Chapter XXV: Part 25

LUSHINGTON, HENRY (2 son of Edmund Henry Lushington 1766–1839,
master of the crown office, London). _b._ Singleton, Lancs. 13
April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1823–8, head boy 1827–8; student
of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1829, fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A.
1837; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; chief secretary to government
of Malta 1847 to 1855, brought forward proposed code of laws
before Malta legislative council 1849; Tennyson dedicated The
Princess to him 1847; author of Fellow commoners and honorary
degrees 1837; A great country’s little wars, or England,
Afghanistan and Sinde 1844; The broad and narrow guage 1846 and
other books; author with G. S. Venables of Joint Compositions
1840, a book of verses; and with his brother F. Lushington of La
nation boutiquière 1855; Two battle pieces 1855. _d._ Paris 11
Aug. 1855. _bur._ Boxley, Kent. _Henry Lushington’s The Italian
war_ (1859), _memoir pp. ix–ci_.

LUSHINGTON, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Stephen
Lushington, Bart. 1744–1807). _b._ 27 Oct. 1775; succeeded 12
Jany. 1807; consul general at Naples 1815–32. _d._ 32 Montague
square, London 25 Jany. 1863.

LUSHINGTON, SIR JAMES LAW (3 son of rev. James Stephen
Lushington, preb. of Carlisle, _d._ 17 June 1801). _b._
Bottesham, Cambs. 1779; entered Madras army 1796; col. 3
Madras light cavalry 1831–49; col. 4 Madras light cavalry 1849
to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. Petersfield 1825, M.P.
Hastings 1826, M.P. Carlisle 1827–32; a director of East India
company 25 July 1827 to 1854, deputy chairman 1837, 1841 and
1847, and chairman 1838, 1842 and 1848; C.B. 14 Oct. 1818,
K.C.B. 10 March 1837, G.C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ 26 Dorset
square, London 29 May 1859.

LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN (brother of sir Henry Lushington 1775–1863).
_b._ Harley st. London 14 Jany. 1782; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806, B.C.L. 1807, D.C.L. 1808; fellow of
All Souls’ coll. to 1821; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1806, bencher
1840–72, reader 1850, treasurer 1851; member of college of
advocates 3 Nov. 1808; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1806 to 1808; M.P.
Ilchester 1820–6; M.P. Tregony 1826–30; contested Reading
1830; M.P. Winchelsea 4 April 1831; returned for Winchelsea
and Ilchester 1831 but sat for Ilchester; M.P. Tower Hamlets
1832–41; one of the counsel for Queen Caroline, made a speech
in her defence 26 Oct. 1820, present at her death 7 Aug. 1821,
one of her executors attended her funeral at Brunswick; voted
freedom of city of London 7 Dec. 1820, admitted 2 June 1821;
judge of consistory court of London 16 Feb. 1828 to 2 July 1858;
judge of high court of admiralty 17 Oct. 1838 to 30 July 1867;
P.C. 5 Nov. 1838; dean of arches 2 July 1858, resigned 30 July
1867; chancellor of diocese of Rochester 1826–56; chancellor of
diocese of London 1828–58; served on many royal commissions; an
ardent reformer, supported sir T. F. Buxton in the anti-slavery
struggle; author of The reply of Dr. Lushington in support
of the bill for the regulation of chimney sweepers, and the
preventing the employment of boys in climbing chimneys 1818.
_d._ Ockham park, Ripley, Surrey 19 Jany. 1873. _Law Times_,
_liv_ 225–6, 240–1 (1873); _I.L.N. lxii_ 91, 95, 211 (1873),
_portrait_.

LUSHINGTON, SIR STEPHEN (2 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2
baronet 1775–1863). _b._ Bedford sq. London 12 Dec. 1803;
entered navy 1816; commander of the Ætna bomb 13 May 1828; took
part in reduction of Kastro Morea 30 Oct. 1828 for which he was
nominated chevalier of orders of St. Louis and the Redeemer,
of Greece; captain 28 Oct. 1829; superintendent of Indian navy
Nov. 1848 to 23 March 1852; captain of the Albion, July 1852;
commanded naval brigade on shore at siege of Sebastopol 1855;
R.A. 4 July 1855; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital 17 May
1862 to 2 Dec. 1865; admiral on h.p. 2 Dec. 1865; K.C.B. 5 July
1855, G.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Oak lodge, Thornton Heath,
Surrey 28 May 1877.

LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN GEORGE (eld. son of the succeeding). Comr.
of customs 3 Jany. 1825 to death. _d._ Norton court, Faversham,
Kent 15 Feb. 1853.

LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN RUMBOLD (2 son of James Stephen Lushington,
V. of Newcastle and preb. of Carlisle, _d._ 1801). _b._ Bendish
house, Bottesham, Cambs. 6 May 1776; ed. at Rugby; D.C.L.
of Oxf. univ. 12 June 1839; entered Madras civil service 4
Sep. 1790; assistant in the military, political and secret
department, Madras 1792; collector at Tinnevelly 1801; registrar
of Sudder and Foujdarry Adowlut 14 Jany. 1803, left the service
1807; M.P. Rye 1807–12; M.P. Canterbury 1812–30 and 1835–7;
chairman of committees in house of commons to 1814; joint
secretary of the treasury 1814 to 19 April 1827; P.C. 30 June
1827; governor of Madras 18 Oct. 1827 to 25 Oct. 1832; author
of The life and services of general lord Harris 1840. _d._
Norton hall near Faversham, Kent 5 Aug. 1868. _An account of the
refusal of church rates by S. R. Lushington_ (1841).

LUTHER, ROBERT. _b._ 1800; farmed 1000 acres under earl Powis
at Acton to death; a judge of Hereford and Shropshire cattle;
huntsman of the Union hunt for Mr. Frank Beddows from about 1830
to death; in his last hours he sent for some of his hounds to
come to his bedside. _d._ Acton 7 Sep. 1862. _Sporting Review_,
_xlviii_ 412–13 (1862).

LÜTHY, ROBERT (son of Victor Lüthy a veterinary surgeon, and
one of a family of 21 children). _b._ Solothurn, Switzerland
24 Sep. 1840; draughtsman to R. and L. R. Bodmer, London 1862;
in service of Hick, Hargreaves & Co. of Bolton 1864 to death;
designed hydraulic cotton presses and balanced valves 1863;
experimented on cold air machines for freezing meat 1876, went
to Australia in connection with the business of shipping frozen
meat 1883; member Instit. Mechanical engineers 1878. _d._ Bolton
3 July 1884. _Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers_ (1884)
403–4.

LUTTON, ANNE (youngest child of Ralph Lutton). _b._ Ireland 16
Dec. 1791; held meetings for women 1818; an Italian and Spanish
scholar; held drawing room meetings; head of a class meeting at
Bristol 1834; held religious meetings in England and Ireland;
author of Poems on moral and religious subjects. Dublin 1829, 2
ed. 1842. _d._ Bristol 22 Aug. 1881. _bur._ Arno’s Vale cemetery
27 Aug. _Memorials of a consecrated life_ (1883), _portrait_;
_Light on the christian’s daily path, compiled from the
unpublished letters of A. Lutton, ed. by A. S. Webb_ (1886).

LUTTRELL, ALEXANDER FOWNES (4 son of John Fownes Luttrell, M.P.
1752–1816). _b._ 1793; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf.
6 May 1812; R. of East Quantoxhead, Somerset 2 May 1818 to
death, having been rector 70 years. _d._ 12 Oct. 1888.

