=Turberville, George.= 1530-c. 1595. Poet. Author Tragical Tales, etc.

=Turner, Chas. Tennyson.= See Tennyson-Turner.

=Turner, Dawson.= 1775-1858. Author Nat. Hist. of Sea Weeds, etc.

=Turner, Sharon.= 1768-1847. Historian. His chief works are Hist. of England in the Middle Ages, Sacred Hist. of the World, and a valuable Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons. _Pub. Har._

=Tusser, Thomas.= 1515-1580. Poet. Author of A Hondreth Good Points of Husbandrie, expanded by later writers into Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie. _See Mavor's edition, 1812._

=Tylor, Edward Burnett.= 183 Ethnologist. Author of Anahauc, or Mexico and the Mexicans, Researches into the Early Hist. of Mankind, Anthropology and Primitive Culture. A writer of thorough scientific knowledge, possessing an admirable style. _Pub. Apl. Ho._

=Tyndale= or =Tindal, Wm.= 1477-1536. Translator of the New Testament, 1525. Tyndale's version was afterwards revised by Coverdale. _See Offor's Life of, 1836._

=Tyndall, John.= 182 Irish physicist. Author Glaciers of the Alps, Heat as a Mode of Motion, Lect. on Light, On Radiation, etc.

_Pub. Apl._

=Tyrwhitt [t[)e]r'[)i]t], Thomas.= 1730-1786. Antiquary and Chaucerian scholar. Editor of the works of Chaucer and Chatterton. A scholar of singular insight, whose conjectures have nearly all been sustained by texts of which he knew nothing.

=Tytler [t[=i]t'l[e^]r], Alex Fraser, Lord Woodhouselee.= 1747-1813.

Scotch historian. Son to Wm. T. Author Elements of Gen. Hist., Essay on Military Law, etc. _Pub Clx. Har._

=Tytler, C. C. Fraser.= Great-niece to P. F. T. See Liddell, Mrs.

=Tytler, Patrick Fraser.= 1791-1849. Scotch historian and biographer.

Son to A. F. T. Author Scottish Worthies, etc., and a standard Hist.

of Scotland. _Pub. Har._

=Tytler, Sarah.= See Keddie, Henrietta.

=Tytler, Wm.= 1711-1792. Scotch historical and critical writer.

=Udall [yoo'd[)a]l], Nicholas.= 1506-1556. Dramatist. Author Ralph Roister Doister, the first Eng. comedy. It is known to have been acted before 1551. _See Arber's reprint._

=Upcott, Wm.= 1779-1845. Bibliographer of note.

=Urquhart [[^u]rk'[a^]rt], David.= 180 Scotch writer. Author Turkey and its Resources, The Progress of Russia, the Pillars of Hercules, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Usher or Ussher, James.= 1580-1656. Abp. Armagh. Chronologist.

Author Chronological Tables of Universal Hist. from the Creation to Vespasian. The marginal dates in the authorized version of the Bible are from Usher. _See Complete Works, 17 vols., Dublin, 1864._ _See Life, by Aikin._

=Valpy, Abraham John.= 1787-1854. Shakespearean editor. His ill.u.s.trated Shakespeare, 15 vols., appeared in 1834.

=Vanbrugh [v[)a]n'broo], Sir John.= 1666-1726. Dramatist and architect. Author of a dozen brilliant but coa.r.s.e comedies, among which The Relapse, Revoked Wife, The Confederacy, and Journey to London are the best.

=Vaughan [vawn or vaw'[a^]n], Chas. James.= 181 Theologian.

Author Heroes of Faith, Epistles of St. Paul for Eng. Readers, etc. A leader of Broad Church thought. _Pub. Dut. Mac. Phi. Rou._

=Vaughan, Henry.= 1621-1695. Poet. His verse is religious in character, and is as frequently harsh in sound as quaint in form.

Silex Scintillans is the t.i.tle of his princ.i.p.al work. _See Ward's Eng.

Poets, vol. 2, MacDonald's England's Antiphon, and Dr. John Brown's Spare Hours, 1st Series._ _Pub. Hou._

=Vaughan, Robert.= 1795-1868. Miscellaneous writer. Author of Congregationalism, the Age of Great Cities, Revolutions in English Hist., etc.

=Vaughan, Robert Alfred.= 1823-1855. Son to R. V. Author Hours with the Mystics, etc. _See Memoir by his father, 1858._

=Vaux [vawks], Thomas, Lord.= 1510-1557. Poet. Author of the Grave-digger's song in Hamlet and the meditative poem Thought.

=Veitch, John.= 182 Scotch philosophical writer. Author Memoirs of Dugald Stewart and Sir Wm. Hamilton, etc.

=Venn, Henry.= 1725-1797. Religious writer. Author Complete Duty of Man, etc. _See Life, by Henry Venn, 1834._

=Vere, De, Sir Aubrey.= See De Vere, Sir Aubrey.

=Vere, De, Aubrey Thomas.= See De Vere, Aubrey.

=Vere, De, Edward, Earl of Oxford.= See De Vere, Edward.

=Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham.= 1627-1688. Dramatist. Author The Rehearsal and Battle of Sedgemoor.

=Viner [v[=i]'n[e^]r], Chas.= 1680-1756. Legal writer. Author Complete Abridgment of Law and Equity.

=Wace, Maistre Richard.= c. 1120-1184. Anglo-Norman poet. Author of the Brut d'Angleterre and the Roman de Rou: the first poem of 12,000 lines, the latter of 17,000.

=Waddington, George.= 1793-1869. Historian. Author Hist. of the Church, Hist. Reformation on the Continent, etc. _Pub. Har._

=Wakefield, Gilbert.= 1756-1801. Theological and cla.s.sical writer. His annotated edition of Lucretius is one of his chief works.

=Wakefield, Mrs. Priscilla.= 1751-1832. Miscellaneous writer.

=Walcott, Mackenzie Edward Chas.= 182 Archaeologist. Author Sacred Archaeology. Cathedral Cities of England and Wales, Memorials of Canterbury, etc.

=Walford, Edward.= 182 Litterateur. Author Handbook of the Greek Drama, etc. _See The Biograph, vol. 1._

=Walford, Mrs. Lucy Bethia= [Colquhoun]. 184 Novelist. Author Mr. Smith, Pauline, Cousins, Troublesome Daughters, d.i.c.k Netherby, etc. _Pub. Ho._

=Walker, John.= 1732-1807. Lexicographer. His Dict. of the English Language appeared in 1775.

=Wallace, Alfred Russel.= 182 Naturalist. Author Travels on the Amazon, The Malay Archipelago, Geographical Distribution of Animals, etc. Independently of Darwin, W. originated a theory of natural selection. _Pub. Har. Mac._