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• Dacre, Lady, see Brand, Barbarina.
• Dall’Ongaro, Francesco (1808–73), Venetian poet and patriot. In AB-4.
• Daly, Patrick (d. 1856), groundsman and dairyman at Hope End.
• Dante, Alighieri (1265–1321), Italian poet.
• Darley, George (1795–1846), poet and writer.
• Darley, William Henry (1798–1857), artist and critic. In AB-3, AB-4.
• De Morgan, Augustus (1806–71), mathematician and historian.
• De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth (née Frend, 1809–92), wife of Augustus De Morgan.
• De Quincey, Thomas (1785–1859), essayist.
• de Salis Soglio, Julia (néeBayford, 1814–98), EBB’s cousin.
• De Staël, Anne Louise Germaine, see Staël, Anne Louise Germaine de.
• de Vere, Aubrey Thomas (1814–1902), poet and dramatist. In AB-3, AB-4, AB-5.
• Deffell, Justina (1808–76), artist.
• Defoe, Daniel (né Foe, 1660?–1731), writer and businessman.
• Delaroche, Paul (1797–1856), French artist.
• Delavigne, Casimer (1793–1843), French dramatist and poet.
• Demosthenes, (384–322 B.C.), Greek statesman.
• Dickens, Catherine Thomson (née Hogarth, 1815–79), wife of Charles Dickens.
• Dickens, Charles (1812–70), novelist. In AB-2, AB-3, AB-4, AB-5. See biographical sketch.
• Didier, Alexis (1826–86), French clairvoyant.
• Dilke, Charles Wentworth (1789–1864), newspaper editor and writer. In AB-1, AB-3, AB-4.
• Disraeli, Benjamin (1804–81), Earl of Beaconsfield, prime minister and novelist.
• Dixon, William Hepworth (1821–79), barrister, historian and traveller. He edited The Athenæum from 1853 to 1869. In AB-5, AB-6.
• Dobell, Sydney Thompson (1824–74), (pseud. “Sydney Yendys”), poet and literary scholar.
• Domett, Alfred (1811–87), writer and premier of New Zealand. In AB-2, AB-5, AB-6. See biographical sketch.