Chapter XIX: Part 19

LEVER, _Charles James_ (younger son of James Lever of Dublin,
builder 1763–1833). _b._ Amiens st. Dublin 31 Aug. 1806; entered
Trin. coll. Dublin as a pensioner 14 Oct. 1822, B.A. 1827, B.M.
1831, LL.D. 1871; M.D. Louvain; practised as a physician at
Derry and Coleraine; became a contributor to Dublin Univ. mag.
May 1836 and editor March 1842 to 1845; physician at Brussels
1837–41; travelled in Germany and Italy 1845–58; vice consul
at Spezzia 26 Nov. 1858 to 13 Feb. 1867 when the post was
abolished; consul general at Trieste 2 March 1867 to death;
author of The confessions of Harry Lorrequer. Dublin 1839,
anon.; Charles O’Malley the Irish dragoon. Edited by Harry
Lorrequer 2 vols. 1841; Arthur O’Leary: his wanderings and
ponderings in many lands. Edited by his friend Harry Lorrequer
3 vols. 1844; Our Mess, vol. 1 Jack Hinton the guardsman, vols.
2 and 3 Tom Burke of ours 3 vols. 1843; The knight of Gwynne
2 vols. 1847; The O’Donoghue 1845; Diary and notes of Horace
Templeton, Esq. 2 vols. 1848, anon.; The confessions of Con
Cregan the Irish Gil Blas 2 vols. 1849, anon.; Roland Cashel 2
vols. 1850; The Daltons 2 vols. 1852; Lord Kilgobbin 3 vols.
1872; Novels, new ed. illustrated 33 vols. 1876–8. _d._ Trieste
1 June 1872. _Fitzpatrick’s Life of C. Lever 2 vols._ (1879),
_New ed._ (1884), _portrait_; _Illustrated Rev. ii_ 1–5 (1870),
_portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 98–100, _portrait_;
_Modern men of letters by J. H. Friswell_ (1870) 171–82 _Dublin
Univ. Mag._ (1880) 465, 570; _Blackwood’s Mag. April 1862 pp._
452–72, _July 1872 pp._ 129–30, _and Sep. 1872 pp._ 327–60;
_I.L.N. lx_ 581, 582 (1872), _portrait_, _lxi_ 431 (1872);
_Graphic_, _v_ 600, 611 (1872), _portrait_.

NOTE.--His only son Charles Sidney Lever, lieutenant 2 dragoon guards 1860–2, _d._ Florence 28 Sep. 1863 aged 26.

LEVER, JOHN CHARLES WEAVER. _b._ Plumstead, Kent 28 Sep. 1811;
M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1834; M.D. Giessen 1842; M.R.C.P. 1842;
surgeon Bridgehouse place, Newington-causeway, Surrey 1834–42;
president Hunterian soc.; physician 12 Wellington st. London
bridge 1842 to death, he almost monopolized the consulting
practice of the south of London; lecturer on midwifery and
physician-accoucheur Guy’s hospital 1845; author of Case of
hidrosis or hidrotic fever 1837; A treatise on diseases of the
uterus 1843. d. London 29 Dec. 1858. _Lancet_, _i_ 75 (1859);
_Catalogue Surgeon general’s library_, _viii_ 89 (1887).

LEVERELL, W. H. _b._ London 1 Dec. 1832; ed. Kingston gram.
sch.; apprentice to Cox & Son, printers, London; a sculler;
took part in the swimming races 1846–53; swam many times at the
Holborn baths, where in 1852 he was the champion swimmer; in
the light division in the Crimea 1854–5, attached to the land
transport corps, went on two expeditions to Kertch, received
Sebastopol and Turkish medals; again a printer; on staff of
Bell’s Life in London from March 1870; connected also with
The Field and The Glowworm. _d._ London 24 April 1886. _bur._
Brompton cemetery 30 April. _Sporting Mirror_, _ii_ 165–6
(1881), _portrait_.

LEVESON, HENRY ASTBURY. _b._ 18 June 1828; entered Madras army
10 Jany. 1845, ensign 13 Madras N.I. 2 April 1845, lieut. 15
Dec. 1846, resigned 15 April 1853; a well known sportsman in
India 1845–53; on Turkish staff in Crimean war, being only
English officer so employed; at the Alma, at Inkerman and at
siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served with Garibaldi in 1860;
colonial sec. at Lagos 1863, where in fighting the natives he
received an iron bullet in his head, from the effect of which he
never fully recovered, invalided home 8 Feb. 1864, voted £500
by the colony and £500 by parliament; served in the Abyssinian
war 1868; killed more game in all parts of the world than any
other man; author of The spear and the rifle, or recollections
of sport in India. By An Old Shekarree 1860; The hunting grounds
of the old world 1860; England rendered impregnable by the
organisation and equipment of national forces 1871; The forest
and the field. By H.A.L., the Old Shekarree 1867, 2 ed. 1874;
Camp life and its acquirements for soldiers, travellers and
sportsmen 1872; Wrinkles or hints to sportsmen and travellers
1874. _d._ at residence of his mother 4 Lansdowne terrace west,
Brighton 7 Sep. 1875. _Sport in many lands. By H.A.L. 2 vols._
(1879), _memoir vol. i pp. xv–xxxii_, _portrait_; _Illust. sp.
and dr. news_, _iii_ 585, 587 (1875), _portrait_.

LEVETT, JOHN. _b._ Battersea, Surrey 1 June 1826; ran John
Tetlow of Hollingwood 4 miles for £50, Hyde Park, Sheffield 16
March 1852; ran George Frost the Suffolk stag for £100, the
championship and belt, Copenhagen grounds, Islington 22 March
1852 running 10 miles and 252 yards in 52 min. 35 sec.; won the
20 mile race at Copenhagen grounds 29 March 1852; ran Richard
Manks the Warwickshire Antelope for £50 at Hyde park, Sheffield
3 Dec. 1855 eleven miles in 1 hour; one of best known long
distance runners; sprained his tendon Achilles about 1861 and
had to give up running; a trainer of pedestrians; wrote a series
of papers on How to train, in Illust. Sport. News 1862; wrote
a farce produced at Queen’s Royal theatre, Dublin, in which he
himself appeared 1861. _Illust. Sporting News_ (1862) 53, 100, 2
_portraits_.

LEVEY, GEORGE. _b._ at place afterwards known as Westward
Ho, Devon 12 Oct. 1802; member of firm of Levey, Robson and
Franklyn, printers at 46 St. Martin’s lane, London 1836–41, then
at 24 Great New st. 1841–64, carried on business alone at same
address 1864–70, afterwards at 1 and 2 West Harding st. 1870 to
death; author of Specimens of printing types in office of Levey,
Robson and Franklyn 1850, in 20 languages. _d._ Camberwell 2
Feb. 1873.

LEVEY, JOHN (youngest son of Richard Michael Levey of Dublin).
An Irish character actor; dramatist; author of many pantomimes
played in Yorkshire and Lancashire; lessee of several theatres.
_d._ Seaforth, Liverpool 17 Sep. 1891. _bur._ in ground of R.C.
chapel, Crosby.

