Chapter XIII: Part 13

LABLACHE, FREDERICK (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 29 Aug.
1815; pupil of his father; sang in Italian opera at King’s
theatre London 1835; sang at Manchester frequently with Mario,
Grisi, &c.; played the part of Count Rodolpho to Jenny Lind’s
Amina in La Sonnambula on her first visit to Manchester 28
Aug. 1847; sang in the operas Cosi fan tutte and Il Matrimonio
Segreto at Her Majesty’s 1844 and 1846, sang there until 1852;
taught music in London about 1865 to death. _d._ 51 Albany st.
Regent’s park, London 30 Jany. 1887. _Theatre_, _ix_ 173 (1887).

LABLACHE, LUIGI (son of Nicholas Lablache of Marseilles,
merchant, by an Irish woman). _b._ Naples 6 Dec. 1794; his
voice was a contralto before it broke, afterwards a bass with
a compass of two octaves, was also a great actor; sang at
San Carlo, Naples 1812 and La Scala, Milan 1817 and 1820–3;
the opera of Elisa e Claudio was written for him by Saverio
Mercadante 1821; sang at Venice 1823 and Vienna 1824–8; first
appeared in London at King’s theatre 30 March 1830 as Geronimo
in Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto; sang annually in London
1830–57; remained at Her Majesty’s theatre in 1847 when all the
rest of the company went to Covent Garden; taught singing to
Queen Victoria; author of Complete method of singing. Boston
U.S. 1851. _d._ Naples 23 Jany. 1858. _bur._ Maison Lafitte,
Paris. _Dramatic and musical Rev. iii_ 267, 377 (1844); _I.L.N.
i_ 124 (1842) _portrait_, _ii_ 275 (1843) _portrait_; _You have
heard of them. By Q._ [_G. C. Rosenberg_] (1854) 82–90.

LACON, SIR EDMUND HENRY KNOWLES, 3 Baronet. _b._ 14 Aug. 1807;
ed. at Eton and Emmanuel coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; head
of firm of Lacon, Youell & Co. bankers and brewers, Yarmouth;
succeeded as 3 baronet 1839; M.P. Yarmouth 1852–57 and 1859–65;
M.P. North Norfolk 1868–80; high steward of Yarmouth 1875; major
East Norfolk militia 6 July 1839, lieut.-col. 31 Aug. 1859,
hon. col. 9 April 1881 to death; lieut.-col. Norfolk artillery
volunteers 2 Dec. 1864 to death. _d._ Ormesby near Yarmouth 6
Sep. 1888, value of his personalty declared at £382,473.

LACROIX, ALPHONSE FRANÇOIS. _b._ Lignières, canton of Neuchatel
10 May 1799; a tutor at Amsterdam 1816; a missionary at
Chinsurah near Calcutta, Feb. 1821 to 1827; became a British
subject; a missionary at Calcutta 1827 to death; revised the
Bengali scriptures and trained native preachers. _d._ Calcutta
8 July 1859. _Mullens’s Brief memorials of Rev. A. F. Lacroix_
(1862), _portrait_; _Missionary devotedness, a memoir_ (1860).

LACY, BENJAMIN. _b._ 1806; proprietor of Victoria music gallery,
Manchester 1838 to death, this was the first real music hall in
the country; owner of the Ordsall gardens, Manchester some time.
_d._ Manchester, Dec. 1864.

LACY, CHARLES (son of James Lacy). _b._ Salisbury, Jany. 1795;
ed. at All Souls’ coll. Oxf., bible clerk 1814–18; chaplain
Ch. Ch. 1818–20; B.A. 1818, M.A. 1824; P.C. of Tring, Herts.
1819–39; R. of Althorpe, Lincoln 1837–39, the first living in
gift of the crown after the Queen’s accession; R. of All Hallows
on-the-wall, London 1839 to death; the oldest clergyman in the
diocese of London. _d._ 25 Finsbury sq. London 17 May 1890.
_Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p._ 697, _portrait_.

LACY, FRANCES (dau. of Mr. Dalton, actor, who _d._ 1825). _b._
London 1819; her stage name was Fanny Cooper; played at Reading
theatre as Sophia in The Road to Ruin 1833; leading actress of
Mrs. Thomas Robertson’s company in the Lincoln circuit 1837;
first appeared in London at Haymarket 16 April 1838 as Lydia
in The Love Chase; acted at Drury Lane Oct. 1839 to Feb. 1840,
at Covent Garden winter seasons of 1840–3; played Helena in
Midsummer Night’s Dream 16 Nov. 1840; acted at Sadler’s Wells
1844–7; played at Princess’s 1847 where she acted Cordelia to
Macready’s King Lear; one of the best English actresses. (_m._
at St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 25 Jany. 1842 Thomas Hailes Lacy
1809–73). _d._ 89 Strand, London 21 April 1872. _T. Marshall’s
Lives of celebrated actors_ (1848) 199–222.

