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LITTLE, SIR ARCHIBALD (2 son of Archibald Little of Shabden
park, Surrey). _b._ 7 Sep. 1810; ed. Charterhouse 1822 etc.;
cornet 9 dragoons 4 Oct. 1831, lieut.-col. 20 June 1854 to 24
May 1861 when placed on h.p.; col. of 11 hussars 23 May 1873, of
9 lancers 8 March 1875 to death; general 21 Jany. 1880, placed
on retired list 7 Sep. 1880; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 2 June
1869, G.C.B. 25 May 1889; served in Sutlej campaign including
Sobraon; commanded 1 brigade of cavalry at siege of Lucknow;
commanded the post of Dilkousha 16–24 Nov. 1857; commanded the
cavalry brigade in Ireland, Jany. 1868 to July 1869. _d._ Upton
house, Tetbury 10 June 1891.
LITTLE, GEORGE (3 son of George Little of Blackburn, Lancs.)
_b._ 1815; articled to Slater and Heelis of Manchester,
solicitors; barrister M.T. 8 May 1840, bencher 30 Jany. 1867
to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; judge of chancery court of county
palatine of Lancaster 22 April 1871 to death. _d._ 11 New sq.
Lincoln’s inn, London 27 Jany. 1881. _bur._ Salford cemetery.
LITTLE, HERBERT JOHN (son of John Little of Eldernell, Cambs.)
_b._ 1835; member of R. Agricultural Society 1870, on the
council 1881 to death, steward of implements 1884, senior
steward at Newcastle exhibition 1887, when he wrote a report on
the implements; judge of farms in Warwickshire competition 1870
and judge in Cumberland and Westmoreland competition 1880, his 2
reports printed in vol. xii and xvi of Journal of the society;
wrote articles on The agricultural labourer 1887, on Working
dairies, and on Technical instruction; alderman of Isle of Ely
county council; published Farm labour account book 1886. _d._
Coldham hall, Wisbech 30 Jany. 1890. _The Times 3 Feb. 1890 p._
6.
LITTLE, ROBERT WENTWORTH. _b._ Dublin 1838 or 1839; in business
in London 1855; clerk in the masonic grand secretary’s office
1862, second clerk and cashier 1866–72; secretary of the masons’
girls’ school 1872; initiated in the royal union lodge, Uxbridge
1861; honorary member of 80 lodges and chapters; the first P.G.
secretary of Middlesex on the provincial grand lodge being
established; P.G.S.W. 1875; provincial G.H. in chapter, the
highest possible position 1875; consecrated all the lodges in
the province of Middlesex; edited The Rosicrucian, a record of
the Society’s Transactions 1868–78; General statutes of the
order of knights of the Red Cross 1868. _d._ 7 St. Martin’s
road, Stockwell, London 12 April 1878. _bur._ Camberwell
cemetery, Honor Oak 17 April. _Masonic portraits. By J.G._
(1876) 100–5.
LITTLE, THOMAS. _b._ Feb. 1802; pupil of Robert Abraham;
practised in London as an architect and surveyor, then as an
architect only; built church of St. Mark, Regent’s park 1848,
presented parish of St. Pancras with the ground upon which it
stands; built All Saints’ church, St. John’s Wood 1850; St.
Saviour’s, Warwick road, Paddington 1856; church of Fairlight
near Hastings, chapels at Nunhead cemetery, and Paddington
cemetery near Wilsdon, Marylebone girls and infant schools. _d._
36 Northumberland st. Marylebone road, London 20 Dec. 1859.
_G.M. viii_ 406 (1860).
LITTLEDALE, RICHARD FREDERICK (4 son of John Littledale of
Dublin, auctioneer). _b._ Dublin 14 Sep. 1833; foundation
scholar Trin. coll. Dublin 1850; B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858, LL.B.
and LL.D. 1862, D.C.L. Oxford 1862; C. of St. Matthew in Thorpe
Hamlet, Norfolk 1856–7; C. of St. Mary the Virgin, Crown st.
Soho, London 1857–61; heard more confessions than any priest
of the Church of England except Dr. Pusey; a great speaker and
controversialist; author of Catholic ritual in the Church of
England, scriptural, reasonable, lawful 1865, 13 editions; The
mixed chalice 1867, 4 editions; Plain reasons for not joining
the church of Rome 1880; author with rev. James Edward Vaux of
The priest’s prayer book 1864, 7 ed. 1890; The people’s hymnal
1867, 8 editions; The Christian Passover 1873, 4 ed., and The
altar manual. _d._ 9 Red Lion sq. Holborn, London 11 Jany. 1890,
memorial reredos erected in chapel at St. Katharine’s 32 Queen
sq. London, March 1891. _Church Portrait Journal_, _iii_ 85–8
(1882), _portrait_; _London Figaro 1 Feb. 1890 p._ 9, _portrait_.
LITTLER, JOHN. Ed. Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1822;
dean and vicar of Battle, Sussex 1836 to death, the deanery
being a peculiar with power of granting marriage licences and
a court for proving wills; author of Two sermons preached at
Battle 1847, 1848. _d._ the deanery, Battle, Sussex 17 Feb. 1863.
LITTLER, SIR JOHN HUNTER (eld. son of Thomas Littler of Tarvin,
Cheshire). _b._ Tarvin 6 Jany. 1783; entered Bengal army 1799;
lieut. 10 Bengal N.I. 29 Nov. 1800, captain 16 Dec. 1814;
lieut.-col. 14 N.I. 23 May 1828 to 1832; lieut.-col. 54 N.I.
1832 to 1835 or 1836; lieut.-col. 40 N.I. 1835 or 1836 to 30
July 1839; col. 36 N.I. 30 July 1839 to death; commander at
Barrackpore 15 July 1840 to 3 Feb. 1843; commanded Rajpootana
field force 7 April 1843 to 30 May 1845; commanded Lahore field
force 30 May 1845 to 7 Jany. 1847; commanded Punjaub division
7 Jany. 1847 to 17 Jany. 1848; provisional member of council
12 May 1847 (took his seat 21 Feb. 1848) to 10 May 1853; L.G.
11 Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 2 May 1844, G.C.B. 31 Jany. 1848. _d._
Bigadon, Buckfastleigh near Totnes, Devonshire 18 Feb. 1856.
_bur._ in family vault at Tarvin. _I.L.N. viii_ 157 (1846),
_portrait_.
LITTLETON, HENRY (son of James Littleton). _b._ London 7
Jany. 1823; entered music publishing house of Alfred Novello
1841, manager 1846, sole manager 1856, a partner 1861, sole
proprietor 1866; had a branch establishment in New York; created
the development of English taste for choral music; published
the Messiah in 12 monthly numbers at sixpence 1846 and other
standard music at cheap prices; retired 1887 leaving largest
music publishing business in the world; gave daily concerts at
the Albert hall and revived the oratorio concerts under Dr.
Mackenzie at the St. James’ hall. _d._ Westwood house, Sydenham
11 May 1888. _bur._ at Lee, Kent. _A short history of cheap
music_ (1887), _portrait_; _London Figaro 19 May 1888 p._ 6,
_portrait_.
LITTLEWOOD, WILLIAM EDENSOR (only son of George Littlewood,
printer). _b._ London 2 Aug. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch.
and Pemb. coll. Camb., 35th wrangler 1854; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1860;
C. of St. John’s, Wakefield 1857–61; head master of Hipperholme
gr. sch. Yorkshire 1861–8; C. of Southall, Middlesex 1868–70;
P.C. of Ironville, Derbyshire 1870–2; V. of St. James’s, Bath
1872–81; London Diocesan home missionary in charge of St.
