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LUCAS, Charles (son of Mr. Lucas of Salisbury, alderman). b. Salisbury 28 July 1808; chorister in Salisbury cathedral 8 years; studied at R.A. of Music, conductor 1832, principal 1859–66; member of queen Adelaide’s private band 1830; associate of Philharmonic Soc. 1835, member 1839, a director 1840–55 and 1864 to death; organist of Hanover chapel, Regent st. 1839; conductor of Choral harmonists society; member of firm of Addison, Hollier and Lucas music publishers 1856 to June 1865; succeeded Robert Lindley as violoncello player at the opera and leading festivals and concerts; composed an opera The Regicide 1840; three symphonies, string quartets, anthems and songs; edited Esther 1851 for Handel Soc. d. 9 Louvaine road, Wandsworth, London 23 March 1869. bur. Woking cemet. 27 March. Mag. of Music, Oct. 1890 p. 183, portrait; W. W. Cazalet’s History of royal academy of music (1854) 306.

LUCAS, Charles. b. 1805; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 19 Dec. 1820; col. 18 Feb. 1861 to 26 April 1866; inspector of artillery Bombay 1 Nov. 1862 to 29 April 1867; M.G. 26 April 1866. d. 44 Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 11 June 1873.

LUCAS, Edward (only child of Charles Lucas of Castle Shane, co. Monaghan, d. 1796). b. 27 Sep. 1787; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; sheriff of co. Monaghan 1817; M.P. co. Monaghan 1834–41; under sec. of state for Ireland 15 Sep. 1841 to 21 Aug. 1845; P.C. Ireland 1845. d. Castle Shane, co. Monaghan 12 Nov. 1871. Portraits of eminent conservatives (1846), portrait; I.L.N. lix 507 (1871).

LUCAS, Frederick (2 son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, corn-merchant and a Quaker). b. Westminster 30 March 1812; ed. at Darlington and London univ.; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; left the Soc. of Friends and joined church of Rome being received by Father Lythgoe of the Soc. of Jesus, Jany. 1839; started the Tablet 16 May 1840, a weekly R.C. newspaper which he removed to Dublin 1849, edited to his death; M.P. co. Meath 1852 to death; one of secretaries of Irish tenant league 1850; contributed frequently to Dublin Review; author of Reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic, especially addressed to the society of Friends 1839. d. at the residence of his brother in law Skidmore Ashby at Staines 22 Oct. 1855. bur. Brompton cemet. 27 Oct. Life of F. Lucas. By his brother E. Lucas 2 vols. (1886); F. Lucas: a biography. By C. J. Riethmüller (1862); Duffy’s League of North and South (1886) 330.

LUCAS, Horatio Joseph (4 son of Louis Lucas, West India merchant, d. 1862). b. London 27 May 1839; ed. at Brighton and Univ. coll. London; pupil of F. S. Cary; member of the Langham sketching club; exhibited 9 etchings at R.A. 1870–3; exhibited at the Salon in Paris; contributed to various Black and White exhibitions; a selection from his etchings is in the print room, British Museum; a good musician; member of firm of Lucas, Micholls and Co. merchants 13 New Broad st. London 1862 to death; illustrated A new year’s gift to sick children 1865. d. 18 Dec. 1873. Jewish Chronicle 26 Dec. 1873 p. 654.

LUCAS, James (2 son of James Lucas of Liverpool, West India merchant, d. 1830). b. London 21 Dec. 1813; studied medicine with Mr. Hicks of Whitwell near Hitchin, Herts.; inherited family estate at Redcoats Green, Great Wymondley, Herts. on death of his mother 24 Oct. 1849; he was so attached to his mother that he deferred interment of her body until 12 Jany. 1850 when the burial was enforced; lived in the kitchen of his residence, Elmwood house, Redcoats Green, used no furniture, gave up washing and slept on a bed of cinders; gave money and drink to all the tramps who passed by; retained two armed watchmen for his protection; visited by lord Lytton, sir Arthur Helps, John Forster and Charles Dickens who described him under the name of Mr. Mopes in Tom Tiddler’s Ground in the Christmas number of All the Year round 1861. d. of apoplexy at the house of Mr. Chapman a farmer and his tenant near his own house 19 April 1874. bur. beside his mother in Hackney churchyard 21 April. The history of the hermit of Hertfordshire. Hitchin (1874), portrait; An account of Lucas the hermit. Hitchin (1874); Journal of mental science, Oct. 1874 pp. 361–72; Popular science monthly, vi 301 (1874); Graphic, ix 480 (1874), portrait.

LUCAS, John (son of William Lucas, sub-editor of The Sun newspaper, London). b. London 4 July 1807; apprenticed to S. W. Reynolds, mezzotint-engraver; a portrait-painter with a very large practice; painted portraits of queen Adelaide, prince Consort, princess Royal, duke of Wellington and many of the court beauties; exhibited 96 portraits at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–74; many of his portraits were engraved, some of them by himself in mezzotint. d. 22 St. John’s Wood road, London 30 April 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 473, 474 (1874), portrait.

LUCAS, John Templeton (eld. son of the preceding). b. London 1836; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 30 at Suffolk st. gallery 1859–76; his farce Browne the Martyr produced at Court theatre 20 Jany. 1872 and printed in Lacy’s acting edition of plays vol. xcvi; author of fairy tales entitled Prince Ubbely Bubble’s New story book 1871; and of Edwin Landseer 1873, memorial verses. d. Whitby, Sep. 1880.

LUCAS, Louis Arthur (son of Philip Lucas of Manchester). b. 22 Sep. 1851; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London; travelled in U.S. of America 1872 and in Egypt 1873; organised an expedition to explore the Congo, left London 2 Sep. 1875, arrived at Khartoum Jany. 1876, left Khartoum April 1876; went with colonel Gordon to the Albert Nyanza and navigated northern part of the lake in the first steamboat ever launched on it; returned to Khartoum Aug. 1876, reached Suakim 18 Nov.; compiled a vocabulary of Bishareen words published in Journal of Anthropological Institute, vi 191–4. d. in a steamboat between Suakim and Suez 20 Nov. 1876. bur. Jeddah. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xxi 418–21, 465; Athenæum 9 Dec. 1876 p. 766, 23 Dec. p. 838.

LUCAS, Margaret (youngest dau. of Jacob Bright and youngest sister of John Bright, M.P.) b. Greenbank, Rochdale, Lancs. 14 July 1818; a total abstainer from 1834; (m. 1839 Samuel Lucas 1811–65, journalist); a Good Templar 1872, Grand Worthy Vice Templar; visited U.S. of America 1870; engaged in the work of Association for the abolition of state regulation of vice; one of chief founders and president of British women’s temperance association; visited U.S. of America 1886 to attend convention at Minneapolis as president of the World’s Women’s temperance union; advocated political enfranchisement of women, on public platforms in Great Britain. d. 7 Charlotte st. Bedford sq. London 4 Feb. 1890. bur. Highgate cemet. 7 Feb. H. J. B. Heath’s M. B. Lucas (1890), portrait.

LUCAS, Philip Bennett. b. 1803; F.R.C.S.; practised at Boulogne some years; author of A concise anatomical description of the arteries of the human body 1836; A practical treatise on the cure of strabismus or squint 1840. d. Pau, France 22 May 1856.

LUCAS, Richard Cockle (son of Richard Lucas). b. Salisbury 24 Oct. 1800; apprenticed to his uncle a cutler at Winchester 1812; a sculptor with a good practice; executed statues of Dr. Johnson at Lichfield, Dr. Watts at Southampton and sir R. C. Hoare in Salisbury cath.; his medallion portraits in marble, wax and ivory have much merit; exhibited 89 sculptures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 61 at Suffolk st. 1829–59; sent ivory carvings and imitation bronzes to Great Exhibition of 1851; produced a large number of etchings; granted civil list pension of £150, 19 June 1865; author of Remarks on the pantheon 1845; The artist’s dream realised, being a residence designed and built [at Chilworth near Romsey] by R. C. Lucas, sculptor 1854, etched and described 1856; On the mausoleum of Halicarnassus 1859; An essay on art, especially that of painting 1870. d. Chilworth near Romsey 18 Jany. 1883.

LUCAS, Samuel (brother of Frederick Lucas 1812–55). b. 1811; partner in a cotton mill at Manchester 1845; joined the anti-cornlaw league; a founder of Lancashire public schools assoc. Aug. 1847; a corn merchant in London from 1850; managing proprietor of The Morning Star daily paper 17 March 1856 to 1865; one of founders of the Emancipation Society for slaves 1862; author of Plan for the establishment of a general system of secular education in the county of Lancaster 1847; edited a vol. of essays entitled National education not necessarily governmental, sectarian or irreligious 1850. d. 4 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 16 April 1865. bur. Highgate cemet. Fox Bourne’s English Newspapers, ii 238, 271 (1887); Morning Star 17 April 1865 p. 4.

LUCAS, Samuel (eld. son of Thomas Lucas of Bristol, merchant). b. Bristol 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1846; founder and editor of The Press newspaper 1853; contributed reviews to The Times from 1855; edited Once a Week, June 1859 to 1865; projected and edited The Shilling Magazine 1865 which ceased Dec. 1865; author of The Sandwich Islands, a prize poem 1841; Charters of the old English colonies in America 1850; Illustrations of the history of Bristol and its neighbourhood 1853; Dacoitee in excelsis, or the spoliation of Oude 1857, anon.; Eminent men and popular books, from the Times 1859, anon.; Biography and criticism from the Times 1860, anon.; Secularia or surveys on the mainstream of history 1862; edited Thomas Hood’s Poems 2 vols. 1867. d. Eastbourne 27 Nov. 1868. Newspaper Press, iii 38 (1869).

LUCAS, Samuel (2 son of Wm. Lucas). b. Hitchin, Herts. 1805; ed. Friends’ committee school, Fishponds, Bristol; apprentice at Southwick and Harris’ wharf, Wapping: an auditor of Great Northern railway; partner in a provision house in London; a brewer and maltster at Hitchin to death; clerk to quarterly meeting at Hitchin; painter of landscapes, animals and flowers in oil and water colours; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1830–61; some of his drawings of flowers were engraved in The Florist. d. 29 March 1870. Biographical catalogue of Friends (1888) 440–3.

LUCE, Thomas (son of Thomas Luce). b. Weymouth 1790; M.P. Malmesbury 1852–9; a director of the Bank of London. d. Malmesbury 6 Aug. 1875.

LUCENA, Lorenzo. b. 1806; ed. coll. of St. Pelagio in univ. of Seville, professor of theology there 8 years and provisional president 3 years; minister of a protestant congregation of Spaniards at Gibraltar on appointment by S.P.C.K.; hon. canon of Gibraltar cathedral 1842–60; reader in Spanish language and literature in the Taylor institute, Oxford 1858 to death; cr. M.A. of univ. of Oxf. 5 June 1877; assisted in preparing new ed. of Spanish Bible founded on Cipriano de Valera’s text, Oxford 1862. d. Oxford 24 Aug. 1881.

LUCET, Joachim Simeon. b. 1797; professor de belles lettres; author of Langue Française. Simples notes grammaticales 1843. d. 49 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 11 April 1855.

LUCETTE, Catherine. Made her first appearance at theatre royal, Plymouth; first seen in London at Drury Lane as Susan in William and Susan 28 Feb. 1859; appeared at Metropolitan theatre, New York as Pauline in Delicate Ground 23 May 1859; with her husband M. Price had a drawing room entertainment at Brooklyn, New York 25 Aug. 1868; played Ariel in the Tempest at Grand Opera house, New York 1869; toured for some years in North of England playing Leonie in The Sutler Girl; m. (1) Morton Price, actor whose right name was Horton Rhys d. 8 May 1876 aged 52; m. (2) Charles Medwin. She d. 20 Oct. 1892. bur. Norwood cemetery. Brown’s American stage (1870) 226, 243.

LUCKRAFT, Alfred. b. 2 April 1792; entered navy Jany. 1801; present at Trafalgar 1805, was in the trenches 12 days besieging Morea Castle in the Peloponnesus Oct. 1828, obtained insignia of legion of honor and of Redeemer of Greece; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. d. Eastney barracks, Portsmouth 15 Oct. 1871.

