South Wales 1825; edited a few of Hey wood's, and one of Legge's, plays for the Shakespeare Society; original poet with First Fruits of Australian Poetry (privately printed, 1819).
Edwin Wilkins Field: '''Edwin Wilkins Field''' ([[1804]]-[[1871]]), law reformer and amateur artist; son of William Field; attorney and solicitor, 1826; established firm of Sharpe & Field in Cheapside; the abolition of the court of exchequer as an equity court and the appointment of two additional vice-chancellors (1841) due to hisObservations of a Solicitor 1840: suggested provisions of trustdeed executed by Robert Hibbert, 1847; a commissioner to report on accountant-general's department of chancery court, 1861; amateur artist; his views on the option of contract realised by the act of 1870.
Frederick Field: '''Frederick Field''' ([[1801]]-[[1885]]), divine; son of Henry Field; educated at Christ's Hospital; tenth wrangler, chancellor's classical medallist, and Tyrwhitt's Hebrew scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1823; fellow, 1824; examiner for classical tripos, 1833 and 1837; incumbent of Great Saxham and (1842-63) of Reepham; LL.D. Cambridge, 1874; original member of the Old Testament revision company, 1870; edited homilies by St. Chrysostom, 1839 an 1 1849-62, and Origen's Hexapla (in parts, finished 1874).
Frederick Field: '''Frederick Field''' ([[1826]]-[[1885]]), chemist; chemist to copper-smelting works at Coquimbo in Chili, 1848-52: manager at Caldera, 1852; first to discover lapis lazuli in South America, 1851; vice-consul of Caldera, 1863; sub-manager to smelting- works at Guayacan, 1856-9; professor of chemistry, London Institution, 1862.
George Field: '''George Field''' ([[1777]] ?-[[1854]]), chemist ; succeeded in cultivating madder in his own garden, reducing it to its finest consistence by the physeter his own invention; Isis medallist, Society of Arts, 1816: chief works, Chromatography, or a treatise on Colours and Pigments 1835, andRudiments of the Painter's Art, or a Grammar of Colouring 1850.
Henry Field: '''Henry Field''' ([[1755]]-[[1837]]), apothecary ; apothecary to Christ's Hospital, 1807-37; M. Soc. Apotb.; established gratuitous courses of lectures on materia medica at ApothecariesHall; one of the medical officers attached to the city of London board of health to meet threatened epidemic of cholera, 1831.
Henry Ibbot Field: '''Henry Ibbot Field''' ([[1797]]-[[1848]]), pianist; educated at Bath grammar school; performed Johann i Hummel's grand sonata, omvre 92, with the master, 1830; j paralysed, 1848.
Field: '''Field''' or FELLD, JOHN ([[1525]] ?-[[1587]]), ' proto-Coperj mean of England; public, instructor in science, London; j granted crest and confirmation of arms, 1558; representative work, l Ephemeris anni 1557 currentis juxta Coper) nici et Reinholdi canones... ad Meridianum Londi! nensem... supputata 1566.
John Field: '''John Field''' (d. [[1588]]).
John Field: '''John Field''' ([[1782]]-[[1837]]), composer ; composed and performed concerto, 1799; taken by his master, Clemeuti, to St. Petersburg as a salesman. 1802; his playing ad ! mired by Spohr, 1802; settled in Moscow between 1824 and 1828: died at Moscow; chiefly famous for his : Nocturnes romantic music which inspired Chopin.
Joshua Field: '''Joshua Field''' ([[1787]] ?-[[1863]]), civil engineer ; parti ner in firm of Maudslay, Sons & Field of Lambeth, j which constructed (1838) engines capable of propelling a vessel across the Atlantic; part-founder of Institution of ; Civil Engineers, 1817; F.R.S. 1836; president I.C.E., 1848.
Nathaniel Field: '''Nathaniel Field''' ([[1587]]-[[1633]]), actor and dramaI tist.; one of the six principal comedians of the Children ! of the Queen's Revels who performed Ben Jonson's Cynthia's Revels in 1600; acted in plays by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher; his name made synonymous with best actor in Jousou's Bartholomew Fair 1614; probably performed himself in his 'A Woman's a Weathercock published 1612, and :Amends for Ladies published 1618; collaborated in Massinger's Fatal Dowry 1632.
Field: '''Field''' or DE LA FIELD, RICHARD ([[1554]] ?-[[1606]]), Jesuit; studied at Douay; superior of Irish Jesuit mission, c. 1600.
Richard Field: '''Richard Field''' ([[1561]]-[[1616]]), divine; B.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1581; M.A., andCatechism lecturer Magdalen Hall, 1584; D.D., 1596; divinity lecturer, Lincoln's Inn, 1594; chaplain in ordinary to Queen Elizabeth, 1598; installed prebendary of Windsor, 1604, by a grant dating from 1602; chaplain to James I; dean of Gloucester, 1610; discussed theology with James I; friend of Hooker; sincerely mourned by James I. His great work, Of the Church Five Bopkes (first published, 1606), is a masterpiece of polemical divinity.
Richard Field: '''Richard Field''' (. [[1579]]-[[1624]]), London printer and stationer; free of the StationersCompany, 1587; sole licensee for first edition of Harington's translation of Orlando Furioso 1592; master of the StationersCompany, 1620; fellow townsman, and probably a personal friend of Shakespeare, printing Venus and Adonis 1693, I 1594, and 1596, as well as the first (1694) edition of Luorece
Theophilus Field: '''Theophilus Field''' ([[1574]]-[[1636]]), bishop of Hereford; brother of Nathaniel Field; fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1598; M.A., 1599; M.A. Oxford, 1600; D.D.; chaplain to James I and Lord-chancellor Bacon; consecrated bishop of Llandaff by the influence j of Buckingham, 1619; impeached by the Commons for brocage and bribery before his promotion, and admonished in the convocation house, 1621: bishop of St. David's, 1627; obtained see of Hereford, 1635; edited Elegies on the Death of Sir Oratio Pallavicino 1600.
Thomas Field: '''Thomas Field''' ([[1546]] P-[[1625]]), Jesuit; studied at I Paris and Douay; M.A. Louvain; spiritual coadjutor of I the Society of Jesus; lived for some years in Brazil and Paraguay; put by English pirates into an open boat, in which he drifted to Buenos Ayres, 1586; died at the Assumption Settlement.
William Field: '''William Field''' ([[1768]]-[[1851]]), Unitarian minister ; minister of the presbyterian congregation at Warwick, 1790-1843; friend of Dr. Samuel Parr; started a Sunday school (the first in Warwick), which led to a pamphlet war with some local clergy, 1791; kept boarding- school at Learn; published pamphlets, sermons, and a history of Warwick and Leamington, 1815.
John Fielden: '''John Fielden''' ([[1784]]-[[1849]]), M.P. for Oldham ; partner with his father, and subsequently witli }
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Fiennu: '''Fiennu''' ti brothers, in cotton-spinning manufactory at Toclmorden; M.P. for Oldham. 1H33, 1H35, 1837, and 1841; seconded Cobbett's resolution for removing Peel from the privy council, 1833; moved second reading of Ten HoursMill, 1846 and 1847; publishedThe Mischiefs and Iniquities of Paper Monty 1832, with other works and pamphlets, including * The Curse of the Factory System 1K36.

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Antony Vandyke Copley Fielding: '''Antony Vandyke Copley Fielding''' ([[1787]]1855), landscape-painter in water-colour; son of Nathan Theodorf Fulding; commenced to exhibit at the Royal Academy, 1811; awarded a medal at the Paris Salon, 1824: president of the Water-colour Society, 1831-66.
Basil Fielding: '''Basil Fielding''' s second EARL OF DENBIGH (d. 1674).
Henry Fielding: '''Henry Fielding''' ([[1707]]-[[1754]]), novelist ; contemporary with Pitt and Fox at Eton; sent, after a youthful escapade, to study law at Leyden; brought out a few comedies of the Congreve school, 1728-32; burlesqued all the popular playwrights of the day in Tom Thumb a farce, 1730; supported thedistressed actors at Drury Lane on the occasion of the revolt headed by Theophilus Oibber, 1733: opened theatre in the Haymarket with 'Pasquin 1736, but gave up the career on the passing of a bill, partly due to Pasquin making a license from the lord chamberlain necessary for all dramatic performances, 1737; barrister, Middle Temple, 1740; retaliated on Colley Gibber'sApologyin his paper, theChampion parodied Richardson'sPamelainThe History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams 1742, copying Parson Adams from William Young, with whom he co-operated in translating Aristophanes's Plutns 1742; published Miscellanies the third volume containing Jonathan Wild the Great a powerful satire, 1743; issued two weekly papers in support of the government 1745 and 1747-8; J.P. for Westminster, 1748; produced the novel ofTom Jones drawing his first wife, then dead, as Sophia, 1749; chairman of quarter sessions at Hickss Hall, 1749; attacked social evils, especially excessive gin-drinking, in anInquiryinto the increase of robbers in London, 1750; propounded elaborate scheme for erection of county poor-house, 1753; published * Amelia 1751; provided informers against robberies by a special fund, and succeeded in breaking up a gang, 1763; died an invalid at Lisbon; his Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon published posthumously.
Henry Borron Fielding: '''Henry Borron Fielding''' (d. [[1851]]), botanist ; fellow of the Linnean Society, 1838; publishedSertum Plantarum containing figures and descriptions of seventyfive new or rare plants, 1844.
Sir John Fielding: '''Sir John Fielding''' (d. [[1780]]), magistrate; halfbrother of Henry Fielding: blind, apparently from birth; carried on Henry Fielding's plan for breaking up robber-gangs; originated (1755) scheme for sendingdistressed boys into the royal navy; published pamphlet on the Duke of Newcastle's police force, with plan for rescuing deserted girls, 1758; denounced in A Letter to Sir John Fielding, occasioned by his extraordinary request to Mr. Garrick for the suppression of the "Beggar's Opera" 1773; unfairly accused of encouraging and then condemning criminals: published collection of laws concerning breaches of peace in metropolis, 1768.
Nathan Theodore Fielding: '''Nathan Theodore Fielding''' (. [[1776]]-[[1814]]), painter: occasionally exhibited at the British Institution and the Society of Artists; famous in Yorkshire for his portrait* of aged people.
Newton Smith Fielding: '''Newton Smith Fielding''' ([[1799]]-[[1856]]), painter and lithographer; son of Nathan Theodore Fielding ; exhibited at Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1815 and 1818; taught family of Louis-Philippe in Paris; published works on art; best known for his paintings and engravings of animals.
Robert Fielding: '''Robert Fielding''' ([[1651]] ?-[[1712]]).
Sarah Fielding: '''Sarah Fielding''' ([[1710]]-[[1768]]), novelist; sister of Henry Fielding; wrote romances, includingThe Adventures of David Simple in search of a Faithful Friend 1744; translated Xenophon'sMemorabiliaandApologia 1762. xviii. 426 p
Thales Fielding: '''Thales Fielding''' ([[1793]]-[[1837]]), water-colour painter; son of Nathan Theodore Fielding; ex hibited at the British Institution, 1816, and afterwards at the Royal Academy; associate exhibitor of the Royal Society of Painters in WaU-r-colours; drawing-master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwieh. xviii. 428)
Thkodore Henry Fielding: '''Thkodore Henry Fielding''' * ADOLPHUS (1781-1851 ), painter, engraver, and author; son of Nathaii Theodore Fielding; huwhtdnMrffef and perspective at East India Company's Military College, Addiscombtt. first exhibited at the Itoyal Academy, 1799; worked in stipple and aquatint; published works on the practice of art.
Thomas Fielding: '''Thomas Fielding''' (fl. [[1780]]-[[1790]]), engraver: executed engravings in Ryland's stipple manner. txviii. 427
William Fielding: '''William Fielding''' , first EARL OF DKXIUUH (d. 1643).
Fiennes: '''Fiennes''' or FIENES, ANNE, LADY DACRE (d. 1595), daughter of Sir Richard Sackville; married Gregory Fiennes; complained to Queen Elizabeth of her sister-in-law, Margaret Lennard, for alleged calumnies; left money for erection of almshouse at Chelsea.
Edward Fiennes: '''Edward Fiennes''' , EARL OF LINCOLN ([[1612]]-[[1586]]).
Fiennes: '''Fiennes''' or FIENES, GREGORY, tenth BARON
of The South Dacre: '''of The South Dacre''' ([[1539]]-[[1594]]), son of Thomas Fiennes, ninth baron Dacre; restored by act of parliament to his father's honours, 1558; one of the nobles who attended Lord Lincoln to court of Charles IX to ratify confederacy of Blois, 1C72.
James Fiennes: '''James Fiennes''' , BARON SAY (or SAYE) AND SELE (d. 1450); given grants in France for service under Henry V in his French wars, 1418; governor of Arques, 1419; sheriff of Kent, 1437, of Surrey and Sussex, 1439; constable of Dover and warden of the Cinqne ports by patent, 1447-9; M.P., 1447; created baron, 1447; lord chamberlain and privy councillor; lord-treasurer, 1449; sequestered for his consent to the surrender of An ion and Maine, 1460; generally suspected of extortion and maladministration; imprisoned in the Tower and handed over by the governor to Jack Cade, who had him beheaded. That he caused printing to be used (Shakespeare, Henry VI pt. ii. Act iv., sc. 7), is an anachronism. , JOHN (fl. 1657), parliamentarian: son of William Fiennes, first viscount Saye and Sele; colonel of a regiment of parliamentary horse, 1643; fought at Naseby, 1645; summoned by Cromwell to the House of Lords, 1667.
Nathaniel Fiennes: '''Nathaniel Fiennes''' ([[1608]] ?-[[1669]]), parliamentarian: son of William Fiennes, first viscount Say and Sele ; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford: perpetual fellow of New College, 1624; travelled to Geneva; M.P., Banbury, 1640; sat in the Long parliament; made a famous speech against episcopacy, 1641; member of committee appointed for consideration of church affairs, 1641; member of committee of safety, 1642; fought at Edgehill, 1642; arrested Colonel Essex, the disaffected governor of Bristol, 1643; governor of Bristol, 1643; sentenced to death forimproperly surrendering* Bristol to Prince Rupert, 1643; pardoned; exonerated by Cromwell; member of committee of safety, 1648; excluded from the Commons by Pride's Purge, 1648; state councillor, 1664; one of the keepers of the great seal, 1655; M. P., Oxfordshire, 1654, Oxford University, 1656: sat in Cromwell House of Lords, 1658; endeavoured to argue Cromwell into accepting the crown; author, according to Wood, of Monarchy Asserted 1660.
Fiennes: '''Fiennes''' or FIENES, THOMAS, ninth BARON
Dacre: '''Dacre''' ([[1517]]-[[1641]]) ; when intent on a poaching frolic mortally wounded, by accident, a man whom he met; indicted for murder; executed.
William Fiennes: '''William Fiennes''' , first VISCOUNT SAYE AND
Sele: '''Sele''' ([[1582]]-[[1662]]) ; fellow of New College, Oxford, [[1600]] ; succeeded as Baron Saye and Sele, 1613; advised Bacon's degradation from the peerage, 1621; created viscount, 1624; refused to pay forced loan, 1626; probably first to discover right of peers to protest; opposed reservations and amendments to Petition of Right suggested by court party, 1628; helped to establish company for colonisation of Providence Island, 1630; patentee for land on Connecticut River, 1632; purchased plantation in Cocheco, New Hampshire, 1633; his suggestion that an hereditary 432
Finch: '''Finch''' aristocracy should be established in New England rejected by Massachusetts government; relinquished intention of settling in New England; reluctantly followed the king nd, and was sent away on refusing milii 1639; saved from accusation of treason by the impeachment of Stratford. 1640: privy councillor and commissioner of the treasury, 1641; lord-lieutenant of Oxfordshire, Cheshire, and Gloucestershire, and member of the committee of safety, 1642; sat in Westminster Assembly, 1643; turned the scale in favour of the self-denying ordinance on two occasions: signed engagement, 1647; urged the king, from selfish motives, to make peace with the parliament at Newport, 1648; privy councillor and lord privy seal, 1660; nicknamed Old Subtlety; wrote two tracts against the quakers.
Earls Op Fife: '''Earls Op Fife''' . See DUFF, JAMKS, second EAUL, 1729-1809: DUFF, JAMES, fourth EARL, 1776-1857.

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Thane Fife: '''Thane Fife''' or EARL OP (. [[1056]]?)
Dupf: '''Dupf''' See MAC
Sir John Fife: '''Sir John Fife''' ([[1795]]-[[1871]]), surgeon ; M.R.C.S. ; army assistant-surgeon at Woolwich; helped to found Newcastle School of Medicine, 1834; Reform BUI agitator in the north, 1831; mayor of Newcastle, 1838-9 and 1843: knighted (1840) for suppressing chartist outbreak, 1839; F.R.C.S., 1844.
James Figg: '''James Figg''' (rf. [[1734]]), pugilist ; taught boxing and swordsmanship at his academy in Marylebone Fields; praised as a swordsman in theTatlerandGuardian: contended with Sparks in a broadsword duel at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket before the Duke of Lorraine, 1731; occasionally exhibited bear-baiting and tiger-baiting,
William Filbie: '''William Filbie''' ([[1565]] ?-[[1582]]), Roman catholic priest: educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, and the Bullish college, Douay: priest, 1581; missioner in England; refused to save his life by conforming to the established church and pleading guilty to communication with Edmund Campion, a prisoner; executed.
Roger Fhcock: '''Roger Fhcock''' (d. [[1601]]), Jesuit ; grammarian and bateler of the English College, Douay; sent to colonise Philip II's new university at Valladolid, 1590; missioner in England, 1598: Jesuit, 1600; executed,
Foilan Fillan: '''Foilan Fillan''' , or FELAK (with other varieties of form), SAINT (d. 777 ?), Irish missionary in Scotland; son of Feredach, a prince in Muuster; Kilkoau and Killellan, two churches in Argyllshire, named after him: joint-founder of abbey at Glendochart, Perthshire; his crosier and bell still preserved in museum of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh. One of his arms, set in silver, was carried by Bruce to the battle of Banuockburn.
John Fillian: '''John Fillian''' (fl. [[1658]]-[[1680]]), engraver of portraits; pupil of William Faithorne the elder; mentioned by Evelyn in Sculpture 1662.
Robert Fills: '''Robert Fills''' (. [[1562]]), translator from the French; published The Lawes and Statutes of Geneva 1562; translated, among other works A Briefeand Piththie Summe of the Christian Faith from Theodore Bexa, 1563.
Edward Filmeb: '''Edward Filmeb''' (fl. [[1707]]), dramatistTfoundcVs km fellow, All SoulsCollege, Oxford, 1672; B.A., 1672: D.C.L., 1681; his tragedy The Unnatural Brother coldly received on the stage, 1697; defended the stage against Jeremy Collier with A Defence of Plays 1707.
Sir Robert Filmeb: '''Sir Robert Filmeb''' (d. [[1653]]), politta?" writer : matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1604; knighted by Charles I; imprisoned in Leeds Castle, Kent 1644; wrote, among other works,Patrlarcha, or the .Natural Power of Kings asserted(published 1B80), a manifesto which was sharply criticised by Locke.
Saint Fdtan: '''Saint Fdtan''' (d. [[661]]). bishop of Lindisfarne ; monk of lona; bishop of Lindisfarne, 652; rebuilt church of Lindisfarne; baptised Peada, a Mercian prince, and Sigebert, king of the East-Saxons; conpecrated St. Oedd bishop of the East-Saxons; adhered to the Celtic celebration of Easter.
Anne Fihch: '''Anne Fihch''' (*. [[1679]]). See CON WAV, AVNK,
Yjscountksb: '''Yjscountksb'''
Anne Finch: '''Anne Finch''' , COUNTESS OP WINCHILSEA (d. [[1720]]), poetess; wife of Heneage Finch, fourth earl, son of Heneage Finch, second earl: maid of honour to the second wife of James, duke of York, and friend of Pope and Rowe, who complimented her in verse as Ardelia and 'Flavia Her poeih on -Spleenappeared in 1701 In Gildon's Miscellany and her Miscellany Poems, written by a Lady in 1713.
Daniel Finch: '''Daniel Finch''' , second EARL OP NOTTINGHAM and sixth of WINCHILSEA (1647-1730), statesman; eldest son of Heneage Finch, first earl of Nottingham; , privy councillor, 1680; first lord of the admiralty, 1681-4; 1 after the flight of James II proposed a regency and opposed the motion declaring the throne vacant; obtained I modification of oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and accepted the revolution; secretary-at-war, 1688-93; carried the Toleration Act; failed to get his Comprehenj sion Bill passed; reluctantly dismissed by William III, ! 1693; remained out of office till the king's death; again secretary of state, 1702-4; resigned when the whigs became predominant; throughout the reign of Anne was active as the head of the high church tories, and (1711) carried an act forbidding the occasional conformity of dissenters; opposed preliminaries of peace with France, 1711; named president of council by George I in 1714, I but dismissed in 1716 for advocating leniency to the ! Jacobite peers.
Edward Finch: '''Edward Finch''' (. [[1630]]-[[1641]]), royalist divine; probably younger son of Sir Henry Finch; dispossessed of the vicarage of Clirist Church, Newgate, by the parliamentary committee, 1641; publishedAn i Answer to the Articles exhibited in Parliament against Edw. Finch 1641.
Edward Finch: '''Edward Finch''' ([[1664]]-[[1738]]), composer ; fifth son of Heneage Finch, first earl of Nottingham; M.A., 1679; fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; prebendary of York, 1704, Canterbury, 1710; aTeDeumand anthem i by him found in Tud way's manuscript collection; his i manuscript Grammar of Thorough Bass preserved in Euing Library, Glasgow.
Edward Finch: '''Edward Finch''' ([[1756]]-[[1843]]), general : served with Ooldstream guards in Flanders, 1793-5, in Ireland, 1798, i and the Helder, 1799; commanded cavalry under Abercromby in Egypt, 1801, and brigade of guards in Copenhagen expedition, 1809; M.P., Cambridge University, i 1789-1819; named groom of the bedchamber, 1804.
Francis Oliver Finch: '''Francis Oliver Finch''' ([[1802]]-1 86 2)," watercolour painter: worked five years under John Varley and joined Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1822; painted many views of Scottish and English landscapes; and printed An Artist's Dream a collection of sonnets.
Sir Heneage Finch: '''Sir Heneage Finch''' (d. [[1631]]), speaker of the ; House of Commons; grandson of Sir Thomas Finch; barrister, Inner Temple, 1606; M.P., Rye, 1607; defended royal prerogative in debate on impositions, 1610; M.P., West Looe, 1621; knighted, 1623; serjeant-at-law, 1623; recorder of London, 1620, and M.P. for the city, 1623-6; speaker, 1626.
Heneage Finch: '''Heneage Finch''' , first EARL OF NOTTINGHAM (1621-1682), lord chancellor; eldest son of Sir Heneage Finch; distinguished at the Inner Temple for his knowledge of municipal law: became at the Restoration M.P. for Canterbury and solicitor-general; created baronet, 1660; M.P. for Oxford University, 1661; appointed attorney-general, 1670; lord keeper of the seals, 1673: Baron Finch and lord chancellor, 1674; and Earl of Nottingham, 1681; a zealous and able supporter of policy of court, but independent as judge; the A mri ofAbsalom and Achitophel
Heneage Finch: '''Heneage Finch''' , second EARL OP WINCHILSEA (d. 1689), provided troops for the king in the great rebellion, and money for Charles II when abroad; ambassador at Constantinople, 1661-9; published account of his embassy (1661), and of an eruption of Mount Etnn, 1669.
Heneage Finch: '''Heneage Finch''' , first EARL OP AYLESFORU (1647?-! 71!), second son of Heneage Finch, first earl of Nottingham; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; king's counsel, 1677, and solicitorgeneral, 1679-86; dismi&sed by James II, 1686; leading
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Finger: '''Finger''' counsel for the seven bishops, 16S8; M.P. for Oxford University in several parliament*; created Huron Guernsey and privy councillor, 1703; created Earl of Aylesford, 1714.
Finch: '''Finch''' Sin HKNIIY ([[1558]]-[[1625]]), serjeant-at-law ; second son of Sir Thomas Finch; educated at Oriel College, Oxford; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1585; M.P., Canterbury, 1 5'J3; recorder of Sandwich. 1613; serjeantat-law and knighted, 1616; one of those employed upon the attempted codification of statute laws; consulted by James I on monopolies. His World's Great Restauration, or Calling of the Jews 1621, was suppressed as derogatory to the royal power; but his valuable treatise on common law, 1613, fol., in legal French, was frequently translated, and finally edited by Danby Pickering, 1789.
Henry Finch: '''Henry Finch''' ([[1633]]-1 [[704]]), ejected minister ; vicar of Walton, Lancashire, 1656: actively engaged in royalist rising under Sir George Booth; ejected for nonconformity, 1662; presbyterian minister of Birch Hall, Lancashire, 1672-97: aided Calamy, historian of the silenced ministers, with corrections.
Finch: '''Finch''' Sin JOHN, BARON FINCH OP FORDWICH (1584-1660), speaker and lord keeper; sou of Sir Henry Finch; barrister, Gray's Inn, 1611: M.P., Canterbury, 1614, and recorder, 1617; king's counsel, 1626; speaker of the House of Commons, 1628; held down in the chair in the following session to prevent his adjourning the house; employed by the court in Star-chamber and high commission cases against Prynne and others: serjeant-at-law, 1634; appointed chief- justice of the common pleas, 1635: mainly responsible for the shipmoney judgment, 1637; named lord keeper by influence of Queen Henrietta Maria, January, and created baron, April 1640; impeached in the Long parliament, October 1640: fled to Holland, December 1640, but returned at the Restoration.
Finch: '''Finch''' Sm JOHN ([[1626]]-[[1682]]), physician ; younger son of Sir Heneage Finch (d. 1631); after graduating B.A. at Balliol College, Oxford, 1647, and M.. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1649, went to Padna, where be became English consul and syndic of the university; afterwards professor at Pisa; knighted by Charles II, 1661; admitted to council of Royal Society, 1663; minister to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1665; ambassador at Constantinople, 1672-82; died soon after his return to England; buried at Christ's College, ambridge, nar his lifelong companion, Sir Thomas Baines
Peter Finch: '''Peter Finch''' ([[1661]]-[[1754]]), presbyterian minister; son of Henry Finch; M.A. Edinburgh, 1680; minister at Norwich, 1691-1754.
Robert Finch: '''Robert Finch''' ([[1783]]-[[1830]]), antiquary; educated at St. Paul's School and Balliol College, Oxford; M.A., 1809; ordained in 1807: lived chiefly abroad; died at Rome; his literary and flue art collections preserved in the Ashmoleau Museum, Oxford.
Robert Poole Finch: '''Robert Poole Finch''' ([[1724]]-[[1803]]), divine; educated at Merchant Taylorsand Peterhouse, Cambridge; M.A., 1747: D.D., 1772; rector of St. Michael's, Cornhill, 1771; prebendary of Westminster, 1781; an eminent preacher; published treatise on oaths and perjury, 1788.
Sir Thomas Finch: '''Sir Thomas Finch''' (d. [[1563]]), military commander ; knighted for assisting in suppression of Wyatt's rising, 1553; drowned off Havre when about to act as knitrlitmarshal to the English force engaged there: his body buried at Eastwell, Kent, where he had acquired the Moyle property by his marriage.
William Finch: '''William Finch''' (d. [[1613]]), merchant ; agent to an expedition which obtained from the Great Mogul trading privileges for the East India Company at Surat in 1610; died at Babylon from drinking poisoned water,
William Finch: '''William Finch''' ([[1747]]-[[1810]]), divine ; educated at Merchant Taylorsand St. John's College, Oxford: incumbent of Tackley, Oxfordshire; D.O.L. Oxford, 1775; publishedThe Objections of Infidel Historians and other Writers against Christianity (his Bampton lecture).
Finch: '''Finch''' -HATTON, EDWARD (d. [[1771]]), diplomatist ; fifth son of Daniel Finch, second earl of Nottingham; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1718; M.P., Cambridge University, 1727-64; instituted prize for Latin away: ambassador in Sweden, Holland, I'ohmd,;md Russia (1739); assumed name of Hatton, 1764, under will of aunt, daughter of Viscount Hatton.
Finch: '''Finch''' -HATTON, GEORGE WILLIAM, ninth EARL OF WiNCHiLSKA and fifth EARI, ov NOTTINGHAM (17911858), politician: succeeded his cousin, George Finch, fifth earl of Nottingham and ninth of Wincliih-ea, in 1826; a violent opponent of catholic relief; fought a duel with Wellington, 1829; a frequent speaker in the House of Lords against liberal measures.
Edward Francis Finden: '''Edward Francis Finden''' ([[1791]]-[[1887]]), engraver; youngest brother of William Finden; engraved separatelyThe Harvest Waggon after Gainsborough, and a few other pictures.
William Finden: '''William Finden''' ([[1787]]-[[1862]]), engraver: apprenticed to James Mitan; established, with his brother, school of engraving; engraved with him the Elgin Marbles for British Museum, Murray'sArctic Voyage* Lodge'sPortraits 1821-34, illustrations to Moore's Byron 1833, andThe Royal Gallery of British Art; engraved also Lawrence's George IV and pictures by Wilkie and Landseer.
Earls of Findlater: '''Earls of Findlater''' . See OGILVY, JAM**, fourth EARL, 1664-1730; OGILVY, JAMKS, sixth EARL, 1714V-1770.
Andrew Findlater: '''Andrew Findlater''' ([[1810]]-[[1885]]), compiler; graduated at Aberdeen, 1810; LL.D. Aberdeen, 1864; edited Obambers'sEncyclopaediaand (1867)Information for the People; wrote educational manuals.
Charles Findlater: '''Charles Findlater''' ([[1754]]-[[1838]]), agricultural writer; graduated at Edinburgh, 1770: minister of Newlands, 1790-1835; publishedGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Peebles 1802, and contributed to Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland
Alexander George Findlay: '''Alexander George Findlay''' ([[1812]]-[[1875]]), geographer and hydrographer; F.R.G.S., 1844: compiled atlases of Ancient and Comparative Geography Coasts and Islands of the Pacific Ocean six nautical directories with charts; publishedLighthouses and Coast Fog Signals of the World; aided Franklin expedition of 1875, and African exploration.
Sir George Findlay: '''Sir George Findlay''' ([[1829]]-[[1893]]), railway manager; assistant engineer on Birkenhead railway, 1849; superintended construction of line between Hereford and Ludlow, and on its completion, 1852, becamemanager under Thomas Brassey; district manager for North- Western railway in Shropshire and South Wales. 1862; general goods manager at Huston, 1864; general traffic manager, 1874; general manager, 1880; A.I.C.E., 1874; knighted, 1892; publishedWorking and Management of an English Railway 1*89.
John Ritchie Findlay: '''John Ritchie Findlay''' ([[1824]]-[[1898]]), newspaper proprietor: educated at Edinburgh University; entered, 1842, office ofScotsman which he subsequently as,isted in editing: partner in firm, 1868, and principal proprietor, 1870; spent large sums on public objects, and presented to the nation the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (opened 1889): received freedom of Edinburgh, 1H90; publishedPersonal Recollections of De Quincey 186.
Robert Findlay: '''Robert Findlay''' ([[1721]]-[[1814]]), Scots divine: professor of divinity in Glasgow University, 1782; D.D.: carried on a controversy with Kennicott, 1761, and published a work combatingVoltaire's views on the credibility of Christian and Jewish writers, 1770.
Finet: '''Finet''' or FINETT, SIR JOHN ([[1571]]-[[1641]]), master of the ceremonies. His works include a book on the etiquette of embassies, published 1656.
Sir John Finettx: '''Sir John Finettx''' ([[1441]] 7-[[1527]]).
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Christopher: '''Christopher'''
Godfrey Finger: '''Godfrey Finger''' or GOTTFRIED (*. 16W1717), composer: born at Olmlitz; came to England, c. 1685; published sonatas, and music for Congreve, Lee, and other dramatists, 1695-1701; became chamber-musician to the queen of Prussia, 1702, and chapel-master at Gotha, 1717. F F
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Fish: '''Fish'''
Patrick Finglas: '''Patrick Finglas''' (.ft. [[1585]]), Irish judge: chiefiu.-tioe of kiiiL'V bench in hvlund. 1534-5; bis Breviat of the getting of Ireland, and of the Decaie of the sameincluded in Harris's Hiberuica 1770.
John Finglow: '''John Finglow''' (d. [[1586]]), Roman catholic divine : ordained priest at Douay, 1681; missioner in England; executed at York for high treason.
Robert De Finingham: '''Robert De Finingham''' (d. [[1460]]), Franciscan, of Norwich; author of several works in defence of his order.
John Finlaison: '''John Finlaison''' ([[1783]]-[[1860]]), statistician and government actuary; introduced important reforms in victualling department of admiralty, and plan (1809) for indexing records, which was adopted also on the continent: compiled first official navy list 1814; initiated fund for orphans and children of civil employes in admiralty, 1819; in the treasury, 1822-51; published Life Annuities 1829, showing difference between male and female lives; first president of the Institution of Actuaries, 1847-60.
William Francis Finlason: '''William Francis Finlason''' ([[1818]]-[[1895]]), legal writer; called to bar at Middle Temple, 1851; parliamentary and legal reporter for Times; master of bench of Middle Temple; published legal works.
Francis Dalzell Finlay: '''Francis Dalzell Finlay''' ([[1793]]-[[1857]]), Irish journalist: began life as a printer's apprentice; founded in 1824 the Northern Whig; twice imprisoned for libel; supported liberal measures, but opposed repeal and Young Irelandism.
George Finlay: '''George Finlay''' ([[1799]]-[[1875]]), historian ; studied law at Glasgow and Gbttingen; went to Greece, 1823, and saw much of Byron; took part in the war of independence, at the close of which he bought an estate in Attica; died at Athens. His History of Greece covering a period of two thousand years, appeared in sections between 1844 and 1861, and was published collectively in 1877.
John Finlay: '''John Finlay''' ([[1782]]-[[1810]]), Scottish poet ; educated at Glasgow University, where he became a friend of 'Christopher North; published Wallace... and other Poems 1802, a collection of Scottish ballads, 1808, and other works.
Kirkman Finlay: '''Kirkman Finlay''' (d. [[1828]]), philhellene ; brother of George Finlay; spent his fortune and his life after twenty yearsfighting for the Greeks; killed before Scio.
Kirkman Finlay: '''Kirkman Finlay''' ([[1773]]-[[1842]]), lord provost of Glasgow; uncle of Kirkman Finlay (d. 1828); M.P., Glasgow, 1812-18; rector of the university, 1819; an advanced economist and founder of Glasgow commerce.
George Finlayson: '''George Finlayson''' ([[1790]]-[[1823]]), traveller; as naturalist accompanied the expedition of 1821 to Siam and Cochin China; his journal edited by Sir Stamford Raffles, 1826.
James Finlayson: '''James Finlayson''' ([[1758]]-[[1808]]), divine; professor of logic in Edinburgh University, 1787-1808. when he nominated his successor; incumbentof Grey Friars, 1793-9; moderator of general assembly, 1802; wrote life of Hugh Blair (published posthumously), and other works.
Finlayson: '''Finlayson''' or FINLEYSON, JOHN ([[1770]]-[[1854]]), disciple of Richard Brothers; published pseudoscientific pamphlets.
Thomas Finlayson: '''Thomas Finlayson''' ([[1809]]-[[1872]]), U.P. minister ; incumbent of Rose Street Church, Edinburgh, 1847-72; moderator of supreme court and D.D. of Edinburgh, 1867; promoter of the manse fund.
Bake Finn: '''Bake Finn''' , SAINT and BISHOP (d. [[623]]), in popular usage Barra or Bairre; baptised by Bishop MacCorb: founded a school at Lough Eirce, where many famous paints were educated, and churches at Achaidh Durbchon (urce of the Lee), and Cluain (Queen's County); finally settled at Cork (Corcacb Mor), of which he became bishop; said to have visited Rome and Britain.
Saixt Finnchtj: '''Saixt Finnchtj''' ( ft. 7th cent.), baptised by Ailbe of Imlarb Ibair (Emly); abbot of Bangor (co. Down) till 608; helped the king of Mcatli to repel British pirates, and assisted the kings of Leinster and Munster in their wars; his day, 12 Nov.
Peter Finnerty: '''Peter Finnerty''' ([[1766]]?-[[1822]]), journalist: punished for political libel in his paper, the DublinPn-~; 1797, though defended by Curran; imprisoned for libel on Castlereagh in Morning Chronicle 1811.
Samuel Finney: '''Samuel Finney''' ([[1719]]-[[1798]]), miniature-painter to Queen Charlotte; his manuscript history of his family printed in Cheshire and Lancashire Historical Collector vol. i.
Saint Finnian: '''Saint Finnian''' (d. [[550]]), 'tutor of the saints of Ireland and chief of the second order of Irish saints; baptised by Saint Abban; stayed thirty years at St. David's (Cell Muine) in Wales, where he negotiated with the Saxon invaders; afterwards lived sixteen years at Aghowle (Achad Aball), Wicklow; founded many churches; established, c. 530, his great school at Clonard (Cluainiraird), Meath; his day, 12 Dec.
Saint Fintan: '''Saint Fintan''' (d, [[595]]), 'chief head- of the monks of Ireland: founded, c. 548, a monastery at Clonenagh (Cluaiu-ednech), Queen's County, with a very rigorous rule; his day, 17 Feb. Comgall said to have been his most famous pupil.
Fintan: '''Fintan''' or MUNNTT, SAINT (rf. [[634]]), founder of a monastery at Taghmon (Tech Munnu), co. Wexford; a leper for twenty-three years; opposed change in the rule of Easter at council of Magh Ailbe or Whitefield; said to be buried at Kilmun in Co wall, Scotland; his day, 21 Oct.