Thomas’s, Finsbury park, London 1881 to death; author of A
garland from the parables 1858, religious verse; Essentials of
English history 1862, 2 ed. 1865; Essentials of New Testament
study 1872; Down in Dingyshire 1872; The story of the wanderer
1874; Bible bibliographies 1878. _d._ Bush End vicarage, Essex 3
Sep. 1886.
LITTON, EDWARD (3 son of Edward Litton of Ballyfarmoth, co.
Dublin 1754–1808). _b._ Glasnevin, co. Dublin 1 Dec. 1787; ed.
at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1832; gained five medals
from historical soc. of univ. of Dublin; called to Irish bar
Easter term 1811; leader of North-West circuit some years,
retired 1833; made very large income at the Chancery bar; K.C.
13 July 1830; M.P. Coleraine 1837–42; a master of Irish court of
chancery Jany. or Feb. 1843 to death; P.C. Ireland 1868; wrote
three letters in T. Martin’s A plan for the settlement of the
question of the sale and transfer of land 1862. _d._ 32 Merrion
square, Dublin 22 Jany. 1870. _Irish Law Times_, _iv_ 72–4, 554
(1870).
LITTON, EDWARD FALCONER (only son of Daniel Litton of Waterloo
road, Dublin, wine merchant). _b._ 18 Dec. 1828; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1864; called to Irish bar 1849,
went Munster circuit; Q.C. 17 Feb. 1874; M.P. co. Tyrone 13
April 1880 to Aug. 1881, being the first Liberal who ever
represented it; second comr. under Land Law (Ireland) act
1881, Aug. 1881 to Jany. 1890; judicial comr. and judge of
supreme court of judicature Jany. 1890 to death, with 73 land
commissioners under him; married four times; author of Life
or death, the destiny of the soul in the future state 1860.
_d._ Ardavilling house, Cloyne 27 Nov. 1890. _Our Judges. By
Rhadamanthus_ (1890) _pp._ 119–22, _portrait_; _Irish Law
Times_, _xxiv_ 620, 625, 633, 662 (1890); _London Figaro 11
Jany. 1890 p._ 8, _portrait_.
LITTON, MARIE, stage name of Maria Lowe. _b._ Derbyshire 1847;
first appeared on the stage at Princess’s theatre, London as
Effie Deans in Boucicault’s Trial of Effie Deans 23 March
1868; played Mrs. Cureton in Alfred Thompson’s On the cards,
at opening of Gaiety theatre 21 Dec. 1868, and Alice Renshaw
in Byron’s Uncle Dick’s Darling 13 Dec. 1869; lessee of Court
theatre 25 Jany. 1871 to 13 March 1874; produced pieces by W.
S. Gilbert, W. Marston, W. G. Wills, H. C. Merivale and P.
Simpson, in which she acted secondary parts; played Zayda in
W. S. Gilbert’s comedy The Wicked World, at Haymarket 4 Jany.
1873; the original Caroline Effingham in W. S. Gilbert’s Tom
Cobb, at St. James’s 24 April 1875; played Mrs. Montressor in
Tom Taylor’s Unequal Match, at Prince of Wales’s 29 Sep. 1877;
lessee of theatre attached to Royal Aquarium, Westminster, Oct.
1878, opened the house again under name of The Imperial, Feb.
1879, played Lady Teazle, Lydia Languish and Olivia, acted Miss
Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer, 137 nights from Easter
1879, played Rosalind in As you like it, 100 nights; manager
of the new T.R. Glasgow, Oct. 1880; played Eva de Malvoisie in
Youth, at Drury Lane 6 Aug. 1881, and Daisy Brent in The Cynic,
at Globe 14 Jany. 1882; the original Vere Herbert in Moths, at
Globe 25 March 1882; (_m._ 1879 Wm. Wybrow Robertson, manager
of Westminster Aquarium 1875–8). _d._ 6 Alfred place west,
Thurloe sq. London 1 April 1884. _Biograph_, _vi_ 242–3 (1881);
_Theatre i_ 189 (1878) _portrait_, _i_ 255 (1880), _portrait_;
_Touchstone 8 June 1878 p._ 3, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and
dr. news_, _v_ 537, 543 (1876), _portrait_, _xii_ 265 (1879),
_portrait_, _xiii_ 108 (1880), _portrait_; _Dramatic Notes_
(1883) 15, _portrait_.
LIVERPOOL, CHARLES CECIL COPE JENKINSON, 3 Earl of (half-brother
of Robert 2 earl of Liverpool 1770–1829). _b._ 29 May 1784;
styled hon. Cecil Jenkinson 1786–1820; served in the navy
1794–7; page of honor to George iii 1794; matric. at Ch. Ch.
Oxf. 23 April 1801; cornet Surrey regt. of yeomanry 20 Aug.
1803; sec. of legation at Vienna 13 July 1804; M.P. Sandwich
1807–12; under sec. of state home department 10 Oct. 1807; under
sec. of state, war and colonial department 1809–10; lieut.-col.
Cinque ports regt. of militia 28 July 1811; M.P. Bridgenorth
1812–18; M.P. East Grinstead 1818–28; succeeded as 3 earl 4 Dec.
1829; high steward of Kingston-on-Thames 1829; prothonotary of
county palatine of Lancaster; D.C.L. Oxf. 15 June 1841; lord
steward of the household 3 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; P.C. 3
Sep. 1841; G.C.B. 11 Dec. 1845. _d._ Buxted park near Uckfield,
Sussex 3 Oct. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 538 (1851); _I.L.N. xix_ 450,
618 (1851).
LIVESEY, HOWARD. A correspondent of The Times on social
questions; attacked the scheme for the Manchester ship canal
under the heading of What is a port?; an enthusiastic fisherman,
well known in the Lake district for 30 years; instituted
the Lunesdale fish hatchery near Lancaster. _d._ West road,
Lancaster 4 Feb. 1892.
LIVESEY, JOHN. _b._ 17 May 1803; ed. Manchester sch. 1819–23 and
St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; C. of Trinity ch.
Camb. 1827–31; incumb. of St. Philip’s, Sheffield, July 1831 to
death; conveyed 5 acres of ground at Stacey Springwood to the
ecclesiastical comrs. for a new parochial burial ground 1857
on which he erected a lodge and mortuary chapel, consecrated 5
July 1859; military chaplain Sheffield 1836 to death; author of
Mechanics’ churches. A letter to sir R. Peel on church extension
in populous towns 1840. _d._ Sheffield 11 Aug. 1870. _Manchester
School Register_, _iii_ 142 (1874).
LIVESEY, JOSEPH. _b._ Walton near Preston 5 March 1794; brought
up as a weaver; a cheese-factor at Preston 1815 to death;
drafted the first teetotal pledge 1 Sep. 1832; brought out
Livesey’s Moral Reformer, 23 numbers Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1833
and Jany. 1838 to Feb. 1839; issued in Jany. 1834 The Preston
temperance advocate, which he edited 4 years, this was the
first English teetotal publication; agitated against the corn
laws 1841, issuing The Struggle a weekly paper, 235 numbers
Dec. 1841 till the repeal of the laws 1846; published the
Teetotal Progressionist, Aug. 1851 to May 1852, and the Staunch
Teetotaller 24 numbers Jany. 1867 to Dec. 1868 with a portrait
of himself; he and his sons managed The Preston Guardian, weekly
paper 1844–59; author of Reminiscences of early teetotalism
1868; The autobiography of Joseph Livesey. Preston 1881, 2 ed.
