Chapter XXIV: Part 24

LOWE, JAMES. _b._ Coupar Angus 1809; came to Dundee 1824, an
auctioneer, a broker, kept a shoe shop; sec. of Dundee Political
union 1837; a violent chartist 1839; published the Police
Gazette, in which he abused all his opponents, Gazette stopped
by the Stamp office; ruined himself with drunkenness, reformed
1851, an advocate of temperance. _d._ Dundee 11 Nov. 1853.
_Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 153.

LOWE, JAMES. Editor of a newspaper at Preston; edited in London,
The Critic of literature, science and the drama 1843–63;
contributed to The Field and The Queen; one of the secretaries
of Acclimatisation society founded 10 June 1860; projected a
Selected series of French literature. Translated and edited by
himself, vol. 1 only published 1853 containing part of Madame de
Sévigné’s Correspondence; translated Victor Schoelcher’s Life of
Handel 1857, 2 ed. 1859; exposed and was the means of causing
Lord Palmerston to withdraw the civil list pension of £50 from
the poet John Close about 3 June 1861, Close _d._ 16 Feb. 1891
aged 74. Lowe _d._ end of Oct. 1865.

LOWE, JAMES. Apprenticed to Edward Shorter a master mechanic
of city of London 2 Nov. 1813, ran away 1816 and made three
voyages in a whaling ship, when he returned to his master; a
mechanist and smoke-jack maker; patented a screw propeller
for ships 1838 and 1852; he was not the original inventor of
propellers, but was inventor of a combination never before
applied to propulsion of vessels; his daughter Henrietta
Vansittart patented the Lowe-Vansittart propeller 1868 which
was fitted to many government ships; run over by a wagon and
killed in the Blackfriars road, London 12 Oct. 1866. _History of
the Lowe-Vansittart propeller. By Mrs. H. Vansittart_ (1882);
_Mechanics’ Mag. xli_ 443, 461 (1844).

LOWE, JOSIAH BEATSON. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar
1837; B.A. 1839, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1860; P.C. of St. Jude,
Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancs. 1850–75; V. of St. Michael, Toxteth
park, Liverpool 1875–80; R. of Yoxall near Burton-on-Trent 1880
to death; author of Lectures on the annual festivals of the Jews
1846; The history of the cross practically considered 1849;
Inspiration a reality: a reply to Macnaught’s doctrine 1856; The
controversy with modern scepticism practically considered 1879.
_d._ Yoxall rectory 25 June 1893.

LOWE, PATRICK. _b._ 1769; a private in 52 regiment of foot;
formed one of the forlorn hope at Badajoz where he personally
captured the governor of that fortress 6 April 1812 for which he
obtained a large reward; present at battle of Waterloo, had a
medal with 13 clasps. _d._ Enniskillen 3 Nov. 1852.

LOWE, RICHARD GROVE (son of rev. Jeremiah Lowe, minister of St.
Michael’s parish, St. Albans). Solicitor at St. Albans 1825 to
death; clerk to magistrates of liberty of St. Albans 1828 to
death; mayor of St. Albans 1832 and 1841; assessor of court of
requests, Watford 4 Oct. 1845 to 1847; coroner for St. Albans
district 1845 to death. _d._ St. Peter’s st. St. Albans 28 June
1872.

LOWE, RICHARD THOMAS. _b._ 4 Dec. 1802; ed. at Christ’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831, travelling bachelor; chaplain in
Madeira 1832–52; had a printed correspondence respecting his
chaplaincy 1846–51; R. of Lea, Lincolnshire 1852 to death;
author of Primitiæ faunæ et floræ Maderæ et Portus Sancti 1851;
A manual flora of Madeira, vol. 1, 1868, and part 1 of vol. 2,
1872, and of scientific papers in various periodicals; _drowned_
in the Liberia which foundered with all on board off the Scilly
Islands about 13 April 1874.

LOWE, ROBERT MANLEY (son of Wm. Lowe 1770–1849, of firm of J.
and W. Lowe, solicitors 2 Tanfield court, Temple, London). _b._
24 May 1810; ed. at Rugeley, Staffs. and at Harrow; admitted
solicitor 1833; senior partner in firm of R. M. and F. Lowe
1850–85; partner with his nephews Wm. R. L. Lowe and Dillon R.
L. Lowe 1885 to death; member of the vestry of St. Giles’ and
St. George’s, Westminster 40 years; author of Reminiscences of
the Lowtonian society which was founded by Thomas Lowton in
1793 for the protection of the legal profession. _d._ 48 Upper
Bedford place, Russell sq. London 29 Aug. 1891. _Solicitors’
Journal 24 Oct. 1891 p._ 819.

LOWE, THOMAS HILL PEREGRINE FURYE (eld. son of Thomas Humphrey
Lowe of Bromsgrove, Worcs., _d._ 10 Nov. 1797). _b._ Bromsgrove
21 Dec. 1781; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A.
1805, M.A. 1818; student Lincoln’s Inn 1804; C. of Shelsley,
Worcs.; chap. to viscount Gage 1812; V. of Grimley, Worcs.
1820–32; precentor of Exeter cath. 14 Sep. 1832 to 27 June 1839;
canon residentiary of Exeter 14 Sep. 1832 to death; R. of Holy
Trinity, Exeter 1837–40; dean of Exeter 27 June 1839 to death,
installed 2 Aug. 1839; V. of Littleham with Exmouth, Devon
1840–3; author of An essay on the absolving power of the church
1825; Poems, chiefly dramatic 1840; Sermons preached in the
cathedral church, Exeter 1841; Auricular confession, a sermon
1852, 2 ed. 1852, Bishop Phillpotts disapproved of this sermon.
_d._ the Deanery, Exeter 17 Jany. 1861.

LÖWENTHAL, JOHANN JACOB (son of a merchant). _b._ Buda-Pesth,
July 1810; one of the best analytical chess players in Europe
about 1841; expelled from Hungary after Kossuth’s fall 1849;
went to U.S. of America 1849 where he played against the
leading chess players 1849–51; resided in London 1851 to death;
won Manchester chess tournament 1857 and Birmingham tournament
1858; chess editor of The Illustrated News of the World and
of The Era; manager of the great London chess congress 1862;
edited The Chess player’s magazine 1865–7; secretary to the
St. George’s chess club 1852; pres. of St. James’s chess
club 1857–64; manager of British chess association 1865–9;
naturalised 3 Sep. 1866; member of Church of Rome; with G. W.
Medley edited The transactions of the British chess association
1866, 1867; edited A selection from the problems of the Era
problem tournament 1857; Morphy’s Games of chess 1860; Morphy’s
Games 1860. New York 1860; The Chess Congress of 1862. A
collection of games played 1864. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 20
July 1876. _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ 164 (1861),
_portrait_; _Fortnightly Review_, _Dec. 1886 p._ 754.

LOWER, MARK ANTHONY (2 son of the succeeding). _b._ Chiddingly,
Sussex 14 July 1813; kept schools at Cade st. parish of
Heathfield 1831–2, at Alfriston, Sussex 1832–5 and at Lewes
1835–67; chief founder of Sussex Archæological Soc. 1846,
hon. secretary; one of the headboroughs of Lewes 1860–1;
F.S.A. 13 Jany. 1853; author of Sussex, being a description
of every parish &c. Lewes 1831; English surnames 1842, 4 ed.
2 vols. 1875; Handbook for Lewes 1845, 3 ed. 1880; Chronicles
of Pevensey 1846, 3 ed. 1880; The worthies of Sussex. Lewes
1865. _d._ Enfield, Middlesex 22 March 1876. _bur._ St. Ann’s
churchyard, Lewes. _Henry Campkin’s Two Sussex archæologists_
(1877); _M. A. Lower’s Patronymica Britannica_ (1860),
_portrait_.

