Part 12

LEDWICH, THOMAS HAWKESWORTH (son of Edward Ledwich of Waterford, attorney). _b._ Pembroke 1823; studied medicine in Dublin; M.R.C.S.I. 1844, F.R.C.S.I. 1845; lecturer on anatomy at The original school of medicine, Peter st. Dublin 1847 to death, when name was changed to the Ledwich school of medicine 1858; formed a valuable pathological museum; surgeon to the Meath hospital, Dublin, July 1858; author with his brother Edward Ledwich, M.D. of The practical and descriptive anatomy of the human body 1852, 3 ed. 1877, which is still much used in Dublin. _d._ York st. Dublin 29 Sep. 1858. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet. _Sir C. A. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland_ (1886) 534–35, 613–14; _Ormsby’s History of Meath hospital_ (1888) 215–6.

NOTE.--Edward Ledwich was _b._ Pembroke 1817, F.R.C.S.I. 13 Oct. 1852, a most successful teacher of anatomy, _d._ 7 Harcourt st. Dublin 18 Feb. 1879.

LEE, _Mrs._ Governess to the prince of Naples, eld. son of Humbert king of Italy, at Rome Nov. 1869 to 1881 during which time she never left him; watched over the prince’s health and aided him in making a collection of coins illustrating Italian history 1881 to death. _d._ Quirinal palace, Rome 3 April 1884.

LEE, ALFRED THEOPHILUS (youngest son of Sir John Theophilus Lee of Lauriston hall, Torquay 1786–1843). _b._ the Elms, Bedhampton, Hants. 28 June 1829; scholar of Christ’s coll. Camb. 1850; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of Houghton-le-Spring, Durham 1853–5; P.C. of Elson, Hants. 1856–8; R of Ahoghill, co. Antrim 1858–72; hon. LLD. Dublin 1866, D.C.L. Oxf. 1867; sec. to Church defence instit. and tithe redemption trust 1871 to death; preacher at Gray’s Inn 5 Nov. 1879 to death; author of The history of the town and parish of Tetbury 1857; Facts respecting the present state of the church in Ireland 1863, sixtieth thousand issued 1868; Some account of the parish church of St. Colananell, Ahoghill 1867. _d._ Lauriston house, Ealing, Middlesex 19 July 1883. _Church portrait journal_, _i_ 25 (1876), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 315–20 (1881).

LEE, BENJAMIN. _b._ Worcester 10 Feb. 1788; enlisted in 14 dragoons Jany. 1804; served in the Peninsula 1808–14, in America 1815; sergeant major 1814, retired 1829; went to New South Wales and resided at Parramatta 1829 to death. _d._ Parramatta 13 April 1879, left upwards of 100 children and grandchildren.

LEE, DONALD MC PHEE. _b._ 11 Feb. 1804; editor and proprietor of Bermuda royal gazette; vice consul for France and Italy. _d._ Hamilton, Bermuda 11 Feb. 1883.

LEE, EDWIN. Articled pupil of royal college of surgeons, London, Jacksonian prizeman 1838 for dissertation on Comparative advantages of lithotomy and lithotrity; studied at St. George’s hospital 1824, house surgeon 1830–3; M.C.S. 1829; M.D. Gottingen 1846 or before; member of medical societies of Paris, Berlin and Naples; fellow of royal medico-chirurgical soc.; resided much at the Continental watering places; author of upwards of 60 works including A treatise on some nervous disorders 1833, 2 ed. 1838; The principal baths of Germany 2 vols. 1840–1. _d._ Mentone 3 June 1870. _The Lancet 18 June 1870 pp._ 891–2.

LEE, FREDERICK HENRY (eld. son of Frederick William Lee). Editor of Hull Herald and proprietor of Sussex Advertiser, Lewes. _d._ Cooksbridge near Lewes 14 Aug. 1853 aged 42.

LEE, FREDERICK RICHARD. _b._ Barnstaple 1799; ensign 56 foot 6 Dec. 1813, placed on h.p. 21 Dec. 1815; served in the Netherlands; studied painting at the R.A. 1818; exhibited 171 paintings at R.A., 131 at B.I. and 24 at Suffolk st. 1822–70; his most popular works were English landscapes; 4 of his pictures are in the National Gallery; A.R.A. 1834, R.A. 1838, retired R.A. 1871. _d._ Vlees farm, Herman station in division of Malmsay, South Africa 5 June 1879. _Sandby’s History of royal academy_, _ii_ 159–61 (1862); _Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 85–8.

LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of Henry Lee, pugilist and landlord of the Anti-Gallican tavern, Shire lane, Temple Bar 1808). _b._ 1802; in Lord Barrymore’s service as a tiger, being the first to bear that title; tenor singer at Dublin theatre 1825; sang at the Haymarket, London 1826, musical conductor there 1827; kept a music shop at 86 Quadrant, Regent st. 1829–31; bankrupt 18 Nov. 1831 and 21 May 1833; lessee with Melrose and J. K. Chapman of the Tottenham st. theatre 1829–30; lessee of Drury Lane theatre 1830–31; directed the Lenten oratorios at Drury Lane and Covent Garden 1831; composer and musical director to Strand theatre 1832–45, to Olympic theatre 1845; succeeded George Hodson as musical conductor at the Poses Plastiques, Garrick’s Head, Bow st. 1847; wrote the music to The Sublime and the Beautiful 1828; The Invincibles 1828; The Nymph of the Grotto 1829; The Witness 1829; The Devil’s Brother 1831; The Legion of Honour 1831 and other dramatic pieces; published two sets of eight songs Beauties of Byron and Loves of the Butterflies 1828; composed altogether upwards of 250 pieces of music 1826–51; author of A complete course of instruction for singing 1872. (_m._ Mrs. Waylett, ballad singer, she _d._ 26 April 1851); found dead in his old lodgings at Newton terrace, Kennington road, London 8 Oct. 1851. _bur._ Norwood cemet. _Rev. J. Richardson’s Recollections_, _ii_ 129–35 (1856).

LEE, SIR GEORGE PHILIP (youngest son of Edward Lee of London). Lieut. of the yeomen of the guard 13 March 1843 to 23 July 1857; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. _d._ Windlesham court, Bagshot 1 Sep. 1870.

LEE, HARRIET (dau. of John Lee, actor, _d._ 1781). _b._ London 1757; kept a private school with her sister Sophia Lee at Belvidere house, Bath 1781–1803; carried on a correspondence with Wm. Godwin the novelist, April to Aug. 1798, declined his offer of marriage 1798; author of The errors of innocence 5 vols. 1786; The new peerage or our eyes may deceive us, a comedy Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1787, acted 9 times; Clara Lennox 2 vols. 1797, translated into French 1798; The mysterious marriage or the heirship of Roselva, a 3 act play 1790, never acted; Canterbury Tales 5 vols. 1797–1805, containing 12 stories (2 of which were written by her sister Sophia Lee who _d._ 1824), she dramatised one of the tales ‘Kruitzner’ under title of The Three Strangers, performed at Covent Garden 10 Dec. 1825, acted 4 times, Lord Byron also dramatised it under title of Werner or the Inheritance 1822. _d._ Vyvyan terrace, Clifton 1 Aug. 1851.

LEE, HENRIETTA INCLEDON (eld. dau. of Henry Lee, manager of theatres in west of England). First appeared in London as Constantia in ‘The man of the world’ 19 Oct. 1831; played at Covent Garden and Drury Lane, at Olympic theatre during Madame Vestris’ management to 1839, at Lyceum theatre 1847–48. _d._ at her lodgings, Orange st. Bloomsbury sq. London 23 May 1866. _Era 27 May 1866 p._ 10.

LEE, HENRY. _b._ 1826; naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium 1872, a director for a time, printed Aquarium Notes for the use of visitors; a contributor to Land and Water; his museum of natural history was one of most valuable private collections in England; author of The Octopus or the devil fish of fiction and fact 1874; Sea fables explained 1883 and of Sea monsters unmasked 1883, in Fisheries’ Exhibition handbooks; The vegetable lamb of Tartary, a fable of the cotton plant 1887. _d._ Renton house, 343 Brixton road, London 31 Oct. 1888. _Land and Water 10 Nov. 1888 p._ 568.

LEE, JAMES N. Edited Bell’s Weekly Messenger and Farmers’ Journal to death. _d._ at his lodgings, Laurel grove, Oakfield road, Penge 11 March 1880 aged 72.

LEE, JAMES PRINCE (eld. son of Stephen Lee, sec. and librarian of royal society). _b._ London 28 July 1804; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. 1813–24, captain 1822–4 when he entered Trin. coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1827, fellow Oct. 1829; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; one of the best Greek scholars of his time; a master at Rugby 1830–8; head master of King Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1838–47; hon. canon of Worcester 6 Sep. 1847; bishop of Manchester 23 Oct. 1847, consecrated at Whitehall chapel 23 Jany. 1848; held 63 ordinations at which he ordained 471 priests and 522 deacons; consecrated 130 churches 1848–69; promoted Manchester free library, opened Sep. 1852; author of Sermons and fragments attributed to Isaac Barrow, D.D. now first collected and edited from the MSS. in the University and Trinity college libraries Cambridge 1834, these manuscripts turned out to be spurious; Suggestions for a practical use of the papal aggression 1851. _d._ Mauldeth hall, Burnage near Manchester 24 Dec. 1869. _bur._ St. John’s ch. Heaton, Mersey 31 Dec. _E. W. Benson’s Memorial Sermon 2 ed._ (1880); _John Evans’s Lancashire Authors_ (1850) 153–7; _Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series_ (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 51 (1848) _portrait_, _lvi_ 55 (1870), _portrait_.

NOTE.--He bequeathed his library to Owen’s college Manchester, his widow in Sep. 1875 left £1000 to the college to provide two annual prizes for encouraging the study of the New Testament in Greek.

