Trollope
THOMAS ADOLPHUS, elder brother of Anthony; born April 29, 1810. He was a constant contributor to English periodicals, and was Italian correspondent of the New York "Tribune." Among his many books are: "A Summer in Brittany" (1840); "A Summer in Western France" (1841); "La Beata" (1861); "Marietta" (1862); "Beppo the Conscript" (1864); "Lindisfarn Chase" (1864); "History of the Commonwealth of Florence" (4 vols. 1865); "Dream Numbers" (1868); "A Siren" (1870); "Life of Pius IX." (1877); "Sketches from French History" (1878); "What I Remember" (1887-1889). He died in Clifton, England, Nov. 11, 1892.
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Trollope (ANTHONY an English novelist)
ANTHONY, an English novelist; born in London, England, April 24, 1815; a younger son of Frances M. Trollope. He was educated at Harrow and Winchester; in 1834 became a clerk in the postoffice, and in 1841 was appointed clerk to a postoffice surveyor in Ireland. His Irish experiences gave him material for his first novels, "The Macdermots of Ballycloran" (1847), and the "Kellys and the O'Kellys" (1848), neither of which was successful. His first success was "The Warden" (1855); followed by "Barchester Towers" (1857); "Dr. Thorne" (1858); "The Bertrams" (1859); "Framley Parsonage" (1861); "The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson" (1862); "Orley Farm" (1862); "The Last Chronicles of Barset" (1867); "Ralph the Heir" (1871); "The Way We Live Now" (1875); "The Prime Minister" (1876); "Marion Fay" (1882); "The Land- Leaguers" (1883); etc. He also published accounts of his travels, including "The West Indies and the Spanish Main" (1859); "Australia and New Zealand" (1873); "South Africa" (1878); besides a "Life of Cicero" (1881). He died in London, Dec. 6, 1882.
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Trollope (FRANCES M an English author)
FRANCES M., an English author; mother of Anthony; born near Bristol, England, in 1780. In 1829 she visited the United States, and afterward published a volume entitled "Domestic Manners of the Americans" (1831). She followed this with the novel "The Refugee in America" (1832). Among her other works are: "The Abbess" (1833); "Tremordyn Cliff" (1835); "The Barnabys in America" (1843); "Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman" (1854); and "Fashionable Life; or, Paris and London" (1856). She died in Florence, Italy, Oct. 6, 1863.
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Tromp
MARTEN HARPERTZOON, VAN, a Dutch naval officer; born in Briel, Holland, in 1597. He began to serve under his father in the navy at 10 years of age, gradually rose to distinction, and in 1637 attained the rank of lieutenant-admiral; in which capacity he served against the Spaniards, and captured many of their ships. In October, 1639, he won a great victory over the Spanish fleet and captured 18 galleons. He was engaged in the naval campaigns of 1640 and 1641; but his courage and abilities were most strikingly displayed in the war with England in 1652-1653. He had Robert Blake for his adversary, and was defeated off Dover in March, 1652. In November following, he, in his turn, defeated Blake, and sailed up the English Channel with a broom at his masthead. Another engagement took place in the channel, in February, 1653, when the Dutch lost many of their ships, but Tromp succeeded in saving the 300 merchant ships he was convoying. After another battles commanding in several other against the English, this great seaman fell in the engagement with Monk, off the coast of Holland, Aug. 8, 1653. His son, CORNELLUS VAN TROMP, born in Rotterdam, Holland, Sept. 9, 1629, rose also to eminence as a naval commander and, on De Ruyter's death, was appointed lieutenant-admiral-general of the United Provinces. He died in Amsterdam, May 29, 1691.
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Trompe
A water-blowing machine, consisting of a cistern supported about twenty feet above the air-chamber and connected with the latter by a wooden pipe, near the top of which are several oblique holes. Another pipe connection on the lower cistern or wind-chamber leads to the tuyere. When working, the upper cistern is kept full of water, and the flow therefrom is regulated by a conical plug. As soon as opened, the water rushes down the long pipe, carrying some air, which enters through the holes along with it; the water falls on a projection inside the wind-chamber, and its height in the latter is regulated by an escape-pipe on the side; while the air carried down with the water is forced to the furnace through the discharge previously spoken of. See CATALAN FORGE.
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Troopial
the name common to a group of passerine birds, akin to the orioles and starlings. They mostly inhabit the southern United States, but several of them appear as birds of pasin the northern sage States in early spring. The cow troopial, cow bird, or cow bunting, the blue bird, and the bobolink or rice bunting, belong to this group.
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Trope
in rhetoric, a term applied to a word or expression diverted from its original to a figurative signification, and thus including allegory, irony, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, etc.
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Trophonius
the fabled builder of the temple of Delphi, after his death was reverenced as a hero, and had a famous oracle in a cavern near Lebadeia in Bœotia. Pausanias describes how, after purifying himself, he was drawn through the mouth of this cave by an unseen power, and all that he witnessed there. Quixote's fancied visit to the oracle preserves its memory.
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Trophy
a monument or memorial in commemoration of a victory. It consisted of some of the arms and other spoils of the vanquished enemy, hung upon the trunk of a tree or a pillar by the victors, either on the field of battle or in the capital of the conquered nation. If for a naval victory, it was erected on the nearest land. The trophies of the Greeks and Romans were decked out with the arms of the vanquished for land victories, with the beaks of the enemy's vessels for naval engagements. In modern times trophies have been erected in churches and other public buildings to commemorate a victory. Also, anything taken and preserved ved as a memorial of victory, as flags, standards, arms, and the like.
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Tropic
in geography, one of two parallels of latitude situated 23 1/2 degree from the equator. That north of the equator is the tropic of Cancer ; the southern is the Tropic of Capricorn . The term tropic signifies to turn or change, having reference to the limit beyond which the vertical rays of the sun never pass. The Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn include a belt 47 degree wide known as the Torrid Zone. The tropics is used to designate the regions within or near these two lines.
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