LEYLAND, John. b. 1815; founded the Boys Home and Surrey reformatory, Spanish road, Wandsworth, London 1852, also the Surrey Industrial school, High st. Wandsworth, of both of which he was hon. manager. d. Rosemount, Byfleet, Surrey 7 Oct. 1882.
LEYLAND, Joseph Bentley (2 son of Robert Leyland, naturalist). b. Halifax 31 March 1811; exhibited at Manchester the model of a greyhound and a colossal statue of Spartacus 1832; studied design under B. R. Haydon in London; his statue of Dr. Beckwith of York was placed in York minster; exhibited models of groups of hounds at Suffolk st. gallery 1834 and 1839; his group of African bloodhounds and his colossal figure The Thracian Falconer, are in the Salford museum. d. Halifax 26 Jany. 1851.
LIARDET, Francis (2 son of John Liardet). b. Chelsea 14 June 1798; entered navy 14 June 1809; second captain of the Powerful 84 guns 12 Jany. 1839 to 1840, served in the Mediterranean on the coast of Syria and at bombardment of St. Jean d’ Acre; captain 4 Nov. 1840; placed on h.p. Jany. 1841; agent for New Zealand company at Taranaki, Sep. 1841 to Feb. 1842; lost sight of one eye by an explosion 29 Nov. 1841; a captain of Greenwich hospital Jany. 1856 to death; author of Professional recollections on points of seamanship, discipline, &c. 1849; The midshipman’s companion 1851; Friendly hints to the young naval lieutenant 1858. d. Greenwich hospital 1 March 1863, marble bust of him by T. Milnes is in the painted hall. E. G. Wakefield’s Adventure in New Zealand, ii 68, 163 (1845).
LIBRI-CARRUCCI DALLA SOMMAIA, Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Count. b. Florence 2 Jany. 1803; professor of mathematical physics, univ. of Pisa 1823 professor at faculté des sciences, Paris 1832; naturalized in France 2 Jany. 1833; inspector general of public libraries in France; accused of pilfering from the libraries, which, he entirely denied, fled to England 28 Feb. 1848, sentenced in his absence to 10 years imprisonment by the cour d’ assize of the department of the Seine 22 June 1850; sold his MSS. to Bertram 4 earl of Ashburnham, they are now in the Laurenzian library at Florence; his books were sold by Sotheby 1859–66, sales taking 25 days; returned to Tuscany 1868; author of Histoire des sciences mathématiques en Italie 4 vols. Paris 1838–41. d. Fiesole near Florence 28 Sep. 1869. Memoir of Augustus de Morgan (1882) passim; Saturday Rev. lv 266–7 (1883); Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Nov. 1869 pp. 259–61.
LICHFIELD, Thomas William Anson, 1 Earl of (1 son of 1 viscount Anson 1767–1818). b. Shugborough, Staffs. 20 Oct. 1795; capt. Staffordshire yeomanry 1812, lieut.-col. 1829, lieut.-col. commandant 1833 to death; M.P. Yarmouth 19 June 1818; succeeded as 2 viscount Anson 31 July 1818; master of the Atherstone hounds 1821–30; master of the buckhounds 24 Nov. 1830 to 30 Dec. 1834; P.C. 24 Nov. 1830; created earl of Lichfield 15 Sep. 1831; postmaster general 30 May 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841; high steward of Great Yarmouth 22 Feb. 1836; won the St. Leger with Elis 1836 and the 2000 guineas with Corsair 1839; sold all his pictures, sculpture, &c. in a 12 days sale Aug. 1842. d. 2 Great Stanhope st. Mayfair, London 18 March 1854.
LICHFIELD, Thomas George Anson, 2 Earl of (1 son of the preceding). b. Shugborough, Staffs. 8 Aug. 1825; ed. at Eton; styled viscount Anson 1831–54; capt. Staffordshire yeomanry 16 Nov. 1844, major 17 April 1863; precis writer to lord Palmerston at foreign office 1846–7; M.P. Lichfield 1847–54; succeeded as 2 earl of Lichfield 18 March 1854; lord lieut. of Staffordshire 1863–71; high steward of Stafford 1878; first chairman of Soc. for reformation of juvenile offenders and a founder of the reformatory at Saltley. d. at his residence in London 7 Jany. 1892. Mrs. Fairlie’s Portraits of children of the nobility 3 Ser. plate 2 (1841).
LICHTENSTEIN, George. b. Hungary 1823; ed. for legal profession; a political refugee in England; naturalized 18 Dec. 1854; professor of music at Edinburgh 1856 to death; tutor to duke of Edinburgh; composer of My dream waltz for the pianoforte, with cornet ad lib. 1854; Tempi futuri, polka 1854; Pensées patriotiques, mélodies originales pour piano 1855; War march for the piano 1855. d. Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1893.
LIDDELL, Sir Adolphus Frederick Octavius (youngest son of 1 baron Ravensworth 1775–1855). b. 15 Jany. 1818; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; fellow of All Souls’ 1840–6; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1844, bencher 30 April 1861 to death, treasurer 1875; contested Grateshead 9 July 1852; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; permanent under sec. of state for home department 1867 to death; K.C.B. 20 April 1880. d. 49 Rutland gate, London 27 June 1885.