LEE, JOHN. _b._ Torwoodlie-Mains, parish of Stow, Midlothian 22 Nov. 1779; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1801; served in the army hospital service a short time; presbyterian minister of Peebles 1807; professor of church history at St. Mary’s college, St. Andrew’s 1812–21, rector of St. Andrew’s univ. three times; professor of moral philosophy in King’s college, Aberdeen 1820–1; minister of Canongate ch. Edinb. 1821–5; D.D. St. Andrew’s 1821; minister of Lady Yester’s ch. Edinb. 1825–34; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1840 to death; principal clerk of the general assembly 1827; minister of St. Giles’s ch. Edinb. 1834–7; principal of united college of St. Andrew’s 1837–40; dean of chapel royal, Stirling 1840 to death; principal of univ. of Edinb. 12 March 1840 to death, professor of divinity 14 June 1844 to death, being the first principal who also held a professorship since the year 1620; moderator of general assembly 1844; collected a library of 20,000 vols., is described in John Hill Burton’s Bookhunter as Archdeacon Meadows the bibliomaniac; author of Memorials of the Bible Society in Scotland 1829; Lectures on the history of the church of Scotland 1860; The University of Edinburgh from 1583 to 1839. 1880. _d._ at his residence in Univ. of Edinburgh 2 May 1859. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 135–7 _portrait_; _Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of Edinburgh_, _ii_ 271–4 (1884); _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. iv_ 212–17 (1862); _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol. i_, _part_ 1, _pp._ 12–13, 64 (1866).

LEE, JOHN (eld. son of John Fiott of London, merchant 1749–97). _b._ 28 April 1783; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1808–15; fifth wrangler 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, LLD. 1816; travelling bachelor of the univ. 1807–10; took his mother’s name of Lee by r.l. 4 Oct. 1815; member of College of Advocates 3 Nov. 1816, steward July 1824 to June 1826, librarian 1826–7, treasurer 1828–9; barrister G.I. 13 July 1863, gave the society £500 to found an annual prize for an essay on law 7 May 1864, bencher of G.I. 9 Nov. 1864 to death; Q.C. 7 July 1864; built an observatory in south portico of Hartwell house, Bucks. 1830; an original member of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1820, treasurer 1831–40, pres. 1861–2, gave the advowson of Hartwell to the Soc. 1836 and the advowson of Stone, Bucks. 1866, founded the Lee fund for relief of widows and children of deceased fellows; F.S.A. 1828; F.R.S. 24 Feb. 1831; pres. and treasurer of Numismatic Soc. 1837; member of Chronological institute of London, Dec. 1850, pres. 21 Dec. 1853 to 1858 when institute ceased; pres. of meeting of British Archæological Assoc. at Leicester 1862; contested Aylesbury 1835, 1841, 1852 and 1863; edited Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities at Hartwell House, chiefly arranged by Joseph Bonomi 1858. _d._ Hartwell house near Aylesbury 25 Feb. 1866. _Memoir of John Lee. Aylesbury_ (1870); _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxiii_ 302–5 (1867); _Catalogue of law books in the library at Hartwell_ (1855); _Catalogue of theological books in the library of Hartwell house_ (1855).

LEE, JOHN. _b._ Bath 25 Oct. 1795; served in the army; first appeared at Drury Lane as Laertes 1 Oct. 1828; sec. to Edmund Kean 1826–33 and stage manager Richmond theatre, and it was in his arms that the tragedian died at Richmond 15 May 1833; acted Jingle in Moncrieff’s Sam Weller or the Pickwickians at Strand theatre July 1837; theatrical agent at 24 Bow st. Covent Garden 1847–55; manager of the Café de l’Europe, Haymarket, London, on decease of Henry Hemming 1849; reappeared at T.R. Richmond as Shylock 1 July 1869; resided in Jersey many years. _d._ Wilton house, New St. John’s road, Jersey 5 Oct. 1881. _The Era 15 Oct. 1881 p._ 8; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 33–34, _portrait_.

LEE, JOHN. _b._ 1831; general manager of Drinking fountain association; F.R.G.S. _d._ Balmain, Anerley road, Surrey 3 Feb. 1884. _bur._ Crystal palace district cemetery 7 Feb.

LEE, JOHN BENJAMIN. _b._ 15 Jany. 1811; admitted attorney 1834; of firm of Lee, Bolton and Lee, 2 The Sanctuary, Westminster, and 5 Dean’s court, Doctors’ commons, London; legal secretary to 20 bishops, including 2 primates and 3 bishops of London; legal secretary to abp. of Canterbury and to bishops of London, Winchester, Durham, Carlisle, Ely, Hereford, Norwich, Worcester and Ripon to death; chapter clerk and registrar and steward of courts of St. Paul’s cathedral; registrar of diocese of London to death; a personal friend of archbishop Tait 1856; resided at Sonning near Reading. _d._ The Charterhouse, London 10 April 1889. _Law Times_, _lxxxvii_ 13 (1889).

LEE, JOHN EDWARD. _b._ Hull 21 Dec. 1808; visited Russia and Scandinavia; resided at Caerleon Priory, Monmouth, then at Torquay; F.G.S. 1859; presented his fine collection of fossils to British Museum 1885; author of Delineation of Roman antiquities found at Caerleon 1845; Description of a Roman building discovered at Caerleon 1850; Selections from an antiquarian sketch book 1859; Isca Silurum, or an illustrated catalogue of the museum of antiquities at Caerleon 1862; Roman imperial profiles, one hundred and sixty lithographs 1874; Note-book of an amateur geologist 1881; translated F. Keller’s Lake-dwellings of Switzerland 1866, 2 ed. 1878. _d._ Villa Syracuse, Daddy Hole plain, Torquay 18 Aug. 1887. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2nd series_, _xii_ 142–3 (1888).

LEE, JOHN LEE (son of William Hanning _d._ 1834, by Harriet dau. of Edward Lee). _b._ 11 Dec. 1802; educ. Westminster 1813–7, matric. Ch. Ch. Oxf. 10 Feb. 1821; assumed name of Lee in place of Hanning 1820; M.P. for Wells 1831–37; sheriff of Somerset 1845. _d._ Dillington park, Somerset 16 Aug. 1874.

LEE, JOHN YATE. _b._ 1801; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1828; practised as a conveyancer; a comr. of bankrupts 1838; registrar of Liverpool court of bankruptcy 28 Aug. 1844 to 31 Dec. 1869 when he retired on full salary; author of A treatise on the evidence of abstracts of titles to real property 1843. _d._ Bebington, Cheshire 10 March 1876. _Law Times_, _lx_ 422 (1876).

LEE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1780; painted miniatures in enamel from the life, and copied pictures in enamel; enamel painter to Princess Charlotte of Wales 1818 and to the Duke of Sussex, painted portraits of them, also of George IV. after Sir Thomas Lawrence; exhibited 27 enamels at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1809–53. _d._ 13 Stone st. Gravesend 26 Dec. 1859.

LEE, LAVATER. _b._ 1817; a vaulter in the circus company of Wm. Batty at Portsmouth and Southampton 1840; performed at Lambeth Baths, London, which Batty opened as the Olympic Arena, Nov. 1841; on his benefit night April or May 1842 he vaulted over 14 horses, threw a back somersault on a horse going at full speed and turned 21 forward somersaults without the aid of a spring-board. _d._ 17 Kersley st. Battersea, London 18 March 1891. _bur._ Norwood cemetery.

LEE, MATTHEW HENRY (4 son of Joseph Lee of Redbrook, Whitchurch, Salop). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 28 May 1850 aged 18, scholar 1850–4, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; C. of Longsight, Manchester 1856–7; C. of Morland near Penrith 1857–67; V. of Hanmer, Flintshire 1867 to death, church burnt Feb. 1889 when he rescued register and plate, church rebuilding at time of his decease; a contributor to the Archæologia Cambrensis; edited Diaries and letters of Philip Henry 1882. _d._ about 13 Dec. 1890.

LEE, RICHARD NELSON (younger son of lieut.-col. Richard Lee). _b._ Kew 8 Jany. 1806; first acted in The Miller and his Man, at private theatre, Rawstorne st. Islington; played as an amateur at Deptford, then in ‘utility’ business at Royalty theatre; acted with John Richardson the showman 1821; went on tour in 1821 with Gyngell the conjuror who _d._ 1833; performed as a juggler at Adelphi and other London theatres 1822; played at Surrey theatre, opening as harlequin, under Elliston 7 years from 24 June 1827; wrote the pantomimes 1831–3 and played harlequin at Adelphi theatre 1834–36; managed Sadler’s Wells theatre for F. Osbaldiston 1836; proprietor with John Johnson of ‘Richardson’s Show’ Oct. 1836, they promoted and organised the fair in Hyde Park on the Queen’s coronation 28 June 1838; they purchased Julius Haydon’s portable theatre Oct. 1838; ‘Richardson’s Show’ was burnt in a field at Dartford 1845 causing a loss of £1700, they began business with a new theatre 1847; they appeared at Greenwich fair for the last time 1852; ‘Richardson’s Show’ was sold by auction at Horsemonger lane, Borough 1853, when the property was completely dispersed; manager with J. Johnson of the Marylebone, of Pavilion, of Standard 1845, of City of London 1849–63, sole lessee of City of London 3 Oct. 1863 to 1868 when he sold it to Great Eastern railway co. for £6000; author of The life of a fairy illustrated by Alfred Crowquill 1850; wrote 209 pantomimes, all of which were played. _d._ Shrubland road, Dalston 2 Jany. 1872. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 5 Jany. _T. Frost’s The Old Showman_ (1874) 247, 254, 320, 346–58; _The Mask_ (1868) 21, _portrait_; _Illust. Sporting News_, _v_ 420 (1866), _portrait_.

NOTE.--His father lieut.-col. Lee was on duty at Nelson’s funeral in St. Paul’s cathedral 9 Jany. 1806, this was probably Richard Lee who died in India about 1811. The certificate of R. N. Lee’s baptism could not be obtained as the registers from 1791 to 1845 were stolen out of Kew church some years ago and have never been recovered. The inscription on his tombstone in Abney Park cemetery is, To the memory of Nelson Lee who departed this life January 2nd 1872 aged 65, also of Amelia Lee his beloved wife who departed this life December 30th 1870 aged 53, also of Theresa Kate Lee youngest daughter of the above who departed this life September 28th 1870 aged 17.

