Chapter L: Laboratories 941

Lace, gassing of 1289,
machine for making 83,
made from mohair 287,
manufacturers of 287, 1412,
Old Loughborough machine 1412,
patent for making 275.

Lacrosse player, Glover 1160.

Ladies’ faces, enamelling of 770.

Laing, Rev. John _d._ 1880, librarian 1282.

Lamb, Charles _d._ 1834 essayist, attacked by cholera 93,
his friends 487, 1591.

Lambeth, degrees 557, 1494,
palace librarian 1225.

Lamps, Argand introduced 1554,
lamp of life, invention and explosion of 10.

Lampeter castle turned into St. David’s college 1336.

Lancaster duchy, chancellors of 6, 133, 623, 1241, 1358,
duke of, claimant to the title 1353,
records 1334.

Lanarkshire, lords lieutenant 226, 976, 1298 _bis._

Land surveyor, Hodgson 1498.

Langalibalele, Caffre chief, treatment of 673.

Latin, hexameter verses, machine for composing 627.

Laurie, Sir Peter _d._ 1861, lord mayor 26, 27.

Lavalette, Antoine M. C., comte de _d._ 1830, his escape 897.

Law, common law procedure act 1272,
inns of court commission 675,
John Doe and Richard Roe 1398,
king’s bench filazer 18,
large incomes made at the bar 451,
law courts commission 675,
law courts, design for 478,
law courts, opening of the new 848,
papers copied at three pence a page 1596,
qualification for offices abolition act 1272,
refusal to call to the bar 1364.

Law, Incorporated Law Society, law institute projected 1513,
incorporated law soc., charter of 1513,
presidents 330, 494, 635, 918, 1080, 1089.

Law, William John _d._ 1869 barrister, on route of Hannibal over Alps
984.

Lawrence, Sir Thomas _d._ 1830 P.R.A., funeral of 318,
his assistant 1004.

Leamington, county library 988,
music hall 988.

Leather manufacturer, Hackett 1270.

Lecturers, Bellew 234,
Dawson 837,
Gilfillan 1148,
Gordon-Cumming 785,
Grossmith 1250.

Lee, James Prince _d._ 1869 bp. of Manchester, his confirmation opposed
1265.

Leechdoms 661.

Leeds, musical festivals 725,
St. Saviour’s vicar of 1075.

Leicester, Mount St. Bernard abbey 476.

Leinster, Augustus Frederick _d._ 1874 third duke of, his son 1059.

Lemon, Mark _d._ 1870, dramatised the Chimes 4.

Leopold I. _d._ 1805 king of the Belgians, his equerry 796,
master of his household 796.

Leopold, prince _d._ 1884,
duke of Albany 38.

Lepidoptera, collections of 900, 1454,
specimen costing £350 _col._ 1454.

Letter copying machines, pentagraph 1389,
Wedgwood’s manifold writer 1389.

Letters refused, the writer liable for the postage 26.

Letters, vocal and whisper 1476.

Leucocythemia or white cell blood discovered 242.

Lever, Charles James _d._ 1872 novelist, illustrators of his works 444.

Lewes, George Henry _d._ 1878 philosopher, Mary Ann Cross 771,
studentships founded in his name 771.

Lewin, Thomas _d._ 1843 of H.E.I.C.S. 1251.

Librarians, Atkinson 104,
Bandinel 150,
Bradshaw 375,
Brayley E. Wedlake 387,
Brayley E. William 387,
Brimley 401,
Brough 424,
Caulfield 573,
Cochrane 660,
Coxe 743,
Crestadoro 758,
Dalton 808,
Deutsch 867,
Edwards 965,
Halkett 1282,
Hall 1290,
Hennen 1430,
Herbert 1440, 1442,
Hertslet 1450,
Hitchcock 1484,
Holmes 1515,
Horne 1540,
Hulton 1582.

