LEIGH, Samuel. b. Milton, Staffs. 1 Sep. 1785; an Independent lay helper; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Shaftesbury 1812–13, at Montreal, Canada 1814–15, in New South Wales, Australia 10 Aug. 1815 to 1820 and 1826–31, first Methodist minister in Australia, held his first service Sydney 16 March 1816, his first convert being a convict; minister in New Zealand 1820–25 where he established the first Methodist station; in England 1832 to death. d. Reading 2 May 1852. A. Strachan’s Remarkable incidents in the life of rev. S. Leigh (1853), portrait; Leben und werken von Samuel Leigh. Bremen 1864; Jas. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand (1878) 272–7.

LEIGHTON, Alexander. b. Dundee 1800; clerk to a lawyer at Edinb.; Wilson’s Tales of the borders. Revised by A. Leighton 20 vols. 1857–9, New ed. with 4 additional volumes 6 vols. 1863–69; author of Curious storied traditions of Scottish life, two series 1860–1; The court of Cacus or the story of Burke and Hare 2 ed. 1861; Mysterious legends of Edinburgh 1864; Shellburn 1865, a tale; Romances of the old town of Edinburgh 1867. d. 24 Dec. 1874.

LEIGHTON, Sir Baldwin, (7 Baronet). b. Sunderland 14 May 1805; ed. Rugby; succeeded 13 Nov. 1828; chairman of quarter sessions, Salop, Dec. 1855; M.P. South Salop 1859–65; contested South Salop 15 July 1865. d. Morton hall, Daventry 26 Feb. 1871. I.L.N. lviii 250, 619 (1871).

LEIGHTON, Charles Blair (son of Stephen Leighton). b. 6 March 1823; apprenticed to a silver-engraver 1837–44; a student of the R.A.; painted portraits and figure pieces; a chromolithographer with his brother George Cargill Leighton. d. 6 Feb. 1855.

LEIGHTON, Sir David (son of Thomas Leighton of Brechin, Forfarshire). b. 1774; entered Bombay army 1795; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I., lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1813 to 1818; adjutant of the 2nd battalion 7 July 1800 to 12 Oct. 1802; lieut.-col. 9 Bombay N.I. 1818–1821; adjutant general Bombay army 1817 to 1826; commanded Presidency division 1826 to 1831; lieut.-col. commandant 7 N.I. 4 July 1821, col. 5 June 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 23 July 1823, K.C.B. 10 March 1837. d. Bafford house, Charlton Kings near Cheltenham 1 June 1860.

LEIGHTON, Francis Knyvett (only son of Francis K. Leighton of Ipswich). b. 1807; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., demy of Magdalen 1823–9; fellow of All Souls’ 1829–43; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1858; P.C. of Great Ilford, Essex 1836–41; R. of Harpsden 1841–58; R. of Lockinge and Warden of All Souls’ 18 March 1858 to death; V.C. of univ. of Oxf. 1866–70; canon of Westminster 11 Nov. 1868 to death; on the council of Keble coll. 1871–80; author of Montes Pyrenæi, carmen Latinum, in theatro Sheldoniano recitatum 1826. d. All Souls’ college 13 Oct. 1881. bur. college chapel 18 Oct., portrait by Richmond in the college hall. J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen College, vii 290–1 (1881).

LEIGHTON, Robert (son of David L. Leighton d. 1828). b. Murray gate, Dundee 20 Feb. 1822; in a merchant’s office in Dundee; went round the world as a supercargo in one of his brother’s ships 1842–3; clerk in locomotive department of London and North-Western railway at Preston 1843–54; managed at Ayr a branch business of a firm of Liverpool seed merchants 1854–59, after that in the Liverpool house and travelled for the firm in Great Britain and Ireland 1859–67; author of Rhymes and poems, By Robin 1855, 2 ed. 1861; Poems 1866, 2 ed. 1869; Scotch words and the Bapteesement o’ the bairn 1869, 3 ed. 1869; Reuben and other poems 1875; Records and other poems 1880. d. Liverpool 10 May 1869. J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland, ii 432–37 (1877); Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 327.

LEIGHTON, Robert (son of Archibald Leighton a bookbinder at 55 Exmouth st. Clerkenwell and the inventor of cloth binding 1822, d. 1841). b. London 1822; apprentice to his father; head of firm of Leighton and Eeles, bookbinders 54 and 55 Exmouth st. 1841, business removed to Angel court, Strand, then to Harp alley and to 13 Shoe lane; W. Hodge became a partner 1853 and R. Leighton junr. in 1885; removed to 16 New st. sq. 1870, firm became Leighton, Son and Hodge, the first to use steam machinery in binding; invented the backing and trimming machine; the first to use steam power for blocking in gold and to use aluminium and black and coloured inks for cloth cases; invented printing on the edges of books; the chief binders of drawing room table books. d. Oakdale road, Coventry park, Streatham 14 Dec. 1888. The Bookseller, Jany. 1889 p. 8.

LEIGHTON, Thomas. Entered Bombay army 1807; ensign 7 Bombay N.I. 5 Nov. 1808, lieut. 1 Jany. 1814; captain 14 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 29 Sep. 1832 to 28 June 1838; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 28 June 1838 to 1841, of 12 N.I. 1841 to 1843, of 26 N.I. 1843–45, of 2 N.I. 1845–46, of 1 N.I. 1846–8, of 21 N.I. 1848–9; commandant at Candeish 4 Feb. 1848 to 1 Oct. 1849; col. of 2 N.I. 20 Sep. 1849 to death. d. Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Feb. 1855.

LEIGHTON, William (son of David Leighton a master baker). b. Dundee 3 Feb. 1841; taken to Liverpool 1847; clerk to a Spanish merchant 1854; employed in a Brazilian house 1864 to death; contributed poems to The Compass a local literary paper, and to the Liverpool Mercury; author of Poems 1870, 2 ed. 1870; Hymns 1871; Baby died to-day and other poems 1875. d. of typhoid fever 22 April 1869. bur. Anfield cemetery, Liverpool, memorial window in St. Ann’s church, Brookfield, Highgate Rise, London. Poems by the late William Leighton (1870), memoir pp. v–vi; Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 325.

LEIGHTON, William Allport (only son of Wm. Leighton, landlord of the Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury). b. Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury 17 May 1805; articled to a solicitor in Shrewsbury 1822; studied at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1833; C. of St. Giles’s, Shrewsbury 1845–8; gave his collection of lichens to Kew Gardens 1880; author of Catalogue of the cellulares or flowerless plants of Great Britain 1837; A flora of Shropshire 1841; A guide through the town of Shrewsbury 1855; The lichen-flora of Great Britain 1871, 2 ed. 1872; Wanderings among old churches in neighbourhood of Rhyl 1881. d. Lucifelde, Shrewsbury 28 Feb. 1889.

LEINSTER, Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald 3 Duke of (eld. son of 2 duke of Leinster 1749–1804). b. Carton house, Maynooth 21 Aug. 1791; styled marquess of Kildare 1791–1804; succeeded his father 20 Oct. 1804; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 Oct. 1810; P.C. Ireland 9 May 1831; P.C. 29 June 1831; lord high constable of Ireland for coronations of William IV. and Victoria; lord lieut. of co. Kildare 7 Oct. 1831 to death; grand master of Irish grand lodge of freemasons 24 June 1813 to death; president of National Agricultural Soc. 1841; a resident landlord who much improved his estate, the Leinster lease was a well known document; his masonic jubilee was celebrated 24 June 1863; premier duke, marquess and earl of Ireland. d. Carton house 10 Oct. 1874. Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxiv 42–57 (1874), portrait; I.L.N. lxv 369, 378 (1874), portrait; Graphic, x 391 (1874), portrait.

LEINSTER, Charles William Fitzgerald, 4 Duke of (son of the preceding). b. Dublin 30 March 1819; styled marquess of Kildare 1819–74; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1852; comr. of national education in Ireland 1841; sheriff co. Kildare 1842–3; M.P. co. Kildare 1847–52; lieut.-col. royal Dublin militia 1849–72, hon. col. 11 May 1872 to death; summoned to parliament as baron Kildare 28 April 1870; chancellor of Queen’s univ. Ireland 1870; succeeded as 4 duke 10 Oct. 1874; author of The earls of Kildare and their ancestors 2 ed. with Addenda. Dublin 1858–62, 3 ed. 1858. d. Carton, Maynooth 10 Feb. 1887. I.L.N. xviii 105, 106 (1851), portrait.