LEE, ROBERT. _b._ Tweedmouth, Northumberland 11 Nov. 1804; ed. at Berwick-on-Tweed gr. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ. 1824–34, D.D. 1844; minister of St. Vigean’s presbyterian chapel of ease at Arbroath, Forfarshire 1833, removed to parish of Campsie, Stirlingshire 1836; minister of church and parish of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1843 to death, his church was burnt down 19 Jany. 1845, preached in the Assembly Hall until 14 June 1857 when restored church opened, introduced stained glass into some of the windows 1857 and the first organ used in national church 22 April 1865; professor of biblical criticism and antiquities in univ. of Edinb., dean of chapel royal Holyrood and royal chaplain 17 Dec. 1846 to death; censured by the presbytery 14 March 1866 and by the synod 7 May for celebrating a marriage in his church 6 Dec. 1865; Isabella Carrick his widow was granted a civil list pension of £100, 17 Nov. 1868; author of A handbook of devotion 1845; The Holy Bible with about 60,000 marginal references and various readings 1854; Prayers for public worship 2 ed. 1858; Prayers for family worship 1861, 3 ed. 1884; The family and its duties 1863; The reform of the church of Scotland in worship, government and doctrine. Part 1 Worship 1864. _d._ Torquay 12 March 1868. _bur._ Grange cemetery, Edinb. 20 March. _R. H. Story’s Life of R. Lee, D.D. 2 vols._ (1870), _portrait_; _Grant’s Story of Univ. of Edinb. ii_ 461–64 (1884).

LEE, ROBERT (2 son of John Lee of Melrose, Roxburghshire). _b._ Melrose 1793; entered univ. of Edinb. 1806, M.D. 1814; L.R.C.P. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1841, Lumleian lecturer 1856–7, Croonian lecturer 1862, Harveian orator 1864; physician to Prince Woronzow governor general of the Crimea, Oct. 1824 to Dec. 1826; obstetric phys. in London 1826–75; phys. to British lying-in hospital 1827; lecturer on midwifery in the Webb st. school 1829; F.R.S. 25 March 1830; sec. to Royal med. and chir. soc. 1830–5; regius professor of midwifery, univ. of Glasgow 1834, but resigned it after delivering his introductory address; lecturer on midwifery at St. George’s hospital 1835–66; author of On the structure of the human placenta and its connection with the uterus 1832; Clinical Midwifery 1842, 2 ed. 1848; The last days of Alexander and the first days of Nicholas, emperors of Russia 1854; Three hundred consultations in midwifery 1864; A treatise on hysteria 1871. _d._ 15 The Avenue, Surbiton Hill, Surrey 6 Feb. 1877. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _R. Lee’s Memoirs on the Ganglia and nerves of the uterus_ (1849); _Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 266–9 (1878); _Lancet_, _i_ 332–7 (1851), _portrait_.

LEE, ROBERT (7 son of John Lee 1779–1859). _b._ Edinburgh 1830; ed. at academy and univ. of Edinb.; member of Faculty of advocates 1853; procurator for Ch. of Scotland 1869; sheriff of Stirling and Dumbarton 1875; sheriff of Perthshire 1877; judge of second division of the court of session, Edinb., with title of Lord Lee, April 1880 to death. _d._ 12 Rothesay place, Edinburgh 11 Oct. 1890.

LEE, SAMUEL. _b._ Longnor near Shrewsbury 14 May 1783; apprenticed to a carpenter at Shrewsbury 1795; taught himself Greek and Hebrew; teacher in Bowdler’s foundation school, Shrewsbury; entered Queen’s coll. Camb. 1813, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1819, B.D. 1827, D.D. 1833; D.D. Halle 1822; professor of Arabic in univ. of Camb. 11 March 1819–31, regius professor of Hebrew 1831–48; chaplain of Cambridge gaol 1823; R. of Bilton with Harrogate, Yorkshire 1825–31; preb. of Bristol cathedral 5 July 1831 to death; V. of Banwell, Somerset 1831–8; R. of Barley, Herts. 1838 to death; a profound linguist, knew about 20 languages; author of A grammar of the Hebrew language 1827; A brief enquiry into the question whether a christian can object to pay tithes. Bristol 1832; The duties of observing the christian sabbath 1833, 2 ed. 1834; Dissent unscriptural and unjustiable 1834; A lexicon Hebrew, Chaldee and English 1840; The doctrine of the keys 1846; An enquiry into the nature, progress and end of prophecy 1849. _d._ Barley rectory 16 Dec. 1852, portrait by Richard Evans in public newsroom, Shrewsbury. _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _vol._ 5 (1834), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _i_ 52 (1846), _portrait_; _G.M. xxxix_ 203–7 (1853).

LEE, SAMUEL. King of the gipsy tribe of the Lees. _d._ Little Baddow hill, Essex 23 Sep. 1859 aged 86. _bur._ Little Baddow ch. yard 27 Sep. when 16 gipsies attended the funeral.

LEE, SAMUEL (2 son of John Lee of Whitchurch, Salop). _b._ 1837; ed. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1860, M.A. 1866; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1872; member of board of examiners to Inns of Court 1877–8 and 1881–3; member of Athenæum club; author of The works of Virgil rendered into English prose, with introductions. Globe edition 1871; author with J. Lonsdale of The works of Horace rendered into English prose 1873. _d._ 8 Tavistock place, Tavistock sq. London 14 April 1892.

LEE, SARAH (only dau. of John Eglinton Wallis of Colchester). _b._ Colchester 10 Sep. 1791. _m._ (1) 1813 Thomas Edward Bowdich, naturalist, travelled with him in Africa 1815 and 1823, he _d._ Bathurst on the Gambia river 10 Jany. 1824; she _m._ (2) about Oct. 1829 Robert Lee; studied Cuvier’s collections in Paris 1818–22; termed herself a member of the Wetteravian society; granted civil list pension of £50, 20 April 1854; author of The Freshwater fishes of Great Britain 1828, 12 parts, only four perfect copies are known, the plates of fish by herself are exquisitely done; Memoirs of Baron Cuvier 1833; Adventures in Australia 1851, many editions; Anecdotes of the habits and instincts of animals 1852; Sir Thomas or the adventures of a Cornish baronet 1856; she also edited and contributed to many works by her husband T. E. Bowdich. _d._ at her daughter’s residence, Erith, Kent 22 Sep. 1856. _Literary Gazette 11 Oct. 1856 p._ 784; _G.M. Nov. 1856 pp._ 653–4.

LEE, SMYTH. _b._ Devonport 1838; clerk in the stamp office, Devonport; reporter on Western Daily Mercury, then on Western Morning News; correspondent of The Era; on staff of Illustrated Sporting News 15 March 1862 to death; wrote ‘Tom’s Wife’ acted at the Surrey theatre, and ‘Great Sensation’ acted at Sadler’s Wells. _d._ Tottenham court road, London 3 Feb. 1866. _bur._ Finchley 7 Feb. _Illust. Sporting News_, _v_ 78, 152 (1866), _portrait_.

LEE, THOMAS (son of Mr. Lee of Dublin and the Haymarket, London). _b._ Dublin 1 Dec. 1810; apprenticed to a goldsmith and jeweller London 1823; played in Suil Dhur the Coiner at Sadler’s Wells 1827; played in The Irish Tutor at Victoria theatre 1833 or 1834; acted in the provinces 1834–7; played at Sadler’s Wells 1837; acted Pat Rooney in The Omnibus at Covent Garden 23 Oct. 1838; proprietor of Beckford’s Head tavern, 38 Old st. St. Luke’s 1838–54; proprietor of The Adam and Eve, Eve’s terrace, Old St. Pancras road 1854–6, and of the Hoop and Adze, 37 St. John st. Clerkenwell 1856, where he _d._ 11 Aug. 1856. _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 281–2 (1838), _portrait_; _Theatrical Times_, _ii_ 153 (1847), _portrait_; _The Era 17 Aug. 1856 p._ 10.

LEE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1809; painter in water-colours of English rustic figures and of scenes on the French coast; assoc. of Instit. of Painters in water-colours 1845, a member 1848; member and sec. of Langham Sketching club, All Souls’ Place, London; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1844–55; published Classes of the capital, a sketch book of London life from tinted studies by W. Lee 1841, two parts only. _d._ 177 Euston road, London 22 Jany. 1865. _Art Journal_ (1865) 139.

LEE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 2 July 1813, bencher 1845 to death, reader 1858; Richard Bethel afterwards lord chancellor Westbury was his pupil 1822; Q.C. Feb. 1845; a learned real property lawyer, his opinion was much esteemed by the chancery judges; often called upon by lord justice Knight-Bruce to give his opinion as amicus curiæ; lacked business habits, which prevented success in his profession. _d._ Brighton 7 July 1869. _Law Times 17 July 1869 p._ 262; _T. A. Nash’s Life of lord Westbury_, _i_ 37–8, 43 (1888).

LEE, WILLIAM (son of Henry Lee). _b._ Lewisham, Kent 1801; partner in firm of Lee, Son & Co., lime and cement merchants of London and Rochester; contested Maidstone 8 July 1852 and 30 March 1857; M.P. Maidstone 1853–57 and 1859–70. _d._ Holborough court near Rochester 29 Sep. 1881.

LEE, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Lee, rector of Emly. _d._ Aug. 1835). _b._ Newport, Tipperary 3 Nov. 1815; ed. at Clonmel endowed sch. 1825–31 and Trinity college, Dublin; gained first or classical scholarship 1834, junior fellow 1839; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. and D.D. 1857; professor of ecclesiastical history in univ. of Dublin 1857–63; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 1863; R. of Arboe, Armagh 1862–4; exam. chaplain to abp. Trench 1863–4; archdeacon of Dublin 1864 to death; R. of St. Peter, Dublin 1864 to death; member of convocation and of convention of ch. of Ireland; member of new testament revision company Feb. 1870 to 1880; author of The inspiration of holy scripture, its nature and proof 1854, 5 ed. 1882; Three introductory lectures on ecclesiastical history 1858; Commentary on the Revelation of St. John 1882, on which he had been working since 1864. _d._ 64 Merrion square south, Dublin 11 May 1883. _W. Lee’s University Sermons. Dublin_ (1886), _memoir vii–xiv_.

LEE, WILLIAM (2 son of John Lee 1779–1859). _b._ 18 George st. Edinburgh 6 Nov. 1817; ed. univ. of Edinb., D.D. 1868; presbyterian minister at Roxburgh 1844–74; professor of ecclesiastical history in univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1874 to death; author of The increase of faith 1867, 2 ed. 1868; The days of the Son of Man 1872; edited his father’s Lectures on the history of the church of Scotland 2 vols. 1860; The autobiography of Dr. Somerville of Jedburgh. _d._ 8 The College, Glasgow 10 Oct. 1866. _The Glasgow Herald 12 Oct. 1886 p._ 4.

