TICKELL, THOMAS (1686-1740).—­Poet, b. at Bridekirk Vicarage, Cumberland, and ed. at Oxf. became the friend of Joseph Addison (q.v.), contributed to the Spectator and Guardian, and accompanied him when he went to Ireland as sec. to the Lord Lieutenant.  His translation of the first book of the Iliad came out at the same time as Pope’s, and led to a quarrel between the latter and Addison, Pope imagining that the publication was a plot to interfere with the success of his work.  On Addison becoming Sec. of State in 1717 he appointed T. Under-Sec.  Among the writings of T. are the well-known ballad, Colin and Lucy, Kensington Gardens, a poem, and an Elegy on the death of Addison, of which Macaulay says that it “would do honour to the greatest name in our literature.”  In 1725 he became sec. to the Lords Justices of Ireland, and retained the post until his death.

TICKNOR, GEORGE (1791-1871).—­Historian and biographer, s. of a rich man, was b. at Boston, Mass., and ed. for the law.  He, however, gave himself to study and writing, and also travelled much.  After being a Prof. at Harvard, 1819-35, he went in the latter year to Europe, where he spent some years collecting materials for his magnum opus, The History of Spanish Literature (1849).  He also wrote Lives of Lafayette and Prescott, the historian.  His Letters and Journals were pub. in 1876, and are the most interesting of his writings.

TIGHE, MARY (BLACKFORD) (1772-1810).—­Poet, dau. of a clergyman, made an unhappy marriage, though she had beauty and amiable manners, and was highly popular in society.  She wrote a good deal of verse; but her chief poem was a translation in Spenserian stanza of the tale of Cupid and Psyche, which won the admiration of such men as Sir J. Mackintosh, Moore, and Keats.

TILLOTSON, JOHN (1630-1694).—­Divine, s. of a Presbyterian clothier, was b. near Halifax, and ed. at Camb., where his originally Puritan views became somewhat modified.  At the Savoy Conference in 1661 he was still a Presbyterian, but submitted to the Act of Uniformity, and became next year Rector of Keddington, and in 1664 preacher at Lincoln’s Inn, where he became very popular.  In 1672 he was made Dean of Canterbury.  He vainly endeavoured to secure the comprehension of the Nonconformists in the Church.  After the Revolution he gained the favour of William III., who made him Clerk of the Closet, and Dean of St. Paul’s, and in 1691 he succeeded Sancroft as Archbishop of Canterbury.  His sermons, which had extraordinary popularity, give him a place in literature, and he was one of those writers who, by greater simplicity and greater attention to clearness of construction, helped to introduce the modern style of composition.

TIMROD, HENRY (1829-1867).—­Poet, b. at Charleston, S. Carolina, of German descent, was ruined by the Civil War, and d. in poverty.  He wrote one vol. of poems, pub. 1860, which attained wide popularity in the South.  He had notable descriptive power.