Chapter XXII: Part 22
LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON (2 son of rev. John Lockhart 1761–1842,
minister of Cambusnethan). _b._ in the manse of Cambusnethan
14 July 1794; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Glasgow 1805–9;
Snell exhibitioner at Balliol coll. Oxf. 1809, B.C.L. 1817,
D.C.L. 1834; an advocate 1816; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag.
from Oct. 1817; edited The Quarterly Review, Oct. 1825 to April
1853, wrote more than 100 articles; lived at 24 Sussex place,
Regent’s park 1826 to 1853; superintended Murray’s ‘Family
Library’ from 1829, for which he wrote the first work History of
Napoleon Buonaparte 2 vols. 1829, anon.; barrister L.I. 22 Nov.
1831; auditor of the duchy of Lancaster 1843 to death; edited
Motteux’s translation of Don Quixote 5 vols. 1822; author of
Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk. By Peter Morris the Odontist.
3 vols. 1819; Valerius, a Roman story 1821; Some passages in
the life of Mr. Adam Blair 1822, anon.; Reginald Dalton, a
story of English university life 1823; Ancient Spanish ballads
translated 1823, several editions; The history of Matthew Wald
1824, a novel, anon.; Life of Robert Burns 1828, 8 ed. 1888;
History of the late war 1832; Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter
Scott 7 vols. 1837–8, 4 ed. 1850; The Ballantyne humbug handled
1839. _d._ Abbotsford, Roxburghshire 25 Nov. 1854. _bur._ next
Sir Walter Scott in Dryburgh abbey. _Law Review_, _xxi_ 354–6
(1855); _Quarterly Review_, _Oct. 1864 pp._ 439–82; _J. G.
Lockhart’s Ancient Spanish ballads_ (1856) _memoir 7 leaves_,
_portrait_; _H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed._ (1876)
344–52; _Bookseller_, _Aug. 1860 pp._ 505–8; _National Review_,
_iii_ 745–62 (1884); _Maclise Portrait Gallery_ (1883) 7–13,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxv_ 559, 564 (1854), _portrait_.
LOCKHART, LAURENCE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1796;
presbyterian minister Inchinnan 13 Jany. 1822; D.D. of Glasgow
univ. 1 May 1849; succeeded to Milton-Lockhart estate 1857;
author of Address to the people of Inchinnan 1843; Facts for the
times. Paisley 1843; Facts not fiction, address to the people of
Inchinnan 1843; Facts not falsehood. By a Parish Minister 1845;
Answer to the protest of the Free church 1846. _d._ 1876. _H.
Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ_, _vol._ 2 _part_ 1 _p._ 221
(1868).
LOCKHART, LAURENCE WILLIAM MAXWELL (2 son of the preceding).
_b._ 1831; entered Glasgow univ. 1845 and Caius coll. Camb.
1850, B.A. 1855, M.A. 1861; ensign 92 foot 9 Feb. 1855, captain
19 Jany. 1864, sold out 12 Sep. 1865, served in Crimean war
1855–6; major 2nd royal Lanark militia 7 June 1870, lieut.-col.
8 April 1877 to death; Times correspondent for Franco-German
war July 1870; with the French army at battle of Forbach, then
with the German army; author of Doubles and Quits 2 vols. 1869;
Fair to see 3 vols. 1871; and Mine is thine 3 vols. 1878, novels
reprinted from Blackwood’s Mag. _d._ Mentone, France 23 March
1882. _Blackwood’s Mag. April 1882 pp._ 675–80.
LOCKHART, WILLIAM (brother of Laurence Lockhart 1796–1876). _b._
1787; M.P. co. Lanark 1841 to death; dean of faculties of univ.
of Glasgow 1853 to death; lieut.-col. commandant Lanarkshire
yeomanry cavalry. _d._ Milton-Lockhart 25 Nov. 1856.
LOCKHART, WILLIAM (only son of rev. Alexander Lockhart _d._
1831, V. of Stone, Bucks. 1821–30). _b._ at Warlingham, Surrey
22 Aug. 1819; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842; joined John
Henry Newman at Littlemore 1842; received into church of Rome,
Aug. 1843, being the first of the tractarians who went over;
studied under the Rosminians in Rome 1843–5; entered the Order
of Charity 1845, procurator general; R. of St. Etheldreda’s,
Ely place, Holborn, London 1876 to death, which he purchased
for £5,300 and restored at cost of £6,000; edited The Lamp
when renamed The Illust. Catholic mag. 5 vols. 1871–3; author
of The communion of saints, or our relation to the Virgin, the
angels and the saints 3 ed. 1869; Non possumus or the temporal
sovereignty of the Pope 1870, 2 ed. 1870; Life of Antonio
Rosmini-Serbati, vol. 2, 1886; Cardinal Newman, a reminiscence
of 50 years 1891; found dead in his bed at the Presbytery, St.
Etheldreda’s, Holborn, London 15 May 1892. _The Biograph_, _iv_
432–3 (1880).
LOCKWOOD, ADOLPHUS RAVEN. _b._ 1841; ed. by Frederick
Chatterton; patronised by duke of Cambridge; with his brother
and sister Ernest and Fanny Lockwood first appeared as harpists
at Hanover sq. rooms, London, May 1847, music written for them
and taught them by Gerhard Taylor; harpist to king of Bavaria.
_d._ Munich 22 Jany. 1885. _I.L.N. xii_ 106 (1848), _portrait_.
LOCKWOOD, FREDERICK VERNON (2 son of Thomas Lockwood of
Dan-y-Craig, Glamorganshire). _b._ 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; C. of Sturry, Kent 1826; R.
of Musham, Kent 7 March 1827 to 21 Jany. 1840; preb. of Lincoln
24 Jany. 1828 to March 1845; chaplain to House of Commons
1830–2; canon of Canterbury 16 Nov. 1838 to death; V. of Minster
in Thanet 21 Jany. 1840 to death. _d._ the Precincts, Canterbury
1 July 1851. _bur._ in the cathedral 5 July.
LOCKWOOD, SIR GEORGE HENRY (brother of the preceding). _b._ 25
March 1804; ed. at Eton; cornet 3 light dragoons 10 March 1825,
lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1846, placed on h.p. 12 May 1853; served in
Afghanistan 1842 and the Punjaub 1848–9; commanded a brigade
at battle of Goojerat; A.D.C. to the Queen 2 Aug. 1850 to 27
Nov. 1874; col. 12 lancers 12 March 1861 to 1 Jany. 1872; col.
3 hussars 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 22 Oct. 1870; C.B. 24
Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ 18 Wilton st. Belgrave sq.
London 15 April 1884.
LOCKWOOD, HENRY FRANCIS. _b._ Doncaster 1811; articled to Peter
Robinson, London; superintended rebuilding of York castle 1832;
commenced practice at Hull 1834; removed to Bradford 1849, in
partnership with William and Richard Mawsom, built Bradford town
hall, the Exchange and Airedale coll.; erected rifle factory at
Enfield Lock 1856; removed to London 1874, competed for the law
courts, built the City Temple 1874 and Inns of court hotel 1866;
architect to sir Titus Salt at Saltaire; author with A. H. Cates
of The history and antiquities of the fortifications to the city
of York 1834. _d._ Heron court, Richmond, Surrey 20 July 1878.
_The Builder 27 July 1878 p._ 788.
LOCKWOOD, MARK (son of Mr. Lockwood a farmer near Leeds).
_b._ 25 April 1798; employed by his uncle Benjamin Crosby of
Stationers’ hall court, London, bookseller 1812–14 and by his
successors Simpkin and Marshall 1814–35, admitted a partner with
them 1835, superintended the buying department and country trade
1839 to death; became the greatest book buyer in the world.
