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lawyer and author, born in 1812, died January 

 27, 1878. He was educated at Eton and King's 

 College, Cambridge, was called to the bar at 

 Lincoln's Inn in 1837, and was appointed in 

 1840 Professor of Ancient and Modern History 

 in the University of London. This post he 

 held for several years, and in 1800 was ap- 

 pointed Chief Justice of Ceylon. Among his 

 works are: "Fifteen Decisive Battles of the 

 World " (1851) ; " History of the Ottoman 

 Turks " ; " History of England " (vol. i. and ii., 

 1869-'70 ; was to be completed in 5 vols.) ; 

 and " Imperial and Colonial Constitutions of 

 the Britannic Empire " (1872). 



CRUIKSBANK, GEORGE, an English caricatu- 

 rist, born September 27, 1792, died February 1, 

 1878. At an early age he showed great talent 

 for art. Mr. William Hone, the celebrated 

 political publisher of that day, was the first to 

 perceive young Cruikshank's talents, and in- 

 troduced his earlier sketches to the public in 

 1819. In 1830 he produced some political illus- 

 trations ridiculing the Ministry, which were 

 said to have convulsed with laughter the per- 

 sons at whom they were directed, and to whom 

 they did great damage. His illustrations to 

 the novels of Dickens and Ainsworth gained 

 for him considerable renown ; and his temper- 

 ance sketches, particularly a series of eight 

 plates entitled "The Bottle," while they alien- 

 ated from him some of his former friends, have 

 done much to promote the temperance cause. 

 He was an ardent advocate of total absti- 

 nence. 



CUST, Sir EDWARD, a British general, born in 

 March, 1794, died January 14, 1878. He served 

 with the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula 

 during the campaigns of 1811 to 1814, and sat 

 in the House of Commons from 1818 to 1832. 

 He attained field rank in 1851, and was pro- 

 moted to lieutenant-general in 1859 and to full 

 general in 1866. As member of Parliament he 

 succeeded in maturing a system of public com- 

 petition for public buildings, under which he 

 was named a commissioner for rebuilding the 

 Houses of Parliament and for the selection of 

 the Wellington monument. He distinguished 

 himself as a military writer by his " Annals of 

 the Wars of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth 

 Centuries," and "Lives of the Warriors of the 

 Seventeenth Century " (3 vols.), for which 

 works he received from the Emperor of Aus- 

 tria the great gold medal of the empire. 



CZERMAK, JAROSLAY, a Bohemian painter, 

 born August 1, 1831, died April 23, 1878. He 

 excelled in genre painting, choosing for the 

 subjects of his pictures chiefly scenes from 

 Montenegro and the Herzegovina. His pic- 

 tures are full of life and action, intensely dra- 

 matic, with fine sentiment, and attract strong 

 personal sympathy for his characters. 



DATJBIGNY, CHARLES FRANQOIS, a French paint- 

 er, born February 15, 1817, died February 20, 

 1878. He was a pupil of Paul Delaroche, and 

 was represented in the Paris Exhibitions since 

 1838. Several of his landscapes had been pur- 



chased for the Ministry of the Interior, the 

 Tuileries, etc. He received a medal of the 

 first class at the Universal Exhibition of 1867, 

 besides several others at the Paris Exhibition. 

 Daubigny was generally regarded as one of the 

 first French painters of the naturalistic school. 

 See on his works, K. Daubigny, " Charles Dau- 

 bigny et son (Euvre " (Paris, 1875); Henriet, 

 " Charles Daubigny et son (Euvre grave " 

 (Paris, 1875). 



DAWSON, HENRY, a British landscape painter, 

 born in 1811, died December 13, 1878. He be- 

 gan life in a lace-factory, but the love of art 

 manifesting itself, he devoted his spare time 

 to painting, and adopted art as his profession 

 in 1835 ; but it was not until 1872 that his pic- 

 tures were placed on line at the Academy. 

 Among his paintings are " The Wooden Walls 

 of Old England," " The Rainbow," " The Rain- 

 bow at Sea," " The Pool from London Bridge," 

 " London at Sunrise," and " The Houses of Par- 

 liament." 



DELAFOSSE, GABRIEL, a French' scholar, born 

 in 1795, died October 14, 1878. He was Pro- 

 fessor of Mineralogy in the Normal School and 

 in the Faculty of Sciences in Paris, and was 

 the author of several text-books on natural 

 history which are very extensively used. He 

 was elected a member of the Academy of Sci- 

 ences in 1857. His literary reputation rests 

 especially upon his works on crystallography. 



DENFERT - ROCHEREATT, PIERRE MARIE PHI- 

 LIPPE ARISTIDE, a French soldier and legislator, 

 born January 11, 1823, died May 11, 1878. He 

 served with distinction in the Crimea, in Italy, 

 and in Algeria, but gained for himself the great- 

 est renown by his defense of Belfort in 1870. 

 In 1871 he was elected to the National Assem- 

 bly from three departments, accepting that from 

 Charente-Inferieure. He acted with the Left, 

 and was an ardent supporter of M. Thiers. 

 He was a member of all the different Chambers 

 of Deputies, representing Paris in the present 

 Chamber, which body had elected him quasstor. 

 He took an active interest in all the affairs of 

 the Reformed Church, of which he was a mem- 

 ber. 



DIETL, JOSEPH, an Austrian politician, born 

 in 1804, died January 18, 1878. He had been 

 Professor of Medicine in the University of 

 Cracow, mayor of that city, a member of the 

 Diet of Galicia and of the Austrian Reichsrath, 

 and was in 1869 created a member of the House 

 of Lords. He was the author of a number of 

 medical works, written partly in the German 

 and partly in the Polish language. 



DOR AN, JOHN, Ph. D., a British popular au- 

 thor, born in 1807, died January 25, 1878. He 

 first became known to the world of letters 

 as a contributor to the "Literary Chronicle." 

 Among his numerous works are : " Table Traits 

 and Something on Them" (1854), "Queens of 

 England of the House of Hanover" (1855), 

 "History of Court Fools" (1858), and "Lives 

 of the Princes of Wales" (1860). He was at 

 various periods acting editor of the " Athene- 



