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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Singleton, Robert (d.1544)

​SINGLETON, ROBERT or JOHN (d. 1544), Roman catholic divine, belonging to a Lancashire family, was educated at Oxford, but does not appear to have graduated. He became a priest, and for some utterances which were accounted treasonable was brought before a court of bishops in 1543, and was executed at Tyburn on 7 March 1543-4, along with Germain Gardiner and John Larke. Bale mentions him favourably, and Possevino, the Jesuit, in his 'Apparatus Sacer,' styles him a martyr for the church of Rome. He is said to have written: 1. 'Treatise of the Seven Churches.' 2. 'Of the Holy Ghost.' 3. 'Comment on certain Prophecies.' 4. 'Theory of the Earth,' dedicated to Henry VII. Tanner calls the last 'Of the Seven Ages of the World.' None seem to have been printed.
C. W. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Sion Lleyn

​SION LLEYN, known to his neighbours as John Roberts (1749–1817), Welsh poet, was born in 1749 at Traean in the parish of Llan Armon, Carnarvonshire. He spent most of his life as a schoolmaster at Pwllheli, in the Lleyn district of the same county. Becoming skilful in the Welsh ‘strict’ metres, he was for about forty years a well-known, though not specially gifted, member of the group of the Carnarvonshire poets who held a commanding position at this time. Dafydd Ddu Eryri was his close friend and correspondent, and in 1810 included in his collection of Welsh verse entitled ‘Corph y Gainc’ four of the compositions of Sion Lleyn. In 1800 Roberts wrote for the Gwyneddigion Society of London a ‘cywydd’ on ‘Knowledge and Learning,’ which the society printed soon after with some other poems. Ashton mentions (Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, p. 590) a pamphlet printed at Dolgelly (no date) entitled ‘Caniadau Moesawl a Difyr,’ as the work of Sion Lleyn; but most of his poems are, it is believed, still in manuscript. He died 7 May 1817, and was buried at Deneio, near Pwllheli. Sion Wyn o Eifion (John Thomas) was his nephew. ‘Gardd Eifion’ (Dolgelly, 1841) contains (pp. 111–12) an elegy by Robert ap Gwilym Ddu upon him.
J. E. L.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Sinnich, John

​SINNICH, JOHN (d. 1666), theologian, was born in the county of Cork of Roman catholic parents. He was educated at the university of Louvain, where he took orders as a secular priest and obtained the degree of doctor of theology. In 1641 he became president of the greater theological college at Louvain, and in 1648 he was appointed professor of theology in the university. He died there on 8 May 1666, leaving his personal property to the college to found bursaries to maintain students from Ireland at Louvain, Bruges, or Turnhout.
He was the author of: 1. ‘Confessionistarum Goliathismus Profligatus; sive, Lutheranorum Confessionis Augustanæ Symbolum profitentium Provocatio repulsa.’ The dedication is dated 31 Oct. 1656. A second edition, of which a unique copy is in the British Museum, was published at Louvain, 1667, fol. 2. ‘Saul Exrex: sive de Saule, Israeliticæ Gentis Protomonarcha,’ licensed at Louvain on 30 May 1662. A second edition was published at Louvain in 1665, and a second part was published at Louvain in 1667 after Sinnich's death. Both are in the British Museum. His death prevented the issue of a third part. Johann Hallervord (1644–1716), the German bibliographer, assigns to him ‘Vindiciæ Decalogicæ,’ Louvain, 1672, 4to (Bibl. Curiosa, 1676, p. 203).
E. I. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Sion Treredyn

​SION TREREDYN (fl. 1651), Welsh translator. [See Edwards, John.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Singleton, Thomas

