Chapter XXIII: Part 23

LONGMUIR, JOHN (son of John Longmuir). _b._ Stonehaven,
Kincardineshire 13 Nov. 1803; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and
Marischal coll., M.A., LL.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1859; English
master Anderson’s Institution, Forres; licensed by presbytery of
Forres, July 1833; evening lecturer in Trinity chapel, Aberdeen
1837; minister of Mariners’ church, Aberdeen Sep. 1840; minister
of Free church, Aberdeen 1843–81; lecturer on geology at King’s
coll. Aberdeen to 1859; author of The College and other poems.
Aberdeen 1825, anon.; Bible Lays 1838, 2 ed. 1877; Ocean Lays
1854, new ed. 1864; Lays for the lambs 1860; A run through the
land of Burns and the covenanters 1872; edited Rhythmical index
to the English language 1877; Walker and Webster combined in
a dictionary of the English language 1864, 2 ed. 1876. _d._
Aberdeen 7 May 1883. _W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord_ (1887)
407–14; _Edwards’s Modern Scottish Poets 2nd series_.

LONGSTAFF, GEORGE DIXON. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827; M.D. Edinb.
1828; assist. professor of chemistry Edinb. univ., where he was
the first teacher of practical chemistry to medical students;
physician at Hull some years; in America some years; engaged
in commerce in England; superintendent of special constables
in Chartist riots 1848; a founder 1841 and V.P. of Chemical
Soc. of London; chairman of royal maternity charity, London;
first member of Wandsworth district board of works; author of
Dissertatio inauguralis de calorico 1828. _d._ Butterknowle,
Southfields, Wandsworth, Surrey 23 Sep. 1892.

LONGWORTH, JOHN AUGUSTUS. Consul at Monastir, Tunis 29 Sep.
1851; employed on several special services 1854–58; consul
general in Servia 13 Feb. 1860 to 14 Feb. 1875 when he retired
on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; author of A year among the
Circassians 2 vols. 1840. _d._ 16 Westbourne park villas,
Bayswater, London 23 July 1875.

LONGWORTH, MARIA THERESA (7 child of Thomas Longworth of
Manchester, silk manufacturer, _d._ Altrincham, Cheshire 1854).
_b._ Fairyhill, Cheetwood near Manchester 1827; ed. at a convent
in Staffs. and at an Ursuline convent school at Boulogne; began
a correspondence 1853 with Wm. Charles Yelverton afterwards 4
viscount Avonmore, met him again when she was a nurse at Galata
hospital, Constantinople, during Crimean war, Aug. 1855 and they
became engaged; he read aloud the Church of England marriage
service at her lodgings 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh 12 April
1857, they were afterwards married by rev. Bernard Mooney at
R.C. chapel at Kilbroney near Rostrevor in Ireland, and lived
together in Ireland and Scotland till April 1858; Yelverton
married Emily widow of professor Edward Forbes 26 June 1858;
Miss Longworth sued Yelverton for restitution of conjugal rights
in probate court, London 31 Oct. 1859 but the court decided that
it had no jurisdiction; the Scottish court of session upheld
the marriage 19 Dec. 1862 but this judgment was reversed by the
house of lords 28 July 1864; her attempt to reopen the case at
Edinburgh in March 1865, failed and the house of lords supported
the Scottish court 30 July 1867, her appeal to court of session
to set aside judgment of house of lords was rejected 28 Oct.
1868; a subscription in her behalf was raised in Manchester;
gave her first reading at Hanover square rooms, London 6 April
1866; author of Martyrs to circumstances 2 vols. 1861; The
Yelverton correspondence 1863; Zanita, a tale of the Yosemite
1872; Teresina Peregrina 2 vols. 1874; Teresina in America 2
vols. 1875; lived at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, about March 1880
to her death there 13 Sep. 1881. _J. F. Macqueen’s Reports in
the House of Lords_, _iv_ 745–912 (1866); _Law mag. and law
review_, _xi_ 215–34 (1861); _Illust. Times 9 March 1861 p._
143, _portrait_; _A.R._ (1861) 528–42; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_,
_xxvii_ 336 (1862), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _v_ 117
(1866), _portrait_.

NOTE.--J. R. O’Flanagan’s novel entitled Gentle blood or the secret marriage 1861 is founded on the Yelverton marriage case, Miss Longworth is called in the novel Sybilla Longsword and Yelverton figures as Rodulphus Silverton.

LONSDALE, WILLIAM LOWTHER, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 earl of
Lonsdale 1757–1844). _b._ 30 July 1787; ed. at Harrow and Trin.
coll. Camb., M.A. 1808; styled viscount Lowther 1807–44; M.P.
Cockermouth 1808–13; M.P. Westmoreland 1813–31; M.P. Dunwich
1831–2; M.P. Westmoreland 1832–41; F.R.S. 5 July 1810; a lord
of the admiralty 24 Nov. 1809 to 1 May 1810; a commissioner for
affairs of India 7 July 1810 to 17 July 1818; a lord of the
treasury 25 Nov. 1813 to 30 April 1827; lieut.-col. commandant
of Westmoreland militia 9 June 1818 to 26 Feb. 1861; chief
comr. of woods and forests 14 June 1828 to 13 Dec. 1830; P.C.
30 May 1828; treasurer of the navy 27 Dec. 1834 to 22 April
1835; vice pres. of board of trade 20 Dec. 1834 to 6 May 1835;
summoned to parliament as baron Lowther of Whitehaven 8 Sep.
1841; postmaster general 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 Jany. 1846; succeeded
his father as 2 earl 19 March 1844; lord lieut. of Cumberland
and Westmoreland 17 April 1844 to 2 Dec. 1868; lord pres. of
privy council 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; bought Armathwaite
castle, Cumberland, Aug. 1845. _d._ 14 Carlton house terrace,
London 4 March 1872; personalty sworn under £700,000 6 April
1872. _I.L.N. lx_ 261, 267, 339 (1872), _portrait_; _Waagen’s
Treasures of art_, _iii_ 260–65 (1854).

NOTE.--He is the original of Lord Colchicum in Thackeray’s Pendennis and of Lord Eskdale in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby.

LONSDALE, HENRY LOWTHER, 3 Earl of (1 son of Henry Cecil
Lowther, M.P. 1790–1867). _b._ London 27 March 1818; ed. at
Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; styled Henry
Lowther 1836–72; cornet 1 life guards 24 Sep. 1841, capt. 9
March 1849, sold out 1 Dec. 1854; M.P. West Cumberland 1847–72;
hon. col. Cumberland rifle volunteers 16 Aug. 1862; hon. col.
Cumberland militia 24 Feb. 1868 to death; lord lieut. of
Cumberland and Westmoreland 2 Dec. 1868 to death; succeeded
his uncle as 3 earl 4 March 1872; lieut.-col. Westmoreland and
Cumberland yeomanry 11 May 1872; steward of the Jockey club 1844
and 1845; won many cups at Newmarket, Goodwood and Stamford;
a regular huntsman, lest his horses should be misused after
he had done with them, he always shot them. _d._ Whitehaven
castle, Cumberland 15 Aug. 1876. _Athenæum 21 Feb. 1874 pp._
260–3; _Baily’s Mag. viii_ 219–21 (1864), _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xiv_ 204 (1876), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 208, 213 (1876),
_portrait_.

