DUMOULIN, John Philip, Canadian Anglican bishop: b. Dublin, Ireland, 1836; d. 28 Mar. 1911. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and emigrating to Canada was ordained priest in 1863. He was appointed rector and canon of St. James's Cathedral, Toronto, in 1882, and in 1896 was elected third bishop of Niagara.
DUMOURIEZ, Charles d. ois, French general: b. Cambrai, 25 Jan. 1739; near Henley-upon-Thames, 14 March 1823.
He entered the army early in life and at 24 years of age had received 22 wounds, and was made a knight of Saint Louis. In 1772 Louis XV sent him with communications to Sweden, but he was arrested and for a long time confined in the Bastile. In 1789 we find him a principal director of the Jacobin club, composed of all who aspired to be accounted the friends of lib erty. He afterward became a minister of Louis XVI, when he strongly advised the monarch to yield the direction of the interior affairs of the kingdom to the council of the assembly then sitting, and to declare war against the foreign foes of France. The advice was disregarded and Dumouriez was dismissed. Still determined to devote himself to the service of the army, he proceeded to Valenciennes, where he soon gained fame by his valor and his firmness, dis played at the head of the French soldiers, hav ing succeeded Lafayette in the command of the Army of the North. He rendered very impor
tant service to his country by the stand he so skilfully made against the Prussian invaders in the forest of Argonne, in September 1792, the famous '
DUN Celtic dun, Irish clan, Gael dun, a hill, castle), a word used as a prefix or suffix in the names of cities as, in Augustodunum (Autun), and in many names in Scotland and Ireland, as in Dunblane, Dundee, Dundalk, Dunboyne, etc.