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LONDONDERRY, George Henry Robert Charles William Vane-Tempest, 5 Marquess of (half-brother of preceding). b. Vienna 26 April 1821; styled viscount Seaham 1823–54; ed. at Eton; matric. Ball. coll. Oxf. 14 June 1839, B.A. and M.A. 1867, hon. D.C.L. Durham; cornet 1 life guards 13 Jany. 1843, lieut. 1845, sold out 1848; M.P. North Durham 1847–54; succeeded his father as 2 earl Vane 6 March 1854; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry 1859–73; lieut.-col. commandant 2 Durham militia 1853–62; assumed additional name of Tempest by r.l. 28 June 1854; appointed to proceed on a special mission to St. Petersburg to invest emperor Alexander II. with insignia and habit of order of the garter 21 July 1867; provincial grand master free masons co. Durham 1880; succeeded his brother as 5 marquess 25 Nov. 1872; K.P. 31 Aug. 1874; lord lieut. of Durham 8 June 1880 to death. d. Plas Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 5 Nov. 1884. I.L.N. lxxxv 501 (1884), portrait; R. F. Gould’s Freemasonry, iv 276 (1885), portrait.
LONEY, Robert. b. 1787; entered navy Sep. 1797; commander on h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; captain on h.p. 6 Aug. 1852; retired admiral 15 June 1879; edited The China pilot 1855. d. Woodbine villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 22 Feb. 1882.
LONG, Catharine (youngest dau. of Horatio Walpole, 2 earl of Orford 1752–1822). b. 1798; (m. 25 July 1822 Henry Lawes Long of Hampton lodge near Farnham, Surrey, d. 1868); edited The story of a drop of water 1856; author of Sir Roland Ashton, a tale of the times 2 vols. 1844, 2 ed. 1854; The Midsummer souvenir, thoughts original and selected 1846; Heavenly thoughts for morning hours 1851; Heavenly thoughts for evening hours 1856; The first lieutenant’s story 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1856; Story of a specific prayer 1863; An Agnus Dei for four or five voices 1848, and other pieces of sacred music. d. suddenly from alarm in a thunderstorm at Landthorne Hatch near Farnham 20 Aug. 1867. Times 21 Aug. 1867 p. 10.
LONG, Charles Edward (elder son of Charles Beckford Long of Langley hall, Berkshire, d. 1836 aged 65). b. Benham park, Berkshire 28 July 1796; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; author of Imperial and papal Rome, a poem 1818, 4 ed. 1859; Considerations on the game laws 1824, anon.; Letter on the Jamaica house of assembly, abandonment of its legislative functions 1839; Royal descents, a genealogical list of the several persons entitled to quarter the arms of the royal houses of England 1845; edited for the Camden Society, The diary of the marches of the royal army during the great civil war, kept by Richard Symonds 1859. d. Lord Warden hotel, Dover 25 Sep. 1861. bur. Seale churchyard, Surrey.
LONG, Charles Maitland (younger son of Samuel Long of Carshalton, M.P. Ilchester d. 1807). b. 16 Aug. 1803; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830; R. of Whitchurch, Salop 1834–46; R. of Settrington, Yorkshire 1846 to death; archdeacon of East Riding of Yorkshire 1854–73; prebendary of Fridaythorpe in York cathedral 1855 to death. d. 43 Berkeley sq. London 6 Oct. 1875.
LONG, Edwin Longsden (son of Edwin Long an artist). b. Bath 12 July 1829; pupil of James Matthew Leigh; a portrait painter, afterwards painted oriental scenes; resided in Spain with John Phillip, R.A.; A.R.A. 26 Jany. 1876, R.A. 13 July 1881; exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1855–80; exhibited his pictures at his own gallery 168 New Bond st. 1883 to death, after which his pictures were exhibited at the Doré gallery 35 New Bond st., his pictures The Babylonian marriage market 1875 and the Egyptian feast 1877 were much noticed. d. Kelston, Netherall gardens, Hampstead 15 May 1891. I.L.N. lxviii 436, 437 (1876), portrait; Graphic 23 May 1891 p. 585, portrait; M. B. Huish’s The year’s art (1888) 32, portrait.
LONG, George (2 son of Joseph Long of Shopwick near Chichester). b. 1780; special pleader in London 1809–11; barrister G.I. 11 Feb. 1811, bencher 1834 to death, treasurer 1837; deputy steward of the Palace court 1825–33; a comr. for inquiring into state of municipal corporations 18 July 1833; magistrate at Great Marlborough st. police court 1839, at Marylebone police court June 1841 to Dec. 1859; recorder of Coventry 1840 to 1854; author of Observations on a bill to amend the laws relating to the relief of the poor 1821; A treatise on the law relative to sales of personal property 1821; An essay on the moral nature of man 1841; The conduct of life, a series of essays 1845; An enquiry concerning religion 1855. d. 51 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 26 June 1868. bur. Willesden cemet. Law Times, xlv 250 (1868).
LONG, George (eld. son of James Long, merchant). b. Poulton, Lancs. 4 Nov. 1800; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1821, 30th wrangler and senior chancellor’s medallist 1822; B.A. 1822; fellow of Trin. coll. 1823–7; professor of ancient languages in univ. of Virginia at Charlottesville 1824–8; professor of Greek in London univ., Gower st. London 1 Oct. 1828, resigned 1831; a founder of royal geographical soc. 1830, hon. sec. 1846–8; edited Quarterly journal of education 10 vols. 1831–5; The Penny cyclopædia 29 vols. 1833–46, published in monthly parts; edited and contributed to The biographical dictionary of the Society for diffusion of useful knowledge 7 vols. 1842–4, letter A only; professor of Latin in Univ. coll. London 1842–6, when he was presented with a silver tea and coffee service; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837, reader on jurisprudence and civil law at Inner Temple April 1846 to 1849; classical lecturer at Brighton college 1849–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 7 Aug. 1873; author of The civil wars of Rome. Select lives from Plutarch 5 vols. 1844–8; France and its revolutions, a pictorial history 1850; An old man’s thoughts about many things 1862, anon.; The decline of the Roman republic 5 vols. 1864; compiled The standard cyclopædia of political knowledge 4 vols. 1848, and edited with rev. Arthur John Macleane the Bibliotheca Classica 27 vols. 1851–84. d. Portfield, Chichester 10 Aug. 1879. H. J. Mathews’s In memoriam. George Long (1879).
LONG, James. b. 1814; resided in Russia; deacon in Church of England 1839, priest 1840; went to India as a missionary of Church missionary society about 1846, stationed at Thakurpukur near Calcutta; known as Padre Long, returned to England 1872; member of Bengal Asiatic Society; F.R.G.S.; fined 1000 rupees and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for adversely criticising the English press at Calcutta and the indigo planters in his preface to a Bengali drama entitled Niladarpana Nataka 1861; assigned to Church Missionary Soc. £2000 to provide popular lectures on the religions of the East; author of Handbook of Bengal missions 1848; A descriptive catalogue of Bengali works 1855; Prabád Málá or the wit of Bengali ryots 1869; Eastern proverbs and emblems 1881; contributed to Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Calcutta review and the Indian magazine. d. 3 Adam st. Adelphi, London 23 March 1887. Trubner’s Literary Record (1887) 24; Academy 9 April 1887 p. 255.
LONG, Richard Penruddock (2 son of Walter Long 1793–1867). b. Baynton house, Wiltshire 19 Dec. 1825; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; first played at Lord’s in Harrow v. Winchester 27 July 1842; one of the largest landed proprietors in England; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1858; nominated for sheriff of Wilts. 1875; contested South Wilts. 16 July 1852; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; M.P. North Wilts. 1865–8. d. Cannes, France 16 Feb. 1875. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, iii 106 (1863).
LONG, Samuel (eld. son of Charles Maitland Long 1803–75). b. 5 Jany. 1840; cadet R.N. 8 Dec. 1852; served in Crimean war and was present at bombardment of Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; captain 12 Dec. 1876; commander of Vernon torpedo instruction ship Portsmouth, organised and delivered the night attack on the fleet at Spithead and on the naval force protected by a boom at Southampton 1889; captain superintendent at Pembroke dockyard Jany. 1889 to Aug. 1891; aide de camp to the queen 1 Jany. 1889 to 27 Aug. 1891; R.A. 27 Aug. 1891; author of several papers on torpedo warfare; thrown from his horse and injured, d. Blendworth lodge, Horndean near Portsmouth 25 April 1893.
LONG, Simon (son of David Long, Gretna Green priest, d. 1827 in his 72 year). The last of the Gretna Green priests. d. Falling near Newcastle on Tyne 24 April 1872.
LONG, Walter (1 son of Richard Godolphin Long, M.P., 1761–1835). b. 10 Oct. 1793; ed. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; M.P. North Wilts. 1835–65; major R. Wilts, yeomanry cavalry; resided Rood Ashton, Wilts., d. Torquay 31 Jany. 1867. G.M. iii 399 (1867).
LONG, William. Stable boy in employ of 5 duke of Beaufort in Oxfordshire 1803; whipper-in to hounds of 6 duke of Beaufort at Badminton about 1814–26; huntsman to 6 and 7 dukes of Beaufort 1826–55. d. Didmarton, Gloucestershire 31 Jany. 1877 aged 84. Cecil’s Records of the chase (1887) 162, 175–80.
LONG, William (2 son of Walter Long of Preshaw house near Bishop’s Waltham, Hants. 1788–1871). b. 15 Aug. 1817; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; author of Avebury illustrated. Devizes 1858; Stonehenge and its burrows. Devizes 1876. d. Onslow gardens, London 14 April 1886. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xi 375 (1886).
LONGDEN, Sir Henry Errington (son of Thomas Hayter Longden). b. 14 Jany. 1819; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 10 foot 16 Sep. 1836, lieut.-col. 20 July 1858, placed on h.p. 14 June 1864; served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, in Punjaub campaign 1848–9; buried under the ruins of Mooltan 12 Sep. 1849 and after some hours dug out unhurt; in battle of Goojerat; medal and 2 clasps; employed in surveying forests of the Himalayas 1849–52; in Indian mutiny 1857–8, took part in capture of Lucknow, chief of the staff to Lugard’s force 1859, Indian medal and 2 clasps; adjutant general Bengal 17 Jany. 1866 to 16 March 1869; general 1 July 1881; col. of second battalion Hampshire regiment, late 67 foot, 24 June 1883 to 11 Nov. 1888; col. of the Lincolnshire regiment, late 10 foot, 11 Nov. 1888 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; C.S.I. 28 May 1870. d. Bournemouth 29 Jany. 1890.
LONGDEN, Sir James Robert (youngest son of John Robert Longden of Doctors’ commons, London, proctor). b. 1827; government clerk in the Falkland islands 1844, colonial secretary there to 1861; pres. of Virgin Islands 1861; lieut. governor of Dominica 5 Sep. 1865; governor of British Honduras 5 Dec. 1867; governor of Trinidad 18 July 1870; governor of British Guiana 14 March 1874; governor of Ceylon 30 June 1877 to 1883; C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871, K.C.M.G. 13 March 1876, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1883; alderman of Hertfordshire under Local government act. d. Longhope near Watford, Herts. 4 Oct. 1891; cremated at Woking cemet. 9 Oct.
LONGFIELD, George (4 son of rev. Mountifort Longfield, V. of Desertserges, co. Cork). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1837–42, fellow 1842 to death; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, B.D. 1864, D.D. 1866; professor of Hebrew, univ. of Dublin 1869 to death; treasurer of St. Patrick’s cathedral 1877; author of An introduction to the study of the Chaldee language 1859. d. 3 Nov. 1878.
LONGFIELD, John (2 son of John Longfield of Longueville, co. Cork 1767–1842). b. Dublin 18 Sep. 1804; ensign 8 foot 28 June 1825, lieut.-col. 3 April 1846 to 1 June 1860 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 1855, 1856 and 1857–59; col. 29 foot 19 April 1868 to 19 Dec. 1881; general 19 July 1876; col. Liverpool regiment, 8 foot, 19 Dec. 1881 to death; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858. d. Kilcoleman, Bandon, co. Cork 27 Feb. 1889. History of Eighth foot 2 ed. p. 283.
