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TOERENS— TRELAWNY.

elective member of the Legislative Council of that colony. In 1852 he became Treasurer of South Aus- tralia, and was elected the first member for Adelaide under the new Constitution. He was subsequently appointed Chief Secretary and Re- gistrar-General of the colony, with the interests of which he had been so long identified. He was chosen in the Liberal interest as member for the borough of Cambridge at the general election of Dec., 1868, but lost his seat at the general election of Feb., 1874. The honour of knighthood was conferred on him in 1872, in recognition of his colonial services, and more especi- ally in connection with the Regis- tration of Titles to Land Act first enacted in South Australia. Sir Robert is the author of several published works more or less bear- ing upon our Colonies, including the questions of ** Transportation,' "The Eflfects of the Gold Discoveries on the Currency/' and " Condition of South Australia."

TORRENS, William Torbbnb McCuLLAQH, M.P., eldest son of Mr. James McCullagh, of Green- field, CO. Dublin, born in Oct., 1813, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A. 1834; LL.B. 1840), was called to the Irish bar in 1836, afterwards became a member of Lincoln's Inn, and practised at the Common Law bar. He was ap- pointed a Commissioner of the Poor Law Inquiry in Ireland in 1835, private secretary to Lord Taunton (then Mr. Labouchere) in 1846, re- presented Dimdalk in the advanced Liberal interest from March, 1848, till the general election in July, 1852, when he was an unsuccessful cancUdate for Yarmouth, for which he was returned at the general elec- tion in March, 1857, but was un- seated on petition, and he was re- turned for Finsbury at the general election in July, 1865. In 1863 he assumed, for family reasons, his maternal name. In 1867 he was a prominent member of the ad-

vanced Liberal paj:ty, who secured by their support Mr. Disraeli's proposal of household suffrage, aad in committee on the Reform Bill he proposed and carried the lodger franchise. In the following year he brought in the Artisans' Dwell- ings Bill, which passed both Houses. In 1869 he obtained the adoption of the system for London of boarding children by Poor Law Guardians; and in 1870 an Act to amend the laws regarding extradition was passed in accordance with the re- commendations of a committee, for which Mr. Torrens had moved two years before. The School Board for London was suggested and pro- posed to Parliament by him as an amendment to Mr. Forster's Ele-^ mentary Education Bill; and he was himself elected a member of the School Board for Finsbury. Mr. Torrens has written " Lectures on the Study of History;" "The Life of R. L. Shiel;" "Life and Times of Sir James Graham ; " " In- dustrial History of Free NiUiions ; " " Empire in Asia, How we came by it: a Book of Confessions," 1872; and "Memoirs of WlUiam, second Viscount Melbourne," 2 vols., 1877. TOULMIN, Camilla. (SeeCaos-

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TOZER, The Right Rev. Wil- liam Geoboe, D.D., was educated at St. John's College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1851, M.A. in 1854, and received the d^pree of D.D., dignitatis jure, in 1863, when he was consecrated Bishop of Zan- zibar. His health having com- pletely given way under the climate at Zanzibar, he resigned the bishop- ric in 1874. His health having been completely re-established, he was nominated by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Bishop of London, in Aug., 1879, to the vacant bishopric of Jamaica.

TRELAWNY, Sib John Salus- BUBT, Bart., eldest son of the late Sir W. L. S. Trelawny, Bart., for* merly M.P. for East Cornwall, and later Lord Lieut, for Cornwall, bom