Part 13

LEITCH, WILLIAM. _b._ Rothesay, Isle of Bute 1814; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A. 1836; licensed preacher in Church of Scotland 1838; minister of Monimail 1843–59; principal of the univ. of Queen’s coll. Canada 1859 to death, assist. to professor Nichol in univ. observatory; moderator of the synod of the church of Scotland, Canada 1862; a senator and an examiner in the univ. Toronto; president of Botanical Soc. of Canada and a writer in its Transactions 1861; a contributor to Kitto’s Journal of Sacred Literature, Good Words and other periodicals; author of God’s glory in the heavens 1862, 3 ed. 1866. _d._ Kingston, Upper Canada 9 May 1864. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 221.

LEITCH, WILLIAM LEIGHTON. _b._ The Townhead, Glasgow 2 Nov. 1804; a weaver 1819, a house painter; scene painter at theatre royal, Glasgow, Aug. 1824 at 20s. a week; spent 2 years at Mauchline painting snuffboxes; scene painter at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st. London to 1832; studied and taught painting in Italy 1833–7; a successful teacher in London from 1837; drawing master to the queen and royal family from 1842 for 22 years; last of the great English teachers of landscape painting; member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1862, vice pres. to death, a collection of his works was exhibited at their rooms Piccadilly 1883; exhibited 11 pictures at R. A., 2 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; his sketches with a few drawings and oil pictures were sold at Christie’s, March 1884 for £9,000; illustrated G. N. Wright’s The Rhine, Italy and Greece 1840; G. N. Wright’s The shores of the Mediterranean 1840; J. Sherer’s The classic lands of Europe 1879. _d._ 124 Alexandra road, St. John’s Wood, London 25 April 1883. _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 604 (1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 432 (1883), _portrait_; _Mac George’s W. L. Leitch, a memoir_ (1884), _portrait_.

LEITH, SIR ALEXANDER (eld. son of Alexander Leith of Freefield, co. Aberdeen, _d._ 1828). _b._ Cobardie, Forgue, Aberdeenshire 1774; ensign 42 foot 8 Aug. 1792; captain 109 foot 1794; captain 31 foot 1795, lieut.-col. 7 Feb. 1811 to 25 May 1815 when placed on h.p.; commanded 31 foot at battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive and Orthes; colonel 90 foot 2 Sep. 1841 to 14 June 1853; colonel 31 foot 14 June 1853 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815. _d._ Freefield, co. Aberdeen 19 Feb. 1859.

LEITH, EDWARD TYRRELL (2 son of John Farley Leith, Q.C.) _b._ Calcutta 12 March 1842; ed. in Germany and Trin. coll. Camb. 1869; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1866; practised at Bombay 1867–85; professor of law at government law school, Bombay 1869–85; lived at Stuttgart, Germany 1886 to death; gave much attention to ethnological studies and contributed to various papers The funeral rites of the Parsees; The religion of the Non-Aryan races of India; The primitive disposal of the dead by exposure; Cannibalism in India; and The dog in myth and custom; author of Divination by Házirát among the Indian Mussulmáns 1886. _d._ Heidelberg 10 Dec. 1888. _Law Times_, _lxxxvi_ 167, 230 (1889).

LEITH, HARRY. _b._ 1796; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1817; presbyterian minister at Cornwall, Upper Canada 6 June 1822; minister of Rothiemay 23 May 1827 to death; took part with the minority in the dispute regarding the presentation to Marnoch and was rebuked at the bar of the supreme civil court 26 May 1843 for breach of interdict and fined £5 and expenses. _d._ Rothiemay 20 Aug. 1854. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 3, _part_ 1, _p._ 216.

LEITH, JAMES (son of sir Alexander Leith). _b._ 1827; cornet 14 hussars 4 May 1849, lieut. 1853; captain 2 dragoons 1859, placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1861; served in Persian campaign 1857, at suppression of mutiny at Aurungabad, with Malwa field force at siege of Dhar, and at advance on Calpee; at Betwah 1 April 1858 charged alone and rescued Capt. Need from the rebel infantry for which he was awarded Victoria cross 24 Dec. 1858; gentleman at arms 5 May 1863 to death. _d._ Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 13 May 1869.

LEITH, JOHN (2 son of general Alexander Leith Hay). _b._ Leith hall, co. Aberdeen; entered navy 11 June 1803; captain 11 Nov. 1825; commander of the Seringapatam 46 guns and in charge of the Barbadoes station 6 Feb. 1837 to July 1841; R.A. 11 Feb. 1854. _d._ 25 Oct. 1854. _O’Byrne p._ 647.

LEITH, JOHN FARLEY (eld. son of James Urquhart Murray Leith, capt. 68 regt., killed at Orthes 1814). _b._ Aberdeen 5 May 1808; ed. at gr. sch., Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 7 May 1874 to death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1872; advocate in supreme court at Calcutta 1840–9; professor of law East India college, Haileybury 1853–7 or 8; practised before judicial committee of P.C.; contested city of Aberdeen 2 April 1857; M.P. city of Aberdeen 1872–80. _d._ 8 Dorset sq. Marylebone, London 4 April 1887. _Law Times_, _lxxxii_ 479 (1887).

LEITH, JOHN MACDONALD. _b._ 26 Dec. 1839; ed. at Cheltenham; ensign 79 highlanders 17 March 1854, lieut.-col. 1 July 1881, placed on h.p. 1 July 1885; brevet colonel 31 Dec. 1882; served in Egypt 1882; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. _d._ Gibraltar 22 May 1888.

LEITH, ROBERT WILLIAM DISNEY (2 son of sir Alexander Leith 1774–1859). _b._ Glenkindy, Aberdeenshire 28 Feb. 1819; ensign 1 Bombay European fusiliers 4 Sep. 1837; served in Persian gulf 1838–41, in the Punjaub 1848–9, led storming party at capture of Mooltan 1849; adjutant March to Aug. 1846; A.A.G. Bombay 1855–59; lieut.-col. 106 foot 1 Jany. 1862, on h.p. 29 May 1866, lieut. general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Northcourt, Isle of Wight 20 June 1892.

LEITRIM, NATHANIEL CLEMENTS, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 Earl of Leitrim 1732–1804). _b._ Dublin 9 May 1768; known as viscount Clements 1783–1804; M.P. Carrick 1790–7; M.P. Leitrim 1798–1800; M.P. Leitrim in first parliament of United Kingdom 1801–4; succeeded 27 July 1804; lord lieut. of Leitrim 1831 to death; cr. baron Clements of Kilmacrenan, co. Donegal in peerage of U.K. 20 June 1831; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland; col. of Donegal militia. _d._ Killadoon, co. Kildare 31 Dec. 1854.

LEITRIM, WILLIAM SYDNEY CLEMENTS, 3 Earl of (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Dublin 1806; known as viscount Clements 1804–54; ensign 43 foot 9 Dec. 1824, captain 5 April 1831; placed on h.p. 20 March 1835; sold his commission 20 June 1854; M.P. Leitrim 1839–47; col. of Leitrim militia 1843; succeeded 31 Dec. 1854; a magistrate for Galway, Leitrim and Donegal, superseded Oct. 1863; gave orders to the manager of the hotel at Maam a tenant of his own, to refuse admission to the earl of Carlisle, the lord lieutenant, which was done accordingly; a severe landlord who evicted many of his tenants; while driving on a car with a clerk and a driver, shot dead at Cratlaghwood near Milford, co. Donegal 2 April 1878, the driver and the clerk being also killed. _Graphic_, _xvii_ 364 (1878), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxii_ 329 (1878), _portrait_; _A.R._ 1878 _pp._ 35–36.

LE KEUX, HENRY (son of Peter Le Keux of Bishopsgate, London, pewter manufacturer). _b._ 13 June 1787; apprenticed to James Basire, engraver, worked for him on the Oxford almanacs and on the plates for Society of Antiquaries; engraved for the Annals 1820–40; member of Associated Society of Engravers, engraved for the Soc. some pictures by Claude and Canaletto in the national gallery; joined in starting a crape manufactory at Bocking in Essex about 1838; engraved views for Specimens of the architecture of Normandy by J. Britton 1873; author with J. Le Keux of Historical essays, a series of architectural antiquities of Normandy 1828. _d._ Bocking 3 Oct. 1868. _bur._ Halstead, Essex.

LEMAITRE, PAUL THOMAS. _b._ 1776; a gold watch case maker at 13 Denmark st. Soho; arrested 27 Sep. 1794 for treasonable practices as being a delegate of the London Corresponding Society, in connection with John Smith of the Pop Gun, Portsmouth st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, to assassinate George the Third by means of a poisoned arrow; examined by the Privy Council 28–30 Sep.; the first person sent to the new prison at Cold Bath Fields, confined there 32 weeks, liberated 9 May 1795 on giving bail for £50, tried at the Old Bailey 11 May 1796 and discharged; his case was for many years before parliament; Henry Warburton, M.P. got a petition drawn up for him in Aug. 1846. _High treason. Narrative of the arrest of P. T. Lemaitre 2 ed._ (1795).

NOTE.--His petition to the House of Commons, states that he was then in the 70th year of his age, was one of those persons, who during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus act, were arrested and confined in prison for long periods of time on charges of traitorously conspiring against the King’s person and government, of which persons he was nearly the sole survivor, alleges his innocence of the charges brought against him, and prays that the House would be pleased to take his petition into consideration and afford him redress. It was presented and read and ordered to lie upon the table 13 Aug. 1846, ordered to be printed 14 Aug.

LEMAN, JAMES. _b._ 1794; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1819 to death; member of council of incorporated law society 19 June 1851 to 1869, vice pres. 1862–3, pres. 1863–64. _d._ 29 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 9 April 1876. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xx_ 492 (1876).

LEMANN, CHARLES MORGAN. _b._ London 1806; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1828, M.D. 1833; Fellow Linnean soc. 1831; F.C.P. Lond. 1836; physician to lord Warwick’s family in Italy 1834–5; formed an herbarium of plants from Spain, Italy, America, Brazil, Guinea, the Cape and Australia consisting of 30,000 specimens, which was given by his brother Frederick Lemann to the university of Cambridge. _d._ Bathampton near Bath 26 Aug. 1852. _Proc. of Linnean Soc. ii_ 234–5 (1855).

