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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Ellys, John

​ELLYS or ELLIS, JOHN (1701–1757), portrait-painter, born in March 1700-1, was, when about fifteen years old, placed for instruction under Sir James Thornhill, with whom he did not stay long, and for a short time under Johann Rudolph Schmutz. He subsequently became an imitator of John Vanderbank and was a student with Hogarth and others in the academy started in October 1720 by Cheron and Vanderbank in St. Martin's Lane. After a few years Ellys and Hogarth succeeded to the directorship of this academy, and maintained their connection with it for about thirty years. When young Ellys obtained a special warrant to copy any pictures at the royal palaces for study, and copied several pictures by Vandyck, Kneller, Lely, and others. He was a zealous adherent of the Kneller school of portrait-painting, and resented the departure from it inaugurated by Sir Joshua Reynolds. He eventually succeeded to Vanderbank's house and practice, and having already purchased from Moses ​Vanderbank a share of the place of tapestry-maker to the crown, eventually obtained that position also. Ellys was consulted and employed by Sir Robert Walpole in the formation of his celebrated collection of pictures, and among other similar charges was especially sent over to Holland to purchase from the Princess of Friesland the great picture of 'The Virgin and Angels' by Vandyck, now in the Hermitage Gallery at St. Petersburg with the rest of the Houghton collection. For these services Ellys was rewarded by Walpole with the sinecure of master keeper of the lions in the Tower, which he held up to his death. He had, in October 1736, succeeded Philip Mercier as principal painter to Frederick, prince of Wales, He was a member of the committee of artists appointed in 1755 to frame a plan for constructing a royal academy, but did not survive to see any result of their efforts, as he died on 14 Sept. 1757. Ellys, who was usually known as 'Jack Ellys,' was a good and careful portrait-painter of the rather uninteresting school to which he belonged. There is a good portrait group of Lord Whitworth and his nephew, dated 1727, by him at Knole in Kent. Many of his portraits were engraved by John Faber, jun. Among these were Lavinia Fenton, duchess of Bolton, James Figg, the famous pugilist, Frederick, prince of Wales, Henry Medley, George Oldham, Lord Mayor Humphrey Parsons. William Wake, archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Walker, the actor, as Captain Macheath, Robert Wilks, the actor, and George Stanhope, dean of Canterbury. The last named was also engraved by J. Sympson. Among engravings by other artists from Ellys's portraits were Kitty Clive, by J. Tinney; Sir Charles Wager, by G. White; and Edmund Gibson, bishop of London, by G. Vertue.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Vertue MSS. (Brit. Mus. Addit. MSS. 23068 &c.), Gent. Mag. 1767, xxvii. 436: Chaloner Smith's British Mezzotinto Portraits.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Elmer, Stephen

​ELMER, STEPHEN (d. 1796), painter, resided at Farnham in Surrey, where he was a maltster. He turned his hand to painting, and developed a special power in depicting still life and dead game, and was perhaps the most successful painter in this line that England has produced. He was a member of the Free Society of Artists in 1763, and exhibited numerous pictures up to 1772, when he first began to exhibit at the Royal Academy, of which he was elected an associate in that year. From that time to 1795, the year before his death, he contributed a great number of pictures, which were very popular, and were painted in a bold, free manner, and with great truth to nature. He did not confine himself entirely to still life, but occasionally painted genre pictures, such as 'The Miser' (engraved by B. Granger), 'The Politician' (engraved by T. Ryder), scripture pieces, such as 'The Last Supper,' formerly over the altar, but now in the vestry of Farnham Church, and portraits. Some of his still-life pictures were engraved by J. Scott, J. F. Miller, C. Turner, and others. Elmer died and was buried at Farnham in 1790. He does not appear to have been married, but left his property, including a large collection of his own paintings, to his nephew. The latter were collected, and exhibited at the great room in the Haymarket in the spring of 1799, under the title of 'Elmer's Sportsman's Exhibition.' Some of these were disposed of for good prices, and the remainder were removed to Gerrard Street, Soho, where they were accidentally destroyed by fire on 6 Feb. 1801.
William Elmer, usually called the son of the above, but more probably his nephew, was a painter of the same class of subject. He practised in Ireland, and occasionally exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1783 and 1799. There is a small mezzotint portrait of him as a schoolboy, dated 26 June 1772, and engraved by Butler Clowes [q.v.]
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Edwards's Anecdotes of Painting; Sandby's Hist. of the Royal Academy; Royal Academy Catalogues; information from the Rev. Canon Philip Hoste.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Elmes, James

