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Surnames: THU-UNW


THURSFIELD, James Richard, N.A.; formerly Fellow of Jesus Coll., Oxford; author of ‘Peel,’ part--author of ‘The Navy and the Nation.’

THURSTON, Prof. Robert Henry, C.E., A.M., LL.D.; Director of Sibley College, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University; some-time President Am. Society Mechanical Engineers; inventor of Testing Machines, etc. ; author of ‘Manual of the Steam Boiler,’ ‘History of the Steam Engine,’ ‘Materials of Engineering,’ etc.

THWING, The Rev. Charles Franklin, D.D., LL.D. ; President, Western Reserve University and Adelbert College; author of ‘American Colleges,’ ‘The Reading of Books,’ ‘Within College Walls,’ ‘American College in American Life,’ etc.

TIEDEMANN, H. Anglo-Dutch journalist; ex-President of the Foreign Press Association.

TIELE, C. P.; Theol.D., Litt.D., Hon. M.R.A.S.; Professor of the Science of Religion in the University of Leyden from 1877 ; author of ‘Outlines of History of Religion,’ ‘History of the Religion of Ancient Times,’ ‘Comparative History of Egyptian and Meso-potamian Divine Worship.’

TIELE, P. A. ; formerly Librarian, Utrecht Uni-versity; author of ‘Biographical and Historical Memoir on the Voyages of the Dutch Navigators,’ and of many articles on history and bibliography in various journals.

TILLEY, Arthur Augustus, M.A.; Fellow and Classical Lecturer, King’s College, Cambridge; author of ‘The Literature of the French Renaissance.’

TODD, J. Spencer Brydges, C.M.G.; Secretary, Dept. oi Agent-General for Cape of Good Hope in London ; Executive Commissioner, Paris, for Uni-versal Exhibition, 1878; author of ‘The Resident Magistrate at the Cape of Good Hope,’ ‘Handy Guide to Laws and Regulations at the Cape of Good Hope.’

TOMES, Charles Sissmore, M.A., F.R.C.S., F.R.S. ; Lecturer on Dental Anatomy at Dental Hospital of London; author of ‘A Manual of Dental Anatomy, Human and Comparative.’

TOZER, Rev. Henry Fanshawe, M.A.; Fellow and formerly Tutor of Exeter College, Oxford ; author of ‘Lectures on the Geography of Greece,’ ‘The Islands of the Aegean,’ ‘Classical Geography,’ ‘His-tory of Ancient Geography.’

TRAILL, James William Helenus. M.A., M.D., F.R.S. ; Regius Professor of Botany, University of Aberdeen, from 1877 ; author of many papers on botanical and zoological subjects in scientific journals.

TREBLE, Rev. Edmund John, A.K.C.L.; Engl-lish Chaplain, Wiesbaden ; author of ‘Plain Teaching about the Church of England,’ etc.

TRENT, William Peterfield, A.M., LL,.D. ; Prof. of English, Columbia University, New York; formerly editor of the ‘Sewanee Review’; author of ‘English Culture in Virginia,’ ‘Southern States-men of the Old Régime,’ ‘Life of William Gilmore Simms,’ ‘Robert E. Lee,’ etc.

TRIMEN, Henry M.B., F.L.S., F.R.S.; Lecturer on Botany at St. Mary’s Hospital ; Director of the Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon ; joint-author of the ‘Flora of Middlesex,’ and ‘Medicinal Plants’; author of ‘A Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon’; editor of the ‘Journal of Botany.’

TRIPP, Hon. Bartlett; late U.S. Minister to Austria; Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory, 1885-89.

TROLLOPE, Thomas Adolphus; author of ‘The Girlhood of Catherine de Medici,’ ‘Life of Pius the Ninth,’ ‘A Decade of Italian Women,’ ‘Beppo the Conscript,’ ‘Marietta,’ and many other novels.

TROTTER, Coutts, F.R.S.E.; Edinburgh.

TROTTER, Lieut.-Colonel Henry, C.B.; British Delegate on the European Commission of the Danube, and H.B.M. Consul-General for Rumania; served 1863-75 on great Trigonometrical Survey of India; accompanied mission to Yarkand and Kashgar, 1873-74; special service in China, 1876; additional military attaché at Constantinople during Turko-Russian War, 1877-78; Consul for Kurdistan, 1878-82; military attaché, Constantinople, 1882-89 ; Consul-General in Syria, 1890-94; has acted as H.M. Chargé d'Affaires at Bucharest; author of various papers contributed to the Royal Geog. Soc.

TROUP, Charles Edward, C.B., M.A.; Principal Clerk in the Horne Office from 1896; chairman of Committee on Identification of Habitual Criminals; editor of ‘Judicial Statistics of England and Wales,’ author of ‘The Future of Free Trade.’

TUKE, Sir John Batty, M.D., D.Sc., M.P.; Medical Superintendent, Saughton Hall Asylum, Edinburgh; Member of General Medical Council of Registration and Education ; Medical Superintendent of Fife. and Kinross Asylum, 1865-73: author of ‘Morrison Lectures,’ ‘Insanity of Over-exertion of the Brain.’

TULLOCH, Very Rev. John, D.D., LL.D.; Principal of St. Mary’s College, University of St Andrews; author of ‘Leaders of the Reformation,’ ‘English Puritanism and its Leaders,’ ‘Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century,’ ‘Pascal’; editor of ‘Fraser’s Magazine.’

TURNBULL, Hon. Justice; Pietermaritrzburg, Natal.

TURNER, Cuthbert Hamilton, M.A.; Fellow of Magdafen College, Oxford; co-editor of the ‘Journal of Theological Studies.’

TURNER, Frederick J., Ph.D.; Professor of American History, University of Wisconsin.

TURNER, Herbert Hall, D.Sc., F.R.S.; Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford; Fellow of New College, Oxford; member of Senate of Cambridge University; formerly Fellow of Trin. Coll., Camb., and chief assistant Royal Observatory, Greenwich; author of ‘Modern Astronomy.’

TURNER, Sir William, K.C.B., D.Sc., F.R.S.; Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh; editor of the ‘Journal of Anatomy and Physiology.’

TURNER, Rev. William; author of ‘Studies, Biblical and Oriental.’

TWISS, Sir Travers, Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S.; Fellow of University College, Oxford, 1830-63 ; Tutor, 1836-43; Drummond Professor of Political Economy, 1842-47 ; Professor of International Law, King’s Coll., London, 1852-55; Regius Professor of Civil Law, Oxford, 1855-70; author of ‘Epitome of Niebuhr’s History of Rome,’ ‘The Law of Nations considered as Independent Political Communities,’ and of many dissertations on international law.

TYLOR, Edward Burnett, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.; Professor of Anthropology, Oxford; Keeper of the University Museum since 1883 ; author of ‘Anahuac, Mexico and the Mexicans,’ ‘Researches into the Early History of Mankind,’ ‘Primitive Culture,’ ‘Anthropology,’ ‘The Natural History of Religion.’

U

UXITA, Goji; Chancellor of the Japanese Legation, London.

UNWIN, William Cawthorne, F.R.S., M.Inst.C.E.; Prof. of Civil and Mechanical Engineer-ing, Central Technical College, City and Guilds of London Institute; instructor at Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Kensington, 1868-72; Professor of Engineering, Central Technical Collegee of the Guilds of London, Kensingron, from 1885; President, Section G. British Association, 1892; author of ‘Wrought Iron Bridges and Roofs,’ Machine Design,’ ‘The Testing of Materials of Construction,’ ‘The Development and Transmission of Power from Central Stations,’ etc.


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