LE MARCHANT, SIR DENIS, 1 Baronet (2 son of John Gaspard Le Marchant, major general 1766–1812). _b._ Newcastle 3 July 1795; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; chief sec. to lord chancellor Brougham 1830–34; clerk of the crown in chancery 30 July 1834 to 1836; sec. to board of trade 1836–40 and 1848–50; joint sec. to the treasury 19 June 1841 to 21 May 1844; baronet 14 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Worcester 1846 to 1847; under sec. of state for home department 1847–8; chief clerk to house of commons 30 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1871; author of Report of the proceedings of the house of lords in the claim to the barony of Gardner 1828; The reform ministry and the reform parliament 1834, nine editions; Memoirs of general Le Marchant 1841, privately printed 90 copies; Memoirs of John Charles, viscount Althorp 1876; edited Horace Walpole’s Memoirs of the reign of George III. with notes 1845. _d._ 21 Belgrave road, London 30 Oct. 1874. _I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1851_, _portrait_, _lxv_ 475, 489 (1874) _portrait_, _lxvi_ 187 (1875); _Law Times 7 Nov. 1874 p._ 17.

LE MARCHANT, SIR JOHN GASPARD (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1803; ensign 10 foot 26 Oct. 1820; lieut. 57 foot 1821, captain 1825; captain 98 foot 1826, major 1832–5; adjutant general to Anglo-Spanish legion and brigadier general in the Spanish army 1835–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838 for his service in Spain; permitted to wear Spanish decorations of San Fernando and Charles III.; lieut.-col. 99 foot 18 Oct. 1839 to 27 Sep. 1842; inspecting field officer recruiting district South of Ireland 1842–6; lieut. col. of 85 foot 19 June 1846 to 29 Dec. 1846; lieut. governor of Newfoundland 1846–52 and of Nova Scotia 1852–57; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1859 to 15 Nov. 1864; commander-in-chief at Madras 25 May 1865 to 8 Nov. 1867; col. of 11 foot 3 Sep. 1862 to death; general 6 May 1872; G.C.M.G. 1860; K.C.B. 9 Oct. 1865. _d._ 80 St. George’s square, London 6 Feb. 1874.

LE MESSURIER, ALEXANDER PETER. _b._ 1797 or 1798; entered Bombay army 1819; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 8 Oct. 1839, lieut.-col. 1 Dec. 1851 to 28 Nov. 1854; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I. 28 Nov. 1854 to 1856, of 10 N.I. 1856–7, of 12 N.I. 1857–60, of 10 N.I. again 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with rank of M.G. _d._ 5 Inverness place, Hyde park, London 17 Feb. 1876.

LE MESSURIER, AUGUSTUS SMITH. _b._ 1800; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1821; practised with great success at Bombay 30 years; advocate general of presidency of Bombay 1847 to 1857 when he returned to England. _d._ 50 Upper Baker st. Portman square, London 8 Dec. 1876. _Solicitors’ Journal 16 Dec. 1876 p._ 132.

LE MESSURIER, GEORGE PAUL. Entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 2 Bombay N.I. 4 Jany. 1819; captain 14 N.I. 22 July 1826, major 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 March 1846; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 1846–8, of 24 N.I. 1848–9, of 22 N.I. 1849 to death. _d._ Wimpole st. London 6 Feb. 1852.

LEMOINNE, JOHN EMILE. _b._ London 17 Oct. 1815, and first educated in England; joined staff of the Journal des Débats 1840, with which paper he remained to his death; member of French academy 13 May 1875; a life senator 23 Feb. 1880; author of Wellington from a French point of view 1852; Etudes critiques et biographiques 1862; and of Letters of J. Lemoinne on the exhibition of 1851, in D. Lardner’s The Great exhibition 1852. _d._ Paris 14 Dec. 1892. _The Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 14, _portrait_.

LEMON, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (3 son of sir Wm. Lemon 1748–1824). _b._ Whitehall, London 30 Sep. 1784; ed. Harrow; M.A. of Camb. univ. 1833; M.P. Penryn 1807–12, and 1830–31; M.P. Cornwall 1831–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832–41 and 1842–57; F.R.S. 23 May 1822; a founder of Statistical soc. 1834, and a trustee 1838; president R. Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1833 to death; president R. Geological soc. of Cornwall 1840–50; provincial grand master of freemasons of Cornwall 1843–63; a commissioner for enquiring into state of British museum 11 June 1847; special deputy warden of the Stannaries 1852; made a collection of exotic trees and shrubs at Carclew; author of On the proposed tariff as it affects tin, copper and timber used in mines 1842, and other pamphlets. _d._ Carclew near Penryn, Cornwall 12 Feb. 1868. _bur._ Mylor ch. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 314–15, 1267.

LEMON, MARK (eld. son of Martin Lemon, hop merchant, who _m._ 27 Dec. 1808 Alice Collis and _d._ 21 Jany. 1818 aged 32). _b._ Oxford st. London 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; learnt business of a hop merchant from his uncle Thomas Collis of Boston, Lincoln 1824; manager of Verey’s brewery, Kentish Town, London; retailer of beer at 24 Lambeth Walk, Vauxhall 1837–41; his first play, P.L. or No. 30 Strand, was produced at Strand theatre 25 April 1835; his 5 act drama in blank verse Arnold of Winkelried produced at Surrey theatre, July 1835; The Avenge produced at City of London theatre opening night 27 April 1837; his 5 act play The Turf produced at Covent Garden 1842; Hearts are trumps, at Strand theatre 1849; wrote about 60 plays; lived at 11 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 1852–9; contributed to Household Works, Once a Week, &c.; edited The London Journal 1858–9, The Family Herald, Once a Week; started The Field 1 Jany. 1853, edited it; secretary to Herbert Ingram founder of Illustrated London News, for which he wrote the first Christmas supplement; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner with Henry Mayhew of a third share in it, edited it to his death, at a salary originally 30/-a week and latterly £1500 per annum; an amateur actor from 1845; gave a series of lectures called About London, at Gallery of Illustration 6 Jany. 1862 to 1863; arranged and played chief part in a series of scenes from the Merry Wives of Windsor entitled Falstaff, at Gallery of Illustration, Regent st. from 12 Oct. 1868, and in North of England and Scotland 1868–9; author of The enchanted doll 1849 and other fairy tales; also of Wait for the end 3 vols. 1863 and other novels and about 100 songs. (_m._ 28 Sep. 1839 Helen dau. of John Romer of Upper Chelsea, jeweller, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 3 May 1872 and _d._ Nov. 1890). He _d._ Vine cottage, Crawley, Sussex 23 May 1870. _bur._ Ifield 27 May. _Illustrated Rev. 15 Feb. 1872 pp._ 481–88, _portrait_; _J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters_ (1870) 49–60; _Appleton’s Journal_, _viii_ 493–5, _portrait_; _E. Walford’s Representative men_ (1868), _portrait_; _J. Hatton’s With a show in the north. Reminiscences of Mark Lemon_ (1871), _portrait_; _The Mask_ (1868) 65–7, _portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 348 (1845), _portrait_.

NOTE.--Mr. Edward Walford, M.A., states in Notes and Queries 16 June 1888 p. 478 that Mark Lemon told him the place of his birth was a house included in the Crystal Palace bazaar just behind Peter Robinson’s emporium, this was probably the present No. 228 Oxford St. formerly No. 108 down to 1881 when all the houses in Oxford st. west of Tottenham Court road were renumbered. There is a portrait of Lemon by John Leech in his two-page cartoon called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 as the conductor of the orchestra. In Alfred Bunn’s A word with Punch 1847 Lemon is spoken of as Thickhead, there is a portrait representing him as a pot boy and it is suggested that he was a tailor and vastly like Moses. He wrote the first article in the first number of Punch entitled The Moral of Punch. The rev. J. Richardson, LL.B. states in his Recollections of the last half century vol. 1 (1856) 80–2 that Lemon kept the Shakespeare’s Head tavern in Wych st. Strand for one year after his marriage. In “Mr. Punch: his origin and career” [1870] there is a facsimile of the original prospectus of Punch in the handwriting of Lemon.

LEMON, ROBERT (son of Robert Lemon, archivist 1779–1835). _b._ 1800; employed in state paper office under his father, senior clerk Nov. 1835; compiled indexes to Valor ecclesiasticus temp. Hen. VIII. 1834; suggested publishing the Calendars of state papers and interpreted a cypher which had rendered many of them unintelligible; edited Calendars of state papers Domestic series 1547–90, 2 vols. 1856–65; F.S.A. 3 March 1836, rearranged the society’s library 1846; author of Catalogue of a collection of broadsides 1866. _d._ 10 Ovington sq. Brompton, London 3 Jany. 1867. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. iii_ 481–2 (1867).

LEMON, THOMAS (1 son of Thomas Lemon, lieut.-col. R.M. _d._ 4 Aug. 1856). _b._ St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester 22 June 1807; 2 lieut. R.M. 8 Oct. 1827; col. commandant 6 March 1862 to death; L.G. 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 20 May 1859. _d._ Plymouth 22 Feb. 1875.

LEMPRIERE, GEORGE OURRY. _b._ 11 March 1787; captain R.N. 27 May 1825; retired admiral 3 Dec. 1863. _d._ Pelham, Hants. 16 Jany. 1864.

LENDRICK, JAMES WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist and Law’s mathematical prizeman 1810; B. A. 1810, M.A. 1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 16 June 1859; chairman of quarter sessions for counties of Londonderry and Wicklow nearly 34 years. _d._ 114 Pembroke road, Dublin 19 Jany. 1872. _Irish Law Times 27 Jany. 1872 p._ 47.

LENDY, AUGUSTE FREDERIC. _b._ 1826; captain of the French army staff; came to England as military tutor to the Orlean princes 1848; started a private military college at Sunbury house, Sunbury-on-Thames; a successful ‘crammer’ for the army; lieut. 4th or royal South Middlesex militia 24 Nov. 1862, captain 2 May 1866, retired with hon. rank of major 1 Feb. 1879; an amateur grower of orchids; author of The principles of war 1853; Elements of fortification 1857; Maxims, advice and instruction on the art of war 1857, new ed. 1864; Campaigns of Napoleon and of Wellington 1861, nineteen parts; A practical course of military surveying 1864. _d._ Riverside house, Sunbury-on-Thames 10 Oct. 1889. _Broad Arrow 19 Oct. 1889 p._ 479; _Gardener’s Mag. 19 Oct. 1889_.

