TRAILL, GEORGE, elder son of James Traill, Rattar, Caithness, advocate, Sheriff Depute of Caithness, and Lady Janet Sinclair, second dau. of William Sinclair, 10th Earl of Caithness (S); b. 1790; in school list 1801; left 1805; Edinburgh Univ.; adm. advocate, 29 Jan 1811; MP Orkney and Shetland (Whig) 1830 - Dec 1834, Caithness (Whig/Liberal) 1841-69; Vice-Lieut., Caithness; d. unm. 29 Sep 1871.
TOWNSHEND, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Townshend, Castle Townshend, co. Cork, and his second wife Elizabeth, only dau. of Henry Becher, Creagh [check county]; b.; adm. (aged 16) Nov 1747 (Hart's); left 1749; High Sheriff, co. Cork 1753; MP (I) Co. Cork from 1759; a Commissioner of Excise (I) from 22 Jan 1773, and of Revenue (I) from 25 Dec 1773; m. 1752 Elizabeth, only dau. of John Fitzgerald, 15th Knight of Kerry; d. 23 Dec 1783.
TOWNSEND-FARQUHAR, SIR ROBERT TOWNSEND, BART., brother of Sir Thomas Harvie Farquhar, Bart. (qv); b. 14 Oct 1776; adm. 6 Jun 1787; KS 1789; Writer, EICS Madras 10 Sep 1793; Assistant to Accountant, Board of Revenue 1796; Assistant to Resident, Amboyna (now Ambon, Indonesia) and Banda 1797, Deputy Commercial Resident 1798, Commercial Resident 1798-1802; Commissioner for adjusting British claims in the Moluccas 1802; Lieut. -Gov., Prince of Wales Island 1804-6; Governor of Mauritius 1810-23, where he successfully suppressed the slave trade; created baronet 21 Aug 1821; assumed additional surname of Townsend 19 Jul 1824; MP Newton (Lancs. ) Feb 1825-6, Hythe from 1826; Director, East India Co., 1826-8; author, Suggestions for counteracting any injurious effects upon the population of the West Indian colonies from the abolition of the Slave Trade 1807; m. 10 Jan 1809 Maria Frances Geslip, second dau. of Joseph Francis Louis de Latour, firm Francis Latour & Co, agents, Madras; d. 16 Mar 1830. DNB.
TOOKE, JOHN HORNE, third son of John Horne, Newport Street, Westminster, poulterer, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); b. 25 Jun 1736; at school in 1744 (DNB); at Eton Coll. 1746-53; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 12 Jan 1753/4, matr. Mich. 1754, scholar; BA 1758; MA 1771; adm. Inner Temple 9 Nov 1756, left 9 Feb 1759; Usher at a school at Blackheath; ordained deacon (Canterbury) 23 Sep 1759, priest (Salisbury) 23 Nov 1760; Perpetual Curate of St. Lawrence, New Brentford, Middlesex 26 Sep 1760-73; author of pamphlet, The Petition of an Englishman, 1765, violently defending John Wilkes; supported Wilkes at Middlesex election 1768; fined £400 by Lord Mansfield for libelling George Onslow, but the verdict was set aside on appeal 17 Apr 1771; formedthe Society for supporting the Bill of Rights 1771; quarrelled with Wilkes and formed the Constitutional Society 1771; became unpopular and burnt in effigy by the mob Jul 1771; resigned living 1773; summoned to bar of House of Commons for a violent attack on the Speaker in the Public Advertiser 1774; fined and imprisoned for publishing in the newspapers an appeal for subscriptions for the American colonists 1778; wished to resume legal career, but was refused call to the bar 8 Jun 1779, on the ground that he was still in holy orders; joined Society for Constitutional Information 1780; assumed additional surname of Tooke at request of his friend William Tooke, Purley, Surrey; contested Westminster 1790 and 1796; tried for high treason before Chief Justice Eyre 5-22 Nov 1794, but acquitted; MP Old Sarum 14 Feb 1801-2; in consequence of his return, an Act was passed declaring clergymen ineligible for election in the future; a learned philologist and a staunch upholder of public justice and popular rights; author, Epea Pteroenta, or the Diversions of Purley, 1786-1805, and other works; d. 18 Mar 1812. DNB.
TOMLINSON, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD MURRAY, BART., eldest son of Thomas Tomlinson, Heysham, Lancs., barrister, Bencher Inner Temple, and Sarah, only child of Rev. Roger Mashiter, Bolton-le-Sands, Lancs.; b. 4 Aug 1838; adm. 29 Jan 1852; QS Mar 1854; left 1855; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1856; BA 1860; MA 1863; adm. Inner Temple 30 Mar 1860, called to bar 26 Jan 1865; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Apr 1878; law reporter in Chancery Division for Incorporated Council; member, Inns of Court Board of Examiners 1877; MP (Conservative) Preston Nov 1882-1906; created baronet 11 Aug 1902; of Heysham House, Morecambe, Lancs.; DL JP Lancashire; Senior Grand Deacon, Grand Lodge (Freemasons), from 1896; first Master, Old Westminster Lodge, which was consecrated 20 Jan 1888; Busby Trustee 16 Jun 1896; d. unm. 17 Dec 1912.
