LANE, James Hunter. L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1829; M.D. Edinb. 1830; hon. phys. to cholera hospital, Liverpool 1831–2; physician to Lock hospital of Liverpool infirmary 1833; senior physician of Lancaster infirmary 1840; pres. of Royal Medical Society of Edinb. about 1841; edited Liverpool Medical Gazette; The monthly archives of the medical sciences 1834, one volume; lived latterly at 58 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London; author of A compendium of materia medica and pharmacy 1840; author with J. M. Gully of a translation of Frederick Tiedemann’s A systematic treatise on comparative physiology 2 vols. 1834. d. Brighton 23 June 1853.

LANE, John Bryant (son of Samuel Lane, chemist). b. Helston, Cornwall 1788; ed. at Truro; a painter in London 1802–17; engaged at Rome 1817–27 on a gigantic picture ‘The vision of Joseph,’ which he exhibited at Rome 1827, for which he was expelled by the papal authorities, exhibited it at the Royal Mews, Charing Cross, London 1827, it was a failure and went to decay in the Pantechnicon, Belgrave sq.; painted portraits of Sir Hussey Vivian, Lord de Dunstanville and others; exhibited 16 portraits at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1808–34. d. 45 Clarendon sq. Somer’s Town, London 4 April 1868.

LANE, Richard James (brother of Edward Wm. Lane 1801–76). b. Berkeley Castle 16 Feb. 1800; articled to Charles Heath, line-engraver 1816; line-engraver and lithographer; exhibited 67 lithographs at R.A. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1824–72; associate engraver of the R.A. 1827; executed pencil and chalk sketches of most of the best-known people of the day; never surpassed as a lithographer; lithographed several hundred of the pictures of leading artists; lithographer to the Queen 1837, to Prince Albert 1840; director of etching class in science and art department, South Kensington 1864–72; edited Charles Kemble’s Readings from Shakspeare 3 vols. 1870; author of Life at the water cure, or a month at Malvern 1846, new ed. 1851, 3 ed. 1855; Spirits and water, by R. J. L. 1855. d. 19 Gloucester terrace, Campden Hill, London 21 Nov. 1872. Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 71 (1862); I.L.N. xxx 419, 420 (1857) portrait, lxi 548 (1872) portrait; Magazine of art (1881) 431–2.

LANE, Richard James. b. 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1826; a leader of the Munster circuit; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; a comr. of Irish fisheries many years; public auditor of friendly societies in Ireland to death; crown prosecutor for co. Kerry. d. 123 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 1 Oct. 1885. Law mag. and law review, iii 204–6 (1857).

LANE, Samuel (son of Samuel Lane). b. King’s Lynn 26 July 1780; became deaf and partially dumb from falling into the water 26 July 1786; pupil of sir Thomas Lawrence, and one of his chief assistants; had a large practice in London as a portrait painter; exhibited 217 portraits at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1804–57; lived at 60 Greek st. Soho 1823–53, at Ipswich 1853 to death. d. 2 Paragon Buildings, Lower Brook st. Ipswich 29 July 1859.

LANE, Samuel Armstrong. b. 1802; M.R.C.S. 1829, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon and lecturer on surgery, St. Mary’s hospital, London; consulting surgeon Lock hospital; founder and principal of school of medicine, 1 Grosvenor place, London, adjoining St. George’s hospital 1830; edited S. Cooper’s Dictionary of practical surgery, brought down to the present time 1861. d. Ealing 2 Aug. 1892.

LANE, Samuel Haycroft. b. 1804; landlord of a beer shop in Shoreditch, London 1832–41; opened Royal Britannia Saloon, 188 Hoxton Old Town 12 April 1841, with concert opera, vaudeville, rope and other dancing, ballet and farce; bankrupt 18 Feb. 1842, discharged 14 June 1842; enlarged the Saloon Nov. 1850, closed it 29 June 1858; built the Britannia theatre on the same site at cost of £25,000, opened it 8 Nov. 1858. (m. Sep. 1843 Sara dau. of Wm. Borrow, actor, she was b. Clerkenwell 22 Sep. 1824 and has been owner of Britannia theatre since husband’s death). d. the Elms, West green road, Tottenham 27 Dec. 1871. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 4 Jany. 1872. H. B. Baker’s The London Stage, ii 257–9 (1889); The Era 14 Jany. 1872 p. 12.

LANERTON, Edward Granville George Howard, 1 Baron (4 son of 6 Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848). b. 23 Dec. 1809; entered navy 5 April 1823, captain 27 Dec. 1838; admiral on h.p. 1 April 1870; M.P. Morpeth 1848–52; created baron Lanerton of Naworth, Cumberland 8 Jany. 1874. d. 29 Grosvenor sq. London 8 Oct. 1880.

LANG, David (son of James L. Lang, writer). b. Glasgow 1846; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A., LLB.; admitted an advocate 1870; entertained at a public dinner 1884; a great fisherman. d. Glasgow 29 April 1886. Journal of Jurisprudence, xxx 322–24 (1886).

LANG, Gavin. b. Paisley; ed. Glasgow univ.; assistant minister of Presbyterian churches at Houstand and Killalan 1826; assist. minister West Kilbride 1828; minister in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, May 1828–32; minister of Glasford, Lanarkshire 1832; author of The Holy Gospel in continuous narrative 1884. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 3 S. (1851) 219.

LANG, John. b. Australia; in India and Europe 20 years; wrote in Household Words and the Welcome Guest; author of Too clever by half, or the Harroways. By the Mofussilite 1853; Too much alike or the three calendars 1854; The forger’s wife or Emily Orford 1855; Will he marry her? a novel 1858, new ed. 1871 and five other novels; also of Botany Bay 1859, new ed. under title of Clever Criminals 1878; Wanderings in India, and other sketches of life in Hindostan 1859.

LANG, John. b. 1826; connected with the Manchester Times 1840, managed it when under name of Manchester Examiner to 1889. d. Manchester about 1 Jany. 1891.

LANG, John Dunmore. b. Greenock, Scotland 25 Aug. 1799; ed. at Largs and univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1820, D.D. 1825; licensed to preach by presbytery of Irvine 1 June 1820, ordained Sep. 1822; arrived in Australia, May 1823; minister of the Scots church, Church Hill, Sydney; started The Colonist, a weekly journal 1 Jany. 1835 which lasted until 1840; started The Colonial Journal 7 Oct. 1841; edited The Press, a weekly paper 1851–2; one of the 6 members for Port Phillip in the legislative council of N.S.W. 1843–6, member for Sydney 1850–2, for co. of Stanley, Moreton Bay 1854, for West Sydney 1859 to Nov. 1869; lectured in England on Australia 1846–9; author of An historical and statistical account of New South Wales 2 vols. 1834, 4 ed. 1874; Freedom and independence for the golden lands of Australia 1852, 2 ed. 1857 and about 20 other books. d. Sydney 8 Aug. 1878, statue of him in Wynyard sq. Sydney unveiled by widow 26 Jany. 1891. J. D. Lang’s Brief sketch of my parliamentary life (1870); Barton’s Poets of New South Wales (1866) 33–7; Daily Graphic 11 March 1891 p. 9, view of his statue.

