part 1 translated by W. H. Leeds 1836; Illustrations of the

public buildings of London 1838; An essay on the present

state of architectural study and the revival of the Italian

style, Printed in Studies and examples of school of English

architecture 1839 pp. 1–28; Rudimentary architecture, the orders

and their æsthetic principles 1848, 2 ed. 1852; A treatise on

the decorative part of civil architecture, by sir W. Chambers,

revised 1862. _d._ 26 Charlotte st. Portland place, London 1 May

1866.

LEEKE, SIR HENRY JOHN (son of Samuel Leeke of St. John’s, Isle

of Wight). _b._ St. John’s 1794; entered navy 28 Sep. 1803;

served in the Mediterranean during the war 1806; commanded

the Myrmidon sloop on west coast of Africa 1819–22, where he

surveyed 600 miles of coast; captain 27 May 1826; knighted

at St. James’s palace 1 April 1835; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836;

flag captain to admiral sir John West at Devonport 1845–8;

superintendent and commander-in-chief of Indian navy 23 March

1852 to 7 July 1857; bombarded Bushir in the Persian war 10

Nov. 1856; admiral 11 Jany. 1864; M.P. for Dover 1859–65; C.B.

21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 1 Oct. 1858. _d._ Uplands near Fareham

26 Feb. 1870. _C. R. Low’s History of the Indian navy_, _ii_

240–382 (1877).

LEEKE, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1798; ensign

52 light infantry 4 May 1815, lieutenant 1823, on h.p. 2 Sep.

1824; carried the regimental colours at Waterloo; ed. at Queen’s

college, Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; C. of Westham, Sussex

1829–31; C. of Brailsford, Derby 1831–39; V. of Holbrooke,

Derbyshire 1840–77; author of A few suggestions for increasing

the incomes of many of the smaller livings. Derby 1838; The

history of lord Seaton’s regiment, the 52nd light infantry, at

Waterloo, with the author’s reminiscences of his military and

clerical careers 2 vols. 1866–71. _d._ Holbrooke hall near Derby

1 June 1879.

LEEMAN, GEORGE (son of George Leeman of York). _b._ York, Aug.

1809; solicitor at York 1835 to death; head of firm of Leeman,

Wilkinson and Leeman of York and Beverley; clerk of the peace

for East Riding to death; alderman of York 1850, lord mayor

1853, 1860 and 1870; chairman of Yorkshire banking co.; chairman

of North eastern railway Feb. 1874 to 1880; M.P. York 1865–68

and 1871–80; his statue erected near railway station at York.

_d._ 3 Belmont terrace, Scarborough 25 Feb. 1882.

LEEMAN, JOSEPH JOHNSON (younger son of the preceding). _b._

Fulford near York 1842; solicitor at York 1865 to death; M.P.

York 2 April 1880 to death. _d._ Acomb priory, York 2 Nov. 1883.

LEES, _Asa_ (2 son of Samuel Lees of Oldham, machine

manufacturer, _d._ about 1847). _b._ 1816; machine maker at

Oldham about 1847–65 when he converted his business into a

private company, the works were sold to a limited liability

company in 1872, he received £112,000 for his share. _d._ Albert

house, Ashton under Lyne 26 May 1882. _Oldham Chronicle 3 June

1882 p._ 6, _col._ 3.

LEES, CATHCART. _b._ 1810; M.B. of Trin. coll. Dublin 1837,

F.K.Q.C.P. 1845; physician to Meath hospital to 1861 and

lecturer on practice of medicine; phys. to Bank of Ireland to

1861; wrote many essays in Dublin Journal of medical science,

Dublin hospital gazette, and the Quarterly Journal; author of

Lectures on diseases of the stomach and indigestion. Dublin

1857. _d._ 17 Lower Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 16 Dec. 1861.

LEES, CHARLES. _b._ Cupar, Fifeshire 1800; studied art at

Rome some years; portrait painter at Edinburgh; fellow of

Royal Scottish academy 1835 where he exhibited regularly,

treasurer 1865 and a trustee; two pictures by him of curling

and golf matches were engraved; his picture Summer Moonlight,

bait-gatherers, is in Scottish national gallery; exhibited 6

pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1832–63. _d._

19 Scotland st. Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1880. _The Scotsman 1 March

1880 p._ 4.

LEES, EDWIN. _b._ Worcester 1800; printer and stationer at 87

High st. Worcester, retired early and became a local botanist;

founded Worcester Literary and scientific institute 12 Jany.

1829, joint sec.; F.L.S., F.G.S.; one of the first to pay regard

to forms of brambles, commemorated botanically by his discovery

of Rubus Leesii; author of Christmas and the new year 2 ed.

1828, a masque in verse; Guide to the city and cathedral of

Worcester. By Ambrose Florence; published The Worcestershire

miscellany 5 numbers 1829; author of Botany of the Malvern

hills 1843, 3 ed. 1868; The botany of Worcestershire 1867; The

botanical looker-out among the wild flowers 1842, 2 ed. 1851;

Pictures of nature around the Malvern hills 1856; Scenery and

thought in poetical pictures of landscape scenes and incidents

1880. _d._ Greenhill Summit, Worcester 21 Oct. 1887. _bur._

Pendock. _Journal of botany_ (1887) 384.

LEES, SIR HARCOURT, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir John Lees, 1

baronet 1739–1811). _b._ 29 Nov. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,

B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802; R. and V. of Killaney, co. Down; preb.

of Fennor in Cashel church 21 Nov. 1800 to July 1806; preb. of

Tullycorbet in Clogher church 1801 to July 1806; author of The

Antidote, or nouvelles à la main, recommended to the serious

attention of the right hon. W. C. Plunket and other advocates

of unrestricted civil and religious liberty. By a clergyman of

the established church and no saint. Dublin 1819, reprinted with

a supplement entitled L’Abeja or a bee among the evangelicals.

Dublin 1820, and 8 other pamphlets chiefly in support of

protestant ascendancy. _d._ Blackrock near Dublin 7 March 1852.

_G.M. xxxvii_ 518–9 (1852); _I.L.N. xx_ 219 (1852).

NOTE.--See also these works, Most important, trial of sir H. Lees

before chief justice B---- and sergeant Flummery 11 Jan. 1823 by a jury

of special dust churchmen on charges of barretry and eavesdropping.

Dublin 1823. A warning letter to the queen!! on the communication made

to government by sir H. L. relative to a conspiracy out of which arose

the attempt to murder her majesty 1840.

LEES, JAMES. _b._ Cupar 1804; ed. Madras coll. St. Andrew’s

and in Edinburgh; manager for Smith and Carnegie, Dundee 1828;

writer to the signet in Dundee to 1834; manager for John

Anderson, bailie, Dundee 1834–54; author of The laws of shipping

and insurance 1845, 10 ed. 1877; A manual for shipmasters on

their qualifications, duties, &c. 1845, 4 ed. 1851; The laws of

the customs, with the tariff or customs’ tables and customs’

forms 1859; The merchant seaman’s act 1845; The merchant

shipping act 1855, 3 ed. 1876. _d._ Broughty Ferry, Dundee 5

July 1868. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 310–11.

LEES, SIR JOHN CAMPBELL (eld. son of James Lees, R.E.) _b._

Enfield, Middlesex 1796; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833; chief

justice and judge of court of admiralty of Bahama Islands 1 Aug.

1836 to 1865 when he retired; president of legislative council

of Bahama islands; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865;

author of Meteorological journal for 1839. Nassau, Bahamas 1839.

_d._ Victoria station on Metropolitan district railway 17 Oct.

1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 399 (1873).

LEES, JOHN FREDERICK (eld. son of Edward Lees of Oldham). _b._

1810; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831; M.P. for Oldham 8

July 1835 to 18 July 1837; contested Oldham 28 July 1837. _d._

Cheltenham 18 Sep. 1867.

LEES, TOM. _b._ 1821; one of the best riders at Astley’s

amphitheatre, gymnast and summersault thrower and the champion

of the ring; with Cooke’s circus from childhood, and with it

travelled in the provinces; played in pantomime at Cremorne

gardens, Melbourne, under George Coppin’s management; lived some

years in New Zealand. _m._ Emma Cooke pantomimist and dancer,

sister of James Cooke equestrian manager. _d._ Dunedin hospital,

New Zealand 24 July 1878. _The Era 29 Sep. 1878 p._ 5.

LEES, WILLIAM NASSAU (4 son of rev. sir Harcourt Lees

1776–1852). _b._ 21 Feb. 1825; ed. at Nut Grove and Trin.

coll. Dublin; ensign 42 Bengal N.I. 8 March 1846, captain 11

Sep. 1858; lieut.-col. Bengal infantry 8 June 1868; placed

on unemployed supernumerary list 21 Feb. 1884; M.G. 28

Nov. 1885; principal of the Madrásá or Mahommedan college,

Calcutta 1856–72, also professor of law, logic, literature and

mathematics; sec. to College of Fort William 1853; Persian

translator to government; government examiner in Arabic, Persian

and Urdu for all branches of the service; part proprietor of

Times of India newspaper some years; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1857

and Ph. Doc. Berlin; member of Royal Asiatic Soc. of London

1872; contested Gloucester 1868 and Helston 1874; author of A

biographical sketch of the mystic philosopher and poet Jami

1859; A memorandum after a tour through the tea districts of

Eastern Bengal 1866; The drain of silver to the East and the

currency of India 1864; The land and labour of India 1867;

Indian Musalmáns 1871. _d._ Grosvenor st. London 9 March 1889.

LEESON, HENRY BEAUMONT. _b._ about 1800; ed. at Caius coll.

Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; incorporated M.A. at Trin. coll.

Oxf. 1838, M.B. and M.D. 1840; M.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1847;

F.C.S.; M.R.I.; physician and lecturer on chemistry and forensic

medicine to St. Thomas’s hospital, London; F.R.S. _d._ The

Maples near Ventnor, Isle of Wight 8 Nov. 1872. _Times 9 Nov.

1872 p._ 5, _col._ 6.

LEESON, JOHN SACKVILLE. Entered Bombay army 1817; 1 lieut.

Bombay artillery 1 Sep. 1818, lieut.-col. Bombay artillery 15

April 1850, col. 28 March 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._

Paris 7 May 1859.

LEESON, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD (youngest son of hon. Robert Leeson

1773–1850). _b._ Feb. 1801; cornet 7 dragoon guards 2 Dec.

1819, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; chamberlain at Dublin castle

1835; knight usher of the black rod to the order of St. Patrick

1838–41 and genealogist 1841 to death; knighted at Dublin May or

June 1838. _d._ Caen, Normandy 21 April 1885.

LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN (elder son of Thomas Philip Le Fanu,

dean of Emly). _b._ Dublin 28 Aug. 1814; entered Trin. coll.

Dublin 1833; joined staff of Dublin Univ. Mag. 1837, editor

and proprietor 1869–72; called to Irish bar 1839; purchased

two Dublin papers, The Warder in 1839 and The Dublin Evening

Packet, part proprietor of the Dublin Evening Mail, amalgamated

the three papers under title of The Evening Mail with a weekly

reprint entitled The Warder; author of The Cock and the anchor

1845; The fortunes of colonel Torlogh O’Brien 1847; The house by

the churchyard 3 vols. 1863; Uncle Silas 3 vols. 1864; Wylder’s

hand 3 vols. 1864; Guy Deverell 3 vols. 1865; All in the dark 2

vols. 1866; The tenants of Malory 3 vols. 1867; Haunted lives

3 vols. 1868; A lost name 3 vols. 1868; The Wyvern mystery 3

vols. 1869; Checkmate 3 vols. 1871; Chronicles of Golden Friars

3 vols. 1871; The rose and the key 3 vols. 1871; In a glass

darkly 3 vols. 1872; Willing to die 3 vols. 1873; Morley court

1873, anon. _d._ 18 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 7 Feb. 1873. _J.

S. Le Fanu’s Purcell Papers with memoir by A. P. Graves_, _vol._

1 _pp. v–xxxi_ (1880); _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxi_ 319–20 (1873);

_Temple Bar_, _l_ 504–17 (1877).

LEFEBVRE, NICHOLAS. _b._ 1803; entered navy 18 Jany. 1811;

captain 20 Oct. 1853, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 9

Jany. 1880. _d._ Rue Lefebvre, Guernsey 7 Oct. 1884.

LEFEVRE, SIR JOHN GEORGE SHAW (2 son of Charles Shaw Lefevre,

M.P. Reading, _d._ 1823). _b._ Bedford sq. London 24 Jany. 1797;

ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1819; sen. wrangler and

B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; F.R.S. 16 Nov. 1820; barrister I.T. 11

Feb. 1825, bencher 21 Nov. 1854 to death, reader 1868; M.P.

Petersfield 1832–4; under sec. of state for colonies 1833–4;

poor law commissioner 18 Aug. 1834 to 1 Dec. 1841; joint assist.

sec. to board of trade 19 June 1841 to 14 May 1848; second

church estate commissioner 24 Aug. 1850; deputy clerk of the

parliaments 4 April 1848 and clerk 6 April 1856, resigned March

1875 when he retired on pension of £2,500; C.B. 27 April 1848,

K.C.B. 22 Jany. 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. 20 Nov. 1847;

a founder of the univ. of London 1836 and V.C. 1842–62; hon.

D.C.L. Oxf. 1858; hon. LLD. Dublin 1860; civil service comr.,

resigned 1862; one of founders of Athenæum club 1823; he knew

all the European languages and Hebrew. _d._ Cliftonville near

Brighton 20 Aug. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix_ 15–18 (1879);

_Graphic_, _xi_ 291, 292 (1875), _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 93

(1843), _portrait_.

LEFFLER, ADAM (son of James Henry Leffler, organist and bassoon

player, _d._ 1819). _b._ 1808; chorister in Westminster abbey;

appeared at Exeter at a festival 1829; first appeared in London

at Lyceum 31 Aug. 1836 as Hela in the Mountain Sylph; appeared

at Park theatre, New York as a tenor singer Aug. 1840; played

at Covent Garden, at the Lyceum, at Surrey theatre; sang at

concerts; professor of music at 12 Spencer place, Brixton road,

London; a bass singer, his compass extended from E below the

stave to G above it. _d._ 23 Osborne terrace, Clapham road,

London 18 March 1857. _Era 5 April 1857 p._ 10.

LE FLEMING, GEORGE CUMBERLAND HUGHES- (son of John Cumberland

Hughes of Bath). _b._ 21 July 1807; entered Madras army 1823;

captain 13 Madras N.I. 23 Dec. 1842, lieut.-col. 5 June 1854

to 1857; lieut.-col. of 19 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 European regiment

1858–9, of 50 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with

rank of M.G.; assumed additional surname of Le Fleming by r.l. 1

April 1862. _d._ 7 June 1877.

LEFROY, ANTHONY (eld. son of Thomas Langlois Lefroy 1776–1869).

_b._ Dublin 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A.

1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1864; M.P. co. Longford 1830–32, 1833–7

and 1842–7; contested co. Longford 1832, 1837, 1841 and 1857;

M.P. univ. of Dublin 1858–70; sheriff of Longford 1849. _d._

Carriglass manor, co. Longford 12 Jany. 1890.

LEFROY, EDWARD CRACROFT (son of George Benjamin Austin Lefroy of

13 Victoria st. Westminster). _b._ 1855; ed. Keble coll. Oxf.,

B.A. 1877, M.A. 1881; C. of St. John’s, Woolwich 1880–82; author

of Undergraduate Oxford. Articles reprinted from The Oxford and

Cambridge undergraduates journal 1878; The christian ideal and

other sermons 1883; Counsels for the common life, six addresses

to senior boys 1885; Echoes from Theocritus and other sonnets

1885. _d._ at the res. of his father, 42 Shooter’s hill road,

Blackheath, Kent 19 Sep. 1891. _Academy 3 Oct. 1891 p._ 284.

LEFROY, JEFFREY (brother of Anthony Lefroy 1800–90). _b._ 1809

or 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1848, member

of the senate; R. of Aghaderg, co. Down 1836 to death; dean of

Dromore 1876 to death. _d._ Aghaderg Glebe 10 Dec. 1885.

LEFROY, SIR JOHN HENRY (son of John Henry George Lefroy, R.

of Ashe, Hants., _d._ 1823). _b._ Ashe 28 Jany. 1817; ed. at

Alton, Richmond, and R.M. acad. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec

1834, col. 9 Feb. 1865, col. commandant 13 Feb. 1881 to death;

sec. of the Royal artillery institution 1838–9 and again 1849;

director of magnetical observatory at St. Helena 1840–2 and at

Toronto 1842–53; travelled to Lachim and Hudson’s Bay 1843–4,

determined approximate position of American forces of magnetic

intensity; founded the Canadian institute at Toronto 1849; sec.

of the Patriotic Fund 1854; a senior clerk in the war office

1854; scientific adviser on subjects of artillery and inventions

at war office 1854–5; prepared a detailed scheme of military

education 1856; inspector general of army schools Feb. 1857 to

1860 when office abolished; sent on a special mission to the

Mediterranean fortresses; sec. of ordnance select committee

1860, pres. 1864; director general of ordnance 9 Dec. 1868 to

March 1870; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda 8 April

1871 to 10 May 1877; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; governor of Tasmania,

Oct. 1880 to Dec. 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of

general 10 May 1882; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.G.S. 1853; F.S.A.

1884; C.B. 31 March 1870; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of A

handbook for field service 1854, 4 ed. 1867; Observations made

at St. Helena 1847; Notes and documents relating to the family

of Loffroy 1868; Memorials of the discovery of the Bermudas or

Somers island 2 vols. 1877–9; Diary of a magnetic survey of

a portion of the dominion of Canada 1883. _d._ Lewarne near

Liskeard, Cornwall 11 April 1890. _bur._ at Croudall, Hants.

_Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 139–40 (1891); _Numismatic

Chronicle_ (1890) 31–2; _Graphic 26 April 1890 p._ 533,

_portrait_.

LEFROY, PERCY, otherwise Percy Lefroy Mapleton (son of Henry

Mapleton commander R.N. _d._ 1879, by Mary Trent dau. of Henry

Seale colonial sec. of St. Helena). _b._ Alpha place, Queen’s

road, Deptford 23 Feb. 1860; journalist writing for the weekly

papers; author of two dramas which were not successful; shot

and murdered Frederick Isaac Gold a retired London tradesman

aged 64, in a railway carriage on London and Brighton and South

coast railway while going through the Balcombe tunnel 27 June

1881, arrested on suspicion 8 July, tried at Maidstone assizes

5–7 Nov., confessed his guilt, hanged inside Lewes prison 29

Nov. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxix_ 37, 461 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic_,

_xxiv_ 96 (1881), _portrait_; _Temple Bar_, _Jany. 1886 pp._

73–82; _Montagu Williams’ Leaves of a Life_ (1891) 277–94,

335–48.

LEFROY, THOMAS EDWARD PRESTON (3 son of Antony Lefroy of

Falford, Yorkshire, captain 65 foot). _b._ 30 Aug. 1815;

a special pleader; barrister M.T. 7 June 1844; a revising

barrister on the Northern circuit Aug. 1855; deputy judge of

Bloomsbury county court 1857–65; judge of county courts, circuit

55 (Dorset and Somerset) 1 Jany. 1868, retired 10 Oct. 1880 on

pension of £1000; author with H. I. Nicholl, J. M. Carrow and

others of Cases relating to railways and canals 5 vols. 1840–50.

_d._ Cambray, Bournemouth 25 July 1887.

LEFROY, THOMAS LANGLOIS (eld. son of Anthony Lefroy of

Carrickglass, co. Longford, lieut.-col. 9 light dragoons, _d._

1819). _b._ co. Limerick 8 Jany. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll.

Dublin, B.A. 1795, LL.B. and LL.D. 1827; called to Irish bar

1797, practised in court of chancery; K.C. 1806; third serjeant

at law in Ireland Dec. 1818, 2nd serjeant 1820, first serjeant

1822–30; bencher of King’s Inns 1819; a comr. of assize 1822,

1824; M.P. for univ. of Dublin 1830–41; fourth baron of court

of exchequer, Ireland, Nov. 1841; lord chief justice of

queen’s bench, Ireland, March 1852, resigned May 1866; author

of Observations on the proceedings by elegit for the recovery

of judgment debts. Dublin 1802; author with John Schoales of

Reports of cases argued and determined in the high court of

chancery in Ireland during the time of Lord Redesdale from

Easter term 1802 to Easter term 1806, 2 vols. Dublin 1806–10.

_d._ Newcourt villa, Bray near Dublin 4 May 1869. _bur._

Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 11 May. _T. Lefroy’s Memoir of

chief justice Lefroy_ (1871), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag.

lxxix_ 65–74 (1872); _Portraits of eminent conservatives and

statesmen 2 series_ (1846), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 346 (1848),

_portrait_.

LEFROY, THOMAS PAUL (2 son of the preceding). _b._ 31 Dec. 1806;

ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827; called to Irish bar 1831;

Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; bencher of King’s Inns 1860 to death; chairman

of quarter sessions of co. Kildare 27 Dec. 1858 to Dec. 1890;

county court judge of Armagh 1875, of Down 1880 to Dec. 1890;

chancellor of diocesan court of Down, Connor and Dromore to

1890. _d._ Haddington terrace, Kingstown, co. Dublin 29 Jany.

1891. _Law Times 14 Feb. 1891 p._ 291.

LEFTLEY, CHARLES DAKIN. _b._ 1789; proprietor of business of

Dulau & Co. foreign booksellers, 37 Soho square, London. _d._ 21

Victoria road, Clapham common, Surrey 29 April 1873.

LEGARD, FRANCIS DIGBY (1 son of George Legard of York). _b._ 13

March 1829; ed. at Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1849–56, B.A. 1851,

M.A. 1862; V. of Whitwell near York 1858–73; R. of Stokesley,

Yorks. 1873 to death; edited Ploughing and sowing, or annals of

an evening school. By M. E. S. 1861; More about farm lads. By M.

E. S. 1865; Gleanings, being a sequel to Ploughing and sowing

1876. _d._ Westhorpe house, Scarborough 20 Nov. 1883.

LEGÉR, THÉODORE. _b._ Paris 1799; educ. Paris; M.D.; resided

in Mexico, acquired and spent two fortunes; acted as a medical

mesmeriser 1850; discovered the magnetism of the phrenological

organs of the brain and established psychology as a mathematical

science; lectured at Hungerford hall, London on phrenology 1851;

gave séances and examined heads at 20 Gerrard st. Soho 1852;

edited Higia Periódico de salud, por las Senores D. T. Leger y

D. G. Villette No. 1–8. Mexico 1833; author of Considerations

sur l’endurcissement du tissu cellulaire chez les nouveaux nés.

Paris 1823; Animal magnetism or psychodunamy. New York 1846; The

magnetoscope, the magnetoid characteristics and their relations

to the organisation of man 1852. _d._ 20 Gerrard st. Soho,

London 6 Oct. 1853. _J. Ashburner’s Notes on animal magnetism_

(1867) 57–81.

LE GEYT, CHARLES JAMES (son of Philip Le Geyt, chaplain to duke

of Kent, _d._ 1847). _b._ 1829; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1853

and Magd. coll. M.A. 1855; V. of St. Matthias, Stoke Newington

1858 to death; author of Digging against the wells, a sermon at

short services for business men 1866; Catholic ritual of the

church in England 1867; Incense at the Magnificat not Mariolatry

1867. _d._ Calais 27 Dec. 1877.

LE GEYT, GEORGE. _b._ Canterbury 20 March 1777; entered navy

March 1791; retired captain 12 Aug. 1812, retired admiral 11

Feb. 1861; C.B. 4 July 1840. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 23 Sep.

1861. _O’Byrne p._ 645.

LEGGE, ARTHUR CHARLES. _b._ 25 June 1800; ensign 28 foot 23 May

1816; lieut. 1 life guards 1820, captain 1822–37, placed on h.p.

23 June 1837; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. 1 Staffordshire rifle

volunteers 8 May 1868 to death. _d._ Caynton, Shiffnal 18 May

1890.

LEGGE, MARY (dau. of Mr. Jones _d._ 1843). _b._ London, May

1802. _m._ 24 Sep. 1827 rev. Wm. Legge, congregational minister,

Fakenham 1828, where he also received students from 1837,

_d._ Fakenham 13 Dec. 1859; author of A pastoral letter to

the congregational church at Fakenham 1852; A reading book of

English history and biography 1863; with F. J. Gladman, The

handybook of English history 1874; she assisted her husband in

teaching the students; resided at Birkenhead from 18 June 1860.

_d._ Birkenhead 31 Dec. 1879. _bur._ Fakenham cemet. 4 Jany.

1880. _A life of consecration, memorials of Mrs. Mary Legge_

(1883) _with 2 portraits and portrait of W. Legge_.

LEGGETT, JOSEPH. Entered Madras army 1808; ensign 3 Madras N.I.

28 May 1810, lieut.-col. 25 July 1838 to 1840; lieut.-col. of 48

N.I. 1840 to 1845, of 52 N.I. 1845 to 1846, of 22 N.I. 1846 to

1847; brigadier at Saugor 3 April 1846 to 19 Oct. 1847; col. of

26 N.I. 20 Oct. 1847 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Dedham,

Essex 15 Oct. 1857 aged 65.

LEGH, EDMUND CORNWALL. Ensign 97 foot 5 July 1839, lieut.-col.

28 July 1857 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ Banda, Central

India 3 June 1859.

LEGH, GEORGE CORNWALL. _b._ 30 Aug. 1804; sheriff of Cheshire

1838; M.P. for North Cheshire 1841–47 and 1848–68; major 2 royal

Cheshire militia 30 July 1853, lieut.-col. 20 March 1869 to 16

July 1873. _d._ 16 June 1877.

LEGH, Thomas (eld. son of colonel Thomas Peter Legh of Lyme,

Cheshire, _d._ 1797). _b._ 1793; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf.,

D.C.L. 1817; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1814–32 when borough was

disfranchised; colonel Lancashire fencible cavalry; F.R.S. 12

June 1817; author of Narrative of a journey in Egypt and the

country beyond the cataracts 1816, 2 ed. 1817; resided at Lyme

park, Cheshire. _d._ Milford lodge, Lymington, Hants. 8 May 1857.

LE GRAND, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ Ireland 1805; studied medicine

in Cork and Dublin; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1844; entered

R.N. Feb. 1828; a skilful operator; served at Cape of Good Hope,

East Indies, &c.; surgeon naval hospital, Malta 1836–9, in

Syrian war 1840; in charge of Australian convict ships 1848–52;

served in war in the Baltic 1854; surgeon to Haslar hospital

1855–8, to Deptford dockyard 1858–64; granted Greenwich hospital

good service pension 28 March 1866. _d._ 22 Manor road, New

Cross, Kent 4 Nov. 1874. _Medical Times 5 Dec. 1874 p._ 649.

LEGREW, JAMES (son of James Legrew 1769–1856, R. of Caterham,

Surrey). _b._ Caterham 1803; studied sculpture under sir F.

L. Chantrey; a student of the R.A., silver medallist 1824 and

gold 1829; travelled in Italy 1840–2; sent two works The last

prayer of Ajax, and Milton dictating to his daughter, to the

Westminster Hall competition 1844; exhibited 30 pieces of

sculpture at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1826–57;

author of A few remarks on the sculpture of the nations referred

to in the Old Testament deduced from an examination of some of

their idols 1845; committed suicide at his house, 1 St. Alban’s

road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1857.

LE GRICE, CHARLES VALENTINE (eld. child of Charles Le Grice,

R. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, _d._ 1792). _b._ Bury St.

Edmunds 14 Feb. 1773; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1781–92; friend

of S. T. Coleridge and Charles Lamb; admitted sizar of Trin.

coll. Camb. 16 June 1792, scholar 17 April 1795, B.A. 1796,

M.A. 1805; tutor to Wm. John Godolphin Nicholls of Trereife

near Penzance 1796; P.C. of St. Mary’s church, Penzance 31 July

1806 to June 1831; contributed articles to the Gentleman’s Mag.

during more than 60 years, including College reminiscences of

Coleridge reprinted in C. Carlyon’s Early Years 1843; author of

The Tineum, containing estianomy or the art of stirring a fire

1794; Analysis of Paley’s Principles of moral and political

philosophy 1795, 8 ed. 1822; Daphnis and Chloe, a pastoral novel

1803; The petition of an old uninhabited house in Penzance to

its master in town 1811, 3 ed. 1858, and a number of pamphlets.

_d._ Trereife near Penzance 24 Dec. 1858. _Boase and Courtney’s

Bibl. Cornub. i_ 311–14, _iii_ 1266–7, 1432; _Boase’s Collect.

Cornub._ (1890) 485–7; _G.M. i_ 322–4 (1859); _Letters of

Charles Lamb, edited by A. Ainge_, _i_ 2–6 (1888).

LEHMANN, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. _b._ 1826; senior partner in

firm of Naylor, Benzon & Co., merchants, 20 Abchurch lane,

London; F.R.G.S.; made a fine collection of paintings; resided

at 15 Berkeley sq., and Woodlands, Southwood lane, Highgate.

_d._ Coombe cottage, Kingston-on-Thames, the residence of his

son-in-law 22 Aug. 1891, will proved for £543,980 18s. 4d.

_I.L.N. 5 Sep. 1891 p._ 303.

LEIFCHILD, HENRY STORMONTH (4 son of Wm. Gerard Leifchild of

Moorgate st. London). _b._ 1823; studied at British Museum and

R.A., also in Rome 1848–51; exhibited his statue of Rizpah, at

Great Exhibition 1851; executed the Guards’ memorial at Chelsea

hospital; designed a mortuary chapel in Warriston cemetery,

Edinburgh; his statue of Erinna is at Holloway College; excelled

as a draughtsman, carver and musician; exhibited 38 pieces of

sculpture at R.A. 1844–76; resided at 243 Stanhope st. Regent’s

Park, London. _d._ 15 Kirkstall road, Streatham Hill, Surrey 11

Nov. 1884. _Magazine of Art_, _July 1891_.

LEIFCHILD, JOHN (son of John Leifchild). _b._ Barnet, Herts.

15 Feb. 1780; studied at Hoxton academy 1804–8; minister of

independent chapel in Hornton st. Kensington, London 1808–24;

minister of church in Bridge st. Bristol 1824–30, and of

Craven chapel, Bayswater, London 1831–54; preached at Queen’s

sq. chapel, Brighton 1854–6; edited with rev. Dr. Redford The

Evangelist, monthly mag. May 1837 to June 1839; author of A help

to the reading of the scriptures, an arrangement of the books

in chronological order 1829; Directions for the right reading

of the scriptures 1842; The christian emigrant 1849; Remarkable

facts, illustrative of different portions of scripture 1867, the

6 ed. is entitled Brief expositions of scripture 1879. _d._ 4

Fitzroy terrace, Gloucester road North, Regent’s Park, London

29 June 1862. _J. R. Leifchild’s John Leifchild, D.D._ (1863),

_portrait_; _James B. Brown’s John Leifchild_ (1862).

LEIGH, AUGUSTA MARY (only dau. of Capt. John Byron _d._

Valencienne, France 2 Aug. 1791, by his wife the baroness

Conyers). _b._ 26 Jany. 1783; half sister of George Gordon, lord

Byron, the only relative for whom he retained any affection,

to whom some of his poems are dedicated, and the last person

to whom he wrote a letter. _m._ 17 Aug. 1807 her cousin George

Leigh lieut.-col. of 10 light dragoons, he _d._ May 1850;

accused by Harriet Beecher Stowe in an article in the Atlantic

Monthly of Sep. 1869 of having committed incest with her brother

in 1814, but no one believed the accusation; under Byron’s will

of 29 July 1815 she inherited all her brother’s disposable

property, Lady Byron being already well provided for. _d._

Marlborough court, St. James’ palace, London 12 Oct. 1851. _H.

B. Stowe’s Lady Byron vindicated_ (1870); _C. Mackay’s Medora

Leigh_ (1869); _The true story of lord and lady Byron in answer

to Mrs. Stowe_ (1869), _portrait_.

LEIGH, EGERTON (only son of Egerton Leigh of West Hall, High

Leigh, Cheshire 1779–1865). _b._ Broadwell manor house, Gloucs.

17 March 1815; ed. at Eton; cornet 2 dragoon guards 12 April

1833, captain 18 Dec. 1840 to 31 March 1843; captain 4 dragoon

guards 31 March 1843, sold out 14 July 1843; major 1 royal

Cheshire militia 30 Aug. 1853 to 16 April 1873; sheriff of

Cheshire 1872; M.P. for Mid-Cheshire division 7 March 1873 to

death; edited Ballads and Legends of Cheshire 1867; author of

Pets 1859; The guide to Eton. _d._ Cox’s hotel, 55 Jermyn st.

London 1 July 1876. _bur._ churchyard of Rostherne, Cheshire.

_Egerton Leigh’s Glossary of words used in the dialect of

Cheshire_ (1877), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 69 (1876),

_portrait_.

LEIGH, EVAN (son of Peter Leigh of Ashton-under-Lyne,

cotton-spinner). _b._ Ashton 21 Dec. 1810; manager of his

father’s business 1831–50, partner with his father; effected

an improvement in the spinning mule, which reduced cost of

spinning from 5d. to about 3d. per lb. 1831; a manufacturer of

machinery at Miles Platting, Manchester 1850–69; a consulting

engineer and exporter of machinery 1869, established businesses

at Manchester, Liverpool and Boston, Massachusetts; patented the

twin-screws for steamers 18 July 1849, since come into general

use; invented the self-stripping carding engine, coupled mules

with putting-up motion, and the loose-boss top roller; patented

19 inventions 1849–70; A.I.C.E. 1872; author of Plan for

conveying railway trains across the straits of Dover 1870; The

science of modern cotton-spinning 2 vols. 1871, 4 ed. 1877. _d._

Clarence house, Chorlton near Manchester 2 Feb. 1876, portrait

in collection of portraits of inventors at South Kensington

Museum. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xliv_ 229–31 (1876).

LEIGH, GILBERT HENRY CHANDOS (eld. son of 2 baron Leigh _b._

1824). _b._ 30 Portman sq. London 1 Sep. 1851; ed. Harrow and

Magd. coll. Camb., B.A. 1874, M.A. 1878; capt. Warwickshire

yeomanry cavalry 10 Nov. 1877 to death; M.P. South Warwickshire

7 April 1880 to death. _d._ by a fall from a precipice while

shooting in the Big-Horn mountains, Wyoming 15 Sep. 1884.

_bur._ Stoneleigh churchyard 22 Oct. _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 373 (1884),

_portrait_.

LEIGH, HENRY SAMBROOKE (son of the succeeding). _b._ London 29

March 1837; edited The Arrow, 10 numbers 2 Aug. to 7 Dec. 1864;

wrote Falsacappa, music by Offenbach, produced at Globe theatre

22 April 1871; Le Roi Carotte at the Alhambra 3 June 1872;

Bridge of Sighs opera-bouffe at St. James’s 18 Nov. 1872; White

Cat, a fairy spectacle at New Queen’s 2 Dec. 1875; Voyage dans

la Lune, opera-bouffe Alhambra 15 April 1876; author of Carols

of Cockayne 1869, 5 ed. 1888; Gillott and Goosequill 1871; A

Town garland: a collection of lyrics 1878; Strains from the

Strand: trifles in verse 1882. _d._ Lowther’s private hotel,

35 Strand, London 16 June 1883. _I.L.N. 30 June 1883 p._ 648,

_portrait_.

LEIGH, JAMES MATHEWS (son of Samuel Leigh of 145 Strand, London,

bookseller). _b._ 1808; studied under Wm. Etty, R.A.; painter of

sacred subjects and portraits; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A.,

23 at B.I. and 29 at Suffolk st. 1825–49; kept the General

practical school of art at 79 Newman st. Oxford st. London 1848

to death; author of Cromwell, an historical play in five acts

1838; The Rhenish Album 1836, anon. _d._ 79 Newman st. London 20

April 1860.

LEIGH, JOHN (younger son of John Leigh of Consall, Staffs.).

_b._ Consall 1809; barrister I.T. 8 May 1835; judge of court

of appeal, Jamaica 1840–46; police magistrate at Wolverhampton

1846–60 and at Worship st. London 1860 to May 1864; bankrupt for

£29,000, 23 March 1864; wrote Juvenile offenders and destitute

pauper children, in Meliora, Second series by C. J. Talbot,

viscount Ingestre 1853 pp. 81–89. _d._ Balham, Surrey, Nov. or

Dec. 1880. _bur._ Tooting cemetery.

LEIGH, JOHN. _b._ Foxdenton hall, Lancs. 8 June 1813; L.S.A.

1834, M.R.C.S. 1837; resident medical officer Manchester

infirmary and lecturer there; medical officer of health,

Manchester 4 March 1868; author of Sir Percy Legh and other

ballads 1861; Coal smoke, report to the health and nuisance

committee of corporation of Manchester 1883; and with Ner

Gardiner, History of the cholera in Manchester 1850. _d._ 1887.

LEIGH, JOHN GERARD (1 son of John Shaw Leigh 1791–1871).

_b._ 1821; ed. Eton and Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1841; student of

Lincoln’s inn 1843; inherited a large fortune; kept a large

stud and extensive kennels at Luton Hoo park, Beds.; master

of the Hertford hunt 1866; member of Four in hand club; ran

steeple chases under name of Mr. Lynton, won the Liverpool with

Half-Caste 1851; breeder of cattle, took prizes at Smithfield

club shows. _d._ 138 Piccadilly, London 24 Feb. 1875. _Bell’s

Life in London 27 Feb. 1875 p._ 6; _Baily’s Mag. April 1872 pp._

311–12, _portrait_.

LEIGH, JOHN SHAW (son of John Leigh _d._ 1823). _b._ 26 July

1791; ed. Rugby; solicitor at Liverpool 1823–48; mayor of

Liverpool 1841, alderman 1844–48; sheriff of Beds. 1856; founded

a scholarship at Liverpool collegiate institution. _d._ 138

Piccadilly, London 15 June 1871. _bur._ Walton on the hill near

Liverpool 21 June.

LEIGH, PERCIVAL (son of Leonard Leigh of St. Cross, Winchester).

_b._ Haddington 3 Nov. 1813; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital;

L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1835; on the staff of Punch 1841 to death,

was the last survivor of the early writers; played Oliver Cob in

Ben Jonson’s Every man in his humour, at Miss Kelly’s theatre

21 Sep. 1845; lived at 10 Bedford street Bloomsbury, afterwards

at Hammersmith to death; author of The comic Latin grammar 1840;

The comic English grammar 1840; Portraits of children of the

mobility 1841, all three illustrated by John Leech; Manners and

customs of ye English: drawn from ye quick by Richard Doyle

1849, 2 ed. 1876, this appeared originally in Punch; Paul

Prendergast, or the comic schoolmaster 1859. _d._ Oak cottage,

221 Hammersmith road 24 Oct. 1889. _W. P. Frith’s John Leech

vol._ 1, _chapters iii and xiii_ (1891).

NOTE.--There is a portrait of him in John Leech’s two-page cartoon

called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 where he is

playing the double bass in the orchestra between the cornet and the

violin.

LEIGH, SAMUEL. _b._ Milton, Staffs. 1 Sep. 1785; an Independent

lay helper; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Shaftesbury 1812–13,

at Montreal, Canada 1814–15, in New South Wales, Australia

10 Aug. 1815 to 1820 and 1826–31, first Methodist minister

in Australia, held his first service Sydney 16 March 1816,

his first convert being a convict; minister in New Zealand

1820–25 where he established the first Methodist station; in

England 1832 to death. _d._ Reading 2 May 1852. _A. Strachan’s

Remarkable incidents in the life of rev. S. Leigh_ (1853),

_portrait_; _Leben und werken von Samuel Leigh. Bremen_ 1864;

_Jas. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand_ (1878) 272–7.

LEIGHTON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Dundee 1800; clerk to a lawyer at

Edinb.; Wilson’s Tales of the borders. Revised by A. Leighton

20 vols. 1857–9, New ed. with 4 additional volumes 6 vols.

1863–69; author of Curious storied traditions of Scottish life,

two series 1860–1; The court of Cacus or the story of Burke and

Hare 2 ed. 1861; Mysterious legends of Edinburgh 1864; Shellburn

1865, a tale; Romances of the old town of Edinburgh 1867. _d._

24 Dec. 1874.

LEIGHTON, SIR BALDWIN, (7 Baronet). _b._ Sunderland 14 May 1805;

ed. Rugby; succeeded 13 Nov. 1828; chairman of quarter sessions,

Salop, Dec. 1855; M.P. South Salop 1859–65; contested South

Salop 15 July 1865. _d._ Morton hall, Daventry 26 Feb. 1871.

_I.L.N. lviii_ 250, 619 (1871).

LEIGHTON, _Charles Blair_ (son of Stephen Leighton). _b._

6 March 1823; apprenticed to a silver-engraver 1837–44; a

student of the R.A.; painted portraits and figure pieces; a

chromolithographer with his brother George Cargill Leighton.

_d._ 6 Feb. 1855.

LEIGHTON, SIR DAVID (son of Thomas Leighton of Brechin,

Forfarshire). _b._ 1774; entered Bombay army 1795; lieut. 4

Bombay N.I., lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1813 to 1818; adjutant of

the 2nd battalion 7 July 1800 to 12 Oct. 1802; lieut.-col. 9

Bombay N.I. 1818–1821; adjutant general Bombay army 1817 to

1826; commanded Presidency division 1826 to 1831; lieut.-col.

commandant 7 N.I. 4 July 1821, col. 5 June 1829 to death;

general 20 June 1854; C.B. 23 July 1823, K.C.B. 10 March 1837.

_d._ Bafford house, Charlton Kings near Cheltenham 1 June 1860.

LEIGHTON, FRANCIS KNYVETT (only son of Francis K. Leighton of

Ipswich). _b._ 1807; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., demy of Magdalen

1823–9; fellow of All Souls’ 1829–43; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831,

D.D. 1858; P.C. of Great Ilford, Essex 1836–41; R. of Harpsden

1841–58; R. of Lockinge and Warden of All Souls’ 18 March 1858

to death; V.C. of univ. of Oxf. 1866–70; canon of Westminster

11 Nov. 1868 to death; on the council of Keble coll. 1871–80;

author of Montes Pyrenæi, carmen Latinum, in theatro Sheldoniano

recitatum 1826. _d._ All Souls’ college 13 Oct. 1881. _bur._

college chapel 18 Oct., portrait by Richmond in the college

hall. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen College_, _vii_ 290–1

(1881).

LEIGHTON, ROBERT (son of David L. Leighton _d._ 1828). _b._

Murray gate, Dundee 20 Feb. 1822; in a merchant’s office in

Dundee; went round the world as a supercargo in one of his

brother’s ships 1842–3; clerk in locomotive department of London

and North-Western railway at Preston 1843–54; managed at Ayr a

branch business of a firm of Liverpool seed merchants 1854–59,

after that in the Liverpool house and travelled for the firm in

Great Britain and Ireland 1859–67; author of Rhymes and poems,

By Robin 1855, 2 ed. 1861; Poems 1866, 2 ed. 1869; Scotch words

and the Bapteesement o’ the bairn 1869, 3 ed. 1869; Reuben and

other poems 1875; Records and other poems 1880. _d._ Liverpool

10 May 1869. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_ 432–37

(1877); _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 327.

LEIGHTON, ROBERT (son of Archibald Leighton a bookbinder at 55

Exmouth st. Clerkenwell and the inventor of cloth binding 1822,

_d._ 1841). _b._ London 1822; apprentice to his father; head

of firm of Leighton and Eeles, bookbinders 54 and 55 Exmouth

st. 1841, business removed to Angel court, Strand, then to Harp

alley and to 13 Shoe lane; W. Hodge became a partner 1853 and R.

Leighton junr. in 1885; removed to 16 New st. sq. 1870, firm

became Leighton, Son and Hodge, the first to use steam machinery

in binding; invented the backing and trimming machine; the first

to use steam power for blocking in gold and to use aluminium

and black and coloured inks for cloth cases; invented printing

on the edges of books; the chief binders of drawing room table

books. _d._ Oakdale road, Coventry park, Streatham 14 Dec. 1888.

_The Bookseller_, _Jany. 1889 p._ 8.

LEIGHTON, THOMAS. Entered Bombay army 1807; ensign 7 Bombay

N.I. 5 Nov. 1808, lieut. 1 Jany. 1814; captain 14 N.I. 1 May

1824, major 29 Sep. 1832 to 28 June 1838; lieut.-col. of 16

N.I. 28 June 1838 to 1841, of 12 N.I. 1841 to 1843, of 26 N.I.

1843–45, of 2 N.I. 1845–46, of 1 N.I. 1846–8, of 21 N.I. 1848–9;

commandant at Candeish 4 Feb. 1848 to 1 Oct. 1849; col. of 2

N.I. 20 Sep. 1849 to death. _d._ Cambridge terrace, Hyde park,

London 1 Feb. 1855.

LEIGHTON, WILLIAM (son of David Leighton a master baker). _b._

Dundee 3 Feb. 1841; taken to Liverpool 1847; clerk to a Spanish

merchant 1854; employed in a Brazilian house 1864 to death;

contributed poems to The Compass a local literary paper, and

to the Liverpool Mercury; author of Poems 1870, 2 ed. 1870;

Hymns 1871; Baby died to-day and other poems 1875. _d._ of

typhoid fever 22 April 1869. _bur._ Anfield cemetery, Liverpool,

memorial window in St. Ann’s church, Brookfield, Highgate Rise,

London. _Poems by the late William Leighton_ (1870), _memoir pp.

v–vi_; _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 325.

LEIGHTON, WILLIAM ALLPORT (only son of Wm. Leighton, landlord of

the Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury). _b._ Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury 17

May 1805; articled to a solicitor in Shrewsbury 1822; studied at

St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1833; C. of St. Giles’s, Shrewsbury

1845–8; gave his collection of lichens to Kew Gardens 1880;

author of Catalogue of the cellulares or flowerless plants of

Great Britain 1837; A flora of Shropshire 1841; A guide through

the town of Shrewsbury 1855; The lichen-flora of Great Britain

1871, 2 ed. 1872; Wanderings among old churches in neighbourhood

of Rhyl 1881. _d._ Lucifelde, Shrewsbury 28 Feb. 1889.

LEINSTER, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK FITZGERALD 3 Duke of (eld. son

of 2 duke of Leinster 1749–1804). _b._ Carton house, Maynooth

21 Aug. 1791; styled marquess of Kildare 1791–1804; succeeded

his father 20 Oct. 1804; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch.

Oxf. 23 Oct. 1810; P.C. Ireland 9 May 1831; P.C. 29 June 1831;

lord high constable of Ireland for coronations of William IV.

and Victoria; lord lieut. of co. Kildare 7 Oct. 1831 to death;

grand master of Irish grand lodge of freemasons 24 June 1813 to

death; president of National Agricultural Soc. 1841; a resident

landlord who much improved his estate, the Leinster lease was

a well known document; his masonic jubilee was celebrated 24

June 1863; premier duke, marquess and earl of Ireland. d. Carton

house 10 Oct. 1874. _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxiv_ 42–57 (1874),

_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 369, 378 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic_,

_x_ 391 (1874), _portrait_.

LEINSTER, CHARLES WILLIAM FITZGERALD, 4 Duke of (son of the

preceding). _b._ Dublin 30 March 1819; styled marquess of

Kildare 1819–74; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1852; comr.

of national education in Ireland 1841; sheriff co. Kildare

1842–3; M.P. co. Kildare 1847–52; lieut.-col. royal Dublin

militia 1849–72, hon. col. 11 May 1872 to death; summoned to

parliament as baron Kildare 28 April 1870; chancellor of Queen’s

univ. Ireland 1870; succeeded as 4 duke 10 Oct. 1874; author of

The earls of Kildare and their ancestors 2 ed. with Addenda.

Dublin 1858–62, 3 ed. 1858. _d._ Carton, Maynooth 10 Feb. 1887.

_I.L.N. xviii_ 105, 106 (1851), _portrait_.

LEISHMAN, MATTHEW (son of a manufacturer). _b._ Paisley;

presbyterian minister at Goran, Oct. 1820; a leader of the party

termed The Forty 1839; D.D. Glasgow 18 Dec. 1840; moderator

of general assembly 20 May 1858; edited for Maitland club,

R. Wodrow’s Collections upon the lives of the reformers 2

vols. 1834 and R. Wodrow’s Analecta, a history of remarkable

providences 2 vols. 1842; The works of A. Binning 1847. _Scott’s

Fasti vol._ 2, _part_ 1, _p._ 70; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish

clergy_ (1848) 300–306.

LEITCH, WILLIAM. _b._ Rothesay, Isle of Bute 1814; ed. Glasgow

univ., M.A. 1836; licensed preacher in Church of Scotland 1838;

minister of Monimail 1843–59; principal of the univ. of Queen’s

coll. Canada 1859 to death, assist. to professor Nichol in univ.

observatory; moderator of the synod of the church of Scotland,

Canada 1862; a senator and an examiner in the univ. Toronto;

president of Botanical Soc. of Canada and a writer in its

Transactions 1861; a contributor to Kitto’s Journal of Sacred

Literature, Good Words and other periodicals; author of God’s

glory in the heavens 1862, 3 ed. 1866. _d._ Kingston, Upper

Canada 9 May 1864. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 221.

LEITCH, WILLIAM LEIGHTON. _b._ The Townhead, Glasgow 2 Nov.

1804; a weaver 1819, a house painter; scene painter at theatre

royal, Glasgow, Aug. 1824 at 20s. a week; spent 2 years at

Mauchline painting snuffboxes; scene painter at Queen’s theatre,

Tottenham st. London to 1832; studied and taught painting in

Italy 1833–7; a successful teacher in London from 1837; drawing

master to the queen and royal family from 1842 for 22 years;

last of the great English teachers of landscape painting; member

of Institute of painters in water-colours 1862, vice pres. to

death, a collection of his works was exhibited at their rooms

Piccadilly 1883; exhibited 11 pictures at R. A., 2 at B.I. and

2 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; his sketches with a few drawings and

oil pictures were sold at Christie’s, March 1884 for £9,000;

illustrated G. N. Wright’s The Rhine, Italy and Greece 1840; G.

N. Wright’s The shores of the Mediterranean 1840; J. Sherer’s

The classic lands of Europe 1879. _d._ 124 Alexandra road,

St. John’s Wood, London 25 April 1883. _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 604

(1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 432 (1883), _portrait_; _Mac

George’s W. L. Leitch, a memoir_ (1884), _portrait_.

LEITH, SIR ALEXANDER (eld. son of Alexander Leith of Freefield,

co. Aberdeen, _d._ 1828). _b._ Cobardie, Forgue, Aberdeenshire

1774; ensign 42 foot 8 Aug. 1792; captain 109 foot 1794; captain

31 foot 1795, lieut.-col. 7 Feb. 1811 to 25 May 1815 when placed

on h.p.; commanded 31 foot at battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees,

Nivelle, Nive and Orthes; colonel 90 foot 2 Sep. 1841 to 14 June

1853; colonel 31 foot 14 June 1853 to death; general 20 June

1854; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815. _d._ Freefield, co. Aberdeen 19 Feb.

1859.

LEITH, EDWARD TYRRELL (2 son of John Farley Leith, Q.C.) _b._

Calcutta 12 March 1842; ed. in Germany and Trin. coll. Camb.

1869; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1866; practised at Bombay 1867–85;

professor of law at government law school, Bombay 1869–85;

lived at Stuttgart, Germany 1886 to death; gave much attention

to ethnological studies and contributed to various papers The

funeral rites of the Parsees; The religion of the Non-Aryan

races of India; The primitive disposal of the dead by exposure;

Cannibalism in India; and The dog in myth and custom; author of

Divination by Házirát among the Indian Mussulmáns 1886. _d._

Heidelberg 10 Dec. 1888. _Law Times_, _lxxxvi_ 167, 230 (1889).

LEITH, HARRY. _b._ 1796; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1817;

presbyterian minister at Cornwall, Upper Canada 6 June 1822;

minister of Rothiemay 23 May 1827 to death; took part with the

minority in the dispute regarding the presentation to Marnoch

and was rebuked at the bar of the supreme civil court 26 May

1843 for breach of interdict and fined £5 and expenses. _d._

Rothiemay 20 Aug. 1854. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 3, _part_ 1,

_p._ 216.

LEITH, JAMES (son of sir Alexander Leith). _b._ 1827; cornet

14 hussars 4 May 1849, lieut. 1853; captain 2 dragoons 1859,

placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1861; served in Persian campaign 1857, at

suppression of mutiny at Aurungabad, with Malwa field force at

siege of Dhar, and at advance on Calpee; at Betwah 1 April 1858

charged alone and rescued Capt. Need from the rebel infantry

for which he was awarded Victoria cross 24 Dec. 1858; gentleman

at arms 5 May 1863 to death. _d._ Gloucester place, Hyde park,

London 13 May 1869.

LEITH, JOHN (2 son of general Alexander Leith Hay). _b._ Leith

hall, co. Aberdeen; entered navy 11 June 1803; captain 11 Nov.

1825; commander of the Seringapatam 46 guns and in charge of the

Barbadoes station 6 Feb. 1837 to July 1841; R.A. 11 Feb. 1854.

_d._ 25 Oct. 1854. _O’Byrne p._ 647.

LEITH, JOHN FARLEY (eld. son of James Urquhart Murray Leith,

capt. 68 regt., killed at Orthes 1814). _b._ Aberdeen 5 May

1808; ed. at gr. sch., Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen,

M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 7 May 1874 to

death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1872; advocate in supreme court at Calcutta

1840–9; professor of law East India college, Haileybury 1853–7

or 8; practised before judicial committee of P.C.; contested

city of Aberdeen 2 April 1857; M.P. city of Aberdeen 1872–80.

_d._ 8 Dorset sq. Marylebone, London 4 April 1887. _Law Times_,

_lxxxii_ 479 (1887).

LEITH, JOHN MACDONALD. _b._ 26 Dec. 1839; ed. at Cheltenham;

ensign 79 highlanders 17 March 1854, lieut.-col. 1 July 1881,

placed on h.p. 1 July 1885; brevet colonel 31 Dec. 1882; served

in Egypt 1882; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. _d._ Gibraltar 22 May 1888.

LEITH, ROBERT WILLIAM DISNEY (2 son of sir Alexander Leith

1774–1859). _b._ Glenkindy, Aberdeenshire 28 Feb. 1819; ensign

1 Bombay European fusiliers 4 Sep. 1837; served in Persian gulf

1838–41, in the Punjaub 1848–9, led storming party at capture

of Mooltan 1849; adjutant March to Aug. 1846; A.A.G. Bombay

1855–59; lieut.-col. 106 foot 1 Jany. 1862, on h.p. 29 May 1866,

lieut. general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Northcourt,

Isle of Wight 20 June 1892.

LEITRIM, NATHANIEL CLEMENTS, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 Earl of

Leitrim 1732–1804). _b._ Dublin 9 May 1768; known as viscount

Clements 1783–1804; M.P. Carrick 1790–7; M.P. Leitrim 1798–1800;

M.P. Leitrim in first parliament of United Kingdom 1801–4;

succeeded 27 July 1804; lord lieut. of Leitrim 1831 to death;

cr. baron Clements of Kilmacrenan, co. Donegal in peerage of

U.K. 20 June 1831; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland; col. of

Donegal militia. _d._ Killadoon, co. Kildare 31 Dec. 1854.

LEITRIM, WILLIAM SYDNEY CLEMENTS, 3 Earl of (2 son of the

preceding). _b._ Dublin 1806; known as viscount Clements

1804–54; ensign 43 foot 9 Dec. 1824, captain 5 April 1831;

placed on h.p. 20 March 1835; sold his commission 20 June 1854;

M.P. Leitrim 1839–47; col. of Leitrim militia 1843; succeeded

31 Dec. 1854; a magistrate for Galway, Leitrim and Donegal,

superseded Oct. 1863; gave orders to the manager of the hotel

at Maam a tenant of his own, to refuse admission to the earl of

Carlisle, the lord lieutenant, which was done accordingly; a

severe landlord who evicted many of his tenants; while driving

on a car with a clerk and a driver, shot dead at Cratlaghwood

near Milford, co. Donegal 2 April 1878, the driver and the clerk

being also killed. _Graphic_, _xvii_ 364 (1878), _portrait_;

_I.L.N. lxxii_ 329 (1878), _portrait_; _A.R._ 1878 _pp._ 35–36.

LE KEUX, HENRY (son of Peter Le Keux of Bishopsgate, London,

pewter manufacturer). _b._ 13 June 1787; apprenticed to James

Basire, engraver, worked for him on the Oxford almanacs and on

the plates for Society of Antiquaries; engraved for the Annals

1820–40; member of Associated Society of Engravers, engraved

for the Soc. some pictures by Claude and Canaletto in the

national gallery; joined in starting a crape manufactory at

Bocking in Essex about 1838; engraved views for Specimens of the

architecture of Normandy by J. Britton 1873; author with J. Le

Keux of Historical essays, a series of architectural antiquities

of Normandy 1828. _d._ Bocking 3 Oct. 1868. _bur._ Halstead,

Essex.

LEMAITRE, PAUL THOMAS. _b._ 1776; a gold watch case maker at

13 Denmark st. Soho; arrested 27 Sep. 1794 for treasonable

practices as being a delegate of the London Corresponding

Society, in connection with John Smith of the Pop Gun,

Portsmouth st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, to assassinate George

the Third by means of a poisoned arrow; examined by the Privy

Council 28–30 Sep.; the first person sent to the new prison at

Cold Bath Fields, confined there 32 weeks, liberated 9 May 1795

on giving bail for £50, tried at the Old Bailey 11 May 1796 and

discharged; his case was for many years before parliament; Henry

Warburton, M.P. got a petition drawn up for him in Aug. 1846.

_High treason. Narrative of the arrest of P. T. Lemaitre 2 ed._

(1795).

NOTE.--His petition to the House of Commons, states that he was then

in the 70th year of his age, was one of those persons, who during the

suspension of the Habeas Corpus act, were arrested and confined in

prison for long periods of time on charges of traitorously conspiring

against the King’s person and government, of which persons he was

nearly the sole survivor, alleges his innocence of the charges brought

against him, and prays that the House would be pleased to take his

petition into consideration and afford him redress. It was presented

and read and ordered to lie upon the table 13 Aug. 1846, ordered to be

printed 14 Aug.

LEMAN, JAMES. _b._ 1794; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1819

to death; member of council of incorporated law society 19 June

1851 to 1869, vice pres. 1862–3, pres. 1863–64. _d._ 29 Chester

terrace, Regent’s park, London 9 April 1876. _Solicitors’

Journal_, _xx_ 492 (1876).