LEVI, LEONE (2 son of Isaac Levi a Jewish merchant at Ancona).
_b._ Ancona 6 June 1821; entered office of his brother a
merchant 1836; merchant at Liverpool 1844–7; naturalised 16
Jany. 1847; clerk in a mercantile house at Liverpool; advocated
chambers of commerce; hon. sec. of Liverpool chamber of commerce
1849; lectured in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and elsewhere
1851–2; professor of principles and practice of commerce at
King’s college, London 1852 to death; fellow of Statistical
Soc. 1851, member of council 1860, vice pres. 1885; F.S.A. 14
Dec. 1854; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; a knight of the Italian
orders of SS. Mauritius and Lazarus and of the Crown of Italy;
became a member of Presbyterian church in England about 1846;
author of Commercial law, its principles and administration
2 vols. 1851–2, 2nd ed. entitled International commercial law
2 vols. 1863; The law of nature and nations as affected by
divine law 1855; Annals of British legislation 18 vols. 1856–68;
History of British commerce and of the economic progress of the
British nation 1763–1870. 1872, 2 ed. 1880. _d._ 31 Highbury
grove, Highbury, London 7 May 1888. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 12
May. _L. Levi’s The story of my life. Privately printed_ (1888);
_Journal of royal statistical soc. li_ 340–2 (1888); _I.L.N.
xxvi_ 653, 654 (1855), _portrait_; _London Figaro 19 May 1888
p._ 11, _portrait_; _Law Journal_, _xxiii_ 259 (1888).

LEVICKE, HENRY. The first European who took up his permanent
abode at Suez 1846; pioneer of the mail service through Egypt;
assisted lieut. Waghorn in arranging overland route 1845, often
accompanied the dromedary mail across the desert; the first
English acting vice-consul at Suez 1839 to June 1851; packet
agent and postmaster to Her Majesty and agent to the H.E.I.Co.;
the government ignored his claim to a pension for 41 years
service. _d._ Dieppe, Oct. 1887. _bur._ there 28 Oct., left a
widow and 22 children.

LEVIEN, EDWARD (1 son of John Levien of Marylebone). _b._ 1819;
ed. Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846;
connected with univ. of Glasgow; assistant in MS. department,
British museum 6 May 1850 to 1874; hon. sec. of British Archæol.
Association, editor of the Annual Proceedings and writer of many
papers in the Journal; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1858; author of A brief
description of the town of Hadleigh in Suffolk 1853; Outlines
of the history of Greece by W. D. Hamilton and E. Levien 1853;
Outlines of the history of Rome 2 vols. 1855–6, never finished;
Memoirs of Socrates for English readers, with notes 1872. _d._
24 Camden st. London 7 Nov. 1874. _Journal British Archæol.
Assoc. xxi_ 229 (1875).

LEVINGE, SIR RICHARD GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 7 Baronet (eld. son of
Sir Richard Levinge, 6 baronet 1765–1848). _b._ 1 Nov. 1811;
ensign 43 foot 25 Nov. 1828, lieut. 8 April 1834; served in
suppression of Canadian rebellion 1837–8; placed on h.p. with
rank of captain 15 May 1840; captain 5 dragoon guards 27 Jany.
1843, sold out same day; lieut.-col. of Westmeath militia 3
Jany. 1846 to 22 Aug. 1850; sheriff of Westmeath 1851; contested
Westmeath 22 July 1852 and 13 Feb. 1874; M.P. for Westmeath 1857
to 1865; author of Echoes from the backwoods, or sketches of
transatlantic life 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1859; Historical notices
of the Levinge family. Ledestown 1853; A day with the Brookside
harriers at Brighton 1858; Historical records of the forty third
regiment Monmouthshire light infantry 1868. _d._ Brussels 28
Sep. 1884.

LEVY, AMY (2 dau. of Lewis Levy of London). _b._ 16 Percy
place, Clapham road, Surrey 1862; ed. at Brighton and Newnham
coll. Camb. 1880–81; wrote poetry at 12 years of age; a writer
in Dublin Univ. Mag., Temple Bar, Atalanta, London Society,
The Jewish Chronicle, &c.; author of Xantippe and other verse.
Cambridge 1881; A minor poet and other verses 1884; The romance
of a shop 1888; Reuben Sachs 1888; A London plane tree and other
verse 1889; Miss Meredith 1889; translated Jean Baptiste Pérès’
brochure Comme quoi Napoléon n’a jamais existé, Paris 1876
under title of Historic doubts or the non-existence of Napoleon
proved. Edited by Lily 1885; committed suicide by inhaling fumes
of charcoal at her father’s residence, 7 Endsleigh gardens,
London 10 Sep. 1889, cremated at Woking 13 Sep., ashes _bur._
Balls Pond cemetery 15 Sep. _The Jewish Chronicle 13 Sep. 1889
p._ 6 _and 20 Sep. p._ 7; _The Woman’s World_, _Nov. 1889 pp._
51–2, _portrait_; _Universal Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 492–507.

LEVY, JOHN. _b._ 1805; a journalist many years; called to Irish
bar 1845; reported for Irish Jurist, Irish Law Reports and Irish
Law Times; author of The law and practice of bankruptcy and
insolvency. Dublin 4 ed. 1862; fell down dead in Dame st. Dublin
17 May 1870.

LEVY, JOSEPH MOSES (son of Moses Lionel Levy _d._ 1830 aged
65). _b._ London 15 Dec. 1812; ed. at Bruce Castle school and
in Germany; printer in Shoe lane, Fleet st. London; chief
proprietor of the Sunday Times 1855–6, conducted it 1855–6;
took over the Daily Telegraph from Col. B. W. A. Sleigh and
issued it at a penny 17 Sep. 1855, being the first London daily
penny paper, managed the paper to his death. _d._ Florence
cottage, Ramsgate 12 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Balls Pond cemet. London,
personalty over £525,000.

LEWELLIN, _Llewelyn_ (son of Richard Lewellin of Coyty,
Glamorganshire). _b._ 1799; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar
1821–6; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1829; master of the
schools Oxf. 1825–26; preb. of St. David’s 1827; principal of
St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827 to death; V. of Pembryn,
Cardiganshire 1832; V. of Lampeter 15 Oct. 1833 to death;
sinecure R. of Llangelen 1843 to death; dean of St. David’s 26
March 1840 to death, the last non-resident dean; author of Reply
to N. Davies’s Notes on the cathedral church of St. David’s
1853, 2 ed. 1853. _d._ about 30 Nov. 1878.

LEWES, CHARLES LEE (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 1843;
ed. at Hofwyl, Switzerland; clerk in the Post Office, London,
Aug. 1860 to Oct. 1886; one of the secretaries of Hampstead
Heath extension committee, which raised £52,000 for purchase of
Parliament hill 1887; member of the first London county council
for the St. Pancras district 7 Jany. 1889 to death; contributed
to Nineteenth Century and Blackwood’s Mag.; residuary legatee
of “George Eliot” 1880 and owner of the copyright of all her
works and those of his father; edited Essays and leaves from a
note book, by George Eliot 1884; translator of In the year ’13,
a tale of Mecklenburg life by Fritz Reuter 1867; Emilia Galotti
by G. E. Lessing 1868; Count Bismarck by L. Bamberger 1869. _d._
Luxor, Egypt 26 Feb. 1891.

