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 * Edward I Edward I (1239–1307), king of England ; eldest son of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence: married to Eleanor of Castile, sister of Alfonso X, 1254, his father giving him Gascony, Ireland, Wales, Bristol, Stamford, and Grantham; countenanced his lieu tenant in Wales, Geoffrey Langley, in forcing on the Welsh the English system of counties and hundreds, thereby provoking a war with Llywelyn, prince of Wales, 1256; acted with Simon, earl of Leicester, in obtaining the formulation of the provisions of Westminster, 1259; made war upon the Welsh, who sympathised with the, burouial malcontents, 1263; attacked North  ampton, capturiiiSimon de Montfort the younper, 12fi4; caused his father Henry Ill's defeat at Lewes by nn illadvised pursuit of the retreating Londoners, lifii-4: defeated the barons at Evesham, 12C.5; received the submission of the Oinqm- ports, 1266: compelled the surrender of Kenilworth Castle on conditions, 1266; overawed into submission the rebel lords who had been disinherited after Eveshara, and were then occupying the Isle of Ely, lit; 7; steward of England, 1268; warden of the city and Tower of London, 1268; gamed popularity by abolishing the levy of customs from the city of London, and by urging a statute forbidding the Jews to acquire the property of Christians by means of pledges, 1269: sailed for Syria as a crusader, 1271; relieved Acre, and won a victory at Haifa: wounded with a poisoned dagger by an envoy of the emr of Jaffa, 1272; made a truce with the emir, 1272; succeeded to the English crown, 1272; made a triumphal progress through Europe, and defeated the Count of Chalons at thelittle battle of Chalons an ostensible tourney, 1273; crowned king of England, 1274; legislated with a view to the overthrow of feudalism and the growth of the parliamentary system; promulgatedStatute of Westminster the First 1276; made war upon Llywelyn of Wales, who had repeatedly refused to attend any of the king's parliaments, and (1276) obtained his submission; promulgated Statute of Gloucesterto amend working of territorial jurisdictions, 1278; caused all the Jews and goldsmiths in England to be arrested on the charge of clipping the coin, 1278; did homage to Philip of France for Ponthieu, and surrendered all claim to Normandy, 1279; defeated and slew Llywelyn in Radnorshire, 1282; determined that David, Llywelyn's brother, should be tried before a full representative of the laity which sentenced him to be drawn, hanged, beheaded, disembowelled, and quartered, 1283; assimilated the administration of Wales to the English pattern by the 'Statute of Wales 1284; publishedStatute of Westminster the Second 1285; spent much time in France and Gascony, 1286-9; returned to England, 1289; appointed commissioners to inquire into the misdemeanours of his judges during his long absence, 1289: forbade sub-infeudation in the statute Quia emptores 1290; banished the Jews, 1290; lost his queen, Eleanor of Castile, 1290; appointed (1290) Antony Bek governor of Scotland, the throne of which was soon afterwards claimed by thirteen competitors; put John Baliol in seisin of the Scottish kingdom, 1292; deprived of Gascony by Philip IV, 1294; received grants for the settlement of Welsh, French, and Scottish difficulties from- a parliament in which the three estates of the realm were perfectly represented, 1295; stormed Berwick to punish Baliol for contemplating revolt, 1296; accepted Baliol's surrender of Scotland, 1296: compelled the clergy to make a grant for the defence of the kingdom, 1297; met with protracted opposition from his barons in regard to proposed campaign in Gascony, 1297; set sail for Bruges in pursuance of a promise to help the Count of Flanders against the French, 1297; induced by Boniface VIII to make a truce with France, by which he recovered Gascony, but deserted his ally, the Count of Flanders, 1298; defeated William Wallace on Linlithgow Heath, 1298; confirmed the Great Charter, but added proviso in favour of the rights of the crown to the confirmation of the Forest Charter 1299; made second expedition to Scotland, refusing demand of Scottish lords that Baliol be allowed to reign, 1300; denounced as a marauder by Archbishop Robert de Winchelsea, 1300; his troubles with the baronage ended by the death of Humphrey Hoi inn, earl of Hereford; captured Stirling Castle, 1304; ordered execution of Wallace, who had been betrayed, 1305; suspended his old enemy, Archbishop Winchelsea, by the connivance of the new pope, Clement V, 1306; died at Burgh-on-Sauds while on his way northward to crush the rebellion of Robert Bruce, who threatened to undo the judicial system recently drawn up for Scotland; was buried in Westminster Abbey on 27 Oct. 1307.
