Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 5)

LOCKER, Arthur (youngest son of Edward Hawke Locker, F.R.S.) b. Greenwich hospital, Kent 2 July 1828; ed. at Charterhouse and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851; resided in Australia and in India; contributed reviews to The Times 1865–70; edited The Graphic from May or June 1870 till December 1891 when he went to Madeira for his health; translated V. M. Hugo’s The history of a crime 1877; printed Mrs. Ralph Greening’s First lodger in A. Halliday’s Savage Club papers 1868 pp. 100–17; author of Sir Goodwin’s folly 3 vols. 1864; Sweet seventeen 3 vols. 2 ed. 1866; On a coral reef 1869; Stephen Scudamore 1871; The village surgeon 1874. d. 19 West-hill, Highgate, London 23 June 1893. I.L.N. 19 Dec. 1891 p. 791, portrait.

LOCKHART, Allan Eliott (2 son of William Eliott Lockhart, M.P. Selkirkshire, d. 1832). b. 1803; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; advocate 1824; M.P. Selkirkshire 1846–61; lord lieut. of Selkirkshire 19 Nov. 1867 to death. d. Borthwickbrae, Hawick 15 March 1878.

LOCKHART, Archibald Inglis. b. 1810; ensign 92 foot 31 Dec. 1828; commanded a field force in Central India 2 Aug. to 17 Sep. 1858, including the action near Rajhghar; commanded a brigade in Central India field force 18 Sep. to 6 Dec. 1858; lieut.-col. 26 Dec. 1857 to 14 March 1865 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Edinburgh 17 Sep. 1879.

LOCKHART, John Gibson (2 son of rev. John Lockhart 1761–1842, minister of Cambusnethan). b. in the manse of Cambusnethan 14 July 1794; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Glasgow 1805–9; Snell exhibitioner at Balliol coll. Oxf. 1809, B.C.L. 1817, D.C.L. 1834; an advocate 1816; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from Oct. 1817; edited The Quarterly Review, Oct. 1825 to April 1853, wrote more than 100 articles; lived at 24 Sussex place, Regent’s park 1826 to 1853; superintended Murray’s ‘Family Library’ from 1829, for which he wrote the first work History of Napoleon Buonaparte 2 vols. 1829, anon.; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; auditor of the duchy of Lancaster 1843 to death; edited Motteux’s translation of Don Quixote 5 vols. 1822; author of Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk. By Peter Morris the Odontist. 3 vols. 1819; Valerius, a Roman story 1821; Some passages in the life of Mr. Adam Blair 1822, anon.; Reginald Dalton, a story of English university life 1823; Ancient Spanish ballads translated 1823, several editions; The history of Matthew Wald 1824, a novel, anon.; Life of Robert Burns 1828, 8 ed. 1888; History of the late war 1832; Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott 7 vols. 1837–8, 4 ed. 1850; The Ballantyne humbug handled 1839. d. Abbotsford, Roxburghshire 25 Nov. 1854. bur. next Sir Walter Scott in Dryburgh abbey. Law Review, xxi 354–6 (1855); Quarterly Review, Oct. 1864 pp. 439–82; J. G. Lockhart’s Ancient Spanish ballads (1856) memoir 7 leaves, portrait; H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed. (1876) 344–52; Bookseller, Aug. 1860 pp. 505–8; National Review, iii 745–62 (1884); Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 7–13, portrait; I.L.N. xxv 559, 564 (1854), portrait.

LOCKHART, Laurence (brother of the preceding). b. 1796; presbyterian minister Inchinnan 13 Jany. 1822; D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1 May 1849; succeeded to Milton-Lockhart estate 1857; author of Address to the people of Inchinnan 1843; Facts for the times. Paisley 1843; Facts not fiction, address to the people of Inchinnan 1843; Facts not falsehood. By a Parish Minister 1845; Answer to the protest of the Free church 1846. d. 1876. H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, vol. 2 part 1 p. 221 (1868).

LOCKHART, Laurence William Maxwell (2 son of the preceding). b. 1831; entered Glasgow univ. 1845 and Caius coll. Camb. 1850, B.A. 1855, M.A. 1861; ensign 92 foot 9 Feb. 1855, captain 19 Jany. 1864, sold out 12 Sep. 1865, served in Crimean war 1855–6; major 2nd royal Lanark militia 7 June 1870, lieut.-col. 8 April 1877 to death; Times correspondent for Franco-German war July 1870; with the French army at battle of Forbach, then with the German army; author of Doubles and Quits 2 vols. 1869; Fair to see 3 vols. 1871; and Mine is thine 3 vols. 1878, novels reprinted from Blackwood’s Mag. d. Mentone, France 23 March 1882. Blackwood’s Mag. April 1882 pp. 675–80.

LOCKHART, William (brother of Laurence Lockhart 1796–1876). b. 1787; M.P. co. Lanark 1841 to death; dean of faculties of univ. of Glasgow 1853 to death; lieut.-col. commandant Lanarkshire yeomanry cavalry. d. Milton-Lockhart 25 Nov. 1856.

LOCKHART, William (only son of rev. Alexander Lockhart d. 1831, V. of Stone, Bucks. 1821–30). b. at Warlingham, Surrey 22 Aug. 1819; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842; joined John Henry Newman at Littlemore 1842; received into church of Rome, Aug. 1843, being the first of the tractarians who went over; studied under the Rosminians in Rome 1843–5; entered the Order of Charity 1845, procurator general; R. of St. Etheldreda’s, Ely place, Holborn, London 1876 to death, which he purchased for £5,300 and restored at cost of £6,000; edited The Lamp when renamed The Illust. Catholic mag. 5 vols. 1871–3; author of The communion of saints, or our relation to the Virgin, the angels and the saints 3 ed. 1869; Non possumus or the temporal sovereignty of the Pope 1870, 2 ed. 1870; Life of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, vol. 2, 1886; Cardinal Newman, a reminiscence of 50 years 1891; found dead in his bed at the Presbytery, St. Etheldreda’s, Holborn, London 15 May 1892. The Biograph, iv 432–3 (1880).

LOCKWOOD, Adolphus Raven. b. 1841; ed. by Frederick Chatterton; patronised by duke of Cambridge; with his brother and sister Ernest and Fanny Lockwood first appeared as harpists at Hanover sq. rooms, London, May 1847, music written for them and taught them by Gerhard Taylor; harpist to king of Bavaria. d. Munich 22 Jany. 1885. I.L.N. xii 106 (1848), portrait.

LOCKWOOD, Frederick Vernon (2 son of Thomas Lockwood of Dan-y-Craig, Glamorganshire). b. 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; C. of Sturry, Kent 1826; R. of Musham, Kent 7 March 1827 to 21 Jany. 1840; preb. of Lincoln 24 Jany. 1828 to March 1845; chaplain to House of Commons 1830–2; canon of Canterbury 16 Nov. 1838 to death; V. of Minster in Thanet 21 Jany. 1840 to death. d. the Precincts, Canterbury 1 July 1851. bur. in the cathedral 5 July.

LOCKWOOD, Sir George Henry (brother of the preceding). b. 25 March 1804; ed. at Eton; cornet 3 light dragoons 10 March 1825, lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1846, placed on h.p. 12 May 1853; served in Afghanistan 1842 and the Punjaub 1848–9; commanded a brigade at battle of Goojerat; A.D.C. to the Queen 2 Aug. 1850 to 27 Nov. 1874; col. 12 lancers 12 March 1861 to 1 Jany. 1872; col. 3 hussars 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 22 Oct. 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 18 Wilton st. Belgrave sq. London 15 April 1884.

LOCKWOOD, Henry Francis. b. Doncaster 1811; articled to Peter Robinson, London; superintended rebuilding of York castle 1832; commenced practice at Hull 1834; removed to Bradford 1849, in partnership with William and Richard Mawsom, built Bradford town hall, the Exchange and Airedale coll.; erected rifle factory at Enfield Lock 1856; removed to London 1874, competed for the law courts, built the City Temple 1874 and Inns of court hotel 1866; architect to sir Titus Salt at Saltaire; author with A. H. Cates of The history and antiquities of the fortifications to the city of York 1834. d. Heron court, Richmond, Surrey 20 July 1878. The Builder 27 July 1878 p. 788.

LOCKWOOD, Mark (son of Mr. Lockwood a farmer near Leeds). b. 25 April 1798; employed by his uncle Benjamin Crosby of Stationers’ hall court, London, bookseller 1812–14 and by his successors Simpkin and Marshall 1814–35, admitted a partner with them 1835, superintended the buying department and country trade 1839 to death; became the greatest book buyer in the world. d. 16 Highbury place, Islington 23 Nov. 1857. bur. Highgate cemetery 28 Nov. G.M. iv 106 (1858).

LOCKYER, Henry Frederick. b. 1797; ensign 71 foot 25 March 1813; lieut. 3 foot 1820, captain 1822; major 97 foot 26 June 1835, lieut.-col. 26 Oct. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1858; commanded forces in Ceylon 1855–60; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H. 1837; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; granted distinguished service reward 9 Feb. 1855. d. on board steamship Ripon on his way home from Ceylon 30 Aug. 1860.

LOCKYER, Thomas. b. Old Town, Croydon, Surrey 1 Nov. 1826; a bricklayer; the best wicket keeper of his day, a hard hitter with a wonderful eye, a round-arm fast bowler; first played at Lord’s in Middlesex v. Surrey 20 May 1850; manager of the Surrey county eleven and United England eleven matches; landlord of Prince Albert inn, Mitcham road, Croydon 8 Feb. 1860 to 1863; landlord of Sheldon Arms inn, Croydon 17 Nov. 1865 to death. d. Sheldon Arms inn, Whitgift st. Croydon 22 Dec. 1869. bur. Ch. Ch. Broad Green, Croydon. F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, iv 114 (1863); Sporting Review, lxiii 11 (1870); Illust. sporting news, iii 329 (1864), portrait; Illust. Times 10 Aug. 1861 p. 93, portrait; R. Daft’s Kings of cricket (1893) 36, portrait.

LOCOCK, Sir Charles, 1 Baronet (3 son of Henry Locock, M.D. 1763–1843). b. Northampton 21 April 1799; resident private pupil of sir Benjamin Brodie in London; M.D. Edinb. 1821; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1836, member of council 1840–2; had the best practice in London as an obstetric physician; physician to Westminster Lying-in hospital many years; fellow of university of London 1836 to death; first physician accoucheur to the Queen 1840–75, attended at birth of all her children; created a baronet 5 May 1857; F.R.S.; pres. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1857; discovered the efficacy of bromide of potassium in epilepsy 1857; contested Isle of Wight 22 July 1865; D.C.L. Oxf. 1868; resided 26 Hertford st. Mayfair, London. d. Binstead, Isle of Wight 23 July 1875. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 28 July. Munk’s College of Physicians, iii 270 (1878); I.L.N. lxvii 119, 124, 239 (1875), portrait; Graphic, xii 123 (1875), portrait.

LOCOCK, Sidney (3 son of the preceding). b. 9 Hanover sq. London 14 May 1834; unpaid attaché at Athens 7 May 1853; secretary of legation in Japan 1865, at the Hague 1868; secretary of embassy at Constantinople 1872; minister resident and consul general to republics of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador 23 May 1874 to 12 Feb. 1881; minister resident in Servia 16 April 1881; appointed envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to emperor of Brazil 11 Feb. 1885 but did not proceed. d. 22 Southwick st. Hyde park, London 30 Aug. 1885. Foreign Office List (1886) 213.

LODER, Edward James (eld. son of John David Loder, violinist 1788–1846). b. Bath 1813; pupil of Ferdinand Ries at Frankfort 1826–34; composed music for J. S. Arnold’s drama Nourjahad produced at English opera house, London, July 1834; musical director at Princess’s theatre about 1846–50, then conductor at Manchester; composed the operas of The Dice of Death 1835, The Foresters 1845, The Deerstalkers 1845, The Night Dancers produced at Princess’s Oct. 1846, revived there 1850, and at Covent Garden 1860; Raymond and Agnes produced at Manchester 1855 and at St. James’s theatre London 1859 and other operas; published three sets of Songs 1837–8; his name is attached to 150 pieces of music; author of First principles of singing 1838; The modern pianoforte tutor 18—, new ed. 1870. d. London 5 April 1865. I.L.N. xxxiii 491 (1858), portrait.

Note.—He m. a dau. of the choral conductor at Covent Garden, she was b. London 1813, ed. at R. Academy of music, went to U.S. of America in 1840 and made her debut with Braham at a concert in the Tabernacle, New York, Nov. 1840, sang for 8 seasons at the Old Philharmonic and Assembly concert rooms taking soprano parts; a teacher of music and singing 1870–80. d. New York 28 Feb. 1880.

LODER, George (son of George Loder of Bath, flute-player). b. Bath about 1816; resided at Baltimore, U.S. of America, some years; musical director of Olympic theatre, New York 1839; principal of New York vocal institute 1844; conductor for Anna Bishop at Adelaide 1856; conductor with Lyster’s opera troupe; organist, vocalist, conductor and composer in London 1860; published in 1861 his comic operetta Pets of the Parterre, which had been produced at Lyceum theatre; published his musical entertainment The old house at home 1862; The New York glee book 1844 contains several part-songs by him; published The middle voice 1860, 12 solfeggi, and various separate songs. d. the hospital, Adelaide, S. Australia 15 July 1868.

LODER, Giles. b. 9 Oct. 1786; Russia merchant at 5 Adam’s court, Old Broad st. City of London 1839; purchased estate of Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, from Lord Southampton’s trustees for £335,000. d. 1 Clarendon place, Hyde park gardens, London 19 Aug. 1871, personalty sworn under £3,000,000, 31 Aug. I.L.N. 9 Sep. 1871 p. 235.

LODER, John Fawcett (brother of Edward James Loder 1813–65). b. 1812; orchestral leader and manager of concerts at Bath; violinist in London, and leader of concerts and festivals; played the viola in Dando’s quartet at Crosby hall, London 1842–53. d. Hawley crescent, London 16 April 1853. Grove’s Dict. of Music, i 429, ii 159 (1879–80).

LODER, Sir Robert, 1 Baronet (son of Giles Loder 1786–1871). b. 7 Aug. 1823; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb.; inherited from his father the income of nearly two and a half millions of money, with power of appointment among his children, besides estates 1871; sheriff of Northampton 1877; M.P. Shoreham 1880–5; cr. baronet 27 July 1887; had estates in England, Russia and Sweden; a scientific farmer. d. Beach house, Worthing 27 May 1888, leaving more than £2,500,000 personalty.

LODGE, Robert John. b. April 1810; manager of Marine Insurance Co. 1839–88; salved from wreck of Royal Charter in 1859 £322,103 at a cost of 5⅓ per cent., and from the wreck of the Alfonso XII. in 1885 £90,000 from a depth of 26⅔ fathoms, these and other successes revolutionized the premium rate on specie; presented with a farewell address signed by 20 marine insurance companies and 60 members of Lloyd’s 1888; treasurer of Highgate literary and scientific institution. d. 7 The Grove, Highgate 1 April 1893.

LODWICK, Peter. Entered Bombay army 1799; lieut. marine battalion 26 May 1800, captain 23 May 1811; captain 11 N.I. 1818; lieut.-col. 6 N.I. 182- to 1829 or 1830; lieut.-col. 3 N.I. 1829 or 1830 to 1831; lieut.-col. 4 N.I. 1831 to 18 April 1833; lieut.-col. 11 N.I. 18 April 1833 to 1835 or 1836; lieut.-col. 20 N.I. 1835 or 1836 to 28 June 1838; col. 16 N.I. 9 Nov. 1840 to 1869; general 25 Jany. 1861. d. Bagnéres de Bigorre, France 28 Aug. 1873. Report of proceedings in case of The King, on the prosecution of J. Asplin v. Lodwick for a libel 1810.

LOEWE, Louis. b. of Jewish parents at Zülz Prussian Silesia 1809; ed. at univ. of Berlin, Ph. D.; travelled in the East 1836–9; lecturer on oriental languages to Duke of Sussex 1839; went to the East 13 times as secretary with sir Moses Montefiore 1839–74; principal of Jews’ College, Finsbury sq. London 1856; opened a Jewish boarding school at Brighton 1858; naturalised in England 12 July 1862; principal of the Judith theological college at Ramsgate 1868–88; member of Numismatic Soc. 27 Feb. 1845 and a contributor to the Chronicle 1856 etc.; translated J. B. Levinsohn’s Efés Dammim Conversations at Jerusalem 1841; author of A dictionary of the Circassian language 1854; edited Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore 2 vols. 1890. d. 53 Warwick road, Maida hill, London 5 Nov. 1888. Morais’s Eminent Israelites (1880) 208–11; Numismatic Chronicle 3 Series vol. ix Proceedings 22–3 (1889).

LOFFT, Capel (4 son of Capel Lofft, miscellaneous writer 1751–1824). b. Troston hall, Suffolk 19 Feb. 1806; ed. at Eton 1814–25, and King’s coll. Camb., fellow to 1837, Craven univ. scholar 1827, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 6 June 1834; author of Self-Formation, or the history of an individual mind. By A fellow of a college 2 vols. 1837; Ernest 1839, anon., a poem, 2 ed. with title of Ernest the rule of right 1868; New Testament, suggestions for reformation of Greek text. By R. E. Storer (i.e. Restorer) 1868; published at New York in 1861 an edition of the Self-Communion of Marcus Antoninus, with notes. d. at his estate Millmead in Virginia, U.S. of A. 1 Oct. 1873.

LOFTHOUSE, Mary (dau. of Thomas B. W. Forster of Holt Manor, Wiltshire, landscape painter). b. 1853; water-colour painter; her pictures were exhibited at the exhibition of lady artists, Great Marlborough st. London; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A. 1876–80; an associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 1884; (m. 3 June 1884 Samuel Hill Smith Lofthouse, barrister L.I. 7 June 1869). d. Elmbank, Lower Halliford-on-Thames 2 May 1885.

LOFTUS, Arthur John (only son of Arthur Loftus, captain R.N.) b. 1817; ensign 97 foot 15 Dec. 1840; lieut. 10 royal hussars 1 May 1846; captain 18 hussars 26 Feb. 1858, sold out 21 Sep. 1860; Lucknow medal and clasp 1857; gentleman usher to the queen 1878–83; keeper of the crown jewels 23 April 1883 to death. d. Brighton 3 Sep. 1891.

LOFTUS, Ferrars (4 son of general Wm. Loftus, lieut. of Tower of London). b. 24 June 1798; ensign grenadier guards 1815, captain 27 Dec. 1833, sold out 1840; colonel 3 West York militia 25 April 1870 to death. d. Tyringham, Bucks. 9 Oct. 1877.

LOFTUS, George William (2 son of 2 marquess of Ely 1770–1845). b. 11 May 1815; ed. at Harrow; 2 lieut. rifle corps 22 June 1833; ensign grenadier guards 12 Sep. 1834, sold out 1839; fought a duel with lord Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, at Boulogne 10 Dec. 1839, they exchanged shots without effect; bankrupt 2 May 1862 and 9 April 1867. d. Nice, France 19 Jany. 1877. Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a life (1891) 2–4.

LOFTUS, William Francis Bentinck (brother of Ferrars Loftus 1798–1877). b. 17 Aug. 1784; cornet 15 dragoons 30 Aug. 1799, captain 20 April 1804; major 38 foot 9 April 1807 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; colonel 50 foot 11 April 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Chacombe priory, Northamptonshire 13 Sep. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 635 (1852).

LOFTUS, William James (eld. son of the preceding). b. 7 Jany. 1822; ensign 38 foot 9 Nov. 1838, lieut.-col. 16 Jany. 1863, placed on h.p. 22 Dec. 1863; served in North America and the West Indies 1840–51; present at the Alma, at Inkerman, and in siege of Sebastopol, Crimean medal with 3 clasps; served in Indian mutiny, in siege and capture of Lucknow, Indian medal with clasps 1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; general on the retired list July 1881. d. Birtley Bramley, Guildford 29 March 1887.

LOFTUS, William Kennett. b. Rye, Sussex about 1821; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch., at Twickenham, and Caius coll. Camb. 1840; secretary to Newcastle Natural history soc.; geologist on staff of sir W. F. Williams on Turco-Persian frontier commission 1849–52; sent out to Babylon and Nineveh by Assyrian excavation fund 1853, returned 1855 with collections of tablets, &c. now in British Museum; issued a volume of Lithograph facsimilies of cuneiform inscriptions from 1852; author of Travels and researches in Chaldea and Susiana, with account of excavations at Nimrod and Shúsh 1857. d. on board the Tyburnia on his way to England from Rangoon, Nov. 1858.

LOGAN, Alexander Stuart (son of minister of Relief church, St. Ninians, Stirlingshire). b. St. Ninians 1810; ed. Glasgow and Edinb. universities; advocate at Scottish bar 1835; senior advocate depute Dec. 1853; sheriff of Forfarshire 4 Feb. 1854 to death; held many briefs at bar of General Assembly; author of On Robert Burns, an address, and Judas the Betrayer, a poetical fragment 1871. d. 12 York place, Edinburgh 2 Feb. 1862, marble bust in Court buildings, Dundee. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 207–8.

LOGAN, Archibald Spiers. b. 1802; entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 47 Madras N.I. 182-, captain 11 Sep. 1832; captain 33 N.I. 1835, lieut.-col. 7 Aug. 1846 to 1855; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 1855 to 24 Oct. 1858; commandant at Vellore 14 March 1856 to 1858; col. of 45 N.I. 9 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Elm bank, Malvern 10 May 1873.

LOGAN, George. Entered Madras army 1819; captain 41 Madras N.I. 27 Jany. 1831, major 19 Sep. 1843 to 6 Oct. 1851; lieut.-col. of 2 European regiment 6 Oct. 1851 to 1853 and 1854–5; lieut.-col. of 41 N.I. 1855–60, of 6 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Eastbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 4 Nov. 1870.

LOGAN, James (son of a merchant). b. Aberdeen about 1794; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal college, Aberdeen; his reading ticket at British museum dated from 1821; a journalist in London, afterwards clerk in an architect’s office; made a pedestrian tour in Scotland 1826; a transcriber on catalogue of British museum Dec. 1838 to July 1840; secretary of Highland society of London several years; wrote much in Transactions of the Gaelic society of London, of which he was the Father; a brother of the Charterhouse, London, expelled 1866; F.S.A.; author of The Scottish Gael or Celtic manners as preserved among the Highlanders 2 vols. 1831, 2 ed. 1876; Gaelic gatherings or the highlanders at home 1848; and of the letterpress to R. R. Mac Ian’s The clans of the Scottish Highlands 2 vols. 1843–9, new ed. 1857. d. London, April 1872. James Logan’s Scottish Gael, new ed. (1876) memoir pp. ix–xx; R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 310–11.

LOGAN, James Richardson. Went to the Straits Settlements about 1835; settled at Penang, Prince of Wales’s Island; started at Singapore in 1847 the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, which he edited for about 10 years; started and edited the Penang Gazette; notary public of supreme court of Prince of Wales’s Island; a member of Asiatic Society. d. Penang 20 Oct. 1869.

LOGAN, Robert Abraham (son of Patrick Logan, captain 57 foot). b. 26 July 1824; ensign 41 foot 26 Oct. 1841; ensign 57 foot 19 Nov. 1841, lieut.-col. 24 April 1872, placed on h.p. 26 July 1876; commanded 57 foot in New Zealand war 1861, took the Maori Pah 1863; commanded brigade depots 49 and 50 at Hounslow 1877; M.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 6 May 1882; C.B. 5 July 1865. d. 28 Glen Eldon road, Streatham near London 27 Jany. 1890.

LOGAN, William (son of a customer weaver). b. Damhead near Hamilton, Lanarkshire 1813; a loom weaver; a district missionary in St. Giles’, London, then in Leeds, Rochdale 1840, Glasgow, again at Rochdale and at Bradford; established a temperance dining room, the profits of which he distributed to the poor; attended persons stricken with fever; great friend of David Gray of Luggie the poet, and the soother of his dying hours 1861; the friend of Janet Hamilton the poet of Coatbridge, who d. 1873; author of An exposure of female prostitution in London, Leeds and Rochdale 1843; The moral statistics of Glasgow 1849; Words of comfort for parents bereaved of little children 1861, 8 ed. 1874; The great social evil 1871; The early heroes of the temperance reformation 1873. d. Glasgow 16 Sep. 1879. W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of one hundred Glasgow men, ii 177–8 (1886), portrait.

LOGAN, Sir William Edmond (2 son of Wm. Logan, baker, d. 1841). b. Montreal 20 April 1798; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; in counting-house of his uncle Hart Logan in London 1818–29; manager of copper-smelting works at Swansea 1831–8; demonstrated the important fact that the stratum of clay underlying coal-beds was the soil in which the coal vegetation grew; director of the geological survey of Canada 1842–70; discovered the Eozoon Canadense, the earliest known life, in Laurentian strata 1858; Canadian comr. at Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862, and at Paris exhibition 1855; F.R.S. 5 June 1851, royal medallist 1867; received cross of Legion of Honour 1855; Wollaston medallist of Geological Soc. 1856; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856; founded at cost of 20,000 dollars the Logan chair of geology in McGill university, Montreal 1872; D.C.L. of Lennoxville univ. 1855; LL.D. of McGill univ. 1856; F.G.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; author with T. S. Hunt of A sketch of the geology of Canada 1856. d. Castle Malgwin, Pembrokeshire 22 June 1875. bur. Llechryd church, Cardiganshire. B. J. Harrington’s Life of W. E. Logan. Montreal (1883), portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 228–34; Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxii 76–80 (1876); Wallich’s Eminent men of the day (1870), portrait ix; I.L.N. xviii 487–8 (1851), portrait.

LOGAN, William Hugh (son of a writer to the signet). Apprentice to a bank in Edinb.; manager of a bank at Berwick-on-Tweed; banker at Berwick; twice mayor of Berwick; sheriff; supplied Mr. R. H. Wyndham with all his occasional addresses, dramas and burlesques for theatre royal, Edinb.; edited Edinburgh theatrical and musical review, numbers 5 to 34 the last 1835; writer of Le Bas Bleu, farce, T.R. Edinb. 30 March 1836; Rummio and Judy, burlesque 183-; Absent without leave, farce, Strand theatre, London 1837; Babes in the wood, pantomime, Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 19 Dec. 1859; Shadows, farce, Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 1862 and many other pieces; author of Memoir of Archibald Maclaren, dramatist. Edinb. 1835, anon.; The Scottish banker 1839, 3 ed. 1847; On the law and practice of bills of exchange; and of a short-lived serial called The dramatic spectator. By Poz, Quiz and Co. Edinb. 1837; edited Fragmenta Scoto-Dramatica 1715–1758. Edinb. 1835, anon.; A Pedlar’s pack of ballads and songs. Edinb. 1869. d. Jany. 1883. R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland (1868) 66–8; J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage (1888) 34, 474, 478.

LOGIE, William. b. Kirkwall 23 Feb. 1786; presbyterian minister Ladykirk 1811–24; minister of Kirkwall 1824 to death; D.D. of Edinb. univ. March 1854; author of God sending and withdrawing the pestilence 1832; Sermons on the services of the church, with memoir and portrait. Lond. 1857. d. Kirkwall 5 Sep. 1856.

LOGIN, Sir John Spencer (eld. son of John Login of Stromness, Orkney). b. Stromness 9 Nov. 1809; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1831; surgeon to Bengal horse artillery 1832, to the Nizam’s army 1834, in Afghan campaign 1838 and in mission to Herat 1839; surgeon British residency, Lucknow; postmaster in Oude, superintendent of hospitals to king of Oude 1841; in Punjaub army 1848–9, in charge of treasuries of Sikh government, the citadel of Lahore, the post office in the Punjaub; guardian of maharajah Duleep Singh 1849 to 1858; surgeon 17 April 1848, retired 18 April 1858; knighted at Windsor castle 14 Nov. 1854; resided 5 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London. d. Felixstowe, Suffolk 18 Oct. 1863. Sir John Login and Duleep Singh (1890), portrait.

LOGIN, Thomas. b. Stromness, Orkney 1823; in public works department India 1844, engaged in construction of Ganges canal 1847–54; executive engineer of the Darjeeling roads 1857; superintending engineer at Umballa 1870; author of papers on Benefit of irrigation in India and on construction of irrigating canals, for which he received Telford premium from Instit. of Civil engineers; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; M.I.C.E. 19 May 1868. d. while inspecting the Thibet road in the Punjaub 5 June 1874. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix 205 (1878).

LOLA MONTEZ, stage name of Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert (dau. of Edward Gilbert, ensign 44 foot, d. Dinapore, India 1825). b. Limerick 1818; ed. at Montrose and in Paris; resided at Bath with her mother; ran away to Ireland with Thomas James, captain 21 Bengal N.I., whom she married at Meath 23 July 1837; she returned from India to England early in 1842; he obtained an order for a divorce in consistory court, London 15 Dec. 1842, retired from the army 28 Feb. 1856 and d. 17 May 1871; made her début at Her Majesty’s theatre 3 June 1843 as ‘Lola Montez Spanish dancer,’ but being badly received did not appear again; danced at Dresden, Berlin, Warsaw and St. Petersburg; appeared as a dancer at Munich 1847 when she captivated the king of Bavaria, Ludwig Carl Augustus, naturalised by a royal ordinance 7 March 1847, created baronne de Rosenthal and comtesse de Lansfeld, the king built a splendid mansion for her and gave her a pension of 20,000 florins; ruled the kingdom of Bavaria with great ability, banished March 1848 and the king was forced to abdicate 21 March; m. at St. George’s, Hanover sq. 19 July 1849 George Trafford Heald, cornet 2nd life guards, she fled with him to Spain Aug. 1849 to avoid punishment for bigamy, he sold out 1849 and was drowned at Lisbon 1853 or 1856; danced in ballet of Betley the Tyrolean, at Broadway theatre, New York 29 Dec. 1851, and played Lola Montez in Ware’s drama ‘Lola Montez in Bavaria’ 18 May 1852; m. in California 2 Aug. 1853 P. P. Hull, proprietor of the ‘San Francisco Whig’ but soon left him; played at Victoria theatre, Sydney, N.S.W. 23 Aug. 1855; played at Melbourne 1856 where she horsewhipped Mr. Seekamp, editor of the Ballarat Times, for reflecting on her character; appeared at Green st. theatre, New York 1857 in The Eton Boy, The follies of a night, and Lola in Bavaria; a public lecturer in the United States 1858, lectured at St. James’s hall, London 7 April 1859; spent her time visiting the female outcasts at the Magdalen hospital near New York 1859–60. d. in a sanitary asylum at Asteria, New York 17 Jany. 1861. bur. Greenwood cemet. 19 Jany. Autobiography and lectures of Lola Montez (1858), portrait; Les Contemporains, Lola Montes. Par Eugène de Mirecourt. Paris (1870), portrait; F. L. Hawks’s Story of a penitent, Lola Montez. New York (1867); C. H. Ross’s Painted Faces (1891) 78–88; H. H. Phelps’s Players of a century (1880) 265–7, 297; Temple Bar, July 1880 pp. 362–7; Mortemar’s Folly’s Queens (1882) 10–14, portrait; You have heard of them. By Q. (1854) 98–106; I.L.N. x 180 (1847), portrait.

LOMAS, John (son of rev. Robert Lomas d. 1810). b. Hull 13 Dec. 1798; master Kingswood sch. 1820–23; Wesleyan methodist minister at Manchester 1827–33, 1842–5, 1851–4, at Bristol 1833–6, 1855–8, at Birmingham 1836–9, in London 1845–51, 1858–61; theological tutor Richmond coll. 1861–8 and at Headingley coll. 1868–73; president of the Conference 1853; author of Jesus Christ the propitiation for our sins. The third Fernley lecture 1872. d. Redland, Bristol 20 Aug. 1877. Wesleyan Methodist Mag. ci 9, 134, 207, 283 (1878).

LOMAX, James (3 son of Richard Grimshaw Lomax d. 1837). b. Clayton hall, Accrington, Lancs. 1803; ed. at Stonyhurst; succeeded to family estates on death of his brother John Lomax 1849; a prominent Roman Catholic in the north of England, and a munificent donor to R.C. organizations in Lancashire, erected at his own cost church of Our Lady and St. Hubert, Great Harwood; created knight commander of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX. d. Clayton hall 26 March 1886.

LOMAX, Thomas George (eld. son of rev. James Lomax of Druid Heath house, Staffs.) b. 1783; bookseller at the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 1 Jany. 1810 to death; purchased relics of Dr. Johnson from his black servant Francis Barber; senior bailiff of Lichfield 1833, mayor 1843. d. the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 3 Jany. 1873. bur. St. Chad’s cemetery. Bookseller, Feb. 1873 p. 79.

LONDESBOROUGH, Albert Denison Denison, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry Conyngham, 1 marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). b. 8 Stanhope st. Piccadilly, London 21 Oct. 1805; ed. Eton; cornet in the army 21 Sep. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 24 July 1823, sold out 1824; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Vienna 1825, sec. of legation, Florence 1826 and at Berlin 1829–31; K.C.H. 1829; M.P. Canterbury 1835–41 and 1847–50; assumed name of Denison in lieu of Conyngham 4 Sep. 1849; cr. baron Londesborough of Londesborough, Yorkshire 4 March 1850; pres. of British Archæological association at its first meeting at Canterbury 1843; V.P. of Archæological Instit. 1849; pres. of London and Middlesex Archæological society 1855; purchased the Selby estate, Yorkshire, Aug. 1853 for £270,000; held 60,000 acres of land, producing income of £100,000; F.S.A. 1840; F.R.S. 13 June 1850; most unlucky as a breeder and runner of horses; printed Wanderings in search of health 1849; Miscellanea Graphica 1857; An illustrative catalogue of antique silver 1860. d. 8 Carlton house terrace, London 15 Jany. 1860. bur. Grimston 24 Jany. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii 171–5 (1861); I.L.N. xxiii 225 (1853) portrait, xxxvi 108 (1860); Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 228–32, 482–3; W. W. Morrell’s History of Selby (1867) 275–7; Sporting Review, xliii 80–81 (1860); C. R. Smith’s Retrospections, i 262–8 (1883) and Collectanea Antigua, v 261–69 (1861).

LONDONDERRY, Charles William Vane, 3 Marquess of (2 son of Robert Stewart, 1 marquess of Londonderry 1739–1821). b. Mary st. Dublin 18 May 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 108 foot 11 Oct. 1794; major 106 foot 31 July 1795; lieut.-colonel 5 dragoons 1 Jany. 1797 to 6 April 1799 when the regiment was disbanded for insubordination; lieut.-col. 18 hussars 12 April 1799 to 20 Nov. 1813; M.P. Thomastown in Irish parliament 1798–1800, M.P. co. Londonderry 1801 to June 1814; under sec. of state for war and colonies 1807 to 1808; commanded a brigade of hussars in Portugal 1808; adjutant general to army under sir Arthur Wellesley 1809–12; K.B. 1 Feb. 1813; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; G.C.H. 1816; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Berlin 7 April 1813; colonel 25 light dragoons 20 Nov. 1813; created a peer of the realm by title of baron Stewart of Stewart’s court and Ballilawn 1 July 1814; a lord of the bedchamber 25 June 1814 to Aug. 1827; P.C. 27 July 1814; ambassador to Vienna 27 Aug. 1814; assumed surname of Vane 1819; colonel 10 hussars 3 Feb. 1820 to 23 June 1843; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marquess 12 Aug. 1822; cr. earl Vane and viscount Seaham 28 March 1823; general 10 Jany. 1837; lord lieut. of Durham 27 April 1842; col. 2 life guards 23 June 1843 to death; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; made a harbour at Seaham, opened 29 July 1835, which cost £250,000; published Suggestions for the improvement of the force of the British empire 1805; A narrative of the Peninsular war 1808–13, 2 vols. 1828–9; Memoirs and correspondence of Lord Castlereagh 8 vols. 1848–51. d. Holderness house, Park lane, London 6 March 1854. bur. Long Newton 16 March. J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage, iii 552–4 (1886), portrait; Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen. First series 5 pages (1836), portrait 10; Royal military calendar 3 ed. ii 411–20 (1820); St. Stephen’s. By Mask (1839) 78–88; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 188–92; H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees (1865) 111–14.