LEECE, JOSEPH (1 son of John Leece). _b._ Edgley, Stockport, Cheshire 8 Sep. 1833; lodge boy to Joseph Whitworth, engineer, Manchester 1847, foreman of shops where he improved the machinery, managed the manufactory of guns and rifles; conducted the heavy gun trials Whitworth versus Armstrong 1863–4; introduced the Whitworth small arms to the volunteers; sighted the rifle for the Queen at Wimbledon 2 July 1860; hit the target 5 times in succession at 1000 yards; present at meetings for trial of light field guns at Versailles and Chalon; member of war office ordnance committee; managing director of sir J. Whitworth & Co.; M.I.C.E. 6 May 1879. _d._ Melbourne, Australia 13 Jany. 1886. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxv_ 399 (1886).

LEECH, JOHN (son of John Leech, proprietor of the London Coffee-house, Ludgate Hill, London, bankrupt 6 Jany. 1832). _b._ Bennett st. Stamford st. London 29 Aug. 1817; ed. at the Charterhouse 1824–33; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; published Etchings and Sketchings. By A. Pen 1835; employed on Bell’s Life in London; illustrated Theodore Hook’s novel Jack Brag 1837; contributed to fourth number of Punch 7 Aug. 1841 a full-page illustration entitled Foreign Affairs, signed with the Leech in the bottle as well as John Leech; chief artist on Punch 1842 to death, executed 600 cartoons and 2400 small drawings for which he received about £40,000; illustrated the Ingoldsby Legends and Albert Smith’s novels in Bentley’s Miscellany; supplied etchings or cuts for New Monthly Mag. 1842–4, Illuminated Mag. 1843–5, Dickens’ Christmas Stories 1843–8, R. S. Surtees’ sporting novels 1853–65, Once a Week 1859–64, Illustrated London News, Punch’s Pocket Book and many other works; published Portraits of the children of the nobility 1841; Pictures of life, from Punch 5 series 1854–69 and other books; exhibited a series of sketches in oil at Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, June–Aug. 1862; hunted with the Puckeridge and Pytchley hounds; his portrait by sir John Millais was exhibited at the R.A. 1855. _d._ 6 The Terrace, Kensington 29 Oct. 1864. _bur._ Kensal Green 4 Nov. An exhibition of outlines by J. Leech held at 9 Conduit st. London 1872. _W. P. Frith’s John Leech 2 vols._ (1891), _portrait_; _F. G. Kitton’s John Leech_ (1884); _John Leech and other papers. By John Brown_ (1882) 1–79; _Fine Art. By W. A. Rossetti_ (1867) 282–9; _Illust. Review iv_ 289–98, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. ix_ 58–65 (1864), _portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 329 (1845), _portrait_.

NOTE.--His widow Anne Leech was granted a civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1865; his only son C. W. Leech was drowned off Port Adelaide on his voyage home from Australia 29 March 1876 aged 20. He drew a portrait of himself as the clarionet player next to the conductor of the orchestra in the two-page cartoon entitled ‘Mr. Punch’s fancy ball’ in Punch 9 Jany. 1847.

LEEDS, FRANCIS GODOLPHIN D’ARCY DARCY-OSBORNE, 7 Duke of. _b._ 21 May 1798; styled marquess of Carmarthen 1799–1838; cornet 10 hussars 19 Sep. 1817, lieut. 1821–5; capt. 17 lancers 1825; capt. 2 life guards 1826–8; M.P. Helston 1826–30; summoned to house of lords as baron Osborne 2 July 1838; succeeded as 7 duke 10 July 1838; col. in chief of North York militia 11 Feb. 1846 to death; took the name of Darcy 6 Aug. 1849; celebrated as a huntsman and deer stalker. _d._ Clarendon hotel, 169 New Bond st. London 4 May 1859. _m._ 24 April 1828 Louisa Catherine 3 dau. of Richard Caton and widow of sir F. E. B. Harvey, bart. who _d._ 1819. She _d._ 8 April 1874. _Burke’s Portrait gallery_, _ii_ 87, 90 (1833), _portrait of the Duchess_; _I.L.N. xxv_ 616 (1854) _portrait_, _xxxiv_ 478, 485 (1859) _portrait_.

LEEDS, ROBERT. _b._ 1811; rented a large farm at Holkham and resided at Keswick Old Hall for many years; assisted in formation of company which built Agricultural hall, Islington 1861 and was chairman 1862, and chief mover in the annual horse shows there; chairman of Smithfield club, then vice president; oldest member of Farmers’ club; on council of R. Agricultural Soc. of England 1869–89. _d._ Norwich 27 June 1890. _I.L.N. 12 July 1890 p._ 53, _portrait_.

LEEDS, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1786; engaged in commercial pursuits; an architectural critic 30 years; wrote much in the Foreign quarterly review and other periodicals; wrote many of the articles on architecture in the Penny Cyclopædia; published Moller’s Memorials of German-Gothic architecture, part 1 translated by W. H. Leeds 1836; Illustrations of the public buildings of London 1838; An essay on the present state of architectural study and the revival of the Italian style, Printed in Studies and examples of school of English architecture 1839 pp. 1–28; Rudimentary architecture, the orders and their æsthetic principles 1848, 2 ed. 1852; A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture, by sir W. Chambers, revised 1862. _d._ 26 Charlotte st. Portland place, London 1 May 1866.

LEEKE, SIR HENRY JOHN (son of Samuel Leeke of St. John’s, Isle of Wight). _b._ St. John’s 1794; entered navy 28 Sep. 1803; served in the Mediterranean during the war 1806; commanded the Myrmidon sloop on west coast of Africa 1819–22, where he surveyed 600 miles of coast; captain 27 May 1826; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 April 1835; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; flag captain to admiral sir John West at Devonport 1845–8; superintendent and commander-in-chief of Indian navy 23 March 1852 to 7 July 1857; bombarded Bushir in the Persian war 10 Nov. 1856; admiral 11 Jany. 1864; M.P. for Dover 1859–65; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 1 Oct. 1858. _d._ Uplands near Fareham 26 Feb. 1870. _C. R. Low’s History of the Indian navy_, _ii_ 240–382 (1877).

LEEKE, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1798; ensign 52 light infantry 4 May 1815, lieutenant 1823, on h.p. 2 Sep. 1824; carried the regimental colours at Waterloo; ed. at Queen’s college, Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; C. of Westham, Sussex 1829–31; C. of Brailsford, Derby 1831–39; V. of Holbrooke, Derbyshire 1840–77; author of A few suggestions for increasing the incomes of many of the smaller livings. Derby 1838; The history of lord Seaton’s regiment, the 52nd light infantry, at Waterloo, with the author’s reminiscences of his military and clerical careers 2 vols. 1866–71. _d._ Holbrooke hall near Derby 1 June 1879.

LEEMAN, GEORGE (son of George Leeman of York). _b._ York, Aug. 1809; solicitor at York 1835 to death; head of firm of Leeman, Wilkinson and Leeman of York and Beverley; clerk of the peace for East Riding to death; alderman of York 1850, lord mayor 1853, 1860 and 1870; chairman of Yorkshire banking co.; chairman of North eastern railway Feb. 1874 to 1880; M.P. York 1865–68 and 1871–80; his statue erected near railway station at York. _d._ 3 Belmont terrace, Scarborough 25 Feb. 1882.

LEEMAN, JOSEPH JOHNSON (younger son of the preceding). _b._ Fulford near York 1842; solicitor at York 1865 to death; M.P. York 2 April 1880 to death. _d._ Acomb priory, York 2 Nov. 1883.

LEES, _Asa_ (2 son of Samuel Lees of Oldham, machine manufacturer, _d._ about 1847). _b._ 1816; machine maker at Oldham about 1847–65 when he converted his business into a private company, the works were sold to a limited liability company in 1872, he received £112,000 for his share. _d._ Albert house, Ashton under Lyne 26 May 1882. _Oldham Chronicle 3 June 1882 p._ 6, _col._ 3.

LEES, CATHCART. _b._ 1810; M.B. of Trin. coll. Dublin 1837, F.K.Q.C.P. 1845; physician to Meath hospital to 1861 and lecturer on practice of medicine; phys. to Bank of Ireland to 1861; wrote many essays in Dublin Journal of medical science, Dublin hospital gazette, and the Quarterly Journal; author of Lectures on diseases of the stomach and indigestion. Dublin 1857. _d._ 17 Lower Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 16 Dec. 1861.

LEES, CHARLES. _b._ Cupar, Fifeshire 1800; studied art at Rome some years; portrait painter at Edinburgh; fellow of Royal Scottish academy 1835 where he exhibited regularly, treasurer 1865 and a trustee; two pictures by him of curling and golf matches were engraved; his picture Summer Moonlight, bait-gatherers, is in Scottish national gallery; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1832–63. _d._ 19 Scotland st. Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1880. _The Scotsman 1 March 1880 p._ 4.

LEES, EDWIN. _b._ Worcester 1800; printer and stationer at 87 High st. Worcester, retired early and became a local botanist; founded Worcester Literary and scientific institute 12 Jany. 1829, joint sec.; F.L.S., F.G.S.; one of the first to pay regard to forms of brambles, commemorated botanically by his discovery of Rubus Leesii; author of Christmas and the new year 2 ed. 1828, a masque in verse; Guide to the city and cathedral of Worcester. By Ambrose Florence; published The Worcestershire miscellany 5 numbers 1829; author of Botany of the Malvern hills 1843, 3 ed. 1868; The botany of Worcestershire 1867; The botanical looker-out among the wild flowers 1842, 2 ed. 1851; Pictures of nature around the Malvern hills 1856; Scenery and thought in poetical pictures of landscape scenes and incidents 1880. _d._ Greenhill Summit, Worcester 21 Oct. 1887. _bur._ Pendock. _Journal of botany_ (1887) 384.

LEES, SIR HARCOURT, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir John Lees, 1 baronet 1739–1811). _b._ 29 Nov. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802; R. and V. of Killaney, co. Down; preb. of Fennor in Cashel church 21 Nov. 1800 to July 1806; preb. of Tullycorbet in Clogher church 1801 to July 1806; author of The Antidote, or nouvelles à la main, recommended to the serious attention of the right hon. W. C. Plunket and other advocates of unrestricted civil and religious liberty. By a clergyman of the established church and no saint. Dublin 1819, reprinted with a supplement entitled L’Abeja or a bee among the evangelicals. Dublin 1820, and 8 other pamphlets chiefly in support of protestant ascendancy. _d._ Blackrock near Dublin 7 March 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_ 518–9 (1852); _I.L.N. xx_ 219 (1852).

