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This listing page belongs to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography, spun out of the “missing article” project, and is concerned with checking whether Wikipedia has articles for all those listed in the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), a 63-volume British biographical dictionary published 1885-1900 and now in the public domain. This page relates to volume 15 running from name Diamond to name Drake.

Scope of the subproject:

It is envisaged that the following work will be done:

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

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

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

Locating the full text:

DNB text is now available on Wikisource for all first edition articles, on the page s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Vol 15 Diamond - Drake. Names here are not inverted, as they are in the original: Joe Bloggs would be found at Wikisource s:Bloggs, Joe (DNB00). The text for the first supplement is available too: NB that this Epitome listing includes those supplement articles also.

List maintenance and protocols:

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

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

The work involves:

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

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

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

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

Supplement articles:

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

General thoughts:

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

Helpful access templates:

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

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

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

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

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


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  1. ^ Hugh Welch Diamond (1809–1886), photographer; of Huguenot origin; M.R.C.S., 1834; resident superintendent of female patients at the Surrey County Asylum, 1848-58; secretary to the London Photographic Society, 1863; said to have invented the paper or cardboard photographic portrait.
  2. ^ Thomas Dibben (d. 1741), Latin poet : educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge; fellow, 1698; M.A., 1703; D.D., 1721; chaplain to lord privy seal at congress of Utrecht, 1713: precentor of St. Paul's, 1714; translated Prior's Carmen Seculare for 1700 into Latin verse.
  3. ^ Charles Dibdin (1746–1814), dramatist and songwriter; composed The Shepherd's Artifice a pastoral operetta, 1762; acted at Richmond Theatre, 1762, and later at Covent Garden: composed music for Garrick's Shakespeare jubilee at Stratford, 1769; quarrelled with Garrick, but was reconciled, 1769; discharged by Garrick on account of his ill-usage of a Miss Pitt, his mistress; his Cobler and Waterman produced at the Haymarket; satirised Garrick in The Comic Mirror a puppet-play; wrote the Seraglio containing Blow high, blow low, the earliest of his sea-songs, 1776; producedProfessional VolunteersThe Rent Day; A Thanksgiving and Commodore Pennant his last pieces, at the Lyceum, 1808; composed entertainments and sketches in which were introduced the nautical songs by which he is best remembered, as well as a History of the Stage 1795, fin autobiography and two novels, Hannah He wit 1792, the Younger Brother 17'J3.
  4. ^ Charles Dibdin , the younger (1768–1833), proprietor and acting-manager of Sadler's Wells Theatre, for which he wrote plays, songs, and spectacles; natural sou of Charles Dibdtn
  5. ^ Henry Edward Dibdin (1813–1866), musician ; son of Charles Dibdin the younger; played the harp at Paganini's last concert, Covent Garden Theatre, 1832; organist of Trinity Chapel, Edinburgh, 1833-66; published theStandard Psalm Book 1867, andThe Praise Book 1865.
  6. ^ Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847), bibliographer; nephew of Charles Dibdin (1745-1814); born in India; educated at St. John's College, Oxford; M.A., 1825; D.D., 1825; brought under the notice of Lord Spencer by his Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics 1802; publishedBibliomania 1809; was an original member of the Roxburghe Club, 1812; catalogued Lord Spencer's library at Althorp, though hampered by his ignorance of Greek; published a Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour(1821), the outcome of travels on the continent; rector of St. Mary's, Bryanston Square, from 1824. His reprints and bibliographical writings, although valued by book-collectors, are often inaccurate.
  7. ^ Thomas John Dibdin (1771–1841), actor and dramatist; illegitimate son of Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) ; shown on the stage as Cupid to Mrs. Siddons's Venus, 1775; apprenticed to London upholsterer; ran away, and obtained theatrical engagement at Eastbourne under name of Merchant; wrote operas and dramatic trifles for Sadler's Wells, 1796; prompter and joint stage manager at Sadler's Wells; wrote The British Raft a piece containing The Snug Little Island a song which became very popular, 1797; composed, in honour of Nelson's victory, The Month of the Nile while performing on a seven yearsengagement at Covent Garden, 1798; produced (1801-2) The Cabinet his first and best opera; prompter and pantomime writer at Drury Lane Theatre, when reopened after the fire of 1809; financially ruined by his ill-success as proprietor of the Surrey Theatre, 1822; wrote nearly two thousand songs and about two hundred operas and plays.
  8. ^ Edward Dicconson (1670–1752), Roman catholic prelate; educated at the English college, Douay: professor of poetry, 1708-9, of syntax, 1709-10, and of philosophy, 1711-12; D.D.: vice-president and professor of theology, 1714-20; vicar-apostolic of the northern district of England, 1740; bishop of Malla in partibus infldelium, 1741.
  9. ^ Ralph de Diceto (d. 1202?), dean of St. Paul's ; archdeacon of Middlesex, 1152; dean of St. Paul's, 1180; made survey of capitulary property of deanery, 1181; built deanery- house and chapel within cathedral precincts; author of Abbreviations Chronicorumand Ymagines Historiarum two works on contemporary history; frequently mediated between Henry II and the ecclesiastics.
  10. ^ Sir Alexander Dick (1703–1785), physician: studied medicine at Edinburgh and Leyden; M.D., 1725: M.D. St. Andrews, 1727: succeeded to the baronetcy of Dick, 1746; president of the College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1766-63; assisted in obtaining charter for Royal Society of Edinburgh; gold medallist of Society of Arts for best specimen of rhubarb 1774; correspondent of Dr. Johnson.
  11. ^ Lady Anne Dick (d. 1741), verse-writer; nee Mackenzie; married Sir William Dick of Prestonfield; notorious for the eccentricity of her habits and her virulent epigrams.
  12. ^ Dirty Dick (pseudonym) (1756?–1809). See Nathaniel Bentley.
  13. ^ John Dick (1764–1833), theological writer : studied at King's College, Aberdeen; published The Conduct and Doom of False Teachers to combat Unitarian thought, 1788: maintained plenary inspiration in an Essay on the Inspiration of the Scriptures 1800: minister of Grey friars, Glasgow, 1801-33; D.D. Princeton College, New Jersey, 1815; theological professor to the associate synod. 1820-33.
  14. ^ Robert Dick (1811–1866), geologist and botanist; self-taught; apprenticed to a baker; re-discovered northern holy-grass, 1834; furnished information to Hugh Miller, for whom he also procured fossils.
  15. ^ Sir Robert Henry Dick (1785?–1846), major general; lieutenant 62nd regiment, 1802; captain 1;--Bhire buffs, 1804: served in Kgypt, 1807; major, 1808; commander of battalions in Peninsula, 1809; lieutenantcolonel, 1812; senior major in Flanders, 1815; colonel, 1825; major-general. 1837; K.C.B., 1838; acting commauder-in-chief at Madras, 1841-2; commanded third Infantry division in Sikh war; killed at Sobraon.
  16. ^ Thomas Dick (1774–1857), scientific writer; entered Edinburgh University, 1794: teacher in secession school at Methven, where he did much to popularise science, and at Perth; LL.D. New York: M.R.A.S., 1853; chief works,The Christian Philo;opher 1823, nnd 4 The Sidereal Heavens 1840.
  17. ^ Sir William Dick (1680?–1655), provost of Edinburgh; advanced 6.000. to James VI, 1618; customs and excise farmer; lord provost of Edinburgh, 1 638 and 1639; extended the trade of the Firth of Forth; advanced money for the cause of Montrose, 1639; knighted by Charles 1, 1642; created baronet of Nova Scotia, c. 1642; reduced to destitution by fine imposed by parliament for lending 20,(XXM. to Charles II in 1650.
  18. ^ Charles Dickens (1812–1870), novelist ; son of a government clerk; employed in making up parcels in an office at Hungerford Stair?, c. 1823; shorthand reporter of debates in the Commons to the True Sun and, in 1835, to the Morning Chronicle; contributed to 4 Monthly Magazine 1833-5, and to Evening Chronicle 1835; these articles were collected and published as Sketches by Boz 1836; commenced Pickwick Papers 1836; produced Oliver Twist* in Bentley'sMiscellany 1837-9, andNicholas Nickleby 1838-9, in monthly numbers; wrote Master Humphrey's Clock a serial, 1840-1, in which first appearedOld Curiosity Shop andBarnaby Rudge edited Pic-Nic Papers for the benefit of the widow of his old publisher, Macrone, 1841; sailed for America (1842), where he advocated international copyright and abolition of shivery; commenced Martin Chuzzlewitin serial form, 1843; assisted Miss Coutts, afterwards the Baroness Burdett Coutts, in philanthropic work; wrote the Christmas Carol 1843; settled at Genoa, where he wrote the Chimes and learned Italian, 1844; first editor of Daily News January 1846, resigning in February; wrote in Switzerland, 1846,Dombey and Son(published, 1848) andThe Battle of Life manager of a theatrical company which performed Elizabethan dramas and modern comedies in the great provincial towns, 1847; started two journals, Household Words 1849, and subsequently All the Year Round; published The Haunted Man 1848, and David Copperfieldin monthly numbers, 1849-50; producedBleak House in serial form, 1852-3, Hard Times 1854, and Little Dorrit 1855-7; began to give public readings, 1858; published his Tale of Two Cities in All the Year Round 1859; producedGreat Expectations 1860-1, and Our Mutual Friend 1864-5, both in monthly instalments; gave public readings in America, 1867 and 1868, and in England on his return, 1868; commenced The Mystery of Edwin Droodin 1870, but died suddenly before completing it. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, 14 June 1870. His novels have probably had the largest number of readers of any English works of fiction.
  19. ^ Charles Dickens (1837–1896), compiler; eldest son of Charles Dickens, the novelist: educated at King's College, London, and Eton; entered Baring's bank, 1855; set up in business in city, 1861; sub-editor of All the Year Round 1869, and sole proprietor on his father's death; chief partner in printing firm of Dickens & Evans; I published series of dictionary-guides, 1879-84; gave readings from his father's works in America, 1887; reader in I firm of Macmillan & Co., c. 1887.
  20. ^ John Dickenson (fl. 1594), romance-writer ; author of Arisbas 1594, Greene in Conceipt... The Tragique Historie of Faire Valeria of London, 1598, and I a pastoral poem in English hexameters.
  21. ^ George Dickie (1812–1882), botanist ; M.A. Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1830; professor of natural history, Belfast, 1849-60; M.D., professor of botany, Aberdeen, 1860-77; specialised on algae, and published works on flora of nst Scotland nnd Ulster.
  22. ^ Charles Dickinson (1792–1842), bishop of Meath; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1820; chaplain of the Female Orphan House, Dublin, 1822; vicar of St Anne's, Dublin, 1833: D.D., 1834: bishop of Meath, 1840-2; published sermons and tracts.
  23. ^ Edmund Dickinson or Dickenson (1624-1707), physician and alchemist; educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford; probationer- fellow, 1647; M.A., 1649; M.D., 1656: induced by Muudanus, a French adept, to study chemistry; F.C.P., 1677; physician in ordinary to diaries II and James II; published Delphi Phcenicizantes 1666, and Physica vetuset vera claiming to base a philosophy on the Pentateuch, 1702.
  24. ^ James Dickinson (1659–1741), quaker; quaker minister, 1678; made three missionary voyages to America, visiting Barbados in 1692;commandedto proclaim the Divine wrath at the death of Queen Mary, 1694. Fxv 341
  25. ^ John Dickinson (1815–1876), writer on India; educated at Eton; published Letters on the Cotton and Roads of Western India 1851; founded India Reform Society (1853), which insisted on leniency after the mutiny of 1857; corresponded with Holkar, maharajah of Indore; published India, its Government under Bureaucracy 1852, Dhar not Restored 1864-5, and other pamphlets.
  26. ^ Joseph Dickinson (d. 1865), botanist ; M.A. and M.D. Dublin and Cambridge, 1843; physician to the Royal Infirmary (1839) and other Liverpool institutions; F.R.S. and F.R.C.P.; published Flora of Liverpool 1861.
  27. ^ William Dickinson (1756–1822), topographer and legal writer; fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge; M.A., 1780; justice of the peace for Nottingham, Lincoln, Middlesex, Surrey, and Sussex; wrote on Nottinghamshire antiquities and justice law.
  28. ^ William Dickinson (1746–1823), mezzotint engraver; awarded premium by Society of Arts, 1767; printseller, 1773: died in Paris; engraved chiefly after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  29. ^ Maria Dickons (1770?–1833), vocalist ; nie Poole ; made her debut at Covent Garden as Ophelia, 1793; appeared at the Lyceum as Clara in Sheridan's Duenna 1811, and at the King's Theatre as the Countess in Mozart's 'Nozze di Figaro 1812; honorary member of the Institute Filarmonico of Venice.
  30. ^ Adam Dickson (1721–1776), writer on agriculture : M.A. Edinburgh; incumbent of Whittinghame in East Lothian, 1769-76; chief works, The Husbandry of the Ancients published 1788. and a Treatise on Agriculture vol. i. 1762, vol. ii. 1770.
  31. ^ Sir Alexander Dickson (1777–1840), majorgeneral, royal artillery; second lieutenant, royal artillery, 1794; acting engineer at siege of Valetta, 1800; commander of artillery in South America, 1807; brigade, major in the operations before Oporto, 1809; major and lieutenant-colonel in the Portuguese service; superintended artillery operations in Peninsula, 1811 and 1812; commanded allied artillery at Vittoria, 1813; fought at Waterloo, 1816; inspector of artillery, 1822; directorgeneral of the field-train department, 1833; major-general, 1837; G.C.B., 1838; F.R.G.S.
  32. ^ Alexander Dickson (1836–1887), botanist; graduated in medicine at Edinburgh, 1860; professor of botany at Dublin, at Glasgow, 1868, and at Edinburgh, 1879; regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1879; LL.D. Glasgow; F.R.S. Edinburgh; published scientific papers.
  33. ^ David Dickson or Dick (1583?–1663), Scottish divine; M.A. and professor of philosophy, Glasgow; minister at Irvine, 1618; deprived for declining the jurisdiction of the high court of commission, before which he was cited as an assailant of the five articles of Perth, 1622; permitted to return, 1623; professor of divinity at Glasgow, 1640-50; chaplain in the covenanters army, 1639; professor of divinity at Edinburgh, 1650-60; ejected for refusing the oath of supremacy, 1660; commentator on scripture.
  34. ^ David Dickson , the elder (1764–1820), theologian; studied at Glasgow aud Edinburgh; minister first of the College Church and then of the New North Church, Edinburgh; opponent of Dr. MGU1.
  35. ^ David Dickson , the younger (1780–1842), presbyterian divine; educated at Edinburgh University: D.D. Edinburgh, 1824; senior minister of St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, 1827-42; published The Influence of Learning on Religion 1814, and other works.
  36. ^ Elizabeth Dickson (1793?–1862), philanthropist; nee Dalzel; married John Dicksou; visited Algiers; made revelations about piracy (1809), which led to Lord Exmouth's expedition; died at Tripoli.
  37. ^ James Dickson (1737?-1822), botanist ; of humble origin; author of Catalogus Plantarum Cryptogamicarum Britanniae 1795, and some other botanical publications,
  38. ^ Sir James Robert Dickson (1832–1901), Australian statesman; served in City of Glasgow Bank: emigrated to Victoria, 1854, and entered Bank of Australasia; auctioneer in Queensland, 1862; member for Enoggera of Queensland House of Assembly, 1872-87, and, 1876-87, held office in ministry; member for Bulimba, 1892, 1893, and 1896; premier, 1898-9; advocated formation of Australian commonwealth; delegate for Queensland; discussed project for commonwealth in London, 1900; minister for defence in first government of United Australia, 1900; K.C.M.G., 1901; honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1900.
  39. ^ Robert Dickson (1804–1876), physician; M.D. Edinburgh, 1826; P.R.c.P., 1855; lectured on botany at St. George's Hospital.
  40. ^ Samuel Dickson (1802–1869), author of the 'Chrono-thermal System of Medicine pupil of Liston at Edinburgh: assistant-surgeon in the 30th regiment of foot at Madras; M.D. Glasgow, 1833; published Revelations on Cholera 1848; attacked received systems in The Fallacy of Physic as taught in the Schools 1836, and similar writings; originated hypothesis of the periodicity and intermittency of all vital actions.
  41. ^ William Dickson (1745–1804), Irish bishop; educated at Eton and Hertford College, Oxford; M.A., 1770; friend of Charles James Fox; bishop of Down and Connor, 1783.
  42. ^ William Gillespie Dickson (1823–1876), legal writer; educated at the Edinburgh Academy and University; member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1847; procureur and advocate-general of Mauritius, 1856-67: sheriffdepute of Lanark, 1874; honorary LL.D. Edinburgh, 1874; publishedTreatise on the Law of Evidence in Scotland 1855.
  43. ^ William Steel Dickson (1744–1824), United Irishman; entered Glasgow College, 1761; denounced England's treatment of the American colonies, 1776; advocated enrolment of catholics as volunteers, 1779; minister at Portaferry, 1780; D.D. Glasgow; member of Wolf Tone's society of United Irishmen, 1791: instrumental in bringing about Catholic Relief Act, 1793; adjutant-general of the United Irish forces for co. Down, 1798; imprisoned for sedition at Belfast and, in 1799, at Fort George, Inverness-shire; released, 1802; minister of Second Keady, co. Armagh, 1803; resigned in broken health, 1815; died in poverty.
  44. ^ Dicuil (fl. 825), Irish geographer; author of a Liber de Mensura Orbis Terras professing to be based on a survey of the world carried out by Theodosius (I ?), and embodying the reports of recent travellers.
  45. ^ Adriaen Van Diest (1656–1704). See Van Diest.
  46. ^ Everard Digby (. K590), divine and author; sizar of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1567: scholar, 1570; Lady Margaret fellow, 1573; M.A., 1674: B.D., 1581; senior fellow, 1585; deprived for alleged insubordination and Romanist tendencies, 1587; author of the earliest treatise on swimming published in England, 1587; suggested classification of sciences in hisDe Duplici Methodo libri duo 1580, andTheoria Analytica 1579; propounded a theory of perception basal on the active correspondence of miiid and matter.
  47. ^ Sir Everard Digby (1578–1606), conspirator; converted to Catholicism at court by John Gerard, 159B; knighted, 1603; told off to excite a rising in the Midlands at the time of the Gunpowder plot, 1606; deserted hi companions when besieged in Holbeach House, Staffordshire, 8 Nov. 1605; executed, 1606.
  48. ^ George Digby, second Earl of Bristol (1612–1677), son of John Digby, first earl of Bristol; born at Madrid; entered Magdalen College, Oxford, 1626; M.A., 1636; attacked Roman Catholicism in correspondence with Sir Kenelm Digby, 1638-9; M.P., Dorset, 1640; opposed third reading of bill for Strafford's attainder, though on committee for his impeachment, 1641; succeeded* as Baron Digby, 1641; fled to Holland (1642) and was impeached by default for levying royalist troops; fought for Charles I at Edgehill, 1642, but gave up his command after a quarrel with Prince Rupert; secretary of state aud privy councillor, 1643; high steward of Oxford University, 1643: lieutenant-general of the king's forces north of the Trent, 1645; defeated at Carlisle Sands; retired to France and took part in the Fronde, 1648; lieutenant-general in French army, 1661; detected in an intrigue against Mazariu, and forced to leave France; reappointed secretary of state to Charles II, 1657; subsequently deprived of the seals as a catholic; K.G., 1661; ineffectually impeached Clarendon (1663), who had foiled his scheme of an Italian marriage for the king; wrote comedies and, according to Walpole, translated from French first three books of Cassandra.
  49. ^ John Digby, first Earl of Bristol (1580–1653), diplomatist and statesman; fellow-commoner of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1595; knighted, 1607; sent on a fruitless embassy to negotiate a marriage between Prince Henry and Anne, the Spanish infanta, 1611, and between Prince Charles and the Infanta Maria, 1614; vice-chamberlain and privy councillor, 1616; again sent to Spain (1617) to arrange the Spanish match, which was temporarily broken off by James I's refusal to grant liberty of conscience to English catholics; created Baron Digby, 1618; commissioned to negotiate peace between elector palatine and Ferdinand II, emperor of Germany, 1621; returned to Spain in 1622 to reopen marriage treaty of 1618; created. Earl of Bristol, 1622; offended Prince Charles and Buckingham at Madrid, 1623; vainly demanded a trial in parliament to appease the hostility of Charles I, 1626; impartial in debates over Petition of Right, 1628; refused to vote on the attainder bill against Strafford, 1641; advised Charles I to conciliate the independents, 1644; his expulsion from the court demanded by the parliament in propositions for peace at Oxford, 1643; went into exile after capitulation of Exeter, 1646; died at Paris.
  50. ^ Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), author, naval commander, and diplomatist; son of Sir Everard Digby (1578-1606); entered Gloucester Hall (Worcester College), Oxford, 1618; visited Paris and Angers, 1620; removed to Florence to escape the importunities of Marie de Medicis; joined Prince Charles and Buckingham at Madrid, 1623; knighted, 1623; defeated French and Venetian fleet in Scanderoon harbour, 1628; returned to England, 1629; professed protestantism after 1630, but soon returned to Roman Catholicism; published A Conference with a Lady about Choice of a Religion 1638; his removal from the royal councils requested by the House of Commons (1641) for having appealed to the English Roman catholics to support Charles I in Scotland; fought a duel at Paris in defence of Charles 1, 1641: published a criticism on Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici 1643: wroteOf BodiesandOf the Immortality of Man's Soul 1644; chancellor to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1644; pleaded Charles I's cause with Pope Innocent X, but quarrelled with him and left Rome, 1646; returned to England and was banished, 1649; visited by Evelyn at Paris, 1651; became acquainted with Descartes; returned to England on permission, 1664; worked in Cromwell's interest on the continent, 1656; returned to England, 1660, retaining the office of Queen Henrietta's chancellor; forbidden the court, 1664; member of the council of the Royal Society when first incorporated, 1663. He discovered the necessity of oxygen to the life of plants, and claimed to have discovered a sympathetic powder for the cure of wounds (it was of no medicinal value). In philosophy he followed the schoolmen, writing by the aid of Thomas White Institutionum Peripateticarum libri quinque 1651. His Private Memoirsbwere first printed in 1827.
