Chapter XX: Part 20

LIDDELL, ROBERT (brother of G. A. F. Liddell 1812–88). _b._ 24
Sep. 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1829, M.A.
1834; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1831–6; V. of Barking, Essex
1836–51; V. of St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge with St. Barnabas,
Pimlico, London 1851–81, he erected crosses, &c. in both these
churches, Messrs. Westerton and Beale proceeded against him in
the Consistory court, Dr. Lushington delivered judgment against
him 5 Dec. 1855, which was confirmed by sir J. Dodson in the
Arches court 20 Dec. 1856, but the privy council decided partly
for both parties, each to pay his own costs 21 March 1857;
author of The seven deadly sins, lectures in St. Paul’s 1858;
The fruits of penitential sorrow, lectures 1860; The christian
priesthood, altar and sacrifice, four sermons 1867; The lay of
the last angler. By a Sexagenarian 1867, 3 ed. 1883; A pastoral
farewell to the parishioners of St. Paul’s 1881, and 25 other
books. _d._ 12 New Cavendish st. London 29 June 1888. _J. E.
Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed._ (1858) 40–9.

LIDDERDALE, THOMAS WILLIAM (2 son of Thomas Robertson
Liddersdale of St. Mary’s isle, Kirkcudbright, ensign 6 W.I.
regt.) _b._ 1830; in British museum 30 years, latterly as a
first class assistant in printed book department; a student in
Scandinavian literature and Icelandic bibliography; assisted P.
H. M’Kerlie in his History of Galloway 5 vols. 1870–9; compiled
Catalogue of the books printed in Iceland from A.D. 1578 to 1880
in the library of the British museum. 1885; taken ill in the
street, went into the shop of Daniel Margetts metal worker 16
York st. Covent Garden, where he fell on the floor, conveyed to
Charing Cross hospital, where he _d._ same day 4 Sep. 1884.

LIDDON, HENRY PARRY (eld. son of Matthew Liddon, captain R.N.,
_d._ 1869 aged 77). _b._ North Stoneham, Hampshire 20 Aug.
1829; ed. at Lyme Regis, Dorset 1839–41 and at King’s coll.
sch. London 1841–6; entered Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1846, student 1847 to
death; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853, B.D., D.D. and D.C.L. 1870, Johnson
theological scholar 1851; C. of Wantage 1852–4; vice principal
of Cuddesdon theological college 1854–9; vice principal of St.
Edmund’s hall, Oxford 1859–61; exam. chaplain to bishop of
Salisbury 1864, preb. of Salisbury 1864–70; select preacher to
univ. of Oxf. 1863, 1870, 1877 and 1884; Ireland professor of
exegesis at Oxf. June 1870 to 1882; gave a series of lectures
in St. James’s hall, Piccadilly, London 1870; member of council
of Keble coll. Oxf. 1870 to death; canon of St. Paul’s cath.
27 April 1870 to death, chancellor 1886 to death; the foremost
preacher in the ch. of England and the most powerful champion
of the high church party; took a leading part in the Bonn
conferences 10–16 Aug. 1875; select preacher at Cambridge 1884
and 1889, hon. LL.D. June 1889; elected bishop of Edinburgh,
June 1886 but declined the charge; author of Some words for God,
sermons before the university of Oxford 1865, republished as
Sermons before the university 8 ed. 1884; The divinity of Jesus
Christ, eight lectures before the university on the foundation
of John Bampton 1867, 14 ed. 1890; Some elements of religion,
Lent lectures 1872, 5 ed. 1885; Sermons preached before the
university. Second series 1879, 4 ed. 1887; Selections from the
writing of H. P. Liddon 1882, 2 ed. 1883; Edward Bouverie Pusey,
a sermon 1884, 2 ed. 1884; Easter in St. Paul’s, sermons on the
resurrection 2 vols. 1885, 2 ed. 1891; Forty sermons preached
in St. Paul’s, London. Four series 1886; Advent in St. Paul’s,
sermons 2 vols. 1889, 2 ed. 1889; The magnificat, sermons in
St. Paul’s 1889, 3 ed. 1891, and 60 other works. _d._ Claremont
crescent, Weston-super-Mare 9 Sep. 1890. _bur._ crypt of St.
Paul’s cath. 16 Sep.; portrait by G. Richmond at Keble coll.,
and another by H. Herkomer in Ch. Ch. hall. _C. M. Davies’s
Orthodox London_ (1874) 141–52, _2 Ser._ (1875) 396–400; _F.
Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _ii_ 153–66 (1875); _Church
quarterly review_, _Oct. 1890 pp._ 212–18; _Temple Bar_, _lxxii_
334–8 (1884); _The Biograph_, _v_ 360–2 (1881); _I.L.N. 20 Sep.
1890 p._ 353, _portrait_.

LIEBSTEIN, HERMANN (5 son of David Liebstein of Lemberg,
Gallicia, Austria, merchant). _b._ Austria 1829; naturalised
in England 16 June 1855; barrister G.I. 17 Nov. 1858; equity
draftsman; author of Notes of Expository addresses on the book
of Revelation 1876; Eternal life, where to find it and how to
obtain it 1882. _d._ at his house, 40 Highbury hill near London
13 July 1882.

LIECHTENSTEIN, MARIE, Princess of (adopted daughter of Henry
4 baron Holland who _d._ Naples 18 Dec. 1859, and known as
Miss Marie Fox). _b._ 21 Dec. 1850; (_m._ at pro-cathedral,
Kensington 27 June 1872 Prince Aloys or Louis Liechtenstein 2
son of François prince de Liechtenstein 1802–87, he was _b._
Prague 18 Nov. 1846, lieut. of hussars, a knight of Malta,
secretary of legation); author of Holland House 2 vols. 1874;
Nora, a novel taken from the German of the baroness F. Von
Brackel 1877. _d._ Burgstall in Styria 26 Dec. 1878. _Morning
Post 28 June 1872 p._ 5.

LIEFDE, JACOB B. DE (of Dutch parentage). _b._ 1847; ed. in
Holland; war correspondent of the Daily News with the German
army outside Paris and during the Commune 1870–71; author of The
beggars or the founders of the Dutch republic 1868, 5 ed. 1883;
Walter’s escape or the capture of Breda 1870; The great Dutch
admirals 1873; Hereditary bondsmen, or is it all in vain 3 vols.
1875; The maid of Stralsund 1876; A brave resolve or the siege
of Stralsund 2 ed. 1883. _d._ Twickenham, Middlesex 6 Feb. 1878.

LIFFORD, JAMES HEWITT, 3 Viscount (1 son of 2 viscount Lifford
1750–1830). _b._ 29 Aug. 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1804;
student Inner Temple 1805; succeeded 15 April 1830; author of
Ireland and the Irish church 1842; Thoughts on the present state
of Ireland 1849. _d._ Brighton 22 April 1855.

LIGAR, CHARLES WHYBROW. _b._ Ceylon 1809; ed. Sandhurst; 2
lieut. royal engineers, resigned; engaged on ordnance survey in
Ireland till 1840; surveyor general New Zealand 1840–56; col.
and commandant of New Zealand militia, took part in the war at
the Bay of Islands; surveyor general of Victoria, Australia
1858, retired on a pension 1869; settled in Texas. _d._ 1879.

LIGGINS, JOSEPH. _b._ London 1791; West India merchant and
ship owner, 37 Mincing lane, London 1830 to death; chairman of
Southampton dock co. nearly 20 years; author of A refutation of
the calumnies circulated by the Anti-Slavery agency committee
against the West India planters. Signed Joseph Liggins, Mincing
lane, London 1833. _d._ Homer villa, 33 Addison road, Kensington
22 June 1860.

