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Gloucester and Bristol became vacant he received the 

 appointment, to the surprise of his contemporaries in 

 the Church, who were still more astonished when a 

 little more than a year later he was promoted to be 

 Archbishop of York. It came to be known at a later 

 period that his advancement was due to the friendship 

 and admiration of the Queen. While he was Bishop 

 of Gloucester and Bristol he edited a book called 

 " Aids to Faith," written in answer to l< Essays and 

 Keviews." As Archbishop of York he displayed 

 executive ability, good sense, tact, and moderation. 

 He came into conflict with some of the clergy of his 

 diocese through his rigid evangelical Broad Church 

 orthodoxy, and in a mandamus suit before the civil 

 court he argued and won the case without the aid of 

 lawyers. Dr. Thomson's published sermons and 

 theological essays were numerous. He was the pro- 

 jector of the " Speaker's Commentary," for which he 

 prepared the u Introduction to the Gospels." 



Tollemache, John, Baron, of Helmingham Castle, 

 Suifolk, an English agriculturist, born at his father's, 

 seat Leasowes, Salop. England, Dec. 5, 1805 ; died at" 

 Peckforton Castle. Cheshire. Dec. 9, 1890. He was 

 the eldest son of Admiral John .Richard Delap Holli- 

 day. and changed his patronymic for the surname of 

 Tollemache, in right of his mother, Lady Jane Tolle- 

 mache, daughter and co-heiress of Lyonel, third Earl 

 of Dysart. When only nineteen years of age lie won 

 a 100-yard race against the most noted professional in 

 England, and for several years he drove the London 

 mail to Ipswichj gaining, before he was thirty, the 

 reputation of being the finest whip and the hand- 

 somest man of his time. He maintained his love of 

 field sports and of driving a four-in-hand to the very 

 last. Nothing, as he told the writer, delighted him 

 more than the success of his sons in the cricket fields 

 and other games at Eaton and Oxford. Lord Tolle- 

 mache was the model landlord of England. Mr. 

 Gladstone, who was for many years his London ten- 

 ant, has repeatedly directed attention to the consum- 

 mate skill with which he administered his two large 

 estates Helmingham. in Suffolk, comprising about 

 7,000 acres, and Peckforton, in Cheshire, 26.000. Al- 

 though the most uncompromising of Tories, he divided 

 his vast properties into small holdings, allotted three 

 acres to each laborer for garden, grazing, and tillage, 

 demanded that a cow and a pig be kept, had his ten- 

 ants taught butter and cheese making, and allowed 

 them time to cultivate their holdings, the results of 

 his liberal policy appearing in a large increase of the 

 valuation of his property and the most prosperous 

 and contented tenantry in Great Britain. He provid- 

 ed mixed schools for the education of the farmers' 

 and laborers' children: but alter the buildings were 

 erected on both estates, the tenant farmers objected to 

 sending their sons to the same schools with the 

 laborers' children. Lord Tollemache immediately 

 solved the ditficulty by; sending his own sons to the 

 schools, and, as he said, " to their own undoubted 

 advantage." He was twice married, and had perhaps 

 the most patriarchal family in England twenty-three 

 sons and a daughter. He traveled in this country and 

 Mexico in 1850, and was entertained at the White 

 House during the brief presidency of Gen. Taylor, and 

 received much attention from Webster, who made his 

 acquaintance during his visit to Europe in 1839. 

 Lord Tollemache, who was for many years member 

 of Parliament for South, and afterward for West 

 Cheshire, was created first Baron Tollemache of Hel- 

 mingham, Jan. 17, 1876. He was buried in the 

 beautiful family chapel there, six of his sons and six 

 of the tenantry acting as pall-bearers, and by the side 

 of his gallant kinsman Gen. Talmash, who, says 

 Macaulay. " perished by the basest of all the hundred 

 villains of Marl borough." 



