William Tournay
1 portrait by Thomas Kirkby
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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William Tournay
by Charles Turner, published by Colnaghi, Son & Co, after Thomas Kirkby
mezzotint, published 20 November 1834 (1825)
14 in. x 10 in. (357 mm x 253 mm) plate size; 20 1/2 in. x 15 1/2 in. (522 mm x 394 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D39656
Sitterback to top
- William Tournay (1762-1833), Canon and warden of Wadham College, Oxford. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Artistsback to top
- Colnaghi, Son & Co (active 1826-1835), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 74 portraits.
- Thomas Kirkby (1775-circa 1847), Painter and draughtsman. Artist or producer associated with 12 portraits.
- Charles Turner (1773-1857), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 633 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
Events of 1834back to top
Current affairs
Sir Robert Peel, Tory, replaces Whig Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister, promising measured reform in a shift from reactionary 'Tory' to more measured 'Conservative' politics (he had voted for the 1832 Reform Act).Trial of Tolpuddle Martyrs, six labourers transported to Australia after trying to raise funds for workers in need by forming a Friendly Society.
Art and science
Charles Babbage's invents the Analytic Machine. Considered to be the forerunner to the modern computer, the machine was able to make automatic mathematical calculations.Edward Bulwer-Lytton publishes his hugely popular, but now largely neglected, novel Last Days of Pompeii, set in the Italian city at the time of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79AD.
International
Dom Miguel I, King of Portugal, is defeated by his brother Pedro IV, in the Portuguese civil war.Slavery is abolished in the British dominions, although slaves still working are indentured to their former owners in an 'apprenticeship' system; the philanthropist Joseph Sturge was a prominent critic of the policy, which was abolished in 1838. Whilst slave owners received compensation, slaves received nothing.
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Cynthia Jane Johnston (nee Tournay)
17 August 2018, 15:47
Hi there, I am a descendant of Tournays of Hythe in Kent. My father, Harry Marshall Tournay was born in Folkestone, Kent in 1913.
As the name Tournay is not commonly found, I wonder whether William was an offshoot of the Kent Tournays?
Chris King
16 July 2020, 16:34
William Tournay was indeed a member of the Tournay family from Kent. He was baptised at St Mary's church in Dover in 1762, the son of Thomas Tournay and Elizabeth Worger. He followed in his father's footsteps in becoming a priest and taking on the incumbency of the same parishes of St James, Dover, and Hougham near Dover as his father had before him.
"TOURNAY, William, son of Thomas, of Dover, Kent, cler. Wadham College, matriculated 29 Nov 1780, aged 18; scholar 1781-9, BA 1784, fellow 1789-99, MA 1790, BD 1802, DD 1806, tutor until 1795, warden 1806-31, perp. curate Whitfield near Dover, and vicar of Hougham 1796, preb. of Lincoln 1800-12, of Peterborough 1817, and of St. Paul's 1818, died 19 July 1833."