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Tryon (WILLIAM a British a colonial)

WILLIAM, a British a colonial governor; born in Ireland, about 1729; joined the British navy and as an officer did creditable service. Through the influence of the Earl of Hillsborough, a relative of whom he married, he was made lieutenant-governor of North Carolina in June, 1764, and became governor in July, 1765. He put down the revolt of the "Regulators" in that colony, and was exceedingly cruel to the prisoners.

The assembly of North Carolina voted $15,000 with which a beautiful residence was erected for him in Newbern. In 1771 he was made governor of New York. The patriots detested him on account of his arbitrary rule and especially for the cruelty he manifested in the destruction of Fairfield, Danbury, and Norfolk, Conn., expeditions expeditions against which he personally conducted. He relinquished the office of governor in 1778, and returned to England. He was promoted Major-General in August, 1777, and Lieutenant-General in November, 1782. He died in London, England, Jan. 27, 1788. a town of Russia, province of St. Peters- TSARSKOE SELO ("imperial town"), burg, 18 miles S. of Petrograd. It contains eight churches and two palaces, formerly the principal summer residences of the imperial family. The larger of embellished at greater expense by Caththese, built by Elizabeth in 1744, and overladen with false ornament. It has a erine II., is a noble building, though frontage of 782 feet, and contains a ball TSCHAIKOWSKY room 141 feet long and 50 feet broad. In one of its wings is a marble gallery 270 feet long by 28 wide, with a noble Ionic colonnade adorned with bronze busts of the most famous men of antiquity. The great park, one of the most carefully planted in Europe, contains a Turkish kiosk, a Chinese hamlet with a pagoda, a bridge built of Siberian marble over a canal connecting two lakes, a marble statue of Count Orlof, and the artificial ruins of a Gothic castle, in the chapel of which stands the marble statue of Christ by Dannecker, erected in 1824 by Maria Feodorovna at a cost of 30,000 rubles. In the armory is a large collection of armor, weapons, dresses, and relics of historical persons, while the model farm contains Tyrolese, Swiss and Dutch cattle, besides buffaloes and bisons. N. W. of the town is Pulkowa, the central Russian observatory. Pop. about 20,000.