Tillotson, John, archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Sowerby, Yorkshire, in October, 1G30. He en- tered Clare Hall, Cambridge, April 23, 1647, and, grad- uating in 1650, was made a fellow in 1651. He left col- lege in 1G56, and became tutor to the son of Edmund Prideaux, Cromwell's attorney-general. Ileceiving his first impression among the Puritans, he was led to con- formity by the works of Chillingworth and the influence of scholars with whom he had become intimate. He submitted to the Act of Uniformity in 1662, and became curate of Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire. He was chosen (Dec. 16) minister of St. Mary's, Aldermanbury; but, de- clining this, was presented, in June, 1663, to the rectory of Kiddington, Suffolk. His residence there was short, he being made preacher of the Society of Lincoln's Inn on the 2Gth of the same month. In 1664 he was appoint- ed Tuesday lecturer at St. Lawrence's, in the Jewry, and was now recognised as a distinginshed preacher. He re- ceived his degree of D.D. in 1666, and in 1668 preached the sermon at the consecration of A\'ilkins to the bish- opric of Chester, In 1670 he was made a prebendary of Canterbury, in 1672 was advanced to a deanery of that ('hurch, and in 1673 was preferred to a prebend in the Church of St. Paul. When a declaration of liberty of
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conscience was published in 1672, with a view to in- dulge the papists, Tillotson and the clergy were iliiected by their bishops to preach against popery; and when archbishop Sheldon advised with the clergy as to what reply he should make to the king if his majesty shoidd disapprove their course, Dr. Tillotson suggested this an- swer: "Since his majesty professed the Protestant re- ligion, it would be a thing without precedent that he shoidd forbid his clergy preaching in defence of it." On April 2, 1680, he preached before the king, at Whitehall, a sermon on Josh, xxiv, 15, in which he expressed a sentiment of intolerance that exposed him to heavy censure. He was afterwards admitted into a high de- gree of confidence with king William and queen Mary; was appointed clerk of the closet to the king, March 27, 1689; and was authorized, in August, by the chapter of his cathedral, to exercise archiepiscopal jurisdiction over the province of Canterbury, Sancroft having been suspended for refusing the new oath. His ambition had never ex- tended further than to desire the exchange of his dean- ery of Canterbury for that of St. Paul's, which was grant- ed him in September. The king, however, nominated him to the archbishopric of Canterbury, April 23, 1691, and he was consecrated (^lay 31) in Bow Church. The rest of his life was spent in laboring for the good of the Church and the reformation of all abuses among the clergy. He died Nov. 24, 1694. He published, The Rule of Faith (1666, 8vo), and several volumes of Ser- mons. A collective edition of his works, 254 Sermons, Rule of Faith, and Prayers, composed for bis use, etc., was published in 1707 (3 vols. fob). There have been later editions both of his complete works and of selec- tions therefrom. His Works, with Life by Thomas Birch, D.D., were published by Ravenet (1752, 3 vols, fob). See Chalmers, Bioe;. Diet. s. v. ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. A uthors, s. v.
Ti'loil (Heb. marg. Tilon', 'C^'^t); text, Tulon', *l"t!!in, yZ/i [Simonis] or scorn [Gesenins] ; Sept. Qikiov V. r. 'Jj'aj/; Vulg. Thilon), the last named of the four "sons" of Shimon, a descendant of Judah (1 Chron. iv, 20). B.C. perhaps cir. 1618.
Tilton, Albert Freeman, a Baptist minister, was born in Deertield, N. H., Oct. 15, 1809. He was a graduate of Waterville College in the class of 1835. He taught the next two years, first, in Townshend, Vt., where he was the principal of an academy in that place, and then in Boone County, Ky. For four years (1837- 41) be was the principal of a Baptist institution in Franklin, Ind., which became Franklin College in 1844. lu 1841 he was ordained as an evangelist at Franklin, and preached in two or three places in Indiana. He was pastor of the Baptist Church in West Waterville for two years (1844-46), and for the next three years he supplied two or three churches. In 1849 he returned to Franklin, Ind., where he died Sept. 26, 1850. (J. C. S.)
Tilton, Harvey, a Baptist minister, was born in Charlton, Mass., Nov. 22, 1792. He was a graduate of Amherst College in the class of 1826, and of the Newton Theological Institution in the class of 1829. He was ordained at Waterville. jNIe., Oct. 7, 1829, from which place he removed to Hallowell, Me. His ministry in both these places was of brief duration. He was pastor of the Church in Middleborougb, Mass., for four years (1832-36). The next few years he was pastor in Thomp- son, Conn., and JIarblebead and jNIillbury, Mass. On April 1, 1843, he was appointed agent of the Massachu- setts Baptist Convention, and held that position until bis death, in 1878. Rev. Dr. Bowers says of him, " For the kind of work he was called to perform so many years, ))erhaps no better, certainly no truer or more faithful, man could be found. Before his death, he had the priv- ilege of seeing the denomination in the State increase by more than one third in the number of its churches, and more than one half in the number of its members. He believed in the immortality of Baptist churches;