LACY, HARRIETTE DEBORAH (dau. of Mr. Taylor a tradesman). _b._
London 1807; taught elocution by Mrs. Bartley; first appeared
at Bath theatre as Julia in The Rivals 5 Nov. 1827, where she
remained till 1830; made début in London at Covent Garden
as Nina in The Carnival of Naples 30 Oct. 1830, then acted
Rosalind, also Helen in the Hunchback; at Haymarket 1837, at
Covent Garden 1838 when she played Lady Teazle; the original
of the heroine in Jerrold’s Housekeeper, at Haymarket theatre
July 1833; the best Ophelia of her day; retired 1845. (_m._ 1842
Walter Lacy, actor _b._ 1803). _d._ 38 Montpelier sq. Brompton,
London 28 July 1874. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses_, _ii_
246–52 (1844); _The Era 2 Aug. 1874 p._ 12.

LACY, JANE (dau. of John Jackson of Sloane st. Chelsea,
apothecary). _b._ 1776; first sang in London 25 April 1798.
(_m._ 1800 Francesco Bianchi, Italian opera composer, _b._ 1752,
_d._ 1810, she _m._ (2) 1812 the succeeding); one of the finest
singers of Handel’s music; often sang at Windsor before George
III.; sang in Calcutta 1818–26; retired about 1826 and then
resided much abroad. _d._ Ealing, Middlesex 19 March 1858.

LACY, JOHN WILLIAM or WILLIAM. _b._ about 1780; first sang at
concerts in London about 1798; studied in Italy several years;
sang frequently at the Lenten oratorio and other important
concerts in London; sang at Willis’s rooms 1809 and at Hanover
sq. rooms 1810; sang in Calcutta 1818–26; considered to be the
most legitimate English bass singer; retired about 1826. _d._
Devonshire about 1865.

LACY, MICHAEL ROPHINO (son of an Englishman by a Spanish
mother). _b._ Bilbao, Spain 19 July 1795; made his début as a
violinist at Bilbao 1801; ed. at Bordeaux 1802 and at Paris
1803; arrived in England Oct. 1805 and as a violinist was known
as the Young Spaniard until May 1807; played light comedy parts
in Edinburgh, Dublin and Glasgow about 1808–18; first violin and
director of the Liverpool concerts 1818–20 and 1823–4; directed
the ballets and composed music for Italian opera London 1820–3
and 1824 etc.; made the first English adaptations of the operas
Semiramide 1829, William Tell 1830, Fra Diavolo 1831 and others;
visited America, New Zealand and Australia; author of Love and
reason; Doing for the best, and other dramas. _d._ Pentonville,
London 20 Sep. 1867. _Grove’s Dict. of music_, _ii_ 82–3 (1880).

NOTE.--In his sacred melodramatic opera The Israelites in Egypt produced at Covent Garden theatre 22 Feb. 1833 he combined the choruses of Handel’s Israel in Egypt with the solos from Rossini’s Moise, and illustrated the melange in action with a mise en scene; this was the first and last attempt of the kind and was suppressed by the intervention of the Bishop of London.

LACY, RICHARD JOHN JAMES. _b._ 1780; 2 lieut. R.A. 8 Aug. 1796.
col. 23 June 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; director general of field
train department R.A. 1 Jany. 1849; col. commandant of 6th
battalion 8 July 1851 to death; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ royal
arsenal, Woolwich 9 March 1852.

LACY, RICHARD WALTER. _b._ 5 Oct. 1810; ensign 84 foot 23 March
1832; lieut. 56 foot 1837, lieut.-col. 16 May 1856 to 12 June
1869 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depôt 1 April
1873; L.G. 29 Sep. 1878; placed on retired list 5 Oct. 1880;
hon. general 1 July 1881. _d._ Reichenhall, Bavaria 23 Sep. 1886.

LACY, SARA. _b._ 1822; played soubrette and character parts
with Frederick Robson at Grecian theatre 1844–9; associated
with Braham, Macready, Mrs. Nisbett and Mrs. Glover; as Mrs.
Valentine Roberts wrote the words of On the broad bosom of
the deep 1854; As I roved through the meadows in May, 1855; A
stalwart lad is the blacksmith’s son 1860; Come sit old friend
beneath the porch 1862; O give me back my happy home 1863 and
the words of many other songs. (_m._ Valentine Roberts). _d._ 5
April 1881.

LACY, THOMAS EDGAR. _b._ 1803; ensign 72 foot 8 April 1825,
captain 11 July 1834 to 8 Oct. 1847 when placed on h.p.;
commandant of staff college Sandhurst 1 Jany. 1865 to 1 July
1870; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 18 Sussex place, Kensington 22 Feb.
1880.

LACY, THOMAS HAILES. _b._ 1809; appeared at Olympic theatre,
London as Lenoir in The Foundling of the Forest 7 April 1828;
acted in the provinces; stage manager at Windsor theatre;
manager of theatre royal Sheffield 1841; acted at Covent Garden
1842, at the Pavilion, Victoria and Sadler’s Wells 1844; played
at Manchester 1844–5; active promoter of General theatrical fund
instituted 16 Feb. 1839; theatrical publisher at 17 Wellington
st. Strand, London 1849, removed to 89 Strand 1857, retired
from business 1872; published Lacy’s Acting edition of plays,
99 volumes containing 1485 pieces 1848–73; author of 3 dramas,
The Pickwickians 1837, The tower of London 1840 and The school
for daughters 1843; (His wife was Frances Lacy 1819–72). _d._
Benhill st. Sutton, Surrey 1 Aug. 1873. _I.L.N. lxii_ 279
(1873); _Era 10 Aug. 1873 p._ 11, _30 Nov. 1873 p._ 7.