 * Edward II of Carnarvon Edward II of Carnarvon (1284–1327), king of England; son of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile; regent during his father's absence in Flanders, 1297-8; created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, 1301: served on the Scottish campaigns of 1301, 1303, and 1304, carrying his habits of extravagance into camp-life; knighted, 1306; devastated the Scottish borders, 1306; succeeded to the crown, 1307; made Aymer de Valence guardian of Scotland, 1307; created Piers Gaveston, his favourite, Earl of Cornwall, 1307: married Isabella, daughter of Philip the Fair, king of France, 1308; appointed Gaveston regent of Ireland, 1308, being compelled by the council to banish him; undermined baronial opposition, and achieved Gaveston's restoration to his earldom, 1309; comjx'11.1 by threats of withdrawal of allegiance to consent to the appointment of twenty-one lords ordainers, 1310; marched northwards under the pretence of attacking Bruce, really to avoid Lancaster, his chief opponent, and the ordainers, 1310; allowed Guveston to be exiled, 1311; committed to a civil war by the return of Gaveaton, 1312, who was soon afterwards seized by the Earl of Warwick and murdered, June, 1312; supported by Hugh le Despenser and the Earls of Pembroke and Warenne; granted an amnesty to the malcontents, 1313; took the field against Bruce, and, neglecting the Earl of Gloucester's warning not to join battle under unfavourable circumstances, was defeated at Bannockburn, 1314; forced to submit to Lancaster, 1314; regained his authority on Lancaster's failure to suppress Irish, Welsh, and Scottish disaffection, 1316: negotiated with Lancaster, 1318; failed to take Berwick, 1319; made a favourite of Hugh le Despenser the younger : reluctantly agreed to the banishment of both Deapensers, 1321; besieged Leeds Castle, which had closed its gates against the queen, 1321; conducted a campaign in the west against the Mortimers, 1321; recalled the Despensers, 1322; slew the Earl of Hereford and captured Lancaster, who was beheaded without a hearing at Boroughbridge, 1322; vainly attempted to subdue Scotland, 1322; concluded truce with Scotland for three years, 1323: alienated Queen Isabella by his fondness for the younger Despenser, 1324; allowed Isabella to go to France in his stead to pay homage for Aquitaine and Ponthieu, whence she returned (1326) to dethrone him; fled westward, and after many wanderings was taken at Neath; forced to resign the throne, 1327; brutally treated by his gaolers in Berkeley Castle, and murdered; currently reported in the next generation to have died a hermit in Lombardy.
 * Edward Edward III (1312–1377), king of England : eldest son of Edward II; Earl of Chester, 1320; received county of Ponthieu and duchy of Aquitaine, 1325; proclaimed guardian of the kingdom in the name of his father, 1326; chosen king, 1327; was for four years the figure-head of his mother Isabella and of Mortimer's rule; out-manoeuvred in Scotland by Moray and Douglas, 1327; gave up all claim to Scotland by the treaty of Northampton, 1328; married Philippa of Hainault, 1328; claimed the French throne through his mother Isabella, but was set aside for Philip of Valois, 1328; paid homage to Philip VI for his French fiefs, 1329, refusing liege homage; executed Mortimer, and placed the queen-mother in honourable confinement, 1330; performed liege homage for Guyenne and Ponthieu, 1331; invited Flemish weavers to come to England and teach the manufacture of fine cloth, 1332; secured recognition of Edward de Baliol as king of Scotland, 1332; defeated Scots at Halidon Hill, 1333, and restored Baliol twice: his seneschals expelled from Agenois by Philip VI, 1336; laid a heavy customs duty on sacks of wool and woolfells to raise money for a war with France, 1337; gained the goodwill of James van Artevelde, a citizen of Ghent, who procured him an alliance with Ghent, Ypres, Bruges, and Cassel; made treaty for hire of troops with the Emperor Lewis of Bavaria, thereby displeasing Pope Benedict XII, 1337; appointed imperial vicar by Lewis of Bavaria, 1338; laid siege to Cambray, 1339. when cannon is said to have been first used; assumed title of king of France in order to retain Flemish support, 1340; returned to England to get supplies voted by parliament; defeated French fleet in the Sluys, 1340; reproached John de Stratford, archbishop of Canterbury, for retarding supplies, though he had urged him to undertake the war, 1341; landed at Brest in consequence of an offer from John of Montfort to hold Brittany of him conditionally, 1342; made truce with the king of France for three years at Ste. Madeleine, 1343; built round tower of Windsor Castle, 1344; wrote to the pope that Philip had broken truce and that he declared war upon him, 1345; sacked Barfleur, Valonges, Carentan, St. L6, and Caen, 1346; executed strategic movements culminating in total destruction of French army atCrecy, near Abbeville, 1346; the Scots routed at Nerill's Cross by his generals, 1346; blockaded Calais, which surrendered at discretion (1347), after the withdrawal of a French relief force; spared the lives of the citizens of Calais at the request of bis queen, 1347; returned to England, 1347;   