LEWES, GEORGE HENRY (grandson of Charles Lee Lewes, actor
1740–1803). _b._ London 18 April 1817; ed. in London, Jersey,
Brittany and at Greenwich; in a notary’s office; employed by
a Russian merchant; a medical student a short time; visited
Germany 1838; appeared at the Whitehall theatre in Garrick’s
comedy The Guardian 1841, played in Dickens’ amateur company
1848, played Shylock 1849; acted in his own tragedy The Noble
Heart, at the Olympic Feb. 1850 and in the provinces 1850;
wrote many articles in the quarterly reviews; wrote The game of
speculation, produced at Lyceum 2 Oct. 1851 and 9 other plays
produced at Lyceum, all written under pseudonyms of Slingsby
Lawrence and Frank Churchill; founded with T. L. Hunt The
Leader 1850, editor for literary subjects to July 1854. _m._ 18
Feb. 1841 Agnes eld. dau. of Swynfen Stevens Jervis, M.P. for
Bridport, he left her in July 1854 and went to Germany with Mary
Ann Evans known as “George Eliot,” he passed as her husband for
the rest of his life; edited Fortnightly Review, May 1865 to
Dec. 1866; lived at the Priory, St. John’s Wood, London 1863
to death; author of The life of Maximilien Robespierre 1845;
A biographical history of philosophy 4 vols. 1845–6, 5 ed. 1
vol. 1880; The Spanish drama, Lope de Vega and Calderon 1846;
Rose, Blanche and Violet 3 vols. 1848; The life and works of
Goethe 2 vols. 1855; Studies in animal life 1862; Problems of
life and mind 5 vols. 1874–9; Our actors and the art of acting
1875. _d._ The Priory, 21 North bank, St. John’s Wood, London
30 Nov. 1878. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 4 Dec. _T. Ribot’s English
Psychology_ (1873) 255–314; _H. D. Traill’s New Lucian_ (1884)
268–87; _Fortnightly Review Jany. 1879 pp._ 15–24; _Graphic_,
_xviii_ 624 (1878), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiii_ 565 (1878),
_portrait_.

LEWIN, FREDERICK ALBERT (4 son of Robert Lewin of Cuddington,
Surrey). _b._ Jany. 1842; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 7th wrangler
1864, B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867; fellow of his college 1864–9;
barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; equity draftsman and conveyancer;
author of The law of apportionment 1869; edited Thomas Lewin’s
A practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 6 ed.
1875, 7 ed. 1878, 8 ed. 1885. _d._ suddenly from heart disease,
9 Bolton gardens west, Kensington 25 June 1887.

LEWIN, MALCOLM. _b._ 1800; judge of the Sudder court at Madras
1841–7; member of council 1845–7; author of Is the practice
of torture in Madras with the sanction of the authorities in
Leadenhall street 1856; Torture in Madras 1857; The government
of the East India company and its monopolies 1857; The way to
lose India 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The way to regain India 1858. _d._
31 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 5 March 1869.

LEWIN, THOMAS (5 son of Spencer James Lewin, V. of Ifield,
Sussex, _d._ 1842 aged 76). _b._ Ifield 19 April 1805; ed. at
Merchant Taylors’ and Worcester coll. Oxf.; scholar of Trin.
coll. 1825; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1833;
a conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1852 to death;
F.S.A. 19 March 1863; visited Jerusalem 1863; author of A
practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 1837, 5 ed.
1867, 9 ed. by C. C. M. Dale 1891; The life and epistles of St.
Paul 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1875; The invasion of Britain by Julius
Cæsar 1859, 2 ed. 1862; The siege of Jerusalem by Titus 1863;
Fasti Sacri, or a key to the chronology of the new testament
1865. _d._ 6 Queen’s gate place, London 5 Jany. 1877.

LEWIS, ALBERT (youngest son of Joseph Lewis of St. Vincent, West
Indies, merchant). _b._ 1835; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870;
Q.C. St. Vincent 27 Aug. 1879; attorney general of Tobago 1879;
acting chief justice of St. Lucia and Tobago 1884–5; judge of
assistant court of appeal of Barbadoes to death. _d._ 1 March
1889.

LEWIS, ARTHUR JAMES (son of general Robert Lewis, quartermaster
general to the Bombay army, _d._ 4 Sep. 1838 aged 74). _b._
Bombay 1801; named after his godfather the duke of Wellington;
ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 16
May 1828; advocate general of Bombay 1857 to death; member of
council of governor of Bombay for making laws and regulations.
_d._ in a room adjoining high court of Bombay 14 Nov. 1865.

LEWIS, CHARLES BLAKE. _b._ 1854; ed. King’s coll. London; won
the mile challenge cup in the United hospital athletic sports
several years in succession; M.R.C.S. 1877; L.R.C.P. Edinb.
1880; surgeon in the army 5 Feb. 1881; while with the army in
Egypt _d._ of cholera at El Warden 30 July 1883; a brass to his
memory erected in chapel of Royal Victoria hospital, Netley,
Jany. 1885. _Medical Times 24 Jany. 1885 p._ 117.

LEWIS, CHARLES CARNE (3 son of John Lewis 1768–1853, R. of
Ingatestone, Essex). _b._ Ingatestone rectory 28 Feb. 1807;
articled to Charles Parker of Chelmsford; solicitor at Brentwood
1829 to death; coroner for South Essex 1833 to death. _d._ the
Mansion house, Brentwood 26 July 1882. _bur._ at Ingatestone.

LEWIS, SIR CHARLES EDWARD, 1 Baronet (3 son of rev. George Wm.
Lewis, minister of chapel of ease, Ramsgate, _d._ 1858). _b._
Wakefield, Yorkshire 25 Dec. 1825; solicitor in London, Jany.
1847, retired Nov. 1876; partner with John Harrison at 14 New
Boswell court, Lincoln’s Inn, then head of firm of Lewis, Munns
and Longden 8 Old Jewry; election agent for the conservatives
in West Kent 1857–74; M.P. city of Londonderry 22 Nov. 1872 to
Oct. 1886 when unseated on petition; M.P. North Antrim 1887–92;
created baronet 6 April 1887; author of The four reformed
parliaments 1842; The election manual for England and Wales
1857, 3 ed. 1865; The bankruptcy manual 1861, 4 ed. 1861; Two
lectures on a short visit to America 1876. _d._ 36 Hyde park
gate, London 10 Feb. 1893. _J. Diprose’s Parish of St. Clement
Danes_, _ii_ 36–7 (1876), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iii_ 209–11
(1880).

LEWIS, CHARLES GEORGE (2 son of Frederick Christian Lewis
1779–1856). _b._ Enfield, Middlesex 13 June 1808; learnt drawing
and engraving from his father; engraved many plates after Sir
Edwin Landseer, Rosa Bonheur and other painters; exhibited an
engraving at R.A. 1875; retired about 1877. _d._ Felpham near
Bognor, Sussex 16 June 1880.

LEWIS, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ London 1830; painter of landscapes
and genre subjects; exhibited 40 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I.
and 35 at Suffolk st. gallery 1853–80; member of Royal Institute
of painters in water-colours 1882; exhibited also at Dudley and
Portland galleries; resided at Cheyne house, Upper Cheyne row,
Chelsea 1859–84, and from 1884 to death at 122 Cheyne Walk,
where he _d._ 28 Jany. 1892. _M. B. Huish’s The year’s art for
1892 p._ 106, _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 1892 p._ 4,
_portrait_.

LEWIS, ESTELLE ANNA BLANCHE (dau. of John Robinson a wealthy
planter of Anglo-Spanish birth). _b._ near Baltimore, U.S.
America, April 1824; while at school she translated the Æneid
into English verse, and composed The Forsaken, a ballad much
praised by Edgar A. Poe; (_m._ 1841 Sidney D. Lewis of Brooklyn,
New York, barrister); she resided many years in England;
Lamartine called her the ‘Female Petrarch’ and Poe ‘the rival
of Sappho’; author of Records of the heart. By Stella. New York
1844, another ed. New York 1857, another ed. entitled Poems.
London 1866; Sappho of Lesbos. London 1868, a tragedy which
reached a 7th ed. and was translated into modern Greek and
played at Athens. _d._ 29 Bedford place, London 24 Nov. 1880.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 29 Nov. _Appleton’s American Biog.
iii_ 703 (1887), _portrait_; _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._
(1855), 727, _portrait_.

