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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Weber, Otto

​WEBER, OTTO (1832–1888), painter, son of Wilhelm Weber, a merchant of Berlin, was born in that city on 17 Oct. 1832. He studied under Professor Steffeck, and was also much influenced by Eugen Krüger. He became a very skilful painter of landscapes and animals, working both in oil and watercolours, and his pictures were much admired in Paris, where he resided for some years and was awarded medals at the Salon in 1864 and 1869. On the outbreak of the Franco-German war in 1870, Weber left France, and, after a stay of two years in Rome, came to London, where he settled. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1874 until his death. In 1876 he was elected an associate of the 'Old Watercolour' Society, and he also became a member of the Institute of Painters in Oil Colours. He received many commissions from the queen. His best work, 'The First Snow on the Alp,' is now in the ​the Melbourne Gallery. His ‘Doughty and Carlisle’ (her majesty's pet dogs), ‘Greedy Calves,’ and ‘A Sunny Day, Cookham,’ have been engraved. Weber died in London, after a long illness, on 23 Dec. 1888.
[Roget's Hist. of the ‘Old Watercolour’ Society; Bryan's Dict. of Painters and Engravers (Armstrong).]
F. M. O'D.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Webber, John

​WEBBER, JOHN (1750?–1793), landscape-painter, was born in London about 1750. His father, Abraham Weber, was a Swiss sculptor, who, at the age of twenty-four, settled in England, anglicised his name, and married an English woman named Maria Quandt. John, their eldest child, was sent when six years old to Berne to be brought up by a maiden aunt who resided there. At the age of thirteen he was placed with J. L. Aberli, a Swiss artist of repute, by whom he was instructed in both portraiture and landscape. Three years later he was enabled, with pecuniary assistance from the municipal authorities of Berne, to proceed to Paris to complete his training, and there he resided for five years, studying in the academy and under J. G. Wille. He then returned to his family in London, and was for a time employed by a builder in decorating the interiors of houses. In 1776 he exhibited at the Royal Academy a portrait of his brother, which attracted the notice of Dr. Solander, and this led to his appointment as draughtsman to the third and last expedition of Captain Cook to the South Seas. He returned in 1780, having witnessed the death of Cook, and was then employed for some time by the Admiralty in making finished drawings from his sketches for the illustrations to the account of the expedition which was published in 1784. These were engraved by Woollett, Pouncy, and others. Subsequently Webber painted many views of picturesque parts of England and Wales, as well as of Switzerland and North Italy, which he visited in 1787. Between 1787 and 1792 he published a series of sixteen views of places visited by him with Captain Cook, etched and coloured by himself. From 1784 he was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, of which he was elected an associate in 1785, and a full member in 1791. His paintings were carefully finished, but weak in colour and drawing. His representation of the death of Captain Cook was engraved by Byrne and Bartolozzi, and his portrait of the explorer (now in the National Portrait Gallery), which he painted at the Cape of Good Hope, was also engraved by Bartolozzi. Webber died unmarried in Oxford Street, London, on 29 April 1793. He bequeathed his Academy diploma to the public library at Berne, where also is a portrait of him painted by himself. His brother, Henry Webber, practised as a sculptor, but without distinction; the ' ​monument to Garrick in Westminster Abbey is his work.
F. M. O'D.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Symonds, Richard (1609-1660?)

