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# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Lepidus 2.

​2. M. Aemilius M. f. M. n. Lepidus, probably a grandson of No. 1, was augur and twice consul. He died in the year of the battle of Cannae, b. c. 216 ; and his three sons exhibited in his honour funeral games which lasted for three days, and in which twenty-two pairs of gladiators fought in the forum. (Liv. xxiii. 30.) His first consulship was in b. c. 232, when the agrarian law of C. Flaminius was passed (Polyb. ii. 21 ; Zonar. viii. p. 401, c) ; but the date of his second ​consulship is uncertain. Some have supposed that he was consul suffectus in b. c. 220. (Pighius, ad Ann.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Lepidus 8.

​8. M. Aemilius M´. p. M´. n. Lepidus, son probably of No. 6, consul b. c. 158, is mentioned only by Pliny (H. N. xxxiv. 6), and in the Fasti. We learn from the Fasti Capitolini that he was M´. p. M´. n.; from which we perceive that he ​could not have been the son of No. 7, as Drumann alleges.
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Lepidus 4.

​4. L. Aemilius Lepidus, brother of No. 3. (Liv. xxiii. 30.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Lepidus 6.

​6. M. or M´. Aemilius Lepidus, praetor b. c. 213. (Liv. xxiv. 43, 44.) In Livy the praenomen is Marcus ; but instead of this we ought probably to read Manius ; for we find that the M. Aemilius Lepidus who was consul in b. c. 158 is described in the Fasti as M´. f. M´. n. ; and as there was another M. Lepidus praetor in b. c. 218 [see No. 3], it is probable that the praetor in 213 was M´. Lepidus, the father of the consul of 158. Marcus was such a well-known praenomen of the Lepidi, that we can easily understand why it should be substituted for the less common one of Manius.
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Lepidus 3.

​3. M. Aemilius M. p. M. n. Lepidus, eldest son of the preceding, was praetor in b. c. 218, when he commanded in Sicily ; and in the following year he is spoken of by Livy as praetor in Rome ; but we must suppose that in the latter year he was only propraetor. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the consulship for b. c. 216. (Liv. xxi. 49, 51, xxii. 9, 33, 35, xxiii. 30.)
# Dick v. New York Life Insurance Company

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## Concurring Opinion

    Stewart
United States Supreme Court
359 U.S. 437
Dick v. New York Life Insurance Company
Argued: Jan. 12, 1959. --- Decided: May 18, 1959
Mr. Philip B. Vogel, Fargo, N.D., for petitioner.
Mr. Norman G. Tenneson, Fargo, N.D., for respondent.
Mr. Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Amherst of Arakan, William Pitt, first Earl

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​AMHERST OF ARAKAN, WILLIAM PITT, FIRST EARL (1773–1857)
Governor-General : born in Jan. 1773 : sent on an embassy to China in 1816 : arrived in Calcutta as Governor-General, Aug. 1, 1823 : it devolved on him to allay the excitement caused by the action of the Government towards the Press and Mr. J. S. Buckingham (q.v.) In Feb., 1824, the Burmese having occupied countries near Bengal and attacked British territory, Amherst declared war and despatched an expedition, which captured Rangoon, Martaban and Prome : peace was made by the treaty of Yandaboo, 1826, by which Assam and Tenasserim were ceded to the British. In Jan., 1826, the capture of Bhartpur by Lord Combermere took place, when the British Government restored the youthful Raja Balwant Singh, whom Government had recognized, to the throne, which had been seized by a cousin, Durjan Sal. Lord Amherst was made an Earl. He was the first Governor-General to spend, in 1827, the summer in Simla : left India March 10, 1828 : died March 13, 1857.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Alms, James

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​ALMS, JAMES (1728–1791)
Naval officer : born July 15, 1728, of humble origin, entered the Navy early : served in the East Indies : narrowly escaped when his ship sank in a storm in April, 1749, near Fort St. David : commanded an East Indiaman in the Bombay-China trade : was present at the capture of Gheria, the stronghold of the pirate Angria in 1756. After service in other stations, he, in 1780, commanded the Monmouth, 60 guns, joining Sir Edward Hughes in the Indian seas : was present in the engagements of 1782 off Sadras, Providien, Negapatam, Trincomalee, in which his ship suffered severely and his losses were heavy : his health gave way : retired in 1784, and died June 8, 1791.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Ameer Ali, Syad