LONSDALE, ST. GEORGE HENRY LOWTHER, 4 Earl of (1 son of the
preceding). _b._ Wilton crescent, London 4 Oct. 1855; ed. at
Eton; styled viscount Lowther 1872–76; succeeded as 4 earl 15
Aug. 1876; hon. col. Cumberland militia 3 March 1877; vice
admiral Cumberland and Westmoreland, March 1877; master of
the Cottesmore hounds 2 years; kept a racing stud, Pilgrimage
won the 2000 and 1000 guineas in 1878. _d._ 14 Carlton house
terrace, London 8 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Lowther ch. 14 Feb.
_Graphic_, _xxv_ 220 (1882), _portrait_; _Illust. sport. and
dram. news_, _xvi_ 549, 563 (1882), _portrait_.

LONSDALE, EDWARD FRANCIS. M.R.C.S. 1834, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; one
of founders of Institution for Cure of club feet, afterwards the
Royal orthopædic hospital, 6 Bloomsbury sq. 1838, and surgeon
there; member Med. & Chir. Soc. 1844; a skilful surgeon in
orthopædic cases; author of A practical treatise on fractures
1838; Observations on the treatment of lateral curvature of the
spine 1847, 2 ed. 1852. _d._ 26 Montague st. Russell sq. London
11 Sep. 1857. _Proc. R. Med. & Chir. Soc. ii_ 50 (1858).

LONSDALE, HENRY (son of Henry Lonsdale, tradesman). _b._
Carlisle 1816; studied medicine at univ. of Edinb. and in
Paris; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; M.D. Edinb. 1838; partner with
Robert Knox in Edinb. 1840–5; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1841; physician
to royal public dispensary, Edinb. 1841–5, where he introduced
use of cod-liver oil; practised at Carlisle from 1846, phys. to
Cumberland infirmary 1846–68; the friend of Mazzini, Kossuth
and Garibaldi; author of A biographical sketch of William
Blamire formerly M.P. for Cumberland 1862; The life and works
of Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson, sculptor 1866; The worthies of
Cumberland 6 vols. 1867–75; A sketch of the life and writings of
Robert Knox the anatomist 1870. _d._ Rosehill, Carlisle 23 July
1876.

LONSDALE, JAMES GYLBY (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1788–1867).
_b._ Clapham, London 14 Oct. 1816; ed. at Laleham sch. and at
Eton, Newcastle scholar March 1843; scholar of Balliol coll.
Oxf. 29 Nov. 1833, fellow 1838–64, tutor 1840; B.A. 1837, M.A.
1840; a student of L.I. 1838; chaplain to bishop of Gibraltar
1842–7; chaplain to bishop of Lichfield 1847–67; tutor in univ.
of Durham 1851–6; professor of classical literature at King’s
coll. London 1865–70; R. of South Luffenham, Rutland 1870–3; R.
of Huntspill, Somerset 1873–8; author with Samuel Lee of The
works of Virgil rendered into English prose 1871; The works of
Horace rendered into English prose 1873. _d._ Bath 25 April
1892, memorial tablet in Balliol college chapel. _R. Duckworth’s
Memoir of J. G. Lonsdale_ (1893), _portrait_.

LONSDALE, JAMES JOHN (2 son of James Lonsdale the artist
1777–1839). _b._ 5 April 1810; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1836; sec.
to criminal law commission 1842; recorder of Folkestone 5 Aug.
1847 to death; judge of circuit No. 11 West Riding of Yorkshire
14 Feb. 1855 to 19 March 1867; judge of circuit No. 48 Kent 19
March 1867 to March 1884; author of The statute criminal law of
England 1839; The odes of Horace. Book 1 a verse translation
1879. _d._ The Cottage, Sandgate, Kent 11 Nov. 1886. _Law
Times_, _vol._ 82 _p._ 111 (1886).

LONSDALE, JOHN (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1737–1807, vicar of
Darfield, _d._ 1807 aged 70). _b._ Newmillerdam near Wakefield
17 Jany. 1788; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow
1809–15, tutor 1814–5 and 1820–1, univ. scholar 1809; B.A. 1811,
M.A. 1814, B.D. 1824, D.D. 1844; student at Lincoln’s Inn, Dec.
1811; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1816; assistant preacher
at the Temple 1816; R. of Musham, Kent 1822–7; preb. of Lincoln
1825–8; fellow of Eton 1827–8; precentor of Lichfield 1828–31;
preb. of St. Paul’s 1831–43; R. of St. George’s, Bloomsbury
1828–34; preacher of Lincoln’s inn Jany. 1836; R. of Southfleet,
Kent 1836; principal of King’s coll. London Jany. 1839 to
1844, chief founder of King’s coll. hospital 1839; declined
provostship of Eton 1840; archdeacon of Middlesex 20 Jany.
1843 to Nov. 1843, installed 1 July 1843; bishop of Lichfield
23 Nov. 1843 to death, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 3 Dec.;
consecrated and reopened about 300 churches; chairman of royal
commission for enquiring into effect of marriage act of 1835,
1847; chairman of Cambridge univ. commission 1857; pres. of
church congress at Wolverhampton, Oct. 1867; author of Some
popular objections against christianity considered 1820; The
testimonies of nature, reason and revelation respecting a future
judgment 1821; Some account of the life of the rev. T. Rennell
1824; The four gospels with annotations 1849. _d._ suddenly at
his dinner table Eccleshall castle, Staffs. 19 Oct. 1867. _E.
B. Denison’s Life of John Lonsdale_ (1868), _portrait_; _The
drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 4 series_
(1860), _portrait_; _The church of England photographic portrait
gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 48; _The Eton portrait gallery_
(1876) 163–66; _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _i_ 206–11
(1875); _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 415–16.

LONSDALE, WILLIAM (youngest son of Wm. Lonsdale). _b._ Bath
9 Sep. 1794; ensign 4 foot 1 Feb. 1810, lieut. 15 May 1812,
placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; served in Peninsular war and at
Waterloo where he was the only officer in the 4th foot not
wounded; curator of natural history department of Bath museum
1826–9; F.G.S. 15 May 1829, curator and librarian of the society
1829–42, the Wollaston fund was awarded him 1832 and 3 times
afterwards, Wollaston medallist 1846; investigated the oolite
districts of Gloucestershire; co-originator with Murchison and
Sedgwick of the theory of the independence of Devonian system;
author of On the age of the limestones of South Devonshire and
other papers in Transactions and Journal of Geol. Soc. _d._
City road, Bristol 11 Nov. 1871. _Quarterly Journal of Geol.
Soc. xxviii_ 35–6 (1872); _W. S. Mitchell’s Notes on the early
geologists connected with neighbourhood of Bath_ (1872) 31–9.

LOPES, SIR RALPH, 2 Baronet (only son of Abraham Franco,
merchant, London). _b._ 10 Sep. 1788; succeeded his uncle sir
Manasseh Massey Lopes 26 March 1831; assumed surname of Lopes
in lieu of Franco by r.l. 4 May 1831; M.P. Westbury, Wilts.
1814–20, 1831–37 and 1841–7; contested Westbury 26 July 1837;
M.P. South Devon 13 Feb. 1849 to death. _d._ Maristowe near
Plymouth 26 Jany. 1854; personalty sworn under £180,000, March
1854. _J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history_ (1875)
304–306.

LORD, _Henry William_ (eld. son of Charles Francis James Lord of
Hampstead). _b._ 1834; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1859–62,
B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1859; revising
barrister for Kent; registrar of court of probate for co. of
Lancaster 1881–91; one of the four registrars of chief probate
registry at Somerset House at salary of £1500 Jany. 1891 to
death; author of The highway of the sea in time of war. Camb.
1862. _d._ 5 Dorset sq. London 27 May 1893.