LEWIS, EVAN (son of an architect). _b._ Cefn-y-bryn, Newtown,
Glamorgan 20 July 1825; studied at Airedale college; B.A.
London 1852; independent minister at Barton-on-Humber 1853–8,
at Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1858–63, at Oak st. chapel,
Accrington, Lancs. 1863–6, at Grimshaw st. chapel, Preston
1866–8, and at Offord st. chapel, Islington, Oct. 1868 to death;
F.R.G.S. and fellow of Ethnological Soc.; author of The wines
the Saviour made, used and sanctioned 1856; Two dialogues on the
use of Bands of Hope 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The two twilights, or
the saint and the sinner in life and death 1860, a poem; God’s
week of work, an examination of the Mosaic six days 1865. _d._
29 Offord road, Islington 19 Feb. 1869. _bur._ Abney park cemet.
_Congregational Year book_ (1870) 303–5.

LEWIS, FREDERICK CHRISTIAN (son of Johann Ludwig a political
refugee from Hanover). _b._ London 14 March 1779; aquatinted
Girtin’s etchings of Paris published 1803; engraved the plates
for second issue of John Chamberlain’s Original designs of
the most celebrated masters in the royal collection 1812;
engraved Sir Thomas Lawrence’s crayon portraits and many of his
drawings; engraver of drawings to Princess Charlotte, Prince
Leopold, George IV., William IV. and Victoria; landscape painter
in oils and water-colours; exhibited 56 pictures at R.A., 51 at
B.I. and 24 at Suffolk st. 1802–53; published Scenery of the
river Thames 1821, 35 aquatints; The scenery of the rivers Tamar
and Tavy 1823, 47 plates; The scenery of the river Exe 1827, 30
views; Scenery on the Devonshire rivers 1843. _d._ Bull’s Cross,
Enfield, Middlesex 18 Dec. 1856.

LEWIS, FREDERICK CHRISTIAN (3 son of the preceding). _b._ 1813;
studied under Sir Thomas Lawrence; resided some years in India
from 1834, painted many large pictures of state ceremonials for
the native princes, some of which were engraved by his father
and published in England; travelled collecting materials for an
ethnographical work which was never published. _d._ suddenly at
Genoa 26 May 1875.

LEWIS, GEORGE. Second lieut. R.M. 25 April 1793, captain 1801–18
when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. R.M. 28 Sep. 1826 to 10 July
1837 when he retired on full pay; col. commandant R.M. 10 July
1837 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; L.G. 20 June 1854; commanded a
battalion of marines in American war 1812–4. _d._ Stonehouse,
Plymouth 14 Sep. 1854 aged 84.

LEWIS, GEORGE. _b._ Glasgow; presbyterian minister Middle
church, Perth to 1839; minister of St. David’s church, Dundee
6 June 1839–43; one of a deputation sent to America respecting
slavery; minister of the Free church, Ormiston 1849–65;
editor of Scottish Guardian newspaper; author of The state of
St. David’s parish. Dundee 1841; Tracts on Scottish church
principles. Dundee 1843, six numbers; Impressions of America
and the American churches 1845; The Bible, the missal and the
breviary 2 vols. 1853; The doctrines of the Bible developed
in the facts of the Bible 1854. _d._ Jersey. _J. Smith’s Our
Scottish clergy 2 series_ (1849) 353–8; _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._
3, _pt._ 2, _p._ 698.

LEWIS, GEORGE COLEMAN HAMILTON. _b._ 1805 or 1806; attorney at
10 Ely place, Holborn, London 1834 to death; partner with his
brother James Graham Lewis 1834, succeeded him as head of firm
of Lewis and Lewis 22 Jany. 1873; deputy clerk of the peace and
clerk to the licensing justices for the liberty of the Tower
1848 to death; solicitor to the Dramatic Authors’ Society. _d._
20 Woburn place, Russell sq. London 13 March 1879. _Montagu
Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 42.

LEWIS, SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Thomas
Frankland Lewis 1780–1855). _b._ London 21 April 1806; ed. at
Eton, Jany. 1819 to Dec. 1823, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1828
to 1839; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831, D.C.L. 1857; barrister M.T.
25 Nov. 1831; assistant comr. to enquire into condition of
poorer classes in Ireland 1833; a comr. of inquiry into state
of instruction in Ireland 4 June 1834; joint comr. with John
Austin to inquire into affairs of Malta 10 Sep. 1836; a poor
law comr. for England and Wales, Jany. 1839 to July 1847; M.P.
for Herefordshire, Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852; one of secretaries
to board of control 30 Nov. 1847 to 16 May 1848; under sec. for
home department 15 May 1848 to 9 July 1850; financial sec. to
treasury 9 July 1850 to Feb. 1852; contested Herefordshire 19
July 1852 and Peterborough 6 Dec. 1852; editor of the Edinburgh
Review, Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; refused governorship of Bombay
1853; succeeded as 2 baronet 22 Jany. 1855; M.P. Radnor boroughs
Feb. 1855 to death; chancellor of the exchequer 5 March 1855 to
Feb. 1858; P.C. 28 Feb. 1855; carried the Newspaper stamp duties
bill 1855; home secretary 18 June 1859 to July 1861; sec. for
war 23 July 1861 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for England
1859–61 and 1862 to death; author of An essay on the origin and
formation of the romance languages 1839, 2 ed. 1862; An essay on
the government of dependencies 1841; An essay on the influence
of authority in matters of opinion 1849, 2 ed. 1875; An enquiry
into the credibility of the early Roman history 2 vols. 1855;
On foreign jurisdiction and the extradition of criminals 1859;
An historical survey of the astronomy of the ancients 1862;
A dialogue on the best form of government 1863. _d._ Harpton
court, Radnorshire 13 April 1863, bust by H. Weeks placed in
Westminster abbey Sep. 1864, statue by Marochetti at Hereford
unveiled 3 Sep. 1864. _Letters of sir G. C. Lewis to Friends_
(1870), _portrait_; _Creasy’s Memoirs of Etonians_ (1876)
576–78; _The drawing room portrait gallery 3 series_ (1860),
_portrait_; _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 409–12; _I.L.N.
xvi_ 388 (1850), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 24 Sep. 1864 p._
205, _view of statue at Hereford_.

LEWIS, GEORGE ROBERT (brother of Frederick Christian Lewis
1779–1856). _b._ London 27 March 1782; studied under Henry
Fuseli in schools of the R.A.; went with Dr. T. F. Dibdin
as draughtsman to the Continent 1818, illustrated Dibdin’s
Bibliographical and picturesque tour through France and
Germany 1821; exhibited 45 pictures at R.A., 18 at B.I. and
20 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–59; published An address on
education as connected with design in British manufacture.
Hereford 1838; Illustrations of phrenology 1841, No. 1, no
more published; Illustrations of Kilpeck church, Herefordshire
1842; The early fonts of England 1843; The early church of
Shobdon, Herefordshire 1852. _d._ at res. of his son John Lewis,
1 Haverstock ter. (now Belsize grove) Hampstead 15 May 1871.
_Barnes’s Hampstead_ (1890) 394–6.