NOTE.--Tinsley the publisher obtained a perpetual injunction against him 30 June 1863 for publishing two plays dramatised from Miss Braddon’s novels Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley’s Secret. His library was sold for £2650, 24–29 Nov. 1873; his theatrical portraits were sold for £1970, 8 Dec. 1873. He left £8000 to the General theatrical fund.

LADBROOKE, HENRY (2 son of Robert Ladbrooke, landscape-painter
1768–1842). _b._ Norwich 20 April 1800; landscape-painter;
exhibited 3 pictures at B.I. and 10 at Suffolk st. 1834–65. _d._
North Walsham 18 Nov. 1870.

LADBROOKE, JOHN BERNEY (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1803;
pupil of his uncle John Crome whom he excelled as a painter
of woodland scenery; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A., 10 at B.I.
and 35 at Suffolk st. 1821–72. _d._ Kett’s Castle cottage,
Mousehold, Norwich 11 July 1879.

LADELL, EDWARD. _b._ 1821; a painter of fruit subjects;
exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st.
1856–80. _d._ Prospect park, Exeter 9 Nov. 1886.

LADEUIL, LEONARD MOREL-. _b._ 1820; sculptor at 13 Camden
road, then of St. John’s Wood, London; chevalier de la légion
d’honneur; exhibited at R.A. 1865; employed at Messrs.
Elkington’s, Birmingham. _d._ Boulogne 15 March 1888.

LAFFAN, SIR ROBERT MICHAEL (3 son of John Laffan of Skehana,
co. Clare). _b._ 14 Aug. 1819; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 May 1837, col.
9 Feb. 1870 to 1 Oct. 1877; an inspector of railways under
board of trade 1847–52; M.P. St. Ives, Cornwall 1852–7; deputy
inspector general of fortifications at the war office 1855–9;
commanded R.E. at Malta 1860–65, at Aldershot 1866–70 where
the old Queen’s birthday parade has been renamed Laffan’s
Plain in his memory, and at Gibraltar 1872–77; governor and
commander-in-chief of Bermuda 9 Aug. 1877 to death; L.G. 1 July
1881; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._ Mount Langton, Bermuda 22 March
1882. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. iv_ 314 (1882); _Graphic_,
_xxv_ 528 (1882), _portrait_.

LAFONTAINE, SIR LOUIS HYPOLITE; 1 Baronet (3 son of Antoine
Menard Lafontaine, farmer 1772–1813). _b._ Boucherville, Lower
Canada, Oct. 1807; ed. at Montreal coll. to 1822; called to
Toronto bar; a leader of national movement in Canada; arrested
on charge of high treason 4 Nov. 1838; went to England as a
delegate from constitutional association of Lower Canada 1838;
M.P. for North York, Upper Canada 1840–51; attorney general and
member of Canadian executive council Sep. 1842 to 28 Nov. 1844
and March 1848 to Oct. 1851; chief justice of court of queen’s
bench, Lower Canada 13 Aug. 1853 to death; baronet of the United
Kingdom 28 Aug. 1854. _d._ Toronto, after an apoplectic fit in
his court there, 24 Feb. 1864. _bur._ in R.C. cath. Toronto 29
Feb. _L. O. David’s Sir Ls. H. Lafontaine. Montreal_ (1872),
_portrait_.

NOTE.--He was the first person of French Canadian extraction who held the highest legal offices in Lower Canada after it became a part of the British empire.

LAGRANGE, COMTE FRÉDÉRIC DE (son of general Joseph Lagrange, who
_d._ 1825). _b._ 1816; kept a stud farm at Dangu in Normandy;
won the Goodwood cup with Monarque 1857, also the Newmarket
handicap 1858; won the Oaks with Fille de l’Air 1864; won the
Two thousand guineas, Derby, Grand prix de Paris and St. Leger
with Gladiateur 1865, being the only horse that ever won all
four races; refused £16,000 for Gladiateur 1869, sold him for
£6000, 1870; sold all his horses at Tattersalls, Nov. 1870 but
kept another stud 1872–82; won the One thousand guineas with
Camelia 1876; won the Two thousand guineas with Chamant 1877;
won the St. Leger with Rayon d’Or 1879. _d._ at his villa near
Paris 22 Nov. 1883. _Baily’s Mag. iv_ 1–5 (1862), _portrait_;
_L. H. Curzon’s The blue ribbon of the turf_ (1890) 142–53, 340;
_J. Rice’s British Turf_, _i_ 343–6 (1879); _Illust. Times 10
June 1865 p._ 365, _portrait of Gladiateur_.

LAING, ALEXANDER (son of James Laing, agricultural labourer).
_b._ Brechin, Forfarshire 14 May 1787; a herd boy; a flax
dresser 1803–17; a pedlar in Forfarshire 1817–57; known as
The Brechin poet; contributed to the Dundee Courier, Harp
of Renfrewshire 1819, R. A. Smith’s Scottish Minstrel 1820,
Struthers’s Harp of Caledonia 1821, Whitelaw’s Book of Scottish
song 1844 and Whistle Binkie 1832–47; edited editions of Robert
Burns and of Robert Tannahill; edited The Thistle of Scotland,
a selection of ballads. Aberdeen 1823; published his poems
entitled Wayside flowers 1846, 3 ed. 1857. _d._ Brechin 14 Oct.
1857. _The poetry of Scottish rural life, a sketch of A. Laing._
_Brechin_ (1874); _G. Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland_,
_ii_ 93–98 (1877).