LORD, JOHN KEAST (son of Edward Lord). _b._ Tavistock 1818;
apprenticed to chemists at Tavistock; entered royal veterinary
college, London 1842, M.R.C.V.S. 29 May 1844; veterinary
surgeon at Tavistock; a trapper in Minnesota and the Hudson’s
Bay fur countries; veterinary surgeon in British army 19 June
1855, served with artillery of Turkish contingent in Crimea,
lieut. 4 Jany. 1856, veterinary surgeon and lieut. of Osmanli
horse artillery in Aug. 1856; naturalist to the commission for
separating British Columbia from the United States territory
1 Feb. 1858, returned to England 14 July 1862; resided in
Vancouver’s Island some time; his valuable collections of
mammals, birds, fishes and insects are now in the Natural
history museum, South Kensington; employed in archæological and
scientific researches by viceroy of Egypt about 1868; manager of
the Brighton Aquarium opened 10 Aug. 1872 to death; contributed
many papers to Land and Water under signature of The Wanderer
1866–72; collected coleoptera in Egypt; author of The naturalist
in Vancouver’s Island and British Colombia 2 vols. 1866; At home
in the wilderness. By The Wanderer 1867, 3 ed. 1876; Handbook
of sea-fishing. _d._ 17 Dorset gardens, Brighton 9 Dec. 1872.
_Leisure Hour_, _xxii_ 696–9 (1873), _portrait_; _Land and Water
14 Dec. 1872 pp._ 387, 395; _Graphic_, _vii_ 3, 12 (1873),
_portrait_.

LORD, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Isaac Lord, baptist minister,
Birmingham). Ed. Cambridge house, Birmingham, and Amershall
school, Reading; matric. univ. of London, June 1868, B.A. 1870,
M.A. 1874; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1870, foundation scholar
1872–6; rowed in his college boat; senior wrangler Jany. 1875,
fellow of Trin. coll. 10 Oct. 1876 to 1881. _d._ Clarens, Lake
of Geneva 4 Sep. 1883.

LORD, WILLIAM. _b._ Bacup 11 May 1791; Wesleyan Methodist
minister 1811, at Birmingham 1824–6, at Manchester 1828–31,
president of United Connexion conference 1834; representative to
American general conference 1835; minister at Bristol 1836–9,
at Hull 1839–42; governor of Woodhouse grove school 1843–58;
president of Canadian conference; a supernumerary from 1861
to death; revisited Woodhouse school when he was eighty. _d._
Manningham, Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1873. _J. T. Slugg’s Woodhouse
Grove school_ (1885) 74–8.

LORD, WILLIAM SATTERLEY (eld. son of rev. Wm. Edward Lord, D.D.,
of Northiam, Sussex). _b._ 1841; ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., B.A.
1866, M.A. 1869; admitted by Inner Temple special pleader below
the bar Jany. 1869; barrister I.T. 7 June 1873; advocate of high
court of Griqualand West, April 1876, acting attorney general
April to Aug. 1877 and Dec. 1877 to Sep. 1879, Q.C. there March
1879; M.P. for Kimberley in legislative assembly of Cape Colony.
_d._ on board the Norman Castle on his way home from Cape Town 9
Sep. 1889.

LORIMER, George. A builder in Edinburgh; lord dean of guild
1864; _killed_ in the fire of the theatre royal, Edinburgh, by
the north wall falling on him when trying to save lives 13 Jany.
1865. _J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage_ (1888) 477–8; _A.R._
(1865) 3–5; _I.L.N. xlvi_ 97 (1865).

LORIMER, JAMES (son of James Lorimer, manager of Earl of
Kinnoul’s estates). _b._ Aberdalgie, Perthshire 4 Nov. 1818;
ed. at high school Perth and the univs. of Edinb., Berlin and
Bonn and academy of Geneva; member of Faculty of advocates
1845; acted as sheriff substitute of Midlothian; F.R.S. Edinb.
1861; professor of public law in univ. of Edinb. 15 May 1865 to
death, where he introduced graduation in law; a founder of The
institute of international law 1873; author of The universities
of Scotland, past, present and possible 1854; A handbook of
the law of Scotland 1859, 5 ed. 1885; Constitutionalism of the
future, or parliament the mirror of the nation 1865, 2 ed. 1867;
The institutes of law, a treatise of jurisprudence as determined
by nature 1872, 2 ed. 1880; The institutes of the law of nations
2 vols. 1883–4, and of 19 lectures and 14 pamphlets. _d._ 1
Bruntsfield crescent, Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1890, portrait by his
son J. H. Lorimer, R.S.A. in senate hall of univ. of Edinb.
_James Lorimer’s Studies national and international_ (1890);
_Juridical Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 113–21, _portrait_.

LORIMER, JOHN GORDON (2 son of rev. Robert Lorimer 1765–1848,
minister of Haddington). _b._ Haddington; minister of Torryburn
1829; minister of St. David’s or Ram’s Horn parish, Glasgow
1832 to 1843; minister of St. David’s Free ch. Glasgow 1843
to death; D.D. of coll. of New Jersey 27 June 1849; author of
The past and present condition of religion and morality in the
United States 1833; The eldership of the church of Scotland
1841; Historical sketch of the protestant church of France 1841;
The deaconship 1842; Sermons on Sabbath profanation 184-. _d._
Glasgow 9 Oct. 1868. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848)
349–58.

LORIMER, PETER (eld. son of John Lorimer, builder). _b._
Edinburgh 1812; bursar in univ. of Edinb. 1827; minister of
presbyterian ch. River terrace, London 1836–44; professor of
theology in English presbyterian college, London 1844–78,
principal 1878 to death; D.D. New Jersey, June 1857; author of
Precursors of Knox, or memoirs of Patrick Hamilton, Alexander
Alane or Alesius, and Sir David Lindsay of the Mount Edinburgh
1857; The evidential value of the early epistles of St. Paul
viewed as historical documents 1874, 3 ed. 1880; The evidence to
Christianity arising from its adaptation to all the deeper wants
of the human heart 1876; John Knox and the church of England
1875. _d._ Whitehaven, Cumberland 29 July 1879. _bur._ in Grange
cemet. Edinb.

LORING, SIR JOHN WENTWORTH (son of Joshua Loring, high sheriff
of Massachusetts). _b._ America 13 Oct. 1775; entered navy June
1789, captain 28 April 1802; commanded the Niobe 38 guns on
coast of France 1805–13; commanded the Impregnable in the North
Sea 1813–4; superintendent of the ordinary at Sheerness 1816–9;
lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 4 Nov. 1819
to 10 Jany. 1837; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral 8 July 1851; C.B.
4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840, K.C.H. 30 April 1837. _d._
Ryde, Isle of Wight 29 July 1852.

LORT, _William_. One of the best judges of live stock in
England, and constantly employed in judging horses, cattle
and dogs; went with Assheton Smith in his yacht Pandora upon
a sporting expedition to the North Pole; a fine swimmer; a
supporter of Birmingham National dog show from its beginning; an
originator of Crystal palace dog show and of the Kennel club;
F.R.G.S. _d._ Vaynol park, Bangor 23 May 1891.

LORTON, ROBERT EDWARD KING, 1 Viscount (2 son of 2 earl of
Kingston 1754–99). _b._ Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 12 Aug.
1773; ensign 27 foot 30 June 1792; major 92 foot 7 March 1794;
lieut. col. 127 foot 20 Dec. 1794, regiment reduced 1795 but he
was retained on full pay; colonel of Roscommon militia 24 Nov.
1797 to death; created an Irish peer by title of baron Erris
of Boyle, co. Roscommon 29 Dec. 1800; created viscount Lorton
of Boyle, co. Roscommon 28 May 1806; a representative peer of
Ireland 8 Feb. 1823 to death; general 22 July 1830; lord lieut.
of co. Roscommon 1831 to death. _d._ Rockingham, Boyle, co.
Roscommon 20 Nov. 1854.

