Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB Epitome 15

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 * Hugh Welch Diamond
 * Thomas Dibben
 * Charles Dibdin
 * Charles Dibdin
 * Henry Edward Dibdin
 * Thomas Frognall Dibdin
 * Thomas John Dibdin
 * Edward Dicconson
 * Ralph de Diceto
 * Sir Alexander Dick

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 * Anne Dick
 * Dirty Dick
 * John Dick (theologian)
 * Robert Dick
 * Sir Robert Henry Dick
 * Thomas Dick
 * Sir William Dick of Braid
 * ✅Charles Dickens Charles Dickens (1812–1870), novelist ; son of a government clerk; employed in making up parcels in an office at Hungerford Stair?, c. 1823; shorthand reporter of debates in the Commons to the True Sun and, in 1835, to the Morning Chronicle; contributed to 4 Monthly Magazine 1833-5, and to Evening Chronicle 1835; these articles were collected and published as Sketches by Boz 1836; commenced Pickwick Papers 1836; 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.
 * ✅Charles Dickens, Jr
 * John Dickenson
 * George Dickie

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 * Charles Dickinson
 * Edmund Dickinson
 * James Dickinson
 * John Dickinson
 * Joseph Dickinson
 * ✅✅William Dickinson (topographer)
 * William Dickinson (engraver)
 * Maria Dickons
 * Adam Dickson
 * ✅Sir Alexander Dickson (British Army officer)

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 * ✅Alexander Dickson (botanist)
 * ✅David Dickson (minister)
 * David Dickson (the elder)
 * ✅✅David Dickson (the younger)
 * Elizabeth Dickson
 * ✅James Dickson (botanist)
 * ✅ Sir James Robert Dickson
 * Robert Dickson (physician)
 * Samuel Dickson (Scottish physician)
 * ✅William Dickson (bishop)
 * William Gillespie Dickson
 * William Steel Dickson
 * Dicuil
 * Adriaen Van Diest
 * Everard Digby (scholar)
 * Everard Digby
 * George Digby
 * John Digby
 * Sir Kenelm Digby
 * Kenelm Henry Digby
 * ✅Lettice Digby
 * Robert Digby
 * ✅Venetia Digby
 * William Digby
 * Sir Dudley Digges
 * Dudley Digges
 * ✅Leonard Digges (scientist)
 * ✅Leonard Digges (writer)
 * Thomas Digges
 * West Digges
 * Denis Dighton
 * Robert Dighton
 * Charles Dignum
 * Ashton Wentworth Dilke
 * Charles Wentworth Dilke
 * Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke
 * Sir Thomas Dilkes
 * John James Dillenius
 * ✅Francis Dillingham

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 * ✅Theophilus Dillingham
 * William Dillingham (Emmanuel)
 * Arthur Dillon
 * Arthur Richard Dillon
 * Arthur Richard Dillon
 * Edouard Dillon
 * James Dillon
 * John Blake Dillon
 * Sir John Talbot Dillon

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 * Sir Lucas Dillon
 * Peter Dillon
 * Sir Robert Dillon (died 1580)
 * ✅Sir Robert Dillon (judge)
 * Robert Crawford Dillon
 * Theobald Dillon
 * ✅Thomas Dillon, 4th Viscount Dillon
 * Thomas Dillon
 * Wentworth Dillon
 * Sir William Henry Dillon
 * Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee
 * Lewis Weston Dillwyn
 * Charles Dilly
 * Edward Dilly
 * John Dilly
 * James Dimock
 * James Francis Dimock
 * Thomas Dimsdale
 * John Dineley-Goodere
 * ✅✅Robert Dingley
 * Thomas Dingley (antiquary)
 * ✅Charles Diodati - probably not notable as such, exists as redirect
 * Theodore Diodati
 * Henry Dircks
 * Lord Dirleton
 * Alexander Dirom
 * Saint Disibod
 * ✅John Disney (rector)
 * John Disney (Unitarian)
 * ✅John Disney
 * Sir Moore Disney
 * William Disney
 * Benjamin Disraeli 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.
 * Walter Diss
 * ✅Humphrey Ditton
 * Lewis Dive
 * John Dix
 * John Dixey
 * Sir Wolstan Dixie
 * ✅George Dixon (Royal Navy officer)
 * ✅George Dixon (MP)
 * Henry Hall Dixon
 * James Dixon
 * John Dixon (painter)
 * John Dixon (engraver)
 * Joseph Dixon
 * Joshua Dixon
 * Richard Watson Dixon
 * ✅Robert Dixon
 * ✅Thomas Dixon (nonconformist)
 * Thomas Dixon (1721–1754)
 * William Henry Dixon (antiquary)
 * William Hepworth Dixon
 * John Dixwell
 * Arthur Dobbs
 * Francis Dobbs
 * Sydney Thompson Dobell
 * Peter Paul Dobree
 * George Edward Dobson
 * John Dobson (divine)
 * ✅John Dobson (architect)

