Part 10

LAMSON, GEORGE HENRY (son of rev. W. O. Lamson, chaplain to the American ambulance during Franco-German war 1870). _b._ New York 8 Sep. 1852; resided with his parents in Paris 1858–70; studied medicine in Paris 1869–70; assistant surgeon to the American ambulance during Franco-German war 1870; surgeon in Paris during the siege, for which he received the bronze cross; graduated M.D. in Univ. of Pennsylvania 1872; a surgeon at Ferry Town, New York to 1874; at Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1874–6; came to England, Sep. 1876 at invitation of secretary of the League in aid of the Christians in Turkey; surgeon-in-chief to military hospital at Semendria, received a gold medal for bravery; chief of the English military hospital at Costo Foro, Bucharest, during Russo-Turkish war Aug. 1877 to March 1878; was snowed up six days without food on his way back from Plevna to Bucharest; received Star of Roumania and Turkish order of the Medjidie at end of the war 1878; L.R.C.P. Edinb., L.R.C.S. Edinb. and L.M.C.S. Edinb. May 1878; practised at Rotherfield, Tunbridge Wells, May 1878; bought a practice at Bournemouth for £400, 1879; went for a six months’ trip to America, April 1880; sold his practice and left Bournemouth, April 1881. (_m._ 16 Oct. 1878 Kate eld. child of Wm. John of Manchester, merchant); poisoned his brother-in-law Percy Malcolm John with aconitine at Wm. Henry Bedbrook’s school, Blenheim house, 2 and 4 St. George’s road, Wimbledon 3 Dec. 1881; surrendered himself at Scotland yard 7 Dec. 1881; tried before sir Henry Hawkins at the Old Bailey 9–14 March 1882, when found guilty and sentenced to death; reprieved twice to enable his friends in America to produce evidence of his insanity; confessed his guilt 27 April 1882; hanged in Wandsworth gaol 28 April 1882. _Central criminal court sessions paper._ _Minutes of evidence_, _xcv_ 547–90 (1882); _Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883) 514–67; _Law Journal 24 Oct. 1891 pp._ 652–3; _Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 294–300, 348–63; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 257 (1882), _portrait_.

L’AMY, JAMES. _b._ Dunkenny 8 July 1772; advocate at Scotch bar 1794; sheriff of Forfarshire, July 1819 to death. _d._ Dundee 15 Jany. 1854. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) _p._ 155.

LANAWAY, CHARLES. _b._ Henfield, Sussex 16 March 1793; played in Brighton and Sussex elevens; a butcher at Brighton 1819; first match at Lord’s, Sussex _v._ England 7 July 1828; underhand bowler. _d._ 49 London road, Brighton 6 Feb. 1870. _bur._ Henfield.

LANCASTER, CHARLES WILLIAM (eld. son of Charles Lancaster of 151 New Bond st. London, gunmaker, _d._ 1847). _b._ York st. Portman sq. London 24 June 1820; in his father’s factory, succeeded to the business 1847; solved the problem of rifled cannon 1844–5; conceived the idea of the oval bore as proper form for all rifled arms and cannon 1850; superintended production of guns in Royal Arsenal, Woolwich; the Lancaster carbine was adopted as the arm for the royal engineers Jany. 1855, superseded by Martini-Henry rifle 1869; took out upwards of 20 patents 1850–72; the Czar of Russia had a large gold medal struck in his honour; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852. _d._ 151 New Bond st. London 24 April 1878. _Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. liii_ 289–92 (1878); _Sporting Mirror_, _iii_ 21–2 (1882).

LANCASTER, HENRY HILL (son of Thomas Lancaster, merchant). _b._ Glasgow 10 Jany. 1829; ed. at Glasgow high school and univ.; Snell exhibitioner Balliol coll. Oxf. 1849; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1872, Arnold prizeman 1854; advocate at Edinburgh 1858, advocate depute 1868–74; sec. to commission of inquiry into state of King’s and Marischal colleges, Aberdeen 1858; member of royal commission on Scottish educational establishments 1872; wrote essays in North British and Edinburgh Reviews, more important of which were reprinted privately in 2 vols. 1876 and published in 1 vol. as Essays and Reviews Edinb. 1876. _d._ suddenly from apoplexy at 5 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1875. _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _Feb. 1876 p._ 107.

LANCASTER, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1820; scene painter in London about 1840 to death; connected with the leading London and provincial theatres. _d._ 57 Grosvenor park, Camberwell, London 2 May 1892. _bur._ Nunhead cemetery.

LANCASTER, JOHN (son of John Lancaster). _b._ Radcliffe near Bury, Lancs. 19 Sep. 1815; manager of Patricroft colliery 1841; mineral agent for lord Mostyn at Mostyn colliery 1847 etc.; manager earl Granville’s iron works and collieries, Shelton, Staffs. 1849–56; manager Shireoak colliery near Worksop 1855–58; built 5 blast furnaces at Kirkless hall iron works 1856–60 which were the second set in Lancs.; chairman Wigan coal and iron co. 1865–70; chairman West Cumberland iron and steel works 1870 to death; contested Wigan July 1865, M.P. Wigan 1868–74; F.G.S., M.I.M.E. 1863; rescued the crew of Confederate cruiser Alabama when she was sunk by the Federal war-steamer Kearsage off Cherbourg 19 June 1864. _d._ 58 Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead 21 April 1884. _Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers_ (1884) 402–3.

LANCASTER, THOMAS WILLIAM (son of rev. Thomas Lancaster of Wimbledon, Surrey). _b._ Fulham, Middlesex 24 Aug. 1787; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810; Michel scholar at Queen’s coll. 1808, Michel fellow 1809–16; C. of Banbury 1812 and vicar 1815–49; R. of Over Worton near Woodstock 1849 to death; Bampton lecturer 1831; select preacher to univ. of Oxf. 1832, public examiner 1832–3; under master of Magdalen college school 1840–9; author of The alliance of education and civil government with strictures on the university of London 1828; A treatise on confirmation 1830, 2 ed. 1861; Vindiciæ symbolicæ or a treatise on creeds, articles of faith and articles of doctrine 1848; Sermons 1860; found dead in his bed at his lodgings, High st. Oxford 12 Dec. 1859. _bur._ Holywell cemetery. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college_, _iii_ 270–1 (1863).

LANCE, GEORGE (son of Mr. Lance, inspector of Bow st. horse patrol). _b._ manor-house of Little Easton near Dunmow, Essex 24 March 1802; pupil of B. R. Haydon in London 1816–23; painter chiefly of fruit and flowers; exhibited 38 pictures at R.A., 135 at B.I. and 48 at Suffolk st. 1824–64; 2 fruit pieces and a portrait of himself are in the South Kensington museum. _d._ Sunnyside near Birkenhead 18 June 1864. _Art Journal_ (1857) 305–7, (1864) 242; _The Critic_, _xxi_ 416 (1860), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxix_ 647, 648 (1861), _portrait_.

LANCE, GEORGE EDWIN (son of rev. John Edwin Lance of Buckland St. Mary, Somerset). _b._ 1824; ed. at Haileybury college; went to India 1844; chief magistrate at Cawnpore, where he rendered conspicuous service during the mutiny; converted a tract of marsh land into a memorial garden at Cawnpore; retired on the annuity fund 1872. _d._ Cheduba, Festing road, Southsea 9 April 1890.

LANCE, JOHN HENRY. _b._ 1793; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1820; comr. of arbitration at Surinam, Guiana, South America; commissary judge to the British and Netherland court of commission at Surinam for prevention of illegal traffic in slaves 21 Oct. 1828, retired upon a superannuation allowance 31 March 1834. _d._ The Holmwood, Dorking, Surrey 12 Jany. 1878.

LAND, EDWARD. _b._ London 1815; sang at the chapel royal; accompanist to John Wilson, afterwards to David Kennedy both Scotch singers; second tenor of the Glee and Madrigal union; secretary of the Noblemen and Gentlemen’s catch club; composed Bird of Beauty 1852, The Angel’s Watch 1853 and other popular songs; wrote many original pieces for the pianoforte. _d._ 4 Cambridge place, Regent’s park, London 29 Nov. 1876.

LANDELLS, EBENEZER (3 son of Ebenezer Landells, merchant). _b._ Newcastle 13 April 1808; apprenticed to Thomas Bewick, wood engraver 1822–9; wood engraver in London 1829; superintended fine-art engraving department of Branston and Vizetelly; started an illustrated journal called The Cosmorama; exhibited 2 wood engravings at Suffolk st. 1833–37; the original projector and one of the 3 original proprietors of Punch or the London Charivari, first number was published at 3 Wellington st. Strand 17 July 1841; engraved much for the Illustrated London News 1842; engraved title page of the Lady’s Newspaper, first number dated 2 Jany. 1847; supplied all the woodcuts for the Illuminated Mag. 1843; author of The boy’s own toymaker 1859, 10 ed. 1881; The illustrated paper model maker 1861. _d._ at his lodgings, Victoria Grove, West Brompton, London 1 Oct. 1860.

LANDELLS, ROBERT THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ London 1 Aug. 1833; special war correspondent for the Illustrated London News in the Crimea 1856; present as artist in war between Germany and Denmark 1863 receiving decorations from both sides, and in war between Prussia and Austria 1866; attached to staff of the crown prince in Franco-German war 1870 and received order of the Iron Cross for his attention to the sick; painted memorial pictures of ceremonials for the queen; exhibited 24 pictures at Suffolk st. 1863–76; illustrated The young franctireurs by G. A. Henty 1872. _d._ 49 Winchester terrace, Chelsea 6 Jany. 1877. _I.L.N. lxx_ 61 (1877), _portrait_.

LANDERS, JOHN EDMONDSTOUNE. _b._ 1803; ensign 27 Bengal N.I. 10 Jany. 1820; lieut. 9 Bengal N.I. 1824, major 3 Oct. 1848; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 24 Dec. 1853, col. 28 March 1865; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 7 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 6 April 1885.

LANDMANN, GEORGE THOMAS (son of Isaac Landmann 1741–1826, professor of artillery at the R.M. academy, Woolwich). _b._ Woolwich 1779; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 May 1795, lieut.-col. 16 May 1814, sold out 29 Dec. 1824; lieut.-col. in the Spanish engineers 22 Feb. 1809; col. of infantry in Spanish army 25 March 1810; commanding engineer of the Thames district 1815–7, of the Yorkshire district 1817–9; author of Historical military and picturesque observations in Portugal 2 vols. 1818; Adventures and recollections of colonel Landmann 2 vols. 1852; Recollections of my military life 2 vols. 1854. _d._ Shacklewell near Hackney, London 27 Aug. 1854.

