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 his ‘goodness of heart, amiable temper and disposition, and the graceful and engaging manner in which he discharged the several duties of his function, particularly that of preaching.’ Seven of his sermons were separately published.

Terrick presented to Sion College a portrait, now in its hall, of himself, represented as seated and holding a book in his left hand, and in 1773 he gave 20l. to its library. The portrait was painted by Nathaniel Dance about 1761, and an engraving of it by Edward Fisher was published in April 1770. A copy of it by Stewart is at Fulham Palace, where Terrick rebuilt the suite of apartments facing the river, and moved the position of the chapel. A second copy, by Freeman, hangs in the combination-room of Clare College. The bishop consecrated the existing chapel at Clare College on 5 July 1769, and gave a large and handsome pair of silver-gilt candlesticks, which still stand upon the super-altar.

[Gent. Mag. 1742 p. 331, 1764 p. 302, 1777 p. 195, 1790 i. 186, 1793 ii. 1089, 1794 i. 208–209; Walpole's Letters, iv. 217, 238; Walpole's George III, ed. Barker, i. 331, ii. 60, 164; Walpole's Journal, 1771–83, ii. 28, 90, 106; Leslie and Taylor's Sir Joshua Reynolds, ii. 37–8; Nichols's Lit. Anecdotes, ix. 583–4; Faulkner's Fulham, pp. 103, 179, 187, 247–8; Le Neve's Fasti, ii. 305, 384, 537, iii. 408–9; Lysons's Environs, ii. 348–9, 391; Cobbett's Twickenham, p. 121; Sion College (by Wm. Scott), pp. 62, 67; Hist. MSS. Comm. 8th Rep. App. p. 364; information from Rev. Doctor Atkinson, master of Clare College.] 

TERRIEN DE LA COUPERIE, ALBERT ÉTIENNE JEAN BAPTISTE (d. 1894), orientalist, born in Normandy, was a descendant of the Cornish family of Terrien, which emigrated to France in the seventeenth century during the civil war, and acquired the property of La Couperie in Normandy. His father was a merchant, and he received a business education. In early life he settled at Hong Kong. There he soon turned his attention from commerce to the study of oriental languages, and he acquired an especially intimate knowledge of the Chinese language. In 1867 he published a philological work which attracted considerable attention, entitled ‘Du Langage, Essai sur la Nature et l'Étude des Mots et des Langues,’ Paris, 8vo. Soon after his attention was attracted by the progress made in deciphering Babylonian inscriptions, and by the resemblance between the Chinese characters and the early Akkadian hieroglyphics. The comparative philology of the two languages occupied most of his later life, and he was able to show an early affinity between them. In 1879 he came to London, and in the same year was elected a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. In 1884 he became professor of comparative philology, as applied to the languages of South-eastern Asia, at University College, London. His last years were largely occupied by a study of the ‘Yh King,’ or ‘Book of Changes,’ the oldest work in the Chinese language. Its meaning had long proved a puzzle both to native and to foreign scholars. Terrien demonstrated that the basis of the work consisted of fragmentary notes, chiefly lexical in character, and noticed that they bore a close resemblance to the syllabaries of Chaldæa. In 1892 he published the first part of an explanatory treatise entitled ‘The oldest Book of the Chinese,’ London, 8vo, in which he stated his theory of the nature of the ‘Yh King,’ and gave translations of passages from it. The treatise, however, was not completed before his death. In recognition of his services to oriental study he received the degree of Litt.D. from the university of Louvain. He also enjoyed for a time a small pension from the French government, and after that had been withdrawn an unsuccessful attempt was made by his friends to obtain him an equivalent from the English ministry. He was twice awarded the ‘prix Julien’ by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres for his services to oriental philology. Terrien died at his residence, 136 Bishop's Road, Fulham, on 11 Oct. 1894, leaving a widow.

Besides the works mentioned, Terrien was the author of: 1. ‘Early History of Chinese Civilisation,’ London, 1880, 8vo. 2. ‘On the History of the Archaic Chinese Writings and Text,’ London, 1882, 8vo. 3. ‘Paper Money of the Ninth Century and supposed Leather Coinage of China,’ London, 1882, 8vo. 4. ‘Cradle of the Shan Race,’ London, 1885, 8vo. 5. ‘Babylonia and China,’ London, 1887, 4to. 6. ‘Did Cyrus introduce Writing into India?’ London, 1887, 8vo. 7. ‘The Languages of China before the Chinese,’ London, 1887, 8vo; French edition, Paris, 1888, 8vo. 8. ‘The Miryeks or Stone Men of Corea,’ Hertford, 1887, 8vo. 9. ‘The Yueh-Ti and the early Buddhist Missionaries in China,’ 1887, 8vo. 10. ‘The Old Babylonian Characters and their Chinese Derivates,’ London, 1888, 8vo. 11. ‘The Djurtchen of Mandshuria,’ 1889, 8vo. 12. ‘Le Non-Monosyllabisme du Chinois Antique,’ Paris, 1889, 8vo. 13. ‘The Onomastic Similarity of Nai Kwang-ti of China and Nakhunte of Susiana,’ London, 1890, 8vo. 14. ‘L'Ère des Arsacides selon les Inscriptions cunéiformes,’ Louvain,