LOWER, RICHARD (son of John Lower of Alfriston, Sussex, barge
owner). _b._ Alfriston 19 Sep. 1782; opened a school in parish
of Chiddingly, Sussex about 1803; a land surveyor; author of Tom
Cladpole’s Jurney to Lunnon, told by himself and written in pure
Sussex doggerel by his uncle Tim 1830, 20,000 copies of this
were sold; Jan Cladpole’s Trip to Merricur, written all in rhyme
by his father Tim Cladpole 1844; Stray leaves from an old tree,
selections from the scribblings of an octogenarian 1862. _d._
High st. Tonbridge, Kent 29 Sep. 1865.

LOWNDES, JEFFERSON (eld. son of Jonathan Wm. Lowndes of Oxford).
_b._ 15 Jany. 1858; matric. at univ. of Oxf. 9 April 1875;
commoner Hertford coll. 1877; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1883; chaplain
of Derby school 1884–6; headmaster St. Kitt’s government
school, West Indies 1886–9; won the univ. sculls at Oxford
regatta 1878 and 1879; won the diamond sculls at Henley 1879–83;
stroke of the Hertford four which won the Steward’s cup at
Henley 1881 and beat the Cornell univ. boat next day; won the
Wingfield sculls amateur championship of the Thames 1881 and
1883; having suddenly gone blind, shot himself at North-Western
hotel, Liverpool 8 Aug. 1893. _Sporting Mirror_, _Jany. 1882
pp._ 205–7, _portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news_,
_xvii_ 444 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxviii_ 84 (1883),
_portrait_.

LOWNDES, WILLIAM LOFTUS (younger son of Richard Lowndes of Rose
hill, Dorking, Surrey). _b._ April 1793; barrister L.I. 6 Feb.
1819, bencher 1841 to death; Q.C. Nov. 1841; published W. P.
Williams’ Reports of cases in chancery, 6 ed. with references to
modern cases by W. L. Lowndes 1826. _d._ 48 Westbourne terrace,
London 6 April 1865.

LOWREY, DANIEL (son of parents who came from Roscrea, Tipperary,
to Leeds). _b._ 1823; an apprentice to a dyer at Leeds; a negro
comedian at Leeds; appeared as an Irish comedian at Victoria
concert hall, Ashton-under-Lyne many years; built The Malakoff
music hall, Liverpool about 1864; proprietor of The Nightingale
and The Man at the wheel concert halls, Liverpool to 1871;
built The Alhambra music hall, Belfast 1871, which when burnt
down he rebuilt; built the Star of Erin music hall and theatre
of varieties, Dublin, which he managed 1879 to death. _d._
Wentworth cottage, Trenure, Dublin 3 July 1889. _bur._ Glasnevin
cemetery 5 July.

LOWRIE, WALTER. _b._ Edinburgh 10 Dec. 1784; taken to the U.S.
of America 1792; a member of the legislature several years;
senator from Pennsylvania 6 Dec. 1819 to 3 March 1825; secretary
of the senate, U.S. 1825–37. _d._ New York 14 Dec. 1868.

LOWRY, JAMES CORRY (1 son of James Lowry of Rockdale, co.
Tyrone). _b._ 1809; called to Irish bar 1837; Q. C. 23 Feb.
1867; master of court of exchequer in Ireland, Sep. 1867 to
death. _d._ 42 Mountjoy square south, Dublin 20 June 1869.

LOWRY, JOSEPH WILSON (only son of Wilson Lowry, engraver
1762–1824). _b._ London 7 Oct. 1803; an engraver of scientific
subjects; executed plates for the Encyclopædia Metropolitana,
Phillipps’s Geology of Yorkshire 1835, Scott Russell’s Naval
Architecture 1865 Weale’s Scientific series, and Woodward’s
Manual of the mollusca 1866; engraver to Geological Survey of
Great Britain and Ireland to death; F.R.G.S.; exhibited 2 marine
views at R.A. and 2 at B.I. 1829–31; compiled and engraved
Tabular view of British fossils stratigraphically arranged,
1853. _d._ 39 Robert st. Hampstead road, London 15 June 1879.
_Nature_, _ii_ 197 (1879).

LOWRY, THOMAS KENNEDY. Ed. at Belfast academical institution,
and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D.
1857; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 4 July 1860; joint crown
prosecutor for counties of Armagh and Antrim to 6 March 1867;
a district judge in Jamaica 6 March 1867 to 1869; prothonotary
at Manchester for court of common pleas of duchy of Lancaster
1869 to death; edited The Hamilton manuscripts 1867; author of
Lowry’s Irish equity exchequer rules and practice 1838; joint
author with R. S. Moore, Q.C., of A collection of the rules and
orders of Queen’s bench common pleas and exchequer of pleas in
Ireland 1842. _d._ Ballytrim house, Killyleagh, co. Down 29 July
1872. _Irish law times_, _vi_ 439 (1872).

LOWTH, JOHN JACKSON. _b._ 1804; ensign 48 foot 3 July 1824;
ensign 38 foot 9 Sep. 1824, lieut.-col. 22 Dec. 1854 to death,
commanded his regiment in Crimean war. _d._ at Portsmouth one
hour after landing from the Crimea 28 July 1855.

LOWTH, ROBERT HENRY. _b._ 1801; ensign 9 foot 4 Feb. 1819;
captain 86 foot 14 Aug. 1830, lieut.-col. 10 Aug. 1855 to 24
Jany. 1860 when retired on full pay; M.G. 24 Jany. 1860; C.B. 28
Sep. 1858. _d._ Winchester 21 Dec. 1870.

LOWTHER, GORGES (1 son of Gorges Lowther of Lowther lodge,
Dublin, _d._ 1785). _b._ 1769; cornet 5 dragoon guards 31 May
1787; M.P. Ratoath, co. Meath in Irish parliament 1790 to the
Union 1800; sold his seat Kilrue, co. Meath; author of Brief
observations on the present state of the Waldenses and upon
their actual sufferings 1821; Gerald, a tale of conscience 2
vols. 1840; Abjurations from popery with introductory matter
on the errors of the church of Rome 1847. _d._ Hampton hall,
Somerset 23 Feb. 1854. _G.M. xli_ 535 (1854); _Proceedings in
King’s Bench in the King v. G. Lowther for libel on J. T. Batt_
1805.

LOWTHER, HENRY CECIL (2 son of 1 Earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844).
_b._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 27 July 1790; ed. at
Westminster; first played at Lord’s in B. Aislabie Esq.’s side
_v._ W. Ward Esq.’s side 15 June 1817; played in M.C.C. matches
several seasons; a steady batsman, a slow underhand bowler with
a twist; cornet 7 hussars 16 July 1807; lieut.-col. 12 foot
20 April 1817, placed on h.p. 25 June 1818; col. Cumberland
militia 10 Sep. 1830 to death; master of Cottesmore hounds; M.P.
Westmoreland 12 Oct. 1812 to death; styled ‘the father of the
House.’ _d._ Barleythorpe hall, Oakham, Rutland 6 Dec. 1867.
_Cricket Scores_, _i_ 399 (1862), _v p. xiii_ (1876); _Sporting
Review_, _lix_ 8 (1868).