LEMANN, CHARLES MORGAN. _b._ London 1806; ed. Trin. coll.

Camb., M.B. 1828, M.D. 1833; Fellow Linnean soc. 1831; F.C.P.

Lond. 1836; physician to lord Warwick’s family in Italy 1834–5;

formed an herbarium of plants from Spain, Italy, America,

Brazil, Guinea, the Cape and Australia consisting of 30,000

specimens, which was given by his brother Frederick Lemann to

the university of Cambridge. _d._ Bathampton near Bath 26 Aug.

1852. _Proc. of Linnean Soc. ii_ 234–5 (1855).

LE MARCHANT, SIR DENIS, 1 Baronet (2 son of John Gaspard Le

Marchant, major general 1766–1812). _b._ Newcastle 3 July 1795;

ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822;

chief sec. to lord chancellor Brougham 1830–34; clerk of the

crown in chancery 30 July 1834 to 1836; sec. to board of trade

1836–40 and 1848–50; joint sec. to the treasury 19 June 1841

to 21 May 1844; baronet 14 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Worcester 1846

to 1847; under sec. of state for home department 1847–8; chief

clerk to house of commons 30 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1871; author of

Report of the proceedings of the house of lords in the claim to

the barony of Gardner 1828; The reform ministry and the reform

parliament 1834, nine editions; Memoirs of general Le Marchant

1841, privately printed 90 copies; Memoirs of John Charles,

viscount Althorp 1876; edited Horace Walpole’s Memoirs of the

reign of George III. with notes 1845. _d._ 21 Belgrave road,

London 30 Oct. 1874. _I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1851_, _portrait_, _lxv_

475, 489 (1874) _portrait_, _lxvi_ 187 (1875); _Law Times 7 Nov.

1874 p._ 17.

LE MARCHANT, SIR JOHN GASPARD (brother of the preceding). _b._

1803; ensign 10 foot 26 Oct. 1820; lieut. 57 foot 1821, captain

1825; captain 98 foot 1826, major 1832–5; adjutant general

to Anglo-Spanish legion and brigadier general in the Spanish

army 1835–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838 for his

service in Spain; permitted to wear Spanish decorations of San

Fernando and Charles III.; lieut.-col. 99 foot 18 Oct. 1839 to

27 Sep. 1842; inspecting field officer recruiting district South

of Ireland 1842–6; lieut. col. of 85 foot 19 June 1846 to 29

Dec. 1846; lieut. governor of Newfoundland 1846–52 and of Nova

Scotia 1852–57; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1859 to 15 Nov. 1864;

commander-in-chief at Madras 25 May 1865 to 8 Nov. 1867; col. of

11 foot 3 Sep. 1862 to death; general 6 May 1872; G.C.M.G. 1860;

K.C.B. 9 Oct. 1865. _d._ 80 St. George’s square, London 6 Feb.

1874.

LE MESSURIER, ALEXANDER PETER. _b._ 1797 or 1798; entered Bombay

army 1819; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 8 Oct. 1839,

lieut.-col. 1 Dec. 1851 to 28 Nov. 1854; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I.

28 Nov. 1854 to 1856, of 10 N.I. 1856–7, of 12 N.I. 1857–60, of

10 N.I. again 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with rank of

M.G. _d._ 5 Inverness place, Hyde park, London 17 Feb. 1876.

LE MESSURIER, AUGUSTUS SMITH. _b._ 1800; barrister L.I. 22 Nov.

1821; practised with great success at Bombay 30 years; advocate

general of presidency of Bombay 1847 to 1857 when he returned to

England. _d._ 50 Upper Baker st. Portman square, London 8 Dec.

1876. _Solicitors’ Journal 16 Dec. 1876 p._ 132.

LE MESSURIER, GEORGE PAUL. Entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 2

Bombay N.I. 4 Jany. 1819; captain 14 N.I. 22 July 1826, major 15

Sep. 1841 to 2 March 1846; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 1846–8, of 24

N.I. 1848–9, of 22 N.I. 1849 to death. _d._ Wimpole st. London 6

Feb. 1852.

LEMOINNE, JOHN EMILE. _b._ London 17 Oct. 1815, and first

educated in England; joined staff of the Journal des Débats

1840, with which paper he remained to his death; member of

French academy 13 May 1875; a life senator 23 Feb. 1880; author

of Wellington from a French point of view 1852; Etudes critiques

et biographiques 1862; and of Letters of J. Lemoinne on the

exhibition of 1851, in D. Lardner’s The Great exhibition 1852.

_d._ Paris 14 Dec. 1892. _The Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 14,

_portrait_.

LEMON, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (3 son of sir Wm. Lemon

1748–1824). _b._ Whitehall, London 30 Sep. 1784; ed. Harrow;

M.A. of Camb. univ. 1833; M.P. Penryn 1807–12, and 1830–31; M.P.

Cornwall 1831–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832–41 and 1842–57; F.R.S.

23 May 1822; a founder of Statistical soc. 1834, and a trustee

1838; president R. Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1833 to death;

president R. Geological soc. of Cornwall 1840–50; provincial

grand master of freemasons of Cornwall 1843–63; a commissioner

for enquiring into state of British museum 11 June 1847; special

deputy warden of the Stannaries 1852; made a collection of

exotic trees and shrubs at Carclew; author of On the proposed

tariff as it affects tin, copper and timber used in mines 1842,

and other pamphlets. _d._ Carclew near Penryn, Cornwall 12 Feb.

1868. _bur._ Mylor ch. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._

314–15, 1267.

LEMON, MARK (eld. son of Martin Lemon, hop merchant, who _m._

27 Dec. 1808 Alice Collis and _d._ 21 Jany. 1818 aged 32).

_b._ Oxford st. London 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at Cheam, Surrey;

learnt business of a hop merchant from his uncle Thomas Collis

of Boston, Lincoln 1824; manager of Verey’s brewery, Kentish

Town, London; retailer of beer at 24 Lambeth Walk, Vauxhall

1837–41; his first play, P.L. or No. 30 Strand, was produced at

Strand theatre 25 April 1835; his 5 act drama in blank verse

Arnold of Winkelried produced at Surrey theatre, July 1835;

The Avenge produced at City of London theatre opening night 27

April 1837; his 5 act play The Turf produced at Covent Garden

1842; Hearts are trumps, at Strand theatre 1849; wrote about

60 plays; lived at 11 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 1852–9;

contributed to Household Works, Once a Week, &c.; edited The

London Journal 1858–9, The Family Herald, Once a Week; started

The Field 1 Jany. 1853, edited it; secretary to Herbert Ingram

founder of Illustrated London News, for which he wrote the first

Christmas supplement; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner

with Henry Mayhew of a third share in it, edited it to his

death, at a salary originally 30/-a week and latterly £1500 per

annum; an amateur actor from 1845; gave a series of lectures

called About London, at Gallery of Illustration 6 Jany. 1862

to 1863; arranged and played chief part in a series of scenes

from the Merry Wives of Windsor entitled Falstaff, at Gallery

of Illustration, Regent st. from 12 Oct. 1868, and in North of

England and Scotland 1868–9; author of The enchanted doll 1849

and other fairy tales; also of Wait for the end 3 vols. 1863

and other novels and about 100 songs. (_m._ 28 Sep. 1839 Helen

dau. of John Romer of Upper Chelsea, jeweller, she was granted

civil list pension of £100, 3 May 1872 and _d._ Nov. 1890). He

_d._ Vine cottage, Crawley, Sussex 23 May 1870. _bur._ Ifield 27

May. _Illustrated Rev. 15 Feb. 1872 pp._ 481–88, _portrait_; _J.

H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters_ (1870) 49–60; _Appleton’s

Journal_, _viii_ 493–5, _portrait_; _E. Walford’s Representative

men_ (1868), _portrait_; _J. Hatton’s With a show in the north.

Reminiscences of Mark Lemon_ (1871), _portrait_; _The Mask_

(1868) 65–7, _portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 348 (1845), _portrait_.

NOTE.--Mr. Edward Walford, M.A., states in Notes and Queries 16 June

1888 p. 478 that Mark Lemon told him the place of his birth was a house

included in the Crystal Palace bazaar just behind Peter Robinson’s

emporium, this was probably the present No. 228 Oxford St. formerly No.

108 down to 1881 when all the houses in Oxford st. west of Tottenham

Court road were renumbered. There is a portrait of Lemon by John Leech

in his two-page cartoon called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9

Jany. 1847 as the conductor of the orchestra. In Alfred Bunn’s A word

with Punch 1847 Lemon is spoken of as Thickhead, there is a portrait

representing him as a pot boy and it is suggested that he was a tailor

and vastly like Moses. He wrote the first article in the first number

of Punch entitled The Moral of Punch. The rev. J. Richardson, LL.B.

states in his Recollections of the last half century vol. 1 (1856)

80–2 that Lemon kept the Shakespeare’s Head tavern in Wych st. Strand

for one year after his marriage. In “Mr. Punch: his origin and career”

[1870] there is a facsimile of the original prospectus of Punch in the

handwriting of Lemon.

LEMON, ROBERT (son of Robert Lemon, archivist 1779–1835). _b._

1800; employed in state paper office under his father, senior

clerk Nov. 1835; compiled indexes to Valor ecclesiasticus temp.

Hen. VIII. 1834; suggested publishing the Calendars of state

papers and interpreted a cypher which had rendered many of them

unintelligible; edited Calendars of state papers Domestic series

1547–90, 2 vols. 1856–65; F.S.A. 3 March 1836, rearranged the

society’s library 1846; author of Catalogue of a collection of

broadsides 1866. _d._ 10 Ovington sq. Brompton, London 3 Jany.

1867. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. iii_ 481–2 (1867).

LEMON, THOMAS (1 son of Thomas Lemon, lieut.-col. R.M. _d._ 4

Aug. 1856). _b._ St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester 22 June 1807; 2

lieut. R.M. 8 Oct. 1827; col. commandant 6 March 1862 to death;

L.G. 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 20 May 1859. _d._ Plymouth 22 Feb. 1875.

LEMPRIERE, GEORGE OURRY. _b._ 11 March 1787; captain R.N. 27 May

1825; retired admiral 3 Dec. 1863. _d._ Pelham, Hants. 16 Jany.

1864.

LENDRICK, JAMES WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ 1790; ed. at Trin. coll.

Dublin, gold medallist and Law’s mathematical prizeman 1810; B.

A. 1810, M.A. 1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 16 June 1859;

chairman of quarter sessions for counties of Londonderry and

Wicklow nearly 34 years. _d._ 114 Pembroke road, Dublin 19 Jany.

1872. _Irish Law Times 27 Jany. 1872 p._ 47.

LENDY, AUGUSTE FREDERIC. _b._ 1826; captain of the French army

staff; came to England as military tutor to the Orlean princes

1848; started a private military college at Sunbury house,

Sunbury-on-Thames; a successful ‘crammer’ for the army; lieut.

4th or royal South Middlesex militia 24 Nov. 1862, captain

2 May 1866, retired with hon. rank of major 1 Feb. 1879; an

amateur grower of orchids; author of The principles of war 1853;

Elements of fortification 1857; Maxims, advice and instruction

on the art of war 1857, new ed. 1864; Campaigns of Napoleon

and of Wellington 1861, nineteen parts; A practical course of

military surveying 1864. _d._ Riverside house, Sunbury-on-Thames

10 Oct. 1889. _Broad Arrow 19 Oct. 1889 p._ 479; _Gardener’s

Mag. 19 Oct. 1889_.

LENNARD, THOMAS BARRETT (1 son of sir T. B. Lennard, bart.

1761–1857). _b._ 4 Oct. 1788; ed. Charterhouse and Jesus coll.

Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; M.P. Ipswich 1820–6; M.P. Maldon

1826–37 and 1847–52; contested Maldon 26 July 1837; F.S.A. 22

May 1851. _d._ Brighton 9 June 1856.

LENNIE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1779; taught English at Edinburgh 1802 to

death; author of The principles of English grammar 1821, 85th

ed. Edinb. 1886; left an endowment of £10 a year to a school

at Craigend, Perthshire; left by his will to town council of

Edinburgh the lands of Auchenresch, Dumfriesshire for founding

in univ. of Edinb. four bursaries of £12 each to be called the

Lennie bursaries. _d._ 23 St. Andrew’s sq. Edinburgh 20 July

1852.

LENNOCK, GEORGE GUSTAVUS. _b._ 1776 or 1777; entered navy April

1789; in command of the Raven 16 guns attacked 14 brigs at

Flushing and drove 3 of them on shore 3 July 1812; captain 4

June 1814; in command of the Esk 20 guns had an action with

the Grampus and Terpsichore two American vessels 1814; retired

admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Broomrig, co. Dumfries 12 May 1866.

LENNOX, ALEXANDER FRANCIS CHARLES GORDON (son of 5 duke of

Richmond 1791–1860). _b._ 14 June 1825; cornet royal horse

guards 8 Feb. 1842, capt. 30 March 1847, sold out 14 May 1852;

M.P. Shoreham 1849–59. _d._ 25 Pont st. London 22 Jany. 1892.

LENNOX, ARTHUR GORDON (7 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819).

_b._ 2 Oct. 1806; ensign 71 foot 24 June 1823, major 6 July 1838

to 14 April 1843; lieut.-col. 72 foot 14 April 1843, placed

on h.p. 25 Feb. 1845; lieut.-col. 68 foot 14 Sep. 1852, sold

out 30 Dec. 1853; a lord of the treasury 21 May 1844 to 8 Aug.

1845; a clerk of the ordnance 7 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; M.P. for

Chichester 1831–46 when he voted for free trade and accepted the

Chiltern hundreds; returned for Yarmouth 29 July 1847, unseated

on petition 8 July 1848; lieut.-col. commandant 1 royal Sussex

militia 14 Dec. 1854 to death. _d._ Ovington sq. Brompton,

London 15 Jany. 1864.

LENNOX, GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (4 son of 5 duke of Richmond

1791–1860). _b._ Goodwood 22 Oct. 1829; cornet royal horse

guards 3 April 1846, lieut. 14 May 1852, sold out 22 April 1853;

M.P. Lymington 1860–74. _d._ 27 Berkeley square, London 27 Feb.

1877.

LENNOX, HENRY GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (brother of the preceding).

_b._ Goodwood, Sussex 2 Nov. 1821; ed. at Westminster 1836–40

and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; M.P. Chichester 1846–85;

a lord of the treasury 28 Feb. 1852 to 20 Dec. 1852 and 1 March

1858 to 14 March 1859; sec. to admiralty July 1866 to Dec. 1868;

P.C. 7 July 1874; president of board of works Feb. 1874 to July

1876; author of A winter in Madeira 1881; Forewarned, forearmed,

a statement of the strength of the English and French navies

1882, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ at his res. near Chichester 28 Aug. 1886.

LENNOX, JOHN GEORGE GORDON (2 son of 4 duke of Richmond.

1764–1819). _b._ 3 Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster; cornet 13

dragoons 24 Oct. 1811; captain 9 dragoons 27 June 1816, placed

on h.p. 25 June 1823; A.D.C. to duke of Wellington 1813;

lieut.-col. in the army 12 June 1823; gentleman of bedchamber to

prince Albert; M.P. Chichester 1819–31; M.P. Sussex 1831–2; M.P.

West Sussex 1832–41. _d._ Darland, Chatham 10 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N.

lxiii_ 495 (1873).

LENNOX, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ 1797 or 1798; entered Bengal army

1817; ensign 22 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1818; captain 43 N.I. 23

April 1830, major 11 Nov. 1847 to 14 July 1853; lieut.-col. of

67 N.I. 14 July 1853–4, of 38 N.I. 1854–6, of 22 N.I. 1856–7, of

34 N.I. 1857–9, of 63 N.I. 1859–61, of 9 N.I. 1861; retired with

rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Glasgow 5 May 1884.

LENNOX, WILLIAM PITT (4 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819).

_b._ Winestead abbey, Yorkshire 20 Sep. 1799; ed. at Westminster

1808–13; cornet royal horse guards 13 May 1813, captain 28

March 1822, sold out 25 March 1829; went to Paris with Duke of

Wellington as attaché 8 Aug. 1814, A.D.C. to the Duke 1815–8;

an extra A.D.C. to his father while governor general of Canada

1818–9; one of the pages at coronation of George IV. 19 July

1821; M.P. King’s Lynn 10 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; edited

The Review newspaper 1858; contributed to the Annuals, Once a

Week and the Court Journal; gave many lectures; is depicted by

Disraeli in Vivian Grey as Lord Prima Donna; author of Compton

Audley, or hands not hearts 3 vols. 1841; The tuft hunter 3

vols. 1843; The story of my life 3 vols. 1857; Recreations of a

sportsman 2 vols. 1862; Life of the Fifth Duke of Richmond 1862,

anon., and many other books. _d._ 34 Hans place, Sloane st.

London 18 Feb. 1881. _W. P. Lennox’s Fifty years reminiscences 2

vols._ (1863); _W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections 2 vols._ (1874).

LENTAIGNE, SIR JOHN FRANCIS O’NEILL (1 son of Benjamin Lentaigne

of Dublin, physician, _d._ 1813). _b._ 20 June 1803; ed. Trin.

coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.B. 1828; L.R.C.S.I 1830, F.R.C.S.I.

1844; government comr. of loan funds 1841; inspector general of

prisons, Ireland 1854–77; governor of Richmond district lunatic

asylum; sheriff of Monaghan 1844; contested co. Dublin 26 July

1852; a comr. of national education Ireland 1861 to death;

president of Zoological soc; president of Statistical soc.;

M.R.I.A.; C.B. 27 March 1873, K.C.B. 28 April 1880; knighted by

lord lieut. of Ireland at Dublin castle 28 April 1880; knight of

order of Pius IX. _d._ 1 Great Denmark st. Dublin 12 Nov. 1886.

LENTHALL, FRANCIS KYFFIN (3 son of Kyffin John William Lenthall

1789–1870). _b._ 30 March 1824; a lineal descendant of William

Lenthall the speaker, through whom he owned Besselsleigh manor

near Abingdon; barrister L.I. 1 May 1846; recorder of Woodstock,

Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1885; assist. revising barrister for county

and city of Worcester 1868, and for Gloucestershire 1869;

author of Correspondence by F. K. Lenthall and others respecting

the memorial to Lord Romilly 1866. _d._ Besselsleigh manor,

Berks. Jany. 1892.

LEONARD, DENIS. _b._ Kilkenny 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; an

attorney; appeared at a minor London theatre under name of Mr.

O’Neil; played sir Lucius O’Trigger at the Haymarket; acted in

America, the Southern States and Canada; acted in the provinces;

again visited America; the leading Irish actor of his time;

played Richmond to Kean’s Richard III. in Belfast 1830; played

all Tyrone Power’s Irish parts at the Haymarket, at the T.R.

Dublin 1843 &c. and in America; his drama The Foster Brothers

produced in Belfast about 1867; an attorney in Belfast and

law agent for marquess of Downshire. _d._ 8 Cromwell terrace,

Belfast 31 May 1878.

LEONARD, JOHN PATRICK. _b._ Ireland; connected with sir C. G.

Duffy in the 1848 movement in Ireland; a resident in Paris from

1849; professor of English in the Collége Chaptal to death; a

medical man in Franco-German war, attended marshall Mac Mahon

when wounded outside Sedan Aug. 1870, very friendly with the

marshall and the duchess of Magenta; published Sermon on behalf

of the distressed Irish by G. Mermillod, bishop of Hebron, a

translation 1862. _d._ Paris, Aug. 1889. _bur._ Ballymor near

Queenstown 27 Oct.

LEONARD, PETER. _b._ St. Vigeans, Arbroath 1801; L.R.C.S. Edinb.

1822; M.D. of St. Andrew’s 1851; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon

R.N. 6 March 1823, fleet surgeon 1829; inspector general of

hospitals 15 March 1865, retired 19 Sep. 1866; first inspector

general under contagious diseases act and organizer of the

administration 1866; wrote a Naval medical journal of services

in South America, for which he received sir G. Blaine’s gold

medal; deputy inspector general at Chatham, then at Haslar;

granted Greenwich hospital pension of £100 a year 24 March 1871;

author of Records of a voyage to the Western coast of Africa and

of the service in that station for the suppression of the slave

trade. Edinb. 1833. _d._ Arbroath 2 May 1888.

LEOPOLD, GEORGE CHRISTIAN FREDERICK, king of the Belgians

as Leopold I. (3 son of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of

Saxe-Cobourg 1750–1806). _b._ Cobourg 16 Dec. 1790; came to

England in 1814 and lived in lodgings at a grocer’s at 21 High

st. Marylebone; came to England 20 Feb. 1816; naturalized by act

56 George III. cap. 13, 29 March 1816; granted Claremont house

and grounds for his life. _m._ 2 May 1816 the princess Charlotte

Augusta only child of George IV., she _d._ at Claremont 6 Nov.

1817; G.C.H. 22 March 1816; a general 2 May 1816 and field

marshall 24 May 1816; G.C.B. 23 May 1816; K.G. 23 May 1816; P.C.

1 July 1816; entered into a marriage contract with Karoline

Bauer a German actress 2 July 1829 and lived with her in London

till June 1830 when contract was dissolved; declined the throne

of Greece, May 1830; resided at Claremont till 16 July 1831;

elected king of the Belgians 4 June and ascended the throne 22

July 1831. _m._ (2) 9 Aug. 1832 the princess Louise eld. dau.

of Louis Philippe king of the French, she _d._ 11 Oct. 1850;

the income of £50,000 settled on him in 1816 he continued to

hold after he became king, but after paying for keeping up

Claremont, servants’ pensions, &c. he annually returned the

balance of about £38,000 into the exchequer. _d._ Palace of

Laeken 10 Dec. 1865. _Lady Rose Weigall’s Brief memoir of the

Princess Charlotte_ (1874); _The Princess Charlotte of Wales.

By Mrs. C. R. Jones_ (1885), _portraits_; _Authentic Memoirs of

the princess Charlotte_ (1817) _portrait_; _Memoirs of prince

Leopold_ (1817), _portrait_; _Westminster Review_, _April 1885

pp._ 460–88; _Posthumous memoirs of Karoline Bauer ii_ 34–336

(1884); _Martin’s Life of prince consort_, _ii_ 249 (1876),

_portrait_; _Illustrated Times 30 Dec. 1865 p._ 413, _portrait_.

LEOTARD, MONSIEUR. _b._ Toulouse, France 1 Aug. 1838; performer

on the flying trapèze abroad; introduced the trapèze performance

into England, first appearing at the Alhambra palace, London 20

May 1861; performed at Alhambra again 1866 and reappeared there

9 April 1868; broke his leg performing at Madrid, May 1865;

made his début in America at Academy of Music, New York 29 Oct.

1868, returned to Europe 14 Nov. having made a great failure

in New York. _d._ of small pox at Toulouse about 16 Aug. 1870.

_Memoires de Léotard. Paris_ (1860), _portrait_; _C. Spencer’s

Modern gymnast_ (1866) 102 _etc._

LEPARD, JOHN. Bookseller at 108 Strand, London 1818–20; member

of firm of booksellers known as Lackington, Hughes, Harding,

Mavor and Lepard at the Temple of the Muses, 23 Finsbury place,

London 1820–5; partner with Joseph Harding at 4 Pall Mall east

1825–39; connected with Day & Martin, blacking manufacturers, 97

High Holborn in 1859. _d._ Hampstead 16 Oct. 1878 aged 87.

LEPPINGTON, JOHN CROSBY (son of rev. John C. Leppington _d._

1833). _b._ Sunderland 21 Oct. 1807; ed. at Woodhouse grove

school 1815; preached when quite a child; Wesleyan Methodist

minister at Melton Mowbray 1832; became a supernumerary in

London 1849 refusing to receive any support from the Connexional

funds; wrote much for the Wesleyan Mag.; author of The

confessional in the Church of England, and other essays on the

Anglican controversy 1860. _d._ near London 7 July 1859. _bur._

Highgate cemetery.

LE QUESNE, CHARLES (eld. son of Nicholas Le Quesne a jurat of

the royal court, Jersey, _d._ 1847). _b._ Jersey 1811; a jurat

of the royal court, Jersey 2 July 1850 to death; president of

Jersey chamber of commerce; a member of the states of Jersey;

an officer in Jersey artillery many years; author of Ireland

and the Channel islands, or a remedy for Ireland 1848; A

constitutional history of Jersey 1856. _d._ Gloucester st. St.

Heliers, Jersey 18 Aug. 1856. _bur._ Green st. cemetery 22 Aug.

_J. B. Payne’s Armorial of Jersey_ (1865) 250; _The Jersey

Independent 23 Aug. 1856 p._ 2.

LESCHALLAS, JOHN. Builder at 10 Booth st. Spitalfields, London

to death; resided at Page green, Tottenham, Middlesex, where he

_d._ 18 Oct. 1877 in 86 year; will proved 3 Dec. under £500,000;

left sums of £500 each to 13 hospitals and institutions. _The

Times 7 Dec. 1877 p._ 9.

LESLIE, ARTHUR. _b._ 1817; ensign 8 foot 20 Nov. 1838; captain

40 foot 19 June 1846, lieut.-col. 6 Aug. 1858 to 8 June 1867;

C.B. 2 May 1862. _d._ Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 12 Sep.

1878.

LESLIE, CHARLES (1 son of John Leslie 1772–1854, bishop of

Elphin 1819). _b._ 7 Oct. 1810; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833,

M.A. 1836; incumbent of Drung, co. Cavan; vicar general of

Ardagh to March 1870; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh,

March 1870, consecrated 19 April 1870, enthroned in Kilmore

cathedral 26 May 1870; the first bp. appointed after the

disestablishment of the Irish ch. _d._ the Parsonage house,

Drung, co. Cavan 8 July 1870. _bur._ Kilmore 14 July. _The Times

11 July 1870 p._ 5.

LESLIE, CHARLES JOSEPH (4 son of John Leslie 1751–1828). _b._

1785; ensign 29 foot 18 Dec. 1806; captain 60 rifles 17 May

1820, major 18 Dec. 1828 to 28 Dec. 1832 when placed on h.p.;

K.H. 1836; author of Historical records of the family of Leslie

1869. _d._ Slindon house near Arundel 10 Jany. 1870.

LESLIE, CHARLES POWELL (eld. son of Charles Powell Leslie of

Glasslough, co. Monaghan, M.P. for Monaghan, _d._ 15 Nov. 1831).

_b._ 13 Sep. 1821; ed. at Harrow, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 16

Oct. 1839; M.P. co. Monaghan 1842 to death; lord lieut. of co.

Monaghan 1858 to death; col. of Monaghan militia 6 Aug. 1857 to

death. _d._ Castle Leslie, Glasslough 26 June 1871.

LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Leslie of

Philadelphia, clockmaker, _d._ 1804). _b._ Clerkenwell, London

19 Oct. 1794; taken to Philadelphia 1800, apprenticed there to

Bradford and Inskeep, publishers 1808; a student at the R.A.

in London, Dec. 1811; his picture called Murder, exhibited at

R.A. 1813; A.R.A. Nov. 1821, R.A. 1826; visited Sir Walter

Scott at Abbotsford and painted his portrait 1824; professor

of painting at the R.A. 1848–52; exhibited 76 pictures at R.A.

and 11 at B.I. 1813–59; many of his best works are in the

National Gallery, London; author of Memoirs of the life of John

Constable, R.A. 1843, 2 ed. 1845; A hand-book for young painters

1855, 2 ed. 1870; Life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds 2 vols.

1865. _d._ 2 Abercorn place, St. John’s Wood, London 5 May 1859.

_C. R. Leslie’s Autobiographical Recollections edited by Tom

Taylor 2 vols._ (1860), _portrait_; _James Dafforne’s Pictures

by C. R. Leslie, R.A._ (1872); _Wedmore’s Masters of genre

painting_ (1879); _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_,

_ii_ 20–26; _W. Sandby’s History of Royal academy_, _ii_ 39–47

(1862); _W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869)

127–31; _Redgrave’s Century of Painters_, _ii_ 230–55, 326–46

(1866).

LESLIE, FRANK, pen name of Henry Carter (son of Joseph Carter,

glove maker). _b._ Ipswich 29 March 1821; in a dry goods house

London 1838; sent sketches to Illust. London News, May 1842

signed Frank Leslie, superintendent of the engraving department

of the paper to 1848; went to U.S. America 1848; took name of

Frank Leslie by legislative act; employed on Gleason’s Pictorial

in Boston; published The Gazette of fashion, a periodical 1854;

The New York Journal; produced first number of Frank Leslie’s

Illustrated Newspaper 14 Dec. 1855; established The Chimney

corner 1865 and afterwards other periodicals; commissioner to

Paris exhibition 1867, received gold medal; president of New

York centennial commission 1876; spent large sums of money and

in 1877 assigned his property to a trust. _d._ Fifth Avenue, New

York 10 Jany. 1880; his widow Miriam Florence assumed by legal

process name of Frank Leslie. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_

696 (1887).

LESLIE, FREDERICK, stage name of Frederick Hobson (son of

Charles Hobson of 49 Artillery place, Woolwich, military

outfitter). _b._ Woolwich 1 April 1855; ed. in France for

an architect; sang under name of Mr. Owen Hobbs at local

entertainments at Woolwich; joined amateur company at R.A.

theatre, Woolwich; appeared in London at Royalty theatre, Feb.

1878 as Colonel Hardy in Paul Pry; played at Folly theatre

1879; played at Alhambra, Marquis of Manicamp in La petite

mademoiselle 6 Oct. 1879, and Duc de la Volta in La fille

du tambour majeur 19 April 1880; played in United States of

America 1881–2, 8 months and 1883–4; acted Rip Van Winkle in

Planquette’s opera Rip Van Winkle at Comedy theatre 14 Oct. 1882

to Oct. 1883 and 6 Sep. 1884; played Ayala in The grand mogul

at Comedy 17 Dec. 1884; member of Gaiety company Dec. 1885 to

death; his chief parts at Gaiety were Jonathan Wild in Little

Jack Sheppard 26 Dec. 1885, Noitier in Monte Christo junior 23

Dec. 1886, the Monster in Frankenstein 24 Dec. 1887, Don Cæsar

de Bazan in Ruy Blas and the blasé roué 27 Sep. 1889; played

in America and Australia 1890–1; played in Cinder-Ellen Up Too

Late, as a Servant to the Prince of Belgravia, at Gaiety 24 Dec.

1891 to 25 Nov. 1892; purchased a residence at Clacton-on-Sea,

Essex; author under nom de plume of A. C. Torr (actor) with

Herbert F. Clark of Ruy Blas and the blasé roué, and with W. T.

Vincent of Cinder-Ellen up too late; wrote and composed Love in

the Lowther, a song which was very popular. _d._ 8 Tavistock

chambers, Bloomsbury, London 7 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Charlton

cemetery 10 Dec. _Theatre 2 June 1884 pp._ 322–3, _portrait_;

_Illust. sp. and dram. news 6 Nov. 1886 pp._ 200, 207,

_portrait_; _The Pelican_, _Christmas number 1892_, _portrait_;

_Strand Mag. Jany. 1893 p._ 58, _five portraits_.

LESLIE, HENRY. _b._ Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire 6 Jany. 1830;

first came on the stage at Ipswich, Aug. 1847; lessee with

Rollison of Edinburgh theatre royal 4 Sep. 1852 to 26 Jany.

1853, sole lessee 26 Jany. to 12 March 1853; first appeared in

London at Drury lane as Roderigo, Sep. 1853, at the Olympic

1853–8; started The Stage college of dramatic tuition, 36

Queen’s crescent, Haverstock hill, London, Aug. 1866; manager

of Amphitheatre and theatre royal, Liverpool for the Misses

Copeland 1868–70; manager with Mr. Pearson of Prince of Wales’

theatre, Liverpool 1870; travelled in the provinces with his own

company playing Offenbach’s Princess of Trebizond 1871; manager

of the Amphitheatre, Liverpool alone 1871, then with Lindo

Courtenay 1873–9; lessee of theatre royal, Leeds, Easter 1880

to 1881; author of The mariner’s compass, a novel 1865; How the

ghost walked. Printed in A. Halliday’s Savage Club Papers 1868;

and of the following dramas, Adrienne or the secret of a life,

Lyceum 12 Nov. 1860; The trail of sin, Victoria, Sep. 1863;

The orange girl, Surrey theatre 24 Oct. 1864; The mariner’s

compass, Astley’s theatre 4 March 1865; The sin and the sorrow,

Grecian theatre 17 Sep. 1866; Tide and time, Surrey 9 March

1867; Friendship; Love and truth; The village blacksmith. _d._

Paignton, Devon 4 March 1881.

LESLIE, HENRY JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1833; Q.C. 23 Feb.

1867. _d._ Belfield, Dundrum, co. Dublin 16 Sep. 1888.

LESLIE, JAMES (son of James Leslie, quarter master at taking

of Quebec). _b._ Kair, Kincardineshire 1786; merchant at

Montreal; served with Montreal volunteers in war of 1812,

lieut.-col. 1862; member for Montreal in Lower Canada assembly

1824 and in the Dominion assembly for Verchēres 1844–8; member

of legislative council 1848, president March to Sep. 1848;

provincial sec. 1848–51; member of the senate 1867 to death.

_d._ Montreal 1873.

LESLIE, JOHN (younger son of Charles Powell Leslie of

Glasslough, M.P. for co. Monaghan, _d._ 1800). _b._ Glasslough,

co. Monaghan 12 Oct. 1772; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.

1794, M.A. 1805; dean of Cork 5 Oct. 1807 to 1812; prebendary

of Armagh 19 March 1808 to 1812; bishop of Dromore by patent 14

Jany. 1812, consecrated at Armagh 26 Jany., enthroned by proxy

27 Feb.; translated to Elphin 16 Nov. 1819; bishop of united

dioceses of Kilmore, Ardagh and Elphin, Oct. 1841 to death. _d._

The Palace, Kilmore 22 July 1854.

LESLIE, JOHN. Ensign 69 foot 7 Aug. 1806, major 1 Jany. 1819 to

29 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 4 foot 25 Jany.

1839 to 29 Dec. 1848 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 35 foot 26

Sep. 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858. _d._ Brighton 12 Feb.

1861 aged 70.

LESLIE, JOHN ROBERT. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, fellow 1858

to death; B.A. 1852, M.A. 1856; Erasmus Smith’s professor of

natural and experimental philosophy 1870 to death. _d._ Finea,

co. Westmeath 2 Jany. 1881. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery 5 Jany.

LESLIE, MARTIN EDWARD (2 son of Thomas Haworth of Balham Wood,

Herts.) _b._ 1810; ed. at Eton; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 28 Sep. 1826,

captain 27 Oct. 1837, sold out 17 Nov. 1837; an extra foreign

service messenger at Constantinople 4 Jany. 1855 to 30 Sep.

1858, a queen’s foreign service messenger 7 Nov. 1859, resigned

13 May 1872; master of the Hampshire hounds; assisted in revival

of coaching and in placing the Old Times on the London and

Brighton road, which he often drove 1868; author of The silver

greyhound, incidents of travel 1880; Road scrapings, coaches

and coaching 1880. _m._ 11 Aug. 1835 Mary Elizabeth (2 dau. of

George Gwythyr by Henrietta countess of Rothes). She was _b._ 9

July 1811, became 16 countess of Rothes 1886 when her husband

assumed name of Leslie 20 March 1886. He _d._ 26 York st.

Portman sq. London 2 Nov. 1886. _bur._ Kensal green. _Baily’s

Mag. xlvi_ 522–3 (1886).

LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE (2 son of Edward Leslie 1792–1865,

R. of Annahilt, co. Down). _b._ co. Wexford 21 June 1826; ed.

at King William’s coll. Isle of Man, and Trin. coll. Dublin,

classical scholar 1845, B.A. 1847, LL.B. 1851, hon. LL.D.;

called to Irish bar 1850; professor of jurisprudence and

political economy in Queen’s college, Belfast 1853; barrister

L.I. 17 Nov. 1858, never practised; examiner and professor of

jurisprudence and political economy in Queen’s Univ. Ireland

1871 to death; contributed to Fraser’s Mag., Macmillan’s Mag.

and other periodicals; elected without ballot member of Athenæum

club, London Feb. 1880; author of The military systems of

Europe economically considered. Belfast 1856; Land systems and

industrial economy of Ireland, England and continental countries

1870; Financial reform 1872, 2 ed. 1872; Essays in political

and moral philosophy 1878. _d._ Botanic Avenue, Belfast 27

Jany. 1882. _T. E. Cliffe Leslie. Memorial to W. E. Gladstone.

Privately printed January 1882_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 23–26 (1881);

_Times 30 Jany. 1882 p._ 7 _col._ 2; _Irish Law Times_, _xvi_ 65

(1882).

LESLIE, THOMAS JEFFERSON (brother of Charles Robert Leslie

1794–1859). _b._ London 2 Nov. 1796; ed. at United States

military academy; paymaster of engineers 1815–38, 2 lieut. 1816,

1 lieut. 1819, major and paymaster 1838; chief of paymaster’s

department, New York district, during the civil war 1861–5;

brevet brigadier general 1865; retired 1869. _d._ New York city

25 Nov. 1874.

LESLIE, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Leslie of Warthill, Pitcraple,

Aberdeenshire). _b._ Warthill 16 March 1814; a partner in Dent

and Co., China; M.P. co. Aberdeen 1861–66. _d._ Warthill 4 March

1880.

LESSLIE, JAMES. _b._ Dundee 1802; bookseller and stationer

Kingston, Canada 1820, removed to York afterward named Toronto;

member of Toronto first city council; one of the founders

of the House of industry 1836; president of the Bank of the

People, which was merged in the Bank of Montreal; arrested at

commencement of insurrection of 1837 but released; purchased

Examiner newspaper, Toronto 1844, editor from 1845 till he sold

it in 1854; retired from business 1855. _d._ Eglinton, Ontario

19 April 1885.

LESTER, ADA (dau. of James Akhurst, wine merchant, London).

First appeared in London at Opera Comique 16 Oct. 1875 as Sophie

Creyke in W. J. Austin’s farce A Tempting Bait; leading actress

with Wm. Creswick in Australia 1877 &c.; played Florence Bertram

in H. Williamson’s drama Estranged, at Globe theatre 3 Aug.

1881; sailed from Liverpool in company with eleven artists to

fulfil an engagement in Bombay 17 Oct. 1881; drowned in the Clan

Macduff in the Irish sea 19 Oct. 1881. _The Era 29 Oct. 1881 p._

9.

LESTER, FREDERICK PARKINSON (3 son of John Lester of 1 Racquet

court, Fleet st. London, coal merchant). _b._ 3 Feb. 1795; 2

lieut. Bombay artillery 25 Oct. 1811, col. 23 Feb. 1852 to

death; served 37 years in India; commissary of stores; secretary

to military board, member of military board; introduced a

system of bookkeeping by double entry 1834; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854;

inspector general ordnance commissariat department 27 Aug.

1856 to 14 April 1857; commanded Southern division of Bombay

army at Belgaum 14 April 1857 to death; prevented the mutiny

spreading to Western India by his wise measures; found _dead_

in his bed at Belgaum 3 July 1858. _Sir George Le Grand Jacob’s

Western India_ (1871) 213–16; _W. K. Stuart’s Reminiscences of a

soldier_, _ii_ 292–5 (1874).

LESTER, JOSEPH DUNN (1 son of John Lester of Aberystwith).

_b._ 1842; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1861–5, B.A.

1865; assistant master in Wellington coll. Wokingham 1867

to death; author of A short German accidence for the use of

Wellington college 1867; A German accidence with a minor syntax

1870; Germanica, exercises in German composition 1872. _d._

Crawthorne, Wokingham 2 Dec. 1875.

LESTOURGEON, CHARLES (son of a surgeon). _b._ Cambridge 1808;

ed. Trin. coll. as a foundation scholar, 15 wrangler and B.A.

1828, M.A. 1833; L.S.A. 1841; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at

Cambridge with an extensive practice; surgeon to Addenbrooke’s

hospital 25 years; an examiner in surgery at Camb. and member of

the board of medical studies. _d._ The Close, Huntingdon road,

Cambridge 22 Feb. 1891.

L’ESTRANGE, FRANCIS. Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A.

1832; F.R.C.S.I. 1833; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1859; L.M. Rotunda hospital

1859; surgeon dentist 39 Dawson st. Dublin to 1872; state

surgeon dentist to lord lieutenant; invented Patent truss and

Screw lithotrite tourniquet. _d._ Landour, Raglan road, Dublin 6

Jany. 1875 aged 72.

L’ESTRANGE, SIR GEORGE BURDETT (2 son of Henry Peisley

L’Estrange of Moystown, King’s county). _b._ 1796; ed. at

Westminster sch. 1807–10; ensign 31 regt. 1812; present at

Vittoria; ensign 3 foot guards 2 July 1815, placed on h.p. 11

July 1822; chamberlain to Earl St. Germans, viceroy of Ireland

1853–55; gentleman usher of the black rod to order of St.

Patrick 1858 to death; knighted by Earl of Carlisle at Dublin

1860. _d._ Harcourt road, Dublin 5 Feb. 1878. _Recollections of

sir G. B. L’Estrange_ (1874).

LE STRANGE, HENRY L’ESTRANGE STYLEMAN (only son of Henry

Styleman of Hunstanton, Norfolk). _b._ 25 Jany. 1815; ed. at

Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1837; travelled in Portugal, Spain

and Egypt; assumed additional name of Le Strange by r.l. 1839;

declared by House of Lords coheir of barony of Camoys 1839 and

coheir of barony of Hastings 1841; contested West Norfolk 1847;

drew a design for decoration of tower of Ely cathedral 1853,

carried out by him 1855, painted half the roof of the nave

1858–62; made the cartoons for St. Albans, Holborn 1860–2, the

work was carried out by his cousin Frederick Preedy; member

of royal commission on fresco-painting in England, Feb. 1862.

_d._ suddenly of heart disease in London 27 July 1862. _bur._

Hunstanton.

L’ESTRANGE, JOHN. _b._ Norwich 18 Jany. 1836; clerk in the

stamp office at Norwich; made large collections for history of

Norfolk and city of Norwich, most of which came into possession

of Walter Rye who edited and published his Calendar of the

freemen of Norwich from 1317 to 1603, 1888; transcribed four of

the churchwardens’ books of Norwich; his collections from the

wills of the Norwich registry are bound in 4 vols. folio; edited

Eastern Counties Collectanea 24 numbers Jany. 1872 to Dec.

1873; author of The church bells of Norfolk. Norwich 1874. _d._

13 Oct. 1877.

LETBY, RICHARD. _b._ York 7 Jany. 1809; livery stable keeper

and landlord of the Cricketer’s Arms, York; the crack batsman

at York; connected with the York club 30 years; played in York

_v._ Harewood at York 30 May 1833; presented with a handsome

testimonial by the members of the York club 7 Sep. 1859.

_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 211 (1862).

LETHBRIDGE, AMBROSE GODDARD (3 son of sir Thomas Buckler

Lethbridge, 2 baronet 1778–1849). _b._ Pulteney st. Bath 15 Aug.

1804; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831;

fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1827–52; proctor of the univ. 1839;

barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832; recorder of Wells 1834–52. _d._

Eastbrooke house, Taunton 21 Nov. 1875. _Law Times_, _lx_ 114

(1875).

LETHBRIDGE, JOHN ARSCOTT. _b._ Okehampton, Devon 28 Feb. 1787;

ed. at Christ hospital where he gained many silver medals;

midshipman H.E.I.Co.’s navy Dec. 1802; paymaster R.N. 13 Jany.

1808; sec. of Greenwich hospital 6 April 1834 to 21 Oct. 1853.

_d._ Greenwich 16 July 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 310 (1854).

LETHBRIDGE, JOSEPH WATTS. _b._ Plymouth 20 Jany. 1817; entered

Cheshunt college 1843; a minister of Lady Huntingdon’s connexion

at Kidderminster 1846, at Rochdale, at Melbourne, Derbyshire

1850–5; became Independent minister at Byfield, Northamptonshire

to 1862, at Leicester 1862–8; town missionary at Wellingborough

1873–83; author of The Shakspere almanac for 1849; Woman the

glory of man 1856; Loving thoughts for human hearts 1860; The

Idyls of Solomon: the Hebrew marriage week arranged in dialogue

1878. _d._ Wellingborough 27 July 1885. _Congregational Year

Book_ (1886) 190.

LETHBRIDGE, SIR JOHN HESKETH, 3 Baronet (brother of A. G.

Lethbridge 1804–75). _b._ Pulteney st. Bath 1798; ed. at

Eton; lieut.-col. 2 Somerset militia to 1839; member of Mr.

Farquharson’s hunt in Dorset; at the Bedford spring meeting

riding his horse Trump won a match of one mile leaping two

hurdles 1837; succeeded 17 Oct. 1849. _d._ 6 Hillsborough

terrace, Ilfracombe 1 March 1873. _New Sporting mag. xiv_ 286

(1838), _portrait_.

LETHBRIDGE, THOMAS BRIDGEMAN. _b._ 28 Oct. 1828; naval cadet 9

March 1842, captain 19 Sep. 1863, R.A. 31 Dec. 1878; commanded

the Renown wooden steam battle ship 1858; flag capt. in the

Northumberland and the Black Prince and to sir W. K. Hall at

Sheerness 1863; senior officer on the coast of Ireland 1883–5;

commander in chief at the Nore 1888, retired 1890; resided at

Southsea. _d._ 51 Curzon st. Mayfair, London, the res. of his

son in law James Davis 30 Dec. 1892.

LETHEBY, HENRY. _b._ Plymouth 1816; L.S.A. 1837; M.B. London

1842; M.A. and Ph. D. of a German university; lecturer on

chemistry and toxicology at London hospital; medical officer

of health and analyst of food for city of London, Oct. 1855,

resigned 1874; chief examiner of gas for metropolis under board

of trade; F.L.S., F.C.S.; wrote many papers in The Lancet and

other scientific periodicals; author of Reports on the sanitary

condition of London 3 vols. 1856–7; Reports to the commissioners

of sewers 3 vols. 1856–58; On food, its varieties, composition,

nutritive value, adulteration, etc. Cantor lectures 1870, 2 ed.

1872. _d._ 17 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 28 March 1876.

_bur._ Highgate cemet. 1 April. _Medical Press and Circular_,

_i_ 290–91, 306 (1876); _I.L.N. lxviii_ 373, 374 (1876),

_portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 366, 381 (1876), _portrait_.

LE THIERE, SOPHIE ADÉLE GUILLON (eld. dau. of Madame Michaud,

professor of dancing). Professor of dancing under name of Madame

Adelaide at 109 New Bond st. London 1855 to death. _d._ 109 New

Bond st. 5 March 1883.

LETTS, THOMAS (son of John Letts of London, bookbinder).

_b._ Stockwell, London 1803; stationer with his father at 95

Cornhill, succeeded to the business, carried it on at 8 Royal

Exchange 1838 to death; devoted himself specially to manufacture

of diaries, of which he was issuing 28 varieties in 1839, also

issued interest tables, medical diaries, office calendars, &c.

of which he sold several hundred thousand annually; erected

large factories at North road, New Cross 1865, the business was

turned into a limited liability company shortly after his death,

but in 1885 the company went into liquidation, and the business

was purchased by Cassell & Co.; Lett’s Diaries are descanted on

by Thackeray in his Roundabout Papers No. 18 in Cornhill Mag.

Jany. 1862. _d._ Granville park, Lewisham 9 Aug. 1873.

LETTSOM, WILLIAM GARROW. _b._ 1804; attaché at Berlin 5 Aug.

1831, at Munich 1834; paid attaché at Washington 21 Dec. 1840;

sec. of legation at Mexico 12 July 1854, and chargé d’affaires

4 May 1855 to 19 May 1858; chargé d’affaires and consul

general to Uruguay 9 Sep. 1859, retired on a pension of £900,

29 July 1869; F.R.A.S.; author with R. P. Greg of Manual of the

mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland 1858. _d._ 142 Norwood

road, Lower Norwood, Surrey 14 Dec. 1887.

LETTSOM, WILLIAM NANSON (son of John Miers Lettsom, physician

1771–99). _b._ 4 Feb. 1796; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,

B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, where he printed Epigrammata numismate

annuo dignata 1816; Poema numismate annus dignatum 1816; author

of The fall of the Nibelungers: otherwise the book of Kriemhild,

a translation 1850, 2 ed. 1873; The song of Flogawaya 1856,

anon., a parody on Hiawatha; edited W. S. Walker’s Shakespeare’s

Versification 1854 and his A critical examination of the text of

Shakespeare 1860. _d._ 43 Westbourne park, London 3 Sep. 1865.

LEUPOLT, CHARLES BENJAMIN. _b._ 1805; ed. Missionary coll.

Basel, Switzerland; ordained by Bp. of Lincoln 1831; missionary

of Church missionary soc. at Benares 1832–72; R. of Brampton,

Norfolk 1874 to death; author of Recollections of an Indian

missionary 1846, 2 ed. 1863; Further recollections of an Indian

missionary 1884, portrait. _d._ Marsham hall, Norwich 16 Dec.

1884.

LEVANDER, HENRY CHARLES (1 son of James Levander). _b._ Norwich

1826; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850,

M.A. 1863; a classical master in Univ. coll. sch. London

1866–84; a great freemason; F.R.A.S. 12 April 1872; author of

The public school French grammar by A. Brachet, revised by P. H.

E. Brette and H. C. Levander 1884, new ed. 1884. _d._ 30 North

villas, Camden sq. London 4 Dec. 1884. _bur._ West Hampstead

cemetery 6 Dec. _Monthly notices R. Astronom. soc. xlv_ 193

(1885).

LEVEN and MELVILLE, DAVID LESLIE-MELVILLE, Earl of. _b._

Spring gardens, London 22 June 1785; styled Viscount Balgonie

1785–1820; lieut. R.N. 8 Aug. 1806, captain 28 Feb. 1812;

succeeded his father as 11 Earl of Leven and 8 Earl of Melville

22 Feb. 1820; R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired V.A. 27 Sep. 1855;

representative peer for Scotland 1831 to death. _d._ Melville

house, Fifeshire 8 Oct. 1860.

LEVEN and MELVILLE, JOHN THORNTON LESLIE-MELVILLE, Earl of. _b._

18 Dec. 1786; succeeded his brother 8 Oct. 1860 as 12 Earl of

Leven and 9 Earl of Melville; a representative peer for Scotland

1865 to death. _d._ Glenferness near Dunphail, Nairnshire 18

Sep. 1876, personalty under £300,000, 2 Oct. 1876. _I.L.N. lxix_

324, 327 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 337, 339 (1876),

_portrait_.

LEVER, CHARLES (son of Ellis Lever). _b._ Gorton near Manchester

15 Feb. 1862; member of majority of the electrical societies

in Europe and America; patented his electric lamp 1881; had a

diploma for his services at London fisheries exhibition 1883;

resided at Culcheth hall, Bowden, Cheshire; found dead in his

bed at the res. of his father Tan-y-Bryn, Colwyn bay, Carnarvon

5 Jany. 1890. _I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 111, _portrait_.

LEVER, _Charles James_ (younger son of James Lever of Dublin,

builder 1763–1833). _b._ Amiens st. Dublin 31 Aug. 1806; entered

Trin. coll. Dublin as a pensioner 14 Oct. 1822, B.A. 1827, B.M.

1831, LL.D. 1871; M.D. Louvain; practised as a physician at

Derry and Coleraine; became a contributor to Dublin Univ. mag.

May 1836 and editor March 1842 to 1845; physician at Brussels

1837–41; travelled in Germany and Italy 1845–58; vice consul

at Spezzia 26 Nov. 1858 to 13 Feb. 1867 when the post was

abolished; consul general at Trieste 2 March 1867 to death;

author of The confessions of Harry Lorrequer. Dublin 1839,

anon.; Charles O’Malley the Irish dragoon. Edited by Harry

Lorrequer 2 vols. 1841; Arthur O’Leary: his wanderings and

ponderings in many lands. Edited by his friend Harry Lorrequer

3 vols. 1844; Our Mess, vol. 1 Jack Hinton the guardsman, vols.

2 and 3 Tom Burke of ours 3 vols. 1843; The knight of Gwynne

2 vols. 1847; The O’Donoghue 1845; Diary and notes of Horace

Templeton, Esq. 2 vols. 1848, anon.; The confessions of Con

Cregan the Irish Gil Blas 2 vols. 1849, anon.; Roland Cashel 2

vols. 1850; The Daltons 2 vols. 1852; Lord Kilgobbin 3 vols.

1872; Novels, new ed. illustrated 33 vols. 1876–8. _d._ Trieste

1 June 1872. _Fitzpatrick’s Life of C. Lever 2 vols._ (1879),

_New ed._ (1884), _portrait_; _Illustrated Rev. ii_ 1–5 (1870),

_portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 98–100, _portrait_;

_Modern men of letters by J. H. Friswell_ (1870) 171–82 _Dublin

Univ. Mag._ (1880) 465, 570; _Blackwood’s Mag. April 1862 pp._

452–72, _July 1872 pp._ 129–30, _and Sep. 1872 pp._ 327–60;

_I.L.N. lx_ 581, 582 (1872), _portrait_, _lxi_ 431 (1872);

_Graphic_, _v_ 600, 611 (1872), _portrait_.

NOTE.--His only son Charles Sidney Lever, lieutenant 2 dragoon guards

1860–2, _d._ Florence 28 Sep. 1863 aged 26.

LEVER, JOHN CHARLES WEAVER. _b._ Plumstead, Kent 28 Sep. 1811;

M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1834; M.D. Giessen 1842; M.R.C.P. 1842;

surgeon Bridgehouse place, Newington-causeway, Surrey 1834–42;

president Hunterian soc.; physician 12 Wellington st. London

bridge 1842 to death, he almost monopolized the consulting

practice of the south of London; lecturer on midwifery and

physician-accoucheur Guy’s hospital 1845; author of Case of

hidrosis or hidrotic fever 1837; A treatise on diseases of the

uterus 1843. d. London 29 Dec. 1858. _Lancet_, _i_ 75 (1859);

_Catalogue Surgeon general’s library_, _viii_ 89 (1887).

LEVERELL, W. H. _b._ London 1 Dec. 1832; ed. Kingston gram.

sch.; apprentice to Cox & Son, printers, London; a sculler;

took part in the swimming races 1846–53; swam many times at the

Holborn baths, where in 1852 he was the champion swimmer; in

the light division in the Crimea 1854–5, attached to the land

transport corps, went on two expeditions to Kertch, received

Sebastopol and Turkish medals; again a printer; on staff of

Bell’s Life in London from March 1870; connected also with

The Field and The Glowworm. _d._ London 24 April 1886. _bur._

Brompton cemetery 30 April. _Sporting Mirror_, _ii_ 165–6

(1881), _portrait_.

LEVESON, HENRY ASTBURY. _b._ 18 June 1828; entered Madras army

10 Jany. 1845, ensign 13 Madras N.I. 2 April 1845, lieut. 15

Dec. 1846, resigned 15 April 1853; a well known sportsman in

India 1845–53; on Turkish staff in Crimean war, being only

English officer so employed; at the Alma, at Inkerman and at

siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served with Garibaldi in 1860;

colonial sec. at Lagos 1863, where in fighting the natives he

received an iron bullet in his head, from the effect of which he

never fully recovered, invalided home 8 Feb. 1864, voted £500

by the colony and £500 by parliament; served in the Abyssinian

war 1868; killed more game in all parts of the world than any

other man; author of The spear and the rifle, or recollections

of sport in India. By An Old Shekarree 1860; The hunting grounds

of the old world 1860; England rendered impregnable by the

organisation and equipment of national forces 1871; The forest

and the field. By H.A.L., the Old Shekarree 1867, 2 ed. 1874;

Camp life and its acquirements for soldiers, travellers and

sportsmen 1872; Wrinkles or hints to sportsmen and travellers

1874. _d._ at residence of his mother 4 Lansdowne terrace west,

Brighton 7 Sep. 1875. _Sport in many lands. By H.A.L. 2 vols._

(1879), _memoir vol. i pp. xv–xxxii_, _portrait_; _Illust. sp.

and dr. news_, _iii_ 585, 587 (1875), _portrait_.

LEVETT, JOHN. _b._ Battersea, Surrey 1 June 1826; ran John

Tetlow of Hollingwood 4 miles for £50, Hyde Park, Sheffield 16

March 1852; ran George Frost the Suffolk stag for £100, the

championship and belt, Copenhagen grounds, Islington 22 March

1852 running 10 miles and 252 yards in 52 min. 35 sec.; won the

20 mile race at Copenhagen grounds 29 March 1852; ran Richard

Manks the Warwickshire Antelope for £50 at Hyde park, Sheffield

3 Dec. 1855 eleven miles in 1 hour; one of best known long

distance runners; sprained his tendon Achilles about 1861 and

had to give up running; a trainer of pedestrians; wrote a series

of papers on How to train, in Illust. Sport. News 1862; wrote

a farce produced at Queen’s Royal theatre, Dublin, in which he

himself appeared 1861. _Illust. Sporting News_ (1862) 53, 100, 2

_portraits_.

LEVEY, GEORGE. _b._ at place afterwards known as Westward

Ho, Devon 12 Oct. 1802; member of firm of Levey, Robson and

Franklyn, printers at 46 St. Martin’s lane, London 1836–41, then

at 24 Great New st. 1841–64, carried on business alone at same

address 1864–70, afterwards at 1 and 2 West Harding st. 1870 to

death; author of Specimens of printing types in office of Levey,

Robson and Franklyn 1850, in 20 languages. _d._ Camberwell 2

Feb. 1873.

LEVEY, JOHN (youngest son of Richard Michael Levey of Dublin).

An Irish character actor; dramatist; author of many pantomimes

played in Yorkshire and Lancashire; lessee of several theatres.

_d._ Seaforth, Liverpool 17 Sep. 1891. _bur._ in ground of R.C.

chapel, Crosby.

LEVI, LEONE (2 son of Isaac Levi a Jewish merchant at Ancona).

