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THOBOLD, The Eight Rev. Anthony Wilson, D.D., Bishop of Bochester, younger son of the late Rev. Edward Thorold, rector of Hougham-cmn-Marston, Lin- colnshire, by Mary, only daughter of Thomas Wilson, Esq., M.D., of Grantham, was born at Hougham, June 13, 1825, and educated at Queen's College, Oxford (B.A. 1847; M.A. 1850; D.D., by diploma, 1877). He was rector of St. Giles-in- the-Fields, London, from 1857 to 1868 ; a member of the Schools Inquiry Commission in 1864 ; minister of Curzon Chapel, May- fair, in 1868 ; and was elected on the first School Board for London in 1870. He became vicar of St. Pancras, Middlesex, and rural dean, in 1869 ; canon residentiary of York in 1874 ; examining chaplain to the Archbishop of York the same year ; also provincial chaplain * to the Archbishop of Canterbury. On the recommendation of Lord Beacons- field, he was nominated by the Crown to the bishopric of Rochester, in succession to Dr. Claughton, who had been translated to the newly- constituted see of St. Albans. He was consecrated in Westminster Abbey, July 25, 1877. He is the author of a work on "The Presence of Christ,*' which has gone through ten editions.

THORPE, Thomas Edwabd, F.R.S., was born at Harpurhey, near Manchester, Dec. 8, 1845, being the son of a Manchester mer- chant. He was educated at private schools, at Owens College, Man- chester, and at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bonn. He was appointed Demonstrator of Chemis- try at Owens College in 1869 ; Pro- fessor of Chemistry in Anderson's CoUege, Glasgow, in 1870 j and Professor of Chemistry in the newly- erected Yorkshire College at Leeds in 1874. He is a F.R.S., a Member of Council of the Chemical Society of London, a Fellow of the Society of Chemical Industry, Ph.D. of Heidel- berg, and Examiner in Chemistry

to the University of London (1882). He was First Longstaffe Medallist of the Chemical Society of London, and is a member of the Council of the Philosophical and Literary Society of Leeds, and a correspond- ing member of the Philosophical So- ciety of Glasgow. Professor Thorpe is the author of 48 memoirs on Chemistry and Physical Chemistry, published in the ** Philosophical Transactions," the Proceedings of the Royal Society and the Journal of the Chemical Society and the British Association Reports. He is also the author of "Inorganic Chemistry," 2 vols. ; ** Qualitetive Analysis;" "Quantitative Analysis;" "Coal: its History and Uses." He has likewise written various articles in Watt's " Dictionary of Chemistry," and is a frequent contributor to Nature and other scientific periodi- cals. Professor Thorpe was a mem- ber of the Solar Eclipse Expedi- tions of 1870 and 1878.
 * ' Chemical Problems ; " and editor of

TILDEN, Samttbl Jones, born at New Lebanon, New York, Feb. 9, 1814. He graduated at Yale Col- lege ; then studied law, and was a£nitted to the New York bar, and acquired a large fortune in his pro- fession. He entered into politics at an early age, and while not seek- ing office, became prominent as a leader of the Democratic party, and for thirteen years was chairman of the State Democratic Committee. He was a member of two State Constitutional Conventions (1846, 1867) ; and served for two terms in the New York State Assembly (1846, 1872). In 1871 he took a prominent part in exposing and bringing to punishment a band of corrupt officials, known as the "Tammany Ring," who had for years plundered fiie treasury of the city of New York. In 1874 he was nominated by the Democrats for Governor of the State, and al- though at the previous election two years before, the Republican candi- date succeeded by a majority of