LANG, Oliver. b. 1778; an apprentice in Devonport dockyard; foreman of shipwrights at Deptford yard; master shipwright Devonport; assist. surveyor to navy board at Somerset house; master shipwright Sheerness yard 1823–6 and at Woolwich 22 July 1826 to death; offered knighthood by George IV.; designed the Comet paddle wheel steamship, the first steam ship in the navy, she was commissioned 23 April 1836; introduced many improvements in ships and steamers; author of Improvements in naval architecture. Woolwich 1848. d. Woolwich 12 April 1853. His widow Charlotte granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Oct. 1853.

LANG, Thomas Bamford. b. 1820; controller of general post office, Edinburgh, Feb. 1855 to death; author of An historical summary of the post office in Scotland compiled from authentic records 1856. d. Edinburgh 6 April 1868.

LANG, William. Entered Bombay army 1821; lieut. 21 Bombay N.I. 21 May 1824, major 10 May 1847 to 25 June 1852; political agent at Kattiwar 23 Sep. 1846 to 1859; lieut.-col. of 26 Bombay N.I. 25 June 1852 to 1854 and 1859–60, of 9 N.I. 1854–5, of 28 N.I. 1855–6, of 3 European regiment 1856–9, of 1 N.I. 1862 to 29 June 1863; M.G. 29 June 1863. d. Rossie house, Bridge of Earn 3 Jany. 1870.

LANGDALE, Henry Bickersteth, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry Bickersteth, surgeon and apothecary, d. May 1821). b. Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland 18 June 1783; apprenticed to his father, Midsummer 1797; entered Caius coll. Camb. as Hewitt scholar Oct. 1802, fellow 1808, senior fellow 1814–31; senior wr. and 1 Smith’s prizeman 1808, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1811, bencher 1827 to death, reader 1835, treasurer 1836; K.C. May 1827; P.C. 16 Jany. 1835; master of the rolls 19 Jany. 1835, resigned 28 March 1851; cr. Baron Langdale of Langdale, Westmoreland 23 Jany. 1835; head of the commission temporarily issued for custody of the great seal 19 June to 15 July 1850. d. Tunbridge Wells 18 April 1851. bur. in vault of Temple church, London 24 April. Memoirs. By T. D. Hardy 2 vols. (1852), portrait; Law Magazine, xlv 283–93 (1851); Leisure Hour iii 251.

LANGDALE, Charles (3 son of 16 baron Stourton 1752–1816). b. 19 Sep. 1787; assumed his mother’s maiden name Langdale instead of Stourton by r.l. 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. Beverley 1832–4, M.P. Knaresborough 1837–41; the foremost man among the Roman catholic laity in England 50 years; a lay brother of the Society of Jesus 1868; author of Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert, with an account of her marriage with H.R.H. the prince of Wales afterwards king George the Fourth 1856. d. 5 Queen st. Mayfair, London 1 Dec. 1868. Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck (1890), memoir pp. 19–61, portrait.

LANGFORD, Joseph Munt. b. 1809; employed by Messrs. Blackwood, publishers 1830, head of their London branch 1845–81; dramatic critic of The Observer many years; part author of several dramas produced at the Adelphi theatre, London about 1854. d. 2 The Paragon, Winchester 28 Aug. 1884.

LANGHAM, Stephen Nathaniel (son of a farm labourer). b. Hinckley, Leics. May 1820; pugilist, always known as Nat. Langham, height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 11 stone; beat Wm. Ellis 1843, Tom Lowe 1844 and Doctor Campbell 1845; beat George Gutteridge £25 a side at Bourne, Lincs. 23 Sep. 1846; beat Wm. Sparkes the Australian £50 a side at Woking Common 4 May 1847; beaten by Harry Orme £50 a side 117 rounds in 176 minutes at Lower Hope Point down the river Thames 6 May 1851; beat Tom Sayers £100 a side, 61 rounds in 122 minutes near Lakenheath, Suffolk 18 Oct. 1853; fought Ben Caunt £200 a side, 60 rounds in 89 minutes at Standing Creek, Medway 21 Sep. 1857, not decided; won 6 out of 7 fights, is the only man who ever beat Tom Sayers; kept the Ram inn, Bridge st. Cambridge 1851 to 1853, the Cambrian Stores, 12 Castle st. Leicester sq. London 1853 to 1861, and the Cambridge Stores at 12 Castle st. 1870 to death; kept the Mitre tavern, 62 St. Martin’s lane, London 1862 to 1869; bankrupt 2 March 1869, discharged 29 March 1870. d. the Cambridge Stores, Castle st. London 1 Sep. 1871. bur. Brompton cemetery 7 Sep. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, iii 234–52 (1881), portrait; F. W. J. Henning’s Prize Ring (1888) 160–7; Illust. sporting news, ii 277 (1863), portrait.

LANGLEY, Albert Gordon (eld. son of Charles Langley of Chudleigh, South Devon). A student of Middle Temple 15 Jany. 1837, certificate of honour Nov. 1857, studentship May 1858, barrister M.T. 30 April 1859, admitted ad eundem at L.I. 2 Nov. 1863; author of A reading of the act to further amend the law of property and to relieve trustees 1860; An essay on the law of pleading by way of claim for alternative relief 1881; edited E. E. Deacon’s The law and practice of bankruptcy 3 ed. 1864. d. 19 Lee terrace, Blackheath 29 Jany. 1888.

LANGLEY, Daniel Baxter. b. 1797 or 1798; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., S.C.L. 1828, LLD. 1841; V. of Olney, Bucks. 1834–56; R. of Yardley-Hastings with Denton, Northants. 1856 to death; author of Olney lectures delivered in the parish church of Olney 1840; Morning and evening prayers compiled from the Common Prayer Book 1862; Christian laconics, or many things in few words 1862; The destruction of earthly hopes a reason for the cultivation of heavenly affections 1865, 2 ed. 1868. d. Yardley-Hastings rectory 15 March 1881.

LANGLEY, Edward (son of Mr. Langley who lived to be 93, by his wife who lived to be 105). b. 1763; a surgeon at Riseley, Beds. 1803–28 when he retired. d. St. John st. Bedford 25 Jany. 1859 aged 96.

LANGRIDGE, George David. b. Kent 1829; emigrated to Australia; represented Collingwood in legislative assembly of Victoria 1874 to death; comr. of public works Aug. 1880 to July 1881; comr. of trade and customs March 1883 to Feb. 1886; chief secretary and minister of customs Nov. 1890 to death. d. Melbourne 24 March 1891.

LANGSLOW, Robert. Barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1823; attorney general of Malta 5 July 1832 to Nov. 1838 when granted pension of £300 on abolition of the office; judge of district court of Colombo No. 1 South, Ceylon 8 June 1840, suspended from his office for dilatoriness in discharge of his duty 11 Dec. 1843, removed July 1844; was residing 6 Powis place, Bloomsbury, London in 1846. d. New Inn, London 9 Dec. 1853. In the privy council. Petition from R. Langslow late judge of district court of Colombo (1847).

LANGSTON, James Haughton. b. 1797; M.P. Woodstock 1820–26; M.P. Oxford 1826 to 30 Dec. 1834 and 1841 to death; sheriff of co. Oxford 1819. d. Sarsden house, Chipping Norton, Oxon. 19 Oct. 1863.