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 * Susannah Dobson
 * ✅William Dobson
 * William Dobson (antiquary)
 * William Charles Thomas Dobson
 * James Docharty
 * Thomas of Docking
 * ✅William Dockwray
 * Henry Docwra
 * ✅Sir Thomas Docwra
 * Charles Roger Phipps Dod

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 * Henry Dod
 * John Dod
 * Peirce Dod
 * Robert Phipps Dod
 * Timothy Dod
 * Charles Dodd
 * Daniel Dodd
 * George Dodd (engineer)
 * ✅George Dodd (19th-century writer)
 * James Solas Dodd
 * James William Dodd
 * Philip Stanhope Dodd
 * Ralph Dodd
 * Robert Dodd
 * Sir Samuel Dodd
 * Thomas Dodd (printseller)
 * William Dodd
 * John Doddridge
 * Philip Doddridge
 * James Dodds (poet)
 * James Dodds (writer)
 * Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
 * George Haydock Dodgson
 * Bartholomew Dodington
 * George Bubb Dodington
 * ✅Marcus Dods (theologian)
 * James Dodsley
 * ✅Robert Dodsley
 * ✅James Dodson
 * ✅John Dodson (judge)
 * ✅John George Dodson Supp
 * Michael Dodson
 * Roger Dodsworth
 * William Dodsworth
 * Edward Dodwell
 * ✅Henry Dodwell
 * Henry Dodwell (the younger)
 * William Dodwell
 * John Dogget
 * Thomas Doggett
 * Thomas Dogherty
 * Dogmael
 * John Doharty
 * John Doherty
 * ✅✅David Doig
 * Andrew Doket
 * David Dolben
 * Gilbert Dolben
 * ✅John Dolben
 * ✅John Dolben (politician)
 * John Dolben (divine)
 * ✅William Dolben
 * ✅William Dolben (judge)
 * ✅William Dolben
 * ✅Charlotte Helen Sainton Dolby
 * William Dolle
 * George Dollond
 * John Dollond
 * Peter Dollond
 * Charles Dolman
 * Adam of Domerham
 * Alfred Domett
 * Sir William Domett
 * Dominicus de Rosario
 * Marco Antonio de Dominis
 * ✅✅Silas Domville
 * David Don
 * Sir George Don (British Army officer)
 * ✅George Don (botanist)
 * Sir William Henry Don
 * ✅Donald IV
 * ✅Donald V
 * ✅Donald VI
 * Adam Donald
 * James Donaldson (fl. 1713)
 * James Donaldson (fl. 1794)
 * ✅James Donaldson (publisher)
 * John Donaldson (Professor of Music)
 * ✅John Donaldson (agriculturalist)
 * John William Donaldson
 * Joseph Donaldson
 * Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson
 * Thomas Leverton Donaldson
 * Walter Donaldson
 * Donat
 * Saint Donatus
 * Viscount Doncaster
 * Earl of Donegal
 * ✅Nehemias Donellan
 * ✅Bryan Donkin
 * Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin
 * William Fishburn Donkin
 * Andrew Donlevy
 * Benjamin Donn
 * James Donn
 * Daniel Donne
 * Gabriel Donne
 * John Donne
 * John Donne the Younger
 * William Bodham Donne
 * James Donnegan
 * Sir Ross Donnelly
 * Earls of Donoughmore
 * Edward Donovan
 * Samuel Doody
 * Thomas Doolittle
 * Anthony Dopping
 * John Doran
 * Marquises of Dorchester
 * Countess of Dorchester
 * Viscount Dorchester
 * Baron Dorchester
 * Sir Nicholas Dorigny
 * Joseph Alexander Dorin
 * Antoine Aimé Dorion
 * Isaac Dorislaus
 * Isaac Dorislaus
 * ✅Thomas Dorman
 * ✅James Dormer
 * ✅Jane Dormer
 * ✅John Dormer (Jesuit)
 * John Dormer (soldier)
 * ✅Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon)
 * ✅Sir Robert Dormer (1650–1726)
 * Joseph Dornford
 * Josiah Dornford
 * William Dorrell
 * Theophilus Dorrington
 * Alfred Guillaume Gabriel D'Orsay
 * Dukes of Dorset
 * Marquises of Dorset
 * Earls of Dorset
 * ✅Countess of Dorset
 * St John Dorset
 * Catherine Ann Dorset
 * Edward Doubleday
 * Henry Doubleday
 * Thomas Doubleday
 * Francis Douce
 * David Alfred Doudney
 * John Dougall
 * Neil Dougall
 * John Dougharty
 * John Doughtie
 * William Doughty
 * Sir Alexander Douglas
 * Alexander Hamilton Douglas
 * Andrew Douglas (navy captain)
 * Andrew Douglas (physician)
 * ✅Sir Archibald Douglas (died 1333)
 * ✅Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas
 * ✅Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas
 * ✅Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas
 * ✅Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus
 * ✅Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie
 * ✅Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus 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.
 * ✅Archibald Douglas, Parson of Douglas
