Thomas Uwins

Thomas Uwins, an English painter, born in London in 1783, died at Staines, Middlesex, Aug. 25, 1857. In early life he designed for illustrated works, and prepared copies for engravers. Subsequent to 1826 he painted a popular series of pictures illustrating the social life of the Italian peasantry. He also painted English and French peasant pieces and illustrations from sacred and profane history. In 1836 he was elected a royal academician; and for several years he was keeper of her majesty's pictures and of the national gallery.

Thomas Van Erpen

See Ebpenius.

Thomas Wakley

Thomas Wakley, an English physician, born at Membury, Devonshire, in 1795, died in the island of Madeira, May 16, 1862. He studied medicine in London, and began practice in 1817, but in 1823 retired and published the first number of a weekly medical journal, the " London Lancet," his main object in which was to correct deficiencies and introduce improvements in the various medical institutions of Great Britain. Among these improvements were the public reports of hospital cases and cliniques, the reform of the royal college of surgeons, and the introduction of medical men to the office of coroner. In 1839 he was elected coroner for Middlesex, which office he filled with great distinction. From 1835 to 1852 he was a member of parliament.

Thomas Webster

Thomas Webster, an English painter, born in London, March 20, 1800. He became a student of the royal academy in 1820, exhibited a portrait group in 1823, and in 1841 was elected an associate, and in 1846 an academician. He is known by his pictures of children and of school life. Among the best of these are his "Smile" and "Frown," engraved for the art union in 1841, " Going to School" (1842), " See-Saw," and " Slide " (1849). The national collection contains his " Sickness and Health" (1843), "Dame's School " (1845), and " Village Choir " (1847). Among his other paintings are "The Peddler" (1844), "Good Night" (1846), "Dotheboys Hall" (1848), "School Playground" (1852), "The Race" (1855), "Hide and Seek" (1856), and "The Tempter " (1857).

Thomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton, an English physician, born in Yorkshire about 1610, died in London in 1673. He was fellow of the London college of physicians, and a lecturer in Gresham college. He is remembered principally by his discovery of the excretory duct of the submaxillary gland, known as " Wharton's duct." His chief publication was his Adenographia, seu Descriptio Glandularum totius Corporis (London, 1656).

Thomas William Parsons

Thomas William Parsons, an American poet, born in Boston, Aug. 18, 1819. He was educated at the Boston Latin school, and in 1836 visited Italy, where he studied Italian literature and translated the first 10 cantos of Dante's Inferno (Boston, 1843). He took the degree of M. D. at Harvard university in 1853, and for some years practised as a dentist. In 1854 he published " Ghetto di Roma," a volume of poems. His translation of the Inferno was completed and published, with illustrations, in 1867 (4to, Boston). He resided for some years in England, but returned to Boston in 1872. His later volumes of original poems are " The Magnolia" (printed privately, 1867), " The Old House at Sudbury" (1870), and "The Shadow of the Obelisk" (London, 1872).