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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haymo (d.1054)

The ODNB says he was "probably non-existent".
​HAYMO or HAIMO (d. 1054), archdeacon of Canterbury, is alleged to have left England during the invasion by the Danes, and, going to France, to have become a monk at St. Denys, and eventually doctor of divinity and professor at Paris. The latter statement is without foundation. He afterwards returned to England, became archdeacon of Canterbury, and died 2 Oct. 1054. Haymo of Canterbury is frequently confused with his namesake the bishop of Halberstadt. Tanner ​distinguishes between them, but even in the list of works which he assigns to the archdeacon of Canterbury, there are several which undoubtedly belong to the bishop; it cannot be regarded as certain that any of them belong to the archdeacon. Boston of Bury mentions that he had seen several of Haymo's works in libraries, but in some cases where his references can be traced the works alluded to are evidently copies of works by Haymo of Halberstadt. Haymo's supposed writings consist of commentaries on portions of the Bible and some other theological treatises; a list of them will be found in Tanner's ‘Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica.’ A list of the commentaries by one of the Haymos which were formerly in the library at Christ Church, Canterbury, will be found in Edwards's ‘Memoirs of Libraries,’ i. 140.
[Bale, ii. 49; Pits, p. 186; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.-Hib. p. 386; Du Boulay's Hist. Univ. Paris, i. 598; Fabricius, Bibl. Lat. Med. Æv. iii. 180, ed. 1754; Wright's Biog. Brit. Lit., Anglo-Saxon Period, p. 510.]
C. L. K.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hayne, William

​HAYNE or HAYNES, WILLIAM (d. 1631?), head-master of the Merchant Taylors' School, is stated in the records of the Merchant Taylors' Company to have been admitted into their school on 28 April 1564 as ‘son of … Haynes of Bristol, yeoman’ (Court Minutes). Seven years afterwards he was elected scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A., and about 1585 became, he tells us, ‘a teacher in grammar learning’ (Bill of Complaint). Partly through the influence of Watson, bishop of Chichester, and of Goodman, dean of Westminster, he was chosen in 1599 headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School. For twenty-five years he continued in this post, among his more distinguished pupils being Bishops Wren, Dee, and Wilde; Shirley, the dramatist; Bulstrode Whitelocke; and Edmund Calamy the elder. He stood in high repute as a grammarian, and the school flourished under his care, the numbers exceeding the regulations; but his relations with the teaching staff and the governors (the Merchant Taylors' Company) were not always satisfactory. In 1624 he was dismissed from office upon various charges which could not be legally sustained. He appealed to the lord keeper, and obtained compensation from the company upon the ground that the infirmities of age rather than ‘insufficiency’ had caused the alleged misconduct. He is said to have died in 1631 at an advanced age. He had a son, John Hayne, of St. John's College, Oxford, who from 1616 to 1618 was first under-master at Merchant Taylors'; but Thomas Hayne [q. v.], also a master of the school and a grammarian, does not seem to have been related to him.
Hayne published: 1. ‘Certaine Epistles of Tully verbally Translated. Together with a Short Treatise, containing an order of instructing Youth in Grammar, and with all the use and benefite of verball translations,’ &c., printed at London, 1611, small 8vo (a copy in the Bodleian Library). This book has a Latin dedication to the Merchant Taylors' Company, and at the end a list of some other books, sixty-six in number, which ‘I have this twenty years used, and may, as occasion is offered hereafter, publish.’ 2. ‘Lillie's Rules for the Genders of Nouns,’ undated. 3. ‘Henry's Phrases, a very useful book to enable young Scholars to make and speak eloquent Latine’ (reprinted, with an addition of about a thousand phrases, 1653). 4. ‘Lillie's Rules Construed, whereunto is added Tho. Robinson's Heteroclites, the Latin Syntaxis, and Qui Mihi; also There is added the Rules for the Genders of Nouns and preter perfect Tenses and Supines of Verbs in English alone with the terminations of the Decklensions and Verbs. Never printed before,’ London, 1653. This book was largely used and frequently re-edited; a late edition by John Ward, 1760, is best known.
[Wilson's Hist. of Merchant Taylors' School, p. 220, &c.; Robinson's Register of Merchant Taylors' School; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Bodl. Libr. Cat.]
C. J. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hayley, Thomas Alphonso