_d._ 16 Highbury place, Islington 23 Nov. 1857. _bur._ Highgate
cemetery 28 Nov. _G.M. iv_ 106 (1858).
LOCKYER, HENRY FREDERICK. _b._ 1797; ensign 71 foot 25 March
1813; lieut. 3 foot 1820, captain 1822; major 97 foot 26 June
1835, lieut.-col. 26 Oct. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1858; commanded forces
in Ceylon 1855–60; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H. 1837; C.B. 4 Feb.
1856; granted distinguished service reward 9 Feb. 1855. _d._ on
board steamship Ripon on his way home from Ceylon 30 Aug. 1860.
LOCKYER, THOMAS. _b._ Old Town, Croydon, Surrey 1 Nov. 1826; a
bricklayer; the best wicket keeper of his day, a hard hitter
with a wonderful eye, a round-arm fast bowler; first played at
Lord’s in Middlesex v. Surrey 20 May 1850; manager of the Surrey
county eleven and United England eleven matches; landlord of
Prince Albert inn, Mitcham road, Croydon 8 Feb. 1860 to 1863;
landlord of Sheldon Arms inn, Croydon 17 Nov. 1865 to death.
_d._ Sheldon Arms inn, Whitgift st. Croydon 22 Dec. 1869. _bur._
Ch. Ch. Broad Green, Croydon. _F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_,
_iv_ 114 (1863); _Sporting Review_, _lxiii_ 11 (1870); _Illust.
sporting news_, _iii_ 329 (1864), _portrait_; _Illust. Times
10 Aug. 1861 p._ 93, _portrait_; _R. Daft’s Kings of cricket_
(1893) 36, _portrait_.
LOCOCK, SIR CHARLES, 1 Baronet (3 son of Henry Locock, M.D.
1763–1843). _b._ Northampton 21 April 1799; resident private
pupil of sir Benjamin Brodie in London; M.D. Edinb. 1821;
L.R.C.P. Lond. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1836, member of council 1840–2;
had the best practice in London as an obstetric physician;
physician to Westminster Lying-in hospital many years; fellow of
university of London 1836 to death; first physician accoucheur
to the Queen 1840–75, attended at birth of all her children;
created a baronet 5 May 1857; F.R.S.; pres. of Royal Med. and
Chir. Soc. 1857; discovered the efficacy of bromide of potassium
in epilepsy 1857; contested Isle of Wight 22 July 1865; D.C.L.
Oxf. 1868; resided 26 Hertford st. Mayfair, London. _d._
Binstead, Isle of Wight 23 July 1875. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.
28 July. _Munk’s College of Physicians_, _iii_ 270 (1878);
_I.L.N. lxvii_ 119, 124, 239 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xii_ 123 (1875), _portrait_.
LOCOCK, SIDNEY (3 son of the preceding). _b._ 9 Hanover sq.
London 14 May 1834; unpaid attaché at Athens 7 May 1853;
secretary of legation in Japan 1865, at the Hague 1868;
secretary of embassy at Constantinople 1872; minister resident
and consul general to republics of Guatemala, Costa Rica,
Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador 23 May 1874 to 12 Feb. 1881;
minister resident in Servia 16 April 1881; appointed envoy
extraord. and min. plenipo. to emperor of Brazil 11 Feb. 1885
but did not proceed. _d._ 22 Southwick st. Hyde park, London 30
Aug. 1885. _Foreign Office List_ (1886) 213.
LODER, EDWARD JAMES (eld. son of John David Loder, violinist
1788–1846). _b._ Bath 1813; pupil of Ferdinand Ries at Frankfort
1826–34; composed music for J. S. Arnold’s drama Nourjahad
produced at English opera house, London, July 1834; musical
director at Princess’s theatre about 1846–50, then conductor
at Manchester; composed the operas of The Dice of Death 1835,
The Foresters 1845, The Deerstalkers 1845, The Night Dancers
produced at Princess’s Oct. 1846, revived there 1850, and at
Covent Garden 1860; Raymond and Agnes produced at Manchester
1855 and at St. James’s theatre London 1859 and other operas;
published three sets of Songs 1837–8; his name is attached to
150 pieces of music; author of First principles of singing 1838;
The modern pianoforte tutor 18--, new ed. 1870. _d._ London 5
April 1865. _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 491 (1858), _portrait_.
NOTE.--He _m._ a dau. of the choral conductor at Covent Garden, she was _b._ London 1813, ed. at R. Academy of music, went to U.S. of America in 1840 and made her debut with Braham at a concert in the Tabernacle, New York, Nov. 1840, sang for 8 seasons at the Old Philharmonic and Assembly concert rooms taking soprano parts; a teacher of music and singing 1870–80. _d._ New York 28 Feb. 1880.
LODER, _George_ (son of George Loder of Bath, flute-player).
_b._ Bath about 1816; resided at Baltimore, U.S. of America,
some years; musical director of Olympic theatre, New York
1839; principal of New York vocal institute 1844; conductor for
Anna Bishop at Adelaide 1856; conductor with Lyster’s opera
troupe; organist, vocalist, conductor and composer in London
1860; published in 1861 his comic operetta Pets of the Parterre,
which had been produced at Lyceum theatre; published his musical
entertainment The old house at home 1862; The New York glee book
1844 contains several part-songs by him; published The middle
voice 1860, 12 solfeggi, and various separate songs. _d._ the
hospital, Adelaide, S. Australia 15 July 1868.
LODER, GILES. _b._ 9 Oct. 1786; Russia merchant at 5 Adam’s
court, Old Broad st. City of London 1839; purchased estate of
Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, from Lord Southampton’s trustees
for £335,000. _d._ 1 Clarendon place, Hyde park gardens, London
19 Aug. 1871, personalty sworn under £3,000,000, 31 Aug. _I.L.N.
9 Sep. 1871 p._ 235.
LODER, JOHN FAWCETT (brother of Edward James Loder 1813–65).
_b._ 1812; orchestral leader and manager of concerts at Bath;
violinist in London, and leader of concerts and festivals;
played the viola in Dando’s quartet at Crosby hall, London
1842–53. _d._ Hawley crescent, London 16 April 1853. _Grove’s
Dict. of Music_, _i_ 429, _ii_ 159 (1879–80).
LODER, SIR ROBERT, 1 Baronet (son of Giles Loder 1786–1871).
_b._ 7 Aug. 1823; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb.; inherited from his
father the income of nearly two and a half millions of money,
with power of appointment among his children, besides estates
1871; sheriff of Northampton 1877; M.P. Shoreham 1880–5; cr.
baronet 27 July 1887; had estates in England, Russia and Sweden;
a scientific farmer. _d._ Beach house, Worthing 27 May 1888,
leaving more than £2,500,000 personalty.
LODGE, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ April 1810; manager of Marine Insurance
Co. 1839–88; salved from wreck of Royal Charter in 1859 £322,103
at a cost of 5⅓ per cent., and from the wreck of the Alfonso
XII. in 1885 £90,000 from a depth of 26⅔ fathoms, these and
other successes revolutionized the premium rate on specie;
presented with a farewell address signed by 20 marine insurance
companies and 60 members of Lloyd’s 1888; treasurer of Highgate
literary and scientific institution. _d._ 7 The Grove, Highgate
1 April 1893.
LODWICK, PETER. Entered Bombay army 1799; lieut. marine
battalion 26 May 1800, captain 23 May 1811; captain 11 N.I.
1818; lieut.-col. 6 N.I. 182- to 1829 or 1830; lieut.-col.
3 N.I. 1829 or 1830 to 1831; lieut.-col. 4 N.I. 1831 to 18
April 1833; lieut.-col. 11 N.I. 18 April 1833 to 1835 or 1836;
lieut.-col. 20 N.I. 1835 or 1836 to 28 June 1838; col. 16 N.I.