​ELMES, JAMES (1782–1862), architect and antiquary, son of Samuel Elmes, was born in London 15 Oct. 1782, admitted into Merchant Taylors' School in April 1796, and subsequently became a pupil of George Gibson, and a student of the Royal Academy, where he gained the silver medal for an architectural design in 1804. Between 1808 and 1814 he exhibited designs at the Royal Academy, was vice-president of the Royal Architectural Society in 1809, and surveyor of the port of London — posts which loss of ​ sight compelled him to relinquish in 1848. He designed and erected a good many buildings in the metropolis, but devoted most of his attention to the literature of art. He was a frequent contributor to architectural and antiquarian periodicals, and from 1816 to 1820 was editor of 'The Annals of the Fine Arts,' the first periodical work of its kind. In this Elmes was the constant champion of his friend B. R. Haydon [q. v.], and of the Elgin marbles. Many of Haydon's papers were printed by Elmes, who through Haydon made the acquaintance of Keats; the latter's odes 'To the Nightingale' and 'On a Grecian Urn,' and also his sonnets 'To Haydon' and 'On seeing the Elgin Marbles,' first appeared in the 'Annals;' also Wordsworth's sonnets 'Upon the Sight of a Beautiful Picture' and 'To B. R. Haydon, Esq.' Late in life Elmes employed his pen upon theological topics, writing upon the 'Hebrew Poetry of the Middle Ages,' and compiling a 'Harmony of the Gospels.' He died at Greenwich 2 April 1862. and was buried at Charlton, having outlived his son, Harvey Lonsdale Elmes [q. v.], an architect of great promise, many years.
Elmes's chief works are: 1. 'Hints on the Improvement of Prisons,' 1817, 4to; a popular treatise on dilapidations (3rd ed. 1829). 2. 'Lectures on Architecture,' 1823, 8vo.' 3. 'Memoirs of the Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren,' 1823, 4to (enlarged ed. 8vo, 1852). 4. 'The Arts and Artists,' 3 vols. 12mo, 1825. 5. 'A Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts,' 8vo, 1826. Also 'Elmes's Quarterly Review' and 'Thomas, Clarkson, a Monograph.' His latest work was 'The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ rendered into out own narrative,' 1856, 12mo.
C. J. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dalgliesh, William

​DALGLEISH, WILLIAM, D.D. (1733–1807), theological writer, was educated at the university of Edinburgh; ordained to the ministry of Peebles in 1761, and remained in that charge till his death in 1807. ‘He was distinguished by superior endowments of mind, eminent qualifications for the ministry, fervent piety, persuasive eloquence, sweet temper, and unwearied diligence.’ He received the degree of D.D. from the university of Edinburgh in 1786. He wrote: 1. ‘The True Sonship of Christ investigated,’ London, 1776, anon. [This work was animadverted on by the Rev. Adam Gib in ‘An Antidote against a New Heresy concerning the true Sonship of Jesus Christ; as also an Appendix concerning the Wonderful Theory of Animalcular Generation, as lately brought in by a clergyman of the Church of Scotland, for the proper ground of the Fundamental Article of the Christian Religion. By Adam Gib, Minister of the Gospel at Edinburgh.’ It was also attacked by Rev. Michael Arthur, Peebles, in ‘The Scripture Doctrine of the Eternal Generation of Christ as the Son of God vindicated in answer to a late treatise entitled “The True Sonship,” &c.’] In reply Dalgliesh published: 2. ‘The Self-existence and Supreme Deity of Christ defended,’ Edin. 1777. 3. ‘Sermons on the Chief Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion,’ 4 vols. Edin. 1799–1807. 4. ‘Religion, its Importance, &c.’ Edin. 1801. 5. ‘Addresses and Prayers,’ Edin. 1804.
W. G. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dale, Thomas (1729-1816)

Later editions give a different date of birth and father.
​DALE, THOMAS, M.D. (1729–1816), physician, was the son of Dr. Thomas Dale, of Charlestown, South Carolina, who was a justice of the peace and a member of the upper house of assembly, who seems to have been nephew to Samuel Dale of Braintree [q. v.] He was born in 1729 at Charlestown, but came to England at an early age and entered St. Paul's School. Proceeding to the university of Edinburgh about 1770, he took the degree of M.D. on 12 June 1775, his dissertation being on erysipelas. He became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1786, and subsequently practised in the city of London. A good linguist and classical scholar, he was one of the originators of the Literary Fund, and from 1790 he acted for many years as registrar to the society. He died at his house in Devonshire Square, Bishopsgate, on 21 Feb. 1816, and was buried in Bunhill Fields.
[Munk's Coll. of Phys. ii. 362.]
G. S. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dall, Nicholas Thomas

