Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 2 of 8)

Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 2 of 8)

KINLOCK, GEORGE RITCHIE. b. Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 1797 or 1798; clerk to 3 successive advocates depute; assistant keeper of register of deeds in Register house, Edinburgh 1842, keeper 1851–69; author of The ballad book, edited with a Biographia Lesleyana 1827; Ancient Scottish ballads 1827; Reliquiæ antiquæ Scoticæ 1848; edited for the Maitland club, A. Pitcairne’s Babell, a satirical poem 1830, and The diary of Mr. John Lamont of Newton 1649–1671, 1830. d. West Coates villa, Edinburgh 21 April 1877.

KINNAIRD, GEORGE WILLIAM FOX KINNAIRD, 9 Baron (eld. son of 8 baron Kinnaird 1780–1826). b. Drimmie house, Perthshire 14 April 1807; educ. at Eton; cornet 1 life guards 24 Nov. 1825, lieut. 18 Feb. 1828, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1831; succeeded as 9 baron Kinnaird 11 Dec. 1826; grand master of the Freemasons of Scotland 1830–1; cr. a peer of the United Kingdom as baron Rossie of Rossie, co. Perth 11 June 1831; cr. baron Kinnaird of Rossie, Perth 1 Sep. 1860; master of the buckhounds 21 Dec. 1839, resigned Sep. 1841; P.C. 15 June 1840; K.T. 6 July 1857; lord lieut. of Perthshire 14 March 1866 to death, sheriff principal 28 Feb. 1866; made excavations near Rome, the antiquities discovered are at Rossie priory; the first to introduce steam ploughs, threshing machines and ‘roadsters’ into the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire; chief promoter of the Forbes Mackenzie act in Scotland 1853; chairman of the royal commission on metalliferous mines; introduced the game of cricket into Scotland; author of Profitable investment of capital or 11 years practical experience in farming. Dundee 1849; Rinderpest or the treatment of cattle 1866, 2 ed. 1866; The new mint buildings, a letter to P. H. Muntz esq. 1871; The royal mint, altered returns presented to parliament 1871; The royal mint, treatment of brittle gold, new buildings and the copper account 1871. d. Rossie priory, Inchture, Perthshire 7 Jany. 1878. Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 445–48.

KINNAIRD, ARTHUR FITZGERALD KINNAIRD, 10 Baron (3 son of 8 baron Kinnaird 1780–1826). b. Rossie priory, Perthshire 8 July 1814; ed. at Eton; attaché to embassy at St. Petersburg 1835–7; private sec. to the earl of Durham; partner in bank of Ransom & Co. 1 & 2 Pall Mall East, London 1837, head of the firm, which became Ransom, Bouverie & Co. 1856; M.P. Perth 1837–9 and 1852 to 7 Jany. 1878 when he succeeded his brother; well known as a philanthropist and an attendant at the May meetings; considered the successor to lord Shaftesbury; F.R.G.S.; author of Bengal, its landed tenure and police system 1857. d. 2 Pall Mall East, London 26 April 1887. Fraser’s Mary Jane Kinnaird (1890), portrait; Dundee Year Book (1887) 42.

KINNAIRD, MARY JANE KINNAIRD, Baroness (dau. of William Henry Hoare of London, banker). b. Blatherwick park, Northamptonshire 14 March 1816; instituted St. John’s training school for domestic servants 1841; edited a vol. of Servants’ Prayers 1848; associated with lady Canning in sending nurses to the Crimea 1854–5; founder of London Young women’s christian association and helped to found numerous other charitable societies. (m. 28 June 1843 the preceding). d. Plaistow lodge near Bromley, Kent 1 Dec. 1888. Fraser’s Mary Jane Kinnaird (1890), portrait.

KINNEAR, DAVID. b. Edinburgh about 1807; an advocate but never practised; engaged in commerce in London; went to U.S. of America 1835, a farmer at Drummondville, Lower Canada; bore arms against the insurgents during rebellion of 1837, stipendiary magistrate in charge of the police force organized to restore order; editor of the Montreal Gazette; a partner in the Herald newspaper of Montreal, senior partner in and editor of the Herald to death. d. Montreal 20 Nov. 1862. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 212.

KINNEAR, SARAH HARRIET (only child of George Frith of Worksop, Notts., surgeon, d. 1832). Made her first appearance on the stage at Brighton as Beatrice in Much ado about nothing, Sep. 1846; assumed stage name of Frankland; leading lady at T.R. Birmingham and at T.R. Edinburgh 1849–51; played at Princess’ theatre, London 1851–52 when she made her last appearance on the stage as Portia in the Merchant of Venice. (m. at Stockton-upon-Tees 12 Aug. 1852 John Boyd Kinnear of Kinnear, Fifeshire). d. Norwood, Surrey 1 June 1866. bur. ch. yard of Collessie, Fifeshire.

KINNIS, JOHN. b. 1794 or 1795; hospital assistant in the army 16 June 1815; surgeon 90 foot 22 June 1838; deputy inspector general 25 June 1847; F.R.S. Edin.; author of A report on small-pox as it appeared in Ceylon. Colombo 1835; A letter to the inhabitants of Ceylon on vaccination 1837; Observations on tubercular elephantiasis 1842. d. Edinburgh 18 Aug. 1853.

KINNOUL, THOMAS ROBERT DRUMMOND HAY, 10 Earl of (only son of 9 Earl of Kinnoul 1751–1804). b. 5 April 1785; styled viscount Duplin 1787–1804; ed. at Westminster; succeeded 12 April 1804; Lord Lyon king of arms 12 April 1804 to death; col. of royal Perthshire militia 1809 to 30 Oct. 1855; lord lieut. of Perthshire 1830 to death. d. St. Clair, Torquay 18 Feb. 1866. bur. at Aberdalgie 26 Feb.

KINSELLA, THOMAS. b. Ireland 1832; a printer in U.S. of America; editor of the Eagle at Brooklyn, New York 1861; postmaster of Brooklyn 1866; member of congress 1871–73; president of the Faust soc. d. Brooklyn 11 Feb. 1884. Appleton’s American biography, iii 552 (1887).

KINSEY, WILLIAM MORGAN (son of Robert Morgan Kinsey of Abergavenny). b. Abergavenny 1788 or 1789; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1812–15, fellow 1815–44, dean 1822, V.P. 1823, bursar 1824; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813, B.D. 1822, proctor of univ. 1821; chaplain to lord Auckland; one of ministers of St. John’s ch. Cheltenham to Jany. 1842; R. of Rotherfield Greys, Oxon. 1843 to death; author of Portugal illustrated 1828, 2 ed. 1829; contributed Random recollections of a visit to Walton hall the seat of Charles Waterton esq., to Gentleman’s Magazine, Jany. 1848 pp. 33–39. d. Rotherfield Greys rectory 6 April 1851. G.M. xxxvi 95 (1851).

KINTORE, FRANCIS ALEXANDER KEITH-FALCONER, 8 Earl of. b. Wadley house, Berks. 7 June 1828; succeeded 11 July 1844; lord lieut. of Kincardineshire 28 May 1856 and of Aberdeenshire 12 Jany. 1864. d. 22 Mansfield st. Marylebone, London 18 July 1880. bur. Keith hall, Aberdeenshire 24 July.

KIPPIST, RICHARD. b. Stoke Newington, London 11 June 1812; travelled with Joseph Woods the architect and botanist, and helped to compile his Tourist’s Flora; entered service of the Linnæan Society 1830, librarian 1842–81; A.L.S. d. 12 Burnaby st. King’s road, Chelsea 14 Jany. 1882. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1881–2) 64–5.

KIRBY, ELIZABETH (youngest child of John Kirby, manufacturer). b. Southgate st. Leicester 15 Dec. 1823; author with her sister Mary Kirby (Mrs. Gregg) of 22 books for children including The discontented children 1855; Caterpillars, butterflies and moths 1857; The Italian goldsmith, or the story of Cellini 1861, 2 ed. 1875; Chapters on Trees 1873; Sketches of insect life 1874. d. Melton Mowbray 23 June 1873. bur. Brooksby ch. yard 30 June. Mary Kirby’s Leaflets from my life (1887) 232.

KIRBY, JOHN. Ed. at Dublin univ., B.A. 1805, LL.B. and LL.D. 1832; F.R.C.S.I. and professor of practice of physic there; surgeon St. Peter’s and St. Bridget’s hospital, Dublin, and lecturer on anatomy and surgery there; consulting surgeon Coombe st. Lying-in hospital; author of Observations on the treatment of hemorrhoidal excrescences 1817; Additional observations on hemorrhoidal excrescences 1825. d. Newton house, Rathfarnham, co. Dublin 26 May 1853.

KIRBY, JOSHUA HENRY. Ensign 34 foot 10 Aug. 1838; lieut. 86 foot 8 April 1842, major 1 June 1860; major 68 foot 23 April 1861, lieut. col. 10 Nov. 1869 to death; brigadier general Bombay 12 Oct. 1874 to death; colonel in the army 10 Nov. 1874. d. Belgaum, Bombay 30 June 1877.

KIRBY, SIR RICHARD CHARLES. b. 1788; junior clerk in office of sec.-at-war March 1804, senior clerk Sep. 1826, chief examiner of accounts July 1849, retired from the service Jany. 1856; reappointed as accountant general of the army Nov. 1856, retired Aug. 1860 on full pay of £1500 a year; C.B. 20 Dec. 1858; knighted at St. James’ palace 14 Feb. 1861. d. at the Rock, Reigate hill, Surrey 6 Oct. 1867.

KIRBY, STEPHEN. b. 1782; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Aug. 1799, lieut. col. R.A. 20 July 1834 to 17 Aug. 1843 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 4 Feb. 1857. d. Claydon near Ipswich 22 Dec. 1857.

KIRBY, THOMAS. b. Osbaldwick near York, Aug. 1770; went to Russia with a cargo of horses 1791; in the service of count Poltrowsky, in charge of 100 mares; with Primrose won a £50 plate at Chesterfield 29 Aug. 1804; a breeder of horses from 1804; in 1821 eight horses carrying his colours chocolate and white cap were racing; sold General Chasse to Nicholas emperor of Russia for 2250 guineas and Van Tromp for 2000 guineas; consulted by the government about shipping the horses to the Crimea in 1854. d. York, Feb. 1858. The Post and the paddock. By The Druid (1880) 66–73; Sporting Rev. xxxviii 161–3 (1857) portrait, xxxix 154 (1858).

KIRBY, THOMAS COX. Ensign 54 foot 1 March 1800, captain 26 Sep. 1806, placed on h.p. 23 May 1822; served in Flanders and at battle of Waterloo; captain 86 foot 5 May 1828; major on h.p. 13 Aug. 1830; sold out 1845; K.H. 1837. d. 1855.

KIRBY, WALTER (son of W. Kirby, M.D., F.L.S.). b. 14 Nov. 1791; entered R.N. 23 Oct. 1803; served on coast of France, Spain and in West Indies; lieut. 1811; when in the Windsor Castle he effected preservation of the Union 104 guns when adrift and on shore during a storm 12 Jany. 1828; commander 22 July 1830 and then on h.p.; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; retired captain 1 April 1856. d. Jermyn st. London 10 Dec. 1859.

KIRBY, WILLIAM HUMPHREYS. b. 6 Dec. 1819; ensign 94 foot 14 Oct. 1836, major 29 Dec. 1854 to 17 April 1868 when placed on h.p.; military sec. Bombay 1860–2; D.A.G. Bombay 1863–7; adjutant general Bombay 23 Dec. 1867 to 29 May 1872; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. St. Servan, Brittany 28 June 1890.

KIRK, ALEXANDER CARNEGIE (son of rev. John Kirk). b. in Manse of Barry, Forfarshire 1830; partner in shipbuilding firm of Robert Napier and Sons, Glasgow, became senior partner; president of the Engineers and Shipbuilders’ Institute of Scotland; wrote On compressed air and other refrigerating machinery, printed in Heat in its mechanical application, Lectures Institution of Civil Engineers (1885) 175–200. d. suddenly at 19 Athole Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow 5 Oct. 1892. D. Pollock’s Modern shipbuilding (1884) 44, portrait.

KIRK, JOHN (son of Wm. Kirk). b. Ruckley near Acton Burnell, Shropshire 13 April 1760; ed. at Sedgley park sch. Staffs. and English college at Rome; ordained priest 18 Dec. 1784; chaplain at Sedgley park school 1786, president 1793–7; built a chapel at Lichfield, opened 11 Nov. 1803; erected chapels at Hopwas near Tamworth and in Tamworth; D.D. by Pope Gregory XVI. 9 Nov. 1841; collected for 40 years materials forming 50 vols. for a Continuation of Dodd’s Church history of England, which was brought out to the year 1625 by Rev. M. A. Tierney in 5 vols. 1839–43; author with Rev. Joseph Berington of The faith of Catholics confirmed by scripture and attested by the Fathers 1813, 3 ed. 3 vols. 1846, a work to which several replies were made 1819–40. d. Lichfield 21 Dec. 1851. Catholic Directory (1853) 129, portrait; G.M. xxxvii 304–306 (1852).

KIRK, WILLIAM (1 son of Hugh Kirk). b. Larne, co. Antrim 16 Oct. 1795; linen merchant; M.P. Newry 1852–57 and 1868 to death; contested Armagh 1865; sheriff of Armagh 1863. d. Newry 20 Dec. 1870. I.L.N. lvii 691 (1870).

KIRKES, WILLIAM SENHOUSE. b. Holker near Cartmel, Lancs. 1823; entered St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841, medical registrar and demonstrator of morbid anatomy, assist. physician 1854 and physician 1864 to death; M.D. Berlin 1846; L.R.C.P. 1850, F.R.C.P. 1855, Gulstonian lecturer 1856; author with W. Baly of Recent advances in the physiology of motion 1848; and with James Paget of Hand-book of physiology 1848, 12 ed. 1888. d. 2 Lower Seymour st. Portman sq. London 8 Dec. 1864. Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. v 47 (1867).

KIRKHAM, GAWIN. b. Eskrigg, Lancashire 1830; connected with St. Paul’s, Bermondsey, London as a scripture reader for 4 years; secretary of the Open-Air mission 1860 to death, and ran some risks when attending fairs, races and executions; helped to distribute relief during Lancashire cotton famine 1862; the pioneer of open-air preaching on the Continent; author of The broad and narrow way. The picture accompanying Mr. G. Kirkham’s lecture on the broad and narrow way 1886; Hints for beginners in open-air services, printed in G. H. Pike’s Beneath the blue sky (1888) 61–71. d. London, May 1892.

KIRKLAND, SIR JOHN (eld. son of John Kirkland of Glasgow). b. Ayr 1796; deputy assistant commissary general 4 May 1815, placed on h.p. 24 Aug. 1816; army agent at 8 Bennett st. St. James’s, London 1820, then at 6 Whitehall, and lastly at 17 Whitehall place to death; receiver of crown rents for Middlesex, city of London and bailiwick of St. James, Westminster 1827 to death; general agent for the recruiting service about 1830 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. d. Beckenham place, Kent 13 Jany. 1871.

KIRKLAND, WILLIAM (son of William Kirkland d. 1 Oct. 1834). b. Dundee; apprentice to J. and C. Carmichael, engineers, Dundee to 1829; partner with his father as W. Kirkland and Sons, wood merchants, Dundee 1829; perfected the machinery for wood cutting in all its branches and for cutting mouldings. d. Oak lodge, Constitution road, Dundee 16 April 1869. Dundee Advertiser 17 April 1869 p. 4.

KIRKPATRICK, JOHN. b. 1786; advocate at Scottish bar 1809; Greek scholar; chief justice of Ionian islands 1820–35; revised the code of Malta 1830; great pedestrian, walked from Dunkeld to Edinburgh viâ Queensferry 70 miles in one day; a swimmer and bather all the year round, won a 3 mile swimming match at Corfu. d. 39 Moray place, Edinburgh 10 Feb. 1871. Journal of Jurisprudence, Feb. 1871 p. 140.

KIRKPATRICK, JOHN RUTHERFORD. b. 1832; ed. Dublin univ., B.A. 1854, M.B. 1855; L.R.C.S.I. 1855, F.R.C.S.I. 1857; L.M. Lying-in hospital, Dublin 1854; L.K.Q.C.P. 1859, L.M. 1860; king’s professor of midwifery, school of physic in Ireland, April 1882 to death. d. 4 Upper Merrion st. Dublin 16 April 1889. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. 20 April.

KIRKPATRICK, WILLIAM BAILLIE. b. Ballynahinch, co. Down 1802; ed. at Glasgow college, M.A.; licensed by presbytery of Armagh 1827; a minister of St. Mary’s Abbey church, Dublin 29 July 1829; moderator of general assembly 1850; a comr. of charitable donations and bequests; a comr. of endowed schools; author of Chapters in Irish history. Dublin [1875], 2 ed. 1875. d. Bray, co. Wicklow 23 Sep. 1882. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin.

KIRKUP, SEYMOUR STOCKER (eld. child of Joseph Kirkup, jeweller). b. London 1788; student of the R.A. 1809, exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1833–36; lived at Rome, then at Florence many years, at Leghorn 1872 to death; a student of Dante, found on 21 July 1840 the portrait of Dante painted by Giotto in the chapel of the Palazzo del Podestà at Florence, of which he made a drawing and tracing; created cavaliere of the order of SS. Maurizio e Lazzaro 1865 and called himself Barone Kirkup; a disciple of Daniel Home the spiritualist; his library was sold at Sotheby’s, Dec. 1871 for £2,555. d. 4 Via Scali del Ponte Nuovo, Leghorn 3 Jany. 1880.

KIRKWOOD, ANDERSON (son of Mr. Kirkwood of Edinburgh, merchant). b. 1822; manager of business of Messrs. Bannatyne, writers to the signet, Glasgow 1839, a partner in the firm 1842; the first professor of conveyancing in univ. of Glasgow 1861–7; dean of the faculty of procurators, Glasgow 1875–80; hon. D.C.L. Glasgow 1867; assessor to council of univ. of Glasgow 1867–87; presented with his portrait by citizens of Glasgow 1876; contested seat for united univs. of Glasgow and Aberdeen 1876. d. Stirling 16 Feb. 1889. Law Times 16 March 1889 pp. 379–80.

KIRKWOOD, JAMES PUGH. b. Edinburgh 27 March 1807; civil engineer Glasgow 1832; assistant engineer on railway work in U.S. of America 1832; United States constructing engineer for docks, hospitals and workshops at Pensacola, Florida; chief engineer in Missouri Pacific railway 1850–5; chief engineer Nassau waterworks, Brooklyn 1856–60; municipal water works were his speciality, and he was the best engineer in that line in the U.S. America; president American Soc. of Civil engineers 1867–8; author of Report on filtration of river waters for the supply of cities 1869; and with T. Weston of A report on the district supplying water to Brooklyn 1861. d. Brooklyn, New York 22 April 1877.

KIRKWOOD, ROBERT. b. Paisley 25 May 1793; ed. at Glasgow coll.; pastor of Dutch Reformed church Courtlandville, New York, pastor at Auburn and at Sandbeach, New York till 1839; a domestic missionary in Illinois 1839–46; agent for Bible and Tract society 1846–57; joined the Presbyterian church at Yonkers, N.Y. 1857; author of A lecture on the millennium 1855; Universalism explained 1856; A plea for the Bible 1860; Illustrations of the office of Christ 1862. d. Yonkers 26 Aug. 1866.

KIRWAN, ANDREW VALENTINE (eld. son of Thomas Kirwan of Well Park, co. Dublin). b. 1804; student G.I. 9 Feb. 1821, barrister 14 May 1828; called to Irish bar 1825; practised in London and Dublin till 1850 when he retired; furnished practice cases to The Jurist 1824–44; author of The ports, arsenals and dockyards of France. By A Traveller 1841; The army and garrison of France 1841; Modern France, its journalism, literature and society 1863; Host and Guest 1864; with Frederick A. Carrington, Reports of cases at nisi prius 3 vols. 1845–53. d. Claverton st. Pimlico, London 22 Oct. 1870. Law Times, xlix 459 (1870).

NOTE.--In 1840 he was appointed by the court of exchequer, on behalf of the proprietors of the Times a commissioner for taking the evidence of the various bankers in most of the cities of Europe in the famous law suit of Bogle v Lawson.

KIRWAN, ANTHONY LATOUCHE (son of Walter Blake Kirwan, dean of Killala, d. 1805). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, B.D. and D.D. 1863; V. of Kilcornan; dean of Kilmacduagh and R. of Gort; R. of Derrygalvin and Incumbent of St. Mary’s, Limerick; dean of Limerick 1849 to death; a very successful preacher. d. in the Turkish baths, Military road, Limerick 13 July 1868. bur. Limerick cath.

KIRWAN, DANIEL JOSEPH. b. Newtonbarry, Ireland about 1843; connected with the press in U.S. of America, on the World and the Tribune 1863 etc.; went to England to report the Harvard and Cambridge boat race 1869; reporter for New York Herald 1870; author of Palace and hovel 1870. d. New York 25 Nov. 1876.

KIRWAN, JAMES M. b. 1798; M.D.; coroner for city of Dublin 1843 to death. d. 44 Mountjoy square, Dublin 3 Feb. 1868. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 5 Feb.

KIRWAN, JOHN JOSEPH ANDREW (eld. son of Martin Kirwan of Hillsbrook, co. Galway, d. 1827). b. 31 Oct. 1811; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister Dublin 1844; went Connaught circuit; resident magistrate for co. Roscommon 1848, for co. Kilkenny 1853 to death; one of the wittiest and most amusing men of his time; known as the poor man’s magistrate; his judgments were so full of fun that the prisoners often left the dock laughing. d. March 1869. O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 319.

KISLINGBURY, FREDERICK FOSTER. b. Ilsley near Windsor castle 25 Dec. 1847; served in a cavalry regt. in civil war, U.S. America 1863–5; chief clerk of the Department of the Lakes at Detroit 1865; commanded a band of scouts fighting the Indians, 2 lieut. of 2 infantry serving in the Plains, second in command under Adolphus W. Greely in the expedition to the far north 1881–4; a member of the Knights of Pythias, a lodge of which order has been erected to his memory at Rochester. d. of exhaustion at Cape Sabine, Greenland 1 June 1884. bur. Rochester, N.W.

KITCHEN, WILLIAM HEWGILL. b. June 1787; entered navy 3 Feb. 1799, in active service for 31 years and was several times wounded; captain 9 Nov. 1846, granted Greenwich hospital pension 10 Nov. 1856; retired R.A. 15 June 1864. d. 4 Holland park ter. Notting hill, London 30 Sep. 1865.

KITCHING, ALFRED. b. 1808; iron founder Hopetown, Darlington 1832 where he built locomotives and waggons; removed to Whessoe foundry, Darlington 1862; director of Stockton and Darlington railway and of North Eastern railway; mayor of Darlington 1870; a quaker; member of Iron and steel institute 1872. d. Darlington 13 Feb. 1882, personalty sworn under £344,000, 22 April 1882. Journal of iron and steel institute (1882) 658–59.

KITCHING, JOHN BENJAMIN. b. Horsforth, W.R. Yorkshire 20 April 1813; in house of Tomlinson and Booth, New York 1824, then in business on his own account; connected with telegraphy and the Atlantic cable; spent much money on the Ericsson, a steamer to be propelled by air engines 183-, which sank on her trial trip; helped to found banks in Brooklyn 1840; a promoter of the Manhattan market and the Garfield National bank. d. New York city 19 July 1887.

KITSON, JAMES. b. 1807 or 1808; student at Mechanics’ institute, Leeds, hon. sec. and then president; well known locomotive engineer; partner with Mr. Laird at Airedale foundry, then with Messrs. Thompson and Hewitson, and afterwards partner with his sons in the Mark Bridge iron works; a director of North Eastern railway co. and of Yorkshire banking co. d. Leeds 29 July 1885. Engineering 3 July 1885 p. 20.

KITTO, JOHN (eld. son of John Kitto of Plymouth, mason). b. Plymouth 4 Dec. 1804; while carrying slates up a ladder fell 35 feet and was thenceforth stone deaf; in Plymouth workhouse 15 Nov. 1819 to 17 July 1823; apprenticed to John Bowden of Plymouth, shoe maker 8 Nov. 1821; pupil of A. N. Groves, dentist, Exeter; resided at Missionary coll. Islington, July 1825 where he was trained as a printer at one of the foreign presses; at Malta as a printer 20 June 1827 to Jany. 1829; travelled in the East with A. N. Groves, June 1829 to June 1833; contributed to Penny Magazine from 10 Aug. 1833; D.D. Univ. of Giessen 1844; F.S.A. 1845; granted £100 a year from civil list 2 Jany. 1851; author of The Pictorial Bible in parts 3 vols. Dec. 1835 to May 1838; Pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy Land 1840; Palestine, the Bible history of the Holy Land 1841; A Cyclopædia of Biblical literature 2 vols. 1845; The lost senses 1845; A pictorial life of our Saviour 1847; The Journal of sacred literature 1848–53; Daily Bible illustrations 4 vols. 1849–54; Scripture lands 1850. m. Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 21 Sep. 1833 Annabella Fenwick, she was granted a civil list pension of £50, 31 Jany. 1855. d. Cannstatt near Munich 25 Nov. 1854. bur. Cannstatt churchyard 27 Nov. John Eadie’s Life of John Kitto (1857), portrait; Western Antiquary, iii 33–35 (1883).

KLING, JOSEPH. b. Mayence 19 March 1811; educated in music 1826; organist to a church in Mayence many years; came to London 1850, music publisher at 27 Sherrard st. Golden sq. 1850–1; opened a chess room as a rival to the Divan at 454 Oxford st. 1854, closed it 1856; a pioneer of the modern style of chess problems; author of The chess euclid, a collection of two hundred problems and end games 1849; and with B. Horwitz of Chess studies or endings of games 1851 and The chess player vols. 1–4, 1851–3; retired from chess playing. d. Dec. 1876. The Westminster papers 1 Jany. 1877 p. 163.

KLITZ, PHILIP (eld. son of George Philip Klitz of Lymington, Hants., musical composer 1777–1839). b. Lymington 7 Jany. 1805; resided at Southampton about 1828 to death; introduced the Hullah system into Southampton and other places; lectured on music at literary institutions; organist of All Saints’ church, Southampton 1845 to death; composed classical music and ballads, the words of which were frequently his own, and a series of naval songs called ‘Songs of the mid-watch,’ which the admiralty ordered to be added to Dibdin’s in an edition published for the navy 1850; one of first writers of songs for Ethiopian serenaders 1847; published Sketches of life, character and scenery in the New Forest 1850. d. 24 Portland place, Southampton 13 Jany. 1854.

KLOSS, WILHELM (son of Karl Johann C. Kloss, composer, who d. Riga 1853). Ed. at Cologne under Heinrich Dorn; sent to England by Mendelssohn, where he played on the piano before the Queen; settled in England; pianist and composer in London. d. Feb. 1892.

KMETY, GYÖRGY. b. Pkoragy, Hungary, May 1813; commanded a battalion in Hungarian army in war with Austria 1849, a general, routed the Austrians at Csorna 13 June 1849; in Turkish service 1850, in command of a division during blockade of Kars, under name of Madjar Ismail Pacha, when he defeated the Russians 29 Sep. 1855, made lieut. general and decorated, served in Syria 1856, retired with a pension; in England studying music 1851, returned to England 1856; author of A refutation of some of the misstatements in Görgei’s Life and actions in Hungary 1853; A narrative of the defence of Kars 1856. d. Conduit st. Bond st. London 25 April 1865. G.M. Sep. 1865 pp. 383–6.

KNAPP, FREDERICK HENRY. Ed. at King’s coll. London, associate 1862; C. of Christ Church, Ware, Herts. 1862–64; C. of Patrixbourne, Kent 1864–6; C. of St. Helen’s, Isle of Wight 1866; author of A sad case 1862; Faithful wounds, a few thoughts on christian friendship 1864; The preciousness of Christ, meditations 1866. d. Sea View, Isle of Wight 15 Sep. 1866.

KNAPP, RUSSELL GEORGE ATKINSON. b. 1831; proprietor and editor of the ‘Surrey Comet’ from 1859. d. Clarence st. Kingston, Surrey 7 June 1867.

KNATCHBULL, HENRY EDWARD (6 son of sir Edward Knatchbull, bart. d. 1819). b. 30 Aug. 1808; ed. at Winchester and Wadham coll. Oxf., scholar 1826–33; B.A. 1830; first played at Lord’s in Winchester v. Harrow 27 July 1825, a free hitter and a good field, under the name of Edwards; played 6 times for the Gentlemen against the Players; V. of North Elmham, Norfolk 1833–67; R. of Campsey Ash, Suffolk 1867 to death. d. Campsey Ash 31 Aug. 1876.

KNATCHBULL, WILLIAM FRANCIS (2 son of Wyndham Knatchbull, merchant 1750–1833). b. Russell place, London 30 July 1804; sheriff of Somerset 1841; M.P. East Somerset 1852–65. d. 11 Cavendish sq. London 2 May 1871. I.L.N. lviii 475 (1871).

KNATCHBULL, WYNDHAM (brother of Henry Edward Knatchbull 1808–76). b. 23 Aug. 1786; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1808, of All Souls’ coll., M.A. 1812, B.D. 1820, D.D. 1823; R. of Westbere, Kent 5 Sep. 1811 to death; R. of Bircholt, Kent 1821–1836; Laudian professor of Arabic at Oxford 1823–40; R. of Aldington with Smeath, Kent 31 July 1823 till decease; author of Kalila and Dimna, or the fables of Bidpai translated 1819; Harethi Moallakah. Arabic and Latin 1820. d. Smeath rectory 5 April 1868.

KNELL, WILLIAM ADOLPHUS. Painter of shipping and sea pieces; exhibited 29 pictures at R.A., 44 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st. 1825–74; his picture The Landing of Prince Albert was purchased for the royal collection and engraved by Miller for the Art Journal 1857. d. 10 July 1875. bur. Abney park cemet.

KNIGHT, ADELA M’CULLOCH. b. South Australia; passed matric. exam. of univ. of London at Adelaide, attended Adelaide univ. and took sir Thomas Elder prize for physiology 1883; entered London sch. of medicine for women and the Royal Free hospital, London 1885; M.B. Lond. Nov. 1889, the first Australian woman who took the degree there; resident medical officer at New hospital for women 1890, removed the hospital from 222 Marylebone road to 144 Euston road 1890; took Helen Prideaux prize June 1890 and went to Vienna to study. d. of typhlitis at Vienna 8 May 1891.

KNIGHT, SIR ARNOLD JAMES (youngest son of Alexander Knight). b. Six Hills Grange, Lincs. 1789; ed. at Edinb. univ., M.D. 1811; a physician at Sheffield; knighted at St. James’ palace 24 March 1841. d. The Priory, Little Malvern 12 Jany. 1871. I.L.N. lviii 115, 267 (1871); Times 20 Jany. 1871 p. 12.

KNIGHT, CHARLES (son of Charles Knight, bookseller, Windsor). b. Windsor 15 March 1791; apprentice to his father 1805; edited Windsor and Eton Express 1 Aug. 1812 to 1826; with Edward Hawke Lockyer brought out the Plain Englishman 1 Feb. 1820 to Dec. 1822; editor and part proprietor of The Guardian, London 13 June 1820 to Dec. 1822; publisher 7 Pall Mall East 1822 to 1827; started Knight’s Quarterly Magazine 1823, 7 numbers only; superintendent of publications of Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 26 July 1827 to 11 March 1846; re-established himself at 13 Pall Mall, March 1829; wrote The Menagerie, the first vol. of The Library of Entertaining Knowledge 1829; published Quarterly Journal of Education 1831–6; The Penny Magazine 31 March 1832 to 29 Dec. 1845, which had a circulation of 200,000; publisher at 22 Ludgate Hill 1834–48, at 90 Fleet st. 1848 to death; publisher to the Poor law commission 1835; brought out Pictorial History of England 8 vols. 1837–44; edited The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere 1838–41; published Penny Cyclopedia 27 vols. 2 Jany. 1833 to 1844; History of England during the Thirty Years’ Peace 2 vols. 1850–1; started Town and Country newspaper 1855. d. Addlestone, Surrey 9 March 1873. bur. Old Windsor churchyard 14 March. Charles Knight, a memoir. By Alice A. Clowes (1892), 2 portraits; _C. Knight’s Passages of a working life during half a century 3 vols._ (1865); Illustrated Review, vol. v, pp. 57–67, portrait; _Gibson Craig’s Half length portraits_ (1876) 241–52; The Critic, xxii 624–28, 632 (1861) portrait, xxiii 32–37 (1861); Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 251–66, portrait; H. J. Nichol’s Great Movements (1881) 175–84.

NOTE.--His only son Barry Charles Henry Knight, senior partner in firm of Knight & Co., publishers 90 Fleet st. London, d. Brighton 16 Aug. 1884 aged 56.

KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER. b. 1794; entered R.N. 25 Dec. 1806; in the Impregnable in the battle of Algiers 1816; in command of Snapper gun brig went up Calabar river 60 miles in search of slaves June 1821; commander 3 June 1822; saved the crew of the Hound revenue cutter in Weymouth bay 1836; retired captain 28 July 1851; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837. d. royal naval hospital, Haslar 29 Jany. 1863.

KNIGHT, EDWARD HENRY. b. London 1 June 1824; patent agent Cincinnati, Ohio 1846–53; an agriculturalist 1853–63; employed preparing annual reports of U.S.A. patent office from 1863; issued the Official Gazette of the United States patent office 1871, since continued weekly; LLD. of Iowa Wesleyan univ. 1876; U.S. commissioner to Paris exhibition 1878, a chevalier of legion of honour; author of A library of poetry and song 1870; Knight’s American mechanical dictionary 3 vols. 1874–77; The practical dictionary of mechanics 4 vols. 1877–84. d. Bellefontaine, Ohio 22 Jany. 1883.

NOTE.--His brain was found to weigh 64 ounces, being the second largest on record, that of Cuvier weighing 64½ ounces.

KNIGHT, GEORGE JOSEPH. b. 1798; principal of Albion international college, Broadway, South Hackney 1828; kept private school 120 Lauriston road, Hackney. d. at res. of rev. Jonah Reeve, Thorley house, 32 Powerscourt road, Clapton park 25 Nov. 1883. The Fairlop Friday services, established by G. J. Knight on the first Friday in July 1860 (1870).

KNIGHT, GEORGE THOMAS. b. Goodnestone, Kent 22 Nov. 1795; his first match at Lord’s was England v. Hampshire 3 July 1820; played for Hampshire and Kent; his place was generally middle wicket; one of the 3 first to introduce round arm bowling, which at first was not allowed; a very hard hitter; wrote in the Sporting Magazine in 1827 on round arm bowling. d. 5 Moorfield place, Hereford 25 Aug. 1867. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, i 433, v p. xiii.

KNIGHT, JAMES (son of Samuel Knight 1759–1827, vicar of Halifax). b. 1793; scholar of Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1812–15, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; P.C. of St. Paul’s, Sheffield 1824–60; author of Discourses on the principal parables of our Lord 1829; Discourses on the principal miracles of our Lord 1831; A short series of discourses on the Lord’s Prayer 1832; A concise treatise on the truth and importance of the Christian religion 1856. d. Barton-on-Humber 30 Aug. 1863.

KNIGHT, JOHN BAVERSTOCK (2 son of John Forster Knight, land agent). b. Langton parsonage near Blandford, Dorset 3 May 1785; assistant to his father; water-colour painter; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A. 1818–19; published some etchings of old buildings in Dorset 1816. d. West Lodge, Piddle Hinton, Dorset 14 May 1859.

KNIGHT, John Peake. b. Nottingham 13 Jany. 1828; clerk in Midland railway co. Derby 1841, in audit office of Brighton railway 1846; superintendent South Eastern railway 1854 to 1869; general manager London, Brighton and South Coast railway 1869 to death; adopted interlocking of signals, the block system, the Westinghouse break 1878, Pullman cars 1877 and electric lighting; lieut.-col. Engineer and Railway volunteer staff-corps 19 March 1870 to death; member of legion of honour 1878; A.I.C.E. 7 May 1872. d. Chigwell, Epping forest 23 July 1886. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii 456–8 (1886).

KNIGHT, JOHN PRESCOTT (son of Edward Knight, comedian 1774–1826). b. Stafford 1803; clerk to a West India merchant, Mark lane, London, who failed; studied with Henry Sass and George Clint; student at R.A. 1823; painter first of theatrical portraits, then a fashionable portrait painter; exhibited 227 pictures at R.A., 22 at B.I. and 26 at Suffolk st. 1824–78; A.R.A. 1836, professor of perspective 1839–60, R.A. 1844, sec. 1848 to May 1873; a knight of the legion of honour 1878; held high office in the Catholic Apostolic church. d. 24 Maida Hill West, London 26 March 1881. Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 174 (1862); Art Journal (1849) 209, portrait, (1881) 159; I.L.N. xxx 418, 420 (1857), portrait, and 9 April 1881 p. 349, portrait.

KNIGHT, JOSEPH PHILIP (youngest son of Francis Knight, V. of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire). b. Bradford-on-Avon 26 July 1812; published a set of six songs under name of Philip Mortimer 1832; composed many songs alone and with Haynes Bayly; went to U.S. of America 1839, where he composed his song Rocked in the cradle of the deep 1846 which was sung by Braham; C. of St. Agnes, Scilly 1846–50; composed about 160 songs, most popular being She wore a wreath of roses 1840; Why chime the bells so merrily 1844; Say, what shall my song be to-night 1844; Melodies of leisure hours 1855, ten numbers; The abandoned 1882; with Haynes Bayly, Of what is the old man thinking 1875. d. Great Yarmouth in straitened circumstances 1 June 1887.

KNIGHT, Lewis Edward. b. 13 March 1833; cornet 17 light dragoons 17 Sep. 1850, lieut.-col. 19 July 1864 to 9 July 1865 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. Cape Mounted rifles 1866–70; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1873–78; lieut.-col. 81 foot 6 Dec. 1879 to 7 Jany. 1880; M.G. 5 Oct. 1880; brigadier general Belfast district 19 April 1884 to death. d. Milgate near Maidstone 20 Jany. 1886.

KNIGHT, MARY ANN (dau. of Mr. Povey). b. Birmingham 26 July 1804; sang at Drury Lane 3 June 1817; appeared as Margaretta in No song, no supper, at Drury Lane 1819, and was long a popular ballad singer; the first lady to sing at Dramatic Fund dinners; went with her brother John Povey to America; appeared as Floretta in The Cabinet, at Park theatre, New York 30 Nov. 1826; an actress in comic opera, later on played chambermaids, country girls and elderly spinsters; played at Park theatre, New York 1841–8, made money which she lost in American securities; reduced to blindness by grieving for loss of her only child 1845, when she returned to England. (m. Edward Knight, musician, son of Edward Knight the actor). d. 33 Grove place, Brompton, London 16 Oct. 1861. Ireland’s Records, i 511–2 (1866).

KNIGHT, ROBERT. Editor of the Bombay Times about 1860, which became a daily journal as The Times of India, sold his interest in it; commenced the Indian Economist a monthly serial; established The Indian Statesman 1859; removed to Calcutta and amalgamated The Statesman as a daily with The Friend of India; author of The Imam commission unmasked 1859; The Indian empire and our financial relations thereto 1866; Speech on Indian affairs 1866; India, a review of England’s financial relations thereto 1868; Manchester and India 1877. d. Calcutta 2 Feb. 1890.