​SINGLETON, THOMAS (1783–1842), archdeacon of Northumberland, born in 1783, was the only son of Thomas Anketell Singleton, of the family of Fort Singleton in Monaghan, and lieutenant-governor of Fort Landguard in Suffolk, by his wife, daughter of Francis Grose [q. v.] the antiquary, He was educated at Eton, which he entered about 1797, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, whence he graduated B.A. in 1804 and M.A. in 1826. At Eton he acquired the friendship of Hugh, earl Percy (afterwards third duke of Northumberland [q. v.]), and at Cambridge he acted as the earl's tutor. He acted as private secretary to the earl on his embassy to Paris, and while he held the office of lord-lieutenant of Ireland.
In 1812 the earl presented him to the rectory of Elsdon, and in 1826 he was appointed archdeacon of Northumberland and rector of Howick. In 1829 he became a prebendary of Worcester, and in 1830 received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Dublin University. In 1837 he requested ​Sydney Smith [q. v.] to give his opinion on the recently appointed ecclesiastical commission, and in reply appeared the first of three remarkable letters which Sydney Smith addressed to him on the subject. Singleton died, unmarried, at Alnwick Castle on 13 March 1842.
E. I. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Sion Llywelyn

1904 Errata appended. He was twice in the DNB first edition. This version was dropped from later editions.
​SION or John, LLYWELYN (d. 1616?), Welsh bard, of Llan Gewydd, near Bridgend, Glamorganshire, was one of the series of mid-Glamorgan antiquaries who carried on the bardic traditions of this district from mediaeval times to the age of Iolo Morgannwg [see Williams, Edward, 1746–1826] and Dr. William Owen Pughe [q. v.] Among his instructors are mentioned Meurig Dafydd and Thomas Llewelyn; like the former, he became (in 1580) president of the 'Gorsedd' or bardic congress of Glamorgan. A letter from him to Meurig Dafydd, printed in 'Adgof uwch Anghof' (Penygroes, 1883, p. 1), shows him as a copyist of Welsh manuscripts, whose work was to be paid for at the rate of 1l. a month. Many of the manuscripts printed from Iolo Morgannwg's collection in the Iolo MSS. (1848) were transcribed by him. His chief work was a complete account of the bardic system of Glamorgan, which he wrote in his old age. It formed the basis of 'Cyfrinach y Beirdd,' compiled by Edward David or Dafydd [q. v.], and sanctioned at a 'Gorsedd' held in 1681. It was not published till 1829. Sion died about 1616.
J. E. L.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.250 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Try, Try Again

It's a lesson you should heed, Try, try again.
If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again.
Then your courage should appear, For if you will persevere, You will conquer, never fear, Try, try again.
Once or twice, though you should fail, Try, try again.
If you would at last prevail, Try, try again.
If we strive, 'tis no disgrace, Though we do not win the race; What should you do in that case? Try, try again.
If you find your task is hard, Try, try again.
Time will bring you your reward, Try, try again.
All that other folk can do, Why, with patience, should not you? Only keep this rule in view, Try, try again.
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# Tsing Hua College Song

1.  Oh come and join our hearty song,  As proudly here we stand;  For Tsing Hua College let us sing,  The best in all the land.  We'll spread her fame, and win a name,  And put our foes to shame;  If you don't agree, come on and see,  And you will say the same.
 (Chorus)  Oh Tsing Hua, fair Tsing Hua, our College bright  May we be loyal to the purple and white!  Oh Tsing Hua, fair Tsing Hua, our college true!  We're loyal, we're faithful, we'll stand for you!
 2.  In contests all of every sort,  We win whate'er we do;  Our athletes gain unbounded praise,  And number not a few.  And when some day, we go away,  We’ll always truly say:  "Our Tsinghua pride does still abide,  And evermore shall stay." Chorus;
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# Tryon Resolves

