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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Davenport, Mary Ann

​DAVENPORT, MARY ANN (1765?–1843), actress, whose maiden name was Harvey, was born at Launceston. Her first appearance on the stage took place at Bath on 21 Dec. 1784 as Lappet in ‘The Miser’ of Fielding. After staying in Bath two seasons she went to Exeter, where she married Davenport, an actor of the Exeter company. With him she proceeded to Birmingham, and, after vainly seeking an engagement in London, to the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, where she opened as Rosalind. Up to this time she had naturally played juvenile heroines, in which she showed archness and exuberant spirits. Upon an emergency, however, she undertook in a revival the part of an old woman. Her success in this was so great that she was never able to return to her former line. She was accordingly engaged at Covent Garden to replace Mrs. Webb, to whom she was greatly superior, and appeared for the first time at that house on 24 Sept. 1794 as Mrs. Hardcastle in ‘She Stoops to Conquer.’ In the course of the season she played Lady Wronghead in the ‘Provoked Husband,’ the Nurse in ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ the Duenna, and many similar characters. To these she added at the same theatre in 1795–6 Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Quickly in ‘King Henry IV, Part I.,’ and ‘Merry Wives of Windsor,’ and Mrs. Peachum in the ‘Beggar's Opera.’ At the Haymarket in 1797, and in subsequent years at one or other of the theatres named, she played Miss Lucretia M'Tab in ‘The Poor Gentleman,’ Mrs. Quickly in ‘King Henry IV, Part II.,’ and ‘King Henry V,’ Mrs. Heidelberg in ‘The Clandestine Marriage,’ and very many similar parts. She was the original Deborah Dowlas in Colman's ‘Heir-at-Law,’ Dame Ashfield in Morton's ‘Speed the Plough,’ Mrs. Brulgruddery in Colman's ‘John Bull,’ Monica in Dimond's ‘Foundling of the Forest,’ and Dame Gertrude in ‘The Forest of Bondy, or the Dog of Montargis.’ In these and very many similar rôles she won a high and well-deserved reputation. Her last performance was for her benefit, Covent Garden, on 25 May 1830, when she played the Nurse in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ She died on 9 May 1843, aged 78, or, according to another account, 84 years. She bore a high reputation as an actress and a woman. During the life of her husband she lived in great privacy; after his death, on 13 March 1814, she drew, with a daughter, ​into practical seclusion. She had also a son who held an Indian appointment. Davenport was eclipsed by his wife, and is an object of some banter in theatrical records. He was, however, a good speaker and a useful member of the Covent Garden Theatre, which, on account of ill-health, he quitted in 1812.
[Genest's Account of the English Stage; Dramatic Mag. vol. ii.; Oxberry's Dramatic Biography, vol. ii.; Cole's Life of Charles Kean, 1859; Thespian Dict.]
J. K.
# Devil

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# Devil-Worship in France

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Exposé of the Léo Taxil hoax.
DEVIL-WORSHIP IN FRANCE
* Demy 8vo, about 450 pages, cloth
* THE DOCTRINE AND RITUAL OF
* TRANSCENDENT MAGIC
* BY
* ELIPHAS LEVI
* A COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF "DOGME ET RITUEL DE LA HAUTE
* MAGIC"
* by
* ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE
* With all the original engravings and a portrait of the Author.
* GEORGE REDWAY
* 9 HART STREET, BLOOMSBURY
* LONDON
DEVIL-WORSHIP IN FRANCE
OR
THE QUESTION OF LUCIFER
A RECORD OF THINGS SEEN AND HEARD IN THE
SECRET SOCIETIES ACCORDING TO THE
EVIDENCE OF INITIATES
BY
ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE
"The first in this plot was Lucifer."—Thomas Vaughan
LONDON
GEORGE REDWAY
1896
CONTENTS
PAGE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
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# Devereaux v. Marr

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United States Supreme Court
25 U.S. 212
Devereaux v. Marr

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# Devereaux v. Marr/Opinion of the Court

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IN this case, the judges of the Circuit Court of West Tennessee, after a judgment had been rendered in that Court, divided in opinion upon the question as to the amount of the security bond, to be given by the party applying for a writ of error, whether the amount of the bond ought to be sufficient to cover the whole debt, or only for the costs and increased damages on the party failing to prosecute his writ of error with effect. Whereupon the division of opinions was certified to this Court, under the 6th section of the Judiciary Act of the 29th April, 1802, ch. 291.
Jan. 17th.
The cause was argued by Mr. Eaton for the plaintiff, and by Mr. White for the defendant.
THIS COURT was of opinion, that it had no jurisdiction of the question on which the opinions of the judges of the Circuit Court were opposed, the division of opinions having arisen after the decision of the cause in that Court.