Note.—He left personal property of value of £335,000 exclusive of vast estates in England and Ireland, his widow’s personalty was sworn under £400,000, 24 June 1865. He was the lord high marshal at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839. He is drawn in Vivian Grey as Col. Von Trumpetson. In 1824 he was challenged to a duel by Wm. Battier, who was gazetted cornet 10 hussars 27 Feb. 1823 and d. Paris 27 April 1839. On 13 June 1839 Lord Londonderry met Henry Grattan, M.P., on Wimbledon common, Grattan fired and missed and his lordship discharged his pistol in the air.

LONDONDERRY, Frederick William Robert Stewart, 4 Marquess of (1 son of preceding). b. South st. Grosvenor sq. London 7 July 1805; M.P. for co. Down 1826–52; a lord of the admiralty 1829–30; vice chamberlain of the household 27 Dec. 1834 to June 1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; colonel North Down militia 1837; lord lieut. of Down 1845–64; M.P. co. Down 1826–52; succeeded as 4 marquess 6 March 1854; K.P. 1855. d. Hastings 25 Nov. 1872. I.L.N. lxi 550 (1872).

LONDONDERRY, George Henry Robert Charles William Vane-Tempest, 5 Marquess of (half-brother of preceding). b. Vienna 26 April 1821; styled viscount Seaham 1823–54; ed. at Eton; matric. Ball. coll. Oxf. 14 June 1839, B.A. and M.A. 1867, hon. D.C.L. Durham; cornet 1 life guards 13 Jany. 1843, lieut. 1845, sold out 1848; M.P. North Durham 1847–54; succeeded his father as 2 earl Vane 6 March 1854; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry 1859–73; lieut.-col. commandant 2 Durham militia 1853–62; assumed additional name of Tempest by r.l. 28 June 1854; appointed to proceed on a special mission to St. Petersburg to invest emperor Alexander II. with insignia and habit of order of the garter 21 July 1867; provincial grand master free masons co. Durham 1880; succeeded his brother as 5 marquess 25 Nov. 1872; K.P. 31 Aug. 1874; lord lieut. of Durham 8 June 1880 to death. d. Plas Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 5 Nov. 1884. I.L.N. lxxxv 501 (1884), portrait; R. F. Gould’s Freemasonry, iv 276 (1885), portrait.

LONEY, Robert. b. 1787; entered navy Sep. 1797; commander on h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; captain on h.p. 6 Aug. 1852; retired admiral 15 June 1879; edited The China pilot 1855. d. Woodbine villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 22 Feb. 1882.

LONG, Catharine (youngest dau. of Horatio Walpole, 2 earl of Orford 1752–1822). b. 1798; (m. 25 July 1822 Henry Lawes Long of Hampton lodge near Farnham, Surrey, d. 1868); edited The story of a drop of water 1856; author of Sir Roland Ashton, a tale of the times 2 vols. 1844, 2 ed. 1854; The Midsummer souvenir, thoughts original and selected 1846; Heavenly thoughts for morning hours 1851; Heavenly thoughts for evening hours 1856; The first lieutenant’s story 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1856; Story of a specific prayer 1863; An Agnus Dei for four or five voices 1848, and other pieces of sacred music. d. suddenly from alarm in a thunderstorm at Landthorne Hatch near Farnham 20 Aug. 1867. Times 21 Aug. 1867 p. 10.

LONG, Charles Edward (elder son of Charles Beckford Long of Langley hall, Berkshire, d. 1836 aged 65). b. Benham park, Berkshire 28 July 1796; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; author of Imperial and papal Rome, a poem 1818, 4 ed. 1859; Considerations on the game laws 1824, anon.; Letter on the Jamaica house of assembly, abandonment of its legislative functions 1839; Royal descents, a genealogical list of the several persons entitled to quarter the arms of the royal houses of England 1845; edited for the Camden Society, The diary of the marches of the royal army during the great civil war, kept by Richard Symonds 1859. d. Lord Warden hotel, Dover 25 Sep. 1861. bur. Seale churchyard, Surrey.

LONG, Charles Maitland (younger son of Samuel Long of Carshalton, M.P. Ilchester d. 1807). b. 16 Aug. 1803; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830; R. of Whitchurch, Salop 1834–46; R. of Settrington, Yorkshire 1846 to death; archdeacon of East Riding of Yorkshire 1854–73; prebendary of Fridaythorpe in York cathedral 1855 to death. d. 43 Berkeley sq. London 6 Oct. 1875.

LONG, Edwin Longsden (son of Edwin Long an artist). b. Bath 12 July 1829; pupil of James Matthew Leigh; a portrait painter, afterwards painted oriental scenes; resided in Spain with John Phillip, R.A.; A.R.A. 26 Jany. 1876, R.A. 13 July 1881; exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1855–80; exhibited his pictures at his own gallery 168 New Bond st. 1883 to death, after which his pictures were exhibited at the Doré gallery 35 New Bond st., his pictures The Babylonian marriage market 1875 and the Egyptian feast 1877 were much noticed. d. Kelston, Netherall gardens, Hampstead 15 May 1891. I.L.N. lxviii 436, 437 (1876), portrait; Graphic 23 May 1891 p. 585, portrait; M. B. Huish’s The year’s art (1888) 32, portrait.

LONG, George (2 son of Joseph Long of Shopwick near Chichester). b. 1780; special pleader in London 1809–11; barrister G.I. 11 Feb. 1811, bencher 1834 to death, treasurer 1837; deputy steward of the Palace court 1825–33; a comr. for inquiring into state of municipal corporations 18 July 1833; magistrate at Great Marlborough st. police court 1839, at Marylebone police court June 1841 to Dec. 1859; recorder of Coventry 1840 to 1854; author of Observations on a bill to amend the laws relating to the relief of the poor 1821; A treatise on the law relative to sales of personal property 1821; An essay on the moral nature of man 1841; The conduct of life, a series of essays 1845; An enquiry concerning religion 1855. d. 51 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 26 June 1868. bur. Willesden cemet. Law Times, xlv 250 (1868).

LONG, George (eld. son of James Long, merchant). b. Poulton, Lancs. 4 Nov. 1800; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1821, 30th wrangler and senior chancellor’s medallist 1822; B.A. 1822; fellow of Trin. coll. 1823–7; professor of ancient languages in univ. of Virginia at Charlottesville 1824–8; professor of Greek in London univ., Gower st. London 1 Oct. 1828, resigned 1831; a founder of royal geographical soc. 1830, hon. sec. 1846–8; edited Quarterly journal of education 10 vols. 1831–5; The Penny cyclopædia 29 vols. 1833–46, published in monthly parts; edited and contributed to The biographical dictionary of the Society for diffusion of useful knowledge 7 vols. 1842–4, letter A only; professor of Latin in Univ. coll. London 1842–6, when he was presented with a silver tea and coffee service; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837, reader on jurisprudence and civil law at Inner Temple April 1846 to 1849; classical lecturer at Brighton college 1849–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 7 Aug. 1873; author of The civil wars of Rome. Select lives from Plutarch 5 vols. 1844–8; France and its revolutions, a pictorial history 1850; An old man’s thoughts about many things 1862, anon.; The decline of the Roman republic 5 vols. 1864; compiled The standard cyclopædia of political knowledge 4 vols. 1848, and edited with rev. Arthur John Macleane the Bibliotheca Classica 27 vols. 1851–84. d. Portfield, Chichester 10 Aug. 1879. H. J. Mathews’s In memoriam. George Long (1879).

LONG, James. b. 1814; resided in Russia; deacon in Church of England 1839, priest 1840; went to India as a missionary of Church missionary society about 1846, stationed at Thakurpukur near Calcutta; known as Padre Long, returned to England 1872; member of Bengal Asiatic Society; F.R.G.S.; fined 1000 rupees and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for adversely criticising the English press at Calcutta and the indigo planters in his preface to a Bengali drama entitled Niladarpana Nataka 1861; assigned to Church Missionary Soc. £2000 to provide popular lectures on the religions of the East; author of Handbook of Bengal missions 1848; A descriptive catalogue of Bengali works 1855; Prabád Málá or the wit of Bengali ryots 1869; Eastern proverbs and emblems 1881; contributed to Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Calcutta review and the Indian magazine. d. 3 Adam st. Adelphi, London 23 March 1887. Trubner’s Literary Record (1887) 24; Academy 9 April 1887 p. 255.

LONG, Richard Penruddock (2 son of Walter Long 1793–1867). b. Baynton house, Wiltshire 19 Dec. 1825; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; first played at Lord’s in Harrow v. Winchester 27 July 1842; one of the largest landed proprietors in England; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1858; nominated for sheriff of Wilts. 1875; contested South Wilts. 16 July 1852; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; M.P. North Wilts. 1865–8. d. Cannes, France 16 Feb. 1875. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, iii 106 (1863).

LONG, Samuel (eld. son of Charles Maitland Long 1803–75). b. 5 Jany. 1840; cadet R.N. 8 Dec. 1852; served in Crimean war and was present at bombardment of Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; captain 12 Dec. 1876; commander of Vernon torpedo instruction ship Portsmouth, organised and delivered the night attack on the fleet at Spithead and on the naval force protected by a boom at Southampton 1889; captain superintendent at Pembroke dockyard Jany. 1889 to Aug. 1891; aide de camp to the queen 1 Jany. 1889 to 27 Aug. 1891; R.A. 27 Aug. 1891; author of several papers on torpedo warfare; thrown from his horse and injured, d. Blendworth lodge, Horndean near Portsmouth 25 April 1893.

LONG, Simon (son of David Long, Gretna Green priest, d. 1827 in his 72 year). The last of the Gretna Green priests. d. Falling near Newcastle on Tyne 24 April 1872.

LONG, Walter (1 son of Richard Godolphin Long, M.P., 1761–1835). b. 10 Oct. 1793; ed. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; M.P. North Wilts. 1835–65; major R. Wilts, yeomanry cavalry; resided Rood Ashton, Wilts., d. Torquay 31 Jany. 1867. G.M. iii 399 (1867).

LONG, William. Stable boy in employ of 5 duke of Beaufort in Oxfordshire 1803; whipper-in to hounds of 6 duke of Beaufort at Badminton about 1814–26; huntsman to 6 and 7 dukes of Beaufort 1826–55. d. Didmarton, Gloucestershire 31 Jany. 1877 aged 84. Cecil’s Records of the chase (1887) 162, 175–80.

LONG, William (2 son of Walter Long of Preshaw house near Bishop’s Waltham, Hants. 1788–1871). b. 15 Aug. 1817; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; author of Avebury illustrated. Devizes 1858; Stonehenge and its burrows. Devizes 1876. d. Onslow gardens, London 14 April 1886. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xi 375 (1886).

LONGDEN, Sir Henry Errington (son of Thomas Hayter Longden). b. 14 Jany. 1819; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 10 foot 16 Sep. 1836, lieut.-col. 20 July 1858, placed on h.p. 14 June 1864; served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, in Punjaub campaign 1848–9; buried under the ruins of Mooltan 12 Sep. 1849 and after some hours dug out unhurt; in battle of Goojerat; medal and 2 clasps; employed in surveying forests of the Himalayas 1849–52; in Indian mutiny 1857–8, took part in capture of Lucknow, chief of the staff to Lugard’s force 1859, Indian medal and 2 clasps; adjutant general Bengal 17 Jany. 1866 to 16 March 1869; general 1 July 1881; col. of second battalion Hampshire regiment, late 67 foot, 24 June 1883 to 11 Nov. 1888; col. of the Lincolnshire regiment, late 10 foot, 11 Nov. 1888 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; C.S.I. 28 May 1870. d. Bournemouth 29 Jany. 1890.

LONGDEN, Sir James Robert (youngest son of John Robert Longden of Doctors’ commons, London, proctor). b. 1827; government clerk in the Falkland islands 1844, colonial secretary there to 1861; pres. of Virgin Islands 1861; lieut. governor of Dominica 5 Sep. 1865; governor of British Honduras 5 Dec. 1867; governor of Trinidad 18 July 1870; governor of British Guiana 14 March 1874; governor of Ceylon 30 June 1877 to 1883; C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871, K.C.M.G. 13 March 1876, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1883; alderman of Hertfordshire under Local government act. d. Longhope near Watford, Herts. 4 Oct. 1891; cremated at Woking cemet. 9 Oct.

LONGFIELD, George (4 son of rev. Mountifort Longfield, V. of Desertserges, co. Cork). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1837–42, fellow 1842 to death; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, B.D. 1864, D.D. 1866; professor of Hebrew, univ. of Dublin 1869 to death; treasurer of St. Patrick’s cathedral 1877; author of An introduction to the study of the Chaldee language 1859. d. 3 Nov. 1878.

LONGFIELD, John (2 son of John Longfield of Longueville, co. Cork 1767–1842). b. Dublin 18 Sep. 1804; ensign 8 foot 28 June 1825, lieut.-col. 3 April 1846 to 1 June 1860 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 1855, 1856 and 1857–59; col. 29 foot 19 April 1868 to 19 Dec. 1881; general 19 July 1876; col. Liverpool regiment, 8 foot, 19 Dec. 1881 to death; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858. d. Kilcoleman, Bandon, co. Cork 27 Feb. 1889. History of Eighth foot 2 ed. p. 283.

LONGFIELD, Mountifort (brother of George Longfield d. 3 Nov. 1878). b. South of Ireland 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829, LL.D. 1831; fellow of Trin. coll. 1825–34; professor of political economy univ. of Dublin 1832–6, regius professor of feudal and English law 29 Nov. 1834 to death, discharged his duties by deputy from 1871; called to Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842, bencher of King’s inns 1859; comr. of Incumbered estates court 1849–58, a judge of Landed estates court 1858–67; comr. of Irish national education 1853; P.C. Ireland 1867; author of Four lectures on poor laws 1834; Lectures on political economy 1834; Remarks on the safety and advantages of commutation if accepted by the clergy generally 1870; Elementary treatise on series 1872. d. 47 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 21 Nov. 1884. Irish Law Times 29 Nov. 1884 p. 606.

LONGFIELD, Richard (brother of John Longfield 1804–89). b. Longueville, co. Cork 1802; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824; sheriff of Cork 1833; contested co. Cork 24 Jany. 1835 and seated on petition 5 June; contested co. Cork 18 Aug. 1837 and 15 July 1841. d. Longueville house, Mallow 19 June 1889.

LONGFIELD, Robert (brother of Mountifort Longfield 1802–84). b. co. Cork 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A 1832; called to Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; law adviser of crown for Ireland 1866 to death; chairman of quarter sessions, co. Galway, Dec. 1867 to death; law adviser to the castle, Dublin; M.P. Mallow, May 1859 to 1865; author of The laws of distress and replevin in Ireland. Dublin 1841; A treatise on the action of ejectment in the superior courts in Ireland 2 ed. 1846; The origin of freemasonry 1857; The fishery laws of Ireland 1863; The game laws of Ireland 1864. d. 33 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 27 April 1868.

LONGFORD, William Lygon Pakenham, 4 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Longford 1774–1838). b. Pakenham hall 31 Jany. 1819; ed. Winchester; ensign 52 foot 25 Aug. 1837; lieut. 7 foot 1838, captain 1844, placed on h.p. 6 July 1852; A.Q.M.G. Crimea 1854–5, A.A.G. 1855, A.G. 1855–6; in battles of Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman, and at siege of Sebastopol, medal with 4 clasps; A.G. Bengal, Feb. 1858 to 2 July 1860; succeeded his brother as 4 earl 27 March 1860; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 June 1861, G.C.B. 24 May 1881; under sec. of state for war 7 July 1866 to 8 Dec. 1868; lord lieut. of Longford 21 March 1874 to death; col. 5 Northumberland fusiliers 11 Sep. 1878 to death; general 31 July 1879; placed on retired list 1881. d. 24 Bruton st. London 19 April 1887.

LONGLANDS, Henry (son of Thomas Longlands of Greenwich). b. 1781; ed. at Westminster, King’s scholar 1796; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1809, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1851; secretary to West India Dock co. 1818–38. d. Blackheath road, Old Charlton 9 Feb. 1857.

LONGLEY, Charles Thomas (5 son of John Longley, recorder of Rochester, d. 1822). b. Boley Hill, Rochester 28 July 1794; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; King’s scholar at Westminster 1808; student at Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812, Greek reader 1822, tutor and censor 1825–8; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1829; proctor of the univ. 1827; C. of Cowley, Oxon. 1818, P.C. of Cowley 1823–7; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1827–9; head master of Harrow school 21 March 1829 to Oct. 1836; bishop of Ripon 15 Oct. 1836, consecrated in York cath. 6 Nov. 1836; translated to see of Durham 13 Oct. 1856; archbishop of York 1 June 1860; P.C. 9 June 1860; archbishop of Canterbury 20 Oct. 1862 to death, installed 12 Dec. 1862; the Lambeth or Pan-Anglican synod of 78 British, colonial and foreign prelates met in London under his presidency 24–27 Sep. 1867; translated Koch’s Tableau des révolutions de l’Europe 1831; author of A letter to the parishioners of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1851. d. Addington park near Croydon 27 Oct. 1868. F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, i 161–8 (1875); Macmillan’s Mag. March 1883 pp. 346–58; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait; Illustrated times 25 Oct. 1862 p. 417, portrait, 20 Dec. 1862 p. 541 view of installation.

LONGMAN, Charles (2 son of Thomas Norton Longman, publisher 1771–1842). b. 11 Feb. 1809; ed. Westminster 1822–4; head of firm of J. Dickinson & Co. paper makers, 65 Old Bailey and 1 Irongate wharf, Praed st. London; F.G.S. 1862; dropped down dead in his park, Shendish near Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 4 Jany. 1873; will proved 15 Feb. 1873, personalty under £200,000.

LONGMAN, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1804; ed. at Glasgow univ.; partner in Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, publishers 38 Paternoster row 1832, head of the firm 1842 to death; superintended production of The New Testament illustrated with engravings on wood after paintings by Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino and other great masters 1864, 250 copies at ten guineas each, 2 ed. 1864, reprinted 1883; published lord Macaulay’s works, sent him a cheque for £20,000 dated 13 March 1856 for his share of profits of his History of England vols. 3 and 4; the firm purchased business and stock of John W. Parker publisher 1863; purchased copyright of Disraeli’s novels 1870; bought Farnborough hall, Hants. for nearly £100,000, 1859. d. Farnborough hall 30 Aug. 1879. History of the house of Longman. By Francis Espinasse in The Critic, xx 366, 431, 483 (1860); Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 79–109.

LONGMAN, Thomas Tucker (son of John Longman). b. Castle Cary, Somerset 1818; ed. St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; one of first to take B.A. degree at univ. of London 1841; ordained priest 1840; missioner at Wolverhampton, at Bloxwich, at Hampton hill, and at Warwick where he built the R.C. church; administrator of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1867, canon of the cath. 1873, vicar general of the diocese 1873–91; in charge of St. Peter’s, Leamington 1884–91; dignity of Monsignor conferred on him by the Pope, June 1890; member of Birmingham school board. d. Leamington 14 Dec. 1892. Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p. 3, portrait.

LONGMAN, William (brother of Thomas Longman 1804–79). b. 9 Feb. 1813; entered service of Longman & Co. publishers 1828, a partner 1839 to death; freeman of Stationers’ Co. 1834; an early member of Alpine club 1857, pres. 1871–4; F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1873; author of A catalogue of works in all departments of English literature classified, anon., Second edition 1848; Journal of six weeks’ adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont and the Italian lakes. By W. Longman and H. Trower. Privately printed 1856; Lectures on the history of England to the close of the reign of Edward II. 1859; The history of the life and times of Edward III. 2 vols. 1869; A history of the three cathedrals dedicated to St. Paul in London 1873. d. Ashlyns, Great Berkhampstead 13 Aug. 1877. William Longman. By H. R. (Henry Reeve) in Fraser’s Mag. for Oct. 1877 pp. 417–21; Publishers’ Circular (1877) 605–6; Graphic, xvi 204 (1877), portrait.

LONGMIRE, Margaret (dau. of John and Margaret Atkinson). b. Westmoreland 15 April 1765; bapt. Windermere 19 May 1777; a servant on various farms; m. James Longmire of Crawmire’s, he d. 19 Jany. 1831; a sick nurse; had parochial relief. d. Troutbeck 30 May 1868 aged 103 years and 6 weeks. She was grandmother of Thomas Longmire the champion wrestler of England. W. J. Thom’s Longevity of Man (1879) 272–80.

LONGMUIR, John (son of John Longmuir). b. Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 13 Nov. 1803; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal coll., M.A., LL.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1859; English master Anderson’s Institution, Forres; licensed by presbytery of Forres, July 1833; evening lecturer in Trinity chapel, Aberdeen 1837; minister of Mariners’ church, Aberdeen Sep. 1840; minister of Free church, Aberdeen 1843–81; lecturer on geology at King’s coll. Aberdeen to 1859; author of The College and other poems. Aberdeen 1825, anon.; Bible Lays 1838, 2 ed. 1877; Ocean Lays 1854, new ed. 1864; Lays for the lambs 1860; A run through the land of Burns and the covenanters 1872; edited Rhythmical index to the English language 1877; Walker and Webster combined in a dictionary of the English language 1864, 2 ed. 1876. d. Aberdeen 7 May 1883. W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord (1887) 407–14; Edwards’s Modern Scottish Poets 2nd series.

LONGSTAFF, George Dixon. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827; M.D. Edinb. 1828; assist. professor of chemistry Edinb. univ., where he was the first teacher of practical chemistry to medical students; physician at Hull some years; in America some years; engaged in commerce in England; superintendent of special constables in Chartist riots 1848; a founder 1841 and V.P. of Chemical Soc. of London; chairman of royal maternity charity, London; first member of Wandsworth district board of works; author of Dissertatio inauguralis de calorico 1828. d. Butterknowle, Southfields, Wandsworth, Surrey 23 Sep. 1892.

LONGWORTH, John Augustus. Consul at Monastir, Tunis 29 Sep. 1851; employed on several special services 1854–58; consul general in Servia 13 Feb. 1860 to 14 Feb. 1875 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; author of A year among the Circassians 2 vols. 1840. d. 16 Westbourne park villas, Bayswater, London 23 July 1875.

LONGWORTH, Maria Theresa (7 child of Thomas Longworth of Manchester, silk manufacturer, d. Altrincham, Cheshire 1854). b. Fairyhill, Cheetwood near Manchester 1827; ed. at a convent in Staffs. and at an Ursuline convent school at Boulogne; began a correspondence 1853 with Wm. Charles Yelverton afterwards 4 viscount Avonmore, met him again when she was a nurse at Galata hospital, Constantinople, during Crimean war, Aug. 1855 and they became engaged; he read aloud the Church of England marriage service at her lodgings 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh 12 April 1857, they were afterwards married by rev. Bernard Mooney at R.C. chapel at Kilbroney near Rostrevor in Ireland, and lived together in Ireland and Scotland till April 1858; Yelverton married Emily widow of professor Edward Forbes 26 June 1858; Miss Longworth sued Yelverton for restitution of conjugal rights in probate court, London 31 Oct. 1859 but the court decided that it had no jurisdiction; the Scottish court of session upheld the marriage 19 Dec. 1862 but this judgment was reversed by the house of lords 28 July 1864; her attempt to reopen the case at Edinburgh in March 1865, failed and the house of lords supported the Scottish court 30 July 1867, her appeal to court of session to set aside judgment of house of lords was rejected 28 Oct. 1868; a subscription in her behalf was raised in Manchester; gave her first reading at Hanover square rooms, London 6 April 1866; author of Martyrs to circumstances 2 vols. 1861; The Yelverton correspondence 1863; Zanita, a tale of the Yosemite 1872; Teresina Peregrina 2 vols. 1874; Teresina in America 2 vols. 1875; lived at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, about March 1880 to her death there 13 Sep. 1881. J. F. Macqueen’s Reports in the House of Lords, iv 745–912 (1866); Law mag. and law review, xi 215–34 (1861); Illust. Times 9 March 1861 p. 143, portrait; A.R. (1861) 528–42; Reynolds’s Miscellany, xxvii 336 (1862), portrait; Illust. sporting news, v 117 (1866), portrait.

Note.—J. R. O’Flanagan’s novel entitled Gentle blood or the secret marriage 1861 is founded on the Yelverton marriage case, Miss Longworth is called in the novel Sybilla Longsword and Yelverton figures as Rodulphus Silverton.

LONSDALE, William Lowther, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844). b. 30 July 1787; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1808; styled viscount Lowther 1807–44; M.P. Cockermouth 1808–13; M.P. Westmoreland 1813–31; M.P. Dunwich 1831–2; M.P. Westmoreland 1832–41; F.R.S. 5 July 1810; a lord of the admiralty 24 Nov. 1809 to 1 May 1810; a commissioner for affairs of India 7 July 1810 to 17 July 1818; a lord of the treasury 25 Nov. 1813 to 30 April 1827; lieut.-col. commandant of Westmoreland militia 9 June 1818 to 26 Feb. 1861; chief comr. of woods and forests 14 June 1828 to 13 Dec. 1830; P.C. 30 May 1828; treasurer of the navy 27 Dec. 1834 to 22 April 1835; vice pres. of board of trade 20 Dec. 1834 to 6 May 1835; summoned to parliament as baron Lowther of Whitehaven 8 Sep. 1841; postmaster general 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 Jany. 1846; succeeded his father as 2 earl 19 March 1844; lord lieut. of Cumberland and Westmoreland 17 April 1844 to 2 Dec. 1868; lord pres. of privy council 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; bought Armathwaite castle, Cumberland, Aug. 1845. d. 14 Carlton house terrace, London 4 March 1872; personalty sworn under £700,000 6 April 1872. I.L.N. lx 261, 267, 339 (1872), portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of art, iii 260–65 (1854).

Note.—He is the original of Lord Colchicum in Thackeray’s Pendennis and of Lord Eskdale in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby.

LONSDALE, Henry Lowther, 3 Earl of (1 son of Henry Cecil Lowther, M.P. 1790–1867). b. London 27 March 1818; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; styled Henry Lowther 1836–72; cornet 1 life guards 24 Sep. 1841, capt. 9 March 1849, sold out 1 Dec. 1854; M.P. West Cumberland 1847–72; hon. col. Cumberland rifle volunteers 16 Aug. 1862; hon. col. Cumberland militia 24 Feb. 1868 to death; lord lieut. of Cumberland and Westmoreland 2 Dec. 1868 to death; succeeded his uncle as 3 earl 4 March 1872; lieut.-col. Westmoreland and Cumberland yeomanry 11 May 1872; steward of the Jockey club 1844 and 1845; won many cups at Newmarket, Goodwood and Stamford; a regular huntsman, lest his horses should be misused after he had done with them, he always shot them. d. Whitehaven castle, Cumberland 15 Aug. 1876. Athenæum 21 Feb. 1874 pp. 260–3; Baily’s Mag. viii 219–21 (1864), portrait; Graphic, xiv 204 (1876), portrait; I.L.N. lxix 208, 213 (1876), portrait.

LONSDALE, St. George Henry Lowther, 4 Earl of (1 son of the preceding). b. Wilton crescent, London 4 Oct. 1855; ed. at Eton; styled viscount Lowther 1872–76; succeeded as 4 earl 15 Aug. 1876; hon. col. Cumberland militia 3 March 1877; vice admiral Cumberland and Westmoreland, March 1877; master of the Cottesmore hounds 2 years; kept a racing stud, Pilgrimage won the 2000 and 1000 guineas in 1878. d. 14 Carlton house terrace, London 8 Feb. 1882. bur. Lowther ch. 14 Feb. Graphic, xxv 220 (1882), portrait; Illust. sport. and dram. news, xvi 549, 563 (1882), portrait.

LONSDALE, Edward Francis. M.R.C.S. 1834, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; one of founders of Institution for Cure of club feet, afterwards the Royal orthopædic hospital, 6 Bloomsbury sq. 1838, and surgeon there; member Med. & Chir. Soc. 1844; a skilful surgeon in orthopædic cases; author of A practical treatise on fractures 1838; Observations on the treatment of lateral curvature of the spine 1847, 2 ed. 1852. d. 26 Montague st. Russell sq. London 11 Sep. 1857. Proc. R. Med. & Chir. Soc. ii 50 (1858).

LONSDALE, Henry (son of Henry Lonsdale, tradesman). b. Carlisle 1816; studied medicine at univ. of Edinb. and in Paris; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; M.D. Edinb. 1838; partner with Robert Knox in Edinb. 1840–5; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1841; physician to royal public dispensary, Edinb. 1841–5, where he introduced use of cod-liver oil; practised at Carlisle from 1846, phys. to Cumberland infirmary 1846–68; the friend of Mazzini, Kossuth and Garibaldi; author of A biographical sketch of William Blamire formerly M.P. for Cumberland 1862; The life and works of Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson, sculptor 1866; The worthies of Cumberland 6 vols. 1867–75; A sketch of the life and writings of Robert Knox the anatomist 1870. d. Rosehill, Carlisle 23 July 1876.

LONSDALE, James Gylby (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1788–1867). b. Clapham, London 14 Oct. 1816; ed. at Laleham sch. and at Eton, Newcastle scholar March 1843; scholar of Balliol coll. Oxf. 29 Nov. 1833, fellow 1838–64, tutor 1840; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; a student of L.I. 1838; chaplain to bishop of Gibraltar 1842–7; chaplain to bishop of Lichfield 1847–67; tutor in univ. of Durham 1851–6; professor of classical literature at King’s coll. London 1865–70; R. of South Luffenham, Rutland 1870–3; R. of Huntspill, Somerset 1873–8; author with Samuel Lee of The works of Virgil rendered into English prose 1871; The works of Horace rendered into English prose 1873. d. Bath 25 April 1892, memorial tablet in Balliol college chapel. R. Duckworth’s Memoir of J. G. Lonsdale (1893), portrait.

LONSDALE, James John (2 son of James Lonsdale the artist 1777–1839). b. 5 April 1810; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1836; sec. to criminal law commission 1842; recorder of Folkestone 5 Aug. 1847 to death; judge of circuit No. 11 West Riding of Yorkshire 14 Feb. 1855 to 19 March 1867; judge of circuit No. 48 Kent 19 March 1867 to March 1884; author of The statute criminal law of England 1839; The odes of Horace. Book 1 a verse translation 1879. d. The Cottage, Sandgate, Kent 11 Nov. 1886. Law Times, vol. 82 p. 111 (1886).

LONSDALE, John (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1737–1807, vicar of Darfield, d. 1807 aged 70). b. Newmillerdam near Wakefield 17 Jany. 1788; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow 1809–15, tutor 1814–5 and 1820–1, univ. scholar 1809; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1824, D.D. 1844; student at Lincoln’s Inn, Dec. 1811; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1816; assistant preacher at the Temple 1816; R. of Musham, Kent 1822–7; preb. of Lincoln 1825–8; fellow of Eton 1827–8; precentor of Lichfield 1828–31; preb. of St. Paul’s 1831–43; R. of St. George’s, Bloomsbury 1828–34; preacher of Lincoln’s inn Jany. 1836; R. of Southfleet, Kent 1836; principal of King’s coll. London Jany. 1839 to 1844, chief founder of King’s coll. hospital 1839; declined provostship of Eton 1840; archdeacon of Middlesex 20 Jany. 1843 to Nov. 1843, installed 1 July 1843; bishop of Lichfield 23 Nov. 1843 to death, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 3 Dec.; consecrated and reopened about 300 churches; chairman of royal commission for enquiring into effect of marriage act of 1835, 1847; chairman of Cambridge univ. commission 1857; pres. of church congress at Wolverhampton, Oct. 1867; author of Some popular objections against christianity considered 1820; The testimonies of nature, reason and revelation respecting a future judgment 1821; Some account of the life of the rev. T. Rennell 1824; The four gospels with annotations 1849. d. suddenly at his dinner table Eccleshall castle, Staffs. 19 Oct. 1867. E. B. Denison’s Life of John Lonsdale (1868), portrait; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 4 series (1860), portrait; The church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859), portrait 48; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 163–66; F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, i 206–11 (1875); E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 415–16.

LONSDALE, William (youngest son of Wm. Lonsdale). b. Bath 9 Sep. 1794; ensign 4 foot 1 Feb. 1810, lieut. 15 May 1812, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; served in Peninsular war and at Waterloo where he was the only officer in the 4th foot not wounded; curator of natural history department of Bath museum 1826–9; F.G.S. 15 May 1829, curator and librarian of the society 1829–42, the Wollaston fund was awarded him 1832 and 3 times afterwards, Wollaston medallist 1846; investigated the oolite districts of Gloucestershire; co-originator with Murchison and Sedgwick of the theory of the independence of Devonian system; author of On the age of the limestones of South Devonshire and other papers in Transactions and Journal of Geol. Soc. d. City road, Bristol 11 Nov. 1871. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxviii 35–6 (1872); W. S. Mitchell’s Notes on the early geologists connected with neighbourhood of Bath (1872) 31–9.

LOPES, Sir Ralph, 2 Baronet (only son of Abraham Franco, merchant, London). b. 10 Sep. 1788; succeeded his uncle sir Manasseh Massey Lopes 26 March 1831; assumed surname of Lopes in lieu of Franco by r.l. 4 May 1831; M.P. Westbury, Wilts. 1814–20, 1831–37 and 1841–7; contested Westbury 26 July 1837; M.P. South Devon 13 Feb. 1849 to death. d. Maristowe near Plymouth 26 Jany. 1854; personalty sworn under £180,000, March 1854. J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history (1875) 304–306.

LORD, Henry William (eld. son of Charles Francis James Lord of Hampstead). b. 1834; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1859–62, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1859; revising barrister for Kent; registrar of court of probate for co. of Lancaster 1881–91; one of the four registrars of chief probate registry at Somerset House at salary of £1500 Jany. 1891 to death; author of The highway of the sea in time of war. Camb. 1862. d. 5 Dorset sq. London 27 May 1893.

LORD, John Keast (son of Edward Lord). b. Tavistock 1818; apprenticed to chemists at Tavistock; entered royal veterinary college, London 1842, M.R.C.V.S. 29 May 1844; veterinary surgeon at Tavistock; a trapper in Minnesota and the Hudson’s Bay fur countries; veterinary surgeon in British army 19 June 1855, served with artillery of Turkish contingent in Crimea, lieut. 4 Jany. 1856, veterinary surgeon and lieut. of Osmanli horse artillery in Aug. 1856; naturalist to the commission for separating British Columbia from the United States territory 1 Feb. 1858, returned to England 14 July 1862; resided in Vancouver’s Island some time; his valuable collections of mammals, birds, fishes and insects are now in the Natural history museum, South Kensington; employed in archæological and scientific researches by viceroy of Egypt about 1868; manager of the Brighton Aquarium opened 10 Aug. 1872 to death; contributed many papers to Land and Water under signature of The Wanderer 1866–72; collected coleoptera in Egypt; author of The naturalist in Vancouver’s Island and British Colombia 2 vols. 1866; At home in the wilderness. By The Wanderer 1867, 3 ed. 1876; Handbook of sea-fishing. d. 17 Dorset gardens, Brighton 9 Dec. 1872. Leisure Hour, xxii 696–9 (1873), portrait; Land and Water 14 Dec. 1872 pp. 387, 395; Graphic, vii 3, 12 (1873), portrait.

LORD, John William (son of Isaac Lord, baptist minister, Birmingham). Ed. Cambridge house, Birmingham, and Amershall school, Reading; matric. univ. of London, June 1868, B.A. 1870, M.A. 1874; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1870, foundation scholar 1872–6; rowed in his college boat; senior wrangler Jany. 1875, fellow of Trin. coll. 10 Oct. 1876 to 1881. d. Clarens, Lake of Geneva 4 Sep. 1883.

LORD, William. b. Bacup 11 May 1791; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1811, at Birmingham 1824–6, at Manchester 1828–31, president of United Connexion conference 1834; representative to American general conference 1835; minister at Bristol 1836–9, at Hull 1839–42; governor of Woodhouse grove school 1843–58; president of Canadian conference; a supernumerary from 1861 to death; revisited Woodhouse school when he was eighty. d. Manningham, Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1873. J. T. Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) 74–8.