founded the order of the Garter, 1349; lot his daughter, Joan, by the black death pestilence; passedStatute of Labourers 1351; defeated a Spanish fleet in the service of France off Winchelsea, 1360: enacted theStatute of Provisors 1351,of TreAsons 1352, andof Pra?munire 1353; released King David of Scotland from the Tower, 1357; gained Aquitaine, Calais, Guisnes, and Ponthieu by the treaty of Bretlgny, in which he renounced all claim to the French crown, 1360; entertained knight* from Spain, Cyprus, and Armenia, who had come to solicit aid against the Mahometans, 1362; erected Gascony and Aquitaine into a principality, 1362; passed statute ordering discontinuance of French in the law courts, 1362; concerted project with David II for union of England and Scotland, 1363; forbade payment of Peter's pence, 1366, from annoyance at the pope's attempt to recover arrears of the tribute promised him by King John: endeavoured by the Statute of Kilkenny (1367) to check the adoption of Irish customs by the English colonists; disapproved of the depredations of the English free companies in France; sent the Black Prince to help Pedro of Castile against his half-brother, Henry of Trastaniare, 1367; involved In a second French war by Charles V's complaints of the free companies, 1369; carried on a desultory warfare in Poitou and Touraine, in revenge for which the French burnt Portsmouth, 1369; gave himself up to the influence of Alice Ferrers, a concubine, on the death of his queen, 1369; dissented from the Prince of Wales's conduct of the French war; laid hands on church property in order to raise supplies, 1371; renewed league with Brittany, 1371, and made treaty with Genoa, 1372; the Earl of Pembroke, his lieutenant in Aquitaine, defeated by a French and Spanish fleet at Rochelle, 1372; despatched armament against Du Guesclin in Brittany, 1373; lost Aquitaine, 1374; his latter years embittered by national discontent and the rivalry between his chief minister, Lancaster, and the Commons. During the first part of his reign he inaugurated an enlightened commercial policy, and devoted so much attention to naval administration as to be entitled by parliament the king of the sea
 * Edward IV Edward IV (1442–1483), king of England ; son of Richard, duke of York; born at Rouen; Earl of March; attainted as a Yorkist, 1459; returned from Calais with the Yorkist earls, Warwick and Salisbury, and defeated Henry VI's force at Northampton, 1460; swore fealty to Henry VI, 1460; defeated Henry's restless queen, Margaret, at Mortimer's Cross, 1461; proclaimed himself king, 1461; utterly defeated the Lancastrians at Towton, 1461; crowned, 1461; captured Margaret's strongholds in the north of England, 1463; believed himself, on insufficient grounds, to have conciliated Somerset, a prominent Lancastrian, 1463; privately married Elizabeth Woodville, widow of Sir John Grey, 1464, ultimately disclosing the fact to his council when a match with Bona of Savoy was under consideration; married his sister Margaret to Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, 1468; his position threatened by the intrigues of the Earl of Warwick, who was offended by his rejection of the French marriage alliance which he had proposed, and was, with the Duke of Clarence, plotting his overthrow; taken prisoner by ths archbishop of York, one of the leaders in insurrection of Robin of Redesdale, 1469; released by Warwick, who, with Clarence, offered his assistance in putting down, a rebellion (1470) which he had himself organised; de. feated the rebels at Losecoat Field, 1470; proclaimed Warwick and Clarence traitors, 1470; compelled to seek refuge in Holland by the joint-attack of Warwick and Clarence, as concerted with Margaret of Anjou, 1470; enabled by the money of the Duke of Burgundy to return to England, 1471; reconciled to Clarence; took Henry VI, who had just been reappointed king, in the field, and defeated and slew Warwick at Barnet, 1471; captured Queen Margaret at the battle of Tewkesbury, 1471, and slew her son immediately afterwards; quelled the Kent rising under the Bastard Falconbridge see FAUCOMIKKU, THOMAS, whom he compelled to surrender Sandwich and the navy he had brought from Calais, 1471; raised money by means of benevolences and in other unprecedented ways for a projected invasion of France, 1474; actually invaded France, but was beguiled by the astuteness of Louis XI, who succeeded in making him desert his ally, the Duke of Burgundy, by a seven yearstreaty at Picquigny, 1475; imprisoned and murdered his brother Clarence, who had aspired to the hand of Mary, daughter of the Duke of Burgundy, 1478; ignored the appeal of Mary of Burgundy for protection against Louis XI from fear of losing his French pension and the stipulated marriage of his daughter to the dauphin, both secured by the treaty of Picquigiiy; undertook a partially successful expedition against Scotland to dethrone James III on the plea of illegitimacy, and to procure the abandonment of the old French alliance, 1482; died, as French writers believed, of mortification at the treaty of Arras (1482), by which it was arranged between Maximilian of Burgundy and Louis XI that Margaret, daughter of the former prince, should be married to the dauphin.