Libraries, Adamson 21,
Ainsworth 34,
Alvanley 55,
Ashburnham 93,
Aspland 99,
Atkinson 103,
Barker 162,
Beaufoy 212,
Bedford 218,
Bennis 245,
Bentham 247,
Black 293,
Bohn 326,
Blood 315,
Brooke 415,
Bruce 451,
Burnett 485,
Chetham 773,
circulating, first in London 1607,
Clerical 815,
Colburn 669,
Corney 721,
Corser 724,
Craig 747,
Crawford 753,
Crossley 773,
Currer 790,
Dampier 869,
Denny 861,
Dyce 946,
Eastlake 953,
Faculty of advocates 1537,
Fry 1111,
Great seal patent office 104,
Greswell 1238,
Grey 311,
Hardiman 1325,
Hardy 1332,
Hartley 1362,
Hawley 1391,
Heywood 1458,
Hibbert 80,
Holden 1504,
Holmes 1515,
Hope 1530,
Hunter 1597,
Huth 1606,
Hutt 1607,
Jewish, the 866,
London institution 80, 779,
London library 549, 660,
London library co. 1092,
Metropolitan library 815,
Napoleon library 311,
Perkins 80,
Stowe collection 93.

Libraries, catalogues on Crestadoro’s plan 758,
circulating 669, 1607,
itinerating founded 438.

Library Association, Oxford meeting 744,
president 375.

Liebig, Justus von, baron _d._ 1873 chemist, letters on chemistry 1122.

Life boats, Beeching’s 220,
steam life boat service 498.

Light, magnetism of 1020.

Lighthouses, keeper of 816,
polyzonal lens invented 394,
refraction protractor invented 144.

Lightning conductors for ships 1351.

Likenesses, machine for taking 1389.

Lilley, John, a sergeant arrested by Col. Crawley and _d._ 1863 in
confinement 756.

Limerick, bishops of 1243, 1463,
lord lieutenant 940.

Lind, Jenny _d._ 1887 singer, Benedict travels with her in United
States 238,
her friend 1251.

Lindsays, Lives of the 753.

Linen manufacturer, Dick 872.

Linguists, Bowring 362,
Buckle 463,
Cianchetti 621,
Hamilton 1307.

Linlithgowshire lord lieutenant 1533.

Lion tamer, Crockett 762.

Liquids, diffusion of, discovered 1198.

Lisbon, British hospital 1602,
English coll. at 1602,
mint at 643.

Lithotomists, Crichton 761,
Cusack 796,
Green 1225.

Lithographer, Day 421.

Lithotint invented 1326.

Liverpool, bishop of 1186,
chamber of commerce founded 1541,
Cope’s tobacco manufactory 715,
court of passage 769,
Eagle line of packets 400,
free public library and Derby museum 440,
Gibbs, Bright & Co. ship owners 399, 400,
Great Britain steamship 389, 400,
insurance offices 348,
Liverpool collegiate institution 697,
parliamentary debating soc. 715,
R.C. bishop 431,
salvage committee 348,
zoological gardens dismantled 102.

Livingstone, David _d._ 1873 explorer, Stanley’s search for 242.

Locksmith, Chubb 618.

Logarithms 1212.

Logic, quantification of the predicate, discovery of 247.

Logometer or ten foot gunter 382.

