Chapter XVIII: Part 18

LEITH, EDWARD TYRRELL (2 son of John Farley Leith, Q.C.) _b._
Calcutta 12 March 1842; ed. in Germany and Trin. coll. Camb.
1869; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1866; practised at Bombay 1867–85;
professor of law at government law school, Bombay 1869–85;
lived at Stuttgart, Germany 1886 to death; gave much attention
to ethnological studies and contributed to various papers The
funeral rites of the Parsees; The religion of the Non-Aryan
races of India; The primitive disposal of the dead by exposure;
Cannibalism in India; and The dog in myth and custom; author of
Divination by Házirát among the Indian Mussulmáns 1886. _d._
Heidelberg 10 Dec. 1888. _Law Times_, _lxxxvi_ 167, 230 (1889).

LEITH, HARRY. _b._ 1796; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1817;
presbyterian minister at Cornwall, Upper Canada 6 June 1822;
minister of Rothiemay 23 May 1827 to death; took part with the
minority in the dispute regarding the presentation to Marnoch
and was rebuked at the bar of the supreme civil court 26 May
1843 for breach of interdict and fined £5 and expenses. _d._
Rothiemay 20 Aug. 1854. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 3, _part_ 1,
_p._ 216.

LEITH, JAMES (son of sir Alexander Leith). _b._ 1827; cornet
14 hussars 4 May 1849, lieut. 1853; captain 2 dragoons 1859,
placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1861; served in Persian campaign 1857, at
suppression of mutiny at Aurungabad, with Malwa field force at
siege of Dhar, and at advance on Calpee; at Betwah 1 April 1858
charged alone and rescued Capt. Need from the rebel infantry
for which he was awarded Victoria cross 24 Dec. 1858; gentleman
at arms 5 May 1863 to death. _d._ Gloucester place, Hyde park,
London 13 May 1869.

LEITH, JOHN (2 son of general Alexander Leith Hay). _b._ Leith
hall, co. Aberdeen; entered navy 11 June 1803; captain 11 Nov.
1825; commander of the Seringapatam 46 guns and in charge of the
Barbadoes station 6 Feb. 1837 to July 1841; R.A. 11 Feb. 1854.
_d._ 25 Oct. 1854. _O’Byrne p._ 647.

LEITH, JOHN FARLEY (eld. son of James Urquhart Murray Leith,
capt. 68 regt., killed at Orthes 1814). _b._ Aberdeen 5 May
1808; ed. at gr. sch., Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen,
M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 7 May 1874 to
death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1872; advocate in supreme court at Calcutta
1840–9; professor of law East India college, Haileybury 1853–7
or 8; practised before judicial committee of P.C.; contested
city of Aberdeen 2 April 1857; M.P. city of Aberdeen 1872–80.
_d._ 8 Dorset sq. Marylebone, London 4 April 1887. _Law Times_,
_lxxxii_ 479 (1887).

LEITH, JOHN MACDONALD. _b._ 26 Dec. 1839; ed. at Cheltenham;
ensign 79 highlanders 17 March 1854, lieut.-col. 1 July 1881,
placed on h.p. 1 July 1885; brevet colonel 31 Dec. 1882; served
in Egypt 1882; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. _d._ Gibraltar 22 May 1888.

LEITH, ROBERT WILLIAM DISNEY (2 son of sir Alexander Leith
1774–1859). _b._ Glenkindy, Aberdeenshire 28 Feb. 1819; ensign
1 Bombay European fusiliers 4 Sep. 1837; served in Persian gulf
1838–41, in the Punjaub 1848–9, led storming party at capture
of Mooltan 1849; adjutant March to Aug. 1846; A.A.G. Bombay
1855–59; lieut.-col. 106 foot 1 Jany. 1862, on h.p. 29 May 1866,
lieut. general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Northcourt,
Isle of Wight 20 June 1892.

LEITRIM, NATHANIEL CLEMENTS, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 Earl of
Leitrim 1732–1804). _b._ Dublin 9 May 1768; known as viscount
Clements 1783–1804; M.P. Carrick 1790–7; M.P. Leitrim 1798–1800;
M.P. Leitrim in first parliament of United Kingdom 1801–4;
succeeded 27 July 1804; lord lieut. of Leitrim 1831 to death;
cr. baron Clements of Kilmacrenan, co. Donegal in peerage of
U.K. 20 June 1831; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland; col. of
Donegal militia. _d._ Killadoon, co. Kildare 31 Dec. 1854.

LEITRIM, WILLIAM SYDNEY CLEMENTS, 3 Earl of (2 son of the
preceding). _b._ Dublin 1806; known as viscount Clements
1804–54; ensign 43 foot 9 Dec. 1824, captain 5 April 1831;
placed on h.p. 20 March 1835; sold his commission 20 June 1854;
M.P. Leitrim 1839–47; col. of Leitrim militia 1843; succeeded
31 Dec. 1854; a magistrate for Galway, Leitrim and Donegal,
superseded Oct. 1863; gave orders to the manager of the hotel
at Maam a tenant of his own, to refuse admission to the earl of
Carlisle, the lord lieutenant, which was done accordingly; a
severe landlord who evicted many of his tenants; while driving
on a car with a clerk and a driver, shot dead at Cratlaghwood
near Milford, co. Donegal 2 April 1878, the driver and the clerk
being also killed. _Graphic_, _xvii_ 364 (1878), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. lxxii_ 329 (1878), _portrait_; _A.R._ 1878 _pp._ 35–36.

LE KEUX, HENRY (son of Peter Le Keux of Bishopsgate, London,
pewter manufacturer). _b._ 13 June 1787; apprenticed to James
Basire, engraver, worked for him on the Oxford almanacs and on
the plates for Society of Antiquaries; engraved for the Annals
1820–40; member of Associated Society of Engravers, engraved
for the Soc. some pictures by Claude and Canaletto in the
national gallery; joined in starting a crape manufactory at
Bocking in Essex about 1838; engraved views for Specimens of the
architecture of Normandy by J. Britton 1873; author with J. Le
Keux of Historical essays, a series of architectural antiquities
of Normandy 1828. _d._ Bocking 3 Oct. 1868. _bur._ Halstead,
Essex.

LEMAITRE, PAUL THOMAS. _b._ 1776; a gold watch case maker at
13 Denmark st. Soho; arrested 27 Sep. 1794 for treasonable
practices as being a delegate of the London Corresponding
Society, in connection with John Smith of the Pop Gun,
Portsmouth st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, to assassinate George
the Third by means of a poisoned arrow; examined by the Privy
Council 28–30 Sep.; the first person sent to the new prison at
Cold Bath Fields, confined there 32 weeks, liberated 9 May 1795
on giving bail for £50, tried at the Old Bailey 11 May 1796 and
discharged; his case was for many years before parliament; Henry
Warburton, M.P. got a petition drawn up for him in Aug. 1846.
_High treason. Narrative of the arrest of P. T. Lemaitre 2 ed._
(1795).

NOTE.--His petition to the House of Commons, states that he was then in the 70th year of his age, was one of those persons, who during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus act, were arrested and confined in prison for long periods of time on charges of traitorously conspiring against the King’s person and government, of which persons he was nearly the sole survivor, alleges his innocence of the charges brought against him, and prays that the House would be pleased to take his petition into consideration and afford him redress. It was presented and read and ordered to lie upon the table 13 Aug. 1846, ordered to be printed 14 Aug.