LUCY, Charles. b. Hertford 1814; studied under Delaroche in Paris and at the R.A.; copied old masters at the Hague and Paris; lived at Barbizon near Fontainebleau 16 years; obtained a premium of £200 at Westminster hall competition 1847 for his painting of The departure of the primitive puritans to the coast of America, A.D. 1620; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1838–73; instructor at a drawing school in Camden Town many years; chairman of committee of new British Institution; painted a series of portraits of eminent men for sir Joshua Walmesley who bequeathed them to the South Kensington museum. d. 13 Ladbroke crescent, Notting Hill, London 19 May 1873. Anne Lucy his widow granted civil list pension of £70, 24 Nov. 1881. I.L.N. lxii 544 (1873).

LUCY, Henry Spencer (2 son of George Lucy, M.P. 1798–1845). b. 28 Nov. 1830; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 May 1850; sheriff of Warwickshire 1857; succeeded on death of his brother William 1 July 1848; kept harriers and hunted the borders of Warwick, Worcester and Gloucester; master of the Warwickshire hounds 1866, hunted 5 days a week; resided at Chalcote park, Warwick. Baily’s Mag. xxvi 373–5 (1875), portrait.

LUCY, William Wootten. b. 1802; bookseller at Marlborough from 1829; postmaster Marlborough 1829–69; mayor of Marlborough twice. d. Marlborough 16 Nov. 1869. The Marlborough Times 20 Nov. 1869 p. 4.

LUDLAM, Henry. b. 14 Oct. 1824; a land surveyor; engaged in commercial pursuits; made one of the finest private collections of minerals in the kingdom; he bequeathed his collections which included those made by Charles H. Turner and Wm. Nevill, to the Museum of practical geology in Jermyn st. London; F.G.S., F.M.S. d. 174 Piccadilly, London 23 June 1880. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvii 47 (1881).

LUDLOW, Ebenezer (son of Ebenezer Ludlow of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucester). b. 1777; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1795, M.A. 1821; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1805; town clerk of Bristol 22 July 1819, resigned 1836 on pension of £533; serjeant at law 25 June 1827; comr. of bankruptcy for Liverpool district 21 Oct. 1842 and for Bristol district 1849 to death; chairman of Gloucestershire quarter sessions, April 1842 to 1849. d. Almondsbury near Bristol 25 March 1851. G.M. xxxv 666 (1851).

LUDLOW, John. b. 16 May 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; entered Bengal army 1818; lieut. 3 Bengal N.I. 15 Aug. 1820; captain 6 N.I. 1 April 1829, major 20 Dec. 1843 to 6 April 1850; lieut.-col. of 12 N.I. 6 April 1850, of 9 N.I. 7 June 1853, of 36 N.I. 1854 to 9 Aug. 1854 when he retired with rank of M.G. d. Yotes court, Kent 30 Nov. 1882.

LUDLOW-BRUGES, William Heald (eld. son of Benjamin Pennell Ludlow of Melksham, Wilts.) b. Melksham 1796; ed. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; member of chancery bar, retired 1826; recorder of Devizes 7 June 1833 to 1844; chairman of north Wiltshire quarter sessions; M.P. Bath 1837–41; M.P. Devizes 28 July 1847 to Feb. 1848 when he retired; took additional name of Bruges by r.l. 1835. d. Sund, Wilts. 25 Sep. 1855.

LUKE, James. b. 1799; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1843, president 1853 and 1862, Hunterian orator; lecturer on anatomy London hospital 1823, assist. surgeon 1827, a principal surgeon 1833 and consulting surgeon 1861; adopted an improved operation for hernia, which has saved many lives 1841; retired from practice and resided at Woolley lodge, Maidenhead; contributed to Medical Gazette 1841 &c., Proc. R. Med. and Chir. Soc. 1843 &c. and to The Lancet 1845 &c.; F.R.S. 7 June 1855. d. Fingest grove, Wycombe, Bucks. 15 Aug. 1881. Lancet, ii 360 (1881); Barker’s Eminent medical men, i 27–30 (1865), portrait.

LUMB, Henry. Attorney at Wakefield, Yorkshire 1798 to death; deputy steward of manor of Wakefield many years; presented by his brother solicitors with his full-length portrait 14 Dec. 1859. d. 22 Feb. 1862 aged 87. Law Times 24 Dec. 1859 p. 156 and 19 April 1862 p. 323.

LUMLEY, Benjamin (son of Louis Levy a Jewish merchant of Canada, d. London about 1831). b. 1811; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch.; assumed name of Lumley; solicitor at 42 Chancery lane, London, Nov. 1832, at 6 Quality court 1833–9; a parliamentary agent in Parliament st. 1837–42; superintended finances of Her Majesty’s theatre for Laporte 1836–41, manager of the theatre 1842–52 and 1856–8, the famous pas de quatre was danced there by Taglioni, Cerito, Lucile Grahn and Rosati 1845; Sir Michael Costa seceded from Her Majesty’s in 1847 with Mario, Grisi and greater part of the orchestra; Jenny Lind sang at Her Majesty’s 1847–9, Sontag in 1851; managed the Italian opera house in Paris 1850 to 2 Dec. 1851; purchased lease of Her Majesty’s 1845, which in 1856 he assigned to lord Ward, being in debt to him; gave up the theatre 10 Aug. 1858 being unable to pay the rent; bankrupt 3 Nov. 1862, discharged 22 Jany. 1863; four benefit performances were given him at Her Majesty’s 1863; produced 30 Italian operas new to England 1842–58; parliamentary agent at 22 Sackville st. Piccadilly 1864 to death; author of Parliamentary practice on passing private bills through the House of Commons 1838; Sirenia, a fantastic account of the life of sirens in their retreats, their origin, mission and pursuits 1862, anon.; The earl of Dudley, Mr. Lumley and Her Majesty’s theatre, a narrative of facts 2 ed. 1863; Reminiscences of the opera 1864; Another world, or fragments from the star city of Montallagal. By Hermes 1873, 3 ed. 1873. d. 8 Kensington crescent, London 17 March 1875. bur. West Ham cemet. I.L.N. iii 124 (1843) portrait, iv 237 (1844) portrait, xi 96 (1847) view of testimonial; Illust. sp. and dr. news, ii 622 (1875).

LUMLEY, William Golden. b. 1802; ed. at Christ’s hospital and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb.; fellow of Trin. hall 1825, LL.B. 1825, LL.M. 1859; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; a revising barrister under the reform act 1832; professor of English law in univ. of London 1834–38; reported for the Law Journal 1835; secretary of poor law board 23 April 1839 to 17 Feb. 1847; assistant sec. local government board 18 Dec. 1847 to 19 Aug. 1871; Q.C. 8 Dec. 1868; counsel to local government board 1872; author of The law of annuities and rent charges 1833; The law of parochial assessments explained 1844, 7 ed. 1882; Manual of duties of poor law officers, medical officer 1849, 3 ed. 1871; The poor law election manual 1855, 5 ed. 1886; The union assessment committee act 1862, 10 ed. 1881; The local board election manual 1869, 4 ed. 1886; An essay on bye-laws 1877. d. 10 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 8 May 1878. Law Times, lxv 110 (1878); Solicitors’ Journal xxii 565 (1878).

LUMSDEN, James (son of James Lumsden, engraver and stationer). b. 43 Argyll street, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1778; apprentice to his father, a partner in the business 1799; a patron of Horatio MacCulloch and sir Daniel Macnee artists, and of Dugald Moore poet; lord provost of Glasgow 1843–45; president of Incorporated company of stationers, Glasgow 1815, 1822 and 1830; a founder of the Clydesdale bank 1838; founded a bursary in Glasgow univ. 1856; issued The Glasgow commercial memorandum book 1816, an annual; author of American memoranda by a Mercantile Man 1844, preface signed J.L. d. St. Vincent st. Glasgow 16 May 1856. W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men, ii 179–81 (1886), portrait; The Glasgow Herald 19 May 1856 p. 6.

LUMSDEN, James. b. 1811; minister of Inverbrothock to 1838; minister of Barrie 1838–43; joined the Free secession 1843; professor of divinity, Free ch. coll. Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1856 to death, and principal 1864 to death; D.D. of St. Andrew’s univ. 13 Feb. 1869; author of Sweden, its religious state and prospects 1855; Infant baptism, its nature and objects 1856. d. Aberdeen 17 Oct. 1875. Scott’s Fasti, iii part 2 p. 792 (1871).

LUMSDEN, Sir James (eld. son of James Lumsden 1778–1856). b. Glasgow 1808; ed. at Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; partner in firm of J. Lumsden & Co. stationers, Glasgow, retired from business 1876; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1860–2 and lord provost 1866–69; knighted by patent 3 Nov. 1868 after entertaining prince of Wales at luncheon. d. 194 Bath st. Glasgow 22 March 1879. W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men (1886), ii 183–4 (1886), portrait.

LUND, John. Joined the Metropolitan police 1837; a prominent officer in detective department at Scotland Yard; arrested Mr. and Mrs. Manning for murder of O’Connor 1849; had charge of detective arrangements at Great Exhibition 1851; superintendent of the P. or Walworth division of metropolitan police to 1859 when he retired on pension of £156; superintendent of Leamington police 1859–80 when he retired on pension of £166; captured James Torpey the diamond robber 1870. d. Leamington 24 Aug. 1888.

LUND, Thomas. b. Blackburn 2 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 4 wr. 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1838; fell. of his coll. 1829–41; R. of Morton, Derbyshire 1841–64; R. of Brindle, Lancs. 1864 to death; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1864 to death; author of An appendix to Wood’s Algebra 1840; A short and easy course of algebra 1850, 6 ed. 1863; The elements of algebra by D. Wood, 14 ed. 1852, 17 ed. 1876; A companion to Wood’s Algebra 4 ed. 1878; Elements of geometry and mensuration 3 parts 1854–9, 2 ed. 1864; A key to Bishop Colenso’s Biblical arithmetic 1863, 3 ed. 1865; with J. Baily A treatise on the differential calculus 1838. d. Brindle rectory 14 May 1877.

LUNDGREN, Egron Sellif. b. Stockholm 18 Dec. 1815; water-colour painter; resided at Seville 1849–52; accompanied sir Colin Campbell’s expedition on the campaign in Oudh 1857 when he made a series of about 500 sketches which were exhibited in London, then purchased by Samuel Mendel and sold at Christie’s 16 April 1875; associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 1864, member 1865; knight of order of Gustavus Vasa of Sweden 1861; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1862; illustrated G. O. Hyltén-Cavallius and G. Stephens’ Svenska Folksagor 1875 and Old Norse fairy tales 1882. d. Stockholm 16 Dec. 1875. Graphic, xiii 28, 36 (1876), portrait.

LUNING, Jacob William (3 child of Meinhard Conrad Luning 1732–83, pastor of Hamelvörden, Hanover). b. Hamelvörden 19 May 1767; came to London 1790, a boarder at Duff’s school, Tooting; naturalised 1796; book-keeper in some of the first mercantile houses in the city down to 1858; admitted a member of Morden college, Blackheath 30 March 1859; m. at Spalding, Lincs. 4 Aug. 1796 Eleanor dau. of captain Sands and had issue 15 children. d. Morden college, Blackheath 23 June 1870 aged 103. Thoms’ Human longevity (1879) 255–63.

Note.—Having insured his life for £200 in the Equitable Society at the age of 36 namely in 1803, the bonuses at his death had raised the policy to £1292 10s., the largest addition ever paid by the Equitable or probably by any other Insurance company.

LUNN, Joseph. b. 1784; an original member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society; his chief plays were The sorrows of Werther, a burlesque, Covent Garden 6 May 1818, revived at St. James’s 13 Oct. 1836; Family Jars, a farce, Haymarket 26 Aug. 1822; Fish out of water, a farce 26 Aug. 1823; Hide and Seek, petit opera 22 Oct. 1824, revived at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1830; Roses and Thorns or two houses under one roof, comedy 24 Aug. 1825; Lunn’s Management or the prompter puzzled, a comic interlude 29 Sep. 1828, all these four were produced at Haymarket; author of Horæ Jocosæ, or the doggerel Decameron 1823. d. Grand parade, Brighton 12 Dec. 1863.

LUNN, William Arthur Brown. Invented sequential system of musical notes 1844; published under pseudonym of Arthur Wallbridge, Bizarre fables 1842; The sequential system of musical notation, a new method of writing music 1844, 6 ed. with his name 1873; Torrington hall, an account of two days passed at that establishment for the insane 1845; The council of four, a game at definitions 1848; Miscellanies, consisting of jest and earnest 1851; The Wallbridge miscellanies 1874, 3 ed. 1877. d. London 4 April 1879.

