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VANE, SIR HENRY, eldest son of Sir Henry Vane, Kt MP, Treasurer of the Household and Secretary of State, Hadlow, Kent, and Raby Castle, co. Durham, and Frances, dau. of Thomas Darcy, Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex; bapt. 26 May 1613; at schoool under Osbaldeston (Wood, Athenae Oxon., iii, 578); became a puritan at age of 15; Magdalen Hall, Oxford, adm. fellow commoner, aged 16, but did not matr., as he objected to taking the oath; went to New England to obtain freedom of worship 1635; Governor of Massachusetts 1636-7; became entangled in doctrinal controversies and returned to England; Joint Treasurer of the Navy Jan 1639- Dec 41; MP Hull 1640-53; knighted 23 Jun 1640; showed Pym his father's notes of Strafford's advice to Charles I at the Council meeting of 5 May 1640; one of the originators of the bill for the abolition of episcopacy 1641; one of the committee appointed to vindicate the privileges of Parliament on the arrest of the five members; a leader of the war party in the House of Commons; Treasurer of the Navy (for Parliament) Aug 1642 - Dec 1650; conducted the negotiations with the Scots 1643; the virtual leader of the House of Commons after Pym's death; proposed and carried the establishment of the Committee of both Kingdoms 1644; one of the Parliamentary Commissioners at Uxbridge 1645; rejected Charles I’s overtures in 1644 and 1646; a Commissioner to treat with the army at Wycombe 1647; distrusted by the Presbyterians and the Levellers; took no part in Charles I’s trial; member of Council of State 14 Feb 1649; active member of the government 1649-53; a Commissioner for settling Scottish affairs 1651; quarrelled with Cromwell over the expulsion of the Long Parliament 1653; retired to Lincolnshire and refused a seat in the Little Parliament; imprisoned at Carisbrooke Castle as a result of the publication of his book Healing Question, propounded and resolved, 1656; MP Whitchurch in Richard Cromwell’s Parliament; assisted in the abolition of the Protectorate; Commissioner of the Navy and manager of foreign affairs in the restored Long Parliament; unsuccessfully endeavoured to reconcile Parliament and the army; became distrusted by all parties; expelled from the House of Commons 9 Jan 1660; partially excluded from the Act of Indemnity; imprisoned in the Tower of London, and subsequently transported to the Scilly Isles; tried for high treason in Court of King’s Bench, and sentenced to death 11 Jun 1662; an able statesman of enormous industry, but although his devotion to the public service and his freedom from corruption were well known, his religious enthusiasm and his subtlety in speculative matters exposed to him to the charge of being a fanatic and an unscrupulous schemer; author, The Retired Man’s Meditations, 1655, and other works; m. 1 Jul 1640 Frances, dau. of Sir Christopher Wray, Bart., Barlings, Lincs.; executed on Tower Hill 14 Jun 1662. DNB.

UPPERTON, CLEMENT, brother of Charles Stuart Upperton (qv); b. 11 Mar 1834; adm. 3 Jun 1847 (Scott's); QS 1849; left 1853; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 May 1853; BA 1858; MA 1865; adm. Middle Temple 14 May 1857; adm. solicitor, Hilary 1865; practised in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, firm Baker Folder & Upperton; m. 19 Dec 1871 Emily, widow of James Lillyman Martel Lees, and dau. of John Brady MD MRCS LSA MP, Ely, Cambridgeshire; d. 12 Apr 1918.

UPPERTON, CHARLES STUART, son of Robert Upperton, Brighton, Sussex, solicitor; b. 5 Feb 1829; adm. 30 Sep 1842 (Scott's); QS 1843; rowed v. Eton 30 Jul 1846; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1847, adm. pens. 13 May 1847, scholar 1848, matr. 1847; BA 1851; MA 1854; ordained deacon 1852, priest 1853 (both Chester); Curate, St. Mary the Virgin, West Derby, Liverpool 1852-8; Perpetual Curate of Burton, Chester 1858-67; Vicar of Ince, Cheshire 1867-86; Hon. Canon, Chester, from 1880; Vicar of Tarvin, Cheshire 1886-96; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Benson Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell; d. 5 Dec 1916.

