His lyric gift was considerable, his poetic workmanship choice and fine, and the atmosphere of his poetry always noble. But he has remained almost unknown to the modern student of poetry, and a selection of four lyrics in Palgrave's second ‘Golden Treasury’ has probably for the first time made Frederick Tennyson something more than a name to the readers of 1898. The poet was for some years under the influence of Swedenborg and other mystical religionists, but returned in his last years to the more simple Christian faith of his childhood.
[Life of Alfred Tennyson, by his son, passim; Athenæum, 5 March 1898; Times, 28 Feb. 1898; Edward Fitzgerald's Letters, 1889; private information.]
TENTERDEN, titular Earl of. [See Hales, Sir Edward, d. 1695.]
TENTERDEN, Barons. [See Abbott, Charles, first lord, 1762–1832; Abbott, Charles Stuart Aubrey, third lord, 1834–1882.]
TEONGE, HENRY (1621–1690), chaplain in the navy and diarist, born 18 March 1621 (Diary, p. 145), a native of Wolverton, Warwickshire, was son of George Teonge, was educated at Warwick, became sizar of Christ's College, Cambridge, 28 June 1639, and graduated B.A. 1642–3. He seems to have been appointed to Sleaford 13 Nov. 1648. Previous to 1670 he was rector of Alcester. On 7 June 1670 he was presented to the living of Spernall. In May 1675, being, it appears, in exceeding want, he obtained a warrant as chaplain on board the Assistance then in the Thames preparing for a voyage to the Mediterranean. She visited Malta, Zante, Cephalonia, different ports in the Levant, and took part in the operations against Tripoli under Sir John Narbrough [q. v.], returning to England in Nov. 1676. In March 1678 Teonge, who, in the former voyage, had ‘gott a good summ of monys,’ and by this time ‘spent greate part of it,’ living also ‘very uneasy, being daily dunnd by som or other, or else for feare of land pyrates, which I hated worse then Turkes,’ joined the Bristol, again for the Mediterranean under Narbrough. In Jan. 1678–9 he was moved, with his captain, to the Royal Oak, in which he returned to England in June. In October he returned to Spernall, where he died on 21 March 1690. He was twice married, and by his first wife, Jane, had three sons, of whom Henry Teonge, vicar of Coughton, Warwickshire (1675–83), took duty at Spernall in his father's absence.
The interest of Teonge's life is concentrated in the diary of the few years he spent at sea, which gives an amusing and precious picture of life in the navy at that time. This journal, from 20 May 1675 to 28 June 1679, having lain in manuscript for over a century, was purchased from a Warwickshire family by Charles Knight, who edited it in 1825 as ‘The Diary of Henry Teonge,’ with a facsimile of the first folio of the manuscript (London, 8vo). The narrative reveals the diarist as a pleasant, lively, easy-going man, not so strict as to prevent his falling in with the humours of his surroundings, and with a fine appreciation of punch, which he describes as ‘a liquor very strange to me.’
[The Diary of Henry Teonge … now first published from the original manuscript, with biographical and historical notes, 1825.]
TERILL verè BOVILLE or BONVILL, ANTHONY (1621–1676), Jesuit, son of Humphrey Boville, was born at Canford, Dorset, in 1621. He was brought up there till his fifteenth year, when he passed over to the college of the English Jesuits at St. Omer, where he prosecuted his humanity studies for nearly three years. He entered the English College at Rome, as an alumnus, in the name of Terill, on 4 Dec. 1640, for his higher course. Having received minor orders in July 1642, and being unwilling to subscribe the usual college oath, he became a convictor and paid his own pension. He was ordained priest at St. John's Lateran on 16 March 1647, and entered the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew's novitiate. Rome, on 30 June following. He was professed of the four vows on 25 March 1658. He was for some years penitentiary at Loreto, and afterwards professor of philosophy and theology at Florence, Parma, and Liege; and ‘was consulted far and wide as an oracle of learning’ (Florus Bavaricus, p. 50). From 1671 to 1674 he was rector of the college of the English Jesuits at Liège, where he died on 11 Oct. 1676.
His works are: 1. ‘Conclusiones Philosophicæ Rationibus illustratæ,’ Parma, 1657, 12mo. 2. ‘Problema Mathematico-Philosophicum Tripartitum, de Termino Magnitudinis, ac Virium in Animalibus,’ Parma, 1660, 12mo. 3. ‘Fundamenturn totius Theologiæ Moralis, seu Tractatus de Conscientia Probabili,’ Liège, 1668, 4to, dedicated to Lord Castlemaine. 4. ‘Regula Morum, sive Tractatus Bipartitus de Sufficienti ad Conscientiam rite formandam Regula in quo usus cujusvis Opinionis practice probabilis convincitur esse licitus . . . Opus posthumum,’ Liège, 1677, fol.
[De Backer's Bibl. de la Compagnie de Jesus (1876), iii. 1079, and edit. 1854, ii. 631; Foley's Records, iii. 420, vi. 352, 379, vii. 75; Oliver's Collectanea S. J. p. 204; Southwell's Bibl. Scriptorum Soc. Jesu, p. 86; Theux's Bibl. Liègeoise, p. 132.]