  51. ^ Kenelm Henry Digby (1800–1880), miscellaneous writer; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1819; converted to Roman Catholicism; author of The BroadStone of Honour 1822, Mores Catholici 1831-40, some books on the emotional aspects of Catholicism, and a few poems.
  52. ^ Lady Lettice Digby, (1588?–1658); created Baroness Offaley: heiress-general to the Earls of Kildare on the death of her father, Gerald Fitzgerald; married Sir Robert Digby of Coleshill, 1608; held Geashill Castle against Irish rebels, 1642.
  53. ^ Robert Digby (1732–1815), admiral; great-grandson of William, fifth baron Digby; commanded the Dunkirk at the battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759; commanded in Palliser's division off Ushant, 1778; rearadmiral, 1779; second in command in Rodney's expedition for relief of Gibraltar, 1779; commander-in-chief in North America, 1781; admiral, 1794.
  54. ^ Lady Venetia Digby (1600–1633); nee Stanley; married Sir Kenelm Digby, 1625; commemorated in elegies by Ben Jonson and others.
  55. ^ William Digby, fifth Baron Digby (1661–1752); B.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1681; D.C.L., 1708; M.P., Warwickshire, 1689; included in the Act of Attainder passed by James II's parliament at Dublin, 1689; member of the common council for Georgia, 1733.
  56. ^ Sir Dudley Digges (1583–1639), diplomatist and judge; son of Thomas Digges; B.A. University College, Oxford, 1601; knighted, 1607; founded a com-: pany to trade with the East by the supposed north-west, passage, 1612; authorised to lend 10,000*. from the funds of the East India Company to the emperor of Russia, 1618; M.P., Tewkesbury, 1621, 1624, 1625, and 1626; opened case against Duke of Buckingham, 1626; M.P., Kent, 1628; influential in preparing the Petition of Right,, 1628; sharply maintained right of House of Commons to criticise ministers of state, 1628; placed on the high commission, 1633; master of the rolls, 1636; joint-author with his father of Foure Paradoxes or Politique Discourses 1604.
  57. ^ Dudley Digges (1613–1643), political writer ; son of Sir Dudley Digges; M.A. University College, Oxford, 1635; fellow of All Souls Oxford, 1633; wrote in support of doctrine of passive obedience.
  58. ^ Leonard Digges (d. 1571?), mathematician; studied at University College, Oxford; author of Tectonicon 1656,A Geometricall Practise, named Pantometria(published, 1571), and An Arithmeticall Militare Treatise, named Stratioticos (published, 1579); said to have anticipated invention of telescope.
  59. ^ Leonard Digges (1588–1635), poet and translator: son of Thomas Digges; M.A. University College, Oxford, 1626; translated Claudian's Rape of Proserpine 1617, and Mlerardo a Spanish novel, 1622; wrote two poenis in praise of Shakespeare.
  60. ^ Thomas Digges (d. 1596), mathematician; son of Leonard Digges (d. 1571 V); M.A. QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1557; M.P., Wallingford, 1572, Southampton, 1685; muster-master-geueral of the English forces hi the Netherlands, 1586; commissioned, with others, to equip expedition for exploration of Cathay and Antarctic seas, 1590; published some of his father's works, and wrote works on applied mathematics, highly esteemed by Tycho Brahe.
  61. ^ West Digges (1720–1786), actor; appeared first at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, as Jaffier in Venice Preserved 1749; played Cato at the Haymarket, 1777; an admirable exponent of Shakespeare's Wolsey.
  62. ^ Denis Dighton (1792–1827), battle painter; military draughtsman to the Prince of Wales, 1815; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1811-25; died at St. Servan, Brittany.
  63. ^ Robert Dighton (1762?-1814), portrait-painter, caricaturist, and etcher; etched a Book of Heads caricaturing leading counsel, military officers, actors, and actresses, 1795; discovered to Lave abstracted etchings and prints from the British Museum, 1806.
  64. ^ Charles Dignum (1765?-1827), vocalist; first appeared at Drury Lane inLove in a Village 1784; particularly successful as Tom Tug in the Waterman and as Crop in No Song, No Supper; sang at Drury Lane oratorios.
  65. ^ Ashton Wentworth Dilke (1850–1883), traveller and politician; younger son of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke; scholar of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; travelled in Russia and Central Asia; editor of the 'Weekly Dispatch M.P. for Newcastle, 1880; died at Algiers; translated Tourguenieff's Virgin Soil 1878.
  66. ^ Charles Wentworth Dilke (1789–1864), antiquary and critic; brought out continuation of Dodsley's 'Old Playsbetween 1814 and 1816: acquainted with Charles Armitage Brown, Keats, Shelley, and Hood; edited the Athenaeum 1830-46, procuring contributions from continental writers an innovation in English journalism; manager of the Daily News 1846; discussed in theAthenaeumafer 1847 the authorship of the Letters of Juuius his cnticism being mainly destructive of the claim of Sir Philip Francis; wrote in defence of Wilkes and Peter Pindar; threw much light on Pope's career and writings in papers published in theAthenaeum and Notes and Queries
  67. ^ Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke , first baronet (1810-1869); son of Charles Wentworth Dilke; educated at Westminster and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; B.A., 1834; among the first to propose the International Exhibition of 1851, and one of the executive committee; created baronet, 1862; M.P., Wallingford, 1865-8; died at St. Petersburg.
  68. ^ Sir Thomas Dilkes (1667?-1707), rear-admiral ; lieutenant under James II; fought at La Hogue, 1692; brought home West Indies squadron, 1697; rear-admiral of the white, 1703; captured French merchantmen at Avranches, 1703; knighted, 1704; defeated French blockading squadron at Gibraltar, 1705; died at Leghorn.
  69. ^ John James Dillenius (1687–1747), botanical professor at Oxford; born at Darmstadt; M.D. Giessen; first professor of botany at Oxford, 1728-47; M.D. Oxford, 1735; highly esteemed as a scientist by Linnaeus; chief work, Historia Muscorum 1741.
  70. ^ Francis Dillingham (fl. 1611), divine; fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1590; B.D., 1599; renowned as a disputant; presented to the living of Wilden, Bedfordshire; one of the translators of the authorised version (1611), and a protestant controversialist.
  71. ^ Theophilus Dillingham (1613–1678), master of Clare Hall, Cambridge; M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1637; fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1638; D.D.; master of Clare Hall, 1654; vice-chancellor of the university, 1655, 1656, and 1661; ejected from his mastership at the Restoration; prebendary of York, 1662.
  72. ^ William Dillingham (1617?–1689), Latin poet and controversialist; fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1642; M.A., 1643; master of Emmanuel College, 1663-62; D.D., 1655; vice-chancellor of the university, 1669; deprived of mastership by the Act of Uniformity, 1662; rector of Woodhill, Bedfordshire, 1672-89; published Latin poems, 1678, Egyptus triumpbata 1680, and other poems and English tractates.
  73. ^ Arthur Dillon (1670–1733), general in the French service; colonel of a Jacobite regiment serving in France, 1690; marechal-de-camp, 1704; lieutenantgeneral under Tesse in Provence, 1707; superintended entrenchments at siege of Barcelona, 1714; Pretender's agent at Paris; died at St. Germain.
  74. ^ Arthur Richard Dillon (1750–1794), general in the French service; nephew of Archbishop Arthur Richard Dillon; colonel, under Louis XV, 1767; governor of St. Kitt's; brigadier-general, 1784; governor of Tobago and deputy for Martinique in the National Assembly: Jacobin general; served in the Argonne, 1792; supplanted by Dumourie-, 1792; guillotined, 1794.
  75. ^ Arthur Richard Dillon (1721–1806), French prelate; son of Arthur Dillon (1670-1733): bishop of Kvreux, 1753; archbishop of Toulouse, 1758, and of Narbonne, 17(1.1; his diocese abolished by a concordat: died iu London.
  76. ^ Edouard Dillon (1751–1839), French general and diplomatist; colonel of the Provence regiment: formed a new Dillon regiment at Coblenz, 1791; lieutenant-general, 1814; ambassador to Saxony, 1816-18, and to Tuscany, 1819.
  77. ^ Sir James Dillon (fl. 1667), the first Dillon who served in foreign armies; lieutenant-general and governor of Athlone and Connaught; took part in Leinster revolt, 1652; excepted from pardon under Act of Settlement, 1652; brigadier-general in service of Spain ami the Fronde: pensioned by Charles II for his loyalty, 1662.
  78. ^ John Blake Dillon (1816–1866), Irish politician : graduate and moderator, Trinity College, Dublin: called to the Irish bar, 1841; joint-founder of the Nation newspaper, 1842; led rebels, 1848, at Mullinahone and Killenance, eventually escaping to the United States; secretary to the Irish National Association, 1865; M.P., Tipperary, 1865; repealer; opponent of fenianism.
  79. ^ Sir John Talbot Dillon (1740?–1805), traveller, critic, and historical writer; M.P. for Blessington, in the Irish parliament, 1776-83; made a free baron of the Holy Roman Empire at Vienna, previous to 1780; created baronet, 1801; published Travels through Spain 1780, a history of Spanish poetry in the form of letters, 1781, memoirs of the French Revolution, 1790, and Sketches on the Art of Painting translated from the Spanish, 1782.
  80. ^ Sir Lucas Dillon (d. 1593), chief-baron of Irish exchequer; son of Sir Robert Dillon (1500 7-1580); solicitor-general for Ireland, 1565; attorney-general, 1566; M.P., 1569; chief baron of court of Irish exchequer, 1570; knighted, 1576; seneschal of Kilkenny West, 1583; one of lords justices appointed to administer government pending arrival of Sir John Perrot, 1584; commissioner for plantation of Munster, 1587.
  81. ^ Peter Dillon (1785?–1847), navigator in South Seas; engaged in sandal- wood trade between West Pacific islands and China, and, 1822-5, was employed in timbertrade for the East India market; went in search of lost ships of La Perouse, whose expedition was wrecked on the Santa Cruz group, 1827-8, and published account of voyage, 1829.
  82. ^ Sir Robert Dillon (1500?–1580), Irish judge; attorney-general for Ireland, 1534; second justice of queen's bench, 1554; chief-justice of court of common pleas, 1559-80.
  83. ^ Sir Robert Dillon (d. 1597), Irish judge; second justice of presidency of Connaught, 1569; chancellor of Irish exchequer, 1572; second justice of court of common pleas, 1577; chief -justice, 1581; accused of corruption and cruelty, imprisoned, and compelled to resign chief -justiceship, 1593; declared innocent; restored to chief-justiceship of Ireland, 1595.
  84. ^ Robert Crawford Dillon (1795–1847), divine ; M.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1820; D.D., 1836; chaplain to Alderman Venables when lord mayor, 1826, whom he accompanied on an official visit to Oxford: published a turgid and puerile account of this visit, which the lord mayor vainly requested him to suppress, 1826; suspended for immorality from his proprietary chapel in Charlotte Street, Pimlico, 1840: founded a new church in Friar Street, Blackfriars; first presbyter
  85. ^ Theobald Dillon (1745–1792), general in the French service; lieutenant-colonel in Dillon's regiment, 1780; took part in attack on Grenada, 1779; knight of St. Louis, 1781; brigadier-general, 1791; murdered by his own republican troops in a panic at Ton may, 1792.
  86. ^ Thomas Dillon , fourth Viscount Dillon (1615?-1672-?), lord of the privy council in Ireland, 1840; joint governor of co. Mayo, 1641; served under Charles 1, 1642, being deputed by the Irish parliament to present a statement of its grievances to the king; lord president of Connaught; joined the Marquis of Ormonde's rising, 1649; appointed custos rotulorum by Charles II, 1662.
  87. ^ Thomas Dillon or De Leon (1613–1676?), Jesuit; novice of the.Society of Jesus at Seville, 1627; professed father; professor of humanities at Cadiz, 1640-1676?; a skilled orientalist and theologian.
  88. ^ Wentworth Dillon, fourth Earl of Roscommon (1633?–1685); educated at the protestant university of Caen; studied Italian and numismatics at Rome; member of the Irish parliament, 1661; captain of the band of gentlemen pensioner*, 1661; honorary LL.D. Cambridge, 1680; D.C.L. Oxford, 1683; chief works, a blank verse translation of Horace's Ars Poetica 1680, and an Essay on Translated Verse 1684. He was the first critic who publicly praised Milton's Paradise Lost
  89. ^ Sir William Henry Dillon (1779–1857), admiral; son of Sir John Talbot Dillon; co-operated with the army as naval lieutenant off Wexford and arrested Skallian, 1798: seized by the Dutch commodore, Valterbach (1803), and handed over to the French for detention; commander, 1805; with one sloop defeated a Danish man-of-war brig, 1808; served at Walcheren, off Spain and in East Indies: K.O.H., and knighted, 1835; vice-admiral of the red, 1853.
  90. ^ Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee, thirteenth Viscount Dillon (1777–1832), writer; colonel in the Irish brigade, 1794; M.P., Harwich, 1799; knight for co. Mayo, 1802, 1806, 1807, and 1812; published works of political jurisprudence, an edition of Aelian's Tactics 1814, and The Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers (novel), 1822.
  91. ^ Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778–1865), naturalist; published his Natural History of British Conferva? 1802-9; in charge of the Cambrian pottery atj Swansea, 1802; trained public taste for natural-history designs; high sheriff of Glamorganshire, 1818; M.P., Glamorganshire, 1832-41; wrote Flora and Fauna of Swansea for the British Association, 1848.
  92. ^ Charles Dilly (1739–1807), bookseller; at one time in partnership with his brother Edward; noted for the hospitality that he extended towards the writers of the day; published Boswell's Tour in the Hebrides 1780, and theLife of Johnson 1791; master of the Stationers Company, 1803.
  93. ^ Edward Dilly (1732–1779), bookseller ; brother of Charles Dilly; exported works of dissenting theology to America.
  94. ^ John Dilly (1731–1806), brother of Charles Dilly ; Boswell's Squire Dilly; high sheriff of Bedfordshire, 1783.
  95. ^ James Dimock (d. 1718?).
  96. ^ James Francis Dimock (1810–1876), divine; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1833; M.A., 1837; minor canon of Southwell, 1846-63; rector of Barnborough, 1863 till death: prebendary of Lincoln, 1869-76; published works relating to ecclesiastical and mediaeval history.
  97. ^ Thomas Dimsdale (1712–1800), physician ; volunteer under the Duke of Cumberland, 1745; M.D., 1761; inoculated for small pox the Empress Catherine, various Russian princes, and the Hawaiian Ornai; councillor of state in Russia with hereditary title of baron, 1768; M.P., Hertford, 1780 and 1784; wrote on inoculation,
  98. ^ Sir John Dineley-Goodere (d. 1809), poor knight of Windsor; succeeded to baronetcy of Burhope in Wellington, Herefordshire, 1761; subsequently poor knight of Windsor; cherished delusive claims to certain (mythical) estates.
  99. ^ Robert Dingley (1619–1660), puritan divine; M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford; parliamentarian preacher and rector of Brightstone, Isle of Wight; published religious works.
  100. ^ Thomas Dingley or Dineley (d. 1695), antiquary; student of Gray's Inn, 1670; attended Sir George Downing (1623 ?-1684) when ambassador to the United Provinces, 1671; died at Louvain; left in manuscript Travails through the Low Countreys, Anno Domini 1674 an account of travels in Ireland, a description of Wales, and a History from Marble dealing with English epigraphy and church architecture (published 1867-8).
  101. ^ Charles Diodati (1608?–1638), friend of Milton; son of Theodore Diodati; scholar of St. Paul's School, where he first became acquainted with Milton: M.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1628; M.A. Cambri. -, 1629; practised physic near Chester. Milton addressed to him two Latin elegies and an Italian sonnet, and bewailed his death in Epitaphium Damonis 1645.
  102. ^ Theodore Diodati (1574?-1651), physician: born at Geneva of a Lucca family; brought up in England as a physician; attended Prince Henry and Princess Klinht-th: M.D. Leyden, 1615; L.C.P. London, 1617; assisted Florio in his translation of Montaigne,
  103. ^ Henry Dircks (1806–1873), civil engineer and author; life member of the British Association, 1837; consulting engineer; invented Pepper's Ghost an optical illusion, 1858; chief works, Jordantype, otherwise called Electrotype 1852, Perpetuum Mobile 1861, and A Biographical Memoir of Samuel Hartlib 1865.
  104. ^ Lord Dirleton (1609?-1687). See John Nisbet.
  105. ^ Alexander Dirom (d. 1830), lieutenant-general ; deputy adjutant-general in the second Mysore war, 1790-2; F.R.S., 1794; published account of the campaign against Tippoo Sultan in 1792, An Inquiry into the Corn Laws 1796, and Plans for the Defence of Great Britain and Ireland 1797.
  106. ^ Saint Disibod (594?-674), bishop; son of an Irish chieftain: elected bishop against his will; wandered into Alemannia (Baden), where he founded a Benedictine community.
  107. ^ John Disney (1677–1730), divine; magistrate for Lincolnshire; rector of St. Mary's, Nottingham, 1722-30; wrote on the reformation of manners.
  108. ^ John Disney (1746–1816), Unitarian clergyman; grandson of John Disney (1677-1730); at Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1764: vicar of Swinderby and rector of Panton, Lincolnshire, 1769-82; LL.B., 1770; D.D. Edinburgh, 1775: F.S.A., 1778; threw up preferments (1782) and assisted Theophilus Lindsey at Essex Street Unitarian church; sole minister, 1793; published memoirs and theological works; helped to secuie the act of 1813 'to relieve persons who impugn the doctrine of the Holy Trinity from certain penalties.
  109. ^ John Disney (1779–1857), collector of classical antiquities; son of the Rev. John Disney (1746-1816); hon. LL.D. Cambridge, and F.R.S.; barrister, Inner Temple; founded Disney professorship of archaeology at Cambridge, 1851, to which university he bequeathed his Roman marbles; published two legal works,
  110. ^ Sir Moore Disney (1766?-1846), general: lieutenant and captain, first grenadier guards, 1791; colonel, 1802; commandant of Messina, 1808; detailed to cover Sir John Moore's retreat, 1808; fought at Betaiizos and Coruna, 1809; major-general, 1809; commanded first brigade of guards at Walcheren, 1809; colonel, 15th regiment, 1814; K.C.B., 1815; general, 1837.
  111. ^ William Disney (1731–1807), professor of Hebrew; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. and senior wrangler, 1753; M.A., 1756; major fellow, 1756; regius professor ot Hebrew, 1757-71; vicar of Pluckley, Kent, 1777-1807; D.D., 1789.
  112. ^ Benjamin Disraeli , first Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), statesman and man of letters; eldest son of Isaac D'lsraeli; entered Lincoln's Inn, 1824; published Vivian Grey, his first novel, which attracted attention by its brilliance, 1826; produced Vindication of the British Constitution 1835, and some political pamphlets; published The Young Duke 1831,Oontarini Fleming 1832, Alroy 1833, The Rise of Iskander The Revolutionary Epic 1834, Venetia, 1837, and Henrietta Temple 1837; M.P., Maidstone, 1837; his first speech a failure, 1837; spoke in favour of the chartist petition, 1839; conservative M.P. for Shrewsbury, 1841; a meinbsr of the Young England party; declared himself a supporter of the corn laws on political and social grounds, 1843; violently attacked Sir Robert Peel for repealing the corn laws, 1846; published Coningsby 1844, and Sybil 1845, two novels advocating a combination of monarchy, a sort of social democracy, and Anglicanism as a political creed, and attacking the wins? principles of the upper and middle classes; published Tailored 1K47; a champion of the protectionists, 1845-5D: M.l for Buckinghamshire, 1847-76: chancellor of the exchequer in Lord Derby's first government, February 1812, but resigned in December, his party being defeated on his budget; attacked the Aberdeen administration in the Press a paper conducted under his influence, 1853; chancellor of the exchequer and leader of the House of Commons under Lord Derby's second government, February 1858- June 1859: introduced a reform bill, which was defeat til liy Lord John Russell's amendment, 1869; criticised Mr. Gladstone's financial system, 1860 and 1862, and Lord John Russell's foreign policy yearly till 1866; on defeat of Lord John Russell's reform bill, June 1866, became chancellor of the exchequer in Lord Derby's third government; carried a bill for giving franchise to all ratepayers, 1867; prime minister on Lord Derby's retirement, February 1868: resigned after general election, December 1868; published Lothair 1870; criticised Mr. Gladstone's Irish and foreign policy, 1868-73; prime minister for the second time, 1874; caused Queen Victoria to assume the title of Empress of India, 1876: created Earl of Beaconsfield, 1876; became intimate friend of Queen Victoria; sought to check the predominance of Russia in Eastern Europe, 1877-8; English plenipotentiary at the congress of Berlin, which he forced upon Russia at the close of the Russo-Turkish war, 1878: K.G., 22 July 1878; procured the occupation of Cyprus, and the retention of Caudahar; resigned on the tory defeat at the general election, April 1880; publishedEudymion his last novel, 1880; died in London, 19 April 1881; buried at Hughenden. A public monument in his memory was erected in Westminster Abbey. D'ISRAELI, ISAAC (1766-1848), author; descended from a Jewish family which had fled from Spain to Venice in time of persecution; son of Benjamin D'lsraeli, who came from Italy to settle in England in 1748; studied at Amsterdam; issued anonymously Curiosities of Literature 1791; published Calamities of Authors 1812-13, 1 Quarrels of Authors 1814, and some novels; withdrew from the Jewish congregation, of which he and his family had hitherto been members, in 1817; published between 1828 and 1830Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles I D.C.L. Oxford, 1832; published anonymously the Genius of Judaism 1833; completed his Amenities of Literature though blind, 1840.
  113. ^ Walter Diss or Dysse (f. 1404?), Carmelite; D.D. Cambridge: subscribed the Blackfriars council's condemnation of Wycliff e's twenty-four conclusions, 1382: named papal legate by Pope Urban VI, to give the character of a crusade to John of Gaunt's expedition into Castile, 1386, where the rival pope, Clement VII, had much influence; never went to Spain; left theological works in manuscript
  114. ^ Humphrey Ditton (1675–1715), mathematician; master of a new mathematical school at Christ's Hospital, 1706; devised an impracticable scheme with William Whiston, for ascertaining longitudes by the firing of a shell timed to explode at a certain height, 1713; published mathematical works.
  115. ^ Sir Lewis Dive or Dives (1599–1669). See Dyve.