NOTE.--He was _bur._ at 4 o’clock in the morning according to the custom of his family in the church of Boyle 24 Nov. 1854. He was the last commoner raised to the peerage of Ireland before the union with England.

LOSCOMBE, CLIFTON WINTRINGHAM. Resided at Pickwick house,
Corsham, where he obtained possession of a hoard of coins and
antiquities which was discovered at Sevington, Wilts., Jany.
1834; an original member of Numismatic Soc. 1836. _d._ Clifton
17 Dec. 1853. _Numismatic Chronicle_, _xvii Proceedings p._ 16
(1855); _Archæologia_, _xxvii_ 301–5 (1838).

LOSH, JAMES (son of James Losh, recorder of Newcastle, _d._ 23
Sep. 1833 aged 71). _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; went northern
circuit; judge of county courts, No. 1 circuit, Northumberland,
May 1853 to death, took his seat 25 May 1853; attacked with
paralysis Aug. 1858. _d._ 24 Clayton st. west, Newcastle on Tyne
1 Oct. 1858.

LOSH, SARAH (1 dau. of John Losh of Woodside near Carlisle).
_b._ Woodside 1 Jany. 1786; ed. in Bath and London, and
became proficient in Italian, French, Latin, Greek, music and
mathematics; gave a school endowed with 30 acres to Wreay
1830; laid out and gave to the city of Carlisle a cemetery
1835; erected a mausoleum in Wreay ch. yard for the remains
of her sister Katherine Isabella Losh who _d._ Feb. 1835;
erected a church at Wreay in 1842 at cost of £1200; a woman
of much learning who associated with Dr. William Paley and
other scholars. _d._ Woodside near Carlisle 29 March 1853. _H.
Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland_ (1873) 197–238, _portrait_.

LOSH, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Woodside 1770;
ed. at Erfurt; manager of alkali works at Walker on the Tyne
1796; one of founders of the Walker iron works; resided for
some time in Sweden; patented a wheel for railway carriages
1830; took out patents with George Stephenson for railways 1816;
consul for Sweden and Prussia at Newcastle. _d._ Newcastle 4
Aug. 1861. _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland_ (1873) 153–85.

LOTHIAN, CECIL CHETWYND KERR, Marchioness of (younger dau. of
2 earl Talbot 1777–1849). _b._ Ingestre hall, Staffs. 17 April
1808; (_m._ 19 July 1831 seventh marquess of Lothian 1794–1841);
built church at Jedburgh; joined church of Rome; founded a
R.C. mission with chapel and school at Jedburgh; built church
of St. David at Dalkeith; founded a mission with a chapel at
Pathhead; a founder of the Home of Refuge for women discharged
from prison, conducted by sisters of the Good Shepherd;
went to Germany to convey to the R.C. bishops the sympathy
of the catholics of England; promoted the pilgrimages to
Paray-le-Monial and to Pontigny in 1873 and 1874. _d._ Hôtel de
Rome, Rome 13 May 1877; the Pope sent her a special benediction
and a triduum was offered for her in the church of the Virgin,
at Rome, May 1877; _bur._ in cemetery of San Lorenzo. _P.
Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890) 125–63, _portrait_;
_Times 14 May 1877 p._ 7, _15 May p._ 10.

LÖTTNER, FRIEDRICH. Professor of Sanskrit and comparative
philology and assistant librarian at Trinity college, Dublin
1863–71. _d._ Dublin, middle of April 1873.

LOUDON, JANE (dau. of Thomas Webb _d._ 1824). _b._ Ritwell house
near Birmingham 1807; edited The ladies’ magazine of gardening
1842; The ladies’ companion 1850–1 and several of her husband’s
works 1845–55; granted civil list pension of £100, 22 April
1846; author of Prose and Verse 1824; The Mummy, a tale of the
twenty-second century 3 vols. 1827, anon., new ed. 1872; Stories
of a bride 1829; The ladies’ companion to the flower garden
1841, 9 ed. 1879, which circulated 20,000 copies; The first
book of botany 1841, new ed. 1870; The ladies’ flower garden of
perennials 2 vols. 1843–4; The ladies’ country companion 1845, 4
ed. 1852, and 20 other books; (_m._ 14 Sep. 1830 John Claudius
Loudon, landscape gardener, _d._ 14 Dec. 1843 aged 60). She _d._
3 Porchester terrace, Bayswater, London 13 July 1858. _Cottage
Gardener_, _xx_ 248, 255–9 (1858).

LOUGH, JOHN GRAHAM (son of a small farmer at Greenhead near
Hexham, Northumberland). _b._ 1806; an ornamental sculptor at
Newcastle; exhibited at the R.A. 1826 a bas-relief The Death
of Turnus; exhibited 49 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 16 at
B.I. 1826–63; exhibited his works in London 1827; studied in
Rome 1834–8; executed the statues of queen Victoria in the royal
exchange 1845, of prince Albert at Lloyd’s 1847 and of marquis
of Hastings at Malta 1848; 7 of his statues were in Great
Exhibition of 1851. _d._ 42 Harewood sq. London 8 April 1876.
_Graphic_, _xiii_ 416 (1876), _portrait_; _Handbook of statues
comprising the Lough models in Elswick hall_ (1879).

LOUIS, SIR JOHN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas Louis, 1
baronet, _d._ 17 May 1807). _b._ 1785; entered navy Sep. 1795,
captain 22 Jany. 1806; commander of L’Aigle 36 guns 1811–15;
superintendent of Malta dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 6 Jany. 1843;
R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral superintendent at Plymouth 16 Dec.
1846 to 9 Feb. 1850; V.A. 9 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 27 Sep.
1855, pensioned 2 May 1860. _d._ 61 Eaton place, London 30 March
1863.

LOUIS, WILLIAM (2 son of preceding). _b._ 21 May 1810; entered
R.N. 7 Dec. 1824; capt. 9 Nov. 1846; commander of Stromboli
steam vessel 1841–3; retired 1 July 1864; admiral 1 Aug. 1877.
_d._ 46 Connaught sq. London 20 Nov. 1885.

LOUISE, MADAME, stage name of Louise Miller. _b._ 1810; première
danseuse of Her Majesty’s theatre under Benjamin Lumley’s
management; ballet mistress of Drury Lane under the managements
of Alfred Bunn, James Anderson and E. T. Smith to 1859. _d._ 5
Feb. 1892. _bur._ Fulham cemet.

LOUND, THOMAS. _b._ 1802; member of a firm of brewers at
Norwich; an amateur painter, excelled in river views; painted
the scenery in Wales and Yorkshire and near Cromer; exhibited
much in Norwich; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 10 at B.I.
1846–57. _d._ King st. Norwich 18 Jany. 1861.

LOVAT, THOMAS ALEXANDER FRASER, 1 Baron (1 son of Alexander
Fraser of Strichen, Aberdeen). _b._ Strichen house, Aberdeen 17
June 1802; cr. baron Lovat of Lovat, co. Inverness, in peerage
of U.K. 28 Jany. 1837; established his right to Scottish barony
of Lovat, attainder of which was reversed in his favor by 17
& 18 Vict. cap. 39, 10 July 1854; vice lieut. and sheriff
principal of Invernessshire 30 Aug. 1853 to 1873; K.T. 1865.
_d._ Beaufort castle, Invernessshire 28 June 1875. _I.L.N.
lxvii_ 47 (1875).

