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Dadd

British  
/ dæd /

noun

  1. Richard. 1817–86, British painter of mythological and fairy scenes. He was committed to an asylum for patricide

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“No judge likes the idea of people spending huge amounts to legally brag about their own self-imagined genius,” said David Ruck, a partner and divorce specialist at law firm Gordon Dadd.

From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2017

Capt Christopher Dadd was in the operations room when he realised what was happening, the inquest was told.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2012

Few English artists can have received a more crushing valediction than this, written in an art journal in 1843, on a 26-year-old painter named Richard Dadd.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dadd spent the last 40 years of his life in madhouses, dying all but forgotten in Broadmoor in 1886.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dadd, is worth many times the cost of the book!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various