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Lloyd, David

(Encyclopedia) Lloyd, David, c.1656–1731, political leader in colonial Pennsylvania, b. Wales. Having been commissioned attorney general of Pennsylvania by William Penn, Lloyd arrived in Philadelphia…

Mendel, David

(Encyclopedia) Mendel, David: see Neander, Johann August Wilhelm.

Diamond, David

(Encyclopedia) Diamond, David, 1915–2005, American composer, b. Rochester, N.Y. Diamond was trained at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School; he also studied with Roger Sessions in…

Davis, David

(Encyclopedia) Davis, David, 1815–86, American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1862–77), b. Cecil co., Md., grad. Kenyon College, 1832; cousin of Henry Winter Davis. In 1836 he…

Dale, David

(Encyclopedia) Dale, David, 1739–1806, Scottish cotton manufacturer and philanthropist. In 1785 he built New Lanark, a cotton mill and model community that provided his employees with good housing…

Dubinsky, David

(Encyclopedia) Dubinsky, DavidDubinsky, Davidd&oomacr;bĭnˈskē [key], 1892–1982, American labor leader, president (1932–66) of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), b. Brest-…

Douglas, David

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, David, 1798–1834, Scottish botanist. He made several journeys in North America between 1823 and 1834 to study American plants and sent to Scotland more than 200 plants and…

Leslie, David

(Encyclopedia) Leslie, David, d. 1682, Scottish military commander. After serving in the Swedish army, he was a major general under his uncle, Alexander Leslie, 1st earl of Leven, in the Scottish…

Einhorn, David

(Encyclopedia) Einhorn, DavidEinhorn, Davidīnˈhôrn [key], 1809–79, Jewish theological writer and leader of the Reform movement in Judaism in the United States. Born in Bavaria, he studied philosophy…

Bomberg, David

(Encyclopedia) Bomberg, David, 1890–1957, English artist. Bomberg was apprenticed to a lithographer in 1905 and studied under Walter Sickert at the Westminster School of Art. His abstract works are…