LOVAT, SIMON FRASER, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). _b._
Beaufort castle 21 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. commandant of
Inverness, Banff, Moray and Nairn militia 10 Dec. 1855 to death;
deputy lieut. of Inverness 1853–72, vice lieut. 1872, lord
lieut. 18 April 1873 to death; succeeded 28 June 1875. _d._
suddenly while shooting on a grouse moor near Inverness 6 Sep.
1887.

LOVE, EMMA SARAH (dau. of W. E. Love, lieutenant in H.M.
service, _d._ about 1814). _b._ Cheapside, London 10 Sep. 1801;
ed. in music by D. Corri; appeared at English opera house as
Mrs. Courtly in Free and Easy 1817; took leading vocal parts
under Samuel J. Arnold at Lyceum theatre; appeared at Covent
Garden 1822 with great success, then at the Haymarket 1823;
played Marina in the operatic entertainment Cortez; acted in
the provinces; played Lilla in Cobb’s comic opera The siege of
Belgrade, at Drury Lane 1828; a very beautiful woman who sang
‘What is more dear to the heart of the brave’ and ‘Little love
is a mischievous boy’ to perfection; believed by The Era of 23
Dec. 1882 to be then living. _Cumberland’s British theatre_,
_vol. xx_ (1828), _portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography_,
_iii_ 163–74 (1825), _portrait_.

LOVE, FREDERIC. _b._ 1816; homœopathic practitioner; in practice
in Paris 50 years, where he had many aristocratic and artistic
patients; was very active in the cholera outbreak of 1859. _d._
Paris 3 June 1891.

LOVE, HENRY OMMANNEY (1 son of commander Wm. Love 1764–1839).
_b._ 1 March 1793; entered navy 23 Dec. 1808; captain 5 Dec.
1837; retired admiral 3 July 1869; claimed to have suggested use
of paddles instead of wheels for steam vessels; sub-commissioner
of pilotage, Southampton; superintendent of lights for Isle of
Wight district; mayor of Yarmouth 3 times. _d._ Yarmouth, Isle
of Wight 16 Sep. 1872.

LOVE, HORATIO N. _b._ 1801; stock-jobber at 2 Capel court,
City of London 1847; chairman of Eastern counties railway co.
1857–63. _d._ Margate 14 March 1882.

LOVE, SIR JAMES FREDERICK (son of John Love). _b._ London 1789;
ensign 52 foot 26 Oct. 1804; captain 11 July 1811, placed on
h.p. 11 Aug. 1825; served in Sweden and Portugal 1808, in the
retreat from Corunna 1809, in Portugal again 1809–12; received
4 wounds in the famous charge of the 52nd on the imperial guard
at Waterloo; inspecting field officer of militia, New Brunswick
1825–30; major 11 foot 9 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 76 foot 6 Sep.
1834; lieut.-col. 73 foot 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 23 Sep.
1845; British resident at Zante 1835–8; governor of Jersey
1852–6; commanded at Shorncliffe camp 1856; inspector general of
infantry 1857 to April 1862; col. of 57 foot 24 Sep. 1856 to 5
Sep. 1865; col. of 43 foot 5 Sep. 1865 to death; general 10 Aug.
1864; K.H. 1831; C.B. 30 March 1839, K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B.
28 March 1865. _d._ 17 Ovington sq. London 13 Jany. 1866.

LOVE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1795; a pit boy in the capacity of a trapper,
a hewer; owner of a large number of collieries both in the
eastern and western coal fields; built and endowed many chapels,
built a chapel at High Shincliffe near Durham at cost of £1000;
member of Methodist New Connexion. _d._ near Durham 21 Feb.
1875, personalty sworn under £1,000,000, 17 April 1875.

LOVE, WILLIAM EDWARD (son of a merchant in the City to 1812).
_b._ London 6 Feb. 1806; ed. at Harlow in Essex and at Nelson
house, Wimbledon; commenced practising ventriloquism 1818;
connected with London journalism 1820–6; appeared for a benefit
at Olympic theatre in a solo entertainment entitled The False
Alarm 1826; performed in England and France 1827, in Dublin
1828; produced The peregrinations of a polyphonist, June 1849,
with which he visited chief towns in England; opened at Oxford
with a piece called Ignes Fatui 1833; played at Almack’s 1833,
at City of London assembly rooms, Bishopsgate st. during summer
seasons of 1834–8; appeared on alternate nights at St. James’s
theatre and in the City 1836; visited United States, West Indies
and South America 1838; played at Strand theatre and 6 other
places in London 1839–54; produced the ‘London Season’ at 69
Quadrant, Regent st. London 26 Dec. 1854, played there 8 Feb.
1856 the 300th consecutive night and his 2,406th performance in
London; paralysed 1858, had a benefit at Sadler’s Wells; the
best English ventriloquist on record, played in upwards of 15
distinct entertainments, in which he assumed various characters
making rapid changes of his dress. _d._ 33 Arundel st. Strand,
London 16 March 1867. _Memoirs of W. E. Love_ (1834); _G.
Smith’s Memoirs of Mr. Love, Boston, U.S._ (1850); _Ireland’s
New York Stage_, _ii_ 273, 317 (1867); _I.L.N. 25 March 1843 p._
215, _portrait_, _27 Jany. 1855 p._ 84, _portrait_.

LOVEDAY, Ely. _b._ 1800; an actress 1817; played leading
business with Edmund Kean, Elton, Liston and Macready; saw the 4
Kembles, Stephen, John, Charles and Mrs. Siddons play in Henry
VIII.; played at most of the London theatres, retired 1852;
(_m._ W. Loveday an actor at Drury Lane theatre). _d._ 11 Nov.
1892. _bur._ Kensal Green 15 Nov.

LOVEDAY, GEORGE BEAUMONT (son of the preceding). _b._ 1833;
fiddler, dramatic manager, operatic entrepreneur; with his
brother Henry J. Loveday introduced Faust in English; known
as The Prince because of his good looks; acting manager and
confidential adviser to J. L. Toole 1867–87; (_m._ 25 Jany. 1877
Annie only dau. of John Dickey Creelman, she was known on the
stage as Annie Tremaine and later on as Madame Amadi). _d._ 8
Woburn place, London 21 Dec. 1887. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery
24 Dec. _J. Hatton’s Reminiscences of J. L. Toole 3 ed._ (1889)
30–4.

LOVEDEN, PRYSE (son of Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, Cardigan, _d._
1849). _b._ Woodstock 1 June 1815; M.P. Cardigan district of
boroughs 1849 to death; resumed by r.l. original name of Loveden
1849. _d._ Glo’ster hotel, 76 Piccadilly, London 1 Feb. 1855.

LOVELACE, AUGUSTA ADA KING, Countess of (only child of George
Gordon, 6 baron Byron, the poet 1788–1824). _b._ 13 Piccadilly
terrace, London 10 Dec. 1815; last seen by her father when she
was only one month old; some of her hair sent to her father at
Pisa, Nov. 1821; he alludes to her in Childe Harold, canto 3,
line 2, as Ada sole daughter of my house and heart; translated
and edited with notes, Sketch of the analytical engine invented
by Charles Babbage, esq. By L. F. Menabrea, Turin. Signed A.
A. L. in R. Taylor’s Scientific memoirs, iii 666–731 (1843);
corresponded with Andrew Crosse on electricity, &c. 1841–2;
(_m._ at Fordhook, her mother’s residence, 8 July 1835 William
King 8 baron King and Ockham 4 June 1833, cr. earl Lovelace 30
June 1838). _d._ 6 Great Cumberland place, London 27 Nov. 1852.
_bur._ Hucknall Torcard church near her father. _monu._ placed
in Newstead abbey, Aug. 1863. _Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xxxiii_
69–73 (1853), _portrait_; _Argosy 1 Nov. 1869 pp._ 358–61;
_Finden’s Portraits of female aristocracy_ (1849) _vol. ii_,
_portrait_ 21; _Journal of Statistical Soc. xxxiv_ 414 (1871);
_Moore’s Life of Byron_ (1846) 290, 720; _I.L.N. xxi_ 499
(1852); _G.M. Jany. 1853 pp._ 89–90.