​SYMONDS, RICHARD (1609–1660?), Welsh puritan, born in 1609, was the son of Thomas Symonds of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. He matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford, on 18 Feb. 1626–7, and graduated B.A. on 5 Feb. 1628–9 (Foster, Alumni Oxon.) Being soon afterwards ordained, he appears to have settled in North Wales or on the borders, and in 1635 was keeping school at Shrewsbury, Richard Baxter being among his pupils. Here he gave shelter to Walter Cradock [q. v.], who had fled from Wrexham to avoid the bishop's officers (Baxter, Catholic Communion Defended, ii. 28). He is mentioned under the date of 12 Feb. 1637–8 (Cal. State Papers, Dom. ​p. 249) as ‘a suspended priest, driven out of North Wales,’ who then kept school at Brampton Bryan, under the protection of Sir Robert Harley, with whom he and the rector of the parish were charged with ‘all the customary irregularities’ in public worship. During the next few years he preached occasionally to the independents at Bristol (Broadmead Records, p. 9). When the civil war broke out he fled to London and preached in several of the chief city churches. He is said to have been stationed for a time at Sandwich in Kent, and in August 1642 was apparently at Andover, where the ejected vicar would not permit him to enter the church (Commons' Journals, ii. 735).
When the House of Commons in 1645 turned its attention to the spiritual condition of Wales, it was ordered that Symonds, Walter Cradock, and Henry Walter should each be paid 100l. a year out of the diocesan and capitular revenues of Llandaff and St. Davids ‘towards their maintenance in the work of the ministry in South Wales.’ The ordinance passed the upper house on 17 Nov. 1646, but the salaries were made payable from Michaelmas 1645 (ib. iv. 242, 622, 707; Lords' Journals, pp. 568–9, where the ordinance is printed). Thereupon Symonds proceeded to South Wales, to which country his labours were subsequently confined. He was appointed one of the approvers of preachers under the act for the propagation of the Gospel in Wales, passed 22 Feb. 1649–50. He is mentioned as preaching at St. Fagan's, near Cardiff, about 1655, and in September 1657 the trustees for maintenance of ministers settled on him an augmentation of 50l. towards a lecture to be preached in Llandaff Cathedral (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1657–8, p. 100).
He is probably to be identified with the minister who preached before the House of Commons on 30 Sept. 1646 and 26 April 1648 (Commons' Journals, iv. 678, v. 545). His theological views were those of a high Calvinist, though an opponent charged him with preaching ‘high strains of antinomianism.’ He probably died shortly before the Restoration.
D. Ll. T.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Symonds, William (1556-1616?)

​SYMONDS, WILLIAM, D.D. (1556–1616?), divine, born in Hampshire in 1556, matriculated at Oxford on 3 March 1572–3, and elected a demy of Magdalen College in 1573, being then described as a native of Oxfordshire. He graduated B.A. on 1 Feb. 1577–8, was elected a probationer-fellow of Magdalen in 1578, and graduated M.A. on 5 April 1581. In 1583 he was appointed by the president Laurence Humfrey to the mastership of Magdalen school, and he continued in that office till 1586. During the time that he was nominally master great complaints were made by some of the fellows both to the chancellor of the university and to their own visitor respecting the condition of the school, it being asserted that the master was non-resident, and that the president of the college had sold the appointment to him (Bloxam, Register of Magdalen Coll. iii. 130). In 1583 he became rector of Langton-by-Partney, Lincolnshire; in 1584 he was presented by the queen to the rectory of Bourton-on-the-water, Gloucestershire; on 14 Nov. 1587 he was admitted to the rectory of Stock, Essex, by Aylmer, bishop of London; in 1594 he obtained the rectory of Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire; in 1597 he was instituted to the rectory of Well, Lincolnshire; and in 1599 he was presented by Robert Bertie, lord Willoughby, to the rectory of Halton Holgate, Lincolnshire. He was also for several years preacher at St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, and from some ‘Observations’ of his, printed in Captain John Smith's ‘General History of Virginia,’ 1624, it is clear that he was for a time resident in that colony. He looked over Smith's manuscripts, and aided him in procuring their publication at Oxford. According to Wood, he was created D.D. in 1613. He was presented to the rectory of Wyberton, Lincolnshire, in 1612, and he held that living till 1616. He is not therefore the ‘old Simons of Oxfordshire’ whom Chamberlain referred to as dead on 1 Aug. 1613. Wood describes him as ‘a person of an holy life, grave and moderate in his carriage, painful in the ministry, well learned, and of rare understanding in prophetical scriptures.’
His works are:
* ‘Pisgah Evangelica, according to the Method of the Revelation, presenting the History of the Church, and those Canaanites over whom she shall triumph,’ London, 1605, 4to.
* ‘A Heavenly Voyce. A Sermon tending to call the people of God from among the Romish Babylonians; preached at Paules Crosse, the 12 of Ianuarie 1606,’ London, 1606, 4to.
* ‘Virginia. A Sermon preached at White-Chappel, in the presence of many honourable and worshipfull, the Adventurers and Planters for Virginia, 25 April 1609. Published for the benefit and vse of the Colony, planted and to bee planted there, and for the Aduancement of their Christian Purpose,’ London, 1609, 4to. This was the first sermon preached before the company.
[Bloxam's Register of Magdalen Coll. iii. 129, iv. 189; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; Brown's Genesis of the United States, ii. 1030–1; Notes and Queries, 6th ser. xi. 368, xii. 296, 7th ser. i. 69; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 142.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Symonds, John (1729-1807)