Surname Healy in the ODNB.
​HAYLEY, THOMAS ALPHONSO (1780–1800), sculptor, natural son of William Hayley the poet [q. v.], was born 5 Oct. 1780, and showed in 1794 signs of a love for sculpture. He was encouraged to learn drawing by Joseph Wright of Derby, and having attracted the attention of Romney the painter, and of Flaxman [q. v.], was in 1795 articled to the latter as a resident pupil for three years. He was treated with the greatest affection by both artists, and appears to have shown much promise, even experimenting in oil-painting. In 1798, however, he showed symptoms of ill-health, arising from curvature of the spine, and was compelled to return to his father's cottage at Felpham in Sussex, where, after two years of suffering, he died on 2 May 1800. Hayley modelled busts of Flaxman, Lord Thurlow, and James Stanier Clarke. A medallion by him of Romney was engraved by Caroline Watson for his father's ‘Life of Romney.’ In his father's ‘Essays on Sculpture’ (1800), there are a portrait of young Hayley from a medallion by Flaxman, and a drawing by him of the ‘Death of Demosthenes,’ both engraved by William Blake (1757–1827) [q. v.] His father wrote many sonnets to his memory.
[Hayley's Life of Romney; Gilchrist's Life of Blake.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hayls, John

​HAYLS or HALES, JOHN (d. 1679), portrait-painter, was a contemporary and rival in portrait-painting of Sir Peter Lely and in miniature-painting of S. Cooper [q. v.] Vertue (Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 23069) records that ‘Samuel Cooper, limner, tryd at oylpainting; Mr. Hayles seeing that, turned to limning, and told Cooper that if he quitted limning, he would imploy himself that way; for which reason Cooper kept to limning.’ Hayls had considerable merit as a portrait-painter. Pepys records in his diary for 15 Feb. 1665–6: ‘Mr. Hales begun my wife's portrait in the posture we saw one of my Lady Peters, like a St. Katharine.’ Pepys was so pleased with this picture, for which he paid 14l., that he sat to Hayls himself, and also induced his father, Thomas Pepys, to sit. Pepys's own portrait, in an Indian gown with a scroll of music, is now in the National Portrait Gallery. Pepys also says that Hayls painted the actor Joseph Harris as Henry V. At Woburn Abbey there are portraits of Colonel John Russell and of Lady Diana Russell by Hayls. His portrait of Thomas Flatman the poet has been engraved. He is stated to have been a skilful copyist of Vandyck. Hayls lived for some years in Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, but subsequently moved to a house in Long Acre, where he died suddenly in 1679. A limning of Hayls by J. Hoskins was in Colonel Seymour's collection, a drawing from which by Vertue is now in the print room at the British Museum.
[Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting; Vertue's manuscripts, Brit. Mus. Addit. MSS. 23068–70; Buckeridge's Supplement to De Piles's Lives of the Painters; Pepys's Diary.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hayman, Robert

​HAYMAN, ROBERT (d. 1631?), epigrammatist, of Devonshire, was perhaps a kinsman of Nicholas Hayman, M.P. for Totnes 1586–7 and for Dartmouth 1593. On 15 Oct. 1590, aged 11, he matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, but soon left to study municipal law at Lincoln's Inn; he proceeded B.A. 8 July 1596, when, he says, he was going abroad (Oxf. Univ. Reg.) His poetical talents brought him reputation. On 21 May 1604 he married, at St. Petrock's, Exeter, Grace, daughter of Thomas Spicer. Between 1620 and 1627 he was appointed ‘governor of the plantation of Harbor-Grace in Bristol-hope in Britaniola, anciently called Newfoundland.’ An appeal made by him before Aug. 1628 for royal support is in Brit. Mus. MS. Egerton 2541. On 17 Nov. 1628 he made his will in England, and gave directions to be buried in the ​country where he should die. He was then setting out to settle a plantation in Guiana. On 24 Jan. 1632 there was issued out of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to one of Hayman's creditors a commission ‘to administer the goods, debts, chattels, &c. of the said Robert Hayman lately deceased. So I suppose he died beyond the seas that year, aged 49 or thereabouts’ (Wood, Athenæ, ii. 545–6). His works are: 1. ‘Quodlibets lately come over from New Britaniola, anciently called Newfoundland, Epigrams, and other small parcels, both moral and divine,’ in four books. 2. ‘Several sententious Epigrams and witty Sayings out of sundry Authors both Ancient and Modern (especially many of the Epigrams of John Owen).’ 3. ‘The Two railing Epistles of the witty Doctor Francis Rablais,’ translated from the French. These three works were published in one volume, London, 1628, 8vo.
[Wood's Athenæ, ii. 545–6; Notes and Queries, 10th ser. x. 23–4 (by Prof. Moore-Smith).]
T. E. J.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dove, John (1561-1618)