LONGFIELD, Mountifort (brother of George Longfield d. 3 Nov. 1878). b. South of Ireland 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829, LL.D. 1831; fellow of Trin. coll. 1825–34; professor of political economy univ. of Dublin 1832–6, regius professor of feudal and English law 29 Nov. 1834 to death, discharged his duties by deputy from 1871; called to Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842, bencher of King’s inns 1859; comr. of Incumbered estates court 1849–58, a judge of Landed estates court 1858–67; comr. of Irish national education 1853; P.C. Ireland 1867; author of Four lectures on poor laws 1834; Lectures on political economy 1834; Remarks on the safety and advantages of commutation if accepted by the clergy generally 1870; Elementary treatise on series 1872. d. 47 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 21 Nov. 1884. Irish Law Times 29 Nov. 1884 p. 606.
LONGFIELD, Richard (brother of John Longfield 1804–89). b. Longueville, co. Cork 1802; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824; sheriff of Cork 1833; contested co. Cork 24 Jany. 1835 and seated on petition 5 June; contested co. Cork 18 Aug. 1837 and 15 July 1841. d. Longueville house, Mallow 19 June 1889.
LONGFIELD, Robert (brother of Mountifort Longfield 1802–84). b. co. Cork 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A 1832; called to Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; law adviser of crown for Ireland 1866 to death; chairman of quarter sessions, co. Galway, Dec. 1867 to death; law adviser to the castle, Dublin; M.P. Mallow, May 1859 to 1865; author of The laws of distress and replevin in Ireland. Dublin 1841; A treatise on the action of ejectment in the superior courts in Ireland 2 ed. 1846; The origin of freemasonry 1857; The fishery laws of Ireland 1863; The game laws of Ireland 1864. d. 33 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 27 April 1868.
LONGFORD, William Lygon Pakenham, 4 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Longford 1774–1838). b. Pakenham hall 31 Jany. 1819; ed. Winchester; ensign 52 foot 25 Aug. 1837; lieut. 7 foot 1838, captain 1844, placed on h.p. 6 July 1852; A.Q.M.G. Crimea 1854–5, A.A.G. 1855, A.G. 1855–6; in battles of Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman, and at siege of Sebastopol, medal with 4 clasps; A.G. Bengal, Feb. 1858 to 2 July 1860; succeeded his brother as 4 earl 27 March 1860; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 June 1861, G.C.B. 24 May 1881; under sec. of state for war 7 July 1866 to 8 Dec. 1868; lord lieut. of Longford 21 March 1874 to death; col. 5 Northumberland fusiliers 11 Sep. 1878 to death; general 31 July 1879; placed on retired list 1881. d. 24 Bruton st. London 19 April 1887.
LONGLANDS, Henry (son of Thomas Longlands of Greenwich). b. 1781; ed. at Westminster, King’s scholar 1796; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1809, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1851; secretary to West India Dock co. 1818–38. d. Blackheath road, Old Charlton 9 Feb. 1857.
LONGLEY, Charles Thomas (5 son of John Longley, recorder of Rochester, d. 1822). b. Boley Hill, Rochester 28 July 1794; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; King’s scholar at Westminster 1808; student at Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812, Greek reader 1822, tutor and censor 1825–8; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1829; proctor of the univ. 1827; C. of Cowley, Oxon. 1818, P.C. of Cowley 1823–7; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1827–9; head master of Harrow school 21 March 1829 to Oct. 1836; bishop of Ripon 15 Oct. 1836, consecrated in York cath. 6 Nov. 1836; translated to see of Durham 13 Oct. 1856; archbishop of York 1 June 1860; P.C. 9 June 1860; archbishop of Canterbury 20 Oct. 1862 to death, installed 12 Dec. 1862; the Lambeth or Pan-Anglican synod of 78 British, colonial and foreign prelates met in London under his presidency 24–27 Sep. 1867; translated Koch’s Tableau des révolutions de l’Europe 1831; author of A letter to the parishioners of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1851. d. Addington park near Croydon 27 Oct. 1868. F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, i 161–8 (1875); Macmillan’s Mag. March 1883 pp. 346–58; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait; Illustrated times 25 Oct. 1862 p. 417, portrait, 20 Dec. 1862 p. 541 view of installation.
LONGMAN, Charles (2 son of Thomas Norton Longman, publisher 1771–1842). b. 11 Feb. 1809; ed. Westminster 1822–4; head of firm of J. Dickinson & Co. paper makers, 65 Old Bailey and 1 Irongate wharf, Praed st. London; F.G.S. 1862; dropped down dead in his park, Shendish near Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 4 Jany. 1873; will proved 15 Feb. 1873, personalty under £200,000.
LONGMAN, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1804; ed. at Glasgow univ.; partner in Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, publishers 38 Paternoster row 1832, head of the firm 1842 to death; superintended production of The New Testament illustrated with engravings on wood after paintings by Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino and other great masters 1864, 250 copies at ten guineas each, 2 ed. 1864, reprinted 1883; published lord Macaulay’s works, sent him a cheque for £20,000 dated 13 March 1856 for his share of profits of his History of England vols. 3 and 4; the firm purchased business and stock of John W. Parker publisher 1863; purchased copyright of Disraeli’s novels 1870; bought Farnborough hall, Hants. for nearly £100,000, 1859. d. Farnborough hall 30 Aug. 1879. History of the house of Longman. By Francis Espinasse in The Critic, xx 366, 431, 483 (1860); Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 79–109.
LONGMAN, Thomas Tucker (son of John Longman). b. Castle Cary, Somerset 1818; ed. St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; one of first to take B.A. degree at univ. of London 1841; ordained priest 1840; missioner at Wolverhampton, at Bloxwich, at Hampton hill, and at Warwick where he built the R.C. church; administrator of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1867, canon of the cath. 1873, vicar general of the diocese 1873–91; in charge of St. Peter’s, Leamington 1884–91; dignity of Monsignor conferred on him by the Pope, June 1890; member of Birmingham school board. d. Leamington 14 Dec. 1892. Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p. 3, portrait.
LONGMAN, William (brother of Thomas Longman 1804–79). b. 9 Feb. 1813; entered service of Longman & Co. publishers 1828, a partner 1839 to death; freeman of Stationers’ Co. 1834; an early member of Alpine club 1857, pres. 1871–4; F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1873; author of A catalogue of works in all departments of English literature classified, anon., Second edition 1848; Journal of six weeks’ adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont and the Italian lakes. By W. Longman and H. Trower. Privately printed 1856; Lectures on the history of England to the close of the reign of Edward II. 1859; The history of the life and times of Edward III. 2 vols. 1869; A history of the three cathedrals dedicated to St. Paul in London 1873. d. Ashlyns, Great Berkhampstead 13 Aug. 1877. William Longman. By H. R. (Henry Reeve) in Fraser’s Mag. for Oct. 1877 pp. 417–21; Publishers’ Circular (1877) 605–6; Graphic, xvi 204 (1877), portrait.
LONGMIRE, Margaret (dau. of John and Margaret Atkinson). b. Westmoreland 15 April 1765; bapt. Windermere 19 May 1777; a servant on various farms; m. James Longmire of Crawmire’s, he d. 19 Jany. 1831; a sick nurse; had parochial relief. d. Troutbeck 30 May 1868 aged 103 years and 6 weeks. She was grandmother of Thomas Longmire the champion wrestler of England. W. J. Thom’s Longevity of Man (1879) 272–80.
LONGMUIR, John (son of John Longmuir). b. Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 13 Nov. 1803; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal coll., M.A., LL.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1859; English master Anderson’s Institution, Forres; licensed by presbytery of Forres, July 1833; evening lecturer in Trinity chapel, Aberdeen 1837; minister of Mariners’ church, Aberdeen Sep. 1840; minister of Free church, Aberdeen 1843–81; lecturer on geology at King’s coll. Aberdeen to 1859; author of The College and other poems. Aberdeen 1825, anon.; Bible Lays 1838, 2 ed. 1877; Ocean Lays 1854, new ed. 1864; Lays for the lambs 1860; A run through the land of Burns and the covenanters 1872; edited Rhythmical index to the English language 1877; Walker and Webster combined in a dictionary of the English language 1864, 2 ed. 1876. d. Aberdeen 7 May 1883. W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord (1887) 407–14; Edwards’s Modern Scottish Poets 2nd series.
LONGSTAFF, George Dixon. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827; M.D. Edinb. 1828; assist. professor of chemistry Edinb. univ., where he was the first teacher of practical chemistry to medical students; physician at Hull some years; in America some years; engaged in commerce in England; superintendent of special constables in Chartist riots 1848; a founder 1841 and V.P. of Chemical Soc. of London; chairman of royal maternity charity, London; first member of Wandsworth district board of works; author of Dissertatio inauguralis de calorico 1828. d. Butterknowle, Southfields, Wandsworth, Surrey 23 Sep. 1892.
LONGWORTH, John Augustus. Consul at Monastir, Tunis 29 Sep. 1851; employed on several special services 1854–58; consul general in Servia 13 Feb. 1860 to 14 Feb. 1875 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; author of A year among the Circassians 2 vols. 1840. d. 16 Westbourne park villas, Bayswater, London 23 July 1875.
LONGWORTH, Maria Theresa (7 child of Thomas Longworth of Manchester, silk manufacturer, d. Altrincham, Cheshire 1854). b. Fairyhill, Cheetwood near Manchester 1827; ed. at a convent in Staffs. and at an Ursuline convent school at Boulogne; began a correspondence 1853 with Wm. Charles Yelverton afterwards 4 viscount Avonmore, met him again when she was a nurse at Galata hospital, Constantinople, during Crimean war, Aug. 1855 and they became engaged; he read aloud the Church of England marriage service at her lodgings 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh 12 April 1857, they were afterwards married by rev. Bernard Mooney at R.C. chapel at Kilbroney near Rostrevor in Ireland, and lived together in Ireland and Scotland till April 1858; Yelverton married Emily widow of professor Edward Forbes 26 June 1858; Miss Longworth sued Yelverton for restitution of conjugal rights in probate court, London 31 Oct. 1859 but the court decided that it had no jurisdiction; the Scottish court of session upheld the marriage 19 Dec. 1862 but this judgment was reversed by the house of lords 28 July 1864; her attempt to reopen the case at Edinburgh in March 1865, failed and the house of lords supported the Scottish court 30 July 1867, her appeal to court of session to set aside judgment of house of lords was rejected 28 Oct. 1868; a subscription in her behalf was raised in Manchester; gave her first reading at Hanover square rooms, London 6 April 1866; author of Martyrs to circumstances 2 vols. 1861; The Yelverton correspondence 1863; Zanita, a tale of the Yosemite 1872; Teresina Peregrina 2 vols. 1874; Teresina in America 2 vols. 1875; lived at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, about March 1880 to her death there 13 Sep. 1881. J. F. Macqueen’s Reports in the House of Lords, iv 745–912 (1866); Law mag. and law review, xi 215–34 (1861); Illust. Times 9 March 1861 p. 143, portrait; A.R. (1861) 528–42; Reynolds’s Miscellany, xxvii 336 (1862), portrait; Illust. sporting news, v 117 (1866), portrait.
Note.—J. R. O’Flanagan’s novel entitled Gentle blood or the secret marriage 1861 is founded on the Yelverton marriage case, Miss Longworth is called in the novel Sybilla Longsword and Yelverton figures as Rodulphus Silverton.
LONSDALE, William Lowther, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844). b. 30 July 1787; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1808; styled viscount Lowther 1807–44; M.P. Cockermouth 1808–13; M.P. Westmoreland 1813–31; M.P. Dunwich 1831–2; M.P. Westmoreland 1832–41; F.R.S. 5 July 1810; a lord of the admiralty 24 Nov. 1809 to 1 May 1810; a commissioner for affairs of India 7 July 1810 to 17 July 1818; a lord of the treasury 25 Nov. 1813 to 30 April 1827; lieut.-col. commandant of Westmoreland militia 9 June 1818 to 26 Feb. 1861; chief comr. of woods and forests 14 June 1828 to 13 Dec. 1830; P.C. 30 May 1828; treasurer of the navy 27 Dec. 1834 to 22 April 1835; vice pres. of board of trade 20 Dec. 1834 to 6 May 1835; summoned to parliament as baron Lowther of Whitehaven 8 Sep. 1841; postmaster general 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 Jany. 1846; succeeded his father as 2 earl 19 March 1844; lord lieut. of Cumberland and Westmoreland 17 April 1844 to 2 Dec. 1868; lord pres. of privy council 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; bought Armathwaite castle, Cumberland, Aug. 1845. d. 14 Carlton house terrace, London 4 March 1872; personalty sworn under £700,000 6 April 1872. I.L.N. lx 261, 267, 339 (1872), portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of art, iii 260–65 (1854).