LUTTRELL, HENRY (natural son of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2 earl
Carhampton 1743–1821). _b._ 1771; M.P. Clonmines, co. Wexford in
Irish parliament 1798; managed his father’s estates in the West
Indies about 1802; introduced to London society by the duchess
of Devonshire, a great talker and diner-out, a frequent guest
at Holland House where he uttered many of his best mots, Gronow
calls him the last of the conversationists; author of Letters to
Julia in rhyme, 3 ed. 1822; Advice to Julia, a letter in rhyme
1820. _d._ 31 Brompton crescent, London 19 Dec. 1851, portraits
of him at Holland House and at White’s club. _Clayden’s Rogers
and his contemporaries_ (1889) _passim_; _St. James’s Mag. Jany.
1878 pp._ 43–52.

LUTTRELL, HENRY ACLAND FOWNES (1 son of Alexander F. Luttrell
1793–1888). _b._ 1826; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1850, M.A. 1852; ensign Rifle brigade 11 Feb. 1855, lieut. 8
June 1855, sold out 1857 or 1858; lieut.-colonel 3 Somerset
rifle volunteers 1860–89, hon.-col. 1889 to death; major West
Somerset yeomanry 1858–80; a fine judge of horses and in great
request at exhibitions of horses; instrumental in reviving
the Bath and West of England agricultural soc.; sheriff of
Somerset 1881; C.B. 1887. _d._ Badgworth court, Axbridge,
Weston-Super-Mare 7 July 1893.

LUTTRELL, HENRY FOWNES (2 son of John F. Luttrell 1752–1816,
M.P.) _b._ 7 Feb. 1790; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1812;
M.P. Minehead 1816–22; a comr. of audit board 1822–49. _d._
Dunster castle, Somerset 6 Oct. 1867.

LUTWIDGE, ROBERT WILFRED SKEFFINGTON (2 son of Charles Lutwidge
of Holmrook, Cumberland). _b._ London 1802; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 3 July 1827;
commissioner in lunacy 1842–5 and 24 Dec. 1855 to death;
secretary to lunacy commission 1845; comr. of inquiry into state
of lunatic asylums in Ireland, Sep. 1856. _d._ Salisbury 28 May
1873. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 3 June. _Law Times_, _lv_ 127
(1873).

LUXFORD, GEORGE. _b._ Sutton, Surrey 7 April 1807; apprenticed
to Mr. Allingham a printer at Reigate 1818, stopped with him to
1834; removed to Birmingham 1834; a printer in London 1838–44;
sub-editor of Westminster Review some years; lecturer on botany
at St. Thomas’s hospital 1846–51; a compositor and reader in
Mr. Newman’s printing establishment 1851 to death; edited The
Phytologist 1841 to death; A.L.S. 1836; author of A flora of the
neighbourhood of Reigate, flowering plants and ferns 1838. _d._
Hill st. Walworth, London 12 June 1854. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc.
ii_ 426 (1855).

LUXMOORE, CHARLES SCOTT (eld. son of John Luxmoore, bishop
of Hereford and St. Asaph, _d._ 21 Jany. 1830 aged 73). _b._
1792; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A.
1818; R. of Bromyard 2nd portion 1815 to death; R. of Cradley,
Herefordshire 1816 to death; R. of Darowen, co. Montgomery 1819
to death; canon of Hereford 30 Oct. 1815 to death; preb. of St.
Asaph 16 Oct. 1816 to 1842; dean of St. Asaph 26 June 1826 to
death. _d._ Cradley 27 April 1854. _bur._ in St. Asaph cathedral.

LUXMOORE, THOMAS CORYNDON. _b._ 1795; second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany.
1814, lieut.-col. 1 July 1849 to 1 April 1852 when placed on
retired list; general 8 June 1871; wrote On the groins used in
Sussex for preventing encroachment of the sea, in Papers of
Corps of Engineers vol. i (1884). _d._ Tunbridge Wells 26 Nov.
1878.

LYALL, ALFRED (youngest son of John Lyall of Findon, Sussex,
_d._ 1805). _b._ 1795; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1818; C. of Findon 1829–32; V. of Godmersham, Kent 1837–45;
R. of Harbledown, Kent 1845 to death; contributed to the
Encyclopædia Metropolitana; edited the Annual Register 1822–7
and 1837–8; author of Rambles in Madeira and Portugal 1827; A
review of the principles of truth in reference to the doctrines
of Hume and Reid 1830; Agonistes or philosophical strictures
1856. _d._ Llangollen, Wales 11 Sep. 1865. _bur._ Harbledown.

LYALL, GEORGE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1784; succeeded
his father as a merchant and shipowner 1805; chairman of the
Shipowners’ Society committee several years; instrumental in
forming company which made Shoreham harbour; a director of
East India Co. 1830–51, deputy chairman 1840, chairman 1841;
contested City of London 12 Dec. 1832 and 5 Jany. 1835; M.P.
City of London 1833–5 and 1841–7; introduced and carried the
Merchant Seamen’s Widows’ bill 1834; retired from public life
1847. _d._ 17 Park crescent, Regent’s park, London 1 Sep. 1853.
_Portraits of eminent conservatives. Second series_, _portrait_
26 (1846).

LYALL, GEORGE. _b._ London 29 Aug. 1819; ed. at Winchester 1832
and Geneva 1835; M.P. Whitehaven 1857–65; a director of bank
of England 1857 to death, deputy governor 1869–71, governor
1871–73. _d._ Cleve hill, Downend, Bristol 12 Oct. 1881.

LYALL, WILLIAM ROWE (brother of George Lyall 1784–1853). _b._
London 11 Feb. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, B.A.
1810, M.A. 1816; C. of Fawley, Hampshire 1812–15; chaplain to
St. Thomas’s hospital 1817; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn;
exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1822; R. of Weeley, Essex
1823–33; archdeacon of Colchester 4 June 1824; Warburtonian
lecturer Lincoln’s Inn 1826; R. of Fairsted, Essex 1827–33; R
of Hadleigh 1833–42; archdeacon of Maidstone 11 June 1841 to
1845; preb. of Canterbury 11 June 1841 to 1845; R. of Great
Chart, Kent 1842–52; dean of Canterbury 26 Nov. 1845 to death;
edited The British Critic 1816–7; reorganised the Encyclopædia
Metropolitana 1820 and contributed to its pages; edited with
St. J. Rose the Theological Library vols. i–xiv 1832–46; author
of Propædia Prophetica, a view of the use and design of the Old
Testament 1840, 3 ed. 1885. _d._ the deanery, Canterbury 17 Feb.
1857. _bur._ Harbledown churchyard 26 Feb. _G.M. April 1857 pp._
491–2.

LYCETT, SIR FRANCIS (son of Philip Francis Lycett of Worcester).
_b._ Worcester 1803; ed. at Dr. Simpson’s, Worcester; in his
father’s glove works; manager for Dent and Allcroft, glovers,
London 1832, a partner 1845–65, acquired a large fortune and
retired; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1866–67; knighted at
Osborne 3 Aug. 1867; contested Woodstock 17 Nov. 1868, Liskeard
11 May 1869 and St. Ives 30 Dec. 1874; a great friend to the
Wesleyan Methodist connexion; member of London school board,
Finsbury division, Nov. 1870. _d._ 18 Highbury grove, London
29 Oct. 1880. _Christian Miscellany_, _Jany. 1881 pp._ 15–18,
_portrait_.

LYDE, SAMUEL. _b._ 1825; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., fellow, B.A.
1848, M.A. 1859; author of The Ansyreeh and Ismaeleeh, a visit
to the secret sects of Northern Syria 1853; The Asian mystery
illustrated in the history of the Ansaireeh or Nusairis of Syria
1860. _d._ Alexandria 1 April 1860 aged 35.