KNIGHT, SAMUEL JOHNES (son of Thomas Johnes). b. Ludlow 1756; ed. Christ Church, Oxford, fellow of All Souls’, B.A. 1778, M.A. 1782; V. of Allhallows, Barking, Essex, May 1783 to death; R. of Welwyn, Herts. 11 Aug. 1797 to death; took name of Knight by r.l. 30 Sep. 1813. d. Welwyn 8 July 1852.

KNIGHT, SUSAN (dau. of an actor called Williamson or O’Shaughnessy and sister of Richard John or Obi Smith actor and of Mrs. Sarah Bartley actress). b. York 26 March 1784; heroine of the York circuit when under Tate Wilkinson; acted at Bath some years; first appeared at Drury Lane 17 June 1813 as Ella Rosenberg; at Milton st. theatre under John Kemble Chapman’s management; at the Olympic under Madame Vestris. m. as his second wife in 1807 Edward Knight the actor known as little Knight, he was b. Birmingham 1774, d. London 21 Feb. 1826; she d. 13 Dec. 1859. Theatrical Inquisitor, ix 381–84 (1816), portrait; Era 18 Dec. 1859 p. 11.

KNIGHT, WILLIAM (natural son of a landed proprietor in Aberdeenshire). b. near Portgordon, Banffshire 1825; ed. at parish school of Keith and at St. Andrews where he gained a bursary; clerk in office of A. Torrie of Aberdeen, advocate; a shoemaker in Aberdeen 1846–51; in Edinburgh 1853–56 and in Aberdeen again. d. in the infirmary, Dundee Aug. 1866. Auld Yule and other poems. By Wm. Knight with recollections of the author’s life, pp. xxi–xl (1869), portrait; Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 271.

KNIGHT, WILLIAM (son of William Knight of Painswick, Gloucs.). b. 1790; ed. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; R. of St. Michael’s, Bristol 1816–75; hon. canon of Bristol 1864 to death; author of Church missionary jubilee 1848. 1848; Lectures on prophecies concerning Antichrist 1855; Psalms and hymns 1862; The arch of Titus and the spoils of the Temple 1867. d. 5 Wetherill place, Grosvenor place, Clifton 5 Aug. 1878.

KNIGHT, WILLIAM HENRY (son of John Knight of Newbury, Berkshire, schoolmaster). b. Newbury 26 Sep. 1823; in a solicitor’s office at Newbury; painter in London from 1844, studied at British museum and R. Academy; exhibited 29 pictures at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1844–64; his best known work is The broken window. d. Claremont cottage, Claremont place, Wandsworth road, Surrey 31 July 1863. Art Journal (1863) 133, 191; Sydney Armytage’s Beautiful pictures (1875) 51–2.

KNIGHT, VALENTINE. b. 1792; gold and silver dial maker and engine-turner 4 Newcastle place, Clerkenwell 1828–51, Knight’s dials were long in demand particularly by Americans; took Thomas Burr into partnership 1842; retired with a large fortune 1851; chairman of meeting to establish British Horological Institute 15 June 1858, president to death; an early director of Mutual life assurance co.; president of Watch and clock makers’ asylum; satirised in an engraving published by Askew & Co. 5 Butcher hall lane, entitled Sir Stultus Walentine, knight and champion of St. James’ Herriddittaries. d. Thornycroft, Leatherhead, Middlesex 17 Nov. 1867. Pinks’s Clerkenwell (1881) 318, 753; Horological Journal 1 Dec. 1867 pp. 37–38.

KNIGHT, W. H. b. 29 Nov. 1812; on the staff of The Sporting Life; connected with several daily newspapers; edited John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac some years to death; resided at 46 George st. Hampstead road, London a long time. d. Middlesex hospital, Berner’s st. London 16 Aug. 1879.

KNIGHTLEY, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (1 son of rev. Charles Knightley 1753–87, R. of Preston Capes, Northamptonshire). b. Preston Capes 30 Jany. 1781; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Oxf., D.C.L. 1834; succeeded his uncle 29 Jany. 1812; on his mare Benvolio cleared 31 feet over a fence and a brook at Brixworth hill, a spot since known as Knightley’s leap; a breeder of hounds and short horns and a great farmer; contested Northhants. 1831; M.P. Southern division of Northhants. 1834–52; master of the Pytchley hunt 1817–18; wrote in Post and Paddock pp. 322–5 Auld Lang Syne, and in Silk and Scarlet, pp. 70–82 Olden Times. d. Fawsley court near Daventry 30 Aug. 1864. Sporting Review, xxxvi 1–7 (1856), portrait, lii 320 (1864); H. O. Nethercote’s Pytchley Hunt (1888) 45–47, portrait; Northamptonshire election (1831).

KNILL, RICHARD (4 child of Richard Knill, carpenter, d. 1826). b. Braunton near Barnstaple 14 April 1787; congregational missionary in Madras 1816–19 and at St. Petersburg 1820–33; travelled in United Kingdom advocating claims of the foreign missions 1833–41; minister at Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucs. 1 Jany. 1842 to 1848, at Chester 1848 to death; author of The farmer and his family 1814; some account of John Knill 1830; The happy death-bed 1833; Memoirs of female labourers in the missionary cause 1839; A Scotchman abroad 1841. d. 28 Queen st. Chester 2 Jany. 1857. Birrell’s Life of R. Knill (1878), portrait; Waddington’s Congregational history, v 185–96 (1880).

KNOCKER, EDWARD (youngest son of Wm. Knocker of Dover, solicitor). b. Dover 1804; solicitor at Dover 1826–74, member of the common council 1827–35, town clerk 1860–8, alderman several times, mayor 1871; registrar of the Cinque Ports many years; hon. librarian to Dover corporation; F.S.A. 5 March 1874; author of On the antiquities of Dover 1858; An account of the grand court of Shepway, held on Bredenstone hill, Dover for the installation of viscount Palmerston as constable of Dover and warden of the Cinque ports Aug. 25, 1861. 1862; The footsteps of the Lord: being a continuous narrative 1870. d. Torquay 25 Dec. 1884.

KNOLLIS, FRANCIS MINDEN (eld. son of rev. James Knollis of Donnington, Berkshire). b. Donnington 14 Nov. 1816; ed. at Lincoln coll. Oxf.; demy Magd. coll. 1836–9, fellow 1839 to death, bursar 1846; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1850, D.D. 1851; R. of Congerstone, Leics. 1840–2; R. of Brandeston, Norfolk 1847–8; domestic chaplain to Lord Ribblesdale 1849 to death; P.C. of Horspath, Oxon. 1849–50; Inc. of Fitzhead near Taunton 1856–61; author of The sophistry of words, or the cause and effects of inadequate appellations of sin considered. Oxford 1837, anon.; A wreath for the altar. Leicester 1838; A short explanation of all the holydays of the church 2 ed. 1839; The silver trumpet, or the child’s companion to the christian year. Norwich 1849; A tutor’s counsels to his old pupils, or a week’s hints for a quiet life 1863, and 14 other books. d. Bournemouth 26 Aug. 1863. J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college, vii 340–2 (1881).

KNOLLYS, SIR WILLIAM THOMAS (eld. son of general Wm. Knollys who claimed to be 8 earl of Banbury 1763–1834). b. 1 Aug. 1797; styled Viscount Wallingford 1797–1813; ed. at Harrow and Sandhurst; ensign 3 foot guards 9 Dec. 1813, adjutant 1821–7; lieut.-col. Scots fusilier guards 1850 to 25 March 1853 when placed on h.p., col. 20 June 1883; taught prince Albert his military duties 1850; governor of Guernsey 1 Aug. 1854 to 10 May 1855; commanded the camp at Aldershot 1855–60; col. of 62 foot 16 Nov. 1858 to 20 June 1883; general 17 June 1866; vice pres. of council of military education 1861–2; treasurer and comptroller of household of prince of Wales 1862–77, groom of the stole to the prince 22 March 1877 to death; gentleman usher of the black rod to House of Lords 22 March 1877 to death; receiver general of duchy of Cornwall 14 Oct. 1878 to death; LL.D. Oxf. 1863, D.C.L. Camb. 1864; K.C.B. 23 April 1867; P.C. 19 March 1872; author of A translation of the Odes of Horace, privately printed; Some remarks on the claim to the earldom of Banbury 1835; A journal of the Russian campaign of 1812 by R. E. P. J. De Frezensac, a translation 1852. d. House of Lords 23 June 1883. bur. Highgate cemet. 28 June. Biograph, ii 507–10 (1879); I.L.N. xlii 399, 400 (1863), portrait, lxxxiii 5 (1883), portrait; Graphic, xxvii 652 (1883), portrait.

NOTE.--In his will which was proved 30 Aug. 1883 he styles himself “by hereditary descent and by the law of the land Earl of Banbury, Viscount Wallingford and Baron Knollys of Greys co. Oxon.”

KNOTT, ROBERT ROWE. b. 1796; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1824; lecturer at Rye and head master Rye gram. sch. 1822–35; C. and lecturer at St. Peter-upon-Cornhill, London 1835–38; V. of Helidan, Northants. 1838–49; chaplain of Donative of Tarrant Crawford, Dorset 1849–65; chaplain of West London union 1865–70; author of The new aid to memory. Parts 1 and 2 By A Cambridge M.A., Part 3 by the rev. R. R. Knight 1839–42, 2 ed. 1841–42; Part 1 Events of the history of England, and Part 2 Events of the history of Rome, were separately printed 1845 and 1846. d. Bayswater, London 11 Jany. 1879.

KNOWLES, CHARLES JAMES (2 son of James Knowles of Greenhead, Yorkshire). b. Greenhead 1798; barrister M.T. 7 Nov. 1823, bencher 1841 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1841; attorney general for Duchy of Lancaster, Feb. 1846 to 1861. d. Hurst Green, Sussex 12 Feb. 1867.

KNOWLES, EDWARD. b. Gravesend; captain of the Northfleet 895 tons, emigrant ship which was run down about two miles off Dungeness on her way from London to Hobart Town by the Spanish steamer Murillo 22 Jany. 1873, when only 85 persons were saved out of 412 passengers and crew; m. 4 Dec. 1872 Frederica Louisa Markham, she was granted civil list pension of £50 1 March 1873; he went down in the Northfleet 22 Jany. 1873. Annual Register (1873) 9–15.

KNOWLES, EMMA MARIAN MAUDE (dau. of Mr. Elphinstone). b. London about 1808; pupil of James Sheridan Knowles the actor; first appeared in America 26 Aug. 1834 at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia as Juliet; returned to England 1836; played in William Tell, The Hunchback and several other of J. S. Knowles’s plays at T.R. Dublin from 4 April 1836; played at Glasgow 1837 and 1838; played Meeta in J. S. Knowles’s drama The Maid of Mariendorpt at Haymarket theatre, London 9 Oct. 1838; (m. 1842 J. S. Knowles the dramatist); left all her husband’s manuscripts to Mary Knowles Rice. She d. 29 North bank, Regent’s park, London 10 May 1888. R. B. Knowles’s Life of J. S. Knowles (1872) 133; F. Harvey’s Genealogical table of the families of ... Knowles (1875).

KNOWLES, SIR FRANCIS CHARLES, 3 Baronet (only son of admiral sir Charles Henry Knowles, 2 baronet 1754–1831). b. 10 June 1802; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., 22 wrangler and B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; F.R.S. 4 March 1830; F.S.A.; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1834; gained Telford prize 1872 for an intricate mathematical problem; author of History of the Shaftesbury election 1830; The supplement to the reform act of 1832, a proposal for the extension of the representation 1864. d. 50 York st. Portman sq. London 19 March 1892. bur. cemetery of St. Nicholas, Guildford 25 March. The Daily Graphic 24 March 1892 p. 9, portrait.

KNOWLES, JAMES SHERIDAN (only son of James Knowles the lexicographer 1759–1840). b. Anne st. Cork 12 May 1784; removed with his parents to London 1793; wrote the Welsh Harper, one of the popular ballads of the day 1798; ensign in 2nd regiment of Tower Hamlets militia 25 Jany. 1805 to 25 July 1806; M.D. Aberdeen 1806; vaccinator of Jennerian Soc. Salisbury sq. London 1806; first appeared on the stage at Crow st. theatre, Dublin 1808; acted in Cherry’s company at Waterford and Swansea 1809–11; taught elocution at Mrs. Chapman’s school, Belfast 1813–5; kept a school at Glasgow 1817–29; partner with Mr. Northhouse in the Free Press newspaper, Glasgow 1821–4; first appeared in London at Covent Garden 5 April 1832 as Master Walter in The Hunchback, made his début in U.S. of A. 29 Sep. 1834 in the same part; lectured at various places on rhetoric, &c.; granted civil list pension of £200, 14 July 1848; converted and became a Baptist preacher June 1853, drew large audiences to Exeter Hall; his best known plays were Cains Gracchus produced at Belfast 13 Feb. 1815, Virginius at Glasgow 1819 and at Covent Garden 17 May 1820, The Hunchback at Covent Garden 5 April 1832, The Wife at Covent Garden 24 April 1833 in which he played Julian St. Pierre, The Love Chase at Haymarket 10 Oct. 1837, Woman’s Wit or love’s disguises at Covent Garden 23 May 1838; author of The Magdalen and other tales 1832; The life of Edmund Kean, Esq. tragedian 1833; George Lovell, a novel 3 vols. 1846; Fortescue, a novel 3 vols. 1847; The Rock of Rome or the arch-heresy 1849; The Idol demolished by its own priest 1851; The Gospel attributed to Matthew is the record of the whole original apostlehood 1855. d. Higher terrace, Torquay 30 Nov. 1862. bur. necropolis, Glasgow 5 Dec. Life of J. S. Knowles. By R. B. Knowles (1872), portrait; Genealogical table of the families of ... Knowles. By F. Harvey (1875); W. Marston’s Our Recent Actors, ii 122–38 (1888); Traits of Character. By A Contemporary, ii 131–58 (1860); James Grant’s Portraits of public characters, ii 251–61 (1841); J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit, 2 ed. (1858) 141–7; W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 397–402, portrait; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 85–90 (1844); G. Hodder’s Memories of my time (1870) 170–5; Cumberland’s British Theatre, vol. xlii, portrait; Men of the time (1857) 428–31.

NOTE.--There was a tavern at 12 Brydges st. Covent Garden called after him the Sheridan Knowles tavern, it lasted from 1840 to 1860, here met the worshipful society of “The Owls,” some 200 strong with Augustine Wade as president and J. S. Knowles as patron and chancellor. There was a splendid edition of Knowles’ works privately printed 1872–4 at expense of James M’Henry, edited by Francis Harvey 6 vols. 4^o., 25 copies only, the last vol. is a life of him by his son R. B. Knowles.

KNOWLES, JOHN. b. Manchester 1810; stage coach proprietor; succeeded his father in the coal and marble trade; proprietor of a corn and flour mill at Nuneaton; lessee of the old theatre royal, Manchester 29 Nov. 1842 to 1844; built the new theatre royal, Peter st. Manchester, opened 29 Sep. 1845, lessee until 1875, his representations have never been surpassed in the provinces; formed a fine collection of works of art. d. The Lawn, Rugby 18 Feb. 1880.

KNOWLES, JOHN. b. Bow, London 1823; emigrated 1841 and was in service of New Zealand Co. 1841–44; in business in New Zealand 1853; under sec. public works department New Zealand 1871–83; edited Wellington Independent for 9 years, the Wanganui Chronicle, and the New Zealand Spectator; own correspondent of the London Times 1864–69; founder and first sec. of Wellington mechanics’ institution 1842; author of The Canterbury settlement of New Zealand a field for emigration 1851. d. Wellington 3 Dec. 1891.

KNOWLES, RICHARD BRINSLEY (son of J. S. Knowles the dramatist 1784–1862). b. Glasgow 17 Jany. 1820; clerk in general register office 7 and 8 Somerset place, London 1838–41; barrister M.T. 26 May 1843; edited Joe Miller the Younger 2 vols. 1845; Mephistopheles 16 numbers 1845–6; produced The Maiden Aunt, a comedy at Haymarket theatre 19 Nov. 1845; joined Church of Rome 1849; edited The Catholic Standard 1849; Illustrated London Magazine 5 vols. 1853–5; a writer on the Standard 1857–60, afterwards on the Morning Post; edited Chronicles of John of Oxenedes. Rolls Series 1859; engaged under royal commission on historical manuscripts 1871 to death; author of The life of James Sheridan Knowles 1872, 25 copies only privately printed. d. 29 North Bank, Regent’s park, London 28 Jany. 1882. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 402.

KNOWLES, THOMAS (son of John Knowles of Ince near Wigan). b. Ince 30 May 1824; a collier boy at a pit in Ince 1833 where his father was an overman; partner with John Pearson in a colliery at Ince; chairman of the Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron co.; member of Wigan town council 1863–73, mayor of Wigan 1864 and 1865; M.P. for Wigan 3 Feb. 1874 to death; one of royal comrs. to inquire into working of factory and workshops acts 25 March 1875, their report is dated 10 Feb. 1876; pres. of Mining association of Great Britain 13 Feb. 1878. d. Darnhall hall, Winsford, Cheshire 3 Dec. 1883.

KNOX, ALEXANDER ANDREW (2 son of George Knox of Jamaica, landed proprietor). b. London 5 Feb. 1818; ed. at Tiverton and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, third in the classical tripos and second chancellor’s medallist 1844; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1847; wrote leading articles for The Times 1846–60; magistrate at Worship st. police court London 17 Aug. 1860, at Marlborough st. 1862–78; wrote articles in Edinburgh Review, Blackwood’s Mag. and other periodicals; author of The new playground, or wanderings in Algeria 1881, 2 ed. 1882. d. 125 Victoria st. Westminster 5 Oct. 1891. Temple Bar, April 1892 pp. 495–517.

KNOX, BROWNLOW WILLIAM (3 son of Thomas Knox, captain 1 foot guards). b. 1806; ensign 3 foot guards 13 Aug. 1825; captain Scots fusilier guards 15 Nov. 1839, sold out 2 Oct. 1846; major Bucks. yeomanry cavalry 5 April 1853, lieut. col. 27 May 1862 to Jany. 1869; M.P. for Marlow 3 Aug. 1847 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. 28 Wilton crescent, London 14 March 1873.

NOTE.--In 1850 he advanced money to Frederick Gye for the purpose of carrying on the Royal Italian opera, Covent Garden, this arrangement lasted until 5 March 1856 when the theatre was burnt down, Gye then hired the Lyceum and carried on Italian opera there 2 years, when he returned to the new Covent Garden theatre. Knox filed a bill against Gye in 1861, V.C. Wood decreed 4 Dec. 1863 there was no partnership between them and the bill was dismissed; in 1864 Knox filed a second bill against Gye, V.C. Wood decided against Gye 30 Jany. 1866, the lord chancellor then being appealed to reversed V.C. Wood’s decision 20 Feb. 1867, Knox appealed to the House of Lords 1871, his appeal was dismissed with costs 8 July 1872. Law Reports, 5 House of Lords 656–88 (1872).

KNOX, EDMUND SEXTON PERY (2 son of 1 earl of Ranfurly 1754–1840). b. 21 July 1787; entered navy Nov. 1799; captain 28 Feb. 1812; flag capt. in the Eurotas 38 guns in 1814 and then on h.p. to death; R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 7 Nov. 1860. d. Dover 24 March 1867.

KNOX, HENRY BARRY (2 son of George Knox, M.P. for univ. of Dublin, d. 13 June 1827). b. 7 Oct. 1807; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; R. of Hadleigh, Suffolk and co-dean of Bocking 1841 to death. d. Hadleigh 24 Aug. 1869.

KNOX, JAMES. b. 1807; accountant; a publisher in Edinburgh; started and edited The Torch, a journal of literature, science and the arts, 22 numbers Edinburgh 3 Jany. to 30 May 1846; contributed to Tait’s Magazine; Scottish editor of Daily News 3 years. d. Bathfield, North Leith 5 June 1869.

KNOX, JOHN HENRY (brother of E. S. P. Knox 1787–1867). b. 26 July 1788; weigh-master of butter to 1830 when granted pension of £1076 15s. on abolition of the office; M.P. Newry 1826–32; author of Norman Hamilton, or the shadow of destiny 1860; The Ocean Pilgrim’s jottings 1870; The critic-vampyre 1870. d. Chislehurst, Kent 27 Aug. 1872. I.L.N. lxi 263 (1872).

KNOX, LAWRENCE EDWARD (1 son of Arthur Edward Knox of Trotton, Sussex, b. 1808). b. Kemp Town, Brighton 7 Nov. 1836; ensign 63 foot 25 Aug. 1854, lieut. 11 Dec. 1854, placed on h.p. with rank of captain 15 Jany. 1857, sold out 1858; founded The Irish Times 1859 which became the leading paper in Ireland; major 2nd royal Tower Hamlets militia 24 March 1866 to 20 Aug. 1870; M.P. for borough of Sligo 20 Nov. 1868, unseated on petition 19 Feb. 1869, Sligo disfranchised 1870; F.R.S. Dublin. d. 53 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 24 Jany. 1873. I.L.N. lxii 115 (1873).

KNOX, RICHARD (son of John Knox of Dublin). b. 28 May 1812; ed. at Eton; cornet 4 light dragoons 28 June 1831; lieut. 15 hussars 2 Sep. 1836, major 8 Dec. 1854 to 19 Feb. 1858; raised the 18th hussars at Leeds 1858, lieut.-col. of the regiment 19 Feb. 1858, served with it in England 1858–64, in Madras 1864–73, placed on h.p. 14 June 1873; M.G. 23 July 1876; granted good service pension 11 March 1878; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881; col. 20 hussars 21 Aug. 1883 to 11 June 1891; col. 18 hussars 11 June 1891 to death. d. Strathdurn, Cheltenham 3 Jany. 1892.

KNOX, ROBERT. Sub-edited Morning Herald many years, edited it 1846–58; registrar of mixed commission at Cape of Good Hope 1858 to death. d. Cape of Good Hope 6 March 1859.

KNOX, ROBERT (5 son of Robert Knox, mathematical master at Heriot’s hospital, Edinburgh d. 1812). b. Edinburgh 4 Sep. 1791; lost sight of his left eye from small-pox; ed. at high school Edinb., dux and gold medallist 1810; studied at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1814; assistant surgeon in the army 1815, sent to Cape of Good Hope with 72nd foot April 1817, returned to England on h.p. 25 Dec. 1820, remained on h.p. to 1832; F.R.C.S. Edinb. 1825, conservator of museum of comparative anatomy and pathology 1825–31; anatomical lecturer in Edinb. 1825–41, in 1828–9 his students numbered 504, they presented him with a gold vase 11 April 1829; purchased bodies from the resurrectionists Burke and Hare 1828; lectured on The Races of Men and other subjects at Newcastle, Manchester and other towns 1846–52; pathological anatomist to Cancer hospital at Brompton, London, Oct. 1856 to death; practised at Hackney 1856 to death; author of The Edinburgh Dissector 1837, anon.; The races of men 1850, with supplement 1862; A manual of artistic anatomy 1852; A manual of human anatomy 1853; Fish and fishing in the lone glens of Scotland 1854; Man, his structure and physiology popularly explained 1857. d. 9 Lambe terrace, Hackney, London 20 Dec. 1862. bur. Woking cemet. 29 Dec. H. Lonsdale’s Life of R. Knox (1870), 2 portraits; Life of Sir R. Christison, vol. 1 (1885) passim; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of medical profession (1874) 420–33.

KNOX, ROBERT (3 son of Hugh Knox, a ruling elder of parish of Urney, co. Tyrone). b. Clady, parish of Urney 1815; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A. 1837; ordained by presbytery of Strabane, April 1840; minister of Linenhall st. ch. Belfast 1843 to death; started and edited the Irish Presbyterian, monthly periodical; D.D. Univ. of Schenectady, U.S. 1863; a founder of Sabbath school society for Ireland; an early promoter of the Presbyterian alliance; author of The crisis, plain truths and stern facts for earnest men 1868. d. Belfast 16 Aug. 1883.

KNOX, THOMAS FRANCIS (eld. son of John Henry Knox 1788–1872, M.P.) b. 24 Dec. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1845; received into Church of Rome at Northampton 16 Nov. 1845; admitted a member of the congregation of the Oratory 1848, founded with F. W. Faber the London Oratory 1849, superior of it 1865 to death; created D.D. by Pius IX. 1875; author of Life of the Blessed Henry Suso, by himself, translated from the German 1865; When does the Church speak infallibly? or the nature and scope of the Church’s teaching office 1867, 2 ed. 1870, translated into German and Italian; The last survivor of the ancient English hierarchy, T. Goldwell, bishop of St. Asaph. By T. F. K. 1876. d. the Oratory, Brompton road, South Kensington 20 March 1882. J. E. Bowden’s Life of F. W. Faber (1869) 238, 363, 424.

KNOX, SIR THOMAS GEORGE (son of rev. James Spencer Knox 1789–1862, R. of Maghera, co. Derry). b. 11 Jany. 1824; ensign 65 foot 17 April 1840; lieut. 98 foot 7 Oct. 1842 to Dec. 1848 when he sold out; served with Siamese army 1851–57; consul at Bankok 30 Nov. 1864; consul general in Siam 18 July 1868, agent and consul general 8 Feb. 1875, retired on a pension of £1026, 26 Nov. 1879; K.C.M.G. 12 April 1880. d. Eaux Chaudes, Pyrenees 29 July 1887.

KNOX, VICESIMUS (1 son of rev. Vicesimus Knox 1752–1821, master of Tunbridge school). b. 1779; barrister I.T. 3 Feb. 1804, bencher 1848 to death; deputy recorder of Saffron Walden, recorder 1837 to death. d. 25 Jany. 1855.

KNOX-GORE, SIR CHARLES JAMES, 2 Baronet (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Ballina house, co. Mayo 20 Sep. 1831; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign 27 foot 16 May 1851; lieut. 66 foot 27 Jany. 1854, captain 8 June 1855, sold out 30 April 1851; lieut.-col. Sligo artillery militia 3 May 1861, hon. col. 14 June 1876 to death. d. 22 Dec. 1890.

KNOX-GORE, SIR FRANCIS ARTHUR, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Knox of Broadlands park, co. Mayo 1774–1818, who assumed additional name of Gore 1813). b. 23 June 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Dublin; lord lieut. of Sligo 1831–71; sheriff of Sligo 1840; col. of Sligo militia 27 Jany. 1847 to death; created baronet 5 Dec. 1868. d. Dublin 21 May 1873.

KNYVETT, CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Knyvett 1752–1822, glee and catch singer). b. 1773; a chorister of Westminster abbey; assisted his father in revival of the Vocal Concerts at Hanover sq. rooms 1801; organist of St. George’s, Hanover sq. 1802; gentleman of the chapel royal 1808; a teacher of the pianoforte and of thorough bass; published Six Airs harmonised for three and four voices 1815; A selection of psalm tunes as sung at the church of St. George, Hanover square 1823; Epitaph at Brading church yard set to music for three voices 1831. d. 2 Nov. 1852.

KNYVETT, DEBORAH (dau. of John Travis, fustian manufacturer). b. Shaw near Royton 1790; a handloom weaver at Shaw; sang in Shaw ch. choir; (m. as his second wife in 1826 the succeeding); apprentice to Thomas Greatorex in London 5 years; a soprano singer in oratorios and secular music, with a great knowledge of Handel’s music; sang at Concerts of Ancient music 1813, and at chief London concerts 1815–43 as well as at Birmingham 1847 etc. d. Hey cottage, Shaw 10 Feb. 1876. E. Butterworth’s Oldham (1856) 251; Victoria Mag. xxvi 375–76 (1876).

KNYVETT, WILLIAM (3 son of Charles Knyvett 1752–1822). b. London 21 April 1779; ed. by his father, Samuel Webbe the glee composer and Signor Cimador; sang in the treble chorus at concerts of Ancient music 1788, principal alto 1795, conductor of the concerts 1832–40; a gentleman of the chapel royal 1797 and composer there 1802; lay vicar Westminster abbey; for 40 years he sang in London concerts and at provincial festivals; one of finest alto singers of his day; Callcott’s glee With sighs sweet rose, was composed for him; conductor of Birmingham festivals 1831–43; composer of My love is like the red, red rose 1803; The bells of St. Michael tower 1810; The Boatie rows 1810; and As it fell upon a day 1812; wrote anthems for coronations of George IV. and Victoria. d. Clarges house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 17 Nov. 1856.

KOE, JOHN HERBERT (2 son of John Heide Koe of City of London, merchant). b. 1783; student L.I. 17 Nov. 1804, barrister 22 Nov. 1810, bencher 18 Jany. 1842 to death, treasurer 11 Jany. 1860 to death; Q.C. Jany. 1842; a leading counsel in the Rolls court; judge of county courts, circuit No. 33, Hertfordshire and part of Beds., Bucks., Essex and Middlesex 13 March 1847 to death; editor with Samuel Miller of The law and practice in bankruptcy. By Basil Montagu and W. S. Ayrton 2 ed. 2 vols. 1844. d. 33 Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 3 Sep. 1860. Law Times, xxxv 304, 315, 322 (1860).

KOENIG, HERR. Played the cornet à piston at Jullien’s series of concerts at English opera house Nov. 1843; played at Surrey Zoological gardens 1849; was the finest cornet player of his time, the predecessor of Isaac Levy. d. Belleville near Paris, Dec. 1857. I.L.N. 25 Nov. 1843 p. 348, portrait.

KOLBE, ADOLF GUILLAUME HERMAN, generally known as Herman Kolbe. b. near Göttingen 1818; professor in museum of economic geology 5 and 6 Craig’s Court, Charing Cross, London 1845–51; Davy medallist of Royal Society 1884 for researches in the isomerism of alcohols; author of A short text book of inorganic chemistry translated by T. S. Humpidge 1884, 2 ed. 1888, and of other works printed at Braunschweig and Leipzig. d. Leipzig 26 Nov. 1884.

KÖNIG, CHARLES DIETRICH EBERHARD. b. Brunswick 1774; ed. at Göttingen; came to England to arrange natural history collections belonging to queen Charlotte 1800; assistant to Jonas Dryander in charge of library and herbarium of sir Joseph Banks; assistant keeper of natural history department British museum 1807 and keeper 1813, in charge of mineralogical department to death; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1810, foreign secretary; F.L.S.; K.H. 1831; edited with John Sims The Annals of Botany 1805–7; published first number of ‘Icones fossilium sectiles’ 1830; translated Tracts relating to botany 1805; An introduction to the study of cryptogamous plants by K. Sprengel 1807. d. of apoplexy, British Museum, London 29 Aug. 1851. G.M. xxxvi 435–36 (1851).

KORTRIGHT, SIR CHARLES EDWARD KEITH (1 son of Cornelius Kortright of Hylands near Chelmsford). b. St. Croix, West Indies 25 Feb. 1813; ed. Copenhagen univ.; British consul at Carthagena, New Grenada 1844–57, acted as French consul 1851–6; consul for the state of Pennsylvania 1857–71 and for Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, etc. 1871–76; retired on a pension of £600, 8 Aug. 1878; knighted by patent 21 Oct. 1886. d. 2 Grosvenor crescent, London 19 May 1888.

KOTTAUN, THOMAS. b. Bohemia 1827; member of Brighton town band 1861; connected with 1 Sussex rifle volunteer band about 1863–80; conductor of band playing on Chain pier, Brighton for many years. d. Park st. Brighton, Oct. 1885.

KOUR, JENDA, Maharanee of Lahore. A dancing girl; favourite of the maharajah Ranjeet Singh (b. 2 Nov. 1780, founder of the Sikh empire, d. Lahore 27 June 1839); murdered all the near relatives of Ranjeet Singh 1839 etc., and placed her own son Dhuleep Singh b. 1838 on the throne of the Punjaub 1848; declared war against the British 1845, Moodkee, Aliwal and Ferozeshah ended the first Sikh war March 1846, she was granted annuity of 1 lac and 50,000 rupees 16 Dec. 1846; taken prisoner after second Sikh war 1849; a pensioner of the English government. d. Abingdon house, Kensington at 6.15 a.m. 1 Aug. 1863. bur. privately without ceremony, Kensal Green cemetery. Daily Telegraph 5 Aug. 1863 p. 4; G.M. Sep. 1863 pp. 378–9; Spectator 8 Aug. 1863 p. 2335.

NOTE.--Two of her servants wrote to a London paper to complain that their mistress ought to have been burnt and her ashes thrown into the Ganges.

KOZMIAN, STANISLAS. b. in Grand duchy of Posen 21 April 1811; ed. at Warsaw; a political refugee in England during many years; author of Dziela dramatozne Szekspira Posen 1866, and other works published at Posen. d. Posen 23 April 1885.

KRASINSKI, COUNT WALERJAN SKOROBOHATY. b. White Russia 1780; chief of department of ministry of public instruction in kingdom of Poland; established a Jewish college at Warsaw; introduced stereotyping into Poland; member of Polish diplomatic mission to England 1830–31; condemned to perpetual banishment; lived in London 1830–50, in Edinburgh 1850 to death; published Historical sketch of rise, progress and decline of the reformation in Poland 2 vols. 1838–40; Poland, its history, constitution, literature, manners, customs, etc. 1855 and 10 other works. d. Edinburgh 22 Dec. 1855. G.M. xiv 625 (1840), xlv 199 (1856).

KRAUSE, WILLIAM HENRY. b. island of St. Croix, West Indies 6 July 1796; ed. at Fulham and Richmond; ensign 51 foot 21 Oct. 1813, lieut. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818, sold out 1824 or 1825; at battle of Waterloo; moral agent on Irish estates of Earl of Farnham to look after schools and moral and religious welfare of tenantry; entered at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1838; C. of Cavan 1838–40; incumbent of Bethesda chapel, Dublin 1840 to death, where he became one of the best known evangelicals; author of Sermons preached in Bethesda chapel, Dublin 3 vols. 1853, Second series 2 vols. 1856–58; Sketches of nineteen discourses on the wiles of Satan 1872. d. Dublin 27 Feb. 1852. C. S. Stanford’s Memoir of W. H. Krause (1854), portrait.

KUPER, SIR AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD (son of rev. Wm. Kuper, D.D., chaplain to queen Adelaide, d. 13 Warwick road, Upper Clapton 27 Nov. 1861). b. 16 Aug. 1809; entered navy 19 April 1823; assisted sir J. J. G. Bremer in forming settlement of Port Essington, North Australia 1839; captain 8 June 1841; captain of the Calliope during Chinese war 1841–3; R.A. of the Blue 29 July 1861; commander-in-chief China 8 Feb. 1862 to 17 Jany. 1865, co-operated with French and Dutch forces in Straits of Simonoseki, Japan 1864 and opened up the inland seas to all nations, for which he received legion of honour and military order of William of the Netherlands 1865; admiral 20 Oct. 1872; C.B. 21 Jany. 1842, K.C.B. 25 Feb. 1864, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. d. The Rock, South Brent near Totnes, Devon 29 Oct. 1885. I.L.N. xliv 189, 190 (1862), portrait.

KURTZ, ANDREW GEORGE. Collector of works of art, his pictures included samples of Bonheur, Leighton, Tadema, Millais, Leslie, Faed and Linnell; his galleries often opened to the public at Grove house, Wavertree, Liverpool. d. Aberystwith 20 Sep. 1890. Athenæum 12 Sep. 1885 p., 27 Sep. 1890 p. 455.

KURZ, SULPICE. b. Munich about 1833; served in Dutch service in Java several years; curator of the herbarium, Calcutta 1864 to death; explored Burma, Pegu and Andaman islands; wrote many articles in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal and Journal of Botany; author of Forest flora of British Burma. Calcutta 2 vols. 1877; Report on the vegetation of the Andaman islands. Calcutta 1867. d. Pulo-Penang 15 Jany. 1878. Journal of Botany (1878) 127.

KYD, ARTHUR ANDERSON (4 son of David Kyd, jute manufacturer). b. Dundee 18 Nov. 1856; made trigonometrical survey of Galashiels 1879–80; surveyor to Kenilworth local board 1881–83; on staff of London Sanitary protection association 1884 to death; reported on Eton college, Royal Engineering college Cooper’s hill and other buildings; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1882; sec. Clapham Congregational young men’s union. d. Clapham 11 Feb. 1886. Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. lxxxiv 449–50 (1885–86).

KYLE, JAMES FRANCIS. b. Edinburgh 22 Sep. 1788; ed. at R.C. seminary of Aquhorties, Aberdeenshire, professor there 1808 to Jany. 1826 except 2 or 3 years; ordained priest 21 March 1812; priest in Glasgow 2 or 3 years; bishop of Germanicia in partibus and vicar apostolic of northern district of Scotland 13 Feb. 1827 to death, consecrated at Aberdeen 28 Sep. 1828; collected 30,000 letters and papers relating to ecclesiastical history of Scotland, now in the library at Buckie on the coast of Moray Firth; profoundly versed in history and literature of Scotland. d. Preshome in-the-Enzie, Banff 23 Feb. 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i 290 (1869).

KYLE, SAMUEL MOORE. b. 1800 or 1801; archdeacon of St. Peter’s, Cork 6 July 1833; vicar general and chancellor of Cork and Ross 30 June 1837 to death; vicar general of Cloyne 1840; author of The ministration of private baptism. Cork 1853. d. 37 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 1 May 1890.

KYNASTON, HERBERT (4 son of Roger Kynaston of Warwick). b. Warwick 23 Nov. 1809; ed. Westminster 1821–7 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., tutor and Greek reader 1836, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, B.D. and D.D. 1849; C. of Culham, Oxfordshire 1834–8; high master of St. Paul’s sch. London 22 June 1838 to Dec. 1876; select preacher of univ. of Oxf. 1842–43; R. of St. Nicholas-Cole-Abbey with St. Nicholas Olave, London 1850–66; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. July 1853 to death; contested chair of poetry at Oxford 1867; few scholars equalled him as a composer of Latin verse, he for long wrote annual compositions in praise of John Colet founder of St. Paul’s sch.; author of Miscellaneous poems 1841; Lays of the seven half centuries 1859; The number of the fish, a poem 1864; edited with a translation The glory of paradise, by Peter Damiani 1857. d. 31 Alfred place west, South Kensington, London 26 Oct. 1878. bur. Friern Barnet 2 Nov. Leisure Hour, March 1879 pp. 180–82.

KYNASTON, SIR JOHN ROGER, 3 Baronet. b. 2 July 1797; ed. Rugby and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1820; capt. North Salop yeomanry cavalry 1831–50; succeeded 26 April 1839; sheriff of co. Montgomery 1842. d. Great Western hotel, Paddington, London 7 March 1866.

KYNASTON, ROGER. b. London 5 Nov. 1805; ed. Eton; first played at Lord’s in Lord’s v. Eton 31 July 1823, played for 30 seasons; generally fielded long-stop; sec. Marylebone club 14 June 1842 to May 1858 and treasurer 1858–66. d. 43 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 21 June 1874. I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1844 p. 125, portrait.