LANDON, ARTHUR JERMYN (2 son of Francis Newcombe Landon of Brentwood, Essex). _b._ 29 June 1851; studied at St. Bartholomew’s; ed. at Netley, passed first in list and took prize for military surgery; L.S.A. 1877, M.R.C.S. 1878; surgeon in the army 4 Aug. 1878; helped to remove the wounded at Laing’s Nek 28 Jany. 1881, present at Majuba hill 27 Feb. where he remained on the field with the wounded, a bullet passed through his body, but he still administered to the fallen, brought into camp the next day where he died 28 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Mount Prospect, South Africa. _United Service Mag. Oct. 1883 pp._ 424–30.

LANDON, JAMES TIMOTHY BAINBRIDGE (only son of James Landon, V. of Aberford, Yorkshire, _d._ 1850). _b._ Aberford 11 Nov. 1816; ed. Rugby and Wadham coll. Oxf. 1835, scholar of Worcester coll. 1835–43, fellow of Magdalen coll. 1843–47, senior dean of arts 1845; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; public examiner 1849–50; chaplain Bromley coll. Kent 1846–55; V. of Ledsham, Yorks. 1854 to death; canon of York 1877 to death; supposed author of The rime of the new-made baccalere. Oxford 1840; author of Eureka: a sequel to Lord John Russell’s post-bag. Oxford 1851, and of Eureka No. II.: a sequel to a sequel to Lord John Russell’s post-bag. Oxford 1853, both anon.; Homer. Iliad A, translated into English hexameters 1862. _d._ Ledsham vicarage 7 March 1890.

LANDOR, EDWARD WILSON (son of Walter Landor of Rugeley, solicitor). Admitted a solicitor 1837; practised at Rugeley 1837–41; went to Australia 1841; practised in the city of London 1847–60; at Perth, West Australia 1860; police magistrate Perth 1865 to death; published Adventures in the north of Europe 2 vols. 1836; The bushman 1847; Lofoden or the exiles of Norway 2 vols. 1849. _d._ Perth 24 Oct. 1878. _Solicitor’s Journal_, _xx_ 254 (1879).

LANDOR, ROBERT EYRES (youngest son of Walter Landor, physician, _d._ 1805). _b._ St. Nicholas, Warwick, May 1781; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf., scholar, fellow; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; V. of Hitchenden, Bucks. 1817–25; chaplain in ord. to Prince Regent; R. of Nafford with Birlingham, Worcs. 11 April 1829 to death, never absent from his Sunday duty, the church was restored with money left by him; author of The Count Arezzi, a tragedy 1824; The impious feast, a poem 1828; The earl of Brecon, a tragedy; Faith’s Fraud, a tragedy; The Ferryman, a drama 1841; The Fawn of Sertorius 1846; The Fountain of Arethusa 1848. _d._ Birlingham rectory 26 Jany. 1869.

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (eld. child of Walter Landor, physician, _d._ 1805). _b._ Ipsley court, Warwick 30 Jany. 1775; ed. at Rugby 1785–91; commoner of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793, rusticated for a year in 1794 but never returned to Oxf.; raised some volunteers with whom he joined Blake’s army in Gallicia Aug. 1808, returned to England Nov. 1808; bought estate of Llanthony abbey, Monmouthshire 1809; lived at Florence 1821–35 and 1859 to death, at Bath 1838–58; is drawn by Dickens in Bleak House as Lawrence Boythorn; author of Poems 1795; Gebir: a poem in seven books 1798, anon., 2 ed. Oxford 1803; Count Julian, a tragedy 1812, anon.; Imaginary Conversations, vols. 1 and 2, 1824, 2 ed. 1826, vols. 3 and 4, 1828, vol. 5, 1829; Pericles and Aspasia 1836, anon.; The Pentameron and Pentalogia 1837; Collected works 2 vols. 1846 and 8 vols. 1876; The last fruit off an old tree 1853, includes 18 new imaginary conversations, and other books. _d._ Via Nunziatina, Florence 17 Sep. 1864, portrait by Wm. Fisher exhibited at the R.A. 1840, bequeathed by H. C. Robinson to National portrait gallery March 1867; mural monument with bust, unveiled in St. Mary’s church, Warwick 30 Jany. 1888. _J. Forster’s Life of W. S. Landor 2 vols._ (1869), _portrait_; _J. Devey’s A comparative estimate of modern English poets_ (1873) 166–83; _R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age_, _i_ 151–76 (1844); _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 437–45; _Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington_, _ii_ 336–95 (1855); _De Quincey’s Works_, _viii_ 284–332 (1862), _xi_ 176–98 (1862); _H. D. Traill’s New Lucian_ (1884) 59–84; _I.L.N. xlv_ 385, 386 (1864), _portrait_.

NOTE.--In 1857 he published a book entitled Dry Sticks fagoted by W. S. Landor, in which he grossly insulted the wife of the Rev. Morris Yescombe of Bath; they brought an action for libel against him, tried at Bristol assizes 23 Aug. 1858, the jury gave them £1000 damages, Landor had transferred all his English estates to his son and left England for France 14 July 1858, he was eventually obliged to pay the £1000 with £362 for costs under order of the court of chancery, which left him completely destitute. _C. Beavan’s Reports xxviii_ 80–7 (1861); _Bristol Mercury 28 Aug. 1858 Suppl. p._ 1.

LANDSBOROUGH, DAVID. _b._ Dalry, Glen Kens, Galloway 11 Aug. 1779; ed. at Dumfries and univ. of Edinb.; minister of Stevenston, Ayrshire 1811–43; minister of the free church at Saltcoats 1843; A.L.S. 1849; chief founder of Ayrshire Naturalists’ club 1850; discovered nearly 70 species of plants and animals new to Scotland, earned title of ‘the Gilbert White of Ardrossan’; received degree of D.D. from an American college 1849; author of Arran, a poem 1828; Ayrshire sketches 1839; Arran, a poem and excursions to Arran 1847; A popular history of British seaweeds 1849; A popular history of British zoophytes 1852. _d._ of cholera at Saltcoats 12 Sep. 1854. _Arran, by the Landsboroughs father and son_ (1875), _memoir pp._ 157–228; _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 2, _part_ 1, _p._ 188 (1868); _W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 715 (1863).

LANDSBOROUGH, WILLIAM (son of the preceding). _b._ Stevenston, Ayrshire; went to Australia; discovered Mount Nebo and Fort Cooper 1856, discovered sources of the Thomson river 1860; searched for Burke and Wills the explorers 1861; crossed Australia from Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne 1862; presented with a service of plate valued at £500, 12 Nov. 1862; member of Queensland assembly 1864–5; government resident in Burke district 1865–8; discovered with G. Phillips the Western river; inspector of brands for East Moreton, Queensland 1868, awarded a grant of £2000. _d._ Brisbane 16 March 1886. _Journal of Landsborough’s expedition in search of Burke and Wills_ (1862).

LANDSEER, CHARLES (2 son of John Landseer 1769–1852). _b._ 1799; pupil of B. R. Haydon, entered schools of the R.A. 1816; A.R.A. 1837, R.A. 1845, keeper of the R.A. 1851 to May 1873; exhibited 73 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 11 at Suffolk st. 1822–79; left £10,000 to the R.A. for foundation of Landseer scholarships. _d._ 35 Grove End road, London 22 July 1879, portrait by himself exhibited at the R.A. 1879. _Sandby’s History of Royal academy_, _ii_ 176 (1862); _I.L.N. lxxv_ 109 (1879), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xx_ 128 (1879), _portrait_.

LANDSEER, SIR EDWIN HENRY (brother of the preceding). _b._ 71 Queen Anne st. East (now 33 Foley st.), London 7 March 1802; learnt to draw, etch and paint 1808–14; entered schools of the R.A. 1816, A.R.A. 1826, R.A. 1831, declined the presidency 24 Jany. 1866; lived at 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 1826 to death; painted many portraits of the Queen and royal family 1839–66; taught the queen and prince Albert to etch; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; received large gold medal at Paris universal exhibition 1855; received the commission for 4 lions in bronze for base of the Nelson column in Trafalgar sq. 1859, they were uncovered 31 Jany. 1867; exhibited 179 pictures at R.A., 94 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1815–73; 434 etchings and engravings were made from his works down to 1875; his Monarch of the Glen was sold for £7000 April 1892 and £10,000 have been given for the Stag at bay and for the Otter Hunt; a large collection of his works was exhibited at the R.A. 1873–4; illustrated Portraits of the children of the nobility by L. Fairlie 1839 and other works. _d._ 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 1 Oct. 1873. _bur._ in crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 11 Oct. _F. G. Stephen’s Memoirs of Sir E. Landseer_ (1874), _portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _vol. v_ 137–44, _portrait_; _James Dafforne’s Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A._ (1874); _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_, _i_ 78–95; _Sandby’s Royal Academy_, _ii_ 143–46 (1862); _The Landseer gallery with memoir_ (1871); _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 468–74; _Illust. Times 9 Feb. 1867 p._ 88, _portrait_, _and p._ 89 _lions in Trafalgar square_.

LANDSEER, GEORGE (son of Thomas Landseer 1795–1880). _b._ 1829; exhibited 21 figure pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1850–58. _d._ 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 10 March 1878.

LANDSEER, JESSICA (dau. of the succeeding). _b._ 29 Jany. 1810; landscape and miniature painter; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1816–66. _d._ Folkestone 29 Aug. 1880.

LANDSEER, John (son of a jeweller). _b._ Lincoln 1769; landscape engraver; delivered a series of lectures on engraving at Royal Institution 1806; an advocate for the recognition of the claims of engravers by Royal academy; associate engraver of the R.A. 1806; began a periodical Review of Publications of Art 1808, 2 vols., and The Probe 1837; engraver to William IV.; exhibited 1 engraving at Soc. of artists, 17 at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1791–1852; author of Lectures on the art of engraving 1807; Observations on the engraved gems brought from Babylon 1817; Sabean researches 1823; Essay on the carnivora 1823; A series of engravings illustrating events recorded in the scriptures 1833; A descriptive catalogue of fifty of the earliest pictures in the National gallery 1834. _d._ London 29 Feb. 1852. _Sandby’s History of royal academy_, _i_ 402–3 (1862); _G.M. xxxvii_ 523–4 (1852).