  116. ^ John Dix , alias John Ross (1800?–1865?), biographer of Chatterton; surgeon at Bristol; published a Life of Chatterton containing a disputed portrait of the poet, 1837; published miscellaneous works.
  117. ^ John Dixey (d. 1820), sculptor and modeller : sent by the Royal Academy to complete his art studies in Italy; vice-president of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1812; employed in the embellishment of private and public buildings in the United States.
  118. ^ Sir Wolstan Dixie (1525–1594), lord mayor of London; sheriff of London, 1575: lord mayor, 1585, when George Peele wrote the pageant; president of Christ's Hospital, 1690: benefactor of Christ's Hospital, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Market Bosworth school.
  119. ^ George Dixon (d. 1800?), navigator ; served on the Resolution under Cook; commanded the Queen Charlotte for the King George's Sound Company, 1785: fur trader in the rcirion of King George's Sound and discoverer (1787) of the Queen Charlotte islands.
  120. ^ George Dixon (1820–1898), educational reformer ; entered a foreign mercantile house in Birmingham, l-cs, became partner, 1844, and was ultimately head of the firm; entered town council, 1863; mayor, 1866; took active intere-t in quorum of popular education; assisted in forming Uirmintrham Education Aid Society, and, in 1808, with Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, John Sandford (1801-1873), George Dawson (1821-1876), and Robert William Dale, the National Education League, of which he was first president, 1869; liberal M.P. for Birmingham, 1867-76; member of first Birmingham School Board, 1870, and was re-elected, 1873 and 1876; chairman, 187(5-97; M.P. for Edgbaston division of Birmingham, 1885 till death; joined liberal unionists, 1886.
  121. ^ Henry Hall Dixon (1822–1870), sporting writer; known as The Druid: educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1846; clerk to an attorney at Doncaster; contributed to Bell's Life; called to bar, 1853, and practised on midland circuit; wrote regularly forSporting Magazinefrom c. 1853, and subsequently for Illustrated London News Mark Lane Express and Daily News His works include The Law of the Farm 1858,Breeding of Shorthorns 1865,Post and Paddock 1856,Silk and Scarlet 1859, and Scott and Sebright 1862.
  122. ^ James Dixon (1788–1871), Wesleyan minister president of the Wesleyan conference, 1841: president o 1 the Canada conference; English representative at United States conference, 1847; D.D.: a celebrated preacher; published works on the history and development of inethodism.
  123. ^ John Dixon (rf. 1715), miniature and crayon painter; pupil of Sir Peter Lely; keeper of the king's picture closet to William III.
  124. ^ John Dixon (1740?–1780?), mezzotint engraver; engraver of silver plate in Ireland; engraved, while in England, after the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds; member of the Incorporated Society of Artiste, 1766.
  125. ^ Joseph Dixon (1806–1866), Irish catholic prelate : dean of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth; professor of sacred scripture and Hebrew at Maynooth: D.D.; archbishop of Armagh, 1852-66; published A General Introduction to the Sacred Scriptures 1862, and The Blessed Cornelius 1854.
  126. ^ Joshua Dixon (d. 1825), biographer : M.D. Edinburgh, 1768; practised at Whitehaven; author of The Literary Life of William Browurigg, M.D., F.R.S. 1801.
  127. ^ Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900), historian, poet, and divine; son of Dr. James Dixou; educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Pembroke College. Oxford; formed close friendship with (Sir) Edward Burne- Jones and W'illiam Morris ; projected with Morris Oxford and Cambridge Magazine; B.A., 1857; ordained curate of St. Mary-theLess, Lambeth, 1858; curate of St. Mary, Newiugton Butts, 1861: second master at Carlisle high school, 18631868; minor canon and honorary librarian of Carlisle Cathedral, 1868-75; vicar of Haytou, Cumberland, 18751883, and of Warkworth, Northumberland, 1883 till death: honorary canon of Carlisle, 1874; rural dean of Brampton, 1879, and of Alnwick, 1884; proctor in convocation, 1890-1: honorary D.D. Oxford, 1899; published poetical and religious works, besides an elaborate History of Church of England from Abolition of Roman Jurisdiction 1877-1900.
  128. ^ Robert Dixon (d. 1688), royalist divine ; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1638; imprisoned in Leeds Castle, Kent, for refusing the solemn league and covenant, 1644; rector of Tunstall, Kent, 1647; sequestered; restored, 1660; prebendary of Rochester, 1660; D.D., per liter as reyias, Cambridge, 1668; author of The Doctrine of Faith, Justification, and Assurance... farther cleared 1668, and other theological works, possibly also of 1 Canidia a satire on society, 1683.
  129. ^ Thomas Dixon (1680?–1729), nonconformist tutor; studied at Manchester, 1700-5; minister of a dissenting congregation at Whitehaven (1708-23), where he founded an academy for the education of nonconformist ministers; hon. M.A. Edinburgh, 1709; M.D. Edinburgh; practised as a physician.
  130. ^ Thomas Dixon (1721–1754), nonconformist minister; son of Thoma- Di.xon (1680 ?-1729); assistant to Dr. John Taylor at Norwich, 1750-2, where he began a Greek concordance; ordained, 1753.
  131. ^ William Henry Dixon (1783–1854), clergyman and antiquary: M.A. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1809; canon of Ripon, canon-residentiary of York, rector of Ettou, and vicar of Bishopthorpe: F.S.A., 1821; left in manuscript a recension of James Torre's manuscript annals of the members of the cathedral of York (part published, with additions, 1863).
  132. ^ William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879), historian and traveller; barrister, Inner Temple, 1864; controverted Macaulay in aLife of William Penn 1861; published a life of Admiral Blake, 1852; editor of the 'Athenseum 1853-69; publishedThe Story of Lord Bacon's Life 1862, and other works embodying researches into Bacon's history; helped to found the Palestine Exploration Fund; published The Holy Laud 1865; discovered (1866) a collection of English state papers in the public library at Philadelphia, which were subsequently restored to the British government; J.P. for Middlesex and Westminster, 1869; member of the London School Board, 1870; published The Switzers 1872, and, while in Spain on a foreign bondholdersmission, wrote his History of Two Queens 1873: embodied the results of a tour through North America in The White Conquest 1875; travelled in Cyprus, 1878; published part of Royal Windsor 1878, andBritish Cyprus 1879; F.S.A. and F.R.G.S.
  133. ^ John Dixwell (rf. 1689), regicide ; M.P., Dover % 164(5: commissioner for the trial of Charles I, 1649; member of council of state, 1651 and 1659; excluded from Act of Indemnity, 1660; became burgess of Hanau; settled at Newhaven, Connecticut, 1665.
  134. ^ Arthur Dobbs (1689–1765), governor of North Carolina; represented Carrickfergus in the Irish parliament of 1727-30; surveyor-general in Ireland, 1730: wrote an Essay on the Trade and Imports of Ireland 1729 and 1731; induced admiralty to send expedition to search for north-west passage, 1741; published An Account of the Countries adjoining Hudson's Bay 1744, which led to an expedition for diverting the fur trade from the Hudson's Bay Company, 1746. As governor of North Carolina (1754-65) he persistently upheld the royal pre ; rogative and consulted the interests of the Indians.
  135. ^ Francis Dobbs (1750–1811), Irish politician; graduate of Trinity College, Dublin: called to the Irish bar, 1773; published pamphlets against legislative union with England; issued a volume of poems, 1788; member for Charlemont in the Irish House of Commons, 1799, where in a famous speech he opposed the Union Bill on scriptural grounds, 1800; published a Universal History 1800.
  136. ^ Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824–1874), poet and critic; privately educated at his parentshouse at Cheltenham; resided for most of his adult life in Gloucestershire; owing to delicate health often wintered abroad; published The Roman a dramatic poem inspired by sympathy with oppressed nationalities, 1860; published 4 Balder 1853; issued sonnets on the Crimean war, 1855; lived in Scotland, 1854-7; published a volume of verse entitled England in Time of War 1856; one of the first to apply the principle of co-operation in trade: injured by a fall among the ruins of Pozzuoli, 1866, and was thenceforth an invalid.
  137. ^ Peter Paul Dobree (1782–1825), Greek scholar: fourth senior optime, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1804; fellow, 1806; M.A., 1807: professor of Greek at Cambridge, 1823-5; edited Porson's manuscript Aristophanica 1820: wrote in theMonthly Reviewand Valpy'sClassical Journal which latter IK: helped to found in ?810; edited Porson's transcript of Photius, with a lexicon, 1822; left notes on the Greek historians and orators, which were published by Scholefield in Adversaria 1831-3; Greek epigraphist.
  138. ^ George Edward Dobson (1848-1 895), zoologist ; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1866; M.B. and M.Oh., 1867; M.A., 1875; entered army medical department, 1868; served in India; retired as surgeon-major, 1888; F.L.S., 1874; F.R.S., 1883; F.Z.S.; curator of Royal Victoria Museum, Netley, c. 1878; published Catalogue of Chiroptera in Collection of British Museum 1878, and other writings on chiroptera and insectivora.
  139. ^ John Dobson (1633–1681), puritan divine ; M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1669; perpetual fellow, 1662; expelled for writing a libel in vindication of Dr. Thomas Pierce, 1663, but soon restored; B.D., 1667; held various clerical preferments.
  140. ^ John Dobson (1787–1865), architect ; designed for Newcastle-on-Tyne public buildings, new streets, and central station; reputed pioneer in the modern Gothic revival.
  141. ^ Susannah Dobson (d. 1795), translator; nee Dawson; married Matthew Dobson; translated Sainte Palaye's Literary History of the Troubadours 1779, and Memoirs of Ancient Chivalry 1784, besides Petrarch's View of Human Life 1791.
  142. ^ William Dobson (1610–1646), portrait-painter; introduced to Charles I by Vandyck; sergeant-painter, 1641; one of the earliest English subject and portrait painters of eminence.
  143. ^ William Dobson (1820–1884), journalist and antiquary; editor of the Preston Chronicle; wrote on the history and antiquities of Preston.
  144. ^ William Charles Thomas Dobson (1817–1898), painter; studied in Royal Academy schools; headmaster of government school of design, Birmingliam, 1843-5; exhibited at Royal Academy from 1842; studied in Italy and Germany, and subsequently gained considerable reputation as painter of scriptural subjects in oil- and water-colour; R.A., 1872; retired, 1895.
  145. ^ James Docharty (1829-1878), landscape-painter; at one time engaged in pattern designing at Glasgow; exhibited highland scenes at the Royal Scottish Academy, associate Royal Scottish Academy, 1877; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1865-77.
  146. ^ Thomas of Docking (fl. 1250), Franciscan; D.D., and seventh Franciscan reader in divinity in Oxford University; left in manuscript scriptural commentaries.
  147. ^ William Dockwray or Dockwra(d. 1716), London merchant; established a penny postal system in the metropolis, 1683; cast in a suit instituted by the Duke of York to protect his monopoly; comptroller of the penny post, 1697-1700; dismissed on charges of maladministration, 1700.
  148. ^ Sir Henry Docwra, first Baron Docwra in Irish peerage (1560?-1631), general; captain under Sir Richard Bingham in Ireland; constable of Dungarvan Castle, 1584: commanded under Essex in the Netherlands and in Spain; knighted; received submission of Art O'Neill and founded modern city of Derry, 1600; governor of Derry, 1603-8; treasurer of war in Ireland, 1616; created Baron Docwra of Culmore, 1621; joint-keeper of the great seal of Ireland, 1627.
  149. ^ Sir Thomas Docwra (d. 1527), prior of the knight of St. John at Clerkenwell, 1502; negotiated treaty for Henry VII's marriage with Margaret of Savoy, 1606; received from Louis XII formal acknowledgment of the arrears of tribute due to England, 1510; attended Henry VIII in France, 1513; sent to Terouenne to settle mercantile disputes with the French, 1517; took part in search for suspicious characters in London, 1519-25: attended Wolsey when arbitrating between the French and the Imperialists at Calais, 1521: commissioned by Henry VIII to draw up treaty with the imperial ambassador for joint invasion of France, 1524.
  150. ^ Charles Roger Phipps Dod (1793–1855), author of the Parliamentary Companion; connected with the Times for twenty-three years, contributing obituary notices and redacting the parliamentary reports; compiled Parliamentary Pocket Companion 1832, and Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage 1841.
  151. ^ Henry Dod (1550?–1630?), poet; published Certaine Psalmes of David in meter 1603, and Al the Psalmes of David, with certaine Songes and Canticles 1620.
  152. ^ John Dod (1549?–1645), puritan divine; scholar and fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge; incumbent of Hanwell, Oxfordshire; suspended for nonconformity, 1604; rector of Fawsley, Northamptonshire, 1624-46; reputed author of a famous sermon on malt; called Decalogue Dod from his exposition of the Ten Commandments (published 1604).
  153. ^ Peirce Dod (1683–1754), medical writer; B.A. Brasenose College, Oxford, 1701: fellow of All Souls; M.A., 1705; M.D., 1714; Harveian orator, 1729; censor, College of Physicians, 1724, 1732, 1736, and 1739; physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1725-64; F.R.S., 1730; attacked for his book against inoculation (1746) in A Letter to the real and genuine Pierce (sic) Dod, M.D. 1746.
  154. ^ Robert Phipps Dod (d. 1865), compiler ; son of Charles Roger Phipps Dod; captain, 64th Shropshire regiment of militia, 1855; assisted in his father's compilations.
  155. ^ Timothy Dod (d. 1665), nonconformist divine: son of John Dod fq. v.; preacher at Daventry, 1640; ejected, 1662.
  156. ^ Charles Dodd (1672–1743), Roman catholic divine ; real name, Hugh Tootel; studied philosophy at Douay, 1688; received the minor orders at Cambray, 1690; B.D. at the English seminary of St. Gregory, Paris; in charge of a congregation at Harvington, Worcestershire, 1726-43; published The Church History of England 1737-39-42, The Secret Policy of the English Society of Jesus 1715, severely criticising the order, and A Philosophical and Theological Dictionary
  157. ^ Daniel Dodd (fl. 1760–1790), painter; member of the Free Society of Artists. His works consist principally of oil and crayon portraits and scenes of fashionable life.
  158. ^ George Dodd (1783–1827), engineer; son of Ralph Dodd; resident engineer under John Rennie, the designer of Waterloo Bridge: resigned his post, and died, refusing all medicine, in the compter, 1827.
  159. ^ George Dodd (1808–1881), miscellaneous writer; edited the Cyclopaedia of the Industry of all Nations 1851; wrote for Charles Knight's Weekly Volumes and other serials; compiled guide-books for Messrs. Chambers'a publishing firm; best-known work, The Food of London 1856.
  160. ^ James Solas Dodd (1721–1805), surgeon, lecturer, and actor: member of the corporation of surgeons, London, 1751; publishedAn Essay towards a Natural History of the Herring 1752; produced A Physical Account of the Case of Elizabeth Canning 1753: mastersurgeon on board the Hawke, 1762-3: delivered a series of comic lectures onHeartsandNosesat Exeter Exchange, 1766; acted in London in a play written by himself after De Lafont'sLe Naufrage 1779; tricked into accompanying Major John Savage, a soi-disant ambassador to the Russian court, 1781; actor and lecturer at Edinburgh, 1782: translated the Ancient and Modern History of Gibraltarfrom the Spanish, 1781.
  161. ^ James William Dodd (1740?-1796), actor; first appeared at Drury Lane, 1765; at Drury Lane, 1765-96; favourably criticised by Charles Lamb for his sympathetic impersonation of Sir Andrew Aguecheek; retired after his failure in Oolman's Iron Chest 1796.
  162. ^ Philip Stanhope Dodd (1776–1852), divine; fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; M.A., 1799; chaplain to the lord mayor, 1806: rector of St. Mary-atHill, 1807-12; published a work basing arguments for Christianity on the ministry of St. Paul, 1837.
  163. ^ Ralph Dodd (1756–1822), civil engineer; published 1 Account of the principal Canals in the known World 1795; largely occupied in forming projecte for the construction of canals and a dry tunnel from Gravesend to Tilbury; promoter of steam navigation.
  164. ^ Robert Dodd (1748–1816?), marine painter and engraver: exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1782-1809; distinguished for his rendering of storm effects.
  165. ^ Sir Samuel Dodd (1652–1716), judge ; barrister, Inner Temple, 1679; bencher, 1700; employed by various bankers upon a question of the liability of the crown for interest on loans to Charles II. 1693 and 1700; negotiated fusion of old with New East India Company, 1701; counsel for Sacheverell, 1710; knighted, 1714; serjeant, 1714; lord chief -baron, 1714.
  166. ^ Thomas Dodd (1771–1860), auctioneer and printseller; opened day-school near Battle Bridge, St. Pancras, 1794; print-seller, 1796; his dictionary of monograms anticipated by Brulliot, 1817; auctioneer in Manchester, 1819; projected a scheme which was ultimately realised in the Royal Manchester Institution, 1823; commenced publication of his Connoisseur's Repertorium 1825; catalogued Douce collection of prints in the Bodleian Library, 1839-41.
  167. ^ William Dodd (1729–1777), forger ; entered at Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1746; B.A., 1750; acted as chaplain of the Magdalen House 1758; editor of the Christian Magazine 1760-7; chaplain to the king and prebendary at Brecon, 1763; LL.D., 1766; founded Charlotte Chapel in Pimlico; nick-named the macaroni parson; rector of Hockliffe ami vicar of Chalgrove, 1772; struck off the list of royal chaplains for improper solicitation of preferment from the lord chancellor, 1774; forged a bond for 4,200l. in the name of his former pupil, the fifth Lord Chesterfield, 1777: executed (1777), though numerous petitions were presented on his behalf, one being written for him by Dr. Johnson. His numerous publications include 'Beauties of Shakespeare 1752, a translation of the Hymns of Callimachus 1754, Reflections on Death 1763, and Thoughts in Prison 1777.
  168. ^ Sir John Doddridge or Doderidge (1556–1628), judge; B.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1677; serjeantat-law and Prince Henry's serjeant, 1604; solicitor-general, 1604; M.P., Horsham, Sussex, between 1603 and 1611; knighted, 1607; justice of the king's bench, 1612; M.A., honoris cauxd, Oxford, 1614; signed the letter refusing to stay proceedings at the instance of the king in the eommendam case of 1616, but subsequently gave way; directed to soften the rigour of the statutes against popish recusants, 1623. His published work includes 4 The English Lawyer 1631, and A Compleat Parson (the substance of some lectures on advowsons), 1630.
  169. ^ Philip Doddridge (1702-1761), nonconformist divine: minister at Kibworth, 1723; declined overtures from Pershore, Worcestershire, and HaberdashersHall from unwillingness to subscribe the Toleration Act, a probable condition of ordination, 1723; co-minister with his friend, David Some, at Market Harborough, 1725-9; opened an academy at Market Harborough, 1729, subsequently removing it to Northampton: presbyter, 1730; publishedFree Thoughts on the most probable means of reviving the Dissenting Interest 1730: tolerant of Arinnism, though rejecting its claims; D.D. of the two universities of Aberdeen, 1736; lectured on philosophy and divinity in the mathematical or Spinozistic style; founded charity school at Northampton, 1737; took part in the institution of a county infirmary, 1743; died at Lisbon; a celebrated hymn-writer; published The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul 1745. A Course of Lectures on Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity appeared posthumously in 1763.
  170. ^ James Dodds (1813–1874), lecturer and poet; studied at Edinburgh University; solicitor in London: friend of Leigh Hunt and Thomas Carlyle; author of Lays of the Covenanters posthumously published by the Rev. James Dodds of Dunbar, and The Fifty Years Struggle of the Covenanters, 1638-1688
  171. ^ James Dodds (1812–1885), religious and general writer; studied at Edinburgh University; minister at Humbie in East Lothian, and, after joining the Free Church, at Dunbar, 1843-86; friend of Thomas Oarlyle; published Famous Men of Dumfriesshire A Century of Scottish Church History and theological works and memoirs.
  172. ^ Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), writer of books for children under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll, and mathematician; educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford; nominated student of Christ Church, 1852; B.A., 1854; mathematical lecturer, 1855-81; M.A., 1867; ordained deacon, 1861: resided at Oxford, where he published occasionally humorous pamphlet* on matters of local interest. His most popular works areAlice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865, and Through the Looking Glass 1871, both illustrated by Sir John Tenniel. His other publications include, The Hunting of the Snark 1876, and Sylvie and Bruno 1889, besides various mathematical writings, of which the most valuable is Euclid and his Modern Rivals 1879.
  173. ^ George Haydock Dodgson (iSllSeO), wittercolour painter; prepared plans for Whitby and Pickering railway, while apprentice to George Stephenson; exhibited at the Royal Academy n Tribute to the Memory of Sir Christopher Wren (study in architectural drawing), 1838; member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours, 1852; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1838-50.
  174. ^ Bartholomew Dodington (1536–1595), Greek scholar; Lady Margaret's scholar, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1547; Lady Margaret's fellow, 1552; M.A., 1565; senior fellow, 1558; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, c. 1560; regius professor of Greek, 1562-86;  ; wrote Greek poems and Greek and Latin orations.
  175. ^ George Bubb Dodington, Baron Melcombe (1691-1762); M.P., Winchelsea, 1715; envoy extraordinary to Spain, 1715; took the surname Dodington on : succeeding to his uncle's estate, 1720; M.P., Bridgewater, 1722-54; lord of the treasury, 1724; adherent of Walpole; favourite of Frederick, prince of Wales; attached himself to the Duke of Argyll and attacked AValpole, 1742; treasurer of the navy in Pelham's administration, 1744; paid court to the Pelhams, and hi 1754 to the Duke of Newcastle; M.P., Weymouth; treasurer of the navy under Newcastle and Fox, 1755; spoke against the execution of Byng, 1767; created Baron Melcombe of Melcombe Regis, 1761; wit, patron of literature, writer of occasional verses, and political pamphleteer.
  176. ^ Marcus Dods (1786–1838), theological writer; educated at Edinburgh; presbyterian minister, Belford, 1810-38; D.D.; published a work On the Incarnation of the Eternal Word criticised Edward Irving's doctrine of the incarnation.
  177. ^ James Dodsley (1724–1797), bookseller; brother of Robert Dodsley; produced an improved edition of Isaac Reed's Collection of Old Plays 1780, and re-edited Reed's Collection of Poems 1 782; member of the Congeries, a well-known booksellersclub; suggested plan of receipt tax to Rockingham's administration, 1782.