LEWIS, GRIFFITH GEORGE. _b._ Woolwich 10 Nov. 1784; 2 lieut.
R.E. 15 March 1803, col. 23 Nov. 1841, col. commandant 23 Nov.
1858 to death; served in Spain 1813; lost his leg at siege of
St. Sebastian 25 July 1813; served in Newfoundland 1819–27;
commanded the R.E. at Jersey 1830–6, at Cape of Good Hope
1836–42, in Ireland 1843–7 and at Portsmouth 1847–51; governor
of royal military academy, Woolwich, April 1851 to July 1856;
C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 12 Aug. 1858; editor with J. Williams
of Papers on subjects connected with the duties of the corps
of royal engineers, vols. 1–3 1851–4, in which he wrote many
papers. _d._ Brighton 24 Oct. 1859.

LEWIS, HARMAN HICKS. _b._ 1804; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., 21st
wr. 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1840; lecturer on natural philosophy
at college of civil engineers, London. _d._ 18 Coburn place,
Upper Kennington place, London 17 March 1865.

LEWIS, HENRY NAISH (son of an officer in the army). _b._ 27
April 1816; ed. Hambly house academy, Streatham; played a
round of parts at Catherine st. theatre; acted under Davidge’s
management; at the Lyceum theatre 6 years, being a very quick
study he often was a substitute for Keely, Wrench, Oxberry,
Bland and others; played Old Men under Gladstanes at Pavilion;
at St. James’; at Surrey 8 years; appeared at all the London
theatres and acted with many of the stars. _Theatrical Times_,
_iii_ 415, 440 (1848), _portrait_.

LEWIS, HUBERT (2 son of Walter Clapham Lewis of Upper Norland
house, Kensington). _b._ 23 March 1825; entered Emm. coll.
Camb. Dec. 1844, scholar, B.A. 1848; barrister M.T. 1 May 1854;
conveyancing and equity draftsman at Bradford 1857 to 1860, in
London at 34 Cursitor st. 1860 to death; author of Principles of
conveyancing explained by concise precedents 1863; Principles
of equity drafting 1865; The ancient laws of Wales viewed in
regard to the light they throw upon the origin of some English
institutions. Edited by J. E. Lloyd 1889; almost entirely
rewrote George Goldsmith’s The doctrine and practice of equity
6 ed. 1871. _d._ 20 Dalby sq. Margate 6 March 1884. _H. Lewis’s
Ancient laws of Wales_ (1889), _preface_.

LEWIS, JAMES. _b._ Scotland; presbyterian minister at St. John’s
ch. Leith 19 Jany. 1832 to 1843; joined the Free ch. 1843; went
to Rome in 1864 and opened his house for religious services,
until in 1867 the Papal government ordered him to discontinue
the services; rented a room and opened public services outside
the gates of the city of Rome 1867, with money contributed from
Scotland, Rome and America built a church there, which was
dedicated 1871; D.D. of Princetown univ. 1871; author of The
church of Scotland obeying the law of the land in her opposition
to the civil courts 1840; The church of Scotland, the crisis and
preparation 1843; Finance of the Free church of Scotland 1843;
The necessity for sabbath trains tried and disposed of 1847;
Indian government in relation to christianity 1858. _d._ of
diphtheria Rome 29 Jany. 1872. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 1, _pt._
1, _p._ 109.

LEWIS, JAMES GRAHAM. _b._ Jany. 1804; attorney at 10 Ely place,
Holborn, London 1829 to death; clerk of indictments, Midland
circuit 1829–54; head of firm of Lewis & Lewis 1834 to death,
with the best criminal practice in London. _d._ 53 Euston sq.
London 22 Jany. 1873.

LEWIS, JAMES HENRY (eld. son of James Lewis of Ebley near
Stroud, cloth manufacturer). _b._ parish of King’s Stanley,
Gloucs. Aug. 1786; teacher of writing, arithmetic, bookkeeping
and shorthand at 104 High Holborn, London, at 13 Wellington
terrace, Waterloo road to 1834, at 113 Strand 1835 to June 1853
when he retired; taught and lectured on writing and stenography
in the chief towns of the United Kingdom; founder of Society
of reporters; author of The art of writing with the velocity
of speech 1812 anon., 5 ed. 1820; The ready writer or ne plus
ultra of shorthand, invented and published by J. H. Lewis 1812,
95th ed. 1862; An historical account of shorthand 1815; Lewis’s
Orations on the battle of Waterloo 1815; The art of making a
good pen 10 ed. 1825; The Lewisian system of shorthand 1826,
68 ed. 1834; The shorthand prayer book 1832, 2 ed. 1835; The
quick and easy method of teaching bookkeeping 14 ed. 1860; his
library of 317 books on shorthand was sold in 1872. _d._ 49
Milton road, Gravesend 30 Nov. 1853. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.
_T. Anderson’s History of shorthand_ (1882) 113, 266–76; _J. W.
Gibson’s Bibliography of shorthand_ (1887) 110–15.

LEWIS, JOHN DELAWARE (son of John Delaware Lewis, Russian
merchant). _b._ St. Petersburgh 1828; ed. at Eton and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858;
M.P. Devonport 1868 to 1874, contested Devonport 5 Feb. 1874
and 2 April 1880 and Oxford 16 March 1874; author of Sketches
of Cantabs. By John Smith of Smith-Hall gent. 1849, 3 ed.
1858; Across the Atlantic 1850; Our college, leaves from an
undergraduate’s scribbling book 1857; Hints for the evidences of
spiritualism. By M.P. 1872, 2 ed. 1875; Juvenalis Satiræ with a
literal English prose translation 1873, 2 ed. 1882; Esprit des
Grecs et des Romains 1881; Causes Celebres. Paris 1883. _d._
Westbury house, Petersfield, Hampshire 31 July 1884. _Academy 9
Aug. 1884 p._ 94.

LEWIS, JOHN FREDERICK (eld. son of Frederick Christian Lewis
1779–1856). _b._ 71 Queen Anne street East (now 33 Foley
street), London 14 July 1805; made studies of animals in the
menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand 1820 etc.; painter of Italian,
Spanish and Oriental subjects; exhibited 83 pictures at R.A.,
25 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1820–77; etched six
studies of wild animals, published about 1825; associate of Soc.
of painters in water-colours 30 March 1827, member 1 June 1829
to 1858, president 1856–8; travelled in Spain 1832–3 and in the
East 1839–51; lived at Walton on Thames 1851 to death; A.R.A.
1859, R.A. 1865, resigned June 1876; hon. R.S.A. 1853; sold his
copies of the great works of Spanish and Venetian schools to
royal Scottish academy; published A collection of etchings 1825;
Lewis’s Sketches and drawings of the Alhambra 1835; Lewis’s
Sketches of Spain and Spanish characters 1836; Sporting. By
Nimrod, embellished from pictures by J. F. Lewis 1838. _d._ The
Holme, Walton on Thames 15 Aug. 1876. _bur._ Frimley, Surrey.
_Sandby’s Royal Academy_, _ii_ 339–43 (1862); _Redgrave’s
Century of Painters_ (1878) 271; _Roget’s History of the old
water-colour society_, _i_ 540 _etc._, _ii_ 89, 453 (1891);
_Thackeray’s From Cornhill to Cairo_ (1891) 324–30, _portrait_;
_Illust. Times 25 March 1865 p._ 177, _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xiv_ 204 (1876), _portrait_.