LANDSEER, THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 71 Queen Anne st. east (now 33 Foley st.), London 1795; pupil of B. R. Haydon; etched and engraved more than 125 of the drawings and pictures of his brother Sir Edwin H. Landseer; engraved Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair about 1860; A.R.A. 1868; exhibited 35 engravings at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–77; illustrated Monkey-ana or men in miniature 1828 and other works; author of The life and letters of William Bewick 1871. _d._ 11 Grove End road, St. John’s Wood, London 20 Jany. 1880. _I.L.N. lii_ 169 (1868), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news_, _xii_ 501 (1880), _portrait_.

LANE, CHARLES EDWARD WILLIAM (son of John Lane). _bapt._ St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London 29 Oct. 1786; ensign 1 Bengal N.I. 13 Aug. 1807; sought to change his name to Mattenby in 1824 but was not permitted to do so; served in Arracan 1825; in charge of the commissariat at Dinapore 1832; lieut.-col. of 2 Bengal N.I. 26 Dec. 1841–43, of 13 N.I. 1843 to 10 Dec. 1847, of 74 N.I. 10 Dec. 1847 to 25 May 1852; commanded garrison of Candahar when assaulted by the Afghans 10 March 1842; C.B. 27 Dec. 1842; col. 6 Bengal N.I. 25 May 1852 to 1858; general 25 June 1870. _d._ Jersey 18 Feb. 1872.

LANE, CHARLTON (son of Wm. Lane of Croydon, Surrey). _b._ 1797; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; C. of Lambeth 1828–32; P.C. of St. Mark’s, Kennington, London 1832–64; R.D. of Southwark 1854–64; V. of Hampstead 1864–72; professor of rhetoric, Gresham college, London 1863 to death; printed 12 sermons and was author of To the parishioners of Kennington, Stockwell and South Lambeth, how to meet the cholera 1854. _d._ 14 St. John’s Wood park, London 28 May 1875. _bur._ churchyard of St. John, Hampstead.

LANE, CHARLTON GEORGE (son of the preceding). _b._ Kennington parsonage 11 June 1836; ed. at Westminster 1849–54 (in the cricket eleven 5 years, captain 1853) and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; known as the Admirable Crichton of Oxford, usually called White Lane to distinguish him from Ernald Lane of Balliol; rowed No. 3 in the Univ. Eight 1858–9; played in the Univ. Eleven 1856 and 1858–60, captain 1860; won the Univ. racquets; played for Surrey 1856–61, played for Gentlemen against the Players 1857–61, played in the First Eleven of England _v._ Next Fourteen 1860; played for the Veterans against Marylebone cricket club in the M.C.C. centenary week at Lord’s 1887 when he scored double figures in each innings; a brilliant batsman and fine field especially at long-leg; member of the Hogarth club at Oxford; C. of Great Witley, Worcs. 1862–5; C. of Little Gaddesden, Herts. 1868–70, rector 16 Jany. 1870 to death; member of the Mercers’ Co., master 1890. _d._ Little Gaddesden rectory 2 Nov. 1892. _Illustrated Times 10 Aug. 1861 p._ 93, _portrait_; _The Guardian 16 Nov. 1892 p._ 1766.

LANE, CHRISTOPHER BAGOT. _b._ Nurney house, co. Kildare 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin and univ. of Edinb.; admitted into London office of I. K. Brunel, Dec. 1837; professor of civil engineering at Trin. coll. Dublin 1846–49 and at Queen’s college, Cork 1849–53; consulting engineer for railways to Brazilian government July 1853 to 1861; resided at Rio Janeiro 1853–60; joint engineer with E. Bagot of various railway lines in South Wales 1864–72; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849, M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1856. _d._ 24 Clifton villas, Maida hill, London 11 Jany. 1877. _Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. xlviii_ 266–9 (1877).

LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (3 son of Theophilus Lane, preb. of Hereford cath. _d._ 1814). _b._ Hereford 17 Sep. 1801; ed. at Bath and Hereford gram. schools; learnt engraving under Charles Heath, London; went to Alexandria, July 1825 where he soon spoke Arabic and wore the native dress, studied and sketched at Thebes 1826–7; resided in Cairo, Dec. 1833 to Aug. 1835 under the name of Mansoor Effendi; resided in Cairo 1842–49 compiling his Arabic lexicon; resided at Worthing working on his Arabic lexicon 1850 to death; had grants from Fund for special services 1848–63 and civil list pension of £100 from 18 June 1863; the chief Arabic scholar in Europe; author of An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians 1836, 6 ed. 1871; The thousand and one nights, a translation 1838–40, came out in monthly parts, 2 ed. 1859; Selections from the Kuran 1843; An Arabic English lexicon 8 parts 1863–92; his life-sized statue in Egyptian dress was executed by his brother Richard Lane; his widow Anastasia granted civil list pension of £100, 5 Dec. 1876. _d._ Worthing 10 Aug. 1876. _Stanley Lane Poole’s Life of E. W. Lane_ (1877); _I.L.N. lxix_ 213, 214 (1876), _portrait_.

LANE, GEORGE. Ensign 5 Middlesex militia 17 Nov. 1854, captain 17 Dec. 1857 to 13 May 1861; gentleman at arms 8 Nov. 1860 to death, _d._ 19 Redcliffe gardens, London 7 May 1870.

LANE, HAMMER, cognomen of John Lane). _b._ Birmingham 15 Dec. 1815; a pugilist, fighting weight 10 st. 10 lbs.; beat Harry Ball and Hewson 1833; beat Jack Green £25 a side 17 March 1835; beat Tass Parker £25 a side 15 Sep. 1835 and again £50 a side in 96 rounds lasting 2 hours at Woodstock 7 March 1837; beat Owen Swift £50 a side in 104 rounds lasting 123 minutes at Four Shire Stone, Warwickshire 10 May 1836; beat Jack Adams £50 a side at Woodstock 23 Aug. 1836; beat Byng Stocks £50 a side near Bicester, Oxon. 15 Jany. 1838; beaten by Young Molyneux the Black £100 a side at Worksop Common, Notts. 9 June 1840; beaten by Yankee Sullivan alias James Ambrose £50 a side at Crookham Common 2 Feb. 1841; beaten by Tom Davis £50 a side 40 rounds in 67 minutes at Noman’s Heath near Tamworth 25 June 1850; fought Jack Grant £100 a side at Kingswood Common, Shropshire 28 June 1864, drawn battle; kept The Gunmaker’s Arms, Moore st. Birmingham from 1841. _John Hannan’s Guide to British boxing_ (1850) 49–52; _Illust. sporting news_, _iii_ 228, 229 (1864), _portrait_.

NOTE.--Three of his brothers were also pugilists, George, James and Tom who was _b._ Feb. 1825, fought John Walker a drawn battle of £200 a side at Hythe near Folkestone 15 Feb. 1848 and _d._ Birmingham 7 Sep. 1868.

LANE, JAMES HUNTER. L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1829; M.D. Edinb. 1830; hon. phys. to cholera hospital, Liverpool 1831–2; physician to Lock hospital of Liverpool infirmary 1833; senior physician of Lancaster infirmary 1840; pres. of Royal Medical Society of Edinb. about 1841; edited Liverpool Medical Gazette; The monthly archives of the medical sciences 1834, one volume; lived latterly at 58 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London; author of A compendium of materia medica and pharmacy 1840; author with J. M. Gully of a translation of Frederick Tiedemann’s A systematic treatise on comparative physiology 2 vols. 1834. _d._ Brighton 23 June 1853.

LANE, JOHN BRYANT (son of Samuel Lane, chemist). _b._ Helston, Cornwall 1788; ed. at Truro; a painter in London 1802–17; engaged at Rome 1817–27 on a gigantic picture ‘The vision of Joseph,’ which he exhibited at Rome 1827, for which he was expelled by the papal authorities, exhibited it at the Royal Mews, Charing Cross, London 1827, it was a failure and went to decay in the Pantechnicon, Belgrave sq.; painted portraits of Sir Hussey Vivian, Lord de Dunstanville and others; exhibited 16 portraits at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1808–34. _d._ 45 Clarendon sq. Somer’s Town, London 4 April 1868.

LANE, RICHARD JAMES (brother of Edward Wm. Lane 1801–76). _b._ Berkeley Castle 16 Feb. 1800; articled to Charles Heath, line-engraver 1816; line-engraver and lithographer; exhibited 67 lithographs at R.A. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1824–72; associate engraver of the R.A. 1827; executed pencil and chalk sketches of most of the best-known people of the day; never surpassed as a lithographer; lithographed several hundred of the pictures of leading artists; lithographer to the Queen 1837, to Prince Albert 1840; director of etching class in science and art department, South Kensington 1864–72; edited Charles Kemble’s Readings from Shakspeare 3 vols. 1870; author of Life at the water cure, or a month at Malvern 1846, new ed. 1851, 3 ed. 1855; Spirits and water, by R. J. L. 1855. d. 19 Gloucester terrace, Campden Hill, London 21 Nov. 1872. _Sandby’s History of royal academy_, _ii_ 71 (1862); _I.L.N. xxx_ 419, 420 (1857) _portrait_, _lxi_ 548 (1872) _portrait_; _Magazine of art_ (1881) 431–2.

LANE, RICHARD JAMES. _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1826; a leader of the Munster circuit; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; a comr. of Irish fisheries many years; public auditor of friendly societies in Ireland to death; crown prosecutor for co. Kerry. _d._ 123 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 1 Oct. 1885. _Law mag. and law review_, _iii_ 204–6 (1857).

LANE, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Lane). _b._ King’s Lynn 26 July 1780; became deaf and partially dumb from falling into the water 26 July 1786; pupil of sir Thomas Lawrence, and one of his chief assistants; had a large practice in London as a portrait painter; exhibited 217 portraits at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1804–57; lived at 60 Greek st. Soho 1823–53, at Ipswich 1853 to death. _d._ 2 Paragon Buildings, Lower Brook st. Ipswich 29 July 1859.

