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# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Sulla 7.

​7. Faustus Cornelius Sulla, a son of the dictator by his fourth wife Caecilia Metella, and a twin brother of Fausta, was born not long before b. c. 88, the year in which his father obtained his first consulship. He and his sister received the names of Faustus and Fausta respectively on account of the good fortune of their father. (Plut. Sull. 22, 34, 37.) At the death of his father in b. c. 78, Faustus and his sister were left under the guardianship of L. Lucullus. The enemies of Sulla's constitution constantly threatened Faustus with a prosecution to compel him to restore the public money which his father had received or taken out of the treasury; but the senate always offered a strong opposition to such an investigation. When the attempt was renewed in b. c. 66 by one of the tribunes, Cicero, who was then praetor, spoke against the proposal. (Ascon. in Cornel. p. 72, ed Orelli; Cic. pro Cluent. 34, de Leg. Agr. i. 4.) Soon after this Faustus accompanied Pompey into Asia, and was the first who mounted the walls of the temple of Jerusalem in b. c. 63, for which exploit he was richly rewarded. (Joseph. Ant. xiv. 4. §4, B. J. i. 7. §4.) In b. c. 60 he exhibited the gladiatorial games which his father in his last will had enjoined upon him, and at the same time he treated the people in the most sumptuous manner. In b. c. 54 he was quaestor, having been elected augur a few years before. In b. c. 52 he received from the senate the commission to rebuild the Curia Hostilia, which had been burnt down in the tumults following the murder of Clodius, and which was henceforward to be called the Curia Cornelia, in honour of Faustus and his father. The breaking out of the civil war prevented him from obtaining any of the higher dignities of the state. As the son of the dictator Sulla, and the son-in-law of Pompey, whose daughter he had married, he joined the aristocratical party. At the beginning of b. c. 49, Pompey wished to send him to Mauritania with the title of propraetor, but was prevented by Philippus, tribune of the plebs. He crossed over to Greece with Pompey, was present at the battle of Pharsalia, and subsequently joined the leaders of his party in Africa. After the battle of Thapsus, in b. c. 46, he attempted to escape into Mauritania, with the intention of sailing to Spain, ​but he was intercepted in his journey by P. Sittius, taken prisoner, and carried to Caesar [Sittius]. He was accompanied in his flight by his wife Pompeia and his children, as well as by Afranius, and they were all captured along with him. Upon their arrival in Caesar's camp, Faustus and Afranius were murdered by the soldiers in a tumult, probably not without Caesar's connivance ; but Pompeia and her children were dismissed uninjured by Caesar. Faustus seems only to have resembled his father in his extravagance. We know from Cicero (ad Att. ix. II) that he was overwhelmed with debt at the breaking out of the civil war. (Dion Cass. XXX vii. 51, xxxix. 17, xl. 50, xlii. 13; Cic. pro Sull. 19; Caes. B. C. i. 6; Hirt. B. Afr. 87, 95; Appian, B. C. ii. 100; Flor. iv. 2. § 90; Oros. vi. 1 6.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/T. Accius

​T. A'CCIUS, a native of Pisaurum in Umbria and a Roman knight, was the accuser of A. Cluentius, whom Cicero defended b. c. 66. He was a pupil of Hermagoras, and is praised by Cicero for accuracy and fluency. (Brut. 23, pro Cluent. 23, 31, 57.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Sulla 2.

​2. P. Cornelius Sulla, the son of No. 1, and the grandfather of the dictator Sulla, was praetor in b. c. 186, when he obtained Sicily as his province. (Liv. xxxix. 6, 8.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Sulla 6.

​6. Cornelius Sulla, a son of the dictator by his fourth wife Caecilia Metella, died in the lifetime of his father. (Senec. Cons, ad Marc. 12; Plut. Sull. 37.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Sulla 9.

