Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 3)

KINGSLEY, George Henry (brother of rev. C. Kingsley 1819–75). b. Barnack, Northamptonshire 14 Feb. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. London, Edin. univ. and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1846; practised in England from 1850; adopted foreign travel as his method of treatment of his patients, explored many foreign countries; a sportsman and linguist; author of Four phases of love translated from the German of P. J. L. Heyse 1857; A gossip on a Sutherland hillside 1861, included in Francis Galton’s Vacation tourists and notes of travel; South Sea Bubbles; By the Earl and the Doctor 1872, an account of his travels in Polynesia with the Earl of Pembroke 1867–70, 2 ed. 1873. d. 7 Mortimer road, Cambridge 5 Feb. 1892.

KINGSLEY, Henry (brother of the preceding). b. Barnack 2 Jany. 1830; ed. at King’s coll. London and Worcester coll. Oxf. 1850–3; went to the Australian goldfields 1853, returned to England 1858; edited the Edinburgh Daily Review 1870–1, correspondent for his paper during Franco-German war 1870, present at battle of Sedan 1 Sep. 1870, the first Englishman to enter Sedan afterwards; author of The recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn 3 vols. 1859, 3 ed. 1864; Ravenshoe 3 vols. 1862, 2 ed. 1862; Austin Elliott 2 vols. 1863, 2 ed. 1863; The Hillyars and the Burtons 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1865; Mademoiselle Mathilde 3 vols. 1868, 2 ed. 1868; Stretton 3 vols. 1869, and 15 other books. d. of cancer in the tongue at Attrees, Cuckfield, Sussex 24 May 1876. Graphic, xiii 563, 564 (1876), portrait.

KINGSMILL, Sir John. b. 1798; captain of the Battle Axe guards, Dublin Castle 1828–1834 when corps was dissolved; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland 1830. d. 23 Oct. 1859.

KINGSMITH, Joseph. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1836; chaplain Pentonville prison, London 1843–59; author of Chapters on prisons and prisoners and the prevention of crime 1849, 3 ed. 1854; A common sense view of the treatment of prisoners 1850; Missions and missionaries 1853, 2 ed. 1854; On the present aspect of serious crime in England 1856; British rule and British christianity in India 1859; Our police, friendly council to the police 1860. d. 142 Marina, St. Leonards 25 Dec. 1865.

KINGSTON, Robert Henry King, 4 Earl of (2 son of 3 earl of Kingston 1771–1839). b. 4 Oct. 1796; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818; ensign 5 foot 31 Oct. 1816, placed on h.p. 24 Dec. 1818; lieut. 69 foot 3 Jany. 1822, placed on h.p. 12 June 1826; M.P. Cork 1831–32; known as viscount Kingsborough 1837–39; succeeded 18 Oct. 1839; frequently sued by cabmen in the police courts and behaved in an unseemly manner in the house of lords; declared of unsound mind April 1861. d. 21 Jany. 1867. G.M. March 1867 pp. 380–81.

KINGSTON, James King, 5 Earl of. b. 8 April 1880; barrister King’s inns, Dublin 1825, Lincoln’s inn 25 May 1827; succeeded 21 Jany. 1867. d. Mitchelstown castle 8 Sep. 1869.

KINGSTON, Robert King, 6 Earl of. b. Henrietta st. Dublin 17 July 1804; M.P. for Roscommon 1826–1830; succeeded his father 20 Nov. 1854 as viscount Lorton, and his cousin 8 Sep. 1869 as earl of Kingston. d. London 16 Oct. 1869.

KINGSTON, Robert Edward King, 7 Earl of. b. Dublin 18 Oct. 1831; succeeded 16 Oct. 1869. d. Alexandra hotel, Hyde park corner, London 21 June 1871.

Note.—The four Earls of Kingston died in less than 4½ years.

KINGSTON, Alfred. b. 1829; junior clerk in public record office, London 23 May 1844, an assistant keeper of records 27 July 1875 to death; hon. sec. to Camden society Dec. 1872 to death. d. 12 Chancery lane, London 24 April 1885.

KINGSTON, George Templeman. b. 1817; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 1 class mathematics and B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; professor of meteorology Univ. coll. Toronto; director of magnetical observatory, Toronto 1855; author of Abstracts of magnetical observations. Toronto 1863; and many papers in Canadian Journal on meteorology, temperature, the winds, electricity, magnetism, etc. 1855–63. d. Toronto 21 Jany. 1886.