LAING, ALLAN STEWART (son of James Laing of Isle of Dominica).
_b._ 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812;
barrister M.T. 17 April 1812; magistrate at Hatton Garden police
court, London 20 Oct. 1820 to 1837 when removed by the home
secretary for his bad temper; is drawn by Dickens in Oliver
Twist chapter 11 as Mr. Fang the magistrate. _d._ 3 Tanfield
court, Inner Temple, London 12 Feb. 1862. _J. Foster’s Life of
C. Dickens_, _iii_ 4.

LAING, DAVID (son of Mr. Laing, merchant). _b._ City of London
1774; articled to sir John Soane 1790; surveyor of buildings
at the Custom house 1811, designed a new Custom house built
1813–17, the front fell down 26 Jany. 1825; joint architect with
W. Tite of church of St. Dunstan in the East 1817–20, opened 14
Jany. 1821; F.S.A.; published Hints for dwellings 1800, new ed.
1841; Plans of buildings executed in various parts of England,
including the Custom house, London, engraved on 59 plates 1818.
_d._ 5 Elm place, West Brompton, London 27 March 1856. _G.M.
June 1856 p._ 650; _The Builder 5 April 1856 p._ 189.

LAING, DAVID (2 son of Wm. Laing, bookseller). _b._ Edinburgh 20
April 1793; assistant to his father, and partner with him 1821;
sec. of Bannatyne Club 27 Feb. 1823 to its dissolution 1861;
F.S.A. Scot. 1824, treasurer, then foreign sec. many years;
librarian to the Society of Writers to the Signet, Edinburgh 21
June 1837 to death, printed a general catalogue of the library
vol. 1 A to L 1865–71 and vol. 2 as far as letter N 1871–8; hon.
professor of antiquities to R. Scottish Acad. 1854; LLD. Dublin
univ. 1864; took special interest in old Scotch ballads and
history; edited 5 works for Abbotsford club, 17 for Bannatyne
club, 3 for Hunterian club, 2 for Shakespeare soc., 1 for
Spalding club and 3 for Wodrow soc.; also The works of John
Knox 6 vols. 1846–64, and the works of sir David Lindsay 1871,
William Dunbar 1834 and Robert Henryson 1865; author of Early
Scottish metrical tales 1826, new ed. 1889; Biographical notices
of T. Young, vicar of Stowmarket. Edinb. 1870; Etchings by sir
David Wilkie, with biographical sketches 1875 and numerous other
works. _d._ 12 James st. Portobello, Edinburgh 18 Oct. 1878.

NOTE.--His library in a 31 day sale disposed of by Sotheby & Co. 1879–80 for £16,137 9s. He left drawings to R. Scottish Acad., and a collection of MSS. to Edinb. univ. _T. G. Stevenson’s Notices of David Laing_ (1878); _Select remains of ancient poetry of Scotland by D. Laing, with memoir_ (1885), _portrait_.

LAING, DAVID. _b._ 1800; ed. St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1825, M.A. 1828; chaplain to Middlesex hospital, London
1840–47; V. of Trinity district, St. Pancras, London 1 June
1847 to 1857, Holy Trinity ch. consecrated 15 Oct. 1850; R.
of St. Olave-by-the-Tower, London 1857 to death; founder of
Governesses’ Asylum, Prince of Wales’s road, Kentish Town,
opened 12 June 1849, hon. sec. to death; F.R.S. 23 Nov. 1843;
author of Sermons 1847; Six sermons in a work entitled Great
truths for thoughtful moments 1853; The oneness of providence,
evidence that the most high ruleth 1854; The Bible, its oneness
of mind and oneness of design 1854, and some school books for
children. _d._ St. Olave’s rectory, 8 Hart st. Mark lane, London
6 Aug. 1860. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _F. Miller’s St. Pancras_
(1874) 218–26, 330.

NOTE.--His wife Mary Elizabeth who acted as hon. sec. of Governesses’ Asylum 1860 to decease, _d._ 55 Haverstock hill, London 21 April 1886 aged 82.

LAING, FRANCIS HENRY. Roman Catholic ecclesiastic; D.D.; edited
The catholic freethinker’s fly-sheet 1883, 2 numbers; author of
Catholic the same in meaning as sovereign 1848; The knight of
the faith, by J. H. L. 1867; The blessed virgin’s root traced
in the tribe of Ephraim 1871; The shortcoming of the English
catholic press 1879; The catholic freethinker 1886; The two
evolutions, the real and the mock 1888. _d._ 17 Dec. 1889. _The
Tablet 11 Jany. 1890 p._ 62.

LAING, HENRY. _b._ 1803; Seal engraver, Edinburgh; author of
Descriptive catalogue of impressions from ancient Scottish
seals. Edinb. 1850; Supplementary descriptive catalogue of seals
1866; granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1865. _d._
1883.