LENNARD, THOMAS BARRETT (1 son of sir T. B. Lennard, bart. 1761–1857). _b._ 4 Oct. 1788; ed. Charterhouse and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; M.P. Ipswich 1820–6; M.P. Maldon 1826–37 and 1847–52; contested Maldon 26 July 1837; F.S.A. 22 May 1851. _d._ Brighton 9 June 1856.

LENNIE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1779; taught English at Edinburgh 1802 to death; author of The principles of English grammar 1821, 85th ed. Edinb. 1886; left an endowment of £10 a year to a school at Craigend, Perthshire; left by his will to town council of Edinburgh the lands of Auchenresch, Dumfriesshire for founding in univ. of Edinb. four bursaries of £12 each to be called the Lennie bursaries. _d._ 23 St. Andrew’s sq. Edinburgh 20 July 1852.

LENNOCK, GEORGE GUSTAVUS. _b._ 1776 or 1777; entered navy April 1789; in command of the Raven 16 guns attacked 14 brigs at Flushing and drove 3 of them on shore 3 July 1812; captain 4 June 1814; in command of the Esk 20 guns had an action with the Grampus and Terpsichore two American vessels 1814; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Broomrig, co. Dumfries 12 May 1866.

LENNOX, ALEXANDER FRANCIS CHARLES GORDON (son of 5 duke of Richmond 1791–1860). _b._ 14 June 1825; cornet royal horse guards 8 Feb. 1842, capt. 30 March 1847, sold out 14 May 1852; M.P. Shoreham 1849–59. _d._ 25 Pont st. London 22 Jany. 1892.

LENNOX, ARTHUR GORDON (7 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819). _b._ 2 Oct. 1806; ensign 71 foot 24 June 1823, major 6 July 1838 to 14 April 1843; lieut.-col. 72 foot 14 April 1843, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1845; lieut.-col. 68 foot 14 Sep. 1852, sold out 30 Dec. 1853; a lord of the treasury 21 May 1844 to 8 Aug. 1845; a clerk of the ordnance 7 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; M.P. for Chichester 1831–46 when he voted for free trade and accepted the Chiltern hundreds; returned for Yarmouth 29 July 1847, unseated on petition 8 July 1848; lieut.-col. commandant 1 royal Sussex militia 14 Dec. 1854 to death. _d._ Ovington sq. Brompton, London 15 Jany. 1864.

LENNOX, GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (4 son of 5 duke of Richmond 1791–1860). _b._ Goodwood 22 Oct. 1829; cornet royal horse guards 3 April 1846, lieut. 14 May 1852, sold out 22 April 1853; M.P. Lymington 1860–74. _d._ 27 Berkeley square, London 27 Feb. 1877.

LENNOX, HENRY GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (brother of the preceding). _b._ Goodwood, Sussex 2 Nov. 1821; ed. at Westminster 1836–40 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; M.P. Chichester 1846–85; a lord of the treasury 28 Feb. 1852 to 20 Dec. 1852 and 1 March 1858 to 14 March 1859; sec. to admiralty July 1866 to Dec. 1868; P.C. 7 July 1874; president of board of works Feb. 1874 to July 1876; author of A winter in Madeira 1881; Forewarned, forearmed, a statement of the strength of the English and French navies 1882, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ at his res. near Chichester 28 Aug. 1886.

LENNOX, JOHN GEORGE GORDON (2 son of 4 duke of Richmond. 1764–1819). _b._ 3 Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster; cornet 13 dragoons 24 Oct. 1811; captain 9 dragoons 27 June 1816, placed on h.p. 25 June 1823; A.D.C. to duke of Wellington 1813; lieut.-col. in the army 12 June 1823; gentleman of bedchamber to prince Albert; M.P. Chichester 1819–31; M.P. Sussex 1831–2; M.P. West Sussex 1832–41. _d._ Darland, Chatham 10 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 495 (1873).

LENNOX, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ 1797 or 1798; entered Bengal army 1817; ensign 22 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1818; captain 43 N.I. 23 April 1830, major 11 Nov. 1847 to 14 July 1853; lieut.-col. of 67 N.I. 14 July 1853–4, of 38 N.I. 1854–6, of 22 N.I. 1856–7, of 34 N.I. 1857–9, of 63 N.I. 1859–61, of 9 N.I. 1861; retired with rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Glasgow 5 May 1884.

LENNOX, WILLIAM PITT (4 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819). _b._ Winestead abbey, Yorkshire 20 Sep. 1799; ed. at Westminster 1808–13; cornet royal horse guards 13 May 1813, captain 28 March 1822, sold out 25 March 1829; went to Paris with Duke of Wellington as attaché 8 Aug. 1814, A.D.C. to the Duke 1815–8; an extra A.D.C. to his father while governor general of Canada 1818–9; one of the pages at coronation of George IV. 19 July 1821; M.P. King’s Lynn 10 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; edited The Review newspaper 1858; contributed to the Annuals, Once a Week and the Court Journal; gave many lectures; is depicted by Disraeli in Vivian Grey as Lord Prima Donna; author of Compton Audley, or hands not hearts 3 vols. 1841; The tuft hunter 3 vols. 1843; The story of my life 3 vols. 1857; Recreations of a sportsman 2 vols. 1862; Life of the Fifth Duke of Richmond 1862, anon., and many other books. _d._ 34 Hans place, Sloane st. London 18 Feb. 1881. _W. P. Lennox’s Fifty years reminiscences 2 vols._ (1863); _W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections 2 vols._ (1874).

LENTAIGNE, SIR JOHN FRANCIS O’NEILL (1 son of Benjamin Lentaigne of Dublin, physician, _d._ 1813). _b._ 20 June 1803; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.B. 1828; L.R.C.S.I 1830, F.R.C.S.I. 1844; government comr. of loan funds 1841; inspector general of prisons, Ireland 1854–77; governor of Richmond district lunatic asylum; sheriff of Monaghan 1844; contested co. Dublin 26 July 1852; a comr. of national education Ireland 1861 to death; president of Zoological soc; president of Statistical soc.; M.R.I.A.; C.B. 27 March 1873, K.C.B. 28 April 1880; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland at Dublin castle 28 April 1880; knight of order of Pius IX. _d._ 1 Great Denmark st. Dublin 12 Nov. 1886.

LENTHALL, FRANCIS KYFFIN (3 son of Kyffin John William Lenthall 1789–1870). _b._ 30 March 1824; a lineal descendant of William Lenthall the speaker, through whom he owned Besselsleigh manor near Abingdon; barrister L.I. 1 May 1846; recorder of Woodstock, Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1885; assist. revising barrister for county and city of Worcester 1868, and for Gloucestershire 1869; author of Correspondence by F. K. Lenthall and others respecting the memorial to Lord Romilly 1866. _d._ Besselsleigh manor, Berks. Jany. 1892.

LEONARD, DENIS. _b._ Kilkenny 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; an attorney; appeared at a minor London theatre under name of Mr. O’Neil; played sir Lucius O’Trigger at the Haymarket; acted in America, the Southern States and Canada; acted in the provinces; again visited America; the leading Irish actor of his time; played Richmond to Kean’s Richard III. in Belfast 1830; played all Tyrone Power’s Irish parts at the Haymarket, at the T.R. Dublin 1843 &c. and in America; his drama The Foster Brothers produced in Belfast about 1867; an attorney in Belfast and law agent for marquess of Downshire. _d._ 8 Cromwell terrace, Belfast 31 May 1878.

LEONARD, JOHN PATRICK. _b._ Ireland; connected with sir C. G. Duffy in the 1848 movement in Ireland; a resident in Paris from 1849; professor of English in the Collége Chaptal to death; a medical man in Franco-German war, attended marshall Mac Mahon when wounded outside Sedan Aug. 1870, very friendly with the marshall and the duchess of Magenta; published Sermon on behalf of the distressed Irish by G. Mermillod, bishop of Hebron, a translation 1862. _d._ Paris, Aug. 1889. _bur._ Ballymor near Queenstown 27 Oct.

LEONARD, PETER. _b._ St. Vigeans, Arbroath 1801; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1822; M.D. of St. Andrew’s 1851; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon R.N. 6 March 1823, fleet surgeon 1829; inspector general of hospitals 15 March 1865, retired 19 Sep. 1866; first inspector general under contagious diseases act and organizer of the administration 1866; wrote a Naval medical journal of services in South America, for which he received sir G. Blaine’s gold medal; deputy inspector general at Chatham, then at Haslar; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £100 a year 24 March 1871; author of Records of a voyage to the Western coast of Africa and of the service in that station for the suppression of the slave trade. Edinb. 1833. _d._ Arbroath 2 May 1888.

LEOPOLD, GEORGE CHRISTIAN FREDERICK, king of the Belgians as Leopold I. (3 son of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of Saxe-Cobourg 1750–1806). _b._ Cobourg 16 Dec. 1790; came to England in 1814 and lived in lodgings at a grocer’s at 21 High st. Marylebone; came to England 20 Feb. 1816; naturalized by act 56 George III. cap. 13, 29 March 1816; granted Claremont house and grounds for his life. _m._ 2 May 1816 the princess Charlotte Augusta only child of George IV., she _d._ at Claremont 6 Nov. 1817; G.C.H. 22 March 1816; a general 2 May 1816 and field marshall 24 May 1816; G.C.B. 23 May 1816; K.G. 23 May 1816; P.C. 1 July 1816; entered into a marriage contract with Karoline Bauer a German actress 2 July 1829 and lived with her in London till June 1830 when contract was dissolved; declined the throne of Greece, May 1830; resided at Claremont till 16 July 1831; elected king of the Belgians 4 June and ascended the throne 22 July 1831. _m._ (2) 9 Aug. 1832 the princess Louise eld. dau. of Louis Philippe king of the French, she _d._ 11 Oct. 1850; the income of £50,000 settled on him in 1816 he continued to hold after he became king, but after paying for keeping up Claremont, servants’ pensions, &c. he annually returned the balance of about £38,000 into the exchequer. _d._ Palace of Laeken 10 Dec. 1865. _Lady Rose Weigall’s Brief memoir of the Princess Charlotte_ (1874); _The Princess Charlotte of Wales. By Mrs. C. R. Jones_ (1885), _portraits_; _Authentic Memoirs of the princess Charlotte_ (1817) _portrait_; _Memoirs of prince Leopold_ (1817), _portrait_; _Westminster Review_, _April 1885 pp._ 460–88; _Posthumous memoirs of Karoline Bauer ii_ 34–336 (1884); _Martin’s Life of prince consort_, _ii_ 249 (1876), _portrait_; _Illustrated Times 30 Dec. 1865 p._ 413, _portrait_.

