BIOGRAPHY 



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in 1402. a decisive and sanguinary battle in Angora, over 

 the Ottoman Turks commanded by their sultan Bajazet, 

 Tamerlane died on his march towards China, which 

 country he next intended to invade. 1405. 



I i t<iuinhis, Lucius Priscus (tar-ktrtn'e-u*), the 

 fifth King of Rome, according to the legends, succeeded 

 Ancus Martius. 614, and died 576 B. C. Tarquinius 

 Lucius Superbus was a grandson of the preceding. He 

 had married one of the daughters of Servius Sullius, but 

 T, whose ambition resembled his own, by a series 

 of horrid crimes, secured him as her husband, ami urged 

 him to the murder of her father to secure the throne, 

 534 B. C. He reigned as a tyrant; but in the end it was 

 the rape of Lucretia. by his son Sextus, which over- 

 threw at once both him and the kingly rule in Rome. 

 The date of the Regifuge or expulsion of the Tarquins 

 said to be 510 B.C. 



Tasso. Torquato. Italian poet, was born in Sorrento, 



A studied law at the -university of Padua, where 



he published his earliest poem. " Rinaldo," in 1562. In 



1565, he entered the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este, -and 



: ted to the court of his brother, Alfonso, Duke of 



rerrara. Whilst there he wrote his pastoral drama 



'Arninta," and in 1575, finished his great epic, " I A 



inme Liberata." describing the first Crusade, 

 which was published in 1580. In 1577 he was imprisoned 

 bv Alfonso in a convent, from which he escaped. In 



returned to Ferrara, but was confined in a mad- 

 \ here he remained till 1586, when he was released 



at the intercession of the Duke of Mantua and other 

 jrinces. In 1594, Clement VIII. summoned him to 



to receive a laurel crown, but he died soon after 

 hii arrival < 1595). 



T.m-.-iu. Frank William, professor of political 

 economy. Harvard; born in St. Louis, December 28, 

 graduate of Harvard. 1879 (Ph. P.. 



. 1886). Author: "Tariff History of United 

 States." "Silver Situation in United States," "WftfOi 



nital," etc. Editor of "Quarterly Journal of 

 Economics." 





T.i\lor, Bayard* an American author and traveler. 

 was born in Chester County. Pa., 1825. In 1849, he 

 became one of the editors of the "New York Tribune," 

 ari<l later traveled extensively, giving the results of his 

 'ion in numerous works, prominent among 

 which are " El Dorado, or Adventures in the Path of 

 Empire." or "Mexico and California," "Central Africa," 

 > and Russia," "India, China, and Japan," and 

 " Lands of the Saracen." He is also the author of sev- 

 eral novel-, volumes of poetry, etc. Some of his works 

 ii tran-lated into French, German, and Russian. 

 Tavlor was appointed United States minister at Berlin, 

 iii 1^7s f ami died the same year. 



Taylor, II an nU, lawyer; born in New Berne, N. C., 



T !_'. IVil: educated in University of North 

 Carolina (LL. D., Edinburgh, Dublin); minister to 

 Spain. 1893-97. Professor of constitutional and inter- 

 law. George Washington (formerly Columbian) 



nee 1892. Special counsel for Government 

 of I mted States before Spanish Treaty Claims Commis- 

 sion. Author: "Tin- < >rii;in an<l Growth of the Knirlish 

 ,'ion." "International Public Ijiw." "Jurisdie- 

 I Procedure of the Supreme Court of the United 



BtaftM " 



i . .Ic re my, divine; born in Cambridge in 1613; 

 idyiriK in t"he university of that town, attracted 



the attention of Archbishop !.aul. who presented him 

 to a fellowship at < )\fi>nl (1636). He soon nf 1 



. haplain to Charles I.. was rector of 1'ppirinham. 

 .j. amcd the king to Oxford. About 

 Irew mt. i Wales, where he kept a school 

 narthenshire. and afterwards found 

 : in the house of the Earl of Carbcrv He r- 

 moved to Ireland in 1657, and. after tl 

 was made bi-hop of Down and Connor II 



-+ of Holv I iving and 

 .." "Doctor Dubi- 

 .MJ," and h I >icd. 1667. 



I i . i; i t I o\c. lawyer. I ': 



l>orn ii lley, Carter Com M lV,n ; 



educate>l m Pmnington, N -I : admiiteil to Tennessee 



bar. IsTs; member of Con K ri--. Is7' s] : P |, 

 large on Cleveland ti, k-t. l^M; pcn-ion agent a 

 ville. ixx.-, s7: elected governor. Ixsft. a* Democrat. 



r. Alfred A. TayL 



r. 1S.S7 -'.!; practiced law at ' 



1891-96: pn tor on Cleveland ticket, 1892; 



r. IVIT 90 Mate* senator wince 



iiief of " I'. 



|.i\lor. /.i.!i.ir\. \ an general. anl 

 President of the fmted >ta.-: bom m orange County, 

 17vt; was educated in Kcntu.kv. and. after 



the army in 1808, obtained the rank of colonel 



in 1832, and fought in the Black Hawk War. After 

 defeating the Seminoles at Okechobee in 1837, he was 

 given the chief command in Florida in the following 

 year. In 1846, he was entrusted with the command of 

 the army which entered Mexico; there he gained the 

 battles of Palo Alto. Resaca de la Palma. and Buena 

 i. and brought the campaign to a successful con- 

 clusion in 1847. In the following year he was returned 

 i as Whig candidate for the presidency. His tenure of 

 office was chiefly signalized by the passing of Mr. Clay's 

 Compromise Bill with regard to the admission of Cali- 

 fornia into the Union. Died, 1850. 



