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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Adams, George (d.1773)

​ADAMS, GEORGE, the elder (d. 1773), mathematical instrument maker to George III, obtained a world-wide reputation as a maker of celestial and terrestrial globes, and his ‘treatise describing and explaining the construction and use of new celestial and terrestrial globes’ passed through thirty editions. The book first appeared in 1766, and its dedication to the king has been attributed to Dr. Johnson. The thirtieth edition was issued in 1810, with a preface and additions by Adams's younger son Dudley. Adams was also the author of: 1. ‘Micrographia Illustrata, or the knowledge of the microscope explained’ (1746), which included ‘a translation of Mr. Joblott's observations on animalculæ,’ and passed through four editions between its date of publication and 1771. 2. ‘The Description and Use of a new Sea-quadrant for taking the altitude of the sun from the visible horizon’ (1748). 3. ‘The Description and Use of the Universal Trigonometrical Octant, invented and applied to Hadley's Quadrant’ (1753). Adams died in 1773, according to the statement of his second son, Dudley Adams, in his preface to the thirtieth edition of his work on the globes, and not in 1786 as previous biographers have stated.
[Dudley Adams's edition of the Treatise on the Globes (1810); A. de Morgan in S.D.U.K. Biog. Dict.; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Adams, John (1750?-1814)

​ADAMS, JOHN (1750?–1814), a voluminous compiler of books for young readers, was born at Aberdeen about 1750. Having graduated at the university there, he obtained a preaching license, and coming to London was appointed minister of the Scotch church in Hatton Garden. Subsequently he opened a school or ‘academy’ at Putney, which proved very successful. He died at Putney in 1814. Most of his numerous works passed through many editions, and were largely used in schools. Among them may be mentioned: 1. ‘The Flowers of Ancient History,’ 1788, reviewed in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ for April 1788 (lviii. 339). 2. ‘Elegant Anecdotes and Bon Mots,’ 1790. 3. ‘A View of Universal History’ (3 vols.), 1795, which includes a brief account of almost every country in the world down to the date of publication. 4. ‘The Flowers of Modern History,’ 1796. 5. ‘Curious Thoughts on the History of Man,’ 1799. 6. ‘The Flowers of Modern Travels’ (4th edition), 1802. Adams also published by subscription a volume of sermons dedicated to Lord Grantham in 1805, and he was the author of a very popular Latin schoolbook, entitled ‘Lectiones Selectæ,’ which reached an eleventh edition in 1823.
S. L. L.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Abbott, Edwin

1904 Errata appended.
​ABBOTT, EDWIN (1808–1882), educational writer, born in London on 1 May 1808, was from 1827 to 1872 head master of the Philological School in Marylebone. Besides elementary works on Latin and English grammar he compiled a ‘Complete Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope,’ which was published in 1875. He died on 12 May 1882.
[Personal information.]
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Abbott, Lemuel (1760-1803)

​ABBOTT, LEMUEL (1760–1803), portrait painter, was a son of a clergyman in Leicestershire —— most probably the Rev. Lemuel Abbott, vicar of Thornton [q. v.]. At the age of fourteen he became a pupil of Frank Hayman, after whose death, two years later, he returned to his parents, and by his own perseverance acquired the art of taking a correct likeness. About 1780 he settled in London, and resided for many years in Caroline Street, Bloomsbury. He was a frequent contributor to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy between 1788 and 1800. Although he lacked the taste and skill requisite for producing a good whole-length picture, the heads of his male portraits were perfect in their likenesses, particularly those which he painted from the naval heroes of his time. His portrait of the poet Cowper is well known, and the best likeness of Lord Nelson is from his hand. Many of the prints from his pictures are marked Francis Lemuel Abbott, but it is not known why he assumed this additional Christian name, which was not bestowed upon him at the font. Being of a penurious disposition, he employed no assistant, and consequently he was overwhelmed with commissions which he could not execute. Domestic disquiet, occasioned by his marriage with a woman of very absurd conduct, preyed upon his mind and brought on insanity, which at last terminated in his death in 1803.
[Edwards's Anecd. of Painters, 281; Pilkington's Dict. of Painters, ed. Davenport; Bryan's Dict. of Painters and Engravers, ed. Stanley; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists (1878).]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Abbott, Charles Stuart Aubrey

