Dubois, Cardinal, Prime Minister of France. An able statesman and a notorious debauchee (1656-1723).
Duke of Lancaster, Henry IV., the deposer and successor of Richard II.
Dumont, Pierre, a French writer who settled in England and became the translator and exponent of Bentham’s works to Europe (1759-1829).
Dundee, the persecutor of the Scottish Covenanters under Charles II
Dyer, John, author of some descriptive poems, e.g. Grongar Hill (1700-58).
ELDON, John Scott, Earl of, was in turn Solicitor-General, Attorney-General, Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas and Lord Chancellor, and throughout a staunch Tory (1751-1838).
Empson and Dudley, ministers and tax-raisers under Henry VII, executed by Henry VIII.
Ensign Northerton (see Fielding’s Tom Jones, VII. xii.-xv.).
Escobar, a Spanish Jesuit preacher and writer (1589-1669).
Escurial, the palace and monastery built by Philip II.