KYNNERSLEY, THOMAS CLEMENT SNEYD- (2 son of Thomas Sneyd-Kynnersley of Loxley park, Staffs. 1774–1844). b. 23 July 1803; ed. at Rugby and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister M.T. 20 June 1828; revising barrister on Oxford circuit 1832–55; commissioner of bankrupts for Stafford, Lichfield and Newcastle-under-Lyme to 12 Nov. 1842 when granted pension of £147 on abolition of the office; stipendiary magistrate Birmingham 5 April 1856 to Aug. 1888; chief founder of St. Martin’s shoe-black brigade, Birmingham 5 April 1858; much interested in criminal reform, prisoners’ aid societies and industrial schools; recorder of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Nov. 1858 to June 1887; edited J. T. Pratt’s Law of highways 9 ed. 1863, 10 ed. 1865, 11 ed. 1870; author of The law relating to dealers in old metals and marine store dealers 1862; The law relating to juvenile offenders 1862. d. Moon Green, Moseley, Birmingham 2 May 1892. The Biograph, March 1882 pp. 276–79.

KYNOCH, GEORGE (youngest son of John Kynoch of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire). b. Peterhead 22 Aug. 1834; clerk at Birmingham and Midland bank some years; founded the Lion ammunition works, Witton, Birmingham; partner with John Abraham 1873, partnership dissolved, business became a limited co. 6 July 1884, he received £60,000 in cash, £10,000 in fully paid preference shares and the whole of the £40,000 ordinary shares, managing director 1884–6, sold his interest in it 1887; pres. of Aston conservative association March 1885; M.P. Aston manor 3 July 1886 to death, absent from House of Commons 1889–90; gun manufacturer Lichfield road, Aston 1887–88; lived at Hamstead hall, Handsworth, Birmingham; went to South Africa, Nov. 1888; a general merchant Johannesburgh 1888; obtained special concessions from Transvaal government for arms and ammunition; invented a solid Martini cartridge used by the government. d. from internal cancer at Johannesburgh 28 Feb. 1891. Daily Graphic 3 March 1891 p. 9, portrait; London Figaro 7 March 1891 p. 9, portrait; Birmingham Weekly Post 7 March 1891.

KYTE, AMBROSE. b. Tipperary 1822; went to Australia 1840; a merchant at Melbourne; retired with a large fortune 1857; offered £1000 towards expenses of exploring expedition to cross Australia from south to north Sep. 1858, this led to despatch of Burke and Wills’ expedition Aug. 1860; member for East Melbourne of legislative assembly 1861–6; a great philanthropist, gave many cheques for £1000 each from ‘A Merchant of Melbourne.’ d. Melbourne 1868.

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LABELLE, A. (son of a shoemaker). b. St. Roch, Quebec 1834; parish priest of St. Jerome; founder of national colonization in Canada and known as The Apostle of colonization; took the lead in raising men to oppose the Fenians 1868; promoted Canadian Pacific railway 1881; appointed a deputy commissioner of agriculture, his bishop refused his assent to his taking this office, but the Pope did not order him to give it up. d. Quebec 4 Jany. 1891.

LABLACHE, FANNY (dau. of Mr. Wilton). b. Scotland; acted in the provinces under stage name of Fanny Wyndham; studied at Royal Academy of Music, London 1836–7; made her début at Lyceum theatre 1836; sang at Her Majesty’s with success the contralto part in Rossini’s opera Donna del Lago; m. Frederick Lablache (1815–87) when she retired from the stage; taught singing; struck with a wave while bathing. d. Paris 23 Sep. 1877.

LABLACHE, FANNY ROSE LOUISE (younger dau. of the succeeding). Author of Starlight stories told to bright eyes 1877; A wayside posy, gathered for girls 1878. d. 51 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 5 April 1885.

LABLACHE, FREDERICK (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 29 Aug. 1815; pupil of his father; sang in Italian opera at King’s theatre London 1835; sang at Manchester frequently with Mario, Grisi, &c.; played the part of Count Rodolpho to Jenny Lind’s Amina in La Sonnambula on her first visit to Manchester 28 Aug. 1847; sang in the operas Cosi fan tutte and Il Matrimonio Segreto at Her Majesty’s 1844 and 1846, sang there until 1852; taught music in London about 1865 to death. d. 51 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 30 Jany. 1887. Theatre, ix 173 (1887).

LABLACHE, LUIGI (son of Nicholas Lablache of Marseilles, merchant, by an Irish woman). b. Naples 6 Dec. 1794; his voice was a contralto before it broke, afterwards a bass with a compass of two octaves, was also a great actor; sang at San Carlo, Naples 1812 and La Scala, Milan 1817 and 1820–3; the opera of Elisa e Claudio was written for him by Saverio Mercadante 1821; sang at Venice 1823 and Vienna 1824–8; first appeared in London at King’s theatre 30 March 1830 as Geronimo in Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto; sang annually in London 1830–57; remained at Her Majesty’s theatre in 1847 when all the rest of the company went to Covent Garden; taught singing to Queen Victoria; author of Complete method of singing. Boston U.S. 1851. d. Naples 23 Jany. 1858. bur. Maison Lafitte, Paris. Dramatic and musical Rev. iii 267, 377 (1844); I.L.N. i 124 (1842) portrait, ii 275 (1843) portrait; You have heard of them. By Q. [G. C. Rosenberg] (1854) 82–90.

LACON, SIR EDMUND HENRY KNOWLES, 3 Baronet. b. 14 Aug. 1807; ed. at Eton and Emmanuel coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; head of firm of Lacon, Youell & Co. bankers and brewers, Yarmouth; succeeded as 3 baronet 1839; M.P. Yarmouth 1852–57 and 1859–65; M.P. North Norfolk 1868–80; high steward of Yarmouth 1875; major East Norfolk militia 6 July 1839, lieut.-col. 31 Aug. 1859, hon. col. 9 April 1881 to death; lieut.-col. Norfolk artillery volunteers 2 Dec. 1864 to death. d. Ormesby near Yarmouth 6 Sep. 1888, value of his personalty declared at £382,473.

LACROIX, ALPHONSE FRANÇOIS. b. Lignières, canton of Neuchatel 10 May 1799; a tutor at Amsterdam 1816; a missionary at Chinsurah near Calcutta, Feb. 1821 to 1827; became a British subject; a missionary at Calcutta 1827 to death; revised the Bengali scriptures and trained native preachers. d. Calcutta 8 July 1859. Mullens’s Brief memorials of Rev. A. F. Lacroix (1862), portrait; Missionary devotedness, a memoir (1860).

LACY, BENJAMIN. b. 1806; proprietor of Victoria music gallery, Manchester 1838 to death, this was the first real music hall in the country; owner of the Ordsall gardens, Manchester some time. d. Manchester, Dec. 1864.

LACY, CHARLES (son of James Lacy). b. Salisbury, Jany. 1795; ed. at All Souls’ coll. Oxf., bible clerk 1814–18; chaplain Ch. Ch. 1818–20; B.A. 1818, M.A. 1824; P.C. of Tring, Herts. 1819–39; R. of Althorpe, Lincoln 1837–39, the first living in gift of the crown after the Queen’s accession; R. of All Hallows on-the-wall, London 1839 to death; the oldest clergyman in the diocese of London. d. 25 Finsbury sq. London 17 May 1890. Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.

LACY, FRANCES (dau. of Mr. Dalton, actor, who d. 1825). b. London 1819; her stage name was Fanny Cooper; played at Reading theatre as Sophia in The Road to Ruin 1833; leading actress of Mrs. Thomas Robertson’s company in the Lincoln circuit 1837; first appeared in London at Haymarket 16 April 1838 as Lydia in The Love Chase; acted at Drury Lane Oct. 1839 to Feb. 1840, at Covent Garden winter seasons of 1840–3; played Helena in Midsummer Night’s Dream 16 Nov. 1840; acted at Sadler’s Wells 1844–7; played at Princess’s 1847 where she acted Cordelia to Macready’s King Lear; one of the best English actresses. (m. at St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 25 Jany. 1842 Thomas Hailes Lacy 1809–73). d. 89 Strand, London 21 April 1872. T. Marshall’s Lives of celebrated actors (1848) 199–222.

LACY, HARRIETTE DEBORAH (dau. of Mr. Taylor a tradesman). b. London 1807; taught elocution by Mrs. Bartley; first appeared at Bath theatre as Julia in The Rivals 5 Nov. 1827, where she remained till 1830; made début in London at Covent Garden as Nina in The Carnival of Naples 30 Oct. 1830, then acted Rosalind, also Helen in the Hunchback; at Haymarket 1837, at Covent Garden 1838 when she played Lady Teazle; the original of the heroine in Jerrold’s Housekeeper, at Haymarket theatre July 1833; the best Ophelia of her day; retired 1845. (m. 1842 Walter Lacy, actor b. 1803). d. 38 Montpelier sq. Brompton, London 28 July 1874. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses, ii 246–52 (1844); The Era 2 Aug. 1874 p. 12.

LACY, JANE (dau. of John Jackson of Sloane st. Chelsea, apothecary). b. 1776; first sang in London 25 April 1798. (m. 1800 Francesco Bianchi, Italian opera composer, b. 1752, d. 1810, she m. (2) 1812 the succeeding); one of the finest singers of Handel’s music; often sang at Windsor before George III.; sang in Calcutta 1818–26; retired about 1826 and then resided much abroad. d. Ealing, Middlesex 19 March 1858.

LACY, JOHN WILLIAM or WILLIAM. b. about 1780; first sang at concerts in London about 1798; studied in Italy several years; sang frequently at the Lenten oratorio and other important concerts in London; sang at Willis’s rooms 1809 and at Hanover sq. rooms 1810; sang in Calcutta 1818–26; considered to be the most legitimate English bass singer; retired about 1826. d. Devonshire about 1865.

LACY, MICHAEL ROPHINO (son of an Englishman by a Spanish mother). b. Bilbao, Spain 19 July 1795; made his début as a violinist at Bilbao 1801; ed. at Bordeaux 1802 and at Paris 1803; arrived in England Oct. 1805 and as a violinist was known as the Young Spaniard until May 1807; played light comedy parts in Edinburgh, Dublin and Glasgow about 1808–18; first violin and director of the Liverpool concerts 1818–20 and 1823–4; directed the ballets and composed music for Italian opera London 1820–3 and 1824 etc.; made the first English adaptations of the operas Semiramide 1829, William Tell 1830, Fra Diavolo 1831 and others; visited America, New Zealand and Australia; author of Love and reason; Doing for the best, and other dramas. d. Pentonville, London 20 Sep. 1867. Grove’s Dict. of music, ii 82–3 (1880).

NOTE.--In his sacred melodramatic opera The Israelites in Egypt produced at Covent Garden theatre 22 Feb. 1833 he combined the choruses of Handel’s Israel in Egypt with the solos from Rossini’s Moise, and illustrated the melange in action with a mise en scene; this was the first and last attempt of the kind and was suppressed by the intervention of the Bishop of London.

LACY, RICHARD JOHN JAMES. b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.A. 8 Aug. 1796. col. 23 June 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; director general of field train department R.A. 1 Jany. 1849; col. commandant of 6th battalion 8 July 1851 to death; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. d. royal arsenal, Woolwich 9 March 1852.

LACY, RICHARD WALTER. b. 5 Oct. 1810; ensign 84 foot 23 March 1832; lieut. 56 foot 1837, lieut.-col. 16 May 1856 to 12 June 1869 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depôt 1 April 1873; L.G. 29 Sep. 1878; placed on retired list 5 Oct. 1880; hon. general 1 July 1881. d. Reichenhall, Bavaria 23 Sep. 1886.

LACY, SARA. b. 1822; played soubrette and character parts with Frederick Robson at Grecian theatre 1844–9; associated with Braham, Macready, Mrs. Nisbett and Mrs. Glover; as Mrs. Valentine Roberts wrote the words of On the broad bosom of the deep 1854; As I roved through the meadows in May, 1855; A stalwart lad is the blacksmith’s son 1860; Come sit old friend beneath the porch 1862; O give me back my happy home 1863 and the words of many other songs. (m. Valentine Roberts). d. 5 April 1881.

LACY, THOMAS EDGAR. b. 1803; ensign 72 foot 8 April 1825, captain 11 July 1834 to 8 Oct. 1847 when placed on h.p.; commandant of staff college Sandhurst 1 Jany. 1865 to 1 July 1870; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 18 Sussex place, Kensington 22 Feb. 1880.

LACY, THOMAS HAILES. b. 1809; appeared at Olympic theatre, London as Lenoir in The Foundling of the Forest 7 April 1828; acted in the provinces; stage manager at Windsor theatre; manager of theatre royal Sheffield 1841; acted at Covent Garden 1842, at the Pavilion, Victoria and Sadler’s Wells 1844; played at Manchester 1844–5; active promoter of General theatrical fund instituted 16 Feb. 1839; theatrical publisher at 17 Wellington st. Strand, London 1849, removed to 89 Strand 1857, retired from business 1872; published Lacy’s Acting edition of plays, 99 volumes containing 1485 pieces 1848–73; author of 3 dramas, The Pickwickians 1837, The tower of London 1840 and The school for daughters 1843; (His wife was Frances Lacy 1819–72). d. Benhill st. Sutton, Surrey 1 Aug. 1873. I.L.N. lxii 279 (1873); Era 10 Aug. 1873 p. 11, 30 Nov. 1873 p. 7.

NOTE.--Tinsley the publisher obtained a perpetual injunction against him 30 June 1863 for publishing two plays dramatised from Miss Braddon’s novels Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley’s Secret. His library was sold for £2650, 24–29 Nov. 1873; his theatrical portraits were sold for £1970, 8 Dec. 1873. He left £8000 to the General theatrical fund.

LADBROOKE, HENRY (2 son of Robert Ladbrooke, landscape-painter 1768–1842). b. Norwich 20 April 1800; landscape-painter; exhibited 3 pictures at B.I. and 10 at Suffolk st. 1834–65. d. North Walsham 18 Nov. 1870.

LADBROOKE, JOHN BERNEY (brother of the preceding). b. 1803; pupil of his uncle John Crome whom he excelled as a painter of woodland scenery; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A., 10 at B.I. and 35 at Suffolk st. 1821–72. d. Kett’s Castle cottage, Mousehold, Norwich 11 July 1879.

LADELL, EDWARD. b. 1821; a painter of fruit subjects; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1856–80. d. Prospect park, Exeter 9 Nov. 1886.

LADEUIL, LEONARD MOREL-. b. 1820; sculptor at 13 Camden road, then of St. John’s Wood, London; chevalier de la légion d’honneur; exhibited at R.A. 1865; employed at Messrs. Elkington’s, Birmingham. d. Boulogne 15 March 1888.

LAFFAN, SIR ROBERT MICHAEL (3 son of John Laffan of Skehana, co. Clare). b. 14 Aug. 1819; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 May 1837, col. 9 Feb. 1870 to 1 Oct. 1877; an inspector of railways under board of trade 1847–52; M.P. St. Ives, Cornwall 1852–7; deputy inspector general of fortifications at the war office 1855–9; commanded R.E. at Malta 1860–65, at Aldershot 1866–70 where the old Queen’s birthday parade has been renamed Laffan’s Plain in his memory, and at Gibraltar 1872–77; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda 9 Aug. 1877 to death; L.G. 1 July 1881; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. Mount Langton, Bermuda 22 March 1882. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. iv 314 (1882); Graphic, xxv 528 (1882), portrait.

LAFONTAINE, SIR LOUIS HYPOLITE; 1 Baronet (3 son of Antoine Menard Lafontaine, farmer 1772–1813). b. Boucherville, Lower Canada, Oct. 1807; ed. at Montreal coll. to 1822; called to Toronto bar; a leader of national movement in Canada; arrested on charge of high treason 4 Nov. 1838; went to England as a delegate from constitutional association of Lower Canada 1838; M.P. for North York, Upper Canada 1840–51; attorney general and member of Canadian executive council Sep. 1842 to 28 Nov. 1844 and March 1848 to Oct. 1851; chief justice of court of queen’s bench, Lower Canada 13 Aug. 1853 to death; baronet of the United Kingdom 28 Aug. 1854. d. Toronto, after an apoplectic fit in his court there, 24 Feb. 1864. bur. in R.C. cath. Toronto 29 Feb. L. O. David’s Sir Ls. H. Lafontaine. Montreal (1872), portrait.

NOTE.--He was the first person of French Canadian extraction who held the highest legal offices in Lower Canada after it became a part of the British empire.

LAGRANGE, COMTE FRÉDÉRIC DE (son of general Joseph Lagrange, who d. 1825). b. 1816; kept a stud farm at Dangu in Normandy; won the Goodwood cup with Monarque 1857, also the Newmarket handicap 1858; won the Oaks with Fille de l’Air 1864; won the Two thousand guineas, Derby, Grand prix de Paris and St. Leger with Gladiateur 1865, being the only horse that ever won all four races; refused £16,000 for Gladiateur 1869, sold him for £6000, 1870; sold all his horses at Tattersalls, Nov. 1870 but kept another stud 1872–82; won the One thousand guineas with Camelia 1876; won the Two thousand guineas with Chamant 1877; won the St. Leger with Rayon d’Or 1879. d. at his villa near Paris 22 Nov. 1883. Baily’s Mag. iv 1–5 (1862), portrait; L. H. Curzon’s The blue ribbon of the turf (1890) 142–53, 340; J. Rice’s British Turf, i 343–6 (1879); Illust. Times 10 June 1865 p. 365, portrait of Gladiateur.

LAING, ALEXANDER (son of James Laing, agricultural labourer). b. Brechin, Forfarshire 14 May 1787; a herd boy; a flax dresser 1803–17; a pedlar in Forfarshire 1817–57; known as The Brechin poet; contributed to the Dundee Courier, Harp of Renfrewshire 1819, R. A. Smith’s Scottish Minstrel 1820, Struthers’s Harp of Caledonia 1821, Whitelaw’s Book of Scottish song 1844 and Whistle Binkie 1832–47; edited editions of Robert Burns and of Robert Tannahill; edited The Thistle of Scotland, a selection of ballads. Aberdeen 1823; published his poems entitled Wayside flowers 1846, 3 ed. 1857. d. Brechin 14 Oct. 1857. The poetry of Scottish rural life, a sketch of A. Laing. Brechin (1874); G. Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland, ii 93–98 (1877).

LAING, ALLAN STEWART (son of James Laing of Isle of Dominica). b. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; barrister M.T. 17 April 1812; magistrate at Hatton Garden police court, London 20 Oct. 1820 to 1837 when removed by the home secretary for his bad temper; is drawn by Dickens in Oliver Twist chapter 11 as Mr. Fang the magistrate. d. 3 Tanfield court, Inner Temple, London 12 Feb. 1862. J. Foster’s Life of C. Dickens, iii 4.

LAING, DAVID (son of Mr. Laing, merchant). b. City of London 1774; articled to sir John Soane 1790; surveyor of buildings at the Custom house 1811, designed a new Custom house built 1813–17, the front fell down 26 Jany. 1825; joint architect with W. Tite of church of St. Dunstan in the East 1817–20, opened 14 Jany. 1821; F.S.A.; published Hints for dwellings 1800, new ed. 1841; Plans of buildings executed in various parts of England, including the Custom house, London, engraved on 59 plates 1818. d. 5 Elm place, West Brompton, London 27 March 1856. G.M. June 1856 p. 650; The Builder 5 April 1856 p. 189.

LAING, DAVID (2 son of Wm. Laing, bookseller). b. Edinburgh 20 April 1793; assistant to his father, and partner with him 1821; sec. of Bannatyne Club 27 Feb. 1823 to its dissolution 1861; F.S.A. Scot. 1824, treasurer, then foreign sec. many years; librarian to the Society of Writers to the Signet, Edinburgh 21 June 1837 to death, printed a general catalogue of the library vol. 1 A to L 1865–71 and vol. 2 as far as letter N 1871–8; hon. professor of antiquities to R. Scottish Acad. 1854; LLD. Dublin univ. 1864; took special interest in old Scotch ballads and history; edited 5 works for Abbotsford club, 17 for Bannatyne club, 3 for Hunterian club, 2 for Shakespeare soc., 1 for Spalding club and 3 for Wodrow soc.; also The works of John Knox 6 vols. 1846–64, and the works of sir David Lindsay 1871, William Dunbar 1834 and Robert Henryson 1865; author of Early Scottish metrical tales 1826, new ed. 1889; Biographical notices of T. Young, vicar of Stowmarket. Edinb. 1870; Etchings by sir David Wilkie, with biographical sketches 1875 and numerous other works. d. 12 James st. Portobello, Edinburgh 18 Oct. 1878.

NOTE.--His library in a 31 day sale disposed of by Sotheby & Co. 1879–80 for £16,137 9s. He left drawings to R. Scottish Acad., and a collection of MSS. to Edinb. univ. T. G. Stevenson’s Notices of David Laing (1878); Select remains of ancient poetry of Scotland by D. Laing, with memoir (1885), portrait.

LAING, DAVID. b. 1800; ed. St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; chaplain to Middlesex hospital, London 1840–47; V. of Trinity district, St. Pancras, London 1 June 1847 to 1857, Holy Trinity ch. consecrated 15 Oct. 1850; R. of St. Olave-by-the-Tower, London 1857 to death; founder of Governesses’ Asylum, Prince of Wales’s road, Kentish Town, opened 12 June 1849, hon. sec. to death; F.R.S. 23 Nov. 1843; author of Sermons 1847; Six sermons in a work entitled Great truths for thoughtful moments 1853; The oneness of providence, evidence that the most high ruleth 1854; The Bible, its oneness of mind and oneness of design 1854, and some school books for children. d. St. Olave’s rectory, 8 Hart st. Mark lane, London 6 Aug. 1860. bur. Highgate cemetery. F. Miller’s St. Pancras (1874) 218–26, 330.

NOTE.--His wife Mary Elizabeth who acted as hon. sec. of Governesses’ Asylum 1860 to decease, d. 55 Haverstock hill, London 21 April 1886 aged 82.

LAING, FRANCIS HENRY. Roman Catholic ecclesiastic; D.D.; edited The catholic freethinker’s fly-sheet 1883, 2 numbers; author of Catholic the same in meaning as sovereign 1848; The knight of the faith, by J. H. L. 1867; The blessed virgin’s root traced in the tribe of Ephraim 1871; The shortcoming of the English catholic press 1879; The catholic freethinker 1886; The two evolutions, the real and the mock 1888. d. 17 Dec. 1889. The Tablet 11 Jany. 1890 p. 62.

LAING, HENRY. b. 1803; Seal engraver, Edinburgh; author of Descriptive catalogue of impressions from ancient Scottish seals. Edinb. 1850; Supplementary descriptive catalogue of seals 1866; granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1865. d. 1883.

LAING, John (son of Mr. Laing, factor to earl of Rosebery at Dalmeny). b. Edinburgh 1809; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; minister of parish of Livingston, Linlithgowshire 1842–3, free church minister there 1843–6; chaplain to presbyterian soldiers at Gibraltar 1846, afterwards at Malta; librarian of New college, Edin. 1850 to death; published Catalogue of the printed books and manuscripts in the library of New college, Edinburgh 1868; author with Samuel Halkett of A dictionary of the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain 4 vols. Edinburgh 1882–8. d. 3 April 1880. The Library Chronicle, v 138, 148–50 (1888).

LAING, JOHN GEORGE (2 son of Malcolm Laing of Upper Canada). b. Niagara, Upper Canada 26 Aug. 1839; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1865–8; 2nd wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1862; B.A. 1862; assistant tutor at Trinity college; barrister L.I. 6 June 1866. d. 46 Ladbroke grove, Notting Hill, London 4 Feb. 1887.

LAING, PETER. b. 5 Jany. 1785; resided at Elgin; entertained by the citizens of Elgin on his birthday 5 Jany. 1888 when aged 103.

LAING, PHILIP (youngest son of James Laing of Pitteenween, Fifeshire). Founded with his elder brother John Laing the great shipbuilding firm of John and Philip Laing at North Sands on the Wear 1793, sole proprietor 1818 to death, the works acquired worldwide reputation; lived at Deptford house, co. Durham 1818 to death. d. 1854.

LAING, SAMUEL (son of Robert Laing). b. Kirkwall, Orkney 4 Oct. 1780; ed. at Edinb. univ. to 1800; ensign royal staff corps 26 Sep. 1805, served in the Peninsula, sold out 1809; manager of mines at Wanlock head, Scotland 1809; organised herring fisheries in the Orkneys 1818; succeeded to Strynzia estate, Kirkwall on death of his brother Malcolm 6 Nov. 1818; provost of Kirkwall some years; engaged in the kelp trade, in which he lost his money 1834; contested Orkney and Shetland 1832; author of Journal of a residence in Norway 1834–36, 1836; A tour in Sweden 1839; Notes of a traveller on the social state of France, Russia, Switzerland, Italy 1842; The Heimskringla or chronicle of the kings of Norway, a translation 3 vols. 1844; Notes on the schism from the church of Rome 1845. d. at res. of his dau. Mrs. Elizabeth Baxter, Edinburgh 23 April 1868.

LAING, SIMON (son of David Laing. b. Gretna 1750, pedlar, priest at Gretna Green 1792, d. Springfield 31 June 1827). Weaver; priest at Gretna Green 1827 and custodian of the marriage register; took into partnership Robert Elliott; performed his last marriage ceremony 1871 and was the last of the Gretna Green priests. d. Kelling near Newcastle-on-Tyne 3 May 1872. bur. Gretna ch. yard. P. O. Hutchinson’s Chronicles of Gretna Green, ii 200–14 (1844); Annual Register (1872) 31.

LAIRD, JOHN (eld. son of William Laird of Birkenhead, shipbuilder). b. Greenock 14 June 1805; associated with his father, managing partner in firm of W. Laird & Son, style of firm changed to John Laird 1833, retired Oct. 1861; one of first to use iron for ships, built a lighter of 60 tons for use on the Irish lakes 1829, built the Lady Lansdowne steamship 1833, the John Randolph 1834 the first iron vessel seen in America, and the Nemesis for the H.E.I.Co. the first iron vessel carrying guns; built the first government iron ship the Dover mail packet 1840; chairman of Birkenhead improvement commission 1855 to Dec. 1861; M.P. Birkenhead 11 Dec. 1861 to death; built many large vessels for the government, Pacific Steam Navigation co., P. and O.S.N. co., Messageries Maritimes co. and British Colonial steam navigation co.; built the Alabama for American confederate states, launched 15 May 1862. d. 63 Hamilton sq. Birkenhead 29 Oct. 1874. Practical Mag. iii 401–8 (1874), portrait; I.L.N. xxxix 74 (1861), portrait; Graphic, x 439 (1874), portrait.

LAIRD, MACGREGOR (brother of the preceding). b. Greenock 1808; partner with his father; took part in formation of a co. at Liverpool to develop the river Niger, voyaged with Richard Lemon Lander in the Alburka to the junction of the Niger and the Tchadda 1832–3, returned to England 1834; F.R.G.S.; a promoter of British and North American steam navigation co. 1837, which built the Great Western which went to America and back under steam 1838; took an active part in development of Birkenhead from 1844; a merchant at 3 Mincing lane, London; started the African steamship co. 1849; fitted out a trading and exploring expedition at his own cost and risk to Central Africa 1854; built 3 steamers for annual voyages up the Niger; author of The effect of an alteration in the sugar duties on the people of England and the Negro race 1844; author with R. A. K. Oldfield of Narrative of an expedition into Africa by the river Niger in the vessels Quorra and Alburka 2 vols. 1837. d. 9 Jany. 1861.

LAKE, EDWARD JOHN (son of major Edward Lake lost at sea 1829). b. Madras 19 June 1823; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 11 June 1840, lieut. 1844; present at battle of Moodkee 20 Dec. 1845; in charge of the Kangra district in the Sutlej 1846; political officer to the Nawab of Bahawalpoor 1848, with whose troops he took part in siege of Mooltun; although but a lieut. was in charge of Davodpootra army; present at Gujerat 1849; in charge of Beas and Ravee country 1850–2; commissioner of Jalundhur Doab 1855; held fort of Kangra during the rebellion 1857; lieut.-col. R.E. 18 Feb. 1861; financial commissioner of the Punjab 1865; C.S.I. 24 May 1866; retired as major general 1 Jany. 1870; Lake scholarship founded at Lahore high sch. Jany. 1870; hon. lay sec. of Church missionary soc. 1869–76; editor of Church missionary record 1871–74; edited Church missionary atlas 5 ed. 1873; author of Sir D. McLeod, a record of forty-two years services in India 1874. d. Princes buildings, Clifton 7 June 1877. bur. Long Ashton 13 June.

LAKE, GEORGE HANDY. b. June 1827; edited Musical Gazette 3 vols. 1856–8; musical critic of Sunday Times; organist of several leading London churches; an accompanist at principal concerts; excellent performer on English concertina; composer of popular ballads, Summer is sweet, and One glance from thee, and many works for pianoforte and concertina; his oratorio Daniel produced at Exeter Hall 1852 met with great success. d. London 24 Dec. 1865.

LAKE, SIR HENRY ATWELL (3 son of sir James Samuel Wm. Lake, 4 bart. d. 4 Nov. 1832). b. Kenilworth 15 Dec. 1810; ed. at Harrow; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 15 Dec. 1826; employed in public works department, India 1826–54; commanded engineers in defence of Kars 1855; a prisoner in Russia 1855–56; transferred to British army as lieut.-col. unattached for his services at defence of Kars 1856; aide de camp to the Queen 24 June 1856 to 1864; lieut.-col. on h.p. 12 Sep. 1856; chief comr. of Dublin police 7 Sep. 1858 to Aug. 1877; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 25 March 1875; author of Kars and our captivity in Russia 1856, 2 ed. 1856; Narrative of the defence of Kars, historical and military 1857. d. Brighton 17 Aug. 1881. Nolan’s Russian war, ii 507 (1857), portrait; I.L.N. xxix 121, 126 (1856), portrait; Graphic, xxiv 389 (1881), portrait.

LAKE, NOEL THOMAS. b. 22 Oct. 1799; 2 lieut. R.A. 5 July 1820, colonel 23 Feb. 1856 to 30 May 1862; M.G. 30 May 1862; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Wellesley house, Shooter’s hill, Kent 19 May 1864.

LAKIN, JOHN. b. 1787; took part in whole of Peninsular war with the 16 lancers; serjeant major; keeper in Windsor great park about 1826 to death; the oldest royal servant of Her Majesty. d. Queen Anne’s Gate, Windsor great park 23 Feb. 1877.

LALOR, JOHN (son of John Lalor, merchant). b. Dublin 1814; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1837; assistant poor law commissioner, Ireland to 1836; one of principal editors of Morning Chronicle, London; solicitor Dublin 1838; left R.C. ch., became a unitarian and edited The Inquirer a weekly paper; author of The Educator, a prize essay 1839; Money and morals, a book for the times 1852. d. Holly hill, Hampstead, London 3 Feb. 1856. G.M. xlv 319–20 (1856).

LALOR, PETER (eld. son of Patrick Lalor, M.P. for Queen’s co., gentleman farmer). b. Tinakill, Queen’s co. Ireland 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; a civil engineer; sailed for Melbourne 1852; commanded the rebel miners at the Eureka stockade riot near Ballarat 3 Dec. 1854 when he received a ball near the shoulder which caused loss of his left arm; member of legislative assembly for Ballarat Nov. 1855, for South Grant 1856–71 and again 1875–88, chairman of committees 1859–68; inspector of railways 1855; chairman of the Clunes water commission; comr. for trade and customs 1877–80, post master general 1878–80, speaker of the assembly 22 July 1880 to 29 Sep. 1887, awarded a grant of £4000 on his retirement. d. Melbourne 9 Feb. 1889.

LAMB, SIR CHARLES MONTOLIEU, 2 Baronet. b. Nantcribba hall, Montgomeryshire 8 July 1785; succeeded 13 Oct. 1824; knight marshal of the royal household 30 Jany. 1825 to death; knight marshal of the lists at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; lord prior of English langue of knights of Malta 24 June 1847 to death. d. Beauport, Battle, Sussex 21 March 1860. Nixon and Richardson’s Eglinton tournament (1843), portrait plate iii.

LAMB, EDWARD BUCKTON. b. 1806; an architect in the modern Gothic style with a large practice; exhibited 57 designs at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1824–69; some of his designs were published in lithography; published Etchings of Gothic ornament 1830; Studies of ancient domestic architecture 1846. d. 3 Hinde st. Manchester sq. London 30 Aug. 1869.

LAMB, ROBERT (son of Thomas Lamb of Cockeram, Lancs.). b. 1812; ed. St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1840; C. of Kirkham, Lancs. 1837–40; principal of Western gram. sch. Brompton, London 1840–44; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Preston 1844–49; R. of St. Paul’s, Manchester 1849 to 1871; contributed many articles to Fraser’s Mag. under pseudonym of A Manchester Man; author of Sermons on passing seasons and events 1853; Selections from articles contributed to Fraser’s Magazine 2 vols. 1866; Sermons preached in St. Paul’s church 2 vols. 1870; Yarndale: an unsentimental story 3 vols. 1872. d. Haycarr near Lancaster 24 Dec. 1872.

LAMB, THOMAS. b. Lamb’s lane, Forebank, Dundee 1801; grocer and spirit dealer, Murraygate, Dundee; became a convinced teetotaller and destroyed all the liquor he had in stock 1828; opened a coffee house in the Murraygate which became the head quarters of the literary societies and clubs of Dundee; a refreshment contractor for festive meetings; opened refreshment rooms and tea gardens 1843; opened Lamb’s Temperance hotel 30 July 1852 which he much enlarged in 1867; kept a dairy farm. d. Dundee 31 Oct. 1869. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 342–9.

LAMBE, GEORGE. b. 1786 or 1787; assistant surgeon Bengal army 27 March 1808, surgeon 1 July 1823; superintending surgeon Dacca 31 Jany. 1844 to 10 April 1847; inspector general of hospitals, Bengal 10 April 1847, surgeon general 24 July 1848, phys. general 10 Feb. 1849 to 10 April 1852 when he retired. d. very suddenly 3 Feb. 1862.

LAMBERT, GEORGE JACKSON (son of George Lambert, organist of Beverley Minster 40 years, d. 15 July 1818). b. Beverley 16 Nov. 1794; organist of Beverley Minster 1818–74, 56 years; a fine violoncello and violin player; published overtures, instrumental chamber music, organ fugues, &c.; printed Duett for two performers on the piano 1815; A favourite French air with variations 1820; Major Campbell’s waltz with variations 1830. d. Beverley 24 Jany. 1880.

LAMBERT, SIR GEORGE ROBERT (5 son of Robert Alexander Lambert, captain R.N. 1732–1801). b. 8 Sep. 1795; entered R.N. April 1809; in the Walcheren expedition; captain 8 Aug. 1825; served in West Indies 1845–47; commodore at Jamaica 23 Jany. 1847; did good service in the war with Burmah; R.A. 21 Jany. 1854, admiral on h.p. 15 Dec. 1863; granted service pension 5 March 1864; K.C.B. 9 Dec. 1853, G.C.B. 7 June 1865. d. suddenly in billiard room of United Service club, 116 Pall Mall, London 5 June 1869.

LAMBERT, JAMES STAUNTON (eld. son of Walter Lambert of Creg Clare, co. Galway, d. 25 Sep. 1832). b. 5 March 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; sheriff of Galway 1813; M.P. co. Galway 6 July 1826 to 3 Dec. 1832. d. Budleigh Salterton, South Devon 1 July 1867.

LAMBERT, SIR JOHN (son of Daniel Lambert of Hindon, surgeon). b. Bridzor, Wiltshire 4 Feb. 1815; ed. Downside coll. Bath; solicitor at Salisbury 1836–57; mayor of Salisbury 1854 being the first Roman Catholic mayor of a cathedral city since the Reformation; a poor law inspector 1857; superintended administration of the Public Works (manufacturing districts) Act 1863; receiver of metropolitan common poor fund under Metropolitan Poor Act 1867; member of parliamentary boundaries commission 1867 and of the sanitary commission; the first permanent secretary of local government board 31 Aug. 1871 to Nov. 1882; chairman of commission which drew up census of landed proprietors in Great Britain 1872; chairman of boundaries commission 1884–5; C.B. 5 May 1871, K.C.B. 31 May 1879; P.C. 19 May 1885; profoundly versed in ecclesiastical music of the middle ages; author of many musical works in Latin and English; edited A grammar of ritual music by Janssen 1849; The vesper psalter 1849. d. Milford house, Elms road, Clapham common near London 27 Jany. 1892. bur. St. Osmund’s ch. Salisbury which he had founded. Downside Review, vol. viii No. 1, and vol. xi No. 1; I.L.N. 6 Feb. 1892 p. 166, portrait.

LAMBERT, JOHN ARTHUR (eld. son of sir John Lambert, G.C.B. d. 1846). b. 30 Sep. 1817; ensign grenadier guards 10 July 1835, lieut.-col. 12 March 1861 to 27 Dec. 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. royal Irish Fusiliers 25 April 1880 to death; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. Weston house, Thames Ditton 17 Sep. 1887.

LAMBERT, NATHANIEL GRACE (son of Richard Lambert). b. Newcastle-on-Tyne 1811; a coalowner; sheriff of Bucks. 1865; M.P. Bucks. 1868–80; captain commandant Taplow yeomanry lancers. d. Denham court near Uxbridge 9 Dec. 1882.

LAMBERT, ROWLEY. b. 22 April 1828; entered navy 1841; captain 29 Sep. 1855; commodore on Australian station 28 May 1867 to 8 April 1870; commanded detached squadron for particular service 8 June 1875 to 1877; V.A. 21 March 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Grosvenor hotel, Victoria station, London 22 July 1880.

LAMBERT, WILLIAM. b. Burstow, Surrey 1779; a miller at Nutfield, also in the fuller’s earth trade; in match Lord’s v. England 20 July 1801; not allowed to play at Lord’s after 1818 being accused of selling the England v. Nottingham match by not playing his best; one of the most successful of cricketers, excelling in batting, bowling, fielding, keeping wicket and in single wicket playing; one of the few cricketers who has made 100 runs twice in the same match 1817; beat at single wicket two of the best players Lord F. Beauclerk and T. C. Howard, Lord’s 6 and 7 July 1810, a sum of money was paid by the defeated to prevent this match being reported in Bentley; author of The cricketer’s guide. Lewes 1816; Instructions and rules for playing cricket 1816; a great bell ringer. d. Nutfield 19 April 1851. bur. Burstow.

LAMBERT, WILLIAM BLAKE. b. Berwick on Tweed 1816; chief engineer of General screw steam shipping co. to 1856; engineer at Portsmouth dockyard 1856–59; chief engineer to the Russian navy 1859–66. d. St. Petersburg 18 Feb. 1874.

LAMBTON, HEDWORTH (3 son of Wm. Henry Lambton 1764–97, M.P. city of Durham 1787–97). b. 26 March 1797; M.P. North Durham 21 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847. d. 8 Lansdowne place, Brighton 16 Sep. 1876.

LAMBTON, WILLIAM HENRY (brother of preceding). b. 27 March 1793. d. 17 Chesham place, London 3 April 1866, personalty sworn under £500,000, 2 June 1866.

LAMINGTON, ALEXANDER DUNDAS ROSS WISHART BAILLIE-COCHRANE, 1 Baron (1 son of admiral sir Thomas John Cochrane, G.C.B. 1789–1872). b. 27 Nov. 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1837; contested Bridport 29 June 1841, M.P. Bridport 1841–52; M.P. co. Lanark, Feb. to April 1857; a member of the Young England party; M.P. Honiton 1859–68; M.P. Isle of Wight 1870–80; trustee of National Portrait Gallery 1876; cr. baron Lamington of Lamington, co. Lanark 3 May 1880; author of Poems 1838; The Morea, a poem 1841, 2 ed. 1841; Ernest Vane 2 vols. 1849; Young Italy 1850; Florence the beautiful 2 vols. 1854; The map of Italy 1856; Historical pictures 2 vols. 1865; Francis the first 2 vols. 1870; Historic châteaux, Blois, Fontainebleau, Vincennes 1877. d. 26 Wilton crescent, London 15 Feb. 1890. I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1890 p. 231, portrait; Times 17, 25 Feb. 1890.