​ABBOTT, CHARLES STUART AUBREY, third Lord Tenterden (1834–1882), permanent under-secretary for foreign affairs, was the son of the Hon. Charles Abbott, brother of John Henry, second Lord Tenterden, and was born in London on 26 Dec. 1834. He was educated at Eton, and in 1854 entered the Foreign Office, where in 1866 he was appointed précis writer to Lord Stanley. On 10 April 1870 he succeeded to the peerage on the death of his uncle. In the following year he was employed as secretary to the joint high commission at Washington; subsequently he assisted the lord chancellor in preparing the statement regarding the Alabama claims, and at the general conference on the subject he acted as agent for Great Britain. He was assistant under-secretary for foreign affairs from 1871 to 1873, when he became permanent under-secretary. In 1878 he was a royal commissioner at the Paris Exhibition, and the same year was promoted to the rank of K.C.B. Lord Tenterden was a distinguished freemason, being installed provincial grand master of Essex 2 July 1879. He died 22 Sept. 1882.
[Times, 23 Sept. 1882; Foreign Office Sketches (1883), pp. 25–40.]
T. F. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Abbot, Robert (1588?-1662?)

​ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?), divine, has been strangely confused with others, e.g. with Robert Abbot, bishop of Salisbury, and with one of the humble ‘ejected’ of 1662 (Palmer's Nonconf. Mem. ii. 218); he has also been at different times erroneously separated into a Robert Abbot of Cranbrook, Kent; another of Southwick, Hants; a third of St. Austin's, London (the last being further described as a presbyterian, and as joining in the rebellion); while these were only the successive livings of the same Robert Abbot. He is also usually described as of the archbishop's or Guildford Abbots, whereas he was in no way related to them, albeit he acknowledges gratefully, in an epistle dedicatory of ‘A Hand of Fellowship to Helpe Keepe Ovt Sinne and Antichrist’ (1623, 4to), that it was from the archbishop he had ‘received all his worldly maintenance,’ as well as ‘best earthly countenance’ and ‘fatherly encouragements.’ The ‘worldly maintenance’ was the presentation to the vicarage of Cranbrook, of which the archbishop was patron. This was in 1616. He had received his education at Cambridge, where he proceeded M.A., and was afterwards ​‘incorporated’ at Oxford. His college remains unknown.
In 1639, in the epistle to the reader of his ‘Triall of our Church Forsakers,’ he writes: ‘I have lived now by God's gratious dispensation above fifty years, and in the place of my allotment two and twenty full.’ The former date carries us back to 1588–9, or probably 1587–8, as his birth-year; the latter to 1616–7, the year of his settlement at Cranbrook.
In his ‘Bee Thankfull London and her Sisters’ (1626), he describes himself as formerly ‘assistant to a reverend diuine . . . now with God;’ and the name on the margin is ‘Master Haiward of Wool Church’ (Dorset). This must have preceded his going to Cranbrook. He was also the author of ‘Milk for Babes, or a Mother's Catechism for her Children,’ 1646; and of ‘A Christian Family builded by God, or Directions for Governors of Families,’ 1653. Puritan though he was in his deepest convictions and mildly Calvinistic in his creed, he waged a prolonged warfare against the Brownists, and sought to cover their saintliest men and women with undeserved opprobrium.
He remained at Cranbrook till 1643, and in that year, having been called upon by the Parliament ‘rules’ to choose between two benefices, so as not to come under the ban of being a pluralist, he selected the far inferior living of Southwick, Hants. Later he succeeded the extruded Udall, of St. Austin's, London, where he continued ‘until a ripe old age.’ In 1657, in ‘Evangelical Peace,’ he is described as ‘pastor of St. Austine's, London.’ He disappears silently between 1657–8 and 1662. His books are terse and vivid, and fetch high prices on their rare occurrence.
[Brook's Puritans, iii. 182, 183; Abbot's MSS. as under Abbot, George (1603–1648); Walker's Sufferings, part ii. 183; Wood's Fasti, ed. Bliss, i. 323; Bodleian and Dr. Williams's Library Catal.; article in Encyc. Brit. (9th ed.) by present author, partly reproduced by permission of Messrs. A. & C. Black.]
A. B. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Abbot, William