LANGTON, William (son of Thomas Langton of Liverpool, Russian merchant, d. 1838). b. Farfield near Addingham, Yorkshire 17 April 1803; engaged in business at Liverpool 1821–9; employed in Messrs. Heywoods’ bank, Manchester 1829–54; managing director of Manchester and Salford bank 1854 to Oct. 1876; one of the 3 founders of Manchester Athenæum 1836, to which a marble medallion bust of him was presented 1881; an original member of Chetham Society 1843, treasurer, afterwards hon. sec. to 1869, edited for the society Chetham Miscellanies 3 vols. 1851–56–62, Lancashire Inquisitiones post mortem 2 vols. 1875 and Benalt’s Visitation of Lancashire 1533, 2 vols. 1876–82; a memorial Langton scholarship was founded in his honour at Owen’s college, Manchester at cost of £5000 in 1876 or 1877. d. Ingatestone, Essex 29 Sep. 1881. bur. Fryerning churchyard, Essex. Publications of Chetham Society, vol. cx, memoir pp. iii–x, portrait.

LANGWORTHY, Edward Ryley. b. 1796; mayor of Salford 1848–9 and 1850–1; a trustee of Manchester gram. sch. 1849; chief founder of Salford free library, the first established under Ewart’s act, and gave to it £6000, 1854; M.P. Salford 2 Feb. to 21 March 1857. d. Victoria park, Manchester 7 April 1874, personalty sworn under £1,200,000 13 June 1874.

LANKESTER, Edwin (son of Wm. Lankester of Melton near Woodbridge, Suffolk, builder). b. Melton 23 April 1814; studied at London univ. 1834–7; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. Heidelberg 1839; practised in London from 1839; sec. of the Ray Society 1844; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1845; professor of natural history in New College, London 1850; lecturer on anatomy and physiology at Grosvenor place school of medicine 1853; joint editor of Quarterly Journal of microscopical science 1853–71, pres. of Microscopical Soc. of London 1859; examiner in botany to science and art department 1862; superintendent of food collection at South Kensington museum 1858–62; medical officer of health for parish of St. James, Westminster 1856 to death; coroner for Central Middlesex 9 July 1862 to death, his annual reports are printed in the Journal of Social Science which he founded 1865 and edited 1865 to death; author of An account of Askern and its mineral springs 1842; Half hours with the microscope [by E. L.] 1859, 4 ed. 1873; The use of animals as applied to the industry of man 1860, four numbers; Vegetable physiology 1869; Dr. Lankester’s Sanitary handbills 1870, three numbers; A school manual of health, being an introduction to physiology 1868, 6 ed. 1876; Haydn’s Dictionary of medicine and hygiene, ed. by E. Lankester 1874, new ed. 1878. d. Margate 30 Oct. 1874. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1867) 47–51, portrait; Nature, xi 15–16 (1875); I.L.N. xli 100 (1862), portrait; Graphic, x 463, 465 (1874), portrait.

LANSDOWNE, Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3 Marquess of (younger son of 1 marquess of Lansdowne 1737–1805). b. Shelburne (now Lansdowne) house, 54 Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1780; known as lord Henry Petty 1784–1809; ed. at Westminster sch. at Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1801, LLD. 1811; M.P. Calne 1802–6; M.P. univ. of Camb. 1806–7; M.P. Camelford 1807–9; chancellor of the exchequer 10 Feb. 1806 to 31 March 1807; P.C. 5 Feb. 1806; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marquess 15 Nov. 1809, and his cousin as 4 Earl of Kerry 4 July 1818; sec. of state for home department 16 July 1827 to 26 Jany. 1828; lord pres. of the council 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Dec. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841 and 6 July 1846 to 27 Feb. 1852; leader of opposition in house of lords 1841–6; F.R.S. 4 April 1811; K.G. 5 Feb. 1836; refused the premiership 1852; held a seat in the cabinet without office Dec. 1852 to March 1858; many of his speeches were printed 1806 etc. d. Bowood park, Calne, Wilts. 31 Jany. 1863. Men of the time: British statesmen. (1854) 44–69; H. Martineau’s Biog. sketches 4 ed. (1876) 91–9; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, v (1834), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, i 14 (1846), portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain, ii 143–53 (1854), iii 156–67 (1854); Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 171, portrait; Hayward’s Essays, ii 303–19 (1870); Illustrated Times 14 Feb. 1863 p. 109, portrait.

LANSDOWNE, Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 4 Marquess of (2 son of the preceding). b. Lansdowne house, London 5 Jany. 1816; ed. Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.; known as lord Henry Petty Fitzmaurice 1818–36 and as earl of Shelburne 1836–63; M.P. Calne 1837–56; lieut. Wiltshire yeomanry 23 Jany. 1837, lieut.-col. 3 May 1861 to death; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Dec. 1847 to Aug. 1848; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 5 July 1856 to 26 Feb. 1858; summoned to house of lords in his father’s barony of Wycombe 11 July 1856; chairman of Great Western railway 1859–63; succeeded his father as 4 Marquess 31 Jany. 1863; K.G. 10 Oct. 1864. d. Lansdowne house, 54 Berkeley square, London 5 July 1866. I.L.N. xl 175 (1862), portrait.

LANWARNE, Nicholas. Admitted attorney and solicitor 1833; practised at Hereford 1833 to death; clerk to the Hereford union 1837 and to Dore union 1842 to death; coroner for Herefordshire 1838 to death; clerk to the Dore magistrates 1859 to death; one of the charity trustees for city of Hereford to death. d. The Vineyard near Hereford, midnight 10 Dec. 1864 aged 54.

LANYON, Sir Charles (son of John Jenkinson Lanyon of Eastbourne). b. Eastbourne 6 Jany. 1813; articled to Jacob Owen of Dublin, civil engineer; county surveyor of Kildare 1835, of co. Antrim 1836–60; made the Belfast and Ballymena railway, the Carrickfergus and Larne and other railways; architect of the Queen’s college, the court-house and other public buildings in Belfast; mayor of Belfast 1862; M.P. Belfast 1866–68, contested Belfast 1868; pres. of Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland 1862–8; knighted by duke of Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868; sheriff of co. Antrim 1876; provincial grand master of Antrim. d. The Abbey, White Abbey near Belfast 31 May 1889. R. F. Gould’s History of freemasonry, iv 388 (1885), portrait.

LANYON, Sir William Owen (3 son of the preceding). b. co. Antrim 21 July 1842; ed. at Bromsgrove gr. sch.; ensign 6 foot 21 Dec. 1860; lieut. 2 West India regiment 11 Jany. 1867, lieut.-col. 2 Feb. 1878, placed on h.p. 1 Jany. 1883; A.D.C. and private sec. to sir John Peter Grant, governor of Jamaica 1868–73; A.D.C. to sir Garnet Wolseley in Ashantee campaign Oct. 1873 to 20 Jany. 1874 when invalided; went to the Gold Coast on a special mission 1874; administrator of Griqualand West 1 Sep. 1875 to April 1880, raised a volunteer force which he led against a Ratlapin chief named Botlasitsie, whom he defeated in ten actions and subdued 1878; colonel in the army 11 Nov. 1878; administrator of the Transvaal 21 April 1880 to 8 Aug. 1881; col. on the staff in Egypt 1882 and 1885; A.A. and Q.M.G. Southern district of England 1883–5 and in Egypt 19 Feb. to 8 May 1885; C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, K.C.M.G. 6 April 1880; C.B. 11 Nov. 1878. d. New York 6 April 1887. The Graphic, xxiii 217 (1881), portrait; The London Figaro 16 April 1887 p. 3, portrait.