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The signers of the Tryon Resolves vowed resistance to coercive actions by the British Empire against its North American colonies, writing a brief document to that effect, which was signed by the committee members on August 14, 1775.
The unprecedented, barbarous and bloody actions committed by British troops on our American brethren near Boston, on 19th April and 20th of May last, together with the hostile operations and treacherous designs now carrying on, by the tools of ministerial vengeance, for the subjugation of all British America, suggest to us the painful necessity of having recourse to arms in defense of our National freedom and constitutional rights, against all invasions; and at the same time do solemnly engage to take up arms and risk our lives and our fortunes in maintaining the freedom of our country whenever the wisdom and counsel of the Continental Congress or our Provincial Convention shall declare it necessary; and this engagement we will continue in for the preservation of those rights and liberties which the principals of our Constitution and the laws of God, nature and nations have made it our duty to defend.
We therefore, the subscribers, freeholders and inhabitants of Tryon County, do hereby faithfully unite ourselves under the most solemn ties of religion, honor and love to our county, firmly to resist force by force, and hold sacred till a reconciliation shall take place between Great Britain and America on Constitutional principals, which we most ardently desire, and do firmly agree to hold all such persons as inimical to the liberties of America who shall refuse to sign this association.
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# Diplomacy and the War

Translation of Diplomácia és világháború
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Diplomacy and the War
BY
COUNT JULIUS ANDRASSY
Late Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Translated by
J. HOLROYD REECE
London
JOHN BALE. SONS & DANIELSSON, Ltd.
OXFORD HOUSE
83 91. GREAT TITCHFIELD STREET, OXKORD STREET, W. 1
1921
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CONTENTS.
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# Diplomatic letters concerning SCAPIN-677

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# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/caⁿ
### căⁿ

* 撈căⁿ5076412
* To grapple from a deep place; to dredge for; to drag for.

#### căⁿ hṳ̂;

    to dredge for fish.

#### căⁿ ô̤;

    to dredge for oysters.

#### căⁿ sap;

    to dredge for the broken shells of which lime is made.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/ceh
### ceh

* 績ceh98612011
* To splice threads.

#### pháng ceh;

    to spin and splice threads.

#### ceh còi;

    to join the fibers used in weaving cloth.

#### ceh ŭ jîeh cōi còi?

    How much thread have you prepared?
* 責ceh9571544
* To reprove; to reprimand; to be responsible for; a duty; a charge; a fault.

#### cṳ̆ ceh;

    self reproach.

#### ceh-hŵt;

    to punish.

#### ceh-pĭ;

    to reprimand.

#### ceh-mn̄g;

    to interrogate reprovingly.

#### kùe-ceh;

    faults.

#### khin ceh;

    a duty of easy performance.

#### tăng ceh;

    a heavy responsibility.

#### ceh sêng;

    to carry through.

#### cía sĭ úa kâi ceh sêng;

    this duty devolves upon me.

#### ceh-jĭm tăng căi;

    a very weighty responsibility.

#### tōa ceh-jĭm;

    important duties.

#### pô̤h-pô̤h ceh cē;

    to reprove slightly.

#### tăng ceh sì-câp póiⁿ;

    a punishment of forty blows with a heavy bamboo.

#### ceh-mēⁿ;

    to reproach in violent terms.

#### cí kâi ceh-jĭm m̄-hó̤ tho̤;

    this responsibility cannot not be evaded.

#### tng cí kâi ceh-jĭm;

    bear this responsibility.
* 職ceh7012812
* Official duty; title; office.

#### ceh-jĭm;

    an office and its duties.

#### ceh hūn;

    the duties of an office.

#### kuaⁿ ceh;

    official title.

#### ceh ŵn;

    a functionary of any grade under a red button.

#### sip ceh;

    a hereditary office.

#### keh ceh;

    deprive of office.

#### ùi sṳ̄ keh ceh;

    throw up an office through fear of it difficulties.

#### tòa ceh hûe ke;

    retire from ​office, retaining the official titles.

#### sĭu ceh;

    to receive office.

#### ceh sṳ̄;

    the business connected with an office.

#### tíen-sṳ́ put lêng sî tit ceh;

    an inferior justice cannot take leave of his official duties.

#### hong sĭm-mih kuaⁿ ceh?

    What official title has been conferred upon him?
* 仄ceh95992
* Oblique or inclined, (used in reference to the eight tones).

#### phêⁿ ceh;

    the even and the inclined tones.

#### ceh siaⁿ;

    the other than the two even tones.

