Thomas Hearne

Thomas Hearne, an English antiquary and author, born at White Waltham, Berkshire, in 1078, died June 10, 1735. He graduated at Oxford in 1699, and became janitor of the Bodleian library in 1701, and in 1712 second librarian. Three years later he was appointed architypographus of the university and esquire beadle of civil law; but being a strong Jacobite, he was soon compelled to resign his offices. His plodding industry and irritable temper brought upon him the ridicule of many satirists, and Pope described him in the "Dunciad" under the name of "Wormius." Among Hearne's most valuable publications, which number more than 40, and the greater part of which were printed by subscription at Oxford, are the "Life of AElfred the Great," from Sir John Spelman's manuscript in the Bodleian library (8vo, 1709); Leland'a "Itinerary" (9 vols. 8vo, 1710-'12); and Leland's "Collectanea" (6 vols. 8vo, 1715).

Thomas Henry Lister

Thomas Henry Lister, an English author, born about 1800, died in 1842. He was register general of births. He wrote two novels, "Granby" and "Herbert Lacy," and a "Life of Lord Clarendon, the Historian." - His widow, a sister of the earl of Clarendon, was in 1844 married to Sir George Cornewall Lewis. (See Lewis.)

Thomas Heyward

Thomas Heyward, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, born in St. Luke's, 8. 0., in 1740, died in March, 1809. After completing his classical and legal studies in London, he returned home, and began the practice of the law. He was a member of congress in 1775-'6, was appointed judge in 1778, and the next year was reelected to congress. In 1780 he was made a prisoner in Charleston, where he had commanded a body of militia, and was sent to St. Augustine. He continued in public life as a judge till 1798.

Thomas Heywood

Thomas Heywood, an English dramatist, born in Lincolnshire in the latter half of the 16th century, died about 1650. He was educated at Cambridge, and was an actor as well as a writer. He wrote the whole or the greater part of 220 plays, of which but 23 survive. Some of them, such as "A Woman Killed with Kindness" and "The Four London Prentices," are not inferior to the productions of Massin-ger, Ford, and others of his contemporaries. Charles Lamb calls him " a sort of prose Shakespeare." The first complete edition of his dramatic works was published in 1874 (6 vols., London).

Thomas Holloway

Thomas Holloway, an English engraver, born in London in 1748, died at Coltishall, near Norwich, in 1827. He was apprenticed to a seal engraver, and became known by his plates illustrating Dr. Hunter's translation of "Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy" (5 vols., 1792, with about 700 plates), and by similar works, the most celebrated of which, on account of their elaborate execution, are his engravings of the cartoons of Raphael. A memoir of his life was published in 1827.

Thomas Horsfield

Thomas Horsfield, an English traveller and naturalist, born about 1773, died in 1859. He went to Java in 1802 under the auspices of the Dutch colonial government, and remained there during its temporary occupation by the East India company. After having thoroughly studied the natural history of the island, he returned to England in 1817 with a large collection of animals and plants. The former are described in his "Zoological Researches in Java and the Neighboring Islands" (4to, 1821-'4); the latter in a work entitled Plantoe Javanicoe rariores (1838-'52).