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came ninth baronet. In 1876 he married the au- 

 thoress Mrs. Caroline Norton, who died in 1877. 



TCHERKASKIJ, ALEXANDER VLADIMIROVITCH, 



Prince, a Russian general and statesman, born 

 in 1824, died March 3, 1878. He was a de- 

 scendant of one of the Circassian Sultans of 

 Egypt, and his family had at times even allied 

 itself by marriage with the house of Romanoff. 

 In 1861 he was chosen by the Government to 

 carry through the emancipation of the peas- 

 ants. By his eagerness to Russify the Poles 

 and to bring them over to the Greek Church, 

 he made himself extremely unpopular. At the 

 beginning of the war of 1877 he was at first 

 superintendent of the hospitals established by 

 the Society of the Red Cross; subsequently 

 he became provisional Governor of Bulgaria. 

 He was supposed to be a candidate for the 

 Bulgarian throne. 



TEUFFEL, WILHELM SIGISMUND, a German phi- 

 lologist, born September 27, 1820, died March 

 8, 1878. He became Professor of Classical 

 Philology in the University of Tubingen, and 

 retained this position until his death in 1849. 

 His principal work is the " Geschichte der ro- 

 mischen Literatur " (2 vols., 3d edition, 1875), 

 which has been translated into English (Lon- 

 don, 1874) and several other foreign languages. 

 He continued and completed the u Realencyclo- 

 padie des klassischen Alterthums," which had 

 been begun by Pauly, and contributed to it a 

 number of articles. His editions of Greek and 

 Latin classics are highly valued. 

 THOMPSON, GEORGE, an English reform er, born 

 in 1804, died October 7, 1878. He first became 

 widely known to the public in connection with 

 the agitation against slavery in the British colo- 

 nies, and contributed largely not only to the 

 downfall of slavery, but also to the abolition 

 of the apprentice system. Subsequently he 

 joined the Anti-Corn-Law League, and ad- 

 dressed many of the early meetings held under 

 the auspices of that association. He also took 

 an active part in forming the India Association. 

 He was associated with Mr. Garrison, Mr. Whit- 

 tier, and the members of the Antislavery So- 

 ciety, in the movement for abolition of slave- 

 ry in the United States. A visit which he 

 paid to this country in 1834 led to the forma- 

 tion of upward of 150 antislavery societies. 

 He was, however, denounced by President Jack- 

 son in a message to Congress, and compelled 

 to leave the country. During the civil war he 

 revisited the United States, and a public re- 

 ception was given to him in the House of 

 Representatives, in the presence of President 

 Lincoln and the Cabinet. Mr. Thompson was as- 

 sociated with Joseph Hume, Sir Joshua Walms- 

 ley, and many other public men in the Na- 

 tional Parliamentary Reform Association. In 

 847 he was elected member of Parliament for 

 the Tower Hamlets. 



VILAIN XIIIL, CHARLES, Vicomte, a Belgian 

 statesman, born in Brussels, May 15, 1803 ; died 

 in his castle of Leuth, near Maestricht, Novem- 

 ber 16, 1878. Having been educated in the 



Jesuit College of St. Acheul, near Bordeaux, he 

 was always strongly attached to the principles 

 of the Catholic Church. As member of the Con- 

 gress of 1830, he voted for the election of Prince 

 Leopold of Coburg as first King of the Bel- 

 gians; and as Secretary of the Congress he 

 placed his name under the declaration of inde- 

 pendence. From 1831 until his death he re- 

 mained one of the leading members of the 

 Second Chamber. In 1832-'34 he was Am- 

 bassador at the Papal Court; in 1834-'35 Gov- 

 ernor of East Flanders ; and in 1835-'39 again 

 Ambassador at several Italian courts. After 

 the overthrow of the Liberal Ministry of Rogier, 

 in 1855, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs, 

 and as such gained the applause even of his 

 political opponents, when he resolutely and 

 boldly resisted the demands of Louis Napoleon 

 in the question of refugees. He resigned with 

 his colleagues in 1857, and became one of the 

 leaders of the Catholic opposition, though he 

 no longer displayed his former energy. When 

 his party again obtained the ascendancy in 1 870, 

 he declined to enter the new Catholic Ministry. 



WALLIS, ROBERT, a British landscape en- 

 graver, born in 1814, died November 23, 1878. 

 Many of his best works are after Turner's 

 drawings for the " Southern Coast," "England 

 and Wales," Rogers's poems, and the annuals 

 and gift-books of the time. Among his larger 

 works, " Lake Nenii," and " Approach to Ven- 

 ice," after Turner, are considered the best. 



WATTS, Sir JAMES, a British merchant, born 

 in 1805, died April 7, 1878. He was the se- 

 nior partner of S. & J. Watts & Co., one of the 

 largest commercial establishments of Manches- 

 ter, and was knighted in 1857, when, as Mayor 

 of Manchester, he conducted the civic recep- 

 tions of the Queen and Prince Consort on their 

 visits in connection with the Art Treasures Ex- 

 hibition. 



WHALLEY, GEORGE HAMMOND, a British law- 

 yer and parliamentarian, born in 1813, died 

 October 7, 1878. He was educated at Univer- 

 sity College, London, and was called to the bar 

 in 1836. At the general election of 1852 Mr. 

 Whalley unsuccessfully contested the Mont- 

 gomery boroughs. He was subsequently re- 

 turned for Peterborough, but was unseated 

 on petition. He was defeated in the same city 

 in 1857, but was returned in 1859, and contin- 

 ued to represent it up to the time of his death. 

 He was best known in the earlier part of his ca- 

 reer as an opponent of the Jesuits, and more re- 

 cently as the unflinching supporter of Arthur 

 Orton, the impostor who claimed the Tich- 

 borne titles and estates. 



WILDE, Sir ALFRED THOMAS, a British gen- 

 eral, born in 1819, died February 7, 1878. He 

 entered the service of the East India Company 

 in 1838, and served in Afghanistan, Beloochis- 

 tan, the Punjab, and during the mutiny. In 

 1876 he was appointed member of the Coun- 

 cil of India, and in 1877 attained the rank of 

 lieutenant-general. 



WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, an English bishop, born 