LUPTON, James (son of James Lupton of York). b. 1800; matriculated from Ch. Ch. Oxf. as a servitor 7 July 1819, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1825; V. of Blackbourton, Oxon. 1827 to death; minor canon of St. Paul’s cath. 1829 to death and of Westminster abbey 1829 to death; R. of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe, London 1832 to death; editor of The Temple by G. Herbert, with a life of the author 1865; The poetical works of A. Pope, with life of the author 1867; Gulliver’s Travels edited by A Clergyman 1867. d. The Cloisters, Westminster abbey 21 Dec. 1873. bur. Westminster abbey 27 Dec.

LUPTON, Thomas Goff (son of Wm. Lupton, working goldsmith). b. Clerkenwell, London 3 Sep. 1791; pupil of George Clint, engraver; assistant to Samuel Wm. Reynolds; exhibited 4 engravings at R.A. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–25; executed 4 of the plates in Turner’s Liber Studiorum; introduced steel for mezzotint engraving for which he received the Isis medal of Society of Arts 1822; six of his plates after Turner were published as Views of the ports of England 1825, reissued with 6 more of his plates as The harbours of England 1856; pres. of Artists’ annuity fund 1836; resided at 4 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 1837 to death, d. there 18 May 1873.

LURGAN, Charles Brownlow, 2 Baron (son of 1 baron Brownlow 1795–1847). b. Eaton place, London 10 April 1831; ed. at Eton; ensign 26 foot 15 March 1850, sold out 23 Jany. 1852; lord lieut. of Armagh 7 July 1864 to death; raced under name of Mr. Stafford; a breeder of greyhounds from 1854, won the Waterloo cup with Master M’Grath at Altcar 1868, first time an Irish dog took the cup, won again in 1869 and 1871, the dog was sent for the queen to see him on 1 March 1871 and d. 24 Dec. 1871; K.P. 1864; a lord in waiting to the queen 1869–74. d. Brighton 16 Jany. 1882. Baily’s Mag. April 1869 pp. 213–16, portrait; The Sporting Rev. Feb. 1869 pp. 129–32, portrait of Master M’Grath.

LUSH, John Alfred (1 son of John Lush of Berwick St. John, Wilts). b. 21 March 1815; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. St. Andrews 1864; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1872; in practice at East Knoyle, removed to Salisbury; with Corbin Finch proprietor of Fisherton house asylum, Salisbury 1862; mayor of Salisbury 1866; M.P. Salisbury 1868–80; entertained prince of Wales at a banquet Sep. 1872; removed to 13 Redcliffe square, South Kensington, London 1880. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Aug. 1888. The Salisbury Journal 11 Aug. 1888 p. 5.

LUSH, Sir Robert (eld. son of Robert Lush of Shaftesbury, Dorset). b. Shaftesbury 25 Oct. 1807; in a solicitor’s office; a special pleader in London 1839; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840, bencher 4 Nov. 1857 to Nov. 1865, treasurer 1859; Q.C. June 1857; leader with sir Wm. Bovill of the home circuit; serjeant at law 2 Nov. 1865; justice of court of queen’s bench 2 Nov. 1865 to 5 Nov. 1880; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; one of the three judges who tried the Tichborne claimant 1873–4; member of the judicature commission, settled at chambers the practice under the judicature acts Nov.-Dec. 1875; member of commission on the penal code 1878; P.C. 17 May 1879; lord justice of court of appeal 5 Nov. 1880 to death; author of The act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process with notes 1838; The act for the amendment of the law with respect to wills 1837, 2 ed. 1838; Practice of the superior courts of law at Westminster in actions and proceedings over which they have a common jurisdiction 1840, 3 ed. by J. Dixon 2 vols. 1865; edited J. Chitty’s The practice of the law in all its departments, vol. iii, 3 ed. 1842; J. S. Saunders’s Law of pleading and evidence in civil actions 2 ed. 2 vols. 1851. d. 60 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1881. Baptist Worthies. By W. Landels (1884) 373–411, portrait; A generation of Judges. By their reporter (1886) 21–9; I.L.N. xlvii 513 (1865), portrait; Illust. Times 18 Nov. 1865 p. 307, portrait; Graphic, xxv 20 (1882), portrait.

LUSHINGTON, Charles (3 son of sir Stephen Lushington, 1 baronet 1744–1807). b. London 14 April 1785; served in Bengal civil service 1800–27; chief secretary to government of Bengal 1823, retired on annuity 1827; M.P. Ashburton 1833–41; M.P. Westminster 1847–52; an original director of Crystal palace company 1852; resided at Edgware many years; president of Whittington club, Arundel st. Strand 1850; author of The history of the religious institutions founded in Calcutta. Calcutta 1824; A short notice of John Adams, Esq. Calcutta 1825; A remonstrance addressed to the bishop of London on the sanction given in his charge to the calumnies against the dissenters 2 ed. 1834; Dilemmas of a churchman arising from the discordant doctrine of the clergy 1838, 2 ed. 1838. d. 118 Marine parade, Brighton 23 Sep. 1866.

LUSHINGTON, Charles Manners (youngest son of Stephen Rumbold Lushington 1776–1868). b. 1819; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Souls’ college 1843–6; private sec. to president of board of control 1843 to July 1854; M.P. Canterbury 1854–7; resided Norton court, Kent. d. Boulogne-Sur-Mer 27 Nov. 1864.

LUSHINGTON, Edmund Law (1 son of Edmund Henry Lushington, puisne judge Ceylon, d. 1839). b. 10 Jany. 1811; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; senior classic and senior chancellor’s medallist 1832; fellow and tutor of his college; professor of Greek at univ. of Glasgow 1838–75, lord rector 15 Nov. 1884, only noncontested election on record; married 14 Oct. 1842 Cecilia sister of Lord Tennyson; edited with sir A. Grant, J. F. Ferrier’s Lectures on Greek philosophy 1866 and J. F. Ferrier’s Philosophical works vols. ii, iii 1875. d. Maidstone 13 July 1893. A. P. Martin’s Life of Lord Sherbrooke (1893).

LUSHINGTON, Franklin (4 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet 1775–1863). b. 20 April 1811; ensign 9 foot 16 July 1829, captain 30 Oct. 1838; major 37 foot 26 Nov. 1847 to 15 July 1854; captain Scots Fusilier guards 15 July 1854, sold out 28 Nov. 1856; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Hansham, Kent’s road, Torquay 18 Jany. 1890.

LUSHINGTON, Henry (2 son of Edmund Henry Lushington 1766–1839, master of the crown office, London). b. Singleton, Lancs. 13 April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1823–8, head boy 1827–8; student of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1829, fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; chief secretary to government of Malta 1847 to 1855, brought forward proposed code of laws before Malta legislative council 1849; Tennyson dedicated The Princess to him 1847; author of Fellow commoners and honorary degrees 1837; A great country’s little wars, or England, Afghanistan and Sinde 1844; The broad and narrow guage 1846 and other books; author with G. S. Venables of Joint Compositions 1840, a book of verses; and with his brother F. Lushington of La nation boutiquière 1855; Two battle pieces 1855. d. Paris 11 Aug. 1855. bur. Boxley, Kent. Henry Lushington’s The Italian war (1859), memoir pp. ix–ci.

LUSHINGTON, Sir Henry, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Stephen Lushington, Bart. 1744–1807). b. 27 Oct. 1775; succeeded 12 Jany. 1807; consul general at Naples 1815–32. d. 32 Montague square, London 25 Jany. 1863.

LUSHINGTON, Sir James Law (3 son of rev. James Stephen Lushington, preb. of Carlisle, d. 17 June 1801). b. Bottesham, Cambs. 1779; entered Madras army 1796; col. 3 Madras light cavalry 1831–49; col. 4 Madras light cavalry 1849 to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. Petersfield 1825, M.P. Hastings 1826, M.P. Carlisle 1827–32; a director of East India company 25 July 1827 to 1854, deputy chairman 1837, 1841 and 1847, and chairman 1838, 1842 and 1848; C.B. 14 Oct. 1818, K.C.B. 10 March 1837, G.C.B. 20 July 1838. d. 26 Dorset square, London 29 May 1859.

LUSHINGTON, Stephen (brother of sir Henry Lushington 1775–1863). b. Harley st. London 14 Jany. 1782; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806, B.C.L. 1807, D.C.L. 1808; fellow of All Souls’ coll. to 1821; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1806, bencher 1840–72, reader 1850, treasurer 1851; member of college of advocates 3 Nov. 1808; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1806 to 1808; M.P. Ilchester 1820–6; M.P. Tregony 1826–30; contested Reading 1830; M.P. Winchelsea 4 April 1831; returned for Winchelsea and Ilchester 1831 but sat for Ilchester; M.P. Tower Hamlets 1832–41; one of the counsel for Queen Caroline, made a speech in her defence 26 Oct. 1820, present at her death 7 Aug. 1821, one of her executors attended her funeral at Brunswick; voted freedom of city of London 7 Dec. 1820, admitted 2 June 1821; judge of consistory court of London 16 Feb. 1828 to 2 July 1858; judge of high court of admiralty 17 Oct. 1838 to 30 July 1867; P.C. 5 Nov. 1838; dean of arches 2 July 1858, resigned 30 July 1867; chancellor of diocese of Rochester 1826–56; chancellor of diocese of London 1828–58; served on many royal commissions; an ardent reformer, supported sir T. F. Buxton in the anti-slavery struggle; author of The reply of Dr. Lushington in support of the bill for the regulation of chimney sweepers, and the preventing the employment of boys in climbing chimneys 1818. d. Ockham park, Ripley, Surrey 19 Jany. 1873. Law Times, liv 225–6, 240–1 (1873); I.L.N. lxii 91, 95, 211 (1873), portrait.

LUSHINGTON, Sir Stephen (2 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet 1775–1863). b. Bedford sq. London 12 Dec. 1803; entered navy 1816; commander of the Ætna bomb 13 May 1828; took part in reduction of Kastro Morea 30 Oct. 1828 for which he was nominated chevalier of orders of St. Louis and the Redeemer, of Greece; captain 28 Oct. 1829; superintendent of Indian navy Nov. 1848 to 23 March 1852; captain of the Albion, July 1852; commanded naval brigade on shore at siege of Sebastopol 1855; R.A. 4 July 1855; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital 17 May 1862 to 2 Dec. 1865; admiral on h.p. 2 Dec. 1865; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Oak lodge, Thornton Heath, Surrey 28 May 1877.

LUSHINGTON, Stephen George (eld. son of the succeeding). Comr. of customs 3 Jany. 1825 to death. d. Norton court, Faversham, Kent 15 Feb. 1853.

LUSHINGTON, Stephen Rumbold (2 son of James Stephen Lushington, V. of Newcastle and preb. of Carlisle, d. 1801). b. Bendish house, Bottesham, Cambs. 6 May 1776; ed. at Rugby; D.C.L. of Oxf. univ. 12 June 1839; entered Madras civil service 4 Sep. 1790; assistant in the military, political and secret department, Madras 1792; collector at Tinnevelly 1801; registrar of Sudder and Foujdarry Adowlut 14 Jany. 1803, left the service 1807; M.P. Rye 1807–12; M.P. Canterbury 1812–30 and 1835–7; chairman of committees in house of commons to 1814; joint secretary of the treasury 1814 to 19 April 1827; P.C. 30 June 1827; governor of Madras 18 Oct. 1827 to 25 Oct. 1832; author of The life and services of general lord Harris 1840. d. Norton hall near Faversham, Kent 5 Aug. 1868. An account of the refusal of church rates by S. R. Lushington (1841).

LUTHER, Robert. b. 1800; farmed 1000 acres under earl Powis at Acton to death; a judge of Hereford and Shropshire cattle; huntsman of the Union hunt for Mr. Frank Beddows from about 1830 to death; in his last hours he sent for some of his hounds to come to his bedside. d. Acton 7 Sep. 1862. Sporting Review, xlviii 412–13 (1862).

LÜTHY, Robert (son of Victor Lüthy a veterinary surgeon, and one of a family of 21 children). b. Solothurn, Switzerland 24 Sep. 1840; draughtsman to R. and L. R. Bodmer, London 1862; in service of Hick, Hargreaves & Co. of Bolton 1864 to death; designed hydraulic cotton presses and balanced valves 1863; experimented on cold air machines for freezing meat 1876, went to Australia in connection with the business of shipping frozen meat 1883; member Instit. Mechanical engineers 1878. d. Bolton 3 July 1884. Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers (1884) 403–4.