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​ABBOT, WILLIAM (1789–1843), actor and dramatist, was born at Chelsea, and made his first essay on the stage at Bath in 1806. He remained a member of the Bath company for some seasons. For one night only he appeared at the Haymarket, in the summer of 1808, on the occasion of the benefit of Charles Young, the tragedian, returning afterwards to Bath. He reappeared at the Haymarket in 1810, and was first engaged at Covent Garden in 1812. He was a performer of light comedy and juvenile tragedy, but he took part in the melodramas which were then in vogue. He was assigned the part of Lothair upon the first production of the ‘Miller and his Men.’ For many years he continued to be a member of the Covent Garden company. ‘Mr. Abbot never acts ill,’ wrote Hazlitt in 1816. Macready, in his ‘Reminiscences,’ describing his own first appearance at Covent Garden in 1816 as Orestes in the ‘Distressed Mother,’ writes: ‘Abbot, as Pylades, was waiting for me at the side scene; and when the curtain had risen, grasping his hand almost convulsively, I dashed upon the scene,’ &c. Abbot was the original representative of Appius Claudius and of Modus in Sheridan Knowles's plays of ‘Virginius’ (1820) and the ‘Hunchback’ (1832). The critics applauded the spirit of his acting, and his ‘acute sense of propriety of emphasis.’ In 1827 Abbot was engaged, at a weekly salary of twenty napoleons, as stage manager of the English company visiting Paris, with Miss Smithson as their ‘leading lady.’ He played Charles Surface among other parts; but the ‘School for Scandal’ was little admired at the Salle Favart. The season concluded in Paris, Abbot, with others of the company, attempted to give English performances in certain of the chief towns of France; but the experiment was wholly unsuccessful, the company was disbanded, and the English actors, in a most necessitous condition, found their way home as best they could. Upon the first appearance of Miss Fanny Kemble in 1830 at Covent Garden, Abbot played Romeo to her Juliet. Leigh Hunt wrote of his performance: ‘Mr. Abbot has taken it in his head that noise is tragedy, and a tremendous noise he accordingly makes. It is Stentor with a trumpet. . . . We hear he is a pleasant person everywhere but on the stage, and such a man may be reasonably at a disadvantage with his neighbours somewhere.’ Abbot was the author of two melodramas, the ‘Youthful Days of Frederick the Great’ and ‘Swedish Patriotism, or the Signal Fire,’ produced at Covent Garden in 1817 and 1819 respectively, and both founded upon French originals. Abbot left England to try his fortune in America, meeting there with small success. He died at Baltimore in distressed circumstances, ‘shunned and neglected,’ it was said, ‘by those his former friendship served.’
[Biography of the British Theatre, 1824; Genest's History of the Stage in England, 1832; Donaldson's Recollections of an Actor, 1865.]
D. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Abbot, George (1603-1648)

