DUNBLANE 



Allan Ramsay in a country house. 

 His poetical genius, influenced by 

 Chaucer, was many-sided ; the 

 rich allegorical poem The Thistle 

 and the Rose is far removed from 

 the grim humour of The Dance of 

 the Seven Deadly Sins, or the 

 serious pieces, such as The Passion 

 of Christ. See Poems, ed. J. Small 

 (for the Scottish Text Society). 

 1884-93. 



Dunblane. Town and police 

 burgh of Perthshire, Scotland. It 

 stands on Allan Water, 5 m. N.N. W. 

 of Stirling on the 

 C.R. It has a 

 hydropathic es- 

 tablishment and 

 a mineral |pa. 

 Once the seat of a 

 bishopric, its ca- 

 thedral is one of 

 the few which es- 

 Dunblanearm* C aped destruction 

 at the Reformation ; restored in 

 1893, it is now the parish church. 

 Robert Leighton, bishop 1661-70, 

 is commemorated by the Leigh- 

 tonian library, Bishop's Walk and 

 Bishop's Well. The Queen Vic- 

 toria Military School (opened 

 1908) is 1 m. N. of the town, and 

 the battlefield of Sheriff muir (1715) 

 is 2 m. to the E. Many of the 

 people work in the woollen mills. 

 Market day, Thurs. Pop. 4,591. 



Duncan (d. 1040). King of the 

 Scots. He succeeded his grand- 

 father Malcolm II as king in 1034. 

 Little is known of him except that 

 he was slain by Macbeth, thane 

 of Cawdor, Cawdor Castle being the 

 traditional scene of the crime. 

 Shakespeare's version of the tra- 

 gedy is based on legend. 



Duncan, ADAM DUNCAN, VIS- 

 COUNT (1731-1804). British sailor. 

 Born at Lundie, Forfar, July 1, 1731, 

 he entered the 

 navy in 1746. 

 He was present 

 at the actions of 

 the Basque 

 Roads (1757), 

 Goree (1758), 

 and the block- 

 ade of Brest 

 (1759). After 

 Viscount Duncan, his return to 

 British sailor Great Britain 

 After noppncr (1761 )he sawno 

 further service until 1778, when he 

 was appointed to the Suffolk. In 

 1782 he became first lord of the 

 Admiralty, and in the Blenheim 

 took part in the relief of Gibraltar. 

 In 1795, promoted admiral, he 

 hoisted his flag on the Venerable 

 as commander-in-chief in the North 

 Sea. On Oct. 11, 1797, he obtained 

 a decisive victory over the Dutch 

 fleet off the village of Camperdown. 

 For this he was created Viscount 

 Duncan of Camperdown. He died 



2722 



Dunblane. The town seen from the north-west, with 



a view of the 13th century cathedral 

 suddenly Aug. 4, 

 1804. -See Camper- 

 down, Battle of; 

 Camperdown, Earl 

 of ; consult also 

 Life, 3rd Earl of 

 Ca m p e rdown. 

 1898. 



Duncan, 

 GEORGE (b. 1883). 

 British golfer. 

 Duncan was 

 seventh in the 

 Open Champion- 

 ship in 1907, and 

 played for Scot- 

 land against Eng- 

 land in 1906, 1907, 

 1909, and 1910. 

 He won the Belgian Open Cham- 

 pionship in 1912, and the follow- 

 ing year was French champion. 



He won the 



Open Cham- 

 pionship at 



Deal in July, 



1920. Duncan, 



who became 



professional at 



Hanger Hill 



golf club, wrote 



George Duncan, Golf for Wo- 

 British golfer men, 1914. 



Arthur Bawe, D U n C a n, 



ISADORA ( b. 1880). American 

 dancer. One of the most interesting 

 figures in the history of dancing, 

 she was born at San Francisco, 

 and made her first appearance in 

 Chicago in 1899 without much suc- 

 cess. In Europe, however, she 

 attained great popularity, appear- 

 ing in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. 

 Petersburg, and London. Her ideal 

 of dancing derived from nature 

 through Greek art created a great 

 impression. Isadora Duncan lived 

 for some years in Paris, and founded 

 there, and at Griinewald, near 

 Berlin, a dancing school where 

 children received free board and 

 education. 



Duncan, THOMAS (1807-45). 

 Scottish painter. Bom at Kin- 

 claven, Perthshire, May 24, 1807, he 

 began to study art under Sir William 



DUNC.KER 



Allan at the Tnis- 

 t e e s' Acadenry, 

 Edinburgh. H e 

 was made a mem- 

 ber of the Royal 

 Scottish Academy 

 in 1830, and suc- 

 ceeded Allan as 

 master of the 

 Trustees' A c a d - 

 emy. In 1843 he 

 was elected A. R. A. 

 His large and 

 spirited painting of 

 Prince Charles 

 Edward and his 

 Highlanders en- 

 tering Edinburgh 





Duncansby Head, Caithness. View of the cape 

 two of the Stack rocks 



Valentine 



after the Battle of Prestonpans is 

 one of his best works. He died Jvt 

 Edinburgh, May 2o, 1845. 



Duncansby Head. Promon- 

 tory of Caithness, Scotland, the 

 N.E. extremity (210 ft. high) of 

 the mainland. Off the head are 

 the Stacks, 

 three small F 

 rocks, and 

 about 2 m. to 

 the W. is John o' 

 Groat's House. 



Dun cia d, 

 THE. Satiric 

 poem by Alex- 

 ander Pope, 

 first published 

 anon ymously, 

 May 28, 1728. 



The poet, who had been vulgarly 

 abused by hack-writers of the time, 

 unmercifully retaliated on them in 

 this poem. 



Duncker, MAXIMILIAN WOLF- 

 GANG (1811-86). German historical 

 writer. He was born in Berlin, Oct. 

 15, 1811, and became professor 

 of history at Halle in 1842, and sat 

 as a Liberal in the Prussian legis- 

 lature from 1849-52. Appointed 

 professor at Tubingen, 1857, he 

 resigned the post to enter the 

 ministry of state in Berlin in 1859. 

 He was director of the Prussian 

 state archives from 1867-74. He 

 died July 21, 1886. His chief works 



Thomas Duncan, 

 Scottish painter 



Self-portrait 