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Joseph Firbank: '''Joseph Firbank''' ( [[1819]]-[[1886]]), rail way contractor ; son of a Durham miner; constructed forty-nine lines, 1846-86; built Midland goods depot, St. Pancras; employed thirty years in South Wales.
Henry Firebrace: '''Henry Firebrace''' ([[1619]]-[[1691]]), royalist ; as page of the bedchamber and clerk of the kitchen attended Charles I throughout the rebellion, 1648; devised two plans for his escape from Carisbrooke Castle; reinstated after the Restoration.
Giles Firmer: '''Giles Firmer''' ([[1614]]-[[1697]]), ejected minister ; educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge: went to New England, 1632, and was ordained deacon of the first church at Boston: received grant of land at Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1638: shipwrecked off coast of Spain on return to England, c. 1647; vicar of Shalford, Essex, 1648, till ejection, 1662; his house at Ridgewell licensed for presbyterian worship, 1672; practised medicine both in America and England; published theological pamphlets.
Thomas Firmin: '''Thomas Firmin''' ([[1632]]-[[1697]]), philanthropist; girdler and mercer in Lombard Street; friend of Tillotson, John Biddle, and other divines; a governor of Christ's Hospital, 1673, and of St. Thomas's Hospital, 1693; established dep6t where corn and coal were sold to the poor at cost price; started hi 1676 a workhouse in Little Britain for employment of poor in linen manufacture, carrying it on at a loss till his death; also interested himself in debtorsprisons and French refugees; a walk named after him in Marden Park, Surrey.
Mark Firth: '''Mark Firth''' ([[1819]]-[[1880]]), founder of Firth College, Sheffield; carried on large steel works at Sheffield, Birmingham, and Whittington, by which British government was supplied; erected and endowed Raumoor almshouses, 1869; gave public park to Sheffield, opened, 1876; founded Firth College, 1879.
Johann Christian Fischer: '''Johann Christian Fischer''' ([[1733]]-[[1800]]), oboist and composer; after having been in the Dresden court band and that of Frederick the Great, settled in London. 1768: became musician to Queen Charlotte, 1780: married younger daughter of Gainsborough, who painted his portrait: published concertos and other works at Berlin and London.
John George Paul Fischer: '''John George Paul Fischer''' ([[1786]]-[[1875]]), painter; came to England from Hanover in 1810; painted miniatures for the court and nobility, including two of Queen Victoria (1819 and 1820) as an infant; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1817-52.
Simon Fish: '''Simon Fish''' (d. [[1531]]), theologian and pamphleteer : entered Gray's Inn, c. 1525; having incurred the displeasure of Wolsey fled to Holland; wrote there against
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Fisher: '''Fisher''' the clergy his Supplication of the Beggars circulated in London, 1529, and answered by Sir Thomas More It was printed in Foxe, 1546, and is one ofThe Four Supplications edited by Dr. Furuivall, 1871.
William Fish: '''William Fish''' ([[1775]]-[[1866]]), musician : organist of St. Andrew's, Norwich: published a sonata, some ballads, an oboe concerto, and pianoforte and harp music.
Fissakre Fishacre: '''Fissakre Fishacre''' , FISHAKLE, orFIZACEE,
Dk Richard: '''Dk Richard''' (d. [[1248]]), Dominican divine ; wrote commentaries on Peter Lombard's Sentences the manuscripts of which are at Oriel and Balliol Colleges, Oxford.
Cathbrinb Maria Fisher: '''Cathbrinb Maria Fisher''' , known as KITTY
Fishkr: '''Fishkr''' ' (d. [[1767]]), courtesan; afterwards wife of John Norris of Benenden: described under name of Kitty Willis in Mrs. Cowley's Belle's Stratagem; several times painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Daniel Fisher: '''Daniel Fisher''' ([[1731]]-[[1807]]), dissenting minister ; tutor at Homerton College from 1771. L, DAVID, the elder (17887-1858), actor and musician; appeared at Drury Lane in 1817 in Shakespearean roles; built several theatres in the eastern counties, and for some time led the Norwich choral concerts,
David Fisher: '''David Fisher''' , the younger ([[1816]] 7-[[1887]]), actor ; son of David Fisher the elder; played at the Princess's under Charles Kean, 1853-4; the original Abbe Latour in the Dead Heart at the Adelphi, 1859; final appearance in London, 1884, at the Lyceum, as Sir Toby Belch.
Edward Fisher: '''Edward Fisher''' (ft. [[1627]]-[[1655]]), theological writer; B.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1630; author of an ti- puritan tracts; identified by some with E. P., author of the Marrow of Modern Divinity 1645.
Edward Fisher: '''Edward Fisher''' ([[1730]]-[[1785]]7), mezzotint engraver; engraved over sixty plates of portraits, including several after Reynolds, and published ten after his own designs, 1776.
George Fisher: '''George Fisher''' ([[1794]]-[[1873]]), astronomer; M.A. St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1821, having previously acted as astronomer to the Polar expedition of 1818; chaplain and astronomer to Parry's north-west passage expedition, 1821-3: F.R.S., 1825; several times vicepresident of Astronomical Society; carried on magnetical experiments in Mediterranean, 1827-32; heatl-master of Greenwich Hospital school, 1834-60, and principal, 1860-3; erected observatory for the school; propounded theory of the nature and origin of the aurora borealis, 1834; published scientific papers.
James Fisher: '''James Fisher''' ([[1697]]-[[1775]]), a founder of the Scottish secession church; studied at Glasgow University; ordained minister of Kinclaven, Perthshire, 1725; joined his father-in-law, Ebenezer Erskine, in forming the associate presbytery and in compiling Fisher's 'Catechism 1753-60; made professor of divinity by associate burgher synod, 1749; brought out Fisher's Catechism in parts, 1753 and 1760.
Jasper Fisher: '''Jasper Fisher''' (fl. [[1639]]), divine and dramatist ; M.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1614: D.D., 1639; divinity reader at Magdalen College, Oxford: appointed rector of Wilsden, Bedfordshire, e. 1631; published a play, Fuimus Trees, the True Trojans 1633.
John Fisher: '''John Fisher''' ([[1459]]-[[1535]]), bishop of Rochester ; educated at Michaelhouse, Cambridge, of which he became master in 1497; M.A., 1491; senior proctor, 1494; vicechancellor, 1501; first Lady Margaret professor of divinity, 1503; chancellor of the university and bishop of Rochester, 1504; president of QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1505-8; took chief part in the foundation of Christ's, 1505, and St. John's colleges, 1511, acting for his patroness, Margaret, countess of Richmond; opposed in convocation Wolsey's subsidy, 1523; brought Erasmus to Cambridge; wrote three treatises against Luther, 1623-6; opposed church reform, 1529; fined for denying the validity of the divorce of Queen Catherine, 1534; committed to the Tower for refusing to swear to the Act of Succession; deprived, attainted, and beheaded, 1535, for refusing to acknowledge the king as supreme head of the church. His Latin theological works were issued in 1597; vol. i. of his collected English works appeared in 1876.
John Fisher: '''John Fisher''' ([[1569]]-[[1641]]), Jesuit (real name PKRCY); educated at the English colleges at Rbeims and Rome; admitted into society by Aquaviva: imprisoned in Bridewell on arrival in London, but escaped, 1695; sent by Garnet to the north; afterwards with Gerard in Northamptonshire and chaplain to Sir Everard Digby; imprisoned in the Gatehouse, 1610, and then banished; after some time in Belgium returned and again imprisoned; disputed with James I and Laud; pardoned on conclusion of Spanish marriage, but again imprisoned, 1634-5; published theological works.
John Fisher: '''John Fisher''' ([[1748]]-[[1826]]), bishop of Salisbury; educated at St. Paul's School and Peterhouse; M.A., 1773; fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1773; D.D. Cambridge, 1789; tutor to the duke of Kent, 1780-6, of the Princess Charlotte, 1805; bishop of Exeter, 1803; translated to Salisbury, 1807; published sermons,

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John Abraham Fisher: '''John Abraham Fisher''' ([[1744]]-[[1806]]), violinist: received musical degrees at Oxford, 1777; played at court and on the continent: expelled from Austria for illtreatment of his second wife, Anna Storace; retired to Ireland; composed violin pieces, six symphonies, songs, an anthem, and dramatic music. , SIR JOHN WILLIAM (1788-1876), surgeon; M.R.C.S., 1809; F.R.O.S., 1836; M.D. Erlangen, 1841; surgeon-in-chief to metropolitan police, 1829-65; knighted, 1858.
Jonathan Fisher: '''Jonathan Fisher''' (d. [[1812]]), landscape-painter ; studied art while a draper in Dublin; painted Irish scenes; employed in stamp office, Dublin.
Joseph Fisher: '''Joseph Fisher''' (d. [[1706]]), archdeacon of Carlisle; fellow of Queen's College, Oxford; M JL, 1682; archdeacon, 1702.
Maryo Fisher: '''Maryo Fisher''' I. [[1652]]-[[1697]]), Yorkshire quakeress (afterwards Bayley and Cross); imprisoned at Boston, Massachusetts, 1655; attempted to convert sultan Mahomet IV, at Adrianople, 1660; was living in South Carolina, 1697. ,, PAYNE (1616-1693), poet; of Hart Hall, Oxford, and Magdalene College, Cambridge; served in royalist army in Ireland, becoming captain; deserted at Marston Moor (1644); afterwards wrote Latin poems celebrating the exploits of Cromwell and his generals, and after the Restoration two English prose works on the tombs in London churches, 1668 and 1684.
Samuel Fisher: '''Samuel Fisher''' ([[1605]]-[[1665]]), quaker educated at Trinity College and New Inn Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1630; lecturer at Lydd till he joined the baptists, after which he went about disputing on baptism; became a quaker, 1664; with John Stubbs went to Rome and addressed the cardinals; several times imprisoned after his return; died of the plague; published tracts long in use among quakers.
Samuel Fisher: '''Samuel Fisher''' (fl. [[1692]]), puritan ; M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1640; ejected at the Restoration from Tborntou-in-the-Moors rectory, Cheshire.
Fisher: '''Fisher''' otherwise HAWKINS, THOMAS (d. [[1677]]), a protigi of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland; afterwards secretary to the Duke of Somerset; obtained grant of estate of St. Sepulchre's Priory, Warwick; M.P. for Warwick, 1554-8; wrongly identified with John Fisher (compiler of Black Book of Warwick).
Thomas Fisher: '''Thomas Fisher''' ([[1781]] 7-[[1836]]), antiquary; fortysix years in the India House; F.S.A., 1836; published Collections, Historical, Genealogical, and Topographical, for Bedfordshire 1812-16, also lithographic plates of, eastern and other inscribed monument*.
William Fisher: '''William Fisher''' ([[1780]]-[[1852]]), rear-admiral; served against Villeneuve, 1805; surveyed the Mozambique in the Racehorse, 1809-10; captured slavers and pirates off Guinea coast, 1816-17; senior officer of the Alexandria detached squadron, 1840.
William Webster Fisher: '''William Webster Fisher''' ([[1798]]7-[[1874]]), Downing professor of medicine at Cambridge, 1841-74; fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, 1834-41; MJX, Montpellier, 1825, Cambridge, 1841. FF2
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An Fitzat: '''An Fitzat'''
William Fisk: '''William Fisk''' ([[1796]]-[[1872]]), painter ; exhibited at the Academy, the British Institution, and Suffolk Street Gallery: his historical pictures chiefly remarkable for their fidelity.
William Henry Fisk: '''William Henry Fisk''' ([[1827]]-[[1884]]), painter and drawing-master; son of William Fisk; exhibited landscapes in London and Paris; anatomical draughtsman to College of Surgeons; very successful as art teacher at University College School, London, and lecturer,
William Fisken: '''William Fisken''' (d. [[1883]]), presbyterian minister of the secession church; with his brother Thomas invented the steam plough, the steam tackle (patented 1885), and other machines.
Ralph Fitch: '''Ralph Fitch''' (fl. [[1583]]-[[1606]]), traveller in India ; one of the first Englishmen who made the overland route to India; left London with other Levant merchants, 1583, and travelled down the Euphrates valley by caravan and boat: imprisoned by Portuguese at Ormuz and Goa, 1583; escaped across Deccan and visited court of the Great Mogul (Akbar); thence sailed down the Jumna and the Gauges; first Englishman to visit Burmah and Siam, 1586-7; returned by the Malabar coast and Euphrates valley, reaching London, 1591; his narrative in Hakluyt.
Thomas Fitch: '''Thomas Fitch''' (d. [[1517]]).
William Fitch: '''William Fitch''' ([[1563]]-[[1611]]). See CAXFIELD,
Benedict: '''Benedict'''
William Stevenson Fitch: '''William Stevenson Fitch''' ([[1793]]-[[1859]]), antiquary; postmaster of Ipswich; made collections for a history of Suffolk.
John Fitchett: '''John Fitchett''' ([[1776]]-[[1838]]), poet ; a Warrington attorney: left, besides * Minor Poems (printed 1836), an unfinished romantic epic,King Alfred completed by Robert Roscoe, and published, 1841-2.
James Fittler: '''James Fittler''' ([[1758]]-[[1835]]), engraver; A.R.A., 1800; marine engraver to George III. His works include 'Titian's Schoolmaster* (Moroni), Velasquez's Innocent X,: and the plates for Forster's British Gallery
Sir Alexander Fitton: '''Sir Alexander Fitton''' (d. [[1698]]), lord chancellor of Ireland; barrister, Inner Temple, 1662; lost Gawsworth estates by litigation with Lord Gerard of Brandon; made chancellor by James II, 1687, after whose abdication he was attainted and fled to France; died at St. Germains.
Sib Edward Fitton: '''Sib Edward Fitton''' , the elder ([[1527]]-[[1679]]), lord president of Connaught, 1569-72; vice-treasurer of Ireland, 1573; imprisoned Clanricarde, 1572, and carried on war with the Burkes; escorted Kildare and his sons to England, 1575.
Sir Ed Ward Fitton: '''Sir Ed Ward Fitton''' , the younger ([[1548]] ?-[[1606]]), son ot Sir Edward Fitton; grantee of part of the Desmond estates.

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Mary Fitton: '''Mary Fitton''' (fl. [[1600]]), maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth; daughter of Sir Edward Fitton the younger ; most doubtfully identified with the dark lady of Shakespeare's sonnets; mistress of William Herbert, third earl of Pembroke; married Captain W. Polwhele, 1607, and Captain Lougher.
Michael Fitton: '''Michael Fitton''' ([[1766]]-[[1852]]), naval lieutenant; midshipman at relief of Gibraltar, 1782; as commander of Abergavenny tender performed many daring exploite; promoted after attack on Curacao, 1804; captured forty French privateers, including the Superbe, 1806; admitted into Greenwich Hospital, 1835.
William Henry Fitton: '''William Henry Fitton''' ([[1780]]-[[1861]]), geologist ; B.A. Dublin, 1799; studied geology under Jameson at Edinburgh; afterwards practised as physician at Northampton; M.D. Cambridge, 1816; after marriage removed to London and devoted himself to geology: several years secretary of Geological Society; president, 1828; F.R.S., 1815; Wollaston medallist, 1852; published scientific pamphlets and laid down proper succession of strata between oolite and chalk, 1824-36.
Fitzailw: '''Fitzailw''' rN, HENRY (d. [[1212]]), first mayor of London; appointed probably between 1191 and 1193, and possibly as early as 1189: presided over a meeting of citizens in 1212 after the great fire, and probably held office till his death.
Bertram Fitzalan: '''Bertram Fitzalan''' (d. [[1424]]), Carmelite of Lincoln, where he founded a library; left theological manuscripts,
Brian Fitzalan: '''Brian Fitzalan''' , LORD OF BEDALE (d. [[1306]]), warden of Castles Forfar, Dundee, Roxburgh, and Jedburgh, 1290; a guardian of Scotland during interregnum, 1292 and 1297: served against Welsh, 1294, and agaiii-a Scots, 1299 and 1303; summoned to English parliament, 1295.
Edmund Fitzalan: '''Edmund Fitzalan''' , EARL OF ARUNDEL ([[1285]]1326), sou of Richard I Fitzalan, carl of Arundel: served against Scots, 1306-7; refused to attend council at York, 1309; one of the lords ordaiuers, 1310; joined Lancaster against Gaveston, and (1314) refused to accompany Edward II to Stirling; captain-general north of Trent, 1316; member of council of barons, 1318; joined the king, 1321; one of Lancaster's judges, justice of Wales, and warden of the Welsh marches; finally captured and executed by Queen Isabella and Mortimer.
Henry Fitzalan: '''Henry Fitzalan''' , twelfth EARL OF AHUXDEL (1511?-1580), godson of Henry VIII, whom he accompanied to France, 1532; lord-deputy of Calais, 1540-3; K.G., 1544; stormed Boulogne, 1544; created lord chamberlain on his return to England; retained office under Edward VI; member of council; joined Warwick against Somerset, but was removed by former from council; next allied himself with Somerset, on whose fall he was imprisoned and fined; secret partisan of Mary, for whom he raised the city against Northumberland, and then captured the latter; lord steward of the household and member of the council, 1553; one of the English commissioners to mediate between France and the emperor, 1555; lieutenant-general and captain of the forces, 1557; lord steward and privy councillor at accession of Elizabeth; chancellor of Oxford university, 1559; resigned lord stewardship, 1564, and went out of favour; headed the catholic party, whose object was to depose Elizabeth in favour of Mary Stuart and the Duke of Norfolk; restrained to his own houses, 1569; restored to council by influence of Leicester, 1570; opposed the Alenoii match; again imprisoned after Ridolfi plot, 1571-2. His portrait was painted by Holbein. (.xix. 88
John Ii Fitzalan: '''John Ii Fitzalan''' , LORD OF OSWESTRY, CLUK,
Arundel And: '''Arundel And''' ([[1223]]-[[1267]]), at first fought with the barons against Henry III (1258-61), but afterwards led royal troops against the baronial partisan, Llewelyn of Wales, 1258 and 12GO; finally joined the party of Prince Ed ward; captured by the barons at Lewes, 1264.
John Vi Fitzalan: '''John Vi Fitzalan''' , EARL OF ARUNDEL ([[1408]]1435), summoned to parliament as a baron, 1429; recognised as earl, 1435 (the title having been contested by the Mowbrays); distinguished himself as a soldier in France; captain of Rouen Castle, 1432; Duke of Touraiue and K.G.; wounded and captured at Gouruay; died at Beauvais.
Richard Fitzalan: '''Richard Fitzalan''' I, EARL OF ARUNDEL ([[1267]]1302), grandson of John II Fitzalan, lord of Oswestry ; served against Welsh and Scots and in Gascony; signed the letter to the pope from Lincoln, 1301.
Richard Ii Fitzalan: '''Richard Ii Fitzalan''' , EARL OF ARUNDEL AND
Warenne: '''Warenne''' ([[1307]] ?-[[1376]]), son of Edmund Fitzalan, earl of Arundel; married a daughter of Hugh le Despenser; restored to his estates after fall of Mortimer, 1330; justice of North Wales for life, 1334; commander of English army in north, 1337; as admiral of the ships at Portsmouth distinguished himself at Sluys, 1340; joint warden of Scottish marches; joint lieutenant of Aquitaine, 1344; admiral of the west, 1345-7; commanded division at Crecy, 1346, and took part in siege of Calais; at naval action with Spanish off Winchelsea, 1350; one of the regents, 1355; much employed in diplomatic missions by Edward III, to whom he also lent large sums.
Richard Iii Fitzalan: '''Richard Iii Fitzalan''' , EARL OF ARUNDEL AND
Surrey: '''Surrey''' ([[1346]]-[[1397]]), son of Richard Fitzalan II, earl of Arundel; one of the council appointed hy the Good parliament: member of council of regency, 1 380; admiral of the west, 1377; joint governor ot Richard II, 1381: joined reforming party under Gloucester, 1386; won a naval victory over the French, Spanish, and Flemings off Margate, 1387; took leading part in the opposition to Richard II
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Fitzgerald: '''Fitzgerald''' after his own attempted arrest, 11587; one of the lonlappellant, 13H8; removed from the council and admiralty, j but soon restored; quarrelled with John of Gaunt; im- I pri.-onwl; after his release conspired with Gloucester and Varwirk and was executed on Tower Hill; his tomb in I the Auguxtinian church for many years an object of pilgrimage,
Fitzalan: '''Fitzalan''' nlinx Anrni:i., THOMAS ([[1353]]-[[1414]]).
Thomas Iitzalan: '''Thomas Iitzalan''' , EARL OF ARUNDKL AND
Surrky: '''Surrky''' ([[1381]]-[[1415]]), son of Richard III Fitealan ; escaped from custody of his half-brother to the continent, where he joined his uncle the archbishop; with him i accompanied Henry of Lancaster to England, 1399; I created by Henry IV one of the first knights of the Bath,; and restored to his titles and estates; defeated and captured Exeter and Insurgent nobles; procured execution of Scrope and Mowbray, 1405; joined.party of the Beauforte: one of the commanders of the English expedition to help Burgundy, 1411: made lord treasurer and warden of the Cinque ports by Henry V, 1413; took part in siege of Harfleur, 1415; died of dysentery.
William Fitzalan: '''William Fitzalan''' (d. [[1160]]), rebel: defended Shrewsbury Castle against Stephen, 1138, and afterwards joined the army of the Empress Matilda and her son, who restored him his fiefs. His younger brother Walter {d. 1177) was ancestor of the house of Stuart.
William Fitzaldhelm: '''William Fitzaldhelm''' (fl. [[1157]]-[[1198]]), steward of Henry II and governor of Ireland; one of the royal justices, c. 1165; acted as Henry II's representative before he came to Ireland; succeeded Strougbow as justiciar in Ireland, 1176-8; sheriff of Cumberland and justice in Yorkshire and Northumberland, 1189; wrongly identified with William de Burgh (d. 1204)
Henry Fitzalwyn: '''Henry Fitzalwyn''' (d. [[1212]]). See FITZ
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Edward Fitzball: '''Edward Fitzball''' ([[1792]]-[[1873]]), dramatist; apprenticed as printer at Norwich, 1809-12; attempted dramatic writing with some success, and adopted profession of dramatist, c. 1819, and subsequently produced numerous melodramas and other pieces, among the most successful of which werePeveril of the Peak 1823, Waverley 1824,The Pilot 1825,Jonathan Bradford 1833, andNitocris 1855; wrote also many romances, librettos, and songs, including The Bloom is on the Rye 1831; publishedThirty-five Years of a Dramatic Author's Life 1859. F1TZCHARLES, CHARLES, EARL OF PLYMOUTH (1657 7-1680), natural son of Charles II by Catherine Pegge.
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence: '''Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence''' ([[1802]]-[[1866]]), rear-admiral; younger son of William IV by Mrs. Jordan; entered navy, 1814; commanded royal yacht, 1830-53, when he attained flag-rank.
George Augustus Fre Fitzclarence: '''George Augustus Fre Fitzclarence''' -
Derick: '''Derick''' first EARL OP MUNSTER ([[1794]]-[[1842]]), majorgeneral; eldest son of William IV by Mrs. Jordan: served in Spain at age of fifteen; wounded and captured at Fuentes d'Onoro, 1811; escaped; severely wounded ut Toulouse, 1814; aide-de-camp to Marquis Hastings in Mahratta war, 1816-17; sent home overland with news of peace, 1817; created a peer, 1831; lieutenant of the Tower; supposed to have influenced his father against reform; committed suicide. He did much to promote oriental studies, being some time president of the Asiatic Society, and published fragments of military history.
Brian Fitzcotjnt: '''Brian Fitzcotjnt''' (. [[1125]]-[[1142]]), warrior and author; brought up and knighted by Henry. I; one of the chief supporters of the Empress Matilda, in defence of whose right to the crown he wrote a treatise; thrice besieged by Stephen in his castle of Wallingford.
Charles Fitzgeffrey: '''Charles Fitzgeffrey''' ([[1675]] ?-[[1638]]), poet and divine; M.A. Broadgates Hall, Oxford, 1600; incumbent of St. Dominic, Eastwei: shire; published a poem on Drake, 1596, andThe Blessed Birthday 1634 (reprinted by Grosart), and a volume of Latin epitaphs and epigrams; mentioned in Palladis Tamia 1598, and quoted in England's Parnassus 1000.
Henry Fitzgeffrey: '''Henry Fitzgeffrey''' (fl. [[1617]]), author ; perhaps a son of Charles Fitzgeffrey; published satires ami epigrams, 1617 (twelve copies reprinted at Beldornie Mb, 1843).
David Fitzgerald: '''David Fitzgerald''' .
Lord Edward Fitzgerald: '''Lord Edward Fitzgerald''' ([[1763]]-[[1798]]), Irish rebel; son of James Fitzgerald, first duke of Leinster ; served in the American war and was wounded at Eutaw Springs, 1781; M.P. in the Irish parliament for Athy and Kildare; as major of the 54th, got Cobbett bis discharge; travelled in America, and was admitted to the Bear tribe of Indiana; cashiered for attending revolutionary banquet at Paris, 1792, in which year he married Pamela; returned to Ireland, and began to take an active part in politics; joined United Irishmen, 1796, and with Arthur O'Connor, went to Basle to negotiate with Hoche: declined to re-enter parliament; headed military committee to co-operate with French invaders; while being arrested, was wounded by Major Henry Charles Sirr : died of his wounds.
Ed Ward Fitzgerald: '''Ed Ward Fitzgerald''' ([[1770]] 7-[[1807]]), Irish insurgent; released from Wexford gaol by mob; held commands during rebellion of 1798; surrendered to Wilford; imprisoned in Dublin; after living in England, rearrested, 1800; died at Hamburg.
Edward Fitzgerald: '''Edward Fitzgerald''' ([[1809]]-[[1883]]), poet and translator; educated at Bury St. Edmunds and Trinity College, Cambridge; graduated, 1K30; lived a retired life in Suffolk; friend of Carlyle, Thackeray, Speddlng, and the Tennysons. His chief work was an English poetic version (from the Persian) of theRnbaiyat of Omar Khayyam (anon., 1859). He also published anonymously a life of Bernard Barton, prefixed to Barton's collected poems (1849),Euphranor(1851),Polonius(1852), English versions of the Agamemnon and of two plays of Sophocles, and selections from Crabbe; and under his own name,Six Dramas of Calderon freely translated (1853).
Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald: '''Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald''' , ' the Fair Geraldlne(15287-1589), youngest daughter of Gerald Fitzgerald, ninth earl of Kildare; in the household of Princess Mary, afterwards of Queen Catherine Howard; was twice married, first, at fifteen, to Sir Anthony Browne, and, secondly, to Edward Fiennes de Clinton, earl of Lincoln; celebrated in verse by Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, Michael Drayton, and Sir Walter Scott.
George Fitzgerald: '''George Fitzgerald''' , sixteenth EARL OF KIL-
Dare: '''Dare''' ([[1611]]-[[1660]]), rebuilt ancestral castle of Maynooth ; befriended Shirley, the dramatist, when in Dublin; governor of co. Kildare, 1641; governor of Dublin for the parliament, 1647.
George Robert Fitzgerald: '''George Robert Fitzgerald''' ([[1748]]7-[[1786]]), Fighting Fitzgerald; notorious for his duels, gallantries, and extravagances; married, against her parentswishes, a daughter of Thomas Conolly; took part in volunteer movement; quarrelled with his family; executed for murder of Patrick M'Donnell.
Gerald Fitzgerald: '''Gerald Fitzgerald''' , LORD OF OFFALY (d. 1204), son of Maurice Fitzgerald (d. 1176), often known as Fitzmaurice; distinguished himself as an opponent of Roderic O'Connor, 1171; received property in Kildare from Strongbow, and built Mayuooth; ancestor of the Earls of Kidare.
Gerald Fitzgerald: '''Gerald Fitzgerald''' , fourth (properly third)
of Desmond Earl: '''of Desmond Earl''' (d. [[1398]]), justiciar of Ireland, 13b7-9 son of Maurice Fitzthomas, first earl of Desmond; generally styled Gerald Fitzmaurice: granted by Mward III the lands of his deceased elder brother Maurice, on condition of marrying the Earl of Ormonde's daughter; as justiciar of Ireland, 1367-9, carried on policy of amalgamation with natives; defeated and captured by Bnec O'Brien, 1369; upheld the king's authority in Minister.
Gerald Fitzgerald: '''Gerald Fitzgerald''' , eighth (' the great '). EARL F KILDARK (d. 1513), son of Thomas Fitzgerald, seventh earl; nominated deputy-governor in Ireland by the council at Dublin, 1477, and held office in opposition to a nominee of Edward IV; afterwards deputy for Richard, duke of York, and his son, Prince Edward; pardoned by Henry VII, and continued in office; attainted
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Fitzgerald: '''Fitzgerald''' and imprisoned in the Tower as a partisan of Warbeck, 1494; reappointed deputy of Ireland, 1496; died of a wound received in battle with a Leinster sept.
Gerald Fitzgerald: '''Gerald Fitzgerald''' , ninth EARL OP KILDARE (1487-1534), son of Gerald Fitzgerald, eighth earl; educated in England; appointed lord high treasurer on hia return to Ireland, 1504; lord justice and lord deputy, 1513; gained great successes against the Irish; charged with maladministration at instance of Ormonde, and removed, 1520; reappointed, 1524; again removed, being charged with treason by Ossory (Ormonde) and imprisoned in the Tower, 1526; returned to Ireland with Skefflngton, whom he displaced as deputy, 1632; wounded at siege of Birr Oastle, 1533; again summoned to England, and died prisoner in the Tower.
Gerald Fitzgerald: '''Gerald Fitzgerald''' , fifteenth EARL OP DES-
Mond: '''Mond''' (d. [[1583]]), son of James (Fitzjohn) Fitzgerald, fourteenth earl; summoned to England on account of a quarrel with Thomas Butler, tenth earl of Ormonde , and confined, 1662 allowed to return to Ireland, 1564; again summoned to England on account of fresh feud with Ormonde, and bound over next year; again imprisoned, for refusing to accept Sir H. Sidney's award in favour of Ormonde, 1567-73; rearrested after return to Ireland: escaped; carried on war in Munster and was outlawed; submitted, but after temporising, again rebelled, 1579; after four yearsfighting was captured and killed at Glanaginty.
Gerald Fitzgerald: '''Gerald Fitzgerald''' , eleventh EARL OP KIL-

