Sir Nathaniel Dance Holland

Sir Nathaniel Dance Holland, an English artist, born in London in 1734, died in Winchester in 1811. He was the son of George Dance, the architect of the mansion house in London, and early devoted himself to painting, passing several years in Italy in the study of his art. On his return to England ho distinguished himself as a painter of portaits, of which that of Garrick as Richard III. affords a good example, and also of history and landscape. By his captivating figure and address he was enabled to secure the hand of Mrs. Dummer, a wealthy Yorkshire heiress, after which he relinquished his profession, assumed the name of Holland, was made a baronet, and entered parliament. He still exhibited occasionally as an amateur.

Sir Neil Campbell

Sir Neil Campbell, a British officer, born about 1770, died in Sierra Leone, Aug. 14, 1827. He served in the West Indies, became colonel of Portuguese infantry, and took part in the peninsular campaigns against the French. He was subsequently attached to the Russian army to report upon its force and military operations, and was appointed by the British government a commissioner to accompany Napoleon from Fontainebleau to Elba. He subsequently served under the duke of Wellington in Flanders till the second entry into Paris. In 1815 he was sent to explore the course of the Niger, and in 1826 was made governor of Sierra Leone.

Sir Paul Rycaut

See Ricaut.

Sir Predate Price

Sir Predate Price, an English author, born at Foxley, Herefordshire, in 1747, died there, Sept. 11, 1829. He was educated at Oxford, and in 1780 appeared as the translator of Pau-sanias, in "An Account of the Statues, Pictures, and Temples in Greece." His fame rests upon his "Essay on the Picturesque, as compared with the Sublime and Beautiful, and on the Use of Studying Pictures for the purpose of improving Real Landscapes" (1794). In 1828 he was made a baronet.

Sir Proby Thomas Cautley

Sir Proby Thomas Cautley, an English engineer and palaeontologist, born at Roydon in 1802, died at Sydenham, Jan. 25, 1871. He was the son of a clergyman, studied at the Charterhouse, London, and at Addiscombe, entered the Bengal artillery in 1819, and served in Oude (1820-'21), and at the siege of Bhurt-pore (1825-'6). He was subsequently employed in the department of public works in India, and acquired eminence by projecting and completing the Ganges canal (1848-'54). He was knighted after his return to England in 1854, became a member of the Indian council in 1858, and chairman of its committee on public works in 1859. He presented to the British museum a large collection of fossil mammalia, and wrote much on Hindoo palaeontology and on kindred topics for the periodicals of scientific societies.

Sir Ralph Sadler

Sir Ralph Sadler, an English statesman, born in Hackney, Middlesex, in 1507, died at Standon, Hertfordshire, March 30, 1587. Henry VIII. employed him in the dissolution of the religious houses, and he shared in the spoils. Between 1537 and 1543 he was sent on several diplomatic journeys to Scotland. In 1547 he distinguished himself at the battle of Pinkie, and was knighted. The king named him in his will one of 12 councillors to the 16 nobles to whom the care of the kingdom was intrusted. On the accession of Mary he retired to his estate near Hackney. When Elizabeth came to the throne he was called into the privy council, and on the imprisonment of Mary queen of Scots in the castle of Tutbury, he was appointed her keeper. After the execution of Mary he was sent to Scotland to pacify King James. - See his "State Papers and Letters," edited by Arthur Clifford, with a memoir and notes by Walter Scott (Edinburgh, 1809).