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TOLLEMACHE, LIONEL, 4th EARL OF DYSART (S), only son of Lionel Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower, and Lady Henrietta Cavendish, sister of William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire (qv); b. 1 May 1708; styled Lord Huntingtower 1712-27; adm. Apr 1721; in under school list 1723; succ. grandfather as 4th Earl of Dysart (S) 3 Feb 1726/7; Grand Tour (Italy) 1726-8; KT 29 Mar 1743; m. 22 Jul 1729 Lady Grace Carteret, eldest dau. of John Carteret, 1st Earl Granville (qv); d. 10 Mar 1770.

TOLLEMACHE, HON. GEORGE, son of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Easrl of Dysart (qv); b. 14 Aug 1744; in school list 1754 (as Talmarsh); a boarder up Porten’s 1754-6 (Dysart Peerage Case, Evidence, 52); Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth, adm. 13 Jul 1756; drowned by falling from masthead of HMS Modeste, while on voyage to Lisbon, 13 Nov 1760, aged 15.

TOLL, CHARLES, son of Ashburnham Toll, Greywell, Hampshire, and Anne, dau. of Richard Newman, Evercreech Park, Somerset; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1715; KS 1716; Capt. of the School 1719; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1720, matr. 23 Jun 1720, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1720 - void 1723; BA 1724; MA 1727; adm. Inner Temple 17 Apr 1719; ordained; Rector of Rewe, Devon 26 Jul 1732; lic. to m. 9 Jul 1739 Philippa Rooper, St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London; d. 16 Jun 1765.

Todd, Herbert Stanley, elder son of Herbert Cooper Todd, by Ellen. daughter of R. B. Evered, of Horley, Surrey; b. April 1, 1898; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (G); left July 1914; enlisted in P. S. Batt. 16th Middlesex Regt. Sept. 10, 1914; went out to the western front Nov 17, 1915; returned to England April 1916; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. East Surrey Regt. Aug. 8, 1916; Lieut. Feb. 5, 1918; Capt.; returned to the western front Sept. 1916, thence to Italy Nov. 1917; invalided home March 6, 1918; returned to the western front Aug. 1, 1918; M.C. Jan. 1, 1918; Croix de Guerre (Belgium) Jan. 17, 1918; Bar to M.C. Feb. 4, 1918; killed in action at Roussoy Sept. 18, 1918; unm.

TOBIN, JOSEPH WEBBE, youngest son of James Tobin, Bristol, attorney, annd Elizabeth, dau. of George Webbe, Nevis, West Indies; b. 1776; at school under Vincent (ex inf. his grandson, Lieut. -Col. J. Tobin); while at school he fought with Thomas Putt (qv); 2nd Lieut., Royal Artillery, 1 Jan 1794; Lieut., 14 Aug 1794; Capt., 4 Feb 1800; Brevet Maj., 1 Jan 1812; Maj., Royal Artillery 20 Dec 1814; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 19 Jul 1821; Lieut. -Col., Royal Artillery 6 Aug 1821; Col., 31 Dec 1827; Major-Gen., 10 Jan 1837; Col. Commandant, Royal Artillery, commanding 3rd Brigade 16 Aug 1846; Lieut. -Gen., 9 Nov 1846; Gen., 20 Jun 1854; m. 1799 Harriet Baynes; d. 21 Feb 1863, aged 86.

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.

TITLEY, WALTER, son of Abraham Titley, Hopton, Staffs.; bapt. Ingestre, Staffs. 6 Dec 1698 (IGI); adm.; QS (aged 14) 1714; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1719, adm. pens. 28 May 1719, scholar 29 Apr 1720, matr. 1720; Craven Scholar 1722; . 7th in ìordoî 1722/3; BA 1722/3; MA 1726; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1725, Major Fellow from 6 Jul 1726 (appointed to Physic Fellowship 1733, but did not leave Copenhagen); Secretary to British Embassy, Turin c. 1727; Chargé d’Affaires, Copenhagen 3 Jan 1728/9, Envoy Extraordinary from 3 Nov 1730; wrote Latin verses and an imitation in English of the Second Ode of the third book of Horace, which was much admired by Bentley; bequeathed £1000 “to the King’s School at Westminster”; d. at Copenhagen, Denmark 27 Feb 1768. DNB.

TITCOMB, WILLIAM HOLT YATES, elder son of Right Rev. Jonathan Holt Titcomb DD, Bishop of Rangoon, and Sarah Holt, eldest dau. of John Wood, Southport, Lancs.; b. 22 Feb 1858; adm. 16 Jun 1870 (G); left Aug 1874; an artist; Third Medal, Paris Salon 1891; Medal, Universal Exhibition, Chicago 1893; m. 4 Apr 1892 Jessie Ada, dau. of John Morison, Clanricarde Gardens, London; d. 7 Sep 1930.