1904 Errata appended.
​ABBOT, GEORGE (1603–1648), religious writer, has been persistently mistaken for other George Abbots. He is invariably described as a clergyman, which he never was, and as son of Sir Maurice (or Morris) Abbot, who had indeed a son George, but not this George. Similarly, in the bibliographical authorities, he is erroneously designated nephew of George (Abbot), archbishop of Canterbury. He was of a different family from both Sir Maurice Abbot and the archbishop. This George Abbot was son or grandson—it is not clear which—of Sir Thomas Abbot, knight, of Easington, East Yorkshire, and was born there in 1603–4, his mother (or grandmother) being of the ancient house of Pickering.
Of his early, as of his later education, nothing has been transmitted. Whilst his writings evidence ripe and varied scholarship and culture on somewhat out-of-the-way lines, e.g. Hebrew and patristic—there is no record of academic training.
He married a daughter of the once famous Colonel Purefoy of Caldecote, Warwickshire: and as the inscription on his tomb—still extant there—tells us, he bravely held the manorhouse against the Princes Rupert and Maurice during the great civil war.
As a layman and nevertheless a theologian and scholar of original capacity and remarkable attainments, he holds a unique place in the literature of the period. His ‘Whole Book of Job Paraphrased, or made easy for any to understand’ (1640, 4to), is in striking contrast with the prolixity of contemporary commentators and expositors. His ‘Vindiciæ Sabbathi’ (1641) had a deep and permanent influence in the long Sabbatarian controversy. His ‘Brief Notes upon the whole Book of Psalms’ (1651, 4to), as its date shows, was posthumous. He died 2 Feb. 1648.
A. B. G.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Abbot, John

​ABBOT, JOHN, B.D. (fl. 1623), poet, received his education at Sidney College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1606–7, M.A. in 1610, and B.D. in 1617. Having embraced the catholic religion, he retired to the Continent, and in 1623 was a member of the convent of St. John the Baptist at Antwerp. He is the author of a very scarce poetical work, entitled ‘Jesus præfigured; or a Poeme of the Holy Name of Jesus, in five bookes (the first and second bookes), by John Abbot, Permissu Superiorum,’ 1623, 4to. It is believed that no further portion of this almost unique poem was printed. The volume has two dedications: the primary one to Charles, Prince of Wales, in verse, signed with the author’s name; the second in the Spanish language, addressed ‘Á la serenissima Señora Doña Maria de Austria, Infanta de España, Princessa de Gales,’ dated from the convent of St. John the Baptist at Antwerp, 12 Nov. 1623. The date is remarkable as tending to prove that the news of the rupture of the match had not reached the last-named city at that date, and readily accounts for the work not being continued through the other three books. Charles left Madrid 8 Sept. O.S. 1623.
[Dr. Bandinel’s Sale Cat., lot 707; Sion Coll. Libr. B. 5, 12; Farr’s Jacobean Poetry, p. xliii, 353; Lowndes’s Bibl. Man. ed. Bohn.]
T. C.
# Daniel

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* A book of the Hebrew Bible; for versions, see Daniel (Bible).
* Biblical commentary and analysis
** "Daniel," in Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
** "Daniel, Book of," in Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
** "Daniel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
** "Daniel," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
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See also Additions to Daniel.
# Daniel (Bible)

Daniel is a book of the Hebrew Bible. It is universally accepted across all Jewish and Christian biblical canons, though the order of placement differs.
English-language translations of Daniel include:
* "Daniel" in the Wycliffe version of the Bible (1380s)
* "Daniel" in the Bishops' version (1568)
* "Daniel" in the Douay-Rheims version (1610)
* "Daniel" in the Authorized Version (1611)
* "Daniel" in the King James version (1769)
* "Daniel" in the American Standard version (1901)
* "Daniel" in the Jewish Publication Society version (1917)
* "Daniel" in the World English version (in progress since 1997)
* "Daniel" in the Wikisource edition (in progress since 2006)
* "Daniel" in the Literal Standard Version of the Bible (2020)

## See Also

* Additions to Daniel, chapters of disputed canonicity which are placed in a separate book or books.
** Susanna
** Bel and the Dragon
** The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children
* "Daniel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (includes a large section on the Book of Daniel)
* "Daniel, Book of," in Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
# Daniel Deronda (First Edition)

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* Volume II.
* Volume III.
* Volume IV.
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# Daniel Deronda (First Edition)/Volume 1