LAMONT, JOHANN VON (son of a custom-house officer, who d. 1816). b. Braemar, Aberdeenshire 13 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. James’s monastery, Ratisbon; assistant astronomer at observatory of Bogenhausen near Munich, March 1828, director of the observatory 18 July 1835; his zone observations of 34,674 small stars between latitudes +27° and -33° were his most important astronomical work; built a magnetic observatory at Bogenhausen 1840; executed with his travelling theodolite, magnetic surveys of Bavaria 1849–52, France and Spain 1856–7, North Germany and Denmark 1858; F.R.A.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edin. 1845, F.R.S. 1852; professor of astronomy in univ. of Munich 1852 to death; decorated with orders of Gregory the Great, of the Northern star of Sweden and of the Crown of Bavaria, which carried with it a title of nobility; author of Handbuch des Erdmagnetismus. Berlin 1849; Astronomie und Erdmagnetismus. Stuttgart 1851, and upwards of 20 other books printed at Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart 1824–71. d. Munich 6 Aug. 1879. bur. in churchyard at Bogenhausen. Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. xl 208–12 (1880); Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. x 358 (1880).

LAMPSON, SIR CURTIS MIRANDA, 1 Baronet (4 son of Wm. Lampson of Newhaven, Vermont). b. Vermont 21 Sep. 1806; a fur merchant at 37 Friday st. Cheapside, London 1830; senior partner in firm of C. M. Lampson & Co. 9 Queen st. place, Upper Thames st., merchants; naturalised 14 May 1849; a director of Atlantic telegraph co. 1856, vice-chairman; deputy governor of Hudson’s Bay company 1863–72; created baronet 16 Nov. 1866. d. 80 Eaton sq. London 12 March 1885, personalty sworn at £401,000, 7 May. I.L.N. xlix 545, 558 (1866), portrait.

LAMSON, GEORGE HENRY (son of rev. W. O. Lamson, chaplain to the American ambulance during Franco-German war 1870). b. New York 8 Sep. 1852; resided with his parents in Paris 1858–70; studied medicine in Paris 1869–70; assistant surgeon to the American ambulance during Franco-German war 1870; surgeon in Paris during the siege, for which he received the bronze cross; graduated M.D. in Univ. of Pennsylvania 1872; a surgeon at Ferry Town, New York to 1874; at Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1874–6; came to England, Sep. 1876 at invitation of secretary of the League in aid of the Christians in Turkey; surgeon-in-chief to military hospital at Semendria, received a gold medal for bravery; chief of the English military hospital at Costo Foro, Bucharest, during Russo-Turkish war Aug. 1877 to March 1878; was snowed up six days without food on his way back from Plevna to Bucharest; received Star of Roumania and Turkish order of the Medjidie at end of the war 1878; L.R.C.P. Edinb., L.R.C.S. Edinb. and L.M.C.S. Edinb. May 1878; practised at Rotherfield, Tunbridge Wells, May 1878; bought a practice at Bournemouth for £400, 1879; went for a six months’ trip to America, April 1880; sold his practice and left Bournemouth, April 1881. (m. 16 Oct. 1878 Kate eld. child of Wm. John of Manchester, merchant); poisoned his brother-in-law Percy Malcolm John with aconitine at Wm. Henry Bedbrook’s school, Blenheim house, 2 and 4 St. George’s road, Wimbledon 3 Dec. 1881; surrendered himself at Scotland yard 7 Dec. 1881; tried before sir Henry Hawkins at the Old Bailey 9–14 March 1882, when found guilty and sentenced to death; reprieved twice to enable his friends in America to produce evidence of his insanity; confessed his guilt 27 April 1882; hanged in Wandsworth gaol 28 April 1882. Central criminal court sessions paper. Minutes of evidence, xcv 547–90 (1882); Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials (1883) 514–67; Law Journal 24 Oct. 1891 pp. 652–3; Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a life (1891) 294–300, 348–63; Graphic, xxv 257 (1882), portrait.

L’AMY, JAMES. b. Dunkenny 8 July 1772; advocate at Scotch bar 1794; sheriff of Forfarshire, July 1819 to death. d. Dundee 15 Jany. 1854. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) p. 155.

LANAWAY, CHARLES. b. Henfield, Sussex 16 March 1793; played in Brighton and Sussex elevens; a butcher at Brighton 1819; first match at Lord’s, Sussex v. England 7 July 1828; underhand bowler. d. 49 London road, Brighton 6 Feb. 1870. bur. Henfield.

LANCASTER, CHARLES WILLIAM (eld. son of Charles Lancaster of 151 New Bond st. London, gunmaker, d. 1847). b. York st. Portman sq. London 24 June 1820; in his father’s factory, succeeded to the business 1847; solved the problem of rifled cannon 1844–5; conceived the idea of the oval bore as proper form for all rifled arms and cannon 1850; superintended production of guns in Royal Arsenal, Woolwich; the Lancaster carbine was adopted as the arm for the royal engineers Jany. 1855, superseded by Martini-Henry rifle 1869; took out upwards of 20 patents 1850–72; the Czar of Russia had a large gold medal struck in his honour; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852. d. 151 New Bond st. London 24 April 1878. Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. liii 289–92 (1878); Sporting Mirror, iii 21–2 (1882).

LANCASTER, HENRY HILL (son of Thomas Lancaster, merchant). b. Glasgow 10 Jany. 1829; ed. at Glasgow high school and univ.; Snell exhibitioner Balliol coll. Oxf. 1849; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1872, Arnold prizeman 1854; advocate at Edinburgh 1858, advocate depute 1868–74; sec. to commission of inquiry into state of King’s and Marischal colleges, Aberdeen 1858; member of royal commission on Scottish educational establishments 1872; wrote essays in North British and Edinburgh Reviews, more important of which were reprinted privately in 2 vols. 1876 and published in 1 vol. as Essays and Reviews Edinb. 1876. d. suddenly from apoplexy at 5 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1875. Journal of Jurisprudence, Feb. 1876 p. 107.

LANCASTER, HENRY JOHN. b. 1820; scene painter in London about 1840 to death; connected with the leading London and provincial theatres. d. 57 Grosvenor park, Camberwell, London 2 May 1892. bur. Nunhead cemetery.

LANCASTER, JOHN (son of John Lancaster). b. Radcliffe near Bury, Lancs. 19 Sep. 1815; manager of Patricroft colliery 1841; mineral agent for lord Mostyn at Mostyn colliery 1847 etc.; manager earl Granville’s iron works and collieries, Shelton, Staffs. 1849–56; manager Shireoak colliery near Worksop 1855–58; built 5 blast furnaces at Kirkless hall iron works 1856–60 which were the second set in Lancs.; chairman Wigan coal and iron co. 1865–70; chairman West Cumberland iron and steel works 1870 to death; contested Wigan July 1865, M.P. Wigan 1868–74; F.G.S., M.I.M.E. 1863; rescued the crew of Confederate cruiser Alabama when she was sunk by the Federal war-steamer Kearsage off Cherbourg 19 June 1864. d. 58 Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead 21 April 1884. Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers (1884) 402–3.

LANCASTER, THOMAS WILLIAM (son of rev. Thomas Lancaster of Wimbledon, Surrey). b. Fulham, Middlesex 24 Aug. 1787; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810; Michel scholar at Queen’s coll. 1808, Michel fellow 1809–16; C. of Banbury 1812 and vicar 1815–49; R. of Over Worton near Woodstock 1849 to death; Bampton lecturer 1831; select preacher to univ. of Oxf. 1832, public examiner 1832–3; under master of Magdalen college school 1840–9; author of The alliance of education and civil government with strictures on the university of London 1828; A treatise on confirmation 1830, 2 ed. 1861; Vindiciæ symbolicæ or a treatise on creeds, articles of faith and articles of doctrine 1848; Sermons 1860; found dead in his bed at his lodgings, High st. Oxford 12 Dec. 1859. bur. Holywell cemetery. J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college, iii 270–1 (1863).

LANCE, GEORGE (son of Mr. Lance, inspector of Bow st. horse patrol). b. manor-house of Little Easton near Dunmow, Essex 24 March 1802; pupil of B. R. Haydon in London 1816–23; painter chiefly of fruit and flowers; exhibited 38 pictures at R.A., 135 at B.I. and 48 at Suffolk st. 1824–64; 2 fruit pieces and a portrait of himself are in the South Kensington museum. d. Sunnyside near Birkenhead 18 June 1864. Art Journal (1857) 305–7, (1864) 242; The Critic, xxi 416 (1860), portrait; I.L.N. xxxix 647, 648 (1861), portrait.

LANCE, GEORGE EDWIN (son of rev. John Edwin Lance of Buckland St. Mary, Somerset). b. 1824; ed. at Haileybury college; went to India 1844; chief magistrate at Cawnpore, where he rendered conspicuous service during the mutiny; converted a tract of marsh land into a memorial garden at Cawnpore; retired on the annuity fund 1872. d. Cheduba, Festing road, Southsea 9 April 1890.

LANCE, JOHN HENRY. b. 1793; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1820; comr. of arbitration at Surinam, Guiana, South America; commissary judge to the British and Netherland court of commission at Surinam for prevention of illegal traffic in slaves 21 Oct. 1828, retired upon a superannuation allowance 31 March 1834. d. The Holmwood, Dorking, Surrey 12 Jany. 1878.

LAND, EDWARD. b. London 1815; sang at the chapel royal; accompanist to John Wilson, afterwards to David Kennedy both Scotch singers; second tenor of the Glee and Madrigal union; secretary of the Noblemen and Gentlemen’s catch club; composed Bird of Beauty 1852, The Angel’s Watch 1853 and other popular songs; wrote many original pieces for the pianoforte. d. 4 Cambridge place, Regent’s park, London 29 Nov. 1876.

LANDELLS, EBENEZER (3 son of Ebenezer Landells, merchant). b. Newcastle 13 April 1808; apprenticed to Thomas Bewick, wood engraver 1822–9; wood engraver in London 1829; superintended fine-art engraving department of Branston and Vizetelly; started an illustrated journal called The Cosmorama; exhibited 2 wood engravings at Suffolk st. 1833–37; the original projector and one of the 3 original proprietors of Punch or the London Charivari, first number was published at 3 Wellington st. Strand 17 July 1841; engraved much for the Illustrated London News 1842; engraved title page of the Lady’s Newspaper, first number dated 2 Jany. 1847; supplied all the woodcuts for the Illuminated Mag. 1843; author of The boy’s own toymaker 1859, 10 ed. 1881; The illustrated paper model maker 1861. d. at his lodgings, Victoria Grove, West Brompton, London 1 Oct. 1860.

LANDELLS, ROBERT THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). b. London 1 Aug. 1833; special war correspondent for the Illustrated London News in the Crimea 1856; present as artist in war between Germany and Denmark 1863 receiving decorations from both sides, and in war between Prussia and Austria 1866; attached to staff of the crown prince in Franco-German war 1870 and received order of the Iron Cross for his attention to the sick; painted memorial pictures of ceremonials for the queen; exhibited 24 pictures at Suffolk st. 1863–76; illustrated The young franctireurs by G. A. Henty 1872. d. 49 Winchester terrace, Chelsea 6 Jany. 1877. I.L.N. lxx 61 (1877), portrait.

LANDERS, JOHN EDMONDSTOUNE. b. 1803; ensign 27 Bengal N.I. 10 Jany. 1820; lieut. 9 Bengal N.I. 1824, major 3 Oct. 1848; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 24 Dec. 1853, col. 28 March 1865; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 7 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 6 April 1885.

LANDMANN, GEORGE THOMAS (son of Isaac Landmann 1741–1826, professor of artillery at the R.M. academy, Woolwich). b. Woolwich 1779; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 May 1795, lieut.-col. 16 May 1814, sold out 29 Dec. 1824; lieut.-col. in the Spanish engineers 22 Feb. 1809; col. of infantry in Spanish army 25 March 1810; commanding engineer of the Thames district 1815–7, of the Yorkshire district 1817–9; author of Historical military and picturesque observations in Portugal 2 vols. 1818; Adventures and recollections of colonel Landmann 2 vols. 1852; Recollections of my military life 2 vols. 1854. d. Shacklewell near Hackney, London 27 Aug. 1854.

LANDON, ARTHUR JERMYN (2 son of Francis Newcombe Landon of Brentwood, Essex). b. 29 June 1851; studied at St. Bartholomew’s; ed. at Netley, passed first in list and took prize for military surgery; L.S.A. 1877, M.R.C.S. 1878; surgeon in the army 4 Aug. 1878; helped to remove the wounded at Laing’s Nek 28 Jany. 1881, present at Majuba hill 27 Feb. where he remained on the field with the wounded, a bullet passed through his body, but he still administered to the fallen, brought into camp the next day where he died 28 Feb. 1881. bur. Mount Prospect, South Africa. United Service Mag. Oct. 1883 pp. 424–30.

LANDON, JAMES TIMOTHY BAINBRIDGE (only son of James Landon, V. of Aberford, Yorkshire, d. 1850). b. Aberford 11 Nov. 1816; ed. Rugby and Wadham coll. Oxf. 1835, scholar of Worcester coll. 1835–43, fellow of Magdalen coll. 1843–47, senior dean of arts 1845; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; public examiner 1849–50; chaplain Bromley coll. Kent 1846–55; V. of Ledsham, Yorks. 1854 to death; canon of York 1877 to death; supposed author of The rime of the new-made baccalere. Oxford 1840; author of Eureka: a sequel to Lord John Russell’s post-bag. Oxford 1851, and of Eureka No. II.: a sequel to a sequel to Lord John Russell’s post-bag. Oxford 1853, both anon.; Homer. Iliad A, translated into English hexameters 1862. d. Ledsham vicarage 7 March 1890.

LANDOR, EDWARD WILSON (son of Walter Landor of Rugeley, solicitor). Admitted a solicitor 1837; practised at Rugeley 1837–41; went to Australia 1841; practised in the city of London 1847–60; at Perth, West Australia 1860; police magistrate Perth 1865 to death; published Adventures in the north of Europe 2 vols. 1836; The bushman 1847; Lofoden or the exiles of Norway 2 vols. 1849. d. Perth 24 Oct. 1878. Solicitor’s Journal, xx 254 (1879).

LANDOR, ROBERT EYRES (youngest son of Walter Landor, physician, d. 1805). b. St. Nicholas, Warwick, May 1781; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf., scholar, fellow; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; V. of Hitchenden, Bucks. 1817–25; chaplain in ord. to Prince Regent; R. of Nafford with Birlingham, Worcs. 11 April 1829 to death, never absent from his Sunday duty, the church was restored with money left by him; author of The Count Arezzi, a tragedy 1824; The impious feast, a poem 1828; The earl of Brecon, a tragedy; Faith’s Fraud, a tragedy; The Ferryman, a drama 1841; The Fawn of Sertorius 1846; The Fountain of Arethusa 1848. d. Birlingham rectory 26 Jany. 1869.

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (eld. child of Walter Landor, physician, d. 1805). b. Ipsley court, Warwick 30 Jany. 1775; ed. at Rugby 1785–91; commoner of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793, rusticated for a year in 1794 but never returned to Oxf.; raised some volunteers with whom he joined Blake’s army in Gallicia Aug. 1808, returned to England Nov. 1808; bought estate of Llanthony abbey, Monmouthshire 1809; lived at Florence 1821–35 and 1859 to death, at Bath 1838–58; is drawn by Dickens in Bleak House as Lawrence Boythorn; author of Poems 1795; Gebir: a poem in seven books 1798, anon., 2 ed. Oxford 1803; Count Julian, a tragedy 1812, anon.; Imaginary Conversations, vols. 1 and 2, 1824, 2 ed. 1826, vols. 3 and 4, 1828, vol. 5, 1829; Pericles and Aspasia 1836, anon.; The Pentameron and Pentalogia 1837; Collected works 2 vols. 1846 and 8 vols. 1876; The last fruit off an old tree 1853, includes 18 new imaginary conversations, and other books. d. Via Nunziatina, Florence 17 Sep. 1864, portrait by Wm. Fisher exhibited at the R.A. 1840, bequeathed by H. C. Robinson to National portrait gallery March 1867; mural monument with bust, unveiled in St. Mary’s church, Warwick 30 Jany. 1888. J. Forster’s Life of W. S. Landor 2 vols. (1869), portrait; J. Devey’s A comparative estimate of modern English poets (1873) 166–83; R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age, i 151–76 (1844); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 437–45; Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, ii 336–95 (1855); De Quincey’s Works, viii 284–332 (1862), xi 176–98 (1862); H. D. Traill’s New Lucian (1884) 59–84; I.L.N. xlv 385, 386 (1864), portrait.

NOTE.--In 1857 he published a book entitled Dry Sticks fagoted by W. S. Landor, in which he grossly insulted the wife of the Rev. Morris Yescombe of Bath; they brought an action for libel against him, tried at Bristol assizes 23 Aug. 1858, the jury gave them £1000 damages, Landor had transferred all his English estates to his son and left England for France 14 July 1858, he was eventually obliged to pay the £1000 with £362 for costs under order of the court of chancery, which left him completely destitute. C. Beavan’s Reports xxviii 80–7 (1861); Bristol Mercury 28 Aug. 1858 Suppl. p. 1.

LANDSBOROUGH, DAVID. b. Dalry, Glen Kens, Galloway 11 Aug. 1779; ed. at Dumfries and univ. of Edinb.; minister of Stevenston, Ayrshire 1811–43; minister of the free church at Saltcoats 1843; A.L.S. 1849; chief founder of Ayrshire Naturalists’ club 1850; discovered nearly 70 species of plants and animals new to Scotland, earned title of ‘the Gilbert White of Ardrossan’; received degree of D.D. from an American college 1849; author of Arran, a poem 1828; Ayrshire sketches 1839; Arran, a poem and excursions to Arran 1847; A popular history of British seaweeds 1849; A popular history of British zoophytes 1852. d. of cholera at Saltcoats 12 Sep. 1854. Arran, by the Landsboroughs father and son (1875), memoir pp. 157–228; Scott’s Fasti, vol. 2, part 1, p. 188 (1868); W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation, iii 715 (1863).

LANDSBOROUGH, WILLIAM (son of the preceding). b. Stevenston, Ayrshire; went to Australia; discovered Mount Nebo and Fort Cooper 1856, discovered sources of the Thomson river 1860; searched for Burke and Wills the explorers 1861; crossed Australia from Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne 1862; presented with a service of plate valued at £500, 12 Nov. 1862; member of Queensland assembly 1864–5; government resident in Burke district 1865–8; discovered with G. Phillips the Western river; inspector of brands for East Moreton, Queensland 1868, awarded a grant of £2000. d. Brisbane 16 March 1886. Journal of Landsborough’s expedition in search of Burke and Wills (1862).

LANDSEER, CHARLES (2 son of John Landseer 1769–1852). b. 1799; pupil of B. R. Haydon, entered schools of the R.A. 1816; A.R.A. 1837, R.A. 1845, keeper of the R.A. 1851 to May 1873; exhibited 73 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 11 at Suffolk st. 1822–79; left £10,000 to the R.A. for foundation of Landseer scholarships. d. 35 Grove End road, London 22 July 1879, portrait by himself exhibited at the R.A. 1879. Sandby’s History of Royal academy, ii 176 (1862); I.L.N. lxxv 109 (1879), portrait; Graphic, xx 128 (1879), portrait.

LANDSEER, SIR EDWIN HENRY (brother of the preceding). b. 71 Queen Anne st. East (now 33 Foley st.), London 7 March 1802; learnt to draw, etch and paint 1808–14; entered schools of the R.A. 1816, A.R.A. 1826, R.A. 1831, declined the presidency 24 Jany. 1866; lived at 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 1826 to death; painted many portraits of the Queen and royal family 1839–66; taught the queen and prince Albert to etch; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; received large gold medal at Paris universal exhibition 1855; received the commission for 4 lions in bronze for base of the Nelson column in Trafalgar sq. 1859, they were uncovered 31 Jany. 1867; exhibited 179 pictures at R.A., 94 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1815–73; 434 etchings and engravings were made from his works down to 1875; his Monarch of the Glen was sold for £7000 April 1892 and £10,000 have been given for the Stag at bay and for the Otter Hunt; a large collection of his works was exhibited at the R.A. 1873–4; illustrated Portraits of the children of the nobility by L. Fairlie 1839 and other works. d. 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 1 Oct. 1873. bur. in crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 11 Oct. F. G. Stephen’s Memoirs of Sir E. Landseer (1874), portrait; Illustrated Review, vol. v 137–44, portrait; James Dafforne’s Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. (1874); J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, i 78–95; Sandby’s Royal Academy, ii 143–46 (1862); The Landseer gallery with memoir (1871); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 468–74; Illust. Times 9 Feb. 1867 p. 88, portrait, and p. 89 lions in Trafalgar square.

LANDSEER, GEORGE (son of Thomas Landseer 1795–1880). b. 1829; exhibited 21 figure pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1850–58. d. 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 10 March 1878.

LANDSEER, JESSICA (dau. of the succeeding). b. 29 Jany. 1810; landscape and miniature painter; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1816–66. d. Folkestone 29 Aug. 1880.

LANDSEER, John (son of a jeweller). b. Lincoln 1769; landscape engraver; delivered a series of lectures on engraving at Royal Institution 1806; an advocate for the recognition of the claims of engravers by Royal academy; associate engraver of the R.A. 1806; began a periodical Review of Publications of Art 1808, 2 vols., and The Probe 1837; engraver to William IV.; exhibited 1 engraving at Soc. of artists, 17 at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1791–1852; author of Lectures on the art of engraving 1807; Observations on the engraved gems brought from Babylon 1817; Sabean researches 1823; Essay on the carnivora 1823; A series of engravings illustrating events recorded in the scriptures 1833; A descriptive catalogue of fifty of the earliest pictures in the National gallery 1834. d. London 29 Feb. 1852. Sandby’s History of royal academy, i 402–3 (1862); G.M. xxxvii 523–4 (1852).

LANDSEER, THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). b. 71 Queen Anne st. east (now 33 Foley st.), London 1795; pupil of B. R. Haydon; etched and engraved more than 125 of the drawings and pictures of his brother Sir Edwin H. Landseer; engraved Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair about 1860; A.R.A. 1868; exhibited 35 engravings at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–77; illustrated Monkey-ana or men in miniature 1828 and other works; author of The life and letters of William Bewick 1871. d. 11 Grove End road, St. John’s Wood, London 20 Jany. 1880. I.L.N. lii 169 (1868), portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news, xii 501 (1880), portrait.

LANE, CHARLES EDWARD WILLIAM (son of John Lane). bapt. St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London 29 Oct. 1786; ensign 1 Bengal N.I. 13 Aug. 1807; sought to change his name to Mattenby in 1824 but was not permitted to do so; served in Arracan 1825; in charge of the commissariat at Dinapore 1832; lieut.-col. of 2 Bengal N.I. 26 Dec. 1841–43, of 13 N.I. 1843 to 10 Dec. 1847, of 74 N.I. 10 Dec. 1847 to 25 May 1852; commanded garrison of Candahar when assaulted by the Afghans 10 March 1842; C.B. 27 Dec. 1842; col. 6 Bengal N.I. 25 May 1852 to 1858; general 25 June 1870. d. Jersey 18 Feb. 1872.

LANE, CHARLTON (son of Wm. Lane of Croydon, Surrey). b. 1797; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; C. of Lambeth 1828–32; P.C. of St. Mark’s, Kennington, London 1832–64; R.D. of Southwark 1854–64; V. of Hampstead 1864–72; professor of rhetoric, Gresham college, London 1863 to death; printed 12 sermons and was author of To the parishioners of Kennington, Stockwell and South Lambeth, how to meet the cholera 1854. d. 14 St. John’s Wood park, London 28 May 1875. bur. churchyard of St. John, Hampstead.

LANE, CHARLTON GEORGE (son of the preceding). b. Kennington parsonage 11 June 1836; ed. at Westminster 1849–54 (in the cricket eleven 5 years, captain 1853) and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; known as the Admirable Crichton of Oxford, usually called White Lane to distinguish him from Ernald Lane of Balliol; rowed No. 3 in the Univ. Eight 1858–9; played in the Univ. Eleven 1856 and 1858–60, captain 1860; won the Univ. racquets; played for Surrey 1856–61, played for Gentlemen against the Players 1857–61, played in the First Eleven of England v. Next Fourteen 1860; played for the Veterans against Marylebone cricket club in the M.C.C. centenary week at Lord’s 1887 when he scored double figures in each innings; a brilliant batsman and fine field especially at long-leg; member of the Hogarth club at Oxford; C. of Great Witley, Worcs. 1862–5; C. of Little Gaddesden, Herts. 1868–70, rector 16 Jany. 1870 to death; member of the Mercers’ Co., master 1890. d. Little Gaddesden rectory 2 Nov. 1892. Illustrated Times 10 Aug. 1861 p. 93, portrait; The Guardian 16 Nov. 1892 p. 1766.

LANE, CHRISTOPHER BAGOT. b. Nurney house, co. Kildare 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin and univ. of Edinb.; admitted into London office of I. K. Brunel, Dec. 1837; professor of civil engineering at Trin. coll. Dublin 1846–49 and at Queen’s college, Cork 1849–53; consulting engineer for railways to Brazilian government July 1853 to 1861; resided at Rio Janeiro 1853–60; joint engineer with E. Bagot of various railway lines in South Wales 1864–72; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849, M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1856. d. 24 Clifton villas, Maida hill, London 11 Jany. 1877. Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. xlviii 266–9 (1877).

LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (3 son of Theophilus Lane, preb. of Hereford cath. d. 1814). b. Hereford 17 Sep. 1801; ed. at Bath and Hereford gram. schools; learnt engraving under Charles Heath, London; went to Alexandria, July 1825 where he soon spoke Arabic and wore the native dress, studied and sketched at Thebes 1826–7; resided in Cairo, Dec. 1833 to Aug. 1835 under the name of Mansoor Effendi; resided in Cairo 1842–49 compiling his Arabic lexicon; resided at Worthing working on his Arabic lexicon 1850 to death; had grants from Fund for special services 1848–63 and civil list pension of £100 from 18 June 1863; the chief Arabic scholar in Europe; author of An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians 1836, 6 ed. 1871; The thousand and one nights, a translation 1838–40, came out in monthly parts, 2 ed. 1859; Selections from the Kuran 1843; An Arabic English lexicon 8 parts 1863–92; his life-sized statue in Egyptian dress was executed by his brother Richard Lane; his widow Anastasia granted civil list pension of £100, 5 Dec. 1876. d. Worthing 10 Aug. 1876. Stanley Lane Poole’s Life of E. W. Lane (1877); I.L.N. lxix 213, 214 (1876), portrait.

LANE, GEORGE. Ensign 5 Middlesex militia 17 Nov. 1854, captain 17 Dec. 1857 to 13 May 1861; gentleman at arms 8 Nov. 1860 to death, d. 19 Redcliffe gardens, London 7 May 1870.

LANE, HAMMER, cognomen of John Lane). b. Birmingham 15 Dec. 1815; a pugilist, fighting weight 10 st. 10 lbs.; beat Harry Ball and Hewson 1833; beat Jack Green £25 a side 17 March 1835; beat Tass Parker £25 a side 15 Sep. 1835 and again £50 a side in 96 rounds lasting 2 hours at Woodstock 7 March 1837; beat Owen Swift £50 a side in 104 rounds lasting 123 minutes at Four Shire Stone, Warwickshire 10 May 1836; beat Jack Adams £50 a side at Woodstock 23 Aug. 1836; beat Byng Stocks £50 a side near Bicester, Oxon. 15 Jany. 1838; beaten by Young Molyneux the Black £100 a side at Worksop Common, Notts. 9 June 1840; beaten by Yankee Sullivan alias James Ambrose £50 a side at Crookham Common 2 Feb. 1841; beaten by Tom Davis £50 a side 40 rounds in 67 minutes at Noman’s Heath near Tamworth 25 June 1850; fought Jack Grant £100 a side at Kingswood Common, Shropshire 28 June 1864, drawn battle; kept The Gunmaker’s Arms, Moore st. Birmingham from 1841. John Hannan’s Guide to British boxing (1850) 49–52; Illust. sporting news, iii 228, 229 (1864), portrait.

NOTE.--Three of his brothers were also pugilists, George, James and Tom who was b. Feb. 1825, fought John Walker a drawn battle of £200 a side at Hythe near Folkestone 15 Feb. 1848 and d. Birmingham 7 Sep. 1868.

LANE, JAMES HUNTER. L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1829; M.D. Edinb. 1830; hon. phys. to cholera hospital, Liverpool 1831–2; physician to Lock hospital of Liverpool infirmary 1833; senior physician of Lancaster infirmary 1840; pres. of Royal Medical Society of Edinb. about 1841; edited Liverpool Medical Gazette; The monthly archives of the medical sciences 1834, one volume; lived latterly at 58 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London; author of A compendium of materia medica and pharmacy 1840; author with J. M. Gully of a translation of Frederick Tiedemann’s A systematic treatise on comparative physiology 2 vols. 1834. d. Brighton 23 June 1853.

LANE, JOHN BRYANT (son of Samuel Lane, chemist). b. Helston, Cornwall 1788; ed. at Truro; a painter in London 1802–17; engaged at Rome 1817–27 on a gigantic picture ‘The vision of Joseph,’ which he exhibited at Rome 1827, for which he was expelled by the papal authorities, exhibited it at the Royal Mews, Charing Cross, London 1827, it was a failure and went to decay in the Pantechnicon, Belgrave sq.; painted portraits of Sir Hussey Vivian, Lord de Dunstanville and others; exhibited 16 portraits at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1808–34. d. 45 Clarendon sq. Somer’s Town, London 4 April 1868.

LANE, RICHARD JAMES (brother of Edward Wm. Lane 1801–76). b. Berkeley Castle 16 Feb. 1800; articled to Charles Heath, line-engraver 1816; line-engraver and lithographer; exhibited 67 lithographs at R.A. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1824–72; associate engraver of the R.A. 1827; executed pencil and chalk sketches of most of the best-known people of the day; never surpassed as a lithographer; lithographed several hundred of the pictures of leading artists; lithographer to the Queen 1837, to Prince Albert 1840; director of etching class in science and art department, South Kensington 1864–72; edited Charles Kemble’s Readings from Shakspeare 3 vols. 1870; author of Life at the water cure, or a month at Malvern 1846, new ed. 1851, 3 ed. 1855; Spirits and water, by R. J. L. 1855. d. 19 Gloucester terrace, Campden Hill, London 21 Nov. 1872. Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 71 (1862); I.L.N. xxx 419, 420 (1857) portrait, lxi 548 (1872) portrait; Magazine of art (1881) 431–2.

LANE, RICHARD JAMES. b. 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1826; a leader of the Munster circuit; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; a comr. of Irish fisheries many years; public auditor of friendly societies in Ireland to death; crown prosecutor for co. Kerry. d. 123 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 1 Oct. 1885. Law mag. and law review, iii 204–6 (1857).

LANE, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Lane). b. King’s Lynn 26 July 1780; became deaf and partially dumb from falling into the water 26 July 1786; pupil of sir Thomas Lawrence, and one of his chief assistants; had a large practice in London as a portrait painter; exhibited 217 portraits at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1804–57; lived at 60 Greek st. Soho 1823–53, at Ipswich 1853 to death. d. 2 Paragon Buildings, Lower Brook st. Ipswich 29 July 1859.

LANE, SAMUEL ARMSTRONG. b. 1802; M.R.C.S. 1829, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon and lecturer on surgery, St. Mary’s hospital, London; consulting surgeon Lock hospital; founder and principal of school of medicine, 1 Grosvenor place, London, adjoining St. George’s hospital 1830; edited S. Cooper’s Dictionary of practical surgery, brought down to the present time 1861. d. Ealing 2 Aug. 1892.

LANE, SAMUEL HAYCROFT. b. 1804; landlord of a beer shop in Shoreditch, London 1832–41; opened Royal Britannia Saloon, 188 Hoxton Old Town 12 April 1841, with concert opera, vaudeville, rope and other dancing, ballet and farce; bankrupt 18 Feb. 1842, discharged 14 June 1842; enlarged the Saloon Nov. 1850, closed it 29 June 1858; built the Britannia theatre on the same site at cost of £25,000, opened it 8 Nov. 1858. (m. Sep. 1843 Sara dau. of Wm. Borrow, actor, she was b. Clerkenwell 22 Sep. 1824 and has been owner of Britannia theatre since husband’s death). d. the Elms, West green road, Tottenham 27 Dec. 1871. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 4 Jany. 1872. H. B. Baker’s The London Stage, ii 257–9 (1889); The Era 14 Jany. 1872 p. 12.

LANERTON, EDWARD GRANVILLE GEORGE HOWARD, 1 Baron (4 son of 6 Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848). b. 23 Dec. 1809; entered navy 5 April 1823, captain 27 Dec. 1838; admiral on h.p. 1 April 1870; M.P. Morpeth 1848–52; created baron Lanerton of Naworth, Cumberland 8 Jany. 1874. d. 29 Grosvenor sq. London 8 Oct. 1880.

LANG, DAVID (son of James L. Lang, writer). b. Glasgow 1846; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A., LLB.; admitted an advocate 1870; entertained at a public dinner 1884; a great fisherman. d. Glasgow 29 April 1886. Journal of Jurisprudence, xxx 322–24 (1886).

LANG, GAVIN. b. Paisley; ed. Glasgow univ.; assistant minister of Presbyterian churches at Houstand and Killalan 1826; assist. minister West Kilbride 1828; minister in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, May 1828–32; minister of Glasford, Lanarkshire 1832; author of The Holy Gospel in continuous narrative 1884. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 3 S. (1851) 219.

LANG, JOHN. b. Australia; in India and Europe 20 years; wrote in Household Words and the Welcome Guest; author of Too clever by half, or the Harroways. By the Mofussilite 1853; Too much alike or the three calendars 1854; The forger’s wife or Emily Orford 1855; Will he marry her? a novel 1858, new ed. 1871 and five other novels; also of Botany Bay 1859, new ed. under title of Clever Criminals 1878; Wanderings in India, and other sketches of life in Hindostan 1859.

LANG, JOHN. b. 1826; connected with the Manchester Times 1840, managed it when under name of Manchester Examiner to 1889. d. Manchester about 1 Jany. 1891.

LANG, JOHN DUNMORE. b. Greenock, Scotland 25 Aug. 1799; ed. at Largs and univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1820, D.D. 1825; licensed to preach by presbytery of Irvine 1 June 1820, ordained Sep. 1822; arrived in Australia, May 1823; minister of the Scots church, Church Hill, Sydney; started The Colonist, a weekly journal 1 Jany. 1835 which lasted until 1840; started The Colonial Journal 7 Oct. 1841; edited The Press, a weekly paper 1851–2; one of the 6 members for Port Phillip in the legislative council of N.S.W. 1843–6, member for Sydney 1850–2, for co. of Stanley, Moreton Bay 1854, for West Sydney 1859 to Nov. 1869; lectured in England on Australia 1846–9; author of An historical and statistical account of New South Wales 2 vols. 1834, 4 ed. 1874; Freedom and independence for the golden lands of Australia 1852, 2 ed. 1857 and about 20 other books. d. Sydney 8 Aug. 1878, statue of him in Wynyard sq. Sydney unveiled by widow 26 Jany. 1891. J. D. Lang’s Brief sketch of my parliamentary life (1870); Barton’s Poets of New South Wales (1866) 33–7; Daily Graphic 11 March 1891 p. 9, view of his statue.

LANG, OLIVER. b. 1778; an apprentice in Devonport dockyard; foreman of shipwrights at Deptford yard; master shipwright Devonport; assist. surveyor to navy board at Somerset house; master shipwright Sheerness yard 1823–6 and at Woolwich 22 July 1826 to death; offered knighthood by George IV.; designed the Comet paddle wheel steamship, the first steam ship in the navy, she was commissioned 23 April 1836; introduced many improvements in ships and steamers; author of Improvements in naval architecture. Woolwich 1848. d. Woolwich 12 April 1853. His widow Charlotte granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Oct. 1853.

LANG, THOMAS BAMFORD. b. 1820; controller of general post office, Edinburgh, Feb. 1855 to death; author of An historical summary of the post office in Scotland compiled from authentic records 1856. d. Edinburgh 6 April 1868.

LANG, WILLIAM. Entered Bombay army 1821; lieut. 21 Bombay N.I. 21 May 1824, major 10 May 1847 to 25 June 1852; political agent at Kattiwar 23 Sep. 1846 to 1859; lieut.-col. of 26 Bombay N.I. 25 June 1852 to 1854 and 1859–60, of 9 N.I. 1854–5, of 28 N.I. 1855–6, of 3 European regiment 1856–9, of 1 N.I. 1862 to 29 June 1863; M.G. 29 June 1863. d. Rossie house, Bridge of Earn 3 Jany. 1870.

LANGDALE, HENRY BICKERSTETH, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry Bickersteth, surgeon and apothecary, d. May 1821). b. Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland 18 June 1783; apprenticed to his father, Midsummer 1797; entered Caius coll. Camb. as Hewitt scholar Oct. 1802, fellow 1808, senior fellow 1814–31; senior wr. and 1 Smith’s prizeman 1808, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1811, bencher 1827 to death, reader 1835, treasurer 1836; K.C. May 1827; P.C. 16 Jany. 1835; master of the rolls 19 Jany. 1835, resigned 28 March 1851; cr. Baron Langdale of Langdale, Westmoreland 23 Jany. 1835; head of the commission temporarily issued for custody of the great seal 19 June to 15 July 1850. d. Tunbridge Wells 18 April 1851. bur. in vault of Temple church, London 24 April. _Memoirs. By T. D. Hardy 2 vols._ (1852), portrait; Law Magazine, xlv 283–93 (1851); Leisure Hour iii 251.

LANGDALE, CHARLES (3 son of 16 baron Stourton 1752–1816). b. 19 Sep. 1787; assumed his mother’s maiden name Langdale instead of Stourton by r.l. 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. Beverley 1832–4, M.P. Knaresborough 1837–41; the foremost man among the Roman catholic laity in England 50 years; a lay brother of the Society of Jesus 1868; author of Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert, with an account of her marriage with H.R.H. the prince of Wales afterwards king George the Fourth 1856. d. 5 Queen st. Mayfair, London 1 Dec. 1868. Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck (1890), memoir pp. 19–61, portrait.

LANGFORD, JOSEPH MUNT. b. 1809; employed by Messrs. Blackwood, publishers 1830, head of their London branch 1845–81; dramatic critic of The Observer many years; part author of several dramas produced at the Adelphi theatre, London about 1854. d. 2 The Paragon, Winchester 28 Aug. 1884.

