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Tone drawn on stone by C. Hullmandel from portrait by Catherine Sampson Tone, represents him in French uniform (published in 1827, reproduced in 'Autobiography,' 1893 vol. ii.) The other, some years earlier in date, 'from an original portrait representing him in volunteer uniform,' forms the frontispiece to the 'Autobiography' and to the second series of Madden's 'United Irishmen,' which also has a portrait of Tone's son, William Theobald Wolfe Tone, from a drawing by his wife.

Of Tone's three children, only one attained a mature age, (1791-1828), born in Dublin on 29 April 1791. After his father's death he was declared an adopted child of the French republic, and educated at the national expense in the Prytaneum and Lyceum. He was appointed a cadet in the imperial school of cavalry on 3 Nov. 1810, and in January 1813 promoted sub-lieutenant in the 8th regiment of chasseurs. He took an active part in the campaigns of that year at—Gross Gorschen, Bautzen, and Leipzig, where he was severely wounded. Being made lieutenant on the staff, aide-de-camp to General Bagnères, and a member of the legion of honour, he retired from military service on the abdication of Napoleon, but returned to his standard after his escape from Elba, and was entrusted with the organisation of a defensive force on the Rhine and the Spanish frontiers. He quitted France after the battle of Waterloo, and in 1816 settled down in New York, where for some time he studied law. On 12 July 1820 he was appointed second lieutenant of light artillery, and was transferred to the 1st artillery on 1 June 1821, but resigned on 31 Dec. 1826. He married Catherine, daughter of his father's friend, William Sampson [q. v.], in 1825, but died of consumption on 10 Oct. 1828, and was buried on Long Island. Besides a juvenile work, entitled 'L'Etat civil et politique de l'Italie sous la domination des Goths' (Paris, 1813), he was the author of 'School of Cavalry, or a System for Instruction …, proposed for the Cavalry of the United States' (Georgetown, 1824). Shortly before his death he published his father's journals and political writings, to which he appended an account of Tone's last days under the title 'Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone' (2 vols. Washington, 1826).

[Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, Washington, 1826; the only complete edition containing both the 'Journals' and Tone's political writings. An edition rearranged with useful notes by Mr. Barry O'Brien, under the title 'The Autobiography of Wolfe Tone' (with two mezzotint portraits), was published in 1893; Madden's United Irishmen; Gent. Mag. 1798, ii. 1084; Cat. of Graduates Trinity Coll. Dublin; Howell's State Trials, xxvii. 613-26; Cornwallis Corresp. ii. 341, 362, 415, 434-5; Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the late Irish Rebellion; Webb s Compendium of Irish Biography; Biographic Nouvelle des Contemporains; Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography.]  TONG, WILLIAM (1662–1727), presbyterian divine, was born on 24 June 1662, probably at Eccles, near Manchester, where his father (a relative of Robert Warton Hall) was buried. His mother, early left a widow with three children, was aided by Mort. Tong began his education with a view to the law. Jeremy erroneously says he entered at Gray's Inn with Matthew Henry [q. v.] His mother's influence turned him to the ministry. He entered the academy of Richard Frankland [q. v.], then at Natland, on 2 March 1681, and was Frankland's most distinguished student. Early in 1685 he was licensed to preach. For two years he acted as chaplain in Shropshire to Thomas Corbet of Stanwardine and Rowland Hunt of Boreatton, thus becoming acquainted with Philip Henry [q. v.] Till threatened with a prosecution, he preached occasionally at the chapel of Cockshut, parish of Ellesmere, Shropshire, using 'a small part' of the common prayer. At the beginning of March 1687 he took a three months' engagement at Chester, pending the settlement of Matthew Henry. His services were conducted, noon and night, in the house of Anthony Henthorn, and were so successful that they were transferred to ‘a large outbuilding, part of the Friary.’ The dean of Chester urged him to conform. From Chester he was called to be the first pastor of a newly formed dissenting congregation at Knutsford, Cheshire. He was ordained on 4 Nov. 1687 ( List, manuscript in Dr. Williams's Library), and procured the building of the existing meeting-house in Brook Street (opened 1688–9). On the death (22 Oct. 1689) of Obadiah Grew, D.D. [q. v.], and Jarvis Bryan (27 Dec. 1689) [see under, D.D.], he was called to be co-pastor with Thomas Shewell (d. 19 Jan. 1693) at the Great Meeting-house, Coventry. Here he ministered with great success for ‘almost thirteen years’ from 1690. He had as colleagues, after Shewell, Joshua Oldfield, D.D. [q. v.], and John Warren (d 15 Sept. 1742). He escaped the prosecutions which fell upon Oldfield, though he assisted him in academy teaching, and the bursaries from the presbyterian fund were paid through him. His forte was preaching; he thus laid the foundation of