Tennant
WILLIAM, a Scotch poet; born in Anstruther, Fifeshire, May 15, 1784, studied for some time at the University of St. Andrews, was for several years a clerk, devoted himself then to teaching, and, being a good Oriental linguist, was in 1835 appointed to the chair of Oriental languages in St. Mary's College, St. Andrews. His chief production is "Anster Fair," a humorous poem of Scottish life in the same stanza as Byron's "Don Juan," which it preceded, being published in 1812. Besides "Anster Fair," Tennant was the author of several other poems and some dramas. None of them, however, attained any success. Grammars of the Syriac and Chaldes tongues were also published by him. He died near Dollar, Scotland, Feb. 15, 1848.
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Tennessee
UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational non-sectarian institution in Knoxville, Tenn.; founded in 1794; reported at the close of 1901: Professors and instructors, 85; students, 721; volumes in the library, 17,100; producings valued at $611,000; benefactions, LL.D.
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Tennessee (River of the United States)
a river of the United States, formed by the union of two streams in the E. part of the State of Tennessee, flows S. W., passes through the N. part of Alabama, then flows N. through the W. part of Tennessee and Kentucky, and enters the Ohio, of which it is the largest tributary, about 10 miles below the confluence of the Cumberland. Length, about 1,200 miles. It is navigable 259 miles for steamers to Florence, at the foot of the Muscle-shoal rapids, which are passed by a canal 36 miles long; and above these there is navigation for boats for 250 miles.
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Tenniel
JOHN, an English artist; born in London in 1820. He was almost entirely self-taught, and his first picture was exhibited while he was little more than a boy. He painted one of the frescoes in the Houses of Parliament in 1845, and produced but few pictures afterward. In 1851 he became connected as an illustrator with "Punch," and contributed illustrations to that paper, in particular the weekly political cartoon. He also illustrated many Christmas and other books, including "Esop's Fables," "Ingoldsby goldsby Legends," "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," etc. He was knighted in 1893. He died in 1914.
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Tennyson
FREDERICK, an English poet, brother of Alfred; born in Louth, Lincolnshire, June 5, 1807. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1828 took the medal for a Greek poem. He published various volumes of verse, including "Days and Hours" (1854); "The Isles of Greece" (1890); "Daphne, and Other Poems" (1891). He died in London Feb. 26, 1898.
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Tennyson (HALLAM LORD an English English)
HALLAM, LORD, an English English biographer, son of Alfred; born Aug. 11, 1852; was educated at Marlborough College, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He wrote "The Life of Alfred, Lord Tennyson" (2 vols. 1897), contained a complete bibliography of his father's works; various magazine articles; and edited Charles Turner's "Collected Sonnets." He was appointed governor of South Australia (1899-1902); edited the Eversley edition of his father's works in 1908, and in 1912 published "Tennyson and His Friends."
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Tenpins
a parlor game. Ten wooden pins are set up in the form of a triangle in ranks of four, three, two, and one, with the apex toward the player who rolls a ball across the floor with the object of knocking down as many of the pins as possible. To knock down all the pins is "to make a strike." When played in a regularly constructed alley, the game is usually called bowls. See Skittles ; Bowling
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Tensile Strength
See STRENGTH OF MATERIALS. Terne Plate are thin iron plates cleaned, and coated with tin by dipping into a molten bath of the latter metal. See TINNING.
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Tenterden
CHARLES ABBOT, BARON, an English jurist; born a barber's son in Canterbury, Oct. 7, 1762. A foundationer at King's School, Canterbury, of which he was captain at 17, he gained an exhibition which enabled him to proceed to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Here he obtained a scholarship; in 1784 the chancellor's medal for Latin verse, in 1786 for an English essay; graduated in 1785, and soon after became fellow and tutor of his college. Entered at the Middle Temple, he was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1796. He joined the Oxford circuit and obtained a large practice. In 1801 he became recorder of Oxford, and next year published his clear and learned treatise on the "Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen." In 1816 he accepted a puisne judgeship in the Court of Common Pleas; and in 1818 he was knighted, and chosen to succeed Lord Ellenborough as Chief- Justice of the King's Bench. He was raised to the peerage in 1827. In the House of Lords he strongly opposed the
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Tentering
in the manufacture of textiles, the process of stretching cloth so that it may dry evenly and be of a uniform and specified width. Tentering is employed in the finishing of a large number of fabrics.
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Tenure
the act, manner, or right of holding property, especially real esthe field, for travelers on an expedition, tate. Land may be held according to two main principles, feudal or allodial (see these words). The former is the principle universal in England. In the United States the title to land is essentially allodial, and every tenant in fee-simple has an absolute and perfect title. Yet in technical language his estate is called an estate in fee-simple, and the tenure free and common socage. Also the consideration, condition, or service, which the occupier of land gives to his landlord for the use of his land; and the manner of holding in general; the terms or conditions on which anything is held or retained.
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Tenure-Of-Office Act
in the United States, a bill passed by Congress in February, 1867, limiting the powers of the President in removals from office. Among other things it took from the President the power to remove members of his cabinet excepting by permission of the Senate, declaring that they should hold office "for and during the term of the President by whom the they may have been appointed, and for one month thereafter, subject to removal by and with the consent of the Senate." President Johnson vetoed this bill (March 2) when it was passed over his veto and became a law. TENURES OF LAND. Nearly all the real property of England is supposed to have been granted by a superior lord, and to be held from him in consideration of certain services to be rendered to him by the tenant. By an act of Parliament, were changed into military tenures socage.
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