LEISHMAN, Matthew (son of a manufacturer). b. Paisley; presbyterian minister at Goran, Oct. 1820; a leader of the party termed The Forty 1839; D.D. Glasgow 18 Dec. 1840; moderator of general assembly 20 May 1858; edited for Maitland club, R. Wodrow’s Collections upon the lives of the reformers 2 vols. 1834 and R. Wodrow’s Analecta, a history of remarkable providences 2 vols. 1842; The works of A. Binning 1847. Scott’s Fasti vol. 2, part 1, p. 70; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 300–306.

LEITCH, William. b. Rothesay, Isle of Bute 1814; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A. 1836; licensed preacher in Church of Scotland 1838; minister of Monimail 1843–59; principal of the univ. of Queen’s coll. Canada 1859 to death, assist. to professor Nichol in univ. observatory; moderator of the synod of the church of Scotland, Canada 1862; a senator and an examiner in the univ. Toronto; president of Botanical Soc. of Canada and a writer in its Transactions 1861; a contributor to Kitto’s Journal of Sacred Literature, Good Words and other periodicals; author of God’s glory in the heavens 1862, 3 ed. 1866. d. Kingston, Upper Canada 9 May 1864. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 221.

LEITCH, William Leighton. b. The Townhead, Glasgow 2 Nov. 1804; a weaver 1819, a house painter; scene painter at theatre royal, Glasgow, Aug. 1824 at 20s. a week; spent 2 years at Mauchline painting snuffboxes; scene painter at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st. London to 1832; studied and taught painting in Italy 1833–7; a successful teacher in London from 1837; drawing master to the queen and royal family from 1842 for 22 years; last of the great English teachers of landscape painting; member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1862, vice pres. to death, a collection of his works was exhibited at their rooms Piccadilly 1883; exhibited 11 pictures at R. A., 2 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; his sketches with a few drawings and oil pictures were sold at Christie’s, March 1884 for £9,000; illustrated G. N. Wright’s The Rhine, Italy and Greece 1840; G. N. Wright’s The shores of the Mediterranean 1840; J. Sherer’s The classic lands of Europe 1879. d. 124 Alexandra road, St. John’s Wood, London 25 April 1883. Graphic, xxvii 604 (1883), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxii 432 (1883), portrait; Mac George’s W. L. Leitch, a memoir (1884), portrait.

LEITH, Sir Alexander (eld. son of Alexander Leith of Freefield, co. Aberdeen, d. 1828). b. Cobardie, Forgue, Aberdeenshire 1774; ensign 42 foot 8 Aug. 1792; captain 109 foot 1794; captain 31 foot 1795, lieut.-col. 7 Feb. 1811 to 25 May 1815 when placed on h.p.; commanded 31 foot at battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive and Orthes; colonel 90 foot 2 Sep. 1841 to 14 June 1853; colonel 31 foot 14 June 1853 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815. d. Freefield, co. Aberdeen 19 Feb. 1859.

LEITH, Edward Tyrrell (2 son of John Farley Leith, Q.C.) b. Calcutta 12 March 1842; ed. in Germany and Trin. coll. Camb. 1869; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1866; practised at Bombay 1867–85; professor of law at government law school, Bombay 1869–85; lived at Stuttgart, Germany 1886 to death; gave much attention to ethnological studies and contributed to various papers The funeral rites of the Parsees; The religion of the Non-Aryan races of India; The primitive disposal of the dead by exposure; Cannibalism in India; and The dog in myth and custom; author of Divination by Házirát among the Indian Mussulmáns 1886. d. Heidelberg 10 Dec. 1888. Law Times, lxxxvi 167, 230 (1889).

LEITH, Harry. b. 1796; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1817; presbyterian minister at Cornwall, Upper Canada 6 June 1822; minister of Rothiemay 23 May 1827 to death; took part with the minority in the dispute regarding the presentation to Marnoch and was rebuked at the bar of the supreme civil court 26 May 1843 for breach of interdict and fined £5 and expenses. d. Rothiemay 20 Aug. 1854. Scott’s Fasti, vol. 3, part 1, p. 216.

LEITH, James (son of sir Alexander Leith). b. 1827; cornet 14 hussars 4 May 1849, lieut. 1853; captain 2 dragoons 1859, placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1861; served in Persian campaign 1857, at suppression of mutiny at Aurungabad, with Malwa field force at siege of Dhar, and at advance on Calpee; at Betwah 1 April 1858 charged alone and rescued Capt. Need from the rebel infantry for which he was awarded Victoria cross 24 Dec. 1858; gentleman at arms 5 May 1863 to death. d. Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 13 May 1869.

LEITH, John (2 son of general Alexander Leith Hay). b. Leith hall, co. Aberdeen; entered navy 11 June 1803; captain 11 Nov. 1825; commander of the Seringapatam 46 guns and in charge of the Barbadoes station 6 Feb. 1837 to July 1841; R.A. 11 Feb. 1854. d. 25 Oct. 1854. O’Byrne p. 647.

LEITH, John Farley (eld. son of James Urquhart Murray Leith, capt. 68 regt., killed at Orthes 1814). b. Aberdeen 5 May 1808; ed. at gr. sch., Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 7 May 1874 to death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1872; advocate in supreme court at Calcutta 1840–9; professor of law East India college, Haileybury 1853–7 or 8; practised before judicial committee of P.C.; contested city of Aberdeen 2 April 1857; M.P. city of Aberdeen 1872–80. d. 8 Dorset sq. Marylebone, London 4 April 1887. Law Times, lxxxii 479 (1887).

LEITH, John Macdonald. b. 26 Dec. 1839; ed. at Cheltenham; ensign 79 highlanders 17 March 1854, lieut.-col. 1 July 1881, placed on h.p. 1 July 1885; brevet colonel 31 Dec. 1882; served in Egypt 1882; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. d. Gibraltar 22 May 1888.

LEITH, Robert William Disney (2 son of sir Alexander Leith 1774–1859). b. Glenkindy, Aberdeenshire 28 Feb. 1819; ensign 1 Bombay European fusiliers 4 Sep. 1837; served in Persian gulf 1838–41, in the Punjaub 1848–9, led storming party at capture of Mooltan 1849; adjutant March to Aug. 1846; A.A.G. Bombay 1855–59; lieut.-col. 106 foot 1 Jany. 1862, on h.p. 29 May 1866, lieut. general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Northcourt, Isle of Wight 20 June 1892.

LEITRIM, Nathaniel Clements, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 Earl of Leitrim 1732–1804). b. Dublin 9 May 1768; known as viscount Clements 1783–1804; M.P. Carrick 1790–7; M.P. Leitrim 1798–1800; M.P. Leitrim in first parliament of United Kingdom 1801–4; succeeded 27 July 1804; lord lieut. of Leitrim 1831 to death; cr. baron Clements of Kilmacrenan, co. Donegal in peerage of U.K. 20 June 1831; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland; col. of Donegal militia. d. Killadoon, co. Kildare 31 Dec. 1854.

LEITRIM, William Sydney Clements, 3 Earl of (2 son of the preceding). b. Dublin 1806; known as viscount Clements 1804–54; ensign 43 foot 9 Dec. 1824, captain 5 April 1831; placed on h.p. 20 March 1835; sold his commission 20 June 1854; M.P. Leitrim 1839–47; col. of Leitrim militia 1843; succeeded 31 Dec. 1854; a magistrate for Galway, Leitrim and Donegal, superseded Oct. 1863; gave orders to the manager of the hotel at Maam a tenant of his own, to refuse admission to the earl of Carlisle, the lord lieutenant, which was done accordingly; a severe landlord who evicted many of his tenants; while driving on a car with a clerk and a driver, shot dead at Cratlaghwood near Milford, co. Donegal 2 April 1878, the driver and the clerk being also killed. Graphic, xvii 364 (1878), portrait; I.L.N. lxxii 329 (1878), portrait; A.R. 1878 pp. 35–36.

LE KEUX, Henry (son of Peter Le Keux of Bishopsgate, London, pewter manufacturer). b. 13 June 1787; apprenticed to James Basire, engraver, worked for him on the Oxford almanacs and on the plates for Society of Antiquaries; engraved for the Annals 1820–40; member of Associated Society of Engravers, engraved for the Soc. some pictures by Claude and Canaletto in the national gallery; joined in starting a crape manufactory at Bocking in Essex about 1838; engraved views for Specimens of the architecture of Normandy by J. Britton 1873; author with J. Le Keux of Historical essays, a series of architectural antiquities of Normandy 1828. d. Bocking 3 Oct. 1868. bur. Halstead, Essex.

