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LEFT TILESTON 397 TILLY NTeeds" (1883) ; "Sugar and Spice" (1885); "Tender and True" (1892); "Selections from Isaac Penington" (1892) ; "Prayers, Ancient and Modem" (1902) ; "Joy and Strength for the Pil- grim's Day" (1902) ; "Memorials of Mary Wilder White" (1903) ; "Children's Treasure Trove of Pearls" (1908) ; "The Child's Harvest of Verse" (1910) ; "Caleb and Mary Wilder Foote" (1918). TILLMAN, BENJAMIlSr BYAN, an American legislator; born in Edgefield CO., S. C, Aug. 11, 1847; was educated at Bethany Academy. He became prom- inent in a discussion for industrial and technical education and other reforms in 1886; founded Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Fort Hill, for boys, and Winthrop Normal and In- dustrial College at Rock Hill, for girls; was elected Democratic governor of South Carolina in 1890 and 1892; was conspicuous in the Constitutional Conven- tion of South Carolina in 1895; and was elected United States Senator in 1895 and 1900. Re-elected 1906 and 1912. He died in 1918. TILLMAN, SAMUEL ESCUE, an American military officer; born near Shelby^alle, Tenn., Oct. 2, 1847; was graduated at the United States Military Academy and commissioned 2d lieutenant of artillery in 1869; transferred to the Engineer Corps in 1872 as 1st lieutenant; served on frontier duty in Kansas in 1869-1870; was assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology in the Military Academy in 1870-1873 and 1879-1880; assistant Professor of Philos- ophy in 1875-1876; and Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology after 1880. He was assistant astronomer in the United States expedition to Tasmania to observe the transit of Venus in 1874- 1875; and author of "Essential Princi- ples of Chemistry" (1884) ; "Elementary Mineralogy" (1894) ; "Descriptive Gen- eral Chemistry" (1899) ; "Important Minerals and Rocks" (1900) ; etc. TILLOTSON, JOHN ROBERT, Arch- bishop of Canterbury; born in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England, in October, 1630. He studied at Claire Hall, Cambridge, graduated B.A. in 1650, and became a fellow the year after. In 1650 he became tutor in the house of Edmund Prideaux, attorney-general under the Protector. He is said to have received his orders from Sydserf, Bishop of Galloway, and at any rate he was a preacher by 1661, when we find him ranged among the Presbyterians at the Savoy Conference. He submitted at once to the Act of Uniformity (1662); in 1663 became rector of Keddington, in Suffolk, the year after preached at Lin- coln's Inn, where his mild, evangelical, but undoctrinal morality was at first lit- tle relished. He married a niece of Oliver Cromwell, and became lecturer at St. Lawrence's Church, in the Je^vry. In 1670 he became a prebendary, in 1672 dean of Canterbury. Along with Burnet he attended Lord Russell on the scaffold (1683). In 1689 he was appointed clerk of the closet to King William and dean of St. Paul's, and in April, 1691, was raised to the see of Canterbury, vacant by the deposition of the Nonjuror Sancroft. His "Posthumous Sermons," edited by his chaplain. Dr. Ralph Barker, filled 14 vol- umes (1694). A complete edition of his whole works, including 254 sermons, ap- peared in three volumes folio, 1707-1712; with a good "Life" by Dr. Thomas Birch, 1752; and an annotated selection of his sermons by G. W. Weldon (1886). Bur- net said he was the best preacher of his age. He died Nov. 22, 1694. TILLY. J O H A N N TSERKL^S. COUNT VON, one of the most notable generals of the Thirty Years' War; bom in the castle of Tilly, Brabant, Belgium, in February, 1559. He was at first edu- cated under Jesuit super'ision for the priesthood, but a strong bias toward a military career soon showed itself, and he abandoned the Church for the army. COUNT VON TILLY He served under Alva during the revolt in the Netherlands, and afterward with distinction in Hungary. Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria, appointed him com- mander of his forces, and in 1620, two years after the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, he utterly routed the Bo- hemians. During the next period of the contest he defeated in turn the two Protestant leaders. In 1622 he drove Cyc. Vol. IX