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Dare: '''Dare''' ([[1525]]-[[1585]]), son of Gerald Fitzgerald, ninth earl ; educated in France and at Rome; served with knights of Rhodes against Moors and with Cosimo de Medici; restored to his estates by Edward VI, and to earldom by Mary; warred against the- Irish and Spanisli invaders; committed to the Tower on suspicion of treason, 1582; allowed to return to Ireland, 1584; died in London.
Gerald Fitzgerald: '''Gerald Fitzgerald''' (FITZMAURICE), BARON OP
Oppaly: '''Oppaly''' ([[1265]] ?-[[1287]] ?), son of ,Maurice Fitzgerald (d. 1268); attacked by the native Irish of his barony, 1285.
Henry Vesey Fitzgerald: '''Henry Vesey Fitzgerald''' (d. [[1860]]), dean of Emly (1818-26) and dean of Kilmore (1826-60 ); son of James Fitzgerald (1742-1835)
James Fitzgerald: '''James Fitzgerald''' (FrrzjOHN), fourteenth EARL OP DBSMOND (d. 1558), second son of ir John Desmond; assumed title on death of his grandfather, John Fitztbomas (1536), and allied himself with the rebel O'Brien of Thomond; four years later submitted to lord deputy St. Leger; received by Henry VIII, who acknowledged his title, 1542 created lord treasurer of Ireland by Edward VI, and continual in office by Mary, though arrested for treason; did much to pacify Munster.
James Fitzgerald: '''James Fitzgerald''' (FITZMAURICE), thirteenth
Op Desmond Earl: '''Op Desmond Earl''' (d. [[1640]]); waylaid and slain near Cork by Sir Maurice of Desmond.
James Fitzgerald: '''James Fitzgerald''' (FITZMAURICE) (d. [[1579]]), arch-traitor; assumed the position of captain of Desmond and rebelled against the English government; submitted to Sir John Perrot, 1573; on return of Desmond (1575), retired to France and saw Catherine deMedici; visited Spain and Italy; concerted with Pope Gregory XIII and Stukely plan for invasion of Ireland; sailed from Spain with first body of invaders, 1579; killed in a skirmish, soon after landing, by his cousin, Theobald Burke.
James Fitzgerald: '''James Fitzgerald''' , 'the Tower Earl' or 'the Queen's Earl of Desmond(1570 ?-1601), son of Gerald Fitzgerald, fifteenth earl of Desmond, by his second wife; delivered by his mother to the Irish government on rebellion of his father, 1579; removed to Tower of London and imprisoned there sixteen years; released in 1600 and taken to Munster to bring back the Geraldines to their allegiance; failed, and returned to London, where he died.
James Fitzgerald: '''James Fitzgerald''' (FITZTHOMAS), the SUOAN
of Dbsmond Earl: '''of Dbsmond Earl''' (d. [[1608]]), assumed the title of earl in 1598, and for three years carried on war in Munster; captared in a cave near Mitchel*town by the White knight, Edmund Fitzgibbon: removed to England and imprisoned in the Tower, where he died insane.
Fitzgerald: '''Fitzgerald''' .JAMES, first DUKK OF LI:IXSTKR (1722-1773), M.R for Athy in Irish parliament (as Lord Offaly), 1741; succeeded as twentieth Earl of Kildare, 1744; created Viscount Leinsterin English peerage, 1747: procured recall of Duke of Dorset from Ireland, 1754; himself appointed lord deputy, 1756; created Earl ot Offaly and Marquis of Kildare in Irish peerage, and Duke of Leinster, 1761-6.
James Fitzgerald: '''James Fitzgerald''' ([[1742]]-[[1835]]), Irish politician ; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; called to Irish bar, 1769; had a large practice, and became prime serjeant, 1787; entered Irish parliament for Ennis, 1772; represented co. Kildare in last Irish parliament; distinguished himself as an orator and was dismissed for his speeches against the union; M.P. for Ennis in imperial parliament, 1802-8 and 1812-13; refused a peerage; his wife created Baroness Fitzgerald, 1826.
James Edward Fitzgerald: '''James Edward Fitzgerald''' ([[1818]]-[[1896]]), prime minister in New Zealand; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1842; under-secretary of British Museum, 1849: accompanied to New Zealand, 1850, Edward Gibbon Wakefield and John Robert Godley , and pioneers of Canterbury settlement; first superintendent of province of Canterbury and member for Lyttelton in first New Zealand parliament, 1853; prime minister, 1854; founded * Press newspaper, 1861; controller-general, 1866; commissioner of audit, 1872; controller and auditor-general, 1878.
John Fitzgerald: '''John Fitzgerald''' , first EARL OF KILDARE. See
John Fitzthomas: '''John Fitzthomas''' , d. [[1316]].
Sir John Fitzgerald: '''Sir John Fitzgerald''' , of Desmond (d. [[1581]]), Irish rebel; brother of Gerald Fitzgerald, fifteenth earl of Desmond; for some time chief of the Irish rebels; hanged at Cork.
John David Fitzgerald: '''John David Fitzgerald''' , LORD FITZGERALD (1816-1889), Irish judge; studied at King's Inns, Dublin, and Gray's Inn; called to Irish bar, 1838; joined Munster circuit; Q.O., 1847; liberal M.P. for Ennis, 1852; solicitor-general for Ireland and bencher of King's Inns, 1855; attorney-general, 1856-8 and 1859; Irish privy councillor, 1856; introduced and passed bill for establishing court of chancery appeal in Ireland, 1856; justice of queen's bench, in Ireland, 1860-82; appointed lord of appeal with life peerage, and English privy councillor. 1882; honorary bencher of Gray's Inn, 1883; honorary LL.D. Dublin, 1870.
John Fitzgerald: '''John Fitzgerald''' (FITZKDMUND) (rf. [[1589]]), seneschal of Imokilly; joined the rebellion of James (Fitzmaurice) Fitzgerald,the arch-traitor 15691573, after whose death he became the virtual head of the second rising; submitted, 1583; arrested four years later; died in Dublin Castle.
Sir John Fitzgerald: '''Sir John Fitzgerald''' (FITZEDMUND) ([[1528]]1612), dean of Cloyne; granted an annuity for his support of government; knighted, and made dean of Oloyne, though a layman.
Sir John Forster Fitzgerald: '''Sir John Forster Fitzgerald''' ([[1784]] ?-[[1877]]), field-marshal; ensign, 1793; distinguished himself whilo serving with 60th foot at siege of Badajos, 1812; while commanding brigade in the Pyrenees was captured, but exchanged; created O.B. for services in Peninsula; afterwards held commands in Canada and India; majorgeneral, 1830; K.C.B., 1831; lieutenant-general, 1841, general, 1854, G.O.B., 1862, field-marshal, 1875; M.P. for co. Clare, 1862-7; died at Tours, the oldest officer in the service.
Katherine Fitzgerald: '''Katherine Fitzgerald''' , the 'old' COUNTESS OF DESMOND (1500 ?-1604); second wife of Thomas, twelfth earl; said to have lived to the age of 140 (probably a mistake for 104).
Maurice Fitzgerald: '''Maurice Fitzgerald''' (d. [[1176]]), an English conqueror of Ireland; brother of David II, bishop of St. David's; went to Ireland, 1169, and commanded the English contingent in the expedition of Dermot against Dublin; led the great sally from the city, 1171; received grant of property in Kildare; died at Wexford, where his ruined monument was seen several hundred years later.
Fitzgerald: '''Fitzgerald'''
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Maurice Fitzgerald: '''Maurice Fitzgerald''' (d. [[1268]]), nephew of Maurice Fitzmaur'Kv Fit-nil'l; inherited barony of Offaly; drowned In the Irish Channel.
Mauriob Ii Fitzgerald: '''Mauriob Ii Fitzgerald''' , BARON op OFKALY (1194?- 1257), justiciar of Ireland; sun of Gerald Fitzt.-nild, lonl of Offaly; appointed justiciar, 1232; d.Luted and captured Richard, the earl marshal, 1234, whom he was suspected to have poisoned: carried ou ware in Connaught and Ulster: resigned office, 1245, but was deputy to his successor, and helped him in his wars.
Maurice Fit Fitzgerald: '''Maurice Fit Fitzgerald''' MAURICE ([[1238]]?1277 V), judticiar of Ireland: son of Maurice Fitzgerald, baron of Offaly (1194 ?-1257); was granted (1259) Athlone Castle and the shrievalty of Connaught: justiciar of Ireland, 1272-3; captured O'Brien, king of Thoniond, 1277.
Maurice Fitzgerald: '''Maurice Fitzgerald''' , first EARL OF DESMOND (d. 1356).
Maurice Fitzgerald: '''Maurice Fitzgerald''' , fourth EARL OPKILDARK (1318-1390), justiciar of Ireland: youngest son of Thomas Kittferald, second earl; generally known as Maurice Fitzthomas; opposed the Anglicising policy of Ralph D'Ufford; present with Edward III at siege and capture of Calais, 1347; justiciar, 1356-7, 1361, 1371, and 1376, and several times deputy.
Maurice Fitzgerald: '''Maurice Fitzgerald''' , knight of Kerry ([[1774]]1849), Irish statesman; represented co. Kerry for thirtyseven years in the Irish and imperial parliaments; commissioner of customs in Ireland, 1799-1802; a lord of the treasury in England, 1827; vice-treasurer of Ireland, 1830; unable to regain his seat for Kerry after Reform Act; friend of Wellington and Castlereagh..
Pamela Fitzgerald: '''Pamela Fitzgerald''' ([[1776]] ?-[[1831]]), wife of Lord Edward Fitzgerald; described in her marriage contract as of Newfoundland parentage, but popularly suppose! to be a daughter of Madame de Genlis, by Philip, duke of Orleans, in whose family she was brought up, although she was never recognised; came to England in 1791 and met Sheridan; was seen by Fitzgerald next year at Paris, and married to him at Tournay; accompanied him to Ireland; visited him during his imprisonment; after leaving Ireland, married a second time, but retained name of Fitzgerald; died in Paris,
Sir Peter George Fitzgerald: '''Sir Peter George Fitzgerald''' ([[1808]]-[[1880]]), nineteenth knight of Kerry: son of Maurice Fitzgerald (1774-1849); vice-treasurer of Ireland in Sir Robert Peel's administration, 1841-6; created baronet, 1880.
Raymond Fitzgerald: '''Raymond Fitzgerald''' , 'Le Gros' (d. [[1182]]?), nephe%v of Maurice Fitzgerald (d. 1176); landed in Ireland as Strongbow's representative, 1170; took chief part in capture of Waterford, and led centre in Dublin expedition, 1170: returned with Strongbow to Ireland, but soon retired to Wales; came to his relief when besieged in Waterford, 1174, and married his sister; defeated Donald O'Brien, 1176, and ruled Ireland till the arrival of Fitzaldhelm; reduced Cork.
Thomas Fitzgerald: '''Thomas Fitzgerald''' , second EARL OF KILDARE (d. 1328), justiciar of Ireland: son of John Fitzthomas, first earl; married Joan, daughter of Richard de Burgh, earl of Ulster; led a great army against Edward Bruce, 1316; justiciar, 1320 and 1327; a partisan of Roger Mortimer.
Thomas Fitzgerald: '''Thomas Fitzgerald''' , eighth EARL OP DESMOND (1426 ?-1468), lord deputy of Ireland, 146S-7: superseded, 1467, and attainted on charge of alliance with Irish j executed at Drogheda.
Thomas Fitzgerald: '''Thomas Fitzgerald''' , seventh EARLOFKILDARK (d. 1477), lord deputy of Ireland, 1455-9, for Richard, duke of York, and 1461-2 for Clarence: lonl chancellor of Ireland, 1463: attainted in 1467, but respited and restored; again deputy for Clarence, 1468-75.
Thomas Fitzgerald: '''Thomas Fitzgerald''' , BARON OFFALY and tenth
of Kii Earl: '''of Kii Earl''' .DAHB ([[1513]]-[[1537]]), son of Gerald Fitzgerald, ninth earl: appointed deputy -governor of Ireland, 1534, but renounced his allegiance and slew Archbishop Allen; submitted to Lord Leonard Grey, 1535; executed at Tyburn with his five uncles.
Sir Thomas Judkix Fitzgerald: '''Sir Thomas Judkix Fitzgerald''' (rf. [[1810]]).
William Fitzgerald: '''William Fitzgerald''' ([[1814]]-[[1883]]), bishop of Killaloe; graduated at Trinity College, Dublin; B.A. 1836; D.D., 1853; professor of moral philosophy in the university, 1847-52, and of ecclesiastical history, 1852-7: archdeacon of Kildare, 1855: bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, 1857-62; translated to Killaloe, 1862; edited Butler's Analogy of Religion and publi-h.-d numerous other works.
William Robert Fitzgerald: '''William Robert Fitzgerald''' , second DOKK OF LKIXSTKK (1749-1K04), son of James Fitzgerald, first duke; M.P. for Dublin in Irish parliament, 1769-73; colonel of the Dublin regiment of volunteers; the first K.P., 1783; master of the rolls in Ireland, 1788; mad.; great efforts to save bis brother, Lord Edward Fitzgerald ; supported the union.
Sir William Robert Seymour Fitzgerald: '''Sir William Robert Seymour Fitzgerald'''
Vesey: '''Vesey''' ([[1818]]-[[1885]]), governor of Bombay; MJL Oriel College, Oxford, 1844; Newdigate prizeman, 1835; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1839; M.P., Horsham, 1852-85; under-secretary for foreign affairs, 1868-9; hon. D.O.L. Oxford, 1863; governor of Bombay, 1867-72; on his return to England was again M.P. for Horsbam; became chief charity commissioner, 1875.
William Thomas Fitzgerald: '''William Thomas Fitzgerald''' ([[1759]]?-[[1829]]), versifier; clerk in navy pay office; author of patriotic effusions; parodied in Rejected Addresses
William Vesey Fitzgerald: '''William Vesey Fitzgerald''' , BARON FITZ-
And Vesey Gerald: '''And Vesey Gerald''' ([[1783]]-[[1843]]), statesman ; sou of Right Hon. James Fitzgerald (1742-1835); M.P.,Ennis, 1808; Irish privy councillor and lord of treasury, 1810; English privy councillor, 1812; chancellor of Irish exchequer, 1812-16; M.P., co. Clare, 1818; envoy to Sweden, 1820-3; paymaster-general, 1826; president of board of trade, 1828; defeated by O'Connell for Clare; elected for Cornish boroughs, 1829 and 1830; M.P., Ennis, 1831-2; succeeded to his mother's peerage, 1832; created an English peer by Peel, 1835; president of board of control, 1841-3.
Edmund Fitzgibbon: '''Edmund Fitzgibbon''' (FiTZJOHN) ([[1552]] ?-[[1608]]), theWhite Knight probably implicated in O'Neill's rebellion, though sheriff of Cork at the time; captured the Sugan Earl (James Fitzthomas Fitzgerald, d. 1608) , and (1604) was created by James I Baron of Clangibbon; this creation, and the intended restoration of his estates (of which he had been deprived by bis father's attainder) did not take effect, since no parliament assembled before his death.
Edward Fitzgibbon: '''Edward Fitzgibbon''' ([[1803]]-[[1867]]), writer under the name Ephemera; after living six years in France wrote in England for theMorning ChronicleandBell's Life; published a goodHandbook of Angling 1847, andThe Book of the Salmon (with A. Young), 1850; editedThe Compleat Angler 1853.
Gerald Fitzgibbon: '''Gerald Fitzgibbon''' ([[1793]]-[[1882]]), lawyer and author; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1832; called to the Irish bar, 1830; Q.C., 1841; defended Dr. Gray in the state trials of 1844, when he ref used a challenge sent him by the attorney -general; appointed receiver-master in chancery, 1860; published works, including Ireland in 1868, the Battlefield for English Party Strife and a pamphlet advocating a conditional fixity of tenure in Irish land, 1869.

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John Fitzgibbon: '''John Fitzgibbon''' , EARL ov CLARK ([[1749]]-[[1802]]), lord chancellor of Ireland; distinguished himself at Trinity College, Dublin; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1770; called to the Irish bar, 1772; obtained a large practice, and (1783) became attorney-general: represented Dublin University as a moderate nationalist, 17* 1783, after which he sat for Kilmallock: fought a duel with Curran, in consequence of a speech in support of the commercial treaty with England, 1785: began hi* policy of repression with the Whiteboy Act, 1787: made powerful speeches in support of Pitt's regency proposals, 1789 lord chancellor of Ireland, 1789-1802; created Baron Fitzgibbon, 1789, Viscount Fitzgibbou, 1793, and Karl of Clare, 1795: became at the union a peer of the Unite! Kingdom; as chancellor a zealous law reformer and strong opponent of catholic emancipation; the passing of the Act of Union mainly due to him.
Richard Fitzgilbert: '''Richard Fitzgilbert''' (d. [[1090]] ?). See CLARK,
De Richard: '''De Richard''' .
Fitzgilbert: '''Fitzgilbert''' 440
Fitzjames: '''Fitzjames''' I
Richard Fitzgilbert: '''Richard Fitzgilbert''' (d. [[1136]]?). See CLARK, j
Dr Richard: '''Dr Richard''' .
Robert Fitzhamon: '''Robert Fitzhamon''' (d. [[1107]]), conqueror of Ola- i morgan: rewarded for his support of the crown in Odo's ! revolt (1088) by grants of lands in Gloucestershire, Buck- I inghamshire, and Cornwall; soon afterwards begun his j conquest of South Wales, aided by twelve knights: sup- j ported Henry I against Duke Robert, by whom he was captured in Normandy (1105) and imprisoned at Bayenx; rescued by the king, 1105: procured the surrender of Caen: died from effects of wound received at siege of Falaise; buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, of which he was second founder.
Robert Fitzharding: '''Robert Fitzharding''' (d. [[1170]]), founder of the second house of Berkeley; probably grandson of Eadnoth , the staller: as reeve of Bristol supported cause of the Empress Matilda, and bought much property in the west from Robert of Gloucester: granted by Henry II the lordship of Berkeley Hernesse: built priory of St. Augustine, now Bristol Cathedral.
Baron Fitzhardinge: '''Baron Fitzhardinge''' ([[1788]]-[[1867]]). SeeBKHKK-
Maurice Frederick Fitzhardixgk Ley: '''Maurice Frederick Fitzhardixgk Ley''' .
Edward Fitzharris: '''Edward Fitzharris''' ([[1648]] 7-[[1681]]), conspirator: an Irish catholic: resigned lieutenancy in the army after Test Act, 1 673; impeached for publishing pamphlet advocating the deposition of Charles II in favour of James, duke of York, 1681: his impeachment interrupted by the dissolution of parliament; tried before the king's bench and convicted of libel; executed after vainly endeavouring to fix the authorship on Lord Howard of Escrick and to implicate others in a charge of conspiracy,
Meiler Fitzhenry: '''Meiler Fitzhenry''' (. [[1220]]), justiciar of Ireland; grandson of Henry I, through his bastard son Henry: accompanied his unole, Robert Fitzstephen, to Ireland, and distinguished himself in the invasion of Ossory, 1169; returning to Ireland received grant of property in Kildare, 1174, and received further grants in Kerry and Cork from King John, for whom he was justiciar, 1200-x: founded (1202) Connall Abbey, Kildare, where he was buried.
Mrs Fitzhenry: '''Mrs Fitzhenry''' . (d. [[1790]] ?), actress ; nte Flannigan; after the death of her first hnsband, Capt. Gregory, appeared at Covent Garden, 1764; afterwards made a reputation in Dublin; reappeared at Covent Garden in her original part of Hermione in The Distressed Mother and Lady Macbeth, 1757; married Fitzbenry, a lawyer; played again in Dublin, 1759-64, Oalista in The Fair Penitent and Shakespearean parts: acted at Drury Lane, 1765; rival of Mrs. Yates on the Irish boards.
Alleyne Fitzherbert: '''Alleyne Fitzherbert''' , BARON* ST. HELENS (1753-1839), diplomatist; educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1777; visited while at Cambridge by Gray; ambassador at Brussels, 1777-82; negotiated preliminaries of peace with Franca and Spain, 1782-3; envoy extraordinary at court of Russia, 1783-7; chief -secretary for Ireland, 1787-9; envoy extraordinary at the Hague, 1789: as ambassador at Madrid, 1791-4, settled the Nootka Sound difficulty, and concluded a treaty with Spain, for which he was created an Irish peer; returned to the Hague; raised to the British peerage for concluding a treaty with Russia, 1801; created a lord of the bedchamber, 1804.
Sir Anthony Fitzherbert: '''Sir Anthony Fitzherbert''' ([[1470]]-[[1538]]), judge ; barrister, Gray's Inn; serjeant-at-law, 1510; king's serjeant, 1516: knighted and appointed a judge of the common pleas, 1522; one of the commissioners who negotiated pacification in Ireland between Kildare and Ormonde, 1524; signed articles of impeachment against Wolsey, 1529; a member of the courts which tried the Carthusians and Fisher and More. HisLaGrannde Abridgement (published 1514) is the first important attempt to systematise the whole law; other works are also attributed to him.
Maria Anne Fitzherbert: '''Maria Anne Fitzherbert''' ([[1756]]-[[1837]]), wife of George IV: daughter of Walter Smythe; married first Edward Weld of Lul worth Castle, 1775, and secondly Thomas Fitzherbert of Swynnerton, 1778; lived at Richmond after the death (1781) of her second husband; married to George, Prince of Wales, at her bouse, December 1785, before witnesses; lived with the Prince of Wales till 1803; recognised by the royal family in spite of the Royal Marriage Act and the Act of Settlement, which made the marriage illegal on account of the minority of the prince and the Roman catholic religion of Mrs. Fitzherbert. Fox's denial in parliament that the ceremony had taken place was privately repudiated by the prince.
Nicholas Fitzherbert: '''Nicholas Fitzherbert''' ([[1550]]-[[1612]]), secretary to Cardinal Allen; grandson of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert ; studied at Exeter College, Oxford, Douay, and Bologna; attainted, 1580, for his activity in raising funds for the English (catholic) college at Rheims; became secretary to Cardinal Allen at Rome, 1587; opposed the policy of Parsons; drowned at Florence, where he is buried; his published works include a history of Roman Catholicism in England, 1608 and 1638.
Thomas Fitzherbert: '''Thomas Fitzherbert''' ([[1552]]-[[1640]]), Jesuit; grandson of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert; educated at Oxford; imprisoned for recusancy at Oxford, 1672; after his release assisted Parsons and Campion; retired to France, 1582, and afterwards to Spain, where he was pensioned by the king; charged with a plot to poison Queen Elizabeth, 1598; ordained priest at Rome; became a Jesuit in 1613; for twelve years agent for the English clergy: became superior of the English mission at Brand!, 1616; rector of the English college at Rome, 1618-39, where he died; published works dealing with political aspects of Roman Catholicism.
William Fitzherbert: '''William Fitzherbert''' (d. [[1154]]), archbishop of York: generally known as St. William of York: treasurer and canon of York,. 1130: one of King Stephen's chaplains; elected archbishop of York uuder pressure from King Stephen, 1 142; opposed by a minority of Cistercians, and compelled to go to Rome to secure consecration; denied the pallium by Eugenius III under the influence of St. Bernani of Clairvaux: suspended from his see; took refuge with Roger, king of Sicily: deposed at the council of Rheims, 1147: restored to his see and received his pall from Anastasius IV, 1153; died very suddenly, perhaps from poison. In 1227 he was canonised, and his remains were removal to a shrine behind the high altar in York Minster, in the presence of Edward 1, 1283.
Sir William Fitzherbert: '''Sir William Fitzherbert''' ([[1748]]-[[1791]]), eldest brother of Alleyne Fitzherbert, baron St. Helens; gentleman-usher to George III; created baronet, 1784: author of Maxims and a Dialogue on the Revenue Laws
Robert Fitzhtjbert: '''Robert Fitzhtjbert''' (. [[1140]]), freebooter; a Flemish mercenary, who came over with Stephen; carried on private war, seizing the castles of Malmesbury and Devizes; hanged before the latter by the Earl of Gloucester.
Robert Fitzhugh: '''Robert Fitzhugh''' (d. [[1436]]), bishop of London; master of King's Hall, Cambridge, and vice-chancellor of the university, 1424; ambassador to Rome and Venice, 1429; bishop of London, 1431, being ronsecrated at Foliyrno, Italy; one of the English delegates at the council of Basle, 1434, on the way home from which he died; buried in rft. Paul's Cathedral.
James Fitzjames: '''James Fitzjames''' , DUKE OF BERWICK ([[1670]]1734), marshal of France; natural son of James, duke of York (James II), by Arabella Churchill; born and educated in France; came to England after his father's accession and was created Duke of Berwick, 1687; distinguished himself in Hungary against the Turks; served in Ireland against William III, 1689-90, and in Flanders as a French officer, being taken prisoner at Neerwinden, 1693; commanded with success French army in Spain, 1704; partially subdued the Camisards and took Nice, for which he was created Marechal de France; defeated the English under Galway (Ruvigny) at Aluianza, 1707; defended south-eastern France against Prince Eugene, 1709-10; after the peace of Utrecht supported the English alliance: appointed to command the French army of the Rhine, 1733; killed at the siege of Philipsbourg in the second campaign, next year.
Sir John Fitzjames: '''Sir John Fitzjames''' ([[1470]] 7-[[1542]] ?), judge ; nephew of Richard Fitzjames, bishop of London; treasurer of the Middle Temple, 1509; recorder of Bristol, 1610; attorney-general, 1519; serjeant-at-law, 1521: chief baron of the exchequer, 1522; chief-justice of the king's bench,