LANZA, Gesualdo (son of Giuseppe Lanza, musical composer). b. Naples 1779; a singing master in London; music seller at Chesterfield st. Pancras New road, bankrupt 27 Aug. 1830; opened singing classes at 75 Newman st. 1842; taught Miss M. Tree, Miss Stephens, Miss Bolton and Mrs. Donald King; author of The desert of Arabia, an operatical entertainment written by F. Reynolds 1806; The elements of singing in the Italian and English styles 3 vols. 1809; The elements of singing familiarly explained 1813; Grand messa di gloria 1835; Sunday evening recreations 1840; Signor Lanza’s New method of teaching class singing 1843, and upwards of 30 pieces of music. d. London 12 March 1859. bur. Highgate cemet. His daughter Rosalie Lanza was a well known operatic singer.

LAPHAM, George. b. Bath 1804; assistant to William Hone, publisher 1822–5; publisher of The Examiner 1826 to death. d. 9 Wellington st. Strand, London 10 Oct. 1871.

LAPIDGE, Edward (son of Mr. Lapidge, chief gardener at Hampton Court palace). Architect in London; built bridge over the Thames at Kingston 1825–8, church of St. Peter, Hammersmith 1827–9, chapel of St. Andrew on Ham Common, Surrey 1832; competed for new houses of parliament 1836 and for Fitzwilliam museum Cambridge 1836; surveyor of bridges and public works for Surrey; F.I.B.A. d. March 1860.

LAPILETIERE, Frances Mary De (dau. of Hugh Goldicutt). b. Bury st. St. James’, London 27 Aug. 1788. (m. V. C. J. De Lapiletiere). d. at her residence, Worthing 3 Dec. 1891 in 104th year.

LAPORTE, George Henry (son of John Laporte, water-colour painter 1761–1839). Animal painter; exhibited 9 sporting subjects at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. gallery 1821–50; an original member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1831, where he also exhibited; some of his works were engraved in the New Sporting Mag.; animal painter to the king of Hanover. d. 13 Norfolk sq. Hyde park, London 23 Oct. 1873.

LAPPIN, James. b. 1824; partner with Job May and then with Richard A. Webster as stockbrokers, Liverpool; chairman of Liverpool stock exchange; a correspondent of The Times on forged transfers of railway stock; ran to catch his train and died in a carriage between Seaforth and Liverpool 25 Oct. 1890. bur. St. James’ cemet. 28 Oct. The Times 27 Oct. 1890 p. 10.

LAPWORTH, James. b. Warwick 1798; clerk in office of Gregory and Adlington, 1 Bedford row, London 1820–37; admitted attorney 1831; private sec. to Sir Wm. Follett 1837–46; clerk to the Home Office 1846–7; librarian to the Incorporated Law Society, Chancery lane, London, March 1847 to Dec. 1877 when he retired on pension of £300; compiled catalogues of the books in the library of the Law Society 1851 and 1869. d. 7 Blenheim road, Bedford park, London 21 June 1888.

LARBUSCH, Frederick. Claimed to have been b. London 9 March 1766, probably b. Germany 1786; ensign 60 foot 16 Nov. 1809; lieut. as F. Lahrbusch 29 Oct. 1810; known as F. De Lahrbusch 1815; cashiered in 1819 as lieut. De Lahrbush of 60 foot; resided in New York from 1848; entertained at a breakfast in New York to celebrate what he called his 107th birthday 9 March 1873. W. J. Thoms’ Longevity of man (1879) 207–24; Historical Mag. and American Notes and Queries, April 1867 pp. 211–12.

LARCOM, Sir Thomas Aiskew (2 son of Joseph Larcom 1764–1843, captain R.N.). b. 22 April 1801; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 June 1820, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1854 to 1 April 1858 when placed on retired full pay with rank of M.G.; assistant in the central organisation of the Irish ordnance survey at Mountjoy, Phœnix park near Dublin 1828–46; the beauty of his county maps of Ireland has never been exceeded; a census comr. in Ireland 1841; a comr. of public works in Ireland 1846; chief director of the public relief works 1846; deputy chairman of Irish board of works 1850; under sec. of state for Ireland Feb. 1853 to Nov. 1868; C.B. 5 March 1858, K.C.B. 19 June 1860; cr. baronet 7 Dec. 1868; P.C. Ireland 1868; edited Sir W. Petty’s The history of the survey of Ireland, for the Irish Archæological soc. 1851; Memoirs of life of Capt. Drummond, in Papers of Corps of Royal Engineers vol. 4 pp. ix–xxiv (1850) and Memoir of city of Londonderry, in Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1837. d. Heathfield, Fareham, Hants. 15 June 1879. Proc. of royal society, xxix 10–15 (1879).

LARDNER, Dionysius (son of Wm. O’B. Lardner of 88 Marlborough st. Dublin, solicitor, who d. 1808). b. Dublin 3 April 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1819, LLB. and LLD. 1827; took holy orders, chaplain of his college; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in London univ. 1827 to 1832; published the Cabinet Cyclopædia 133 vols. 1829–46, in which he wrote the treatises on hydrostatics and pneumatics, arithmetic and geometry; published Dr. Lardner’s Cabinet Library 9 vols. 1830–2; edited the Edinburgh Cabinet Library 38 vols. 1830–44; The Museum of science and art 12 vols. 1856; lectured in the United States and Cuba 1840–5, cleared £40,000; lived at Paris 1845 to death; Paris correspondent of Daily News; is satirised by Thackeray in his Miscellanies as Dionysius Diddler, and in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Doctor Diolesius Larner, Doctor Athanasius Lardner and Doctor Ignatius Loyola. d. Naples 29 April 1859. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 122–5, portrait; A.R. (1849) 289 and (1859) 446; The works of W. M. Thackeray, xii 404–14 (1869).

LARDNER, Leopold James. b. Holland 1816; private tutor in family of Jacob van Lennep poet in Holland many years; entered British Museum 1846 where he superintended the transcription of the catalogue of books extending to 300 volumes to his death; frequently employed by the Foreign Office in translating from the Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Danish; threw himself from the window of his residence 9 Cornwall villas, Kentish Town, London 27 Nov. 1855. Times 3 Dec. 1855 p. 6 col. 6.

LARKIN, Nathaniel John. b. London 5 Dec. 1781; the first sec. of society of civil engineers 1825; manufacturer of mathematical models at 29 Baker st. Spa Fields, London 1829; author of An essay on a mosaic pavement formed of right angled triangles of different colours 1818; An introduction to solid geometry 1820; The rudiments of linear, plane and solid geometry 1820. d. 21 Oct. 1855.