LEWIS, JOHN HARVEY (son of Wm. Lewis of Harlech house, co.
Dublin). _b._ Dublin 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and
M.A. 1838; called to Irish bar 1838, retired 1850; sheriff
of Kildare 1857; contested Bodmin 28 March 1857 and Hull 30
April and 20 Aug. 1859; M.P. Marylebone 19 April 1861 to
26 Jany. 1874; a strong advocate of the ballot and of the
disestablishment of Irish church. _d._ Hotel Windsor, Monte
Carlo 23 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London. _Gray
v. Lewis. Law Reports. Equity Cases_, _viii_ 526–46 (1869),
_Chancery Appeals_, _viii_ 1036–56 (1873).

LEWIS, LEOPOLD DAVID (eld. son of David Lewis, physician).
_b._ London 1828; ed. at King’s coll. school; solicitor at 4
Skinner’s place, Size lane, London 1850–75; conducted with
Alfred Thompson, The Mask, a humorous and fantastic review Feb.
to Dec. 1868; adapted a drama called The Bells from Le Juif
Polonais by M. M. Erckmann-Chatrian produced at Lyceum theatre
25 Nov. 1871 which was played 151 times; his other dramas were
The Wandering Jew, Adelphi theatre 14 April 1873; Give a dog a
bad name, Adelphi 18 Nov. 1876; and The Foundlings, Sadler’s
Wells 8 Oct. 1881; author of A peal of merry bells 3 vols.
1880. _d._ Royal free hospital, Gray’s Inn road, London 23 Feb.
1890. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _The Mask_ (1868) _p. iii_,
_portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 1 March 1890 p._ 8, _and 8
March p._ 18, _portrait_.

LEWIS, LEWIS ALPHA. _b._ Nov. 1802; apprenticed to J. and
A. Arch of Cornhill, London, booksellers and auctioneers; a
literary auctioneer and bookseller at the Bank coffee house,
Bank buildings, Cornhill 1825–7, at 15 Poultry 1827–39, at 125
Fleet st. 1839–61, at 24 Bell yard, Fleet st. 1863–9 and at 17
Portugal st. Lincoln’s Inn 1870 to death; bankrupt 6 July 1841.
_d._ Surbiton, Surrey 28 June 1877. _bur._ Kensal green cemet.
_Bookseller_, _July 1877 p._ 667; _J. Diprose’s St. Clement’s_,
_ii_ 53 (1876).

LEWIS, MARIA THERESA (only dau. of hon. George Villiers
1759–1827, younger brother of John 3 earl of Clarendon
1757–1838). _b._ Upper Grosvenor st. London 8 March 1803;
granted precedence of an earl’s daughter Feb. 1839; edited
Extracts of the journals and correspondence of Miss Berry
from the year 1783 to 1852, 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1866; The
semi-detached house. By the hon. Emily Eden 1859; author of
The story of beauty and the beast, dramatized for juvenile
performers 1844; The story of Cinderella, dramatized 1844; Lives
of the friends and contemporaries of lord chancellor Clarendon
3 vols. 1852. (_m._ (1) 6 Nov. 1830 Thomas Henry Lister,
novelist and dramatist 1800–42; _m._ (2) 26 Oct. 1844 Sir George
Cornewall Lewis, statesman 1806–63). She _d._ the principal’s
lodgings, Brasenose college, Oxford 9 Nov. 1865.

LEWIS, RICHARD. A parliamentary reporter; secretary to National
lifeboat institution 1850 to death; barrister I.T. 30 April
1862. _d._ Cannes 17 March 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 317 (1883),
_portrait_.

LEWIS, SAMUEL. Publisher as S. Lewis & Co. at 87 Aldersgate st.
London 1838–42, at 87 Hatton Garden 1842–5 and at 13 Finsbury
place south 1845–52; published A topographical dictionary of
England with maps and a plan of London 4 vols. 1831, 7 ed. 1849;
A topographical dictionary of Wales 2 vols. 1833, 4 ed. 1849; A
topographical dictionary of Ireland 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1842; An
atlas comprising maps of the counties of England and Wales 1842;
A topographical dictionary of Scotland 3 vols. 1846. _d._ 19
Compton terrace, Islington 28 Feb. 1865.

LEWIS, SAMUEL (son of the preceding). Author of The history and
topography of the parish of St. Mary, Islington 1842; Islington
as it was and as it is 1854; The book of English rivers 1855.
_d._ 1 Priory villas, Canonbury, London 4 May 1862.

LEWIS, SAMUEL SAVAGE (youngest son of Wm. Jones Lewis of
Croydon, surgeon). _b._ 7 Spital sq. Bishopsgate, London 13 July
1836; ed. at City of London school 1844–54, Carpenter scholar
1847; matric. from St. John’s coll. Camb. 10 Oct. 1854 when
his sight failed; practised farming in England 1856–7; studied
farming, lived in Canada 1857–60; his eyes twice operated on by
George Critchett 1864; returned to Camb. 1864, migrated to C.C.
coll. 1865, B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872; fellow of C.C. coll. 1869 to
1887, librarian 1870–91; F.S.A. 22 March 1872; ordained 1872;
classical lecturer C.C. coll. 1874; Latin lecturer to Assoc.
for higher education of women 1875–7; collected coins, gems and
seals from all parts of Europe, which he left by will to his
college; contributed papers to Camb. Philos. Soc, Royal Soc.
of literature, &c.; author of Report on the age of the Utrecht
psalter 1874; The library of Corpus Christi college 1891, and
other antiquarian papers; (_m._ 12 Dec. 1887 Agnes Smith author
of novels). _d._ suddenly in the train near Oxford 31 March
1891. _A. S. Lewis’ Life of S. S. Lewis_ (1892), _portrait_.

LEWIS, THOMAS. Ed. Lancashire Independent coll. and Owen’s
coll.; independent minister 1873; professor at Bala coll. 1873
and then principal on the coll. being removed to Bangor, when
it became known as Bala-Bangor independent college; member of
council of University coll. of North Wales. _d._ Naples 12 Feb.
1892.

LEWIS, T. D. (son of Wm. Thomas Lewis, actor 1748–1811).
Succeeded his father as lessee and manager of theatre royal,
Liverpool 1811, retired on expiration of his lease. _d._ London
1852.

LEWIS, SIR THOMAS FRANKLAND, 1 Baronet (only son of John Lewis
of Harpton court, Radnorshire 1738–97). _b._ London 14 May 1780;
matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1798; lieut.-col. of Radnorshire
militia 1806–15; M.P. Beaumaris 1812–26; M.P. Ennis 1826–8; M.P.
Radnorshire 1828–35; M.P. Radnor burghs 1847 to death; comr. of
enquiry into revenue of Great Britain and Ireland 1822–5; first
comr. of enquiry into education in Ireland 1825–8; joint sec.
to treasury 4 Sep. 1827 to 28 Jany. 1828; vice pres. of board
of trade 5 Feb. to 30 May 1828; P.C. 5 Feb. 1828; treasurer of
the navy 17 Feb. 1830; chairman of English poor law commission
18 Aug. 1834 to 23 Jany. 1839; a comr. for enquiry into state of
laws in South Wales 7 Oct. 1843; created a baronet 27 June 1846;
chairman of Economic life assurance co. _d._ Harpton court,
Radnorshire 22 Jany. 1855.

LEWIS, THOMAS TAYLOR. _b._ Ludlow, Shropshire 1801; ed. at Cheam
school, Surrey; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. 5 Oct. 1819;
B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; C. of Aymestrey, Herefordshire 1826; P.C.
of Leinthall Earls, Herefordshire 1832 to 1841; V. of Bridstow
near Ross 1841 to death; formed large collections of fossils,
several local fossils have been called after him namely, Lingula
Lewisii, Spirorbis Lewisii and Cephalapis Lewisii; edited for
the Camden Society The letters of Lady Brilliana Harley 1853.
_d._ Bridstow 28 Oct. 1858.