NOTE.--See also these works, Most important, trial of sir H. Lees before chief justice B---- and sergeant Flummery 11 Jan. 1823 by a jury of special dust churchmen on charges of barretry and eavesdropping. Dublin 1823. A warning letter to the queen!! on the communication made to government by sir H. L. relative to a conspiracy out of which arose the attempt to murder her majesty 1840.

LEES, JAMES. _b._ Cupar 1804; ed. Madras coll. St. Andrew’s and in Edinburgh; manager for Smith and Carnegie, Dundee 1828; writer to the signet in Dundee to 1834; manager for John Anderson, bailie, Dundee 1834–54; author of The laws of shipping and insurance 1845, 10 ed. 1877; A manual for shipmasters on their qualifications, duties, &c. 1845, 4 ed. 1851; The laws of the customs, with the tariff or customs’ tables and customs’ forms 1859; The merchant seaman’s act 1845; The merchant shipping act 1855, 3 ed. 1876. _d._ Broughty Ferry, Dundee 5 July 1868. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 310–11.

LEES, SIR JOHN CAMPBELL (eld. son of James Lees, R.E.) _b._ Enfield, Middlesex 1796; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833; chief justice and judge of court of admiralty of Bahama Islands 1 Aug. 1836 to 1865 when he retired; president of legislative council of Bahama islands; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; author of Meteorological journal for 1839. Nassau, Bahamas 1839. _d._ Victoria station on Metropolitan district railway 17 Oct. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 399 (1873).

LEES, JOHN FREDERICK (eld. son of Edward Lees of Oldham). _b._ 1810; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831; M.P. for Oldham 8 July 1835 to 18 July 1837; contested Oldham 28 July 1837. _d._ Cheltenham 18 Sep. 1867.

LEES, TOM. _b._ 1821; one of the best riders at Astley’s amphitheatre, gymnast and summersault thrower and the champion of the ring; with Cooke’s circus from childhood, and with it travelled in the provinces; played in pantomime at Cremorne gardens, Melbourne, under George Coppin’s management; lived some years in New Zealand. _m._ Emma Cooke pantomimist and dancer, sister of James Cooke equestrian manager. _d._ Dunedin hospital, New Zealand 24 July 1878. _The Era 29 Sep. 1878 p._ 5.

LEES, WILLIAM NASSAU (4 son of rev. sir Harcourt Lees 1776–1852). _b._ 21 Feb. 1825; ed. at Nut Grove and Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign 42 Bengal N.I. 8 March 1846, captain 11 Sep. 1858; lieut.-col. Bengal infantry 8 June 1868; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 21 Feb. 1884; M.G. 28 Nov. 1885; principal of the Madrásá or Mahommedan college, Calcutta 1856–72, also professor of law, logic, literature and mathematics; sec. to College of Fort William 1853; Persian translator to government; government examiner in Arabic, Persian and Urdu for all branches of the service; part proprietor of Times of India newspaper some years; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1857 and Ph. Doc. Berlin; member of Royal Asiatic Soc. of London 1872; contested Gloucester 1868 and Helston 1874; author of A biographical sketch of the mystic philosopher and poet Jami 1859; A memorandum after a tour through the tea districts of Eastern Bengal 1866; The drain of silver to the East and the currency of India 1864; The land and labour of India 1867; Indian Musalmáns 1871. _d._ Grosvenor st. London 9 March 1889.

LEESON, HENRY BEAUMONT. _b._ about 1800; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; incorporated M.A. at Trin. coll. Oxf. 1838, M.B. and M.D. 1840; M.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1847; F.C.S.; M.R.I.; physician and lecturer on chemistry and forensic medicine to St. Thomas’s hospital, London; F.R.S. _d._ The Maples near Ventnor, Isle of Wight 8 Nov. 1872. _Times 9 Nov. 1872 p._ 5, _col._ 6.

LEESON, JOHN SACKVILLE. Entered Bombay army 1817; 1 lieut. Bombay artillery 1 Sep. 1818, lieut.-col. Bombay artillery 15 April 1850, col. 28 March 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Paris 7 May 1859.

LEESON, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD (youngest son of hon. Robert Leeson 1773–1850). _b._ Feb. 1801; cornet 7 dragoon guards 2 Dec. 1819, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; chamberlain at Dublin castle 1835; knight usher of the black rod to the order of St. Patrick 1838–41 and genealogist 1841 to death; knighted at Dublin May or June 1838. _d._ Caen, Normandy 21 April 1885.

LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN (elder son of Thomas Philip Le Fanu, dean of Emly). _b._ Dublin 28 Aug. 1814; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1833; joined staff of Dublin Univ. Mag. 1837, editor and proprietor 1869–72; called to Irish bar 1839; purchased two Dublin papers, The Warder in 1839 and The Dublin Evening Packet, part proprietor of the Dublin Evening Mail, amalgamated the three papers under title of The Evening Mail with a weekly reprint entitled The Warder; author of The Cock and the anchor 1845; The fortunes of colonel Torlogh O’Brien 1847; The house by the churchyard 3 vols. 1863; Uncle Silas 3 vols. 1864; Wylder’s hand 3 vols. 1864; Guy Deverell 3 vols. 1865; All in the dark 2 vols. 1866; The tenants of Malory 3 vols. 1867; Haunted lives 3 vols. 1868; A lost name 3 vols. 1868; The Wyvern mystery 3 vols. 1869; Checkmate 3 vols. 1871; Chronicles of Golden Friars 3 vols. 1871; The rose and the key 3 vols. 1871; In a glass darkly 3 vols. 1872; Willing to die 3 vols. 1873; Morley court 1873, anon. _d._ 18 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 7 Feb. 1873. _J. S. Le Fanu’s Purcell Papers with memoir by A. P. Graves_, _vol._ 1 _pp. v–xxxi_ (1880); _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxi_ 319–20 (1873); _Temple Bar_, _l_ 504–17 (1877).

LEFEBVRE, NICHOLAS. _b._ 1803; entered navy 18 Jany. 1811; captain 20 Oct. 1853, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880. _d._ Rue Lefebvre, Guernsey 7 Oct. 1884.

LEFEVRE, SIR JOHN GEORGE SHAW (2 son of Charles Shaw Lefevre, M.P. Reading, _d._ 1823). _b._ Bedford sq. London 24 Jany. 1797; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1819; sen. wrangler and B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; F.R.S. 16 Nov. 1820; barrister I.T. 11 Feb. 1825, bencher 21 Nov. 1854 to death, reader 1868; M.P. Petersfield 1832–4; under sec. of state for colonies 1833–4; poor law commissioner 18 Aug. 1834 to 1 Dec. 1841; joint assist. sec. to board of trade 19 June 1841 to 14 May 1848; second church estate commissioner 24 Aug. 1850; deputy clerk of the parliaments 4 April 1848 and clerk 6 April 1856, resigned March 1875 when he retired on pension of £2,500; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 22 Jany. 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. 20 Nov. 1847; a founder of the univ. of London 1836 and V.C. 1842–62; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1858; hon. LLD. Dublin 1860; civil service comr., resigned 1862; one of founders of Athenæum club 1823; he knew all the European languages and Hebrew. _d._ Cliftonville near Brighton 20 Aug. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix_ 15–18 (1879); _Graphic_, _xi_ 291, 292 (1875), _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 93 (1843), _portrait_.

LEFFLER, ADAM (son of James Henry Leffler, organist and bassoon player, _d._ 1819). _b._ 1808; chorister in Westminster abbey; appeared at Exeter at a festival 1829; first appeared in London at Lyceum 31 Aug. 1836 as Hela in the Mountain Sylph; appeared at Park theatre, New York as a tenor singer Aug. 1840; played at Covent Garden, at the Lyceum, at Surrey theatre; sang at concerts; professor of music at 12 Spencer place, Brixton road, London; a bass singer, his compass extended from E below the stave to G above it. _d._ 23 Osborne terrace, Clapham road, London 18 March 1857. _Era 5 April 1857 p._ 10.

LE FLEMING, GEORGE CUMBERLAND HUGHES- (son of John Cumberland Hughes of Bath). _b._ 21 July 1807; entered Madras army 1823; captain 13 Madras N.I. 23 Dec. 1842, lieut.-col. 5 June 1854 to 1857; lieut.-col. of 19 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 European regiment 1858–9, of 50 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with rank of M.G.; assumed additional surname of Le Fleming by r.l. 1 April 1862. _d._ 7 June 1877.

LEFROY, ANTHONY (eld. son of Thomas Langlois Lefroy 1776–1869). _b._ Dublin 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1864; M.P. co. Longford 1830–32, 1833–7 and 1842–7; contested co. Longford 1832, 1837, 1841 and 1857; M.P. univ. of Dublin 1858–70; sheriff of Longford 1849. _d._ Carriglass manor, co. Longford 12 Jany. 1890.

LEFROY, EDWARD CRACROFT (son of George Benjamin Austin Lefroy of 13 Victoria st. Westminster). _b._ 1855; ed. Keble coll. Oxf., B.A. 1877, M.A. 1881; C. of St. John’s, Woolwich 1880–82; author of Undergraduate Oxford. Articles reprinted from The Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates journal 1878; The christian ideal and other sermons 1883; Counsels for the common life, six addresses to senior boys 1885; Echoes from Theocritus and other sonnets 1885. _d._ at the res. of his father, 42 Shooter’s hill road, Blackheath, Kent 19 Sep. 1891. _Academy 3 Oct. 1891 p._ 284.

LEFROY, JEFFREY (brother of Anthony Lefroy 1800–90). _b._ 1809 or 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1848, member of the senate; R. of Aghaderg, co. Down 1836 to death; dean of Dromore 1876 to death. _d._ Aghaderg Glebe 10 Dec. 1885.