LARKING, John Wingfield (son of John Larking 1755–1838). b. Clare house 1801; English consul in Egypt; negotiated terms of peace between Mehemet Ali and the Sultan and probably prevented a war between France and England 1839; the first Englishman who acquired influence in Egypt, a favourite with Mehemet, Said and Ismail; received order of Medjidie; at his expense Dr. Henry Holman Drake re-wrote and published the Hundred of Blackheath, a portion of Hasted’s History of Kent 1886; resided at The Firs, Old road, Lee, Kent from 1858, d. there 18 May 1891. Times 21 May 1891 p. 7; Blackheath Local Guide 23 May 1891 pp. 10, 13.

LARKING, Lambert Blackwell (brother of the preceding). b. Clare house, East Malling, Kent 2 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton 1808–16 and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; founded University lodge of freemasons 1819; C. of East Peckham near Tunbridge 1820; V. of Ryarsh near Maidstone 14 April 1830 to death; V. of Burham near Rochester 28 Jany. 1837 to death; hon. sec. of Kent Archæological soc. 19 Sep. 1857 to 1861, vice pres. 1861; wrote many articles in the Archæologia Cantiana; member of council of Camden Soc. 1852 to death, ed. for the soc. Certain considerations upon the government of England by Sir R. Twysden 1849, The knights hospitallers 1857 and Proceedings in the county of Kent 1862; author of The late Thomas Streatfield 1861; A description of the heartshrine in Leybourne church 1864; with rev. T. Streatfield collected materials for a history of Kent, the first part called Hasted’s History of Kent corrected, enlarged and continued. Ed. by H. H. Drake Part 1 The hundred of Blackheath was published in 1886 with portrait of L. B. Larking. d. Ryarsh vicarage 2 Aug. 1868. Archæologia Cantiana, vii 323–29 (1868).

LARPENT, Sir George Gerard De Hochepied-, 1 Baronet (youngest son of John Larpent 1741–1824, inspector of plays). b. London 16 Feb. 1786; entered East India house of Cockerell and Larpent; took additional name of De Hochepied by r.l. 14 June 1819; chairman of Oriental and China Assoc.; deputy chairman of St. Katharine’s Docks co.; contested Ludlow, May 1840 and Nottingham, April 1841; M.P. Nottingham 28 June 1841 to July 1842; contested city of London 1847; created baronet 13 Oct. 1841; edited The Private Journals of Francis Seymour Larpent 3 vols. 1853, 3 ed. 1853; and Turkey, its history and progress by Sir J. Porter, continued to the present time 1854; author of Some remarks on the negotiations between the board of control and the East India Co. 1833. d. Conduit st. Regent st. London 8 March 1855.

LASCELLES, Edwin (4 son of 2 earl of Harewood 1767–1841). b. 25 Dec. 1799; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1822 to death; B.C.L. 1826, D.C.L. 1831; barrister I.T. 10 Feb. 1826; contested Northallerton, Yorkshire 1841; M.P. Ripon 1846–57; chairman of quarter sessions of West riding of Yorkshire to death. d. Wighill park near Wetherby, Yorkshire 25 April 1865.

LASCELLES, William Saunders Sebright (3 son of 2 earl of Harewood 1767–1841). b. 29 Oct. 1798; M.P. Northallerton 1820–26, 1831–32; M.P. East Looe 1826–30; M.P. Wakefield 1837–41, 1842–47; M.P. Knaresborough 1847 to death; P.C. 22 July 1847; comptroller of H.M.’s household 24 July 1847 to death. d. Bute house, Campden hill, Kensington 2 July 1851. G.M. xxxvi 193–4 (1851); I.L.N. xix 42 (1851).

LASLETT, William Emerson (only son of Thomas Emerson Laslett). b. 1801; solicitor at Worcester 1831–52; barrister I.T. 30 April 1856; practised at Worcester; M.P. Worcester city 1852–60 and 1868–74; contested East Worcestershire 1868 and 1874; gave 25 acres of land in Astwood road, Worcester for a public cemetery; founded by his will Laslett’s Almshouses 33 in number in Whiteladies’ close, Worcester; gave estates of 2,000 acres in Gloucestershire valued at £85,000 in trust for religious and charitable purposes. d. Abberton hall, Pershore 26 Jany. 1884. I.L.N. xxxii 561, 562 (1858), portrait.

LASSELL, William (son of Mr. Lassell of Bolton, d. 1810). b. Bolton 18 June 1799; apprenticed to a Liverpool merchant 1814–21; a brewer about 1825; commenced constructing reflecting telescopes 1820; built an observatory at Starfield near Liverpool, which he moved to Bradstones near there 1854; invented a new machine for grinding specula; member of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1839, pres. 1870–2, discovered the satellites of Uranus 10 Oct. 1846; received gold medal of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1849; the first to clearly ascertain composition of the Uranian system; mounted a four-foot reflecting telescope at Valetta in Malta 1861, worked there 3 years and catalogued 600 new nebulæ; set up a two-foot reflector at Ray lodge near Maidenhead 1865; F.R.S. 7 June 1849, royal medallist 1858; F.R.S. Edin.; hon. LL.D. Cambridge 1874; his specula have never been surpassed; ranks with sir Wm. Herschel and lord Rosse among the perfecters of the reflecting telescope. d. in his sleep at Ray Lodge, Maidenhead 5 Oct. 1880. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxi 7–10 (1881); Wallich’s Eminent men of the day (1870), portrait No. 13; Nature, xxii 565–6 (1880).

LAST, Edward. Ensign 90 foot 13 Oct. 1814; captain 99 foot 22 May 1829, major 18 Oct. 1839; lieut.-col. 21 foot 26 March 1858 to 21 Oct. 1859 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 5 Sep. 1865. d. East Malling near Maidstone 27 Jany. 1870.

LAST, Joseph William. b. 1809; printer at 3 Edward st. Hampstead road, London 1834–8; bankrupt 1 March 1839; printer at 3 Crane court, Fleet st. 1840–3, at 59 West Smithfield 1847–50, at 1 Pickett place, Strand 1851–2, at Savoy st. Strand 1861–3, at Heathcock court, 414 Strand 1866–9, at Prince’s st. Lincoln’s Inns Fields 1869–72; J. W. Last and Co. carried on business at last address 1873–7 and at Wych court, Wych st. 1877–80; printer and proprietor of a weekly paper entitled The Town, a journal of original essays, &c. 156 numbers 3 June 1837 to 23 May 1840; The Crown, another weekly paper 42 numbers 1 July 1838 to 14 April 1839; The Squib: a granulation of wit, satire and amusement 30 numbers 29 May to 17 Dec. 1842; printed Punch, first number published 17 July 1841, held a third share in it, which he sold to Ebenezer Landells 25 Sep. 1841; managing printer of Illustrated London News 1842; one of the first who executed illustrated works with a cylinder machine, and the first to print a six-sheet poster. d. last week of March 1880. Mr. Punch, his origin and career [1870] 13–32.

LATCHFORD, Benjamin. Bridle, bit, stirrup and spur maker to the Queen at 11 Upper St. Martin’s lane, London 1844. d. Walton on Naze 20 June 1886 aged 93.