#### ceh ūn;

    rhymes in the inclined tones.

#### cí kâi jī sĭ phêⁿ a sĭ ceh?

    Has this letter an even or an inclined tone?
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Vandeput, George

​VANDENPUT, GEORGE (d. 1800), admiral, was illegitimate son of Sir George Vandeput, bart. (d. 1784) (Burke, Extinct Baronetcies). While serving as a midshipman of the Neptune, flagship of Sir Charles Saunders in the St. Lawrence, he was on 24 Sept. 1759 promoted to be lieutenant of the Shrewsbury, commanded by Captain (afterwards Sir) Hugh Palliser [q. v.] With Palliser in the Shrewsbury he continued till the peace in 1763. On 17 April 1764 he was promoted to the command of the Goree sloop, and on 20 June 1765 was posted to the Surprize of 20 guns. In August 1766 he was moved to the Boreas, and in June 1767 to the 28-gun frigate Carysfort for the Mediterranean, where he was for the next three years. He was then for another three years in the Solebay, on the home station, and, after a couple of temporary commands, in December 1773 commissioned the Asia for the North American station. Here he remained for three years, for the most part at, or in the neighbourhood of, Boston and New York. It appears to have been off New York in 1776—the details are only vaguely given—that a tender of the Asia captured a small vessel laden with gunpowder. Whether by accident or caution, Vandeput ordered her to lie off for the night at some little distance; and this led to one of the prisoners, in his terror, confessing that in one of the barrels was a musket-lock, which would be fired by clockwork at a given time. It had been hoped that the barrels of powder would be at once put into the Asia's magazine and the coasting vessel allowed to go free. In 1777 ​the Asia returned to England, and having been refitted was sent to the East Indies. She came home with convoy in the beginning of 1781, and in the following year Vandeput, in the 98-gun ship Atlas, took part in the relief of Gibraltar and the desultory action off Cape Spartel on 20 Oct. He is said by Burke to have assumed the title of baronet after his father's death, 17 June 1784. If so, it was not acknowledged by the admiralty, nor in his official position. After the peace, Vandeput commanded the Princess Augusta yacht till, on 1 Feb. 1793, he was promoted to be rear-admiral. On 4 July 1794 he was made vice-admiral, and through 1795 had command of a small squadron in the North Sea. In 1796, with his flag in the St. Albans, he was employed on convoy service to Lisbon and the Mediterranean; and in 1797, still in the St. Albans, he commanded the squadron on the coast of North America. Towards the end of the year he shifted his flag to the Resolution, and in 1798 to the Asia. He was promoted to the rank of admiral on 14 Feb. 1799. He died suddenly, on board the Asia, at sea on 14 March 1800. The body was sent, by the Cleopatra, to Providence, and there buried. He left an illegitimate son, George, who is also said to have called himself a baronet.
J. K. L.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Vancouver, Charles