9 Nov. 1840 to 1869; general 25 Jany. 1861. _d._ Bagnéres de
Bigorre, France 28 Aug. 1873. _Report of proceedings in case
of The King, on the prosecution of J. Asplin v. Lodwick for a
libel_ 1810.
LOEWE, LOUIS. _b._ of Jewish parents at Zülz Prussian Silesia
1809; ed. at univ. of Berlin, Ph. D.; travelled in the East
1836–9; lecturer on oriental languages to Duke of Sussex 1839;
went to the East 13 times as secretary with sir Moses Montefiore
1839–74; principal of Jews’ College, Finsbury sq. London 1856;
opened a Jewish boarding school at Brighton 1858; naturalised
in England 12 July 1862; principal of the Judith theological
college at Ramsgate 1868–88; member of Numismatic Soc. 27 Feb.
1845 and a contributor to the Chronicle 1856 etc.; translated
J. B. Levinsohn’s Efés Dammim Conversations at Jerusalem 1841;
author of A dictionary of the Circassian language 1854; edited
Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore 2 vols. 1890. _d._ 53
Warwick road, Maida hill, London 5 Nov. 1888. _Morais’s Eminent
Israelites_ (1880) 208–11; _Numismatic Chronicle 3 Series vol.
ix Proceedings_ 22–3 (1889).
LOFFT, CAPEL (4 son of Capel Lofft, miscellaneous writer
1751–1824). _b._ Troston hall, Suffolk 19 Feb. 1806; ed. at Eton
1814–25, and King’s coll. Camb., fellow to 1837, Craven univ.
scholar 1827, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 6 June 1834;
author of Self-Formation, or the history of an individual mind.
By A fellow of a college 2 vols. 1837; Ernest 1839, anon., a
poem, 2 ed. with title of Ernest the rule of right 1868; New
Testament, suggestions for reformation of Greek text. By R. E.
Storer (_i.e._ Restorer) 1868; published at New York in 1861 an
edition of the Self-Communion of Marcus Antoninus, with notes.
_d._ at his estate Millmead in Virginia, U.S. of A. 1 Oct. 1873.
LOFTHOUSE, MARY (dau. of Thomas B. W. Forster of Holt Manor,
Wiltshire, landscape painter). _b._ 1853; water-colour painter;
her pictures were exhibited at the exhibition of lady artists,
Great Marlborough st. London; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A.
1876–80; an associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours
1884; (_m._ 3 June 1884 Samuel Hill Smith Lofthouse, barrister
L.I. 7 June 1869). _d._ Elmbank, Lower Halliford-on-Thames 2 May
1885.
LOFTUS, ARTHUR JOHN (only son of Arthur Loftus, captain R.N.)
_b._ 1817; ensign 97 foot 15 Dec. 1840; lieut. 10 royal hussars
1 May 1846; captain 18 hussars 26 Feb. 1858, sold out 21 Sep.
1860; Lucknow medal and clasp 1857; gentleman usher to the queen
1878–83; keeper of the crown jewels 23 April 1883 to death. _d._
Brighton 3 Sep. 1891.
LOFTUS, FERRARS (4 son of general Wm. Loftus, lieut. of Tower
of London). _b._ 24 June 1798; ensign grenadier guards 1815,
captain 27 Dec. 1833, sold out 1840; colonel 3 West York militia
25 April 1870 to death. _d._ Tyringham, Bucks. 9 Oct. 1877.
LOFTUS, GEORGE WILLIAM (2 son of 2 marquess of Ely 1770–1845).
_b._ 11 May 1815; ed. at Harrow; 2 lieut. rifle corps 22 June
1833; ensign grenadier guards 12 Sep. 1834, sold out 1839;
fought a duel with lord Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, at
Boulogne 10 Dec. 1839, they exchanged shots without effect;
bankrupt 2 May 1862 and 9 April 1867. _d._ Nice, France 19 Jany.
1877. _Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 2–4.
LOFTUS, WILLIAM FRANCIS BENTINCK (brother of Ferrars Loftus
1798–1877). _b._ 17 Aug. 1784; cornet 15 dragoons 30 Aug. 1799,
captain 20 April 1804; major 38 foot 9 April 1807 to 25 Dec.
1814 when placed on h.p.; colonel 50 foot 11 April 1851 to
death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Chacombe priory, Northamptonshire
13 Sep. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 635 (1852).
LOFTUS, WILLIAM JAMES (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 7 Jany.
1822; ensign 38 foot 9 Nov. 1838, lieut.-col. 16 Jany. 1863,
placed on h.p. 22 Dec. 1863; served in North America and the
West Indies 1840–51; present at the Alma, at Inkerman, and in
siege of Sebastopol, Crimean medal with 3 clasps; served in
Indian mutiny, in siege and capture of Lucknow, Indian medal
with clasps 1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; general on the retired list
July 1881. _d._ Birtley Bramley, Guildford 29 March 1887.
LOFTUS, WILLIAM KENNETT. _b._ Rye, Sussex about 1821; ed. at
Newcastle gr. sch., at Twickenham, and Caius coll. Camb. 1840;
secretary to Newcastle Natural history soc.; geologist on staff
of sir W. F. Williams on Turco-Persian frontier commission
1849–52; sent out to Babylon and Nineveh by Assyrian excavation
fund 1853, returned 1855 with collections of tablets, &c. now
in British Museum; issued a volume of Lithograph facsimilies
of cuneiform inscriptions from 1852; author of Travels and
researches in Chaldea and Susiana, with account of excavations
at Nimrod and Shúsh 1857. _d._ on board the Tyburnia on his way
to England from Rangoon, Nov. 1858.
LOGAN, ALEXANDER STUART (son of minister of Relief church, St.
Ninians, Stirlingshire). _b._ St. Ninians 1810; ed. Glasgow
and Edinb. universities; advocate at Scottish bar 1835; senior
advocate depute Dec. 1853; sheriff of Forfarshire 4 Feb. 1854 to
death; held many briefs at bar of General Assembly; author of
On Robert Burns, an address, and Judas the Betrayer, a poetical
fragment 1871. _d._ 12 York place, Edinburgh 2 Feb. 1862, marble
bust in Court buildings, Dundee. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_
(1873) 207–8.
LOGAN, ARCHIBALD SPIERS. _b._ 1802; entered Madras army 1819;
lieut. 47 Madras N.I. 182-, captain 11 Sep. 1832; captain 33
N.I. 1835, lieut.-col. 7 Aug. 1846 to 1855; lieut.-col. of 15
N.I. 1855 to 24 Oct. 1858; commandant at Vellore 14 March 1856
to 1858; col. of 45 N.I. 9 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870.
_d._ Elm bank, Malvern 10 May 1873.
LOGAN, GEORGE. Entered Madras army 1819; captain 41 Madras N.I.
27 Jany. 1831, major 19 Sep. 1843 to 6 Oct. 1851; lieut.-col. of
2 European regiment 6 Oct. 1851 to 1853 and 1854–5; lieut.-col.
of 41 N.I. 1855–60, of 6 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G.
31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Eastbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 4 Nov.
1870.
LOGAN, JAMES (son of a merchant). _b._ Aberdeen about 1794; ed.
at gr. sch. and Marischal college, Aberdeen; his reading ticket
at British museum dated from 1821; a journalist in London,
afterwards clerk in an architect’s office; made a pedestrian
tour in Scotland 1826; a transcriber on catalogue of British
museum Dec. 1838 to July 1840; secretary of Highland society
of London several years; wrote much in Transactions of the
Gaelic society of London, of which he was the Father; a brother
of the Charterhouse, London, expelled 1866; F.S.A.; author of
The Scottish Gael or Celtic manners as preserved among the
Highlanders 2 vols. 1831, 2 ed. 1876; Gaelic gatherings or the
highlanders at home 1848; and of the letterpress to R. R. Mac
Ian’s The clans of the Scottish Highlands 2 vols. 1843–9, new
ed. 1857. _d._ London, April 1872. _James Logan’s Scottish
Gael_, _new ed._ (1876) _memoir pp. ix–xx_; _R. Cowtan’s
Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 310–11.