LOWTHER, SIR JOHN HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir John Lowther,
1 Baronet 1759–1844). _b._ 23 March 1793; M.P. Cockermouth
1816–26, 1831–2; M.P. Wigtown 1826–30; contested York 1832 and
1833; M.P. city of York 1835–47; lieut.-col. 1 West Riding
militia 1830–52; succeeded 11 May 1844; sheriff of Yorkshire
1852. _d._ 9 Park st. Grosvenor square, London 23 June 1868.

LOWTHROP, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of James Lowthrop of Welton hall,
east riding of Yorkshire). _b._ Welton hall 1794; mayor of Hull
1840; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840. _d._ Nice 19
Dec. 1853.

LOY, JOHN GLOVER (son of Richard Loy, surgeon). _b._ Whitby
1774; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D.; in practice at Whitby
64 years; remarkable for his skill and strength of nerve in
performing operations; author of Disputatio medica inauguralis
de Phthisi. Edinb. 1800; An account of some experiments on the
origin of the cow pox. Whitby 1801, which attracted great notice
both in England and abroad. _d._ 8 Royal crescent, Whitby 4 Sep.
1865.

LOYD, LEWIS (eld. son of Wm. Loyd of Court Henry, co.
Carmarthen). _b._ 1 Jany. 1768; pastor of a small dissenting
chapel at Manchester; partner with his father-in-law John Jones
of Manchester, merchant and banker; managed the bank of Jones,
Loyd and Co. of Manchester and Lothbury, London from 1808. _d._
at his son’s seat, Overstone park, Northampton 13 May 1858, left
£3,000,000. _Bankers’ Mag. June 1858 p._ 499.

LUARD, HENRY (5 son of Peter John Luard of Blyborough hall,
Lincoln, captain 4 dragoons, _d._ 23 May 1836). _b._ 4 Dec.
1792; ledger keeper in a mercantile firm 1832; general manager
of London and County bank 1841–56, presented with a testimonial
of 3 silver salvers 19 Oct. 1853; director of London Life
association; deputy chairman of Southampton dock co. to 1841.
_d._ 1856. _Bankers’ Mag. Jany. 1854 pp._ 1–11, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. 5 Nov. 1853 p._ 382, _view of testimonial_.

LUARD, HENRY RICHARDS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ London
17 Aug. 1825; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Camb.
1843, scholar 1846–9, fellow 1849–60, junior bursar 1853–61,
assistant tutor 1855–65, 14th wrangler 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A.
1850, B.D. 1875, D.D. 1878; V. of Great St. Mary’s, Cambridge
1860–87; registrary of Univ. of Camb. Jany. 1862 to death,
and editor of 2 editions of Graduati Cantabrigienses 1873 and
1884; hon. fellow of King’s coll. London 1875; edited for the
Rolls Series, Lives of Edward the Confessor 1858; Bartholomæi
de Cotton Historia Anglicana 1859; Roberti Grosseteste Epistolæ
1861; Annales Monastici 5 vols. 1864–9; Matthew Paris, Historia
Major 7 vols. 1872–84; Flores Historiarum 1890; author of Index
to the catalogue of manuscripts in the University library,
Cambridge 1867, and of many memoirs of mediæval writers and
classical scholars in Dict. of Nat. Biog. vols. 1–32 (1885–92);
with W. G. Clark projected an edition of Shakespeare with the
variations of the quartos and folios and printed Act 1 of
Richard III. 1860, work afterwards completed by W. G. Clark
and W. A. Wright 9 vols. 1863–66. _d._ 4 St. Peter’s terrace,
Cambridge 1 May 1891, memorial clock placed in tower of Great
St. Mary’s church, Cambridge, Dec. 1892. _The Biograph_, _Feb.
1882 pp._ 140–2.

LUARD, JOHN (brother of Henry Luard 1792–1856). _b._ 5 May 1790;
served in R.N. 1802–7; cornet 4 dragoons 25 May 1809; lieut.
16 light dragoons 2 March 1815, captain 13 Dec. 1821, placed
on h.p. 17 Oct. 1834; lieut.-col. 30 foot 4 Aug. 1848 but sold
out same day; served in the Peninsula 1810–14 and was present
at Waterloo; served in India 1825, instructed his regiment in
the use of the lance and was the first to use it in the British
army, namely at Bhurtpoor 1825; published Views in India, St.
Helena and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone by
himself 1838; author of A history of the dress of the British
soldier 1852. _d._ The Cedars, Farnham, Surrey 24 Oct. 1875.
_Times 28 Oct. 1875 p._ 11, _2 Nov. p._ 7; _Graphic_, _xii_ 515,
518 (1875), _portrait_.

LUARD, JOHN DALBIAC (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Blyborough,
Lincs. 30 Oct. 1830; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 63 foot 22 Dec.
1848; ensign 82 foot 16 Feb. 1849, lieut. 3 Dec. 1852, sold out
13 Jany 1854; pupil of John Phillip, R.A.; spent the winter of
1855–6 in the Crimea; exhibited 4 pictures at the R.A. 1855–8;
his picture ‘The welcome arrival’ was engraved. _d._ Winterslow
near Salisbury 9 Aug. 1860. _The Critic_, _March 1861 pp._ 317–8.

LUARD, JOHN KYNASTON (3 son of John Luard of Wickham Place,
Essex). _b._ 1803; entered Madras army 1818; lieut. 6 Madras
N.I. 13 June 1819; captain 16 N.I. 21 July 1825, major 10 Oct.
1836 to 26 Aug. 1841; lieut.-col. of 2 N.I. 23 June 1841 to
1847, of 42 N.I. 1847–8, of 16 N.I. 1848–9, of 11 N.I. 1849–51,
of 25 N.I. 1851–2; commandant at Masulipatam 5 Feb. 1851 to 9
Dec. 1851, at Jaulnah 9 Dec. 1851 to 21 July 1854, at Saugor and
Nerbudda 21 July 1854 to 16 Oct. 1855; col. of 11 N.I. 24 March
1852 to 1869; general 25 June 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ 29
Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 18 Oct. 1880.

LUARD, RICHARD GEORGE AMHERST (eld. son of John Luard
1790–1875). _b._ 29 July 1827; ensign 51 foot 6 July 1845;
ensign 3 foot 11 Nov. 1845, captain 1852; major 62 foot 2 May
1865, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1865; D.A.A.G. in Crimea 30 June
1855 to 23 July 1856; assistant inspector of volunteers 1860–5;
col. Bristol engineer volunteer corps 7 Dec. 1881 to death; L.G.
1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 1 May 1890; C.B. 21 June
1887. _d._ Eastbourne 24 July 1891.

LUBBOCK, SIR JOHN WILLIAM, 3 Baronet (only child of sir John
Wm. Lubbock, 2 baronet 1774–1840). _b._ Duke st. Westminster
26 March 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825,
M.A. 1833; partner in bank of Lubbock and Co. London 1825,
sole working partner 1840–60 when firm became Robarts, Lubbock
and Co.; F.R.A.S. 1828, F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1829, royal medallist
1834, treasurer and vice pres. 1830–5 and 1838–45; fellow of
univ. of London 1836 to death, vice chancellor 28 Nov. 1836
to 15 June 1842; hon. M.I.C.E. 5 March 1839; a treasurer of
Great Exhibition of 1851; sheriff of Kent 1852; author of On
the theory of the moon and on the perturbation of the planets
11 parts 1833–61; An elementary treatise on the tides 1839;
On the clearing of the London bankers 1860. _d._ High Elms,
Farnborough, Kent 20 June 1865. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xv_ 32–7
(1867); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxv_ 510–2 (1866).