_b._ Ancona 6 June 1821; entered office of his brother a

merchant 1836; merchant at Liverpool 1844–7; naturalised 16

Jany. 1847; clerk in a mercantile house at Liverpool; advocated

chambers of commerce; hon. sec. of Liverpool chamber of commerce

1849; lectured in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and elsewhere

1851–2; professor of principles and practice of commerce at

King’s college, London 1852 to death; fellow of Statistical

Soc. 1851, member of council 1860, vice pres. 1885; F.S.A. 14

Dec. 1854; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; a knight of the Italian

orders of SS. Mauritius and Lazarus and of the Crown of Italy;

became a member of Presbyterian church in England about 1846;

author of Commercial law, its principles and administration

2 vols. 1851–2, 2nd ed. entitled International commercial law

2 vols. 1863; The law of nature and nations as affected by

divine law 1855; Annals of British legislation 18 vols. 1856–68;

History of British commerce and of the economic progress of the

British nation 1763–1870. 1872, 2 ed. 1880. _d._ 31 Highbury

grove, Highbury, London 7 May 1888. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 12

May. _L. Levi’s The story of my life. Privately printed_ (1888);

_Journal of royal statistical soc. li_ 340–2 (1888); _I.L.N.

xxvi_ 653, 654 (1855), _portrait_; _London Figaro 19 May 1888

p._ 11, _portrait_; _Law Journal_, _xxiii_ 259 (1888).

LEVICKE, HENRY. The first European who took up his permanent

abode at Suez 1846; pioneer of the mail service through Egypt;

assisted lieut. Waghorn in arranging overland route 1845, often

accompanied the dromedary mail across the desert; the first

English acting vice-consul at Suez 1839 to June 1851; packet

agent and postmaster to Her Majesty and agent to the H.E.I.Co.;

the government ignored his claim to a pension for 41 years

service. _d._ Dieppe, Oct. 1887. _bur._ there 28 Oct., left a

widow and 22 children.

LEVIEN, EDWARD (1 son of John Levien of Marylebone). _b._ 1819;

ed. Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846;

connected with univ. of Glasgow; assistant in MS. department,

British museum 6 May 1850 to 1874; hon. sec. of British Archæol.

Association, editor of the Annual Proceedings and writer of many

papers in the Journal; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1858; author of A brief

description of the town of Hadleigh in Suffolk 1853; Outlines

of the history of Greece by W. D. Hamilton and E. Levien 1853;

Outlines of the history of Rome 2 vols. 1855–6, never finished;

Memoirs of Socrates for English readers, with notes 1872. _d._

24 Camden st. London 7 Nov. 1874. _Journal British Archæol.

Assoc. xxi_ 229 (1875).

LEVINGE, SIR RICHARD GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 7 Baronet (eld. son of

Sir Richard Levinge, 6 baronet 1765–1848). _b._ 1 Nov. 1811;

ensign 43 foot 25 Nov. 1828, lieut. 8 April 1834; served in

suppression of Canadian rebellion 1837–8; placed on h.p. with

rank of captain 15 May 1840; captain 5 dragoon guards 27 Jany.

1843, sold out same day; lieut.-col. of Westmeath militia 3

Jany. 1846 to 22 Aug. 1850; sheriff of Westmeath 1851; contested

Westmeath 22 July 1852 and 13 Feb. 1874; M.P. for Westmeath 1857

to 1865; author of Echoes from the backwoods, or sketches of

transatlantic life 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1859; Historical notices

of the Levinge family. Ledestown 1853; A day with the Brookside

harriers at Brighton 1858; Historical records of the forty third

regiment Monmouthshire light infantry 1868. _d._ Brussels 28

Sep. 1884.

LEVY, AMY (2 dau. of Lewis Levy of London). _b._ 16 Percy

place, Clapham road, Surrey 1862; ed. at Brighton and Newnham

coll. Camb. 1880–81; wrote poetry at 12 years of age; a writer

in Dublin Univ. Mag., Temple Bar, Atalanta, London Society,

The Jewish Chronicle, &c.; author of Xantippe and other verse.

Cambridge 1881; A minor poet and other verses 1884; The romance

of a shop 1888; Reuben Sachs 1888; A London plane tree and other

verse 1889; Miss Meredith 1889; translated Jean Baptiste Pérès’

brochure Comme quoi Napoléon n’a jamais existé, Paris 1876

under title of Historic doubts or the non-existence of Napoleon

proved. Edited by Lily 1885; committed suicide by inhaling fumes

of charcoal at her father’s residence, 7 Endsleigh gardens,

London 10 Sep. 1889, cremated at Woking 13 Sep., ashes _bur._

Balls Pond cemetery 15 Sep. _The Jewish Chronicle 13 Sep. 1889

p._ 6 _and 20 Sep. p._ 7; _The Woman’s World_, _Nov. 1889 pp._

51–2, _portrait_; _Universal Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 492–507.

LEVY, JOHN. _b._ 1805; a journalist many years; called to Irish

bar 1845; reported for Irish Jurist, Irish Law Reports and Irish

Law Times; author of The law and practice of bankruptcy and

insolvency. Dublin 4 ed. 1862; fell down dead in Dame st. Dublin

17 May 1870.

LEVY, JOSEPH MOSES (son of Moses Lionel Levy _d._ 1830 aged

65). _b._ London 15 Dec. 1812; ed. at Bruce Castle school and

in Germany; printer in Shoe lane, Fleet st. London; chief

proprietor of the Sunday Times 1855–6, conducted it 1855–6;

took over the Daily Telegraph from Col. B. W. A. Sleigh and

issued it at a penny 17 Sep. 1855, being the first London daily

penny paper, managed the paper to his death. _d._ Florence

cottage, Ramsgate 12 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Balls Pond cemet. London,

personalty over £525,000.

LEWELLIN, _Llewelyn_ (son of Richard Lewellin of Coyty,

Glamorganshire). _b._ 1799; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar

1821–6; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1829; master of the

schools Oxf. 1825–26; preb. of St. David’s 1827; principal of

St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827 to death; V. of Pembryn,

Cardiganshire 1832; V. of Lampeter 15 Oct. 1833 to death;

sinecure R. of Llangelen 1843 to death; dean of St. David’s 26

March 1840 to death, the last non-resident dean; author of Reply

to N. Davies’s Notes on the cathedral church of St. David’s

1853, 2 ed. 1853. _d._ about 30 Nov. 1878.

LEWES, CHARLES LEE (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 1843;

ed. at Hofwyl, Switzerland; clerk in the Post Office, London,

Aug. 1860 to Oct. 1886; one of the secretaries of Hampstead

Heath extension committee, which raised £52,000 for purchase of

Parliament hill 1887; member of the first London county council

for the St. Pancras district 7 Jany. 1889 to death; contributed

to Nineteenth Century and Blackwood’s Mag.; residuary legatee

of “George Eliot” 1880 and owner of the copyright of all her

works and those of his father; edited Essays and leaves from a

note book, by George Eliot 1884; translator of In the year ’13,

a tale of Mecklenburg life by Fritz Reuter 1867; Emilia Galotti

by G. E. Lessing 1868; Count Bismarck by L. Bamberger 1869. _d._

Luxor, Egypt 26 Feb. 1891.

LEWES, GEORGE HENRY (grandson of Charles Lee Lewes, actor

1740–1803). _b._ London 18 April 1817; ed. in London, Jersey,

Brittany and at Greenwich; in a notary’s office; employed by

a Russian merchant; a medical student a short time; visited

Germany 1838; appeared at the Whitehall theatre in Garrick’s

comedy The Guardian 1841, played in Dickens’ amateur company

1848, played Shylock 1849; acted in his own tragedy The Noble

Heart, at the Olympic Feb. 1850 and in the provinces 1850;

wrote many articles in the quarterly reviews; wrote The game of

speculation, produced at Lyceum 2 Oct. 1851 and 9 other plays

produced at Lyceum, all written under pseudonyms of Slingsby

Lawrence and Frank Churchill; founded with T. L. Hunt The

Leader 1850, editor for literary subjects to July 1854. _m._ 18

Feb. 1841 Agnes eld. dau. of Swynfen Stevens Jervis, M.P. for

Bridport, he left her in July 1854 and went to Germany with Mary

Ann Evans known as “George Eliot,” he passed as her husband for

the rest of his life; edited Fortnightly Review, May 1865 to

Dec. 1866; lived at the Priory, St. John’s Wood, London 1863

to death; author of The life of Maximilien Robespierre 1845;

A biographical history of philosophy 4 vols. 1845–6, 5 ed. 1

vol. 1880; The Spanish drama, Lope de Vega and Calderon 1846;

Rose, Blanche and Violet 3 vols. 1848; The life and works of

Goethe 2 vols. 1855; Studies in animal life 1862; Problems of

life and mind 5 vols. 1874–9; Our actors and the art of acting

1875. _d._ The Priory, 21 North bank, St. John’s Wood, London

30 Nov. 1878. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 4 Dec. _T. Ribot’s English

Psychology_ (1873) 255–314; _H. D. Traill’s New Lucian_ (1884)

268–87; _Fortnightly Review Jany. 1879 pp._ 15–24; _Graphic_,

_xviii_ 624 (1878), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiii_ 565 (1878),

_portrait_.

LEWIN, FREDERICK ALBERT (4 son of Robert Lewin of Cuddington,

Surrey). _b._ Jany. 1842; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 7th wrangler

1864, B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867; fellow of his college 1864–9;

barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; equity draftsman and conveyancer;

author of The law of apportionment 1869; edited Thomas Lewin’s

A practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 6 ed.

1875, 7 ed. 1878, 8 ed. 1885. _d._ suddenly from heart disease,

9 Bolton gardens west, Kensington 25 June 1887.

LEWIN, MALCOLM. _b._ 1800; judge of the Sudder court at Madras

1841–7; member of council 1845–7; author of Is the practice

of torture in Madras with the sanction of the authorities in

Leadenhall street 1856; Torture in Madras 1857; The government

of the East India company and its monopolies 1857; The way to

lose India 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The way to regain India 1858. _d._

31 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 5 March 1869.

LEWIN, THOMAS (5 son of Spencer James Lewin, V. of Ifield,

Sussex, _d._ 1842 aged 76). _b._ Ifield 19 April 1805; ed. at

Merchant Taylors’ and Worcester coll. Oxf.; scholar of Trin.

coll. 1825; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1833;

a conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1852 to death;

F.S.A. 19 March 1863; visited Jerusalem 1863; author of A

practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 1837, 5 ed.

1867, 9 ed. by C. C. M. Dale 1891; The life and epistles of St.

Paul 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1875; The invasion of Britain by Julius

Cæsar 1859, 2 ed. 1862; The siege of Jerusalem by Titus 1863;

Fasti Sacri, or a key to the chronology of the new testament

1865. _d._ 6 Queen’s gate place, London 5 Jany. 1877.

LEWIS, ALBERT (youngest son of Joseph Lewis of St. Vincent, West

Indies, merchant). _b._ 1835; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870;

Q.C. St. Vincent 27 Aug. 1879; attorney general of Tobago 1879;

acting chief justice of St. Lucia and Tobago 1884–5; judge of

assistant court of appeal of Barbadoes to death. _d._ 1 March

1889.

LEWIS, ARTHUR JAMES (son of general Robert Lewis, quartermaster

general to the Bombay army, _d._ 4 Sep. 1838 aged 74). _b._

Bombay 1801; named after his godfather the duke of Wellington;

ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 16

May 1828; advocate general of Bombay 1857 to death; member of

council of governor of Bombay for making laws and regulations.

_d._ in a room adjoining high court of Bombay 14 Nov. 1865.

LEWIS, CHARLES BLAKE. _b._ 1854; ed. King’s coll. London; won

the mile challenge cup in the United hospital athletic sports

several years in succession; M.R.C.S. 1877; L.R.C.P. Edinb.

1880; surgeon in the army 5 Feb. 1881; while with the army in

Egypt _d._ of cholera at El Warden 30 July 1883; a brass to his

memory erected in chapel of Royal Victoria hospital, Netley,

Jany. 1885. _Medical Times 24 Jany. 1885 p._ 117.

LEWIS, CHARLES CARNE (3 son of John Lewis 1768–1853, R. of

Ingatestone, Essex). _b._ Ingatestone rectory 28 Feb. 1807;

articled to Charles Parker of Chelmsford; solicitor at Brentwood

1829 to death; coroner for South Essex 1833 to death. _d._ the

Mansion house, Brentwood 26 July 1882. _bur._ at Ingatestone.

LEWIS, SIR CHARLES EDWARD, 1 Baronet (3 son of rev. George Wm.

Lewis, minister of chapel of ease, Ramsgate, _d._ 1858). _b._

Wakefield, Yorkshire 25 Dec. 1825; solicitor in London, Jany.

1847, retired Nov. 1876; partner with John Harrison at 14 New

Boswell court, Lincoln’s Inn, then head of firm of Lewis, Munns

and Longden 8 Old Jewry; election agent for the conservatives

in West Kent 1857–74; M.P. city of Londonderry 22 Nov. 1872 to

Oct. 1886 when unseated on petition; M.P. North Antrim 1887–92;

created baronet 6 April 1887; author of The four reformed

parliaments 1842; The election manual for England and Wales

1857, 3 ed. 1865; The bankruptcy manual 1861, 4 ed. 1861; Two

lectures on a short visit to America 1876. _d._ 36 Hyde park

gate, London 10 Feb. 1893. _J. Diprose’s Parish of St. Clement

Danes_, _ii_ 36–7 (1876), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iii_ 209–11

(1880).

LEWIS, CHARLES GEORGE (2 son of Frederick Christian Lewis

1779–1856). _b._ Enfield, Middlesex 13 June 1808; learnt drawing

and engraving from his father; engraved many plates after Sir

Edwin Landseer, Rosa Bonheur and other painters; exhibited an

engraving at R.A. 1875; retired about 1877. _d._ Felpham near

Bognor, Sussex 16 June 1880.

LEWIS, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ London 1830; painter of landscapes

and genre subjects; exhibited 40 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I.

and 35 at Suffolk st. gallery 1853–80; member of Royal Institute

of painters in water-colours 1882; exhibited also at Dudley and

Portland galleries; resided at Cheyne house, Upper Cheyne row,

Chelsea 1859–84, and from 1884 to death at 122 Cheyne Walk,

where he _d._ 28 Jany. 1892. _M. B. Huish’s The year’s art for

1892 p._ 106, _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 1892 p._ 4,

_portrait_.

LEWIS, ESTELLE ANNA BLANCHE (dau. of John Robinson a wealthy

planter of Anglo-Spanish birth). _b._ near Baltimore, U.S.

America, April 1824; while at school she translated the Æneid

into English verse, and composed The Forsaken, a ballad much

praised by Edgar A. Poe; (_m._ 1841 Sidney D. Lewis of Brooklyn,

New York, barrister); she resided many years in England;

Lamartine called her the ‘Female Petrarch’ and Poe ‘the rival

of Sappho’; author of Records of the heart. By Stella. New York

1844, another ed. New York 1857, another ed. entitled Poems.

London 1866; Sappho of Lesbos. London 1868, a tragedy which

reached a 7th ed. and was translated into modern Greek and

played at Athens. _d._ 29 Bedford place, London 24 Nov. 1880.

_bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 29 Nov. _Appleton’s American Biog.

iii_ 703 (1887), _portrait_; _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._

(1855), 727, _portrait_.

LEWIS, EVAN (son of an architect). _b._ Cefn-y-bryn, Newtown,

Glamorgan 20 July 1825; studied at Airedale college; B.A.

London 1852; independent minister at Barton-on-Humber 1853–8,

at Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1858–63, at Oak st. chapel,

Accrington, Lancs. 1863–6, at Grimshaw st. chapel, Preston

1866–8, and at Offord st. chapel, Islington, Oct. 1868 to death;

F.R.G.S. and fellow of Ethnological Soc.; author of The wines

the Saviour made, used and sanctioned 1856; Two dialogues on the

use of Bands of Hope 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The two twilights, or

the saint and the sinner in life and death 1860, a poem; God’s

week of work, an examination of the Mosaic six days 1865. _d._

29 Offord road, Islington 19 Feb. 1869. _bur._ Abney park cemet.

_Congregational Year book_ (1870) 303–5.

LEWIS, FREDERICK CHRISTIAN (son of Johann Ludwig a political

refugee from Hanover). _b._ London 14 March 1779; aquatinted

Girtin’s etchings of Paris published 1803; engraved the plates

for second issue of John Chamberlain’s Original designs of

the most celebrated masters in the royal collection 1812;

engraved Sir Thomas Lawrence’s crayon portraits and many of his

drawings; engraver of drawings to Princess Charlotte, Prince

Leopold, George IV., William IV. and Victoria; landscape painter

in oils and water-colours; exhibited 56 pictures at R.A., 51 at

B.I. and 24 at Suffolk st. 1802–53; published Scenery of the

river Thames 1821, 35 aquatints; The scenery of the rivers Tamar

and Tavy 1823, 47 plates; The scenery of the river Exe 1827, 30

views; Scenery on the Devonshire rivers 1843. _d._ Bull’s Cross,

Enfield, Middlesex 18 Dec. 1856.

LEWIS, FREDERICK CHRISTIAN (3 son of the preceding). _b._ 1813;

studied under Sir Thomas Lawrence; resided some years in India

from 1834, painted many large pictures of state ceremonials for

the native princes, some of which were engraved by his father

and published in England; travelled collecting materials for an

ethnographical work which was never published. _d._ suddenly at

Genoa 26 May 1875.

LEWIS, GEORGE. Second lieut. R.M. 25 April 1793, captain 1801–18

when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. R.M. 28 Sep. 1826 to 10 July

1837 when he retired on full pay; col. commandant R.M. 10 July

1837 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; L.G. 20 June 1854; commanded a

battalion of marines in American war 1812–4. _d._ Stonehouse,

Plymouth 14 Sep. 1854 aged 84.

LEWIS, GEORGE. _b._ Glasgow; presbyterian minister Middle

church, Perth to 1839; minister of St. David’s church, Dundee

6 June 1839–43; one of a deputation sent to America respecting

slavery; minister of the Free church, Ormiston 1849–65;

editor of Scottish Guardian newspaper; author of The state of

St. David’s parish. Dundee 1841; Tracts on Scottish church

principles. Dundee 1843, six numbers; Impressions of America

and the American churches 1845; The Bible, the missal and the

breviary 2 vols. 1853; The doctrines of the Bible developed

in the facts of the Bible 1854. _d._ Jersey. _J. Smith’s Our

Scottish clergy 2 series_ (1849) 353–8; _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._

3, _pt._ 2, _p._ 698.

LEWIS, GEORGE COLEMAN HAMILTON. _b._ 1805 or 1806; attorney at

10 Ely place, Holborn, London 1834 to death; partner with his

brother James Graham Lewis 1834, succeeded him as head of firm

of Lewis and Lewis 22 Jany. 1873; deputy clerk of the peace and

clerk to the licensing justices for the liberty of the Tower

1848 to death; solicitor to the Dramatic Authors’ Society. _d._

20 Woburn place, Russell sq. London 13 March 1879. _Montagu

Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 42.

LEWIS, SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Thomas

Frankland Lewis 1780–1855). _b._ London 21 April 1806; ed. at

Eton, Jany. 1819 to Dec. 1823, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1828

to 1839; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831, D.C.L. 1857; barrister M.T.

25 Nov. 1831; assistant comr. to enquire into condition of

poorer classes in Ireland 1833; a comr. of inquiry into state

of instruction in Ireland 4 June 1834; joint comr. with John

Austin to inquire into affairs of Malta 10 Sep. 1836; a poor

law comr. for England and Wales, Jany. 1839 to July 1847; M.P.

for Herefordshire, Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852; one of secretaries

to board of control 30 Nov. 1847 to 16 May 1848; under sec. for

home department 15 May 1848 to 9 July 1850; financial sec. to

treasury 9 July 1850 to Feb. 1852; contested Herefordshire 19

July 1852 and Peterborough 6 Dec. 1852; editor of the Edinburgh

Review, Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; refused governorship of Bombay

1853; succeeded as 2 baronet 22 Jany. 1855; M.P. Radnor boroughs

Feb. 1855 to death; chancellor of the exchequer 5 March 1855 to

Feb. 1858; P.C. 28 Feb. 1855; carried the Newspaper stamp duties

bill 1855; home secretary 18 June 1859 to July 1861; sec. for

war 23 July 1861 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for England

1859–61 and 1862 to death; author of An essay on the origin and

formation of the romance languages 1839, 2 ed. 1862; An essay on

the government of dependencies 1841; An essay on the influence

of authority in matters of opinion 1849, 2 ed. 1875; An enquiry

into the credibility of the early Roman history 2 vols. 1855;

On foreign jurisdiction and the extradition of criminals 1859;

An historical survey of the astronomy of the ancients 1862;

A dialogue on the best form of government 1863. _d._ Harpton

court, Radnorshire 13 April 1863, bust by H. Weeks placed in

Westminster abbey Sep. 1864, statue by Marochetti at Hereford

unveiled 3 Sep. 1864. _Letters of sir G. C. Lewis to Friends_

(1870), _portrait_; _Creasy’s Memoirs of Etonians_ (1876)

576–78; _The drawing room portrait gallery 3 series_ (1860),

_portrait_; _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 409–12; _I.L.N.

xvi_ 388 (1850), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 24 Sep. 1864 p._

205, _view of statue at Hereford_.

LEWIS, GEORGE ROBERT (brother of Frederick Christian Lewis

1779–1856). _b._ London 27 March 1782; studied under Henry

Fuseli in schools of the R.A.; went with Dr. T. F. Dibdin

as draughtsman to the Continent 1818, illustrated Dibdin’s

Bibliographical and picturesque tour through France and

Germany 1821; exhibited 45 pictures at R.A., 18 at B.I. and

20 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–59; published An address on

education as connected with design in British manufacture.

Hereford 1838; Illustrations of phrenology 1841, No. 1, no

more published; Illustrations of Kilpeck church, Herefordshire

1842; The early fonts of England 1843; The early church of

Shobdon, Herefordshire 1852. _d._ at res. of his son John Lewis,

1 Haverstock ter. (now Belsize grove) Hampstead 15 May 1871.

_Barnes’s Hampstead_ (1890) 394–6.

LEWIS, GRIFFITH GEORGE. _b._ Woolwich 10 Nov. 1784; 2 lieut.

R.E. 15 March 1803, col. 23 Nov. 1841, col. commandant 23 Nov.

1858 to death; served in Spain 1813; lost his leg at siege of

St. Sebastian 25 July 1813; served in Newfoundland 1819–27;

commanded the R.E. at Jersey 1830–6, at Cape of Good Hope

1836–42, in Ireland 1843–7 and at Portsmouth 1847–51; governor

of royal military academy, Woolwich, April 1851 to July 1856;

C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 12 Aug. 1858; editor with J. Williams

of Papers on subjects connected with the duties of the corps

of royal engineers, vols. 1–3 1851–4, in which he wrote many

papers. _d._ Brighton 24 Oct. 1859.

LEWIS, HARMAN HICKS. _b._ 1804; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., 21st

wr. 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1840; lecturer on natural philosophy

at college of civil engineers, London. _d._ 18 Coburn place,

Upper Kennington place, London 17 March 1865.

LEWIS, HENRY NAISH (son of an officer in the army). _b._ 27

April 1816; ed. Hambly house academy, Streatham; played a

round of parts at Catherine st. theatre; acted under Davidge’s

management; at the Lyceum theatre 6 years, being a very quick

study he often was a substitute for Keely, Wrench, Oxberry,

Bland and others; played Old Men under Gladstanes at Pavilion;

at St. James’; at Surrey 8 years; appeared at all the London

theatres and acted with many of the stars. _Theatrical Times_,

_iii_ 415, 440 (1848), _portrait_.

LEWIS, HUBERT (2 son of Walter Clapham Lewis of Upper Norland

house, Kensington). _b._ 23 March 1825; entered Emm. coll.

Camb. Dec. 1844, scholar, B.A. 1848; barrister M.T. 1 May 1854;

conveyancing and equity draftsman at Bradford 1857 to 1860, in

London at 34 Cursitor st. 1860 to death; author of Principles of

conveyancing explained by concise precedents 1863; Principles

of equity drafting 1865; The ancient laws of Wales viewed in

regard to the light they throw upon the origin of some English

institutions. Edited by J. E. Lloyd 1889; almost entirely

rewrote George Goldsmith’s The doctrine and practice of equity

6 ed. 1871. _d._ 20 Dalby sq. Margate 6 March 1884. _H. Lewis’s

Ancient laws of Wales_ (1889), _preface_.

LEWIS, JAMES. _b._ Scotland; presbyterian minister at St. John’s

ch. Leith 19 Jany. 1832 to 1843; joined the Free ch. 1843; went

to Rome in 1864 and opened his house for religious services,

until in 1867 the Papal government ordered him to discontinue

the services; rented a room and opened public services outside

the gates of the city of Rome 1867, with money contributed from

Scotland, Rome and America built a church there, which was

dedicated 1871; D.D. of Princetown univ. 1871; author of The

church of Scotland obeying the law of the land in her opposition

to the civil courts 1840; The church of Scotland, the crisis and

preparation 1843; Finance of the Free church of Scotland 1843;

The necessity for sabbath trains tried and disposed of 1847;

Indian government in relation to christianity 1858. _d._ of

diphtheria Rome 29 Jany. 1872. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 1, _pt._

1, _p._ 109.

LEWIS, JAMES GRAHAM. _b._ Jany. 1804; attorney at 10 Ely place,

Holborn, London 1829 to death; clerk of indictments, Midland

circuit 1829–54; head of firm of Lewis & Lewis 1834 to death,

with the best criminal practice in London. _d._ 53 Euston sq.

London 22 Jany. 1873.

LEWIS, JAMES HENRY (eld. son of James Lewis of Ebley near

Stroud, cloth manufacturer). _b._ parish of King’s Stanley,

Gloucs. Aug. 1786; teacher of writing, arithmetic, bookkeeping

and shorthand at 104 High Holborn, London, at 13 Wellington

terrace, Waterloo road to 1834, at 113 Strand 1835 to June 1853

when he retired; taught and lectured on writing and stenography

in the chief towns of the United Kingdom; founder of Society

of reporters; author of The art of writing with the velocity

of speech 1812 anon., 5 ed. 1820; The ready writer or ne plus

ultra of shorthand, invented and published by J. H. Lewis 1812,

95th ed. 1862; An historical account of shorthand 1815; Lewis’s

Orations on the battle of Waterloo 1815; The art of making a

good pen 10 ed. 1825; The Lewisian system of shorthand 1826,

68 ed. 1834; The shorthand prayer book 1832, 2 ed. 1835; The

quick and easy method of teaching bookkeeping 14 ed. 1860; his

library of 317 books on shorthand was sold in 1872. _d._ 49

Milton road, Gravesend 30 Nov. 1853. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.

_T. Anderson’s History of shorthand_ (1882) 113, 266–76; _J. W.

Gibson’s Bibliography of shorthand_ (1887) 110–15.

LEWIS, JOHN DELAWARE (son of John Delaware Lewis, Russian

merchant). _b._ St. Petersburgh 1828; ed. at Eton and Trin.

coll. Camb., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858;

M.P. Devonport 1868 to 1874, contested Devonport 5 Feb. 1874

and 2 April 1880 and Oxford 16 March 1874; author of Sketches

of Cantabs. By John Smith of Smith-Hall gent. 1849, 3 ed.

1858; Across the Atlantic 1850; Our college, leaves from an

undergraduate’s scribbling book 1857; Hints for the evidences of

spiritualism. By M.P. 1872, 2 ed. 1875; Juvenalis Satiræ with a

literal English prose translation 1873, 2 ed. 1882; Esprit des

Grecs et des Romains 1881; Causes Celebres. Paris 1883. _d._

Westbury house, Petersfield, Hampshire 31 July 1884. _Academy 9

Aug. 1884 p._ 94.

LEWIS, JOHN FREDERICK (eld. son of Frederick Christian Lewis

1779–1856). _b._ 71 Queen Anne street East (now 33 Foley

street), London 14 July 1805; made studies of animals in the

menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand 1820 etc.; painter of Italian,

Spanish and Oriental subjects; exhibited 83 pictures at R.A.,

25 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1820–77; etched six

studies of wild animals, published about 1825; associate of Soc.

of painters in water-colours 30 March 1827, member 1 June 1829

to 1858, president 1856–8; travelled in Spain 1832–3 and in the

East 1839–51; lived at Walton on Thames 1851 to death; A.R.A.

1859, R.A. 1865, resigned June 1876; hon. R.S.A. 1853; sold his

copies of the great works of Spanish and Venetian schools to

royal Scottish academy; published A collection of etchings 1825;

Lewis’s Sketches and drawings of the Alhambra 1835; Lewis’s

Sketches of Spain and Spanish characters 1836; Sporting. By

Nimrod, embellished from pictures by J. F. Lewis 1838. _d._ The

Holme, Walton on Thames 15 Aug. 1876. _bur._ Frimley, Surrey.

_Sandby’s Royal Academy_, _ii_ 339–43 (1862); _Redgrave’s

Century of Painters_ (1878) 271; _Roget’s History of the old

water-colour society_, _i_ 540 _etc._, _ii_ 89, 453 (1891);

_Thackeray’s From Cornhill to Cairo_ (1891) 324–30, _portrait_;

_Illust. Times 25 March 1865 p._ 177, _portrait_; _Graphic_,

_xiv_ 204 (1876), _portrait_.

LEWIS, JOHN HARVEY (son of Wm. Lewis of Harlech house, co.

Dublin). _b._ Dublin 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and

M.A. 1838; called to Irish bar 1838, retired 1850; sheriff

of Kildare 1857; contested Bodmin 28 March 1857 and Hull 30

April and 20 Aug. 1859; M.P. Marylebone 19 April 1861 to

26 Jany. 1874; a strong advocate of the ballot and of the

disestablishment of Irish church. _d._ Hotel Windsor, Monte

Carlo 23 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London. _Gray

v. Lewis. Law Reports. Equity Cases_, _viii_ 526–46 (1869),

_Chancery Appeals_, _viii_ 1036–56 (1873).

LEWIS, LEOPOLD DAVID (eld. son of David Lewis, physician).

_b._ London 1828; ed. at King’s coll. school; solicitor at 4

Skinner’s place, Size lane, London 1850–75; conducted with

Alfred Thompson, The Mask, a humorous and fantastic review Feb.

to Dec. 1868; adapted a drama called The Bells from Le Juif

Polonais by M. M. Erckmann-Chatrian produced at Lyceum theatre

25 Nov. 1871 which was played 151 times; his other dramas were

The Wandering Jew, Adelphi theatre 14 April 1873; Give a dog a

bad name, Adelphi 18 Nov. 1876; and The Foundlings, Sadler’s

Wells 8 Oct. 1881; author of A peal of merry bells 3 vols.

1880. _d._ Royal free hospital, Gray’s Inn road, London 23 Feb.

1890. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _The Mask_ (1868) _p. iii_,

_portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 1 March 1890 p._ 8, _and 8

March p._ 18, _portrait_.

LEWIS, LEWIS ALPHA. _b._ Nov. 1802; apprenticed to J. and

A. Arch of Cornhill, London, booksellers and auctioneers; a

literary auctioneer and bookseller at the Bank coffee house,

Bank buildings, Cornhill 1825–7, at 15 Poultry 1827–39, at 125

Fleet st. 1839–61, at 24 Bell yard, Fleet st. 1863–9 and at 17

Portugal st. Lincoln’s Inn 1870 to death; bankrupt 6 July 1841.

_d._ Surbiton, Surrey 28 June 1877. _bur._ Kensal green cemet.

_Bookseller_, _July 1877 p._ 667; _J. Diprose’s St. Clement’s_,

_ii_ 53 (1876).

LEWIS, MARIA THERESA (only dau. of hon. George Villiers

1759–1827, younger brother of John 3 earl of Clarendon

1757–1838). _b._ Upper Grosvenor st. London 8 March 1803;

granted precedence of an earl’s daughter Feb. 1839; edited

Extracts of the journals and correspondence of Miss Berry

from the year 1783 to 1852, 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1866; The

semi-detached house. By the hon. Emily Eden 1859; author of

The story of beauty and the beast, dramatized for juvenile

performers 1844; The story of Cinderella, dramatized 1844; Lives

of the friends and contemporaries of lord chancellor Clarendon

3 vols. 1852. (_m._ (1) 6 Nov. 1830 Thomas Henry Lister,

novelist and dramatist 1800–42; _m._ (2) 26 Oct. 1844 Sir George

Cornewall Lewis, statesman 1806–63). She _d._ the principal’s

lodgings, Brasenose college, Oxford 9 Nov. 1865.

LEWIS, RICHARD. A parliamentary reporter; secretary to National

lifeboat institution 1850 to death; barrister I.T. 30 April

1862. _d._ Cannes 17 March 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 317 (1883),

_portrait_.

LEWIS, SAMUEL. Publisher as S. Lewis & Co. at 87 Aldersgate st.

London 1838–42, at 87 Hatton Garden 1842–5 and at 13 Finsbury

place south 1845–52; published A topographical dictionary of

England with maps and a plan of London 4 vols. 1831, 7 ed. 1849;

A topographical dictionary of Wales 2 vols. 1833, 4 ed. 1849; A

topographical dictionary of Ireland 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1842; An

atlas comprising maps of the counties of England and Wales 1842;

A topographical dictionary of Scotland 3 vols. 1846. _d._ 19

Compton terrace, Islington 28 Feb. 1865.

LEWIS, SAMUEL (son of the preceding). Author of The history and

topography of the parish of St. Mary, Islington 1842; Islington

as it was and as it is 1854; The book of English rivers 1855.

_d._ 1 Priory villas, Canonbury, London 4 May 1862.

LEWIS, SAMUEL SAVAGE (youngest son of Wm. Jones Lewis of

Croydon, surgeon). _b._ 7 Spital sq. Bishopsgate, London 13 July

1836; ed. at City of London school 1844–54, Carpenter scholar

1847; matric. from St. John’s coll. Camb. 10 Oct. 1854 when

his sight failed; practised farming in England 1856–7; studied

farming, lived in Canada 1857–60; his eyes twice operated on by

George Critchett 1864; returned to Camb. 1864, migrated to C.C.

coll. 1865, B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872; fellow of C.C. coll. 1869 to

1887, librarian 1870–91; F.S.A. 22 March 1872; ordained 1872;

classical lecturer C.C. coll. 1874; Latin lecturer to Assoc.

for higher education of women 1875–7; collected coins, gems and

seals from all parts of Europe, which he left by will to his

college; contributed papers to Camb. Philos. Soc, Royal Soc.

of literature, &c.; author of Report on the age of the Utrecht

psalter 1874; The library of Corpus Christi college 1891, and

other antiquarian papers; (_m._ 12 Dec. 1887 Agnes Smith author

of novels). _d._ suddenly in the train near Oxford 31 March

1891. _A. S. Lewis’ Life of S. S. Lewis_ (1892), _portrait_.

LEWIS, THOMAS. Ed. Lancashire Independent coll. and Owen’s

coll.; independent minister 1873; professor at Bala coll. 1873

and then principal on the coll. being removed to Bangor, when

it became known as Bala-Bangor independent college; member of

council of University coll. of North Wales. _d._ Naples 12 Feb.

1892.

LEWIS, T. D. (son of Wm. Thomas Lewis, actor 1748–1811).

Succeeded his father as lessee and manager of theatre royal,

Liverpool 1811, retired on expiration of his lease. _d._ London

1852.

LEWIS, SIR THOMAS FRANKLAND, 1 Baronet (only son of John Lewis

of Harpton court, Radnorshire 1738–97). _b._ London 14 May 1780;

matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1798; lieut.-col. of Radnorshire

militia 1806–15; M.P. Beaumaris 1812–26; M.P. Ennis 1826–8; M.P.

Radnorshire 1828–35; M.P. Radnor burghs 1847 to death; comr. of

enquiry into revenue of Great Britain and Ireland 1822–5; first

comr. of enquiry into education in Ireland 1825–8; joint sec.

to treasury 4 Sep. 1827 to 28 Jany. 1828; vice pres. of board

of trade 5 Feb. to 30 May 1828; P.C. 5 Feb. 1828; treasurer of

the navy 17 Feb. 1830; chairman of English poor law commission

18 Aug. 1834 to 23 Jany. 1839; a comr. for enquiry into state of

laws in South Wales 7 Oct. 1843; created a baronet 27 June 1846;

chairman of Economic life assurance co. _d._ Harpton court,

Radnorshire 22 Jany. 1855.

LEWIS, THOMAS TAYLOR. _b._ Ludlow, Shropshire 1801; ed. at Cheam

school, Surrey; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. 5 Oct. 1819;

B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; C. of Aymestrey, Herefordshire 1826; P.C.

of Leinthall Earls, Herefordshire 1832 to 1841; V. of Bridstow

near Ross 1841 to death; formed large collections of fossils,

several local fossils have been called after him namely, Lingula

Lewisii, Spirorbis Lewisii and Cephalapis Lewisii; edited for

the Camden Society The letters of Lady Brilliana Harley 1853.

_d._ Bridstow 28 Oct. 1858.

LEWIS, TIMOTHY RICHARDS. _b._ 31 Oct. 1841; ed. Univ. coll.

London and Aberdeen univ., M.D. and C.M. 1867; assist.

surgeon in army 31 March 1868, surgeon major 31 March 1880;

sent to Germany with David Cunningham by the War Office to

study pathology; assistant professor of pathology in the army

medical school, Netley; recommended for election as F.R.S. in

April 1886; sent with D. Cunningham to India to investigate

cholera cases; made the discovery of the filaria in the urine

of patients in general hospital, Calcutta 1869; author of A

report on the microscopic objects found in cholera evacuations.

Calcutta 1870; On hæmatozoon inhabiting human blood 1872, 2

ed. 1874; The pathological significance of nematode hæmatozoa

1874; Physiological and pathological researches 1888; with David

Cunningham he wrote A report of researches into the nature of

cholera 1872, 2 series 1874; The soil in its relation to disease

1875; Leprosy in India 1877. _d._ Bywood, Woolston 7 May 1886.

_Lancet_, _i_ 955, 993 (1886).

LEWIS, W. Calvinistic Methodist minister; one of first Welsh

missionaries sent to India, laboured in North-eastern Bengal;

went through the whole of the Indian mutiny; reduced the Khasia

language to writing and translated the New Testament into

Khassei. _d._ May 1891.

LEWIS, WALLER AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1817; ed. Univ. coll. London

and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.B. 1849; L.S.A. 1839,

M.R.C.P. 1859; metropolitan comr. of sewers 1855–6; senior

medical officer of General post office at £1000 a year; medical

superintendent inspector General Board of Health and Sanitary

commissioner Home office; author of Report on the state of the

burial vaults of metropolitan churches; On the origin and spread

of epidemic cholera; On the laws in France for regulation of

noxious trades and occupations 1855. _d._ Whitby 7 Sep. 1882.

LEWIS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1787; pupil of J. H. Sarratt the best

chess player in England about 1807; the leading player many

years after Sarratt’s death in 1821; a great and original chess

analyst and one of the finest players in Europe; when W. de

Kempelen’s automaton chessplayer was exhibited in London in

1819, Lewis officiated for some months as the hidden conductor

of the Turk’s games, losing only 6 games in 300 though always

giving the odds of pawn and move; played a match at Paris with

Alexander L. H. L. Des Chapelles the leading chess-player in

France 1821; a teacher of chess at 5 Nassau st. Soho, London,

Alexander McDonnell was one of his pupils; author of A treatise

on the game of chess 1814; Oriental chess, or specimens of

Hindostanee excellence in that celebrated game 2 vols. 1817;

Carera’s A treatise on the game of chess, to which is added

the art of playing without seeing the board 1822; Fifty games

at chess, most of which occurred between the author and some

of the best players in England, France and Germany 1832. _d._

about 16 Nov. 1870. _Quarterly Review_, _June 1849 pp._ 90–5;

_W. G. Walker’s Selection of games at chess_ (1836) 273; _W.

G. Walker’s Thousand games at chess_ (18--) _ix_ 82–4; _Chess

Players’ Chronicle_, _i_ 9, 33 (1841); _I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1870 p._

555.

LEWIS, WILLIAM DAVID (brother of sir Charles E. Lewis). _b._

1823; pupil of John Rudall, conveyancer 1838; a conveyancer at

10 Serle st. 1842, being the youngest conveyancer on record;

barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1844, bencher 1859; Q.C. June 1859;

reader on law of real property and conveyancing at Gray’s Inn

26 May 1847 to June 1852, delivered every year 60 original and

elaborate lectures; a comr. on registration of title to land

18 Jany. 1854, the report is dated 15 May 1857 and contains

sketches of two bills by Lewis; founded the Juridical society

10 Feb. 1855; author of A practical treatise on the law of

perpetuity 1843, unparalleled in the history of legal authorship

as the achievement of a youth under 20 years of age. _d._ 1

Kensington sq. London 24 Jany. 1861 in 38 year. _Solicitors’

Journal_, _v_ 242–4 (1861).

NOTE.--His only son Wm. Arnold Lewis, barrister Inner Temple 17 Nov.

1869, was killed by accident on the Lyskamm near Zermatt 6 Sep. 1877.

LEWIS, WILLIAM GARRETT (eld. son of Wm. Garrett Lewis, minister

of Zion chapel, Chatham in 1824). _b._ Margate 5 Aug. 1821;

articled to Dr. Gray of Brixton, London, schoolmaster 1837–40;

clerk in the post office, London 1840–7; minister of Baptist

chapel in Silver st. Kensington, Sep. 1847, new chapel built

for him in Ledbury road, Westbourne Grove, opened 6 April 1853,

preached there to Dec. 1880, presented by his congregation with

400 guineas 3 Jany. 1881; minister of chapel in Dagnal st. St.

Albans, Jany. 1881 to death; a founder of the London Baptist

association 1865, sec. 1865–9, pres. 1870; edited The Baptist

Magazine 20 years; author of The religion of Rome examined, a

course of lectures 1851; Westbourne Grove sermons 1872; The

trades and industrial occupations of the Bible 1874. _d._

Victoria st. St. Albans 16 Jany. 1885. _bur._ Kensal Green 21

Jany. _Baptist Mag. March ]885 pp._ 97–102.

LEY, WILLIAM (son of rev. Mr. Ley). _b._ Devonshire 1806; ed. at

Ottery, Devon, and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1831,

L.S.A. 1835; resident medical officer of Fever hospital 4 years;

surgeon Crawford st. Portman sq. London, and surgeon to Western

general dispensary, Stafford st.; studied insanity in Hanwell

asylum; medical superintendent of Oxford and Berks. asylum,

Littlemore 1845–66, where he treated all the patients with

gentleness; the first to introduce cannabis Indica. _d._ while

visiting the superintendent at Littlemore 7 March 1869. _Medical

Times_, _i_ 345–6 (1869).

LEYBOURNE, GEORGE. _b._ 1842; sang in the provinces many years;

next to Alfred G. Vance he was the best known comic singer of

his time, had an excellent voice, sang at all the London music

halls; his songs Champagne Charlie 1867, Mouse-traps, and She

danced like a fairy, were very popular; made his last appearance

at Queen’s palace, Poplar 1884; author of The Barber’s

apprentice boy, song 1868; Twelve of G. Leybourne’s comic songs

1878; reported to have died 24 Nov. 1876. _d._ of consumption,

Englefield road, Islington 15 Sep. 1884. _bur._ Abney park

cemetery 19 Sep. _The Entr’acte 2 Dec. 1876 p._ 3, _20 Sep. 1884

p._ 11, _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. News 21 April 1866 pp._ 227,

236, _portrait_.

NOTE.--His dau. Florrie Leybourne is a music hall artiste. A matinée

benefit was given for his widow at the Royal Holborn music hall on

27 Sep. 1884. On one occasion when Leybourne was singing for William

Holland at the Canterbury music hall, under a clause in his agreement

he had to drive out in a coach and four whenever required to do so, and

was frequently seen in public in his carriage.

LEYLAND, JOHN. _b._ 1815; founded the Boys Home and Surrey

reformatory, Spanish road, Wandsworth, London 1852, also the

Surrey Industrial school, High st. Wandsworth, of both of which

he was hon. manager. _d._ Rosemount, Byfleet, Surrey 7 Oct. 1882.

LEYLAND, JOSEPH BENTLEY (2 son of Robert Leyland, naturalist).

_b._ Halifax 31 March 1811; exhibited at Manchester the model

of a greyhound and a colossal statue of Spartacus 1832; studied

design under B. R. Haydon in London; his statue of Dr. Beckwith

of York was placed in York minster; exhibited models of groups

of hounds at Suffolk st. gallery 1834 and 1839; his group

of African bloodhounds and his colossal figure The Thracian

Falconer, are in the Salford museum. _d._ Halifax 26 Jany. 1851.

LIARDET, FRANCIS (2 son of John Liardet). _b._ Chelsea 14 June

1798; entered navy 14 June 1809; second captain of the Powerful

84 guns 12 Jany. 1839 to 1840, served in the Mediterranean on

the coast of Syria and at bombardment of St. Jean d’ Acre;

captain 4 Nov. 1840; placed on h.p. Jany. 1841; agent for New

Zealand company at Taranaki, Sep. 1841 to Feb. 1842; lost

sight of one eye by an explosion 29 Nov. 1841; a captain of

Greenwich hospital Jany. 1856 to death; author of Professional

recollections on points of seamanship, discipline, &c. 1849;

The midshipman’s companion 1851; Friendly hints to the young

naval lieutenant 1858. _d._ Greenwich hospital 1 March 1863,

marble bust of him by T. Milnes is in the painted hall. _E. G.

Wakefield’s Adventure in New Zealand_, _ii_ 68, 163 (1845).

LIBRI-CARRUCCI DALLA SOMMAIA, GUGLIELMO BRUTO ICILIO TIMOLEONE,

Count. _b._ Florence 2 Jany. 1803; professor of mathematical

physics, univ. of Pisa 1823 professor at faculté des sciences,

Paris 1832; naturalized in France 2 Jany. 1833; inspector

general of public libraries in France; accused of pilfering from

the libraries, which, he entirely denied, fled to England 28

Feb. 1848, sentenced in his absence to 10 years imprisonment by

the cour d’ assize of the department of the Seine 22 June 1850;

sold his MSS. to Bertram 4 earl of Ashburnham, they are now

in the Laurenzian library at Florence; his books were sold by

Sotheby 1859–66, sales taking 25 days; returned to Tuscany 1868;

author of Histoire des sciences mathématiques en Italie 4 vols.

Paris 1838–41. _d._ Fiesole near Florence 28 Sep. 1869. _Memoir

of Augustus de Morgan_ (1882) _passim_; _Saturday Rev. lv_ 266–7

(1883); _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Nov. 1869 pp._ 259–61.

LICHFIELD, THOMAS WILLIAM ANSON, 1 Earl of (1 son of 1 viscount

Anson 1767–1818). _b._ Shugborough, Staffs. 20 Oct. 1795; capt.

Staffordshire yeomanry 1812, lieut.-col. 1829, lieut.-col.

commandant 1833 to death; M.P. Yarmouth 19 June 1818; succeeded

as 2 viscount Anson 31 July 1818; master of the Atherstone

hounds 1821–30; master of the buckhounds 24 Nov. 1830 to 30 Dec.

1834; P.C. 24 Nov. 1830; created earl of Lichfield 15 Sep. 1831;

postmaster general 30 May 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841; high steward of

Great Yarmouth 22 Feb. 1836; won the St. Leger with Elis 1836

and the 2000 guineas with Corsair 1839; sold all his pictures,

sculpture, &c. in a 12 days sale Aug. 1842. _d._ 2 Great

Stanhope st. Mayfair, London 18 March 1854.

LICHFIELD, THOMAS GEORGE ANSON, 2 Earl of (1 son of the

preceding). _b._ Shugborough, Staffs. 8 Aug. 1825; ed. at Eton;

styled viscount Anson 1831–54; capt. Staffordshire yeomanry 16

Nov. 1844, major 17 April 1863; precis writer to lord Palmerston

at foreign office 1846–7; M.P. Lichfield 1847–54; succeeded as

2 earl of Lichfield 18 March 1854; lord lieut. of Staffordshire

1863–71; high steward of Stafford 1878; first chairman of Soc.

for reformation of juvenile offenders and a founder of the

reformatory at Saltley. _d._ at his residence in London 7 Jany.

1892. _Mrs. Fairlie’s Portraits of children of the nobility 3

Ser. plate_ 2 (1841).

LICHTENSTEIN, GEORGE. _b._ Hungary 1823; ed. for legal

profession; a political refugee in England; naturalized 18

Dec. 1854; professor of music at Edinburgh 1856 to death;

tutor to duke of Edinburgh; composer of My dream waltz for the

pianoforte, with cornet ad lib. 1854; Tempi futuri, polka 1854;

Pensées patriotiques, mélodies originales pour piano 1855; War

march for the piano 1855. _d._ Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1893.

LIDDELL, _Sir Adolphus Frederick Octavius_ (youngest son of 1

baron Ravensworth 1775–1855). _b._ 15 Jany. 1818; ed. at Eton

and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; fellow of All Souls’

1840–6; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1844, bencher 30 April 1861 to

death, treasurer 1875; contested Grateshead 9 July 1852; Q.C.

22 Feb. 1861; permanent under sec. of state for home department

1867 to death; K.C.B. 20 April 1880. _d._ 49 Rutland gate,

London 27 June 1885.

LIDDELL, ANDREW (son of Mr. Liddell of Bainsford near Falkirk,

schoolmaster). _b._ Bainsford 1786; an ironmonger in Glasgow

1815–44; carried on most extensive manufacture in Scotland of

wrought iron tubes; member of philosophical society of Glasgow

1819, pres. of it frequently, treasurer many years; A.I.C.E.

1843; pastor of baptist chapel in Brown st. Glasgow 1844, which

he purchased and presented to his congregation; wrote Life

of David Dale, for Blackie’s Lives of eminent Scotsmen. _d._

Bardowie house, Glasgow 15 Nov. 1855.

LIDDELL, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (6 son of 1 baron Ravensworth

1775–1855). _b._ 28 July 1812; ed. at Eton; ensign Scots

fusilier guards 27 Nov. 1828, captain 8 Sep. 1846, placed on

h.p. 6 July 1849; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; lieut.-col. 6

dragoons 15 Feb. 1861, sold out same day; played his first

cricket match at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ St. John’s Wood club

1 June 1840, a hard forward driver and active in the field,

on committee of Marylebone club; comptroller of the household

and equerry to duchess of Gloucester 1845–58; groom in waiting

to the Queen 1858–82; treasurer to duke of Edinburgh 1866–71;

deputy ranger of Richmond park 1850–71; deputy ranger of Windsor

park 1871–83. _d._ South Lawn, Eton 14 Dec. 1888. _Lillywhite’s

Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 549 (1862).

LIDDELL, SIR JOHN. _b._ Dunblane, Scotland 1794; ed. at univ. of

Edinb., M.D.; L.R.C.S. 1821; assistant surgeon in the navy 1812;

director of the hospital at Malta 1827; inspector of fleets and

hospitals 1844; deputy inspector general of Haslar hospital

1840; inspector general of Greenwich hospital 1844–54; director

general of medical department of the navy April 1854 to 1864;

hon. phys. to the queen 13 May 1859 to death; knighted at St.

James’s palace 17 May 1848; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850, K.C.B. 9 Feb.

1864; F.R.S. 18 June 1846; knight of Russian order of St. Anne

and of Greek order of the Redeemer. _d._ 72 Chester sq. London

28 May 1868.

LIDDELL, ROBERT (brother of G. A. F. Liddell 1812–88). _b._ 24

Sep. 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1829, M.A.

1834; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1831–6; V. of Barking, Essex

1836–51; V. of St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge with St. Barnabas,

Pimlico, London 1851–81, he erected crosses, &c. in both these

churches, Messrs. Westerton and Beale proceeded against him in

the Consistory court, Dr. Lushington delivered judgment against

him 5 Dec. 1855, which was confirmed by sir J. Dodson in the

Arches court 20 Dec. 1856, but the privy council decided partly

for both parties, each to pay his own costs 21 March 1857;

author of The seven deadly sins, lectures in St. Paul’s 1858;

The fruits of penitential sorrow, lectures 1860; The christian

priesthood, altar and sacrifice, four sermons 1867; The lay of

the last angler. By a Sexagenarian 1867, 3 ed. 1883; A pastoral

farewell to the parishioners of St. Paul’s 1881, and 25 other

books. _d._ 12 New Cavendish st. London 29 June 1888. _J. E.

Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed._ (1858) 40–9.

LIDDERDALE, THOMAS WILLIAM (2 son of Thomas Robertson

Liddersdale of St. Mary’s isle, Kirkcudbright, ensign 6 W.I.

regt.) _b._ 1830; in British museum 30 years, latterly as a

first class assistant in printed book department; a student in

Scandinavian literature and Icelandic bibliography; assisted P.

H. M’Kerlie in his History of Galloway 5 vols. 1870–9; compiled

Catalogue of the books printed in Iceland from A.D. 1578 to 1880

in the library of the British museum. 1885; taken ill in the

street, went into the shop of Daniel Margetts metal worker 16

York st. Covent Garden, where he fell on the floor, conveyed to

Charing Cross hospital, where he _d._ same day 4 Sep. 1884.

LIDDON, HENRY PARRY (eld. son of Matthew Liddon, captain R.N.,

_d._ 1869 aged 77). _b._ North Stoneham, Hampshire 20 Aug.

1829; ed. at Lyme Regis, Dorset 1839–41 and at King’s coll.

sch. London 1841–6; entered Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1846, student 1847 to

death; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853, B.D., D.D. and D.C.L. 1870, Johnson

theological scholar 1851; C. of Wantage 1852–4; vice principal

of Cuddesdon theological college 1854–9; vice principal of St.

Edmund’s hall, Oxford 1859–61; exam. chaplain to bishop of

Salisbury 1864, preb. of Salisbury 1864–70; select preacher to

univ. of Oxf. 1863, 1870, 1877 and 1884; Ireland professor of

exegesis at Oxf. June 1870 to 1882; gave a series of lectures

in St. James’s hall, Piccadilly, London 1870; member of council

of Keble coll. Oxf. 1870 to death; canon of St. Paul’s cath.

27 April 1870 to death, chancellor 1886 to death; the foremost

preacher in the ch. of England and the most powerful champion

of the high church party; took a leading part in the Bonn

conferences 10–16 Aug. 1875; select preacher at Cambridge 1884

and 1889, hon. LL.D. June 1889; elected bishop of Edinburgh,

June 1886 but declined the charge; author of Some words for God,

sermons before the university of Oxford 1865, republished as

Sermons before the university 8 ed. 1884; The divinity of Jesus

Christ, eight lectures before the university on the foundation

of John Bampton 1867, 14 ed. 1890; Some elements of religion,

Lent lectures 1872, 5 ed. 1885; Sermons preached before the

university. Second series 1879, 4 ed. 1887; Selections from the

writing of H. P. Liddon 1882, 2 ed. 1883; Edward Bouverie Pusey,

a sermon 1884, 2 ed. 1884; Easter in St. Paul’s, sermons on the

resurrection 2 vols. 1885, 2 ed. 1891; Forty sermons preached

in St. Paul’s, London. Four series 1886; Advent in St. Paul’s,

sermons 2 vols. 1889, 2 ed. 1889; The magnificat, sermons in

St. Paul’s 1889, 3 ed. 1891, and 60 other works. _d._ Claremont

crescent, Weston-super-Mare 9 Sep. 1890. _bur._ crypt of St.

Paul’s cath. 16 Sep.; portrait by G. Richmond at Keble coll.,

and another by H. Herkomer in Ch. Ch. hall. _C. M. Davies’s

Orthodox London_ (1874) 141–52, _2 Ser._ (1875) 396–400; _F.

Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _ii_ 153–66 (1875); _Church

quarterly review_, _Oct. 1890 pp._ 212–18; _Temple Bar_, _lxxii_

334–8 (1884); _The Biograph_, _v_ 360–2 (1881); _I.L.N. 20 Sep.

1890 p._ 353, _portrait_.

LIEBSTEIN, HERMANN (5 son of David Liebstein of Lemberg,

Gallicia, Austria, merchant). _b._ Austria 1829; naturalised

in England 16 June 1855; barrister G.I. 17 Nov. 1858; equity

draftsman; author of Notes of Expository addresses on the book

of Revelation 1876; Eternal life, where to find it and how to

obtain it 1882. _d._ at his house, 40 Highbury hill near London

13 July 1882.

LIECHTENSTEIN, MARIE, Princess of (adopted daughter of Henry

4 baron Holland who _d._ Naples 18 Dec. 1859, and known as

Miss Marie Fox). _b._ 21 Dec. 1850; (_m._ at pro-cathedral,

Kensington 27 June 1872 Prince Aloys or Louis Liechtenstein 2

son of François prince de Liechtenstein 1802–87, he was _b._

Prague 18 Nov. 1846, lieut. of hussars, a knight of Malta,

secretary of legation); author of Holland House 2 vols. 1874;

Nora, a novel taken from the German of the baroness F. Von

Brackel 1877. _d._ Burgstall in Styria 26 Dec. 1878. _Morning

Post 28 June 1872 p._ 5.

LIEFDE, JACOB B. DE (of Dutch parentage). _b._ 1847; ed. in

Holland; war correspondent of the Daily News with the German

army outside Paris and during the Commune 1870–71; author of The

beggars or the founders of the Dutch republic 1868, 5 ed. 1883;

Walter’s escape or the capture of Breda 1870; The great Dutch

admirals 1873; Hereditary bondsmen, or is it all in vain 3 vols.

1875; The maid of Stralsund 1876; A brave resolve or the siege

of Stralsund 2 ed. 1883. _d._ Twickenham, Middlesex 6 Feb. 1878.

LIFFORD, JAMES HEWITT, 3 Viscount (1 son of 2 viscount Lifford

1750–1830). _b._ 29 Aug. 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1804;

student Inner Temple 1805; succeeded 15 April 1830; author of

Ireland and the Irish church 1842; Thoughts on the present state

of Ireland 1849. _d._ Brighton 22 April 1855.

LIGAR, CHARLES WHYBROW. _b._ Ceylon 1809; ed. Sandhurst; 2

lieut. royal engineers, resigned; engaged on ordnance survey in

Ireland till 1840; surveyor general New Zealand 1840–56; col.

and commandant of New Zealand militia, took part in the war at

the Bay of Islands; surveyor general of Victoria, Australia

1858, retired on a pension 1869; settled in Texas. _d._ 1879.

LIGGINS, JOSEPH. _b._ London 1791; West India merchant and

ship owner, 37 Mincing lane, London 1830 to death; chairman of

Southampton dock co. nearly 20 years; author of A refutation of

the calumnies circulated by the Anti-Slavery agency committee

against the West India planters. Signed Joseph Liggins, Mincing

lane, London 1833. _d._ Homer villa, 33 Addison road, Kensington

22 June 1860.

LIGGINS, JOSEPH HENRY (son of a baker of Nuneaton,

Warwickshire). _b._ 1800; educ. at Cambridge but was rusticated;

a tutor; resided in Isle of Man and at Liverpool and was on the

staff of a Liverpool newspaper; borrowed money from all his

friends, which he never repaid; claimed to have written Adam

Bede 1859 and on the strength of this claim received many sums

of money; was found destitute in lodgings and removed by the

relieving officer to Chilvers Coton workhouse near Nuneaton,

where after some months he died 29 May 1872 aged 72. _The Times

2, 6, 11, 13 Feb. 1885_; _Cross’s Life of G. Eliot_, _i_ 449,

_ii_ 97–100, 107, 136 (1885).