LEWIS, TIMOTHY RICHARDS. _b._ 31 Oct. 1841; ed. Univ. coll.
London and Aberdeen univ., M.D. and C.M. 1867; assist.
surgeon in army 31 March 1868, surgeon major 31 March 1880;
sent to Germany with David Cunningham by the War Office to
study pathology; assistant professor of pathology in the army
medical school, Netley; recommended for election as F.R.S. in
April 1886; sent with D. Cunningham to India to investigate
cholera cases; made the discovery of the filaria in the urine
of patients in general hospital, Calcutta 1869; author of A
report on the microscopic objects found in cholera evacuations.
Calcutta 1870; On hæmatozoon inhabiting human blood 1872, 2
ed. 1874; The pathological significance of nematode hæmatozoa
1874; Physiological and pathological researches 1888; with David
Cunningham he wrote A report of researches into the nature of
cholera 1872, 2 series 1874; The soil in its relation to disease
1875; Leprosy in India 1877. _d._ Bywood, Woolston 7 May 1886.
_Lancet_, _i_ 955, 993 (1886).

LEWIS, W. Calvinistic Methodist minister; one of first Welsh
missionaries sent to India, laboured in North-eastern Bengal;
went through the whole of the Indian mutiny; reduced the Khasia
language to writing and translated the New Testament into
Khassei. _d._ May 1891.

LEWIS, WALLER AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1817; ed. Univ. coll. London
and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.B. 1849; L.S.A. 1839,
M.R.C.P. 1859; metropolitan comr. of sewers 1855–6; senior
medical officer of General post office at £1000 a year; medical
superintendent inspector General Board of Health and Sanitary
commissioner Home office; author of Report on the state of the
burial vaults of metropolitan churches; On the origin and spread
of epidemic cholera; On the laws in France for regulation of
noxious trades and occupations 1855. _d._ Whitby 7 Sep. 1882.

LEWIS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1787; pupil of J. H. Sarratt the best
chess player in England about 1807; the leading player many
years after Sarratt’s death in 1821; a great and original chess
analyst and one of the finest players in Europe; when W. de
Kempelen’s automaton chessplayer was exhibited in London in
1819, Lewis officiated for some months as the hidden conductor
of the Turk’s games, losing only 6 games in 300 though always
giving the odds of pawn and move; played a match at Paris with
Alexander L. H. L. Des Chapelles the leading chess-player in
France 1821; a teacher of chess at 5 Nassau st. Soho, London,
Alexander McDonnell was one of his pupils; author of A treatise
on the game of chess 1814; Oriental chess, or specimens of
Hindostanee excellence in that celebrated game 2 vols. 1817;
Carera’s A treatise on the game of chess, to which is added
the art of playing without seeing the board 1822; Fifty games
at chess, most of which occurred between the author and some
of the best players in England, France and Germany 1832. _d._
about 16 Nov. 1870. _Quarterly Review_, _June 1849 pp._ 90–5;
_W. G. Walker’s Selection of games at chess_ (1836) 273; _W.
G. Walker’s Thousand games at chess_ (18--) _ix_ 82–4; _Chess
Players’ Chronicle_, _i_ 9, 33 (1841); _I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1870 p._
555.

LEWIS, WILLIAM DAVID (brother of sir Charles E. Lewis). _b._
1823; pupil of John Rudall, conveyancer 1838; a conveyancer at
10 Serle st. 1842, being the youngest conveyancer on record;
barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1844, bencher 1859; Q.C. June 1859;
reader on law of real property and conveyancing at Gray’s Inn
26 May 1847 to June 1852, delivered every year 60 original and
elaborate lectures; a comr. on registration of title to land
18 Jany. 1854, the report is dated 15 May 1857 and contains
sketches of two bills by Lewis; founded the Juridical society
10 Feb. 1855; author of A practical treatise on the law of
perpetuity 1843, unparalleled in the history of legal authorship
as the achievement of a youth under 20 years of age. _d._ 1
Kensington sq. London 24 Jany. 1861 in 38 year. _Solicitors’
Journal_, _v_ 242–4 (1861).

NOTE.--His only son Wm. Arnold Lewis, barrister Inner Temple 17 Nov. 1869, was killed by accident on the Lyskamm near Zermatt 6 Sep. 1877.

LEWIS, WILLIAM GARRETT (eld. son of Wm. Garrett Lewis, minister
of Zion chapel, Chatham in 1824). _b._ Margate 5 Aug. 1821;
articled to Dr. Gray of Brixton, London, schoolmaster 1837–40;
clerk in the post office, London 1840–7; minister of Baptist
chapel in Silver st. Kensington, Sep. 1847, new chapel built
for him in Ledbury road, Westbourne Grove, opened 6 April 1853,
preached there to Dec. 1880, presented by his congregation with
400 guineas 3 Jany. 1881; minister of chapel in Dagnal st. St.
Albans, Jany. 1881 to death; a founder of the London Baptist
association 1865, sec. 1865–9, pres. 1870; edited The Baptist
Magazine 20 years; author of The religion of Rome examined, a
course of lectures 1851; Westbourne Grove sermons 1872; The
trades and industrial occupations of the Bible 1874. _d._
Victoria st. St. Albans 16 Jany. 1885. _bur._ Kensal Green 21
Jany. _Baptist Mag. March ]885 pp._ 97–102.

LEY, WILLIAM (son of rev. Mr. Ley). _b._ Devonshire 1806; ed. at
Ottery, Devon, and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1831,
L.S.A. 1835; resident medical officer of Fever hospital 4 years;
surgeon Crawford st. Portman sq. London, and surgeon to Western
general dispensary, Stafford st.; studied insanity in Hanwell
asylum; medical superintendent of Oxford and Berks. asylum,
Littlemore 1845–66, where he treated all the patients with
gentleness; the first to introduce cannabis Indica. _d._ while
visiting the superintendent at Littlemore 7 March 1869. _Medical
Times_, _i_ 345–6 (1869).

LEYBOURNE, GEORGE. _b._ 1842; sang in the provinces many years;
next to Alfred G. Vance he was the best known comic singer of
his time, had an excellent voice, sang at all the London music
halls; his songs Champagne Charlie 1867, Mouse-traps, and She
danced like a fairy, were very popular; made his last appearance
at Queen’s palace, Poplar 1884; author of The Barber’s
apprentice boy, song 1868; Twelve of G. Leybourne’s comic songs
1878; reported to have died 24 Nov. 1876. _d._ of consumption,
Englefield road, Islington 15 Sep. 1884. _bur._ Abney park
cemetery 19 Sep. _The Entr’acte 2 Dec. 1876 p._ 3, _20 Sep. 1884
p._ 11, _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. News 21 April 1866 pp._ 227,
236, _portrait_.

NOTE.--His dau. Florrie Leybourne is a music hall artiste. A matinée benefit was given for his widow at the Royal Holborn music hall on 27 Sep. 1884. On one occasion when Leybourne was singing for William Holland at the Canterbury music hall, under a clause in his agreement he had to drive out in a coach and four whenever required to do so, and was frequently seen in public in his carriage.

LEYLAND, JOHN. _b._ 1815; founded the Boys Home and Surrey
reformatory, Spanish road, Wandsworth, London 1852, also the
Surrey Industrial school, High st. Wandsworth, of both of which
he was hon. manager. _d._ Rosemount, Byfleet, Surrey 7 Oct. 1882.

