Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB Epitome 14

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 * William Damon (musician)
 * ✅✅Thomas Dampier
 * ✅William Dampier
 * Earls of Danby
 * ✅Francis Danby
 * ✅James Francis Danby
 * ✅John Danby (musician)
 * ✅Robert Danby
 * ✅Thomas Danby (artist)
 * ✅William Danby
 * ✅✅Charles Dance (playwright)

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 * George Dance
 * George Dance
 * James Dance
 * Nathaniel Dance
 * Sir Nathaniel Dance
 * William Dance
 * Ann Dancer
 * Daniel Dancer
 * John Dancer (dramatist)
 * Thomas Dancer
 * Henry Danckerts
 * John Danckerts
 * Bartholomew Dandridge
 * James Danell
 * Thomas Danett
 * Thomas Danforth
 * Thomas Dangerfield
 * François André Danican
 * ✅Saint Daniel
 * Daniel
 * Daniel à Jesu
 * Alexander Daniel
 * Edward Daniel
 * George Daniel (poet)
 * George Daniel (writer)
 * Henry Daniel
 * John Daniel
 * John Daniel
 * Nehemias Daniel
 * Robert Mackenzie Daniel
 * Samuel Daniel
 * Thomas Daniel
 * William Daniel (archbishop)
 * William Barker Daniel
 * Edward Thomas Daniell
 * John Frederic Daniell
 * Samuel Daniell
 * Thomas Daniell
 * William Daniell
 * William Freeman Daniell
 * John Feltham Danneley
 * William Dansey
 * Thomas Danson
 * Sir Charles Danvers
 * ✅Henry Danvers
 * ✅✅Henry Danvers (colonel)
 * ✅Sir John Danvers
 * Robert Danvers
 * Frances D'Arblay
 * Abraham Darby
 * Abraham Darby
 * Abraham Darby
 * George Darby
 * John Nelson Darby
 * ✅Thomas Darbyshire
 * Abraham Darcy
 * John Darcy
 * Patrick Darcy
 * Patrick D'Arcy
 * Robert D'Arcy
 * Thomas Darcy
 * ✅✅William Darell (clergyman)
 * William Dargan
 * George Darley
 * ✅John Richard Darley
 * Charles Henry Darling
 * George Darling (physician)
 * Grace Horsley Darling
 * James Darling (publisher)
 * Sir Ralph Darling
 * William Darling (anatomist)
 * Earl of Darlington
 * John of Darlington
 * Saint Darlugdach
 * ✅Matthew Darly
 * Sir John Darnall
 * Sir John Darnall
 * George Darnell
 * ✅Sir Thomas Darnell

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 * William Nicholas Darnell
 * Earl of Darnley
 * Risdon Darracott
 * ✅John Darrel
 * Thomas Darrell
 * ✅William Darrell (Jesuit)
 * ✅✅John Dart
 * Joseph Henry Dart
 * Charles Dartiquenave
 * There is a portrait of this guy at File:Charles Dartiquenave by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (2).jpg.