 * ✅Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus
 * ✅Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Ormond
 * Archibald Douglas (navy captain)
 * ✅Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar
 * ✅Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar
 * ✅Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas
 * ✅Archibald James Edward Douglas
 * Archibald Ramsay Douglas
 * Brice de Douglas
 * Catherine Douglas
 * ✅Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry
 * ✅Sir Charles Douglas, 1st Baronet
 * ✅David Douglas (botanist)
 * Francis Douglas
 * Frederick Sylvester North Douglas
 * Gawin Douglas
 * ✅George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus
 * ✅George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus
 * ✅Sir George Douglas of Pittendreich
 * ✅George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton
 * ✅George Douglas, 4th Lord Mordington
 * Sir Howard Douglas
 * ✅Sir James Douglas, Lord of Douglas
 * ✅James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas
 * ✅James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas
 * ✅James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas
 * ✅James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton 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.
 * ✅Lord James Douglas
 * James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Queensberry
 * ✅James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas
 * ✅James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry
 * ✅James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton
 * ✅James Douglas (physician)
 * ✅James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton
 * ✅Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet
 * ✅James Douglas (antiquary)
 * James Douglas, 4th Baron Douglas
 * Sir James Dawes Douglas
 * ✅Lady Jane Douglas
 * Janet Douglas
 * ✅John Douglas (lithotomist)
 * ✅John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury)
 * John Sholto Douglas
 * Kenneth Douglas
 * ✅Lady Margaret Douglas
 * Neil Douglas (poet)
 * ✅Sir Neil Douglas
 * Philip Douglas
 * ✅Robert Douglas, 1st Viscount of Belhaven
 * ✅Robert Douglas (minister)
 * ✅Robert Douglas
 * Sylvester Douglas
 * Thomas Douglas (divine)
 * ✅Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk
 * ✅Sir Thomas Monteath Douglas
 * William de Douglas
 * ✅Sir William Douglas
 * ✅William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas
 * ✅Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale
 * ✅William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus
 * ✅William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas
 * ✅William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas
 * ✅William Douglas, 9th Earl of Angus
 * ✅Sir William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton
 * ✅William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus
 * ✅Sir William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry
 * ✅Lord William Douglas
 * ✅William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton
 * ✅William Douglas
 * ✅William Douglas, Duke of Hamilton
 * ✅William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry
 * ✅William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry
 * William Douglas (painter)
 * ✅William Alexander Anthony Archibald Douglas
 * Sir William Fettes Douglas
 * William Scott Douglas
 * Sir James Nicholas Douglass Supp
 * ✅John Douglass (bishop)
 * Sir Henry Doulton supp
 * George Gerbier D'Ouvilly
 * John Freeman Milward Dovaston
 * Henry Dove
 * John Dove
 * John Dove
 * Nathaniel Dove
 * Patrick Edward Dove
 * ✅Thomas Dove
 * Dukes of Dover
 * Barons Dover
 * John Dover
 * Captain Robert Dover
 * Thomas Dover
 * Sir John Doveton
 * ✅Alexander Dow
 * George Dowdall
 * ✅William Dowdeswell (Chancellor)
 * ✅William Dowdeswell (governor)
 * John Downe
 * Barons Downes
 * ✅✅Stephen Dowell
 * John Dowland
 * Robert Dowland
 * Richard Dowley
 * Alfred Septimus Dowling
 * Frank Lewis Dowling
 * James Dowling
 * John Goulter Dowling
 * Thady Dowling
 * ✅✅Vincent George Dowling
