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Thomas Tanner (1674–1735)

Thomas Tanner

Born in Wallingford, Watson Taylor was an actor, airsteward, surrealist, and translator. He is particularly known for his translations from French of the plays of Alfred Jarry. He was secretary for the Surrealist Group and a key player in Pataphysics: "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments."

A book translated by Simon Watson Taylor

Believed to have been a husband of Katherine of Valois. He is said to have wooed her at Wallingford Castle, following the death of Henry V.  Their son Edmund Tudor, the Earl of Richmond, married Margaret Beaufort, and their son in turn became Henry VII, the first Tudor king. However, after the death of Katherine, Owen was imprisoned at Wallingford Castle in 1438, and though subsequently released, he was later beheaded.
http://tudorhistory.org/topics/owen.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/hprt.htm#J1820

Sir Brian Tuke, administrator, was clerk of the spicery for Henry VII, and in 1506 he was appointed feodary of Wallingford. Under Henry VIII he became clerk of the council at Calais and in 1528 was appointed treasurer of the chamber.

Sir Brian Tuke

Born in Basildon, he farmed his father's land near Wallingford from 1699-1709. In 1701 he invented the seed drill, at Howbery farm at Crowmarsh, which was a mechanical device towed by a horse which not only made sowing seeds easier than by hand but which was more efficient in their spreading. His major advance in the technique was the introduction of sowing seeds in three rows simultaneously. He was determined to make agricultural methods easier whilst at the same time increasing yields. His original seed drill was manufactured from pieces of an old pipe organ that he had dismantled. His house in The Street, Crowmarsh Gifford, remains and is marked by a blue plaque. He is buried in Basildon.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/tull_jethro.shtml
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/jtull.html

Jethro Tull

Sir Stephen Tumin, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales, 1987-95, was High Steward of Wallingford 1995-2001.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/tull_jethro.shtml
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/jtull.html

Thomas Tusser was a writer on agriculture and a poet. Tusser was sent as a singing boy to St. Nicholas's College at Wallingford Castle. According to his poem on the subject, the College was ‘abhord of sillie boies’. He later joined the choir of St Paul's Cathedral, London. As a farmer in Suffolk he wrote "A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie".
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry By Thomas Tusser

Joseph Tyso was a Baptist minister and plantsman. In 1817 he became pastor of St Peter's Church in Wallingford, where he remained for 30 years. He wrote many religious tracts dealing particularly with biblical interpretations of the millennium. Tyso grew and improved plants of the genera Anemone and Ranunculus, and ran a florists and then a nursery. He wrote "Ranunculuses Grown and Sold by Rev. J. Tyso" and "The Ranunculus, how to Grow it" (1847) with his son Carey Tyso (1816–1882) who also lived and died in Wallingford.
An elucidation of the prophecies, being an exposition of the books of Daniel and the Revelation By Joseph Tyso