Chapter XVI: Part 16

LEA, GEORGE (son of John Lea, carpet manufacturer). _b._
Kidderminster 22 Oct. 1804; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826,
M.A. 1829; C. of Waddington, Lincs. 1827–9; P.C. Christ Church,
Birmingham 1840–64; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1840–64; V. of St.
George’s, Edgbaston 1864, resigned 25 March 1883; leader of the
evangelical party in Birmingham; author of Memoir of rev. John
Davis, rector of St. Clement’s, Worcester 1859; Sermons preached
in memory of G. Lea, to which are added his last two sermons
1883. _d._ Edgbaston 10 May 1883. _Edgbastonia_, _June 1883 pp._
81–3, _portrait_.

LEA, WILLIAM (1 son of William Lea of Stone, Warwickshire). _b._
1 Dec. 1820; ed. Rugby and at Brasenose coll. Oxf.; rowed No. 6
in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 14 April 1841; B.A. 1842,
M.A. 1859; V. of St. Peter’s, Droitwich 1849–87; hon. canon of
Worcester 1858–81; archdeacon of Worcester May 1881 to death;
author of Sermons on the prayer book preached in Rome 1866;
Small farms, how they can be made to answer by fruit growing
1872; Church plate in the archdeaconry of Worcester 1884. _d._
Orchardlea, Droitwich 24 Sep. 1889.

LEACH, ALFRED. L.S.A. 1883; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1884; M.D. and C.M.
Aberdeen 1888; M.R.C.P. Edinb. 1889; assistant house surgeon
Rotherham hospital; house phys. Bath hospital; phys. Pimlico
road free dispensary, London to death; invented a flexible
cautery; a good linguist, speaking Arabic, Italian and French;
author of The quadrangle by moonlight, or meditations in
Marischal college. Aberdeen 1879; The letter H, past, present
and future: a treatise with rules for the silent H, and notes on
WH. 1880. _d._ 21 Belgrave road, London 14 Sep. 1892 aged 35.

LEACH, JONATHAN. _b._ 1784; ensign 70 foot 7 Aug. 1801, captain
1804; captain 95th rifles 1 May 1806; major rifle brigade 9 Sep.
1819, sold out 24 Oct. 1821; lieut.-col. in the army 18 June
1815; C.B. 22 June 1815; served in the West Indies 1803–5, at
siege of Copenhagen 1807, in the Peninsula and France 1808–14,
present at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; author of Rough sketches of
the life of an old soldier 1831; Sketches of the services of the
rifle brigade from its formation to Waterloo 1838; Rambles along
the Styx 1847. _d._ Worthing 14 Jany. 1855.

LEACH, RICHARD HOWELL (2 son of Thomas Leach of 58 Doughty st.
London). _b._ 1814; entered office of Registrar of court of
chancery 1832, senior registrar 1868–82; largely assisted in
drawing up the Chancery funds rules of 1872 and 1874; one of the
editors of H. W. Seton’s Forms of decrees in equity 2 ed. 1854,
3 ed. 2 vols. 1862 and 4 ed. 2 vols. in 3, 1877–9. _d._ Ernstein
house, Tunbridge Wells 4 Aug. 1883.

LEACH, WILLIAM TURNBULL. _b._ Berwick-on-Tweed 2 March 1805;
ed. at univ. of Edinb.; pastor of St. Andrew’s presbyterian
church, Toronto 1832; joined Church of England and became the
first incumbent of St. George’s, Montreal 1841; fellow, dean of
the faculty of arts, professor of logic and moral philosophy
and Molson professor of English literature in University McGill
coll. Montreal; canon of Ch. Ch. cath. Montreal 1854–65;
archdeacon of Montreal 1865 to death; author of Discourse on the
nature and duties of the military profession 1840; Introductory
lecture for the Mercantile Library association 1854. _d._ 16
University st. Montreal 13 Oct. 1886.

LEADAM, THOMAS ROBINSON. _b._ 22 Nov. 1809; ed. Merchant
Taylors’ sch. and at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1830; M.R.C.S. 1832;
L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1837; author of Case of hydrophobia treated
homœopathically 1849; Homœopathy as applied to the diseases
of females and of early childhood 1851; The diseases of women
homœopathically treated 2 ed. 1874; A popular treatise on the
safe management of labour 1876. _d._ 1879.

LEADBETTER, JOHN. _b._ Penicuik on the Esk river 2 May 1788;
clerk in a Glasgow firm, became a partner; established John
Leadbetter & Co., linen manufacturers 1815, had branch houses in
Dundee and Belfast; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1844–5; erected
a building for the Glasgow Mechanics’ institution; chairman of
Edinburgh and Glasgow railway opened 1842; retired from business
1848. _d._ Glenallon, Torquay 17 March 1865. _Memoirs of 100
Glasgow men_, _ii_ 173–6 (1886), _portrait_.

LEADBITTER, GEORGE. _b._ Hexham 1787; one of the officers at
Bow st. police court 1832, much employed in post office and
bank business; was 6 feet 2½ inches in height and weighed 19
stone; resided in Longacre; succeeded John Townsend (who _d._ 10
July 1832 aged 73) in heading the police who attended the king
on public occasions; had 25 guineas a year from the Doncaster
corporation to attend the autumn meetings and preserve order
in the grand stand enclosure 1832–52 where he was the means
of securing many criminals, also engaged at Epsom; defendant
in case of Wood _v._ Leadbitter in Court of exchequer 1845
respecting his expelling from the grand stand by order of the
stewards one Wood a defaulter; _killed_ by being overturned in
a cab near The Bag of Nails tavern, 1 Victoria road, Pimlico 3
Dec. 1852. _bur._ Brompton cemetery. _Sporting Review_, _xxix_
71–2, 292 (1853); _The Town_, _i_ 22 (1837); _Times 7 Dec. 1852
p._ 5 _col._ 3; _13 Meeson and Welsby’s Reports pp._ 838–56
(1845).

LEADER, NICHOLAS PHILPOT (eld. son of Nicholas Philpot Leader
_d._ 1836). _b._ 1808; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; M.P.
co. Cork 1861–68; of Dromagh castle, co. Cork. _d._ London 31
March 1880.

LEADER, ROBERT (son of Robert Leader of Sheffield, bookseller,
_d._ 1861). _b._ Carver st. Sheffield 4 Oct. 1809; apprentice
in office of Sheffield Iris to 1830; proprietor with his father
of Sheffield and Rotherham Independent from Jany. 1830, sole
proprietor 1842 till 1875 when he made it over to his two sons,
editor till 1875; a town trustee 1860, a town councillor 1876
and alderman 1880. _d._ Moor End, Sheffield 31 Oct. 1885. _bur._
Burngreave cemet. 4 Nov. _Sheffield Independent 31 Oct._, 2, _5
Nov. 1885_.

LEAF, WILLIAM. _b._ 1791 or 1792; warehouseman at 39 Old Change,
city of London 1821–74; made a large collection of water-colour
pictures and drawings, sold at Christie’s 6–8 May 1875. _d._
Park hill, Streatham common, Surrey 3 July 1874.

LEAHY, ARTHUR (7 son of John Leahy of South Hill, Killarney
1770–1846). _b._ 5 Aug. 1830; 2 lieut. R.E. 27 June 1848,
lieut.-col. 10 Dec. 1873 to death; present at battles of Alma
and Inkerman; D.A.Q.G. for the R.E.; assistant director of works
in fortification branch of the war office 1864; instructor
of field works at school of military engineering, Chatham 13
Nov. 1871; second in command of the R.E. at Gibraltar, March
1876; colonel in the army 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Netley hospital,
Southampton 13 July 1878.

