Tontine
a term derived from the a fund of $125,000,000 for the relief of exchequer by means of a who settled in Paris in Cardinal Mazarin's time, and proposed in 1653 to raise vided into 10 classes according to age; and for each class a fixed sum was the national ex financial association, of which the great longest liver. There were to be shares of members of the class. In this way, while vided into 10 classes according to age; and for each class a fixed sum was from the first on his capital, the profit annually to be divided equally among the each member should get fair interest members of the class. In this way, while he-belonged to. The years went on, and the last survivor due to the class hedue to the class he- belonged to. The would receive the whole of the interest the 18th century, with government sanctontine is a lottery of annuities-or com- pounded of lottery and annuity-and was frequently had recourse to in France in the 18th century, with government sanction. pounded of lottery and annuity-and was tion. political writer;
born in Westminster, England, June 25, 1736; was educated at Westminster and Eton; afterward going to St. John's College, Cambridge. In the living of New Brentford. The year 1760 he entered the Church, and obtained 1771 witnessed his contest with Junius, In 1777 he was in which, in the general opinion, he came off victor. In 1773 he resigned his bene fice to study for the bar (to which from being in orders he was not admitted); Purley he became that gentleman's heir and assumed his name. In 1777 he was prosecuted for a seditious libel condemnand by his legal advice to Mr. Tooke of Purley he became that gentleman's heir and assumed his name.
TOOKE ing the American war, and his trial resulted in a year's imprisonment and a fine of $1,000. He was a short time member of Parliament for Old Sarum.
He wrote several political pamphlets and an ingenious linguistic work entitled "Epea Pteroenta, or the Diversions of Purley." He died in Wimbledon, England, March 18, 1812.