​9. P. Cornelius Sulla, a son of No. 8, and a nephew of the dictator. He was grown up in the lifetime of his uncle, from whom he received as presents several estates of those who had been proscribed. In the consular comitia of b. c. 66 he was elected consul along with P. Autronius Paetus, but neither he nor his colleague entered upon the office, as they were accused of bribery by L. Torquatus the younger, and were condemned. L. Cotta and L. Torquatus, the father of their accuser, received the consulship in their stead. It was currently believed that Sulla was privy to both of Catiline's conspiracies, and he was accordingly accused of this crime by his former accuser, L. Torquatus, and by C. Cornelius. He was defended by Hortensius and Cicero, and the speech of the latter on his behalf is still extant. He was acquitted ; but, independent of the testimony of Sallust (Cat. 17), his guilt may almost be inferred from the embarrassment of his advocate. According to A. Gellius (xii. 12) Cicero had borrowed a sum of money from Sulla for the purchase of his house on the Palatine. Cicero afterwards quarrelled with Sulla, because the latter had taken part in the proceedings of Clodius against him during his banishment, (Cic. ad Att. iv. 3.) In the civil war Sulla espoused Caesar's cause. He served under him as legate in Greece, and commanded along with Caesar himself the right wing at the battle of Pharsalia, b. c. 48. In the following year he was ordered by Caesar to carry over from Italy to Sicily the legions which were destined for the African war; but the soldiers of the twelfth legion rose in mutiny and drove him away with a shower of stones, demanding to receive, before they quitted Italy, the rewards which they had been promised in Greece. At the conclusion of the civil war Sulla purchased at a small sum some of the confiscated estates of the Pompeian party, and appears in consequence to have incurred no small degree of obloquy. He died during a journey in b. c. 45; and, according to Cicero (ad Fam. ix. 10, xv. 17), people were too glad to hear of his death to trouble themselves about the inquiry whether he had perished by the hands of robbers, or had fallen a victim to excessive indulgence in the pleasures of the table. (Cic. pro Sulla, passim; Sall. Cat. 17, 18; Dion Cass, xxxvi. 27; Cic. de Fin. ii. 19; Caes. B. C. iii. 51, 89; Appian, B. C. ii. 76; Cic. ad Att. xi. 21, 22, de Off. ii 8.) Sulla left behind him a son P. Sulla [No. 11], and also a step-son Memmius. (Cic. ad Q. Fr. iii. 3.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/T. Balventius

​T. BALVE'NTIUS, a centurion of the first century (primi pili), who was severely wounded in the attack made by Ambiorix upon Q. Titurius Sabinus, B. C. 54. (Caes. B. G. v. 35.)
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/De Bruyn, Theodore

Born in Amsterdam, according to the ODNB.
​DE BRUYN, THEODORE (d. 1804), landscape-painter, born in Switzerland, settled in England about 1760. He painted in different styles, but chiefly landscapes with cattle and figures. For about twenty years he was an occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy. ​He was expert in the imitation in monochrome of sculpture in bas-relief. The chapel at Greenwich Hospital is decorated by his hand in this rather meretricious manner. He died in London in 1804, and left a son, who was then a student at the Royal Academy, and afterwards an occasional exhibitor.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/De Cort, Henry Francis

​DE CORT, HENRY FRANCIS (Hendrik Frans) (1742–1810), landscape painter, was born at Antwerp in 1742, and first studied painting under W. Herreyns. On 16 May 1769 he entered the studio of the landscape-painter Hendrik Joseph Antonissen, and on 16 May 1770 he was admitted a master in the guild of St. Luke at Antwerp. His chief paintings were views of towns and landscapes with architectural surroundings; in some of these he was assisted by his fellow-pupil, Ommeganek, who painted the figures for him. Leaving Antwerp he proceeded to Paris, and entered the academy there, of which he was elected a fellow in 1781. Here he painted some views of Chantilly, and was appointed painter to the Prince de Condé. In 1788 he returned to Antwerp, and took an active part in reorganising the school of painting there, acting as secretary to the newly constituted academy. He contributed six pictures to the first exhibition of the new academy held in 1789. Shortly after this he came over to England, bringing some of his pictures, and in 1790 exhibited seven pictures at the Royal Academy. He continued to contribute to the same exhibition numerous landscapes taken in various parts of England, especially the west, during the ensuing twelve years. In 1806 he contributed three landscapes to the first exhibition of the British Institution. He died in London 28 June 1810, and was buried in Old St. Pancras Cemetery. Though he does not seem to have taken very high rank as an artist, his landscapes were much valued in private collections, being agreeably coloured and treated in the Italian manner, so very much in vogue at the time. His sepia drawings were also much admired. G. H. Harlow [q. v.] was one of his pupils.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/De Keyser, William