LEYLAND, JOSEPH BENTLEY (2 son of Robert Leyland, naturalist).
_b._ Halifax 31 March 1811; exhibited at Manchester the model
of a greyhound and a colossal statue of Spartacus 1832; studied
design under B. R. Haydon in London; his statue of Dr. Beckwith
of York was placed in York minster; exhibited models of groups
of hounds at Suffolk st. gallery 1834 and 1839; his group
of African bloodhounds and his colossal figure The Thracian
Falconer, are in the Salford museum. _d._ Halifax 26 Jany. 1851.

LIARDET, FRANCIS (2 son of John Liardet). _b._ Chelsea 14 June
1798; entered navy 14 June 1809; second captain of the Powerful
84 guns 12 Jany. 1839 to 1840, served in the Mediterranean on
the coast of Syria and at bombardment of St. Jean d’ Acre;
captain 4 Nov. 1840; placed on h.p. Jany. 1841; agent for New
Zealand company at Taranaki, Sep. 1841 to Feb. 1842; lost
sight of one eye by an explosion 29 Nov. 1841; a captain of
Greenwich hospital Jany. 1856 to death; author of Professional
recollections on points of seamanship, discipline, &c. 1849;
The midshipman’s companion 1851; Friendly hints to the young
naval lieutenant 1858. _d._ Greenwich hospital 1 March 1863,
marble bust of him by T. Milnes is in the painted hall. _E. G.
Wakefield’s Adventure in New Zealand_, _ii_ 68, 163 (1845).

LIBRI-CARRUCCI DALLA SOMMAIA, GUGLIELMO BRUTO ICILIO TIMOLEONE,
Count. _b._ Florence 2 Jany. 1803; professor of mathematical
physics, univ. of Pisa 1823 professor at faculté des sciences,
Paris 1832; naturalized in France 2 Jany. 1833; inspector
general of public libraries in France; accused of pilfering from
the libraries, which, he entirely denied, fled to England 28
Feb. 1848, sentenced in his absence to 10 years imprisonment by
the cour d’ assize of the department of the Seine 22 June 1850;
sold his MSS. to Bertram 4 earl of Ashburnham, they are now
in the Laurenzian library at Florence; his books were sold by
Sotheby 1859–66, sales taking 25 days; returned to Tuscany 1868;
author of Histoire des sciences mathématiques en Italie 4 vols.
Paris 1838–41. _d._ Fiesole near Florence 28 Sep. 1869. _Memoir
of Augustus de Morgan_ (1882) _passim_; _Saturday Rev. lv_ 266–7
(1883); _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Nov. 1869 pp._ 259–61.

LICHFIELD, THOMAS WILLIAM ANSON, 1 Earl of (1 son of 1 viscount
Anson 1767–1818). _b._ Shugborough, Staffs. 20 Oct. 1795; capt.
Staffordshire yeomanry 1812, lieut.-col. 1829, lieut.-col.
commandant 1833 to death; M.P. Yarmouth 19 June 1818; succeeded
as 2 viscount Anson 31 July 1818; master of the Atherstone
hounds 1821–30; master of the buckhounds 24 Nov. 1830 to 30 Dec.
1834; P.C. 24 Nov. 1830; created earl of Lichfield 15 Sep. 1831;
postmaster general 30 May 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841; high steward of
Great Yarmouth 22 Feb. 1836; won the St. Leger with Elis 1836
and the 2000 guineas with Corsair 1839; sold all his pictures,
sculpture, &c. in a 12 days sale Aug. 1842. _d._ 2 Great
Stanhope st. Mayfair, London 18 March 1854.

LICHFIELD, THOMAS GEORGE ANSON, 2 Earl of (1 son of the
preceding). _b._ Shugborough, Staffs. 8 Aug. 1825; ed. at Eton;
styled viscount Anson 1831–54; capt. Staffordshire yeomanry 16
Nov. 1844, major 17 April 1863; precis writer to lord Palmerston
at foreign office 1846–7; M.P. Lichfield 1847–54; succeeded as
2 earl of Lichfield 18 March 1854; lord lieut. of Staffordshire
1863–71; high steward of Stafford 1878; first chairman of Soc.
for reformation of juvenile offenders and a founder of the
reformatory at Saltley. _d._ at his residence in London 7 Jany.
1892. _Mrs. Fairlie’s Portraits of children of the nobility 3
Ser. plate_ 2 (1841).

LICHTENSTEIN, GEORGE. _b._ Hungary 1823; ed. for legal
profession; a political refugee in England; naturalized 18
Dec. 1854; professor of music at Edinburgh 1856 to death;
tutor to duke of Edinburgh; composer of My dream waltz for the
pianoforte, with cornet ad lib. 1854; Tempi futuri, polka 1854;
Pensées patriotiques, mélodies originales pour piano 1855; War
march for the piano 1855. _d._ Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1893.

LIDDELL, _Sir Adolphus Frederick Octavius_ (youngest son of 1
baron Ravensworth 1775–1855). _b._ 15 Jany. 1818; ed. at Eton
and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; fellow of All Souls’
1840–6; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1844, bencher 30 April 1861 to
death, treasurer 1875; contested Grateshead 9 July 1852; Q.C.
22 Feb. 1861; permanent under sec. of state for home department
1867 to death; K.C.B. 20 April 1880. _d._ 49 Rutland gate,
London 27 June 1885.

LIDDELL, ANDREW (son of Mr. Liddell of Bainsford near Falkirk,
schoolmaster). _b._ Bainsford 1786; an ironmonger in Glasgow
1815–44; carried on most extensive manufacture in Scotland of
wrought iron tubes; member of philosophical society of Glasgow
1819, pres. of it frequently, treasurer many years; A.I.C.E.
1843; pastor of baptist chapel in Brown st. Glasgow 1844, which
he purchased and presented to his congregation; wrote Life
of David Dale, for Blackie’s Lives of eminent Scotsmen. _d._
Bardowie house, Glasgow 15 Nov. 1855.

LIDDELL, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (6 son of 1 baron Ravensworth
1775–1855). _b._ 28 July 1812; ed. at Eton; ensign Scots
fusilier guards 27 Nov. 1828, captain 8 Sep. 1846, placed on
h.p. 6 July 1849; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; lieut.-col. 6
dragoons 15 Feb. 1861, sold out same day; played his first
cricket match at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ St. John’s Wood club
1 June 1840, a hard forward driver and active in the field,
on committee of Marylebone club; comptroller of the household
and equerry to duchess of Gloucester 1845–58; groom in waiting
to the Queen 1858–82; treasurer to duke of Edinburgh 1866–71;
deputy ranger of Richmond park 1850–71; deputy ranger of Windsor
park 1871–83. _d._ South Lawn, Eton 14 Dec. 1888. _Lillywhite’s
Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 549 (1862).

LIDDELL, SIR JOHN. _b._ Dunblane, Scotland 1794; ed. at univ. of
Edinb., M.D.; L.R.C.S. 1821; assistant surgeon in the navy 1812;
director of the hospital at Malta 1827; inspector of fleets and
hospitals 1844; deputy inspector general of Haslar hospital
1840; inspector general of Greenwich hospital 1844–54; director
general of medical department of the navy April 1854 to 1864;
hon. phys. to the queen 13 May 1859 to death; knighted at St.
James’s palace 17 May 1848; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850, K.C.B. 9 Feb.
1864; F.R.S. 18 June 1846; knight of Russian order of St. Anne
and of Greek order of the Redeemer. _d._ 72 Chester sq. London
28 May 1868.