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 the civil war, the nuns' dowries having been invested in England, the payment of interest was suspended, and the nunnery was in great straits, until the painter Le Brun, a neighbour, obtained pecuniary assistance from Chancellor Séguier. In 1653 Carre, who was resident chaplain, dedicated to Lady Tredway his English translation of Thomas à Kempis. In 1644 her religious jubilee was celebrated; in 1674 she resigned, and in 1677 she died. She was buried in the chapel, which, with the rest of the building, was demolished in 1860. The convent was then removed to Neuilly, where her portrait is still preserved.

Humphrey Tredway, rector of Little Offord, Buckinghamshire, and author of Latin verses on Sir Philip Sidney (, Athenæ Cantabr. ii. 530), was of the same family.



TREE, ANN MARIA (1801-1862), actress and vocalist. [See .]

TREE, ELLEN (1805-1880), actress. [See .]

TREGELLAS, WALTER HAWKEN (1831–1894), miscellaneous writer, born at Truro, Cornwall, on 10 July 1831, was the eldest son of John Tabois Tregellas (1792–1863), merchant at Truro, purser of Cornish mines, and author of many stories written in the local dialect of the county; John Tabois Tregellas married at St. Mary's, Truro, on 23 Oct. 1828, Anne (1801–1867), second daughter of Richard Hawken. Walter was educated under his uncle, John Hawken, at Trevarth school, Gwennap, from 1838 to 1845, and from 1845 to 1847 at the grammar school of Truro.

Tregellas was from youth fond of drawing, and won prizes as an artist at the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth, from 1846 to 1848. He began his active life as a draughtsman in the war office on 10 July 1855, was promoted to be second draughtsman on 28 Feb. 1860, rose to be chief draughtsman on 24 May 1866, and retained the post until 1 Aug. 1893. He died at Deal on 28 May 1894, and was buried in its cemetery on 30 May. He married at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, on 2 Nov. 1861, Zoe, third daughter of (1808–1869) [q. v.] His wife survives him; they had no issue.

Tregellas was the author of an anonymous volume on ‘China, the Country, History, and People,’ published by the Religious Tract Society (1867). He compiled Stanford's ‘Tourists' Guide to Cornwall’ (1878; 7th edit. revised by H. M. Whitley, 1895); two excellent volumes on ‘Cornish Worthies’ (London, 1884, 8vo); and ‘A History of the Horse Guards,’ 1880. A work on the history of the Tower of London is still in manuscript. He contributed papers to the ‘Archæological Journal’ (1864–6), the ‘Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall’ (1883, 1891), and to other periodicals.

His ‘Historical Sketch of the Defences of Malta’ was printed for the Royal Engineers’ Institute at Chatham in 1879, and ‘Historical Sketch of the Coast Defences of England’ appeared in the ‘occasional paper series’ of the engineers (xii. paper ii, 1886). A paper by him on ‘County Characteristics, Cornwall,’ came out in the ‘Nineteenth Century,’ November 1887. The lives of many eminent Cornishmen were written by Tregellas in the first thirteen volumes of this dictionary.



TREGELLES, EDWIN OCTAVIUS (1806–1886), civil engineer and quaker minister, seventeenth and youngest child of Samuel Tregelles (1765–1831), by his wife Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Smith, a London banker, was born at Falmouth on 19 Oct. 1806. Leaving school at thirteen, he went to learn engineering at the Neath Abbey ironworks of his uncle, Peter Price, in South Wales. For some years after his marriage, in 1832, he was employed in superintending the introduction of lighting by gas into many towns in the south of England.

In 1835 Tregelles was appointed engineer of the Southampton and Salisbury railway, and was later engaged in surveying for the West Cornwall railway. He published in 1849 reports on the water supply and sewerage of Barnstaple and Bideford. He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 5 March 1850, and resigned in 1861.

When only twenty-one Tregelles began to preach, and thenceforward in the intervals of professional engagements made several ministerial journeys. In 1844, during a long visit to the West Indies, he visited, in spite of a severe attack of yellow fever,