LEMAN, JAMES. _b._ 1794; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1819
to death; member of council of incorporated law society 19 June
1851 to 1869, vice pres. 1862–3, pres. 1863–64. _d._ 29 Chester
terrace, Regent’s park, London 9 April 1876. _Solicitors’
Journal_, _xx_ 492 (1876).

LEMANN, CHARLES MORGAN. _b._ London 1806; ed. Trin. coll.
Camb., M.B. 1828, M.D. 1833; Fellow Linnean soc. 1831; F.C.P.
Lond. 1836; physician to lord Warwick’s family in Italy 1834–5;
formed an herbarium of plants from Spain, Italy, America,
Brazil, Guinea, the Cape and Australia consisting of 30,000
specimens, which was given by his brother Frederick Lemann to
the university of Cambridge. _d._ Bathampton near Bath 26 Aug.
1852. _Proc. of Linnean Soc. ii_ 234–5 (1855).

LE MARCHANT, SIR DENIS, 1 Baronet (2 son of John Gaspard Le
Marchant, major general 1766–1812). _b._ Newcastle 3 July 1795;
ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822;
chief sec. to lord chancellor Brougham 1830–34; clerk of the
crown in chancery 30 July 1834 to 1836; sec. to board of trade
1836–40 and 1848–50; joint sec. to the treasury 19 June 1841
to 21 May 1844; baronet 14 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Worcester 1846
to 1847; under sec. of state for home department 1847–8; chief
clerk to house of commons 30 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1871; author of
Report of the proceedings of the house of lords in the claim to
the barony of Gardner 1828; The reform ministry and the reform
parliament 1834, nine editions; Memoirs of general Le Marchant
1841, privately printed 90 copies; Memoirs of John Charles,
viscount Althorp 1876; edited Horace Walpole’s Memoirs of the
reign of George III. with notes 1845. _d._ 21 Belgrave road,
London 30 Oct. 1874. _I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1851_, _portrait_, _lxv_
475, 489 (1874) _portrait_, _lxvi_ 187 (1875); _Law Times 7 Nov.
1874 p._ 17.

LE MARCHANT, SIR JOHN GASPARD (brother of the preceding). _b._
1803; ensign 10 foot 26 Oct. 1820; lieut. 57 foot 1821, captain
1825; captain 98 foot 1826, major 1832–5; adjutant general
to Anglo-Spanish legion and brigadier general in the Spanish
army 1835–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838 for his
service in Spain; permitted to wear Spanish decorations of San
Fernando and Charles III.; lieut.-col. 99 foot 18 Oct. 1839 to
27 Sep. 1842; inspecting field officer recruiting district South
of Ireland 1842–6; lieut. col. of 85 foot 19 June 1846 to 29
Dec. 1846; lieut. governor of Newfoundland 1846–52 and of Nova
Scotia 1852–57; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1859 to 15 Nov. 1864;
commander-in-chief at Madras 25 May 1865 to 8 Nov. 1867; col. of
11 foot 3 Sep. 1862 to death; general 6 May 1872; G.C.M.G. 1860;
K.C.B. 9 Oct. 1865. _d._ 80 St. George’s square, London 6 Feb.
1874.

LE MESSURIER, ALEXANDER PETER. _b._ 1797 or 1798; entered Bombay
army 1819; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 8 Oct. 1839,
lieut.-col. 1 Dec. 1851 to 28 Nov. 1854; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I.
28 Nov. 1854 to 1856, of 10 N.I. 1856–7, of 12 N.I. 1857–60, of
10 N.I. again 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with rank of
M.G. _d._ 5 Inverness place, Hyde park, London 17 Feb. 1876.

LE MESSURIER, AUGUSTUS SMITH. _b._ 1800; barrister L.I. 22 Nov.
1821; practised with great success at Bombay 30 years; advocate
general of presidency of Bombay 1847 to 1857 when he returned to
England. _d._ 50 Upper Baker st. Portman square, London 8 Dec.
1876. _Solicitors’ Journal 16 Dec. 1876 p._ 132.

LE MESSURIER, GEORGE PAUL. Entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 2
Bombay N.I. 4 Jany. 1819; captain 14 N.I. 22 July 1826, major 15
Sep. 1841 to 2 March 1846; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 1846–8, of 24
N.I. 1848–9, of 22 N.I. 1849 to death. _d._ Wimpole st. London 6
Feb. 1852.

LEMOINNE, JOHN EMILE. _b._ London 17 Oct. 1815, and first
educated in England; joined staff of the Journal des Débats
1840, with which paper he remained to his death; member of
French academy 13 May 1875; a life senator 23 Feb. 1880; author
of Wellington from a French point of view 1852; Etudes critiques
et biographiques 1862; and of Letters of J. Lemoinne on the
exhibition of 1851, in D. Lardner’s The Great exhibition 1852.
_d._ Paris 14 Dec. 1892. _The Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 14,
_portrait_.

LEMON, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (3 son of sir Wm. Lemon
1748–1824). _b._ Whitehall, London 30 Sep. 1784; ed. Harrow;
M.A. of Camb. univ. 1833; M.P. Penryn 1807–12, and 1830–31; M.P.
Cornwall 1831–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832–41 and 1842–57; F.R.S.
23 May 1822; a founder of Statistical soc. 1834, and a trustee
1838; president R. Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1833 to death;
president R. Geological soc. of Cornwall 1840–50; provincial
grand master of freemasons of Cornwall 1843–63; a commissioner
for enquiring into state of British museum 11 June 1847; special
deputy warden of the Stannaries 1852; made a collection of
exotic trees and shrubs at Carclew; author of On the proposed
tariff as it affects tin, copper and timber used in mines 1842,
and other pamphlets. _d._ Carclew near Penryn, Cornwall 12 Feb.
1868. _bur._ Mylor ch. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._
314–15, 1267.

LEMON, MARK (eld. son of Martin Lemon, hop merchant, who _m._
27 Dec. 1808 Alice Collis and _d._ 21 Jany. 1818 aged 32).
_b._ Oxford st. London 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at Cheam, Surrey;
learnt business of a hop merchant from his uncle Thomas Collis
of Boston, Lincoln 1824; manager of Verey’s brewery, Kentish
Town, London; retailer of beer at 24 Lambeth Walk, Vauxhall
1837–41; his first play, P.L. or No. 30 Strand, was produced at
Strand theatre 25 April 1835; his 5 act drama in blank verse
Arnold of Winkelried produced at Surrey theatre, July 1835;
The Avenge produced at City of London theatre opening night 27
April 1837; his 5 act play The Turf produced at Covent Garden
1842; Hearts are trumps, at Strand theatre 1849; wrote about
60 plays; lived at 11 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 1852–9;
contributed to Household Works, Once a Week, &c.; edited The
London Journal 1858–9, The Family Herald, Once a Week; started
The Field 1 Jany. 1853, edited it; secretary to Herbert Ingram
founder of Illustrated London News, for which he wrote the first
Christmas supplement; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner
with Henry Mayhew of a third share in it, edited it to his
death, at a salary originally 30/-a week and latterly £1500 per
annum; an amateur actor from 1845; gave a series of lectures
called About London, at Gallery of Illustration 6 Jany. 1862
to 1863; arranged and played chief part in a series of scenes
from the Merry Wives of Windsor entitled Falstaff, at Gallery
of Illustration, Regent st. from 12 Oct. 1868, and in North of
England and Scotland 1868–9; author of The enchanted doll 1849
and other fairy tales; also of Wait for the end 3 vols. 1863
and other novels and about 100 songs. (_m._ 28 Sep. 1839 Helen
dau. of John Romer of Upper Chelsea, jeweller, she was granted
civil list pension of £100, 3 May 1872 and _d._ Nov. 1890). He
_d._ Vine cottage, Crawley, Sussex 23 May 1870. _bur._ Ifield 27
May. _Illustrated Rev. 15 Feb. 1872 pp._ 481–88, _portrait_; _J.
H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters_ (1870) 49–60; _Appleton’s
Journal_, _viii_ 493–5, _portrait_; _E. Walford’s Representative
men_ (1868), _portrait_; _J. Hatton’s With a show in the north.
Reminiscences of Mark Lemon_ (1871), _portrait_; _The Mask_
(1868) 65–7, _portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 348 (1845), _portrait_.

