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 catholic emancipation. Daniel died at Paris on 3 Oct. 1823.

He was the author of an ‘Ecclesiastical History of the Britons and Saxons,’ Lond. 1815, 8vo; new edit. Lond. 1824, 8vo.



DANIEL, NEHEMIAH (d. 1609?), archbishop of Tuam. [See .]

DANIEL, ROBERT MACKENZIE (1814–1847), novelist, born in Inverness-shire in 1814, was educated at Inverness, at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and at the university of Edinburgh, where he studied law for four years with the intention of becoming an advocate. Having abandoned this idea, and resolved to adopt literature as a profession, he came to London in 1836, contributed largely to the magazines, and was appointed editor of the ‘Court Journal.’ His first work of fiction, ‘The Scottish Heiress,’ appeared in 1843, and was followed in the same year by ‘The Gravedigger.’ In 1844 he removed to Jersey, where he produced ‘The Young Widow,’ which was most favourably received; and ‘The Young Baronet’ (1845) sustained the reputation of the author, who was styled the ‘Scottish Boz.’ In January 1845 he accepted the editorship of the ‘Jersey Herald,’ and he conducted that journal till September 1846, when he was overtaken by a mental malady and removed by his friends to Bethlehem Hospital, London, where he died on 21 March 1847, leaving a widow who was also distinguished as a novelist. A posthumous romance by him, entitled ‘The Cardinal's Daughter,’ appeared in 3 vols. London, 1847.



DANIEL, SAMUEL (1562–1619), poet, was born, in all probability near Taunton, in 1562. He afterwards owned a farm at Beckington, near Phipps Norton, Somersetshire, and was buried at Beckington. Hence Langbaine suggests that Beckington was his birthplace, but the parish register disproves the suggestion. Fuller was ‘certified by some of his acquaintance’ that Daniel was born ‘not far from Taunton.’ His father, John Daniel, was a music master, whose ‘harmonious mind made an impression on his son's genius, who proved an exquisite poet’. A brother, another John Daniel, was a musician of some note; he proceeded bachelor of music at Christ Church, Oxford, 14 July 1604, and published ‘Songs for the Lute, Viol, and Voice’ in 1606. In 1618 he succeeded his brother Samuel (see below) as inspector of the children of the queen's revels, and he was a member of the royal company of ‘the musicians for the lutes and voices’ in December 1625. A third John Daniel was in 1600 in the service of the Earl of Essex, and was fined and imprisoned for having embezzled certain of the earl's letters to his wife, and conspiring with [q. v.] to levy blackmail on the countess in 1601 (Egerton Papers, Camd. Soc. 321, 357–8).

Samuel went as a commoner to Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1579, when he was seventeen. ‘He continued [there] about three years, and improved himself much in academical learning by the benefit of an excellent tutor. But his glory being more prone to easier and smoother studies than in pecking and hewing at logic, he left the university without the honour of a degree, and exercised it much in English history and poetry, of which he then gave several ingenious specimens’. In 1585 he published his first book—a translation of a tract on devices or crests, called ‘Imprese,’ by Paulus Jovius (Paolo Giovio), bishop of Nocera. He described himself on the title-page as ‘late student in Oxenforde,’ and dedicated the book to ‘Sir Edward Dimmock, Champion to her majestie.’ A writer signing himself ‘N. W.’ and dating 22 Nov. from Oxford, prefixed a complimentary letter; the publisher was Simon Waterson of St. Paul's Churchyard, who afterwards undertook almost all Daniel's publications and became an intimate friend. In 1586 a Samuell Daniell was ‘servante unto my Lorde Stafford, her Majesties ambassadour in France,’ and was at Rye in September 1586 in the company of an Italian doctor, Julio Marino (, Elizabeth and her Times, ii. 315). It is possible that Lord Stafford's attendant was the poet. In the 1594 edition of Daniel's well-known collection of sonnets, entitled ‘Delia,’ those numbered xlvii and xlviii are headed respectively ‘At the Author's going into Italy,’ and ‘This sonnet was made at the Author's being in Italie.’ When this visit to Italy was paid is uncertain, but it was probably undertaken before 1590. Soon after that date the poet became tutor to William Herbert, afterwards well known as Shakespeare's patron, and resided at Wilton, near Salisbury, the seat of his pupil's father, the second Earl of Pembroke. With Mary, countess of Pembroke, Sir Philip Sidney's sister and young Herbert's mother, Daniel naturally found