HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 



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burn ; dethroned by the queen and her favo- 

 rite, Roger de Mortimer, 1326 ; murdered the 

 following year; III., 1312-77, son of Edward 

 II. ; proclaimed king in 1327 ; executed Mor- 

 timer, and imprisoned the queen-mother ; car- 

 ried on war with France -and won the great 

 victory of Crecy ; IV., 1441-83; V., 1470-83, 

 ascended the throne at the age of 13, assassi- 

 nated two months later ; VI., 1537-53. 



EDWARD, Prince of Wales (the Black 

 Prince), 1330-76, son of Edward II. ; partici- 

 pated in invasion of France, commanding the 

 main body of the English at Crecy ; won the 

 battle of Poictiers. 



EDWARDS, Amelia Blandford, 1831-92, 

 Eng. novelist. 



EDWARDS, Jonathan, 1703-58, Am. theo- 

 logian and metaphysician. 



EDWIN, 586? -633, king of Northumbria. 



EGMONT, Lamoral, Count, 1522-68, Flem- 

 ish statesman and soldier. 



ELIOT, John, "Apostle of the Indians," 

 1604-90, Eng. clergyman. . 



ELIOT, Sir John, 1590-1632, Eng. orator 

 and statesman. 



ELIZABETH, 1533-1603, queen of England; 

 daughter of Henry VIII. 



ELIZABETH PETROVNA, 1709-62, empress of 

 Russia ; daughter of Peter the Great. 



ELIZABETH, Saint, 1207-31, queen of Hun- 

 gary. 



ELLENBOROUGH, Edward Law, Lord, 1748- 

 1818, Eng. chief justice. 



ELLSWOBTH, Oliver, 1745-1807, Am. jurist 

 and statesman. 



ELLWOOD, Thomas, 1639-1713, Eng. Quaker 

 author. 



ELZEVIR, a celebrated family of printers 

 and publishers at Leyden, 1570-1680. 



EMERSON, Ralph Waldo, 1803-82, Am. es- 

 sayist, philosopher, and poet, and founder of 

 the " Transcendental " school of philosophy. 



EMMANUEL (the Great), 1469-1521, king of 

 Portugal. 



EMMET, Robert, 1780-1803, Ir. patriot and 

 orator ; became a leader of the ' ' United Irish- 

 men," and was implicated in the killing of 

 Lord Kilwarden, chief justice of Ireland, and 

 others ; although defending himself with great 

 eloquence, he was sentenced to death and paid 

 the penalty of his complicity. 



EMMET, Thomas Addis, 1764-1827, brother 

 of R. E. ; a leader of the "United Irishmen," 

 and imprisoned from 1798 till 1801 ; removed 

 to America in 1804, and was in 1812 elected 

 attorney-general of New York. 



ENCKE, Johann Franz, 1791-1865, Ger. as- 

 tronomer. 



ENDICOTT, John, 1589-1665., colonial gov- 

 ernor of Massachusetts. 



ENGHIEN, Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon, 

 Due d', 1772-1804, Fr. prince; executed by 

 order of Napoleon. 



ENOCH (or Henoch), 3378- . . . . B. C., 

 father of Methuselah ; translated at the age of 

 365. 



EPICTETUS, 60- , Gr. Stoic philos- 

 opher. 



EPICURUS, 3407-270 B. C., Gr. philoso- 

 pher ; founder of the Epicurean school. 



ERASMUS, Desiderius, 1466-1536, Dutch 

 scholar and printer of the firtt Greek New 

 Testament. 



ERASTUS, Thomas, 1524-83, Ger. physician 

 and writer. 



ERATOSTHENES, 276-196 ? B. C., Gr. ge- 

 ometer ; considered the founder of the science 

 of astronomy. 



ERIC THE RED, fl. 1000, Scandinavian nav- 

 igator ; discovered Greenland. 



ERICSSON, John, 1803-89, Sw. engineer and 

 inventor; constructed the first "Monitor," 

 with revolving turrets for guns, which de- 

 stroyed the Confederate iron-clad Merrimac. 



ERIGENA, Joannes Scotus, fl. 850, Ir. phi- 

 losopher. 



ERSKINE, Henry, 1746-1817, Scot, lawyer 

 and orator. 



ERSKINE, Thomas, Baron, 1750-1823, Scot, 

 lawyer and orator. 



ESCOBAR Y MENDOSA, Antonio, 1580-1669, 

 Sp. Jesuit and casuist. 



ESPARTERO, Joaquin Baldamero, Duke de 

 la Vittoria, 1792-1879, Sp. statesman and gen- 

 eral ; defeated the Carlists. 



ESSEX, Robert Devereux, second Earl of, 

 1567-1601, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth ; be- 

 headed for high treason. 



ESTAING, Charles Hector, Count d', 1729- 

 94, Fr. admiral ; beheaded. 



ESTERHAZY DE GALANTHA, Paul, 1635- 



1713, Hungarian governor-general. 



EUCLID OF ALEXANDRIA, fl. 300 B. C., Gr. 

 mathematician. 



EUGENE OF SAVOY (Prince Frangois Eu- 

 gene de Savoie-Carignan), 1663-1736, Austrian 

 general ; defeated the Turks at Peterwardein 

 in 1716, and at Belgrade in 1717. 



EULER, Leonard, 1707-83, Swiss mathema- 

 tician. 



EURIPIDES, 480-406 B. C., Gr. tragic poet ; 

 mediator between ancient and modern drama. 



EUSEBIUS PAMPHILI, 266-340?, ecclesiastical 

 historian, and bishop of Caesarea. 



EVANS, Marian C. (George Eliot), 1820- 

 81, Eng. novelist; the daughter of a clergy- 

 man ; lived with George H. Lewes, as his wife, 

 for several years, and after his death married 

 J. W. Cross. 