LUTTON, Anne (youngest child of Ralph Lutton). b. Ireland 16 Dec. 1791; held meetings for women 1818; an Italian and Spanish scholar; held drawing room meetings; head of a class meeting at Bristol 1834; held religious meetings in England and Ireland; author of Poems on moral and religious subjects. Dublin 1829, 2 ed. 1842. d. Bristol 22 Aug. 1881. bur. Arno’s Vale cemetery 27 Aug. Memorials of a consecrated life (1883), portrait; Light on the christian’s daily path, compiled from the unpublished letters of A. Lutton, ed. by A. S. Webb (1886).

LUTTRELL, Alexander Fownes (4 son of John Fownes Luttrell, M.P. 1752–1816). b. 1793; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf. 6 May 1812; R. of East Quantoxhead, Somerset 2 May 1818 to death, having been rector 70 years. d. 12 Oct. 1888.

LUTTRELL, Henry (natural son of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2 earl Carhampton 1743–1821). b. 1771; M.P. Clonmines, co. Wexford in Irish parliament 1798; managed his father’s estates in the West Indies about 1802; introduced to London society by the duchess of Devonshire, a great talker and diner-out, a frequent guest at Holland House where he uttered many of his best mots, Gronow calls him the last of the conversationists; author of Letters to Julia in rhyme, 3 ed. 1822; Advice to Julia, a letter in rhyme 1820. d. 31 Brompton crescent, London 19 Dec. 1851, portraits of him at Holland House and at White’s club. Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries (1889) passim; St. James’s Mag. Jany. 1878 pp. 43–52.

LUTTRELL, Henry Acland Fownes (1 son of Alexander F. Luttrell 1793–1888). b. 1826; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1852; ensign Rifle brigade 11 Feb. 1855, lieut. 8 June 1855, sold out 1857 or 1858; lieut.-colonel 3 Somerset rifle volunteers 1860–89, hon.-col. 1889 to death; major West Somerset yeomanry 1858–80; a fine judge of horses and in great request at exhibitions of horses; instrumental in reviving the Bath and West of England agricultural soc.; sheriff of Somerset 1881; C.B. 1887. d. Badgworth court, Axbridge, Weston-Super-Mare 7 July 1893.

LUTTRELL, Henry Fownes (2 son of John F. Luttrell 1752–1816, M.P.) b. 7 Feb. 1790; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1812; M.P. Minehead 1816–22; a comr. of audit board 1822–49. d. Dunster castle, Somerset 6 Oct. 1867.

LUTWIDGE, Robert Wilfred Skeffington (2 son of Charles Lutwidge of Holmrook, Cumberland). b. London 1802; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 3 July 1827; commissioner in lunacy 1842–5 and 24 Dec. 1855 to death; secretary to lunacy commission 1845; comr. of inquiry into state of lunatic asylums in Ireland, Sep. 1856. d. Salisbury 28 May 1873. bur. Brompton cemetery 3 June. Law Times, lv 127 (1873).

LUXFORD, George. b. Sutton, Surrey 7 April 1807; apprenticed to Mr. Allingham a printer at Reigate 1818, stopped with him to 1834; removed to Birmingham 1834; a printer in London 1838–44; sub-editor of Westminster Review some years; lecturer on botany at St. Thomas’s hospital 1846–51; a compositor and reader in Mr. Newman’s printing establishment 1851 to death; edited The Phytologist 1841 to death; A.L.S. 1836; author of A flora of the neighbourhood of Reigate, flowering plants and ferns 1838. d. Hill st. Walworth, London 12 June 1854. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii 426 (1855).

LUXMOORE, Charles Scott (eld. son of John Luxmoore, bishop of Hereford and St. Asaph, d. 21 Jany. 1830 aged 73). b. 1792; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bromyard 2nd portion 1815 to death; R. of Cradley, Herefordshire 1816 to death; R. of Darowen, co. Montgomery 1819 to death; canon of Hereford 30 Oct. 1815 to death; preb. of St. Asaph 16 Oct. 1816 to 1842; dean of St. Asaph 26 June 1826 to death. d. Cradley 27 April 1854. bur. in St. Asaph cathedral.

LUXMOORE, Thomas Coryndon. b. 1795; second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1814, lieut.-col. 1 July 1849 to 1 April 1852 when placed on retired list; general 8 June 1871; wrote On the groins used in Sussex for preventing encroachment of the sea, in Papers of Corps of Engineers vol. i (1884). d. Tunbridge Wells 26 Nov. 1878.

LYALL, Alfred (youngest son of John Lyall of Findon, Sussex, d. 1805). b. 1795; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818; C. of Findon 1829–32; V. of Godmersham, Kent 1837–45; R. of Harbledown, Kent 1845 to death; contributed to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana; edited the Annual Register 1822–7 and 1837–8; author of Rambles in Madeira and Portugal 1827; A review of the principles of truth in reference to the doctrines of Hume and Reid 1830; Agonistes or philosophical strictures 1856. d. Llangollen, Wales 11 Sep. 1865. bur. Harbledown.

LYALL, George (brother of the preceding). b. 1784; succeeded his father as a merchant and shipowner 1805; chairman of the Shipowners’ Society committee several years; instrumental in forming company which made Shoreham harbour; a director of East India Co. 1830–51, deputy chairman 1840, chairman 1841; contested City of London 12 Dec. 1832 and 5 Jany. 1835; M.P. City of London 1833–5 and 1841–7; introduced and carried the Merchant Seamen’s Widows’ bill 1834; retired from public life 1847. d. 17 Park crescent, Regent’s park, London 1 Sep. 1853. Portraits of eminent conservatives. Second series, portrait 26 (1846).

LYALL, George. b. London 29 Aug. 1819; ed. at Winchester 1832 and Geneva 1835; M.P. Whitehaven 1857–65; a director of bank of England 1857 to death, deputy governor 1869–71, governor 1871–73. d. Cleve hill, Downend, Bristol 12 Oct. 1881.

LYALL, William Rowe (brother of George Lyall 1784–1853). b. London 11 Feb. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1816; C. of Fawley, Hampshire 1812–15; chaplain to St. Thomas’s hospital 1817; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn; exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1822; R. of Weeley, Essex 1823–33; archdeacon of Colchester 4 June 1824; Warburtonian lecturer Lincoln’s Inn 1826; R. of Fairsted, Essex 1827–33; R of Hadleigh 1833–42; archdeacon of Maidstone 11 June 1841 to 1845; preb. of Canterbury 11 June 1841 to 1845; R. of Great Chart, Kent 1842–52; dean of Canterbury 26 Nov. 1845 to death; edited The British Critic 1816–7; reorganised the Encyclopædia Metropolitana 1820 and contributed to its pages; edited with St. J. Rose the Theological Library vols. i–xiv 1832–46; author of Propædia Prophetica, a view of the use and design of the Old Testament 1840, 3 ed. 1885. d. the deanery, Canterbury 17 Feb. 1857. bur. Harbledown churchyard 26 Feb. G.M. April 1857 pp. 491–2.

LYCETT, Sir Francis (son of Philip Francis Lycett of Worcester). b. Worcester 1803; ed. at Dr. Simpson’s, Worcester; in his father’s glove works; manager for Dent and Allcroft, glovers, London 1832, a partner 1845–65, acquired a large fortune and retired; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1866–67; knighted at Osborne 3 Aug. 1867; contested Woodstock 17 Nov. 1868, Liskeard 11 May 1869 and St. Ives 30 Dec. 1874; a great friend to the Wesleyan Methodist connexion; member of London school board, Finsbury division, Nov. 1870. d. 18 Highbury grove, London 29 Oct. 1880. Christian Miscellany, Jany. 1881 pp. 15–18, portrait.

LYDE, Samuel. b. 1825; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1848, M.A. 1859; author of The Ansyreeh and Ismaeleeh, a visit to the secret sects of Northern Syria 1853; The Asian mystery illustrated in the history of the Ansaireeh or Nusairis of Syria 1860. d. Alexandria 1 April 1860 aged 35.

LYE, Thomas. b. Spinney-gate, Deansgate, Manchester 1795; well known jockey; often mentioned by Alfred Highflyer in the Sporting Mag.; won the Oaks on Lilias 1826, on Queen of Trumps 1835 and on Our Nell 1842; won the St. Leger on Queen of Trumps 1835 and on Blue Bonnet 1842. d. Middleham 27 May 1866. Sporting Review, lvi 79–80 (1866).

LYELL, Sir Charles, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Lyell of Kinnordy, Fifeshire, botanist 1767–1849). b. Kinnordy 14 Nov. 1797; ed. at Ringwood, Salisbury, Midhurst and Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1821, hon. D.C.L 1855; F.L.S. 1819; F.G.S. 1819, secretary 1823–6, foreign sec. 1826, pres. 1835–6 and 1849–50, Wollaston medallist 1866; F.R.S. 1826, royal medallist 1835, Copley medallist 1858; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; professor of geology King’s college, London, Oct. 1831 to 1833 or 1834; gave 7 lectures at Royal Institution 1832; knighted at Balmoral 19 Sep. 1848; baronet 22 Aug. 1864; pres. of British Assoc. at Bath 1864; presented with freedom of Turners’ company 25 June 1874; author of Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth’s surface by reference to causes now in operation 3 vols. 1830–33, 12 ed. 1875; Elements of geology 1838, 6 ed. 1865; Travels in North America 2 vols. 1845; A second visit to the United States of North America 2 vols. 1849; The geological evidences of the antiquity of man 1863, 4 ed. 1873; The students’ elements of geology 1871, 3 ed. 1878. d. 43 Harley st. London 22 Feb. 1875. bur. in nave of Westminster abbey 27 Feb. Life of Sir Charles Lyell 2 vols. (1881), 2 portraits; Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxxii 53–69 (1876); Proc. of Royal soc. xxv 11–14 (1877); Nature, xii 325 (1875), portrait; I.L.N. xlvi 227, 230 (1865), portrait.

LYGON, Edward Pyndar (youngest son of 1 Earl Beauchamp 1747–1816). b. about 1786; sub lieut. 2 life guards 1 June 1803, commanded 2 life guards at Waterloo, lieut.-col. 14 April 1818 to 10 Jany. 1837; inspector general of cavalry to death; colonel 13 light dragoons 29 Jany. 1845 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 11 Nov. 1860.

LYLE, Acheson (2 son of Samuel Lyle of the lodge, co. Londonderry 1761–1815). b. 13 March 1795; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1832; called to the Irish bar 1818; assistant barrister for the Queen’s county; second remembrancer of court of exchequer, Ireland 1835–44, chief remembrancer 1844; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1837; a master in chancery, Ireland, Nov. 1852; lord lieut. co. Londonderry, April 1860 to death. d. The Oaks, Londonderry 22 April 1870. Irish law times 30 April 1870 p. 326.

LYLE, Thomas. b. Paisley 10 Sep. 1792; ed. at Glasgow univ., took diploma of surgeon 1816; practised at Glasgow and Airth, Stirlingshire; returned to Glasgow 1835; collected ancient airs and songs; wrote the beautiful song ‘Let us haste to Kelvin Grove, bonnie lassie, O,’ first published anonymously in the Harp of Renfrewshire 1820; contributed to R. A. Smith’s Irish Minstrel; edited Ancient ballads and songs 1827. d. Glasgow 19 April 1859. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland, ii 129–30 (1877); Brown’s Poets of Paisley, i 269.

LYNCH, David (son of David Lynch of Dublin, merchant). b. 1812; ed. at the Feinaglian institution Luxembourg and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831; called to bar in Ireland 1833; leader of Leinster circuit; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; bencher of King’s inns 1860; chairman of quarter sessions co. Louth 1857–59; judge of bankruptcy court 1859 to Jany. 1867; judge of landed estates court Jany. 1867 to death. d. 27 Merrion sq. Dublin 18 Dec. 1872. bur. Prospect cemetery, Glasnevin 21 Dec. Irish law times, vi 647, 662 (1872).

LYNCH, David. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1864; called to bar in Ireland 1865; Q.C. 5 July 1884. d. Somerville, Howth 27 Oct. 1889 aged 47.

LYNCH, Henry Blosse (3 son of Henry Blois Lynch of Partry house, Ballinrobe, co. Mayo, major in the army, d. 1843). b. 24 Nov. 1807; joined Indian navy as a volunteer 1823, lieut. 1829, Persian and Arabic interpreter to the Persian Gulf squadron 1829–33; second in command of expedition despatched to explore Euphrates route to India 1834–7, commander of it 1837; commanded the steamer Tigris which foundered 21 May 1836; completed map of the river Tigris 1839; commanded a flotilla off mouth of the Indus 1843; assistant to superintendent of Indian navy 1843–51; founded the Indian navy club at Bombay; captain 13 Sep. 1847; commodore in command of a squadron in second Burmese war 1851–3; retired from the service 13 April 1856; C.B. 3 Dec. 1853; resided in Paris 1856 to death; conducted negotiations with Persian plenipotentiary which resulted in treaty of Paris 4 March 1857, for which the Shah nominated him to the highest class of the Lion and Sun. d. 6 Rue royal, Faubourg St. Honoré, Paris 14 April 1873.