LEMAITRE, Paul Thomas. b. 1776; a gold watch case maker at 13 Denmark st. Soho; arrested 27 Sep. 1794 for treasonable practices as being a delegate of the London Corresponding Society, in connection with John Smith of the Pop Gun, Portsmouth st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, to assassinate George the Third by means of a poisoned arrow; examined by the Privy Council 28–30 Sep.; the first person sent to the new prison at Cold Bath Fields, confined there 32 weeks, liberated 9 May 1795 on giving bail for £50, tried at the Old Bailey 11 May 1796 and discharged; his case was for many years before parliament; Henry Warburton, M.P. got a petition drawn up for him in Aug. 1846. High treason. Narrative of the arrest of P. T. Lemaitre 2 ed. (1795).

LEMAN, James. b. 1794; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1819 to death; member of council of incorporated law society 19 June 1851 to 1869, vice pres. 1862–3, pres. 1863–64. d. 29 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 9 April 1876. Solicitors’ Journal, xx 492 (1876).

LEMANN, Charles Morgan. b. London 1806; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1828, M.D. 1833; Fellow Linnean soc. 1831; F.C.P. Lond. 1836; physician to lord Warwick’s family in Italy 1834–5; formed an herbarium of plants from Spain, Italy, America, Brazil, Guinea, the Cape and Australia consisting of 30,000 specimens, which was given by his brother Frederick Lemann to the university of Cambridge. d. Bathampton near Bath 26 Aug. 1852. Proc. of Linnean Soc. ii 234–5 (1855).

LE MARCHANT, Sir Denis, 1 Baronet (2 son of John Gaspard Le Marchant, major general 1766–1812). b. Newcastle 3 July 1795; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; chief sec. to lord chancellor Brougham 1830–34; clerk of the crown in chancery 30 July 1834 to 1836; sec. to board of trade 1836–40 and 1848–50; joint sec. to the treasury 19 June 1841 to 21 May 1844; baronet 14 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Worcester 1846 to 1847; under sec. of state for home department 1847–8; chief clerk to house of commons 30 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1871; author of Report of the proceedings of the house of lords in the claim to the barony of Gardner 1828; The reform ministry and the reform parliament 1834, nine editions; Memoirs of general Le Marchant 1841, privately printed 90 copies; Memoirs of John Charles, viscount Althorp 1876; edited Horace Walpole’s Memoirs of the reign of George III. with notes 1845. d. 21 Belgrave road, London 30 Oct. 1874. I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1851, portrait, lxv 475, 489 (1874) portrait, lxvi 187 (1875); Law Times 7 Nov. 1874 p. 17.

LE MARCHANT, Sir John Gaspard (brother of the preceding). b. 1803; ensign 10 foot 26 Oct. 1820; lieut. 57 foot 1821, captain 1825; captain 98 foot 1826, major 1832–5; adjutant general to Anglo-Spanish legion and brigadier general in the Spanish army 1835–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838 for his service in Spain; permitted to wear Spanish decorations of San Fernando and Charles III.; lieut.-col. 99 foot 18 Oct. 1839 to 27 Sep. 1842; inspecting field officer recruiting district South of Ireland 1842–6; lieut. col. of 85 foot 19 June 1846 to 29 Dec. 1846; lieut. governor of Newfoundland 1846–52 and of Nova Scotia 1852–57; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1859 to 15 Nov. 1864; commander-in-chief at Madras 25 May 1865 to 8 Nov. 1867; col. of 11 foot 3 Sep. 1862 to death; general 6 May 1872; G.C.M.G. 1860; K.C.B. 9 Oct. 1865. d. 80 St. George’s square, London 6 Feb. 1874.

LE MESSURIER, Alexander Peter. b. 1797 or 1798; entered Bombay army 1819; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 8 Oct. 1839, lieut.-col. 1 Dec. 1851 to 28 Nov. 1854; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I. 28 Nov. 1854 to 1856, of 10 N.I. 1856–7, of 12 N.I. 1857–60, of 10 N.I. again 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with rank of M.G. d. 5 Inverness place, Hyde park, London 17 Feb. 1876.

LE MESSURIER, Augustus Smith. b. 1800; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1821; practised with great success at Bombay 30 years; advocate general of presidency of Bombay 1847 to 1857 when he returned to England. d. 50 Upper Baker st. Portman square, London 8 Dec. 1876. Solicitors’ Journal 16 Dec. 1876 p. 132.

LE MESSURIER, George Paul. Entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 2 Bombay N.I. 4 Jany. 1819; captain 14 N.I. 22 July 1826, major 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 March 1846; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 1846–8, of 24 N.I. 1848–9, of 22 N.I. 1849 to death. d. Wimpole st. London 6 Feb. 1852.

LEMOINNE, John Emile. b. London 17 Oct. 1815, and first educated in England; joined staff of the Journal des Débats 1840, with which paper he remained to his death; member of French academy 13 May 1875; a life senator 23 Feb. 1880; author of Wellington from a French point of view 1852; Etudes critiques et biographiques 1862; and of Letters of J. Lemoinne on the exhibition of 1851, in D. Lardner’s The Great exhibition 1852. d. Paris 14 Dec. 1892. The Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p. 14, portrait.

LEMON, Sir Charles, 2 Baronet (3 son of sir Wm. Lemon 1748–1824). b. Whitehall, London 30 Sep. 1784; ed. Harrow; M.A. of Camb. univ. 1833; M.P. Penryn 1807–12, and 1830–31; M.P. Cornwall 1831–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832–41 and 1842–57; F.R.S. 23 May 1822; a founder of Statistical soc. 1834, and a trustee 1838; president R. Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1833 to death; president R. Geological soc. of Cornwall 1840–50; provincial grand master of freemasons of Cornwall 1843–63; a commissioner for enquiring into state of British museum 11 June 1847; special deputy warden of the Stannaries 1852; made a collection of exotic trees and shrubs at Carclew; author of On the proposed tariff as it affects tin, copper and timber used in mines 1842, and other pamphlets. d. Carclew near Penryn, Cornwall 12 Feb. 1868. bur. Mylor ch. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 314–15, 1267.

LEMON, Mark (eld. son of Martin Lemon, hop merchant, who m. 27 Dec. 1808 Alice Collis and d. 21 Jany. 1818 aged 32). b. Oxford st. London 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; learnt business of a hop merchant from his uncle Thomas Collis of Boston, Lincoln 1824; manager of Verey’s brewery, Kentish Town, London; retailer of beer at 24 Lambeth Walk, Vauxhall 1837–41; his first play, P.L. or No. 30 Strand, was produced at Strand theatre 25 April 1835; his 5 act drama in blank verse Arnold of Winkelried produced at Surrey theatre, July 1835; The Avenge produced at City of London theatre opening night 27 April 1837; his 5 act play The Turf produced at Covent Garden 1842; Hearts are trumps, at Strand theatre 1849; wrote about 60 plays; lived at 11 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 1852–9; contributed to Household Works, Once a Week, &c.; edited The London Journal 1858–9, The Family Herald, Once a Week; started The Field 1 Jany. 1853, edited it; secretary to Herbert Ingram founder of Illustrated London News, for which he wrote the first Christmas supplement; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner with Henry Mayhew of a third share in it, edited it to his death, at a salary originally 30/-a week and latterly £1500 per annum; an amateur actor from 1845; gave a series of lectures called About London, at Gallery of Illustration 6 Jany. 1862 to 1863; arranged and played chief part in a series of scenes from the Merry Wives of Windsor entitled Falstaff, at Gallery of Illustration, Regent st. from 12 Oct. 1868, and in North of England and Scotland 1868–9; author of The enchanted doll 1849 and other fairy tales; also of Wait for the end 3 vols. 1863 and other novels and about 100 songs. (m. 28 Sep. 1839 Helen dau. of John Romer of Upper Chelsea, jeweller, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 3 May 1872 and d. Nov. 1890). He d. Vine cottage, Crawley, Sussex 23 May 1870. bur. Ifield 27 May. Illustrated Rev. 15 Feb. 1872 pp. 481–88, portrait; J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 49–60; Appleton’s Journal, viii 493–5, portrait; E. Walford’s Representative men (1868), portrait; J. Hatton’s With a show in the north. Reminiscences of Mark Lemon (1871), portrait; The Mask (1868) 65–7, portrait; I.L.N. vii 348 (1845), portrait.