LYE, THOMAS. _b._ Spinney-gate, Deansgate, Manchester 1795;
well known jockey; often mentioned by Alfred Highflyer in the
Sporting Mag.; won the Oaks on Lilias 1826, on Queen of Trumps
1835 and on Our Nell 1842; won the St. Leger on Queen of Trumps
1835 and on Blue Bonnet 1842. _d._ Middleham 27 May 1866.
_Sporting Review_, _lvi_ 79–80 (1866).

LYELL, SIR CHARLES, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Lyell of
Kinnordy, Fifeshire, botanist 1767–1849). _b._ Kinnordy 14 Nov.
1797; ed. at Ringwood, Salisbury, Midhurst and Ex. coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1819, M.A. 1821, hon. D.C.L 1855; F.L.S. 1819; F.G.S. 1819,
secretary 1823–6, foreign sec. 1826, pres. 1835–6 and 1849–50,
Wollaston medallist 1866; F.R.S. 1826, royal medallist 1835,
Copley medallist 1858; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; professor of
geology King’s college, London, Oct. 1831 to 1833 or 1834; gave
7 lectures at Royal Institution 1832; knighted at Balmoral 19
Sep. 1848; baronet 22 Aug. 1864; pres. of British Assoc. at Bath
1864; presented with freedom of Turners’ company 25 June 1874;
author of Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain
the former changes of the earth’s surface by reference to
causes now in operation 3 vols. 1830–33, 12 ed. 1875; Elements
of geology 1838, 6 ed. 1865; Travels in North America 2 vols.
1845; A second visit to the United States of North America 2
vols. 1849; The geological evidences of the antiquity of man
1863, 4 ed. 1873; The students’ elements of geology 1871, 3 ed.
1878. _d._ 43 Harley st. London 22 Feb. 1875. _bur._ in nave of
Westminster abbey 27 Feb. _Life of Sir Charles Lyell 2 vols._
(1881), 2 _portraits_; _Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxxii_
53–69 (1876); _Proc. of Royal soc. xxv_ 11–14 (1877); _Nature_,
_xii_ 325 (1875), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xlvi_ 227, 230 (1865),
_portrait_.

LYGON, EDWARD PYNDAR (youngest son of 1 Earl Beauchamp
1747–1816). _b._ about 1786; sub lieut. 2 life guards 1 June
1803, commanded 2 life guards at Waterloo, lieut.-col. 14 April
1818 to 10 Jany. 1837; inspector general of cavalry to death;
colonel 13 light dragoons 29 Jany. 1845 to death; general 20
June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq.
London 11 Nov. 1860.

LYLE, _Acheson_ (2 son of Samuel Lyle of the lodge, co.
Londonderry 1761–1815). _b._ 13 March 1795; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1832; called to the Irish bar 1818;
assistant barrister for the Queen’s county; second remembrancer
of court of exchequer, Ireland 1835–44, chief remembrancer 1844;
bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1837; a master in chancery,
Ireland, Nov. 1852; lord lieut. co. Londonderry, April 1860 to
death. _d._ The Oaks, Londonderry 22 April 1870. _Irish law
times 30 April 1870 p._ 326.

LYLE, THOMAS. _b._ Paisley 10 Sep. 1792; ed. at Glasgow univ.,
took diploma of surgeon 1816; practised at Glasgow and Airth,
Stirlingshire; returned to Glasgow 1835; collected ancient airs
and songs; wrote the beautiful song ‘Let us haste to Kelvin
Grove, bonnie lassie, O,’ first published anonymously in the
Harp of Renfrewshire 1820; contributed to R. A. Smith’s Irish
Minstrel; edited Ancient ballads and songs 1827. _d._ Glasgow
19 April 1859. _Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_ 129–30
(1877); _Brown’s Poets of Paisley_, _i_ 269.

LYNCH, DAVID (son of David Lynch of Dublin, merchant). _b._
1812; ed. at the Feinaglian institution Luxembourg and Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831; called to bar in Ireland 1833; leader
of Leinster circuit; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; bencher of King’s inns
1860; chairman of quarter sessions co. Louth 1857–59; judge of
bankruptcy court 1859 to Jany. 1867; judge of landed estates
court Jany. 1867 to death. _d._ 27 Merrion sq. Dublin 18 Dec.
1872. _bur._ Prospect cemetery, Glasnevin 21 Dec. _Irish law
times_, _vi_ 647, 662 (1872).

LYNCH, DAVID. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1864; called to
bar in Ireland 1865; Q.C. 5 July 1884. _d._ Somerville, Howth 27
Oct. 1889 aged 47.

LYNCH, HENRY BLOSSE (3 son of Henry Blois Lynch of Partry house,
Ballinrobe, co. Mayo, major in the army, _d._ 1843). _b._ 24
Nov. 1807; joined Indian navy as a volunteer 1823, lieut. 1829,
Persian and Arabic interpreter to the Persian Gulf squadron
1829–33; second in command of expedition despatched to explore
Euphrates route to India 1834–7, commander of it 1837; commanded
the steamer Tigris which foundered 21 May 1836; completed map
of the river Tigris 1839; commanded a flotilla off mouth of
the Indus 1843; assistant to superintendent of Indian navy
1843–51; founded the Indian navy club at Bombay; captain 13 Sep.
1847; commodore in command of a squadron in second Burmese war
1851–3; retired from the service 13 April 1856; C.B. 3 Dec.
1853; resided in Paris 1856 to death; conducted negotiations
with Persian plenipotentiary which resulted in treaty of Paris
4 March 1857, for which the Shah nominated him to the highest
class of the Lion and Sun. _d._ 6 Rue royal, Faubourg St.
Honoré, Paris 14 April 1873.

LYNCH, PATRICK NIESEN. _b._ Clones, Ireland 10 March 1817;
taken to U.S. of America 1819; ed. at coll. of the propaganda,
Rome, D.D. 1840; assist. pastor of Charlestown cath. 1840–44;
pastor of St. Mary’s ch. 1844–55; administrator of the see
of Charlestown 1855–58, and bishop 14 March 1858 to death,
cathedral and residence burnt down 1861; sent on a mission to
the Pope with a letter from Jefferson Davis 1862; ruined and
involved in debt by the civil war 1865; attended on the yellow
fever patients in 1848 and 1871; author of Miraculous existence
of the church. A sermon at Second plenary council, Baltimore
1866. _d._ Charlestown 26 Feb. 1882. _Appleton’s American
Biography_, _iv_ 64 (1888).

LYNCH, THEODORA ELIZABETH (dau. of Arthur Foulks of Jamaica,
sugar-planter). _b._ Dale park, Sussex 1812; _m._ 28 Dec. 1835
Henry Mark Lynch, 2 son of John Lynch of Kingston, Jamaica,
_b._ Kingston 29 Oct. 1814, barrister M.T. 12 June 1840, _d._
Kingston 15 July 1845; author of Lays of the sea and other poems
By Personne 1846, 2 ed. 1850; The cotton tree, or Emily the
little West Indian 1847, another ed. 1853; The family sepulchre,
a tale of Jamaica 1848, and 14 other stories for children. _d._
81 St. John’s Wood terrace, London 27 June 1885.

LYNCH, THOMAS KERR (younger brother of Henry Blosse Lynch
1807–73). _b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; served with
his brother during second Euphrates expedition 1837–42; set up
in business at Baghdad; bore the expense of trading-steamers
constructed for the rivers Euphrates and Tigris; travelled in
Mesopotamia and Persia; an Arabic and Persian scholar; consul
general for Persia, in London 1869–75; knight of the Lion and
Sun on the Shah’s visit to England 1873; author of A visit to
the Suez canal 1866; F.R.G.S. _d._ 31 Cleveland sq. London 27
Dec. 1891. _Times 29 Dec. 1891 p._ 5.