London 1885. _d._ Bank parade, Preston 2 Sep. 1884. _J. Weston’s
Joseph Livesey, the story of his life_ (1884); _J. Pearce’s Life
and teachings of Joseph Livesey_ (1885); _Cassell’s Mag. March
1882 pp._ 243–5, _portrait_.
LIVESEY, THOMAS. _b._ 1807; manager of South Metropolitan gas
company 1839, secretary 1842 to death; resided at Dulwich
Common. _d._ in the surgery of his physician’s house 10 Oct.
1871. _Times 14 Oct. 1871 p._ 5; _W. H. Blanch’s Ye parish of
Camerwell_ (1877) 347.
LIVESEY, THOMAS J. Lecturer on method and school management,
St. Mary’s R.C. training college, Brook Green, Hammersmith 1865
to death; author of How to teach arithmetic 1877; The primer
of English history 1877; How to teach grammar 1881; Moffatt’s
How to prepare notes of lessons 1882; The Granville illustrated
history of England 1885; translated F. S. Hattler’s Flowers from
the catholic kindergarten 1890. _d._ 19 July 1890. _bur._ St.
Mary Magdalen, Mortlake 23 July. _The Tablet 26 July 1890 p._
147.
LIVINGSTONE, CHARLES (son of Neill Livingstone of Blantyre near
Glasgow, tea-dealer). _b._ Blantyre 28 Feb. 1821; in a lace
manufacturing warehouse in Hamilton; emigrated to Western states
of America 1840; entered Union theological college, New York
city 1847 where he took his degree 1850; had a pastoral charge
in Massachusetts; came to England, April 1857 and went with his
brother David Livingstone as secretary to the expedition for
exploring Eastern and Central Africa, March 1858, invalided home
1863; British consul at Fernando Po 17 Oct. 1864, the Bight of
Benin and Biafra were added to his consular district 24 June
1867, the seat of the consulate was removed to Old Calabar 1
April 1872. _d._ of African fever near Lagos 28 Oct. 1873.
_Proc. of Royal Geographical Soc. xviii_ 512–14 (1874).
LIVINGSTONE, DAVID (brother of preceding). _b._ Blantyre 19
March 1813; a piecer at a cotton factory 1823, a cotton spinner
1832; studied medicine in Anderson college and Greek and
divinity in Glasgow univ. 1836–8; studied medicine in London
1839; licentiate of faculty of phys. and surgeons Glasgow 1840;
ordained a missionary of London Missionary Soc. in Albion
chapel, London 20 Nov. 1840; landed at Port Elizabeth, Algoa
Bay, May 1841; crossed the Kalahari desert in search of Lake
Ngami, which he found 1 Aug. 1849; discovered the Zambesi,
June 1851; discovered the Victoria falls Nov. 1855; arrived in
London 12 Dec. 1856, presented with gold medal of Royal Geog.
Soc. 15 Dec.; received freedom of city of London 21 May 1857
and of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee 1857; LL.D. Glasgow, Dec.
1854; D.C.L. Oxford 1857; F.R.S. 1857; severed his connection
with London missionary soc. 1857; British consul at Quilimane
15 Jany. 1858; commanded expedition to explore Eastern and
Central Africa, March 1858, explored the Zambesi, Shira and
Rovuma, discovered Lake Nyassa 16 Sep. 1859, received a despatch
recalling the expedition 2 July 1863, arrived in England 23
July 1864; author of Missionary travels and researches in South
Africa 1857; with C. Livingstone Narrative of an expedition to
the Zambesi and of the discovery of lakes Shirwa and Nyassa.
1865; consul in the territories of all African kings and chiefs
in the interior of Africa not subject to the authority of the
kings of Portugal or Abyssinia or of the viceroy of Egypt 15
March 1865 to death; discovered lakes Meoro and Bangweolo 1869;
returned to Ujiji where he found H. M. Stanley who had been
sent to look for him 28 Oct. 1871, returned to lake Bangweolo
where he became very ill; found dead on his knees at Chitambo’s
village in Ilala 1 May 1873, body embalmed, brought to England
and _bur._ in nave of Westminster abbey 18 April 1874. _The last
journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to
his death, continued by H. Waller 2 vols._ (1874), _portrait_;
_Life and finding of Dr. Livingstone. Containing the original
letters written by H. M. Stanley. With an account of Dr.
Livingstone’s death and latest discoveries_ (1874), _portraits_;
_H. M. Stanley’s How I found Livingstone_ (1872); _Proc. R.
Geogr. Soc. xviii_ 6 _et seq._ 497–512 (1874); _Illustrated
Review_, _i_ 519–23 (1870), _portrait_; _The weaver boy who
became a missionary. By H. G. Adams_ (1867); _Illustrated news
of the world_, _i_ (1858), _portrait_; _The personal life of
David Livingstone. By W. G. Blaikie_ (1880), _portrait_; _J.
Waddington’s Congregational history_, _v_ 78–106 (1880).
NOTE.--A civil list pension was granted him 19 June 1873, 7 weeks after his death. His surviving son Wm. Oswell Livingstone _b._ South Africa 1850 took part in the expedition sent out in 1872 to find his father, he practised as a physician at St. Albans and _d._ at Maida villa, Lattimore road, St. Albans 30 Dec. 1889.
LIVINGSTONE, SIR THOMAS, 10 Baronet (son of sir Alexander
Livingstone, 9 baronet, _d._ 1795). Entered navy 17 Sep. 1782;
captain 13 June 1800, R.A. 22 July 1830, admiral 1 June 1848.
_d._ Westquarter, Falkirk 1 April 1853.
LIVIUS, CHARLES BARHAM. Author of Maid or wife or the deceiver
deceived, a musical comedy. The music by the author. Drury Lane
5 Nov. 1821; The Freyschütz or the wild huntsman of Bohemia,
romantic opera, Covent Garden 14 Oct. 1824; composer of Where
shall the lover rest, song 1810; Variations sur un air favori
pour le pianoforte 1835. _d._ Worthing 14 Jany. 1865.
LIZARS, ALEXANDER JARDINE. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1831;
professor of anatomy Marischall coll. and univ. of Aberdeen
1841 to 15 Sep. 1860; professor of anatomy Aberdeen univ. 15
Sep. 1860 to 1863; author of Elements of anatomy intended as a
text-book for students 3 parts. Edinb. 1844. _d._ Ambleside 12
June 1866.
LIZARS, JOHN (son of Daniel Lizars, publisher and engraver,
_d._ 1812). _b._ Edinburgh about 1787; ed. at Edinb. high sch.
and univ.; surgeon in the navy during Peninsular war; F.R.C.S.
Edinb. 1815; partner with John Bell and Robert Allan as surgeons
in Edinb. 1815; professor of surgery in royal college of
surgeons Edinb. 1831 to death; senior operating surgeon of royal
infirmary 1831, introduced operation for removal of the upper
jaw, the well-known ‘Lizars’ lines’ are called after him; author
of A system of anatomical plates of the human body, accompanied
with descriptions and observations. 12 parts Edinburgh 1822–6;
Observations on extraction of diseased ovaria 1825; A system
of practical surgery with plates 2 parts 1838, 1840; Practical
observations on the use and abuse of tobacco 1854, 8 ed. 1859.
_d._ 15 South Charlotte st. Edinburgh 21 May 1860.