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​AMEER ALI, SYAD (1849–)
Born April 6, 1849 : son of Syad Saadat Ali, of Unao, Oudh, of a family originally from Persia : descendant of Muhammad through the Imam Ali-ar-Raza, of Mashad : educated at Hughli College : M.A. and B.L., Calcutta : called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1873, practised in the High Court, Calcutta: Fellow of the Calcutta University, 1874 : Magistrate and Chief Magistrate, Calcutta, 1878–81 : Lecturer on Muhammadan Law, 1875–9 : Member of the Bengal Legislative Council, 1878–83 : and of the Governor General's Legislative Council, 1883–5 : Tagore Law Professor, 1884 : C.I.E. : Puisne Judge of the Calcutta High Court, 1890–1904 : President of the Committee of the Hughli Imambara, 1876–1904 : founder of the Central National Muhammadan Association, and its Secretary, 1876–90 : a strong advocate of English education and of the education of Indian ladies : very influential among the Muhammadans in Bengal : wrote A Critical Examination of ​the Life and Teachings of Muhammad, The Spirit of Islam, The Ethics of Islam, A Short History of the Saracens, Personal Law of the Muhammadans, Students' Handbook of Muhammadan Law, Muhammadan Law : was joint author of A Commentary on the Indian Evidence Act, and of A Commentary on the Bengal Tenancy Act : has frequently written articles in The Nineteenth Century, and is engaged on a History of Muhammadan Civilization in India.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Ampthill, Oliver Arthur Villiers Russell, Baron

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​AMPTHILL, OLIVER ARTHUR VILLIERS RUSSELL, BARON (1869–)
Born Feb. 19, 1869 : son of the first Baron (better known as Lord Odo Russell) educated at Eton, and New College, Oxford : rowed in the Oxford University Eight, 1889–91 : President of the O.U.B.C. 1891 : President of the Oxford Union Society, 1891 : won the Pair Oars at Henley Regatta with Guy Nickalls, 1890–91 : Private Secretary to Rt. Hon. J. Chamberlain : Governor of Madras, from Dec, 1900 : Viceroy and Governor-General from April 30 to Dec, 1904.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Amyatt

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​AMYATT ( ? –1763)
A Bengal Civilian : chief of the English factory at Patna in 1759 : a member of the Calcutta Council when Vansittart (q.v.) was Governor in Bengal. Amyatt had been superseded by dive's appointment of Vansittart, and therefore constantly opposed all his measures : sent on a mission to Mir Kasim, Nawab of Bengal : it was unsuccessful, and war was imminent, but Amyatt was given leave to return to Calcutta : meanwhile, however, the disaster took place at Patna : Amyatt was attacked and murdered by Mir Kasim's troops before he had reached his destination, 1763.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Amir Khan (1)

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​AMIR KHAN (1790?–after 1877)
A wealthy banker and money-lender of Patna : was arrested and tried as a member of a Wahabi conspirary, at Patna, in 1871, on various charges of attempting to wage war against the Queen : convicted and sentenced to transportation for life, with forfeiture of property, and released on the proclamation of the Queen as Empress of India, Jan. 1, 1877.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Amos, Andrew

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​AMOS, ANDREW (1791–1860)
Lawyer : born in India, 1791 : son of James Amos, merchant : educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge : Fellow, 1813 : called to the bar by the Middle Temple : had a large practice : Recorder of Oxford, Nottingham, and Banbury : a member of the Criminal Law Commission for some years : Professor of English Law at University College, London, 1829–37 : Legal Member (succeeding Macaulay) of the Supreme Council of the Governor-General, 1838–42 : had much to do with the abolition of slavery in India, and the framing of the Penal Code. On return to England he ​became a County Court Judge, and Downing Professor of Laws at Cambridge : wrote on a number of legal and literary subjects : died April 18, 1860.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Amir Ali Khan, Nawab Bahadur