UNIACKE-PENROSE-FITZGERALD, SIR ROBERT UNIACKE, BART., eldest son of Robert Uniacke Penrose-Fitzgerald (formerly Penrose), Corkbeg Island, co. Cork, Ireland, and Frances Mary, dau. of Rev. Robert Austin LLD, Prebendary of Cloyne; b. 10 Jul 1839; adm. 26 May 1853 (G); Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 Jan 1859, matr. Lent 1859; won the University Pairs with James Penrose Ingham (qv) 1860; rowed v. Oxford 1861, 1862; LLB 1863; LLM 1872; travelled in India and Tibet 1863-7; MP (Conservative) Cambridge 1885-1906; assumed additional surname of Uniacke 26 Jun 1896; created baronet 4 Aug 1896; President, Yacht Racing Association; of Corkbeg Island, co. Cork; DL JP co. Cork; Busby Trustee 25 May 1889; m. 13 Sep 1867 Jane Emily, eldest dau. of Gen. Sir William John Codrington GCB; d. 10 Jul 1919.

TWISS, QUINTIN WILLIAM FRANCIS, only son of Horace Twiss QC MP, Vice-Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster, and Conservative politician, and his second wife Anne Louisa Andrewenna, widow of Charles Greenwood, and sister of Charles Stephen Francis Sterky (qv); b. 13 Mar 1835; adm. 2 Oct 1843 (G); QS (Capt. ) 1849; Capt. of the School 1852; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1853, matr. 18 May 1853, Westminster Student 1853-61; BA 1857; MA 1860; Third Class Clerk, Treasury Aug 1856 - Jan 1860; Assistant Private Secretary to Parliamentary Secretary to Treasury Jun 1859 - Jan 1860; Assistant Superintendent, County Courts Department Jan 1860 - 91; a well-known amateur actor and famous “Old Stager” in the Canterbury week; his name formerly appeared in nails in the centre of the floor of School, and it was on this spot that boys who misbehaved in form were told to “stand out”; m. 11 Apr 1861 Fanny Shelley, second dau. of William Henry Covey FRCS LSA, Wilton Street, Belgrave Square, London, surgeon; d. 7 Aug 1900.

Turle, James; son of James Turle, Taunton, Somerset, and Elizabeth Forrest ; b. 5 Mar 1802 ; chorister, Wells Cathedral 1810-3 ; came to London in 1814 as articled pupil of John Jeremiah Goss ; organist, Christ Church, Blackfriars Road 1819-29, St.James, Bermondsey 1829-31 ; connected with Westminster Abbey from 1817 as pupil, assistant and deputy to the Abbey Organists ; Organist and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey, from 1831 ; he retired from the active duties of the post in 1875, but retained the title and the residence of the Organist to death ; Music Master Jun 1865 – May 1871 ; composer of hymn tunes and glees ; author, Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship, 1864, and (with J.F.Bridge), Chants as used in Westminster Abbey, 1878 ; m. 1823 Mary, dau. of Andrew Honey, Chief Cashier, Exchequer Branch, Bank of England ; d. 28 Jun 1882. Father of William Honey Turle, Charles Edward Turle, Henry Frederic Turle and James Robert Turle (qvv). ODNB.