LIZARS, WILLIAM HOME (brother of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh
1788; ed. at high sch. Edinb.; apprenticed to his father;
studied at Trustees’ academy, Edinb.; his two pictures Reading
the will and A Scotch wedding, exhibited at the R.A. in 1812
are in the National gallery of Scotland at Edinb.; an engraver
and copper-plate printer in Edinb. 1812; engraved the plates
for his brother’s A system of anatomical plates 1822; a founder
of Royal Scottish academy 1826; perfected a method of etching
for illustrating books; engraved views for N. G. Philips’ Views
in Lancashire and Cheshire of halls, castles, etc. 1822; J.
Browne’s Picturesque views of Edinburgh 1825; Lizars’ Views of
principal cities in Scotland; and for Guides to several Scotch
railways 1842–50. _d._ Edinburgh 30 March 1859.
LLANOS, FRANCES MARY (only dau. of Thomas Keats, livery stable
keeper _d._ 1804 and sister of John Keats the poet). _b._ Craven
st. City road, London 3 June 1803; resided with her guardian
Richard Abbey at Walthamstow 1814–20; her brother corresponded
with her 1817–20; when of age she brought an action against
Abbey to recover the inheritance due to her; (_m._ 1826 Valentin
Llanos Gutierrez a Spaniard, author of Don Esteban or memoirs of
a Spaniard written by himself 3 vols. 1825, and Sandoval or the
freemason. A Spanish tale 3 vols. 1826 anon.; he lost greater
part of his money at Madrid, and _d._ Spain 14 Aug. 1885 aged
90); a civil list pension of £80 was granted her 23 Nov. 1880;
many important letters from her brother are addressed to her.
She _d._ Madrid 16 Dec. 1889. _Athenæum 4 Jany. 1890 p._ 16;
_H. B. Forman’s Poetical works of John Keats 4 vols._ (1883),
_contains the letters addressed to his sister, in vols. i, iii
and iv_.
LLANOVER, BENJAMIN HALL, 1 Baron (eld. son of Benjamin Hall of
Hensol castle, Glamorganshire 1778–1817). _b._ Upper Gower st.
London 8 Nov. 1802; ed. at Westminster sch. 1814–20 and Ch.
Ch. Oxf.; M.P. Monmouth 3 May 1831 but unseated 18 July 1831;
M.P. Monmouth 1832–7; M.P. Marylebone 1837–59; carried through
House of Commons the act which created Metropolitan board of
works 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, 14 Aug. 1855; cr. baronet 16 Aug.
1838; president of board of health 14 Oct. 1854 to Aug. 1855;
P.C. 14 Nov. 1854; first comr. of works and public buildings 21
July 1855 to Feb. 1858; created baron Llanover of Llanover and
Abercarn, co. Monmouth 29 June 1859; lord lieut. of Monmouth
20 Nov. 1861 to death; author of A letter to the archbishop
of Canterbury on the state of the church 1850; Church abuses,
a letter to the rev. E. Phillips 1852. _d._ 9 Great Stanhope
st. London 27 April 1867. _bur._ Llanover churchyard, memorial
monument in Llandaff cathedral. _Men of the time_ (1865) 528;
_I.L.N. xxxiv_ 429 (1859), _portrait_.
NOTE.--The great bell in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament was called ‘Big Ben’ after him 1856.
LLEWELLYN, DAVID HERBERT (son of rev. David Llewellyn, P.C.
of Easton near Pewsey, Wilts. _d._ 1869). _b._ Easton 1838;
ed. at Marlborough 1848–53; studied at Charing Cross hospital
1856–9; M.R.C.S. 1859; surgeon of the Confederate steam vessel
Alabama which left the Mersey 28 July 1862; after the engagement
between the Alabama and the federal ironclad Kearsage off
Cherbourg 19 June 1864 he refused to escape by overloading the
boat containing the wounded, and went down with the ship, being
the only man lost; memorial tablets erected in Charing Cross
hospital and in Easton church. _Medical Times_, _ii_ 24, 25, 81,
374 (1864); _The Times 21 June 1864 p._ 11; _I.L.N. 9 July 1864
p._ 41, _portrait_.
LLOYD, ARTHUR. _b._ 1774; lieut. 53 foot 15 Sep. 1795; captain
20 foot 25 May 1803; major 98 foot 22 May 1804; major 97 foot
1816, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._
Lytham, Lancashire 31 Oct. 1851.
LLOYD, BARTHOLOMEW CLIFFORD (2 son of rev. Bartholomew Lloyd
1772–1837, provost of Trinity college, Dublin 1831–7). _b._
1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832, LL.B.
and LL.D. 1843; called to Irish bar 1830; chairman of quarter
sessions for county of Waterford to death; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852;
author with F. Goold of Reports of cases in court of chancery
in Ireland during the time of lord chancellor Sugden 1836; A
selection of cases in court of chancery during the time of lord
chancellor Plunket 1839. _d._ Crewe, Cheshire 28 April 1872.
LLOYD, CHARLES DALTON CLIFFORD (eld. son of Robert Clifford
Lloyd 1809–63). _b._ Portsmouth 13 Jany. 1844; ed. at Sandhurst;
served in British Burmah police force 1865–72; barrister L.I.
7 June 1875; resident magistrate for co. Down 16 Feb. 1874 to
May 1881; restored order in co. Longford, Jany. to May 1881;
special resident magistrate at Kilmallock, co. Limerick, May
1881 to Sep. 1883, arrested Father Eugene Sheehy and other
leaders of the land league, thus restoring order in co. Limerick
1881; inspector general of reforms in Egypt 1883 and under
secretary of state 1884; formulated proposals for reform of
prison management Jany. 1884, resigned office May 1884; resident
magistrate in co. Londonderry 12 March 1885; lieutenant governor
and colonial secretary Mauritius 23 Nov. 1885, transferred to
the Seychelles, Aug. 1886, resigned 1887; British consul for
Kurdistan 15 Sep. 1889 to death. _d._ of pleuro-pneumonia at
Erzeroum 7 Jany. 1891. _C. D. C. Lloyd’s Ireland under the land
league: a narrative of personal experience_ (1892); _Graphic
xxv_ 417 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 333 (1883),
_portrait_.
LLOYD, EDWARD. Midshipman R.N. Sep. 1798; captain 19 July 1821,
R.A. on h.p. 8 March 1852; awarded good service pension 19 March
1849; K.H. 1 Jany. 1834; F.R.S. 12 March 1818; (_m._ Aug. 1816
Colin Campbell youngest dau. of James Baillie of Ealing grove,
Middlesex, M.P. for Horsham, she _d._ 8 Nov. 1830). He _d._
Priory cottage, Cheltenham 29 April 1855.
NOTE.--His wife was the lady on whose death the medical robber John St. John Long was prosecuted for manslaughter at the Old Bailey 19 Feb. 1831. Long _d._ 41 Harley st. London 2 July 1834 aged 35.
LLOYD, EDWARD. _b._ 30 Jany. 1780; partner in Jones, Lloyds &
Co. bankers, Manchester and London, retired 25 Dec. 1848; a
member of the Broughton Archers and present when they formed a
body guard to the Queen at Holland house, Kensington. _d._ on
anniversary of his birth, Coombe Wood, Croydon 30 Jany. 1863,
personalty sworn under £600,000, 4 April. _L. H. Grindon’s
Manchester banks_ (1877) 150–9.
LLOYD, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward John Lloyd 1799–1879).
Barrister L.I. 7 June 1858; reported for the Law Times in
court of sir W. Page Wood; sec. to commissioners on the patent
laws 1 Sep. 1862, the report is dated 29 July 1864; special
correspondent of the Standard at Athens; author of The law
of trade marks, with account of its history in the decisions
of courts of law 1862; with his wife, children and other
persons left Athens on 11 April 1870 to visit the plains of
Marathon, and on same day was taken prisoner by brigands, who
being pursued by troops, murdered him and other prisoners near
Dhilissi 21 April 1870. _bur._ at Athens. _I.L.N. lvi_ 557
(1870), _portrait_; _Law Times_, _xlix_ 38 (1870); _A.R._ (1870)
39–42.
