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Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Pierre Paul Prud'hon , 1758-1823, French painter; 13th child of a Cluny stonemason. He gained recognition in 1796 with Truth Descending from the Heavens Led by Wisdom (Louvre). A favorite of two empresses, Josephine and Marie Louise, he received many commissions for the decoration of public and pr...
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University of Prince Edward Island
University of Prince Edward Island at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; founded 1969 with the merger of Prince of Wales College (est. 1834) and St. Dunstan's Univ. (est. 1855). It has faculties of arts, sciences, business administration, education, ...
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Edward Dowden
Edward Dowden , 1843-1913, English critic, b. Ireland. He is best known as a Shakespearean scholar and as a biographer of Shelley (1886).
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Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. , 1900-1949, American statesman and industrialist, b. Chicago. He held (1926-34) several executive posts in the General Motors Corp., and in 1938 he became chairman of the board of the U.S. Steel Corp. He resigned (1940) as a business executive to join the National Defe...
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Lake Edward
Lake Edward or Edward Nyanza 830 sq mi (2,150 sq km), in the Great Rift Valley, central Africa, on the Congo-Uganda border. It lies at an altitude of c.3,000 ft (910 m), is c.50 mi (80 km) long, and has a maximum width of c.30 mi (48 km). Lake Edward is connected with the Nile system by the Sem...
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Piers Gaveston
Piers Gaveston , d. 1312, favorite of Edward II of England. Son of a Gascon knight at the court of Edward I, he was a boyhood playmate of the future Edward II and acquired great influence over him. Edward I exiled him (1307), but he returned on his friend's accession later in the year. He was made...
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Edward Hodges Baily
Edward Hodges Baily 1788-1867, English sculptor. He studied under Flaxman. One of his best works is the statue of Admiral Nelson in Trafalgar Square, London. Other works include decorations for Buckingham Palace; numerous portrait busts and statues; and Eve at the Fountain, Psyche, and Helen and...
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Edward Boscawen
Edward Boscawen , 1711-61, British admiral. He was a popular naval hero, famous for his decisive courage displayed against France and Spain at Portobelo (1739), Cape Finisterre (1747), and Lagos Bay (1759). He is noted also for attempts to improve health conditions in the fleet.
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Edward Capell
Edward Capell , 1731-81, English Shakespearean scholar. His 10-volume edition of Shakespeare (1768) was the first to incorporate exact collations of all available old texts. He followed this with a commentary, Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare (3 vol., 1783).
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Sir Edward Dyer
Sir Edward Dyer 1543?-1607, Elizabethan poet. A friend of Sidney and Spenser, he was celebrated in his day as an elegist. His best-known poem is "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is."
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