LOGAN, JAMES RICHARDSON. Went to the Straits Settlements about
1835; settled at Penang, Prince of Wales’s Island; started at
Singapore in 1847 the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and
Eastern Asia, which he edited for about 10 years; started and
edited the Penang Gazette; notary public of supreme court of
Prince of Wales’s Island; a member of Asiatic Society. _d._
Penang 20 Oct. 1869.
LOGAN, ROBERT ABRAHAM (son of Patrick Logan, captain 57 foot).
_b._ 26 July 1824; ensign 41 foot 26 Oct. 1841; ensign 57 foot
19 Nov. 1841, lieut.-col. 24 April 1872, placed on h.p. 26 July
1876; commanded 57 foot in New Zealand war 1861, took the Maori
Pah 1863; commanded brigade depots 49 and 50 at Hounslow 1877;
M.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G.
6 May 1882; C.B. 5 July 1865. _d._ 28 Glen Eldon road, Streatham
near London 27 Jany. 1890.
LOGAN, WILLIAM (son of a customer weaver). _b._ Damhead near
Hamilton, Lanarkshire 1813; a loom weaver; a district missionary
in St. Giles’, London, then in Leeds, Rochdale 1840, Glasgow,
again at Rochdale and at Bradford; established a temperance
dining room, the profits of which he distributed to the poor;
attended persons stricken with fever; great friend of David Gray
of Luggie the poet, and the soother of his dying hours 1861;
the friend of Janet Hamilton the poet of Coatbridge, who _d._
1873; author of An exposure of female prostitution in London,
Leeds and Rochdale 1843; The moral statistics of Glasgow 1849;
Words of comfort for parents bereaved of little children 1861,
8 ed. 1874; The great social evil 1871; The early heroes of the
temperance reformation 1873. _d._ Glasgow 16 Sep. 1879. _W. C.
Maclehouse’s Memoirs of one hundred Glasgow men_, _ii_ 177–8
(1886), _portrait_.
LOGAN, SIR WILLIAM EDMOND (2 son of Wm. Logan, baker, _d._
1841). _b._ Montreal 20 April 1798; ed. at high sch. and univ.
of Edinb.; in counting-house of his uncle Hart Logan in London
1818–29; manager of copper-smelting works at Swansea 1831–8;
demonstrated the important fact that the stratum of clay
underlying coal-beds was the soil in which the coal vegetation
grew; director of the geological survey of Canada 1842–70;
discovered the Eozoon Canadense, the earliest known life, in
Laurentian strata 1858; Canadian comr. at Great Exhibitions
of 1851 and 1862, and at Paris exhibition 1855; F.R.S. 5 June
1851, royal medallist 1867; received cross of Legion of Honour
1855; Wollaston medallist of Geological Soc. 1856; knighted at
Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856; founded at cost of 20,000
dollars the Logan chair of geology in McGill university,
Montreal 1872; D.C.L. of Lennoxville univ. 1855; LL.D. of
McGill univ. 1856; F.G.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; author with
T. S. Hunt of A sketch of the geology of Canada 1856. _d._
Castle Malgwin, Pembrokeshire 22 June 1875. _bur._ Llechryd
church, Cardiganshire. _B. J. Harrington’s Life of W. E. Logan.
Montreal_ (1883), _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_
(1867) 228–34; _Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxii_ 76–80
(1876); _Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870), _portrait
ix_; _I.L.N. xviii_ 487–8 (1851), _portrait_.
LOGAN, WILLIAM HUGH (son of a writer to the signet). Apprentice
to a bank in Edinb.; manager of a bank at Berwick-on-Tweed;
banker at Berwick; twice mayor of Berwick; sheriff; supplied
Mr. R. H. Wyndham with all his occasional addresses, dramas
and burlesques for theatre royal, Edinb.; edited Edinburgh
theatrical and musical review, numbers 5 to 34 the last 1835;
writer of Le Bas Bleu, farce, T.R. Edinb. 30 March 1836; Rummio
and Judy, burlesque 183-; Absent without leave, farce, Strand
theatre, London 1837; Babes in the wood, pantomime, Queen’s
theatre, Edinb. 19 Dec. 1859; Shadows, farce, Queen’s theatre,
Edinb. 1862 and many other pieces; author of Memoir of Archibald
Maclaren, dramatist. Edinb. 1835, anon.; The Scottish banker
1839, 3 ed. 1847; On the law and practice of bills of exchange;
and of a short-lived serial called The dramatic spectator. By
Poz, Quiz and Co. Edinb. 1837; edited Fragmenta Scoto-Dramatica
1715–1758. Edinb. 1835, anon.; A Pedlar’s pack of ballads and
songs. Edinb. 1869. _d._ Jany. 1883. _R. Inglis’s Dramatic
writers of Scotland_ (1868) 66–8; _J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh
stage_ (1888) 34, 474, 478.
LOGIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Kirkwall 23 Feb. 1786; presbyterian
minister Ladykirk 1811–24; minister of Kirkwall 1824 to death;
D.D. of Edinb. univ. March 1854; author of God sending and
withdrawing the pestilence 1832; Sermons on the services of the
church, with memoir and portrait. Lond. 1857. _d._ Kirkwall 5
Sep. 1856.
LOGIN, SIR JOHN SPENCER (eld. son of John Login of Stromness,
Orkney). _b._ Stromness 9 Nov. 1809; ed. at univ. of Edinb.,
M.D. 1831; surgeon to Bengal horse artillery 1832, to the
Nizam’s army 1834, in Afghan campaign 1838 and in mission to
Herat 1839; surgeon British residency, Lucknow; postmaster in
Oude, superintendent of hospitals to king of Oude 1841; in
Punjaub army 1848–9, in charge of treasuries of Sikh government,
the citadel of Lahore, the post office in the Punjaub; guardian
of maharajah Duleep Singh 1849 to 1858; surgeon 17 April 1848,
retired 18 April 1858; knighted at Windsor castle 14 Nov. 1854;
resided 5 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London. _d._ Felixstowe,
Suffolk 18 Oct. 1863. _Sir John Login and Duleep Singh_ (1890),
_portrait_.
LOGIN, THOMAS. _b._ Stromness, Orkney 1823; in public works
department India 1844, engaged in construction of Ganges canal
1847–54; executive engineer of the Darjeeling roads 1857;
superintending engineer at Umballa 1870; author of papers on
Benefit of irrigation in India and on construction of irrigating
canals, for which he received Telford premium from Instit. of
Civil engineers; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; M.I.C.E. 19 May 1868. _d._
while inspecting the Thibet road in the Punjaub 5 June 1874.
_Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix_ 205 (1878).
