THACHER, Thomas Antony, educator, born in Hartford, Connecticut, 11 January, 1815; died in New Haven, Connecticut, 7 April, 1886. He was graduated at Yale in 1835, and after teaching for three years in Connecticut and Georgia was appointed tutor there in 1838, and professor of Latin in 1842, which post he retained to the end of his life. He went to Germany in the following year, and for some time taught English to the crown prince of Prussia and his cousin, Prince Frederick Charles. He returned in 1845, and, although often in feeble health, was actively interested in the management of Yale until his death, at which time he was the member of the faculty that had been longest in continuous service. He was a fine classical scholar, and contributed many articles to periodicals on classical subjects, especially to the " New Englander." He also assisted in the compilation of Webster's Dictionary. He edited many classical works, among others Cicero's "De Officus," with notes (New York, 1850), and an English translation and adaptation of Madvig's "Latin Grammar," which was long in use at Yale. In his introduction to this work he earnestly upholds the English system of pronouncing Latin. He also wrote "Sketch of the Life of Edward C. Herrick" (New Haven, 1862).