1904 Errata appended.
​SYMONDS, JOHN (1729–1807), professor of modern history at Cambridge, born at Horningsheath in Suffolk on 23 Jan. 1728–9, was the eldest son of John Symonds (d. 1757), rector of Horningsheath, by his wife Mary (d. 1774), daughter of Sir Thomas Spring of Pakenham, bart.
Symonds was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1752. In 1753 he was elected a fellow of Peterhouse, and he proceeded M.A. in 1754. In 1771 he was appointed professor of modern history on the death of Thomas Gray, the poet, and in the following year he was created LL.D. by royal mandate and migrated to Trinity College. He died, unmarried, on 18 Feb. 1807, at Bury St. Edmund's, where he filled the office of recorder, and was buried at Pakenham.
Symonds was the author of:
* ‘Remarks on an Essay on the History of Colonisation’ (by William Barron), London, 1778, 4to.
* ‘The Expediency of revising the Present Edition of the Gospels and Acts of the ​Apostles,’ Cambridge, 1789, 4to.
* ‘The Expediency of revising the Epistles,’ Cambridge, 1794, 4to.
He also contributed numerous articles to Young's ‘Annals of Agriculture.’ A portrait of Symonds was engraved by J. Singleton in 1788 from a painting by George Keith Ralph.
[Davy's Sussex Collections, Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 19150 ff. 381–93, 19167 f. 51, 19174, f. 695; Cole's Athenæ Cantabr. Add. MS. 5880 f. 197; Reuss's Register of Living Authors, 1790–1803, ii. 370; Allibone's Dict. of Engl. Lit.; Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, iv. 382–3, v. 410; Gent. Mag. 1778 p. 421, 1807 i. 281; Bridges's Autobiography, i. 64–5; Bromley's Cat. of Engr. Portraits, 395.]
E. I. C.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Symington, William (1795-1862)

