Chapter XIV: Part 14

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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