Note.—He is the original of Lord Colchicum in Thackeray’s Pendennis and of Lord Eskdale in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby.
LONSDALE, Henry Lowther, 3 Earl of (1 son of Henry Cecil Lowther, M.P. 1790–1867). b. London 27 March 1818; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; styled Henry Lowther 1836–72; cornet 1 life guards 24 Sep. 1841, capt. 9 March 1849, sold out 1 Dec. 1854; M.P. West Cumberland 1847–72; hon. col. Cumberland rifle volunteers 16 Aug. 1862; hon. col. Cumberland militia 24 Feb. 1868 to death; lord lieut. of Cumberland and Westmoreland 2 Dec. 1868 to death; succeeded his uncle as 3 earl 4 March 1872; lieut.-col. Westmoreland and Cumberland yeomanry 11 May 1872; steward of the Jockey club 1844 and 1845; won many cups at Newmarket, Goodwood and Stamford; a regular huntsman, lest his horses should be misused after he had done with them, he always shot them. d. Whitehaven castle, Cumberland 15 Aug. 1876. Athenæum 21 Feb. 1874 pp. 260–3; Baily’s Mag. viii 219–21 (1864), portrait; Graphic, xiv 204 (1876), portrait; I.L.N. lxix 208, 213 (1876), portrait.
LONSDALE, St. George Henry Lowther, 4 Earl of (1 son of the preceding). b. Wilton crescent, London 4 Oct. 1855; ed. at Eton; styled viscount Lowther 1872–76; succeeded as 4 earl 15 Aug. 1876; hon. col. Cumberland militia 3 March 1877; vice admiral Cumberland and Westmoreland, March 1877; master of the Cottesmore hounds 2 years; kept a racing stud, Pilgrimage won the 2000 and 1000 guineas in 1878. d. 14 Carlton house terrace, London 8 Feb. 1882. bur. Lowther ch. 14 Feb. Graphic, xxv 220 (1882), portrait; Illust. sport. and dram. news, xvi 549, 563 (1882), portrait.
LONSDALE, Edward Francis. M.R.C.S. 1834, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; one of founders of Institution for Cure of club feet, afterwards the Royal orthopædic hospital, 6 Bloomsbury sq. 1838, and surgeon there; member Med. & Chir. Soc. 1844; a skilful surgeon in orthopædic cases; author of A practical treatise on fractures 1838; Observations on the treatment of lateral curvature of the spine 1847, 2 ed. 1852. d. 26 Montague st. Russell sq. London 11 Sep. 1857. Proc. R. Med. & Chir. Soc. ii 50 (1858).
LONSDALE, Henry (son of Henry Lonsdale, tradesman). b. Carlisle 1816; studied medicine at univ. of Edinb. and in Paris; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; M.D. Edinb. 1838; partner with Robert Knox in Edinb. 1840–5; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1841; physician to royal public dispensary, Edinb. 1841–5, where he introduced use of cod-liver oil; practised at Carlisle from 1846, phys. to Cumberland infirmary 1846–68; the friend of Mazzini, Kossuth and Garibaldi; author of A biographical sketch of William Blamire formerly M.P. for Cumberland 1862; The life and works of Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson, sculptor 1866; The worthies of Cumberland 6 vols. 1867–75; A sketch of the life and writings of Robert Knox the anatomist 1870. d. Rosehill, Carlisle 23 July 1876.
LONSDALE, James Gylby (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1788–1867). b. Clapham, London 14 Oct. 1816; ed. at Laleham sch. and at Eton, Newcastle scholar March 1843; scholar of Balliol coll. Oxf. 29 Nov. 1833, fellow 1838–64, tutor 1840; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; a student of L.I. 1838; chaplain to bishop of Gibraltar 1842–7; chaplain to bishop of Lichfield 1847–67; tutor in univ. of Durham 1851–6; professor of classical literature at King’s coll. London 1865–70; R. of South Luffenham, Rutland 1870–3; R. of Huntspill, Somerset 1873–8; author with Samuel Lee of The works of Virgil rendered into English prose 1871; The works of Horace rendered into English prose 1873. d. Bath 25 April 1892, memorial tablet in Balliol college chapel. R. Duckworth’s Memoir of J. G. Lonsdale (1893), portrait.
LONSDALE, James John (2 son of James Lonsdale the artist 1777–1839). b. 5 April 1810; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1836; sec. to criminal law commission 1842; recorder of Folkestone 5 Aug. 1847 to death; judge of circuit No. 11 West Riding of Yorkshire 14 Feb. 1855 to 19 March 1867; judge of circuit No. 48 Kent 19 March 1867 to March 1884; author of The statute criminal law of England 1839; The odes of Horace. Book 1 a verse translation 1879. d. The Cottage, Sandgate, Kent 11 Nov. 1886. Law Times, vol. 82 p. 111 (1886).
LONSDALE, John (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1737–1807, vicar of Darfield, d. 1807 aged 70). b. Newmillerdam near Wakefield 17 Jany. 1788; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow 1809–15, tutor 1814–5 and 1820–1, univ. scholar 1809; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1824, D.D. 1844; student at Lincoln’s Inn, Dec. 1811; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1816; assistant preacher at the Temple 1816; R. of Musham, Kent 1822–7; preb. of Lincoln 1825–8; fellow of Eton 1827–8; precentor of Lichfield 1828–31; preb. of St. Paul’s 1831–43; R. of St. George’s, Bloomsbury 1828–34; preacher of Lincoln’s inn Jany. 1836; R. of Southfleet, Kent 1836; principal of King’s coll. London Jany. 1839 to 1844, chief founder of King’s coll. hospital 1839; declined provostship of Eton 1840; archdeacon of Middlesex 20 Jany. 1843 to Nov. 1843, installed 1 July 1843; bishop of Lichfield 23 Nov. 1843 to death, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 3 Dec.; consecrated and reopened about 300 churches; chairman of royal commission for enquiring into effect of marriage act of 1835, 1847; chairman of Cambridge univ. commission 1857; pres. of church congress at Wolverhampton, Oct. 1867; author of Some popular objections against christianity considered 1820; The testimonies of nature, reason and revelation respecting a future judgment 1821; Some account of the life of the rev. T. Rennell 1824; The four gospels with annotations 1849. d. suddenly at his dinner table Eccleshall castle, Staffs. 19 Oct. 1867. E. B. Denison’s Life of John Lonsdale (1868), portrait; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 4 series (1860), portrait; The church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859), portrait 48; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 163–66; F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, i 206–11 (1875); E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 415–16.
LONSDALE, William (youngest son of Wm. Lonsdale). b. Bath 9 Sep. 1794; ensign 4 foot 1 Feb. 1810, lieut. 15 May 1812, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; served in Peninsular war and at Waterloo where he was the only officer in the 4th foot not wounded; curator of natural history department of Bath museum 1826–9; F.G.S. 15 May 1829, curator and librarian of the society 1829–42, the Wollaston fund was awarded him 1832 and 3 times afterwards, Wollaston medallist 1846; investigated the oolite districts of Gloucestershire; co-originator with Murchison and Sedgwick of the theory of the independence of Devonian system; author of On the age of the limestones of South Devonshire and other papers in Transactions and Journal of Geol. Soc. d. City road, Bristol 11 Nov. 1871. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxviii 35–6 (1872); W. S. Mitchell’s Notes on the early geologists connected with neighbourhood of Bath (1872) 31–9.
LOPES, Sir Ralph, 2 Baronet (only son of Abraham Franco, merchant, London). b. 10 Sep. 1788; succeeded his uncle sir Manasseh Massey Lopes 26 March 1831; assumed surname of Lopes in lieu of Franco by r.l. 4 May 1831; M.P. Westbury, Wilts. 1814–20, 1831–37 and 1841–7; contested Westbury 26 July 1837; M.P. South Devon 13 Feb. 1849 to death. d. Maristowe near Plymouth 26 Jany. 1854; personalty sworn under £180,000, March 1854. J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history (1875) 304–306.
LORD, Henry William (eld. son of Charles Francis James Lord of Hampstead). b. 1834; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1859–62, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1859; revising barrister for Kent; registrar of court of probate for co. of Lancaster 1881–91; one of the four registrars of chief probate registry at Somerset House at salary of £1500 Jany. 1891 to death; author of The highway of the sea in time of war. Camb. 1862. d. 5 Dorset sq. London 27 May 1893.
LORD, John Keast (son of Edward Lord). b. Tavistock 1818; apprenticed to chemists at Tavistock; entered royal veterinary college, London 1842, M.R.C.V.S. 29 May 1844; veterinary surgeon at Tavistock; a trapper in Minnesota and the Hudson’s Bay fur countries; veterinary surgeon in British army 19 June 1855, served with artillery of Turkish contingent in Crimea, lieut. 4 Jany. 1856, veterinary surgeon and lieut. of Osmanli horse artillery in Aug. 1856; naturalist to the commission for separating British Columbia from the United States territory 1 Feb. 1858, returned to England 14 July 1862; resided in Vancouver’s Island some time; his valuable collections of mammals, birds, fishes and insects are now in the Natural history museum, South Kensington; employed in archæological and scientific researches by viceroy of Egypt about 1868; manager of the Brighton Aquarium opened 10 Aug. 1872 to death; contributed many papers to Land and Water under signature of The Wanderer 1866–72; collected coleoptera in Egypt; author of The naturalist in Vancouver’s Island and British Colombia 2 vols. 1866; At home in the wilderness. By The Wanderer 1867, 3 ed. 1876; Handbook of sea-fishing. d. 17 Dorset gardens, Brighton 9 Dec. 1872. Leisure Hour, xxii 696–9 (1873), portrait; Land and Water 14 Dec. 1872 pp. 387, 395; Graphic, vii 3, 12 (1873), portrait.
LORD, John William (son of Isaac Lord, baptist minister, Birmingham). Ed. Cambridge house, Birmingham, and Amershall school, Reading; matric. univ. of London, June 1868, B.A. 1870, M.A. 1874; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1870, foundation scholar 1872–6; rowed in his college boat; senior wrangler Jany. 1875, fellow of Trin. coll. 10 Oct. 1876 to 1881. d. Clarens, Lake of Geneva 4 Sep. 1883.
LORD, William. b. Bacup 11 May 1791; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1811, at Birmingham 1824–6, at Manchester 1828–31, president of United Connexion conference 1834; representative to American general conference 1835; minister at Bristol 1836–9, at Hull 1839–42; governor of Woodhouse grove school 1843–58; president of Canadian conference; a supernumerary from 1861 to death; revisited Woodhouse school when he was eighty. d. Manningham, Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1873. J. T. Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) 74–8.
LORD, William Satterley (eld. son of rev. Wm. Edward Lord, D.D., of Northiam, Sussex). b. 1841; ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., B.A. 1866, M.A. 1869; admitted by Inner Temple special pleader below the bar Jany. 1869; barrister I.T. 7 June 1873; advocate of high court of Griqualand West, April 1876, acting attorney general April to Aug. 1877 and Dec. 1877 to Sep. 1879, Q.C. there March 1879; M.P. for Kimberley in legislative assembly of Cape Colony. d. on board the Norman Castle on his way home from Cape Town 9 Sep. 1889.
LORIMER, George. A builder in Edinburgh; lord dean of guild 1864; killed in the fire of the theatre royal, Edinburgh, by the north wall falling on him when trying to save lives 13 Jany. 1865. J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage (1888) 477–8; A.R. (1865) 3–5; I.L.N. xlvi 97 (1865).
LORIMER, James (son of James Lorimer, manager of Earl of Kinnoul’s estates). b. Aberdalgie, Perthshire 4 Nov. 1818; ed. at high school Perth and the univs. of Edinb., Berlin and Bonn and academy of Geneva; member of Faculty of advocates 1845; acted as sheriff substitute of Midlothian; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; professor of public law in univ. of Edinb. 15 May 1865 to death, where he introduced graduation in law; a founder of The institute of international law 1873; author of The universities of Scotland, past, present and possible 1854; A handbook of the law of Scotland 1859, 5 ed. 1885; Constitutionalism of the future, or parliament the mirror of the nation 1865, 2 ed. 1867; The institutes of law, a treatise of jurisprudence as determined by nature 1872, 2 ed. 1880; The institutes of the law of nations 2 vols. 1883–4, and of 19 lectures and 14 pamphlets. d. 1 Bruntsfield crescent, Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1890, portrait by his son J. H. Lorimer, R.S.A. in senate hall of univ. of Edinb. James Lorimer’s Studies national and international (1890); Juridical Review, April 1890 pp. 113–21, portrait.