LORD, William Satterley (eld. son of rev. Wm. Edward Lord, D.D., of Northiam, Sussex). b. 1841; ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., B.A. 1866, M.A. 1869; admitted by Inner Temple special pleader below the bar Jany. 1869; barrister I.T. 7 June 1873; advocate of high court of Griqualand West, April 1876, acting attorney general April to Aug. 1877 and Dec. 1877 to Sep. 1879, Q.C. there March 1879; M.P. for Kimberley in legislative assembly of Cape Colony. d. on board the Norman Castle on his way home from Cape Town 9 Sep. 1889.

LORIMER, George. A builder in Edinburgh; lord dean of guild 1864; killed in the fire of the theatre royal, Edinburgh, by the north wall falling on him when trying to save lives 13 Jany. 1865. J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage (1888) 477–8; A.R. (1865) 3–5; I.L.N. xlvi 97 (1865).

LORIMER, James (son of James Lorimer, manager of Earl of Kinnoul’s estates). b. Aberdalgie, Perthshire 4 Nov. 1818; ed. at high school Perth and the univs. of Edinb., Berlin and Bonn and academy of Geneva; member of Faculty of advocates 1845; acted as sheriff substitute of Midlothian; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; professor of public law in univ. of Edinb. 15 May 1865 to death, where he introduced graduation in law; a founder of The institute of international law 1873; author of The universities of Scotland, past, present and possible 1854; A handbook of the law of Scotland 1859, 5 ed. 1885; Constitutionalism of the future, or parliament the mirror of the nation 1865, 2 ed. 1867; The institutes of law, a treatise of jurisprudence as determined by nature 1872, 2 ed. 1880; The institutes of the law of nations 2 vols. 1883–4, and of 19 lectures and 14 pamphlets. d. 1 Bruntsfield crescent, Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1890, portrait by his son J. H. Lorimer, R.S.A. in senate hall of univ. of Edinb. James Lorimer’s Studies national and international (1890); Juridical Review, April 1890 pp. 113–21, portrait.

LORIMER, John Gordon (2 son of rev. Robert Lorimer 1765–1848, minister of Haddington). b. Haddington; minister of Torryburn 1829; minister of St. David’s or Ram’s Horn parish, Glasgow 1832 to 1843; minister of St. David’s Free ch. Glasgow 1843 to death; D.D. of coll. of New Jersey 27 June 1849; author of The past and present condition of religion and morality in the United States 1833; The eldership of the church of Scotland 1841; Historical sketch of the protestant church of France 1841; The deaconship 1842; Sermons on Sabbath profanation 184-. d. Glasgow 9 Oct. 1868. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 349–58.

LORIMER, Peter (eld. son of John Lorimer, builder). b. Edinburgh 1812; bursar in univ. of Edinb. 1827; minister of presbyterian ch. River terrace, London 1836–44; professor of theology in English presbyterian college, London 1844–78, principal 1878 to death; D.D. New Jersey, June 1857; author of Precursors of Knox, or memoirs of Patrick Hamilton, Alexander Alane or Alesius, and Sir David Lindsay of the Mount Edinburgh 1857; The evidential value of the early epistles of St. Paul viewed as historical documents 1874, 3 ed. 1880; The evidence to Christianity arising from its adaptation to all the deeper wants of the human heart 1876; John Knox and the church of England 1875. d. Whitehaven, Cumberland 29 July 1879. bur. in Grange cemet. Edinb.

LORING, Sir John Wentworth (son of Joshua Loring, high sheriff of Massachusetts). b. America 13 Oct. 1775; entered navy June 1789, captain 28 April 1802; commanded the Niobe 38 guns on coast of France 1805–13; commanded the Impregnable in the North Sea 1813–4; superintendent of the ordinary at Sheerness 1816–9; lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 4 Nov. 1819 to 10 Jany. 1837; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral 8 July 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840, K.C.H. 30 April 1837. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 29 July 1852.

LORT, William. One of the best judges of live stock in England, and constantly employed in judging horses, cattle and dogs; went with Assheton Smith in his yacht Pandora upon a sporting expedition to the North Pole; a fine swimmer; a supporter of Birmingham National dog show from its beginning; an originator of Crystal palace dog show and of the Kennel club; F.R.G.S. d. Vaynol park, Bangor 23 May 1891.

LORTON, Robert Edward King, 1 Viscount (2 son of 2 earl of Kingston 1754–99). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 12 Aug. 1773; ensign 27 foot 30 June 1792; major 92 foot 7 March 1794; lieut. col. 127 foot 20 Dec. 1794, regiment reduced 1795 but he was retained on full pay; colonel of Roscommon militia 24 Nov. 1797 to death; created an Irish peer by title of baron Erris of Boyle, co. Roscommon 29 Dec. 1800; created viscount Lorton of Boyle, co. Roscommon 28 May 1806; a representative peer of Ireland 8 Feb. 1823 to death; general 22 July 1830; lord lieut. of co. Roscommon 1831 to death. d. Rockingham, Boyle, co. Roscommon 20 Nov. 1854.

Note.—He was bur. at 4 o’clock in the morning according to the custom of his family in the church of Boyle 24 Nov. 1854. He was the last commoner raised to the peerage of Ireland before the union with England.

LOSCOMBE, Clifton Wintringham. Resided at Pickwick house, Corsham, where he obtained possession of a hoard of coins and antiquities which was discovered at Sevington, Wilts., Jany. 1834; an original member of Numismatic Soc. 1836. d. Clifton 17 Dec. 1853. Numismatic Chronicle, xvii Proceedings p. 16 (1855); Archæologia, xxvii 301–5 (1838).

LOSH, James (son of James Losh, recorder of Newcastle, d. 23 Sep. 1833 aged 71). b. 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; went northern circuit; judge of county courts, No. 1 circuit, Northumberland, May 1853 to death, took his seat 25 May 1853; attacked with paralysis Aug. 1858. d. 24 Clayton st. west, Newcastle on Tyne 1 Oct. 1858.

LOSH, Sarah (1 dau. of John Losh of Woodside near Carlisle). b. Woodside 1 Jany. 1786; ed. in Bath and London, and became proficient in Italian, French, Latin, Greek, music and mathematics; gave a school endowed with 30 acres to Wreay 1830; laid out and gave to the city of Carlisle a cemetery 1835; erected a mausoleum in Wreay ch. yard for the remains of her sister Katherine Isabella Losh who d. Feb. 1835; erected a church at Wreay in 1842 at cost of £1200; a woman of much learning who associated with Dr. William Paley and other scholars. d. Woodside near Carlisle 29 March 1853. H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland (1873) 197–238, portrait.

LOSH, William (brother of the preceding). b. Woodside 1770; ed. at Erfurt; manager of alkali works at Walker on the Tyne 1796; one of founders of the Walker iron works; resided for some time in Sweden; patented a wheel for railway carriages 1830; took out patents with George Stephenson for railways 1816; consul for Sweden and Prussia at Newcastle. d. Newcastle 4 Aug. 1861. H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland (1873) 153–85.

LOTHIAN, Cecil Chetwynd Kerr, Marchioness of (younger dau. of 2 earl Talbot 1777–1849). b. Ingestre hall, Staffs. 17 April 1808; (m. 19 July 1831 seventh marquess of Lothian 1794–1841); built church at Jedburgh; joined church of Rome; founded a R.C. mission with chapel and school at Jedburgh; built church of St. David at Dalkeith; founded a mission with a chapel at Pathhead; a founder of the Home of Refuge for women discharged from prison, conducted by sisters of the Good Shepherd; went to Germany to convey to the R.C. bishops the sympathy of the catholics of England; promoted the pilgrimages to Paray-le-Monial and to Pontigny in 1873 and 1874. d. Hôtel de Rome, Rome 13 May 1877; the Pope sent her a special benediction and a triduum was offered for her in the church of the Virgin, at Rome, May 1877; bur. in cemetery of San Lorenzo. P. Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck (1890) 125–63, portrait; Times 14 May 1877 p. 7, 15 May p. 10.

LÖTTNER, Friedrich. Professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology and assistant librarian at Trinity college, Dublin 1863–71. d. Dublin, middle of April 1873.

LOUDON, Jane (dau. of Thomas Webb d. 1824). b. Ritwell house near Birmingham 1807; edited The ladies’ magazine of gardening 1842; The ladies’ companion 1850–1 and several of her husband’s works 1845–55; granted civil list pension of £100, 22 April 1846; author of Prose and Verse 1824; The Mummy, a tale of the twenty-second century 3 vols. 1827, anon., new ed. 1872; Stories of a bride 1829; The ladies’ companion to the flower garden 1841, 9 ed. 1879, which circulated 20,000 copies; The first book of botany 1841, new ed. 1870; The ladies’ flower garden of perennials 2 vols. 1843–4; The ladies’ country companion 1845, 4 ed. 1852, and 20 other books; (m. 14 Sep. 1830 John Claudius Loudon, landscape gardener, d. 14 Dec. 1843 aged 60). She d. 3 Porchester terrace, Bayswater, London 13 July 1858. Cottage Gardener, xx 248, 255–9 (1858).

LOUGH, John Graham (son of a small farmer at Greenhead near Hexham, Northumberland). b. 1806; an ornamental sculptor at Newcastle; exhibited at the R.A. 1826 a bas-relief The Death of Turnus; exhibited 49 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 16 at B.I. 1826–63; exhibited his works in London 1827; studied in Rome 1834–8; executed the statues of queen Victoria in the royal exchange 1845, of prince Albert at Lloyd’s 1847 and of marquis of Hastings at Malta 1848; 7 of his statues were in Great Exhibition of 1851. d. 42 Harewood sq. London 8 April 1876. Graphic, xiii 416 (1876), portrait; Handbook of statues comprising the Lough models in Elswick hall (1879).

LOUIS, Sir John, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas Louis, 1 baronet, d. 17 May 1807). b. 1785; entered navy Sep. 1795, captain 22 Jany. 1806; commander of L’Aigle 36 guns 1811–15; superintendent of Malta dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 6 Jany. 1843; R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral superintendent at Plymouth 16 Dec. 1846 to 9 Feb. 1850; V.A. 9 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 27 Sep. 1855, pensioned 2 May 1860. d. 61 Eaton place, London 30 March 1863.

LOUIS, William (2 son of preceding). b. 21 May 1810; entered R.N. 7 Dec. 1824; capt. 9 Nov. 1846; commander of Stromboli steam vessel 1841–3; retired 1 July 1864; admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. 46 Connaught sq. London 20 Nov. 1885.

LOUISE, Madame, stage name of Louise Miller. b. 1810; première danseuse of Her Majesty’s theatre under Benjamin Lumley’s management; ballet mistress of Drury Lane under the managements of Alfred Bunn, James Anderson and E. T. Smith to 1859. d. 5 Feb. 1892. bur. Fulham cemet.

LOUND, Thomas. b. 1802; member of a firm of brewers at Norwich; an amateur painter, excelled in river views; painted the scenery in Wales and Yorkshire and near Cromer; exhibited much in Norwich; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 10 at B.I. 1846–57. d. King st. Norwich 18 Jany. 1861.

LOVAT, Thomas Alexander Fraser, 1 Baron (1 son of Alexander Fraser of Strichen, Aberdeen). b. Strichen house, Aberdeen 17 June 1802; cr. baron Lovat of Lovat, co. Inverness, in peerage of U.K. 28 Jany. 1837; established his right to Scottish barony of Lovat, attainder of which was reversed in his favor by 17 & 18 Vict. cap. 39, 10 July 1854; vice lieut. and sheriff principal of Invernessshire 30 Aug. 1853 to 1873; K.T. 1865. d. Beaufort castle, Invernessshire 28 June 1875. I.L.N. lxvii 47 (1875).

LOVAT, Simon Fraser, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). b. Beaufort castle 21 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. commandant of Inverness, Banff, Moray and Nairn militia 10 Dec. 1855 to death; deputy lieut. of Inverness 1853–72, vice lieut. 1872, lord lieut. 18 April 1873 to death; succeeded 28 June 1875. d. suddenly while shooting on a grouse moor near Inverness 6 Sep. 1887.

LOVE, Emma Sarah (dau. of W. E. Love, lieutenant in H.M. service, d. about 1814). b. Cheapside, London 10 Sep. 1801; ed. in music by D. Corri; appeared at English opera house as Mrs. Courtly in Free and Easy 1817; took leading vocal parts under Samuel J. Arnold at Lyceum theatre; appeared at Covent Garden 1822 with great success, then at the Haymarket 1823; played Marina in the operatic entertainment Cortez; acted in the provinces; played Lilla in Cobb’s comic opera The siege of Belgrade, at Drury Lane 1828; a very beautiful woman who sang ‘What is more dear to the heart of the brave’ and ‘Little love is a mischievous boy’ to perfection; believed by The Era of 23 Dec. 1882 to be then living. Cumberland’s British theatre, vol. xx (1828), portrait; Oxberry’s Dramatic biography, iii 163–74 (1825), portrait.

LOVE, Frederic. b. 1816; homœopathic practitioner; in practice in Paris 50 years, where he had many aristocratic and artistic patients; was very active in the cholera outbreak of 1859. d. Paris 3 June 1891.

LOVE, Henry Ommanney (1 son of commander Wm. Love 1764–1839). b. 1 March 1793; entered navy 23 Dec. 1808; captain 5 Dec. 1837; retired admiral 3 July 1869; claimed to have suggested use of paddles instead of wheels for steam vessels; sub-commissioner of pilotage, Southampton; superintendent of lights for Isle of Wight district; mayor of Yarmouth 3 times. d. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 16 Sep. 1872.

LOVE, Horatio N. b. 1801; stock-jobber at 2 Capel court, City of London 1847; chairman of Eastern counties railway co. 1857–63. d. Margate 14 March 1882.

LOVE, Sir James Frederick (son of John Love). b. London 1789; ensign 52 foot 26 Oct. 1804; captain 11 July 1811, placed on h.p. 11 Aug. 1825; served in Sweden and Portugal 1808, in the retreat from Corunna 1809, in Portugal again 1809–12; received 4 wounds in the famous charge of the 52nd on the imperial guard at Waterloo; inspecting field officer of militia, New Brunswick 1825–30; major 11 foot 9 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 76 foot 6 Sep. 1834; lieut.-col. 73 foot 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 23 Sep. 1845; British resident at Zante 1835–8; governor of Jersey 1852–6; commanded at Shorncliffe camp 1856; inspector general of infantry 1857 to April 1862; col. of 57 foot 24 Sep. 1856 to 5 Sep. 1865; col. of 43 foot 5 Sep. 1865 to death; general 10 Aug. 1864; K.H. 1831; C.B. 30 March 1839, K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 17 Ovington sq. London 13 Jany. 1866.

LOVE, Joseph. b. 1795; a pit boy in the capacity of a trapper, a hewer; owner of a large number of collieries both in the eastern and western coal fields; built and endowed many chapels, built a chapel at High Shincliffe near Durham at cost of £1000; member of Methodist New Connexion. d. near Durham 21 Feb. 1875, personalty sworn under £1,000,000, 17 April 1875.

LOVE, William Edward (son of a merchant in the City to 1812). b. London 6 Feb. 1806; ed. at Harlow in Essex and at Nelson house, Wimbledon; commenced practising ventriloquism 1818; connected with London journalism 1820–6; appeared for a benefit at Olympic theatre in a solo entertainment entitled The False Alarm 1826; performed in England and France 1827, in Dublin 1828; produced The peregrinations of a polyphonist, June 1849, with which he visited chief towns in England; opened at Oxford with a piece called Ignes Fatui 1833; played at Almack’s 1833, at City of London assembly rooms, Bishopsgate st. during summer seasons of 1834–8; appeared on alternate nights at St. James’s theatre and in the City 1836; visited United States, West Indies and South America 1838; played at Strand theatre and 6 other places in London 1839–54; produced the ‘London Season’ at 69 Quadrant, Regent st. London 26 Dec. 1854, played there 8 Feb. 1856 the 300th consecutive night and his 2,406th performance in London; paralysed 1858, had a benefit at Sadler’s Wells; the best English ventriloquist on record, played in upwards of 15 distinct entertainments, in which he assumed various characters making rapid changes of his dress. d. 33 Arundel st. Strand, London 16 March 1867. Memoirs of W. E. Love (1834); G. Smith’s Memoirs of Mr. Love, Boston, U.S. (1850); Ireland’s New York Stage, ii 273, 317 (1867); I.L.N. 25 March 1843 p. 215, portrait, 27 Jany. 1855 p. 84, portrait.

LOVEDAY, Ely. b. 1800; an actress 1817; played leading business with Edmund Kean, Elton, Liston and Macready; saw the 4 Kembles, Stephen, John, Charles and Mrs. Siddons play in Henry VIII.; played at most of the London theatres, retired 1852; (m. W. Loveday an actor at Drury Lane theatre). d. 11 Nov. 1892. bur. Kensal Green 15 Nov.

LOVEDAY, George Beaumont (son of the preceding). b. 1833; fiddler, dramatic manager, operatic entrepreneur; with his brother Henry J. Loveday introduced Faust in English; known as The Prince because of his good looks; acting manager and confidential adviser to J. L. Toole 1867–87; (m. 25 Jany. 1877 Annie only dau. of John Dickey Creelman, she was known on the stage as Annie Tremaine and later on as Madame Amadi). d. 8 Woburn place, London 21 Dec. 1887. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 24 Dec. J. Hatton’s Reminiscences of J. L. Toole 3 ed. (1889) 30–4.

LOVEDEN, Pryse (son of Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, Cardigan, d. 1849). b. Woodstock 1 June 1815; M.P. Cardigan district of boroughs 1849 to death; resumed by r.l. original name of Loveden 1849. d. Glo’ster hotel, 76 Piccadilly, London 1 Feb. 1855.

LOVELACE, Augusta Ada King, Countess of (only child of George Gordon, 6 baron Byron, the poet 1788–1824). b. 13 Piccadilly terrace, London 10 Dec. 1815; last seen by her father when she was only one month old; some of her hair sent to her father at Pisa, Nov. 1821; he alludes to her in Childe Harold, canto 3, line 2, as Ada sole daughter of my house and heart; translated and edited with notes, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, esq. By L. F. Menabrea, Turin. Signed A. A. L. in R. Taylor’s Scientific memoirs, iii 666–731 (1843); corresponded with Andrew Crosse on electricity, &c. 1841–2; (m. at Fordhook, her mother’s residence, 8 July 1835 William King 8 baron King and Ockham 4 June 1833, cr. earl Lovelace 30 June 1838). d. 6 Great Cumberland place, London 27 Nov. 1852. bur. Hucknall Torcard church near her father. monu. placed in Newstead abbey, Aug. 1863. Bentley’s Miscellany, xxxiii 69–73 (1853), portrait; Argosy 1 Nov. 1869 pp. 358–61; Finden’s Portraits of female aristocracy (1849) vol. ii, portrait 21; Journal of Statistical Soc. xxxiv 414 (1871); Moore’s Life of Byron (1846) 290, 720; I.L.N. xxi 499 (1852); G.M. Jany. 1853 pp. 89–90.

Note.—The third book of Childe Harold written in 1816 begins and concludes with lines addressed to Byron’s daughter and she is again spoken of in the verses Fare thee well, 17 March 1816.

LOVELL, Edward Bourne. Barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; author of Chancery orders 1850 with cases decided 1850; Index to the stamp duties arranged analytically 1850; Digest of law cases, statutes, &c. 1850–54, 4 vols. 1852–5. d. Godshill, Isle of Wight 28 July 1883 aged 78.

Note.—He was also author of The joint-stock companies’ winding-up acts 1848–1849 with notes, published by Wildy, Dec. 1849. Stevens and Norton obtained an injunction against Wildy in the Vice-Chancellor’s court 1 Feb. 1850, Lovell having made use of a great deal of matter previously printed in J. M. Ludlow’s Joint-stock companies’ winding-up act 1848 published by Stevens and Norton 1 Dec. 1848, Wildy was obliged to give up all the copies of the pirated book and pay the costs about £250, which sum Wildy recovered against Lovell in the court of Common Pleas 29 Nov. 1853. Law Journal Reports n.s. xix pt. 1 pp. 190–3 (1850); Law Times 3 Dec. 1853 p. 106.

LOVELL, Edwin (youngest son of Joseph Lovell Lovell of Chilcote manor, solicitor). b. 7 May 1808; ed. at Eton 1823; solicitor at Wells 1831 to death; clerk of peace for Somerset 13 Aug. 1846 to death; registrar of Wells county court 1847 to death; member of the order of The Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother Glastonbury 23 Sep. 1835. d. Sharcombe house, Dinder near Wells 21 May 1877. Wright’s The Blue Friars (1889) 97, 218, portrait.

LOVELL, George William. b. 1804; secretary of Phœnix Insurance Co. 1850 to death; author of the following plays, The Avenger, produced at Surrey theatre 1835; The provost of Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; Love’s sacrifice or the rival merchants, Covent Garden 12 Sep. 1842; Look before you leap, Haymarket 29 Oct. 1846; The wife’s secret, purchased by Charles Kean for £400 before it was written, produced at Park theatre, New York 12 Oct. 1846, and at Haymarket 17 Jany. 1848 when it ran 36 nights and has since kept the stage; The trial of love, Princess’s 7 Jany. 1852, ran 23 nights; published a novel called The Trustee 3 vols. 1841. d. 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 13 May 1878. I.L.N. lxii 533 (1878), portrait.

LOVELL, John. b. Farnham, Surrey 1836; reporter and sub-editor on Sheffield Times and Birmingham Daily Post; editor of Cassell’s Mag. 1868; manager of Press Association 1869–80, a director, chairman of finance committee; a founder and editor of the Printing Times, Jany. 1873; editor of the Liverpool Mercury 1880 to death; the best known journalist on the English press. d. 17 Gambier ter. Liverpool 20 Feb. 1890. Sell’s World’s Press (1891) 82, portrait; London Figaro 1 March 1890 p. 12, portrait; Academy, i 152 (1890).

LOVELL, John Williamson. b. 1824; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 June 1841, col. 3 Aug. 1872 to death; surveying in Turkey 1854; present at battles of Alma and Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; commander of R.E. at Chatham; L.G. 5 Jany. 1869; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Halifax, Nova Scotia 24 April 1880.

LOVELL, Sir Lovell Benjamin (eld. son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock of Little Missenden hall, Bucks.) b. 1786; ed. at Eton; cornet 14 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1805, captain 12 Dec. 1811; served in Peninsular war 1809–14 for which he received Peninsular medal with 11 clasps; major 8 hussars 28 Oct. 1824, placed on h.p. 21 Nov. 1828; lieut.-col. 15 hussars 21 March 1834, placed on h.p. 8 March 1850; col. of 12 lancers 29 Nov. 1856 to death; L.G. 1 April 1860; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; assumed surname of Lovell 10 April 1840. d. Brunswick terrace, Brighton 11 March 1861.

LOVELL, Maria Anne (dau. of Willoughby Lacy, patentee of Drury Lane, d. 1831). b. London 15 July 1803; appeared as Mrs. Haller at Belfast 1818; acted Belvidera in Venice preserved, at Covent Garden 9 Oct. 1822; excelled in pathetic parts; (m. 1830 George William Lovell 1804–78 when she retired from the stage); wrote Ingomar the barbarian, Drury Lane, June 1851, revived by Mary Anderson, Lyceum 1 Sep. 1883; The beginning of the end, Haymarket 27 Oct. 1855. d. 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 2 April 1877. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses, i 250–5 (1855).

LOVELL, William Stanhope (brother of Sir Lovell B. Lovell 1786–1861). b. about 1788; entered navy May 1799; present in battle of Trafalgar; captain 21 Aug. 1815, retired 1 Oct. 1846; assumed name of Lovell 1840; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; author of Personal narrative of events from 1799 to 1815, 2 ed. 1879. d. Great Yarmouth 20 May 1859.

LOVER, Samuel (eld. son of a member of the Dublin stock exchange). b. Dublin 24 Feb. 1797; a portrait painter, especially in miniatures to 1844; member of Royal Hibernian academy 1828, secretary 1830; wrote Rory O’More 1826, best known of his ballads; his miniature of Paganini exhibited at Dublin academy 1832 and at R.A. London 1833; removed to London 1835; wrote The Olympic picnic for Madame Vestris 1835; published Rory O’More, a national romance 1837, his dramatised version of which was acted at Adelphi theatre Oct. 1837 and ran over 100 nights; composed a musical drama The Greek Boy, of which he wrote both music and words, Covent Garden 1838; his burlesque opera Il Paddy Whack in Italia was produced at English opera house 1838; produced his own entertainment called Irish Evenings, at Princess’s Concert Rooms, March 1844 and in Canada and U.S. of America 1846–8; produced an entertainment called Paddy’s Portfolio, in London 1848; wrote the libretti of two operas for Balfe; his drama the Sentinel of the Alma was produced at Haymarket theatre; author of Legends and stories of Ireland 1831; Songs and Ballads 1839; Handy Andy 1842; L. S. D. 1844, new ed. under title of Treasure Trove 1844; Rival rhymes in honour of Burns. Collected and edited by Ben Trovato 1859, and of many popular songs; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 March 1856. d. St. Helier’s, Jersey 6 July 1868. bur. Kensal Green cemet. London 15 July. B. Bernard’s Life of Samuel Lover 2 vols. (1874), portrait; N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs 2 ed. 1851 pp. 196–9; The Critic, xix 229 (1859), portrait; I.L.N. iv 208 (1844), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii 196, portrait.

LOVESY, Conway Whithorne (2 son of Conway Whithorne Lovesy of Charlton Kings, Gloucs.) b. 6 April 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; a police magistrate in Trinidad 1871–3; a puisne judge of supreme court of British Guiana 1873–8; author of The churchwarden’s guide 8 ed. 1871; The law of arbitration between masters and workmen 1867; The law of house invasion and defence 1879; edited J. F. Archbold’s The practice of the court of quarter sessions 3 ed. 1869. d. Keynsham Bank, Cheltenham 15 Nov. 1885.

LOVETT, William (son of William Lovett, master mariner, drowned 1800). b. Church lane, Newlyn near Penzance 8 May 1800; apprenticed to a ropemaker; went to London 1821; worked as a carpenter; employed in the first London co-operative association; secretary of British Association for promoting co-operative knowledge about 1830–4; joined National union of the working classes 1831; opened a coffee house in Greville st. Hatton Garden 1833 which failed; a founder of London Working Mens’ Association, 6 Upper North place, Gray’s Inn road 16 June 1836; secretary of the general committee of trades of London 1838, drafted the bill known as the ‘Peoples Charter’ published 8 May 1838; secretary of the Chartist Convention 4 Feb. 1839; tried at Warwick assizes for seditious libel 6 Aug. 1839 when sentenced to 12 months imprisonment; bookseller at 183 Tottenham court road 1840; manager of the school supported by the National Association 1849–57; a member of working-class committee of Great Exhibition 1850; a teacher of anatomy in St. Thomas, Charterhouse schools and in Richardson’s gr. sch. Gray’s Inn road 1857; author of A proposal for the considerations of the friends of progress 1847; Elementary anatomy and physiology. With lessons on diet 1851; Social and political morality 1853; Woman’s mission 1856, a poem. d. 137 Euston road, London 8 Aug. 1877. bur. Highgate. The life and struggles of W. Lovett (1876); The trial of W. Lovett 2 ed. (1839); G. J. Holyoake’s History of Co-operation, i 127, ii 411–13 (1875–9); R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism (1854) 120 etc.; Who were the Chartists? in Century Mag. xxiii 421–30 (1882), portrait.

LOW, Alexander (son of James Low, farmer, Clatt, Aberdeen). b. 1800; M.A. of Marischall coll. and univ. Aberdeen 3 April 1819; schoolmaster of Clatt 1825; presbyterian minister of Keig, Banffshire 27 June 1834 to death; author of The history of Scotland from the earliest period to the middle of the ninth century 1826; Scottish heroes in the days of Wallace and Bruce 2 vols. 1856. d. in the manse of Keig 3 May 1873.

LOW, David (son of a tradesman). b. Brechin, Forfarshire, Nov. 1768; ed. at Marischal college, Aberdeen; episcopal minister at Pittenweem, Fifeshire, Sep. 1789 to death; bishop of united dioceses of Ross, Argyll and the Isles 1819 to 19 Dec. 1850, consecrated 14 Nov. 1819; LL.D. Aberdeen, April 1820; chief founder of Gaelic Episcopal Society 1831; the diocese of Moray was added to his diocese July 1838, he effected separation of Argyll and the Isles from Ross and Moray 1847 and endowed the new see with £8,000; D.D. Hartford and Geneva in state of New York 1848; d. The priory, Pittenweem 26 Jany. 1855. M. F. Conolly’s Biographical sketch of David Low (1859), portrait; W. Blatch’s Memoir of D. Low (1855); Conolly’s Biog. Dict. of Fife (1866) 299–305.

LOW, David (eld. son of Alexander Low of Laws, Berwickshire, land-agent). b. 1786; ed. at Perth academy and univ. of Edinb.; assisted his father on his farms; settled in Edinburgh 1825; edited Quarterly Journal of agriculture 1828–32; professor of agriculture in univ. of Edinb. 1831–54, the agricultural museum was founded at cost of £3,000 of which he gave £1,200, 1833; author of Observations on the present state of landed property 1823; Elements of practical agriculture 1834, 4 ed. 1843, translated into French and German; The breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands 2 vols. 1842, translated into French 1842; An inquiry into the nature of the simple bodies of chemistry 1844, 3 ed. 1856. d. Mayfield, Edinburgh 7 Jany. 1859. Anderson’s Scottish Nation, iii 717–8 (1863); Grant’s Univ. of Edinburgh, ii 457 (1884).

LOW, Herbert Morey (son of Edwin Low of city of London, solicitor). b. 1852; partner with his father 1877 to death; originated the City Law library and reading room at 25 Abchurch lane 1888; hon. sec. of London Gregorian choral assoc. many years. d. 110 Elgin crescent, Notting hill, London 1 Jany. 1891.

LOW, James. Entered Madras army 1811; ensign 25 Madras N.I. 25 June 1812; captain 46 N.I. 1826, major 23 Nov. 1839; retired lieut.-col. 21 Nov. 1845; in civil charge of province of Wellesley in the Straits Settlements many years; author of A grammar of the T’hai or Siamese language. Calcutta 1828; A dissertation on the soil and agriculture of Penang. Singapore 1836. d. 2 May 1852.

LOW, Sir John (eld. son of Robert Low of Clatto near Cupar, Fifeshire). b. Clatto 13 Dec. 1788; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1802–3; entered Madras army 1804; lieut. 24 Madras N.I. 1807; lieut. 1 N.I. 1816, captain 1820; major 17 N.I. 31 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1834–7, of 19 N.I. 1837–40, of 45 N.I. 1840–1, of 36 N.I. 1841–5; col. of 8 N.I. 26 March 1845 to 1848, col. of 1 N.I. 1848 to death; general 18 Jany. 1867, placed on retired list; resident at Bithoor near Cawnpore 6 years; political agent at Jeypore 1825, at Gwalior 1830, resident at Lucknow 1831–42; installed the king of Oude’s son on the throne in place of a pretender 1838; governor general’s agent in Rajpootana and comr. at Ajmere and Mhairwar 1848–52; resident at Hyderabad 1852; member of supreme council of India 22 Sep. 1853 to 1858; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; G.C.S.I. 24 May 1873. d. Strathallan, Upper Norwood, Surrey 10 Jany. 1880. bur. Kembach, Fifeshire. I.L.N. lxxvi 85 (1880), portrait; Graphic, xxi 93 (1880), portrait.

LOW, Sampson (son of Sampson Low of Berwick st. Soho, London, printer and publisher, d. 1800). b. London, Nov. 1797; bookseller at 42 Lamb’s Conduit st. 1819 to 1847; manager of The publishers’ circular, first number dated 2 Oct. 1837, which became his property 1867; publisher with his eldest son at 169 Fleet st. 1847–52, at 47 Ludgate hill 1852, at 14 Ludgate hill to 1867, at 188 Fleet st. 1867, retired from business 1875; chief founder of Royal Society for protection of life from fire 1843; one of the chief American booksellers in London 1844–75; published The British catalogue of books 1837–52. 1853; The English catalogue of books 1835–80. 3 vols. 1864–82. d. 41 Mecklenburgh sq. London 16 April 1886. Publishers’ Circular 1 May 1886 pp. 431–3, portrait; Bookseller 3 May 1886 pp. 418–20.

LOW, Sampson (eld. son of preceding). b. London 6 July 1822; in business with his father 1847 to death; author of The charities of London 1850, new editions 1854, 1862, 1863 and 1870. d. 41 Mecklenburgh sq. London 5 March 1871.

LOW, Thomas Bell (son of David Low). b. Birkenhead 1855; went to Otago, New Zealand 1873; one of the principal assistant engineers in public works department Otago district, and architect for the Middle Island 1878; employed in fortifying the port and town of Dunedin 1885; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1886. d. in the tropics while on a voyage to England 12 Sep. 1886. Min. of proc. of I.C.E. xci 450–51 (1888).

LOW, Walter (son of a publisher). b. England 1843; publisher and bookseller with his father in U.S. America; long connected with the Messrs. Harpers of New York; attempted to throw himself into the Thames but was diverted from his object by finding a policeman was watching him 1872; committed suicide by taking a quantity of paregoric at 1 Upper Gordon st. Euston sq. London 4 April 1872. Times 8 April 1872 p. 7.

LOW, William. b. Rothesay, Bute 11 Dec. 1814; pupil of Peter Macquiston, civil engineer Glasgow, then a partner with him to 1847; engaged under Brunel in construction of Great Western railway; colliery engineer at Wrexham 1847 to about 1877; had charge of the Vron colliery near Cefn, Denbighshire many years; concerned in the Channel tunnel, issued a circular describing his plans 1866, had an interview with Napoleon III. 1867, purchased land at Dover and Calais for the enterprise, appointed one of the engineers by sir Edward Watkin; surveyed and proposed making an England and India railway 2,000 miles 1870; M.I.C.E. Dec. 1867; author of Letter to Lord John Russell explanatory of a financing system for extending railways in Ireland 1850. d. 88 West Cromwell road, London 10 July 1886. bur. Brompton cemet. where is monument.

LOWDER, Charles Fuge (eld. child of Charles Loder of Bath, banker, d. 9 Sep. 1876 aged 83). b. 2 West Wing, Lansdowne crescent, Bath 22 June 1820; ed. at King’s college school, London, and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1845; C. of Walton, Somerset 1843–4; chaplain to Axbridge workhouse 1845–6; C. of Tetbury, Gloucs. 1846–51; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London 1851–6; joined the mission at St. George’s-in-the-East 22 Aug. 1856, rented the Danish ch. at Wellclose sq.; hired a house at Sutton, Surrey for penitents 1858; secured the site of and raised funds for St. Peter’s, London Docks, consecrated 30 June 1866, C. in charge 1866 to death; a founder of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament 4 Dec. 1862; always known as ‘Father Lowder’; author of Ten years in the St. George’s mission 1867; Twenty one years in the St. George’s mission 1877. d. Hotel Krone, Zell am See in the Austrian Tyrol 9 Sep. 1880. bur. Chislehurst churchyard 17 Sep. Charles Lowder, a biography. By the author of The life of St. Theresa (1882), portrait; Church Portrait Journal, i 113 (1876), portrait.

LOWDER, Samuel Netterville. b. 1812; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Nov. 1833, second commandant 5 Nov. 1864, commandant 23 Aug. 1866; commanded marines on board the Arrogant in the Baltic 1854–5; D.A.G. R.M. 1 July 1867 to 10 July 1872; employed on special service in Mexico, commanded at occupation of Vera Cruz 1861–2; aide-de-camp to the Queen 1862–8; general 2 Dec. 1877; good service pension 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 4 Manor road, Forest Hill near London 4 June 1891.

