TORNOS, Alberto de, educator, born in Carinena, Aragon, Spain, 9 April, 1821 ; died in New York city, 22 March, 1887. His father, Andres de Tornos y Beltran, was a well-known lawyer. The son became a teacher, and, after holding several offices in Spain, went to Porto Rico in 1845, where he was appointed by royal order director of the seminary of teachers of the island. On 19 May, 1845, he received his diploma as a graduate of the normal school at Madrid, with the title of professor and director of nor-real schools of the kingdom of Spain. As director of the Central military academy of Porto Rico he was given the title of captain. After occupying many posts in Porto Rico, Cuba, and Mexico, he came to the United States about 1848. He held the office of professor of languages at Spring Hill college, Alabama, for three years and a similar post at the "University of Louisiana, where he remained for many years. He wrote for the press on educational topics, and did much to promote public instruction. He was professor of Spanish at the New York evening high-school about twenty years, He published "De Tornos's Combined Spanish Method," and of which more than 20,000 copies have been sold (New York, 1867), wrote a book of Spanish and English correspondence, as well as two novels in Spanish, and several text-books for acquiring foreign languages.--His son, Manuel Alberto, born in New York city, 2 June, 1862, was educated in t}le public schools, and since 1881 has been secretary of the Spanish consulate-general in New York city. Having rendered important services to the Spanish representatives in this country, in 1888 he was decorated by the queen regent of Spain with the cross of the order of Caballero de la Real orden de Isabel la Catolica. He has published "Spanish Tariffs, with Extracts from the Custom-House Regulations" (New York, 1888).