LEMON, Robert (son of Robert Lemon, archivist 1779–1835). b. 1800; employed in state paper office under his father, senior clerk Nov. 1835; compiled indexes to Valor ecclesiasticus temp. Hen. VIII. 1834; suggested publishing the Calendars of state papers and interpreted a cypher which had rendered many of them unintelligible; edited Calendars of state papers Domestic series 1547–90, 2 vols. 1856–65; F.S.A. 3 March 1836, rearranged the society’s library 1846; author of Catalogue of a collection of broadsides 1866. d. 10 Ovington sq. Brompton, London 3 Jany. 1867. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. iii 481–2 (1867).

LEMON, Thomas (1 son of Thomas Lemon, lieut.-col. R.M. d. 4 Aug. 1856). b. St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester 22 June 1807; 2 lieut. R.M. 8 Oct. 1827; col. commandant 6 March 1862 to death; L.G. 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 20 May 1859. d. Plymouth 22 Feb. 1875.

LEMPRIERE, George Ourry. b. 11 March 1787; captain R.N. 27 May 1825; retired admiral 3 Dec. 1863. d. Pelham, Hants. 16 Jany. 1864.

LENDRICK, James William John. b. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist and Law’s mathematical prizeman 1810; B. A. 1810, M.A. 1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 16 June 1859; chairman of quarter sessions for counties of Londonderry and Wicklow nearly 34 years. d. 114 Pembroke road, Dublin 19 Jany. 1872. Irish Law Times 27 Jany. 1872 p. 47.

LENDY, Auguste Frederic. b. 1826; captain of the French army staff; came to England as military tutor to the Orlean princes 1848; started a private military college at Sunbury house, Sunbury-on-Thames; a successful ‘crammer’ for the army; lieut. 4th or royal South Middlesex militia 24 Nov. 1862, captain 2 May 1866, retired with hon. rank of major 1 Feb. 1879; an amateur grower of orchids; author of The principles of war 1853; Elements of fortification 1857; Maxims, advice and instruction on the art of war 1857, new ed. 1864; Campaigns of Napoleon and of Wellington 1861, nineteen parts; A practical course of military surveying 1864. d. Riverside house, Sunbury-on-Thames 10 Oct. 1889. Broad Arrow 19 Oct. 1889 p. 479; Gardener’s Mag. 19 Oct. 1889.

LENNARD, Thomas Barrett (1 son of sir T. B. Lennard, bart. 1761–1857). b. 4 Oct. 1788; ed. Charterhouse and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; M.P. Ipswich 1820–6; M.P. Maldon 1826–37 and 1847–52; contested Maldon 26 July 1837; F.S.A. 22 May 1851. d. Brighton 9 June 1856.

LENNIE, William. b. 1779; taught English at Edinburgh 1802 to death; author of The principles of English grammar 1821, 85th ed. Edinb. 1886; left an endowment of £10 a year to a school at Craigend, Perthshire; left by his will to town council of Edinburgh the lands of Auchenresch, Dumfriesshire for founding in univ. of Edinb. four bursaries of £12 each to be called the Lennie bursaries. d. 23 St. Andrew’s sq. Edinburgh 20 July 1852.

LENNOCK, George Gustavus. b. 1776 or 1777; entered navy April 1789; in command of the Raven 16 guns attacked 14 brigs at Flushing and drove 3 of them on shore 3 July 1812; captain 4 June 1814; in command of the Esk 20 guns had an action with the Grampus and Terpsichore two American vessels 1814; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Broomrig, co. Dumfries 12 May 1866.

LENNOX, Alexander Francis Charles Gordon (son of 5 duke of Richmond 1791–1860). b. 14 June 1825; cornet royal horse guards 8 Feb. 1842, capt. 30 March 1847, sold out 14 May 1852; M.P. Shoreham 1849–59. d. 25 Pont st. London 22 Jany. 1892.

LENNOX, Arthur Gordon (7 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819). b. 2 Oct. 1806; ensign 71 foot 24 June 1823, major 6 July 1838 to 14 April 1843; lieut.-col. 72 foot 14 April 1843, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1845; lieut.-col. 68 foot 14 Sep. 1852, sold out 30 Dec. 1853; a lord of the treasury 21 May 1844 to 8 Aug. 1845; a clerk of the ordnance 7 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; M.P. for Chichester 1831–46 when he voted for free trade and accepted the Chiltern hundreds; returned for Yarmouth 29 July 1847, unseated on petition 8 July 1848; lieut.-col. commandant 1 royal Sussex militia 14 Dec. 1854 to death. d. Ovington sq. Brompton, London 15 Jany. 1864.

LENNOX, George Charles Gordon (4 son of 5 duke of Richmond 1791–1860). b. Goodwood 22 Oct. 1829; cornet royal horse guards 3 April 1846, lieut. 14 May 1852, sold out 22 April 1853; M.P. Lymington 1860–74. d. 27 Berkeley square, London 27 Feb. 1877.

LENNOX, Henry George Charles Gordon (brother of the preceding). b. Goodwood, Sussex 2 Nov. 1821; ed. at Westminster 1836–40 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; M.P. Chichester 1846–85; a lord of the treasury 28 Feb. 1852 to 20 Dec. 1852 and 1 March 1858 to 14 March 1859; sec. to admiralty July 1866 to Dec. 1868; P.C. 7 July 1874; president of board of works Feb. 1874 to July 1876; author of A winter in Madeira 1881; Forewarned, forearmed, a statement of the strength of the English and French navies 1882, 2 ed. 1882. d. at his res. near Chichester 28 Aug. 1886.

LENNOX, John George Gordon (2 son of 4 duke of Richmond. 1764–1819). b. 3 Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster; cornet 13 dragoons 24 Oct. 1811; captain 9 dragoons 27 June 1816, placed on h.p. 25 June 1823; A.D.C. to duke of Wellington 1813; lieut.-col. in the army 12 June 1823; gentleman of bedchamber to prince Albert; M.P. Chichester 1819–31; M.P. Sussex 1831–2; M.P. West Sussex 1832–41. d. Darland, Chatham 10 Nov. 1873. I.L.N. lxiii 495 (1873).

LENNOX, William George. b. 1797 or 1798; entered Bengal army 1817; ensign 22 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1818; captain 43 N.I. 23 April 1830, major 11 Nov. 1847 to 14 July 1853; lieut.-col. of 67 N.I. 14 July 1853–4, of 38 N.I. 1854–6, of 22 N.I. 1856–7, of 34 N.I. 1857–9, of 63 N.I. 1859–61, of 9 N.I. 1861; retired with rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Glasgow 5 May 1884.

LENNOX, William Pitt (4 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819). b. Winestead abbey, Yorkshire 20 Sep. 1799; ed. at Westminster 1808–13; cornet royal horse guards 13 May 1813, captain 28 March 1822, sold out 25 March 1829; went to Paris with Duke of Wellington as attaché 8 Aug. 1814, A.D.C. to the Duke 1815–8; an extra A.D.C. to his father while governor general of Canada 1818–9; one of the pages at coronation of George IV. 19 July 1821; M.P. King’s Lynn 10 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; edited The Review newspaper 1858; contributed to the Annuals, Once a Week and the Court Journal; gave many lectures; is depicted by Disraeli in Vivian Grey as Lord Prima Donna; author of Compton Audley, or hands not hearts 3 vols. 1841; The tuft hunter 3 vols. 1843; The story of my life 3 vols. 1857; Recreations of a sportsman 2 vols. 1862; Life of the Fifth Duke of Richmond 1862, anon., and many other books. d. 34 Hans place, Sloane st. London 18 Feb. 1881. W. P. Lennox’s Fifty years reminiscences 2 vols. (1863); W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections 2 vols. (1874).

LENTAIGNE, Sir John Francis O’Neill (1 son of Benjamin Lentaigne of Dublin, physician, d. 1813). b. 20 June 1803; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.B. 1828; L.R.C.S.I 1830, F.R.C.S.I. 1844; government comr. of loan funds 1841; inspector general of prisons, Ireland 1854–77; governor of Richmond district lunatic asylum; sheriff of Monaghan 1844; contested co. Dublin 26 July 1852; a comr. of national education Ireland 1861 to death; president of Zoological soc; president of Statistical soc.; M.R.I.A.; C.B. 27 March 1873, K.C.B. 28 April 1880; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland at Dublin castle 28 April 1880; knight of order of Pius IX. d. 1 Great Denmark st. Dublin 12 Nov. 1886.