NOTE.--Mr. Edward Walford, M.A., states in Notes and Queries 16 June 1888 p. 478 that Mark Lemon told him the place of his birth was a house included in the Crystal Palace bazaar just behind Peter Robinson’s emporium, this was probably the present No. 228 Oxford St. formerly No. 108 down to 1881 when all the houses in Oxford st. west of Tottenham Court road were renumbered. There is a portrait of Lemon by John Leech in his two-page cartoon called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 as the conductor of the orchestra. In Alfred Bunn’s A word with Punch 1847 Lemon is spoken of as Thickhead, there is a portrait representing him as a pot boy and it is suggested that he was a tailor and vastly like Moses. He wrote the first article in the first number of Punch entitled The Moral of Punch. The rev. J. Richardson, LL.B. states in his Recollections of the last half century vol. 1 (1856) 80–2 that Lemon kept the Shakespeare’s Head tavern in Wych st. Strand for one year after his marriage. In “Mr. Punch: his origin and career” [1870] there is a facsimile of the original prospectus of Punch in the handwriting of Lemon.

LEMON, ROBERT (son of Robert Lemon, archivist 1779–1835). _b._
1800; employed in state paper office under his father, senior
clerk Nov. 1835; compiled indexes to Valor ecclesiasticus temp.
Hen. VIII. 1834; suggested publishing the Calendars of state
papers and interpreted a cypher which had rendered many of them
unintelligible; edited Calendars of state papers Domestic series
1547–90, 2 vols. 1856–65; F.S.A. 3 March 1836, rearranged the
society’s library 1846; author of Catalogue of a collection of
broadsides 1866. _d._ 10 Ovington sq. Brompton, London 3 Jany.
1867. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. iii_ 481–2 (1867).

LEMON, THOMAS (1 son of Thomas Lemon, lieut.-col. R.M. _d._ 4
Aug. 1856). _b._ St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester 22 June 1807; 2
lieut. R.M. 8 Oct. 1827; col. commandant 6 March 1862 to death;
L.G. 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 20 May 1859. _d._ Plymouth 22 Feb. 1875.

LEMPRIERE, GEORGE OURRY. _b._ 11 March 1787; captain R.N. 27 May
1825; retired admiral 3 Dec. 1863. _d._ Pelham, Hants. 16 Jany.
1864.

LENDRICK, JAMES WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ 1790; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, gold medallist and Law’s mathematical prizeman 1810; B.
A. 1810, M.A. 1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 16 June 1859;
chairman of quarter sessions for counties of Londonderry and
Wicklow nearly 34 years. _d._ 114 Pembroke road, Dublin 19 Jany.
1872. _Irish Law Times 27 Jany. 1872 p._ 47.

LENDY, AUGUSTE FREDERIC. _b._ 1826; captain of the French army
staff; came to England as military tutor to the Orlean princes
1848; started a private military college at Sunbury house,
Sunbury-on-Thames; a successful ‘crammer’ for the army; lieut.
4th or royal South Middlesex militia 24 Nov. 1862, captain
2 May 1866, retired with hon. rank of major 1 Feb. 1879; an
amateur grower of orchids; author of The principles of war 1853;
Elements of fortification 1857; Maxims, advice and instruction
on the art of war 1857, new ed. 1864; Campaigns of Napoleon
and of Wellington 1861, nineteen parts; A practical course of
military surveying 1864. _d._ Riverside house, Sunbury-on-Thames
10 Oct. 1889. _Broad Arrow 19 Oct. 1889 p._ 479; _Gardener’s
Mag. 19 Oct. 1889_.

LENNARD, THOMAS BARRETT (1 son of sir T. B. Lennard, bart.
1761–1857). _b._ 4 Oct. 1788; ed. Charterhouse and Jesus coll.
Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; M.P. Ipswich 1820–6; M.P. Maldon
1826–37 and 1847–52; contested Maldon 26 July 1837; F.S.A. 22
May 1851. _d._ Brighton 9 June 1856.

LENNIE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1779; taught English at Edinburgh 1802 to
death; author of The principles of English grammar 1821, 85th
ed. Edinb. 1886; left an endowment of £10 a year to a school
at Craigend, Perthshire; left by his will to town council of
Edinburgh the lands of Auchenresch, Dumfriesshire for founding
in univ. of Edinb. four bursaries of £12 each to be called the
Lennie bursaries. _d._ 23 St. Andrew’s sq. Edinburgh 20 July
1852.

LENNOCK, GEORGE GUSTAVUS. _b._ 1776 or 1777; entered navy April
1789; in command of the Raven 16 guns attacked 14 brigs at
Flushing and drove 3 of them on shore 3 July 1812; captain 4
June 1814; in command of the Esk 20 guns had an action with
the Grampus and Terpsichore two American vessels 1814; retired
admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Broomrig, co. Dumfries 12 May 1866.

LENNOX, ALEXANDER FRANCIS CHARLES GORDON (son of 5 duke of
Richmond 1791–1860). _b._ 14 June 1825; cornet royal horse
guards 8 Feb. 1842, capt. 30 March 1847, sold out 14 May 1852;
M.P. Shoreham 1849–59. _d._ 25 Pont st. London 22 Jany. 1892.

LENNOX, ARTHUR GORDON (7 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819).
_b._ 2 Oct. 1806; ensign 71 foot 24 June 1823, major 6 July 1838
to 14 April 1843; lieut.-col. 72 foot 14 April 1843, placed
on h.p. 25 Feb. 1845; lieut.-col. 68 foot 14 Sep. 1852, sold
out 30 Dec. 1853; a lord of the treasury 21 May 1844 to 8 Aug.
1845; a clerk of the ordnance 7 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; M.P. for
Chichester 1831–46 when he voted for free trade and accepted the
Chiltern hundreds; returned for Yarmouth 29 July 1847, unseated
on petition 8 July 1848; lieut.-col. commandant 1 royal Sussex
militia 14 Dec. 1854 to death. _d._ Ovington sq. Brompton,
London 15 Jany. 1864.

LENNOX, GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (4 son of 5 duke of Richmond
1791–1860). _b._ Goodwood 22 Oct. 1829; cornet royal horse
guards 3 April 1846, lieut. 14 May 1852, sold out 22 April 1853;
M.P. Lymington 1860–74. _d._ 27 Berkeley square, London 27 Feb.
1877.

LENNOX, HENRY GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (brother of the preceding).
_b._ Goodwood, Sussex 2 Nov. 1821; ed. at Westminster 1836–40
and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; M.P. Chichester 1846–85;
a lord of the treasury 28 Feb. 1852 to 20 Dec. 1852 and 1 March
1858 to 14 March 1859; sec. to admiralty July 1866 to Dec. 1868;
P.C. 7 July 1874; president of board of works Feb. 1874 to July
1876; author of A winter in Madeira 1881; Forewarned, forearmed,
a statement of the strength of the English and French navies
1882, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ at his res. near Chichester 28 Aug. 1886.