​VANCOUVER, CHARLES (fl. 1785–1813), agriculturist, was an American by birth, though he can hardly have been, as is sometimes stated, ‘Of Vancouver's Island,’ as that island was named after George Vancouver [q. v.] in 1794. His first book, ‘A general Compendium of Chemical, Experimental, and Natural Philosophy, with a complete System of Commerce,’ was published at Philadelphia in 1785 (see Catalogue of the Boston Athenæum), and in 1786 he is described as ‘Vancouver of Philadelphia’ in Young's ‘Annals of Agriculture,’ to which he contributed an account of the farming of Kentucky. Kentucky was being settled at this time chiefly by emigrants from Virginia and Maryland, and Vancouver had taken up fifty-three thousand acres in that district. His letter to Young is practically an invitation to English settlers to come out to America and farm portions of this vast area (Annals of Agriculture, 1786, vi. 405).
Between 1786 and 1793 he came to England, and, on the establishment of the board of agriculture, he was engaged by Sir John Sinclair [q. v.] to write reports on the state of agriculture in different English counties.
The board published in 1794 an account of Vancouver's tour in Cambridgeshire, and in 1795 an account of a similar tour in Essex. He also visited Sussex for the purpose of a survey. Maria Josepha Holroyd, daughter of Lord Sheffield, speaks of him in July 1795 as a sensible well-informed man, who had visited several countries and profited by his travels (Girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd, 1896, p. 326).
Apparently about the end of the century Vancouver returned to his American estates, and he says in 1807 that he has been long engaged in ‘cutting down the woodland and clearing the forests in Kentucky.’ In 1806 he was again in England, and Arthur Young mentions that he was consulted by the secretary of the treasury, Nicholas Vansittart (afterwards Baron Bexley) [q. v.] concerning his tour scheme, of which Vancouver did not approve (Autobiography of Arthur Young, 1898).
Vancouver wrote two more county reports for the board of agriculture: on the county of Devon, 1808 (republished in 1813); and on Hampshire, 1813. William Marshall (1745–1818) [q. v.], who criticised most severely the majority of the board's reports, spoke of Vancouver's ‘Cambridgeshire’ with approval, but regarded his Essex report with less favour, and was yet more qualified in his praise of the Hampshire and Devonshire reports (Marshall, Review, vol. iii., Eastern Department, 1818, pp. 226–7, 473; Gent. Mag. 1818, i. 59). Vancouver also wrote, in 1794, a paper on the drainage of the fens of the Great Level, and especially of ​Cambridgeshire. This remained unprinted for seventeen years, and was finally issued as an appendix to the octavo Huntingdon report. The date of Vancouver's death is unknown.
[Vancouver's Reports; authorities cited in the text.]
E. C.-e.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Vanderbank, John

​VANDERBANK, JOHN (1694?–1739), portrait-painter, son of Peter Vanderbank [q. v.], was born in England about 1694. He was a highly gifted painter, and for a short time during the reign of George I enjoyed a great reputation; but his career was marred and his life shortened by vicious and extravagant habits. Soon after 1724 he opened a drawing academy in rivalry with that of Sir James Thornhill [q. v.], introducing a female model, but it proved a failure. In 1729 he went to France to avoid his creditors, and on his return entered the liberties of the Fleet. He died of consumption in Holles Street, Cavendish Square, London, on 23 Dec. 1739, aged about 45, and was buried in Marylebone church. Vanderbank's portraits, among which are those of many eminent persons, are skilfully drawn and full of character, but slight and careless in execution. He had a great talent for historical composition, and Vertue speaks highly of some of his works of this class. He furnished a set of clever designs for the illustrations to the edition of the Spanish text of ‘Don Quixote’ published in London under Lord Carteret's patronage in 1738; also those for ‘Twenty-five Actions of the Manage Horse, engraved by Josephus Sympson,’ 1729. Vanderbank's portraits of Sir Isaac Newton and Samuel Clarke are in the National Portrait Gallery, and that of Thomas Guy is at Guy's Hospital; two others of Newton belong to the Royal Society. Many of his portraits were engraved by John Faber and George White. An album containing his original sketches and finished drawings for the ‘Don Quixote’ plates is in the print-room of the British Museum. His portrait occurs in the group of artists painted by Hogarth, now in the university galleries at Oxford, of which there is an engraving by R. Sawyer.
F. M. O'D.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Vandyke, Peter

​VANDYKE, PETER (fl. 1767), painter, born in Holland in 1729, came over to England at the invitation of Sir Joshua Reynolds to assist in painting draperies and similar work for him. He exhibited a few pictures at the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1762 and 1764, and six portraits at the Free Society of Artists in 1767. Subsequently he settled at Bristol and practised as a portrait-painter there. He painted for Joseph Cottle [q. v.], the publisher, portraits of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Southey, which are now in the National Portrait Gallery. The portrait of Coleridge was engraved. The date of his death has not been ascertained. It has been stated, ​but apparently with little ground, that he was connected by family with Sir Anthony Van Dyck. He was possibly related to Philip Van Dyk, a well-known portrait-painter at Amsterdam, who died in 1752.
L. C.