LANGHAM, STEPHEN NATHANIEL (son of a farm labourer). b. Hinckley, Leics. May 1820; pugilist, always known as Nat. Langham, height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 11 stone; beat Wm. Ellis 1843, Tom Lowe 1844 and Doctor Campbell 1845; beat George Gutteridge £25 a side at Bourne, Lincs. 23 Sep. 1846; beat Wm. Sparkes the Australian £50 a side at Woking Common 4 May 1847; beaten by Harry Orme £50 a side 117 rounds in 176 minutes at Lower Hope Point down the river Thames 6 May 1851; beat Tom Sayers £100 a side, 61 rounds in 122 minutes near Lakenheath, Suffolk 18 Oct. 1853; fought Ben Caunt £200 a side, 60 rounds in 89 minutes at Standing Creek, Medway 21 Sep. 1857, not decided; won 6 out of 7 fights, is the only man who ever beat Tom Sayers; kept the Ram inn, Bridge st. Cambridge 1851 to 1853, the Cambrian Stores, 12 Castle st. Leicester sq. London 1853 to 1861, and the Cambridge Stores at 12 Castle st. 1870 to death; kept the Mitre tavern, 62 St. Martin’s lane, London 1862 to 1869; bankrupt 2 March 1869, discharged 29 March 1870. d. the Cambridge Stores, Castle st. London 1 Sep. 1871. bur. Brompton cemetery 7 Sep. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, iii 234–52 (1881), portrait; F. W. J. Henning’s Prize Ring (1888) 160–7; Illust. sporting news, ii 277 (1863), portrait.

LANGLEY, ALBERT GORDON (eld. son of Charles Langley of Chudleigh, South Devon). A student of Middle Temple 15 Jany. 1837, certificate of honour Nov. 1857, studentship May 1858, barrister M.T. 30 April 1859, admitted ad eundem at L.I. 2 Nov. 1863; author of A reading of the act to further amend the law of property and to relieve trustees 1860; An essay on the law of pleading by way of claim for alternative relief 1881; edited E. E. Deacon’s The law and practice of bankruptcy 3 ed. 1864. d. 19 Lee terrace, Blackheath 29 Jany. 1888.

LANGLEY, DANIEL BAXTER. b. 1797 or 1798; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., S.C.L. 1828, LLD. 1841; V. of Olney, Bucks. 1834–56; R. of Yardley-Hastings with Denton, Northants. 1856 to death; author of Olney lectures delivered in the parish church of Olney 1840; Morning and evening prayers compiled from the Common Prayer Book 1862; Christian laconics, or many things in few words 1862; The destruction of earthly hopes a reason for the cultivation of heavenly affections 1865, 2 ed. 1868. d. Yardley-Hastings rectory 15 March 1881.

LANGLEY, EDWARD (son of Mr. Langley who lived to be 93, by his wife who lived to be 105). b. 1763; a surgeon at Riseley, Beds. 1803–28 when he retired. d. St. John st. Bedford 25 Jany. 1859 aged 96.

NOTE.--His mother’s father lived to be 103, and her grandfather 100.

LANGRIDGE, GEORGE DAVID. b. Kent 1829; emigrated to Australia; represented Collingwood in legislative assembly of Victoria 1874 to death; comr. of public works Aug. 1880 to July 1881; comr. of trade and customs March 1883 to Feb. 1886; chief secretary and minister of customs Nov. 1890 to death. d. Melbourne 24 March 1891.

LANGSLOW, ROBERT. Barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1823; attorney general of Malta 5 July 1832 to Nov. 1838 when granted pension of £300 on abolition of the office; judge of district court of Colombo No. 1 South, Ceylon 8 June 1840, suspended from his office for dilatoriness in discharge of his duty 11 Dec. 1843, removed July 1844; was residing 6 Powis place, Bloomsbury, London in 1846. d. New Inn, London 9 Dec. 1853. In the privy council. Petition from R. Langslow late judge of district court of Colombo (1847).

LANGSTON, JAMES HAUGHTON. b. 1797; M.P. Woodstock 1820–26; M.P. Oxford 1826 to 30 Dec. 1834 and 1841 to death; sheriff of co. Oxford 1819. d. Sarsden house, Chipping Norton, Oxon. 19 Oct. 1863.

LANGTON, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Langton of Liverpool, Russian merchant, d. 1838). b. Farfield near Addingham, Yorkshire 17 April 1803; engaged in business at Liverpool 1821–9; employed in Messrs. Heywoods’ bank, Manchester 1829–54; managing director of Manchester and Salford bank 1854 to Oct. 1876; one of the 3 founders of Manchester Athenæum 1836, to which a marble medallion bust of him was presented 1881; an original member of Chetham Society 1843, treasurer, afterwards hon. sec. to 1869, edited for the society Chetham Miscellanies 3 vols. 1851–56–62, Lancashire Inquisitiones post mortem 2 vols. 1875 and Benalt’s Visitation of Lancashire 1533, 2 vols. 1876–82; a memorial Langton scholarship was founded in his honour at Owen’s college, Manchester at cost of £5000 in 1876 or 1877. d. Ingatestone, Essex 29 Sep. 1881. bur. Fryerning churchyard, Essex. Publications of Chetham Society, vol. cx, memoir pp. iii–x, portrait.

LANGWORTHY, EDWARD RYLEY. b. 1796; mayor of Salford 1848–9 and 1850–1; a trustee of Manchester gram. sch. 1849; chief founder of Salford free library, the first established under Ewart’s act, and gave to it £6000, 1854; M.P. Salford 2 Feb. to 21 March 1857. d. Victoria park, Manchester 7 April 1874, personalty sworn under £1,200,000 13 June 1874.

NOTE.--Left £10,000 to build a wing to the Peel park museum which was opened 14 Aug. 1878; £10,000 to Owen’s college and £20,000 to the grammar school.

LANKESTER, EDWIN (son of Wm. Lankester of Melton near Woodbridge, Suffolk, builder). b. Melton 23 April 1814; studied at London univ. 1834–7; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. Heidelberg 1839; practised in London from 1839; sec. of the Ray Society 1844; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1845; professor of natural history in New College, London 1850; lecturer on anatomy and physiology at Grosvenor place school of medicine 1853; joint editor of Quarterly Journal of microscopical science 1853–71, pres. of Microscopical Soc. of London 1859; examiner in botany to science and art department 1862; superintendent of food collection at South Kensington museum 1858–62; medical officer of health for parish of St. James, Westminster 1856 to death; coroner for Central Middlesex 9 July 1862 to death, his annual reports are printed in the Journal of Social Science which he founded 1865 and edited 1865 to death; author of An account of Askern and its mineral springs 1842; Half hours with the microscope [by E. L.] 1859, 4 ed. 1873; The use of animals as applied to the industry of man 1860, four numbers; Vegetable physiology 1869; Dr. Lankester’s Sanitary handbills 1870, three numbers; A school manual of health, being an introduction to physiology 1868, 6 ed. 1876; Haydn’s Dictionary of medicine and hygiene, ed. by E. Lankester 1874, new ed. 1878. d. Margate 30 Oct. 1874. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1867) 47–51, portrait; Nature, xi 15–16 (1875); I.L.N. xli 100 (1862), portrait; Graphic, x 463, 465 (1874), portrait.

LANSDOWNE, HENRY PETTY FITZMAURICE, 3 Marquess of (younger son of 1 marquess of Lansdowne 1737–1805). b. Shelburne (now Lansdowne) house, 54 Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1780; known as lord Henry Petty 1784–1809; ed. at Westminster sch. at Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1801, LLD. 1811; M.P. Calne 1802–6; M.P. univ. of Camb. 1806–7; M.P. Camelford 1807–9; chancellor of the exchequer 10 Feb. 1806 to 31 March 1807; P.C. 5 Feb. 1806; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marquess 15 Nov. 1809, and his cousin as 4 Earl of Kerry 4 July 1818; sec. of state for home department 16 July 1827 to 26 Jany. 1828; lord pres. of the council 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Dec. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841 and 6 July 1846 to 27 Feb. 1852; leader of opposition in house of lords 1841–6; F.R.S. 4 April 1811; K.G. 5 Feb. 1836; refused the premiership 1852; held a seat in the cabinet without office Dec. 1852 to March 1858; many of his speeches were printed 1806 etc. d. Bowood park, Calne, Wilts. 31 Jany. 1863. Men of the time: British statesmen. (1854) 44–69; H. Martineau’s Biog. sketches 4 ed. (1876) 91–9; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, v (1834), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, i 14 (1846), portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain, ii 143–53 (1854), iii 156–67 (1854); Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 171, portrait; Hayward’s Essays, ii 303–19 (1870); Illustrated Times 14 Feb. 1863 p. 109, portrait.

NOTE.--He first appears in Gillray’s prints in 1805. His personalty was sworn under £350,000, 20 June 1863.

LANSDOWNE, HENRY PETTY FITZMAURICE, 4 Marquess of (2 son of the preceding). b. Lansdowne house, London 5 Jany. 1816; ed. Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.; known as lord Henry Petty Fitzmaurice 1818–36 and as earl of Shelburne 1836–63; M.P. Calne 1837–56; lieut. Wiltshire yeomanry 23 Jany. 1837, lieut.-col. 3 May 1861 to death; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Dec. 1847 to Aug. 1848; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 5 July 1856 to 26 Feb. 1858; summoned to house of lords in his father’s barony of Wycombe 11 July 1856; chairman of Great Western railway 1859–63; succeeded his father as 4 Marquess 31 Jany. 1863; K.G. 10 Oct. 1864. d. Lansdowne house, 54 Berkeley square, London 5 July 1866. I.L.N. xl 175 (1862), portrait.

LANWARNE, NICHOLAS. Admitted attorney and solicitor 1833; practised at Hereford 1833 to death; clerk to the Hereford union 1837 and to Dore union 1842 to death; coroner for Herefordshire 1838 to death; clerk to the Dore magistrates 1859 to death; one of the charity trustees for city of Hereford to death. d. The Vineyard near Hereford, midnight 10 Dec. 1864 aged 54.

LANYON, SIR CHARLES (son of John Jenkinson Lanyon of Eastbourne). b. Eastbourne 6 Jany. 1813; articled to Jacob Owen of Dublin, civil engineer; county surveyor of Kildare 1835, of co. Antrim 1836–60; made the Belfast and Ballymena railway, the Carrickfergus and Larne and other railways; architect of the Queen’s college, the court-house and other public buildings in Belfast; mayor of Belfast 1862; M.P. Belfast 1866–68, contested Belfast 1868; pres. of Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland 1862–8; knighted by duke of Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868; sheriff of co. Antrim 1876; provincial grand master of Antrim. d. The Abbey, White Abbey near Belfast 31 May 1889. R. F. Gould’s History of freemasonry, iv 388 (1885), portrait.

NOTE.--His second son Charles Mortimer Lanyon b. Belfast 1840; ed. at Bromsgrove and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1863; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1865. d. London 27 Feb. 1877. Law Times 31 March 1877 p. 397.

LANYON, SIR WILLIAM OWEN (3 son of the preceding). b. co. Antrim 21 July 1842; ed. at Bromsgrove gr. sch.; ensign 6 foot 21 Dec. 1860; lieut. 2 West India regiment 11 Jany. 1867, lieut.-col. 2 Feb. 1878, placed on h.p. 1 Jany. 1883; A.D.C. and private sec. to sir John Peter Grant, governor of Jamaica 1868–73; A.D.C. to sir Garnet Wolseley in Ashantee campaign Oct. 1873 to 20 Jany. 1874 when invalided; went to the Gold Coast on a special mission 1874; administrator of Griqualand West 1 Sep. 1875 to April 1880, raised a volunteer force which he led against a Ratlapin chief named Botlasitsie, whom he defeated in ten actions and subdued 1878; colonel in the army 11 Nov. 1878; administrator of the Transvaal 21 April 1880 to 8 Aug. 1881; col. on the staff in Egypt 1882 and 1885; A.A. and Q.M.G. Southern district of England 1883–5 and in Egypt 19 Feb. to 8 May 1885; C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, K.C.M.G. 6 April 1880; C.B. 11 Nov. 1878. d. New York 6 April 1887. The Graphic, xxiii 217 (1881), portrait; The London Figaro 16 April 1887 p. 3, portrait.

LANZA, GESUALDO (son of Giuseppe Lanza, musical composer). b. Naples 1779; a singing master in London; music seller at Chesterfield st. Pancras New road, bankrupt 27 Aug. 1830; opened singing classes at 75 Newman st. 1842; taught Miss M. Tree, Miss Stephens, Miss Bolton and Mrs. Donald King; author of The desert of Arabia, an operatical entertainment written by F. Reynolds 1806; The elements of singing in the Italian and English styles 3 vols. 1809; The elements of singing familiarly explained 1813; Grand messa di gloria 1835; Sunday evening recreations 1840; Signor Lanza’s New method of teaching class singing 1843, and upwards of 30 pieces of music. d. London 12 March 1859. bur. Highgate cemet. His daughter Rosalie Lanza was a well known operatic singer.

LAPHAM, GEORGE. b. Bath 1804; assistant to William Hone, publisher 1822–5; publisher of The Examiner 1826 to death. d. 9 Wellington st. Strand, London 10 Oct. 1871.

LAPIDGE, EDWARD (son of Mr. Lapidge, chief gardener at Hampton Court palace). Architect in London; built bridge over the Thames at Kingston 1825–8, church of St. Peter, Hammersmith 1827–9, chapel of St. Andrew on Ham Common, Surrey 1832; competed for new houses of parliament 1836 and for Fitzwilliam museum Cambridge 1836; surveyor of bridges and public works for Surrey; F.I.B.A. d. March 1860.

LAPILETIERE, FRANCES MARY DE (dau. of Hugh Goldicutt). b. Bury st. St. James’, London 27 Aug. 1788. (m. V. C. J. De Lapiletiere). d. at her residence, Worthing 3 Dec. 1891 in 104th year.

LAPORTE, GEORGE HENRY (son of John Laporte, water-colour painter 1761–1839). Animal painter; exhibited 9 sporting subjects at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. gallery 1821–50; an original member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1831, where he also exhibited; some of his works were engraved in the New Sporting Mag.; animal painter to the king of Hanover. d. 13 Norfolk sq. Hyde park, London 23 Oct. 1873.

LAPPIN, JAMES. b. 1824; partner with Job May and then with Richard A. Webster as stockbrokers, Liverpool; chairman of Liverpool stock exchange; a correspondent of The Times on forged transfers of railway stock; ran to catch his train and died in a carriage between Seaforth and Liverpool 25 Oct. 1890. bur. St. James’ cemet. 28 Oct. The Times 27 Oct. 1890 p. 10.

LAPWORTH, JAMES. b. Warwick 1798; clerk in office of Gregory and Adlington, 1 Bedford row, London 1820–37; admitted attorney 1831; private sec. to Sir Wm. Follett 1837–46; clerk to the Home Office 1846–7; librarian to the Incorporated Law Society, Chancery lane, London, March 1847 to Dec. 1877 when he retired on pension of £300; compiled catalogues of the books in the library of the Law Society 1851 and 1869. d. 7 Blenheim road, Bedford park, London 21 June 1888.

LARBUSCH, FREDERICK. Claimed to have been b. London 9 March 1766, probably b. Germany 1786; ensign 60 foot 16 Nov. 1809; lieut. as F. Lahrbusch 29 Oct. 1810; known as F. De Lahrbusch 1815; cashiered in 1819 as lieut. De Lahrbush of 60 foot; resided in New York from 1848; entertained at a breakfast in New York to celebrate what he called his 107th birthday 9 March 1873. W. J. Thoms’ Longevity of man (1879) 207–24; Historical Mag. and American Notes and Queries, April 1867 pp. 211–12.

LARCOM, SIR THOMAS AISKEW (2 son of Joseph Larcom 1764–1843, captain R.N.). b. 22 April 1801; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 June 1820, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1854 to 1 April 1858 when placed on retired full pay with rank of M.G.; assistant in the central organisation of the Irish ordnance survey at Mountjoy, Phœnix park near Dublin 1828–46; the beauty of his county maps of Ireland has never been exceeded; a census comr. in Ireland 1841; a comr. of public works in Ireland 1846; chief director of the public relief works 1846; deputy chairman of Irish board of works 1850; under sec. of state for Ireland Feb. 1853 to Nov. 1868; C.B. 5 March 1858, K.C.B. 19 June 1860; cr. baronet 7 Dec. 1868; P.C. Ireland 1868; edited Sir W. Petty’s The history of the survey of Ireland, for the Irish Archæological soc. 1851; Memoirs of life of Capt. Drummond, in Papers of Corps of Royal Engineers vol. 4 pp. ix–xxiv (1850) and Memoir of city of Londonderry, in Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1837. d. Heathfield, Fareham, Hants. 15 June 1879. Proc. of royal society, xxix 10–15 (1879).

LARDNER, DIONYSIUS (son of Wm. O’B. Lardner of 88 Marlborough st. Dublin, solicitor, who d. 1808). b. Dublin 3 April 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1819, LLB. and LLD. 1827; took holy orders, chaplain of his college; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in London univ. 1827 to 1832; published the Cabinet Cyclopædia 133 vols. 1829–46, in which he wrote the treatises on hydrostatics and pneumatics, arithmetic and geometry; published Dr. Lardner’s Cabinet Library 9 vols. 1830–2; edited the Edinburgh Cabinet Library 38 vols. 1830–44; The Museum of science and art 12 vols. 1856; lectured in the United States and Cuba 1840–5, cleared £40,000; lived at Paris 1845 to death; Paris correspondent of Daily News; is satirised by Thackeray in his Miscellanies as Dionysius Diddler, and in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Doctor Diolesius Larner, Doctor Athanasius Lardner and Doctor Ignatius Loyola. d. Naples 29 April 1859. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 122–5, portrait; A.R. (1849) 289 and (1859) 446; The works of W. M. Thackeray, xii 404–14 (1869).

NOTE.--He married in the parish church of St. Paul, Dublin 19 Dec. 1815 Cecilia dau. of Henry Flood of Dublin, barrister, she left him 20 Oct. 1820 and lived near Dublin with Samuel Booth Williams Murphy to 20 Jany. 1829 when he died. Lardner obtained a sentence of divorce in consistory court of Dublin 1832 and his marriage was dissolved by 2 and 3 Vict. cap. 53, 14 June 1839. On 13 March 1840 he eloped with Mary wife of captain Richard Heaviside of Brighton, who obtained £8000 damages against him in an action tried at town hall, Lewes 1 Aug. 1840. Heaviside obtained a sentence of divorce in consistory court of London 3 March 1841 and his marriage was dissolved by 8 and 9 Vict. cap. 35, 31 July 1845. Lardner married the lady 2 Aug. 1846 at Paris, where she resided until her death about 30 April 1891.

LARDNER, LEOPOLD JAMES. b. Holland 1816; private tutor in family of Jacob van Lennep poet in Holland many years; entered British Museum 1846 where he superintended the transcription of the catalogue of books extending to 300 volumes to his death; frequently employed by the Foreign Office in translating from the Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Danish; threw himself from the window of his residence 9 Cornwall villas, Kentish Town, London 27 Nov. 1855. Times 3 Dec. 1855 p. 6 col. 6.

LARKIN, NATHANIEL JOHN. b. London 5 Dec. 1781; the first sec. of society of civil engineers 1825; manufacturer of mathematical models at 29 Baker st. Spa Fields, London 1829; author of An essay on a mosaic pavement formed of right angled triangles of different colours 1818; An introduction to solid geometry 1820; The rudiments of linear, plane and solid geometry 1820. d. 21 Oct. 1855.

LARKING, JOHN WINGFIELD (son of John Larking 1755–1838). b. Clare house 1801; English consul in Egypt; negotiated terms of peace between Mehemet Ali and the Sultan and probably prevented a war between France and England 1839; the first Englishman who acquired influence in Egypt, a favourite with Mehemet, Said and Ismail; received order of Medjidie; at his expense Dr. Henry Holman Drake re-wrote and published the Hundred of Blackheath, a portion of Hasted’s History of Kent 1886; resided at The Firs, Old road, Lee, Kent from 1858, d. there 18 May 1891. Times 21 May 1891 p. 7; Blackheath Local Guide 23 May 1891 pp. 10, 13.

LARKING, LAMBERT BLACKWELL (brother of the preceding). b. Clare house, East Malling, Kent 2 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton 1808–16 and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; founded University lodge of freemasons 1819; C. of East Peckham near Tunbridge 1820; V. of Ryarsh near Maidstone 14 April 1830 to death; V. of Burham near Rochester 28 Jany. 1837 to death; hon. sec. of Kent Archæological soc. 19 Sep. 1857 to 1861, vice pres. 1861; wrote many articles in the Archæologia Cantiana; member of council of Camden Soc. 1852 to death, ed. for the soc. Certain considerations upon the government of England by Sir R. Twysden 1849, The knights hospitallers 1857 and Proceedings in the county of Kent 1862; author of The late Thomas Streatfield 1861; A description of the heartshrine in Leybourne church 1864; with rev. T. Streatfield collected materials for a history of Kent, the first part called Hasted’s History of Kent corrected, enlarged and continued. Ed. by H. H. Drake Part 1 The hundred of Blackheath was published in 1886 with portrait of L. B. Larking. d. Ryarsh vicarage 2 Aug. 1868. Archæologia Cantiana, vii 323–29 (1868).

LARPENT, SIR GEORGE GERARD DE HOCHEPIED-, 1 Baronet (youngest son of John Larpent 1741–1824, inspector of plays). b. London 16 Feb. 1786; entered East India house of Cockerell and Larpent; took additional name of De Hochepied by r.l. 14 June 1819; chairman of Oriental and China Assoc.; deputy chairman of St. Katharine’s Docks co.; contested Ludlow, May 1840 and Nottingham, April 1841; M.P. Nottingham 28 June 1841 to July 1842; contested city of London 1847; created baronet 13 Oct. 1841; edited The Private Journals of Francis Seymour Larpent 3 vols. 1853, 3 ed. 1853; and Turkey, its history and progress by Sir J. Porter, continued to the present time 1854; author of Some remarks on the negotiations between the board of control and the East India Co. 1833. d. Conduit st. Regent st. London 8 March 1855.

LASCELLES, EDWIN (4 son of 2 earl of Harewood 1767–1841). b. 25 Dec. 1799; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1822 to death; B.C.L. 1826, D.C.L. 1831; barrister I.T. 10 Feb. 1826; contested Northallerton, Yorkshire 1841; M.P. Ripon 1846–57; chairman of quarter sessions of West riding of Yorkshire to death. d. Wighill park near Wetherby, Yorkshire 25 April 1865.

LASCELLES, WILLIAM SAUNDERS SEBRIGHT (3 son of 2 earl of Harewood 1767–1841). b. 29 Oct. 1798; M.P. Northallerton 1820–26, 1831–32; M.P. East Looe 1826–30; M.P. Wakefield 1837–41, 1842–47; M.P. Knaresborough 1847 to death; P.C. 22 July 1847; comptroller of H.M.’s household 24 July 1847 to death. d. Bute house, Campden hill, Kensington 2 July 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 193–4 (1851); I.L.N. xix 42 (1851).

LASLETT, WILLIAM EMERSON (only son of Thomas Emerson Laslett). b. 1801; solicitor at Worcester 1831–52; barrister I.T. 30 April 1856; practised at Worcester; M.P. Worcester city 1852–60 and 1868–74; contested East Worcestershire 1868 and 1874; gave 25 acres of land in Astwood road, Worcester for a public cemetery; founded by his will Laslett’s Almshouses 33 in number in Whiteladies’ close, Worcester; gave estates of 2,000 acres in Gloucestershire valued at £85,000 in trust for religious and charitable purposes. d. Abberton hall, Pershore 26 Jany. 1884. I.L.N. xxxii 561, 562 (1858), portrait.

LASSELL, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Lassell of Bolton, d. 1810). b. Bolton 18 June 1799; apprenticed to a Liverpool merchant 1814–21; a brewer about 1825; commenced constructing reflecting telescopes 1820; built an observatory at Starfield near Liverpool, which he moved to Bradstones near there 1854; invented a new machine for grinding specula; member of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1839, pres. 1870–2, discovered the satellites of Uranus 10 Oct. 1846; received gold medal of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1849; the first to clearly ascertain composition of the Uranian system; mounted a four-foot reflecting telescope at Valetta in Malta 1861, worked there 3 years and catalogued 600 new nebulæ; set up a two-foot reflector at Ray lodge near Maidenhead 1865; F.R.S. 7 June 1849, royal medallist 1858; F.R.S. Edin.; hon. LL.D. Cambridge 1874; his specula have never been surpassed; ranks with sir Wm. Herschel and lord Rosse among the perfecters of the reflecting telescope. d. in his sleep at Ray Lodge, Maidenhead 5 Oct. 1880. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxi 7–10 (1881); Wallich’s Eminent men of the day (1870), portrait No. 13; Nature, xxii 565–6 (1880).

LAST, EDWARD. Ensign 90 foot 13 Oct. 1814; captain 99 foot 22 May 1829, major 18 Oct. 1839; lieut.-col. 21 foot 26 March 1858 to 21 Oct. 1859 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 5 Sep. 1865. d. East Malling near Maidstone 27 Jany. 1870.

LAST, JOSEPH WILLIAM. b. 1809; printer at 3 Edward st. Hampstead road, London 1834–8; bankrupt 1 March 1839; printer at 3 Crane court, Fleet st. 1840–3, at 59 West Smithfield 1847–50, at 1 Pickett place, Strand 1851–2, at Savoy st. Strand 1861–3, at Heathcock court, 414 Strand 1866–9, at Prince’s st. Lincoln’s Inns Fields 1869–72; J. W. Last and Co. carried on business at last address 1873–7 and at Wych court, Wych st. 1877–80; printer and proprietor of a weekly paper entitled The Town, a journal of original essays, &c. 156 numbers 3 June 1837 to 23 May 1840; The Crown, another weekly paper 42 numbers 1 July 1838 to 14 April 1839; The Squib: a granulation of wit, satire and amusement 30 numbers 29 May to 17 Dec. 1842; printed Punch, first number published 17 July 1841, held a third share in it, which he sold to Ebenezer Landells 25 Sep. 1841; managing printer of Illustrated London News 1842; one of the first who executed illustrated works with a cylinder machine, and the first to print a six-sheet poster. d. last week of March 1880. Mr. Punch, his origin and career [1870] 13–32.

LATCHFORD, BENJAMIN. Bridle, bit, stirrup and spur maker to the Queen at 11 Upper St. Martin’s lane, London 1844. d. Walton on Naze 20 June 1886 aged 93.

LATEY, JOHN LASH. b. Tiverton 14 June 1808; wrote in North Devon newspapers; contributed to Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper 1842; wrote in first number of Illust. London News 14 May 1842, editor 1858 to 31 Dec. 1890; author of The ballot 1839; The pattern book of letters for working people 1840. d. 11 North villas, Camden sq. London 6 Jany. 1891. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 224, portrait; I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p. 38, portrait.

LATHAM, DANIEL. b. Buenos Ayres 1860; amateur actor in South America; studied acting in England under name of Veovide; engaged the first English dramatic company that ever appeared in the Argentine republic 1882, toured there for three seasons with his own companies 1882–4. d. St. Thomas’ hospital, London 29 Oct. 1885.

LATHAM, GEORGE WILLIAM (2 son of John Latham of Bradwall hall, Cheshire 1787–1853). b. 4 May 1827; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; barrister I.T. 7 June 1852; contested Mid Cheshire, April 1880; M.P. Crewe division of Cheshire, Dec. 1885 to June 1886. d. Bradwall hall near Sandbach 4 Oct. 1886.

LATHAM, HENRY (3 son of John Latham, physician 1761–1843). b. London 4 Nov. 1794; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; barrister L.I. 1820; V. of Selmerton with Alceston, Sussex 1833–47; V. of Fittleworth, Sussex 1847 to death; author of Harmonia Paulina 1837; Anthologia Davidica 1846; published Sertum Shakespearianum, subnexis aliquot inferioris notæ floribus. Oxford 1863, being translations from Shakespeare, Cowper and the prayer-book with ten original Latin poems; Black and white, a journal of a three months tour in the United States 1867. d. of cholera at Boulogne 6 Sep. 1866.

LATHAM, JOHN (brother of preceding). b. Oxford 18 March 1787; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Brasenose coll. Oxf., won chancellor’s prize for Latin verse by a poem on Trafalgar 1806, fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1806–21; B.C.L. 1810, D.C.L. 1815; student at L.I. Dec. 1806; became blind so as not to be able to read from 1807; lived in Cheshire 1829 to death; author of a volume of poems published anonymously at Sandbach 1836 and of English and Latin poems, original and translated 1853. d. Bradwall hall 30 Jany. 1853. English and Latin poems by J. Latham (1853), memoir pp. i–xxxvi.

LATHAM, PETER MERE (brother of preceding). b. London 1 July 1789; ed. at Sandbach free sch., Macclesfield gr. sch. and Brasenose coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, M.B. 1814, M.D. 1816; inceptor candidate of R.C.P. 7 July 1815, candidate 30 Sep. 1817, fellow 30 Sep. 1818, censor 1820, 1833 and 1837, Gulstonian lecturer 1819, Lumleian lecturer 1827–28, Harveian orator 1839; phys. to Middlesex hosp. 1815 to Nov. 1824; phys. to St. Bartholomew’s hosp. 30 Nov. 1824 to Nov. 1841; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 8 Aug. 1837 to 1865; retired from practice to Torquay 1865; one of the last of the advocates of bleeding; author of An account of the disease prevalent in the general hospital 1825; Lectures on clinical medicine 1836; Lectures on clinical medicine, comprising diseases of the heart 2 vols. 1845–6; The collected works of P. M. Latham. Sydenham soc. 1876. d. Inglewood, Belgrave road, Torquay 20 July 1875. Munk’s College of physicians (1878) iii 185; St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports, vol. xi pp. xxv–xxxvi (1875).

LATHAM, ROBERT GORDON (eld. son of Thomas Latham, V. of Billingborough, Lincs.). b. Billingborough 24 March 1812; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow 1835; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, M.D. 1844; professor of English language and literature in University college, London 1839; L.R.C.P. 1842; lecturer on forensic medicine and materia medica at Middlesex hospital, assistant phys. 1844–9; director of ethnological department at Crystal Palace 1852; granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863; originated the idea that original home of Aryan race was not in Asia but in Europe; edited Todd Johnson’s A dictionary of the English language 2 vols. in 4 parts 1866–70; author of The English language 1841, 5 ed. 1862; A handbook of the English language 1851, 9 ed. 1875; Logic in its application to language 1856; Descriptive ethnology 2 vols. 1859; The ethnology of India 1859; Opuscula. Essays chiefly philological and ethnographical 1860; Elements of comparative philology 1862; The nationalities of Europe 2 vols. 1863; A defence of phonetic spelling 1872; Two dissertations on Hamlet 1872; Outlines of general philology 1878. d. Upper Richmond road, Putney 9 March 1888.

LATHAM, SAMUEL METCALFE. Vice consul at Dover for Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Sweden and Norway from 10 to 30 years to Jany. 1879; foreign office passport agent at Dover 30 July 1858; received in Jany. 1879 the following distinctions, the rank of officer of Belgian order of Leopold, knighthood of Italian order of the Crown, of Belgian order of the Crown of Oak, and of order of Wasa of Sweden and Norway, also German order of the Red Eagle. d. 4 June 1886.

LATHBURY, THOMAS (son of Henry Lathbury). b. Brackley, Northamptonshire 1798; ed. at St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; C. of Chatteris, Cambs.; C. of Mangotsfield, Gloucs. 1831–8; C. of the Abbey ch. Bath 1838–48; V. of St. Simon’s, Baptist Mills, Bristol 1848 to death; made a collection of printed Service Books 1845; author of A history of the English episcopacy from the period of the long parliament to the act of uniformity 1836; A history of the convocation of the Church of England 1842, 2 ed. 1853; A history of the nonjurors, their controversies and writings 1845; A history of the book of Common Prayer and other books of authority 1858; edited Jeremy Collier’s An ecclesiastical history of Great Britain with a life of the author 9 vols. 1852. d. 3 Cave st. Portland sq. Bristol 11 Feb. 1865.

LATIMER, JOHN PADDON (eld. son of Isaac Latimer, newspaper proprietor, Plymouth). b. at Truro 1843; barrister M.T. 30 April 1869; one of parliamentary staff of The Times some years, and was war correspondent in the Baltic provinces during the Franco-German war 1870; edited Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Feb. 1878 to Feb. 1881; associated with his father and brother in conducting the Western Daily Mercury; deputy stip. mag. at West Ham 1884 to death. d. Glen View, Mannamead, Plymouth 22 May 1885 in 42 year.

LATIMER, THOMAS. b. Bristol 9 Aug. 1803; apprentice to Thomas Davison, printer, Whitefriars, London; sec. London gymnastic soc.; reporter Devonshire Chronicle, Exeter 1827, to Plymouth Journal, to Exeter and Plymouth Gazette 1830; sub-editor Western Times 1831, editor and proprietor of Western Times, Exeter 183-, brought it out twice a week and then as a daily 1866; for many years denounced the practices of the Puseyite party, and defended a prosecution for libel brought against him by Henry Phillpotts bishop of Exeter at Exeter assizes 27 March 1848 when acquitted on plea of justification; presented with a service of plate by the Reform party 1840; started the Tiverton Times 1865; presented with a salver and 550 sovereigns by the Liberal party 1 Jany. 1868; transferred the Western Times to his son Hugh Latimer and son in law S. H. B. Glanville 1873. d. 143 Fore st. Exeter 5 Jany. 1888. I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 pp. 57, 58, portrait.

NOTE.--He m. in 1827 Miss Francis Annie Perry of London, she learnt shorthand and helped her husband in his work. In 1830 T. Latimer was the only shorthand writer in Devonshire.

LATOUR, HENRY LOUIS. With Henry Adams and Mr. Spurling ascended from Cremorne gardens on 27 June 1854, being seated on a parachute formed as a horse, a pair of wings on each side being attached to it, his feet rested on a treadwheel intended to move the wings, the parachute would not act and the balloon was lowered near Marsh-lane station, Eastern Counties railway when he was dashed against a tree, removed to Chasseraux Arms, Tottenham where he d. 5 July 1854. Times 11 July 1854 p. 12.

LATROBE, CHARLES JOSEPH (son of Christian Ignatius Latrobe, musical composer 1758–1836). b. London 20 March 1801; climbed many Swiss mountains alone 1824–6; travelled in America 1832–4; superintendent of Port Phillip district of New South Wales 30 Sep. 1839, lieut. governor of Victoria 27 Jany. 1851 to 5 May 1854; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; author of The Alpenstock, or sketches of Swiss scenery and manners 1829; The Pedestrian: a summer’s ramble in the Tyrol 1832; The Rambler in North America 2 vols. 1835; The Rambler in Mexico in 1836; The Solace of Song, short poems suggested by scenes in Italy 1837. d. Clapham house, Littlington near Eastbourne 4 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. xxiv 575, 576 (1854), portrait, xxvii 124 (1855).

LATROBE, JOHN ANTES (brother of preceding). b. London 1799; ed. at St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; C. of Melton Mowbray; C. of Tintern, Monmouth; P.C. of St. Thomas’s, Kendal 1840–65; hon. canon of Carlisle 1858 to death; author of The music of the church considered in its various branches, congregational and choral 1831; The chant, its character explained 1838; Scripture illustrations, a series of engravings 1838; Sacred lays and lyrics 1850. d. Gloucester 19 Nov. 1878.

LATROBE, PETER (brother of preceding). b. 1795; took orders in the Moravian church; secretary of the Unity of the Brethren in England 1836 to death; an organist and composer; wrote an Introduction on the progress of the Church Psalmody for an edition of the Moravian hymn tunes. d. Berthelsdorf near Herrnhut, Saxony 24 Sep. 1863.

LATTER, HENRY JOSEPH. Engaged in bank of England till 1863; general manager of East London bank afterwards called Central bank of London 1863 to death. d. Goddendene, Farnborough, Kent 9 Jany. 1891.

LATTER, ROBERT JAMES (3 son of Mr. Latter d. 30 June 1829). b. London 1783; midshipman 1794; entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. 8 Bengal N.I. 30 Oct. 1797, captain 21 Sep. 1804; major 30 Bengal N.I. 16 Dec. 1814, lieut.-col. 21 March 1819; lieut.-col. 66 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1824, col. 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. London 24 Feb. 1855. Memoir of general Latter. By Mrs. Baillie (1870), portrait.

LATTER, THOMAS (son of Barré R. W. Latter, major 13 Bengal N.I.). b. India 1816; ensign 48 Bengal N.I. 12 Sep. 1836; lieut. 67 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1840 to death; chief interpreter to sir Henry Thomas Godwin in the second Burmese war; captain in the army 6 Feb. 1851; led the storming party against eastern entrance of the Shwé Dagon pagoda 14 April 1852; resident deputy comr. at Prome 30 Dec. 1852; author of A note on Boodhism and the cave temples of India 1844; A grammar of the language of Burmah 1845; murdered in his bed at Prome by the Burmese at 2 a.m. 8 Dec. 1853.

LAUDER, JAMES ECKFORD (son of a tanner). b. Silvermills, Edinburgh 15 Aug. 1811; studied painting at the Trustees’ academy 1830–3; lived in Italy 1834–8; painter in Edinburgh 1838 to death; A.R.S.A. 1839, R.S.A. 1846, a regular contributor to its exhibitions from 1832; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. gallery 1841–53; his picture The Parable of Forgiveness gained a prize of £200 at Westminster Hall competition 1847; his picture Hagar is in the National Gallery of Scotland. d. Edinburgh 29 March 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. May 1869 p. 413.

LAUDER, ROBERT SCOTT (brother of the preceding). b. Silvermills, Edinburgh 25 June 1803; subject painter in Edinb. 1826–33; associate of Royal Institution, Edinb. 1828; member of Scottish academy 18 July 1829; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A. and 11 at B.I. 1827–49; studied in Italy 1833–8; resided in London 1838–52; the first pres. of National Institution of the fine arts, Portland gallery, Regent st.; principal teacher in drawing, academy of Board of Trustees, Edinb. Feb. 1852 to 1861; his greatest picture is the ‘Trial of Effie Deans’ 1840, now at Hospitalfields, Arbroath; several of his pictures with his bust in marble by John Hutcheson, R.S.A. are in National gallery of Scotland. d. 3 Wardie avenue, Ferry road, Edinburgh 21 April 1869, marble monument with medallion portrait erected over his grave at Edinb. Jany. 1872. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. June 1869 pp. 477–8; I.L.N. lx 52 (1872), portrait.

LAUDERDALE, ANTHONY MAITLAND, 10 Earl of (brother of the 9th Earl). b. 10 June 1785; entered navy 2 Oct. 1795; captain 25 Sep. 1806; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; K.C.M.G. 20 Feb. 1820; admiral 18 June 1857; M.P. Haddington burghs 1813–18, M.P. Berwickshire 1826–32; succeeded 22 Aug. 1860. d. Thirlestane castle 22 March 1863.

LAUDERDALE, CHARLES BARCLAY MAITLAND, 12 Earl of (only son of rev. Charles Maitland, R. of Little Lingford, Wilts., d. 1844). b. 29 Sep. 1822; in the army but name not in army list; a railway porter, a station master; succeeded his cousin 1 Sep. 1878; struck by lightning while shooting on his moor near Lauder, Berwickshire, removed to Braidshawrigg, Westruther, where he d. the same day 12 Aug. 1884. Annual Register (1885) 149–50.

