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# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Patterson, Hon. James Brown

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​Patterson, Hon. James Brown, M.L.A., J.P., was born at Alnwick, Northumberland, on Nov. 18th, 1833, and is the youngest son of the late James Patterson, district road inspector. He emigrated to Victoria in 1852, and went to the Forest Creek goldfields. In 1856 he was engaged ​in farming at Glenlyon, near Daylesford, and during his residence there married Miss Walton. Mr. Patterson was mayor of Chewton for four years, and in 1871 entered Parliament for Castlemaine, a district which he has represented in the Assembly ever since. He first took office in Mr. (now Sir) Graham Berry's Ministry, in August 1875, and held the position of Commissioner of Public Works and Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works in that Government till its defeat in October of the same year. To these offices he was reappointed on Mr. Berry's return to power in May 1877, and retained them till the Ministry, in which Mr. Patterson also held the additional position of Postmaster-General from July 1878 to March 1880, was ejected from office. In the third Berry Ministry Mr. Patterson discharged with marked ability the duties of Minister of Railways from August 1880 to July 1881. Mr. Patterson revisited England in 1884-5, and did not return to office till Feb. 1889, when he succeeded Mr. Walker as Minister of Customs in the Gillies Administration, in which he was also Minister of Public Works from June to Sept. 1890, and Postmaster-General from that date until the government resigned, in November of the same year. During the great Australian strike of 1890, Mr. Patterson took the most prominent part in preserving the public peace in Melbourne. After the defeat of the Gillies-Deakin Government, Mr. Patterson visited England, and delivered important addresses on Australia in Newcastle-on-Tyne and Alnwick.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Paterson, Alexander Stewart

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​Paterson, Alexander Stewart, M.D., Colonial Surgeon, South Australia, became L.R.C.S. Edinburgh in 1856, M.D. Edinburgh in 1857, M.D. Melbourne in 1865, and M.D. Adelaide in 1877. He was appointed Resident Medical Officer of the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum in April 1867, and Colonial Surgeon in Jan. 1870, both of which positions he still holds.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Parsons, Hon. John Langdon

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​Parsons, Hon. John Langdon, was formerly member for Encounter Bay, and afterwards for North Adelaide, in the Legislative Assembly of South Australia. The Education Department of this colony has, somewhat curiously, also under its control the affairs of the Northern Territory; and in April 1881, when Mr. (now Sir) John Bray formed his first Government, the conjoint portfolio was offered to and accepted by Mr. Parsons, who personally visited the territory, and has since displayed as much interest in its advancement as he had previously done in the cause of popular education. In March 1884 he retired from the Ministry, and was appointed Government Resident of the territory, a position which he retained till 1890. In 1884 he was granted the Queen's permission to bear the title of Honourable within the colony.
# The Duke Decides

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LEONIE SHERMAN
THE DUKE
DECIDES
By
HEADON HILL
Author of
By a Hair’s-Breadth, etc.
New York
A. WESSELS COMPANY
1904
Copyright, 1903, by A. Wessels Company
Published, 1903
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Contents
| CHAPTER | | page |
| I. | The Man with the Mandate | 9 |
| II. | On Board the St. Paul | 21 |
| III. | A Task-master in Goggles | 29 |
| IV. | The Lady in the Landau | 38 |
| V. | Ziegler Begins to Move | 51 |
| VI. | The General is Curious | 61 |
| VII. | The Men on the Stairs | 75 |
| VIII. | The Cut Panel | 87 |
| IX. | The Strategy of the General | 107 |
| X. | A Duty Call | 125 |
| XI. | On the Terrace | 139 |
| XII. | The Man Under the Seat | 161 |
| XIII. | At the Keeper’s Cottage | 180 |
| XIV. | Too Many Women | 196 |
| XV. | A New Cure for Headache | 217 |
| XVI. | A Delicate Mission | 234 ​ |
| XVII. | Where is the Duke? | 255 |
| XVIII. | The Senator and the Securities | 271 |
| XIX. | In the Crypt | 284 |
| XX. | In the Muniment Room | 299 |
| XXI. | The Honor of the House | 321 |
List of Illustrations
| Leonie Sherman | Frontispiece |
| PAGE ||
| “A countrywoman of yours. I wonder if you know her?” | 63 |
| The procession of three led by the stranger | 105 |
| “I am very far from being indifferent to Mrs. Talmage Eglinton” | 253 |
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# The Duenna

