William Tully

William Tully, an American physician, born in Saybrook, Conn., Nov. 18, 1785, died in Springfield, Mass., Feb. 28,1859. He graduated at Yale college in 1806, studied medicine, and in 1808 settled at Milford, Conn. He removed about 1815 to Upper Middletown, now Cromwell, Conn., where he became intimate with Dr. Thomas Miner, whose views in relation to the nature and treatment of spotted fever he adopted; and in 1823 he published with him the essays known as "Miner and Tully on Fever." In 1824 he was elected president and professor of materia medica in the medical institution at Castleton, Vt. In 1827 he removed first to Albany, and afterward to Castleton. He was professor of materia medica in the medical institution of Yale college from 1830 to 1841, when he resigned. In 1851 he removed to Springfield, Mass., where he prepared a work on materia medica (vol. i. in 2 parts, Springfield, 1857-'60).

William Turner

William Turner, an English naturalist, born in Morpeth, Northumberland, about 1515, died July 7, 1568. He studied medicine and divinity at Cambridge, took part in the religious discussions of the time, and was imprisoned. After his release he studied natural history at Zurich and Bologna. Upon the death of Henry VIII. he returned home, and in the reign of Edward VI. became physician to the protector Somerset, and later prebendary of York, dean of Wells, and canon of Windsor. He again lived abroad during the reign of Mary. The work on which his reputation rests is his " Herball," the first book of which appeared in London (fol., 1551), and the second at Cologne (1562). He wrote also Avium Proeipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem Mentio est, Historia (8vo, Cologne, 1554), and the account of British fishes in Gesner's Historia Animalium; and published a collation of the English Bible with the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin copies.

William Vincent

William Vincent, an English classical scholar, born in London, Nov. 2,1739, died there, Dec. 21, 1815. He was educated at Westminster school and at Cambridge, became an usher in the former in 1762, and was head master from 1788 to 1802, when he was made dean of Westminster in reward for his "Defence of Public Education, in a Letter to the Lord Bishop of Meath" (8vo, 1802). His chief work is "The History of the Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean "(2 vols. 4to, 1807), comprising " The Voyage of Nearchus to the Euphrates, collected from the Original Journal preserved by Arrian," first published in 1797, and "The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea," in 1800 and 1805.

William Wake

William Wake, an English prelate, born in Blandford, Dorsetshire, in 1657, died at Lambeth, Jan. 24, 1737. He was educated at Oxford, became preacher to the society of Gray's Inn, and published in 1686 an "Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England," in answer to Bossuet's "Exposition of the Roman Catholic Faith." In 1689 he was made canon of Christ church, Oxford, in 1693 rector of St. James's, Westminster, and published "An English Version of the Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers" (new ed., 1860). On the controversy in regard to the convocation he published tracts in 1697 and 1698, and in 1703 a folio volume on " The State of the Church and Clergy in England." In 1701 he became dean of Exeter, in 1705 bishop of Lincoln, and in 1716 archbishop of Canterbury. Among his other works are " Preparation for Death," " The Authority of Christian Princes over their Ecclesiastical Synods asserted," and several volumes of sermons and charges.