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182 resigned his office and seat in the house of commons and returned to London as high commissioner for Canada. This post he still (1889) holds. His county has regularly returned him to parliament fourteen times. Sir Charles has identified himself with all the chief measures of the government, and has been instrumental in carrying through parliament the act prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the northwest territories, the consolidation railway act of 1879, the act granting a charter to the Canadian Pacific railway company in 1881, the act of 1884 granting a loan to that company, the railway subsidies acts of 1883-'4, the act of 1884 respecting an agreement between the province of British Columbia and the Dominion of Canada, and the customs act of 1887, inaugurating a policy of protection and promotion of the manufacture of iron and steel. In 1862 he was appointed by act of parliament a governor of Dalhousie college, Halifax, and received the degree of D. C. L. from Acadia college, N. S., in 1882, and from Cambridge in 1886. On 29 Aug., 1888 Sir Charles was created a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for services in connection with the fisheries treaty at Washington. &mdash; His son, Charles Hibbert, b. in Amherst, Nova Scotia, 3 Aug., 1855, was educated at McGill college university, Montreal, and at Harvard. In 1878 he was called to the bar of Nova Scotia, and entered politics for the first time in the Liberal-Conservative interest in June, 1882, when he was elected to the house of commons for the county of Pictou. In June, 1888, he was sworn as a member of the privy council of Canada, and invited by Sir John A. Macdonald to enter his government as minister of marine and fisheries. On presenting himself for re-election he was returned by acclamation.

TUPPER, Henry Allen, clergyman, b. in Charleston, S. O, 29 Feb., 1828. His father, Tristram, a merchant of Charleston, was at one time president of the South Carolina railroad. The son was educated in part at Charleston col- lege, and was graduated at Madison university, N. Y., in 1848, and at its theological seminary in 1850. Having entered the ministry, he became, after three years' service in Graniteville, S. C, pas- tor of the Baptist church at Washington, Ga., in which relation he continued for nearly twenty years. During the civil war he was chaplain of the 9th Georgia regiment of the Confederate army. In 1872 he was made corresponding secretary of the Foreign missionary board of the Southern Baptist convention, with his residence in Richmond, Va. He still (1889) holds this office, and is a trustee of Richmond college. In 1870 Madison university conferred on him the degree of D. D. Besides various published sermons and addresses, Dr. Tup- per is the author of " The First Century of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va."* (Phila- delphia, 1880), " Foreign Missions of the Southern Baptist Convention" (1880); and "Truth in Ro- mance" (Baltimore, 1887).

TURCHIN, John Basil, or Iran Tasilevitch Turchininoff, soldier, b. in the province of Don, Russia, 30 Jan., 1822. He entered the artillery- school at St. Petersburg in 1836, was graduated in' 1841, and entered the horse-artillery service as an ensign. He participated in the Hungarian campaign, in 1849 entered the military academy for officers of the general staff, was graduated in 1852, and was assigned to the staff of the Imperial guards. During the Crimean war he was promoted till he reached the grade of colonel, was senior staff-officer of the active corps, and prepared the plan that was adopted for the defence of the coast of Finland. He came to the United States in 1856, and was employed in the engineer depart- ment of the Illinois Central railroad company until 19 June, 1861, when he was appointed colonel of the 19th Illinois volunteers. He served with his regiment in Missouri, Kentucky, and Alabama, where he took an active part in the capture of Huntsville and Decatur. He was promoted to be a brigadier-general of volunteers, 17 July, 1862, served in the cavalry of the Army of the Cumber- land, and resigned, 10 Oct., 1864. After the close of the war he was a solicitor of patents in Chicago till 1870, for the next three years was employed as a civil engineer, and in 1873 he established the Polish colony of Radone, in Washington county, 111., where he now (1889) resides on a farm. He is an occasional contributor of scientific and military articles to periodicals. In January, 1865, he wrote " Military Rambles," a series of criticisms, issued monthly at Chicago, and he has also published " The Campaign and Battle of Chickamauga " (Chicago, 1888).

TURCOTTE, Joseph Edonard, Canadian member of parliament, b. in Nicolet in 1808; d. in Three Rivers, 20 Dec, 1864. He was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada in 1834, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the legislative assembly of Canada for the county of Nicolet, but afterward represented various constituencies in that body for many years. After having been solicitor-gen- eral, he was in 1862 elected speaker of the legisla- tive assembly of Canada. Mr. Turcotte was noted for his eloquence as a parliamentary speaker. He was mainly instrumental in securing the construc- tion of the Arthabasca branch railroad, planned a railway to connect the Grand piles on St. Maurice river with Three Rivers, and was an active agent in establishing the Radnor iron-works in the dis- trict of Three Rivers. — His son, Henry Rene Ar- thur, b. in Montreal, Canada, 19 Jan., 1846, was educated at the Jesuit's college in Montreal and at Stonyhurst college, England. He was admitted to the bar of Quebec in June. 1867, and was ap- pointed queen's counsel in 1879. He has been mayor of Three Rivers, was speaker of the legisla- tive assembly of the province of Quebec from 4 June, 1878, till December, 1881, and was appointed a member of the executive council, 29 Jan., 1887. He carried through several measures amending the civil code and simplifying legal procedure.

TURELL, Ebenezer, clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass., 5 Feb., 1702 ; d. in Medford, Mass., 8 Dec, 1778. He was graduated at Harvard in 1721, and was minister of Medford, Mass., from 25 Nov., 1724, till his death. He was eminent as a preacher and patriot. Mr. Turell published " Sermon at the Ordination of Rev. S. Cook " (Boston, 1740) ; " Dialogue About the Times" (1742); and "Life and Character of the Rev. Benjamin Colman " (1749); and he also collected and published poems by his wife, with a memoir of her (Boston, 1735). A tract of his on " Witchcraft " is in the " Massachusetts Historical Collections." — His wife, Jane, daughter of Rev. Benjamin Colman, b. in Boston, Mass., 25 Feb., 1708 ; d. in Medford, Mass., 26 March, 1735, displayed precocious mental powers at an early age, wrote poetry at eleven, and on 11 Aug., 1726, married Mr. Turell. She afterward wrote eulogies on Sir Richard Blackmore's works, and on " The Incomparable Mr. Waller," " An Invitation into the Country in Imitation of Horace," and some prose articles. Her poems were collected and published by her husband, with a memoir of her life (Boston, 1735). A notice of her by Prof. John