The Duenna is an 18th-century pastiche comic opera written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Featuring music from Thomas Linley the elder and his son, Thomas Linley the younger, the opera also included music from Italian and ballad operas. The most frequently performed opera by Sheridan, it was considered one of the most successful operas ever staged in England. Well received by the paying public, it held renowned admirers such as Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt and Lord George Byron.Warning: template has been deprecated.
A COMIC OPERA

### Dramatis Personae

As Originally Acted At Covent-Garden Theatre, Nov. 21, 1775
Don Ferdinand Don Jerome Don Antonio Don Carlos Isaac Mendoza Father Paul Father Francis Father Augustine Lopez Donna Louisa Donna Clara The Duenna
Mr. Mattocks. Mr. Wilson. Mr. Dubellamy. Mr. Leoni. Mr. Quick. Mr. Mahon. Mr. Fox. Mr. Baker. Mr. Wewitzer. Mrs. Mattocks. Mrs. Cargill. Mrs. Green.
Masqueraders, Friars, Porter, Maid, and Servants. SCENE—SEVILLE.

#### Acts

* Act I
* Act II
* Act III
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# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Arthur (king)

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ARTHUR, king of the Silures in the 6th century, an ancient British hero, whose story has been the theme of much romantic fiction. He is said to have been the son of Uthyr, chief commander of the Britons, and to have been born about 501. In 516 he succeeded his father in the office of general, and performed those heroic deeds against the Saxons, Scots and Picts which have made him so celebrated. He married the celebrated Guinevere belonging to the family of the dukes of Cornwall; established the famous order of the Round Table; and reigned, surrounded by a splendid court, 12 years in peace. After this he is reported to have conquered Denmark, Norway and France, slain the giants of Spain and journeyed to Rome. From thence he is said to have hastened home on account of the faithlessness of his wife, and Modred, his nephew, who carried on an adulterous intercourse, and stirred up his subjects to rebellion; to have subdued the rebels, but to have died in consequence of his wounds, in 542, on the island of Avalon, where it is pretended that his grave was found in the reign of Henry II. The story of Arthur is supposed to have some foundation in fact, and it is generally believed that he was one of the last great Celtic chiefs who led his countrymen from the west to resist the settlement of the Saxons in southern Britain. But many authorities regard him as a leader of the Cymry of Cumbria and Strath-Clyde against the Anglo-Saxon invaders of the east coast and the Picts and Scots north of the Forth and the Clyde. In our own day the interest of the old legends has been revived by the works of Lvtton and especially Tennyson. For bibilography, see Arthurian Legends.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Astor Family

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ASTOR FAMILY, a famous American family representing one of the three or four greatest private properties in the world. A family in the Old World sense, — a territorial aristocracy, impossible to destroy, and fortified with legal immunities and privileges, — can hardly be founded in America; but the Astors have approached it as nearly as our institutions will admit. They form a group of immense hereditary real-estate owners, with holdings so solidly based and well distributed in the metropolis of America that no apparent catastrophe save a failure of heirs could extinguish it; and though originally springing from mercantile business, removed by some three-quarters of a century from its actual conduct. For many years they were known as “the landlords of New York,” and the best of landlords, prompt, just and courteous; they still probably form the largest set of individual real-estate holders. The family is also connected with notable municipal charities and public foundations. See Astor, John Jacob (1763-1848); Astor, John Jacob (1822-90); Astor, John Jacob (1864-1912); Astor, William Backhouse (1792-1875); Astor, William Waldorf (1848-).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Astor, John Jacob (inventor)

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ASTOR, John Jacob, American capitalist and inventor, fourth of the name, nephew of John Jacob the third, and son of William: b. Rhinebeck, N. Y., 13 July 1864; d. at sea (Titanic wreck) 15 April 1912. He was graduated from Harvard in 1888. He was the manager of the Astor properties in America; a director in many banking, insurance and railroad companies, and member of various clubs and social organizations. He built in 1897 a very costly hotel, the Astoria (named after the famous fur settlement of 1811), on Fifth avenue, New York, adjoining the Waldorf built by his cousin, William Waldorf, the two being now joined as the Waldorf-Astoria. Besides his business activities, he had strong individual faculties. He was an expert in marine mechanics, inventor of a bicycle brake, and a pneumatic road improver; and was a member of scientific and other intellectual societies. He wrote ‘A Journey in Other Worlds: a Romance of the Future’ (1894). He was on Governor Morton's staff 1894-96, and in the Spanish-American War of 1896 was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of United States Volunteers, and served in the Santiago campaign.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Astor, William Backhouse

