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# The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart/Volume 1/Part 1/Introduction

DISSERTATION.
PART I.
In the following Historical and Critical Sketches, it has been judged proper by the different writers, to confine their views entirely to the period which has elapsed since the revival of letters. To have extended their retrospects to the ancient world, would have crowded too great a multiplicity of objects into the limited canvass on which they had to work. For my own part, I might perhaps, with still greater propriety, have confined myself exclusively to the two last centuries, as the Sciences 'of which I am to treat present but little matter for useful remark, prior to the time of Lord Bacon. I shall make no apology, however, for devoting, in the first place, a few pages to some observations of a more general nature; and to some scanty gleanings of literary detail, bearing more or less directly on my principal design.
On this occasion, as well as in the sequel of my Discourse, I shall avoid, as far as is consistent with distinctness and perspicuity, the minuteness of the mere bibliographer; and, instead of attempting to amuse my readers with a series of critical epigrams, or to dazzle them with a rapid succession of evanescent portraits, shall study to fix their attention on those great lights of the world by whom the torch of science has been ​successively seized and transmitted. It is, in fact, such leading characters alone which furnish matter for philosophical history. To enumerate the names and the labours of obscure or even secondary authors, (whatever amusement it might afford to men of curious erudition,) would contribute but little to illustrate the origin and filiation of consecutive systems, or the gradual development and progress of the human mind.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Travers, William Thomas Locke

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​Travers, William Thomas Locke, F.L.S., son of Captain Boyle Travers, of the Rifle Brigade, by his marriage with Miss Caroline Brockman, of Beachborough, in Kent, was born at Castleview, near Newcastle, county Limerick, on Jan. 9th, 1819. He was lieutenant in the 2nd Lancers, B.A.L.S., from 1836 to 1838, and served in Spain during those years, part of the time as aide-de-camp to General Espartero, afterwards Duke de Victoria. Mr. Travers was married at Cork, Ireland, on Oct. 22nd, 1843, to Miss Jane Oldham, and arrived in New Zealand on Oct. 20th, 1849. He has at various times represented the Waimea district in Nelson, and the cities of Christchurch and Wellington in the New Zealand House of Representatives, and was Attorney-General of the colony in the first inchoate Ministry from the end of August to the beginning of Sept. 1854. Mr. Travers, who was district judge in Nelson from 1859 to 1860, was married a second time on April 9th, 1891, at Wellington, N.Z., to Miss Theodosia Leslie Barclay. He is F.L.S. and "Grand Officier de l'Ordre Royal du Cambode." Mr. Travers, after resigning the judgeship, removed from Nelson, where he was on one occasion an unsuccessful candidate for the Superintendency of the province, and settled in Canterbury, where in 1866 he sought election as provincial superintendent, but was defeated by the late Mr. W. Sefton Moorhouse.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Tozer, Hon. Horace

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​Tozer, Hon. Horace, M.L.A., Colonial Secretary and Minister of Mines, Queensland, son of Horace Thomas Norris Tozer and Charlotte Winifred Amelia his wife, was born at Port Macquarie, N.S.W., in April 1844, and educated at St. Paul's College, Sydney. He was admitted a solicitor in Brisbane, and was elected to the Queensland Assembly for Wide Bay in 1872 and in 1888. Since 1868 he has practised his profession at Gympie, of which goldfield he was one of the early residents. In August 1890 he became Colonial Secretary and Minister of Mines in the second Griffith Ministry, administering the department controlling the Police and Defence Forces of Queensland during the maritime strike, August and Sept. 1890, and the shearers' strike lasting from Jan. to July 1891, when over two thousand men were called out on active service and quelled the serious industrial disturbances without loss of life. Mr. Tozer married at Ipswich, Queensland, on Feb. 12th, 1868, Miss Mary Hoyles Wilson.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Tryon, Vice-Admiral Sir George