​DOVE, JOHN, D.D. (1561–1618), ‘a Surrey man, born of plebeian parents,’ was a scholar of St. Peter's College, Westminster, whence he was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1580. He proceeded B.A. in 1583, M.A. 1586, B.D. 1593, and D.D. 1596. In 1596 he was presented to the rectory of Tidworth, Wiltshire, by Lord-chancellor Egerton, to whom he dedicates a sermon preached at St. Paul's Cross, 6 Feb. 1596. ‘Myself,’ he says, ‘among many other of both the universities, had set my heart at rest, as one resolved to die within the precinctes of the colledge, like a monke shut up in his cell, or an heremite mured up within the compasse of a wall, without hope of ever being called to any ecclesiastical preferment in this corrupt and simoniacall age, had I not been by your honour preferred.’ At the same time he obtained the rectory of St. Mary, Aldermary, ​London, from the Archbishop of Canterbury, which he held till his death in April 1618. His works, besides the sermon already mentioned, are: 1. ‘A Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the 3 of November 1594, intreating of the second comming of Christ, and the disclosing of Antichrist: With a Confutation of divers conjectures concerning the ende of the world, conteyned in a booke called the Second Comming of Christ,’ n.d. 2. ‘Of Divorcement: A Sermon preached at Pauls Cross, May 10, 1601,’ 1601. 3. ‘A Perswasion to the English Recusants to reconcile themselves to the Church of England,’ 1603. 4. ‘A Confutation of Atheism,’ 1605 and 1640. 5. ‘A Defence of Church Government; wherein the church government establishment established in England is directly proved to be consonant to the Word of God; together with a Defence of the Crosse in Baptisme, &c.’ 1606. 6. ‘Advertisement to the English Seminaries and Jesuits, shewing their loose kind of Writings, and negligent handling the Cause of Religion, &c.,’ 1610. 7. ‘The Conversion of Solomon. A direction to holinesse of life handled by way of a commentarie upon the whole Booke of Canticles,’ 1613.
[Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 92, 229; Fasti, vol. i. passim; Welch's Alumni Westmon. p. 56; Newcourt's Repertorium, i. 436; Lansdowne MS. 983, f. 326.]
R. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Douglas, William (d.1640)

​DOUGLAS, Sir WILLIAM, first Earl of Queensberry (d. 1640), eldest son of Sir James Douglas of Drumlanrig, by his wife Mary, eldest daughter of John, lord Fleming, entered into possession of the family estates in 1615, on the death of his father. In 1617 he entertained James I at Drumlanrig, and was by him created viscount of Drumlanrig, lord Douglas of Hawick and Tibberis. Charters were granted him of the barony of Torthorwald 8 Jan. 1622, and of the town of Hawick 16 May 1623. When Charles I went to Scotland to be crowned in 1633, he advanced the viscount to the title of Earl of Queensberry. In 1638 he had a charter of the baronies of Sanquhar and Cumnock, in the counties of Dumfries and Ayr. He died 8 March 1640. By his wife Isabel, fourth daughter of Mark, earl of Lothian, he was the father of four sons, the eldest of whom succeeded to his honours, and of two daughters.
A. V.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Douglas, William Alexander Anthony Archibald

​DOUGLAS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER ANTHONY ARCHIBALD, eleventh Duke of Hamilton (1811–1863), was the son of Alexander Douglas, the tenth duke [q. v.], and inherited his other numerous titles. He was born on 19 Feb. 1811, was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1832), and succeeded to the titles and estates on the death of his father in 1852. The duke was knight marischal of Scotland, colonel of the Lanarkshire militia, lord-lieutenant of the county in succession to his father, deputy-lieutenant of the county of Bute, major-commandant of the Glasgow yeomanry from 1849 to 1857, and grand master of the society of freemasons. He married on 22 Feb. 1843 her Serene Highness the Princess Marie Amélie, youngest daughter of the Grand Duke of Baden, and cousin of the Emperor Napoleon III. After his marriage he lived chiefly in Paris and Baden, and was frequently a guest at the Tuileries, taking very little interest in British politics. He died on 8 July 1863 from the effects of a fall after a supper at the Maison Dorée, Boulevard des Italiens, Paris, leaving two children, William Alexander, the present duke, and Lady Mary Hamilton, who married the Prince of Monaco in 1869, but their marriage was declared invalid in 1880. In the year after his death the title of Duke of Châtelherault, disputed by the Duke of Abercorn, was confirmed to the Dukes of Hamilton by a fresh creation made by the Emperor Napoleon III (Lodge, Peerage).
L. C. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dove, Henry

