DAY, THOMAS ( 1748-89 ). An English au thor. He born in London, and was educated at Corpus Christi College. Oxford. lie strongly sympathized with the Americans at the time of the Revolutionary War and expressed his views in The Devoted Legions (1776), and The Desola tion of America (1777); hut he also strongly denounced American negro shivery in Reflections on the Present State of England and the Inde pendence of America (1702). lle will he re membered, however, chiefly as the author of the famous History ...,;onftford and Merton (3 vols., 1783-59) and the History of Little Jack (1788). He was a character of remarkable nobility and expended almost his entire fortune in pilnan throphy. His eccentricities, due to his refusal to compromise with worldliness, and his adherence to the doctrines of Rousseau, then recently pro mulgated, led him into many extraordinary ex periences. Ile was killed by being thrown from a fractious colt, while testing a theory that all animals could be managed by kindness. His
Poems may be found in vol. lviii. (1822) of the British Poets. Consult his Life. by Heir ( Lon don. 1791), and that by Blackman (London, 1862).
DAY, WILLIAAt Rurus (1849-1. An Ameri can statesman. He was horn at Ravenna, Ohio, graduated at the University of _Michigan in 1870. studied law at the same place, and in 1872 was admitted to the Ohio bar. As the nominee of both Republicans and Democrats he was elected, in 1856, to a judgeship in the Court of Common Pleas. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Sec retary of State, and in 1895 succeeded John Sherman as Secretary of State. Later in the year he resigned his secretaryship and was named chairman of the United States Peace Commission at Paris which arranged terms of peace with Spain. In 1899 he became judge of the sixth circuit of the United States Circuit Court.