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​Tryon, Vice-Admiral Sir George, K.C.B., formerly Commander-in-Chief on the Australian station, is the son of the late T. Tryon, of Bulwick Park in Northamptonshire, and was born in 1832. He entered the Royal Navy in 1848, became commander in 1860, captain in 1866, rear-admiral in 1884, and vice-admiral in 1889. He served with the Naval Brigade before Sebastopol in 1854 and 1855, for which he received a medal with two clasps, the 3rd class Medjidie, and the Turkish medal. He was director of transports during the Abyssinian war of 1868, and received a medal and special mention in despatches. Admiral Tryon was private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty from 1871 to 1874, British Commissioner at Sfaxenguin in 1881, Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty in 1883 and 1884, a naval aide-de-camp to Her Majesty from 1879 to 1884, and Commander-in-Chief on the Australian station from 1884 to 1887. In the latter capacity he conferred with the Australian Premiers on the subject of colonial naval defence, and was largely the originator of the plan discussed and adopted at the Colonial Conference held in London in 1887, and subsequently approved by the Colonial Legislatures, under which the Home Government agreed to provide, and the former to subsidise, a special Australasian squadron. In 1887 Admiral Tryon unsuccessfully contested the Spalding Division of Lincolnshire in the Conservative interest, and in the next year was appointed Admiral-Superintendent of Naval Reserves. In 1889 and 1890 he commanded one of the fleets engaged in the autumn manoeuvres. Admiral Tryon, who was created C.B. in 1868 and K.C.B. in 1887, married, in 1869, the Hon. Clementina Charlotte Heathcote, daughter of the 1st Lord Aveland.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Trenwith, William Arthur

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​Trenwith, William Arthur, M.L.A., was born at Launceston, Tasmania, in 1847, being the second of three sons of a Cornish bootmaker, whose trade he began to learn in his ninth year. At thirteen young Trenwith maintained both himself and his younger brother at his trade. In 1864, when only seventeen, he became one of the Provisional Committee of the Working Men's Club in Launceston; and married before he was twenty-one. In 1868 Mr. Trenwith left Tasmania, and settled in Melbourne. Through his superior vigour and undoubted political ability he was chosen lecturer and organising agent for the National Reform League, and in 1879 stood for Villiers and Heytesbury as the Radical candidate, but was defeated. In the same year he formed what has proved a stable Union of his own trade, all previous attempts to band together the working bootmakers having failed. In 1886 he went to Adelaide to investigate the great strike in his trade in that city; and drew up a scale of prices which proved satisfactory to manufacturers and workmen alike. He also established a Board of Conciliation, composed of equal numbers of employers and employés, which Board is still an Adelaide institution. Mr. Trenwith was presented by his South Australian admirers with a purse of sovereigns, and on his return to Melbourne was generally accepted as the leading Labour representative in Victoria. In 1887 he was elected President of the Trades Hall Council, and was appointed one of the Victorian Commissioners for the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition in 1887, and Executive Commissioner for the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition of 1888. In 1886 Mr. Trenwith came forward for the important metropolitan constituency of Richmond, but was again defeated. However, at the general election in March 1889 he was returned by a substantial majority, and was re-elected in April 1892. In Parliament Mr. Trenwith brought forward a motion fur opening the Public Library and National Art Galleries on Sundays, especially in the interests of artisans and working men—but it was "blocked" Mr. Trenwith took a prominent part on the labour side in the disastrous strike in the shipping trade in 1890.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Trench, Hon. Robert Le Poer

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​Trench, Hon. Robert Le Poer, late Attorney-General of Victoria, is the third son of the late Ven. Charles Le Poer Trench, D.D., of Ballinasloe, co. Galway, Archdeacon of Ardagh, and grandson of the first Earl of Clancarty. He entered as a student of the Middle Temple in May 1839, and was called to the Bar in June 1842. Having emigrated to ​Victoria, he was clerk of petty sessions at Kilmore, and afterwards at Ballarat. In 1855 he was admitted to the Victorian Bar, and quickly obtained a large practice, especially in mining cases. Though he never entered parliament he was Attorney-General in the first Berry Government from August to Oct. 1875, and in Mr. (now Sir) Graham Berry's second Administration, from May 1877 to March 1878, when he was appointed a Commissioner of Land Tax, and a County Court Judge in April 1880. Mr. Trench, who was appointed Q.C. in 1878, subsequently retired on a pension.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Tucker, Hon. Albert Lee

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​Tucker, Hon. Albert Lee, M.L.A., J.P., was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne, in 1843, and primarily adopted the scholastic profession, but ultimately embraced commercial pursuits, from which he retired in 1870. Mr. Tucker was mayor of Fitzroy in 1873 and in 1879. In 1874 he was returned to the Assembly for Collingwood and Fitzroy; and when the constituency was divided was returned for the latter electorate, which he still represents. In 1878 he acted as chairman of the Royal Commission on Closed Roads. In the second Service Government, he was Minister of Lands from March 1883 to Feb. 1886, in which capacity he was the author of the present Land Act, and of a measure specially dealing with the Mallee country.