​DE KEYSER, WILLIAM (1647–1692?), painter, was a native of Antwerp and by profession originally a jeweller, with a large and prosperous business at Antwerp. Being ​devotedly attached to art, he occupied his leisure hours in painting, and executed several altar-pieces for churches at Antwerp. Having occasion to go to Dunkirk on business, he painted an altar-piece for the convent of English nuns there which pleased them so much that they persuaded him that he could make his fortune as a painter in England. De Keyser, being provided by the nuns with an introduction to Lord Melfort, availed himself of a fair wind and a returning ship and crossed then and there to England. There he was well received by Lord Melfort, who introduced him to James II, and he soon obtained many commissions. He then sent over to Antwerp for his wife and family, with instructions to dispose of his establishment in the jeweller's trade. Soon after their arrival the revolution occurred, and De Keyser found himself deprived of his best patrons; as his affairs got gradually worse, he took to studying the possible discovery of the philosopher's stone. This folly soon brought him to an early grave, and he died in reduced circumstances about 1692, aged 45. He left a daughter, whom he educated with great care from her youth as an artist. She attained some note as a painter of portraits and in copying pictures in small. She married a Mr. Humble, and died in December 1724. Vertue, who knew her personally, states that she had several paintings by her father, including an altar-piece of St. Catherine, commissioned by the queen for Somerset House Chapel, and others which showed him to have studied carefully the style and colouring of the Italian masters.
[Walpole's Anecdotes of Painters, ed. Dallaway and Wornum; Vertue's MSS. (Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 23069); Immerzeel's Levens en Werken der Hollandsche en Vlaamsche Kunstschilders, &c.]
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/De Brie, Dick Theodore

Theodore de Bry in the ODNB.
​DE BRIE, DICK THEODORE (1528–1598), engraver, was born at Liège in 1528, and worked for the greater part of his life at Frankfort. He was for some years in London, and did work here which makes his name of some interest to the English student. He engraved the plates to Boissard's ‘Roman Antiquities,’ published in four volumes. He engraved also, in thirty-four plates, ‘The Grand Funeral Procession and Obsequies of Sir Philip Sidney.’ These were ‘invented’ by Thomas Lant, ‘Portcullis Poursuivant,’ and appeared in 1587. De Brie also engraved the plates to the ‘Brief and True Report of the New found land of Virginia,’ by Thomas Hariot.
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# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Benwell, Joseph Austin

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​BENWELL, JOSEPH AUSTIN ( ? - ? )
Artist: resided for some time, prior to 1856, in India: conspicuous for original and pleasing delineations of native life, landscape and buildings in India, evidently drawn on the spot: chiefly known as a draughtsman on wood of Eastern subjects, principally Indian and Chinese: exhibited at the Royal Academy up to 1883: illustrated Capt. M. Rafter's Our Indian Army, and Capper's Three Presidencies of India: nearly all his drawings on wood are in the periodicals and journals of the 'sixties, such as the illustrated London News, and, to about 1876, the publications of the Religious Tract Society: he illustrated also The Indian Nabob of 100 years ago, by G. E. Sargent in The Leisure Hour for 1858, a story of considerable merit of the British conquest and settlement of Bengal: he painted a series of dissolving views of Indian life, exhibited in London before 1862: his signature on drawings is usually J.B. but occasionally J.A.B.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Benares, Maharaja Sir Prabhu Narain Singh, Baradur of

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​BENARES, MAHARAJA SIR PRABHU NARAIN SINGH, BARADUR OF (1855–)
Born Nov. 26, 1855: succeeded as nephew and adopted son of Maharaja Isri Prasad (q.v.), on June 13, 1889: received the title of His Highness as a personal distinction in Sep. 1889: G.C.I.E., Jan. 1898: has a salute of 13 guns.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Benfey, Theodor

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​BENFEY, THEODOR (1809–1881)
Born Jan. 28, 1809: studied from 1824 at Gottingen: Doctor of Philosophy, 1828: also studied at Munich: taught at Frank-fort, 1830–4: made Privat Docent, 1834: ordinary Professor of the philosophical faculty, 1862: laboured at classical philology, Sanskrit language and literature, and the science of language: left his mark on Oriental research: in the front rank as a Vedic scholar and Sanskrit grammarian: studied the early fable literature of India and other countries: edited the Sama Veda, 1848: wrote a Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 1866, and a Grammar of the Vedic language: Fellow of the Society of Letters, Gottingen: F.R.A.S. of Great Britain, and of other learned societies: wrote Vedica und Linguistica, 1880: Vedica und Verwandites, 1880: died June 30, 1881.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bentinck, Lord William Cavendish