LANE, SAMUEL ARMSTRONG. _b._ 1802; M.R.C.S. 1829, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon and lecturer on surgery, St. Mary’s hospital, London; consulting surgeon Lock hospital; founder and principal of school of medicine, 1 Grosvenor place, London, adjoining St. George’s hospital 1830; edited S. Cooper’s Dictionary of practical surgery, brought down to the present time 1861. _d._ Ealing 2 Aug. 1892.

LANE, SAMUEL HAYCROFT. _b._ 1804; landlord of a beer shop in Shoreditch, London 1832–41; opened Royal Britannia Saloon, 188 Hoxton Old Town 12 April 1841, with concert opera, vaudeville, rope and other dancing, ballet and farce; bankrupt 18 Feb. 1842, discharged 14 June 1842; enlarged the Saloon Nov. 1850, closed it 29 June 1858; built the Britannia theatre on the same site at cost of £25,000, opened it 8 Nov. 1858. (_m._ Sep. 1843 Sara dau. of Wm. Borrow, actor, she was _b._ Clerkenwell 22 Sep. 1824 and has been owner of Britannia theatre since husband’s death). _d._ the Elms, West green road, Tottenham 27 Dec. 1871. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 4 Jany. 1872. _H. B. Baker’s The London Stage_, _ii_ 257–9 (1889); _The Era 14 Jany. 1872 p._ 12.

LANERTON, EDWARD GRANVILLE GEORGE HOWARD, 1 Baron (4 son of 6 Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848). _b._ 23 Dec. 1809; entered navy 5 April 1823, captain 27 Dec. 1838; admiral on h.p. 1 April 1870; M.P. Morpeth 1848–52; created baron Lanerton of Naworth, Cumberland 8 Jany. 1874. _d._ 29 Grosvenor sq. London 8 Oct. 1880.

LANG, DAVID (son of James L. Lang, writer). _b._ Glasgow 1846; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A., LLB.; admitted an advocate 1870; entertained at a public dinner 1884; a great fisherman. _d._ Glasgow 29 April 1886. _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _xxx_ 322–24 (1886).

LANG, GAVIN. _b._ Paisley; ed. Glasgow univ.; assistant minister of Presbyterian churches at Houstand and Killalan 1826; assist. minister West Kilbride 1828; minister in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, May 1828–32; minister of Glasford, Lanarkshire 1832; author of The Holy Gospel in continuous narrative 1884. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_, _3 S._ (1851) 219.

LANG, JOHN. _b._ Australia; in India and Europe 20 years; wrote in Household Words and the Welcome Guest; author of Too clever by half, or the Harroways. By the Mofussilite 1853; Too much alike or the three calendars 1854; The forger’s wife or Emily Orford 1855; Will he marry her? a novel 1858, new ed. 1871 and five other novels; also of Botany Bay 1859, new ed. under title of Clever Criminals 1878; Wanderings in India, and other sketches of life in Hindostan 1859.

LANG, JOHN. _b._ 1826; connected with the Manchester Times 1840, managed it when under name of Manchester Examiner to 1889. _d._ Manchester about 1 Jany. 1891.

LANG, JOHN DUNMORE. _b._ Greenock, Scotland 25 Aug. 1799; ed. at Largs and univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1820, D.D. 1825; licensed to preach by presbytery of Irvine 1 June 1820, ordained Sep. 1822; arrived in Australia, May 1823; minister of the Scots church, Church Hill, Sydney; started The Colonist, a weekly journal 1 Jany. 1835 which lasted until 1840; started The Colonial Journal 7 Oct. 1841; edited The Press, a weekly paper 1851–2; one of the 6 members for Port Phillip in the legislative council of N.S.W. 1843–6, member for Sydney 1850–2, for co. of Stanley, Moreton Bay 1854, for West Sydney 1859 to Nov. 1869; lectured in England on Australia 1846–9; author of An historical and statistical account of New South Wales 2 vols. 1834, 4 ed. 1874; Freedom and independence for the golden lands of Australia 1852, 2 ed. 1857 and about 20 other books. _d._ Sydney 8 Aug. 1878, statue of him in Wynyard sq. Sydney unveiled by widow 26 Jany. 1891. _J. D. Lang’s Brief sketch of my parliamentary life_ (1870); _Barton’s Poets of New South Wales_ (1866) 33–7; _Daily Graphic 11 March 1891 p._ 9, _view of his statue_.

LANG, OLIVER. _b._ 1778; an apprentice in Devonport dockyard; foreman of shipwrights at Deptford yard; master shipwright Devonport; assist. surveyor to navy board at Somerset house; master shipwright Sheerness yard 1823–6 and at Woolwich 22 July 1826 to death; offered knighthood by George IV.; designed the Comet paddle wheel steamship, the first steam ship in the navy, she was commissioned 23 April 1836; introduced many improvements in ships and steamers; author of Improvements in naval architecture. Woolwich 1848. _d._ Woolwich 12 April 1853. His widow Charlotte granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Oct. 1853.

LANG, THOMAS BAMFORD. _b._ 1820; controller of general post office, Edinburgh, Feb. 1855 to death; author of An historical summary of the post office in Scotland compiled from authentic records 1856. _d._ Edinburgh 6 April 1868.

LANG, WILLIAM. Entered Bombay army 1821; lieut. 21 Bombay N.I. 21 May 1824, major 10 May 1847 to 25 June 1852; political agent at Kattiwar 23 Sep. 1846 to 1859; lieut.-col. of 26 Bombay N.I. 25 June 1852 to 1854 and 1859–60, of 9 N.I. 1854–5, of 28 N.I. 1855–6, of 3 European regiment 1856–9, of 1 N.I. 1862 to 29 June 1863; M.G. 29 June 1863. _d._ Rossie house, Bridge of Earn 3 Jany. 1870.

LANGDALE, HENRY BICKERSTETH, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry Bickersteth, surgeon and apothecary, _d._ May 1821). _b._ Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland 18 June 1783; apprenticed to his father, Midsummer 1797; entered Caius coll. Camb. as Hewitt scholar Oct. 1802, fellow 1808, senior fellow 1814–31; senior wr. and 1 Smith’s prizeman 1808, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1811, bencher 1827 to death, reader 1835, treasurer 1836; K.C. May 1827; P.C. 16 Jany. 1835; master of the rolls 19 Jany. 1835, resigned 28 March 1851; cr. Baron Langdale of Langdale, Westmoreland 23 Jany. 1835; head of the commission temporarily issued for custody of the great seal 19 June to 15 July 1850. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 18 April 1851. _bur._ in vault of Temple church, London 24 April. _Memoirs. By T. D. Hardy 2 vols._ (1852), _portrait_; _Law Magazine_, _xlv_ 283–93 (1851); _Leisure Hour iii_ 251.

LANGDALE, CHARLES (3 son of 16 baron Stourton 1752–1816). _b._ 19 Sep. 1787; assumed his mother’s maiden name Langdale instead of Stourton by r.l. 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. Beverley 1832–4, M.P. Knaresborough 1837–41; the foremost man among the Roman catholic laity in England 50 years; a lay brother of the Society of Jesus 1868; author of Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert, with an account of her marriage with H.R.H. the prince of Wales afterwards king George the Fourth 1856. _d._ 5 Queen st. Mayfair, London 1 Dec. 1868. _Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890), _memoir pp._ 19–61, _portrait_.

LANGFORD, JOSEPH MUNT. _b._ 1809; employed by Messrs. Blackwood, publishers 1830, head of their London branch 1845–81; dramatic critic of The Observer many years; part author of several dramas produced at the Adelphi theatre, London about 1854. _d._ 2 The Paragon, Winchester 28 Aug. 1884.

LANGHAM, STEPHEN NATHANIEL (son of a farm labourer). _b._ Hinckley, Leics. May 1820; pugilist, always known as Nat. Langham, height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 11 stone; beat Wm. Ellis 1843, Tom Lowe 1844 and Doctor Campbell 1845; beat George Gutteridge £25 a side at Bourne, Lincs. 23 Sep. 1846; beat Wm. Sparkes the Australian £50 a side at Woking Common 4 May 1847; beaten by Harry Orme £50 a side 117 rounds in 176 minutes at Lower Hope Point down the river Thames 6 May 1851; beat Tom Sayers £100 a side, 61 rounds in 122 minutes near Lakenheath, Suffolk 18 Oct. 1853; fought Ben Caunt £200 a side, 60 rounds in 89 minutes at Standing Creek, Medway 21 Sep. 1857, not decided; won 6 out of 7 fights, is the only man who ever beat Tom Sayers; kept the Ram inn, Bridge st. Cambridge 1851 to 1853, the Cambrian Stores, 12 Castle st. Leicester sq. London 1853 to 1861, and the Cambridge Stores at 12 Castle st. 1870 to death; kept the Mitre tavern, 62 St. Martin’s lane, London 1862 to 1869; bankrupt 2 March 1869, discharged 29 March 1870. _d._ the Cambridge Stores, Castle st. London 1 Sep. 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 7 Sep. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _iii_ 234–52 (1881), _portrait_; _F. W. J. Henning’s Prize Ring_ (1888) 160–7; _Illust. sporting news_, _ii_ 277 (1863), _portrait_.

LANGLEY, ALBERT GORDON (eld. son of Charles Langley of Chudleigh, South Devon). A student of Middle Temple 15 Jany. 1837, certificate of honour Nov. 1857, studentship May 1858, barrister M.T. 30 April 1859, admitted ad eundem at L.I. 2 Nov. 1863; author of A reading of the act to further amend the law of property and to relieve trustees 1860; An essay on the law of pleading by way of claim for alternative relief 1881; edited E. E. Deacon’s The law and practice of bankruptcy 3 ed. 1864. _d._ 19 Lee terrace, Blackheath 29 Jany. 1888.

LANGLEY, DANIEL BAXTER. _b._ 1797 or 1798; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., S.C.L. 1828, LLD. 1841; V. of Olney, Bucks. 1834–56; R. of Yardley-Hastings with Denton, Northants. 1856 to death; author of Olney lectures delivered in the parish church of Olney 1840; Morning and evening prayers compiled from the Common Prayer Book 1862; Christian laconics, or many things in few words 1862; The destruction of earthly hopes a reason for the cultivation of heavenly affections 1865, 2 ed. 1868. _d._ Yardley-Hastings rectory 15 March 1881.

LANGLEY, EDWARD (son of Mr. Langley who lived to be 93, by his wife who lived to be 105). _b._ 1763; a surgeon at Riseley, Beds. 1803–28 when he retired. _d._ St. John st. Bedford 25 Jany. 1859 aged 96.