​DOVE, HENRY (1640–1695), archdeacon of Richmond, son of a clergyman, was born in 1640, and elected from Westminster to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1658. He graduated B.A. in 1661, M.A. in 1665, was incorporated M.A. at Oxford 6 May 1669, and proceeded D.D. in 1677. A specimen of his Latin elegiacs will be found in the ‘Threni Cantabrigienses in Funere duorum Principum, Henrici Glocestrensis & Mariæ Arausionensis,’ 4to, Cambridge, 1661. On 12 Jan. 1672–3 he became vicar of St. Bride's, Fleet Street, and was collated to the archdeaconry of Richmond, 3 Dec. 1678. He was also chaplain successively to Charles II, James II, and William and Mary. In 1683 Pearson, bishop of Chester, whose nephew and chaplain he was, recommended him to the king for the mastership of Trinity College, Cambridge. An able preacher, he published several single sermons, among which may be mentioned: 1. ‘A Sermon [on Psalm lxiv. 9–10] preached before the House of Commons … Nov. 5, 1680,’ 4to, London, 1680. 2. ‘A Sermon [on Titus iii. l] preached at Bow Church on the Feast of S. Michael, the day for the election of a Lord Mayor,’ 4to, London, 1682. This immediately evoked ‘A Modest Answer’ from some sturdy high churchman, who roundly takes Dove to task for asserting (p. 14) that ‘there is no such phrase throughout the Bible as liberty of conscience,’ and that ‘the government has a right to tye the consciences of men by the firmest bonds it can’ (p. 23). 3. ‘A Sermon [on Jude iii.] preached at the anniversary meeting of the Sons of Clergy-men … Dec. 2, 1686,’ 4to, London, 1687. 4. ‘A Sermon [on Psalm xviii. 23] preached before the Queen at Whitehall,’ 4to, London, 1691. Evelyn twice alludes to his preaching (Diary, ed. 1850–2, ii. 135, 203). Dove died on 11 March 1694–5. His will, signed only the day before, was proved on the following 1 April (registered in P. C. C. 46, Irby). He was twice married. By his first wife, who brought him copyhold lands, situate in Sutton Bourne, Lincolnshire, he left a daughter Susan. His second wife, Rebecca Holworthy, is described in the marriage license, bearing date 2 July 1680, as ‘of St. Margaret, Westminster, spinster, aged 23’ (Chester, London Marriage Licenses, ed. Foster, p. 414). She survived him.
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dovaston, John Freeman Milward

​DOVASTON, JOHN FREEMAN MILWARD (1782–1854), miscellaneous writer, son of John Dovaston of West Felton, near Oswestry, Shropshire, the name of an estate which had been in the Dovaston family since the reign of Elizabeth, was born on 30 Dec. ​1782, and educated at Oswestry School, Shrewsbury School, and Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807). He was called to the bar on 12 June 1807 at the Middle Temple. During his residence in London he acted for some time as dramatic critic to a morning paper. On the death of his father in 1808 he became possessed of the family estate, and spent the remainder of his life in literary retirement and rural pursuits. He died on 8 Aug. 1854. Dovaston was a man of wide culture, and an ardent naturalist. Among his friends were Thomas Bewick, the engraver, of whose life and character he communicated sketches to the magazines, and John Hamilton Reynolds. Bewick published an engraved portrait of him. Dovaston's publications were chiefly poetic, and of a very unambitious character. ‘Fitz-Gwarine, a ballad of the Welsh border, in three cantos, with other Rhymes, legendary, incidental, and humorous,’ was issued at Shrewsbury in 1812, and is an evident imitation of ‘Marmion.’ A second edition appeared in 1816 with numerous additions, and a third in 1825. The third edition contained, among other additions, a collection of songs entitled ‘British Melodies.’ Twenty-six of these were originally published in 1817, under the patronage of the Princess Charlotte of Wales, with the music by Clementi, in two volumes, under the title of ‘A Selection of British Melodies, with Symphonies, Harmonies, and Accompaniments by Mr. Clifton.’ ‘Floribella,’ a poem, followed, and ‘Lectures on Natural History and National Melody’ appeared in 1839. ‘The Dove’ (1822) was a selection of old poems made by Dovaston, which were originally published in the ‘Oswestry Herald.’
L. C. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dove, Nathaniel