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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dean, William

​DEAN, WILLIAM (d. 1588), catholic divine, was educated in the English college at Rheims, and after ordination was sent on the mission in 1582. He was apprehended before 1585, being one of the priests who were banished at the beginning of that year. Returning to his missionary labours he fell again into the hands of his adversaries, and was tried and condemned on 22 Aug. 1588 for being made priest by Roman authority and remaining in this realm contrary to the statute of 27 Eliz. On the 28th he was drawn to Mile-end Green and there executed, together with Henry Webley, a layman, who had been convicted for aiding him.
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Deacon, William Frederick

​DEACON, WILLIAM FREDERICK (1799–1845), journalist and author, eldest son of a London merchant, was born on 26 July 1799 in Caroline Place, Mecklenburgh ​Square, and educated under Dr. Valpy at the Reading School, where he had Thomas Noon Talfourd [q. v.] as a schoolfellow. He was also at St. Catharine Hall, Cambridge, but did not graduate. Abandoning the intention of taking holy orders, he entered on a literary career and found a publisher in William Hone for his first poem, a production of promise, entitled ‘Hacho, or the Spell of St. Wilten.’ He next undertook the editorship of a daily journal, ‘The Déjeuné, or Companion for the Breakfast Table,’ which was issued every morning, price twopence, from 21 Oct. 1820 to 15 Dec. following, when the issue was changed to three times a week and shortly after ceased. This venture was published by Gold & Northouse, who also put forth a ‘London Magazine’ (1820–1) as a rival to the better known periodical of the same name, edited by John Scott and published by Baldwin, and they enlisted Deacon as a chief contributor. His health failing, he retired to Llangadock in South Wales, from which place he wrote for counsel and guidance to Sir Walter Scott, who sent him some kind and interesting letters. At this time his father tried in vain to turn his attention from literature to commerce. In 1823 he published a volume of clever sketches of Welsh manners and scenery, entitled ‘The Innkeeper's Album,’ and in 1824 appeared his ‘Warreniana, with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, by the Editor of a Quarterly Review,’ consisting of a series of burlesque imitations of popular authors in the style of the ‘Rejected Addresses,’ and in praise of Warren's blacking. It was published by Longman's and met with much success. It was reprinted in 1851. He also wrote ‘November Tales,’ a collection of tales and essays.
In 1829 he lost an annuity of 100l. hitherto received from a relative, and was driven to depend entirely on his literary efforts. After acting for a short period as assistant in a school at Dulwich, he joined the staff of the ‘Sun’ newspaper as contributor of its literary criticism, and became esteemed as a critic of sound judgment and taste. This engagement continued until his death. He wrote also in ‘Blackwood's Magazine,’ and one of his series of papers, ‘The Picture Gallery’ (1837–9), was subsequently reprinted. In 1835 he published his humorous tale in two volumes, ‘The Exile of Erin, or the Sorrows of a Bashful Irishman,’ which attained considerable popularity both at home and in America.
Deacon lived many years in comparative seclusion, happy in the society of his wife and children, in Malvern Terrace, Islington, where he died on 18 March 1845, in his forty-sixth year. He left behind him the manuscript of a novel called ‘Annette,’ which was published in three volumes in 1853, with a prefatory memoir by Sir T. N. Talfourd.
[Talfourd's preface to Annette; communication from Rev. A. W. N. Deacon.]
C. W. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dealtry, Thomas