LAING, _John_ (son of Mr. Laing, factor to earl of Rosebery at
Dalmeny). _b._ Edinburgh 1809; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; minister
of parish of Livingston, Linlithgowshire 1842–3, free church
minister there 1843–6; chaplain to presbyterian soldiers at
Gibraltar 1846, afterwards at Malta; librarian of New college,
Edin. 1850 to death; published Catalogue of the printed books
and manuscripts in the library of New college, Edinburgh 1868;
author with Samuel Halkett of A dictionary of the anonymous
and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain 4 vols. Edinburgh
1882–8. _d._ 3 April 1880. _The Library Chronicle_, _v_ 138,
148–50 (1888).

LAING, JOHN GEORGE (2 son of Malcolm Laing of Upper Canada).
_b._ Niagara, Upper Canada 26 Aug. 1839; ed. at St. John’s coll.
Camb., fellow 1865–8; 2nd wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1862;
B.A. 1862; assistant tutor at Trinity college; barrister L.I. 6
June 1866. _d._ 46 Ladbroke grove, Notting Hill, London 4 Feb.
1887.

LAING, PETER. _b._ 5 Jany. 1785; resided at Elgin; entertained
by the citizens of Elgin on his birthday 5 Jany. 1888 when aged
103.

LAING, PHILIP (youngest son of James Laing of Pitteenween,
Fifeshire). Founded with his elder brother John Laing the great
shipbuilding firm of John and Philip Laing at North Sands on the
Wear 1793, sole proprietor 1818 to death, the works acquired
worldwide reputation; lived at Deptford house, co. Durham 1818
to death. _d._ 1854.

LAING, SAMUEL (son of Robert Laing). _b._ Kirkwall, Orkney 4
Oct. 1780; ed. at Edinb. univ. to 1800; ensign royal staff corps
26 Sep. 1805, served in the Peninsula, sold out 1809; manager
of mines at Wanlock head, Scotland 1809; organised herring
fisheries in the Orkneys 1818; succeeded to Strynzia estate,
Kirkwall on death of his brother Malcolm 6 Nov. 1818; provost
of Kirkwall some years; engaged in the kelp trade, in which he
lost his money 1834; contested Orkney and Shetland 1832; author
of Journal of a residence in Norway 1834–36, 1836; A tour in
Sweden 1839; Notes of a traveller on the social state of France,
Russia, Switzerland, Italy 1842; The Heimskringla or chronicle
of the kings of Norway, a translation 3 vols. 1844; Notes on the
schism from the church of Rome 1845. _d._ at res. of his dau.
Mrs. Elizabeth Baxter, Edinburgh 23 April 1868.

LAING, SIMON (son of David Laing. _b._ Gretna 1750, pedlar,
priest at Gretna Green 1792, _d._ Springfield 31 June 1827).
Weaver; priest at Gretna Green 1827 and custodian of the
marriage register; took into partnership Robert Elliott;
performed his last marriage ceremony 1871 and was the last of
the Gretna Green priests. _d._ Kelling near Newcastle-on-Tyne 3
May 1872. _bur._ Gretna ch. yard. _P. O. Hutchinson’s Chronicles
of Gretna Green_, _ii_ 200–14 (1844); _Annual Register_ (1872)
31.

LAIRD, JOHN (eld. son of William Laird of Birkenhead,
shipbuilder). _b._ Greenock 14 June 1805; associated with his
father, managing partner in firm of W. Laird & Son, style of
firm changed to John Laird 1833, retired Oct. 1861; one of first
to use iron for ships, built a lighter of 60 tons for use on the
Irish lakes 1829, built the Lady Lansdowne steamship 1833, the
John Randolph 1834 the first iron vessel seen in America, and
the Nemesis for the H.E.I.Co. the first iron vessel carrying
guns; built the first government iron ship the Dover mail packet
1840; chairman of Birkenhead improvement commission 1855 to Dec.
1861; M.P. Birkenhead 11 Dec. 1861 to death; built many large
vessels for the government, Pacific Steam Navigation co., P.
and O.S.N. co., Messageries Maritimes co. and British Colonial
steam navigation co.; built the Alabama for American confederate
states, launched 15 May 1862. _d._ 63 Hamilton sq. Birkenhead
29 Oct. 1874. _Practical Mag. iii_ 401–8 (1874), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xxxix_ 74 (1861), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _x_ 439 (1874),
_portrait_.

LAIRD, MACGREGOR (brother of the preceding). _b._ Greenock
1808; partner with his father; took part in formation of a co.
at Liverpool to develop the river Niger, voyaged with Richard
Lemon Lander in the Alburka to the junction of the Niger and the
Tchadda 1832–3, returned to England 1834; F.R.G.S.; a promoter
of British and North American steam navigation co. 1837, which
built the Great Western which went to America and back under
steam 1838; took an active part in development of Birkenhead
from 1844; a merchant at 3 Mincing lane, London; started the
African steamship co. 1849; fitted out a trading and exploring
expedition at his own cost and risk to Central Africa 1854;
built 3 steamers for annual voyages up the Niger; author of The
effect of an alteration in the sugar duties on the people of
England and the Negro race 1844; author with R. A. K. Oldfield
of Narrative of an expedition into Africa by the river Niger in
the vessels Quorra and Alburka 2 vols. 1837. _d._ 9 Jany. 1861.

