Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Tudor, William

TUDOR, William, lawyer, b. in Boston. Mass., 28 March, 1750 ; d. there, 8 July, 1819. He was graduated at Harvard in 1769, studied law with ohn Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, 27 July, 1772, rising to a high rank in his profession. He was attached to Gen. Washington s staff in 1775-'8 as judge-advocate with the rank of colonel, was a member of both houses of the Massachusetts legislature, and in 1809-'10 served as secretary of state. Col. Tudor was vice-president of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati in 1816, and delivered an address before that body. Among his other published orations is one that he delivered on the anniversary of the " Boston Massacre " (Boston, 1779), and one before the Massachusetts charitable fire society (1798). A memoir of Col. Tudor is printed in the " Collections " of the Massachusetts historical society, of which he was a founder. — His son, William, author, b. in Boston, Mass., 28 Jan., 1779 ; d. in Rio Janeiro, 9 March, 1830, was graduated at Harvard in 1796, became a clerk in the employ of John Cod man, and visited Europe on business. On his return he was active in founding the Anthology club, and wrote much for its magazine, the "Monthly Anthology," during its publication in 1803-11. In 1807 he was a founder of the Boston athenaeum, which grew out of the club. In December, 1814, he projected the "North American Review," the first number of which appeared in May, 1815, under his editorship. Three fourths of the matter in the first four volumes were written by him. Mr. Tudor was for some time a member of the Massachusetts legislature, and he originated the present Bunker Hill monument. Hearing that the ground on which it stands was to be sold, he interested men of means in the purchase, and the work was begun by his suggestion. He was engaged in various European commercial transactions, and in November, 1805. as the agent of his brother Frederic, went to the West Indies, where he founded the ice trade with tropical countries. In 1823 he was appointed U. S. consul at Lima, Peru, and in 1827 he became charge d'affaires in Brazil, where he negotiated a treaty. Besides his contributions to current literature and separate orations and addresses, he wrote "Letters on the Eastern States" (New York, 1820); "Miscellanies," from his contributions to the "Anthology" and the "North American Review" (1821); "Life of James Otis, of Massachusetts" (1823); and "Gebel Teir." an anonymous political allegory, written at Rio Janeiro (1829). le left valuable unpublished manuscripts.