LENNOX, JOHN GEORGE GORDON (2 son of 4 duke of Richmond.
1764–1819). _b._ 3 Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster; cornet 13
dragoons 24 Oct. 1811; captain 9 dragoons 27 June 1816, placed
on h.p. 25 June 1823; A.D.C. to duke of Wellington 1813;
lieut.-col. in the army 12 June 1823; gentleman of bedchamber to
prince Albert; M.P. Chichester 1819–31; M.P. Sussex 1831–2; M.P.
West Sussex 1832–41. _d._ Darland, Chatham 10 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N.
lxiii_ 495 (1873).

LENNOX, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ 1797 or 1798; entered Bengal army
1817; ensign 22 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1818; captain 43 N.I. 23
April 1830, major 11 Nov. 1847 to 14 July 1853; lieut.-col. of
67 N.I. 14 July 1853–4, of 38 N.I. 1854–6, of 22 N.I. 1856–7, of
34 N.I. 1857–9, of 63 N.I. 1859–61, of 9 N.I. 1861; retired with
rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Glasgow 5 May 1884.

LENNOX, WILLIAM PITT (4 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819).
_b._ Winestead abbey, Yorkshire 20 Sep. 1799; ed. at Westminster
1808–13; cornet royal horse guards 13 May 1813, captain 28
March 1822, sold out 25 March 1829; went to Paris with Duke of
Wellington as attaché 8 Aug. 1814, A.D.C. to the Duke 1815–8;
an extra A.D.C. to his father while governor general of Canada
1818–9; one of the pages at coronation of George IV. 19 July
1821; M.P. King’s Lynn 10 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; edited
The Review newspaper 1858; contributed to the Annuals, Once a
Week and the Court Journal; gave many lectures; is depicted by
Disraeli in Vivian Grey as Lord Prima Donna; author of Compton
Audley, or hands not hearts 3 vols. 1841; The tuft hunter 3
vols. 1843; The story of my life 3 vols. 1857; Recreations of a
sportsman 2 vols. 1862; Life of the Fifth Duke of Richmond 1862,
anon., and many other books. _d._ 34 Hans place, Sloane st.
London 18 Feb. 1881. _W. P. Lennox’s Fifty years reminiscences 2
vols._ (1863); _W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections 2 vols._ (1874).

LENTAIGNE, SIR JOHN FRANCIS O’NEILL (1 son of Benjamin Lentaigne
of Dublin, physician, _d._ 1813). _b._ 20 June 1803; ed. Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.B. 1828; L.R.C.S.I 1830, F.R.C.S.I.
1844; government comr. of loan funds 1841; inspector general of
prisons, Ireland 1854–77; governor of Richmond district lunatic
asylum; sheriff of Monaghan 1844; contested co. Dublin 26 July
1852; a comr. of national education Ireland 1861 to death;
president of Zoological soc; president of Statistical soc.;
M.R.I.A.; C.B. 27 March 1873, K.C.B. 28 April 1880; knighted by
lord lieut. of Ireland at Dublin castle 28 April 1880; knight of
order of Pius IX. _d._ 1 Great Denmark st. Dublin 12 Nov. 1886.

LENTHALL, FRANCIS KYFFIN (3 son of Kyffin John William Lenthall
1789–1870). _b._ 30 March 1824; a lineal descendant of William
Lenthall the speaker, through whom he owned Besselsleigh manor
near Abingdon; barrister L.I. 1 May 1846; recorder of Woodstock,
Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1885; assist. revising barrister for county
and city of Worcester 1868, and for Gloucestershire 1869;
author of Correspondence by F. K. Lenthall and others respecting
the memorial to Lord Romilly 1866. _d._ Besselsleigh manor,
Berks. Jany. 1892.

LEONARD, DENIS. _b._ Kilkenny 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; an
attorney; appeared at a minor London theatre under name of Mr.
O’Neil; played sir Lucius O’Trigger at the Haymarket; acted in
America, the Southern States and Canada; acted in the provinces;
again visited America; the leading Irish actor of his time;
played Richmond to Kean’s Richard III. in Belfast 1830; played
all Tyrone Power’s Irish parts at the Haymarket, at the T.R.
Dublin 1843 &c. and in America; his drama The Foster Brothers
produced in Belfast about 1867; an attorney in Belfast and
law agent for marquess of Downshire. _d._ 8 Cromwell terrace,
Belfast 31 May 1878.

LEONARD, JOHN PATRICK. _b._ Ireland; connected with sir C. G.
Duffy in the 1848 movement in Ireland; a resident in Paris from
1849; professor of English in the Collége Chaptal to death; a
medical man in Franco-German war, attended marshall Mac Mahon
when wounded outside Sedan Aug. 1870, very friendly with the
marshall and the duchess of Magenta; published Sermon on behalf
of the distressed Irish by G. Mermillod, bishop of Hebron, a
translation 1862. _d._ Paris, Aug. 1889. _bur._ Ballymor near
Queenstown 27 Oct.

LEONARD, PETER. _b._ St. Vigeans, Arbroath 1801; L.R.C.S. Edinb.
1822; M.D. of St. Andrew’s 1851; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon
R.N. 6 March 1823, fleet surgeon 1829; inspector general of
hospitals 15 March 1865, retired 19 Sep. 1866; first inspector
general under contagious diseases act and organizer of the
administration 1866; wrote a Naval medical journal of services
in South America, for which he received sir G. Blaine’s gold
medal; deputy inspector general at Chatham, then at Haslar;
granted Greenwich hospital pension of £100 a year 24 March 1871;
author of Records of a voyage to the Western coast of Africa and
of the service in that station for the suppression of the slave
trade. Edinb. 1833. _d._ Arbroath 2 May 1888.

LEOPOLD, GEORGE CHRISTIAN FREDERICK, king of the Belgians
as Leopold I. (3 son of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of
Saxe-Cobourg 1750–1806). _b._ Cobourg 16 Dec. 1790; came to
England in 1814 and lived in lodgings at a grocer’s at 21 High
st. Marylebone; came to England 20 Feb. 1816; naturalized by act
56 George III. cap. 13, 29 March 1816; granted Claremont house
and grounds for his life. _m._ 2 May 1816 the princess Charlotte
Augusta only child of George IV., she _d._ at Claremont 6 Nov.
1817; G.C.H. 22 March 1816; a general 2 May 1816 and field
marshall 24 May 1816; G.C.B. 23 May 1816; K.G. 23 May 1816; P.C.
1 July 1816; entered into a marriage contract with Karoline
Bauer a German actress 2 July 1829 and lived with her in London
till June 1830 when contract was dissolved; declined the throne
of Greece, May 1830; resided at Claremont till 16 July 1831;
elected king of the Belgians 4 June and ascended the throne 22
July 1831. _m._ (2) 9 Aug. 1832 the princess Louise eld. dau.
of Louis Philippe king of the French, she _d._ 11 Oct. 1850;
the income of £50,000 settled on him in 1816 he continued to
hold after he became king, but after paying for keeping up
Claremont, servants’ pensions, &c. he annually returned the
balance of about £38,000 into the exchequer. _d._ Palace of
Laeken 10 Dec. 1865. _Lady Rose Weigall’s Brief memoir of the
Princess Charlotte_ (1874); _The Princess Charlotte of Wales.
By Mrs. C. R. Jones_ (1885), _portraits_; _Authentic Memoirs of
the princess Charlotte_ (1817) _portrait_; _Memoirs of prince
Leopold_ (1817), _portrait_; _Westminster Review_, _April 1885
pp._ 460–88; _Posthumous memoirs of Karoline Bauer ii_ 34–336
(1884); _Martin’s Life of prince consort_, _ii_ 249 (1876),
_portrait_; _Illustrated Times 30 Dec. 1865 p._ 413, _portrait_.