LYNCH, THOMAS TOKE (10 child of John Burke Lynch, surgeon,
_d._ 1820). _b._ Dunmow, Essex 5 July 1818; ed. at a school
in Islington, London, afterwards an usher in the school; a
Sunday school teacher and preacher 1841; pastor of Highgate
independent church 1847–9; pastor of a congregation in Mortimer
st. London 1849, which migrated to Grafton st. Fitzroy sq.
1852, resigned 1859; pastor of independent church in Gower st.
1860, which removed to Mornington crescent, Hampstead road
1862 to death; author of Thoughts on a day 1844; Memorials of
Theophilus Trinal 1850, 4 ed. 1882; Essays on some of the forms
of literature 1853; The Rivulet, a contribution to sacred song
1855, 3 ed. 1868; these hymns said to be pantheistic, gave rise
to a long discussion known as The Rivulet controversy, Lynch
replied to his opponents in The ethics of quotation 1856 and
Songs Controversial 1856, both issued under pseudonym of ‘Silent
Long’; A Christmas address 1856, 3 ed. 1872. _d._ 76 Arlington
st. Mornington crescent 9 May 1871. _White’s Memoirs of T. T.
Lynch_ (1874), _portrait_; _A critical and descriptive notice
of Rev. T. T. Lynch_ (1859); _Miller’s Singers and songs of the
church_ (1869) 560–61; _Waddington’s Congregational history_,
_v_ 134–69 (1880); _J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit_, _2 ed._
(1858) 101–10 _and his Religious Life in London_ (1870) 187–92.

LYNCH, WILLIAM WILTSHIRE. _b._ 1 April 1831; ensign 70 foot
17 Sep. 1850; captain 2 foot 1858, major 1873 to 1875 when
placed on h.p.; brigade major Chatham 1866–70; deputy judge
advocate 1875–6; lieut.-col. 10 foot 3 May 1876 to 3 May 1881;
lieut.-col. regimental district 1881–6; M.G. 1 April 1887; M.G.
Bengal 31 March 1888 to death. _d._ of cholera at Allahabad 4
Aug. 1888.

LYNCH-BLOSSE, HENRY (elder son of sir Robert Lynch-Blosse, 8
bart. 1784–1818). _b._ 11 Feb. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1835, M.A. 1860; V. of Newcastle, Glamorganshire, with
V. of Bettws, C. of Laleston and C. of Tythegston 1839–77;
archdeacon and canon of Llandaff 17 June 1859 to 1877; dean of
Llandaff 1877 to death. _d._ Llandaff deanery 28 Jany. 1879.

LYNDHURST, JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, 1 Baron (eld. son of John
Singleton Copley of Boston, U.S., afterwards of London, painter,
1737–1815). _b._ Boston 21 May 1772; brought to England, June
1775; pensioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 8 July 1790, 2 wr. and
Smith’s prizeman 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1796; junior fellow
of his coll. 2 Oct. 1795, senior fellow 5 July 1797 to 1804;
travelling bachelor of Camb. univ. 1795–8, high steward of the
univ. 1840; member of Lincoln’s inn 19 May 1794; practised as
a special pleader; barrister L.I. 8 June 1804; serjeant at law
6 July 1813; leader of Midland circuit 1816; M.P. Yarmouth,
Isle of Wight 1818; M.P. Ashburton 1818–26; M.P. univ. of Camb.
1826–7; king’s serjeant and chief justice of Chester Dec. 1818
to July 1819; solicitor general 24 July 1819, knighted Oct.
1819; attorney general 9 Jany. 1824 to 14 Sep. 1826; master of
the rolls 13 Sep. 1826 to April 1827; recorder of Bristol, Sep.
1826 to April 1827; lord chancellor 20 April 1827 to 22 Nov.
1830; lord chief baron of the exchequer 18 Jany. 1831 to 1834,
lord chancellor again 21 Nov. 1834 to 23 April 1835, and 3 Sep.
1841 to 4 July 1846; created baron Lyndhurst of Lyndhurst in the
county of Southampton 25 April 1827. _d._ 25 George st. Hanover
sq. London 12 Oct. 1863. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 17 Oct.
1863. _Sir T. Martin’s Life of Lord Lyndhurst 2 ed._ (1884),
_portrait_; _W. S. Gibson’s Brief memoir of Lord Lyndhurst_
(1869); _Lord Campbell’s Lives of the lord chancellors_,
_viii_ 1–212 (1869); _Misrepresentations in Campbell’s Lives
of Lyndhurst and Brougham. Corrected by St. Leonards_ (1869);
_Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 394–7, _portrait_; _W. H.
Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England and Austria. New
York_ (1863) _pp._ 173–79; _Law Magazine_, _liv_ 321–68 (1856);
_Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1st series_
(1836), _portrait_; _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _ii_
(1831), _portrait_; _Orators of the age. By G. H. Francis_
(1847) 142–59; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._
(1876) 100–107.

NOTE.--He was sketched under name of Lord Harderly in The life of a lawyer. Written by himself [By Sir James Stewart] 1830. In 1831 he heard the equity case of Small _v_ Attwood, which occupied a greater number of hours than the trial of Warren Hastings, he delivered 1 Nov. 1832 by all accounts the most wonderful judgment ever heard in Westminster Hall. No Chancellor received the Great Seal so often from different sovereigns since the Plantaganet reigns.

LYNDON, PATRICK FRANCIS. _b._ Ireland 1812; ed. R.C. seminary,
Montreal, Canada, and college of St. Sulpice, Paris; a priest
at Boston, U.S. America; in charge of St. Mary’s parish,
Charlestown, Mass. till 1852; pastor of St. Peter and Paul,
south Boston 1853 and vicar general 1866; member of Boston
school committee 7 years. _d._ Boston 19 April 1878. _Appleton’s
Annual Cyclop. for 1878_ (1883) _p._ 641.

LYNE, CHARLES (son of rev. Richard Lyne 1760–1834). _b._ Castle
hill, Liskeard, Cornwall, Aug. 1802; R. of Roche 1834–41; V.
of Tywardreath 1841–47 and 1851–63; prebendary of Exeter 31
March 1843 to death; cr. M.A. of Lambeth 27 May 1843; author
of An old man’s wanderings, a tour through the manufacturing
districts 1845; A tract entitled Little Salem 1850 is attributed
to C. Lyne and led to The Little Salem controversy. _d._ Colby
villa, Dawlish 5 May 1873. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._
(1874–82) 329–30, 1272.

LYNE, FRANCIS (3 son of Joseph Lyne, merchant, Lisbon
1766–1823). _b._ Lisbon 27 Dec. 1800, registered at St. Ive
church, Cornwall, April 1809; F.R.G.S.; father of the rev.
Joseph Leycester Lyne known as Father Ignatius; author of
Tribunals of commerce 5 vols. 1851–76; Dr. Pusey’s Defence of
Father Ignatius 1881. _d._ 54 Montague sq. London 15 May 1888.

NOTE.--Lyne _v._ Sampson Low and others _The Times 17–19 Feb. 1873_. This was an action respecting the defendants refusing to publish Tribunals of Commerce, after agreeing to do so, because it contained libellous matter. The plaintiff was non-suited.