LLOYD, EDWARD. _b._ Thornton Heath near Croydon 16 Feb. 1815;
bookseller and newsvendor at Curtain road, Shoreditch, London;
compiled and published Lloyd’s Stenography 1833; published a
monthly budget of news 1836; Lloyd’s Pickwickian songster 1840;
Lloyd’s Reciter 1846; Lloyd’s Song book 1846, 3 ed. 1847; issued
Lloyd’s Penny weekly miscellany 1842, which became Lloyd’s
Entertaining Journal 1844 and lasted till 1847; issued Lloyd’s
Penny Atlas 1842–5; brought out Lloyd’s Illustrated London
Newspaper 27 Nov. 1842, 7 numbers only, but continued without
illustrations as Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper, which now
circulates half a million weekly; introduced the fast rotary
printing machine 1870; established a large paper manufactory at
Sittingbourne, Kent, producing 300 tons of paper a day about
1864; leased 100,000 acres of land in Algeria, grew Esparto
grass there and imported it for papermaking. _d._ 17 Delahay st.
Westminster 8 April 1890. _bur._ Highgate cemet., net value of
his estate sworn at £563,022 May 1890. _Hatton’s Journalistic
London_ (1882) 188–94, _portrait_; _Sell’s Dictionary of the
world’s press_ (1891) 79–80, _portrait_; _Graphic 19 April 1890
p._ 444, _portrait_.
NOTE.--In Jany. 1855 he issued The business and agency gazette which became The Clerkenwell News, May 1856, the first district newspaper in London, the name was altered to The Clerkenwell News and London Times, Feb. 1866 when it was issued 5 times a week, it became a daily paper April 1866 and its name was altered to The London Daily Chronicle and Clerkenwell News 1869, the name Daily Chronicle was adopted 25 Nov. 1872, Lloyd bought the paper for £30,000 in 1876 and established it as a London daily paper after spending £150,000.
LLOYD, EDWARD JOHN (2 son of Thomas Gore Lloyd, accountant
general of H.E.I.C.) _b._ London 25 Feb. 1799; ed. at Blackheath
and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 1
Feb. 1825, bencher 23 April 1849 to death; Q.C. 23 Feb. 1849;
judge of county courts, circuit 54, Bristol, Chipping Sodbury
and Thornbury 18 Feb. 1863 to Sep. 1874 when he retired on a
pension. _d._ Hillside, Upper Maize hill, St. Leonard’s on Sea 1
June 1879. _bur._ Ore cemetery, Hastings.
LLOYD, EDWARD THOMAS. _b._ Sep. 1803; 2 lieut. R.E. 22 Sep.
1826, col. 20 April 1861, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 15 Feb.
1864; commanded R.E. at Constantinople 1855 and in the Crimea
when docks at Sebastopol were destroyed under his directions
April 1856. _d._ Maitland St. Clements, Jersey 12 June 1892.
LLOYD, EUSEBIUS ARTHUR. _b._ 1794; ed. St. Bartholomew’s
hospital, favourite pupil of Abernethy; assist. surgeon 1824 and
surgeon 1847–61; M.R.C.S. 1817, F.R.C.S. 1843; often attended
to Abernethy’s private practice for him; fellow of Med. and
Chir. Soc. 1824, sec. 1827–8, V.P. 1838; took Abernethy’s house
14 Bedford row, London, where he had a large practice 1831–61;
surgeon Christ’s hospital; introduced the cure of hydrocele
by injecting red precipitate into the tunica vaginalis; the
injection of nævi with liquor ammoniæ and the medium operation
for lithotomy; author of A treatise on the nature and treatment
of scrophula 1821. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 4 March 1862.
LLOYD, GEORGE WILLIAM AYLMER. Entered Bengal army 1804; lieut. 2
Bengal N.I. 17 Sep. 1806; captain 71 N.I. 13 May 1825, major 3
June 1830 to 7 Jany. 1836; lieut.-col. of 52 N.I. 7 Jany. 1836,
of 43 N.I. 1837, of 17 N.I. 1838 to 1840, of 25 N.I. 1840–41,
of 28 N.I. 1841 to 27 Aug. 1847; col. of 28 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847
to death; commander of Rajpootana field force 21 Jany. 1848 to
1850, of Mooltan field force 1850 to 1851, of Agra field force
1851 to 1853; commanded Dinapore division 10 Nov. 1854 to 29
Oct. 1857; L.G. 2 June 1860; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ Darjeeling
4 June 1865.
LLOYD, HORACE (eld. son of John Horatio Lloyd 1798–1884). _b._
1828; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1850; barrister M.T. 7 June
1852, bencher 1868 to death; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868; a good whist,
billiard and chessplayer, played at the Whitehall club and at
Simpson’s divan; spent many of his vacations at Homburg and
Baden Baden. _d._ 42 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 30 March
1874. _Law Times_, _lvi_ 406 (1874); _The Westminster Papers_,
_vii_ 9, 15 (1874).
LLOYD, HORATIO FREDERICK (son of Mr. Lloyd, hatter). _b._
Strand, London 9 Nov. 1808; first appeared theatre royal,
Newcastle 1829; played in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow 1829–32;
commenced an engagement at the theatre royal, Edinburgh 1 Oct.
1832 and remained there 16 years; played in Glasgow 1848–51;
manager theatre royal, Edinburgh 22 Nov. 1851 to 10 July 1852
when he was ruined; principal low comedian Dunlop st. theatre,
Glasgow 1853–64; took his farewell of the stage at theatre
royal, Glasgow, May 1889. _d._ Glasgow 28 Nov. 1889. _bur._
South necropolis, Glasgow 3 Dec.
NOTE.--He was educated at a school kept by a Mr. Shaw in Yorkshire, who was the Mr. Squeers of Nicholas Nickleby. Shaw is said really to have been a kind and considerate schoolmaster who was entirely ruined by Dickens’ description, he was buried in Greta Bridge churchyard.
LLOYD, HUMPHREY (brother of Bartholomew Clifford Lloyd 1808–72).
_b._ Dublin 16 April 1800; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1815,
scholar 1818, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1827, D.D. 1840; junior fellow
1824, senior fellow 18 Sep. 1843 to March 1867; Erasmus Smith’s
professor of natural and experimental philosophy 19 Dec. 1831
to 1843; established the existence of conical refraction in
biaxial crystals 1833, also the law by which the polarisation
of the rays composing the luminous cone is governed; manager of
magnetic observatory of Trin. coll. Dublin for which he devised
the instruments; vice provost of Trin. coll. Aug. 1862, provost
Feb. 1867 to death; pres. of Royal Irish academy 1846–51,
Cunningham gold medallist 1862; pres. of British Association
at Dublin 1857; F.R.S. 21 Jany. 1836; F.R.S. Edinb. 27 Feb.
1832; D.C.L. Oxford 1855; granted German order ‘Pour le Merite’
1874; author of A treatise on light and vision 1831; Account of
the induction inclinometer 1842; Lectures on the wave theory
of light 1841, 3 ed. 1873; Observations made at the magnetical
observatory, Trinity college, Dublin 1865; Of the power of the
keys or of the authority to bind and to loose 1873; A treatise
on magnetism 1874; Miscellaneous papers 1877. _d._ the provost’s
house, Trinity college, Dublin 17 Jany. 1881, bust by A. B. Joy
placed in library of Trin. coll. 1892. _Proc. of Royal soc.
xxxi_ 21–6 (1881); _Proc. of R.I. Academy_, _v_ 165–6 (1883);
_I.L.N. lxxviii_ 125 (1881), _portrait_.