​SYMINGTON, WILLIAM (1795–1862), divine, younger brother of Andrew Symington [q. v.], was born at Paisley on 2 June 1795. Having early devoted himself to the ministry, at the age of fifteen he entered the university of Glasgow. After the usual four years' course in arts, he attended for another four years the theological hall of the reformed presbyterian church, then under the charge of the Rev. John Macmillan, the third of that name in the ministry at Stirling. He was licensed to preach on 30 June 1818. Called to Airdrie and Stranraer, he accepted the latter, and was ordained there on 18 Aug. 1819. He was popular and successful; many belonging to other denominations and from different parts of Galloway attended the services of the Cameronian meeting-house, and a new church was erected in 1824. He received the degree of D.D. from the university of Edinburgh on 20 Nov. 1838. On 5 March 1839 he was called to Great Hamilton Street reformed presbyterian church, Glasgow, to succeed the Rev. D. Armstrong, and was inducted on 11 July of that year. Here also large audiences gathered to hear him, his Sunday-evening lectures being especially popular. He took a deep interest in bible circulation, home and foreign missions, and other religious movements. One of his missionaries in Glasgow was John G. Paton, D.D., afterwards of New Hebrides. On the death of his brother Andrew in 1853, William was chosen to succeed him as professor of theology in the reformed presbyterian church. The pastorate in Glasgow was still retained, but in March 1859 his eldest son, William, then minister in Castle-Douglas, was inducted as colleague and successor in the ministry. He died on 28 Jan. 1862, and was buried in the necropolis of Glasgow.
In the denomination with which he was connected Dr. Symington exercised for some years a predominant influence. He was a man of noble presence and winning manners, and a speaker of great power and persuasiveness.
He was the author of:
* ‘The Atonement and Intercession of Jesus Christ;’ 2nd edit. Edinburgh, 1834, 8vo.
* ‘Messiah the Prince;’ 2nd edit. Edinburgh, 1840, 8vo.
* ‘Discourses on Public Occasions,’ Glasgow, 1851, 12mo, besides several tracts and sermons.
He also edited Scott's ‘Commentary on the Bible,’ 1845–9, 4to, and Stephen Charnock's ‘Chief of Sinners,’ 1847, 12mo, besides contributing a life of Charnock to ‘Christian Biography,’ 1853, 12mo.
[Reformed Presbyterian Mag. 1862, pp. 81–9; Funeral Sermon by James m'Gill; Anderson's Scottish Nation.]
T. B. J.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Symonds, Thomas Matthew Charles

​SYMONDS, Sir THOMAS MATTHEW CHARLES (1813–1894), admiral of the fleet, son of Sir William Symonds [q. v.] by his first marriage, was born on 15 July 1813; entered the navy on 25 April 1825, passed his examination in 1831, and was promoted to be lieutenant on 5 Nov. 1832. In May 1833 he was appointed to the Vestal, from which he was removed in September to the Endymion on the Mediterranean station, and from her again to the Britannia. In December 1834 he joined the Rattlesnake with Captain William Hobson, ordered to the East Indies. On 21 Oct. 1837 he was made commander and returned home; and from 27 Aug. 1838 he commanded the Rover Sloop on the North American and West Indian station, till on 22 Feb. 1841 he was promoted to the rank of captain. In May 1846 he was appointed to the Spartan for the Mediterranean, where he remained till 1849. In January 1850 he commissioned the Arethusa, which in 1852 went to the Mediterranean. There she was detained by the imminence of war with Russia. In 1854 Symonds served in the Black Sea, took part in the bombardment of Fort Constantine, and early in 1855 returned home and paid off. He was nominated a C.B. on 5 July 1855, and received the Crimean medal with the Sevastopol clasp and the Medjidie of the third class. On 1 Nov. 1860 he became a rear-admiral, a vice-admiral on 2 April 1866, and a K.C.B. on 13 March 1867. From December 1868 to July 1870 he commanded the Channel squadron, and gained in the service a reputation as a tactician, being the originator of the group formation in the form of a scalene triangle, which replaced the older isosceles group. On 14 July 1871 he became an admiral, and from 1 Nov. 1875 till 1 Nov. 1878 was commander-in-chief at Devonport. On 15 July 1879 he became admiral of the fleet, G.C.B. on 23 April 1880, and died at Torquay on 14 Nov. 1894. He married, on 25 Sept. 1845, Anna Maria, daughter of Captain Edmund Heywood, R.N.
[O'Byrne's Nav. Biogr. Dict.; Times, 15 Nov. 1894; Army and Navy Gazette, 17 Nov. 1894.]
J. K. L.
# Druggan v. Anderson

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United States Supreme Court
269 U.S. 36
Druggan v. Anderson
Argued: Oct. 5, 6, 1925. --- Decided: Oct 19, 1925
Messrs. Michael J. Ahern and Thomas D. Nash, both of Chicago, Ill., for appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from page 37 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Dier v. Banton