LOWE, Abraham. b. July 1771; midshipman Jany. 1791; engaged in the Walcheren expedition 1809; employed in the Baltic 1810; captain 7 June 1814; retired rear admiral 1 Oct. 1846. d. Cheltenham 10 April 1854. G.M. xlii 513 (1854).

LOWE, Ann Elizabeth (daughter of Mauritius Lowe of 3 Hedge lane, Charing Cross, painter, d. in a poor lodging house in Westminster 1 Sep. 1793). b. 1777; god daughter of Dr. Johnson; Dr. Johnson left her £100 stock 1784; received donation of £100 from Lord Palmerston, May 1855; money raised by a public appeal sufficient to purchase an annuity of £38, 1856. d. 5 Minerva place, New Cross, Deptford 15 Jany. 1860. The younger sister Frances Meliora Lowe b. 1783, d. 5 Minerva place 6 Feb. 1866. Dr. Johnson’s fir table was left to the rev. A. K. B. Granville and is now in the library of Pemb. coll. Oxf. Times 1 and 3 Nov. 1855; Boswell’s Life of Johnson. A. Napier’s ed. iv 385–93, 463 (1884).

LOWE, Arthur (3 son of rev. Thomas H. P. F. Lowe 1781–1861). b. Corfton, co. Salop 26 July 1814; entered navy 25 April 1827; captain 30 Aug. 1845; V.A. 27 Feb. 1870, retired 1 April 1870; admiral 18 June 1876. d. 3 Wingfield villas, Stoke, Devonport 18 Dec. 1882.

LOWE, Edward. b. Prague, Bohemia 1794; emigrated to England about 1830; played a match with H. Staunton 1848; one of the first class chess players of his time; kept a lodging house at 14 Surrey st. Strand 1851–8, kept a private hotel there 1858–64, kept Royal Surrey hotel 14 and 15 Surrey st. 1864 to death. d. 14 Surrey st. Strand, London 24 Feb. 1880. The Figaro 10 March 1880 p. 14; The Chess-Monthly, April 1880 p. 255.

LOWE, Edward William. The first scholar in anatomy and physiology at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 1846, house surgeon 1847; M.R.C.S. 1847; practised at Congleton, Cheshire to death; a certifying factory surgeon; contributed many papers to medical journals. d. Moody st. Congleton 30 Oct. 1855 aged 31.

LOWE, Edward William Howe de Lancy (youngest son of sir Hudson Lowe 1769–1844, governor of St. Helena 1815–21). b. St. Helena 10 Feb. 1820; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 32 foot 20 May 1837, lieut.-col. 26 Sep. 1858; served in second Sikh war 1848–9 and in the Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. 2nd battalion of 21 foot 21 Oct. 1859, lieut.-col. 6 foot 31 March 1863, lieut.-col. 86 foot 1 Feb. 1867, placed on h.p. 6 March 1872; M.G. 31 March 1877; C.B. 24 March 1858; granted service reward 2 Nov. 1875; author of An account of the defence of the residency Cawnpore 1860. d. 11 Upper Berkeley st. London 21 Oct. 1880.

LOWE, George (son of a brewer at Derby). b. Derby 1788; an early experimenter on coal gas; one of the engineers of the Chartered Gas Co. 1821, resigned on his full salary 1862; consulting engineer to Imperial Continental gas assoc., to the European gas co. and to the Dublin Alliance gas co.; A.I.C.E. 29 April 1823, M.I.C.E. 2 June 1829; produced Prussian blue from ammoniacal liquor 1834; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; F.G.S.; patented the reciprocating tort 12 Oct. 1831; took out many patents for manufacturing and purifying gas and for machinery for gas works 1831–52. d. 9 St. John’s Wood park, London 25 Dec. 1868. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxx 442–5 (1870).

LOWE, James. b. Coupar Angus 1809; came to Dundee 1824, an auctioneer, a broker, kept a shoe shop; sec. of Dundee Political union 1837; a violent chartist 1839; published the Police Gazette, in which he abused all his opponents, Gazette stopped by the Stamp office; ruined himself with drunkenness, reformed 1851, an advocate of temperance. d. Dundee 11 Nov. 1853. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 153.

LOWE, James. Editor of a newspaper at Preston; edited in London, The Critic of literature, science and the drama 1843–63; contributed to The Field and The Queen; one of the secretaries of Acclimatisation society founded 10 June 1860; projected a Selected series of French literature. Translated and edited by himself, vol. 1 only published 1853 containing part of Madame de Sévigné’s Correspondence; translated Victor Schoelcher’s Life of Handel 1857, 2 ed. 1859; exposed and was the means of causing Lord Palmerston to withdraw the civil list pension of £50 from the poet John Close about 3 June 1861, Close d. 16 Feb. 1891 aged 74. Lowe d. end of Oct. 1865.

LOWE, James. Apprenticed to Edward Shorter a master mechanic of city of London 2 Nov. 1813, ran away 1816 and made three voyages in a whaling ship, when he returned to his master; a mechanist and smoke-jack maker; patented a screw propeller for ships 1838 and 1852; he was not the original inventor of propellers, but was inventor of a combination never before applied to propulsion of vessels; his daughter Henrietta Vansittart patented the Lowe-Vansittart propeller 1868 which was fitted to many government ships; run over by a wagon and killed in the Blackfriars road, London 12 Oct. 1866. History of the Lowe-Vansittart propeller. By Mrs. H. Vansittart (1882); Mechanics’ Mag. xli 443, 461 (1844).

LOWE, Josiah Beatson. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1837; B.A. 1839, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1860; P.C. of St. Jude, Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancs. 1850–75; V. of St. Michael, Toxteth park, Liverpool 1875–80; R. of Yoxall near Burton-on-Trent 1880 to death; author of Lectures on the annual festivals of the Jews 1846; The history of the cross practically considered 1849; Inspiration a reality: a reply to Macnaught’s doctrine 1856; The controversy with modern scepticism practically considered 1879. d. Yoxall rectory 25 June 1893.

LOWE, Patrick. b. 1769; a private in 52 regiment of foot; formed one of the forlorn hope at Badajoz where he personally captured the governor of that fortress 6 April 1812 for which he obtained a large reward; present at battle of Waterloo, had a medal with 13 clasps. d. Enniskillen 3 Nov. 1852.

LOWE, Richard Grove (son of rev. Jeremiah Lowe, minister of St. Michael’s parish, St. Albans). Solicitor at St. Albans 1825 to death; clerk to magistrates of liberty of St. Albans 1828 to death; mayor of St. Albans 1832 and 1841; assessor of court of requests, Watford 4 Oct. 1845 to 1847; coroner for St. Albans district 1845 to death. d. St. Peter’s st. St. Albans 28 June 1872.

LOWE, Richard Thomas. b. 4 Dec. 1802; ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831, travelling bachelor; chaplain in Madeira 1832–52; had a printed correspondence respecting his chaplaincy 1846–51; R. of Lea, Lincolnshire 1852 to death; author of Primitiæ faunæ et floræ Maderæ et Portus Sancti 1851; A manual flora of Madeira, vol. 1, 1868, and part 1 of vol. 2, 1872, and of scientific papers in various periodicals; drowned in the Liberia which foundered with all on board off the Scilly Islands about 13 April 1874.

LOWE, Robert Manley (son of Wm. Lowe 1770–1849, of firm of J. and W. Lowe, solicitors 2 Tanfield court, Temple, London). b. 24 May 1810; ed. at Rugeley, Staffs. and at Harrow; admitted solicitor 1833; senior partner in firm of R. M. and F. Lowe 1850–85; partner with his nephews Wm. R. L. Lowe and Dillon R. L. Lowe 1885 to death; member of the vestry of St. Giles’ and St. George’s, Westminster 40 years; author of Reminiscences of the Lowtonian society which was founded by Thomas Lowton in 1793 for the protection of the legal profession. d. 48 Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 29 Aug. 1891. Solicitors’ Journal 24 Oct. 1891 p. 819.

LOWE, Thomas Hill Peregrine Furye (eld. son of Thomas Humphrey Lowe of Bromsgrove, Worcs., d. 10 Nov. 1797). b. Bromsgrove 21 Dec. 1781; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1818; student Lincoln’s Inn 1804; C. of Shelsley, Worcs.; chap. to viscount Gage 1812; V. of Grimley, Worcs. 1820–32; precentor of Exeter cath. 14 Sep. 1832 to 27 June 1839; canon residentiary of Exeter 14 Sep. 1832 to death; R. of Holy Trinity, Exeter 1837–40; dean of Exeter 27 June 1839 to death, installed 2 Aug. 1839; V. of Littleham with Exmouth, Devon 1840–3; author of An essay on the absolving power of the church 1825; Poems, chiefly dramatic 1840; Sermons preached in the cathedral church, Exeter 1841; Auricular confession, a sermon 1852, 2 ed. 1852, Bishop Phillpotts disapproved of this sermon. d. the Deanery, Exeter 17 Jany. 1861.

LÖWENTHAL, Johann Jacob (son of a merchant). b. Buda-Pesth, July 1810; one of the best analytical chess players in Europe about 1841; expelled from Hungary after Kossuth’s fall 1849; went to U.S. of America 1849 where he played against the leading chess players 1849–51; resided in London 1851 to death; won Manchester chess tournament 1857 and Birmingham tournament 1858; chess editor of The Illustrated News of the World and of The Era; manager of the great London chess congress 1862; edited The Chess player’s magazine 1865–7; secretary to the St. George’s chess club 1852; pres. of St. James’s chess club 1857–64; manager of British chess association 1865–9; naturalised 3 Sep. 1866; member of Church of Rome; with G. W. Medley edited The transactions of the British chess association 1866, 1867; edited A selection from the problems of the Era problem tournament 1857; Morphy’s Games of chess 1860; Morphy’s Games 1860. New York 1860; The Chess Congress of 1862. A collection of games played 1864. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 20 July 1876. Illust. news of the world, viii 164 (1861), portrait; Fortnightly Review, Dec. 1886 p. 754.

LOWER, Mark Anthony (2 son of the succeeding). b. Chiddingly, Sussex 14 July 1813; kept schools at Cade st. parish of Heathfield 1831–2, at Alfriston, Sussex 1832–5 and at Lewes 1835–67; chief founder of Sussex Archæological Soc. 1846, hon. secretary; one of the headboroughs of Lewes 1860–1; F.S.A. 13 Jany. 1853; author of Sussex, being a description of every parish &c. Lewes 1831; English surnames 1842, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1875; Handbook for Lewes 1845, 3 ed. 1880; Chronicles of Pevensey 1846, 3 ed. 1880; The worthies of Sussex. Lewes 1865. d. Enfield, Middlesex 22 March 1876. bur. St. Ann’s churchyard, Lewes. Henry Campkin’s Two Sussex archæologists (1877); M. A. Lower’s Patronymica Britannica (1860), portrait.

LOWER, Richard (son of John Lower of Alfriston, Sussex, barge owner). b. Alfriston 19 Sep. 1782; opened a school in parish of Chiddingly, Sussex about 1803; a land surveyor; author of Tom Cladpole’s Jurney to Lunnon, told by himself and written in pure Sussex doggerel by his uncle Tim 1830, 20,000 copies of this were sold; Jan Cladpole’s Trip to Merricur, written all in rhyme by his father Tim Cladpole 1844; Stray leaves from an old tree, selections from the scribblings of an octogenarian 1862. d. High st. Tonbridge, Kent 29 Sep. 1865.

LOWNDES, Jefferson (eld. son of Jonathan Wm. Lowndes of Oxford). b. 15 Jany. 1858; matric. at univ. of Oxf. 9 April 1875; commoner Hertford coll. 1877; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1883; chaplain of Derby school 1884–6; headmaster St. Kitt’s government school, West Indies 1886–9; won the univ. sculls at Oxford regatta 1878 and 1879; won the diamond sculls at Henley 1879–83; stroke of the Hertford four which won the Steward’s cup at Henley 1881 and beat the Cornell univ. boat next day; won the Wingfield sculls amateur championship of the Thames 1881 and 1883; having suddenly gone blind, shot himself at North-Western hotel, Liverpool 8 Aug. 1893. Sporting Mirror, Jany. 1882 pp. 205–7, portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news, xvii 444 (1882), portrait; Graphic, xxviii 84 (1883), portrait.

LOWNDES, William Loftus (younger son of Richard Lowndes of Rose hill, Dorking, Surrey). b. April 1793; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1819, bencher 1841 to death; Q.C. Nov. 1841; published W. P. Williams’ Reports of cases in chancery, 6 ed. with references to modern cases by W. L. Lowndes 1826. d. 48 Westbourne terrace, London 6 April 1865.

LOWREY, Daniel (son of parents who came from Roscrea, Tipperary, to Leeds). b. 1823; an apprentice to a dyer at Leeds; a negro comedian at Leeds; appeared as an Irish comedian at Victoria concert hall, Ashton-under-Lyne many years; built The Malakoff music hall, Liverpool about 1864; proprietor of The Nightingale and The Man at the wheel concert halls, Liverpool to 1871; built The Alhambra music hall, Belfast 1871, which when burnt down he rebuilt; built the Star of Erin music hall and theatre of varieties, Dublin, which he managed 1879 to death. d. Wentworth cottage, Trenure, Dublin 3 July 1889. bur. Glasnevin cemetery 5 July.

LOWRIE, Walter. b. Edinburgh 10 Dec. 1784; taken to the U.S. of America 1792; a member of the legislature several years; senator from Pennsylvania 6 Dec. 1819 to 3 March 1825; secretary of the senate, U.S. 1825–37. d. New York 14 Dec. 1868.

LOWRY, James Corry (1 son of James Lowry of Rockdale, co. Tyrone). b. 1809; called to Irish bar 1837; Q. C. 23 Feb. 1867; master of court of exchequer in Ireland, Sep. 1867 to death. d. 42 Mountjoy square south, Dublin 20 June 1869.

LOWRY, Joseph Wilson (only son of Wilson Lowry, engraver 1762–1824). b. London 7 Oct. 1803; an engraver of scientific subjects; executed plates for the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, Phillipps’s Geology of Yorkshire 1835, Scott Russell’s Naval Architecture 1865 Weale’s Scientific series, and Woodward’s Manual of the mollusca 1866; engraver to Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland to death; F.R.G.S.; exhibited 2 marine views at R.A. and 2 at B.I. 1829–31; compiled and engraved Tabular view of British fossils stratigraphically arranged, 1853. d. 39 Robert st. Hampstead road, London 15 June 1879. Nature, ii 197 (1879).

LOWRY, Thomas Kennedy. Ed. at Belfast academical institution, and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1857; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 4 July 1860; joint crown prosecutor for counties of Armagh and Antrim to 6 March 1867; a district judge in Jamaica 6 March 1867 to 1869; prothonotary at Manchester for court of common pleas of duchy of Lancaster 1869 to death; edited The Hamilton manuscripts 1867; author of Lowry’s Irish equity exchequer rules and practice 1838; joint author with R. S. Moore, Q.C., of A collection of the rules and orders of Queen’s bench common pleas and exchequer of pleas in Ireland 1842. d. Ballytrim house, Killyleagh, co. Down 29 July 1872. Irish law times, vi 439 (1872).

LOWTH, John Jackson. b. 1804; ensign 48 foot 3 July 1824; ensign 38 foot 9 Sep. 1824, lieut.-col. 22 Dec. 1854 to death, commanded his regiment in Crimean war. d. at Portsmouth one hour after landing from the Crimea 28 July 1855.

LOWTH, Robert Henry. b. 1801; ensign 9 foot 4 Feb. 1819; captain 86 foot 14 Aug. 1830, lieut.-col. 10 Aug. 1855 to 24 Jany. 1860 when retired on full pay; M.G. 24 Jany. 1860; C.B. 28 Sep. 1858. d. Winchester 21 Dec. 1870.

LOWTHER, Gorges (1 son of Gorges Lowther of Lowther lodge, Dublin, d. 1785). b. 1769; cornet 5 dragoon guards 31 May 1787; M.P. Ratoath, co. Meath in Irish parliament 1790 to the Union 1800; sold his seat Kilrue, co. Meath; author of Brief observations on the present state of the Waldenses and upon their actual sufferings 1821; Gerald, a tale of conscience 2 vols. 1840; Abjurations from popery with introductory matter on the errors of the church of Rome 1847. d. Hampton hall, Somerset 23 Feb. 1854. G.M. xli 535 (1854); Proceedings in King’s Bench in the King v. G. Lowther for libel on J. T. Batt 1805.

LOWTHER, Henry Cecil (2 son of 1 Earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844). b. Dover st. Piccadilly, London 27 July 1790; ed. at Westminster; first played at Lord’s in B. Aislabie Esq.’s side v. W. Ward Esq.’s side 15 June 1817; played in M.C.C. matches several seasons; a steady batsman, a slow underhand bowler with a twist; cornet 7 hussars 16 July 1807; lieut.-col. 12 foot 20 April 1817, placed on h.p. 25 June 1818; col. Cumberland militia 10 Sep. 1830 to death; master of Cottesmore hounds; M.P. Westmoreland 12 Oct. 1812 to death; styled ‘the father of the House.’ d. Barleythorpe hall, Oakham, Rutland 6 Dec. 1867. Cricket Scores, i 399 (1862), v p. xiii (1876); Sporting Review, lix 8 (1868).

LOWTHER, Sir John Henry, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir John Lowther, 1 Baronet 1759–1844). b. 23 March 1793; M.P. Cockermouth 1816–26, 1831–2; M.P. Wigtown 1826–30; contested York 1832 and 1833; M.P. city of York 1835–47; lieut.-col. 1 West Riding militia 1830–52; succeeded 11 May 1844; sheriff of Yorkshire 1852. d. 9 Park st. Grosvenor square, London 23 June 1868.

LOWTHROP, Sir William (2 son of James Lowthrop of Welton hall, east riding of Yorkshire). b. Welton hall 1794; mayor of Hull 1840; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840. d. Nice 19 Dec. 1853.

LOY, John Glover (son of Richard Loy, surgeon). b. Whitby 1774; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D.; in practice at Whitby 64 years; remarkable for his skill and strength of nerve in performing operations; author of Disputatio medica inauguralis de Phthisi. Edinb. 1800; An account of some experiments on the origin of the cow pox. Whitby 1801, which attracted great notice both in England and abroad. d. 8 Royal crescent, Whitby 4 Sep. 1865.

LOYD, Lewis (eld. son of Wm. Loyd of Court Henry, co. Carmarthen). b. 1 Jany. 1768; pastor of a small dissenting chapel at Manchester; partner with his father-in-law John Jones of Manchester, merchant and banker; managed the bank of Jones, Loyd and Co. of Manchester and Lothbury, London from 1808. d. at his son’s seat, Overstone park, Northampton 13 May 1858, left £3,000,000. Bankers’ Mag. June 1858 p. 499.

LUARD, Henry (5 son of Peter John Luard of Blyborough hall, Lincoln, captain 4 dragoons, d. 23 May 1836). b. 4 Dec. 1792; ledger keeper in a mercantile firm 1832; general manager of London and County bank 1841–56, presented with a testimonial of 3 silver salvers 19 Oct. 1853; director of London Life association; deputy chairman of Southampton dock co. to 1841. d. 1856. Bankers’ Mag. Jany. 1854 pp. 1–11, portrait; I.L.N. 5 Nov. 1853 p. 382, view of testimonial.

LUARD, Henry Richards (eld. son of the preceding). b. London 17 Aug. 1825; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Camb. 1843, scholar 1846–9, fellow 1849–60, junior bursar 1853–61, assistant tutor 1855–65, 14th wrangler 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, B.D. 1875, D.D. 1878; V. of Great St. Mary’s, Cambridge 1860–87; registrary of Univ. of Camb. Jany. 1862 to death, and editor of 2 editions of Graduati Cantabrigienses 1873 and 1884; hon. fellow of King’s coll. London 1875; edited for the Rolls Series, Lives of Edward the Confessor 1858; Bartholomæi de Cotton Historia Anglicana 1859; Roberti Grosseteste Epistolæ 1861; Annales Monastici 5 vols. 1864–9; Matthew Paris, Historia Major 7 vols. 1872–84; Flores Historiarum 1890; author of Index to the catalogue of manuscripts in the University library, Cambridge 1867, and of many memoirs of mediæval writers and classical scholars in Dict. of Nat. Biog. vols. 1–32 (1885–92); with W. G. Clark projected an edition of Shakespeare with the variations of the quartos and folios and printed Act 1 of Richard III. 1860, work afterwards completed by W. G. Clark and W. A. Wright 9 vols. 1863–66. d. 4 St. Peter’s terrace, Cambridge 1 May 1891, memorial clock placed in tower of Great St. Mary’s church, Cambridge, Dec. 1892. The Biograph, Feb. 1882 pp. 140–2.

LUARD, John (brother of Henry Luard 1792–1856). b. 5 May 1790; served in R.N. 1802–7; cornet 4 dragoons 25 May 1809; lieut. 16 light dragoons 2 March 1815, captain 13 Dec. 1821, placed on h.p. 17 Oct. 1834; lieut.-col. 30 foot 4 Aug. 1848 but sold out same day; served in the Peninsula 1810–14 and was present at Waterloo; served in India 1825, instructed his regiment in the use of the lance and was the first to use it in the British army, namely at Bhurtpoor 1825; published Views in India, St. Helena and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone by himself 1838; author of A history of the dress of the British soldier 1852. d. The Cedars, Farnham, Surrey 24 Oct. 1875. Times 28 Oct. 1875 p. 11, 2 Nov. p. 7; Graphic, xii 515, 518 (1875), portrait.

LUARD, John Dalbiac (2 son of the preceding). b. Blyborough, Lincs. 30 Oct. 1830; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 63 foot 22 Dec. 1848; ensign 82 foot 16 Feb. 1849, lieut. 3 Dec. 1852, sold out 13 Jany 1854; pupil of John Phillip, R.A.; spent the winter of 1855–6 in the Crimea; exhibited 4 pictures at the R.A. 1855–8; his picture ‘The welcome arrival’ was engraved. d. Winterslow near Salisbury 9 Aug. 1860. The Critic, March 1861 pp. 317–8.

LUARD, John Kynaston (3 son of John Luard of Wickham Place, Essex). b. 1803; entered Madras army 1818; lieut. 6 Madras N.I. 13 June 1819; captain 16 N.I. 21 July 1825, major 10 Oct. 1836 to 26 Aug. 1841; lieut.-col. of 2 N.I. 23 June 1841 to 1847, of 42 N.I. 1847–8, of 16 N.I. 1848–9, of 11 N.I. 1849–51, of 25 N.I. 1851–2; commandant at Masulipatam 5 Feb. 1851 to 9 Dec. 1851, at Jaulnah 9 Dec. 1851 to 21 July 1854, at Saugor and Nerbudda 21 July 1854 to 16 Oct. 1855; col. of 11 N.I. 24 March 1852 to 1869; general 25 June 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. 29 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 18 Oct. 1880.

LUARD, Richard George Amherst (eld. son of John Luard 1790–1875). b. 29 July 1827; ensign 51 foot 6 July 1845; ensign 3 foot 11 Nov. 1845, captain 1852; major 62 foot 2 May 1865, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1865; D.A.A.G. in Crimea 30 June 1855 to 23 July 1856; assistant inspector of volunteers 1860–5; col. Bristol engineer volunteer corps 7 Dec. 1881 to death; L.G. 1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 1 May 1890; C.B. 21 June 1887. d. Eastbourne 24 July 1891.

LUBBOCK, Sir John William, 3 Baronet (only child of sir John Wm. Lubbock, 2 baronet 1774–1840). b. Duke st. Westminster 26 March 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1833; partner in bank of Lubbock and Co. London 1825, sole working partner 1840–60 when firm became Robarts, Lubbock and Co.; F.R.A.S. 1828, F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1829, royal medallist 1834, treasurer and vice pres. 1830–5 and 1838–45; fellow of univ. of London 1836 to death, vice chancellor 28 Nov. 1836 to 15 June 1842; hon. M.I.C.E. 5 March 1839; a treasurer of Great Exhibition of 1851; sheriff of Kent 1852; author of On the theory of the moon and on the perturbation of the planets 11 parts 1833–61; An elementary treatise on the tides 1839; On the clearing of the London bankers 1860. d. High Elms, Farnborough, Kent 20 June 1865. Proc. of Royal Soc. xv 32–7 (1867); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxv 510–2 (1866).

Note.—He was author with J. E. Drinkwater afterwards Drinkwater Bethune of Probability 1830 a volume in the Library of Useful Knowledge, this work was anonymous, but a binder chose to letter it as De Morgan on Probability. Augustus De Morgan stated in a letter to the Times that he could not in 15 years succeed in restoring the book to its true authors.

LUBY, Thomas (son of John Luby). b. Clonmel, co. Tipperary 1800; a sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar 1819, junior fellow 1831, senior fellow 6 Nov. 1847 to death; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1840; senior dean and lecturer of his college, Donegal lecturer 1832–47; Regius professor of Greek, univ. of Dublin 1852–5; M.R.I.A.; author of The elements of plane trigonometry 1825, 3 ed. 1852; An introductory treatise to physical astronomy 1828; edited J. Brinkley’s Elements of plane astronomy. Dublin 1836. d. 43 Leeson st. Dublin 12 June 1870. bur. Aberystwith. Taylor’s History of university of Dublin p. 524.

LUCAN, George Charles Bingham, 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of Lucan 1764–1839). b. St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 16 April 1800; ed. at Westminster; known as lord Bingham 1800–39; ensign 6 foot 29 Aug. 1816; lieut. 8 foot 20 Jany. 1820; capt. 1 life guards 20 June 1822, major 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1825 and lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1826, placed on h.p. 14 April 1837; served on staff of Russian army in Bulgaria 1828; M.P. co. Mayo 1826–30; lord lieut. of Mayo 1845; succeeded 30 June 1839; major general in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1854; commanded a division of cavalry as lieut. general in Russian war 18 Aug. 1854 to 18 Feb. 1855; present at the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869; col. 8 light dragoons 17 Nov. 1855; col. 1 life guards 22 Feb. 1865 to death; general 28 Aug. 1865, field marshal 21 June 1887; elected an Irish representative peer 1840; lord lieut. of Mayo 14 Feb. 1845 to death. d. 12 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1888. The drawing room portrait gallery 4 Ser. (1860), portrait; Nolan’s Russian war, i 544–50, ii 725 (1855), portrait; G. Ryan’s Our heroes (1855) 36–40; I.L.N. 13 May 1854 pp. 429–30, portrait; Graphic 24 Nov. 1888 pp. 542, 544, portrait.

Note.—At the battle of Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 Capt. Nolan brought the earl of Lucan an order from Lord Raglan to advance against the Russians and prevent them carrying away the guns. The exact meaning of the order was not clear, but it led to the famous charge of the light brigade, when out of 608 men only 198 returned. The earl of Lucan was recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855. Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea, ii 379, iii 235, iv 5, v 3, vii 471, ix 354 (1877).

LUCAS, Charles (son of Wm. Lucas of Daventry). b. 1769; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 July 1786; C. of Avebury, Wiltshire 1791–1816; resided at Devizes 1816 to death; author of A descriptive account in verse of the old serpentine temple of the Druids at Avebury 1795, 2 ed. 1801; The castle of St. Donat’s, or the history of Jack Smith 3 vols. 1798; The infernal Quixote, a tale of the day 4 vols. 1801; Joseph, a religious poem 2 vols. 1810; The Abissinian (sic) reformer or the bible and the sabre 1808. d. Devizes 1854.

LUCAS, Charles (son of Mr. Lucas of Salisbury, alderman). b. Salisbury 28 July 1808; chorister in Salisbury cathedral 8 years; studied at R.A. of Music, conductor 1832, principal 1859–66; member of queen Adelaide’s private band 1830; associate of Philharmonic Soc. 1835, member 1839, a director 1840–55 and 1864 to death; organist of Hanover chapel, Regent st. 1839; conductor of Choral harmonists society; member of firm of Addison, Hollier and Lucas music publishers 1856 to June 1865; succeeded Robert Lindley as violoncello player at the opera and leading festivals and concerts; composed an opera The Regicide 1840; three symphonies, string quartets, anthems and songs; edited Esther 1851 for Handel Soc. d. 9 Louvaine road, Wandsworth, London 23 March 1869. bur. Woking cemet. 27 March. Mag. of Music, Oct. 1890 p. 183, portrait; W. W. Cazalet’s History of royal academy of music (1854) 306.

LUCAS, Charles. b. 1805; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 19 Dec. 1820; col. 18 Feb. 1861 to 26 April 1866; inspector of artillery Bombay 1 Nov. 1862 to 29 April 1867; M.G. 26 April 1866. d. 44 Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 11 June 1873.

LUCAS, Edward (only child of Charles Lucas of Castle Shane, co. Monaghan, d. 1796). b. 27 Sep. 1787; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; sheriff of co. Monaghan 1817; M.P. co. Monaghan 1834–41; under sec. of state for Ireland 15 Sep. 1841 to 21 Aug. 1845; P.C. Ireland 1845. d. Castle Shane, co. Monaghan 12 Nov. 1871. Portraits of eminent conservatives (1846), portrait; I.L.N. lix 507 (1871).

LUCAS, Frederick (2 son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, corn-merchant and a Quaker). b. Westminster 30 March 1812; ed. at Darlington and London univ.; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; left the Soc. of Friends and joined church of Rome being received by Father Lythgoe of the Soc. of Jesus, Jany. 1839; started the Tablet 16 May 1840, a weekly R.C. newspaper which he removed to Dublin 1849, edited to his death; M.P. co. Meath 1852 to death; one of secretaries of Irish tenant league 1850; contributed frequently to Dublin Review; author of Reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic, especially addressed to the society of Friends 1839. d. at the residence of his brother in law Skidmore Ashby at Staines 22 Oct. 1855. bur. Brompton cemet. 27 Oct. Life of F. Lucas. By his brother E. Lucas 2 vols. (1886); F. Lucas: a biography. By C. J. Riethmüller (1862); Duffy’s League of North and South (1886) 330.

LUCAS, Horatio Joseph (4 son of Louis Lucas, West India merchant, d. 1862). b. London 27 May 1839; ed. at Brighton and Univ. coll. London; pupil of F. S. Cary; member of the Langham sketching club; exhibited 9 etchings at R.A. 1870–3; exhibited at the Salon in Paris; contributed to various Black and White exhibitions; a selection from his etchings is in the print room, British Museum; a good musician; member of firm of Lucas, Micholls and Co. merchants 13 New Broad st. London 1862 to death; illustrated A new year’s gift to sick children 1865. d. 18 Dec. 1873. Jewish Chronicle 26 Dec. 1873 p. 654.

LUCAS, James (2 son of James Lucas of Liverpool, West India merchant, d. 1830). b. London 21 Dec. 1813; studied medicine with Mr. Hicks of Whitwell near Hitchin, Herts.; inherited family estate at Redcoats Green, Great Wymondley, Herts. on death of his mother 24 Oct. 1849; he was so attached to his mother that he deferred interment of her body until 12 Jany. 1850 when the burial was enforced; lived in the kitchen of his residence, Elmwood house, Redcoats Green, used no furniture, gave up washing and slept on a bed of cinders; gave money and drink to all the tramps who passed by; retained two armed watchmen for his protection; visited by lord Lytton, sir Arthur Helps, John Forster and Charles Dickens who described him under the name of Mr. Mopes in Tom Tiddler’s Ground in the Christmas number of All the Year round 1861. d. of apoplexy at the house of Mr. Chapman a farmer and his tenant near his own house 19 April 1874. bur. beside his mother in Hackney churchyard 21 April. The history of the hermit of Hertfordshire. Hitchin (1874), portrait; An account of Lucas the hermit. Hitchin (1874); Journal of mental science, Oct. 1874 pp. 361–72; Popular science monthly, vi 301 (1874); Graphic, ix 480 (1874), portrait.

LUCAS, John (son of William Lucas, sub-editor of The Sun newspaper, London). b. London 4 July 1807; apprenticed to S. W. Reynolds, mezzotint-engraver; a portrait-painter with a very large practice; painted portraits of queen Adelaide, prince Consort, princess Royal, duke of Wellington and many of the court beauties; exhibited 96 portraits at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–74; many of his portraits were engraved, some of them by himself in mezzotint. d. 22 St. John’s Wood road, London 30 April 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 473, 474 (1874), portrait.

LUCAS, John Templeton (eld. son of the preceding). b. London 1836; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 30 at Suffolk st. gallery 1859–76; his farce Browne the Martyr produced at Court theatre 20 Jany. 1872 and printed in Lacy’s acting edition of plays vol. xcvi; author of fairy tales entitled Prince Ubbely Bubble’s New story book 1871; and of Edwin Landseer 1873, memorial verses. d. Whitby, Sep. 1880.

LUCAS, Louis Arthur (son of Philip Lucas of Manchester). b. 22 Sep. 1851; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London; travelled in U.S. of America 1872 and in Egypt 1873; organised an expedition to explore the Congo, left London 2 Sep. 1875, arrived at Khartoum Jany. 1876, left Khartoum April 1876; went with colonel Gordon to the Albert Nyanza and navigated northern part of the lake in the first steamboat ever launched on it; returned to Khartoum Aug. 1876, reached Suakim 18 Nov.; compiled a vocabulary of Bishareen words published in Journal of Anthropological Institute, vi 191–4. d. in a steamboat between Suakim and Suez 20 Nov. 1876. bur. Jeddah. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xxi 418–21, 465; Athenæum 9 Dec. 1876 p. 766, 23 Dec. p. 838.

LUCAS, Margaret (youngest dau. of Jacob Bright and youngest sister of John Bright, M.P.) b. Greenbank, Rochdale, Lancs. 14 July 1818; a total abstainer from 1834; (m. 1839 Samuel Lucas 1811–65, journalist); a Good Templar 1872, Grand Worthy Vice Templar; visited U.S. of America 1870; engaged in the work of Association for the abolition of state regulation of vice; one of chief founders and president of British women’s temperance association; visited U.S. of America 1886 to attend convention at Minneapolis as president of the World’s Women’s temperance union; advocated political enfranchisement of women, on public platforms in Great Britain. d. 7 Charlotte st. Bedford sq. London 4 Feb. 1890. bur. Highgate cemet. 7 Feb. H. J. B. Heath’s M. B. Lucas (1890), portrait.

LUCAS, Philip Bennett. b. 1803; F.R.C.S.; practised at Boulogne some years; author of A concise anatomical description of the arteries of the human body 1836; A practical treatise on the cure of strabismus or squint 1840. d. Pau, France 22 May 1856.

LUCAS, Richard Cockle (son of Richard Lucas). b. Salisbury 24 Oct. 1800; apprenticed to his uncle a cutler at Winchester 1812; a sculptor with a good practice; executed statues of Dr. Johnson at Lichfield, Dr. Watts at Southampton and sir R. C. Hoare in Salisbury cath.; his medallion portraits in marble, wax and ivory have much merit; exhibited 89 sculptures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 61 at Suffolk st. 1829–59; sent ivory carvings and imitation bronzes to Great Exhibition of 1851; produced a large number of etchings; granted civil list pension of £150, 19 June 1865; author of Remarks on the pantheon 1845; The artist’s dream realised, being a residence designed and built [at Chilworth near Romsey] by R. C. Lucas, sculptor 1854, etched and described 1856; On the mausoleum of Halicarnassus 1859; An essay on art, especially that of painting 1870. d. Chilworth near Romsey 18 Jany. 1883.

LUCAS, Samuel (brother of Frederick Lucas 1812–55). b. 1811; partner in a cotton mill at Manchester 1845; joined the anti-cornlaw league; a founder of Lancashire public schools assoc. Aug. 1847; a corn merchant in London from 1850; managing proprietor of The Morning Star daily paper 17 March 1856 to 1865; one of founders of the Emancipation Society for slaves 1862; author of Plan for the establishment of a general system of secular education in the county of Lancaster 1847; edited a vol. of essays entitled National education not necessarily governmental, sectarian or irreligious 1850. d. 4 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 16 April 1865. bur. Highgate cemet. Fox Bourne’s English Newspapers, ii 238, 271 (1887); Morning Star 17 April 1865 p. 4.