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Fitzroy: '''Fitzroy''' 1626; signed articles of impeachment against Wolspy, 1529; member of the court which tried the Carthusians and More and Fisher; retired from office, 1538.
Richard Fitzjames: '''Richard Fitzjames''' (d. [[1522]]), bishop t Lou don: M.A. Mcrton College, Oxfoni: fellow of Mertou, 1465; proctor, 1473; principal of St. Alban Hall, 1477-81; chaplain to Kdwnrd IV; warden of Morton, 1483-1507; bishop of Rochester, 1497; one of the negotiators of the Ureat Intercourse, 1499; bishop of Colchester, 1504, of Loin Ion, IftUG. He introduced reforms at Oxfoni and built Fulham Palace.
Reginald Fitzjocelin: '''Reginald Fitzjocelin''' ([[1140]]?-[[1191]]), archbishop-elect of Canterbury; calledthe Lombard from his education in Italy; at first a friend of Becket; behis opponent when Becket excommunicated his of England during William's absence, 1067: aa Earl of Hereford defended the bonier against the South Welsh: .-ni to administer Normandy for the queen, Iu7u; killed at Cassel fighting for Countess of Flanders,
Fitz: '''Fitz''' 08BERT, WILLIAM (d. [[1196]]), demagogue; known a- Lunbeard; led agitation in London against the city magnates, particularly in connection with the aid* levied for Richard I's ransom, 1194; dragged from -ancillary in Bow Church by order of the primate and hammed in chains at Smithfield.
Sir Barnaby Fitzpatrick: '''Sir Barnaby Fitzpatrick''' , BARON OF UPPER -.RY (1535?-1581), educated at court with Prince Edward (Edwanl VI): while in France corresponded with the king (correspondence printed in Literary Remains of Edward VI: active in suppression of Wyatt's lather, the Bishop of Salisbury: employed by Henry II on several embassies to the pope; bishop of Bath, 1174; founded hospital of St. John at Bath, 1 180: one of the commissioners to repress heresy at Toulouse, 1178; attended Lateran Council, 1179; helped to overthrow Longchamp, 1191; elected to see of Canterbury, 1191.
Eustace Fitzjohn: '''Eustace Fitzjohn''' (d. [[1157]]), judge; justiceitinerant in the north and governor of Bamborough Castle under Henry I, who gave him much property in Yorkshire; supported the Empress Matilda; fought at the battle of the Standard in David's army, 1138; founded; lon, fri e, M i s hip w jth Almvick Abbey 1147, and Gilbertine houses in Yorkshire; gen ? eil in ASu, 1777-8; M.P. for Tavistock, 1774, 1807 as constable of Chester fe I while taking part in Henry II s d Igl2 M p for Bedfordshire, 1807-12; chief secretary first expedition into Wales. The Barons de Vescy were rebellion, 1553; went to Ireland, where he had lifelong feud with Ormonde; his wife and daughter abducted, 1573; killed the rebel Rory O'More, 1578.
Richard Fitzpatrick: '''Richard Fitzpatrick''' , first BAROV GOWRA* (rf. 1727), naval commander; distinguished himself against the French, 1687-1702: granted land in Queen's County and created an Irish peer, 1715.
Richard Fitzpatrick: '''Richard Fitzpatrick''' ([[1747]]-[[1813]]), general, politician, and wit: grandson of Richanl Fitzpatrick, first baron Gowran; began at Westminster life0. J. Fox; entered the army, 176ft; descended from his son William.
Pain Fitzjohn: '''Pain Fitzjohn''' (. [[1137]]), judge; brother of Eustace Fitzjohn: justice-itinerant under Henry I; sheriff of Shropshire and Herefordshire; supported Stephen: slain in battle with Welsh rebels.
Thomas Fitzjohn: '''Thomas Fitzjohn''' , second KARL OF KILDARE (d. 1328).
Henry Petty Fitzmaurice: '''Henry Petty Fitzmaurice''' -, third MARQUIS for Ireland, 1782: secretary of war in coalition of 1783, and in ministry of all the talents, 1806-7; one of the chief writers of the Rolliad
William John Fitzpatrick: '''William John Fitzpatrick''' ([[1830]]-[[1895]]), Irish biographer; educated at Clongowes Wood Roman catholic college, co. Kildare; honorary professor of history at Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, 1876; honorary LL.D. Royal University of Ireland. He published a number of works, relating chiefly to the secret history of eminent personages, including Life and Times of Bishop Doyle,* OF LANSDOWNK (1780-1863). j ig 6 i, L ord Edwanl Fitzgerald 1859,The Sham Squire;
James Fitzmaurice: '''James Fitzmaurice''' (d. [[1579]]). See FITZ-
James Fitzmal Gerald: '''James Fitzmal Gerald''' 'RIOK.
Fitzmaurice: '''Fitzmaurice''' iliw. (. [[1741]]-[[1766]]). See HlPPKS-
Ley: '''Ley''' E.
Patrick Fitzmaurice: '''Patrick Fitzmaurice''' , seventeenth LORD
Kkrry: '''Kkrry''' and BARON LIXNAW ([[1551]] ?-[[160]]o), son and heir of Thomas Fitzmaurice, sixteenth lord Kerry; 1866, 4 Ireland before the Union 1867, and The Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell 1888. He also produced a pamphlet, 1866, claiming for Thomas Scott, brother of Sir Walter Scott, the chief credit for a large part of the Waverley novels.
Geoffrey Fitzpeter: '''Geoffrey Fitzpeter''' , EARL OF ESSEX (d. 1213), one of the five judges of the king's court while Richard I was on crusade; joined opposition to Long* joined Desmond's rebellion, 1580; escaped, 1681, from champ and was excommunicated; appointed chief justi"; again captured, 1587, j c iar, 1198: ennobled by John, whose succession he did Limerick, where he was confined and imprisoned at Dublin till 1592; joined O'Neill's rising and lost Lixnaw. much to secure; joint- vicegerent when the king set out for Poitou.
Thomas Fitzmaurice: '''Thomas Fitzmaurice''' , sixteenth LORD KKRRY and BARON LIXNAW (1602-1590); served in imperial army at Milan; rebelled against Queen Elizabeth's government, 1582; pardoned, 1583.
Richard Fitzralph: '''Richard Fitzralph''' , 'ARMACHANU8' (d. [[1360]]), archbishop of Armagh; fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and perhaps chancellor; dean of Lichfield, 1337; archbishop of Armagh, 1347; had great repute as a preacher; , attacked the friars, and was cited in 1357 to defend his
Thomas Fitzmaurice: '''Thomas Fitzmaurice''' , eighteenth LORD KERRY j opinions before the pope at Avignon, where he probably and BARON- LIXNAW (1574-1630), son of Patrick Fitz- j,iied; wrote treatises against the errors of Armenian maurice, seventeenth lonl Kerry: took an active Christians and against the friarsdoctrine of obligatory part in O'Neill's rebellion, but submitted in 1603; im- poverty. part prisoned in London for refusing jointure to his ?on.
Fitzneale: '''Fitzneale''' or FITZNIGEL, RICHARD, otherwise RICHARD OF ELY (d. 1198), bishop of London; son of Nigel, bishop of Ely, whom he succeeded as"treasurer of KnL'land, 1169; became justice-itinerant, 1179; dean of Lincoln, 1184: his election to the bishopric of Lincoln poverty.
Gilbert Fitzrichard: '''Gilbert Fitzrichard''' (d. [[1115]] ?). See CLARK, GlLBKRT DE.

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Simon Fitzrobert: '''Simon Fitzrobert''' (d. [[1207]]). See SIMON DE
Wkll: '''Wkll''' 8.
Augustus Henry Fitzroy: '''Augustus Henry Fitzroy''' , third DUKE OF educated at West mSTSrntnfaK appointed RAKTON (1735-1811), statesman; educated at Westbishop of "London. 1189; continued treasurer by j f * oisnop ot Lionaon. lly; continues as treasurer uy i - -liichanl I; mediated between Prince John and Long- of Euston M.P for Bury St. Edmunds, 1766; succeeded champ; protected Geoffrey Plautagenet from Long- to dukedom, 1757, being also named lord-lieutenant 5, and was loval to Richard I against Prince John: S E*S ham's first ministry, 1765-6, but resigned when it was not supported by Pitt; became nominal head of the Chatham administration, 1 766, and actual first minister when Pitt retired two years later; outvoted in his own champ, and was loyal to Richard I against patron of learning; wrote Dialogus de Scaccario and "The Acts of King Henry and King RichardTrioolumnus), the latter wrongly ascribed to Benedict (d. 1193) of Peterborough.
William Fitzosbern: '''William Fitzosbern''' , EARL OF HEREFORD (e. 1071), son of Osbern the seneschal, who was guardian of William the Conqueror when Duke of Normandy; urged on William conquest of England, and led right wing at Hastings, 1066; granted lauds in the west; joint viceroy cabinet on the repeal of the American tea duty, and attacked by Junius and Chatham; resigned, January 1770; held the office of pri vy seal under Lonl North, 1 771-5, without a seat in the cabinet; in opposition again till March 1782, when he joined second Rockiugham cabinet as lord
Fitzboy: '''Fitzboy''' 442
Ter Fitzwal: '''Ter Fitzwal''' privy seal; wrote, in retirement, a work in defence of unitarianism and an autobiography (first publishal in complete form, 1899). As chancellor of Cambridge University he appointed the poet Gray professor of modern history.
Charles Fitzroy: '''Charles Fitzroy''' , first DUKK OP SOUTHAMPTON and CLEVELAND (1662-1730), natural son of Charles II by Barbara Villiers: created Baron of Newbury, Earl of Chichester, and Duke of Southampton, 1675; became Duke of Cleveland on death of his mother, 1709.
Charles Fitzroy: '''Charles Fitzroy''' , first BARON SOUTHA MI-TON (1737-1797); as Colonel Fitzroy served under Ferdinand of Brunswick in the seven yearswar, and was his aidede-camp at Minden, 1769; created peer, 1780.
Loud Charles Fitzroy: '''Loud Charles Fitzroy''' ([[1764]]-[[1829]]), general: second son of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, third duke of Orafton; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1784; served in Flanders, 1793-4; aide-de-camp to George III, 1795; M.P., Bury St. Edmunds, 1784-90 and 1802-18.
Fitzroy: '''Fitzroy''' Sm CHARLES AUGUSTUS ([[1796]]-[[1858]]), colonial governor; son of Lord Charles Fitzroy; present at Waterloo as a member of Sir Hussey Vivian's staff, 1815; M.P., Bury, 1831; lieutenant-governor of Prince Edward island, 1837; governor of the Leeward islands, 1841; as governor of New South Wales (1846-50), resisted the importation of convicts; governor-general of Australia, 1850-5.
George Fitzroy: '''George Fitzroy''' , DUKK op NORTHUMBERLAND (1665-1716), youngest son of Charles II by Barbara Villiers; created Baron of Pontefract, 1674, and Viscount Falmouth and Earl of Northampton, 1 674; created duke of Northumberland on his return from Venice, 1683; lieutenant-general, 1710; privy councillor, 1713.
George Henry Fitzroy: '''George Henry Fitzroy''' , fourth DUKK OP
Grapton: '''Grapton''' ([[1760]]-[[1844]]), eldest son of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, third duke; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1799; as Lord Euston was returned with Pitt for Cambridge University in 1784, and represented it till 1811; after the revolution became a whig.
Henry Fitzroy: '''Henry Fitzroy''' , DUKK OF RICHMOND ([[1519]]1536), natural son of Henry VIII by Elizabeth Blount (afterwards Talboys); suspected to have been poisoned by Anne Boleyn and her brother.
Henry Fitzroy: '''Henry Fitzroy''' , first DUKK OP GRAPTON ([[1663]]1690), second son of Charles II by Barbara Villiers; married whilst a child to a daughter of Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington; created Earl of Euston, 1672, and duke of Grafton, 1675; distinguished himself as a sailor in command of the Grafton at battle of Beachy Head (1690), and saw service as a soldier with the French in Flanders, 1684, and at Sedgemoor, 1685; professed loyalty to James II, 1688, but soon deserted him for William III; mortally wounded while in command at the siege of Cork.
Henry Fitzroy: '''Henry Fitzroy''' ([[1807]]-[[1859]]), statesman ; educated at Magdalen College, Oxford: M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1828; M.P., Grimsby, 1831-2, and Lewes, 1837-59; a lord of the admiralty, 1845; under-secretary for home department, 1852-5; chairman of committees, 1855; chief commissioner of works, 1859.
James Fitzroy: '''James Fitzroy''' , otherwise CROFTS, afterwards
Duke of Monmouth Scott: '''Duke of Monmouth Scott''' and BUCCLEUCH, [[1649]]-[[185]].
Mary Fitzroy: '''Mary Fitzroy''' , DUCHESS op RICHMOND (d. [[1557]]), daughter of Thomas Howard, third duke of Norfolk ; married to Henry Fitzroy, duke of Richmond, , 1533, but never lived with him; gave evidence inculpating her brother, the Earl of Surrey, on charge of treason, 1540.
Robert Fitzroy: '''Robert Fitzroy''' ([[1805]]-[[1866]]), vice-admiral, hydrographer, and meteorologist; son of Lord Charles Fitzroy ; in command of the Beagle, conducted survey of Patagonia and the Straits of Magellan (1828-36), having Darwin as naturalist for the last fire years: wrote with Darwin a narrative of the voyage, 1839; elected M.P. for Durham, 1841; governor of New Zealand, 1843-5; F.R.S., 1851; chief of meteorological department, 1854; suggested plan of Fitzroy barometer and instituted a system of storm-warnings, the first weather forecasts; published meteorological works.
Henry Fitzsimon: '''Henry Fitzsimon''' ([[1566]]-[[1643]]), Jesuit; of Hart Hall, Oxford; at first a zealous prote.tant, but couverted to Roman Catholicism by Thomas Darbyshire; admitted to Society of Jesus, 1592; afterwards held chair Iof philosophy at Douay; carried on a mission at Dublin, for which he was arrested (1599) and imprisoned five years, disputing while in prison with Ugsher and others; after some time in Spain, Flauders, and Rome was army chaplain in Bohemia, 1620, writing a history of the campaign; returned to Ireland, 1630, and was involved in the rebellion of 1641; published theological works.
Fitzsimons: '''Fitzsimons''' or FITZSYMOND, WALTER (d. 1511), archbishop of Dublin, 1484; the first consecrated in St. Patrick's; espoused cause of Lambert Simnel, 1487, but was pardoned; appointed lord deputy of Ireland, 1492 and 1503, and lord chancellor, 1496, 1601, and 1509-11.
Robert Fitzstephen: '''Robert Fitzstephen''' (d. [[1183]] ?), Norman conqueror of Ireland; as constable of Cardigan (Aberteivi) carried on war with the Welsh, and was three years their prisoner; accompanied his half-brother Maurice Fitzgerald (d. 1176) to Ireland, 1169: took Wexford and invaded Ossory; surrendered at Carrig, 1171, but was given up to Henry II on his arrival; with Miles Cogan received from him kingdom of Cork, 1177, where he was besieged, 1182-3. tflTZSTEPHEN, WILLIAM (d. 1190?), biographer of Becket; dissuaded Becket at the council of Northampton, 1164, from excommunicating his enemies if they laid hands on him; present at his murder. His Vitu Saucti Thomae(first printed, 1723) contains an account of London in the twelfth century.
Arnold Fitzthedmar: '''Arnold Fitzthedmar''' ([[1201]]-[[1274]] ?), alderman of London; of German parentage; as alderman of the Germanstook the royalist side in the baronswar; probably the author of Chronica Majorum et Vicecomitum Londoniarum (edited, 1846).
John Fitzthomas: '''John Fitzthomas''' , first EARL OF KILDARE and sixth BARON OF OFPALY (tf. 1316), grandson of Maurice Fitzgerald II; took part in the expedition of 1288 against the Irish of Offaly and Leix; accused of treason by justiciar De Vesci in connection with the Conuaught succession, 1294; his Sligo and Connaught estates forfeited after his capture of Richard de Burgh, earl of Ulster (1294-5); afterwards served Edward I and his son in Scotland; his territory in Kildare constantly disturbed by the Irish; allied himself by marriage with the De Burghs, 1312; created Earl of Kildare, 1316, after having had his territories invaded by Edward Bruce.

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Fitzthomas: '''Fitzthomas''' or FITZGERALD, MAURICE, first
of Desmond Raul: '''of Desmond Raul''' (d. [[1356]]), justiciar of Ireland ; kinsman and ward of John Fitzthomas, first earl of Kildare; married Catherine de Burgh (1312); created Earl of Desmond with grant of palatine county of Kerry, 1329; imprisoned by the justiciar and viceroy, who had intervened in his feud with the Earl of Ulster; took lead in resistance of Anglo-Irish to the English policy of viceroys, 1341-6; imprisoned, but eventually liberated and received back his forfeited estates, and governed Ireland as viceroy, 1355-6.
Reginald Fitzurse: '''Reginald Fitzurse''' (fl. [[1170]]), one of the murderers of Becket; had been one of his tenants when chancellor. According to Hoveden, he died while doing penance in a religious house near Jerusalem, but by another account he went to Ireland and there founded the family of McMahon.
Fttzwa: '''Fttzwa''' 1TER, ninth BARON ([[1452]] ?-[[1496]]). See
Radclippe: '''Radclippe''' or RATCLIFPK, JOHN.
Alter Fitzw: '''Alter Fitzw''' , JOHN (d. [[1412]] ?).
Robert Fitzwalter: '''Robert Fitzwalter''' (d. [[1235]]), baronial leader ; lord of Duninow and Baynard's Castle, was grandson through his mother of Richard de Lucy; exiled for conspiracy against John, 1212; flod to France: returned after the king's submission to the pope, and received back his estates; led baronsarmy, 1215, when London was seized and the Great Charter extorted; excommunicated, as one of the twenty-five executors of the Great Charter; offered the crown to the dauphin Louis, for whom he raised the siege of Mountsorrel; defeated and captured at I Lincoln by William Marshall, 1217; went on the fifth
Fitzwarine: '''Fitzwarine''' 443
Flamsteed: '''Flamsteed''' crusade, and was present at the sieire of Damietta, 12191220: after hia return submitted to the government of Jfcnry III. A legend relating to his daughter Matilda find her supposed solicitation and murder by King John has been the subject of several poems and plays.
Fulk Fitzwarine: '''Fulk Fitzwarine''' , the name of eleven successive persons having property in Shropshire between 1150 and 1420. A traditional history of the family contained in an old French manuscript in the British Museum was published in French, 1840, and was first printed In English by Thomas Wright, 1855.
Fulk Fitzwarine: '''Fulk Fitzwarine''' I (Jl. [[1156]]), head of his family and a powerful noble.
Fulk Ii Fitzwarine: '''Fulk Ii Fitzwarine''' (d. [[1197]]), son of Fulk Fitzwarine I
Fulk Iii Fitzwarine: '''Fulk Iii Fitzwarine''' (d. [[1256]]?), baron; opposed King John and was specially excommunicated: made his peace with Henry III, but in 1246 was deputed by the barons to order the papal nuncio to leave the country.
Fulk Iv Fitzwarine: '''Fulk Iv Fitzwarine''' (d. [[1264]]), baron; was drowned at the battle of Lewes, 1264.
Charles William Went Fitzwtlliam: '''Charles William Went Fitzwtlliam''' -
Worth: '''Worth''' third EARL FITZWILLIAM ([[1786]]-[[1857]]), son of William Weutworth Fitzwilliam, second earl; M.P. (as Viscount Milton) for Yorkshire, 1807-31, and for Northamptonshire, 1831-3; K.G., 1851; supported parliamentary reform, and was one of the earliest advocates of free trade; edited (1844) Burke's correspondence between 1744 and 1797.
Edward Fitzwilliam: '''Edward Fitzwilliam''' ([[1788]]-[[1852]]), actor; played under Ellistou at the Olympic and Royal Circus (Surrey), and under Thomas John Dibdin at the latter house; his best parts, Leporello, Dumbiedykes, Partridge, and Humphry Clinker.
Edward Francis Fitzwilliam: '''Edward Francis Fitzwilliam''' ([[1824]]-[[1857]]), song- writer; son of Edward Fitzwilliam; composed a Stabat Mater at twenty-one; musical director at the Lyceum with Madame Vestris, 1847-9, and afterwards at the Haymarket; composed two operettas for the latter theatre, the music for Green Bushes (Adelphi), and a cantata performed by Hullah, 1851, besides songs.
Ellen Fitzwilliam: '''Ellen Fitzwilliam''' ([[1822]]-[[1880]]), actress ; wife of Edward Francis Fitzwilliam: played for twentytwo years under Buckstone at the Haymarket; died at Auckland, New Zealand, after having acted in Australia.
Fanny Elizabeth Fitzwilliam: '''Fanny Elizabeth Fitzwilliam''' ([[1801]]-[[1854]]), actress; wife of Edward Fitzwilliam; played as a child at Dover, where her father (Copeland) was manager; appeared at the Haymarket, 1817, and at the Olympic and Surrey under Thomas John Dibdin; at Drury Lane, 1821-2; leased Sadler's Wells, 1832; went with Webster to the Haymarket, 1837; played with great success in America in The Country Girl and after her return to England attained the height of her reputation inGreen Bushes and Flowers of the Forest (Adelphi, 1845-7); subsequently returned to the Haymarket.
John Fitzwilliam: '''John Fitzwilliam''' (d. [[1699]]), nonjuror ; fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1661-70; university lecturer on music, r. 1662; chaplain to the Duke of York and tutor to Princess (afterwards queen) Anne; subsequently canon of Windsor; refused to take the oaths to William and Mary; left bequests to the Bodleian and Magdalen College Library, Bishop Ken being his executor.
Ralph Fitzwilliam: '''Ralph Fitzwilliam''' ([[1256]] 7-[[1316]]), baron of Grimthorpe; served against the Welsh and Scots; joined baronial opposition to Edward II; warden of the northern marches, where he had large property.
Richard Fitzwilliam: '''Richard Fitzwilliam''' , seventh VISCOUNT FITZ-
William: '''William''' of Meryon ([[1745]]-[[1816]]), founder of the Fitzwilliain Museum at Cambridge (begun in 1837); M.A. Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1764; F.R.S.; author of The Letters of Atticus (originally composed in French.)
Roger Fitzwilliam: '''Roger Fitzwilliam''' , alias ROGER DE BRETEUIL,

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Op Hereford Earl: '''Op Hereford Earl''' . [[1071]]-[[1075]]), succeeded to title and estates of his father, William Fitzosbern, earl of Hereford ,; with his brother-in-law Half, earl of Norfolk, ired against William I, and was sentenced to forfeiture and perpetual imprisonment (1076).
Sir William Fitzwilliam: '''Sir William Fitzwilliam''' ([[1460]] ?-[[1534]]), sheriff of London; warden of Merchant TaylorsCompany, 1494 and 1498, and master, 1499; obtained a new charter for the company, 1502, and left it a bequest: alderman of Bread Street ward and sheriff of London, 1606; refused to serve, 1510; treasurer and chamberlain to Wolsey, whom he entertained when disgraced; knighted, 1522; sheriff of Northampton, 1524.
William Fitzwilliam: '''William Fitzwilliam''' , EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON (d. 1542), lord high admiral; wounded in action off Brest, 1513; knighted at Tournay, 1513, and created vice-admiral of England when treasurer of Wolsey's household; went as ambassador to France, 1521; vice-admiral under Surrey, 1522; comptroller of royal household and K.G., 1526; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster, 1529; lord privy seal, 1533; lord high admiral, 1636-40; created Earl of Southampton, 1537; serve 1 Henry VIII, both at home and abroad, being his intimate friend from childhood; died while in command of the van of Norfolk's expedition against Scotland.
Sir William Fitzwilliam: '''Sir William Fitzwilliam''' ([[1626]]-[[1599]]). lord deputy of Ireland; grandson of Sir William Fitzwilliam , the sheriff; though a protestant, supported Mary; vice- treasurer in Ireland, 1559-73; assisted Sussex against Shane O'Neill, 1561: lord justice in Ireland, 1571; lord deputy, 1572-5; reduced Desmond to submission; re-appointed, 1588, when he made an expedition into Connaught; pacified Monaghan and suppressed Maguire in Cavan; left Ireland, 1699. He was governor of Fotheringay Castle when Mary Queen of Scots was executed, and was given by her a portrait of her sou James.
William Wentworth Fitzwilliam: '''William Wentworth Fitzwilliam''' , second
Fitzwilliam Earl: '''Fitzwilliam Earl''' ([[1748]]-[[1833]]), statesman ; nephew and heir of Charles Wentworth. Marquis of Rockingham; educated at Eton and Cambridge; joined Pitt as one of the Old Whigs and became president of the council, 1794; went to Ireland as lord-lieutenant, 1795, but was recalled within three months, on account of his premature and unauthorised avowal of sympathy with the demand for catholic emancipation; fought duel with Beresfonl, whom he had tried to dismiss from the commissionership i of the customs; lord-lieutenant of the West Riding of 1 Yorkshire, 1798; president of council under Lord Grenville, 1806-7; remained in opposition for the rest of his life, and was dismissed from his lieutenancy (1819) for his censure of the Peterloo massacre
Comtessede Flahattlt: '''Comtessede Flahattlt''' ([[1788]]-[[1867]]). See ELPHIN-
Margaret Mercer Stone: '''Margaret Mercer Stone''' .
William Flakefeeld: '''William Flakefeeld''' (fl. [[1700]]), first weaver of ! checked linen in Great Britain; served in the army till i 1700, when he began to make check handkerchiefs at Glasgow, of which, at his death, he was town drummer.
Rannulf Flambard: '''Rannulf Flambard''' (d. [[1128]]), bishop of Durham and chief minister of William II; according to Florence of Worcester, rose by buying the custody of vacant sees and other benefices for ready money and an annual rent; adviser and instrument of William Rufus's extortions; rewarded with bishopric of Durham, 1099; sent to the Tower by Henry I; escaped and fled with his mother to Normandy; became minister of Duke Robert, but after Robert's defeat at Tenchebrai (1106) was pardoned and restored to his see by Henry I; for three years acting bishop of Lisieux; completed the nave of Durham Cathedral, and renewed the walls of the city; built Norham Castle. The abuse of feudal customs (especially the relief) probably originated with him.
Thomas Flammock: '''Thomas Flammock''' (d. [[1497]]), rebel ; led a body of Cornishmen, who were discontented at the taxation levied for the contemplated Scottish expedition, to London; defeated at Deptford Strand and hanged at Tyburn.
John Flamsteed: '''John Flamsteed''' ([[1646]]-[[1719]]), first astronomer royal; educated at the free school, Derby; in a tract written in 1667 explained the cause of and gave rules for the equation of time (in Horrocks's Posthumous Works 1673); began systematic observations with Townley's mensurator, 1671; entered his name at Tsos College,
Flanagan: '''Flanagan''' 444 FL.EETWOOD Cambrdge, where he made the acquaintance of Newton, and was created M.A., 1674; made a barometer and thermometer for Charles 11 and the Duke of York. 1674; appointed astronomer royal, 1675; took orders, 1675; F.K.S., 1677. Though he was overworked and underpaid, with very defective instruments, his observations gave great help to Newton in writinir his 1'rincipia and he laid the basis of modem astronomy by ascertaining absolute right ascensions through simultaneous observations of the sun and a star near both equinoxes. In 1707 the first volume of his catalogue and observations of the stars (containing the work done between 1676 and 1689) was printed at the expense of Prince George of Denmark, but disputes then arose with Newton and Halley, who published in 1712, without Flamsteed's consent, an imperfect edition of his later observations. Three-fourths of the copies of this edition were obtained by him and destroyed; the authorised work was completed in 1725 by his assistant, Joseph Crosthwait.
Roderick Flanagan: '''Roderick Flanagan''' ([[1828]]-[[1861]]), journalist; with his brother founded at Sydney a weekly paper, * The Chronicle; afterwards edited The Empire writing in it severe criticisms upon colonial treatment of the aborigines; died at London when superintending publication of his History of New South Wales (issued 1862).
Thomas Flanagan: '''Thomas Flanagan''' ([[1814]]-1 [[865]]), compiler; president of Sedgley Park Roman catholic school: afterwards prefect of studies at Oscott; publishedManual of British and Irish History and History of the (Catholic) Church in England to I860(1857), with other works.
Flann: '''Flann''' (d. [[1056]]), Irish historian: commonly called Mainistrech eleven of his poetical histories are in the Book of Leinster
Saint Flannan: '''Saint Flannan''' and BISHOP of Killaloe Cill-daLua (fl. 7th cent.); said to have been consecrated at Rome and to have visited the Isle of Man; his day 18th December.
Elnathan Flatman: '''Elnathan Flatman''' ([[1810]]-[[1800]]), jockey: entered service of William Cooper, the trainer, at Newmarket, 1825, and from 1839 to 1859 was one of the most popular jockeys in the field: his greatest triumph, the winning of the Doncaster Cup, 1850, when, on Lord Zetland's Voltigeur he beat the Flying Dutchman, ridden by Marlow; died of consumption resulting from an accident on Bath racecourse.
Thomas Flatman: '''Thomas Flatman''' ([[1637]]-[[1688]]), poet and miniature-painter: of Winchester and New College; M.A. Cambridge, 1666; publishedPoems and Songs(1674), which had appeared separately. Two miniatures of himself from his own hand are preserved,
Philip Flattisbury: '''Philip Flattisbury''' (ft. [[1500]]), compiler : drew up the Red Book of the Earls of Kildnrc now in the possession of the Duke of Leinster, and transcribed a collection of Anglo-Irish annals, first printed in Camden's Britannia
John Flavel: '''John Flavel''' ([[1596]]-[[1617]]), logician : educated at Trinity and Wadham colleges, Oxford: M.A., 1617; professor of grammar, 1617; his manuscriptTractatus de Demonstratione Methodicus et Polemicus edited by A. Huish, 1619.
John Flavel: '''John Flavel''' ([[1630]] P-[[1691]]), presbyterian divine : educated at University College, Oxford: ejected from Dartmouth, 1662; continued to minister there secretly; publishedHusbandry Spiritualised 1669, and many other works, a selection from which appeared in 1823 (ed. Bradley).
John Flaxman: '''John Flaxman''' ([[1766]]-[[1826]]), sculptor and draughtsman; son of a plasterer; cast maker in Covent Garden; at twelve gained the first prize of the Society of Arts for a medal; studied at the Royal Academy schools; began to be employed by the Wedgwoods to design wax models for prizes and medalflona in Wedgwood ware, c. 1775; first exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1770, and ten years later showed his design for the Chatterton monument; became acquainted with Blake and stot hard; introduced by Romney to William Hayley, who became a useful patron; spent seven years (1787-94) in liome and Italy; made a great reputation in Italy by his drawings (executed for the mother of the Hares) for the Iliad and Odyssey and for Dante and Eschylus; ex, hibited the Mansfield and Paoli models for Westminster Abbey, and the designs for Sir William Jones's portrait statue at Oxford; A.H.A., 1797, and R.A., 180; Lidiploma work the marble relief, Apollo and Marpessa; first professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy, 1810; executed the Baring monument at Micheldever, 1805-11, model for the Reynolds in St. Paul's, 1807, and the i pedimental group at Woburn, 1820. In 1817 appeared i his outlines to Hesiod, engraved by Blake, and next year the Achilles shield, drawings, and models. Among his later works are the marble groups at Petworth, the statues of Burns and Kemble in Westminster Abbey, and the completion of the friezes at Buckingham Palace. Collections of his drawings are at South Kensington, the British Museum, University College, London, and at Cambridge,
Mary Ann Flaxman: '''Mary Ann Flaxman''' ([[1768]]-[[1833]]), artist; halfsister of John Flaxman (1755-1826); published six designs for Hayley's Triumphs of Temper 1803 (engraved by Blake); and exhibited drawings at the Royal Academy, 1786-1819.
William Flaxman: '''William Flaxman''' ([[1753]]?-[[1795]]?) artist; exhibited at the Academy a wax portrait of his brother John Flaxman (1755-1826), 1781; a good woodcarver,