LAUDERDALE, JAMES MAITLAND, 9 Earl of (eld. son of 8 earl of Lauderdale 1759–1839). b. Wimpole st. London 12 May 1784; M.P. Camelford 1806–7, M.P. Richmond 1818–20, M.P. Appleby 1820–31; succeeded 15 Sep. 1839; lieutenant sheriff principal of Berwickshire 3 Nov. 1841 to death. d. Thirlestane castle, Berwickshire 22 Aug. 1860.

LAUDERDALE, THOMAS MAITLAND, 11 Earl of (only son of hon. Wm. Mordaunt Maitland general in army, who d. 24 June 1841). b. Frankfort, co. Cork 3 Feb. 1803; entered navy 22 Sep. 1816; captain 10 Jany. 1837; C.B. 1841, K.C.B. 1865, G.C.B. 24 May 1873; knighted by patent 3 April 1843; naval A.D.C. to the Queen 2 Feb. 1855 to 18 June 1857; commander in chief on Pacific station 5 May 1860 to 31 Oct. 1862; succeeded his cousin as 11 Earl 22 March 1863; first and principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 22 Nov. 1866 to 8 Feb. 1873, assigned his pay of £300 a year as A.D.C. to Royal benevolent society Dec. 1866; admiral 8 April 1868; admiral of the fleet 27 Dec. 1877; lectured on The defence of the protected territories on the Gold Coast, at R. United Service Instit. 1873. d. Thirlestane castle, Berwickshire 1 Sep. 1878, personalty sworn under £466,000, 8 Feb. 1879.

LAUGHLIN, FREDERICK HAMILTON. b. Dublin; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1866; C. of St. Peter, Saffron Hill, London 1867–72; a reader and preacher at the College of pensioners, Chelsea; an assistant librarian in British museum 1857–76. d. in an asylum, London 23 Aug. 1877.

LAURENCE, JOHN. b. Crieff 1839; taught himself Latin and German; a superior shorthand writer; chief editor of the Bulletin, Glasgow; edited the Scottish Banner, a newspaper 1861; reporter for The Kilmarnock Standard 1865 to death. d. Langlands st. Kilmarnock 13 May 1866. bur. Crieff 18 May.

LAURENCE, JOHN ZACHARIAH. b. 1828 or 1829; studied at univ. coll. London; M.B. London 1857; F.R.C.S. 1855; surgeon of hospital for epilepsy and paralysis; ophthalmic surgeon St. Bartholomew’s hospital; in practice at 30 Devonshire st. Portland place, London; edited Ophthalmic Review 3 vols. 1864–67; author of The diagnosis of surgical cancer (Liston gold medal) 1855, 2 ed. 1858; Illustrations of the pathology of cancer 1856; The progress of ophthalmic surgery from the invention of the ophthalmoscope 1863; The optical defects of the eye and their consequences, asthenopia and strabismus 1865. d. 3 St. Peter’s sq. Hammersmith, Middlesex 18 July 1870.

LAURENCE, ROBERT FRENCH (5 son of John Laurence of Eltham, Kent). b. 2 April 1807; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1824–33; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; P.C. of Great and Little Hampton, Worcs. 17 April to 28 July 1832; V. of Chalgrave with chapel of Berwick, Oxon. 28 July 1832 to 1885; author of An order for the visitation of the sick 1851; An essay on confession, penance and absolution 1852; The churchman’s assistant at holy communion 1860. d. 1886.

LAURENCE, SAMUEL. b. Guildford, Surrey 1812; portrait painter; exhibited 90 pictures at R.A. and 14 at Suffolk st. 1834–79; great friend of James Spedding, G. H. Lewes and T. Leigh Hunt; visited U.S. of America 1854, stayed with Longfellow in Massachusetts. d. 6 Wells st. Oxford st. London 28 Feb. 1884.

LAURENT, CHARLES EMILE. b. 1819; musician in London; member of Royal Soc. of musicians; converted the Royal Adelaide gallery of practical science, 7 Adelaide st. Strand, which had been opened in 1832, into Laurent’s Casino Royal 5 Oct. 1846 and was conductor there to May 1849; conductor at the Argyll Subscription rooms, Great Windmill st. Oct. 1849. d. 23 May 1857.

LAURENT, HENRI (brother of preceding). b. 1827; operatic and vocal composer; published The Argyll galop 1857; H. Laurent’s Album of dance music 1858; A maiden’s blush waltz 1862 and upwards of 70 other pieces of dance music 1849–72. d. London 20 March 1861.

LAURI, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Lowe (eld. child of John Francis Lowe or Lauri d. 22 Jany. 1887 aged 77). b. 1833; at Sadler’s Wells with his brothers John and Frederick 1840; pantomimist and clown, one of the first to introduce the trap business being shot up from beneath the stage into the air; engaged at Drury Lane 1851; clown in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Harlequin and the golden goose, at Sadler’s Wells 26 Dec. 1860; appeared before the Queen at Her Majesty’s 14 Feb. 1861 as clown in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Harlequin and Tom Thumb; played clown at Sadler’s Wells 1861–2, Drury Lane 1863–8 and 1878; played clown at Wallack’s theatre, New York 7 June 1869, afterwards at Niblo’s Garden and the Tammany, New York; played in all the principal theatres in Great Britain and on the Continent; last appearance was at Grand theatre, Glasgow, Jany. 1888. d. of consumption, 128 Kennington park road, London 16 May 1889. Illust. Sporting News, ii 445 (1864), portrait, v 808 (1866), portrait; Illust. Sport and Dram. News, ii 268 (1874), portrait.

LAURI, JOHN, stage name of John George Lowe (brother of the preceding). b. 1829; played harlequin at Her Majesty’s, Dec. 1860, at Princess’s, Dec. 1861 to 21 Feb. 1862, at Adelphi, Dec. 1862; played harlequin in New York with his brother 1869; a ballet master in London; his 2 daughters were dancers known as Stella and Luna. d. 14 Baker st. Clerkenwell, London 27 Sep. 1881.

LAURIE, JAMES. Wine merchant 9 Billiter st. city of London 1833 to death; author of Tables of simple interest at 5, 4½ etc. per cent. 1831, 21 ed. 1861; Tables of simple interest at 5, 6 etc. per cent., also tables of commission 1842, 4 ed. 1854; Tables of exchange between Madeira and London 1844; Tables of exchange between Paris, Bourdeaux, &c. 1845; British and foreign share tables 1847; Manual of foreign exchange 1851, 5th thousand 1867; Universal exchange tables 1852; Decimal coinage 1854. d. 28 Aug. 1854.

LAURIE, John. b. 1792; entered Madras army 1809; ensign 9 Madras N.I. 29 July 1810, major 31 Oct. 1835 to 5 Aug. 1840; lieut.-col. 45 Madras N.I. 5 Aug. 1840 to 1845; lieut.-col. of 35 N.I. 1845–6, of 9 N.I. 1846–50, of 36 N.I. 1850 to 6 June 1851; col. of 1st European regiment 6 June 1851 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Llandulas, North Wales 20 July 1861.

LAURIE, JOHN (son of Benjamin Snaddon of Barrowstown, co. Linlithgow, who m. Agnes dau. of John Laurie and took the name of Laurie 1824). b. Scotland 1797; merchant in London and government contractor; partner in Laurie and Marner, coach builders, Oxford st. London; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1845–6; M.P. Barnstaple 25 Aug. 1854 but unseated on petition; M.P. Barnstaple 1857–59; author of Voice of humanity a voice of mercy 1852. d. 2 Aug. 1864. I.L.N. xxxii 561, 562 (1858), portrait.

LAURIE, SIR PETER (son of John Laurie of Stichell, Roxburghshire, farmer). b. Stichell 1778 or 1779; a saddler at 296 Oxford st. London 1806; became a contractor for the Indian army, made his fortune, retired 1827; governor of the Union bank of London 1839 to death; sheriff of London 1823–4, alderman for Aldersgate ward 6 July 1826 to death, contested the mayoralty 1831, lord mayor 1832–3; knighted at Carlton house 7 April 1824; master of the Saddlers’ company 1833, in whose hall there is a portrait presented to him by the company 24 Feb. 1853; pres. of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals; author of Maxims 1833; Killing no murder, or the effects of separate confinement in prisons and gaols 1846; A letter on the disadvantages and extravagance of the separate system of prison discipline 1848. d. 7 Park square, Regent’s Park, London 3 Dec. 1861 aged 83. bur. Highgate cemetery 10 Dec. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters (1841) 120–53; I.L.N. ii 40 (1843), portrait.

NOTE.--He is ridiculed by Dickens in one of his Christmas books under an opprobrious pseudonym.

LAURIE, RICHARD HOLMES (son of Robert Laurie of Fleet st. London, publisher, d. May 1836 aged 81). b. Fleet st. London 2 Dec. 1777; map, chart and print seller with James Whittle at 53 Fleet st. 1813 to Dec. 1818 when Whittle died and Laurie then carried on the business till his death; published Laurie’s Sailing directions for the Southern Atlantic 1855; Sailing directions for the North Sea 1855; Sailing directions for the straits of Gibraltar 1856. d. 53 Fleet st. London 19 Jany. 1858. Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 346.

LAURIE, ROBERT. b. 1806; rouge croix pursuivant at Heralds’ college, London 11 Aug. 1823 to 1 Feb. 1839, Windsor herald 1 Feb. 1839 to 5 July 1849, Norroy king of arms 5 July 1849 to 19 Nov. 1859, Clarencieux king of arms 19 Nov. 1859 to death. d. Wentworth house, Richmond, Surrey 13 Jany. 1882.

LAURIE, WILLIAM FERGUSON BEATSON. 2 lieut. Madras artillery 8 Jany. 1842, lieut.-col. 15 Aug. 1867, retired 26 Jany. 1870 with hon. rank of colonel; served in the second Burmese war 1852; author of Orissa, the garden of superstition and idolatry 1850; The second Burmese war 1853; Northern Europe, local, social and political in 1861, 1862 and 8 other books. d. Tynwald, Grove Park, Chiswick, Middlesex 13 Nov. 1891 aged 72.

LAUTOUR, PETER AUGUSTUS (2 son of Louis Francis Joseph Lautour). b. 1785; cornet 11 dragoons 31 March 1804; major 23 dragoons 6 Jany. 1814 to Jany. 1818 when he retired on h.p.; bankrupt 15 June 1830, imprisoned at Boulogne for debt 1832–3; col. 3 hussars 26 May 1855 to death; general 9 March 1861; C.B. 22 June 1815; K.H. 1816. d. Bromley 11 Jany. 1866. C. Clark’s House of Lords Cases, x 685–704 (1865).

LAVENU, LOUIS HENRY. b. London 1818; studied at R.A. of music; violoncellist at the opera, London; music seller with Nicolas Mori at 28 Bond st. 1843–4; his opera Loretta, a tale of Seville, produced 9 Nov. 1846; professor of the pianoforte at 48 Greek st. Soho 1844–7; musical director of theatre, Sydney, N.S.W.; composed numerous songs and pianoforte pieces. d. Sydney 1 Aug. 1859.

LAVERTON, ABRAHAM (son of Abraham Laverton). b. 1819; carpet manufacturer at Westbury, Wilts.; a director of Manchester and Sheffield railway many years; contested Westbury 18 Nov. 1868, 27 Feb. 1869 and 1 April 1880; M.P. Westbury 1874 to 1880. d. Farleigh castle near Bath 31 Oct. 1886, will proved 8 Dec. personalty amounted to upwards of £647,000.

LAVIE, GERMAIN (1 son of German Lavie of St. John’s, Hampstead). b. 1800; ed. at Eton 1811–17 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1831; auditor of Christ Church, Oxford 1849–57; clerk to Oliverson of firm of Crowdie, Lavie & Co. attorneys; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1823; admitted a solicitor 1827; eminent commercial lawyer in London; member of council of Incorporated law society 1846 to death; member of royal commission for inquiry into law study in inns of court 1854; author of Letter to baron Rothschild on the proposed alteration of the law relative to sales and pledges 1857. d. St. George’s hospital, Hyde park corner, London 13 July 1857.

LAVIES, JOHN. b. 1799; M.R.C.S. 1819, L.S.A. 1820; surgeon with Mr. Hanbury, King st. Westminster, moved to Great George st.; surgeon to House of Correction; an early member of British Medical Assoc.; president of Medical Registration Assoc.; a medical reformer of his day. d. 34 Bessborough gardens, Pimlico, London 26 Oct. 1867. The Lancet 9 Nov. 1867 p. 597.

LAVIES, JOSEPH SAMUEL (only son of John Lavies of 5 Great George st. Westminster, surgeon). b. 1824; L.S.A. 1846; M.R.C.S. 1846; M.D. Edinb. 1847; F.R.C.S. Edinb. 1884; surgeon Invalid artillery, St. James’s park; staff surgeon households of war office and horse guards; surgeon Westminster female refuge; surgeon Palmer’s hospital, Westminster; surgeon Westminster house of correction; matric. from St. Mary hall, Oxf. 19 Jany. 1872; member of Wanderers’ club; author of Our august assembly. d. 96 St. George’s road, Belgravia, London 2 Nov. 1888.

LAW, AUGUSTUS HENRY (eld. son of Wm. Towry Law 1809–86). b. Trumpington near Cambridge 21 Oct. 1833; served in the navy Feb. 1846 to Dec. 1853; joined the Church of Rome under the bishop of Southwark at Mortlake 16 May 1852; entered Society of Jesus 1 Jany. 1854; taught in coll. of St. Aloysius at Glasgow 1860–3; missionary priest in Demerara, British Guiana 1866–71; joined the first missionary staff to the Zambesi, March 1879. d. at King Umzila’s Kraal 25 Nov. 1880. A memoir of the life and death of A. H. Law 3 Parts (1882–83), 2 portraits; A. Law, S.J. Notes in remembrance (1886).

LAW, DAVID. b. 1845; ed. Edinb. univ.; editor of a Bombay newspaper to 1873; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1875; on editorial staff of The Times 1878–79. d. of paralysis, Edinburgh 9 April 1880.

LAW, HENRY (3 son of George Henry Law 1761–1845, bishop of Chester and of Bath and Wells). b. Kelshall rectory, Herts. 28 Sep. 1797; ed. at Greenwich, Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1821, tutor, fourth wrangler 1820; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; V. of St. Anne, Manchester 1822–3; V. of Childwall near Liverpool 1823; archdeacon of Richmond 5 Oct. 1824, resigned Oct. 1826; V. of West Camel, Somerset 1825; archdeacon of Wells 4 Oct. 1826 to 1862; preb. of Wells cath. 1826; resident canon of Wells 1828–62; largely contributed to restoration of Wells cathedral; V. of East Brent 1839; R. of Weston-super-Mare 1834–8 and 1840–62 where he thrice enlarged the parish church and built and endowed three other churches; presented a town-hall to Weston-super-Mare at cost of £4000; dean of Gloucester 1 Dec. 1862 to death; one of the last of the evangelical school; author of Christ is all, the gospel of the Pentateuch 5 vols. 1866–77, new ed. 4 vols. 1866, more than 12,000 copies of this were sold; Jesus set for an example in the tabernacle service 1864; The beacons of the bible, a series of 12 tracts 1861, another series 24 tracts 1868; Awakening and inviting calls 1871; Christian cordials 1873; Forgiveness of sins 1876; Gleanings from the book of life 1877; Family devotion 4 vols. 1878–84; The reformation 1883; He being dead yet speaketh, sermons 1886. d. the deanery, Gloucester 25 Nov. 1884. The Record 28 Nov. and 5 Dec. 1884.

LAW, HUGH (only son of John Law of Woodlawn, co. Down). b. Woodlawn 19 June 1818; ed. at Royal school Dungannon and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1837, B.A. 1839; called to Irish bar 1840, Q.C. 4 July 1860; legal adviser to lord lieutenant 1868; drafted the Irish Church act and the Irish land act 1870; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1870; solicitor general for Ireland 18 Nov. 1872 to Jany. 1874, attorney general Jany. to March 1874 and 10 May 1880 to 11 Nov. 1881; P.C. Ireland 1874; M.P. for Londonderry county 1874–81; conducted prosecution of C. S. Parnell, M.P. and others for conspiracy in establishing the Land League, Dec. 1880; lord chancellor for Ireland 11 Nov. 1881 to death. d. Rathmullen House, Lough Swilly, co. Donegal 10 Sep. 1883. Law Times, lxxv 349 (1883).

LAW, JAMES. b. 1796; a working man; presbyterian minister and chaplain of the Mariners’ congregation, Dundee, Dec. 1839, chaplain there under the Free church 6 July 1843, suspended from his ministry but soon restored; his case discussed in the house of commons; sought admission into the Church of England; readmitted into the established presbyterian church, minister at South Kirriemuir, Sep. 1844 and at Inverbrothock, Nov. 1845 to death, ordained Jany. 1846. d. Arbroath 4 Oct. 1860. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 185–90.

LAW, JAMES THOMAS (brother of Henry Law 1797–1884). b. 8 Dec. 1790; ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; V. of Bowden, Cheshire 1815; R. of Tattenhall, Cheshire 1816; V. of Childwall, Lancs. 1818; preb. of Chester 9 April 1818, resigned Dec. 1828; preb. of Lichfield 18 July 1818; chancellor of diocese of Lichfield 1821–73; commissary of archdeaconry of Richmond 1824–46; V. of Harborne, Staffs. 1825–45; special commissary of diocese of Bath and Wells 1840; hon. warden of Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1846; author of The poor man’s garden, or rules for regulating allotments for potatoe gardens 1830; The acts for building additional churches in populous parishes 1841, 3 ed. 1853; The ecclesiastical statutes at large 5 vols. 1847; Materials for a history of Queen’s college, Birmingham 1869; Lectures on the ecclesiastical law of England 1861; Lectures on the office and duties of churchwardens 1861. d. Lichfield 22 Feb. 1876.

LAW, ROBERT. b. 1789; ensign 71 foot 8 June 1809; captain Ceylon rifle regt. 1824; major royal Newfoundland companies 29 Aug. 1834, lieut.-col. 3 Feb. 1844 to 17 July 1859; col. 2 West India regiment 12 Jany. 1864 to 1 April 1870; L.G. 13 March 1868; col. 71 foot 1 April 1870 to death; K.H. 1837. d. 55 Upper Leeson st. Dublin 16 May 1874.

LAW, WILLIAM HENRY. b. 1786; ensign 62 foot 29 April 1813; captain 83 foot 14 July 1825, lieut. col. 83 foot 22 Dec. 1848 to 16 May 1856 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 16 May 1856. d. 29 March 1860.

LAW, WILLIAM JOHN (eld. son of Ewan Law, M.P. d. 29 April 1829). b. 6 Dec. 1786; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1804–14; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1810; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1813; one of comrs. of bankruptcy 1825; a comr. of court for relief of insolvent debtors 1826, chief comr. 1 Aug. 1853 to 6 Aug. 1861 when the court was abolished by 24 and 25 Vict. cap. 134; author of Some remarks on the Alpine passes of Strabo 1846; A criticism on Mr. Ellis’ theory on the route of Hannibal 1855; The Alps of Hannibal 2 vols. 1866; author with H. R. Reynolds of Reports of cases in the court for relief of insolvent debtors 1830. d. 5 Sussex sq. Brighton 5 Oct. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii 255 (1869); Law Journal, iv 560 (1869).

LAW, WILLIAM TOWRY (youngest son of 1 baron Ellenborough 1750–1818). b. 16 June 1809; ed. at Eton and Peter house Camb., M.A. 1834; ensign 51 foot 23 Nov. 1826; served on staff of general Maison with French army in the Morea; ensign grenadier guards 21 Sep. 1830, sold out 1831; ordained 1831; R. of Yeovilton, Somerset 1835–40; V. of East Brent 1840–45; V. of Harborne, Staffs. 1845, resigned 1851; prebend. of Wells 22 Sep. 1840–51; chancellor of diocese of Bath and Wells 1839–51; relinquished his holy orders in Church of England by deed dated 31 Aug. 1870 inrolled in Chancery 7 Sep.; joined Church of Rome 19 Sep. 1851; author of On the restoration of the weekly offertory 1844; Attempted usurpation of authority over the church of England by the bishop of Rome 1850; A letter to the parishioners of Harborne 1850; Unity and faithful adherence to the word of God are only to be found in the catholic church 1852. d. Hampton court palace 31 Oct. 1886.

LAWES, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Hobson Vitruvius Lawes, serjeant at law, who d. 27 Nov. 1849 aged 67). b. 1817; ed. at Charterhouse; special pleader at 3 Essex court Temple 1839–45; barrister M.T. 6 June 1845; chairman of metropolitan commission of sewers 16 Aug. 1851 to death. d. Sydenham hill near London 22 May 1852.

LAWFORD, EDWARD. Solicitor in City of London 1812 to 1854; solicitor to East India co. 1826 to 1854; clerk to Drapers’ co. Drapers’ hall, Throgmorton st. 1826 to 1854; member of council of Incorporated Law Society 24 June 1845 to 1854.

LAWFORD, EDWARD. b. 1810; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 16 Dec. 1825, col. 18 Feb. 1861; col. commandant R.E. 21 Dec. 1865 to death; M.G. 1 March 1867. d. Brighton 23 March 1871.

LAWFORD, THOMAS WRIGHT (nephew of Edward Lawford, solicitor to H.E.I. Co.) Solicitor at Llandilo, Carmarthen 1834–40, at Brecon 1840–2, at Tyridail near Llandilo 1842–57; market gardener, dealer in poultry and grape grower for London market at Tyridail, hatched chickens by steam, bankrupt 21 Nov. 1854, paid dividend of 3 pence in the £ Nov. 1856; engaged in mining in Prussia, failed, borrowed £80,000 from life assurance companies 1849–54, repaid £36,000, paid £25,000 in commission, premiums and interest being at the rate of £5,000 per annum. W. J. Lawson’s History of Banking 2 ed. (1855) 451–53.

LAWLESS, CECIL JOHN (2 son of 2 baron Cloncurry d. 1853). b. 1 Aug. 1820; M.P. Clonmel 1846 to death. d. 5 Nov. 1853.

LAWLESS, EDMUND BARRY. b. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; called to Irish bar 1840; Q.C. 1 Aug. 1859. d. 13 Upper Temple st. Dublin 20 Nov. 1885.

LAWLESS, MATTHEW JAMES (son of Barry Lawless of Dublin, solicitor). b. near Dublin 1837; ed. at Prior Park college near Bath; pupil of Henry O’Neil, R. A. in London; drew illustrations for Once a Week, Cornhill Mag., Punch and London Society; exhibited 11 pictures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1858–63. d. of consumption at 4 Pembridge crescent, Bayswater, London 6 Aug. 1864.

LAWLEY, SIR FRANCIS, 7 Baronet (2 son of sir Robert Lawley, 5 bart. d. 1793). b. 1782; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. and All Souls’ coll. Oxf., B.C.L. 1808, D.C.L. 1813; fellow of All Souls’ till 1815; M.P. Warwickshire 1820–32; major Warwickshire yeomanry cavalry, lieut.-col. 26 April 1845, resigned Jany. 1848; succeeded his brother as 7 bart. 10 April 1833. d. Middleton hall, Warwickshire 30 Jany. 1851. I.L.N. xviii 106 (1851).

LAWRANCE, EDWARD. b. 1802; admitted solicitor Nov. 1825, partner with David Blenkarne at 32 Bucklersbury to 1843; head of firm of Lawrance and Plews 1843–50, of Lawrance, Plews and Boyer 14 Old Jewry chambers 1850 to death; member of council of Incorporated law soc. 29 June 1858 to death, vice pres. 1868–9, pres. 1869–70; had a large bankruptcy practice for 40 years; author of Bankruptcy law reform, a letter to the lord chancellor 1859; A handbook on the law of principal and surety 1861. d. 1 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 1 July 1871.

LAWRANCE, EDWARD ELEAZAR. b. Ipswich 1784; solicitor at Ipswich 1808 to death; clerk to borough magistrates at Ipswich 1836; clerk to magistrates of Samford petty sessions 40 years; coroner for the liberty of the duke of Norfolk 40 years; oldest attorney on rolls except one who was admitted in 1805; member British Archæol. Assoc. 1859. d. 170 Woodbridge road, Ipswich 20 May 1866. Journal of British Archæol Assoc. xxiii 306 (1867).

LAWRANCE, MISS HANNAH. b. 1795; a contributor to the Athenæum; author of Historical memoirs of the Queens of England 2 vols. 1838–40; The history of woman in England and her influence on society and literature, Vol. i. 1843, no more published. d. Nov. 1875.

LAWRENCE, SIR ALEXANDER HUTCHINSON, 1 Baronet (elder son of Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence 1806–57). b. Allahabad 6 Sep. 1838; served in Bengal civil service 1857 to death; created baronet for his father’s services in India 10 Aug. 1858; assist. commissioner in the Punjaub to death; killed accidentally between Torahon and Tarunda about 120 miles from Simla, northern India 27 Aug. 1864. bur. at Simla 29 Aug.

LAWRENCE, ALEXANDER WILLIAM. b. 1 July 1803; entered Madras army 1818; major 7 Madras light cavalry 16 March 1840, lieut.-col. 23 May 1846 to 1848, 1855–6 and 1857–8; lieut.-col. 6 Madras light cavalry 1848–54; lieut.-col. 4 Madras light cavalry 1854–5; lieut.-col. 2 Madras light cavalry 1856–7, col. 17 May 1859 to death; M.G. 20 July 1858. d. Biarritz, France 21 Feb. 1868.

LAWRENCE, SIR ARTHUR JOHNSTONE (3 son of Charles Lawrence of Fairfield, Jamaica). b. Gatacre, Salop 14 July 1809; ed. at Eton; ensign 23 foot 4 April 1827; lieut. rifle brigade 17 March 1830, lieut.-col. 1 Aug. 1847, placed on h.p. 24 July 1856; commanded 2nd brigade of second division in the Crimea 25 Dec. 1855 to 10 June 1856; col. of 58 foot 6 Jany. 1870 to 13 April 1884; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 14 July 1879; col. commandant of first battalion of rifle brigade 13 April 1884 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Fox-hills near Chertsey 25 Jany. 1892. Daily Graphic 27 Jany. 1892 p. 9 col. 4, portrait.

LAWRENCE, CHARLES (son of Wm. Lawrence of Cirencester, Gloucs., surgeon 1753–1837). b. 21 March 1794; took a leading part in founding Royal agricultural college at Cirencester 1842, owner of a farm adjoining that of the college where he conducted experiments which led to introduction of numerous improvements in agricultural machinery; author of Practical directions for the cultivation of cottage gardens 1831; A letter on agricultural education 1851; A handy book for young farmers 1859; To my labourers, on the economy of food 1860, and of several papers in Transactions of Royal Agricultural Society. d. The Querns, Cirencester 5 July 1881.

LAWRENCE, ELIAS. Midshipman R.N. 1789–93; 2 lieut. R.M. 8 May 1793, col. commandant 10 July 1837, retired on full pay 10 July 1844; general 20 June 1855; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. d. 8 St. Michael’s terrace, Devonport 25 March 1856.

LAWRENCE, FREDERICK (eld. son of John Lawrence of Bisham, Berkshire, farmer). b. Bisham 1821; employed by Simpkin and Marshall, publishers, London; entered printed book department of British Museum, Dec. 1846, helped to compile general catalogue to May 1849; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1849; chairman of the Garibaldian committee 1864; wrote a series of articles on literary impostures and on eminent English authors in Sharpe’s London Journal; edited at Guildford in 1841 The Iris, a journal of literature and science, 3 numbers; edited The Lawyer’s Companion 5 vols. 1864–8; author of The common law procedure act, 1852 with an introduction 1852; The life of Henry Fielding 1855; Culverwell v. Sidebottom. A letter to the attorney general. By a Barrister 1857, 2 ed. 1859. d. suddenly at his chambers, 1 Essex court, Temple, London 25 Oct. 1867. Handbook of fictitious names. By Olphar Hamst [Ralph Thomas] (1868) 2, 205; Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 363–4.

LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (eld. son of rev. Alfred Charnley Lawrence d. 1867). b. Braxted rectory, Essex 25 March 1827; ed. at Rugby 1841–5 and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; author of Guy Livingstone, or Thorough 1857 anon., 6 ed. 1867, which describes his own boyhood and college life; Sword and Gown 1859, 5 ed. 1888; Barren Honour 2 vols. 1862; Border and Bastile 1863, 3 ed. 1864; A bundle of ballads 1864; Maurice Dering or the quadrilateral 1864, 2 ed. 1869; Sans Merci, or Kestrels and falcons 3 vols. 1866, 3 ed. 1869, and 5 other books all stated to be by the author of Guy Livingstone. d. 134 George st. Edinburgh 24 Sep. 1876. Edinburgh Review, cviii 532–40 (1858); Spectator 28 Oct. 1876 pp. 1345–7.

NOTE.--His book Border and Bastile 1863 is a record of his journey to the United States of America in January 1863 with the intention of joining as a volunteer the confederate army under general Stonewall Jackson; before he got near the confederate lines he was taken prisoner and shut up in a guard-house, whence after correspondence with Lord Lyons the British ambassador at Washington he was liberated on the condition of his immediate return to England.

LAWRENCE, SIR GEORGE ST. PATRICK (3 son of lieut.-col. Alexander Lawrence 1764–1835). b. Trincomalee, Ceylon 17 March 1804; cornet 2 Bengal light cavalry 15 Jany. 1822, adjutant 1825–34, major 26 Feb. 1860 to 18 Feb. 1861; military sec. to sir W. H. Macnaghten the envoy of Afghanistan, Sep. 1839 to 23 Dec. 1841 when Macnaghten was murdered; assistant political agent in the Peshawur district of the Punjaub, Oct. 1846; taken prisoner by the Sikhs 25 Oct. 1846; deputy comr. of Peshawur 7 June 1849; political agent in Mewar 24 July 1850 to 13 March 1857; resident in the Rajputana states 13 March 1857 to Dec. 1864; brigadier general of all the forces in Rajputana during the mutiny 1857; M.G. 25 May 1861, retired on full pay 29 Oct. 1866; hon. L.G. 11 Jany. 1867; granted good service pension of £100 a year 11 Jany. 1865; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; author of Reminiscences of forty-three years in India, edited by W. Edwardes 1874. d. 20 Kensington park gardens, London 16 Nov. 1884. Edwardes and Merivale’s Life of Sir Henry Lawrence, vol. i (1872); Golden Hours (1869) 314–29, 397–409, 457–69, portrait; I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1884 pp. 533, 542, portrait.

LAWRENCE, HENRY. b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1809; ensign 19 Bengal N.I. 1 Nov. 1811, lieut. 16 Dec. 1814; lieut. 67 N.I. 1823, major 3 Aug. 1837 to 3 Nov. 1843; lieut.-col. of 35 N.I. 3 Nov. 1843 to 1846, of 2nd European regiment 1846–8, of 73 N.I 1848–50, of 44 N.I. 1850 to 1851, of 24 N.I. 1851–2, of 58 N.I. 1852 to 15 April 1854; commanded Lahore field force 29 March 1854 to 1855 and Lahore district or station 1855 to 8 Aug. 1856; col. of 72 N.I. 15 April 1854, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; general 23 May 1874. d. 1 Camden gardens, Chislehurst road, Richmond hill, Surrey 23 Nov. 1887.

LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (4 son of lieut.-col. Alexander W. Lawrence 1764–1835). b. Mattura, Ceylon 28 June 1806; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 10 May 1822, lieut.-col. 18 May 1856 to death; a revenue surveyor in north west province 1833–39; political agent in charge of Ferozepore 1839; commander of Sikh contingent in the entry into Cabul 16 Sep. 1842; British resident at Nepaul 1 Dec. 1843, founded the Lawrence asylum for soldiers’ children 1844; governor general’s agent for foreign relations and the affairs of the Punjaub 3 Jany. 1846 and for the affairs of the North West frontier 1 April 1846; C.B. 27 June 1846, K.C.B. 28 April 1848; present at Sobraon and at the occupation of Lahore; British resident at Lahore 8 Jany. 1847 to Oct. 1847 and practically ruler of the Punjaub; removed the maharanee from Lahore and separated her from Dhuleep Singh; present at siege of Moultan and at Chillianwallah; president of board of administration of Punjaub 14 April 1849 to 1853; governor general’s agent in Ajmeer, Rajputana 9 Feb. 1853; colonel 20 June 1854; hon. A.D.C. to queen 20 June 1854; chief comr. and agent to governor general in Oude 14 March 1857; brigadier general 19 May 1857 with command of all the troops in Oudh; on breaking out of mutiny fortified Lucknow; author of Some passages in the life of an adventurer in the Punjaub, anon. 1842; Adventures of an officer in the service of Runjeet Singh 2 vols. 1845; Essays, military and political 1859; Essays on the Indian army and Oude 1859; struck by a shell in the residency at Lucknow 2 July 1857 and d. in Dr. Fayrer’s house 4 July. Edwardes and Merivale’s Life of Sir H. Lawrence 2 vols. (1872); J. W. Kaye’s Lives of Indian officers, ii 275–352 (1867); L. E. R. Rees’ Personal narrative of siege of Lucknow (1858), portrait.

LAWRENCE, REV. HEZEKIAH. b. 1800; missionary of London Jews society more than 50 years. d. Danzig 10 June 1884.

LAWRENCE, John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1 Baron (6 son of lieut.-col. Alexander Wm. Lawrence 1764–1835). b. Richmond, Yorkshire 4 March 1811; assist. magistrate and collector at Delhi 1831–35; magistrate and collector of Paniput and Delhi 1844–46; administrator of Trans-Sutlej province 1 March 1846; member of board of administration of Punjaub 1849 and chief commissioner Feb. 1853; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. civil 11 Nov. 1857; kept the Punjaub in security during the mutiny and sent great assistance to the army at Delhi, gave up the administration 28 Feb. 1859; one of the chief men in the preservation of India during the mutiny; received freedom of city of London 3 June 1859; cr. baronet 3 Aug. 1858; granted annuity of £2000 by H.E.I.Co. 25 Aug. 1858; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 and took his seat 11 April 1859; P.C. 13 May 1859; D.C.L. Oxf. 1859; D.C.L. Camb. 1859; refused governorship of Bombay 1860; G.C.S.I. 25 June 1861, invested 1 Nov. 1861; governor general of India 5 Dec. 1863, landed in India 12 Jany. 1864, resigned 12 Jany. 1869; held a great durbar at Lahore, Oct. 1864; created baron Lawrence of the Punjaub and of Grately, Northampton 4 April 1869; member of London school board, Chelsea division, Nov. 1870 to 26 Nov. 1873, chairman Dec. 1870 to 26 Nov. 1873; much opposed to the Afghan war of 1878–79. d. 23 Queen’s gate gardens, Kensington 26 June 1879. bur. in nave of Westminster abbey 5 July; statues of him have been erected in Calcutta and in Waterloo place, London. R. B. Smith’s Life of Lord Lawrence 2 vols. (1883), 2 portraits; G. B. Malleson’s Recollections of an Indian official (1872) 1–218; H. A. Page’s Leaders of men (1880) 367–98; Nolan’s Illust. Hist. of British empire in India, iii 40 (1860), portrait; I.L.N. xxxiii 156, 162 (1858), portrait; Graphic, xx 29 (1879), portrait.

LAWRENCE, MARTHA (dau. of John Cripps of Upton house, Tetbury). Said to have been b. Bow lane, Cheapside, London 9 Aug. 1758; bapt. St. Mary, Aldermanbury 15 Aug. 1758; (m. at Streatham 12 Nov. 1783 John Lawrence). She d. Richmond, Surrey 17 Feb. 1862 aged 103 years and 6 months. bur. Ham common, Surrey. _W. J. Thoms’ Human longevity_ (1879) 266–68.

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Lawrence of St. Agnes, Cornwall). b. St. Agnes 4 Feb. 1789; a builder at Pitfield wharf, Commercial road, Lambeth, 30 Bread st. Cheapside and 21 Pitfield st. Hoxton 1823 to death; member of common council of City of London before 1837, alderman of Bread st. ward 1848 to death, sheriff 1849–50; chairman of board of directors of Legal and Commercial fire and life assurance company; comr. of Tower Hamlets commission of sewers and of Holborn and Finsbury commission of sewers; a Unitarian and a great reformer. d. 94 Westbourne terrace, London 25 Nov. 1855.

LAWRENCE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (brother of Charles Lawrence 1794–1881). b. Cirencester 16 July 1783; apprenticed to John Abernethy the surgeon 1799, and his demonstrator at St. Bartholomew’s hosp. 1802–14, assistant surgeon there March 1813, surgeon 19 May 1824 to 1865, lecturer on surgery 1829–62; F.R.S. 11 Nov. 1813; surgeon to London infirmary for diseases of the eye 1814; surgeon to Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals 1815; M.R.C.S. 1805, professor of anatomy and surgery 1815, member of council 1828, Hunterian orator 1834 and 1846, examiner 1840–67, pres. 1846 and 1855; surgeon extraordinary to the Queen 1837–58, serjeant surgeon 24 March 1858 to death; member of general medical council 1858–63; created baronet 8 April 1867; author of A treatise on ruptures 1810, 3 ed. 1816, 5 ed. 1838; A short system of comparative anatomy translated from the German 1807, 2 ed. 1827; An introduction to comparative anatomy and physiology 1816; Lectures on physiology, zoology and the natural history of man 1819, 9 ed. 1848; Lectures on surgery at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1830; A treatise on the venereal diseases of the eye 1830; A treatise on the diseases of the eye 1833, 2 ed. 1841; The Hunterian orations 2 vols. 1834 and 1846. d. 18 Whitehall place, London 5 July 1867, portrait in committee room of St. Bartholomew’s hospital, and bust in College of Surgeons. Memoir by Sir W. S. Savory in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports for 1868 pp. 1–18; Traits of character. By A Contemporary, i 145–66 (1860); Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi 25–30 (1868); Medical Circular, iv 191–3, 209–10, 227–9 (1854), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, ii 29, portrait; T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery, ii (1840), portrait.

NOTE.--He married 14 Aug. 1828 Louisa younger dau. of James Senior of Broughton house, Aylesbury, Bucks. At Drayton green until 1840 and afterwards at Ealing park, she was well known for her devotion to horticulture. The queen and Prince Albert sometimes visited the gardens at Ealing, where she at one time received Sir Robert Peel and all the ministers at a fête given in their honour. She d. Ealing park 14 Aug. 1855.

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM HUDSON. b. 21 Jany. 1793; 2 lieut. R.A. 28 April 1810, captain 2 Feb. 1832, retired on half pay 31 July 1840; held several government appointments at Corfu. d. Bath 13 March 1884, probably oldest officer in the R.A.

LAWRENSON, JOHN (son of major Lawrenson). b. Ireland 1801; cornet 13 light dragoons 12 Nov. 1818; lieut. 4 dragoon guards 1822; capt. 17 lancers 1827, major 31 Dec. 1839; lieut.-col. 13 light dragoons 27 June 1845 to 23 June 1848; lieut.-col. 17 lancers 18 April 1851, on h.p. 30 Sep. 1856; brigadier general in Crimea 30 July 1855 to 2 July 1856; inspector general of cavalry at head quarters of army 1860–65; col. of 8 hussars 22 Feb. 1865, of 13 hussars 10 Dec. 1868 to death; general 2 Nov. 1875; hunted with the Atherstone hounds 1847–8, afterwards with the Pytchley, then at Brixworth; rode in military steeple chases. d. Alexandra hotel, Hyde park corner, London 30 Oct. 1883. Baily’s Mag. xli 367–9, 429 (1883).