NOTE.--His mother’s father lived to be 103, and her grandfather 100.

LANGRIDGE, GEORGE DAVID. _b._ Kent 1829; emigrated to Australia; represented Collingwood in legislative assembly of Victoria 1874 to death; comr. of public works Aug. 1880 to July 1881; comr. of trade and customs March 1883 to Feb. 1886; chief secretary and minister of customs Nov. 1890 to death. _d._ Melbourne 24 March 1891.

LANGSLOW, ROBERT. Barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1823; attorney general of Malta 5 July 1832 to Nov. 1838 when granted pension of £300 on abolition of the office; judge of district court of Colombo No. 1 South, Ceylon 8 June 1840, suspended from his office for dilatoriness in discharge of his duty 11 Dec. 1843, removed July 1844; was residing 6 Powis place, Bloomsbury, London in 1846. _d._ New Inn, London 9 Dec. 1853. _In the privy council. Petition from R. Langslow late judge of district court of Colombo_ (1847).

LANGSTON, JAMES HAUGHTON. _b._ 1797; M.P. Woodstock 1820–26; M.P. Oxford 1826 to 30 Dec. 1834 and 1841 to death; sheriff of co. Oxford 1819. _d._ Sarsden house, Chipping Norton, Oxon. 19 Oct. 1863.

LANGTON, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Langton of Liverpool, Russian merchant, _d._ 1838). _b._ Farfield near Addingham, Yorkshire 17 April 1803; engaged in business at Liverpool 1821–9; employed in Messrs. Heywoods’ bank, Manchester 1829–54; managing director of Manchester and Salford bank 1854 to Oct. 1876; one of the 3 founders of Manchester Athenæum 1836, to which a marble medallion bust of him was presented 1881; an original member of Chetham Society 1843, treasurer, afterwards hon. sec. to 1869, edited for the society Chetham Miscellanies 3 vols. 1851–56–62, Lancashire Inquisitiones post mortem 2 vols. 1875 and Benalt’s Visitation of Lancashire 1533, 2 vols. 1876–82; a memorial Langton scholarship was founded in his honour at Owen’s college, Manchester at cost of £5000 in 1876 or 1877. _d._ Ingatestone, Essex 29 Sep. 1881. _bur._ Fryerning churchyard, Essex. _Publications of Chetham Society_, _vol. cx_, _memoir pp. iii–x_, _portrait_.

LANGWORTHY, EDWARD RYLEY. _b._ 1796; mayor of Salford 1848–9 and 1850–1; a trustee of Manchester gram. sch. 1849; chief founder of Salford free library, the first established under Ewart’s act, and gave to it £6000, 1854; M.P. Salford 2 Feb. to 21 March 1857. _d._ Victoria park, Manchester 7 April 1874, personalty sworn under £1,200,000 13 June 1874.

NOTE.--Left £10,000 to build a wing to the Peel park museum which was opened 14 Aug. 1878; £10,000 to Owen’s college and £20,000 to the grammar school.

LANKESTER, EDWIN (son of Wm. Lankester of Melton near Woodbridge, Suffolk, builder). _b._ Melton 23 April 1814; studied at London univ. 1834–7; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. Heidelberg 1839; practised in London from 1839; sec. of the Ray Society 1844; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1845; professor of natural history in New College, London 1850; lecturer on anatomy and physiology at Grosvenor place school of medicine 1853; joint editor of Quarterly Journal of microscopical science 1853–71, pres. of Microscopical Soc. of London 1859; examiner in botany to science and art department 1862; superintendent of food collection at South Kensington museum 1858–62; medical officer of health for parish of St. James, Westminster 1856 to death; coroner for Central Middlesex 9 July 1862 to death, his annual reports are printed in the Journal of Social Science which he founded 1865 and edited 1865 to death; author of An account of Askern and its mineral springs 1842; Half hours with the microscope [by E. L.] 1859, 4 ed. 1873; The use of animals as applied to the industry of man 1860, four numbers; Vegetable physiology 1869; Dr. Lankester’s Sanitary handbills 1870, three numbers; A school manual of health, being an introduction to physiology 1868, 6 ed. 1876; Haydn’s Dictionary of medicine and hygiene, ed. by E. Lankester 1874, new ed. 1878. _d._ Margate 30 Oct. 1874. _Barker’s Photographs of medical men_ (1867) 47–51, _portrait_; _Nature_, _xi_ 15–16 (1875); _I.L.N. xli_ 100 (1862), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _x_ 463, 465 (1874), _portrait_.

LANSDOWNE, HENRY PETTY FITZMAURICE, 3 Marquess of (younger son of 1 marquess of Lansdowne 1737–1805). _b._ Shelburne (now Lansdowne) house, 54 Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1780; known as lord Henry Petty 1784–1809; ed. at Westminster sch. at Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1801, LLD. 1811; M.P. Calne 1802–6; M.P. univ. of Camb. 1806–7; M.P. Camelford 1807–9; chancellor of the exchequer 10 Feb. 1806 to 31 March 1807; P.C. 5 Feb. 1806; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marquess 15 Nov. 1809, and his cousin as 4 Earl of Kerry 4 July 1818; sec. of state for home department 16 July 1827 to 26 Jany. 1828; lord pres. of the council 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Dec. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841 and 6 July 1846 to 27 Feb. 1852; leader of opposition in house of lords 1841–6; F.R.S. 4 April 1811; K.G. 5 Feb. 1836; refused the premiership 1852; held a seat in the cabinet without office Dec. 1852 to March 1858; many of his speeches were printed 1806 etc. _d._ Bowood park, Calne, Wilts. 31 Jany. 1863. _Men of the time: British statesmen._ (1854) 44–69; _H. Martineau’s Biog. sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 91–9; _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _v_ (1834), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _i_ 14 (1846), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain_, _ii_ 143–53 (1854), _iii_ 156–67 (1854); _Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 171, _portrait_; _Hayward’s Essays_, _ii_ 303–19 (1870); _Illustrated Times 14 Feb. 1863 p._ 109, _portrait_.

NOTE.--He first appears in Gillray’s prints in 1805. His personalty was sworn under £350,000, 20 June 1863.

LANSDOWNE, HENRY PETTY FITZMAURICE, 4 Marquess of (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Lansdowne house, London 5 Jany. 1816; ed. Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.; known as lord Henry Petty Fitzmaurice 1818–36 and as earl of Shelburne 1836–63; M.P. Calne 1837–56; lieut. Wiltshire yeomanry 23 Jany. 1837, lieut.-col. 3 May 1861 to death; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Dec. 1847 to Aug. 1848; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 5 July 1856 to 26 Feb. 1858; summoned to house of lords in his father’s barony of Wycombe 11 July 1856; chairman of Great Western railway 1859–63; succeeded his father as 4 Marquess 31 Jany. 1863; K.G. 10 Oct. 1864. _d._ Lansdowne house, 54 Berkeley square, London 5 July 1866. _I.L.N. xl_ 175 (1862), _portrait_.

LANWARNE, NICHOLAS. Admitted attorney and solicitor 1833; practised at Hereford 1833 to death; clerk to the Hereford union 1837 and to Dore union 1842 to death; coroner for Herefordshire 1838 to death; clerk to the Dore magistrates 1859 to death; one of the charity trustees for city of Hereford to death. _d._ The Vineyard near Hereford, midnight 10 Dec. 1864 aged 54.

LANYON, SIR CHARLES (son of John Jenkinson Lanyon of Eastbourne). _b._ Eastbourne 6 Jany. 1813; articled to Jacob Owen of Dublin, civil engineer; county surveyor of Kildare 1835, of co. Antrim 1836–60; made the Belfast and Ballymena railway, the Carrickfergus and Larne and other railways; architect of the Queen’s college, the court-house and other public buildings in Belfast; mayor of Belfast 1862; M.P. Belfast 1866–68, contested Belfast 1868; pres. of Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland 1862–8; knighted by duke of Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868; sheriff of co. Antrim 1876; provincial grand master of Antrim. _d._ The Abbey, White Abbey near Belfast 31 May 1889. _R. F. Gould’s History of freemasonry_, _iv_ 388 (1885), _portrait_.

NOTE.--His second son Charles Mortimer Lanyon _b._ Belfast 1840; ed. at Bromsgrove and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1863; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1865. _d._ London 27 Feb. 1877. _Law Times 31 March 1877 p._ 397.

LANYON, SIR WILLIAM OWEN (3 son of the preceding). _b._ co. Antrim 21 July 1842; ed. at Bromsgrove gr. sch.; ensign 6 foot 21 Dec. 1860; lieut. 2 West India regiment 11 Jany. 1867, lieut.-col. 2 Feb. 1878, placed on h.p. 1 Jany. 1883; A.D.C. and private sec. to sir John Peter Grant, governor of Jamaica 1868–73; A.D.C. to sir Garnet Wolseley in Ashantee campaign Oct. 1873 to 20 Jany. 1874 when invalided; went to the Gold Coast on a special mission 1874; administrator of Griqualand West 1 Sep. 1875 to April 1880, raised a volunteer force which he led against a Ratlapin chief named Botlasitsie, whom he defeated in ten actions and subdued 1878; colonel in the army 11 Nov. 1878; administrator of the Transvaal 21 April 1880 to 8 Aug. 1881; col. on the staff in Egypt 1882 and 1885; A.A. and Q.M.G. Southern district of England 1883–5 and in Egypt 19 Feb. to 8 May 1885; C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, K.C.M.G. 6 April 1880; C.B. 11 Nov. 1878. _d._ New York 6 April 1887. _The Graphic_, _xxiii_ 217 (1881), _portrait_; _The London Figaro 16 April 1887 p._ 3, _portrait_.

LANZA, GESUALDO (son of Giuseppe Lanza, musical composer). _b._ Naples 1779; a singing master in London; music seller at Chesterfield st. Pancras New road, bankrupt 27 Aug. 1830; opened singing classes at 75 Newman st. 1842; taught Miss M. Tree, Miss Stephens, Miss Bolton and Mrs. Donald King; author of The desert of Arabia, an operatical entertainment written by F. Reynolds 1806; The elements of singing in the Italian and English styles 3 vols. 1809; The elements of singing familiarly explained 1813; Grand messa di gloria 1835; Sunday evening recreations 1840; Signor Lanza’s New method of teaching class singing 1843, and upwards of 30 pieces of music. _d._ London 12 March 1859. _bur._ Highgate cemet. His daughter Rosalie Lanza was a well known operatic singer.