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Gerbarus Fleccius: '''Gerbarus Fleccius''' (fl. [[1646]]-[[1554]]). See i FUOCIU8.
Richard Flecknoe: '''Richard Flecknoe''' (d. [[1678]]?), poet; said to have been an Irish priest: printed privately several poems and prose works, includingA Relation of Ten Years Travels in Europe, Asia, Affrique, and America 1656; I satirised by Drydeii in Mac Flecknoe 1682.
Sir John Fleet: '''Sir John Fleet''' (d. [[1712]]), governor of the East I India Company, 1695; amalgamated Old with New East India Company, 1702; sheriff of London, 1688; lord mayor, 1692; M.P. for the city, 1693-1705.
Charles Fleetwood: '''Charles Fleetwood''' (d. [[1692]]), parliamentarian soldier; admitted at Gray's Inn, 1638; one of Essex's bodyguard, 1642; wounded at first battle of Newbury I when captain, 1643; appointed receiver of the court of wards forfeited by his royalist brother, Sir William, 1644; 1 commanded regiment of horse in the new model at Naseby, 1645; M.P., Marlborough, 1646; took leading part in quarrel between army and parliament, 1647, on side of former; joint-governor of Isle of Wight, 1649; lieutenant-general of horse at Duubar, 1650; member of the third council of state (1651) and commander of the forces in England before Worcester, where he did good service: married as his second wife Cromwell's eldest daughter (Bridget), the widow of Ireton, 1652; named commander-in-chief in Ireland, where in 1654-7 he was also lord-deputy; after the first year came to England and only nominally filled the office; recalled on account of his partiality to the anabaptists; one of the Protector's council, 1654; major-general of the eastern district, 1655; a member of Cromwell's House of Lords, 1656; nominal supporter of Richard Cromwell: headed the army's opposition to the parliament; commander-in-chief, 1659; failed to make terms with General Monck; and at the Restoration was incapacitated for life from holding office.
George Fleetwood: '''George Fleetwood''' (ft. [[1650]] ?), regicide ; M.P. for Buckinghamshire in the Long parliament, 1640; one of the commissioners for trial of Charles I, 1648-9; member of last Commonwealth council of state and M.P. for Buckinghamshire, 1653; for Buckingham, 1654; member of Cromwell's House of Lords, 1667; joined Monck, 1660, and though condemned to death at the Restoration, was never executed.
George Fleetwood: '''George Fleetwood''' ([[1605]]-[[1667]]), general in the Swedish service and baron; brother of Charles Fleetwood ; served under Gustavus Adolphus in the thirty yearswar; created baron by Queen Christina, 1664: envoy extraordinary to England, 1665; member of Swedish council of war, 1665; died in Sweden, where he left descendants,
James Fleetwood: '''James Fleetwood''' ([[1603]]-[[1683]]), bishop of Worcester: brother of George Fleetwood (fl. 1660 ?); educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; pre
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Fleming: '''Fleming''' bcndary of Lichfield, 1636; created D.D. of Oxford for .- TMoes at Edgebill, 1642; ejected from Sutton Coldtield by parliament; cbuplain to Charles 11; provost of King's College, Cambridge, 16GO; bishop of Worcester, 1676.
Fleetwood: '''Fleetwood''' Sm PETER HESKETH, first baronet (1801-1866); changed to Fleetwood in 1831 his original surname of liesketh; founded the town of Fleetwood, Lancashire, in 1836; M.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1826; M.P. for Preston, 1832-47; created baronet, 1838.
Thomas Fleetwood: '''Thomas Fleetwood''' ([[1661]]-[[1717]]), drainer of Martoii Meer, Lancashire. The work begaii in 1692 was completed, by Sir Peter Hesketh, afterwards Fleetwood
William Fleetwood: '''William Fleetwood''' ([[1536]]7-[[1594]]), recorder of London; of Braseuose College, Oxford; barrister. Middle Temple; counsel for the Merchant Taylorsagainst the Cloth workersCompany, 1565; M.P. for Marlborough in last parliament of Queen Mary and for Lancaster in first two of Elizabeth; elected recorder of London by Leicester's influence, 1571, and (1572) M.P. for the city; re-elected M.P. for London, 1586 and 1688; famous for his vigorous enforcement of the laws against vagrants and papists.
William Fleetwood: '''William Fleetwood''' ([[1656]]-[[1723]]), bishop of Ely ; nephew of James Fleetwood; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he gained a high reputation as a preacher; M.A.,1683; D.D., 1705; chaplain to William III; canon of Windsor, 1702; bishop of St. Asaph, 1708-14, of Ely, 1714-23. A preface to some of his sermons attacking tory principles was condemned by parliament to be burnt, but was published as No. 384 of the Spectator Besides many religious works, he published Chronicon Pretiosum, or an Account of English Gold and Silver Money (c. 1707, anon.)
Fleming: '''Fleming''' Miss, afterwards MRS. STANLKY ([[1796]] ?1861), actress; reputed granddaughter of West Digges ; chiefly remembered for her connection with the Haymarket, where she played in the role of old women.
Abraham Fleming: '''Abraham Fleming''' ([[1552]] ?-[[1607]]), antiquary and poet; B.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1582: chaplain to Countess of Nottingham and rector of St. Pancras, Soper Lane, London; author of verse translation from the classics and some prose works, including a digest of Holinshed and a history of English earthquakes, 1680.
Alexander Fleming: '''Alexander Fleming''' ([[1824]]-[[1875]]), medical writer; M.D. Edinburgh, 1844. HisPhysiological and Medicinal Properties of Aconituin Napellus (1845) led to introduction of * Fleming's tincture
Caleb Fleming: '''Caleb Fleming''' ([[1698]]-[[1779]]), dissenting polemic ; joint-pastor of Bartholomew Close presbyterian congregation, 1740, pastor of Pinner Hall, 1753-77; D.D. St. Andrews; published A Survey of the Search after Souls 1758, and numerous controversial pamphlets,
Christopher Fleming: '''Christopher Fleming''' ([[1800]]-[[1880]]), surgeon; B.A. Dublin, 1821, and M.D., 1838; president, College of Surgeons (Ireland), 1856.
Sir Daniel Fleming: '''Sir Daniel Fleming''' ([[1633]]-[[1701]]), antiquary ; of Queen's College, Oxford, and Gray's Inn; sheriff of Cumberland, 1660; knighted, 1681; M.P., Cockermouth, 16851687; left in manuscript a Description of the County of Westmoreland published 1882 (ed. Sir G. F. Duckett).
Sir George Fleming: '''Sir George Fleming''' ([[1667]]-[[1747]]), bishop of Carlisle; fifth son of Sir Daniel Fleming; succeeded as second baronet, 1736; M.A. St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, 1694; domestic chaplain to Dr. Smith, bishop of Carlisle, of which he was canon, 1700, archdeacon, 1705, dean, 1727, and bishop, 1734.
James Fleming: '''James Fleming''' , fourth BARON FLEMING ([[1534]]?1568), lord high chamberlain of Scotland (an office also held by his father Malcolm); accompanied Mary Queen of Scots to France, 1548; was one of the four Scots Commissioners who died on their way home after attending her marriage with the dauphin (Francis II).
Fleming: '''Fleming''' or FLEMMING, JAMES ([[1682]]-[[1751]]), major-general and colonel, 36th foot; wounded at Blenheim, 1704; as brigadier served against Jacobites, 1745-6.
John Fleming: '''John Fleming''' , fifth BAKOX FLEMING (d. [[1672]]), younger brother of James, fourth baron Fleming, whom he succeeded in the title; chamberlain, 1665; governor of Dumbarton Castle, 1667; accompanied Bothwell, husband of Mary Queen of Scote, in his flight to the north of Scotland, 1567; joined the queen's lords, was present with Mary at Langside(1668), and accompanied her to England; interviewed Elizabeth ou her behalf in London; represented her at York; held Dumbarton for two years; escaped to France and conducted an unsuccessful expedition in aid of Mary; accidentally killed by French soldiers at Edinburgh.
John Fleming: '''John Fleming''' , firet EARL OK WIGTOWN or WIG-
Tun: '''Tun''' (d. [[1619]]), lord of Cumbernauld ; created earl, [[1607]].

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John Fleming: '''John Fleming''' , second EARL OF WIGTOWN or WK;-
Tox: '''Tox''' (d. [[1650]]), privy councillor, [[1641]] ; entered into association in support of Charles I at Cumberuauld, 1660. ; M.D. Edin
John Flemtng: '''John Flemtng''' (. [[1815]]), botanist; burgh; president of Bengal medical service; contributed 'Catalogue of Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugsto Asiatick Researches
John Fleming: '''John Fleming''' ([[1785]]-[[1867]]), naturalist; entered the presbyteriun ministry and held charges at Bressay, Flisk, and Clackmannan; joined the free church, 1843: created D.D. of St. Andrews, 1814; appointed professor of natural philosophy, Aberdeen, 1834, of natural science at Edinburgh, 1846 (Free Church College). He published Economical Mineralogy of the Orkney and Zetland Islands The Philosophy of Zoology (1822), and British Animals (1828).
Sir Malcolm Fleming: '''Sir Malcolm Fleming''' , EARL OK WIGTOWN (d. 1360 ?), steward of the household to David II (David Bruce); as keeper of Dumbarton Castle received the king after his defeat at Halidou, 1333; accompanied him in his escape to France; created earl and sheriff of Wigtown on the king's return, 1341; captured at battle of Neville's Cross, 1346; confined in Tower of London; one of the commissioners for treaty of Berwick (1357).
Margaret Fleming: '''Margaret Fleming''' ([[1803]]-[[1811]]),' Pet Margarie' ; a youthful prodigy; daughter of James Fleming of Kirkcaldy; played with Sir Walter Scott; composed a poem on Mary Queen of Scots, and other verses.
Patrick Fleming: '''Patrick Fleming''' ([[1599]]-[[1631]]), Franciscan friar I of the Strict Observance; studied at Douay, Louvain, and I Rome; first superior of the college of the Immaculate j Conception, Prague; killed by peasants near Beneschau. i His life of St. Columban was published by Thomas ! O'Sherrin at Lou vain, 1667.
Richard Fleming: '''Richard Fleming''' (d. [[1431]]), bishop of Lincoln ; and founder of Lincoln College, Oxford; of University i College; junior proctor, 1407; condemned by Archbishop Arundel for Wycliffite tendencies, 1409; prebendary of York and rector of Boston; bishop of Lincoln, 1420; represented England at councils of Paviaand Siena (1428 1429), where he championed the papacy: given by the pope the see of York, but was not confirmed by the king; caused Vy cliff e's bones to be exhumed, 1428.
Robert Fleming: '''Robert Fleming''' (d. [[1483]]).
Robert Fleming: '''Robert Fleming''' , the elder ([[1630]]-[[1694]]), Scottish 1 divine: ejected from Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, 1662; went to Rotterdam, 1677; died in London; published, among other works, The Fulfilling of the Scripture reissued", 1845 (abridgment still current).
Robert Fleming: '''Robert Fleming''' , the younger ([[1660]]?-[[1716]]), presbyterian minister; son of Robert Fleming the elder q. v.l; studied in Holland, where he was ordained; pastor at Leyden and afterwards at Rotterdam; at Founder's Hall, Lothbury, 1698; lecturer at Sal torsHalL His works include Christology 1705-8, and Apocalyptical Key i 1701 (reprinted, 1849).
Sir Thomas Fleming: '''Sir Thomas Fleming''' ([[1544]]-[[1613]]), judge : called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn, 1574; commissioner to Guernsey, 1579; recorderof Winchester and M.P.. Winchester, 1584-92; recorder of London, 1594: solicitor! general, 1595; M.P., Hampshire, 1597-16O4: chief-baron i of the exchequer, 1604; chief-justice of the king's bench, 1607; tried gunpowder plotters; gave judgment for the crown in Bate's case, 1606; commissioner for lord chan cellor, 1610.
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Thomas Fleming: '''Thomas Fleming''' ([[1593]]-[[1666]]), Roman catholic archbishop of Dublin; professor of theology at Louvain; archbishop, 1623; with archbishop of Tuam agreed to treat with Ormonde, 1643, and six years later signed declaration of oblivion, but excommunicated Ormonde when the declaration of oblivion was repudiated by Charles I oil the advice of Ormonde.
James Flemming: '''James Flemming''' ([[1682]]-[[1751]]).
Richard Flemming: '''Richard Flemming''' (d. [[1431]]).
Robert Flemming: '''Robert Flemming''' (rf. [[1483]]), dean of Lincoln (1451) and benefactor of Lincoln College, Oxford, founded by bis uncle, Richard Fleming; lived chiefly in Italy, where he wrote Latin poems; prothonotary to Pope Sixtus IV.
Malcolm Flemyng: '''Malcolm Flemyng''' (d. [[1764]]), physiologist; pupil of Boerhaave and Monro; practised as a surgeon in Hull and Lincolnshire; M.D.; taught physiology in London, and published Introduction to Physiology (1759) and * Neuropathia 1740, with other works.
Fleta: '''Fleta''' name of a Latin text-book of English law (not of a person) probably written in the Fleet prison c. 1290 by a judge whom Edward I. had imprisoned.
Abraham Fletcher: '''Abraham Fletcher''' ([[1714]]-[[1793]]), mathematician; self-taught; published The Universal Measurer * (Whitehaven, 1753), and The Universal Measurer and Mechanic (1762).
Alexander Fletcher: '''Alexander Fletcher''' ([[1787]]-[[1860]]), presbyterian divine; M.A. Glasgow; came to London, 1811; minister of Albion Chapel, 1816; suspended after breach of promise case, 1824; separated from secession church, and was for thirty-five years minister at Finsbury Circus Chapel (largest in London); ultimately restored; celebrated for his sermons to children and hisFamily Devotions
Andrew Fletcher: '''Andrew Fletcher''' , LORD INNERPEFFER (d. [[1650]]), judge; ordinary lord of session, 1623-6; member of commissions to revise acts and laws of Scotland, 1C33; reappointed judge, 1641; M.P. for Forfarshire, c. 1646, 1647, and 1648; commissioner of the exchequer, 1645-9; member of committee of estates, 1647 and 1648; fined by Cromwell, 1648.
Andrew Fletcher: '''Andrew Fletcher''' ([[1665]]-[[1716]]), Scottish patriot (Fletcher of Saltoun); son of Sir Robert Fletcher of Salton, East Lothian; as a commissioner in the Scots convention of estates opposed policy of Lauderdale and James, duke of York; became an adviser of Monmouth both in London and in Holland; accompanied Monmouth's expedition to England, but left it on account of a private quarrel, 1685; went to Spain and afterwards served in Hungary against the Turks; joined William of Orange at the Hague, 1688, and returned to Scotland; his estates restored; again joined opposition to English rule, which culminated in the Act of Security, 1704; a violent opponent of the Union; for a short time imprisoned in London (1708) for supposed complicity in the attempted French invasion; introduced from Holland an improved barley-mill and fanners; published important pamphlets recommending establishment of a national militia, and compulsory employment of vagrants, also his speeches in the parliament of 1703, and a political dialogue, 1704. In his Account of a Conversation 1703, appeared his famous dictum that a nation's ballads were more influential than its laws. His library at Salton is still preserved.
Andrew Fletcher: '''Andrew Fletcher''' , LORD MILTON ([[1692]]-[[1766]]), lord justice clerk; nephew of Andrew Fletcher of Saltouu ; became a lord of session, 1724; lord justiciary, 1726; lord justice clerk, 1735-48; keeper of the signet, 1746; presided at the trial of Captain John Porteous , 1736.

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Archibald Fletcher: '''Archibald Fletcher''' ([[1746]]-[[1828]]), reformer; called to the Scottish bar, 1790; was gratuitous counsel for Joseph Gerrald and other friends of the people 1793; commenced agitation for the reform of Scottish burghs, publishing a work on the subject.
Banister Fletcher: '''Banister Fletcher''' ([[1833]]-[[1899]]), architect; began practice at Newcastle-on-Tyne, c. 1853; A.R.I. l:.., 1860; F.R.I.B.A., 1876; came to London, 1870; surveyor to board of tirade; liberal M.P. for north-west Wiltshire, 1885-6: professor of architecture and building construction, King's College, London, 1890; fellow, 1891; published works on architecture and surveying. ? Dav
Eijza Fletcher: '''Eijza Fletcher''' ([[1770]]-[[1858]]), nte Dawson ; wife of Archibald Fletcher, whom she married 1791; left Autobiography (privately printed, 1874), published, 1875.
George Fletcher: '''George Fletcher''' ([[1764]]-[[1855]]), reputed centenarian; pretended to have been born in 1747.
Giles Fletcher: '''Giles Fletcher''' , the elder ([[1549]] ?-[[1611]]), civilian, ambassador, and poet; of Eton and King's College, Cambridge, fellow, 1668; M.A., 1673; LL.D., 1581; chancellor of Chichester; M.P., Winchelsea, 1585; envoy to Russia, 1588; remembrancer of London; treasurer of St. Paul's, 1597; his book on Russia (1591), suppressed and partially printed only in Hakluyt and Purchas, was published entire in 1856 (ed. Bond);Licia, or Poemes of Love(1593), printed by Grosart, 1871.
Giles Fletcher: '''Giles Fletcher''' , the younger ([[1588]] 7-[[1623]]), poet ; younger son of Giles Fletcher the elder; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1606; reader in Greek grammar, 1615, and language, 1618; rector of Alderton, Suffolk. His Christ's Victorie and Triumph in Heaven and Earth (1610) has been several times reprinted.
Henry Fletcher: '''Henry Fletcher''' Of. [[1710]]-[[1750]]), engraver; executed vignettes and tail-pieces for Voltaire's * Henriade 1728, and drawings of flowers and birds by Peter Casteels and Charles Collins.
Sir Henry Fletcher: '''Sir Henry Fletcher''' ([[1727]]-[[1807]]), politician; eighteen years a director of the East India board; whig M.P. for Cumberland, 1768-1806; created baronet, 1782; a commissioner under Fox's India BUI, 1783.
John Fletcher: '''John Fletcher''' ([[1579]]-[[1625]]), dramatist ; younger son of Richard Fletcher; became intimate with Francis Beaumont about 1607, and between that date and 1616 collaborated with him in many plays, includingThe Scornful Lady(published, 1616),The Maid's Tragedy 1619, Philaster 1620, and A King and no King(licensed, 1611, printed, 1619). He also wrote with Massinger The Honest Man's Fortune (performed, 1613),The Knight of Malta(produced, 1619),Thierry and Theodoret (published, 1621), and many others. He had help from Shakespeare inKing Henry VIII(composed, 1617), and perhaps in The Two Noble Kinsmen (published, 1634). From his own pen alone wereThe Faithful Shepherdess (1609) and fifteen plays, the best of which are the comedies Women Pleased (probably produced, c. 1620),The Pilgrim(played, 1621),The Wildgoose Chase(played, 1621), andMonsieur Thomas * (first published, 1639).
John Fletcher: '''John Fletcher''' ([[1792]]-[[1836]]), medical writer; M.D. Edinburgh, 1816, lecturing there on physiology and medical jurisprudence; hisRudiments of Biiysiology published 1835-7, and wroteElements of Pathology published posthumously, 1842.
John Fletcher: '''John Fletcher''' (d. [[1848]]?), Roman catholic divine; professor at St. Omer during the imprisonment of members of the college at Arras and Dourlens; afterwards came to England; created D.D. by Pius VII, 1821; published, among other works,The Catholic's PrayerBook 1830.
Fletcher: '''Fletcher''' or DE LA FLECHERE, JOHN WILLIAM (1729-1785), vicar of Madeley; bom at Nyon in Switzerland; educated at Geneva; came to England after several attempts to become a soldier, c. 1752; ordained deacon and priest, 1757; intimate with the Wesleys; accepted the living of Madeley (1760), a rough parish, where he spent the rest of bis life; superintendent of Lady Huntingdon's College at Trevecca (1768-71), but resigned on account of bis Arminian views, which he defended in 'Checks to Antinomiauism 1771; published theological works.
Joseph Fletcher: '''Joseph Fletcher''' ([[1582]] 7-[[1637]]), religious poet; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and St. John's College, Oxford; M.A., 1608; rector of Wilby, Suffolk, 16091637; author of The Historic of the Perfect, Cursed, TTIOMCil Man (1628-9), and, perhaps, ofChristes Bloodie Sweat (1613), both reprinted by Grosart.
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Joseph Fletcher: '''Joseph Fletcher''' , the elder ([[1784]]-[[1843]]), theological writer; M.A. Glasgow, 1807; congregational minister of Blackburn, 1807-23, ami afterwards at Stepney; D.D. Glasgow, 1830: author of lectures on the Principle* and Institutions of the Roman Catholic Religion 1H17, and other work.
Joseph Fletcher: '''Joseph Fletcher''' ([[1813]]-[[1852]]), statistician ; inspector of schools, 1844; editor of theStatistical 'journal; published Summary of the Moral Statistics of 1.upland and Wales 1850, and several treatises on education,
Joseph Fletcher: '''Joseph Fletcher''' , the younger ([[1816]]-[[1876]]), congregational minister; son of Joseph Fletcher (1784-1843) , whose life he wrote; published also a History of Independency 1847-9.
Mrs Fletcher: '''Mrs Fletcher''' . MARIA JANE ([[1800]]-[[183]]SX See
Jkwskury: '''Jkwskury'''
Phineas Fletcher: '''Phineas Fletcher''' ([[1682]]-[[1650]]), poet ; elder son of Giles Fletcher the elder; of Eton and King's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1608; B.D.; fellow, 1611; rector of Hilgay, Norfolk, 1621-50; published, in imitation of the Faery Queene hisPurple Island, or the Isle of Man 1633, and other poems, English and Latin. ,
Richard Fletcher: '''Richard Fletcher''' (d. [[1596]]), bishop of London ; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1566; D.D., 1581; fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1569; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1572; chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, 1581: dean of Peterborough, 1583; chaplain at execution of Mary Queen of Scots, having previously drawn up an account of her examination at Fotheringay; bishop of Bristol, 1589, of Worcester, 1593, and London, 1594. He lost the queen's favour for his share in the Lambeth articles, and was suspended by her on account of his second marriage.
Sir Richard Fletcher: '''Sir Richard Fletcher''' ([[1768]]-[[1813]]), lieutenantcolonel, royal engineers; wounded in St. Lucia; served with the Turks, 1799-1800, helping to construct defences at El Arish and Jaffa; captured by the French after reconnoitring Aboukir Bay; released, 1802: joined Copenhagen expedition, 1807; acted as engineer on Wellington's staff in Portugal, 1808; complimented for his conduct at Talavera, 1809; as chief engineer constructed lines of Torres Vedras, 1809-10; distinguished at Busaco, 1810; directed siege operations at Badajoz and Ciudad Rodrigo, 1811-12; wounded at third siege of Badajoz, 1812; received baronetcy and pension, 1811; served at Vittoria and directed sieges of Pampeluna and San Sebastian; fell at capture of San Sebastian.
Robert Fletcher: '''Robert Fletcher''' (fl. [[1586]]), verse- writer ; fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1563-9; M.A., 1567; afterwards a schoolmaster at Taunton; published three very rare volumes of verse.
Thomas Fletcher: '''Thomas Fletcher''' ([[1664]]-[[1718]]), poet; of Winchester and Balliol and New Colleges, Oxford: M.A., 1693; D.D., 1707; fellow of New College, Oxford; fellow of Winchester, 1711-12; prebendary of Wells, 1696-1718; published Poems and Translations (1692).

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John Flete: '''John Flete''' (fl. [[1421]]-[[1465]]), prior of Westminster, 1448, and author of a Latin chronicle of the monastery of St. Peter's, Westminster, from the earliest times to 1386.
Roger Flexman: '''Roger Flexman''' ([[1708]]-[[1795]]), preabyterian minister; minister at Rotherhithe, 1747-83, and lecturer at Little St. Helens, Bishopsgate, 1754; D.D. Aberdeen, 1770; Dr. Williama's librarian, 1786; compiled lour volumes of the index to theCommons Journalsand appended a bibliography to an edition of Burnet's Own Time edited by himself.
Richard Flexmore: '''Richard Flexmore''' ([[1824]]-[[1860]]), pautomimist; son of Richard Flexmore Geatter; imitated the leading dancers of his day at several London theatres and also on the continent, together with bis wife (nie Auriol).
Flicciub: '''Flicciub''' or FLICCUS, GERBARUS,GERLACHUS, or GERBICUS (.I. 1646-1564), portrait-painter in style of Lucas Cranach; of German origin. He painted the portrait of Cranmer, still preserved in the National Portrait Gallery.
Benjamin Flight: '''Benjamin Flight''' ( [[1787]] ?-[[1847]]), organ-builder ; with his son and Joseph Kobson constructed the apollonicou.
Walter Flight: '''Walter Flight''' ([[1841]]-[[1885]]), mineralogist; educated at Queenwood College and at Halle, Heidelberg, Berlin, and London, becoming doctor of science, London University; assistant in British Museum, 1867; F.R.S., 1883; author of A Chapter in the History of Meteorites (posthumous).
Thomas Flindell: '''Thomas Flindell''' ([[1767]]- [[1824]]), editor and printer ; edited the Doncaster Gazette; founded Royal Com wall Gazette 1803, and Western Luminary for a libel in which on Queen Caroline he was imprisoned, 1821; printed works by Polwhele and Hawker at the Stannary i Press Helston, and at Falmouth part of an edition of the bible.
Matthew Flinders: '''Matthew Flinders''' ([[1774]]-[[1814]]), naval captain, hydrographer and discoverer; Milted George Bass to survey the coast of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1795-1800; in command of the Investigator and afterwards of the Porpoise and Cumberland, made the first survey of a large part of the Australian coast, 1801-3; detained as a prisoner in Mauritius by the French for more than six years; wrote paper for the Royal Society during his detention, drawing attention to the error in the compass due to attraction of iron in ship; granted poet rank on reaching England, 1810; hisVoyage to Terra Australis published posthumously.
George Dawson Flutter: '''George Dawson Flutter''' (rf. [[1838]]), soldier of fortune; served in the 7th West India regiment, 1811 -16; interpreter at Caracas, 1815: entered Spanish army and served on side of Isabella in Carlist war; in command at Toledo; defeated Carlists, 1838; committed suicide at Madrid on removal from command: published an account of the revolution of Caracas, 1819, and books on Porto Rico, 1834, and Spain and her colonies, 1834.
Luke Fldttoft: '''Luke Fldttoft''' (d. [[1727]]), composer ; B.A. Queens' College, Cambridge, 1700; minor canon of Westminster; his double chant in G minor perhaps the first of its kind.
Henry Flitcroft: '''Henry Flitcroft''' ([[1697]]-[[1769]]), architect; called BURLINGTON HARRY from name of his patron; employed in board of works, becoming comptroller of works in England, 1758; designed churches of St. Giles-in-theFields and St. Olave's, Southwark, and made alterations at Woburn Abbey and Wentworth House.
Sir Frederick Flood: '''Sir Frederick Flood''' ([[1741]]-[[1824]]), Irish politician; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1764; LL.D., 1772; called to the Irish bar, 1763; M.P. for co. Wexford,1776; created baronet of Ireland, 1780; prominent volunteer and opponent of the union; M.P. for Wexford in imperial parliament, 1800-18.
Henry Flood: '''Henry Flood''' ([[1732]]-[[1791]]), statesman and orator ; natural son of chief-justice Warden Flood; educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Christ Church, Oxford: M.A. Oxford, 1752; entered Irish parliament for Kilkenny, 1759, and was returned for Callan, 1760; organised and headed an opposition; carried rejection of money bill, 1769; contributed to Baratariaua (an attack on the viceroy); supported the proposed absentee tax, 1773: vicetreasurer of Ireland, 1775; elected for Enniskillen, 1776, continuing to hold office till 1781, though he had been a colonel of volunteers; resumed opposition and co-operated with Grattan in obtaining the independence of the Irish parliament, 1782; quarrelled with Grattan on the expei diency of continuing the volunteer movement and on the i enfranchisement of Roman catholics; opposed commercial propositions of 1786, and continued to bring forward Irish reform bills; M.P., Winchester, 1783, being at the time M.P. for Kilbeggan in the Irish parliament; I returned for Seaford, 1784; spoke in English House of Commons against commercial treaty with France, 1787, and in 1790 brought forward a reform bill based upon household suffrage in counties; mortally wounded James Agar in a duel, 1769; came near fighting a duel with Grattan, 1783.
Robert Flood: '''Robert Flood''' ([[1674]]-[[1637]]).
Valentine Flood: '''Valentine Flood''' (d. [[1847]]), anatomist; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1823; M.D., 1830: lecturer on anatomy in Richmond Hospital school, Dublin, c. 1838; chief work,The Sargical Anatomy of the Arteries, and Descriptive Anatomy of the Heart 1839.
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Foggo: '''Foggo'''
Ok Woh Florence: '''Ok Woh Florence''' '-KSTKR (d. [[1118]]), cbronirler : ;i monk of Worcester; author of a Chrouiconex Chronicis based upon the work of Muriumis (an Irish monk), extending to 1117, which was continued by other hands till 1295 (Cambridge MS.) It was first printed in 1592, and translated for Bohn (1847) and for Stevenson'sChurrh Historians (1853). Nine manuscripts exist,
John Florid: '''John Florid''' ([[1563]] 7-[[1626]]), author : sou of Michael Angelo Plorio; entered Magdalen College, Oxford, 1581; patronised by the Earls of Leicester, Southampton, and Pembroke; reader in Italian to Queen Anne, 1603; groom of the privy chamber, 1604. His great ItalianEnglish dictionary (1598) was edited by Torriano (with English-Italian added) in 1669. He published translation of Montaigne's Essays in three books, 1603 (frequently reprinted).
Michael Angelo Florio: '''Michael Angelo Florio''' (.ft. [[1550]]), protestant refugee; fled from persecution in the Valteliue; preacher to Italian protestant congregation in London, 1550; taught Italian in London; published in Italian a catechism, and a biography of Lady Jane Grey, with translations into Italian of works attributed to her.
Benjamin Flower: '''Benjamin Flower''' ([[1755]]-[[1829]]), political writer : after a visit to Prance, in 1791, edited theCambridge Intelligencer a pro-revolution and radical paper; imprisoned for libel on Bishop Watson, 1799; afterwards published The Political Register 1807-11.
Edward Fordham Flower: '''Edward Fordham Flower''' ([[1805]]-[[1883]]), author; nephew of Benjamin Flower; a brewer at Stratford-on-Avon thirty years; published several works on bearing reins and management of horses.
Eliza Flower: '''Eliza Flower''' ([[1803]]-[[1846]]), musical composer; elder daughter of Benjamin Flower; published political songs and music toHymns and Anthems (1841-6) for South Place Chapel, including settings to words of her sister, Sarah Flower Adams
John Flower: '''John Flower''' (. [[1658]]), puritan divine; B.A. New Inn Hall, Oxford, 1647; created M.A. by parliamentary visitors, 1648.
Roger Flower: '''Roger Flower''' (d. [[1428]] ?), speaker ; M.P. for Rutland, 1396-7, 1399, 1402, 1404, and 1413-14; four times speaker, 1416, 1417, 1419, and 1422. The Irish viscounts of Ashbrook descend from him.

