Apocryphal biographies in the Dictionary of National Biography

Who was Apocryphal biographies in the Dictionary of National Biography?

There are apocryphal biographies in the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography, a major work on historical biography related to the United Kingdom. In other words there is a biography that presents a life of a person asserted to have existed, but the evidence for the person having lived has become regarded as tenuous or non-existent.

Examples are in s:Category:Apocryphal biographies, based on the updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, where the corresponding article casts serious doubt on the DNB assertions.