​DALL, NICHOLAS THOMAS (d. 1777), landscape-painter, was a Dane, who settled in London about 1760. He was a member of the Society of Artists. In 1761 he exhibited a ‘Piece of Ruins’ at the exhibition of that body. In 1768 he obtained the first premium of the Society of Arts for landscape-painting. He was elected associate of the Royal Academy in 1771 and exhibited constantly till his death. He was scene-painter at Covent Garden Theatre, and found there his principal employment. He exhibited at the Academy some Yorkshire landscapes, in which county he was employed by the Duke of Bolton, by Lord Harewood, and others. He died in Great Newport Street in the spring of 1777, leaving a widow and young family, for whom the managers of Covent Garden Theatre gave a benefit.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dale, Samuel

​DALE, SAMUEL (1659?–1739), physician, son of North. Dale, of St. Mary, Whitechapel, silk-thrower, was born between 1658 and 1660. Apprenticed for eight years to an apothecary in 1674, we find him practising as a physician and apothecary at Braintree, Essex, in 1686 (Ray, Hist. Plant. vol. i. preface); but there is no evidence that he was born at that place, that he took a doctor's degree, or that he became a member of the Society of Apothecaries or a licentiate of Royal College of Physicians. Both in the ‘Historia’ and in the two editions of the ‘Synopsis Stirpium Britannicarum’ Ray acknowledged the valuable assistance he had received from Dale's critical knowledge of plants, and it is from the letters of the latter to Sir Hans Sloane that we learn many particulars of the last hours of the great naturalist, whose friend, neighbour, and executor he was. Dale's own chief work was the ‘Pharmacologia,’ which first appeared in 12mo in 1693, a supplement being published in 1705, a second edition in 1710, a third, in quarto, in 1737, and others after the author's death. It is the first systematic work of importance on the subject. His nine contributions to the ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ between 1692 and 1736, deal with a variety of subjects, biological and professional, the most important, perhaps, being an account—the first published—of the fossil shells of Harwich Cliff (Phil. Trans. vol. xxi. No. 249, p. 50, and vol. xxiv. No. 291, p. 1568). In 1730 Dale published the second great work of his life, ‘The History and Antiquities of Harwich and Dovercourt,’ by Silas Taylor, his own appendix to which exceeds in bulk the main work, and is a most complete account of the natural history of the district. This book reached a second edition in 1732. Dale died on 6 June 1739, and was buried in the Dissenters' burial-ground, Bocking, near Braintree. His herbarium, bequeathed to the Apothecaries' Company, is now in the British Museum, and the neat and elaborate tickets to the plants, many of which he obtained from the Chelsea garden, and numerous correspondents, show him to have been a botanist of no mean calibre. An oil-painting of Dale is preserved at Apothecaries' Hall, and an autotype, from the engraving by Vertue in the third edition of the ‘Pharmacologia,’ is prefixed to the memoir of him in the ‘Journal of Botany.’ His contributions to the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ have caused him to be erroneously described as a fellow of the Royal Society. Linnæus commemorated his services to botany in the leguminous genus Dalea.
[Journal of Botany, xxi. (1883), 193–7, 225–231.]
G. S. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dalison, William

​DALISON, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1559), judge, younger son of William Dalison of Laughton, Lincolnshire, sheriff and escheator of the county, by a daughter of George Wastneys of Haddon, Nottinghamshire, entered Gray's Inn in 1534, where he was called to the bar in 1537, elected reader in 1548 and again in 1552, on one of which occasions he gave a lecture on the statute 32 Henry VIII, c. 33, concerning wrongful disseisin, which is referred to in Dyer's ‘Reports’ (219 a) as a correct statement of the law. He took the degree of serjeant-at-law in 1552, receiving from his inn the sum of 5l. and a pair of gloves. In 1554 he was appointed one of the justices of the county palatine of Lancaster. In 1556 he was appointed a justice of the king's bench and knighted. His patent was renewed on the accession of Elizabeth (November 1558). He died in the following January, and was buried in Lincoln Cathedral. By his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Dighton of Sturton Parva, Lincolnshire, who survived him and married Sir Francis Ayscough, he had issue four sons and five daughters. His descendants settled in Kent, and are now represented in the female line by Maximilian Hammond Dalison of Hamptons, near Tunbridge. Dalison compiled a collection of cases decided during the reigns of Edward VI and Philip and Mary (Harl. MS. 5141). His so-called ‘Reports’ were published in the same volume with some by Serjeant Benloe in 1689; but the greater portion of those attributed to Dalison were decided after his death.
[Wotton's Baronetage, i. 180; Allen's Lincolnshire, i. 33; Berry's County Genealogies (Kent) 180; Dugdale's Orig. 137, 293; Dugdale's Chron. Ser. 89, 91; Cal. State Papers (Dom. 1547–80), p. 61; Dyer's Reports, 123 a; 4th Rep. Dep.-Keeper Pub. Rec. app. ii. 255; Peck's Desid. Cur. Lib. viii. No. iv. 6; Burke's Landed Gentry; Foss's Lives of the Judges.]
J. M. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dale, Thomas (d.1619)