DANIEL DERONDA
BY
GEORGE ELIOT
VOL. I.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXXVI
ERRATUM IN BOOK II.
At p. 336, the quotation from Tennyson should read thus:
"This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things."
—Tennyson: Locksley Hall.
Book I.
* Chapter I.
* Chapter II.
* Chapter III.
* Chapter IV.
* Chapter V.
* Chapter VI.
* Chapter VII.
* Chapter VIII.
* Chapter IX.
* Chapter X.
Book II.
* Chapter XI.
* Chapter XII.
* Chapter XIII.
* Chapter XIV.
* Chapter XV.
* Chapter XVI.
* Chapter XVII.
* Chapter XVIII.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Barrett, Eaton Stannard

​BARRETT, EATON STANNARD (1786–1820), author of a poem on ‘Woman’ and of several clever political satires, was a native of Cork, where he was born in 1786. Very little is recorded of his life, but he attended for some time a private school at Wandsworth Common, where he wrote a play with prologue and epilogue, which was acted before the master and his family with considerable success. Although he entered the Middle Temple, London, he was apparently never called to the bar. In private his attractive manners and the worth of his disposition secured him many friends. He died in Glamorganshire of a rapid decline on 20 March 1820.
In 1810 Barrett published ‘Woman and other Poems,’ of which a third edition appeared in 1819, a new edition in 1822, and another in 1841. The poem is an enthusiastic eulogy on the virtues and graces of woman. The verse is influent and rhythmical, but in the artificial manner of Pope, and oratorical rather than poetic. Besides a mock romance, ‘The Heroine,’ which reached a third edition, Barrett wrote a large number of political satires, which, judging from the number of editions they passed through, achieved a great temporary success. The best known of these is ‘All the Talents, a Satirical Poem in Three Dialogues,’ written under the pseudonym of Polypus, in ridicule of the whig administration of the day. Among others of which he is known to be the author are ‘The Comet, a Satire,’ 2nd edition, 1808; ‘Talents run Mad, or Eighteen Hundred and Sixteen, a Satirical Poem by E. S. B.,’ 1816; ‘The Rising Sun, a Serio-comic Romance, by Cervantes Hogg, F.S.M.,’ 1807, 5th edition, 1809; and ‘The Setting Sun, or the Devil among the Placemen,’ by the same, 1809. He also wrote a comedy, ‘My Wife, What Wife?’ and a writer in ‘Notes and Queries’ supposes that he was also the author of ‘Tarantula, a Dance of Fools,’ 1809.
[Gent. Mag. xc. part i. 377; Notes and Queries, viii. 292, 350, 423, ix. 17, xi. 386, 2nd ser. ii. 36, 310; British Museum Catalogue.]
T. F. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Barrett, John (d.1810)

​BARRETT, JOHN (d. 1810), captain in the royal navy, a native of Drogheda, was made a lieutenant on 2 Nov. 1793, and having distinguished himself in command of the store-ship Experiment at the capture of St. Lucia, in June 1795, he was, on 25 Nov., advanced to the rank of post-captain. In October 1808 he had the dangerous task of convoying a merchant fleet of 137 sail through the Sound, then infested by the Danish gunboats. His force, quite unsuitable for the work, consisted of his own ship, the Africa, of 64 guns, and a few gun-brigs; in a calm, the small heavily-armed row-boats of the Danes had an enormous advantage, and in an attack on the English squadron on 20 Oct. they inflicted a very heavy loss on the Africa. In such a contest the English gun-brigs were useless, and the Danish boats, taking a position on the Africa's bows or quarters, galled her exceedingly; twice her flag was shot away, her masts and yards badly wounded, her rigging cut to pieces, her hull shattered, and with several large shot between wind and water; nine men were killed and fifty-three wounded. The engagement lasted all the afternoon. ‘Had the daylight and calm continued two hours longer, the Africa must either have sunk or surrendered; as it was, her disabled state sent the ship back to Carlscrona to refit.’ In 1810 Barrett had command of the Minotaur, 74 guns, and was again employed in convoying the Baltic trade. On a wild stormy night of December the ship was driven on the sands of the Texel and lost, with nearly 500 of her crew, Captain Barrett amongst the number. He is described as having acted to the last with perfect coolness and composure. ‘We all owe nature a debt,’ he is reported to have said; ‘let us pay it like men of honour.’
J. K. L.