LORIMER, John Gordon (2 son of rev. Robert Lorimer 1765–1848, minister of Haddington). b. Haddington; minister of Torryburn 1829; minister of St. David’s or Ram’s Horn parish, Glasgow 1832 to 1843; minister of St. David’s Free ch. Glasgow 1843 to death; D.D. of coll. of New Jersey 27 June 1849; author of The past and present condition of religion and morality in the United States 1833; The eldership of the church of Scotland 1841; Historical sketch of the protestant church of France 1841; The deaconship 1842; Sermons on Sabbath profanation 184-. d. Glasgow 9 Oct. 1868. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 349–58.
LORIMER, Peter (eld. son of John Lorimer, builder). b. Edinburgh 1812; bursar in univ. of Edinb. 1827; minister of presbyterian ch. River terrace, London 1836–44; professor of theology in English presbyterian college, London 1844–78, principal 1878 to death; D.D. New Jersey, June 1857; author of Precursors of Knox, or memoirs of Patrick Hamilton, Alexander Alane or Alesius, and Sir David Lindsay of the Mount Edinburgh 1857; The evidential value of the early epistles of St. Paul viewed as historical documents 1874, 3 ed. 1880; The evidence to Christianity arising from its adaptation to all the deeper wants of the human heart 1876; John Knox and the church of England 1875. d. Whitehaven, Cumberland 29 July 1879. bur. in Grange cemet. Edinb.
LORING, Sir John Wentworth (son of Joshua Loring, high sheriff of Massachusetts). b. America 13 Oct. 1775; entered navy June 1789, captain 28 April 1802; commanded the Niobe 38 guns on coast of France 1805–13; commanded the Impregnable in the North Sea 1813–4; superintendent of the ordinary at Sheerness 1816–9; lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 4 Nov. 1819 to 10 Jany. 1837; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral 8 July 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840, K.C.H. 30 April 1837. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 29 July 1852.
LORT, William. One of the best judges of live stock in England, and constantly employed in judging horses, cattle and dogs; went with Assheton Smith in his yacht Pandora upon a sporting expedition to the North Pole; a fine swimmer; a supporter of Birmingham National dog show from its beginning; an originator of Crystal palace dog show and of the Kennel club; F.R.G.S. d. Vaynol park, Bangor 23 May 1891.
LORTON, Robert Edward King, 1 Viscount (2 son of 2 earl of Kingston 1754–99). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 12 Aug. 1773; ensign 27 foot 30 June 1792; major 92 foot 7 March 1794; lieut. col. 127 foot 20 Dec. 1794, regiment reduced 1795 but he was retained on full pay; colonel of Roscommon militia 24 Nov. 1797 to death; created an Irish peer by title of baron Erris of Boyle, co. Roscommon 29 Dec. 1800; created viscount Lorton of Boyle, co. Roscommon 28 May 1806; a representative peer of Ireland 8 Feb. 1823 to death; general 22 July 1830; lord lieut. of co. Roscommon 1831 to death. d. Rockingham, Boyle, co. Roscommon 20 Nov. 1854.
Note.—He was bur. at 4 o’clock in the morning according to the custom of his family in the church of Boyle 24 Nov. 1854. He was the last commoner raised to the peerage of Ireland before the union with England.
LOSCOMBE, Clifton Wintringham. Resided at Pickwick house, Corsham, where he obtained possession of a hoard of coins and antiquities which was discovered at Sevington, Wilts., Jany. 1834; an original member of Numismatic Soc. 1836. d. Clifton 17 Dec. 1853. Numismatic Chronicle, xvii Proceedings p. 16 (1855); Archæologia, xxvii 301–5 (1838).
LOSH, James (son of James Losh, recorder of Newcastle, d. 23 Sep. 1833 aged 71). b. 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; went northern circuit; judge of county courts, No. 1 circuit, Northumberland, May 1853 to death, took his seat 25 May 1853; attacked with paralysis Aug. 1858. d. 24 Clayton st. west, Newcastle on Tyne 1 Oct. 1858.
LOSH, Sarah (1 dau. of John Losh of Woodside near Carlisle). b. Woodside 1 Jany. 1786; ed. in Bath and London, and became proficient in Italian, French, Latin, Greek, music and mathematics; gave a school endowed with 30 acres to Wreay 1830; laid out and gave to the city of Carlisle a cemetery 1835; erected a mausoleum in Wreay ch. yard for the remains of her sister Katherine Isabella Losh who d. Feb. 1835; erected a church at Wreay in 1842 at cost of £1200; a woman of much learning who associated with Dr. William Paley and other scholars. d. Woodside near Carlisle 29 March 1853. H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland (1873) 197–238, portrait.
LOSH, William (brother of the preceding). b. Woodside 1770; ed. at Erfurt; manager of alkali works at Walker on the Tyne 1796; one of founders of the Walker iron works; resided for some time in Sweden; patented a wheel for railway carriages 1830; took out patents with George Stephenson for railways 1816; consul for Sweden and Prussia at Newcastle. d. Newcastle 4 Aug. 1861. H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland (1873) 153–85.
LOTHIAN, Cecil Chetwynd Kerr, Marchioness of (younger dau. of 2 earl Talbot 1777–1849). b. Ingestre hall, Staffs. 17 April 1808; (m. 19 July 1831 seventh marquess of Lothian 1794–1841); built church at Jedburgh; joined church of Rome; founded a R.C. mission with chapel and school at Jedburgh; built church of St. David at Dalkeith; founded a mission with a chapel at Pathhead; a founder of the Home of Refuge for women discharged from prison, conducted by sisters of the Good Shepherd; went to Germany to convey to the R.C. bishops the sympathy of the catholics of England; promoted the pilgrimages to Paray-le-Monial and to Pontigny in 1873 and 1874. d. Hôtel de Rome, Rome 13 May 1877; the Pope sent her a special benediction and a triduum was offered for her in the church of the Virgin, at Rome, May 1877; bur. in cemetery of San Lorenzo. P. Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck (1890) 125–63, portrait; Times 14 May 1877 p. 7, 15 May p. 10.
LÖTTNER, Friedrich. Professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology and assistant librarian at Trinity college, Dublin 1863–71. d. Dublin, middle of April 1873.
LOUDON, Jane (dau. of Thomas Webb d. 1824). b. Ritwell house near Birmingham 1807; edited The ladies’ magazine of gardening 1842; The ladies’ companion 1850–1 and several of her husband’s works 1845–55; granted civil list pension of £100, 22 April 1846; author of Prose and Verse 1824; The Mummy, a tale of the twenty-second century 3 vols. 1827, anon., new ed. 1872; Stories of a bride 1829; The ladies’ companion to the flower garden 1841, 9 ed. 1879, which circulated 20,000 copies; The first book of botany 1841, new ed. 1870; The ladies’ flower garden of perennials 2 vols. 1843–4; The ladies’ country companion 1845, 4 ed. 1852, and 20 other books; (m. 14 Sep. 1830 John Claudius Loudon, landscape gardener, d. 14 Dec. 1843 aged 60). She d. 3 Porchester terrace, Bayswater, London 13 July 1858. Cottage Gardener, xx 248, 255–9 (1858).
LOUGH, John Graham (son of a small farmer at Greenhead near Hexham, Northumberland). b. 1806; an ornamental sculptor at Newcastle; exhibited at the R.A. 1826 a bas-relief The Death of Turnus; exhibited 49 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 16 at B.I. 1826–63; exhibited his works in London 1827; studied in Rome 1834–8; executed the statues of queen Victoria in the royal exchange 1845, of prince Albert at Lloyd’s 1847 and of marquis of Hastings at Malta 1848; 7 of his statues were in Great Exhibition of 1851. d. 42 Harewood sq. London 8 April 1876. Graphic, xiii 416 (1876), portrait; Handbook of statues comprising the Lough models in Elswick hall (1879).
LOUIS, Sir John, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas Louis, 1 baronet, d. 17 May 1807). b. 1785; entered navy Sep. 1795, captain 22 Jany. 1806; commander of L’Aigle 36 guns 1811–15; superintendent of Malta dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 6 Jany. 1843; R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral superintendent at Plymouth 16 Dec. 1846 to 9 Feb. 1850; V.A. 9 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 27 Sep. 1855, pensioned 2 May 1860. d. 61 Eaton place, London 30 March 1863.
LOUIS, William (2 son of preceding). b. 21 May 1810; entered R.N. 7 Dec. 1824; capt. 9 Nov. 1846; commander of Stromboli steam vessel 1841–3; retired 1 July 1864; admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. 46 Connaught sq. London 20 Nov. 1885.
LOUISE, Madame, stage name of Louise Miller. b. 1810; première danseuse of Her Majesty’s theatre under Benjamin Lumley’s management; ballet mistress of Drury Lane under the managements of Alfred Bunn, James Anderson and E. T. Smith to 1859. d. 5 Feb. 1892. bur. Fulham cemet.
LOUND, Thomas. b. 1802; member of a firm of brewers at Norwich; an amateur painter, excelled in river views; painted the scenery in Wales and Yorkshire and near Cromer; exhibited much in Norwich; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 10 at B.I. 1846–57. d. King st. Norwich 18 Jany. 1861.
LOVAT, Thomas Alexander Fraser, 1 Baron (1 son of Alexander Fraser of Strichen, Aberdeen). b. Strichen house, Aberdeen 17 June 1802; cr. baron Lovat of Lovat, co. Inverness, in peerage of U.K. 28 Jany. 1837; established his right to Scottish barony of Lovat, attainder of which was reversed in his favor by 17 & 18 Vict. cap. 39, 10 July 1854; vice lieut. and sheriff principal of Invernessshire 30 Aug. 1853 to 1873; K.T. 1865. d. Beaufort castle, Invernessshire 28 June 1875. I.L.N. lxvii 47 (1875).
LOVAT, Simon Fraser, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). b. Beaufort castle 21 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. commandant of Inverness, Banff, Moray and Nairn militia 10 Dec. 1855 to death; deputy lieut. of Inverness 1853–72, vice lieut. 1872, lord lieut. 18 April 1873 to death; succeeded 28 June 1875. d. suddenly while shooting on a grouse moor near Inverness 6 Sep. 1887.
LOVE, Emma Sarah (dau. of W. E. Love, lieutenant in H.M. service, d. about 1814). b. Cheapside, London 10 Sep. 1801; ed. in music by D. Corri; appeared at English opera house as Mrs. Courtly in Free and Easy 1817; took leading vocal parts under Samuel J. Arnold at Lyceum theatre; appeared at Covent Garden 1822 with great success, then at the Haymarket 1823; played Marina in the operatic entertainment Cortez; acted in the provinces; played Lilla in Cobb’s comic opera The siege of Belgrade, at Drury Lane 1828; a very beautiful woman who sang ‘What is more dear to the heart of the brave’ and ‘Little love is a mischievous boy’ to perfection; believed by The Era of 23 Dec. 1882 to be then living. Cumberland’s British theatre, vol. xx (1828), portrait; Oxberry’s Dramatic biography, iii 163–74 (1825), portrait.
LOVE, Frederic. b. 1816; homœopathic practitioner; in practice in Paris 50 years, where he had many aristocratic and artistic patients; was very active in the cholera outbreak of 1859. d. Paris 3 June 1891.
LOVE, Henry Ommanney (1 son of commander Wm. Love 1764–1839). b. 1 March 1793; entered navy 23 Dec. 1808; captain 5 Dec. 1837; retired admiral 3 July 1869; claimed to have suggested use of paddles instead of wheels for steam vessels; sub-commissioner of pilotage, Southampton; superintendent of lights for Isle of Wight district; mayor of Yarmouth 3 times. d. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 16 Sep. 1872.
LOVE, Horatio N. b. 1801; stock-jobber at 2 Capel court, City of London 1847; chairman of Eastern counties railway co. 1857–63. d. Margate 14 March 1882.
LOVE, Sir James Frederick (son of John Love). b. London 1789; ensign 52 foot 26 Oct. 1804; captain 11 July 1811, placed on h.p. 11 Aug. 1825; served in Sweden and Portugal 1808, in the retreat from Corunna 1809, in Portugal again 1809–12; received 4 wounds in the famous charge of the 52nd on the imperial guard at Waterloo; inspecting field officer of militia, New Brunswick 1825–30; major 11 foot 9 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 76 foot 6 Sep. 1834; lieut.-col. 73 foot 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 23 Sep. 1845; British resident at Zante 1835–8; governor of Jersey 1852–6; commanded at Shorncliffe camp 1856; inspector general of infantry 1857 to April 1862; col. of 57 foot 24 Sep. 1856 to 5 Sep. 1865; col. of 43 foot 5 Sep. 1865 to death; general 10 Aug. 1864; K.H. 1831; C.B. 30 March 1839, K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 17 Ovington sq. London 13 Jany. 1866.