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ASTOR, William Backhouse, American merchant and capitalist, eldest son of John Jacob Astor: b. New York, 19 Sept 1792; d. 24 Nov. 1875. He was trained in his father's business in the intervals of public school education; and the father is said to have remarked that “William would never make money, but would keep what he had.” At 16 he was sent to Heidelberg University, and at 18 went to Göttingen, where he was tutored by Bunsen, afterward the great chevalier. Returning to New York in 1815, he was made a partner in his father's foreign shipping trade, especially cultivating the Chinese field. The firm was John Jacob Astor & Son till 1827, when it dissolved and both partners gave up the China trade to form the American Fur Company, of which William was president, but John Jacob the head manager till he withdrew from active business life a few years later. He was shortly followed into retirement by his son. By 1848 he had amassed a fortune of his own; besides receiving a legacy of half a million from his uncle Henry, and a gift of the Astor House from his father; the latter on his death in that year leaving him sole legatee save for minor bequests, the property being estimated at $20,000,000 to $30,000,000. His life thenceforth was spent in conserving and developing this. He built nearly a thousand houses on his uptown lots, and was currently termed “the landlord of New York.” He was also a heavy investor in other lines, notably coal and railroad stocks. He founded the Astor Library under his father's bequest, adding by gifts and bequests over $600,000 to his father's gift, giving much time to its administration from the completion of the building in 1853 on his plans. His wife was the daughter of Madison's second Secretary of War; his sons were John Jacob and William, and the estate was shared between them.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Arthur, Prince

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ARTHUR, Prince. See Connaught, Duke of.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Arthur (duke)

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ARTHUR, duke of Brittany, the grandson of King Henry II of England: b. 1187; d. 1203. On the death in 1199 of his uncle, Richard I, who had declared the boy his heir, Arthur was proclaimed King of England by the nobles of Anjou, Touraine and Maine, while the English lords decided in John's favor. King Philip of France supported the claims of Arthur, but a peace being presently concluded between John and Philip, Arthur came later into the hands of his uncle, King John, and soon mysteriously disappeared. According to general belief Arthur was murdered by command of his uncle.
The story of Arthur forms a portion of Shakespeare's ‘King John.’ See John.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Astor, John Jacob (capitalist)

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ASTOR, John Jacob, American capitalist and soldier, son of William B.: b. New York, 10 June 1822; d. 22 Feb. 1890. He was educated at Columbia University and at Göttingen; he then took the full course at the Harvard Law School, and practised law for a year, solely to qualify himself for assisting in the management of the immense estate, one half of which later descended to him. In the Civil War he served on McClellan's staff, with the rank of colonel; and was a devoted and hard-working military student. He always regarded this period as the best of his life, and attended the reunions of the Loyal Legion with zeal. Not only was he always a liberal giver to public institutions and charities, but he gave much personal time and devotion to them, especially to the Astor Library and Trinity Church; but he shrank from public notice. On his father's death in 1875 he received half of the estate, estimated at considerably over $100,000,000; all which, with accumulations believed to have swollen it to some $200,000,000, he left to his only son, William Waldorf Astor. His wife, Charlotte Augusta Gibbs, was an active assistant in his charitable work, taking part in personal service as “Sister Augusta,” incognito.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Astor, William Waldorf

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ASTOR, William Waldorf, capitalist: b. New York, 31 March 1848. He was called to the United States Bar in 1875; was a member of the legislature of the State of New York 1878-81; and was United States Minister to Italy 1882-85. In 1890 he transferred his residence to England and in 1899 became a naturalized British subject. In 1892 he purchased the Pall Mall Gazette; in 1893 he established the Pall Mall Magazine, and in 1911 acquired The Observer. In 1912 he sold the first named journal, and in 1914 made a present of the Pall Mall Gazette and The Observer, with the building in Newton street and its contents, to his son, Maj. Waldorf Astor, M.P. He is the author of ‘Valentino,’ a story of Rome (1886); ‘Sforza,’ an historical romance of the 16th century in Italy (1889); ‘Pharaoh's Daughter, and Other Stories’ (1889), besides numerous stories and articles that have appeared in the pages of the Pall Mall Magazine. His benevolence is well known and his gifts to charities have amounted to very considerable sums. Among those charities benefited by his gifts are The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond street (to which he gave $250,000 in 1903); University College, London; The Cancer Research Fund; Oxford University; Cambridge University; The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; The British
Red Cross Society; Gordon Memorial College, Khartum; The Soldier and Sailors' Families Association, and the Women's Memorial to Queen Victoria. His gifts to the war charities include $125,000 to the Prince of Wales's National Relief Fund; a similar amount to Princess Louise's Officers' Families Fund; $200,000 to the British Red Cross Society; $25,000 to Queen Mary's Employment Committee, and a similar sum to the Lord Mayor's National Bands Fund. He has given $5,000 to King Edward's Hospital Fund annually since 1897 when the fund was started. On 1 Jan. 1916, he was offered and accepted a peerage of the United Kingdom under the title of Baron Astor of Hever Castle in the County of Kent. Hever Castle is well known as having been the residence of Anne Boleyn and the place at which her courtship by Henry VIII was carried on. It was purchased with the surrounding estate by Mr. Astor in 1903. On 3 June 1917 Baron Astor was elevated to the rank of Viscount.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Astor Library

