Part 11

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LAWRENCE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (brother of Charles Lawrence 1794–1881). _b._ Cirencester 16 July 1783; apprenticed to John Abernethy the surgeon 1799, and his demonstrator at St. Bartholomew’s hosp. 1802–14, assistant surgeon there March 1813, surgeon 19 May 1824 to 1865, lecturer on surgery 1829–62; F.R.S. 11 Nov. 1813; surgeon to London infirmary for diseases of the eye 1814; surgeon to Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals 1815; M.R.C.S. 1805, professor of anatomy and surgery 1815, member of council 1828, Hunterian orator 1834 and 1846, examiner 1840–67, pres. 1846 and 1855; surgeon extraordinary to the Queen 1837–58, serjeant surgeon 24 March 1858 to death; member of general medical council 1858–63; created baronet 8 April 1867; author of A treatise on ruptures 1810, 3 ed. 1816, 5 ed. 1838; A short system of comparative anatomy translated from the German 1807, 2 ed. 1827; An introduction to comparative anatomy and physiology 1816; Lectures on physiology, zoology and the natural history of man 1819, 9 ed. 1848; Lectures on surgery at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1830; A treatise on the venereal diseases of the eye 1830; A treatise on the diseases of the eye 1833, 2 ed. 1841; The Hunterian orations 2 vols. 1834 and 1846. _d._ 18 Whitehall place, London 5 July 1867, portrait in committee room of St. Bartholomew’s hospital, and bust in College of Surgeons. _Memoir by Sir W. S. Savory in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports for 1868 pp._ 1–18; _Traits of character. By A Contemporary_, _i_ 145–66 (1860); _Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi_ 25–30 (1868); _Medical Circular_, _iv_ 191–3, 209–10, 227–9 (1854), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _ii_ 29, _portrait_; _T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery_, _ii_ (1840), _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LAWSON, JOHN JOSEPH (2 son of James Lawson of Norwood). _b._ 1802; publisher of the Times newspaper to death. _d._ Downshire hill, Hampstead 24 March 1852. _The Times testimonial. Report of the trial Bogle versus Lawson_ 1841; _The Nelson sword v. Lord Denman’s law_. _The summing up of the judge in Evans versus Lawson for libel_ 1848.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LEADBITTER, GEORGE. _b._ Hexham 1787; one of the officers at Bow st. police court 1832, much employed in post office and bank business; was 6 feet 2½ inches in height and weighed 19 stone; resided in Longacre; succeeded John Townsend (who _d._ 10 July 1832 aged 73) in heading the police who attended the king on public occasions; had 25 guineas a year from the Doncaster corporation to attend the autumn meetings and preserve order in the grand stand enclosure 1832–52 where he was the means of securing many criminals, also engaged at Epsom; defendant in case of Wood _v._ Leadbitter in Court of exchequer 1845 respecting his expelling from the grand stand by order of the stewards one Wood a defaulter; _killed_ by being overturned in a cab near The Bag of Nails tavern, 1 Victoria road, Pimlico 3 Dec. 1852. _bur._ Brompton cemetery. _Sporting Review_, _xxix_ 71–2, 292 (1853); _The Town_, _i_ 22 (1837); _Times 7 Dec. 1852 p._ 5 _col._ 3; _13 Meeson and Welsby’s Reports pp._ 838–56 (1845).

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

LEADER, ROBERT (son of Robert Leader of Sheffield, bookseller, _d._ 1861). _b._ Carver st. Sheffield 4 Oct. 1809; apprentice in office of Sheffield Iris to 1830; proprietor with his father of Sheffield and Rotherham Independent from Jany. 1830, sole proprietor 1842 till 1875 when he made it over to his two sons, editor till 1875; a town trustee 1860, a town councillor 1876 and alderman 1880. _d._ Moor End, Sheffield 31 Oct. 1885. _bur._ Burngreave cemet. 4 Nov. _Sheffield Independent 31 Oct._, 2, _5 Nov. 1885_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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