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Dunstable. Mun. bor. and mar- 

 ket town of Bedfordshire, England. 

 ft stands at the entrance of one of 

 the gaps of the 

 Chiltern Hills, 37 

 m. N. W. of London 

 by the L. & N.W. 

 and G.N. Rlys. 

 The parish church 

 of S. Peter is a part 

 of the Augustinian 



Siory founded by 

 enry I in 1131. 

 Here Cranmer held in 1533 the 

 court which dissolved the mar- 

 riage of Catherine of Aragon. Dun- 

 stable is situated at the crossing 

 point of Watling and Icknield 

 Streets and is thought to have 

 been a Roman station. The gram- 

 mar school, founded in 1715, was 

 rebuilt in 1888. Straw-plaiting and 

 printing are among the industries. 

 Market day, Wed. Pop. 8,057. 



DunstaShage. Ruined castle 

 of Argyllshire, Scotland. It stands 

 at the entrance to Loch Etive, 3 

 m. N.E. of Oban, and dates from 

 the 13th century. The traditional 

 seat of the kings of Dalriada, it was 

 wrested from the MacDougalls by 

 Robert Bruce in 1308, and was 

 garrisoned for the crown during 

 the risings of 1715 and 1745. It 

 figures in Scott's Lord of the Isles, 

 and was for a time the prison of 

 Flora Macdonald. The Stone of 

 Destiny, which now forms part of 

 the coronation chair at Westmin- 

 ster Abbey, reposed here before its 

 transference to Scone. 



Duns tall. Ward within the 

 borough of Wolverhamptoii, Staf- 

 fordshire. It has a station on the 

 G.W.R. See Wolverhampton. 



Dunstan (d. 988). English 

 saint. The son of a West Saxon 

 noble, he was born at Glastonbury. 

 where he was educated, and became 

 abbot about 945. The chief adviser 

 of King Eadred, he was banished 

 by his successor, Edwy, but recalled 

 by Edgar, who appointed him 

 bishop of Worcester in 957, bishop 

 of London in 959, and archbishop 

 of Canterbury in 961. From then 

 until 979 he was the most powerful 

 man in the country. He died 

 May 19, 988. Dunstan is credited 

 with skill as a metal-worker. 



Dunster. Market town of 

 Somersetshire, England. Situated 

 23 m. N.W. of 

 Taunton by 

 theG.W.ll.,it 

 is a quaint old 

 town, con- 

 taining many 

 interesting 

 buildings. 

 DunsterCastle 



dates from tlle 

 12th century, 

 and the Yarn 



Market, a wooden structure, from 

 the beginning of the 17th century. 

 Market day, Friday. Pop. 1,380. 



Dunsterville, LIONEL CHARLES 

 (b. 1865). British soldier. Born 

 Nov. 9, 1865, he was educated at 

 Westward Ho College, where he 

 had as a schoolfellow Rudvard 



are the ivy-clad ruins of a 13th cen- 

 tury Franciscan priory. Pop. 1 56. 

 Duo (Ital. ). Music for two voices 

 or instruments. See Duet. 



Duodecimal (Lat. duodecim, 

 twelve). System of notation in 

 which twelve is the base. The 

 base of the ordinary scale of nota- 

 t"i o n is ten. 

 1 Duodecimal 

 arithmetic is 

 sometimes used 

 for computations 

 involving feet 

 and inches... See 

 Notation. 



Dunstaffnage, Argyllshire. Ruins of the 13th century 

 castle on the shore of Loch Etive 



He was placed in charge of the 



Duodecimo 



(Lat. duodccimus, 

 twelf th ^Designa- 

 tion originally 

 applied to a book 

 each sheet of 

 which was folded 

 so as to make 



Kipling, who made him the hero of 12 leaves. Commonly it will mea- 

 Stalky & Co. Dunsterville entered sure 7 ins. by 4J ins. The word is 

 the R. Sussex Regt. in 1884, after abbreviated 12mo. or 12. See 

 which he joined the Indian army. Paper, Sizes of. 

 He served in the Waziristan ex- Dupanloup,FELixANTOiNEPHi- 

 pedition, 1894-95, on the N.W. LIBERT (1802-78). French bishop, 

 frontier, 1897-98; and in China, Born near Chambery, Jan. 3, 1802, 

 1900. In the early part of the Great he was ordained priest in 1825. 

 War he held various appointments 

 in India, then 

 went to Mesopo- 

 tamia, where in 

 1918 he com- 

 manded the ex- 

 pedition to Baku 

 (q.v.}. He became 

 a major-general in 

 June, 1918. See 

 his The Adven- 

 tures of Dunster- 

 force, 1920; With 

 the Persian Ex- 

 pedition, M. H. 

 Donohoe, 1919. 



D un s t o n . 

 Eccles. district 

 and village of 

 Durham, Eng- 

 land. It stands 



Little Seminary at Paris in 1837, 

 and founded the Academy of S. 

 Hyacinthe. He energetically advo- 

 cated freedom of education, and in 

 1849 became bishop of Orleans. 

 He became the leader of the 



Dunvegan, Isle of Skye. The old castle, seat of the 

 Macleods, seen from the shore 



Valentine 



L. C. Dunsterville, 

 British soldier 



on the Tyne, 2 m. S.W. of Gates - 

 head by the N.E.R. Pop. 9,209. 



Dunvegan. Sea-loch on the 

 N.W. coast of the Isle of Skye, 

 Scotland, penetrating inland for 

 7 m., with a breadth of 2J m. On 

 the E. shore is Dunvegan Castle, 

 long the seat of the Macleods. 



Dunwich. Coast parish and vil- 

 lage of Suffolk, England. It stands 

 on the North Sea, 4 m. S.W. of 

 Southwold. The chief town and 

 harbour and at one time the only 

 see of East Anglia, Dunwich has 

 suffered severely from sea en- 

 croachments, which at various 

 periods swept away the palaces and 

 houses and blocked up the harbour. 

 The last remains of the ruined 

 church of All Saints fell in 1920. 

 Near by, on the edge of the cliff, 



Gallican party 

 against the Ul- 

 tramontanes, 

 and strongly 

 opposed the 

 definition of 

 the infalli- 

 bility of the 

 | pope, though 

 i he submitted 

 to the decree 

 when it was 



Promulgated, 

 e was con- 

 & spicuous by 