LATEY, John Lash. b. Tiverton 14 June 1808; wrote in North Devon newspapers; contributed to Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper 1842; wrote in first number of Illust. London News 14 May 1842, editor 1858 to 31 Dec. 1890; author of The ballot 1839; The pattern book of letters for working people 1840. d. 11 North villas, Camden sq. London 6 Jany. 1891. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 224, portrait; I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p. 38, portrait.

LATHAM, Daniel. b. Buenos Ayres 1860; amateur actor in South America; studied acting in England under name of Veovide; engaged the first English dramatic company that ever appeared in the Argentine republic 1882, toured there for three seasons with his own companies 1882–4. d. St. Thomas’ hospital, London 29 Oct. 1885.

LATHAM, George William (2 son of John Latham of Bradwall hall, Cheshire 1787–1853). b. 4 May 1827; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; barrister I.T. 7 June 1852; contested Mid Cheshire, April 1880; M.P. Crewe division of Cheshire, Dec. 1885 to June 1886. d. Bradwall hall near Sandbach 4 Oct. 1886.

LATHAM, Henry (3 son of John Latham, physician 1761–1843). b. London 4 Nov. 1794; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; barrister L.I. 1820; V. of Selmerton with Alceston, Sussex 1833–47; V. of Fittleworth, Sussex 1847 to death; author of Harmonia Paulina 1837; Anthologia Davidica 1846; published Sertum Shakespearianum, subnexis aliquot inferioris notæ floribus. Oxford 1863, being translations from Shakespeare, Cowper and the prayer-book with ten original Latin poems; Black and white, a journal of a three months tour in the United States 1867. d. of cholera at Boulogne 6 Sep. 1866.

LATHAM, John (brother of preceding). b. Oxford 18 March 1787; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Brasenose coll. Oxf., won chancellor’s prize for Latin verse by a poem on Trafalgar 1806, fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1806–21; B.C.L. 1810, D.C.L. 1815; student at L.I. Dec. 1806; became blind so as not to be able to read from 1807; lived in Cheshire 1829 to death; author of a volume of poems published anonymously at Sandbach 1836 and of English and Latin poems, original and translated 1853. d. Bradwall hall 30 Jany. 1853. English and Latin poems by J. Latham (1853), memoir pp. i–xxxvi.

LATHAM, Peter Mere (brother of preceding). b. London 1 July 1789; ed. at Sandbach free sch., Macclesfield gr. sch. and Brasenose coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, M.B. 1814, M.D. 1816; inceptor candidate of R.C.P. 7 July 1815, candidate 30 Sep. 1817, fellow 30 Sep. 1818, censor 1820, 1833 and 1837, Gulstonian lecturer 1819, Lumleian lecturer 1827–28, Harveian orator 1839; phys. to Middlesex hosp. 1815 to Nov. 1824; phys. to St. Bartholomew’s hosp. 30 Nov. 1824 to Nov. 1841; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 8 Aug. 1837 to 1865; retired from practice to Torquay 1865; one of the last of the advocates of bleeding; author of An account of the disease prevalent in the general hospital 1825; Lectures on clinical medicine 1836; Lectures on clinical medicine, comprising diseases of the heart 2 vols. 1845–6; The collected works of P. M. Latham. Sydenham soc. 1876. d. Inglewood, Belgrave road, Torquay 20 July 1875. Munk’s College of physicians (1878) iii 185; St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports, vol. xi pp. xxv–xxxvi (1875).

LATHAM, Robert Gordon (eld. son of Thomas Latham, V. of Billingborough, Lincs.). b. Billingborough 24 March 1812; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow 1835; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, M.D. 1844; professor of English language and literature in University college, London 1839; L.R.C.P. 1842; lecturer on forensic medicine and materia medica at Middlesex hospital, assistant phys. 1844–9; director of ethnological department at Crystal Palace 1852; granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863; originated the idea that original home of Aryan race was not in Asia but in Europe; edited Todd Johnson’s A dictionary of the English language 2 vols. in 4 parts 1866–70; author of The English language 1841, 5 ed. 1862; A handbook of the English language 1851, 9 ed. 1875; Logic in its application to language 1856; Descriptive ethnology 2 vols. 1859; The ethnology of India 1859; Opuscula. Essays chiefly philological and ethnographical 1860; Elements of comparative philology 1862; The nationalities of Europe 2 vols. 1863; A defence of phonetic spelling 1872; Two dissertations on Hamlet 1872; Outlines of general philology 1878. d. Upper Richmond road, Putney 9 March 1888.

LATHAM, Samuel Metcalfe. Vice consul at Dover for Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Sweden and Norway from 10 to 30 years to Jany. 1879; foreign office passport agent at Dover 30 July 1858; received in Jany. 1879 the following distinctions, the rank of officer of Belgian order of Leopold, knighthood of Italian order of the Crown, of Belgian order of the Crown of Oak, and of order of Wasa of Sweden and Norway, also German order of the Red Eagle. d. 4 June 1886.

LATHBURY, Thomas (son of Henry Lathbury). b. Brackley, Northamptonshire 1798; ed. at St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; C. of Chatteris, Cambs.; C. of Mangotsfield, Gloucs. 1831–8; C. of the Abbey ch. Bath 1838–48; V. of St. Simon’s, Baptist Mills, Bristol 1848 to death; made a collection of printed Service Books 1845; author of A history of the English episcopacy from the period of the long parliament to the act of uniformity 1836; A history of the convocation of the Church of England 1842, 2 ed. 1853; A history of the nonjurors, their controversies and writings 1845; A history of the book of Common Prayer and other books of authority 1858; edited Jeremy Collier’s An ecclesiastical history of Great Britain with a life of the author 9 vols. 1852. d. 3 Cave st. Portland sq. Bristol 11 Feb. 1865.

LATIMER, John Paddon (eld. son of Isaac Latimer, newspaper proprietor, Plymouth). b. at Truro 1843; barrister M.T. 30 April 1869; one of parliamentary staff of The Times some years, and was war correspondent in the Baltic provinces during the Franco-German war 1870; edited Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Feb. 1878 to Feb. 1881; associated with his father and brother in conducting the Western Daily Mercury; deputy stip. mag. at West Ham 1884 to death. d. Glen View, Mannamead, Plymouth 22 May 1885 in 42 year.

LATIMER, Thomas. b. Bristol 9 Aug. 1803; apprentice to Thomas Davison, printer, Whitefriars, London; sec. London gymnastic soc.; reporter Devonshire Chronicle, Exeter 1827, to Plymouth Journal, to Exeter and Plymouth Gazette 1830; sub-editor Western Times 1831, editor and proprietor of Western Times, Exeter 183-, brought it out twice a week and then as a daily 1866; for many years denounced the practices of the Puseyite party, and defended a prosecution for libel brought against him by Henry Phillpotts bishop of Exeter at Exeter assizes 27 March 1848 when acquitted on plea of justification; presented with a service of plate by the Reform party 1840; started the Tiverton Times 1865; presented with a salver and 550 sovereigns by the Liberal party 1 Jany. 1868; transferred the Western Times to his son Hugh Latimer and son in law S. H. B. Glanville 1873. d. 143 Fore st. Exeter 5 Jany. 1888. I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 pp. 57, 58, portrait.

