Timoleon, the Corinthian who expelled the tyrants from the Greek cities of Sicily (415-337 B.C.).
Tindal, Nicholas, clergyman and miscellaneous author (1687-1774).
Topehall, Smollett’s drunken fox-hunter in Roderick Random.
Torso, lit. “trunk,” a statue which has lost its head and members.
Torstenson, Bernard, pupil of Gustavus Adolphus, and General-in-Chief of the Swedish army from 1641. He carried the Thirty Years’ War into the heart of Austria.
Trapbois, the usurer in Scott’s Fortunes of Nigel ch. xvii.-xxv.
Trissotin, a literary fop in Moliere’s Les Femmes Savantes.
Turcaret, the title-character in one of Le Sage’s comedies.
Turgot, the French statesman (1727-81) who for two years managed the national finances under Louis XVI., and whose reforms, had they not been thwarted by the nobility and the king’s indecision, would have considerably mitigated the violence of the Revolution.
Turk’s Head. The most famous coffeehouse of this name was in the Strand, and was one of Johnson’s frequent resorts.