LENTHALL, Francis Kyffin (3 son of Kyffin John William Lenthall 1789–1870). b. 30 March 1824; a lineal descendant of William Lenthall the speaker, through whom he owned Besselsleigh manor near Abingdon; barrister L.I. 1 May 1846; recorder of Woodstock, Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1885; assist. revising barrister for county and city of Worcester 1868, and for Gloucestershire 1869; author of Correspondence by F. K. Lenthall and others respecting the memorial to Lord Romilly 1866. d. Besselsleigh manor, Berks. Jany. 1892.

LEONARD, Denis. b. Kilkenny 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; an attorney; appeared at a minor London theatre under name of Mr. O’Neil; played sir Lucius O’Trigger at the Haymarket; acted in America, the Southern States and Canada; acted in the provinces; again visited America; the leading Irish actor of his time; played Richmond to Kean’s Richard III. in Belfast 1830; played all Tyrone Power’s Irish parts at the Haymarket, at the T.R. Dublin 1843 &c. and in America; his drama The Foster Brothers produced in Belfast about 1867; an attorney in Belfast and law agent for marquess of Downshire. d. 8 Cromwell terrace, Belfast 31 May 1878.

LEONARD, John Patrick. b. Ireland; connected with sir C. G. Duffy in the 1848 movement in Ireland; a resident in Paris from 1849; professor of English in the Collége Chaptal to death; a medical man in Franco-German war, attended marshall Mac Mahon when wounded outside Sedan Aug. 1870, very friendly with the marshall and the duchess of Magenta; published Sermon on behalf of the distressed Irish by G. Mermillod, bishop of Hebron, a translation 1862. d. Paris, Aug. 1889. bur. Ballymor near Queenstown 27 Oct.

LEONARD, Peter. b. St. Vigeans, Arbroath 1801; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1822; M.D. of St. Andrew’s 1851; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon R.N. 6 March 1823, fleet surgeon 1829; inspector general of hospitals 15 March 1865, retired 19 Sep. 1866; first inspector general under contagious diseases act and organizer of the administration 1866; wrote a Naval medical journal of services in South America, for which he received sir G. Blaine’s gold medal; deputy inspector general at Chatham, then at Haslar; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £100 a year 24 March 1871; author of Records of a voyage to the Western coast of Africa and of the service in that station for the suppression of the slave trade. Edinb. 1833. d. Arbroath 2 May 1888.

LEOPOLD, George Christian Frederick, king of the Belgians as Leopold I. (3 son of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of Saxe-Cobourg 1750–1806). b. Cobourg 16 Dec. 1790; came to England in 1814 and lived in lodgings at a grocer’s at 21 High st. Marylebone; came to England 20 Feb. 1816; naturalized by act 56 George III. cap. 13, 29 March 1816; granted Claremont house and grounds for his life. m. 2 May 1816 the princess Charlotte Augusta only child of George IV., she d. at Claremont 6 Nov. 1817; G.C.H. 22 March 1816; a general 2 May 1816 and field marshall 24 May 1816; G.C.B. 23 May 1816; K.G. 23 May 1816; P.C. 1 July 1816; entered into a marriage contract with Karoline Bauer a German actress 2 July 1829 and lived with her in London till June 1830 when contract was dissolved; declined the throne of Greece, May 1830; resided at Claremont till 16 July 1831; elected king of the Belgians 4 June and ascended the throne 22 July 1831. m. (2) 9 Aug. 1832 the princess Louise eld. dau. of Louis Philippe king of the French, she d. 11 Oct. 1850; the income of £50,000 settled on him in 1816 he continued to hold after he became king, but after paying for keeping up Claremont, servants’ pensions, &c. he annually returned the balance of about £38,000 into the exchequer. d. Palace of Laeken 10 Dec. 1865. Lady Rose Weigall’s Brief memoir of the Princess Charlotte (1874); The Princess Charlotte of Wales. By Mrs. C. R. Jones (1885), portraits; Authentic Memoirs of the princess Charlotte (1817) portrait; Memoirs of prince Leopold (1817), portrait; Westminster Review, April 1885 pp. 460–88; Posthumous memoirs of Karoline Bauer ii 34–336 (1884); Martin’s Life of prince consort, ii 249 (1876), portrait; Illustrated Times 30 Dec. 1865 p. 413, portrait.

LEOTARD, Monsieur. b. Toulouse, France 1 Aug. 1838; performer on the flying trapèze abroad; introduced the trapèze performance into England, first appearing at the Alhambra palace, London 20 May 1861; performed at Alhambra again 1866 and reappeared there 9 April 1868; broke his leg performing at Madrid, May 1865; made his début in America at Academy of Music, New York 29 Oct. 1868, returned to Europe 14 Nov. having made a great failure in New York. d. of small pox at Toulouse about 16 Aug. 1870. Memoires de Léotard. Paris (1860), portrait; C. Spencer’s Modern gymnast (1866) 102 etc.

LEPARD, John. Bookseller at 108 Strand, London 1818–20; member of firm of booksellers known as Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Lepard at the Temple of the Muses, 23 Finsbury place, London 1820–5; partner with Joseph Harding at 4 Pall Mall east 1825–39; connected with Day & Martin, blacking manufacturers, 97 High Holborn in 1859. d. Hampstead 16 Oct. 1878 aged 87.

LEPPINGTON, John Crosby (son of rev. John C. Leppington d. 1833). b. Sunderland 21 Oct. 1807; ed. at Woodhouse grove school 1815; preached when quite a child; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Melton Mowbray 1832; became a supernumerary in London 1849 refusing to receive any support from the Connexional funds; wrote much for the Wesleyan Mag.; author of The confessional in the Church of England, and other essays on the Anglican controversy 1860. d. near London 7 July 1859. bur. Highgate cemetery.

LE QUESNE, Charles (eld. son of Nicholas Le Quesne a jurat of the royal court, Jersey, d. 1847). b. Jersey 1811; a jurat of the royal court, Jersey 2 July 1850 to death; president of Jersey chamber of commerce; a member of the states of Jersey; an officer in Jersey artillery many years; author of Ireland and the Channel islands, or a remedy for Ireland 1848; A constitutional history of Jersey 1856. d. Gloucester st. St. Heliers, Jersey 18 Aug. 1856. bur. Green st. cemetery 22 Aug. J. B. Payne’s Armorial of Jersey (1865) 250; The Jersey Independent 23 Aug. 1856 p. 2.

LESCHALLAS, John. Builder at 10 Booth st. Spitalfields, London to death; resided at Page green, Tottenham, Middlesex, where he d. 18 Oct. 1877 in 86 year; will proved 3 Dec. under £500,000; left sums of £500 each to 13 hospitals and institutions. The Times 7 Dec. 1877 p. 9.

LESLIE, Arthur. b. 1817; ensign 8 foot 20 Nov. 1838; captain 40 foot 19 June 1846, lieut.-col. 6 Aug. 1858 to 8 June 1867; C.B. 2 May 1862. d. Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 12 Sep. 1878.

LESLIE, Charles (1 son of John Leslie 1772–1854, bishop of Elphin 1819). b. 7 Oct. 1810; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; incumbent of Drung, co. Cavan; vicar general of Ardagh to March 1870; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, March 1870, consecrated 19 April 1870, enthroned in Kilmore cathedral 26 May 1870; the first bp. appointed after the disestablishment of the Irish ch. d. the Parsonage house, Drung, co. Cavan 8 July 1870. bur. Kilmore 14 July. The Times 11 July 1870 p. 5.

LESLIE, Charles Joseph (4 son of John Leslie 1751–1828). b. 1785; ensign 29 foot 18 Dec. 1806; captain 60 rifles 17 May 1820, major 18 Dec. 1828 to 28 Dec. 1832 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1836; author of Historical records of the family of Leslie 1869. d. Slindon house near Arundel 10 Jany. 1870.

LESLIE, Charles Powell (eld. son of Charles Powell Leslie of Glasslough, co. Monaghan, M.P. for Monaghan, d. 15 Nov. 1831). b. 13 Sep. 1821; ed. at Harrow, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1839; M.P. co. Monaghan 1842 to death; lord lieut. of co. Monaghan 1858 to death; col. of Monaghan militia 6 Aug. 1857 to death. d. Castle Leslie, Glasslough 26 June 1871.

