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Tollemache, Lionel, 1734-1799

  • GB-2014-WSA-16924
  • Person
  • 1734-1799

TOLLEMACHE, LIONEL, 5TH EARL OF DYSART (S), third son of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart (qv); b. 6 Aug 1734; styled Lord Huntingtower 1734-70; adm. Jul 1744 (Morel's); succ. father as 5th Earl of Dysart (S) 10 Mar 1770; m. 1st, 2 Oct 1760 Charlotte, natural dau. of Hon. Sir Edward Walpole KB; m. 2nd, 29 Apr 1791 Magdalene, dau. of David Lewis, Malvern Hall, Warwickshire; d. 20 Feb 1799.

Toll, Charles, ca. 1701-1765

  • GB-2014-WSA-16921
  • Person
  • ca. 1701-1765

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, 1898-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-16920
  • Person
  • 1898-1918

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.

Tizard, Henry Thomas, 1885-1960

  • GB-2014-WSA-16918
  • Person
  • 1885-1960

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, 1698-1768

  • GB-2014-WSA-16917
  • Person
  • 1698-1768

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, 1858-1930

  • GB-2014-WSA-16916
  • Person
  • 1858-1930

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.

Titcomb, John Henry, 1863-1952

  • GB-2014-WSA-16915
  • Person
  • 1863-1952

TITCOMB, JOHN HENRY, brother of William Holt Yates Titcomb (qv); b. 17 Feb 1863; adm. 20 Oct 1873 (G); left Aug 1879; member, Lloyds; d. Apr 1952 [check].

Titcomb, John Abbot, 1910-1945

  • GB-2014-WSA-16914
  • Person
  • 1910-1945

Titcomb, John Abbot, son of Harold Abbot Titcomb, mining engineer, of Farmington, Maine, USA, and Ethel, d. olJames Brignall of Wallington, Surrey; b. 27 Oct. 1910; adm. Jan. 1925 (R); left July 1929; Dartmouth Coll., BA 1932; Yale Univ. 1933-5; a mining engineer; Newmont Mining Corpn New York; US Marine Corps in WW2 (Capt.); rn. 3 Feb. 1940Janet, d. of Arthur Burling Foote of Grass Valley, California; d. I Mar. 1945 of wounds received in action, at Luzon, Philippines.

John Abbott “Jack” Titcomb was born at Newton, Massachusetts on the 27th of October 1910 the elder son of Harold Abbott Titcomb, a mining engineer, and Ethel (nee Brignall) Titcomb of High Street, Farmington, Maine and of 60, Addison Road, Kensington in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from January 1925 to July 1929 and won the Junior Rouse Ball Prize for Mathematics in 1928. He rowed at bow for the 2nd IV in 1928. He went on to Dartmouth College where he studied Mining and Geology and graduated with a BA in 1932. He then studied at the Sheffield Mining School at Yale from 1933 to 1935 and later studied in Yugoslavia. On leaving university he worked for the Newmont Mining Corporation of New York and was an active member of the Ledyard Canoe Club. He was a skiing instructor and a ski racer.
He was married at Emanuel Church, Grass Valley, California on the 3rd of February 1940 to Janet Stanwood (nee Foote, later Micoleau). They had a daughter, Marian, born on the 11th of July 1942 and a son, Peter Abbot, born on the 9th of May 1944.
He was acting as the head of a Marine air-ground liaison party on Luzon in the Philippines when he was shot and killed by a Japanese sniper at San Fernando, La Union. He was awarded a posthumous Silver Star with Gold Star.
His father donated land in his memory for the Titcomb Memorial Ski Slope (now Titcomb Mountain) in Maine, which was named in his honour in 1949.
He is commemorated on a plaque at the base ski lodge at Titcomb Mountain.
He is buried at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Plot A, Row 9, Grave 164.

Titcomb, Andrew Abbot, 1914-2004

  • GB-2014-WSA-16913
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  • 1914-2004

Titcomb, Andrew Abbot, brother of John Abbot Titcomb (qv); b. 6 June 1914; adm. May 1928 (R); left July 1932; Dartmouth Coll., NH, USA, BA 1936; USNR in WW2 (Lieut.); an architect, MAIA ASNE; practised in Vermont 1955-88; chairman Board of Architects State of Vermont 1955-87; JP, Town Officer and Selectman Weathersfield, Vermont, 1950-88; m. 9 Nov. 1940 Joanna Curtiss, d. of Otis Grey Waring of Titusville, Florida; d. 8 Mar. 2004.

Tirel-Morin, John Richard Rose, 1785-1801

  • GB-2014-WSA-16912
  • Person
  • 1785-1801

TIREL-MORIN, JOHN RICHARD ROSE, eldest son of John Tirel-Morin, Hanover Square, London, Keeper of Papers, Treasury, and Receiver-Gen., Gibraltar, and Mary Anne --- (IGI); b. 5 Apr 1785; adm. 14 Jan 1793 (Clapham); in school list 1795; KS 1799; Midshipman, Royal Navy; killed by fall from aloft on board HMS L’Heureux, Martinique, West Indies Jun 1801.

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