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​AMIR ALI KHAN, NAWAB BAHADUR (1810–1879)
Born at Barh, March 10, 1810 : appointed, 1829, Assistant to the Ambassador of Nasiruddin Hyder, King of Oudh : in 1838 Deputy Assistant Superintendent in the Presidency Special Commissioner's Court at Calcutta : in 1845, Government Pleader in the Sadr Diwani Adalat : in 1857, Personal Assistant to the Commissioner of Patna : in 1864 Khan Bahadur and Member of the Bengal Legislative Council : entered the service of the late ex-King of Oudh, and appointed a Commissioner to settle the debts of the late Nawab Nazim of Bengal : in 1875 made Nawab : in 1878 the Sultan of Turkey made him a Companion of the Order of the Osmanli : died Nov., 1879.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Amir Khan (2)

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​AMIR KHAN ( ? –1834)
Born in Rohilkund, of Afghan parents : at 20 went with followers to Malwa : took service under Bhopal : next under the Mahrattas : from 1799 to 1806 commanded the army of Jaswant Rao Holkar : next under the Raja of Jaipur : always committing plunder and depredations : attacked the Mahrattas, in Nagpur, but returned to his own capital, Sironj, to defend it against the British : he was essentially a Pindari : when the British entered Malwa in 1817, negotiations passed between them and Amir Khan, which resulted in his abandoning the predatory system, dismissing his army, and being allowed to keep the lands he held under grants from Holkar : he received territory and a gift of money from the British : and, by the Treaty of Nov. 15, 1817, was confirmed in his possessions. The Principality of Tonk was thus established, and Amir Khan's descendants are still Nawabs there : he died 1834.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Anderson, David

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​ANDERSON, DAVID ( ? - ? )
Employed by Warren Hastings on important negotiations; sent on an embassy to Madhava Rao Sindia, at the close of the first Mahratta war, to conclude peace, 1782 : accompanied by his brother, Lieut. James Anderson, as his assistant : he remained with Sindia as Political Resident until Warren Hastings left India, 1785, when James succeeded as Resident. The conciliatory attitude of the Mahratta Government at a critical period was due to the exertions of the brothers Anderson. David was examined as a witness at Hastings' trial, 1790, being then President of the Committee of Revenue.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bledri

Bleddri in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
​BLEDRI, surnamed Ddoeth or the Wise (d. 1022?), was an early bishop of Llandaff. His history is almost entirely derived from suspicious or late sources. But, if they can be believed, his election as bishop by the kings, clergy, and people of Morganwg, his investiture with the pastoral staff by Æthelred the Unready in the royal court, and his consecration by Archbishop Ælfric of Canterbury, illustrate very remarkably the dependence of Wales on England, which the imperial policy of Eadgar and Dunstan had produced, and the way in which the metro-political jurisdiction of Canterbury followed the temporal supremacy of the English king. As Ælfric was archbishop between 995 and 1005, Bledri's appointment must have taken place within those years, and not in 983 as the original authority puts it. During Bledri's episcopate three important grants of land were made to the see of Llandaff, one of which came from Edwin, king of Gwent, as compensation for an outrage inflicted upon the bishop. A dispute had arisen between Edwin and Bledri, which resulted in a tumult, in which the bishop was wounded by some of Edwin's household. A synod of the clergy met at Llandaff, excommunicated the offenders, and placed Gwent under an interdict. The terrors of the church's censures led to Edwin's submission.
Bledri was called the Wise, and is said to have been the first scholar of his time in Wales. At a time when the famous school of St. David's was falling into decay. Bledri revived and disseminated learning in his diocese, by insisting that every priest should establish a sort of school in his church, 'that every one might know his duty to God and man.' Bledri died in 1022 or 1023.
T. F. T.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Blegborough, Ralph