LIGGINS, JOSEPH HENRY (son of a baker of Nuneaton,
Warwickshire). _b._ 1800; educ. at Cambridge but was rusticated;
a tutor; resided in Isle of Man and at Liverpool and was on the
staff of a Liverpool newspaper; borrowed money from all his
friends, which he never repaid; claimed to have written Adam
Bede 1859 and on the strength of this claim received many sums
of money; was found destitute in lodgings and removed by the
relieving officer to Chilvers Coton workhouse near Nuneaton,
where after some months he died 29 May 1872 aged 72. _The Times
2, 6, 11, 13 Feb. 1885_; _Cross’s Life of G. Eliot_, _i_ 449,
_ii_ 97–100, 107, 136 (1885).

LIGHT, SIR HENRY (son of Wm. Light of the Madras civil service).
_b._ 1783; ed. at Rugby and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Aug.
1799, captain 20 Dec. 1814, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1819; lieut.
governor of Antigua 13 April 1836; governor and commander
in chief of British Guiana 1 May 1838 to 1844, retired on a
pension; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of Travels in Egypt,
Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Lebanon and Cyprus in 1814. 1818. _d._
Falmouth 3 March 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_ 307 (1870).

LIGHTFOOT, JOHN EMANUEL. _b._ Gisburn 1802; partner in firm of
F. W. Grafton & Co. Broad Oak print works, Accrington; first
mayor of Accrington 1878, also in 1882; the father of Lancashire
methodism. _d._ Quarry Hill, Accrington 24 April 1893.

LIGHTFOOT, JOHN PRIDEAUX (1 son of Nicholas Lightfoot, R. of
Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devon, _d._ 1847). _b._ Crediton 23 March
1803; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., fellow 1824–34, tutor 1824–34; B.A.
1824, M.A. 1827, B. and D.D. 1854; R. of Wootton, Northants.
1834–54; hon. canon of Peterborough 1853 to death; rector of Ex.
coll. 18 March 1854 to death; R. of Kidlington, Oxf. 1854 to
death; member of first hebdomadal council 1854; vice chancellor
1862–6, entertained prince and princess of Wales at dinner in
Ex. coll. hall 17 June 1863; opened the Petrean fellowships to
Northants by conveying ground in Wootton to Lord Petre 1847.
_d._ the rectory, Ex. coll. on anniversary of his birth 23 March
1887. _Boase’s Exeter college_ (1879) 125.

LIGHTFOOT, JOSEPH BARBER (son of John Jackson Lightfoot,
accountant, _d._ 1843). _b._ 84 Duke st. Liverpool 13 April
1828; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. 1844–7; pensioner at Trin.
coll. Camb. Oct. 1847, scholar 1849, fellow 1852–71, tutor
1853–62; 31st wrangler and senior classic 1851; B.A. 1851, M.A.
1854, D.D. 1864; Norrisian prizeman 1853, select preacher 1858,
a founder of the Journal of classical and sacred philology, and
one of the editors March 1854 to Dec. 1859; member of council
of Oxford senate 1860–78 except 2 years; Hulsean professor
of divinity 1861–75; chaplain to Prince Consort, Feb. 1861;
chaplain to the Queen 24 March 1862–79; deputy clerk of the
closet 1875–9; Whitehall preacher 1866–7; select preacher at
Oxf. 1874–5; exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1862–9, to
archbishop of Canterbury 1869–79; Lady Margaret’s professor of
divinity at Cambridge 26 May 1875 to 1879; canon of St. Paul’s
cath. 23 Feb. 1871; an original member of New Testament company
of revisers July 1870 to Nov. 1880; a comr. for Cambridge under
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge act 1877, 1877–81; declined
bishopric of Lichfield 1867; bishop of Durham 15 March 1879 to
death, consecrated in Westminster abbey 25 April, expended all
his episcopal income for purposes within the diocese; trained
about 80 graduates at his seat Auckland Castle free of charge;
endowed univ. of Durham with the Richard de Bury scholarship
1882; presided at church congress at Newcastle 1881 and at
British archæological assoc. at Darlington 1886; the ‘White
Cross’ movement took its rise at Auckland Castle 1883; author of
Commentary on epistle to the Galatians 1865; On a fresh revision
of the English New Testament 1871, 2 ed. 1872; The apostolic
fathers. St. Clement 1 vol. 1877, St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp
2 vols. 1885; The epistles of Paul. Philippians. A revised text
1879; Cambridge sermons 1890; Ordination addresses and counsels
to clergy 1890; Sermons preached in St. Paul’s cathedral 1891;
Sermons preached on special occasions 1891. _d._ the Imperial
hotel, Bournemouth 21 Dec. 1889. _bur._ in chapel of Auckland
Castle 27 Dec., portrait by W. B. Richmond in Auckland Castle,
memorial altar tomb unveiled in Durham cath. 20 Oct. 1892. _C.
Bullock’s The two bishops_ (1890) 33–56, _portrait_; _Biograph_,
_vi_ 579–82 (1881); _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 201 (1879), _portrait_;
_Graphic 28 Dec. 1889 p._ 791, _portrait_.

NOTE.--In 1870 he transferred to Univ. of Camb. £4500 for the foundation of three scholarships for the encouragement of the study of ecclesiastical history in itself and in connection with general history. The Lady Margaret’s professorship being endowed with the rectory of Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk, he restored the chancel of that church in 1878–9 at a cost of £2140. By his will he created a trust called ‘The Lightfoot fund for the diocese of Durham’ for the erection of buildings for church purposes and for other purposes at discretion of the trustees, to whom he assigned his works and copyrights. His library was divided between the univ. of Durham and the Cambridge divinity school.

LIGHTFOOT, THOMAS. _b._ 1775; ensign 5 foot Aug. 1799; captain
45 foot 15 Dec. 1804, major 7 Oct. 1813 to 25 Dec. 1814 when
placed on h.p.; extra A.D.C. to the Sovereign 6 May 1831 to 23
Nov. 1841; colonel 62 foot 11 April 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov.
1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Barbourne house, Worcester 15 Nov.
1858.

LIGHTFOOT, THOMAS (son of the preceding). _b._ 27 Dec. 1820;
ensign 84 foot 1 June 1838, lieut.-col. 4 April 1859, placed on
h.p. 5 May 1869; brigade major, Lucknow, Nov. 1857 to Jany.
1858; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869,
placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 27 Dec. 1882; C.B.
14 May 1859. _d._ 16 Victoria park, Dover 3 March 1888.

LIGHTON, SIR CHRISTOPHER ROBERT, 6 Baronet. _b._ Earlsgift,
co. Tyrone 28 May 1819; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1843,
M.A. 1846; succeeded his brother sir John H. Lighton 29 April
1844; V. of Ellastone, Staffs. 1848 to death; author of Does
Rome teach salvation by Christ alone, if not is her teaching
christian? _d._ Ellastone 12 April 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 402
(1875).

LILLEY, JOHN (3 son of a carrier between Spillsby and Boston).
_b._ Lincolnshire 1823; enlisted in 6 regt. Inniskilling
dragoons 25 Jany. 1844, corporal 1848, sergeant 1852, troop
sergeant major 1853, regimental sergeant major 1855; served at
Scutari 1855; went to India 1857; summoned as a witness at the
court martial on Capt. Thomas W. Smales, ordered by lieut.-col.
Thomas Robert Crawley at Mhow, Bombay 1862; accused of speaking
disparagingly of col. Crawley, a charge which he entirely
denied, put under close confinement at Mhow 26 April 1862, where
he _d._ 25 May 1862; Crawley was court martialed and “honorably
acquitted,” but the full facts of the case were never brought
out. _Samuel Lilley’s Military despotism or the Iniskilling
dragoon_ (1863); _Military despotism. Addenda to the case_
(1863).