LIGHT, SIR HENRY (son of Wm. Light of the Madras civil service).

_b._ 1783; ed. at Rugby and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Aug.

1799, captain 20 Dec. 1814, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1819; lieut.

governor of Antigua 13 April 1836; governor and commander

in chief of British Guiana 1 May 1838 to 1844, retired on a

pension; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of Travels in Egypt,

Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Lebanon and Cyprus in 1814. 1818. _d._

Falmouth 3 March 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_ 307 (1870).

LIGHTFOOT, JOHN EMANUEL. _b._ Gisburn 1802; partner in firm of

F. W. Grafton & Co. Broad Oak print works, Accrington; first

mayor of Accrington 1878, also in 1882; the father of Lancashire

methodism. _d._ Quarry Hill, Accrington 24 April 1893.

LIGHTFOOT, JOHN PRIDEAUX (1 son of Nicholas Lightfoot, R. of

Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devon, _d._ 1847). _b._ Crediton 23 March

1803; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., fellow 1824–34, tutor 1824–34; B.A.

1824, M.A. 1827, B. and D.D. 1854; R. of Wootton, Northants.

1834–54; hon. canon of Peterborough 1853 to death; rector of Ex.

coll. 18 March 1854 to death; R. of Kidlington, Oxf. 1854 to

death; member of first hebdomadal council 1854; vice chancellor

1862–6, entertained prince and princess of Wales at dinner in

Ex. coll. hall 17 June 1863; opened the Petrean fellowships to

Northants by conveying ground in Wootton to Lord Petre 1847.

_d._ the rectory, Ex. coll. on anniversary of his birth 23 March

1887. _Boase’s Exeter college_ (1879) 125.

LIGHTFOOT, JOSEPH BARBER (son of John Jackson Lightfoot,

accountant, _d._ 1843). _b._ 84 Duke st. Liverpool 13 April

1828; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. 1844–7; pensioner at Trin.

coll. Camb. Oct. 1847, scholar 1849, fellow 1852–71, tutor

1853–62; 31st wrangler and senior classic 1851; B.A. 1851, M.A.

1854, D.D. 1864; Norrisian prizeman 1853, select preacher 1858,

a founder of the Journal of classical and sacred philology, and

one of the editors March 1854 to Dec. 1859; member of council

of Oxford senate 1860–78 except 2 years; Hulsean professor

of divinity 1861–75; chaplain to Prince Consort, Feb. 1861;

chaplain to the Queen 24 March 1862–79; deputy clerk of the

closet 1875–9; Whitehall preacher 1866–7; select preacher at

Oxf. 1874–5; exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1862–9, to

archbishop of Canterbury 1869–79; Lady Margaret’s professor of

divinity at Cambridge 26 May 1875 to 1879; canon of St. Paul’s

cath. 23 Feb. 1871; an original member of New Testament company

of revisers July 1870 to Nov. 1880; a comr. for Cambridge under

Universities of Oxford and Cambridge act 1877, 1877–81; declined

bishopric of Lichfield 1867; bishop of Durham 15 March 1879 to

death, consecrated in Westminster abbey 25 April, expended all

his episcopal income for purposes within the diocese; trained

about 80 graduates at his seat Auckland Castle free of charge;

endowed univ. of Durham with the Richard de Bury scholarship

1882; presided at church congress at Newcastle 1881 and at

British archæological assoc. at Darlington 1886; the ‘White

Cross’ movement took its rise at Auckland Castle 1883; author of

Commentary on epistle to the Galatians 1865; On a fresh revision

of the English New Testament 1871, 2 ed. 1872; The apostolic

fathers. St. Clement 1 vol. 1877, St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp

2 vols. 1885; The epistles of Paul. Philippians. A revised text

1879; Cambridge sermons 1890; Ordination addresses and counsels

to clergy 1890; Sermons preached in St. Paul’s cathedral 1891;

Sermons preached on special occasions 1891. _d._ the Imperial

hotel, Bournemouth 21 Dec. 1889. _bur._ in chapel of Auckland

Castle 27 Dec., portrait by W. B. Richmond in Auckland Castle,

memorial altar tomb unveiled in Durham cath. 20 Oct. 1892. _C.

Bullock’s The two bishops_ (1890) 33–56, _portrait_; _Biograph_,

_vi_ 579–82 (1881); _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 201 (1879), _portrait_;

_Graphic 28 Dec. 1889 p._ 791, _portrait_.

NOTE.--In 1870 he transferred to Univ. of Camb. £4500 for the

foundation of three scholarships for the encouragement of the study

of ecclesiastical history in itself and in connection with general

history. The Lady Margaret’s professorship being endowed with the

rectory of Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk, he restored the chancel

of that church in 1878–9 at a cost of £2140. By his will he created

a trust called ‘The Lightfoot fund for the diocese of Durham’ for

the erection of buildings for church purposes and for other purposes

at discretion of the trustees, to whom he assigned his works and

copyrights. His library was divided between the univ. of Durham and the

Cambridge divinity school.

LIGHTFOOT, THOMAS. _b._ 1775; ensign 5 foot Aug. 1799; captain

45 foot 15 Dec. 1804, major 7 Oct. 1813 to 25 Dec. 1814 when

placed on h.p.; extra A.D.C. to the Sovereign 6 May 1831 to 23

Nov. 1841; colonel 62 foot 11 April 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov.

1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Barbourne house, Worcester 15 Nov.

1858.

LIGHTFOOT, THOMAS (son of the preceding). _b._ 27 Dec. 1820;

ensign 84 foot 1 June 1838, lieut.-col. 4 April 1859, placed on

h.p. 5 May 1869; brigade major, Lucknow, Nov. 1857 to Jany.

1858; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869,

placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 27 Dec. 1882; C.B.

14 May 1859. _d._ 16 Victoria park, Dover 3 March 1888.

LIGHTON, SIR CHRISTOPHER ROBERT, 6 Baronet. _b._ Earlsgift,

co. Tyrone 28 May 1819; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1843,

M.A. 1846; succeeded his brother sir John H. Lighton 29 April

1844; V. of Ellastone, Staffs. 1848 to death; author of Does

Rome teach salvation by Christ alone, if not is her teaching

christian? _d._ Ellastone 12 April 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 402

(1875).

LILLEY, JOHN (3 son of a carrier between Spillsby and Boston).

_b._ Lincolnshire 1823; enlisted in 6 regt. Inniskilling

dragoons 25 Jany. 1844, corporal 1848, sergeant 1852, troop

sergeant major 1853, regimental sergeant major 1855; served at

Scutari 1855; went to India 1857; summoned as a witness at the

court martial on Capt. Thomas W. Smales, ordered by lieut.-col.

Thomas Robert Crawley at Mhow, Bombay 1862; accused of speaking

disparagingly of col. Crawley, a charge which he entirely

denied, put under close confinement at Mhow 26 April 1862, where

he _d._ 25 May 1862; Crawley was court martialed and “honorably

acquitted,” but the full facts of the case were never brought

out. _Samuel Lilley’s Military despotism or the Iniskilling

dragoon_ (1863); _Military despotism. Addenda to the case_

(1863).

LILLEY, SAMUEL (eld. son of Samuel Isaac Lilley of Peckham,

Surrey). _b._ 1805; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1829–32;

B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1830; a member of

the bar committee 1883; a revising barrister for Surrey 1885

to death; prosecutor for the treasury at Surrey sessions, _d._

Southsea 22 June 1887. _Law Journal 2 July 1887 pp._ 373, 381.

LILLIE, JOHN. _b._ Kelso, Roxburghshire 16 Dec. 1812; ed.

Edinb. univ., B.A. 1833, D.D. 1855, and at New Brunswick

seminary; pastor of Dutch reformed church, Kingston, New York

1836–41; master of New York gram. sch. 1841–3; editor of the

Jewish Chronicle 1844–8; a translator for the American Bible

union 1851–7; pastor of the presbyterian church, Kingston 1858

to death; author of Lectures on the Epistle of Paul to the

Thessalonians. New York 1860; Lectures on the first and second

Epistles of Peter, New York and London 1869. _d._ Kingston 23

Feb. 1867. _G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars_ (1867) 128–30.

LILLIE, SIR JOHN SCOTT (eld. son of Philip Lillie of Drimdoe

castle, Roscommon). _b._ Drimdoe castle 1790; ensign 6 foot 3

March 1807; captain 60 foot 1813, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818;

entered Portuguese army; commanded 7th Cacadores at battles

of the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse; organised and

commanded an expedition to Portugal to support claims of Queen

Donna Maria 1831; captain 46 foot 6 Dec. 1827, placed on h.p.

27 March 1828; knighted 6 March 1816; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831;

lieut.-col. in the army 10 Jany. 1837, retired from the army

1855; author of An historical sketch of the origin and progress

of parliamentary corruption 1832; Observations on parliamentary

corruption and on the consequences of parliamentary reform 1832.

_d._ 1 Norfolk terrace, Bayswater, London 29 June 1868. _I.L.N.

liii_ 47 (1868).

NOTE.--He was severely wounded at the battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814

and left for 48 hours on the field of battle supposed to have been

killed.

LILLY, JOSEPH. _b._ Birmingham 1804; employed by Lackington and

Co. of Finsbury circus, London, booksellers 1820; bookseller

at 3 Museum st. Bloomsbury 1831–5, at 19 King st. Bedford st.

1835–50 and 1851–7, at 7 Pall Mall 1850–3, at 15 Bedford st.

1857–63, and at 17 New st. Covent Garden 1863 to death; bought

and sold more copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s

works than any other bookseller on record; largely concerned

in formation of Henry Huth’s library; the first portion of his

stock was sold at Sotheby’s 15 March 1871 and 9 following days;

published A collection of ballads and broadsides printed between

1559 and 1597, with a preface 1867. _d._ 31 Mornington crescent,

London 29 Oct. 1870. _Bookseller 1 Dec. 1870 p._ 1071.

LILLY, MRS. _b._ 1790; attended Queen Victoria as monthly nurse

at the births of her 9 children 1840–57. _d._ Camberwell 26

April 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 1 May.

LILLYWHITE, FREDERICK (son of the succeeding). _b._ Hove, Sussex

23 July 1829; first played at Lord’s in Sussex _v._ Marylebone

26 June 1848; reporter for Bell’s Life in London; a printer of

scores on cricket grounds; partner with John Wisden at 2 New

Coventry st. Leicester sq. London as a dealer in articles for

cricket to 1858; resided at 15 Kennington Oval from 1858, where

he published F. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores and biographies of

cricketers 3 vols. 1862–3; edited The guide to cricketers 1849,

23 ed. 1866; The public school matches; English cricketers’

trip to Canada 1860, 2 ed. 1861. _d._ Brighton 15 Sep. 1866.

_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iii_ 605 (1863); _Illust.

sporting news_, _i_ 33 (1866), _portrait_, _v_ 424 (1866),

_portrait_.

LILLYWHITE, FREDERICK WILLIAM (son of the manager of the duke

of Richmond’s brick fields). _b._ West Hampnett near Goodwood

13 June 1792; a bricklayer, removed to Brighton 12 Dec. 1822;

manager over bricklayers at Hove; played for Sussex against

England in his first cricket match at Lord’s 18–19 June 1827;

the first great round-arm bowler, known as the ‘Nonpareil

Bowler,’ his average was 7 runs per wicket; went in first and

came out last in two matches 1839 and 1845; kept the Royal

Sovereign inn, Preston st. Brighton with cricket ground attached

1837–44; bowler to Marylebone cricket club 1844 to death, had

a benefit in 1853; professional at Winchester school 1851–3;

generally called William Lillywhite; author of Illustrated

handbook of cricket 1844, 3 ed. 184-; kept a cricket shop at 10

Prince’s terrace, Caledonian road, Islington, London, where he

_d._ of cholera 21 Aug. 1854. _bur._ Highgate cemet. where is

monument. _Denison’s Cricket_ (1846) 34–53; _F. Lillywhite’s

Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 9–12(1862); _I.L.N. 22 July 1843 p._ 59,

_portrait_; _Illust. news of the world 22 May 1858 pp._ 252,

254, _view of monument_.

LILLYWHITE, HENRY. _b._ Hawkley, Hampshire 1789; believed to be

a relative of William Lillywhite the Sussex bowler; a player in

Hampshire; played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Hampshire 16 July

1821. _d._ Ropley, Hants. Jany. or Feb. 1858. _F. Lillywhite’s

Cricket Scores_, _i_ 444 (1862).

LILLYWHITE, JAMES (son of the preceding). _b._ Hove, Brighton

29 Oct. 1825; bowled at Cambridge 1845–51, at Westminster sch.

1849–51, permanently engaged by Cheltenham sch. 1855 to 1880;

first played at Lords in Marylebone _v._ Middlesex 26 May

1851; a good twisting round-arm bowler of middle speed and an

average batsman. _d._ 3 Queen’s circus, Cheltenham 24 Nov. 1882.

_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 230 (1863).

LILLYWHITE, JOHN (brother of the preceding). _b._ Hove,

Brighton 10 Nov. 1826; bowled at Lord’s 1844; coach to Rugby

school 1850–5; partner with his father and brothers James and

Frederick as manufacturers of cricketing articles at 10 Princes

ter. Caledonia road, Islington 1850–6, in business alone at

5 Seymour st. Euston sq. 1856 to death; engaged at Harrow

school from 1861; a fine and powerful hitter, a good field,

generally at cover point, a round-arm bowler delivering slow

twisters; published vol. iv. of Lillywhite’s Cricket scores at

5 Seymour st. Euston sq. 1863. _d._ Euston sq. London 27 Oct.

1874. _Illust. Sporting News_, _i_ 244 (1862), 4 _portraits_;

_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 149 (1862); _Illust.

sporting and dramatic news_, _ii_ 107 (1874), _portrait_.

NOTE.--In the Illustrated Sporting News 25 Oct. 1862 p. 276 and 18

April 1866 pp. 501, 504, are portraits of the late John Lillywhite

described as the leviathan of cricket and a player at Lord’s Cricket

ground.

LIMBIRD, JOHN. _b._ 1796; printer, publisher and stationer 143

Strand, London 1823–52, at 11 Exeter Exchange, Strand 1852–4;

engraver and stationer 344 Strand 1854–68; the pioneer of

cheap literature; published a periodical called the ‘Londoner’

(edited by John Humffreys Parry) April 1822, but it only ran

to 5 numbers; projected the ‘Mirror’ (the parent of all weekly

illustrated papers) No. 1 dated 22 Nov. 1822, edited by Thos.

Byerley the ‘Reuben’ of the Percy anecdotes up to his death;

author of Limbird’s Handbook guide to London 1851. _d._ 157

Wandsworth road 30 Oct. 1883. _Bookseller_, _Nov. 1859 p._ 1326.

LIMPUS, RICHARD. _b._ 10 Sep. 1824; studied at R.A. of Music;

organist of Brentford, of St. Andrew, Undershaft, St. Mary Axe,

and of St. Michael’s, Cornhill; founded the College of Organists

in London 1864, secretary to death; professor of music; composed

some sacred and secular music. _d._ 41 Queen sq. Bloomsbury,

London 15 March 1875.

LIND, JOHANNA MARIA, known as Jenny Lind (daughter of Niclas

Jonas Lind, accountant). _b._ Stockholm 6 Oct. 1821; first

appeared at royal theatre, Stockholm 7 March 1838 as Agathe in

Der Freischütz; appointed court singer Jany. 1840 and member of

royal Swedish academy of music; pupil of Manuel Garcia in Paris

1840–2; sang in Sweden and Germany 1843–6; first appeared in

London at Her Majesty’s theatre 4 May 1847 as Alice in Roberto

il Diavolo; sang in 9 operas only during her career in London,

last appeared in opera 18 May 1849; sang in oratorio of Elijah

at Exeter hall 15 Dec. 1848; toured in U.S. of America 1850–2;

founded scholarships, &c. in Sweden with the £20,000 she had

earned in U.S. of A.; sang in Germany, Austria and Holland

1854–5; made a tour in Great Britain 1855–6; sang at concerts

given in aid of charities 1855, 1861, 1863, 1864 and 1866;

chief professor of singing at royal college of music, London

1883–6; last sang in public at the Spa, Malvern 23 July 1883;

she was always known as the Swedish Nightingale, her voice

was a soprano two octaves in compass from D to D. (_m._ at

Boston, U.S. of America 5 Feb. 1852 Otto Goldschmidt, musical

conductor, he was naturalised in England 12 Aug. 1859). She

_d._ Wynds Point, Colwell near Ledbury, Herefordshire 2 Nov.

1887, value of her personalty declared at £40,630. _Rev. H. S.

Holland and W. S. Rockstro’s Memoir of Jenny Lind Goldschmidt 2

vols._ (1891), _portrait_; _Tallis’s Dramatic magazine_ (1850)

5–9, _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song_, _ii_ 330–66

(1863); _H. F. Chorley’s Thirty years musical recollections_,

_i_ 299–312 (1862); _A Review of the performances of Jenny Lind

during her engagement at Her Majesty’s theatre, with a notice

of her life_ (1847), _portrait_; _B. Lumley’s Reminiscences_

(1864); _Memoranda of the life of Jenny Lind. By N. P. Willis.

Philadelphia_ (1851); _Theatre_, _xi_ 1–12 (1888); _H. F.

Tuckerman’s Mental Portraits_ (1853) 125–47; _Ireland’s Records

of the New York stage_, _ii_ 571–2 (1867).

NOTE.--Alfred Bunn engaged Jenny Lind to sing 20 times at Drury Lane in

opera in 1845, she broke her engagement and Bunn brought an action in

the queen’s bench 22 Feb. 1848 laying his damages at £10,000, the jury

gave him £2,500 but Bunn accepted £2,000. _A. Bunn’s The case of Bunn

versus Lind_ (1848).

The other characters in opera she appeared in, in England were, Amina;

Maria in La Figlia; Norma; Amalia in I. Masnadieri; Susanna in Le

Nozzi; Elvira in I. Puritani; and Adina in L’Elisir.

LINDAM, JACOB OLE (2 son of Peder Holger Lindam 1752–99, a

factor in Danish East India company’s service). _b._ India 13

April 1789; ensign 2nd light infantry battalion of the German

legion 17 May 1810, lieut. 8 July 1811, placed on h.p. 24 Feb.

1816; served in the Peninsula 1811–14, distinguished himself at

siege of Bayonne 14 April 1814; severely wounded at battle of

Waterloo; lieut.-col. in Hanoverian army 25 May 1866; decorated

with the Peninsula (five clasps) and Waterloo medals; K.H. May

or June 1818. _d._ Rough Down, Boxmoor, Herts. 20 Dec. 1881.

_Times 11 Jany. 1882 p._ 6.

LINDLEY, JOHN (son of George Lindley of Catton near Norwich,

nurseryman). _b._ Catton 5 Feb. 1799; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.;

agent for a London seed merchant in Belgium 1815; assistant

librarian to sir Joseph Banks in London 1819–22; garden

assistant secretary to Horticultural Soc. 1822, sole assistant

sec. 1826–41, vice sec. 1841–58, member of council and hon.

sec. 1858–62; professor of botany in London Univ. 1829–36,

in Univ. college, London 1836–60, emeritus professor 1860 to

death; lecturer on botany to Apothecaries company at Chelsea

1836–53; took charge of the entire colonial department of the

International exhibition 1862; his name has been given to the

genus Lindleya of the order Rosaceæ; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1828,

royal medallist 1857; edited Collectanea Britannica 1821, eight

numbers; The Botanical Register 1847 etc.; Journal of the

horticultural society 1846–55; chief editor of the Gardener’s

Chronicle 1841 to death; author of Rosarum monographia or a

botanical history of roses 1820; A synopsis of the British flora

1829 vol. 1 only, 3 ed. 1859; An introduction to botany 1832,

4 ed. 2 vols. 1848; Flora medica 1838; Outlines of the first

principles of botany 18--, 6 ed. called Elements of botany 1849;

The vegetable kingdom 1846, 3 ed. 1853; Folia orchidacea 1852–9,

nine parts; Descriptive botany 1858; with W. Hutton The fossil

flora of Great Britain 3 vols. 1831–7; with J. Paxton Paxton’s

Flower garden 3 vols. 1850–3; with T. Moore The treasury of

botany 1866. _d._ Acton Green, Middlesex 1 Nov. 1865, portrait

by Eddis in rooms of Horticultural Soc. _H. Field’s Memoirs of

botanic garden at Chelsea_ (1878) 189–214; _The Naturalist_,

_iv_ 434–42 (1839), _portrait_; _The Gardener’s Chronicle_

(1865) 1058, 1082; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xv_ 30–7 (1867).

LINDLEY, ROBERT (son of Shirley Lindley of Masbro). _b._

Rotherham, Yorkshire 4 March 1776; pupil of Cervetto the

violoncellist 1792; played at Brighton theatre 1792; principal

violoncello at the opera and at all important concerts

1794–1851; the best English performer on the violoncello;

professor of R.A. of Music 1822; composed about 35 solos and

duets for the violoncello, &c.; published A handbook for the

violoncello 1855. _d._ Percy st. Rathbone place, London 13 June

1855. _Dramatic and musical review_, _iii_ 379 (1844).

NOTE.--His son Wm. Lindley _b._ 1802 was a good violinist and excelled

in orchestral playing, he _d._ at Manchester 12 Aug. 1869.

LINDO, ELIAS HIAM. Merchant in City of London 1828 to death;

author of A Jewish calendar for sixty-four years to which are

added tables for continuing the calendar to A.M. 6000–2240 C.Æ.

1838; The history of the Jews of Spain and Portugal from the

earliest times to their expulsion from those kingdoms 1848. _d._

1865.

LINDO, MARK PRAGER. _b._ London 19 Feb. 1819; studied at

Dusseldorf and Bonn; M.D. Utrecht 1853; lived in Holland about

1847 to death; made many translations of works by Dickens,

Fielding, Scott, Sheridan and Thackeray into Dutch, which he

published at Amsterdam, Arnhem and Gravenhage 1846–77; author

of Readings in English prose. Arnhem 1854; Kompleete werken

van den Ouden Heer Smits _i.e._ M. P. Lindo 5 vols. Gravenhage

1877–9. _d._ at the Hague 9 March 1877.

LINDSAY, SIR ALEXANDER (2 son of James Smyth Lindsay 1751–1837).

_b._ 14 Jany. 1785; ensign in Captain Meyrick’s Independent

company of foot 9 Jany. 1795; lieut. 104 foot 3 March 1795,

regiment disbanded 1795, lieut. on h.p. 31 Aug. 1795 to death;

studied at R.M.A. Woolwich to 1803; 1 lieut. Bengal artillery 14

Aug. 1804, col. commandant 2 July 1835 to death; at sieges of

Kamonah, Ganaori and Gohad 1809, in Nipal war 1816, at siege of

Hathras 1817, in Pindari and Mahrata war 1817–19; superintendent

of telegraphs between Calcutta and Chunar; agent for manufacture

of gunpowder at Allahabad; general 11 Sep. 1859; C.B. 26 Sep.

1831, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ Earlybank, Perth 22 Jany. 1872.

_Stubbs’s History of Bengal artillery_, _i_ 298 _etc._ (1877).

LINDSAY, CHARLES HUGH (3 son of 24 Earl of Crawford 1783–1869).

_b._ Muncaster castle, Cumberland 11 Nov. 1816; ensign 43 foot

5 June 1835, captain 9 May 1845; lieut. grenadier guards 1846,

captain 14 July 1854, sold out 1855; served in Canada 1837–42

and in the Crimea 1854–6; master of the horse to lord lieut.

of Ireland 1845; groom in waiting to the Queen Aug. 1866 to

Dec. 1868 and Feb. 1876 to death; lieut.-col. 6 Middlesex (St.

George’s) rifle volunteers 23 Feb. 1861, hon. col. 24 Jany. 1885

to death; M.P. Abingdon 1865–74; C.B. 24 May 1881. _d._ Lyons 25

March 1889.

LINDSAY, COLIN (brother of the preceding). _b._ 6 Dec. 1819;

ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; churchwarden at time of restoration

of Wigan parish church 1856; president of the Manchester Church

society which in May 1860 was associated with other societies as

the Church of England protection society, afterwards the English

Church Union of which he was pres. to April 1868; received into

Church of Rome 5 Dec. 1868; received from Pius IX. special

permission to have mass celebrated in any house where he might

happen to live, a privilege rarely given; author of Union and

Unity, an address 1860; The evidence for the Papacy 1869; De

ecclesia et cathedra, or the empire church of Jesus Christ: an

epistle 2 vols. 1877; Mary, queen of Scots, and her marriage

with Bothwell 1888. _d._ 22 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London

28 Jany. 1892.

LINDSAY, HUGH HAMILTON (only son of Hugh Lindsay 1765–1844, M.P.

Forfar burghs 1820–30). _b._ 12 Aug. 1802; M.P. Sandwich 11 May

1841 to 23 July 1847; author of Letter to viscount Palmerston on

British relations with China 1836, 3 ed. 1836; Is the war with

China a just one? 1840; The Eastern Archipelago company and Sir

J. Brooke 1853. _d._ 14 Wyndham place, Bryanston sq. London 29

May 1881.

LINDSAY, JAMES (eld. son of hon. Robert Lindsay 1754–1836).

_b._ 17 April 1793; ensign 1 foot guards 16 Dec. 1807, captain

grenadier guards 20 Nov. 1823, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1830;

served in Walcheren expedition 1809 and defence of Cadiz 1811;

severely wounded at Bergen-op-Zoom, March 1814; L.G. 18 May

1855; M.P. Fifeshire 1831–2; contested Fifeshire 23 Jany. 1835.

_d._ Genoa 5 Dec. 1855.

LINDSAY, SIR JAMES (brother of Colin Lindsay 1819–92). _b._

Muncaster castle 25 Aug. 1815; ed. at Eton; ensign grenadier

guards 16 March 1832, lieut.-col. 31 Aug. 1860 to 12 March 1861;

major general on the staff Canada 5 June 1863 to 1 Jany. 1867;

inspecting general of the foot guards 1 Jany. 1867 to 1 April

1868; inspector general of reserve forces 1 April 1868 to 1870;

K.C.M.G. 22 Dec. 1870; colonel of 3 foot 15 Sep. 1870 to death;

L.G. 10 Oct. 1870; M.P. Wigan 1845–57 and 1859–66; contested

Wigan 28 March 1857. _d._ Cranmer house, Mitcham, Surrey 13 Aug.

1874.

LINDSAY, JAMES BOWMAN. _b._ Carmyllie, Forfarshire 8 Sep. 1799;

a weaver; student at St. Andrew’s univ. 1821–33; lecturer and

teacher at Watt institution, Dundee 1829; teacher at Dundee

prison, March 1841 to Oct. 1858; an early discoverer of the

electric light, which he exhibited at the Thistle hall, Dundee

15 Jany. 1836; suggested possibility of extending electric

telegraph to America in a letter to the Northern Warder

newspaper 26 June 1845; lectured in Glasgow on his plan of

forming an electric communication between Great Britain and

other countries without the employment of submarine wires, he

patented this invention 5 June 1854; telegraphed successfully

across the river Tay at Glencarse half a mile 17 May 1859; a

member of the Free Church 1843–61 when he joined the Baptists;

granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; studied all

the eclipses mentioned by historians, the result of which

he published at Dundee in Jany. 1858 under title of The

Chrono-astrolabe, which attracted attention of the astronomers;

author of A treatise on the mode and subjects of baptism 1861;

occupied himself from 1836 to death preparing a dictionary in 50

languages to be entitled A Pentecontaglossal Dictionary, nearly

completed at his death, but never published. _d._ 11 South Union

st. Dundee 29 June 1862. _bur._ Western cemet. Dundee 2 July,

date of death on his tombstone is wrongly stated as 1863. _W.

Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 212–19.

LINDSAY, JOHN. _b._ Cork, April 1789; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin;

while yet a boy collected Greek and Roman coins; author of A

view of the coinage of Ireland. Cork 1839; A view of the coinage

of the heptarchy 1842; A view of the coinage of Scotland 2 parts

1845–59; Notices of mediæval coins 1849; A view of the coinage

of the Parthians 1852. _d._ Maryville, Blackrock, Cork 31 Dec.

1870. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii_ 307 (1872).

LINDSAY, WILLIAM. _b._ Irvine, Ayrshire 1802; ed. at Glasgow

univ., D.D. 1844; studied at theological hall, Paisley 1824–30;

ordained minister of relief church 27 April 1830; minister

at Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1830–2; colleague of John Barr at

Dovehill relief church, Glasgow 22 Nov. 1832, in sole charge

1839; removed to a new church in Cathedral st. Glasgow, Dec.

1844, held this charge to his death; appointed by the relief

synod professor of exegetical theology and biblical criticism

Nov. 1841; professor of sacred languages and biblical criticism

in United Presbyterian hall 1847, professor of exegetical

theology there Oct. 1858 to death; author of Inquiry into the

christian law as to the relationships which bar marriage.

Glasgow 1855, 2 ed. 1871; Lectures on the epistle to the Hebrews

2 vols. 1867. _d._ 153 Hill st. Garnett hill, Glasgow 3 June

1866. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 108–12; _W.

Mc.Kelvie’s Annals of the United Presbyterian Church_ (1873) 298.

LINDSAY, WILLIAM LAUDER (eld. son of James Lindsay of the Sasine

office, Register house, Edinburgh). _b._ Edinburgh 19 Dec. 1829;

ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1852; L.R.C.S. Edinb.

and L.M. 1852; F.L.S. 1858; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; medical officer

to Murray’s royal institution for the insane at Perth 1854; the

first Neill gold medallist of Royal Soc. of Edinb. 1859 for

his History of British lichens 1856; studied the flora of New

Zealand, North Germany, Norway and Iceland; author of A popular

history of British lichens 1856; Contributions to New Zealand

botany 1868; Memoirs on the spermogones and pyonides of lichens

1870; Mind in the lower animals in health and disease 1879. _d._

3 Hartington gardens, Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1880.

LINDSAY, WILLIAM SCHAW (3 son of Joseph Lindsay of Ayr). _b._

Ayr 1816; a cabin boy in the Isabella, West Indiaman 1831,

second mate 1834; chief mate of the Olive Branch 1835, captain

1836, retired 1840; fitter at Hartlepool to Castle Eden coal

company 1841–5, represented the company in London 1845; mainly

instrumental in getting Hartlepool made an independent port 6

Jany. 1845; founded firm of W. S. Lindsay & Co. ship-brokers,

11 Abchurch lane, London 1849, which became one of the largest

in the world, retired 1864; contested Monmouth, April 1852, and

Dartmouth, July 1852; M.P. Tynemouth and North Shields 1854–9;

M.P. Sunderland 1859–65; author of Our navigation and mercantile

marine laws considered with a view to their revision and

consolidation 1852, 2 ed. 1853; History of merchant shipping and

ancient commerce 4 vols. 1874–6; Manning of the royal navy and

mercantile marine 1877. _d._ Manor house, Shepperton, Middlesex

28 Aug. 1877.

LINEN, JAMES. _b._ Scotland 1808; a book binder in city of New

York; spent some years in California; contributed poems to the

Knickerbocker Mag. and the Scottish American; author of Songs of

the seasons and other poems. New York 1852; Poetical and prose

writings. San Francisco 1865; The poetical and prose writings.

New York 1865; The golden gate 1869. _d._ city of New York 20

Nov. 1873. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 732 (1887).

LINES, SAMUEL. _b._ Allesley near Coventry 1778; apprenticed

to Mr. Keeling of Birmingham, clock-dial enameller 1794;

employed as designer by Mr. Clay the papier-mâché maker and

by Wyon and Halliday die engravers; started a drawing school

in Newhall st. Birmingham 1807; built a house in Temple Row,

lived there rest of his life; established with other artists

a life academy in Peck lane, New st. 1809, which was removed

to Union passage 1814; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. 1817–25;

helped to found Birmingham school of art 1821; treasurer

and curator of Birmingham society of artists to 1858; was a

good landscape-painter and teacher. _d._ 3 Temple row west,

Birmingham 22 Nov. 1863, portrait by W. T. Roden in Birmingham

museum and art gallery.

LINGARD, JAMES W. _b._ London 8 Jany. 1823; made his debut at

Garrick theatre, London as Ralph Reckless in Twice killed; went

to U.S. America in 1848; appeared at Purdy’s National theatre,

New York as Alley Croaker in the Miseries of human life 18 April

1853; played Deacon Perry in Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Purdy’s 18

July 1853, and then played Uncle Tom for 368 consecutive nights;

an actor of old men characters; manager of Bowery theatre N. Y.

1858 and several seasons; revenue collector New York 1868; kept

a saloon in the Broadway 1869; committed suicide in New York,

July 1870. _Brown’s American Stage_ (1870) _p._ 221, _portrait_.

LINGARD, JOHN (son of John Lingard of Claxby, Lincs.,

carpenter). _b._ Winchester 5 Feb. 1771; at English college at

Douay 30 Sep. 1782 to 21 Feb. 1793; joined some of the Douay

students at Tudhoe, Durham 1794, they migrated to Pontop hall

1794 and then to Crookhall near Durham; vice pres. of Crookhall

college, prefect of studies, professor of natural and moral

philosophy; ordained priest at York 18 April 1795; removed

with the Crookhall community to St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw

1808, remained there till Sep. 1811; missioner at Hornby near

Lancaster 1811 to death; visited Rome 1817 and 1825; created

doctor of divinity and of the canon and civil law by Pius VII.

24 Aug. 1821; author of The antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon

church 2 vols. 1806, 4 ed. 1858; A history of England from

the first invasion by the Romans to the revolution in 1688, 8

vols. 1819–30, new ed. 10 vols. 1888 which was translated into

French, Italian and German; A new version of the Four Gospels

1836. _d._ Hornby 17 July 1851. _bur._ in cloister of college

cemetery at Ushaw; portrait by James Lonsdale in hall of Ushaw

college; tablet to his memory in Hornby parish church. _J.

Lingard’s History of England 6 ed. vol._ 1 (1854), _portrait_;

_Fortunes made in business_, _ii_ 99–105 (1884); _Metropolitan

and provincial catholic almanac for 1854 pp._ 3–25, _portrait_;

_G.M. xxxvi_ 323–5 (1851); _I.L.N. xviii_ 117, 118 (1851),

_portrait_.

LINKLATER, JOHN. _b._ 1817; attorney at 111 St. Martin’s lane,

London 1838; head of firm of Linklater, Hackwood and Addison, 7

Walbrook to death; author of Digest and index to the Bankruptcy

act, the Debtor’s act, and the Bankruptcy repeal and insolvent

court act 1870, 2 ed. 1870. _d._ Toulon, France 26 May 1870.

LINLEY, GEORGE. _b._ Leeds 1798 or 1799; resided in Doncaster

and Edinburgh short time, then in London to death; wrote and

composed upwards of 450 songs 1830–65; wrote the songs and

music for Francesca Doria, play by V. Morris produced at

Princess’s theatre 3 March 1849; his operetta The Toymakers was

brought out at Covent Garden 19 Nov. 1861, and his comedietta

Law versus Love at Princess’s 6 Dec. 1862; author of Musical

cynics of London, a satire 1862, one part only; The Modern

Hudibras 1864, 2 ed. 1864. _d._ Alfred cottage, Victoria road,

Kensington, London 10 Sep. 1865.

LINLEY, GEORGE (son of the preceding). Author of The Goldseeker

and other poems 1860; Old Saws newly set 1864; (_m._ 4 Oct. 1862

Emma youngest sister of Sims Reeves, singer). _d._ 28 April 1869.

LINN, HENRY, stage name of Alexander Cumming Rutherford

Crawford. _b._ Greenock 1846; with his brother acted as negro

comedians; champion clog dancer 1864; a Scottish vocalist, his

songs The highland man’s toast, Jock M’Craw, and Bonnie Jeanie

Deans were very popular, others were My name is Jim, and Poor

and Needy; a great favourite in Liverpool; last sang at Carlisle

1890; author of Harry Linn’s Fireside song book. Glasgow 1884.

_d._ Royal infirmary, Edinburgh 11 June 1890. _bur._ 15 June.

LINNELL, JOHN (2 son of James Linnell, carver and gilder, _d._

1837). _b._ Plumtree st. St. Giles’s, London 16 June 1792; drew

portraits at 10 years old; entered schools of the R.A. 1805;

portrait painter to 1847, then landscape painter, engraved

his portraits; exhibited 176 pictures at R.A. and 91 at B.I.

1807–79; member of Society of painters in oil and water-colours

1812–20, treasurer 1817, exhibited 52 works there 1813–20; his

landscape ‘Removing timber’ sold for £3360 at the Price sale

April 1892; there was a large collection of his works at winter

exhibition of the R.A. 1882–3; author of The royal gallery

of pictures, selections from collection at Buckingham palace

1840; The royal academy a national institution 1869; Selection

of cabinet paintings at Buckingham palace 1877. _d._ Redstone

Wood, Redhill, Surrey 20 Jany. 1882. _bur._ Reigate cemet. 25

Jany. _A. T. Story’s Life of John Linnell 2 vols._ (1892), _two

portraits_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xc_ 535, _portrait_; _Graphic_,

_xxv_ 125 (1882), _portrait_; _Black and White 25 Feb. 1893 p._

228, _portrait_.

LINSELL, RICHARD. _b._ Great Dunmow, Essex 24 May 1765;

apprenticed to Thomas White of Felstead, carpenter 1780–7;

general carrier between Dunmow and London 1791 to 1807; a

builder at Dunmow 1807–9; carrier at Stebbing 1809; landlord of

the King’s Head inn, Stebbing 1812–15; a farmer near Stebbing

1815–19; landlord of the Swan inn, Clare, Suffolk 1820–33 and

of the Cricketers’ arms near Clare 1834–43. _Life of Richard

Linsell. By A Friend._ (_Rusticus_) _Tottenham_ (1855).

NOTE.--He first appeared as a cricketer at Prior’s hall, Lay, parish of

Linsell 1 May 1790; raced the coach from London to Dunmow 37 miles in 5

hours, gaining by 15 minutes 23 Aug. 1796; at Woodford ran 1 mile in 4

min. 57 sec. 28 Aug. 1796; threw a stone 137 yards Oct. 1796; beat Mr.

Parsley in a quoit match 27 April 1797; from 1788 for 30 years he stood

open to play any man in England at 20 different games.

LINSKILL, MARY (eld. child of Thomas Linskill a worker in jet).

_b._ Whitby, Yorkshire 13 Dec. 1840; apprenticed to a milliner;

an amanuensis; a painter; many of her novels appeared originally

in Good Words; author of Tales of the North Riding. By Stephen

Yorke 2 vols. 1871; Cleveden 2 vols. 1875, new ed. 1892; Carl

Forrester’s faith 1883; The magic flute 1884; Between the

heather and the northern sea 3 vols. 1884, new ed. 1890; A lost

son and the glover’s daughter 1885; The haven under the hill 3

vols. 1886, new ed. 1892; A garland of seven lilies 1886; Hagar,

a north Yorkshire pastoral 1887; Robert Holt’s illusion, and

other stories 1888. _d._ Stakesby Vale, Whitby 9 April 1891.

_Mary Linskill’s In exchange for a soul_, _new ed._ (1892),

_memoir pp. xi–xix_.

LINTON, HENRY (eld. son of rev. Henry Linton 1804–87, V. of

Diddington, Hunts.) _b._ 1839; ed. at Harrow and Wadham coll.

Oxf., B.A. 1860; in the Harrow cricket eleven 1854–7; entered

Madras civil service 1861; head assistant to collector and

magistrate of Nellore to death. _d._ Madras 24 Aug. 1866.

LINTON, THOMAS. Superintendent of police at Edinburgh 1851–78,

public prosecutor 1851 to death. _d._ suddenly in his room next

the police court, Edinburgh 19 Aug. 1892.

LINTON, WILLIAM. _b._ Liverpool 22 April 1791; a landscape

painter in London; a founder of Society of British artists 1824,

a member to 1842; exhibited 57 pictures at R.A., 78 at B.I. and

101 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–71; author of Ancient and modern

colours, with their chemical and artistical properties 1852; The

scenery of Greece and its islands 1856, 2 ed. 1869; Colossal

vestiges of the older nations 1862. _d._ 7 Lodge place, St.

John’s Wood road, London 18 Aug. 1876. _Art Journal_ (1850) 252,

_portrait_, (1858) 9–11, (1876) 329.

LINTON, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Jabez Linton of Hardrigg lodge,

Dumfriesshire). _b._ Kirkpatrick Fleming, co. Dumfries 1801; ed.

at univ. of Edinb.; spent four summer vacations as surgeon on a

whaler in the Arctic regions; L.R.C.S. 1826; M.D. Glasgow 1834;

assistant surgeon 66 foot 18 Jany. 1827 to 1841; surgeon in the

army 2 July 1841; staff surgeon of first class 17 March 1848,

deputy inspector general of hospitals of first division of army

in the Crimea 1854, had charge of the great hospital at Scutari

1855, inspector general of hospitals 1 Oct. 1858, placed on h.p.

1 May 1863; principal medical officer of English army in India

1858–9; hon. physician to the Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B.

4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. _d._ Skairfield, Lockerbie,

Dumfriesshire 9 Oct. 1880.

LINWOOD, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Linwood of Birmingham). _b._

1817; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student

1837–51; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; Hertford, Ireland and Craven

scholar 1836, Boden Sanskrit scholar 1839; ordained deacon;

assistant master at Shrewsbury; public examiner at Oxford

1850–1; published A lexicon to Æschylus 1843, 2 ed. 1847;

Sophoclis Tragœdiæ superstites, with Latin notes 1846, 4 ed.

1877; A treatise on Greek tragic metres with the choric parts of

Sophocles metrically arranged 1855. _d._ Birchfield, Handsworth,

Staffs. 7 Sep. 1878. _Academy 28 Sep. 1878 p._ 315.

LIPTRAP, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1817; lieut. 21 Bengal N.I. 4

Nov. 1818; captain 42 N.I. 19 June 1831, major 17 Feb. 1850 to 7

May 1855; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 7 May 1855 to 1856, of 45 N.I.

1856 to 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ London 21 Sep. 1878.

LIPTROTT, JOHN. _b._ 29 Jany. 1813; ensign 31 Bengal N.I.

14 Sep. 1829; commandant 16 Irregular cavalry 24 Jany.

1846, commandant 17 Irregular cavalry 1847 to 7 Jany. 1860;

lieut.-col. 14 Bengal N.I. 28 Nov. 1859 to 1862, placed on

unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 1 Dec. 1888.

_d._ 7 Clarendon road, Southsea 25 Feb. 1890. _I.L.N. 15 March

1890 p._ 325, _portrait_.

LISBURNE, ERNEST AUGUSTUS VAUGHAN, 4 Earl of (eld. son of

3 Earl of Lisburne 1769–1831). _b._ 30 Oct. 1800; sheriff

of Cardiganshire 1851; M.P. for Cardiganshire 1854–9. _d._

Crosswood, Aberystwith, Cardiganshire 9 Nov. 1873.

LISGAR, SIR JOHN YOUNG, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir William Young,

1 baronet, _d._ 1848). _b._ Bombay 31 Aug. 1807; ed. at Eton and

C.C. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 1824; M.P. Cavan

1831–55; a lord of the treasury 16 Sep. 1841 to 21 May 1844; one

of the secretaries to the treasury 21 May 1844 to 7 July 1846;

succeeded as 2 baronet 10 March 1848; chief sec. to lord lieut.

of Ireland 1852–55; P.C. 28 Dec. 1852; lord high commissioner of

Ionian islands 1855–9; governor general and com. in chief of New

South Wales 22 March 1861 to 24 Dec. 1867; governor general of

dominion of Canada 2 Jany. 1869–1872; cr. Baron Lisgar 26 Oct.

1870; lord lieut. of Cavan 9 March 1871 to death; G.C.M.G. 20

March 1855; K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1859, G.C.B. 13 Nov. 1868. _d._ Lisgar

house, Ballieborough, co. Cavan 6 Oct. 1876. _Eclectic Mag.

lxxviii_ 129, 244 (1872), _portrait_.

LISTER, FREDERICK GEORGE. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 26

Bengal N.I. 14 Aug. 1806, lieut. 9 Oct. 1808; captain 52 N.I.

16 March 1824, major 8 Oct. 1839 to 30 Sep. 1845; commandant of

Sylhet light infantry battalion 14 March 1828 to 18 July 1854;

lieut-col. 8 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1849, of 70 N.I. 1849–50, of

53 N.I. 1850 to 13 April 1855; political agent Cossiah Hills 11

Feb. 1841 to 1854; col. of 31 N.I. 13 April 1855 to 1861, of 2

N.I. 1861 to 1869; L.G. 23 Aug. 1869. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey

28 Feb. 1870.

LISTER, JOSEPH JACKSON (son of John Lister of Stoke Newington,

wine merchant). _b._ Lothbury, London 11 Jany. 1786; ed. at

Hitchin and at Compton in Dorset; wine merchant in partnership

with his father and then sole proprietor; a founder of the

London Institution in King’s Arms yard 1805; discovered

principle upon which the modern microscope is constructed,

and made an improved lens; a founder of Microscopical Soc.

1839; invented the tripod for supporting the camera now used

by photographers; the first to ascertain the true form of

the red corpuscle of mammalian blood; aided the opticians in

construction of the microscope; Lister’s law of the aplanatic

foci, remains the guiding principle as the source of all the

microscopy of the age; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832. _d._ Upton house,

Upton, Essex 24 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Stoke Newington. _Biographical

Catalogue of Friends_ (1888) 433–8.

LISTER, THOMAS (14 child of Joseph Lister a quaker gardener).

_b._ Old Mill wharf, Barnsley 11 Feb. 1810; ed. at Ackworth

school 1821–4; worked with his father as a gardener to 1832,

then in a linen warehouse at Barnsley; postmaster at Barnsley

1839–70 when he was presented with a testimonial; a constant

attendant and contributor of papers at annual meetings of

British Association; president of Barnsley Naturalists’ Society;

is referred to by name in Mrs. G. L. Banks’s Yorkshire story

entitled Wooers and winners 1880; author of The rustic wreath

poems, moral, descriptive and miscellaneous 1834; Temperance

Rhymes 1837; Rhymes of progress 1862, and of many poems and

translations in Tait’s Magazine 1838–9. _d._ Barnsley 25 March

1888. _W. Andrews’s Modern Yorkshire Poets_ (1885) 146–53; _W.

C. Newsam’s Poets of Yorkshire_ (1845) 163–5; _W. Grainge’s

Poets of Yorkshire_, _ii_ 444–6 (1868); _J. H. Nodal’s

Bibliography of Ackworth school_ (1889) 22.

LISTON, MARIA (dau. of Mr. Simpson a tradesman in the Strand,

London). _b._ about 1834; first appeared Drury Lane boxing

night 1858 as Sylvia in Robin Hood; played in the burlesques at

the Strand theatre 1865 etc.; (_m._ Wm. Henry Liston, lessee

of Olympic theatre, London 1869–72, he _d._ 9 April 1876 aged

46); played chief roles at the Olympic 1869–72; acted at the

Criterion and the Royalty theatres. _d._ Carlton house, 4 Bridge

avenue, Hammersmith 25 Feb. 1879. _bur._ Kensal green cemetery 1

March. _The Era 2 March 1879 p._ 6.

LISTON, SARAH (dau. of Mr. Tyrer). _b._ London 1780; pupil of

M. Kelly and Mrs. Crouch; sang at concerts in the Rotunda,

Dublin; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 21 Aug.

1801 as Winifred in Morton’s Zorinski; played at Drury Lane

1801–2; acted Queen Dollalolla in O’Hara’s burlesque Tom Thumb

at Haymarket 27 July 1805; the original Minna in Dimond’s Adrian

and Orilla at Covent Garden 15 Nov. 1806 and the original Anna

in Reynold’s Exile 10 Nov. 1808; made her last appearance on the

stage at Covent Garden 31 May 1822 when she spoke a farewell

address; (_m._ 23 March 1807 John Liston the comedian, who _d._

George’s ter. Hyde park corner 22 March 1846 aged 70). She

_d._ 15 Alexander sq. Brompton 19 Sep. 1854. _Biography of the

British stage_ (1824) 177; _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _June 1813_,

_portrait_; _The British Stage_, _i_ 121 (1817), _portrait_;

_G.M. 1846 pt. i_, _pp._ 547, 660.

LISTOWEL, WILLIAM HARE, 2 Earl of (eld. son of hon. Richard Hare

1773–1827). _b._ Bally Ellis near Mallow 22 Sep. 1801; M.P. co.

Kerry 1826–30; succeeded his grandfather 13 July 1837; vice

admiral of Munster 1838 to death; M.P. St. Alban’s 1841–7; a

lord in waiting to the queen 1840 to Sep. 1841 and Oct. 1853 to

death; K.P. 1839. _d._ Morrison’s hotel, 1 Dawson st. Dublin 4

Feb. 1856.

LITCHFIELD, GEORGE AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1784; entered Bombay army

1799; lieut.-col. of 3 Bombay light cavalry 1829 or 1830 to 1832

and 1833–5, of 2 light cavalry 1832–3, of 1 light cavalry 1835

to 1838; commandant at Deesa 1831–3, at Hursole 1833–5 and at

Sholapore 1835–8; M.G. on retired list 28 Feb. 1838. _d._ Marine

hotel, Exmouth 18 June 1857.

LITCHFIELD, HARRIET (dau. of John Silvester Hay, head surgeon

of royal hospital, Calcutta). _b._ 4 May 1777; first appeared

at Richmond 1792 as Julia in The Surrender of Calais; acted in

Scotland and at Liverpool 1793; (_m._ 1794 John Litchfield,

editor of The monthly mirror, who _d._ Mountfield house, Harrow

road, London 30 May 1858 aged 84); played at Covent Garden

1797–9 and 1800–5; acted Lady Macbeth 5 Dec. 1800; the original

Ottalia in Monk Lewis’s Alfonso, king of Castile 15 Jany. 1802,

and Mrs. Ferment in Morton’s School of reform 15 Jany. 1803;

played at the Haymarket 1805–6, retired 1806; last appeared on

stage at Haymarket 8 Oct. 1812 as Emilia in Othello, her best

part. _d._ 11 Jany. 1854, portraits of her by De Wilde and

Samuel Drummond are in Garrick club.

LITCHFIELD, HENRY. _b._ Great Torrington, Devon 7 Oct. 1786;

entered navy 1 May 1800; commander of the Moselle 1813 and

of the Mohawk 1813–4; commander of the Orontes 1824–6 on the

Halifax station; captain 20 Nov. 1826; retired admiral 15 June

1864. _d._ London 26 Aug. 1864.

LITCHFIELD, WILLIAM EDMUND. _b._ 1803; entered Madras army 1819;

cornet 7 Madras light cavalry 1820; captain 6 light cavalry 6

Oct. 1828, major 30 Sep. 1840 to 11 Sep. 1848; lieut.-col. of

8 Madras light cavalry 1849–50, of 5 Madras light cavalry 1850

to 8 Dec. 1852, of 2 Madras light cavalry 1853–6 and 1857–9,

and of 7 Madras light cavalry 1856–7; M.G. 31 Aug. 1856. _d._ 3

Vicarage gardens, Church st. Kensington 30 April 1873.

LITOLFF, Henri Charles (son of Louis Litolff, musical composer).

_b._ London 6 Feb. 1818; pianist Covent Garden theatre 24 July

1832; music publisher at Brunswick 1851–60; resided in Paris

from 1861; published much music in Brunswick, London, Magdeburg

and Paris 1846–86; composed and produced the following operas

in Paris and Brussels, La boite de Pandore, opera-bouffe 1872;

Héloise et Abelard, opera comique 1872; La fiancée du roi de

Garbe, opera comique 1874; La belle au bois dormant 1874; La

mandragore 1876; Les Templiers, opera 1886; L’escadron volant

de la reine, opera comique 1888. _d._ Colombe near Paris, Aug.

1891.

LITTLE, SIR ARCHIBALD (2 son of Archibald Little of Shabden

park, Surrey). _b._ 7 Sep. 1810; ed. Charterhouse 1822 etc.;

cornet 9 dragoons 4 Oct. 1831, lieut.-col. 20 June 1854 to 24

May 1861 when placed on h.p.; col. of 11 hussars 23 May 1873, of

9 lancers 8 March 1875 to death; general 21 Jany. 1880, placed

on retired list 7 Sep. 1880; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 2 June

1869, G.C.B. 25 May 1889; served in Sutlej campaign including

Sobraon; commanded 1 brigade of cavalry at siege of Lucknow;

commanded the post of Dilkousha 16–24 Nov. 1857; commanded the

cavalry brigade in Ireland, Jany. 1868 to July 1869. _d._ Upton

house, Tetbury 10 June 1891.

LITTLE, GEORGE (3 son of George Little of Blackburn, Lancs.)

_b._ 1815; articled to Slater and Heelis of Manchester,

solicitors; barrister M.T. 8 May 1840, bencher 30 Jany. 1867

to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; judge of chancery court of county

palatine of Lancaster 22 April 1871 to death. _d._ 11 New sq.

Lincoln’s inn, London 27 Jany. 1881. _bur._ Salford cemetery.

LITTLE, HERBERT JOHN (son of John Little of Eldernell, Cambs.)

_b._ 1835; member of R. Agricultural Society 1870, on the

council 1881 to death, steward of implements 1884, senior

steward at Newcastle exhibition 1887, when he wrote a report on

the implements; judge of farms in Warwickshire competition 1870

and judge in Cumberland and Westmoreland competition 1880, his 2

reports printed in vol. xii and xvi of Journal of the society;

wrote articles on The agricultural labourer 1887, on Working

dairies, and on Technical instruction; alderman of Isle of Ely

county council; published Farm labour account book 1886. _d._

Coldham hall, Wisbech 30 Jany. 1890. _The Times 3 Feb. 1890 p._

6.

LITTLE, ROBERT WENTWORTH. _b._ Dublin 1838 or 1839; in business

in London 1855; clerk in the masonic grand secretary’s office

1862, second clerk and cashier 1866–72; secretary of the masons’

girls’ school 1872; initiated in the royal union lodge, Uxbridge

1861; honorary member of 80 lodges and chapters; the first P.G.

secretary of Middlesex on the provincial grand lodge being

established; P.G.S.W. 1875; provincial G.H. in chapter, the

highest possible position 1875; consecrated all the lodges in

the province of Middlesex; edited The Rosicrucian, a record of

the Society’s Transactions 1868–78; General statutes of the

order of knights of the Red Cross 1868. _d._ 7 St. Martin’s

road, Stockwell, London 12 April 1878. _bur._ Camberwell

cemetery, Honor Oak 17 April. _Masonic portraits. By J.G._

(1876) 100–5.

LITTLE, THOMAS. _b._ Feb. 1802; pupil of Robert Abraham;

practised in London as an architect and surveyor, then as an

architect only; built church of St. Mark, Regent’s park 1848,

presented parish of St. Pancras with the ground upon which it

stands; built All Saints’ church, St. John’s Wood 1850; St.

Saviour’s, Warwick road, Paddington 1856; church of Fairlight

near Hastings, chapels at Nunhead cemetery, and Paddington

cemetery near Wilsdon, Marylebone girls and infant schools. _d._

36 Northumberland st. Marylebone road, London 20 Dec. 1859.

_G.M. viii_ 406 (1860).

LITTLEDALE, RICHARD FREDERICK (4 son of John Littledale of

Dublin, auctioneer). _b._ Dublin 14 Sep. 1833; foundation

scholar Trin. coll. Dublin 1850; B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858, LL.B.

and LL.D. 1862, D.C.L. Oxford 1862; C. of St. Matthew in Thorpe

Hamlet, Norfolk 1856–7; C. of St. Mary the Virgin, Crown st.

Soho, London 1857–61; heard more confessions than any priest

of the Church of England except Dr. Pusey; a great speaker and

controversialist; author of Catholic ritual in the Church of

England, scriptural, reasonable, lawful 1865, 13 editions; The

mixed chalice 1867, 4 editions; Plain reasons for not joining

the church of Rome 1880; author with rev. James Edward Vaux of

The priest’s prayer book 1864, 7 ed. 1890; The people’s hymnal

1867, 8 editions; The Christian Passover 1873, 4 ed., and The

altar manual. _d._ 9 Red Lion sq. Holborn, London 11 Jany. 1890,

memorial reredos erected in chapel at St. Katharine’s 32 Queen

sq. London, March 1891. _Church Portrait Journal_, _iii_ 85–8

(1882), _portrait_; _London Figaro 1 Feb. 1890 p._ 9, _portrait_.

LITTLER, JOHN. Ed. Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1822;

dean and vicar of Battle, Sussex 1836 to death, the deanery

being a peculiar with power of granting marriage licences and

a court for proving wills; author of Two sermons preached at

Battle 1847, 1848. _d._ the deanery, Battle, Sussex 17 Feb. 1863.

LITTLER, SIR JOHN HUNTER (eld. son of Thomas Littler of Tarvin,

Cheshire). _b._ Tarvin 6 Jany. 1783; entered Bengal army 1799;

lieut. 10 Bengal N.I. 29 Nov. 1800, captain 16 Dec. 1814;

lieut.-col. 14 N.I. 23 May 1828 to 1832; lieut.-col. 54 N.I.

1832 to 1835 or 1836; lieut.-col. 40 N.I. 1835 or 1836 to 30

July 1839; col. 36 N.I. 30 July 1839 to death; commander at

Barrackpore 15 July 1840 to 3 Feb. 1843; commanded Rajpootana

field force 7 April 1843 to 30 May 1845; commanded Lahore field

force 30 May 1845 to 7 Jany. 1847; commanded Punjaub division

7 Jany. 1847 to 17 Jany. 1848; provisional member of council

12 May 1847 (took his seat 21 Feb. 1848) to 10 May 1853; L.G.

11 Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 2 May 1844, G.C.B. 31 Jany. 1848. _d._

Bigadon, Buckfastleigh near Totnes, Devonshire 18 Feb. 1856.

_bur._ in family vault at Tarvin. _I.L.N. viii_ 157 (1846),

_portrait_.