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William Flower: '''William Flower''' ([[1498]] ?-[[1588]]), Norroy king of arms; Rouge Croix, 1644; Chester herald, 1546; Norroy, 1562; publishedVisitation of Yorkshire, 1563-1564 (printed, 1881), of Lancashire, 1567 (printed, 1870), and of Durham, 1575 (printed, 1820).
Sir William Henry Flower: '''Sir William Henry Flower''' ([[1831]]-[[1899]]), director of Natural History Museum, London; son of Edward Fordham Flower; educated at University College, London: studied medicine and surgery at Middlesex Hospital; M.B. London, 1851; volunteered for medical service in Russian war, 1854; assistant-surgeon, Middlesex Hospital; curator of Huuterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, 1861-84, and Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology, 1870-84; president of Zoological Society, 1879 till death; F.R.S., 1864, and royal medallist, 1882; director of Natural History Museum, 1884-98, during which period he developed very successfully both the popular and scientific sides of the museum; president of Anthropological Institute, 1883-5; president British Association for meeting at Newcastle, 1889; O.B., 1887; K.C.B., 1892; honorary LL.D. Edinburgh and Dublin, and D.C.L. Durham. His original investigations related almost exclusively to the mammalia, including man, and he made considerable contributions to scientific literature. His works include, Introduction to Osteology of Mammalia 1870, Fashion in Deformity 1881, and The Horse 1890.
Edward Flowerdew: '''Edward Flowerdew''' (d. [[1586]]), judge: treasurer of the Inner Temple, 1679; counsel to the dean of Norwich and town of Yarmouth; recorder of Great Yarmouth, 1680; third baron of the exchequer, 1584; died on circuit, of gaol fever.
Frederick Flowers: '''Frederick Flowers''' ([[1810]]-[[1886]]), police magistrate; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1839; recorder of Stamford, 1862; magistrate at Bow Street, 1864-86.
George French Flowers: '''George French Flowers''' ([[1811]]-[[1872]]). musical composer; brother of Frederick Flowers; studied in Germany and took musical degrees at Oxford; founded I ContrapuntistsSociety, 1843, and taught vocalisation on I the lines of Voglei;. He publishedEssay on the ConI.-traction of Fugue 1846, and composed organ and choral fugues.
Floitd Floyd: '''Floitd Floyd''' , or LLOYD, EDWARD (d. [[1648]] ?), i Roman catholic barrister, who, having spoken slighting I words of the elector palatine and his wife, was impeached and sentenced by the Commons, 1621. The case was t afterwards referred to the Lords, who imposed a severer I punishment. It was decided during the proceedings that I the Lower House had only power to try persons for ! offences affecting their corporate privileges,
Floyd: '''Floyd''' Sm GODFREY (. [[1667]]).
Henry Floyd: '''Henry Floyd''' ([[1563]]-[[1641]]), Jesuit; employed in I connection with establishments of Father Parsons in Spain and Portugal; professed Jesuit, 1618; missiouer in England, j and frequently imprisoned.
John Floyd: '''John Floyd''' (d. [[1523]]).
John Floyd: '''John Floyd''' ([[1572]]-[[1649]]), Jesuit ; in religion DANIEL I JESU; brother of Edward Floyd; joined Jesuits while at Rome, 1592, where he was famed as a preacher and teacher; after frequent arrests in England retired to I Louvain, but died at 8t. Omer; published, under initials 1 and the pseudonyms, Daniel a Jesu, Hermannus Loemelius, George White, and Annosus Fidelis Verimentanus, twenty j one controversial treatises.
Sir John Floyd: '''Sir John Floyd''' ([[1748]]-[[1818]]), general; cornet, 1760; served in Eliott's light horse (15th hussars) during I the seven yearswar, being riding-master at the age of fifteen; went to Madras, 1781, in command of the newly raised 23rd (19th) light dragoons; commanded cavalry , on Coromandel coast and distinguished himself against Tippoo Sultan, 1790-4; major-general, 1794; second in command under Harris during second war with Tippoo: distinguishing himself at Malavalli; led the covering army during the siege of Seringapatam, 1799; lieutenantgeneral, 1801; general, 1812: governor of Gravesend and Tilbury, 1817; created baronet, 1816.
Thomas Floyd: '''Thomas Floyd''' (ft. [[1603]]), author ; B.A. New Inn Hall, Oxford, 1593; M.A. Jesus College, Oxford, 1596; I published The Picture of a Perfect Commonwealth 1600.
Sir John Floyer: '''Sir John Floyer''' ([[1649]]-[[1734]]), physician; M.A. i Queen's College, Oxford, 1671; M.D., 1680; practised at ! Lichfield; knighted, c. 1686; published important works i on bathing and upon asthma; the first to make regular I observations upon the rate of the pulse (in the Physii cian's Pulse Watch 1707, 1710).
John Flttd: '''John Flttd''' (d. [[1523]]).
Flttdd: '''Flttdd''' or FLTTD, ROBERT ([[1574]]-[[4637]]), rosicrucian ; M.A. St. John's College, Oxford, 1598; M.D. Christ Church, Oxford, 1605; studied chemistry abroad; four times censor of the College of Physicians; practised in London; entered into controversy with Kepler and Gassendi, and published works in defence of the rosicruciaus, some of them under the pseudonyms Rudolf Otreb and Joachim Frizius.
Sir Samuel Flttdyer: '''Sir Samuel Flttdyer''' ([[1705]]-[[1768]]), lord mayor of ! London; great-uncle of Sir Samuel Romilly; with his brother Thomas made a fortune as a clothier; alder 1 man, 1761; sheriff, 1764; mayor. 1761; knighted, 1755. and created baronet, 1759; M.P., Chippenham, 1754-68.
Laurence Fogg: '''Laurence Fogg''' ([[1623]]-[[1718]]), dean of Chester; , studied at Emmanuel and St. John's Colleges, Cambridge; D.D. Cambridge, 1679; held various livings; prebendary of Chester, 1673; dean, 1691; published theological ; works.
George Foggo: '''George Foggo''' ([[1793]]-[[1869]]), historical painter: I associated with his brother James Foggo in painting and lithography, also in foundation of society for ! obtaining free access to museums and exhibitions; pubi liRhed the first National Gallery catalogue, 1844, and * Adventures of Sir J. Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak 1853.
James Foggo: '''James Foggo''' ([[1789]]-[[1860]]), historical painter; studied under Regnault in Paris; came to London and
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Foot: '''Foot''' in 1816, exhibited at the Academy; painted and lithographed with his brother, 1819-tiO, among their pictures being The Christian Inhabitants of Parga preparing to emi-ir.ite on which they worked three yeurs; with his brother managed the Puutheou exhibition, 1852-5.
Saint Foillan: '''Saint Foillan''' and BISHOP (. [[655]]), brother of Ftir-ii, who placed him over the monastery of; Cnoberca burgh; afterwards followed Fursa abroad, and was placed by Gertrude, daughter of Pepin, In charge of her monastery at Nivelles; killed by robbers in Soiguies forest; buried at Fosse.
George Folbury: '''George Folbury''' (d. [[1540]]), master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1537-40; B.A. Cambridge, 1514; B.D., 1524; canon of York; D.D. Montpellier.
Folcard: '''Folcard''' or FOTJLCARD (fl. [[1066]]), hagiographer ; probably came to England in the time of Edward the I'mii'e-or from Flanders: at first a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury; set over Thorney Abbey by William I, c. 1066; subsequently returned to Flanders; wrote * Vita S. Johauuis Episcopi Eboracensis and lives j of several other saints.
John Foldsone: '''John Foldsone''' (d. [[1784]] ?), painter ; known for his small portraits executed in a day; exhibited at the Society of Artists and (1771-83) at the Royal Academy.

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Daniel Foley: '''Daniel Foley''' ([[1815]]-[[1874]]), of humble parentage; B.D. Trinity College, Dublin; prebendary of Cashel; professor of Irish at Trinity College, Dublin, 1849-61; published an English-Irish dictionary, 1855.
John Henry Foley: '''John Henry Foley''' ([[1818]]-[[1874]]), sculptor; i studied in the Royal Dublin Society schools and those of the Royal Academy; A.R.A., 1849; R.A., 1858. The best of his early works wereInnocence(1839),Ino and Bacchus ( 1840), and Egeria ( 1856). Among his public works are equestrian statues of Sir James Outram, Lord j Canning, and Lord Hardiuge at Calcutta; statues of ! (VConnell, Goldsmith, and Burke in Dublin; one of Lord Clyde at Glasgow and of Clive at Shrewsbury; the group of Asia and the figure of the Prince Consort in the Albert ! Memorial, Hyde Park; a statue of John Stuart Mill on the Thames Embankment and of Sir Charles Barry in the i House of Commons; and the sepulchral monument of John Nicholson in Lisburn Cathedral.
Paul Foley: '''Paul Foley''' ([[1645]] ?-l[[699]]), speaker of the House of Commons; second son of Thomas Foley (1617-1677) ; tory M.P. for Hereford in seven parliaments; speaker, 1695-8; ancestor of the Barons Foley of Kidderminster,
Samuel Foley: '''Samuel Foley''' ([[1655]]-[[1695]]), bishop of Down and Connor; fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1679; chancellor of St. Patrick's, 1689; dean of Achonry, 1691; bishop of Down, 1694.
Thomas Foley: '''Thomas Foley''' ([[1617]]-[[1677]]), founder of Old Swinford Hospital, Worcestershire; son of an iron manufacturer near Stourbridge, who introduced the Swedish splitting machine; successfully carried on the business, and increased his property by a wealthy marriage; high sheriff of Worcestershire, 1656: represented Bewdley in the convention of 1660; founded Old Swiuford Hospital, 1667.
Thomas Foley: '''Thomas Foley''' , baron (d. [[1733]]), grandson of Thomas Foley; M.P., Stafford and Worcester; one of the twelve tory peers created in 1712.
Sir Thomas Foley: '''Sir Thomas Foley''' ([[1757]]-[[1833]]), admiral: entered navy, 1770; took part in operations under Keppel, 1778, and Sir Charles Hardy, 1779: present at the action off Finisterre and relief of Gibraltar, 1780: served in West Indies, 1781-5; as flag-captain to Gell and Parker off Toulon, 1793; and at St. Vincent, 1797; while In command of the Goliath led the English line into action at the Nile (1798), engaging the French van on the inside; as flag-captain on the Elephant gave great assistance to Nelson at Copenhagen, 1801; rear-admiral, 1808; commander-in-cbief in the Downs, 1811; vice-admiral, 1812; admiral, 1825; K.C.B., 1815; G.O.B., 1820; commanderin-chief at Portsmouth, 1830.
Gilbert Foliot: '''Gilbert Foliot''' (d. [[1187]]), bishop of London; after having been prior of Clugny and Abbeville, became abbot of Gloucester; bishop of Hereford, 1147-63, and of London, 1163-87; opposed election of Becket to primacy, ll-;.; refused to yield him obedience as metropolitan: Henry II's envoy to the French king and the pope on Becket's escape; administrator of Canterbury during Becket's absence; excommunicated by Becket, 1167 and 1169; obtained absolution at Rouen, 1170: again excommunicated as one of those whiM-on-M-erat.-l Henry II's eldest sou; absolved, 1172; exercUed great influence over the king till his death.
Robert Foliot: '''Robert Foliot''' (d. [[1186]]), bishop of Hereford; related to Gilbert Foliot; called Meluiuliueiuta,* having studied at Melun or Meaux; archdeacon of Oxford, 1151; canon of Hereford, 1165; bishop, 1174; one of the English representatives at the Lateran council, 1179. Bale attributes to him several learned works.
Lucretia Folkes: '''Lucretia Folkes''' (ft. [[1707]]-[[1714]]), actress ; nie Bradshaw; married Martin Folkes, 1714.
Martin Folkes: '''Martin Folkes''' ([[1690]]-[[1754]]), antiquary ; studied at Saumur University; M. A. Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1717; D.C.L. Oxford, 1746; F.R.S., 1713: vice-president, 1723; president, 1741-63; member of the Academic des Sciences, 1742; president of Society of Antiquaries, 1750-4; published Tables of English Gold and Silver Coins 1736 and 1745; and helped Theobald in his notes to Shakespeare. In 1792 a monument to him was erected in Westminster Abbey.
Sir William Webb Follett: '''Sir William Webb Follett''' ([[1798]]-[[1845]]), attorney-general; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1830: called to the bar from Inner Temple, 1824; had large election petition practice, 1831-3; M.P., Exeter, 1836; K.O., 1834: solicitor-general under Peel, 1834-5, and again in 1841; attorney-general, 1844; defended Lord Cardigan in the duel case and appeared for Norton against Lord Melbourne. There is a statue of him in Westminster Abbey.
Ruth Follows: '''Ruth Follows''' ([[1718]]-[[1809]]), quakeress ; nie Alcock; preached extensively throughout England and Wales, and also in Ireland and Scotland.
Albany Fonblanqtje: '''Albany Fonblanqtje''' ([[1793]]-[[1872]]), radical journalist; third son of John de Grenier Fonblanque; studied at Woolwich and read law with Chitty; early contributed toTimesandMorning Chronicle wrote for theWestminster Review leader-writer for the Examiner 1826; editor of theExaminer 1830-47; for many years proprietor of the Examiner; statistical officer in board of trade, 1847. His best articles were republished inEngland under Seven Administrations (1837).
John De Grenier Fonblanqtje: '''John De Grenier Fonblanqtje''' ([[1760]]-[[1837]]X jurist; educated at Harrow and Oxford: barrister, Middle Temple, 1783: counsel against the Quebec Bill, 1791; K.C., 1804; M.P., Camelford, 1802-6; diedfather of the bar; edited Ballow's Treatise on Equity on which subject he was a great authority; wrote also two tracts.
John Samuel Martin Dk Fonblanqtte: '''John Samuel Martin Dk Fonblanqtte'''
Grenier: '''Grenier''' ([[1787]]-[[1865]]), legal writer, eldest sou of John de Grenier Fonblauque; educated at Charterhouse and Cains College, Cambridge; served in the army in Spain and Italy, and in the second American war; captured at New Orleans, 1815; called to the bar, 1816: commissioner of bankruptcy, 1817; joint-author of Medical Jurisprudence (1823); and one of the founders of The Jurist
Thomas George Fonnereati: '''Thomas George Fonnereati''' ([[1789]]-[[1860]]), author and artist; while practising as a lawyer entertained artists and wits at bis chambers in the Albany; printed privately Mems. of a Tour in Italy, from Sketches by T. G. F and Diary of a Dutiful Sou, by H. E. 0 (1849), published in 1864.
Fontibus: '''Fontibus''' (FOUNTAINS), JOHN DK (d. [[1225]]), bishop of Ely: ninth abbot of Fountains, 1211; bishop of Ely, 1219; his skeleton discovered entire in 1770; witnessed Magna Charta.
Jesse Foot: '''Jesse Foot''' , the elder ([[1744]]-[[1826]]), surgeon : practised in West Indies (1766-9), at St Petersburg, and afterwards in London; published lives of John Hunter (hostile), Arthur Murphy, and A. R. Bowes, besides numerous medical tracts and A Defence of the Planters in the West Indit* 1792.,. 6 G
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Jesse Foot: '''Jesse Foot''' , the younger ([[1780]]-[[1860]]), surgeon; FORBES, ALEXANDER, fourth and last BARON nephew of Jesse Foot the elder; to whose: FOUBKS ov I'ITSI.HIO ( lt;7K-1762), Jacobite; having taken practice he succeeded; publishedOphthalmic Memoranda; part in the rising of 1715, lived abroad five years; raised 1838, and The Medical Pocket-Book for 1835 1834. i a regiment for the Young Pretender in 1745, when he was attainted and remained in hiding many years nub
James Edward: '''James Edward''' ([[1767]]-[[1833]]), vice- ! lished ' Essuys Moral and Philosophical,' [[1734]]; his Thoughts concerning Man's Condition published post
Sir Foote: '''Sir Foote''' admiral; maternal nephew of Sir Horace Mann; entered navy, 1780; present at battle of Dominica, 1782, and St. Vincent, 1797; while in command of the Seahorse captured off Sicily Baraguay d'Hilliers and staff on their way to Egypt, 1798: as senior officer in the Bay of Naples signed capitulation (1799) of Uovo and Nuovo (annulled by Nelson), afterwards publishing a vindication: conducted Abercromby to Egypt, 1800; appointed to the royal yacht Augusta, 1803; vice-admiral, 1821; K.C.B., 1831.

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Lydia Foote: '''Lydia Foote''' ([[1844]] ?-[[1892]]), actress, whose real name was LYDIA ALICE LEOGE; appeared first at Lyceum, 1852, and subsequently played at many London theatres, her best parts including Esther Eccles in Caste 1867, and Anna in The Danischeffs 1877.
Maria Foote: '''Maria Foote''' , fourth COUNTESS OF HARRINGTON (1797 ?-1867), actress; appeared with great success at Covent Garden as Amanthis in The Child of Nature (Inchbald), 1814; played at same theatre till 1825; subsequently acted at Drury Lane; toured extensively throughout Great Britain and Ireland till 1831; married Charles Stanhope, fourth earl of Harrington, 1831. She had previously had an intrigue with Colonel Berkeley, and recovered damages for breach of promise from Pea Green Haynes, winning much popular sympathy.
Samuel Foote: '''Samuel Foote''' ([[1720]]-[[1777]]), actor and dramatist; matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford, 1737; dissipated a fortune at Oxford: while a law student at the Temple appeared as an amateur at the Haymarket, 1744; played comedy parts in imitation of Gibber at Drury Lane, 1745; his Diversions of the Morning prohibited at the Haymarket, 1747; substituted for this prohibited piece an amusing entertainment in which he humously, 1763 (republished by Lord Medwyn, 1835).
Alexander Penrose Forbes: '''Alexander Penrose Forbes''' ([[1817]]-[[1875]]), bishop of Brechin; second son of John Hay Forbes, baron Medwyn; educated at Glasgow University and Haileybury; after three years in the service of the East India Company in Madras presidency, returned to England and graduated B.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1844; ordained, 1844; vicar of St. Saviour's, Leeds, 1847; bishop of Brechin, 1848; censured for promulgating the doctrine of the real presence, 1860: an intimate friend of Pusey and Dollinger, he published Explanation of the Thirtynine Articles 1867-8, Kalendars of Scottish Saints 1872, and editedLives of St. Ninian, St. Kentigern, and St. Columba 1875.
Archibald Forbes: '''Archibald Forbes''' ([[1838]]-[[1900]]), war correspondent; educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh; served in royal dragoons, c. 1857-67; started and ran London Scotsmanweekly journal, 1867-71; war correspondent toMorning Advertiserand subsequently toDaily News in Franco- Prussian war, 187 0-1, Russo-Turkish war, 1877, Afghanistan, 1878-9, and Zulu war, 1880, and was on several occasions first to convey to England news of important events; published several volumes of war correspondence and military biography, besides Memories and Studies of War and Peace 1895.
Sir Arthur Forbes: '''Sir Arthur Forbes''' , first EARL OF GRANARD (1623-1696), born and brought up in Ireland; served under Montrose and was imprisoned two years at Edinburgh; returned to Ireland, 1655, whence he went to Breda to represent to Prince Charles the state of the country; a commissioner of court of claims and M.P. for Mullingar, 1660-1; Irish privy councillor, 1670, and several times a mimicked leading actors and actresses; produced The lord justice; procured regium donum for presbyterians; Knights ridiculing Italian opera, 1749; and 1753 The Englishman in Paris (Covent Garden and Drury Lane): brought out The Englishman Returned from Paris (Covent Garden), 1756; hisAuthor given at Drury Lane, suppressed, 1757; failed in the part of Shylock, 1758; his piece ridiculing the methodists,The Minor when first produced at Dublin (1760), a failure, but successful when given in London in an enlarged form; acted in his co-lessee Murphy's plays at Drury Lane, and (1762) played Peter Paragraph in his own Orators: Commissary 1765,The Devil upon Two Sticks 1768, The Nabob 1779, and The Capuchin 1776 (an adaptation of The Trip to Calais which had been suppressed by the influence of the Duchess of Kingston, who was libelled in it). Foote obtained, through the Duke of York, a patent for a theatre in Westminster, 1766, as compensation for a practical joke at a party which had cost him his leg; built the new Haymarket, 1767, which lie held till 1777: much broken by the litigation with William Jackson (1737?-1795), the Dr. Viper of the Capuchins; died at Dover while on his way to France for the purpose of recovering his health. His portrait by Reynolds is at the Garrick Club.
Saint Forannan: '''Saint Forannan''' and BISHOP (rf. [[982]]), bishop of Domhnach mor (Donoughmore), then the metropolis of Ireland; left Ireland, 969, and went to Rome, where he was made abbot: afterwards placed over Count Eilbert's monastery of Walciodor, now Wassor, Belgium, where he died; his day, 30 April.
Alexander Forbes: '''Alexander Forbes''' , first BARON FORBKS (d. 1448), served in France against English and was present at Beauge (1421); created a lord of parliament by James II of Scotland between 1436 and 1442.
Alexander Forbes: '''Alexander Forbes''' , fourth BARON FORBKS (d. 1491); fought for James III against his son, but was pardoned and received into favour by James IV.
Alexander Forbes: '''Alexander Forbes''' ([[1564]]-[[1617]]), bishop of Aberdeen: M.A. St. Andrews, 1585; supported James VFs efforts to restore episcopacy; bishop of Caithness, 1604: member of the Scotch high commission court; translated to Aberdeen, 1616. created Baron Clanehugh and Viscount Granard, 1676; created earl and colonel of 18th foot, 1684; removed from his command by James II; protested against the acts of his parliament, and was besieged by the Irish at Castle Forbes; reduced Sligo for William III.
Sir Charles Forbes: '''Sir Charles Forbes''' ([[1774]]-[[1849]]), politician: educated at Aberdeen University; head of the first mercantile house in Bombay, in the town hall of which stands his statue by Chantrey: tory M.P., Beverley, 1812-18, and Malmesbury, 1818-32; supported Wellington on the reform question; created baronet, 1823; lord rector of Aberdeen University.
Sir Charles Fergusson Forbes: '''Sir Charles Fergusson Forbes''' ([[1779]]-[[1852]]), army surgeon; M.D. Edinburgh, 1808; saw service in the Peninsular war, Holland, and Egypt, retiring as inspectorgeneral of hospitals, 1814; physician at Westminster Eye Hospital, 1816-27; fought two duels with George James Guthrie, his colleague, 1827; F.R.C.P., 1841; G.C.H., I 1842.
David Forbes: '''David Forbes''' ([[1777]]?-[[1849]]), major-general; entered 78th Highlanders, 1793, and served with distinction in Holland, 1794, and in the Quiberon and Belleisle expediI tion, 1795; served in India twenty years; took part in Java expedition, 1811; C.B., 1838; major-general, 1846.
David Forbes: '''David Forbes''' ([[1828]]-1 [[876]]), geologist and philologist; brother of Edward Forbes: ten years superintendent of the Espedal mining works in Norway; thanked by the king of Sweden for arming miners to support the government against a threatened revolution in 1848; F.R.S., 1856; traversed Bolivia and Peru, 1857-60, in search of the ores of nickel and cobalt; studied volcanic phenomena of South Pacific; many years foreign secretary of Iron and Steel Institute; secretary to Geological Society, 1871-6; one of the first to apply the microscope to study of rocks; author of fifty-eight important scientific papers.
Duncan Forbes: '''Duncan Forbes''' ([[1644]] ?- [[1704]]), genealogist; educated at Bourges; M.P., Nairn county, 1678, 1681-2, Inverness county, 1689, 1689-1702, and Nairnshire again, 1702-4; active in Scotland against James II; his estates at Culloden and Ferintosh ravaged by Jacobites, 1689;
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Forbes: '''Forbes''' publishedThe Familie of Innea(edited by Spaldin? Club, 1K4), to whirh his wife txjlouired, andPlan for J'lv-rr.iiitf the Peace of the Highlands left in manuscript an interesting diary.
Duncan Forbes: '''Duncan Forbes''' ([[1685]]-[[1747]]), lord president of the court of session; second son of Duncan Forbes (1644 ?1704); studied law at Leyden; advocate and slu-ruT of Midlothian, 1709; made depute-advocate for services against rebels in 1715; M.P., Inverness burghs, 1722; lord advocate, 1725; president of court of session, 1737; active in the enforcement of the revenue laws; took a prominent part in opposing punishment of Edinburgh for thePorteous affair, 1737; endeavoured to detach Lovat from the cause of Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, against whom he raised a force, but was obliged to fly to Skye; published theological works on the lines of John Hutchinson (1674-1737)
Duncan Foebes: '''Duncan Foebes''' ([[1798]]-[[1868]]), orientalist: graduated M.A. St. Andrews, 1823 (created LL.D. 1847); spent three years in Calcutta; became assistant-teacher of Hindu.-t:ihi in London, 1826, and was professor of oriental languages at King's College, London, 1837-61; made first catalogue of Persian manuscripts for British Museum and publishedHistory of Chess 1860, also Persian, Bengali, and Hindustani grammars, and other oriental manuals.
Edward Forbes: '''Edward Forbes''' ([[1815]]-[[1854]]), naturalist: brother of David Forbes (1828-1876); studied at Edinburgh University, where he founded the University Magazine; in vacations made natural-history expeditions to Isle of Man, and to Norway, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Algeria; collected three thousand plant specimens 011 a tour through Austria, 1838; lectured in various places: as naturalist to the Beacon, collected marine animals and investigated their relation with plants in the .rfEgean, 1841; made tour through Lycia, collecting molluscs and plants, 1842, aided by a grant from British Association, to which he read aReport 1843; professor of botany at King's College, London, and lecturer of the Geological Society, 1842; palaeontologist of the Geological Survey, 1844; lectured at Royal Institution onLight thrown on Geology by Submarine Researches P.R.S., 1845; showed that Purbeck beds belonged to oolitic series, 1849; president of Geological Society, 1853; professor of natural history at Edinburgh, 1854, but died within six months of appointment; published History of British Mollusca 1848, andHistory of British Star-fishes (1842), besides important geological, botanical, and palaeontological papers.
Sir Francis Forbes: '''Sir Francis Forbes''' ([[1784]]-[[1841]]), first chief-justice of New South Wales; called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn, 1812; attorney-general of Bermuda, 1813; chief-justice of Newfoundland, 1816, of New South Wales, 1823; member of legislative and executive councils, 1825: knighted in England. 1837.
George Forbes: '''George Forbes''' , third EARL OF GRANARD ([[1685]]1765), naval commander and diplomatist; grandson of Sir Arthur Forbes, first earl; served as midshipman at capture of Gibraltar and battle of Malaga, 1704; appointed brigadier in the horse guards under Argyll, 1707; held a naval command in Mediterranean, and was wounded at Villa Viciosa, 1710; governor of Minorca, 1716-18; went on a special mission to Vienna, 1719; took part in defence of Gibraltar, 1726-7; created Baron Forbes of Ireland, 1727; governor of the Leeward Islands, 1729-30; returned to the navy, 1731; negotiated treaty with Russia, 1733; admiral, 1733; Earl of Granard, 1733; elected M.P. for Ayr boroughs, 1741; a member of the committee of inquiry into Walpole's conduct; privy councillor of Ireland.
George Forbes: '''George Forbes''' , sixth EARL OF GRANARD in peerage of Ireland and first BARON GRANARD in the United Kingdom (1760-1837), lieutenant-general; opposed Buckingham administration in Ireland: raised an Irish regiment, 1794, and commanded another at Castlebar, 1798: opposed the union; created Baron Granard, 1806; lieutenant-general, 1813; died in Paris.
Henry Forbes: '''Henry Forbes''' ([[1804]]-[[1859]]), pianistand composer; pupil of Smart, Hummel, and Moscheles; organist of St. Luke's, Chelsea, and conductor of the Societa Armonica, 1827-50; published National Psalmody 1843, and other musical compositions.
Forbes: '''Forbes''' .1 AM KS [[1629]] ?-[[1712]]), nonconformist divine; M.A. Aberdeen and Oxford; ejected from Gloucester Cathedral, 1661; imprisoned frequently; for fifty-eight years iuiiii.sU.-r at (iloucester.

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Ja Forbes: '''Ja Forbes''' .MKS ( [[1749]]-[[1819]]), author of 'Oriental Memoirs in service of the Bant India Company, 17651784; imprisoned in France after rupture of peace of Amiens; allowed to return to Kn-lan.l, 1804; published Letters from France 1806, andOriental Memoirs 18131815; took charge of his grandson, Montalembert, the future historian, who witnessed his death at Aix-laChapelle.
James Forbes: '''James Forbes''' ([[1779]]-[[1837]]), inspector-general of army hospitals: M.I). Edinburgh; entered army, 1803; staff-surgeon in Peninsular and Walcheren expedition, 1809; had charge of casualties from Waterloo; afterwards served in West Indies and Canada; principal medical officer in Ceylon, 1829-36.
James David Forbes: '''James David Forbes''' ([[1809]]-[[1868]]), man of science; elected F.R.S.E. at age of nineteen; joined Brewster in founding British Association, 1831; F.R.8., 1832; professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh, 1833, and dean of Faculty of Arts, 1837; D.C.L. Oxford, 1853; principal of St. Andrews, 1859; received Rumford medal of Royal Society for discovery of polarisation of heat, and the royal medal for his paper on the influence of the atmosphere on the sun's rays; three times Keith medallist of the Edinburgh Society; secretary, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1840-51. His chief work was Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other parts of the Pennine Chain, with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers 1843. He was the first to study scientifically the phenomena of glaciers, but his claim to be the first observer of their veined structure and other of their characteristics was contested by Agassiz and Tyudall.
James Ochonoar Foebes: '''James Ochonoar Foebes''' , seventeenth BARON
Forbes: '''Forbes''' ([[1765]]-[[1843]]), served with the Coldstream guards in Flanders, and (1799) at the Helder; colonel of the 94th and 64th foot, 1809, and of the 21st, 1816: general, 1819; Scottish representative peer, 1806; baronet of Nova Scotia: high commissioner of church of Scotland, 1826; died at Bregenz, Switzerland.
John Foebes: '''John Foebes''' ([[1571]]-[[1606]]), Capuchin friar ; ' Father Archangel; escaped from Scotland to Antwerp disguised as a shepherd's boy; took the habit of a Capuchin at Touniay, 1593; said to have converted three hundred Scots soldiers to Catholicism at Dixmude; died at Ghent; a Latinlifeof him by Faustinus Cranius (1620) was translated into English (1623), French, and Italian.
John Foebes: '''John Foebes''' ([[1568]] ?-[[1634]]), minister of Alford, Aberdeenshire, 1593; went on a special mission to London, 1605; banished from Scotland for denying the jurisdiction of the privy council over the church, 1606; after living some time in France, became pastor of Middelburg, 1611, and Delft, 1621; published theological treatises.
John Forbes: '''John Forbes''' ([[1593]]-[[1648]]), professor of divinity : second sou of Patrick Forbes of Corse; studied at Heidelberg and other foreign universities; professor ot divinity at King's College, Aberdeen, 1620-39; published defence of episcopacy, 1629, and attacked the national covenant, 1638, for refusing to take which he lost his professorship, 1639; went to the Netherlands to avoid taking the solemn league and covenant, 1644: returned to Scotland, 1646, and lived at Corse: published, among other works,Instructioues Historico-Theologicae de Doctrine Christiana(Amsterdam, 1645). His collected worts 1702-3, include a Latin diary.
John Foebes: '''John Foebes''' ([[1710]]-[[1759]]), brigadier: entered Scots Greys, of which regiment he became lieutenantcolonel, 1750; colonel of 17th foot, 1757; adjutant-general and brigadier in America, 1757; led expedition to Fort Du Quesne, which was abandoned by the French, 1758: died at Philadelphia.
John Foebes: '''John Foebes''' ([[1714]]-[[1796]]), admiral of the fleet; second son of George Forbes, third earl of Qranard; commanded the Norfolk at the action off Toulon, 1744; rear-admiral, 1747: commauder-in-chief in the Mediterranean, 1749; as a lord of the admiralty refused to sign the warrant for Byng's execution, 1767, and resigned, but was reappointed and held office till 1763: vice-admiral. 1755; admiral of the blue, 1758: general of marines, 1764, G G2
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Ford: '''Ford''' admiral of the white, 1770; admiral of the fleet, 1781. His 1 Memoir of the Earls of Granard was published in 1868.
John Forbes: '''John Forbes''' ([[1733]]-[[1808]]), usually called FOKBK8-
Pkklater: '''Pkklater''' ; joined Portuguese service under Lippe-Buckeburg, and became adjutant-general; general in t lie Portuguese service, 1789; commanded corps in the early Peninsular war, but left for Brazil with Maria Pia, queen of Portugal, prince-regent, and court, when they fled before Junot; died governor of Rio Janeiro.
John Forbes: '''John Forbes''' ([[1799]]-[[1823]]), botanist; went to east coast of Africa for Horticultural Society, 1822; died at S'imii; the genus Forbesia, Eckl., named after him.
Sir John Forbes: '''Sir John Forbes''' ([[1787]]-[[1861]]), physician ; studied at Aberdeen and Edinburgh; assistant-surgeon in navy, 1807; M.D. Edinburgh, 1817; practised at Penzance, Ohichester.and London; became physician to the queen's household, 1840; F.R.C.S., 1845; hon. D.C.L. Oxford, 1852; knighted, 1853; joint-editor of aCyclopaedia of Practical Medicine 1832-5, and chief founder of the British and Foreign Medical Review 1836-47; published 'Illustrations of Modem Mesmerism 1845, andNature and Art in the Cure of Disease 1857, also translations of Laennec's Mediate Auscultation 1821, and Auenbrugger's work on the stethoscope, 1824.
John Hay Forbes: '''John Hay Forbes''' , LORD MKDWYN ([[1776]]-[[1854]]), Scottish judge; second son of Sir William Forbes; a lord of session, 1825; lord of justiciary, 1830-47; edited 'Thoughts concerning Man's Condition by Alexander, fourth baron Forbes, with life of the author.
Patrick Forbes: '''Patrick Forbes''' ([[1564]]-[[1636]]), of Corse, bishop of Aberdeen; studied at Glasgow and St. Andrews; with Andrew Melville visited Oxford and Cambridge; ordained minister of Keith, 1610; bishop of Aberdeen, 1618-35; opposed the church policy of Charles I; published commentary on the Apocalypse, 1612.
Patrick Forbes: '''Patrick Forbes''' ([[1611]] ?-[[1680]]), bishop of Caithness; third son of John Forbes (1568 ?-1634); graduated at Aberdeen, 1631; minister of Delft, 1641; military chaplain in Holland; bishop of Caithness, 1662.
Robert Forbes: '''Robert Forbes''' ([[1708]]-[[1775]]), bishop of Ross and Caithness; M.A. Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1726; episcopal minister at Leith, 1736; arrested as a Jacobite, 1746; elected bishop of Ross and Caithness, 1769, though still a Jacobite; published The Lyon in Mourning(17471775), extracts from which were given by R. Chambers in 'Jacobite Memoirs(1834). HisJournalswere edited by Rev. J. B. Craven (1886).
Walter Forbes: '''Walter Forbes''' , eighteenth BARON FORBES (1798-1868), son of James Ochoncar Forbes, seventeenth baron; commanded a company of the Coldstream guards at Waterloo; benefactor of St. Ninian's Cathedral, Perth.
William Forbes: '''William Forbes''' ([[1685]]-[[1634]]), first bishop of Edinburgh; M.A. Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1601; professor of logic at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1602-6; studied abroad and formed friendships with Grotius and Scaliger; minister of Aberdeen, 1618, of Edinburgh, 1620; soon returned to Aberdeen in consequence of the "unpopularity of his high church doctrines; appointed first bishop of Edinburgh, 1634; left in manuscript a Latin work (published, 1758) attempting to harmonise the doctrines dividing the Roman and protestaut churches.
Sir William Forbes: '''Sir William Forbes''' ([[1739]]-[[1806]]), oPitefigo, banker and author; entered firm of Coutta at Edinburgh, 1764, and soon became a partner, changing the name to Forbes, Hunter & Co. in 1773; took lending part in preparation of Bankruptcy Act of 1783; consulted by Pitt, who (1799) offered him an Irish peerage; acquired Pitsligo estates, 1781; a member of Johnson's literary club; author ofMemoirs of a Banking House 1803, and alifeof Beattie, 1806.
William Alexander Forbes: '''William Alexander Forbes''' ([[1858]]-[[1883]]), zoologist; educated at Winchester, Edinburgh University and University College, London; fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; prosector to the Zoological Society, London, 1879; sailed for Peruambuco, 1880; died at Shonga on the Niger; left valuable papers on the anatomy of birds.
Robert Forby: '''Robert Forby''' ([[1769]]-[[1825]]), philologist ; fellow of Caius College, Cambridge; M.A., 1784; rector of Fiucham, Norfolk, 1789; F.L.S., 1798-1801; published The Vocabulary of East Auglia (edited by Rev. George Tunier, 1830).,