LOLA MONTEZ, stage name of Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert
(dau. of Edward Gilbert, ensign 44 foot, _d._ Dinapore, India
1825). _b._ Limerick 1818; ed. at Montrose and in Paris; resided
at Bath with her mother; ran away to Ireland with Thomas James,
captain 21 Bengal N.I., whom she married at Meath 23 July 1837;
she returned from India to England early in 1842; he obtained an
order for a divorce in consistory court, London 15 Dec. 1842,
retired from the army 28 Feb. 1856 and _d._ 17 May 1871; made
her début at Her Majesty’s theatre 3 June 1843 as ‘Lola Montez
Spanish dancer,’ but being badly received did not appear again;
danced at Dresden, Berlin, Warsaw and St. Petersburg; appeared
as a dancer at Munich 1847 when she captivated the king of
Bavaria, Ludwig Carl Augustus, naturalised by a royal ordinance
7 March 1847, created baronne de Rosenthal and comtesse de
Lansfeld, the king built a splendid mansion for her and gave
her a pension of 20,000 florins; ruled the kingdom of Bavaria
with great ability, banished March 1848 and the king was forced
to abdicate 21 March; _m._ at St. George’s, Hanover sq. 19 July
1849 George Trafford Heald, cornet 2nd life guards, she fled
with him to Spain Aug. 1849 to avoid punishment for bigamy, he
sold out 1849 and was drowned at Lisbon 1853 or 1856; danced in
ballet of Betley the Tyrolean, at Broadway theatre, New York 29
Dec. 1851, and played Lola Montez in Ware’s drama ‘Lola Montez
in Bavaria’ 18 May 1852; _m._ in California 2 Aug. 1853 P. P.
Hull, proprietor of the ‘San Francisco Whig’ but soon left
him; played at Victoria theatre, Sydney, N.S.W. 23 Aug. 1855;
played at Melbourne 1856 where she horsewhipped Mr. Seekamp,
editor of the Ballarat Times, for reflecting on her character;
appeared at Green st. theatre, New York 1857 in The Eton Boy,
The follies of a night, and Lola in Bavaria; a public lecturer
in the United States 1858, lectured at St. James’s hall, London
7 April 1859; spent her time visiting the female outcasts at
the Magdalen hospital near New York 1859–60. _d._ in a sanitary
asylum at Asteria, New York 17 Jany. 1861. _bur._ Greenwood
cemet. 19 Jany. _Autobiography and lectures of Lola Montez_
(1858), _portrait_; _Les Contemporains, Lola Montes. Par Eugène
de Mirecourt. Paris_ (1870), _portrait_; _F. L. Hawks’s Story
of a penitent, Lola Montez. New York_ (1867); _C. H. Ross’s
Painted Faces_ (1891) 78–88; _H. H. Phelps’s Players of a
century_ (1880) 265–7, 297; _Temple Bar_, _July 1880 pp._ 362–7;
_Mortemar’s Folly’s Queens_ (1882) 10–14, _portrait_; _You have
heard of them. By Q._ (1854) 98–106; _I.L.N. x_ 180 (1847),
_portrait_.
LOMAS, JOHN (son of rev. Robert Lomas _d._ 1810). _b._ Hull 13
Dec. 1798; master Kingswood sch. 1820–23; Wesleyan methodist
minister at Manchester 1827–33, 1842–5, 1851–4, at Bristol
1833–6, 1855–8, at Birmingham 1836–9, in London 1845–51,
1858–61; theological tutor Richmond coll. 1861–8 and at
Headingley coll. 1868–73; president of the Conference 1853;
author of Jesus Christ the propitiation for our sins. The third
Fernley lecture 1872. _d._ Redland, Bristol 20 Aug. 1877.
_Wesleyan Methodist Mag. ci_ 9, 134, 207, 283 (1878).
LOMAX, JAMES (3 son of Richard Grimshaw Lomax _d._ 1837). _b._
Clayton hall, Accrington, Lancs. 1803; ed. at Stonyhurst;
succeeded to family estates on death of his brother John Lomax
1849; a prominent Roman Catholic in the north of England, and a
munificent donor to R.C. organizations in Lancashire, erected at
his own cost church of Our Lady and St. Hubert, Great Harwood;
created knight commander of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX.
_d._ Clayton hall 26 March 1886.
LOMAX, THOMAS GEORGE (eld. son of rev. James Lomax of Druid
Heath house, Staffs.) _b._ 1783; bookseller at the Johnson’s
head, Lichfield 1 Jany. 1810 to death; purchased relics of Dr.
Johnson from his black servant Francis Barber; senior bailiff of
Lichfield 1833, mayor 1843. _d._ the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 3
Jany. 1873. _bur._ St. Chad’s cemetery. _Bookseller_, _Feb. 1873
p._ 79.
LONDESBOROUGH, ALBERT DENISON DENISON, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry
Conyngham, 1 marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). _b._ 8 Stanhope
st. Piccadilly, London 21 Oct. 1805; ed. Eton; cornet in the
army 21 Sep. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 24 July 1823,
sold out 1824; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Vienna 1825, sec. of
legation, Florence 1826 and at Berlin 1829–31; K.C.H. 1829;
M.P. Canterbury 1835–41 and 1847–50; assumed name of Denison
in lieu of Conyngham 4 Sep. 1849; cr. baron Londesborough
of Londesborough, Yorkshire 4 March 1850; pres. of British
Archæological association at its first meeting at Canterbury
1843; V.P. of Archæological Instit. 1849; pres. of London and
Middlesex Archæological society 1855; purchased the Selby
estate, Yorkshire, Aug. 1853 for £270,000; held 60,000 acres of
land, producing income of £100,000; F.S.A. 1840; F.R.S. 13 June
1850; most unlucky as a breeder and runner of horses; printed
Wanderings in search of health 1849; Miscellanea Graphica 1857;
An illustrative catalogue of antique silver 1860. _d._ 8 Carlton
house terrace, London 15 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Grimston 24 Jany.
_Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii_ 171–5 (1861); _I.L.N.
xxiii_ 225 (1853) _portrait_, _xxxvi_ 108 (1860); _Taylor’s
Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 228–32, 482–3; _W. W. Morrell’s
History of Selby_ (1867) 275–7; _Sporting Review_, _xliii_ 80–81
(1860); _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections_, _i_ 262–8 (1883) _and
Collectanea Antigua_, _v_ 261–69 (1861).
LONDONDERRY, CHARLES WILLIAM VANE, 3 Marquess of (2 son of
Robert Stewart, 1 marquess of Londonderry 1739–1821). _b._ Mary
st. Dublin 18 May 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 108 foot 11 Oct.
1794; major 106 foot 31 July 1795; lieut.-colonel 5 dragoons
1 Jany. 1797 to 6 April 1799 when the regiment was disbanded
for insubordination; lieut.-col. 18 hussars 12 April 1799 to
20 Nov. 1813; M.P. Thomastown in Irish parliament 1798–1800,
M.P. co. Londonderry 1801 to June 1814; under sec. of state for
war and colonies 1807 to 1808; commanded a brigade of hussars
in Portugal 1808; adjutant general to army under sir Arthur
Wellesley 1809–12; K.B. 1 Feb. 1813; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815;
G.C.H. 1816; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Berlin 7
April 1813; colonel 25 light dragoons 20 Nov. 1813; created a
peer of the realm by title of baron Stewart of Stewart’s court
and Ballilawn 1 July 1814; a lord of the bedchamber 25 June
1814 to Aug. 1827; P.C. 27 July 1814; ambassador to Vienna 27
Aug. 1814; assumed surname of Vane 1819; colonel 10 hussars 3
Feb. 1820 to 23 June 1843; succeeded his half-brother as 3
marquess 12 Aug. 1822; cr. earl Vane and viscount Seaham 28
March 1823; general 10 Jany. 1837; lord lieut. of Durham 27
April 1842; col. 2 life guards 23 June 1843 to death; K.G. 19
Jany. 1853; made a harbour at Seaham, opened 29 July 1835, which
cost £250,000; published Suggestions for the improvement of the
force of the British empire 1805; A narrative of the Peninsular
war 1808–13, 2 vols. 1828–9; Memoirs and correspondence of Lord
Castlereagh 8 vols. 1848–51. _d._ Holderness house, Park lane,
London 6 March 1854. _bur._ Long Newton 16 March. _J. E. Doyle’s
Official baronage_, _iii_ 552–4 (1886), _portrait_; _Portraits
of eminent conservatives and statesmen. First series 5 pages_
(1836), _portrait_ 10; _Royal military calendar 3 ed. ii_ 411–20
(1820); _St. Stephen’s. By Mask_ (1839) 78–88; _H. Martineau’s
Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 188–92; _H. Heaviside’s
Annals of Stockton on Tees_ (1865) 111–14.
