Part 17

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).