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Francis Forcer: '''Francis Forcer''' , the elder ([[1650]] ?-[[1705]] ?), musical composer; joint-lessee of Sadler's Wells music gardens, c. 1097; several of his songs included in Playford's Choyce Ayres and Dialogues
Francis Forcer: '''Francis Forcer''' , the younger ([[1675]] ?-[[1743]]), master of Sadler's Wells, 1724-43.
Ford: '''Ford'''
Ann Ford: '''Ann Ford''' ([[1737]]-[[1824]]). See THICKNESSE, MRS.
Ann: '''Ann'''
David Everard Forj: '''David Everard Forj''' ([[1797]]-[[1875]]), author and musical composer; congregational minister at Lyinington and Manchester; published Decapolis 1840, and other religious works, as well asRudiments of Music 1829, and several books of psalm and hymn tunes.
Edward Ford: '''Edward Ford''' (ft. [[1647]]), ballad and verse writer; four of his ballads found in the Roxburghe Collection and another in Halli well's Norfolk Anthology
Sir Edward Ford: '''Sir Edward Ford''' ([[1605]]-[[1670]]), royalist soldier and inventor; educated at Trinity College, Oxford; knighted, 1643; surrendered Arundel Castle after seventeen dayssiege, 164-1; imprisoned and incapacitated; escaped to the continent; returned to negotiate with the army, 1647; again imprisoned; devised an engine for raising the Thames water into the higher streets of London, 1656; with Thomas Toogood constructed other water-engines; died in Ireland, where he had a patent for coining farthings by a new process.
Edward Ford: '''Edward Ford''' ([[1746]]-[[1809]]), surgeon to the Westminster Dispensary, 1780-1801; F.S.A., 1792; published 'Observations on the Disease of the Hip Joint 1794, reissued by his nephew, Thomas Copeland, 1810-18.
Emanuel Ford: '''Emanuel Ford''' (. [[1607]]), romance writer; author ofParismusorParismenos(1598-9), frequently reprinted till 1704, and two similar works reissued as chap-books.
Sir Francis Clare Ford: '''Sir Francis Clare Ford''' ([[1828]]-[[1899]]), diplomatist; son of Richard Ford; entered diplomatic service, 1851, and was secretary of embassy at St. Petersburg, 1871, and Vienna, 1872; British agent on commission on United States fishery rights, Halifax, 1877; C.B. and O.M.G., 1878; British minister in Argentine Republic, 1878, Brazil, 1879, Athens, 1881, Madrid, 1884; ambassador at Madrid, 1887, Constantinople, 1892, and Rome, 1893-8; G.O.M.G., 1886; privy councillor, 1888; G.O.B., 1889.
Sir Henry Ford: '''Sir Henry Ford''' ([[1619]] ?-[[1684]]), Irish secretary ; M.P. for Tiverton, 1664-81; secretary to Lord Robartes, viceroy of Ireland, 1669-70, and to the Earl of Essex, 1672, when he was knighted; F.R.S., 1663.
James Ford: '''James Ford''' ([[1779]]-[[1850]]), antiquary ; fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, 1807; M.A., 1804; B.D., 1812; vicar of Navestock, 1830-50; left bequests to Trinity College "and Oxford University; made collections "for u new edition of Morant's Essex (at Trinity), and collection for a history of bishops (in British Museum).
John Ford: '''John Ford''' (fl. [[1639]]), dramatist ; admitted at the Middle Temple, 1602; probably spent his last years in Devonshire; his chief plays, the Lovers Melancholy 1629, "Tis Pity Shee's a Whore 1633,The Broken Heart 1633, theChronicle Historic of Perkin Warbeck 1634, andThe Ladies Triall 1638; collaborated with Dekker and Rowley in theWitch of Edmonton (1624). Four unpublished pieces were destroyed by Bishop Warburton's cook. The best edition of his collected works is Dyce's reissue of Gifford's edition (1869).
Michael Ford: '''Michael Ford''' (d. [[1758]] ?), mezzotint engraver : probably drowned in the Dublin Trader between Parkgate and Dublin; his engraved portraits, including Kneller's William III and Hudson's George II, and some from his own paintings (William III and Schoinberg), are rare.
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Forrest: '''Forrest'''
Richard Ford: '''Richard Ford''' ([[1796]]-[[1858]]), critic and author ; educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford; M.A., 1822; spent several years making riding tours in Spain: contributed from 1837 to theQuarterly Klintiurtrh andWestminsterreviews; publishedH;uilbook for Travellers in Spain 1845, Gatherings from Spain 1846, and other works; his articles first brought Velasquez into notice in England.
Roger Ford: '''Roger Ford''' ov (ft. [[1170]] ?).
Simon Ford: '''Simon Ford''' ([[1619]] ?-[[1699]]), divine ; of Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he was expelled for puritanism; restored by parliamentary visitors; made delegate, and created B.D., 160; afterwards vicar of St. Lawrence, Reading, All Saints, Northampton, and St. Mary Aldermanbury: vicar of Old Swinford, 1676-91; published, with other works, three Latin poems on the fire of London.
Stephen Ford: '''Stephen Ford''' (d. [[1694]]), nonconformist divine; ejected from Chipping Norton vicarage, 1662; minister for thirty years in Miles Lane, Cannon Street; subscribed John Faldo's Quakerism no Christianity 1675: published theological tracts.
Thomas Ford: '''Thomas Ford''' (d. [[1648]]), composer ; musician to Henry, prince of Wales: published Musicke of Sundrie Kindes(Book I of songs, Book II of instrumental pieces), 1607, and contributed anthems and canons to Leightou'9 and Hilton's compilations.
Thomas Ford: '''Thomas Ford''' ([[1598]]-[[1674]]), nonconformist divine; M.A. Magdalen Hall. Oxford, 1627; expelled the university for a puritan sermon, 1631; sometime minister at Hamburg; minister of Aldwiukle All Saints, Northamptonshire, 1637, of St. Faith's, London, and afterwards at Exeter; member of the Westminster Assembly, 1644; published theological works.
Ford: '''Ford''' or FOORD, WILLIAM (fl. [[1616]]), divine ; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1581; M.A., 1582; B.D., 1591; chaplain to the Levant Company at Constantinople; returned, 1614.
William Ford: '''William Ford''' ([[1771]]-[[1832]]), bookseller and bibliographer; successively of Manchester and Liverpool; the original edition of Venus and Adonis contained in his first catalogue, 1805; others issued, 1807, 1810-11; contributed to Bibliographiana(Manchester, 1817) and theRetrospective Review

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Francis Forde: '''Francis Forde''' (d. [[1770]]), conqueror of Masulipatam; second in command to Clive in Bengal, 1758; took Masulipatam with a small force and drove the French from the Deccan, 1769; defeated the Dutch at Chinsurah; one of the supervisors sent out in 1769 by the East India Company, who disappeared,
Samuel Forde: '''Samuel Forde''' ([[1805]]-[[1828]]), painter ; master in the Cork MechanicsInstitute; friend of Maclise; painted 'Vision of Tragedyand a crucifixion for Skibbereen chapel.
Thomas Forde: '''Thomas Forde''' (d. [[1582]]), Roman catholic divine; fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; M.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1567; B.D. of Doiiay, 1576; executed on charge of conspiracy; beatified, 1886.
Thomas Forde: '''Thomas Forde''' (.?. [[1660]]), author: his 'Times Anatomized (1647) wrongly attributed to Fuller; published alsoLusus Fortunse 1649, and Virtus Rediviva 1660.
George Fordham: '''George Fordham''' ([[1837]]-[[1887]]), jockey; won the Cambridgeshire on Little David, 1853; headed the list of winning jockeys, 1855-62, scoring 165 wins in the last year; won the Oaks five times, the Cambridgeshire (Sabinus), 1871, and the Derby (Sir Bevys), 1879; gained the Grand Prix de Paris four times, the French Derby twice, and the French Oaks once.
John Fordtjn: '''John Fordtjn''' (d. [[1384]]?), part author of the 'Scoticbrouicon probably a chantry priest at Aberdeen; said to have collected materials in England and Ireland, as well as Scotland, 1363-84; compiled also 'Gesta Aunalia in continuation of the Scotichronicon
Alexander Fordyce: '''Alexander Fordyce''' (d. [[1789]]), banker; son of the provost of Aberdeen: partner in London firm of Neale, James, Fordyce & Down; absconded, 1772, after which the bank stopped payment, causing a great panic.
David Fordyce: '''David Fordyce''' ([[1711]]-[[1751]]), professor at Aberdeen; brother of Alexander Fordyce; M.A. Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1728; professor of moral philosophy, 1742-51; perished in a storm off the coast of Holland: published hisDialogues concerning Education (1746-8, anon.) andElements of Moral Philosophy (1754), besides posthumous works.
George Fordyce: '''George Fordyce''' ([[1736]]-[[1802]]), physician ; M.D. Edinburgh, 1758; lectured in London on chemistry, materia medica, and practical physic; physician at St. Thomas's Hospital, 1770-1802; F.R.S., 1776; F.R.C.P., speciali gratia, 1787; published of Physic (1768-70), Treatise on Digestion 1791, and five important dissertations on fever, besides chemical works.
James Fordyce: '''James Fordyce''' ([[1720]]-[[1796]]), presbyterian divine : uncle of George Fordyce; M.A. Aberdeen, 1763; D.D. Glasgow; minister of Brechin, 1745, Alloa, 1753, and Monkwell Street, London, 1760-82; friend of Dr. Johnson, whose religious character he described in his Addresses to the Deity 1786.
Fordyce: '''Fordyce''' Sm WILLIAM ([[1724]]-[[1792]]% physician: brother of David, James, and Alexander Fordyce; an army surgeon in war of 1742-8: began to practise in London, 1750; M.D. Cambridge, 1770; knighted, 1787; lord rector of Aberdeen (Marischal College) at death. Some of his works were translated into German.
John Forest: '''John Forest''' ([[1474]] ?-[[1538]]), martyr ; member of Franciscan houses at Greenwich and Watergate, Oxford; as confessor of Catherine of Arragon displeased Henry VIII and was removed, 1533; subsequently imprisoned; burnt at Smithfield for his book against the king's assumption of the headship of the church, Bishop Latimer being present.
James Forester: '''James Forester''' (l. [[1611]]), theological and medical writer; M.A. Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1583; indicted for writing against the queen's prerogative in church matters, 1593; publishedThe Pearle of Practise 1594, and Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures 1611.
Earls Op Forfar: '''Earls Op Forfar''' . See DOUGLAS, ARCHIBALD, first EARL, 1653-1712; DOUGLAS, ARCHIBALD, second EARL, 1693-1715.
Dallan Forgaill: '''Dallan Forgaill''' (fl. [[600]]).
Lokd Forglen: '''Lokd Forglen''' (d. [[1727]]). See OGILVY, SIR
Alexander: '''Alexander'''
Andrew Forman: '''Andrew Forman''' (d. [[1522]]), archbishop of St. Andrews; as protonotary attended Perkin Warbeck in Scotland, 1495-6; one of the ambassadors to Henry VII, 1498; negotiated marriage of James IV and Margaret Tudor, 1501; bishop of Moray, 1502; ambassador in England, 1509: negotiated alliance between Louis XII and Pope Julius II; archbishop of Bourges, 1513-15; archbishop of St. Andrews after much opposition, 1516; author ofContra LutherumDe Stoica Philosophia andCollectanea Decretalium; documents relating to him printed in Robertson's notes to Scotias Concilia
Simon Forman: '''Simon Forman''' ([[1552]]-[[1611]]), astrologer and quack doctor; left destitute by his father; entered Magdalen College, Oxford, as a poor scholar 1573; claimed miraculous powers, c. 1579; began to practise as a quack in London, 1580; finally set up in London as an astrologer, 1583; obtained a large disreputable practice, chiefly among court ladies; frequently imprisoned at the instance of medical and other authorities; began to practise necromancy, 1588; granted a license to practise medicine by Cambridge University, 1603; his philtres referred to in Ben Jonson'sEpicene publishedThe G rounds of the Longitude 1591. Among his manuscripts which came into possession of Ashmole, The Bocke of Plaies contains the earliest account of the performances ofMacbeth(1610), theWinter's Tale(1611), and 4 Cymbeline
Arthur Forrest: '''Arthur Forrest''' (d. [[1770]]), commodore; served on West Indian and South American stations; captured merchant fleet off Petit Guave, 1768; died holding Jamaica command.
Ebenezer Forrest: '''Ebenezer Forrest''' (. [[1774]]), attorney ; author of An Account of what seemed most remarkable in the
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Forster: '''Forster''' five dayspeiegri nation of Messrs. Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill, and F (1782), illustrated by Hogarth.
Forrest: '''Forrest''' or TORRES, HENRY (d. [[1533]] V), Scottish martyr; friar of the Benedictine order; burned as a heretic at St. Andrews for words spoken in approval of Patrick Hamilton.
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Robert Forrest: '''Robert Forrest''' ([[1789]] ?-[[1852]]), sculptor ; stonemason in Clydesdale: executed the colossal figure of Lord Melville in St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, the statue of Knox in the Glasgow necropolis, and that of Mr. Ferguson of Raith at Haddiugton.
Theodosius Forrest: '''Theodosius Forrest''' ([[1728]]-[[1784]]), author and lawyer; son of Ebenezer Forrest; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1762-81; solicitor to Co vent Garden Theatre and friend of Garrick and Colman; committed suicide.
Thomas Forrest: '''Thomas Forrest''' (d. [[1540]]).
Thomas Forrest: '''Thomas Forrest''' (fl. [[1580]]), translator of three orations of Isocrates, 1580.
Thomas Forrest: '''Thomas Forrest''' ([[1729]] ?-[[1802]] ?), navigator; formed for the East India Company new settlement at Balambangau, 1770; surveyed coasts of New Guinea and Sulu Archipelago, being the first to place accurately Waygiou on the chart, 1774-6; discovered Forrest Strait, 1790: publishedJournal of the Esther Brig... from Bengal to Quedah 1783, and Voyage from Calcutta to the Mergni Archipelago 1792; also wrote Treatise on the Monsoons lu East India
William Forrest: '''William Forrest''' (. [[1681]]), Roman catholic priest and poet; of Christ Church, Oxford; afterwards one of Queen Mary's chaplains; his compilation from the 'De Regimine Principumand his paraphrase of the Psalms dedicated to the Duke of Somerset. His Second Gresyld a narrative in verse of the divorce of Queen Catherine of Arragou, was printed, 1875.
Alfred Henry Forrester: '''Alfred Henry Forrester''' ([[1804]]-[[1872]]), artist; worked with his brother, Charles Robert Forrester, under name ofAlfred Crowquill exhibited pen-andink sketches at the Royal Academy; contributed sketches (1845) toPunchand theIllustrated London News and woodcuts to Chambers's Book of Days; published more than twenty humorous works written and illustrated by himself: illustrated his brother's works, also The Tour of Dr. Syntax 1838, Albert R. Smith's Beauty and the Beast 1843, the Bon GaultierBallads 1849, Cuthbert Bede's Fairy Tales 1858, The Travels of Baron Munchauseu 1859, and Six Plates of Pickwickian Sketches
Charles Robert Forrester: '''Charles Robert Forrester''' ([[1803]]-[[1850]]), miscellaneous writer: elder brother of Alfred Henry Forrester; published, under the pseudonym Hal Willis Castle Bayuard 1824, andSir Roland 1827, two novels; contributed to Beutley's Miscellany as A. Crowquill his chief articles being reissued (1643) as Phantasmagoria of Fun Absurdities in Prose and Verse byAlfred Crowquill(1827), was the joint work of the brothers Forrester.
David Forrester: '''David Forrester''' ([[1588]]-[[1633]]), Scottish divine ; M.A. St. Andrews, 1608; deposed from pastorate of North Leith for opposition to the five articles of Perth; restored, 1627.
Joseph James Forrester: '''Joseph James Forrester''' , BARON HE FOK-
Kkstkk: '''Kkstkk''' in Portugal ([[1809]]-[[1861]]), merchant and wineshipper: went to Oporto, 1831; published chart of the Douro from Vilvestre to its mouth, with geological survey and maps of the port-wine districts, 1848; exerted himself to obtain reforms in the making and exportation of the wine; published prize essay on Portugal, 1851; drowned in the Douro; still known as Protector of the Douro
Thomas Forrester: '''Thomas Forrester''' ([[1588]]?-[[1642]]), satirist of covenanters; M.A. St. Andrews, 1608; minister of Ayr, 1623, of Mel rose, 1627-38; deposed for Arminianism; his satire included in Maidment's Book of Scottish Pasquils 1828.
Thomas Forrester: '''Thomas Forrester''' ([[1635]] ?-[[1706]]), Scottish theologian; renounced episcopacy and became a field preacher; deposed and imprisoned, 1674: minister of Killearn and St. Andrews after the Revolution; principal of the new college at St. Andrews, 1698; wroteThe Hierarchical JMshop's Claim to a Divine Right tried at the Scripture Bar 1699.
Thomas Forret: '''Thomas Forret''' (d. [[1540]]), Scottish martyr: studied at Cologne; canon regular in the monastery of Inchcolm; when vicar of Dollar, Clackmanuanshire, was accused by the friars of heresy; eventually burned at Edinburgh with four others.
William De Fors: '''William De Fors''' , EARL OF ALBEMARLE (d. [[1242]]).
William De Fors: '''William De Fors''' ,EARL OF ALBEMARLE (d. [[1260]]).
Edward Forsett: '''Edward Forsett''' (d. [[1630]]?), political writer; active as justice of the peace in examination of the (Junpowder plot conspirators; publishedA Comparative Discovrsc of the Bodies Natvral and Politiqve 1606, and 'A Defence of the Right of Kings 1624, in answer to Robert Parsons.
Josiah Forshall: '''Josiah Forshall''' ([[1795]]-[[1863]]), librarian ; fellow and tutor of Exeter College, Oxford; M.A., 1821; keeper of manuscript department, British Museum, 1827-37; F.R.S., 1828; secretary to the Museum, 1828-50; chaplain of the Foundling Hospital, 1829-63; edited catalogue of manuscripts (new series), the Description of the Greek Papyri and catalogues of some of the oriental and Sj'riao manuscripts; published editions of the Gospels.
Benjamin Forster: '''Benjamin Forster''' ([[1736]]-[[1805]]), antiquary; fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1760: M.A., 1760; B.D., 1768; friend of Gray, Mason, and Gough; rector of Boconnoc. Broadoak, and Cherichayes, Cornwall, 1770.
Benjamin Meggot Forster: '''Benjamin Meggot Forster''' ([[1764]]-[[1829]]), man of science; second son of Edward Forster the elder ; published under initialsIntroduction to the Knowledge of Funguses 1820; invented sliding portfolio and atmospherical electroscope; one of the first members of the anti-slave trade committee, 1788; framed the Child Stealing Act.
Edward Forster: '''Edward Forster''' , the elder ([[1730]]-[[1812]]), banker and antiquary; while in Holland received from his relative, Benjamin Furly, some original letters of Locke; for nearly thirty years governor of the Russia Company; consulted by Pitt on paper currency.
Edward Forster: '''Edward Forster''' ([[1769]]-[[1828]]), miscellaneous writer; soil of Nathaniel Forster (1726V-1790); matriculated at Balliol College.Oxford, 1788; M. A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1797; morning preacher at Berkeley and Grosvenor chapels, and at Park Street and King Street, 1800-14; chaplain to the British embassy at Paris, 18181828, where he died; published theBritish Gallery of Engravings 1807-13, editions of Jarvis's Don Quixote 1801, Galland'sArabian Nights Anacreon,Rasselas 1805, and various illustrated dramatic collections.
Edward Forster: '''Edward Forster''' , the younger ([[1765]]-[[1849]]), botanist; third sou of Edward Forster the elder; treasurer of the Linnean Society, 1816, and vice-president, 1828; died from cholera, after inspecting the Refuge for the Destitute founded by him in Hackney Road. Besides a catalogue of British birds, he printed a Supplement to English Botany 1834. His herbarium was presented to the British Museum.
George Forster: '''George Forster''' (d. [[1792]]), traveller in service of the East India Company; author of A Journey from Bengal to England through the Northern Part of India ... and into Russia by the Caspian Sea 1798, and Sketches of the Mythology and Customs of the Hindoos 1785.
Henry Pitts Forster: '''Henry Pitts Forster''' ([[1766]] ?-[[1815]]), orientalist in service of the East India Company; helped to in;ik. Bengali an official and literary language by his English and Bengalee Vocabulary 1799, 1802.

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George: '''George''' ([[1754]]-[[1794]]), naturalist; born near Dant,ii: ; came to England with his father, Reinhold Forster, 1766; assisted him as naturalist in Captain Cook's second voyage, and was made F.R.S. for his.-luire in the description
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Forsyth: '''Forsyth''' of the flora of the South Seas, 1775; published a general account of the voyage, 1777; afterwards succ.-sivdy proMi- of natural history at Wilna and librarian at M;uu..
Forster: '''Forster''' or FOSTER, SIR JoHX ([[152]]U?-[[1602]]), warden of tin- maivtir; cniimiuiuli r of Harbottlu C:i-i!.-, 1M2; fought at Solway Moss, 1642, and Pinkie, 1547; knighted by Protector Somerset, 1547; sheriff of Northumberland, 1549-50; captain of Bamboroogb Castle, 1565 till death: warden of middle marches, 1500-95; dismissed from office, 1586, on charges of maladministration; restored, 1588.
John Forster: '''John Forster''' ([[1812]]-[[1876]]), historian and biographer; educated at Newcastle grammar school and University College, London; barrister, Inner Temple, 1843; made the acquaintance of Lamb and Leigh Hunt; dramatic critic to the Examiner 1833; contributed to Lardner'sCyclopaedia hi* Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth 1836-9, that of Sir John Eliot being issued separately in an enlarged form, 1864; edited 4 Foreign Quarterly Review 1842-3, Daily News 1846, and Examiner 1847-55; secretary to the lunacy commission, 1856-61, and a lunacy commissioner, 18(11-72; took part in dramatic performances in connection with Guild of Literature and Art; contributed to Quarterly and Edinburgh Review; published works, includingHistorical and Biographical Essays 1858, The Anest of the Five Members andThe Debates on the Grand Remonstrance 1860, lives of his friends Landor(l869) and Dickens, 1872-4,Life and Times of Goldsmith 1854, and the first volume of a Life of Swift 1876; bequeathed his valuable library aiid art treasures to the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington.
John Cooper Forster: '''John Cooper Forster''' ([[1823]]-[[1886]]), surgeon; educated at King's College School and Guy's Hospital; M.B. London, 1847; F.R.C.S., 1849; surgeon at Guy's, 1870-80; president of the College of Surgeons, 1884-5; published The Surgical Diseases of Children 1860.
Nathaniel Forster: '''Nathaniel Forster''' ([[1718]]-[[1757]]), scholar; educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; fellow, 1739; M.A., 1739: D.D., 1750; domestic chaplain to Bishop Butler from 1750 till Butler's death, and executor; chaplain to Archbishop Herring; vicar of Rochdale, 1754; prebendary of Bristol, 1755; F.R.S., 1755; chaplain to George III, 1756; published Reflections on the Natural Foundation of the high Antiquity of - Government, Arts, and Sciences in Egypt 1743, Appendix Liviana 1746, a defence of the genuineness of Josephus's account of Jesus, 1749, Biblia Hebraica sine punctis 1750, and other works.
Nathaniel Forster: '''Nathaniel Forster''' ([[1726]] ?-[[1790]]), writer on political economy; cousin of Nathaniel Forster (17181757); M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1748; fellow of Balliol College, Oxford; D.D., 1778; rector of All Saints, Colchester, and of Tolleshunt Knights, Essex; friend of Samuel Parr the Latin scholar; chief works, An Enquiry into the Causes of the present High Price of Provisions 1767, and Answer to Sir John Dalrym pie's pamphlet on the Exportation of Wool 1782.
Richard Forster: '''Richard Forster''' ([[1546]] ?-[[1616]]), physician ;M.D. Oxford, 1573: president of the College of Physicians, 16011604 and 1615-16; Lumleian lecturer, 1602; published 4 Epbemerides Meteorologicse 1575.
Sir Robert Forster: '''Sir Robert Forster''' ([[1589]]-[[1663]]).
Simon Andrew Forster: '''Simon Andrew Forster''' ([[1801]]-[[1870]]), part author of theHistory of the Violin 1864: son of
Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster: '''Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster''' ([[1789]] F William Forster (1764-1824)
Thomas Forster: '''Thomas Forster''' (. [[1695]]-[[1712]]), limner, known for his excellent pencil miniatures on vellum engraved by Van der Guoht and others.
Thomas Forster: '''Thomas Forster''' ([[1675]]?-! [[738]]), James Edward the Old Pretender's general; M.P., Northumberland, 1708-16; surrendered at Preston when in command of the rebel army; escaped from Newgate, 1716, to France; died at Boulogne.
Thomas Furly Forster: '''Thomas Furly Forster''' ([[1761]] - [[1825]]), botanist; eldest son of Edward Forster the elder; an original member of the Linnean Society; published j * Flora Tonbrigeusis 1816 (reissued 1842). I naturalist and astronomer; son of Thomas Fnrly Foreter; M.B. Cambridge, 1819; discovered a comet, : 1819; with Spurheim studied the brain at Fliubunrb. and subsequently wrote a sketch of tin- phrenological system; publishedResearches about Atmospheric Phenomena 1812, original letters of Locke Shaftesbury and Algernon Sydney to his ancestor, Benjamin Furlv 1, q - V,3W l* h ? reface 1830 Ob8 -vations sur Influence , des Cometes 1838, and Sati 1843, a Pythagorean 1"w, H WM the frlend of ay, Shelley, Hurechel, ; and Whewell; lived at Bruges after 1833, dying at ! Brussels. His Recueil de ma Vie 1835, andEpis tolarium Forsterianum contain much biographical in formation.
William Forster: '''William Forster''' (jf. [[1632]]), mathematician: pupil of William Oughtred, bote treatise on the horizontal instrument for delineating dials upon any plane he translated and published, 1632.
William Forster: '''William Forster''' ([[1739]]-[[1808]]), musical lustra I meut maker Old Forster); set up a violin shop near St. Martin's Lane, London, removing afterwards to the I Strand. As a publisher he introduced Haydn to the London public.
William Forster: '''William Forster''' ([[1764]]-[[1824]]), violin-maker; music-seller to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cumberland; son of William Forster (1739-1808)
William Forster: '''William Forster''' ([[1788]]-[[1824]]), violfn-nker ; son of William Forster (1764-1824)
William Forster: '''William Forster''' ([[1784]]-[[1854]]), minister of the Society of Friends; helped his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Fry, in philanthropic work; visited United States, 1820-5; checked the spread of Unitarian views among quakers; averted a secession in Indiana caused by the slavery question, 1845; investigated the condition of the Irish distressed by the potato famine, 1846-7; travelled on the continent in the interests of abolitionism, 1849-52; died in East Tennessee; published Christian Exhortation to Sailors (1813).
William Edward Forster: '''William Edward Forster''' ([[1818]]-[[1886]]), , statesman; sou of William Forster (1784-1854); I educated at quaker schools in Bristol and Tottenham; I entered woollen trade at Bradford, 1842; accompanied his father to Ireland, 1846; did much to moderate the I chartists in Bradford, lecturing on Pauperism and its j Proposed Remedies 1848; reissued Clarkson'sLife of Peun with a preface defending the quakers from Macaulay's charges, 1849; left the society on his marriage in 1860 with a daughter of Dr. Arnold; liberal M.P. for Bradford, 1861-86: under-secretary for the colonies, 1865; took prominent part in reform debates, 1860-7; as vice-president of the council (1868-74), carried the Endowed Schools Bill, the Elementary Education Bill, and in 1871 had charge of the Ballot Bill; proposed as leader of the opposition, 1874; gave way to Lord Hartington: returned as an independent liberal, 1880; appointed by Mr. Gladstone chief secretary for Ireland, 1880; failed to carry the Compensation for Disturbance Bill and to obtain the conviction of the leaders of the land league; resigned office after two yearsstruggle with them and his opponents in the cabinet whose Kilmainham treaty he refused to sanction; again offered his services after the Phoenix Park murders (1882), but naver again held office; during his last four years generally opposed liberal foreign policy, but supported county franchise bill; first chairman of the Imperial Federation League and of the committee on the Manchester Ship Canal Mill.
Alexander John Forsyth: '''Alexander John Forsyth''' ([[1769]]-[[1843]]), inventor of the percussion lock, for which he was awarded a pension, after declining 20,OOOJ. from Napoleon to reveal the secret; LL.D. Glasgow.
James Forsyth: '''James Forsyth''' ([[1838]]-[[1871]]), Indian traveller and civilian; M.A.: published The Sporting Rifle and its Projectiles 1862, and a posthumous work describing his tour of the central provinces.
Joseph Forsyth: '''Joseph Forsyth''' ([[1763]]-[[1815]]X schoolmaster and author; M.A. King's College, Aberdeen, 1779; a prisoner in France, 1803-14: published valuableRemarks on Antiquities, Arte, and Letters, during an Excursion in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803 1813.

