[Durgâ], in the Hindu mythology the consort of Siva.
[Durham] (15), an ancient city on the Wear, with a noble cathedral and a castle, once the residence of the bishop, now a university seat, in the heart of a county of the same name (1,106), rich in coal-fields, and with numerous busy manufacturing towns.
[Durham, Admiral], entered the navy in 1777; was officer on the watch when the Royal George went down off Spithead, and the only one with Captain Waghorn who escaped; served as acting-lieutenant of a ship under Lord Howe at the relief of Gibraltar, and commanded the Defence, a ship of 74 guns, at the battle of Trafalgar (1763-1815).
[Durham, John G. L., Earl of], an English statesman, born in Durham Co.; a zealous Liberal and reformer, and a member of the Reform Government under Earl Grey, which he contributed much to inaugurate; was ambassador in St. Petersburg, and was sent governor-general to Canada in 1839, but owing to some misunderstanding took the extraordinary step of ultroneously returning within the year (1792-1840).
[Durward, Quentin], a Scottish archer in the service of Louis XI., the hero of a novel of Scott's of the name.
[Düsseldorf] (176), a well-built town of Rhenish Prussia, on the right bank of the Rhine; it is a place of manufactures, and has a fine picture-gallery with a famous school of art associated.
[Dutens, Joseph], a French engineer and political economist (1763-1848).
[Dutens, Louis], a French savant, born at Tours; after being chaplain to the British minister at Turin, settled in England, and became historiographer-royal; was a man of varied learning, and well read in historical subjects and antiquities (1730-1812).
[Dutrochet], a French physiologist and physicist, known for his researches on the passage of fluids through membranous tissues (1776-1847).
[Duumvirs], the name of two Roman magistrates who exercised the same public functions.