NOTE.--He was author with J. E. Drinkwater afterwards Drinkwater Bethune of Probability 1830 a volume in the Library of Useful Knowledge, this work was anonymous, but a binder chose to letter it as De Morgan on Probability. Augustus De Morgan stated in a letter to the Times that he could not in 15 years succeed in restoring the book to its true authors.

LUBY, THOMAS (son of John Luby). _b._ Clonmel, co. Tipperary
1800; a sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar 1819, junior
fellow 1831, senior fellow 6 Nov. 1847 to death; B.A. 1821,
M.A. 1825, D.D. 1840; senior dean and lecturer of his college,
Donegal lecturer 1832–47; Regius professor of Greek, univ.
of Dublin 1852–5; M.R.I.A.; author of The elements of plane
trigonometry 1825, 3 ed. 1852; An introductory treatise to
physical astronomy 1828; edited J. Brinkley’s Elements of plane
astronomy. Dublin 1836. _d._ 43 Leeson st. Dublin 12 June 1870.
_bur._ Aberystwith. _Taylor’s History of university of Dublin
p._ 524.

LUCAN, GEORGE CHARLES BINGHAM, 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of
Lucan 1764–1839). _b._ St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 16 April
1800; ed. at Westminster; known as lord Bingham 1800–39; ensign
6 foot 29 Aug. 1816; lieut. 8 foot 20 Jany. 1820; capt. 1 life
guards 20 June 1822, major 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1825 and
lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1826, placed on h.p. 14 April 1837; served on
staff of Russian army in Bulgaria 1828; M.P. co. Mayo 1826–30;
lord lieut. of Mayo 1845; succeeded 30 June 1839; major general
in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1854; commanded a division
of cavalry as lieut. general in Russian war 18 Aug. 1854 to 18
Feb. 1855; present at the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and siege
of Sebastopol; recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb.
1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869; col. 8 light
dragoons 17 Nov. 1855; col. 1 life guards 22 Feb. 1865 to death;
general 28 Aug. 1865, field marshal 21 June 1887; elected an
Irish representative peer 1840; lord lieut. of Mayo 14 Feb. 1845
to death. _d._ 12 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1888.
_The drawing room portrait gallery 4 Ser._ (1860), _portrait_;
_Nolan’s Russian war_, _i_ 544–50, _ii_ 725 (1855), _portrait_;
_G. Ryan’s Our heroes_ (1855) 36–40; _I.L.N. 13 May 1854 pp._
429–30, _portrait_; _Graphic 24 Nov. 1888 pp._ 542, 544,
_portrait_.

NOTE.--At the battle of Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 Capt. Nolan brought the earl of Lucan an order from Lord Raglan to advance against the Russians and prevent them carrying away the guns. The exact meaning of the order was not clear, but it led to the famous charge of the light brigade, when out of 608 men only 198 returned. The earl of Lucan was recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855. _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea_, _ii_ 379, _iii_ 235, _iv_ 5, _v_ 3, _vii_ 471, _ix_ 354 (1877).

LUCAS, CHARLES (son of Wm. Lucas of Daventry). _b._ 1769;
matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 July 1786; C. of Avebury,
Wiltshire 1791–1816; resided at Devizes 1816 to death; author
of A descriptive account in verse of the old serpentine temple
of the Druids at Avebury 1795, 2 ed. 1801; The castle of St.
Donat’s, or the history of Jack Smith 3 vols. 1798; The infernal
Quixote, a tale of the day 4 vols. 1801; Joseph, a religious
poem 2 vols. 1810; The Abissinian (sic) reformer or the bible
and the sabre 1808. _d._ Devizes 1854.

LUCAS, CHARLES (son of Mr. Lucas of Salisbury, alderman).
_b._ Salisbury 28 July 1808; chorister in Salisbury cathedral
8 years; studied at R.A. of Music, conductor 1832, principal
1859–66; member of queen Adelaide’s private band 1830; associate
of Philharmonic Soc. 1835, member 1839, a director 1840–55
and 1864 to death; organist of Hanover chapel, Regent st.
1839; conductor of Choral harmonists society; member of firm
of Addison, Hollier and Lucas music publishers 1856 to June
1865; succeeded Robert Lindley as violoncello player at the
opera and leading festivals and concerts; composed an opera
The Regicide 1840; three symphonies, string quartets, anthems
and songs; edited Esther 1851 for Handel Soc. _d._ 9 Louvaine
road, Wandsworth, London 23 March 1869. _bur._ Woking cemet. 27
March. _Mag. of Music_, _Oct. 1890 p._ 183, _portrait_; _W. W.
Cazalet’s History of royal academy of music_ (1854) 306.

LUCAS, CHARLES. _b._ 1805; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 19 Dec.
1820; col. 18 Feb. 1861 to 26 April 1866; inspector of artillery
Bombay 1 Nov. 1862 to 29 April 1867; M.G. 26 April 1866. _d._ 44
Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 11 June 1873.

LUCAS, EDWARD (only child of Charles Lucas of Castle Shane,
co. Monaghan, _d._ 1796). _b._ 27 Sep. 1787; ed. at Harrow and
Ch. Ch. Oxf.; sheriff of co. Monaghan 1817; M.P. co. Monaghan
1834–41; under sec. of state for Ireland 15 Sep. 1841 to 21 Aug.
1845; P.C. Ireland 1845. _d._ Castle Shane, co. Monaghan 12 Nov.
1871. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_ (1846), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. lix_ 507 (1871).

LUCAS, FREDERICK (2 son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, corn-merchant
and a Quaker). _b._ Westminster 30 March 1812; ed. at Darlington
and London univ.; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; left the Soc.
of Friends and joined church of Rome being received by Father
Lythgoe of the Soc. of Jesus, Jany. 1839; started the Tablet 16
May 1840, a weekly R.C. newspaper which he removed to Dublin
1849, edited to his death; M.P. co. Meath 1852 to death; one of
secretaries of Irish tenant league 1850; contributed frequently
to Dublin Review; author of Reasons for becoming a Roman
Catholic, especially addressed to the society of Friends 1839.
_d._ at the residence of his brother in law Skidmore Ashby at
Staines 22 Oct. 1855. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 27 Oct. _Life of
F. Lucas. By his brother E. Lucas 2 vols._ (1886); _F. Lucas:
a biography. By C. J. Riethmüller_ (1862); _Duffy’s League of
North and South_ (1886) 330.

LUCAS, HORATIO JOSEPH (4 son of Louis Lucas, West India
merchant, _d._ 1862). _b._ London 27 May 1839; ed. at Brighton
and Univ. coll. London; pupil of F. S. Cary; member of the
Langham sketching club; exhibited 9 etchings at R.A. 1870–3;
exhibited at the Salon in Paris; contributed to various Black
and White exhibitions; a selection from his etchings is in the
print room, British Museum; a good musician; member of firm of
Lucas, Micholls and Co. merchants 13 New Broad st. London 1862
to death; illustrated A new year’s gift to sick children 1865.
_d._ 18 Dec. 1873. _Jewish Chronicle 26 Dec. 1873 p._ 654.