LEOTARD, MONSIEUR. _b._ Toulouse, France 1 Aug. 1838; performer on the flying trapèze abroad; introduced the trapèze performance into England, first appearing at the Alhambra palace, London 20 May 1861; performed at Alhambra again 1866 and reappeared there 9 April 1868; broke his leg performing at Madrid, May 1865; made his début in America at Academy of Music, New York 29 Oct. 1868, returned to Europe 14 Nov. having made a great failure in New York. _d._ of small pox at Toulouse about 16 Aug. 1870. _Memoires de Léotard. Paris_ (1860), _portrait_; _C. Spencer’s Modern gymnast_ (1866) 102 _etc._

LEPARD, JOHN. Bookseller at 108 Strand, London 1818–20; member of firm of booksellers known as Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Lepard at the Temple of the Muses, 23 Finsbury place, London 1820–5; partner with Joseph Harding at 4 Pall Mall east 1825–39; connected with Day & Martin, blacking manufacturers, 97 High Holborn in 1859. _d._ Hampstead 16 Oct. 1878 aged 87.

LEPPINGTON, JOHN CROSBY (son of rev. John C. Leppington _d._ 1833). _b._ Sunderland 21 Oct. 1807; ed. at Woodhouse grove school 1815; preached when quite a child; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Melton Mowbray 1832; became a supernumerary in London 1849 refusing to receive any support from the Connexional funds; wrote much for the Wesleyan Mag.; author of The confessional in the Church of England, and other essays on the Anglican controversy 1860. _d._ near London 7 July 1859. _bur._ Highgate cemetery.

LE QUESNE, CHARLES (eld. son of Nicholas Le Quesne a jurat of the royal court, Jersey, _d._ 1847). _b._ Jersey 1811; a jurat of the royal court, Jersey 2 July 1850 to death; president of Jersey chamber of commerce; a member of the states of Jersey; an officer in Jersey artillery many years; author of Ireland and the Channel islands, or a remedy for Ireland 1848; A constitutional history of Jersey 1856. _d._ Gloucester st. St. Heliers, Jersey 18 Aug. 1856. _bur._ Green st. cemetery 22 Aug. _J. B. Payne’s Armorial of Jersey_ (1865) 250; _The Jersey Independent 23 Aug. 1856 p._ 2.

LESCHALLAS, JOHN. Builder at 10 Booth st. Spitalfields, London to death; resided at Page green, Tottenham, Middlesex, where he _d._ 18 Oct. 1877 in 86 year; will proved 3 Dec. under £500,000; left sums of £500 each to 13 hospitals and institutions. _The Times 7 Dec. 1877 p._ 9.

LESLIE, ARTHUR. _b._ 1817; ensign 8 foot 20 Nov. 1838; captain 40 foot 19 June 1846, lieut.-col. 6 Aug. 1858 to 8 June 1867; C.B. 2 May 1862. _d._ Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 12 Sep. 1878.

LESLIE, CHARLES (1 son of John Leslie 1772–1854, bishop of Elphin 1819). _b._ 7 Oct. 1810; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; incumbent of Drung, co. Cavan; vicar general of Ardagh to March 1870; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, March 1870, consecrated 19 April 1870, enthroned in Kilmore cathedral 26 May 1870; the first bp. appointed after the disestablishment of the Irish ch. _d._ the Parsonage house, Drung, co. Cavan 8 July 1870. _bur._ Kilmore 14 July. _The Times 11 July 1870 p._ 5.

LESLIE, CHARLES JOSEPH (4 son of John Leslie 1751–1828). _b._ 1785; ensign 29 foot 18 Dec. 1806; captain 60 rifles 17 May 1820, major 18 Dec. 1828 to 28 Dec. 1832 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1836; author of Historical records of the family of Leslie 1869. _d._ Slindon house near Arundel 10 Jany. 1870.

LESLIE, CHARLES POWELL (eld. son of Charles Powell Leslie of Glasslough, co. Monaghan, M.P. for Monaghan, _d._ 15 Nov. 1831). _b._ 13 Sep. 1821; ed. at Harrow, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1839; M.P. co. Monaghan 1842 to death; lord lieut. of co. Monaghan 1858 to death; col. of Monaghan militia 6 Aug. 1857 to death. _d._ Castle Leslie, Glasslough 26 June 1871.

LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Leslie of Philadelphia, clockmaker, _d._ 1804). _b._ Clerkenwell, London 19 Oct. 1794; taken to Philadelphia 1800, apprenticed there to Bradford and Inskeep, publishers 1808; a student at the R.A. in London, Dec. 1811; his picture called Murder, exhibited at R.A. 1813; A.R.A. Nov. 1821, R.A. 1826; visited Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford and painted his portrait 1824; professor of painting at the R.A. 1848–52; exhibited 76 pictures at R.A. and 11 at B.I. 1813–59; many of his best works are in the National Gallery, London; author of Memoirs of the life of John Constable, R.A. 1843, 2 ed. 1845; A hand-book for young painters 1855, 2 ed. 1870; Life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds 2 vols. 1865. _d._ 2 Abercorn place, St. John’s Wood, London 5 May 1859. _C. R. Leslie’s Autobiographical Recollections edited by Tom Taylor 2 vols._ (1860), _portrait_; _James Dafforne’s Pictures by C. R. Leslie, R.A._ (1872); _Wedmore’s Masters of genre painting_ (1879); _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_, _ii_ 20–26; _W. Sandby’s History of Royal academy_, _ii_ 39–47 (1862); _W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869) 127–31; _Redgrave’s Century of Painters_, _ii_ 230–55, 326–46 (1866).

LESLIE, FRANK, pen name of Henry Carter (son of Joseph Carter, glove maker). _b._ Ipswich 29 March 1821; in a dry goods house London 1838; sent sketches to Illust. London News, May 1842 signed Frank Leslie, superintendent of the engraving department of the paper to 1848; went to U.S. America 1848; took name of Frank Leslie by legislative act; employed on Gleason’s Pictorial in Boston; published The Gazette of fashion, a periodical 1854; The New York Journal; produced first number of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper 14 Dec. 1855; established The Chimney corner 1865 and afterwards other periodicals; commissioner to Paris exhibition 1867, received gold medal; president of New York centennial commission 1876; spent large sums of money and in 1877 assigned his property to a trust. _d._ Fifth Avenue, New York 10 Jany. 1880; his widow Miriam Florence assumed by legal process name of Frank Leslie. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 696 (1887).

LESLIE, FREDERICK, stage name of Frederick Hobson (son of Charles Hobson of 49 Artillery place, Woolwich, military outfitter). _b._ Woolwich 1 April 1855; ed. in France for an architect; sang under name of Mr. Owen Hobbs at local entertainments at Woolwich; joined amateur company at R.A. theatre, Woolwich; appeared in London at Royalty theatre, Feb. 1878 as Colonel Hardy in Paul Pry; played at Folly theatre 1879; played at Alhambra, Marquis of Manicamp in La petite mademoiselle 6 Oct. 1879, and Duc de la Volta in La fille du tambour majeur 19 April 1880; played in United States of America 1881–2, 8 months and 1883–4; acted Rip Van Winkle in Planquette’s opera Rip Van Winkle at Comedy theatre 14 Oct. 1882 to Oct. 1883 and 6 Sep. 1884; played Ayala in The grand mogul at Comedy 17 Dec. 1884; member of Gaiety company Dec. 1885 to death; his chief parts at Gaiety were Jonathan Wild in Little Jack Sheppard 26 Dec. 1885, Noitier in Monte Christo junior 23 Dec. 1886, the Monster in Frankenstein 24 Dec. 1887, Don Cæsar de Bazan in Ruy Blas and the blasé roué 27 Sep. 1889; played in America and Australia 1890–1; played in Cinder-Ellen Up Too Late, as a Servant to the Prince of Belgravia, at Gaiety 24 Dec. 1891 to 25 Nov. 1892; purchased a residence at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex; author under nom de plume of A. C. Torr (actor) with Herbert F. Clark of Ruy Blas and the blasé roué, and with W. T. Vincent of Cinder-Ellen up too late; wrote and composed Love in the Lowther, a song which was very popular. _d._ 8 Tavistock chambers, Bloomsbury, London 7 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Charlton cemetery 10 Dec. _Theatre 2 June 1884 pp._ 322–3, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dram. news 6 Nov. 1886 pp._ 200, 207, _portrait_; _The Pelican_, _Christmas number 1892_, _portrait_; _Strand Mag. Jany. 1893 p._ 58, _five portraits_.

LESLIE, HENRY. _b._ Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire 6 Jany. 1830; first came on the stage at Ipswich, Aug. 1847; lessee with Rollison of Edinburgh theatre royal 4 Sep. 1852 to 26 Jany. 1853, sole lessee 26 Jany. to 12 March 1853; first appeared in London at Drury lane as Roderigo, Sep. 1853, at the Olympic 1853–8; started The Stage college of dramatic tuition, 36 Queen’s crescent, Haverstock hill, London, Aug. 1866; manager of Amphitheatre and theatre royal, Liverpool for the Misses Copeland 1868–70; manager with Mr. Pearson of Prince of Wales’ theatre, Liverpool 1870; travelled in the provinces with his own company playing Offenbach’s Princess of Trebizond 1871; manager of the Amphitheatre, Liverpool alone 1871, then with Lindo Courtenay 1873–9; lessee of theatre royal, Leeds, Easter 1880 to 1881; author of The mariner’s compass, a novel 1865; How the ghost walked. Printed in A. Halliday’s Savage Club Papers 1868; and of the following dramas, Adrienne or the secret of a life, Lyceum 12 Nov. 1860; The trail of sin, Victoria, Sep. 1863; The orange girl, Surrey theatre 24 Oct. 1864; The mariner’s compass, Astley’s theatre 4 March 1865; The sin and the sorrow, Grecian theatre 17 Sep. 1866; Tide and time, Surrey 9 March 1867; Friendship; Love and truth; The village blacksmith. _d._ Paignton, Devon 4 March 1881.