​DOVE, NATHANIEL (1710–1754), calligrapher, was educated under Philip Pickering, writing-master in Paternoster Row. He became master of an academy at Hoxton, and in 1740 published ‘The Progress of Time,’ containing verses upon the four seasons and the twelve months in sixteen quarto plates. He also contributed twenty pages (1738–40), in several hands, to the ‘Universal Penman … exemplified in all the useful and ornamental branches of modern penmanship,’ published by George Bickham [q. v.] in 1743. These performances probably recommended him to a lucrative clerkship in the victualling office, Tower Hill, where he died in 1754.
[Massey's Origin and Progress of Letters, ii. 76.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Douglas, William Scott

​DOUGLAS, WILLIAM SCOTT (1815–1883), editor of Burns's works, was born in Hawick 10 Jan. 1815, and educated in Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh. He devoted much of his attention to the study of the facts connected with the life and works of Burns, acquiring perhaps a more thorough mastery of them than any previous editor of Burns's works. In 1850 he read a paper on the ‘Highland Mary’ incident of Burns's life before the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. His principal publications are a reissue of the Kilmarnock ‘popular edition’ of the ‘works’ of Burns, with memoir, 1871, revised edition 1876; ‘Picture of the County of Ayr,’ 1874; and a splendid library edition of the ‘Works,’ of Burns, in 6 vols. (prose 3 vols., poetry 3 vols.), 1877–9. The poems in this edition are arranged chronologically, and while it is the most sumptuous that has been published, it is also the most complete and correct, both as regards text and notes. He also supplied letterpress for an edition of Crombie's ‘Modern Athenians,’ published in 1882. In 1877 he succeeded James Ballantine as secretary of the Edinburgh Burns Club. He was found drowned in Leith Harbour, 23 June 1883.
T. F. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dove, John (d.1665?)

​DOVE, JOHN (d. 1665?) regicide, an alderman of Salisbury, Wiltshire, was elected member for that city 16 Oct. 1645, in room of Serjeant Robert Hyde, ‘disabled to sit,’ a position he continued to hold until the dissolution of the Long parliament (Lists of Members of Parliament, Official Return, pt. i. p. 496). He was named one of the commissioners to try the king, but beyond attending on 26 Jan. 1648–9, when the sentence was agreed to, he took no part in the trial. During the Commonwealth he served on several parliamentary committees. He contrived, too, to amass considerable wealth; at the sales of bishops' lands in 1648, 1649, and 1650 he became the purchaser of the manor of Fountell, Southampton, of Blewbury manor, Berkshire, and of that of Winterbourne Earls, Wiltshire (Nichols, Collectanea, i. 126, 290, 291). He acquired other lands in Wiltshire by the most contemptible practices (Hoare, Wiltshire, ‘Elstub and Everley,’ p. 17, ‘Underditch,’ p. 138). Appointed colonel of the Wiltshire militia, 10 Aug. 1650 (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1650, p. 508), he, along with his brother Francis, persecuted the royalists with great severity. He was chosen high sheriff of the county in 1655, the year of the abortive royalist rising (Jackson, Sheriffs of Wiltshire, p. 33). On 14 March Sir Joseph Wagstaffe, accompanied by Colonel John Penruddocke, with many neighbouring gentlemen and others, to the number of nearly three hundred horse, entered Salisbury early in the morning, and seized in their beds Dove, Chief-justice Rolle, and Mr. Justice Nicholas, who were at the time in the city on a commission of assize. After the royal proclamation had been read, Wagstaffe, with the view of rendering the party desperate, urged the expediency of hanging both judges and sheriff on the spot. This violent proposal was overruled, but Dove, for refusing to read the proclamation, was reserved for future punishment. He was carried as far as Yeovil, but after two days was suffered to return to Salisbury, where he found that Major Boteler had freed the city of the conspirators. A commission was forthwith issued to try the persons who had been concerned in this rebellion (Hoare, Wiltshire, ‘Sarum,’ pp. 425–6). Dove's recent fright and escape had not dulled his rancour against the royalists. Writing to Thurloe 29 March, he says he is resolved ‘that not a single man shall be nominated for either jury but such as may be confided in, and of the honest and well-affected party to his highness’ (Thurloe, State Papers, iii. 319). At the Restoration he made an abject submission, and was suffered to depart unpunished (Commons' Journals, viii. 60). Thereafter he retired to an estate which he had acquired at Ivy Church in the parish of Alderbury, Wiltshire, where he died in either 1664 or 1665. His will, bearing date 22 Oct. 1664, was proved on 9 March 1664–5 (registered in P. C. C. 24, Hyde). He left two sons, John and Thomas, and two daughters, Mrs. Bellchamber and Mary, a spinster.
[Authorities cited in the text.]
G. G.