LITTLETON, HENRY (son of James Littleton). _b._ London 7

Jany. 1823; entered music publishing house of Alfred Novello

1841, manager 1846, sole manager 1856, a partner 1861, sole

proprietor 1866; had a branch establishment in New York; created

the development of English taste for choral music; published

the Messiah in 12 monthly numbers at sixpence 1846 and other

standard music at cheap prices; retired 1887 leaving largest

music publishing business in the world; gave daily concerts at

the Albert hall and revived the oratorio concerts under Dr.

Mackenzie at the St. James’ hall. _d._ Westwood house, Sydenham

11 May 1888. _bur._ at Lee, Kent. _A short history of cheap

music_ (1887), _portrait_; _London Figaro 19 May 1888 p._ 6,

_portrait_.

LITTLEWOOD, WILLIAM EDENSOR (only son of George Littlewood,

printer). _b._ London 2 Aug. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch.

and Pemb. coll. Camb., 35th wrangler 1854; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1860;

C. of St. John’s, Wakefield 1857–61; head master of Hipperholme

gr. sch. Yorkshire 1861–8; C. of Southall, Middlesex 1868–70;

P.C. of Ironville, Derbyshire 1870–2; V. of St. James’s, Bath

1872–81; London Diocesan home missionary in charge of St.

Thomas’s, Finsbury park, London 1881 to death; author of A

garland from the parables 1858, religious verse; Essentials of

English history 1862, 2 ed. 1865; Essentials of New Testament

study 1872; Down in Dingyshire 1872; The story of the wanderer

1874; Bible bibliographies 1878. _d._ Bush End vicarage, Essex 3

Sep. 1886.

LITTON, EDWARD (3 son of Edward Litton of Ballyfarmoth, co.

Dublin 1754–1808). _b._ Glasnevin, co. Dublin 1 Dec. 1787; ed.

at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1832; gained five medals

from historical soc. of univ. of Dublin; called to Irish bar

Easter term 1811; leader of North-West circuit some years,

retired 1833; made very large income at the Chancery bar; K.C.

13 July 1830; M.P. Coleraine 1837–42; a master of Irish court of

chancery Jany. or Feb. 1843 to death; P.C. Ireland 1868; wrote

three letters in T. Martin’s A plan for the settlement of the

question of the sale and transfer of land 1862. _d._ 32 Merrion

square, Dublin 22 Jany. 1870. _Irish Law Times_, _iv_ 72–4, 554

(1870).

LITTON, EDWARD FALCONER (only son of Daniel Litton of Waterloo

road, Dublin, wine merchant). _b._ 18 Dec. 1828; ed. at Trin.

coll. Dublin, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1864; called to Irish bar 1849,

went Munster circuit; Q.C. 17 Feb. 1874; M.P. co. Tyrone 13

April 1880 to Aug. 1881, being the first Liberal who ever

represented it; second comr. under Land Law (Ireland) act

1881, Aug. 1881 to Jany. 1890; judicial comr. and judge of

supreme court of judicature Jany. 1890 to death, with 73 land

commissioners under him; married four times; author of Life

or death, the destiny of the soul in the future state 1860.

_d._ Ardavilling house, Cloyne 27 Nov. 1890. _Our Judges. By

Rhadamanthus_ (1890) _pp._ 119–22, _portrait_; _Irish Law

Times_, _xxiv_ 620, 625, 633, 662 (1890); _London Figaro 11

Jany. 1890 p._ 8, _portrait_.

LITTON, MARIE, stage name of Maria Lowe. _b._ Derbyshire 1847;

first appeared on the stage at Princess’s theatre, London as

Effie Deans in Boucicault’s Trial of Effie Deans 23 March

1868; played Mrs. Cureton in Alfred Thompson’s On the cards,

at opening of Gaiety theatre 21 Dec. 1868, and Alice Renshaw

in Byron’s Uncle Dick’s Darling 13 Dec. 1869; lessee of Court

theatre 25 Jany. 1871 to 13 March 1874; produced pieces by W.

S. Gilbert, W. Marston, W. G. Wills, H. C. Merivale and P.

Simpson, in which she acted secondary parts; played Zayda in

W. S. Gilbert’s comedy The Wicked World, at Haymarket 4 Jany.

1873; the original Caroline Effingham in W. S. Gilbert’s Tom

Cobb, at St. James’s 24 April 1875; played Mrs. Montressor in

Tom Taylor’s Unequal Match, at Prince of Wales’s 29 Sep. 1877;

lessee of theatre attached to Royal Aquarium, Westminster, Oct.

1878, opened the house again under name of The Imperial, Feb.

1879, played Lady Teazle, Lydia Languish and Olivia, acted Miss

Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer, 137 nights from Easter

1879, played Rosalind in As you like it, 100 nights; manager

of the new T.R. Glasgow, Oct. 1880; played Eva de Malvoisie in

Youth, at Drury Lane 6 Aug. 1881, and Daisy Brent in The Cynic,

at Globe 14 Jany. 1882; the original Vere Herbert in Moths, at

Globe 25 March 1882; (_m._ 1879 Wm. Wybrow Robertson, manager

of Westminster Aquarium 1875–8). _d._ 6 Alfred place west,

Thurloe sq. London 1 April 1884. _Biograph_, _vi_ 242–3 (1881);

_Theatre i_ 189 (1878) _portrait_, _i_ 255 (1880), _portrait_;

_Touchstone 8 June 1878 p._ 3, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and

dr. news_, _v_ 537, 543 (1876), _portrait_, _xii_ 265 (1879),

_portrait_, _xiii_ 108 (1880), _portrait_; _Dramatic Notes_

(1883) 15, _portrait_.

LIVERPOOL, CHARLES CECIL COPE JENKINSON, 3 Earl of (half-brother

of Robert 2 earl of Liverpool 1770–1829). _b._ 29 May 1784;

styled hon. Cecil Jenkinson 1786–1820; served in the navy

1794–7; page of honor to George iii 1794; matric. at Ch. Ch.

Oxf. 23 April 1801; cornet Surrey regt. of yeomanry 20 Aug.

1803; sec. of legation at Vienna 13 July 1804; M.P. Sandwich

1807–12; under sec. of state home department 10 Oct. 1807; under

sec. of state, war and colonial department 1809–10; lieut.-col.

Cinque ports regt. of militia 28 July 1811; M.P. Bridgenorth

1812–18; M.P. East Grinstead 1818–28; succeeded as 3 earl 4 Dec.

1829; high steward of Kingston-on-Thames 1829; prothonotary of

county palatine of Lancaster; D.C.L. Oxf. 15 June 1841; lord

steward of the household 3 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; P.C. 3

Sep. 1841; G.C.B. 11 Dec. 1845. _d._ Buxted park near Uckfield,

Sussex 3 Oct. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 538 (1851); _I.L.N. xix_ 450,

618 (1851).

LIVESEY, HOWARD. A correspondent of The Times on social

questions; attacked the scheme for the Manchester ship canal

under the heading of What is a port?; an enthusiastic fisherman,

well known in the Lake district for 30 years; instituted

the Lunesdale fish hatchery near Lancaster. _d._ West road,

Lancaster 4 Feb. 1892.

LIVESEY, JOHN. _b._ 17 May 1803; ed. Manchester sch. 1819–23 and

St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; C. of Trinity ch.

Camb. 1827–31; incumb. of St. Philip’s, Sheffield, July 1831 to

death; conveyed 5 acres of ground at Stacey Springwood to the

ecclesiastical comrs. for a new parochial burial ground 1857

on which he erected a lodge and mortuary chapel, consecrated 5

July 1859; military chaplain Sheffield 1836 to death; author of

Mechanics’ churches. A letter to sir R. Peel on church extension

in populous towns 1840. _d._ Sheffield 11 Aug. 1870. _Manchester

School Register_, _iii_ 142 (1874).

LIVESEY, JOSEPH. _b._ Walton near Preston 5 March 1794; brought

up as a weaver; a cheese-factor at Preston 1815 to death;

drafted the first teetotal pledge 1 Sep. 1832; brought out

Livesey’s Moral Reformer, 23 numbers Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1833

and Jany. 1838 to Feb. 1839; issued in Jany. 1834 The Preston

temperance advocate, which he edited 4 years, this was the

first English teetotal publication; agitated against the corn

laws 1841, issuing The Struggle a weekly paper, 235 numbers

Dec. 1841 till the repeal of the laws 1846; published the

Teetotal Progressionist, Aug. 1851 to May 1852, and the Staunch

Teetotaller 24 numbers Jany. 1867 to Dec. 1868 with a portrait

of himself; he and his sons managed The Preston Guardian, weekly

paper 1844–59; author of Reminiscences of early teetotalism

1868; The autobiography of Joseph Livesey. Preston 1881, 2 ed.

London 1885. _d._ Bank parade, Preston 2 Sep. 1884. _J. Weston’s

Joseph Livesey, the story of his life_ (1884); _J. Pearce’s Life

and teachings of Joseph Livesey_ (1885); _Cassell’s Mag. March

1882 pp._ 243–5, _portrait_.

LIVESEY, THOMAS. _b._ 1807; manager of South Metropolitan gas

company 1839, secretary 1842 to death; resided at Dulwich

Common. _d._ in the surgery of his physician’s house 10 Oct.

1871. _Times 14 Oct. 1871 p._ 5; _W. H. Blanch’s Ye parish of

Camerwell_ (1877) 347.

LIVESEY, THOMAS J. Lecturer on method and school management,

St. Mary’s R.C. training college, Brook Green, Hammersmith 1865

to death; author of How to teach arithmetic 1877; The primer

of English history 1877; How to teach grammar 1881; Moffatt’s

How to prepare notes of lessons 1882; The Granville illustrated

history of England 1885; translated F. S. Hattler’s Flowers from

the catholic kindergarten 1890. _d._ 19 July 1890. _bur._ St.

Mary Magdalen, Mortlake 23 July. _The Tablet 26 July 1890 p._

147.

LIVINGSTONE, CHARLES (son of Neill Livingstone of Blantyre near

Glasgow, tea-dealer). _b._ Blantyre 28 Feb. 1821; in a lace

manufacturing warehouse in Hamilton; emigrated to Western states

of America 1840; entered Union theological college, New York

city 1847 where he took his degree 1850; had a pastoral charge

in Massachusetts; came to England, April 1857 and went with his

brother David Livingstone as secretary to the expedition for

exploring Eastern and Central Africa, March 1858, invalided home

1863; British consul at Fernando Po 17 Oct. 1864, the Bight of

Benin and Biafra were added to his consular district 24 June

1867, the seat of the consulate was removed to Old Calabar 1

April 1872. _d._ of African fever near Lagos 28 Oct. 1873.

_Proc. of Royal Geographical Soc. xviii_ 512–14 (1874).

LIVINGSTONE, DAVID (brother of preceding). _b._ Blantyre 19

March 1813; a piecer at a cotton factory 1823, a cotton spinner

1832; studied medicine in Anderson college and Greek and

divinity in Glasgow univ. 1836–8; studied medicine in London

1839; licentiate of faculty of phys. and surgeons Glasgow 1840;

ordained a missionary of London Missionary Soc. in Albion

chapel, London 20 Nov. 1840; landed at Port Elizabeth, Algoa

Bay, May 1841; crossed the Kalahari desert in search of Lake

Ngami, which he found 1 Aug. 1849; discovered the Zambesi,

June 1851; discovered the Victoria falls Nov. 1855; arrived in

London 12 Dec. 1856, presented with gold medal of Royal Geog.

Soc. 15 Dec.; received freedom of city of London 21 May 1857

and of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee 1857; LL.D. Glasgow, Dec.

1854; D.C.L. Oxford 1857; F.R.S. 1857; severed his connection

with London missionary soc. 1857; British consul at Quilimane

15 Jany. 1858; commanded expedition to explore Eastern and

Central Africa, March 1858, explored the Zambesi, Shira and

Rovuma, discovered Lake Nyassa 16 Sep. 1859, received a despatch

recalling the expedition 2 July 1863, arrived in England 23

July 1864; author of Missionary travels and researches in South

Africa 1857; with C. Livingstone Narrative of an expedition to

the Zambesi and of the discovery of lakes Shirwa and Nyassa.

1865; consul in the territories of all African kings and chiefs

in the interior of Africa not subject to the authority of the

kings of Portugal or Abyssinia or of the viceroy of Egypt 15

March 1865 to death; discovered lakes Meoro and Bangweolo 1869;

returned to Ujiji where he found H. M. Stanley who had been

sent to look for him 28 Oct. 1871, returned to lake Bangweolo

where he became very ill; found dead on his knees at Chitambo’s

village in Ilala 1 May 1873, body embalmed, brought to England

and _bur._ in nave of Westminster abbey 18 April 1874. _The last

journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to

his death, continued by H. Waller 2 vols._ (1874), _portrait_;

_Life and finding of Dr. Livingstone. Containing the original

letters written by H. M. Stanley. With an account of Dr.

Livingstone’s death and latest discoveries_ (1874), _portraits_;

_H. M. Stanley’s How I found Livingstone_ (1872); _Proc. R.

Geogr. Soc. xviii_ 6 _et seq._ 497–512 (1874); _Illustrated

Review_, _i_ 519–23 (1870), _portrait_; _The weaver boy who

became a missionary. By H. G. Adams_ (1867); _Illustrated news

of the world_, _i_ (1858), _portrait_; _The personal life of

David Livingstone. By W. G. Blaikie_ (1880), _portrait_; _J.

Waddington’s Congregational history_, _v_ 78–106 (1880).

NOTE.--A civil list pension was granted him 19 June 1873, 7 weeks after

his death. His surviving son Wm. Oswell Livingstone _b._ South Africa

1850 took part in the expedition sent out in 1872 to find his father,

he practised as a physician at St. Albans and _d._ at Maida villa,

Lattimore road, St. Albans 30 Dec. 1889.

LIVINGSTONE, SIR THOMAS, 10 Baronet (son of sir Alexander

Livingstone, 9 baronet, _d._ 1795). Entered navy 17 Sep. 1782;

captain 13 June 1800, R.A. 22 July 1830, admiral 1 June 1848.

_d._ Westquarter, Falkirk 1 April 1853.

LIVIUS, CHARLES BARHAM. Author of Maid or wife or the deceiver

deceived, a musical comedy. The music by the author. Drury Lane

5 Nov. 1821; The Freyschütz or the wild huntsman of Bohemia,

romantic opera, Covent Garden 14 Oct. 1824; composer of Where

shall the lover rest, song 1810; Variations sur un air favori

pour le pianoforte 1835. _d._ Worthing 14 Jany. 1865.

LIZARS, ALEXANDER JARDINE. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1831;

professor of anatomy Marischall coll. and univ. of Aberdeen

1841 to 15 Sep. 1860; professor of anatomy Aberdeen univ. 15

Sep. 1860 to 1863; author of Elements of anatomy intended as a

text-book for students 3 parts. Edinb. 1844. _d._ Ambleside 12

June 1866.

LIZARS, JOHN (son of Daniel Lizars, publisher and engraver,

_d._ 1812). _b._ Edinburgh about 1787; ed. at Edinb. high sch.

and univ.; surgeon in the navy during Peninsular war; F.R.C.S.

Edinb. 1815; partner with John Bell and Robert Allan as surgeons

in Edinb. 1815; professor of surgery in royal college of

surgeons Edinb. 1831 to death; senior operating surgeon of royal

infirmary 1831, introduced operation for removal of the upper

jaw, the well-known ‘Lizars’ lines’ are called after him; author

of A system of anatomical plates of the human body, accompanied

with descriptions and observations. 12 parts Edinburgh 1822–6;

Observations on extraction of diseased ovaria 1825; A system

of practical surgery with plates 2 parts 1838, 1840; Practical

observations on the use and abuse of tobacco 1854, 8 ed. 1859.

_d._ 15 South Charlotte st. Edinburgh 21 May 1860.

LIZARS, WILLIAM HOME (brother of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh

1788; ed. at high sch. Edinb.; apprenticed to his father;

studied at Trustees’ academy, Edinb.; his two pictures Reading

the will and A Scotch wedding, exhibited at the R.A. in 1812

are in the National gallery of Scotland at Edinb.; an engraver

and copper-plate printer in Edinb. 1812; engraved the plates

for his brother’s A system of anatomical plates 1822; a founder

of Royal Scottish academy 1826; perfected a method of etching

for illustrating books; engraved views for N. G. Philips’ Views

in Lancashire and Cheshire of halls, castles, etc. 1822; J.

Browne’s Picturesque views of Edinburgh 1825; Lizars’ Views of

principal cities in Scotland; and for Guides to several Scotch

railways 1842–50. _d._ Edinburgh 30 March 1859.

LLANOS, FRANCES MARY (only dau. of Thomas Keats, livery stable

keeper _d._ 1804 and sister of John Keats the poet). _b._ Craven

st. City road, London 3 June 1803; resided with her guardian

Richard Abbey at Walthamstow 1814–20; her brother corresponded

with her 1817–20; when of age she brought an action against

Abbey to recover the inheritance due to her; (_m._ 1826 Valentin

Llanos Gutierrez a Spaniard, author of Don Esteban or memoirs of

a Spaniard written by himself 3 vols. 1825, and Sandoval or the

freemason. A Spanish tale 3 vols. 1826 anon.; he lost greater

part of his money at Madrid, and _d._ Spain 14 Aug. 1885 aged

90); a civil list pension of £80 was granted her 23 Nov. 1880;

many important letters from her brother are addressed to her.

She _d._ Madrid 16 Dec. 1889. _Athenæum 4 Jany. 1890 p._ 16;

_H. B. Forman’s Poetical works of John Keats 4 vols._ (1883),

_contains the letters addressed to his sister, in vols. i, iii

and iv_.

LLANOVER, BENJAMIN HALL, 1 Baron (eld. son of Benjamin Hall of

Hensol castle, Glamorganshire 1778–1817). _b._ Upper Gower st.

London 8 Nov. 1802; ed. at Westminster sch. 1814–20 and Ch.

Ch. Oxf.; M.P. Monmouth 3 May 1831 but unseated 18 July 1831;

M.P. Monmouth 1832–7; M.P. Marylebone 1837–59; carried through

House of Commons the act which created Metropolitan board of

works 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, 14 Aug. 1855; cr. baronet 16 Aug.

1838; president of board of health 14 Oct. 1854 to Aug. 1855;

P.C. 14 Nov. 1854; first comr. of works and public buildings 21

July 1855 to Feb. 1858; created baron Llanover of Llanover and

Abercarn, co. Monmouth 29 June 1859; lord lieut. of Monmouth

20 Nov. 1861 to death; author of A letter to the archbishop

of Canterbury on the state of the church 1850; Church abuses,

a letter to the rev. E. Phillips 1852. _d._ 9 Great Stanhope

st. London 27 April 1867. _bur._ Llanover churchyard, memorial

monument in Llandaff cathedral. _Men of the time_ (1865) 528;

_I.L.N. xxxiv_ 429 (1859), _portrait_.

NOTE.--The great bell in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament

was called ‘Big Ben’ after him 1856.

LLEWELLYN, DAVID HERBERT (son of rev. David Llewellyn, P.C.

of Easton near Pewsey, Wilts. _d._ 1869). _b._ Easton 1838;

ed. at Marlborough 1848–53; studied at Charing Cross hospital

1856–9; M.R.C.S. 1859; surgeon of the Confederate steam vessel

Alabama which left the Mersey 28 July 1862; after the engagement

between the Alabama and the federal ironclad Kearsage off

Cherbourg 19 June 1864 he refused to escape by overloading the

boat containing the wounded, and went down with the ship, being

the only man lost; memorial tablets erected in Charing Cross

hospital and in Easton church. _Medical Times_, _ii_ 24, 25, 81,

374 (1864); _The Times 21 June 1864 p._ 11; _I.L.N. 9 July 1864

p._ 41, _portrait_.

LLOYD, ARTHUR. _b._ 1774; lieut. 53 foot 15 Sep. 1795; captain

20 foot 25 May 1803; major 98 foot 22 May 1804; major 97 foot

1816, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._

Lytham, Lancashire 31 Oct. 1851.

LLOYD, BARTHOLOMEW CLIFFORD (2 son of rev. Bartholomew Lloyd

1772–1837, provost of Trinity college, Dublin 1831–7). _b._

1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832, LL.B.

and LL.D. 1843; called to Irish bar 1830; chairman of quarter

sessions for county of Waterford to death; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852;

author with F. Goold of Reports of cases in court of chancery

in Ireland during the time of lord chancellor Sugden 1836; A

selection of cases in court of chancery during the time of lord

chancellor Plunket 1839. _d._ Crewe, Cheshire 28 April 1872.

LLOYD, CHARLES DALTON CLIFFORD (eld. son of Robert Clifford

Lloyd 1809–63). _b._ Portsmouth 13 Jany. 1844; ed. at Sandhurst;

served in British Burmah police force 1865–72; barrister L.I.

7 June 1875; resident magistrate for co. Down 16 Feb. 1874 to

May 1881; restored order in co. Longford, Jany. to May 1881;

special resident magistrate at Kilmallock, co. Limerick, May

1881 to Sep. 1883, arrested Father Eugene Sheehy and other

leaders of the land league, thus restoring order in co. Limerick

1881; inspector general of reforms in Egypt 1883 and under

secretary of state 1884; formulated proposals for reform of

prison management Jany. 1884, resigned office May 1884; resident

magistrate in co. Londonderry 12 March 1885; lieutenant governor

and colonial secretary Mauritius 23 Nov. 1885, transferred to

the Seychelles, Aug. 1886, resigned 1887; British consul for

Kurdistan 15 Sep. 1889 to death. _d._ of pleuro-pneumonia at

Erzeroum 7 Jany. 1891. _C. D. C. Lloyd’s Ireland under the land

league: a narrative of personal experience_ (1892); _Graphic

xxv_ 417 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 333 (1883),

_portrait_.

LLOYD, EDWARD. Midshipman R.N. Sep. 1798; captain 19 July 1821,

R.A. on h.p. 8 March 1852; awarded good service pension 19 March

1849; K.H. 1 Jany. 1834; F.R.S. 12 March 1818; (_m._ Aug. 1816

Colin Campbell youngest dau. of James Baillie of Ealing grove,

Middlesex, M.P. for Horsham, she _d._ 8 Nov. 1830). He _d._

Priory cottage, Cheltenham 29 April 1855.

NOTE.--His wife was the lady on whose death the medical robber John St.

John Long was prosecuted for manslaughter at the Old Bailey 19 Feb.

1831. Long _d._ 41 Harley st. London 2 July 1834 aged 35.

LLOYD, EDWARD. _b._ 30 Jany. 1780; partner in Jones, Lloyds &

Co. bankers, Manchester and London, retired 25 Dec. 1848; a

member of the Broughton Archers and present when they formed a

body guard to the Queen at Holland house, Kensington. _d._ on

anniversary of his birth, Coombe Wood, Croydon 30 Jany. 1863,

personalty sworn under £600,000, 4 April. _L. H. Grindon’s

Manchester banks_ (1877) 150–9.

LLOYD, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward John Lloyd 1799–1879).

Barrister L.I. 7 June 1858; reported for the Law Times in

court of sir W. Page Wood; sec. to commissioners on the patent

laws 1 Sep. 1862, the report is dated 29 July 1864; special

correspondent of the Standard at Athens; author of The law

of trade marks, with account of its history in the decisions

of courts of law 1862; with his wife, children and other

persons left Athens on 11 April 1870 to visit the plains of

Marathon, and on same day was taken prisoner by brigands, who

being pursued by troops, murdered him and other prisoners near

Dhilissi 21 April 1870. _bur._ at Athens. _I.L.N. lvi_ 557

(1870), _portrait_; _Law Times_, _xlix_ 38 (1870); _A.R._ (1870)

39–42.

LLOYD, EDWARD. _b._ Thornton Heath near Croydon 16 Feb. 1815;

bookseller and newsvendor at Curtain road, Shoreditch, London;

compiled and published Lloyd’s Stenography 1833; published a

monthly budget of news 1836; Lloyd’s Pickwickian songster 1840;

Lloyd’s Reciter 1846; Lloyd’s Song book 1846, 3 ed. 1847; issued

Lloyd’s Penny weekly miscellany 1842, which became Lloyd’s

Entertaining Journal 1844 and lasted till 1847; issued Lloyd’s

Penny Atlas 1842–5; brought out Lloyd’s Illustrated London

Newspaper 27 Nov. 1842, 7 numbers only, but continued without

illustrations as Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper, which now

circulates half a million weekly; introduced the fast rotary

printing machine 1870; established a large paper manufactory at

Sittingbourne, Kent, producing 300 tons of paper a day about

1864; leased 100,000 acres of land in Algeria, grew Esparto

grass there and imported it for papermaking. _d._ 17 Delahay st.

Westminster 8 April 1890. _bur._ Highgate cemet., net value of

his estate sworn at £563,022 May 1890. _Hatton’s Journalistic

London_ (1882) 188–94, _portrait_; _Sell’s Dictionary of the

world’s press_ (1891) 79–80, _portrait_; _Graphic 19 April 1890

p._ 444, _portrait_.

NOTE.--In Jany. 1855 he issued The business and agency gazette which

became The Clerkenwell News, May 1856, the first district newspaper in

London, the name was altered to The Clerkenwell News and London Times,

Feb. 1866 when it was issued 5 times a week, it became a daily paper

April 1866 and its name was altered to The London Daily Chronicle and

Clerkenwell News 1869, the name Daily Chronicle was adopted 25 Nov.

1872, Lloyd bought the paper for £30,000 in 1876 and established it as

a London daily paper after spending £150,000.

LLOYD, EDWARD JOHN (2 son of Thomas Gore Lloyd, accountant

general of H.E.I.C.) _b._ London 25 Feb. 1799; ed. at Blackheath

and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 1

Feb. 1825, bencher 23 April 1849 to death; Q.C. 23 Feb. 1849;

judge of county courts, circuit 54, Bristol, Chipping Sodbury

and Thornbury 18 Feb. 1863 to Sep. 1874 when he retired on a

pension. _d._ Hillside, Upper Maize hill, St. Leonard’s on Sea 1

June 1879. _bur._ Ore cemetery, Hastings.

LLOYD, EDWARD THOMAS. _b._ Sep. 1803; 2 lieut. R.E. 22 Sep.

1826, col. 20 April 1861, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 15 Feb.

1864; commanded R.E. at Constantinople 1855 and in the Crimea

when docks at Sebastopol were destroyed under his directions

April 1856. _d._ Maitland St. Clements, Jersey 12 June 1892.

LLOYD, EUSEBIUS ARTHUR. _b._ 1794; ed. St. Bartholomew’s

hospital, favourite pupil of Abernethy; assist. surgeon 1824 and

surgeon 1847–61; M.R.C.S. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1843; often attended

to Abernethy’s private practice for him; fellow of Med. and

Chir. Soc. 1824, sec. 1827–8, V.P. 1838; took Abernethy’s house

14 Bedford row, London, where he had a large practice 1831–61;

surgeon Christ’s hospital; introduced the cure of hydrocele

by injecting red precipitate into the tunica vaginalis; the

injection of nævi with liquor ammoniæ and the medium operation

for lithotomy; author of A treatise on the nature and treatment

of scrophula 1821. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 4 March 1862.

LLOYD, GEORGE WILLIAM AYLMER. Entered Bengal army 1804; lieut. 2

Bengal N.I. 17 Sep. 1806; captain 71 N.I. 13 May 1825, major 3

June 1830 to 7 Jany. 1836; lieut.-col. of 52 N.I. 7 Jany. 1836,

of 43 N.I. 1837, of 17 N.I. 1838 to 1840, of 25 N.I. 1840–41,

of 28 N.I. 1841 to 27 Aug. 1847; col. of 28 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847

to death; commander of Rajpootana field force 21 Jany. 1848 to

1850, of Mooltan field force 1850 to 1851, of Agra field force

1851 to 1853; commanded Dinapore division 10 Nov. 1854 to 29

Oct. 1857; L.G. 2 June 1860; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ Darjeeling

4 June 1865.

LLOYD, HORACE (eld. son of John Horatio Lloyd 1798–1884). _b._

1828; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1850; barrister M.T. 7 June

1852, bencher 1868 to death; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868; a good whist,

billiard and chessplayer, played at the Whitehall club and at

Simpson’s divan; spent many of his vacations at Homburg and

Baden Baden. _d._ 42 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 30 March

1874. _Law Times_, _lvi_ 406 (1874); _The Westminster Papers_,

_vii_ 9, 15 (1874).

LLOYD, HORATIO FREDERICK (son of Mr. Lloyd, hatter). _b._

Strand, London 9 Nov. 1808; first appeared theatre royal,

Newcastle 1829; played in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow 1829–32;

commenced an engagement at the theatre royal, Edinburgh 1 Oct.

1832 and remained there 16 years; played in Glasgow 1848–51;

manager theatre royal, Edinburgh 22 Nov. 1851 to 10 July 1852

when he was ruined; principal low comedian Dunlop st. theatre,

Glasgow 1853–64; took his farewell of the stage at theatre

royal, Glasgow, May 1889. _d._ Glasgow 28 Nov. 1889. _bur._

South necropolis, Glasgow 3 Dec.

NOTE.--He was educated at a school kept by a Mr. Shaw in Yorkshire, who

was the Mr. Squeers of Nicholas Nickleby. Shaw is said really to have

been a kind and considerate schoolmaster who was entirely ruined by

Dickens’ description, he was buried in Greta Bridge churchyard.

LLOYD, HUMPHREY (brother of Bartholomew Clifford Lloyd 1808–72).

_b._ Dublin 16 April 1800; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1815,

scholar 1818, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1827, D.D. 1840; junior fellow

1824, senior fellow 18 Sep. 1843 to March 1867; Erasmus Smith’s

professor of natural and experimental philosophy 19 Dec. 1831

to 1843; established the existence of conical refraction in

biaxial crystals 1833, also the law by which the polarisation

of the rays composing the luminous cone is governed; manager of

magnetic observatory of Trin. coll. Dublin for which he devised

the instruments; vice provost of Trin. coll. Aug. 1862, provost

Feb. 1867 to death; pres. of Royal Irish academy 1846–51,

Cunningham gold medallist 1862; pres. of British Association

at Dublin 1857; F.R.S. 21 Jany. 1836; F.R.S. Edinb. 27 Feb.

1832; D.C.L. Oxford 1855; granted German order ‘Pour le Merite’

1874; author of A treatise on light and vision 1831; Account of

the induction inclinometer 1842; Lectures on the wave theory

of light 1841, 3 ed. 1873; Observations made at the magnetical

observatory, Trinity college, Dublin 1865; Of the power of the

keys or of the authority to bind and to loose 1873; A treatise

on magnetism 1874; Miscellaneous papers 1877. _d._ the provost’s

house, Trinity college, Dublin 17 Jany. 1881, bust by A. B. Joy

placed in library of Trin. coll. 1892. _Proc. of Royal soc.

xxxi_ 21–6 (1881); _Proc. of R.I. Academy_, _v_ 165–6 (1883);

_I.L.N. lxxviii_ 125 (1881), _portrait_.

LLOYD, JACOB YOUDE WILLIAM (eld. son of Jacob Wm. Hinde of

Ulverstone, Lancs.) _b._ 1816; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A.

1839, M.A. 1874; C. of Banhaglog, Montgomeryshire 1841–8; joined

Church of Rome; served in the Pontifical Zouaves; knight of

order of St. Gregory, knight of the Saviour of Greece; assumed

name of Lloyd in lieu of Hinde on inheriting property of Youde

of Plasmadog, Denbighshire; restored parish church of Llangurig

at cost of £10,000; author of The history of the princes, the

lords marcher and the ancient nobility of Powys Fadog ... 6

vols. 1881–7 and several other genealogical works; resided

Clochfaen, Montgomeryshire. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 14 Oct.

1887.

LLOYD, JOHN AUGUSTUS (youngest son of John Lloyd of Lynn,

Norfolk). _b._ London 1 May 1800; ed. at Tooting and Winchester;

went to Tortola, aide de camp to the governor; a captain of

engineers on staff of Simon Bolivar the liberator of Colombia,

South America, became lieut.-col.; surveyed Isthmus of Panama

for Bolivar and reported on best means of inter-oceanic

communication 1827–9, the report appeared in Philos. Trans.

1830 pp. 59–68; F.R.S. 11 March 1830; scientifically employed

by the admiralty and royal society; colonial civil engineer

and surveyor general of Mauritius 31 Aug. 1831 to 4 April

1849; ascended the Peter Botte mountain, previously regarded

as inaccessible 1832; special comr. for Exhibition of 1851, 9

July 1850; A.I.C.E. 1849, member of council; British chargé

d’affaires in Bolivia 4 Dec. 1851; started on a mission to

stir up the Circassians against Russia 13 May 1854; author of

numerous scientific papers; his widow Fanny Drummond Lloyd was

granted civil list pension of £100, 4 March 1856 and _d._ 28

Sep. 1856. He _d._ of cholera at Therapia 10 Oct. 1854. _Min. of

proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiv_ 161–5 (1855); _I.L.N. xviii_ 623,

624 (1851), _portrait_.

LLOYD, JOHN FREDERICK (brother of Humphry Lloyd 1800–81). _b._

1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; C.

of Kilmore 1840–8; fellow of St. John’s coll. Auckland, New

Zealand 1849–53; Inc. of St. Paul, Auckland 1853–65; archdeacon

of Waitemata, Auckland 1865–70; R. of Kirk-Ireton, Derbyshire

1870–4; R. of Newton Wold, Lincs. 1874 to death. _d._ 8 Sep.

1875.

LLOYD, JOHN HORATIO (son of John Lloyd, attorney and

prothonotary of the counties of Chester and Flint). _b._

Stockport 1 Sep. 1798; ed. Stockport gram. sch. and Queen’s

coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; fellow of Brasenose coll.

1823–6; barrister I.T. 6 May 1826; M.P. Stockport 1832–4; chief

authority on legal matters connected with railways, devised the

securities known as Lloyd’s Bonds before 1864, without which

many railways could not have been constructed; by his advice

the new company for laying the Atlantic cable was formed 1860;

retired from practice 1876; A.I.C.E. 1860, member of council

1867–8; author with F. M. Danson of Reports of cases relating

to commerce, manufactures, &c. in courts of common law 1828–29.

1830; author with W. N. Welsby of Reports of cases relating to

commerce, manufacture, &c. determined in the courts of common

law 1829 and 1830. 1829–30; edited third ed. of W. Paley’s

A treatise on the law of principal and agent 1833. _d._ 100

Lancaster gate, London 18 July 1884. _bur._ Hendon 23 July.

_Min. of proc. of I.C.E. lxxviii_ 450–4 (1884); _Law Times_,

_xxxix_ 538, 551 (1864).

LLOYD, JOSEPH SKIPP. Adjutant of corps of Gentlemen at Arms 5

May 1852 to 10 April 1856. _d._ Brighton 25 March 1891.

LLOYD, JULIUS (son of Francis Lloyd, manufacturer, London).

_b._ 10 Sep. 1830; ed. at Blackheath and Trin. coll. Camb.,

scholar 3 May 1851; 22 wrangler 1852, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855;

C. of Brentwood, Essex 1855–7; C. of St. Peter, Wolverhampton

1858–62; C. of Trysull, Staffs. 1862–6; C. of St. Peter,

Pimlico, London 1866–8; V. of High Cross, Herts. 1868–71; Inc.

of St. John, Greenock 1871–80; R. of St. Ann, Manchester 1880–6;

V. of Leesfield, Lancs. 1886–91; hon. canon of Manchester

1886–91; canon residentiary of Manchester 1891 to death; R. of

St. Philip, Salford 1891 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop

of Manchester 1881 to death; author of The life of sir Philip

Sydney 1862; An analysis of the first eleven chapters of the

book of Genesis with reference to the Hebrew grammar of Gesenius

1869; Christian politics, a study of the principles of politics

according to the New Testament 1877; History of the English

church 1879; Sermons on the prophets of the Old Testament 1889

and 15 other books. _d._ just as he had finished addressing a

meeting of the Church Day schools association in Manchester town

hall 27 May 1892.

LLOYD, LLEWELYN. _b._ 1792; resided over 20 years in the north

of Europe; author of Field sports of the north of Europe 2 vols.

1830; Scandinavian adventures, with account of northern fauna 2

vols. 1854; The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway,

with an account of the seals and salt water fishes 1867; Peasant

life in Sweden 1870. _d._ near Gothenbergh, Sweden 17 Feb. 1876.

LLOYD, RIDGWAY ROBERT SYERS CHRISTIAN CODNER (son of Francis

Brown Lloyd, surgeon). _b._ Devonport 20 Dec. 1842; studied

at Guy’s hospital, M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1866; house surgeon in

Peterborough infirmary 1867–70; practised at St. Albans 1870

to death; author of An account of the altars, monuments and

tombs existing 1428 in St. Albans’ abbey. By J. Amundesham,

translated from the Latin. St. Albans 1873 and of many papers on

archæological subjects. _d._ from typhoid fever at Bricket road,

St. Albans 1 June 1884.

LLOYD, ROBERT CLIFFORD (brother of John Frederick Lloyd

1810–75). _b._ 1809; ensign 76 foot 30 Dec. 1826, lieut.-col.

17 July 1857; lieut.-col. 68 foot 8 July 1859, sold out 2

Dec. 1862; brevet colonel 9 Sep. 1859. _d._ Avignon, France,

Jany.-March 1863.

LLOYD, SAMPSON (7 son of Samuel Lloyd of Birmingham, banker).

_b._ Birmingham 7 June 1808; held quarter share in firm of

Lloyds, Fosters & Co. colliers 1835 to Jany. 1867 when business

was transferred to Patent shaft and axletree company limited,

vice chairman and manager of it 1867–73; A.I.C.E. 7 April 1857;

one of founders of Institution of mechanical engineers at

Birmingham 1847. _d._ Areley house near Stourport 26 Sep. 1874.

_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_ 292 (1875).

LLOYD, THOMAS. _b._ Portsea 29 Oct. 1803; ed. at school of naval

architecture 1819–26; inspector of steam machinery at Woolwich

19 Jany. 1833; chief engineer at Woolwich 16 Nov. 1842 to 6

April 1847; a chief engineer of the navy 6 April 1847 to 1869;

C.B. 25 Aug. 1868; M.I.C.E. 18 May 1841. _d._ 84 Finchley road,

Hampstead 23 March 1875. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xli_

217–20 (1875).

LLOYD, SIR THOMAS DAVIES, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Lloyd

of Bronwydd, co. Cardigan, _d._ 18 June 1845). _b._ Swansea 23

May 1820; ed. at Sunbury, Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; cornet 13

light dragoons 2 Oct. 1840; ensign 82 foot 14 July 1843, sold

out 1846; sheriff of co. Cardigan 1850; created a baronet 21

Jany. 1863; M.P. Cardiganshire 1865–8; M.P. district of Cardigan

1864–74. _d._ Bronwydd, co. Cardigan 21 July 1877.

LLOYD, T. G. B. (1 son of Dr. Lloyd of Birmingham). _b._ 15 Aug.

1829; civil engineer; employed surveying in Spain, the United

States, Canada and Newfoundland; investigated the documents

and traditions of the extinct Beothucs or Red Indians of

Newfoundland and sent three papers to the Proceedings of the

Anthropological Institute; made investigations on recent and

fossil beavers; F.G.S. 1864. _d._ 3 Feb. 1876. _Quart. Journ.

Geol. Soc. xxxii_ 87–8 (1876).

LLOYD, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Richard Middleton Massie Lloyd

of Brynestyn near Wrexham, Denbighshire). _b._ Wrexham 1782;

sheriff of Denbighshire 1829; knighted at St. James’s palace 18

July 1838. _d._ Llandudno near Conway 16 May 1857.

LLOYD, WILLIAM FORSTER (only son of rev. Wm. Lloyd of Bradenham,

Bucks.) _b._ Bradenham 1794; ed. at Westminster 1806–12,

captain 1811–2, student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812–37; B.A. 1815,

M.A. 1818; Greek reader 1823; Drummond professor of political

economy 1832–7; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; was in holy orders;

author of Prices of corn in Oxford in the beginning of the

fourteenth century, also from 1583 to present time. Oxford 1830;

Two lectures on the checks to population. Oxford 1833; Four

lectures on poor laws 1835; Two lectures on the justice of poor

laws and one lecture on rent 1837. _d._ Prestwood, Missenden,

Bucks. 2 June 1852.

LLOYD, WILLIAM FREEMAN. _b._ Uley, Gloucs. 22 Dec. 1791; engaged

in commercial pursuits in London to 1825; sec. of Sunday school

union 1810; on committee of Religious tract society 1816; with

others edited The Youths’ magazine 1805; author of The Bible

catechism, all the answers being in the exact words of scripture

1822, 4 ed. 1830; Sketch of the life of R. Raikes and of the

history of Sunday schools 1826; Catechisms for the young 1850;

Scripture selections for the young 1850. _d._ King’s Stanley,

Gloucs. 22 April 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 668 (1853).

LLOYD, WILLIAM HENRY CYNRIC (4 son of Bell Lloyd of Woodstock,

_d._ July 1845). _b._ 1802; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar

1819–29; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; V. of Ronton, Staffs. 1826–49; R.

of Norbury, Staffs. 1826–49; archdeacon of Durban 1869 to death.

_d._ The Glebe, Port Natal 3 Jany. 1881.

LLUELLYN, SIR RICHARD (son of Richard Lluellyn of South

Witham, co. Lincoln). _b._ 1783; entered army as captain with

temporary rank 1799, served as such in 52 foot in Spain and

the Mediterranean 1800–1801, placed on h.p. 1802; purchased

an ensigncy dated July 1802; captain 28 foot 28 Feb. 1805 to

25 Feb. 1817 when placed on half pay; served in Peninsula and

Netherlands; colonel of 39 foot 17 Jany. 1853 to death; general

18 Jany. 1861; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ 20

Montagu sq. London 7 Dec. 1867.

LOBB, HARRY WILLIAM. _b._ 1829; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1850;

surgeon London Galvanic hospital; surgeon St. Andrew’s hospital,

Well st. London 1884 to death; author of Hygiene or the book

of health 1855; On some of the more obscure forms of nervous

affections 1858; A popular treatise on curative electricity

1867, 3 ed. 1873; Hypogastria of the male 1871, 3 ed. 1880;

Nervous exhaustion, dyspepsia and diabetes 1872. _d._ 66 Russell

sq. London 20 Jany. 1889.

LOCCO, SIGNOR. _b._ Palermo 1798; painter to the court of

Naples; resided at intervals in England 1849 to death; painted

miniatures on ivory of the Queen and prince and princess of

Wales; painted on ivory the head of Christ and ‘The End of the

world.’ _d._ Cardiff 14 Feb. 1889.

LOCH, FRANCIS ADAM ELLIS. _b._ 3 May 1827; cornet 1 Bombay

cavalry 9 Oct. 1844, captain 29 May 1857; lieut.-col. Bombay

staff corps 7 April 1870; commandant of Sind frontier force

1873–6; brigadier general Bombay 10 May 1877; placed on

unemployed supernumerary list 4 March 1887; general 22 Jany.

1889; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ 2 Albany gardens, King’s road,

Richmond, Surrey 27 July 1891.

LOCH, FRANCIS ERSKINE. _b._ April 1788; entered navy 1 Sep.

1799, captain 29 Sep. 1814; naval aide de camp to the queen 4

May 1847 to 2 Sep. 1850; R.A. 2 Sep. 1850, V.A. 14 May 1857,

admiral on h.p. 16 June 1862, pensioned 25 June 1863. _d._ 2

Lansdown crescent, Cheltenham 13 Feb. 1868.

LOCH, GEORGE (brother of the succeeding). _b._ London 6 July

1811; ed. at the Charterhouse; barrister M.T. 28 May 1847,

bencher 17 Nov. 1863 to death, treasurer 1875; Q.C. 20 June

1863; attorney general to prince of Wales 18 April 1873 to

death; contested Falkirk 14 Feb. 1851 and Manchester 9 July

1852; M.P. Wick burghs 1868–72. _d._ The Cottage, Bishopsgate,

Staines 18 Aug. 1877.

LOCH, GRANVILLE GOWER (2 son of James Loch of Drylaw 1780–1855).

_b._ 28 Feb. 1813; entered navy 23 Feb. 1826; captain 26 Aug.

1841; extra aide de camp to sir Hugh Gough in China 1842;

visited India 1843; commanded the Alarm frigate in West Indies

1846–9; sent to coast of Nicaragua, Feb. 1848 to enforce

redress for certain outrages, carried and dismantled a fort at

Serapaqui, the demands were conceded and a treaty arranged; C.B.

30 May 1848; captain of the Winchester 50 guns the flagship on

China and East Indian station 16 March 1852 to death; author of

The closing events of the campaign in China, the operations in

the Yang-tze-Kiang and the treaty of Nanking 1843; led a joint

naval and military expedition against Nya-Myat-Toon a Burmese

robber chief at Donablew; shot through the body 4 Feb. and _d._

6 Feb. 1853. _bur._ at Rangoon, memorial monu. in St. Paul’s

cath. London.

LOCH, JAMES (eld. son of George Loch of Drylaw, Mid-Lothian).

_b._ 7 May 1780; admitted advocate 1801; barrister L.I. 15 Nov.

1806; auditor to marquess of Stafford, to lord Francis Egerton,

to earl of Carlisle and others; carried out the Sutherlandshire

clearings 1811–20, by which 15,000 crofters were removed from

inland to the sea-coast; M.P. St. Germans 1827–30, M.P. Wick

burghs 1830–52, contested the seat 26 July 1852; F.G.S., F.S.S.

and F.Z.S.; author of An account of the improvements on the

estate of Sutherland 1815, another ed. 1820; Memoir of George

Granville late duke of Sutherland 1834. _d._ 12 Albemarle st.

London 5 July 1855.

LOCH, JOHN (brother of preceding). _b._ 8 Sep. 1781; served in

naval service of H.E.I.Co. to 1821 when he retired; in command

of H.E.I. Co.’s ship Scaleby castle beat off the Piedmontese a

French frigate of 44 guns 1808; a director of H.E.I.Co. 1821–54,

deputy chairman 1828 and 1836, chairman 1829 and 1833; M.P. for

Hythe 26 March 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ at the res. of his son

in law, the Hall, Bushey, Herts. 19 Feb. 1868. _G.M. v_ 679

(1868); _I.L.N. xvi_ 184 (1850), _portrait_.

NOTE.--On the 15 March 1837 he was dangerously wounded with a knife in

a murderous attack made upon him at the India house, Leadenhall st.

London by a man called Kearney who had been employed as a conductor

of ordnance in India. Kearney destroyed himself by poison in Giltspur

street compter in March 1837. _Annual Register 1837 p._ 26.

LOCHORE, ROBERT. _b._ Strathaven, Lanarkshire 7 July 1762; a

shoemaker 1775, a master shoemaker at Glasgow; founded Glasgow

annuity society 4 Jany. 1808; edited the Kilmarnock Mirror about

1817; an intimate acquaintance of Robert Burns; published two

poetical tracts Willie’s Vision 1795 and The Foppish Taylor

1796; author of Tales in rhyme and minor pieces about 1815,

anon.; his song ‘Now, Jenny, lass, my bonnie bird,’ has been

attributed to Burns. _d._ Glasgow 27 April 1852. _J. Grant

Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _i_ 382–6 (1876); _C. Rogers’s

Modern Scottish Minstrel_, _iv_ 91–7 (1857).

LOCHRANE, OSBORNE AUGUSTUS. _b._ Middleton, Armagh, Ireland

22 Aug. 1829; arrived in New York 21 Dec. 1846; studied law

at Athens, Georgia, admitted to the bar 1849; in practice in

Savannah, March 1850, removed to Macon, Oct. 1850; judge of the

Macon circuit Sep. 1861 to 1865; judge of Atlanta circuit Aug.

1870; chief judge of the supreme court of Georgia, Jany. 1871,

resigned Dec. 1871; attorney for Pullman palace car co.; many of

his speeches and orations were published. _d._ Atlanta, Georgia

17 June 1887.

LOCK, GEORGE. _b._ Dorchester, Feb. 1832; articled to an

agricultural chemist at Salisbury to 1853; partner with E. Ward

as booksellers at 158 Fleet st. London 1854–66, removed to 1

Amen Corner and 107 Dorset st. 1866, then to newly erected

premises called Warwick house in Salisbury sq. 1878, Charles

Tyler became a partner in 1865 when the firm was Ward, Lock

and Tyler for a few years; published Webster’s Speller, Milner

and Downer’s Atlases, an edition of Webster’s Dictionary 1856,

educational works and books for children; purchased S. O.

Beeton’s stock and copyrights for £1900 Sep. 1866, Edward Moxon

& Co.’s publications 1877 and William Tegg’s publications about

1882, the firm of Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co. was converted into

a limited liability co. April 1893. _d._ 7 Warltersville road,

Hornsey Rise, London 8 Aug. 1891. _The Bookseller 5 Sep. 1891

pp._ 836–7; _Athenæum 15 Aug. 1891 p._ 224.

LOCKE, JOHN (only son of John Locke of Herne Hill, Surrey,

surveyor). _b._ London 1805; ed. at Dulwich coll. and Trin.

coll. Camb., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 3 May 1833,

bencher 24 Nov. 1857 to death, reader 1870, treasurer 1871;

one of common pleaders of City of London 13 March 1845 to June

1857; Q.C. 23 June 1857; recorder of Brighton 19 April 1861 to

June 1879; contested Hastings 9 July 1852; M.P. for Southwark

31 March 1857 to death; author of The game laws, comprising all

the acts now in force 1840, 5 ed. 1866; The law and practice

of foreign attachment in the lord mayor’s court 1853. _d._ 63

Eaton place, London 28 Jany. 1880. _I.L.N. xxx_ 479 (1857),

_portrait_, _lxxvi_ 157 (1880), _portrait_.

LOCKE, JOSEPH (youngest son of Wm. Locke, colliery manager).

_b._ Attercliffe near Sheffield 9 Aug. 1805; articled to

George Stephenson, civil engineer, Newcastle 1823, aided him

in construction of Manchester and Liverpool railway opened 14

Sep. 1830; constructed the following lines, Grand Junction

1835–7, London and Southampton 1836–40, Sheffield and Manchester

1836–40, Paris to Rouen 1841–3, Rouen to Havre 1843; partner

with John Edward Errington 1840, they constructed the Caledonian

railway 1848 and a line from Mantes to Caen and Cherbourg 1852

for which Locke was created an officer of Legion of Honour;

originated the double-headed rail, first used on the Grand

Junction railway; designed the Crewe engine in which all the

parts were capable of fitting any engine; F.R.S. 22 Feb. 1838;

pres. of Instit. of C.E. 1858–60; M.P. Honiton, Devon 28 July

1847 to death; purchased manor of Honiton including all the

borough for £80,000 Aug. 1846; his widow presented to town of

Barnsley, Yorkshire, the Locke park about 1869, where is statue

of him by Marochetti. _d._ Moffat, Dumfries 18 Sep. 1860. _bur._

Kensal Green cemet., memorial window in Westminster abbey. _J.

Devey’s Life of Joseph Locke_ (1862), _portrait_; _Min. of proc.

of Instit. of C.E. xx_ 141–8 (1861).

LOCKER, ARTHUR (youngest son of Edward Hawke Locker, F.R.S.)

_b._ Greenwich hospital, Kent 2 July 1828; ed. at Charterhouse

and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851; resided in Australia and in

India; contributed reviews to The Times 1865–70; edited The

Graphic from May or June 1870 till December 1891 when he went

to Madeira for his health; translated V. M. Hugo’s The history

of a crime 1877; printed Mrs. Ralph Greening’s First lodger in

A. Halliday’s Savage Club papers 1868 pp. 100–17; author of Sir

Goodwin’s folly 3 vols. 1864; Sweet seventeen 3 vols. 2 ed.

1866; On a coral reef 1869; Stephen Scudamore 1871; The village

surgeon 1874. _d._ 19 West-hill, Highgate, London 23 June 1893.

_I.L.N. 19 Dec. 1891 p._ 791, _portrait_.

LOCKHART, ALLAN ELIOTT (2 son of William Eliott Lockhart, M.P.

Selkirkshire, _d._ 1832). _b._ 1803; ed. at univ. of Edinb.;

advocate 1824; M.P. Selkirkshire 1846–61; lord lieut. of

Selkirkshire 19 Nov. 1867 to death. _d._ Borthwickbrae, Hawick

15 March 1878.

LOCKHART, ARCHIBALD INGLIS. _b._ 1810; ensign 92 foot 31 Dec.

1828; commanded a field force in Central India 2 Aug. to 17 Sep.

1858, including the action near Rajhghar; commanded a brigade in

Central India field force 18 Sep. to 6 Dec. 1858; lieut.-col.

26 Dec. 1857 to 14 March 1865 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct.

1877; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ Edinburgh 17 Sep. 1879.

LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON (2 son of rev. John Lockhart 1761–1842,

minister of Cambusnethan). _b._ in the manse of Cambusnethan

14 July 1794; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Glasgow 1805–9;

Snell exhibitioner at Balliol coll. Oxf. 1809, B.C.L. 1817,

D.C.L. 1834; an advocate 1816; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag.

from Oct. 1817; edited The Quarterly Review, Oct. 1825 to April

1853, wrote more than 100 articles; lived at 24 Sussex place,

Regent’s park 1826 to 1853; superintended Murray’s ‘Family

Library’ from 1829, for which he wrote the first work History of

Napoleon Buonaparte 2 vols. 1829, anon.; barrister L.I. 22 Nov.

1831; auditor of the duchy of Lancaster 1843 to death; edited

Motteux’s translation of Don Quixote 5 vols. 1822; author of

Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk. By Peter Morris the Odontist.

3 vols. 1819; Valerius, a Roman story 1821; Some passages in

the life of Mr. Adam Blair 1822, anon.; Reginald Dalton, a

story of English university life 1823; Ancient Spanish ballads

translated 1823, several editions; The history of Matthew Wald

1824, a novel, anon.; Life of Robert Burns 1828, 8 ed. 1888;

History of the late war 1832; Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter

Scott 7 vols. 1837–8, 4 ed. 1850; The Ballantyne humbug handled

1839. _d._ Abbotsford, Roxburghshire 25 Nov. 1854. _bur._ next

Sir Walter Scott in Dryburgh abbey. _Law Review_, _xxi_ 354–6

(1855); _Quarterly Review_, _Oct. 1864 pp._ 439–82; _J. G.

Lockhart’s Ancient Spanish ballads_ (1856) _memoir 7 leaves_,

_portrait_; _H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed._ (1876)

344–52; _Bookseller_, _Aug. 1860 pp._ 505–8; _National Review_,

_iii_ 745–62 (1884); _Maclise Portrait Gallery_ (1883) 7–13,

_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxv_ 559, 564 (1854), _portrait_.

LOCKHART, LAURENCE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1796;

presbyterian minister Inchinnan 13 Jany. 1822; D.D. of Glasgow

univ. 1 May 1849; succeeded to Milton-Lockhart estate 1857;

author of Address to the people of Inchinnan 1843; Facts for the

times. Paisley 1843; Facts not fiction, address to the people of

Inchinnan 1843; Facts not falsehood. By a Parish Minister 1845;

Answer to the protest of the Free church 1846. _d._ 1876. _H.

Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ_, _vol._ 2 _part_ 1 _p._ 221

(1868).

LOCKHART, LAURENCE WILLIAM MAXWELL (2 son of the preceding).

_b._ 1831; entered Glasgow univ. 1845 and Caius coll. Camb.

1850, B.A. 1855, M.A. 1861; ensign 92 foot 9 Feb. 1855, captain

19 Jany. 1864, sold out 12 Sep. 1865, served in Crimean war

1855–6; major 2nd royal Lanark militia 7 June 1870, lieut.-col.

8 April 1877 to death; Times correspondent for Franco-German

war July 1870; with the French army at battle of Forbach, then

with the German army; author of Doubles and Quits 2 vols. 1869;

Fair to see 3 vols. 1871; and Mine is thine 3 vols. 1878, novels

reprinted from Blackwood’s Mag. _d._ Mentone, France 23 March

1882. _Blackwood’s Mag. April 1882 pp._ 675–80.

LOCKHART, WILLIAM (brother of Laurence Lockhart 1796–1876). _b._

1787; M.P. co. Lanark 1841 to death; dean of faculties of univ.

of Glasgow 1853 to death; lieut.-col. commandant Lanarkshire

yeomanry cavalry. _d._ Milton-Lockhart 25 Nov. 1856.

LOCKHART, WILLIAM (only son of rev. Alexander Lockhart _d._

1831, V. of Stone, Bucks. 1821–30). _b._ at Warlingham, Surrey

22 Aug. 1819; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842; joined John

Henry Newman at Littlemore 1842; received into church of Rome,

Aug. 1843, being the first of the tractarians who went over;

studied under the Rosminians in Rome 1843–5; entered the Order

of Charity 1845, procurator general; R. of St. Etheldreda’s,

Ely place, Holborn, London 1876 to death, which he purchased

for £5,300 and restored at cost of £6,000; edited The Lamp

when renamed The Illust. Catholic mag. 5 vols. 1871–3; author

of The communion of saints, or our relation to the Virgin, the

angels and the saints 3 ed. 1869; Non possumus or the temporal

sovereignty of the Pope 1870, 2 ed. 1870; Life of Antonio

Rosmini-Serbati, vol. 2, 1886; Cardinal Newman, a reminiscence

of 50 years 1891; found dead in his bed at the Presbytery, St.

Etheldreda’s, Holborn, London 15 May 1892. _The Biograph_, _iv_

432–3 (1880).

LOCKWOOD, ADOLPHUS RAVEN. _b._ 1841; ed. by Frederick

Chatterton; patronised by duke of Cambridge; with his brother

and sister Ernest and Fanny Lockwood first appeared as harpists

at Hanover sq. rooms, London, May 1847, music written for them

and taught them by Gerhard Taylor; harpist to king of Bavaria.

_d._ Munich 22 Jany. 1885. _I.L.N. xii_ 106 (1848), _portrait_.

LOCKWOOD, FREDERICK VERNON (2 son of Thomas Lockwood of

Dan-y-Craig, Glamorganshire). _b._ 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin.

coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; C. of Sturry, Kent 1826; R.

of Musham, Kent 7 March 1827 to 21 Jany. 1840; preb. of Lincoln

24 Jany. 1828 to March 1845; chaplain to House of Commons

1830–2; canon of Canterbury 16 Nov. 1838 to death; V. of Minster

in Thanet 21 Jany. 1840 to death. _d._ the Precincts, Canterbury

1 July 1851. _bur._ in the cathedral 5 July.

LOCKWOOD, SIR GEORGE HENRY (brother of the preceding). _b._ 25

March 1804; ed. at Eton; cornet 3 light dragoons 10 March 1825,

lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1846, placed on h.p. 12 May 1853; served in

Afghanistan 1842 and the Punjaub 1848–9; commanded a brigade

at battle of Goojerat; A.D.C. to the Queen 2 Aug. 1850 to 27

Nov. 1874; col. 12 lancers 12 March 1861 to 1 Jany. 1872; col.

