Besides the papers at Bayfordbury, there is a considerable collection of Tonson papers in the British Museum, some relating to business and some to private matters; but many of them are damaged or fragmentary (Addit. MSS. 28275-6). Single letters and papers will be found in Addit. MSS. 21110, 28887 f. 187, 28893 f. 443, 32626 f.2, 32690 f. 36, 32986, 32992 f. 340; Egerton MS. 1951, and Stowe MSS. 755 f. 35, 155 f. 97 b.
[Malone's Life of Dryden, pp. 522–40; Dryden's Works, ed. Scott, i. 387–91, viii. 5, xv. 194, xviii. 103–38, 191; Swift's Works, ed. Scott, ii. 319, v. 460, xvi. 326, 330, xvii. 158, 348; Pope's Works, ed. Elwin and Courthope; Gent. Mag. lxxv. 911, lxxvii. 738; Spence's Anecdotes; Aitken's Life of Steele; Walpole's Letters, ii. 216, iii. 89, iv. 179; Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 193, 2nd Rep. pp. 69–71, 7th Rep. p. 692, 8th Rep. iii. 8, 10, 15th Rep. pt. vi.; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. and Lit. Illustr.; Knight's Shadows of the Old Booksellers; Dublin University Mag. lxxix. 703.]
TONSTALL, CUTHBERT (1474–1559), bishop successively of London and Durham. [See Tunstall.]
TOOKE. [See also Tuke.]
TOOKE, ANDREW (1673–1732), master of the Charterhouse, second son of Benjamin Tooke, citizen and stationer of London, was born in 1673, and received his education in the Charterhouse school. He was admitted a scholar of Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1690, took the degree of B.A. in 1693, and commenced M.A. in 1697. In 1695 he had become usher in the Charterhouse school, and on 5 July 1704 he was elected professor of geometry in Gresham College in succession to Dr. Robert Hooke [q. v.] On 30 Nov. 1704 he was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society, whose members held their meetings in his chambers until they left the college in 1710 (Thomson, List of Fellows of the Royal Society, p. xxxi). He was chosen master of the Charterhouse on 17 July 1728 in the room of Dr. Thomas Walker. He had taken deacon's orders and sometimes preached, but devoted himself principally to the instruction of youth. On 26 June 1729 following he resigned his professorship in Gresham College. He died on 20 Jan. 1731-2, and was buried in the chapel of the Charterhouse, where a monument was erected to his memory (Gent. Mag. 1732, p. 586; Publications of the Harleian Soc., Registers, xviii. 85). In May 1729 he married the widow of Henry Levett [q. v.], physician to the Charterhouse.
His works are:
- 'The Pantheon, representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods and most Illustrious Heroes,' translated from the 'Pantheum Mithicum' of the Jesuit father François Antoine Pomey and illustrated with copperplates, London 1698, 8vo; 7th edit., 'in which the whole translation is revised,' London, 1717, 8vo, 35th edit. London, 1824, 8vo.
- 'Synopsis Graecae Linguae,' London, 1711, 4to.
- 'The Whole Duty of Man, according to the Law of Nature,' translated from the Latin of Baron Samuel von Pufendorf, 4th edit. London, 1716, 8vo.
- 'Institutions Christianae,' London, 1718, 8vo, being a translation of the 'Christian Institutes,' by Francis Gastrell [q. v.], bishop of Chester.
- An edition of Ovid's 'Fasti,' London, 1720, 8vo.
- An edition of William Walker's 'Treatise of English Particles,' London, 1720, 8vo.
- 'Copy of the last Will and Testament of Sir Thomas Gresham … with some Accounts concerning Gresham College, taken from the last Edition of Stow's "Survey of London"' (anon.), London, 1724 (some of these accounts were originally written by him).
- Some epistles distinguished by the letters A. Z. in the English edition of Pliny's 'Epistles,' 11 vols. London, 1724, 8vo.
[Addit, MS. 5882, f. 52; Biogr. Brit., Suppl. p. 173; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. iii. 627, v. 242, ix. 167; Ward's Gresham Professors, p. 193.]
TOOKE, GEORGE (1595–1675), soldier and writer, born in 1595, was the fifth son of Walter Tooke, by his wife Angelet (d. 1598), second daughter and coheiress of William Woodcliffe, a citizen and mercer of London. In 1625 George took part in the unsuccessful expedition under Sir Edward Cecil [q. v.] against Cadiz. He commanded a company of volunteers, and afterwards wrote an account of the undertaking, entitled 'The History of Cales Passion; or as some will by-name it, the Miss-taking of Cales presented in Vindication of the Sufferers, and to forewarne the future. By G. T. Esq.,' London, 1652, 4to. The work, which is in prose and verse, is dedicated to 'his much honoured cousin Mr John Greaves' [q. v.] Another edition was published in 1654 with a print by Wenceslaus Hollar [q. v.]; and a third in 1659. After the return of the expedition to Plymouth a severe mortality broke out on board the ships, and Tooke's health was so much impaired that he was eventually compelled to retire from military service. He took up his residence on his paternal estate of Popes, near Hatfield in Hertfordshire, to which he succeeded on the death of his eldest brother Ralph on 22 Dec. 1635. There he enjoyed the intimacy of John Selden [q. v.] the jurist, of the 'ever-memorable' John Hales (1584