LUCAS, JAMES (2 son of James Lucas of Liverpool, West India
merchant, _d._ 1830). _b._ London 21 Dec. 1813; studied medicine
with Mr. Hicks of Whitwell near Hitchin, Herts.; inherited
family estate at Redcoats Green, Great Wymondley, Herts. on
death of his mother 24 Oct. 1849; he was so attached to his
mother that he deferred interment of her body until 12 Jany.
1850 when the burial was enforced; lived in the kitchen of his
residence, Elmwood house, Redcoats Green, used no furniture,
gave up washing and slept on a bed of cinders; gave money and
drink to all the tramps who passed by; retained two armed
watchmen for his protection; visited by lord Lytton, sir Arthur
Helps, John Forster and Charles Dickens who described him under
the name of Mr. Mopes in Tom Tiddler’s Ground in the Christmas
number of All the Year round 1861. _d._ of apoplexy at the house
of Mr. Chapman a farmer and his tenant near his own house 19
April 1874. _bur._ beside his mother in Hackney churchyard 21
April. _The history of the hermit of Hertfordshire. Hitchin_
(1874), _portrait_; _An account of Lucas the hermit. Hitchin_
(1874); _Journal of mental science_, _Oct. 1874 pp._ 361–72;
_Popular science monthly_, _vi_ 301 (1874); _Graphic_, _ix_ 480
(1874), _portrait_.

LUCAS, _John_ (son of William Lucas, sub-editor of The Sun
newspaper, London). _b._ London 4 July 1807; apprenticed to S.
W. Reynolds, mezzotint-engraver; a portrait-painter with a very
large practice; painted portraits of queen Adelaide, prince
Consort, princess Royal, duke of Wellington and many of the
court beauties; exhibited 96 portraits at R.A., 13 at B.I. and
8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–74; many of his portraits were
engraved, some of them by himself in mezzotint. _d._ 22 St.
John’s Wood road, London 30 April 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 473, 474
(1874), _portrait_.

LUCAS, JOHN TEMPLETON (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ London
1836; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 30 at
Suffolk st. gallery 1859–76; his farce Browne the Martyr
produced at Court theatre 20 Jany. 1872 and printed in Lacy’s
acting edition of plays vol. xcvi; author of fairy tales
entitled Prince Ubbely Bubble’s New story book 1871; and of
Edwin Landseer 1873, memorial verses. _d._ Whitby, Sep. 1880.

LUCAS, LOUIS ARTHUR (son of Philip Lucas of Manchester). _b._
22 Sep. 1851; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London;
travelled in U.S. of America 1872 and in Egypt 1873; organised
an expedition to explore the Congo, left London 2 Sep. 1875,
arrived at Khartoum Jany. 1876, left Khartoum April 1876;
went with colonel Gordon to the Albert Nyanza and navigated
northern part of the lake in the first steamboat ever launched
on it; returned to Khartoum Aug. 1876, reached Suakim 18 Nov.;
compiled a vocabulary of Bishareen words published in Journal of
Anthropological Institute, vi 191–4. _d._ in a steamboat between
Suakim and Suez 20 Nov. 1876. _bur._ Jeddah. _Proc. of Royal
Geog. Soc. xxi_ 418–21, 465; _Athenæum 9 Dec. 1876 p._ 766, _23
Dec. p._ 838.

LUCAS, MARGARET (youngest dau. of Jacob Bright and youngest
sister of John Bright, M.P.) _b._ Greenbank, Rochdale, Lancs. 14
July 1818; a total abstainer from 1834; (_m._ 1839 Samuel Lucas
1811–65, journalist); a Good Templar 1872, Grand Worthy Vice
Templar; visited U.S. of America 1870; engaged in the work of
Association for the abolition of state regulation of vice; one
of chief founders and president of British women’s temperance
association; visited U.S. of America 1886 to attend convention
at Minneapolis as president of the World’s Women’s temperance
union; advocated political enfranchisement of women, on public
platforms in Great Britain. _d._ 7 Charlotte st. Bedford sq.
London 4 Feb. 1890. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 7 Feb. _H. J. B.
Heath’s M. B. Lucas_ (1890), _portrait_.

LUCAS, PHILIP BENNETT. _b._ 1803; F.R.C.S.; practised at
Boulogne some years; author of A concise anatomical description
of the arteries of the human body 1836; A practical treatise on
the cure of strabismus or squint 1840. _d._ Pau, France 22 May
1856.

LUCAS, RICHARD COCKLE (son of Richard Lucas). _b._ Salisbury
24 Oct. 1800; apprenticed to his uncle a cutler at Winchester
1812; a sculptor with a good practice; executed statues of Dr.
Johnson at Lichfield, Dr. Watts at Southampton and sir R. C.
Hoare in Salisbury cath.; his medallion portraits in marble, wax
and ivory have much merit; exhibited 89 sculptures at R.A., 12
at B.I. and 61 at Suffolk st. 1829–59; sent ivory carvings and
imitation bronzes to Great Exhibition of 1851; produced a large
number of etchings; granted civil list pension of £150, 19 June
1865; author of Remarks on the pantheon 1845; The artist’s dream
realised, being a residence designed and built [at Chilworth
near Romsey] by R. C. Lucas, sculptor 1854, etched and described
1856; On the mausoleum of Halicarnassus 1859; An essay on art,
especially that of painting 1870. _d._ Chilworth near Romsey 18
Jany. 1883.

LUCAS, SAMUEL (brother of Frederick Lucas 1812–55). _b._
1811; partner in a cotton mill at Manchester 1845; joined the
anti-cornlaw league; a founder of Lancashire public schools
assoc. Aug. 1847; a corn merchant in London from 1850; managing
proprietor of The Morning Star daily paper 17 March 1856 to
1865; one of founders of the Emancipation Society for slaves
1862; author of Plan for the establishment of a general system
of secular education in the county of Lancaster 1847; edited
a vol. of essays entitled National education not necessarily
governmental, sectarian or irreligious 1850. _d._ 4 Gordon st.
Gordon sq. London 16 April 1865. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Fox
Bourne’s English Newspapers_, _ii_ 238, 271 (1887); _Morning
Star 17 April 1865 p._ 4.

LUCAS, SAMUEL (eld. son of Thomas Lucas of Bristol, merchant).
_b._ Bristol 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A.
1846; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1846; founder and editor of The
Press newspaper 1853; contributed reviews to The Times from
1855; edited Once a Week, June 1859 to 1865; projected and
edited The Shilling Magazine 1865 which ceased Dec. 1865; author
of The Sandwich Islands, a prize poem 1841; Charters of the old
English colonies in America 1850; Illustrations of the history
of Bristol and its neighbourhood 1853; Dacoitee in excelsis,
or the spoliation of Oude 1857, anon.; Eminent men and popular
books, from the Times 1859, anon.; Biography and criticism from
the Times 1860, anon.; Secularia or surveys on the mainstream
of history 1862; edited Thomas Hood’s Poems 2 vols. 1867. _d._
Eastbourne 27 Nov. 1868. _Newspaper Press_, _iii_ 38 (1869).

LUCAS, SAMUEL (2 son of Wm. Lucas). _b._ Hitchin, Herts. 1805;
ed. Friends’ committee school, Fishponds, Bristol; apprentice
at Southwick and Harris’ wharf, Wapping: an auditor of Great
Northern railway; partner in a provision house in London; a
brewer and maltster at Hitchin to death; clerk to quarterly
meeting at Hitchin; painter of landscapes, animals and flowers
in oil and water colours; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 4
at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1830–61; some of his drawings
of flowers were engraved in The Florist. _d._ 29 March 1870.
_Biographical catalogue of Friends_ (1888) 440–3.

LUCE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Luce). _b._ Weymouth 1790; M.P.
Malmesbury 1852–9; a director of the Bank of London. _d._
Malmesbury 6 Aug. 1875.