 * Andrew Downes
 * ✅John Downes (regicide)
 * ✅John Downes (prompter)
 * Theophilus Downes
 * William Downes
 * George Downham
 * John Downham
 * William Downham
 * Calybute Downing
 * ✅Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet
 * ✅Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet
 * Hugh Downman
 * John Downman
 * Sir Thomas Downman
 * William Downman
 * Marquis of Downshire
 * Nicholas Downton
 * Anne Dowriche
 * Hugh Dowriche
 * Richard Dowse
 * ✅William Dowsing
 * John Dowson
 * Henry Dowton
 * William Dowton
 * William Dowton (died 1883)
 * Lewis Doxat
 * Sir Charles Hastings Doyle
 * Sir Charles William Doyle
 * Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle
 * Henry Edward Doyle
 * James Warren Doyle
 * James William Edmund Doyle
 * Sir John Doyle
 * John Doyle
 * Sir John Milley Doyle
 * Richard Doyle
 * Thomas Doyle (priest)
 * Welbore Ellis Doyle
 * Edward Doyley
 * Thomas D'Oylie
 * Charles D'Oyly
 * Francis D'Oyly
 * ✅✅George D'Oyly
 * ✅✅John D'Oyly
 * Samuel D'Oyly
 * Thomas D'Oyly
 * William Drage
 * Giovanni Battista Draghi
 * Domenico Dragonetti
 * John Drakard
 * Sir Bernard Drake (sailor)
 * Charles Francis Tyrwhitt Drake
 * ✅Sir Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake (1540?–1596), circumnavigator and admiral; commanded the Judith in John Hawkyns's ill-fated expedition, 1567 see HAWKINS, SIR JOHN; made three voyages from Plymouth to the West Indies, 1570, 1571, and 1572; landed at Nombre de Dios, and would have plundered the town, had not his men become disheartened at a wound which their commander received, 1572; burnt Portobello, 1572; sacked Venta Cruz, 1573; returned to Plymouth, 1573; served under Essex in Ireland; reduced Rathlin, 1575; set sail from Plymouth for the River Plate, 1577; executed Thomas Doughty, a deposed officer of his following, on a charge of conspiracy, 1578; sailed through the Straits of Magellan, 1578; plundered Valparaiso, 1579; captured a ship from Acapulco, commanded by one Don Francisco de Qarate, who sent the viceroy of New Spain a letter, still extant, giving an account of Drake, 1579; reached Pelew islands and Mindanao, 1579; sailed through the Indian Archipelago, and, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, touched at Sierra Leone, 1580; knighted at Deptford in 1581 by Queen Elizabeth, who justified him to the Spanish ambassador; mayor of Plymouth, 1582; his assassination plotted by one John Doughty, an agent of the king of Spain, 1583; M.P., Bossiney, 1584-5; commissioned by Elizabeth with the command of a fleet and letters of marque, 1585: burnt St. lago and plundered Vigo, 1585; took San Domingo and Cartagena, by the aid of the land forces under Carleill; brought back to England the first colonists of Vir finia, 1586; commissioned to commit acts of war against pain, in accordance with which he destroyed an armament in the harbour of Cadiz, not being aware that the order, in so far as it related to Spanish territory, had been countermanded, 1587; superseded his vice-admiral, William Borough, from his command, 1587: urged Elizabeth to forestall a Spanish invasion by attacking the king of Spain at home, 1588; stationed off Ushant with one of the three divisions of the English fleet to intercept the Spanish Armada: driven back to Plymouth by a southerly wind, July 1688; defeated the Armada off Gravelines and pursued it to the north of Scotland; quarrelled with Sir Martin Frobisher about spoil of Rosario, a ship captured by Drake in the Channel, 1688: associated with Sir John Norris in expedition against coasts of Spain and Portugal, which plundered Coruna, burnt Vigo, and destroyed much Spanish shipping, 1589; regulated the water supply of Plymouth by bringing the 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.
 * ✅Francis Drake (antiquary)
 * Francis Drake (clergyman)

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 * Sir Francis Samuel Drake
 * James Drake (Jacobite)
 * John Poad Drake
 * ✅Nathan Drake
 * ✅Roger Drake (physician)
 * ✅Samuel Drake (divine)
 * ✅Samuel Drake (antiquary)
 * William Drake