LOVE, Joseph. b. 1795; a pit boy in the capacity of a trapper, a hewer; owner of a large number of collieries both in the eastern and western coal fields; built and endowed many chapels, built a chapel at High Shincliffe near Durham at cost of £1000; member of Methodist New Connexion. d. near Durham 21 Feb. 1875, personalty sworn under £1,000,000, 17 April 1875.
LOVE, William Edward (son of a merchant in the City to 1812). b. London 6 Feb. 1806; ed. at Harlow in Essex and at Nelson house, Wimbledon; commenced practising ventriloquism 1818; connected with London journalism 1820–6; appeared for a benefit at Olympic theatre in a solo entertainment entitled The False Alarm 1826; performed in England and France 1827, in Dublin 1828; produced The peregrinations of a polyphonist, June 1849, with which he visited chief towns in England; opened at Oxford with a piece called Ignes Fatui 1833; played at Almack’s 1833, at City of London assembly rooms, Bishopsgate st. during summer seasons of 1834–8; appeared on alternate nights at St. James’s theatre and in the City 1836; visited United States, West Indies and South America 1838; played at Strand theatre and 6 other places in London 1839–54; produced the ‘London Season’ at 69 Quadrant, Regent st. London 26 Dec. 1854, played there 8 Feb. 1856 the 300th consecutive night and his 2,406th performance in London; paralysed 1858, had a benefit at Sadler’s Wells; the best English ventriloquist on record, played in upwards of 15 distinct entertainments, in which he assumed various characters making rapid changes of his dress. d. 33 Arundel st. Strand, London 16 March 1867. Memoirs of W. E. Love (1834); G. Smith’s Memoirs of Mr. Love, Boston, U.S. (1850); Ireland’s New York Stage, ii 273, 317 (1867); I.L.N. 25 March 1843 p. 215, portrait, 27 Jany. 1855 p. 84, portrait.
LOVEDAY, Ely. b. 1800; an actress 1817; played leading business with Edmund Kean, Elton, Liston and Macready; saw the 4 Kembles, Stephen, John, Charles and Mrs. Siddons play in Henry VIII.; played at most of the London theatres, retired 1852; (m. W. Loveday an actor at Drury Lane theatre). d. 11 Nov. 1892. bur. Kensal Green 15 Nov.
LOVEDAY, George Beaumont (son of the preceding). b. 1833; fiddler, dramatic manager, operatic entrepreneur; with his brother Henry J. Loveday introduced Faust in English; known as The Prince because of his good looks; acting manager and confidential adviser to J. L. Toole 1867–87; (m. 25 Jany. 1877 Annie only dau. of John Dickey Creelman, she was known on the stage as Annie Tremaine and later on as Madame Amadi). d. 8 Woburn place, London 21 Dec. 1887. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 24 Dec. J. Hatton’s Reminiscences of J. L. Toole 3 ed. (1889) 30–4.
LOVEDEN, Pryse (son of Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, Cardigan, d. 1849). b. Woodstock 1 June 1815; M.P. Cardigan district of boroughs 1849 to death; resumed by r.l. original name of Loveden 1849. d. Glo’ster hotel, 76 Piccadilly, London 1 Feb. 1855.
LOVELACE, Augusta Ada King, Countess of (only child of George Gordon, 6 baron Byron, the poet 1788–1824). b. 13 Piccadilly terrace, London 10 Dec. 1815; last seen by her father when she was only one month old; some of her hair sent to her father at Pisa, Nov. 1821; he alludes to her in Childe Harold, canto 3, line 2, as Ada sole daughter of my house and heart; translated and edited with notes, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, esq. By L. F. Menabrea, Turin. Signed A. A. L. in R. Taylor’s Scientific memoirs, iii 666–731 (1843); corresponded with Andrew Crosse on electricity, &c. 1841–2; (m. at Fordhook, her mother’s residence, 8 July 1835 William King 8 baron King and Ockham 4 June 1833, cr. earl Lovelace 30 June 1838). d. 6 Great Cumberland place, London 27 Nov. 1852. bur. Hucknall Torcard church near her father. monu. placed in Newstead abbey, Aug. 1863. Bentley’s Miscellany, xxxiii 69–73 (1853), portrait; Argosy 1 Nov. 1869 pp. 358–61; Finden’s Portraits of female aristocracy (1849) vol. ii, portrait 21; Journal of Statistical Soc. xxxiv 414 (1871); Moore’s Life of Byron (1846) 290, 720; I.L.N. xxi 499 (1852); G.M. Jany. 1853 pp. 89–90.
Note.—The third book of Childe Harold written in 1816 begins and concludes with lines addressed to Byron’s daughter and she is again spoken of in the verses Fare thee well, 17 March 1816.
LOVELL, Edward Bourne. Barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; author of Chancery orders 1850 with cases decided 1850; Index to the stamp duties arranged analytically 1850; Digest of law cases, statutes, &c. 1850–54, 4 vols. 1852–5. d. Godshill, Isle of Wight 28 July 1883 aged 78.
Note.—He was also author of The joint-stock companies’ winding-up acts 1848–1849 with notes, published by Wildy, Dec. 1849. Stevens and Norton obtained an injunction against Wildy in the Vice-Chancellor’s court 1 Feb. 1850, Lovell having made use of a great deal of matter previously printed in J. M. Ludlow’s Joint-stock companies’ winding-up act 1848 published by Stevens and Norton 1 Dec. 1848, Wildy was obliged to give up all the copies of the pirated book and pay the costs about £250, which sum Wildy recovered against Lovell in the court of Common Pleas 29 Nov. 1853. Law Journal Reports n.s. xix pt. 1 pp. 190–3 (1850); Law Times 3 Dec. 1853 p. 106.
LOVELL, Edwin (youngest son of Joseph Lovell Lovell of Chilcote manor, solicitor). b. 7 May 1808; ed. at Eton 1823; solicitor at Wells 1831 to death; clerk of peace for Somerset 13 Aug. 1846 to death; registrar of Wells county court 1847 to death; member of the order of The Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother Glastonbury 23 Sep. 1835. d. Sharcombe house, Dinder near Wells 21 May 1877. Wright’s The Blue Friars (1889) 97, 218, portrait.
LOVELL, George William. b. 1804; secretary of Phœnix Insurance Co. 1850 to death; author of the following plays, The Avenger, produced at Surrey theatre 1835; The provost of Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; Love’s sacrifice or the rival merchants, Covent Garden 12 Sep. 1842; Look before you leap, Haymarket 29 Oct. 1846; The wife’s secret, purchased by Charles Kean for £400 before it was written, produced at Park theatre, New York 12 Oct. 1846, and at Haymarket 17 Jany. 1848 when it ran 36 nights and has since kept the stage; The trial of love, Princess’s 7 Jany. 1852, ran 23 nights; published a novel called The Trustee 3 vols. 1841. d. 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 13 May 1878. I.L.N. lxii 533 (1878), portrait.
LOVELL, John. b. Farnham, Surrey 1836; reporter and sub-editor on Sheffield Times and Birmingham Daily Post; editor of Cassell’s Mag. 1868; manager of Press Association 1869–80, a director, chairman of finance committee; a founder and editor of the Printing Times, Jany. 1873; editor of the Liverpool Mercury 1880 to death; the best known journalist on the English press. d. 17 Gambier ter. Liverpool 20 Feb. 1890. Sell’s World’s Press (1891) 82, portrait; London Figaro 1 March 1890 p. 12, portrait; Academy, i 152 (1890).
LOVELL, John Williamson. b. 1824; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 June 1841, col. 3 Aug. 1872 to death; surveying in Turkey 1854; present at battles of Alma and Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; commander of R.E. at Chatham; L.G. 5 Jany. 1869; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Halifax, Nova Scotia 24 April 1880.
LOVELL, Sir Lovell Benjamin (eld. son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock of Little Missenden hall, Bucks.) b. 1786; ed. at Eton; cornet 14 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1805, captain 12 Dec. 1811; served in Peninsular war 1809–14 for which he received Peninsular medal with 11 clasps; major 8 hussars 28 Oct. 1824, placed on h.p. 21 Nov. 1828; lieut.-col. 15 hussars 21 March 1834, placed on h.p. 8 March 1850; col. of 12 lancers 29 Nov. 1856 to death; L.G. 1 April 1860; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; assumed surname of Lovell 10 April 1840. d. Brunswick terrace, Brighton 11 March 1861.
LOVELL, Maria Anne (dau. of Willoughby Lacy, patentee of Drury Lane, d. 1831). b. London 15 July 1803; appeared as Mrs. Haller at Belfast 1818; acted Belvidera in Venice preserved, at Covent Garden 9 Oct. 1822; excelled in pathetic parts; (m. 1830 George William Lovell 1804–78 when she retired from the stage); wrote Ingomar the barbarian, Drury Lane, June 1851, revived by Mary Anderson, Lyceum 1 Sep. 1883; The beginning of the end, Haymarket 27 Oct. 1855. d. 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 2 April 1877. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses, i 250–5 (1855).
LOVELL, William Stanhope (brother of Sir Lovell B. Lovell 1786–1861). b. about 1788; entered navy May 1799; present in battle of Trafalgar; captain 21 Aug. 1815, retired 1 Oct. 1846; assumed name of Lovell 1840; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; author of Personal narrative of events from 1799 to 1815, 2 ed. 1879. d. Great Yarmouth 20 May 1859.
LOVER, Samuel (eld. son of a member of the Dublin stock exchange). b. Dublin 24 Feb. 1797; a portrait painter, especially in miniatures to 1844; member of Royal Hibernian academy 1828, secretary 1830; wrote Rory O’More 1826, best known of his ballads; his miniature of Paganini exhibited at Dublin academy 1832 and at R.A. London 1833; removed to London 1835; wrote The Olympic picnic for Madame Vestris 1835; published Rory O’More, a national romance 1837, his dramatised version of which was acted at Adelphi theatre Oct. 1837 and ran over 100 nights; composed a musical drama The Greek Boy, of which he wrote both music and words, Covent Garden 1838; his burlesque opera Il Paddy Whack in Italia was produced at English opera house 1838; produced his own entertainment called Irish Evenings, at Princess’s Concert Rooms, March 1844 and in Canada and U.S. of America 1846–8; produced an entertainment called Paddy’s Portfolio, in London 1848; wrote the libretti of two operas for Balfe; his drama the Sentinel of the Alma was produced at Haymarket theatre; author of Legends and stories of Ireland 1831; Songs and Ballads 1839; Handy Andy 1842; L. S. D. 1844, new ed. under title of Treasure Trove 1844; Rival rhymes in honour of Burns. Collected and edited by Ben Trovato 1859, and of many popular songs; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 March 1856. d. St. Helier’s, Jersey 6 July 1868. bur. Kensal Green cemet. London 15 July. B. Bernard’s Life of Samuel Lover 2 vols. (1874), portrait; N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs 2 ed. 1851 pp. 196–9; The Critic, xix 229 (1859), portrait; I.L.N. iv 208 (1844), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii 196, portrait.
LOVESY, Conway Whithorne (2 son of Conway Whithorne Lovesy of Charlton Kings, Gloucs.) b. 6 April 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; a police magistrate in Trinidad 1871–3; a puisne judge of supreme court of British Guiana 1873–8; author of The churchwarden’s guide 8 ed. 1871; The law of arbitration between masters and workmen 1867; The law of house invasion and defence 1879; edited J. F. Archbold’s The practice of the court of quarter sessions 3 ed. 1869. d. Keynsham Bank, Cheltenham 15 Nov. 1885.
