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an enthusiastic student and admirer, he says : &quot; His wide spirit will outlive the mere letter of narrow doctrines, and his winged words, vibrant with the music of the larger religion of humanity, will go thrilling down the ages, while dogmas die and creeds crumble in the dust &quot; (p. 205). He was knighted in 1909. D. July 2, 1917.

TREILHARD, Count Jean Baptiste,

French statesman. B. Jan. 3, 1742. Treilhard was educated in law, and he began to practise in the Paris Parlement in 1761. He won a high repute for integrity and independence of character, and in 1789 he was sent to the States General as deputy of the Tiers Etat. In the Assembly he took a very active part in the suppression of the monastic bodies and the secularization of the Church, and he was one of the foremost to demand that Voltaire be buried in the Pantheon. In 1790 he was President of the Assembly. He retired into private life during the Terror, but was afterwards elected to the Council of Five Hundred, and was its President in 1795. In 1797 he was appointed a member of the Court of Cassation, and in 1798 he was made a member of the Directorate. Napoleon made him President of the Paris Court of Appeal in 1800, State-Councillor in 1802, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1804, Minister of State in 1809, and Count in 1810. He had a very important share in drafting Napoleon s famous Code Civil and in carrying other reforms. Treilhard was a Voltairean of high and austere character ; one of the most estimable and enlightened of the men who lived through the Revolu tionary and Napoleonic periods. D. Dec. 1, 1810.

TRELAWNY, Edward John, writer. B. Nov. 13, 1792. His education was neglected by his father, and in 1805 he entered the Royal Navy. The experiences of his early years are described in his Adventures of a Younger Son (1831). He 809

deserted at Bombay, and led an exciting life in the East until he returned to England in 1813. In 1821 he joined Shelley in Italy, and hardly left the great poet until he died. It was he who recovered Shelley s body and saved his heart from the flames. He went with Byron to the aid of the Greeks in 1823, returning to Italy, where he wrote his Autobiography (which was revised by Mrs. Shelley) in 1829. From 1833 to 1835 he was in America, where he swam the Niagara just above the Falls. In 1858 he published Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author. Trelawny was an Atheist and an ardent humanitarian. &quot; World wide liberty s life-long lover,&quot; Swinburne called him. Edward Carpenter tells us that Trelawny said to him, talking of Shelley : &quot; He couldn t have been the poet he was if he had not been an Atheist&quot; (My Days and Dreams, p. 121). Mr. Carpenter says that he &quot;rolled out the Atheist with evident satisfaction.&quot; D. Aug. 13, 1881.

TRELAWNY, Sir John Salisbury, B. A.,

ninth baronet, politician. B. June 2, 1816. Ed. Westminster and Cambridge (Trinity College). He entered the army and rose to the rank of captain (1840). In 1841 he was called to the Bar (Middle Temple), and shortly afterwards he began his long political career. He was M.P. for Tavistock from 1843 to 1852 and from 1857 to 1865, and for East Cornwall from 1868 to 1874. In 1851 he was Chairman of the Committee of the House of Commons on Church Rates, and his unofficial report (Epitome of the Evidence given before the Select Committee, 1851-52) was a diplomatic thrust at the odious institution. In 1870 and 1871 he presided over the Contagious Diseases Commission, and published an Analysis of the Evidence. Trelawny was discreet on account of his public position, but his sentiments were fairly expressed in a sympathetic translation (with R. P. Collier) of The First Two Books of Lucre tius (1842). He had much to do with the 810