 * Edward V
 * Edward
 * Edward the Black Prince Edward, Prince of Wales (1330–1376), called the Black Prince, and sometimes Edward IV and Edward of Woodstock; eldest son of Edward III; created Duke of Cornwall, 1337; guardian of the kingdom in his father's absence, 1338, 1340, and 1342; created Prince of Wales, 1343; knighted by his father at La Hogne, 1346; commanded the van at Crécy, his father intentionally leaving him to win the battle, 1346; named the Black Prince after the battle of Crécy, at which he was possibly accoutred in black armour; took part in Edward III's Calais expedition, 1349; appointed king's lieutenant in Gascony, and ordered to lead an army into Aquitaine, 1355; pillaged Avignonet and Casteluaudary, sacked Carcassonne, and plundered Narbonne, 1355; ravaged Auvergne, Limousin, and Berry, 1356; failed to take Bourges, 1356; offered terms of peace to King John, who had outflanked him near Poitiers, but refused to surrender himself as the price of their acceptance, 1356; routed the French at Poitiers, and took King John prisoner, 1356; returned to England, 1357; negotiated the treaty of Bretigny, 1360; created Prince of Aquitaine and Gascony, 1362; his suzerainty disowned by the lord of Albret and other Gascon nobles; directed by his father to forbid the marauding raids of the English and Gascon free companies, 1364; entered into an agreement with don Pedro of Castile and Charles of Navarre, by which Pedro covenanted to mortgage Castro de Urdialès and the province of Biscay to him as security for a loan; a passage was thus secured through Navarre, 1366; received letter of defiance from Henry of Trastumare, Don Pedro's half-brother and rival, 1367; defeated Henry at Nájara after an obstinate conflict, 1367; failed to obtain either the province of Biscay or liquidation of the debt from Don Pedro, 1367; prevailed on the estates of Aquitaine to allow him a hearth-tax of ten sous for five years, 1368, thereby alienating the lord of Albret and other nobles; drawn into open war with Charles V of France, 1369; took Limoges, where he gave orders for an indiscriminate massacre (1370) in revenge for the voluntary surrender of that town to the French by its bishop, who had been his private friend; returned to England, 1371; resigned the principality of Aquitaine and Gascony, 1372; led the commons in their attack upon the Lancastrian administration, 1376; buried in Canterbury Cathedral, where his surcoat, helmet, shield, and gauntlets are still preserved.
 * Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales
 * Edward, Earl of Warwick
 * Dafydd Edward
 * Thomas Edward (naturalist)
 * Herbert Benjamin Edwardes
 * ✅Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
 * Arthur Edwards
 * Bryan Edwards
 * Charles Edwards (writer)
 * Edward Edwards (painter)
 * Edward Edwards (zoologist)
 * Edward Edwards (librarian)
 * Edwin Edwards
 * George Edwards
 * George Edwards
 * George Nelson Edwards
 * ✅Henry Thomas Edwards
 * Humphrey Edwards
 * James Edwards
 * John Edwards
 * John Edwards
 * John Edwards
 * John Edwards
 * John Edwards
 * John Edwards
 * John Edwards
 * Jonathan Edwards (academic)
 * Lewis Edwards
 * Richard Edwards
 * Roger Edwards

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 * ✅Sydenham Teak Edwards
 * ✅Thomas Edwards (poet)
 * ✅Thomas Edwards (heresiographer)
 * ✅Thomas Edwards (orientalist)
 * ✅Thomas Edwards (critic)
 * ✅Thomas Edwards (divine)
 * ✅Thomas Edwards (fl. 1810)
 * ✅Thomas Edwards (legal writer)
 * ✅Thomas Edwards (author)
 * ✅Thomas Charles Edwards

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 * William Edwards
 * William Camden Edwards
 * Thomas Edwardston
 * Edwin
 * Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin
 * Sir Humphrey Edwin
 * John Edwin
 * John Edwin
 * Edwy
 * Lord Edzell
 * John Eedes
 * Richard Eedes
 * Richard Eedes
 * Earl of Effingham
 * Barons Effingham
 * ✅✅James Egan (engraver)
 * John Egan
 * Pierce Egan
 * Pierce Egan
 * Egbert
 * Egbert