LOVETT, William (son of William Lovett, master mariner, drowned 1800). b. Church lane, Newlyn near Penzance 8 May 1800; apprenticed to a ropemaker; went to London 1821; worked as a carpenter; employed in the first London co-operative association; secretary of British Association for promoting co-operative knowledge about 1830–4; joined National union of the working classes 1831; opened a coffee house in Greville st. Hatton Garden 1833 which failed; a founder of London Working Mens’ Association, 6 Upper North place, Gray’s Inn road 16 June 1836; secretary of the general committee of trades of London 1838, drafted the bill known as the ‘Peoples Charter’ published 8 May 1838; secretary of the Chartist Convention 4 Feb. 1839; tried at Warwick assizes for seditious libel 6 Aug. 1839 when sentenced to 12 months imprisonment; bookseller at 183 Tottenham court road 1840; manager of the school supported by the National Association 1849–57; a member of working-class committee of Great Exhibition 1850; a teacher of anatomy in St. Thomas, Charterhouse schools and in Richardson’s gr. sch. Gray’s Inn road 1857; author of A proposal for the considerations of the friends of progress 1847; Elementary anatomy and physiology. With lessons on diet 1851; Social and political morality 1853; Woman’s mission 1856, a poem. d. 137 Euston road, London 8 Aug. 1877. bur. Highgate. The life and struggles of W. Lovett (1876); The trial of W. Lovett 2 ed. (1839); G. J. Holyoake’s History of Co-operation, i 127, ii 411–13 (1875–9); R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism (1854) 120 etc.; Who were the Chartists? in Century Mag. xxiii 421–30 (1882), portrait.
LOW, Alexander (son of James Low, farmer, Clatt, Aberdeen). b. 1800; M.A. of Marischall coll. and univ. Aberdeen 3 April 1819; schoolmaster of Clatt 1825; presbyterian minister of Keig, Banffshire 27 June 1834 to death; author of The history of Scotland from the earliest period to the middle of the ninth century 1826; Scottish heroes in the days of Wallace and Bruce 2 vols. 1856. d. in the manse of Keig 3 May 1873.
LOW, David (son of a tradesman). b. Brechin, Forfarshire, Nov. 1768; ed. at Marischal college, Aberdeen; episcopal minister at Pittenweem, Fifeshire, Sep. 1789 to death; bishop of united dioceses of Ross, Argyll and the Isles 1819 to 19 Dec. 1850, consecrated 14 Nov. 1819; LL.D. Aberdeen, April 1820; chief founder of Gaelic Episcopal Society 1831; the diocese of Moray was added to his diocese July 1838, he effected separation of Argyll and the Isles from Ross and Moray 1847 and endowed the new see with £8,000; D.D. Hartford and Geneva in state of New York 1848; d. The priory, Pittenweem 26 Jany. 1855. M. F. Conolly’s Biographical sketch of David Low (1859), portrait; W. Blatch’s Memoir of D. Low (1855); Conolly’s Biog. Dict. of Fife (1866) 299–305.
LOW, David (eld. son of Alexander Low of Laws, Berwickshire, land-agent). b. 1786; ed. at Perth academy and univ. of Edinb.; assisted his father on his farms; settled in Edinburgh 1825; edited Quarterly Journal of agriculture 1828–32; professor of agriculture in univ. of Edinb. 1831–54, the agricultural museum was founded at cost of £3,000 of which he gave £1,200, 1833; author of Observations on the present state of landed property 1823; Elements of practical agriculture 1834, 4 ed. 1843, translated into French and German; The breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands 2 vols. 1842, translated into French 1842; An inquiry into the nature of the simple bodies of chemistry 1844, 3 ed. 1856. d. Mayfield, Edinburgh 7 Jany. 1859. Anderson’s Scottish Nation, iii 717–8 (1863); Grant’s Univ. of Edinburgh, ii 457 (1884).
LOW, Herbert Morey (son of Edwin Low of city of London, solicitor). b. 1852; partner with his father 1877 to death; originated the City Law library and reading room at 25 Abchurch lane 1888; hon. sec. of London Gregorian choral assoc. many years. d. 110 Elgin crescent, Notting hill, London 1 Jany. 1891.
LOW, James. Entered Madras army 1811; ensign 25 Madras N.I. 25 June 1812; captain 46 N.I. 1826, major 23 Nov. 1839; retired lieut.-col. 21 Nov. 1845; in civil charge of province of Wellesley in the Straits Settlements many years; author of A grammar of the T’hai or Siamese language. Calcutta 1828; A dissertation on the soil and agriculture of Penang. Singapore 1836. d. 2 May 1852.
LOW, Sir John (eld. son of Robert Low of Clatto near Cupar, Fifeshire). b. Clatto 13 Dec. 1788; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1802–3; entered Madras army 1804; lieut. 24 Madras N.I. 1807; lieut. 1 N.I. 1816, captain 1820; major 17 N.I. 31 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1834–7, of 19 N.I. 1837–40, of 45 N.I. 1840–1, of 36 N.I. 1841–5; col. of 8 N.I. 26 March 1845 to 1848, col. of 1 N.I. 1848 to death; general 18 Jany. 1867, placed on retired list; resident at Bithoor near Cawnpore 6 years; political agent at Jeypore 1825, at Gwalior 1830, resident at Lucknow 1831–42; installed the king of Oude’s son on the throne in place of a pretender 1838; governor general’s agent in Rajpootana and comr. at Ajmere and Mhairwar 1848–52; resident at Hyderabad 1852; member of supreme council of India 22 Sep. 1853 to 1858; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; G.C.S.I. 24 May 1873. d. Strathallan, Upper Norwood, Surrey 10 Jany. 1880. bur. Kembach, Fifeshire. I.L.N. lxxvi 85 (1880), portrait; Graphic, xxi 93 (1880), portrait.
LOW, Sampson (son of Sampson Low of Berwick st. Soho, London, printer and publisher, d. 1800). b. London, Nov. 1797; bookseller at 42 Lamb’s Conduit st. 1819 to 1847; manager of The publishers’ circular, first number dated 2 Oct. 1837, which became his property 1867; publisher with his eldest son at 169 Fleet st. 1847–52, at 47 Ludgate hill 1852, at 14 Ludgate hill to 1867, at 188 Fleet st. 1867, retired from business 1875; chief founder of Royal Society for protection of life from fire 1843; one of the chief American booksellers in London 1844–75; published The British catalogue of books 1837–52. 1853; The English catalogue of books 1835–80. 3 vols. 1864–82. d. 41 Mecklenburgh sq. London 16 April 1886. Publishers’ Circular 1 May 1886 pp. 431–3, portrait; Bookseller 3 May 1886 pp. 418–20.
LOW, Sampson (eld. son of preceding). b. London 6 July 1822; in business with his father 1847 to death; author of The charities of London 1850, new editions 1854, 1862, 1863 and 1870. d. 41 Mecklenburgh sq. London 5 March 1871.
LOW, Thomas Bell (son of David Low). b. Birkenhead 1855; went to Otago, New Zealand 1873; one of the principal assistant engineers in public works department Otago district, and architect for the Middle Island 1878; employed in fortifying the port and town of Dunedin 1885; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1886. d. in the tropics while on a voyage to England 12 Sep. 1886. Min. of proc. of I.C.E. xci 450–51 (1888).
LOW, Walter (son of a publisher). b. England 1843; publisher and bookseller with his father in U.S. America; long connected with the Messrs. Harpers of New York; attempted to throw himself into the Thames but was diverted from his object by finding a policeman was watching him 1872; committed suicide by taking a quantity of paregoric at 1 Upper Gordon st. Euston sq. London 4 April 1872. Times 8 April 1872 p. 7.
LOW, William. b. Rothesay, Bute 11 Dec. 1814; pupil of Peter Macquiston, civil engineer Glasgow, then a partner with him to 1847; engaged under Brunel in construction of Great Western railway; colliery engineer at Wrexham 1847 to about 1877; had charge of the Vron colliery near Cefn, Denbighshire many years; concerned in the Channel tunnel, issued a circular describing his plans 1866, had an interview with Napoleon III. 1867, purchased land at Dover and Calais for the enterprise, appointed one of the engineers by sir Edward Watkin; surveyed and proposed making an England and India railway 2,000 miles 1870; M.I.C.E. Dec. 1867; author of Letter to Lord John Russell explanatory of a financing system for extending railways in Ireland 1850. d. 88 West Cromwell road, London 10 July 1886. bur. Brompton cemet. where is monument.
LOWDER, Charles Fuge (eld. child of Charles Loder of Bath, banker, d. 9 Sep. 1876 aged 83). b. 2 West Wing, Lansdowne crescent, Bath 22 June 1820; ed. at King’s college school, London, and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1845; C. of Walton, Somerset 1843–4; chaplain to Axbridge workhouse 1845–6; C. of Tetbury, Gloucs. 1846–51; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London 1851–6; joined the mission at St. George’s-in-the-East 22 Aug. 1856, rented the Danish ch. at Wellclose sq.; hired a house at Sutton, Surrey for penitents 1858; secured the site of and raised funds for St. Peter’s, London Docks, consecrated 30 June 1866, C. in charge 1866 to death; a founder of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament 4 Dec. 1862; always known as ‘Father Lowder’; author of Ten years in the St. George’s mission 1867; Twenty one years in the St. George’s mission 1877. d. Hotel Krone, Zell am See in the Austrian Tyrol 9 Sep. 1880. bur. Chislehurst churchyard 17 Sep. Charles Lowder, a biography. By the author of The life of St. Theresa (1882), portrait; Church Portrait Journal, i 113 (1876), portrait.
LOWDER, Samuel Netterville. b. 1812; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Nov. 1833, second commandant 5 Nov. 1864, commandant 23 Aug. 1866; commanded marines on board the Arrogant in the Baltic 1854–5; D.A.G. R.M. 1 July 1867 to 10 July 1872; employed on special service in Mexico, commanded at occupation of Vera Cruz 1861–2; aide-de-camp to the Queen 1862–8; general 2 Dec. 1877; good service pension 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 4 Manor road, Forest Hill near London 4 June 1891.
LOWE, Abraham. b. July 1771; midshipman Jany. 1791; engaged in the Walcheren expedition 1809; employed in the Baltic 1810; captain 7 June 1814; retired rear admiral 1 Oct. 1846. d. Cheltenham 10 April 1854. G.M. xlii 513 (1854).
LOWE, Ann Elizabeth (daughter of Mauritius Lowe of 3 Hedge lane, Charing Cross, painter, d. in a poor lodging house in Westminster 1 Sep. 1793). b. 1777; god daughter of Dr. Johnson; Dr. Johnson left her £100 stock 1784; received donation of £100 from Lord Palmerston, May 1855; money raised by a public appeal sufficient to purchase an annuity of £38, 1856. d. 5 Minerva place, New Cross, Deptford 15 Jany. 1860. The younger sister Frances Meliora Lowe b. 1783, d. 5 Minerva place 6 Feb. 1866. Dr. Johnson’s fir table was left to the rev. A. K. B. Granville and is now in the library of Pemb. coll. Oxf. Times 1 and 3 Nov. 1855; Boswell’s Life of Johnson. A. Napier’s ed. iv 385–93, 463 (1884).
LOWE, Arthur (3 son of rev. Thomas H. P. F. Lowe 1781–1861). b. Corfton, co. Salop 26 July 1814; entered navy 25 April 1827; captain 30 Aug. 1845; V.A. 27 Feb. 1870, retired 1 April 1870; admiral 18 June 1876. d. 3 Wingfield villas, Stoke, Devonport 18 Dec. 1882.
LOWE, Edward. b. Prague, Bohemia 1794; emigrated to England about 1830; played a match with H. Staunton 1848; one of the first class chess players of his time; kept a lodging house at 14 Surrey st. Strand 1851–8, kept a private hotel there 1858–64, kept Royal Surrey hotel 14 and 15 Surrey st. 1864 to death. d. 14 Surrey st. Strand, London 24 Feb. 1880. The Figaro 10 March 1880 p. 14; The Chess-Monthly, April 1880 p. 255.
LOWE, Edward William. The first scholar in anatomy and physiology at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 1846, house surgeon 1847; M.R.C.S. 1847; practised at Congleton, Cheshire to death; a certifying factory surgeon; contributed many papers to medical journals. d. Moody st. Congleton 30 Oct. 1855 aged 31.
LOWE, Edward William Howe de Lancy (youngest son of sir Hudson Lowe 1769–1844, governor of St. Helena 1815–21). b. St. Helena 10 Feb. 1820; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 32 foot 20 May 1837, lieut.-col. 26 Sep. 1858; served in second Sikh war 1848–9 and in the Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. 2nd battalion of 21 foot 21 Oct. 1859, lieut.-col. 6 foot 31 March 1863, lieut.-col. 86 foot 1 Feb. 1867, placed on h.p. 6 March 1872; M.G. 31 March 1877; C.B. 24 March 1858; granted service reward 2 Nov. 1875; author of An account of the defence of the residency Cawnpore 1860. d. 11 Upper Berkeley st. London 21 Oct. 1880.