​DEALTRY, THOMAS, D.D. (1796–1861), third bishop of Madras, was born in 1796 of poor parents at Knottingley in Yorkshire. He was in a great measure self-taught. At an early age he became an usher in a school at Doncaster, and subsequently was employed as a private tutor in several families. He was twice married before he went to Cambridge, where in 1825 he was matriculated pensioner of St. Catharine Hall, supporting himself while working for his degree by private tuition. He took the degree of LL.B. in 1829, his name appearing in the first class of the ‘Law Class List’ for 1827–8. He was ordained in 1828, and held for a time a curacy in St. Peter's Church, Cambridge. He there attracted by his preaching the attention of Charles Simeon, at whose Friday evening meetings he made the acquaintance of the Rev. Thomas Thomason, then recently returned from India. At his instance and through the intervention of Simeon, Dealtry was offered and accepted a chaplaincy in Bengal, to which he was appointed early in 1829. Immediately on his arrival at Calcutta he was attached to the old or mission church, of which he retained charge during the whole of his service as a chaplain. In 1835 he was appointed by Bishop Wilson archdeacon of Calcutta. In 1848 he left India on furlough, and shortly after reaching England succeeded Baptist Noel [q. v.] in the incumbency of St. John's Church, Bedford Row. In the following year he was consecrated bishop of Madras, and was installed at Madras on 2 Feb. 1850, holding that see until his death, which took place on 4 March 1861.
Like his eminent predecessors on the roll of Bengal chaplains, Brown, Martyn, Buchanan, Thomason, and Corrie, Dealtry combined with his work as a government chaplain, and in after years with his duties as bishop of Madras, an active and practical interest in missions, filling for some years the post of honorary secretary to the Church Missionary Society at Calcutta, and contributing liberally throughout his Indian life to the various mission funds. By the missionaries, both of the church of England and of the protestant dissenting bodies, he was regarded as a staunch and cordial friend. He was an earnest and effective preacher, leaning in his doctrine to the teaching of the evangelical school, but actuated by a catholic sympathy with ​christian work of every denomination. The late Archdeacon Dealtry, for some years archdeacon of Madras, and latterly vicar of Maidstone, was his only son.
[Men whom India has known, Madras, 1871; Madras Church Missionary Record, July, 1861; India Office Records; personal information.]
A. J. A.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dealtry, William

​DEALTRY, WILLIAM (1775–1847), archdeacon of Surrey, born in 1775, was the younger son of an old Yorkshire family, from whom he inherited at his father's death a small landed property. He entered St. Catharine Hall, Cambridge, when quite young, and soon migrated to Trinity College. He was second wrangler and second Smith's prizeman in 1796, and a fellow of Trinity from 1798 until his marriage in 1814. He proceeded M.A. in 1799, B.D. in 1812, and D.D. in 1829, and held for some years the living of Walton, Hertfordshire. In 1802 he was moderator in the examinations of the university. On the foundation of the East India College in Hertfordshire (Haileybury) he was appointed professor of mathematics. In 1810 he published ‘The Principles of Fluxions,’ a useful manual for students, and was about the same time elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1813, on the death of the Rev. John Venn, Dealtry was made rector of Clapham, and as a fervent member of the evangelical party in the church distinguished himself in the controversy which arose on the formation in 1810–12 of the British and Foreign Bible Society, which he strenuously supported. On 25 Feb. 1830 he received a prebendal stall at Winchester, and was made chancellor of the diocese; in 1845 he was appointed archdeacon of Surrey. He died at Brighton on 15 Oct. 1847. Besides the work on ‘Fluxions’ he published a large number of sermons and charges, as well as pamphlets in defence of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
[Gent. Mag. new ser. xxix. 309; Clutterbuck's Herts (Haileybury); Grover's Old Clapham.]
R. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dean, Richard

​DEAN, RICHARD (1727?–1778), author, born at Kirkby-in-Craven, Yorkshire, about 1727, was the first curate of Royton Chapel and curate of Middleton, both near Manchester. He was also master of the Middleton grammar school. He wrote ‘An Essay on the Future Life of Brutes, introduced with Observations upon Evil, its Nature and Origin’ (Manchester, 1767, 12mo, 2 vols.), wherein he argued for the reasonableness of believing in the future existence of the lower animals. His conclusions were controverted by James Rothwell, master of the Blackrod grammar school, in ‘A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Dean of Middleton, occasioned by reading his Essay on the Future Life of Brutes’ (1769, 8vo). Dean died at Middleton on 8 Feb. 1778.
[Sutton's Lancashire Authors, 1876, pp. 30, 155; Carlisle's Grammar Schools, 1818, i. 707.]
C. W. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dean, Thomas