LYNE, LEWIS CLIFTON (son of Charles Lyne, stock-broker
1790–1861). _b._ 8 March 1835; of the Office of Works, London
to 1876; sub-editor of Household Words 1876 to which he
contributed several serial stories; wrote under name of Lewis
Clifton in conjunction with Joseph J. Dilley, Tom Pinch, a
comedy Vaudeville theatre 10 March 1881; Lady Lovelace; La
Rosiere, a comic opera, music by Walter A. Slaughter; Marjorie,
a comic opera, Prince of Wales 18 July 1889. _d._ 38 East st.
Bloomsbury, London 2 Dec. 1889. _bur._ Woking cemetery.

LYNN, SAMUEL FERRIS. _b._ Belfast 1836; student at the R.A.
1854, obtained gold medal there 1859 for a group of Lycaon
and Achilles; exhibited 26 statues at the R.A. 1856–75; his
Evangeline exhibited 1858 was engraved in the Art Journal 1865
p. 372; member of Institute of Sculptors 1861; associate of
Royal Hibernian academy; executed some important public works in
Dublin and Manchester. _d._ Belfast 20 April 1876.

LYNNE, HENRY. Edited a Hampshire paper; acted under Macready at
Drury Lane 1841; starred at the Princess’s with Miss Cushman
and J. W. Wallack 1844–45; first appeared in U.S. of America at
Broadway theatre, New York as Joseph Surface in The school for
scandal 27 Sep. 1847. _d._ St. Louis, Mobile 8 Aug. 1854.

LYON, FRANCIS. _b._ 11 Jany. 1834; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1851,
lieut.-col. 11 June 1877; served in Indian mutiny 1857–8, was at
siege of Lucknow; employed testing the powers of breech loading
guns and the resistance of targets; superintendent of royal
laboratory at Woolwich arsenal 1 April 1880 to death; invented
a sensitive base percussion fuse, during the trial of which at
the military school of gunnery at Shoeburyness the shell burst
and he was so much injured 26 Feb. 1885 that he _died_ same day.
_I.L.N. 21 March 1885 pp._ 303, 304, _portrait_.

LYON, HENRY (son of a house agent). _b._ St. Luke’s, London 15
March 1831; sang at concerts and theatres from 1837; learnt
fencing and imitating the Grecian statues; employed in Clark’s
circus and at shows in fairs; learnt the violin and the harp,
and with his brother performed in the street; a violinist in
Jersey as Mr. Dymont from America; kept a music shop in Bunhill
row, London; became a Wesleyan Methodist; a visitor for the
Strangers’ Friend Society; a gun barrel maker in the Enfield
works; a French polisher; a street preacher; a porter under
Pickford & Co.; a preacher in The Christian Community; with his
wife performed sacred music in the streets and sang hymns; a
preacher and singer in Southampton in 1865. _The life of Henry
Lyon_ (1865).

LYON, THOMAS EATON. _b._ Woolton near Liverpool 17 Oct. 1812;
first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre as Miles Bertram
in the Wreck ashore 29 Sep. 1836; acted Jonathan Wild in Jack
Sheppard there 28 Oct. 1839; played at the Surrey, at the City
of London, at the National Standard; last appeared on the stage
at City of London theatre as Job Thornbury in John Bull 28 Aug.
1867; one of the five originators of General theatrical fund
1839. _d._ White Hart tavern, 197 High st. Shoreditch, London 23
Jany. 1869. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 27 Jany. _Era 31 Jany.
1869 p._ 10.

LYON, WILLIAM (5 son of David Lyon of Jamaica and Portland
place, London). _b._ 1807; cornet 8 hussars 17 July 1823,
captain 30 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 2 Aug. 1833; M.P. for
Seaford 1831–2; contested Lewes 1837, Marylebone 1859,
Canterbury 1862 and 1865, and Shoreham 1874; member of bench
of Middlesex magistrates, always opposed the license of Argyle
Rooms; was in appearance exactly like the 2 baron Panmure; (_m._
1860 Louisa Maria Sporle elder dau. of Henry Valentine Smith
known as H. V. Swanborough, lessee of Strand theatre, she was
an actress at Strand theatre to 1860). _d._ Goring hall near
Worthing 5 April 1892.

LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, 1 Baron (4 son of John Lyons of Antigua).
_b._ Burton near Christchurch, Hants. 22 Nov. 1790; ed. at
Hyde Abbey school near Winchester; entered navy June 1801;
took the Dutch fort of Marrach, 74 miles west of Batavia, by
surprise 30 July 1811 without orders to do so; captain 7 June
1814; commanded the Blonde frigate in the Mediterranean 1828,
co-operated with French troops in reduction of Kastro Morea
Oct. 1828 for which he received French order of St. Louis and
Greek order of the Redeemer; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted 23
Jany. 1835; minister and plenipotentiary at Athens 2 July 1835
to Feb. 1849; created baronet 29 July 1840; K.C.B. 10 July 1844,
G.C.B. 5 July 1855; minister to the Swiss confederation 1849–51;
minister at Stockholm 1851–3; R.A. 14 Jany. 1850, V.A. 19 March
1857; second in command of Mediterranean fleet Nov. 1853,
commander-in-chief 14 Feb. 1855 to 22 Feb. 1858; the practical
commander of the fleet throughout the Crimean war 1853–55;
received grand cross of legion of honour and Medjidie of 1st
class; created baron Lyons of Christchurch 23 June 1856; (_m._
18 July 1814 Augusta Louisa 2 dau. of Josias Rogers, captain
R.N., she was author of three novels, Olivia 1848, Sir Philip
Hetherington 1851, The lover upon trial 1853, all published in
the Parlour library, she _d._ 10 March 1852). He _d._ Arundel
Castle 24 Nov. 1858, portrait at the naval exhibition 1891.
_Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series_ (1859), _portrait_;
_E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of war against Russia_, _i_
398 (1857), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 15 March 1862 p._ 164,
portrait.

LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL LYONS, 1 Viscount (elder son
of the preceding). _b._ Lymington, Hampshire 26 April 1817;
midshipman H.M.S. Blonde 1829; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1865; attaché at Athens
Feb. 1839, at Dresden April 1852 and at Florence 1853; sec. of
legation at Rome 1856, envoy extraord. and min. plenipotentiary
to Grand duke of Tuscany 16 June 1858; minister at Washington
13 Dec. 1858, returned to England 6 Dec. 1864, retired 28 Feb.
1865; voted freedom of city of London 28 Feb. 1856, admitted 19
May 1856; ambassador at Constantinople 10 Aug. 1865, at Paris
6 July 1867 to 1887, negotiated renewal of commercial treaty
of 1860, 1873; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1860, G.C.B. 24 Jany. 1862; P.C.
9 March 1865; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created viscount Lyons of
Christchurch in the county of Southampton 17 Nov. 1881; joined
Church of Rome shortly before his death; his decease prevented
his being created an earl. _d._ Norfolk house, 31 St. James’s
sq. London 5 Dec. 1887. _bur._ Arundel 10 Dec.

LYONS, FRANCIS. _b._ Cork 1797; ed. at univ. of Paris, M.D. 1822
but never practised; M.P. Cork 1859–65. _d._ 1865.

LYONS, HUMPHRY. _b._ 8 July 1802; entered Bombay army 1817;
lieut. 12 Bombay N.I. 9 July 1818; captain 23 N.I. 25 May 1827
to 21 Jany. 1846; major 28 N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, lieut.-col.
26 Oct. 1850 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 6 N.I. 1852–53, of 1
European regiment, right wing 1853–4, of 14 N.I. 1854–5, of
23 N.I. 1855–7; town major, Bombay 2 Dec. 1851 to 5 May 1859;
lieut.-col. of 1 N.I. 1857 to 7 Oct. 1860; col. of 18 N.I. 7
Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 20 May 1871. _d._ Widmore, Bromley, Kent
27 May 1873.