  178. ^ Robert Dodsley (1703–1764), poet, dramatist, and bookseller; while a footman in service of the Hon. Mrs. Lowther publishedServitude, a Poem in the Country Journal 1729 (afterwards reissued as The Footman's Friendly Advice to his Brethren of the Livery; bookseller, 1735; wrote the playsThe King and the Miller of Mansfield 1737, and Sir John Cockle at Court a sequel, 1738; published for Pope, Young, and Akeuside; published a Select Collection of Old Plays, his best-known work, 1744; started The Publick Register 1741,The Museum 1746, and The Preceptor; suggested to Johnson the scheme of an English dictionary; published Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes andIrene(both in 1749); published an ode entitled Melpomene 1758; his tragedy, Oleone acted atCoveut Garden 1758; founded The Annual Register 1758; published with his brother James Dodsley. Goldsmith's Polite Learning 1759, and, with Johnson and Strahan, Johnson's Rasselas 1769; friend of Shenstone, some of whose narrative poems appeared in Dodsley's Select Fables 1761.
  179. ^ James Dodson (d. 1767), teacher of mathematics and master of the Royal Mathematical School, Christ's Hospital; F.R.S., 1755; master at Christ's Hospital, 1755-7; prepared the way for ultimate incorporation of Equitable Society; published The Anti-Logarithmic Canon 1742; and an Accountant, or a Method of Book-keeping 1750.
  180. ^ Sir John Dodson (1780–1858), judge of the prerogative court; educated at Merchant Taylors School and Oriel College, Oxford; M.A., 1804; D.C.L., 1808; advocate of the College of Doctors of Laws, 1808; M.P., Rye, 1819-23; advocate-general and knighted, 1834; barrister, Inner Temple, 1834; judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury, and dean of the arches court, 1852-1857; privy councillor, 1852.
  181. ^ John George Dodson , first Baron Monk-Bretton (1825–1897), politician; son of Sir John Dodson ; educated at Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1847; M.A., 1851; called to bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1853; travelled: liberal M.P. for East Sussex, 1857-74, Chester, 1874-80, and Scarborough, 1880-4; chairman of committees and deputy speaker of House of Commons, 1865-72: privy councillor, 1872; president of local government board with seat in cabinet, 1880; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster, 1882-4; raised to peerage, 1884; liberal unionist from 1886.
  182. ^ Michael Dodson (1732–1799), lawyer educated at Marlborough grammar school; barrister, Middle Temple, 1783: commissioner of bankruptcy, 1770-99; Unitarian; edited Sir Michael Foster's Report on the Commission for the Trial of Rebels in the Year 1746 and published A New Translation of Isaiah 1790.
  183. ^ Roger Dodsworth (1585–1654), antiquary ; studied in London in the library of Sir Robert Cotton; designed an English baronage, a history of Yorkshire, and a Monasticon Anglicanum, published as Monasticon Boreale 1655, with name of Dugdale as joint-compiler.
  184. ^ William Dodsworth (1798–1861), Roman catholic writer: M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1823; adopted Tractarian opinions and became minister of Margaret Street Chapel, Cavendish Square, London; perpetual curate of Christ Church, St. Pancras, London, 1837; joined the Roman catholic church after the Gorham judgment, 1851: published Advent Lectures 1837, Anglicanism considered in its results 1851, and catholic apologetics.
  185. ^ Edward Dodwell (1767–1832), traveller and archaeologist; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1800: collected vases, including the well-knownDodwell Vase from Corinth, and marbles and coins in Greece and the Archipelago; settled (1806) in Italy, where he enjoyed the friendship of the pope; published A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, 1819, and views and descriptions of ancient remains; died at Rome.
  186. ^ Henry Dodwell , the elder (1641–1711), scholar and theologian; scholar and fellow of Trinity College, Dublin; resigned his fellowship from unwillingness to take holy orders, 1666; Camden professor of history at Oxford, 1688-91; deprived for refusing oath of allegiance, 1691; returned (1710) to the established church, from which be had been excluded as a nonjuror; published a Book of Schism which was controverted by Richard Baxter; Annales Thucydideani for Hudson's Thucydides; A Discourse concerning the Time of Phalaris 1704, and other learned works.
  187. ^ Henry Dodwell , the younger (d. 1784), deist; son of Henry Dodwell the elder; B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1726; published Christianity not founded on Argument a deistical pamphlet, which some mistook for a defence of Christianity, 1742.
  188. ^ William Dodwell (1709–1785), archdeacon of Berks and theological writer; son of Henry Dodwell (1641-1711); M.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1732; prebendary of Salisbury; D.D. Oxford, 1760; archdeacon i of Berks: published controversial works, including, 1743, j 'Two Sermons on the Eternity of Future Punishment in answer to Whiston, and, 1745, Two Sermons on the j Nature, Procedure, and Effect* of a Rational Faith in answer to his brother, Henry Dodwell the younger.
  189. ^ John Dogget (d. 1501), provost of King's College, Cambridge; educated at Eton; M.A. and fellow, King's College, Cambridge; prebendary of Lincoln, 1474; ambassador to Sixtus IV and the princes of Sicily and Hungary, 1479; chaplain to Richard III, 1483; vicargeneral, Sarum, 1483, and chancellor of Lichfield, 1489: doctor of canon law at Bologna; provost of King's College, 1499-1501; benefactor of King's College.
  190. ^ Thomas Doggett (d. 1721), actor; 'created' Ben in Congreve's Love for Love 1695; author of the 'Country Wake,* a comedy, in which he acted himself, 1696; friend of Congreve and Colley Cibber; his dignified style praised by Gibber; joint-manager of the Haymarket, 1709-10, subsequently of DruryLane; founded hi 1716, in honour ot the anniversary of George I's accession, a prize for a rowing competition for Thames watermen, which is still continued.
  191. ^ Thomas Dogherty (d. 1805), legal writer : of Irish origin; member of Gray's Inn: special pleader, c. 1785; clerk of indictments on the Chester circuit; wrote theCrown Circuit Assistant 1787.
  192. ^ Dogmael also called Dogvael, Saint (6th cent.), reputed founder of a monastery at Cemmes, opposite Cardigan, and of some churches in modern Pembrokeshire,
  193. ^ John Doharty (1677–1755). See Dougharty.
  194. ^ John Doherty (1783–1850), chief-justice of Ireland; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1806; LL.D., 1814; called to the Irish bar, 1808; M.P., New Ross, 1824-6, Kilkenny, 1826,; solicitor-general, 1827; lord chief-justice of common plea's and privy councillor, 1830: spoke against O'Connell in the debate on the Doueraile conspiracy 1830.
  195. ^ David Doig (1719–1800), philologist; M.A. St. Andrews; rector of the grammar school at Stirling; honorary LL.D. Glasgow; fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; wrote Two Letters on the Savage State 1792, against Lord Kames's views see HOME, HENRY, LORD KAMES, a friendship resulting between author and critic; published Extracts from a Poem on the Prospect from Stirling Castle 1796.
  196. ^ Andrew Doket or Ducket (d. 1484), first president of Queens' College, Cambridge; rector of St. Botolph, Cambridge, 1444-70; prebendary of Lichfield, 1467, and chancellor, 1470-6; authorised by royal charter in 1447 to found the College of St. Bernard of Cambridge which was ultimately called QueensCollege in honour of its patronesses, Margaret of Anjou and Elizabeth Woodville.
  197. ^ David Dolben (1581–1633), bishop of Bangor; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1609: vicar of Hackney, Middlesex, 1618-33; prebendary of St. Asaph, 1625; D.D., 1627; bishop of Bangor, 1631-3.
  198. ^ Sir Gilbert Dolben (1658–1722), judge ; son of John Dolben (1625-1686); educated at Westminster School and at Oxford; barrister of the Inner Temple, 1681; M.P., Ripon, 1685, Peterborough, 16891707; puisne judge in the Irish court of common pleas, 1701; maintained exclusive jurisdiction of the House of Commons in election questions, 1704: created baronet, 1704; M.P., Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 1710 and 1714.
  199. ^ John Dolben (1625–1686), archbishop of York : son of William Dolben (d. 1631); educated at Westminster under Dr. Busby: student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1640-8; fought for Charles I at Marston Moor, 1644; captain and major: M.A. by accumulation, 1647; deprived of his studentship, 1648: privately maintained the proscribed church of England service; canon of Christ Church, 1660; prebendary of St. Paul's, 1661: dean of Westminster, 1662-83: maintained the immunity of Westminster Abbey from diocesan control: bishop of Rochester, 1666: suspended at the time of Clarendon's fall, 1667; lord high almoner, 1676: archbishop of York, 1683-6; reformed cathedral discipline.
  200. ^ John Dolben (1662–1710), politician : son of John Dolben (1625-1686); studied at Christ Church, Oxford; barrister of the Temple; spent his fortune; withdrew to the West Indies; M.P., Liskeard, 1707-10; manager of Sacheverell's impeachment, 1709.
  201. ^ Sir John Dolben (1684–1751), divine; son of Sir Gilbert Dolbc-n; canon's student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1702; M.A., 1707; prebendary of Durham, 171s and 1719; rector of Burton Latiuit-r and vicar of Finedon, 1719; succeeded as baronet, 1722; visitor of Balliol College, Oxford. 17's; sub-dean of Queen Caroline's chapel; friend of Bishop Atterbury, paying him an annuity when exiled.
  202. ^ William Dolben (d. 1G31), prebendary of Lincoln, bishop designate; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; rector of Stanwick and Benefield, 1623; D.D.; prebendary of Lincoln. 1629; said by his great-grandson. Sir John Dolben (1684-1756), to have been nominated bishop of Gloucester.
  203. ^ Sir William Dolben (d. 1694), judge; son of William Dolben (d. 1631); barrister of the Inner Temple, 1655; recorder of London and knighted, 1676; serjeant-at-law, 1C77; king's Serjeant and steward of the see of Canterbury; puisne judge of the king's bench, 1678-83, and 1689.
  204. ^ William Dolben (1726–1814), abolitionist ; son of Sir John Dolben; M.P. for Oxford University, 1768-1800.
  205. ^ Charlotte Helen Sainton Dolby - (1821–1885).
  206. ^ William Dolle (ft. 1670–1680), engraver; employed by the booksellers in engraving portraits and frontispieces, including portraits of Sir Henry Wotton and Richard Hooker in Izaak Walton's Lives(1670).
  207. ^ George Dollond (1774–1852), optician; partner with his uncle. Peter Dolloud, 1805; invented an improved altazimuth, 1821,u double altitude instrument 1823, and an atmospheric recorder; F.R.S., 1819; F.R.G.S.
  208. ^ John Dollond (1706–1761), optician; of Huguenot origin; read his Account of some Experiments concern ing the diff erent Refrangibility of Light before the Royal Society (1758); Copley medallist, 1758; inventor of triple objectives, 1767-8; his invention of the achromatic telescope independently made by Chester Moor Hall; invented modern heliometer, 1754; F.R.S. and optician to the king, 1761.
  209. ^ Peter Dollond (1730–1820), optician ; eldest son of John Dollond; optician in the Strand, 1750; invented improved triple achromatic object-glasses; improved Hadley's quadrant by a device for bringing the back-observation into use; member of the American Philosophical Society.
  210. ^ Charles Dolman (1807–1863), Roman catholic publisher; entered into partnership with his cousin, Thomas Booker, a Roman catholic publisher in London, 1840; set on foot new series of the Catholic Magazine 1838, andDolman's Magazine 1845; noted for the elaborateness of his typography.
  211. ^ Adam of Domerham (d. after 1291). See Adam.
  212. ^ Alfred Domett (1811–1887), colonial statesman and poet; entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1829; barrister of the Middle Temple, 1841; emigrated to New Zealand, 1842; friend of Robert Browning, who lamented his departure in Waring 1842; M.P. for Nelson, 1865; prime minister of New Zealand, 1862-3, and registrargeneral of land, 1865; returned to England, 1871; C.M.G., 1880: author of Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea Day Dream 1872,Flotsam and Jetsam 1877, and some official publications.
  213. ^ Sir William Domett (1754–1828), admiral ; navy lieutenant, 1777; present in the action off Ushant, 1778, and in the engagement of the Chesapeake, 1781; signal officer at St. Kitta and off Dominica, 1782; sent to England with Sir George Rodney's despatches, 1782; nag captain during the French war of 1793: captain of Baltic fleet, 1801; admiral, 1819; G.C.B., 1820.
  214. ^ Dominicus de Rosario (1595–1662). See Daniel Daly.
  215. ^ Marco Antonio de Dominis (1566–1624), divine; born in the island of Arbe off Dalmatia; professor of mathematics at Padua, of logic and rhetoric at Brescia; bishop of Segui; archbishop of Spalatro; migrated to England (1616) from annoyance at the pope's imposition of u tax upon the see of Spalatro to be paid to the bishop of Segui; defended his action inCousilium Profeetionis 1616: dean of Windsor and master of the Savoy, 1617; published first part of De Uepublica Ecclesiastic* (1617), maintaining right* of national churches; left England, to the annoyance of James I, 1622; wrote a recantation entitled Concilium Reditus; promised pardon by Pope Gregory XV; imprisoned by the inquisition,
  216. ^ Domville alias Silas Taylor (1624–1678), antiquary; educated at Westminster and New Inn Hall, Oxford; captain in the parliamentary army, and subsequently sequestrator in Herefordshire; commissary for ammunition under Sir Edward Harley at Dunkirk, 1660; surreptitiously obtained from the library of Worcester Cathedral an original grant of King Edgar, dated 964; published The History of Gavelkind 1663; left in manuscript collections for a history of Herefordshire.
  217. ^ David Don (1800–1841), botanist; made the acquaintance of Humboldt and Cuvierat Paris, 1821; fellow of the Linnaeau Society; professor of botany, King's College, London, 1836-41; publishedProdromus Florae Nepalensis 1825.
  218. ^ Sir George Don (1754–1832), general; lieutenant, 51st regiment, 1774; lieutenant-colonel at Gibraltar, 1789; adjutant-general in the Netherlands, 1794; major-general, 1798; commanded the third division at the Helder, 1799; prisoner in France till 1800; second in command of the forces of Scotland, 1804; lieutenant-general, 1803; lieutenant-governor of Jersey, 1806-14; general, 1814; lieutenant-governor of Gibraltar (1814), where he died; G.C.B., 1820; G.C.M.G., 1825.
  219. ^ George Don (1798–1856), botanist ; collector on behalf of the Royal Horticultural Society in Brazil, the West Indies, and at Sierra Leone, 1821; fellow of the Linnaean Society, 1831; published A General System of Gardening and Botany, founded upon Miller's w Gardener's Dictionary," 1832-8.
  220. ^ Sir William Henry Don (1825–1862), actor; seventh baronet of Newtondon, 1826; educated at Eton; lieutenant, 5th dragoon guards, 1845; appeared on the stage at New York, 1850, and at the Haymarket, 1857; played, in Australia, female characters in burlesques; died at Hobart Town, Tasmania.
  221. ^ Donald IV, called Breac (the Speckled or Freckled) (d. 643), Celtic king of Scottish Dalriada; fought on the side of Congall Claeu, king of the Cruthnigh (Picts), against Donald, king of Ireland, at the battle of Rath, Ireland, 637; slain in battle at Strathcarron by Owen, king of the Strathclyde Britons.
  222. ^ Donald, called Macalpin (d. 864), king of Alban, the united kingdom of the Scots and Rets; established the rights and laws of Aedh, a Dalriad king of the eighth century, at Forteviot; according to one account was killed at Scone, 864.
  223. ^ Donald VI (d. 900), king of Celtic Scotland ; son of Constantine I; made peace with the Danish chiefs, Ronald and Sitric: di&i, worn out by his exertions in reducing the highland robber tribes.
  224. ^ Adam Donald (1703–1780), called 'the prophet of Bethelnie'; necromancer and quack physician,
  225. ^ James Donaldson (fl. 1713), Scottish miscellaneous writer: left farm to serve in regiment of Earl of Angus; disbanded, 1690; published Husbandry Anatomized 1697-8, Money encreas'd and Credit rais'd 1706, and other efforts in political economy and verse-writing.
  226. ^ James Donaldson (fl. 1794), writer on agriculture; land surveyor at Dundee; drew up county surveys for the board of agriculture; published Modern Agriculture 1795-6.
  227. ^ James Donaldson (1751–1830), founder of Donaldson's Hospital, Edinburgh; proprietor and editor of the 'Edinburgh Advertiser after 1764; left 220.000. for the maintenance and education of three hundred poor children.
  228. ^ John Donaldson (d. 1865), professor of music ; called to the Scottish bar, 1826; Reid professor of music, Edinburgh, 1845-65; investigated acoustic problems.
  229. ^ John Donaldson (1799–1876), author of 'Agricnltural Biography,' 1854, and other works on agricultural subjects.
  230. ^ John William Donaldson (1811–1861), philologist; brother of Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson; sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1831; second in classical tripos, 1834; fellow and tutor of Trinity: published New Cratylus practically starting the science of comparative philology in England, 1839; D.D.; headmaster of King Edward's School, Bury St. Edmunds, 1841-55; published Varronianus advancing theory of the Gothic affinities of the Etruscans, 1844; resigned head-mastership, 1855; classical examiner to the university of London: completed K. O. Muller'sHistory of Greek Literature 1858; the main author of the Theatre of the Greeks; edited Pindar's Epinician Odes and the 'Antigone of Sophocles; published Jashar(1854), to prove that a book of Jashar constitutedthe religious marrow of the scriptures
  231. ^ Joseph Donaldson (1794–1830), author of 'Recollections of the Eventful Life of a Soldier'; fought in Peninsular war, 1811-14; discharged as sergeant, 1815; enlisted in the East India Company's service; head-clerk in the Glasgow district staff-office; surgeon at Obau, 1827..
  232. ^ Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson (1812–1867), Australian statesman; brother of John William Donaldson; magistrate of New South Wales, 1838: realised a fortune hi wool and sperm oil; was member of the council of New South Wales, 1848-69; first minister and colonial secretary in accordance with the New Constitution Act, 1856; finance minister, 1856-57; returned to England, 1859; knighted, 1860.
  233. ^ Thomas Leverton Donaldson (1795–1885), architect and author; in merchant's office at Cape of Good Hope, 1809; silver medallist of the Royal Academy, 1817; visited Greece, Italy, and Asia Minor, studying ancient buildings; president of the Institute of Architects, 1864; member of the Institut de France: emeritus professor of architecture at University College, London, 1841-64; designed various London churches and mansions. His works include, Handbook of Specifications 1859, and * Architecture Numismatica 1859.
  234. ^ Walter Donaldson (fl. 1620), philosophical writer; attached to embassy sent by James VI of Scotland to Denmark, 1594; LL.D. Heidelberg; principal of the protestant college of Sedan; published a survey of Greek philosophy in the form of extracts from Diogenes Laertius, 1612, and Synopsis OSconomica 1620.
  235. ^ Donat (1038–1074). See Dunan.
  236. ^ Saint Donatus (fl. 829–876), bishop of Fiesole ; of Irish birth; wandered about Europe visiting sacred places; appointed bishop of Fiesole as one divinely sent, e. 829; obtained new charter for church of Fiesole from the Emperor Louis, son of Lothair, 866; his day, 22 Oct.
  237. ^ Doncaster, first Viscount (d. 1636). See James Hay.
  238. ^ Donegal, first Earl of (1606–1675). See Arthur Chichester.
  239. ^ Nehemias Donellan (d. 1609?), archbishop of Tuam; sizar of King's College, Cambridge, 1580; B.A. Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1582; archbishop of Tuam, 1595-1609; continued Walsh and Kearney's translation of New Testament into Irish.
  240. ^ Bryan Donkin (1768–1855), civil engineer and inventor; erected paper-making machine at Froginore, Kent, 1804; invented polygonal printing-machine, 1813, and composition printing-roller; devised process of tinning meat and vegetables, 1812; F.R.S., 1838; M.R.A.S.; gold medallist of Society of Arts for invention of counting-engine and a machine for registering velocities of rotation.
  241. ^ Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin (1773–1841), general ; educated at Westminster School; lieutenant, 44th foot, 1793; major, 1795; served at St. Lucia, 1796; commanded brigade at Talavera, 1809; major-general, 1811; served in Mahratta war, 1817-18: K.O.B., 1818; acting-governor, Cape of Good Hope, 1820; founded Port Elizabeth; lieu tenant-general, 1821; F.R.S. and F.R.G.S.; M.P., Berwick, 1832 and 1835, and subsequently for Sandwich; surveyor-general of the ordnance, 1835; colonel, llth foot, 1837; general, 1838; author of A Dissertation on the Course and Probable Termination of the Niger 1829, and some unpublished tractates.
  242. ^ William Fishburn Donkin (1814–1869), astronomer; entered St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1832; double first-class, 1836; Johnson mathematical scholar, 1837: M.A., 1839; fellow of University College; Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford, 1H42-69; F.R.S. and F.R.A.S.; contributed to learned periodicals; a fragment of his projected work on acoustics published, 1870.
  243. ^ Andrew Donlevy (1694?–1761?), Irish ecclesiastic; prefect in the Irish college at Paris; licentiate of laws, Paris University; D.D.; published The Catechism, or Christian Doctrine 1742, extant in Irish and English, with an appendix on The Elements of the Irish Language
  244. ^ Benjamin Donn or Donne (1729–1798), mathematician; started mathematical academy at Bristol; master of mechanics to the king; published maps of South-western England, charts of the western ocean, and works on mathematics and book-keeping,
  245. ^ James Donn (1758–1813), botanist ; curator of the Cambridge Botanic Garden, 1790-1813; fellow of the Linnean Society; best known as having named Claytonia perfoliata.
  246. ^ Sir Daniel Donne or Dunn (d. 1617), civilian ; educated at All Souls' College, Oxford; D.C.L., 1580; principal of New Inn, 1580; dean of arches and master of requests, 1598; member of commission for suppression of English piracy, 1601; appointed Whitgift's vicar-general; master in chancery; commissioner for proposed fisheries treaty with Denmark, 1602; knighted; M.P. for Oxford, 1604 and 1614; a recognised authority on marriage-law.
  247. ^ Gabriel Donne or Dunne (d. 1558), Cistercian monk; member of St. Bernard's College, Oxford, and M.A.; planned the arrest of William Tyndale at Antwerp, 1535; abbot of Buckfastleigh, Devonshire, which he surrendered to Henry VIII in 1539: keeper of the spiritualities of St. Paul's, 1549; benefactor of Trinity Hall, Cambridge,
