Brummel
GEORGE BRYAN (the sometime famous BEAU BRUMMEL), born in London, June 7, 1778. He was educated at Eton, and there formed intimacies with the younger nobility of the day. On his father's death, inheriting a reer as a man of fashion, and became the fortune of about $150,000, he began his caintimate associate of the Prince of Wales (afterward George IV.). He it was who inaugurated the reign of dandyism, and for a period of 20 years exercised almost despotic sway over English society in the matter of dress. His fortune being soon swallowed up, he maintained his position a rupture with the Prince, oppressed by in society by his success at play. After debt, and the falling off of former friends, he retired to Calais, and afterfriends, he retired to Calais, and after- 30, 1840.
British consul, and where he died, March ish Protectorate in the N. W. of Borneo, till 1888 nominally an independent Mo. hammedan territory, whose sultan was formerly overlord of the whole island.
Area, about 4,000 square miles; pop. est. at 30,000, divided into trade castes. The name, is a miserable, dirty town, built capital, Brunaï, on a river of the same ployed in surgery to include all such in- BRUNANBURGH on piles, with about 10,000 inhabitants, who trade with Singapore. See BORNEO. a