LEOTARD, MONSIEUR. _b._ Toulouse, France 1 Aug. 1838; performer
on the flying trapèze abroad; introduced the trapèze performance
into England, first appearing at the Alhambra palace, London 20
May 1861; performed at Alhambra again 1866 and reappeared there
9 April 1868; broke his leg performing at Madrid, May 1865;
made his début in America at Academy of Music, New York 29 Oct.
1868, returned to Europe 14 Nov. having made a great failure
in New York. _d._ of small pox at Toulouse about 16 Aug. 1870.
_Memoires de Léotard. Paris_ (1860), _portrait_; _C. Spencer’s
Modern gymnast_ (1866) 102 _etc._

LEPARD, JOHN. Bookseller at 108 Strand, London 1818–20; member
of firm of booksellers known as Lackington, Hughes, Harding,
Mavor and Lepard at the Temple of the Muses, 23 Finsbury place,
London 1820–5; partner with Joseph Harding at 4 Pall Mall east
1825–39; connected with Day & Martin, blacking manufacturers, 97
High Holborn in 1859. _d._ Hampstead 16 Oct. 1878 aged 87.

LEPPINGTON, JOHN CROSBY (son of rev. John C. Leppington _d._
1833). _b._ Sunderland 21 Oct. 1807; ed. at Woodhouse grove
school 1815; preached when quite a child; Wesleyan Methodist
minister at Melton Mowbray 1832; became a supernumerary in
London 1849 refusing to receive any support from the Connexional
funds; wrote much for the Wesleyan Mag.; author of The
confessional in the Church of England, and other essays on the
Anglican controversy 1860. _d._ near London 7 July 1859. _bur._
Highgate cemetery.

LE QUESNE, CHARLES (eld. son of Nicholas Le Quesne a jurat of
the royal court, Jersey, _d._ 1847). _b._ Jersey 1811; a jurat
of the royal court, Jersey 2 July 1850 to death; president of
Jersey chamber of commerce; a member of the states of Jersey;
an officer in Jersey artillery many years; author of Ireland
and the Channel islands, or a remedy for Ireland 1848; A
constitutional history of Jersey 1856. _d._ Gloucester st. St.
Heliers, Jersey 18 Aug. 1856. _bur._ Green st. cemetery 22 Aug.
_J. B. Payne’s Armorial of Jersey_ (1865) 250; _The Jersey
Independent 23 Aug. 1856 p._ 2.

LESCHALLAS, JOHN. Builder at 10 Booth st. Spitalfields, London
to death; resided at Page green, Tottenham, Middlesex, where he
_d._ 18 Oct. 1877 in 86 year; will proved 3 Dec. under £500,000;
left sums of £500 each to 13 hospitals and institutions. _The
Times 7 Dec. 1877 p._ 9.

LESLIE, ARTHUR. _b._ 1817; ensign 8 foot 20 Nov. 1838; captain
40 foot 19 June 1846, lieut.-col. 6 Aug. 1858 to 8 June 1867;
C.B. 2 May 1862. _d._ Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 12 Sep.
1878.

LESLIE, CHARLES (1 son of John Leslie 1772–1854, bishop of
Elphin 1819). _b._ 7 Oct. 1810; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833,
M.A. 1836; incumbent of Drung, co. Cavan; vicar general of
Ardagh to March 1870; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh,
March 1870, consecrated 19 April 1870, enthroned in Kilmore
cathedral 26 May 1870; the first bp. appointed after the
disestablishment of the Irish ch. _d._ the Parsonage house,
Drung, co. Cavan 8 July 1870. _bur._ Kilmore 14 July. _The Times
11 July 1870 p._ 5.

LESLIE, CHARLES JOSEPH (4 son of John Leslie 1751–1828). _b._
1785; ensign 29 foot 18 Dec. 1806; captain 60 rifles 17 May
1820, major 18 Dec. 1828 to 28 Dec. 1832 when placed on h.p.;
K.H. 1836; author of Historical records of the family of Leslie
1869. _d._ Slindon house near Arundel 10 Jany. 1870.

LESLIE, CHARLES POWELL (eld. son of Charles Powell Leslie of
Glasslough, co. Monaghan, M.P. for Monaghan, _d._ 15 Nov. 1831).
_b._ 13 Sep. 1821; ed. at Harrow, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 16
Oct. 1839; M.P. co. Monaghan 1842 to death; lord lieut. of co.
Monaghan 1858 to death; col. of Monaghan militia 6 Aug. 1857 to
death. _d._ Castle Leslie, Glasslough 26 June 1871.

LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Leslie of
Philadelphia, clockmaker, _d._ 1804). _b._ Clerkenwell, London
19 Oct. 1794; taken to Philadelphia 1800, apprenticed there to
Bradford and Inskeep, publishers 1808; a student at the R.A.
in London, Dec. 1811; his picture called Murder, exhibited at
R.A. 1813; A.R.A. Nov. 1821, R.A. 1826; visited Sir Walter
Scott at Abbotsford and painted his portrait 1824; professor
of painting at the R.A. 1848–52; exhibited 76 pictures at R.A.
and 11 at B.I. 1813–59; many of his best works are in the
National Gallery, London; author of Memoirs of the life of John
Constable, R.A. 1843, 2 ed. 1845; A hand-book for young painters
1855, 2 ed. 1870; Life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds 2 vols.
1865. _d._ 2 Abercorn place, St. John’s Wood, London 5 May 1859.
_C. R. Leslie’s Autobiographical Recollections edited by Tom
Taylor 2 vols._ (1860), _portrait_; _James Dafforne’s Pictures
by C. R. Leslie, R.A._ (1872); _Wedmore’s Masters of genre
painting_ (1879); _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_,
_ii_ 20–26; _W. Sandby’s History of Royal academy_, _ii_ 39–47
(1862); _W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869)
127–31; _Redgrave’s Century of Painters_, _ii_ 230–55, 326–46
(1866).

LESLIE, FRANK, pen name of Henry Carter (son of Joseph Carter,
glove maker). _b._ Ipswich 29 March 1821; in a dry goods house
London 1838; sent sketches to Illust. London News, May 1842
signed Frank Leslie, superintendent of the engraving department
of the paper to 1848; went to U.S. America 1848; took name of
Frank Leslie by legislative act; employed on Gleason’s Pictorial
in Boston; published The Gazette of fashion, a periodical 1854;
The New York Journal; produced first number of Frank Leslie’s
Illustrated Newspaper 14 Dec. 1855; established The Chimney
corner 1865 and afterwards other periodicals; commissioner to
Paris exhibition 1867, received gold medal; president of New
York centennial commission 1876; spent large sums of money and
in 1877 assigned his property to a trust. _d._ Fifth Avenue, New
York 10 Jany. 1880; his widow Miriam Florence assumed by legal
process name of Frank Leslie. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_
696 (1887).