LUCENA, LORENZO. _b._ 1806; ed. coll. of St. Pelagio in univ.
of Seville, professor of theology there 8 years and provisional
president 3 years; minister of a protestant congregation of
Spaniards at Gibraltar on appointment by S.P.C.K.; hon. canon
of Gibraltar cathedral 1842–60; reader in Spanish language and
literature in the Taylor institute, Oxford 1858 to death; cr.
M.A. of univ. of Oxf. 5 June 1877; assisted in preparing new ed.
of Spanish Bible founded on Cipriano de Valera’s text, Oxford
1862. _d._ Oxford 24 Aug. 1881.

LUCET, JOACHIM SIMEON. _b._ 1797; professor de belles lettres;
author of Langue Française. Simples notes grammaticales 1843.
_d._ 49 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 11 April 1855.

LUCETTE, CATHERINE. Made her first appearance at theatre royal,
Plymouth; first seen in London at Drury Lane as Susan in William
and Susan 28 Feb. 1859; appeared at Metropolitan theatre, New
York as Pauline in Delicate Ground 23 May 1859; with her husband
M. Price had a drawing room entertainment at Brooklyn, New York
25 Aug. 1868; played Ariel in the Tempest at Grand Opera house,
New York 1869; toured for some years in North of England playing
Leonie in The Sutler Girl; _m._ (1) Morton Price, actor whose
right name was Horton Rhys _d._ 8 May 1876 aged 52; _m._ (2)
Charles Medwin. She _d._ 20 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Norwood cemetery.
_Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 226, 243.

LUCKRAFT, ALFRED. _b._ 2 April 1792; entered navy Jany. 1801;
present at Trafalgar 1805, was in the trenches 12 days besieging
Morea Castle in the Peloponnesus Oct. 1828, obtained insignia of
legion of honor and of Redeemer of Greece; retired admiral 10
Sep. 1869. _d._ Eastney barracks, Portsmouth 15 Oct. 1871.

LUCY, CHARLES. _b._ Hertford 1814; studied under Delaroche in
Paris and at the R.A.; copied old masters at the Hague and
Paris; lived at Barbizon near Fontainebleau 16 years; obtained
a premium of £200 at Westminster hall competition 1847 for his
painting of The departure of the primitive puritans to the coast
of America, A.D. 1620; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I.
and 7 at Suffolk st. 1838–73; instructor at a drawing school in
Camden Town many years; chairman of committee of new British
Institution; painted a series of portraits of eminent men for
sir Joshua Walmesley who bequeathed them to the South Kensington
museum. _d._ 13 Ladbroke crescent, Notting Hill, London 19 May
1873. Anne Lucy his widow granted civil list pension of £70, 24
Nov. 1881. _I.L.N. lxii_ 544 (1873).

LUCY, HENRY SPENCER (2 son of George Lucy, M.P. 1798–1845). _b._
28 Nov. 1830; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 May 1850; sheriff of
Warwickshire 1857; succeeded on death of his brother William
1 July 1848; kept harriers and hunted the borders of Warwick,
Worcester and Gloucester; master of the Warwickshire hounds
1866, hunted 5 days a week; resided at Chalcote park, Warwick.
_Baily’s Mag. xxvi_ 373–5 (1875), _portrait_.

LUCY, WILLIAM WOOTTEN. _b._ 1802; bookseller at Marlborough
from 1829; postmaster Marlborough 1829–69; mayor of Marlborough
twice. _d._ Marlborough 16 Nov. 1869. _The Marlborough Times 20
Nov. 1869 p._ 4.

LUDLAM, HENRY. _b._ 14 Oct. 1824; a land surveyor; engaged in
commercial pursuits; made one of the finest private collections
of minerals in the kingdom; he bequeathed his collections which
included those made by Charles H. Turner and Wm. Nevill, to the
Museum of practical geology in Jermyn st. London; F.G.S., F.M.S.
_d._ 174 Piccadilly, London 23 June 1880. _Quarterly Journal of
Geol. Soc. xxxvii_ 47 (1881).

LUDLOW, EBENEZER (son of Ebenezer Ludlow of Chipping Sodbury,
Gloucester). _b._ 1777; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1795,
M.A. 1821; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1805; town clerk of Bristol
22 July 1819, resigned 1836 on pension of £533; serjeant at
law 25 June 1827; comr. of bankruptcy for Liverpool district
21 Oct. 1842 and for Bristol district 1849 to death; chairman
of Gloucestershire quarter sessions, April 1842 to 1849. _d._
Almondsbury near Bristol 25 March 1851. _G.M. xxxv_ 666 (1851).

LUDLOW, JOHN. _b._ 16 May 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school;
entered Bengal army 1818; lieut. 3 Bengal N.I. 15 Aug. 1820;
captain 6 N.I. 1 April 1829, major 20 Dec. 1843 to 6 April 1850;
lieut.-col. of 12 N.I. 6 April 1850, of 9 N.I. 7 June 1853, of
36 N.I. 1854 to 9 Aug. 1854 when he retired with rank of M.G.
_d._ Yotes court, Kent 30 Nov. 1882.

LUDLOW-BRUGES, WILLIAM HEALD (eld. son of Benjamin Pennell
Ludlow of Melksham, Wilts.) _b._ Melksham 1796; ed. Queen’s
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821;
member of chancery bar, retired 1826; recorder of Devizes 7 June
1833 to 1844; chairman of north Wiltshire quarter sessions; M.P.
Bath 1837–41; M.P. Devizes 28 July 1847 to Feb. 1848 when he
retired; took additional name of Bruges by r.l. 1835. _d._ Sund,
Wilts. 25 Sep. 1855.

LUKE, JAMES. _b._ 1799; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1843,
president 1853 and 1862, Hunterian orator; lecturer on anatomy
London hospital 1823, assist. surgeon 1827, a principal surgeon
1833 and consulting surgeon 1861; adopted an improved operation
for hernia, which has saved many lives 1841; retired from
practice and resided at Woolley lodge, Maidenhead; contributed
to Medical Gazette 1841 &c., Proc. R. Med. and Chir. Soc. 1843
&c. and to The Lancet 1845 &c.; F.R.S. 7 June 1855. _d._ Fingest
grove, Wycombe, Bucks. 15 Aug. 1881. _Lancet_, _ii_ 360 (1881);
_Barker’s Eminent medical men_, _i_ 27–30 (1865), _portrait_.

LUMB, HENRY. Attorney at Wakefield, Yorkshire 1798 to death;
deputy steward of manor of Wakefield many years; presented by
his brother solicitors with his full-length portrait 14 Dec.
1859. _d._ 22 Feb. 1862 aged 87. _Law Times 24 Dec. 1859 p._ 156
_and 19 April 1862 p._ 323.

