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Swanwick, Anna, English author, born in 

 Liverpool in 1813; died in Tunbridge Wells, Nov. 

 2, 1899. She went to Berlin in 1839, and obtained 

 a familiar acquaintance of the German language 

 and literature, and of Greek also, and some 

 knowledge of Hebrew. After returning to Eng- 

 land in 1843 she made notable translations and 

 published several original books. She was one of 

 the early and zealous promoters of the higher 

 education of women in England, and gave a part 

 of her time to teaching young working men and 

 women. 



Thorne, Sir Richard Thome, English physi- 

 cian, born in Leamington, Oct. 13, 1841; died in 

 London in December, 1899. He was educated at 

 St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and at Lon- 

 don University, and was knighted in 1897. His 

 professional Avritings include Use and Influence 

 of Hospitals for Infectious Diseases (1882) ; Prog- 

 ress of Preventive Medicine during the Victorian 

 Era (1887); Natural History and Prevention of 

 Diphtheria (1891) ; and Administrative Control of 

 Tuberculosis (1898). 



Thorne, Sarah, English actress, born in Chat- 

 ham in 1837; died there, Feb. 27, 1899. She was 

 a daughter of Richard Samuel Thorne, manager 

 of the Pavilion Theater, London, in 1849, in 

 which year she appeared as a child in pantomime. 

 Her first speaking part was Little Pickle in The 

 Spoiled Child, her next was the hero in E. G. 

 Burton's Warrior Boy. Her success in this play 

 caused the production of another by the same 

 author, The Blind Child of Africa. She was then 

 sent to school for a few years, and on her return 

 to the stage was engaged at the Surrey Theater, 

 and appeared as Zamora in The Honeymoon. She 

 took a leading place at the Britannia Theater, 

 London, and was a favorite there for a year. She 

 then went to the Theater Royal, Dublin, where 

 for three years she played everything from Shake- 

 spearean heroines to the women of the farces, and 

 supported a great number of leading actors. 

 After passing a season each in Glasgow and 

 Brighton she joined Mr. Creswick in a joint star- 

 ring season at the Standard Theater, Shoreditch. 

 She became soon afterward the lessee of the 

 Theater Royal, Margate, and was such at the 

 time of her death. She was one of the first to 

 travel through England with her own supporting 

 company, and for many years she played a 

 greatly varied round of characters in profitable 

 tours. Her last performance was in September, 

 1S9S, as Parthenia in Ingomar. She married Ed- 

 mund McKnight; a journalist. 



Tissandier, Gaston, French scientist, born in 

 Paris, Nov. 21, 1843; died there, Sept. 6, 1899. 

 He had a scientific education, applying himself 

 especially to chemistry and physics, and with his 

 brother Albert devoted his attention to aero- 

 statics, making 44 balloon ascensions, one of them 

 8,600 metres high. He wrote numerous popular 

 works on chemistry, photography, and aerostat- 

 ics, and from 1873 was editor of La Nature. 



Traill, Mrs. Catherine Parr (Strickland), 

 Canadian author, born in London, England, Jan. 

 '), 1802; died in Lakefield, Ontario, in August, 

 IS!)!). She was a sister of Agnes Strickland, the 

 lustorical writer. All the five Strickland sisters 

 achieved literary distinction, but Mrs. Traill was 

 the first to write, and her success induced her 

 other sisters to undertake literary work. In 1832 

 she married Lieut. Traill, and immediately went 

 to Canada with him, where they settled near 

 Rice lake. She was the author of The Back- 

 woods of Canada (London, 1835) ; Canadian 

 ( rusoes (1852); Ramblings in the Canadian For- 

 est (1854); The Female Emigrant's Guide (To- 



ronto, 1855) ; Canadian Settler's Guide (seventh 

 edition, 1857); Stories of the Canadian Forest 

 (New York, 1850) ; Lady Mary and her Nurse, 

 or a Peep into Canadian Forests (London, 1856); 

 Afar in the Forest (1869); Studies of Plant Life 

 (Ottawa, 1884) ; and other books. 



Wakeman, Henry Offley, English author, 

 born Sept. 25, 1852; died in May, 1899. He was 

 educated at Oxford, was called to the bar in 1877, 

 and was modern history lecturer and tutor at 

 Keble College, Oxford, from 1881. He was the 

 author of The History of Religion in England 

 (1885); What has Christianity done for Eng- 

 land? (1886); The Church and the Puritans 

 (1887); Life of Charles James Fox; The Ascend- 

 ency of France; and Introduction to the History 

 of the Church of England. 



Waller, Mrs. Emma, English actress, born in 

 London in 1819; died in New York city, Feb. 28, 

 1899. Her wealthy parents educated her for the 

 operatic stage, but she turned her attention to 

 the drama and began with an English provincial 

 company in 1848. In 1849 she married Daniel 

 Wilmarth Waller, an American actor. In 1851, 

 with her husband, she sailed for California and 

 Australia. At Honolulu they played a very suc- 

 cessful engagement, and upon their arrival in 

 Australia they were enthusiastically received. 

 The reputation acquired in Australia went before 

 them to London, and when they returned to that 

 city in 1856 it was to play a series of brilliant 

 engagements at Drury Lane Theater. Mrs. Wal- 

 ler's delmt was in the part of Pauline in The 

 Lady of Lyons, Sept. 15, 1856. For a year both 

 Mr. and Mrs. Waller were associated with popu- 

 lar Shakespearean successes at Drury Lane and 

 Sadler's Wells. In 1857 they came to Philadel- 

 phia, where Mrs. Waller made her American de- 

 but at the Walnut Street Theater as Ophelia to 

 her husband's Hamlet. But her first success was 

 as Lady Macbeth. This part she played on the 

 third night of her engagement, and the wonder- 

 ful passion and power of her performance electri- 

 fied the audience. Her next important appear- 

 ance was at the Broadway Theater, New York, 

 as Marina in The Duchess of Malfi to her hus- 

 band's Ferdinand. The peculiar manner in which 

 she portrayed this gloomy and grewsome part 

 seemed to exercise a fascination upon the public, 

 and she was long identified with its performance. 

 For nearly ten years Mrs. Waller made extensive 

 and prosperous tours of the United States. Dec. 

 27, 1869, she appeared for the first time as Meg 

 Merrilies at Booth's Theater, New York city, 

 and immediately achieved a triumph, which was 

 duplicated by her performance of Bianca in Fazio 

 at the same theater, Feb. 26, 1870. In 1876 she 

 assumed the management of the Troy Opera 

 House, which she retained for many years. She 

 revived Guy Mannering at Booth's Theater, New 

 York, supported by her husband, Dec. 6, 1875, 

 and entered upon an extensive and very prosper- 

 ous tour of the country. On this tour they went 

 to California, where they were enthusiastically 

 patronized. On her return to the East Mrs. Wal- 

 ler played only occasionally, and preferred to 

 devote her time to work as a teacher and to 

 Shakespearean readings. Her last appearance in 

 public was in the reading of selections from 

 Shakespeare and the classic dramas at Chickering 

 Hall, New York, Dec. 1, 1881. 



Wauchope, Andrew Gilbert, British soldier, 

 born in Midlothian in 1846; died in South Africa, 

 Dec. 11, 1899. He was the son of a large land- 

 owner, entered the army as an ensign in the 

 Black Watch in 1865, served as adjutant from 

 1870 till 1873, when he went out with the Ashanti 