​DEAN, THOMAS (18th cent.), musician, was born towards the end of the seventeenth century. He wrote music for Oldmixon's tragedy the ‘Governor of Cyprus,’ produced at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in the early part of 1703. On 30 Nov. 1709, at a benefit concert for Turner, given at Stationers' Hall, Dean was announced to perform ‘a solo of the famous Archangelo Corelli's’ on the violin. Burney remarks on this that it was the first time he had seen such a promise in the newspapers. At the same concert ‘several full pieces of musick for trumpets, hautboys, violins, &c., by Mr. Dean, Mr. Masheip, and others’ were announced.
Burney says that Dean was organist at Warwick and Coventry. On 9 July 1731 he took the degree of Mus. Doc. at Oxford, where his name was entered at University College. The date of his death and all details of his biography are unknown. His music to the ‘Governor of Cyprus’ was published, and some violin pieces by him are in the late editions of the ‘Division Violin.’ The library of Christ Church, Oxford, contains some manuscript church music by him, and in the British Museum (Add. MS. 31467) is some of his harpsichord music.
[Burney's Hist. of Music, iv. 634; Hawkins's Hist. of Music, v. 17; Genest's Hist. of the Stage, ii. 280; List of Oxford Graduates; Grove's Dict. of Music, i. 438; Tatler, No. 100; Daily Courant, 29 Nov. 1709.]
W. B. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Deacon, James

​DEACON, JAMES (d. 1750), miniature-painter, was talented as an artist and musician. In 1746 the miniature-painter C. F. Zincke was obliged, his eyesight failing, to give up his house in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, and retire from his profession. Deacon then took this house and the goodwill, no doubt, of the older painter's business. He said to have produced some masterly portraits. In the print room of the British Museum there are miniatures by him of the marine painter Samuel Scott and his wife. He had not long been established in his profession when, attending as a witness at the Old Bailey, apparently at the 'Black Sessions,' he caught the gaol fever and died young in May 1750.
[Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England, ed. 1849; Redgrave's Dict, of Artists.]
E. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Campbell, Archibald (1691-1756)

​CAMPBELL, ARCHIBALD (1691–1756), divine, was born in Edinburgh 24 July 1691. His father was a merchant, and of the Succoth family. He studied at Edinburgh and Glasgow, was licensed to preach in 1717, and in 1718 ordained minister of the united parishes of Larbert and Dunipace, Stirlingshire. In 1723 he married Christina Watson, daughter of an Edinburgh merchant. In 1726 he published an anonymous treatise on the duty of praying for the civil magistrate. The same year he travelled to London with a manuscript treatise on ‘Moral Virtue.' He trusted this to his friend Alexander Innes, who had been an accomplice of the well-known Psalmanazar. Innes published this as his own in 1728, as ‘Ἀρετηλογία, an Enquiry into the Original of Moral Virtue.' Innes not only won reputation by the work, but a good living in Essex. In August 1730 Campbell went to London, saw Innes, and says that he ‘made him tremble in his shoes.' He consented, however, to an advertisement claiming his own book, but only saying that ‘for some certain reasons’ it had a peered under the name of Innes. Even this was delayed for a time that Innes might not lose a post which he was expecting. Stuart, physician to the queen, was a cousin of Innes, and interceded for him. Campbell was appointed professor of church history in St. Andrews in 1730, and published a ‘Discourse proving that the Apostles were no Enthusiasts.’ In 1733 he republished his former treatise under his own name as an ‘Enquiry into the Original of Moral Virtue.’ He maintains self-love to be the sole motive of virtuous actions. In the same year he published an ‘Oratio de Vanitate Luminis Naturæ.’ In 1735 he was ​charged with Pelagianism, on account of this and other works, before the general assembly, but was acquitted in March 1735–6, with a warning for the future. ‘Remarks upon some passages in books by Professor Campbell, with his Explications,’ was issued in 1735 by the committee of the general assembly ‘for purity of doctrine.’ In 1736 Campbell issued ‘Further Explications with respect to Articles ... wherein the Committee ... have declar’d themseves not satisfy’d.’ In 1739 he published ‘The Necessity of Revelation,’ in answer to Tindal. He died at his estate of Boarhill, near St. Andrews, on 24 April 1756, leaving twelve children. His eldest son, Archibald (fl. 1767) [q. v.], was author of ‘Lexiphanes.’ A book entitled ‘The Authenticity of the Gospel History justified’ was published posthumously in 1759.
[Acts of Assembly; Moncrieff's Life of Erskine; M’Kerrow's Secession Church; Hew Scott's Fasti Eccles. Scot. ii. 707; Irving’s Scottish Writers, ii. 325–7; Judicial Testimony; information kindly supplied from family papers by Rev. H. G. Graham.]
L. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Campbell, Archibald (d.1513)