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Robert Forsyth: '''Robert Forsyth''' ([[1766]]-[[1846]]), miscellaneous writer; published, among other works, The Beauties of Scotland 1805-8, and Remarks on the Church of Scotland 1843, the latter being severely handled by Hugh Miller in the Witness
Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth: '''Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth''' ([[1827]]-[[1886]]), Indian civilian; educated at Sherborne, Rugby, Haileybury, and Calcutta; rendered valuable services at Umballa, 1857, and as special commissioner after the capture of Delhi; created C.B. for his conduct in the mutiny; commissioner of the Punjab, 1860-72; promoted trade with Turkestan, and obtained definition in favour of the amir of Kabul of territories in dispute betweeti him and the HiHsiau government; visited the amir of Yarkand; removed (1872) for measures taken to suppress Ram Singh's rebellion; as envoy to Kashgar, 1873, concluded commercial treaty with the amir; obtained from the king of Burmah agreement that the Karenee States should be acknowledged independent; K.C.S.I.
William Forsyth: '''William Forsyth''' ([[1722]]-[[1800]]), merchant ; made Cromarty, his native town, a great trading centre by introducing flax from Holland and coal from Leith (1770) and originating the manufacture of kelp; an agent of the British Linen Company; eulogised by Hugh Miller.
William Forsyth: '''William Forsyth''' ([[1737]]-[[1804]]), gardener; succeeded Philip Miller in the ApothecariesGarden, Chelsea, 1771; superintendent of the royal gardens at St. James and Kensington, 1784; publishedObservations on the Diseases, &c., of Forest and Fruit Trees 1791, and 'Treatise on the Culture of Fruit Trees 1802; thanked by parliament for his tree-plaister.
William Forsyth: '''William Forsyth''' ([[1818]]-[[1879]]), poet and journalist; sub-editor of theInverness Courier under Oarruthers; for thirty years editor of the Aberdeen Journal; assisted in preparation ofChambers's Gyclopjedia of English Literature; published The Martyrdom of Kelavane 1861; and Idylls and Lyrics
William Forsyth: '''William Forsyth''' ([[1812]]-[[1899]]), man of letters ; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1834; major fellow and M.A., 1837; barrister, Inner Temple, 1839; bencher, 1857; treasurer, 1872; went Midland circuit; standing counsel for secretary of state for India, 1859-72; member of council of legal education from 1860; conservative M.P. for Marylebone, 1874-80; editor of Annual Register 1842-68; Q.C., 1857; commissary of Cambridge University. 1868; LL.D. Edinburgh, 1871. His works include Hortensius 1849,History of Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena 1853,Life of Cicero 1863,Novels and Novelists of Eighteenth Century 1871, and Essays Critical and Narrative 1874.
of Oredan Fortescue: '''of Oredan Fortescue''' , first BARON ([[1670]]-[[1746]]).
Sir Adrian Fortescue: '''Sir Adrian Fortescue''' ([[1476]] ?-[[1539]]), knight of St. John; served against the French, 1513 and 1522; knighted, 1528; knight of St. John, 1532; attainted and executed on a charge of treason, probably on account of his relationship to Queen Anne Boleyn.
Sir Anthony Fortescue: '''Sir Anthony Fortescue''' (ft. [[1535]]?), conspirator; youngest son of Sir Adrian Fortescue; comptroller of the household to Cardinal Pole; arrested on accession of Elizabeth; imprisoned for life for a plot in conjunction with the Poles to proclaim Mary Queen of Scots ami restore Romanism by the aid of the Due de Guise, 1561; allowed to escape from the Tower.
Fortescue: '''Fortescue''' afterwards PARKINSON-FORTES-
Chichester Samuel Cue: '''Chichester Samuel Cue''' , BARON OARLINOFORD (1823-1898), statesman; M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1847; student, 1843-56: honorary ptudeut, 1867; assumed name of Parkinson; 1862; liberal M.P. for Louth, 1847-74; junior lord of treasury, 1854-5; under-secretary for colonies, 1857-8, and 1859-65; privy councillor, 1864; chief secretory for Ireland, 1866-6 and 1868-70; shared with Gladstone burden and credit of Irish church disestablishment and Irish Land Act of 1870: president of board of trade, 1871-4; raised to peerage, 1874; privy seal, 1881-5; assisted in framing, and conducted through House of Lords, Gladstone's second Irish Land Act; president of council, 1883-5; liberal unionist, 1886.
Sir Edmund Fortescue: '''Sir Edmund Fortescue''' ([[1610]]-[[1647]]), royalist commander; when high sheriff of Devonshire defeated and captured at Modbury by Colonel Ruthven, 1642, and imprisoned in Windsor Castle and Winchester House; released, 1643; held Salcombe (Fort Charles) for the king, 1644-6; created baronet, 1644; died at Delft,
Sir Faithful Fortescue: '''Sir Faithful Fortescue''' ([[1581]] ?-[[1666]]), royalist commander; obtained grant of property in Antrim and seat in Irish parliament; frequently at issue with Strafford when lord deputy; named governor of Drogheda, 1641, but was in England during the siege; deserted at Edgehill, 1642, when commanding a troop of horse under Wharton, which was diverted from Ireland to serve the parliament; commanded royalist infantry regiment; went abroad after Worcester, 1651; gentleman of the privy chamber, 1660.
George Fortescue: '''George Fortescue''' ([[1578]] ?-[[1659]]), essayist and poet: grandson of Sir Anthony Fortescue; expelled the kingdom when secretary to the resident of the Duke of Lorraine in London, 1647; proposed by Bolton as member of projected royal academy; corresponded with Galilei, Strada, and Thomas Faruaby His works include Feriae Academicse(Latin essays), 1630, and The Sovles Pilgrimage 1650.
Sir Henry Fortescue: '''Sir Henry Fortescue''' (. [[1426]]), lord chief-justice of the common pleas in Ireland, 1426-7; brother to Sir John Fortescue (1394?-1476 ?); M. P., Devonshire, 1421; twice deputed by the Irish parliament to make representations in England concerning their grievances,
James Fortescue: '''James Fortescue''' ([[1716]]-[[1777]]), poetical writer ; fellow of Exeter College, Oxford: M. A., 1739; D.D., 1751: chaplain of Merton; senior proctor, 1748; rector of Wootton, Northamptonshire, 1764-77; chief work, Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous(1752 and 1754).
Sir John Fortescue: '''Sir John Fortescue''' ([[1394]] ?-[[1476]] ?), lord chiefjustice of the king's bench (1442) and author;gubernator of Lincoln's Inn, 1425, 1426, 1429: serjeant-at-law, 1430; member of commissions concerning disturbances at Norwich and in Yorkshire, 1443; trier of parliamentary petitions, 1445-55; though a member of the court party declined to be influenced by the crown or the peers in Kerver's and Thorpe's cases; attainted by Edward IV as Lancastrian, 1461; followed the deposed family to Scotland and Flanders and returned with Margaret, 1471; captured at Tewkesbury, 1471; pardoned, and made a member of the council on recognising Edward IV, 1471; wrote several treatises in defence of the title of the house of Lancaster, and a disavowal of them in 1471, besides theDe Laudibns Legum Anglian(first printed, 1637), written for Edward, prince of Wales, and On the Governance of the Kingdom of England De Dommio Regali et Politico), first published, 1714.
Sir John Fortescue: '''Sir John Fortescue''' ([[1631]] ?-[[1607]]), chancellor of the exchequer; eldest eon of Sir Adrian Fortescue; superintended the studies of the Princess Elizabeth, on whose accession he became keeper of the great wardrobe: M.P., Wallingford, 1672, and afterwards for the county and borough of Buckingham and Middlesex; chancellor of the exchequer and privy councillor, 1589; chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, 1601; deprived of the exchequer by James I, but continued in his other offices; intimate with Burghley, Bacon, Ralegh, and Essex. His disputed election for Buckinghamshire (1604) raised the important constitutional question whether the house or the law courts had jurisdiction over election petitions. He presented books and manuscripts to his friend Sir Thomas Bodley's library.
Sir Nicholas Fortescue: '''Sir Nicholas Fortescue''' , the elder ([[1575]] ?-[[163]]H), chamberlain of the exchequer; harboured David Baker , the Benedictine, for several years at Cookhill, his residence; suspected of complicity in the Gunpowder plot, but cleared himself; commissioner of James I's household and of the navy, 1610; knighted, 1618; chamberlain of the exchequer, 1618-25.
Sir Nicholas Fortescue: '''Sir Nicholas Fortescue''' , the younger ([[1605]] ?1644), knight of St. John, 1638; fourth son of Sir Nicholas Fortescue the elder; attempted to revive the order in England, as Queen Henrietta Maria desired, 1637; killed fighting for the king, probably at Marston Moor.
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Richard Fortescue: '''Richard Fortescue''' (. [[1655]]), governor of Jamaica; lieutenant-colonel in parliamentarian army, 1644; colonel in new model, 1645-7; commanded i ment in expedition to Vr-t Indies, 1654; coramander-in- j chief in Jamaica. 1655.

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Thomas Fortescue: '''Thomas Fortescue''' ([[1784]]-[[1872]]), Indian civilian : secretary to Henry Wellesley ( Lord Cowlrv) when liriitenant-governor of Oude; civil commissioner at IMlii, 1803.
William Fortescue: '''William Fortescue''' ([[1687]]-[[1749]]), master of the rolls, 1741; introduced by his friend Gay to Pope; barrister, Inner Temple, 1715; private secretary to Walpole; M.P. for Newport (Isle of Wight), 1727-36; K.C., 1730; attorney-general to Frederick, prince of Wales, 1730; baron I of the exchequer, 1736; justice of common pleas, 1738; legal adviser to Pope, who addressed to him his first satire, i
Earl Op Forth: '''Earl Op Forth''' ([[1573]]?-[[1651]]). See RUTHVKV,
Patrick: '''Patrick'''
Charles Drury Edward Fortnum: '''Charles Drury Edward Fortnum''' ([[1820]]1899), art collector; conducted cattle ranch in South Australia, 1840-5; collected works of art in Europe; F.S.A., 1858;made liberal benefactions, 1892, to Oxford; University for erection of suitable buildings for accom- I inodating Ashmolean collections, to which he added his t own collections, 1888; honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1889; j published a treatise onMaiolica 1896, and other j writings.
Samuel Fortrey: '''Samuel Fortrey''' ([[1622]]-[[1681]]), author of 'England's Interest and Improvement, consisting in the increase of the Store and Trade of this Kingdom 1663.
Robert Fortune: '''Robert Fortune''' ([[1813]]-[[1880]]), traveller and botanist; visited China for the Horticultural Society, j 1842, and the East India Company, 1848; sent home the double yellow rose, the Japanese anemone, and the i Chamatrops ortunei (fan-pulm), named after him; visited Formosa and Japan, 1853; published Report upon the Tea Plantations of the N.W. Provinces of India 1851,Two Visits to the Tea Countries of China and the British Plantations in the Himalayas 1853, and Yeddo j and Peking 1863.
Thomas Dudley Fosbroke: '''Thomas Dudley Fosbroke''' ([[1770]]-[[1842]]), antiquary; educated at St. Paul's School and Pembroke College, Oxford: M.A., 1792; vicar of Walford, Herefordshire, 1830-42; F.S.A., 1799; publishedBritish Monachism 1802,Encyclopaedia of Antiquities 1825, and History of the City of Gloucester 1819, &c.
Edward Foss: '''Edward Foss''' ([[1787]]-[[1870]]), biographer ; member of the Inner Temple, 1822; one of the founders of the Incorporated Law Society, and president, 1842-3; undersheriff of London, 1827-8; F.S.A., 1822; publishedThe Judges of England 1848-64, and an abridgment of Blackstone, 1820.
Sir Augustus John Foster: '''Sir Augustus John Foster''' ([[1780]]-[[1848]]), diplomatist; plenipotentiary to the United States, 1811-12; to Denmark, 1814-24; and to Turin, 1824-40; privy councillor, 1822; M.P., Cockermouth, 1812-14; G.O.H., 1825: created baronet, 1831; committed suicide, 1848.
Henry Foster: '''Henry Foster''' ([[1796]]-[[1831]]), navigator; surveyed mouth of Columbia and north shore of La Plata, 1819; assisted Basil Hall, 1820; elected F.R.S. 1824, on return from Sabine's voyage to Greenland: astronomer to Parry's polar expeditions, 1824-5 and 1827: Copley medallist, 1826; given command of government sloop Chanticleer to determine specific ellipticitv of the earth, 1828; made pendulum experimente in the South Seas, 1828-9; measured the difference of longitude across the isthmus of Panama by rockets, 1830-1; drowned in the river Chagres.
James Foster: '''James Foster''' ([[1697]]-[[1753]]), nonconformist divine: ministered successively at Exeter, Milborne Port, Colesford, Trowbridge, the Barbican chapel (1724), and PinnersHall (1744): a famous preacher; had controversies with Tindal and Henry Stebbing (1687-1763) ; visited Lord Kilmarnock in the Tower, 1746; D.D. Aberdeen, 1748; published Discourses on all the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue 1749, and other work*; refused the SaltersHall subscription,
John Foster: '''John Foster''' ([[1731]]-[[1774]]), upper master of F.ton 1765-73; fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Cniv.-n scholar, 1750; M.A., 1756; D.D., 1766: canon of Vii 1772; died hi Germany; published an essay in def-i: the prevailing accentuation of Greek against V~-iu- an l Gaily, 1762.
John Foster: '''John Foster''' , BAROX ORIKL ([[1740]]-[[1828]]), !a--t speaker of the Irish House of Common!*, 1 785-1 hi.o; student, Middle Temple: called t tin- Ir-h I ar. 1766: M.P., Dunleer, 1761; co. Louth, 1769-1821: chairman of committees and Irish privy councillor; chancellor of tin-Irish exchequer, 1784, when his corn law was passed, and after the union, 1804-6 and 1807-11: English privy councillor, 1786; opposed Roman Catholic Relief Bill, 173: and made able speeches against the union, 1799-1800; entered the imperial parliament; created peer of the United Kingdom, 1821.
John Foster: '''John Foster''' ([[1770]]-[[1843]]), essayist and baptist minister; a republican and severe critic of the system of ecclesiastical institutions; published Essays 1804, contributions to the Eclectic Review and other works.
John Foster: '''John Foster''' ([[1787]] ?-[[1846]]), architect; i-tudied under Wyatt; discovered sculptures of pediment of temple of Athene at Egina; designed Liverpool custom house.
John Leslie Foster: '''John Leslie Foster''' (rf. [[1842]]), Irish judge; LL.D. Trinity College, Dublin, 1810; B.A., 1800; called to Irish bar, 1803; tory M.P. for Dublin university, 1807-12, Yarmouth (Isle of Wight), 1816-18, Armagh, 1818-20, Louth county, 1824-30; F.R.S., 1819; baron of the exchequer, 1830; judge of common pleas, 1842; publishedEssay on the Principles of Commercial Exchanges, particularly between England and Ireland 1804.
Sir Michael Foster: '''Sir Michael Foster''' ([[1689]]-[[1763]]), judge ; entered Exeter College, Oxford, 1705; barrister, Middle Temple, 1713; recorder of Bristol, 1735; serjeantat-law, 1736; judge of king's bench, 1745; established right of the city of Bristol to try capital offences committed within its jurisdiction in case of Samuel Goodere; at trial of ! Broadfoot pronounced impressment to be legal; eulogised 1 in the Rosciad; published legal works.
Myles Birket Foster: '''Myles Birket Foster''' ([[1825]]-[[1899]]), painter; engaged independently as illustrator, 1846-58; executed : illustrations for editions of poets and prose-writers; devoted himself to painting from 1858; exhibited at Royal Academy from 1859; R.A., 1862. His pictures, chiefly in water-colour, were principally studies of roadside and woodland scenery.
Peter Le Neve Foster: '''Peter Le Neve Foster''' ([[1809]]-[[1879]]), secretary to the Society of Arts (1853-79); educated at Norwich grammar school and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; B.A., 1830: tellow, 1830; barrister, 1836; helped to organise exhibitions of 1851 and 1862; secretary to mechanical science section of British Association; a chief founder of the Photographic Society.
Sir Robert Foster: '''Sir Robert Foster''' ([[1589]]-[[1663]]), lord chief-justice, 1660-3; barrister, Inner Temple, 1610; serjeant-at-law, 1636; justice of common plea?, 1640-3; D.C.L. Oxford, 1643: removed after trial of Captain Turpin, 1644: during Commonwealth practised as chamber counsel; restored, 1660, and made chief-justice for zeal in trial of regicides; procured execution of Sir Harry Vane.
Samuel Foster: '''Samuel Foster''' (rf. [[1652]]), mathematician ; M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1623; Gresham professor of astronomy, 1636, and 1641-52; one of the company which preceded the Royal Society; published The Use of the Quadrant 1624, andThe Art of Dialling 1638; other works by him published posthumously,
Thomas Foster: '''Thomas Foster''' ([[1798]]-[[1826]]), painter: intimate with Lawrence andNollekens; executed a portrait of H. R. Bishop q. v.1; and exhibited at the Academy Mazeppa 1823, andPaul and Virginia before their Separation 1825; committed suicide.
Thomas Campbell Foster: '''Thomas Campbell Foster''' ([[1813]]-[[1882]]), legal writer: barrister, Middle Temple, 1846; Q.C. and bencher, 1875; recorder of Warwick, 1874; leading counsel for the crown at the trial of Charles Peace; published Letters
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Fountayne: '''Fountayne''' on the Condition of the People of Ireland 1846: various legal works, and (with N. F. Finlasou) law reports.
Verb Henry Lewis Foster: '''Verb Henry Lewis Foster''' ([[1819]]-[[1900]]), phil-nthropist: son of Sir Augustus John Foster: euucated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; attache at Rio do Janeiro, 1842-3, and at Monte Video, 1846-7; did much to promote emigration to United States ami British colonies: greatly benefited cause of education in Ireland; published series of drawing copy-books.
Walter Foster: '''Walter Foster''' (fl. [[1652]]), mathematician : rldrr brother of Samuel Foster q. v.j; fellow of Emmanuel College. Cambridge; M.A., 1621; B.D., 1628; rector of Allerton, Somerset; communicated to Twysden liis brother's papers.
William Foster: '''William Foster''' ([[1591]]-[[1643]]), divine : of Merchant Taylorsand St. John's College, Oxford; B.A.; chaplain to the Earl of Carnarvon and rector of Hedgerley. Buckinghamshire; published a treatise against the use of 'weapon-salve 1629 and 1641.
Martin Fotherby: '''Martin Fotherby''' ([[1549]] 7-[[1619]]), bishop of Salisbury: fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; archdeacon of Canterbury, 1596: dean, 1615; his * Atheomastix published, 1622.
Anthony Fothergill: '''Anthony Fothergill''' ([[1685]] ?-[[176]]l), author of Wicked Christians Practical Atheists 1754, and similar works.
Anthony Fothergill: '''Anthony Fothergill''' ([[1732]] ?-[[1813]]), physician : M.D. Edinburgh, 1763; studied also at Leyden and Paris: practised at Northampton, London, and Bath: F.R.S., 1778; lived at Philadelphia, 1803-12; received gold medal of Royal Humane Society, 1794, for his essay on the revival of persons apparently dead from drowning.
George Fothergill: '''George Fothergill''' ([[1705]]-[[1760]]), principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1751-60: fellow of Queen's College, Oxford; M.A., 1730; D.D., 1749; vicar of Bramley; author of sermons
Jessie Fothergill: '''Jessie Fothergill''' ([[1851]]-[[1891]]), novelist; published, from 1876, novels, chiefly depicting Lancashire and Yorkshire factory life.
John Fothergill: '''John Fothergill''' ([[1712]]-[[1780]]), physician ; M.D. Edinburgh. 1736; began to practise in London, 1740: L.R.C.P., 1744; F.R.S., 1763; fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine at Paris, 1776; kept up at Upton, Essex, one of the finest botanical gardens in Europe, his collection of shells and insects passing to Dr. W. Hunter, and his natural history drawings being bought by the empress of Russia; assisted Benjamin Franklin in drawing up scheme of reconciliation with American colonies, 1774; a chief founder of the quaker school at Ackworth. His works (edited by J. C. Letteom, 1783-4) included Account of the Sore Throat 1748 (the first recognition of diphtheria in England); and a pamphlet advocating the repeal of the Stamp Act. His portrait by Hogarth is at the College of Physicians,
John Milner Fothergill: '''John Milner Fothergill''' ([[1841]]-[[1888]]), medical writer; M.D. Edinburgh, 1866; practised in Leeds and London; wrote valuable essays upon the Action of Digitalis; and The Antagonism of Therapeutic Agents 1878.
Samuel Fothergill: '''Samuel Fothergill''' ([[1715]]-[[1772]]), quaker; brother of John Fothergill: undertook missions to Wales, 1739, Ireland, 1744 and 1762, the United States, 1754-6, and Scotland, 1764.
Andrew Foulis: '''Andrew Foulis''' , the elder ([[1712]]-[[1775]]), brother and partner of Robert Foulis; undertook the strictly business side of the printing-house.
Andrew Foulis: '''Andrew Foulis''' , the younger (. [[1829]]), printer ; son of Robert Foulis; printed editions of Virgil and a Cicero de Offlciis
Sir David Foulis: '''Sir David Foulis''' , first baronet (rf. [[1642]]), politician ; irreat-grandson of Sir James Foulis (d. 1549); came to England with James I; naturalised, 1606; created an English baronet, 1620; the recipient of the letter of advice to.lame? 1 from Sir Robert Dudley: titular Duke of Northumberland, 1614; dismissed from the council, and imprisoned for charges against Wentworth as president of the north, 1633-40; testified against Wentworth, 1641
Henry Foulis: '''Henry Foulis''' ([[1638]]-[[1069]]), author : grandson of Sir David Foulis: M.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1659: B.A. Cambridge, 1G58: fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, 1660; friend of Anthony a Wood; published works against presbyterians and Romanists.
Sir James Foulis: '''Sir James Foulis''' (. [[1549]]), Scottish judge: acquired Colinton estates, 1519; lord of session, 1526; pri vansecretary to James V, 1629: knighted, 1539; clerk-register of the College of Senators, 1532-46; member of the secret council, 1542.
Foulis: '''Foulis''' Sin JAMES, Loan COLINTOX (d. [[1688]]), lord justice clerk; M.P. Edinburgh, 1645-8 and 1651 -.member of committee of estates, 1646-7: imprisoned as royalist: lord of session, 1661; lord of the articles; lord commissioner of justiciary and a peer. 1672; privy councillor, 1674; lord justice clerk, 1684.
James Foulis: '''James Foulis''' , LOUD RKIDFITRU ([[1645]] 7-[[1711]]), Scotj fish judge: eldest son of Sir James Foulis, lord Oolinton ; lord of session, 1674; nonjuror: privy councillor, 1703; opposed the union.
Sir James Foulis: '''Sir James Foulis''' ([[1714]]-[[1791]]), fifth baronet of Colinton: contributed to Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland a dissertation on the origin{Vf the Scots, 1781.
Sir James Foulis: '''Sir James Foulis''' , seventh baronet of Colinton (1770-1842); painter and sculptor: executed portrait of founder of Gillespie's Hospital, Edinburgh.
Robert Foulis: '''Robert Foulis''' ([[1707]]-[[1776]]), printer (originally ! named Faults); whilst a barber's apprentice at Glasgow attended the lectures of Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746 : with his brother Andrew visited Oxford and France, collecting rare books, 1738-40: bookseller and printer at Glasgow, 1741: printed for the university their first Greek book Demetrius Phalereus de Elocutione), i 1743, and theimmaculateHorace, 1744; issuedCatai logue of Books lately imported from France the fine iIliad 1747, and the Olivet Ciceroni 749: founded art i academy, 1753; gained silver medal of the Edinburgh Select Society for his small folio Callimachus, 1755, for the Ih'ad, 1756, and Odyssey, 1758, with Flaxman's designs; issued quarto edition of Gray, 1768, and Paradise Lost 1770. I The Foulis books were sold in 1777. Most of them are now i in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.
Peter Foulkes: '''Peter Foulkes''' ([[1676]]-[[1747]]), scholar and divine : educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1701: canon of Exeter, 1704; sub-dean, 1725-33; published (with John Freind) an edition of Eschines and Demosthenes de Corona (with Latin translation), 1696.
Robert Foulkes: '''Robert Foulkes''' (d. [[1679]]), murderer ; servitor of Christ Church, Oxford; vicar of Stanton Lacy, Shropshire: i executed at Tyburn for the murder of his illegitimate I child.
Sir Andrew Fountaine: '''Sir Andrew Fountaine''' ([[1676]]-[[1753]]). virtuoso : M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1700: knighted, 1699: vicechamberlain to Queen Caroline and tutor to Prince William; warden of the mint, 1727-53: formed, while travelling in France and Italy, collections of china, pictures, j and antiquities (much of the former sold at Christie's, 1884); the Annius of Pope's Dunciad

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John Fountains: '''John Fountains''' ([[1600]]-[[1671]]), commissioner of the great seal, 1659-60: barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1629; imprisoned for refusing to pay the parliament's war tax, 1642; assisted in forming royalist association of western counties, 1645: pardoned, 1662, and placed upon parliamentary commissions; serjeant-at-law, 1658.
Loud Fountainhall: '''Loud Fountainhall''' ([[1646]]-[[1722]]). See LAUDKR
John Sir: '''John Sir''' .
John Fountains: '''John Fountains''' (rf. [[1225]]). See FONTIBCS, JOHN DE.
John Fountayne: '''John Fountayne''' ([[1714]]-[[1802]]), dean of York, 1747-1802: great-grandson of John Fountaine: M.A. St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, 1739; D.D., 1751; canon of Salisbury, 1739, of Windsor, 1741.
Fourdrinier: '''Fourdrinier''' 450
Fox: '''Fox'''
Henry Fourdrinier: '''Henry Fourdrinier''' ([[1766]]-[[1854]]), inventor ; with hi- brother, Snily Fourdrinier, patented in 1807 a continuous paper-making machine at a cost of 6U,(MM.; nwivccl a parliamentary grant, 1840.
Paul Fourdrinier: '''Paul Fourdrinier''' (d. [[1758]]), engraver.
Peter Fourdrinier: '''Peter Fourdrinier''' (ft. [[1720]]-[[1750]]), engraver of portraits, book illustrations and architectural works.
Sealy Fourdrinier: '''Sealy Fourdrinier''' (d. [[1847]]), inventor ; brother of Henry Fourdrinier; shared with him in parliamentary compensation for losses sustained.
Daniel Fourniee: '''Daniel Fourniee''' (d. [[1766]]?), engraver and draughtsman; publishedTreatise of the Theory and Practice of Perspective 1761.
Francis Fowke: '''Francis Fowke''' ([[1823]]-[[1865]]), captain of royal engineers and architect; secretary to the British commission at Paris Exhibition, 1854; with Kedgrave designed the Sheepshanks Gallery; as architect of the Science and Art Department designed the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, the enlarged Dublin National Gallery, the buildings for the Exhibition of 1862, and began the South Kensington Museum; invented a military fireengine and patented a photographic camera.
John Fowke: '''John Fowke''' (d. [[1662]]), lord mayor, [[1652]]-3 ; imprisoned for refusing to pay tonnage and poundage, 1627-9; sheriff of London and leader of city parliamentarians, 1643; fined and imprisoned for conduct as commissioner of customs, 1645; presented a petition for peace to parliament, 1648; M.P. for the city, 1661; benefactor of Bethlehem and Christ's hospitals.
Phineas Fowke: '''Phineas Fowke''' ([[1638]]-[[1710]]), London physician ; fellow of QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1658; B.A., 1658; M.D., 1668; F.R.C.P., 1680.
Abraham Fowler: '''Abraham Fowler''' (ft. [[1577]]), verse-writer; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford.
Christopher Fowler: '''Christopher Fowler''' ([[1610]]?-[[1678]]), ejected minister; B.A.Magdalen College, Oxford, 1632; M.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1634; took covenant and held sequestrated living of St. Mary's, Reading, 1643-62; preached in London; fellow of Eton; wrote against the quakers, 1656, and the astrologer John Pordage
Edward Fowler: '''Edward Fowler''' ([[1632]]-[[1714]]), bishop of Gloucester; B.A. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1663; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1666: rector of Norhill, Bedfordshire, 1656, All Hallows, Bread Street, 1673; D.D.; canon of Gloucester, 1676; vicar of St. Giles, Cripplegate, 1681-5; suspended for whiggism, 1685; influenced London clergy against reading Declaration of Indulgence, 1687; member of commission for revising prayer-book, 1689; bishop of Gloucester, 1691-1714; published a defence of the latitudinarians, 1670, The Design of Christianity 1671, which latter occasioned a controversy with Bunyan, several anti-Romanist works, and Twenty-eight Propositions in explanation of thedoctrine of the Trinity, 1693.
Henry Fowler: '''Henry Fowler''' ([[1779]]-[[1838]]), hymn-writer ; minister of Gower Street Chapel, London, 1820; published an autobiography andOriginal Hymns... with prose reflections 1818-24.
John Fowler: '''John Fowler''' ([[1537]]-[[1579]]), Roman catholic printer and scholar; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford: fellow, 1553-9; M.A., 1560; printed at Louvain, Antwerp, and Douay many catholic works; died at Namur; edited More's Dialogue of Comfort 1573, and issued a Psalter for Catholics 1578.
John Fowler: '''John Fowler''' ([[1826]]-[[1864]]), inventor of the steam plough; with Albert Fry conducted experiments at Bristol, from which resulted the drain plough, 1850; received in 1858 prize of Royal Agricultural Society for his steam cultivator, improved in 1860 by the invention of the double engine tackle; took out thirty-two patents for himself and partners, 1850-64.
Fowler: '''Fowler''' Sm JOHN, first baronet ([[1817]]-[[1898]]), civil engineer; engaged, under John Urpeth Rastrick , on London and Brighton railway; engineer and general manager of Stockton and Hartlepool line; consulting engineer in London, 1844; designed Pinjlico rail way bridge, 1860, and Metropolitan railway from 1853; K.O.M.G., 1886; took into partnership Mr. (now sir; Benjamin Baker, 1875, the partners being mainly responsible for construction of Forth bridge, 1882-90; created baronet, 1890: member of council of institution of Civil Engineers, 1849; president, 1866-7: published professional Report*.* i.-nppL ii. 233
Richard Fowler: '''Richard Fowler''' ([[1765]]-[[1863]]), physician; M.D. Edinburgh, 1793; member of Speculative Society; physician to Salisbury Infirmary, 1796-1847; L.R.C.P., 1796; F.R.S., 1802; published book on galvanic experiments, 1793, works upon the psychology of defective senses, and On Literary and Scientific Pursuits as conducive to Longevity 1855.
Robert: '''Robert''' ([[1726]]?-[[1801]]), archbishop of I Dublin, 1779: educated at Westminster and Trinity I College, Cambridge; M.A., 1751: D.D., 1764; chaplain to George II, 1756; canon of Westminster, 1765; bishop of Killaloe, 1771-9; translated to Dublin, 1779.
Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler: '''Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler''' , first baronet (1828-1891), lord mayor of London; educated at University College, London; M.A. London, 1860; entered banking firm of Drewett & Fowler, in which his father was partner; conservative M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth, 1868-74; engaged in reorganising conservative party in city of London; alderman for Cornhill ward, 1878; M.P. for city of London, 1880-91; lord mayor of London, 1883-4, and April 1885 (on death of Alderman Nottage); created baronet, 1885; publishedVisit to China, Japan, and ndia 1877.

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