THURSBY, WILLIAM, elder son of Christopher Thursby, Castor, Northants, and his first wife Jane, dau. of Sir Thomas Nevill, Holt, Leics.; bapt. Medboune, Leics. 18 Apr 1630 (IGI); at school under Busby [implication from fact that he was one of the original trustees under Busby’s will]; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Sep 1645, matr. 1646; adm. Middle Temple 4 May 1649, called to bar 21 Nov 1656, Bencher 21 Nov 1673, Treasurer 1684; Counsel to Cambridge Univ. 1663-5; Custos Brevium of Common Pleas; Chief Justice of Ely; MP Northampton from 1698; of Abington Abbey, Northants; m. 1st, Catherine, dau. of Thomas Fleming, Fotheringhay Park, Northants; m. 2nd, lic. 30 Apr 1663 Audry, third dau. of Sir William Brownlow, Bart.; d. 4 Feb 1700/1.
THOROTON, THOMAS, son of Robert Thoroton, Screveton, Notts., and Mary, widow of Rev. Abraham Blackborne, Rector of Screveton, Notts., and dau. of Sir Richard Levett, Kt, Lord Mayor of London; bapt. St. Margaret in the Close, Lincoln 1 Jan 1724 (IGI); adm. (aged 12) Jan 1735/6 (Playford's); Trinity Hall, Cambridge, scholar 30 Dec 1741, adm. 10 Feb 1741/2; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1745 [check]; managed the estates and political and business affairs of his father-in-law John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland; MP Boroughbridge 15 Jan 1757-61, Newark 1761-8, Bramber 14 Feb 1769 - Jan 1782; maintained a constant correspondence with his brother-in-law John Manners, Marquis of Granby, during Seven Years War; Secretary, Board of Ordnance 1763-70; continued to manage the Rutland estates for the 4th Duke of Rutland; his correspondence is preserved at Belvoir Castle (HMC 12th Report, Appendix, pt. v, and 14th Report, Appendix, pt. i); m. 6 Oct 1751 Roosilia Drake, illegitimate dau. of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland KG PC; d. 9 May 1794.
THOMAS, SIR EDMUND, BART., eldest son of Sir Edmund Thomas, Bart., and Mary, dau of Right Hon. John Howe MP, Stowell, Gloucs.; bapt. 9 Apr 1712; succ. father as 3rd baronet 1723; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1724/5; in school list 1729; Queenís Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Jan 1729/30; adm. Middle Temple 10 Jul 1728; MP Chippenham 1741-54, Glamorgan from 1761; Groom of Bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales Oct 1742-51; Clerk of Household to Augusta, Princess Dowager of Wales 1756-7, Joint Treasurer to Princess Dowager Oct 1757-63; a Lord of Trade 1761-3; Surveyor of Woods, North and South of Trent, from 1763; m. Jun 1740 Abigail, widow of William Northey MP, Compton Bassett, Wilts., and dau. of Sir Thomas Webster, Bart., MP; d. 10 Oct 1767.
THELWALL, SIR EUBULE, fifth son of John Wynn Thelwall, Batharfan Park, near Ruthin, Denbighshire, and Jane, dau. of Thomas Griffith, Pant-y-Llongdu, Denbighshire; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1563 (tutor, the Dean); QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1572, adm. scholar 1573; BA 1576/7 (incorp. Oxford 14 Jul 1579 ); MA Oxford 1580; adm. Gray’s Inn 2 Jul 1590, called to bar 13 May 1599, Bencher 7 Feb 1623/4, Treasurer 1625; a Master in Chancery from 11 Jan 1617; knighted 29 Jun 1619; Principal, Jesus Coll. Oxford, from May 1621; obtained a new charter for his college in 1622, and rebuilt the Principal’s Lodgings there at his own expense; MP Denbighshire 1623-4, 1625-6, 1627-8; d. unm. 8 Oct 1630. DNB.
TEMPLER, GEORGE, brother of John Templer (qv); b.; adm. 10 Oct 1768; KS (aged 15) 1770; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1770 [check]; Writer, EICS Bengal 1773; Assistant Deputy Commissary-General 1774; Factor and Contractor for Elephants 1779; Commissioner for regulating the Price of Grain 1783; Senior Merchant 1784; returned to England 1785; partner, firm Edwards Smith Templer & Co., bankers, London, until the firm’s failure in 1817; MP Honiton 1790-6; returned to India 13 May 1817; Commercial Resident, Jangipur, from 1818; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup; m. 5 Mar 1781 Jane, eldest dau. of Henry Paul, West Monckton, Somerset; d. in India 5 Jul 1819.