​DALE, Sir THOMAS (d. 1619), naval commander, was already well known as a soldier in the Low Countries, when, in 1609, he was sent out to Virginia as marshal of the colony, the government of which was ​then reorganised on a military footing under Lord De la Warr. In 1611 De la Warr's health broke down, and he was compelled to return to England. Dale was, at the time, absent, having been sent home for provisions and reinforcements. He soon, however, returned, and, finding the old anarchy threatening to break out again, assumed the post of governor. With a severity that was considered excessive, but appears to have been necessary, Dale speedily restored order, and under his rule the colony began to prosper. In August 1611 he was relieved by Sir Thomas Gates, whom he again succeeded in 1614, and for two years ruled the colony ‘with firmness and ability.’ In 1616, being ‘well satisfied with the results of his administration,’ he was able to return to England, taking with him Thomas Rolfe and his more celebrated wife, the ‘Princess’ Pocahontas. In 1618 Dale was appointed commander of a squadron of six ships, which the East India Company sent out in April, to maintain their interests against the aggressive policy of the Dutch and for the relief of Courthope [see Courthope, Nathaniel], reported to be beleaguered in Pularoon. Dale arrived at Bantam in November 1618, and on 23 Dec. engaged the Dutch fleet off Jacatra, the site of the modern Batavia. After a sharp action he put it to flight, and laid siege to the Dutch fort at Jacatra, in the swamps around which he seems to have contracted the sickness of which, in the course of the following summer, he died at Masulipatam.
[Gardiner's Hist. of England, ii. 60–2, iii. 156–80; Calendars of State Papers (East Indies).]
J. K. L.
# Who's Who in the Far East/STANLEY, Rev. Charles A.

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​ STANLEY, Rev. Charles A. (TIENTSIN), M.A., D.D.; Clergyman and Missionary; b. June 24, 1835; m. Feb. 19, 1862. Educ.: Marietta ​College, Marietta, Ohio, U.S.A. Arrived at Shanghai, Dec. 24, 1862; had charge of several station schools at various times but chiet work evangelistic; has done much touring in country districts; at Tientsin has been occupied in streets, chapel, and church work. Publications: A few tracts in Chinese;" Terms for God and Spirit in Chinese." Address: Tientsin, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/SOPER, Rev. Julius

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​ SOPER, Rev. Julius (TOKYO), A.B., A.M., D.D.; Dean of Aoyama Theol. Sch.; b. Feb. 15, 1845, at Poolesville, Maryland; m. May 20, 1873, Mary Frances Davison. Educ.: Georgetown Coll., D.C.;Drew Theol. Seminary, N.J., U.S.A. Arrived in Japan in 1873, and prosecuted evangelistic work in connection with Meth. Epis. Ch. until 1895; closely identified with national temperance movement in Japan since 1890; from 1895 to the present time has been engaged in educational work; witnessed the great procession headed by the Emperor and Empress when the new Constitution of Japan was promulgated, Feb. 11, 18S9; present on the platform at Hibiya Park, Tokyo, when Admirals Togo and Kamimura were publicly welcomed, autumn of 1905; twice ministerial delegate from Japan Annual Conf. to Gen. Conf., U.S.A., 1892 and 1900; present at Ecumenical Miss. Conf. at New York, April, 1900; has shaken hands with five Presidents of U.S.A.: Buchanan, Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland and McKinley. Publication a: Numerous translations of religions works into Japanese. Address: No. 4, Aoyama Gakuin, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/SPOONER, Charles Edwin

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​ SPOONER, Charles Edwin (KUALA LUMPUR), C.M.G., M.I.C.E.; General Manager, Federated Malay States Railways; b. Nov. 22, 1853. Connected with Survey and Public Works Department, Ceylon, 1875-1892; seconded as State Engineer, Selangor, 1891; appointed State Engineer, 1892; General Manager of Federated Malay States Railways, since 1901. Address: Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Federated Malay States.
# Who's Who in the Far East/SPROULE, Percy Julian