LLOYD, JACOB YOUDE WILLIAM (eld. son of Jacob Wm. Hinde of
Ulverstone, Lancs.) _b._ 1816; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A.
1839, M.A. 1874; C. of Banhaglog, Montgomeryshire 1841–8; joined
Church of Rome; served in the Pontifical Zouaves; knight of
order of St. Gregory, knight of the Saviour of Greece; assumed
name of Lloyd in lieu of Hinde on inheriting property of Youde
of Plasmadog, Denbighshire; restored parish church of Llangurig
at cost of £10,000; author of The history of the princes, the
lords marcher and the ancient nobility of Powys Fadog ... 6
vols. 1881–7 and several other genealogical works; resided
Clochfaen, Montgomeryshire. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 14 Oct.
1887.
LLOYD, JOHN AUGUSTUS (youngest son of John Lloyd of Lynn,
Norfolk). _b._ London 1 May 1800; ed. at Tooting and Winchester;
went to Tortola, aide de camp to the governor; a captain of
engineers on staff of Simon Bolivar the liberator of Colombia,
South America, became lieut.-col.; surveyed Isthmus of Panama
for Bolivar and reported on best means of inter-oceanic
communication 1827–9, the report appeared in Philos. Trans.
1830 pp. 59–68; F.R.S. 11 March 1830; scientifically employed
by the admiralty and royal society; colonial civil engineer
and surveyor general of Mauritius 31 Aug. 1831 to 4 April
1849; ascended the Peter Botte mountain, previously regarded
as inaccessible 1832; special comr. for Exhibition of 1851, 9
July 1850; A.I.C.E. 1849, member of council; British chargé
d’affaires in Bolivia 4 Dec. 1851; started on a mission to
stir up the Circassians against Russia 13 May 1854; author of
numerous scientific papers; his widow Fanny Drummond Lloyd was
granted civil list pension of £100, 4 March 1856 and _d._ 28
Sep. 1856. He _d._ of cholera at Therapia 10 Oct. 1854. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiv_ 161–5 (1855); _I.L.N. xviii_ 623,
624 (1851), _portrait_.
LLOYD, JOHN FREDERICK (brother of Humphry Lloyd 1800–81). _b._
1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; C.
of Kilmore 1840–8; fellow of St. John’s coll. Auckland, New
Zealand 1849–53; Inc. of St. Paul, Auckland 1853–65; archdeacon
of Waitemata, Auckland 1865–70; R. of Kirk-Ireton, Derbyshire
1870–4; R. of Newton Wold, Lincs. 1874 to death. _d._ 8 Sep.
1875.
LLOYD, JOHN HORATIO (son of John Lloyd, attorney and
prothonotary of the counties of Chester and Flint). _b._
Stockport 1 Sep. 1798; ed. Stockport gram. sch. and Queen’s
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; fellow of Brasenose coll.
1823–6; barrister I.T. 6 May 1826; M.P. Stockport 1832–4; chief
authority on legal matters connected with railways, devised the
securities known as Lloyd’s Bonds before 1864, without which
many railways could not have been constructed; by his advice
the new company for laying the Atlantic cable was formed 1860;
retired from practice 1876; A.I.C.E. 1860, member of council
1867–8; author with F. M. Danson of Reports of cases relating
to commerce, manufactures, &c. in courts of common law 1828–29.
1830; author with W. N. Welsby of Reports of cases relating to
commerce, manufacture, &c. determined in the courts of common
law 1829 and 1830. 1829–30; edited third ed. of W. Paley’s
A treatise on the law of principal and agent 1833. _d._ 100
Lancaster gate, London 18 July 1884. _bur._ Hendon 23 July.
_Min. of proc. of I.C.E. lxxviii_ 450–4 (1884); _Law Times_,
_xxxix_ 538, 551 (1864).
LLOYD, JOSEPH SKIPP. Adjutant of corps of Gentlemen at Arms 5
May 1852 to 10 April 1856. _d._ Brighton 25 March 1891.
LLOYD, JULIUS (son of Francis Lloyd, manufacturer, London).
_b._ 10 Sep. 1830; ed. at Blackheath and Trin. coll. Camb.,
scholar 3 May 1851; 22 wrangler 1852, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855;
C. of Brentwood, Essex 1855–7; C. of St. Peter, Wolverhampton
1858–62; C. of Trysull, Staffs. 1862–6; C. of St. Peter,
Pimlico, London 1866–8; V. of High Cross, Herts. 1868–71; Inc.
of St. John, Greenock 1871–80; R. of St. Ann, Manchester 1880–6;
V. of Leesfield, Lancs. 1886–91; hon. canon of Manchester
1886–91; canon residentiary of Manchester 1891 to death; R. of
St. Philip, Salford 1891 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop
of Manchester 1881 to death; author of The life of sir Philip
Sydney 1862; An analysis of the first eleven chapters of the
book of Genesis with reference to the Hebrew grammar of Gesenius
1869; Christian politics, a study of the principles of politics
according to the New Testament 1877; History of the English
church 1879; Sermons on the prophets of the Old Testament 1889
and 15 other books. _d._ just as he had finished addressing a
meeting of the Church Day schools association in Manchester town
hall 27 May 1892.
LLOYD, LLEWELYN. _b._ 1792; resided over 20 years in the north
of Europe; author of Field sports of the north of Europe 2 vols.
1830; Scandinavian adventures, with account of northern fauna 2
vols. 1854; The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway,
with an account of the seals and salt water fishes 1867; Peasant
life in Sweden 1870. _d._ near Gothenbergh, Sweden 17 Feb. 1876.
LLOYD, RIDGWAY ROBERT SYERS CHRISTIAN CODNER (son of Francis
Brown Lloyd, surgeon). _b._ Devonport 20 Dec. 1842; studied
at Guy’s hospital, M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1866; house surgeon in
Peterborough infirmary 1867–70; practised at St. Albans 1870
to death; author of An account of the altars, monuments and
tombs existing 1428 in St. Albans’ abbey. By J. Amundesham,
translated from the Latin. St. Albans 1873 and of many papers on
archæological subjects. _d._ from typhoid fever at Bricket road,
St. Albans 1 June 1884.
LLOYD, ROBERT CLIFFORD (brother of John Frederick Lloyd
1810–75). _b._ 1809; ensign 76 foot 30 Dec. 1826, lieut.-col.
17 July 1857; lieut.-col. 68 foot 8 July 1859, sold out 2
Dec. 1862; brevet colonel 9 Sep. 1859. _d._ Avignon, France,
Jany.-March 1863.
LLOYD, SAMPSON (7 son of Samuel Lloyd of Birmingham, banker).
_b._ Birmingham 7 June 1808; held quarter share in firm of
Lloyds, Fosters & Co. colliers 1835 to Jany. 1867 when business
was transferred to Patent shaft and axletree company limited,
vice chairman and manager of it 1867–73; A.I.C.E. 7 April 1857;
one of founders of Institution of mechanical engineers at
Birmingham 1847. _d._ Areley house near Stourport 26 Sep. 1874.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_ 292 (1875).