LUMLEY, BENJAMIN (son of Louis Levy a Jewish merchant of Canada,
_d._ London about 1831). _b._ 1811; ed. at Birmingham gr.
sch.; assumed name of Lumley; solicitor at 42 Chancery lane,
London, Nov. 1832, at 6 Quality court 1833–9; a parliamentary
agent in Parliament st. 1837–42; superintended finances of Her
Majesty’s theatre for Laporte 1836–41, manager of the theatre
1842–52 and 1856–8, the famous pas de quatre was danced there
by Taglioni, Cerito, Lucile Grahn and Rosati 1845; Sir Michael
Costa seceded from Her Majesty’s in 1847 with Mario, Grisi and
greater part of the orchestra; Jenny Lind sang at Her Majesty’s
1847–9, Sontag in 1851; managed the Italian opera house in Paris
1850 to 2 Dec. 1851; purchased lease of Her Majesty’s 1845,
which in 1856 he assigned to lord Ward, being in debt to him;
gave up the theatre 10 Aug. 1858 being unable to pay the rent;
bankrupt 3 Nov. 1862, discharged 22 Jany. 1863; four benefit
performances were given him at Her Majesty’s 1863; produced 30
Italian operas new to England 1842–58; parliamentary agent at 22
Sackville st. Piccadilly 1864 to death; author of Parliamentary
practice on passing private bills through the House of Commons
1838; Sirenia, a fantastic account of the life of sirens in
their retreats, their origin, mission and pursuits 1862, anon.;
The earl of Dudley, Mr. Lumley and Her Majesty’s theatre, a
narrative of facts 2 ed. 1863; Reminiscences of the opera 1864;
Another world, or fragments from the star city of Montallagal.
By Hermes 1873, 3 ed. 1873. _d._ 8 Kensington crescent, London
17 March 1875. _bur._ West Ham cemet. _I.L.N. iii_ 124 (1843)
_portrait_, _iv_ 237 (1844) _portrait_, _xi_ 96 (1847) _view of
testimonial_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _ii_ 622 (1875).

LUMLEY, WILLIAM GOLDEN. _b._ 1802; ed. at Christ’s hospital and
Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb.; fellow of Trin. hall 1825,
LL.B. 1825, LL.M. 1859; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; a revising
barrister under the reform act 1832; professor of English law
in univ. of London 1834–38; reported for the Law Journal 1835;
secretary of poor law board 23 April 1839 to 17 Feb. 1847;
assistant sec. local government board 18 Dec. 1847 to 19 Aug.
1871; Q.C. 8 Dec. 1868; counsel to local government board 1872;
author of The law of annuities and rent charges 1833; The law
of parochial assessments explained 1844, 7 ed. 1882; Manual
of duties of poor law officers, medical officer 1849, 3 ed.
1871; The poor law election manual 1855, 5 ed. 1886; The union
assessment committee act 1862, 10 ed. 1881; The local board
election manual 1869, 4 ed. 1886; An essay on bye-laws 1877.
_d._ 10 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 8 May 1878. _Law
Times_, _lxv_ 110 (1878); _Solicitors’ Journal xxii_ 565 (1878).

LUMSDEN, JAMES (son of James Lumsden, engraver and stationer).
_b._ 43 Argyll street, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1778; apprentice to his
father, a partner in the business 1799; a patron of Horatio
MacCulloch and sir Daniel Macnee artists, and of Dugald Moore
poet; lord provost of Glasgow 1843–45; president of Incorporated
company of stationers, Glasgow 1815, 1822 and 1830; a founder
of the Clydesdale bank 1838; founded a bursary in Glasgow univ.
1856; issued The Glasgow commercial memorandum book 1816, an
annual; author of American memoranda by a Mercantile Man 1844,
preface signed J.L. _d._ St. Vincent st. Glasgow 16 May 1856.
_W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men_, _ii_ 179–81 (1886),
_portrait_; _The Glasgow Herald 19 May 1856 p._ 6.

LUMSDEN, JAMES. _b._ 1811; minister of Inverbrothock to 1838;
minister of Barrie 1838–43; joined the Free secession 1843;
professor of divinity, Free ch. coll. Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1856
to death, and principal 1864 to death; D.D. of St. Andrew’s
univ. 13 Feb. 1869; author of Sweden, its religious state and
prospects 1855; Infant baptism, its nature and objects 1856.
_d._ Aberdeen 17 Oct. 1875. _Scott’s Fasti_, _iii part_ 2 _p._
792 (1871).

LUMSDEN, SIR JAMES (eld. son of James Lumsden 1778–1856). _b._
Glasgow 1808; ed. at Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; partner in firm
of J. Lumsden & Co. stationers, Glasgow, retired from business
1876; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1860–2 and lord provost
1866–69; knighted by patent 3 Nov. 1868 after entertaining
prince of Wales at luncheon. _d._ 194 Bath st. Glasgow 22 March
1879. _W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men_ (1886), _ii_
183–4 (1886), _portrait_.

LUND, JOHN. Joined the Metropolitan police 1837; a prominent
officer in detective department at Scotland Yard; arrested Mr.
and Mrs. Manning for murder of O’Connor 1849; had charge of
detective arrangements at Great Exhibition 1851; superintendent
of the P. or Walworth division of metropolitan police to 1859
when he retired on pension of £156; superintendent of Leamington
police 1859–80 when he retired on pension of £166; captured
James Torpey the diamond robber 1870. _d._ Leamington 24 Aug.
1888.

LUND, THOMAS. _b._ Blackburn 2 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Camb., 4 wr. 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1838; fell.
of his coll. 1829–41; R. of Morton, Derbyshire 1841–64; R. of
Brindle, Lancs. 1864 to death; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1864 to
death; author of An appendix to Wood’s Algebra 1840; A short
and easy course of algebra 1850, 6 ed. 1863; The elements of
algebra by D. Wood, 14 ed. 1852, 17 ed. 1876; A companion to
Wood’s Algebra 4 ed. 1878; Elements of geometry and mensuration
3 parts 1854–9, 2 ed. 1864; A key to Bishop Colenso’s Biblical
arithmetic 1863, 3 ed. 1865; with J. Baily A treatise on the
differential calculus 1838. _d._ Brindle rectory 14 May 1877.

LUNDGREN, EGRON SELLIF. _b._ Stockholm 18 Dec. 1815;
water-colour painter; resided at Seville 1849–52; accompanied
sir Colin Campbell’s expedition on the campaign in Oudh
1857 when he made a series of about 500 sketches which were
exhibited in London, then purchased by Samuel Mendel and
sold at Christie’s 16 April 1875; associate of Royal Soc. of
painters in water-colours 1864, member 1865; knight of order of
Gustavus Vasa of Sweden 1861; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1862;
illustrated G. O. Hyltén-Cavallius and G. Stephens’ Svenska
Folksagor 1875 and Old Norse fairy tales 1882. _d._ Stockholm 16
Dec. 1875. _Graphic_, _xiii_ 28, 36 (1876), _portrait_.

LUNING, JACOB WILLIAM (3 child of Meinhard Conrad Luning
1732–83, pastor of Hamelvörden, Hanover). _b._ Hamelvörden 19
May 1767; came to London 1790, a boarder at Duff’s school,
Tooting; naturalised 1796; book-keeper in some of the first
mercantile houses in the city down to 1858; admitted a member
of Morden college, Blackheath 30 March 1859; _m._ at Spalding,
Lincs. 4 Aug. 1796 Eleanor dau. of captain Sands and had issue
15 children. _d._ Morden college, Blackheath 23 June 1870 aged
103. _Thoms’ Human longevity_ (1879) 255–63.

NOTE.--Having insured his life for £200 in the Equitable Society at the age of 36 namely in 1803, the bonuses at his death had raised the policy to £1292 10s., the largest addition ever paid by the Equitable or probably by any other Insurance company.

LUNN, JOSEPH. _b._ 1784; an original member of the Dramatic
Authors’ Society; his chief plays were The sorrows of Werther,
a burlesque, Covent Garden 6 May 1818, revived at St. James’s
13 Oct. 1836; Family Jars, a farce, Haymarket 26 Aug. 1822;
Fish out of water, a farce 26 Aug. 1823; Hide and Seek, petit
opera 22 Oct. 1824, revived at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1830; Roses
and Thorns or two houses under one roof, comedy 24 Aug. 1825;
Lunn’s Management or the prompter puzzled, a comic interlude 29
Sep. 1828, all these four were produced at Haymarket; author of
Horæ Jocosæ, or the doggerel Decameron 1823. _d._ Grand parade,
Brighton 12 Dec. 1863.