LUCAS, Samuel (eld. son of Thomas Lucas of Bristol, merchant). b. Bristol 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1846; founder and editor of The Press newspaper 1853; contributed reviews to The Times from 1855; edited Once a Week, June 1859 to 1865; projected and edited The Shilling Magazine 1865 which ceased Dec. 1865; author of The Sandwich Islands, a prize poem 1841; Charters of the old English colonies in America 1850; Illustrations of the history of Bristol and its neighbourhood 1853; Dacoitee in excelsis, or the spoliation of Oude 1857, anon.; Eminent men and popular books, from the Times 1859, anon.; Biography and criticism from the Times 1860, anon.; Secularia or surveys on the mainstream of history 1862; edited Thomas Hood’s Poems 2 vols. 1867. d. Eastbourne 27 Nov. 1868. Newspaper Press, iii 38 (1869).

LUCAS, Samuel (2 son of Wm. Lucas). b. Hitchin, Herts. 1805; ed. Friends’ committee school, Fishponds, Bristol; apprentice at Southwick and Harris’ wharf, Wapping: an auditor of Great Northern railway; partner in a provision house in London; a brewer and maltster at Hitchin to death; clerk to quarterly meeting at Hitchin; painter of landscapes, animals and flowers in oil and water colours; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1830–61; some of his drawings of flowers were engraved in The Florist. d. 29 March 1870. Biographical catalogue of Friends (1888) 440–3.

LUCE, Thomas (son of Thomas Luce). b. Weymouth 1790; M.P. Malmesbury 1852–9; a director of the Bank of London. d. Malmesbury 6 Aug. 1875.

LUCENA, Lorenzo. b. 1806; ed. coll. of St. Pelagio in univ. of Seville, professor of theology there 8 years and provisional president 3 years; minister of a protestant congregation of Spaniards at Gibraltar on appointment by S.P.C.K.; hon. canon of Gibraltar cathedral 1842–60; reader in Spanish language and literature in the Taylor institute, Oxford 1858 to death; cr. M.A. of univ. of Oxf. 5 June 1877; assisted in preparing new ed. of Spanish Bible founded on Cipriano de Valera’s text, Oxford 1862. d. Oxford 24 Aug. 1881.

LUCET, Joachim Simeon. b. 1797; professor de belles lettres; author of Langue Française. Simples notes grammaticales 1843. d. 49 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 11 April 1855.

LUCETTE, Catherine. Made her first appearance at theatre royal, Plymouth; first seen in London at Drury Lane as Susan in William and Susan 28 Feb. 1859; appeared at Metropolitan theatre, New York as Pauline in Delicate Ground 23 May 1859; with her husband M. Price had a drawing room entertainment at Brooklyn, New York 25 Aug. 1868; played Ariel in the Tempest at Grand Opera house, New York 1869; toured for some years in North of England playing Leonie in The Sutler Girl; m. (1) Morton Price, actor whose right name was Horton Rhys d. 8 May 1876 aged 52; m. (2) Charles Medwin. She d. 20 Oct. 1892. bur. Norwood cemetery. Brown’s American stage (1870) 226, 243.

LUCKRAFT, Alfred. b. 2 April 1792; entered navy Jany. 1801; present at Trafalgar 1805, was in the trenches 12 days besieging Morea Castle in the Peloponnesus Oct. 1828, obtained insignia of legion of honor and of Redeemer of Greece; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. d. Eastney barracks, Portsmouth 15 Oct. 1871.

LUCY, Charles. b. Hertford 1814; studied under Delaroche in Paris and at the R.A.; copied old masters at the Hague and Paris; lived at Barbizon near Fontainebleau 16 years; obtained a premium of £200 at Westminster hall competition 1847 for his painting of The departure of the primitive puritans to the coast of America, A.D. 1620; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1838–73; instructor at a drawing school in Camden Town many years; chairman of committee of new British Institution; painted a series of portraits of eminent men for sir Joshua Walmesley who bequeathed them to the South Kensington museum. d. 13 Ladbroke crescent, Notting Hill, London 19 May 1873. Anne Lucy his widow granted civil list pension of £70, 24 Nov. 1881. I.L.N. lxii 544 (1873).

LUCY, Henry Spencer (2 son of George Lucy, M.P. 1798–1845). b. 28 Nov. 1830; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 May 1850; sheriff of Warwickshire 1857; succeeded on death of his brother William 1 July 1848; kept harriers and hunted the borders of Warwick, Worcester and Gloucester; master of the Warwickshire hounds 1866, hunted 5 days a week; resided at Chalcote park, Warwick. Baily’s Mag. xxvi 373–5 (1875), portrait.

LUCY, William Wootten. b. 1802; bookseller at Marlborough from 1829; postmaster Marlborough 1829–69; mayor of Marlborough twice. d. Marlborough 16 Nov. 1869. The Marlborough Times 20 Nov. 1869 p. 4.

LUDLAM, Henry. b. 14 Oct. 1824; a land surveyor; engaged in commercial pursuits; made one of the finest private collections of minerals in the kingdom; he bequeathed his collections which included those made by Charles H. Turner and Wm. Nevill, to the Museum of practical geology in Jermyn st. London; F.G.S., F.M.S. d. 174 Piccadilly, London 23 June 1880. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvii 47 (1881).

LUDLOW, Ebenezer (son of Ebenezer Ludlow of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucester). b. 1777; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1795, M.A. 1821; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1805; town clerk of Bristol 22 July 1819, resigned 1836 on pension of £533; serjeant at law 25 June 1827; comr. of bankruptcy for Liverpool district 21 Oct. 1842 and for Bristol district 1849 to death; chairman of Gloucestershire quarter sessions, April 1842 to 1849. d. Almondsbury near Bristol 25 March 1851. G.M. xxxv 666 (1851).

LUDLOW, John. b. 16 May 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; entered Bengal army 1818; lieut. 3 Bengal N.I. 15 Aug. 1820; captain 6 N.I. 1 April 1829, major 20 Dec. 1843 to 6 April 1850; lieut.-col. of 12 N.I. 6 April 1850, of 9 N.I. 7 June 1853, of 36 N.I. 1854 to 9 Aug. 1854 when he retired with rank of M.G. d. Yotes court, Kent 30 Nov. 1882.

LUDLOW-BRUGES, William Heald (eld. son of Benjamin Pennell Ludlow of Melksham, Wilts.) b. Melksham 1796; ed. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; member of chancery bar, retired 1826; recorder of Devizes 7 June 1833 to 1844; chairman of north Wiltshire quarter sessions; M.P. Bath 1837–41; M.P. Devizes 28 July 1847 to Feb. 1848 when he retired; took additional name of Bruges by r.l. 1835. d. Sund, Wilts. 25 Sep. 1855.

LUKE, James. b. 1799; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1843, president 1853 and 1862, Hunterian orator; lecturer on anatomy London hospital 1823, assist. surgeon 1827, a principal surgeon 1833 and consulting surgeon 1861; adopted an improved operation for hernia, which has saved many lives 1841; retired from practice and resided at Woolley lodge, Maidenhead; contributed to Medical Gazette 1841 &c., Proc. R. Med. and Chir. Soc. 1843 &c. and to The Lancet 1845 &c.; F.R.S. 7 June 1855. d. Fingest grove, Wycombe, Bucks. 15 Aug. 1881. Lancet, ii 360 (1881); Barker’s Eminent medical men, i 27–30 (1865), portrait.

LUMB, Henry. Attorney at Wakefield, Yorkshire 1798 to death; deputy steward of manor of Wakefield many years; presented by his brother solicitors with his full-length portrait 14 Dec. 1859. d. 22 Feb. 1862 aged 87. Law Times 24 Dec. 1859 p. 156 and 19 April 1862 p. 323.

LUMLEY, Benjamin (son of Louis Levy a Jewish merchant of Canada, d. London about 1831). b. 1811; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch.; assumed name of Lumley; solicitor at 42 Chancery lane, London, Nov. 1832, at 6 Quality court 1833–9; a parliamentary agent in Parliament st. 1837–42; superintended finances of Her Majesty’s theatre for Laporte 1836–41, manager of the theatre 1842–52 and 1856–8, the famous pas de quatre was danced there by Taglioni, Cerito, Lucile Grahn and Rosati 1845; Sir Michael Costa seceded from Her Majesty’s in 1847 with Mario, Grisi and greater part of the orchestra; Jenny Lind sang at Her Majesty’s 1847–9, Sontag in 1851; managed the Italian opera house in Paris 1850 to 2 Dec. 1851; purchased lease of Her Majesty’s 1845, which in 1856 he assigned to lord Ward, being in debt to him; gave up the theatre 10 Aug. 1858 being unable to pay the rent; bankrupt 3 Nov. 1862, discharged 22 Jany. 1863; four benefit performances were given him at Her Majesty’s 1863; produced 30 Italian operas new to England 1842–58; parliamentary agent at 22 Sackville st. Piccadilly 1864 to death; author of Parliamentary practice on passing private bills through the House of Commons 1838; Sirenia, a fantastic account of the life of sirens in their retreats, their origin, mission and pursuits 1862, anon.; The earl of Dudley, Mr. Lumley and Her Majesty’s theatre, a narrative of facts 2 ed. 1863; Reminiscences of the opera 1864; Another world, or fragments from the star city of Montallagal. By Hermes 1873, 3 ed. 1873. d. 8 Kensington crescent, London 17 March 1875. bur. West Ham cemet. I.L.N. iii 124 (1843) portrait, iv 237 (1844) portrait, xi 96 (1847) view of testimonial; Illust. sp. and dr. news, ii 622 (1875).

LUMLEY, William Golden. b. 1802; ed. at Christ’s hospital and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb.; fellow of Trin. hall 1825, LL.B. 1825, LL.M. 1859; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; a revising barrister under the reform act 1832; professor of English law in univ. of London 1834–38; reported for the Law Journal 1835; secretary of poor law board 23 April 1839 to 17 Feb. 1847; assistant sec. local government board 18 Dec. 1847 to 19 Aug. 1871; Q.C. 8 Dec. 1868; counsel to local government board 1872; author of The law of annuities and rent charges 1833; The law of parochial assessments explained 1844, 7 ed. 1882; Manual of duties of poor law officers, medical officer 1849, 3 ed. 1871; The poor law election manual 1855, 5 ed. 1886; The union assessment committee act 1862, 10 ed. 1881; The local board election manual 1869, 4 ed. 1886; An essay on bye-laws 1877. d. 10 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 8 May 1878. Law Times, lxv 110 (1878); Solicitors’ Journal xxii 565 (1878).

LUMSDEN, James (son of James Lumsden, engraver and stationer). b. 43 Argyll street, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1778; apprentice to his father, a partner in the business 1799; a patron of Horatio MacCulloch and sir Daniel Macnee artists, and of Dugald Moore poet; lord provost of Glasgow 1843–45; president of Incorporated company of stationers, Glasgow 1815, 1822 and 1830; a founder of the Clydesdale bank 1838; founded a bursary in Glasgow univ. 1856; issued The Glasgow commercial memorandum book 1816, an annual; author of American memoranda by a Mercantile Man 1844, preface signed J.L. d. St. Vincent st. Glasgow 16 May 1856. W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men, ii 179–81 (1886), portrait; The Glasgow Herald 19 May 1856 p. 6.

LUMSDEN, James. b. 1811; minister of Inverbrothock to 1838; minister of Barrie 1838–43; joined the Free secession 1843; professor of divinity, Free ch. coll. Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1856 to death, and principal 1864 to death; D.D. of St. Andrew’s univ. 13 Feb. 1869; author of Sweden, its religious state and prospects 1855; Infant baptism, its nature and objects 1856. d. Aberdeen 17 Oct. 1875. Scott’s Fasti, iii part 2 p. 792 (1871).

LUMSDEN, Sir James (eld. son of James Lumsden 1778–1856). b. Glasgow 1808; ed. at Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; partner in firm of J. Lumsden & Co. stationers, Glasgow, retired from business 1876; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1860–2 and lord provost 1866–69; knighted by patent 3 Nov. 1868 after entertaining prince of Wales at luncheon. d. 194 Bath st. Glasgow 22 March 1879. W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men (1886), ii 183–4 (1886), portrait.

LUND, John. Joined the Metropolitan police 1837; a prominent officer in detective department at Scotland Yard; arrested Mr. and Mrs. Manning for murder of O’Connor 1849; had charge of detective arrangements at Great Exhibition 1851; superintendent of the P. or Walworth division of metropolitan police to 1859 when he retired on pension of £156; superintendent of Leamington police 1859–80 when he retired on pension of £166; captured James Torpey the diamond robber 1870. d. Leamington 24 Aug. 1888.

LUND, Thomas. b. Blackburn 2 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 4 wr. 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1838; fell. of his coll. 1829–41; R. of Morton, Derbyshire 1841–64; R. of Brindle, Lancs. 1864 to death; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1864 to death; author of An appendix to Wood’s Algebra 1840; A short and easy course of algebra 1850, 6 ed. 1863; The elements of algebra by D. Wood, 14 ed. 1852, 17 ed. 1876; A companion to Wood’s Algebra 4 ed. 1878; Elements of geometry and mensuration 3 parts 1854–9, 2 ed. 1864; A key to Bishop Colenso’s Biblical arithmetic 1863, 3 ed. 1865; with J. Baily A treatise on the differential calculus 1838. d. Brindle rectory 14 May 1877.

LUNDGREN, Egron Sellif. b. Stockholm 18 Dec. 1815; water-colour painter; resided at Seville 1849–52; accompanied sir Colin Campbell’s expedition on the campaign in Oudh 1857 when he made a series of about 500 sketches which were exhibited in London, then purchased by Samuel Mendel and sold at Christie’s 16 April 1875; associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 1864, member 1865; knight of order of Gustavus Vasa of Sweden 1861; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1862; illustrated G. O. Hyltén-Cavallius and G. Stephens’ Svenska Folksagor 1875 and Old Norse fairy tales 1882. d. Stockholm 16 Dec. 1875. Graphic, xiii 28, 36 (1876), portrait.

LUNING, Jacob William (3 child of Meinhard Conrad Luning 1732–83, pastor of Hamelvörden, Hanover). b. Hamelvörden 19 May 1767; came to London 1790, a boarder at Duff’s school, Tooting; naturalised 1796; book-keeper in some of the first mercantile houses in the city down to 1858; admitted a member of Morden college, Blackheath 30 March 1859; m. at Spalding, Lincs. 4 Aug. 1796 Eleanor dau. of captain Sands and had issue 15 children. d. Morden college, Blackheath 23 June 1870 aged 103. Thoms’ Human longevity (1879) 255–63.

Note.—Having insured his life for £200 in the Equitable Society at the age of 36 namely in 1803, the bonuses at his death had raised the policy to £1292 10s., the largest addition ever paid by the Equitable or probably by any other Insurance company.

LUNN, Joseph. b. 1784; an original member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society; his chief plays were The sorrows of Werther, a burlesque, Covent Garden 6 May 1818, revived at St. James’s 13 Oct. 1836; Family Jars, a farce, Haymarket 26 Aug. 1822; Fish out of water, a farce 26 Aug. 1823; Hide and Seek, petit opera 22 Oct. 1824, revived at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1830; Roses and Thorns or two houses under one roof, comedy 24 Aug. 1825; Lunn’s Management or the prompter puzzled, a comic interlude 29 Sep. 1828, all these four were produced at Haymarket; author of Horæ Jocosæ, or the doggerel Decameron 1823. d. Grand parade, Brighton 12 Dec. 1863.

LUNN, William Arthur Brown. Invented sequential system of musical notes 1844; published under pseudonym of Arthur Wallbridge, Bizarre fables 1842; The sequential system of musical notation, a new method of writing music 1844, 6 ed. with his name 1873; Torrington hall, an account of two days passed at that establishment for the insane 1845; The council of four, a game at definitions 1848; Miscellanies, consisting of jest and earnest 1851; The Wallbridge miscellanies 1874, 3 ed. 1877. d. London 4 April 1879.

LUPTON, James (son of James Lupton of York). b. 1800; matriculated from Ch. Ch. Oxf. as a servitor 7 July 1819, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1825; V. of Blackbourton, Oxon. 1827 to death; minor canon of St. Paul’s cath. 1829 to death and of Westminster abbey 1829 to death; R. of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe, London 1832 to death; editor of The Temple by G. Herbert, with a life of the author 1865; The poetical works of A. Pope, with life of the author 1867; Gulliver’s Travels edited by A Clergyman 1867. d. The Cloisters, Westminster abbey 21 Dec. 1873. bur. Westminster abbey 27 Dec.

LUPTON, Thomas Goff (son of Wm. Lupton, working goldsmith). b. Clerkenwell, London 3 Sep. 1791; pupil of George Clint, engraver; assistant to Samuel Wm. Reynolds; exhibited 4 engravings at R.A. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–25; executed 4 of the plates in Turner’s Liber Studiorum; introduced steel for mezzotint engraving for which he received the Isis medal of Society of Arts 1822; six of his plates after Turner were published as Views of the ports of England 1825, reissued with 6 more of his plates as The harbours of England 1856; pres. of Artists’ annuity fund 1836; resided at 4 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 1837 to death, d. there 18 May 1873.

LURGAN, Charles Brownlow, 2 Baron (son of 1 baron Brownlow 1795–1847). b. Eaton place, London 10 April 1831; ed. at Eton; ensign 26 foot 15 March 1850, sold out 23 Jany. 1852; lord lieut. of Armagh 7 July 1864 to death; raced under name of Mr. Stafford; a breeder of greyhounds from 1854, won the Waterloo cup with Master M’Grath at Altcar 1868, first time an Irish dog took the cup, won again in 1869 and 1871, the dog was sent for the queen to see him on 1 March 1871 and d. 24 Dec. 1871; K.P. 1864; a lord in waiting to the queen 1869–74. d. Brighton 16 Jany. 1882. Baily’s Mag. April 1869 pp. 213–16, portrait; The Sporting Rev. Feb. 1869 pp. 129–32, portrait of Master M’Grath.

LUSH, John Alfred (1 son of John Lush of Berwick St. John, Wilts). b. 21 March 1815; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. St. Andrews 1864; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1872; in practice at East Knoyle, removed to Salisbury; with Corbin Finch proprietor of Fisherton house asylum, Salisbury 1862; mayor of Salisbury 1866; M.P. Salisbury 1868–80; entertained prince of Wales at a banquet Sep. 1872; removed to 13 Redcliffe square, South Kensington, London 1880. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Aug. 1888. The Salisbury Journal 11 Aug. 1888 p. 5.

LUSH, Sir Robert (eld. son of Robert Lush of Shaftesbury, Dorset). b. Shaftesbury 25 Oct. 1807; in a solicitor’s office; a special pleader in London 1839; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840, bencher 4 Nov. 1857 to Nov. 1865, treasurer 1859; Q.C. June 1857; leader with sir Wm. Bovill of the home circuit; serjeant at law 2 Nov. 1865; justice of court of queen’s bench 2 Nov. 1865 to 5 Nov. 1880; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; one of the three judges who tried the Tichborne claimant 1873–4; member of the judicature commission, settled at chambers the practice under the judicature acts Nov.-Dec. 1875; member of commission on the penal code 1878; P.C. 17 May 1879; lord justice of court of appeal 5 Nov. 1880 to death; author of The act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process with notes 1838; The act for the amendment of the law with respect to wills 1837, 2 ed. 1838; Practice of the superior courts of law at Westminster in actions and proceedings over which they have a common jurisdiction 1840, 3 ed. by J. Dixon 2 vols. 1865; edited J. Chitty’s The practice of the law in all its departments, vol. iii, 3 ed. 1842; J. S. Saunders’s Law of pleading and evidence in civil actions 2 ed. 2 vols. 1851. d. 60 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1881. Baptist Worthies. By W. Landels (1884) 373–411, portrait; A generation of Judges. By their reporter (1886) 21–9; I.L.N. xlvii 513 (1865), portrait; Illust. Times 18 Nov. 1865 p. 307, portrait; Graphic, xxv 20 (1882), portrait.

LUSHINGTON, Charles (3 son of sir Stephen Lushington, 1 baronet 1744–1807). b. London 14 April 1785; served in Bengal civil service 1800–27; chief secretary to government of Bengal 1823, retired on annuity 1827; M.P. Ashburton 1833–41; M.P. Westminster 1847–52; an original director of Crystal palace company 1852; resided at Edgware many years; president of Whittington club, Arundel st. Strand 1850; author of The history of the religious institutions founded in Calcutta. Calcutta 1824; A short notice of John Adams, Esq. Calcutta 1825; A remonstrance addressed to the bishop of London on the sanction given in his charge to the calumnies against the dissenters 2 ed. 1834; Dilemmas of a churchman arising from the discordant doctrine of the clergy 1838, 2 ed. 1838. d. 118 Marine parade, Brighton 23 Sep. 1866.

LUSHINGTON, Charles Manners (youngest son of Stephen Rumbold Lushington 1776–1868). b. 1819; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Souls’ college 1843–6; private sec. to president of board of control 1843 to July 1854; M.P. Canterbury 1854–7; resided Norton court, Kent. d. Boulogne-Sur-Mer 27 Nov. 1864.

LUSHINGTON, Edmund Law (1 son of Edmund Henry Lushington, puisne judge Ceylon, d. 1839). b. 10 Jany. 1811; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; senior classic and senior chancellor’s medallist 1832; fellow and tutor of his college; professor of Greek at univ. of Glasgow 1838–75, lord rector 15 Nov. 1884, only noncontested election on record; married 14 Oct. 1842 Cecilia sister of Lord Tennyson; edited with sir A. Grant, J. F. Ferrier’s Lectures on Greek philosophy 1866 and J. F. Ferrier’s Philosophical works vols. ii, iii 1875. d. Maidstone 13 July 1893. A. P. Martin’s Life of Lord Sherbrooke (1893).

LUSHINGTON, Franklin (4 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet 1775–1863). b. 20 April 1811; ensign 9 foot 16 July 1829, captain 30 Oct. 1838; major 37 foot 26 Nov. 1847 to 15 July 1854; captain Scots Fusilier guards 15 July 1854, sold out 28 Nov. 1856; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Hansham, Kent’s road, Torquay 18 Jany. 1890.

LUSHINGTON, Henry (2 son of Edmund Henry Lushington 1766–1839, master of the crown office, London). b. Singleton, Lancs. 13 April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1823–8, head boy 1827–8; student of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1829, fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; chief secretary to government of Malta 1847 to 1855, brought forward proposed code of laws before Malta legislative council 1849; Tennyson dedicated The Princess to him 1847; author of Fellow commoners and honorary degrees 1837; A great country’s little wars, or England, Afghanistan and Sinde 1844; The broad and narrow guage 1846 and other books; author with G. S. Venables of Joint Compositions 1840, a book of verses; and with his brother F. Lushington of La nation boutiquière 1855; Two battle pieces 1855. d. Paris 11 Aug. 1855. bur. Boxley, Kent. Henry Lushington’s The Italian war (1859), memoir pp. ix–ci.

LUSHINGTON, Sir Henry, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Stephen Lushington, Bart. 1744–1807). b. 27 Oct. 1775; succeeded 12 Jany. 1807; consul general at Naples 1815–32. d. 32 Montague square, London 25 Jany. 1863.

LUSHINGTON, Sir James Law (3 son of rev. James Stephen Lushington, preb. of Carlisle, d. 17 June 1801). b. Bottesham, Cambs. 1779; entered Madras army 1796; col. 3 Madras light cavalry 1831–49; col. 4 Madras light cavalry 1849 to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. Petersfield 1825, M.P. Hastings 1826, M.P. Carlisle 1827–32; a director of East India company 25 July 1827 to 1854, deputy chairman 1837, 1841 and 1847, and chairman 1838, 1842 and 1848; C.B. 14 Oct. 1818, K.C.B. 10 March 1837, G.C.B. 20 July 1838. d. 26 Dorset square, London 29 May 1859.

LUSHINGTON, Stephen (brother of sir Henry Lushington 1775–1863). b. Harley st. London 14 Jany. 1782; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806, B.C.L. 1807, D.C.L. 1808; fellow of All Souls’ coll. to 1821; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1806, bencher 1840–72, reader 1850, treasurer 1851; member of college of advocates 3 Nov. 1808; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1806 to 1808; M.P. Ilchester 1820–6; M.P. Tregony 1826–30; contested Reading 1830; M.P. Winchelsea 4 April 1831; returned for Winchelsea and Ilchester 1831 but sat for Ilchester; M.P. Tower Hamlets 1832–41; one of the counsel for Queen Caroline, made a speech in her defence 26 Oct. 1820, present at her death 7 Aug. 1821, one of her executors attended her funeral at Brunswick; voted freedom of city of London 7 Dec. 1820, admitted 2 June 1821; judge of consistory court of London 16 Feb. 1828 to 2 July 1858; judge of high court of admiralty 17 Oct. 1838 to 30 July 1867; P.C. 5 Nov. 1838; dean of arches 2 July 1858, resigned 30 July 1867; chancellor of diocese of Rochester 1826–56; chancellor of diocese of London 1828–58; served on many royal commissions; an ardent reformer, supported sir T. F. Buxton in the anti-slavery struggle; author of The reply of Dr. Lushington in support of the bill for the regulation of chimney sweepers, and the preventing the employment of boys in climbing chimneys 1818. d. Ockham park, Ripley, Surrey 19 Jany. 1873. Law Times, liv 225–6, 240–1 (1873); I.L.N. lxii 91, 95, 211 (1873), portrait.

LUSHINGTON, Sir Stephen (2 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet 1775–1863). b. Bedford sq. London 12 Dec. 1803; entered navy 1816; commander of the Ætna bomb 13 May 1828; took part in reduction of Kastro Morea 30 Oct. 1828 for which he was nominated chevalier of orders of St. Louis and the Redeemer, of Greece; captain 28 Oct. 1829; superintendent of Indian navy Nov. 1848 to 23 March 1852; captain of the Albion, July 1852; commanded naval brigade on shore at siege of Sebastopol 1855; R.A. 4 July 1855; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital 17 May 1862 to 2 Dec. 1865; admiral on h.p. 2 Dec. 1865; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Oak lodge, Thornton Heath, Surrey 28 May 1877.

LUSHINGTON, Stephen George (eld. son of the succeeding). Comr. of customs 3 Jany. 1825 to death. d. Norton court, Faversham, Kent 15 Feb. 1853.

LUSHINGTON, Stephen Rumbold (2 son of James Stephen Lushington, V. of Newcastle and preb. of Carlisle, d. 1801). b. Bendish house, Bottesham, Cambs. 6 May 1776; ed. at Rugby; D.C.L. of Oxf. univ. 12 June 1839; entered Madras civil service 4 Sep. 1790; assistant in the military, political and secret department, Madras 1792; collector at Tinnevelly 1801; registrar of Sudder and Foujdarry Adowlut 14 Jany. 1803, left the service 1807; M.P. Rye 1807–12; M.P. Canterbury 1812–30 and 1835–7; chairman of committees in house of commons to 1814; joint secretary of the treasury 1814 to 19 April 1827; P.C. 30 June 1827; governor of Madras 18 Oct. 1827 to 25 Oct. 1832; author of The life and services of general lord Harris 1840. d. Norton hall near Faversham, Kent 5 Aug. 1868. An account of the refusal of church rates by S. R. Lushington (1841).

LUTHER, Robert. b. 1800; farmed 1000 acres under earl Powis at Acton to death; a judge of Hereford and Shropshire cattle; huntsman of the Union hunt for Mr. Frank Beddows from about 1830 to death; in his last hours he sent for some of his hounds to come to his bedside. d. Acton 7 Sep. 1862. Sporting Review, xlviii 412–13 (1862).

LÜTHY, Robert (son of Victor Lüthy a veterinary surgeon, and one of a family of 21 children). b. Solothurn, Switzerland 24 Sep. 1840; draughtsman to R. and L. R. Bodmer, London 1862; in service of Hick, Hargreaves & Co. of Bolton 1864 to death; designed hydraulic cotton presses and balanced valves 1863; experimented on cold air machines for freezing meat 1876, went to Australia in connection with the business of shipping frozen meat 1883; member Instit. Mechanical engineers 1878. d. Bolton 3 July 1884. Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers (1884) 403–4.

LUTTON, Anne (youngest child of Ralph Lutton). b. Ireland 16 Dec. 1791; held meetings for women 1818; an Italian and Spanish scholar; held drawing room meetings; head of a class meeting at Bristol 1834; held religious meetings in England and Ireland; author of Poems on moral and religious subjects. Dublin 1829, 2 ed. 1842. d. Bristol 22 Aug. 1881. bur. Arno’s Vale cemetery 27 Aug. Memorials of a consecrated life (1883), portrait; Light on the christian’s daily path, compiled from the unpublished letters of A. Lutton, ed. by A. S. Webb (1886).

LUTTRELL, Alexander Fownes (4 son of John Fownes Luttrell, M.P. 1752–1816). b. 1793; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf. 6 May 1812; R. of East Quantoxhead, Somerset 2 May 1818 to death, having been rector 70 years. d. 12 Oct. 1888.

LUTTRELL, Henry (natural son of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2 earl Carhampton 1743–1821). b. 1771; M.P. Clonmines, co. Wexford in Irish parliament 1798; managed his father’s estates in the West Indies about 1802; introduced to London society by the duchess of Devonshire, a great talker and diner-out, a frequent guest at Holland House where he uttered many of his best mots, Gronow calls him the last of the conversationists; author of Letters to Julia in rhyme, 3 ed. 1822; Advice to Julia, a letter in rhyme 1820. d. 31 Brompton crescent, London 19 Dec. 1851, portraits of him at Holland House and at White’s club. Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries (1889) passim; St. James’s Mag. Jany. 1878 pp. 43–52.

LUTTRELL, Henry Acland Fownes (1 son of Alexander F. Luttrell 1793–1888). b. 1826; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1852; ensign Rifle brigade 11 Feb. 1855, lieut. 8 June 1855, sold out 1857 or 1858; lieut.-colonel 3 Somerset rifle volunteers 1860–89, hon.-col. 1889 to death; major West Somerset yeomanry 1858–80; a fine judge of horses and in great request at exhibitions of horses; instrumental in reviving the Bath and West of England agricultural soc.; sheriff of Somerset 1881; C.B. 1887. d. Badgworth court, Axbridge, Weston-Super-Mare 7 July 1893.

LUTTRELL, Henry Fownes (2 son of John F. Luttrell 1752–1816, M.P.) b. 7 Feb. 1790; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1812; M.P. Minehead 1816–22; a comr. of audit board 1822–49. d. Dunster castle, Somerset 6 Oct. 1867.

LUTWIDGE, Robert Wilfred Skeffington (2 son of Charles Lutwidge of Holmrook, Cumberland). b. London 1802; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 3 July 1827; commissioner in lunacy 1842–5 and 24 Dec. 1855 to death; secretary to lunacy commission 1845; comr. of inquiry into state of lunatic asylums in Ireland, Sep. 1856. d. Salisbury 28 May 1873. bur. Brompton cemetery 3 June. Law Times, lv 127 (1873).

LUXFORD, George. b. Sutton, Surrey 7 April 1807; apprenticed to Mr. Allingham a printer at Reigate 1818, stopped with him to 1834; removed to Birmingham 1834; a printer in London 1838–44; sub-editor of Westminster Review some years; lecturer on botany at St. Thomas’s hospital 1846–51; a compositor and reader in Mr. Newman’s printing establishment 1851 to death; edited The Phytologist 1841 to death; A.L.S. 1836; author of A flora of the neighbourhood of Reigate, flowering plants and ferns 1838. d. Hill st. Walworth, London 12 June 1854. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii 426 (1855).

LUXMOORE, Charles Scott (eld. son of John Luxmoore, bishop of Hereford and St. Asaph, d. 21 Jany. 1830 aged 73). b. 1792; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bromyard 2nd portion 1815 to death; R. of Cradley, Herefordshire 1816 to death; R. of Darowen, co. Montgomery 1819 to death; canon of Hereford 30 Oct. 1815 to death; preb. of St. Asaph 16 Oct. 1816 to 1842; dean of St. Asaph 26 June 1826 to death. d. Cradley 27 April 1854. bur. in St. Asaph cathedral.

LUXMOORE, Thomas Coryndon. b. 1795; second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1814, lieut.-col. 1 July 1849 to 1 April 1852 when placed on retired list; general 8 June 1871; wrote On the groins used in Sussex for preventing encroachment of the sea, in Papers of Corps of Engineers vol. i (1884). d. Tunbridge Wells 26 Nov. 1878.

LYALL, Alfred (youngest son of John Lyall of Findon, Sussex, d. 1805). b. 1795; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818; C. of Findon 1829–32; V. of Godmersham, Kent 1837–45; R. of Harbledown, Kent 1845 to death; contributed to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana; edited the Annual Register 1822–7 and 1837–8; author of Rambles in Madeira and Portugal 1827; A review of the principles of truth in reference to the doctrines of Hume and Reid 1830; Agonistes or philosophical strictures 1856. d. Llangollen, Wales 11 Sep. 1865. bur. Harbledown.

LYALL, George (brother of the preceding). b. 1784; succeeded his father as a merchant and shipowner 1805; chairman of the Shipowners’ Society committee several years; instrumental in forming company which made Shoreham harbour; a director of East India Co. 1830–51, deputy chairman 1840, chairman 1841; contested City of London 12 Dec. 1832 and 5 Jany. 1835; M.P. City of London 1833–5 and 1841–7; introduced and carried the Merchant Seamen’s Widows’ bill 1834; retired from public life 1847. d. 17 Park crescent, Regent’s park, London 1 Sep. 1853. Portraits of eminent conservatives. Second series, portrait 26 (1846).

LYALL, George. b. London 29 Aug. 1819; ed. at Winchester 1832 and Geneva 1835; M.P. Whitehaven 1857–65; a director of bank of England 1857 to death, deputy governor 1869–71, governor 1871–73. d. Cleve hill, Downend, Bristol 12 Oct. 1881.

LYALL, William Rowe (brother of George Lyall 1784–1853). b. London 11 Feb. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1816; C. of Fawley, Hampshire 1812–15; chaplain to St. Thomas’s hospital 1817; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn; exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1822; R. of Weeley, Essex 1823–33; archdeacon of Colchester 4 June 1824; Warburtonian lecturer Lincoln’s Inn 1826; R. of Fairsted, Essex 1827–33; R of Hadleigh 1833–42; archdeacon of Maidstone 11 June 1841 to 1845; preb. of Canterbury 11 June 1841 to 1845; R. of Great Chart, Kent 1842–52; dean of Canterbury 26 Nov. 1845 to death; edited The British Critic 1816–7; reorganised the Encyclopædia Metropolitana 1820 and contributed to its pages; edited with St. J. Rose the Theological Library vols. i–xiv 1832–46; author of Propædia Prophetica, a view of the use and design of the Old Testament 1840, 3 ed. 1885. d. the deanery, Canterbury 17 Feb. 1857. bur. Harbledown churchyard 26 Feb. G.M. April 1857 pp. 491–2.

LYCETT, Sir Francis (son of Philip Francis Lycett of Worcester). b. Worcester 1803; ed. at Dr. Simpson’s, Worcester; in his father’s glove works; manager for Dent and Allcroft, glovers, London 1832, a partner 1845–65, acquired a large fortune and retired; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1866–67; knighted at Osborne 3 Aug. 1867; contested Woodstock 17 Nov. 1868, Liskeard 11 May 1869 and St. Ives 30 Dec. 1874; a great friend to the Wesleyan Methodist connexion; member of London school board, Finsbury division, Nov. 1870. d. 18 Highbury grove, London 29 Oct. 1880. Christian Miscellany, Jany. 1881 pp. 15–18, portrait.

LYDE, Samuel. b. 1825; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1848, M.A. 1859; author of The Ansyreeh and Ismaeleeh, a visit to the secret sects of Northern Syria 1853; The Asian mystery illustrated in the history of the Ansaireeh or Nusairis of Syria 1860. d. Alexandria 1 April 1860 aged 35.

LYE, Thomas. b. Spinney-gate, Deansgate, Manchester 1795; well known jockey; often mentioned by Alfred Highflyer in the Sporting Mag.; won the Oaks on Lilias 1826, on Queen of Trumps 1835 and on Our Nell 1842; won the St. Leger on Queen of Trumps 1835 and on Blue Bonnet 1842. d. Middleham 27 May 1866. Sporting Review, lvi 79–80 (1866).