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​BENTINCK, LORD WILLIAM CAVENDISH (1774–1839)
Governor-General: son of the 3rd Duke of Portland, born Sep. 14, 1774: entered the Army 1791, saw service in the Netherlands, in Italy, with the Austrian forces: Governor of Madras, from Aug., 1803, to Sep., 1807, when on account of the mutiny of sepoys against their officers at Vellore, for which he was held responsible, the Court of Directors recalled him: changes affecting the sepoys had been introduced by the C. in C., with the support of the Governor. He was employed in Portugal and commanded a Brigade at Corunna: as Lt-General he was C. in C. in Sicily, 1811, served in Spain, and led an expedition against Genoa, 1814. After 13 years without employment, he was Governor of Bengal from July, 1828, was C. in C. from May, 1833, and the first Governor-General of India from Nov., 1834, to March, 1835: it devolved on him to insist on economies to restore financial equilibrium, to reform the land revenue settlement in the N.W.P., to establish a Board of Revenue in the N.W.P. and reorganize the judicial courts, to devote funds to education through the medium of English, and to increase the employment of educated natives in higher offices. He also by Regulation abolished the practice of suttee, and suppressed the Thags. He took over the administration of Mysore. He met Ranjit Singh, ruler of the Panjab, on the Satlaj. In general he reformed the administration in a liberal spirit, and established the principle that, in the Government of India,the interests of the people should have the first claim. His memory is still cherished by the natives. The eloquent inscription on his statue in Calcutta was written by Macaulay (q.v.) (Legal Member of Council from Nov., 1834.) Bentinckwas greatly regretted on his retirement. He became M.P. for Glasgow in 1837: refused a peerage, and died June 17, 1839.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Benares, Sir Isri Prasad Narayan Singh, Maharaja Bahadur of

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​BENARES, SIR ISRI PRASAD NARAYAN SINGH, MAHARAJA BAHADUR of (1822–1889)
Born 1822: nephew and adopted son of Raja Udit Singh of Benares, whom he succeeded in 1835: belonged to the Bhuinhar family, from which came Balwant Singh and Chait Singh: he rendered conspicuous service during the mutiny and largely assisted in maintaining order in the city and neighbouring country: made Maharaja Bahadur in 1859: G.C.S.I, in 1877: received the title of "His Highness" in 1889 as a personal distinction: and a salute of 15 guns: had no son, and was succeeded in his immense estates by his nephew, the present Maharaja: was a great patron of literature, several poets resided at his court and wrote works under the Maharaja's name: died June 13, 1889.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Benfield, Paul

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​BENFIELD, PAUL ( ? –1810)
In the E. I. Co.'s Civil Service: went to India in 1764: in Madras he made money by trade, lending, and contracts, and had large money dealings with the Nawab of the Carnatic: one of these being unfavourably regarded by the Court of Directors in 1777, he resigned the service and retired to England, 1779: but, having demanded an inquiry and explained, he was reinstated and returned to Madras, finally retiring in 1793: lost his fortune in speculations and died in want, 1810: M.P. for Cricklade in 1780.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Berar, Raghoji Bhonsla II, Raja of

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​BERAR, RAGHOJI BHONSLA II, RAJA OF ( ? –1816)
Raja of Nagpur, or Berar: succeeded his father, Madhoji Bhonsla, as Raja in 1788, took part in the victory of the Mahrattas over Nizam Ali of Hyderabad at Kurdla in March, 1795. After the treaty of Bassein (Dec. 1802), he joined ​in the Mahratta war against the British, and was beaten at Assaye on Sep. 23, 1803, and again at Argaum on Nov. 28, 1803: he had then to cede Cuttack and Berar to the English, so that only Nagpur remained to him: his demand for their restoration was refused: he died in 1816.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bendall, Cecil

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​BENDALL, CECIL (1856–)
Born July 1, 1856: educated at City of London School, Trinity and Caius Colleges, Cambridge: first class. Classical Tripos, and first class Indian Languages Tripos: Fellow, Caius College, 1879–85: at the British Museum, in the Department of Oriental MSS. and printed books, 1882–98: Curator of Oriental Literature in the Cambridge University Library, 1892: Professor of Sanskrit at University College, London, 1885–1903, and at Cambridge since 1903 (previously Sanskrit lecturer there): travelled in India and Nipal, 1884–5 and 1898–9: on the Council of the R. A .S., 1901: published A Journey of Literary and AfchcBological Research in Nipal and Northern India, 1886: and Catalogues of Buddhist Sanskrit MSS at Cambridge, and of .Sanskrit Pali books, and MSS, in the British Museum, besides other works on Sanskrit.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bengali, Sorabji Shapurji