LESLIE, FREDERICK, stage name of Frederick Hobson (son of
Charles Hobson of 49 Artillery place, Woolwich, military
outfitter). _b._ Woolwich 1 April 1855; ed. in France for
an architect; sang under name of Mr. Owen Hobbs at local
entertainments at Woolwich; joined amateur company at R.A.
theatre, Woolwich; appeared in London at Royalty theatre, Feb.
1878 as Colonel Hardy in Paul Pry; played at Folly theatre
1879; played at Alhambra, Marquis of Manicamp in La petite
mademoiselle 6 Oct. 1879, and Duc de la Volta in La fille
du tambour majeur 19 April 1880; played in United States of
America 1881–2, 8 months and 1883–4; acted Rip Van Winkle in
Planquette’s opera Rip Van Winkle at Comedy theatre 14 Oct. 1882
to Oct. 1883 and 6 Sep. 1884; played Ayala in The grand mogul
at Comedy 17 Dec. 1884; member of Gaiety company Dec. 1885 to
death; his chief parts at Gaiety were Jonathan Wild in Little
Jack Sheppard 26 Dec. 1885, Noitier in Monte Christo junior 23
Dec. 1886, the Monster in Frankenstein 24 Dec. 1887, Don Cæsar
de Bazan in Ruy Blas and the blasé roué 27 Sep. 1889; played
in America and Australia 1890–1; played in Cinder-Ellen Up Too
Late, as a Servant to the Prince of Belgravia, at Gaiety 24 Dec.
1891 to 25 Nov. 1892; purchased a residence at Clacton-on-Sea,
Essex; author under nom de plume of A. C. Torr (actor) with
Herbert F. Clark of Ruy Blas and the blasé roué, and with W. T.
Vincent of Cinder-Ellen up too late; wrote and composed Love in
the Lowther, a song which was very popular. _d._ 8 Tavistock
chambers, Bloomsbury, London 7 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Charlton
cemetery 10 Dec. _Theatre 2 June 1884 pp._ 322–3, _portrait_;
_Illust. sp. and dram. news 6 Nov. 1886 pp._ 200, 207,
_portrait_; _The Pelican_, _Christmas number 1892_, _portrait_;
_Strand Mag. Jany. 1893 p._ 58, _five portraits_.

LESLIE, HENRY. _b._ Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire 6 Jany. 1830;
first came on the stage at Ipswich, Aug. 1847; lessee with
Rollison of Edinburgh theatre royal 4 Sep. 1852 to 26 Jany.
1853, sole lessee 26 Jany. to 12 March 1853; first appeared in
London at Drury lane as Roderigo, Sep. 1853, at the Olympic
1853–8; started The Stage college of dramatic tuition, 36
Queen’s crescent, Haverstock hill, London, Aug. 1866; manager
of Amphitheatre and theatre royal, Liverpool for the Misses
Copeland 1868–70; manager with Mr. Pearson of Prince of Wales’
theatre, Liverpool 1870; travelled in the provinces with his own
company playing Offenbach’s Princess of Trebizond 1871; manager
of the Amphitheatre, Liverpool alone 1871, then with Lindo
Courtenay 1873–9; lessee of theatre royal, Leeds, Easter 1880
to 1881; author of The mariner’s compass, a novel 1865; How the
ghost walked. Printed in A. Halliday’s Savage Club Papers 1868;
and of the following dramas, Adrienne or the secret of a life,
Lyceum 12 Nov. 1860; The trail of sin, Victoria, Sep. 1863;
The orange girl, Surrey theatre 24 Oct. 1864; The mariner’s
compass, Astley’s theatre 4 March 1865; The sin and the sorrow,
Grecian theatre 17 Sep. 1866; Tide and time, Surrey 9 March
1867; Friendship; Love and truth; The village blacksmith. _d._
Paignton, Devon 4 March 1881.

LESLIE, HENRY JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1833; Q.C. 23 Feb.
1867. _d._ Belfield, Dundrum, co. Dublin 16 Sep. 1888.

LESLIE, JAMES (son of James Leslie, quarter master at taking
of Quebec). _b._ Kair, Kincardineshire 1786; merchant at
Montreal; served with Montreal volunteers in war of 1812,
lieut.-col. 1862; member for Montreal in Lower Canada assembly
1824 and in the Dominion assembly for Verchēres 1844–8; member
of legislative council 1848, president March to Sep. 1848;
provincial sec. 1848–51; member of the senate 1867 to death.
_d._ Montreal 1873.

LESLIE, JOHN (younger son of Charles Powell Leslie of
Glasslough, M.P. for co. Monaghan, _d._ 1800). _b._ Glasslough,
co. Monaghan 12 Oct. 1772; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1794, M.A. 1805; dean of Cork 5 Oct. 1807 to 1812; prebendary
of Armagh 19 March 1808 to 1812; bishop of Dromore by patent 14
Jany. 1812, consecrated at Armagh 26 Jany., enthroned by proxy
27 Feb.; translated to Elphin 16 Nov. 1819; bishop of united
dioceses of Kilmore, Ardagh and Elphin, Oct. 1841 to death. _d._
The Palace, Kilmore 22 July 1854.

LESLIE, JOHN. Ensign 69 foot 7 Aug. 1806, major 1 Jany. 1819 to
29 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 4 foot 25 Jany.
1839 to 29 Dec. 1848 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 35 foot 26
Sep. 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858. _d._ Brighton 12 Feb.
1861 aged 70.

LESLIE, JOHN ROBERT. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, fellow 1858
to death; B.A. 1852, M.A. 1856; Erasmus Smith’s professor of
natural and experimental philosophy 1870 to death. _d._ Finea,
co. Westmeath 2 Jany. 1881. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery 5 Jany.

LESLIE, MARTIN EDWARD (2 son of Thomas Haworth of Balham Wood,
Herts.) _b._ 1810; ed. at Eton; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 28 Sep. 1826,
captain 27 Oct. 1837, sold out 17 Nov. 1837; an extra foreign
service messenger at Constantinople 4 Jany. 1855 to 30 Sep.
1858, a queen’s foreign service messenger 7 Nov. 1859, resigned
13 May 1872; master of the Hampshire hounds; assisted in revival
of coaching and in placing the Old Times on the London and
Brighton road, which he often drove 1868; author of The silver
greyhound, incidents of travel 1880; Road scrapings, coaches
and coaching 1880. _m._ 11 Aug. 1835 Mary Elizabeth (2 dau. of
George Gwythyr by Henrietta countess of Rothes). She was _b._ 9
July 1811, became 16 countess of Rothes 1886 when her husband
assumed name of Leslie 20 March 1886. He _d._ 26 York st.
Portman sq. London 2 Nov. 1886. _bur._ Kensal green. _Baily’s
Mag. xlvi_ 522–3 (1886).

LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE (2 son of Edward Leslie 1792–1865,
R. of Annahilt, co. Down). _b._ co. Wexford 21 June 1826; ed.
at King William’s coll. Isle of Man, and Trin. coll. Dublin,
classical scholar 1845, B.A. 1847, LL.B. 1851, hon. LL.D.;
called to Irish bar 1850; professor of jurisprudence and
political economy in Queen’s college, Belfast 1853; barrister
L.I. 17 Nov. 1858, never practised; examiner and professor of
jurisprudence and political economy in Queen’s Univ. Ireland
1871 to death; contributed to Fraser’s Mag., Macmillan’s Mag.
and other periodicals; elected without ballot member of Athenæum
club, London Feb. 1880; author of The military systems of
Europe economically considered. Belfast 1856; Land systems and
industrial economy of Ireland, England and continental countries
1870; Financial reform 1872, 2 ed. 1872; Essays in political
and moral philosophy 1878. _d._ Botanic Avenue, Belfast 27
Jany. 1882. _T. E. Cliffe Leslie. Memorial to W. E. Gladstone.
Privately printed January 1882_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 23–26 (1881);
_Times 30 Jany. 1882 p._ 7 _col._ 2; _Irish Law Times_, _xvi_ 65
(1882).