NOTE.--He left personal property of value of £335,000 exclusive of vast estates in England and Ireland, his widow’s personalty was sworn under £400,000, 24 June 1865. He was the lord high marshal at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839. He is drawn in Vivian Grey as Col. Von Trumpetson. In 1824 he was challenged to a duel by Wm. Battier, who was gazetted cornet 10 hussars 27 Feb. 1823 and _d._ Paris 27 April 1839. On 13 June 1839 Lord Londonderry met Henry Grattan, M.P., on Wimbledon common, Grattan fired and missed and his lordship discharged his pistol in the air.
LONDONDERRY, FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERT STEWART, 4 Marquess of
(1 son of preceding). _b._ South st. Grosvenor sq. London 7
July 1805; M.P. for co. Down 1826–52; a lord of the admiralty
1829–30; vice chamberlain of the household 27 Dec. 1834 to June
1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; colonel North Down militia 1837; lord
lieut. of Down 1845–64; M.P. co. Down 1826–52; succeeded as 4
marquess 6 March 1854; K.P. 1855. _d._ Hastings 25 Nov. 1872.
_I.L.N. lxi_ 550 (1872).
LONDONDERRY, GEORGE HENRY ROBERT CHARLES WILLIAM VANE-TEMPEST,
5 Marquess of (half-brother of preceding). _b._ Vienna 26 April
1821; styled viscount Seaham 1823–54; ed. at Eton; matric. Ball.
coll. Oxf. 14 June 1839, B.A. and M.A. 1867, hon. D.C.L. Durham;
cornet 1 life guards 13 Jany. 1843, lieut. 1845, sold out 1848;
M.P. North Durham 1847–54; succeeded his father as 2 earl Vane 6
March 1854; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry 1859–73; lieut.-col.
commandant 2 Durham militia 1853–62; assumed additional name of
Tempest by r.l. 28 June 1854; appointed to proceed on a special
mission to St. Petersburg to invest emperor Alexander II.
with insignia and habit of order of the garter 21 July 1867;
provincial grand master free masons co. Durham 1880; succeeded
his brother as 5 marquess 25 Nov. 1872; K.P. 31 Aug. 1874; lord
lieut. of Durham 8 June 1880 to death. _d._ Plas Machynlleth,
Montgomeryshire 5 Nov. 1884. _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 501 (1884),
_portrait_; _R. F. Gould’s Freemasonry_, _iv_ 276 (1885),
_portrait_.
LONEY, ROBERT. _b._ 1787; entered navy Sep. 1797; commander on
h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; captain on h.p. 6 Aug. 1852; retired admiral
15 June 1879; edited The China pilot 1855. _d._ Woodbine villa,
Mannamead, Plymouth 22 Feb. 1882.
LONG, CATHARINE (youngest dau. of Horatio Walpole, 2 earl of
Orford 1752–1822). _b._ 1798; (_m._ 25 July 1822 Henry Lawes
Long of Hampton lodge near Farnham, Surrey, _d._ 1868); edited
The story of a drop of water 1856; author of Sir Roland Ashton,
a tale of the times 2 vols. 1844, 2 ed. 1854; The Midsummer
souvenir, thoughts original and selected 1846; Heavenly thoughts
for morning hours 1851; Heavenly thoughts for evening hours
1856; The first lieutenant’s story 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1856;
Story of a specific prayer 1863; An Agnus Dei for four or five
voices 1848, and other pieces of sacred music. _d._ suddenly
from alarm in a thunderstorm at Landthorne Hatch near Farnham 20
Aug. 1867. _Times 21 Aug. 1867 p._ 10.
LONG, CHARLES EDWARD (elder son of Charles Beckford Long of
Langley hall, Berkshire, _d._ 1836 aged 65). _b._ Benham park,
Berkshire 28 July 1796; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; author of Imperial and papal Rome, a poem
1818, 4 ed. 1859; Considerations on the game laws 1824, anon.;
Letter on the Jamaica house of assembly, abandonment of its
legislative functions 1839; Royal descents, a genealogical list
of the several persons entitled to quarter the arms of the royal
houses of England 1845; edited for the Camden Society, The diary
of the marches of the royal army during the great civil war,
kept by Richard Symonds 1859. _d._ Lord Warden hotel, Dover 25
Sep. 1861. _bur._ Seale churchyard, Surrey.
LONG, CHARLES MAITLAND (younger son of Samuel Long of
Carshalton, M.P. Ilchester _d._ 1807). _b._ 16 Aug. 1803; ed.
at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830;
R. of Whitchurch, Salop 1834–46; R. of Settrington, Yorkshire
1846 to death; archdeacon of East Riding of Yorkshire 1854–73;
prebendary of Fridaythorpe in York cathedral 1855 to death. _d._
43 Berkeley sq. London 6 Oct. 1875.
LONG, EDWIN LONGSDEN (son of Edwin Long an artist). _b._ Bath
12 July 1829; pupil of James Matthew Leigh; a portrait painter,
afterwards painted oriental scenes; resided in Spain with
John Phillip, R.A.; A.R.A. 26 Jany. 1876, R.A. 13 July 1881;
exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st.
1855–80; exhibited his pictures at his own gallery 168 New Bond
st. 1883 to death, after which his pictures were exhibited at
the Doré gallery 35 New Bond st., his pictures The Babylonian
marriage market 1875 and the Egyptian feast 1877 were much
noticed. _d._ Kelston, Netherall gardens, Hampstead 15 May 1891.
_I.L.N. lxviii_ 436, 437 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic 23 May
1891 p._ 585, _portrait_; _M. B. Huish’s The year’s art_ (1888)
32, _portrait_.
LONG, GEORGE (2 son of Joseph Long of Shopwick near Chichester).
_b._ 1780; special pleader in London 1809–11; barrister G.I.
11 Feb. 1811, bencher 1834 to death, treasurer 1837; deputy
steward of the Palace court 1825–33; a comr. for inquiring into
state of municipal corporations 18 July 1833; magistrate at
Great Marlborough st. police court 1839, at Marylebone police
court June 1841 to Dec. 1859; recorder of Coventry 1840 to 1854;
author of Observations on a bill to amend the laws relating to
the relief of the poor 1821; A treatise on the law relative to
sales of personal property 1821; An essay on the moral nature
of man 1841; The conduct of life, a series of essays 1845;
An enquiry concerning religion 1855. _d._ 51 Queen Anne st.
Cavendish sq. London 26 June 1868. _bur._ Willesden cemet. _Law
Times_, _xlv_ 250 (1868).
LONG, GEORGE (eld. son of James Long, merchant). _b._ Poulton,
Lancs. 4 Nov. 1800; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin.
coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1821, 30th wrangler and senior
chancellor’s medallist 1822; B.A. 1822; fellow of Trin. coll.