LESLIE, HENRY JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1833; Q.C. 23 Feb. 1867. _d._ Belfield, Dundrum, co. Dublin 16 Sep. 1888.

LESLIE, JAMES (son of James Leslie, quarter master at taking of Quebec). _b._ Kair, Kincardineshire 1786; merchant at Montreal; served with Montreal volunteers in war of 1812, lieut.-col. 1862; member for Montreal in Lower Canada assembly 1824 and in the Dominion assembly for Verchēres 1844–8; member of legislative council 1848, president March to Sep. 1848; provincial sec. 1848–51; member of the senate 1867 to death. _d._ Montreal 1873.

LESLIE, JOHN (younger son of Charles Powell Leslie of Glasslough, M.P. for co. Monaghan, _d._ 1800). _b._ Glasslough, co. Monaghan 12 Oct. 1772; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1794, M.A. 1805; dean of Cork 5 Oct. 1807 to 1812; prebendary of Armagh 19 March 1808 to 1812; bishop of Dromore by patent 14 Jany. 1812, consecrated at Armagh 26 Jany., enthroned by proxy 27 Feb.; translated to Elphin 16 Nov. 1819; bishop of united dioceses of Kilmore, Ardagh and Elphin, Oct. 1841 to death. _d._ The Palace, Kilmore 22 July 1854.

LESLIE, JOHN. Ensign 69 foot 7 Aug. 1806, major 1 Jany. 1819 to 29 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 4 foot 25 Jany. 1839 to 29 Dec. 1848 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 35 foot 26 Sep. 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858. _d._ Brighton 12 Feb. 1861 aged 70.

LESLIE, JOHN ROBERT. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, fellow 1858 to death; B.A. 1852, M.A. 1856; Erasmus Smith’s professor of natural and experimental philosophy 1870 to death. _d._ Finea, co. Westmeath 2 Jany. 1881. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery 5 Jany.

LESLIE, MARTIN EDWARD (2 son of Thomas Haworth of Balham Wood, Herts.) _b._ 1810; ed. at Eton; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 28 Sep. 1826, captain 27 Oct. 1837, sold out 17 Nov. 1837; an extra foreign service messenger at Constantinople 4 Jany. 1855 to 30 Sep. 1858, a queen’s foreign service messenger 7 Nov. 1859, resigned 13 May 1872; master of the Hampshire hounds; assisted in revival of coaching and in placing the Old Times on the London and Brighton road, which he often drove 1868; author of The silver greyhound, incidents of travel 1880; Road scrapings, coaches and coaching 1880. _m._ 11 Aug. 1835 Mary Elizabeth (2 dau. of George Gwythyr by Henrietta countess of Rothes). She was _b._ 9 July 1811, became 16 countess of Rothes 1886 when her husband assumed name of Leslie 20 March 1886. He _d._ 26 York st. Portman sq. London 2 Nov. 1886. _bur._ Kensal green. _Baily’s Mag. xlvi_ 522–3 (1886).

LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE (2 son of Edward Leslie 1792–1865, R. of Annahilt, co. Down). _b._ co. Wexford 21 June 1826; ed. at King William’s coll. Isle of Man, and Trin. coll. Dublin, classical scholar 1845, B.A. 1847, LL.B. 1851, hon. LL.D.; called to Irish bar 1850; professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen’s college, Belfast 1853; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858, never practised; examiner and professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen’s Univ. Ireland 1871 to death; contributed to Fraser’s Mag., Macmillan’s Mag. and other periodicals; elected without ballot member of Athenæum club, London Feb. 1880; author of The military systems of Europe economically considered. Belfast 1856; Land systems and industrial economy of Ireland, England and continental countries 1870; Financial reform 1872, 2 ed. 1872; Essays in political and moral philosophy 1878. _d._ Botanic Avenue, Belfast 27 Jany. 1882. _T. E. Cliffe Leslie. Memorial to W. E. Gladstone. Privately printed January 1882_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 23–26 (1881); _Times 30 Jany. 1882 p._ 7 _col._ 2; _Irish Law Times_, _xvi_ 65 (1882).

LESLIE, THOMAS JEFFERSON (brother of Charles Robert Leslie 1794–1859). _b._ London 2 Nov. 1796; ed. at United States military academy; paymaster of engineers 1815–38, 2 lieut. 1816, 1 lieut. 1819, major and paymaster 1838; chief of paymaster’s department, New York district, during the civil war 1861–5; brevet brigadier general 1865; retired 1869. _d._ New York city 25 Nov. 1874.

LESLIE, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Leslie of Warthill, Pitcraple, Aberdeenshire). _b._ Warthill 16 March 1814; a partner in Dent and Co., China; M.P. co. Aberdeen 1861–66. _d._ Warthill 4 March 1880.

LESSLIE, JAMES. _b._ Dundee 1802; bookseller and stationer Kingston, Canada 1820, removed to York afterward named Toronto; member of Toronto first city council; one of the founders of the House of industry 1836; president of the Bank of the People, which was merged in the Bank of Montreal; arrested at commencement of insurrection of 1837 but released; purchased Examiner newspaper, Toronto 1844, editor from 1845 till he sold it in 1854; retired from business 1855. _d._ Eglinton, Ontario 19 April 1885.

LESTER, ADA (dau. of James Akhurst, wine merchant, London). First appeared in London at Opera Comique 16 Oct. 1875 as Sophie Creyke in W. J. Austin’s farce A Tempting Bait; leading actress with Wm. Creswick in Australia 1877 &c.; played Florence Bertram in H. Williamson’s drama Estranged, at Globe theatre 3 Aug. 1881; sailed from Liverpool in company with eleven artists to fulfil an engagement in Bombay 17 Oct. 1881; drowned in the Clan Macduff in the Irish sea 19 Oct. 1881. _The Era 29 Oct. 1881 p._ 9.

LESTER, FREDERICK PARKINSON (3 son of John Lester of 1 Racquet court, Fleet st. London, coal merchant). _b._ 3 Feb. 1795; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 25 Oct. 1811, col. 23 Feb. 1852 to death; served 37 years in India; commissary of stores; secretary to military board, member of military board; introduced a system of bookkeeping by double entry 1834; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; inspector general ordnance commissariat department 27 Aug. 1856 to 14 April 1857; commanded Southern division of Bombay army at Belgaum 14 April 1857 to death; prevented the mutiny spreading to Western India by his wise measures; found _dead_ in his bed at Belgaum 3 July 1858. _Sir George Le Grand Jacob’s Western India_ (1871) 213–16; _W. K. Stuart’s Reminiscences of a soldier_, _ii_ 292–5 (1874).

LESTER, JOSEPH DUNN (1 son of John Lester of Aberystwith). _b._ 1842; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1861–5, B.A. 1865; assistant master in Wellington coll. Wokingham 1867 to death; author of A short German accidence for the use of Wellington college 1867; A German accidence with a minor syntax 1870; Germanica, exercises in German composition 1872. _d._ Crawthorne, Wokingham 2 Dec. 1875.

LESTOURGEON, CHARLES (son of a surgeon). _b._ Cambridge 1808; ed. Trin. coll. as a foundation scholar, 15 wrangler and B.A. 1828, M.A. 1833; L.S.A. 1841; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Cambridge with an extensive practice; surgeon to Addenbrooke’s hospital 25 years; an examiner in surgery at Camb. and member of the board of medical studies. _d._ The Close, Huntingdon road, Cambridge 22 Feb. 1891.

L’ESTRANGE, FRANCIS. Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; F.R.C.S.I. 1833; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1859; L.M. Rotunda hospital 1859; surgeon dentist 39 Dawson st. Dublin to 1872; state surgeon dentist to lord lieutenant; invented Patent truss and Screw lithotrite tourniquet. _d._ Landour, Raglan road, Dublin 6 Jany. 1875 aged 72.

L’ESTRANGE, SIR GEORGE BURDETT (2 son of Henry Peisley L’Estrange of Moystown, King’s county). _b._ 1796; ed. at Westminster sch. 1807–10; ensign 31 regt. 1812; present at Vittoria; ensign 3 foot guards 2 July 1815, placed on h.p. 11 July 1822; chamberlain to Earl St. Germans, viceroy of Ireland 1853–55; gentleman usher of the black rod to order of St. Patrick 1858 to death; knighted by Earl of Carlisle at Dublin 1860. _d._ Harcourt road, Dublin 5 Feb. 1878. _Recollections of sir G. B. L’Estrange_ (1874).

LE STRANGE, HENRY L’ESTRANGE STYLEMAN (only son of Henry Styleman of Hunstanton, Norfolk). _b._ 25 Jany. 1815; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1837; travelled in Portugal, Spain and Egypt; assumed additional name of Le Strange by r.l. 1839; declared by House of Lords coheir of barony of Camoys 1839 and coheir of barony of Hastings 1841; contested West Norfolk 1847; drew a design for decoration of tower of Ely cathedral 1853, carried out by him 1855, painted half the roof of the nave 1858–62; made the cartoons for St. Albans, Holborn 1860–2, the work was carried out by his cousin Frederick Preedy; member of royal commission on fresco-painting in England, Feb. 1862. _d._ suddenly of heart disease in London 27 July 1862. _bur._ Hunstanton.

L’ESTRANGE, JOHN. _b._ Norwich 18 Jany. 1836; clerk in the stamp office at Norwich; made large collections for history of Norfolk and city of Norwich, most of which came into possession of Walter Rye who edited and published his Calendar of the freemen of Norwich from 1317 to 1603, 1888; transcribed four of the churchwardens’ books of Norwich; his collections from the wills of the Norwich registry are bound in 4 vols. folio; edited Eastern Counties Collectanea 24 numbers Jany. 1872 to Dec. 1873; author of The church bells of Norfolk. Norwich 1874. _d._ 13 Oct. 1877.

LETBY, RICHARD. _b._ York 7 Jany. 1809; livery stable keeper and landlord of the Cricketer’s Arms, York; the crack batsman at York; connected with the York club 30 years; played in York _v._ Harewood at York 30 May 1833; presented with a handsome testimonial by the members of the York club 7 Sep. 1859. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 211 (1862).

