Thomas Bell

Thomas Bell, an English zoologist, born at Poole, Dorsetshire, Oct. 11, 1792. He is the son of a physician, and has been professor of zoology at King's college, London, since 1832, and was lecturer at Guy's hospital from 1816 to 1860, president of the Ray society from its foundation to 1859, secretary of the royal society from 1848 to 1853, and president of the Linneean society from 1853 to 1861. He has published a monograph of the testudinata (7 parts, completed in 1836), a "History of British Reptiles" (1839), a "History of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea" (1853), and "The Anatomy and Diseases of the Teeth."

Thomas Bennet

Thomas Bennet, an Anglican theologian and controversialist, born in Salisbury, May 7, 1673, died Oct. 9, 1728. He was extensively acquainted with the Greek, Latin, and oriental literatures, and composed verses in Hebrew. In 1700 he became rector of St. James's, Colchester, which position he held till 1714, when he received the degree of D. D., and removed to London, where he was presented to the vicarage of St. Giles's, Cripplegate. Besides his works in confutation of popery, schism, Quakerism, and the principles of the nonjurors, he wrote tracts on baptism, liturgies, and clerical rights, and an examination of Clark's "Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity."

Thomas Bentham

Thomas Bentham, an English bishop, born in Sherburn, Yorkshire, in 1513, died in 1578. He was deprived of a fellowship at Magdalen college, Oxford, in 1553, for knocking the censer out of the hands of the officiating priest at mass," in order to prevent incense being offered to idols." He then travelled on the continent, preached at Basel to the English exiles, and returning to England before the close of Mary's reign, ministered privately to a Protestant congregation in London, where he nearly-involved himself in fresh difficulties by his boldness of speech. On the accession of Elizabeth he was appointed to the pulpit of Paul's Cross, and in 1559 to the see of Lichfield and Coventry. He published an exposition of the Acts of the Apostles, and translated into English some parts of the Old Testament.

Thomas Betterton

Thomas Betterton, an English actor, horn in 1635. died in April, 1710.' He was the son of a cook in the service of Charles I., and was apprenticed to a bookseller in London, who obtained a license for a company of players in 1669, with whom Betterton commenced his career. He was engaged by Davenant in 1662, and became an established favorite. His personal appearance was clumsy and his manner unprepossessing, but he had a singular faculty of thoroughly identifying himself with his part. His last appearance, April 13, 1710, was the proximate cause of his death, as he performed when in ill health, in order to keep his engagement with the public. His widow, an eminent actress, whose first husband was Mr. Sanderson, soon afterward died of grief.