NOTE.--The third book of Childe Harold written in 1816 begins and concludes with lines addressed to Byron’s daughter and she is again spoken of in the verses Fare thee well, 17 March 1816.

LOVELL, EDWARD BOURNE. Barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; author of
Chancery orders 1850 with cases decided 1850; Index to the
stamp duties arranged analytically 1850; Digest of law cases,
statutes, &c. 1850–54, 4 vols. 1852–5. _d._ Godshill, Isle of
Wight 28 July 1883 aged 78.

NOTE.--He was also author of The joint-stock companies’ winding-up acts 1848–1849 with notes, published by Wildy, Dec. 1849. Stevens and Norton obtained an injunction against Wildy in the Vice-Chancellor’s court 1 Feb. 1850, Lovell having made use of a great deal of matter previously printed in J. M. Ludlow’s Joint-stock companies’ winding-up act 1848 published by Stevens and Norton 1 Dec. 1848, Wildy was obliged to give up all the copies of the pirated book and pay the costs about £250, which sum Wildy recovered against Lovell in the court of Common Pleas 29 Nov. 1853. _Law Journal Reports n.s. xix pt._ 1 _pp._ 190–3 (1850); _Law Times 3 Dec. 1853 p._ 106.

LOVELL, EDWIN (youngest son of Joseph Lovell Lovell of Chilcote
manor, solicitor). _b._ 7 May 1808; ed. at Eton 1823; solicitor
at Wells 1831 to death; clerk of peace for Somerset 13 Aug. 1846
to death; registrar of Wells county court 1847 to death; member
of the order of The Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother
Glastonbury 23 Sep. 1835. _d._ Sharcombe house, Dinder near
Wells 21 May 1877. _Wright’s The Blue Friars_ (1889) 97, 218,
_portrait_.

LOVELL, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ 1804; secretary of Phœnix Insurance
Co. 1850 to death; author of the following plays, The Avenger,
produced at Surrey theatre 1835; The provost of Bruges, at Drury
Lane 10 Feb. 1836; Love’s sacrifice or the rival merchants,
Covent Garden 12 Sep. 1842; Look before you leap, Haymarket 29
Oct. 1846; The wife’s secret, purchased by Charles Kean for £400
before it was written, produced at Park theatre, New York 12
Oct. 1846, and at Haymarket 17 Jany. 1848 when it ran 36 nights
and has since kept the stage; The trial of love, Princess’s 7
Jany. 1852, ran 23 nights; published a novel called The Trustee
3 vols. 1841. _d._ 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 13 May 1878.
_I.L.N. lxii_ 533 (1878), _portrait_.

LOVELL, JOHN. _b._ Farnham, Surrey 1836; reporter and sub-editor
on Sheffield Times and Birmingham Daily Post; editor of
Cassell’s Mag. 1868; manager of Press Association 1869–80, a
director, chairman of finance committee; a founder and editor of
the Printing Times, Jany. 1873; editor of the Liverpool Mercury
1880 to death; the best known journalist on the English press.
_d._ 17 Gambier ter. Liverpool 20 Feb. 1890. _Sell’s World’s
Press_ (1891) 82, _portrait_; _London Figaro 1 March 1890 p._
12, _portrait_; _Academy_, _i_ 152 (1890).

LOVELL, JOHN WILLIAMSON. _b._ 1824; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 June 1841,
col. 3 Aug. 1872 to death; surveying in Turkey 1854; present at
battles of Alma and Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; commander
of R.E. at Chatham; L.G. 5 Jany. 1869; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._
Halifax, Nova Scotia 24 April 1880.

LOVELL, SIR LOVELL BENJAMIN (eld. son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock
of Little Missenden hall, Bucks.) _b._ 1786; ed. at Eton; cornet
14 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1805, captain 12 Dec. 1811; served in
Peninsular war 1809–14 for which he received Peninsular medal
with 11 clasps; major 8 hussars 28 Oct. 1824, placed on h.p. 21
Nov. 1828; lieut.-col. 15 hussars 21 March 1834, placed on h.p.
8 March 1850; col. of 12 lancers 29 Nov. 1856 to death; L.G. 1
April 1860; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; assumed surname of
Lovell 10 April 1840. _d._ Brunswick terrace, Brighton 11 March
1861.

LOVELL, MARIA ANNE (dau. of Willoughby Lacy, patentee of Drury
Lane, _d._ 1831). _b._ London 15 July 1803; appeared as Mrs.
Haller at Belfast 1818; acted Belvidera in Venice preserved, at
Covent Garden 9 Oct. 1822; excelled in pathetic parts; (_m._
1830 George William Lovell 1804–78 when she retired from the
stage); wrote Ingomar the barbarian, Drury Lane, June 1851,
revived by Mary Anderson, Lyceum 1 Sep. 1883; The beginning
of the end, Haymarket 27 Oct. 1855. _d._ 18 Lyndhurst road,
Hampstead 2 April 1877. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses_, _i_
250–5 (1855).

LOVELL, WILLIAM STANHOPE (brother of Sir Lovell B. Lovell
1786–1861). _b._ about 1788; entered navy May 1799; present in
battle of Trafalgar; captain 21 Aug. 1815, retired 1 Oct. 1846;
assumed name of Lovell 1840; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; K.H. 25
Jany. 1836; author of Personal narrative of events from 1799 to
1815, 2 ed. 1879. _d._ Great Yarmouth 20 May 1859.

LOVER, SAMUEL (eld. son of a member of the Dublin stock
exchange). _b._ Dublin 24 Feb. 1797; a portrait painter,
especially in miniatures to 1844; member of Royal Hibernian
academy 1828, secretary 1830; wrote Rory O’More 1826, best known
of his ballads; his miniature of Paganini exhibited at Dublin
academy 1832 and at R.A. London 1833; removed to London 1835;
wrote The Olympic picnic for Madame Vestris 1835; published Rory
O’More, a national romance 1837, his dramatised version of which
was acted at Adelphi theatre Oct. 1837 and ran over 100 nights;
composed a musical drama The Greek Boy, of which he wrote
both music and words, Covent Garden 1838; his burlesque opera
Il Paddy Whack in Italia was produced at English opera house
1838; produced his own entertainment called Irish Evenings, at
Princess’s Concert Rooms, March 1844 and in Canada and U.S.
of America 1846–8; produced an entertainment called Paddy’s
Portfolio, in London 1848; wrote the libretti of two operas
for Balfe; his drama the Sentinel of the Alma was produced at
Haymarket theatre; author of Legends and stories of Ireland
1831; Songs and Ballads 1839; Handy Andy 1842; L. S. D. 1844,
new ed. under title of Treasure Trove 1844; Rival rhymes in
honour of Burns. Collected and edited by Ben Trovato 1859, and
of many popular songs; granted civil list pension of £100, 4
March 1856. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 6 July 1868. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet. London 15 July. _B. Bernard’s Life of Samuel Lover
2 vols._ (1874), _portrait_; _N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs 2 ed._
1851 _pp._ 196–9; _The Critic_, _xix_ 229 (1859), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. iv_ 208 (1844), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii_
196, _portrait_.