3 hussars 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 22 Oct. 1870; C.B. 24

Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ 18 Wilton st. Belgrave sq.

London 15 April 1884.

LOCKWOOD, HENRY FRANCIS. _b._ Doncaster 1811; articled to Peter

Robinson, London; superintended rebuilding of York castle 1832;

commenced practice at Hull 1834; removed to Bradford 1849, in

partnership with William and Richard Mawsom, built Bradford town

hall, the Exchange and Airedale coll.; erected rifle factory at

Enfield Lock 1856; removed to London 1874, competed for the law

courts, built the City Temple 1874 and Inns of court hotel 1866;

architect to sir Titus Salt at Saltaire; author with A. H. Cates

of The history and antiquities of the fortifications to the city

of York 1834. _d._ Heron court, Richmond, Surrey 20 July 1878.

_The Builder 27 July 1878 p._ 788.

LOCKWOOD, MARK (son of Mr. Lockwood a farmer near Leeds).

_b._ 25 April 1798; employed by his uncle Benjamin Crosby of

Stationers’ hall court, London, bookseller 1812–14 and by his

successors Simpkin and Marshall 1814–35, admitted a partner with

them 1835, superintended the buying department and country trade

1839 to death; became the greatest book buyer in the world.

_d._ 16 Highbury place, Islington 23 Nov. 1857. _bur._ Highgate

cemetery 28 Nov. _G.M. iv_ 106 (1858).

LOCKYER, HENRY FREDERICK. _b._ 1797; ensign 71 foot 25 March

1813; lieut. 3 foot 1820, captain 1822; major 97 foot 26 June

1835, lieut.-col. 26 Oct. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1858; commanded forces

in Ceylon 1855–60; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H. 1837; C.B. 4 Feb.

1856; granted distinguished service reward 9 Feb. 1855. _d._ on

board steamship Ripon on his way home from Ceylon 30 Aug. 1860.

LOCKYER, THOMAS. _b._ Old Town, Croydon, Surrey 1 Nov. 1826; a

bricklayer; the best wicket keeper of his day, a hard hitter

with a wonderful eye, a round-arm fast bowler; first played at

Lord’s in Middlesex v. Surrey 20 May 1850; manager of the Surrey

county eleven and United England eleven matches; landlord of

Prince Albert inn, Mitcham road, Croydon 8 Feb. 1860 to 1863;

landlord of Sheldon Arms inn, Croydon 17 Nov. 1865 to death.

_d._ Sheldon Arms inn, Whitgift st. Croydon 22 Dec. 1869. _bur._

Ch. Ch. Broad Green, Croydon. _F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_,

_iv_ 114 (1863); _Sporting Review_, _lxiii_ 11 (1870); _Illust.

sporting news_, _iii_ 329 (1864), _portrait_; _Illust. Times

10 Aug. 1861 p._ 93, _portrait_; _R. Daft’s Kings of cricket_

(1893) 36, _portrait_.

LOCOCK, SIR CHARLES, 1 Baronet (3 son of Henry Locock, M.D.

1763–1843). _b._ Northampton 21 April 1799; resident private

pupil of sir Benjamin Brodie in London; M.D. Edinb. 1821;

L.R.C.P. Lond. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1836, member of council 1840–2;

had the best practice in London as an obstetric physician;

physician to Westminster Lying-in hospital many years; fellow of

university of London 1836 to death; first physician accoucheur

to the Queen 1840–75, attended at birth of all her children;

created a baronet 5 May 1857; F.R.S.; pres. of Royal Med. and

Chir. Soc. 1857; discovered the efficacy of bromide of potassium

in epilepsy 1857; contested Isle of Wight 22 July 1865; D.C.L.

Oxf. 1868; resided 26 Hertford st. Mayfair, London. _d._

Binstead, Isle of Wight 23 July 1875. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.

28 July. _Munk’s College of Physicians_, _iii_ 270 (1878);

_I.L.N. lxvii_ 119, 124, 239 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic_,

_xii_ 123 (1875), _portrait_.

LOCOCK, SIDNEY (3 son of the preceding). _b._ 9 Hanover sq.

London 14 May 1834; unpaid attaché at Athens 7 May 1853;

secretary of legation in Japan 1865, at the Hague 1868;

secretary of embassy at Constantinople 1872; minister resident

and consul general to republics of Guatemala, Costa Rica,

Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador 23 May 1874 to 12 Feb. 1881;

minister resident in Servia 16 April 1881; appointed envoy

extraord. and min. plenipo. to emperor of Brazil 11 Feb. 1885

but did not proceed. _d._ 22 Southwick st. Hyde park, London 30

Aug. 1885. _Foreign Office List_ (1886) 213.

LODER, EDWARD JAMES (eld. son of John David Loder, violinist

1788–1846). _b._ Bath 1813; pupil of Ferdinand Ries at Frankfort

1826–34; composed music for J. S. Arnold’s drama Nourjahad

produced at English opera house, London, July 1834; musical

director at Princess’s theatre about 1846–50, then conductor

at Manchester; composed the operas of The Dice of Death 1835,

The Foresters 1845, The Deerstalkers 1845, The Night Dancers

produced at Princess’s Oct. 1846, revived there 1850, and at

Covent Garden 1860; Raymond and Agnes produced at Manchester

1855 and at St. James’s theatre London 1859 and other operas;

published three sets of Songs 1837–8; his name is attached to

150 pieces of music; author of First principles of singing 1838;

The modern pianoforte tutor 18--, new ed. 1870. _d._ London 5

April 1865. _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 491 (1858), _portrait_.

NOTE.--He _m._ a dau. of the choral conductor at Covent Garden, she was

_b._ London 1813, ed. at R. Academy of music, went to U.S. of America

in 1840 and made her debut with Braham at a concert in the Tabernacle,

New York, Nov. 1840, sang for 8 seasons at the Old Philharmonic and

Assembly concert rooms taking soprano parts; a teacher of music and

singing 1870–80. _d._ New York 28 Feb. 1880.

LODER, _George_ (son of George Loder of Bath, flute-player).

_b._ Bath about 1816; resided at Baltimore, U.S. of America,

some years; musical director of Olympic theatre, New York

1839; principal of New York vocal institute 1844; conductor for

Anna Bishop at Adelaide 1856; conductor with Lyster’s opera

troupe; organist, vocalist, conductor and composer in London

1860; published in 1861 his comic operetta Pets of the Parterre,

which had been produced at Lyceum theatre; published his musical

entertainment The old house at home 1862; The New York glee book

1844 contains several part-songs by him; published The middle

voice 1860, 12 solfeggi, and various separate songs. _d._ the

hospital, Adelaide, S. Australia 15 July 1868.

LODER, GILES. _b._ 9 Oct. 1786; Russia merchant at 5 Adam’s

court, Old Broad st. City of London 1839; purchased estate of

Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, from Lord Southampton’s trustees

for £335,000. _d._ 1 Clarendon place, Hyde park gardens, London

19 Aug. 1871, personalty sworn under £3,000,000, 31 Aug. _I.L.N.

9 Sep. 1871 p._ 235.

LODER, JOHN FAWCETT (brother of Edward James Loder 1813–65).

_b._ 1812; orchestral leader and manager of concerts at Bath;

violinist in London, and leader of concerts and festivals;

played the viola in Dando’s quartet at Crosby hall, London

1842–53. _d._ Hawley crescent, London 16 April 1853. _Grove’s

Dict. of Music_, _i_ 429, _ii_ 159 (1879–80).

LODER, SIR ROBERT, 1 Baronet (son of Giles Loder 1786–1871).

_b._ 7 Aug. 1823; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb.; inherited from his

father the income of nearly two and a half millions of money,

with power of appointment among his children, besides estates

1871; sheriff of Northampton 1877; M.P. Shoreham 1880–5; cr.

baronet 27 July 1887; had estates in England, Russia and Sweden;

a scientific farmer. _d._ Beach house, Worthing 27 May 1888,

leaving more than £2,500,000 personalty.

LODGE, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ April 1810; manager of Marine Insurance

Co. 1839–88; salved from wreck of Royal Charter in 1859 £322,103

at a cost of 5⅓ per cent., and from the wreck of the Alfonso

XII. in 1885 £90,000 from a depth of 26⅔ fathoms, these and

other successes revolutionized the premium rate on specie;

presented with a farewell address signed by 20 marine insurance

companies and 60 members of Lloyd’s 1888; treasurer of Highgate

literary and scientific institution. _d._ 7 The Grove, Highgate

1 April 1893.

LODWICK, PETER. Entered Bombay army 1799; lieut. marine

battalion 26 May 1800, captain 23 May 1811; captain 11 N.I.

1818; lieut.-col. 6 N.I. 182- to 1829 or 1830; lieut.-col.

3 N.I. 1829 or 1830 to 1831; lieut.-col. 4 N.I. 1831 to 18

April 1833; lieut.-col. 11 N.I. 18 April 1833 to 1835 or 1836;

lieut.-col. 20 N.I. 1835 or 1836 to 28 June 1838; col. 16 N.I.

9 Nov. 1840 to 1869; general 25 Jany. 1861. _d._ Bagnéres de

Bigorre, France 28 Aug. 1873. _Report of proceedings in case

of The King, on the prosecution of J. Asplin v. Lodwick for a

libel_ 1810.

LOEWE, LOUIS. _b._ of Jewish parents at Zülz Prussian Silesia

1809; ed. at univ. of Berlin, Ph. D.; travelled in the East

1836–9; lecturer on oriental languages to Duke of Sussex 1839;

went to the East 13 times as secretary with sir Moses Montefiore

1839–74; principal of Jews’ College, Finsbury sq. London 1856;

opened a Jewish boarding school at Brighton 1858; naturalised

in England 12 July 1862; principal of the Judith theological

college at Ramsgate 1868–88; member of Numismatic Soc. 27 Feb.

1845 and a contributor to the Chronicle 1856 etc.; translated

J. B. Levinsohn’s Efés Dammim Conversations at Jerusalem 1841;

author of A dictionary of the Circassian language 1854; edited

Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore 2 vols. 1890. _d._ 53

Warwick road, Maida hill, London 5 Nov. 1888. _Morais’s Eminent

Israelites_ (1880) 208–11; _Numismatic Chronicle 3 Series vol.

ix Proceedings_ 22–3 (1889).

LOFFT, CAPEL (4 son of Capel Lofft, miscellaneous writer

1751–1824). _b._ Troston hall, Suffolk 19 Feb. 1806; ed. at Eton

1814–25, and King’s coll. Camb., fellow to 1837, Craven univ.

scholar 1827, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 6 June 1834;

author of Self-Formation, or the history of an individual mind.

By A fellow of a college 2 vols. 1837; Ernest 1839, anon., a

poem, 2 ed. with title of Ernest the rule of right 1868; New

Testament, suggestions for reformation of Greek text. By R. E.

Storer (_i.e._ Restorer) 1868; published at New York in 1861 an

edition of the Self-Communion of Marcus Antoninus, with notes.

_d._ at his estate Millmead in Virginia, U.S. of A. 1 Oct. 1873.

LOFTHOUSE, MARY (dau. of Thomas B. W. Forster of Holt Manor,

Wiltshire, landscape painter). _b._ 1853; water-colour painter;

her pictures were exhibited at the exhibition of lady artists,

Great Marlborough st. London; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A.

1876–80; an associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours

1884; (_m._ 3 June 1884 Samuel Hill Smith Lofthouse, barrister

L.I. 7 June 1869). _d._ Elmbank, Lower Halliford-on-Thames 2 May

1885.

LOFTUS, ARTHUR JOHN (only son of Arthur Loftus, captain R.N.)

_b._ 1817; ensign 97 foot 15 Dec. 1840; lieut. 10 royal hussars

1 May 1846; captain 18 hussars 26 Feb. 1858, sold out 21 Sep.

1860; Lucknow medal and clasp 1857; gentleman usher to the queen

1878–83; keeper of the crown jewels 23 April 1883 to death. _d._

Brighton 3 Sep. 1891.

LOFTUS, FERRARS (4 son of general Wm. Loftus, lieut. of Tower

of London). _b._ 24 June 1798; ensign grenadier guards 1815,

captain 27 Dec. 1833, sold out 1840; colonel 3 West York militia

25 April 1870 to death. _d._ Tyringham, Bucks. 9 Oct. 1877.

LOFTUS, GEORGE WILLIAM (2 son of 2 marquess of Ely 1770–1845).

_b._ 11 May 1815; ed. at Harrow; 2 lieut. rifle corps 22 June

1833; ensign grenadier guards 12 Sep. 1834, sold out 1839;

fought a duel with lord Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, at

Boulogne 10 Dec. 1839, they exchanged shots without effect;

bankrupt 2 May 1862 and 9 April 1867. _d._ Nice, France 19 Jany.

1877. _Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 2–4.

LOFTUS, WILLIAM FRANCIS BENTINCK (brother of Ferrars Loftus

1798–1877). _b._ 17 Aug. 1784; cornet 15 dragoons 30 Aug. 1799,

captain 20 April 1804; major 38 foot 9 April 1807 to 25 Dec.

1814 when placed on h.p.; colonel 50 foot 11 April 1851 to

death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Chacombe priory, Northamptonshire

13 Sep. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 635 (1852).

LOFTUS, WILLIAM JAMES (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 7 Jany.

1822; ensign 38 foot 9 Nov. 1838, lieut.-col. 16 Jany. 1863,

placed on h.p. 22 Dec. 1863; served in North America and the

West Indies 1840–51; present at the Alma, at Inkerman, and in

siege of Sebastopol, Crimean medal with 3 clasps; served in

Indian mutiny, in siege and capture of Lucknow, Indian medal

with clasps 1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; general on the retired list

July 1881. _d._ Birtley Bramley, Guildford 29 March 1887.

LOFTUS, WILLIAM KENNETT. _b._ Rye, Sussex about 1821; ed. at

Newcastle gr. sch., at Twickenham, and Caius coll. Camb. 1840;

secretary to Newcastle Natural history soc.; geologist on staff

of sir W. F. Williams on Turco-Persian frontier commission

1849–52; sent out to Babylon and Nineveh by Assyrian excavation

fund 1853, returned 1855 with collections of tablets, &c. now

in British Museum; issued a volume of Lithograph facsimilies

of cuneiform inscriptions from 1852; author of Travels and

researches in Chaldea and Susiana, with account of excavations

at Nimrod and Shúsh 1857. _d._ on board the Tyburnia on his way

to England from Rangoon, Nov. 1858.

LOGAN, ALEXANDER STUART (son of minister of Relief church, St.

Ninians, Stirlingshire). _b._ St. Ninians 1810; ed. Glasgow

and Edinb. universities; advocate at Scottish bar 1835; senior

advocate depute Dec. 1853; sheriff of Forfarshire 4 Feb. 1854 to

death; held many briefs at bar of General Assembly; author of

On Robert Burns, an address, and Judas the Betrayer, a poetical

fragment 1871. _d._ 12 York place, Edinburgh 2 Feb. 1862, marble

bust in Court buildings, Dundee. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_

(1873) 207–8.

LOGAN, ARCHIBALD SPIERS. _b._ 1802; entered Madras army 1819;

lieut. 47 Madras N.I. 182-, captain 11 Sep. 1832; captain 33

N.I. 1835, lieut.-col. 7 Aug. 1846 to 1855; lieut.-col. of 15

N.I. 1855 to 24 Oct. 1858; commandant at Vellore 14 March 1856

to 1858; col. of 45 N.I. 9 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870.

_d._ Elm bank, Malvern 10 May 1873.

LOGAN, GEORGE. Entered Madras army 1819; captain 41 Madras N.I.

27 Jany. 1831, major 19 Sep. 1843 to 6 Oct. 1851; lieut.-col. of

2 European regiment 6 Oct. 1851 to 1853 and 1854–5; lieut.-col.

of 41 N.I. 1855–60, of 6 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G.

31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Eastbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 4 Nov.

1870.

LOGAN, JAMES (son of a merchant). _b._ Aberdeen about 1794; ed.

at gr. sch. and Marischal college, Aberdeen; his reading ticket

at British museum dated from 1821; a journalist in London,

afterwards clerk in an architect’s office; made a pedestrian

tour in Scotland 1826; a transcriber on catalogue of British

museum Dec. 1838 to July 1840; secretary of Highland society

of London several years; wrote much in Transactions of the

Gaelic society of London, of which he was the Father; a brother

of the Charterhouse, London, expelled 1866; F.S.A.; author of

The Scottish Gael or Celtic manners as preserved among the

Highlanders 2 vols. 1831, 2 ed. 1876; Gaelic gatherings or the

highlanders at home 1848; and of the letterpress to R. R. Mac

Ian’s The clans of the Scottish Highlands 2 vols. 1843–9, new

ed. 1857. _d._ London, April 1872. _James Logan’s Scottish

Gael_, _new ed._ (1876) _memoir pp. ix–xx_; _R. Cowtan’s

Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 310–11.

LOGAN, JAMES RICHARDSON. Went to the Straits Settlements about

1835; settled at Penang, Prince of Wales’s Island; started at

Singapore in 1847 the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and

Eastern Asia, which he edited for about 10 years; started and

edited the Penang Gazette; notary public of supreme court of

Prince of Wales’s Island; a member of Asiatic Society. _d._

Penang 20 Oct. 1869.

LOGAN, ROBERT ABRAHAM (son of Patrick Logan, captain 57 foot).

_b._ 26 July 1824; ensign 41 foot 26 Oct. 1841; ensign 57 foot

19 Nov. 1841, lieut.-col. 24 April 1872, placed on h.p. 26 July

1876; commanded 57 foot in New Zealand war 1861, took the Maori

Pah 1863; commanded brigade depots 49 and 50 at Hounslow 1877;

M.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G.

6 May 1882; C.B. 5 July 1865. _d._ 28 Glen Eldon road, Streatham

near London 27 Jany. 1890.

LOGAN, WILLIAM (son of a customer weaver). _b._ Damhead near

Hamilton, Lanarkshire 1813; a loom weaver; a district missionary

in St. Giles’, London, then in Leeds, Rochdale 1840, Glasgow,

again at Rochdale and at Bradford; established a temperance

dining room, the profits of which he distributed to the poor;

attended persons stricken with fever; great friend of David Gray

of Luggie the poet, and the soother of his dying hours 1861;

the friend of Janet Hamilton the poet of Coatbridge, who _d._

1873; author of An exposure of female prostitution in London,

Leeds and Rochdale 1843; The moral statistics of Glasgow 1849;

Words of comfort for parents bereaved of little children 1861,

8 ed. 1874; The great social evil 1871; The early heroes of the

temperance reformation 1873. _d._ Glasgow 16 Sep. 1879. _W. C.

Maclehouse’s Memoirs of one hundred Glasgow men_, _ii_ 177–8

(1886), _portrait_.

LOGAN, SIR WILLIAM EDMOND (2 son of Wm. Logan, baker, _d._

1841). _b._ Montreal 20 April 1798; ed. at high sch. and univ.

of Edinb.; in counting-house of his uncle Hart Logan in London

1818–29; manager of copper-smelting works at Swansea 1831–8;

demonstrated the important fact that the stratum of clay

underlying coal-beds was the soil in which the coal vegetation

grew; director of the geological survey of Canada 1842–70;

discovered the Eozoon Canadense, the earliest known life, in

Laurentian strata 1858; Canadian comr. at Great Exhibitions

of 1851 and 1862, and at Paris exhibition 1855; F.R.S. 5 June

1851, royal medallist 1867; received cross of Legion of Honour

1855; Wollaston medallist of Geological Soc. 1856; knighted at

Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856; founded at cost of 20,000

dollars the Logan chair of geology in McGill university,

Montreal 1872; D.C.L. of Lennoxville univ. 1855; LL.D. of

McGill univ. 1856; F.G.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; author with

T. S. Hunt of A sketch of the geology of Canada 1856. _d._

Castle Malgwin, Pembrokeshire 22 June 1875. _bur._ Llechryd

church, Cardiganshire. _B. J. Harrington’s Life of W. E. Logan.

Montreal_ (1883), _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_

(1867) 228–34; _Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxii_ 76–80

(1876); _Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870), _portrait

ix_; _I.L.N. xviii_ 487–8 (1851), _portrait_.

LOGAN, WILLIAM HUGH (son of a writer to the signet). Apprentice

to a bank in Edinb.; manager of a bank at Berwick-on-Tweed;

banker at Berwick; twice mayor of Berwick; sheriff; supplied

Mr. R. H. Wyndham with all his occasional addresses, dramas

and burlesques for theatre royal, Edinb.; edited Edinburgh

theatrical and musical review, numbers 5 to 34 the last 1835;

writer of Le Bas Bleu, farce, T.R. Edinb. 30 March 1836; Rummio

and Judy, burlesque 183-; Absent without leave, farce, Strand

theatre, London 1837; Babes in the wood, pantomime, Queen’s

theatre, Edinb. 19 Dec. 1859; Shadows, farce, Queen’s theatre,

Edinb. 1862 and many other pieces; author of Memoir of Archibald

Maclaren, dramatist. Edinb. 1835, anon.; The Scottish banker

1839, 3 ed. 1847; On the law and practice of bills of exchange;

and of a short-lived serial called The dramatic spectator. By

Poz, Quiz and Co. Edinb. 1837; edited Fragmenta Scoto-Dramatica

1715–1758. Edinb. 1835, anon.; A Pedlar’s pack of ballads and

songs. Edinb. 1869. _d._ Jany. 1883. _R. Inglis’s Dramatic

writers of Scotland_ (1868) 66–8; _J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh

stage_ (1888) 34, 474, 478.

LOGIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Kirkwall 23 Feb. 1786; presbyterian

minister Ladykirk 1811–24; minister of Kirkwall 1824 to death;

D.D. of Edinb. univ. March 1854; author of God sending and

withdrawing the pestilence 1832; Sermons on the services of the

church, with memoir and portrait. Lond. 1857. _d._ Kirkwall 5

Sep. 1856.

LOGIN, SIR JOHN SPENCER (eld. son of John Login of Stromness,

Orkney). _b._ Stromness 9 Nov. 1809; ed. at univ. of Edinb.,

M.D. 1831; surgeon to Bengal horse artillery 1832, to the

Nizam’s army 1834, in Afghan campaign 1838 and in mission to

Herat 1839; surgeon British residency, Lucknow; postmaster in

Oude, superintendent of hospitals to king of Oude 1841; in

Punjaub army 1848–9, in charge of treasuries of Sikh government,

the citadel of Lahore, the post office in the Punjaub; guardian

of maharajah Duleep Singh 1849 to 1858; surgeon 17 April 1848,

retired 18 April 1858; knighted at Windsor castle 14 Nov. 1854;

resided 5 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London. _d._ Felixstowe,

Suffolk 18 Oct. 1863. _Sir John Login and Duleep Singh_ (1890),

_portrait_.

LOGIN, THOMAS. _b._ Stromness, Orkney 1823; in public works

department India 1844, engaged in construction of Ganges canal

1847–54; executive engineer of the Darjeeling roads 1857;

superintending engineer at Umballa 1870; author of papers on

Benefit of irrigation in India and on construction of irrigating

canals, for which he received Telford premium from Instit. of

Civil engineers; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; M.I.C.E. 19 May 1868. _d._

while inspecting the Thibet road in the Punjaub 5 June 1874.

_Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix_ 205 (1878).

LOLA MONTEZ, stage name of Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert

(dau. of Edward Gilbert, ensign 44 foot, _d._ Dinapore, India

1825). _b._ Limerick 1818; ed. at Montrose and in Paris; resided

at Bath with her mother; ran away to Ireland with Thomas James,

captain 21 Bengal N.I., whom she married at Meath 23 July 1837;

she returned from India to England early in 1842; he obtained an

order for a divorce in consistory court, London 15 Dec. 1842,

retired from the army 28 Feb. 1856 and _d._ 17 May 1871; made

her début at Her Majesty’s theatre 3 June 1843 as ‘Lola Montez

Spanish dancer,’ but being badly received did not appear again;

danced at Dresden, Berlin, Warsaw and St. Petersburg; appeared

as a dancer at Munich 1847 when she captivated the king of

Bavaria, Ludwig Carl Augustus, naturalised by a royal ordinance

7 March 1847, created baronne de Rosenthal and comtesse de

Lansfeld, the king built a splendid mansion for her and gave

her a pension of 20,000 florins; ruled the kingdom of Bavaria

with great ability, banished March 1848 and the king was forced

to abdicate 21 March; _m._ at St. George’s, Hanover sq. 19 July

1849 George Trafford Heald, cornet 2nd life guards, she fled

with him to Spain Aug. 1849 to avoid punishment for bigamy, he

sold out 1849 and was drowned at Lisbon 1853 or 1856; danced in

ballet of Betley the Tyrolean, at Broadway theatre, New York 29

Dec. 1851, and played Lola Montez in Ware’s drama ‘Lola Montez

in Bavaria’ 18 May 1852; _m._ in California 2 Aug. 1853 P. P.

Hull, proprietor of the ‘San Francisco Whig’ but soon left

him; played at Victoria theatre, Sydney, N.S.W. 23 Aug. 1855;

played at Melbourne 1856 where she horsewhipped Mr. Seekamp,

editor of the Ballarat Times, for reflecting on her character;

appeared at Green st. theatre, New York 1857 in The Eton Boy,

The follies of a night, and Lola in Bavaria; a public lecturer

in the United States 1858, lectured at St. James’s hall, London

7 April 1859; spent her time visiting the female outcasts at

the Magdalen hospital near New York 1859–60. _d._ in a sanitary

asylum at Asteria, New York 17 Jany. 1861. _bur._ Greenwood

cemet. 19 Jany. _Autobiography and lectures of Lola Montez_

(1858), _portrait_; _Les Contemporains, Lola Montes. Par Eugène

de Mirecourt. Paris_ (1870), _portrait_; _F. L. Hawks’s Story

of a penitent, Lola Montez. New York_ (1867); _C. H. Ross’s

Painted Faces_ (1891) 78–88; _H. H. Phelps’s Players of a

century_ (1880) 265–7, 297; _Temple Bar_, _July 1880 pp._ 362–7;

_Mortemar’s Folly’s Queens_ (1882) 10–14, _portrait_; _You have

heard of them. By Q._ (1854) 98–106; _I.L.N. x_ 180 (1847),

_portrait_.

LOMAS, JOHN (son of rev. Robert Lomas _d._ 1810). _b._ Hull 13

Dec. 1798; master Kingswood sch. 1820–23; Wesleyan methodist

minister at Manchester 1827–33, 1842–5, 1851–4, at Bristol

1833–6, 1855–8, at Birmingham 1836–9, in London 1845–51,

1858–61; theological tutor Richmond coll. 1861–8 and at

Headingley coll. 1868–73; president of the Conference 1853;

author of Jesus Christ the propitiation for our sins. The third

Fernley lecture 1872. _d._ Redland, Bristol 20 Aug. 1877.

_Wesleyan Methodist Mag. ci_ 9, 134, 207, 283 (1878).

LOMAX, JAMES (3 son of Richard Grimshaw Lomax _d._ 1837). _b._

Clayton hall, Accrington, Lancs. 1803; ed. at Stonyhurst;

succeeded to family estates on death of his brother John Lomax

1849; a prominent Roman Catholic in the north of England, and a

munificent donor to R.C. organizations in Lancashire, erected at

his own cost church of Our Lady and St. Hubert, Great Harwood;

created knight commander of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX.

_d._ Clayton hall 26 March 1886.

LOMAX, THOMAS GEORGE (eld. son of rev. James Lomax of Druid

Heath house, Staffs.) _b._ 1783; bookseller at the Johnson’s

head, Lichfield 1 Jany. 1810 to death; purchased relics of Dr.

Johnson from his black servant Francis Barber; senior bailiff of

Lichfield 1833, mayor 1843. _d._ the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 3

Jany. 1873. _bur._ St. Chad’s cemetery. _Bookseller_, _Feb. 1873

p._ 79.

LONDESBOROUGH, ALBERT DENISON DENISON, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry

Conyngham, 1 marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). _b._ 8 Stanhope

st. Piccadilly, London 21 Oct. 1805; ed. Eton; cornet in the

army 21 Sep. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 24 July 1823,

sold out 1824; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Vienna 1825, sec. of

legation, Florence 1826 and at Berlin 1829–31; K.C.H. 1829;

M.P. Canterbury 1835–41 and 1847–50; assumed name of Denison

in lieu of Conyngham 4 Sep. 1849; cr. baron Londesborough

of Londesborough, Yorkshire 4 March 1850; pres. of British

Archæological association at its first meeting at Canterbury

1843; V.P. of Archæological Instit. 1849; pres. of London and

Middlesex Archæological society 1855; purchased the Selby

estate, Yorkshire, Aug. 1853 for £270,000; held 60,000 acres of

land, producing income of £100,000; F.S.A. 1840; F.R.S. 13 June

1850; most unlucky as a breeder and runner of horses; printed

Wanderings in search of health 1849; Miscellanea Graphica 1857;

An illustrative catalogue of antique silver 1860. _d._ 8 Carlton

house terrace, London 15 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Grimston 24 Jany.

_Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii_ 171–5 (1861); _I.L.N.

xxiii_ 225 (1853) _portrait_, _xxxvi_ 108 (1860); _Taylor’s

Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 228–32, 482–3; _W. W. Morrell’s

History of Selby_ (1867) 275–7; _Sporting Review_, _xliii_ 80–81

(1860); _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections_, _i_ 262–8 (1883) _and

Collectanea Antigua_, _v_ 261–69 (1861).

LONDONDERRY, CHARLES WILLIAM VANE, 3 Marquess of (2 son of

Robert Stewart, 1 marquess of Londonderry 1739–1821). _b._ Mary

st. Dublin 18 May 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 108 foot 11 Oct.

1794; major 106 foot 31 July 1795; lieut.-colonel 5 dragoons

1 Jany. 1797 to 6 April 1799 when the regiment was disbanded

for insubordination; lieut.-col. 18 hussars 12 April 1799 to

20 Nov. 1813; M.P. Thomastown in Irish parliament 1798–1800,

M.P. co. Londonderry 1801 to June 1814; under sec. of state for

war and colonies 1807 to 1808; commanded a brigade of hussars

in Portugal 1808; adjutant general to army under sir Arthur

Wellesley 1809–12; K.B. 1 Feb. 1813; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815;

G.C.H. 1816; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Berlin 7

April 1813; colonel 25 light dragoons 20 Nov. 1813; created a

peer of the realm by title of baron Stewart of Stewart’s court

and Ballilawn 1 July 1814; a lord of the bedchamber 25 June

1814 to Aug. 1827; P.C. 27 July 1814; ambassador to Vienna 27

Aug. 1814; assumed surname of Vane 1819; colonel 10 hussars 3

Feb. 1820 to 23 June 1843; succeeded his half-brother as 3

marquess 12 Aug. 1822; cr. earl Vane and viscount Seaham 28

March 1823; general 10 Jany. 1837; lord lieut. of Durham 27

April 1842; col. 2 life guards 23 June 1843 to death; K.G. 19

Jany. 1853; made a harbour at Seaham, opened 29 July 1835, which

cost £250,000; published Suggestions for the improvement of the

force of the British empire 1805; A narrative of the Peninsular

war 1808–13, 2 vols. 1828–9; Memoirs and correspondence of Lord

Castlereagh 8 vols. 1848–51. _d._ Holderness house, Park lane,

London 6 March 1854. _bur._ Long Newton 16 March. _J. E. Doyle’s

Official baronage_, _iii_ 552–4 (1886), _portrait_; _Portraits

of eminent conservatives and statesmen. First series 5 pages_

(1836), _portrait_ 10; _Royal military calendar 3 ed. ii_ 411–20

(1820); _St. Stephen’s. By Mask_ (1839) 78–88; _H. Martineau’s

Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 188–92; _H. Heaviside’s

Annals of Stockton on Tees_ (1865) 111–14.

NOTE.--He left personal property of value of £335,000 exclusive of vast

estates in England and Ireland, his widow’s personalty was sworn under

£400,000, 24 June 1865. He was the lord high marshal at the Eglinton

tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839. He is drawn in Vivian Grey as Col. Von

Trumpetson. In 1824 he was challenged to a duel by Wm. Battier, who was

gazetted cornet 10 hussars 27 Feb. 1823 and _d._ Paris 27 April 1839.

On 13 June 1839 Lord Londonderry met Henry Grattan, M.P., on Wimbledon

common, Grattan fired and missed and his lordship discharged his pistol

in the air.

LONDONDERRY, FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERT STEWART, 4 Marquess of

(1 son of preceding). _b._ South st. Grosvenor sq. London 7

July 1805; M.P. for co. Down 1826–52; a lord of the admiralty

1829–30; vice chamberlain of the household 27 Dec. 1834 to June

1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; colonel North Down militia 1837; lord

lieut. of Down 1845–64; M.P. co. Down 1826–52; succeeded as 4

marquess 6 March 1854; K.P. 1855. _d._ Hastings 25 Nov. 1872.

_I.L.N. lxi_ 550 (1872).

LONDONDERRY, GEORGE HENRY ROBERT CHARLES WILLIAM VANE-TEMPEST,

5 Marquess of (half-brother of preceding). _b._ Vienna 26 April

1821; styled viscount Seaham 1823–54; ed. at Eton; matric. Ball.

coll. Oxf. 14 June 1839, B.A. and M.A. 1867, hon. D.C.L. Durham;

cornet 1 life guards 13 Jany. 1843, lieut. 1845, sold out 1848;

M.P. North Durham 1847–54; succeeded his father as 2 earl Vane 6

March 1854; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry 1859–73; lieut.-col.

commandant 2 Durham militia 1853–62; assumed additional name of

Tempest by r.l. 28 June 1854; appointed to proceed on a special

mission to St. Petersburg to invest emperor Alexander II.

with insignia and habit of order of the garter 21 July 1867;

provincial grand master free masons co. Durham 1880; succeeded

his brother as 5 marquess 25 Nov. 1872; K.P. 31 Aug. 1874; lord

lieut. of Durham 8 June 1880 to death. _d._ Plas Machynlleth,

Montgomeryshire 5 Nov. 1884. _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 501 (1884),

_portrait_; _R. F. Gould’s Freemasonry_, _iv_ 276 (1885),

_portrait_.

LONEY, ROBERT. _b._ 1787; entered navy Sep. 1797; commander on

h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; captain on h.p. 6 Aug. 1852; retired admiral

15 June 1879; edited The China pilot 1855. _d._ Woodbine villa,

Mannamead, Plymouth 22 Feb. 1882.

LONG, CATHARINE (youngest dau. of Horatio Walpole, 2 earl of

Orford 1752–1822). _b._ 1798; (_m._ 25 July 1822 Henry Lawes

Long of Hampton lodge near Farnham, Surrey, _d._ 1868); edited

The story of a drop of water 1856; author of Sir Roland Ashton,

a tale of the times 2 vols. 1844, 2 ed. 1854; The Midsummer

souvenir, thoughts original and selected 1846; Heavenly thoughts

for morning hours 1851; Heavenly thoughts for evening hours

1856; The first lieutenant’s story 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1856;

Story of a specific prayer 1863; An Agnus Dei for four or five

voices 1848, and other pieces of sacred music. _d._ suddenly

from alarm in a thunderstorm at Landthorne Hatch near Farnham 20

Aug. 1867. _Times 21 Aug. 1867 p._ 10.

LONG, CHARLES EDWARD (elder son of Charles Beckford Long of

Langley hall, Berkshire, _d._ 1836 aged 65). _b._ Benham park,

Berkshire 28 July 1796; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.,

B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; author of Imperial and papal Rome, a poem

1818, 4 ed. 1859; Considerations on the game laws 1824, anon.;

Letter on the Jamaica house of assembly, abandonment of its

legislative functions 1839; Royal descents, a genealogical list

of the several persons entitled to quarter the arms of the royal

houses of England 1845; edited for the Camden Society, The diary

of the marches of the royal army during the great civil war,

kept by Richard Symonds 1859. _d._ Lord Warden hotel, Dover 25

Sep. 1861. _bur._ Seale churchyard, Surrey.

LONG, CHARLES MAITLAND (younger son of Samuel Long of

Carshalton, M.P. Ilchester _d._ 1807). _b._ 16 Aug. 1803; ed.

at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830;

R. of Whitchurch, Salop 1834–46; R. of Settrington, Yorkshire

1846 to death; archdeacon of East Riding of Yorkshire 1854–73;

prebendary of Fridaythorpe in York cathedral 1855 to death. _d._

43 Berkeley sq. London 6 Oct. 1875.

LONG, EDWIN LONGSDEN (son of Edwin Long an artist). _b._ Bath

12 July 1829; pupil of James Matthew Leigh; a portrait painter,

afterwards painted oriental scenes; resided in Spain with

John Phillip, R.A.; A.R.A. 26 Jany. 1876, R.A. 13 July 1881;

exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st.

1855–80; exhibited his pictures at his own gallery 168 New Bond

st. 1883 to death, after which his pictures were exhibited at

the Doré gallery 35 New Bond st., his pictures The Babylonian

marriage market 1875 and the Egyptian feast 1877 were much

noticed. _d._ Kelston, Netherall gardens, Hampstead 15 May 1891.

_I.L.N. lxviii_ 436, 437 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic 23 May

1891 p._ 585, _portrait_; _M. B. Huish’s The year’s art_ (1888)

32, _portrait_.

LONG, GEORGE (2 son of Joseph Long of Shopwick near Chichester).

_b._ 1780; special pleader in London 1809–11; barrister G.I.

11 Feb. 1811, bencher 1834 to death, treasurer 1837; deputy

steward of the Palace court 1825–33; a comr. for inquiring into

state of municipal corporations 18 July 1833; magistrate at

Great Marlborough st. police court 1839, at Marylebone police

court June 1841 to Dec. 1859; recorder of Coventry 1840 to 1854;

author of Observations on a bill to amend the laws relating to

the relief of the poor 1821; A treatise on the law relative to

sales of personal property 1821; An essay on the moral nature

of man 1841; The conduct of life, a series of essays 1845;

An enquiry concerning religion 1855. _d._ 51 Queen Anne st.

Cavendish sq. London 26 June 1868. _bur._ Willesden cemet. _Law

Times_, _xlv_ 250 (1868).

LONG, GEORGE (eld. son of James Long, merchant). _b._ Poulton,

Lancs. 4 Nov. 1800; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin.

coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1821, 30th wrangler and senior

chancellor’s medallist 1822; B.A. 1822; fellow of Trin. coll.

1823–7; professor of ancient languages in univ. of Virginia at

Charlottesville 1824–8; professor of Greek in London univ.,

Gower st. London 1 Oct. 1828, resigned 1831; a founder of royal

geographical soc. 1830, hon. sec. 1846–8; edited Quarterly

journal of education 10 vols. 1831–5; The Penny cyclopædia

29 vols. 1833–46, published in monthly parts; edited and

contributed to The biographical dictionary of the Society for

diffusion of useful knowledge 7 vols. 1842–4, letter A only;

professor of Latin in Univ. coll. London 1842–6, when he was

presented with a silver tea and coffee service; barrister I.T. 9

June 1837, reader on jurisprudence and civil law at Inner Temple

April 1846 to 1849; classical lecturer at Brighton college

1849–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 7 Aug. 1873;

author of The civil wars of Rome. Select lives from Plutarch 5

vols. 1844–8; France and its revolutions, a pictorial history

1850; An old man’s thoughts about many things 1862, anon.;

The decline of the Roman republic 5 vols. 1864; compiled The

standard cyclopædia of political knowledge 4 vols. 1848, and

edited with rev. Arthur John Macleane the Bibliotheca Classica

27 vols. 1851–84. _d._ Portfield, Chichester 10 Aug. 1879. _H.

J. Mathews’s In memoriam. George Long_ (1879).

LONG, JAMES. _b._ 1814; resided in Russia; deacon in Church of

England 1839, priest 1840; went to India as a missionary of

Church missionary society about 1846, stationed at Thakurpukur

near Calcutta; known as Padre Long, returned to England

1872; member of Bengal Asiatic Society; F.R.G.S.; fined 1000

rupees and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for adversely

criticising the English press at Calcutta and the indigo

planters in his preface to a Bengali drama entitled Niladarpana

Nataka 1861; assigned to Church Missionary Soc. £2000 to

provide popular lectures on the religions of the East; author

of Handbook of Bengal missions 1848; A descriptive catalogue

of Bengali works 1855; Prabád Málá or the wit of Bengali

ryots 1869; Eastern proverbs and emblems 1881; contributed to

Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Calcutta review and the

Indian magazine. _d._ 3 Adam st. Adelphi, London 23 March 1887.

_Trubner’s Literary Record_ (1887) 24; _Academy 9 April 1887 p._

255.

LONG, RICHARD PENRUDDOCK (2 son of Walter Long 1793–1867).

_b._ Baynton house, Wiltshire 19 Dec. 1825; ed. at Harrow and

Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; first played at Lord’s

in Harrow _v._ Winchester 27 July 1842; one of the largest

landed proprietors in England; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1858;

nominated for sheriff of Wilts. 1875; contested South Wilts. 16

July 1852; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; M.P. North Wilts. 1865–8.

d. Cannes, France 16 Feb. 1875. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_,

_iii_ 106 (1863).

LONG, SAMUEL (eld. son of Charles Maitland Long 1803–75). _b._

5 Jany. 1840; cadet R.N. 8 Dec. 1852; served in Crimean war and

was present at bombardment of Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; captain

12 Dec. 1876; commander of Vernon torpedo instruction ship

Portsmouth, organised and delivered the night attack on the

fleet at Spithead and on the naval force protected by a boom at

Southampton 1889; captain superintendent at Pembroke dockyard

Jany. 1889 to Aug. 1891; aide de camp to the queen 1 Jany. 1889

to 27 Aug. 1891; R.A. 27 Aug. 1891; author of several papers

on torpedo warfare; thrown from his horse and injured, _d._

Blendworth lodge, Horndean near Portsmouth 25 April 1893.

LONG, SIMON (son of David Long, Gretna Green priest, _d._ 1827

in his 72 year). The last of the Gretna Green priests. _d._

Falling near Newcastle on Tyne 24 April 1872.

LONG, WALTER (1 son of Richard Godolphin Long, M.P., 1761–1835).

_b._ 10 Oct. 1793; ed. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1809,

M.A. 1812; M.P. North Wilts. 1835–65; major R. Wilts, yeomanry

cavalry; resided Rood Ashton, Wilts., _d._ Torquay 31 Jany.

1867. _G.M. iii_ 399 (1867).

LONG, WILLIAM. Stable boy in employ of 5 duke of Beaufort in

Oxfordshire 1803; whipper-in to hounds of 6 duke of Beaufort at

Badminton about 1814–26; huntsman to 6 and 7 dukes of Beaufort

1826–55. _d._ Didmarton, Gloucestershire 31 Jany. 1877 aged 84.

_Cecil’s Records of the chase_ (1887) 162, 175–80.

LONG, WILLIAM (2 son of Walter Long of Preshaw house near

Bishop’s Waltham, Hants. 1788–1871). _b._ 15 Aug. 1817; ed. at

Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871;

author of Avebury illustrated. Devizes 1858; Stonehenge and its

burrows. Devizes 1876. _d._ Onslow gardens, London 14 April

1886. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xi_ 375 (1886).

LONGDEN, SIR HENRY ERRINGTON (son of Thomas Hayter Longden).

_b._ 14 Jany. 1819; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 10 foot

16 Sep. 1836, lieut.-col. 20 July 1858, placed on h.p. 14 June

1864; served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, in Punjaub campaign

1848–9; buried under the ruins of Mooltan 12 Sep. 1849 and after

some hours dug out unhurt; in battle of Goojerat; medal and 2

clasps; employed in surveying forests of the Himalayas 1849–52;

in Indian mutiny 1857–8, took part in capture of Lucknow, chief

of the staff to Lugard’s force 1859, Indian medal and 2 clasps;

adjutant general Bengal 17 Jany. 1866 to 16 March 1869; general

1 July 1881; col. of second battalion Hampshire regiment, late

67 foot, 24 June 1883 to 11 Nov. 1888; col. of the Lincolnshire

regiment, late 10 foot, 11 Nov. 1888 to death; C.B. 21 March

1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; C.S.I. 28 May 1870. _d._ Bournemouth

29 Jany. 1890.

LONGDEN, SIR JAMES ROBERT (youngest son of John Robert Longden

of Doctors’ commons, London, proctor). _b._ 1827; government

clerk in the Falkland islands 1844, colonial secretary there to

1861; pres. of Virgin Islands 1861; lieut. governor of Dominica

5 Sep. 1865; governor of British Honduras 5 Dec. 1867; governor

of Trinidad 18 July 1870; governor of British Guiana 14 March

1874; governor of Ceylon 30 June 1877 to 1883; C.M.G. 23 Feb.

1871, K.C.M.G. 13 March 1876, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1883; alderman of

Hertfordshire under Local government act. _d._ Longhope near

Watford, Herts. 4 Oct. 1891; cremated at Woking cemet. 9 Oct.

LONGFIELD, GEORGE (4 son of rev. Mountifort Longfield, V. of

Desertserges, co. Cork). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar

1837–42, fellow 1842 to death; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, B.D.

1864, D.D. 1866; professor of Hebrew, univ. of Dublin 1869 to

death; treasurer of St. Patrick’s cathedral 1877; author of An

introduction to the study of the Chaldee language 1859. _d._ 3

Nov. 1878.

LONGFIELD, JOHN (2 son of John Longfield of Longueville, co.

Cork 1767–1842). _b._ Dublin 18 Sep. 1804; ensign 8 foot 28 June

1825, lieut.-col. 3 April 1846 to 1 June 1860 when placed on

h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 1855, 1856 and 1857–59; col. 29

foot 19 April 1868 to 19 Dec. 1881; general 19 July 1876; col.

Liverpool regiment, 8 foot, 19 Dec. 1881 to death; C.B. 21 Jany.

1858. _d._ Kilcoleman, Bandon, co. Cork 27 Feb. 1889. _History

of Eighth foot 2 ed. p._ 283.

LONGFIELD, MOUNTIFORT (brother of George Longfield _d._ 3

Nov. 1878). _b._ South of Ireland 1802; ed. at Trin. coll.

Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829, LL.D. 1831; fellow of Trin. coll.

1825–34; professor of political economy univ. of Dublin 1832–6,

regius professor of feudal and English law 29 Nov. 1834 to

death, discharged his duties by deputy from 1871; called to

Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842, bencher of King’s inns 1859;

comr. of Incumbered estates court 1849–58, a judge of Landed

estates court 1858–67; comr. of Irish national education 1853;

P.C. Ireland 1867; author of Four lectures on poor laws 1834;

Lectures on political economy 1834; Remarks on the safety and

advantages of commutation if accepted by the clergy generally

1870; Elementary treatise on series 1872. _d._ 47 Fitzwilliam

sq. Dublin 21 Nov. 1884. _Irish Law Times 29 Nov. 1884 p._ 606.

LONGFIELD, RICHARD (brother of John Longfield 1804–89). _b._

Longueville, co. Cork 1802; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.

1824; sheriff of Cork 1833; contested co. Cork 24 Jany. 1835 and

seated on petition 5 June; contested co. Cork 18 Aug. 1837 and

15 July 1841. _d._ Longueville house, Mallow 19 June 1889.

LONGFIELD, ROBERT (brother of Mountifort Longfield 1802–84).

_b._ co. Cork 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A

1832; called to Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; law adviser of

crown for Ireland 1866 to death; chairman of quarter sessions,

co. Galway, Dec. 1867 to death; law adviser to the castle,

Dublin; M.P. Mallow, May 1859 to 1865; author of The laws of

distress and replevin in Ireland. Dublin 1841; A treatise on

the action of ejectment in the superior courts in Ireland 2

ed. 1846; The origin of freemasonry 1857; The fishery laws of

Ireland 1863; The game laws of Ireland 1864. _d._ 33 Merrion sq.

south, Dublin 27 April 1868.

LONGFORD, WILLIAM LYGON PAKENHAM, 4 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl

of Longford 1774–1838). _b._ Pakenham hall 31 Jany. 1819; ed.

Winchester; ensign 52 foot 25 Aug. 1837; lieut. 7 foot 1838,

captain 1844, placed on h.p. 6 July 1852; A.Q.M.G. Crimea

1854–5, A.A.G. 1855, A.G. 1855–6; in battles of Alma, Balaklava

and Inkerman, and at siege of Sebastopol, medal with 4 clasps;

A.G. Bengal, Feb. 1858 to 2 July 1860; succeeded his brother as

4 earl 27 March 1860; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 June 1861,

G.C.B. 24 May 1881; under sec. of state for war 7 July 1866 to

8 Dec. 1868; lord lieut. of Longford 21 March 1874 to death;

col. 5 Northumberland fusiliers 11 Sep. 1878 to death; general

31 July 1879; placed on retired list 1881. _d._ 24 Bruton st.

London 19 April 1887.

LONGLANDS, HENRY (son of Thomas Longlands of Greenwich). _b._

1781; ed. at Westminster, King’s scholar 1796; barrister M.T. 10

Feb. 1809, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1851; secretary to

West India Dock co. 1818–38. _d._ Blackheath road, Old Charlton

9 Feb. 1857.

LONGLEY, CHARLES THOMAS (5 son of John Longley, recorder of

Rochester, _d._ 1822). _b._ Boley Hill, Rochester 28 July

1794; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; King’s scholar at Westminster

1808; student at Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812, Greek reader 1822, tutor

and censor 1825–8; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1829;

proctor of the univ. 1827; C. of Cowley, Oxon. 1818, P.C. of

Cowley 1823–7; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1827–9; head master

of Harrow school 21 March 1829 to Oct. 1836; bishop of Ripon 15

Oct. 1836, consecrated in York cath. 6 Nov. 1836; translated

to see of Durham 13 Oct. 1856; archbishop of York 1 June 1860;

P.C. 9 June 1860; archbishop of Canterbury 20 Oct. 1862 to

death, installed 12 Dec. 1862; the Lambeth or Pan-Anglican

synod of 78 British, colonial and foreign prelates met in

London under his presidency 24–27 Sep. 1867; translated Koch’s

Tableau des révolutions de l’Europe 1831; author of A letter to

the parishioners of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1851. _d._ Addington

park near Croydon 27 Oct. 1868. _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and

deans_, _i_ 161–8 (1875); _Macmillan’s Mag. March 1883 pp._

346–58; _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ (1861), _portrait_;

_Illustrated times 25 Oct. 1862 p._ 417, _portrait_, _20 Dec.

1862 p._ 541 _view of installation_.

LONGMAN, CHARLES (2 son of Thomas Norton Longman, publisher

1771–1842). _b._ 11 Feb. 1809; ed. Westminster 1822–4; head

of firm of J. Dickinson & Co. paper makers, 65 Old Bailey and

1 Irongate wharf, Praed st. London; F.G.S. 1862; dropped down

_dead_ in his park, Shendish near Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 4

Jany. 1873; will proved 15 Feb. 1873, personalty under £200,000.

LONGMAN, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1804; ed. at

Glasgow univ.; partner in Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green,

publishers 38 Paternoster row 1832, head of the firm 1842 to

death; superintended production of The New Testament illustrated

with engravings on wood after paintings by Fra Angelico, Pietro

Perugino and other great masters 1864, 250 copies at ten guineas

each, 2 ed. 1864, reprinted 1883; published lord Macaulay’s

works, sent him a cheque for £20,000 dated 13 March 1856 for

his share of profits of his History of England vols. 3 and

4; the firm purchased business and stock of John W. Parker

publisher 1863; purchased copyright of Disraeli’s novels 1870;

bought Farnborough hall, Hants. for nearly £100,000, 1859. _d._

Farnborough hall 30 Aug. 1879. _History of the house of Longman.

By Francis Espinasse in The Critic_, _xx_ 366, 431, 483 (1860);

_Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 79–109.

LONGMAN, THOMAS TUCKER (son of John Longman). _b._ Castle Cary,

Somerset 1818; ed. St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; one of first to

take B.A. degree at univ. of London 1841; ordained priest

1840; missioner at Wolverhampton, at Bloxwich, at Hampton hill,

and at Warwick where he built the R.C. church; administrator

of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1867, canon of the cath. 1873,

vicar general of the diocese 1873–91; in charge of St. Peter’s,

Leamington 1884–91; dignity of Monsignor conferred on him by

the Pope, June 1890; member of Birmingham school board. _d._

Leamington 14 Dec. 1892. _Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 3,

_portrait_.

LONGMAN, _William_ (brother of Thomas Longman 1804–79). _b._ 9

Feb. 1813; entered service of Longman & Co. publishers 1828, a

partner 1839 to death; freeman of Stationers’ Co. 1834; an early

member of Alpine club 1857, pres. 1871–4; F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1873;

author of A catalogue of works in all departments of English

literature classified, anon., Second edition 1848; Journal of

six weeks’ adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont and the Italian

lakes. By W. Longman and H. Trower. Privately printed 1856;

Lectures on the history of England to the close of the reign of

Edward II. 1859; The history of the life and times of Edward

III. 2 vols. 1869; A history of the three cathedrals dedicated

to St. Paul in London 1873. _d._ Ashlyns, Great Berkhampstead 13

Aug. 1877. _William Longman. By H. R. (Henry Reeve) in Fraser’s

Mag. for Oct. 1877 pp._ 417–21; _Publishers’ Circular_ (1877)

605–6; _Graphic_, _xvi_ 204 (1877), _portrait_.

LONGMIRE, MARGARET (dau. of John and Margaret Atkinson). _b._

Westmoreland 15 April 1765; _bapt._ Windermere 19 May 1777; a

servant on various farms; _m._ James Longmire of Crawmire’s,

he _d._ 19 Jany. 1831; a sick nurse; had parochial relief.

_d._ Troutbeck 30 May 1868 aged 103 years and 6 weeks. She was

grandmother of Thomas Longmire the champion wrestler of England.

_W. J. Thom’s Longevity of Man_ (1879) 272–80.

LONGMUIR, JOHN (son of John Longmuir). _b._ Stonehaven,

Kincardineshire 13 Nov. 1803; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and

Marischal coll., M.A., LL.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1859; English

master Anderson’s Institution, Forres; licensed by presbytery of

Forres, July 1833; evening lecturer in Trinity chapel, Aberdeen

1837; minister of Mariners’ church, Aberdeen Sep. 1840; minister

of Free church, Aberdeen 1843–81; lecturer on geology at King’s

coll. Aberdeen to 1859; author of The College and other poems.

Aberdeen 1825, anon.; Bible Lays 1838, 2 ed. 1877; Ocean Lays

1854, new ed. 1864; Lays for the lambs 1860; A run through the

land of Burns and the covenanters 1872; edited Rhythmical index

to the English language 1877; Walker and Webster combined in

a dictionary of the English language 1864, 2 ed. 1876. _d._

Aberdeen 7 May 1883. _W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord_ (1887)

407–14; _Edwards’s Modern Scottish Poets 2nd series_.

LONGSTAFF, GEORGE DIXON. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827; M.D. Edinb.

1828; assist. professor of chemistry Edinb. univ., where he was

the first teacher of practical chemistry to medical students;

physician at Hull some years; in America some years; engaged

in commerce in England; superintendent of special constables

in Chartist riots 1848; a founder 1841 and V.P. of Chemical

Soc. of London; chairman of royal maternity charity, London;

first member of Wandsworth district board of works; author of

Dissertatio inauguralis de calorico 1828. _d._ Butterknowle,

Southfields, Wandsworth, Surrey 23 Sep. 1892.

LONGWORTH, JOHN AUGUSTUS. Consul at Monastir, Tunis 29 Sep.

1851; employed on several special services 1854–58; consul

general in Servia 13 Feb. 1860 to 14 Feb. 1875 when he retired

on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; author of A year among the

Circassians 2 vols. 1840. _d._ 16 Westbourne park villas,

Bayswater, London 23 July 1875.

LONGWORTH, MARIA THERESA (7 child of Thomas Longworth of

Manchester, silk manufacturer, _d._ Altrincham, Cheshire 1854).

_b._ Fairyhill, Cheetwood near Manchester 1827; ed. at a convent

in Staffs. and at an Ursuline convent school at Boulogne; began

a correspondence 1853 with Wm. Charles Yelverton afterwards 4

viscount Avonmore, met him again when she was a nurse at Galata

hospital, Constantinople, during Crimean war, Aug. 1855 and they

became engaged; he read aloud the Church of England marriage

service at her lodgings 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh 12 April

1857, they were afterwards married by rev. Bernard Mooney at

R.C. chapel at Kilbroney near Rostrevor in Ireland, and lived

together in Ireland and Scotland till April 1858; Yelverton

married Emily widow of professor Edward Forbes 26 June 1858;

Miss Longworth sued Yelverton for restitution of conjugal rights

in probate court, London 31 Oct. 1859 but the court decided that

it had no jurisdiction; the Scottish court of session upheld

the marriage 19 Dec. 1862 but this judgment was reversed by the

house of lords 28 July 1864; her attempt to reopen the case at

Edinburgh in March 1865, failed and the house of lords supported

the Scottish court 30 July 1867, her appeal to court of session

to set aside judgment of house of lords was rejected 28 Oct.

1868; a subscription in her behalf was raised in Manchester;

gave her first reading at Hanover square rooms, London 6 April

1866; author of Martyrs to circumstances 2 vols. 1861; The

Yelverton correspondence 1863; Zanita, a tale of the Yosemite

1872; Teresina Peregrina 2 vols. 1874; Teresina in America 2

vols. 1875; lived at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, about March 1880

to her death there 13 Sep. 1881. _J. F. Macqueen’s Reports in

the House of Lords_, _iv_ 745–912 (1866); _Law mag. and law

review_, _xi_ 215–34 (1861); _Illust. Times 9 March 1861 p._

143, _portrait_; _A.R._ (1861) 528–42; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_,

_xxvii_ 336 (1862), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _v_ 117

(1866), _portrait_.

NOTE.--J. R. O’Flanagan’s novel entitled Gentle blood or the secret

marriage 1861 is founded on the Yelverton marriage case, Miss Longworth

is called in the novel Sybilla Longsword and Yelverton figures as

Rodulphus Silverton.

LONSDALE, WILLIAM LOWTHER, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 earl of

Lonsdale 1757–1844). _b._ 30 July 1787; ed. at Harrow and Trin.

coll. Camb., M.A. 1808; styled viscount Lowther 1807–44; M.P.

