elections, but in 1796 was ousted from his office by ‘Sir’ Harry Dimsdale, a muffin-seller and dealer in tinware. This was the last election which took place at Garrett, though an unsuccessful attempt to revive the custom was made some thirty years after. In Charles Lamb's ‘Reminiscence of Sir Jeffery Dunstan,’ which appeared in Hone's ‘Every Day Book’ (vol. ii. cols. 842–4), reference is made to the attempt to bring Dunstan out on the Haymarket stage, in the part of Dr. Last. ‘The announcement drew a crowded house; but notwithstanding infinite tutoring—by Foote or Garrick, I forget which—when the curtain drew up, the heart of Sir Jeffery failed, and he faultered on, and made nothing of his part, till the hisses of the house at last in very kindness dismissed him from the boards. Great as his parliamentary eloquence had shown itself; brilliantly as his off-hand sallies had sparkled on a hustings; they here totally failed him’ (ib. col. 844). Dunstan died in 1797, and was buried in Whitechapel churchyard. Some curious illustrations from the drawings of Valentine Green, portraying the humours of a Garrett election, will be found in the ‘Book of Days’ (i. 662–3), and portraits of Dunstan are given in Hone's ‘Every Day Book’ (ii. 830) and Wilson's ‘Wonderful Characters’ (i. opp. 216). Foote attended the election in 1761, and in 1763 produced at the theatre in the Haymarket his comedy of ‘The Mayor of Garret,’ London, 1764, 8vo, which met with great success.
[Sir Richard Phillips's Morning's Walk from London to Kew (1820), pp. 76–81; Wilson's Wonderful Characters (1826), i. 216–20; Chambers's Book of Days (1864), i. 659–64; Hone's Every Day Book (1830), vol. i. col. 1245, vol. ii. cols. 819–66; Hone's Year Book (1832), cols. 1322–3; Gent. Mag. (1781), li. 304; The Mayor of Garratt, a comedy by Samuel Foote, with an historical account of the Mock Election (1831); this pamphlet is illustrated with designs by R. Seymour, and contains a portrait of Dunstan crying ‘Old Wigs.’]
DUNSTANVILLE, Lord (1757–1835). [See Basset, Francis.]
DUNSTER, CHARLES (1750–1816), miscellaneous writer, born in 1750, was the only son of the Rev. Charles Dunster, prebendary of Salisbury. He was admitted at Oriel College, Oxford, as a commoner in 1767, took his B.A. degree at the end of 1770, migrated early in 1771 to Balliol, and again in 1773 to Trinity. He was instituted to the Worcestershire rectories of Oddingley and Naunton Beauchamp in 1776, and in 1789 (Arnold, Petworth) to that of Petworth in Sussex. He became rural dean of West Sussex, and held the rectory of Petworth till his death in April 1816. He published:
- ‘The Frogs of Aristophanes,’ 1785.
- ‘Cider, a poem by John Philips, with notes provincial and explanatory, including the present most approved method of making cyder in Herefordshire,’ 1791.
- ‘Paradise Regained, with notes of various authors,’ 1795.
- ‘Considerations on Milton's early reading and the prima stamina of his Paradise Lost,’ 1800 (a work intended to show Milton's obligations to Joshua Sylvester).
- ‘A Letter on a Passage in St. Matthew,’ 1804.
- ‘Discursory Considerations on St. Luke's Gospel,’ 1805.
- ‘Discursory Observations on the evidence that St. Matthew's Gospel was the first written,’ 1806.
- ‘A Letter on the two last petitions of the Lord's Prayer,’ 1807.
- ‘A Letter on the incontrovertible Truth of Christianity,’ 2nd edition, 1808.
- ‘Considerations on the hypothesis that St. Luke's Gospel was the first written,’ 1808.
- ‘Points at issue between the Editor of Dr. Townson's Works and the Author of Considerations on the hypothesis, &c.,’ 1811.
- ‘Considerations on the Holy Sacrament,’ 1811.
- ‘Tracts on St. Luke's Gospel,’ 1812. This is merely Nos. 6, 7, 10, and 11 bound up together with a general preface.
- ‘A Synopsis of the three first Gospels,’ 1812.
- ‘Psalms and Hymns adapted for the use of a Parochial Church,’ 1812.
There is also a sonnet by Dunster on the death of George Monck Berkeley in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ for April 1795 (lxv. 328).
[Nichols's Lit. Anecd. ix. 236; Gent. Mag. May 1816, lxxxvi. (pt. i.) 492; Oriel, Balliol, and Trinity College MS. Admission Books.]
DUNSTER, HENRY (d. 1659), president of Harvard College, was the son of Henry Dunster of Balehoult, Bury, Lancashire. He received his academical education at Magdalene College, Cambridge, as a member of which he proceeded B.A. in 1630, M.A. in 1634. He took orders, but unable to submit to high church tyranny, he sought a home across the Atlantic in the summer of 1640. For a while he resided at Boston, of which he was admitted a freeman 2 June 1641. Soon after his arrival in America he was appointed, 27 Aug. 1640, president of the newly established Harvard College in the room of Nathaniel Eaton [q. v.], an office which his piety, learning, and administrative ability enabled him to fill with rare distinction. But having imbibed the principles of anti-pædobaptism, and publicly advocated them, he was persuaded, after a reign of fourteen years, to resign in favour of Charles Chauncy [q. v.],