LESLIE, Charles Robert (eld. son of Robert Leslie of Philadelphia, clockmaker, d. 1804). b. Clerkenwell, London 19 Oct. 1794; taken to Philadelphia 1800, apprenticed there to Bradford and Inskeep, publishers 1808; a student at the R.A. in London, Dec. 1811; his picture called Murder, exhibited at R.A. 1813; A.R.A. Nov. 1821, R.A. 1826; visited Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford and painted his portrait 1824; professor of painting at the R.A. 1848–52; exhibited 76 pictures at R.A. and 11 at B.I. 1813–59; many of his best works are in the National Gallery, London; author of Memoirs of the life of John Constable, R.A. 1843, 2 ed. 1845; A hand-book for young painters 1855, 2 ed. 1870; Life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds 2 vols. 1865. d. 2 Abercorn place, St. John’s Wood, London 5 May 1859. C. R. Leslie’s Autobiographical Recollections edited by Tom Taylor 2 vols. (1860), portrait; James Dafforne’s Pictures by C. R. Leslie, R.A. (1872); Wedmore’s Masters of genre painting (1879); J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, ii 20–26; W. Sandby’s History of Royal academy, ii 39–47 (1862); W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 127–31; Redgrave’s Century of Painters, ii 230–55, 326–46 (1866).

LESLIE, Frank, pen name of Henry Carter (son of Joseph Carter, glove maker). b. Ipswich 29 March 1821; in a dry goods house London 1838; sent sketches to Illust. London News, May 1842 signed Frank Leslie, superintendent of the engraving department of the paper to 1848; went to U.S. America 1848; took name of Frank Leslie by legislative act; employed on Gleason’s Pictorial in Boston; published The Gazette of fashion, a periodical 1854; The New York Journal; produced first number of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper 14 Dec. 1855; established The Chimney corner 1865 and afterwards other periodicals; commissioner to Paris exhibition 1867, received gold medal; president of New York centennial commission 1876; spent large sums of money and in 1877 assigned his property to a trust. d. Fifth Avenue, New York 10 Jany. 1880; his widow Miriam Florence assumed by legal process name of Frank Leslie. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 696 (1887).

LESLIE, Frederick, stage name of Frederick Hobson (son of Charles Hobson of 49 Artillery place, Woolwich, military outfitter). b. Woolwich 1 April 1855; ed. in France for an architect; sang under name of Mr. Owen Hobbs at local entertainments at Woolwich; joined amateur company at R.A. theatre, Woolwich; appeared in London at Royalty theatre, Feb. 1878 as Colonel Hardy in Paul Pry; played at Folly theatre 1879; played at Alhambra, Marquis of Manicamp in La petite mademoiselle 6 Oct. 1879, and Duc de la Volta in La fille du tambour majeur 19 April 1880; played in United States of America 1881–2, 8 months and 1883–4; acted Rip Van Winkle in Planquette’s opera Rip Van Winkle at Comedy theatre 14 Oct. 1882 to Oct. 1883 and 6 Sep. 1884; played Ayala in The grand mogul at Comedy 17 Dec. 1884; member of Gaiety company Dec. 1885 to death; his chief parts at Gaiety were Jonathan Wild in Little Jack Sheppard 26 Dec. 1885, Noitier in Monte Christo junior 23 Dec. 1886, the Monster in Frankenstein 24 Dec. 1887, Don Cæsar de Bazan in Ruy Blas and the blasé roué 27 Sep. 1889; played in America and Australia 1890–1; played in Cinder-Ellen Up Too Late, as a Servant to the Prince of Belgravia, at Gaiety 24 Dec. 1891 to 25 Nov. 1892; purchased a residence at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex; author under nom de plume of A. C. Torr (actor) with Herbert F. Clark of Ruy Blas and the blasé roué, and with W. T. Vincent of Cinder-Ellen up too late; wrote and composed Love in the Lowther, a song which was very popular. d. 8 Tavistock chambers, Bloomsbury, London 7 Dec. 1892. bur. Charlton cemetery 10 Dec. Theatre 2 June 1884 pp. 322–3, portrait; Illust. sp. and dram. news 6 Nov. 1886 pp. 200, 207, portrait; The Pelican, Christmas number 1892, portrait; Strand Mag. Jany. 1893 p. 58, five portraits.

LESLIE, Henry. b. Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire 6 Jany. 1830; first came on the stage at Ipswich, Aug. 1847; lessee with Rollison of Edinburgh theatre royal 4 Sep. 1852 to 26 Jany. 1853, sole lessee 26 Jany. to 12 March 1853; first appeared in London at Drury lane as Roderigo, Sep. 1853, at the Olympic 1853–8; started The Stage college of dramatic tuition, 36 Queen’s crescent, Haverstock hill, London, Aug. 1866; manager of Amphitheatre and theatre royal, Liverpool for the Misses Copeland 1868–70; manager with Mr. Pearson of Prince of Wales’ theatre, Liverpool 1870; travelled in the provinces with his own company playing Offenbach’s Princess of Trebizond 1871; manager of the Amphitheatre, Liverpool alone 1871, then with Lindo Courtenay 1873–9; lessee of theatre royal, Leeds, Easter 1880 to 1881; author of The mariner’s compass, a novel 1865; How the ghost walked. Printed in A. Halliday’s Savage Club Papers 1868; and of the following dramas, Adrienne or the secret of a life, Lyceum 12 Nov. 1860; The trail of sin, Victoria, Sep. 1863; The orange girl, Surrey theatre 24 Oct. 1864; The mariner’s compass, Astley’s theatre 4 March 1865; The sin and the sorrow, Grecian theatre 17 Sep. 1866; Tide and time, Surrey 9 March 1867; Friendship; Love and truth; The village blacksmith. d. Paignton, Devon 4 March 1881.

LESLIE, Henry James. Called to Irish bar 1833; Q.C. 23 Feb. 1867. d. Belfield, Dundrum, co. Dublin 16 Sep. 1888.

LESLIE, James (son of James Leslie, quarter master at taking of Quebec). b. Kair, Kincardineshire 1786; merchant at Montreal; served with Montreal volunteers in war of 1812, lieut.-col. 1862; member for Montreal in Lower Canada assembly 1824 and in the Dominion assembly for Verchēres 1844–8; member of legislative council 1848, president March to Sep. 1848; provincial sec. 1848–51; member of the senate 1867 to death. d. Montreal 1873.

LESLIE, John (younger son of Charles Powell Leslie of Glasslough, M.P. for co. Monaghan, d. 1800). b. Glasslough, co. Monaghan 12 Oct. 1772; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1794, M.A. 1805; dean of Cork 5 Oct. 1807 to 1812; prebendary of Armagh 19 March 1808 to 1812; bishop of Dromore by patent 14 Jany. 1812, consecrated at Armagh 26 Jany., enthroned by proxy 27 Feb.; translated to Elphin 16 Nov. 1819; bishop of united dioceses of Kilmore, Ardagh and Elphin, Oct. 1841 to death. d. The Palace, Kilmore 22 July 1854.

LESLIE, John. Ensign 69 foot 7 Aug. 1806, major 1 Jany. 1819 to 29 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 4 foot 25 Jany. 1839 to 29 Dec. 1848 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 35 foot 26 Sep. 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858. d. Brighton 12 Feb. 1861 aged 70.

LESLIE, John Robert. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, fellow 1858 to death; B.A. 1852, M.A. 1856; Erasmus Smith’s professor of natural and experimental philosophy 1870 to death. d. Finea, co. Westmeath 2 Jany. 1881. bur. Glasnevin cemetery 5 Jany.

LESLIE, Martin Edward (2 son of Thomas Haworth of Balham Wood, Herts.) b. 1810; ed. at Eton; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 28 Sep. 1826, captain 27 Oct. 1837, sold out 17 Nov. 1837; an extra foreign service messenger at Constantinople 4 Jany. 1855 to 30 Sep. 1858, a queen’s foreign service messenger 7 Nov. 1859, resigned 13 May 1872; master of the Hampshire hounds; assisted in revival of coaching and in placing the Old Times on the London and Brighton road, which he often drove 1868; author of The silver greyhound, incidents of travel 1880; Road scrapings, coaches and coaching 1880. m. 11 Aug. 1835 Mary Elizabeth (2 dau. of George Gwythyr by Henrietta countess of Rothes). She was b. 9 July 1811, became 16 countess of Rothes 1886 when her husband assumed name of Leslie 20 March 1886. He d. 26 York st. Portman sq. London 2 Nov. 1886. bur. Kensal green. Baily’s Mag. xlvi 522–3 (1886).