LOVESY, CONWAY WHITHORNE (2 son of Conway Whithorne Lovesy of
Charlton Kings, Gloucs.) _b._ 6 April 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; a
police magistrate in Trinidad 1871–3; a puisne judge of supreme
court of British Guiana 1873–8; author of The churchwarden’s
guide 8 ed. 1871; The law of arbitration between masters and
workmen 1867; The law of house invasion and defence 1879; edited
J. F. Archbold’s The practice of the court of quarter sessions 3
ed. 1869. _d._ Keynsham Bank, Cheltenham 15 Nov. 1885.

LOVETT, WILLIAM (son of William Lovett, master mariner,
drowned 1800). _b._ Church lane, Newlyn near Penzance 8 May
1800; apprenticed to a ropemaker; went to London 1821; worked
as a carpenter; employed in the first London co-operative
association; secretary of British Association for promoting
co-operative knowledge about 1830–4; joined National union of
the working classes 1831; opened a coffee house in Greville st.
Hatton Garden 1833 which failed; a founder of London Working
Mens’ Association, 6 Upper North place, Gray’s Inn road 16 June
1836; secretary of the general committee of trades of London
1838, drafted the bill known as the ‘Peoples Charter’ published
8 May 1838; secretary of the Chartist Convention 4 Feb. 1839;
tried at Warwick assizes for seditious libel 6 Aug. 1839 when
sentenced to 12 months imprisonment; bookseller at 183 Tottenham
court road 1840; manager of the school supported by the National
Association 1849–57; a member of working-class committee of
Great Exhibition 1850; a teacher of anatomy in St. Thomas,
Charterhouse schools and in Richardson’s gr. sch. Gray’s Inn
road 1857; author of A proposal for the considerations of the
friends of progress 1847; Elementary anatomy and physiology.
With lessons on diet 1851; Social and political morality 1853;
Woman’s mission 1856, a poem. _d._ 137 Euston road, London
8 Aug. 1877. _bur._ Highgate. _The life and struggles of W.
Lovett_ (1876); _The trial of W. Lovett 2 ed._ (1839); _G. J.
Holyoake’s_ _History of Co-operation_, _i_ 127, _ii_ 411–13
(1875–9); _R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism_ (1854) 120
_etc._; _Who were the Chartists?_ in _Century Mag. xxiii_ 421–30
(1882), _portrait_.

LOW, ALEXANDER (son of James Low, farmer, Clatt, Aberdeen).
_b._ 1800; M.A. of Marischall coll. and univ. Aberdeen 3 April
1819; schoolmaster of Clatt 1825; presbyterian minister of
Keig, Banffshire 27 June 1834 to death; author of The history
of Scotland from the earliest period to the middle of the ninth
century 1826; Scottish heroes in the days of Wallace and Bruce 2
vols. 1856. _d._ in the manse of Keig 3 May 1873.

LOW, DAVID (son of a tradesman). _b._ Brechin, Forfarshire, Nov.
1768; ed. at Marischal college, Aberdeen; episcopal minister
at Pittenweem, Fifeshire, Sep. 1789 to death; bishop of united
dioceses of Ross, Argyll and the Isles 1819 to 19 Dec. 1850,
consecrated 14 Nov. 1819; LL.D. Aberdeen, April 1820; chief
founder of Gaelic Episcopal Society 1831; the diocese of Moray
was added to his diocese July 1838, he effected separation of
Argyll and the Isles from Ross and Moray 1847 and endowed the
new see with £8,000; D.D. Hartford and Geneva in state of New
York 1848; _d._ The priory, Pittenweem 26 Jany. 1855. _M. F.
Conolly’s Biographical sketch of David Low_ (1859), _portrait_;
_W. Blatch’s Memoir of D. Low_ (1855); _Conolly’s Biog. Dict. of
Fife_ (1866) 299–305.

LOW, DAVID (eld. son of Alexander Low of Laws, Berwickshire,
land-agent). _b._ 1786; ed. at Perth academy and univ. of
Edinb.; assisted his father on his farms; settled in Edinburgh
1825; edited Quarterly Journal of agriculture 1828–32; professor
of agriculture in univ. of Edinb. 1831–54, the agricultural
museum was founded at cost of £3,000 of which he gave £1,200,
1833; author of Observations on the present state of landed
property 1823; Elements of practical agriculture 1834, 4 ed.
1843, translated into French and German; The breeds of the
domestic animals of the British Islands 2 vols. 1842, translated
into French 1842; An inquiry into the nature of the simple
bodies of chemistry 1844, 3 ed. 1856. _d._ Mayfield, Edinburgh
7 Jany. 1859. _Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 717–8 (1863);
_Grant’s Univ. of Edinburgh_, _ii_ 457 (1884).

LOW, HERBERT MOREY (son of Edwin Low of city of London,
solicitor). _b._ 1852; partner with his father 1877 to death;
originated the City Law library and reading room at 25 Abchurch
lane 1888; hon. sec. of London Gregorian choral assoc. many
years. _d._ 110 Elgin crescent, Notting hill, London 1 Jany.
1891.

LOW, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1811; ensign 25 Madras N.I. 25
June 1812; captain 46 N.I. 1826, major 23 Nov. 1839; retired
lieut.-col. 21 Nov. 1845; in civil charge of province of
Wellesley in the Straits Settlements many years; author of A
grammar of the T’hai or Siamese language. Calcutta 1828; A
dissertation on the soil and agriculture of Penang. Singapore
1836. _d._ 2 May 1852.

LOW, SIR JOHN (eld. son of Robert Low of Clatto near Cupar,
Fifeshire). _b._ Clatto 13 Dec. 1788; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ.
1802–3; entered Madras army 1804; lieut. 24 Madras N.I. 1807;
lieut. 1 N.I. 1816, captain 1820; major 17 N.I. 31 Dec. 1828;
lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1834–7, of 19 N.I. 1837–40, of 45 N.I.
1840–1, of 36 N.I. 1841–5; col. of 8 N.I. 26 March 1845 to 1848,
col. of 1 N.I. 1848 to death; general 18 Jany. 1867, placed
on retired list; resident at Bithoor near Cawnpore 6 years;
political agent at Jeypore 1825, at Gwalior 1830, resident at
Lucknow 1831–42; installed the king of Oude’s son on the throne
in place of a pretender 1838; governor general’s agent in
Rajpootana and comr. at Ajmere and Mhairwar 1848–52; resident at
Hyderabad 1852; member of supreme council of India 22 Sep. 1853
to 1858; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; G.C.S.I. 24 May
1873. _d._ Strathallan, Upper Norwood, Surrey 10 Jany. 1880.
_bur._ Kembach, Fifeshire. _I.L.N. lxxvi_ 85 (1880), _portrait_;
_Graphic_, _xxi_ 93 (1880), _portrait_.

LOW, SAMPSON (son of Sampson Low of Berwick st. Soho, London,
printer and publisher, _d._ 1800). _b._ London, Nov. 1797;
bookseller at 42 Lamb’s Conduit st. 1819 to 1847; manager of
The publishers’ circular, first number dated 2 Oct. 1837, which
became his property 1867; publisher with his eldest son at 169
Fleet st. 1847–52, at 47 Ludgate hill 1852, at 14 Ludgate hill
to 1867, at 188 Fleet st. 1867, retired from business 1875;
chief founder of Royal Society for protection of life from fire
1843; one of the chief American booksellers in London 1844–75;
published The British catalogue of books 1837–52. 1853; The
English catalogue of books 1835–80. 3 vols. 1864–82. _d._ 41
Mecklenburgh sq. London 16 April 1886. _Publishers’ Circular 1
May 1886 pp._ 431–3, _portrait_; _Bookseller 3 May 1886 pp._
418–20.