 * Ecgberht Egbert
 * Charles Chandler Egerton
 * Daniel Egerton
 * Francis Egerton
 * Francis Egerton
 * Francis Henry Egerton
 * John Egerton
 * John Egerton
 * John Egerton

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 * ✅John Egerton (bishop)
 * ✅Philip De Malpas Grey-Egerton
 * ✅✅Sarah Egerton (actress)
 * ✅Stephen Egerton
 * ✅Sir Thomas Egerton
 * ✅Augustus Leopold Egg
 * Robert Egglesfield
 * William Egglestone
 * ✅Francis Eginton
 * ✅Francis Eginton (engraver)

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 * Robert of Eglesfield
 * William Egley
 * Earls of Eglinton
 * George Eglisham
 * Earls of Egmont
 * Earls of Egremont
 * Georg Dionysius Ehret
 * Eineon
 * Philalethes Eirenaeus
 * Sir Charles Ekins
 * Jeffery Ekins
 * Lord Elchies
 * Lord Elcho
 * George Eld
 * Charles Elder
 * Edward Elder
 * ✅John Elder (writer)
 * ✅John Elder (shipbuilder)
 * Thomas Elder
 * ✅William Elder (engraver)
 * Christopher Elderfield
 * William Elderton
 * Lord Eldin
 * Eldon
 * John Eldred
 * Thomas Eldred
 * William Eldred
 * Eleanor
 * of Oastile Eleanor
 * Eleanor of Provence
 * John Philip Elers
 * Elfleda
 * Eliot
 * Elfleda
 * Richard Elford
 * Sir William Elford
 * Elfrida → Ælfthryth, Queen of England
 * Earls of Elgin
 * Elgiva
 * John Elias
 * Ney Elias
 * Lord Elibank
 * Baron Elibank
 * Lord Eliock
 * Edward Eliot
 * Edward Granville Eliot
 * Francis Perceval Eliot
 * George Eliot
 * Sir John Eliot
 * John Eliot
 * Sir Thomas Eliot
 * Sir Daniel Eliott
 * George Augustus Eliott
 * ✅Elizabeth Woodville
 * ✅Elizabeth of York
 * ✅Elizabeth I Elizabeth (1533–1603), queen of England and Ireland; only child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn; declared illegitimate by parliament in the interest of her father's third wife, Jane Seymour, mother of Edward VI, 1536; refused (1547) the hand of Sir Thomas Seymour, lord high admiral, who, however, did not abandon his suit till his execution, 1549; read Latin and Greek with Roger Ascham; refused to use her influence to save the Duke of Somerset, 1552; rode by the side of her elder half-sister, Queen Mary, at the latter's triumphal entry into London, 1553; refused to compromise herself by taking part in the insurrection of Sir Thomas Wyatt, who wished her to marry Edward Courtenay, a kinsman of the blood royal, 1554; thrown into the Tower at the instance of Gardiner, 1554; released from custody at Woodstock, 1554; refused to engage in plots against Queen Mary: proclaimed queen, in succession to Mary, November 1558, most of her friends and foes alike being already dead; crowned by Owen Oglethorpe, bishop of Carlisle, nearly all the bishops refusing to recognise her as head of the church, 1559; made a proclamation that the English litany should be read in the London churches, 1559; refused the hand of Philip II of Spain; declared to the House of Commons that she had no intention of marrying, 1559; played off three suitors, Eric of Sweden, Adolphus,duke of Holstein, and the Archduke Charles, against one another, 1559; appointed Grindal bishop of London and Parker archbishop of Canterbury, 1559; disturbed by the cordiality existing between Scotland and France, although a treaty had been signed (1559) between those countries and England: signed treaty with Scotland through her agent, Cecil, in which it was laid down that Mary Stuart should give up using the title of queen of England and that the French should quit Scotland, 1560; called in the debased coinage, 1560; pretended a passion for Robert Dudley, afterwards created Earl of Leicester; sent help to Conde, leader of the French protestants in their war with the Duke of Guise; compelled, 1563, by the reduction of the garrison after the peace of Amboise to surrender Havre, which, with Dieppe, had been the price of her support; promulgated the Thirty-nine Articles and extended the range of the oath of supremacy, 1563; made writing in defence of the papal authority liable to the penalties of the statute of Prtemunire, 1563; suggested that her favourite, Dudley, should marry Mary Queen of Scots; encouraged the advances of the Archduke Charles, while maintaining in parliament her aversion to marriage in itself, 1664: grudgingly thanked Sir Henry Sidney for his services against Shaen O'Neill in Ireland, 1567; imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots, 1568 and 1569; excommunicated by Pius V, 1570; encouraged the vindictive measure-; mlopt.