LEFROY, SIR JOHN HENRY (son of John Henry George Lefroy, R. of Ashe, Hants., _d._ 1823). _b._ Ashe 28 Jany. 1817; ed. at Alton, Richmond, and R.M. acad. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec 1834, col. 9 Feb. 1865, col. commandant 13 Feb. 1881 to death; sec. of the Royal artillery institution 1838–9 and again 1849; director of magnetical observatory at St. Helena 1840–2 and at Toronto 1842–53; travelled to Lachim and Hudson’s Bay 1843–4, determined approximate position of American forces of magnetic intensity; founded the Canadian institute at Toronto 1849; sec. of the Patriotic Fund 1854; a senior clerk in the war office 1854; scientific adviser on subjects of artillery and inventions at war office 1854–5; prepared a detailed scheme of military education 1856; inspector general of army schools Feb. 1857 to 1860 when office abolished; sent on a special mission to the Mediterranean fortresses; sec. of ordnance select committee 1860, pres. 1864; director general of ordnance 9 Dec. 1868 to March 1870; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda 8 April 1871 to 10 May 1877; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; governor of Tasmania, Oct. 1880 to Dec. 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 10 May 1882; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.G.S. 1853; F.S.A. 1884; C.B. 31 March 1870; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of A handbook for field service 1854, 4 ed. 1867; Observations made at St. Helena 1847; Notes and documents relating to the family of Loffroy 1868; Memorials of the discovery of the Bermudas or Somers island 2 vols. 1877–9; Diary of a magnetic survey of a portion of the dominion of Canada 1883. _d._ Lewarne near Liskeard, Cornwall 11 April 1890. _bur._ at Croudall, Hants. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 139–40 (1891); _Numismatic Chronicle_ (1890) 31–2; _Graphic 26 April 1890 p._ 533, _portrait_.

LEFROY, PERCY, otherwise Percy Lefroy Mapleton (son of Henry Mapleton commander R.N. _d._ 1879, by Mary Trent dau. of Henry Seale colonial sec. of St. Helena). _b._ Alpha place, Queen’s road, Deptford 23 Feb. 1860; journalist writing for the weekly papers; author of two dramas which were not successful; shot and murdered Frederick Isaac Gold a retired London tradesman aged 64, in a railway carriage on London and Brighton and South coast railway while going through the Balcombe tunnel 27 June 1881, arrested on suspicion 8 July, tried at Maidstone assizes 5–7 Nov., confessed his guilt, hanged inside Lewes prison 29 Nov. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxix_ 37, 461 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxiv_ 96 (1881), _portrait_; _Temple Bar_, _Jany. 1886 pp._ 73–82; _Montagu Williams’ Leaves of a Life_ (1891) 277–94, 335–48.

LEFROY, THOMAS EDWARD PRESTON (3 son of Antony Lefroy of Falford, Yorkshire, captain 65 foot). _b._ 30 Aug. 1815; a special pleader; barrister M.T. 7 June 1844; a revising barrister on the Northern circuit Aug. 1855; deputy judge of Bloomsbury county court 1857–65; judge of county courts, circuit 55 (Dorset and Somerset) 1 Jany. 1868, retired 10 Oct. 1880 on pension of £1000; author with H. I. Nicholl, J. M. Carrow and others of Cases relating to railways and canals 5 vols. 1840–50. _d._ Cambray, Bournemouth 25 July 1887.

LEFROY, THOMAS LANGLOIS (eld. son of Anthony Lefroy of Carrickglass, co. Longford, lieut.-col. 9 light dragoons, _d._ 1819). _b._ co. Limerick 8 Jany. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795, LL.B. and LL.D. 1827; called to Irish bar 1797, practised in court of chancery; K.C. 1806; third serjeant at law in Ireland Dec. 1818, 2nd serjeant 1820, first serjeant 1822–30; bencher of King’s Inns 1819; a comr. of assize 1822, 1824; M.P. for univ. of Dublin 1830–41; fourth baron of court of exchequer, Ireland, Nov. 1841; lord chief justice of queen’s bench, Ireland, March 1852, resigned May 1866; author of Observations on the proceedings by elegit for the recovery of judgment debts. Dublin 1802; author with John Schoales of Reports of cases argued and determined in the high court of chancery in Ireland during the time of Lord Redesdale from Easter term 1802 to Easter term 1806, 2 vols. Dublin 1806–10. _d._ Newcourt villa, Bray near Dublin 4 May 1869. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 11 May. _T. Lefroy’s Memoir of chief justice Lefroy_ (1871), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxix_ 65–74 (1872); _Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 2 series_ (1846), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 346 (1848), _portrait_.

LEFROY, THOMAS PAUL (2 son of the preceding). _b._ 31 Dec. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827; called to Irish bar 1831; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; bencher of King’s Inns 1860 to death; chairman of quarter sessions of co. Kildare 27 Dec. 1858 to Dec. 1890; county court judge of Armagh 1875, of Down 1880 to Dec. 1890; chancellor of diocesan court of Down, Connor and Dromore to 1890. _d._ Haddington terrace, Kingstown, co. Dublin 29 Jany. 1891. _Law Times 14 Feb. 1891 p._ 291.

LEFTLEY, CHARLES DAKIN. _b._ 1789; proprietor of business of Dulau & Co. foreign booksellers, 37 Soho square, London. _d._ 21 Victoria road, Clapham common, Surrey 29 April 1873.

LEGARD, FRANCIS DIGBY (1 son of George Legard of York). _b._ 13 March 1829; ed. at Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1849–56, B.A. 1851, M.A. 1862; V. of Whitwell near York 1858–73; R. of Stokesley, Yorks. 1873 to death; edited Ploughing and sowing, or annals of an evening school. By M. E. S. 1861; More about farm lads. By M. E. S. 1865; Gleanings, being a sequel to Ploughing and sowing 1876. _d._ Westhorpe house, Scarborough 20 Nov. 1883.

LEGÉR, THÉODORE. _b._ Paris 1799; educ. Paris; M.D.; resided in Mexico, acquired and spent two fortunes; acted as a medical mesmeriser 1850; discovered the magnetism of the phrenological organs of the brain and established psychology as a mathematical science; lectured at Hungerford hall, London on phrenology 1851; gave séances and examined heads at 20 Gerrard st. Soho 1852; edited Higia Periódico de salud, por las Senores D. T. Leger y D. G. Villette No. 1–8. Mexico 1833; author of Considerations sur l’endurcissement du tissu cellulaire chez les nouveaux nés. Paris 1823; Animal magnetism or psychodunamy. New York 1846; The magnetoscope, the magnetoid characteristics and their relations to the organisation of man 1852. _d._ 20 Gerrard st. Soho, London 6 Oct. 1853. _J. Ashburner’s Notes on animal magnetism_ (1867) 57–81.

LE GEYT, CHARLES JAMES (son of Philip Le Geyt, chaplain to duke of Kent, _d._ 1847). _b._ 1829; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1853 and Magd. coll. M.A. 1855; V. of St. Matthias, Stoke Newington 1858 to death; author of Digging against the wells, a sermon at short services for business men 1866; Catholic ritual of the church in England 1867; Incense at the Magnificat not Mariolatry 1867. _d._ Calais 27 Dec. 1877.

LE GEYT, GEORGE. _b._ Canterbury 20 March 1777; entered navy March 1791; retired captain 12 Aug. 1812, retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861; C.B. 4 July 1840. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 23 Sep. 1861. _O’Byrne p._ 645.

LEGGE, ARTHUR CHARLES. _b._ 25 June 1800; ensign 28 foot 23 May 1816; lieut. 1 life guards 1820, captain 1822–37, placed on h.p. 23 June 1837; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. 1 Staffordshire rifle volunteers 8 May 1868 to death. _d._ Caynton, Shiffnal 18 May 1890.

LEGGE, MARY (dau. of Mr. Jones _d._ 1843). _b._ London, May 1802. _m._ 24 Sep. 1827 rev. Wm. Legge, congregational minister, Fakenham 1828, where he also received students from 1837, _d._ Fakenham 13 Dec. 1859; author of A pastoral letter to the congregational church at Fakenham 1852; A reading book of English history and biography 1863; with F. J. Gladman, The handybook of English history 1874; she assisted her husband in teaching the students; resided at Birkenhead from 18 June 1860. _d._ Birkenhead 31 Dec. 1879. _bur._ Fakenham cemet. 4 Jany. 1880. _A life of consecration, memorials of Mrs. Mary Legge_ (1883) _with 2 portraits and portrait of W. Legge_.

LEGGETT, JOSEPH. Entered Madras army 1808; ensign 3 Madras N.I. 28 May 1810, lieut.-col. 25 July 1838 to 1840; lieut.-col. of 48 N.I. 1840 to 1845, of 52 N.I. 1845 to 1846, of 22 N.I. 1846 to 1847; brigadier at Saugor 3 April 1846 to 19 Oct. 1847; col. of 26 N.I. 20 Oct. 1847 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Dedham, Essex 15 Oct. 1857 aged 65.

LEGH, EDMUND CORNWALL. Ensign 97 foot 5 July 1839, lieut.-col. 28 July 1857 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ Banda, Central India 3 June 1859.

LEGH, GEORGE CORNWALL. _b._ 30 Aug. 1804; sheriff of Cheshire 1838; M.P. for North Cheshire 1841–47 and 1848–68; major 2 royal Cheshire militia 30 July 1853, lieut.-col. 20 March 1869 to 16 July 1873. _d._ 16 June 1877.

LEGH, Thomas (eld. son of colonel Thomas Peter Legh of Lyme, Cheshire, _d._ 1797). _b._ 1793; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., D.C.L. 1817; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1814–32 when borough was disfranchised; colonel Lancashire fencible cavalry; F.R.S. 12 June 1817; author of Narrative of a journey in Egypt and the country beyond the cataracts 1816, 2 ed. 1817; resided at Lyme park, Cheshire. _d._ Milford lodge, Lymington, Hants. 8 May 1857.

LE GRAND, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ Ireland 1805; studied medicine in Cork and Dublin; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1844; entered R.N. Feb. 1828; a skilful operator; served at Cape of Good Hope, East Indies, &c.; surgeon naval hospital, Malta 1836–9, in Syrian war 1840; in charge of Australian convict ships 1848–52; served in war in the Baltic 1854; surgeon to Haslar hospital 1855–8, to Deptford dockyard 1858–64; granted Greenwich hospital good service pension 28 March 1866. _d._ 22 Manor road, New Cross, Kent 4 Nov. 1874. _Medical Times 5 Dec. 1874 p._ 649.

LEGREW, JAMES (son of James Legrew 1769–1856, R. of Caterham, Surrey). _b._ Caterham 1803; studied sculpture under sir F. L. Chantrey; a student of the R.A., silver medallist 1824 and gold 1829; travelled in Italy 1840–2; sent two works The last prayer of Ajax, and Milton dictating to his daughter, to the Westminster Hall competition 1844; exhibited 30 pieces of sculpture at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1826–57; author of A few remarks on the sculpture of the nations referred to in the Old Testament deduced from an examination of some of their idols 1845; committed suicide at his house, 1 St. Alban’s road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1857.