LYNCH, Patrick Niesen. b. Clones, Ireland 10 March 1817; taken to U.S. of America 1819; ed. at coll. of the propaganda, Rome, D.D. 1840; assist. pastor of Charlestown cath. 1840–44; pastor of St. Mary’s ch. 1844–55; administrator of the see of Charlestown 1855–58, and bishop 14 March 1858 to death, cathedral and residence burnt down 1861; sent on a mission to the Pope with a letter from Jefferson Davis 1862; ruined and involved in debt by the civil war 1865; attended on the yellow fever patients in 1848 and 1871; author of Miraculous existence of the church. A sermon at Second plenary council, Baltimore 1866. d. Charlestown 26 Feb. 1882. Appleton’s American Biography, iv 64 (1888).

LYNCH, Theodora Elizabeth (dau. of Arthur Foulks of Jamaica, sugar-planter). b. Dale park, Sussex 1812; m. 28 Dec. 1835 Henry Mark Lynch, 2 son of John Lynch of Kingston, Jamaica, b. Kingston 29 Oct. 1814, barrister M.T. 12 June 1840, d. Kingston 15 July 1845; author of Lays of the sea and other poems By Personne 1846, 2 ed. 1850; The cotton tree, or Emily the little West Indian 1847, another ed. 1853; The family sepulchre, a tale of Jamaica 1848, and 14 other stories for children. d. 81 St. John’s Wood terrace, London 27 June 1885.

LYNCH, Thomas Kerr (younger brother of Henry Blosse Lynch 1807–73). b. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; served with his brother during second Euphrates expedition 1837–42; set up in business at Baghdad; bore the expense of trading-steamers constructed for the rivers Euphrates and Tigris; travelled in Mesopotamia and Persia; an Arabic and Persian scholar; consul general for Persia, in London 1869–75; knight of the Lion and Sun on the Shah’s visit to England 1873; author of A visit to the Suez canal 1866; F.R.G.S. d. 31 Cleveland sq. London 27 Dec. 1891. Times 29 Dec. 1891 p. 5.

LYNCH, Thomas Toke (10 child of John Burke Lynch, surgeon, d. 1820). b. Dunmow, Essex 5 July 1818; ed. at a school in Islington, London, afterwards an usher in the school; a Sunday school teacher and preacher 1841; pastor of Highgate independent church 1847–9; pastor of a congregation in Mortimer st. London 1849, which migrated to Grafton st. Fitzroy sq. 1852, resigned 1859; pastor of independent church in Gower st. 1860, which removed to Mornington crescent, Hampstead road 1862 to death; author of Thoughts on a day 1844; Memorials of Theophilus Trinal 1850, 4 ed. 1882; Essays on some of the forms of literature 1853; The Rivulet, a contribution to sacred song 1855, 3 ed. 1868; these hymns said to be pantheistic, gave rise to a long discussion known as The Rivulet controversy, Lynch replied to his opponents in The ethics of quotation 1856 and Songs Controversial 1856, both issued under pseudonym of ‘Silent Long’; A Christmas address 1856, 3 ed. 1872. d. 76 Arlington st. Mornington crescent 9 May 1871. White’s Memoirs of T. T. Lynch (1874), portrait; A critical and descriptive notice of Rev. T. T. Lynch (1859); Miller’s Singers and songs of the church (1869) 560–61; Waddington’s Congregational history, v 134–69 (1880); J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit, 2 ed. (1858) 101–10 and his Religious Life in London (1870) 187–92.

LYNCH, William Wiltshire. b. 1 April 1831; ensign 70 foot 17 Sep. 1850; captain 2 foot 1858, major 1873 to 1875 when placed on h.p.; brigade major Chatham 1866–70; deputy judge advocate 1875–6; lieut.-col. 10 foot 3 May 1876 to 3 May 1881; lieut.-col. regimental district 1881–6; M.G. 1 April 1887; M.G. Bengal 31 March 1888 to death. d. of cholera at Allahabad 4 Aug. 1888.

LYNCH-BLOSSE, Henry (elder son of sir Robert Lynch-Blosse, 8 bart. 1784–1818). b. 11 Feb. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1860; V. of Newcastle, Glamorganshire, with V. of Bettws, C. of Laleston and C. of Tythegston 1839–77; archdeacon and canon of Llandaff 17 June 1859 to 1877; dean of Llandaff 1877 to death. d. Llandaff deanery 28 Jany. 1879.

LYNDHURST, John Singleton Copley, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Singleton Copley of Boston, U.S., afterwards of London, painter, 1737–1815). b. Boston 21 May 1772; brought to England, June 1775; pensioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 8 July 1790, 2 wr. and Smith’s prizeman 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1796; junior fellow of his coll. 2 Oct. 1795, senior fellow 5 July 1797 to 1804; travelling bachelor of Camb. univ. 1795–8, high steward of the univ. 1840; member of Lincoln’s inn 19 May 1794; practised as a special pleader; barrister L.I. 8 June 1804; serjeant at law 6 July 1813; leader of Midland circuit 1816; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1818; M.P. Ashburton 1818–26; M.P. univ. of Camb. 1826–7; king’s serjeant and chief justice of Chester Dec. 1818 to July 1819; solicitor general 24 July 1819, knighted Oct. 1819; attorney general 9 Jany. 1824 to 14 Sep. 1826; master of the rolls 13 Sep. 1826 to April 1827; recorder of Bristol, Sep. 1826 to April 1827; lord chancellor 20 April 1827 to 22 Nov. 1830; lord chief baron of the exchequer 18 Jany. 1831 to 1834, lord chancellor again 21 Nov. 1834 to 23 April 1835, and 3 Sep. 1841 to 4 July 1846; created baron Lyndhurst of Lyndhurst in the county of Southampton 25 April 1827. d. 25 George st. Hanover sq. London 12 Oct. 1863. bur. Highgate cemetery 17 Oct. 1863. Sir T. Martin’s Life of Lord Lyndhurst 2 ed. (1884), portrait; W. S. Gibson’s Brief memoir of Lord Lyndhurst (1869); Lord Campbell’s Lives of the lord chancellors, viii 1–212 (1869); Misrepresentations in Campbell’s Lives of Lyndhurst and Brougham. Corrected by St. Leonards (1869); Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 394–7, portrait; W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England and Austria. New York (1863) pp. 173–79; Law Magazine, liv 321–68 (1856); Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1st series (1836), portrait; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, ii (1831), portrait; Orators of the age. By G. H. Francis (1847) 142–59; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 100–107.

Note.—He was sketched under name of Lord Harderly in The life of a lawyer. Written by himself [By Sir James Stewart] 1830. In 1831 he heard the equity case of Small v Attwood, which occupied a greater number of hours than the trial of Warren Hastings, he delivered 1 Nov. 1832 by all accounts the most wonderful judgment ever heard in Westminster Hall. No Chancellor received the Great Seal so often from different sovereigns since the Plantaganet reigns.

LYNDON, Patrick Francis. b. Ireland 1812; ed. R.C. seminary, Montreal, Canada, and college of St. Sulpice, Paris; a priest at Boston, U.S. America; in charge of St. Mary’s parish, Charlestown, Mass. till 1852; pastor of St. Peter and Paul, south Boston 1853 and vicar general 1866; member of Boston school committee 7 years. d. Boston 19 April 1878. Appleton’s Annual Cyclop. for 1878 (1883) p. 641.

LYNE, Charles (son of rev. Richard Lyne 1760–1834). b. Castle hill, Liskeard, Cornwall, Aug. 1802; R. of Roche 1834–41; V. of Tywardreath 1841–47 and 1851–63; prebendary of Exeter 31 March 1843 to death; cr. M.A. of Lambeth 27 May 1843; author of An old man’s wanderings, a tour through the manufacturing districts 1845; A tract entitled Little Salem 1850 is attributed to C. Lyne and led to The Little Salem controversy. d. Colby villa, Dawlish 5 May 1873. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874–82) 329–30, 1272.

LYNE, Francis (3 son of Joseph Lyne, merchant, Lisbon 1766–1823). b. Lisbon 27 Dec. 1800, registered at St. Ive church, Cornwall, April 1809; F.R.G.S.; father of the rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne known as Father Ignatius; author of Tribunals of commerce 5 vols. 1851–76; Dr. Pusey’s Defence of Father Ignatius 1881. d. 54 Montague sq. London 15 May 1888.

Note.—Lyne v. Sampson Low and others The Times 17–19 Feb. 1873. This was an action respecting the defendants refusing to publish Tribunals of Commerce, after agreeing to do so, because it contained libellous matter. The plaintiff was non-suited.

LYNE, Lewis Clifton (son of Charles Lyne, stock-broker 1790–1861). b. 8 March 1835; of the Office of Works, London to 1876; sub-editor of Household Words 1876 to which he contributed several serial stories; wrote under name of Lewis Clifton in conjunction with Joseph J. Dilley, Tom Pinch, a comedy Vaudeville theatre 10 March 1881; Lady Lovelace; La Rosiere, a comic opera, music by Walter A. Slaughter; Marjorie, a comic opera, Prince of Wales 18 July 1889. d. 38 East st. Bloomsbury, London 2 Dec. 1889. bur. Woking cemetery.

LYNN, Samuel Ferris. b. Belfast 1836; student at the R.A. 1854, obtained gold medal there 1859 for a group of Lycaon and Achilles; exhibited 26 statues at the R.A. 1856–75; his Evangeline exhibited 1858 was engraved in the Art Journal 1865 p. 372; member of Institute of Sculptors 1861; associate of Royal Hibernian academy; executed some important public works in Dublin and Manchester. d. Belfast 20 April 1876.

LYNNE, Henry. Edited a Hampshire paper; acted under Macready at Drury Lane 1841; starred at the Princess’s with Miss Cushman and J. W. Wallack 1844–45; first appeared in U.S. of America at Broadway theatre, New York as Joseph Surface in The school for scandal 27 Sep. 1847. d. St. Louis, Mobile 8 Aug. 1854.

LYON, Francis. b. 11 Jany. 1834; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1851, lieut.-col. 11 June 1877; served in Indian mutiny 1857–8, was at siege of Lucknow; employed testing the powers of breech loading guns and the resistance of targets; superintendent of royal laboratory at Woolwich arsenal 1 April 1880 to death; invented a sensitive base percussion fuse, during the trial of which at the military school of gunnery at Shoeburyness the shell burst and he was so much injured 26 Feb. 1885 that he died same day. I.L.N. 21 March 1885 pp. 303, 304, portrait.

LYON, Henry (son of a house agent). b. St. Luke’s, London 15 March 1831; sang at concerts and theatres from 1837; learnt fencing and imitating the Grecian statues; employed in Clark’s circus and at shows in fairs; learnt the violin and the harp, and with his brother performed in the street; a violinist in Jersey as Mr. Dymont from America; kept a music shop in Bunhill row, London; became a Wesleyan Methodist; a visitor for the Strangers’ Friend Society; a gun barrel maker in the Enfield works; a French polisher; a street preacher; a porter under Pickford & Co.; a preacher in The Christian Community; with his wife performed sacred music in the streets and sang hymns; a preacher and singer in Southampton in 1865. The life of Henry Lyon (1865).

LYON, Thomas Eaton. b. Woolton near Liverpool 17 Oct. 1812; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre as Miles Bertram in the Wreck ashore 29 Sep. 1836; acted Jonathan Wild in Jack Sheppard there 28 Oct. 1839; played at the Surrey, at the City of London, at the National Standard; last appeared on the stage at City of London theatre as Job Thornbury in John Bull 28 Aug. 1867; one of the five originators of General theatrical fund 1839. d. White Hart tavern, 197 High st. Shoreditch, London 23 Jany. 1869. bur. Abney park cemetery 27 Jany. Era 31 Jany. 1869 p. 10.