 * Earls of Dartmouth

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 * Baron Dartmouth
 * Nicholas Darton
 * Frances Darusmont
 * Charles Robert Darwin Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1883), naturalist; grandson of Erasmus Darwin; educated at Shrewsbury, Edinburgh University, and Christ's College, Cambridge; embarked as naturalist, by invitation of Captain Fitz Roy, on board the Beagle, bound for South America on a scientific expedition, 1831; worked at South American geology: returned to Knelaml, 1836; published Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle 1840; secretary to mphical Society, 1838-41; wroteThe Volcanic Islands 1844, and other works in retirement necessitated by ill- health: first gave definite written shape to his theory of evolution by natural selection, 1844; induced by his friend Lyell, the geologist, to write out the results of his experiments, 1856; received a manuscript from the naturalist, A. R. Wallace, containing a theory of the origin of species identical with his own, 1868; published Wallace's esay and a letter of his own, addressed to Dr. Asa Gray, in 1857, containing a sketch of his theory; produced Origin of Species 1859: developed theory of Pangenesis in his Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication 1868: published The Descent of Man 1871, andThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals 1872; elaborated a paper which he had read before the Geological Society in 1838 into a book on theFormation of Vegetable Mould through the action of Worms 1881. In the domain of botany he resuscitated Sprengel's theory of the fertilisation of plants in his Fertilisation of Orchids,* 1862 (supplemented by his Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation 1876), and publishedThe Movements and Habits of Climbing j Plants 1864, Different Forms of Flowers (the latter being an investigation of heterostyled plants), 1877, 'Insectivorous Plants 1875, and The Power, of Move- I inent in Plants in which was formulated his theory of circumnutation, 1880. In 1879 he wrote a biography of Erasmus Darwin for Dr. E. Krause's Essay
 * Erasmus Darwin
 * Sir George Webbe Dasent
 * Francis Dashwood
 * George Henry Dashwood
 * James Anthony Dassier
 * John Dassier
 * Marius D'Assigny
 * John Dastin
 * Giles Daubeney
 * Charles Daubeny
 * Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny
 * Charles Daubuz
 * John Dauglish (physician)
 * John Dauncey
 * Achilles Daunt
 * John Daus
 * Edward D'Auvergne
 * Edmund Davall
 * Charles Davenant
 * John Davenant John Davenant (1576–1641), bishop of Salisbury ; fellow of QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1597; D.D., 1609; Margaret professor of divinity, 1609-21; master of Queens 1614; represented the church of England at the synod of Dort, 1618; bishop of Salisbury, 1621; accused before Archbishop Laud of Calvinism, 1631; best-known work, a commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Oolossians, 1631. D'AVENANT, Sm WILLIAM (1606-1668), poet and dramatist; educated at Oxford; earliest drama The Tragedy of Alboviue, King of the Lombards 1629; wrote masques for the court; printed Madagascar and other Poems 1635; published The Platonick Lovers (tragicomedy), 1636; his comic masterpiece, The Wits acted, 1633, published, 1636; poet-laureate, 1638; produced the Unfortunate Lovers 1643, and Love and Honour 1649, in the opinion of Pepys a very good play; fled to Prance when threatened by parliament with arrest on account of his active support of Charles I's cause, but returned; was knighted by Charles (1643) at the