Cockermouth 1808–13; M.P. Westmoreland 1813–31; M.P. Dunwich

1831–2; M.P. Westmoreland 1832–41; F.R.S. 5 July 1810; a lord

of the admiralty 24 Nov. 1809 to 1 May 1810; a commissioner for

affairs of India 7 July 1810 to 17 July 1818; a lord of the

treasury 25 Nov. 1813 to 30 April 1827; lieut.-col. commandant

of Westmoreland militia 9 June 1818 to 26 Feb. 1861; chief

comr. of woods and forests 14 June 1828 to 13 Dec. 1830; P.C.

30 May 1828; treasurer of the navy 27 Dec. 1834 to 22 April

1835; vice pres. of board of trade 20 Dec. 1834 to 6 May 1835;

summoned to parliament as baron Lowther of Whitehaven 8 Sep.

1841; postmaster general 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 Jany. 1846; succeeded

his father as 2 earl 19 March 1844; lord lieut. of Cumberland

and Westmoreland 17 April 1844 to 2 Dec. 1868; lord pres. of

privy council 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; bought Armathwaite

castle, Cumberland, Aug. 1845. _d._ 14 Carlton house terrace,

London 4 March 1872; personalty sworn under £700,000 6 April

1872. _I.L.N. lx_ 261, 267, 339 (1872), _portrait_; _Waagen’s

Treasures of art_, _iii_ 260–65 (1854).

NOTE.--He is the original of Lord Colchicum in Thackeray’s Pendennis

and of Lord Eskdale in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby.

LONSDALE, HENRY LOWTHER, 3 Earl of (1 son of Henry Cecil

Lowther, M.P. 1790–1867). _b._ London 27 March 1818; ed. at

Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; styled Henry

Lowther 1836–72; cornet 1 life guards 24 Sep. 1841, capt. 9

March 1849, sold out 1 Dec. 1854; M.P. West Cumberland 1847–72;

hon. col. Cumberland rifle volunteers 16 Aug. 1862; hon. col.

Cumberland militia 24 Feb. 1868 to death; lord lieut. of

Cumberland and Westmoreland 2 Dec. 1868 to death; succeeded

his uncle as 3 earl 4 March 1872; lieut.-col. Westmoreland and

Cumberland yeomanry 11 May 1872; steward of the Jockey club 1844

and 1845; won many cups at Newmarket, Goodwood and Stamford;

a regular huntsman, lest his horses should be misused after

he had done with them, he always shot them. _d._ Whitehaven

castle, Cumberland 15 Aug. 1876. _Athenæum 21 Feb. 1874 pp._

260–3; _Baily’s Mag. viii_ 219–21 (1864), _portrait_; _Graphic_,

_xiv_ 204 (1876), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 208, 213 (1876),

_portrait_.

LONSDALE, ST. GEORGE HENRY LOWTHER, 4 Earl of (1 son of the

preceding). _b._ Wilton crescent, London 4 Oct. 1855; ed. at

Eton; styled viscount Lowther 1872–76; succeeded as 4 earl 15

Aug. 1876; hon. col. Cumberland militia 3 March 1877; vice

admiral Cumberland and Westmoreland, March 1877; master of

the Cottesmore hounds 2 years; kept a racing stud, Pilgrimage

won the 2000 and 1000 guineas in 1878. _d._ 14 Carlton house

terrace, London 8 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Lowther ch. 14 Feb.

_Graphic_, _xxv_ 220 (1882), _portrait_; _Illust. sport. and

dram. news_, _xvi_ 549, 563 (1882), _portrait_.

LONSDALE, EDWARD FRANCIS. M.R.C.S. 1834, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; one

of founders of Institution for Cure of club feet, afterwards the

Royal orthopædic hospital, 6 Bloomsbury sq. 1838, and surgeon

there; member Med. & Chir. Soc. 1844; a skilful surgeon in

orthopædic cases; author of A practical treatise on fractures

1838; Observations on the treatment of lateral curvature of the

spine 1847, 2 ed. 1852. _d._ 26 Montague st. Russell sq. London

11 Sep. 1857. _Proc. R. Med. & Chir. Soc. ii_ 50 (1858).

LONSDALE, HENRY (son of Henry Lonsdale, tradesman). _b._

Carlisle 1816; studied medicine at univ. of Edinb. and in

Paris; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; M.D. Edinb. 1838; partner with

Robert Knox in Edinb. 1840–5; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1841; physician

to royal public dispensary, Edinb. 1841–5, where he introduced

use of cod-liver oil; practised at Carlisle from 1846, phys. to

Cumberland infirmary 1846–68; the friend of Mazzini, Kossuth

and Garibaldi; author of A biographical sketch of William

Blamire formerly M.P. for Cumberland 1862; The life and works

of Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson, sculptor 1866; The worthies of

Cumberland 6 vols. 1867–75; A sketch of the life and writings of

Robert Knox the anatomist 1870. _d._ Rosehill, Carlisle 23 July

1876.

LONSDALE, JAMES GYLBY (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1788–1867).

_b._ Clapham, London 14 Oct. 1816; ed. at Laleham sch. and at

Eton, Newcastle scholar March 1843; scholar of Balliol coll.

Oxf. 29 Nov. 1833, fellow 1838–64, tutor 1840; B.A. 1837, M.A.

1840; a student of L.I. 1838; chaplain to bishop of Gibraltar

1842–7; chaplain to bishop of Lichfield 1847–67; tutor in univ.

of Durham 1851–6; professor of classical literature at King’s

coll. London 1865–70; R. of South Luffenham, Rutland 1870–3; R.

of Huntspill, Somerset 1873–8; author with Samuel Lee of The

works of Virgil rendered into English prose 1871; The works of

Horace rendered into English prose 1873. _d._ Bath 25 April

1892, memorial tablet in Balliol college chapel. _R. Duckworth’s

Memoir of J. G. Lonsdale_ (1893), _portrait_.

LONSDALE, JAMES JOHN (2 son of James Lonsdale the artist

1777–1839). _b._ 5 April 1810; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1836; sec.

to criminal law commission 1842; recorder of Folkestone 5 Aug.

1847 to death; judge of circuit No. 11 West Riding of Yorkshire

14 Feb. 1855 to 19 March 1867; judge of circuit No. 48 Kent 19

March 1867 to March 1884; author of The statute criminal law of

England 1839; The odes of Horace. Book 1 a verse translation

1879. _d._ The Cottage, Sandgate, Kent 11 Nov. 1886. _Law

Times_, _vol._ 82 _p._ 111 (1886).

LONSDALE, JOHN (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1737–1807, vicar of

Darfield, _d._ 1807 aged 70). _b._ Newmillerdam near Wakefield

17 Jany. 1788; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow

1809–15, tutor 1814–5 and 1820–1, univ. scholar 1809; B.A. 1811,

M.A. 1814, B.D. 1824, D.D. 1844; student at Lincoln’s Inn, Dec.

1811; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1816; assistant preacher

at the Temple 1816; R. of Musham, Kent 1822–7; preb. of Lincoln

1825–8; fellow of Eton 1827–8; precentor of Lichfield 1828–31;

preb. of St. Paul’s 1831–43; R. of St. George’s, Bloomsbury

1828–34; preacher of Lincoln’s inn Jany. 1836; R. of Southfleet,

Kent 1836; principal of King’s coll. London Jany. 1839 to

1844, chief founder of King’s coll. hospital 1839; declined

provostship of Eton 1840; archdeacon of Middlesex 20 Jany.

1843 to Nov. 1843, installed 1 July 1843; bishop of Lichfield

23 Nov. 1843 to death, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 3 Dec.;

consecrated and reopened about 300 churches; chairman of royal

commission for enquiring into effect of marriage act of 1835,

1847; chairman of Cambridge univ. commission 1857; pres. of

church congress at Wolverhampton, Oct. 1867; author of Some

popular objections against christianity considered 1820; The

testimonies of nature, reason and revelation respecting a future

judgment 1821; Some account of the life of the rev. T. Rennell

1824; The four gospels with annotations 1849. _d._ suddenly at

his dinner table Eccleshall castle, Staffs. 19 Oct. 1867. _E.

B. Denison’s Life of John Lonsdale_ (1868), _portrait_; _The

drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 4 series_

(1860), _portrait_; _The church of England photographic portrait

gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 48; _The Eton portrait gallery_

(1876) 163–66; _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _i_ 206–11

(1875); _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 415–16.

LONSDALE, WILLIAM (youngest son of Wm. Lonsdale). _b._ Bath

9 Sep. 1794; ensign 4 foot 1 Feb. 1810, lieut. 15 May 1812,

placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; served in Peninsular war and at

Waterloo where he was the only officer in the 4th foot not

wounded; curator of natural history department of Bath museum

1826–9; F.G.S. 15 May 1829, curator and librarian of the society

1829–42, the Wollaston fund was awarded him 1832 and 3 times

afterwards, Wollaston medallist 1846; investigated the oolite

districts of Gloucestershire; co-originator with Murchison and

Sedgwick of the theory of the independence of Devonian system;

author of On the age of the limestones of South Devonshire and

other papers in Transactions and Journal of Geol. Soc. _d._

City road, Bristol 11 Nov. 1871. _Quarterly Journal of Geol.

Soc. xxviii_ 35–6 (1872); _W. S. Mitchell’s Notes on the early

geologists connected with neighbourhood of Bath_ (1872) 31–9.

LOPES, SIR RALPH, 2 Baronet (only son of Abraham Franco,

merchant, London). _b._ 10 Sep. 1788; succeeded his uncle sir

Manasseh Massey Lopes 26 March 1831; assumed surname of Lopes

in lieu of Franco by r.l. 4 May 1831; M.P. Westbury, Wilts.

1814–20, 1831–37 and 1841–7; contested Westbury 26 July 1837;

M.P. South Devon 13 Feb. 1849 to death. _d._ Maristowe near

Plymouth 26 Jany. 1854; personalty sworn under £180,000, March

1854. _J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history_ (1875)

304–306.

LORD, _Henry William_ (eld. son of Charles Francis James Lord of

Hampstead). _b._ 1834; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1859–62,

B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1859; revising

barrister for Kent; registrar of court of probate for co. of

Lancaster 1881–91; one of the four registrars of chief probate

registry at Somerset House at salary of £1500 Jany. 1891 to

death; author of The highway of the sea in time of war. Camb.

1862. _d._ 5 Dorset sq. London 27 May 1893.

LORD, JOHN KEAST (son of Edward Lord). _b._ Tavistock 1818;

apprenticed to chemists at Tavistock; entered royal veterinary

college, London 1842, M.R.C.V.S. 29 May 1844; veterinary

surgeon at Tavistock; a trapper in Minnesota and the Hudson’s

Bay fur countries; veterinary surgeon in British army 19 June

1855, served with artillery of Turkish contingent in Crimea,

lieut. 4 Jany. 1856, veterinary surgeon and lieut. of Osmanli

horse artillery in Aug. 1856; naturalist to the commission for

separating British Columbia from the United States territory

1 Feb. 1858, returned to England 14 July 1862; resided in

Vancouver’s Island some time; his valuable collections of

mammals, birds, fishes and insects are now in the Natural

history museum, South Kensington; employed in archæological and

scientific researches by viceroy of Egypt about 1868; manager of

the Brighton Aquarium opened 10 Aug. 1872 to death; contributed

many papers to Land and Water under signature of The Wanderer

1866–72; collected coleoptera in Egypt; author of The naturalist

in Vancouver’s Island and British Colombia 2 vols. 1866; At home

in the wilderness. By The Wanderer 1867, 3 ed. 1876; Handbook

of sea-fishing. _d._ 17 Dorset gardens, Brighton 9 Dec. 1872.

_Leisure Hour_, _xxii_ 696–9 (1873), _portrait_; _Land and Water

14 Dec. 1872 pp._ 387, 395; _Graphic_, _vii_ 3, 12 (1873),

_portrait_.

LORD, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Isaac Lord, baptist minister,

Birmingham). Ed. Cambridge house, Birmingham, and Amershall

school, Reading; matric. univ. of London, June 1868, B.A. 1870,

M.A. 1874; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1870, foundation scholar

1872–6; rowed in his college boat; senior wrangler Jany. 1875,

fellow of Trin. coll. 10 Oct. 1876 to 1881. _d._ Clarens, Lake

of Geneva 4 Sep. 1883.

LORD, WILLIAM. _b._ Bacup 11 May 1791; Wesleyan Methodist

minister 1811, at Birmingham 1824–6, at Manchester 1828–31,

president of United Connexion conference 1834; representative to

American general conference 1835; minister at Bristol 1836–9,

at Hull 1839–42; governor of Woodhouse grove school 1843–58;

president of Canadian conference; a supernumerary from 1861

to death; revisited Woodhouse school when he was eighty. _d._

Manningham, Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1873. _J. T. Slugg’s Woodhouse

Grove school_ (1885) 74–8.

LORD, WILLIAM SATTERLEY (eld. son of rev. Wm. Edward Lord, D.D.,

of Northiam, Sussex). _b._ 1841; ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., B.A.

1866, M.A. 1869; admitted by Inner Temple special pleader below

the bar Jany. 1869; barrister I.T. 7 June 1873; advocate of high

court of Griqualand West, April 1876, acting attorney general

April to Aug. 1877 and Dec. 1877 to Sep. 1879, Q.C. there March

1879; M.P. for Kimberley in legislative assembly of Cape Colony.

_d._ on board the Norman Castle on his way home from Cape Town 9

Sep. 1889.

LORIMER, George. A builder in Edinburgh; lord dean of guild

1864; _killed_ in the fire of the theatre royal, Edinburgh, by

the north wall falling on him when trying to save lives 13 Jany.

1865. _J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage_ (1888) 477–8; _A.R._

(1865) 3–5; _I.L.N. xlvi_ 97 (1865).

LORIMER, JAMES (son of James Lorimer, manager of Earl of

Kinnoul’s estates). _b._ Aberdalgie, Perthshire 4 Nov. 1818;

ed. at high school Perth and the univs. of Edinb., Berlin and

Bonn and academy of Geneva; member of Faculty of advocates

1845; acted as sheriff substitute of Midlothian; F.R.S. Edinb.

1861; professor of public law in univ. of Edinb. 15 May 1865 to

death, where he introduced graduation in law; a founder of The

institute of international law 1873; author of The universities

of Scotland, past, present and possible 1854; A handbook of

the law of Scotland 1859, 5 ed. 1885; Constitutionalism of the

future, or parliament the mirror of the nation 1865, 2 ed. 1867;

The institutes of law, a treatise of jurisprudence as determined

by nature 1872, 2 ed. 1880; The institutes of the law of nations

2 vols. 1883–4, and of 19 lectures and 14 pamphlets. _d._ 1

Bruntsfield crescent, Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1890, portrait by his

son J. H. Lorimer, R.S.A. in senate hall of univ. of Edinb.

_James Lorimer’s Studies national and international_ (1890);

_Juridical Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 113–21, _portrait_.

LORIMER, JOHN GORDON (2 son of rev. Robert Lorimer 1765–1848,

minister of Haddington). _b._ Haddington; minister of Torryburn

1829; minister of St. David’s or Ram’s Horn parish, Glasgow

1832 to 1843; minister of St. David’s Free ch. Glasgow 1843

to death; D.D. of coll. of New Jersey 27 June 1849; author of

The past and present condition of religion and morality in the

United States 1833; The eldership of the church of Scotland

1841; Historical sketch of the protestant church of France 1841;

The deaconship 1842; Sermons on Sabbath profanation 184-. _d._

Glasgow 9 Oct. 1868. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848)

349–58.

LORIMER, PETER (eld. son of John Lorimer, builder). _b._

Edinburgh 1812; bursar in univ. of Edinb. 1827; minister of

presbyterian ch. River terrace, London 1836–44; professor of

theology in English presbyterian college, London 1844–78,

principal 1878 to death; D.D. New Jersey, June 1857; author of

Precursors of Knox, or memoirs of Patrick Hamilton, Alexander

Alane or Alesius, and Sir David Lindsay of the Mount Edinburgh

1857; The evidential value of the early epistles of St. Paul

viewed as historical documents 1874, 3 ed. 1880; The evidence to

Christianity arising from its adaptation to all the deeper wants

of the human heart 1876; John Knox and the church of England

1875. _d._ Whitehaven, Cumberland 29 July 1879. _bur._ in Grange

cemet. Edinb.

LORING, SIR JOHN WENTWORTH (son of Joshua Loring, high sheriff

of Massachusetts). _b._ America 13 Oct. 1775; entered navy June

1789, captain 28 April 1802; commanded the Niobe 38 guns on

coast of France 1805–13; commanded the Impregnable in the North

Sea 1813–4; superintendent of the ordinary at Sheerness 1816–9;

lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 4 Nov. 1819

to 10 Jany. 1837; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral 8 July 1851; C.B.

4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840, K.C.H. 30 April 1837. _d._

Ryde, Isle of Wight 29 July 1852.

LORT, _William_. One of the best judges of live stock in

England, and constantly employed in judging horses, cattle

and dogs; went with Assheton Smith in his yacht Pandora upon

a sporting expedition to the North Pole; a fine swimmer; a

supporter of Birmingham National dog show from its beginning; an

originator of Crystal palace dog show and of the Kennel club;

F.R.G.S. _d._ Vaynol park, Bangor 23 May 1891.

LORTON, ROBERT EDWARD KING, 1 Viscount (2 son of 2 earl of

Kingston 1754–99). _b._ Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 12 Aug.

1773; ensign 27 foot 30 June 1792; major 92 foot 7 March 1794;

lieut. col. 127 foot 20 Dec. 1794, regiment reduced 1795 but he

was retained on full pay; colonel of Roscommon militia 24 Nov.

1797 to death; created an Irish peer by title of baron Erris

of Boyle, co. Roscommon 29 Dec. 1800; created viscount Lorton

of Boyle, co. Roscommon 28 May 1806; a representative peer of

Ireland 8 Feb. 1823 to death; general 22 July 1830; lord lieut.

of co. Roscommon 1831 to death. _d._ Rockingham, Boyle, co.

Roscommon 20 Nov. 1854.

NOTE.--He was _bur._ at 4 o’clock in the morning according to the

custom of his family in the church of Boyle 24 Nov. 1854. He was the

last commoner raised to the peerage of Ireland before the union with

England.

LOSCOMBE, CLIFTON WINTRINGHAM. Resided at Pickwick house,

Corsham, where he obtained possession of a hoard of coins and

antiquities which was discovered at Sevington, Wilts., Jany.

1834; an original member of Numismatic Soc. 1836. _d._ Clifton

17 Dec. 1853. _Numismatic Chronicle_, _xvii Proceedings p._ 16

(1855); _Archæologia_, _xxvii_ 301–5 (1838).

LOSH, JAMES (son of James Losh, recorder of Newcastle, _d._ 23

Sep. 1833 aged 71). _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.

1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; went northern

circuit; judge of county courts, No. 1 circuit, Northumberland,

May 1853 to death, took his seat 25 May 1853; attacked with

paralysis Aug. 1858. _d._ 24 Clayton st. west, Newcastle on Tyne

1 Oct. 1858.

LOSH, SARAH (1 dau. of John Losh of Woodside near Carlisle).

_b._ Woodside 1 Jany. 1786; ed. in Bath and London, and

became proficient in Italian, French, Latin, Greek, music and

mathematics; gave a school endowed with 30 acres to Wreay

1830; laid out and gave to the city of Carlisle a cemetery

1835; erected a mausoleum in Wreay ch. yard for the remains

of her sister Katherine Isabella Losh who _d._ Feb. 1835;

erected a church at Wreay in 1842 at cost of £1200; a woman

of much learning who associated with Dr. William Paley and

other scholars. _d._ Woodside near Carlisle 29 March 1853. _H.

Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland_ (1873) 197–238, _portrait_.

LOSH, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Woodside 1770;

ed. at Erfurt; manager of alkali works at Walker on the Tyne

1796; one of founders of the Walker iron works; resided for

some time in Sweden; patented a wheel for railway carriages

1830; took out patents with George Stephenson for railways 1816;

consul for Sweden and Prussia at Newcastle. _d._ Newcastle 4

Aug. 1861. _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland_ (1873) 153–85.

LOTHIAN, CECIL CHETWYND KERR, Marchioness of (younger dau. of

2 earl Talbot 1777–1849). _b._ Ingestre hall, Staffs. 17 April

1808; (_m._ 19 July 1831 seventh marquess of Lothian 1794–1841);

built church at Jedburgh; joined church of Rome; founded a

R.C. mission with chapel and school at Jedburgh; built church

of St. David at Dalkeith; founded a mission with a chapel at

Pathhead; a founder of the Home of Refuge for women discharged

from prison, conducted by sisters of the Good Shepherd;

went to Germany to convey to the R.C. bishops the sympathy

of the catholics of England; promoted the pilgrimages to

Paray-le-Monial and to Pontigny in 1873 and 1874. _d._ Hôtel de

Rome, Rome 13 May 1877; the Pope sent her a special benediction

and a triduum was offered for her in the church of the Virgin,

at Rome, May 1877; _bur._ in cemetery of San Lorenzo. _P.

Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890) 125–63, _portrait_;

_Times 14 May 1877 p._ 7, _15 May p._ 10.

LÖTTNER, FRIEDRICH. Professor of Sanskrit and comparative

philology and assistant librarian at Trinity college, Dublin

1863–71. _d._ Dublin, middle of April 1873.

LOUDON, JANE (dau. of Thomas Webb _d._ 1824). _b._ Ritwell house

near Birmingham 1807; edited The ladies’ magazine of gardening

1842; The ladies’ companion 1850–1 and several of her husband’s

works 1845–55; granted civil list pension of £100, 22 April

1846; author of Prose and Verse 1824; The Mummy, a tale of the

twenty-second century 3 vols. 1827, anon., new ed. 1872; Stories

of a bride 1829; The ladies’ companion to the flower garden

1841, 9 ed. 1879, which circulated 20,000 copies; The first

book of botany 1841, new ed. 1870; The ladies’ flower garden of

perennials 2 vols. 1843–4; The ladies’ country companion 1845, 4

ed. 1852, and 20 other books; (_m._ 14 Sep. 1830 John Claudius

Loudon, landscape gardener, _d._ 14 Dec. 1843 aged 60). She _d._

3 Porchester terrace, Bayswater, London 13 July 1858. _Cottage

Gardener_, _xx_ 248, 255–9 (1858).

LOUGH, JOHN GRAHAM (son of a small farmer at Greenhead near

Hexham, Northumberland). _b._ 1806; an ornamental sculptor at

Newcastle; exhibited at the R.A. 1826 a bas-relief The Death

of Turnus; exhibited 49 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 16 at

B.I. 1826–63; exhibited his works in London 1827; studied in

Rome 1834–8; executed the statues of queen Victoria in the royal

exchange 1845, of prince Albert at Lloyd’s 1847 and of marquis

of Hastings at Malta 1848; 7 of his statues were in Great

Exhibition of 1851. _d._ 42 Harewood sq. London 8 April 1876.

_Graphic_, _xiii_ 416 (1876), _portrait_; _Handbook of statues

comprising the Lough models in Elswick hall_ (1879).

LOUIS, SIR JOHN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas Louis, 1

baronet, _d._ 17 May 1807). _b._ 1785; entered navy Sep. 1795,

captain 22 Jany. 1806; commander of L’Aigle 36 guns 1811–15;

superintendent of Malta dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 6 Jany. 1843;

R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral superintendent at Plymouth 16 Dec.

1846 to 9 Feb. 1850; V.A. 9 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 27 Sep.

1855, pensioned 2 May 1860. _d._ 61 Eaton place, London 30 March

1863.

LOUIS, WILLIAM (2 son of preceding). _b._ 21 May 1810; entered

R.N. 7 Dec. 1824; capt. 9 Nov. 1846; commander of Stromboli

steam vessel 1841–3; retired 1 July 1864; admiral 1 Aug. 1877.

_d._ 46 Connaught sq. London 20 Nov. 1885.

LOUISE, MADAME, stage name of Louise Miller. _b._ 1810; première

danseuse of Her Majesty’s theatre under Benjamin Lumley’s

management; ballet mistress of Drury Lane under the managements

of Alfred Bunn, James Anderson and E. T. Smith to 1859. _d._ 5

Feb. 1892. _bur._ Fulham cemet.

LOUND, THOMAS. _b._ 1802; member of a firm of brewers at

Norwich; an amateur painter, excelled in river views; painted

the scenery in Wales and Yorkshire and near Cromer; exhibited

much in Norwich; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 10 at B.I.

1846–57. _d._ King st. Norwich 18 Jany. 1861.

LOVAT, THOMAS ALEXANDER FRASER, 1 Baron (1 son of Alexander

Fraser of Strichen, Aberdeen). _b._ Strichen house, Aberdeen 17

June 1802; cr. baron Lovat of Lovat, co. Inverness, in peerage

of U.K. 28 Jany. 1837; established his right to Scottish barony

of Lovat, attainder of which was reversed in his favor by 17

& 18 Vict. cap. 39, 10 July 1854; vice lieut. and sheriff

principal of Invernessshire 30 Aug. 1853 to 1873; K.T. 1865.

_d._ Beaufort castle, Invernessshire 28 June 1875. _I.L.N.

lxvii_ 47 (1875).

LOVAT, SIMON FRASER, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). _b._

Beaufort castle 21 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. commandant of

Inverness, Banff, Moray and Nairn militia 10 Dec. 1855 to death;

deputy lieut. of Inverness 1853–72, vice lieut. 1872, lord

lieut. 18 April 1873 to death; succeeded 28 June 1875. _d._

suddenly while shooting on a grouse moor near Inverness 6 Sep.

1887.

LOVE, EMMA SARAH (dau. of W. E. Love, lieutenant in H.M.

service, _d._ about 1814). _b._ Cheapside, London 10 Sep. 1801;

ed. in music by D. Corri; appeared at English opera house as

Mrs. Courtly in Free and Easy 1817; took leading vocal parts

under Samuel J. Arnold at Lyceum theatre; appeared at Covent

Garden 1822 with great success, then at the Haymarket 1823;

played Marina in the operatic entertainment Cortez; acted in

the provinces; played Lilla in Cobb’s comic opera The siege of

Belgrade, at Drury Lane 1828; a very beautiful woman who sang

‘What is more dear to the heart of the brave’ and ‘Little love

is a mischievous boy’ to perfection; believed by The Era of 23

Dec. 1882 to be then living. _Cumberland’s British theatre_,

_vol. xx_ (1828), _portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography_,

_iii_ 163–74 (1825), _portrait_.

LOVE, FREDERIC. _b._ 1816; homœopathic practitioner; in practice

in Paris 50 years, where he had many aristocratic and artistic

patients; was very active in the cholera outbreak of 1859. _d._

Paris 3 June 1891.

LOVE, HENRY OMMANNEY (1 son of commander Wm. Love 1764–1839).

_b._ 1 March 1793; entered navy 23 Dec. 1808; captain 5 Dec.

1837; retired admiral 3 July 1869; claimed to have suggested use

of paddles instead of wheels for steam vessels; sub-commissioner

of pilotage, Southampton; superintendent of lights for Isle of

Wight district; mayor of Yarmouth 3 times. _d._ Yarmouth, Isle

of Wight 16 Sep. 1872.

LOVE, HORATIO N. _b._ 1801; stock-jobber at 2 Capel court,

City of London 1847; chairman of Eastern counties railway co.

1857–63. _d._ Margate 14 March 1882.

LOVE, SIR JAMES FREDERICK (son of John Love). _b._ London 1789;

ensign 52 foot 26 Oct. 1804; captain 11 July 1811, placed on

h.p. 11 Aug. 1825; served in Sweden and Portugal 1808, in the

retreat from Corunna 1809, in Portugal again 1809–12; received

4 wounds in the famous charge of the 52nd on the imperial guard

at Waterloo; inspecting field officer of militia, New Brunswick

1825–30; major 11 foot 9 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 76 foot 6 Sep.

1834; lieut.-col. 73 foot 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 23 Sep.

1845; British resident at Zante 1835–8; governor of Jersey

1852–6; commanded at Shorncliffe camp 1856; inspector general of

infantry 1857 to April 1862; col. of 57 foot 24 Sep. 1856 to 5

Sep. 1865; col. of 43 foot 5 Sep. 1865 to death; general 10 Aug.

1864; K.H. 1831; C.B. 30 March 1839, K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B.

28 March 1865. _d._ 17 Ovington sq. London 13 Jany. 1866.

LOVE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1795; a pit boy in the capacity of a trapper,

a hewer; owner of a large number of collieries both in the

eastern and western coal fields; built and endowed many chapels,

built a chapel at High Shincliffe near Durham at cost of £1000;

member of Methodist New Connexion. _d._ near Durham 21 Feb.

1875, personalty sworn under £1,000,000, 17 April 1875.

LOVE, WILLIAM EDWARD (son of a merchant in the City to 1812).

_b._ London 6 Feb. 1806; ed. at Harlow in Essex and at Nelson

house, Wimbledon; commenced practising ventriloquism 1818;

connected with London journalism 1820–6; appeared for a benefit

at Olympic theatre in a solo entertainment entitled The False

Alarm 1826; performed in England and France 1827, in Dublin

1828; produced The peregrinations of a polyphonist, June 1849,

with which he visited chief towns in England; opened at Oxford

with a piece called Ignes Fatui 1833; played at Almack’s 1833,

at City of London assembly rooms, Bishopsgate st. during summer

seasons of 1834–8; appeared on alternate nights at St. James’s

theatre and in the City 1836; visited United States, West Indies

and South America 1838; played at Strand theatre and 6 other

places in London 1839–54; produced the ‘London Season’ at 69

Quadrant, Regent st. London 26 Dec. 1854, played there 8 Feb.

1856 the 300th consecutive night and his 2,406th performance in

London; paralysed 1858, had a benefit at Sadler’s Wells; the

best English ventriloquist on record, played in upwards of 15

distinct entertainments, in which he assumed various characters

making rapid changes of his dress. _d._ 33 Arundel st. Strand,

London 16 March 1867. _Memoirs of W. E. Love_ (1834); _G.

Smith’s Memoirs of Mr. Love, Boston, U.S._ (1850); _Ireland’s

New York Stage_, _ii_ 273, 317 (1867); _I.L.N. 25 March 1843 p._

215, _portrait_, _27 Jany. 1855 p._ 84, _portrait_.

LOVEDAY, Ely. _b._ 1800; an actress 1817; played leading

business with Edmund Kean, Elton, Liston and Macready; saw the 4

Kembles, Stephen, John, Charles and Mrs. Siddons play in Henry

VIII.; played at most of the London theatres, retired 1852;

(_m._ W. Loveday an actor at Drury Lane theatre). _d._ 11 Nov.

1892. _bur._ Kensal Green 15 Nov.

LOVEDAY, GEORGE BEAUMONT (son of the preceding). _b._ 1833;

fiddler, dramatic manager, operatic entrepreneur; with his

brother Henry J. Loveday introduced Faust in English; known

as The Prince because of his good looks; acting manager and

confidential adviser to J. L. Toole 1867–87; (_m._ 25 Jany. 1877

Annie only dau. of John Dickey Creelman, she was known on the

stage as Annie Tremaine and later on as Madame Amadi). _d._ 8

Woburn place, London 21 Dec. 1887. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery

24 Dec. _J. Hatton’s Reminiscences of J. L. Toole 3 ed._ (1889)

30–4.

LOVEDEN, PRYSE (son of Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, Cardigan, _d._

1849). _b._ Woodstock 1 June 1815; M.P. Cardigan district of

boroughs 1849 to death; resumed by r.l. original name of Loveden

1849. _d._ Glo’ster hotel, 76 Piccadilly, London 1 Feb. 1855.

LOVELACE, AUGUSTA ADA KING, Countess of (only child of George

Gordon, 6 baron Byron, the poet 1788–1824). _b._ 13 Piccadilly

terrace, London 10 Dec. 1815; last seen by her father when she

was only one month old; some of her hair sent to her father at

Pisa, Nov. 1821; he alludes to her in Childe Harold, canto 3,

line 2, as Ada sole daughter of my house and heart; translated

and edited with notes, Sketch of the analytical engine invented

by Charles Babbage, esq. By L. F. Menabrea, Turin. Signed A.

A. L. in R. Taylor’s Scientific memoirs, iii 666–731 (1843);

corresponded with Andrew Crosse on electricity, &c. 1841–2;

(_m._ at Fordhook, her mother’s residence, 8 July 1835 William

King 8 baron King and Ockham 4 June 1833, cr. earl Lovelace 30

June 1838). _d._ 6 Great Cumberland place, London 27 Nov. 1852.

_bur._ Hucknall Torcard church near her father. _monu._ placed

in Newstead abbey, Aug. 1863. _Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xxxiii_

69–73 (1853), _portrait_; _Argosy 1 Nov. 1869 pp._ 358–61;

_Finden’s Portraits of female aristocracy_ (1849) _vol. ii_,

_portrait_ 21; _Journal of Statistical Soc. xxxiv_ 414 (1871);

_Moore’s Life of Byron_ (1846) 290, 720; _I.L.N. xxi_ 499

(1852); _G.M. Jany. 1853 pp._ 89–90.

NOTE.--The third book of Childe Harold written in 1816 begins and

concludes with lines addressed to Byron’s daughter and she is again

spoken of in the verses Fare thee well, 17 March 1816.

LOVELL, EDWARD BOURNE. Barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; author of

Chancery orders 1850 with cases decided 1850; Index to the

stamp duties arranged analytically 1850; Digest of law cases,

statutes, &c. 1850–54, 4 vols. 1852–5. _d._ Godshill, Isle of

Wight 28 July 1883 aged 78.

NOTE.--He was also author of The joint-stock companies’ winding-up acts

1848–1849 with notes, published by Wildy, Dec. 1849. Stevens and Norton

obtained an injunction against Wildy in the Vice-Chancellor’s court 1

Feb. 1850, Lovell having made use of a great deal of matter previously

printed in J. M. Ludlow’s Joint-stock companies’ winding-up act 1848

published by Stevens and Norton 1 Dec. 1848, Wildy was obliged to give

up all the copies of the pirated book and pay the costs about £250,

which sum Wildy recovered against Lovell in the court of Common Pleas

29 Nov. 1853. _Law Journal Reports n.s. xix pt._ 1 _pp._ 190–3 (1850);

_Law Times 3 Dec. 1853 p._ 106.

LOVELL, EDWIN (youngest son of Joseph Lovell Lovell of Chilcote

manor, solicitor). _b._ 7 May 1808; ed. at Eton 1823; solicitor

at Wells 1831 to death; clerk of peace for Somerset 13 Aug. 1846

to death; registrar of Wells county court 1847 to death; member

of the order of The Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother

Glastonbury 23 Sep. 1835. _d._ Sharcombe house, Dinder near

Wells 21 May 1877. _Wright’s The Blue Friars_ (1889) 97, 218,

_portrait_.

LOVELL, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ 1804; secretary of Phœnix Insurance

Co. 1850 to death; author of the following plays, The Avenger,

produced at Surrey theatre 1835; The provost of Bruges, at Drury

Lane 10 Feb. 1836; Love’s sacrifice or the rival merchants,

Covent Garden 12 Sep. 1842; Look before you leap, Haymarket 29

Oct. 1846; The wife’s secret, purchased by Charles Kean for £400

before it was written, produced at Park theatre, New York 12

Oct. 1846, and at Haymarket 17 Jany. 1848 when it ran 36 nights

and has since kept the stage; The trial of love, Princess’s 7

Jany. 1852, ran 23 nights; published a novel called The Trustee

3 vols. 1841. _d._ 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 13 May 1878.

_I.L.N. lxii_ 533 (1878), _portrait_.

LOVELL, JOHN. _b._ Farnham, Surrey 1836; reporter and sub-editor

on Sheffield Times and Birmingham Daily Post; editor of

Cassell’s Mag. 1868; manager of Press Association 1869–80, a

director, chairman of finance committee; a founder and editor of

the Printing Times, Jany. 1873; editor of the Liverpool Mercury

1880 to death; the best known journalist on the English press.

_d._ 17 Gambier ter. Liverpool 20 Feb. 1890. _Sell’s World’s

Press_ (1891) 82, _portrait_; _London Figaro 1 March 1890 p._

12, _portrait_; _Academy_, _i_ 152 (1890).

LOVELL, JOHN WILLIAMSON. _b._ 1824; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 June 1841,

col. 3 Aug. 1872 to death; surveying in Turkey 1854; present at

battles of Alma and Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; commander

of R.E. at Chatham; L.G. 5 Jany. 1869; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._

Halifax, Nova Scotia 24 April 1880.

LOVELL, SIR LOVELL BENJAMIN (eld. son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock

of Little Missenden hall, Bucks.) _b._ 1786; ed. at Eton; cornet

14 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1805, captain 12 Dec. 1811; served in

Peninsular war 1809–14 for which he received Peninsular medal

with 11 clasps; major 8 hussars 28 Oct. 1824, placed on h.p. 21

Nov. 1828; lieut.-col. 15 hussars 21 March 1834, placed on h.p.

8 March 1850; col. of 12 lancers 29 Nov. 1856 to death; L.G. 1

April 1860; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; assumed surname of

Lovell 10 April 1840. _d._ Brunswick terrace, Brighton 11 March

1861.

LOVELL, MARIA ANNE (dau. of Willoughby Lacy, patentee of Drury

Lane, _d._ 1831). _b._ London 15 July 1803; appeared as Mrs.

Haller at Belfast 1818; acted Belvidera in Venice preserved, at

Covent Garden 9 Oct. 1822; excelled in pathetic parts; (_m._

1830 George William Lovell 1804–78 when she retired from the

stage); wrote Ingomar the barbarian, Drury Lane, June 1851,

revived by Mary Anderson, Lyceum 1 Sep. 1883; The beginning

of the end, Haymarket 27 Oct. 1855. _d._ 18 Lyndhurst road,

Hampstead 2 April 1877. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses_, _i_

250–5 (1855).

LOVELL, WILLIAM STANHOPE (brother of Sir Lovell B. Lovell

1786–1861). _b._ about 1788; entered navy May 1799; present in

battle of Trafalgar; captain 21 Aug. 1815, retired 1 Oct. 1846;

assumed name of Lovell 1840; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; K.H. 25

Jany. 1836; author of Personal narrative of events from 1799 to

1815, 2 ed. 1879. _d._ Great Yarmouth 20 May 1859.

LOVER, SAMUEL (eld. son of a member of the Dublin stock

exchange). _b._ Dublin 24 Feb. 1797; a portrait painter,

especially in miniatures to 1844; member of Royal Hibernian

academy 1828, secretary 1830; wrote Rory O’More 1826, best known

of his ballads; his miniature of Paganini exhibited at Dublin

academy 1832 and at R.A. London 1833; removed to London 1835;

wrote The Olympic picnic for Madame Vestris 1835; published Rory

O’More, a national romance 1837, his dramatised version of which

was acted at Adelphi theatre Oct. 1837 and ran over 100 nights;

composed a musical drama The Greek Boy, of which he wrote

both music and words, Covent Garden 1838; his burlesque opera

Il Paddy Whack in Italia was produced at English opera house

1838; produced his own entertainment called Irish Evenings, at

Princess’s Concert Rooms, March 1844 and in Canada and U.S.

of America 1846–8; produced an entertainment called Paddy’s

Portfolio, in London 1848; wrote the libretti of two operas

for Balfe; his drama the Sentinel of the Alma was produced at

Haymarket theatre; author of Legends and stories of Ireland

1831; Songs and Ballads 1839; Handy Andy 1842; L. S. D. 1844,

new ed. under title of Treasure Trove 1844; Rival rhymes in

honour of Burns. Collected and edited by Ben Trovato 1859, and

of many popular songs; granted civil list pension of £100, 4

March 1856. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 6 July 1868. _bur._ Kensal

Green cemet. London 15 July. _B. Bernard’s Life of Samuel Lover

2 vols._ (1874), _portrait_; _N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs 2 ed._

1851 _pp._ 196–9; _The Critic_, _xix_ 229 (1859), _portrait_;

_I.L.N. iv_ 208 (1844), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii_

196, _portrait_.

LOVESY, CONWAY WHITHORNE (2 son of Conway Whithorne Lovesy of

Charlton Kings, Gloucs.) _b._ 6 April 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll.

Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; a

police magistrate in Trinidad 1871–3; a puisne judge of supreme

court of British Guiana 1873–8; author of The churchwarden’s

guide 8 ed. 1871; The law of arbitration between masters and

workmen 1867; The law of house invasion and defence 1879; edited

J. F. Archbold’s The practice of the court of quarter sessions 3

ed. 1869. _d._ Keynsham Bank, Cheltenham 15 Nov. 1885.

LOVETT, WILLIAM (son of William Lovett, master mariner,

drowned 1800). _b._ Church lane, Newlyn near Penzance 8 May

1800; apprenticed to a ropemaker; went to London 1821; worked

as a carpenter; employed in the first London co-operative

association; secretary of British Association for promoting

co-operative knowledge about 1830–4; joined National union of

the working classes 1831; opened a coffee house in Greville st.

Hatton Garden 1833 which failed; a founder of London Working

Mens’ Association, 6 Upper North place, Gray’s Inn road 16 June

1836; secretary of the general committee of trades of London

1838, drafted the bill known as the ‘Peoples Charter’ published

8 May 1838; secretary of the Chartist Convention 4 Feb. 1839;

tried at Warwick assizes for seditious libel 6 Aug. 1839 when

sentenced to 12 months imprisonment; bookseller at 183 Tottenham

court road 1840; manager of the school supported by the National

Association 1849–57; a member of working-class committee of

Great Exhibition 1850; a teacher of anatomy in St. Thomas,

Charterhouse schools and in Richardson’s gr. sch. Gray’s Inn

road 1857; author of A proposal for the considerations of the

friends of progress 1847; Elementary anatomy and physiology.

With lessons on diet 1851; Social and political morality 1853;

Woman’s mission 1856, a poem. _d._ 137 Euston road, London

8 Aug. 1877. _bur._ Highgate. _The life and struggles of W.

Lovett_ (1876); _The trial of W. Lovett 2 ed._ (1839); _G. J.

Holyoake’s_ _History of Co-operation_, _i_ 127, _ii_ 411–13

(1875–9); _R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism_ (1854) 120

_etc._; _Who were the Chartists?_ in _Century Mag. xxiii_ 421–30

(1882), _portrait_.

LOW, ALEXANDER (son of James Low, farmer, Clatt, Aberdeen).

_b._ 1800; M.A. of Marischall coll. and univ. Aberdeen 3 April

1819; schoolmaster of Clatt 1825; presbyterian minister of

Keig, Banffshire 27 June 1834 to death; author of The history

of Scotland from the earliest period to the middle of the ninth

century 1826; Scottish heroes in the days of Wallace and Bruce 2

vols. 1856. _d._ in the manse of Keig 3 May 1873.

LOW, DAVID (son of a tradesman). _b._ Brechin, Forfarshire, Nov.

1768; ed. at Marischal college, Aberdeen; episcopal minister

at Pittenweem, Fifeshire, Sep. 1789 to death; bishop of united

dioceses of Ross, Argyll and the Isles 1819 to 19 Dec. 1850,

consecrated 14 Nov. 1819; LL.D. Aberdeen, April 1820; chief

founder of Gaelic Episcopal Society 1831; the diocese of Moray

was added to his diocese July 1838, he effected separation of

Argyll and the Isles from Ross and Moray 1847 and endowed the

new see with £8,000; D.D. Hartford and Geneva in state of New

York 1848; _d._ The priory, Pittenweem 26 Jany. 1855. _M. F.

Conolly’s Biographical sketch of David Low_ (1859), _portrait_;

_W. Blatch’s Memoir of D. Low_ (1855); _Conolly’s Biog. Dict. of

Fife_ (1866) 299–305.

LOW, DAVID (eld. son of Alexander Low of Laws, Berwickshire,

land-agent). _b._ 1786; ed. at Perth academy and univ. of

Edinb.; assisted his father on his farms; settled in Edinburgh

1825; edited Quarterly Journal of agriculture 1828–32; professor

of agriculture in univ. of Edinb. 1831–54, the agricultural

museum was founded at cost of £3,000 of which he gave £1,200,

1833; author of Observations on the present state of landed

property 1823; Elements of practical agriculture 1834, 4 ed.

1843, translated into French and German; The breeds of the

domestic animals of the British Islands 2 vols. 1842, translated

into French 1842; An inquiry into the nature of the simple

bodies of chemistry 1844, 3 ed. 1856. _d._ Mayfield, Edinburgh

7 Jany. 1859. _Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 717–8 (1863);

_Grant’s Univ. of Edinburgh_, _ii_ 457 (1884).

LOW, HERBERT MOREY (son of Edwin Low of city of London,

solicitor). _b._ 1852; partner with his father 1877 to death;

originated the City Law library and reading room at 25 Abchurch

lane 1888; hon. sec. of London Gregorian choral assoc. many

years. _d._ 110 Elgin crescent, Notting hill, London 1 Jany.

1891.

LOW, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1811; ensign 25 Madras N.I. 25

June 1812; captain 46 N.I. 1826, major 23 Nov. 1839; retired

lieut.-col. 21 Nov. 1845; in civil charge of province of

Wellesley in the Straits Settlements many years; author of A

grammar of the T’hai or Siamese language. Calcutta 1828; A

dissertation on the soil and agriculture of Penang. Singapore

1836. _d._ 2 May 1852.

LOW, SIR JOHN (eld. son of Robert Low of Clatto near Cupar,

Fifeshire). _b._ Clatto 13 Dec. 1788; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ.

1802–3; entered Madras army 1804; lieut. 24 Madras N.I. 1807;

lieut. 1 N.I. 1816, captain 1820; major 17 N.I. 31 Dec. 1828;

lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1834–7, of 19 N.I. 1837–40, of 45 N.I.

1840–1, of 36 N.I. 1841–5; col. of 8 N.I. 26 March 1845 to 1848,

col. of 1 N.I. 1848 to death; general 18 Jany. 1867, placed

on retired list; resident at Bithoor near Cawnpore 6 years;

political agent at Jeypore 1825, at Gwalior 1830, resident at

Lucknow 1831–42; installed the king of Oude’s son on the throne

in place of a pretender 1838; governor general’s agent in

Rajpootana and comr. at Ajmere and Mhairwar 1848–52; resident at

Hyderabad 1852; member of supreme council of India 22 Sep. 1853

to 1858; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; G.C.S.I. 24 May

1873. _d._ Strathallan, Upper Norwood, Surrey 10 Jany. 1880.

_bur._ Kembach, Fifeshire. _I.L.N. lxxvi_ 85 (1880), _portrait_;

_Graphic_, _xxi_ 93 (1880), _portrait_.

LOW, SAMPSON (son of Sampson Low of Berwick st. Soho, London,

printer and publisher, _d._ 1800). _b._ London, Nov. 1797;

bookseller at 42 Lamb’s Conduit st. 1819 to 1847; manager of

The publishers’ circular, first number dated 2 Oct. 1837, which

became his property 1867; publisher with his eldest son at 169

Fleet st. 1847–52, at 47 Ludgate hill 1852, at 14 Ludgate hill

to 1867, at 188 Fleet st. 1867, retired from business 1875;

chief founder of Royal Society for protection of life from fire

1843; one of the chief American booksellers in London 1844–75;

published The British catalogue of books 1837–52. 1853; The

English catalogue of books 1835–80. 3 vols. 1864–82. _d._ 41

Mecklenburgh sq. London 16 April 1886. _Publishers’ Circular 1

May 1886 pp._ 431–3, _portrait_; _Bookseller 3 May 1886 pp._

418–20.

LOW, SAMPSON (eld. son of preceding). _b._ London 6 July 1822;

in business with his father 1847 to death; author of The

charities of London 1850, new editions 1854, 1862, 1863 and

1870. _d._ 41 Mecklenburgh sq. London 5 March 1871.

LOW, THOMAS BELL (son of David Low). _b._ Birkenhead 1855; went

to Otago, New Zealand 1873; one of the principal assistant

engineers in public works department Otago district, and

architect for the Middle Island 1878; employed in fortifying the

port and town of Dunedin 1885; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1886. _d._ in

the tropics while on a voyage to England 12 Sep. 1886. _Min. of

proc. of I.C.E. xci_ 450–51 (1888).

LOW, WALTER (son of a publisher). _b._ England 1843; publisher

and bookseller with his father in U.S. America; long connected

with the Messrs. Harpers of New York; attempted to throw himself

into the Thames but was diverted from his object by finding a

policeman was watching him 1872; committed suicide by taking a

quantity of paregoric at 1 Upper Gordon st. Euston sq. London 4

April 1872. _Times 8 April 1872 p._ 7.

LOW, WILLIAM. _b._ Rothesay, Bute 11 Dec. 1814; pupil of Peter

Macquiston, civil engineer Glasgow, then a partner with him to

1847; engaged under Brunel in construction of Great Western

railway; colliery engineer at Wrexham 1847 to about 1877; had

charge of the Vron colliery near Cefn, Denbighshire many years;

concerned in the Channel tunnel, issued a circular describing

his plans 1866, had an interview with Napoleon III. 1867,

purchased land at Dover and Calais for the enterprise, appointed

one of the engineers by sir Edward Watkin; surveyed and proposed

making an England and India railway 2,000 miles 1870; M.I.C.E.

Dec. 1867; author of Letter to Lord John Russell explanatory

of a financing system for extending railways in Ireland 1850.

_d._ 88 West Cromwell road, London 10 July 1886. _bur._ Brompton

cemet. where is monument.

LOWDER, CHARLES FUGE (eld. child of Charles Loder of Bath,

banker, _d._ 9 Sep. 1876 aged 83). _b._ 2 West Wing, Lansdowne

crescent, Bath 22 June 1820; ed. at King’s college school,

London, and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1845; C. of

Walton, Somerset 1843–4; chaplain to Axbridge workhouse 1845–6;

C. of Tetbury, Gloucs. 1846–51; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico,

London 1851–6; joined the mission at St. George’s-in-the-East

22 Aug. 1856, rented the Danish ch. at Wellclose sq.; hired a

house at Sutton, Surrey for penitents 1858; secured the site

of and raised funds for St. Peter’s, London Docks, consecrated

30 June 1866, C. in charge 1866 to death; a founder of the

Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament 4 Dec. 1862; always known

as ‘Father Lowder’; author of Ten years in the St. George’s

mission 1867; Twenty one years in the St. George’s mission

1877. _d._ Hotel Krone, Zell am See in the Austrian Tyrol 9

Sep. 1880. _bur._ Chislehurst churchyard 17 Sep. _Charles

Lowder, a biography. By the author of The life of St. Theresa_

(1882), _portrait_; _Church Portrait Journal_, _i_ 113 (1876),

_portrait_.

LOWDER, SAMUEL NETTERVILLE. _b._ 1812; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Nov.

1833, second commandant 5 Nov. 1864, commandant 23 Aug. 1866;

commanded marines on board the Arrogant in the Baltic 1854–5;

D.A.G. R.M. 1 July 1867 to 10 July 1872; employed on special

service in Mexico, commanded at occupation of Vera Cruz 1861–2;

aide-de-camp to the Queen 1862–8; general 2 Dec. 1877; good

service pension 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ 4 Manor road,

Forest Hill near London 4 June 1891.

LOWE, ABRAHAM. _b._ July 1771; midshipman Jany. 1791; engaged

in the Walcheren expedition 1809; employed in the Baltic 1810;

captain 7 June 1814; retired rear admiral 1 Oct. 1846. _d._

Cheltenham 10 April 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 513 (1854).

LOWE, ANN ELIZABETH (daughter of Mauritius Lowe of 3 Hedge

lane, Charing Cross, painter, _d._ in a poor lodging house

in Westminster 1 Sep. 1793). _b._ 1777; god daughter of Dr.

Johnson; Dr. Johnson left her £100 stock 1784; received donation

of £100 from Lord Palmerston, May 1855; money raised by a public

appeal sufficient to purchase an annuity of £38, 1856. _d._ 5

Minerva place, New Cross, Deptford 15 Jany. 1860. The younger

sister Frances Meliora Lowe _b._ 1783, _d._ 5 Minerva place 6

Feb. 1866. Dr. Johnson’s fir table was left to the rev. A. K. B.

Granville and is now in the library of Pemb. coll. Oxf. _Times

1 and 3 Nov. 1855_; _Boswell’s Life of Johnson. A. Napier’s ed.

iv_ 385–93, 463 (1884).

LOWE, ARTHUR (3 son of rev. Thomas H. P. F. Lowe 1781–1861).

_b._ Corfton, co. Salop 26 July 1814; entered navy 25 April

1827; captain 30 Aug. 1845; V.A. 27 Feb. 1870, retired 1 April

1870; admiral 18 June 1876. _d._ 3 Wingfield villas, Stoke,

Devonport 18 Dec. 1882.

LOWE, EDWARD. _b._ Prague, Bohemia 1794; emigrated to England

about 1830; played a match with H. Staunton 1848; one of the

first class chess players of his time; kept a lodging house at

14 Surrey st. Strand 1851–8, kept a private hotel there 1858–64,

kept Royal Surrey hotel 14 and 15 Surrey st. 1864 to death. _d._

14 Surrey st. Strand, London 24 Feb. 1880. _The Figaro 10 March

1880 p._ 14; _The Chess-Monthly_, _April 1880 p._ 255.

LOWE, EDWARD WILLIAM. The first scholar in anatomy and

physiology at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 1846, house

surgeon 1847; M.R.C.S. 1847; practised at Congleton, Cheshire to

death; a certifying factory surgeon; contributed many papers to

medical journals. _d._ Moody st. Congleton 30 Oct. 1855 aged 31.

LOWE, EDWARD WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCY (youngest son of sir Hudson

Lowe 1769–1844, governor of St. Helena 1815–21). _b._ St. Helena

10 Feb. 1820; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 32 foot 20 May 1837,

lieut.-col. 26 Sep. 1858; served in second Sikh war 1848–9 and

in the Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. 2nd battalion of 21

foot 21 Oct. 1859, lieut.-col. 6 foot 31 March 1863, lieut.-col.

86 foot 1 Feb. 1867, placed on h.p. 6 March 1872; M.G. 31 March

1877; C.B. 24 March 1858; granted service reward 2 Nov. 1875;

author of An account of the defence of the residency Cawnpore

1860. _d._ 11 Upper Berkeley st. London 21 Oct. 1880.

LOWE, GEORGE (son of a brewer at Derby). _b._ Derby 1788; an

early experimenter on coal gas; one of the engineers of the

Chartered Gas Co. 1821, resigned on his full salary 1862;

consulting engineer to Imperial Continental gas assoc., to the

European gas co. and to the Dublin Alliance gas co.; A.I.C.E. 29

April 1823, M.I.C.E. 2 June 1829; produced Prussian blue from

ammoniacal liquor 1834; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; F.G.S.; patented

the reciprocating tort 12 Oct. 1831; took out many patents for

manufacturing and purifying gas and for machinery for gas works

1831–52. _d._ 9 St. John’s Wood park, London 25 Dec. 1868. _Min.

of Proc. I.C.E. xxx_ 442–5 (1870).

LOWE, JAMES. _b._ Coupar Angus 1809; came to Dundee 1824, an

auctioneer, a broker, kept a shoe shop; sec. of Dundee Political

union 1837; a violent chartist 1839; published the Police

Gazette, in which he abused all his opponents, Gazette stopped

by the Stamp office; ruined himself with drunkenness, reformed

1851, an advocate of temperance. _d._ Dundee 11 Nov. 1853.

_Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 153.

LOWE, JAMES. Editor of a newspaper at Preston; edited in London,

The Critic of literature, science and the drama 1843–63;

contributed to The Field and The Queen; one of the secretaries

of Acclimatisation society founded 10 June 1860; projected a

Selected series of French literature. Translated and edited by

himself, vol. 1 only published 1853 containing part of Madame de

Sévigné’s Correspondence; translated Victor Schoelcher’s Life of

Handel 1857, 2 ed. 1859; exposed and was the means of causing

Lord Palmerston to withdraw the civil list pension of £50 from

the poet John Close about 3 June 1861, Close _d._ 16 Feb. 1891

aged 74. Lowe _d._ end of Oct. 1865.

LOWE, JAMES. Apprenticed to Edward Shorter a master mechanic

of city of London 2 Nov. 1813, ran away 1816 and made three

voyages in a whaling ship, when he returned to his master; a

mechanist and smoke-jack maker; patented a screw propeller

for ships 1838 and 1852; he was not the original inventor of

propellers, but was inventor of a combination never before

applied to propulsion of vessels; his daughter Henrietta

Vansittart patented the Lowe-Vansittart propeller 1868 which

was fitted to many government ships; run over by a wagon and

killed in the Blackfriars road, London 12 Oct. 1866. _History of

the Lowe-Vansittart propeller. By Mrs. H. Vansittart_ (1882);

_Mechanics’ Mag. xli_ 443, 461 (1844).

LOWE, JOSIAH BEATSON. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar

1837; B.A. 1839, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1860; P.C. of St. Jude,

Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancs. 1850–75; V. of St. Michael, Toxteth

park, Liverpool 1875–80; R. of Yoxall near Burton-on-Trent 1880

to death; author of Lectures on the annual festivals of the Jews

1846; The history of the cross practically considered 1849;

Inspiration a reality: a reply to Macnaught’s doctrine 1856; The

controversy with modern scepticism practically considered 1879.

_d._ Yoxall rectory 25 June 1893.

LOWE, PATRICK. _b._ 1769; a private in 52 regiment of foot;

formed one of the forlorn hope at Badajoz where he personally

captured the governor of that fortress 6 April 1812 for which he

obtained a large reward; present at battle of Waterloo, had a

medal with 13 clasps. _d._ Enniskillen 3 Nov. 1852.

LOWE, RICHARD GROVE (son of rev. Jeremiah Lowe, minister of St.

Michael’s parish, St. Albans). Solicitor at St. Albans 1825 to

death; clerk to magistrates of liberty of St. Albans 1828 to

death; mayor of St. Albans 1832 and 1841; assessor of court of

requests, Watford 4 Oct. 1845 to 1847; coroner for St. Albans

district 1845 to death. _d._ St. Peter’s st. St. Albans 28 June

1872.

LOWE, RICHARD THOMAS. _b._ 4 Dec. 1802; ed. at Christ’s coll.

Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831, travelling bachelor; chaplain in

Madeira 1832–52; had a printed correspondence respecting his

chaplaincy 1846–51; R. of Lea, Lincolnshire 1852 to death;

author of Primitiæ faunæ et floræ Maderæ et Portus Sancti 1851;

A manual flora of Madeira, vol. 1, 1868, and part 1 of vol. 2,

1872, and of scientific papers in various periodicals; _drowned_

in the Liberia which foundered with all on board off the Scilly

Islands about 13 April 1874.