LYELL, Sir Charles, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Lyell of Kinnordy, Fifeshire, botanist 1767–1849). b. Kinnordy 14 Nov. 1797; ed. at Ringwood, Salisbury, Midhurst and Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1821, hon. D.C.L 1855; F.L.S. 1819; F.G.S. 1819, secretary 1823–6, foreign sec. 1826, pres. 1835–6 and 1849–50, Wollaston medallist 1866; F.R.S. 1826, royal medallist 1835, Copley medallist 1858; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; professor of geology King’s college, London, Oct. 1831 to 1833 or 1834; gave 7 lectures at Royal Institution 1832; knighted at Balmoral 19 Sep. 1848; baronet 22 Aug. 1864; pres. of British Assoc. at Bath 1864; presented with freedom of Turners’ company 25 June 1874; author of Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth’s surface by reference to causes now in operation 3 vols. 1830–33, 12 ed. 1875; Elements of geology 1838, 6 ed. 1865; Travels in North America 2 vols. 1845; A second visit to the United States of North America 2 vols. 1849; The geological evidences of the antiquity of man 1863, 4 ed. 1873; The students’ elements of geology 1871, 3 ed. 1878. d. 43 Harley st. London 22 Feb. 1875. bur. in nave of Westminster abbey 27 Feb. Life of Sir Charles Lyell 2 vols. (1881), 2 portraits; Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxxii 53–69 (1876); Proc. of Royal soc. xxv 11–14 (1877); Nature, xii 325 (1875), portrait; I.L.N. xlvi 227, 230 (1865), portrait.

LYGON, Edward Pyndar (youngest son of 1 Earl Beauchamp 1747–1816). b. about 1786; sub lieut. 2 life guards 1 June 1803, commanded 2 life guards at Waterloo, lieut.-col. 14 April 1818 to 10 Jany. 1837; inspector general of cavalry to death; colonel 13 light dragoons 29 Jany. 1845 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 11 Nov. 1860.

LYLE, Acheson (2 son of Samuel Lyle of the lodge, co. Londonderry 1761–1815). b. 13 March 1795; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1832; called to the Irish bar 1818; assistant barrister for the Queen’s county; second remembrancer of court of exchequer, Ireland 1835–44, chief remembrancer 1844; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1837; a master in chancery, Ireland, Nov. 1852; lord lieut. co. Londonderry, April 1860 to death. d. The Oaks, Londonderry 22 April 1870. Irish law times 30 April 1870 p. 326.

LYLE, Thomas. b. Paisley 10 Sep. 1792; ed. at Glasgow univ., took diploma of surgeon 1816; practised at Glasgow and Airth, Stirlingshire; returned to Glasgow 1835; collected ancient airs and songs; wrote the beautiful song ‘Let us haste to Kelvin Grove, bonnie lassie, O,’ first published anonymously in the Harp of Renfrewshire 1820; contributed to R. A. Smith’s Irish Minstrel; edited Ancient ballads and songs 1827. d. Glasgow 19 April 1859. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland, ii 129–30 (1877); Brown’s Poets of Paisley, i 269.

LYNCH, David (son of David Lynch of Dublin, merchant). b. 1812; ed. at the Feinaglian institution Luxembourg and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831; called to bar in Ireland 1833; leader of Leinster circuit; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; bencher of King’s inns 1860; chairman of quarter sessions co. Louth 1857–59; judge of bankruptcy court 1859 to Jany. 1867; judge of landed estates court Jany. 1867 to death. d. 27 Merrion sq. Dublin 18 Dec. 1872. bur. Prospect cemetery, Glasnevin 21 Dec. Irish law times, vi 647, 662 (1872).

LYNCH, David. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1864; called to bar in Ireland 1865; Q.C. 5 July 1884. d. Somerville, Howth 27 Oct. 1889 aged 47.

LYNCH, Henry Blosse (3 son of Henry Blois Lynch of Partry house, Ballinrobe, co. Mayo, major in the army, d. 1843). b. 24 Nov. 1807; joined Indian navy as a volunteer 1823, lieut. 1829, Persian and Arabic interpreter to the Persian Gulf squadron 1829–33; second in command of expedition despatched to explore Euphrates route to India 1834–7, commander of it 1837; commanded the steamer Tigris which foundered 21 May 1836; completed map of the river Tigris 1839; commanded a flotilla off mouth of the Indus 1843; assistant to superintendent of Indian navy 1843–51; founded the Indian navy club at Bombay; captain 13 Sep. 1847; commodore in command of a squadron in second Burmese war 1851–3; retired from the service 13 April 1856; C.B. 3 Dec. 1853; resided in Paris 1856 to death; conducted negotiations with Persian plenipotentiary which resulted in treaty of Paris 4 March 1857, for which the Shah nominated him to the highest class of the Lion and Sun. d. 6 Rue royal, Faubourg St. Honoré, Paris 14 April 1873.

LYNCH, Patrick Niesen. b. Clones, Ireland 10 March 1817; taken to U.S. of America 1819; ed. at coll. of the propaganda, Rome, D.D. 1840; assist. pastor of Charlestown cath. 1840–44; pastor of St. Mary’s ch. 1844–55; administrator of the see of Charlestown 1855–58, and bishop 14 March 1858 to death, cathedral and residence burnt down 1861; sent on a mission to the Pope with a letter from Jefferson Davis 1862; ruined and involved in debt by the civil war 1865; attended on the yellow fever patients in 1848 and 1871; author of Miraculous existence of the church. A sermon at Second plenary council, Baltimore 1866. d. Charlestown 26 Feb. 1882. Appleton’s American Biography, iv 64 (1888).

LYNCH, Theodora Elizabeth (dau. of Arthur Foulks of Jamaica, sugar-planter). b. Dale park, Sussex 1812; m. 28 Dec. 1835 Henry Mark Lynch, 2 son of John Lynch of Kingston, Jamaica, b. Kingston 29 Oct. 1814, barrister M.T. 12 June 1840, d. Kingston 15 July 1845; author of Lays of the sea and other poems By Personne 1846, 2 ed. 1850; The cotton tree, or Emily the little West Indian 1847, another ed. 1853; The family sepulchre, a tale of Jamaica 1848, and 14 other stories for children. d. 81 St. John’s Wood terrace, London 27 June 1885.

LYNCH, Thomas Kerr (younger brother of Henry Blosse Lynch 1807–73). b. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; served with his brother during second Euphrates expedition 1837–42; set up in business at Baghdad; bore the expense of trading-steamers constructed for the rivers Euphrates and Tigris; travelled in Mesopotamia and Persia; an Arabic and Persian scholar; consul general for Persia, in London 1869–75; knight of the Lion and Sun on the Shah’s visit to England 1873; author of A visit to the Suez canal 1866; F.R.G.S. d. 31 Cleveland sq. London 27 Dec. 1891. Times 29 Dec. 1891 p. 5.

LYNCH, Thomas Toke (10 child of John Burke Lynch, surgeon, d. 1820). b. Dunmow, Essex 5 July 1818; ed. at a school in Islington, London, afterwards an usher in the school; a Sunday school teacher and preacher 1841; pastor of Highgate independent church 1847–9; pastor of a congregation in Mortimer st. London 1849, which migrated to Grafton st. Fitzroy sq. 1852, resigned 1859; pastor of independent church in Gower st. 1860, which removed to Mornington crescent, Hampstead road 1862 to death; author of Thoughts on a day 1844; Memorials of Theophilus Trinal 1850, 4 ed. 1882; Essays on some of the forms of literature 1853; The Rivulet, a contribution to sacred song 1855, 3 ed. 1868; these hymns said to be pantheistic, gave rise to a long discussion known as The Rivulet controversy, Lynch replied to his opponents in The ethics of quotation 1856 and Songs Controversial 1856, both issued under pseudonym of ‘Silent Long’; A Christmas address 1856, 3 ed. 1872. d. 76 Arlington st. Mornington crescent 9 May 1871. White’s Memoirs of T. T. Lynch (1874), portrait; A critical and descriptive notice of Rev. T. T. Lynch (1859); Miller’s Singers and songs of the church (1869) 560–61; Waddington’s Congregational history, v 134–69 (1880); J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit, 2 ed. (1858) 101–10 and his Religious Life in London (1870) 187–92.

LYNCH, William Wiltshire. b. 1 April 1831; ensign 70 foot 17 Sep. 1850; captain 2 foot 1858, major 1873 to 1875 when placed on h.p.; brigade major Chatham 1866–70; deputy judge advocate 1875–6; lieut.-col. 10 foot 3 May 1876 to 3 May 1881; lieut.-col. regimental district 1881–6; M.G. 1 April 1887; M.G. Bengal 31 March 1888 to death. d. of cholera at Allahabad 4 Aug. 1888.

LYNCH-BLOSSE, Henry (elder son of sir Robert Lynch-Blosse, 8 bart. 1784–1818). b. 11 Feb. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1860; V. of Newcastle, Glamorganshire, with V. of Bettws, C. of Laleston and C. of Tythegston 1839–77; archdeacon and canon of Llandaff 17 June 1859 to 1877; dean of Llandaff 1877 to death. d. Llandaff deanery 28 Jany. 1879.

LYNDHURST, John Singleton Copley, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Singleton Copley of Boston, U.S., afterwards of London, painter, 1737–1815). b. Boston 21 May 1772; brought to England, June 1775; pensioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 8 July 1790, 2 wr. and Smith’s prizeman 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1796; junior fellow of his coll. 2 Oct. 1795, senior fellow 5 July 1797 to 1804; travelling bachelor of Camb. univ. 1795–8, high steward of the univ. 1840; member of Lincoln’s inn 19 May 1794; practised as a special pleader; barrister L.I. 8 June 1804; serjeant at law 6 July 1813; leader of Midland circuit 1816; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1818; M.P. Ashburton 1818–26; M.P. univ. of Camb. 1826–7; king’s serjeant and chief justice of Chester Dec. 1818 to July 1819; solicitor general 24 July 1819, knighted Oct. 1819; attorney general 9 Jany. 1824 to 14 Sep. 1826; master of the rolls 13 Sep. 1826 to April 1827; recorder of Bristol, Sep. 1826 to April 1827; lord chancellor 20 April 1827 to 22 Nov. 1830; lord chief baron of the exchequer 18 Jany. 1831 to 1834, lord chancellor again 21 Nov. 1834 to 23 April 1835, and 3 Sep. 1841 to 4 July 1846; created baron Lyndhurst of Lyndhurst in the county of Southampton 25 April 1827. d. 25 George st. Hanover sq. London 12 Oct. 1863. bur. Highgate cemetery 17 Oct. 1863. Sir T. Martin’s Life of Lord Lyndhurst 2 ed. (1884), portrait; W. S. Gibson’s Brief memoir of Lord Lyndhurst (1869); Lord Campbell’s Lives of the lord chancellors, viii 1–212 (1869); Misrepresentations in Campbell’s Lives of Lyndhurst and Brougham. Corrected by St. Leonards (1869); Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 394–7, portrait; W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England and Austria. New York (1863) pp. 173–79; Law Magazine, liv 321–68 (1856); Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1st series (1836), portrait; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, ii (1831), portrait; Orators of the age. By G. H. Francis (1847) 142–59; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 100–107.

Note.—He was sketched under name of Lord Harderly in The life of a lawyer. Written by himself [By Sir James Stewart] 1830. In 1831 he heard the equity case of Small v Attwood, which occupied a greater number of hours than the trial of Warren Hastings, he delivered 1 Nov. 1832 by all accounts the most wonderful judgment ever heard in Westminster Hall. No Chancellor received the Great Seal so often from different sovereigns since the Plantaganet reigns.

LYNDON, Patrick Francis. b. Ireland 1812; ed. R.C. seminary, Montreal, Canada, and college of St. Sulpice, Paris; a priest at Boston, U.S. America; in charge of St. Mary’s parish, Charlestown, Mass. till 1852; pastor of St. Peter and Paul, south Boston 1853 and vicar general 1866; member of Boston school committee 7 years. d. Boston 19 April 1878. Appleton’s Annual Cyclop. for 1878 (1883) p. 641.

LYNE, Charles (son of rev. Richard Lyne 1760–1834). b. Castle hill, Liskeard, Cornwall, Aug. 1802; R. of Roche 1834–41; V. of Tywardreath 1841–47 and 1851–63; prebendary of Exeter 31 March 1843 to death; cr. M.A. of Lambeth 27 May 1843; author of An old man’s wanderings, a tour through the manufacturing districts 1845; A tract entitled Little Salem 1850 is attributed to C. Lyne and led to The Little Salem controversy. d. Colby villa, Dawlish 5 May 1873. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874–82) 329–30, 1272.

LYNE, Francis (3 son of Joseph Lyne, merchant, Lisbon 1766–1823). b. Lisbon 27 Dec. 1800, registered at St. Ive church, Cornwall, April 1809; F.R.G.S.; father of the rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne known as Father Ignatius; author of Tribunals of commerce 5 vols. 1851–76; Dr. Pusey’s Defence of Father Ignatius 1881. d. 54 Montague sq. London 15 May 1888.

Note.—Lyne v. Sampson Low and others The Times 17–19 Feb. 1873. This was an action respecting the defendants refusing to publish Tribunals of Commerce, after agreeing to do so, because it contained libellous matter. The plaintiff was non-suited.

LYNE, Lewis Clifton (son of Charles Lyne, stock-broker 1790–1861). b. 8 March 1835; of the Office of Works, London to 1876; sub-editor of Household Words 1876 to which he contributed several serial stories; wrote under name of Lewis Clifton in conjunction with Joseph J. Dilley, Tom Pinch, a comedy Vaudeville theatre 10 March 1881; Lady Lovelace; La Rosiere, a comic opera, music by Walter A. Slaughter; Marjorie, a comic opera, Prince of Wales 18 July 1889. d. 38 East st. Bloomsbury, London 2 Dec. 1889. bur. Woking cemetery.

LYNN, Samuel Ferris. b. Belfast 1836; student at the R.A. 1854, obtained gold medal there 1859 for a group of Lycaon and Achilles; exhibited 26 statues at the R.A. 1856–75; his Evangeline exhibited 1858 was engraved in the Art Journal 1865 p. 372; member of Institute of Sculptors 1861; associate of Royal Hibernian academy; executed some important public works in Dublin and Manchester. d. Belfast 20 April 1876.

LYNNE, Henry. Edited a Hampshire paper; acted under Macready at Drury Lane 1841; starred at the Princess’s with Miss Cushman and J. W. Wallack 1844–45; first appeared in U.S. of America at Broadway theatre, New York as Joseph Surface in The school for scandal 27 Sep. 1847. d. St. Louis, Mobile 8 Aug. 1854.

LYON, Francis. b. 11 Jany. 1834; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1851, lieut.-col. 11 June 1877; served in Indian mutiny 1857–8, was at siege of Lucknow; employed testing the powers of breech loading guns and the resistance of targets; superintendent of royal laboratory at Woolwich arsenal 1 April 1880 to death; invented a sensitive base percussion fuse, during the trial of which at the military school of gunnery at Shoeburyness the shell burst and he was so much injured 26 Feb. 1885 that he died same day. I.L.N. 21 March 1885 pp. 303, 304, portrait.

LYON, Henry (son of a house agent). b. St. Luke’s, London 15 March 1831; sang at concerts and theatres from 1837; learnt fencing and imitating the Grecian statues; employed in Clark’s circus and at shows in fairs; learnt the violin and the harp, and with his brother performed in the street; a violinist in Jersey as Mr. Dymont from America; kept a music shop in Bunhill row, London; became a Wesleyan Methodist; a visitor for the Strangers’ Friend Society; a gun barrel maker in the Enfield works; a French polisher; a street preacher; a porter under Pickford & Co.; a preacher in The Christian Community; with his wife performed sacred music in the streets and sang hymns; a preacher and singer in Southampton in 1865. The life of Henry Lyon (1865).

LYON, Thomas Eaton. b. Woolton near Liverpool 17 Oct. 1812; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre as Miles Bertram in the Wreck ashore 29 Sep. 1836; acted Jonathan Wild in Jack Sheppard there 28 Oct. 1839; played at the Surrey, at the City of London, at the National Standard; last appeared on the stage at City of London theatre as Job Thornbury in John Bull 28 Aug. 1867; one of the five originators of General theatrical fund 1839. d. White Hart tavern, 197 High st. Shoreditch, London 23 Jany. 1869. bur. Abney park cemetery 27 Jany. Era 31 Jany. 1869 p. 10.

LYON, William (5 son of David Lyon of Jamaica and Portland place, London). b. 1807; cornet 8 hussars 17 July 1823, captain 30 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 2 Aug. 1833; M.P. for Seaford 1831–2; contested Lewes 1837, Marylebone 1859, Canterbury 1862 and 1865, and Shoreham 1874; member of bench of Middlesex magistrates, always opposed the license of Argyle Rooms; was in appearance exactly like the 2 baron Panmure; (m. 1860 Louisa Maria Sporle elder dau. of Henry Valentine Smith known as H. V. Swanborough, lessee of Strand theatre, she was an actress at Strand theatre to 1860). d. Goring hall near Worthing 5 April 1892.

LYONS, Edmund Lyons, 1 Baron (4 son of John Lyons of Antigua). b. Burton near Christchurch, Hants. 22 Nov. 1790; ed. at Hyde Abbey school near Winchester; entered navy June 1801; took the Dutch fort of Marrach, 74 miles west of Batavia, by surprise 30 July 1811 without orders to do so; captain 7 June 1814; commanded the Blonde frigate in the Mediterranean 1828, co-operated with French troops in reduction of Kastro Morea Oct. 1828 for which he received French order of St. Louis and Greek order of the Redeemer; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted 23 Jany. 1835; minister and plenipotentiary at Athens 2 July 1835 to Feb. 1849; created baronet 29 July 1840; K.C.B. 10 July 1844, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; minister to the Swiss confederation 1849–51; minister at Stockholm 1851–3; R.A. 14 Jany. 1850, V.A. 19 March 1857; second in command of Mediterranean fleet Nov. 1853, commander-in-chief 14 Feb. 1855 to 22 Feb. 1858; the practical commander of the fleet throughout the Crimean war 1853–55; received grand cross of legion of honour and Medjidie of 1st class; created baron Lyons of Christchurch 23 June 1856; (m. 18 July 1814 Augusta Louisa 2 dau. of Josias Rogers, captain R.N., she was author of three novels, Olivia 1848, Sir Philip Hetherington 1851, The lover upon trial 1853, all published in the Parlour library, she d. 10 March 1852). He d. Arundel Castle 24 Nov. 1858, portrait at the naval exhibition 1891. Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series (1859), portrait; E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of war against Russia, i 398 (1857), portrait; Illust. Times 15 March 1862 p. 164, portrait.

LYONS, Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1 Viscount (elder son of the preceding). b. Lymington, Hampshire 26 April 1817; midshipman H.M.S. Blonde 1829; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1865; attaché at Athens Feb. 1839, at Dresden April 1852 and at Florence 1853; sec. of legation at Rome 1856, envoy extraord. and min. plenipotentiary to Grand duke of Tuscany 16 June 1858; minister at Washington 13 Dec. 1858, returned to England 6 Dec. 1864, retired 28 Feb. 1865; voted freedom of city of London 28 Feb. 1856, admitted 19 May 1856; ambassador at Constantinople 10 Aug. 1865, at Paris 6 July 1867 to 1887, negotiated renewal of commercial treaty of 1860, 1873; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1860, G.C.B. 24 Jany. 1862; P.C. 9 March 1865; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created viscount Lyons of Christchurch in the county of Southampton 17 Nov. 1881; joined Church of Rome shortly before his death; his decease prevented his being created an earl. d. Norfolk house, 31 St. James’s sq. London 5 Dec. 1887. bur. Arundel 10 Dec.

LYONS, Francis. b. Cork 1797; ed. at univ. of Paris, M.D. 1822 but never practised; M.P. Cork 1859–65. d. 1865.

LYONS, Humphry. b. 8 July 1802; entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 12 Bombay N.I. 9 July 1818; captain 23 N.I. 25 May 1827 to 21 Jany. 1846; major 28 N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, lieut.-col. 26 Oct. 1850 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 6 N.I. 1852–53, of 1 European regiment, right wing 1853–4, of 14 N.I. 1854–5, of 23 N.I. 1855–7; town major, Bombay 2 Dec. 1851 to 5 May 1859; lieut.-col. of 1 N.I. 1857 to 7 Oct. 1860; col. of 18 N.I. 7 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 20 May 1871. d. Widmore, Bromley, Kent 27 May 1873.

LYONS, James Gilborne. b. England; ordained in the church of England; R. of St. Mary’s ch. Burlington, New Jersey, U.S. America 1844; a teacher in Philadelphia 1861; principal of a classical school, Haverford, Pennsylvania to death; author of Christian songs, translations and other poems. Philadelphia 1861. d. Haverford 2 Jany. 1868.

LYONS, John (eld. son of John Lyons of Lyons, Antigua, and St. Austin’s, Hants.) b. 1 Sep. 1787; entered navy 20 Sep. 1798; took part in battle of Trafalgar; captain 22 July 1830; employed for the government in Egypt; retired admiral 2 April 1866. d. Worthing 15 Dec. 1872.

LYONS, John Charles (only child of Charles John Lyons 1766–96, captain 12 light dragoons). b. 22 Aug. 1792; matric. from Pemb. coll. Oxf. 21 May 1810; sheriff of Westmeath 1816; author of Treatise on the management of orchidaceous plants, with a catalogue of more than one thousand species 2 ed. Dublin 1845; A book of surveys and distribution of the estates forfeited in the county of Westmeath in the year 1641. Ledestown 1852; The grand juries of Westmeath from 1727 to 1853. Ledestown 1853. d. Ledestown, Westmeath 3 Sep. 1874. bur. in churchyard of Mullingar, co. Westmeath.

LYONS, Louisa, stage name of A. C. Lyons (dau. of a woman who kept a glove shop in Carlton st. Regent st. London in 1828). b. about 1820; sat for the Madonna to Stephanoff and Chalon for their quasi-religious pictures; a pupil of royal academy of music Jany. 1835 to Dec. 1836; sang in the chorus at the Italian opera and at Exeter hall; first appeared as an actress at the Queen’s theatre, London 13 June 1839; mistress of the Marquis of Waterford 1839–42; played Giovanni in Giovanni in London, at Victoria theatre 23 Sep. 1844; played at the Strand theatre before 1845 as Miss Lyons her real name; played afterwards under name of Turner at Olympic and Lyceum; lived in splendid style at Bayswater; made a first-rate matrimonial match. Baron Nicholson’s Autobiography (1860) 53, 250.

LYONS, Robert Spencer Dyer (2 son of sir Wm. Lyons 1794–1858). b. Cork 1826; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.B. 1848; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1849; the first in Ireland to lecture on use of microscope in relation to disease; chief pathological comr. to the army in the Crimea 1855; awarded Crimean and Turkish medals and clasps for Sebastopol 8 Sep. 1855; investigated pathological anatomy of yellow fever raging at Lisbon 1857, for which he received cross and insignia of Ancient Order of Christ; physician and teacher in St. George’s hospital, Dublin 1858; professor of medicine in R. C. university medical school; physician to house of industry hospitals; a comr. of inquiry into treatment of Irish treason-felony prisoners in English gaols 1870; enquired into treatment of French political prisoners 1870; a senator of the royal univ. 1880; crown nominee for Ireland in general medical council of the U.K. 29 Nov. 1881; M.P. city of Dublin 1880–5; author of An apology for the microscope 1851; A handbook of hospital practice 1859; A treatise on fever 1861; Forest acres in Europe and America and probable future timber supplies 1884. d. 89 Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Dec. 1886. Midland medical miscellany 1 Feb. 1884 pp. 33–5, portrait; Biograph, iii 396–400 (1880).

LYONS, Sir William (2 son of Wm. Lyons of Cork, merchant). b. Cork 28 Aug. 1794; a merchant at Cork; sheriff of Cork; mayor of Cork 1848 and 1849; knighted by the queen on board the ‘Fairy’ yacht at Cork 3 Aug. 1849. d. 27 Dec. 1858.

LYSAGHT, Arthur. b. 22 Nov. 1782; entered navy 30 June 1795; captain 25 Sep. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half pay 18 June 1857. d. Twickenham 19 March 1859.

LYSLEY, William John (only son of William Lysley d. 1792). b. 12 Dec. 1791; barrister I.T. 25 Nov. 1825; sheriff of Herts. 1851; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; contested Chippenham 12 July 1865; F.S.A. d. St. Leonards on Sea 14 Jany. 1873.

LYSONS, Samuel (2 son of rev. Daniel Lysons, topographer 1762–1834). b. 17 March 1806; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836; R. of Rodmarton, Gloucs. 1833 to death; built St. Luke’s ch. High Orchard, Gloucester, consecrated 21 April 1841; rural dean of Gloucester 1865–76; hon. canon of Gloucester cath. 24 Dec. 1867 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; author of Conjectures concerning the identity of the patriarch Job, his family, the time in which he lived and the locality of the land of Uz. Oxford 1832; The Romans in Gloucestershire 1860; Claudia and Pudens, a tale of the first century 1861; The model merchant of the middle ages, Whittington and his cat 1861; Our British ancestors, who and what they were 1865. d. Hempsted court, Gloucester 27 March 1877. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, ii 514–6, 533.

LYSTER, James (eld. son of col. Anthony Lyster of Lysterfield, co. Roscommon, d. 1841). b. 7 Sep. 1810; C. of Edgworthstown; V. of Rufagh and C. of Street; R. of Tashinny, Ardagh 1851; dean of Leighlin and R. of Wells 1854–64; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1863; R. of St. George’s cath. Kingston and dean of Ontario 1863, non-resident by leave of the bishop with consent of parishioners. d. Plas Isaaf, Ruthin, North Wales 2 Sep. 1891.

LYSTER, William Saurin (son of captain Chaworth Lyster of Greenane, Queen’s co.). b. Dublin 21 March 1827; engaged in the production of operas in the Australian colonies and New Zealand 1861–81 where the Lyster opera companies were very well known; up to 1878 had superintended 1750 performances in Melbourne where he was a proprietor and managing director of the new Opera House opened 1872. d. Melbourne 26 Nov. 1880.

LYTH, John. b. York 13 March 1821; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1843; at Gloucester 1847–9, at Nottingham 1851–4, 1877–80, at Halifax 1854–7, at Liverpool 1868–71, at Sheffield 1871–4, at Hull 1874–7, at York 1883 to death; the first Wesleyan missionary in Germany, at Winnenden, Würtemberg 1859–65; D.D.; author of Wild Flowers 1843; Die Zionsharfe, a collection of spiritual songs 1863; Der Sontags-Gast, a periodical 3 vols. 1863–5; Kleine Lieder fur kleine Leute 1864; A homiletical commentary on Isaiah 1867; The homiletical treasury, Romans to Philippians 1869; Glimpses of early Methodism in York 1885. d. Carlton terrace, York, on the anniversary of his birth 13 March 1886.

LYTH, Richard Burdsall. b. York 1810; ed. for medical profession; medical missionary of Wesleyan Methodist soc. to the Friendly and Fiji islands 1836–55; translated portions of Old and New Testament into Fijian language, in which he also composed hymns; established a training institution for native agents at Lakemba, Fiji; governor of Wesleyan coll. Auckland, New Zealand 1855–58; Wesl. minister Gibraltar 1869–74. d. Fulford barracks, Yorkshire 27 Feb. 1887.

LYTHGOE, Thomas. b. Manchester 1832; inspector of Metropolitan gas co.; an aeronaut 1850 to death, making 405 successful ascents; the first person to make an ascent from the crystal palace about 1860. d. Hertford, April 1893.

LYTTELTON, George William Lyttelton, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 baron Lyttelton 1782–1837). b. Saville row, London 31 March 1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., chancellor’s medallist and bracketed senior classic 1838, B.A. and M.A. 1838, LL.D. 1862; D.C.L. Oxf. 1870; lord lieut. of Worcs. 7 Nov. 1839 to death; principal of Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1845; the first pres. of Birmingham and midland institute 1853; a founder of Diocesan training college for schoolmasters at Saltley opened 1852, pres. many years; under secretary of state for the colonies Jany. to July 1846; chairman of the Canterbury Association 1849 which founded province of Canterbury, New Zealand 1850, the seaport of Lyttelton near Christchurch, N.Z. was called after him; a public schools inquiry comr. 1861; chief comr. of endowed schools 1869–74; F.R.S. 30 April 1840; chairman of Worcester cathedral restoration committee; P.C. 15 Feb. 1869; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869; pres. of British chess association some years; published with W. E. Gladstone a volume of translations into Greek and Latin entitled Ex voto communi in memoriam duplicum nuptiarum viii Kal. Aug. MDCCCXXXIX; edited several of his father’s works and was author of The four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles with notes 1856; New Zealand and the Canterbury colony 1859; The final court of appeal in causes affecting the doctrine of the church of England 1864; Ephemera Series 1, 2, 1865–72; Two lectures on a visit to the Canterbury colony 1868; committed suicide by jumping out of window at 18 Park crescent, London 19 April 1876. bur. Hagley churchyard 22 April. British Medical Journal 29 April 1876 pp. 542–3; I.L.N. xxvii 44 (1855), portrait, lxviii 421, 430 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xiii 416 (1876), portrait; Walford’s Representative men (1868), portrait 12; Illust. Midland news, i 61 (1869), portrait.

LYTTELTON, Spencer (brother of the preceding). b. Saville row, London 19 June 1818; served some years in royal navy; ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 May 1839, retired 6 Aug. 1841; attached to legation at St. Petersburg 27 Aug. 1847; marshal of ceremonies to the Queen 1 Jany. 1847 to Jany. 1877 when he resigned. d. 11 Eaton terrace, London 4 Feb. 1889.

LYTTELTON, William Henry (brother of 4 baron Lyttelton 1817–76). b. 3 April 1820; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1841; C. of Kettering, Northamptonshire 1843–5; R. of Hagley, Worcs. 1847 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 4 Nov. 1850 to 1880; canon of Gloucester 1880 to death; edited Forms of praise and prayer in the manner of offices. Oxford 1869; Scripture revelations of the life after death 1875, 4 ed. 1893; translated from the French of Frédéric Godet, Studies on the Old Testament, 2 ed. 1882; Lectures in defence of the christian faith 1881, 2 ed. 1883; and from the French of Félix Bovet, Egypt, Palestine and Phœnicia, a visit to sacred lands 1882. d. Malvern 24 July 1884.

LYTTON, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1 Baron (youngest son of Wm. Earle Bulwer of Heydon hall, Norfolk, general 1757–1807). b. 31 Baker st. London 25 May 1803; ed. at Rottingdean, Ealing and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb., chancellor’s medallist 1825; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1835, hon. LL.D. 1864; hon. LL.D. Oxf. 1853; purchased an ensigncy in the army 19 Oct. 1825, placed on h.p. 27 July 1826, sold out 25 Jany. 1829; edited the New Monthly Mag. Nov. 1831 to 1832; M.P. St. Ives, Hunts. 1831–2; M.P. Lincoln 1832–41; contested city of Lincoln 1841 and 1847; M.P. Herts. 1852–66; his plays The duchess de la Vallière produced 4 Jany. 1837; The Lady of Lyons or love and pride 15 Feb. 1838; Richelieu or the conspiracy 7 March 1839, all 3 at Covent Garden; The sea captain or the birthright, produced at Haymarket 31 Oct. 1839, revived at Lyceum as The rightful heir 3 Oct. 1868; Money, produced at Haymarket 8 Dec. 1840, which ran for unprecedented number of 80 nights; Not so bad as we seem, performed by Charles Dickens’s amateur company at duke of Devonshire’s house in London 27 May 1851; created baronet 18 July 1838; assumed surname of Lytton by r.l. 10 Feb. 1844; secretary of state for the colonies 31 May 1858 to 18 June 1859, new colony of British Columbia organised 1858, Queensland separated from New South Wales 1859, a town in each colony is named Lytton after him; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1856 and 1858; created baron Lytton of Knebworth, Herts. 14 July 1866; P.C. 5 June 1858; G.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870; author of Ismael, an Oriental tale with other poems 1820; Pelham, or the adventures of a gentleman 3 vols. 1828, anon.; Paul Clifford. By E.L.B. 3 vols. 1830; The pilgrims of the Rhine 1834, anon.; The last days of Pompeii 3 vols. 1834; Rienzi, the last of the tribunes 3 vols. 1835; Athens, its rise and fall 2 vols. 1837; Night and morning 3 vols. 1841; Zanoni 3 vols. 1842; Lucretia or the children of night 1846, anon.; King Arthur, a poem 1848; The Caxtons 3 vols. 1849; My Novel. By Pisistratus Caxton 4 vols. 1853; What will he do with it. By P. Caxton 4 vols. 1859; The coming race 1871, anon., and about 40 other books; a library edition of his novels appeared in 43 vols. 1859–63. d. Argyll lodge, Torquay 18 Jany. 1873. bur. St. Edmund’s chapel, Westminster abbey 25 Jany. Life, letters and literary remains. By his Son 2 vols. (1883), 2 portraits; Lord Lytton, a biography by Thomson Cooper (1873); The Derby ministry. By Mark Rochester i.e. Charles Kent (1858) 143–94; Illustrated Review 15 June 1871 pp. 551–5, portrait; Cartoon Portraits (1873) 1–5, portrait; J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 243–56; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 189–214 (1844), portrait; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists, ii 198–220 (1858); Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, iii 27–63 (1855); Graphic, vii 70, 97, 100 (1873), 2 portraits.

Note.—He gave the ground near Stevenage, Herts., for an institute for retired members of the Guild of Literature and Art 1851, one side of the building consisting of 13 dwellings was erected and inaugurated 29 July 1865 but the scheme was a failure. He is satirised by Thackeray in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Mistawedward Lytton Bulwig. The works of W. M. Thackeray, xii 404–14 (1869).

LYTTON, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1 Earl of (only son of the preceding). b. 36 Hertford st. London 8 Nov. 1831; ed. at Harrow and Bonn; attaché at Washington 1849, at Florence 1852, at Paris 1854, at the Hague 1856, at St. Petersburg 1858, at Constantinople 1858, at Vienna 1859; secretary of legation at Copenhagen 1863, at Athens 1864, at Lisbon 1865; secretary to embassy at Madrid 1868, at Vienna 1868, at Constantinople 1870, at Paris 1872–4; minister at Lisbon 26 Nov. 1874 to 1 March 1876; succeeded as 2 baron Lytton 18 Jany. 1873; declined governorship of Malta, Jany. 1875; viceroy of India 12 Feb. 1876 to 27 April 1880, installed viceroy 12 April 1876; the Queen was proclaimed empress of India at Delhi 1 Jany. 1877; G.C.S.I. 12 April 1876, grand master of the order 1876–80; G.C.B. 1 Jany. 1878; created viscount Knebworth of Knebworth and earl of Lytton 26 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1887; ambassador at Paris 1 Nov. 1887 to death; edited some of his father’s works and wrote a continuation to his Autobiography 1883; author of The ring of Amasis, a romance 2 vols. 1863; Chronicles and characters 2 vols. 1868; Orval or the fool of time 1869; Julian Fane, a memoir 1871; Fables in song 2 vols. 1874; King Poppy, a story without end. By Horatio 1875; Glenaveril 1885; After Paradise, or legends of exile 1887; and under the pseudonym of Owen Meredith, Clytemnestra 1855; The Wanderer 1859; Serbski Pesme or national songs of Servia 1861; Lucile 1860; The poetical works of Owen Meredith, new ed. 2 vols. 1867; published with J. C. H. Fane under pseudonyms of Neville Temple and Edward Trevor, Tannhaüser, or the battle of the bards, a poem 1861. d. at the British embassy, Paris 24 Nov. 1891. bur. in mausoleum near Knebworth church 1 Dec. T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 189–96; C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, ii 28 (1882), portrait; Army and navy mag. iii 99 (1882), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. June 1876 pp. 654–68, portrait; Black and White 28 Nov. 1891 p. 707, portrait.

