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" the evening before delivered a well-timed and powerful speech," and he " was warmly complimented on his success by the select and brilliant circle then assembled," in which was " the Duke of ," presumably Wellington. This appeared in 1839 or 1840, i.e., some six years before Walpole entered the House of Commons as member for Midhurst. Aubrey (p. 218) had married Agnes St. Clair, whom he had met by " chance (so to speak)," daughter of " Colonel St. Clair, a man of old but im- poverished family, who fell in the Peninsular War." Walpole married his cousin Isabella, daughter of Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister, assassinated 1812.

Walpole and Warren were apparently intimately connected. When the former retired from the representation of Midhurst, February, 1856, and was returned for Cambridge University, Warren was elected for Midhurst, which constituency he repre- sented till February or March, 1859, when he was appointed a Commissioner in Lunacy, Walpole having left the Home Office only in January. ROBERT PIEBPOINT.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

ANTHONY TWICHENER OR TUCHENOR, WINCHESTER SCHOLAR, entered Winchester College in 1562, then aged 13, from Weeke in Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, and became Fellow of New College, Oxford, in due course.

On 16 Jan., 1575/6, the Visitor of New College, Dr. Home, Bishop of Winchester (whose nephew the Wykehamist Adam Home, then a Fellow, was to die three years later at the English College, Douay), opened his visitation by his commissaries (them- selves both Wykehamists), John Kingsmill and Thomas Bilson, M.A., the latter his future successor, but at that time Informator of Winchester College.

Though at this time Twichener was accused of being a splendid swordsman (insignia gladiator), and himself admitted that he was wont to resort " to the fence schole and plaide thereat for his recreacion," he took the degree of B.C.L. in that year, and retained his Fellowship till 1578.

One of the conspirators with Babington in 1586, John Savage, a soldier in the Spanish service, asserted that Anthony Twichener was

one of the six persons whose business it was; to kill the Queen ; and on 25 Aug., 1586, Sir Francis Walsingham wrote from Windsor to Sir Amias Poulet that " Anthoine Tuchiner hath been lately taken."

He was imprisoned at Winchester, and taken thence to the Tower of London. He was not, however, indicted with the Babing- ton conspirators, 13 and 14 Sept., nor executed with them, 20 and 21 Sept., 1586,

On the contrary, on 25 September the Attorney-General reports of him as follows ::

Anthony Tuchinor, the man very sus- picious, but no dyrect proof against him,., but a dealer with priests,"

He was still in the Tower on 2 July, 1588,. but had been ordered by Lord Burghley to- be removed to the King's Bench Prison.

Any further particulars about this man: (e.g., his parentage, his life between 1578 and 1586, his history after 1588, and his death) would be very welcome.

Did he ever marry ? If so, when and whom ?

The authorities for his career, as set forth above, are : Kirby, ' Winchester Scholars,*" p. 138 ; Rashdall and Rait, 'New College,^ pp. 133, 135 ; Foster, * Alumni Oxonienses ' ; Morris, ' Sir Amias Poulet,' pp. 272, 389 ; Pollen, Cath.> Rec. Soc. Publ., ii. 257, 259,, 262, 265, 281.

There was a priest Anthony Tuchiner, of the diocese of Salisbury (or of Winchester),- who was ordained at Arras 27 (or 26) Feb., 1600, and sent on the English Mission 15 April the same year. This man was- subsequently exiled, and during his exile- lived mainly at Rheims, but also at Douay.. He left Douay for England 9 Oct., 1607.

The authorities for the above statements are : Burton and Williams, Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. x. 10, 14, 16, 18, 85, 332; Knox, ' Records of the English Catholics,' i. 17, 32.

I should be grateful for any further particulars about this priest, who would seem to be a relative of the earlier Anthony Tuchenor or Twichener.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

RUSSIAN NAMES : THEIR PRONUNCIATION. In the last two volumes of ' N. & Q.' we have had much enlightening information; on the pronunciation of the letters of the Polish alphabet and of Polish names. Wilt some contributor render the same kind service for the Russian language ? How,, for instance, should an Englishman pro- nounce Dvinsk a name that is frequently^ occurring in the reports from Petrograd ?

J. R. THORNE.