LAKE, EDWARD JOHN (son of major Edward Lake lost at sea 1829).
_b._ Madras 19 June 1823; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 11 June
1840, lieut. 1844; present at battle of Moodkee 20 Dec. 1845;
in charge of the Kangra district in the Sutlej 1846; political
officer to the Nawab of Bahawalpoor 1848, with whose troops he
took part in siege of Mooltun; although but a lieut. was in
charge of Davodpootra army; present at Gujerat 1849; in charge
of Beas and Ravee country 1850–2; commissioner of Jalundhur Doab
1855; held fort of Kangra during the rebellion 1857; lieut.-col.
R.E. 18 Feb. 1861; financial commissioner of the Punjab 1865;
C.S.I. 24 May 1866; retired as major general 1 Jany. 1870;
Lake scholarship founded at Lahore high sch. Jany. 1870; hon.
lay sec. of Church missionary soc. 1869–76; editor of Church
missionary record 1871–74; edited Church missionary atlas 5
ed. 1873; author of Sir D. McLeod, a record of forty-two years
services in India 1874. _d._ Princes buildings, Clifton 7 June
1877. _bur._ Long Ashton 13 June.

LAKE, GEORGE HANDY. _b._ June 1827; edited Musical Gazette
3 vols. 1856–8; musical critic of Sunday Times; organist of
several leading London churches; an accompanist at principal
concerts; excellent performer on English concertina; composer of
popular ballads, Summer is sweet, and One glance from thee, and
many works for pianoforte and concertina; his oratorio Daniel
produced at Exeter Hall 1852 met with great success. _d._ London
24 Dec. 1865.

LAKE, SIR HENRY ATWELL (3 son of sir James Samuel Wm. Lake, 4
bart. _d._ 4 Nov. 1832). _b._ Kenilworth 15 Dec. 1810; ed. at
Harrow; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 15 Dec. 1826; employed in
public works department, India 1826–54; commanded engineers in
defence of Kars 1855; a prisoner in Russia 1855–56; transferred
to British army as lieut.-col. unattached for his services at
defence of Kars 1856; aide de camp to the Queen 24 June 1856 to
1864; lieut.-col. on h.p. 12 Sep. 1856; chief comr. of Dublin
police 7 Sep. 1858 to Aug. 1877; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 25
March 1875; author of Kars and our captivity in Russia 1856,
2 ed. 1856; Narrative of the defence of Kars, historical and
military 1857. _d._ Brighton 17 Aug. 1881. _Nolan’s Russian
war_, _ii_ 507 (1857), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxix_ 121, 126
(1856), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxiv_ 389 (1881), _portrait_.

LAKE, NOEL THOMAS. _b._ 22 Oct. 1799; 2 lieut. R.A. 5 July 1820,
colonel 23 Feb. 1856 to 30 May 1862; M.G. 30 May 1862; C.B. 5
July 1855. _d._ Wellesley house, Shooter’s hill, Kent 19 May
1864.

LAKIN, JOHN. _b._ 1787; took part in whole of Peninsular war
with the 16 lancers; serjeant major; keeper in Windsor great
park about 1826 to death; the oldest royal servant of Her
Majesty. _d._ Queen Anne’s Gate, Windsor great park 23 Feb. 1877.

LALOR, JOHN (son of John Lalor, merchant). _b._ Dublin 1814; ed.
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1837; assistant poor law commissioner,
Ireland to 1836; one of principal editors of Morning Chronicle,
London; solicitor Dublin 1838; left R.C. ch., became a unitarian
and edited The Inquirer a weekly paper; author of The Educator,
a prize essay 1839; Money and morals, a book for the times 1852.
_d._ Holly hill, Hampstead, London 3 Feb. 1856. _G.M. xlv_
319–20 (1856).

LALOR, PETER (eld. son of Patrick Lalor, M.P. for Queen’s
co., gentleman farmer). _b._ Tinakill, Queen’s co. Ireland
1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; a civil engineer; sailed
for Melbourne 1852; commanded the rebel miners at the Eureka
stockade riot near Ballarat 3 Dec. 1854 when he received a ball
near the shoulder which caused loss of his left arm; member of
legislative assembly for Ballarat Nov. 1855, for South Grant
1856–71 and again 1875–88, chairman of committees 1859–68;
inspector of railways 1855; chairman of the Clunes water
commission; comr. for trade and customs 1877–80, post master
general 1878–80, speaker of the assembly 22 July 1880 to 29 Sep.
1887, awarded a grant of £4000 on his retirement. _d._ Melbourne
9 Feb. 1889.

LAMB, SIR CHARLES MONTOLIEU, 2 Baronet. _b._ Nantcribba hall,
Montgomeryshire 8 July 1785; succeeded 13 Oct. 1824; knight
marshal of the royal household 30 Jany. 1825 to death; knight
marshal of the lists at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839;
lord prior of English langue of knights of Malta 24 June 1847 to
death. _d._ Beauport, Battle, Sussex 21 March 1860. _Nixon and
Richardson’s Eglinton tournament_ (1843), _portrait plate iii_.

LAMB, EDWARD BUCKTON. _b._ 1806; an architect in the modern
Gothic style with a large practice; exhibited 57 designs at R.A.
and 5 at Suffolk st. 1824–69; some of his designs were published
in lithography; published Etchings of Gothic ornament 1830;
Studies of ancient domestic architecture 1846. _d._ 3 Hinde st.
Manchester sq. London 30 Aug. 1869.