LOWE, George (son of a brewer at Derby). b. Derby 1788; an early experimenter on coal gas; one of the engineers of the Chartered Gas Co. 1821, resigned on his full salary 1862; consulting engineer to Imperial Continental gas assoc., to the European gas co. and to the Dublin Alliance gas co.; A.I.C.E. 29 April 1823, M.I.C.E. 2 June 1829; produced Prussian blue from ammoniacal liquor 1834; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; F.G.S.; patented the reciprocating tort 12 Oct. 1831; took out many patents for manufacturing and purifying gas and for machinery for gas works 1831–52. d. 9 St. John’s Wood park, London 25 Dec. 1868. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxx 442–5 (1870).
LOWE, James. b. Coupar Angus 1809; came to Dundee 1824, an auctioneer, a broker, kept a shoe shop; sec. of Dundee Political union 1837; a violent chartist 1839; published the Police Gazette, in which he abused all his opponents, Gazette stopped by the Stamp office; ruined himself with drunkenness, reformed 1851, an advocate of temperance. d. Dundee 11 Nov. 1853. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 153.
LOWE, James. Editor of a newspaper at Preston; edited in London, The Critic of literature, science and the drama 1843–63; contributed to The Field and The Queen; one of the secretaries of Acclimatisation society founded 10 June 1860; projected a Selected series of French literature. Translated and edited by himself, vol. 1 only published 1853 containing part of Madame de Sévigné’s Correspondence; translated Victor Schoelcher’s Life of Handel 1857, 2 ed. 1859; exposed and was the means of causing Lord Palmerston to withdraw the civil list pension of £50 from the poet John Close about 3 June 1861, Close d. 16 Feb. 1891 aged 74. Lowe d. end of Oct. 1865.
LOWE, James. Apprenticed to Edward Shorter a master mechanic of city of London 2 Nov. 1813, ran away 1816 and made three voyages in a whaling ship, when he returned to his master; a mechanist and smoke-jack maker; patented a screw propeller for ships 1838 and 1852; he was not the original inventor of propellers, but was inventor of a combination never before applied to propulsion of vessels; his daughter Henrietta Vansittart patented the Lowe-Vansittart propeller 1868 which was fitted to many government ships; run over by a wagon and killed in the Blackfriars road, London 12 Oct. 1866. History of the Lowe-Vansittart propeller. By Mrs. H. Vansittart (1882); Mechanics’ Mag. xli 443, 461 (1844).
LOWE, Josiah Beatson. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1837; B.A. 1839, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1860; P.C. of St. Jude, Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancs. 1850–75; V. of St. Michael, Toxteth park, Liverpool 1875–80; R. of Yoxall near Burton-on-Trent 1880 to death; author of Lectures on the annual festivals of the Jews 1846; The history of the cross practically considered 1849; Inspiration a reality: a reply to Macnaught’s doctrine 1856; The controversy with modern scepticism practically considered 1879. d. Yoxall rectory 25 June 1893.
LOWE, Patrick. b. 1769; a private in 52 regiment of foot; formed one of the forlorn hope at Badajoz where he personally captured the governor of that fortress 6 April 1812 for which he obtained a large reward; present at battle of Waterloo, had a medal with 13 clasps. d. Enniskillen 3 Nov. 1852.
LOWE, Richard Grove (son of rev. Jeremiah Lowe, minister of St. Michael’s parish, St. Albans). Solicitor at St. Albans 1825 to death; clerk to magistrates of liberty of St. Albans 1828 to death; mayor of St. Albans 1832 and 1841; assessor of court of requests, Watford 4 Oct. 1845 to 1847; coroner for St. Albans district 1845 to death. d. St. Peter’s st. St. Albans 28 June 1872.
LOWE, Richard Thomas. b. 4 Dec. 1802; ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831, travelling bachelor; chaplain in Madeira 1832–52; had a printed correspondence respecting his chaplaincy 1846–51; R. of Lea, Lincolnshire 1852 to death; author of Primitiæ faunæ et floræ Maderæ et Portus Sancti 1851; A manual flora of Madeira, vol. 1, 1868, and part 1 of vol. 2, 1872, and of scientific papers in various periodicals; drowned in the Liberia which foundered with all on board off the Scilly Islands about 13 April 1874.
LOWE, Robert Manley (son of Wm. Lowe 1770–1849, of firm of J. and W. Lowe, solicitors 2 Tanfield court, Temple, London). b. 24 May 1810; ed. at Rugeley, Staffs. and at Harrow; admitted solicitor 1833; senior partner in firm of R. M. and F. Lowe 1850–85; partner with his nephews Wm. R. L. Lowe and Dillon R. L. Lowe 1885 to death; member of the vestry of St. Giles’ and St. George’s, Westminster 40 years; author of Reminiscences of the Lowtonian society which was founded by Thomas Lowton in 1793 for the protection of the legal profession. d. 48 Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 29 Aug. 1891. Solicitors’ Journal 24 Oct. 1891 p. 819.
LOWE, Thomas Hill Peregrine Furye (eld. son of Thomas Humphrey Lowe of Bromsgrove, Worcs., d. 10 Nov. 1797). b. Bromsgrove 21 Dec. 1781; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1818; student Lincoln’s Inn 1804; C. of Shelsley, Worcs.; chap. to viscount Gage 1812; V. of Grimley, Worcs. 1820–32; precentor of Exeter cath. 14 Sep. 1832 to 27 June 1839; canon residentiary of Exeter 14 Sep. 1832 to death; R. of Holy Trinity, Exeter 1837–40; dean of Exeter 27 June 1839 to death, installed 2 Aug. 1839; V. of Littleham with Exmouth, Devon 1840–3; author of An essay on the absolving power of the church 1825; Poems, chiefly dramatic 1840; Sermons preached in the cathedral church, Exeter 1841; Auricular confession, a sermon 1852, 2 ed. 1852, Bishop Phillpotts disapproved of this sermon. d. the Deanery, Exeter 17 Jany. 1861.
LÖWENTHAL, Johann Jacob (son of a merchant). b. Buda-Pesth, July 1810; one of the best analytical chess players in Europe about 1841; expelled from Hungary after Kossuth’s fall 1849; went to U.S. of America 1849 where he played against the leading chess players 1849–51; resided in London 1851 to death; won Manchester chess tournament 1857 and Birmingham tournament 1858; chess editor of The Illustrated News of the World and of The Era; manager of the great London chess congress 1862; edited The Chess player’s magazine 1865–7; secretary to the St. George’s chess club 1852; pres. of St. James’s chess club 1857–64; manager of British chess association 1865–9; naturalised 3 Sep. 1866; member of Church of Rome; with G. W. Medley edited The transactions of the British chess association 1866, 1867; edited A selection from the problems of the Era problem tournament 1857; Morphy’s Games of chess 1860; Morphy’s Games 1860. New York 1860; The Chess Congress of 1862. A collection of games played 1864. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 20 July 1876. Illust. news of the world, viii 164 (1861), portrait; Fortnightly Review, Dec. 1886 p. 754.
LOWER, Mark Anthony (2 son of the succeeding). b. Chiddingly, Sussex 14 July 1813; kept schools at Cade st. parish of Heathfield 1831–2, at Alfriston, Sussex 1832–5 and at Lewes 1835–67; chief founder of Sussex Archæological Soc. 1846, hon. secretary; one of the headboroughs of Lewes 1860–1; F.S.A. 13 Jany. 1853; author of Sussex, being a description of every parish &c. Lewes 1831; English surnames 1842, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1875; Handbook for Lewes 1845, 3 ed. 1880; Chronicles of Pevensey 1846, 3 ed. 1880; The worthies of Sussex. Lewes 1865. d. Enfield, Middlesex 22 March 1876. bur. St. Ann’s churchyard, Lewes. Henry Campkin’s Two Sussex archæologists (1877); M. A. Lower’s Patronymica Britannica (1860), portrait.
LOWER, Richard (son of John Lower of Alfriston, Sussex, barge owner). b. Alfriston 19 Sep. 1782; opened a school in parish of Chiddingly, Sussex about 1803; a land surveyor; author of Tom Cladpole’s Jurney to Lunnon, told by himself and written in pure Sussex doggerel by his uncle Tim 1830, 20,000 copies of this were sold; Jan Cladpole’s Trip to Merricur, written all in rhyme by his father Tim Cladpole 1844; Stray leaves from an old tree, selections from the scribblings of an octogenarian 1862. d. High st. Tonbridge, Kent 29 Sep. 1865.
LOWNDES, Jefferson (eld. son of Jonathan Wm. Lowndes of Oxford). b. 15 Jany. 1858; matric. at univ. of Oxf. 9 April 1875; commoner Hertford coll. 1877; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1883; chaplain of Derby school 1884–6; headmaster St. Kitt’s government school, West Indies 1886–9; won the univ. sculls at Oxford regatta 1878 and 1879; won the diamond sculls at Henley 1879–83; stroke of the Hertford four which won the Steward’s cup at Henley 1881 and beat the Cornell univ. boat next day; won the Wingfield sculls amateur championship of the Thames 1881 and 1883; having suddenly gone blind, shot himself at North-Western hotel, Liverpool 8 Aug. 1893. Sporting Mirror, Jany. 1882 pp. 205–7, portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news, xvii 444 (1882), portrait; Graphic, xxviii 84 (1883), portrait.
LOWNDES, William Loftus (younger son of Richard Lowndes of Rose hill, Dorking, Surrey). b. April 1793; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1819, bencher 1841 to death; Q.C. Nov. 1841; published W. P. Williams’ Reports of cases in chancery, 6 ed. with references to modern cases by W. L. Lowndes 1826. d. 48 Westbourne terrace, London 6 April 1865.
LOWREY, Daniel (son of parents who came from Roscrea, Tipperary, to Leeds). b. 1823; an apprentice to a dyer at Leeds; a negro comedian at Leeds; appeared as an Irish comedian at Victoria concert hall, Ashton-under-Lyne many years; built The Malakoff music hall, Liverpool about 1864; proprietor of The Nightingale and The Man at the wheel concert halls, Liverpool to 1871; built The Alhambra music hall, Belfast 1871, which when burnt down he rebuilt; built the Star of Erin music hall and theatre of varieties, Dublin, which he managed 1879 to death. d. Wentworth cottage, Trenure, Dublin 3 July 1889. bur. Glasnevin cemetery 5 July.
LOWRIE, Walter. b. Edinburgh 10 Dec. 1784; taken to the U.S. of America 1792; a member of the legislature several years; senator from Pennsylvania 6 Dec. 1819 to 3 March 1825; secretary of the senate, U.S. 1825–37. d. New York 14 Dec. 1868.
LOWRY, James Corry (1 son of James Lowry of Rockdale, co. Tyrone). b. 1809; called to Irish bar 1837; Q. C. 23 Feb. 1867; master of court of exchequer in Ireland, Sep. 1867 to death. d. 42 Mountjoy square south, Dublin 20 June 1869.
LOWRY, Joseph Wilson (only son of Wilson Lowry, engraver 1762–1824). b. London 7 Oct. 1803; an engraver of scientific subjects; executed plates for the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, Phillipps’s Geology of Yorkshire 1835, Scott Russell’s Naval Architecture 1865 Weale’s Scientific series, and Woodward’s Manual of the mollusca 1866; engraver to Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland to death; F.R.G.S.; exhibited 2 marine views at R.A. and 2 at B.I. 1829–31; compiled and engraved Tabular view of British fossils stratigraphically arranged, 1853. d. 39 Robert st. Hampstead road, London 15 June 1879. Nature, ii 197 (1879).
LOWRY, Thomas Kennedy. Ed. at Belfast academical institution, and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1857; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 4 July 1860; joint crown prosecutor for counties of Armagh and Antrim to 6 March 1867; a district judge in Jamaica 6 March 1867 to 1869; prothonotary at Manchester for court of common pleas of duchy of Lancaster 1869 to death; edited The Hamilton manuscripts 1867; author of Lowry’s Irish equity exchequer rules and practice 1838; joint author with R. S. Moore, Q.C., of A collection of the rules and orders of Queen’s bench common pleas and exchequer of pleas in Ireland 1842. d. Ballytrim house, Killyleagh, co. Down 29 July 1872. Irish law times, vi 439 (1872).