LYONS, JAMES GILBORNE. _b._ England; ordained in the church
of England; R. of St. Mary’s ch. Burlington, New Jersey, U.S.
America 1844; a teacher in Philadelphia 1861; principal of a
classical school, Haverford, Pennsylvania to death; author of
Christian songs, translations and other poems. Philadelphia
1861. _d._ Haverford 2 Jany. 1868.

LYONS, JOHN (eld. son of John Lyons of Lyons, Antigua, and St.
Austin’s, Hants.) _b._ 1 Sep. 1787; entered navy 20 Sep. 1798;
took part in battle of Trafalgar; captain 22 July 1830; employed
for the government in Egypt; retired admiral 2 April 1866. _d._
Worthing 15 Dec. 1872.

LYONS, JOHN CHARLES (only child of Charles John Lyons 1766–96,
captain 12 light dragoons). _b._ 22 Aug. 1792; matric. from
Pemb. coll. Oxf. 21 May 1810; sheriff of Westmeath 1816; author
of Treatise on the management of orchidaceous plants, with a
catalogue of more than one thousand species 2 ed. Dublin 1845;
A book of surveys and distribution of the estates forfeited in
the county of Westmeath in the year 1641. Ledestown 1852; The
grand juries of Westmeath from 1727 to 1853. Ledestown 1853.
_d._ Ledestown, Westmeath 3 Sep. 1874. _bur._ in churchyard of
Mullingar, co. Westmeath.

LYONS, LOUISA, stage name of A. C. Lyons (dau. of a woman who
kept a glove shop in Carlton st. Regent st. London in 1828).
_b._ about 1820; sat for the Madonna to Stephanoff and Chalon
for their quasi-religious pictures; a pupil of royal academy of
music Jany. 1835 to Dec. 1836; sang in the chorus at the Italian
opera and at Exeter hall; first appeared as an actress at the
Queen’s theatre, London 13 June 1839; mistress of the Marquis
of Waterford 1839–42; played Giovanni in Giovanni in London,
at Victoria theatre 23 Sep. 1844; played at the Strand theatre
before 1845 as Miss Lyons her real name; played afterwards
under name of Turner at Olympic and Lyceum; lived in splendid
style at Bayswater; made a first-rate matrimonial match. _Baron
Nicholson’s Autobiography_ (1860) 53, 250.

LYONS, ROBERT SPENCER DYER (2 son of sir Wm. Lyons 1794–1858).
_b._ Cork 1826; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and
M.B. 1848; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1849; the first in Ireland to
lecture on use of microscope in relation to disease; chief
pathological comr. to the army in the Crimea 1855; awarded
Crimean and Turkish medals and clasps for Sebastopol 8 Sep.
1855; investigated pathological anatomy of yellow fever raging
at Lisbon 1857, for which he received cross and insignia of
Ancient Order of Christ; physician and teacher in St. George’s
hospital, Dublin 1858; professor of medicine in R. C. university
medical school; physician to house of industry hospitals;
a comr. of inquiry into treatment of Irish treason-felony
prisoners in English gaols 1870; enquired into treatment of
French political prisoners 1870; a senator of the royal univ.
1880; crown nominee for Ireland in general medical council of
the U.K. 29 Nov. 1881; M.P. city of Dublin 1880–5; author of
An apology for the microscope 1851; A handbook of hospital
practice 1859; A treatise on fever 1861; Forest acres in Europe
and America and probable future timber supplies 1884. _d._ 89
Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Dec. 1886. _Midland medical miscellany
1 Feb. 1884 pp._ 33–5, _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iii_ 396–400
(1880).

LYONS, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Lyons of Cork, merchant). _b._
Cork 28 Aug. 1794; a merchant at Cork; sheriff of Cork; mayor of
Cork 1848 and 1849; knighted by the queen on board the ‘Fairy’
yacht at Cork 3 Aug. 1849. _d._ 27 Dec. 1858.

LYSAGHT, ARTHUR. _b._ 22 Nov. 1782; entered navy 30 June 1795;
captain 25 Sep. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half pay 18
June 1857. _d._ Twickenham 19 March 1859.

LYSLEY, WILLIAM JOHN (only son of William Lysley _d._ 1792).
_b._ 12 Dec. 1791; barrister I.T. 25 Nov. 1825; sheriff of
Herts. 1851; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; contested Chippenham 12
July 1865; F.S.A. _d._ St. Leonards on Sea 14 Jany. 1873.

LYSONS, SAMUEL (2 son of rev. Daniel Lysons, topographer
1762–1834). _b._ 17 March 1806; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A.
1830, M.A. 1836; R. of Rodmarton, Gloucs. 1833 to death; built
St. Luke’s ch. High Orchard, Gloucester, consecrated 21 April
1841; rural dean of Gloucester 1865–76; hon. canon of Gloucester
cath. 24 Dec. 1867 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; author of
Conjectures concerning the identity of the patriarch Job, his
family, the time in which he lived and the locality of the land
of Uz. Oxford 1832; The Romans in Gloucestershire 1860; Claudia
and Pudens, a tale of the first century 1861; The model merchant
of the middle ages, Whittington and his cat 1861; Our British
ancestors, who and what they were 1865. _d._ Hempsted court,
Gloucester 27 March 1877. _Gloucestershire Notes and Queries_,
_ii_ 514–6, 533.

LYSTER, JAMES (eld. son of col. Anthony Lyster of Lysterfield,
co. Roscommon, _d._ 1841). _b._ 7 Sep. 1810; C. of
Edgworthstown; V. of Rufagh and C. of Street; R. of Tashinny,
Ardagh 1851; dean of Leighlin and R. of Wells 1854–64; hon.
LL.D. Dublin 1863; R. of St. George’s cath. Kingston and dean of
Ontario 1863, non-resident by leave of the bishop with consent
of parishioners. _d._ Plas Isaaf, Ruthin, North Wales 2 Sep.
1891.

LYSTER, WILLIAM SAURIN (son of captain Chaworth Lyster of
Greenane, Queen’s co.). _b._ Dublin 21 March 1827; engaged in
the production of operas in the Australian colonies and New
Zealand 1861–81 where the Lyster opera companies were very
well known; up to 1878 had superintended 1750 performances in
Melbourne where he was a proprietor and managing director of the
new Opera House opened 1872. _d._ Melbourne 26 Nov. 1880.

LYTH, JOHN. _b._ York 13 March 1821; Wesleyan Methodist minister
1843; at Gloucester 1847–9, at Nottingham 1851–4, 1877–80, at
Halifax 1854–7, at Liverpool 1868–71, at Sheffield 1871–4,
at Hull 1874–7, at York 1883 to death; the first Wesleyan
missionary in Germany, at Winnenden, Würtemberg 1859–65; D.D.;
author of Wild Flowers 1843; Die Zionsharfe, a collection of
spiritual songs 1863; Der Sontags-Gast, a periodical 3 vols.
1863–5; Kleine Lieder fur kleine Leute 1864; A homiletical
commentary on Isaiah 1867; The homiletical treasury, Romans to
Philippians 1869; Glimpses of early Methodism in York 1885. _d._
Carlton terrace, York, on the anniversary of his birth 13 March
1886.

LYTH, RICHARD BURDSALL. _b._ York 1810; ed. for medical
profession; medical missionary of Wesleyan Methodist soc. to
the Friendly and Fiji islands 1836–55; translated portions of
Old and New Testament into Fijian language, in which he also
composed hymns; established a training institution for native
agents at Lakemba, Fiji; governor of Wesleyan coll. Auckland,
New Zealand 1855–58; Wesl. minister Gibraltar 1869–74. _d._
Fulford barracks, Yorkshire 27 Feb. 1887.