LESLIE, THOMAS JEFFERSON (brother of Charles Robert Leslie
1794–1859). _b._ London 2 Nov. 1796; ed. at United States
military academy; paymaster of engineers 1815–38, 2 lieut. 1816,
1 lieut. 1819, major and paymaster 1838; chief of paymaster’s
department, New York district, during the civil war 1861–5;
brevet brigadier general 1865; retired 1869. _d._ New York city
25 Nov. 1874.

LESLIE, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Leslie of Warthill, Pitcraple,
Aberdeenshire). _b._ Warthill 16 March 1814; a partner in Dent
and Co., China; M.P. co. Aberdeen 1861–66. _d._ Warthill 4 March
1880.

LESSLIE, JAMES. _b._ Dundee 1802; bookseller and stationer
Kingston, Canada 1820, removed to York afterward named Toronto;
member of Toronto first city council; one of the founders
of the House of industry 1836; president of the Bank of the
People, which was merged in the Bank of Montreal; arrested at
commencement of insurrection of 1837 but released; purchased
Examiner newspaper, Toronto 1844, editor from 1845 till he sold
it in 1854; retired from business 1855. _d._ Eglinton, Ontario
19 April 1885.

LESTER, ADA (dau. of James Akhurst, wine merchant, London).
First appeared in London at Opera Comique 16 Oct. 1875 as Sophie
Creyke in W. J. Austin’s farce A Tempting Bait; leading actress
with Wm. Creswick in Australia 1877 &c.; played Florence Bertram
in H. Williamson’s drama Estranged, at Globe theatre 3 Aug.
1881; sailed from Liverpool in company with eleven artists to
fulfil an engagement in Bombay 17 Oct. 1881; drowned in the Clan
Macduff in the Irish sea 19 Oct. 1881. _The Era 29 Oct. 1881 p._
9.

LESTER, FREDERICK PARKINSON (3 son of John Lester of 1 Racquet
court, Fleet st. London, coal merchant). _b._ 3 Feb. 1795; 2
lieut. Bombay artillery 25 Oct. 1811, col. 23 Feb. 1852 to
death; served 37 years in India; commissary of stores; secretary
to military board, member of military board; introduced a
system of bookkeeping by double entry 1834; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854;
inspector general ordnance commissariat department 27 Aug.
1856 to 14 April 1857; commanded Southern division of Bombay
army at Belgaum 14 April 1857 to death; prevented the mutiny
spreading to Western India by his wise measures; found _dead_
in his bed at Belgaum 3 July 1858. _Sir George Le Grand Jacob’s
Western India_ (1871) 213–16; _W. K. Stuart’s Reminiscences of a
soldier_, _ii_ 292–5 (1874).

LESTER, JOSEPH DUNN (1 son of John Lester of Aberystwith).
_b._ 1842; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1861–5, B.A.
1865; assistant master in Wellington coll. Wokingham 1867
to death; author of A short German accidence for the use of
Wellington college 1867; A German accidence with a minor syntax
1870; Germanica, exercises in German composition 1872. _d._
Crawthorne, Wokingham 2 Dec. 1875.

LESTOURGEON, CHARLES (son of a surgeon). _b._ Cambridge 1808;
ed. Trin. coll. as a foundation scholar, 15 wrangler and B.A.
1828, M.A. 1833; L.S.A. 1841; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at
Cambridge with an extensive practice; surgeon to Addenbrooke’s
hospital 25 years; an examiner in surgery at Camb. and member of
the board of medical studies. _d._ The Close, Huntingdon road,
Cambridge 22 Feb. 1891.

L’ESTRANGE, FRANCIS. Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A.
1832; F.R.C.S.I. 1833; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1859; L.M. Rotunda hospital
1859; surgeon dentist 39 Dawson st. Dublin to 1872; state
surgeon dentist to lord lieutenant; invented Patent truss and
Screw lithotrite tourniquet. _d._ Landour, Raglan road, Dublin 6
Jany. 1875 aged 72.

L’ESTRANGE, SIR GEORGE BURDETT (2 son of Henry Peisley
L’Estrange of Moystown, King’s county). _b._ 1796; ed. at
Westminster sch. 1807–10; ensign 31 regt. 1812; present at
Vittoria; ensign 3 foot guards 2 July 1815, placed on h.p. 11
July 1822; chamberlain to Earl St. Germans, viceroy of Ireland
1853–55; gentleman usher of the black rod to order of St.
Patrick 1858 to death; knighted by Earl of Carlisle at Dublin
1860. _d._ Harcourt road, Dublin 5 Feb. 1878. _Recollections of
sir G. B. L’Estrange_ (1874).

LE STRANGE, HENRY L’ESTRANGE STYLEMAN (only son of Henry
Styleman of Hunstanton, Norfolk). _b._ 25 Jany. 1815; ed. at
Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1837; travelled in Portugal, Spain
and Egypt; assumed additional name of Le Strange by r.l. 1839;
declared by House of Lords coheir of barony of Camoys 1839 and
coheir of barony of Hastings 1841; contested West Norfolk 1847;
drew a design for decoration of tower of Ely cathedral 1853,
carried out by him 1855, painted half the roof of the nave
1858–62; made the cartoons for St. Albans, Holborn 1860–2, the
work was carried out by his cousin Frederick Preedy; member
of royal commission on fresco-painting in England, Feb. 1862.
_d._ suddenly of heart disease in London 27 July 1862. _bur._
Hunstanton.

L’ESTRANGE, JOHN. _b._ Norwich 18 Jany. 1836; clerk in the
stamp office at Norwich; made large collections for history of
Norfolk and city of Norwich, most of which came into possession
of Walter Rye who edited and published his Calendar of the
freemen of Norwich from 1317 to 1603, 1888; transcribed four of
the churchwardens’ books of Norwich; his collections from the
wills of the Norwich registry are bound in 4 vols. folio; edited
Eastern Counties Collectanea 24 numbers Jany. 1872 to Dec.
1873; author of The church bells of Norfolk. Norwich 1874. _d._
13 Oct. 1877.

LETBY, RICHARD. _b._ York 7 Jany. 1809; livery stable keeper
and landlord of the Cricketer’s Arms, York; the crack batsman
at York; connected with the York club 30 years; played in York
_v._ Harewood at York 30 May 1833; presented with a handsome
testimonial by the members of the York club 7 Sep. 1859.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 211 (1862).

LETHBRIDGE, AMBROSE GODDARD (3 son of sir Thomas Buckler
Lethbridge, 2 baronet 1778–1849). _b._ Pulteney st. Bath 15 Aug.
1804; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831;
fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1827–52; proctor of the univ. 1839;
barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832; recorder of Wells 1834–52. _d._
Eastbrooke house, Taunton 21 Nov. 1875. _Law Times_, _lx_ 114
(1875).

LETHBRIDGE, JOHN ARSCOTT. _b._ Okehampton, Devon 28 Feb. 1787;
ed. at Christ hospital where he gained many silver medals;
midshipman H.E.I.Co.’s navy Dec. 1802; paymaster R.N. 13 Jany.
1808; sec. of Greenwich hospital 6 April 1834 to 21 Oct. 1853.
_d._ Greenwich 16 July 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 310 (1854).