  248. ^ John Donne (1573–1631), poet and divine ; brought up by his mother in the Roman catholic religion; entered Hart Hall, Oxford, at an early age to avoid the necessity of taking the oath of supreniacy, 1584; friend of Sir Henry Wotton and Henry Fitzsimon; admitted at Lincoln's Inn, 1592; sailed in Essex's expedition to Cadiz, 1596; secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, keeper of the great seal, 1596; dismissed hi consequence of an imprudent marriage, 1601; strongly urged by Thomas Morton (1564-1659), one of the king's chaplains, whom he bad assisted in writing an Apologia Christiana to take orders and accept the living of Long Mars ton in Yorkshire; refused, for religious reasons, 1607: produced the * Pseudo-Martyr in answer to Bellarmine's justification of the popish recusants, 1610; M.A. Oxford, by decree of convocation, 1610; wrote An Anatomy of the World an elegy on the death of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Drury, 1611; wrote a funeral elegy on Prince Henry, 1612; published an Epithalamium on the marriage of the count palatine and the Princess Elizabeth, 1013; wrote Essayes in Divinity (published 1661) about this time; admitted a conditional right of suicide in Biathanatos(printed 1644); ordained, 1615; chaplain to James I, 1615; D.D. Cambridge; rector of Keyston, Huntingdonshire, and Sevenoaks, Kent, 1616; divinity reader at Lincoln's Inn, preaching sermons which rank among the best of the seventeenth century, 1616; preached at Heidelberg before the Princess Elizabeth, 1619; dean of St. Paul's, 1621-31; prolocutor of convocation, 1623 and 1624; frequently preached before Charles I. Collections of his Poems by J. D appeared hi 1633 and 1649, and Lettersby him in 1661. He was one of themetaphysical* poets of the seventeenth century.
  249. ^ John Donne , the younger (1604–1662), miscellaneous writer; son of John Donne (1573-1631); educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford; tried for the manslaughter of a child eight years old, but acquitted, 1633; doctor of laws, Padua: incorporated at Oxford, 1(138; held various livings; author of Donnes Satyr, a ribald production.
  250. ^ William Bodham Donne (1807- [1882]]), examiner of plays; studied at Caius College, Cambridge: librarian of the London Library, 1852-7; examiner of plays in the lord chamberlain's office, 1867-74; published Old Roads and New Road?, 1 1852, andEssays upon the Drama 1858.
  251. ^ James Donnegan (fl. 1841), lexicographer; graduate in medicine of a foreign university; medical practitioner in London, 1820-35; published A New Greek and English Lexicon 1826.
  252. ^ Sir Ross Donnelly (1761?-1840), admiral ; lieutenant, 1781: commander, 1794: captain, 1795; served successively in Mediterranean, 1801-5, at Cape of Good Hope, 1805, Buenos Ayres, at capture of Monte Video, and Cadiz, 1808; rear-admiral, 1814; admiral, 1838; K.C.B., 1837.
  253. ^ Earls of Donoughmore . See Richard Hely-Hutchinson , first Earl, 1756–1825 ; John HELY-HUTCHINSon, second EARL, 1757–1832 ; HELY-HUTCHINSON, John, third EARL, 1787–1851.
  254. ^ Edward Donovan (1768–1837), naturalist and author; founded London Museum and Institute of Natural History, 1807: published works of natural history, illustrated with drawings by himself, includingThe Nests and Eggs of British Birds and General Illustrations of Entomology 1805.
  255. ^ Samuel Doody (1656–1706), botanist; apothecary, 1696: assisted Ray in the * Historia Plantarum; F.R.S.; curator of the ApothecariesGarden, Chelsea, 1693-1706; specialist on cryptogams.
  256. ^ Thomas Doolittle (1632?–1707), nonconformist tutor; M.A. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; pastor of St. Alphage, London Wall, 1653; ejected, 1662; opened boarding-school at Moorfields; licensed by the indulgence of 1672 to a meeting-house in Mugwell Street; his academy ruined by its enforced removal from place to place, 1687; published theological treatises, including his catechetical lectures as A Complete Body of Practical Divinity 1723.
  257. ^ Anthony Dopping (1643–1697), bishop successively of Kildare and Meath: fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, 1662; M.A., 1662; D.D., 1672: chaplain to the Duke of Ormonde: bishop of Kildare, 1679; privy councillor and bishop of Meath by letters patent, 1682; suggested to William III the proclamation of a fast during the struggle with James II; published orations, theological treatises, and political pamphlets.
  258. ^ John Doran (1807–1878), miscellaneous writer ; of Irish parentage; author of Justice, or the Venetian Jew a melodrama, 1824: doctor of philosophy, Marburg; literary editor of the Church and State Gazette 1841-1852; editor of theAthenaeum 1869-70; published 'The Queens of the House of Hanover 1855,Knights and their Days 1856, and an historical account of the English stage, entitled Their Majesties Servants 1860.
  259. ^ Marquises of Dorchester . See PIERREPONT, Henry 1606–1680: PIERRKPONT, EVELYN, first marquis of the second creation, 1666 7-1726.
  260. ^ Countess of Dorchester (1657–1717). See Catharine Sedley.
  261. ^ Viscount Dorchester (1573–1632). See Sir Dudley Carleton Sir Dudley Ton .
  262. ^ Dorchester, first Baron (1724–1808). See Guy Carleton.
  263. ^ Sir Nicholas Dorigny (1658–1746), painter and engraver: born at Paris; studied painting and etching at Rome; engraver of pictures of the various Italian schools; invited to engrave Raphael's tapestries in the Vatican; came to England to study some of the original cartoons, 1711; presented two complete sets of engravings after Raphael to George 1, 1719; knighted, 1720; member of the French Academy, 1725; exhibited paintings at the Salon exhibitions, 1739-1743; died at Paris,
  264. ^ Joseph Alexander Dorin (1808–1872), Indian official; nominated to Jk-ntfal branch of East India Company's service; assistant to the accountant-general, 1K21; deputy accountant-general; entrusted by Lord Ellenborough with re-organisation of Indian finance, 1842; financial secretary, 1843; member of Lord Dalhousie's council, 1853; advocated annexation of Oude, when president of council; assailed in the Red Pamphlet as a member of Lord Canning's government at the time of the Indian mutiny, 1857.
  265. ^ Sir Antoine Aimé Dorion (1818–1891), Canadian judge; born in Canada; advocate, 1843: Q.C., 1868: joined party founded by Louis Joseph Papineau; member for Montreal, 1854-61, and Hochelaga, 1862: provincial secretary, 1862; attorney-general east and leader of French-Canadian liberals, 1863-64: member for Napierville, 1872; minister of justice and privy councillor, 1873: chief-justice of court of queen's bench, Quebec, 1874; knighted, 1877.
  266. ^ Isaac Dorislaus (1595–1649), diplomatist, born at Alkmaar, Holland; LL.D. Leyden: Grenville lecturer on history, Cambridge, 1627: practically compelled to resign for defending the Dutch resistance to Spain, 1627; member of the College of Advocates, 1645; friend of Wotton and Selden; judge of the admiralty court, 1648; prepared the charge of high treason against Charles I, 1648; assassinated, when envoy to the States-General, by royalists at the Hague.
  267. ^ Isaac Dorislaus , the younger (d. 1688), manager of the post office, 1660; son of Isaac Dorislaus (1595-1649); entered Merchant Taylors' School, 1639; translator and interpreter to Thurloe; accompanied embassy to Holland, 1651; solicitor to the court of admiralty, 1653; F.R.S., 1681.
  268. ^ Thomas Dorman (d. 1577?), Roman catholic divine; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; gave up a prospective fellowship for religious reasons; fellow of All Souls College, 1564; B.C.L., 1558: B.D. Douay, 1565; D.D.; died in possession of a benefice at Tournay; published controversial works.
  269. ^ James Dormer (1679–1741), lieutenant-general; lieutenant and captain, 1st foot guards, 1700; wounded at Blenheim, 1704; levied the present 14th hussars, 1715; colonel of the 6th foot, 1720: envoy extraordinary at Lisbon, c. 1728; lieutenant-general and colonel, 1st troop of horse-grenadier guards, 1737; governor of Hull, 1740.
  270. ^ Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (1538–1612), companion of Queen Mary; second daughter of Sir William Dormer; married in 1558 Don Gomez Suarez de Figueroa, count of Feria, who came to England with Philip II; joined her husband in Flanders, 1569; promoted papal interests; took the habit of the third order of St. Francis and founded a monastery near Villalva.
  271. ^ John Dormer (1636–1700), Jesuit; his real name Huddleston; professed Jesuit father, 1673; preacher to James II; rector of the college of Liege, 1688-91: died at Liege; defended the taking of interest in Usury Explain'd 1696.
  272. ^ John Dormer (1734?-1796), officer in the Austrian army; first rittmeister in the Kleinhold cuirassier regiment, 1763; transferred to Serbelloni's cuirassier regiment, 1768; major, 1782; died at Grau.
  273. ^ Robert Dormer, Earl of Caernarvon (d. 1643), royalist; created Viscount Asaot and Earl of Carnarvon, 1628; commanded a regiment in the second Scottish war, 1641; fought for Charles I at Edgehill, 1642; took part in capture of Cirencester, 1643; advised Lord Wilmot to concentrate his forces against Haselrig's cuirassiers at Roundway Down, 1643: effected submission of Dorset, 1643; fell at the first battle of Newbury, 1641.
  274. ^ Sir Robert Dormer (1649–1726), judge ; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1675; chancellor of Durham; M.P., Ayleibury, 1699: M.P. for Buckinghamshire, 1701, for Northallerton, 1702, and for Buckinghamshire again; justice of common pleas, 1706.
  275. ^ Joseph Dornford (1794–1868), divine; half-brother of Josiah Dornford; served as a volunteer in the Peninsular war, 1811; B.A. Wadham College, Oxford, 1816; Michel fellow of Queen's College. Oxford, 1817; fellow of Oriel, 1819: M.A., 1820; dean and proctor of Oriel; rector of Plymtree, Devonshire, 1832; prebendary of Exeter, 1844; published sermons.
  276. ^ Josiah Dornford (1764–1797), miscellaneous writer; M. A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1792: LL.D. Gottingen; barrister, Lincoln's Inn; inspector-general of the army accounts in the Leeward islands, 1795: died at Martinique; translated Putter's Historical Developement of the Present Political Constitution of the Germanic Empire 1790, and published The Motives and Consequences of the Present War impartially considered 1793.
  277. ^ William Dorrell (1651–1721). See William Darrell.
  278. ^ Theophilus Dorrington (d. 1715), controversialist; studied medicine at Leyden, 1680; published an account of his travels (1698) in Holland and Germany; rector of Wittersham, Kent, 1698-1716; M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1710: translated Puffendorf's Divine Feudal Law 1703, and wrote against the tenets of the dissenters.
  279. ^ Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel D'Orsay (1801-1852), artist; served in the Bourbonsbodyguard, though of imperialist sympathies; visited England at the coronation of George IV, 1821; mentioned by Byron as an ideal Frenchman of the ancien regime; joined the Countess of Blessington in establishing a fashionable coterie in London, 1831: painted the last portrait of the Duke of Wellington; left London in consequence of pecuniary embarrassments, 1849; appointed director of the fine arts by Prince Louis Napoleon, 1852, shortly before his death.
  280. ^ Dukes of Dorset . See SACKVILLE, LIONEL CRANFIELD, first DUKE, 1688–1766 : SACKVILLK, CHARLES, second DUKE, 1711-1769; SACKVILLK, JOHN FREDERICK, third DUKE, 1745-1799.
  281. ^ Marquises of Dorset . See GREY, THOMAS, first Marquis 1451–1501; GREY, THOMAS, second MARQUIS, 1477-1630; GREY, HBNRY, third MARQUIS, d. 1554.
  282. ^ Earls of Dorset . See BEAUFORT, SIR THOMAS, first EARL of the second creation, d. 1427; BEAUFORT, EDMUND, first EARL of the third creation, d. 1455; SACKVILLK, THOMAS, first EAHL of the fourth creation, 15361608; SACKVILLK, ROBKRT, second EARL, 1561-1609; SACKVILLK, EDWARD, fourth EARL, 1591-1652; SACKVILLK, CHARLKS, sixth EARL, 1638-1706; SACKVILLE, RICHARD, fifth EARL, 1622-1677.
  283. ^ Countess of Dorset (1590–1676). See Anne Clifford.
  284. ^ St John Dorset (pseudonym) (1802–1827). See Hugo John Belfour.
  285. ^ Catherine Ann Dorset (1750?–1817?) poetess; nee Turner; married, c. 1770, Captain Michael Dorset; author of The Peacock " at Home," a poem for children, 1807, and probably of The Lion's Masquerade, a poem, 1807.
  286. ^ Edward Doubleday (1811–1849), quakcr entomologist; brother of Henry Doubleday; published papers occasioned by an entomological expedition ( 1835) to the United States; assistant in the British Museum, 18391849; secretary of the Entomological Society; commenced 'Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera 1846.
  287. ^ Henry Doubleday (1808–1875), quaker naturalist; introduced practices of capturing moths at sallow blossoms and sugaring; published A Nomenclature of British Birds 1838; member of the Entomological Society of London, 1833; attempted to establish a uniform system of entomological nomenclature by hisSynonymic List of British Lepidoptera 1847-50.
  288. ^ Thomas Doubleday (1790–1870), poet, dramatist, radical politician, and political economist; agitated for reform, 1832; secretary to the northern political union; joined in presenting address to Karl Grey pointing out deficiencies in the newly passed reform bill, 1832; published Essay on Mundane Moral Government 1832, The True Law of Population shown to be connected with the Food of the People 1842, The Eve of 8k Mark (poem), and drama; and other works.
  289. ^ Francis Douce (1757–1834), antiquary; at one time keeper of the manuscripts in the British Museum: published Illustrations of Shakespeare 1807; assisted Scott in the preparation of Sir Tristram; edited 'Arnold's Chronicle 1811; editedThe Recreative Review 1821-3; published with a dissertation The Dance of Death, 1833: bequeathed his manuscripts, prints, and coins to the Bodleian Library, and his unpublished essays to the British Museum.
  290. ^ David Alfred Doudney (1811–1894), educational pioneer; entered printing firm in London, 1832, and started business independently, 18:!5; editor and proprietor ofGospel Magazine 1840; ordained priest, 1847; vicar of Kilrush and curate of Monksland, co. Waterford, 1847-59; established industrial schools at Bunmahon and, later, at Bedminster, where he was perpetual curate of St. Luke's, 1859 till death; published religious works.
  291. ^ John Dougall (1760–1822), miscellaneous writer ; studied at Edinburgh University; private secretary to General Melville; chief works, The Modern Preceptor 1810, and The Cabinet of Arts 1821.
  292. ^ Neil Dougall (1776–1862), Scottish poet and musical composer; served on board a government privateer, and was accidentally wounded by a shot during the rejoicings at Lord Howe's victory, 1794; composed psalm and hymn tunes; published Poems and Songs 1854.
  293. ^ John Dougharty (1677–1765), mathematician ; of Irish extraction; published Mathematical Digests and a General Gauger 1750.
  294. ^ John Doughtie or Doughty (1598–1672), divine; B.A., and fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1619: M.A., 1622; joined the cavalier forces; D.D., and prebendary of Westminster Abbey, 1660; rector of Cheam, 1662.
  295. ^ William Doughty (d. 1782), portrait-painter and mezzotint engraver; pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds: painted a portrait of the poet Gray from description and profile outline; excelled in mezzotint engraving; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1779; captured by a French squadron while on the way with his wife to India; died at Lisbon.
  296. ^ Sir Alexander Douglas (1738–1812), physician ; son of Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie; M.D. St. Andrews, 1760; L.R.C.P., 1796; physician to the king's forces in Scotland.
  297. ^ Alexander Hamilton Douglas, tenth Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), premier peer in the peerage of Scotland; colonel of Lanarkshire militia and lord-lieutenant of the county, 1801; M.P. for Lancaster, 1803; privy councillor and ambassador to St. Petersburg, 1806; succeeded as Duke of Hamilton, 1819; E.G., 1836; F.R.S. and F.S.A.; claimed to be the true heir to the throne of Scotland.
  298. ^ Andrew Douglas (d. 1725), navy captain; helped to burst the boom at the siege of Londonderry, 1689; commander of the Norwich, 1701; cashiered, on the charge of having used his commission for private ends at Port Royal, 1704; reinstated, 1709.
  299. ^ Andrew Douglas (1736–1806), physician ; educated at Edinburgh University: surgeon in the navy, 1756-75; M.D.Edinburgh, 1775; L.R.C.P., 177G; published works on uterine surgery.
  300. ^ Sir Archibald Douglas (1296?-1333), regent of Scotland; youngest son of Sir William of Douglas, the Hardy: Scottish leader during the minority of David II; defeated Edward de Baliol, the newly crowned king, at Annan, 1332: regent, 1333; defeated and slain at Halidon, 1333.
  301. ^ Archibald Douglas, third Earl of Douglas, called The Grim (1328?-1400?), natural son of the Good Sir James Douglas (1286 7-1330); knighted during a period of detention in England; constable of Edinburgh, 1361; warden of the western marches, 1364 and 1368; ambassador from David II to the French court, 1369; renewed the French alliance by the treaty of Vincennes, 1371; lord of Galloway by the purchase of land, 1372; established and rigorously administered the feudal regime in Galloway; succeeded as Earl of Douglas, 1386; nicknamed theBlack Douglas invaded England, 1389; worked towards including Scotland in the peace between Kiijlaud nnd France, 1389 and 1391; codified the laws of the marches.
  302. ^ Archibald Douglas, fourth Earl of Douglas, first Duke of Touraine (1369?-l424), called Tyneman, son of Archibald the Grim (1328?-1400?); married Margaret, daughter of Robert III, 1390; keeper of Edinburgh Castle, 1400; warden of the marches; allied himself with the Duke of Albany, then forming designs upon the throne of Scotland, 1402; probably implicated in murder of Rothesay; defeated and taken prisoner at Milfield, Northumberland, by the Earl of March and Hotspur, 1402; fought on the side of Hotspur at Shrewsbury, 1403, when he was again made prisoner; ransomed, 1408; concluded a treaty with Jean Sans Peur, duke of Burgundy, at Paris, 1412; unsuccessfully besieged Roxburgh, 1417; conciliated by Henry V in 1421; led Scottish contingent to the help of Charles VIII, regent of France, 1423; rewarded by a lieutenant-generalship and the duchy of Touraine; canon of the cathedral of Tours; defeated by the Duke of Bedford at Yerneuil and slain: buried at Tours.
  303. ^ Archibald Douglas , fifth Earl of Douglas and second Duke of Touraine (1391?-1439), son of Archibald, fourth earl; fought for Charles VI against the English at Beauge, 1421; conducted James I home from his English captivity: arrested by James I for disaffection; released, but (1431) again kept in custody for a short time; member of the council of regency, 1437; lieutenant-general of the kingdom, 1438-9.
  304. ^ Archibald Douglas, fifth Earl of Angus, Great Earl Tub ' (Bell-the-Cat) (1449?–1514), son of George Douglas, fourth earl; warden of the east marches, 1481; took part in the alliance which the Scottish nobles formed with Edward IV declared to his confederates that he would bell the cat i.e. kill Robert Cochrane, Earl of Mar, the hated favourite of James III; followed up his words by leading an attack on Cochrane, after whose execution the king was made prisoner; shared in Albany's intrigues with Edward IV, which he renounced in 1483; intrigued with Henry VII, 1491; received into favour by James IV, 1493; chancellor, 1493-8; tried to dissuade James IV from fighting at a disadvantage at Flodden, 1513; died at Whithorn Priory, Wigtownshire, while engaged iu his duties of justiciar.
  305. ^ Sir Archibald Douglas (1480?–1540?), of Kilspindie; high treasurer of Scotland; son of Archibald Douglas, fifth earl of Angus; provost of Edinburgh, 1519 and 1526-8; member of the privy council of Scotland; searcher-principal for preventing the export of bullion; lord high treasurer, 1526; outlawed in consequence of a change in the government of Scotland; fled to. the court of Henry VIII; returned to Scotland, 1584, to ask forgiveness from James V, who sent bun to France, where he died in exile.
  306. ^ Archibald Douglas , sixth Earl of Angus (14897-1557), grandson of Archibald Douglas, fifth earl q. v.1: privately married in 1514 to the queen-dowager, Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII's sister, whom the privy council declared to have forfeited the regency in consequence: deprived Beaton, archbishop of Glasgow, of the great seal for his influence over the privy council; joined Argyll iu declaring the Duke of Albany protector, 1515; required by Albany to give up the possession of the young king James V, Margaret's son, a demand which the queen resented, though her husband temporised; withdrew to Forfarshire, while Margaret was besiegal in Stirling, 1515; appointed member of council of regency by Albany, then just leaving for France; contested the supreme power with the Earl of Arran, whom Maria rot favoured; defeated Arran in the streets of Edinburgh, 1520: sent into exile in France on the return of the Duke of Albany, 1520; escaped to the court of Henry VIII, 1524; returned to Scotland, where Margaret had obtained the recognition of her son, a boy of twelve, as King James V, 1524; ordered by Margaret to leave Edinburgh, 1524: trusting to support of Henry VIII and Scottish nobles, demanded that Margaret should give up the custody of her son: liculuiant of the east and middle marches, 1626; guardian of Margaret's son, James V, in turn with the Earl of Arran and some other nobles, but refused to hand over the custody of him at the end of his allotted time; declared the king's majority, 1526: chancellor, 1526; maintained his hold over the young king against the will of the latter, who was an accomplice in most of the attempts to rescue him from Angus's custody; defeated and slew his rival, Lennox; a divorce from him obtained by Margaret, 1528; was ordered to live north of the Spey, but disobeyed, 1528; forfeited for high treason, 1528: his pardon demanded by Henry VIII, but not granted; lived in England till 1542; returned to Scotland on the death of James V, a ruthless enemy of the Douglas family; privy councillor, 1543; lieutenant-general, 1543; entered into hostilities with the regent Arran, but subsequently made compact with him to resist the English; lieutenant of Scotland south of the Forth, 1544; commanded the van at Pinkie, 1547; repelled Lord Wharton's invasion, 1548; recognised, though with some show of ill-humour, the regency of the queeudowager, Mary of Guise, 1554.
  307. ^ Archibald Douglas (fl. 1565–1686), parson of Glasgow; extraordinary lord of session, 1565; fled to France after murder of Rizzio, favourite of Mary Queen of Scots, in which he was implicated, 1566; lord of session, 1568; made parson of Glasgow after some objections from the kirk, 1572; imprisoned in Stirling Castle for sending money to the party of Mary Queen of Scots, 1572; accused before the council of being concerned in Darnley's murder, 1580; fled to England; degraded from the bench and forfeited, 1581; pardoned for all acts of treason, and acquitted of the murder of Darnley by a packed jury, 1586; ambassador to Queen Elizabeth and witness against Queen Mary.
  308. ^ Archibald Douglas, eighth Earl of Angus (1555-1588), nephew of James Douglas, fourth earl of Morton; supported the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to Darnley, in return for her confirmation of the charter granted by James V to the sixth earl; studied at St. Andrews; member of the privy council, 1573; lieutenant-general south of the Forth, 1674; warden of west marches, 1577; adhered to the Earl of Morton, his uncle and guardian, when removed from the regency, 1578; lieutenant-general of the king, on Morton's return to power; planned an invasion of Scotland with Randolph, the English envoy, but was detected and fled to England; friend of Sir Philip Sidney; pardoned by the influence of the Earls of Mar and Gowrie, 1582; attainted for his share in their unsuccessful insurrection, 1584; his removal to Cambridge suggested by the Earl of Arran, with the consent of Elizabeth, 1585; took Stirling town and castle in pursuance of a plot formed in exile against Arrau, 1585; lieutenant-general, 1586; his death, the result of consumption, attributed to sorcery, 1588.