LAWRIE, ALEXANDER. b. Edinburgh 26 June 1818; blind from early infancy; an excellent pianist, composer and virtuoso of music; organist of St. James’s episcopal church, Edinb. many years, then of rev. Mr. Kirk’s ch. Brighton st. Edinb.; published many pieces for the pianoforte; wrote some good hymn tunes. d. Edinburgh, Dec. 1880.

LAWRIE, JAMES ADAIR (son of rev. Archibald Lawrie of Loudoun, friend of Robert Burns the poet). b. 1801 or 1802; M.D. Glasgow, L. and F.F.P.S. Glasgow; surgeon H.E.I.C.S. Bengal; professor of surgery in Andersonian univ. Glasgow; professor of surgery in Glasgow univ. 1850 to death; in practice at 18 Brandon place, Glasgow; edited with W. Weir The Glasgow Medical Journal, vol. v. 1832; author of Essay on cholera founded on observations of the disease in India and in Sunderland 1832. d. Bridge of Allan 23 Nov. 1859. Memoirs of one hundred Glasgow men (1886) 171, portrait.

LAWRY, WALTER (son of Joseph Lawry d. 1832). b. Ruthern, St. Gorran, Cornwall 3 Aug. 1793; Wesleyan minister in New South Wales 1817–20, in Friendly Isles 1820–22, 1823–25, in Van Diemen’s land 1822–23, in England 1825–43, in New Zealand and Australia 1843 to death; general superintendent of Wesleyan missions in New Zealand 1844–51; author of Friendly and Feejee islands, a missionary visit 1850, 2 ed. 1850; A second missionary visit to the Friendly islands 1851. d. Paramatta, N.S.W. 30 March 1859. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand (1878) 314–20.

LAWSON, CECIL GORDON (5 son of Wm. Lawson, Scottish portrait painter). b. Wellington, Shropshire 3 Dec. 1851; commenced painting in oils at the age of four; sketched in the open air at the age of 10, at the age of 14 was selling his sketches to the dealers; made his first sketching tour in Kent, Surrey and Sussex 1866; landscape painter; his pictures refused by the Royal Academy 1866, exhibited 13 pictures at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1869–80; first exhibited at New British Instit. Bond st. 1868; Cheyne walk, Chelsea, exhibited at R.A. 1870; his large picture painted at Wrotham in Kent, ‘The hop gardens of England,’ was not accepted at the R.A. 1875, but in 1876 was hung in a good position. d. 15 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 10 June 1882. bur. Haslemere 17 June. Cecil Lawson, a memoir. By E. W. Gosse (1883), portrait; Graphic, xxvi 68 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxi 56 (1882), portrait; London Society, xliii 345 (1882), portrait.

LAWSON, HENRY (younger son of Johnson Lawson, dean of Battle, d. 25 Nov. 1778). b. Greenwich 23 March 1774; apprenticed to Edward Nairne of Cornhill, optician, his mother’s third husband; member of Spectacle makers’ company, and twice master; one of original members of Askesian society 1796; lived at Hereford 1823–41, equipped an observatory there with a five-foot refractor 1826 and with one of 11 feet 1834, the finest telescope ever made by Dollond, he afterwards presented the latter to royal naval school at Greenwich; removed to 7 Lansdown crescent, Bath 1841 where he formed an observatory on the roof of his house; silver medallist of Royal soc. of arts for his invention of an observing chair called Reclinea; F.R. Astron. Soc. 1833; F.R.S. 21 May 1840; published Register of the quantity of rain that has fallen in the city of Hereford 1836; A paper on the arrangement of an observatory 1844. d. 7 Lansdown crescent, Bath 23 Aug. 1855.

LAWSON, JAMES. b. Glasgow 9 Nov. 1799; ed. at Glasgow univ.; entered counting house of his uncle at New York 1815; partner in a mercantile house which failed 1826; associate editor of Morning Courier 1827–9 and of Mercantile Advertiser 1829–33; marine insurance agent in New York 1833; author of Tales and sketches. By A Cosmopolite. New York 1830; Poems. Gleanings from spare hours of a business life. New York 1857; Giordano, a tragedy produced at Park theatre, New York, Nov. 1828; Liddesdale or the border chief, a tragedy 1859; contributed many articles to periodicals. d. Yonkers, New York 20 March 1880. Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland, ii 208–10 (1876).

LAWSON, JAMES ANTHONY (eld. son of James Lawson). b. Waterford 1817; ed. at Waterford and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1836, senior moderator 1837, gold medallist; B.A. 1838, LLB. 1841, LLD. 1850; Whately professor of political economy 1840–45; called to Irish bar 1840; Q.C. 29 Jany. 1857; bencher of King’s Inns 1861; legal adviser to the crown in Ireland 1858–9; solicitor general for Ireland Feb. 1861, attorney general 1865 to 1866; P.C. Ireland 1865; suppressed the ‘Irish People’ newspaper 1865; contested Univ. of Dublin 1857; M.P. Portarlington 1865–8; contested Portarlington 1868; justice of Court of Common Pleas, Ireland, Dec. 1868; justice of Queen’s Bench division June 1882 to death; an Irish church comr. July 1869; P.C. 18 May 1870; a comr. for the great seal March to Dec. 1874; Patrick Delany attempted to murder him while walking in Kildare st. Dublin 11 Nov. 1882; author of Five lectures on political economy 1844; author with H. Connor of Reports of cases in high court of chancery of Ireland during the time of lord chancellor Sugden 1865. d. Shankhill near Dublin 10 Aug. 1887. Irish Law Times, xi 464 (1887).

LAWSON, JOHN JOSEPH (2 son of James Lawson of Norwood). b. 1802; publisher of the Times newspaper to death. d. Downshire hill, Hampstead 24 March 1852. The Times testimonial. Report of the trial Bogle versus Lawson 1841; The Nelson sword v. Lord Denman’s law. The summing up of the judge in Evans versus Lawson for libel 1848.

LAWSON, JOHN PARKER. Minister in episcopal church of Scotland; chaplain in the army; lived in Edinburgh; author of The life of George Wishart of Pitarrow. Edinb. 1827; Life and times of William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury 2 vols. 1829; The Roman Catholic church in Scotland 1836; History of the Scottish episcopal church from the revolution to the present time. Edinb. 1843; Scotland delineated in a series of views, with letter press by J. P. Lawson 2 vols. 1847–54, 2 ed. 1858. d. 1852.

LAWSON, LIONEL. b. 1824; ed. in Germany; inherited a fortune from his father; established a manufactory of printing ink at St. Ouen, France, where he made a fortune, and then sold business; printing ink manufacturer at 1 Bouverie st. Fleet st. and at Old Ford, Bow; purchased a large share in The Daily Telegraph, but never took any active part in management of the paper. d. 2 Brook st. Hanover sq. London 20 Sep. 1879, personalty sworn under £900,000, 11 Oct. 1879. I.L.N. lxxv 361, 362 (1879), portrait.

LAWSON, SIR WILFRID, 1 Baronet (5 son of Thomas Wybergh of Clifton hall, Westmoreland 1757–1827). b. Bramhope hall, Yorkshire 5 Oct. 1795; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; assumed name of Lawson by r.l. 26 Sep. 1812 on inheriting estate of his maternal uncle sir W. Lawson; sheriff of Cumberland 1820; cr. baronet 30 Sep. 1831. d. Brayton, Cumberland 12 June 1867.

LAWSON, WILLIAM. b. Lanark; a ploughboy; entered the army 1837; a non-commissioned officer 1839–54; served through Crimean war 1854–6; ensign 42nd (Royal Highland) foot 5 Nov. 1854, captain 10 Aug. 1858 to death, instructor of musketry to his regiment 1856; left England for Calcutta, Aug. 1857; commanded the picket of 37 men which defended themselves against 2000 rebels on the banks of the Suarda 15 Jany. 1858. d. Nynee Tal, Bengal 18 Aug. 1859.

LAWSON, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (2 son of John Wright of Kelvedon hall, Essex 1763–1826). b. Middleton lodge, Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire 8 May 1796; assumed by r.l. name of Lawson in lieu of Wright 5 May 1834; cr. a baronet 8 Sep. 1841; received order of Christ from Pope Gregory XVI. 1844. d. Brough hall, Catterick, Yorkshire 22 June 1865.

LAWSON, WILLIAM JOHN. Ed. at Christ’s hospital, London till 16 years old; clerk in banking house of Barclay, Bevan & Co. 15 years; a founder of The Bank of London 1855; established Lawson’s Merchant’s magazine, statist and commercial review 1852; author of History of banking in Scotland 1845; The history of banking 1850, 2 ed. 1855; A handy-book on the law of banking 1859, this work was suppressed and 1500 copies destroyed, 16th thousand of an altered edition 1871; The bank of England as it is and as it ought to be 1865; living in London in March 1865.

LAWTON, GEORGE. b. Manchester, Feb. 1808; a scholar in Bennett st. Sunday sch., a teacher, a superintendent, senior visitor and manager March 1848 to death; librarian Manchester mechanics’ institution 1832–45; collector of Manchester royal infirmary 1845 to death; director of Mechanics’ institution 1850. d. Stretford, Manchester 7 Sep. 1853. G. Milner’s ed. of B. Braidley’s Bennett st. memorials. Manchester (1880) 194–228, portrait.

LAWTON, GEORGE. b. York 6 May 1779; admitted a proctor 3 Nov. 1808; a solicitor and notary public at York to 1863; registrar of archdeaconry of East Riding of Yorkshire; author of The Marriage act 4 George IV. c. 76, 1823; A brief treatise of Bona Notabilia 1825; Collectio rerum ecclesiasticarum 2 vols. 1840, 2 ed. 1842; The religious houses of Yorkshire 1853. d. Nunthorpe near York 2 Dec. 1869.

LAXTON, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Robert Laxton, surveyor). b. London 30 March 1802; ed. at Christ hospital; surveyed and laid down several lines of railway; constructed water works at Falmouth 1848 and at Stonehouse; joint engineer with Robert Stephenson of the Watford water company for supplying London with water from the chalk formation; projected and edited The civil engineer and architect’s journal a monthly periodical Oct. 1837, purchased a weekly journal called The architect and building gazette which he united to The civil engineer; laid out large part of Hove, Brighton; surveyor to the Farmers’ and General fire and life insurance company 1840 to death; author of The improved builder’s price book 1828; The builder’s price book 1844. d. 19 Arundel st. Strand, London 31 May 1854. Civil Engineer, July 1854 pp. 270–1; G.M. Aug. 1854 pp. 199–200.

LAYARD, FREDERIC PETER. b. 6 May 1818; ensign 19 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1838, captain 30 April 1851 to 11 March 1864; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 11 March 1864, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889; author of A Hugenot relic, an ivory box with the arms of Charles de Nocé and Marguerite de Rembouillet 1886, d. 3 Cavendish road, St. John’s Wood, London 21 May 1891.

LAYARD, WILLIAM TWISLETON. b. 4 Aug. 1813; ensign Ceylon rifle regiment 22 Feb. 1833, lieut.-col. 12 June 1859 to 3 Feb. 1872 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881. d. Friedland, Wandsworth, London 16 Jany. 1891.

LAYCOCK, JAMES CAMPEY. b. Appleton near York 6 May 1796; solicitor Huddersfield 1820–76, clerk to the justices 1828–72, presented with a silver salver; clerk to the borough bench 1868–72; a large donor to the parish ch. schools; president of Huddersfield infirmary 1860 to death; the last survivor of the original shareholders in Huddersfield banking co. d. Huddersfield 17 Feb. 1885. Hulbert’s Supplementary annals of Almondbury (1885) 133–7; Solicitors’ Journal 14 March 1885 p. 326.

LAYCOCK, ROBERT (only son of Joseph Laycock of Low Gosforth hall, Northumberland, b. 1798, d. 2 Aug. 1881, personalty sworn under £464,000, 14 Jany. 1882). b. Winlaton, co. Durham 1833; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1857; sheriff of Notts. 1878; contested North Notts. 26 Feb. 1872 and Nottingham 5 Feb. 1874; M.P. North Lincoln, April 1880 to death. d. Eastbourne 14 Aug. 1881.

LAYCOCK, THOMAS (son of rev. Thomas Laycock, Wesleyan minister, d. 1833). b. Wetherby, Yorkshire 10 Aug. 1812; ed. at Wesleyan academy, Woodhouse Grove and Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1835; M.D. Göttingen 1839; sec. of the British Assoc. 1844; lecturer on clinical medicine at York school of medicine 1846; professor of practice of physic, univ. of Edin. 5 Nov. 1855 to death, being the only Englishman ever elected; F.R.S. Edin. 1861; phys. in ordinary to the Queen for Scotland 1 Oct. 1869 to death; author of A treatise on the nervous diseases of women 1840; Lectures on the principles and methods of medical observation and research. Edinb. 1856, 2 ed. 1864; Mind and Brain, or the correlations of consciousness and organisation. Edinb. 2 vols. 1859, 2 ed. 1869, and of 300 articles in medical journals. d. 13 Walker st. Edinburgh 21 Sep. 1876. Revue des cours scientifiques, ii 808 (1876); Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) 211, 276.

LAYTON, FREDERICK WILLIAM HANHAM (son of Thomas Layton d. 1844). b. 1805; ed. at Shrewsbury and Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1828; C. of Wem, Shropshire, resigned 1835; angel of Catholic Apostolic ch. Duncan st. Islington 14 July 1835 to death; author of The instant coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 1866; On the decadence and fall of Christendom 1868; The parables of Christ considered with reference to their meaning by H. W. J. Thiersch, a translation 1869; On spiritual and true worship 1871. d. 11 Highbury grove, London 21 Oct. 1878.

LAYTON, HENRY (2 son of rev. Thomas Layton, V. of Chigwell, Essex, d. 1833). b. Chigwell 2 Feb. 1799; entered navy 3 May 1812; captain 9 Nov. 1846; retired R.A. 15 June 1864; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. Castle hill, Reading 3 March 1882. O’Byrne p. 640.

LEA, GEORGE (son of John Lea, carpet manufacturer). b. Kidderminster 22 Oct. 1804; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; C. of Waddington, Lincs. 1827–9; P.C. Christ Church, Birmingham 1840–64; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1840–64; V. of St. George’s, Edgbaston 1864, resigned 25 March 1883; leader of the evangelical party in Birmingham; author of Memoir of rev. John Davis, rector of St. Clement’s, Worcester 1859; Sermons preached in memory of G. Lea, to which are added his last two sermons 1883. d. Edgbaston 10 May 1883. Edgbastonia, June 1883 pp. 81–3, portrait.

LEA, WILLIAM (1 son of William Lea of Stone, Warwickshire). b. 1 Dec. 1820; ed. Rugby and at Brasenose coll. Oxf.; rowed No. 6 in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 14 April 1841; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1859; V. of St. Peter’s, Droitwich 1849–87; hon. canon of Worcester 1858–81; archdeacon of Worcester May 1881 to death; author of Sermons on the prayer book preached in Rome 1866; Small farms, how they can be made to answer by fruit growing 1872; Church plate in the archdeaconry of Worcester 1884. d. Orchardlea, Droitwich 24 Sep. 1889.

LEACH, ALFRED. L.S.A. 1883; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1884; M.D. and C.M. Aberdeen 1888; M.R.C.P. Edinb. 1889; assistant house surgeon Rotherham hospital; house phys. Bath hospital; phys. Pimlico road free dispensary, London to death; invented a flexible cautery; a good linguist, speaking Arabic, Italian and French; author of The quadrangle by moonlight, or meditations in Marischal college. Aberdeen 1879; The letter H, past, present and future: a treatise with rules for the silent H, and notes on WH. 1880. d. 21 Belgrave road, London 14 Sep. 1892 aged 35.

LEACH, JONATHAN. b. 1784; ensign 70 foot 7 Aug. 1801, captain 1804; captain 95th rifles 1 May 1806; major rifle brigade 9 Sep. 1819, sold out 24 Oct. 1821; lieut.-col. in the army 18 June 1815; C.B. 22 June 1815; served in the West Indies 1803–5, at siege of Copenhagen 1807, in the Peninsula and France 1808–14, present at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; author of Rough sketches of the life of an old soldier 1831; Sketches of the services of the rifle brigade from its formation to Waterloo 1838; Rambles along the Styx 1847. d. Worthing 14 Jany. 1855.

LEACH, RICHARD HOWELL (2 son of Thomas Leach of 58 Doughty st. London). b. 1814; entered office of Registrar of court of chancery 1832, senior registrar 1868–82; largely assisted in drawing up the Chancery funds rules of 1872 and 1874; one of the editors of H. W. Seton’s Forms of decrees in equity 2 ed. 1854, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1862 and 4 ed. 2 vols. in 3, 1877–9. d. Ernstein house, Tunbridge Wells 4 Aug. 1883.

LEACH, WILLIAM TURNBULL. b. Berwick-on-Tweed 2 March 1805; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; pastor of St. Andrew’s presbyterian church, Toronto 1832; joined Church of England and became the first incumbent of St. George’s, Montreal 1841; fellow, dean of the faculty of arts, professor of logic and moral philosophy and Molson professor of English literature in University McGill coll. Montreal; canon of Ch. Ch. cath. Montreal 1854–65; archdeacon of Montreal 1865 to death; author of Discourse on the nature and duties of the military profession 1840; Introductory lecture for the Mercantile Library association 1854. d. 16 University st. Montreal 13 Oct. 1886.

LEADAM, THOMAS ROBINSON. b. 22 Nov. 1809; ed. Merchant Taylors’ sch. and at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1830; M.R.C.S. 1832; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1837; author of Case of hydrophobia treated homœopathically 1849; Homœopathy as applied to the diseases of females and of early childhood 1851; The diseases of women homœopathically treated 2 ed. 1874; A popular treatise on the safe management of labour 1876. d. 1879.

LEADBETTER, JOHN. b. Penicuik on the Esk river 2 May 1788; clerk in a Glasgow firm, became a partner; established John Leadbetter & Co., linen manufacturers 1815, had branch houses in Dundee and Belfast; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1844–5; erected a building for the Glasgow Mechanics’ institution; chairman of Edinburgh and Glasgow railway opened 1842; retired from business 1848. d. Glenallon, Torquay 17 March 1865. Memoirs of 100 Glasgow men, ii 173–6 (1886), portrait.

LEADBITTER, GEORGE. b. Hexham 1787; one of the officers at Bow st. police court 1832, much employed in post office and bank business; was 6 feet 2½ inches in height and weighed 19 stone; resided in Longacre; succeeded John Townsend (who d. 10 July 1832 aged 73) in heading the police who attended the king on public occasions; had 25 guineas a year from the Doncaster corporation to attend the autumn meetings and preserve order in the grand stand enclosure 1832–52 where he was the means of securing many criminals, also engaged at Epsom; defendant in case of Wood v. Leadbitter in Court of exchequer 1845 respecting his expelling from the grand stand by order of the stewards one Wood a defaulter; killed by being overturned in a cab near The Bag of Nails tavern, 1 Victoria road, Pimlico 3 Dec. 1852. bur. Brompton cemetery. Sporting Review, xxix 71–2, 292 (1853); The Town, i 22 (1837); Times 7 Dec. 1852 p. 5 col. 3; 13 Meeson and Welsby’s Reports pp. 838–56 (1845).

LEADER, NICHOLAS PHILPOT (eld. son of Nicholas Philpot Leader d. 1836). b. 1808; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; M.P. co. Cork 1861–68; of Dromagh castle, co. Cork. d. London 31 March 1880.

LEADER, ROBERT (son of Robert Leader of Sheffield, bookseller, d. 1861). b. Carver st. Sheffield 4 Oct. 1809; apprentice in office of Sheffield Iris to 1830; proprietor with his father of Sheffield and Rotherham Independent from Jany. 1830, sole proprietor 1842 till 1875 when he made it over to his two sons, editor till 1875; a town trustee 1860, a town councillor 1876 and alderman 1880. d. Moor End, Sheffield 31 Oct. 1885. bur. Burngreave cemet. 4 Nov. Sheffield Independent 31 Oct., 2, 5 Nov. 1885.

LEAF, WILLIAM. b. 1791 or 1792; warehouseman at 39 Old Change, city of London 1821–74; made a large collection of water-colour pictures and drawings, sold at Christie’s 6–8 May 1875. d. Park hill, Streatham common, Surrey 3 July 1874.

LEAHY, ARTHUR (7 son of John Leahy of South Hill, Killarney 1770–1846). b. 5 Aug. 1830; 2 lieut. R.E. 27 June 1848, lieut.-col. 10 Dec. 1873 to death; present at battles of Alma and Inkerman; D.A.Q.G. for the R.E.; assistant director of works in fortification branch of the war office 1864; instructor of field works at school of military engineering, Chatham 13 Nov. 1871; second in command of the R.E. at Gibraltar, March 1876; colonel in the army 1 Oct. 1877. d. Netley hospital, Southampton 13 July 1878.

LEAHY, EDWARD DANIEL. b. London 1797; portrait and subject painter; painted portraits of Duke of Sussex, Marquess of Bristol and of many prominent Irishmen; exhibited 33 pictures at R.A., 25 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1820–52; lived in Italy 1837–43. d. Brighton 9 Feb. 1875.

LEAHY, JOHN (brother of Arthur Leahy 1830–78). b. 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; called to bar in Ireland 1833; Q.C. 1 Aug. 1859; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Limerick 1864 to death. d. Newcastle West, Ireland 13 Oct. 1874. Irish law times, viii 549, 553 (1874).

LEAHY, JOHN PIERS (son of Daniel Leahy). b. Cork 25 June 1802; ed. at Cork and Bloomfield near Dublin; studied at Corpo Santo, Lisbon, entered order of St. Dominic there 8 Sep. 1817, professed 9 Sep. 1818; acting rector of Corpo Santo, Oct. 1829 to 1836; prior of Dominican convent, Cork 3 times; prior provincial of Irish Dominicans, June 1848; coadjutor bishop of Dromore 14 July 1854, consecrated in St. Mary’s cath. Cork 1 Oct. 1854; bishop of Dromore 29 Feb. 1860 to death; author of The book of the rosary to which is annexed the rule of the third order of St. Dominick. Dublin 1842. d. Newry 6 Sep. 1890. Brady’s Episcopal succession, i 305 (1876), ii 365 (1876).

LEAHY, PATRICK (son of Patrick Leahy, civil engineer). b. near Thurles, Tipperary 31 May 1806; ed. Maynooth; C. of Scartheen, Cashel; professor of theology St. Patrick’s coll. Thurles, pres. of college; one of secretaries of synod of Thurles 22 Aug. 1850, priest of Thurles; preb. of diocese of Cashel, then precentor; vice-rector of Catholic univ. of Ireland at establishment 18 May 1854, also professor of sacred scripture 1854–7; archbishop of Cashel 27 April 1857 to death, consecrated 29 June; issued address condemning agrarian murders 16 May 1869; cathedral at Thurles built by his energy at cost of £45,000, commenced 1857, consecrated 21 June 1879, when 21 bishops and 280 priests were present. d. near Thurles 26 Jany. 1875. bur. Thurles cathedral. 3 Feb. I.L.N. lxvi 139 (1875).

LEAKE, JOHN MARTIN (eld. son of John Martin Leake of Thorpe near Colchester, Essex, d. 7 April 1836 aged 97). b. 5 Dec. 1773; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1797, bencher 1836 to death; chairman of Essex quarter sessions. d. Thorpe hall, Essex 16 May 1862.

LEAKE, SIR LUKE SAMUEL (youngest son of Luke Leake of Stoke Newington, Middlesex). b. 1828; went to Western Australia 1833, member of legislative council of W.A., and the first speaker 26 June 1872 to death; knighted by patent 19 Aug. 1876. d. Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. London 1 May 1886.

LEAKE, ROBERT MARTIN. Ensign 14 foot 2 Oct. 1805; captain 63 foot 14 Feb. 1811, major 18 July 1822 to 26 Oct. 1824 when placed on h.p.; general 25 Oct. 1871. d. Woodhurst, Oxted, Surrey 26 Aug. 1873.

LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN (brother of John Martin Leake 1773–1862). b. Bolton row, Mayfair, London 14 Jany. 1777; 1 lieut. R.A. 14 Aug. 1794, lieut.-col. 29 July 1820, sold out 1823; served in West Indies 1794–9 and with Turkish army in Egypt 1800; made a general survey of Egypt 1801–2; surveyed the Morea and Northern Greece 1805–7; sent on a mission to Ali Pacha 1808; sent as resident to the Swiss confederation 1815; granted £600 per annum 5 Jany. 1812 in consideration of his services in Turkey since 1799; F.R.S. 13 April 1815; F.R.G.S.; D.C.L. Oxf. 26 June 1816 collected in Greece, bronzes, vases, gems and coins, now in the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge; author of The topography of Athens 1821, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1841; Journal of a tour in Asia Minor 1824; An historical outline of the Greek revolution 1825, 2 ed. 1826; Numismata Hellenica 1854, supplement 1859; author with C. P. Yorke of Les principaux monumens Egyptiens du musée Britannique 1827. d. Brighton 6 Jany. 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet. London. J. H. Marsden’s Memoir of W. M. Leake (1864); Numismatic Chronicle, xx 35–8; Proc. of Royal Soc. xi 7–9 (1860).

LEAKEY, CAROLINE WOOLMER (4 dau. of the succeeding). b. Exeter 8 March 1827; lived at Hobart Town, Tasmania with her married sister 1847–53; wrote in The Sunday at Home 1854, Girls Own Paper and other periodicals; established the Exeter Home and rescue 1861 and worked for it to 1881; author of Lyra Australis, or attempts to sing in a strange land 1854; The broad arrow, being passages from the history of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer. By Oline Keese 1859, new ed. 1886; God’s Tenth 1861, the first of a series of new year addresses 1861–81; Fine weather Dick and other sketches 1882. d. Exeter 12 July 1881. Clear Shining Light, a memoir of C. W. Leakey. By Emily Leakey (1882).

LEAKEY, JAMES (son of John Leakey of Exeter, wool merchant). b. Exeter 20 Sep. 1775; painter at Exeter of portraits, miniatures, landscapes and small interiors; painted miniatures in oils on ivory; lived in London 1821–5; exhibited 12 pictures at R.A. 1821–46, including The Marvellous Tale 1821, The Fortune Teller 1822 and The Distressed Wife 1846. d. Exeter 16 Feb. 1865. G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 82–5.

LEAPINGWELL, GEORGE. b. 1801; ed. at C.C. coll. Camb., B.A. 1823, M. A. 1826, LLD. 1851; esquire bedel of univ. of Camb. 1826 to death; barrister I.T. 25 June 1830; comr. of bankrupts for Cambridge and district; deputy recorder for Cambridge; deputy judge of borough court of pleas, Cambridge; deputy professor of political economy at Camb.; author of A manual of the Roman civil law, arranged after the analysis of Dr. Hallifax. Camb. 1859. d. Cambridge 24 Dec. 1863. Gent. Mag. xvi 264, 400 (1864).

LEAR, EDWARD. b. Holloway, London 12 May 1812; the youngest of 21 children; made tinted drawings of birds, &c. 1827, which he sold at from 9d. to 4s. each; draughtsman in gardens of Zoological Society 1831; engaged at Knowsley residence of Earl of Derby 1832–6, drew the plates for The Knowsley Menagerie 1846; a drawing master at Rome 1837 etc.; originator of the nonsense verse of which he published 4 volumes; travelled in South Europe and Palestine sketching 1847 etc.; gave drawing lessons to the Queen about 1840; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1836–73; Tennyson wrote verses addressed To E. Lear on his travels in Greece in ‘Travels in Albania’ 1846; author of Illustrations of the family of the Psittacidæ 1832; Views in Rome and its environs 1841; Illustrated excursions in Italy 1846; The Book of Nonsense 1846, 27 ed. 1889; Journal of a landscape painter in Albania 1851; published Poems and songs by A. Tennyson, set to music by E. L., London 1859, nine numbers. d. Villa Tennyson, San Remo 29 Jany. 1888. Tennyson’s Poems illustrated by E. Lear (1889), portrait; E. Lear’s Nonsense songs and stories 6 ed. (1888) memoir pp. 5–7.

LEARED, ARTHUR. b. Wexford 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, M.B. 1847, M.D. 1860; admitted M.D. at Oxford 7 Feb. 1861; physician in co. Wexford; went to India 1851; practised in London 1852; M.R.C.P. 1854, F.R.C.P. 1871; phys. to British civil hospital at Smyrna during Crimean war 1854–6; visited Iceland 4 times 1862–74, America 1870, and Morocco 1872, 1877 and 1879; identified site of Roman station, Volubilis; claimed to have invented the double stethoscope; author of The causes and treatment of imperfect digestion 1860, 7 ed. 1882 with portrait; Morocco and the Moors 1876, 2 ed. 1891; A visit to the court of Morocco 1879. d. 12 Old Burlington st. London 16 Oct. 1879. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. (1879) 802; British Medical Journal 25 Oct. 1879 pp. 663–4.

LEARMONTH, ALEXANDER (1 son of the succeeding). b. Edinburgh 26 Aug. 1829; ed. at Eton, matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 17 March 1847; a student I.T. 1847; cornet 17 lancers 21 Aug. 1849, major 30 Sep. 1856, lieut.-col. 1 July 1859, sold out same day; served in the Crimea and in the Indian mutiny; hon. col. Midlothian rifle volunteers 18 June 1879 to death; M.P. Colchester 1870–80. d. 44 Park lane, London 10 March 1887. The Times 11 March 1887 p. 8.

LEARMONTH, JOHN. b. 1789; coach builder 4 Princes st. Edinburgh, where he made a large fortune; built at his own expense the Dean bridge across the water of Leith, finished in 1833; lord provost of Edinb. 1832–3; contested city of Edinb. 31 May 1834. d. 6 Moray place, Edinb. 17 Dec. 1858. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 152–3, portrait.

LEASH, WILLIAM. b. England 1812; a clerk and book-keeper; a clerk in Edinburgh, returned to England about 1839; Congregational minister at Dover to 1846, at Esher st. Kennington, London 1846–57, at Ware, Herts., then at Maberly chapel, Kingsland 1865; edited the Christian Weekly News; edited the Christian Times 1864, and The Rainbow a magazine 1864–5; author of The Hall of Vision, a poem in three books. Manchester 1837; Philosophical Lectures. Dover 1846; The great redemption, an essay on the mediatorial system 1849; The beauties of the Bible 1852, 2 ed. 1856; Lays of the future 1853. d. Sandringham road, West Hackney, London 6 Nov. 1884. Struggles for life: an autobiography (1864).

LEATHAM, WILLIAM HENRY (2 child of Wm. Leatham, banker, d. 1842). b. Wakefield 6 July 1815; entered his father’s bank 1834; banker at Wakefield and Pontefract 1836, retired 1851; contested Wakefield 9 July 1852; M.P. for Wakefield 2 May 1859 by three votes, unseated on petition and writ suspended until 1862; M.P. for Wakefield 1865–8; M.P. for West riding of Yorkshire, southern division 1880–5; a Quaker but joined Church of England in 1843; purchased Hemsworth hall near Pontefract 1851; author of Poems 1840; Strafford, a tragedy 1842; Oliver Cromwell, a drama 1843; The Batuecas, also Francisco Alvarez and other poems 1844; Tales of English life and Miscellanies 2 vols. 1858. d. Carleton near Pontefract 14 Nov. 1889. Biograph, v 209–213 (1881); Colburn’s New monthly mag. vol. 168 p. 421, portrait; I.L.N. 1880 p. 41, portrait.

LEATHER, JOHN TOWLERTON (1 son of James Leather, colliery proprietor, d. 1849). b. Yorkshire 30 Aug. 1804; engineer of Sheffield waterworks 1833; contractor with Mr. Waring 1839, made Chester and Crewe section of London and North Western line; sole contractor for Erewash valley line of the Midland 1847–50; constructed the dam and the siphons for the repairs of the Middle Level 1862; constructor of the Portland breakwater 1849–56 and of the Sea forts at Spithead 1861–72; made the extension of the Portsmouth dock yard costing £2,000,000, 1867–77; M.I.C.E. 23 Feb. 1836; F.S.A. 11 Feb. 1869; sheriff of Northumberland 1875. d. Leventhorpe hall near Leeds 6 June 1885. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxiii 433–6 (1886).

LEATHER, JOHN WIGNALL (eld. son of George Leather, M.I.C.E.). b. near Leeds 26 April 1810; entered his father’s office and was with him engaged on the Leeds water supply works 1833–51 and on the Bradford water supply 1838–57; employed on the Fen drainage 1845; engineer of Aire and Calder navigation; made Hartlepool and Stockton railway 1838–41 which included the Greatham viaduct of 92 arches; laid out Birmingham, Dudley and Wolverhampton railway 1835; retired from business 1877; M.I.C.E. 6 March 1849; author of Report to the Leeds town council on an effectual sewerage for Leeds 1845. d. De Grey lodge, Leeds 31 Jany. 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix 473–9 (1887).

LEATHERLAND, JOHN A. (son of a carpenter). b. Kettering 11 May 1812; a shoemaker, a loom weaver, a ribbon weaver 1829–37, a velvet weaver, a maker of velvet waistcoats which he sold throughout the county till 1850; local reporter to Northampton Herald 1849 and other newspapers; living in High st. Kettering in 1869; author of Psyche, a prize essay on the immateriality of the mind and the immortality of the soul. Northampton 1853; On courtesy. Essay xiii. in J. Cassell’s Social Science 1861; Essays and poems, with a brief autobiographical memoir 1862, memoir pp. 1–39. d. probably before 1877.

LEATHES, EDMUND JOHN, stage name of Edmund Donaldson (2 son of John William Donaldson, D.D., Greek scholar 1811–61). b. Bury St. Edmunds 23 March 1847; ed. Marlborough 1861–64 where he won the mile race in 4 min. 38 sec.; sheep farming in New Zealand; studied medicine in Edinb.; acted at Old Theatre royal, Dublin, April 1869 and then in Sydney, New Zealand, Honolulu, San Francisco, Nevada, New York and Boston; at Princess’s theatre, London 1 March 1873 as Gratiano in Merchant of Venice; acted James Annesley in C. Reade’s The Wandering Heir, Queen’s theatre 15 Nov. 1873; played Laertes 200 nights Lyceum 30 Oct. 1874 to 29 June 1875 and Matthew Hawker in Human Nature, Drury Lane 12 Sep. 1885; a teacher of the dramatic art and literature; wrote The actor’s wife a novel 3 vols. 1880 and An actor abroad or gossip from the recollections of an actor in Australia, New Zealand, &c. 1883; produced his blank verse play For king and country, at Gaiety 1 May 1883 and another drama The actor’s wife. d. Tenterfield, Bina gardens, South Kensington, London 6 June 1891. Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 4 May 1878 p. 149, portrait.

LE BAS, CHARLES WEBB (son of Charles Le Bas, linen draper). b. 20 New Bond st. London 26 April 1779; ed. at Hyde abbey school near Winchester; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1796, scholar, Craven scholar 1799 and member’s prizeman, fellow 1801–14; fourth wrangler, B.A. and chancellor’s medallist 1800; barrister L.I. 1806; ordained deacon 1809; R. of St. Paul’s, Shadwell 1811; preb. of Lincoln cath. 23 May 1812; professor of mathematics and dean in East India college, Haileybury 1813, principal 1837 to 31 Dec. 1843; the Le Bas prize at Cambridge for the best essay on an historical subject was founded in 1848 by his old pupils at cost of £1920; wrote nearly 80 articles for The British Critic 1827–38; author of Considerations on miracles 1828; Sermons on various occasions 3 vols. 1822–34; The life of Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, bishop of Calcutta 2 vols. 1831; Memoir of Henry Vincent Bailey, archdeacon of Stow 1846; Life of Wicliff 1832; Life of Cranmer 1833; Life of Jewel 1835 and Life of Laud 1836, being vols. 1, 4, 5, 11 and 13 of The Theological Library edited by H. J. Rose and W. R. Lyall. d. 74 Montpelier road, Brighton 25 Jany. 1861.

LE BLANC, HENRY. b. 1776; ensign 71 foot 9 July 1792, major 12 June 1806; lieut.-col. 5 veteran battalion 5 Feb. 1807 to 1814 when battalion was reduced and he retired on full pay; major of Chelsea hospital 22 Sep. 1814 to death; colonel in the army 28 Nov. 1854; served at siege of Pondicherry and capture of Cape of Good Hope 1806; lost a leg at capture of Buenos Ayres 1807. d. Clifton Down, Bristol 13 July 1855. Particulars of the investigation at the Royal hospital, Chelsea, upon charges brought by the Major against the apothecary 1830.

LE BRETON, ANNA LETITIA (dau. of Charles Rochemont Aikin, surgeon). b. 4 Broad st. buildings, London 30 June 1808; edited Correspondence of W. E. Channing and Lucy Aikin 1874; author of Memoirs of Mrs. Barbauld 1874; Memories of seventy years. By One of a literary family [Mrs. Le Breton], edited by Mrs. Hubert Martin 1883. (m. 6 Aug. 1833 the succeeding). d. 6 Worsley road, Hampstead 29 Sep. 1885. Memoirs of Seventy years (1883) 3, 135 et seq.

LE BRETON, PHILIP HEMERY (eld. son of rev. Philip Le Breton, R. of St. Saviour’s, Jersey). b. St. Saviour’s rectory, Jersey 30 Oct. 1806; ed. at Mr. Cogan’s school, Walthamstow with Benjamin Disraeli and Milner Gibson; also at Westminster and Paris; solicitor in London 1828–51; barrister I.T. 1 May 1854; revising barrister for West Surrey several years; lived at Hampstead 1851 to death; member for Hampstead of Metropolitan board of works 1 July 1859 to Nov. 1879; presented with a public testimonial including gift of £500 for his activity in preserving Hampstead Heath 1871. d. 6 Worsley road, Hampstead 6 Aug. 1884. bur. in old Hampstead churchyard. F. E. Baines’s Records of Hampstead (1890) 152, 184, 320, 362, 453–5.

LE BRETON, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Le Breton, attorney general and bailiff of Jersey). b. Colomberie, St. Helier’s, Jersey 1790; educ. at Caen, Normandy as an American under the name of Burgh 1810–12 and fought several duels; advocate of Jersey bar 8 Aug. 1812; col. of Jersey Town regt. 17 July 1820 to 1850; shot Aaron de Ste Croix in a duel 1820; attorney general 25 March 1824; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Feb. 1847, after the visit of the Queen to Jersey in Sep. 1846; bailiff of Jersey 22 June 1848 to death. d. The Terrace, St. Helier’s, Jersey 24 Nov. 1857. The Jersey Independent 25 Nov. 1857 p. 2.

LE BRETON, WILLIAM CORBET (only son of William Le Breton). b. St. Helier’s, Jersey 1815; ed. Winchester and at Pemb. coll. Oxf. 1831–37, Morley scholar; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1837 to 8 July 1842; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; dean of Jersey 26 Dec. 1849 to death; R. of St. Saviour’s, Jersey 1850–75; R. of St. Helier’s, Jersey 1875 to death; father of Lilian Langtry, actress. d. London 28 Feb. 1888.

LE BRUN, John. b. Switzerland; ed. at Gosport, Hampshire; ordained Congregationalist in Jersey 25 Nov. 1813; minister of the London missionary society at Port Louis, Mauritius 18 May 1814 to 1832 and 27 Dec. 1841 to death; returned to Mauritius on his own account 1834, built a chapel at Port Louis and established schools in Mauritius. d. Port Louis 21 Feb. 1865.