-il in the nortli on the suppression of the catholic rebellion, 1571; executed the Duke of Norfolk, 1572, soon after the discovery of the Hulolfi plot; forbade parliament to proceed with the bill of attainder against Mary Stuart; received from Charles IX of France a proposal of marriage with his brother, the Duke of Anjou, 1571; gave orders for the execution of Northumberland, whom the Scots had sold to Lord Hunsdon, 1572; accepted Francis, duke d'Alencon, as a suitor, 1572-34; vainly attempted to get the regent Morton to pay for his English auxiliaries in Scotland, 1573; sent a force to help the United Provinces against Spain, though not fully understanding the significance of her action or Lord Burghley's policy, 1572: recalled Sir Humphrey Gilbert, her general in the Netherlands, 1572; undertook to act as peacemaker between Philip II and the Low Countries, the sovereignty of which phe declined, 1573; put in force the penal laws against Romanists and especially against the seminarist priests of Douay, who, after receiving their education at Douay, returned to England to work quietly as missioners 1674; suspended Griudal, archbishop of Canterbury, for refusing to suppress the prophesyings of the puritans, 1577; the protection of her person guaranteed by a sort of plebiscite, which was signed among others by Mary Queen of Scots, 1584; betrayed into greater severity by the discovery of the Guise conspiracy; transferred Mary Queen of Scots to the custody of Sir Amyas Paulet at Tutbury, at a time when the treasonable acts of Mary's adherents were compromising her safety, 1585; sent troops under Leicester (1585) to fight with the insurgents of the Netherlands against Parma, but soon necessitated his return by withholding supplies, 1586; ordered the torture and execution of the Babington conspirators, 1580; shrank, in fear of the moral condemnation of the world, from signing the deathwarrant of Mary Stuart, but ultimately consented, after having ineffectually suggested to Mary's warders the desirability of a secret assassination, 1 587; recognised James VI as king of Scotland, 1687; drawn into a war with Spain by Drake's action in destroying a Spanish squadron off Cadiz, 1587; disregarded the advice of WaLnngham and her council to precipitate an attack upon the Spanish Armada, 1588; caused the death of many of the sailors by reducing the commissariat of the fleet below the level of bare necessity, 1588; reviewed her troops at Tilbury, 1688; supported Henry of Navarre's claim to inherit the French crown, 1590 and 1691; lost her bravest commanders, Drake and Hawkins, in an expedition to the Spanish main, despatched 1596; deprived by death of the services of her treasurer, Lord Burghley, 1598; her marshal in Ireland, Sir Henry Bagnal, defeated by Tyrone, the leader of an insurrection prompted by maladministration and the abolition of the ancient Brehon law, 1598; appointed Essexlieutenant and governor-general of Ireland in which post he failed signally, 1599; humoured the Commons by the revocation of monopolies, 1601; threw upon the church courts the burden of dealing with puritans and sectaries; kept many of the sees vacant in order to use their revenues for governmental purposes; sent Essex to the scaffold, his attempted insurrection leaving her no option, 1601; sanctioned a plundering expedition to the coast of Spain, which failed to secure any treasure, 1602; died at Richmond of the effects of a cold supervening on health already broken, 2* March 1602-3; buried in Westminster Abbey, 28 April 1603.