LE GRICE, CHARLES VALENTINE (eld. child of Charles Le Grice, R. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, _d._ 1792). _b._ Bury St. Edmunds 14 Feb. 1773; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1781–92; friend of S. T. Coleridge and Charles Lamb; admitted sizar of Trin. coll. Camb. 16 June 1792, scholar 17 April 1795, B.A. 1796, M.A. 1805; tutor to Wm. John Godolphin Nicholls of Trereife near Penzance 1796; P.C. of St. Mary’s church, Penzance 31 July 1806 to June 1831; contributed articles to the Gentleman’s Mag. during more than 60 years, including College reminiscences of Coleridge reprinted in C. Carlyon’s Early Years 1843; author of The Tineum, containing estianomy or the art of stirring a fire 1794; Analysis of Paley’s Principles of moral and political philosophy 1795, 8 ed. 1822; Daphnis and Chloe, a pastoral novel 1803; The petition of an old uninhabited house in Penzance to its master in town 1811, 3 ed. 1858, and a number of pamphlets. _d._ Trereife near Penzance 24 Dec. 1858. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_ 311–14, _iii_ 1266–7, 1432; _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 485–7; _G.M. i_ 322–4 (1859); _Letters of Charles Lamb, edited by A. Ainge_, _i_ 2–6 (1888).

LEHMANN, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. _b._ 1826; senior partner in firm of Naylor, Benzon & Co., merchants, 20 Abchurch lane, London; F.R.G.S.; made a fine collection of paintings; resided at 15 Berkeley sq., and Woodlands, Southwood lane, Highgate. _d._ Coombe cottage, Kingston-on-Thames, the residence of his son-in-law 22 Aug. 1891, will proved for £543,980 18s. 4d. _I.L.N. 5 Sep. 1891 p._ 303.

LEIFCHILD, HENRY STORMONTH (4 son of Wm. Gerard Leifchild of Moorgate st. London). _b._ 1823; studied at British Museum and R.A., also in Rome 1848–51; exhibited his statue of Rizpah, at Great Exhibition 1851; executed the Guards’ memorial at Chelsea hospital; designed a mortuary chapel in Warriston cemetery, Edinburgh; his statue of Erinna is at Holloway College; excelled as a draughtsman, carver and musician; exhibited 38 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1844–76; resided at 243 Stanhope st. Regent’s Park, London. _d._ 15 Kirkstall road, Streatham Hill, Surrey 11 Nov. 1884. _Magazine of Art_, _July 1891_.

LEIFCHILD, JOHN (son of John Leifchild). _b._ Barnet, Herts. 15 Feb. 1780; studied at Hoxton academy 1804–8; minister of independent chapel in Hornton st. Kensington, London 1808–24; minister of church in Bridge st. Bristol 1824–30, and of Craven chapel, Bayswater, London 1831–54; preached at Queen’s sq. chapel, Brighton 1854–6; edited with rev. Dr. Redford The Evangelist, monthly mag. May 1837 to June 1839; author of A help to the reading of the scriptures, an arrangement of the books in chronological order 1829; Directions for the right reading of the scriptures 1842; The christian emigrant 1849; Remarkable facts, illustrative of different portions of scripture 1867, the 6 ed. is entitled Brief expositions of scripture 1879. _d._ 4 Fitzroy terrace, Gloucester road North, Regent’s Park, London 29 June 1862. _J. R. Leifchild’s John Leifchild, D.D._ (1863), _portrait_; _James B. Brown’s John Leifchild_ (1862).

LEIGH, AUGUSTA MARY (only dau. of Capt. John Byron _d._ Valencienne, France 2 Aug. 1791, by his wife the baroness Conyers). _b._ 26 Jany. 1783; half sister of George Gordon, lord Byron, the only relative for whom he retained any affection, to whom some of his poems are dedicated, and the last person to whom he wrote a letter. _m._ 17 Aug. 1807 her cousin George Leigh lieut.-col. of 10 light dragoons, he _d._ May 1850; accused by Harriet Beecher Stowe in an article in the Atlantic Monthly of Sep. 1869 of having committed incest with her brother in 1814, but no one believed the accusation; under Byron’s will of 29 July 1815 she inherited all her brother’s disposable property, Lady Byron being already well provided for. _d._ Marlborough court, St. James’ palace, London 12 Oct. 1851. _H. B. Stowe’s Lady Byron vindicated_ (1870); _C. Mackay’s Medora Leigh_ (1869); _The true story of lord and lady Byron in answer to Mrs. Stowe_ (1869), _portrait_.

LEIGH, EGERTON (only son of Egerton Leigh of West Hall, High Leigh, Cheshire 1779–1865). _b._ Broadwell manor house, Gloucs. 17 March 1815; ed. at Eton; cornet 2 dragoon guards 12 April 1833, captain 18 Dec. 1840 to 31 March 1843; captain 4 dragoon guards 31 March 1843, sold out 14 July 1843; major 1 royal Cheshire militia 30 Aug. 1853 to 16 April 1873; sheriff of Cheshire 1872; M.P. for Mid-Cheshire division 7 March 1873 to death; edited Ballads and Legends of Cheshire 1867; author of Pets 1859; The guide to Eton. _d._ Cox’s hotel, 55 Jermyn st. London 1 July 1876. _bur._ churchyard of Rostherne, Cheshire. _Egerton Leigh’s Glossary of words used in the dialect of Cheshire_ (1877), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 69 (1876), _portrait_.

LEIGH, EVAN (son of Peter Leigh of Ashton-under-Lyne, cotton-spinner). _b._ Ashton 21 Dec. 1810; manager of his father’s business 1831–50, partner with his father; effected an improvement in the spinning mule, which reduced cost of spinning from 5d. to about 3d. per lb. 1831; a manufacturer of machinery at Miles Platting, Manchester 1850–69; a consulting engineer and exporter of machinery 1869, established businesses at Manchester, Liverpool and Boston, Massachusetts; patented the twin-screws for steamers 18 July 1849, since come into general use; invented the self-stripping carding engine, coupled mules with putting-up motion, and the loose-boss top roller; patented 19 inventions 1849–70; A.I.C.E. 1872; author of Plan for conveying railway trains across the straits of Dover 1870; The science of modern cotton-spinning 2 vols. 1871, 4 ed. 1877. _d._ Clarence house, Chorlton near Manchester 2 Feb. 1876, portrait in collection of portraits of inventors at South Kensington Museum. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xliv_ 229–31 (1876).

LEIGH, GILBERT HENRY CHANDOS (eld. son of 2 baron Leigh _b._ 1824). _b._ 30 Portman sq. London 1 Sep. 1851; ed. Harrow and Magd. coll. Camb., B.A. 1874, M.A. 1878; capt. Warwickshire yeomanry cavalry 10 Nov. 1877 to death; M.P. South Warwickshire 7 April 1880 to death. _d._ by a fall from a precipice while shooting in the Big-Horn mountains, Wyoming 15 Sep. 1884. _bur._ Stoneleigh churchyard 22 Oct. _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 373 (1884), _portrait_.

LEIGH, HENRY SAMBROOKE (son of the succeeding). _b._ London 29 March 1837; edited The Arrow, 10 numbers 2 Aug. to 7 Dec. 1864; wrote Falsacappa, music by Offenbach, produced at Globe theatre 22 April 1871; Le Roi Carotte at the Alhambra 3 June 1872; Bridge of Sighs opera-bouffe at St. James’s 18 Nov. 1872; White Cat, a fairy spectacle at New Queen’s 2 Dec. 1875; Voyage dans la Lune, opera-bouffe Alhambra 15 April 1876; author of Carols of Cockayne 1869, 5 ed. 1888; Gillott and Goosequill 1871; A Town garland: a collection of lyrics 1878; Strains from the Strand: trifles in verse 1882. _d._ Lowther’s private hotel, 35 Strand, London 16 June 1883. _I.L.N. 30 June 1883 p._ 648, _portrait_.

LEIGH, JAMES MATHEWS (son of Samuel Leigh of 145 Strand, London, bookseller). _b._ 1808; studied under Wm. Etty, R.A.; painter of sacred subjects and portraits; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A., 23 at B.I. and 29 at Suffolk st. 1825–49; kept the General practical school of art at 79 Newman st. Oxford st. London 1848 to death; author of Cromwell, an historical play in five acts 1838; The Rhenish Album 1836, anon. _d._ 79 Newman st. London 20 April 1860.

LEIGH, JOHN (younger son of John Leigh of Consall, Staffs.). _b._ Consall 1809; barrister I.T. 8 May 1835; judge of court of appeal, Jamaica 1840–46; police magistrate at Wolverhampton 1846–60 and at Worship st. London 1860 to May 1864; bankrupt for £29,000, 23 March 1864; wrote Juvenile offenders and destitute pauper children, in Meliora, Second series by C. J. Talbot, viscount Ingestre 1853 pp. 81–89. _d._ Balham, Surrey, Nov. or Dec. 1880. _bur._ Tooting cemetery.

LEIGH, JOHN. _b._ Foxdenton hall, Lancs. 8 June 1813; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1837; resident medical officer Manchester infirmary and lecturer there; medical officer of health, Manchester 4 March 1868; author of Sir Percy Legh and other ballads 1861; Coal smoke, report to the health and nuisance committee of corporation of Manchester 1883; and with Ner Gardiner, History of the cholera in Manchester 1850. _d._ 1887.

LEIGH, JOHN GERARD (1 son of John Shaw Leigh 1791–1871). _b._ 1821; ed. Eton and Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1841; student of Lincoln’s inn 1843; inherited a large fortune; kept a large stud and extensive kennels at Luton Hoo park, Beds.; master of the Hertford hunt 1866; member of Four in hand club; ran steeple chases under name of Mr. Lynton, won the Liverpool with Half-Caste 1851; breeder of cattle, took prizes at Smithfield club shows. _d._ 138 Piccadilly, London 24 Feb. 1875. _Bell’s Life in London 27 Feb. 1875 p._ 6; _Baily’s Mag. April 1872 pp._ 311–12, _portrait_.

LEIGH, JOHN SHAW (son of John Leigh _d._ 1823). _b._ 26 July 1791; ed. Rugby; solicitor at Liverpool 1823–48; mayor of Liverpool 1841, alderman 1844–48; sheriff of Beds. 1856; founded a scholarship at Liverpool collegiate institution. _d._ 138 Piccadilly, London 15 June 1871. _bur._ Walton on the hill near Liverpool 21 June.