siege of Gloucester; carried a letter of advice from Henrietta Maria, then in France, to Charles 1, 1646; sent by Henrietta Maria on a mission to Virginia, but was captured on the way by a parliament ship, 1650; imprisoned in the Tower, 1650-2; published (1651) the first edition ofGondibert practically founded the English opera by his Siege of Rhodes 1656; opened Drury Lane Theatre, 1658; produced The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru 1658, and The History of Sir Francis Drake 1659; imprisoned for complicity in the rising of Sir George Booth (1622-1684), 1659; established theDuke's Theatrical Company 1660, in spite of the opposition of Sir Henry Herbert, master of the revels; in conjunction with Dryden adapted Shakespeare's 'Tempest 1667; produced versions of other of Shakespeare's plays.
 * William Davenant
 * Christopher Davenport
 * Sir Humphrey Davenport
 * John Davenport
 * Mary Ann Davenport
 * ✅✅Richard Alfred Davenport
 * Robert Davenport
 * ✅✅Samuel Davenport (engraver)
 * David
 * ✅David
 * David I
 * David II
 * David
 * David ap Gwilym
 * David ab Llewelyn
 * Edward David (poet)
 * Thomas William Davids
 * Alexander Dyce Davidson
 * Harriet Miller Davidson
 * ✅✅James Davidson (antiquarian)
 * James Bridge Davidson
 * John Davidson (minister)
 * John Davidson (antiquary)
 * ✅✅John Davidson (traveller)
 * Samuel Davidson
 * Thomas Davidson
 * Thomas Davidson
 * Thomas Davidson
 * William Davidson
 * Adam Davie
 * Benjamin Davies
 * Catherine Davies
 * Cecilia Davies
 * Christian Davies
 * David Davies
 * David Charles Davies
 * David Christopher Davies
 * Edward Davies
 * Eleanor Davies
 * Evan Davies
 * Francis Davies
 * George Davies
 * Griffith Davies
 * Henry Davies
 * Herbert Davies
 * Hugh Davies
 * James Davies
 * Sir John Davies
 * Sir John Davies
 * Sir John Davies
 * John Davies
 * Sir John Davies
 * John Davies
 * John Davies
 * ✅✅John Davies (Queens')
 * John Scarlett Davies
 * Jonathan Davies
 * ✅✅Lady Lucy Clementina Davies
 * Marianne Davies
 * Miles Davies
 * Owen Davies
 * ✅Richard Davies (bishop)
 * Richard Davies (Quaker)
 * Richard Davies (physician)
 * Robert Davies (antiquary, died 1728)
 * ✅✅Robert Davies (poet)
 * Robert Davies (York antiquary)
 * Rowland Davies (dean)
 * Rowland Davies (composer)
 * Sneyd Davies
 * Thomas Davies (bishop)
 * Thomas Davies (lord mayor)
 * Thomas Davies (bookseller)
 * Thomas Davies (physician)
 * Thomas Davies (mineralogist)
 * Thomas Stephens Davies
 * Walter Davies
 * William Davies (priest)
 * William Davies
 * William Davies
 * William Davies
 * William Edmund Davies
 * Charles Davis (bookseller)
 * David Davis
 * David Daniel Davis
 * Edward Davis
 * Edward Davis (painter)
 * Henry Edwards Davis
 * Henry George Davis
 * James Davis
 * John Davis
 * John Davis
 * John Philip Davis
 * John Bunnell Davis
 * John Ford Davis
 * Sir John Francis Davis
 * Joseph Barnard Davis
 * Lockyer Davis
 * Mary Davis
 * ✅✅Nathan Davis (traveller)
 * Richard Barrett Davis
 * Thomas Osborne Davis
 * William Davis
 * William Davis
 * William Davis
 * Alexander Davison
 * Edward Davison
 * Edward Davison
 * ✅Francis Davison (poet)
 * James William Davison
 * Jeremiah Davison
 * ✅✅John Davison (clergyman)
 * Maria Rebecca Davison
 * Walter Davison
 * William Davison
 * William Davison
 * Adam Davy
 * Charles Davy
 * David Elisha Davy
 * Edmund Davy
 * Edward Davy
 * Henry Davy
 * Humphry Davy
 * Jane Davy
 * John Davy
 * John Davy
 * Martin Davy
 * Robert Davy
 * William Davy (lawyer)
 * William Davy (divine)
 * Davydd I
 * Davydd II
 * Davydd III
 * George Davys
 * John Davys
 * Mary Davys

