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TAAFFE, Dr Richard Patrick Burke MB, MS, FRCS
1829-1888
R P B TaaffeDoctor.
     Irish-born surgeon (MRCS 1852, FRCS 1857) and physician who founded a children's hospital at 178 Western Road in 1868, which moved to a former schoolhouse in Dyke Road in 1870. This was demolished and replaced by the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, which opened in 1881. He became Brighton's medical officer of health by 1881. He married Mary Cheesman in 1853; his eldest son, Richard John Cheesman Taaffe, married the daughter of John Yearsley.
PERSONAL
6 Pavilion Parade [residence, practice 1856-1863]
47 (renumbered 45 from 1871) Old Steine [residence, practice 1864-1888]
TALLEYRAND-Périgord, Charles Maurice de
1754-1838
TalleyrandFrench statesman.
     He stayed in Old Steine in 1831/1832 during his time as French Ambassador to the Court of St James.
PERSONAL
9 Old Steine [residence]
TAMPLIN, Richard
1779-1849
TAMPLIN, Colonel Henry Pagden
1801-1867
TAMPLIN, William Cloves
1834-1893
Richard Tamplin. Brewer.
     Born at Horsted Keynes, he founded Tamplin [& Son]'s Brewery at Southwick in 1820 but after a destructive fire he built the Phoenix Brewery between Richmond Terrace and Albion Hill. Born at Horsted Keynes. He was joined and succeeded in the business by his son, Henry.
Henry Pagden Tamplin. Brewer.
     He succeeded his father as head of the brewery. Born at Dane Hill, he also played cricket for Sussex, making two first-class appearances. He died at Pyecombe and left nearly £35,000.
William Cloves Tamplin. Brewer.
     Henry's elder son succeeded to the family brewing business. During his tenure the company was incorporated, c1890. He was commanding officer of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, building of whose headquarters he financed. He left £203,976 14s 3d.
COMMEMORATION
Tamplin Terrace
Phoenix Place, Phoenix Rise
Malthouse Lane

PERSONAL
1 Lennox Place [family residence 1834-1893]
TARNER, Edwin Adolphus
1808-1874
TARNER, Edwin Tilbury
1838-1920
TARNER, Letetia Tilbury
1840-1933
     Edwin Adolphus. Merchant and warehouse keeper.
He retained a residence in Marylebone, where he was born, as well as in Brighton; in the grounds at Tilbury Place he built a lookout tower (Grade II listed) in 1832, reputedly to watch ships approaching along the Channel and be in London to meet them. He married He left nearly £90,000. Of his eight children, his eldest son
     Edwin Tilbury Tarner was a tiler and bricklayer, who inherited St John's Lodge; he is buried at Woodvale Cemetery, where an obelisk marks his grave. His sister
     Letetia Tilbury Tarner also lived at St John's Lodge (as did all the siblings), left £50,940 13s 2d and bequeathed the Tilbury Place property to Brighton Corporation.
COMMEMORATION
Tarnerland

PERSONAL
St John's Lodge, 1 Tilbury Place [residence]
TATE, Fred (Frederick William)
1867-1943
TATE, Maurice (William)
1895-1956
Fred Tate. Sussex and England cricketer.
     Born illegitimate in Brighton Workhouse, he played from 1887 to 1905 but is best remembered unfortunately for dropping a catch in a test match. He died in poverty in Burgess Hill.
Maurice Tate. Sussex and England cricketer.
     Born in Brighton, the son of Fred Tate. he is regarded as the founder of modern seam bowling, holding the record for most wickets by an English player outside England (116 in 1926/27 in India and Ceylon), when he also became the only player to achieve the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets outside England in a season.

1Fred Tate  2Maurice Tate
Images: 1. Fred Tate; 2. Maurice Tate
COMMEMORATION (Maurice)
Tate Memorial Gates, Sussex County Cricket Ground, Eaton Road
Tate Residences, 1 Eaton Road

PERSONAL
9 Kingsbury Street [Fred's childhood home]
28 Warleigh Road [Maurice's birthplace]
THELLUSSON, Capt Charles Sabine Augustus
1822-1885
Rich man.
     One of the two beneficiaries in the Thellusson Will case, which is believed to have inspired the Jarndyce v Jarndyce case in Charles Dickens' Bleak House, that was eventually settled by the House of Lords in 1859. Peter Thellusson, a naturalised Huguenot merchant and director of the Bank of England, amassed a fortune of more than £600,000, which he bequeathed in trust to his surviving descendants, bypassing his children and grandchildren.
PERSONAL
Marlborough House, 54 Old Steine [residence 1852-1856]
THEOBALD, Stanley William
1910-1988
Stanley TheobaldSurveyor, estate agent and local politician.
     Born in Camberwell, he moved to Brighton from Dulwich in 1938. He was a local councillor for St Nicholas Ward from 1960, alderman, leader of the Tory group, long-time chairman of the housing committee of Brighton Council, said to have overseen the building of more council housing than anyone else and overseeing the project to build the Brighton Centre. He left £1,222,592.
COMMEMORATION
Theobald House, Blackman Street