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262 U.S. 147
Dier v. Banton
Argued: April 17, 1923. --- Decided: May 7, 1923
Mr. Nash Rockwood, of New York City, for appellants.
Mr. John Caldwell Myers, Asst. Dist. Atty., of New York City, for appellees.
Mr. Chief Justice TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Dies Irae (Thomas of Celano)

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Famous Latin hymn originally scripted by Thomas of Celano. Often considered one of the foremost and widely known hymns of its time, it is distinguished by its classical three-line, perfect-rhyme stanza.
English-language translations of Dies Irae include:
* Dies Irae by Abraham Coles, 1860
* Dies Irae by Richard Crashaw, 17th century
* Dies Irae by Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 17th century
* Dies Irae by John Adams Dix, 1875
* Dies Irae by William Josiah Irons, 1849
* Dies Irae by Franklin Johnson, 1883
* Dies Irae by Edward Slosson, 1866

## See also

* "Dies Iræ" in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).
* "Dies Iræ" in The seven great hymns of the mediaeval church
# Dies Irae

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* Dies Irae, sequence attributed to Thomas of Celano (11th century).
* "Dies Irae", poem by Willoughby Weaving (1917).
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# Dietzsch v. Huidekoper

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Dietzsch v. Huidekoper
APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
Mr. Edwin Walker for the appellants.
Mr. Henry Crawford, contra.
MR. JUSTICE WOODS delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Dies Irae (Irons)

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famous Latin hymn originally scripted by Tommaso da Celano. Often considered one of the foremost and widely known hymns of its time, it is distinguished by its classical three-line, perfect-rhyme stanza.
See also: Dies Iræ in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).
* Dies Irae in The seven great hymns of the mediaeval church, 1902
* Dies Irae in the English Missal, 1912
# Dies Irae (Irons, 1912)

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famous Latin hymn originally scripted by Tommaso da Celano. Often considered one of the foremost and widely known hymns of its time, it is distinguished by its classical three-line, perfect-rhyme stanza.
The Latin text is taken from the Requiem Mass in the 1962 Roman Missal. The English version below was translated by William Josiah Irons in 1849 and appears in the 1912 English Missal. Note that the below translation is not literal, instead modified to fit the rhyme and meter.
See also: Dies Iræ in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).
The poem appears complete as it stands at this point. Some scholars question whether the remainder is an addition made in order to suit the great poem for liturgical use, for the last stanzas discard the consistent scheme of triple rhymes in favor of rhymed couplets, while the last two lines abandon rhyme for assonance and are, moreover, catalectic:
In 1970 the Dies Iræ was removed from the Missal and since 1971 it is proposed ad libitum as a hymn for the Liturgy of the Hours at the Office of Readings, Lauds and Vespers. For this purpose stanza 19 was deleted and the poem divided into three sections: 1-6 (for the Office of Readings), 7-12 (for Lauds) and 13-18 (for Vespers). In addition Qui Mariam absolvisti in stanza 13 was replaced by Peccatricem qui solvisti so that that line would now mean, "You who freed the sinful woman". In addition a doxology is given after stanzas 6, 12 and 18:
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# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Latin/Alyssum

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​Alyssum sativum, Gold of Pleasure.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Latin/Amyris

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​Amyris gileadensis, Balm of Gilead Tree.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Latin/Anarrhicas

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​Anarrhicas Lupus, Sea-Wolf.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Latin/Anthyllis

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​Anthyllis, Kidney-Vetch; A. vulneraria, Ladies-finger.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Latin/Aphanes

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​Aphanes arvensis, Parsley-piert.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Latin/Anethum

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​Anethum fœniculum, Common Fennel.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Latin/Angelica

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​Angelica Archangelica, Garden Angelica; A. sylvestris, Wild Angelica.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Latin/Ampelites

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​Ampelites, Canal Coal.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Latin/Anthoxanthum

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​Anthoxanthum odoratum, Sweet-scented Spring-grass.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Latin/Alumina

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​Alumina, Pure Clay.