LUNN, WILLIAM ARTHUR BROWN. Invented sequential system of
musical notes 1844; published under pseudonym of Arthur
Wallbridge, Bizarre fables 1842; The sequential system of
musical notation, a new method of writing music 1844, 6 ed. with
his name 1873; Torrington hall, an account of two days passed at
that establishment for the insane 1845; The council of four, a
game at definitions 1848; Miscellanies, consisting of jest and
earnest 1851; The Wallbridge miscellanies 1874, 3 ed. 1877. _d._
London 4 April 1879.

LUPTON, JAMES (son of James Lupton of York). _b._ 1800;
matriculated from Ch. Ch. Oxf. as a servitor 7 July 1819, B.A.
1823, M.A. 1825; V. of Blackbourton, Oxon. 1827 to death; minor
canon of St. Paul’s cath. 1829 to death and of Westminster
abbey 1829 to death; R. of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe, London
1832 to death; editor of The Temple by G. Herbert, with a life
of the author 1865; The poetical works of A. Pope, with life
of the author 1867; Gulliver’s Travels edited by A Clergyman
1867. _d._ The Cloisters, Westminster abbey 21 Dec. 1873. _bur._
Westminster abbey 27 Dec.

LUPTON, THOMAS GOFF (son of Wm. Lupton, working goldsmith).
_b._ Clerkenwell, London 3 Sep. 1791; pupil of George Clint,
engraver; assistant to Samuel Wm. Reynolds; exhibited 4
engravings at R.A. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–25;
executed 4 of the plates in Turner’s Liber Studiorum; introduced
steel for mezzotint engraving for which he received the Isis
medal of Society of Arts 1822; six of his plates after Turner
were published as Views of the ports of England 1825, reissued
with 6 more of his plates as The harbours of England 1856; pres.
of Artists’ annuity fund 1836; resided at 4 Keppel st. Russell
sq. London 1837 to death, _d._ there 18 May 1873.

LURGAN, CHARLES BROWNLOW, 2 Baron (son of 1 baron Brownlow
1795–1847). _b._ Eaton place, London 10 April 1831; ed. at Eton;
ensign 26 foot 15 March 1850, sold out 23 Jany. 1852; lord
lieut. of Armagh 7 July 1864 to death; raced under name of Mr.
Stafford; a breeder of greyhounds from 1854, won the Waterloo
cup with Master M’Grath at Altcar 1868, first time an Irish dog
took the cup, won again in 1869 and 1871, the dog was sent for
the queen to see him on 1 March 1871 and _d._ 24 Dec. 1871; K.P.
1864; a lord in waiting to the queen 1869–74. _d._ Brighton 16
Jany. 1882. _Baily’s Mag. April 1869 pp._ 213–16, _portrait_;
_The Sporting Rev. Feb. 1869 pp._ 129–32, _portrait of Master
M’Grath_.

LUSH, JOHN ALFRED (1 son of John Lush of Berwick St. John,
Wilts). _b._ 21 March 1815; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. St.
Andrews 1864; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1872; in practice at East Knoyle,
removed to Salisbury; with Corbin Finch proprietor of Fisherton
house asylum, Salisbury 1862; mayor of Salisbury 1866; M.P.
Salisbury 1868–80; entertained prince of Wales at a banquet
Sep. 1872; removed to 13 Redcliffe square, South Kensington,
London 1880. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Aug. 1888. _The
Salisbury Journal 11 Aug. 1888 p._ 5.

LUSH, SIR ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Lush of Shaftesbury,
Dorset). _b._ Shaftesbury 25 Oct. 1807; in a solicitor’s office;
a special pleader in London 1839; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840,
bencher 4 Nov. 1857 to Nov. 1865, treasurer 1859; Q.C. June
1857; leader with sir Wm. Bovill of the home circuit; serjeant
at law 2 Nov. 1865; justice of court of queen’s bench 2 Nov.
1865 to 5 Nov. 1880; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865;
one of the three judges who tried the Tichborne claimant 1873–4;
member of the judicature commission, settled at chambers the
practice under the judicature acts Nov.-Dec. 1875; member of
commission on the penal code 1878; P.C. 17 May 1879; lord
justice of court of appeal 5 Nov. 1880 to death; author of The
act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process with notes
1838; The act for the amendment of the law with respect to wills
1837, 2 ed. 1838; Practice of the superior courts of law at
Westminster in actions and proceedings over which they have a
common jurisdiction 1840, 3 ed. by J. Dixon 2 vols. 1865; edited
J. Chitty’s The practice of the law in all its departments, vol.
iii, 3 ed. 1842; J. S. Saunders’s Law of pleading and evidence
in civil actions 2 ed. 2 vols. 1851. _d._ 60 Avenue road,
Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1881. _Baptist Worthies. By W.
Landels_ (1884) 373–411, _portrait_; _A generation of Judges.
By their reporter_ (1886) 21–9; _I.L.N. xlvii_ 513 (1865),
_portrait_; _Illust. Times 18 Nov. 1865 p._ 307, _portrait_;
_Graphic_, _xxv_ 20 (1882), _portrait_.

LUSHINGTON, _Charles_ (3 son of sir Stephen Lushington, 1
baronet 1744–1807). _b._ London 14 April 1785; served in Bengal
civil service 1800–27; chief secretary to government of Bengal
1823, retired on annuity 1827; M.P. Ashburton 1833–41; M.P.
Westminster 1847–52; an original director of Crystal palace
company 1852; resided at Edgware many years; president of
Whittington club, Arundel st. Strand 1850; author of The history
of the religious institutions founded in Calcutta. Calcutta
1824; A short notice of John Adams, Esq. Calcutta 1825; A
remonstrance addressed to the bishop of London on the sanction
given in his charge to the calumnies against the dissenters 2
ed. 1834; Dilemmas of a churchman arising from the discordant
doctrine of the clergy 1838, 2 ed. 1838. _d._ 118 Marine parade,
Brighton 23 Sep. 1866.

LUSHINGTON, CHARLES MANNERS (youngest son of Stephen Rumbold
Lushington 1776–1868). _b._ 1819; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Souls’ college 1843–6;
private sec. to president of board of control 1843 to July
1854; M.P. Canterbury 1854–7; resided Norton court, Kent. _d._
Boulogne-Sur-Mer 27 Nov. 1864.

LUSHINGTON, EDMUND LAW (1 son of Edmund Henry Lushington,
puisne judge Ceylon, _d._ 1839). _b._ 10 Jany. 1811; ed. at
Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; senior
classic and senior chancellor’s medallist 1832; fellow and tutor
of his college; professor of Greek at univ. of Glasgow 1838–75,
lord rector 15 Nov. 1884, only noncontested election on record;
married 14 Oct. 1842 Cecilia sister of Lord Tennyson; edited
with sir A. Grant, J. F. Ferrier’s Lectures on Greek philosophy
1866 and J. F. Ferrier’s Philosophical works vols. ii, iii
1875. _d._ Maidstone 13 July 1893. _A. P. Martin’s Life of Lord
Sherbrooke_ (1893).

LUSHINGTON, FRANKLIN (4 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet
1775–1863). _b._ 20 April 1811; ensign 9 foot 16 July 1829,
captain 30 Oct. 1838; major 37 foot 26 Nov. 1847 to 15 July
1854; captain Scots Fusilier guards 15 July 1854, sold out 28
Nov. 1856; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ Hansham, Kent’s road, Torquay
18 Jany. 1890.