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 TEEVELYAN

(1850), first appeared in Holyoake s Move ment. He wrote a few other pamphlets, and worked in many humanitarian reforms. At one time a Vice-President of the National Secular Society, he supported the move ment with great generosity all his life. D. Feb. 6, 1878.

TREYELYAN, George Macaulay,

historian. B. Feb. 16, 1876. Ed. Harrow and Cambridge (Trinity College). Mr. Trevelyan, whose name denotes that he is a grandson of Lord Macaulay s sister, the wife of Zachary Macaulay, became a Fellow of Trinity College in 1898. In the following year he won high regard by his England in the Age of Wy cliff e. His England under the Stuarts (1904), Gari baldi and the Thousand (1909), Garibaldi and the Making of Italy (1911), and Recreations of an Historian (1919) have since given him an assured position among English historians and men of letters. He has written also The Poetry and Philosophy of George Meredith (1912) and Scenes from Italy s War (1919). He commanded the first British Ambulance Unit for Italy, and was awarded the silver medal for valour. He was for some years a Director, and is now an Honorary Associate, of the nationalist Press Association.

TREZZA, Professor Gaetano, Italian philologist. B. Dec., 1828. Trezza was educated in a seminary, and became a Catholic priest, but in 1860 he discarded the priesthood and Christianity, and was imprisoned by the Austrians at Venice. On his release he passed to central Italy, and, after teaching at various schools for some years, he was appointed professor of Latin literature at the Florence Institute of Higher Studies. He wrote a number of Eationalist works, besides a commentary on Horace s Odes, Epicuro e I Epicureismo (1882), Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe (1888), Giordano Bruno (1889), and many other literary works. He was an outspoken Agnostic and a brilliant writer. See his Confessioni d un scettico (1878). 813

TRIDON, Edme Marie Gustavo, LL.D.,

French reformer and writer. B. June 5, 1841. Ed. Paris. Tridon fully qualified in law, but, as his parents were rich, he never practised. He adopted advanced ideas, and in 1864 published a sympathetic study of the Hebertists (Les Hebertistes) , which was seized by the police. In the following year he founded and edited Le Candide, a Voltairean periodical, which was suppressed, and Tridon got six months in prison. A fellow prisoner was Blanqui, of whom he became a life-long friend and colleague. He joined the International, and on his release started La Critique, which was suppressed. In 1867 he was again in prison for five months. He inherited a fortune of 60,000 francs a year, but he zealously continued his dangerous war against clerical and political reaction. In 1870 he was again prosecuted. He fled to Belgium, and was in his absence con demned to deportation. At the Eevolution he was able to return to Paris, and he started La Patrie en Danger. He was a moderate supporter of the Commune, and was elected to the National Assembly ; but he was compelled again to fly to Belgium, and the failure of his hopes for the people so preyed on his mind that he took his life. Tridon was a fine type of the militant Frenchman of the days of reaction : a rich man who faced prison and exile cheerfully for others. His Eationalist views are best seen in his Molochisme Juif (1884 pos thumously published) and articles in La Libre Pensee. D. Aug. 29, 1871.

TRUBNER, Nicholas, German pub lisher. B. June 17, 1817. Ed. Heidelberg Gymnasium. Triibner was the son of a poor goldsmith, and had no university training, yet he came to found the well- known publishing house. He served in various bookshops in Germany until 1843, when Longmans invited him to London as foreign correspondence clerk. In 1851 he joined David Nutt in a business, especially for the American trade. In his leisure he made a thorough study of Sanscrit and 814