LAMB, ROBERT (son of Thomas Lamb of Cockeram, Lancs.). _b._
1812; ed. St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1840; C. of
Kirkham, Lancs. 1837–40; principal of Western gram. sch.
Brompton, London 1840–44; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Preston 1844–49;
R. of St. Paul’s, Manchester 1849 to 1871; contributed many
articles to Fraser’s Mag. under pseudonym of A Manchester Man;
author of Sermons on passing seasons and events 1853; Selections
from articles contributed to Fraser’s Magazine 2 vols. 1866;
Sermons preached in St. Paul’s church 2 vols. 1870; Yarndale: an
unsentimental story 3 vols. 1872. _d._ Haycarr near Lancaster 24
Dec. 1872.

LAMB, THOMAS. _b._ Lamb’s lane, Forebank, Dundee 1801; grocer
and spirit dealer, Murraygate, Dundee; became a convinced
teetotaller and destroyed all the liquor he had in stock 1828;
opened a coffee house in the Murraygate which became the head
quarters of the literary societies and clubs of Dundee; a
refreshment contractor for festive meetings; opened refreshment
rooms and tea gardens 1843; opened Lamb’s Temperance hotel 30
July 1852 which he much enlarged in 1867; kept a dairy farm.
_d._ Dundee 31 Oct. 1869. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873)
342–9.

LAMBE, GEORGE. _b._ 1786 or 1787; assistant surgeon Bengal army
27 March 1808, surgeon 1 July 1823; superintending surgeon Dacca
31 Jany. 1844 to 10 April 1847; inspector general of hospitals,
Bengal 10 April 1847, surgeon general 24 July 1848, phys.
general 10 Feb. 1849 to 10 April 1852 when he retired. _d._ very
suddenly 3 Feb. 1862.

LAMBERT, GEORGE JACKSON (son of George Lambert, organist of
Beverley Minster 40 years, _d._ 15 July 1818). _b._ Beverley
16 Nov. 1794; organist of Beverley Minster 1818–74, 56 years;
a fine violoncello and violin player; published overtures,
instrumental chamber music, organ fugues, &c.; printed Duett for
two performers on the piano 1815; A favourite French air with
variations 1820; Major Campbell’s waltz with variations 1830.
_d._ Beverley 24 Jany. 1880.

LAMBERT, SIR GEORGE ROBERT (5 son of Robert Alexander Lambert,
captain R.N. 1732–1801). _b._ 8 Sep. 1795; entered R.N. April
1809; in the Walcheren expedition; captain 8 Aug. 1825; served
in West Indies 1845–47; commodore at Jamaica 23 Jany. 1847;
did good service in the war with Burmah; R.A. 21 Jany. 1854,
admiral on h.p. 15 Dec. 1863; granted service pension 5 March
1864; K.C.B. 9 Dec. 1853, G.C.B. 7 June 1865. _d._ suddenly in
billiard room of United Service club, 116 Pall Mall, London 5
June 1869.

LAMBERT, JAMES STAUNTON (eld. son of Walter Lambert of Creg
Clare, co. Galway, _d._ 25 Sep. 1832). _b._ 5 March 1789; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin; sheriff of Galway 1813; M.P. co. Galway 6
July 1826 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ Budleigh Salterton, South Devon 1
July 1867.

LAMBERT, SIR JOHN (son of Daniel Lambert of Hindon, surgeon).
_b._ Bridzor, Wiltshire 4 Feb. 1815; ed. Downside coll. Bath;
solicitor at Salisbury 1836–57; mayor of Salisbury 1854 being
the first Roman Catholic mayor of a cathedral city since
the Reformation; a poor law inspector 1857; superintended
administration of the Public Works (manufacturing districts)
Act 1863; receiver of metropolitan common poor fund under
Metropolitan Poor Act 1867; member of parliamentary boundaries
commission 1867 and of the sanitary commission; the first
permanent secretary of local government board 31 Aug. 1871
to Nov. 1882; chairman of commission which drew up census of
landed proprietors in Great Britain 1872; chairman of boundaries
commission 1884–5; C.B. 5 May 1871, K.C.B. 31 May 1879; P.C.
19 May 1885; profoundly versed in ecclesiastical music of the
middle ages; author of many musical works in Latin and English;
edited A grammar of ritual music by Janssen 1849; The vesper
psalter 1849. _d._ Milford house, Elms road, Clapham common near
London 27 Jany. 1892. _bur._ St. Osmund’s ch. Salisbury which he
had founded. _Downside Review_, _vol. viii No._ 1, _and vol. xi
No._ 1; _I.L.N. 6 Feb. 1892 p._ 166, _portrait_.

LAMBERT, JOHN ARTHUR (eld. son of sir John Lambert, G.C.B. _d._
1846). _b._ 30 Sep. 1817; ensign grenadier guards 10 July 1835,
lieut.-col. 12 March 1861 to 27 Dec. 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877;
col. royal Irish Fusiliers 25 April 1880 to death; placed on
retired list 1 July 1881. _d._ Weston house, Thames Ditton 17
Sep. 1887.

