Thomas Keightley

Thomas Keightley, a British author, born in Dublin in October, 1789, died near Erith, Kent, in December, 1872. He took his bachelor's degree at Trinity college, Dublin, in 1808, and devoted himself to literature in London. He assisted T. Crofton Croker in the "Fairy Legends of Ireland," published histories of Rome, Greece, and England, " Fairy Mythology," "Outlines of History," "Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy," "History of India," "Scenes and Events of the Crusades," and other works, and edited the writings of Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and Sallust, and the " Life and Poems of Milton." Among his latest works was " The Shakespeare Expositor " (1867). In the latter part of his life he was pensioned by the government.

Thomas Kibble Hervey

Thomas Kibble Hervey, an English poet, born in Manchester in 1804, died in Kentish Town, Feb. 17, 1859. He studied at Cambridge and at Oxford, but did not take a degree. Then he attempted the study of law, but soon abandoned it to follow his taste for literature. In 1824 he published "Australia and other Poems,11 the title piece being an elaboration of a prize poem. This volume, with additions, was reissued in 1829 as "The Poetical Sketch Book.11 In 1830 he published anonymously "The DeviPs Progress," a satire. For 20 years he was a leading writer for the "Athenaeum," of which he was sole editor from 1840 to 1854. His other publications were: "Illustrations of Modern Sculpture" (vol. i., 1832, never completed); "The Book of Christmas" (1836); and "England's Helicon in the Nineteenth Century11 (1841). - His wife, Eleonora Louisa (Montague), born in Liverpool in 1811, is distinguished as a writer of dramatic and other poems, tales, fairy legends, etc.

Thomas Lathbury

Thomas Lathbury, an English clergyman, born in 1798, died Feb. 11, 1865. He was educated at Oxford, and became incumbent of the parish of Sts. Simon and Jude, Bristol, in 1848. He wrote a " History of English Episcopacy " (1836), " State of Popery and Jesuitism in England" (1838), "History of the Spanish Armada" (1840), "History of the Convocation of the Church of England" (1853), and "History of the Book of Common Prayer " (1858).

Thomas Le Clear

Thomas Le Clear, an American painter, born in Owego, N. Y., March 11, 1818. In 1839 he opened a studio in New York, where his picture " The Reprimand " was purchased by the art union. In 1844 he removed to Buffalo, where he remained painting portraits till 1860, when he established himself in New York. Among his most successful portraits are those of Daniel S. Dickinson, Millard Fillmore, T. B. Thorpe, the artists Gifford, McEn-tee, and Hubbard, and Edwin Booth as Hamlet.

He has also painted "The Marble-players," "Young America," and " The Itinerants."

Thomas Lewin

Thomas Lewin, an English author, born in 1805. He was educated at Oxford, and became a chancery lawyer and conveyancer. He has published "The Law of Trusts;" "The Life and Epistles of St. Paul" (London, 1851): " Essay on the Chronology of the New Testament" (1854); "Jerusalem, a Sketch of the City and Temple from the earliest Times to the Siege by Titus" (1861); "The Siege of Jerusalem by Titus" (1863); and "Fasti Sacri, or a Key to the Chronology of the New Testament" (1865).