PERSONAL
Thelsio, 136 Valley Drive [residence 1939-1960]
Park Royal Hotel, 66 Montpelier Road [residence 1964-1966]
4 Dyke Close [residence 1968-1988]
THOMAS[-STANFORD], Sir Charles Geisler 1st bt MP
1858-1932
Landowner, historian and politician.
     Born in Highgate, in 1897 he married Ellen Stanford—whom he met in Madeira, although his father, David Collet Thomas (1827-1915), had a residence at 21 Second Avenue, Hove. He took the surname Thomas-Stanford. They were living at 3 Ennismore Gardens, Westminster in 1901 but their principal residence was Preston Manor. His ashes are interred at St Peter's Church, Preston, where there is a memorial plaque in the church.
THORNTON, Surgeon-General Sir James Howard KCB, JP
1834-1919
Soldier, doctor.
     Son of a major in the Indian Medical Service (IMS), which he himself joined in 1856 and served through the Indian Mutiny. In China he was wounded in action in the Khasia and Jynkia Hills campaign. He was chief medical officer in the Suskin and Hargara expeditions. Mentioned five times in despatches, awarded four medals with seven clasps, the Khedive's Star and the CB, raised to KCB in 1904. He retired to Hove in 1891. He was a Hove councillor for Stanford ward 1904-1913.
PERSONAL
6 Wilbury Avenue [residence 1899]
11 Wilbury Avenue [residence]
TIERNEY, Sir Matthew John
1776-1845
Matthew TierneyDoctor.
     Settled in Brighton in 1802 after qualifying in medicine, he was soon appointed physician to the royal household in Brighton, having taken premises adjacent to the Royal Pavilion. He held increasingly elevated royal positions under the Prince Regent/George IV and William IV. After meeting Edward Jenner in 1798 he became interested in vaccination and was involved in the formation of a vaccine institution in Brighton, the first in the country away from London.
COMMEMORATION
Tierney Arms/Royal Tierney Picture House, 64 Edward Street

PERSONAL
3 Pavilion Parade [residence, surgery]
TILBURY, Edward
1773-1859
Entrepreneur.
     Born in Marylebone, London. Apprenticed as a tiler and bricklayer. His daughter Letitia (1810-1866) married Edwin Adolphus Tarner. He died at Patriot Place and left nearly £45,000.
COMMEMORATION
Tilbury Place
Tilbury Way

PERSONAL
1 Patriot Place [residence]
Chates Farm Court
TILLEY, Vesta, Lady de Frece
1864-1952
Vesta TilleyMusic hall artiste, male impersonator.
     She married (Sir) Walter de Frece, owner of Brighton Hippodrome.
PERSONAL
8 King's Esplanade [summer residence 1947-1952]
TILLSTONE, Benjamin
1753-1829
Landowner.
     He owned Moulsecoomb Place and is commemorated in All Saints Church, Church Hill, Patcham.
PERSONAL
Moulescoomb Place, Lewes Road [residence]
TREDCROFT, Nathaniel
Landowner.
     Son of Nathaniel Tredcroft, the Cromwellian Vicar of Horsham, married Elizabeth Scrase, heir to the manor of Hove Villa et Ecclesia, in 1702. Their great-grandson, Nathaniel Tredcroft, sold his share of the manor to William Stanford of Preston in 18081.
COMMEMORATION
Tredcroft Road

1Charles Thomas-Stanford (1923): 46.
TRINDER, Tommy (Thomas Edward)
1909-1980
Tommy TrinderComedian and actor.
     Son of a London tram driver, comedian who went on stage at the age of 12. By 1926 he was a star of touring variety shows run by Archie Pitt (Gracie Fields' first husband). He became famous nationally through radio programmes from 1937. He was signed by Ealing Studios, for which he made films that moved from comedy to straight acting as the Second World War progressed. He appeared at the Hippodrome regularly from 1935, starred in his own show in 1948 and in the summer season show Starlight Rendezvous in 1950. When ITV began in 1955 he became the first compère of Sunday Night at the London Palladium. His catchphrase was 'You lucky people'.
PERSONAL
71 Marine Parade [residence 1940s-c1960]
TURNER, Minnie Sara
1867-1948
Minnie Sara TurnerSuffragette.
     She ran a boarding house in Victoria Road (optimistically called Sea View). Through her active involvement in the suffragist movement, the house was often inhabited or visited by suffragettes, including Mrs Pankhurst, Emily Davidson and Annie Kenney.
PERSONAL
13 Victoria Road
TURTON, James Richard Henry MB BS London, FRCS
1884-1977
General surgeon.
     Son of James Turton, a Brighton surgeon, he trained at St Bartholomew's, then became house surgeon to Sir Crisp English at St George's Hospital before being mobilised as Lt-Commander in the Royal Navy, serving on ships of the Grand Fleet during World War One. He was appointed honorary assistant surgeon at Royal Sussex County Hospital in 1921, full surgeon 1927, senior surgeon 1944. He later went to live in Albourne.
COMMEMORATION
Turton Close

PERSONAL
71 Middle Street [residence c1884-1901]
21 Brunswick Place [residence 1915-1936]
26 The Drive [residence 1936-c1953]
148 Preston Road [residence 1939
TYNTE, Col Charles James Kemys, FRS
1884-1977
Politician.
     MP for West Somerset 1832-1837 and Bridgwater 1847-1865.
PERSONAL
6 Lewes Crescent [residence 1856]
     

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