LOW, SAMPSON (eld. son of preceding). _b._ London 6 July 1822;
in business with his father 1847 to death; author of The
charities of London 1850, new editions 1854, 1862, 1863 and
1870. _d._ 41 Mecklenburgh sq. London 5 March 1871.

LOW, THOMAS BELL (son of David Low). _b._ Birkenhead 1855; went
to Otago, New Zealand 1873; one of the principal assistant
engineers in public works department Otago district, and
architect for the Middle Island 1878; employed in fortifying the
port and town of Dunedin 1885; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1886. _d._ in
the tropics while on a voyage to England 12 Sep. 1886. _Min. of
proc. of I.C.E. xci_ 450–51 (1888).

LOW, WALTER (son of a publisher). _b._ England 1843; publisher
and bookseller with his father in U.S. America; long connected
with the Messrs. Harpers of New York; attempted to throw himself
into the Thames but was diverted from his object by finding a
policeman was watching him 1872; committed suicide by taking a
quantity of paregoric at 1 Upper Gordon st. Euston sq. London 4
April 1872. _Times 8 April 1872 p._ 7.

LOW, WILLIAM. _b._ Rothesay, Bute 11 Dec. 1814; pupil of Peter
Macquiston, civil engineer Glasgow, then a partner with him to
1847; engaged under Brunel in construction of Great Western
railway; colliery engineer at Wrexham 1847 to about 1877; had
charge of the Vron colliery near Cefn, Denbighshire many years;
concerned in the Channel tunnel, issued a circular describing
his plans 1866, had an interview with Napoleon III. 1867,
purchased land at Dover and Calais for the enterprise, appointed
one of the engineers by sir Edward Watkin; surveyed and proposed
making an England and India railway 2,000 miles 1870; M.I.C.E.
Dec. 1867; author of Letter to Lord John Russell explanatory
of a financing system for extending railways in Ireland 1850.
_d._ 88 West Cromwell road, London 10 July 1886. _bur._ Brompton
cemet. where is monument.

LOWDER, CHARLES FUGE (eld. child of Charles Loder of Bath,
banker, _d._ 9 Sep. 1876 aged 83). _b._ 2 West Wing, Lansdowne
crescent, Bath 22 June 1820; ed. at King’s college school,
London, and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1845; C. of
Walton, Somerset 1843–4; chaplain to Axbridge workhouse 1845–6;
C. of Tetbury, Gloucs. 1846–51; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico,
London 1851–6; joined the mission at St. George’s-in-the-East
22 Aug. 1856, rented the Danish ch. at Wellclose sq.; hired a
house at Sutton, Surrey for penitents 1858; secured the site
of and raised funds for St. Peter’s, London Docks, consecrated
30 June 1866, C. in charge 1866 to death; a founder of the
Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament 4 Dec. 1862; always known
as ‘Father Lowder’; author of Ten years in the St. George’s
mission 1867; Twenty one years in the St. George’s mission
1877. _d._ Hotel Krone, Zell am See in the Austrian Tyrol 9
Sep. 1880. _bur._ Chislehurst churchyard 17 Sep. _Charles
Lowder, a biography. By the author of The life of St. Theresa_
(1882), _portrait_; _Church Portrait Journal_, _i_ 113 (1876),
_portrait_.

LOWDER, SAMUEL NETTERVILLE. _b._ 1812; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Nov.
1833, second commandant 5 Nov. 1864, commandant 23 Aug. 1866;
commanded marines on board the Arrogant in the Baltic 1854–5;
D.A.G. R.M. 1 July 1867 to 10 July 1872; employed on special
service in Mexico, commanded at occupation of Vera Cruz 1861–2;
aide-de-camp to the Queen 1862–8; general 2 Dec. 1877; good
service pension 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ 4 Manor road,
Forest Hill near London 4 June 1891.

LOWE, ABRAHAM. _b._ July 1771; midshipman Jany. 1791; engaged
in the Walcheren expedition 1809; employed in the Baltic 1810;
captain 7 June 1814; retired rear admiral 1 Oct. 1846. _d._
Cheltenham 10 April 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 513 (1854).

LOWE, ANN ELIZABETH (daughter of Mauritius Lowe of 3 Hedge
lane, Charing Cross, painter, _d._ in a poor lodging house
in Westminster 1 Sep. 1793). _b._ 1777; god daughter of Dr.
Johnson; Dr. Johnson left her £100 stock 1784; received donation
of £100 from Lord Palmerston, May 1855; money raised by a public
appeal sufficient to purchase an annuity of £38, 1856. _d._ 5
Minerva place, New Cross, Deptford 15 Jany. 1860. The younger
sister Frances Meliora Lowe _b._ 1783, _d._ 5 Minerva place 6
Feb. 1866. Dr. Johnson’s fir table was left to the rev. A. K. B.
Granville and is now in the library of Pemb. coll. Oxf. _Times
1 and 3 Nov. 1855_; _Boswell’s Life of Johnson. A. Napier’s ed.
iv_ 385–93, 463 (1884).

LOWE, ARTHUR (3 son of rev. Thomas H. P. F. Lowe 1781–1861).
_b._ Corfton, co. Salop 26 July 1814; entered navy 25 April
1827; captain 30 Aug. 1845; V.A. 27 Feb. 1870, retired 1 April
1870; admiral 18 June 1876. _d._ 3 Wingfield villas, Stoke,
Devonport 18 Dec. 1882.

LOWE, EDWARD. _b._ Prague, Bohemia 1794; emigrated to England
about 1830; played a match with H. Staunton 1848; one of the
first class chess players of his time; kept a lodging house at
14 Surrey st. Strand 1851–8, kept a private hotel there 1858–64,
kept Royal Surrey hotel 14 and 15 Surrey st. 1864 to death. _d._
14 Surrey st. Strand, London 24 Feb. 1880. _The Figaro 10 March
1880 p._ 14; _The Chess-Monthly_, _April 1880 p._ 255.

LOWE, EDWARD WILLIAM. The first scholar in anatomy and
physiology at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 1846, house
surgeon 1847; M.R.C.S. 1847; practised at Congleton, Cheshire to
death; a certifying factory surgeon; contributed many papers to
medical journals. _d._ Moody st. Congleton 30 Oct. 1855 aged 31.

LOWE, EDWARD WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCY (youngest son of sir Hudson
Lowe 1769–1844, governor of St. Helena 1815–21). _b._ St. Helena
10 Feb. 1820; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 32 foot 20 May 1837,
lieut.-col. 26 Sep. 1858; served in second Sikh war 1848–9 and
in the Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. 2nd battalion of 21
foot 21 Oct. 1859, lieut.-col. 6 foot 31 March 1863, lieut.-col.
86 foot 1 Feb. 1867, placed on h.p. 6 March 1872; M.G. 31 March
1877; C.B. 24 March 1858; granted service reward 2 Nov. 1875;
author of An account of the defence of the residency Cawnpore
1860. _d._ 11 Upper Berkeley st. London 21 Oct. 1880.

LOWE, GEORGE (son of a brewer at Derby). _b._ Derby 1788; an
early experimenter on coal gas; one of the engineers of the
Chartered Gas Co. 1821, resigned on his full salary 1862;
consulting engineer to Imperial Continental gas assoc., to the
European gas co. and to the Dublin Alliance gas co.; A.I.C.E. 29
April 1823, M.I.C.E. 2 June 1829; produced Prussian blue from
ammoniacal liquor 1834; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; F.G.S.; patented
the reciprocating tort 12 Oct. 1831; took out many patents for
manufacturing and purifying gas and for machinery for gas works
1831–52. _d._ 9 St. John’s Wood park, London 25 Dec. 1868. _Min.
of Proc. I.C.E. xxx_ 442–5 (1870).