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​ SPROULE, Percy Julian (SINGAPORE), B.A., Cambridge; F.M.S. Civil Service. Barrister-at-law, Middle Temple; cadet, Straits Settlements, Nov., 1896; acting Deputy Registrar of Supreme Court, Penang, March, 1897; passed final examination in Malay, March, 1899; after filling various positions was appointed Deputy Public Prosecutor, Singapore, 1906. Club: Singapore. Address: Singapore, Straits Settlements.
# Who's Who in the Far East/SQUIBBS, Dr. Walter

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​ SQUIBBS, Dr. Walter (MIENJUH), L.R.C.P., Edinburgh, L.R.C.S., Edinburgh, L.F.P. and S., Glasgow; Medical Missionary; b. Oct. 19, 1873; m. 1901, Meriel Catherine, e. d. of Rev. Gowan Ghmour, Arehdeacon of Rousseau, Ont., Canada, and g. d. of Sir Nicholas Aylward, of Shankhill Castle, Co. Kilkenny. Educ.: Dr. Morgan's,Grammar School, Bridgwater; London Uuiversity, Gold Medallist and Sen. Scholar in Anatomy, Edinburgh, School of Medicine, 1893; Pattison Bursar. Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1894. Demonstrator, Edinburgh School of Medicine, 1894; Prosector, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1894; joined Church Mission Society, 1896; ordained Deacon by Bishop of London, 1901; ordained Priest by Bishop of West China, 1903. Address: Church Mission Society Mienjuh, Chungking, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/SPICER-SIMSON, Lieut-Commander

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​ SPICER-SIMSON, Lieut-Commander ( see: SIMSON. LJKUT.-COMMANDER GEOFFREY B. SPICER).
# Who's Who in the Far East/ST. CLAIR, William Graeme

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​ ST. CLAIR, William Graeme (SINGAPORE), Journalist; b. March 27, 1844, s. of late John St. Clair, F.R.G.S., F.E.I.S. Educ.: Royal High School, Edinburgh; Edinburgh Institution; Ewart Institution; Edinburgh University. Head Master, Moulmein Town School, Burmah, 1874; original member Moulmein V.R., 1877 ( shot for India, Kolapore Cup Team, at Wimbledon, 1885); Editor, Singapore "Free Press," since Feb., 1867; personally interested in formation of Singapore V.A., 1887 and Straits Settlements Association, Singapore branch, 1889, Singapore Philharmonic Society 1891, Hongkong-Singapore-Shanghai Rifle matches (shot for Singapore team for 10 years, five as Captain); arranged Burmese melody," "Kayathan "(subsequently adopted by Imperial Government as Burmese National Anthem), during occupation of Upper Burmah, 1886, for which received thanks of India office; during Pahang disturbances, 1892, served from July 11 to Nov. 4, as acting assistant Commissioner, 1st Perak,Sikhs, with Pahang Expeditionary Force under Lieutenant-Colonel R. S. F. Walker, C.M.G.; was in executive charge of Raub district and chief transport and commissiariat officer to expedition; also led expedition from Raub into almost unknown and difficult country and captured large body of rebels; received thanks of H.E. the Governor for services; at request of Government carried out organisation and equipment, Singapore V.R., 1901. Clubs: Singapore; Sports, London. Address: "Clay more," Orchard Road, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
# Who's Who in the Far East/SOWERBY, Rev. Arthur

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​ SOWERBY, Rev. Arthur (TAIYUENFU), Missionary; b. Oct. 15, 1857; m. Louisa Clayton, d. of J. Clayton, of Maidenhead. Educ.: St. John's Wood, Collegiate Sch.; Regents Park Coll., London. Missionary in Shansi, North China, since 1881; sole survivor of Eng. Bap. Miss., in Shansi, after the massacre of 1900. Address: Taiyuenfu, Shansi, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/SOYEDA, Juichi

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​ SOYEDA, Juichi (TOKYO), LL.D.; President of Industrial Bank; b. Aug., 1SG4, in Fuknoka-ken. Educ.: Tokyo Imp. Univ.; Cambridge, England. Was long in Jap. Gov. Service; appointed President of Formosan Bank, June, 1899; appointed chairman of Organisation Committee of Japan Industrial Bank and appointed its president when formally started, 1902; took active part in work of monetary reform in Japan. Address: Tokyo, Japan.