LYON, William (5 son of David Lyon of Jamaica and Portland place, London). b. 1807; cornet 8 hussars 17 July 1823, captain 30 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 2 Aug. 1833; M.P. for Seaford 1831–2; contested Lewes 1837, Marylebone 1859, Canterbury 1862 and 1865, and Shoreham 1874; member of bench of Middlesex magistrates, always opposed the license of Argyle Rooms; was in appearance exactly like the 2 baron Panmure; (m. 1860 Louisa Maria Sporle elder dau. of Henry Valentine Smith known as H. V. Swanborough, lessee of Strand theatre, she was an actress at Strand theatre to 1860). d. Goring hall near Worthing 5 April 1892.

LYONS, Edmund Lyons, 1 Baron (4 son of John Lyons of Antigua). b. Burton near Christchurch, Hants. 22 Nov. 1790; ed. at Hyde Abbey school near Winchester; entered navy June 1801; took the Dutch fort of Marrach, 74 miles west of Batavia, by surprise 30 July 1811 without orders to do so; captain 7 June 1814; commanded the Blonde frigate in the Mediterranean 1828, co-operated with French troops in reduction of Kastro Morea Oct. 1828 for which he received French order of St. Louis and Greek order of the Redeemer; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted 23 Jany. 1835; minister and plenipotentiary at Athens 2 July 1835 to Feb. 1849; created baronet 29 July 1840; K.C.B. 10 July 1844, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; minister to the Swiss confederation 1849–51; minister at Stockholm 1851–3; R.A. 14 Jany. 1850, V.A. 19 March 1857; second in command of Mediterranean fleet Nov. 1853, commander-in-chief 14 Feb. 1855 to 22 Feb. 1858; the practical commander of the fleet throughout the Crimean war 1853–55; received grand cross of legion of honour and Medjidie of 1st class; created baron Lyons of Christchurch 23 June 1856; (m. 18 July 1814 Augusta Louisa 2 dau. of Josias Rogers, captain R.N., she was author of three novels, Olivia 1848, Sir Philip Hetherington 1851, The lover upon trial 1853, all published in the Parlour library, she d. 10 March 1852). He d. Arundel Castle 24 Nov. 1858, portrait at the naval exhibition 1891. Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series (1859), portrait; E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of war against Russia, i 398 (1857), portrait; Illust. Times 15 March 1862 p. 164, portrait.

LYONS, Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1 Viscount (elder son of the preceding). b. Lymington, Hampshire 26 April 1817; midshipman H.M.S. Blonde 1829; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1865; attaché at Athens Feb. 1839, at Dresden April 1852 and at Florence 1853; sec. of legation at Rome 1856, envoy extraord. and min. plenipotentiary to Grand duke of Tuscany 16 June 1858; minister at Washington 13 Dec. 1858, returned to England 6 Dec. 1864, retired 28 Feb. 1865; voted freedom of city of London 28 Feb. 1856, admitted 19 May 1856; ambassador at Constantinople 10 Aug. 1865, at Paris 6 July 1867 to 1887, negotiated renewal of commercial treaty of 1860, 1873; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1860, G.C.B. 24 Jany. 1862; P.C. 9 March 1865; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created viscount Lyons of Christchurch in the county of Southampton 17 Nov. 1881; joined Church of Rome shortly before his death; his decease prevented his being created an earl. d. Norfolk house, 31 St. James’s sq. London 5 Dec. 1887. bur. Arundel 10 Dec.

LYONS, Francis. b. Cork 1797; ed. at univ. of Paris, M.D. 1822 but never practised; M.P. Cork 1859–65. d. 1865.

LYONS, Humphry. b. 8 July 1802; entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 12 Bombay N.I. 9 July 1818; captain 23 N.I. 25 May 1827 to 21 Jany. 1846; major 28 N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, lieut.-col. 26 Oct. 1850 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 6 N.I. 1852–53, of 1 European regiment, right wing 1853–4, of 14 N.I. 1854–5, of 23 N.I. 1855–7; town major, Bombay 2 Dec. 1851 to 5 May 1859; lieut.-col. of 1 N.I. 1857 to 7 Oct. 1860; col. of 18 N.I. 7 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 20 May 1871. d. Widmore, Bromley, Kent 27 May 1873.

LYONS, James Gilborne. b. England; ordained in the church of England; R. of St. Mary’s ch. Burlington, New Jersey, U.S. America 1844; a teacher in Philadelphia 1861; principal of a classical school, Haverford, Pennsylvania to death; author of Christian songs, translations and other poems. Philadelphia 1861. d. Haverford 2 Jany. 1868.

LYONS, John (eld. son of John Lyons of Lyons, Antigua, and St. Austin’s, Hants.) b. 1 Sep. 1787; entered navy 20 Sep. 1798; took part in battle of Trafalgar; captain 22 July 1830; employed for the government in Egypt; retired admiral 2 April 1866. d. Worthing 15 Dec. 1872.

LYONS, John Charles (only child of Charles John Lyons 1766–96, captain 12 light dragoons). b. 22 Aug. 1792; matric. from Pemb. coll. Oxf. 21 May 1810; sheriff of Westmeath 1816; author of Treatise on the management of orchidaceous plants, with a catalogue of more than one thousand species 2 ed. Dublin 1845; A book of surveys and distribution of the estates forfeited in the county of Westmeath in the year 1641. Ledestown 1852; The grand juries of Westmeath from 1727 to 1853. Ledestown 1853. d. Ledestown, Westmeath 3 Sep. 1874. bur. in churchyard of Mullingar, co. Westmeath.

LYONS, Louisa, stage name of A. C. Lyons (dau. of a woman who kept a glove shop in Carlton st. Regent st. London in 1828). b. about 1820; sat for the Madonna to Stephanoff and Chalon for their quasi-religious pictures; a pupil of royal academy of music Jany. 1835 to Dec. 1836; sang in the chorus at the Italian opera and at Exeter hall; first appeared as an actress at the Queen’s theatre, London 13 June 1839; mistress of the Marquis of Waterford 1839–42; played Giovanni in Giovanni in London, at Victoria theatre 23 Sep. 1844; played at the Strand theatre before 1845 as Miss Lyons her real name; played afterwards under name of Turner at Olympic and Lyceum; lived in splendid style at Bayswater; made a first-rate matrimonial match. Baron Nicholson’s Autobiography (1860) 53, 250.

LYONS, Robert Spencer Dyer (2 son of sir Wm. Lyons 1794–1858). b. Cork 1826; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.B. 1848; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1849; the first in Ireland to lecture on use of microscope in relation to disease; chief pathological comr. to the army in the Crimea 1855; awarded Crimean and Turkish medals and clasps for Sebastopol 8 Sep. 1855; investigated pathological anatomy of yellow fever raging at Lisbon 1857, for which he received cross and insignia of Ancient Order of Christ; physician and teacher in St. George’s hospital, Dublin 1858; professor of medicine in R. C. university medical school; physician to house of industry hospitals; a comr. of inquiry into treatment of Irish treason-felony prisoners in English gaols 1870; enquired into treatment of French political prisoners 1870; a senator of the royal univ. 1880; crown nominee for Ireland in general medical council of the U.K. 29 Nov. 1881; M.P. city of Dublin 1880–5; author of An apology for the microscope 1851; A handbook of hospital practice 1859; A treatise on fever 1861; Forest acres in Europe and America and probable future timber supplies 1884. d. 89 Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Dec. 1886. Midland medical miscellany 1 Feb. 1884 pp. 33–5, portrait; Biograph, iii 396–400 (1880).

LYONS, Sir William (2 son of Wm. Lyons of Cork, merchant). b. Cork 28 Aug. 1794; a merchant at Cork; sheriff of Cork; mayor of Cork 1848 and 1849; knighted by the queen on board the ‘Fairy’ yacht at Cork 3 Aug. 1849. d. 27 Dec. 1858.

LYSAGHT, Arthur. b. 22 Nov. 1782; entered navy 30 June 1795; captain 25 Sep. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half pay 18 June 1857. d. Twickenham 19 March 1859.

LYSLEY, William John (only son of William Lysley d. 1792). b. 12 Dec. 1791; barrister I.T. 25 Nov. 1825; sheriff of Herts. 1851; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; contested Chippenham 12 July 1865; F.S.A. d. St. Leonards on Sea 14 Jany. 1873.

LYSONS, Samuel (2 son of rev. Daniel Lysons, topographer 1762–1834). b. 17 March 1806; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836; R. of Rodmarton, Gloucs. 1833 to death; built St. Luke’s ch. High Orchard, Gloucester, consecrated 21 April 1841; rural dean of Gloucester 1865–76; hon. canon of Gloucester cath. 24 Dec. 1867 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; author of Conjectures concerning the identity of the patriarch Job, his family, the time in which he lived and the locality of the land of Uz. Oxford 1832; The Romans in Gloucestershire 1860; Claudia and Pudens, a tale of the first century 1861; The model merchant of the middle ages, Whittington and his cat 1861; Our British ancestors, who and what they were 1865. d. Hempsted court, Gloucester 27 March 1877. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, ii 514–6, 533.

LYSTER, James (eld. son of col. Anthony Lyster of Lysterfield, co. Roscommon, d. 1841). b. 7 Sep. 1810; C. of Edgworthstown; V. of Rufagh and C. of Street; R. of Tashinny, Ardagh 1851; dean of Leighlin and R. of Wells 1854–64; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1863; R. of St. George’s cath. Kingston and dean of Ontario 1863, non-resident by leave of the bishop with consent of parishioners. d. Plas Isaaf, Ruthin, North Wales 2 Sep. 1891.

LYSTER, William Saurin (son of captain Chaworth Lyster of Greenane, Queen’s co.). b. Dublin 21 March 1827; engaged in the production of operas in the Australian colonies and New Zealand 1861–81 where the Lyster opera companies were very well known; up to 1878 had superintended 1750 performances in Melbourne where he was a proprietor and managing director of the new Opera House opened 1872. d. Melbourne 26 Nov. 1880.

LYTH, John. b. York 13 March 1821; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1843; at Gloucester 1847–9, at Nottingham 1851–4, 1877–80, at Halifax 1854–7, at Liverpool 1868–71, at Sheffield 1871–4, at Hull 1874–7, at York 1883 to death; the first Wesleyan missionary in Germany, at Winnenden, Würtemberg 1859–65; D.D.; author of Wild Flowers 1843; Die Zionsharfe, a collection of spiritual songs 1863; Der Sontags-Gast, a periodical 3 vols. 1863–5; Kleine Lieder fur kleine Leute 1864; A homiletical commentary on Isaiah 1867; The homiletical treasury, Romans to Philippians 1869; Glimpses of early Methodism in York 1885. d. Carlton terrace, York, on the anniversary of his birth 13 March 1886.

LYTH, Richard Burdsall. b. York 1810; ed. for medical profession; medical missionary of Wesleyan Methodist soc. to the Friendly and Fiji islands 1836–55; translated portions of Old and New Testament into Fijian language, in which he also composed hymns; established a training institution for native agents at Lakemba, Fiji; governor of Wesleyan coll. Auckland, New Zealand 1855–58; Wesl. minister Gibraltar 1869–74. d. Fulford barracks, Yorkshire 27 Feb. 1887.

LYTHGOE, Thomas. b. Manchester 1832; inspector of Metropolitan gas co.; an aeronaut 1850 to death, making 405 successful ascents; the first person to make an ascent from the crystal palace about 1860. d. Hertford, April 1893.

LYTTELTON, George William Lyttelton, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 baron Lyttelton 1782–1837). b. Saville row, London 31 March 1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., chancellor’s medallist and bracketed senior classic 1838, B.A. and M.A. 1838, LL.D. 1862; D.C.L. Oxf. 1870; lord lieut. of Worcs. 7 Nov. 1839 to death; principal of Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1845; the first pres. of Birmingham and midland institute 1853; a founder of Diocesan training college for schoolmasters at Saltley opened 1852, pres. many years; under secretary of state for the colonies Jany. to July 1846; chairman of the Canterbury Association 1849 which founded province of Canterbury, New Zealand 1850, the seaport of Lyttelton near Christchurch, N.Z. was called after him; a public schools inquiry comr. 1861; chief comr. of endowed schools 1869–74; F.R.S. 30 April 1840; chairman of Worcester cathedral restoration committee; P.C. 15 Feb. 1869; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869; pres. of British chess association some years; published with W. E. Gladstone a volume of translations into Greek and Latin entitled Ex voto communi in memoriam duplicum nuptiarum viii Kal. Aug. MDCCCXXXIX; edited several of his father’s works and was author of The four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles with notes 1856; New Zealand and the Canterbury colony 1859; The final court of appeal in causes affecting the doctrine of the church of England 1864; Ephemera Series 1, 2, 1865–72; Two lectures on a visit to the Canterbury colony 1868; committed suicide by jumping out of window at 18 Park crescent, London 19 April 1876. bur. Hagley churchyard 22 April. British Medical Journal 29 April 1876 pp. 542–3; I.L.N. xxvii 44 (1855), portrait, lxviii 421, 430 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xiii 416 (1876), portrait; Walford’s Representative men (1868), portrait 12; Illust. Midland news, i 61 (1869), portrait.