​BLEGBOROUGH, RALPH (1769–1827), physician, was the son of a surgeon at Richmond, Yorkshire, where he was born on 8 April 1769. He was educated at the grammar school of his native town, and, after acting for some time as apprentice to his father, continued his medical studies first at the university of Edinburgh, and then at Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals, London. Having become a member of the corporation of surgeons, London, he commenced in London as a general practitioner. He became M.D. of the university of Aberdeen on 29 Dec. 1804, and was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians on 30 Sept. 1806. About 1804 he entered into partnership with Dr. Walshman, a practitioner in midwifery, and henceforth devoted himself exclusively to this branch of his profession, in which his reputation became so high that he was selected as a medical witness before the committee of the House of Peers upon the question of the Gardner peerage. He devoted a large proportion of his time to gratuitous practice among the poor, and died, literally worn out by his benevolent exertions, on 23 Jan. 1827. Dr. Blegborough contributed several papers to the medical journals, and also published separately 'Two Articles on the Air Pump, extracted from the "Medical and Physical Journal,"' 1802; 'Facts and Observations respecting the Efficiency of the Air Pump and Vapour Bath in Gout and other Diseases,' 1803; and 'Address to the Governors of the Surrey Dispensary,' 1810.
[Munk's Roll Coll. of Phys. iii. 28; Gent. Mag. xcvii. pt. i. 92; British Museum Catalogue.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Blankett, John

​BLANKETT, JOHN (d. 1801), admiral, served as volunteer and midshipman in the Somerset with Captain (afterwards Sir Edward) Hughes, and was present in her at the reduction of Louisbourg, 1758, and of Quebec, 1759. He was thus led to consider the possible existence of a north-west passage, concerning which, on his return to England, he presented a report to the admiralty. In 1701 he was made lieutenant, and after the peace in 1763 obtained leave to go to Russia in quest of exact information concerning the then recent discoveries on the east coast of Asia. In 1770 he was lieutenant of the Albion, with Captain Barrington, and in 1778 was first lieutenant of the Victory, then carrying the flag of Admiral Keppel, and was made commander 30 Jan. 1779. He was then appointed to the Nymph sloop, and sent out to the East Indies to join Sir Edward Hughes, by whom he was posted into the Ripon on 23 Jan. 1780. The ship was shortly afterwards ordered home, and Blankett held no further appointment during that war. After the peace of 1783 he commanded the Thetis frigate in the Mediterranean, where he was specially noticed by the King of Naples, who at different times accompanied him on a cruise, and presented him with his portrait set in diamonds. In July 1790 he sailed for China in the Leopard in command of convoy, and on his return was appointed to the America as commodore of a small squadron sent to the Cape of Good Hope. There, in August 1795, he was Joined by the squadron under Sir George Elphinstone (afterwards Lord Keith), under whom he served at the reduction of that settlement (James, Naval History (ed. 1860), i. 333-6). In June 1798 he was appointed to the Leopard, with orders to proceed to India. On his arrival on the station he was sent as senior officer to the Red Sea, where he commanded during the subsequent operations in Egypt. He became rear-admiral in Feb. 1799. In August 1800 he went for a short time to Bombay, and had the good fortune on the passage to pick up the Clarisse, a very active French privateer, which, a few months before, under the command of Robert Surcouf, had been the terror of the commerce of the Indian seas. By January he was back in the Red Sea, and in the Gulf of Suez from April to June. His constitution had been already severely tried, and the terrible heat of the Red Sea summer proved fatal to him. He died on board the Leopard near Mocha on 14 July 1801. He is described as an unusually good linguist, having a perfect mastery of French, Italian, and Portuguese; and as being universally esteemed, not only as a good officer, but as an accomplished and amiable gentleman, notwithstanding a certain irritability induced by gout.
[Gent. Mag. (1802), lxxii. i. 25 (the writer of this notice claims to have known Blankett for more than thirty years, but he is very confused in his dates and inaccurate in his details); official letters, &c. in the Record Office.]
J. K. L.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Blayney, Benjamin