  309. ^ Archibald Douglas, Earl of Ormond and Lord Angus (1609–1655), eldest son of William, eleventh earl of Angus; member of the privy council of Scotland, 1636; vacillated hi his opinions on the new i service-book, originally (1636) approving its use; extraj ordinary lord of session, 1631; signed the covenant, but was unwilling to take up arms in its defence; commissioner for the covenanters in England, 1643; colonel of Douglas regiment in France, 1646; member of committee of estates, 1650; created Earl of Ormond, 1651; fined 1,000. by Cromwell's act of grace, 1664.
  310. ^ Archibald Douglas (d. 1667), captain ; refused to retire before De Kuyter's fleet in the Medway, and perished in the burning of his ship, the Royal Oak.
  311. ^ Archibald Douglas, first Earl of Forfar (1653-1712), son of Archibald, earl of Ormond; created Earl of Forfar, 1661; sat in parliament, 1670; took important part in invitation to Prince of Orange, 1688; lord of the Scots treasury; built the modern Bothwell Castle.
  312. ^ Archibald Douglas, second Earl of Forfar (1693-1715), son of Archibald Douglas, first earl; colonel of the 10th regiment of infantry, 1713; envoy extraordinary to Prussia, 1714; killed on the king's side at Sheriff muir, 1715.
  313. ^ Archibald Douglas, third Marquis and first Duke of Douglas (1694–1761), son of James, second Marquis of Douglas: Duke of Douglas by patent, 1 7ii.": raided mrimriit for the king and fought nt slicrilTniuir, 171ft; actively resented the secret marriage of his sister, Lady Jane Douglas, but, on investigating the circumstances of the case after her death, settled his estates on her son, Archibald James Edward
  314. ^ Archibald James Edward Douglas (formerly Stewart), first Baron Douglas of Douglas (1748-1827); claimant in the great Douglas lawsuit; son of Lady Jane Douglas; educated at Rugby and Westminster: his right to the Douglas estates assailed by the Duke of Hamilton, heir male of the family, on the ground that he was not a real son of Colonel Stewart and Lady Jane Douglas; the estates confirmed to him by the House of Lords on appeal from the court of session, 1769; lord-lieutenant and M.P. for Forfarshire; created Baron Douglas of Douglas, 1790.
  315. ^ Miss Archibald Ramsay Douglas (1807-1886), miniature-painter; daughter of William Douglas (1780-1832); exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1834, 1836, and 1841.
  316. ^ Brice de Douglas (d. 1222). See Bricie.
  317. ^ Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry (d. 1777), an eccentric woman of fashion ; second daughter of Henry Hyde, earl of Clarendon and Rochester; wife of Charles Douglas, third duke of Queensberry; correspondent of Swift and friend of Congreve, Thomson, Pope, Prior, and Whitehead.
  318. ^ Charles Douglas , third Duke of Queensberry and second Duke of Dover (1698-1778). son of James Douglas, second duke of Queensberry and first duke of Dover; privy councillor and vice-admiral of Scotland; took up the cause of Gay, when a license for his opera Polly was refused, 1728: quarrelled with George II and resigned his appointments, 1728; keeper of the great seal of Scotland, 1760; lord justice-general, 1763-78.
  319. ^ Sir Charles Douglas, first baronet (d. 1789), rear-admiral: prevented by ice in the St. Lawrence from carrying stores and reinforcements to Quebec, 1775; relieved Quebec, 1776: created baronet, 1777: captain of the fleet at the battle of Dominica, 1 782; sometimes credited wrongly with personally planning the manoeuvre of breaking the French line which led to the victory: commander-in-chief on the Halifax station, 1783-6; rearadmiral, 1787; invented improvements in naval gunnery.
  320. ^ David Douglas (1798–1834), botanist and traveller; collected in United States for Royal Horticultural Society, 1823: discovered Douglas's spruce and introduced into Europe various plants, including the common ribes: fellow of the Linnean, Geological, and Zoological societies: gored to death by a wild bull in the Sandwich islands, 1834.
  321. ^ Francis Douglas (1710?–1790?), miscellaneous writer: started the Aberdeen Intelligencer, a Jacobite organ, 1750: rewarded with the life-rent of Abbots-Inch farm, near Paisley, for a pamphlet maintaining claim of Archibald Douglas (1748-1827) to Douglas estates. His works include History of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746 1755, and Life of James Crichton of Clunie (1760?).
  322. ^ Frederick Sylvester North Douglas (1791-1819), author; son of Sylvester Douglas: educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1813; M.P., Banbury, 1812 and 1818; published An Essay on certain Points of Resemblance between the Ancient and Modern Greek* 1813.
  323. ^ Gawin Douglas or Gavin (1474?–1522), Scottish poet and bishop; third son of Archibald, fifth earl of Angus; studied at St. Andrews, 1489-94, and perhaps at Paris; provost of St. Giles, Edinburgh, 1501: named abbot of Aberbrothock and archbishop of St. Andrews, 1514; ousted from the abbacy by James Beaton, archbishop of Glasgow, 1614, also from the archbishopric by Hepburn, the prior. 1514: nominated bishop of Dunkeld by Queen Margaret (1515), but imprisoned by the Duke of Albany for receiving bolls from the pope; released on the remonstrance of Leo X: bishop of Dunkeld, 1516-20; accompanied Albany to France, 1617; deprived of his bishopric for going to the Knglish court in the interest of the sixth Earl of Angus, lf.M; friend of Polydore i Vergil; died of the plague, 1522. Douglas wrote two 1 allegorical poems, entitled, The Palice of Honour (first published, 1553 V), and King Hart (first printed, 1786), also a translation of the Aeneid with prologues (first edition, 1553), which constitutes him the earliest classicl translator in the language.
  324. ^ George Douglas, first Earl of Angus (1380?-1403); created Earl of Angus by a charter of Robert II, 1389; fought under Archibald Douglas at Homildon, and was taken prisoner, 1402; died of the plague in England, 1403.
  325. ^ George Douglas, fourth Earl of Angus and Lord of Douglas (1412?-1462); commanded James II's forces against the Douglases at Arkinbolm, 1455; defeated Douglas and Percy, 1468; supported Henry VI against Yorkists, 1461: resisted queen-dowager's schemes for regency on death of James I: transferred power of Angus Douglases from Forfarshire to the border.
  326. ^ Sir George Douglas , of Pittendriech, Master of Angus (1490?-1552), younger brother of Archibald, sixth earl of Angus; diplomatic leader of the English party in Scotland; master of the household, when James V was in the hands of his brother; negotiated reconciliation between his brother and Governor Arran, 1542: imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, 1544; favoured, but would never actively support, English aggression.
  327. ^ Lord George Douglas, Earl of Dumbarton (1636?-1692), colonel of the Douglas regiment in the service of Louis XIV; created Earl of Dumbarton, 1675; suppressed Argyll's rising, 1685; accompanied James II to France: died at St. Germain-en-Laye.
  328. ^ George Douglas, fourth Baron Mordington (d. 1741), author; defended constitutional monarchy in 'The Great Blessing of a Monarchical Government, when... bounded by the Laws 1724.
  329. ^ Sir Howard Douglas , third baronet (1776–1861) ; general; son of Rear-admiral Sir Charles Douglas; first lieutenant, royal artillery, 1794; commanded regiment at Quebec-, employed on mission to the Cherokees, 1797; served with Congreve's mortar-brigade, 1803-4; captain, royal artillery, 1804; major-general and inspector-general of instructions in the Royal Military College, High Wycombe; fought as assistant quartermaster-general at Coruna, 1809; took part in the attack on Flushing, 1809; succeeded to baronetcy, 1809; patented Douglas's reflecting circle 1811; sent by Lord Liverpool to report on Spanish armies in Galicia and Asturias, 1811; F.R.S., 1812: major-general, 1821; published work on military bridges, 1816, treatise on Carnot's system of fortification, 1819, and another treatise on naval gunnery, 1820: governor of New Brunswick, 1823-8, and founder of the university of Fredericton; publishedNaval Evolutions 1832, maintaining that his father had originated the manreuvre of breaking the line; G.C.M.G.. 1836; lord high commissioner of the Ionian islands, for which he drew up the Douglas code, 1835-40; colonel, 99th foot, 1841: G.C.B., civil division, 1841; M.P., Liverpool, 1842-6: general, 1851; F.R.G.S.
  330. ^ Sir James Douglas, of Douglas, 'the Good,', Lord of Douglas (1286?–1330), son of William dc Douglas, the Hardy; deprived of his inheritance by Edward I; three times destroyed an English garrison in his castle of Douglas, which he burnt twice: joined Bruce in raiding the Lord of Lome; frequently raided England; knighted at Bannockburn. 1314; warden of the marches; defeated the archbishop of York and the bishop of Ely at Mitton in Yorkshire, the engagement being known as the Chapter of Mitton from the large number of ecclesiastics slain, 1319: surprised troops led by Edward III, after which the English army was dismissed and peace followed; set out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, carrying the heart of Bruce, in accordance with that king's dying wish, but was killed on the way, or some say on his return journey, while fighting against the Moors in Andalusia.
  331. ^ James Douglas, second Earl of Douglas (13587-1388): married by papal dispensation to Isabel, daughter of Robert II, 1373; assisted against England by Sir John de Vienne, admiral of France, 1385: acquiesced, on payment of a subsidy, in the departure of hi? French allies, who were weary of their subordinate position, 1386; defeated the two sons of the Earl of Northumberland at the battle of Otterburn, but was slain before the victory was assured.
  332. ^ James Douglas, seventh Earl of Douglas, 'the Gross' or Fat (1371?-1443), sou of Archibald the Grim third earl (132s V-l-KH) V); supported the regent Albany, who allowed him to make profit out of the customs; sat on the;issi,c- which tried the Duke of Albany, 1425; granted lauds and baronies at some distance from the bonier by James I; created Earl of Avondale, 1437; possibly connived at the murder of his grandnephew, William, whom he succeeded in the earldom.
  333. ^ James Douglas, ninth Earl of Douglas (1426-1488), second son of James the Gross seventh earl; *made a journey to Rome, 1450; denounced James 11 as a traitor after the assassination of his brother William, eighth earl of Douglas, 1452; overawed into submission after the forfeiture of his allies, Crawford and Lindsay, promising to do his duty as warden of the marches and relinquish the earldom of Wigtou and lordship of Stewarton, 1452; married his brother's widow, the Maid of Galloway, 1453; commissioner for arranging a truce with England, 1453; forced to fly to England, 1455, his brothers and adherents having been routed; forfeited, 1465; knight of the Garter in return for his services to Edward IV. While raiding Scotland he gave himself up, that an old retainer might earn the promised reward for his capture, and died a monk in the abbey of Lindores.
  334. ^ James Douglas, fourth Earl of Morton (d. 1581), regent of Scotland; son of Sir George Douglas of Pittendriech; Earl of Morton in right of his wife, Elizabeth Douglas, 1553; subscribed the first bond of the Scottish reformers, 1557, but withdrew his support in 1559; privy councillor on arrival of Mary Queen of Scots in Scotland: assisted in suppressing Huntly's conspiracy, 1562; lord chancellor, 1563; supported marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and Darnley, but without much enthusiasm, 1565; procured the murder of Rizzio, Mary's favourite, and joined Ruthven and Maitland in signing a bond which promised the crown matrimonial to Darnley, 1566; tied to England, 1566, being denounced by Darnley; ordered into retirement, 1566; pardoned by the influence of Bothwell, Mary's new favourite, December 1566; disapproved of the murder (1567) of Darnley, but refused to serve as a juryman on the trial of Bothwell; signed bond for Bothwell's marriage with the queen, 1567; seized Edinburgh and called upon the citizens to join the confederacy against Bothwell, whom, however, he allowed to escape on the surrender of Mary at Carberry Hill, 1567; suggested Mary's imprisonment in the fortalice of Lochleven, 1567; lord chancellor and member of the council of regency, 1567; led the van at Langside, 1568; adviser of the regent Moray, whom he prepared to support at Maitland's trial for the murder of Darnley; induced Elizabeth to declare for the young king James VI, in anger at the assassination of Moray, 1569; prac tically controlled the government during the regency of Lennox, 1569; quarrelled with Lennox; lord-general of the kingdom at the commencement of the Earl of Mar's regency; approved the proposal of Queen Elizabeth that Mary should be handed over to the reformers, 1572; regent, 1572: pronounced a funeral eulogy over John Knox, 1572; obtained promises of support from Elizabeth, and induced Huntly and the Hauiiltous to desert the cause of Mary, 1573; reduced Edinburgh Castle, 1573: passed an act against ryding and incursions in Ingland 1575; established justice eyres to levy fines for criminal acts and nonconformity to protestantism; endeavoured to perpetuate the episcopal system and bring about a practical union with England; accused of avarice for taking into his own hands the management of the third part of the revenues of the benefices, which had been set apart for the support of the reformed clergy; refused to be bribed by Prance into recommending Mary's liberation; ousted from the regency by Argyll and Atholl, who prevailed on James VI to assume the government, 1578; re-established himself at the head of affairs by consent of a parliament held at Stirling Castle, 1578; had the Hamilton estates sequestrated in retaliation for the murder of Moray and Lennox; accused by Bsme Stuart, earl of Lennox, with the connivance of James VI, of having contrived Darnley's murder; brought to trial and convicted of being council, concealing, and being art and part of the king's murder; executed, 1581.
  335. ^ Lord James Douglas or William (1617–1645), military commander; second son of William, first marquis of Douglas; commanded Louis XIII's Scots regiment, 1637; killed in a skirmish near Arras.
  336. ^ James Douglas, second Earl of Queensberry (d. 1671); taken prisoner when on his way to join Montrose after the battle of Kilsyth; fined for his allegiance to Charles I, 1645 and 1654.
  337. ^ James Douglas, second Marquis of Douglas (1646?-1700), grandson of William Douglas, first marquis of Douglas; became Earl of Angus by the death of his father, 1656; financially ruined by his factor, William Lawrie.
  338. ^ James Douglas, second Duke of Queensberry and first Duke of Dover (1662-1711), eldest son of William, first duke of Queensberry; educated at Glasgow University; privy councillor, 1684; lieutenantcolonel of Dundee's regiment of horse; joined William III, 1688, and was appointed colonel of the 6th horse guards; privy councillor; lord high treasurer, 1693; keeper of the privy seal; king's commissioner at a meeting of the Scottish estates called to further the prosecution of the Darien enterprise, of which he procured the abandonment, 1701; K.G., 1701; one of the secretaries of state for Scotland, 1702; encouraged the Jacobites by his undecided attitude on the question of the settlement, 1703; deluded into unconsciously furthering Jacobite designs of Simon Fraser (1703); withdrew from the government; reinstated as lord privy seal, 1706; commissioner of the estates, 1706; procured signing of treaty of union in face of Scottish opposition, 1706; created Duke of Dover, Marquis of Beverley, and Earl of Ripon, 1708; third secretary of state, 1709.
  339. ^ James Douglas, fourth Duke of Hamilton (1658-1712), eldest son of William Douglas, third dnke of Hamilton; educated at Glasgow University; ambassador extraordinary to Louis XIV, 1683-5; commanded regiment of horse against Monmouth, 1685; knight-companion of the Thistle, 1687; accompanied James II to Salisbury as colonel of the Oxford regiment, 1688; acquitted of conspiracy on surrendering to a warrant, 1696; Duke of Hamilton by resignation of his mother, 1 698; promoted the African Company in the Scottish parliament, 1700; leader of the Scottish national party, 1702; his project for a commercial treaty with England frustrated; spoke against the treaty of union in the last session of the last parliament of Scotland, but prevented armed opposition, 1707; foiled in his scheme of petitioning Anne for a new parliament; taken prisoner to London for complicity in the attempted French invasion of Scotland, 1708; chosen one of the sixteen Scottish representative peers by whig influence, 1708; rewarded for his support of Sacheverell by the lord-lieutenancy of Lancashire, 1710; privy councillor, 1710; mastergeneral of the ordnance, 1712; K.G.; named ambassadorextraordinary to France on the eve of the conclusion of the peace of Utrecht; killed in a duel before starting by Lord Mohun, who had given the lie to, and subsequently challenged, him. The duel was alleged at the time to be a whig plot.
  340. ^ James Douglas (1675–1742), physician; M.D. Rheims; F.R.S.. 1706; published Myographiee Comparatae Specimen 1707: compiled a general bibliography of anatomy, 1715; wrote a Description of the Peritoneum and of the Membrana Cellularis which is on its outside in connection with the question of tapping in dropsy and the high operation for stone in the bladder; nearly anticipated the discovery of auscultation; physician to Queen Caroline; referred to by Pope as a bibliophile as well as an obstetric practitioner: published The History of the Lateral Operation for the Stone 1726.
  341. ^ James Douglas , fourteenth Earl of Morton (1702-1768); M.A. King's College. Cambridge, 1722; helped to transform the Medical Society of Edinburgh into the Society for Improving Arts and Sciences; first president, 1739; K.T., 1738: lord of the bedchamber and a representative peer of Scotland, 1739; owner of Orkney and Shetland hy act of parliament, 1742: imprisoned in theBastile, 1746; lord clerk register of Scotland, 1760; president of the Royal Society, 1764.
  342. ^ Sir James Douglas , first baronet (1703–1787), admiral; member of the court-martial which condemned Admiral Byng, 1757; served at reduction of Quebec, 1759; commander-iu-chief on Leeward islands! station, 17CO-2; captured Dominica, 1761; second in command at reduction of Martinique, 1762; admiral, 1778; created baronet, 1786; M.P. for Orkney.
  343. ^ James Douglas (1753–1819), divine, antiquary, and artist; entered the Austrian army as a cadet, and, being sent by Prince John of Liechtenstein to purchase horses in England, procured a lieutenancy in the Leicester militia; entered Peterhouse, Cambridge; took orders; chaplain to the Prince of Wales; F.S.A., 1780; vicar of Keuton, Suffolk, 1803; painted oil and miniature portraits of his friends. His works include A Sepulchral History of Great Britain 1793.
  344. ^ James Douglas , fourth and last Baron Douglas (1787-1857), fifth son of Archibald, first baron, rector of Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, 1819-25; rector of Broughton, Northamptonshire, 1825-57.
  345. ^ Sir James Dawes Douglas (1785–1862), general; aide-de-camp to Major-general Sir James Duff; friend of Napier, the military historian; captain, 42nd regiment, 1804; deputy-assistant quartermaster-general in South America, 1806; present at the battles of Roliea, Vimeiro (1808), and Corufia, 1809; lieutenant-colonel, 8th Portuguese regiment, and major, 1809; fought at Busaco, 1810; lieutenant-colonel, 1811; commanded the 7th Portuguese brigade at the battles of the Pyrenees, 1813, and in southern France, 1814; major-general, 1825; lieutenantgovernor of Guernsey, 1830-8; G.C.B., 1846: general, 1854.
  346. ^ Lady Jane Douglas (1698–1753), daughter of James, second marquis of Douglas; her engagement to Francis, earl of Dalkeith, broken off, 1720; hindered from entering a foreign convent by her mother and brother; married Colonel John Stewart, 1746, a step which she concealed for fear that her brother, Archibald, first duke of Douglas, might withdraw her allowance: became the mother (1748) at Paris of twin sons, Archibald and Sholto; deprived of her allowance on informing her brother of their birth; disowned by her brother. Her only surviving son, Archibald James Edward Douglas, claimed successfully the Douglas estates in great Douglas lawsuit.
  347. ^ Janet Douglas, Lady Glammis (rf. 1537), granddaughter of Archibald, fifth earl of Angus; married John, sixth lord Glammis, c. 1520; forfeited (1531) for disloyalty: indicted on a charge of poisoning her husband, which was abandoned; charged with conspiring the death of James V, and burnt at the stake in Edinburgh, * without any substauciall ground according to Henry VIII's representative in Scotland.
  348. ^ John Douglas (d. 1743), surgeon: brother of James Douglas (1675-1742); F.R.S.; surgeon lithotomist to the Westminster Hospital; lectured on anatomy and surgery: keen controversialist in medicine; published An Account of Mortifications, 1729, and advocated the high operation for stone, which he claimed as essentially his own discovery, in Lithotomia Douglassiana 1720.
  349. ^ John Douglas (1721–1807), bishop of Salisbury ; M.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1743: present, as chaplain to the 3rd regiment of foot guards, at the battle of Fontenoy, 1745: Snell exhibitioner at Balliol, 1746; vicar of High Ercall, Shropshire, 1750-61: exposed forgeries of William Lander, 1750; attacked Hume's argument against miracles, publishing the Criterion 1762; attacked the Hutchinsonians in an Apology for the Clergy 1755; D.D., 1758; canon of Windsor, 1762; P R.S. and FJS.A., 1778; bishop of Carlisle, 1787-91; dean of Windsor, 1788; bishop of Salisbury, 1791-1807; edited Clarendon'sDiary and Letters 1763.
  350. ^ Sir John Sholto Douglas, Marquis of Queensberry (1844-1900); succeeded his father, seventh marquis, 1858; sat as representative peer for Scotland, 1872-80. He is chiefly known as a patron of boxing, the Queensberry rules being drawn up under his supervision, 1607.
  351. ^ Sir Kenneth Douglas formerly Mackenzie, first baronet (1754-1833), lieutenant-general; lieutenant, 33rd regiment, 1775; served in West Indies and throughout Netherlands campaign of 1793 under paternal naino of Mackenzie; cuptain and major in the neuly raisM Perthshire Light Infantry, 1794: lieutenant-colonel lotservices at capture of Minorca, 17'J8: appointed lieutenant colonel of the 44th before Alexandria, 1801; governor of Antwerp, 1814 and 1815; lieutenant-general, 1821; made baronet of Gleubervie (a second creation), 1831; took the name of Douglas by royal licence, 1831.
  352. ^ Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (1515–1578), mother of Lord Darnley; daughter of Archibald Douglas, sixth earl of Angus, by Margaret Tudor; placed by Henry VIII in the Princess Mary's establishment at Beaulieu, 1531; friend of Princess Mary; displeased the king by her private betrothal to Lord Thomas Howard, Anne Boleyn's uncle, and was imprisoned in Syon Abbey; married Matthew Stewart, earl : of Lennox, 1544; excluded from the English succession for her Roman catholic leanings, 1546; planned marriage between her son, Lord Darnley, and Mary Queen of Scots; arrested before its accomplishment for her treasonable intentions towards Elizabeth, 1562; rej leased, but on successfully carrying out her scheme was I sent to the Tower; denounced Mary Queen of Scots at i the court of Elizabeth for Darnley's murder; reconciled to i Mary, c. 1572. Her aspirations were substantially fulI filled by the accession of her grandson, James VI, to the throne of England.