KINGSTON, William Henry Giles (eld. son of Lucy Henry Kingston of Oporto). b. Harley st. London 28 Feb. 1814; lived in Oporto many years; entered his father’s business at Oporto; wrote newspaper articles on Portugal, for which he received an order of Portuguese knighthood and a pension from Donna Maria da Gloria; edited The Colonist, London 1844, two numbers only; The Colonial Mag. and East India review, vols. 16 to 23, 1849–51; Kingstone’s Magazine for boys, vols. 1 to 4, 1859–63, and with G. A. Henty The Union Jack, tales for boys, vol. 1, 1880; lectured on colonization 1849; promoted an improved system of emigration and was hon. sec. of a colonisation soc.; sent by emigration commissioners to visit north of Scotland; originated Soc. for Improvement of religious and moral condition of seamen; a great traveller and a yachtsman; author of The Circassian chief 1844; Peter the whaler 1850, his first book for boys; Western wanderings, a Canadian tour 1856; The cruise of the Frolic 1860; The three midshipmen 1873; Eldol the Druid 1874; The three lieutenants 1875; The three commanders 1876; Popular history of the navy 1876; Half hours with the kings and queens of England 1876; The three admirals 1878; Kidnapping in the Pacific 1879; A yacht voyage round England 1879; Adventures in the far West 1881; Mungo Park’s travels 1886; his original writings, translations, etc. occupy 180 volumes, some of which went to many editions. d. Stormont lodge, Willesden near London 5 Aug. 1880. Boys’ Own Paper 11 Sep. 1880 pp. 796–97, portrait; James Braithwaite, by W. H. G. Kingston (1882), memoir pp. v–ix, portrait.

KINKEL, Johann Gottfried. b. Obercassel near Bonn 15 Aug. 1815; poet; professor at univ. Bonn 1845, took part in revolution of 1848, imprisoned at Spandau, escaped and fled to England Nov. 1850; examiner in German language at univ. of London 1851–66; lectured on the modern drama 28 April 1851; founded a German journal in London, Hermann Deutsches Wochenblatt aus London, edited it 8 Jany. 1859 to 1869; professor of archæology in polytechnikum, Zurich 1866 to death; author of Festrede bei der Schillerfeier in Krystallpalast. London 1859; Lecture on physical geography and its application to the teaching of geography in schools, delivered in Science and Art Department, London 1860; and about 50 other works printed at Basle, Bonn, Berlin, Cologne, Essen, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipsic, Stuttgard, Vienna and Zurich 1841–79. d. Zurich 13 Nov. 1882. m. Johanna Mockel who d. London 15 Nov. 1858, she was the author of Hans Ibeles in London, Stuttgard 2 vols. 1860, and of Twelve stories of earth, air and water, printed in Mama’s Stories, London 1872 pp. 133–75, she was also a musical composer.

KINLESIDE, Robert Raikes. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 28 Sep. 1827, colonel R.A. 18 Feb. 1861 to death; M.G. 14 July 1867. d. Landour near Mussouree 27 Aug. 1871.

KINLOCK, Alfred (6 son of James Kinlock of Brunswick sq. London). b. 10 Feb. 1819; ed. at Rugby 1833–7, captain of the school, at Oriel coll. and St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1842; assistant chaplain Madras army 1846; chaplain to the staff of the division of troops under sir G. C. Whitlock which captured town of Banda 20 April 1858 and town of Kirwee 6 June 1858 with property of the estimated value of 7,000,000 rupees; brought an action 15 May 1879 against the secretary of state for India on behalf of himself and all other persons entitled to share in the booty under royal grant dated 10 June 1864, after much litigation the House of Lords decided against him 19 May 1882, he then presented a petition of right to the Queen but the Court of Appeal again decided against him 21 March 1884; author of The Kirwee prize fight in various aspects, or great wars and little jars, to which is added a letter to a ghost 1866; The Duke’s Wink, or prize-money defalcations. By Tom Brown Agonistes. Tunbridge Wells 1884, and of other pamphlets relating to the Banda and Kirwee booty; wrote the historical part pp. 1–151 of St. John Colbran’s Guide to Tunbridge Wells 2nd ed. 1884. d. 31 Monson terrace, Tunbridge Wells 27 March 1890. Banda and Kirwee Booty 10 vols. of parliamentary papers 1865–66 folio.

KINLOCK, Sir George, 1 Baronet (eld. son of George Kinlock of Kinlock, Meigle, Perthshire, M.P. Dundee, d. 28 March 1833 aged 58). b. Kinlock house 13 Oct. 1800; ed. at univ. of Edin.; advocate 1823; cr. baronet 16 April 1873. d. Kinlock house 17 June 1881.

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. 4o., 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.