​CAMPBELL, ARCHIBALD, second Earl of Argyll (d. 1513), eldest son of Colin, first earl of Argyll [q. v.], and Isabella, eldest ​ daughter of John, lord of Lorne, succeeded his father in 1493. In a charter of 30 June 1494 he is designated Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, and in the same year he was appointed master of the household. In 1499 he and others received from the king a commission to let on lease for the term of three years the entire lordship of the Isles as possessed by the last lord, both in the Isles and on the mainland, with the exception of the island of Isla and the lands of North and South Kintyre. He also received a commission of lieutenancy over the lordship of the Isles, and some months later was appointed keeper of the castle of Tarbert, and baillie and governor of the king's lands in Knapdale. Along with the Earl of Huntly and others he was in 1504 charged with the task of suppressing the rebellion of the islanders under Donald Dubh; and after its suppression in 1506 the lordship of the Isles was shared between him and Huntly, the latter being placed over the northern region, while the south isles and adjacent coast were under Argyll. From this time till his death the western highlands were free from serious disturbance. At the battle of Flodden, 9 Sept. 1513, Argyll, along with the Earl of Lennox, held command of the right wing, composed wholly of highlanders, whose impetuous eagerness for a hand-to-hand fight when galled by the English archers was the chief cause of the defeat of the Scots. Argyll was one of the thirteen Scottish earls who were slain. By his wife, Elizabeth Stewart, eldest daughter of John, first earl of Lennox, he had four sons and five daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Colin, third earl of Argyll [q. v.] His fourth son, Donald (d. 1562) [q. v.], is separately noticed.
T. F. H.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Banaji, Framji Cowasji

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​BANAJI, FRAMJI COWASJI (1767–1851)
Born in Bombay April 3, 1767: son of Cowasji Byramji (1744–1834) merchant, and of a family which settled in Bombay from near Surat,1690, and traded with England, China and Burma. He was a scientific agriculturist, and improved agriculture in W. India: took a leading part in establishing the Agri-Horticultural Society of Bombay, 1830: was a Vice-President: the Bombay Government gave him, 1829, some villages in Salsette, where he settled cultivators, and successfully managed the Pawai estate: instituted many charities for the native community: some for the Parsis: made wells and tombs: a large Tower of Silence, 1832: a Fire Temple, 1845: a school for Parsi children, for instruction in the Avesta: was a leading member of the Parsi panchayat, 1817–51, and an original Trustee of their communal funds from 1823: was a prominent member of the Native Education Society from 1827, of the Elphinstone College committee from 1835: Director of the Board of Education from 1841: was nominated, 1834, one of the first 12 native J.P.s: a Government Director of the Savings' Bank: helped to establish the old Bombay Bank, 1840: Director of the G.I. P. Railway, 1844: suffered pecuniary losses in his business, which curtailed his means, but not his zeal, for philanthropic charity: died Feb. 12, 1851: after a public meeting of all classes, the Framji Institute was erected in his memory, where public meetings are generally held, and an extensive Library is located.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Banerji, Hem Chandra

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​BANERJI, HEM CHANDRA (1838–1902)
Educated in his village and at the Hindu College, Calcutta: Scholar: entered Government service in the Military Auditor General's office: B.A.: munsif at Howrah and Serampur: practised as a High Coiurt Vakil from 1862, and became Senior Government Pleader: as a Bengali poet he had perhaps no rival in modern Bengal: died 1902.