LATOUR, Henry Louis. With Henry Adams and Mr. Spurling ascended from Cremorne gardens on 27 June 1854, being seated on a parachute formed as a horse, a pair of wings on each side being attached to it, his feet rested on a treadwheel intended to move the wings, the parachute would not act and the balloon was lowered near Marsh-lane station, Eastern Counties railway when he was dashed against a tree, removed to Chasseraux Arms, Tottenham where he d. 5 July 1854. Times 11 July 1854 p. 12.

LATROBE, Charles Joseph (son of Christian Ignatius Latrobe, musical composer 1758–1836). b. London 20 March 1801; climbed many Swiss mountains alone 1824–6; travelled in America 1832–4; superintendent of Port Phillip district of New South Wales 30 Sep. 1839, lieut. governor of Victoria 27 Jany. 1851 to 5 May 1854; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; author of The Alpenstock, or sketches of Swiss scenery and manners 1829; The Pedestrian: a summer’s ramble in the Tyrol 1832; The Rambler in North America 2 vols. 1835; The Rambler in Mexico in 1836; The Solace of Song, short poems suggested by scenes in Italy 1837. d. Clapham house, Littlington near Eastbourne 4 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. xxiv 575, 576 (1854), portrait, xxvii 124 (1855).

LATROBE, John Antes (brother of preceding). b. London 1799; ed. at St. Edmund hall Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; C. of Melton Mowbray; C. of Tintern, Monmouth; P.C. of St. Thomas’s, Kendal 1840–65; hon. canon of Carlisle 1858 to death; author of The music of the church considered in its various branches, congregational and choral 1831; The chant, its character explained 1838; Scripture illustrations, a series of engravings 1838; Sacred lays and lyrics 1850. d. Gloucester 19 Nov. 1878.

LATROBE, Peter (brother of preceding). b. 1795; took orders in the Moravian church; secretary of the Unity of the Brethren in England 1836 to death; an organist and composer; wrote an Introduction on the progress of the Church Psalmody for an edition of the Moravian hymn tunes. d. Berthelsdorf near Herrnhut, Saxony 24 Sep. 1863.

LATTER, Henry Joseph. Engaged in bank of England till 1863; general manager of East London bank afterwards called Central bank of London 1863 to death. d. Goddendene, Farnborough, Kent 9 Jany. 1891.

LATTER, Robert James (3 son of Mr. Latter d. 30 June 1829). b. London 1783; midshipman 1794; entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. 8 Bengal N.I. 30 Oct. 1797, captain 21 Sep. 1804; major 30 Bengal N.I. 16 Dec. 1814, lieut.-col. 21 March 1819; lieut.-col. 66 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1824, col. 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. London 24 Feb. 1855. Memoir of general Latter. By Mrs. Baillie (1870), portrait.

LATTER, Thomas (son of Barré R. W. Latter, major 13 Bengal N.I.). b. India 1816; ensign 48 Bengal N.I. 12 Sep. 1836; lieut. 67 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1840 to death; chief interpreter to sir Henry Thomas Godwin in the second Burmese war; captain in the army 6 Feb. 1851; led the storming party against eastern entrance of the Shwé Dagon pagoda 14 April 1852; resident deputy comr. at Prome 30 Dec. 1852; author of A note on Boodhism and the cave temples of India 1844; A grammar of the language of Burmah 1845; murdered in his bed at Prome by the Burmese at 2 a.m. 8 Dec. 1853.

LAUDER, James Eckford (son of a tanner). b. Silvermills, Edinburgh 15 Aug. 1811; studied painting at the Trustees’ academy 1830–3; lived in Italy 1834–8; painter in Edinburgh 1838 to death; A.R.S.A. 1839, R.S.A. 1846, a regular contributor to its exhibitions from 1832; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. gallery 1841–53; his picture The Parable of Forgiveness gained a prize of £200 at Westminster Hall competition 1847; his picture Hagar is in the National Gallery of Scotland. d. Edinburgh 29 March 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. May 1869 p. 413.

LAUDER, Robert Scott (brother of the preceding). b. Silvermills, Edinburgh 25 June 1803; subject painter in Edinb. 1826–33; associate of Royal Institution, Edinb. 1828; member of Scottish academy 18 July 1829; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A. and 11 at B.I. 1827–49; studied in Italy 1833–8; resided in London 1838–52; the first pres. of National Institution of the fine arts, Portland gallery, Regent st.; principal teacher in drawing, academy of Board of Trustees, Edinb. Feb. 1852 to 1861; his greatest picture is the ‘Trial of Effie Deans’ 1840, now at Hospitalfields, Arbroath; several of his pictures with his bust in marble by John Hutcheson, R.S.A. are in National gallery of Scotland. d. 3 Wardie avenue, Ferry road, Edinburgh 21 April 1869, marble monument with medallion portrait erected over his grave at Edinb. Jany. 1872. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. June 1869 pp. 477–8; I.L.N. lx 52 (1872), portrait.

LAUDERDALE, Anthony Maitland, 10 Earl of (brother of the 9th Earl). b. 10 June 1785; entered navy 2 Oct. 1795; captain 25 Sep. 1806; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; K.C.M.G. 20 Feb. 1820; admiral 18 June 1857; M.P. Haddington burghs 1813–18, M.P. Berwickshire 1826–32; succeeded 22 Aug. 1860. d. Thirlestane castle 22 March 1863.

LAUDERDALE, Charles Barclay Maitland, 12 Earl of (only son of rev. Charles Maitland, R. of Little Lingford, Wilts., d. 1844). b. 29 Sep. 1822; in the army but name not in army list; a railway porter, a station master; succeeded his cousin 1 Sep. 1878; struck by lightning while shooting on his moor near Lauder, Berwickshire, removed to Braidshawrigg, Westruther, where he d. the same day 12 Aug. 1884. Annual Register (1885) 149–50.

LAUDERDALE, James Maitland, 9 Earl of (eld. son of 8 earl of Lauderdale 1759–1839). b. Wimpole st. London 12 May 1784; M.P. Camelford 1806–7, M.P. Richmond 1818–20, M.P. Appleby 1820–31; succeeded 15 Sep. 1839; lieutenant sheriff principal of Berwickshire 3 Nov. 1841 to death. d. Thirlestane castle, Berwickshire 22 Aug. 1860.

LAUDERDALE, Thomas Maitland, 11 Earl of (only son of hon. Wm. Mordaunt Maitland general in army, who d. 24 June 1841). b. Frankfort, co. Cork 3 Feb. 1803; entered navy 22 Sep. 1816; captain 10 Jany. 1837; C.B. 1841, K.C.B. 1865, G.C.B. 24 May 1873; knighted by patent 3 April 1843; naval A.D.C. to the Queen 2 Feb. 1855 to 18 June 1857; commander in chief on Pacific station 5 May 1860 to 31 Oct. 1862; succeeded his cousin as 11 Earl 22 March 1863; first and principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 22 Nov. 1866 to 8 Feb. 1873, assigned his pay of £300 a year as A.D.C. to Royal benevolent society Dec. 1866; admiral 8 April 1868; admiral of the fleet 27 Dec. 1877; lectured on The defence of the protected territories on the Gold Coast, at R. United Service Instit. 1873. d. Thirlestane castle, Berwickshire 1 Sep. 1878, personalty sworn under £466,000, 8 Feb. 1879.

