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 the Stuart Government from May 1883 to May 1884, when he took the position of Minister of Public Instruction in the same Government, and retained office till Oct. 1885. He then occupied the same portfolio in the Government until its resignation in Dec. 1885. Mr. Trickett was also Chairman of Committees in the Assembly for eight months, but resigned in consequence of illness. He is a justice of the peace, a trustee of the Art Gallery, a member of the State Children's Relief Board, is on the committee of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, an officeholder in several of the sporting clubs, a director of several mercantile institutions, and a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works.

Tryon, Vice-Admiral Sir George, K.C.B., formerly Commander-in-Chief on the Australian station, is the son of the late T. Tryon, of Bulwick Park in Northamptonshire, and was born in 1832. He entered the Royal Navy in 1848, became commander in 1860, captain in 1866, rear-admiral in 1884, and vice-admiral in 1889. He served with the Naval Brigade before Sebastopol in 1854 and 1855, for which he received a medal with two clasps, the 3rd class Medjidie, and the Turkish medal. He was director of transports during the Abyssinian war of 1868, and received a medal and special mention in despatches. Admiral Tryon was private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty from 1871 to 1874, British Commissioner at Sfaxenguin [sic] in 1881, Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty in 1883 and 1884, a naval aide-de-camp to Her Majesty from 1879 to 1884, and Commander-in-Chief on the Australian station from 1884 to 1887. In the latter capacity he conferred with the Australian Premiers on the subject of colonial naval defence, and was largely the originator of the plan discussed and adopted at the Colonial Conference held in London in 1887, and subsequently approved by the Colonial Legislatures, under which the Home Government agreed to provide, and the former to subsidise, a special Australasian squadron. In 1887 Admiral Tryon unsuccessfully contested the Spalding Division of Lincolnshire in the Conservative interest, and in the next year was appointed Admiral-Superintendent of Naval Reserves. In 1889 and 1890 he commanded one of the fleets engaged in the autumn manoeuvres. Admiral Tryon, who was created C.B. in 1868 and K.C.B. in 1887, married, in 1869, the Hon. Clementina Charlotte Heathcote, daughter of the 1st Lord Aveland.

Tucker, Hon. Albert Lee, M.L.A., J.P., was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne, in 1843, and primarily adopted the scholastic profession, but ultimately embraced commercial pursuits, from which he retired in 1870. Mr. Tucker was mayor of Fitzroy in 1873 and in 1879. In 1874 he was returned to the Assembly for Collingwood and Fitzroy; and when the constituency was divided was returned for the latter electorate, which he still represents. In 1878 he acted as chairman of the Royal Commission on Closed Roads. In the second Government, he was Minister of Lands from March 1883 to Feb. 1886, in which capacity he was the author of the present Land Act, and of a measure specially dealing with the Mallee country.

Tucker, Thomas George, M.A., Litt. D., Professor of Classics and Comparative Philology in the University of Melbourne, was born in Bucks, England, on March 29th, 1859. He was foundation scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1879, Craven scholar of the University in 1881, Senior Classic, Chancellor's classical medallist, and fellow of St. John's College in 1882. He was appointed Professor of Classics and English at the new University College, Auckland, New Zealand, in 1883; and in June 1885 was elected to his present position in Melbourne. In 1889 he published an important critical edition of the "Supplices" of Æschylus, in recognition of the merits of which work the degree of Doctor in Letters was conferred upon him by the University of Cambridge. He is a contributor to various literary and philological publications, and has collected into a volume entitled "Things Worth Thinking About" a series of lectures on literature and culture previously delivered in Melbourne. A critical edition of "Thucydides, Book VIII.," by him is now in the press. In 1892 he represented Melbourne University at the Dublin University celebration.

Tufnell, Right Rev. Edward Wyndham, D.D., first Bishop of Brisbane, second son of Lieut.-Colonel John Charles Tufnell, by Uliana-Ivaniona, only 473