LEAHY, EDWARD DANIEL. _b._ London 1797; portrait and subject
painter; painted portraits of Duke of Sussex, Marquess of
Bristol and of many prominent Irishmen; exhibited 33 pictures at
R.A., 25 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1820–52; lived in Italy
1837–43. _d._ Brighton 9 Feb. 1875.

LEAHY, JOHN (brother of Arthur Leahy 1830–78). _b._ 1810; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; called to bar in Ireland 1833;
Q.C. 1 Aug. 1859; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Limerick
1864 to death. _d._ Newcastle West, Ireland 13 Oct. 1874. _Irish
law times_, _viii_ 549, 553 (1874).

LEAHY, JOHN PIERS (son of Daniel Leahy). _b._ Cork 25 June
1802; ed. at Cork and Bloomfield near Dublin; studied at Corpo
Santo, Lisbon, entered order of St. Dominic there 8 Sep. 1817,
professed 9 Sep. 1818; acting rector of Corpo Santo, Oct.
1829 to 1836; prior of Dominican convent, Cork 3 times; prior
provincial of Irish Dominicans, June 1848; coadjutor bishop of
Dromore 14 July 1854, consecrated in St. Mary’s cath. Cork 1
Oct. 1854; bishop of Dromore 29 Feb. 1860 to death; author of
The book of the rosary to which is annexed the rule of the
third order of St. Dominick. Dublin 1842. _d._ Newry 6 Sep.
1890. _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _i_ 305 (1876), _ii_ 365
(1876).

LEAHY, PATRICK (son of Patrick Leahy, civil engineer). _b._ near
Thurles, Tipperary 31 May 1806; ed. Maynooth; C. of Scartheen,
Cashel; professor of theology St. Patrick’s coll. Thurles, pres.
of college; one of secretaries of synod of Thurles 22 Aug. 1850,
priest of Thurles; preb. of diocese of Cashel, then precentor;
vice-rector of Catholic univ. of Ireland at establishment 18
May 1854, also professor of sacred scripture 1854–7; archbishop
of Cashel 27 April 1857 to death, consecrated 29 June; issued
address condemning agrarian murders 16 May 1869; cathedral
at Thurles built by his energy at cost of £45,000, commenced
1857, consecrated 21 June 1879, when 21 bishops and 280 priests
were present. _d._ near Thurles 26 Jany. 1875. _bur._ Thurles
cathedral. 3 Feb. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 139 (1875).

LEAKE, JOHN MARTIN (eld. son of John Martin Leake of Thorpe near
Colchester, Essex, _d._ 7 April 1836 aged 97). _b._ 5 Dec. 1773;
ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1797,
bencher 1836 to death; chairman of Essex quarter sessions. _d._
Thorpe hall, Essex 16 May 1862.

LEAKE, SIR LUKE SAMUEL (youngest son of Luke Leake of Stoke
Newington, Middlesex). _b._ 1828; went to Western Australia
1833, member of legislative council of W.A., and the first
speaker 26 June 1872 to death; knighted by patent 19 Aug. 1876.
_d._ Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. London 1 May 1886.

LEAKE, ROBERT MARTIN. Ensign 14 foot 2 Oct. 1805; captain 63
foot 14 Feb. 1811, major 18 July 1822 to 26 Oct. 1824 when
placed on h.p.; general 25 Oct. 1871. _d._ Woodhurst, Oxted,
Surrey 26 Aug. 1873.

LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN (brother of John Martin Leake 1773–1862).
_b._ Bolton row, Mayfair, London 14 Jany. 1777; 1 lieut. R.A. 14
Aug. 1794, lieut.-col. 29 July 1820, sold out 1823; served in
West Indies 1794–9 and with Turkish army in Egypt 1800; made a
general survey of Egypt 1801–2; surveyed the Morea and Northern
Greece 1805–7; sent on a mission to Ali Pacha 1808; sent as
resident to the Swiss confederation 1815; granted £600 per annum
5 Jany. 1812 in consideration of his services in Turkey since
1799; F.R.S. 13 April 1815; F.R.G.S.; D.C.L. Oxf. 26 June 1816
collected in Greece, bronzes, vases, gems and coins, now in
the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge; author of The topography
of Athens 1821, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1841; Journal of a tour in Asia
Minor 1824; An historical outline of the Greek revolution 1825,
2 ed. 1826; Numismata Hellenica 1854, supplement 1859; author
with C. P. Yorke of Les principaux monumens Egyptiens du musée
Britannique 1827. _d._ Brighton 6 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet. London. _J. H. Marsden’s Memoir of W. M. Leake_
(1864); _Numismatic Chronicle_, _xx_ 35–8; _Proc. of Royal Soc.
xi_ 7–9 (1860).

LEAKEY, CAROLINE WOOLMER (4 dau. of the succeeding). _b._ Exeter
8 March 1827; lived at Hobart Town, Tasmania with her married
sister 1847–53; wrote in The Sunday at Home 1854, Girls Own
Paper and other periodicals; established the Exeter Home and
rescue 1861 and worked for it to 1881; author of Lyra Australis,
or attempts to sing in a strange land 1854; The broad arrow,
being passages from the history of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer. By
Oline Keese 1859, new ed. 1886; God’s Tenth 1861, the first of
a series of new year addresses 1861–81; Fine weather Dick and
other sketches 1882. _d._ Exeter 12 July 1881. _Clear Shining
Light, a memoir of C. W. Leakey. By Emily Leakey_ (1882).

LEAKEY, JAMES (son of John Leakey of Exeter, wool merchant).
_b._ Exeter 20 Sep. 1775; painter at Exeter of portraits,
miniatures, landscapes and small interiors; painted miniatures
in oils on ivory; lived in London 1821–5; exhibited 12 pictures
at R.A. 1821–46, including The Marvellous Tale 1821, The Fortune
Teller 1822 and The Distressed Wife 1846. _d._ Exeter 16 Feb.
1865. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 82–5.

LEAPINGWELL, GEORGE. _b._ 1801; ed. at C.C. coll. Camb., B.A.
1823, M. A. 1826, LLD. 1851; esquire bedel of univ. of Camb.
1826 to death; barrister I.T. 25 June 1830; comr. of bankrupts
for Cambridge and district; deputy recorder for Cambridge;
deputy judge of borough court of pleas, Cambridge; deputy
professor of political economy at Camb.; author of A manual
of the Roman civil law, arranged after the analysis of Dr.
Hallifax. Camb. 1859. _d._ Cambridge 24 Dec. 1863. _Gent. Mag.
xvi_ 264, 400 (1864).

LEAR, EDWARD. _b._ Holloway, London 12 May 1812; the youngest
of 21 children; made tinted drawings of birds, &c. 1827, which
he sold at from 9d. to 4s. each; draughtsman in gardens of
Zoological Society 1831; engaged at Knowsley residence of Earl
of Derby 1832–6, drew the plates for The Knowsley Menagerie
1846; a drawing master at Rome 1837 etc.; originator of the
nonsense verse of which he published 4 volumes; travelled in
South Europe and Palestine sketching 1847 etc.; gave drawing
lessons to the Queen about 1840; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A.,
5 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1836–73; Tennyson wrote verses
addressed To E. Lear on his travels in Greece in ‘Travels
in Albania’ 1846; author of Illustrations of the family of
the Psittacidæ 1832; Views in Rome and its environs 1841;
Illustrated excursions in Italy 1846; The Book of Nonsense 1846,
27 ed. 1889; Journal of a landscape painter in Albania 1851;
published Poems and songs by A. Tennyson, set to music by E.
L., London 1859, nine numbers. _d._ Villa Tennyson, San Remo 29
Jany. 1888. _Tennyson’s Poems illustrated by E. Lear_ (1889),
_portrait_; _E. Lear’s Nonsense songs and stories 6 ed._ (1888)
_memoir pp._ 5–7.

LEARED, ARTHUR. _b._ Wexford 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1845, M.B. 1847, M.D. 1860; admitted M.D. at Oxford 7 Feb.
1861; physician in co. Wexford; went to India 1851; practised
in London 1852; M.R.C.P. 1854, F.R.C.P. 1871; phys. to British
civil hospital at Smyrna during Crimean war 1854–6; visited
Iceland 4 times 1862–74, America 1870, and Morocco 1872, 1877
and 1879; identified site of Roman station, Volubilis; claimed
to have invented the double stethoscope; author of The causes
and treatment of imperfect digestion 1860, 7 ed. 1882 with
portrait; Morocco and the Moors 1876, 2 ed. 1891; A visit to the
court of Morocco 1879. _d._ 12 Old Burlington st. London 16 Oct.
1879. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc._ (1879) 802; _British Medical
Journal 25 Oct. 1879 pp._ 663–4.

LEARMONTH, ALEXANDER (1 son of the succeeding). _b._ Edinburgh
26 Aug. 1829; ed. at Eton, matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 17
March 1847; a student I.T. 1847; cornet 17 lancers 21 Aug.
1849, major 30 Sep. 1856, lieut.-col. 1 July 1859, sold out
same day; served in the Crimea and in the Indian mutiny; hon.
col. Midlothian rifle volunteers 18 June 1879 to death; M.P.
Colchester 1870–80. _d._ 44 Park lane, London 10 March 1887.
_The Times 11 March 1887 p._ 8.

LEARMONTH, JOHN. _b._ 1789; coach builder 4 Princes st.
Edinburgh, where he made a large fortune; built at his own
expense the Dean bridge across the water of Leith, finished in
1833; lord provost of Edinb. 1832–3; contested city of Edinb.
31 May 1834. _d._ 6 Moray place, Edinb. 17 Dec. 1858. _Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882) 152–3, _portrait_.

LEASH, WILLIAM. _b._ England 1812; a clerk and book-keeper;
a clerk in Edinburgh, returned to England about 1839;
Congregational minister at Dover to 1846, at Esher st.
Kennington, London 1846–57, at Ware, Herts., then at Maberly
chapel, Kingsland 1865; edited the Christian Weekly News; edited
the Christian Times 1864, and The Rainbow a magazine 1864–5;
author of The Hall of Vision, a poem in three books. Manchester
1837; Philosophical Lectures. Dover 1846; The great redemption,
an essay on the mediatorial system 1849; The beauties of
the Bible 1852, 2 ed. 1856; Lays of the future 1853. _d._
Sandringham road, West Hackney, London 6 Nov. 1884. _Struggles
for life: an autobiography_ (1864).

LEATHAM, WILLIAM HENRY (2 child of Wm. Leatham, banker, _d._
1842). _b._ Wakefield 6 July 1815; entered his father’s bank
1834; banker at Wakefield and Pontefract 1836, retired 1851;
contested Wakefield 9 July 1852; M.P. for Wakefield 2 May
1859 by three votes, unseated on petition and writ suspended
until 1862; M.P. for Wakefield 1865–8; M.P. for West riding of
Yorkshire, southern division 1880–5; a Quaker but joined Church
of England in 1843; purchased Hemsworth hall near Pontefract
1851; author of Poems 1840; Strafford, a tragedy 1842; Oliver
Cromwell, a drama 1843; The Batuecas, also Francisco Alvarez and
other poems 1844; Tales of English life and Miscellanies 2 vols.
1858. _d._ Carleton near Pontefract 14 Nov. 1889. _Biograph_,
_v_ 209–213 (1881); _Colburn’s New monthly mag. vol._ 168 _p._
421, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1880 p._ 41, _portrait_.

LEATHER, JOHN TOWLERTON (1 son of James Leather, colliery
proprietor, _d._ 1849). _b._ Yorkshire 30 Aug. 1804; engineer
of Sheffield waterworks 1833; contractor with Mr. Waring 1839,
made Chester and Crewe section of London and North Western
line; sole contractor for Erewash valley line of the Midland
1847–50; constructed the dam and the siphons for the repairs of
the Middle Level 1862; constructor of the Portland breakwater
1849–56 and of the Sea forts at Spithead 1861–72; made the
extension of the Portsmouth dock yard costing £2,000,000,
1867–77; M.I.C.E. 23 Feb. 1836; F.S.A. 11 Feb. 1869; sheriff of
Northumberland 1875. _d._ Leventhorpe hall near Leeds 6 June
1885. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxiii_ 433–6 (1886).

LEATHER, JOHN WIGNALL (eld. son of George Leather, M.I.C.E.).
_b._ near Leeds 26 April 1810; entered his father’s office and
was with him engaged on the Leeds water supply works 1833–51
and on the Bradford water supply 1838–57; employed on the Fen
drainage 1845; engineer of Aire and Calder navigation; made
Hartlepool and Stockton railway 1838–41 which included the
Greatham viaduct of 92 arches; laid out Birmingham, Dudley and
Wolverhampton railway 1835; retired from business 1877; M.I.C.E.
6 March 1849; author of Report to the Leeds town council on an
effectual sewerage for Leeds 1845. _d._ De Grey lodge, Leeds
31 Jany. 1887. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix_ 473–9
(1887).

LEATHERLAND, JOHN A. (son of a carpenter). _b._ Kettering 11
May 1812; a shoemaker, a loom weaver, a ribbon weaver 1829–37,
a velvet weaver, a maker of velvet waistcoats which he sold
throughout the county till 1850; local reporter to Northampton
Herald 1849 and other newspapers; living in High st. Kettering
in 1869; author of Psyche, a prize essay on the immateriality
of the mind and the immortality of the soul. Northampton 1853;
On courtesy. Essay xiii. in J. Cassell’s Social Science 1861;
Essays and poems, with a brief autobiographical memoir 1862,
memoir pp. 1–39. _d._ probably before 1877.

LEATHES, EDMUND JOHN, stage name of Edmund Donaldson (2 son of
John William Donaldson, D.D., Greek scholar 1811–61). _b._ Bury
St. Edmunds 23 March 1847; ed. Marlborough 1861–64 where he won
the mile race in 4 min. 38 sec.; sheep farming in New Zealand;
studied medicine in Edinb.; acted at Old Theatre royal, Dublin,
April 1869 and then in Sydney, New Zealand, Honolulu, San
Francisco, Nevada, New York and Boston; at Princess’s theatre,
London 1 March 1873 as Gratiano in Merchant of Venice; acted
James Annesley in C. Reade’s The Wandering Heir, Queen’s theatre
15 Nov. 1873; played Laertes 200 nights Lyceum 30 Oct. 1874 to
29 June 1875 and Matthew Hawker in Human Nature, Drury Lane 12
Sep. 1885; a teacher of the dramatic art and literature; wrote
The actor’s wife a novel 3 vols. 1880 and An actor abroad or
gossip from the recollections of an actor in Australia, New
Zealand, &c. 1883; produced his blank verse play For king and
country, at Gaiety 1 May 1883 and another drama The actor’s
wife. _d._ Tenterfield, Bina gardens, South Kensington, London
6 June 1891. _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 4 May 1878 p._ 149,
_portrait_.

LE BAS, CHARLES WEBB (son of Charles Le Bas, linen draper). _b._
20 New Bond st. London 26 April 1779; ed. at Hyde abbey school
near Winchester; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1796, scholar, Craven
scholar 1799 and member’s prizeman, fellow 1801–14; fourth
wrangler, B.A. and chancellor’s medallist 1800; barrister L.I.
1806; ordained deacon 1809; R. of St. Paul’s, Shadwell 1811;
preb. of Lincoln cath. 23 May 1812; professor of mathematics and
dean in East India college, Haileybury 1813, principal 1837 to
31 Dec. 1843; the Le Bas prize at Cambridge for the best essay
on an historical subject was founded in 1848 by his old pupils
at cost of £1920; wrote nearly 80 articles for The British
Critic 1827–38; author of Considerations on miracles 1828;
Sermons on various occasions 3 vols. 1822–34; The life of Thomas
Fanshaw Middleton, bishop of Calcutta 2 vols. 1831; Memoir of
Henry Vincent Bailey, archdeacon of Stow 1846; Life of Wicliff
1832; Life of Cranmer 1833; Life of Jewel 1835 and Life of Laud
1836, being vols. 1, 4, 5, 11 and 13 of The Theological Library
edited by H. J. Rose and W. R. Lyall. _d._ 74 Montpelier road,
Brighton 25 Jany. 1861.

LE BLANC, HENRY. _b._ 1776; ensign 71 foot 9 July 1792, major 12
June 1806; lieut.-col. 5 veteran battalion 5 Feb. 1807 to 1814
when battalion was reduced and he retired on full pay; major
of Chelsea hospital 22 Sep. 1814 to death; colonel in the army
28 Nov. 1854; served at siege of Pondicherry and capture of
Cape of Good Hope 1806; lost a leg at capture of Buenos Ayres
1807. _d._ Clifton Down, Bristol 13 July 1855. _Particulars of
the investigation at the Royal hospital, Chelsea, upon charges
brought by the Major against the apothecary_ 1830.

LE BRETON, ANNA LETITIA (dau. of Charles Rochemont Aikin,
surgeon). _b._ 4 Broad st. buildings, London 30 June 1808;
edited Correspondence of W. E. Channing and Lucy Aikin 1874;
author of Memoirs of Mrs. Barbauld 1874; Memories of seventy
years. By One of a literary family [Mrs. Le Breton], edited by
Mrs. Hubert Martin 1883. (_m._ 6 Aug. 1833 the succeeding). _d._
6 Worsley road, Hampstead 29 Sep. 1885. _Memoirs of Seventy
years_ (1883) 3, 135 _et seq._

LE BRETON, PHILIP HEMERY (eld. son of rev. Philip Le Breton, R.
of St. Saviour’s, Jersey). _b._ St. Saviour’s rectory, Jersey
30 Oct. 1806; ed. at Mr. Cogan’s school, Walthamstow with
Benjamin Disraeli and Milner Gibson; also at Westminster and
Paris; solicitor in London 1828–51; barrister I.T. 1 May 1854;
revising barrister for West Surrey several years; lived at
Hampstead 1851 to death; member for Hampstead of Metropolitan
board of works 1 July 1859 to Nov. 1879; presented with a
public testimonial including gift of £500 for his activity in
preserving Hampstead Heath 1871. _d._ 6 Worsley road, Hampstead
6 Aug. 1884. _bur._ in old Hampstead churchyard. _F. E. Baines’s
Records of Hampstead_ (1890) 152, 184, 320, 362, 453–5.

LE BRETON, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Le Breton, attorney
general and bailiff of Jersey). _b._ Colomberie, St. Helier’s,
Jersey 1790; educ. at Caen, Normandy as an American under
the name of Burgh 1810–12 and fought several duels; advocate
of Jersey bar 8 Aug. 1812; col. of Jersey Town regt. 17 July
1820 to 1850; shot Aaron de Ste Croix in a duel 1820; attorney
general 25 March 1824; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Feb.
1847, after the visit of the Queen to Jersey in Sep. 1846;
bailiff of Jersey 22 June 1848 to death. _d._ The Terrace, St.
Helier’s, Jersey 24 Nov. 1857. _The Jersey Independent 25 Nov.
1857 p._ 2.

LE BRETON, WILLIAM CORBET (only son of William Le Breton). _b._
St. Helier’s, Jersey 1815; ed. Winchester and at Pemb. coll.
Oxf. 1831–37, Morley scholar; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June
1837 to 8 July 1842; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; dean of Jersey 26
Dec. 1849 to death; R. of St. Saviour’s, Jersey 1850–75; R. of
St. Helier’s, Jersey 1875 to death; father of Lilian Langtry,
actress. _d._ London 28 Feb. 1888.

LE BRUN, John. _b._ Switzerland; ed. at Gosport, Hampshire;
ordained Congregationalist in Jersey 25 Nov. 1813; minister of
the London missionary society at Port Louis, Mauritius 18 May
1814 to 1832 and 27 Dec. 1841 to death; returned to Mauritius
on his own account 1834, built a chapel at Port Louis and
established schools in Mauritius. _d._ Port Louis 21 Feb. 1865.

LECHMERE-CHARLTON, EDMUND (elder son of Nicholas Lechmere of
Hanley castle and Ludlow, who assumed additional surname of
Charlton 1784). _b._ 20 Sep. 1789; M.P. for Ludlow 8 Jany. 1835
to 18 July 1837. _d._ 1857.

LECKENBY, JOHN. _b._ Ripon 20 Sep. 1814; managed different
branches of Yorkshire banking company; treasurer of Scarborough
many years; F.G.S. 1859. _d._ Scarton 7 April 1877.

LECKIE, ELIZABETH (dau. of John Horner of Edinburgh, linen
factor). _m._ George Leckie; author of The Village School, a
story. Edinb. 1837; The power of conscience, a dramatic poem
1841; The stepmother 1842; The Hebrew boy 1842; The guardian
1843; The dream of the western shepherd 1845. _d._ Edinburgh,
March 1856.

LECLERCQ, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Clark. _b._ 20 Sep.
1797; made his first appearance on opening night of the Sans
Pareil theatre, London as a dancer 27 Nov. 1806; chief dancer
and inventor of the ballets at Surrey and Coburg theatres;
manager of the Olympic about 1826; ballet master at Adelphi
theatre, Glasgow 1844; ballet master at Olympic 1846, at
Haymarket 1851 to death; his second wife Margaret Leclercq was
well known as a dancer, she _d._ Bedford house, Carlyle sq.
London 28 June 1889 aged 77. He _d._ 16 Albert st. Regent’s
park, London 26 Nov. 1861. _Era 1 Dec. 1861 p._ 10.

NOTE.--His son Arthur Leclercq played harlequin in the pantomime Undine or the spirit of the waters, at Haymarket theatre Dec. 1858 to Feb. 1859, he was subsequently acting manager for Charles Fechter until his death in 1879 when he became acting manager for Mr. O’Neil; he died at his residence Fort Hamilton, Long Island, U.S. of America about 18 January 1890.

LECONFIELD, GEORGE WYNDHAM, 1 Baron (eld. natural child of 3
Earl of Egremont 1751–1837). _b._ St. Marylebone, London 5
June 1787; cornet 5 dragoon guards 31 March 1803; captain 72
foot 19 Sep. 1805; lieut. 1 foot guards 13 Nov. 1807; major
78 foot 31 Jany. 1811; major 12 light dragoons 25 April 1811;
lieut.-col. 20 light dragoons 10 Dec. 1812, placed on h.p. 25
June 1816; served in Spain and Portugal, taken prisoner by the
French Aug. 1810; came into the estate of Petworth, Sussex and
others adjoining and £60,000 on his father’s death 1837; sheriff
of Sussex 1842; created baron Leconfield of Leconfield in the
east riding of the county of York 14 April 1859. _d._ Petworth,
Sussex 18 March 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000 22 May
1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 385–6, _ii_ 54 (1869).

LE COUTEUR, SIR JOHN (eld. son of lieut.-gen. John Le Couteur
_d._ 23 April 1835 aged 74). _b._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 1794;
ensign 96 foot 15 Nov. 1810; lieut. 104 foot 21 Nov. 1811,
placed on h.p. 25 Aug. 1817; brevet lieut.-col. 11 Nov. 1851;
A.D.C. to the sovereign 27 Aug. 1830, resigned 1872; adjutant
general of Jersey militia 1853–72; sold out of the army 1857;
viscount or sheriff of island of Jersey 1842 to death, coroner
there 1872 to death; F.R.S.; sec. and founder of Jersey
agricultural and horticultural soc.; knighted by patent 17 Aug.
1872; published On the varieties, properties and classification
of wheat 1836, 2 ed. 1872; On the rise, progress and state of
agriculture in Jersey 1852; The rifle, its effects on the war
1855. _d._ Bellevue, Jersey 24 Dec. 1875. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 311
(1876).

LEDGER, CHARLES. _b._ England; clerk in house of Messrs. Naylor
at Lima 1836–8, and then at their establishment at Tacna where
he purchased the alpaca wools from the Indians 1838–42; in
business at Tacna from 1842; exported a flock of 276 alpacas to
Sydney 28 Nov. 1858, which the government purchased for £15,000
and gave him £1300 a year to manage it. _Illust. News of the
World 17 Sep. 1859 pp._ 173–4, _portrait_; _Sporting Rev. Feb.
1863 pp._ 127–9.

LEDGER, FREDERIC. _b._ 1816; editor and proprietor of The Era,
a London weekly sporting and dramatic paper 1850 to death; an
enthusiastic mason. _d._ Gothic house, Devonshire road, Balham
hill 14 June 1874. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 20 June. _Era 21 June
1874 p._ 9 _col._ 2.

LEDWARD, RICHARD ARTHUR (son of Richard Perry Ledward). _b._
Burslem, Staffs. 1857; studied at Burslem school of art and at
South Kensington, gold medallist; a master of modelling in the
schools; modelling master at Westminster and Blackheath schools
of art; his sculpture of A Young Mother, showed great promise.
_d._ of rheumatism at 53 Beaufort st. Chelsea 28 Oct. 1890.
_bur._ Perivale church near Ealing.

LEDWICH, THOMAS HAWKESWORTH (son of Edward Ledwich of Waterford,
attorney). _b._ Pembroke 1823; studied medicine in Dublin;
M.R.C.S.I. 1844, F.R.C.S.I. 1845; lecturer on anatomy at The
original school of medicine, Peter st. Dublin 1847 to death,
when name was changed to the Ledwich school of medicine 1858;
formed a valuable pathological museum; surgeon to the Meath
hospital, Dublin, July 1858; author with his brother Edward
Ledwich, M.D. of The practical and descriptive anatomy of the
human body 1852, 3 ed. 1877, which is still much used in Dublin.
_d._ York st. Dublin 29 Sep. 1858. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet.
_Sir C. A. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland_
(1886) 534–35, 613–14; _Ormsby’s History of Meath hospital_
(1888) 215–6.

NOTE.--Edward Ledwich was _b._ Pembroke 1817, F.R.C.S.I. 13 Oct. 1852, a most successful teacher of anatomy, _d._ 7 Harcourt st. Dublin 18 Feb. 1879.

LEE, _Mrs._ Governess to the prince of Naples, eld. son of
Humbert king of Italy, at Rome Nov. 1869 to 1881 during which
time she never left him; watched over the prince’s health and
aided him in making a collection of coins illustrating Italian
history 1881 to death. _d._ Quirinal palace, Rome 3 April 1884.

LEE, ALFRED THEOPHILUS (youngest son of Sir John Theophilus
Lee of Lauriston hall, Torquay 1786–1843). _b._ the Elms,
Bedhampton, Hants. 28 June 1829; scholar of Christ’s coll.
Camb. 1850; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of Houghton-le-Spring,
Durham 1853–5; P.C. of Elson, Hants. 1856–8; R of Ahoghill,
co. Antrim 1858–72; hon. LLD. Dublin 1866, D.C.L. Oxf. 1867;
sec. to Church defence instit. and tithe redemption trust 1871
to death; preacher at Gray’s Inn 5 Nov. 1879 to death; author
of The history of the town and parish of Tetbury 1857; Facts
respecting the present state of the church in Ireland 1863,
sixtieth thousand issued 1868; Some account of the parish church
of St. Colananell, Ahoghill 1867. _d._ Lauriston house, Ealing,
Middlesex 19 July 1883. _Church portrait journal_, _i_ 25
(1876), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 315–20 (1881).

LEE, BENJAMIN. _b._ Worcester 10 Feb. 1788; enlisted in 14
dragoons Jany. 1804; served in the Peninsula 1808–14, in America
1815; sergeant major 1814, retired 1829; went to New South Wales
and resided at Parramatta 1829 to death. _d._ Parramatta 13
April 1879, left upwards of 100 children and grandchildren.

LEE, DONALD MC PHEE. _b._ 11 Feb. 1804; editor and proprietor of
Bermuda royal gazette; vice consul for France and Italy. _d._
Hamilton, Bermuda 11 Feb. 1883.

LEE, EDWIN. Articled pupil of royal college of surgeons, London,
Jacksonian prizeman 1838 for dissertation on Comparative
advantages of lithotomy and lithotrity; studied at St. George’s
hospital 1824, house surgeon 1830–3; M.C.S. 1829; M.D. Gottingen
1846 or before; member of medical societies of Paris, Berlin and
Naples; fellow of royal medico-chirurgical soc.; resided much at
the Continental watering places; author of upwards of 60 works
including A treatise on some nervous disorders 1833, 2 ed. 1838;
The principal baths of Germany 2 vols. 1840–1. _d._ Mentone 3
June 1870. _The Lancet 18 June 1870 pp._ 891–2.

LEE, FREDERICK HENRY (eld. son of Frederick William Lee). Editor
of Hull Herald and proprietor of Sussex Advertiser, Lewes. _d._
Cooksbridge near Lewes 14 Aug. 1853 aged 42.

LEE, FREDERICK RICHARD. _b._ Barnstaple 1799; ensign 56 foot
6 Dec. 1813, placed on h.p. 21 Dec. 1815; served in the
Netherlands; studied painting at the R.A. 1818; exhibited 171
paintings at R.A., 131 at B.I. and 24 at Suffolk st. 1822–70;
his most popular works were English landscapes; 4 of his
pictures are in the National Gallery; A.R.A. 1834, R.A. 1838,
retired R.A. 1871. _d._ Vlees farm, Herman station in division
of Malmsay, South Africa 5 June 1879. _Sandby’s History of royal
academy_, _ii_ 159–61 (1862); _Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_
(1883) 85–8.

LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of Henry Lee, pugilist and landlord
of the Anti-Gallican tavern, Shire lane, Temple Bar 1808). _b._
1802; in Lord Barrymore’s service as a tiger, being the first to
bear that title; tenor singer at Dublin theatre 1825; sang at
the Haymarket, London 1826, musical conductor there 1827; kept a
music shop at 86 Quadrant, Regent st. 1829–31; bankrupt 18 Nov.
1831 and 21 May 1833; lessee with Melrose and J. K. Chapman of
the Tottenham st. theatre 1829–30; lessee of Drury Lane theatre
1830–31; directed the Lenten oratorios at Drury Lane and Covent
Garden 1831; composer and musical director to Strand theatre
1832–45, to Olympic theatre 1845; succeeded George Hodson as
musical conductor at the Poses Plastiques, Garrick’s Head, Bow
st. 1847; wrote the music to The Sublime and the Beautiful 1828;
The Invincibles 1828; The Nymph of the Grotto 1829; The Witness
1829; The Devil’s Brother 1831; The Legion of Honour 1831
and other dramatic pieces; published two sets of eight songs
Beauties of Byron and Loves of the Butterflies 1828; composed
altogether upwards of 250 pieces of music 1826–51; author
of A complete course of instruction for singing 1872. (_m._
Mrs. Waylett, ballad singer, she _d._ 26 April 1851); found
dead in his old lodgings at Newton terrace, Kennington road,
London 8 Oct. 1851. _bur._ Norwood cemet. _Rev. J. Richardson’s
Recollections_, _ii_ 129–35 (1856).

LEE, SIR GEORGE PHILIP (youngest son of Edward Lee of London).
Lieut. of the yeomen of the guard 13 March 1843 to 23 July 1857;
knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. _d._ Windlesham
court, Bagshot 1 Sep. 1870.

LEE, HARRIET (dau. of John Lee, actor, _d._ 1781). _b._ London
1757; kept a private school with her sister Sophia Lee at
Belvidere house, Bath 1781–1803; carried on a correspondence
with Wm. Godwin the novelist, April to Aug. 1798, declined
his offer of marriage 1798; author of The errors of innocence
5 vols. 1786; The new peerage or our eyes may deceive us, a
comedy Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1787, acted 9 times; Clara Lennox 2
vols. 1797, translated into French 1798; The mysterious marriage
or the heirship of Roselva, a 3 act play 1790, never acted;
Canterbury Tales 5 vols. 1797–1805, containing 12 stories (2
of which were written by her sister Sophia Lee who _d._ 1824),
she dramatised one of the tales ‘Kruitzner’ under title of The
Three Strangers, performed at Covent Garden 10 Dec. 1825, acted
4 times, Lord Byron also dramatised it under title of Werner or
the Inheritance 1822. _d._ Vyvyan terrace, Clifton 1 Aug. 1851.

LEE, HENRIETTA INCLEDON (eld. dau. of Henry Lee, manager of
theatres in west of England). First appeared in London as
Constantia in ‘The man of the world’ 19 Oct. 1831; played at
Covent Garden and Drury Lane, at Olympic theatre during Madame
Vestris’ management to 1839, at Lyceum theatre 1847–48. _d._ at
her lodgings, Orange st. Bloomsbury sq. London 23 May 1866. _Era
27 May 1866 p._ 10.

LEE, HENRY. _b._ 1826; naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium 1872,
a director for a time, printed Aquarium Notes for the use of
visitors; a contributor to Land and Water; his museum of natural
history was one of most valuable private collections in England;
author of The Octopus or the devil fish of fiction and fact
1874; Sea fables explained 1883 and of Sea monsters unmasked
1883, in Fisheries’ Exhibition handbooks; The vegetable lamb of
Tartary, a fable of the cotton plant 1887. _d._ Renton house,
343 Brixton road, London 31 Oct. 1888. _Land and Water 10 Nov.
1888 p._ 568.

LEE, JAMES N. Edited Bell’s Weekly Messenger and Farmers’
Journal to death. _d._ at his lodgings, Laurel grove, Oakfield
road, Penge 11 March 1880 aged 72.

LEE, JAMES PRINCE (eld. son of Stephen Lee, sec. and librarian
of royal society). _b._ London 28 July 1804; ed. at St. Paul’s
sch. 1813–24, captain 1822–4 when he entered Trin. coll. Camb.,
Craven scholar 1827, fellow Oct. 1829; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831;
one of the best Greek scholars of his time; a master at Rugby
1830–8; head master of King Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1838–47;
hon. canon of Worcester 6 Sep. 1847; bishop of Manchester 23
Oct. 1847, consecrated at Whitehall chapel 23 Jany. 1848;
held 63 ordinations at which he ordained 471 priests and 522
deacons; consecrated 130 churches 1848–69; promoted Manchester
free library, opened Sep. 1852; author of Sermons and fragments
attributed to Isaac Barrow, D.D. now first collected and edited
from the MSS. in the University and Trinity college libraries
Cambridge 1834, these manuscripts turned out to be spurious;
Suggestions for a practical use of the papal aggression 1851.
_d._ Mauldeth hall, Burnage near Manchester 24 Dec. 1869. _bur._
St. John’s ch. Heaton, Mersey 31 Dec. _E. W. Benson’s Memorial
Sermon 2 ed._ (1880); _John Evans’s Lancashire Authors_ (1850)
153–7; _Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series_ (1859),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 51 (1848) _portrait_, _lvi_ 55 (1870),
_portrait_.

NOTE.--He bequeathed his library to Owen’s college Manchester, his widow in Sep. 1875 left £1000 to the college to provide two annual prizes for encouraging the study of the New Testament in Greek.

LEE, JOHN. _b._ Torwoodlie-Mains, parish of Stow, Midlothian
22 Nov. 1779; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1801; served in
the army hospital service a short time; presbyterian minister
of Peebles 1807; professor of church history at St. Mary’s
college, St. Andrew’s 1812–21, rector of St. Andrew’s univ.
three times; professor of moral philosophy in King’s college,
Aberdeen 1820–1; minister of Canongate ch. Edinb. 1821–5; D.D.
St. Andrew’s 1821; minister of Lady Yester’s ch. Edinb. 1825–34;
chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1840 to death; principal clerk
of the general assembly 1827; minister of St. Giles’s ch. Edinb.
1834–7; principal of united college of St. Andrew’s 1837–40;
dean of chapel royal, Stirling 1840 to death; principal of univ.
of Edinb. 12 March 1840 to death, professor of divinity 14
June 1844 to death, being the first principal who also held a
professorship since the year 1620; moderator of general assembly
1844; collected a library of 20,000 vols., is described in John
Hill Burton’s Bookhunter as Archdeacon Meadows the bibliomaniac;
author of Memorials of the Bible Society in Scotland 1829;
Lectures on the history of the church of Scotland 1860; The
University of Edinburgh from 1583 to 1839. 1880. _d._ at his
residence in Univ. of Edinburgh 2 May 1859. _Crombie’s Modern
Athenians_ (1882) 135–7 _portrait_; _Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of
Edinburgh_, _ii_ 271–4 (1884); _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb.
iv_ 212–17 (1862); _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol. i_, _part_ 1, _pp._
12–13, 64 (1866).

LEE, JOHN (eld. son of John Fiott of London, merchant 1749–97).
_b._ 28 April 1783; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow
1808–15; fifth wrangler 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, LLD. 1816;
travelling bachelor of the univ. 1807–10; took his mother’s name
of Lee by r.l. 4 Oct. 1815; member of College of Advocates 3
Nov. 1816, steward July 1824 to June 1826, librarian 1826–7,
treasurer 1828–9; barrister G.I. 13 July 1863, gave the society
£500 to found an annual prize for an essay on law 7 May 1864,
bencher of G.I. 9 Nov. 1864 to death; Q.C. 7 July 1864; built an
observatory in south portico of Hartwell house, Bucks. 1830; an
original member of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1820, treasurer 1831–40,
pres. 1861–2, gave the advowson of Hartwell to the Soc. 1836
and the advowson of Stone, Bucks. 1866, founded the Lee fund
for relief of widows and children of deceased fellows; F.S.A.
1828; F.R.S. 24 Feb. 1831; pres. and treasurer of Numismatic
Soc. 1837; member of Chronological institute of London, Dec.
1850, pres. 21 Dec. 1853 to 1858 when institute ceased; pres.
of meeting of British Archæological Assoc. at Leicester 1862;
contested Aylesbury 1835, 1841, 1852 and 1863; edited Catalogue
of the Egyptian antiquities at Hartwell House, chiefly arranged
by Joseph Bonomi 1858. _d._ Hartwell house near Aylesbury 25
Feb. 1866. _Memoir of John Lee. Aylesbury_ (1870); _Journal
of British Archæol. Assoc. xxiii_ 302–5 (1867); _Catalogue of
law books in the library at Hartwell_ (1855); _Catalogue of
theological books in the library of Hartwell house_ (1855).

LEE, JOHN. _b._ Bath 25 Oct. 1795; served in the army; first
appeared at Drury Lane as Laertes 1 Oct. 1828; sec. to Edmund
Kean 1826–33 and stage manager Richmond theatre, and it was in
his arms that the tragedian died at Richmond 15 May 1833; acted
Jingle in Moncrieff’s Sam Weller or the Pickwickians at Strand
theatre July 1837; theatrical agent at 24 Bow st. Covent Garden
1847–55; manager of the Café de l’Europe, Haymarket, London, on
decease of Henry Hemming 1849; reappeared at T.R. Richmond as
Shylock 1 July 1869; resided in Jersey many years. _d._ Wilton
house, New St. John’s road, Jersey 5 Oct. 1881. _The Era 15 Oct.
1881 p._ 8; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 33–34, _portrait_.

LEE, JOHN. _b._ 1831; general manager of Drinking fountain
association; F.R.G.S. _d._ Balmain, Anerley road, Surrey 3 Feb.
1884. _bur._ Crystal palace district cemetery 7 Feb.

LEE, JOHN BENJAMIN. _b._ 15 Jany. 1811; admitted attorney 1834;
of firm of Lee, Bolton and Lee, 2 The Sanctuary, Westminster,
and 5 Dean’s court, Doctors’ commons, London; legal secretary
to 20 bishops, including 2 primates and 3 bishops of London;
legal secretary to abp. of Canterbury and to bishops of London,
Winchester, Durham, Carlisle, Ely, Hereford, Norwich, Worcester
and Ripon to death; chapter clerk and registrar and steward of
courts of St. Paul’s cathedral; registrar of diocese of London
to death; a personal friend of archbishop Tait 1856; resided at
Sonning near Reading. _d._ The Charterhouse, London 10 April
1889. _Law Times_, _lxxxvii_ 13 (1889).

LEE, JOHN EDWARD. _b._ Hull 21 Dec. 1808; visited Russia
and Scandinavia; resided at Caerleon Priory, Monmouth, then
at Torquay; F.G.S. 1859; presented his fine collection of
fossils to British Museum 1885; author of Delineation of Roman
antiquities found at Caerleon 1845; Description of a Roman
building discovered at Caerleon 1850; Selections from an
antiquarian sketch book 1859; Isca Silurum, or an illustrated
catalogue of the museum of antiquities at Caerleon 1862; Roman
imperial profiles, one hundred and sixty lithographs 1874;
Note-book of an amateur geologist 1881; translated F. Keller’s
Lake-dwellings of Switzerland 1866, 2 ed. 1878. _d._ Villa
Syracuse, Daddy Hole plain, Torquay 18 Aug. 1887. _Proc. of Soc.
of Antiq. 2nd series_, _xii_ 142–3 (1888).

LEE, JOHN LEE (son of William Hanning _d._ 1834, by Harriet dau.
of Edward Lee). _b._ 11 Dec. 1802; educ. Westminster 1813–7,
matric. Ch. Ch. Oxf. 10 Feb. 1821; assumed name of Lee in place
of Hanning 1820; M.P. for Wells 1831–37; sheriff of Somerset
1845. _d._ Dillington park, Somerset 16 Aug. 1874.

LEE, JOHN YATE. _b._ 1801; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1828;
practised as a conveyancer; a comr. of bankrupts 1838; registrar
of Liverpool court of bankruptcy 28 Aug. 1844 to 31 Dec. 1869
when he retired on full salary; author of A treatise on the
evidence of abstracts of titles to real property 1843. _d._
Bebington, Cheshire 10 March 1876. _Law Times_, _lx_ 422 (1876).

LEE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1780; painted miniatures in enamel from the
life, and copied pictures in enamel; enamel painter to Princess
Charlotte of Wales 1818 and to the Duke of Sussex, painted
portraits of them, also of George IV. after Sir Thomas Lawrence;
exhibited 27 enamels at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1809–53. _d._
13 Stone st. Gravesend 26 Dec. 1859.

LEE, LAVATER. _b._ 1817; a vaulter in the circus company of Wm.
Batty at Portsmouth and Southampton 1840; performed at Lambeth
Baths, London, which Batty opened as the Olympic Arena, Nov.
1841; on his benefit night April or May 1842 he vaulted over
14 horses, threw a back somersault on a horse going at full
speed and turned 21 forward somersaults without the aid of a
spring-board. _d._ 17 Kersley st. Battersea, London 18 March
1891. _bur._ Norwood cemetery.

LEE, MATTHEW HENRY (4 son of Joseph Lee of Redbrook, Whitchurch,
Salop). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 28 May 1850 aged
18, scholar 1850–4, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; C. of Longsight,
Manchester 1856–7; C. of Morland near Penrith 1857–67; V. of
Hanmer, Flintshire 1867 to death, church burnt Feb. 1889 when
he rescued register and plate, church rebuilding at time of his
decease; a contributor to the Archæologia Cambrensis; edited
Diaries and letters of Philip Henry 1882. _d._ about 13 Dec.
1890.

LEE, RICHARD NELSON (younger son of lieut.-col. Richard Lee).
_b._ Kew 8 Jany. 1806; first acted in The Miller and his Man, at
private theatre, Rawstorne st. Islington; played as an amateur
at Deptford, then in ‘utility’ business at Royalty theatre;
acted with John Richardson the showman 1821; went on tour in
1821 with Gyngell the conjuror who _d._ 1833; performed as a
juggler at Adelphi and other London theatres 1822; played at
Surrey theatre, opening as harlequin, under Elliston 7 years
from 24 June 1827; wrote the pantomimes 1831–3 and played
harlequin at Adelphi theatre 1834–36; managed Sadler’s Wells
theatre for F. Osbaldiston 1836; proprietor with John Johnson
of ‘Richardson’s Show’ Oct. 1836, they promoted and organised
the fair in Hyde Park on the Queen’s coronation 28 June 1838;
they purchased Julius Haydon’s portable theatre Oct. 1838;
‘Richardson’s Show’ was burnt in a field at Dartford 1845
causing a loss of £1700, they began business with a new theatre
1847; they appeared at Greenwich fair for the last time 1852;
‘Richardson’s Show’ was sold by auction at Horsemonger lane,
Borough 1853, when the property was completely dispersed;
manager with J. Johnson of the Marylebone, of Pavilion, of
Standard 1845, of City of London 1849–63, sole lessee of City
of London 3 Oct. 1863 to 1868 when he sold it to Great Eastern
railway co. for £6000; author of The life of a fairy illustrated
by Alfred Crowquill 1850; wrote 209 pantomimes, all of which
were played. _d._ Shrubland road, Dalston 2 Jany. 1872. _bur._
Abney park cemetery 5 Jany. _T. Frost’s The Old Showman_ (1874)
247, 254, 320, 346–58; _The Mask_ (1868) 21, _portrait_;
_Illust. Sporting News_, _v_ 420 (1866), _portrait_.

NOTE.--His father lieut.-col. Lee was on duty at Nelson’s funeral in St. Paul’s cathedral 9 Jany. 1806, this was probably Richard Lee who died in India about 1811. The certificate of R. N. Lee’s baptism could not be obtained as the registers from 1791 to 1845 were stolen out of Kew church some years ago and have never been recovered. The inscription on his tombstone in Abney Park cemetery is, To the memory of Nelson Lee who departed this life January 2nd 1872 aged 65, also of Amelia Lee his beloved wife who departed this life December 30th 1870 aged 53, also of Theresa Kate Lee youngest daughter of the above who departed this life September 28th 1870 aged 17.

LEE, ROBERT. _b._ Tweedmouth, Northumberland 11 Nov. 1804; ed.
at Berwick-on-Tweed gr. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ. 1824–34,
D.D. 1844; minister of St. Vigean’s presbyterian chapel of ease
at Arbroath, Forfarshire 1833, removed to parish of Campsie,
Stirlingshire 1836; minister of church and parish of Old
Greyfriars, Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1843 to death, his church was
burnt down 19 Jany. 1845, preached in the Assembly Hall until
14 June 1857 when restored church opened, introduced stained
glass into some of the windows 1857 and the first organ used in
national church 22 April 1865; professor of biblical criticism
and antiquities in univ. of Edinb., dean of chapel royal
Holyrood and royal chaplain 17 Dec. 1846 to death; censured
by the presbytery 14 March 1866 and by the synod 7 May for
celebrating a marriage in his church 6 Dec. 1865; Isabella
Carrick his widow was granted a civil list pension of £100,
17 Nov. 1868; author of A handbook of devotion 1845; The Holy
Bible with about 60,000 marginal references and various readings
1854; Prayers for public worship 2 ed. 1858; Prayers for family
worship 1861, 3 ed. 1884; The family and its duties 1863; The
reform of the church of Scotland in worship, government and
doctrine. Part 1 Worship 1864. _d._ Torquay 12 March 1868.
_bur._ Grange cemetery, Edinb. 20 March. _R. H. Story’s Life
of R. Lee, D.D. 2 vols._ (1870), _portrait_; _Grant’s Story of
Univ. of Edinb. ii_ 461–64 (1884).

LEE, ROBERT (2 son of John Lee of Melrose, Roxburghshire).
_b._ Melrose 1793; entered univ. of Edinb. 1806, M.D. 1814;
L.R.C.P. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1841, Lumleian lecturer 1856–7, Croonian
lecturer 1862, Harveian orator 1864; physician to Prince
Woronzow governor general of the Crimea, Oct. 1824 to Dec. 1826;
obstetric phys. in London 1826–75; phys. to British lying-in
hospital 1827; lecturer on midwifery in the Webb st. school
1829; F.R.S. 25 March 1830; sec. to Royal med. and chir. soc.
1830–5; regius professor of midwifery, univ. of Glasgow 1834,
but resigned it after delivering his introductory address;
lecturer on midwifery at St. George’s hospital 1835–66; author
of On the structure of the human placenta and its connection
with the uterus 1832; Clinical Midwifery 1842, 2 ed. 1848; The
last days of Alexander and the first days of Nicholas, emperors
of Russia 1854; Three hundred consultations in midwifery 1864;
A treatise on hysteria 1871. _d._ 15 The Avenue, Surbiton Hill,
Surrey 6 Feb. 1877. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _R. Lee’s Memoirs
on the Ganglia and nerves of the uterus_ (1849); _Munk’s College
of physicians_, _iii_ 266–9 (1878); _Lancet_, _i_ 332–7 (1851),
_portrait_.

LEE, ROBERT (7 son of John Lee 1779–1859). _b._ Edinburgh
1830; ed. at academy and univ. of Edinb.; member of Faculty of
advocates 1853; procurator for Ch. of Scotland 1869; sheriff
of Stirling and Dumbarton 1875; sheriff of Perthshire 1877;
judge of second division of the court of session, Edinb., with
title of Lord Lee, April 1880 to death. _d._ 12 Rothesay place,
Edinburgh 11 Oct. 1890.

LEE, SAMUEL. _b._ Longnor near Shrewsbury 14 May 1783;
apprenticed to a carpenter at Shrewsbury 1795; taught himself
Greek and Hebrew; teacher in Bowdler’s foundation school,
Shrewsbury; entered Queen’s coll. Camb. 1813, B.A. 1818, M.A.
1819, B.D. 1827, D.D. 1833; D.D. Halle 1822; professor of
Arabic in univ. of Camb. 11 March 1819–31, regius professor of
Hebrew 1831–48; chaplain of Cambridge gaol 1823; R. of Bilton
with Harrogate, Yorkshire 1825–31; preb. of Bristol cathedral
5 July 1831 to death; V. of Banwell, Somerset 1831–8; R. of
Barley, Herts. 1838 to death; a profound linguist, knew about
20 languages; author of A grammar of the Hebrew language 1827;
A brief enquiry into the question whether a christian can
object to pay tithes. Bristol 1832; The duties of observing the
christian sabbath 1833, 2 ed. 1834; Dissent unscriptural and
unjustiable 1834; A lexicon Hebrew, Chaldee and English 1840;
The doctrine of the keys 1846; An enquiry into the nature,
progress and end of prophecy 1849. _d._ Barley rectory 16 Dec.
1852, portrait by Richard Evans in public newsroom, Shrewsbury.
_Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _vol._ 5 (1834),
_portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _i_ 52
(1846), _portrait_; _G.M. xxxix_ 203–7 (1853).

LEE, SAMUEL. King of the gipsy tribe of the Lees. _d._ Little
Baddow hill, Essex 23 Sep. 1859 aged 86. _bur._ Little Baddow
ch. yard 27 Sep. when 16 gipsies attended the funeral.

LEE, SAMUEL (2 son of John Lee of Whitchurch, Salop). _b._ 1837;
ed. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1860, M.A. 1866; barrister L.I.
26 Jany. 1872; member of board of examiners to Inns of Court
1877–8 and 1881–3; member of Athenæum club; author of The works
of Virgil rendered into English prose, with introductions.
Globe edition 1871; author with J. Lonsdale of The works of
Horace rendered into English prose 1873. _d._ 8 Tavistock place,
Tavistock sq. London 14 April 1892.

LEE, SARAH (only dau. of John Eglinton Wallis of Colchester).
_b._ Colchester 10 Sep. 1791. _m._ (1) 1813 Thomas Edward
Bowdich, naturalist, travelled with him in Africa 1815 and
1823, he _d._ Bathurst on the Gambia river 10 Jany. 1824;
she _m._ (2) about Oct. 1829 Robert Lee; studied Cuvier’s
collections in Paris 1818–22; termed herself a member of the
Wetteravian society; granted civil list pension of £50, 20 April
1854; author of The Freshwater fishes of Great Britain 1828,
12 parts, only four perfect copies are known, the plates of
fish by herself are exquisitely done; Memoirs of Baron Cuvier
1833; Adventures in Australia 1851, many editions; Anecdotes
of the habits and instincts of animals 1852; Sir Thomas or
the adventures of a Cornish baronet 1856; she also edited and
contributed to many works by her husband T. E. Bowdich. _d._ at
her daughter’s residence, Erith, Kent 22 Sep. 1856. _Literary
Gazette 11 Oct. 1856 p._ 784; _G.M. Nov. 1856 pp._ 653–4.

LEE, SMYTH. _b._ Devonport 1838; clerk in the stamp office,
Devonport; reporter on Western Daily Mercury, then on Western
Morning News; correspondent of The Era; on staff of Illustrated
Sporting News 15 March 1862 to death; wrote ‘Tom’s Wife’ acted
at the Surrey theatre, and ‘Great Sensation’ acted at Sadler’s
Wells. _d._ Tottenham court road, London 3 Feb. 1866. _bur._
Finchley 7 Feb. _Illust. Sporting News_, _v_ 78, 152 (1866),
_portrait_.