LAPHAM, GEORGE. _b._ Bath 1804; assistant to William Hone, publisher 1822–5; publisher of The Examiner 1826 to death. _d._ 9 Wellington st. Strand, London 10 Oct. 1871.

LAPIDGE, EDWARD (son of Mr. Lapidge, chief gardener at Hampton Court palace). Architect in London; built bridge over the Thames at Kingston 1825–8, church of St. Peter, Hammersmith 1827–9, chapel of St. Andrew on Ham Common, Surrey 1832; competed for new houses of parliament 1836 and for Fitzwilliam museum Cambridge 1836; surveyor of bridges and public works for Surrey; F.I.B.A. _d._ March 1860.

LAPILETIERE, FRANCES MARY DE (dau. of Hugh Goldicutt). _b._ Bury st. St. James’, London 27 Aug. 1788. (_m._ V. C. J. De Lapiletiere). _d._ at her residence, Worthing 3 Dec. 1891 in 104th year.

LAPORTE, GEORGE HENRY (son of John Laporte, water-colour painter 1761–1839). Animal painter; exhibited 9 sporting subjects at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. gallery 1821–50; an original member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1831, where he also exhibited; some of his works were engraved in the New Sporting Mag.; animal painter to the king of Hanover. _d._ 13 Norfolk sq. Hyde park, London 23 Oct. 1873.

LAPPIN, JAMES. _b._ 1824; partner with Job May and then with Richard A. Webster as stockbrokers, Liverpool; chairman of Liverpool stock exchange; a correspondent of The Times on forged transfers of railway stock; ran to catch his train and died in a carriage between Seaforth and Liverpool 25 Oct. 1890. _bur._ St. James’ cemet. 28 Oct. _The Times 27 Oct. 1890 p._ 10.

LAPWORTH, JAMES. _b._ Warwick 1798; clerk in office of Gregory and Adlington, 1 Bedford row, London 1820–37; admitted attorney 1831; private sec. to Sir Wm. Follett 1837–46; clerk to the Home Office 1846–7; librarian to the Incorporated Law Society, Chancery lane, London, March 1847 to Dec. 1877 when he retired on pension of £300; compiled catalogues of the books in the library of the Law Society 1851 and 1869. _d._ 7 Blenheim road, Bedford park, London 21 June 1888.

LARBUSCH, FREDERICK. Claimed to have been _b._ London 9 March 1766, probably _b._ Germany 1786; ensign 60 foot 16 Nov. 1809; lieut. as F. Lahrbusch 29 Oct. 1810; known as F. De Lahrbusch 1815; cashiered in 1819 as lieut. De Lahrbush of 60 foot; resided in New York from 1848; entertained at a breakfast in New York to celebrate what he called his 107th birthday 9 March 1873. _W. J. Thoms’ Longevity of man_ (1879) 207–24; _Historical Mag. and American Notes and Queries_, _April 1867 pp._ 211–12.

LARCOM, SIR THOMAS AISKEW (2 son of Joseph Larcom 1764–1843, captain R.N.). _b._ 22 April 1801; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 June 1820, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1854 to 1 April 1858 when placed on retired full pay with rank of M.G.; assistant in the central organisation of the Irish ordnance survey at Mountjoy, Phœnix park near Dublin 1828–46; the beauty of his county maps of Ireland has never been exceeded; a census comr. in Ireland 1841; a comr. of public works in Ireland 1846; chief director of the public relief works 1846; deputy chairman of Irish board of works 1850; under sec. of state for Ireland Feb. 1853 to Nov. 1868; C.B. 5 March 1858, K.C.B. 19 June 1860; cr. baronet 7 Dec. 1868; P.C. Ireland 1868; edited Sir W. Petty’s The history of the survey of Ireland, for the Irish Archæological soc. 1851; Memoirs of life of Capt. Drummond, in Papers of Corps of Royal Engineers vol. 4 pp. ix–xxiv (1850) and Memoir of city of Londonderry, in Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1837. _d._ Heathfield, Fareham, Hants. 15 June 1879. _Proc. of royal society_, _xxix_ 10–15 (1879).

LARDNER, DIONYSIUS (son of Wm. O’B. Lardner of 88 Marlborough st. Dublin, solicitor, who _d._ 1808). _b._ Dublin 3 April 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1819, LLB. and LLD. 1827; took holy orders, chaplain of his college; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in London univ. 1827 to 1832; published the Cabinet Cyclopædia 133 vols. 1829–46, in which he wrote the treatises on hydrostatics and pneumatics, arithmetic and geometry; published Dr. Lardner’s Cabinet Library 9 vols. 1830–2; edited the Edinburgh Cabinet Library 38 vols. 1830–44; The Museum of science and art 12 vols. 1856; lectured in the United States and Cuba 1840–5, cleared £40,000; lived at Paris 1845 to death; Paris correspondent of Daily News; is satirised by Thackeray in his Miscellanies as Dionysius Diddler, and in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Doctor Diolesius Larner, Doctor Athanasius Lardner and Doctor Ignatius Loyola. _d._ Naples 29 April 1859. _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 122–5, _portrait_; _A.R._ (1849) 289 _and_ (1859) 446; _The works of W. M. Thackeray_, _xii_ 404–14 (1869).

NOTE.--He married in the parish church of St. Paul, Dublin 19 Dec. 1815 Cecilia dau. of Henry Flood of Dublin, barrister, she left him 20 Oct. 1820 and lived near Dublin with Samuel Booth Williams Murphy to 20 Jany. 1829 when he died. Lardner obtained a sentence of divorce in consistory court of Dublin 1832 and his marriage was dissolved by 2 and 3 Vict. cap. 53, 14 June 1839. On 13 March 1840 he eloped with Mary wife of captain Richard Heaviside of Brighton, who obtained £8000 damages against him in an action tried at town hall, Lewes 1 Aug. 1840. Heaviside obtained a sentence of divorce in consistory court of London 3 March 1841 and his marriage was dissolved by 8 and 9 Vict. cap. 35, 31 July 1845. Lardner married the lady 2 Aug. 1846 at Paris, where she resided until her death about 30 April 1891.

LARDNER, LEOPOLD JAMES. _b._ Holland 1816; private tutor in family of Jacob van Lennep poet in Holland many years; entered British Museum 1846 where he superintended the transcription of the catalogue of books extending to 300 volumes to his death; frequently employed by the Foreign Office in translating from the Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Danish; threw himself from the window of his residence 9 Cornwall villas, Kentish Town, London 27 Nov. 1855. _Times 3 Dec. 1855 p._ 6 _col._ 6.

LARKIN, NATHANIEL JOHN. _b._ London 5 Dec. 1781; the first sec. of society of civil engineers 1825; manufacturer of mathematical models at 29 Baker st. Spa Fields, London 1829; author of An essay on a mosaic pavement formed of right angled triangles of different colours 1818; An introduction to solid geometry 1820; The rudiments of linear, plane and solid geometry 1820. _d._ 21 Oct. 1855.

LARKING, JOHN WINGFIELD (son of John Larking 1755–1838). _b._ Clare house 1801; English consul in Egypt; negotiated terms of peace between Mehemet Ali and the Sultan and probably prevented a war between France and England 1839; the first Englishman who acquired influence in Egypt, a favourite with Mehemet, Said and Ismail; received order of Medjidie; at his expense Dr. Henry Holman Drake re-wrote and published the Hundred of Blackheath, a portion of Hasted’s History of Kent 1886; resided at The Firs, Old road, Lee, Kent from 1858, _d._ there 18 May 1891. _Times 21 May 1891 p._ 7; _Blackheath Local Guide 23 May 1891 pp._ 10, 13.

LARKING, LAMBERT BLACKWELL (brother of the preceding). _b._ Clare house, East Malling, Kent 2 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton 1808–16 and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; founded University lodge of freemasons 1819; C. of East Peckham near Tunbridge 1820; V. of Ryarsh near Maidstone 14 April 1830 to death; V. of Burham near Rochester 28 Jany. 1837 to death; hon. sec. of Kent Archæological soc. 19 Sep. 1857 to 1861, vice pres. 1861; wrote many articles in the Archæologia Cantiana; member of council of Camden Soc. 1852 to death, ed. for the soc. Certain considerations upon the government of England by Sir R. Twysden 1849, The knights hospitallers 1857 and Proceedings in the county of Kent 1862; author of The late Thomas Streatfield 1861; A description of the heartshrine in Leybourne church 1864; with rev. T. Streatfield collected materials for a history of Kent, the first part called Hasted’s History of Kent corrected, enlarged and continued. Ed. by H. H. Drake Part 1 The hundred of Blackheath was published in 1886 with portrait of L. B. Larking. _d._ Ryarsh vicarage 2 Aug. 1868. _Archæologia Cantiana_, _vii_ 323–29 (1868).

LARPENT, SIR GEORGE GERARD DE HOCHEPIED-, 1 Baronet (youngest son of John Larpent 1741–1824, inspector of plays). _b._ London 16 Feb. 1786; entered East India house of Cockerell and Larpent; took additional name of De Hochepied by r.l. 14 June 1819; chairman of Oriental and China Assoc.; deputy chairman of St. Katharine’s Docks co.; contested Ludlow, May 1840 and Nottingham, April 1841; M.P. Nottingham 28 June 1841 to July 1842; contested city of London 1847; created baronet 13 Oct. 1841; edited The Private Journals of Francis Seymour Larpent 3 vols. 1853, 3 ed. 1853; and Turkey, its history and progress by Sir J. Porter, continued to the present time 1854; author of Some remarks on the negotiations between the board of control and the East India Co. 1833. _d._ Conduit st. Regent st. London 8 March 1855.

LASCELLES, EDWIN (4 son of 2 earl of Harewood 1767–1841). _b._ 25 Dec. 1799; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1822 to death; B.C.L. 1826, D.C.L. 1831; barrister I.T. 10 Feb. 1826; contested Northallerton, Yorkshire 1841; M.P. Ripon 1846–57; chairman of quarter sessions of West riding of Yorkshire to death. _d._ Wighill park near Wetherby, Yorkshire 25 April 1865.

