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* TRUSTS. 508 TRYON. as Restbaixt of Trade ; Coxspiract; Consti- tutional Law, etc. TRTJTCH, 8ir Joseph William (1826-1904). A Canadian statesman, born at Ashcot, England. He was educated at Exeter, studied civil engi- neering under Sir John Eennie, and in 1849 re- moved to tlie Pacific Coast. From 18.59 to 18(i4 he was emploj'ed in the construction of public works for British Columbia, and from 1864 to 1871 was chief commissioner of lands and works, and surveyor-general, for the same colony. He was also an ex-officio member of the excutive and legislative councils from 1864 until in 1871 British Columbia joined the Dominion federation. From 1871 to 1876 he was Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, and in 1876-89 was resi- dent Dominion agent for British Columbia. TRUXILLO, tr<3o-Hel'y6. See Trujillo. TRUX'TUN, Thomas (1755-1822). An American naval officer, born at Jamaica, L. I. Going to sea at the age of twelve, he was first an apprentice on an English packet, was subse- quently impressed for service on an English frigate, and finally entered the merchant marine. Coming to Philadelphia late in 1775, he was made captain of the Congress, the first American priva- teer sent out during the Revolution. In com- mand successively of this vessel, the Independ- ence, the Andrew Caldwell, the Mars, the Saint James, and the Connnerce, he captured numer- ous prizes, and overcame many vessels more powerful than his own. After engaging for a time in the East Indian service, he was appointed captain in the newly organized United States Navy, 1795, and was put in command of the Constellation. On February 9, 1799, during i:he short naval war with France, he captured, with the loss of only two killed and three wounded, the French frigate Insurgente, which lost 29 killed and 41 wounded. In the following year (February 1st), he likewise defeated the Ven- geance, which, however, after surrendering, man- aged to escape. The French loss in killed and wounded was 160, the American 39. Subsequent- ly he was put in command of the West India Squadron with the rank of commodore. Retiring from the nax-y in 1802. he lived for a time in New Jersey, and then removed to Philadelphia, where he was sheriff, 1819-1821. He published Remarks. Instructions, and Examples Relating to Latitude and Longitude, also the Variation of the Compass ( 1794). TRY'ON, DwiGHT William (1849—). An American landscape painter, born in Hartford, Conn. He studied under C. Daubigny Chevreuse and (4uilU'iiu't in Paris; in 1.SS6 became director of the Hartford Scliool of Art and professor of art at Smith College, Northampton. JIass.. and afterwards he settled in New York City. His earlier works show a trace of the influence of Daubigny, but his own personality was strong enough to prevail. His subjects are confined to New England, and are of the simplest descrip- tion. His skill in analysis and in technique has given him a high place among American land- scape painters. His general treatment is broad, and he is fond of the hazy effects of spring and autumn. Notable paintings, but in a higher key than is usual with Tryon. arc "October After- nnnn" (190.3) and ".utunm — New England" (1903). Other important works include: "Morn- ing Twilight" (1903); "New England Hills- August" (1901); "Dawn" (1901): "Winter Afternoon" (1894); "Jlorning" (1893). Some of his water-color work is also well known. TRYON, Sir George (1832-93). An English admiral, born at Bulwick Park, Northampton- shire. He was educated at Eton, and entered the navy in 1848. In 1860 he was promoted to commander, and in 1866 to captain. In the fol- lowing year he showed considerable talent for organization and foresight as director of trans- ports for the Abyssinian expedition. In 1874- 77 he was in command of a ship in the flying squadron, and from that time till 1887 served with the Mediterranean fleet. In 1884 he became rear-admiral, and in 1889 vice-admiral. His appointment in 1891 to the command of the Jlediterranean station was a popular one. but there on June 22, 1893. off Tripoli, he was re- sponsible for one of the most terrible naval acci- dents of modern times. During some manoeuvres he ordered the battleships Camperdotrn and Vic- toria, which were proceeding in parallel lines, to turn inward, thus causing the former to ram and sink the latter with great loss of life. He went down with the Victoria. Consult C. C. Penrose-Fitzgerald, Life (London, 1897). TRYON, Thomas (1634-1703). An English zealot, known as the 'Pythagorean.' He was born near Cirencester, in Gloucestershire. England. He was taken from school before he had learned to read and put to spinning and carding (1643- 46) ; and thereafter till his eighteenth year he tended his father's sheep. He then drifted to Lon- don. He joined the Anabaptists, but afterwirds renounced their doctrines, through the influence of the mystical writings of Jakob Biihrne (q.v. ). At the age of forty-eight he began a long series of pamphlets, in which he recommended for drink only water, and for food only bread and fruit, with some liberty in the use of butter and cheese. His book on this theme is known as The Wny to Health (1698), published originally in 1682 as Health's Grand Preservative. TRYON, William (c.1725-88). A British colonial Governor, born in Ireland. He secured a commission as captain in the British Army in 1751. and became lieutenant-colonel in 1758. Through his marriage to Miss Wake, a rel- ative of the Earl of Hillsborough, First Com- missioner of Trade and Plantations, he was ap- pointed Lieutenant-Governor of North Carolina .Tune 27, 1764, and succeeded to the Governor- ship July 20, 1765, after the death of Arthur Dobbs. He succeeded through the tact of his wife in securing £15,000 to build a Governor's house at Newbern, pronounced the handsomest building in the Americas. The hea-j- taxation required for this and the Cherokee expedition was one of the causes of the insurrection of the Regulators (q.v.), which he suppressed with severity. In July, 1771, he was transferred to New York, where he greatly strengthened the militia. In 1773 the Government house, at Fort George, near New Y'ork City, was burned, and Tryon and his wife barely escaped with their lives. He made a large grant of land to King's College (Columbia), and he himself specu- lated in Western lands. He visited England in 1774. and on his return in June, 1775. found the colonv in rebellion. In October he took refuge