LYTHGOE, THOMAS. _b._ Manchester 1832; inspector of Metropolitan
gas co.; an aeronaut 1850 to death, making 405 successful
ascents; the first person to make an ascent from the crystal
palace about 1860. _d._ Hertford, April 1893.

LYTTELTON, GEORGE WILLIAM LYTTELTON, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3
baron Lyttelton 1782–1837). _b._ Saville row, London 31 March
1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., chancellor’s medallist
and bracketed senior classic 1838, B.A. and M.A. 1838, LL.D.
1862; D.C.L. Oxf. 1870; lord lieut. of Worcs. 7 Nov. 1839 to
death; principal of Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1845; the first
pres. of Birmingham and midland institute 1853; a founder
of Diocesan training college for schoolmasters at Saltley
opened 1852, pres. many years; under secretary of state for
the colonies Jany. to July 1846; chairman of the Canterbury
Association 1849 which founded province of Canterbury, New
Zealand 1850, the seaport of Lyttelton near Christchurch, N.Z.
was called after him; a public schools inquiry comr. 1861;
chief comr. of endowed schools 1869–74; F.R.S. 30 April 1840;
chairman of Worcester cathedral restoration committee; P.C.
15 Feb. 1869; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869; pres. of British chess
association some years; published with W. E. Gladstone a volume
of translations into Greek and Latin entitled Ex voto communi in
memoriam duplicum nuptiarum viii Kal. Aug. MDCCCXXXIX; edited
several of his father’s works and was author of The four Gospels
and the Acts of the Apostles with notes 1856; New Zealand and
the Canterbury colony 1859; The final court of appeal in causes
affecting the doctrine of the church of England 1864; Ephemera
Series 1, 2, 1865–72; Two lectures on a visit to the Canterbury
colony 1868; committed suicide by jumping out of window at 18
Park crescent, London 19 April 1876. _bur._ Hagley churchyard
22 April. _British Medical Journal 29 April 1876 pp._ 542–3;
_I.L.N. xxvii_ 44 (1855), _portrait_, _lxviii_ 421, 430 (1876),
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 416 (1876), _portrait_; _Walford’s
Representative men_ (1868), _portrait_ 12; _Illust. Midland
news_, _i_ 61 (1869), _portrait_.

LYTTELTON, SPENCER (brother of the preceding). _b._ Saville
row, London 19 June 1818; served some years in royal navy;
ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 May 1839, retired 6 Aug. 1841;
attached to legation at St. Petersburg 27 Aug. 1847; marshal
of ceremonies to the Queen 1 Jany. 1847 to Jany. 1877 when he
resigned. _d._ 11 Eaton terrace, London 4 Feb. 1889.

LYTTELTON, WILLIAM HENRY (brother of 4 baron Lyttelton 1817–76).
_b._ 3 April 1820; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A.
1841; C. of Kettering, Northamptonshire 1843–5; R. of Hagley,
Worcs. 1847 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 4 Nov. 1850 to
1880; canon of Gloucester 1880 to death; edited Forms of praise
and prayer in the manner of offices. Oxford 1869; Scripture
revelations of the life after death 1875, 4 ed. 1893; translated
from the French of Frédéric Godet, Studies on the Old Testament,
2 ed. 1882; Lectures in defence of the christian faith 1881, 2
ed. 1883; and from the French of Félix Bovet, Egypt, Palestine
and Phœnicia, a visit to sacred lands 1882. _d._ Malvern 24 July
1884.

LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, 1 Baron
(youngest son of Wm. Earle Bulwer of Heydon hall, Norfolk,
general 1757–1807). _b._ 31 Baker st. London 25 May 1803; ed.
at Rottingdean, Ealing and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb.,
chancellor’s medallist 1825; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1835, hon. LL.D.
1864; hon. LL.D. Oxf. 1853; purchased an ensigncy in the army 19
Oct. 1825, placed on h.p. 27 July 1826, sold out 25 Jany. 1829;
edited the New Monthly Mag. Nov. 1831 to 1832; M.P. St. Ives,
Hunts. 1831–2; M.P. Lincoln 1832–41; contested city of Lincoln
1841 and 1847; M.P. Herts. 1852–66; his plays The duchess de la
Vallière produced 4 Jany. 1837; The Lady of Lyons or love and
pride 15 Feb. 1838; Richelieu or the conspiracy 7 March 1839,
all 3 at Covent Garden; The sea captain or the birthright,
produced at Haymarket 31 Oct. 1839, revived at Lyceum as The
rightful heir 3 Oct. 1868; Money, produced at Haymarket 8 Dec.
1840, which ran for unprecedented number of 80 nights; Not so
bad as we seem, performed by Charles Dickens’s amateur company
at duke of Devonshire’s house in London 27 May 1851; created
baronet 18 July 1838; assumed surname of Lytton by r.l. 10 Feb.
1844; secretary of state for the colonies 31 May 1858 to 18 June
1859, new colony of British Columbia organised 1858, Queensland
separated from New South Wales 1859, a town in each colony is
named Lytton after him; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1856 and
1858; created baron Lytton of Knebworth, Herts. 14 July 1866;
P.C. 5 June 1858; G.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870; author of Ismael, an
Oriental tale with other poems 1820; Pelham, or the adventures
of a gentleman 3 vols. 1828, anon.; Paul Clifford. By E.L.B.
3 vols. 1830; The pilgrims of the Rhine 1834, anon.; The last
days of Pompeii 3 vols. 1834; Rienzi, the last of the tribunes
3 vols. 1835; Athens, its rise and fall 2 vols. 1837; Night
and morning 3 vols. 1841; Zanoni 3 vols. 1842; Lucretia or the
children of night 1846, anon.; King Arthur, a poem 1848; The
Caxtons 3 vols. 1849; My Novel. By Pisistratus Caxton 4 vols.
1853; What will he do with it. By P. Caxton 4 vols. 1859; The
coming race 1871, anon., and about 40 other books; a library
edition of his novels appeared in 43 vols. 1859–63. _d._ Argyll
lodge, Torquay 18 Jany. 1873. _bur._ St. Edmund’s chapel,
Westminster abbey 25 Jany. _Life, letters and literary remains.
By his Son_ 2 _vols._ (1883), 2 _portraits_; _Lord Lytton, a
biography by Thomson Cooper_ (1873); _The Derby ministry_. _By
Mark Rochester i.e. Charles Kent_ (1858) 143–94; _Illustrated
Review 15 June 1871 pp._ 551–5, _portrait_; _Cartoon Portraits_
(1873) 1–5, _portrait_; _J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters_
(1870) 243–56; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_
189–214 (1844), _portrait_; _J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and
novelists_, _ii_ 198–220 (1858); _Madden’s Literary life of
Countess of Blessington_, _iii_ 27–63 (1855); _Graphic_, _vii_
70, 97, 100 (1873), 2 _portraits_.

NOTE.--He gave the ground near Stevenage, Herts., for an institute for retired members of the Guild of Literature and Art 1851, one side of the building consisting of 13 dwellings was erected and inaugurated 29 July 1865 but the scheme was a failure. He is satirised by Thackeray in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Mistawedward Lytton Bulwig. _The works of W. M. Thackeray_, _xii_ 404–14 (1869).

LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON, 1 Earl of (only son of
the preceding). _b._ 36 Hertford st. London 8 Nov. 1831; ed.
at Harrow and Bonn; attaché at Washington 1849, at Florence
1852, at Paris 1854, at the Hague 1856, at St. Petersburg 1858,
at Constantinople 1858, at Vienna 1859; secretary of legation
at Copenhagen 1863, at Athens 1864, at Lisbon 1865; secretary
to embassy at Madrid 1868, at Vienna 1868, at Constantinople
1870, at Paris 1872–4; minister at Lisbon 26 Nov. 1874 to 1
March 1876; succeeded as 2 baron Lytton 18 Jany. 1873; declined
governorship of Malta, Jany. 1875; viceroy of India 12 Feb. 1876
to 27 April 1880, installed viceroy 12 April 1876; the Queen
was proclaimed empress of India at Delhi 1 Jany. 1877; G.C.S.I.
12 April 1876, grand master of the order 1876–80; G.C.B. 1
Jany. 1878; created viscount Knebworth of Knebworth and earl
of Lytton 26 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1887;
ambassador at Paris 1 Nov. 1887 to death; edited some of his
father’s works and wrote a continuation to his Autobiography
1883; author of The ring of Amasis, a romance 2 vols. 1863;
Chronicles and characters 2 vols. 1868; Orval or the fool
of time 1869; Julian Fane, a memoir 1871; Fables in song 2
vols. 1874; King Poppy, a story without end. By Horatio 1875;
Glenaveril 1885; After Paradise, or legends of exile 1887; and
under the pseudonym of Owen Meredith, Clytemnestra 1855; The
Wanderer 1859; Serbski Pesme or national songs of Servia 1861;
Lucile 1860; The poetical works of Owen Meredith, new ed. 2
vols. 1867; published with J. C. H. Fane under pseudonyms of
Neville Temple and Edward Trevor, Tannhaüser, or the battle of
the bards, a poem 1861. _d._ at the British embassy, Paris 24
Nov. 1891. _bur._ in mausoleum near Knebworth church 1 Dec. _T.
H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 189–96; _C. Brown’s
Life of Beaconsfield_, _ii_ 28 (1882), _portrait_; _Army and
navy mag. iii_ 99 (1882), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. June
1876 pp._ 654–68, _portrait_; _Black and White 28 Nov. 1891 p._
707, _portrait_.

LYTTON, ROSINA ANNE DOYLE (youngest dau. of Francis Massy
Wheeler of Lizzard Connel, Limerick). _b._ Ballywhire near
Limerick 2 Nov. 1802; ed. in Kensington, London; her parents
having separated, she lived with her mother in Guernsey and
Caen; _m._ at St. James’s ch. Piccadilly 29 Aug. 1827 Edward
George Earle Lytton Bulwer afterwards 1 baron Lytton, they
executed a deed of separation 19 April 1836 her allowance
being £400 per annum, which was increased to £500 by deed
dated 1 Oct. 1858; at the hustings at Hertford she exposed
her husband’s cruel treatment of her 8 June 1858; confined by
her husband in R. G. Hill’s lunatic asylum, Inverness lodge,
Brentford 22 June to 17 July 1858; lived at Taunton 1856–74,
at Upper Sydenham 1875 to death; author of Cheveley, the man
of honour 3 vols. 1839, reprinted as Lady Cheveley or the
woman of honour 1839; The budget of the Bubble family 3 vols.
1840; Bianca Capello, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; The
prince-duke and the page. Ed. by Lady L. Bulwer 3 vols. 1841;
Memoirs of a Muscovite. Ed. by Lady Lytton 3 vols. 1844; The
peer’s daughters 3 vols. 1849; Miriam Sedley, or the tares and
the wheat 3 vols. 1851; The school for husbands, or Molière’s
Life and times 3 vols. 1852; Behind the scenes 3 vols. 1854;
Very successful 3 vols. 1856; Mauleverer’s divorce, a story of
women’s wrongs 3 vols. 1857; The world and his wife, a novel
3 vols. 1858; The household fairy 1870; Where there’s a will
there’s a way 1871, anon.; Shells from the sands of time 1876.
_d._ Glenômera, Upper Sydenham 12 March 1882. _bur._ churchyard
of St. John the Evangelist, Shirley, Surrey. _Life of Rosina,
lady Lytton. By Louisa Devey_ (1887), _portrait_; _Letters of
lord Lytton to lady Lytton. Edited by L. Devey_ (1884), _this
book was suppressed by lord Lytton’s successor 12 Jany. 1885_;
_Thomas Mulock’s British lunatic asylums_ (1858) 47–9; _Lady
Bulwer Lytton’s Appeal to the justice and charity of the English
public_ (1857), _3 ed._ (1857); _The life of E. B. lord Lytton,
by his son_, _ii_ 33 _etc._; _You have heard of them. By Q._
(1854), 31–6; _Daily News 16 March 1882 p._ 5.

LYVEDEN, ROBERT VERNON, 1 Baron (eld. son of Robert Percy Smith
of Cheam, Surrey 1770–1845, judge advocate general in India).
_b._ 23 Feb. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; M.P.
Tralee 1829–31; M.P. Northampton 1831–59; a junior lord of the
treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 21 Nov. 1834; sec. of board of control
21 April 1835 to 30 Sep. 1839 and president 3 March 1855 to 6
March 1858; under sec. of state for the colonies 1839 to 8 Sep.
1841; P.C. 21 Aug. 1841; dropped the use of his patronymic Smith
by r.l. 5 Aug. 1846; sec. of state for war 6 Feb. to 28 Feb.
1852; cr. baron Lyveden of Lyveden, Northants. 28 June 1859;
G.C.B. 13 July 1872; edited Letters addressed to the countess of
Ossory by Horace Walpole 1848. d. Farming Woods near Thrapstone,
Northamptonshire 10 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000,
17 Jany. 1874. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 495 (1873), _lxiv_ 54 (1874).

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MAAS, JOSEPH. _b._ Dartford, Kent 30 Jany. 1847; a chorister in
Rochester cathedral 1857; a clerk in Chatham dockyard; studied
singing under San Giovanni at Milan 1869–71; sang at St. James’s
hall, London, Feb. 1871; made his début on the stage at Covent
Garden 29 Aug. 1872 as prince Babil in Boucicault’s Babil and
Bijou; sang with the Kellogg English opera co. in America;
principal tenor with the Carl Rosa opera co. in Great Britain
1877–80; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre 1880; sang in Paris 1884,
in Brussels at the Bach and Handel festival 1885; created the
part of the Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet’s opera Manon at
Drury Lane 7 May 1885; almost unrivalled in Handel’s oratorios
and English ballads; sang at Birmingham musical festival 1885.
_d._ of rheumatic fever at 21 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood,
London 16 Jany. 1886. _bur._ Child’s Hill cemet. Hampstead,
marble monument with carved portrait unveiled in the cemetery 20
Feb. 1887.

MABERLY, CATHERINE CHARLOTTE (2 dau. of the hon. Francis
Aldborough Prittie of Corville, co. Tipperary 1779–1853). _b._
1805; (_m._ 11 Nov. 1830 W. L. Maberly 1798–1885); author of
Emily, or the Countess of Rosendale 3 vols. 1840; The love match
3 vols. 1841, 3 ed. 1863; Melanthe, or the days of the Medici
3 vols. 1843; Leontine, or the court of Louis the Fifteenth 3
vols. 1846; The present state of Ireland and its remedy 1847, 3
ed. 1847; Fashion and its votaries 3 vols. 1848; The lady and
the priest 3 vols. 1851; Display, a novel 3 vols. 1855; Leonora
3 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1866. _d._ 7 Feb. 1875.