1823–7; professor of ancient languages in univ. of Virginia at
Charlottesville 1824–8; professor of Greek in London univ.,
Gower st. London 1 Oct. 1828, resigned 1831; a founder of royal
geographical soc. 1830, hon. sec. 1846–8; edited Quarterly
journal of education 10 vols. 1831–5; The Penny cyclopædia
29 vols. 1833–46, published in monthly parts; edited and
contributed to The biographical dictionary of the Society for
diffusion of useful knowledge 7 vols. 1842–4, letter A only;
professor of Latin in Univ. coll. London 1842–6, when he was
presented with a silver tea and coffee service; barrister I.T. 9
June 1837, reader on jurisprudence and civil law at Inner Temple
April 1846 to 1849; classical lecturer at Brighton college
1849–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 7 Aug. 1873;
author of The civil wars of Rome. Select lives from Plutarch 5
vols. 1844–8; France and its revolutions, a pictorial history
1850; An old man’s thoughts about many things 1862, anon.;
The decline of the Roman republic 5 vols. 1864; compiled The
standard cyclopædia of political knowledge 4 vols. 1848, and
edited with rev. Arthur John Macleane the Bibliotheca Classica
27 vols. 1851–84. _d._ Portfield, Chichester 10 Aug. 1879. _H.
J. Mathews’s In memoriam. George Long_ (1879).
LONG, JAMES. _b._ 1814; resided in Russia; deacon in Church of
England 1839, priest 1840; went to India as a missionary of
Church missionary society about 1846, stationed at Thakurpukur
near Calcutta; known as Padre Long, returned to England
1872; member of Bengal Asiatic Society; F.R.G.S.; fined 1000
rupees and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for adversely
criticising the English press at Calcutta and the indigo
planters in his preface to a Bengali drama entitled Niladarpana
Nataka 1861; assigned to Church Missionary Soc. £2000 to
provide popular lectures on the religions of the East; author
of Handbook of Bengal missions 1848; A descriptive catalogue
of Bengali works 1855; Prabád Málá or the wit of Bengali
ryots 1869; Eastern proverbs and emblems 1881; contributed to
Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Calcutta review and the
Indian magazine. _d._ 3 Adam st. Adelphi, London 23 March 1887.
_Trubner’s Literary Record_ (1887) 24; _Academy 9 April 1887 p._
255.
LONG, RICHARD PENRUDDOCK (2 son of Walter Long 1793–1867).
_b._ Baynton house, Wiltshire 19 Dec. 1825; ed. at Harrow and
Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; first played at Lord’s
in Harrow _v._ Winchester 27 July 1842; one of the largest
landed proprietors in England; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1858;
nominated for sheriff of Wilts. 1875; contested South Wilts. 16
July 1852; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; M.P. North Wilts. 1865–8.
d. Cannes, France 16 Feb. 1875. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_,
_iii_ 106 (1863).
LONG, SAMUEL (eld. son of Charles Maitland Long 1803–75). _b._
5 Jany. 1840; cadet R.N. 8 Dec. 1852; served in Crimean war and
was present at bombardment of Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; captain
12 Dec. 1876; commander of Vernon torpedo instruction ship
Portsmouth, organised and delivered the night attack on the
fleet at Spithead and on the naval force protected by a boom at
Southampton 1889; captain superintendent at Pembroke dockyard
Jany. 1889 to Aug. 1891; aide de camp to the queen 1 Jany. 1889
to 27 Aug. 1891; R.A. 27 Aug. 1891; author of several papers
on torpedo warfare; thrown from his horse and injured, _d._
Blendworth lodge, Horndean near Portsmouth 25 April 1893.
LONG, SIMON (son of David Long, Gretna Green priest, _d._ 1827
in his 72 year). The last of the Gretna Green priests. _d._
Falling near Newcastle on Tyne 24 April 1872.
LONG, WALTER (1 son of Richard Godolphin Long, M.P., 1761–1835).
_b._ 10 Oct. 1793; ed. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1809,
M.A. 1812; M.P. North Wilts. 1835–65; major R. Wilts, yeomanry
cavalry; resided Rood Ashton, Wilts., _d._ Torquay 31 Jany.
1867. _G.M. iii_ 399 (1867).
LONG, WILLIAM. Stable boy in employ of 5 duke of Beaufort in
Oxfordshire 1803; whipper-in to hounds of 6 duke of Beaufort at
Badminton about 1814–26; huntsman to 6 and 7 dukes of Beaufort
1826–55. _d._ Didmarton, Gloucestershire 31 Jany. 1877 aged 84.
_Cecil’s Records of the chase_ (1887) 162, 175–80.
LONG, WILLIAM (2 son of Walter Long of Preshaw house near
Bishop’s Waltham, Hants. 1788–1871). _b._ 15 Aug. 1817; ed. at
Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871;
author of Avebury illustrated. Devizes 1858; Stonehenge and its
burrows. Devizes 1876. _d._ Onslow gardens, London 14 April
1886. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xi_ 375 (1886).
LONGDEN, SIR HENRY ERRINGTON (son of Thomas Hayter Longden).
_b._ 14 Jany. 1819; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 10 foot
16 Sep. 1836, lieut.-col. 20 July 1858, placed on h.p. 14 June
1864; served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, in Punjaub campaign
1848–9; buried under the ruins of Mooltan 12 Sep. 1849 and after
some hours dug out unhurt; in battle of Goojerat; medal and 2
clasps; employed in surveying forests of the Himalayas 1849–52;
in Indian mutiny 1857–8, took part in capture of Lucknow, chief
of the staff to Lugard’s force 1859, Indian medal and 2 clasps;
adjutant general Bengal 17 Jany. 1866 to 16 March 1869; general
1 July 1881; col. of second battalion Hampshire regiment, late
67 foot, 24 June 1883 to 11 Nov. 1888; col. of the Lincolnshire
regiment, late 10 foot, 11 Nov. 1888 to death; C.B. 21 March
1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; C.S.I. 28 May 1870. _d._ Bournemouth
29 Jany. 1890.
LONGDEN, SIR JAMES ROBERT (youngest son of John Robert Longden
of Doctors’ commons, London, proctor). _b._ 1827; government
clerk in the Falkland islands 1844, colonial secretary there to
1861; pres. of Virgin Islands 1861; lieut. governor of Dominica
5 Sep. 1865; governor of British Honduras 5 Dec. 1867; governor
of Trinidad 18 July 1870; governor of British Guiana 14 March
1874; governor of Ceylon 30 June 1877 to 1883; C.M.G. 23 Feb.
1871, K.C.M.G. 13 March 1876, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1883; alderman of
Hertfordshire under Local government act. _d._ Longhope near
Watford, Herts. 4 Oct. 1891; cremated at Woking cemet. 9 Oct.
LONGFIELD, GEORGE (4 son of rev. Mountifort Longfield, V. of
Desertserges, co. Cork). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar
1837–42, fellow 1842 to death; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, B.D.
1864, D.D. 1866; professor of Hebrew, univ. of Dublin 1869 to
death; treasurer of St. Patrick’s cathedral 1877; author of An
introduction to the study of the Chaldee language 1859. _d._ 3
Nov. 1878.
LONGFIELD, JOHN (2 son of John Longfield of Longueville, co.
Cork 1767–1842). _b._ Dublin 18 Sep. 1804; ensign 8 foot 28 June
1825, lieut.-col. 3 April 1846 to 1 June 1860 when placed on
h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 1855, 1856 and 1857–59; col. 29
foot 19 April 1868 to 19 Dec. 1881; general 19 July 1876; col.
Liverpool regiment, 8 foot, 19 Dec. 1881 to death; C.B. 21 Jany.
1858. _d._ Kilcoleman, Bandon, co. Cork 27 Feb. 1889. _History
of Eighth foot 2 ed. p._ 283.
LONGFIELD, MOUNTIFORT (brother of George Longfield _d._ 3
Nov. 1878). _b._ South of Ireland 1802; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829, LL.D. 1831; fellow of Trin. coll.