LETHBRIDGE, JOSEPH WATTS. _b._ Plymouth 20 Jany. 1817; entered
Cheshunt college 1843; a minister of Lady Huntingdon’s connexion
at Kidderminster 1846, at Rochdale, at Melbourne, Derbyshire
1850–5; became Independent minister at Byfield, Northamptonshire
to 1862, at Leicester 1862–8; town missionary at Wellingborough
1873–83; author of The Shakspere almanac for 1849; Woman the
glory of man 1856; Loving thoughts for human hearts 1860; The
Idyls of Solomon: the Hebrew marriage week arranged in dialogue
1878. _d._ Wellingborough 27 July 1885. _Congregational Year
Book_ (1886) 190.

LETHBRIDGE, SIR JOHN HESKETH, 3 Baronet (brother of A. G.
Lethbridge 1804–75). _b._ Pulteney st. Bath 1798; ed. at
Eton; lieut.-col. 2 Somerset militia to 1839; member of Mr.
Farquharson’s hunt in Dorset; at the Bedford spring meeting
riding his horse Trump won a match of one mile leaping two
hurdles 1837; succeeded 17 Oct. 1849. _d._ 6 Hillsborough
terrace, Ilfracombe 1 March 1873. _New Sporting mag. xiv_ 286
(1838), _portrait_.

LETHBRIDGE, THOMAS BRIDGEMAN. _b._ 28 Oct. 1828; naval cadet 9
March 1842, captain 19 Sep. 1863, R.A. 31 Dec. 1878; commanded
the Renown wooden steam battle ship 1858; flag capt. in the
Northumberland and the Black Prince and to sir W. K. Hall at
Sheerness 1863; senior officer on the coast of Ireland 1883–5;
commander in chief at the Nore 1888, retired 1890; resided at
Southsea. _d._ 51 Curzon st. Mayfair, London, the res. of his
son in law James Davis 30 Dec. 1892.

LETHEBY, HENRY. _b._ Plymouth 1816; L.S.A. 1837; M.B. London
1842; M.A. and Ph. D. of a German university; lecturer on
chemistry and toxicology at London hospital; medical officer
of health and analyst of food for city of London, Oct. 1855,
resigned 1874; chief examiner of gas for metropolis under board
of trade; F.L.S., F.C.S.; wrote many papers in The Lancet and
other scientific periodicals; author of Reports on the sanitary
condition of London 3 vols. 1856–7; Reports to the commissioners
of sewers 3 vols. 1856–58; On food, its varieties, composition,
nutritive value, adulteration, etc. Cantor lectures 1870, 2 ed.
1872. _d._ 17 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 28 March 1876.
_bur._ Highgate cemet. 1 April. _Medical Press and Circular_,
_i_ 290–91, 306 (1876); _I.L.N. lxviii_ 373, 374 (1876),
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 366, 381 (1876), _portrait_.

LE THIERE, SOPHIE ADÉLE GUILLON (eld. dau. of Madame Michaud,
professor of dancing). Professor of dancing under name of Madame
Adelaide at 109 New Bond st. London 1855 to death. _d._ 109 New
Bond st. 5 March 1883.

LETTS, THOMAS (son of John Letts of London, bookbinder).
_b._ Stockwell, London 1803; stationer with his father at 95
Cornhill, succeeded to the business, carried it on at 8 Royal
Exchange 1838 to death; devoted himself specially to manufacture
of diaries, of which he was issuing 28 varieties in 1839, also
issued interest tables, medical diaries, office calendars, &c.
of which he sold several hundred thousand annually; erected
large factories at North road, New Cross 1865, the business was
turned into a limited liability company shortly after his death,
but in 1885 the company went into liquidation, and the business
was purchased by Cassell & Co.; Lett’s Diaries are descanted on
by Thackeray in his Roundabout Papers No. 18 in Cornhill Mag.
Jany. 1862. _d._ Granville park, Lewisham 9 Aug. 1873.

LETTSOM, WILLIAM GARROW. _b._ 1804; attaché at Berlin 5 Aug.
1831, at Munich 1834; paid attaché at Washington 21 Dec. 1840;
sec. of legation at Mexico 12 July 1854, and chargé d’affaires
4 May 1855 to 19 May 1858; chargé d’affaires and consul
general to Uruguay 9 Sep. 1859, retired on a pension of £900,
29 July 1869; F.R.A.S.; author with R. P. Greg of Manual of the
mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland 1858. _d._ 142 Norwood
road, Lower Norwood, Surrey 14 Dec. 1887.

LETTSOM, WILLIAM NANSON (son of John Miers Lettsom, physician
1771–99). _b._ 4 Feb. 1796; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, where he printed Epigrammata numismate
annuo dignata 1816; Poema numismate annus dignatum 1816; author
of The fall of the Nibelungers: otherwise the book of Kriemhild,
a translation 1850, 2 ed. 1873; The song of Flogawaya 1856,
anon., a parody on Hiawatha; edited W. S. Walker’s Shakespeare’s
Versification 1854 and his A critical examination of the text of
Shakespeare 1860. _d._ 43 Westbourne park, London 3 Sep. 1865.

LEUPOLT, CHARLES BENJAMIN. _b._ 1805; ed. Missionary coll.
Basel, Switzerland; ordained by Bp. of Lincoln 1831; missionary
of Church missionary soc. at Benares 1832–72; R. of Brampton,
Norfolk 1874 to death; author of Recollections of an Indian
missionary 1846, 2 ed. 1863; Further recollections of an Indian
missionary 1884, portrait. _d._ Marsham hall, Norwich 16 Dec.
1884.

LEVANDER, HENRY CHARLES (1 son of James Levander). _b._ Norwich
1826; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850,
M.A. 1863; a classical master in Univ. coll. sch. London
1866–84; a great freemason; F.R.A.S. 12 April 1872; author of
The public school French grammar by A. Brachet, revised by P. H.
E. Brette and H. C. Levander 1884, new ed. 1884. _d._ 30 North
villas, Camden sq. London 4 Dec. 1884. _bur._ West Hampstead
cemetery 6 Dec. _Monthly notices R. Astronom. soc. xlv_ 193
(1885).

LEVEN and MELVILLE, DAVID LESLIE-MELVILLE, Earl of. _b._
Spring gardens, London 22 June 1785; styled Viscount Balgonie
1785–1820; lieut. R.N. 8 Aug. 1806, captain 28 Feb. 1812;
succeeded his father as 11 Earl of Leven and 8 Earl of Melville
22 Feb. 1820; R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired V.A. 27 Sep. 1855;
representative peer for Scotland 1831 to death. _d._ Melville
house, Fifeshire 8 Oct. 1860.

LEVEN and MELVILLE, JOHN THORNTON LESLIE-MELVILLE, Earl of. _b._
18 Dec. 1786; succeeded his brother 8 Oct. 1860 as 12 Earl of
Leven and 9 Earl of Melville; a representative peer for Scotland
1865 to death. _d._ Glenferness near Dunphail, Nairnshire 18
Sep. 1876, personalty under £300,000, 2 Oct. 1876. _I.L.N. lxix_
324, 327 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 337, 339 (1876),
_portrait_.

LEVER, CHARLES (son of Ellis Lever). _b._ Gorton near Manchester
15 Feb. 1862; member of majority of the electrical societies
in Europe and America; patented his electric lamp 1881; had a
diploma for his services at London fisheries exhibition 1883;
resided at Culcheth hall, Bowden, Cheshire; found dead in his
bed at the res. of his father Tan-y-Bryn, Colwyn bay, Carnarvon
5 Jany. 1890. _I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 111, _portrait_.