LAUGHLIN, Frederick Hamilton. b. Dublin; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1866; C. of St. Peter, Saffron Hill, London 1867–72; a reader and preacher at the College of pensioners, Chelsea; an assistant librarian in British museum 1857–76. d. in an asylum, London 23 Aug. 1877.

LAURENCE, John. b. Crieff 1839; taught himself Latin and German; a superior shorthand writer; chief editor of the Bulletin, Glasgow; edited the Scottish Banner, a newspaper 1861; reporter for The Kilmarnock Standard 1865 to death. d. Langlands st. Kilmarnock 13 May 1866. bur. Crieff 18 May.

LAURENCE, John Zachariah. b. 1828 or 1829; studied at univ. coll. London; M.B. London 1857; F.R.C.S. 1855; surgeon of hospital for epilepsy and paralysis; ophthalmic surgeon St. Bartholomew’s hospital; in practice at 30 Devonshire st. Portland place, London; edited Ophthalmic Review 3 vols. 1864–67; author of The diagnosis of surgical cancer (Liston gold medal) 1855, 2 ed. 1858; Illustrations of the pathology of cancer 1856; The progress of ophthalmic surgery from the invention of the ophthalmoscope 1863; The optical defects of the eye and their consequences, asthenopia and strabismus 1865. d. 3 St. Peter’s sq. Hammersmith, Middlesex 18 July 1870.

LAURENCE, Robert French (5 son of John Laurence of Eltham, Kent). b. 2 April 1807; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1824–33; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; P.C. of Great and Little Hampton, Worcs. 17 April to 28 July 1832; V. of Chalgrave with chapel of Berwick, Oxon. 28 July 1832 to 1885; author of An order for the visitation of the sick 1851; An essay on confession, penance and absolution 1852; The churchman’s assistant at holy communion 1860. d. 1886.

LAURENCE, Samuel. b. Guildford, Surrey 1812; portrait painter; exhibited 90 pictures at R.A. and 14 at Suffolk st. 1834–79; great friend of James Spedding, G. H. Lewes and T. Leigh Hunt; visited U.S. of America 1854, stayed with Longfellow in Massachusetts. d. 6 Wells st. Oxford st. London 28 Feb. 1884.

LAURENT, Charles Emile. b. 1819; musician in London; member of Royal Soc. of musicians; converted the Royal Adelaide gallery of practical science, 7 Adelaide st. Strand, which had been opened in 1832, into Laurent’s Casino Royal 5 Oct. 1846 and was conductor there to May 1849; conductor at the Argyll Subscription rooms, Great Windmill st. Oct. 1849. d. 23 May 1857.

LAURENT, Henri (brother of preceding). b. 1827; operatic and vocal composer; published The Argyll galop 1857; H. Laurent’s Album of dance music 1858; A maiden’s blush waltz 1862 and upwards of 70 other pieces of dance music 1849–72. d. London 20 March 1861.

LAURI, Charles, stage name of Charles Lowe (eld. child of John Francis Lowe or Lauri d. 22 Jany. 1887 aged 77). b. 1833; at Sadler’s Wells with his brothers John and Frederick 1840; pantomimist and clown, one of the first to introduce the trap business being shot up from beneath the stage into the air; engaged at Drury Lane 1851; clown in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Harlequin and the golden goose, at Sadler’s Wells 26 Dec. 1860; appeared before the Queen at Her Majesty’s 14 Feb. 1861 as clown in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Harlequin and Tom Thumb; played clown at Sadler’s Wells 1861–2, Drury Lane 1863–8 and 1878; played clown at Wallack’s theatre, New York 7 June 1869, afterwards at Niblo’s Garden and the Tammany, New York; played in all the principal theatres in Great Britain and on the Continent; last appearance was at Grand theatre, Glasgow, Jany. 1888. d. of consumption, 128 Kennington park road, London 16 May 1889. Illust. Sporting News, ii 445 (1864), portrait, v 808 (1866), portrait; Illust. Sport and Dram. News, ii 268 (1874), portrait.

LAURI, John, stage name of John George Lowe (brother of the preceding). b. 1829; played harlequin at Her Majesty’s, Dec. 1860, at Princess’s, Dec. 1861 to 21 Feb. 1862, at Adelphi, Dec. 1862; played harlequin in New York with his brother 1869; a ballet master in London; his 2 daughters were dancers known as Stella and Luna. d. 14 Baker st. Clerkenwell, London 27 Sep. 1881.

LAURIE, James. Wine merchant 9 Billiter st. city of London 1833 to death; author of Tables of simple interest at 5, 4½ etc. per cent. 1831, 21 ed. 1861; Tables of simple interest at 5, 6 etc. per cent., also tables of commission 1842, 4 ed. 1854; Tables of exchange between Madeira and London 1844; Tables of exchange between Paris, Bourdeaux, &c. 1845; British and foreign share tables 1847; Manual of foreign exchange 1851, 5th thousand 1867; Universal exchange tables 1852; Decimal coinage 1854. d. 28 Aug. 1854.

LAURIE, John. b. 1792; entered Madras army 1809; ensign 9 Madras N.I. 29 July 1810, major 31 Oct. 1835 to 5 Aug. 1840; lieut.-col. 45 Madras N.I. 5 Aug. 1840 to 1845; lieut.-col. of 35 N.I. 1845–6, of 9 N.I. 1846–50, of 36 N.I. 1850 to 6 June 1851; col. of 1st European regiment 6 June 1851 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Llandulas, North Wales 20 July 1861.

LAURIE, John (son of Benjamin Snaddon of Barrowstown, co. Linlithgow, who m. Agnes dau. of John Laurie and took the name of Laurie 1824). b. Scotland 1797; merchant in London and government contractor; partner in Laurie and Marner, coach builders, Oxford st. London; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1845–6; M.P. Barnstaple 25 Aug. 1854 but unseated on petition; M.P. Barnstaple 1857–59; author of Voice of humanity a voice of mercy 1852. d. 2 Aug. 1864. I.L.N. xxxii 561, 562 (1858), portrait.

LAURIE, Sir Peter (son of John Laurie of Stichell, Roxburghshire, farmer). b. Stichell 1778 or 1779; a saddler at 296 Oxford st. London 1806; became a contractor for the Indian army, made his fortune, retired 1827; governor of the Union bank of London 1839 to death; sheriff of London 1823–4, alderman for Aldersgate ward 6 July 1826 to death, contested the mayoralty 1831, lord mayor 1832–3; knighted at Carlton house 7 April 1824; master of the Saddlers’ company 1833, in whose hall there is a portrait presented to him by the company 24 Feb. 1853; pres. of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals; author of Maxims 1833; Killing no murder, or the effects of separate confinement in prisons and gaols 1846; A letter on the disadvantages and extravagance of the separate system of prison discipline 1848. d. 7 Park square, Regent’s Park, London 3 Dec. 1861 aged 83. bur. Highgate cemetery 10 Dec. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters (1841) 120–53; I.L.N. ii 40 (1843), portrait.