LYTTELTON, Spencer (brother of the preceding). b. Saville row, London 19 June 1818; served some years in royal navy; ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 May 1839, retired 6 Aug. 1841; attached to legation at St. Petersburg 27 Aug. 1847; marshal of ceremonies to the Queen 1 Jany. 1847 to Jany. 1877 when he resigned. d. 11 Eaton terrace, London 4 Feb. 1889.

LYTTELTON, William Henry (brother of 4 baron Lyttelton 1817–76). b. 3 April 1820; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1841; C. of Kettering, Northamptonshire 1843–5; R. of Hagley, Worcs. 1847 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 4 Nov. 1850 to 1880; canon of Gloucester 1880 to death; edited Forms of praise and prayer in the manner of offices. Oxford 1869; Scripture revelations of the life after death 1875, 4 ed. 1893; translated from the French of Frédéric Godet, Studies on the Old Testament, 2 ed. 1882; Lectures in defence of the christian faith 1881, 2 ed. 1883; and from the French of Félix Bovet, Egypt, Palestine and Phœnicia, a visit to sacred lands 1882. d. Malvern 24 July 1884.

LYTTON, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1 Baron (youngest son of Wm. Earle Bulwer of Heydon hall, Norfolk, general 1757–1807). b. 31 Baker st. London 25 May 1803; ed. at Rottingdean, Ealing and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb., chancellor’s medallist 1825; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1835, hon. LL.D. 1864; hon. LL.D. Oxf. 1853; purchased an ensigncy in the army 19 Oct. 1825, placed on h.p. 27 July 1826, sold out 25 Jany. 1829; edited the New Monthly Mag. Nov. 1831 to 1832; M.P. St. Ives, Hunts. 1831–2; M.P. Lincoln 1832–41; contested city of Lincoln 1841 and 1847; M.P. Herts. 1852–66; his plays The duchess de la Vallière produced 4 Jany. 1837; The Lady of Lyons or love and pride 15 Feb. 1838; Richelieu or the conspiracy 7 March 1839, all 3 at Covent Garden; The sea captain or the birthright, produced at Haymarket 31 Oct. 1839, revived at Lyceum as The rightful heir 3 Oct. 1868; Money, produced at Haymarket 8 Dec. 1840, which ran for unprecedented number of 80 nights; Not so bad as we seem, performed by Charles Dickens’s amateur company at duke of Devonshire’s house in London 27 May 1851; created baronet 18 July 1838; assumed surname of Lytton by r.l. 10 Feb. 1844; secretary of state for the colonies 31 May 1858 to 18 June 1859, new colony of British Columbia organised 1858, Queensland separated from New South Wales 1859, a town in each colony is named Lytton after him; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1856 and 1858; created baron Lytton of Knebworth, Herts. 14 July 1866; P.C. 5 June 1858; G.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870; author of Ismael, an Oriental tale with other poems 1820; Pelham, or the adventures of a gentleman 3 vols. 1828, anon.; Paul Clifford. By E.L.B. 3 vols. 1830; The pilgrims of the Rhine 1834, anon.; The last days of Pompeii 3 vols. 1834; Rienzi, the last of the tribunes 3 vols. 1835; Athens, its rise and fall 2 vols. 1837; Night and morning 3 vols. 1841; Zanoni 3 vols. 1842; Lucretia or the children of night 1846, anon.; King Arthur, a poem 1848; The Caxtons 3 vols. 1849; My Novel. By Pisistratus Caxton 4 vols. 1853; What will he do with it. By P. Caxton 4 vols. 1859; The coming race 1871, anon., and about 40 other books; a library edition of his novels appeared in 43 vols. 1859–63. d. Argyll lodge, Torquay 18 Jany. 1873. bur. St. Edmund’s chapel, Westminster abbey 25 Jany. Life, letters and literary remains. By his Son 2 vols. (1883), 2 portraits; Lord Lytton, a biography by Thomson Cooper (1873); The Derby ministry. By Mark Rochester i.e. Charles Kent (1858) 143–94; Illustrated Review 15 June 1871 pp. 551–5, portrait; Cartoon Portraits (1873) 1–5, portrait; J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 243–56; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 189–214 (1844), portrait; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists, ii 198–220 (1858); Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, iii 27–63 (1855); Graphic, vii 70, 97, 100 (1873), 2 portraits.

Note.—He gave the ground near Stevenage, Herts., for an institute for retired members of the Guild of Literature and Art 1851, one side of the building consisting of 13 dwellings was erected and inaugurated 29 July 1865 but the scheme was a failure. He is satirised by Thackeray in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Mistawedward Lytton Bulwig. The works of W. M. Thackeray, xii 404–14 (1869).

LYTTON, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1 Earl of (only son of the preceding). b. 36 Hertford st. London 8 Nov. 1831; ed. at Harrow and Bonn; attaché at Washington 1849, at Florence 1852, at Paris 1854, at the Hague 1856, at St. Petersburg 1858, at Constantinople 1858, at Vienna 1859; secretary of legation at Copenhagen 1863, at Athens 1864, at Lisbon 1865; secretary to embassy at Madrid 1868, at Vienna 1868, at Constantinople 1870, at Paris 1872–4; minister at Lisbon 26 Nov. 1874 to 1 March 1876; succeeded as 2 baron Lytton 18 Jany. 1873; declined governorship of Malta, Jany. 1875; viceroy of India 12 Feb. 1876 to 27 April 1880, installed viceroy 12 April 1876; the Queen was proclaimed empress of India at Delhi 1 Jany. 1877; G.C.S.I. 12 April 1876, grand master of the order 1876–80; G.C.B. 1 Jany. 1878; created viscount Knebworth of Knebworth and earl of Lytton 26 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1887; ambassador at Paris 1 Nov. 1887 to death; edited some of his father’s works and wrote a continuation to his Autobiography 1883; author of The ring of Amasis, a romance 2 vols. 1863; Chronicles and characters 2 vols. 1868; Orval or the fool of time 1869; Julian Fane, a memoir 1871; Fables in song 2 vols. 1874; King Poppy, a story without end. By Horatio 1875; Glenaveril 1885; After Paradise, or legends of exile 1887; and under the pseudonym of Owen Meredith, Clytemnestra 1855; The Wanderer 1859; Serbski Pesme or national songs of Servia 1861; Lucile 1860; The poetical works of Owen Meredith, new ed. 2 vols. 1867; published with J. C. H. Fane under pseudonyms of Neville Temple and Edward Trevor, Tannhaüser, or the battle of the bards, a poem 1861. d. at the British embassy, Paris 24 Nov. 1891. bur. in mausoleum near Knebworth church 1 Dec. T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 189–96; C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, ii 28 (1882), portrait; Army and navy mag. iii 99 (1882), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. June 1876 pp. 654–68, portrait; Black and White 28 Nov. 1891 p. 707, portrait.

LYTTON, Rosina Anne Doyle (youngest dau. of Francis Massy Wheeler of Lizzard Connel, Limerick). b. Ballywhire near Limerick 2 Nov. 1802; ed. in Kensington, London; her parents having separated, she lived with her mother in Guernsey and Caen; m. at St. James’s ch. Piccadilly 29 Aug. 1827 Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer afterwards 1 baron Lytton, they executed a deed of separation 19 April 1836 her allowance being £400 per annum, which was increased to £500 by deed dated 1 Oct. 1858; at the hustings at Hertford she exposed her husband’s cruel treatment of her 8 June 1858; confined by her husband in R. G. Hill’s lunatic asylum, Inverness lodge, Brentford 22 June to 17 July 1858; lived at Taunton 1856–74, at Upper Sydenham 1875 to death; author of Cheveley, the man of honour 3 vols. 1839, reprinted as Lady Cheveley or the woman of honour 1839; The budget of the Bubble family 3 vols. 1840; Bianca Capello, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; The prince-duke and the page. Ed. by Lady L. Bulwer 3 vols. 1841; Memoirs of a Muscovite. Ed. by Lady Lytton 3 vols. 1844; The peer’s daughters 3 vols. 1849; Miriam Sedley, or the tares and the wheat 3 vols. 1851; The school for husbands, or Molière’s Life and times 3 vols. 1852; Behind the scenes 3 vols. 1854; Very successful 3 vols. 1856; Mauleverer’s divorce, a story of women’s wrongs 3 vols. 1857; The world and his wife, a novel 3 vols. 1858; The household fairy 1870; Where there’s a will there’s a way 1871, anon.; Shells from the sands of time 1876. d. Glenômera, Upper Sydenham 12 March 1882. bur. churchyard of St. John the Evangelist, Shirley, Surrey. Life of Rosina, lady Lytton. By Louisa Devey (1887), portrait; Letters of lord Lytton to lady Lytton. Edited by L. Devey (1884), this book was suppressed by lord Lytton’s successor 12 Jany. 1885; Thomas Mulock’s British lunatic asylums (1858) 47–9; Lady Bulwer Lytton’s Appeal to the justice and charity of the English public (1857), 3 ed. (1857); The life of E. B. lord Lytton, by his son, ii 33 etc.; You have heard of them. By Q. (1854), 31–6; Daily News 16 March 1882 p. 5.

LYVEDEN, Robert Vernon, 1 Baron (eld. son of Robert Percy Smith of Cheam, Surrey 1770–1845, judge advocate general in India). b. 23 Feb. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; M.P. Tralee 1829–31; M.P. Northampton 1831–59; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 21 Nov. 1834; sec. of board of control 21 April 1835 to 30 Sep. 1839 and president 3 March 1855 to 6 March 1858; under sec. of state for the colonies 1839 to 8 Sep. 1841; P.C. 21 Aug. 1841; dropped the use of his patronymic Smith by r.l. 5 Aug. 1846; sec. of state for war 6 Feb. to 28 Feb. 1852; cr. baron Lyveden of Lyveden, Northants. 28 June 1859; G.C.B. 13 July 1872; edited Letters addressed to the countess of Ossory by Horace Walpole 1848. d. Farming Woods near Thrapstone, Northamptonshire 10 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000, 17 Jany. 1874. I.L.N. lxiii 495 (1873), lxiv 54 (1874).

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MAAS, Joseph. b. Dartford, Kent 30 Jany. 1847; a chorister in Rochester cathedral 1857; a clerk in Chatham dockyard; studied singing under San Giovanni at Milan 1869–71; sang at St. James’s hall, London, Feb. 1871; made his début on the stage at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872 as prince Babil in Boucicault’s Babil and Bijou; sang with the Kellogg English opera co. in America; principal tenor with the Carl Rosa opera co. in Great Britain 1877–80; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre 1880; sang in Paris 1884, in Brussels at the Bach and Handel festival 1885; created the part of the Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet’s opera Manon at Drury Lane 7 May 1885; almost unrivalled in Handel’s oratorios and English ballads; sang at Birmingham musical festival 1885. d. of rheumatic fever at 21 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 16 Jany. 1886. bur. Child’s Hill cemet. Hampstead, marble monument with carved portrait unveiled in the cemetery 20 Feb. 1887.

MABERLY, Catherine Charlotte (2 dau. of the hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie of Corville, co. Tipperary 1779–1853). b. 1805; (m. 11 Nov. 1830 W. L. Maberly 1798–1885); author of Emily, or the Countess of Rosendale 3 vols. 1840; The love match 3 vols. 1841, 3 ed. 1863; Melanthe, or the days of the Medici 3 vols. 1843; Leontine, or the court of Louis the Fifteenth 3 vols. 1846; The present state of Ireland and its remedy 1847, 3 ed. 1847; Fashion and its votaries 3 vols. 1848; The lady and the priest 3 vols. 1851; Display, a novel 3 vols. 1855; Leonora 3 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1866. d. 7 Feb. 1875.

MABERLEY, Frederick Herbert (son of Stephen Maberley of London). b. 1781 or 1782; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; C. of Bourn Cambs.; travelled in a van all over England distributing protestant tracts about 1812; his pamphlet in 1818 upon the drowning of an undergraduate called Lawrence Dundas led to introduction of a system of licensed lodgings at Cambridge; appeared at the bar of the house of lords to impeach the duke of Wellington on account of the Roman Catholic emancipation bill, when he was summarily ejected 1829; author of The melancholy death of Lawrence Dundas, with an address on drunkenness 1818; V. of Great Finborough, Suffolk 14 May 1834 to death. d. Stowmarket 24 Jany. 1860. G.M. viii 511 (1860).