LILLEY, SAMUEL (eld. son of Samuel Isaac Lilley of Peckham,
Surrey). _b._ 1805; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1829–32;
B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1830; a member of
the bar committee 1883; a revising barrister for Surrey 1885
to death; prosecutor for the treasury at Surrey sessions, _d._
Southsea 22 June 1887. _Law Journal 2 July 1887 pp._ 373, 381.

LILLIE, JOHN. _b._ Kelso, Roxburghshire 16 Dec. 1812; ed.
Edinb. univ., B.A. 1833, D.D. 1855, and at New Brunswick
seminary; pastor of Dutch reformed church, Kingston, New York
1836–41; master of New York gram. sch. 1841–3; editor of the
Jewish Chronicle 1844–8; a translator for the American Bible
union 1851–7; pastor of the presbyterian church, Kingston 1858
to death; author of Lectures on the Epistle of Paul to the
Thessalonians. New York 1860; Lectures on the first and second
Epistles of Peter, New York and London 1869. _d._ Kingston 23
Feb. 1867. _G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars_ (1867) 128–30.

LILLIE, SIR JOHN SCOTT (eld. son of Philip Lillie of Drimdoe
castle, Roscommon). _b._ Drimdoe castle 1790; ensign 6 foot 3
March 1807; captain 60 foot 1813, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818;
entered Portuguese army; commanded 7th Cacadores at battles
of the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse; organised and
commanded an expedition to Portugal to support claims of Queen
Donna Maria 1831; captain 46 foot 6 Dec. 1827, placed on h.p.
27 March 1828; knighted 6 March 1816; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831;
lieut.-col. in the army 10 Jany. 1837, retired from the army
1855; author of An historical sketch of the origin and progress
of parliamentary corruption 1832; Observations on parliamentary
corruption and on the consequences of parliamentary reform 1832.
_d._ 1 Norfolk terrace, Bayswater, London 29 June 1868. _I.L.N.
liii_ 47 (1868).

NOTE.--He was severely wounded at the battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814 and left for 48 hours on the field of battle supposed to have been killed.

LILLY, JOSEPH. _b._ Birmingham 1804; employed by Lackington and
Co. of Finsbury circus, London, booksellers 1820; bookseller
at 3 Museum st. Bloomsbury 1831–5, at 19 King st. Bedford st.
1835–50 and 1851–7, at 7 Pall Mall 1850–3, at 15 Bedford st.
1857–63, and at 17 New st. Covent Garden 1863 to death; bought
and sold more copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s
works than any other bookseller on record; largely concerned
in formation of Henry Huth’s library; the first portion of his
stock was sold at Sotheby’s 15 March 1871 and 9 following days;
published A collection of ballads and broadsides printed between
1559 and 1597, with a preface 1867. _d._ 31 Mornington crescent,
London 29 Oct. 1870. _Bookseller 1 Dec. 1870 p._ 1071.

LILLY, MRS. _b._ 1790; attended Queen Victoria as monthly nurse
at the births of her 9 children 1840–57. _d._ Camberwell 26
April 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 1 May.

LILLYWHITE, FREDERICK (son of the succeeding). _b._ Hove, Sussex
23 July 1829; first played at Lord’s in Sussex _v._ Marylebone
26 June 1848; reporter for Bell’s Life in London; a printer of
scores on cricket grounds; partner with John Wisden at 2 New
Coventry st. Leicester sq. London as a dealer in articles for
cricket to 1858; resided at 15 Kennington Oval from 1858, where
he published F. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores and biographies of
cricketers 3 vols. 1862–3; edited The guide to cricketers 1849,
23 ed. 1866; The public school matches; English cricketers’
trip to Canada 1860, 2 ed. 1861. _d._ Brighton 15 Sep. 1866.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iii_ 605 (1863); _Illust.
sporting news_, _i_ 33 (1866), _portrait_, _v_ 424 (1866),
_portrait_.

LILLYWHITE, FREDERICK WILLIAM (son of the manager of the duke
of Richmond’s brick fields). _b._ West Hampnett near Goodwood
13 June 1792; a bricklayer, removed to Brighton 12 Dec. 1822;
manager over bricklayers at Hove; played for Sussex against
England in his first cricket match at Lord’s 18–19 June 1827;
the first great round-arm bowler, known as the ‘Nonpareil
Bowler,’ his average was 7 runs per wicket; went in first and
came out last in two matches 1839 and 1845; kept the Royal
Sovereign inn, Preston st. Brighton with cricket ground attached
1837–44; bowler to Marylebone cricket club 1844 to death, had
a benefit in 1853; professional at Winchester school 1851–3;
generally called William Lillywhite; author of Illustrated
handbook of cricket 1844, 3 ed. 184-; kept a cricket shop at 10
Prince’s terrace, Caledonian road, Islington, London, where he
_d._ of cholera 21 Aug. 1854. _bur._ Highgate cemet. where is
monument. _Denison’s Cricket_ (1846) 34–53; _F. Lillywhite’s
Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 9–12(1862); _I.L.N. 22 July 1843 p._ 59,
_portrait_; _Illust. news of the world 22 May 1858 pp._ 252,
254, _view of monument_.

LILLYWHITE, HENRY. _b._ Hawkley, Hampshire 1789; believed to be
a relative of William Lillywhite the Sussex bowler; a player in
Hampshire; played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Hampshire 16 July
1821. _d._ Ropley, Hants. Jany. or Feb. 1858. _F. Lillywhite’s
Cricket Scores_, _i_ 444 (1862).

LILLYWHITE, JAMES (son of the preceding). _b._ Hove, Brighton
29 Oct. 1825; bowled at Cambridge 1845–51, at Westminster sch.
1849–51, permanently engaged by Cheltenham sch. 1855 to 1880;
first played at Lords in Marylebone _v._ Middlesex 26 May
1851; a good twisting round-arm bowler of middle speed and an
average batsman. _d._ 3 Queen’s circus, Cheltenham 24 Nov. 1882.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 230 (1863).

LILLYWHITE, JOHN (brother of the preceding). _b._ Hove,
Brighton 10 Nov. 1826; bowled at Lord’s 1844; coach to Rugby
school 1850–5; partner with his father and brothers James and
Frederick as manufacturers of cricketing articles at 10 Princes
ter. Caledonia road, Islington 1850–6, in business alone at
5 Seymour st. Euston sq. 1856 to death; engaged at Harrow
school from 1861; a fine and powerful hitter, a good field,
generally at cover point, a round-arm bowler delivering slow
twisters; published vol. iv. of Lillywhite’s Cricket scores at
5 Seymour st. Euston sq. 1863. _d._ Euston sq. London 27 Oct.
1874. _Illust. Sporting News_, _i_ 244 (1862), 4 _portraits_;
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 149 (1862); _Illust.
sporting and dramatic news_, _ii_ 107 (1874), _portrait_.

NOTE.--In the Illustrated Sporting News 25 Oct. 1862 p. 276 and 18 April 1866 pp. 501, 504, are portraits of the late John Lillywhite described as the leviathan of cricket and a player at Lord’s Cricket ground.

LIMBIRD, JOHN. _b._ 1796; printer, publisher and stationer 143
Strand, London 1823–52, at 11 Exeter Exchange, Strand 1852–4;
engraver and stationer 344 Strand 1854–68; the pioneer of
cheap literature; published a periodical called the ‘Londoner’
(edited by John Humffreys Parry) April 1822, but it only ran
to 5 numbers; projected the ‘Mirror’ (the parent of all weekly
illustrated papers) No. 1 dated 22 Nov. 1822, edited by Thos.
Byerley the ‘Reuben’ of the Percy anecdotes up to his death;
author of Limbird’s Handbook guide to London 1851. _d._ 157
Wandsworth road 30 Oct. 1883. _Bookseller_, _Nov. 1859 p._ 1326.

