Centuries of Meditations consists of short reflections on religious and moral subjects, etc.  The Poems constitute his main claim to remembrance and, as already stated, are of a high order.  With occasional roughness of metre they display powerful imagination, a deep and rich vein of original thought, and true poetic force and fire.  It has been pointed out that in some of them the author anticipates the essential doctrines of the Berkeleian philosophy, and in them is also revealed a personality of rare purity and fascination.

TRELAWNY, EDWARD JOHN (1792-1881).—­Biographer, entered the navy, from which, however, he deserted, after which he wandered about in the East and on the Continent.  In Switzerland he met Byron and Shelley, and was living in close friendship with the latter when he was drowned, and was one of the witnesses at the cremation of his remains.  He took part in the Greek war of independence, and m. the sister of one of the insurgent chiefs.  After various adventures in America he settled in London, where he was a distinguished figure in society, and enjoyed the reputation of a picturesque, but somewhat imaginative, conversationalist.  He wrote The Adventures of a Younger Son (1831), a work of striking distinction, and the intensely interesting Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author (1858).  The last survivor of that brilliant group, he was buried by the side of Shelley.

TRENCH, RICHARD CHENEVIX (1807-1886).—­Poet and theologian, b. in Dublin, and ed. at Harrow and Camb., took orders, and after serving various country parishes, became in 1847 Prof. of Theology in King’s Coll., London, in 1856 Dean of Westminster, and in 1864 Archbishop of Dublin.  As Primate of the Irish Church at its disestablishment, he rendered valuable service at that time of trial.  In theology his best known works are his Hulsean Lectures, Notes on the Parables, and Notes on the Miracles.  His philological writings, English Past and Present and Select Glossary of English Words are extremely interesting and suggestive, though now to some extent superseded.  His Sacred Latin Poetry is a valuable collection of mediaeval Church hymns.  He also wrote sonnets, elegies, and lyrics, in the first of which he was specially successful, besides longer poems, Justin Martyr and Sabbation.

TREVISA, JOHN of (1326-1412).—­Translator, a Cornishman, ed. at Oxf., was Vicar of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, and chaplain to the 4th Lord Berkeley, and Canon of Westbury.  He translated for his patron the Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden, adding remarks of his own, and prefacing it with a Dialogue on Translation between a Lord and a Clerk.  He likewise made various other translations.