 * ✅Elizabeth Stuart (1635–1650)
 * ✅Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
 * ✅Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom
 * George Richards Elkington
 * Henry Elkington
 * Ella
 * John Ella
 * Henry Thomas Ellacombe
 * Earl of Ellenborough
 * Barons Ellenborough
 * ✅Sir Ralph Ellerker
 * Thomas Ellerker
 * Edward Ellerton
 * John Lodge Ellerton
 * Baron Ellesmere
 * Earl of Ellesmere
 * Sir John Elley
 * Sir Charles Hay Ellice
 * Edward Ellice
 * Edward Ellice
 * Sir Charles Grene Ellicombe
 * Edward Ellicott
 * John Ellicott
 * Adam Elliot
 * Sir Charles Elliot
 * Sir George Elliot
 * Sir Gilbert Elliot
 * Sir Gilbert Elliot
 * Sir Gilbert Elliot
 * Sir Gilbert Elliot
 * Gilbert Elliot
 * Sir Henry Miers Elliot
 * Hugh Elliot
 * Jane Elliot
 * John Elliot
 * ✅John Elliot
 * Nathaniel Elliot
 * Robert Elliot
 * Sir Walter Elliot
 * ✅John Elliott
 * Charlotte Elliott
 * Ebenezer Elliott
 * Edward Bishop Elliott
 * Grace Dalrymple Elliott
 * Henry Venn Elliott
 * John Elliott
 * Sir John Elliott
 * John Elliott
 * William Elliott
 * William Elliott
 * Sir William Henry Elliott
 * Alexander John Ellis
 * Alfred Burdon Ellis
 * Anthony Ellis
 * Arthur Ayres Ellis
 * Sir Barrow Helbert Ellis
 * Charles Augustus Ellis
 * Charles Rose Ellis
 * Clement Ellis
 * Edmund Ellis
 * Edwin Ellis
 * Francis Whyte Ellis
 * George Ellis
 * George James Welbore Agar Ellis
 * ✅Henry Ellis (governor)
 * Henry Ellis (diplomat)
 * ✅Henry Ellis (librarian)
 * Henry Walton Ellis
 * Humphrey Ellis
 * James Ellis
 * John Ellis
 * John Ellis (controversialist)
 * ✅John Ellis (official)
 * John Ellis
 * John Ellis
 * ✅✅John Ellis (scrivener)
 * John Ellis
 * ✅Philip Ellis
 * Sir Richard Ellis
 * Robert Ellis
 * Robert Ellis
 * Robert Leslie Ellis
 * Samuel Burdon Ellis
 * Sarah Stickney Ellis
 * Thomas Ellis
 * Thomas Flower Ellis
 * ✅Welbore Ellis (bishop)
 * ✅Welbore Ellis
 * Sir William Ellis
 * Sir William Ellis
 * William Ellis
 * William Ellis
 * William Ellis
 * William Ellis
 * Wynne Ellis

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 * Henry Twiselton Elliston
 * Robert William Elliston
 * John Ellman
 * Thomas Ellwood
 * Anthony Ellys
 * John Ellys
 * Sir Richard Ellys
 * Elmer
 * Elmer
 * John Elmer

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 * Stephen Elmer
 * William Elmer (painter)
 * Harvey Lonsdale Elmes
 * James Elmes
 * Alfred Elmore
 * Peter Elmsley
 * Peter Elmsley
 * Elphege
 * James Elphinston
 * John Elphinston
 * Alexander Elphinstone
 * Arthur Elphinstone
 * George Keith Elphinstone
 * Hester Maria Elphinstone
 * Sir Howard Elphinstone
 * Sir Howard Crawfurd Elphinstone
 * ✅James Elphinstone
 * John Elphinstone
 * John Elphinstone
 * John Elphinstone
 * John Elphinstone
 * Margaret Mercer Elphinstone
 * Mountstuart Elphinstone
 * William Elphinstone
 * William George Keith Elphinstone
 * William Cuthbert Elphinstone-Holloway
 * Charles Richard Elrington
 * Thomas Elrington
 * Thomas Elrington
 * Robinson Elsdale
 * Samuel Elsdale
 * Elsi
 * ✅Elizabeth Elstob
 * William Elstob
 * Renold Elstracke
 * John Elsum
 * Henry Elsynge
 * John of Eltham
 * Sir Charles Abraham Elton
 * Charles Isaac Elton
 * Edward William Elton
 * James Frederic Elton
 * John Elton
 * Richard Elton
 * Sir George Job Elvey
 * Stephen Elvey
 * Edmund Elviden
 * Edward Elwall
 * Gervase Elwes
 * John Elwes of Mbgqott
 * Whitwell Elwin
 * Humphrey Ely
 * Nicholas of Ely
 * Thomas of Ely
 * William Ely
 * Sir Richard Elyot
 * Thomas Elyot
 * Edmund Elys
 * William Emerson
 * Edward Emery
 * John Emery
 * Samuel Anderson Emery
 * John Emes
 * Thomas Emes
 * Edward Emily
 * Baron Emly
 * Henry Emlyn
 * Sollom Emlyn
 * ✅Thomas Emlyn
 * Emma
 * Christopher Temple Emmet
 * Robert Emmet
 * Thomas Addis Emmet
 * Anthony Emmett
 * Richard Empson
 * William Empson
 * Enda
 * John Endecott
 * ✅✅Edward Enfield (philanthropist)
 * ✅William Enfield
 * George England
 * George England
 * George Pike England
 * John England
 * Sir Richard England
 * Thomas Richard England