LIMPUS, RICHARD. _b._ 10 Sep. 1824; studied at R.A. of Music;
organist of Brentford, of St. Andrew, Undershaft, St. Mary Axe,
and of St. Michael’s, Cornhill; founded the College of Organists
in London 1864, secretary to death; professor of music; composed
some sacred and secular music. _d._ 41 Queen sq. Bloomsbury,
London 15 March 1875.

LIND, JOHANNA MARIA, known as Jenny Lind (daughter of Niclas
Jonas Lind, accountant). _b._ Stockholm 6 Oct. 1821; first
appeared at royal theatre, Stockholm 7 March 1838 as Agathe in
Der Freischütz; appointed court singer Jany. 1840 and member of
royal Swedish academy of music; pupil of Manuel Garcia in Paris
1840–2; sang in Sweden and Germany 1843–6; first appeared in
London at Her Majesty’s theatre 4 May 1847 as Alice in Roberto
il Diavolo; sang in 9 operas only during her career in London,
last appeared in opera 18 May 1849; sang in oratorio of Elijah
at Exeter hall 15 Dec. 1848; toured in U.S. of America 1850–2;
founded scholarships, &c. in Sweden with the £20,000 she had
earned in U.S. of A.; sang in Germany, Austria and Holland
1854–5; made a tour in Great Britain 1855–6; sang at concerts
given in aid of charities 1855, 1861, 1863, 1864 and 1866;
chief professor of singing at royal college of music, London
1883–6; last sang in public at the Spa, Malvern 23 July 1883;
she was always known as the Swedish Nightingale, her voice
was a soprano two octaves in compass from D to D. (_m._ at
Boston, U.S. of America 5 Feb. 1852 Otto Goldschmidt, musical
conductor, he was naturalised in England 12 Aug. 1859). She
_d._ Wynds Point, Colwell near Ledbury, Herefordshire 2 Nov.
1887, value of her personalty declared at £40,630. _Rev. H. S.
Holland and W. S. Rockstro’s Memoir of Jenny Lind Goldschmidt 2
vols._ (1891), _portrait_; _Tallis’s Dramatic magazine_ (1850)
5–9, _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song_, _ii_ 330–66
(1863); _H. F. Chorley’s Thirty years musical recollections_,
_i_ 299–312 (1862); _A Review of the performances of Jenny Lind
during her engagement at Her Majesty’s theatre, with a notice
of her life_ (1847), _portrait_; _B. Lumley’s Reminiscences_
(1864); _Memoranda of the life of Jenny Lind. By N. P. Willis.
Philadelphia_ (1851); _Theatre_, _xi_ 1–12 (1888); _H. F.
Tuckerman’s Mental Portraits_ (1853) 125–47; _Ireland’s Records
of the New York stage_, _ii_ 571–2 (1867).

NOTE.--Alfred Bunn engaged Jenny Lind to sing 20 times at Drury Lane in opera in 1845, she broke her engagement and Bunn brought an action in the queen’s bench 22 Feb. 1848 laying his damages at £10,000, the jury gave him £2,500 but Bunn accepted £2,000. _A. Bunn’s The case of Bunn versus Lind_ (1848).

The other characters in opera she appeared in, in England were, Amina; Maria in La Figlia; Norma; Amalia in I. Masnadieri; Susanna in Le Nozzi; Elvira in I. Puritani; and Adina in L’Elisir.

LINDAM, JACOB OLE (2 son of Peder Holger Lindam 1752–99, a
factor in Danish East India company’s service). _b._ India 13
April 1789; ensign 2nd light infantry battalion of the German
legion 17 May 1810, lieut. 8 July 1811, placed on h.p. 24 Feb.
1816; served in the Peninsula 1811–14, distinguished himself at
siege of Bayonne 14 April 1814; severely wounded at battle of
Waterloo; lieut.-col. in Hanoverian army 25 May 1866; decorated
with the Peninsula (five clasps) and Waterloo medals; K.H. May
or June 1818. _d._ Rough Down, Boxmoor, Herts. 20 Dec. 1881.
_Times 11 Jany. 1882 p._ 6.

LINDLEY, JOHN (son of George Lindley of Catton near Norwich,
nurseryman). _b._ Catton 5 Feb. 1799; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.;
agent for a London seed merchant in Belgium 1815; assistant
librarian to sir Joseph Banks in London 1819–22; garden
assistant secretary to Horticultural Soc. 1822, sole assistant
sec. 1826–41, vice sec. 1841–58, member of council and hon.
sec. 1858–62; professor of botany in London Univ. 1829–36,
in Univ. college, London 1836–60, emeritus professor 1860 to
death; lecturer on botany to Apothecaries company at Chelsea
1836–53; took charge of the entire colonial department of the
International exhibition 1862; his name has been given to the
genus Lindleya of the order Rosaceæ; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1828,
royal medallist 1857; edited Collectanea Britannica 1821, eight
numbers; The Botanical Register 1847 etc.; Journal of the
horticultural society 1846–55; chief editor of the Gardener’s
Chronicle 1841 to death; author of Rosarum monographia or a
botanical history of roses 1820; A synopsis of the British flora
1829 vol. 1 only, 3 ed. 1859; An introduction to botany 1832,
4 ed. 2 vols. 1848; Flora medica 1838; Outlines of the first
principles of botany 18--, 6 ed. called Elements of botany 1849;
The vegetable kingdom 1846, 3 ed. 1853; Folia orchidacea 1852–9,
nine parts; Descriptive botany 1858; with W. Hutton The fossil
flora of Great Britain 3 vols. 1831–7; with J. Paxton Paxton’s
Flower garden 3 vols. 1850–3; with T. Moore The treasury of
botany 1866. _d._ Acton Green, Middlesex 1 Nov. 1865, portrait
by Eddis in rooms of Horticultural Soc. _H. Field’s Memoirs of
botanic garden at Chelsea_ (1878) 189–214; _The Naturalist_,
_iv_ 434–42 (1839), _portrait_; _The Gardener’s Chronicle_
(1865) 1058, 1082; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xv_ 30–7 (1867).

LINDLEY, ROBERT (son of Shirley Lindley of Masbro). _b._
Rotherham, Yorkshire 4 March 1776; pupil of Cervetto the
violoncellist 1792; played at Brighton theatre 1792; principal
violoncello at the opera and at all important concerts
1794–1851; the best English performer on the violoncello;
professor of R.A. of Music 1822; composed about 35 solos and
duets for the violoncello, &c.; published A handbook for the
violoncello 1855. _d._ Percy st. Rathbone place, London 13 June
1855. _Dramatic and musical review_, _iii_ 379 (1844).

NOTE.--His son Wm. Lindley _b._ 1802 was a good violinist and excelled in orchestral playing, he _d._ at Manchester 12 Aug. 1869.

LINDO, ELIAS HIAM. Merchant in City of London 1828 to death;
author of A Jewish calendar for sixty-four years to which are
added tables for continuing the calendar to A.M. 6000–2240 C.Æ.
1838; The history of the Jews of Spain and Portugal from the
earliest times to their expulsion from those kingdoms 1848. _d._
1865.

LINDO, MARK PRAGER. _b._ London 19 Feb. 1819; studied at
Dusseldorf and Bonn; M.D. Utrecht 1853; lived in Holland about
1847 to death; made many translations of works by Dickens,
Fielding, Scott, Sheridan and Thackeray into Dutch, which he
published at Amsterdam, Arnhem and Gravenhage 1846–77; author
of Readings in English prose. Arnhem 1854; Kompleete werken
van den Ouden Heer Smits _i.e._ M. P. Lindo 5 vols. Gravenhage
1877–9. _d._ at the Hague 9 March 1877.