LETHBRIDGE, AMBROSE GODDARD (3 son of sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge, 2 baronet 1778–1849). _b._ Pulteney st. Bath 15 Aug. 1804; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1827–52; proctor of the univ. 1839; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832; recorder of Wells 1834–52. _d._ Eastbrooke house, Taunton 21 Nov. 1875. _Law Times_, _lx_ 114 (1875).

LETHBRIDGE, JOHN ARSCOTT. _b._ Okehampton, Devon 28 Feb. 1787; ed. at Christ hospital where he gained many silver medals; midshipman H.E.I.Co.’s navy Dec. 1802; paymaster R.N. 13 Jany. 1808; sec. of Greenwich hospital 6 April 1834 to 21 Oct. 1853. _d._ Greenwich 16 July 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 310 (1854).

LETHBRIDGE, JOSEPH WATTS. _b._ Plymouth 20 Jany. 1817; entered Cheshunt college 1843; a minister of Lady Huntingdon’s connexion at Kidderminster 1846, at Rochdale, at Melbourne, Derbyshire 1850–5; became Independent minister at Byfield, Northamptonshire to 1862, at Leicester 1862–8; town missionary at Wellingborough 1873–83; author of The Shakspere almanac for 1849; Woman the glory of man 1856; Loving thoughts for human hearts 1860; The Idyls of Solomon: the Hebrew marriage week arranged in dialogue 1878. _d._ Wellingborough 27 July 1885. _Congregational Year Book_ (1886) 190.

LETHBRIDGE, SIR JOHN HESKETH, 3 Baronet (brother of A. G. Lethbridge 1804–75). _b._ Pulteney st. Bath 1798; ed. at Eton; lieut.-col. 2 Somerset militia to 1839; member of Mr. Farquharson’s hunt in Dorset; at the Bedford spring meeting riding his horse Trump won a match of one mile leaping two hurdles 1837; succeeded 17 Oct. 1849. _d._ 6 Hillsborough terrace, Ilfracombe 1 March 1873. _New Sporting mag. xiv_ 286 (1838), _portrait_.

LETHBRIDGE, THOMAS BRIDGEMAN. _b._ 28 Oct. 1828; naval cadet 9 March 1842, captain 19 Sep. 1863, R.A. 31 Dec. 1878; commanded the Renown wooden steam battle ship 1858; flag capt. in the Northumberland and the Black Prince and to sir W. K. Hall at Sheerness 1863; senior officer on the coast of Ireland 1883–5; commander in chief at the Nore 1888, retired 1890; resided at Southsea. _d._ 51 Curzon st. Mayfair, London, the res. of his son in law James Davis 30 Dec. 1892.

LETHEBY, HENRY. _b._ Plymouth 1816; L.S.A. 1837; M.B. London 1842; M.A. and Ph. D. of a German university; lecturer on chemistry and toxicology at London hospital; medical officer of health and analyst of food for city of London, Oct. 1855, resigned 1874; chief examiner of gas for metropolis under board of trade; F.L.S., F.C.S.; wrote many papers in The Lancet and other scientific periodicals; author of Reports on the sanitary condition of London 3 vols. 1856–7; Reports to the commissioners of sewers 3 vols. 1856–58; On food, its varieties, composition, nutritive value, adulteration, etc. Cantor lectures 1870, 2 ed. 1872. _d._ 17 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 28 March 1876. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 1 April. _Medical Press and Circular_, _i_ 290–91, 306 (1876); _I.L.N. lxviii_ 373, 374 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 366, 381 (1876), _portrait_.

LE THIERE, SOPHIE ADÉLE GUILLON (eld. dau. of Madame Michaud, professor of dancing). Professor of dancing under name of Madame Adelaide at 109 New Bond st. London 1855 to death. _d._ 109 New Bond st. 5 March 1883.

LETTS, THOMAS (son of John Letts of London, bookbinder). _b._ Stockwell, London 1803; stationer with his father at 95 Cornhill, succeeded to the business, carried it on at 8 Royal Exchange 1838 to death; devoted himself specially to manufacture of diaries, of which he was issuing 28 varieties in 1839, also issued interest tables, medical diaries, office calendars, &c. of which he sold several hundred thousand annually; erected large factories at North road, New Cross 1865, the business was turned into a limited liability company shortly after his death, but in 1885 the company went into liquidation, and the business was purchased by Cassell & Co.; Lett’s Diaries are descanted on by Thackeray in his Roundabout Papers No. 18 in Cornhill Mag. Jany. 1862. _d._ Granville park, Lewisham 9 Aug. 1873.

LETTSOM, WILLIAM GARROW. _b._ 1804; attaché at Berlin 5 Aug. 1831, at Munich 1834; paid attaché at Washington 21 Dec. 1840; sec. of legation at Mexico 12 July 1854, and chargé d’affaires 4 May 1855 to 19 May 1858; chargé d’affaires and consul general to Uruguay 9 Sep. 1859, retired on a pension of £900, 29 July 1869; F.R.A.S.; author with R. P. Greg of Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland 1858. _d._ 142 Norwood road, Lower Norwood, Surrey 14 Dec. 1887.

LETTSOM, WILLIAM NANSON (son of John Miers Lettsom, physician 1771–99). _b._ 4 Feb. 1796; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, where he printed Epigrammata numismate annuo dignata 1816; Poema numismate annus dignatum 1816; author of The fall of the Nibelungers: otherwise the book of Kriemhild, a translation 1850, 2 ed. 1873; The song of Flogawaya 1856, anon., a parody on Hiawatha; edited W. S. Walker’s Shakespeare’s Versification 1854 and his A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare 1860. _d._ 43 Westbourne park, London 3 Sep. 1865.

LEUPOLT, CHARLES BENJAMIN. _b._ 1805; ed. Missionary coll. Basel, Switzerland; ordained by Bp. of Lincoln 1831; missionary of Church missionary soc. at Benares 1832–72; R. of Brampton, Norfolk 1874 to death; author of Recollections of an Indian missionary 1846, 2 ed. 1863; Further recollections of an Indian missionary 1884, portrait. _d._ Marsham hall, Norwich 16 Dec. 1884.

LEVANDER, HENRY CHARLES (1 son of James Levander). _b._ Norwich 1826; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1863; a classical master in Univ. coll. sch. London 1866–84; a great freemason; F.R.A.S. 12 April 1872; author of The public school French grammar by A. Brachet, revised by P. H. E. Brette and H. C. Levander 1884, new ed. 1884. _d._ 30 North villas, Camden sq. London 4 Dec. 1884. _bur._ West Hampstead cemetery 6 Dec. _Monthly notices R. Astronom. soc. xlv_ 193 (1885).

LEVEN and MELVILLE, DAVID LESLIE-MELVILLE, Earl of. _b._ Spring gardens, London 22 June 1785; styled Viscount Balgonie 1785–1820; lieut. R.N. 8 Aug. 1806, captain 28 Feb. 1812; succeeded his father as 11 Earl of Leven and 8 Earl of Melville 22 Feb. 1820; R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired V.A. 27 Sep. 1855; representative peer for Scotland 1831 to death. _d._ Melville house, Fifeshire 8 Oct. 1860.

LEVEN and MELVILLE, JOHN THORNTON LESLIE-MELVILLE, Earl of. _b._ 18 Dec. 1786; succeeded his brother 8 Oct. 1860 as 12 Earl of Leven and 9 Earl of Melville; a representative peer for Scotland 1865 to death. _d._ Glenferness near Dunphail, Nairnshire 18 Sep. 1876, personalty under £300,000, 2 Oct. 1876. _I.L.N. lxix_ 324, 327 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 337, 339 (1876), _portrait_.

LEVER, CHARLES (son of Ellis Lever). _b._ Gorton near Manchester 15 Feb. 1862; member of majority of the electrical societies in Europe and America; patented his electric lamp 1881; had a diploma for his services at London fisheries exhibition 1883; resided at Culcheth hall, Bowden, Cheshire; found dead in his bed at the res. of his father Tan-y-Bryn, Colwyn bay, Carnarvon 5 Jany. 1890. _I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 111, _portrait_.

LEVER, _Charles James_ (younger son of James Lever of Dublin, builder 1763–1833). _b._ Amiens st. Dublin 31 Aug. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin as a pensioner 14 Oct. 1822, B.A. 1827, B.M. 1831, LL.D. 1871; M.D. Louvain; practised as a physician at Derry and Coleraine; became a contributor to Dublin Univ. mag. May 1836 and editor March 1842 to 1845; physician at Brussels 1837–41; travelled in Germany and Italy 1845–58; vice consul at Spezzia 26 Nov. 1858 to 13 Feb. 1867 when the post was abolished; consul general at Trieste 2 March 1867 to death; author of The confessions of Harry Lorrequer. Dublin 1839, anon.; Charles O’Malley the Irish dragoon. Edited by Harry Lorrequer 2 vols. 1841; Arthur O’Leary: his wanderings and ponderings in many lands. Edited by his friend Harry Lorrequer 3 vols. 1844; Our Mess, vol. 1 Jack Hinton the guardsman, vols. 2 and 3 Tom Burke of ours 3 vols. 1843; The knight of Gwynne 2 vols. 1847; The O’Donoghue 1845; Diary and notes of Horace Templeton, Esq. 2 vols. 1848, anon.; The confessions of Con Cregan the Irish Gil Blas 2 vols. 1849, anon.; Roland Cashel 2 vols. 1850; The Daltons 2 vols. 1852; Lord Kilgobbin 3 vols. 1872; Novels, new ed. illustrated 33 vols. 1876–8. _d._ Trieste 1 June 1872. _Fitzpatrick’s Life of C. Lever 2 vols._ (1879), _New ed._ (1884), _portrait_; _Illustrated Rev. ii_ 1–5 (1870), _portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 98–100, _portrait_; _Modern men of letters by J. H. Friswell_ (1870) 171–82 _Dublin Univ. Mag._ (1880) 465, 570; _Blackwood’s Mag. April 1862 pp._ 452–72, _July 1872 pp._ 129–30, _and Sep. 1872 pp._ 327–60; _I.L.N. lx_ 581, 582 (1872), _portrait_, _lxi_ 431 (1872); _Graphic_, _v_ 600, 611 (1872), _portrait_.