 * Sir Francis Englefield
 * Sir Henry Charles Englefield
 * Francis Engleheart
 * George Engleheart
 * John Cox Dillman Engleheart
 * Thomas Engleheart
 * Timothy Stansfeld Engleheart
 * Hester English
 * Sir John Hawker English
 * Josias English
 * William English
 * William English
 * Baron of Enniskillen
 * William Ensom
 * George Ensor
 * ✅Sir George Ent
 * ✅John Entick
 * Joseph Entwisle
 * John Enty
 * Saint Eoghan
 * Chevalier d'Éon
 * Francesca Margherita de L'Epine
 * George Napoleon Epps
 * John Epps
 * Saint Erard
 * William Erbury
 * Thomas of Erceldoune
 * Sampson Erdeswicke
 * Sir John Eric Erichsen
 * John Erigena
 * ✅Erkenwald
 * Thomas Erle
 * William Erle
 * Ernest Augustus
 * Ernest Augustus
 * Ernulf
 * Sir Thomas Erpingham
 * Anthony Errington
 * George Errington
 * John Edward Errington
 * William Errington
 * Earl of Errol
 * Charles Erskine
 * David Erskine
 * David Erskine
 * Sir David Erskine
 * ✅David Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine
 * ✅David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan
 * ✅Ebenezer Erskine
 * Edward Morris Erskine
 * Henry Erskine
 * Henry Erskine
 * Sir Henry Erskine
 * Henry Erskine
 * Henry Napier Bruce Erskine
 * James Erskine, 6th Earl of Buchan
 * James Erskine, Lord Grange
 * James Erskine, Lord Alva
 * James Claudius Erskine
 * Sir James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn
 * John Erskine
 * John Erskine
 * John Erskine
 * John Erskine
 * John Erskine
 * John Erskine
 * ✅Ralph Erskine (preacher)
 * Thomas Erskine
 * Thomas Erskine Thomas Erskine, first Baron Erskine (1750-1823), lord chancellor; midshipman in the West Indies, 1764-8: bought commission in 1st royal regiment of foot, 1768; published a pamphlet on * Abuses in the Army; advised by Lord Mansfield to go to the bar: studied at Lincoln's Inn, 1775; gentleman commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1776; honorary M.A., 1778: called to the bar, 1778; gained the day for his client, Thomas Baillie , by a fierce onslaught on the opposing party, Lord Sandwich, first lord of the admiralty, 1778; obtained a verdict of not guilty for Lord George Gordon, 1781; did much to mould English commercial law, an almost new department of jurisprudence; first barrister to refuse to go on circuit except for a special fee; intimate friend of Sheridan and Fox; M.P. for Portsmouth on formation of coalition government, 1783; attorney-general to the Prince of Wales, 1783: spoke ineffectively on Fox's East India bill; denounced Pitt's India bill, 1784; lost his seat at the dissolution, 1784; hissed for unsparing abuse of Pitt in his speech as counsel for the East India Company, 1788; contributed by bis speech on a libel caw to the passing (1792) of Fox's Libel Act; successfully defended Stockdale on a charge of libelling the managers of Hastings's impeachment, 1789: M.P., Portsmouth, 17901 806; lost his office of attorney -general to the Prince of j Wales by appearing on behalf of Thomas Paine, 1792; procured acquittal for most of those prosecuted by j the government for conspiracy or constructive treason, ! 1793-4; issued Causes and Consequences of the War with I France 1797; supported Peace of Amiens in parliament i and spoke (1795) against Seditious Meetings Bill; lord ! chancellor, though ignorant of equity, 1806; created ! Baron Erskine of Restormel, 1806; his decisions unfairly 1 termed theApocrypha presided at Lord Melville's ! trial, 1806; resigned the seals, 1807; moved that the king's : personal inclinations ought not to be binding on minisi ters; became an advocate of negro emancipation; retired into private life, studied farming, and wrote Armata a political romance; K.T.; opposed the second reading of the bill of pains and penalties against Queen Caroline, 1820, and the Six Acts, 1819 and 1820; protested j against the Corn Law Bill, 1822; worked for the cause of I Greek independence, 1822-3.
 * Thomas Erskine
 * Thomas Erskine
 * Thomas Alexander Erskine
 * William Erskine
 * William Erskine
 * William Erskine
 * William Erskine