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ASTOR LIBRARY. See New York Public Library.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Filley, Chauncey Ives

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FILLEY, Chauncey Ives, American politician: b. Lansingburg, N. Y., 17 Oct. 1829. He received a private and academic education and entered commercial life as a clerk. He designed and controlled his own pottery patterns and became the largest importer and distributor of queensware in the Mississippi Valley. He became interested in politics and was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions from 1864 to 1896 and was a member of the National Committee of his party in 1876-92. In 1863-65 he was mayor of Saint Louis and was a member of the convention which abolished slavery in that State. In 1873-78 he was postmaster of Saint Louis. He did much to improve the politics of his city and State.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fichel, Eugène

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FICHEL, fē-shel, Eugène, French painter: b. Paris, 30 Aug. 1826; d. there, 2 Feb. 1895. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and became a pupil of Delaroche, but painted very much more under the inspiration of Meissonier, whose exquisite handling is suggested in numerous small canvases of his which by their refined technique and vivid action recall the characteristic intensity and directness of composition which belong to the painter of ‘Friedland.’ The principal works of Fichel are of a high order of genre, and include, ‘The End of Dinner’; ‘A Festival in the Year 1776’; ‘The Capture of a Spy’; ‘The Wandering Singers,’ etc., and the following historic pictures, which have the freedom and imagination of pure genre: ‘The Night of August 24, 1572’; ‘Founding of the French Academy.’ He was a chevalier of the Legion of Honor and, in 1857, received a medal for his painting in the Salon of that year. In the latter he exhibited a canvas every year, up to a few years before his death. Many of his pictures are in galleries all over the world. Two of his paintings, ‘A Violin Player,’ executed in 1871, and ‘Awaiting an Audience,’ painted in 1881, are in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Consult Montrosier, E., ‘Les Artistes Modernes’ (Vol. IV, Paris 1884).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fichtelgebirge

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FICHTELGEBIRGE, fiH'tel-gĕ-bēr'gĕ, a mountain range, chiefly situated in the northeast of Bavaria, once covered with pines (Fichte, “pine”), and constituting a watershed between the head-feeders of the Elbe, the Rhine and the Danube. The elevation of the peaks ranges from 2,700 to 3,400 feet. The highest summits are Schneeberg (3,461 feet) and Ochsenkopf (3,334). In their northern extremities the Fichtelgebirge are connected by intermediate chains, on the one hand with the Erzgebirge, and on the other with the Thuringian Forest. They are composed principally of granite and primitive crystalline slates, with bands and intrusions of gneiss, micaceous slates, basalt and some strata of the Tertiary Age (Oligocän). The climate is moist and disagreeable in the elevated sections; snow lies on the summits from October to May. The former rich ore deposits are now exhausted; quarrying, timbering and glass manufacture are the chief industries. Of recent years the Fichtelgebirge have come much into vogue with tourists. Consult Ruchdeschel, ‘Handbook of Bavaria.’
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Feuerbach, Anselm

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FEUERBACH, foi'ėr-bäH, Anselm, German painter: b. Spires, 12 Sept. 1829; d. Venice, 4 Jan. 1880. He studied at the art schools of Düsseldorf and Munich, and later at Antwerp and Paris. He worked at Carlsruhe, Venice, Rome and Vienna. His Roman period was productive of several splendid works, in which are apparent his close study of the Italian masters. He became professor at the Vienna Academy in 1873, but disappointed at the reception of one of his works resigned and removed to Venice. Among his principal works are ‘Iphigenia’ (Stuttgart); ‘Dante at Ravenna’ (Carlsruhe); ‘Medea’ (Munich); ‘The Concert’ (Berlin); ‘The Battle of the Amazons,’ ‘Pieta’ (Munich); ‘Symposium of Plato’ (Carlsruhe); ‘Ariosto at Ferrara’ (Munich).