LINDSAY, SIR ALEXANDER (2 son of James Smyth Lindsay 1751–1837).
_b._ 14 Jany. 1785; ensign in Captain Meyrick’s Independent
company of foot 9 Jany. 1795; lieut. 104 foot 3 March 1795,
regiment disbanded 1795, lieut. on h.p. 31 Aug. 1795 to death;
studied at R.M.A. Woolwich to 1803; 1 lieut. Bengal artillery 14
Aug. 1804, col. commandant 2 July 1835 to death; at sieges of
Kamonah, Ganaori and Gohad 1809, in Nipal war 1816, at siege of
Hathras 1817, in Pindari and Mahrata war 1817–19; superintendent
of telegraphs between Calcutta and Chunar; agent for manufacture
of gunpowder at Allahabad; general 11 Sep. 1859; C.B. 26 Sep.
1831, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ Earlybank, Perth 22 Jany. 1872.
_Stubbs’s History of Bengal artillery_, _i_ 298 _etc._ (1877).

LINDSAY, CHARLES HUGH (3 son of 24 Earl of Crawford 1783–1869).
_b._ Muncaster castle, Cumberland 11 Nov. 1816; ensign 43 foot
5 June 1835, captain 9 May 1845; lieut. grenadier guards 1846,
captain 14 July 1854, sold out 1855; served in Canada 1837–42
and in the Crimea 1854–6; master of the horse to lord lieut.
of Ireland 1845; groom in waiting to the Queen Aug. 1866 to
Dec. 1868 and Feb. 1876 to death; lieut.-col. 6 Middlesex (St.
George’s) rifle volunteers 23 Feb. 1861, hon. col. 24 Jany. 1885
to death; M.P. Abingdon 1865–74; C.B. 24 May 1881. _d._ Lyons 25
March 1889.

LINDSAY, COLIN (brother of the preceding). _b._ 6 Dec. 1819;
ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; churchwarden at time of restoration
of Wigan parish church 1856; president of the Manchester Church
society which in May 1860 was associated with other societies as
the Church of England protection society, afterwards the English
Church Union of which he was pres. to April 1868; received into
Church of Rome 5 Dec. 1868; received from Pius IX. special
permission to have mass celebrated in any house where he might
happen to live, a privilege rarely given; author of Union and
Unity, an address 1860; The evidence for the Papacy 1869; De
ecclesia et cathedra, or the empire church of Jesus Christ: an
epistle 2 vols. 1877; Mary, queen of Scots, and her marriage
with Bothwell 1888. _d._ 22 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London
28 Jany. 1892.

LINDSAY, HUGH HAMILTON (only son of Hugh Lindsay 1765–1844, M.P.
Forfar burghs 1820–30). _b._ 12 Aug. 1802; M.P. Sandwich 11 May
1841 to 23 July 1847; author of Letter to viscount Palmerston on
British relations with China 1836, 3 ed. 1836; Is the war with
China a just one? 1840; The Eastern Archipelago company and Sir
J. Brooke 1853. _d._ 14 Wyndham place, Bryanston sq. London 29
May 1881.

LINDSAY, JAMES (eld. son of hon. Robert Lindsay 1754–1836).
_b._ 17 April 1793; ensign 1 foot guards 16 Dec. 1807, captain
grenadier guards 20 Nov. 1823, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1830;
served in Walcheren expedition 1809 and defence of Cadiz 1811;
severely wounded at Bergen-op-Zoom, March 1814; L.G. 18 May
1855; M.P. Fifeshire 1831–2; contested Fifeshire 23 Jany. 1835.
_d._ Genoa 5 Dec. 1855.

LINDSAY, SIR JAMES (brother of Colin Lindsay 1819–92). _b._
Muncaster castle 25 Aug. 1815; ed. at Eton; ensign grenadier
guards 16 March 1832, lieut.-col. 31 Aug. 1860 to 12 March 1861;
major general on the staff Canada 5 June 1863 to 1 Jany. 1867;
inspecting general of the foot guards 1 Jany. 1867 to 1 April
1868; inspector general of reserve forces 1 April 1868 to 1870;
K.C.M.G. 22 Dec. 1870; colonel of 3 foot 15 Sep. 1870 to death;
L.G. 10 Oct. 1870; M.P. Wigan 1845–57 and 1859–66; contested
Wigan 28 March 1857. _d._ Cranmer house, Mitcham, Surrey 13 Aug.
1874.

LINDSAY, JAMES BOWMAN. _b._ Carmyllie, Forfarshire 8 Sep. 1799;
a weaver; student at St. Andrew’s univ. 1821–33; lecturer and
teacher at Watt institution, Dundee 1829; teacher at Dundee
prison, March 1841 to Oct. 1858; an early discoverer of the
electric light, which he exhibited at the Thistle hall, Dundee
15 Jany. 1836; suggested possibility of extending electric
telegraph to America in a letter to the Northern Warder
newspaper 26 June 1845; lectured in Glasgow on his plan of
forming an electric communication between Great Britain and
other countries without the employment of submarine wires, he
patented this invention 5 June 1854; telegraphed successfully
across the river Tay at Glencarse half a mile 17 May 1859; a
member of the Free Church 1843–61 when he joined the Baptists;
granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; studied all
the eclipses mentioned by historians, the result of which
he published at Dundee in Jany. 1858 under title of The
Chrono-astrolabe, which attracted attention of the astronomers;
author of A treatise on the mode and subjects of baptism 1861;
occupied himself from 1836 to death preparing a dictionary in 50
languages to be entitled A Pentecontaglossal Dictionary, nearly
completed at his death, but never published. _d._ 11 South Union
st. Dundee 29 June 1862. _bur._ Western cemet. Dundee 2 July,
date of death on his tombstone is wrongly stated as 1863. _W.
Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 212–19.

LINDSAY, JOHN. _b._ Cork, April 1789; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin;
while yet a boy collected Greek and Roman coins; author of A
view of the coinage of Ireland. Cork 1839; A view of the coinage
of the heptarchy 1842; A view of the coinage of Scotland 2 parts
1845–59; Notices of mediæval coins 1849; A view of the coinage
of the Parthians 1852. _d._ Maryville, Blackrock, Cork 31 Dec.
1870. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii_ 307 (1872).

LINDSAY, WILLIAM. _b._ Irvine, Ayrshire 1802; ed. at Glasgow
univ., D.D. 1844; studied at theological hall, Paisley 1824–30;
ordained minister of relief church 27 April 1830; minister
at Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1830–2; colleague of John Barr at
Dovehill relief church, Glasgow 22 Nov. 1832, in sole charge
1839; removed to a new church in Cathedral st. Glasgow, Dec.
1844, held this charge to his death; appointed by the relief
synod professor of exegetical theology and biblical criticism
Nov. 1841; professor of sacred languages and biblical criticism
in United Presbyterian hall 1847, professor of exegetical
theology there Oct. 1858 to death; author of Inquiry into the
christian law as to the relationships which bar marriage.
Glasgow 1855, 2 ed. 1871; Lectures on the epistle to the Hebrews
2 vols. 1867. _d._ 153 Hill st. Garnett hill, Glasgow 3 June
1866. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 108–12; _W.
Mc.Kelvie’s Annals of the United Presbyterian Church_ (1873) 298.