LYTTON, Rosina Anne Doyle (youngest dau. of Francis Massy Wheeler of Lizzard Connel, Limerick). b. Ballywhire near Limerick 2 Nov. 1802; ed. in Kensington, London; her parents having separated, she lived with her mother in Guernsey and Caen; m. at St. James’s ch. Piccadilly 29 Aug. 1827 Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer afterwards 1 baron Lytton, they executed a deed of separation 19 April 1836 her allowance being £400 per annum, which was increased to £500 by deed dated 1 Oct. 1858; at the hustings at Hertford she exposed her husband’s cruel treatment of her 8 June 1858; confined by her husband in R. G. Hill’s lunatic asylum, Inverness lodge, Brentford 22 June to 17 July 1858; lived at Taunton 1856–74, at Upper Sydenham 1875 to death; author of Cheveley, the man of honour 3 vols. 1839, reprinted as Lady Cheveley or the woman of honour 1839; The budget of the Bubble family 3 vols. 1840; Bianca Capello, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; The prince-duke and the page. Ed. by Lady L. Bulwer 3 vols. 1841; Memoirs of a Muscovite. Ed. by Lady Lytton 3 vols. 1844; The peer’s daughters 3 vols. 1849; Miriam Sedley, or the tares and the wheat 3 vols. 1851; The school for husbands, or Molière’s Life and times 3 vols. 1852; Behind the scenes 3 vols. 1854; Very successful 3 vols. 1856; Mauleverer’s divorce, a story of women’s wrongs 3 vols. 1857; The world and his wife, a novel 3 vols. 1858; The household fairy 1870; Where there’s a will there’s a way 1871, anon.; Shells from the sands of time 1876. d. Glenômera, Upper Sydenham 12 March 1882. bur. churchyard of St. John the Evangelist, Shirley, Surrey. Life of Rosina, lady Lytton. By Louisa Devey (1887), portrait; Letters of lord Lytton to lady Lytton. Edited by L. Devey (1884), this book was suppressed by lord Lytton’s successor 12 Jany. 1885; Thomas Mulock’s British lunatic asylums (1858) 47–9; Lady Bulwer Lytton’s Appeal to the justice and charity of the English public (1857), 3 ed. (1857); The life of E. B. lord Lytton, by his son, ii 33 etc.; You have heard of them. By Q. (1854), 31–6; Daily News 16 March 1882 p. 5.

LYVEDEN, Robert Vernon, 1 Baron (eld. son of Robert Percy Smith of Cheam, Surrey 1770–1845, judge advocate general in India). b. 23 Feb. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; M.P. Tralee 1829–31; M.P. Northampton 1831–59; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 21 Nov. 1834; sec. of board of control 21 April 1835 to 30 Sep. 1839 and president 3 March 1855 to 6 March 1858; under sec. of state for the colonies 1839 to 8 Sep. 1841; P.C. 21 Aug. 1841; dropped the use of his patronymic Smith by r.l. 5 Aug. 1846; sec. of state for war 6 Feb. to 28 Feb. 1852; cr. baron Lyveden of Lyveden, Northants. 28 June 1859; G.C.B. 13 July 1872; edited Letters addressed to the countess of Ossory by Horace Walpole 1848. d. Farming Woods near Thrapstone, Northamptonshire 10 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000, 17 Jany. 1874. I.L.N. lxiii 495 (1873), lxiv 54 (1874).

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MAAS, Joseph. b. Dartford, Kent 30 Jany. 1847; a chorister in Rochester cathedral 1857; a clerk in Chatham dockyard; studied singing under San Giovanni at Milan 1869–71; sang at St. James’s hall, London, Feb. 1871; made his début on the stage at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872 as prince Babil in Boucicault’s Babil and Bijou; sang with the Kellogg English opera co. in America; principal tenor with the Carl Rosa opera co. in Great Britain 1877–80; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre 1880; sang in Paris 1884, in Brussels at the Bach and Handel festival 1885; created the part of the Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet’s opera Manon at Drury Lane 7 May 1885; almost unrivalled in Handel’s oratorios and English ballads; sang at Birmingham musical festival 1885. d. of rheumatic fever at 21 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 16 Jany. 1886. bur. Child’s Hill cemet. Hampstead, marble monument with carved portrait unveiled in the cemetery 20 Feb. 1887.

MABERLY, Catherine Charlotte (2 dau. of the hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie of Corville, co. Tipperary 1779–1853). b. 1805; (m. 11 Nov. 1830 W. L. Maberly 1798–1885); author of Emily, or the Countess of Rosendale 3 vols. 1840; The love match 3 vols. 1841, 3 ed. 1863; Melanthe, or the days of the Medici 3 vols. 1843; Leontine, or the court of Louis the Fifteenth 3 vols. 1846; The present state of Ireland and its remedy 1847, 3 ed. 1847; Fashion and its votaries 3 vols. 1848; The lady and the priest 3 vols. 1851; Display, a novel 3 vols. 1855; Leonora 3 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1866. d. 7 Feb. 1875.

MABERLEY, Frederick Herbert (son of Stephen Maberley of London). b. 1781 or 1782; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; C. of Bourn Cambs.; travelled in a van all over England distributing protestant tracts about 1812; his pamphlet in 1818 upon the drowning of an undergraduate called Lawrence Dundas led to introduction of a system of licensed lodgings at Cambridge; appeared at the bar of the house of lords to impeach the duke of Wellington on account of the Roman Catholic emancipation bill, when he was summarily ejected 1829; author of The melancholy death of Lawrence Dundas, with an address on drunkenness 1818; V. of Great Finborough, Suffolk 14 May 1834 to death. d. Stowmarket 24 Jany. 1860. G.M. viii 511 (1860).

MABERLY, William Leader (son of John Maberly of Shirley house near Croydon, M.P. for Abingdon 1820–31). b. 7 May 1798; lieut. 7 foot 23 March 1815; lieut. 9 lancers 1817, placed on h.p. 14 May 1818; major 72 foot 10 Nov. 1825 to 30 Dec. 1826; lieut.-col. 96 foot 30 Dec. 1826 to 13 Sep. 1827; lieut.-col. 76 foot 13 Sep. 1827, placed on h.p. 9 March 1832; retired 1 July 1881; M.P. Westbury 1819–20, M.P. Northampton 1820–30, M.P. Shaftesbury 1831–2 and M.P. Chatham 1832–4; contested Abingdon 10 Dec. 1832; surveyor general of the ordnance 12 Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1832; clerk of the ordnance 1833–4; a comr. of customs 1834–6; joint secretary of general post office 29 Sep. 1836, permanent secretary Nov. 1846 to April 1854, opposed all schemes of postal reform; comr. of board of audit April 1854, retired 1866 on pension of £1200; granted additional pension from the post office of £533 6s. 8d., 1 April 1867. d. 23 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 Feb. 1885. E. Yates’s Recollections, i 96–100 (1884); A. Trollope’s Autobiography, i 59–63 (1883).

M’ADAM, David. Second lieut. R.M. 19 April 1805, lieut.-col. 27 May 1848; col. and 2nd commandant 14 March 1854 to 18 April 1854 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855; was more than 70 times under fire. d. Edinburgh 10 June 1859. G.M. vii 86 (1859).

MAC ADAM, James. b. Belfast, Jany. 1801; one of the 8 founders of the natural history and philosophical society of Belfast 1821, pres. to death; one of founders of botanic garden at Belfast; F.G.S.; lectured On the production of the flax plant and the modes of preparing its fibre for manufacture 1852. d. Belfast 1 June 1861. Quarterly journal of Geological soc. xviii 37 (1862).

MC ADAM, Sir James Nicholl (3 son of John Loudon Mc Adam, introducer of system of road making that bears his name 1756–1836). b. 1785; general surveyor of metropolis turnpike roads to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 March 1834 instead of his father who declined the honour. d. 17 Finchley road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1852.

MACADAM, John (son of Wm. Macadam). b. Northbank near Glasgow, May 1827; ed. at univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; M.D. Glasgow; lecturer on chemistry and natural science in the Scotch college, Melbourne 1855; member of Philosophical institution of Victoria, secretary 1857–63, vice pres. 1863, the institution became royal society of Victoria 1859, edited the society’s Transactions vols. 1–5; member for Castlemaine in legislative assembly of Victoria 1859–64; postmaster general 26 April to 14 Nov. 1861; lecturer on chemistry in univ. of Melbourne 1861–2; government officer of health and public analyst to city of Melbourne. d. on board the Alhambra on his way to New Zealand 2 Sep. 1865.

MC ADAM, William (eld. son of Wm. Mc Adam d. 23 Feb. 1836 the eld. son of J. L. Mc Adam 1756–1836). b. 1803; surveyor general of turnpike roads in England to death; K.H. 1834. d. the Park, Bath 28 Aug. 1861. Observations sur les routes dites Mac Adam. Par Auguste Jones suivies d’une réponse de W. Mac Adam etc. 1861.

MACALESTER, Charles Archibald (son of colonel Archibald Macalester). b. 1790; ensign 35 foot 19 Sep. 1795, major 13 June 1811, placed on h.p. 8 June 1826; brevet lieut.-col. 12 Aug. 1819; served in the campaigns of Egypt, Calabria, Belgium and France, at the capture of Malta and the Ionian Islands; chief of civil government of Island of Cerigo 1809–12; K.H. 1833. d. Loup cottage, Axminster, Devon 25 Aug. 1869.

MACALISTER, Arthur. b. Glasgow 1818; educated for a solicitor; solicitor at Ipswich, New South Wales 1850; M.P. Ipswich in the parliament of Queensland 10 May 1860 to 1871 and 1873–6; secretary for lands and works 21 March 1862 to Feb. 1866; premier 1 Feb. to 20 July 1866, 7 Aug. 1866 to Aug. 1867 and 8 Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; secretary of works and goldfields 28 Jany. 1869 to 3 May 1870; speaker for session of 1870–1; colonial secretary 8 Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; agent general for Queensland in London 22 June 1876 to 16 Nov. 1881; C.M.G. 13 March 1876. d. at the residence of his sister, Sunnyside, Uddington near Glasgow 23 March 1883.

M’ALL, Robert Whitaker (son of Robert Stephens M’All, independent minister, d. 1838). b. 1821; independent minister Sunderland; with his wife established the Mc All non-sectarian mission in Paris for teaching the ‘lapsed masses’ Jany. 1872, which before his death had 43 meeting places in Paris, 89 in the provinces of France and 6 in Algeria and Tunis; received a medal from the Encouragement du Bien society; received a testimonial on the 20 anniversary of the mission 1892; member of legion of honour July 1892; author of Letter and symbol, a lecture on the personal reign theory, in Ebenezer chapel, Sunderland 1853. d. Auteuil near Paris 11 May 1893. The white fields of France or the story of Mr. M’All’s mission. By H. Bonar (1879); A cry from the land of Calvin and Voltaire (1887).

MC CALL, Samuel (younger son of Robert Mc All, minister of the countess of Huntingdon’s chapel). b. St. Ives, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1807; ed. Rotherham coll.; pastor of Hall Gate chapel, Doncaster 1829–43; pastor at Nottingham 1843–60; principal of Hackney coll. 1860–80; author of Lectures at the nonconformist churches in Nottingham 1850; The logic of atheism 1853, 2 ed. entitled The sceptics credulity 1870; The pastoral care, hints on the services of congregational churches 1873; Delivery, or lecture room hints on public speaking 1875. d. 2 Goulton road, Clapton, London 9 March 1888. Congregational Year book (1889) 198–201.

MC ALPIN, William. Chief engineer in service of the Viceroy of Egypt 25 years, d. 1 May 1865 aged 61. bur. Highgate cemetery.

MACAN, George. b. 1803; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 15 Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 9 Feb. 1829; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 1839, lieut.-col. 15 May 1850 to 1855, of 14 N.I. 1855–7, of 3 N.I. 1857–8, of 11 N.I. 1858–60; commandant Baroda 10 June 1859 to 1860; col. of 25 Bombay light infantry 2 June 1860 to death; M.G. 20 April 1862. d. 1 Westbourne st. Hyde park gardens, London 12 Nov. 1866.

MACAN, Henry. b. 1804; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 17 Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 27 Nov. 1834, lieut.-col. 29 Dec. 1846 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 24 N.I. 1852 to 6 Dec. 1856; commandant Rajcote 10 April 1854 to 24 Nov. 1855; commanded Rajpootana field force 10 March 1856 to 1857; col. of 17 N.I. 6 Dec. 1856; general 24 May 1877; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. d. 31 Craven road, Westbourne terrace, London 20 April 1885.

MACAN, John. Called to Irish bar 1815; Q.C. 13 July 1835; bencher of King’s Inns 1841 to death; comr. of court of bankruptcy 1836–57, judge of the court 1857 to death; found dead in his bed at 9 Mountjoy sq. north, Dublin 5 June 1859.

MACANDREW, James. b. Aberdeen 1820; in business in London till 1850; went to Otago, New Zealand 1850; a ship builder; a member of the N.Z. parliament from the establishment of responsible government 1854 to death; minister of lands Oct. 1877, minister of public works 1878; superintendent of the Otago province 1860–76; the first to establish steam communication between New Zealand and England; founder of Otago university; author of Address to the people of Otago. Dunedin 1875. d. from effects of a carriage accident 24 Feb. 1887. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers (1886) 269–70, portrait.

M’ARDLE, John Francis. b. Liverpool 1842; ed. R.C. institute Maryland st., and St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw; journalist in England and Ireland; connected with the Northern Press, now The Catholic Times, Liverpool; wrote Taffy’s triumph, a farce, and The Talisman, a burlesque, theatre royal Liverpool 10 Aug. 1874; Round the globe, a spectacle, Alexandra theatre 29 March 1875; The musical marionettes, a comedy, and Zampa, a burlesque, Prince of Wales’ 6 and 9 Oct. 1876; Round the clock, a dramatic folly, Alexandra 25 March 1878; Olivia’s love, drama, Royal 6 May 1878; Flint and steel, a farce, Alexandra, Sheffield, May 1881; Fluff or a clean sweep, an absurdity, Opera house, Leicester 1 Aug. 1881; wrote The wicked Welshman 1878, She’s a daisy 1881, You have often heard of my complaints 1882 and other songs. d. at the res. of his mother, Flint st. Liverpool 21 Feb. 1883. bur. Ford cemetery 6 miles from Liverpool 24 Feb.

MACARTE, Regina (sister of George Ginnett, equestrian). Pupil of Andrew Ducrow, proprietor of Astley’s amphitheatre; appeared before the court at Brighton with Ducrow’s company; one of the most accomplished equestriennes of her time; retired about 1857. d. in United States of America 3 Sep. 1892.

M’ARTHUR, David Charteris. b. 1809; in service of North British insurance co. Edinb. 1826–35; clerk in bank of Australasia, Sydney, N.S.W. 1835, sent to open a branch in Melbourne, Victoria 1837, manager till 1860, general superintendent of the bank’s colonial establishments 1868, retired from active service 1885, local director of the Melbourne branch till death; member of a committee for enquiring into the finances of Victoria, who recommended abolition of the imprest system 1854. d. Melbourne 15 Nov. 1887.

M’ARTHUR, Duncan. b. Glasgow 1773; surgeon R.N.; M.D. of Aberdeen 1 March 1810; F.L.S. 1810; physician to the fleet 27 April 1812; physician naval hospital, Deal; F.R.C.P. Lond. 10 Feb. 1841; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. d. Deal or Walmer, Kent 16 Jany. 1855. Proc. Linnean Soc. ii 414 (1855).

MACARTHUR, Sir Edward (eld. child of John Macarthur 1767–1834, of Camden park, one of founders of Australian merino wool industry). b. Bath 1789; taken by his parents to New South Wales 1790; ensign 60 foot 27 Oct. 1808; lieut. 39 foot 1809, captain 8 Feb. 1821, placed on h.p. as major 10 June 1826; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; secretary in lord chamberlain’s office, house of lords 1830–7; A.A.G. in Ireland 1837–41; D.A.G in Australia 1851–5; commanded the troops in Australia 1855–60; acting governor of Victoria 1 Jany. to 31 Dec. 1856; col. of 100 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to death; L.G. 14 June 1868; C.B. 17 July 1857, K.C.B. 23 July 1862; author of Colonial policy of 1840 and 1841 as illustrated by the governor’s despatches 1841. d. 27 Prince’s gardens, London 4 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. lx 51 (1872).

MACARTHUR, Hannibal Hawkins (son of the succeeding). b. Plymouth 16 Jany. 1788; emigrated to New South Wales 1805; assisted his relatives in the merino wool trade; police magistrate at Parramatta some years; member for Parramatta in first parliament of N.S.W. 18 July 1842. d. Norwood, Surrey 6 March 1861.

MACARTHUR, James (brother of sir E. Macarthur 1789–1872). b. Parramatta, New South Wales 1798; took part in his father’s agricultural enterprises; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1839, member for Camden 1848–53; declined knighthood 1859; assisted in exploring Gippsland 1840; member of international statistical congress in London 1860; comr. for N.S.W. at London exhibition 1862; author of New South Wales, its present state and future prospects 1837. d. Sydney 21 April 1867.

MACARTHUR, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Parramatta, Dec. 1800; assisted his father in his various projects 1817; brought over six German vine-dressers to improve the vine culture at Camden 1839; elective member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1849–55; a representative comr. for colony of N.S.W. at Paris exhibition 1855; an officer of the legion of honour 1855; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1856; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1864; author of Letters on the culture of the vine, fermentation and the management of wine in the cellar. By Maro 1844. d. Sydney, N.S.W. 29 Oct. 1882. A voyage round the world. By the Marquis de Beauvoir, i 246–9 (1870).

M’ARTHUR, Sir William (5 child of John M’Arthur, Wesleyan minister, d. 1840). b. Malin, barony of Innishowen, co. Donegal 6 July 1809; ed. at Stranorlar, co. Donegal; apprenticed to Hugh Copeland of Enniskillen, woollen draper 1821–5; woollen draper with Joseph Cather at Londonderry 1831–5, and alone from 15 Nov. 1835 to 1857; merchant in Australian trade 18–19 Silk st. Cripplegate, London, having with his brother Alexander M’Arthur, M.P., houses in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland 1857; contested Pontefract, July 1865; M.P. Lambeth 1868–85; contested West Newington 1885; leader of the movement in favour of the annexation of Fiji 1872; a great supporter of the Wesleyan methodist connection; sheriff of London 1867–8, alderman of ward of Coleman st. 3 Sep. 1872 to death, lord mayor 1880–1; master of spectacle makers’ company 6 Oct. 1875; K.C.M.G. 17 Nov. 1882. d. in a carriage at the Praed st. station of Metropolitan railway, London 16 Nov. 1887. bur. Norwood cemet. 21 Nov. Will proved for £120,937 2s. 5d., which did not include his estate in the colonies. T. Mc Cullagh’s Sir W. M’Arthur (1891), portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii 448 (1880), portrait; Graphic xxii 436 (1880), portrait; J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men (1884) 85–95.

MACARTHY or CARTER, John or Thomas, known as Macarte and Massarti. b. Cork 1838; a servant in Bell’s circus 1862, when passing the lions’ cage in Bell’s menagerie, Crosshall st. Liverpool, a lioness seized him by the left arm, he was rescued by Batty and being removed to the Northern hospital his fore-arm was amputated 13 Nov. 1862; lion tamer in Bell and Myers’s circus 1862; lion tamer in Rosina Manders’s menagerie Jany. 1871 to death; attacked by 4 lions at Market square, Bolton 3 Jany. 1872. d. in infirmary, Bolton 3 Jany. 1872. bur. Bolton cemetery 6 Jany. Times 17 Nov. 1862 p. 12; Illust. sp. and dr. news, ii 209 (1874); Baily’s Mag. xliii 16–17, 20 (1885); T. Frost’s Circus Life (1876) 293–6.

MACAULAY, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1 Baron (eld. child of Zachary Macaulay, philanthropist 1768–1838). b. Rothley Temple, Leics. 25 Oct. 1800; began residence at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1818, a fellow 1 Oct. 1824 to 1831; Craven univ. scholar 1821; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1826, bencher Jany. 1850 to death; contributed to Edinburgh Review, May 1825 to 1845; a comr. in bankruptcy Jany. 1828 to 1831; M.P. Calne 1830–2, M.P. Leeds 1832–4, M.P. Edinburgh 1839–47 and 18 July 1852 to Jany. 1856; a comr. of board of control July to Dec. 1832, secretary to the board 19 Dec. 1832 to 26 Dec. 1833; fifth member of supreme council of India at Calcutta 4 Dec. 1833 to Dec. 1838; compiled a criminal code for India 1835–7; began his History of England, March 1839; secretary at war with a seat in the cabinet 26 Sep. 1839 to 4 Sep. 1841; proposed a copyright of 42 years from publication, which became law 1842; paymaster general 7 July 1846 to 11 May 1848; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1848, installed 21 March 1849; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1849; fellow of univ. of London 1850–9; professor of ancient history in royal academy 1850; created baron Macaulay of Rothley, Leicestershire 10 Sep. 1857; high steward of borough of Cambridge 1857, sworn in 11 May 1858; lived at El The Albany, Piccadilly 1840–56, and at Holly lodge afterwards called Airlie lodge, Campden Hill 1856 to death; author of Critical and miscellaneous essays 5 vols. 1841–4; Lays of ancient Rome 1842; The history of England 5 vols. 1849–61; Speeches 2 vols. 1853; The works of lord Macaulay. Ed. by lady Trevelyan 8 vols. 1866, portrait. d. in his library at Holly lodge, Campden hill, Kensington 28 Dec. 1859. bur. in Poet’s Corner, Westminster abbey 9 Jany. 1860 where is bust, statue by T. Woolner in Trin. coll. Camb. G. O. Trevelyan’s Life and letters of Lord Macaulay 2 vols. (1876), portrait; Men of the time (1857) 489–93; Illustrated Review, iv 1–11 (1873), portrait; Peter Anton’s Masters in history (1884) 123–94; Jerrold, Tennyson and Macaulay. By J. H. Stirling (1868) 112–71; Rev. F. Arnold’s Public life of Lord Macaulay (1862); R. H. Horner’s New spirit of the age, ii 33–50 (1844); D. O. Madden’s Chiefs of parties, ii 113–35 (1859); Proc. of royal society, xi 11–26 (1860); Traits of character. By A Contemporary, ii 1–26 (1860); Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 121, portrait.

MACAULAY, Beata Elizabeth. b. 1800; cousin of lord Macaulay; contributed much to City Press; translated Domestic worship by J. H. Merle D’Aubigné 1846. d. Gurnard, Cowes, Isle of Wight 15 Jany. 1883.

MACAULAY, Charles Zachary. b. 15 Oct. 1813; assistant to sir Benjamin Brodie; private secretary to T. B. Macaulay when secretary at war 1839 to 1841; secretary of the Audit office 1854–65, one of the chairmen 1865–6 when granted pension of £1200; edited under pseudonym of Conway Morel, Authority and conscience, a debate on the tendency of dogmatic theology. London 1871. d. 7 Aug. 1886.

MACAULAY, Colin Campbell (2 son of Aulay Macaulay, V. of Rothley). b. Rothley vicarage 19 Nov. 1799; ed. by his father and at Rugby; clerk to Thomas Burbidge of Leicester, solicitor 1815–28; admitted an attorney and solicitor; member of firm of Greaves and Burbidge of Leicester, solicitors 1831 to death; member of Leicester literary and philosophical society, president 1847–49, contributed many papers to the transactions. d. Knighton lodge, Leicester 20 Oct. 1853. bur. family vault Rothley. G.M. xl 644 (1853).

MACAULAY, Sir James Buchanan (2 son of James Macaulay, inspector general of hospitals). b. Niagara, Ontario, Canada 3 Dec. 1793; ensign 98 foot 14 Dec. 1809; lieut. in Glengarry fencibles 1812–15 when corps was disbanded; fought at Ogdensburg, Oswego, Lundy’s Lane, and at siege of Fort Erie in the war with America; admitted to Canadian bar 1822; judge of court of queen’s bench 1829; chief justice of court of common pleas, Dec. 1849 to 1856 when he retired on a pension; judge of court of error and appeal 1859; chairman of commission appointed to revise and consolidate the statutes of Upper Canada, completed 1858; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; knighted by patent 13 Jany. 1859. d. Toronto 26 Nov. 1859.

MACAULAY, Kenneth (youngest son of rev. Aulay Macaulay). b. Rothley 1815; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839, bencher 1850 to death, reader 1864, treasurer 1865; Q.C. Feb. 1850; leader of Midland circuit; M.P. borough of Camb. 9 July 1852, unseated by committee of house of commons Aug. 1854; M.P. Camb. 28 March 1857 to 6 July 1865. d. Shaftesbury road, Brooklands, Cambridge 29 July 1867. Law Times, xliii 224 (1867); I.L.N. xxii 152 (1853), portrait.

MC AULEY, Jeremiah. b. Ireland 1839; went to New York 1852; a thief and prize-fighter; sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for highway robbery 1858, released March 1864; entered the Methodist church and in Oct. 1872 opened a mission called the Helping Hand in Water st. New York; opened the Cremorne mission with his wife Maria 1882; began publication of a weekly paper called Jerry Mc Auley’s Newspaper, June 1883. d. New York 18 Sep. 1884. Jerry Mc Auley, an autobiography ed. by R. M. Offord. New York (1885), portraits of himself and wife.

MACBAIN, Sir James (youngest son of Smith Macbain of Invergordon). b. Kinrhives, Rossshire, April 1828; apprenticed to Andrew Smith of Inverness, warehouseman 1845–50; traveller for firm of Milligan & Co. of Bradford; clerk in bank of New South Wales at Melbourne 1853–7; managing partner for a branch of firm of Gibbs, Ronald & Co. mercantile and squatting agents Melbourne 1858, partner in the London house 1863, the Australian mortgage, land and finance co. bought the business 1865, chairman of the Australian directorate 1865–90; member for Wimmera district of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–80; member for the Central province, to the legislative council 1880–3; a cabinet minister Aug. 1881 to March 1883; member for South Yarra 1884; pres. of the legislative council 27 Nov. 1884; chairman of Victorian comrs. at Amsterdam exhibition 1883; pres. of executive commission of Melbourne centennial exhibition 1888; knighted by patent 21 June 1886; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1889. d. Scotsburn near Toorak, Melbourne 4 Nov. 1892.

MACBEAN, Archibald. b. 1793; second lieut. R.A. 13 Dec. 1810, lieut.-col. 1 Nov. 1848 to 11 June 1850 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 2 Feb. 1868. d. 1 Lancaster terrace, Regent’s park, London 1 Feb. 1871.

MACBEAN, Frederick. Ensign 6 foot 9 June 1803, captain 16 May 1816; served in the Peninsula 1812–13 and in Upper Canada 1815; major 7 foot 18 July 1826; lieut.-col. 84 foot 2 Nov. 1838 to 10 Dec. 1847 when he sold out; K.H. 1835. d. 15 March 1865 aged 78.

M’BEAN, James. b. 1795; presbyterian minister; librarian to univ. of St. Andrews 1839–70. d. 8 Queen st. St. Andrews 26 April 1886.

MACBEAN, Sir William (son of Wm. Frederick Macbean, lieut.-col. 6 foot). b. Southampton 1782; cadet in service of Seven united provinces 1794; ensign 6 foot 20 Feb. 1796, captain 25 Oct. 1804; major on Portuguese and Spanish staff 16 Feb. 1809, brevet lieut.-col. 1811, placed on h.p. 1814; lieut.-col. 100 foot 7 Dec. 1815, regiment was made 99 foot and disbanded at Chatham 2 Sep. 1818 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 54 foot 5 Oct. 1820, placed on h.p. 1 Oct. 1829; colonel of 92 foot 31 May 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S. 1812; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831. d. St. John’s road, Fulham near London 24 May 1855.

M’BEAN, William. Ensign 93 foot 10 Aug. 1854, lieut.-col. 29 Oct. 1873 to 16 Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; M.G. 16 Feb. 1878; V.C. for killing eleven of the enemy with his own hand in the main breach of the Begum Bagh at Lucknow 11 March 1858. d. Herbert hospital, Shooter’s hill, Woolwich 23 June 1878. I.L.N. lxiii 4 (1878), portrait; Graphic, xviii 116 (1878), portrait.

MACBEAN, William Forbes. b. 5 June 1821; ensign 86 foot 7 July 1837; lieut. St. Helena regt. 7 Jany. 1842, lieut.-col. 1 May 1859; lieut.-col. 5 West India regt. 23 June 1863 to 1 April 1865 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 13 foot 1 July 1865; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. d. Ashbourne, Derbyshire 26 Feb. 1890.

MACBETH, James. b. Ayr; ed. Glasgow univ., took Thomas Campbell’s silver medal for poetry; minister Arbroath 1837; minister Norfolk st. Free church, Laurieston; author of The Bible argument for a Free church 1843; The church and the slave-holder 1850; A calm review of the debate in the Free assembly on slavery; Morrisonianism refuted. John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 266–71.

MACBETH, Norman (son of James Macbeth of Greenock, officer of excise). b. Greenock 1821; apprenticed to an engraver in Glasgow 7 years; studied in London and Paris; portrait painter at Greenock 1845–8 and 1856–61, at Glasgow 1848–56, at Edinburgh 1861–85; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1845; A.R.S.A. 1870, R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1880; removed to London about 1885; exhibited 24 portraits at R.A. 1837–77. d. 10 Belsize avenue, Hampstead, London 27 Feb. 1888.

MACBRIDE, John Alexander Paterson (son of Archibald Macbride of Cambeltown, Argyllshire). b. Feb. 1819; pupil of Wm. Spence of Liverpool, sculptor; pupil of and manager for Samuel Joseph, sculptor, London; associate of Liverpool academy 1848, member 1850, secretary 1851 and 1852; showed many important works at Liverpool academy from 1836; executed many portrait-busts and monuments in and near Liverpool; executed the full-size statues of the four seasons in front of Garswood hall for Lord Gerard; exhibited 3 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1848–53. d. Southend-on-Sea 4 April 1890. Graphic 3 May 1890 p. 508, portrait.

MACBRIDE, John David (only son of John Macbride, admiral, d. 1800). b. Plympton, Devon 28 June 1778; ed. at Cheam in Surrey and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1800 to 19 July 1805; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802, B.C.L. and D.C.L. 1811; lord almoner’s reader in Arabic 15 Feb. 1813 to death; principal of Magdalen hall, Oxf. 18 Oct. 1813 to death, the society of Magdalen hall was moved in 1822 from near Magdalen college to Catte st., the jubilee of his headship was celebrated by foundation of a Macbride scholarship 1863; F.S.A. 1805; author of Lectures explanatory of the Diatessaron. Oxford 1835; Lectures on the articles of the united church of England and Ireland. Oxford 1853; The Mohammedan religion explained 1857; Lectures on the acts of the apostles and on the epistles. Oxford 1858. d. Magdalen hall, Oxford 24 Jany. 1868.

M’BRIDGE, James. b. 1831; huntsman to R. C. Hill 1866–9, at Berkeley castle 1869 and to the Quorn under Mr. Coupland 1870–80; commanded the parade at the hound show, Birmingham; huntsman at Meath 1880–4, and to the Shropshire hounds under Hulton Harrop 1884, received a testimonial; first whip and kennel huntsman to Mr. Corbet in Cheshire to death. d. Addesley, Shropshire, May 1886. Baily’s Mag. June 1886 p. 76.

M’CABE, Edward. b. Dublin 14 Feb. 1816; ed. at Maynooth 1833–9; curate of Clontarf, June 1839; C. of cathedral parish, Marlborough st. Dublin 1851, then administrator; refused the bishopric of Grahamstown, Africa 1854; a canon of Timothan; parish priest of St. Nicholas Without, Dublin 1856–65 where he built a new church and schools; vicar general of Dublin diocese; parish priest of Kingstown 1865–77; consecrated bishop of Gadara in partibus as assistant to Paul Cullen archbishop of Dublin 25 July 1877, succeeded him as archbishop 23 March 1879, enthroned 4 May 1879; created a cardinal priest 12 March 1882; member of senate of royal univ. of Ireland 1880 to death. d. 3 Eblana avenue, Kingstown 11 Feb. 1885. bur. Glasnevin. Memoir of Edward M’Cabe, archbishop (1879); Saturday Review, lix 243; Graphic, xxv 521 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxx 372 (1882), portrait.

MACCABE, Joseph. b. Dublin 22 Feb. 1863; partner with Frank Hilton as knockabout performers on the music hall stage 1882–93, they were well known as the Two Macs; partner with Daniel Kennedy 1893; played in pantomime of Jack and Jill, at Prince’s theatre, Manchester 1883–4; performed in U.S. of America 1884; played in pantomime of Cinderella, at T.R. Birmingham 1886–7 and in Miss Esmeralda, at Gaiety theatre, London 8 Oct. 1887; (m. 27 June 1887 Alice Maydue, burlesque actress); performed at Pavilion and Tivoli music halls, London 5 Jany. 1893. d. of gastric catarrh at Stag House, Tooting Bec road, Tooting, Surrey 11 Jany. 1893. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal Green 17 Jany.

Note.—The original Two Macs who introduced the knockabout business to England were called Frank Hilton and J. P. Macnally.

M’CABE, Richard. Printer Drogheda; foreman of The Examiner, the Drogheda Argus and the Coleraine Chronicle; manager of the Dundalk Patriot to 1848; a paragraphist and reporter on Dublin and Belfast newspapers to death. d. Drogheda 27 Jany. 1872. bur. Chord 29 Jany. Newspaper Press 1 March 1872 p. 88.

MACCABE, William Bernard. b. Dublin 23 Nov. 1801; reporter on the Dublin Morning register from 1823; edited provincial Irish newspapers; employed on the Morning Chronicle in London from about 1833, to which he contributed critical reviews; a reviewer on the Morning Herald 1835 to about 1850; edited The Telegraph newspaper in Dublin in the interest of cardinal Wiseman 1852–7; lived in Brittany many years; translated J. Venedy’s Ireland and the Irish during the repeal year, 1844, and J. J. I. Von Doellinger’s The church and the churches 1862; author of A catholic history of England 3 vols. 1847–54; Bertha, a romance of the dark ages 3 vols. 1851; Adelaide queen of Italy 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Florine princess of Burgundy 1855, 3 ed. 1873; contributed to Once a Week, Notes and Queries, and the Dublin Review. d. Donnybrook, co. Dublin 8 Dec. 1891.

M’CALL, Allan. b. Dumfries 1850; an architect; leader of Livingstonia mission in Nyasa-Land, travelled between fifteen and twenty thousand miles in South Africa 1872–8. d. Madeira 25 Nov. 1881. bur. Leicester cemet. 18 Jany. 1882.

MC CALL, William. Ensign 79 foot 29 March 1839, major 12 Dec. 1854 to 5 Aug. 1857 when placed on h.p.; standard bearer to corps of gentlemen at arms 30 Sep. 1872 to death. d. 7 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 20 Dec. 1875.

MACCALL, William (eld. son of John Maccall of Largs, Ayrshire, tradesman). b. Largs 25 Feb. 1812; entered Glasgow univ. 1827, M.A. 1833; Unitarian minister at Bolton, Lancs. 1837–40 and at Crediton, Devon 1841–6; preacher, lecturer and writer for the press in London 1846–61; edited The Propagandist 1862; author of The agents of civilization 1843; Sacramental services 1847; The elements of individualism 1847; Foreign biographies 2 vols. 1873; Russian Hymns 1878; Moods and memories 1885. d. Stanhope cottage, Woolwich road, Bexley Heath, Kent 19 Nov. 1888.

MAC CALMONT, Frederick Haynes (2 son of rev. Thomas Mac Calmont of Highfield near Southampton). b. Highfield 1846; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1869, B.C.L. and M.A. 1872; barrister M.T. 30 April 1872; resided at Southampton, member of the school board, alderman; author of The parliamentary poll book of all elections 1832–79, 1879, Second ed. 1880, Third ed. 1885. d. Radley’s hotel, Southampton 4 Nov. 1880. Solicitors’ Journal, xxv 56 (1880).