LESLIE, Thomas Edward Cliffe (2 son of Edward Leslie 1792–1865, R. of Annahilt, co. Down). b. co. Wexford 21 June 1826; ed. at King William’s coll. Isle of Man, and Trin. coll. Dublin, classical scholar 1845, B.A. 1847, LL.B. 1851, hon. LL.D.; called to Irish bar 1850; professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen’s college, Belfast 1853; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858, never practised; examiner and professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen’s Univ. Ireland 1871 to death; contributed to Fraser’s Mag., Macmillan’s Mag. and other periodicals; elected without ballot member of Athenæum club, London Feb. 1880; author of The military systems of Europe economically considered. Belfast 1856; Land systems and industrial economy of Ireland, England and continental countries 1870; Financial reform 1872, 2 ed. 1872; Essays in political and moral philosophy 1878. d. Botanic Avenue, Belfast 27 Jany. 1882. T. E. Cliffe Leslie. Memorial to W. E. Gladstone. Privately printed January 1882; Biograph, vi 23–26 (1881); Times 30 Jany. 1882 p. 7 col. 2; Irish Law Times, xvi 65 (1882).

LESLIE, Thomas Jefferson (brother of Charles Robert Leslie 1794–1859). b. London 2 Nov. 1796; ed. at United States military academy; paymaster of engineers 1815–38, 2 lieut. 1816, 1 lieut. 1819, major and paymaster 1838; chief of paymaster’s department, New York district, during the civil war 1861–5; brevet brigadier general 1865; retired 1869. d. New York city 25 Nov. 1874.

LESLIE, William (son of Wm. Leslie of Warthill, Pitcraple, Aberdeenshire). b. Warthill 16 March 1814; a partner in Dent and Co., China; M.P. co. Aberdeen 1861–66. d. Warthill 4 March 1880.

LESSLIE, James. b. Dundee 1802; bookseller and stationer Kingston, Canada 1820, removed to York afterward named Toronto; member of Toronto first city council; one of the founders of the House of industry 1836; president of the Bank of the People, which was merged in the Bank of Montreal; arrested at commencement of insurrection of 1837 but released; purchased Examiner newspaper, Toronto 1844, editor from 1845 till he sold it in 1854; retired from business 1855. d. Eglinton, Ontario 19 April 1885.

LESTER, Ada (dau. of James Akhurst, wine merchant, London). First appeared in London at Opera Comique 16 Oct. 1875 as Sophie Creyke in W. J. Austin’s farce A Tempting Bait; leading actress with Wm. Creswick in Australia 1877 &c.; played Florence Bertram in H. Williamson’s drama Estranged, at Globe theatre 3 Aug. 1881; sailed from Liverpool in company with eleven artists to fulfil an engagement in Bombay 17 Oct. 1881; drowned in the Clan Macduff in the Irish sea 19 Oct. 1881. The Era 29 Oct. 1881 p. 9.

LESTER, Frederick Parkinson (3 son of John Lester of 1 Racquet court, Fleet st. London, coal merchant). b. 3 Feb. 1795; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 25 Oct. 1811, col. 23 Feb. 1852 to death; served 37 years in India; commissary of stores; secretary to military board, member of military board; introduced a system of bookkeeping by double entry 1834; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; inspector general ordnance commissariat department 27 Aug. 1856 to 14 April 1857; commanded Southern division of Bombay army at Belgaum 14 April 1857 to death; prevented the mutiny spreading to Western India by his wise measures; found dead in his bed at Belgaum 3 July 1858. Sir George Le Grand Jacob’s Western India (1871) 213–16; W. K. Stuart’s Reminiscences of a soldier, ii 292–5 (1874).

LESTER, Joseph Dunn (1 son of John Lester of Aberystwith). b. 1842; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1861–5, B.A. 1865; assistant master in Wellington coll. Wokingham 1867 to death; author of A short German accidence for the use of Wellington college 1867; A German accidence with a minor syntax 1870; Germanica, exercises in German composition 1872. d. Crawthorne, Wokingham 2 Dec. 1875.

LESTOURGEON, Charles (son of a surgeon). b. Cambridge 1808; ed. Trin. coll. as a foundation scholar, 15 wrangler and B.A. 1828, M.A. 1833; L.S.A. 1841; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Cambridge with an extensive practice; surgeon to Addenbrooke’s hospital 25 years; an examiner in surgery at Camb. and member of the board of medical studies. d. The Close, Huntingdon road, Cambridge 22 Feb. 1891.

L’ESTRANGE, Francis. Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; F.R.C.S.I. 1833; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1859; L.M. Rotunda hospital 1859; surgeon dentist 39 Dawson st. Dublin to 1872; state surgeon dentist to lord lieutenant; invented Patent truss and Screw lithotrite tourniquet. d. Landour, Raglan road, Dublin 6 Jany. 1875 aged 72.

L’ESTRANGE, Sir George Burdett (2 son of Henry Peisley L’Estrange of Moystown, King’s county). b. 1796; ed. at Westminster sch. 1807–10; ensign 31 regt. 1812; present at Vittoria; ensign 3 foot guards 2 July 1815, placed on h.p. 11 July 1822; chamberlain to Earl St. Germans, viceroy of Ireland 1853–55; gentleman usher of the black rod to order of St. Patrick 1858 to death; knighted by Earl of Carlisle at Dublin 1860. d. Harcourt road, Dublin 5 Feb. 1878. Recollections of sir G. B. L’Estrange (1874).

LE STRANGE, Henry L’Estrange Styleman (only son of Henry Styleman of Hunstanton, Norfolk). b. 25 Jany. 1815; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1837; travelled in Portugal, Spain and Egypt; assumed additional name of Le Strange by r.l. 1839; declared by House of Lords coheir of barony of Camoys 1839 and coheir of barony of Hastings 1841; contested West Norfolk 1847; drew a design for decoration of tower of Ely cathedral 1853, carried out by him 1855, painted half the roof of the nave 1858–62; made the cartoons for St. Albans, Holborn 1860–2, the work was carried out by his cousin Frederick Preedy; member of royal commission on fresco-painting in England, Feb. 1862. d. suddenly of heart disease in London 27 July 1862. bur. Hunstanton.

L’ESTRANGE, John. b. Norwich 18 Jany. 1836; clerk in the stamp office at Norwich; made large collections for history of Norfolk and city of Norwich, most of which came into possession of Walter Rye who edited and published his Calendar of the freemen of Norwich from 1317 to 1603, 1888; transcribed four of the churchwardens’ books of Norwich; his collections from the wills of the Norwich registry are bound in 4 vols. folio; edited Eastern Counties Collectanea 24 numbers Jany. 1872 to Dec. 1873; author of The church bells of Norfolk. Norwich 1874. d. 13 Oct. 1877.

LETBY, Richard. b. York 7 Jany. 1809; livery stable keeper and landlord of the Cricketer’s Arms, York; the crack batsman at York; connected with the York club 30 years; played in York v. Harewood at York 30 May 1833; presented with a handsome testimonial by the members of the York club 7 Sep. 1859. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii 211 (1862).

LETHBRIDGE, Ambrose Goddard (3 son of sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge, 2 baronet 1778–1849). b. Pulteney st. Bath 15 Aug. 1804; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1827–52; proctor of the univ. 1839; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832; recorder of Wells 1834–52. d. Eastbrooke house, Taunton 21 Nov. 1875. Law Times, lx 114 (1875).

LETHBRIDGE, John Arscott. b. Okehampton, Devon 28 Feb. 1787; ed. at Christ hospital where he gained many silver medals; midshipman H.E.I.Co.’s navy Dec. 1802; paymaster R.N. 13 Jany. 1808; sec. of Greenwich hospital 6 April 1834 to 21 Oct. 1853. d. Greenwich 16 July 1854. G.M. xlii 310 (1854).

LETHBRIDGE, Joseph Watts. b. Plymouth 20 Jany. 1817; entered Cheshunt college 1843; a minister of Lady Huntingdon’s connexion at Kidderminster 1846, at Rochdale, at Melbourne, Derbyshire 1850–5; became Independent minister at Byfield, Northamptonshire to 1862, at Leicester 1862–8; town missionary at Wellingborough 1873–83; author of The Shakspere almanac for 1849; Woman the glory of man 1856; Loving thoughts for human hearts 1860; The Idyls of Solomon: the Hebrew marriage week arranged in dialogue 1878. d. Wellingborough 27 July 1885. Congregational Year Book (1886) 190.