LINDSAY, WILLIAM LAUDER (eld. son of James Lindsay of the Sasine
office, Register house, Edinburgh). _b._ Edinburgh 19 Dec. 1829;
ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1852; L.R.C.S. Edinb.
and L.M. 1852; F.L.S. 1858; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; medical officer
to Murray’s royal institution for the insane at Perth 1854; the
first Neill gold medallist of Royal Soc. of Edinb. 1859 for
his History of British lichens 1856; studied the flora of New
Zealand, North Germany, Norway and Iceland; author of A popular
history of British lichens 1856; Contributions to New Zealand
botany 1868; Memoirs on the spermogones and pyonides of lichens
1870; Mind in the lower animals in health and disease 1879. _d._
3 Hartington gardens, Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1880.

LINDSAY, WILLIAM SCHAW (3 son of Joseph Lindsay of Ayr). _b._
Ayr 1816; a cabin boy in the Isabella, West Indiaman 1831,
second mate 1834; chief mate of the Olive Branch 1835, captain
1836, retired 1840; fitter at Hartlepool to Castle Eden coal
company 1841–5, represented the company in London 1845; mainly
instrumental in getting Hartlepool made an independent port 6
Jany. 1845; founded firm of W. S. Lindsay & Co. ship-brokers,
11 Abchurch lane, London 1849, which became one of the largest
in the world, retired 1864; contested Monmouth, April 1852, and
Dartmouth, July 1852; M.P. Tynemouth and North Shields 1854–9;
M.P. Sunderland 1859–65; author of Our navigation and mercantile
marine laws considered with a view to their revision and
consolidation 1852, 2 ed. 1853; History of merchant shipping and
ancient commerce 4 vols. 1874–6; Manning of the royal navy and
mercantile marine 1877. _d._ Manor house, Shepperton, Middlesex
28 Aug. 1877.

LINEN, JAMES. _b._ Scotland 1808; a book binder in city of New
York; spent some years in California; contributed poems to the
Knickerbocker Mag. and the Scottish American; author of Songs of
the seasons and other poems. New York 1852; Poetical and prose
writings. San Francisco 1865; The poetical and prose writings.
New York 1865; The golden gate 1869. _d._ city of New York 20
Nov. 1873. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 732 (1887).

LINES, SAMUEL. _b._ Allesley near Coventry 1778; apprenticed
to Mr. Keeling of Birmingham, clock-dial enameller 1794;
employed as designer by Mr. Clay the papier-mâché maker and
by Wyon and Halliday die engravers; started a drawing school
in Newhall st. Birmingham 1807; built a house in Temple Row,
lived there rest of his life; established with other artists
a life academy in Peck lane, New st. 1809, which was removed
to Union passage 1814; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. 1817–25;
helped to found Birmingham school of art 1821; treasurer
and curator of Birmingham society of artists to 1858; was a
good landscape-painter and teacher. _d._ 3 Temple row west,
Birmingham 22 Nov. 1863, portrait by W. T. Roden in Birmingham
museum and art gallery.

LINGARD, JAMES W. _b._ London 8 Jany. 1823; made his debut at
Garrick theatre, London as Ralph Reckless in Twice killed; went
to U.S. America in 1848; appeared at Purdy’s National theatre,
New York as Alley Croaker in the Miseries of human life 18 April
1853; played Deacon Perry in Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Purdy’s 18
July 1853, and then played Uncle Tom for 368 consecutive nights;
an actor of old men characters; manager of Bowery theatre N. Y.
1858 and several seasons; revenue collector New York 1868; kept
a saloon in the Broadway 1869; committed suicide in New York,
July 1870. _Brown’s American Stage_ (1870) _p._ 221, _portrait_.

LINGARD, JOHN (son of John Lingard of Claxby, Lincs.,
carpenter). _b._ Winchester 5 Feb. 1771; at English college at
Douay 30 Sep. 1782 to 21 Feb. 1793; joined some of the Douay
students at Tudhoe, Durham 1794, they migrated to Pontop hall
1794 and then to Crookhall near Durham; vice pres. of Crookhall
college, prefect of studies, professor of natural and moral
philosophy; ordained priest at York 18 April 1795; removed
with the Crookhall community to St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw
1808, remained there till Sep. 1811; missioner at Hornby near
Lancaster 1811 to death; visited Rome 1817 and 1825; created
doctor of divinity and of the canon and civil law by Pius VII.
24 Aug. 1821; author of The antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon
church 2 vols. 1806, 4 ed. 1858; A history of England from
the first invasion by the Romans to the revolution in 1688, 8
vols. 1819–30, new ed. 10 vols. 1888 which was translated into
French, Italian and German; A new version of the Four Gospels
1836. _d._ Hornby 17 July 1851. _bur._ in cloister of college
cemetery at Ushaw; portrait by James Lonsdale in hall of Ushaw
college; tablet to his memory in Hornby parish church. _J.
Lingard’s History of England 6 ed. vol._ 1 (1854), _portrait_;
_Fortunes made in business_, _ii_ 99–105 (1884); _Metropolitan
and provincial catholic almanac for 1854 pp._ 3–25, _portrait_;
_G.M. xxxvi_ 323–5 (1851); _I.L.N. xviii_ 117, 118 (1851),
_portrait_.

LINKLATER, JOHN. _b._ 1817; attorney at 111 St. Martin’s lane,
London 1838; head of firm of Linklater, Hackwood and Addison, 7
Walbrook to death; author of Digest and index to the Bankruptcy
act, the Debtor’s act, and the Bankruptcy repeal and insolvent
court act 1870, 2 ed. 1870. _d._ Toulon, France 26 May 1870.

LINLEY, GEORGE. _b._ Leeds 1798 or 1799; resided in Doncaster
and Edinburgh short time, then in London to death; wrote and
composed upwards of 450 songs 1830–65; wrote the songs and
music for Francesca Doria, play by V. Morris produced at
Princess’s theatre 3 March 1849; his operetta The Toymakers was
brought out at Covent Garden 19 Nov. 1861, and his comedietta
Law versus Love at Princess’s 6 Dec. 1862; author of Musical
cynics of London, a satire 1862, one part only; The Modern
Hudibras 1864, 2 ed. 1864. _d._ Alfred cottage, Victoria road,
Kensington, London 10 Sep. 1865.

LINLEY, GEORGE (son of the preceding). Author of The Goldseeker
and other poems 1860; Old Saws newly set 1864; (_m._ 4 Oct. 1862
Emma youngest sister of Sims Reeves, singer). _d._ 28 April 1869.

LINN, HENRY, stage name of Alexander Cumming Rutherford
Crawford. _b._ Greenock 1846; with his brother acted as negro
comedians; champion clog dancer 1864; a Scottish vocalist, his
songs The highland man’s toast, Jock M’Craw, and Bonnie Jeanie
Deans were very popular, others were My name is Jim, and Poor
and Needy; a great favourite in Liverpool; last sang at Carlisle
1890; author of Harry Linn’s Fireside song book. Glasgow 1884.
_d._ Royal infirmary, Edinburgh 11 June 1890. _bur._ 15 June.

LINNELL, JOHN (2 son of James Linnell, carver and gilder, _d._
1837). _b._ Plumtree st. St. Giles’s, London 16 June 1792; drew
portraits at 10 years old; entered schools of the R.A. 1805;
portrait painter to 1847, then landscape painter, engraved
his portraits; exhibited 176 pictures at R.A. and 91 at B.I.
1807–79; member of Society of painters in oil and water-colours
1812–20, treasurer 1817, exhibited 52 works there 1813–20; his
landscape ‘Removing timber’ sold for £3360 at the Price sale
April 1892; there was a large collection of his works at winter
exhibition of the R.A. 1882–3; author of The royal gallery
of pictures, selections from collection at Buckingham palace
1840; The royal academy a national institution 1869; Selection
of cabinet paintings at Buckingham palace 1877. _d._ Redstone
Wood, Redhill, Surrey 20 Jany. 1882. _bur._ Reigate cemet. 25
Jany. _A. T. Story’s Life of John Linnell 2 vols._ (1892), _two
portraits_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xc_ 535, _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xxv_ 125 (1882), _portrait_; _Black and White 25 Feb. 1893 p._
228, _portrait_.