  353. ^ Neil Douglas (1750–1823), poet and preacher; educated at Glasgow University; appeared as a social reformer in A Monitory Address to Great Britain 1792: minister of Relief Charge at Dundee, 1793-8; published 'The Lady's Scull a poem, 1794; wrote (1799) his Journal of a Mission to part of the Highlands of Scotland; uuiversalist preacher 1809: a vigorous abolitionist; arraigned before the high court of justiciary at Edinburgh for comparing George III to Nebuchadnezzar, 1817; acquitted.
  354. ^ Sir Neil Douglas (1779–1853), lieutenant-general ; captain, Cameron Highlanders, 1804; fought at Cortina, 1809, and at the siege of Copenhagen, 1807, and Flushing, 1809: wounded at Busaco, 1810: major, 1811; lieutenantcolonel, 1812; commanded battalion in south of France, 1814, and at Waterloo, 1815; knighted, 1831: major-general and K.C.B., 1837; lieutenant-general, 1846.
  355. ^ Philip Douglas (1758–1822), master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; educated at Harrow and Corpus Christi, Cambridge; M.A., 1784; tutor, 1787: D.D. and master of Corpus Christi, 1795-1822: vicar of Gedney, Lincolnshire, 1796; vice-chancellor, 1795-6 and 1810-11.
  356. ^ Robert Douglas, Viscount Belhaven (1574?-1639); knighted, 1609; master of the household and privy councillor under Charles I; created Viscount Belhaven, 1633; blind.
  357. ^ Robert Douglas (1594–1674), presbyterian divine; reputed grandson of Mury Queen of Scots; M.A. St. Andrews, 1614; chaplain to a Scots brigade sent to the assistance of Gustavus Adolphus, e. 1630; minister of the Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh, 1641-2; presented the solemn league and covenant to the parliament, 1649; officiated at the coronation of Charles II at Scone, 1661: largely helped to bring about the Restoration; declined bishopric of Edinburgh, refusing to recognise episcopacy.
  358. '^ Sir Robert Douglas (1694–1770), baronet of Glenbervie, genealogist; compiler of The Peerage of Scotland 1764, and of a Baronage of Scotland vol. i. 1798.
  359. ^ Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1743-1823), educated at Aberdeen University: graduated at Leyden, 1 766; barrister of Lincoln's Inn, 1776; king's counsel, 1793; member of the Irish parliament for Irishtown, Kilkenny: privy councillor of Ireland and, in 1794, of England; M.P. for Fowey, Cornwall, 1795, for Midhurst, Sussex, 1796; lord of the treasury, 1797-1800; nominated governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 1800, but did not take the office; created Baron Olenbervie of Kincardine (in Irwh peerage), 1800; M.P., Plympton Earls, 1801, Hastings, 1802-6; first chief commissioner of the united laud and forest department, 1810-14; chairman of the secret committee appointed to inquire into the advance of 100,0007. for secret naval services, 1805: published histories of controverted elections, 15 and 16 George II I, 1775 and 1777.
  360. ^ Thomas Douglas (fl. 1661), divine ; ejected from the living of St. Olave's, Silver Street, London, at the Restoration; M.D. Padua: published l Weajwjros, or the Great Mysterie of Godlinesse 1661.
  361. ^ Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, Baron Daer and Shortcleuch (1771–1820); educated at Edinburgh University; settled emigrants from the highlands of Scotland in Prince Edward's island, 1803, intending to direct towards British colonies the unavoidable emigration of the highlauders; Scottish representative peer, 1806 and 1807; F.R.S., 1808; sent out pioneers to colonise the lied River valley; his colonists twice driven from their settlements, Forts Douglas and Daer, by soldiers of the North-west Company, 1815 and 1816; personally led an attack on Fort William, the chief post of the North-west Company, and re-established his colony under the name Kildonau, 1817; fined 2,000. by Canadian courts on the charge of having plotted the ruin of the North-west Company, 1818: died at Pau: published Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland 1805, in defence of his colonisation scheme.
  362. ^ Sir Thomas Monteath Douglas (1787–1868), general; lieutenant, 35th regiment of Bengal infantry, 1808; fought in the Bundelkhand campaigns, 1809 and 1810, against the Pindaris, 1818, and against the Mere, 1820; lieutenant-colonel, 1834; took part in capture of Cabal, 1838; second in command at defence of Jellalabad, 1841-2; colonel of his old regiment, 1845; took additional surname of Douglas, 1851; K.C.B., 1865; general, 1865.
  363. ^ William de Douglas, the Hardy (d. 1298); a crusader and knighted lord of Douglas, 1288; recognised Baliol as king, after some hesitation; captured at the taking of Berwick, after Baliol's abdication, and imprisoned; released; again took up arms, and, his confederates submitting to Edward I at Irvine water (1297), was imprisoned in the Tower till his death.
  364. ^ Sir William Douglas, Knight of Liddesdale (1300?-1353), keeper of Lochmaben Castle and warden of the west marches, 1332; slew the Earl of Atholl, Edward Baliol's lieutenant, 1337; given the lordship of Liddesdale by David II, 1342; ambassador to the French court; treacherously wounded and starved in prison Sir Alexander Ramsay, to whom David II had given Roxburgh Castle, not knowing that it was in the possession of Douglas; pardoned, and appointed constable of Roxburgh Castle; taken prisoner by the English at Durham, 1346; released on condition of becoming Edward Ill's liegeman; murdered by his kinsman, the Lord of Douglas.
  365. ^ William Douglas , first Earl of Douglas (1327?-1384), younger son of Sir Archibald Douglas (d. 1333); trained in arms in France; returned to Scotland, c. 1348, and restored Ettrick Forest to the Scottish allegiance; took part in treaty of Newcastle, by which David II's ransom from captivity in England was arranged, 1354; slew his kinsman, the Knight of Liddesdale, 1353; present at the battle of Poitiers, 1356; warden of the east marches, and, in 1358, created Earl of Douglas; took up arms against David II, who was supposed to have appropriated the money raised for his ransom and to be intriguing with England; submitted, 1363; swore homage to Robert II, 1371; justiciary south of the Forth from 1371; Earl of Mar, probably by marriage, 1374; defeated Sir Thomas Musgrave at Melrose in a border raid, 1378; negotiated truce with John of Gaunt at Berwick, 1380.
  366. ^ Sir William Douglas, Lord of Nithsdale (d. 1392?), illegitimate son of Archibald, third earl of Douglas; married Egidia, daughter of Robert II, at the same time receiving the lordship of Nithsdale, 1387; made retaliatory raid on Ireland, burning Carlingford and plundering the Isle of Man, 1388; commanded maritime expedition sent from Danzig against the Lithuanians, 1391.
  367. ^ William Douglas, second Earl of Angus (1398?-1437), elder son of George, first earl; knighted by James I; sat on the assize at Albany's trial, 1425; warden of the middle marches, 1433; defeated English force at Piperden, 1435.
  368. ^ William Douglas, sixth Earl of Douglas and third Duke of Touraine (1423?-1440), eldest son of Archibald Douglas, fifth earl; said to have behaved as a claimant to the Scottish crown; treacherously seized and beheaded after a banquet at Edinburgh, to which he and his brother David had been invited by James II, 1440.
  369. ^ William Douglas , eighth Earl of Douglas (1425?-1452), son of James Douglas, the Gross seventh earl; used his influence with James II to dispossess the chancellor, Sir William Orichton.of office, 1443; burnt Alnwick, 1448; negotiated the marriage of James II to Mary of Gueldres, 1449; assisted the king and Sir William Crichton to overthrow the Livingstones, 1449; made journey to Rome, 1450; warden of the marches; murdered McLellau, a partisan of the king: inveigled into Stirling Castle, and attacked and killed by James II and his followers.
  370. ^ William Douglas, ninth Earl of Angus, in right of entails (1533-1591); sided with Mary Queen of Scots against the Earl of Huntly at Corrichie, 1662; chancellor of the assize which convicted Francis, earl of Bothwell; privy councillor of Scotland.
  371. ^ Sir William Douglas, of Lochleven, sixth or seventh Earl of Morton (d. 1606); denounced as one of the murderers of Rizzio, favourite of Mary Queen of Scots, 1566; joined confederacy for avenging murder of Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scots; entrusted with the custody of Mary Queen of Scots after her surrender at Carberry Hill, 1567; commanded in the rearguard at Langside, 1568; surrendered to Queen Elizabeth, for 2,OOOZ., the Earl of Northumberland, who had been delivered into his charge by the regent Moray, 1572; friend of the regent Morton; signed bond of confederate nobles to stand by James VI, 1582; banished by the counterrevolution at St. Andrews, 1583: i organised a plot, while in France, which led to the overthrow of Arran in 1585; succeeded as Earl of Morton, 1588, the same title being held by Lord Maxwell in 1592.
  372. ^ William Douglas, tenth Earl of Angus (1554-1611), son of William, ninth earl; studied at St. Andrews; converted to Catholicism at the French court; reconciled the Earls of Atholl and Huntly, 1592; imprisoned for his share in the Spanish Blanks conspiracy; escaped, 1593; forfeited along with the Earls of Huutly and Atholl; made a successful descent on Aberdeen, 1594; returned with his two confederates to presbyterianism, 1597; released from his forfeiture, 1597: royal lieutenant of the borders, 1597; excommunicated by the Scottish church, 1608; died near the abbey of St. Germain-desPres, Paris.
  373. ^ Sir William Douglas , first Earl of Queensberry (d. 1640); created Viscount of Drumlanrig, 1617; created Earl of Queeusberry (1633), on the occasion of Charles I's visit to Scotland.
  374. ^ Lord William Douglas (1617–1645). See Lord James Douglas.
  375. ^ William Douglas , seventh or eighth Earl of Morton (1582–1650), lord high treasurer of Scotland; grandson of Sir William Douglas of Lochleven (d. 1606); privy councillor and gentleman of the chamber to James VI: commanded Scots regiment in Rochelle expedition, 1627; lord high treasurer of Scotland, 1630-5; K.G. and privy councillor of England, 1635; sat in the Scottish parliament, 1641; nominated by Charles I for the chancellorship, but prevented from obtaining it by the rancour of the Earl of Argyll, 1641; rewarded for advances of money to Charles I by a charter of the Orkney and Shetland islands, 1643.
  376. ^ William Douglas, eleventh Earl of Angus and first Marquis of Douglas (1589-1660), son of William, tenth earl; brought up in the reformed religion: created Marquis of Douglas, 1633; went to England to assist Charles I, 1639; signed the covenant, 1644, but fought at Philiphaugh on the side of Mont-rose, 1645; imprisoned, 1646; member of committee of estates, 1651; fined by Cromwell, 1654.
  377. ^ William Douglas , third Duke of Hamilton (1635-1694), eldest son of William, first marquis of Douglas: fined 1,000l. by Cromwell, 1654; created Duke of Hamilton on the petition of his wife, Anne, duchess of Hamilton: privy councillor in Scotland, 1660-1676: at first opposed, and then ignored, in the interests of the Scottish nobility, the governor Laudenlale's land tax of a year's assessment, 1672; opposed Laudenlale's demand for supplies to carry on the Dutch war, 1673; ejected from the council, 1676; went to London to lodge complaints against Lauderdale, who intended to have a writ of law-burrows issued against him; refused to commit himself by detailing his grievances in writing, 1678 and 1679; K.G.; commissioner of the treasury, and, in 1687, privy councillor of England; royal commissioner under William III, 1689 and 1G93.
  378. ^ William Douglas , third Earl and first Duke of Queensberry (1637–1695), son of James, second earl of Queensberry; privy councillor, 1667; lord justicegeneral of Scotland, 1680-6; lord high treasurer of Scotlaud, 1682-6; created Duke of Queensberry, 1684; refused to support James II's measures against the established church, 1685; president of the council, 1686; accused of maladministration by the Earl of Perth, and stripped of his appointments, 1686; one of the lords of privy council of both kingdoms, 1687.
  379. ^ William Douglas , third Earl of March and fourth Duke of Queensberry (1724-1810), latterly known as Old Q; notorious for his escapades and dissolute life; endeavoured to develop horse-racing into a science; K.T., 1761; representative peer for Scotland, 1761; vice-admiral of Scotland, 1767-76; succeeded his cousin Charles in dukedom of Queeusberry, 1778; created Baron Douglas of Amesbury in British peerage, 1786; friend of Prince of Wales; removed from the office of lord of the bedchamber (1789) for having recommended a regency in 1788; satirised by Burns.
  380. ^ William Douglas (1780–1832), miniature-painter to Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, 1817; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1818, 1819, and 1826.
  381. ^ William Alexander Anthony Archibald Douglas, eleventh Duke of Hamilton (1811–1863), son of Alexander Hamilton Douglas, tenth duke; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; B.A., 1832: knight-marischal of Scotland and lord-lieutenant of Lanarkshire; married the Princess Marie Amelie, Napoleon Ill's cousin, 1843; died in Paris.
  382. ^ Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822–1891), artist and connoisseur; assistant in Commercial Bank, Edinburgh; studied drawing and adopted profession of artist, 1847; exhibited in Royal Scottish Academy from 1845; associate, 1851, full member, 1854, and president, 1882; curator of National Gallery of Scotland, 1877-82; knighted, 1882; LL.D. Edinburgh, 1884; collector of objects of art. Among his best pictures are The Alchemist 1855, and The Rosicrucians 1856.
  383. ^ William Scott Douglas (1815-1883), editor of a library edition of Burns, 1877-9; wrote Picture of the County of Ayr 1874.
  384. ^ Sir James Nicholas Douglass (1826–1898), engineer; apprenticed to Messrs. Hunter & English at Bow; manager to Messrs. Laycock on the Tyne; engineer successively on Gun Fleet Pile, Smalls Rock, and Wolf Rock lighthouses, 1854-70; chief engineei to corporation of Trinity House, 1862; designed and executed new Eddystoue lighthouse, 1878-82; knighted, 1882; M.I.O.E., 1861; F.R.S.,1887; published pamphlets relating to lighthouses.
  385. ^ John Douglass (1743–1812), Roman catholic prelate; professor of humanities, 1768, and subsequently of philosophy at the English college, Valladolid; D.D.: vicar-apostolic of the London district, 1790: bishop of Centuria in partibus, 1790; suggested the employment of the Irish oath of allegiance of 1778 to meet the requirements of the Catholic Relief Act, 1791.
  386. ^ Sir Henry Doulton (1820–1897), potter; educated at University College School, London; entered his father's pottery at Lambeth, 1836, and greatly extended it; began, c. 1870, to develop sgraffitoware, which rapidly gained wide reputation; received, 1886, gold Albert medal of Society of Arts, of which he was vice-president, 1890-4; knighted, 1887.
  387. ^ George Gerbier D'Ouvilly (fl.–1661), dramatist and translator; of Dutch origin; captain in Lord Craven's regiment in the Netherlands; published The False Favourite Disgrac'd, a tragi-comedy, 1657; translated biographies by Andre Thevet.
  388. ^ John Freeman Milward Dovaston (1782–1854), miscellaneous writer: M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1807; barrister of the Middle Temple, 1807; published 4 Lectures on Natural History and National Melody 1839, and poetical works.
  389. ^ Henry Dove (1640–1695), archdeacon of Richmond; educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1665: vicar of St. Bride's, Fleet Street, 1673; D.D., 1677: archdeacon of Richmond, 1678; chapkin to Charles II, James II, and William III; recommended by Pearson for the mastership of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1683; published sermons.
  390. ^ John Dove (1561–1618), divine; scholar of Westminster: M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1586; D.D., 1596; rector of St. Mary Aldermary, London, 1596-1618; author of A Confutation of Atheism 1605, and other works.
  391. ^ John Dove (d. 1665?), regicide : M.P. for Salisbury, 1645; commissioner for Charles I's trial, 1649; high sheriff of Wiltshire, 1655; taken prisoner by royalist conspirators at Salisbury, 1655; submitted at the Restora . tion.
  392. ^ Nathaniel Dove (1710–1754), calligrapher : I master of an academy at Hoxton; contributed to the Universal Penman published, 1743; clerk in the victualling office, Tower Hill.
  393. ^ Patrick Edward Dove (1815–1873), philo-' sophic writer; farmer near Ballantrae, Aryshire, from 1841; published The Theory of Human Progression, and Natural Probability of a Reign of Justice 1850, a book which earned the praise of Carlyle; author of Elements of Political Science 1854; inventor of rifled cannon. Though a strong individualist, his attitude on the question of rent anticipated that of Henry George.
  394. ^ Thomas Dove (1555–1630), bishop of Peterborough; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool; Wattes scholar, Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1571; original scholar of Jesus College, Oxford; chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, who admired his eloquence; dean of Norwich, 1589; bishop of Peterborough, 1601; charged with remissness for allowing silenced ministers to preach, 1611 and 1614.
  395. ^ Dukes of Dover . See DOUGLAS, JAMES, first DUKE, 1662-1711; DOUGLAS, CHARLES, second DUKK, 1698-1778.
  396. ^ Barons Dover . See JKRMVN, HENRY, 1636–1708; j YORKE, JOSEPH, first baron of the second creation, j 1724-1792; ELLIS, GKORGK. I AMKS WKLBORE AGAR-, first i BARON of the third creation, 1797-1833.
  397. ^ John Dover (d. 1725), dramatist ; demy of Mag1 dalen College, Oxford, 1661: barrister, Gray's Inn, 1672; rector of Dray ton, Oxfordshire, 1688; author of The i Roman Generalls 1667, a rhyming tragedy.
  398. ^ Captain Robert Dover (1575?-lC41), founder of j the Cotswold games on Cotswold Hills, near Evesham, I c. 1604, which were celebrated by the poets in Annalia i Dubrensia 1636: attorney at Barton-on-the-Heath, Warwickshire,
  399. ^ Thomas Dover (1660–1742), physician: sailed with the ships Duke and Duchess on a privateering voyage, as captain of the Duke, 1708; sacked Guayaquil in Peru, and cured a hundred and seventy-two of his sailors of the plague, 1709; rescued Alexander Selkirk from the island of Juan Fernandez, 1709: M.D.; L.C.P., 1721; called thequicksilver doctorfrom his exaggerated encomiums of metallic mercury; inventor of Dover's powder.
  400. ^ Sir John Doveton (1768–1847), general : captain, 1st Madras light cavalry, 1800; colonel, 1813; brigadiergeneral of the Hyderabad contingent, 1814; defeated Apa Sahib, raja of Nagpur, who was in league with the Pinduris, and brought about the evacuation of Nagpur, 1817; lieutenant-general and U.C.B., 1837; died at Madras.
  401. ^ Alexander Dow (d. 1779), historian and dramatist: worked Ids v:iy t Ii-in-oolM. ami became swretury to tinirovurnor: raptain in tlm K:i-t India Company- Mrn.Ml iiii'iintry, 17iit; lieutenant-colonel, irtii;.li.il at l.iM.Mlpur: bil tni'edies, ingis 176, and Scthoii 17M, noted at Drury Lane; translated Ferishta's history of Hindostan, 1708.
  402. ^ George Dowdall (1487–1558), archbishop of Armagh; prior of the hospital of St. John of Ardee, Armagh; archbishop of Armagh, 1513; reluctantly submitted to Kd van I VI's order for the public u-r of the English liturgy in Ireland, 1550; deprived of the primacy ol all Ireland. 1550: reinstated, 1553; member of the Irish privy council, 1556.
  403. ^ William Dowdeswell (1721–1775). politician; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; studied at Lcyden, 1715; M.P., Tewkesbury, 1747-54, Worcester, 1761-75; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1765-6; received thanks of the mercantile interest, 1766; privy councillor, 1765; refused to be president of the board of trade or joint- paymaster in Lord Chatham's government, 1766; carried a motion for the reduction of the land tax, 1767; died at Nice.
  404. ^ William Dowdeswell (1761–1828), general and print-collector; third son of William Dowdeswell; lieutenant and captain, grenadier guards, 1785; M.P., J Bhurtpore, 1805; commander-in-chief in India, 1807 lieutenant-general, 1810; collected prints by old engravers, and made a specialty of grangerising
  405. ^ John Downe (1570?–1631), divine; B.D. and fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge; vicar of Winsford, Somerset: Latin poet; his Treatise of the True Nature and Definition of Justifying Faith published, 1635.
  406. ^ Barons Downes . See Downes, William, first Baron 1752–1826 : Buuuu, SIR ULYSSES BAUEXAL, second BARON, 1788-1863.
  407. ^ Stephen Dowell (1833–1898), legal and historical writer; B.A. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1855; M.A., 1872; assistant solicitor to board of inland revenue, 1863-96.
  408. ^ John Dowland (1563?-1626?), lutenist and composer; made several journeys to Italy and Germany, becoming acquainted with Gregory Howet of Antwerp, Luca Marenxio, and other famous musicians; Mus. Bac. Oxford, 1588; published three books ofSonges or Ayres of Fonre Partes with Tableture for the Lute 1597, 1600, and 1603; dedicated his Lachrymae to Anne of Denmark, apparently as her court lutenist, 1605: lutenist to Charles 1, 1625.
  409. ^ Robert Dowland (17th cent), musician ; son of John Dowland; published a Varietie of LuteLessons and a collection of English and continental airs, entitledA Mvsicall Banqvet 1610;musician in ordinary for the consort 1626.
  410. ^ Richard Dowley (1622–1702), nonconformist divine; matriculated at All Souls College, Oxford, 1639; demy of Magdalen, 1640; B.A., 1643; minister of Stoke Prior, Worcestershire, 1656; ejected at the Restoration; licensed to hold meetings in his own house by the Declaration of Indulgence, 1672; preached at Godalming after the Toleration Act of 1689.
  411. ^ Alfred Septimus Dowling (1805–1868), law reporter; brother of Sir Jamas Dowling; barrister of Gray's Inn, 1828; judge of county courts, circuit No. 15, Yorkshire, 1849; commissioner on the management of the county courts, 1853: published collections of statutes passed 11 George IV 3 William IV; compiled case reports.
  412. ^ Frank Lewis Dowling (1823–1867), journalist ;
  413. ^ Sir James Dowling (1787–1844), colonial judge ; admitted to St. Paul's School, London, 1802; barrister, Middle Temple, 1815; author of The Practice of the Superior Courts of Common Law 1834: puisne judge of the court of New South Wales, 1827: chief- justice, 1837; knighted, 1838; died at Darlinghurst, Sydney,
  414. ^ John Goulter Dowling (1805–1841), divine ; B.A. Wadham College, Oxford: head-master of the Crypt Grammar School, Gloucester, 1827-41; rector of St. Maryde-Crypt with St. Owen, Gloucester, 1834-41; student of patristics; wrote An Introduction to the Critical Study of Ecclesiastical History Oxford, 1566.
  415. ^ Thady Dowling (1544-1628), author of Annales Hiberniae; ecclesiastical treasurer (c. 1590) and chancellor (1591) of the see of Leighlin, co. Carlow.