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 * ✅George Dawe
 * Henry Edward Dawe
 * ✅Philip Dawe
 * Lancelot Dawes
 * Manasseh Dawes
 * ✅Richard Dawes
 * ✅Richard Dawes (educationalist)
 * Sophia Dawes
 * ✅William Dawes
 * ✅William Rutter Dawes

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 * James Dawkins
 * Ichabod Dawks
 * Thomas Dawks
 * Thomas Dawks
 * Abraham Dawson (rector)
 * Ambrose Dawson
 * Benjamin Dawson
 * Edward Dawson
 * George Dawson
 * George Dawson
 * Henry Dawson
 * James Dawson
 * John Dawson
 * Sir John William Dawson
 * Matthew Dawson
 * Nancy Dawson
 * Robert Dawson
 * Robert Kearsley Dawson
 * Thomas Dawson (physician)
 * William Dawson
 * Alexander Day
 * Alfred Day (music theorist)
 * Angell Day
 * Daniel Day
 * Francis Day
 * Francis Day
 * George Day
 * George Edward Day
 * James Day
 * John Day
 * John Day
 * John Day
 * Matthew Day
 * Richard Day
 * Stephen Day
 * Thomas Day
 * William Day
 * William Day
 * Stephen Daye
 * Edward Dayes
 * Solomon Dayrolles
 * ✅✅James Deacon (artist)
 * Thomas Deacon
 * William Frederick Deacon
 * Thomas Dealtry
 * William Dealtry
 * Richard Dean
 * Thomas Dean
 * William Dean
 * Sir Anthony Deane
 * ✅Henry Deane
 * Richard Deane
 * Thomas Deane
 * Thomas Deane
 * Thomas Newenham Deane
 * William John Deane
 * William Wood Deane
 * John Deare
 * Joseph Deare
 * Dacid Deas
 * Sir George Deas
 * William Dease
 * Rickard Deasy
 * Jacobus de Baan
 * Johannes de Baan
 * Hugh Debbieg
 * John Debrett
 * Dirk de Brie
 * Theodore de Bruyn
 * Isaac de Caus
 * Salomon de Caus
 * Sir Matthew Decker
 * Thomas Decker
 * Saint Declan
 * Charles Edward de Coetlogon
 * Henry Francis de Cort
 * Emmanuel de Critz
 * John de Critz
 * John de Critz
 * Decuman
 * Arthur Dee
 * Duncan Dee
 * ✅Francis Dee (bishop)
 * John Dee John Dee (1527–1608), mathematician and astrologer; B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1545; foundation-fellow, e. 1546; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where the clever stage effects he introduced into a performance of the Peace of Aristophanes procured him his life-long reputation of being a magician, 1546; M.A. Cambridge, 1548; studied at Louvain, 1548 lectured at Paris on Euclid, 1550; rector of Upton-upon-Seveni, 1553: acquitted by the Star-chamber when accused of practising sorcery against Queen Mary's life, but put under the surveillance of Bishop Bonner as a possible heretic; suggested to Queen Mary the formation of a royal library of ancient; manuscripts, 1556; acquired at Antwerp (c. 1662) a manuscript of Trithemius's Steganographia; visited Venice, 1563; made a voyage to St. Helena; travelled to Hungary to present his * Monas Hieroglyphica to Maximilian II, 1563; explained the appearance of n new star, 1572; described hit* magic glass to Queen Elizabeth, 1675; sent to Germany to consult physicians on the queen's health, 1578; drew up hydrographical and geographical description of newly discovered countries for   Queen Elizabeth, at her request, 1580; made calculations to facilitate adoption in England of Gregory XIII's calendar, 1583; practised crystallomancy in conjunction with Albert Laski, palatine of Siradz, 1584; went to Prague and had interviews with the Emperor Rodolph II, 1584, and Stephen of Poland, 1585; compelled to leave Prague by representations of Bishop of Piacenza, 1586; head of a small confraternity, which dissolved in 1589, for seeking the philosopher's stone and invoking the angels; warden of Manchester College, 1595-1604; fruitlessly petitioned James I to be formally cleared of the imputation of being a magician, 1604. Among his numerous works were De Trigono 1565, Navigationis ad Cathayam.. delineatio Hydrographica 1680, and a Treatise of the Rosie Crucian Secrets
 * George Charles Deering
 * John Peter Deering
 * Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (1661?–1731), journalist and novelist; changed his name from Foe to Defoe, c. 1703; hose factor, 1685; joined Monmouth's rebellion, 1685; joined William Ill's army, 1688; accountant to the commissioners of the glass duty, 1695-9; published an Essay upon Projects 1698; advocated war with France inThe Two Great Questions considered 1700; publishedThe True-born Englishman, a Satyr 1701; wroteThe Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England examined and asserted in approval of the liberation of the lately imprisoned Kentish petitioners 1701: wrote theMock Mourners a lament for William III, 1702; published (1702) The Shortest Way with the Dissenters a satiric pamphlet which was designed to teach highchurchmen the logical result of suppressing the privilege ofoccasional conformity and for which he was fined, imprisoned, and pilloried while the people drank his health, 1703: composed a Hymn to the Pillory; started theReview(suppressed 1713) during his imprisonment, 1704; sent into Scotland on a secret mission by the government, 1705; published Jure Divino a long political satire, 1706; published aHistory of the Union with Scotland 1709; supported Marlborough and Godolphin against the growing discontent with the French war; defended Sacheverell's impeachment in theReview wrote in Harley's interest, 1710; wrote in favour of peace with France; contributed to the Mercator a journal of economics, 1713; anti- Jacobite pamphleteer, 1712-13; prosecuted by the whigs for treasonable publications, 1713; condemned, but pardoned under the great seal, 1713; published his; Appeal to Honour and Justice an apologetic, 1715; convicted (1715) of libelling Lord Annesley, Bolingbroke's emissary to Ireland; escaped punishment by favour of Lord Townshend, secretary of state; published 'History of the Wars of Charles XII 1715; started Mercurius Politicus a monthly paper in the service of the government, 1716; redactor of Mist's Journal a Jacobite organ, 1717-24: published the first volume of his best-known work,Robinson Crusoe 1719, andSerious Reflections during the life... of Robinson Crusoe a sequel, 1720, both widely pirated; published The Anatomy I of Exchange Alley an attack on stockjobbers, and the Chimera 1720; published Captain Singleton, 1720, Moll FlandersandColonel Jacque 1722, andRoxana 1724; author ofJournal of the Plague Year 1722, and a New Voyage Round the World 1726, two works of fiction; produced didactic works, as well as books of vulgar supernaturalism and economic and social pamphlets; adopted pseudonym of Andrew Morton, 1726; became acquainted with Henry Baker (1698-1774), who married his daughter, Sophia Defoe, 1729, but apparently quarrelled with him later; published over 260 works.
 * John Peter de Gex
 * Sir Simon Degge
 * Lucas de Heere
 * Deicola
 * Saint Deiniol
 * Laurence Deios
 * Kings of Deira
 * William de Keyser
 * Thomas Dekker
 * Alexander Delamaine
 * Richard Delamaine
 * Richard Delamaine
 * Peter de la Mare
 * Barons Delamer
 * Freeman Gage De La Motte
 * Philip De La Motte
 * William De La Motte
 * Oliver De Lancey
 * Oliver De Lancey
 * Sir William Howe Delancey
 * Dennis Delane
 * John Thadeus Delane
 * Solomon Delane
 * Mary Delany
 * Patrick Delany
 * ✅✅John Delap
 * Francis Delaram
 * Thomas De La Rue
 * Warren De La Rue
 * Jean Marie Delatre
 * Gideon Delaune
 * Paul Delaune
 * Thomas Delaune
 * William Delaune (physician)
 * ✅William Delaune
 * Edward Hussey Delaval
 * Ralph Delavall
 * Earls of De La Warr
 * Joseph Octave Delepierre
 * Ambrose Lisle March Philipps De Lisle
 * Rudolph Edward Lisle March Philipps De Lisle
 * Henry Dell
 * Jonas Dell
 * Thomas Dell
 * William Dell
 * Caesar à Delmariis
 * John Louis De Lolme
 * Thomas Deloney
 * Earl of Deloraine
 * Carlo Antonio Delfini
 * Jean Andre Deluc
 * Laurent Delvaux
 * Barons Delvin
 * Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray
 * Stephen George Francis Triboudet Demainbray
 * Robert Demaus
 * Abraham de Moivre
 * Augustus De Morgan
 * Campbell Greig De Morgan
 * George Dempster
 * Thomas Dempster
 * Earls of Denbigh
 * Walter Cooper Dendy
 * William Dene
 * Dixon Denham
 * Henry Denham
 * Sir James Steuart Denham
 * Sir James Steuart Denham
 * Sir John Denham
 * Sir John Denham
 * Michael Aislabie Denham
 * James Denholm
 * Sir Peter Denis

