TRUMBULL, JOHN (1750-1831).—­Poet, b. at Waterbury, Conn., was a lawyer, and became a judge.  He wrote much verse, his principal productions being The Progress of Dulness (1772) and McFingal (1782), written in support of the Revolution in imitation of Hudibras.

TUCKER, ABRAHAM (1705-1774).—­Philosophic writer, b. in London, and ed. at Oxf., was a country gentleman, who devoted himself to the study of philosophy, and wrote under the name of Edward Search, a work in 7 vols., The Light of Nature Followed (1768-78).  It is rather a miscellany than a systematic treatise, but contains much original and acute thinking.

TUCKER, GEORGE (1775-1861).—­Economist, etc., b. in Bermuda, became Prof., of Moral Philosophy, etc., in the Univ. of Virginia.  He wrote a Life of Jefferson, Political History of the United States, Essays Moral and Philosophical, The Valley of the Shenandoah, a novel, A Voyage to the Moon (satire), and various works on economics.

TUCKER, NATHANIEL BEVERLY (1784-1851).—­B. in Virginia, became a Prof., of Law in William and Mary Coll.  He wrote a novel, The Partisan Leader (1836), a prophecy of the future disunion which led to the Civil War.  It was re-pub. in 1861 as A Key to the Southern Conspiracy.  Another novel was George Balcombe.

TUCKERMAN, HENRY THEODORE (1813-1871).—­Essayist, etc., b. in Boston, Mass.  He was a sympathetic and delicate critic, with a graceful style.  He lived much in Italy, which influenced his choice of subjects in his earlier writings.  These include The Italian Sketch-book, Isabel, or Sicily, Thoughts on the Poets, The Book of the Artists, Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer, etc.

TULLOCH, JOHN (1823-1886).—­Theologian and historical writer, b. at Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, studied at St. Andrews and Edin.  He was ordained to the ministry of the Church of Scotland at Dundee, whence he was translated to Kettins, Forfarshire, and became in 1854 Principal and Prof. of Theology in St. Mary’s Coll., St. Andrews.  He was a leader of the liberal party in the Church of Scotland, and wrote Literary and Intellectual Revival of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century (1883), Movements of Religious Thought in the Nineteenth Century (1884-85), Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century, and a book on Pascal, etc.

TUPPER, MARTIN FARQUHAR (1810-1889).—­Versifier, s. of a surgeon, was b. in London, ed. at Charterhouse School and Oxf., and called to the Bar in 1835.  He, however, believed that literature was his vocation, and wrote many works in prose and verse, only one of which, Proverbial Philosophy, had much success.  But the vogue which it had was enormous, especially in America.  It is a singular collection of commonplace observations set forth in a form which bears the appearance of verse, but has neither rhyme nor metre, and has long since found its deserved level.  He also wrote War Ballads, Rifle Ballads, and Protestant Ballads, various novels, and an autobiography.  T. was likewise an inventor, but his ideas in this kind had not much success.