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 and while thus employed he was borne on the books of the flagship. But a new Japanese administration interrupted Tracey's work, which was not resumed till 1873, when Commander (Sir) Archibald Douglas took out to Japan a second naval mission. Tracey, however, for a short time rendered similar services to the Chinese navy, for which he was decorated by the emperor with the order of the Double Dragon, and in Nov. 1869 was appointed to command the gun-vessel Avon, in which he remained on the China station until his promotion to captain on 29 Nov. 1871. In July 1876 he was appointed to the Spartan, corvette, which he commanded for four years on the East Indies station, and particularly on the east coast of Africa, where he cruised for the suppression of the slave trade. In Jan. 1881 he became flag captain in the Iron Duke to Sir George Ommanney Willes [q. v. Suppl. II], commander-in-chief on the China station, and returning home early in 1884 was appointed to the Sultan, which he commanded for a year in the Channel squadron. In April 1885 Tracey became an aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, and in July was appointed to Portsmouth dockyard. He reached flag rank on 1 Jan. 1888.

Tracey first hoisted his flag as second-in-command of the fleet under Sir George Tryon [q. v.] in the manoeuvres of 1889, and in Sept. of that year was appointed in the same capacity to the Channel Squadron. In Jan. 1892 he was made admiral superintendent at Malta, and on 23 June 1893 was promoted to vice-admiral. In 1896 he was an umpire for the naval manoeuvres, and for three years from Oct. 1897 was president of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. He was awarded the K.C.B. in May 1898, was promoted to admiral on 29 Nov. following, and retired on 24 Jan. 1901. He died in London on 7 March 1907, and was buried at Kensal Green.

Tracey was twice married: (1) in 1865 to Janet (d. 1875), daughter of the Rev. W. Wingate; (2) on 30 Nov. 1887 to Adelaide Constance Rohesia, only daughter of John Constantine de Courcy, 29th Baron Kingsale in the Irish peerage.

 TRAFFORD, F. G. (pseudonym). [See (1832–1906), novelist.]

TRAILL-BURROUGHS, Sir FREDERICK WILLIAM (1831–1905), lieutenant-general. [See .]

TREVOR, WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE (1831–1907), major-general, royal (Bengal) engineers, born in India on 9 Oct. 1831, was second son of Captain Robert Salusbury Trevor, 3rd Bengal cavalry, by his wife Mary, youngest daughter of William Spottiswoode, laird of Glenfemate, Perthshire, N.B. His father was one of the party of three murdered with Sir William Macnaghten [q. v.] at Kabul in 1841. The widow and children were detained in captivity by Akbar Khan for nine months in Afghanistan. After their release and return to England William was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at the East India Company's military seminary at Addiscombe. He obtained a commission as second-lieutenant in the Bengal engineers on 11 Dec. 1849. While under professional instruction at Chatham, he was for some months on special duty at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He arrived in India in 1852 in time to take part in the Burmese war; was severely wounded in the escalade and capture of the White House Picquet stockade in the operations before Rangoon on 12 April 1852, and was mentioned in despatches. In the autumn he had sufficiently recovered to join the force under Sir John Cheape [q. v.] in the Donabew district, and was present in several actions, ending with the attack on the entrenched position at Kym Kazim on 19 March 1853. For his conduct on this occasion, when he was again wounded, Trevor received the thanks of government in a 'notification' dated 22 April 1853 and the medal with clasp. He was promoted lieutenant on 1 August 1854.

After the conclusion of the Burmese war he was employed on the Pegu survey, and later on the Bassein river in Burma, with a view to constructing a sanatorium at the mouth of the river. The country was in an unsettled state and Trevor's position most insecure. Transferred in October 1857 to Bengal, he accompanied the Darjeeling field force, to intercept the mutineers of the 75th native infantry from Dacca, and engaged them at Cherabandar on the Bhutan frontier. Promoted captain on 27 Aug. 1858, Trevor was employed in the construction of the Ganges and Darjeeling road. In 1861 he was appointed garrison engineer at Fort William, Calcutta, and converted a tract of waste land on the bank of the Hooghly into the pleasure resort 