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 * Albert Denison
 * Edward Denison (bishop)
 * ✅Edward Denison
 * ✅George Anthony Denison
 * John Denison (headmaster)
 * ✅John Evelyn Denison
 * William Joseph Denison
 * ✅Sir William Thomas Denison
 * George Denman (judge)
 * ✅Thomas Denman (the elder)

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 * ✅Thomas Denman
 * Thomas Denman
 * Prince of Denmark
 * Henry Denne
 * John Denne
 * ✅✅Samuel Denne
 * John Dennett
 * William Henry Dennie
 * James Blatch Piggott Dennis
 * John Dennis

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 * Thomas Dennis
 * ✅✅James Dennistoun
 * Sir Anthony Denny
 * Edward Denny, Earl of Norwich
 * Henry Denny (entomologist)
 * Sir William Denny
 * John Dennys
 * Arthur Dent
 * Edward John Dent
 * Peter Dent

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 * Henry Denton
 * James Denton
 * John Denton
 * Nathan Denton
 * Richard Denton
 * Thomas Denton
 * Thomas Denton
 * William Denton (physician)
 * William Denton (clergyman)
 * Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste Andre Timothée D'Éon de Beaumont
 * Thomas De Quincey
 * Earls of Derby
 * ✅Countesses of Derby
 * ✅✅Alfred Thomas Derby
 * ✅William Derby
 * Samuel Derham
 * ✅William Derham
 * William Derham
 * Edward Dering (clergyman)
 * Sir Edward Dering
 * Heneage Dering
 * Richard Dering
 * John de Derlington
 * ✅Macmurragh Dermod
 * Thomas Dermody
 * Laurence Dermott
 * Barons De Ros
 * Samuel Derrick
 * John Derricks
 * Earl of Derwentwater
 * William De Ryck
 * John Theophilus Desaguliers
 * Thomas Desaguliers
 * Joseph Frederick Walsh Desbarres
 * John Desborough
 * Samuel Desborough
 * Noel Joseph Desenfans
 * David Des Granges
 * Pierre Desmaizeaux
 * Earls of Desmond
 * Jean D'Espagne
 * Edward Marcus Despard
 * John Despard
 * Edward le Despenser
 * Henry le Despenser
 * Hugh le Despenser
 * Hugh le Despenser
 * Hugh Le Despenser
 * Thomas Le Despenser
 * Augustus Frederick D'Este
 * Barons De Tabley
 * Sir Gilbert Dethick
 * Sir William Dethick
 * Rowland Detrosier
 * Deusdedit
 * Emanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch
 * Sir Aubrey De Vere
 * There is an image of this guy available at File:Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg, and a color version available from the NPG website.


 * Robert Deverell
 * Sir John Devereux
 * Robert Devereux Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex (1566-1601), eldest son of Walter Devereux, first earl ; matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1579; M.A. 1581: created knight banneret for his bravery at Zutphen, 1586; became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth and master of the horse, 1587; quarrelled with Charles Blount, earl of Devonshire (1563-1606), and offended Ralegh: K.G., 1588; joined the faction of Don Antonio, a claimant to the throne of Portugal, 1589; married Frances, the widow of Sir Philip Sidney, thereby displeasing Elizabeth, 1590: supposed to favour puritanism, 1591; commanded a force sent to the help of Henry of Navarre, 1591; took Gournay, 1591; recalled, 1592; privy councillor, 1593; unsuccessfully appealed to Elizabeth on two occasions to give some preferment to Francis Bacon, then a struggling barrister; received political advice and literary assistance from Bacon; assisted by Don Antonio, tracked out the plot of Roderigo Lopez against the queen's life, 1594; established a sort of foreign intelligence department, 1595; defeated the Spaniards in a naval battle off Cadiz, and took the town, 1596;.mistakenly dissuaded by his colleagues from patting out to intercept the Spanish treasure fleet; master of the ordnance, 1597; advised by Bacon to study Irish affairs; set out on an expedition to the Azores, which proved a failure, and was nearly intercepted by Spanish ships at Falmouth on his return, 1597; earl-marshal, 1597; opposed Burghley's policy of peace with Spain, 1598; affronted the queen when discussing the appointment of a lord deputy in Ireland, 1598; chancellor of Cambridge University, 1598; appointed, amid popular rejoicing, lieutenant and governor-general of Ireland, 1599; punished his soldiers by decimation after a defeat at Arklow, 1599; forbidden to return to England, and ordered to proceed against Ulster, 1599; made a truce, renewable every six weeks, with Tyrone, and set out for London, arriving there 28 Sept. 1599; accused before a specially constituted court of leaving his government and entering into adishonourable and dangerous treatywith Tyrone, 5 June 1600; set at liberty, August 1600; induced by Mountjoy, Southampton, and others (1601) to contrive a plot for securing the dismissal of Elizabeth's counsellors; attempted to raise citizens of London, and was proclaimed traitor, February 1601: tried at Westminster Hall, where his former friend and protege Bacon spoke for the prosecution, and sentenced to death, 19 Feb.; executed 25 Feb. 1601. Elizabeth is said to have been ready to pardon him had he asked forgiveness, but the story of the ring and of its suppression by the Countess of Nottingham is doubtful. Essex wrote numerous sonnets, and was credited by Wotton with special skill in masques; as a patron of literature he was panegyrised by Daniel, Chapman, Spenser, and Ben Jonson.
 * Robert Devereux
 * Walter Devereux
 * Walter Devereux
 * George Devey
 * Arthur Devis
 * Arthur William Devis
 * Louis Devisme
 * Earl of Devon
 * Dukes of Devonshire
 * ✅Duchess of Devonshire
 * Earls of Devonshire
 * ✅Countess of Devonshire
 * James Dewar (musician)
 * Gerrard D'Ewes
 * Giles Dewes
 * Paul D'Ewes
 * Simonds D'Ewes
 * George James De Wilde
 * Samuel De Wilde
 * Peter De Wint
 * William Dewsbury
 * Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt