Chapter XVII: Part 17

LEE, THOMAS (son of Mr. Lee of Dublin and the Haymarket,
London). _b._ Dublin 1 Dec. 1810; apprenticed to a goldsmith and
jeweller London 1823; played in Suil Dhur the Coiner at Sadler’s
Wells 1827; played in The Irish Tutor at Victoria theatre 1833
or 1834; acted in the provinces 1834–7; played at Sadler’s
Wells 1837; acted Pat Rooney in The Omnibus at Covent Garden 23
Oct. 1838; proprietor of Beckford’s Head tavern, 38 Old st. St.
Luke’s 1838–54; proprietor of The Adam and Eve, Eve’s terrace,
Old St. Pancras road 1854–6, and of the Hoop and Adze, 37 St.
John st. Clerkenwell 1856, where he _d._ 11 Aug. 1856. _Actors
by daylight_, _i_ 281–2 (1838), _portrait_; _Theatrical Times_,
_ii_ 153 (1847), _portrait_; _The Era 17 Aug. 1856 p._ 10.

LEE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1809; painter in water-colours of English
rustic figures and of scenes on the French coast; assoc. of
Instit. of Painters in water-colours 1845, a member 1848; member
and sec. of Langham Sketching club, All Souls’ Place, London;
exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1844–55;
published Classes of the capital, a sketch book of London life
from tinted studies by W. Lee 1841, two parts only. _d._ 177
Euston road, London 22 Jany. 1865. _Art Journal_ (1865) 139.

LEE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 2 July 1813, bencher 1845 to death,
reader 1858; Richard Bethel afterwards lord chancellor Westbury
was his pupil 1822; Q.C. Feb. 1845; a learned real property
lawyer, his opinion was much esteemed by the chancery judges;
often called upon by lord justice Knight-Bruce to give his
opinion as amicus curiæ; lacked business habits, which prevented
success in his profession. _d._ Brighton 7 July 1869. _Law Times
17 July 1869 p._ 262; _T. A. Nash’s Life of lord Westbury_, _i_
37–8, 43 (1888).

LEE, WILLIAM (son of Henry Lee). _b._ Lewisham, Kent 1801;
partner in firm of Lee, Son & Co., lime and cement merchants of
London and Rochester; contested Maidstone 8 July 1852 and 30
March 1857; M.P. Maidstone 1853–57 and 1859–70. _d._ Holborough
court near Rochester 29 Sep. 1881.

LEE, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Lee, rector of Emly. _d._ Aug. 1835).
_b._ Newport, Tipperary 3 Nov. 1815; ed. at Clonmel endowed sch.
1825–31 and Trinity college, Dublin; gained first or classical
scholarship 1834, junior fellow 1839; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840,
B.D. and D.D. 1857; professor of ecclesiastical history in
univ. of Dublin 1857–63; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity
1863; R. of Arboe, Armagh 1862–4; exam. chaplain to abp. Trench
1863–4; archdeacon of Dublin 1864 to death; R. of St. Peter,
Dublin 1864 to death; member of convocation and of convention of
ch. of Ireland; member of new testament revision company Feb.
1870 to 1880; author of The inspiration of holy scripture, its
nature and proof 1854, 5 ed. 1882; Three introductory lectures
on ecclesiastical history 1858; Commentary on the Revelation of
St. John 1882, on which he had been working since 1864. _d._ 64
Merrion square south, Dublin 11 May 1883. _W. Lee’s University
Sermons. Dublin_ (1886), _memoir vii–xiv_.

LEE, WILLIAM (2 son of John Lee 1779–1859). _b._ 18 George
st. Edinburgh 6 Nov. 1817; ed. univ. of Edinb., D.D. 1868;
presbyterian minister at Roxburgh 1844–74; professor of
ecclesiastical history in univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1874 to death;
author of The increase of faith 1867, 2 ed. 1868; The days of
the Son of Man 1872; edited his father’s Lectures on the history
of the church of Scotland 2 vols. 1860; The autobiography of
Dr. Somerville of Jedburgh. _d._ 8 The College, Glasgow 10 Oct.
1866. _The Glasgow Herald 12 Oct. 1886 p._ 4.

LEECE, JOSEPH (1 son of John Leece). _b._ Edgley, Stockport,
Cheshire 8 Sep. 1833; lodge boy to Joseph Whitworth, engineer,
Manchester 1847, foreman of shops where he improved the
machinery, managed the manufactory of guns and rifles; conducted
the heavy gun trials Whitworth versus Armstrong 1863–4;
introduced the Whitworth small arms to the volunteers; sighted
the rifle for the Queen at Wimbledon 2 July 1860; hit the target
5 times in succession at 1000 yards; present at meetings for
trial of light field guns at Versailles and Chalon; member of
war office ordnance committee; managing director of sir J.
Whitworth & Co.; M.I.C.E. 6 May 1879. _d._ Melbourne, Australia
13 Jany. 1886. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxv_ 399
(1886).

LEECH, JOHN (son of John Leech, proprietor of the London
Coffee-house, Ludgate Hill, London, bankrupt 6 Jany. 1832).
_b._ Bennett st. Stamford st. London 29 Aug. 1817; ed. at the
Charterhouse 1824–33; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital;
published Etchings and Sketchings. By A. Pen 1835; employed on
Bell’s Life in London; illustrated Theodore Hook’s novel Jack
Brag 1837; contributed to fourth number of Punch 7 Aug. 1841 a
full-page illustration entitled Foreign Affairs, signed with
the Leech in the bottle as well as John Leech; chief artist
on Punch 1842 to death, executed 600 cartoons and 2400 small
drawings for which he received about £40,000; illustrated
the Ingoldsby Legends and Albert Smith’s novels in Bentley’s
Miscellany; supplied etchings or cuts for New Monthly Mag.
1842–4, Illuminated Mag. 1843–5, Dickens’ Christmas Stories
1843–8, R. S. Surtees’ sporting novels 1853–65, Once a Week
1859–64, Illustrated London News, Punch’s Pocket Book and many
other works; published Portraits of the children of the nobility
1841; Pictures of life, from Punch 5 series 1854–69 and other
books; exhibited a series of sketches in oil at Egyptian Hall,
Piccadilly, June–Aug. 1862; hunted with the Puckeridge and
Pytchley hounds; his portrait by sir John Millais was exhibited
at the R.A. 1855. _d._ 6 The Terrace, Kensington 29 Oct. 1864.
_bur._ Kensal Green 4 Nov. An exhibition of outlines by J. Leech
held at 9 Conduit st. London 1872. _W. P. Frith’s John Leech 2
vols._ (1891), _portrait_; _F. G. Kitton’s John Leech_ (1884);
_John Leech and other papers. By John Brown_ (1882) 1–79; _Fine
Art. By W. A. Rossetti_ (1867) 282–9; _Illust. Review iv_
289–98, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. ix_ 58–65 (1864), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. vii_ 329 (1845), _portrait_.

NOTE.--His widow Anne Leech was granted a civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1865; his only son C. W. Leech was drowned off Port Adelaide on his voyage home from Australia 29 March 1876 aged 20. He drew a portrait of himself as the clarionet player next to the conductor of the orchestra in the two-page cartoon entitled ‘Mr. Punch’s fancy ball’ in Punch 9 Jany. 1847.

LEEDS, FRANCIS GODOLPHIN D’ARCY DARCY-OSBORNE, 7 Duke of. _b._
21 May 1798; styled marquess of Carmarthen 1799–1838; cornet
10 hussars 19 Sep. 1817, lieut. 1821–5; capt. 17 lancers 1825;
capt. 2 life guards 1826–8; M.P. Helston 1826–30; summoned to
house of lords as baron Osborne 2 July 1838; succeeded as 7
duke 10 July 1838; col. in chief of North York militia 11 Feb.
1846 to death; took the name of Darcy 6 Aug. 1849; celebrated
as a huntsman and deer stalker. _d._ Clarendon hotel, 169 New
Bond st. London 4 May 1859. _m._ 24 April 1828 Louisa Catherine
3 dau. of Richard Caton and widow of sir F. E. B. Harvey,
bart. who _d._ 1819. She _d._ 8 April 1874. _Burke’s Portrait
gallery_, _ii_ 87, 90 (1833), _portrait of the Duchess_; _I.L.N.
xxv_ 616 (1854) _portrait_, _xxxiv_ 478, 485 (1859) _portrait_.

LEEDS, ROBERT. _b._ 1811; rented a large farm at Holkham
and resided at Keswick Old Hall for many years; assisted in
formation of company which built Agricultural hall, Islington
1861 and was chairman 1862, and chief mover in the annual horse
shows there; chairman of Smithfield club, then vice president;
oldest member of Farmers’ club; on council of R. Agricultural
Soc. of England 1869–89. _d._ Norwich 27 June 1890. _I.L.N. 12
July 1890 p._ 53, _portrait_.

LEEDS, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1786; engaged in commercial
pursuits; an architectural critic 30 years; wrote much in
the Foreign quarterly review and other periodicals; wrote
many of the articles on architecture in the Penny Cyclopædia;
published Moller’s Memorials of German-Gothic architecture,
part 1 translated by W. H. Leeds 1836; Illustrations of the
public buildings of London 1838; An essay on the present
state of architectural study and the revival of the Italian
style, Printed in Studies and examples of school of English
architecture 1839 pp. 1–28; Rudimentary architecture, the orders
and their æsthetic principles 1848, 2 ed. 1852; A treatise on
the decorative part of civil architecture, by sir W. Chambers,
revised 1862. _d._ 26 Charlotte st. Portland place, London 1 May
1866.

LEEKE, SIR HENRY JOHN (son of Samuel Leeke of St. John’s, Isle
of Wight). _b._ St. John’s 1794; entered navy 28 Sep. 1803;
served in the Mediterranean during the war 1806; commanded
the Myrmidon sloop on west coast of Africa 1819–22, where he
surveyed 600 miles of coast; captain 27 May 1826; knighted
at St. James’s palace 1 April 1835; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836;
flag captain to admiral sir John West at Devonport 1845–8;
superintendent and commander-in-chief of Indian navy 23 March
1852 to 7 July 1857; bombarded Bushir in the Persian war 10
Nov. 1856; admiral 11 Jany. 1864; M.P. for Dover 1859–65; C.B.
21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 1 Oct. 1858. _d._ Uplands near Fareham
26 Feb. 1870. _C. R. Low’s History of the Indian navy_, _ii_
240–382 (1877).

LEEKE, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1798; ensign
52 light infantry 4 May 1815, lieutenant 1823, on h.p. 2 Sep.
1824; carried the regimental colours at Waterloo; ed. at Queen’s
college, Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; C. of Westham, Sussex
1829–31; C. of Brailsford, Derby 1831–39; V. of Holbrooke,
Derbyshire 1840–77; author of A few suggestions for increasing
the incomes of many of the smaller livings. Derby 1838; The
history of lord Seaton’s regiment, the 52nd light infantry, at
Waterloo, with the author’s reminiscences of his military and
clerical careers 2 vols. 1866–71. _d._ Holbrooke hall near Derby
1 June 1879.

LEEMAN, GEORGE (son of George Leeman of York). _b._ York, Aug.
1809; solicitor at York 1835 to death; head of firm of Leeman,
Wilkinson and Leeman of York and Beverley; clerk of the peace
for East Riding to death; alderman of York 1850, lord mayor
1853, 1860 and 1870; chairman of Yorkshire banking co.; chairman
of North eastern railway Feb. 1874 to 1880; M.P. York 1865–68
and 1871–80; his statue erected near railway station at York.
_d._ 3 Belmont terrace, Scarborough 25 Feb. 1882.

LEEMAN, JOSEPH JOHNSON (younger son of the preceding). _b._
Fulford near York 1842; solicitor at York 1865 to death; M.P.
York 2 April 1880 to death. _d._ Acomb priory, York 2 Nov. 1883.

LEES, _Asa_ (2 son of Samuel Lees of Oldham, machine
manufacturer, _d._ about 1847). _b._ 1816; machine maker at
Oldham about 1847–65 when he converted his business into a
private company, the works were sold to a limited liability
company in 1872, he received £112,000 for his share. _d._ Albert
house, Ashton under Lyne 26 May 1882. _Oldham Chronicle 3 June
1882 p._ 6, _col._ 3.

LEES, CATHCART. _b._ 1810; M.B. of Trin. coll. Dublin 1837,
F.K.Q.C.P. 1845; physician to Meath hospital to 1861 and
lecturer on practice of medicine; phys. to Bank of Ireland to
1861; wrote many essays in Dublin Journal of medical science,
Dublin hospital gazette, and the Quarterly Journal; author of
Lectures on diseases of the stomach and indigestion. Dublin
1857. _d._ 17 Lower Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 16 Dec. 1861.

LEES, CHARLES. _b._ Cupar, Fifeshire 1800; studied art at
Rome some years; portrait painter at Edinburgh; fellow of
Royal Scottish academy 1835 where he exhibited regularly,
treasurer 1865 and a trustee; two pictures by him of curling
and golf matches were engraved; his picture Summer Moonlight,
bait-gatherers, is in Scottish national gallery; exhibited 6
pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1832–63. _d._
19 Scotland st. Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1880. _The Scotsman 1 March
1880 p._ 4.

LEES, EDWIN. _b._ Worcester 1800; printer and stationer at 87
High st. Worcester, retired early and became a local botanist;
founded Worcester Literary and scientific institute 12 Jany.
1829, joint sec.; F.L.S., F.G.S.; one of the first to pay regard
to forms of brambles, commemorated botanically by his discovery
of Rubus Leesii; author of Christmas and the new year 2 ed.
1828, a masque in verse; Guide to the city and cathedral of
Worcester. By Ambrose Florence; published The Worcestershire
miscellany 5 numbers 1829; author of Botany of the Malvern
hills 1843, 3 ed. 1868; The botany of Worcestershire 1867; The
botanical looker-out among the wild flowers 1842, 2 ed. 1851;
Pictures of nature around the Malvern hills 1856; Scenery and
thought in poetical pictures of landscape scenes and incidents
1880. _d._ Greenhill Summit, Worcester 21 Oct. 1887. _bur._
Pendock. _Journal of botany_ (1887) 384.

LEES, SIR HARCOURT, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir John Lees, 1
baronet 1739–1811). _b._ 29 Nov. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802; R. and V. of Killaney, co. Down; preb.
of Fennor in Cashel church 21 Nov. 1800 to July 1806; preb. of
Tullycorbet in Clogher church 1801 to July 1806; author of The
Antidote, or nouvelles à la main, recommended to the serious
attention of the right hon. W. C. Plunket and other advocates
of unrestricted civil and religious liberty. By a clergyman of
the established church and no saint. Dublin 1819, reprinted with
a supplement entitled L’Abeja or a bee among the evangelicals.
Dublin 1820, and 8 other pamphlets chiefly in support of
protestant ascendancy. _d._ Blackrock near Dublin 7 March 1852.
_G.M. xxxvii_ 518–9 (1852); _I.L.N. xx_ 219 (1852).

NOTE.--See also these works, Most important, trial of sir H. Lees before chief justice B---- and sergeant Flummery 11 Jan. 1823 by a jury of special dust churchmen on charges of barretry and eavesdropping. Dublin 1823. A warning letter to the queen!! on the communication made to government by sir H. L. relative to a conspiracy out of which arose the attempt to murder her majesty 1840.

LEES, JAMES. _b._ Cupar 1804; ed. Madras coll. St. Andrew’s
and in Edinburgh; manager for Smith and Carnegie, Dundee 1828;
writer to the signet in Dundee to 1834; manager for John
Anderson, bailie, Dundee 1834–54; author of The laws of shipping
and insurance 1845, 10 ed. 1877; A manual for shipmasters on
their qualifications, duties, &c. 1845, 4 ed. 1851; The laws of
the customs, with the tariff or customs’ tables and customs’
forms 1859; The merchant seaman’s act 1845; The merchant
shipping act 1855, 3 ed. 1876. _d._ Broughty Ferry, Dundee 5
July 1868. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 310–11.

LEES, SIR JOHN CAMPBELL (eld. son of James Lees, R.E.) _b._
Enfield, Middlesex 1796; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833; chief
justice and judge of court of admiralty of Bahama Islands 1 Aug.
1836 to 1865 when he retired; president of legislative council
of Bahama islands; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865;
author of Meteorological journal for 1839. Nassau, Bahamas 1839.
_d._ Victoria station on Metropolitan district railway 17 Oct.
1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 399 (1873).

LEES, JOHN FREDERICK (eld. son of Edward Lees of Oldham). _b._
1810; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831; M.P. for Oldham 8
July 1835 to 18 July 1837; contested Oldham 28 July 1837. _d._
Cheltenham 18 Sep. 1867.

LEES, TOM. _b._ 1821; one of the best riders at Astley’s
amphitheatre, gymnast and summersault thrower and the champion
of the ring; with Cooke’s circus from childhood, and with it
travelled in the provinces; played in pantomime at Cremorne
gardens, Melbourne, under George Coppin’s management; lived some
years in New Zealand. _m._ Emma Cooke pantomimist and dancer,
sister of James Cooke equestrian manager. _d._ Dunedin hospital,
New Zealand 24 July 1878. _The Era 29 Sep. 1878 p._ 5.

LEES, WILLIAM NASSAU (4 son of rev. sir Harcourt Lees
1776–1852). _b._ 21 Feb. 1825; ed. at Nut Grove and Trin.
coll. Dublin; ensign 42 Bengal N.I. 8 March 1846, captain 11
Sep. 1858; lieut.-col. Bengal infantry 8 June 1868; placed
on unemployed supernumerary list 21 Feb. 1884; M.G. 28
Nov. 1885; principal of the Madrásá or Mahommedan college,
Calcutta 1856–72, also professor of law, logic, literature and
mathematics; sec. to College of Fort William 1853; Persian
translator to government; government examiner in Arabic, Persian
and Urdu for all branches of the service; part proprietor of
Times of India newspaper some years; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1857
and Ph. Doc. Berlin; member of Royal Asiatic Soc. of London
1872; contested Gloucester 1868 and Helston 1874; author of A
biographical sketch of the mystic philosopher and poet Jami
1859; A memorandum after a tour through the tea districts of
Eastern Bengal 1866; The drain of silver to the East and the
currency of India 1864; The land and labour of India 1867;
Indian Musalmáns 1871. _d._ Grosvenor st. London 9 March 1889.

LEESON, HENRY BEAUMONT. _b._ about 1800; ed. at Caius coll.
Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; incorporated M.A. at Trin. coll.
Oxf. 1838, M.B. and M.D. 1840; M.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1847;
F.C.S.; M.R.I.; physician and lecturer on chemistry and forensic
medicine to St. Thomas’s hospital, London; F.R.S. _d._ The
Maples near Ventnor, Isle of Wight 8 Nov. 1872. _Times 9 Nov.
1872 p._ 5, _col._ 6.

LEESON, JOHN SACKVILLE. Entered Bombay army 1817; 1 lieut.
Bombay artillery 1 Sep. 1818, lieut.-col. Bombay artillery 15
April 1850, col. 28 March 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._
Paris 7 May 1859.

LEESON, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD (youngest son of hon. Robert Leeson
1773–1850). _b._ Feb. 1801; cornet 7 dragoon guards 2 Dec.
1819, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; chamberlain at Dublin castle
1835; knight usher of the black rod to the order of St. Patrick
1838–41 and genealogist 1841 to death; knighted at Dublin May or
June 1838. _d._ Caen, Normandy 21 April 1885.

LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN (elder son of Thomas Philip Le Fanu,
dean of Emly). _b._ Dublin 28 Aug. 1814; entered Trin. coll.
Dublin 1833; joined staff of Dublin Univ. Mag. 1837, editor
and proprietor 1869–72; called to Irish bar 1839; purchased
two Dublin papers, The Warder in 1839 and The Dublin Evening
Packet, part proprietor of the Dublin Evening Mail, amalgamated
the three papers under title of The Evening Mail with a weekly
reprint entitled The Warder; author of The Cock and the anchor
1845; The fortunes of colonel Torlogh O’Brien 1847; The house by
the churchyard 3 vols. 1863; Uncle Silas 3 vols. 1864; Wylder’s
hand 3 vols. 1864; Guy Deverell 3 vols. 1865; All in the dark 2
vols. 1866; The tenants of Malory 3 vols. 1867; Haunted lives
3 vols. 1868; A lost name 3 vols. 1868; The Wyvern mystery 3
vols. 1869; Checkmate 3 vols. 1871; Chronicles of Golden Friars
3 vols. 1871; The rose and the key 3 vols. 1871; In a glass
darkly 3 vols. 1872; Willing to die 3 vols. 1873; Morley court
1873, anon. _d._ 18 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 7 Feb. 1873. _J.
S. Le Fanu’s Purcell Papers with memoir by A. P. Graves_, _vol._
1 _pp. v–xxxi_ (1880); _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxi_ 319–20 (1873);
_Temple Bar_, _l_ 504–17 (1877).

LEFEBVRE, NICHOLAS. _b._ 1803; entered navy 18 Jany. 1811;
captain 20 Oct. 1853, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 9
Jany. 1880. _d._ Rue Lefebvre, Guernsey 7 Oct. 1884.

LEFEVRE, SIR JOHN GEORGE SHAW (2 son of Charles Shaw Lefevre,
M.P. Reading, _d._ 1823). _b._ Bedford sq. London 24 Jany. 1797;
ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1819; sen. wrangler and
B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; F.R.S. 16 Nov. 1820; barrister I.T. 11
Feb. 1825, bencher 21 Nov. 1854 to death, reader 1868; M.P.
Petersfield 1832–4; under sec. of state for colonies 1833–4;
poor law commissioner 18 Aug. 1834 to 1 Dec. 1841; joint assist.
sec. to board of trade 19 June 1841 to 14 May 1848; second
church estate commissioner 24 Aug. 1850; deputy clerk of the
parliaments 4 April 1848 and clerk 6 April 1856, resigned March
1875 when he retired on pension of £2,500; C.B. 27 April 1848,
K.C.B. 22 Jany. 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. 20 Nov. 1847;
a founder of the univ. of London 1836 and V.C. 1842–62; hon.
D.C.L. Oxf. 1858; hon. LLD. Dublin 1860; civil service comr.,
resigned 1862; one of founders of Athenæum club 1823; he knew
all the European languages and Hebrew. _d._ Cliftonville near
Brighton 20 Aug. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix_ 15–18 (1879);
_Graphic_, _xi_ 291, 292 (1875), _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 93
(1843), _portrait_.

LEFFLER, ADAM (son of James Henry Leffler, organist and bassoon
player, _d._ 1819). _b._ 1808; chorister in Westminster abbey;
appeared at Exeter at a festival 1829; first appeared in London
at Lyceum 31 Aug. 1836 as Hela in the Mountain Sylph; appeared
at Park theatre, New York as a tenor singer Aug. 1840; played
at Covent Garden, at the Lyceum, at Surrey theatre; sang at
concerts; professor of music at 12 Spencer place, Brixton road,
London; a bass singer, his compass extended from E below the
stave to G above it. _d._ 23 Osborne terrace, Clapham road,
London 18 March 1857. _Era 5 April 1857 p._ 10.

LE FLEMING, GEORGE CUMBERLAND HUGHES- (son of John Cumberland
Hughes of Bath). _b._ 21 July 1807; entered Madras army 1823;
captain 13 Madras N.I. 23 Dec. 1842, lieut.-col. 5 June 1854
to 1857; lieut.-col. of 19 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 European regiment
1858–9, of 50 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with
rank of M.G.; assumed additional surname of Le Fleming by r.l. 1
April 1862. _d._ 7 June 1877.

LEFROY, ANTHONY (eld. son of Thomas Langlois Lefroy 1776–1869).
_b._ Dublin 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A.
1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1864; M.P. co. Longford 1830–32, 1833–7
and 1842–7; contested co. Longford 1832, 1837, 1841 and 1857;
M.P. univ. of Dublin 1858–70; sheriff of Longford 1849. _d._
Carriglass manor, co. Longford 12 Jany. 1890.

LEFROY, EDWARD CRACROFT (son of George Benjamin Austin Lefroy of
13 Victoria st. Westminster). _b._ 1855; ed. Keble coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1877, M.A. 1881; C. of St. John’s, Woolwich 1880–82; author
of Undergraduate Oxford. Articles reprinted from The Oxford and
Cambridge undergraduates journal 1878; The christian ideal and
other sermons 1883; Counsels for the common life, six addresses
to senior boys 1885; Echoes from Theocritus and other sonnets
1885. _d._ at the res. of his father, 42 Shooter’s hill road,
Blackheath, Kent 19 Sep. 1891. _Academy 3 Oct. 1891 p._ 284.

LEFROY, JEFFREY (brother of Anthony Lefroy 1800–90). _b._ 1809
or 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1848, member
of the senate; R. of Aghaderg, co. Down 1836 to death; dean of
Dromore 1876 to death. _d._ Aghaderg Glebe 10 Dec. 1885.

LEFROY, SIR JOHN HENRY (son of John Henry George Lefroy, R.
of Ashe, Hants., _d._ 1823). _b._ Ashe 28 Jany. 1817; ed. at
Alton, Richmond, and R.M. acad. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec
1834, col. 9 Feb. 1865, col. commandant 13 Feb. 1881 to death;
sec. of the Royal artillery institution 1838–9 and again 1849;
director of magnetical observatory at St. Helena 1840–2 and at
Toronto 1842–53; travelled to Lachim and Hudson’s Bay 1843–4,
determined approximate position of American forces of magnetic
intensity; founded the Canadian institute at Toronto 1849; sec.
of the Patriotic Fund 1854; a senior clerk in the war office
1854; scientific adviser on subjects of artillery and inventions
at war office 1854–5; prepared a detailed scheme of military
education 1856; inspector general of army schools Feb. 1857 to
1860 when office abolished; sent on a special mission to the
Mediterranean fortresses; sec. of ordnance select committee
1860, pres. 1864; director general of ordnance 9 Dec. 1868 to
March 1870; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda 8 April
1871 to 10 May 1877; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; governor of Tasmania,
Oct. 1880 to Dec. 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of
general 10 May 1882; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.G.S. 1853; F.S.A.
1884; C.B. 31 March 1870; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of A
handbook for field service 1854, 4 ed. 1867; Observations made
at St. Helena 1847; Notes and documents relating to the family
of Loffroy 1868; Memorials of the discovery of the Bermudas or
Somers island 2 vols. 1877–9; Diary of a magnetic survey of
a portion of the dominion of Canada 1883. _d._ Lewarne near
Liskeard, Cornwall 11 April 1890. _bur._ at Croudall, Hants.
_Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 139–40 (1891); _Numismatic
Chronicle_ (1890) 31–2; _Graphic 26 April 1890 p._ 533,
_portrait_.

LEFROY, PERCY, otherwise Percy Lefroy Mapleton (son of Henry
Mapleton commander R.N. _d._ 1879, by Mary Trent dau. of Henry
Seale colonial sec. of St. Helena). _b._ Alpha place, Queen’s
road, Deptford 23 Feb. 1860; journalist writing for the weekly
papers; author of two dramas which were not successful; shot
and murdered Frederick Isaac Gold a retired London tradesman
aged 64, in a railway carriage on London and Brighton and South
coast railway while going through the Balcombe tunnel 27 June
1881, arrested on suspicion 8 July, tried at Maidstone assizes
5–7 Nov., confessed his guilt, hanged inside Lewes prison 29
Nov. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxix_ 37, 461 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xxiv_ 96 (1881), _portrait_; _Temple Bar_, _Jany. 1886 pp._
73–82; _Montagu Williams’ Leaves of a Life_ (1891) 277–94,
335–48.

LEFROY, THOMAS EDWARD PRESTON (3 son of Antony Lefroy of
Falford, Yorkshire, captain 65 foot). _b._ 30 Aug. 1815;
a special pleader; barrister M.T. 7 June 1844; a revising
barrister on the Northern circuit Aug. 1855; deputy judge of
Bloomsbury county court 1857–65; judge of county courts, circuit
55 (Dorset and Somerset) 1 Jany. 1868, retired 10 Oct. 1880 on
pension of £1000; author with H. I. Nicholl, J. M. Carrow and
others of Cases relating to railways and canals 5 vols. 1840–50.
_d._ Cambray, Bournemouth 25 July 1887.

LEFROY, THOMAS LANGLOIS (eld. son of Anthony Lefroy of
Carrickglass, co. Longford, lieut.-col. 9 light dragoons, _d._
1819). _b._ co. Limerick 8 Jany. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1795, LL.B. and LL.D. 1827; called to Irish bar
1797, practised in court of chancery; K.C. 1806; third serjeant
at law in Ireland Dec. 1818, 2nd serjeant 1820, first serjeant
1822–30; bencher of King’s Inns 1819; a comr. of assize 1822,
1824; M.P. for univ. of Dublin 1830–41; fourth baron of court
of exchequer, Ireland, Nov. 1841; lord chief justice of
queen’s bench, Ireland, March 1852, resigned May 1866; author
of Observations on the proceedings by elegit for the recovery
of judgment debts. Dublin 1802; author with John Schoales of
Reports of cases argued and determined in the high court of
chancery in Ireland during the time of Lord Redesdale from
Easter term 1802 to Easter term 1806, 2 vols. Dublin 1806–10.
_d._ Newcourt villa, Bray near Dublin 4 May 1869. _bur._
Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 11 May. _T. Lefroy’s Memoir of
chief justice Lefroy_ (1871), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag.
lxxix_ 65–74 (1872); _Portraits of eminent conservatives and
statesmen 2 series_ (1846), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 346 (1848),
_portrait_.

LEFROY, THOMAS PAUL (2 son of the preceding). _b._ 31 Dec. 1806;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827; called to Irish bar 1831;
Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; bencher of King’s Inns 1860 to death; chairman
of quarter sessions of co. Kildare 27 Dec. 1858 to Dec. 1890;
county court judge of Armagh 1875, of Down 1880 to Dec. 1890;
chancellor of diocesan court of Down, Connor and Dromore to
1890. _d._ Haddington terrace, Kingstown, co. Dublin 29 Jany.
1891. _Law Times 14 Feb. 1891 p._ 291.

LEFTLEY, CHARLES DAKIN. _b._ 1789; proprietor of business of
Dulau & Co. foreign booksellers, 37 Soho square, London. _d._ 21
Victoria road, Clapham common, Surrey 29 April 1873.

LEGARD, FRANCIS DIGBY (1 son of George Legard of York). _b._ 13
March 1829; ed. at Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1849–56, B.A. 1851,
M.A. 1862; V. of Whitwell near York 1858–73; R. of Stokesley,
Yorks. 1873 to death; edited Ploughing and sowing, or annals of
an evening school. By M. E. S. 1861; More about farm lads. By M.
E. S. 1865; Gleanings, being a sequel to Ploughing and sowing
1876. _d._ Westhorpe house, Scarborough 20 Nov. 1883.

LEGÉR, THÉODORE. _b._ Paris 1799; educ. Paris; M.D.; resided
in Mexico, acquired and spent two fortunes; acted as a medical
mesmeriser 1850; discovered the magnetism of the phrenological
organs of the brain and established psychology as a mathematical
science; lectured at Hungerford hall, London on phrenology 1851;
gave séances and examined heads at 20 Gerrard st. Soho 1852;
edited Higia Periódico de salud, por las Senores D. T. Leger y
D. G. Villette No. 1–8. Mexico 1833; author of Considerations
sur l’endurcissement du tissu cellulaire chez les nouveaux nés.
Paris 1823; Animal magnetism or psychodunamy. New York 1846; The
magnetoscope, the magnetoid characteristics and their relations
to the organisation of man 1852. _d._ 20 Gerrard st. Soho,
London 6 Oct. 1853. _J. Ashburner’s Notes on animal magnetism_
(1867) 57–81.

LE GEYT, CHARLES JAMES (son of Philip Le Geyt, chaplain to duke
of Kent, _d._ 1847). _b._ 1829; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1853
and Magd. coll. M.A. 1855; V. of St. Matthias, Stoke Newington
1858 to death; author of Digging against the wells, a sermon at
short services for business men 1866; Catholic ritual of the
church in England 1867; Incense at the Magnificat not Mariolatry
1867. _d._ Calais 27 Dec. 1877.

LE GEYT, GEORGE. _b._ Canterbury 20 March 1777; entered navy
March 1791; retired captain 12 Aug. 1812, retired admiral 11
Feb. 1861; C.B. 4 July 1840. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 23 Sep.
1861. _O’Byrne p._ 645.

LEGGE, ARTHUR CHARLES. _b._ 25 June 1800; ensign 28 foot 23 May
1816; lieut. 1 life guards 1820, captain 1822–37, placed on h.p.
23 June 1837; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. 1 Staffordshire rifle
volunteers 8 May 1868 to death. _d._ Caynton, Shiffnal 18 May
1890.

LEGGE, MARY (dau. of Mr. Jones _d._ 1843). _b._ London, May
1802. _m._ 24 Sep. 1827 rev. Wm. Legge, congregational minister,
Fakenham 1828, where he also received students from 1837,
_d._ Fakenham 13 Dec. 1859; author of A pastoral letter to
the congregational church at Fakenham 1852; A reading book of
English history and biography 1863; with F. J. Gladman, The
handybook of English history 1874; she assisted her husband in
teaching the students; resided at Birkenhead from 18 June 1860.
_d._ Birkenhead 31 Dec. 1879. _bur._ Fakenham cemet. 4 Jany.
1880. _A life of consecration, memorials of Mrs. Mary Legge_
(1883) _with 2 portraits and portrait of W. Legge_.

LEGGETT, JOSEPH. Entered Madras army 1808; ensign 3 Madras N.I.
28 May 1810, lieut.-col. 25 July 1838 to 1840; lieut.-col. of 48
N.I. 1840 to 1845, of 52 N.I. 1845 to 1846, of 22 N.I. 1846 to
1847; brigadier at Saugor 3 April 1846 to 19 Oct. 1847; col. of
26 N.I. 20 Oct. 1847 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Dedham,
Essex 15 Oct. 1857 aged 65.

LEGH, EDMUND CORNWALL. Ensign 97 foot 5 July 1839, lieut.-col.
28 July 1857 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ Banda, Central
India 3 June 1859.

LEGH, GEORGE CORNWALL. _b._ 30 Aug. 1804; sheriff of Cheshire
1838; M.P. for North Cheshire 1841–47 and 1848–68; major 2 royal
Cheshire militia 30 July 1853, lieut.-col. 20 March 1869 to 16
July 1873. _d._ 16 June 1877.

LEGH, Thomas (eld. son of colonel Thomas Peter Legh of Lyme,
Cheshire, _d._ 1797). _b._ 1793; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf.,
D.C.L. 1817; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1814–32 when borough was
disfranchised; colonel Lancashire fencible cavalry; F.R.S. 12
June 1817; author of Narrative of a journey in Egypt and the
country beyond the cataracts 1816, 2 ed. 1817; resided at Lyme
park, Cheshire. _d._ Milford lodge, Lymington, Hants. 8 May 1857.

LE GRAND, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ Ireland 1805; studied medicine
in Cork and Dublin; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1844; entered
R.N. Feb. 1828; a skilful operator; served at Cape of Good Hope,
East Indies, &c.; surgeon naval hospital, Malta 1836–9, in
Syrian war 1840; in charge of Australian convict ships 1848–52;
served in war in the Baltic 1854; surgeon to Haslar hospital
1855–8, to Deptford dockyard 1858–64; granted Greenwich hospital
good service pension 28 March 1866. _d._ 22 Manor road, New
Cross, Kent 4 Nov. 1874. _Medical Times 5 Dec. 1874 p._ 649.

LEGREW, JAMES (son of James Legrew 1769–1856, R. of Caterham,
Surrey). _b._ Caterham 1803; studied sculpture under sir F.
L. Chantrey; a student of the R.A., silver medallist 1824 and
gold 1829; travelled in Italy 1840–2; sent two works The last
prayer of Ajax, and Milton dictating to his daughter, to the
Westminster Hall competition 1844; exhibited 30 pieces of
sculpture at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1826–57;
author of A few remarks on the sculpture of the nations referred
to in the Old Testament deduced from an examination of some of
their idols 1845; committed suicide at his house, 1 St. Alban’s
road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1857.

LE GRICE, CHARLES VALENTINE (eld. child of Charles Le Grice,
R. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, _d._ 1792). _b._ Bury St.
Edmunds 14 Feb. 1773; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1781–92; friend
of S. T. Coleridge and Charles Lamb; admitted sizar of Trin.
coll. Camb. 16 June 1792, scholar 17 April 1795, B.A. 1796,
M.A. 1805; tutor to Wm. John Godolphin Nicholls of Trereife
near Penzance 1796; P.C. of St. Mary’s church, Penzance 31 July
1806 to June 1831; contributed articles to the Gentleman’s Mag.
during more than 60 years, including College reminiscences of
Coleridge reprinted in C. Carlyon’s Early Years 1843; author of
The Tineum, containing estianomy or the art of stirring a fire
1794; Analysis of Paley’s Principles of moral and political
philosophy 1795, 8 ed. 1822; Daphnis and Chloe, a pastoral novel
1803; The petition of an old uninhabited house in Penzance to
its master in town 1811, 3 ed. 1858, and a number of pamphlets.
_d._ Trereife near Penzance 24 Dec. 1858. _Boase and Courtney’s
Bibl. Cornub. i_ 311–14, _iii_ 1266–7, 1432; _Boase’s Collect.
Cornub._ (1890) 485–7; _G.M. i_ 322–4 (1859); _Letters of
Charles Lamb, edited by A. Ainge_, _i_ 2–6 (1888).

LEHMANN, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. _b._ 1826; senior partner in
firm of Naylor, Benzon & Co., merchants, 20 Abchurch lane,
London; F.R.G.S.; made a fine collection of paintings; resided
at 15 Berkeley sq., and Woodlands, Southwood lane, Highgate.
_d._ Coombe cottage, Kingston-on-Thames, the residence of his
son-in-law 22 Aug. 1891, will proved for £543,980 18s. 4d.
_I.L.N. 5 Sep. 1891 p._ 303.

LEIFCHILD, HENRY STORMONTH (4 son of Wm. Gerard Leifchild of
Moorgate st. London). _b._ 1823; studied at British Museum and
R.A., also in Rome 1848–51; exhibited his statue of Rizpah, at
Great Exhibition 1851; executed the Guards’ memorial at Chelsea
hospital; designed a mortuary chapel in Warriston cemetery,
Edinburgh; his statue of Erinna is at Holloway College; excelled
as a draughtsman, carver and musician; exhibited 38 pieces of
sculpture at R.A. 1844–76; resided at 243 Stanhope st. Regent’s
Park, London. _d._ 15 Kirkstall road, Streatham Hill, Surrey 11
Nov. 1884. _Magazine of Art_, _July 1891_.

LEIFCHILD, JOHN (son of John Leifchild). _b._ Barnet, Herts.
15 Feb. 1780; studied at Hoxton academy 1804–8; minister of
independent chapel in Hornton st. Kensington, London 1808–24;
minister of church in Bridge st. Bristol 1824–30, and of
Craven chapel, Bayswater, London 1831–54; preached at Queen’s
sq. chapel, Brighton 1854–6; edited with rev. Dr. Redford The
Evangelist, monthly mag. May 1837 to June 1839; author of A help
to the reading of the scriptures, an arrangement of the books
in chronological order 1829; Directions for the right reading
of the scriptures 1842; The christian emigrant 1849; Remarkable
facts, illustrative of different portions of scripture 1867, the
6 ed. is entitled Brief expositions of scripture 1879. _d._ 4
Fitzroy terrace, Gloucester road North, Regent’s Park, London
29 June 1862. _J. R. Leifchild’s John Leifchild, D.D._ (1863),
_portrait_; _James B. Brown’s John Leifchild_ (1862).

LEIGH, AUGUSTA MARY (only dau. of Capt. John Byron _d._
Valencienne, France 2 Aug. 1791, by his wife the baroness
Conyers). _b._ 26 Jany. 1783; half sister of George Gordon, lord
Byron, the only relative for whom he retained any affection,
to whom some of his poems are dedicated, and the last person
to whom he wrote a letter. _m._ 17 Aug. 1807 her cousin George
Leigh lieut.-col. of 10 light dragoons, he _d._ May 1850;
accused by Harriet Beecher Stowe in an article in the Atlantic
Monthly of Sep. 1869 of having committed incest with her brother
in 1814, but no one believed the accusation; under Byron’s will
of 29 July 1815 she inherited all her brother’s disposable
property, Lady Byron being already well provided for. _d._
Marlborough court, St. James’ palace, London 12 Oct. 1851. _H.
B. Stowe’s Lady Byron vindicated_ (1870); _C. Mackay’s Medora
Leigh_ (1869); _The true story of lord and lady Byron in answer
to Mrs. Stowe_ (1869), _portrait_.

LEIGH, EGERTON (only son of Egerton Leigh of West Hall, High
Leigh, Cheshire 1779–1865). _b._ Broadwell manor house, Gloucs.
17 March 1815; ed. at Eton; cornet 2 dragoon guards 12 April
1833, captain 18 Dec. 1840 to 31 March 1843; captain 4 dragoon
guards 31 March 1843, sold out 14 July 1843; major 1 royal
Cheshire militia 30 Aug. 1853 to 16 April 1873; sheriff of
Cheshire 1872; M.P. for Mid-Cheshire division 7 March 1873 to
death; edited Ballads and Legends of Cheshire 1867; author of
Pets 1859; The guide to Eton. _d._ Cox’s hotel, 55 Jermyn st.
London 1 July 1876. _bur._ churchyard of Rostherne, Cheshire.
_Egerton Leigh’s Glossary of words used in the dialect of
Cheshire_ (1877), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 69 (1876),
_portrait_.

LEIGH, EVAN (son of Peter Leigh of Ashton-under-Lyne,
cotton-spinner). _b._ Ashton 21 Dec. 1810; manager of his
father’s business 1831–50, partner with his father; effected
an improvement in the spinning mule, which reduced cost of
spinning from 5d. to about 3d. per lb. 1831; a manufacturer of
machinery at Miles Platting, Manchester 1850–69; a consulting
engineer and exporter of machinery 1869, established businesses
at Manchester, Liverpool and Boston, Massachusetts; patented the
twin-screws for steamers 18 July 1849, since come into general
use; invented the self-stripping carding engine, coupled mules
with putting-up motion, and the loose-boss top roller; patented
19 inventions 1849–70; A.I.C.E. 1872; author of Plan for
conveying railway trains across the straits of Dover 1870; The
science of modern cotton-spinning 2 vols. 1871, 4 ed. 1877. _d._
Clarence house, Chorlton near Manchester 2 Feb. 1876, portrait
in collection of portraits of inventors at South Kensington
Museum. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xliv_ 229–31 (1876).

LEIGH, GILBERT HENRY CHANDOS (eld. son of 2 baron Leigh _b._
1824). _b._ 30 Portman sq. London 1 Sep. 1851; ed. Harrow and
Magd. coll. Camb., B.A. 1874, M.A. 1878; capt. Warwickshire
yeomanry cavalry 10 Nov. 1877 to death; M.P. South Warwickshire
7 April 1880 to death. _d._ by a fall from a precipice while
shooting in the Big-Horn mountains, Wyoming 15 Sep. 1884.
_bur._ Stoneleigh churchyard 22 Oct. _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 373 (1884),
_portrait_.

LEIGH, HENRY SAMBROOKE (son of the succeeding). _b._ London 29
March 1837; edited The Arrow, 10 numbers 2 Aug. to 7 Dec. 1864;
wrote Falsacappa, music by Offenbach, produced at Globe theatre
22 April 1871; Le Roi Carotte at the Alhambra 3 June 1872;
Bridge of Sighs opera-bouffe at St. James’s 18 Nov. 1872; White
Cat, a fairy spectacle at New Queen’s 2 Dec. 1875; Voyage dans
la Lune, opera-bouffe Alhambra 15 April 1876; author of Carols
of Cockayne 1869, 5 ed. 1888; Gillott and Goosequill 1871; A
Town garland: a collection of lyrics 1878; Strains from the
Strand: trifles in verse 1882. _d._ Lowther’s private hotel,
35 Strand, London 16 June 1883. _I.L.N. 30 June 1883 p._ 648,
_portrait_.

LEIGH, JAMES MATHEWS (son of Samuel Leigh of 145 Strand, London,
bookseller). _b._ 1808; studied under Wm. Etty, R.A.; painter of
sacred subjects and portraits; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A.,
23 at B.I. and 29 at Suffolk st. 1825–49; kept the General
practical school of art at 79 Newman st. Oxford st. London 1848
to death; author of Cromwell, an historical play in five acts
1838; The Rhenish Album 1836, anon. _d._ 79 Newman st. London 20
April 1860.

LEIGH, JOHN (younger son of John Leigh of Consall, Staffs.).
_b._ Consall 1809; barrister I.T. 8 May 1835; judge of court
of appeal, Jamaica 1840–46; police magistrate at Wolverhampton
1846–60 and at Worship st. London 1860 to May 1864; bankrupt for
£29,000, 23 March 1864; wrote Juvenile offenders and destitute
pauper children, in Meliora, Second series by C. J. Talbot,
viscount Ingestre 1853 pp. 81–89. _d._ Balham, Surrey, Nov. or
Dec. 1880. _bur._ Tooting cemetery.

LEIGH, JOHN. _b._ Foxdenton hall, Lancs. 8 June 1813; L.S.A.
1834, M.R.C.S. 1837; resident medical officer Manchester
infirmary and lecturer there; medical officer of health,
Manchester 4 March 1868; author of Sir Percy Legh and other
ballads 1861; Coal smoke, report to the health and nuisance
committee of corporation of Manchester 1883; and with Ner
Gardiner, History of the cholera in Manchester 1850. _d._ 1887.

LEIGH, JOHN GERARD (1 son of John Shaw Leigh 1791–1871).
_b._ 1821; ed. Eton and Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1841; student of
Lincoln’s inn 1843; inherited a large fortune; kept a large
stud and extensive kennels at Luton Hoo park, Beds.; master
of the Hertford hunt 1866; member of Four in hand club; ran
steeple chases under name of Mr. Lynton, won the Liverpool with
Half-Caste 1851; breeder of cattle, took prizes at Smithfield
club shows. _d._ 138 Piccadilly, London 24 Feb. 1875. _Bell’s
Life in London 27 Feb. 1875 p._ 6; _Baily’s Mag. April 1872 pp._
311–12, _portrait_.

LEIGH, JOHN SHAW (son of John Leigh _d._ 1823). _b._ 26 July
1791; ed. Rugby; solicitor at Liverpool 1823–48; mayor of
Liverpool 1841, alderman 1844–48; sheriff of Beds. 1856; founded
a scholarship at Liverpool collegiate institution. _d._ 138
Piccadilly, London 15 June 1871. _bur._ Walton on the hill near
Liverpool 21 June.

LEIGH, PERCIVAL (son of Leonard Leigh of St. Cross, Winchester).
_b._ Haddington 3 Nov. 1813; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital;
L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1835; on the staff of Punch 1841 to death,
was the last survivor of the early writers; played Oliver Cob in
Ben Jonson’s Every man in his humour, at Miss Kelly’s theatre
21 Sep. 1845; lived at 10 Bedford street Bloomsbury, afterwards
at Hammersmith to death; author of The comic Latin grammar 1840;
The comic English grammar 1840; Portraits of children of the
mobility 1841, all three illustrated by John Leech; Manners and
customs of ye English: drawn from ye quick by Richard Doyle
1849, 2 ed. 1876, this appeared originally in Punch; Paul
Prendergast, or the comic schoolmaster 1859. _d._ Oak cottage,
221 Hammersmith road 24 Oct. 1889. _W. P. Frith’s John Leech
vol._ 1, _chapters iii and xiii_ (1891).

NOTE.--There is a portrait of him in John Leech’s two-page cartoon called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 where he is playing the double bass in the orchestra between the cornet and the violin.

LEIGH, SAMUEL. _b._ Milton, Staffs. 1 Sep. 1785; an Independent
lay helper; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Shaftesbury 1812–13,
at Montreal, Canada 1814–15, in New South Wales, Australia
10 Aug. 1815 to 1820 and 1826–31, first Methodist minister
in Australia, held his first service Sydney 16 March 1816,
his first convert being a convict; minister in New Zealand
1820–25 where he established the first Methodist station; in
England 1832 to death. _d._ Reading 2 May 1852. _A. Strachan’s
Remarkable incidents in the life of rev. S. Leigh_ (1853),
_portrait_; _Leben und werken von Samuel Leigh. Bremen_ 1864;
_Jas. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand_ (1878) 272–7.

LEIGHTON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Dundee 1800; clerk to a lawyer at
Edinb.; Wilson’s Tales of the borders. Revised by A. Leighton
20 vols. 1857–9, New ed. with 4 additional volumes 6 vols.
1863–69; author of Curious storied traditions of Scottish life,
two series 1860–1; The court of Cacus or the story of Burke and
Hare 2 ed. 1861; Mysterious legends of Edinburgh 1864; Shellburn
1865, a tale; Romances of the old town of Edinburgh 1867. _d._
24 Dec. 1874.

LEIGHTON, SIR BALDWIN, (7 Baronet). _b._ Sunderland 14 May 1805;
ed. Rugby; succeeded 13 Nov. 1828; chairman of quarter sessions,
Salop, Dec. 1855; M.P. South Salop 1859–65; contested South
Salop 15 July 1865. _d._ Morton hall, Daventry 26 Feb. 1871.
_I.L.N. lviii_ 250, 619 (1871).

LEIGHTON, _Charles Blair_ (son of Stephen Leighton). _b._
6 March 1823; apprenticed to a silver-engraver 1837–44; a
student of the R.A.; painted portraits and figure pieces; a
chromolithographer with his brother George Cargill Leighton.
_d._ 6 Feb. 1855.

LEIGHTON, SIR DAVID (son of Thomas Leighton of Brechin,
Forfarshire). _b._ 1774; entered Bombay army 1795; lieut. 4
Bombay N.I., lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1813 to 1818; adjutant of
the 2nd battalion 7 July 1800 to 12 Oct. 1802; lieut.-col. 9
Bombay N.I. 1818–1821; adjutant general Bombay army 1817 to
1826; commanded Presidency division 1826 to 1831; lieut.-col.
commandant 7 N.I. 4 July 1821, col. 5 June 1829 to death;
general 20 June 1854; C.B. 23 July 1823, K.C.B. 10 March 1837.
_d._ Bafford house, Charlton Kings near Cheltenham 1 June 1860.

LEIGHTON, FRANCIS KNYVETT (only son of Francis K. Leighton of
Ipswich). _b._ 1807; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., demy of Magdalen
1823–9; fellow of All Souls’ 1829–43; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831,
D.D. 1858; P.C. of Great Ilford, Essex 1836–41; R. of Harpsden
1841–58; R. of Lockinge and Warden of All Souls’ 18 March 1858
to death; V.C. of univ. of Oxf. 1866–70; canon of Westminster
11 Nov. 1868 to death; on the council of Keble coll. 1871–80;
author of Montes Pyrenæi, carmen Latinum, in theatro Sheldoniano
recitatum 1826. _d._ All Souls’ college 13 Oct. 1881. _bur._
college chapel 18 Oct., portrait by Richmond in the college
hall. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen College_, _vii_ 290–1
(1881).

LEIGHTON, ROBERT (son of David L. Leighton _d._ 1828). _b._
Murray gate, Dundee 20 Feb. 1822; in a merchant’s office in
Dundee; went round the world as a supercargo in one of his
brother’s ships 1842–3; clerk in locomotive department of London
and North-Western railway at Preston 1843–54; managed at Ayr a
branch business of a firm of Liverpool seed merchants 1854–59,
after that in the Liverpool house and travelled for the firm in
Great Britain and Ireland 1859–67; author of Rhymes and poems,
By Robin 1855, 2 ed. 1861; Poems 1866, 2 ed. 1869; Scotch words
and the Bapteesement o’ the bairn 1869, 3 ed. 1869; Reuben and
other poems 1875; Records and other poems 1880. _d._ Liverpool
10 May 1869. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_ 432–37
(1877); _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 327.

LEIGHTON, ROBERT (son of Archibald Leighton a bookbinder at 55
Exmouth st. Clerkenwell and the inventor of cloth binding 1822,
_d._ 1841). _b._ London 1822; apprentice to his father; head
of firm of Leighton and Eeles, bookbinders 54 and 55 Exmouth
st. 1841, business removed to Angel court, Strand, then to Harp
alley and to 13 Shoe lane; W. Hodge became a partner 1853 and R.
Leighton junr. in 1885; removed to 16 New st. sq. 1870, firm
became Leighton, Son and Hodge, the first to use steam machinery
in binding; invented the backing and trimming machine; the first
to use steam power for blocking in gold and to use aluminium
and black and coloured inks for cloth cases; invented printing
on the edges of books; the chief binders of drawing room table
books. _d._ Oakdale road, Coventry park, Streatham 14 Dec. 1888.
_The Bookseller_, _Jany. 1889 p._ 8.

LEIGHTON, THOMAS. Entered Bombay army 1807; ensign 7 Bombay
N.I. 5 Nov. 1808, lieut. 1 Jany. 1814; captain 14 N.I. 1 May
1824, major 29 Sep. 1832 to 28 June 1838; lieut.-col. of 16
N.I. 28 June 1838 to 1841, of 12 N.I. 1841 to 1843, of 26 N.I.
1843–45, of 2 N.I. 1845–46, of 1 N.I. 1846–8, of 21 N.I. 1848–9;
commandant at Candeish 4 Feb. 1848 to 1 Oct. 1849; col. of 2
N.I. 20 Sep. 1849 to death. _d._ Cambridge terrace, Hyde park,
London 1 Feb. 1855.

LEIGHTON, WILLIAM (son of David Leighton a master baker). _b._
Dundee 3 Feb. 1841; taken to Liverpool 1847; clerk to a Spanish
merchant 1854; employed in a Brazilian house 1864 to death;
contributed poems to The Compass a local literary paper, and
to the Liverpool Mercury; author of Poems 1870, 2 ed. 1870;
Hymns 1871; Baby died to-day and other poems 1875. _d._ of
typhoid fever 22 April 1869. _bur._ Anfield cemetery, Liverpool,
memorial window in St. Ann’s church, Brookfield, Highgate Rise,
London. _Poems by the late William Leighton_ (1870), _memoir pp.
v–vi_; _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 325.

LEIGHTON, WILLIAM ALLPORT (only son of Wm. Leighton, landlord of
the Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury). _b._ Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury 17
May 1805; articled to a solicitor in Shrewsbury 1822; studied at
St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1833; C. of St. Giles’s, Shrewsbury
1845–8; gave his collection of lichens to Kew Gardens 1880;
author of Catalogue of the cellulares or flowerless plants of
Great Britain 1837; A flora of Shropshire 1841; A guide through
the town of Shrewsbury 1855; The lichen-flora of Great Britain
1871, 2 ed. 1872; Wanderings among old churches in neighbourhood
of Rhyl 1881. _d._ Lucifelde, Shrewsbury 28 Feb. 1889.

LEINSTER, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK FITZGERALD 3 Duke of (eld. son
of 2 duke of Leinster 1749–1804). _b._ Carton house, Maynooth
21 Aug. 1791; styled marquess of Kildare 1791–1804; succeeded
his father 20 Oct. 1804; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch.
Oxf. 23 Oct. 1810; P.C. Ireland 9 May 1831; P.C. 29 June 1831;
lord high constable of Ireland for coronations of William IV.
and Victoria; lord lieut. of co. Kildare 7 Oct. 1831 to death;
grand master of Irish grand lodge of freemasons 24 June 1813 to
death; president of National Agricultural Soc. 1841; a resident
landlord who much improved his estate, the Leinster lease was
a well known document; his masonic jubilee was celebrated 24
June 1863; premier duke, marquess and earl of Ireland. d. Carton
house 10 Oct. 1874. _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxiv_ 42–57 (1874),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 369, 378 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_x_ 391 (1874), _portrait_.

LEINSTER, CHARLES WILLIAM FITZGERALD, 4 Duke of (son of the
preceding). _b._ Dublin 30 March 1819; styled marquess of
Kildare 1819–74; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1852; comr.
of national education in Ireland 1841; sheriff co. Kildare
1842–3; M.P. co. Kildare 1847–52; lieut.-col. royal Dublin
militia 1849–72, hon. col. 11 May 1872 to death; summoned to
parliament as baron Kildare 28 April 1870; chancellor of Queen’s
univ. Ireland 1870; succeeded as 4 duke 10 Oct. 1874; author of
The earls of Kildare and their ancestors 2 ed. with Addenda.
Dublin 1858–62, 3 ed. 1858. _d._ Carton, Maynooth 10 Feb. 1887.
_I.L.N. xviii_ 105, 106 (1851), _portrait_.

LEISHMAN, MATTHEW (son of a manufacturer). _b._ Paisley;
presbyterian minister at Goran, Oct. 1820; a leader of the party
termed The Forty 1839; D.D. Glasgow 18 Dec. 1840; moderator
of general assembly 20 May 1858; edited for Maitland club,
R. Wodrow’s Collections upon the lives of the reformers 2
vols. 1834 and R. Wodrow’s Analecta, a history of remarkable
providences 2 vols. 1842; The works of A. Binning 1847. _Scott’s
Fasti vol._ 2, _part_ 1, _p._ 70; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
clergy_ (1848) 300–306.

LEITCH, WILLIAM. _b._ Rothesay, Isle of Bute 1814; ed. Glasgow
univ., M.A. 1836; licensed preacher in Church of Scotland 1838;
minister of Monimail 1843–59; principal of the univ. of Queen’s
coll. Canada 1859 to death, assist. to professor Nichol in univ.
observatory; moderator of the synod of the church of Scotland,
Canada 1862; a senator and an examiner in the univ. Toronto;
president of Botanical Soc. of Canada and a writer in its
Transactions 1861; a contributor to Kitto’s Journal of Sacred
Literature, Good Words and other periodicals; author of God’s
glory in the heavens 1862, 3 ed. 1866. _d._ Kingston, Upper
Canada 9 May 1864. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 221.

LEITCH, WILLIAM LEIGHTON. _b._ The Townhead, Glasgow 2 Nov.
1804; a weaver 1819, a house painter; scene painter at theatre
royal, Glasgow, Aug. 1824 at 20s. a week; spent 2 years at
Mauchline painting snuffboxes; scene painter at Queen’s theatre,
Tottenham st. London to 1832; studied and taught painting in
Italy 1833–7; a successful teacher in London from 1837; drawing
master to the queen and royal family from 1842 for 22 years;
last of the great English teachers of landscape painting; member
of Institute of painters in water-colours 1862, vice pres. to
death, a collection of his works was exhibited at their rooms
Piccadilly 1883; exhibited 11 pictures at R. A., 2 at B.I. and
2 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; his sketches with a few drawings and
oil pictures were sold at Christie’s, March 1884 for £9,000;
illustrated G. N. Wright’s The Rhine, Italy and Greece 1840; G.
N. Wright’s The shores of the Mediterranean 1840; J. Sherer’s
The classic lands of Europe 1879. _d._ 124 Alexandra road,
St. John’s Wood, London 25 April 1883. _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 604
(1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 432 (1883), _portrait_; _Mac
George’s W. L. Leitch, a memoir_ (1884), _portrait_.

LEITH, SIR ALEXANDER (eld. son of Alexander Leith of Freefield,
co. Aberdeen, _d._ 1828). _b._ Cobardie, Forgue, Aberdeenshire
1774; ensign 42 foot 8 Aug. 1792; captain 109 foot 1794; captain
31 foot 1795, lieut.-col. 7 Feb. 1811 to 25 May 1815 when placed
on h.p.; commanded 31 foot at battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees,
Nivelle, Nive and Orthes; colonel 90 foot 2 Sep. 1841 to 14 June
1853; colonel 31 foot 14 June 1853 to death; general 20 June
1854; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815. _d._ Freefield, co. Aberdeen 19 Feb.
1859.