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 Present Century (1780); An Historical Rhapsody on Mr. Pope (1781); An Historical Essay on Mr. Addison (1782); Conversations Political and Familiar (1784); and A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Johnson, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1785.

Admited [sic] 28 April, 1749.

Eldest son of the Rev. Robert Tyrwhitt, D.D., Rector of St. James's, Westminster, where he was born on 27 March, 1730. He was called to the Bar 24 Jan. 1755. He at first devoted himself to politics, and became in 1756 Under-Secretary of War. From 1762 to 1768 he was Clerk of the House of Commons. In the latter year he resigned, and passed the remainder of his life in literary pursuits. Two years before his death in 1786 he was appointed Curator of the British Museum.

Mr. Tyrwhitt's publications are: Epistle to Florio [Mr. Ellis] at Oxford (1749); Translations in Verse [of Pope's Messiah, and Philips's Splendid Shilling, into Latin, and of Pindar's Eighth Isthmian Ode into English] (1752); Observations on some Passages of Shakespeare (1766); Proceedings and Debates in the House of Commons, in 1620—1 (1766); Fragmenta duo Plutarchi (1773); Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 5 vols. (1775—8); Dissertatio de Babrio (1776); Aristotelis de Poetica Liber (1794); Conjecture in Æschylum, Euripidem et Aristophanem (1822).

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UXBRIDGE, EARL OF. See PAGET, HENRY.

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Admitted 3 February, 1663-4.

Son of Edward Ventris of Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, a barrister of Gray's Inn, and born at Wenham Hall, Suffolk, in 1645. He was called to the Bar 2 June, 1671, but, failing to secure a practice, he devoted himself to reporting and produced the Reports bearing his name, and which contain decisions in the Kings Bench 20—36 Car. II., and in the Common Pleas 21 Car. II. to 3 William and Mary. He was sworn in a Serjeant-at-Law in 1689, and was raised to the Bench of Common Pleas the same year and knighted. He died 6 April, 1691.

Admitted 3 February, 1592-3.

Second son of Geoffrey Vere (third son of John de Vere, fifteenth Earl of Oxford). His admission took place on the same day as those of (q.v.) and  (q.v.), and doubtless was, like theirs, causâ honoris. He served with the greatest distinction in the Low Countries from 1585 to 1592. In the latter year, the year of his admission to the Temple, he was elected to Parliament for Leominster. He served again in the Netherlands and in Spain and was present in most of the great battles