1904 Errata appended.
​BLAYNEY, BENJAMIN, D.D. (1728–1801), Hebrew scholar, was first a member of Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1750 and M.A. in 1753. He afterwards became fellow, and eventually vice-principal, of Hertford College, and took the degree of B.D. in 1768. He was employed by the Clarendon Press to prepare a corrected edition of the authorised version of the Bible. This edition, which has received very high praise for its accuracy, appeared in 1769. Unfortunately a large part of the impression was destroyed in a fire which took place at the Bible Warehouse in Paternoster Row, and copies are now scarce. Blayney received much assistance in his Hebrew studies from the celebrate William Newcome, afterwards archbishop of Armagh, who was also a fellow of Hertford, and to whom he dedicated several of his works. In 1775 he published 'A Dissertation by way of Inquiry into the true Import and Application of the Vision related, Dan. ix. 24 to the End, usually called Daniel's Prophecy of Seventy Weeks.' This work attracted considerable attention, and was translated into German by the celebrated J. D. Michaelis. A corrected edition was published by the author in 1797. In 1784 Blayney published a new translation of Jeremiah and Lamentations, and in 1786 and 1788 two sermons on 'The Sign given to Ahaz,' and on 'Christ the greater Glory of the Temple.' He was appointed regius professor of Hebrew in 1787, and in the same year was made canon of Christ Church and received the degree of D.D. In 1790 he published an edition of the Hebrew-Samaritan Pentateuch, transcribed in ordinary Hebrew characters, with critical notes. His last production was a new translation of the prophecy of Zechariah, 1797. Dr. Blayney's writings, though deficient in literary ability, display what for their time and country may be considered a high degree of Hebrew scholarship. Like his friend Archbishop Newcome, and many other eminent biblical scholars of the period in England, he did not escape the imputation of heterodoxy, and was the object of several very acrimonious attacks, from which he defended himself with exemplary fairness and courtesy. He died at his rectory of Poulshot, Wiltshire, on 20 Sept. 1801, aged 73. By his will he directed that his unpublished writings, after being submitted to the judgment of his friend and patron. Dr. Barrington, bishop of Durham, should be deposited in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth. Amongst these manuscripts may be mentioned:
* 'A New Version of the Psalms,' 2 vols. 4to.
* 'Critical Comment on the Psalms,' 3 vols.
* 'Notes on Isaiah,' 3 vols.
[Gent. Mag. lxxi. 1054, lxxiii. 1108; Blayney's Preface to Dissertation on Dan. vii. 24.]
H. B.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bleeck, Arthur Henry

​BLEECK, ARTHUR HENRY (1827?–1877), orientalist, was for some time in the British Museum, where his remarkable linguistic capacity rendered him very useful. He afterwards went out to the East during the Crimean war, and until the conclusion of peace held a post in connection with the land transport corps at Sinope. Being refused readmission to the British Museum on his return to England, he worked for several years for Mr. Muncherjee Hormusjee Cana, who employed him to prepare an English version of the 'Avesta.' He died in January 1877.
His works are: 1. 'A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language, with dialogues and vocabulary' (in conjunction with W. Burckhardt Barker), London, 1854, 8vo. 2. 'A concise Grammar of the Persian Language, containing dialogues, reading lessons and a vocubulary: together with a new Plan for facilitating the Study of Languages, and specimens in Arabic, Armenian, Bengálí, Greek, Georgian, Hindústání, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit, Swedish, Syriac, and Turkish,' London, 1857, 8vo. 3. 'Catalogue of the Napoleon Library in the possession of Mr. Joshua Bates,' London, privately printed (1858), 8vo. 4. 'Avesta: the religious books of the Parsees; from Professor Spiegel's German translation of the original manuscripts, 3 vols., London, 1864, 8vo.
[Athenaum, 3 Feb. 1877; Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Blencow, John

John Blencowe in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
​BLENCOW or BLINCOW, JOHN (fl. 1640), divine, the son of John Blencow, of London, was born 29 Jan. 1608-9, entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1620, and proceeded to St.John's College, Oxford, in 1627, when he was elected to a fellowship. He graduated B.C.L. 25 June 1633. One Blincow, fellow of New college, was expelled from his fellowship by the parliamentary visitors in 1648, on the ground that he had taken up arms for the king, was 'dangerous, and absent.' Blencow was the author of a very curious sermon, and, Wood adds, 'perhaps other things.' The sermon, delivered at St. Paul's, and inscribed to Sir Henry Martin, is entitled 'Michael's Combat with the Divel; or, Moses his Funerall' (1640).
[Wood's Fasti Oxon., ed Bliss, i. 468; Robinson's Register of Merchant Taylors' School, i. 103; Brit. Mus. Cat. s.v. 'Blenkow.']
S. L. L.