LETHBRIDGE, Sir John Hesketh, 3 Baronet (brother of A. G. Lethbridge 1804–75). b. Pulteney st. Bath 1798; ed. at Eton; lieut.-col. 2 Somerset militia to 1839; member of Mr. Farquharson’s hunt in Dorset; at the Bedford spring meeting riding his horse Trump won a match of one mile leaping two hurdles 1837; succeeded 17 Oct. 1849. d. 6 Hillsborough terrace, Ilfracombe 1 March 1873. New Sporting mag. xiv 286 (1838), portrait.

LETHBRIDGE, Thomas Bridgeman. b. 28 Oct. 1828; naval cadet 9 March 1842, captain 19 Sep. 1863, R.A. 31 Dec. 1878; commanded the Renown wooden steam battle ship 1858; flag capt. in the Northumberland and the Black Prince and to sir W. K. Hall at Sheerness 1863; senior officer on the coast of Ireland 1883–5; commander in chief at the Nore 1888, retired 1890; resided at Southsea. d. 51 Curzon st. Mayfair, London, the res. of his son in law James Davis 30 Dec. 1892.

LETHEBY, Henry. b. Plymouth 1816; L.S.A. 1837; M.B. London 1842; M.A. and Ph. D. of a German university; lecturer on chemistry and toxicology at London hospital; medical officer of health and analyst of food for city of London, Oct. 1855, resigned 1874; chief examiner of gas for metropolis under board of trade; F.L.S., F.C.S.; wrote many papers in The Lancet and other scientific periodicals; author of Reports on the sanitary condition of London 3 vols. 1856–7; Reports to the commissioners of sewers 3 vols. 1856–58; On food, its varieties, composition, nutritive value, adulteration, etc. Cantor lectures 1870, 2 ed. 1872. d. 17 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 28 March 1876. bur. Highgate cemet. 1 April. Medical Press and Circular, i 290–91, 306 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii 373, 374 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xiii 366, 381 (1876), portrait.

LE THIERE, Sophie Adéle Guillon (eld. dau. of Madame Michaud, professor of dancing). Professor of dancing under name of Madame Adelaide at 109 New Bond st. London 1855 to death. d. 109 New Bond st. 5 March 1883.

LETTS, Thomas (son of John Letts of London, bookbinder). b. Stockwell, London 1803; stationer with his father at 95 Cornhill, succeeded to the business, carried it on at 8 Royal Exchange 1838 to death; devoted himself specially to manufacture of diaries, of which he was issuing 28 varieties in 1839, also issued interest tables, medical diaries, office calendars, &c. of which he sold several hundred thousand annually; erected large factories at North road, New Cross 1865, the business was turned into a limited liability company shortly after his death, but in 1885 the company went into liquidation, and the business was purchased by Cassell & Co.; Lett’s Diaries are descanted on by Thackeray in his Roundabout Papers No. 18 in Cornhill Mag. Jany. 1862. d. Granville park, Lewisham 9 Aug. 1873.

LETTSOM, William Garrow. b. 1804; attaché at Berlin 5 Aug. 1831, at Munich 1834; paid attaché at Washington 21 Dec. 1840; sec. of legation at Mexico 12 July 1854, and chargé d’affaires 4 May 1855 to 19 May 1858; chargé d’affaires and consul general to Uruguay 9 Sep. 1859, retired on a pension of £900, 29 July 1869; F.R.A.S.; author with R. P. Greg of Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland 1858. d. 142 Norwood road, Lower Norwood, Surrey 14 Dec. 1887.

LETTSOM, William Nanson (son of John Miers Lettsom, physician 1771–99). b. 4 Feb. 1796; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, where he printed Epigrammata numismate annuo dignata 1816; Poema numismate annus dignatum 1816; author of The fall of the Nibelungers: otherwise the book of Kriemhild, a translation 1850, 2 ed. 1873; The song of Flogawaya 1856, anon., a parody on Hiawatha; edited W. S. Walker’s Shakespeare’s Versification 1854 and his A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare 1860. d. 43 Westbourne park, London 3 Sep. 1865.

LEUPOLT, Charles Benjamin. b. 1805; ed. Missionary coll. Basel, Switzerland; ordained by Bp. of Lincoln 1831; missionary of Church missionary soc. at Benares 1832–72; R. of Brampton, Norfolk 1874 to death; author of Recollections of an Indian missionary 1846, 2 ed. 1863; Further recollections of an Indian missionary 1884, portrait. d. Marsham hall, Norwich 16 Dec. 1884.

LEVANDER, Henry Charles (1 son of James Levander). b. Norwich 1826; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1863; a classical master in Univ. coll. sch. London 1866–84; a great freemason; F.R.A.S. 12 April 1872; author of The public school French grammar by A. Brachet, revised by P. H. E. Brette and H. C. Levander 1884, new ed. 1884. d. 30 North villas, Camden sq. London 4 Dec. 1884. bur. West Hampstead cemetery 6 Dec. Monthly notices R. Astronom. soc. xlv 193 (1885).

LEVEN and MELVILLE, David Leslie-Melville, Earl of. b. Spring gardens, London 22 June 1785; styled Viscount Balgonie 1785–1820; lieut. R.N. 8 Aug. 1806, captain 28 Feb. 1812; succeeded his father as 11 Earl of Leven and 8 Earl of Melville 22 Feb. 1820; R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired V.A. 27 Sep. 1855; representative peer for Scotland 1831 to death. d. Melville house, Fifeshire 8 Oct. 1860.

LEVEN and MELVILLE, John Thornton Leslie-Melville, Earl of. b. 18 Dec. 1786; succeeded his brother 8 Oct. 1860 as 12 Earl of Leven and 9 Earl of Melville; a representative peer for Scotland 1865 to death. d. Glenferness near Dunphail, Nairnshire 18 Sep. 1876, personalty under £300,000, 2 Oct. 1876. I.L.N. lxix 324, 327 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xiv 337, 339 (1876), portrait.

LEVER, Charles (son of Ellis Lever). b. Gorton near Manchester 15 Feb. 1862; member of majority of the electrical societies in Europe and America; patented his electric lamp 1881; had a diploma for his services at London fisheries exhibition 1883; resided at Culcheth hall, Bowden, Cheshire; found dead in his bed at the res. of his father Tan-y-Bryn, Colwyn bay, Carnarvon 5 Jany. 1890. I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p. 111, portrait.

LEVER, Charles James (younger son of James Lever of Dublin, builder 1763–1833). b. Amiens st. Dublin 31 Aug. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin as a pensioner 14 Oct. 1822, B.A. 1827, B.M. 1831, LL.D. 1871; M.D. Louvain; practised as a physician at Derry and Coleraine; became a contributor to Dublin Univ. mag. May 1836 and editor March 1842 to 1845; physician at Brussels 1837–41; travelled in Germany and Italy 1845–58; vice consul at Spezzia 26 Nov. 1858 to 13 Feb. 1867 when the post was abolished; consul general at Trieste 2 March 1867 to death; author of The confessions of Harry Lorrequer. Dublin 1839, anon.; Charles O’Malley the Irish dragoon. Edited by Harry Lorrequer 2 vols. 1841; Arthur O’Leary: his wanderings and ponderings in many lands. Edited by his friend Harry Lorrequer 3 vols. 1844; Our Mess, vol. 1 Jack Hinton the guardsman, vols. 2 and 3 Tom Burke of ours 3 vols. 1843; The knight of Gwynne 2 vols. 1847; The O’Donoghue 1845; Diary and notes of Horace Templeton, Esq. 2 vols. 1848, anon.; The confessions of Con Cregan the Irish Gil Blas 2 vols. 1849, anon.; Roland Cashel 2 vols. 1850; The Daltons 2 vols. 1852; Lord Kilgobbin 3 vols. 1872; Novels, new ed. illustrated 33 vols. 1876–8. d. Trieste 1 June 1872. Fitzpatrick’s Life of C. Lever 2 vols. (1879), New ed. (1884), portrait; Illustrated Rev. ii 1–5 (1870), portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 98–100, portrait; Modern men of letters by J. H. Friswell (1870) 171–82 Dublin Univ. Mag. (1880) 465, 570; Blackwood’s Mag. April 1862 pp. 452–72, July 1872 pp. 129–30, and Sep. 1872 pp. 327–60; I.L.N. lx 581, 582 (1872), portrait, lxi 431 (1872); Graphic, v 600, 611 (1872), portrait.