LEIGH, PERCIVAL (son of Leonard Leigh of St. Cross, Winchester). _b._ Haddington 3 Nov. 1813; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1835; on the staff of Punch 1841 to death, was the last survivor of the early writers; played Oliver Cob in Ben Jonson’s Every man in his humour, at Miss Kelly’s theatre 21 Sep. 1845; lived at 10 Bedford street Bloomsbury, afterwards at Hammersmith to death; author of The comic Latin grammar 1840; The comic English grammar 1840; Portraits of children of the mobility 1841, all three illustrated by John Leech; Manners and customs of ye English: drawn from ye quick by Richard Doyle 1849, 2 ed. 1876, this appeared originally in Punch; Paul Prendergast, or the comic schoolmaster 1859. _d._ Oak cottage, 221 Hammersmith road 24 Oct. 1889. _W. P. Frith’s John Leech vol._ 1, _chapters iii and xiii_ (1891).

NOTE.--There is a portrait of him in John Leech’s two-page cartoon called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 where he is playing the double bass in the orchestra between the cornet and the violin.

LEIGH, SAMUEL. _b._ Milton, Staffs. 1 Sep. 1785; an Independent lay helper; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Shaftesbury 1812–13, at Montreal, Canada 1814–15, in New South Wales, Australia 10 Aug. 1815 to 1820 and 1826–31, first Methodist minister in Australia, held his first service Sydney 16 March 1816, his first convert being a convict; minister in New Zealand 1820–25 where he established the first Methodist station; in England 1832 to death. _d._ Reading 2 May 1852. _A. Strachan’s Remarkable incidents in the life of rev. S. Leigh_ (1853), _portrait_; _Leben und werken von Samuel Leigh. Bremen_ 1864; _Jas. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand_ (1878) 272–7.

LEIGHTON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Dundee 1800; clerk to a lawyer at Edinb.; Wilson’s Tales of the borders. Revised by A. Leighton 20 vols. 1857–9, New ed. with 4 additional volumes 6 vols. 1863–69; author of Curious storied traditions of Scottish life, two series 1860–1; The court of Cacus or the story of Burke and Hare 2 ed. 1861; Mysterious legends of Edinburgh 1864; Shellburn 1865, a tale; Romances of the old town of Edinburgh 1867. _d._ 24 Dec. 1874.

LEIGHTON, SIR BALDWIN, (7 Baronet). _b._ Sunderland 14 May 1805; ed. Rugby; succeeded 13 Nov. 1828; chairman of quarter sessions, Salop, Dec. 1855; M.P. South Salop 1859–65; contested South Salop 15 July 1865. _d._ Morton hall, Daventry 26 Feb. 1871. _I.L.N. lviii_ 250, 619 (1871).

LEIGHTON, _Charles Blair_ (son of Stephen Leighton). _b._ 6 March 1823; apprenticed to a silver-engraver 1837–44; a student of the R.A.; painted portraits and figure pieces; a chromolithographer with his brother George Cargill Leighton. _d._ 6 Feb. 1855.

LEIGHTON, SIR DAVID (son of Thomas Leighton of Brechin, Forfarshire). _b._ 1774; entered Bombay army 1795; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I., lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1813 to 1818; adjutant of the 2nd battalion 7 July 1800 to 12 Oct. 1802; lieut.-col. 9 Bombay N.I. 1818–1821; adjutant general Bombay army 1817 to 1826; commanded Presidency division 1826 to 1831; lieut.-col. commandant 7 N.I. 4 July 1821, col. 5 June 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 23 July 1823, K.C.B. 10 March 1837. _d._ Bafford house, Charlton Kings near Cheltenham 1 June 1860.

LEIGHTON, FRANCIS KNYVETT (only son of Francis K. Leighton of Ipswich). _b._ 1807; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., demy of Magdalen 1823–9; fellow of All Souls’ 1829–43; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1858; P.C. of Great Ilford, Essex 1836–41; R. of Harpsden 1841–58; R. of Lockinge and Warden of All Souls’ 18 March 1858 to death; V.C. of univ. of Oxf. 1866–70; canon of Westminster 11 Nov. 1868 to death; on the council of Keble coll. 1871–80; author of Montes Pyrenæi, carmen Latinum, in theatro Sheldoniano recitatum 1826. _d._ All Souls’ college 13 Oct. 1881. _bur._ college chapel 18 Oct., portrait by Richmond in the college hall. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen College_, _vii_ 290–1 (1881).

LEIGHTON, ROBERT (son of David L. Leighton _d._ 1828). _b._ Murray gate, Dundee 20 Feb. 1822; in a merchant’s office in Dundee; went round the world as a supercargo in one of his brother’s ships 1842–3; clerk in locomotive department of London and North-Western railway at Preston 1843–54; managed at Ayr a branch business of a firm of Liverpool seed merchants 1854–59, after that in the Liverpool house and travelled for the firm in Great Britain and Ireland 1859–67; author of Rhymes and poems, By Robin 1855, 2 ed. 1861; Poems 1866, 2 ed. 1869; Scotch words and the Bapteesement o’ the bairn 1869, 3 ed. 1869; Reuben and other poems 1875; Records and other poems 1880. _d._ Liverpool 10 May 1869. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_ 432–37 (1877); _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 327.

LEIGHTON, ROBERT (son of Archibald Leighton a bookbinder at 55 Exmouth st. Clerkenwell and the inventor of cloth binding 1822, _d._ 1841). _b._ London 1822; apprentice to his father; head of firm of Leighton and Eeles, bookbinders 54 and 55 Exmouth st. 1841, business removed to Angel court, Strand, then to Harp alley and to 13 Shoe lane; W. Hodge became a partner 1853 and R. Leighton junr. in 1885; removed to 16 New st. sq. 1870, firm became Leighton, Son and Hodge, the first to use steam machinery in binding; invented the backing and trimming machine; the first to use steam power for blocking in gold and to use aluminium and black and coloured inks for cloth cases; invented printing on the edges of books; the chief binders of drawing room table books. _d._ Oakdale road, Coventry park, Streatham 14 Dec. 1888. _The Bookseller_, _Jany. 1889 p._ 8.

LEIGHTON, THOMAS. Entered Bombay army 1807; ensign 7 Bombay N.I. 5 Nov. 1808, lieut. 1 Jany. 1814; captain 14 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 29 Sep. 1832 to 28 June 1838; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 28 June 1838 to 1841, of 12 N.I. 1841 to 1843, of 26 N.I. 1843–45, of 2 N.I. 1845–46, of 1 N.I. 1846–8, of 21 N.I. 1848–9; commandant at Candeish 4 Feb. 1848 to 1 Oct. 1849; col. of 2 N.I. 20 Sep. 1849 to death. _d._ Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Feb. 1855.

LEIGHTON, WILLIAM (son of David Leighton a master baker). _b._ Dundee 3 Feb. 1841; taken to Liverpool 1847; clerk to a Spanish merchant 1854; employed in a Brazilian house 1864 to death; contributed poems to The Compass a local literary paper, and to the Liverpool Mercury; author of Poems 1870, 2 ed. 1870; Hymns 1871; Baby died to-day and other poems 1875. _d._ of typhoid fever 22 April 1869. _bur._ Anfield cemetery, Liverpool, memorial window in St. Ann’s church, Brookfield, Highgate Rise, London. _Poems by the late William Leighton_ (1870), _memoir pp. v–vi_; _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 325.

LEIGHTON, WILLIAM ALLPORT (only son of Wm. Leighton, landlord of the Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury). _b._ Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury 17 May 1805; articled to a solicitor in Shrewsbury 1822; studied at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1833; C. of St. Giles’s, Shrewsbury 1845–8; gave his collection of lichens to Kew Gardens 1880; author of Catalogue of the cellulares or flowerless plants of Great Britain 1837; A flora of Shropshire 1841; A guide through the town of Shrewsbury 1855; The lichen-flora of Great Britain 1871, 2 ed. 1872; Wanderings among old churches in neighbourhood of Rhyl 1881. _d._ Lucifelde, Shrewsbury 28 Feb. 1889.

LEINSTER, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK FITZGERALD 3 Duke of (eld. son of 2 duke of Leinster 1749–1804). _b._ Carton house, Maynooth 21 Aug. 1791; styled marquess of Kildare 1791–1804; succeeded his father 20 Oct. 1804; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 Oct. 1810; P.C. Ireland 9 May 1831; P.C. 29 June 1831; lord high constable of Ireland for coronations of William IV. and Victoria; lord lieut. of co. Kildare 7 Oct. 1831 to death; grand master of Irish grand lodge of freemasons 24 June 1813 to death; president of National Agricultural Soc. 1841; a resident landlord who much improved his estate, the Leinster lease was a well known document; his masonic jubilee was celebrated 24 June 1863; premier duke, marquess and earl of Ireland. d. Carton house 10 Oct. 1874. _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxiv_ 42–57 (1874), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 369, 378 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _x_ 391 (1874), _portrait_.

LEINSTER, CHARLES WILLIAM FITZGERALD, 4 Duke of (son of the preceding). _b._ Dublin 30 March 1819; styled marquess of Kildare 1819–74; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1852; comr. of national education in Ireland 1841; sheriff co. Kildare 1842–3; M.P. co. Kildare 1847–52; lieut.-col. royal Dublin militia 1849–72, hon. col. 11 May 1872 to death; summoned to parliament as baron Kildare 28 April 1870; chancellor of Queen’s univ. Ireland 1870; succeeded as 4 duke 10 Oct. 1874; author of The earls of Kildare and their ancestors 2 ed. with Addenda. Dublin 1858–62, 3 ed. 1858. _d._ Carton, Maynooth 10 Feb. 1887. _I.L.N. xviii_ 105, 106 (1851), _portrait_.

LEISHMAN, MATTHEW (son of a manufacturer). _b._ Paisley; presbyterian minister at Goran, Oct. 1820; a leader of the party termed The Forty 1839; D.D. Glasgow 18 Dec. 1840; moderator of general assembly 20 May 1858; edited for Maitland club, R. Wodrow’s Collections upon the lives of the reformers 2 vols. 1834 and R. Wodrow’s Analecta, a history of remarkable providences 2 vols. 1842; The works of A. Binning 1847. _Scott’s Fasti vol._ 2, _part_ 1, _p._ 70; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 300–306.