LECHMERE-CHARLTON, EDMUND (elder son of Nicholas Lechmere of Hanley castle and Ludlow, who assumed additional surname of Charlton 1784). b. 20 Sep. 1789; M.P. for Ludlow 8 Jany. 1835 to 18 July 1837. d. 1857.

LECKENBY, JOHN. b. Ripon 20 Sep. 1814; managed different branches of Yorkshire banking company; treasurer of Scarborough many years; F.G.S. 1859. d. Scarton 7 April 1877.

LECKIE, ELIZABETH (dau. of John Horner of Edinburgh, linen factor). m. George Leckie; author of The Village School, a story. Edinb. 1837; The power of conscience, a dramatic poem 1841; The stepmother 1842; The Hebrew boy 1842; The guardian 1843; The dream of the western shepherd 1845. d. Edinburgh, March 1856.

LECLERCQ, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Clark. b. 20 Sep. 1797; made his first appearance on opening night of the Sans Pareil theatre, London as a dancer 27 Nov. 1806; chief dancer and inventor of the ballets at Surrey and Coburg theatres; manager of the Olympic about 1826; ballet master at Adelphi theatre, Glasgow 1844; ballet master at Olympic 1846, at Haymarket 1851 to death; his second wife Margaret Leclercq was well known as a dancer, she d. Bedford house, Carlyle sq. London 28 June 1889 aged 77. He d. 16 Albert st. Regent’s park, London 26 Nov. 1861. Era 1 Dec. 1861 p. 10.

NOTE.--His son Arthur Leclercq played harlequin in the pantomime Undine or the spirit of the waters, at Haymarket theatre Dec. 1858 to Feb. 1859, he was subsequently acting manager for Charles Fechter until his death in 1879 when he became acting manager for Mr. O’Neil; he died at his residence Fort Hamilton, Long Island, U.S. of America about 18 January 1890.

LECONFIELD, GEORGE WYNDHAM, 1 Baron (eld. natural child of 3 Earl of Egremont 1751–1837). b. St. Marylebone, London 5 June 1787; cornet 5 dragoon guards 31 March 1803; captain 72 foot 19 Sep. 1805; lieut. 1 foot guards 13 Nov. 1807; major 78 foot 31 Jany. 1811; major 12 light dragoons 25 April 1811; lieut.-col. 20 light dragoons 10 Dec. 1812, placed on h.p. 25 June 1816; served in Spain and Portugal, taken prisoner by the French Aug. 1810; came into the estate of Petworth, Sussex and others adjoining and £60,000 on his father’s death 1837; sheriff of Sussex 1842; created baron Leconfield of Leconfield in the east riding of the county of York 14 April 1859. d. Petworth, Sussex 18 March 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000 22 May 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i 385–6, ii 54 (1869).

LE COUTEUR, SIR JOHN (eld. son of lieut.-gen. John Le Couteur d. 23 April 1835 aged 74). b. St. Helier’s, Jersey 1794; ensign 96 foot 15 Nov. 1810; lieut. 104 foot 21 Nov. 1811, placed on h.p. 25 Aug. 1817; brevet lieut.-col. 11 Nov. 1851; A.D.C. to the sovereign 27 Aug. 1830, resigned 1872; adjutant general of Jersey militia 1853–72; sold out of the army 1857; viscount or sheriff of island of Jersey 1842 to death, coroner there 1872 to death; F.R.S.; sec. and founder of Jersey agricultural and horticultural soc.; knighted by patent 17 Aug. 1872; published On the varieties, properties and classification of wheat 1836, 2 ed. 1872; On the rise, progress and state of agriculture in Jersey 1852; The rifle, its effects on the war 1855. d. Bellevue, Jersey 24 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. lxviii 311 (1876).

LEDGER, CHARLES. b. England; clerk in house of Messrs. Naylor at Lima 1836–8, and then at their establishment at Tacna where he purchased the alpaca wools from the Indians 1838–42; in business at Tacna from 1842; exported a flock of 276 alpacas to Sydney 28 Nov. 1858, which the government purchased for £15,000 and gave him £1300 a year to manage it. Illust. News of the World 17 Sep. 1859 pp. 173–4, portrait; Sporting Rev. Feb. 1863 pp. 127–9.

LEDGER, FREDERIC. b. 1816; editor and proprietor of The Era, a London weekly sporting and dramatic paper 1850 to death; an enthusiastic mason. d. Gothic house, Devonshire road, Balham hill 14 June 1874. bur. Norwood cemetery 20 June. Era 21 June 1874 p. 9 col. 2.

LEDWARD, RICHARD ARTHUR (son of Richard Perry Ledward). b. Burslem, Staffs. 1857; studied at Burslem school of art and at South Kensington, gold medallist; a master of modelling in the schools; modelling master at Westminster and Blackheath schools of art; his sculpture of A Young Mother, showed great promise. d. of rheumatism at 53 Beaufort st. Chelsea 28 Oct. 1890. bur. Perivale church near Ealing.

LEDWICH, THOMAS HAWKESWORTH (son of Edward Ledwich of Waterford, attorney). b. Pembroke 1823; studied medicine in Dublin; M.R.C.S.I. 1844, F.R.C.S.I. 1845; lecturer on anatomy at The original school of medicine, Peter st. Dublin 1847 to death, when name was changed to the Ledwich school of medicine 1858; formed a valuable pathological museum; surgeon to the Meath hospital, Dublin, July 1858; author with his brother Edward Ledwich, M.D. of The practical and descriptive anatomy of the human body 1852, 3 ed. 1877, which is still much used in Dublin. d. York st. Dublin 29 Sep. 1858. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. Sir C. A. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland (1886) 534–35, 613–14; Ormsby’s History of Meath hospital (1888) 215–6.

NOTE.--Edward Ledwich was b. Pembroke 1817, F.R.C.S.I. 13 Oct. 1852, a most successful teacher of anatomy, d. 7 Harcourt st. Dublin 18 Feb. 1879.

LEE, Mrs. Governess to the prince of Naples, eld. son of Humbert king of Italy, at Rome Nov. 1869 to 1881 during which time she never left him; watched over the prince’s health and aided him in making a collection of coins illustrating Italian history 1881 to death. d. Quirinal palace, Rome 3 April 1884.

LEE, ALFRED THEOPHILUS (youngest son of Sir John Theophilus Lee of Lauriston hall, Torquay 1786–1843). b. the Elms, Bedhampton, Hants. 28 June 1829; scholar of Christ’s coll. Camb. 1850; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of Houghton-le-Spring, Durham 1853–5; P.C. of Elson, Hants. 1856–8; R of Ahoghill, co. Antrim 1858–72; hon. LLD. Dublin 1866, D.C.L. Oxf. 1867; sec. to Church defence instit. and tithe redemption trust 1871 to death; preacher at Gray’s Inn 5 Nov. 1879 to death; author of The history of the town and parish of Tetbury 1857; Facts respecting the present state of the church in Ireland 1863, sixtieth thousand issued 1868; Some account of the parish church of St. Colananell, Ahoghill 1867. d. Lauriston house, Ealing, Middlesex 19 July 1883. Church portrait journal, i 25 (1876), portrait; Biograph, vi 315–20 (1881).

LEE, BENJAMIN. b. Worcester 10 Feb. 1788; enlisted in 14 dragoons Jany. 1804; served in the Peninsula 1808–14, in America 1815; sergeant major 1814, retired 1829; went to New South Wales and resided at Parramatta 1829 to death. d. Parramatta 13 April 1879, left upwards of 100 children and grandchildren.

LEE, DONALD MC PHEE. b. 11 Feb. 1804; editor and proprietor of Bermuda royal gazette; vice consul for France and Italy. d. Hamilton, Bermuda 11 Feb. 1883.

LEE, EDWIN. Articled pupil of royal college of surgeons, London, Jacksonian prizeman 1838 for dissertation on Comparative advantages of lithotomy and lithotrity; studied at St. George’s hospital 1824, house surgeon 1830–3; M.C.S. 1829; M.D. Gottingen 1846 or before; member of medical societies of Paris, Berlin and Naples; fellow of royal medico-chirurgical soc.; resided much at the Continental watering places; author of upwards of 60 works including A treatise on some nervous disorders 1833, 2 ed. 1838; The principal baths of Germany 2 vols. 1840–1. d. Mentone 3 June 1870. The Lancet 18 June 1870 pp. 891–2.

LEE, FREDERICK HENRY (eld. son of Frederick William Lee). Editor of Hull Herald and proprietor of Sussex Advertiser, Lewes. d. Cooksbridge near Lewes 14 Aug. 1853 aged 42.

LEE, FREDERICK RICHARD. b. Barnstaple 1799; ensign 56 foot 6 Dec. 1813, placed on h.p. 21 Dec. 1815; served in the Netherlands; studied painting at the R.A. 1818; exhibited 171 paintings at R.A., 131 at B.I. and 24 at Suffolk st. 1822–70; his most popular works were English landscapes; 4 of his pictures are in the National Gallery; A.R.A. 1834, R.A. 1838, retired R.A. 1871. d. Vlees farm, Herman station in division of Malmsay, South Africa 5 June 1879. Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 159–61 (1862); Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 85–8.

LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of Henry Lee, pugilist and landlord of the Anti-Gallican tavern, Shire lane, Temple Bar 1808). b. 1802; in Lord Barrymore’s service as a tiger, being the first to bear that title; tenor singer at Dublin theatre 1825; sang at the Haymarket, London 1826, musical conductor there 1827; kept a music shop at 86 Quadrant, Regent st. 1829–31; bankrupt 18 Nov. 1831 and 21 May 1833; lessee with Melrose and J. K. Chapman of the Tottenham st. theatre 1829–30; lessee of Drury Lane theatre 1830–31; directed the Lenten oratorios at Drury Lane and Covent Garden 1831; composer and musical director to Strand theatre 1832–45, to Olympic theatre 1845; succeeded George Hodson as musical conductor at the Poses Plastiques, Garrick’s Head, Bow st. 1847; wrote the music to The Sublime and the Beautiful 1828; The Invincibles 1828; The Nymph of the Grotto 1829; The Witness 1829; The Devil’s Brother 1831; The Legion of Honour 1831 and other dramatic pieces; published two sets of eight songs Beauties of Byron and Loves of the Butterflies 1828; composed altogether upwards of 250 pieces of music 1826–51; author of A complete course of instruction for singing 1872. (m. Mrs. Waylett, ballad singer, she d. 26 April 1851); found dead in his old lodgings at Newton terrace, Kennington road, London 8 Oct. 1851. bur. Norwood cemet. Rev. J. Richardson’s Recollections, ii 129–35 (1856).

LEE, SIR GEORGE PHILIP (youngest son of Edward Lee of London). Lieut. of the yeomen of the guard 13 March 1843 to 23 July 1857; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. d. Windlesham court, Bagshot 1 Sep. 1870.

LEE, HARRIET (dau. of John Lee, actor, d. 1781). b. London 1757; kept a private school with her sister Sophia Lee at Belvidere house, Bath 1781–1803; carried on a correspondence with Wm. Godwin the novelist, April to Aug. 1798, declined his offer of marriage 1798; author of The errors of innocence 5 vols. 1786; The new peerage or our eyes may deceive us, a comedy Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1787, acted 9 times; Clara Lennox 2 vols. 1797, translated into French 1798; The mysterious marriage or the heirship of Roselva, a 3 act play 1790, never acted; Canterbury Tales 5 vols. 1797–1805, containing 12 stories (2 of which were written by her sister Sophia Lee who d. 1824), she dramatised one of the tales ‘Kruitzner’ under title of The Three Strangers, performed at Covent Garden 10 Dec. 1825, acted 4 times, Lord Byron also dramatised it under title of Werner or the Inheritance 1822. d. Vyvyan terrace, Clifton 1 Aug. 1851.

LEE, HENRIETTA INCLEDON (eld. dau. of Henry Lee, manager of theatres in west of England). First appeared in London as Constantia in ‘The man of the world’ 19 Oct. 1831; played at Covent Garden and Drury Lane, at Olympic theatre during Madame Vestris’ management to 1839, at Lyceum theatre 1847–48. d. at her lodgings, Orange st. Bloomsbury sq. London 23 May 1866. Era 27 May 1866 p. 10.

LEE, HENRY. b. 1826; naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium 1872, a director for a time, printed Aquarium Notes for the use of visitors; a contributor to Land and Water; his museum of natural history was one of most valuable private collections in England; author of The Octopus or the devil fish of fiction and fact 1874; Sea fables explained 1883 and of Sea monsters unmasked 1883, in Fisheries’ Exhibition handbooks; The vegetable lamb of Tartary, a fable of the cotton plant 1887. d. Renton house, 343 Brixton road, London 31 Oct. 1888. Land and Water 10 Nov. 1888 p. 568.

LEE, JAMES N. Edited Bell’s Weekly Messenger and Farmers’ Journal to death. d. at his lodgings, Laurel grove, Oakfield road, Penge 11 March 1880 aged 72.

LEE, JAMES PRINCE (eld. son of Stephen Lee, sec. and librarian of royal society). b. London 28 July 1804; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. 1813–24, captain 1822–4 when he entered Trin. coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1827, fellow Oct. 1829; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; one of the best Greek scholars of his time; a master at Rugby 1830–8; head master of King Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1838–47; hon. canon of Worcester 6 Sep. 1847; bishop of Manchester 23 Oct. 1847, consecrated at Whitehall chapel 23 Jany. 1848; held 63 ordinations at which he ordained 471 priests and 522 deacons; consecrated 130 churches 1848–69; promoted Manchester free library, opened Sep. 1852; author of Sermons and fragments attributed to Isaac Barrow, D.D. now first collected and edited from the MSS. in the University and Trinity college libraries Cambridge 1834, these manuscripts turned out to be spurious; Suggestions for a practical use of the papal aggression 1851. d. Mauldeth hall, Burnage near Manchester 24 Dec. 1869. bur. St. John’s ch. Heaton, Mersey 31 Dec. E. W. Benson’s Memorial Sermon 2 ed. (1880); John Evans’s Lancashire Authors (1850) 153–7; Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series (1859), portrait; I.L.N. xii 51 (1848) portrait, lvi 55 (1870), portrait.

NOTE.--He bequeathed his library to Owen’s college Manchester, his widow in Sep. 1875 left £1000 to the college to provide two annual prizes for encouraging the study of the New Testament in Greek.

LEE, JOHN. b. Torwoodlie-Mains, parish of Stow, Midlothian 22 Nov. 1779; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1801; served in the army hospital service a short time; presbyterian minister of Peebles 1807; professor of church history at St. Mary’s college, St. Andrew’s 1812–21, rector of St. Andrew’s univ. three times; professor of moral philosophy in King’s college, Aberdeen 1820–1; minister of Canongate ch. Edinb. 1821–5; D.D. St. Andrew’s 1821; minister of Lady Yester’s ch. Edinb. 1825–34; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1840 to death; principal clerk of the general assembly 1827; minister of St. Giles’s ch. Edinb. 1834–7; principal of united college of St. Andrew’s 1837–40; dean of chapel royal, Stirling 1840 to death; principal of univ. of Edinb. 12 March 1840 to death, professor of divinity 14 June 1844 to death, being the first principal who also held a professorship since the year 1620; moderator of general assembly 1844; collected a library of 20,000 vols., is described in John Hill Burton’s Bookhunter as Archdeacon Meadows the bibliomaniac; author of Memorials of the Bible Society in Scotland 1829; Lectures on the history of the church of Scotland 1860; The University of Edinburgh from 1583 to 1839. 1880. d. at his residence in Univ. of Edinburgh 2 May 1859. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 135–7 portrait; Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of Edinburgh, ii 271–4 (1884); Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. iv 212–17 (1862); Scott’s Fasti, vol. i, part 1, pp. 12–13, 64 (1866).

LEE, JOHN (eld. son of John Fiott of London, merchant 1749–97). b. 28 April 1783; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1808–15; fifth wrangler 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, LLD. 1816; travelling bachelor of the univ. 1807–10; took his mother’s name of Lee by r.l. 4 Oct. 1815; member of College of Advocates 3 Nov. 1816, steward July 1824 to June 1826, librarian 1826–7, treasurer 1828–9; barrister G.I. 13 July 1863, gave the society £500 to found an annual prize for an essay on law 7 May 1864, bencher of G.I. 9 Nov. 1864 to death; Q.C. 7 July 1864; built an observatory in south portico of Hartwell house, Bucks. 1830; an original member of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1820, treasurer 1831–40, pres. 1861–2, gave the advowson of Hartwell to the Soc. 1836 and the advowson of Stone, Bucks. 1866, founded the Lee fund for relief of widows and children of deceased fellows; F.S.A. 1828; F.R.S. 24 Feb. 1831; pres. and treasurer of Numismatic Soc. 1837; member of Chronological institute of London, Dec. 1850, pres. 21 Dec. 1853 to 1858 when institute ceased; pres. of meeting of British Archæological Assoc. at Leicester 1862; contested Aylesbury 1835, 1841, 1852 and 1863; edited Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities at Hartwell House, chiefly arranged by Joseph Bonomi 1858. d. Hartwell house near Aylesbury 25 Feb. 1866. Memoir of John Lee. Aylesbury (1870); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxiii 302–5 (1867); Catalogue of law books in the library at Hartwell (1855); Catalogue of theological books in the library of Hartwell house (1855).

LEE, JOHN. b. Bath 25 Oct. 1795; served in the army; first appeared at Drury Lane as Laertes 1 Oct. 1828; sec. to Edmund Kean 1826–33 and stage manager Richmond theatre, and it was in his arms that the tragedian died at Richmond 15 May 1833; acted Jingle in Moncrieff’s Sam Weller or the Pickwickians at Strand theatre July 1837; theatrical agent at 24 Bow st. Covent Garden 1847–55; manager of the Café de l’Europe, Haymarket, London, on decease of Henry Hemming 1849; reappeared at T.R. Richmond as Shylock 1 July 1869; resided in Jersey many years. d. Wilton house, New St. John’s road, Jersey 5 Oct. 1881. The Era 15 Oct. 1881 p. 8; Actors by gaslight (1838) 33–34, portrait.

LEE, JOHN. b. 1831; general manager of Drinking fountain association; F.R.G.S. d. Balmain, Anerley road, Surrey 3 Feb. 1884. bur. Crystal palace district cemetery 7 Feb.

LEE, JOHN BENJAMIN. b. 15 Jany. 1811; admitted attorney 1834; of firm of Lee, Bolton and Lee, 2 The Sanctuary, Westminster, and 5 Dean’s court, Doctors’ commons, London; legal secretary to 20 bishops, including 2 primates and 3 bishops of London; legal secretary to abp. of Canterbury and to bishops of London, Winchester, Durham, Carlisle, Ely, Hereford, Norwich, Worcester and Ripon to death; chapter clerk and registrar and steward of courts of St. Paul’s cathedral; registrar of diocese of London to death; a personal friend of archbishop Tait 1856; resided at Sonning near Reading. d. The Charterhouse, London 10 April 1889. Law Times, lxxxvii 13 (1889).

LEE, JOHN EDWARD. b. Hull 21 Dec. 1808; visited Russia and Scandinavia; resided at Caerleon Priory, Monmouth, then at Torquay; F.G.S. 1859; presented his fine collection of fossils to British Museum 1885; author of Delineation of Roman antiquities found at Caerleon 1845; Description of a Roman building discovered at Caerleon 1850; Selections from an antiquarian sketch book 1859; Isca Silurum, or an illustrated catalogue of the museum of antiquities at Caerleon 1862; Roman imperial profiles, one hundred and sixty lithographs 1874; Note-book of an amateur geologist 1881; translated F. Keller’s Lake-dwellings of Switzerland 1866, 2 ed. 1878. d. Villa Syracuse, Daddy Hole plain, Torquay 18 Aug. 1887. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2nd series, xii 142–3 (1888).

LEE, JOHN LEE (son of William Hanning d. 1834, by Harriet dau. of Edward Lee). b. 11 Dec. 1802; educ. Westminster 1813–7, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxf. 10 Feb. 1821; assumed name of Lee in place of Hanning 1820; M.P. for Wells 1831–37; sheriff of Somerset 1845. d. Dillington park, Somerset 16 Aug. 1874.

LEE, JOHN YATE. b. 1801; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1828; practised as a conveyancer; a comr. of bankrupts 1838; registrar of Liverpool court of bankruptcy 28 Aug. 1844 to 31 Dec. 1869 when he retired on full salary; author of A treatise on the evidence of abstracts of titles to real property 1843. d. Bebington, Cheshire 10 March 1876. Law Times, lx 422 (1876).

LEE, JOSEPH. b. 1780; painted miniatures in enamel from the life, and copied pictures in enamel; enamel painter to Princess Charlotte of Wales 1818 and to the Duke of Sussex, painted portraits of them, also of George IV. after Sir Thomas Lawrence; exhibited 27 enamels at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1809–53. d. 13 Stone st. Gravesend 26 Dec. 1859.

LEE, LAVATER. b. 1817; a vaulter in the circus company of Wm. Batty at Portsmouth and Southampton 1840; performed at Lambeth Baths, London, which Batty opened as the Olympic Arena, Nov. 1841; on his benefit night April or May 1842 he vaulted over 14 horses, threw a back somersault on a horse going at full speed and turned 21 forward somersaults without the aid of a spring-board. d. 17 Kersley st. Battersea, London 18 March 1891. bur. Norwood cemetery.

LEE, MATTHEW HENRY (4 son of Joseph Lee of Redbrook, Whitchurch, Salop). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 28 May 1850 aged 18, scholar 1850–4, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; C. of Longsight, Manchester 1856–7; C. of Morland near Penrith 1857–67; V. of Hanmer, Flintshire 1867 to death, church burnt Feb. 1889 when he rescued register and plate, church rebuilding at time of his decease; a contributor to the Archæologia Cambrensis; edited Diaries and letters of Philip Henry 1882. d. about 13 Dec. 1890.

LEE, RICHARD NELSON (younger son of lieut.-col. Richard Lee). b. Kew 8 Jany. 1806; first acted in The Miller and his Man, at private theatre, Rawstorne st. Islington; played as an amateur at Deptford, then in ‘utility’ business at Royalty theatre; acted with John Richardson the showman 1821; went on tour in 1821 with Gyngell the conjuror who d. 1833; performed as a juggler at Adelphi and other London theatres 1822; played at Surrey theatre, opening as harlequin, under Elliston 7 years from 24 June 1827; wrote the pantomimes 1831–3 and played harlequin at Adelphi theatre 1834–36; managed Sadler’s Wells theatre for F. Osbaldiston 1836; proprietor with John Johnson of ‘Richardson’s Show’ Oct. 1836, they promoted and organised the fair in Hyde Park on the Queen’s coronation 28 June 1838; they purchased Julius Haydon’s portable theatre Oct. 1838; ‘Richardson’s Show’ was burnt in a field at Dartford 1845 causing a loss of £1700, they began business with a new theatre 1847; they appeared at Greenwich fair for the last time 1852; ‘Richardson’s Show’ was sold by auction at Horsemonger lane, Borough 1853, when the property was completely dispersed; manager with J. Johnson of the Marylebone, of Pavilion, of Standard 1845, of City of London 1849–63, sole lessee of City of London 3 Oct. 1863 to 1868 when he sold it to Great Eastern railway co. for £6000; author of The life of a fairy illustrated by Alfred Crowquill 1850; wrote 209 pantomimes, all of which were played. d. Shrubland road, Dalston 2 Jany. 1872. bur. Abney park cemetery 5 Jany. T. Frost’s The Old Showman (1874) 247, 254, 320, 346–58; The Mask (1868) 21, portrait; Illust. Sporting News, v 420 (1866), portrait.

NOTE.--His father lieut.-col. Lee was on duty at Nelson’s funeral in St. Paul’s cathedral 9 Jany. 1806, this was probably Richard Lee who died in India about 1811. The certificate of R. N. Lee’s baptism could not be obtained as the registers from 1791 to 1845 were stolen out of Kew church some years ago and have never been recovered. The inscription on his tombstone in Abney Park cemetery is, To the memory of Nelson Lee who departed this life January 2nd 1872 aged 65, also of Amelia Lee his beloved wife who departed this life December 30th 1870 aged 53, also of Theresa Kate Lee youngest daughter of the above who departed this life September 28th 1870 aged 17.

LEE, ROBERT. b. Tweedmouth, Northumberland 11 Nov. 1804; ed. at Berwick-on-Tweed gr. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ. 1824–34, D.D. 1844; minister of St. Vigean’s presbyterian chapel of ease at Arbroath, Forfarshire 1833, removed to parish of Campsie, Stirlingshire 1836; minister of church and parish of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1843 to death, his church was burnt down 19 Jany. 1845, preached in the Assembly Hall until 14 June 1857 when restored church opened, introduced stained glass into some of the windows 1857 and the first organ used in national church 22 April 1865; professor of biblical criticism and antiquities in univ. of Edinb., dean of chapel royal Holyrood and royal chaplain 17 Dec. 1846 to death; censured by the presbytery 14 March 1866 and by the synod 7 May for celebrating a marriage in his church 6 Dec. 1865; Isabella Carrick his widow was granted a civil list pension of £100, 17 Nov. 1868; author of A handbook of devotion 1845; The Holy Bible with about 60,000 marginal references and various readings 1854; Prayers for public worship 2 ed. 1858; Prayers for family worship 1861, 3 ed. 1884; The family and its duties 1863; The reform of the church of Scotland in worship, government and doctrine. Part 1 Worship 1864. d. Torquay 12 March 1868. bur. Grange cemetery, Edinb. 20 March. R. H. Story’s Life of R. Lee, D.D. 2 vols. (1870), portrait; Grant’s Story of Univ. of Edinb. ii 461–64 (1884).

LEE, ROBERT (2 son of John Lee of Melrose, Roxburghshire). b. Melrose 1793; entered univ. of Edinb. 1806, M.D. 1814; L.R.C.P. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1841, Lumleian lecturer 1856–7, Croonian lecturer 1862, Harveian orator 1864; physician to Prince Woronzow governor general of the Crimea, Oct. 1824 to Dec. 1826; obstetric phys. in London 1826–75; phys. to British lying-in hospital 1827; lecturer on midwifery in the Webb st. school 1829; F.R.S. 25 March 1830; sec. to Royal med. and chir. soc. 1830–5; regius professor of midwifery, univ. of Glasgow 1834, but resigned it after delivering his introductory address; lecturer on midwifery at St. George’s hospital 1835–66; author of On the structure of the human placenta and its connection with the uterus 1832; Clinical Midwifery 1842, 2 ed. 1848; The last days of Alexander and the first days of Nicholas, emperors of Russia 1854; Three hundred consultations in midwifery 1864; A treatise on hysteria 1871. d. 15 The Avenue, Surbiton Hill, Surrey 6 Feb. 1877. bur. Kensal Green cemet. R. Lee’s Memoirs on the Ganglia and nerves of the uterus (1849); Munk’s College of physicians, iii 266–9 (1878); Lancet, i 332–7 (1851), portrait.

LEE, ROBERT (7 son of John Lee 1779–1859). b. Edinburgh 1830; ed. at academy and univ. of Edinb.; member of Faculty of advocates 1853; procurator for Ch. of Scotland 1869; sheriff of Stirling and Dumbarton 1875; sheriff of Perthshire 1877; judge of second division of the court of session, Edinb., with title of Lord Lee, April 1880 to death. d. 12 Rothesay place, Edinburgh 11 Oct. 1890.

LEE, SAMUEL. b. Longnor near Shrewsbury 14 May 1783; apprenticed to a carpenter at Shrewsbury 1795; taught himself Greek and Hebrew; teacher in Bowdler’s foundation school, Shrewsbury; entered Queen’s coll. Camb. 1813, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1819, B.D. 1827, D.D. 1833; D.D. Halle 1822; professor of Arabic in univ. of Camb. 11 March 1819–31, regius professor of Hebrew 1831–48; chaplain of Cambridge gaol 1823; R. of Bilton with Harrogate, Yorkshire 1825–31; preb. of Bristol cathedral 5 July 1831 to death; V. of Banwell, Somerset 1831–8; R. of Barley, Herts. 1838 to death; a profound linguist, knew about 20 languages; author of A grammar of the Hebrew language 1827; A brief enquiry into the question whether a christian can object to pay tithes. Bristol 1832; The duties of observing the christian sabbath 1833, 2 ed. 1834; Dissent unscriptural and unjustiable 1834; A lexicon Hebrew, Chaldee and English 1840; The doctrine of the keys 1846; An enquiry into the nature, progress and end of prophecy 1849. d. Barley rectory 16 Dec. 1852, portrait by Richard Evans in public newsroom, Shrewsbury. Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, vol. 5 (1834), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, i 52 (1846), portrait; G.M. xxxix 203–7 (1853).

LEE, SAMUEL. King of the gipsy tribe of the Lees. d. Little Baddow hill, Essex 23 Sep. 1859 aged 86. bur. Little Baddow ch. yard 27 Sep. when 16 gipsies attended the funeral.

LEE, SAMUEL (2 son of John Lee of Whitchurch, Salop). b. 1837; ed. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1860, M.A. 1866; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1872; member of board of examiners to Inns of Court 1877–8 and 1881–3; member of Athenæum club; author of The works of Virgil rendered into English prose, with introductions. Globe edition 1871; author with J. Lonsdale of The works of Horace rendered into English prose 1873. d. 8 Tavistock place, Tavistock sq. London 14 April 1892.

LEE, SARAH (only dau. of John Eglinton Wallis of Colchester). b. Colchester 10 Sep. 1791. m. (1) 1813 Thomas Edward Bowdich, naturalist, travelled with him in Africa 1815 and 1823, he d. Bathurst on the Gambia river 10 Jany. 1824; she m. (2) about Oct. 1829 Robert Lee; studied Cuvier’s collections in Paris 1818–22; termed herself a member of the Wetteravian society; granted civil list pension of £50, 20 April 1854; author of The Freshwater fishes of Great Britain 1828, 12 parts, only four perfect copies are known, the plates of fish by herself are exquisitely done; Memoirs of Baron Cuvier 1833; Adventures in Australia 1851, many editions; Anecdotes of the habits and instincts of animals 1852; Sir Thomas or the adventures of a Cornish baronet 1856; she also edited and contributed to many works by her husband T. E. Bowdich. d. at her daughter’s residence, Erith, Kent 22 Sep. 1856. Literary Gazette 11 Oct. 1856 p. 784; G.M. Nov. 1856 pp. 653–4.

LEE, SMYTH. b. Devonport 1838; clerk in the stamp office, Devonport; reporter on Western Daily Mercury, then on Western Morning News; correspondent of The Era; on staff of Illustrated Sporting News 15 March 1862 to death; wrote ‘Tom’s Wife’ acted at the Surrey theatre, and ‘Great Sensation’ acted at Sadler’s Wells. d. Tottenham court road, London 3 Feb. 1866. bur. Finchley 7 Feb. Illust. Sporting News, v 78, 152 (1866), portrait.

LEE, THOMAS (son of Mr. Lee of Dublin and the Haymarket, London). b. Dublin 1 Dec. 1810; apprenticed to a goldsmith and jeweller London 1823; played in Suil Dhur the Coiner at Sadler’s Wells 1827; played in The Irish Tutor at Victoria theatre 1833 or 1834; acted in the provinces 1834–7; played at Sadler’s Wells 1837; acted Pat Rooney in The Omnibus at Covent Garden 23 Oct. 1838; proprietor of Beckford’s Head tavern, 38 Old st. St. Luke’s 1838–54; proprietor of The Adam and Eve, Eve’s terrace, Old St. Pancras road 1854–6, and of the Hoop and Adze, 37 St. John st. Clerkenwell 1856, where he d. 11 Aug. 1856. Actors by daylight, i 281–2 (1838), portrait; Theatrical Times, ii 153 (1847), portrait; The Era 17 Aug. 1856 p. 10.

LEE, WILLIAM. b. 1809; painter in water-colours of English rustic figures and of scenes on the French coast; assoc. of Instit. of Painters in water-colours 1845, a member 1848; member and sec. of Langham Sketching club, All Souls’ Place, London; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1844–55; published Classes of the capital, a sketch book of London life from tinted studies by W. Lee 1841, two parts only. d. 177 Euston road, London 22 Jany. 1865. Art Journal (1865) 139.

LEE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 2 July 1813, bencher 1845 to death, reader 1858; Richard Bethel afterwards lord chancellor Westbury was his pupil 1822; Q.C. Feb. 1845; a learned real property lawyer, his opinion was much esteemed by the chancery judges; often called upon by lord justice Knight-Bruce to give his opinion as amicus curiæ; lacked business habits, which prevented success in his profession. d. Brighton 7 July 1869. Law Times 17 July 1869 p. 262; T. A. Nash’s Life of lord Westbury, i 37–8, 43 (1888).

LEE, WILLIAM (son of Henry Lee). b. Lewisham, Kent 1801; partner in firm of Lee, Son & Co., lime and cement merchants of London and Rochester; contested Maidstone 8 July 1852 and 30 March 1857; M.P. Maidstone 1853–57 and 1859–70. d. Holborough court near Rochester 29 Sep. 1881.

LEE, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Lee, rector of Emly. d. Aug. 1835). b. Newport, Tipperary 3 Nov. 1815; ed. at Clonmel endowed sch. 1825–31 and Trinity college, Dublin; gained first or classical scholarship 1834, junior fellow 1839; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. and D.D. 1857; professor of ecclesiastical history in univ. of Dublin 1857–63; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 1863; R. of Arboe, Armagh 1862–4; exam. chaplain to abp. Trench 1863–4; archdeacon of Dublin 1864 to death; R. of St. Peter, Dublin 1864 to death; member of convocation and of convention of ch. of Ireland; member of new testament revision company Feb. 1870 to 1880; author of The inspiration of holy scripture, its nature and proof 1854, 5 ed. 1882; Three introductory lectures on ecclesiastical history 1858; Commentary on the Revelation of St. John 1882, on which he had been working since 1864. d. 64 Merrion square south, Dublin 11 May 1883. W. Lee’s University Sermons. Dublin (1886), memoir vii–xiv.

LEE, WILLIAM (2 son of John Lee 1779–1859). b. 18 George st. Edinburgh 6 Nov. 1817; ed. univ. of Edinb., D.D. 1868; presbyterian minister at Roxburgh 1844–74; professor of ecclesiastical history in univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1874 to death; author of The increase of faith 1867, 2 ed. 1868; The days of the Son of Man 1872; edited his father’s Lectures on the history of the church of Scotland 2 vols. 1860; The autobiography of Dr. Somerville of Jedburgh. d. 8 The College, Glasgow 10 Oct. 1866. The Glasgow Herald 12 Oct. 1886 p. 4.

LEECE, JOSEPH (1 son of John Leece). b. Edgley, Stockport, Cheshire 8 Sep. 1833; lodge boy to Joseph Whitworth, engineer, Manchester 1847, foreman of shops where he improved the machinery, managed the manufactory of guns and rifles; conducted the heavy gun trials Whitworth versus Armstrong 1863–4; introduced the Whitworth small arms to the volunteers; sighted the rifle for the Queen at Wimbledon 2 July 1860; hit the target 5 times in succession at 1000 yards; present at meetings for trial of light field guns at Versailles and Chalon; member of war office ordnance committee; managing director of sir J. Whitworth & Co.; M.I.C.E. 6 May 1879. d. Melbourne, Australia 13 Jany. 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxv 399 (1886).

LEECH, JOHN (son of John Leech, proprietor of the London Coffee-house, Ludgate Hill, London, bankrupt 6 Jany. 1832). b. Bennett st. Stamford st. London 29 Aug. 1817; ed. at the Charterhouse 1824–33; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; published Etchings and Sketchings. By A. Pen 1835; employed on Bell’s Life in London; illustrated Theodore Hook’s novel Jack Brag 1837; contributed to fourth number of Punch 7 Aug. 1841 a full-page illustration entitled Foreign Affairs, signed with the Leech in the bottle as well as John Leech; chief artist on Punch 1842 to death, executed 600 cartoons and 2400 small drawings for which he received about £40,000; illustrated the Ingoldsby Legends and Albert Smith’s novels in Bentley’s Miscellany; supplied etchings or cuts for New Monthly Mag. 1842–4, Illuminated Mag. 1843–5, Dickens’ Christmas Stories 1843–8, R. S. Surtees’ sporting novels 1853–65, Once a Week 1859–64, Illustrated London News, Punch’s Pocket Book and many other works; published Portraits of the children of the nobility 1841; Pictures of life, from Punch 5 series 1854–69 and other books; exhibited a series of sketches in oil at Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, June–Aug. 1862; hunted with the Puckeridge and Pytchley hounds; his portrait by sir John Millais was exhibited at the R.A. 1855. d. 6 The Terrace, Kensington 29 Oct. 1864. bur. Kensal Green 4 Nov. An exhibition of outlines by J. Leech held at 9 Conduit st. London 1872. W. P. Frith’s John Leech 2 vols. (1891), portrait; F. G. Kitton’s John Leech (1884); John Leech and other papers. By John Brown (1882) 1–79; Fine Art. By W. A. Rossetti (1867) 282–9; Illust. Review iv 289–98, portrait; Baily’s Mag. ix 58–65 (1864), portrait; I.L.N. vii 329 (1845), portrait.

NOTE.--His widow Anne Leech was granted a civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1865; his only son C. W. Leech was drowned off Port Adelaide on his voyage home from Australia 29 March 1876 aged 20. He drew a portrait of himself as the clarionet player next to the conductor of the orchestra in the two-page cartoon entitled ‘Mr. Punch’s fancy ball’ in Punch 9 Jany. 1847.

LEEDS, FRANCIS GODOLPHIN D’ARCY DARCY-OSBORNE, 7 Duke of. b. 21 May 1798; styled marquess of Carmarthen 1799–1838; cornet 10 hussars 19 Sep. 1817, lieut. 1821–5; capt. 17 lancers 1825; capt. 2 life guards 1826–8; M.P. Helston 1826–30; summoned to house of lords as baron Osborne 2 July 1838; succeeded as 7 duke 10 July 1838; col. in chief of North York militia 11 Feb. 1846 to death; took the name of Darcy 6 Aug. 1849; celebrated as a huntsman and deer stalker. d. Clarendon hotel, 169 New Bond st. London 4 May 1859. m. 24 April 1828 Louisa Catherine 3 dau. of Richard Caton and widow of sir F. E. B. Harvey, bart. who d. 1819. She d. 8 April 1874. Burke’s Portrait gallery, ii 87, 90 (1833), portrait of the Duchess; I.L.N. xxv 616 (1854) portrait, xxxiv 478, 485 (1859) portrait.

LEEDS, ROBERT. b. 1811; rented a large farm at Holkham and resided at Keswick Old Hall for many years; assisted in formation of company which built Agricultural hall, Islington 1861 and was chairman 1862, and chief mover in the annual horse shows there; chairman of Smithfield club, then vice president; oldest member of Farmers’ club; on council of R. Agricultural Soc. of England 1869–89. d. Norwich 27 June 1890. I.L.N. 12 July 1890 p. 53, portrait.

LEEDS, WILLIAM HENRY. b. 1786; engaged in commercial pursuits; an architectural critic 30 years; wrote much in the Foreign quarterly review and other periodicals; wrote many of the articles on architecture in the Penny Cyclopædia; published Moller’s Memorials of German-Gothic architecture, 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.