M’CALMONT, Hugh (3 son of Hugh M’Calmont of Abbeylands, co. Antrim, d. 1839). b. 1809; member of firm of M’Calmont Brothers & Co., merchants at 15 Philpot Lane, Cannon st. London; resided at 8 Grosvenor place, London and at Abbeylands, co. Antrim; bequeathed £100,000 to St. George’s hospital, London. d. 9 Oct. 1887, the value of his personal property was declared at £3,121,931 7s. 8d., Dec. 1887.

MC CANN, Nicholas (son of Thomas Mc Cann of Lismoy house, co. Longford). b. 1802; M.R.C.S. 1827, L.S.A. 1834; M.D. St. Andrews 1855; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1859; surgeon to Western dispensary, London 1831–43; surgeon to royal humane soc. 1837; fellow of Medical soc. of London; surgeon to A division of police 1839; examining physician to foreign service messengers 22 Nov. 1858 to death. d. 50 Parliament st. London 24 Jany. 1867.

MACCARTHY, Sir Charles Justin. b. Brighton 1811; auditor general of Ceylon 1847, colonial secretary there 1851; governor of Ceylon 23 Aug. 1860 to death; knighted by patent 10 July 1857. d. Spa, Belgium 14 Aug. 1864.

M’CARTHY, Daniel. b. near Kenmare, co. Kerry 1823; ed. Maynooth coll., teacher of rhetoric 1846, professor of scripture and Hebrew 1854, vice president 1872–8; bishop of Kerry and Aghadoe, consecrated 25 Aug. 1878; editor of L. F. Renehan’s Collections on Irish church history 1861; M. Kelly’s Dissertations on Irish church history 1864; author of Sermons on the immaculate conception 1880. d. Killarney, July 1881. Times 28 July 1881 p. 10.

MACCARTHY, Denis Florence. b. Lower Sackville st. Dublin 26 May 1817; ed. at Dublin and Maynooth; called to Irish bar 1846; contributed a series of political verse to The Nation newspaper over signature of Desmond 1842; an original member of the ’82 club formed in 1844, on the council of the confederation 1847; resided in London 1872–82; contributed poems and humorous prose papers to periodicals signed Desmond, Vig, Trifolium, Antonio, S. E. Y. and D. F. M.; his translations of Calderon’s works appeared in six issues as follows, Justina, a play 1848; Dramas 1853; Love the greatest enchantment 1861; Mysteries of Corpus Christi 1867; The two lovers of heaven 1870; The wonder-working musician, &c. 1873; for the six volumes he was granted medal of royal academy of Spain 1881; granted civil list pension of £100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of The poets and dramatists of Ireland 1 vol. 1846; Ballads, poems and lyrics 1850; The bell founder 1857; Shelley’s Early life 1872; Poems 1882. d. Blackrock near Dublin 7 April 1882. Dublin Review, April 1883 pp. 261–93.

MAC CARTHY, Hamilton Wright (2 son of John James Alexander Mac Carthy, artist). b. 1810; sculptor and poet; exhibited 23 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 13 at B.I. 1838–67. d. 17 Springfield villas, Kilburn, London 2 Feb. 1882.

MC CARTHY, John F. (son of Michael Mc Carthy). b. 1862; provision merchant at Tipperary; M.P. mid division of Tipperary 18 July 1892. d. Roscrea, Tipperary 8 Feb. 1893.

MACCARTHY, John George (son of John Maccarthy of Cork). b. Cork, June 1829; founded with Justin Mac Carthy, Cork historical society 1849; founded Cork Young men’s society 1852; solicitor at Cork 1853–81; M.P. Mallow 1874–80; assistant comr. under Land act of 1881, 1881–6; one of the two comrs. under land purchase act of 1885, 1886 to death; made a knight of the order of St. Gregory by Leo XIII. Feb. 1880; author of The history of Cork, a lecture. Cork 1856; Irish land questions plainly stated and answered 1870; The French revolution of 1792, its causes etc. Dublin 1884; Henry Grattan, a historical study, Dublin 1886. d. Euston hotel, London 7 Sep. 1892. bur. Glasnevin cemet. Dublin. Irish Law Times, xxii 116 (1888).

MC CAUL, Alexander. b. Dublin 16 May 1799; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 3 Oct. 1814, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1831, B.D. and D.D. 1837; tutor to Earl of Rosse; sent to Poland by London Soc. for promoting Christianity among the Jews 1821; C. of Huntley near Gloucester 1823; head of the mission to the Jews, and English chaplain at Warsaw 1823–30; settled in London 1832; published Old Paths, a weekly pamphlet on Jewish ritual 60 numbers 1836–37; principal of the Hebrew college, London 1840; declined bishopric of Jerusalem 1841; professor of Hebrew and Rabbinical literature in King’s college, London 1841–6, professor of divinity 1846–53, professor of ecclesiastical history Dec. 1853 to 1863; R. of St. James’s, Duke’s place, London 1843–50; preb. of St. Paul’s 1845 to death; declined bishoprics of Adelaide, Newcastle and Capetown 1847; R. of St. Magnus, St. Margaret and St. Michael, Fish st. hill, London 21 Jany. 1850 to death; proctor for the London clergy in convocation 1852 to death; author of A Hebrew primer 4 ed. 1836; Lectures on the Prophecies and The Messiahship of Christ, being Warburtonian lectures 2 series 1846–52; Rationalism and the divine interpretation of scripture 1850; Some notes on the first chapter of Genesis 1861; Testimonies to the divine authority of the holy scripture 1862; An examination of bishop Colenso’s difficulties with regard to the Pentateuch 2 vols. 1863–4 and 50 other works. d. St. Magnus’s rectory, London 13 Nov. 1863. bur. Ilford, Essex 20 Nov. J. B. Mc Caul’s Memoir of A. Mc Caul (1863); I.L.N. xxiv 400 (1854), portrait.

MC CAUL, John. b. Dublin 7 March 1807; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1824, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829, LL.B. and LL.D. 1835, classical tutor and examiner; principal of the Upper Canadian coll. Nov. 1838; V.P. of King’s coll. Toronto and professor of classics, logic, rhetoric and belles lettres 1842; pres. of univ. of Toronto 1849; pres. of univ. coll. and V.C. of univ. of Toronto 1853–81; M.R.I.A.; author of Remarks explanatory and illustrative on the Terentian metres 1828; The metres of the Greek tragedians explained 1828; Selections from Lucian, with English notes 1829; Remarks on the classical studies pursued in the university of Dublin 1834; Scansion of the Hecuba and Medea of Euripides 1836; Britanno-Roman inscriptions with critical notes. Toronto and London 1863; Christian epitaphs of the first six centuries 1869. d. 15 April 1887. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 254–5.

MC CAUL, Joseph Benjamin (son of Alexander Mc Caul 1799–1863). Ed. King’s coll. London, theological associate 1850; assistant in British Museum 1846–9 and engaged upon the compilation of the catalogue March 1851 to 1865; censor, reader and divinity lecturer, King’s coll. 1852–54; C. of St. Magnus the Martyr, London 1851–4; C. of All Saints’, Gordon sq. London 1854–5; C. of St. Edmund the King, Lombard st. 1858–65; chaplain at Amsterdam 1877–9; R. of St. Michael, Bassishaw 1865 to death; hon. canon of Rochester 1865 to death; author of The abbé Migne and the Bibliothèque universelle du clergé 1857; The ten commandments, the christian’s spiritual instructor 1861; Bishop Colenso’s Criticism criticised 1862; The epistle to the Hebrews in a paraphrastic commentary 1871; Dark sayings of old, an attempt to elucidate certain passages of scripture 1873; A concise exposition of St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1882; The last plague of Egypt and other poems 1879. d. 11 Flander’s road, Turnham Green near London 3 Feb. 1892.

MC CAUSLAND, Dominick (3 son of Marcus Langford Mc Causland of Roe park, co. Londonderry). b. Roe park 20 Aug. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1822, gold medallist for science 1827, B.A. 1827, LL.B. and LL.D. 1859; called to Irish bar 1835, went north western circuit; a crown prosecutor for co. Fermanagh 1859 to death; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The latter days of the Jewish church and nation as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1841; The times of the Gentiles as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1852, reissued 1857, both were combined in a 2nd ed. as The latter days of Jerusalem and Rome 1859; Sermons in stones 1856, 13 ed. 1873; Adam and the Adamite 1864, 2 ed. 1868; Shinar the confusion of language 1867; The builders of Babel 1871. d. 12 Fitzgibbon st. Dublin 29 June 1873. W. D. Ferguson’s Memoir of D. Mc Causland (1873); Irish Law Times, vii 354 (1873).

MC CAUSLAND, John Kennedy. b. 1803; entered Bengal army 1818; commanded Gwalior district 20 Jany. 1860 to 13 Feb. 1861; retired L.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Melrose villa, Cheltenham 23 July 1879.

MC CAW, William. b. Antrim; minister of presbyterian church, Bridge st. Strangeways near Manchester, Nov. 1846; author of Truth frae ’mang the heather 1856, 5 ed. 1880; The gospel and total abstinence 1857; Romanism, ritualism and revelation 1876. J. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1850) 166–70.

MC CLEAN, John Robinson. b. Belfast 1813; studied at univ. of Glasgow; a civil engineer in London 1844; constructed harbour, docks and railways of Barrow in Furness; partner with F. C. Stileman 1849; engineer of harbours of Dover 1851, Alderney 1862 and St. Catherine’s, Jersey 1862 &c.; sent to Egypt as comr. to report on the Suez canal route; served on several royal commissions; retired from practice 1868; contested Belfast 3 April 1857; M.P. east Staffs. 17 Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Anglo-American telegraph co.; M.I.C.E. June 1844, member of council 1848, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1864 and 1865; F.R.S.; F.G.S.; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858. d. Stonehouse, Isle of Thanet 13 July 1873, personalty sworn under £700,000, 6 Sep. 1873. Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxiv 148 (1874); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii 287–91 (1874); Humber’s Modern engineering 3rd series (1865), portrait.

MC CLELLAND, James. b. Ayr 18 Jany. 1799; accountant Glasgow, March 1824, retired 1874, had many apprentices in his business; president of royal institution of accountants, Glasgow 1853; great friend of George Combe the phrenologist; removed to London 1874. d. 32 Pembridge sq. London 24 Oct. 1879. W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 185–6 (1886), portrait.

MC CLELLAND, John. Surgeon Bengal army 30 Nov. 1846; inspector general of hospitals 8 Nov. 1860, principal inspector general 1864 to 24 Nov. 1865 when he retired; conducted The Calcutta journal of natural history 1841; author of Reports on investigation of coal and mineral resources of India 1838; Some inquiries in Kemaon relative to geology 1835; Sketches of the medical topography and soils of Bengal 1859. d. 29 Marina, St. Leonards-on-Sea 31 July 1883.

M’CLINTOCK, John (eld. son of John M’Clintock of Drumcar, M.P. Enniskillen, d. 1799). b. 14 Aug. 1770; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790; sheriff of co. Louth 1798; present at battles of Arklow 10 June 1798 and Vinegar Hill 12 June 1798; serjeant at arms with his younger brother Wm. Foster M’Clintock 1794 to 1800 when a pension of £2545 was assigned to them in compensation for the office; M.P. Athlone, Westmeath 24 March 1820 to May 1820 when he was appointed escheator of Munster. d. Drumcar, co. Louth 12 July 1855.

MC CLURE, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier (son of Robert Mc Clure, captain 89 foot, d. 1806). b. Wexford 28 Jany. 1807; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; entered navy 1824; mate of the Terror in her Arctic voyage 1836–7; commanded the Romney at Havana 1842–6; first lieut. of the Investigator in sir J. C. Ross’s Arctic expedition 1848–9 and commander of her in Collinson’s expedition, sailed from Plymouth 20 Jany. 1850, discovered the north-west passage 26 Oct. 1850, the Investigator was forced into a bay on the north shore of Banks’ Land 23 Sep. 1851 where in 1853 she was abandoned; crossed Banks’s Strait to Winter harbour in Melville Island, April 1852; arrived in England in the North Star 28 Sep. 1854, tried by court martial for loss of his ship when honourably acquitted; captain 18 Dec. 1850; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Nov. 1855; parliament awarded £10,000 to officers and crew of the Investigator 1855; captain of the Esk 1856; commanded a battalion of the naval brigade at capture of Canton, Dec. 1857; C.B. 20 May 1859; R.A. 20 March 1867, retired V.A. 29 May 1873; awarded good service pension 12 Sep. 1863. d. 25 Duke st. St. James’s, London 17 Oct. 1873. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 25 Oct. The north-west passage. Capt. Mc Clure’s despatches (1853); S. Osborn’s Discovery of a north-west passage 4 ed. (1865); A. Armstrong’s Discovery of the north-west passage (1857); S. Cresswell’s Eight sketches of the voyage of H.M.S. Investigator (1854); Graphic, viii 407, 412 (1873), portrait.

MC CLURE, Sir Thomas, 1 Baronet (son of William Mc Clure, merchant). b. Belfast 4 March 1806; ed. at Belfast royal academical institution; merchant Belfast; sheriff of Downshire 1864 and vice lieut. 17 June 1872 to 1886; M.P. Belfast 1868–74; contested Belfast 6 Feb. 1874; M.P. Londonderry 1878–85; cr. a baronet 20 March 1874. d. Belmont near Belfast 21 Jany. 1893. Daily Graphic 23 Jany. 1893 p. 8, portrait.

M’COLLUM, Thomas. Lessee with Wm. Charman of New royal amphitheatre, Holborn, London, opened 25 May 1867. d. 7 Oakden st. Kennington road, London 22 March 1872 aged 44. bur. Brompton cemet. 26 March. Illust. Times 22 June 1867 p. 392, view of interior of Holborn amphitheatre.

MC COMB, William (son of Thomas Mc Comb of Coleraine, Londonderry, draper). b. Coleraine 17 Aug. 1793; teacher of Brown st. daily school, Belfast to 1828; bookseller in High st. Belfast 1828, retired 1864; established Mc Comb’s Presbyterian Almanac 1840 which ran to 1873; author of The dirge of O’Neill 1817; The school of the Sabbath 1822, 2 ed. 1825; The voice of a year, or recollections of 1848, with other poems 1849; Poetical works 1864. d. Colin View terrace, Belfast 13 Sep. 1873.

MC COMBIE, William (only child of William Mc Combie, farmer). b. Cairnballoch, parish of Alford, Aberdeenshire 8 May 1809; a labourer on his father’s farm; farmed Cairnballoch to 1867; contributed to newspapers, to the British Quarterly Review, and to Journal of sacred literature; joined staff of North of Scotland gazette 1849; edited the Aberdeen Daily Free press from first number 6 May 1853 to death; a preacher in John st. Baptist ch. Aberdeen; author of Hours of thought 1835, 3 ed. 1856; Moral agency and man as a moral agent 1842; Memoirs of Alexander Bethune 1845; Use and abuse, the relation to labour of capital, machinery and land 1852; On education, in its constituents, objects and issues 1857. d. Broadford Bank, Aberdeen 6 May 1870. Aberdeen Daily Free Press 13 May 1870 p. 5; Newspaper Press, iv 153–4 (1870); Nicoll’s James Macdonald, journalist (1890) 34–9.

MC COMBIE, William (younger son of Charles Mc Combie, farmer, Tillyfour). b. Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1805; ed. at Aberdeen univ.; a farmer of 1200 acres and cattle-dealer at Tillyfour; began to breed black-polled cattle 1840, fatted about 300 oxen a year; the first Scottish exhibitioner of fat cattle at Birmingham; won over 500 prizes for his cattle; one of the largest farmers in Aberdeenshire; known as the ‘Grazier King’; M.P. West Aberdeenshire 1868–76, being the first tenant farmer returned from Scotland; author of Cattle and cattle breeders 1867; The Mc Combe annual prize for black-polled cattle establed at Aberdeen 1876. d. Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1 Feb. 1880. Times 3 Feb. 1880 p. 5; Graphic, xxi 196 (1880), portrait; W. M’Combie’s Cattle breeders 4 ed. (1886), memoir xi–xviii; Aberdeen Daily Free Press 3 Feb. 1880; James Macdonald’s History of polled Angus cattle (1882).

Note.—His champion ox Black Prince shown at Smithfield in 1866 was by command sent to Windsor to be inspected by the Queen. On 12 July 1867 she visited Tillyfour farm.

MACCOMO, Martini. b. Angola, south-west Africa 1839; lion tamer at circus of Messrs. Stone and Mc Collum, New York 1855; travelled through the United States; came to England 1857, engaged by Wm. Manders proprietor of menagerie, first appeared in England at Deptford 1857; travelled with Manders as the African Lion King 1857 to death. d. from rheumatic fever at Palatine hotel, Sunderland 11 Jany. 1871. Era 15 Jany. 1871 p. 11, col. 1; Baily’s Mag. xliii 15–16 (1885).

MC CONNELL, William. b. Warwick st. Regent st. London 29 Sep. 1831; a draughtsman on wood of illustrations to humourous books; on the original staff of The Train, a magazine 1 Jany. 1856; illustrated Oliver Oldfellow’s Our School 1857; G. F. Pardon’s The Months 1858; G. A. Sala’s Twice round the clock 1859; J. Rodenberg’s Tag und Nacht in London 1862; Upside down, or turnover traits with verses by Thomas Hood the younger 1868. d. of consumption at 17 Tavistock st. Bedford sq. London 14 May 1867.

M’COOLE, Michael. b. Ireland 12 March 1837; boatman on the Mississippi river; was 6 feet and ¾ of an inch high and 200 lbs. in weight; beat Wm. Narry at Louisville, Kentuckey, April 1858; beat Tom Jennings near New Orleans 2 May 1861; fought Joseph Coburn for 2000 dollars and the championship at Cecil county, Maryland 5 May 1863 when Coburn won; fought Wm. Davis for 2000 dollars and a champion belt at Rhoads Point near St. Louis 19 Sep. 1866 when M’Coole won; fought Aaron Jones for the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio 31 Aug. 1867 when M’Coole won; fought Tom Allen for 1000 dollars a side and the championship at Foster’s Island, St. Louis 15 June 1869 when M’Coole won; fought Allen again at Chateau island, St. Louis 23 Sep. 1873 when Allen won; arrested 29 Oct. 1873 for shooting Patsy Mavery the pugilist at St. Louis, when put under 20,000 dollars bail; rearrested and found guilty of wilful murder by the coroner’s jury but the matter was squashed. d. New Orleans 17 Oct. 1886. W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring (1884) 14, 18–20, portrait.

MC CORKINDALE, Duncan (son of Duncan Mc Corkindale). b. Campbeltown, Argyllshire 2 Feb. 1809; a clerk in Glasgow, then in London, returned to Glasgow, retired from business 1857; author of Sketches of genius and other poems 1831; Poems of early and later years 1863; A raid in the Highlands 1868. R. Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 134–5.

MACCORMAC, Henry (son of Cornelius Maccormac an officer in the navy). b. Fairlawn, co. Armagh 1800; studied at Dublin, Paris and Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1824; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; a physician at Belfast; phys. to Belfast fever hospital, took charge of the cholera hospital 1832; visiting phys. to Belfast district lunatic asylum to death; professor of theory and practice of medicine in royal Belfast institution; author of A treatise on the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering 1828; The philosophy of human nature 1837; On the nature, treatment and prevention of pulmonary consumption 1855, 2 ed. 1865; Metanoia, a plea for the insane 1861; Consumption and the breath rebreathed 1872. d. Fisherwick place, Belfast 26 May 1886.

MC CORMICK, Robert (son of Robert Mc Cormick, surgeon in the navy, drowned 1811). b. Runham near Great Yarmouth 22 July 1800; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1821; M.R.C.S. 6 Dec. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon R.N. 1823; served in sir E. Parry’s expedition to Spitzbergen in the Hecla 1827; surgeon in the Terror, relieving ice bound whaling ships 1836; surgeon of the Erebus in Ross’s expedition to the Antartic 1839–43; surgeon of the William and Mary yacht at Woolwich 1845–8, of the Fisgard flagship at Woolwich 1847 to Dec. 1848; sent out in the North Star in search of Franklin 1852, when in the command of an open boat, the Forlorn Hope, in a 3 weeks’ exploration he settled the question of the opening between Baring bay and Jones’ sound; arctic medal 1857; deputy inspector of hospitals 20 May 1859, placed on retired list 29 July 1865; Greenwich hospital pension 3 Sep. 1876; author of Narrative of a boat expedition up the Wellington channel in the year 1852. 1854. d. Hecla villa, Wimbledon, Surrey 28 Oct. 1890. R. Mc Cormick’s Voyages in the Arctic and Antartic seas 2 vols. (1884), memoir ii 183–368, three portraits.

MC CORMICK, William. b. Londonderry 1801; M.P. Londonderry 1860–65; contractor for public works 14 Buckingham st. Strand, London. d. London 12 June 1878.

M’CREA, Robert Contart. b. 13 Jany. 1793; entered navy 23 Nov. 1803; present at Trafalgar; commander Scourge revenue cruiser 1818–21; captain 10 Jany. 1837; commander of the Zebra, forcibly removed the ex-rajah of Queda from his abode at Bruas on the coast of Perak and carried him a prisoner to Penang, April 1837, for which he was presented by H.E.I.C. with a piece of plate value 100 guineas; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. d. Guernsey 13 Jany. 1875. United Service mag. March 1875 p. 407.

M’CREE, George Wilson. b. Newcastle-on-Tyne 28 April 1822; commenced preaching in village chapels 1839; a missionary in London working among the poor of the Five dials and the Seven dials, known as the bishop of St. Giles’ 1848–73; pastor of the Borough road Baptist chapel, Southwark 1873 to death; sec. of Band of hope union; an originator of the London temperance hospital, Hampstead road 1873; edited The band of hope record 4 vols. 1861–4; author of Illustrations of peace principles 1845; Day and night in St. Giles’, a lecture 1862; The pitman’s prayer, a voice from New Hartley colliery 1862; Shadows of city life 1873; William Brock, a biography 3 ed. 1876; Thomas Wilson the silkman 1879; Poets, painters and players 1882; The Queen’s health, a word for the jubilee year 1887. d. 16 Ampton place, Gray’s inn road, London 25 Nov. 1892. Black and White 17 Dec. 1892 p. 696, portrait; Times 28 Nov. 1892 p. 6.

M’CRIE, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Mc Crie, ecclesiastical historian 1772–1835). b. Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1797; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; secession minister of Crieff 1820–8 and of Clola, Aberdeenshire 1828–36; minister of West Richmond st. meeting-house Edinburgh 1836; a contributor to The Witness; professor of theology at the Original secession hall, Edinb. 1836; the Seceders joined the Free church of Scotland 1852; moderator of the Free church assembly 1856; professor of church history and systematic theology at London college of English presbyterian church Oct. 1856 to 1866; D.D. Aberdeen and LL.D. Glasgow; edited The British and foreign evangelical review, Edinb.; author of Life of Thomas Mc Crie 1840; Sketches of Scottish church history 1841, 5 ed. 1875; The ancient history of the Waldensian church 1845; Lectures on Christian baptism 1850; Memoirs of Sir Andrew Agnew 1850, 2 ed. 1851; Thoughts on union with the free church of Scotland 1852; Annals of English presbyterianism 1872; The story of the Scottish church from the reformation to the disruption 1874. d. 39 Minto st. Edinburgh 9 May 1875. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 349–56, portrait.

MACCULLOCH, Horatio (son of a weaver). b. Glasgow, Nov. 1805, and named after lord Nelson; apprenticed to a house-painter; painter of snuff-boxes for Messrs. Smith at Cumnock, Ayrshire 1824; engaged colouring prints in Edinburgh; landscape painter at Glasgow to 1838, then at Edinb.; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1829, an associate 1834, an academician 1838, exhibited Bothwell castle on the Clyde 1863; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. London and 1 at B.I. 1843–8; the most popular landscape painter of his day in Scotland; illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847; and with others W. Beattie’s Scotland illustrated 1838. d. St. Colme’s villa, Trinity, Edinburgh 24 June 1867, two portraits of him by Sir Daniel Macnee are in national gallery of Scotland. Fraser’s Scottish landscape, the works of H. Macculloch (1872), life pp. 9–39, portrait; Chambers’s Biog. Dict. of Scotsmen, iii 11–13 (1875).

MC CULLOCH, Sir James (son of George Mc Culloch). b. Glasgow 1819; in office of J. and A. Dennistoun, merchants, Glasgow 1839, became a partner 1853, and going to Melbourne, Australia, opened a branch establishment there April 1853, firm wound up 1862; founded house of Mc Culloch, Sellar and Co. 1862; nominee member of Victoria legislative council 1854; elected for Wimmera to first legislative assembly 24 Oct. 1856; formed a government, himself being commissioner of trade and customs 29 April 1857, resigned 10 March 1858; member for East Melbourne 1858, treasurer 27 Oct. 1859 to 26 Nov. 1860; member for Mornington 1862, chief secretary 27 June 1863 to 6 May 1868, chief sec. and treasurer 11 July 1868 to 20 Sep. 1869, chief sec. 9 April 1870 to 19 June 1871; knighted by patent 4 June 1870; agent general for Victoria in London 1872–3; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; premier and treasurer of Victoria 20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877. d. Garbard hall, Ewell, Surrey 30 Jany. 1893.

M’CULLOCH, James Melville (1 son of John M’Culloch 1783–1845). b. St. Andrews 25 Feb. 1801; ed. at the United coll. St. Andrews, M.A. 1821, then at St. Mary’s coll.; master gram. sch. Dunkeld 1821–6; head master Circus place sch. Edinb. Jany. 1826 to Feb. 1829; minister St. Vigean’s chapel, Arbroath 25 Feb. 1829 to 1832; minister of parish ch. Kelso 27 Sep. 1832 to 1843; D.D. of St. Andrews 1841; minister of the west parish, Greenock 23 Nov. 1843 to death; presented on his jubilee with a salver and £1260, Feb. 25, 1879; author of Lectures on the advantages which the church derives from an alliance with the state 1835; Pietas juvenilis, a manual of devotion for schools 1838. d. Greenock 12 Jany. 1883. Sermons by J. M. M’Culloch (1884), memoir pp. vii–lvi, portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Ser. (1849) 289–94.

MC CULLOCH, John Ramsay (eld. son of Edward Mc Culloch). b. Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire 1 March 1789; ed. at Kinross and univ. of Edinb.; wrote the economical articles for The Scotsman 1817–27, edited it 1818–20; contributed 76 articles to Edinburgh Review 1818–37; delivered the Ricardo memorial lectures in London 1824; professor of political economy at London univ. 1828–32; comptroller of the Stationery Office 1838 to death; a foreign associate of Institute of France 1843; granted civil list pension of £200, 30 June 1846; author of The principles of political economy, Edinb. 1825, 7 ed. 1886; An essay on the circumstances which determine the rate of wages and the condition of the labouring classes. Edinb. 1826, 4 ed. 1868; A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation 1832–9. d. in the Stationery Office, Prince’s st. Storey’s gate, Westminster 11 Nov. 1864, portrait by Sir Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery, London. I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1864 p. 541, portrait.

MC CULLOCH, William (eld. son of the preceding). b. parish of St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1816; ed. at high sch. Edinb. and at Addiscombe; ensign 13 Bengal N.I. 24 Sep. 1835, major 4 Sep. 1857, retired with rank of lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1861; assistant to political agent at Manipur, April 1840, political agent there 1845–63 and 1864–7; author of An account of Manipur and the Hill tribes. Calcutta 1859. d. 4 April 1885.

MC CULLOUGH, John Edward (son of a farmer). b. in Coleraine, Ireland 2 Nov. 1837; apprentice to a chair maker, Philadelphia, U.S. America 1853; appeared in The Belle’s stratagem at Arch theatre, Philadelphia 15 Aug. 1857; acted in Boston and other cities; travelled with Edwin Forrest playing second parts 1866–8; with Lawrence P. Barrett manager of Bush st. theatre, San Francisco, Jany. 1869; Forrest left him his MS. plays, regarding him as his legitimate successor 1872; acted throughout the States 1873–83; first appeared in England at Drury Lane theatre 25 April 1881 as Virginius, then played Othello; returned to New York 1881. d. in a lunatic asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8 Nov. 1885. The Theatre 1 Aug. 1881 p. 121, portrait; Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 14 May 1881 pp. 199, 209, portrait; New monthly mag. cxix 619–23 (1881), portrait.

M’CUTCHEON, James. Editor of the ‘Tyrone Constitution.’ d. Omagh 4 Feb. 1855.

MAC DERMOTT, Robert (son of W. C. Mac Dermott, barrister). b. Upper Gloucester st. Dublin 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.B. 1854, M.D. 1858, gained Berkeley gold medal for Greek; professor of materia medica in Catholic univ. Ireland 1856; the best public lecturer of his time. d. of typhoid fever 9 Great Denmark st. Dublin 8 Oct. 1859. Memoir of Dr. R. Mac Dermott, M.R.I.A. Dublin (1860).

M’DIARMID, John (son of Hugh M’Diarmid, minister of Gaelic church, Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1790; clerk in Commercial bank, Edinburgh to 1817; amanuensis to professor John Playfair in Edinb.; with Charles Maclaren and William Ritchie established the Scotsman in Edinb. 25 Jany. 1817; edited the Dumfries and Galloway Courier, Jany. 1817, a proprietor 1820, owner of the paper 1837 to death, his son William Ritchie M’Diarmid admitted a partner 1843; published the Dumfries Magazine 1825–8; the friend of Robert Burns’ widow and her executor 1834; entertained at a public dinner at Dumfries 1847; edited Poems of W. Cooper 1819, 4 ed. 1854; Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield 1823; and Paul and Virginia 1824; author of The scrap book prose and verse. Edinb. 1821, 3 ed. 1825; Letters of Junius, with dissertations and notes. By Atticus Secundus 1822; Sketches from nature 1830; Pictures of Dumfries and its environs 1832. d. Dumfries 18 Nov. 1852; a M’Diarmid bursary of £10 a year founded at Edinb. univ. W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation, iii 720–2 (1863).

MACDONALD, Alexander. 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803; lieut.-colonel 20 July 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; served in the Peninsula and South of France 1809–14; C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Aix-la-Chapelle 31 May 1856.

MACDONALD, Alexander. b. New Monkland, Lanarkshire, June 1821; commenced working in a coal pit 1831; at the age of 21 had saved £250; ed. Glasgow univ. 1851 still working as a collier during the summer and autumn; a teacher 1853; agitated for release of women and children from working in coal mines 1852–72, and on laws of contract and hiring, and on the truck system; contested Kilmarnocks burghs 1868; M.P. Stafford 1874 to death, the first working man member, known as the Working Men’s member of parliament; sec. of Miners’ association of Scotland; president of Miners’ national union 1863; visited the U.S. America 3 times; presented by the miners with £1500, Jany. 1873; member of royal commission on trade unions 1874. d. Well hall near Hamilton 31 Oct. 1881. bur. New Monkland ch. yard 7 Nov. The Biograph, Aug. 1880 pp. 148–57; I.L.N. lxiv 551, 552 (1874), portrait.

MACDONALD, Angus. b. Aberdeen 1816; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen and univ. of Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1864; M.R.C.P. Edinb. 1868, F.R.C.P. 1869; practised at Edinb. 1864 to death; lecturer at Minto house, afterwards at Surgeons’ hall; phys. and clinical lecturer on diseases of women in Edinb. royal infirmary; phys. to royal maternity hospital, Edinb.; F.R.S. Edinb. 1871; edited R. E. S. Jackson’s Notebook of materia medica, Edinb. 1871, another ed. 1875; author of The bearings of chronic diseases of the heart upon pregnancy 1878. d. 29 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 10 Feb. 1886.

MACDONALD, Duncan George Forbes (youngest son of John Macdonald 1799–1849, called ‘The Apostle of the North’). b. about 1823; agricultural engineer in London and Dingwall 1848, also practised as a civil engineer; one of comrs. to adjust boundary line of British North America about 1858; drainage engineer of improvements under control of enclosure comrs. for England and Wales; engineer in chief to inspector general of Highland destitution; F.G.S., F.R.G.S.; author of What the farmer may do with the land 1852; British Columbia and Vancouver’s island, a description of these dependencies 1862; Hints on farming and estate management 10 ed. 1869; Napoleon III. and the Franco-German war 1871; Cattle, sheep and deer 1872; The Highland crofters of Scotland 1878; Grouse disease 1883. d. Lymington house, Brighton 3 Jany. 1884.

MACDONALD, Elizabeth (dau. of Renald Macdonald of Scotland). b. 1772; sent by her guardian to school at Calais; received 22 May 1794 at the Benedictine monastery of the Glorious assumption of the B.V.M. founded at Brussels by Lady Mary Percy in 1597; fled with the community to England in 1794; received the habit of religion and took the names of Mary Benedict at the convent St. Peter st. Winchester 11 May 1795 and was the first to be professed there 8 Sep. 1796; elected 15th abbess of the community 9 Sep. 1811, the ceremony of her benediction took place 10 Oct. 1811, tendered her resignation to cardinal Wiseman, resignation accepted 25 Feb. 1848. d. at the convent, Winchester 17 May 1854.

MACDONALD, George. b. 10 Oct. 1784; ensign 27 foot 5 Sep. 1805, captain 17 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1816; captain 16 foot 5 Sep. 1816, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837, placed on h.p. 7 July 1841; governor of Sierra Leone 17 Dec. 1841 to March 1845; col. of 96 foot 27 Dec. 1860, of 16 foot 13 Feb. 1863 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. Torquay 1 March 1883. Graphic, xxv 181 (1883) portrait.

MACDONALD, Hugh. b. Bridgeton, Glasgow 4 April 1817; apprenticed to a block-printer; kept a provision shop in Bridgeton; a block-printer at Paisley to 1849; wrote for the Glasgow Citizen 1849–53 and for the Glasgow Sentinel 1855; edited the Glasgow Times; literary editor of Morning Journal 1858 to death; author of Rambles round Glasgow 2 ed. 1856; Days at the coast, sketches of the Frith of Clyde 1874. d. 16 March 1860. Hugh Macdonald’s Poetical Works (1865), memoir; Rev. Charles Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 286–7.

MACDONALD, James. Comedian in North of England; lessee of the Shields, Scarborough and Hartlepool theatres; lessee of T.R. Darlington to 1871; held a responsible position at Drury Lane theatre under F. B. Chatterton 1871–9. d. Newcastle-on-Tyne 25 Jany. 1889 aged 60.

MAC DONALD, James. b. Hopeman, Elginshire 1842; in the house of W. P. Nimmo, bookseller, Edinb. 1860, then a traveller for Nimmo in Scotland; traveller for G. Waterston and Sons, Edinb. till 1870; Canadian traveller for W. Collins, Sons and co. 1870–80; partner with John Walker and William Barringer as J. Walker & Co. booksellers, Warwick lane, Paternoster row, London 1880 to death; killed while crossing the line at Beckenham station, Kent 15 Aug. 1891. bur. Elmer’s End cemetery.

MACDONALD, James William Bosville (2 son of Godfrey Macdonald, 3 baron Macdonald 1775–1832). b. 31 Oct. 1810; ensign 81 foot 1 Oct. 1829; cornet 1 life guards 1831, captain 24 June 1837 to 30 Dec. 1842; private sec. to commander in chief at head quarters 15 July 1856 to death; present at battles of Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and at siege of Sebastopol; col. 21 hussars 1 July 1880 to death; general 1 July 1881; deputy ranger of Hyde park; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Jany. 1882. Army and navy mag. iii 399 (1882), portrait.

MACDONALD, Sir John (eld. son of Alexander Macdonald, major in the army 1762–1808). b. 10 Sep. 1788; ensign 88 foot 17 Dec. 1803, captain 7 Sep. 1809; major Portuguese service 25 Oct. 1814; major 91 foot 29 Nov. 1821, lieut.-col. 23 Sep. 1824 to 26 April 1827 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 92 foot 21 Nov. 1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the force sent to suppress Irish insurrection of July 1848; col. 92 foot 25 May 1855 to death; general 7 March 1862; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. d. Dun Alastair, Perthshire 24 June 1866.