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​BENGALI, SORABJI SHAPURJI (1831–1893)
Born Feb. 15, 1831: son of a Calcutta merchant: educated at the Education Society's school (now Elphinstone High School) in Bombay: employed in the Bombay branch of the Bank of Ceylon and subsequently in the Commercial Bank of India: went, in 1853, to the Mercantile Bank and, in 1858, became Assistant to Muncherji Framji Cama: was well read in Gujarati and English and brought out several Gujarati periodicals. In 1868, he visited Europe. He assisted ​Naoroji Furdunji (q.v.) in advocating social and political reforms: they were joint Honorary Secretaries to the Parsi Law Association from 1855, which obtained certain legislative measures for the Parsis: in 1871 he was consulted by the Governor of Bombay on the new Municipal Act, became a Member of the Bombay Corporation, and, in 1876, a Member of the Bombay Legislative Council; was a Fellow of the Bombay University: owing to his exertions, the Indian Factory Act of 1881 became law: in 1881 he was made C.I.E. and Sheriff of Bombay: in 1885, was a member of the Abkari Commission: died April 4, 1893.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bentley, John

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​BENTLEY, JOHN ( ? - ? )
Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: wrote Historical View of Hindu Astronomy, 1823: his earlier treatise, on the Antiquity of the Suryasiddhanta, 1799, threw doubts on the antiquity of Indian astronomy, and called forth a severe critique in the Edinburgh Review, to which Bentley replied in the Asiatic Researches: one of the greatest mathematicians of his time in India: he also wrote, on the Principal Eras and Dates of the Ancient Hindus.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Ekins, Jeffery

​EKINS, JEFFERY, D.D. (d. 1791), dean of Carlisle, was a native of Barton-Seagrave, Northamptonshire, of which parish his father, the Rev. Jeffery Ekins, M.A., was rector. He received his education at Eton, whence in 1749 he was elected to King's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship (Welch, Alumni Eton. p. 338). He graduated B.A. in 1755 and M.A. in 1758 (Cantabrigienses Graduati, 1787, p. 129). On leaving the university he became one of the assistant-masters of Eton school, where he was tutor to Frederick Howard, earl of Carlisle (Jesse, G, Selwyn and his Contemporaries, iii. 220). Subsequently he was chaplain to the Earl of Carlisle when lord-lieutenant of Ireland. He was inducted to the rectory of Quainton, Buckinghamshire, 30 March 1761, on the presentation of his father (Lipscombe, Bucks, 1. 422). In 1775, resigning Quainton, he was instituted to the rectory of Morpeth, Northumberland, on the presentation of the Earl of Carlisle; in February 1777 he was instituted to the rectory of Sedgefield, Durham; in 1781 he was created D.D. at Cambridge; and in 1782 he was installed dean of Carlisle, on the advancement of Dr. Thomas Percy to the see of Dromore (Le Neve, Fasti, ed. Hardy, iii. 248). He died at Parson's Green on 20 Nov. 1791, and was buried in Fulham Church.
He married in 1766 Anne, daughter of Philip Baker, esq. of Colston, Wiltshire, and sister of the wife of his brother, John Ekins, dean of Salisbury. His son. Admiral Sir Charles Ekins, is separately noticed.
His works are: 1. 'Florio; or the Pursuit of Happiness,' a drama, manuscript. 2. A manuscript poem upon 'Dreams,' which had great merit. 3. 'The Loves of Medea and Jason; a poem in three books translated from the Greek of Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautics,' London, 1771, 4to, 2nd edit. 1772, 8vo. 4. 'Poems,' London, 1810, 8vo, pp. 134, including the preceding work and a number of 'Miscellaneous Pieces.' Only sixty copies were printed of this collection (Martin, Privately Printed Books, 2nd edit. p. 190).
In early life he was the most intimate companion of Richard Cumberland, who says of him: 'My friend Jeffery was in my family, as I was in his, an inmate ever welcome; his genius was quick and brilliant, his temper sweet, and his nature mild and gentle in the extreme: I lived with him as a brother; we never had the slightest jar; nor can I recollect a moment in our lives that ever gave occasion of offence to either' (Memoirs, i. 124).
[Faulkner's Fulham, pp. 74, 75, 302; Hodgson s Northumberland, vol. ii. pt. ii. pp. 394, 527; Gent. Mag. vol. lxi. pt. ii. pp. 1070, 1239, 1240, vol. lxxxiii. pt. i. p. 557, 'Nichols's lllustr. of Lit. viii. 191, 267; Lempriere's Univ. Biog.; Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.; Lysons's Environs, ii. 369, 393; Addit. MS. 5868, f. 19 b.]
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