LINSELL, RICHARD. _b._ Great Dunmow, Essex 24 May 1765;
apprenticed to Thomas White of Felstead, carpenter 1780–7;
general carrier between Dunmow and London 1791 to 1807; a
builder at Dunmow 1807–9; carrier at Stebbing 1809; landlord of
the King’s Head inn, Stebbing 1812–15; a farmer near Stebbing
1815–19; landlord of the Swan inn, Clare, Suffolk 1820–33 and
of the Cricketers’ arms near Clare 1834–43. _Life of Richard
Linsell. By A Friend._ (_Rusticus_) _Tottenham_ (1855).

NOTE.--He first appeared as a cricketer at Prior’s hall, Lay, parish of Linsell 1 May 1790; raced the coach from London to Dunmow 37 miles in 5 hours, gaining by 15 minutes 23 Aug. 1796; at Woodford ran 1 mile in 4 min. 57 sec. 28 Aug. 1796; threw a stone 137 yards Oct. 1796; beat Mr. Parsley in a quoit match 27 April 1797; from 1788 for 30 years he stood open to play any man in England at 20 different games.

LINSKILL, MARY (eld. child of Thomas Linskill a worker in jet).
_b._ Whitby, Yorkshire 13 Dec. 1840; apprenticed to a milliner;
an amanuensis; a painter; many of her novels appeared originally
in Good Words; author of Tales of the North Riding. By Stephen
Yorke 2 vols. 1871; Cleveden 2 vols. 1875, new ed. 1892; Carl
Forrester’s faith 1883; The magic flute 1884; Between the
heather and the northern sea 3 vols. 1884, new ed. 1890; A lost
son and the glover’s daughter 1885; The haven under the hill 3
vols. 1886, new ed. 1892; A garland of seven lilies 1886; Hagar,
a north Yorkshire pastoral 1887; Robert Holt’s illusion, and
other stories 1888. _d._ Stakesby Vale, Whitby 9 April 1891.
_Mary Linskill’s In exchange for a soul_, _new ed._ (1892),
_memoir pp. xi–xix_.

LINTON, HENRY (eld. son of rev. Henry Linton 1804–87, V. of
Diddington, Hunts.) _b._ 1839; ed. at Harrow and Wadham coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1860; in the Harrow cricket eleven 1854–7; entered
Madras civil service 1861; head assistant to collector and
magistrate of Nellore to death. _d._ Madras 24 Aug. 1866.

LINTON, THOMAS. Superintendent of police at Edinburgh 1851–78,
public prosecutor 1851 to death. _d._ suddenly in his room next
the police court, Edinburgh 19 Aug. 1892.

LINTON, WILLIAM. _b._ Liverpool 22 April 1791; a landscape
painter in London; a founder of Society of British artists 1824,
a member to 1842; exhibited 57 pictures at R.A., 78 at B.I. and
101 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–71; author of Ancient and modern
colours, with their chemical and artistical properties 1852; The
scenery of Greece and its islands 1856, 2 ed. 1869; Colossal
vestiges of the older nations 1862. _d._ 7 Lodge place, St.
John’s Wood road, London 18 Aug. 1876. _Art Journal_ (1850) 252,
_portrait_, (1858) 9–11, (1876) 329.

LINTON, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Jabez Linton of Hardrigg lodge,
Dumfriesshire). _b._ Kirkpatrick Fleming, co. Dumfries 1801; ed.
at univ. of Edinb.; spent four summer vacations as surgeon on a
whaler in the Arctic regions; L.R.C.S. 1826; M.D. Glasgow 1834;
assistant surgeon 66 foot 18 Jany. 1827 to 1841; surgeon in the
army 2 July 1841; staff surgeon of first class 17 March 1848,
deputy inspector general of hospitals of first division of army
in the Crimea 1854, had charge of the great hospital at Scutari
1855, inspector general of hospitals 1 Oct. 1858, placed on h.p.
1 May 1863; principal medical officer of English army in India
1858–9; hon. physician to the Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B.
4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. _d._ Skairfield, Lockerbie,
Dumfriesshire 9 Oct. 1880.

LINWOOD, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Linwood of Birmingham). _b._
1817; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student
1837–51; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; Hertford, Ireland and Craven
scholar 1836, Boden Sanskrit scholar 1839; ordained deacon;
assistant master at Shrewsbury; public examiner at Oxford
1850–1; published A lexicon to Æschylus 1843, 2 ed. 1847;
Sophoclis Tragœdiæ superstites, with Latin notes 1846, 4 ed.
1877; A treatise on Greek tragic metres with the choric parts of
Sophocles metrically arranged 1855. _d._ Birchfield, Handsworth,
Staffs. 7 Sep. 1878. _Academy 28 Sep. 1878 p._ 315.

LIPTRAP, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1817; lieut. 21 Bengal N.I. 4
Nov. 1818; captain 42 N.I. 19 June 1831, major 17 Feb. 1850 to 7
May 1855; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 7 May 1855 to 1856, of 45 N.I.
1856 to 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ London 21 Sep. 1878.

LIPTROTT, JOHN. _b._ 29 Jany. 1813; ensign 31 Bengal N.I.
14 Sep. 1829; commandant 16 Irregular cavalry 24 Jany.
1846, commandant 17 Irregular cavalry 1847 to 7 Jany. 1860;
lieut.-col. 14 Bengal N.I. 28 Nov. 1859 to 1862, placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 1 Dec. 1888.
_d._ 7 Clarendon road, Southsea 25 Feb. 1890. _I.L.N. 15 March
1890 p._ 325, _portrait_.

LISBURNE, ERNEST AUGUSTUS VAUGHAN, 4 Earl of (eld. son of
3 Earl of Lisburne 1769–1831). _b._ 30 Oct. 1800; sheriff
of Cardiganshire 1851; M.P. for Cardiganshire 1854–9. _d._
Crosswood, Aberystwith, Cardiganshire 9 Nov. 1873.

LISGAR, SIR JOHN YOUNG, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir William Young,
1 baronet, _d._ 1848). _b._ Bombay 31 Aug. 1807; ed. at Eton and
C.C. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 1824; M.P. Cavan
1831–55; a lord of the treasury 16 Sep. 1841 to 21 May 1844; one
of the secretaries to the treasury 21 May 1844 to 7 July 1846;
succeeded as 2 baronet 10 March 1848; chief sec. to lord lieut.
of Ireland 1852–55; P.C. 28 Dec. 1852; lord high commissioner of
Ionian islands 1855–9; governor general and com. in chief of New
South Wales 22 March 1861 to 24 Dec. 1867; governor general of
dominion of Canada 2 Jany. 1869–1872; cr. Baron Lisgar 26 Oct.
1870; lord lieut. of Cavan 9 March 1871 to death; G.C.M.G. 20
March 1855; K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1859, G.C.B. 13 Nov. 1868. _d._ Lisgar
house, Ballieborough, co. Cavan 6 Oct. 1876. _Eclectic Mag.
lxxviii_ 129, 244 (1872), _portrait_.

LISTER, FREDERICK GEORGE. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 26
Bengal N.I. 14 Aug. 1806, lieut. 9 Oct. 1808; captain 52 N.I.
16 March 1824, major 8 Oct. 1839 to 30 Sep. 1845; commandant of
Sylhet light infantry battalion 14 March 1828 to 18 July 1854;
lieut-col. 8 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1849, of 70 N.I. 1849–50, of
53 N.I. 1850 to 13 April 1855; political agent Cossiah Hills 11
Feb. 1841 to 1854; col. of 31 N.I. 13 April 1855 to 1861, of 2
N.I. 1861 to 1869; L.G. 23 Aug. 1869. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey
28 Feb. 1870.

