a student at the Royal Academy, and in 1772 competed with John Flaxman [q. v.] for the gold medal given by the Royal Academy for a bas-relief of ‘Ulysses and Nausicaa.’ In this competition Engleheart was successful, to the bitter disappointment of Flaxman. He subsequently exhibited various busts and models in wax at the Royal Academy from 1773 to 1786, in which year or the following he died. There is in the National Portrait Gallery an oval medallion of Edward, duke of Kent, modelled in red wax by Engleheart in 1786.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Cunningham's Life of Flaxman; Royal Academy Catalogues; Cat. of the National Portrait Gallery; information from J. Gardner Engleheart, C.B.]
ENGLISH, HESTER. [See Inglis.]
ENGLISH, Sir JOHN HAWKER, M.D. (1788–1840), entered the employment of the king of Sweden as surgeon, and became surgeon-in-chief to the Swedish army. In recognition of his services he was decorated with the order of Gustavus Vasa in 1813, and, having received permission to accept it, was knighted by the prince regent in 1815. On leaving Sweden he graduated M.D. both at Gottingen (3 March 1814) and at Aberdeen (26 May 1823), being admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians on 25 June following. He resided at Warley House, Essex, but died 25 June 1840 while at St. Leonards-on-Sea.
[Munk's Coll. of Phys. iii. 276; Gent. Mag. new ser. xiv. 221.]
ENGLISH, JOSIAS (d. 1718?), amateur etcher, was a gentleman of independent means who resided at Mortlake. He was an intimate friend and a pupil of Francis Clein [q. v.], the manager of the Mortlake tapestry works, and etched numerous plates in the style of Hollar, after Clein's designs; these include a set of eleven plates, etched in 1653, entitled ‘Variæ Deorum Ethnicorum Effigies, or Divers Portraicturs of Heathen Gods,’ a set of four representing ‘The Seasons,’ a similar set of ‘The Four Cardinal Virtues,’ and a set of fourteen plates of grotesques and arabesques. His most important etching was ‘Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus,’ after Titian. He also etched a plate of a jovial man smoking, dated 1656, portraits of Richard Kirby, John Ogilby, and William Dobson; the last-named etching was long attributed to John Evelyn. There is in the British Museum a small mezzotint engraving by English. According to Vertue, English died about 1718, and left his property, which included a portrait of Clein and his wife and some samples of the Mortlake tapestry, to Mr. Crawley of Hempsted, Hertfordshire. His wife, Mary, died 21 March 1679–80, was buried at Barnes, Surrey.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Walpole's Anecdotes of Painters; Vertue MSS. (Brit. Mus. Addit. MSS. 23068, &c.); Andersen's Handbuch für Kupferstichsämmler; Manning and Bray's Hist. of Surrey, iii. 322.]
ENGLISH, WILLIAM (d. 1778), Irish poet, was a native of Newcastle, co. Limerick. After teaching schools at Castletownroche and Charleville, he finally entered the Augustinian order. He died at Cork 13 Jan. 1778, and was buried in St. John's churchyard. As a Gaelic poet of humble life English acquired considerable reputation. His best-known ballad, ‘Cashel of Munster,’ was translated by Sir Samuel Ferguson in ‘Lays of the Western Gael’ (1865), pp. 209–10.
[Alfred Webb's Compendium of Irish Biography, where John O'Daly's Poets and Poetry of Munster (Dublin, 1853) is cited.]
ENSOM, WILLIAM (1796–1832), engraver, in 1815 gained a silver prize medal from the Society of Arts for a pen-and-ink portrait of William Blake [q. v.], poet and painter. He is best known by some small and neatly finished engravings from portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence, including those of George IV, Master Lambton, Mrs. Arbuthnot, Marchioness of Salisbury, Lady Wallscourt, and others. He engraved ‘Christ blessing the Bread,’ after Carlo Dolce; ‘St. John in the Wilderness,’ after Carlo Cignani, and other subjects after Stothard, Smirke, Stephanoff, Bonington, and others; also plates for Neale's ‘Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen,’ and for annuals, such as the ‘Amulet,’ the ‘Literary Souvenir,’ &c. Ensom also painted in water-colours, and was an intimate friend of R. P. Bonington [q. v.] He died at Wandsworth on 13 Sept. 1832, aged 36. His collection of engravings and drawings was sold by auction on 12 Dec. 1832. He occasionally exhibited at the Suffolk Street Gallery.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1760–1880; Le Blanc's Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes; Gent. Mag. 1832, ii. 284.]
ENSOR, GEORGE (1769–1843), political writer, was born in Dublin, of an English father, in 1769. He was educated at Trinity College, where he proceeded B.A. 1790. He devoted himself to political writing, and produced a large number of works in which very ‘advanced’ views in politics and religion are