LASCELLES, WILLIAM SAUNDERS SEBRIGHT (3 son of 2 earl of Harewood 1767–1841). _b._ 29 Oct. 1798; M.P. Northallerton 1820–26, 1831–32; M.P. East Looe 1826–30; M.P. Wakefield 1837–41, 1842–47; M.P. Knaresborough 1847 to death; P.C. 22 July 1847; comptroller of H.M.’s household 24 July 1847 to death. _d._ Bute house, Campden hill, Kensington 2 July 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 193–4 (1851); _I.L.N. xix_ 42 (1851).

LASLETT, WILLIAM EMERSON (only son of Thomas Emerson Laslett). _b._ 1801; solicitor at Worcester 1831–52; barrister I.T. 30 April 1856; practised at Worcester; M.P. Worcester city 1852–60 and 1868–74; contested East Worcestershire 1868 and 1874; gave 25 acres of land in Astwood road, Worcester for a public cemetery; founded by his will Laslett’s Almshouses 33 in number in Whiteladies’ close, Worcester; gave estates of 2,000 acres in Gloucestershire valued at £85,000 in trust for religious and charitable purposes. _d._ Abberton hall, Pershore 26 Jany. 1884. _I.L.N. xxxii_ 561, 562 (1858), _portrait_.

LASSELL, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Lassell of Bolton, _d._ 1810). _b._ Bolton 18 June 1799; apprenticed to a Liverpool merchant 1814–21; a brewer about 1825; commenced constructing reflecting telescopes 1820; built an observatory at Starfield near Liverpool, which he moved to Bradstones near there 1854; invented a new machine for grinding specula; member of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1839, pres. 1870–2, discovered the satellites of Uranus 10 Oct. 1846; received gold medal of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1849; the first to clearly ascertain composition of the Uranian system; mounted a four-foot reflecting telescope at Valetta in Malta 1861, worked there 3 years and catalogued 600 new nebulæ; set up a two-foot reflector at Ray lodge near Maidenhead 1865; F.R.S. 7 June 1849, royal medallist 1858; F.R.S. Edin.; hon. LL.D. Cambridge 1874; his specula have never been surpassed; ranks with sir Wm. Herschel and lord Rosse among the perfecters of the reflecting telescope. _d._ in his sleep at Ray Lodge, Maidenhead 5 Oct. 1880. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxi_ 7–10 (1881); _Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870), _portrait No._ 13; _Nature, xxii_ 565–6 (1880).

LAST, EDWARD. Ensign 90 foot 13 Oct. 1814; captain 99 foot 22 May 1829, major 18 Oct. 1839; lieut.-col. 21 foot 26 March 1858 to 21 Oct. 1859 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 5 Sep. 1865. _d._ East Malling near Maidstone 27 Jany. 1870.

LAST, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ 1809; printer at 3 Edward st. Hampstead road, London 1834–8; bankrupt 1 March 1839; printer at 3 Crane court, Fleet st. 1840–3, at 59 West Smithfield 1847–50, at 1 Pickett place, Strand 1851–2, at Savoy st. Strand 1861–3, at Heathcock court, 414 Strand 1866–9, at Prince’s st. Lincoln’s Inns Fields 1869–72; J. W. Last and Co. carried on business at last address 1873–7 and at Wych court, Wych st. 1877–80; printer and proprietor of a weekly paper entitled The Town, a journal of original essays, &c. 156 numbers 3 June 1837 to 23 May 1840; The Crown, another weekly paper 42 numbers 1 July 1838 to 14 April 1839; The Squib: a granulation of wit, satire and amusement 30 numbers 29 May to 17 Dec. 1842; printed Punch, first number published 17 July 1841, held a third share in it, which he sold to Ebenezer Landells 25 Sep. 1841; managing printer of Illustrated London News 1842; one of the first who executed illustrated works with a cylinder machine, and the first to print a six-sheet poster. _d._ last week of March 1880. _Mr. Punch, his origin and career_ [1870] 13–32.

LATCHFORD, BENJAMIN. Bridle, bit, stirrup and spur maker to the Queen at 11 Upper St. Martin’s lane, London 1844. _d._ Walton on Naze 20 June 1886 aged 93.

LATEY, JOHN LASH. _b._ Tiverton 14 June 1808; wrote in North Devon newspapers; contributed to Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper 1842; wrote in first number of Illust. London News 14 May 1842, editor 1858 to 31 Dec. 1890; author of The ballot 1839; The pattern book of letters for working people 1840. _d._ 11 North villas, Camden sq. London 6 Jany. 1891. _Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 224, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p._ 38, _portrait_.

LATHAM, DANIEL. _b._ Buenos Ayres 1860; amateur actor in South America; studied acting in England under name of Veovide; engaged the first English dramatic company that ever appeared in the Argentine republic 1882, toured there for three seasons with his own companies 1882–4. _d._ St. Thomas’ hospital, London 29 Oct. 1885.

LATHAM, GEORGE WILLIAM (2 son of John Latham of Bradwall hall, Cheshire 1787–1853). _b._ 4 May 1827; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; barrister I.T. 7 June 1852; contested Mid Cheshire, April 1880; M.P. Crewe division of Cheshire, Dec. 1885 to June 1886. _d._ Bradwall hall near Sandbach 4 Oct. 1886.

LATHAM, HENRY (3 son of John Latham, physician 1761–1843). _b._ London 4 Nov. 1794; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; barrister L.I. 1820; V. of Selmerton with Alceston, Sussex 1833–47; V. of Fittleworth, Sussex 1847 to death; author of Harmonia Paulina 1837; Anthologia Davidica 1846; published Sertum Shakespearianum, subnexis aliquot inferioris notæ floribus. Oxford 1863, being translations from Shakespeare, Cowper and the prayer-book with ten original Latin poems; Black and white, a journal of a three months tour in the United States 1867. _d._ of cholera at Boulogne 6 Sep. 1866.

LATHAM, JOHN (brother of preceding). _b._ Oxford 18 March 1787; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Brasenose coll. Oxf., won chancellor’s prize for Latin verse by a poem on Trafalgar 1806, fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1806–21; B.C.L. 1810, D.C.L. 1815; student at L.I. Dec. 1806; became blind so as not to be able to read from 1807; lived in Cheshire 1829 to death; author of a volume of poems published anonymously at Sandbach 1836 and of English and Latin poems, original and translated 1853. _d._ Bradwall hall 30 Jany. 1853. _English and Latin poems by J. Latham_ (1853), _memoir pp. i–xxxvi_.

LATHAM, PETER MERE (brother of preceding). _b._ London 1 July 1789; ed. at Sandbach free sch., Macclesfield gr. sch. and Brasenose coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, M.B. 1814, M.D. 1816; inceptor candidate of R.C.P. 7 July 1815, candidate 30 Sep. 1817, fellow 30 Sep. 1818, censor 1820, 1833 and 1837, Gulstonian lecturer 1819, Lumleian lecturer 1827–28, Harveian orator 1839; phys. to Middlesex hosp. 1815 to Nov. 1824; phys. to St. Bartholomew’s hosp. 30 Nov. 1824 to Nov. 1841; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 8 Aug. 1837 to 1865; retired from practice to Torquay 1865; one of the last of the advocates of bleeding; author of An account of the disease prevalent in the general hospital 1825; Lectures on clinical medicine 1836; Lectures on clinical medicine, comprising diseases of the heart 2 vols. 1845–6; The collected works of P. M. Latham. Sydenham soc. 1876. _d._ Inglewood, Belgrave road, Torquay 20 July 1875. _Munk’s College of physicians_ (1878) _iii_ 185; _St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports_, _vol. xi pp. xxv–xxxvi_ (1875).

LATHAM, ROBERT GORDON (eld. son of Thomas Latham, V. of Billingborough, Lincs.). _b._ Billingborough 24 March 1812; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow 1835; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, M.D. 1844; professor of English language and literature in University college, London 1839; L.R.C.P. 1842; lecturer on forensic medicine and materia medica at Middlesex hospital, assistant phys. 1844–9; director of ethnological department at Crystal Palace 1852; granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863; originated the idea that original home of Aryan race was not in Asia but in Europe; edited Todd Johnson’s A dictionary of the English language 2 vols. in 4 parts 1866–70; author of The English language 1841, 5 ed. 1862; A handbook of the English language 1851, 9 ed. 1875; Logic in its application to language 1856; Descriptive ethnology 2 vols. 1859; The ethnology of India 1859; Opuscula. Essays chiefly philological and ethnographical 1860; Elements of comparative philology 1862; The nationalities of Europe 2 vols. 1863; A defence of phonetic spelling 1872; Two dissertations on Hamlet 1872; Outlines of general philology 1878. _d._ Upper Richmond road, Putney 9 March 1888.

LATHAM, SAMUEL METCALFE. Vice consul at Dover for Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Sweden and Norway from 10 to 30 years to Jany. 1879; foreign office passport agent at Dover 30 July 1858; received in Jany. 1879 the following distinctions, the rank of officer of Belgian order of Leopold, knighthood of Italian order of the Crown, of Belgian order of the Crown of Oak, and of order of Wasa of Sweden and Norway, also German order of the Red Eagle. _d._ 4 June 1886.

LATHBURY, THOMAS (son of Henry Lathbury). _b._ Brackley, Northamptonshire 1798; ed. at St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; C. of Chatteris, Cambs.; C. of Mangotsfield, Gloucs. 1831–8; C. of the Abbey ch. Bath 1838–48; V. of St. Simon’s, Baptist Mills, Bristol 1848 to death; made a collection of printed Service Books 1845; author of A history of the English episcopacy from the period of the long parliament to the act of uniformity 1836; A history of the convocation of the Church of England 1842, 2 ed. 1853; A history of the nonjurors, their controversies and writings 1845; A history of the book of Common Prayer and other books of authority 1858; edited Jeremy Collier’s An ecclesiastical history of Great Britain with a life of the author 9 vols. 1852. _d._ 3 Cave st. Portland sq. Bristol 11 Feb. 1865.

LATIMER, JOHN PADDON (eld. son of Isaac Latimer, newspaper proprietor, Plymouth). _b._ at Truro 1843; barrister M.T. 30 April 1869; one of parliamentary staff of The Times some years, and was war correspondent in the Baltic provinces during the Franco-German war 1870; edited Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Feb. 1878 to Feb. 1881; associated with his father and brother in conducting the Western Daily Mercury; deputy stip. mag. at West Ham 1884 to death. _d._ Glen View, Mannamead, Plymouth 22 May 1885 in 42 year.