LOWE, ROBERT MANLEY (son of Wm. Lowe 1770–1849, of firm of J.

and W. Lowe, solicitors 2 Tanfield court, Temple, London). _b._

24 May 1810; ed. at Rugeley, Staffs. and at Harrow; admitted

solicitor 1833; senior partner in firm of R. M. and F. Lowe

1850–85; partner with his nephews Wm. R. L. Lowe and Dillon R.

L. Lowe 1885 to death; member of the vestry of St. Giles’ and

St. George’s, Westminster 40 years; author of Reminiscences of

the Lowtonian society which was founded by Thomas Lowton in

1793 for the protection of the legal profession. _d._ 48 Upper

Bedford place, Russell sq. London 29 Aug. 1891. _Solicitors’

Journal 24 Oct. 1891 p._ 819.

LOWE, THOMAS HILL PEREGRINE FURYE (eld. son of Thomas Humphrey

Lowe of Bromsgrove, Worcs., _d._ 10 Nov. 1797). _b._ Bromsgrove

21 Dec. 1781; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A.

1805, M.A. 1818; student Lincoln’s Inn 1804; C. of Shelsley,

Worcs.; chap. to viscount Gage 1812; V. of Grimley, Worcs.

1820–32; precentor of Exeter cath. 14 Sep. 1832 to 27 June 1839;

canon residentiary of Exeter 14 Sep. 1832 to death; R. of Holy

Trinity, Exeter 1837–40; dean of Exeter 27 June 1839 to death,

installed 2 Aug. 1839; V. of Littleham with Exmouth, Devon

1840–3; author of An essay on the absolving power of the church

1825; Poems, chiefly dramatic 1840; Sermons preached in the

cathedral church, Exeter 1841; Auricular confession, a sermon

1852, 2 ed. 1852, Bishop Phillpotts disapproved of this sermon.

_d._ the Deanery, Exeter 17 Jany. 1861.

LÖWENTHAL, JOHANN JACOB (son of a merchant). _b._ Buda-Pesth,

July 1810; one of the best analytical chess players in Europe

about 1841; expelled from Hungary after Kossuth’s fall 1849;

went to U.S. of America 1849 where he played against the

leading chess players 1849–51; resided in London 1851 to death;

won Manchester chess tournament 1857 and Birmingham tournament

1858; chess editor of The Illustrated News of the World and

of The Era; manager of the great London chess congress 1862;

edited The Chess player’s magazine 1865–7; secretary to the

St. George’s chess club 1852; pres. of St. James’s chess

club 1857–64; manager of British chess association 1865–9;

naturalised 3 Sep. 1866; member of Church of Rome; with G. W.

Medley edited The transactions of the British chess association

1866, 1867; edited A selection from the problems of the Era

problem tournament 1857; Morphy’s Games of chess 1860; Morphy’s

Games 1860. New York 1860; The Chess Congress of 1862. A

collection of games played 1864. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 20

July 1876. _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ 164 (1861),

_portrait_; _Fortnightly Review_, _Dec. 1886 p._ 754.

LOWER, MARK ANTHONY (2 son of the succeeding). _b._ Chiddingly,

Sussex 14 July 1813; kept schools at Cade st. parish of

Heathfield 1831–2, at Alfriston, Sussex 1832–5 and at Lewes

1835–67; chief founder of Sussex Archæological Soc. 1846,

hon. secretary; one of the headboroughs of Lewes 1860–1;

F.S.A. 13 Jany. 1853; author of Sussex, being a description

of every parish &c. Lewes 1831; English surnames 1842, 4 ed.

2 vols. 1875; Handbook for Lewes 1845, 3 ed. 1880; Chronicles

of Pevensey 1846, 3 ed. 1880; The worthies of Sussex. Lewes

1865. _d._ Enfield, Middlesex 22 March 1876. _bur._ St. Ann’s

churchyard, Lewes. _Henry Campkin’s Two Sussex archæologists_

(1877); _M. A. Lower’s Patronymica Britannica_ (1860),

_portrait_.

LOWER, RICHARD (son of John Lower of Alfriston, Sussex, barge

owner). _b._ Alfriston 19 Sep. 1782; opened a school in parish

of Chiddingly, Sussex about 1803; a land surveyor; author of Tom

Cladpole’s Jurney to Lunnon, told by himself and written in pure

Sussex doggerel by his uncle Tim 1830, 20,000 copies of this

were sold; Jan Cladpole’s Trip to Merricur, written all in rhyme

by his father Tim Cladpole 1844; Stray leaves from an old tree,

selections from the scribblings of an octogenarian 1862. _d._

High st. Tonbridge, Kent 29 Sep. 1865.

LOWNDES, JEFFERSON (eld. son of Jonathan Wm. Lowndes of Oxford).

_b._ 15 Jany. 1858; matric. at univ. of Oxf. 9 April 1875;

commoner Hertford coll. 1877; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1883; chaplain

of Derby school 1884–6; headmaster St. Kitt’s government

school, West Indies 1886–9; won the univ. sculls at Oxford

regatta 1878 and 1879; won the diamond sculls at Henley 1879–83;

stroke of the Hertford four which won the Steward’s cup at

Henley 1881 and beat the Cornell univ. boat next day; won the

Wingfield sculls amateur championship of the Thames 1881 and

1883; having suddenly gone blind, shot himself at North-Western

hotel, Liverpool 8 Aug. 1893. _Sporting Mirror_, _Jany. 1882

pp._ 205–7, _portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news_,

_xvii_ 444 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxviii_ 84 (1883),

_portrait_.

LOWNDES, WILLIAM LOFTUS (younger son of Richard Lowndes of Rose

hill, Dorking, Surrey). _b._ April 1793; barrister L.I. 6 Feb.

1819, bencher 1841 to death; Q.C. Nov. 1841; published W. P.

Williams’ Reports of cases in chancery, 6 ed. with references to

modern cases by W. L. Lowndes 1826. _d._ 48 Westbourne terrace,

London 6 April 1865.

LOWREY, DANIEL (son of parents who came from Roscrea, Tipperary,

to Leeds). _b._ 1823; an apprentice to a dyer at Leeds; a negro

comedian at Leeds; appeared as an Irish comedian at Victoria

concert hall, Ashton-under-Lyne many years; built The Malakoff

music hall, Liverpool about 1864; proprietor of The Nightingale

and The Man at the wheel concert halls, Liverpool to 1871;

built The Alhambra music hall, Belfast 1871, which when burnt

down he rebuilt; built the Star of Erin music hall and theatre

of varieties, Dublin, which he managed 1879 to death. _d._

Wentworth cottage, Trenure, Dublin 3 July 1889. _bur._ Glasnevin

cemetery 5 July.

LOWRIE, WALTER. _b._ Edinburgh 10 Dec. 1784; taken to the U.S.

of America 1792; a member of the legislature several years;

senator from Pennsylvania 6 Dec. 1819 to 3 March 1825; secretary

of the senate, U.S. 1825–37. _d._ New York 14 Dec. 1868.

LOWRY, JAMES CORRY (1 son of James Lowry of Rockdale, co.

Tyrone). _b._ 1809; called to Irish bar 1837; Q. C. 23 Feb.

1867; master of court of exchequer in Ireland, Sep. 1867 to

death. _d._ 42 Mountjoy square south, Dublin 20 June 1869.

LOWRY, JOSEPH WILSON (only son of Wilson Lowry, engraver

1762–1824). _b._ London 7 Oct. 1803; an engraver of scientific

subjects; executed plates for the Encyclopædia Metropolitana,

Phillipps’s Geology of Yorkshire 1835, Scott Russell’s Naval

Architecture 1865 Weale’s Scientific series, and Woodward’s

Manual of the mollusca 1866; engraver to Geological Survey of

Great Britain and Ireland to death; F.R.G.S.; exhibited 2 marine

views at R.A. and 2 at B.I. 1829–31; compiled and engraved

Tabular view of British fossils stratigraphically arranged,

1853. _d._ 39 Robert st. Hampstead road, London 15 June 1879.

_Nature_, _ii_ 197 (1879).

LOWRY, THOMAS KENNEDY. Ed. at Belfast academical institution,

and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D.

1857; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 4 July 1860; joint crown

prosecutor for counties of Armagh and Antrim to 6 March 1867;

a district judge in Jamaica 6 March 1867 to 1869; prothonotary

at Manchester for court of common pleas of duchy of Lancaster

1869 to death; edited The Hamilton manuscripts 1867; author of

Lowry’s Irish equity exchequer rules and practice 1838; joint

author with R. S. Moore, Q.C., of A collection of the rules and

orders of Queen’s bench common pleas and exchequer of pleas in

Ireland 1842. _d._ Ballytrim house, Killyleagh, co. Down 29 July

1872. _Irish law times_, _vi_ 439 (1872).

LOWTH, JOHN JACKSON. _b._ 1804; ensign 48 foot 3 July 1824;

ensign 38 foot 9 Sep. 1824, lieut.-col. 22 Dec. 1854 to death,

commanded his regiment in Crimean war. _d._ at Portsmouth one

hour after landing from the Crimea 28 July 1855.

LOWTH, ROBERT HENRY. _b._ 1801; ensign 9 foot 4 Feb. 1819;

captain 86 foot 14 Aug. 1830, lieut.-col. 10 Aug. 1855 to 24

Jany. 1860 when retired on full pay; M.G. 24 Jany. 1860; C.B. 28

Sep. 1858. _d._ Winchester 21 Dec. 1870.

LOWTHER, GORGES (1 son of Gorges Lowther of Lowther lodge,

Dublin, _d._ 1785). _b._ 1769; cornet 5 dragoon guards 31 May

1787; M.P. Ratoath, co. Meath in Irish parliament 1790 to the

Union 1800; sold his seat Kilrue, co. Meath; author of Brief

observations on the present state of the Waldenses and upon

their actual sufferings 1821; Gerald, a tale of conscience 2

vols. 1840; Abjurations from popery with introductory matter

on the errors of the church of Rome 1847. _d._ Hampton hall,

Somerset 23 Feb. 1854. _G.M. xli_ 535 (1854); _Proceedings in

King’s Bench in the King v. G. Lowther for libel on J. T. Batt_

1805.

LOWTHER, HENRY CECIL (2 son of 1 Earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844).

_b._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 27 July 1790; ed. at

Westminster; first played at Lord’s in B. Aislabie Esq.’s side

_v._ W. Ward Esq.’s side 15 June 1817; played in M.C.C. matches

several seasons; a steady batsman, a slow underhand bowler with

a twist; cornet 7 hussars 16 July 1807; lieut.-col. 12 foot

20 April 1817, placed on h.p. 25 June 1818; col. Cumberland

militia 10 Sep. 1830 to death; master of Cottesmore hounds; M.P.

Westmoreland 12 Oct. 1812 to death; styled ‘the father of the

House.’ _d._ Barleythorpe hall, Oakham, Rutland 6 Dec. 1867.

_Cricket Scores_, _i_ 399 (1862), _v p. xiii_ (1876); _Sporting

Review_, _lix_ 8 (1868).

LOWTHER, SIR JOHN HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir John Lowther,

1 Baronet 1759–1844). _b._ 23 March 1793; M.P. Cockermouth

1816–26, 1831–2; M.P. Wigtown 1826–30; contested York 1832 and

1833; M.P. city of York 1835–47; lieut.-col. 1 West Riding

militia 1830–52; succeeded 11 May 1844; sheriff of Yorkshire

1852. _d._ 9 Park st. Grosvenor square, London 23 June 1868.

LOWTHROP, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of James Lowthrop of Welton hall,

east riding of Yorkshire). _b._ Welton hall 1794; mayor of Hull

1840; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840. _d._ Nice 19

Dec. 1853.

LOY, JOHN GLOVER (son of Richard Loy, surgeon). _b._ Whitby

1774; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D.; in practice at Whitby

64 years; remarkable for his skill and strength of nerve in

performing operations; author of Disputatio medica inauguralis

de Phthisi. Edinb. 1800; An account of some experiments on the

origin of the cow pox. Whitby 1801, which attracted great notice

both in England and abroad. _d._ 8 Royal crescent, Whitby 4 Sep.

1865.

LOYD, LEWIS (eld. son of Wm. Loyd of Court Henry, co.

Carmarthen). _b._ 1 Jany. 1768; pastor of a small dissenting

chapel at Manchester; partner with his father-in-law John Jones

of Manchester, merchant and banker; managed the bank of Jones,

Loyd and Co. of Manchester and Lothbury, London from 1808. _d._

at his son’s seat, Overstone park, Northampton 13 May 1858, left

£3,000,000. _Bankers’ Mag. June 1858 p._ 499.

LUARD, HENRY (5 son of Peter John Luard of Blyborough hall,

Lincoln, captain 4 dragoons, _d._ 23 May 1836). _b._ 4 Dec.

1792; ledger keeper in a mercantile firm 1832; general manager

of London and County bank 1841–56, presented with a testimonial

of 3 silver salvers 19 Oct. 1853; director of London Life

association; deputy chairman of Southampton dock co. to 1841.

_d._ 1856. _Bankers’ Mag. Jany. 1854 pp._ 1–11, _portrait_;

_I.L.N. 5 Nov. 1853 p._ 382, _view of testimonial_.

LUARD, HENRY RICHARDS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ London

17 Aug. 1825; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Camb.

1843, scholar 1846–9, fellow 1849–60, junior bursar 1853–61,

assistant tutor 1855–65, 14th wrangler 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A.

1850, B.D. 1875, D.D. 1878; V. of Great St. Mary’s, Cambridge

1860–87; registrary of Univ. of Camb. Jany. 1862 to death,

and editor of 2 editions of Graduati Cantabrigienses 1873 and

1884; hon. fellow of King’s coll. London 1875; edited for the

Rolls Series, Lives of Edward the Confessor 1858; Bartholomæi

de Cotton Historia Anglicana 1859; Roberti Grosseteste Epistolæ

1861; Annales Monastici 5 vols. 1864–9; Matthew Paris, Historia

Major 7 vols. 1872–84; Flores Historiarum 1890; author of Index

to the catalogue of manuscripts in the University library,

Cambridge 1867, and of many memoirs of mediæval writers and

classical scholars in Dict. of Nat. Biog. vols. 1–32 (1885–92);

with W. G. Clark projected an edition of Shakespeare with the

variations of the quartos and folios and printed Act 1 of

Richard III. 1860, work afterwards completed by W. G. Clark

and W. A. Wright 9 vols. 1863–66. _d._ 4 St. Peter’s terrace,

Cambridge 1 May 1891, memorial clock placed in tower of Great

St. Mary’s church, Cambridge, Dec. 1892. _The Biograph_, _Feb.

1882 pp._ 140–2.

LUARD, JOHN (brother of Henry Luard 1792–1856). _b._ 5 May 1790;

served in R.N. 1802–7; cornet 4 dragoons 25 May 1809; lieut.

16 light dragoons 2 March 1815, captain 13 Dec. 1821, placed

on h.p. 17 Oct. 1834; lieut.-col. 30 foot 4 Aug. 1848 but sold

out same day; served in the Peninsula 1810–14 and was present

at Waterloo; served in India 1825, instructed his regiment in

the use of the lance and was the first to use it in the British

army, namely at Bhurtpoor 1825; published Views in India, St.

Helena and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone by

himself 1838; author of A history of the dress of the British

soldier 1852. _d._ The Cedars, Farnham, Surrey 24 Oct. 1875.

_Times 28 Oct. 1875 p._ 11, _2 Nov. p._ 7; _Graphic_, _xii_ 515,

518 (1875), _portrait_.

LUARD, JOHN DALBIAC (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Blyborough,

Lincs. 30 Oct. 1830; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 63 foot 22 Dec.

1848; ensign 82 foot 16 Feb. 1849, lieut. 3 Dec. 1852, sold out

13 Jany 1854; pupil of John Phillip, R.A.; spent the winter of

1855–6 in the Crimea; exhibited 4 pictures at the R.A. 1855–8;

his picture ‘The welcome arrival’ was engraved. _d._ Winterslow

near Salisbury 9 Aug. 1860. _The Critic_, _March 1861 pp._ 317–8.

LUARD, JOHN KYNASTON (3 son of John Luard of Wickham Place,

Essex). _b._ 1803; entered Madras army 1818; lieut. 6 Madras

N.I. 13 June 1819; captain 16 N.I. 21 July 1825, major 10 Oct.

1836 to 26 Aug. 1841; lieut.-col. of 2 N.I. 23 June 1841 to

1847, of 42 N.I. 1847–8, of 16 N.I. 1848–9, of 11 N.I. 1849–51,

of 25 N.I. 1851–2; commandant at Masulipatam 5 Feb. 1851 to 9

Dec. 1851, at Jaulnah 9 Dec. 1851 to 21 July 1854, at Saugor and

Nerbudda 21 July 1854 to 16 Oct. 1855; col. of 11 N.I. 24 March

1852 to 1869; general 25 June 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ 29

Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 18 Oct. 1880.

LUARD, RICHARD GEORGE AMHERST (eld. son of John Luard

1790–1875). _b._ 29 July 1827; ensign 51 foot 6 July 1845;

ensign 3 foot 11 Nov. 1845, captain 1852; major 62 foot 2 May

1865, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1865; D.A.A.G. in Crimea 30 June

1855 to 23 July 1856; assistant inspector of volunteers 1860–5;

col. Bristol engineer volunteer corps 7 Dec. 1881 to death; L.G.

1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 1 May 1890; C.B. 21 June

1887. _d._ Eastbourne 24 July 1891.

LUBBOCK, SIR JOHN WILLIAM, 3 Baronet (only child of sir John

Wm. Lubbock, 2 baronet 1774–1840). _b._ Duke st. Westminster

26 March 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825,

M.A. 1833; partner in bank of Lubbock and Co. London 1825,

sole working partner 1840–60 when firm became Robarts, Lubbock

and Co.; F.R.A.S. 1828, F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1829, royal medallist

1834, treasurer and vice pres. 1830–5 and 1838–45; fellow of

univ. of London 1836 to death, vice chancellor 28 Nov. 1836

to 15 June 1842; hon. M.I.C.E. 5 March 1839; a treasurer of

Great Exhibition of 1851; sheriff of Kent 1852; author of On

the theory of the moon and on the perturbation of the planets

11 parts 1833–61; An elementary treatise on the tides 1839;

On the clearing of the London bankers 1860. _d._ High Elms,

Farnborough, Kent 20 June 1865. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xv_ 32–7

(1867); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxv_ 510–2 (1866).

NOTE.--He was author with J. E. Drinkwater afterwards Drinkwater

Bethune of Probability 1830 a volume in the Library of Useful

Knowledge, this work was anonymous, but a binder chose to letter it as

De Morgan on Probability. Augustus De Morgan stated in a letter to the

Times that he could not in 15 years succeed in restoring the book to

its true authors.

LUBY, THOMAS (son of John Luby). _b._ Clonmel, co. Tipperary

1800; a sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar 1819, junior

fellow 1831, senior fellow 6 Nov. 1847 to death; B.A. 1821,

M.A. 1825, D.D. 1840; senior dean and lecturer of his college,

Donegal lecturer 1832–47; Regius professor of Greek, univ.

of Dublin 1852–5; M.R.I.A.; author of The elements of plane

trigonometry 1825, 3 ed. 1852; An introductory treatise to

physical astronomy 1828; edited J. Brinkley’s Elements of plane

astronomy. Dublin 1836. _d._ 43 Leeson st. Dublin 12 June 1870.

_bur._ Aberystwith. _Taylor’s History of university of Dublin

p._ 524.

LUCAN, GEORGE CHARLES BINGHAM, 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of

Lucan 1764–1839). _b._ St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 16 April

1800; ed. at Westminster; known as lord Bingham 1800–39; ensign

6 foot 29 Aug. 1816; lieut. 8 foot 20 Jany. 1820; capt. 1 life

guards 20 June 1822, major 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1825 and

lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1826, placed on h.p. 14 April 1837; served on

staff of Russian army in Bulgaria 1828; M.P. co. Mayo 1826–30;

lord lieut. of Mayo 1845; succeeded 30 June 1839; major general

in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1854; commanded a division

of cavalry as lieut. general in Russian war 18 Aug. 1854 to 18

Feb. 1855; present at the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and siege

of Sebastopol; recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb.

1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869; col. 8 light

dragoons 17 Nov. 1855; col. 1 life guards 22 Feb. 1865 to death;

general 28 Aug. 1865, field marshal 21 June 1887; elected an

Irish representative peer 1840; lord lieut. of Mayo 14 Feb. 1845

to death. _d._ 12 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1888.

_The drawing room portrait gallery 4 Ser._ (1860), _portrait_;

_Nolan’s Russian war_, _i_ 544–50, _ii_ 725 (1855), _portrait_;

_G. Ryan’s Our heroes_ (1855) 36–40; _I.L.N. 13 May 1854 pp._

429–30, _portrait_; _Graphic 24 Nov. 1888 pp._ 542, 544,

_portrait_.

NOTE.--At the battle of Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 Capt. Nolan brought the

earl of Lucan an order from Lord Raglan to advance against the Russians

and prevent them carrying away the guns. The exact meaning of the order

was not clear, but it led to the famous charge of the light brigade,

when out of 608 men only 198 returned. The earl of Lucan was recalled

from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855. _Kinglake’s Invasion of

the Crimea_, _ii_ 379, _iii_ 235, _iv_ 5, _v_ 3, _vii_ 471, _ix_ 354

(1877).

LUCAS, CHARLES (son of Wm. Lucas of Daventry). _b._ 1769;

matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 July 1786; C. of Avebury,

Wiltshire 1791–1816; resided at Devizes 1816 to death; author

of A descriptive account in verse of the old serpentine temple

of the Druids at Avebury 1795, 2 ed. 1801; The castle of St.

Donat’s, or the history of Jack Smith 3 vols. 1798; The infernal

Quixote, a tale of the day 4 vols. 1801; Joseph, a religious

poem 2 vols. 1810; The Abissinian (sic) reformer or the bible

and the sabre 1808. _d._ Devizes 1854.

LUCAS, CHARLES (son of Mr. Lucas of Salisbury, alderman).

_b._ Salisbury 28 July 1808; chorister in Salisbury cathedral

8 years; studied at R.A. of Music, conductor 1832, principal

1859–66; member of queen Adelaide’s private band 1830; associate

of Philharmonic Soc. 1835, member 1839, a director 1840–55

and 1864 to death; organist of Hanover chapel, Regent st.

1839; conductor of Choral harmonists society; member of firm

of Addison, Hollier and Lucas music publishers 1856 to June

1865; succeeded Robert Lindley as violoncello player at the

opera and leading festivals and concerts; composed an opera

The Regicide 1840; three symphonies, string quartets, anthems

and songs; edited Esther 1851 for Handel Soc. _d._ 9 Louvaine

road, Wandsworth, London 23 March 1869. _bur._ Woking cemet. 27

March. _Mag. of Music_, _Oct. 1890 p._ 183, _portrait_; _W. W.

Cazalet’s History of royal academy of music_ (1854) 306.

LUCAS, CHARLES. _b._ 1805; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 19 Dec.

1820; col. 18 Feb. 1861 to 26 April 1866; inspector of artillery

Bombay 1 Nov. 1862 to 29 April 1867; M.G. 26 April 1866. _d._ 44

Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 11 June 1873.

LUCAS, EDWARD (only child of Charles Lucas of Castle Shane,

co. Monaghan, _d._ 1796). _b._ 27 Sep. 1787; ed. at Harrow and

Ch. Ch. Oxf.; sheriff of co. Monaghan 1817; M.P. co. Monaghan

1834–41; under sec. of state for Ireland 15 Sep. 1841 to 21 Aug.

1845; P.C. Ireland 1845. _d._ Castle Shane, co. Monaghan 12 Nov.

1871. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_ (1846), _portrait_;

_I.L.N. lix_ 507 (1871).

LUCAS, FREDERICK (2 son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, corn-merchant

and a Quaker). _b._ Westminster 30 March 1812; ed. at Darlington

and London univ.; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; left the Soc.

of Friends and joined church of Rome being received by Father

Lythgoe of the Soc. of Jesus, Jany. 1839; started the Tablet 16

May 1840, a weekly R.C. newspaper which he removed to Dublin

1849, edited to his death; M.P. co. Meath 1852 to death; one of

secretaries of Irish tenant league 1850; contributed frequently

to Dublin Review; author of Reasons for becoming a Roman

Catholic, especially addressed to the society of Friends 1839.

_d._ at the residence of his brother in law Skidmore Ashby at

Staines 22 Oct. 1855. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 27 Oct. _Life of

F. Lucas. By his brother E. Lucas 2 vols._ (1886); _F. Lucas:

a biography. By C. J. Riethmüller_ (1862); _Duffy’s League of

North and South_ (1886) 330.

LUCAS, HORATIO JOSEPH (4 son of Louis Lucas, West India

merchant, _d._ 1862). _b._ London 27 May 1839; ed. at Brighton

and Univ. coll. London; pupil of F. S. Cary; member of the

Langham sketching club; exhibited 9 etchings at R.A. 1870–3;

exhibited at the Salon in Paris; contributed to various Black

and White exhibitions; a selection from his etchings is in the

print room, British Museum; a good musician; member of firm of

Lucas, Micholls and Co. merchants 13 New Broad st. London 1862

to death; illustrated A new year’s gift to sick children 1865.

_d._ 18 Dec. 1873. _Jewish Chronicle 26 Dec. 1873 p._ 654.

LUCAS, JAMES (2 son of James Lucas of Liverpool, West India

merchant, _d._ 1830). _b._ London 21 Dec. 1813; studied medicine

with Mr. Hicks of Whitwell near Hitchin, Herts.; inherited

family estate at Redcoats Green, Great Wymondley, Herts. on

death of his mother 24 Oct. 1849; he was so attached to his

mother that he deferred interment of her body until 12 Jany.

1850 when the burial was enforced; lived in the kitchen of his

residence, Elmwood house, Redcoats Green, used no furniture,

gave up washing and slept on a bed of cinders; gave money and

drink to all the tramps who passed by; retained two armed

watchmen for his protection; visited by lord Lytton, sir Arthur

Helps, John Forster and Charles Dickens who described him under

the name of Mr. Mopes in Tom Tiddler’s Ground in the Christmas

number of All the Year round 1861. _d._ of apoplexy at the house

of Mr. Chapman a farmer and his tenant near his own house 19

April 1874. _bur._ beside his mother in Hackney churchyard 21

April. _The history of the hermit of Hertfordshire. Hitchin_

(1874), _portrait_; _An account of Lucas the hermit. Hitchin_

(1874); _Journal of mental science_, _Oct. 1874 pp._ 361–72;

_Popular science monthly_, _vi_ 301 (1874); _Graphic_, _ix_ 480

(1874), _portrait_.

LUCAS, _John_ (son of William Lucas, sub-editor of The Sun

newspaper, London). _b._ London 4 July 1807; apprenticed to S.

W. Reynolds, mezzotint-engraver; a portrait-painter with a very

large practice; painted portraits of queen Adelaide, prince

Consort, princess Royal, duke of Wellington and many of the

court beauties; exhibited 96 portraits at R.A., 13 at B.I. and

8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–74; many of his portraits were

engraved, some of them by himself in mezzotint. _d._ 22 St.

John’s Wood road, London 30 April 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 473, 474

(1874), _portrait_.

LUCAS, JOHN TEMPLETON (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ London

1836; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 30 at

Suffolk st. gallery 1859–76; his farce Browne the Martyr

produced at Court theatre 20 Jany. 1872 and printed in Lacy’s

acting edition of plays vol. xcvi; author of fairy tales

entitled Prince Ubbely Bubble’s New story book 1871; and of

Edwin Landseer 1873, memorial verses. _d._ Whitby, Sep. 1880.

LUCAS, LOUIS ARTHUR (son of Philip Lucas of Manchester). _b._

22 Sep. 1851; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London;

travelled in U.S. of America 1872 and in Egypt 1873; organised

an expedition to explore the Congo, left London 2 Sep. 1875,

arrived at Khartoum Jany. 1876, left Khartoum April 1876;

went with colonel Gordon to the Albert Nyanza and navigated

northern part of the lake in the first steamboat ever launched

on it; returned to Khartoum Aug. 1876, reached Suakim 18 Nov.;

compiled a vocabulary of Bishareen words published in Journal of

Anthropological Institute, vi 191–4. _d._ in a steamboat between

Suakim and Suez 20 Nov. 1876. _bur._ Jeddah. _Proc. of Royal

Geog. Soc. xxi_ 418–21, 465; _Athenæum 9 Dec. 1876 p._ 766, _23

Dec. p._ 838.

LUCAS, MARGARET (youngest dau. of Jacob Bright and youngest

sister of John Bright, M.P.) _b._ Greenbank, Rochdale, Lancs. 14

July 1818; a total abstainer from 1834; (_m._ 1839 Samuel Lucas

1811–65, journalist); a Good Templar 1872, Grand Worthy Vice

Templar; visited U.S. of America 1870; engaged in the work of

Association for the abolition of state regulation of vice; one

of chief founders and president of British women’s temperance

association; visited U.S. of America 1886 to attend convention

at Minneapolis as president of the World’s Women’s temperance

union; advocated political enfranchisement of women, on public

platforms in Great Britain. _d._ 7 Charlotte st. Bedford sq.

London 4 Feb. 1890. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 7 Feb. _H. J. B.

Heath’s M. B. Lucas_ (1890), _portrait_.

LUCAS, PHILIP BENNETT. _b._ 1803; F.R.C.S.; practised at

Boulogne some years; author of A concise anatomical description

of the arteries of the human body 1836; A practical treatise on

the cure of strabismus or squint 1840. _d._ Pau, France 22 May

1856.

LUCAS, RICHARD COCKLE (son of Richard Lucas). _b._ Salisbury

24 Oct. 1800; apprenticed to his uncle a cutler at Winchester

1812; a sculptor with a good practice; executed statues of Dr.

Johnson at Lichfield, Dr. Watts at Southampton and sir R. C.

Hoare in Salisbury cath.; his medallion portraits in marble, wax

and ivory have much merit; exhibited 89 sculptures at R.A., 12

at B.I. and 61 at Suffolk st. 1829–59; sent ivory carvings and

imitation bronzes to Great Exhibition of 1851; produced a large

number of etchings; granted civil list pension of £150, 19 June

1865; author of Remarks on the pantheon 1845; The artist’s dream

realised, being a residence designed and built [at Chilworth

near Romsey] by R. C. Lucas, sculptor 1854, etched and described

1856; On the mausoleum of Halicarnassus 1859; An essay on art,

especially that of painting 1870. _d._ Chilworth near Romsey 18

Jany. 1883.

LUCAS, SAMUEL (brother of Frederick Lucas 1812–55). _b._

1811; partner in a cotton mill at Manchester 1845; joined the

anti-cornlaw league; a founder of Lancashire public schools

assoc. Aug. 1847; a corn merchant in London from 1850; managing

proprietor of The Morning Star daily paper 17 March 1856 to

1865; one of founders of the Emancipation Society for slaves

1862; author of Plan for the establishment of a general system

of secular education in the county of Lancaster 1847; edited

a vol. of essays entitled National education not necessarily

governmental, sectarian or irreligious 1850. _d._ 4 Gordon st.

Gordon sq. London 16 April 1865. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Fox

Bourne’s English Newspapers_, _ii_ 238, 271 (1887); _Morning

Star 17 April 1865 p._ 4.

LUCAS, SAMUEL (eld. son of Thomas Lucas of Bristol, merchant).

_b._ Bristol 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A.

1846; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1846; founder and editor of The

Press newspaper 1853; contributed reviews to The Times from

1855; edited Once a Week, June 1859 to 1865; projected and

edited The Shilling Magazine 1865 which ceased Dec. 1865; author

of The Sandwich Islands, a prize poem 1841; Charters of the old

English colonies in America 1850; Illustrations of the history

of Bristol and its neighbourhood 1853; Dacoitee in excelsis,

or the spoliation of Oude 1857, anon.; Eminent men and popular

books, from the Times 1859, anon.; Biography and criticism from

the Times 1860, anon.; Secularia or surveys on the mainstream

of history 1862; edited Thomas Hood’s Poems 2 vols. 1867. _d._

Eastbourne 27 Nov. 1868. _Newspaper Press_, _iii_ 38 (1869).

LUCAS, SAMUEL (2 son of Wm. Lucas). _b._ Hitchin, Herts. 1805;

ed. Friends’ committee school, Fishponds, Bristol; apprentice

at Southwick and Harris’ wharf, Wapping: an auditor of Great

Northern railway; partner in a provision house in London; a

brewer and maltster at Hitchin to death; clerk to quarterly

meeting at Hitchin; painter of landscapes, animals and flowers

in oil and water colours; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 4

at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1830–61; some of his drawings

of flowers were engraved in The Florist. _d._ 29 March 1870.

_Biographical catalogue of Friends_ (1888) 440–3.

LUCE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Luce). _b._ Weymouth 1790; M.P.

Malmesbury 1852–9; a director of the Bank of London. _d._

Malmesbury 6 Aug. 1875.

LUCENA, LORENZO. _b._ 1806; ed. coll. of St. Pelagio in univ.

of Seville, professor of theology there 8 years and provisional

president 3 years; minister of a protestant congregation of

Spaniards at Gibraltar on appointment by S.P.C.K.; hon. canon

of Gibraltar cathedral 1842–60; reader in Spanish language and

literature in the Taylor institute, Oxford 1858 to death; cr.

M.A. of univ. of Oxf. 5 June 1877; assisted in preparing new ed.

of Spanish Bible founded on Cipriano de Valera’s text, Oxford

1862. _d._ Oxford 24 Aug. 1881.

LUCET, JOACHIM SIMEON. _b._ 1797; professor de belles lettres;

author of Langue Française. Simples notes grammaticales 1843.

_d._ 49 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 11 April 1855.

LUCETTE, CATHERINE. Made her first appearance at theatre royal,

Plymouth; first seen in London at Drury Lane as Susan in William

and Susan 28 Feb. 1859; appeared at Metropolitan theatre, New

York as Pauline in Delicate Ground 23 May 1859; with her husband

M. Price had a drawing room entertainment at Brooklyn, New York

25 Aug. 1868; played Ariel in the Tempest at Grand Opera house,

New York 1869; toured for some years in North of England playing

Leonie in The Sutler Girl; _m._ (1) Morton Price, actor whose

right name was Horton Rhys _d._ 8 May 1876 aged 52; _m._ (2)

Charles Medwin. She _d._ 20 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Norwood cemetery.

_Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 226, 243.

LUCKRAFT, ALFRED. _b._ 2 April 1792; entered navy Jany. 1801;

present at Trafalgar 1805, was in the trenches 12 days besieging

Morea Castle in the Peloponnesus Oct. 1828, obtained insignia of

legion of honor and of Redeemer of Greece; retired admiral 10

Sep. 1869. _d._ Eastney barracks, Portsmouth 15 Oct. 1871.

LUCY, CHARLES. _b._ Hertford 1814; studied under Delaroche in

Paris and at the R.A.; copied old masters at the Hague and

Paris; lived at Barbizon near Fontainebleau 16 years; obtained

a premium of £200 at Westminster hall competition 1847 for his

painting of The departure of the primitive puritans to the coast

of America, A.D. 1620; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I.

and 7 at Suffolk st. 1838–73; instructor at a drawing school in

Camden Town many years; chairman of committee of new British

Institution; painted a series of portraits of eminent men for

sir Joshua Walmesley who bequeathed them to the South Kensington

museum. _d._ 13 Ladbroke crescent, Notting Hill, London 19 May

1873. Anne Lucy his widow granted civil list pension of £70, 24

Nov. 1881. _I.L.N. lxii_ 544 (1873).

LUCY, HENRY SPENCER (2 son of George Lucy, M.P. 1798–1845). _b._

28 Nov. 1830; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 May 1850; sheriff of

Warwickshire 1857; succeeded on death of his brother William

1 July 1848; kept harriers and hunted the borders of Warwick,

Worcester and Gloucester; master of the Warwickshire hounds

1866, hunted 5 days a week; resided at Chalcote park, Warwick.

_Baily’s Mag. xxvi_ 373–5 (1875), _portrait_.

LUCY, WILLIAM WOOTTEN. _b._ 1802; bookseller at Marlborough

from 1829; postmaster Marlborough 1829–69; mayor of Marlborough

twice. _d._ Marlborough 16 Nov. 1869. _The Marlborough Times 20

Nov. 1869 p._ 4.

LUDLAM, HENRY. _b._ 14 Oct. 1824; a land surveyor; engaged in

commercial pursuits; made one of the finest private collections

of minerals in the kingdom; he bequeathed his collections which

included those made by Charles H. Turner and Wm. Nevill, to the

Museum of practical geology in Jermyn st. London; F.G.S., F.M.S.

_d._ 174 Piccadilly, London 23 June 1880. _Quarterly Journal of

Geol. Soc. xxxvii_ 47 (1881).

LUDLOW, EBENEZER (son of Ebenezer Ludlow of Chipping Sodbury,

Gloucester). _b._ 1777; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1795,

M.A. 1821; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1805; town clerk of Bristol

22 July 1819, resigned 1836 on pension of £533; serjeant at

law 25 June 1827; comr. of bankruptcy for Liverpool district

21 Oct. 1842 and for Bristol district 1849 to death; chairman

of Gloucestershire quarter sessions, April 1842 to 1849. _d._

Almondsbury near Bristol 25 March 1851. _G.M. xxxv_ 666 (1851).

LUDLOW, JOHN. _b._ 16 May 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school;

entered Bengal army 1818; lieut. 3 Bengal N.I. 15 Aug. 1820;

captain 6 N.I. 1 April 1829, major 20 Dec. 1843 to 6 April 1850;

lieut.-col. of 12 N.I. 6 April 1850, of 9 N.I. 7 June 1853, of

36 N.I. 1854 to 9 Aug. 1854 when he retired with rank of M.G.

_d._ Yotes court, Kent 30 Nov. 1882.

LUDLOW-BRUGES, WILLIAM HEALD (eld. son of Benjamin Pennell

Ludlow of Melksham, Wilts.) _b._ Melksham 1796; ed. Queen’s

coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821;

member of chancery bar, retired 1826; recorder of Devizes 7 June

1833 to 1844; chairman of north Wiltshire quarter sessions; M.P.

Bath 1837–41; M.P. Devizes 28 July 1847 to Feb. 1848 when he

retired; took additional name of Bruges by r.l. 1835. _d._ Sund,

Wilts. 25 Sep. 1855.

LUKE, JAMES. _b._ 1799; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1843,

president 1853 and 1862, Hunterian orator; lecturer on anatomy

London hospital 1823, assist. surgeon 1827, a principal surgeon

1833 and consulting surgeon 1861; adopted an improved operation

for hernia, which has saved many lives 1841; retired from

practice and resided at Woolley lodge, Maidenhead; contributed

to Medical Gazette 1841 &c., Proc. R. Med. and Chir. Soc. 1843

&c. and to The Lancet 1845 &c.; F.R.S. 7 June 1855. _d._ Fingest

grove, Wycombe, Bucks. 15 Aug. 1881. _Lancet_, _ii_ 360 (1881);

_Barker’s Eminent medical men_, _i_ 27–30 (1865), _portrait_.

LUMB, HENRY. Attorney at Wakefield, Yorkshire 1798 to death;

deputy steward of manor of Wakefield many years; presented by

his brother solicitors with his full-length portrait 14 Dec.

1859. _d._ 22 Feb. 1862 aged 87. _Law Times 24 Dec. 1859 p._ 156

_and 19 April 1862 p._ 323.

LUMLEY, BENJAMIN (son of Louis Levy a Jewish merchant of Canada,

_d._ London about 1831). _b._ 1811; ed. at Birmingham gr.

sch.; assumed name of Lumley; solicitor at 42 Chancery lane,

London, Nov. 1832, at 6 Quality court 1833–9; a parliamentary

agent in Parliament st. 1837–42; superintended finances of Her

Majesty’s theatre for Laporte 1836–41, manager of the theatre

1842–52 and 1856–8, the famous pas de quatre was danced there

by Taglioni, Cerito, Lucile Grahn and Rosati 1845; Sir Michael

Costa seceded from Her Majesty’s in 1847 with Mario, Grisi and

greater part of the orchestra; Jenny Lind sang at Her Majesty’s

1847–9, Sontag in 1851; managed the Italian opera house in Paris

1850 to 2 Dec. 1851; purchased lease of Her Majesty’s 1845,

which in 1856 he assigned to lord Ward, being in debt to him;

gave up the theatre 10 Aug. 1858 being unable to pay the rent;

bankrupt 3 Nov. 1862, discharged 22 Jany. 1863; four benefit

performances were given him at Her Majesty’s 1863; produced 30

Italian operas new to England 1842–58; parliamentary agent at 22

Sackville st. Piccadilly 1864 to death; author of Parliamentary

practice on passing private bills through the House of Commons

1838; Sirenia, a fantastic account of the life of sirens in

their retreats, their origin, mission and pursuits 1862, anon.;

The earl of Dudley, Mr. Lumley and Her Majesty’s theatre, a

narrative of facts 2 ed. 1863; Reminiscences of the opera 1864;

Another world, or fragments from the star city of Montallagal.

By Hermes 1873, 3 ed. 1873. _d._ 8 Kensington crescent, London

17 March 1875. _bur._ West Ham cemet. _I.L.N. iii_ 124 (1843)

_portrait_, _iv_ 237 (1844) _portrait_, _xi_ 96 (1847) _view of

testimonial_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _ii_ 622 (1875).

LUMLEY, WILLIAM GOLDEN. _b._ 1802; ed. at Christ’s hospital and

Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb.; fellow of Trin. hall 1825,

LL.B. 1825, LL.M. 1859; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; a revising

barrister under the reform act 1832; professor of English law

in univ. of London 1834–38; reported for the Law Journal 1835;

secretary of poor law board 23 April 1839 to 17 Feb. 1847;

assistant sec. local government board 18 Dec. 1847 to 19 Aug.

1871; Q.C. 8 Dec. 1868; counsel to local government board 1872;

author of The law of annuities and rent charges 1833; The law

of parochial assessments explained 1844, 7 ed. 1882; Manual

of duties of poor law officers, medical officer 1849, 3 ed.

1871; The poor law election manual 1855, 5 ed. 1886; The union

assessment committee act 1862, 10 ed. 1881; The local board

election manual 1869, 4 ed. 1886; An essay on bye-laws 1877.

_d._ 10 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 8 May 1878. _Law

Times_, _lxv_ 110 (1878); _Solicitors’ Journal xxii_ 565 (1878).

LUMSDEN, JAMES (son of James Lumsden, engraver and stationer).

_b._ 43 Argyll street, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1778; apprentice to his

father, a partner in the business 1799; a patron of Horatio

MacCulloch and sir Daniel Macnee artists, and of Dugald Moore

poet; lord provost of Glasgow 1843–45; president of Incorporated

company of stationers, Glasgow 1815, 1822 and 1830; a founder

of the Clydesdale bank 1838; founded a bursary in Glasgow univ.

1856; issued The Glasgow commercial memorandum book 1816, an

annual; author of American memoranda by a Mercantile Man 1844,

preface signed J.L. _d._ St. Vincent st. Glasgow 16 May 1856.

_W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men_, _ii_ 179–81 (1886),

_portrait_; _The Glasgow Herald 19 May 1856 p._ 6.

LUMSDEN, JAMES. _b._ 1811; minister of Inverbrothock to 1838;

minister of Barrie 1838–43; joined the Free secession 1843;

professor of divinity, Free ch. coll. Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1856

to death, and principal 1864 to death; D.D. of St. Andrew’s

univ. 13 Feb. 1869; author of Sweden, its religious state and

prospects 1855; Infant baptism, its nature and objects 1856.

_d._ Aberdeen 17 Oct. 1875. _Scott’s Fasti_, _iii part_ 2 _p._

792 (1871).

LUMSDEN, SIR JAMES (eld. son of James Lumsden 1778–1856). _b._

Glasgow 1808; ed. at Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; partner in firm

of J. Lumsden & Co. stationers, Glasgow, retired from business

1876; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1860–2 and lord provost

1866–69; knighted by patent 3 Nov. 1868 after entertaining

prince of Wales at luncheon. _d._ 194 Bath st. Glasgow 22 March

1879. _W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men_ (1886), _ii_

183–4 (1886), _portrait_.

LUND, JOHN. Joined the Metropolitan police 1837; a prominent

officer in detective department at Scotland Yard; arrested Mr.

and Mrs. Manning for murder of O’Connor 1849; had charge of

detective arrangements at Great Exhibition 1851; superintendent

of the P. or Walworth division of metropolitan police to 1859

when he retired on pension of £156; superintendent of Leamington

police 1859–80 when he retired on pension of £166; captured

James Torpey the diamond robber 1870. _d._ Leamington 24 Aug.

1888.

LUND, THOMAS. _b._ Blackburn 2 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. John’s

coll. Camb., 4 wr. 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1838; fell.

of his coll. 1829–41; R. of Morton, Derbyshire 1841–64; R. of

Brindle, Lancs. 1864 to death; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1864 to

death; author of An appendix to Wood’s Algebra 1840; A short

and easy course of algebra 1850, 6 ed. 1863; The elements of

algebra by D. Wood, 14 ed. 1852, 17 ed. 1876; A companion to

Wood’s Algebra 4 ed. 1878; Elements of geometry and mensuration

3 parts 1854–9, 2 ed. 1864; A key to Bishop Colenso’s Biblical

arithmetic 1863, 3 ed. 1865; with J. Baily A treatise on the

differential calculus 1838. _d._ Brindle rectory 14 May 1877.

LUNDGREN, EGRON SELLIF. _b._ Stockholm 18 Dec. 1815;

water-colour painter; resided at Seville 1849–52; accompanied

sir Colin Campbell’s expedition on the campaign in Oudh

1857 when he made a series of about 500 sketches which were

exhibited in London, then purchased by Samuel Mendel and

sold at Christie’s 16 April 1875; associate of Royal Soc. of

painters in water-colours 1864, member 1865; knight of order of

Gustavus Vasa of Sweden 1861; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1862;

illustrated G. O. Hyltén-Cavallius and G. Stephens’ Svenska

Folksagor 1875 and Old Norse fairy tales 1882. _d._ Stockholm 16

Dec. 1875. _Graphic_, _xiii_ 28, 36 (1876), _portrait_.

LUNING, JACOB WILLIAM (3 child of Meinhard Conrad Luning

1732–83, pastor of Hamelvörden, Hanover). _b._ Hamelvörden 19

May 1767; came to London 1790, a boarder at Duff’s school,

Tooting; naturalised 1796; book-keeper in some of the first

mercantile houses in the city down to 1858; admitted a member

of Morden college, Blackheath 30 March 1859; _m._ at Spalding,

Lincs. 4 Aug. 1796 Eleanor dau. of captain Sands and had issue

15 children. _d._ Morden college, Blackheath 23 June 1870 aged

103. _Thoms’ Human longevity_ (1879) 255–63.

NOTE.--Having insured his life for £200 in the Equitable Society at

the age of 36 namely in 1803, the bonuses at his death had raised the

policy to £1292 10s., the largest addition ever paid by the Equitable

or probably by any other Insurance company.

LUNN, JOSEPH. _b._ 1784; an original member of the Dramatic

Authors’ Society; his chief plays were The sorrows of Werther,

a burlesque, Covent Garden 6 May 1818, revived at St. James’s

13 Oct. 1836; Family Jars, a farce, Haymarket 26 Aug. 1822;

Fish out of water, a farce 26 Aug. 1823; Hide and Seek, petit

opera 22 Oct. 1824, revived at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1830; Roses

and Thorns or two houses under one roof, comedy 24 Aug. 1825;

Lunn’s Management or the prompter puzzled, a comic interlude 29

Sep. 1828, all these four were produced at Haymarket; author of

Horæ Jocosæ, or the doggerel Decameron 1823. _d._ Grand parade,

Brighton 12 Dec. 1863.

LUNN, WILLIAM ARTHUR BROWN. Invented sequential system of

musical notes 1844; published under pseudonym of Arthur

Wallbridge, Bizarre fables 1842; The sequential system of

musical notation, a new method of writing music 1844, 6 ed. with

his name 1873; Torrington hall, an account of two days passed at

that establishment for the insane 1845; The council of four, a

game at definitions 1848; Miscellanies, consisting of jest and

earnest 1851; The Wallbridge miscellanies 1874, 3 ed. 1877. _d._

London 4 April 1879.

LUPTON, JAMES (son of James Lupton of York). _b._ 1800;

matriculated from Ch. Ch. Oxf. as a servitor 7 July 1819, B.A.

1823, M.A. 1825; V. of Blackbourton, Oxon. 1827 to death; minor

canon of St. Paul’s cath. 1829 to death and of Westminster

abbey 1829 to death; R. of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe, London

1832 to death; editor of The Temple by G. Herbert, with a life

of the author 1865; The poetical works of A. Pope, with life

of the author 1867; Gulliver’s Travels edited by A Clergyman

1867. _d._ The Cloisters, Westminster abbey 21 Dec. 1873. _bur._

Westminster abbey 27 Dec.

LUPTON, THOMAS GOFF (son of Wm. Lupton, working goldsmith).

_b._ Clerkenwell, London 3 Sep. 1791; pupil of George Clint,

engraver; assistant to Samuel Wm. Reynolds; exhibited 4

engravings at R.A. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–25;

executed 4 of the plates in Turner’s Liber Studiorum; introduced

steel for mezzotint engraving for which he received the Isis

medal of Society of Arts 1822; six of his plates after Turner

were published as Views of the ports of England 1825, reissued

with 6 more of his plates as The harbours of England 1856; pres.

of Artists’ annuity fund 1836; resided at 4 Keppel st. Russell

sq. London 1837 to death, _d._ there 18 May 1873.

LURGAN, CHARLES BROWNLOW, 2 Baron (son of 1 baron Brownlow

1795–1847). _b._ Eaton place, London 10 April 1831; ed. at Eton;

ensign 26 foot 15 March 1850, sold out 23 Jany. 1852; lord

lieut. of Armagh 7 July 1864 to death; raced under name of Mr.

Stafford; a breeder of greyhounds from 1854, won the Waterloo

cup with Master M’Grath at Altcar 1868, first time an Irish dog

took the cup, won again in 1869 and 1871, the dog was sent for

the queen to see him on 1 March 1871 and _d._ 24 Dec. 1871; K.P.

1864; a lord in waiting to the queen 1869–74. _d._ Brighton 16

Jany. 1882. _Baily’s Mag. April 1869 pp._ 213–16, _portrait_;

_The Sporting Rev. Feb. 1869 pp._ 129–32, _portrait of Master

M’Grath_.

LUSH, JOHN ALFRED (1 son of John Lush of Berwick St. John,

Wilts). _b._ 21 March 1815; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. St.

Andrews 1864; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1872; in practice at East Knoyle,

removed to Salisbury; with Corbin Finch proprietor of Fisherton

house asylum, Salisbury 1862; mayor of Salisbury 1866; M.P.

Salisbury 1868–80; entertained prince of Wales at a banquet

Sep. 1872; removed to 13 Redcliffe square, South Kensington,

London 1880. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Aug. 1888. _The

Salisbury Journal 11 Aug. 1888 p._ 5.

LUSH, SIR ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Lush of Shaftesbury,

Dorset). _b._ Shaftesbury 25 Oct. 1807; in a solicitor’s office;

a special pleader in London 1839; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840,

bencher 4 Nov. 1857 to Nov. 1865, treasurer 1859; Q.C. June

1857; leader with sir Wm. Bovill of the home circuit; serjeant

at law 2 Nov. 1865; justice of court of queen’s bench 2 Nov.

1865 to 5 Nov. 1880; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865;

one of the three judges who tried the Tichborne claimant 1873–4;

member of the judicature commission, settled at chambers the

practice under the judicature acts Nov.-Dec. 1875; member of

commission on the penal code 1878; P.C. 17 May 1879; lord

justice of court of appeal 5 Nov. 1880 to death; author of The

act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process with notes

1838; The act for the amendment of the law with respect to wills

1837, 2 ed. 1838; Practice of the superior courts of law at

Westminster in actions and proceedings over which they have a

common jurisdiction 1840, 3 ed. by J. Dixon 2 vols. 1865; edited

J. Chitty’s The practice of the law in all its departments, vol.

iii, 3 ed. 1842; J. S. Saunders’s Law of pleading and evidence

in civil actions 2 ed. 2 vols. 1851. _d._ 60 Avenue road,

Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1881. _Baptist Worthies. By W.

Landels_ (1884) 373–411, _portrait_; _A generation of Judges.

By their reporter_ (1886) 21–9; _I.L.N. xlvii_ 513 (1865),

_portrait_; _Illust. Times 18 Nov. 1865 p._ 307, _portrait_;

_Graphic_, _xxv_ 20 (1882), _portrait_.

LUSHINGTON, _Charles_ (3 son of sir Stephen Lushington, 1

baronet 1744–1807). _b._ London 14 April 1785; served in Bengal

civil service 1800–27; chief secretary to government of Bengal

1823, retired on annuity 1827; M.P. Ashburton 1833–41; M.P.

Westminster 1847–52; an original director of Crystal palace

company 1852; resided at Edgware many years; president of

Whittington club, Arundel st. Strand 1850; author of The history

of the religious institutions founded in Calcutta. Calcutta

1824; A short notice of John Adams, Esq. Calcutta 1825; A

remonstrance addressed to the bishop of London on the sanction

given in his charge to the calumnies against the dissenters 2

ed. 1834; Dilemmas of a churchman arising from the discordant

doctrine of the clergy 1838, 2 ed. 1838. _d._ 118 Marine parade,

Brighton 23 Sep. 1866.

LUSHINGTON, CHARLES MANNERS (youngest son of Stephen Rumbold

Lushington 1776–1868). _b._ 1819; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll.

Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Souls’ college 1843–6;

private sec. to president of board of control 1843 to July

1854; M.P. Canterbury 1854–7; resided Norton court, Kent. _d._

Boulogne-Sur-Mer 27 Nov. 1864.

LUSHINGTON, EDMUND LAW (1 son of Edmund Henry Lushington,

puisne judge Ceylon, _d._ 1839). _b._ 10 Jany. 1811; ed. at

Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; senior

classic and senior chancellor’s medallist 1832; fellow and tutor

of his college; professor of Greek at univ. of Glasgow 1838–75,

lord rector 15 Nov. 1884, only noncontested election on record;

married 14 Oct. 1842 Cecilia sister of Lord Tennyson; edited

with sir A. Grant, J. F. Ferrier’s Lectures on Greek philosophy

1866 and J. F. Ferrier’s Philosophical works vols. ii, iii

1875. _d._ Maidstone 13 July 1893. _A. P. Martin’s Life of Lord

Sherbrooke_ (1893).

LUSHINGTON, FRANKLIN (4 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet

1775–1863). _b._ 20 April 1811; ensign 9 foot 16 July 1829,

captain 30 Oct. 1838; major 37 foot 26 Nov. 1847 to 15 July

1854; captain Scots Fusilier guards 15 July 1854, sold out 28

Nov. 1856; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ Hansham, Kent’s road, Torquay

18 Jany. 1890.

LUSHINGTON, HENRY (2 son of Edmund Henry Lushington 1766–1839,

master of the crown office, London). _b._ Singleton, Lancs. 13

April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1823–8, head boy 1827–8; student

of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1829, fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A.

1837; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; chief secretary to government

of Malta 1847 to 1855, brought forward proposed code of laws

before Malta legislative council 1849; Tennyson dedicated The

Princess to him 1847; author of Fellow commoners and honorary

degrees 1837; A great country’s little wars, or England,

Afghanistan and Sinde 1844; The broad and narrow guage 1846 and

other books; author with G. S. Venables of Joint Compositions

1840, a book of verses; and with his brother F. Lushington of La

nation boutiquière 1855; Two battle pieces 1855. _d._ Paris 11

Aug. 1855. _bur._ Boxley, Kent. _Henry Lushington’s The Italian

war_ (1859), _memoir pp. ix–ci_.

LUSHINGTON, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Stephen

Lushington, Bart. 1744–1807). _b._ 27 Oct. 1775; succeeded 12

Jany. 1807; consul general at Naples 1815–32. _d._ 32 Montague

square, London 25 Jany. 1863.

LUSHINGTON, SIR JAMES LAW (3 son of rev. James Stephen

Lushington, preb. of Carlisle, _d._ 17 June 1801). _b._

Bottesham, Cambs. 1779; entered Madras army 1796; col. 3

Madras light cavalry 1831–49; col. 4 Madras light cavalry 1849

to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. Petersfield 1825, M.P.

Hastings 1826, M.P. Carlisle 1827–32; a director of East India

company 25 July 1827 to 1854, deputy chairman 1837, 1841 and

1847, and chairman 1838, 1842 and 1848; C.B. 14 Oct. 1818,

K.C.B. 10 March 1837, G.C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ 26 Dorset

square, London 29 May 1859.

LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN (brother of sir Henry Lushington 1775–1863).

_b._ Harley st. London 14 Jany. 1782; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch.

Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806, B.C.L. 1807, D.C.L. 1808; fellow of

All Souls’ coll. to 1821; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1806, bencher

1840–72, reader 1850, treasurer 1851; member of college of

advocates 3 Nov. 1808; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1806 to 1808; M.P.

Ilchester 1820–6; M.P. Tregony 1826–30; contested Reading

1830; M.P. Winchelsea 4 April 1831; returned for Winchelsea

and Ilchester 1831 but sat for Ilchester; M.P. Tower Hamlets

1832–41; one of the counsel for Queen Caroline, made a speech

in her defence 26 Oct. 1820, present at her death 7 Aug. 1821,

one of her executors attended her funeral at Brunswick; voted

freedom of city of London 7 Dec. 1820, admitted 2 June 1821;

judge of consistory court of London 16 Feb. 1828 to 2 July 1858;

judge of high court of admiralty 17 Oct. 1838 to 30 July 1867;

P.C. 5 Nov. 1838; dean of arches 2 July 1858, resigned 30 July

1867; chancellor of diocese of Rochester 1826–56; chancellor of

diocese of London 1828–58; served on many royal commissions; an

ardent reformer, supported sir T. F. Buxton in the anti-slavery

struggle; author of The reply of Dr. Lushington in support

of the bill for the regulation of chimney sweepers, and the

preventing the employment of boys in climbing chimneys 1818.

_d._ Ockham park, Ripley, Surrey 19 Jany. 1873. _Law Times_,

_liv_ 225–6, 240–1 (1873); _I.L.N. lxii_ 91, 95, 211 (1873),

_portrait_.

LUSHINGTON, SIR STEPHEN (2 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2

baronet 1775–1863). _b._ Bedford sq. London 12 Dec. 1803;

entered navy 1816; commander of the Ætna bomb 13 May 1828; took