Disraeli, Benjamin. 1804-81. English radical Imperialist Tory Prime Minister 1868,74-80. Suez Purchase. Novelist:Henrietta Temple 1837. Sybil. Coningsby. Lothair 1870.

Dobson, Frank. 1888-1963. English modernist sculptor.

Dodgson, Charles. (Lewis Carroll). 1832-98. English author: Alice in Wonderland 1865.

Donne, John. 1572-1631. English metaphysicist. Dean of St. Paul’s 1621-31. Elegies, Songs, Sonnets, Devotions. “No man is an island.”

Douglas, Clifford. 1879-1952. English. Conceived Social Credit theory. Economic Democracy 1920.

Douglas, Gawin. c1474-1522. Scottish poet. First English translation of Aeneid.

Doulton, John. 1563-1626. English song composer.

Dowson, Ernest. 1867-1900. English Decadent poet. -“I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion”.

Drake, Francis. 1540-96. English pirate/explorer. Sailed around the world 1580. Vice Admiral at defeat of Spanish Armada, 1588. Privateers.

Draper, John. 1811-82. English/US chemist: first photographic portrait 1840. 1st photo of moon 1840.

Drinkwater, John. 1882-1937. English dramatist: Abraham Lincoln 1918.

Drury Lane. 1663. Oldest English theatre, London. Rebuilt 1674, 1812.

Du Maurier, Daphne. 1907-89. English author. Rebecca 1938.

Dunkirk, Treaty. 1947. 50 yr. English-French alliance.

Dunstable, John. c1380-1453. Early English polyphonic choral composer.

Duval, Claude. 1643-70. French/English gallant highwayman.

Eben, Abba. 1915-. English/Israeli statesman, diplomat.

Ederle, Gertrude. 1906-. US. First woman to swim the English Channel, 1926.

Edgar. 943-975. English King, 959-. First coronation (Bath) of a king of all England.

Edgeworth, Richard. 1744-1817. English. Semaphore 1767.

Edmund II Ironside. c993-1016. English King 1016. Defeated by Canute 1016, kept Wessex.

Eleanor of Aquitaine. Divorced from Louis VII 1152 after accompanying him on Second Crusade. Married Henry II of England, bringing Aquitaine under English crown...Angevin Empire. Mother of Richard I. Led 1173 revolt vs husband, Henry II.

Elgar, Edward. 1857-1934. Choral composer. Established a new English tradition: Dream of Gerontius 1900, Apostles 1903, Kingdom 1906.

Eliot, George. (Mary Ann Evans). 1819-90. English psychological novelist: Adam Bede 1859; Silas Marner 1861. Translated Strauss.

Eliot, John. 1592-1632. English Puritan leader. Parliamentary liberties.

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