Trbltsch, Anton, Freiherr von, a German physician, 

 born in Schwabach, April 3. 1829 ; died in Wiirzburg, 

 Jan. 10, 1890. He studied law in Erlangen, then 

 natural science in Munich, and finally medicine in 

 Wiirzburg, and supplemented the regular studies with 

 a course on the eye under Grafe in Berlin and Arlt in 



Prague, and one on the ear in Great Britain and Ire- 

 land under Toynbee and Wilde. He settled, in 1856 

 in Wiirzburg as a physician, and became a tutor and 

 in 1864 a professor. He devoted himself specially to 

 diseases of the ear, and in 1855 invented an instrument 

 for examining that organ. His text-book on the ear 

 was published in 1862, and went through seven edi- 

 tions. He projected and edited the " Archiv fur 

 Ohrenheilkunde." In his special branch he acquired 

 a fame that brought both students and patients from 

 allparts of the world. 



Tseng, Marquis, a Chinese statesman, born in 1848; 

 died in Pekin, in April, 1890. His full name was 

 Tseng Chitse. He was a son of Tseng Kwo-fan, a 

 distinguished minister, who received the title of Hou, 

 which is regarded as equivalent to that of marquis in 

 the European nobility. The son studied in the Im- 

 perial College, and entered the public service as his 

 father's secretary, accompanying him in the campaigns 

 of the Taiping rebellion and on official tours after its 

 suppression. He attained the official grade of Tang- 

 Kwan (Expectant Secretary of State), and in the fol- 

 lowing year was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and 

 Minister Plenipotentiary to England and France. 

 When the Chinese Government repudiated the settle- 

 ment of the Kuldja difficulty that Chung-How ob- 

 tained in treaty of Livadia, the Marquis Tseng was 

 instructed to go to St. Petersburg as special ambas- 

 sador for the purpose of seeking a more satisfactory 

 arrangement, which he obtained in the treaty of St. 

 Petersburg, signed in 1881, restoring Kuldja to China 

 and re-establishing harmonious relations with Russia. 

 His diplomacy was successful also in the settlement 

 of the long-standing dispute with France in regard 

 to Tonquin. He returned to China in 1886. after 

 eight years of diplomatic service abroad, and was 

 made a Grand Secretary and appointed to the presi- 

 dency of the newly constituted Admiralty Board. 



Valoneff, Count Peter Alexandrovich, a Russian states- 

 man, born near Moscow in 1815 ; died in St. Peters- 

 burg in January, 1890. He came from a family of the 

 landed Muscovite nobility that before him had never 

 distinguished itself in the public service. At the age 

 of sixteen he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

 under Count Nesselrode. In 1853-'58 he was Gov- 

 ernor df Courland l subsequently he filled a post in the 

 Ministry of Domains, and in 1861 he was appointed 

 Minister of the Interior. The emancipation of the 

 serfs, local self-government, the establishment of mu- 

 nicipal institutions, and other reforms introduced by 

 Alexander II were put into practical shape, and he 

 was often consulted by the Czar on questions lying 

 outside his particular department. Of the many com- 

 missions that investigated the great questions of the 

 reform era he was either the head or an active mem- 

 ber. He afterward had charge of the Ministry of Do- 

 mains for six years, and in 1879 was appointed Presi- 

 dent of the Committee of Ministers. In _ 1880 he was 

 made a count of the empire. The assassination of the 

 Czar was foll9wed by a reaction and the undoing of 

 the liberal innovations in which Valoueff was instru- 

 mental. He went into retirement, and gave himself up 

 to religion and charity and to literary occupations, 

 writing among other things a novel named ''Lorin." 

 In bidding farewell to politics he uttered a memorable 

 speech at the first council meeting presided over by 

 the present Czar in 1881, in which he protested against 

 thepolicy of reaction. 



Wallace, Sir Kiohard, an English art collector, born in 

 London in 1818 ; died in Paris, July 20, 1890. His 

 father, the Marquis of Hertford, spent the latter part 

 of his life in Pans. He made the finest collection of 

 art treasure's, all of which, with his houses in London 

 and Paris and a large fortune, he left to his son, who 

 added to the collections. He also spent most of his 

 life in Paris, only going to London to attend the PCS- 

 sions of Parliament, of which he was a member from 

 1873 to 1885. He was made a baronet in 1871. .In 

 Paris he won the gratitude of the people by giving 

 largely to relieve their sufferings as soon as the siege 

 was raised by the Germans. The paintings, furai- 



