SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON (1840-1893).—­Writer on art and literature, s. of a physician in Bristol, was ed. at Harrow and Oxf.  His delicate health obliged him to live abroad.  He pub. (1875-86) History of the Italian Renaissance, and translated the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.  He also pub. some books of poetry, including Many Moods (1878) and Animi Figura (1882), and among his other publications were Introduction to the Study of Dante (1872), Studies of the Greek Poets (1873 and 1876), Shakespeare’s Predecessors in the English Drama (1884), and Lives of various poets, including Ben Jonson, Shelley, and Walt Whitman.  He also made remarkable translations of the sonnets of Michelangelo and Campanella, and wrote upon philosophical subjects in various periodicals.

SYNGE, JOHN MILLINGTON (1871-1909).—­Miscellaneous writer, b. near Dublin, ed. privately and at Trinity Coll., Dublin.  He wrote Riders to the Sea, In the Shadow of the Glen (1905), The Well of the Saints (1905), The Play Boy of the Western World (1907), and The Aran Islands (1907).

TABLEY DE, JOHN BYRON LEICESTER WARREN, 3RD LORD (1835-1895).—­Poet, eldest s. of the 2nd Lord, ed. at Eton and Oxf., was for a time attached to the British Embassy at Constantinople.  He wrote poems of a very high order, some of them pub. under the pseudonyms of “George F. Preston” and “William Lancaster.”  They include Ballads and Metrical Sketches, The Threshold of Atrides, Glimpses of Antiquity, etc.  These were followed by two dramas, Philoctetes (1866) and Orestes (1868).  Later works in his own name were Rehearsals (1870), Searching the Net (1873), The Soldier’s Fortune, a tragedy. Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical (1893) included selections from former works.  After his death appeared Orpheus in Thrace (1901).  He was a man of sensitive temperament, and was latterly much of a recluse.  He was an accomplished botanist, and pub. a work on the Flora of Cheshire.

TALFOURD, SIR THOMAS NOON (1795-1854).—­Poet and biographer, s. of a brewer at Reading, where he was b., and which he represented in Parliament, 1835-41, was ed. at Mill Hill School.  He studied law, was called to the Bar in 1821, and became a Judge in 1849.  He d. suddenly of apoplexy while charging the Grand Jury at Stafford.  He wrote much for reviews, and in 1835 produced Ion, a tragedy, followed by The Athenian Captive (1838), and The Massacre of Glencoe, all of which were acted with success.  T. was the friend and literary executor of Charles Lamb (q.v.), and pub. in two sections his Memoirs and Letters.  In 1837 he introduced the Copyright Bill, which was passed with modifications in 1842.