NOTE.--His only son Charles Sidney Lever, lieutenant 2 dragoon guards 1860–2, _d._ Florence 28 Sep. 1863 aged 26.

LEVER, JOHN CHARLES WEAVER. _b._ Plumstead, Kent 28 Sep. 1811; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1834; M.D. Giessen 1842; M.R.C.P. 1842; surgeon Bridgehouse place, Newington-causeway, Surrey 1834–42; president Hunterian soc.; physician 12 Wellington st. London bridge 1842 to death, he almost monopolized the consulting practice of the south of London; lecturer on midwifery and physician-accoucheur Guy’s hospital 1845; author of Case of hidrosis or hidrotic fever 1837; A treatise on diseases of the uterus 1843. d. London 29 Dec. 1858. _Lancet_, _i_ 75 (1859); _Catalogue Surgeon general’s library_, _viii_ 89 (1887).

LEVERELL, W. H. _b._ London 1 Dec. 1832; ed. Kingston gram. sch.; apprentice to Cox & Son, printers, London; a sculler; took part in the swimming races 1846–53; swam many times at the Holborn baths, where in 1852 he was the champion swimmer; in the light division in the Crimea 1854–5, attached to the land transport corps, went on two expeditions to Kertch, received Sebastopol and Turkish medals; again a printer; on staff of Bell’s Life in London from March 1870; connected also with The Field and The Glowworm. _d._ London 24 April 1886. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 30 April. _Sporting Mirror_, _ii_ 165–6 (1881), _portrait_.

LEVESON, HENRY ASTBURY. _b._ 18 June 1828; entered Madras army 10 Jany. 1845, ensign 13 Madras N.I. 2 April 1845, lieut. 15 Dec. 1846, resigned 15 April 1853; a well known sportsman in India 1845–53; on Turkish staff in Crimean war, being only English officer so employed; at the Alma, at Inkerman and at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served with Garibaldi in 1860; colonial sec. at Lagos 1863, where in fighting the natives he received an iron bullet in his head, from the effect of which he never fully recovered, invalided home 8 Feb. 1864, voted £500 by the colony and £500 by parliament; served in the Abyssinian war 1868; killed more game in all parts of the world than any other man; author of The spear and the rifle, or recollections of sport in India. By An Old Shekarree 1860; The hunting grounds of the old world 1860; England rendered impregnable by the organisation and equipment of national forces 1871; The forest and the field. By H.A.L., the Old Shekarree 1867, 2 ed. 1874; Camp life and its acquirements for soldiers, travellers and sportsmen 1872; Wrinkles or hints to sportsmen and travellers 1874. _d._ at residence of his mother 4 Lansdowne terrace west, Brighton 7 Sep. 1875. _Sport in many lands. By H.A.L. 2 vols._ (1879), _memoir vol. i pp. xv–xxxii_, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _iii_ 585, 587 (1875), _portrait_.

LEVETT, JOHN. _b._ Battersea, Surrey 1 June 1826; ran John Tetlow of Hollingwood 4 miles for £50, Hyde Park, Sheffield 16 March 1852; ran George Frost the Suffolk stag for £100, the championship and belt, Copenhagen grounds, Islington 22 March 1852 running 10 miles and 252 yards in 52 min. 35 sec.; won the 20 mile race at Copenhagen grounds 29 March 1852; ran Richard Manks the Warwickshire Antelope for £50 at Hyde park, Sheffield 3 Dec. 1855 eleven miles in 1 hour; one of best known long distance runners; sprained his tendon Achilles about 1861 and had to give up running; a trainer of pedestrians; wrote a series of papers on How to train, in Illust. Sport. News 1862; wrote a farce produced at Queen’s Royal theatre, Dublin, in which he himself appeared 1861. _Illust. Sporting News_ (1862) 53, 100, 2 _portraits_.

LEVEY, GEORGE. _b._ at place afterwards known as Westward Ho, Devon 12 Oct. 1802; member of firm of Levey, Robson and Franklyn, printers at 46 St. Martin’s lane, London 1836–41, then at 24 Great New st. 1841–64, carried on business alone at same address 1864–70, afterwards at 1 and 2 West Harding st. 1870 to death; author of Specimens of printing types in office of Levey, Robson and Franklyn 1850, in 20 languages. _d._ Camberwell 2 Feb. 1873.

LEVEY, JOHN (youngest son of Richard Michael Levey of Dublin). An Irish character actor; dramatist; author of many pantomimes played in Yorkshire and Lancashire; lessee of several theatres. _d._ Seaforth, Liverpool 17 Sep. 1891. _bur._ in ground of R.C. chapel, Crosby.

LEVI, LEONE (2 son of Isaac Levi a Jewish merchant at Ancona). _b._ Ancona 6 June 1821; entered office of his brother a merchant 1836; merchant at Liverpool 1844–7; naturalised 16 Jany. 1847; clerk in a mercantile house at Liverpool; advocated chambers of commerce; hon. sec. of Liverpool chamber of commerce 1849; lectured in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and elsewhere 1851–2; professor of principles and practice of commerce at King’s college, London 1852 to death; fellow of Statistical Soc. 1851, member of council 1860, vice pres. 1885; F.S.A. 14 Dec. 1854; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; a knight of the Italian orders of SS. Mauritius and Lazarus and of the Crown of Italy; became a member of Presbyterian church in England about 1846; author of Commercial law, its principles and administration 2 vols. 1851–2, 2nd ed. entitled International commercial law 2 vols. 1863; The law of nature and nations as affected by divine law 1855; Annals of British legislation 18 vols. 1856–68; History of British commerce and of the economic progress of the British nation 1763–1870. 1872, 2 ed. 1880. _d._ 31 Highbury grove, Highbury, London 7 May 1888. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 12 May. _L. Levi’s The story of my life. Privately printed_ (1888); _Journal of royal statistical soc. li_ 340–2 (1888); _I.L.N. xxvi_ 653, 654 (1855), _portrait_; _London Figaro 19 May 1888 p._ 11, _portrait_; _Law Journal_, _xxiii_ 259 (1888).

LEVICKE, HENRY. The first European who took up his permanent abode at Suez 1846; pioneer of the mail service through Egypt; assisted lieut. Waghorn in arranging overland route 1845, often accompanied the dromedary mail across the desert; the first English acting vice-consul at Suez 1839 to June 1851; packet agent and postmaster to Her Majesty and agent to the H.E.I.Co.; the government ignored his claim to a pension for 41 years service. _d._ Dieppe, Oct. 1887. _bur._ there 28 Oct., left a widow and 22 children.

LEVIEN, EDWARD (1 son of John Levien of Marylebone). _b._ 1819; ed. Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846; connected with univ. of Glasgow; assistant in MS. department, British museum 6 May 1850 to 1874; hon. sec. of British Archæol. Association, editor of the Annual Proceedings and writer of many papers in the Journal; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1858; author of A brief description of the town of Hadleigh in Suffolk 1853; Outlines of the history of Greece by W. D. Hamilton and E. Levien 1853; Outlines of the history of Rome 2 vols. 1855–6, never finished; Memoirs of Socrates for English readers, with notes 1872. _d._ 24 Camden st. London 7 Nov. 1874. _Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xxi_ 229 (1875).

LEVINGE, SIR RICHARD GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 7 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Richard Levinge, 6 baronet 1765–1848). _b._ 1 Nov. 1811; ensign 43 foot 25 Nov. 1828, lieut. 8 April 1834; served in suppression of Canadian rebellion 1837–8; placed on h.p. with rank of captain 15 May 1840; captain 5 dragoon guards 27 Jany. 1843, sold out same day; lieut.-col. of Westmeath militia 3 Jany. 1846 to 22 Aug. 1850; sheriff of Westmeath 1851; contested Westmeath 22 July 1852 and 13 Feb. 1874; M.P. for Westmeath 1857 to 1865; author of Echoes from the backwoods, or sketches of transatlantic life 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1859; Historical notices of the Levinge family. Ledestown 1853; A day with the Brookside harriers at Brighton 1858; Historical records of the forty third regiment Monmouthshire light infantry 1868. _d._ Brussels 28 Sep. 1884.

LEVY, AMY (2 dau. of Lewis Levy of London). _b._ 16 Percy place, Clapham road, Surrey 1862; ed. at Brighton and Newnham coll. Camb. 1880–81; wrote poetry at 12 years of age; a writer in Dublin Univ. Mag., Temple Bar, Atalanta, London Society, The Jewish Chronicle, &c.; author of Xantippe and other verse. Cambridge 1881; A minor poet and other verses 1884; The romance of a shop 1888; Reuben Sachs 1888; A London plane tree and other verse 1889; Miss Meredith 1889; translated Jean Baptiste Pérès’ brochure Comme quoi Napoléon n’a jamais existé, Paris 1876 under title of Historic doubts or the non-existence of Napoleon proved. Edited by Lily 1885; committed suicide by inhaling fumes of charcoal at her father’s residence, 7 Endsleigh gardens, London 10 Sep. 1889, cremated at Woking 13 Sep., ashes _bur._ Balls Pond cemetery 15 Sep. _The Jewish Chronicle 13 Sep. 1889 p._ 6 _and 20 Sep. p._ 7; _The Woman’s World_, _Nov. 1889 pp._ 51–2, _portrait_; _Universal Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 492–507.

LEVY, JOHN. _b._ 1805; a journalist many years; called to Irish bar 1845; reported for Irish Jurist, Irish Law Reports and Irish Law Times; author of The law and practice of bankruptcy and insolvency. Dublin 4 ed. 1862; fell down dead in Dame st. Dublin 17 May 1870.

LEVY, JOSEPH MOSES (son of Moses Lionel Levy _d._ 1830 aged 65). _b._ London 15 Dec. 1812; ed. at Bruce Castle school and in Germany; printer in Shoe lane, Fleet st. London; chief proprietor of the Sunday Times 1855–6, conducted it 1855–6; took over the Daily Telegraph from Col. B. W. A. Sleigh and issued it at a penny 17 Sep. 1855, being the first London daily penny paper, managed the paper to his death. _d._ Florence cottage, Ramsgate 12 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Balls Pond cemet. London, personalty over £525,000.