LLOYD, THOMAS. _b._ Portsea 29 Oct. 1803; ed. at school of naval
architecture 1819–26; inspector of steam machinery at Woolwich
19 Jany. 1833; chief engineer at Woolwich 16 Nov. 1842 to 6
April 1847; a chief engineer of the navy 6 April 1847 to 1869;
C.B. 25 Aug. 1868; M.I.C.E. 18 May 1841. _d._ 84 Finchley road,
Hampstead 23 March 1875. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xli_
217–20 (1875).
LLOYD, SIR THOMAS DAVIES, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Lloyd
of Bronwydd, co. Cardigan, _d._ 18 June 1845). _b._ Swansea 23
May 1820; ed. at Sunbury, Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; cornet 13
light dragoons 2 Oct. 1840; ensign 82 foot 14 July 1843, sold
out 1846; sheriff of co. Cardigan 1850; created a baronet 21
Jany. 1863; M.P. Cardiganshire 1865–8; M.P. district of Cardigan
1864–74. _d._ Bronwydd, co. Cardigan 21 July 1877.
LLOYD, T. G. B. (1 son of Dr. Lloyd of Birmingham). _b._ 15 Aug.
1829; civil engineer; employed surveying in Spain, the United
States, Canada and Newfoundland; investigated the documents
and traditions of the extinct Beothucs or Red Indians of
Newfoundland and sent three papers to the Proceedings of the
Anthropological Institute; made investigations on recent and
fossil beavers; F.G.S. 1864. _d._ 3 Feb. 1876. _Quart. Journ.
Geol. Soc. xxxii_ 87–8 (1876).
LLOYD, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Richard Middleton Massie Lloyd
of Brynestyn near Wrexham, Denbighshire). _b._ Wrexham 1782;
sheriff of Denbighshire 1829; knighted at St. James’s palace 18
July 1838. _d._ Llandudno near Conway 16 May 1857.
LLOYD, WILLIAM FORSTER (only son of rev. Wm. Lloyd of Bradenham,
Bucks.) _b._ Bradenham 1794; ed. at Westminster 1806–12,
captain 1811–2, student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812–37; B.A. 1815,
M.A. 1818; Greek reader 1823; Drummond professor of political
economy 1832–7; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; was in holy orders;
author of Prices of corn in Oxford in the beginning of the
fourteenth century, also from 1583 to present time. Oxford 1830;
Two lectures on the checks to population. Oxford 1833; Four
lectures on poor laws 1835; Two lectures on the justice of poor
laws and one lecture on rent 1837. _d._ Prestwood, Missenden,
Bucks. 2 June 1852.
LLOYD, WILLIAM FREEMAN. _b._ Uley, Gloucs. 22 Dec. 1791; engaged
in commercial pursuits in London to 1825; sec. of Sunday school
union 1810; on committee of Religious tract society 1816; with
others edited The Youths’ magazine 1805; author of The Bible
catechism, all the answers being in the exact words of scripture
1822, 4 ed. 1830; Sketch of the life of R. Raikes and of the
history of Sunday schools 1826; Catechisms for the young 1850;
Scripture selections for the young 1850. _d._ King’s Stanley,
Gloucs. 22 April 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 668 (1853).
LLOYD, WILLIAM HENRY CYNRIC (4 son of Bell Lloyd of Woodstock,
_d._ July 1845). _b._ 1802; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar
1819–29; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; V. of Ronton, Staffs. 1826–49; R.
of Norbury, Staffs. 1826–49; archdeacon of Durban 1869 to death.
_d._ The Glebe, Port Natal 3 Jany. 1881.
LLUELLYN, SIR RICHARD (son of Richard Lluellyn of South
Witham, co. Lincoln). _b._ 1783; entered army as captain with
temporary rank 1799, served as such in 52 foot in Spain and
the Mediterranean 1800–1801, placed on h.p. 1802; purchased
an ensigncy dated July 1802; captain 28 foot 28 Feb. 1805 to
25 Feb. 1817 when placed on half pay; served in Peninsula and
Netherlands; colonel of 39 foot 17 Jany. 1853 to death; general
18 Jany. 1861; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ 20
Montagu sq. London 7 Dec. 1867.
LOBB, HARRY WILLIAM. _b._ 1829; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1850;
surgeon London Galvanic hospital; surgeon St. Andrew’s hospital,
Well st. London 1884 to death; author of Hygiene or the book
of health 1855; On some of the more obscure forms of nervous
affections 1858; A popular treatise on curative electricity
1867, 3 ed. 1873; Hypogastria of the male 1871, 3 ed. 1880;
Nervous exhaustion, dyspepsia and diabetes 1872. _d._ 66 Russell
sq. London 20 Jany. 1889.
LOCCO, SIGNOR. _b._ Palermo 1798; painter to the court of
Naples; resided at intervals in England 1849 to death; painted
miniatures on ivory of the Queen and prince and princess of
Wales; painted on ivory the head of Christ and ‘The End of the
world.’ _d._ Cardiff 14 Feb. 1889.
LOCH, FRANCIS ADAM ELLIS. _b._ 3 May 1827; cornet 1 Bombay
cavalry 9 Oct. 1844, captain 29 May 1857; lieut.-col. Bombay
staff corps 7 April 1870; commandant of Sind frontier force
1873–6; brigadier general Bombay 10 May 1877; placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 4 March 1887; general 22 Jany.
1889; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ 2 Albany gardens, King’s road,
Richmond, Surrey 27 July 1891.
LOCH, FRANCIS ERSKINE. _b._ April 1788; entered navy 1 Sep.
1799, captain 29 Sep. 1814; naval aide de camp to the queen 4
May 1847 to 2 Sep. 1850; R.A. 2 Sep. 1850, V.A. 14 May 1857,
admiral on h.p. 16 June 1862, pensioned 25 June 1863. _d._ 2
Lansdown crescent, Cheltenham 13 Feb. 1868.
LOCH, GEORGE (brother of the succeeding). _b._ London 6 July
1811; ed. at the Charterhouse; barrister M.T. 28 May 1847,
bencher 17 Nov. 1863 to death, treasurer 1875; Q.C. 20 June
1863; attorney general to prince of Wales 18 April 1873 to
death; contested Falkirk 14 Feb. 1851 and Manchester 9 July
1852; M.P. Wick burghs 1868–72. _d._ The Cottage, Bishopsgate,
Staines 18 Aug. 1877.
LOCH, GRANVILLE GOWER (2 son of James Loch of Drylaw 1780–1855).
_b._ 28 Feb. 1813; entered navy 23 Feb. 1826; captain 26 Aug.
1841; extra aide de camp to sir Hugh Gough in China 1842;
visited India 1843; commanded the Alarm frigate in West Indies
1846–9; sent to coast of Nicaragua, Feb. 1848 to enforce
redress for certain outrages, carried and dismantled a fort at
Serapaqui, the demands were conceded and a treaty arranged; C.B.
30 May 1848; captain of the Winchester 50 guns the flagship on
China and East Indian station 16 March 1852 to death; author of
The closing events of the campaign in China, the operations in
the Yang-tze-Kiang and the treaty of Nanking 1843; led a joint
naval and military expedition against Nya-Myat-Toon a Burmese
robber chief at Donablew; shot through the body 4 Feb. and _d._
6 Feb. 1853. _bur._ at Rangoon, memorial monu. in St. Paul’s
cath. London.
LOCH, JAMES (eld. son of George Loch of Drylaw, Mid-Lothian).
_b._ 7 May 1780; admitted advocate 1801; barrister L.I. 15 Nov.