MABERLY, William Leader (son of John Maberly of Shirley house near Croydon, M.P. for Abingdon 1820–31). b. 7 May 1798; lieut. 7 foot 23 March 1815; lieut. 9 lancers 1817, placed on h.p. 14 May 1818; major 72 foot 10 Nov. 1825 to 30 Dec. 1826; lieut.-col. 96 foot 30 Dec. 1826 to 13 Sep. 1827; lieut.-col. 76 foot 13 Sep. 1827, placed on h.p. 9 March 1832; retired 1 July 1881; M.P. Westbury 1819–20, M.P. Northampton 1820–30, M.P. Shaftesbury 1831–2 and M.P. Chatham 1832–4; contested Abingdon 10 Dec. 1832; surveyor general of the ordnance 12 Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1832; clerk of the ordnance 1833–4; a comr. of customs 1834–6; joint secretary of general post office 29 Sep. 1836, permanent secretary Nov. 1846 to April 1854, opposed all schemes of postal reform; comr. of board of audit April 1854, retired 1866 on pension of £1200; granted additional pension from the post office of £533 6s. 8d., 1 April 1867. d. 23 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 Feb. 1885. E. Yates’s Recollections, i 96–100 (1884); A. Trollope’s Autobiography, i 59–63 (1883).

M’ADAM, David. Second lieut. R.M. 19 April 1805, lieut.-col. 27 May 1848; col. and 2nd commandant 14 March 1854 to 18 April 1854 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855; was more than 70 times under fire. d. Edinburgh 10 June 1859. G.M. vii 86 (1859).

MAC ADAM, James. b. Belfast, Jany. 1801; one of the 8 founders of the natural history and philosophical society of Belfast 1821, pres. to death; one of founders of botanic garden at Belfast; F.G.S.; lectured On the production of the flax plant and the modes of preparing its fibre for manufacture 1852. d. Belfast 1 June 1861. Quarterly journal of Geological soc. xviii 37 (1862).

MC ADAM, Sir James Nicholl (3 son of John Loudon Mc Adam, introducer of system of road making that bears his name 1756–1836). b. 1785; general surveyor of metropolis turnpike roads to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 March 1834 instead of his father who declined the honour. d. 17 Finchley road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1852.

MACADAM, John (son of Wm. Macadam). b. Northbank near Glasgow, May 1827; ed. at univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; M.D. Glasgow; lecturer on chemistry and natural science in the Scotch college, Melbourne 1855; member of Philosophical institution of Victoria, secretary 1857–63, vice pres. 1863, the institution became royal society of Victoria 1859, edited the society’s Transactions vols. 1–5; member for Castlemaine in legislative assembly of Victoria 1859–64; postmaster general 26 April to 14 Nov. 1861; lecturer on chemistry in univ. of Melbourne 1861–2; government officer of health and public analyst to city of Melbourne. d. on board the Alhambra on his way to New Zealand 2 Sep. 1865.

MC ADAM, William (eld. son of Wm. Mc Adam d. 23 Feb. 1836 the eld. son of J. L. Mc Adam 1756–1836). b. 1803; surveyor general of turnpike roads in England to death; K.H. 1834. d. the Park, Bath 28 Aug. 1861. Observations sur les routes dites Mac Adam. Par Auguste Jones suivies d’une réponse de W. Mac Adam etc. 1861.

MACALESTER, Charles Archibald (son of colonel Archibald Macalester). b. 1790; ensign 35 foot 19 Sep. 1795, major 13 June 1811, placed on h.p. 8 June 1826; brevet lieut.-col. 12 Aug. 1819; served in the campaigns of Egypt, Calabria, Belgium and France, at the capture of Malta and the Ionian Islands; chief of civil government of Island of Cerigo 1809–12; K.H. 1833. d. Loup cottage, Axminster, Devon 25 Aug. 1869.

MACALISTER, Arthur. b. Glasgow 1818; educated for a solicitor; solicitor at Ipswich, New South Wales 1850; M.P. Ipswich in the parliament of Queensland 10 May 1860 to 1871 and 1873–6; secretary for lands and works 21 March 1862 to Feb. 1866; premier 1 Feb. to 20 July 1866, 7 Aug. 1866 to Aug. 1867 and 8 Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; secretary of works and goldfields 28 Jany. 1869 to 3 May 1870; speaker for session of 1870–1; colonial secretary 8 Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; agent general for Queensland in London 22 June 1876 to 16 Nov. 1881; C.M.G. 13 March 1876. d. at the residence of his sister, Sunnyside, Uddington near Glasgow 23 March 1883.

M’ALL, Robert Whitaker (son of Robert Stephens M’All, independent minister, d. 1838). b. 1821; independent minister Sunderland; with his wife established the Mc All non-sectarian mission in Paris for teaching the ‘lapsed masses’ Jany. 1872, which before his death had 43 meeting places in Paris, 89 in the provinces of France and 6 in Algeria and Tunis; received a medal from the Encouragement du Bien society; received a testimonial on the 20 anniversary of the mission 1892; member of legion of honour July 1892; author of Letter and symbol, a lecture on the personal reign theory, in Ebenezer chapel, Sunderland 1853. d. Auteuil near Paris 11 May 1893. The white fields of France or the story of Mr. M’All’s mission. By H. Bonar (1879); A cry from the land of Calvin and Voltaire (1887).

MC CALL, Samuel (younger son of Robert Mc All, minister of the countess of Huntingdon’s chapel). b. St. Ives, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1807; ed. Rotherham coll.; pastor of Hall Gate chapel, Doncaster 1829–43; pastor at Nottingham 1843–60; principal of Hackney coll. 1860–80; author of Lectures at the nonconformist churches in Nottingham 1850; The logic of atheism 1853, 2 ed. entitled The sceptics credulity 1870; The pastoral care, hints on the services of congregational churches 1873; Delivery, or lecture room hints on public speaking 1875. d. 2 Goulton road, Clapton, London 9 March 1888. Congregational Year book (1889) 198–201.

MC ALPIN, William. Chief engineer in service of the Viceroy of Egypt 25 years, d. 1 May 1865 aged 61. bur. Highgate cemetery.

MACAN, George. b. 1803; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 15 Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 9 Feb. 1829; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 1839, lieut.-col. 15 May 1850 to 1855, of 14 N.I. 1855–7, of 3 N.I. 1857–8, of 11 N.I. 1858–60; commandant Baroda 10 June 1859 to 1860; col. of 25 Bombay light infantry 2 June 1860 to death; M.G. 20 April 1862. d. 1 Westbourne st. Hyde park gardens, London 12 Nov. 1866.

MACAN, Henry. b. 1804; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 17 Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 27 Nov. 1834, lieut.-col. 29 Dec. 1846 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 24 N.I. 1852 to 6 Dec. 1856; commandant Rajcote 10 April 1854 to 24 Nov. 1855; commanded Rajpootana field force 10 March 1856 to 1857; col. of 17 N.I. 6 Dec. 1856; general 24 May 1877; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. d. 31 Craven road, Westbourne terrace, London 20 April 1885.

MACAN, John. Called to Irish bar 1815; Q.C. 13 July 1835; bencher of King’s Inns 1841 to death; comr. of court of bankruptcy 1836–57, judge of the court 1857 to death; found dead in his bed at 9 Mountjoy sq. north, Dublin 5 June 1859.

MACANDREW, James. b. Aberdeen 1820; in business in London till 1850; went to Otago, New Zealand 1850; a ship builder; a member of the N.Z. parliament from the establishment of responsible government 1854 to death; minister of lands Oct. 1877, minister of public works 1878; superintendent of the Otago province 1860–76; the first to establish steam communication between New Zealand and England; founder of Otago university; author of Address to the people of Otago. Dunedin 1875. d. from effects of a carriage accident 24 Feb. 1887. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers (1886) 269–70, portrait.

M’ARDLE, John Francis. b. Liverpool 1842; ed. R.C. institute Maryland st., and St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw; journalist in England and Ireland; connected with the Northern Press, now The Catholic Times, Liverpool; wrote Taffy’s triumph, a farce, and The Talisman, a burlesque, theatre royal Liverpool 10 Aug. 1874; Round the globe, a spectacle, Alexandra theatre 29 March 1875; The musical marionettes, a comedy, and Zampa, a burlesque, Prince of Wales’ 6 and 9 Oct. 1876; Round the clock, a dramatic folly, Alexandra 25 March 1878; Olivia’s love, drama, Royal 6 May 1878; Flint and steel, a farce, Alexandra, Sheffield, May 1881; Fluff or a clean sweep, an absurdity, Opera house, Leicester 1 Aug. 1881; wrote The wicked Welshman 1878, She’s a daisy 1881, You have often heard of my complaints 1882 and other songs. d. at the res. of his mother, Flint st. Liverpool 21 Feb. 1883. bur. Ford cemetery 6 miles from Liverpool 24 Feb.

MACARTE, Regina (sister of George Ginnett, equestrian). Pupil of Andrew Ducrow, proprietor of Astley’s amphitheatre; appeared before the court at Brighton with Ducrow’s company; one of the most accomplished equestriennes of her time; retired about 1857. d. in United States of America 3 Sep. 1892.

M’ARTHUR, David Charteris. b. 1809; in service of North British insurance co. Edinb. 1826–35; clerk in bank of Australasia, Sydney, N.S.W. 1835, sent to open a branch in Melbourne, Victoria 1837, manager till 1860, general superintendent of the bank’s colonial establishments 1868, retired from active service 1885, local director of the Melbourne branch till death; member of a committee for enquiring into the finances of Victoria, who recommended abolition of the imprest system 1854. d. Melbourne 15 Nov. 1887.

M’ARTHUR, Duncan. b. Glasgow 1773; surgeon R.N.; M.D. of Aberdeen 1 March 1810; F.L.S. 1810; physician to the fleet 27 April 1812; physician naval hospital, Deal; F.R.C.P. Lond. 10 Feb. 1841; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. d. Deal or Walmer, Kent 16 Jany. 1855. Proc. Linnean Soc. ii 414 (1855).

MACARTHUR, Sir Edward (eld. child of John Macarthur 1767–1834, of Camden park, one of founders of Australian merino wool industry). b. Bath 1789; taken by his parents to New South Wales 1790; ensign 60 foot 27 Oct. 1808; lieut. 39 foot 1809, captain 8 Feb. 1821, placed on h.p. as major 10 June 1826; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; secretary in lord chamberlain’s office, house of lords 1830–7; A.A.G. in Ireland 1837–41; D.A.G in Australia 1851–5; commanded the troops in Australia 1855–60; acting governor of Victoria 1 Jany. to 31 Dec. 1856; col. of 100 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to death; L.G. 14 June 1868; C.B. 17 July 1857, K.C.B. 23 July 1862; author of Colonial policy of 1840 and 1841 as illustrated by the governor’s despatches 1841. d. 27 Prince’s gardens, London 4 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. lx 51 (1872).

MACARTHUR, Hannibal Hawkins (son of the succeeding). b. Plymouth 16 Jany. 1788; emigrated to New South Wales 1805; assisted his relatives in the merino wool trade; police magistrate at Parramatta some years; member for Parramatta in first parliament of N.S.W. 18 July 1842. d. Norwood, Surrey 6 March 1861.

MACARTHUR, James (brother of sir E. Macarthur 1789–1872). b. Parramatta, New South Wales 1798; took part in his father’s agricultural enterprises; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1839, member for Camden 1848–53; declined knighthood 1859; assisted in exploring Gippsland 1840; member of international statistical congress in London 1860; comr. for N.S.W. at London exhibition 1862; author of New South Wales, its present state and future prospects 1837. d. Sydney 21 April 1867.

MACARTHUR, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Parramatta, Dec. 1800; assisted his father in his various projects 1817; brought over six German vine-dressers to improve the vine culture at Camden 1839; elective member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1849–55; a representative comr. for colony of N.S.W. at Paris exhibition 1855; an officer of the legion of honour 1855; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1856; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1864; author of Letters on the culture of the vine, fermentation and the management of wine in the cellar. By Maro 1844. d. Sydney, N.S.W. 29 Oct. 1882. A voyage round the world. By the Marquis de Beauvoir, i 246–9 (1870).