London.
Abney park cemetery formed 1545,
Agricultural hall built 1552,
Albert gate, Hudson’s residence 1566,
Albert hall designed 1092,
alderman not admitted lord mayor 1341,
Almack’s quadrilles and waltzes introduced 1250,
armourers co. hall 1171,
Barnard’s inn ball restored 130,
Battle bridge, now King’s cross 1133,
bazaars, queen’s bazaar 1308 and royal 1308,
Billingsgate market built 474,
bishops of London 315, 639,
Bishop’s observatory 837,
Blackfriars bridge opened 574, 779,
Blacksmiths’ co. 834,
Bow St. magistrates 1072, 1080, 1433,
Bow st. officers 1115,
Braidwood superintendent of fire engine establishment 379,
British diorama 1308,
Buckingham palace completed 317,
garden pavilion, Scotch views in 805,
Caldwell’s dancing rooms 515,
Carlton house, alterations at 1536,
Cato street conspiracy 1057, 1115, 1226, 1353,
chapels royal, sub dean 1121,
Charing cross station built 1130,
Chelsea _see col._ 1631,
church of St. John of Jerusalem built 363,
city marshal 528,
city of London school founded 1278,
gift to 212,
opened 474,
city prison Holloway 474,
Cleopatra’s needle 712,
Clerkenwell house of detention, explosion at by Fenians 178,
Clifford’s inn, principals of 53, 82,
clothworkers’ hall opened 318,
coaches plying on the New Road 477,
coal exchange built 474,
college of St. Ignatius 442,
common serjeants of the city 471, 859,
congregation of Oblates 703,
controller of the chamber of the city 497,
corps of gentlemen at arms standard bearer 1341,
Cotton’s wharf, fire at 379,
Covent garden market built 1092,
Crace collection of prints and drawings 746,
Cromwell road built 1103,
Crosby hall, account of 548,
crystal palace Sydenham _See_ Crystal palace 1635,
Cubitt’s Thames Bank factory 779,
Culverwell’s baths 782,
east end, earliest workers in 1187,
Euston station and hotel built 1331,
Exeter change menagerie 770,
faculty office 538,
fine arts commission 669,
Finsbury chapel 1069,
fire engine establishment 379,
Fleet prison warden 441,
freedom of city granted to Brooke 417,
Burgoyne 480,
Campbell Lord Clyde 657,
Cobden 659,
Cockburn 662,
Frere 1107,
freemasons’ hall 664,
French gloves sold in London 638,
gin palace, first in London 1133,
goldsmiths’ hall built 1331,
Gordon boys’ home founded 1178,
Gower’s walk free school 832,
guildhall librarian 39,
guild of St. Luke founded 391,
Guy’s hospital separated from St. Thomas’s 1352,
halls in city warmed and ventilated 1539,
Hancock’s steam carriages 1315,
Highgate cemetery laid out 1133,
Holborn viaduct opened 574,
Hotels, Claridge’s 624,
Freemasons’ tavern 1097,
Hampshire hog tavern 695,
Mivart’s 624,
St. Albans 373 and St. James’ 1097,
Hungerford market opened 1092,
pulled down 1130,
Hyde park corner arch built 494,
Hyde park, relievi on the entrance gate 1431,
Kensington gram. sch. founded 1560,
Kensington palace, chaplains at 168, 1211,
gardener 37,
Kensington South, fountains in exhibition garden 811,
museum, Foster’s pictures and books 1085,
King’s college charter 409,
King’s Weighhouse chapel 280,
Knightsbridge, memorials of 830,
Lambeth bridge opened 169,
Lambeth ragged sch. opened 212,
land registry office, registrar of 1074,
Leicester sq. Savile house exhibition of hydraulic figures 1254,
lent oratorios 323,
life in London by Pierce Egan 778,
Lincoln’s inn hall and library foundation stone laid 451,
finished 1331,
London bridge, account of 548,
design for 1092,
drawings of 701,
stones of old bridge used to build Ingress park 1341,
London Pneumatic despatch Co., iron tubes for 180,
London university founded 1251,
lord mayor in 1852 had no procession or dinner 581,
lord mayor’s carriage, paintings on 135,
lord mayor’s show, Grace Darling’s boat 816,
lord mayors, Allen 53,
Besley 261,
Carroll 559,
Carter 562,
Challis 582,
Combe 687,
Copeland 716,
Cubitt 780,
Curtis 793,
Duke 927,
Farncomb 1022,
Finnis 1050,
Gibbons 1137,
Hale 1278,
Hooper 1528,
Humphery 1586,
Hunter 1595,
Hunter 1598,
Laurie 26, and Moon 1253,
lord mayorship not granted 1273,
Manchester new college president 992,
marble arch, bassi relievi on 130,
Marshalsea, prisoners in 873, 1130,
Middle Temple chrysanthemum exhibition 802,
library 945,
metropolitan board of works, last of original members 808,
metropolitan cattle market built 474,
metropolitan improvement commission 669,
Middlesex hospital, Cropper’s devise to 768,
Mincing lane, the millionaire of 725,
mint, master of 1198,
mint works reformed 1342,
national gallery, director of 364,
national Scottish church, Covent Garden 784,
Nelson’s column, bas reliefs on 544,
Newgate, governor of 441,
Nunhead cemetery laid out 474,
Pantheon exhibition of pictures 1073,
turned into wine vaults 1146,
Pimlico district created 779,
police commissioner of city 1364,
queen’s college teacher of theology 1121,
ragged school founded 9,
Regent’s park, electric wire laid in 835,
ice accident 885,
remembrancer of city 723,
Romano-British remains, collection of 130,
St. Alban’s, Holborn built 1564,
St. Clement Danes parish, account of 881,
St. George in the East, disturbances at 51,
St. James’ chapel royal, master of choristers 1418,
St. John’s gate restored 1246,
St. Katharine docks opened 35,
St. Martin’s hall burnt 1581,
St. Mary Magdalen ch. Munster sq. built 555,
St. Mary’s hospital built 1536,
St. Michael’s, Cornhill, registers of 605,
St. Pancras parish divided into 20 incumbencies 802,
St. Paul’s cathedral, painted windows 439,
person buried in 596,
St. Paul’s, Covent garden, charitable institutions 1608,
St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, erected 786,
St. Peter’s, Newington, built 581,
St. Thomas’ hospital opened 1461,
secondary of the city 849,
sewerage works 1204,
Smithfield market, enquiry into 505,
Soane museum curator 334,
Soho square bazaar established 419,
Somers Town, abbé Carron’s school 502,
Southwark, bishops of 667, 811, 1206,
stamps department Somerset house remodelled 1470,
surpliced choir the first in the city 1473,
Thames defences 553,
Thames embankment 1154, 1204,
Thames tunnel 1390,
engineer of 207,
theatres _See_ Theatres,
tower of London, catholic memories of 703,
constables of 689, 798, 1169,
deputy lieut. office abolished 864,
persons committed to 51, 653,
tower subway opened 169,
traders’ tavern tokens 482,
trees, planting of 802,
Trinity house, master of 39,
University coll. diseased structures, drawings of 560,
gymnasium 611,
University hall Gordon sq. 654,
Vauxhall, bridge foundation stone laid 453,
embankment made 779,
Holy Trinity ch. built 248,
Victoria docks formed 272,
Walworth, Clayton schools 642,
West London infirmary renamed Charing Cross hospital 1166,
Whitechapel ch. rebuilt 707,
wool exchange erected 765,
yeomen of the guard, exon of 1314,
York college commenced 1128,
zoological gardens, Regent’s park, established 1247,
animals fed in public 1247,
zoological gardens, the Surrey 7, 770.