1806; auditor to marquess of Stafford, to lord Francis Egerton,
to earl of Carlisle and others; carried out the Sutherlandshire
clearings 1811–20, by which 15,000 crofters were removed from
inland to the sea-coast; M.P. St. Germans 1827–30, M.P. Wick
burghs 1830–52, contested the seat 26 July 1852; F.G.S., F.S.S.
and F.Z.S.; author of An account of the improvements on the
estate of Sutherland 1815, another ed. 1820; Memoir of George
Granville late duke of Sutherland 1834. _d._ 12 Albemarle st.
London 5 July 1855.
LOCH, JOHN (brother of preceding). _b._ 8 Sep. 1781; served in
naval service of H.E.I.Co. to 1821 when he retired; in command
of H.E.I. Co.’s ship Scaleby castle beat off the Piedmontese a
French frigate of 44 guns 1808; a director of H.E.I.Co. 1821–54,
deputy chairman 1828 and 1836, chairman 1829 and 1833; M.P. for
Hythe 26 March 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ at the res. of his son
in law, the Hall, Bushey, Herts. 19 Feb. 1868. _G.M. v_ 679
(1868); _I.L.N. xvi_ 184 (1850), _portrait_.
NOTE.--On the 15 March 1837 he was dangerously wounded with a knife in a murderous attack made upon him at the India house, Leadenhall st. London by a man called Kearney who had been employed as a conductor of ordnance in India. Kearney destroyed himself by poison in Giltspur street compter in March 1837. _Annual Register 1837 p._ 26.
LOCHORE, ROBERT. _b._ Strathaven, Lanarkshire 7 July 1762; a
shoemaker 1775, a master shoemaker at Glasgow; founded Glasgow
annuity society 4 Jany. 1808; edited the Kilmarnock Mirror about
1817; an intimate acquaintance of Robert Burns; published two
poetical tracts Willie’s Vision 1795 and The Foppish Taylor
1796; author of Tales in rhyme and minor pieces about 1815,
anon.; his song ‘Now, Jenny, lass, my bonnie bird,’ has been
attributed to Burns. _d._ Glasgow 27 April 1852. _J. Grant
Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _i_ 382–6 (1876); _C. Rogers’s
Modern Scottish Minstrel_, _iv_ 91–7 (1857).
LOCHRANE, OSBORNE AUGUSTUS. _b._ Middleton, Armagh, Ireland
22 Aug. 1829; arrived in New York 21 Dec. 1846; studied law
at Athens, Georgia, admitted to the bar 1849; in practice in
Savannah, March 1850, removed to Macon, Oct. 1850; judge of the
Macon circuit Sep. 1861 to 1865; judge of Atlanta circuit Aug.
1870; chief judge of the supreme court of Georgia, Jany. 1871,
resigned Dec. 1871; attorney for Pullman palace car co.; many of
his speeches and orations were published. _d._ Atlanta, Georgia
17 June 1887.
LOCK, GEORGE. _b._ Dorchester, Feb. 1832; articled to an
agricultural chemist at Salisbury to 1853; partner with E. Ward
as booksellers at 158 Fleet st. London 1854–66, removed to 1
Amen Corner and 107 Dorset st. 1866, then to newly erected
premises called Warwick house in Salisbury sq. 1878, Charles
Tyler became a partner in 1865 when the firm was Ward, Lock
and Tyler for a few years; published Webster’s Speller, Milner
and Downer’s Atlases, an edition of Webster’s Dictionary 1856,
educational works and books for children; purchased S. O.
Beeton’s stock and copyrights for £1900 Sep. 1866, Edward Moxon
& Co.’s publications 1877 and William Tegg’s publications about
1882, the firm of Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co. was converted into
a limited liability co. April 1893. _d._ 7 Warltersville road,
Hornsey Rise, London 8 Aug. 1891. _The Bookseller 5 Sep. 1891
pp._ 836–7; _Athenæum 15 Aug. 1891 p._ 224.
LOCKE, JOHN (only son of John Locke of Herne Hill, Surrey,
surveyor). _b._ London 1805; ed. at Dulwich coll. and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 3 May 1833,
bencher 24 Nov. 1857 to death, reader 1870, treasurer 1871;
one of common pleaders of City of London 13 March 1845 to June
1857; Q.C. 23 June 1857; recorder of Brighton 19 April 1861 to
June 1879; contested Hastings 9 July 1852; M.P. for Southwark
31 March 1857 to death; author of The game laws, comprising all
the acts now in force 1840, 5 ed. 1866; The law and practice
of foreign attachment in the lord mayor’s court 1853. _d._ 63
Eaton place, London 28 Jany. 1880. _I.L.N. xxx_ 479 (1857),
_portrait_, _lxxvi_ 157 (1880), _portrait_.
LOCKE, JOSEPH (youngest son of Wm. Locke, colliery manager).
_b._ Attercliffe near Sheffield 9 Aug. 1805; articled to
George Stephenson, civil engineer, Newcastle 1823, aided him
in construction of Manchester and Liverpool railway opened 14
Sep. 1830; constructed the following lines, Grand Junction
1835–7, London and Southampton 1836–40, Sheffield and Manchester
1836–40, Paris to Rouen 1841–3, Rouen to Havre 1843; partner
with John Edward Errington 1840, they constructed the Caledonian
railway 1848 and a line from Mantes to Caen and Cherbourg 1852
for which Locke was created an officer of Legion of Honour;
originated the double-headed rail, first used on the Grand
Junction railway; designed the Crewe engine in which all the
parts were capable of fitting any engine; F.R.S. 22 Feb. 1838;
pres. of Instit. of C.E. 1858–60; M.P. Honiton, Devon 28 July
1847 to death; purchased manor of Honiton including all the
borough for £80,000 Aug. 1846; his widow presented to town of
Barnsley, Yorkshire, the Locke park about 1869, where is statue
of him by Marochetti. _d._ Moffat, Dumfries 18 Sep. 1860. _bur._
Kensal Green cemet., memorial window in Westminster abbey. _J.
Devey’s Life of Joseph Locke_ (1862), _portrait_; _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xx_ 141–8 (1861).
LOCKER, ARTHUR (youngest son of Edward Hawke Locker, F.R.S.)
_b._ Greenwich hospital, Kent 2 July 1828; ed. at Charterhouse
and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851; resided in Australia and in
India; contributed reviews to The Times 1865–70; edited The
Graphic from May or June 1870 till December 1891 when he went
to Madeira for his health; translated V. M. Hugo’s The history
of a crime 1877; printed Mrs. Ralph Greening’s First lodger in
A. Halliday’s Savage Club papers 1868 pp. 100–17; author of Sir
Goodwin’s folly 3 vols. 1864; Sweet seventeen 3 vols. 2 ed.
1866; On a coral reef 1869; Stephen Scudamore 1871; The village
surgeon 1874. _d._ 19 West-hill, Highgate, London 23 June 1893.
_I.L.N. 19 Dec. 1891 p._ 791, _portrait_.
LOCKHART, ALLAN ELIOTT (2 son of William Eliott Lockhart, M.P.
Selkirkshire, _d._ 1832). _b._ 1803; ed. at univ. of Edinb.;
advocate 1824; M.P. Selkirkshire 1846–61; lord lieut. of
Selkirkshire 19 Nov. 1867 to death. _d._ Borthwickbrae, Hawick
15 March 1878.
LOCKHART, ARCHIBALD INGLIS. _b._ 1810; ensign 92 foot 31 Dec.
1828; commanded a field force in Central India 2 Aug. to 17 Sep.
1858, including the action near Rajhghar; commanded a brigade in
Central India field force 18 Sep. to 6 Dec. 1858; lieut.-col.
26 Dec. 1857 to 14 March 1865 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct.
1877; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ Edinburgh 17 Sep. 1879.
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