LEWELLIN, _Llewelyn_ (son of Richard Lewellin of Coyty, Glamorganshire). _b._ 1799; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1821–6; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1829; master of the schools Oxf. 1825–26; preb. of St. David’s 1827; principal of St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827 to death; V. of Pembryn, Cardiganshire 1832; V. of Lampeter 15 Oct. 1833 to death; sinecure R. of Llangelen 1843 to death; dean of St. David’s 26 March 1840 to death, the last non-resident dean; author of Reply to N. Davies’s Notes on the cathedral church of St. David’s 1853, 2 ed. 1853. _d._ about 30 Nov. 1878.

LEWES, CHARLES LEE (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 1843; ed. at Hofwyl, Switzerland; clerk in the Post Office, London, Aug. 1860 to Oct. 1886; one of the secretaries of Hampstead Heath extension committee, which raised £52,000 for purchase of Parliament hill 1887; member of the first London county council for the St. Pancras district 7 Jany. 1889 to death; contributed to Nineteenth Century and Blackwood’s Mag.; residuary legatee of “George Eliot” 1880 and owner of the copyright of all her works and those of his father; edited Essays and leaves from a note book, by George Eliot 1884; translator of In the year ’13, a tale of Mecklenburg life by Fritz Reuter 1867; Emilia Galotti by G. E. Lessing 1868; Count Bismarck by L. Bamberger 1869. _d._ Luxor, Egypt 26 Feb. 1891.

LEWES, GEORGE HENRY (grandson of Charles Lee Lewes, actor 1740–1803). _b._ London 18 April 1817; ed. in London, Jersey, Brittany and at Greenwich; in a notary’s office; employed by a Russian merchant; a medical student a short time; visited Germany 1838; appeared at the Whitehall theatre in Garrick’s comedy The Guardian 1841, played in Dickens’ amateur company 1848, played Shylock 1849; acted in his own tragedy The Noble Heart, at the Olympic Feb. 1850 and in the provinces 1850; wrote many articles in the quarterly reviews; wrote The game of speculation, produced at Lyceum 2 Oct. 1851 and 9 other plays produced at Lyceum, all written under pseudonyms of Slingsby Lawrence and Frank Churchill; founded with T. L. Hunt The Leader 1850, editor for literary subjects to July 1854. _m._ 18 Feb. 1841 Agnes eld. dau. of Swynfen Stevens Jervis, M.P. for Bridport, he left her in July 1854 and went to Germany with Mary Ann Evans known as “George Eliot,” he passed as her husband for the rest of his life; edited Fortnightly Review, May 1865 to Dec. 1866; lived at the Priory, St. John’s Wood, London 1863 to death; author of The life of Maximilien Robespierre 1845; A biographical history of philosophy 4 vols. 1845–6, 5 ed. 1 vol. 1880; The Spanish drama, Lope de Vega and Calderon 1846; Rose, Blanche and Violet 3 vols. 1848; The life and works of Goethe 2 vols. 1855; Studies in animal life 1862; Problems of life and mind 5 vols. 1874–9; Our actors and the art of acting 1875. _d._ The Priory, 21 North bank, St. John’s Wood, London 30 Nov. 1878. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 4 Dec. _T. Ribot’s English Psychology_ (1873) 255–314; _H. D. Traill’s New Lucian_ (1884) 268–87; _Fortnightly Review Jany. 1879 pp._ 15–24; _Graphic_, _xviii_ 624 (1878), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiii_ 565 (1878), _portrait_.

LEWIN, FREDERICK ALBERT (4 son of Robert Lewin of Cuddington, Surrey). _b._ Jany. 1842; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 7th wrangler 1864, B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867; fellow of his college 1864–9; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; equity draftsman and conveyancer; author of The law of apportionment 1869; edited Thomas Lewin’s A practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 6 ed. 1875, 7 ed. 1878, 8 ed. 1885. _d._ suddenly from heart disease, 9 Bolton gardens west, Kensington 25 June 1887.

LEWIN, MALCOLM. _b._ 1800; judge of the Sudder court at Madras 1841–7; member of council 1845–7; author of Is the practice of torture in Madras with the sanction of the authorities in Leadenhall street 1856; Torture in Madras 1857; The government of the East India company and its monopolies 1857; The way to lose India 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The way to regain India 1858. _d._ 31 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 5 March 1869.

LEWIN, THOMAS (5 son of Spencer James Lewin, V. of Ifield, Sussex, _d._ 1842 aged 76). _b._ Ifield 19 April 1805; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Worcester coll. Oxf.; scholar of Trin. coll. 1825; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1833; a conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1852 to death; F.S.A. 19 March 1863; visited Jerusalem 1863; author of A practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 1837, 5 ed. 1867, 9 ed. by C. C. M. Dale 1891; The life and epistles of St. Paul 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1875; The invasion of Britain by Julius Cæsar 1859, 2 ed. 1862; The siege of Jerusalem by Titus 1863; Fasti Sacri, or a key to the chronology of the new testament 1865. _d._ 6 Queen’s gate place, London 5 Jany. 1877.

LEWIS, ALBERT (youngest son of Joseph Lewis of St. Vincent, West Indies, merchant). _b._ 1835; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870; Q.C. St. Vincent 27 Aug. 1879; attorney general of Tobago 1879; acting chief justice of St. Lucia and Tobago 1884–5; judge of assistant court of appeal of Barbadoes to death. _d._ 1 March 1889.

LEWIS, ARTHUR JAMES (son of general Robert Lewis, quartermaster general to the Bombay army, _d._ 4 Sep. 1838 aged 74). _b._ Bombay 1801; named after his godfather the duke of Wellington; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 16 May 1828; advocate general of Bombay 1857 to death; member of council of governor of Bombay for making laws and regulations. _d._ in a room adjoining high court of Bombay 14 Nov. 1865.

LEWIS, CHARLES BLAKE. _b._ 1854; ed. King’s coll. London; won the mile challenge cup in the United hospital athletic sports several years in succession; M.R.C.S. 1877; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1880; surgeon in the army 5 Feb. 1881; while with the army in Egypt _d._ of cholera at El Warden 30 July 1883; a brass to his memory erected in chapel of Royal Victoria hospital, Netley, Jany. 1885. _Medical Times 24 Jany. 1885 p._ 117.

LEWIS, CHARLES CARNE (3 son of John Lewis 1768–1853, R. of Ingatestone, Essex). _b._ Ingatestone rectory 28 Feb. 1807; articled to Charles Parker of Chelmsford; solicitor at Brentwood 1829 to death; coroner for South Essex 1833 to death. _d._ the Mansion house, Brentwood 26 July 1882. _bur._ at Ingatestone.

LEWIS, SIR CHARLES EDWARD, 1 Baronet (3 son of rev. George Wm. Lewis, minister of chapel of ease, Ramsgate, _d._ 1858). _b._ Wakefield, Yorkshire 25 Dec. 1825; solicitor in London, Jany. 1847, retired Nov. 1876; partner with John Harrison at 14 New Boswell court, Lincoln’s Inn, then head of firm of Lewis, Munns and Longden 8 Old Jewry; election agent for the conservatives in West Kent 1857–74; M.P. city of Londonderry 22 Nov. 1872 to Oct. 1886 when unseated on petition; M.P. North Antrim 1887–92; created baronet 6 April 1887; author of The four reformed parliaments 1842; The election manual for England and Wales 1857, 3 ed. 1865; The bankruptcy manual 1861, 4 ed. 1861; Two lectures on a short visit to America 1876. _d._ 36 Hyde park gate, London 10 Feb. 1893. _J. Diprose’s Parish of St. Clement Danes_, _ii_ 36–7 (1876), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iii_ 209–11 (1880).

LEWIS, CHARLES GEORGE (2 son of Frederick Christian Lewis 1779–1856). _b._ Enfield, Middlesex 13 June 1808; learnt drawing and engraving from his father; engraved many plates after Sir Edwin Landseer, Rosa Bonheur and other painters; exhibited an engraving at R.A. 1875; retired about 1877. _d._ Felpham near Bognor, Sussex 16 June 1880.

LEWIS, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ London 1830; painter of landscapes and genre subjects; exhibited 40 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 35 at Suffolk st. gallery 1853–80; member of Royal Institute of painters in water-colours 1882; exhibited also at Dudley and Portland galleries; resided at Cheyne house, Upper Cheyne row, Chelsea 1859–84, and from 1884 to death at 122 Cheyne Walk, where he _d._ 28 Jany. 1892. _M. B. Huish’s The year’s art for 1892 p._ 106, _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 1892 p._ 4, _portrait_.

LEWIS, ESTELLE ANNA BLANCHE (dau. of John Robinson a wealthy planter of Anglo-Spanish birth). _b._ near Baltimore, U.S. America, April 1824; while at school she translated the Æneid into English verse, and composed The Forsaken, a ballad much praised by Edgar A. Poe; (_m._ 1841 Sidney D. Lewis of Brooklyn, New York, barrister); she resided many years in England; Lamartine called her the ‘Female Petrarch’ and Poe ‘the rival of Sappho’; author of Records of the heart. By Stella. New York 1844, another ed. New York 1857, another ed. entitled Poems. London 1866; Sappho of Lesbos. London 1868, a tragedy which reached a 7th ed. and was translated into modern Greek and played at Athens. _d._ 29 Bedford place, London 24 Nov. 1880. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 29 Nov. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 703 (1887), _portrait_; _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._ (1855), 727, _portrait_.

LEWIS, EVAN (son of an architect). _b._ Cefn-y-bryn, Newtown, Glamorgan 20 July 1825; studied at Airedale college; B.A. London 1852; independent minister at Barton-on-Humber 1853–8, at Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1858–63, at Oak st. chapel, Accrington, Lancs. 1863–6, at Grimshaw st. chapel, Preston 1866–8, and at Offord st. chapel, Islington, Oct. 1868 to death; F.R.G.S. and fellow of Ethnological Soc.; author of The wines the Saviour made, used and sanctioned 1856; Two dialogues on the use of Bands of Hope 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The two twilights, or the saint and the sinner in life and death 1860, a poem; God’s week of work, an examination of the Mosaic six days 1865. _d._ 29 Offord road, Islington 19 Feb. 1869. _bur._ Abney park cemet. _Congregational Year book_ (1870) 303–5.