LAMBERT, NATHANIEL GRACE (son of Richard Lambert). _b._
Newcastle-on-Tyne 1811; a coalowner; sheriff of Bucks. 1865;
M.P. Bucks. 1868–80; captain commandant Taplow yeomanry lancers.
_d._ Denham court near Uxbridge 9 Dec. 1882.

LAMBERT, ROWLEY. _b._ 22 April 1828; entered navy 1841; captain
29 Sep. 1855; commodore on Australian station 28 May 1867 to 8
April 1870; commanded detached squadron for particular service 8
June 1875 to 1877; V.A. 21 March 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._
Grosvenor hotel, Victoria station, London 22 July 1880.

LAMBERT, WILLIAM. _b._ Burstow, Surrey 1779; a miller at
Nutfield, also in the fuller’s earth trade; in match Lord’s _v._
England 20 July 1801; not allowed to play at Lord’s after 1818
being accused of selling the England _v._ Nottingham match by
not playing his best; one of the most successful of cricketers,
excelling in batting, bowling, fielding, keeping wicket and in
single wicket playing; one of the few cricketers who has made
100 runs twice in the same match 1817; beat at single wicket two
of the best players Lord F. Beauclerk and T. C. Howard, Lord’s
6 and 7 July 1810, a sum of money was paid by the defeated
to prevent this match being reported in Bentley; author of
The cricketer’s guide. Lewes 1816; Instructions and rules for
playing cricket 1816; a great bell ringer. _d._ Nutfield 19
April 1851. _bur._ Burstow.

LAMBERT, WILLIAM BLAKE. _b._ Berwick on Tweed 1816; chief
engineer of General screw steam shipping co. to 1856; engineer
at Portsmouth dockyard 1856–59; chief engineer to the Russian
navy 1859–66. _d._ St. Petersburg 18 Feb. 1874.

LAMBTON, HEDWORTH (3 son of Wm. Henry Lambton 1764–97, M.P. city
of Durham 1787–97). _b._ 26 March 1797; M.P. North Durham 21
Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847. _d._ 8 Lansdowne place, Brighton 16
Sep. 1876.

LAMBTON, WILLIAM HENRY (brother of preceding). _b._ 27 March
1793. _d._ 17 Chesham place, London 3 April 1866, personalty
sworn under £500,000, 2 June 1866.

LAMINGTON, ALEXANDER DUNDAS ROSS WISHART BAILLIE-COCHRANE,
1 Baron (1 son of admiral sir Thomas John Cochrane, G.C.B.
1789–1872). _b._ 27 Nov. 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1837; contested Bridport 29 June 1841, M.P. Bridport
1841–52; M.P. co. Lanark, Feb. to April 1857; a member of the
Young England party; M.P. Honiton 1859–68; M.P. Isle of Wight
1870–80; trustee of National Portrait Gallery 1876; cr. baron
Lamington of Lamington, co. Lanark 3 May 1880; author of Poems
1838; The Morea, a poem 1841, 2 ed. 1841; Ernest Vane 2 vols.
1849; Young Italy 1850; Florence the beautiful 2 vols. 1854; The
map of Italy 1856; Historical pictures 2 vols. 1865; Francis the
first 2 vols. 1870; Historic châteaux, Blois, Fontainebleau,
Vincennes 1877. _d._ 26 Wilton crescent, London 15 Feb. 1890.
_I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1890 p._ 231, _portrait_; _Times 17, 25 Feb.
1890_.

LAMONT, JOHANN VON (son of a custom-house officer, who _d._
1816). _b._ Braemar, Aberdeenshire 13 Dec. 1805; ed. at St.
James’s monastery, Ratisbon; assistant astronomer at observatory
of Bogenhausen near Munich, March 1828, director of the
observatory 18 July 1835; his zone observations of 34,674 small
stars between latitudes +27° and -33° were his most important
astronomical work; built a magnetic observatory at Bogenhausen
1840; executed with his travelling theodolite, magnetic surveys
of Bavaria 1849–52, France and Spain 1856–7, North Germany
and Denmark 1858; F.R.A.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edin. 1845, F.R.S.
1852; professor of astronomy in univ. of Munich 1852 to death;
decorated with orders of Gregory the Great, of the Northern star
of Sweden and of the Crown of Bavaria, which carried with it a
title of nobility; author of Handbuch des Erdmagnetismus. Berlin
1849; Astronomie und Erdmagnetismus. Stuttgart 1851, and upwards
of 20 other books printed at Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart
1824–71. _d._ Munich 6 Aug. 1879. _bur._ in churchyard at
Bogenhausen. _Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. xl_ 208–12
(1880); _Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. x_ 358 (1880).

LAMPSON, SIR CURTIS MIRANDA, 1 Baronet (4 son of Wm. Lampson of
Newhaven, Vermont). _b._ Vermont 21 Sep. 1806; a fur merchant
at 37 Friday st. Cheapside, London 1830; senior partner in firm
of C. M. Lampson & Co. 9 Queen st. place, Upper Thames st.,
merchants; naturalised 14 May 1849; a director of Atlantic
telegraph co. 1856, vice-chairman; deputy governor of Hudson’s
Bay company 1863–72; created baronet 16 Nov. 1866. _d._ 80 Eaton
sq. London 12 March 1885, personalty sworn at £401,000, 7 May.
_I.L.N. xlix_ 545, 558 (1866), _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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