LATIMER, THOMAS. _b._ Bristol 9 Aug. 1803; apprentice to Thomas Davison, printer, Whitefriars, London; sec. London gymnastic soc.; reporter Devonshire Chronicle, Exeter 1827, to Plymouth Journal, to Exeter and Plymouth Gazette 1830; sub-editor Western Times 1831, editor and proprietor of Western Times, Exeter 183-, brought it out twice a week and then as a daily 1866; for many years denounced the practices of the Puseyite party, and defended a prosecution for libel brought against him by Henry Phillpotts bishop of Exeter at Exeter assizes 27 March 1848 when acquitted on plea of justification; presented with a service of plate by the Reform party 1840; started the Tiverton Times 1865; presented with a salver and 550 sovereigns by the Liberal party 1 Jany. 1868; transferred the Western Times to his son Hugh Latimer and son in law S. H. B. Glanville 1873. _d._ 143 Fore st. Exeter 5 Jany. 1888. _I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 pp._ 57, 58, _portrait_.

NOTE.--He _m._ in 1827 Miss Francis Annie Perry of London, she learnt shorthand and helped her husband in his work. In 1830 T. Latimer was the only shorthand writer in Devonshire.

LATOUR, HENRY LOUIS. With Henry Adams and Mr. Spurling ascended from Cremorne gardens on 27 June 1854, being seated on a parachute formed as a horse, a pair of wings on each side being attached to it, his feet rested on a treadwheel intended to move the wings, the parachute would not act and the balloon was lowered near Marsh-lane station, Eastern Counties railway when he was dashed against a tree, removed to Chasseraux Arms, Tottenham where he _d._ 5 July 1854. _Times 11 July 1854 p._ 12.

LATROBE, CHARLES JOSEPH (son of Christian Ignatius Latrobe, musical composer 1758–1836). _b._ London 20 March 1801; climbed many Swiss mountains alone 1824–6; travelled in America 1832–4; superintendent of Port Phillip district of New South Wales 30 Sep. 1839, lieut. governor of Victoria 27 Jany. 1851 to 5 May 1854; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; author of The Alpenstock, or sketches of Swiss scenery and manners 1829; The Pedestrian: a summer’s ramble in the Tyrol 1832; The Rambler in North America 2 vols. 1835; The Rambler in Mexico in 1836; The Solace of Song, short poems suggested by scenes in Italy 1837. _d._ Clapham house, Littlington near Eastbourne 4 Dec. 1875. _I.L.N. xxiv_ 575, 576 (1854), _portrait_, _xxvii_ 124 (1855).

LATROBE, JOHN ANTES (brother of preceding). _b._ London 1799; ed. at St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; C. of Melton Mowbray; C. of Tintern, Monmouth; P.C. of St. Thomas’s, Kendal 1840–65; hon. canon of Carlisle 1858 to death; author of The music of the church considered in its various branches, congregational and choral 1831; The chant, its character explained 1838; Scripture illustrations, a series of engravings 1838; Sacred lays and lyrics 1850. _d._ Gloucester 19 Nov. 1878.

LATROBE, PETER (brother of preceding). _b._ 1795; took orders in the Moravian church; secretary of the Unity of the Brethren in England 1836 to death; an organist and composer; wrote an Introduction on the progress of the Church Psalmody for an edition of the Moravian hymn tunes. _d._ Berthelsdorf near Herrnhut, Saxony 24 Sep. 1863.

LATTER, HENRY JOSEPH. Engaged in bank of England till 1863; general manager of East London bank afterwards called Central bank of London 1863 to death. _d._ Goddendene, Farnborough, Kent 9 Jany. 1891.

LATTER, ROBERT JAMES (3 son of Mr. Latter _d._ 30 June 1829). _b._ London 1783; midshipman 1794; entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. 8 Bengal N.I. 30 Oct. 1797, captain 21 Sep. 1804; major 30 Bengal N.I. 16 Dec. 1814, lieut.-col. 21 March 1819; lieut.-col. 66 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1824, col. 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ London 24 Feb. 1855. _Memoir of general Latter. By Mrs. Baillie_ (1870), _portrait_.

LATTER, THOMAS (son of Barré R. W. Latter, major 13 Bengal N.I.). _b._ India 1816; ensign 48 Bengal N.I. 12 Sep. 1836; lieut. 67 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1840 to death; chief interpreter to sir Henry Thomas Godwin in the second Burmese war; captain in the army 6 Feb. 1851; led the storming party against eastern entrance of the Shwé Dagon pagoda 14 April 1852; resident deputy comr. at Prome 30 Dec. 1852; author of A note on Boodhism and the cave temples of India 1844; A grammar of the language of Burmah 1845; murdered in his bed at Prome by the Burmese at 2 a.m. 8 Dec. 1853.

LAUDER, JAMES ECKFORD (son of a tanner). _b._ Silvermills, Edinburgh 15 Aug. 1811; studied painting at the Trustees’ academy 1830–3; lived in Italy 1834–8; painter in Edinburgh 1838 to death; A.R.S.A. 1839, R.S.A. 1846, a regular contributor to its exhibitions from 1832; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. gallery 1841–53; his picture The Parable of Forgiveness gained a prize of £200 at Westminster Hall competition 1847; his picture Hagar is in the National Gallery of Scotland. _d._ Edinburgh 29 March 1869. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. May 1869 p._ 413.

LAUDER, ROBERT SCOTT (brother of the preceding). _b._ Silvermills, Edinburgh 25 June 1803; subject painter in Edinb. 1826–33; associate of Royal Institution, Edinb. 1828; member of Scottish academy 18 July 1829; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A. and 11 at B.I. 1827–49; studied in Italy 1833–8; resided in London 1838–52; the first pres. of National Institution of the fine arts, Portland gallery, Regent st.; principal teacher in drawing, academy of Board of Trustees, Edinb. Feb. 1852 to 1861; his greatest picture is the ‘Trial of Effie Deans’ 1840, now at Hospitalfields, Arbroath; several of his pictures with his bust in marble by John Hutcheson, R.S.A. are in National gallery of Scotland. _d._ 3 Wardie avenue, Ferry road, Edinburgh 21 April 1869, marble monument with medallion portrait erected over his grave at Edinb. Jany. 1872. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. June 1869 pp._ 477–8; _I.L.N. lx_ 52 (1872), _portrait_.

LAUDERDALE, ANTHONY MAITLAND, 10 Earl of (brother of the 9th Earl). _b._ 10 June 1785; entered navy 2 Oct. 1795; captain 25 Sep. 1806; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; K.C.M.G. 20 Feb. 1820; admiral 18 June 1857; M.P. Haddington burghs 1813–18, M.P. Berwickshire 1826–32; succeeded 22 Aug. 1860. _d._ Thirlestane castle 22 March 1863.

LAUDERDALE, CHARLES BARCLAY MAITLAND, 12 Earl of (only son of rev. Charles Maitland, R. of Little Lingford, Wilts., _d._ 1844). _b._ 29 Sep. 1822; in the army but name not in army list; a railway porter, a station master; succeeded his cousin 1 Sep. 1878; struck by lightning while shooting on his moor near Lauder, Berwickshire, removed to Braidshawrigg, Westruther, where he _d._ the same day 12 Aug. 1884. _Annual Register_ (1885) 149–50.

LAUDERDALE, JAMES MAITLAND, 9 Earl of (eld. son of 8 earl of Lauderdale 1759–1839). _b._ Wimpole st. London 12 May 1784; M.P. Camelford 1806–7, M.P. Richmond 1818–20, M.P. Appleby 1820–31; succeeded 15 Sep. 1839; lieutenant sheriff principal of Berwickshire 3 Nov. 1841 to death. _d._ Thirlestane castle, Berwickshire 22 Aug. 1860.

LAUDERDALE, THOMAS MAITLAND, 11 Earl of (only son of hon. Wm. Mordaunt Maitland general in army, who _d._ 24 June 1841). _b._ Frankfort, co. Cork 3 Feb. 1803; entered navy 22 Sep. 1816; captain 10 Jany. 1837; C.B. 1841, K.C.B. 1865, G.C.B. 24 May 1873; knighted by patent 3 April 1843; naval A.D.C. to the Queen 2 Feb. 1855 to 18 June 1857; commander in chief on Pacific station 5 May 1860 to 31 Oct. 1862; succeeded his cousin as 11 Earl 22 March 1863; first and principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 22 Nov. 1866 to 8 Feb. 1873, assigned his pay of £300 a year as A.D.C. to Royal benevolent society Dec. 1866; admiral 8 April 1868; admiral of the fleet 27 Dec. 1877; lectured on The defence of the protected territories on the Gold Coast, at R. United Service Instit. 1873. _d._ Thirlestane castle, Berwickshire 1 Sep. 1878, personalty sworn under £466,000, 8 Feb. 1879.

LAUGHLIN, FREDERICK HAMILTON. _b._ Dublin; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1866; C. of St. Peter, Saffron Hill, London 1867–72; a reader and preacher at the College of pensioners, Chelsea; an assistant librarian in British museum 1857–76. _d._ in an asylum, London 23 Aug. 1877.

LAURENCE, JOHN. _b._ Crieff 1839; taught himself Latin and German; a superior shorthand writer; chief editor of the Bulletin, Glasgow; edited the Scottish Banner, a newspaper 1861; reporter for The Kilmarnock Standard 1865 to death. _d._ Langlands st. Kilmarnock 13 May 1866. _bur._ Crieff 18 May.

LAURENCE, JOHN ZACHARIAH. _b._ 1828 or 1829; studied at univ. coll. London; M.B. London 1857; F.R.C.S. 1855; surgeon of hospital for epilepsy and paralysis; ophthalmic surgeon St. Bartholomew’s hospital; in practice at 30 Devonshire st. Portland place, London; edited Ophthalmic Review 3 vols. 1864–67; author of The diagnosis of surgical cancer (Liston gold medal) 1855, 2 ed. 1858; Illustrations of the pathology of cancer 1856; The progress of ophthalmic surgery from the invention of the ophthalmoscope 1863; The optical defects of the eye and their consequences, asthenopia and strabismus 1865. _d._ 3 St. Peter’s sq. Hammersmith, Middlesex 18 July 1870.