T < urn'sen, a famous Shawnee chief, was born on 

 the Scioto River, Ohio, in 1770. He headed an Indian 

 alliance against the whites in the Northwest, and was 

 defeated by the American General Harrison at Tippe- 

 canoe, in 1811. In the War of 1812. he became an ally 

 of the English, obtained the rank of brigadier-general in 

 their service, and commanded the right wing in the 

 battle of the Thames, in 1813, where he fell mortally 

 wounded. 



Tempest. Marie Susan (Mrs. Cosmo Stuart), opera 

 singer; born in London, July 15, 1866; daughter of 

 Edwin and Sarah Etherington; musical education in 

 Convent des Ursulines, Thildonck, Belgium, and Royal 

 Academy of Music, London; first sang in concert, but 

 soon went into light opera in leading roles; came to 

 United States as prima donna in New York Casino 

 Company; has appeared in comic opera in principal 

 American cities: more recently in England; received 

 numerous medals for Italian and declamatory English 

 singing; married, 1898, to Cosmo Charles Gordon- 

 Lennox (Cosmo Stuart), son of the late Lord Alexander 

 Gordon-Lennox. Created Nell Gwyn in "English Nell," 

 and Becky Sharp. 



Tennyson, Alfred. Lord, was the son of the Rev. 

 George Tennyson, rector of Somersby in Lincolnshire, 

 where he was born in 1809. He was educated at Louth 



Grammar school, and, in 1827, published " Poems by 

 wo Brothers." partly the work of his brother Charles. 

 In 1828. he matriculated at Cambridge, where he gained 

 | the chancellor's medal. Poems: "Chiefly Lyrical was 

 followed in 1833, by a volume containing "The Palace 

 of Art," "(Enone," and other of his best known pieces. 

 "The Gardener's Daughter," "Locksley Hall. and 

 other poems were ad. led in 1842. and. in 1847. appeared 

 "The Princess, a Medley," in blank verse. " In Memor- 

 iam." a tribute to the memory of Arthur Hallam. was 

 { published in 1850. In the same year, Tennyson auc- 

 i ceeded Wordsworth as poet-laureate. Among his sub- 

 I sequent poems were "Maud." "The Idylls of the King." 

 "Enoch Arden." " Hecket," a drama, and " Demeter." 

 "The Foresters," etc. In 1884, he was created a peer. 

 Died, 1892. 



Terry, Ellen (Mrs. Carew). English actress; born in 

 February 27, 1848; first appearance. April. 1856. at 

 Princess Theater, London, under Charles Kean's man- 

 agement; in 1S67. fir-t acted with Henry Irving in 

 "The Taming of the Shrew." at l.iueen's Theater, then 

 acted at Ha\ market Theater; retired for seven years; 

 reappeared at Queen's Theater in "The Wandering 

 Heir"; played Olivia, amount others, at Court Ti 

 i John Hares management), and Portia. amongst others, 

 at Prince of Wales Theater < Hancmft '.M innnngcn 

 played Ophelia. December :%n. |s;s. f,, r t 



mi with Henry Irving: \ iMted America with him. 



an. I many times subsequently; remained at 



Lyceum until its dissolution in I'.KU ; prod need Ibsen's 



"The Vikings." 1903. and Slmkesperenn plavs with her 



own company at Imperial Theater; in 1'MW, played 



>uke of York's Theater in .1 M 1< e-it- 



by-the-fire." Celebrated her staee jubilee in 1906. 



Teslii. Nikola, an American electrical ,. 

 born in Smiljim. An irv. m 1S.'7; studied 



engineering in Paris; -md. "* to the I'nitrd 



es, find for ra win cmpl -m'n 



lalMiratory. near Orange, N .1 He then opened a 

 laU.ratorv of hi<t own In 1sv<v he completed h, 



tnting magnetic fluid I ition 



<>f the rotary field-motor, the multi-phase system of 

 "Inch is UMd in the :.n. IKK) hone power plant built to 

 transmit the water | u'ara Palls to HufYalo 



and other cities. He invented manv method* and 

 appliances f>r the use of electricity, mixing the- 



iction of efficient light from lamp* without fila- 

 ments, and the production nnd trannmiiwioa of power 

 and intelligence without \\ire In ' 1398, 



Pry of and. on Mav 1. 



nted, a method of transmitting elortncnl ennr.y 

 without wtrri Working along the *ame line, \\ 

 .\ented hi w i relies tfrltgisphv In : 

 ..vrred that the rap-. electrical 