LISTER, JOSEPH JACKSON (son of John Lister of Stoke Newington,
wine merchant). _b._ Lothbury, London 11 Jany. 1786; ed. at
Hitchin and at Compton in Dorset; wine merchant in partnership
with his father and then sole proprietor; a founder of the
London Institution in King’s Arms yard 1805; discovered
principle upon which the modern microscope is constructed,
and made an improved lens; a founder of Microscopical Soc.
1839; invented the tripod for supporting the camera now used
by photographers; the first to ascertain the true form of
the red corpuscle of mammalian blood; aided the opticians in
construction of the microscope; Lister’s law of the aplanatic
foci, remains the guiding principle as the source of all the
microscopy of the age; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832. _d._ Upton house,
Upton, Essex 24 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Stoke Newington. _Biographical
Catalogue of Friends_ (1888) 433–8.

LISTER, THOMAS (14 child of Joseph Lister a quaker gardener).
_b._ Old Mill wharf, Barnsley 11 Feb. 1810; ed. at Ackworth
school 1821–4; worked with his father as a gardener to 1832,
then in a linen warehouse at Barnsley; postmaster at Barnsley
1839–70 when he was presented with a testimonial; a constant
attendant and contributor of papers at annual meetings of
British Association; president of Barnsley Naturalists’ Society;
is referred to by name in Mrs. G. L. Banks’s Yorkshire story
entitled Wooers and winners 1880; author of The rustic wreath
poems, moral, descriptive and miscellaneous 1834; Temperance
Rhymes 1837; Rhymes of progress 1862, and of many poems and
translations in Tait’s Magazine 1838–9. _d._ Barnsley 25 March
1888. _W. Andrews’s Modern Yorkshire Poets_ (1885) 146–53; _W.
C. Newsam’s Poets of Yorkshire_ (1845) 163–5; _W. Grainge’s
Poets of Yorkshire_, _ii_ 444–6 (1868); _J. H. Nodal’s
Bibliography of Ackworth school_ (1889) 22.

LISTON, MARIA (dau. of Mr. Simpson a tradesman in the Strand,
London). _b._ about 1834; first appeared Drury Lane boxing
night 1858 as Sylvia in Robin Hood; played in the burlesques at
the Strand theatre 1865 etc.; (_m._ Wm. Henry Liston, lessee
of Olympic theatre, London 1869–72, he _d._ 9 April 1876 aged
46); played chief roles at the Olympic 1869–72; acted at the
Criterion and the Royalty theatres. _d._ Carlton house, 4 Bridge
avenue, Hammersmith 25 Feb. 1879. _bur._ Kensal green cemetery 1
March. _The Era 2 March 1879 p._ 6.

LISTON, SARAH (dau. of Mr. Tyrer). _b._ London 1780; pupil of
M. Kelly and Mrs. Crouch; sang at concerts in the Rotunda,
Dublin; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 21 Aug.
1801 as Winifred in Morton’s Zorinski; played at Drury Lane
1801–2; acted Queen Dollalolla in O’Hara’s burlesque Tom Thumb
at Haymarket 27 July 1805; the original Minna in Dimond’s Adrian
and Orilla at Covent Garden 15 Nov. 1806 and the original Anna
in Reynold’s Exile 10 Nov. 1808; made her last appearance on the
stage at Covent Garden 31 May 1822 when she spoke a farewell
address; (_m._ 23 March 1807 John Liston the comedian, who _d._
George’s ter. Hyde park corner 22 March 1846 aged 70). She
_d._ 15 Alexander sq. Brompton 19 Sep. 1854. _Biography of the
British stage_ (1824) 177; _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _June 1813_,
_portrait_; _The British Stage_, _i_ 121 (1817), _portrait_;
_G.M. 1846 pt. i_, _pp._ 547, 660.

LISTOWEL, WILLIAM HARE, 2 Earl of (eld. son of hon. Richard Hare
1773–1827). _b._ Bally Ellis near Mallow 22 Sep. 1801; M.P. co.
Kerry 1826–30; succeeded his grandfather 13 July 1837; vice
admiral of Munster 1838 to death; M.P. St. Alban’s 1841–7; a
lord in waiting to the queen 1840 to Sep. 1841 and Oct. 1853 to
death; K.P. 1839. _d._ Morrison’s hotel, 1 Dawson st. Dublin 4
Feb. 1856.

LITCHFIELD, GEORGE AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1784; entered Bombay army
1799; lieut.-col. of 3 Bombay light cavalry 1829 or 1830 to 1832
and 1833–5, of 2 light cavalry 1832–3, of 1 light cavalry 1835
to 1838; commandant at Deesa 1831–3, at Hursole 1833–5 and at
Sholapore 1835–8; M.G. on retired list 28 Feb. 1838. _d._ Marine
hotel, Exmouth 18 June 1857.

LITCHFIELD, HARRIET (dau. of John Silvester Hay, head surgeon
of royal hospital, Calcutta). _b._ 4 May 1777; first appeared
at Richmond 1792 as Julia in The Surrender of Calais; acted in
Scotland and at Liverpool 1793; (_m._ 1794 John Litchfield,
editor of The monthly mirror, who _d._ Mountfield house, Harrow
road, London 30 May 1858 aged 84); played at Covent Garden
1797–9 and 1800–5; acted Lady Macbeth 5 Dec. 1800; the original
Ottalia in Monk Lewis’s Alfonso, king of Castile 15 Jany. 1802,
and Mrs. Ferment in Morton’s School of reform 15 Jany. 1803;
played at the Haymarket 1805–6, retired 1806; last appeared on
stage at Haymarket 8 Oct. 1812 as Emilia in Othello, her best
part. _d._ 11 Jany. 1854, portraits of her by De Wilde and
Samuel Drummond are in Garrick club.

LITCHFIELD, HENRY. _b._ Great Torrington, Devon 7 Oct. 1786;
entered navy 1 May 1800; commander of the Moselle 1813 and
of the Mohawk 1813–4; commander of the Orontes 1824–6 on the
Halifax station; captain 20 Nov. 1826; retired admiral 15 June
1864. _d._ London 26 Aug. 1864.

LITCHFIELD, WILLIAM EDMUND. _b._ 1803; entered Madras army 1819;
cornet 7 Madras light cavalry 1820; captain 6 light cavalry 6
Oct. 1828, major 30 Sep. 1840 to 11 Sep. 1848; lieut.-col. of
8 Madras light cavalry 1849–50, of 5 Madras light cavalry 1850
to 8 Dec. 1852, of 2 Madras light cavalry 1853–6 and 1857–9,
and of 7 Madras light cavalry 1856–7; M.G. 31 Aug. 1856. _d._ 3
Vicarage gardens, Church st. Kensington 30 April 1873.

LITOLFF, Henri Charles (son of Louis Litolff, musical composer).
_b._ London 6 Feb. 1818; pianist Covent Garden theatre 24 July
1832; music publisher at Brunswick 1851–60; resided in Paris
from 1861; published much music in Brunswick, London, Magdeburg
and Paris 1846–86; composed and produced the following operas
in Paris and Brussels, La boite de Pandore, opera-bouffe 1872;
Héloise et Abelard, opera comique 1872; La fiancée du roi de
Garbe, opera comique 1874; La belle au bois dormant 1874; La
mandragore 1876; Les Templiers, opera 1886; L’escadron volant
de la reine, opera comique 1888. _d._ Colombe near Paris, Aug.
1891.