TRELAWNY, SIR JONATHAN, BART., third son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bart., and Mary, dau. of Sir Edward Seymour, Bart.; b. 24 Mar 1650; adm.; KS 1663; Exeter Coll. Oxford, adm. commoner 14 Apr 1668 while still at school, but elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1668, matr. 11 Dec 1668, Westminster Student 26 Dec 1668- void 1679, Tutor 1678; BA 1672; MA 1675; DD 1685; adm. Middle Temple 1 Nov 1669; ordained 4 Sep 1673; Vicar of South Hill, Cornwall 4 Oct 1677-89; Rector of St. Ives, Cornwall 12 Dec 1677-89; succ. father as 3rd baronet Mar 1680/1; distinguished himself by his active opposition to Monmouth’s rebellion summer 1685; consecrated Bishop of Bristol 8 Nov 1685; refused to sign address in favour of first Declaration of Indulgence 1687; assisted in drawing up the petition of the Bishops against the second Declaration of Indulgence, and was sent to the Tower 8 Jun 1688; tried for seditious libel with the six other bishops and acquitted 30 Jun 1688; took the oaths to William and Mary; translated to Exeter 13 Apr 1689; Archdeacon of Totnes 1693-4, Exeter 1704-7; established his rights as Visitor of Exeter Coll. Oxford 1694; supported Atterbury in his movement for the revival of Convocation; translated to Winchester 14 Jan 1707; a benefactor to the building of Tom Tower, at Christ Church, Oxford, 1680-1; Busby Trustee 28 Jan 1719/20; m. 1684 Rebecca, dau. of Thomas Hele, Bascombe, Devon; d. 19 Jul 1721. DNB.

TOWNE, ERNEST JOSIAH, son of Joseph Towne, St. Helen’s Place, Bishopsgate, London, solicitor, and Louisa —; b. 27 Jul 1829; adm. 12 Feb 1844 (Scott's); QS 1844; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1848, adm. pens. 5 Jul 1848, scholar 1849; BA 1852; ordained deacon 26 Jun 1853 (Durham), priest 1854; Curate Ewell, Surrey, Chester-le-Street, co. Durham, and Langley, Essex; Vicar of Forcett, Yorks., 1863-77; Vicar of Bothenhampton, Dorset 1877-81; Chaplain to Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode 1881-1903; m. 24 Jun 1857 Isabella Sheppee (IGI)

Tizard, Sir Henry Thomas, only son of Capt. Thomas Henry Tizard, R.N., C.B., F.R.S., asst. hydrographer to the Admiralty, by Mary Elizabeth, daughter of William H. Church­ward, C.E., of Woking, Surrey; b. Aug. 23, 1885; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 28, 1899 (R); Q.S. Jan. 1900; left (with Triplett) July 1904; Magd. Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1904; demy (Science) 1905; 1st class Maths. (Mods.) 1905; 1st class Nat. Science (Chemistry) 1908; B.A. 1908; senior demy 1909; Fellow of Oriel Coll. and lecturer in Nat. Science 1911-20; M.A. 1911; served in Great War I; Lieut.-Col. R.A.F. April 1, 1918; director of Technical Research and Experiment R.A.F.; mentioned in despatches; A.F.C. Nov. 2, 1918; principal asst. sec. Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research; F.R.S. 1926; C.I.E. Jan. 1, 1927; Rector of the Imperial Coll. of Science and Technology 1929-42; Hon. Fellow of Oriel Coll. Oxon. 1933; a trustee of the British Museum 1937; K.C.B. Feb. 1, 1937; member of the Air Council 1941-3; president of Magd. Coll. Oxon. 1942-6; chairman of the Defence Research Policy Committee and of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy 1946-52; Hon. Fellow of Magd. Coll. 1946; Hon. Sc.D., Cambridge, London and Leeds; Hon. LL.D. Queensland and Edinburgh; Hon. D.C.L. Durham; Gold Medallist of the Franklin Society of Philadelphia 1946; president of the British Association 1948; G.C.B. Jan. 1, 1949; a Busby Trustee 1938; a Governor of the School 1939; he was one of the leading scientists of his day, and it was in great part due to his prescience in the development of radar that the R.A.F. won the Battle of Britain in 1940; m. April 24, 1915, Kathleen Eleanor, second daughter of Arthur Prangley Wilson, of Rudgarick, Surrey; d. Oct. 9, 1959; the Henry Tizard Memorial Fund for the promotion of science at Westminster was founded in his memory 1960.