1825–34; professor of political economy univ. of Dublin 1832–6,
regius professor of feudal and English law 29 Nov. 1834 to
death, discharged his duties by deputy from 1871; called to
Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842, bencher of King’s inns 1859;
comr. of Incumbered estates court 1849–58, a judge of Landed
estates court 1858–67; comr. of Irish national education 1853;
P.C. Ireland 1867; author of Four lectures on poor laws 1834;
Lectures on political economy 1834; Remarks on the safety and
advantages of commutation if accepted by the clergy generally
1870; Elementary treatise on series 1872. _d._ 47 Fitzwilliam
sq. Dublin 21 Nov. 1884. _Irish Law Times 29 Nov. 1884 p._ 606.
LONGFIELD, RICHARD (brother of John Longfield 1804–89). _b._
Longueville, co. Cork 1802; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1824; sheriff of Cork 1833; contested co. Cork 24 Jany. 1835 and
seated on petition 5 June; contested co. Cork 18 Aug. 1837 and
15 July 1841. _d._ Longueville house, Mallow 19 June 1889.
LONGFIELD, ROBERT (brother of Mountifort Longfield 1802–84).
_b._ co. Cork 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A
1832; called to Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; law adviser of
crown for Ireland 1866 to death; chairman of quarter sessions,
co. Galway, Dec. 1867 to death; law adviser to the castle,
Dublin; M.P. Mallow, May 1859 to 1865; author of The laws of
distress and replevin in Ireland. Dublin 1841; A treatise on
the action of ejectment in the superior courts in Ireland 2
ed. 1846; The origin of freemasonry 1857; The fishery laws of
Ireland 1863; The game laws of Ireland 1864. _d._ 33 Merrion sq.
south, Dublin 27 April 1868.
LONGFORD, WILLIAM LYGON PAKENHAM, 4 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl
of Longford 1774–1838). _b._ Pakenham hall 31 Jany. 1819; ed.
Winchester; ensign 52 foot 25 Aug. 1837; lieut. 7 foot 1838,
captain 1844, placed on h.p. 6 July 1852; A.Q.M.G. Crimea
1854–5, A.A.G. 1855, A.G. 1855–6; in battles of Alma, Balaklava
and Inkerman, and at siege of Sebastopol, medal with 4 clasps;
A.G. Bengal, Feb. 1858 to 2 July 1860; succeeded his brother as
4 earl 27 March 1860; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 June 1861,
G.C.B. 24 May 1881; under sec. of state for war 7 July 1866 to
8 Dec. 1868; lord lieut. of Longford 21 March 1874 to death;
col. 5 Northumberland fusiliers 11 Sep. 1878 to death; general
31 July 1879; placed on retired list 1881. _d._ 24 Bruton st.
London 19 April 1887.
LONGLANDS, HENRY (son of Thomas Longlands of Greenwich). _b._
1781; ed. at Westminster, King’s scholar 1796; barrister M.T. 10
Feb. 1809, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1851; secretary to
West India Dock co. 1818–38. _d._ Blackheath road, Old Charlton
9 Feb. 1857.
LONGLEY, CHARLES THOMAS (5 son of John Longley, recorder of
Rochester, _d._ 1822). _b._ Boley Hill, Rochester 28 July
1794; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; King’s scholar at Westminster
1808; student at Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812, Greek reader 1822, tutor
and censor 1825–8; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1829;
proctor of the univ. 1827; C. of Cowley, Oxon. 1818, P.C. of
Cowley 1823–7; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1827–9; head master
of Harrow school 21 March 1829 to Oct. 1836; bishop of Ripon 15
Oct. 1836, consecrated in York cath. 6 Nov. 1836; translated
to see of Durham 13 Oct. 1856; archbishop of York 1 June 1860;
P.C. 9 June 1860; archbishop of Canterbury 20 Oct. 1862 to
death, installed 12 Dec. 1862; the Lambeth or Pan-Anglican
synod of 78 British, colonial and foreign prelates met in
London under his presidency 24–27 Sep. 1867; translated Koch’s
Tableau des révolutions de l’Europe 1831; author of A letter to
the parishioners of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1851. _d._ Addington
park near Croydon 27 Oct. 1868. _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and
deans_, _i_ 161–8 (1875); _Macmillan’s Mag. March 1883 pp._
346–58; _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ (1861), _portrait_;
_Illustrated times 25 Oct. 1862 p._ 417, _portrait_, _20 Dec.
1862 p._ 541 _view of installation_.
LONGMAN, CHARLES (2 son of Thomas Norton Longman, publisher
1771–1842). _b._ 11 Feb. 1809; ed. Westminster 1822–4; head
of firm of J. Dickinson & Co. paper makers, 65 Old Bailey and
1 Irongate wharf, Praed st. London; F.G.S. 1862; dropped down
_dead_ in his park, Shendish near Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 4
Jany. 1873; will proved 15 Feb. 1873, personalty under £200,000.
LONGMAN, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1804; ed. at
Glasgow univ.; partner in Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green,
publishers 38 Paternoster row 1832, head of the firm 1842 to
death; superintended production of The New Testament illustrated
with engravings on wood after paintings by Fra Angelico, Pietro
Perugino and other great masters 1864, 250 copies at ten guineas
each, 2 ed. 1864, reprinted 1883; published lord Macaulay’s
works, sent him a cheque for £20,000 dated 13 March 1856 for
his share of profits of his History of England vols. 3 and
4; the firm purchased business and stock of John W. Parker
publisher 1863; purchased copyright of Disraeli’s novels 1870;
bought Farnborough hall, Hants. for nearly £100,000, 1859. _d._
Farnborough hall 30 Aug. 1879. _History of the house of Longman.
By Francis Espinasse in The Critic_, _xx_ 366, 431, 483 (1860);
_Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 79–109.
LONGMAN, THOMAS TUCKER (son of John Longman). _b._ Castle Cary,
Somerset 1818; ed. St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; one of first to
take B.A. degree at univ. of London 1841; ordained priest
1840; missioner at Wolverhampton, at Bloxwich, at Hampton hill,
and at Warwick where he built the R.C. church; administrator
of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1867, canon of the cath. 1873,
vicar general of the diocese 1873–91; in charge of St. Peter’s,
Leamington 1884–91; dignity of Monsignor conferred on him by
the Pope, June 1890; member of Birmingham school board. _d._
Leamington 14 Dec. 1892. _Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 3,
_portrait_.
LONGMAN, _William_ (brother of Thomas Longman 1804–79). _b._ 9
Feb. 1813; entered service of Longman & Co. publishers 1828, a
partner 1839 to death; freeman of Stationers’ Co. 1834; an early
member of Alpine club 1857, pres. 1871–4; F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1873;
author of A catalogue of works in all departments of English
literature classified, anon., Second edition 1848; Journal of
six weeks’ adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont and the Italian
lakes. By W. Longman and H. Trower. Privately printed 1856;
Lectures on the history of England to the close of the reign of
Edward II. 1859; The history of the life and times of Edward
III. 2 vols. 1869; A history of the three cathedrals dedicated
to St. Paul in London 1873. _d._ Ashlyns, Great Berkhampstead 13
Aug. 1877. _William Longman. By H. R. (Henry Reeve) in Fraser’s
Mag. for Oct. 1877 pp._ 417–21; _Publishers’ Circular_ (1877)
605–6; _Graphic_, _xvi_ 204 (1877), _portrait_.
LONGMIRE, MARGARET (dau. of John and Margaret Atkinson). _b._
Westmoreland 15 April 1765; _bapt._ Windermere 19 May 1777; a
servant on various farms; _m._ James Longmire of Crawmire’s,
he _d._ 19 Jany. 1831; a sick nurse; had parochial relief.
_d._ Troutbeck 30 May 1868 aged 103 years and 6 weeks. She was
grandmother of Thomas Longmire the champion wrestler of England.
_W. J. Thom’s Longevity of Man_ (1879) 272–80.
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