Londonderry, lords lieutenant 839, 1036,
Magee college 769.

Looms, power looms 1089.

Long, Rev. W. deprived of his license by Bp. of Capetown 1218.

Lords chancellor, Brougham 426,
Cairns 512,
Campbell 526,
Chelmsford 602,
Cottenham 726,
Cranworth 751,
Hatherley 1376.

Lords chief justice of England, Campbell 526,
Cockburn 662,
Denman 858.

Lord high steward, Anglesey 71.

Lords privy seal, Buckingham 460,
Buccleugh 457,
Clanricarde 622,
Clarendon 623,
Disraeli 203,
Ellenborough 975,
Haddington 1271,
Halifax 1281,
Hardwicke 1331,
Harrowby 1358.

Lords, house of, cartoons in 946,
chief justice of England sitting without his robes 859,
league for abolition of 1386.

Lotteries, abolished 559,
prizes in 1268.

Louis XVIII. _d._ 1824 king of France, conducted from Ghent to Paris
702.

Louis Philippe _d._ 1857 king of the French, flight to England 1030,
his queen 1105,
his son 856,
painting taught to his family 1043,
sent present of china to Harding 1326.

Louth, lord lieutenant 234.

Lowe, Robert _b._ 1811 first viscount Sherbrooke, caricatured in
burlesque of Happy Land 1476.

Luddite riots 1434.

Lunacy, non restraint system originated 1128, 1474.

Lycian marbles, discovered 1033,
Harpy tomb, the 1390.

Lyon, Mrs. Jane, her action against Daniel D. Home 1519.

Lytton-Bulwer, Edward G. _d._ 1873 baron Lytton, Devereux in French
1578.