  416. ^ Vincent George Dowling (1785–1852), journalist; elder brother of Sir James Dowling; engaged with the Star newspaper and, in 1809, with the Day; crossed the Channel in an open boat to give the Observer the first news of Queen Caroline's return, 1820; editor of Bell's Life 1824-52; issued annually, from 1840, Fistiana; claimed to have originated scheme of new police system.
  417. ^ Andrew Downes (1549?–1628), Greek professor at Cambridge: Lady Margaret scholar, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1567; M.A., 1574; senior fellow, 1581; B.D., 1582; regius professor of Greek, the study of which he had helped to revive, 1585-1624; one of the translators of the Apocrypha for the authorised version; edited the Tewkesbury, 1792: fought at Valenciennes and in the j Eratosthenes of Lysias, 1593: published Pnelectiones battles before Dunkirk, 179:!; governor of the Bahamas, n Philippicam de Pace Demosthenis 1621. 1 797-1 H02; colonel, 1797: commanded under Lake at
  418. ^ John Downes (fl. 1666), regicide ; sat for Arundel in the Long parliament, 1642; prevailed upon, partly against his will, to sign Charles I's death-warrant; member of the council of state, 1651 and 1659; commissioner for the revenue, 1659; arrested (1660) for his share in the execution of Charles I, and kept a close prisoner in Newgate.
  419. ^ John Downes (fl. 1662–1710), writer on the stage; prompter to Sir William D'Avenaut's company at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1662; published Roscius Anglicanus, or an Historical Review of the Stage 1708.
  420. ^ Theophilus Downes (d. 1726), nonjuror ; M.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1679; fellow; ejected for refusing oath of allegiance, 1690; published anonymously A Discourse concerning the Signification of Allegiance (1689 ?).
  421. ^ William Downes, first Baron Downes (1752-1826), chief-justice of the king's bench in Ireland; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1773; called to the Irish bar, 1776; M.P. for Donegal; lord chief-justice of the king's bench, 1803-22; vice-chancellor of Dublin University, 1806-16; created Baron Downes of Aghanville, 1822.
  422. ^ George Downham or Downame (d. 1634), bishop of Derry; elder son of William Downham, bishop of Chester q. v.; fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, 1585; university professor of logic; chaplain to James I; bishop of Derry, 1616: published a sermon against Arminianism, 1631, for the suppression of which Laud procured royal letters; treated the presbyterians with moderation; publishedA Treatise concerning Antichrist... against... Bellarmine 1603, and a Commeutarius In Rami Dialecticam 1610.
  423. ^ John Downham or Downame(d. 1652), puritan divine; son of William Dowhham, bishop of Chester ,; B.D. Christ's College, CamL-idge; rector of Allws the Great, 1630-52; signed petition against Land's son of Vincent Georee DowViiig"q."vo";barrister," Middle i Jxk of canons, 1640; licenser of the press, 1643; wrote Temple, 1848; edito? of Bell's Life 1851, and Fistiana Iar 8 elv on religious subjects.
  424. ^ William Downham, whose name is sometimes spelt Downame and Downman (1505-1577), bishop of Chester; M.A. and fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1643; canon -of Westminster, 1560: bishop of Chester, 1561-77; reported to the council for remissuess in enforcing the Act of Uniformity, 1561 and 1570; D.D.
  425. ^ Calybute Downing (1606–1644), divine; B.A. Oriel College, Oxford, 1626: M.A. Peterhouse, Cambridge: LL.D. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1637; vicar of Hackney, London, 1637-43; chaplain to Lord Robartes's regiment in the Earl of Essex's army: licenser of books of divinity, 1643; probably became an independent.
  426. ^ Sir George Downing , first baronet 023?–1684), soldier and politician; second graduate of Harvard College; scout- master-general of Cromwell's army in vSootland, 1650; M.P. for Edinburgh, 1654, for Carlisle and Huddini:ton boroughs, 1656; headed movement for offering crown to Cromwell: sent to remonstrate with Louis XIV on Vaudois massacre, 1655; resident at the Hague, 1657, 1659, aud 1660: teller of the exchequer, 1660; procured tin- arrest of three regicides, Barkstead, Okey, and Corbet, at Delft, 1662; created baronet, 1663; began the custom of the appropriation of supplies during the Dutch war, which he promoted, 1665; M.P., Morpeth, 1669-70: resident at the Hague, 1671: compelled by bis unpopularity to leave the Hague, 1672. Colbert called him le plus grand querelleur des diplomates de son temps
  427. ^ Sir George Downing , third baronet (1684?–1749), founder of Downing College; grandson of Sir George Downing (1623?-1684); M.P., Dunwich, Suffolk, 1710, 1713, and 1722-49; K.B., 1732: left estates in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, and Suffolk, with which, in default of heirs, to buy land for building a college at Cambridge. After much litigation, Downing College was founded by charter in 1800.
  428. ^ Hugh Downman (1740–1809), physician and poet : B.A. Balliol College, Oxford, 1763; M.A. Jesus College, Cambridge; medical practitioner at Exeter, 1770: author of three tragedies and of a poem, Infancy, or the Management of Children 3 parts, 1774, 1775, aud 1776.
  429. ^ John Downman (1750–1824), portrait and subject painter: A.H.A., 1795; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1769-1819.
  430. ^ Sir Thomas Downman (1776–1852), lieutenantgeneral; served with the guards in the Netherlands, 1793 and 1794; taken prisoner at Mouveaux, 1794; served in San Domingo from 1798 to 1800; commanded cavalry engaged in covering Sir John Moore's retreat from run ifn i, 1809; present in the chief battles and sieges of the Peninsular war; lieutenant-colonel, royal horse artillery, 1814; knighted, 1821; lieutenant-general, 1851; K.C.B., 1852.
  431. ^ William Downman (1505–1577). See Downham.
  432. ^ Downshire first Marquis of (1718–1793). See Wills Hill.
  433. ^ Nicholas Downton (rf. 1615), commander under the East India Company; sailed about among the Red Sea ports establishing a trade, in company with Sir Henry Middleton, 1611; brought home Middleton's disabled ship, the Peppercorn, 1613; general of the company's ships in the East Indies; compelled the Portuguese,. under the viceroy of Goa, to retire, after three weeksfighting off Surat, 1615; undermined by Edwardes, his second in command; set out, in face of a threatened Portuguese attack, for Bantam, where he died.
  434. ^ Anne Dowriche (fl. 1589), poetess; nee Edgcumbe: wrote The French Hiatorie a poem in alexandrines describing three events in the religious history of contemporary France, 1589.
  435. ^ Hugh Dowriche (. 1596). husband of Anne Dowriche; published Desmophulax, the Iaylors conversion 1596.
  436. ^ Richard Dowse (1824–1890), Irish judge ; graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, 1849; called to Irish bar, 1862: Q.C., 1863; queen's serjeant-at-law, 1869: liberal M.I, Londonderry, 1868 and 1870; solicitor-general for Ireland, 1870; attorney-general, Irish privy councillor, and baron of Irish court of exchequer, 1872.
  437. ^ William Dowsing (1596?–1679?), iconoclast; parliamentary visitor of the Suffolk churches, 1644; employed also in Cambridgeshire, where an eye-witness described him as having battered and beaten downe all our painted glasse 1643.
  438. ^ John Dowson (1820–1881), orientalist: tutor at Haileybury; professor of Hindustani at University College, London, and the Staff College, Sandhurst, 1855-77: published an Urdu grammar, 1862, History of India as told by its own Historian* 1867-77,and a dictionary of Hindu mythology and culture, 1879; Indian epigraphist.
  439. ^ Henry Dowton (b. 1798), actor; son of William Dowtou (1764-1851)
  440. ^ William Dowton (17fi4-1851). actor ; appeared at Drury Lane as Sheva in Cumberland's comedy of the 'Jew 1796; considered the best representative of Malvolio on the English stage; frequently acted in sentimental comedy.
  441. ^ William Dowton (d. 1883), actor ; son of William Dowton (1764-1851); manager of the Kent circuit, 1815-35; brother of the Charterhouse, 1840-83.
  442. ^ Lewis Doxat (1773–1871), journalist; born in the British West Indies; manager of the Observer; manager of the Morning Chronicle after 1821.
  443. ^ Sir Charles Hastings Doyle (1805–1883), general; son of Lieutenant-general Sir Charles William Doyle; ensign, 87th regiment, 1819; captain, 1825: lieutenant-colonel, 1846; colonel, 1854; invalided home from Varna, 1854; commanded in Nova Scotia, 1861; lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, 1867-73: K.C.M.G., 1869; general, 1877.
  444. ^ Sir Charles William Doyle (1770–1842), lieutenant-general: lieutenant, 14th regiment, 1793; brigademajor hi the Netherlands, 1793: aide-de-camp to Abercromby at the battle of Lannoy, and (1797) hi the West Indies; served as brigade-major at Cadiz, at Malta, 1800, and in Egypt, 1801: sent by government to help the insurgents in Spain, 1808; distinguished in the campaigns of 1810 and 1811, and made a Spanish lieutenant-general; director and inspector-general of military instruction, 1811; colonel in the English army, 1813; O.B. and knighted; lieutenant-general, 1837; G.C.H., 1839; died in Paris.
  445. ^ Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle , second baronet (1810-1888), poet; grand-nephew of Sir Jolin Doyle (1750?-1834); educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford: B.A., 1832; B.C.L., 1843: M.A., 1867; fellow of All Souls 1835-44; barrister, Inner Temple, 1837; succeeded to baronetcy, 1839: receiver-general of customs, 1846-69; professor of poetry at Oxford, 1867-77; honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1877; commissioner of customs, 1869-83; published several volumes of verse, including ballads on contemporary events.
  446. ^ Henry Edward Doyle (1827–1892), director of National Gallery of Ireland, 1869 till death: son of Joh Doyle; honorary secretary to National Portrait Gallery, London, 1865-9; C.B., 1880.
  447. ^ James Warren Doyle (1786–1834), Roman catholic bishop of Kildare and Leighlin: Augustinian monk, 1806: entered the university of Coimbra, 1806: volunteer under Sir Arthur Wellesley; accompanied Colonel Murray with the articles of convention to Lisbon, 1808; successively professor of rhetoric, humanity, and theology at Carlow College, 1813-19; bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, 1819; reformed discipline of his diocese and attacked established church; examined by parliamentary committees on the condition of Ireland, 1825, 1830, and 1832; built a cathedral at Carlow; published Letters on the State of Ireland 1824, 1825; wrote much under initials J. K. L
  448. ^ James William Edmund Doyle (1822–1892), son of John Doyle; published Official Baronage of England 1886.
  449. ^ Sir John Doyle (1750?-1834), general : served at the siege of Charleston, 1780; brigade-major to Lord Cornwallis, 1780; M.P. for Mullingar in the Irish House of Commons, 1783: secretary at war, 1796-9: raised the 87th regiment, 1793, and served with it in the Netherlands, 1794; fought at Alexandria and Marabout, 1801; constructed roads in Guernsey and organised the defences of the island when lieutenant-governor, 1804-15; created baronet, 1805; K.B., 1812; general, 1819.
  450. ^ John Doyle (1797–1868), portrait-painter and caricaturist: produced in lithograph, under the signature of H.B. satiric portraits of the political celebrities of contemporary England, 1829-51.
  451. ^ Sir John Milley Doyle (1781–1856), colonel: nephew of Sir John Doyle (1760 ?-1834): lieutenant in the 108th regiment, 17U4: assisted in the suppression of the Irish insurrection, 1798; aide-de-camp to Brigadier general John Doyle before Alexandria, 1801; lieutenantcolonel in Portuguese service, 1809; fought at Fueutes de Onoro and the capture of Ciudad Rodrigo, 1812; lieutenant-colonel in the English army, 1811; K.C.B.; took part in Portuguese affairs, 1823; imprisoned by Dom .Miguel for actively aiding his rival Don Pedro, 1823; M.P., co. Oarlow, 1831-2; his financial claims on the English government repudiated, 1834.
  452. ^ Richard Doyle (1824–1883), artist and caricaturist; son of John Doyle: contributor to Punch 1843-50: designed the cover of Punch; contributed to Punch cartoons and the Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe 1849: resigned his connection with the paper in consequence of its hostility to papal aggression, 1850; illustrated Ruskin's King of the Golden River 1851, Thackeray'sNewcomes 1853-5, and other books; poetically treated moorland scenes in water-colour,
  453. ^ Thomas Doyle (1793–1879), Roman catholic divine; D.D.; provost of the cathedral chapter of Southwark, 1850; the building of St. George's Cathedral, St. George's Fields, mainly due to his exertions.
  454. ^ Welbore Ellis Doyle (. 1797), general; brother of Sir John Doyle (1750 ?-1834); commanded the 14th regiment in the attack on Famars, 1793; commander-in-chief in Ceylon.
  455. ^ Edward Doyley or Doyly (1617–1675), governor of Jamaica; fought for parliament during civil war; lieutenant-colonel in expedition to West Indies, 1654; commander-in-chief of forces in Jamaica, 1655-6 and 1657-61; defended island against several Spanish attempts at recouquest.
  456. ^ Thomas D'Oylie or D'Oyly (1548?-1603), Spanish scholar; M.A. Magdalen College, Oxford, 1569; friend of Francis Bacon; M.D. Basle, c. 1581; held medical appointment in the army at Antwerp: censor, London College of Physicians, 1593, 1596, and 1598; assisted in the compilation of Percival's Bibliotheca Hispanica 1691; drew up a Spanish grammar and dictionary in Spanish, Latin, and English, licensed, 1590, which he withdrew in favour of Percival's book.
  457. ^ Sir Charles D'Oyly, seventh baronet (1781-1845), Indian civilian and artist; assistant to the registrar of the Calcutta court of appeal, 1798; collector of Dacca, 1808; opium agent at Behar, 1821; commercial resident at Patna, 1831; senior member of the marine board, 1833; an amateur artist of Indian and Anglo-Indian life.
  458. ^ Sir Francis D'Oyly (d. 1815), colonel'T'brother of George and Sir John D'Oyly; assistant adjutantgeneral in the Peninsular campaigns; K.C.B.; killed at Waterloo.
  459. ^ Sir George D'Oyly (1778-1846), theologian and biographer; brother of Sir Francis and Sir John D'Oyly ; second wrangler. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1800: fellow, 1801; moderator in the university, 1806-9, and select preacher, 1809-11; Hulsean Christian advocate, 1811; D.D.; rector of Lambeth, Surrey, and of Sundridge, Kent, 1820-46: published Life of Archbishop Bancroft 1821, and theological works.
  460. ^ Sir John D'Oyly, first baronet (1774-1824), resident of Kandy; brother of George and Sir Francis D'Oyly ; educated at Westminster; collector of Colombo, 1802; secretary to the government of Ceylon, 1810; largely instrumental, as head of General Brownrigg's intelligence department, in the overthrow of the king of Kandy, 1814 and 1815; created baronet, 1821; resident and first commissioner of government in the Kandyan provinces: died at Kandy.
  461. '^ Samuel D'Oyly (d. 1748), translator: scholar of Westminster, 1697; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge: M.A., 1707; vicar of St. Nicholas, Rochester, 1710-48; published Christian Eloquence in Theory and Practice a translation from Blaise Gisbert, 1718.
  462. '^ Thomas D'Oyly(fl. 1585), antiquary; admitted at Gray's Inn, 1555; D.C.L.: read archaeological papers before the Society of Antiquaries, founded c. 1572.
  463. ^ William Drage (1637?–1669), medical writer; apothecary at Hitchin; author of A Physical Nosonomy 1665, and Pretologie, a Treatise concerning Intermitting Fevers 1665; a believer in the occult sciences,
  464. ^ Giovanni Battista Draghi (17th cent.), Italian musician: wrote instrumental interludes for Shadwell's Psyche 1674; organist to Queen Catherine of Braganza, 1677; a skilful player on the harpsichord; left manuscripts and printed songs; adopted the English style of music.
  465. ^ Domenico Dragonetti (1755?–1846), performer on the double-bass; native of Venice; succeeded his master, Berini, in the orchestra at St. Mark's; visited England, 1794; left Venice for good, 1797; friend ot Beethoven, Haydn, and Sechter; engaged in England at concerts and the opera; played on one occasion in Paris before Napoleon, who desired him to ask a favour on his instrument, his speech being unintelligible; composed sonatas and three canzonets.
  466. ^ John Drakard (1775?-1854), newspaper proprietor and publisher; started theStamford News 1809; fined and imprisoned for an article denouncing corporal punishment in the army, 1810; proprietor of the Stamford Champion 1830-4,
  467. ^ Sir Bernard Drake (d. 1586), naval commander ; sent to seize all Spanish ships off Newfoundland, in retaliation for the detention of English ships in Spain, 1585; knighted, 1586; died of gaol fever or plague caught at the trial at Exeter of the crew of a Portuguese ship, the Lion of Viana, which he had captured off Brittany.
  468. ^ Charles Francis Tyrwhitt Drake (1846-1874), naturalist and explorer in the Holy Land; educated at Rugby, Wellington, and Trinity College, Cambridge; explored, in company with Professor Edward Henry Palmer, mountains west of the Arabah and parts of Eflom and Moab, 1869; investigated, for Palestine Exploration Fund, inscribed stones at Hamah, 1870; died of fever at Jerusalem. Chief works: Notes on the Birds of Tangier and Eastern MoroccoIbis 1867, 1869), and part of Unexplored Syria 1872.
  469. ^ Sir Francis Drake (1540?–1596), circumnavigator and admiral; commanded the Judith in John Hawkyns's ill-fated expedition, 1567 see HAWKINS, SIR JOHN; made three voyages from Plymouth to the West Indies, 1570, 1571, and 1572; landed at Nombre de Dios, and would have plundered the town, had not his men become disheartened at a wound which their commander received, 1572; burnt Portobello, 1572; sacked Venta Cruz, 1573; returned to Plymouth, 1573; served under Essex in Ireland; reduced Rathlin, 1575; set sail from Plymouth for the River Plate, 1577; executed Thomas Doughty, a deposed officer of his following, on a charge of conspiracy, 1578; sailed through the Straits of Magellan, 1578; plundered Valparaiso, 1579; captured a ship from Acapulco, commanded by one Don Francisco de Qarate, who sent the viceroy of New Spain a letter, still extant, giving an account of Drake, 1579; reached Pelew islands and Mindanao, 1579; sailed through the Indian Archipelago, and, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, touched at Sierra Leone, 1580; knighted at Deptford in 1581 by Queen Elizabeth, who justified him to the Spanish ambassador; mayor of Plymouth, 1582; his assassination plotted by one John Doughty, an agent of the king of Spain, 1583; M.P., Bossiney, 1584-5; commissioned by Elizabeth with the command of a fleet and letters of marque, 1585: burnt St. lago and plundered Vigo, 1585; took San Domingo and Cartagena, by the aid of the land forces under Carleill; brought back to England the first colonists of Vir finia, 1586; commissioned to commit acts of war against pain, in accordance with which he destroyed an armament in the harbour of Cadiz, not being aware that the order, in so far as it related to Spanish territory, had been countermanded, 1587; superseded his vice-admiral, William Borough, from his command, 1587: urged Elizabeth to forestall a Spanish invasion by attacking the king of Spain at home, 1588; stationed off Ushant with one of the three divisions of the English fleet to intercept the Spanish Armada: driven back to Plymouth by a southerly wind, July 1688; defeated the Armada off Gravelines and pursued it to the north of Scotland; quarrelled with Sir Martin Frobisher about spoil of Rosario, a ship captured by Drake in the Channel, 1688: associated with Sir John Norris in expedition against coasts of Spain and Portugal, which plundered Coruna, burnt Vigo, and destroyed much Spanish shipping, 1589; regulated the water supply of Plymouth by bringing the Meavy into the town, 1590: M.P., Plymouth, 1593; commanded an unsuccessful expedition to the West Indies (1595) with Sir John Hawkyns; died off Portobello, 1596; hero of many popular legends.
  470. ^ Francis Drake (1696–1771), author of 'Eboracum; city surgeon, York, 1727: published with numerous copper-plate engravings Eboracum: or, the History :md Antiquities of the City of York 1736; dedicated Eboracum to the Earl of BntiiDgton, whose influence procured his release when imprisoned in the Fleet for it debt contracted by incautiously signing n bond for Sir Harry Slingsby; F.S.A., 1736: investigated local antiquarian problems, such as the Micklegate Stone and the site of Delgovitia.
  471. ^ Francis Drake (1721–1795), clergyman; son of Vrancirf Drake (1G96-1771); Trapp's scholar, Lincoln College, Oxford, 1739; M.A., 1746; fellow of Magdalen, 1746; D.D., 1773; rector of Winestead, Holderness, 1775-96.
  472. ^ Sir Francis Samuel Drake, first baronet (d. 1789), rear-admiral; served in West Indies, 1757-8; present at the defeat of the French in Quiberon Bay, 1759; rear-admiral, 1780; detached under Sir Samuel Hood to blockade Martinique, 1781; commanded under Rodney in the battle of Dominica, 1782; created baronet, 1782; M.P., Plymoutli, 1789; junior lord of the admiralty, 1789.
  473. ^ James Drake (1667–1707), political writer; educated at Eton and Caius College, Cambridge; M.A.; M.D., 1694; F.R.S., 1701; F.R.C.P., 1706; prosecuted for his tory pamphlet, The History of the Last Parliament but acquitted, 1702; part author of The Memorial of the Church of England (1705), the authors of which would have been prosecuted had their identity been established; published The Antient and Modern Stages Reviewed 1700, and Anthropologia Nova 1707.
  474. ^ John Poad Drake (1794–1883), inventor and artist; painted a picture of Napoleon on board the Bellerophon; visited Montreal; patented a diagonal arrangement of ribs and planking for ships and a screw trenail fastening, 1837; said to have discovered the principle of the Snider Enfield gun, 1835.
  475. ^ Nathan Drake (1766–1836), literary essayist and physician; M.D. Edinburgh, 1789; practised at Sudbury, 1790-2, and at Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1792-1836; published Shakespeare and his Times 1817, Memorials of Shakespeare, 1828, and miscellaneous essays; advocated use of digitalis in consumption.
  476. ^ Roger Drake (1608–1669), physician and divine; M.A. Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1631: M.D. Leyden, 1639; defended Harveian doctrine of the circulation of the blood against Dr. James Primrose, 1641; arrested for share in Love's plot, but pardoned, 1651; minister of St. Peter's Cheap, 1653; published Sacred Chronologie 1648, and religious tractates and medical dissertations.
  477. ^ Samuel Drake (d. 1673), royalist divine; fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1643: M.A., 1644; ejected from fellowship for refusing to take the covenant; fought at Newark; incumbent of Pontefract, 1660; D.D., 1661; prebendary of Southwell, 1670-1.
  478. ^ Samuel Drake (1686?–1753), antiquary; brother of Francis Drake (1696-1771); M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1711; D.D., 1724; rector of Treeton, Yorkshire, 1728-53, and vicar of Holme-on-Spalding Moor, 1733-53; wrote on Christian ritual; edited Bartholomew Clerke's Latin translation of Castiglione's Courtier 1713.
  479. ^ William Drake (1723–1801), antiquary and philologist; son of Francis Drake (1696-1771): B.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1744; master of Felstead grammar school, 1750-77; vicar of Isleworth, Middlesex, 1777-1801; F.S.A., 1770; contributed papers on the origin of the English language to Archaeologia.
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