LOWTH, John Jackson. b. 1804; ensign 48 foot 3 July 1824; ensign 38 foot 9 Sep. 1824, lieut.-col. 22 Dec. 1854 to death, commanded his regiment in Crimean war. d. at Portsmouth one hour after landing from the Crimea 28 July 1855.
LOWTH, Robert Henry. b. 1801; ensign 9 foot 4 Feb. 1819; captain 86 foot 14 Aug. 1830, lieut.-col. 10 Aug. 1855 to 24 Jany. 1860 when retired on full pay; M.G. 24 Jany. 1860; C.B. 28 Sep. 1858. d. Winchester 21 Dec. 1870.
LOWTHER, Gorges (1 son of Gorges Lowther of Lowther lodge, Dublin, d. 1785). b. 1769; cornet 5 dragoon guards 31 May 1787; M.P. Ratoath, co. Meath in Irish parliament 1790 to the Union 1800; sold his seat Kilrue, co. Meath; author of Brief observations on the present state of the Waldenses and upon their actual sufferings 1821; Gerald, a tale of conscience 2 vols. 1840; Abjurations from popery with introductory matter on the errors of the church of Rome 1847. d. Hampton hall, Somerset 23 Feb. 1854. G.M. xli 535 (1854); Proceedings in King’s Bench in the King v. G. Lowther for libel on J. T. Batt 1805.
LOWTHER, Henry Cecil (2 son of 1 Earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844). b. Dover st. Piccadilly, London 27 July 1790; ed. at Westminster; first played at Lord’s in B. Aislabie Esq.’s side v. W. Ward Esq.’s side 15 June 1817; played in M.C.C. matches several seasons; a steady batsman, a slow underhand bowler with a twist; cornet 7 hussars 16 July 1807; lieut.-col. 12 foot 20 April 1817, placed on h.p. 25 June 1818; col. Cumberland militia 10 Sep. 1830 to death; master of Cottesmore hounds; M.P. Westmoreland 12 Oct. 1812 to death; styled ‘the father of the House.’ d. Barleythorpe hall, Oakham, Rutland 6 Dec. 1867. Cricket Scores, i 399 (1862), v p. xiii (1876); Sporting Review, lix 8 (1868).
LOWTHER, Sir John Henry, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir John Lowther, 1 Baronet 1759–1844). b. 23 March 1793; M.P. Cockermouth 1816–26, 1831–2; M.P. Wigtown 1826–30; contested York 1832 and 1833; M.P. city of York 1835–47; lieut.-col. 1 West Riding militia 1830–52; succeeded 11 May 1844; sheriff of Yorkshire 1852. d. 9 Park st. Grosvenor square, London 23 June 1868.
LOWTHROP, Sir William (2 son of James Lowthrop of Welton hall, east riding of Yorkshire). b. Welton hall 1794; mayor of Hull 1840; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840. d. Nice 19 Dec. 1853.
LOY, John Glover (son of Richard Loy, surgeon). b. Whitby 1774; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D.; in practice at Whitby 64 years; remarkable for his skill and strength of nerve in performing operations; author of Disputatio medica inauguralis de Phthisi. Edinb. 1800; An account of some experiments on the origin of the cow pox. Whitby 1801, which attracted great notice both in England and abroad. d. 8 Royal crescent, Whitby 4 Sep. 1865.
LOYD, Lewis (eld. son of Wm. Loyd of Court Henry, co. Carmarthen). b. 1 Jany. 1768; pastor of a small dissenting chapel at Manchester; partner with his father-in-law John Jones of Manchester, merchant and banker; managed the bank of Jones, Loyd and Co. of Manchester and Lothbury, London from 1808. d. at his son’s seat, Overstone park, Northampton 13 May 1858, left £3,000,000. Bankers’ Mag. June 1858 p. 499.
LUARD, Henry (5 son of Peter John Luard of Blyborough hall, Lincoln, captain 4 dragoons, d. 23 May 1836). b. 4 Dec. 1792; ledger keeper in a mercantile firm 1832; general manager of London and County bank 1841–56, presented with a testimonial of 3 silver salvers 19 Oct. 1853; director of London Life association; deputy chairman of Southampton dock co. to 1841. d. 1856. Bankers’ Mag. Jany. 1854 pp. 1–11, portrait; I.L.N. 5 Nov. 1853 p. 382, view of testimonial.
LUARD, Henry Richards (eld. son of the preceding). b. London 17 Aug. 1825; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Camb. 1843, scholar 1846–9, fellow 1849–60, junior bursar 1853–61, assistant tutor 1855–65, 14th wrangler 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, B.D. 1875, D.D. 1878; V. of Great St. Mary’s, Cambridge 1860–87; registrary of Univ. of Camb. Jany. 1862 to death, and editor of 2 editions of Graduati Cantabrigienses 1873 and 1884; hon. fellow of King’s coll. London 1875; edited for the Rolls Series, Lives of Edward the Confessor 1858; Bartholomæi de Cotton Historia Anglicana 1859; Roberti Grosseteste Epistolæ 1861; Annales Monastici 5 vols. 1864–9; Matthew Paris, Historia Major 7 vols. 1872–84; Flores Historiarum 1890; author of Index to the catalogue of manuscripts in the University library, Cambridge 1867, and of many memoirs of mediæval writers and classical scholars in Dict. of Nat. Biog. vols. 1–32 (1885–92); with W. G. Clark projected an edition of Shakespeare with the variations of the quartos and folios and printed Act 1 of Richard III. 1860, work afterwards completed by W. G. Clark and W. A. Wright 9 vols. 1863–66. d. 4 St. Peter’s terrace, Cambridge 1 May 1891, memorial clock placed in tower of Great St. Mary’s church, Cambridge, Dec. 1892. The Biograph, Feb. 1882 pp. 140–2.
LUARD, John (brother of Henry Luard 1792–1856). b. 5 May 1790; served in R.N. 1802–7; cornet 4 dragoons 25 May 1809; lieut. 16 light dragoons 2 March 1815, captain 13 Dec. 1821, placed on h.p. 17 Oct. 1834; lieut.-col. 30 foot 4 Aug. 1848 but sold out same day; served in the Peninsula 1810–14 and was present at Waterloo; served in India 1825, instructed his regiment in the use of the lance and was the first to use it in the British army, namely at Bhurtpoor 1825; published Views in India, St. Helena and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone by himself 1838; author of A history of the dress of the British soldier 1852. d. The Cedars, Farnham, Surrey 24 Oct. 1875. Times 28 Oct. 1875 p. 11, 2 Nov. p. 7; Graphic, xii 515, 518 (1875), portrait.
LUARD, John Dalbiac (2 son of the preceding). b. Blyborough, Lincs. 30 Oct. 1830; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 63 foot 22 Dec. 1848; ensign 82 foot 16 Feb. 1849, lieut. 3 Dec. 1852, sold out 13 Jany 1854; pupil of John Phillip, R.A.; spent the winter of 1855–6 in the Crimea; exhibited 4 pictures at the R.A. 1855–8; his picture ‘The welcome arrival’ was engraved. d. Winterslow near Salisbury 9 Aug. 1860. The Critic, March 1861 pp. 317–8.
LUARD, John Kynaston (3 son of John Luard of Wickham Place, Essex). b. 1803; entered Madras army 1818; lieut. 6 Madras N.I. 13 June 1819; captain 16 N.I. 21 July 1825, major 10 Oct. 1836 to 26 Aug. 1841; lieut.-col. of 2 N.I. 23 June 1841 to 1847, of 42 N.I. 1847–8, of 16 N.I. 1848–9, of 11 N.I. 1849–51, of 25 N.I. 1851–2; commandant at Masulipatam 5 Feb. 1851 to 9 Dec. 1851, at Jaulnah 9 Dec. 1851 to 21 July 1854, at Saugor and Nerbudda 21 July 1854 to 16 Oct. 1855; col. of 11 N.I. 24 March 1852 to 1869; general 25 June 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. 29 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 18 Oct. 1880.
LUARD, Richard George Amherst (eld. son of John Luard 1790–1875). b. 29 July 1827; ensign 51 foot 6 July 1845; ensign 3 foot 11 Nov. 1845, captain 1852; major 62 foot 2 May 1865, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1865; D.A.A.G. in Crimea 30 June 1855 to 23 July 1856; assistant inspector of volunteers 1860–5; col. Bristol engineer volunteer corps 7 Dec. 1881 to death; L.G. 1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 1 May 1890; C.B. 21 June 1887. d. Eastbourne 24 July 1891.
LUBBOCK, Sir John William, 3 Baronet (only child of sir John Wm. Lubbock, 2 baronet 1774–1840). b. Duke st. Westminster 26 March 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1833; partner in bank of Lubbock and Co. London 1825, sole working partner 1840–60 when firm became Robarts, Lubbock and Co.; F.R.A.S. 1828, F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1829, royal medallist 1834, treasurer and vice pres. 1830–5 and 1838–45; fellow of univ. of London 1836 to death, vice chancellor 28 Nov. 1836 to 15 June 1842; hon. M.I.C.E. 5 March 1839; a treasurer of Great Exhibition of 1851; sheriff of Kent 1852; author of On the theory of the moon and on the perturbation of the planets 11 parts 1833–61; An elementary treatise on the tides 1839; On the clearing of the London bankers 1860. d. High Elms, Farnborough, Kent 20 June 1865. Proc. of Royal Soc. xv 32–7 (1867); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxv 510–2 (1866).
Note.—He was author with J. E. Drinkwater afterwards Drinkwater Bethune of Probability 1830 a volume in the Library of Useful Knowledge, this work was anonymous, but a binder chose to letter it as De Morgan on Probability. Augustus De Morgan stated in a letter to the Times that he could not in 15 years succeed in restoring the book to its true authors.
LUBY, Thomas (son of John Luby). b. Clonmel, co. Tipperary 1800; a sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar 1819, junior fellow 1831, senior fellow 6 Nov. 1847 to death; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1840; senior dean and lecturer of his college, Donegal lecturer 1832–47; Regius professor of Greek, univ. of Dublin 1852–5; M.R.I.A.; author of The elements of plane trigonometry 1825, 3 ed. 1852; An introductory treatise to physical astronomy 1828; edited J. Brinkley’s Elements of plane astronomy. Dublin 1836. d. 43 Leeson st. Dublin 12 June 1870. bur. Aberystwith. Taylor’s History of university of Dublin p. 524.
LUCAN, George Charles Bingham, 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of Lucan 1764–1839). b. St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 16 April 1800; ed. at Westminster; known as lord Bingham 1800–39; ensign 6 foot 29 Aug. 1816; lieut. 8 foot 20 Jany. 1820; capt. 1 life guards 20 June 1822, major 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1825 and lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1826, placed on h.p. 14 April 1837; served on staff of Russian army in Bulgaria 1828; M.P. co. Mayo 1826–30; lord lieut. of Mayo 1845; succeeded 30 June 1839; major general in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1854; commanded a division of cavalry as lieut. general in Russian war 18 Aug. 1854 to 18 Feb. 1855; present at the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869; col. 8 light dragoons 17 Nov. 1855; col. 1 life guards 22 Feb. 1865 to death; general 28 Aug. 1865, field marshal 21 June 1887; elected an Irish representative peer 1840; lord lieut. of Mayo 14 Feb. 1845 to death. d. 12 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1888. The drawing room portrait gallery 4 Ser. (1860), portrait; Nolan’s Russian war, i 544–50, ii 725 (1855), portrait; G. Ryan’s Our heroes (1855) 36–40; I.L.N. 13 May 1854 pp. 429–30, portrait; Graphic 24 Nov. 1888 pp. 542, 544, portrait.
Note.—At the battle of Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 Capt. Nolan brought the earl of Lucan an order from Lord Raglan to advance against the Russians and prevent them carrying away the guns. The exact meaning of the order was not clear, but it led to the famous charge of the light brigade, when out of 608 men only 198 returned. The earl of Lucan was recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855. Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea, ii 379, iii 235, iv 5, v 3, vii 471, ix 354 (1877).
LUCAS, Charles (son of Wm. Lucas of Daventry). b. 1769; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 July 1786; C. of Avebury, Wiltshire 1791–1816; resided at Devizes 1816 to death; author of A descriptive account in verse of the old serpentine temple of the Druids at Avebury 1795, 2 ed. 1801; The castle of St. Donat’s, or the history of Jack Smith 3 vols. 1798; The infernal Quixote, a tale of the day 4 vols. 1801; Joseph, a religious poem 2 vols. 1810; The Abissinian (sic) reformer or the bible and the sabre 1808. d. Devizes 1854.