LIDDELL, Andrew (son of Mr. Liddell of Bainsford near Falkirk, schoolmaster). b. Bainsford 1786; an ironmonger in Glasgow 1815–44; carried on most extensive manufacture in Scotland of wrought iron tubes; member of philosophical society of Glasgow 1819, pres. of it frequently, treasurer many years; A.I.C.E. 1843; pastor of baptist chapel in Brown st. Glasgow 1844, which he purchased and presented to his congregation; wrote Life of David Dale, for Blackie’s Lives of eminent Scotsmen. d. Bardowie house, Glasgow 15 Nov. 1855.
LIDDELL, George Augustus Frederick (6 son of 1 baron Ravensworth 1775–1855). b. 28 July 1812; ed. at Eton; ensign Scots fusilier guards 27 Nov. 1828, captain 8 Sep. 1846, placed on h.p. 6 July 1849; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; lieut.-col. 6 dragoons 15 Feb. 1861, sold out same day; played his first cricket match at Lord’s in Marylebone v. St. John’s Wood club 1 June 1840, a hard forward driver and active in the field, on committee of Marylebone club; comptroller of the household and equerry to duchess of Gloucester 1845–58; groom in waiting to the Queen 1858–82; treasurer to duke of Edinburgh 1866–71; deputy ranger of Richmond park 1850–71; deputy ranger of Windsor park 1871–83. d. South Lawn, Eton 14 Dec. 1888. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii 549 (1862).
LIDDELL, Sir John. b. Dunblane, Scotland 1794; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D.; L.R.C.S. 1821; assistant surgeon in the navy 1812; director of the hospital at Malta 1827; inspector of fleets and hospitals 1844; deputy inspector general of Haslar hospital 1840; inspector general of Greenwich hospital 1844–54; director general of medical department of the navy April 1854 to 1864; hon. phys. to the queen 13 May 1859 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 May 1848; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850, K.C.B. 9 Feb. 1864; F.R.S. 18 June 1846; knight of Russian order of St. Anne and of Greek order of the Redeemer. d. 72 Chester sq. London 28 May 1868.
LIDDELL, Robert (brother of G. A. F. Liddell 1812–88). b. 24 Sep. 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1831–6; V. of Barking, Essex 1836–51; V. of St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge with St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London 1851–81, he erected crosses, &c. in both these churches, Messrs. Westerton and Beale proceeded against him in the Consistory court, Dr. Lushington delivered judgment against him 5 Dec. 1855, which was confirmed by sir J. Dodson in the Arches court 20 Dec. 1856, but the privy council decided partly for both parties, each to pay his own costs 21 March 1857; author of The seven deadly sins, lectures in St. Paul’s 1858; The fruits of penitential sorrow, lectures 1860; The christian priesthood, altar and sacrifice, four sermons 1867; The lay of the last angler. By a Sexagenarian 1867, 3 ed. 1883; A pastoral farewell to the parishioners of St. Paul’s 1881, and 25 other books. d. 12 New Cavendish st. London 29 June 1888. J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed. (1858) 40–9.
LIDDERDALE, Thomas William (2 son of Thomas Robertson Liddersdale of St. Mary’s isle, Kirkcudbright, ensign 6 W.I. regt.) b. 1830; in British museum 30 years, latterly as a first class assistant in printed book department; a student in Scandinavian literature and Icelandic bibliography; assisted P. H. M’Kerlie in his History of Galloway 5 vols. 1870–9; compiled Catalogue of the books printed in Iceland from A.D. 1578 to 1880 in the library of the British museum. 1885; taken ill in the street, went into the shop of Daniel Margetts metal worker 16 York st. Covent Garden, where he fell on the floor, conveyed to Charing Cross hospital, where he d. same day 4 Sep. 1884.
LIDDON, Henry Parry (eld. son of Matthew Liddon, captain R.N., d. 1869 aged 77). b. North Stoneham, Hampshire 20 Aug. 1829; ed. at Lyme Regis, Dorset 1839–41 and at King’s coll. sch. London 1841–6; entered Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1846, student 1847 to death; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853, B.D., D.D. and D.C.L. 1870, Johnson theological scholar 1851; C. of Wantage 1852–4; vice principal of Cuddesdon theological college 1854–9; vice principal of St. Edmund’s hall, Oxford 1859–61; exam. chaplain to bishop of Salisbury 1864, preb. of Salisbury 1864–70; select preacher to univ. of Oxf. 1863, 1870, 1877 and 1884; Ireland professor of exegesis at Oxf. June 1870 to 1882; gave a series of lectures in St. James’s hall, Piccadilly, London 1870; member of council of Keble coll. Oxf. 1870 to death; canon of St. Paul’s cath. 27 April 1870 to death, chancellor 1886 to death; the foremost preacher in the ch. of England and the most powerful champion of the high church party; took a leading part in the Bonn conferences 10–16 Aug. 1875; select preacher at Cambridge 1884 and 1889, hon. LL.D. June 1889; elected bishop of Edinburgh, June 1886 but declined the charge; author of Some words for God, sermons before the university of Oxford 1865, republished as Sermons before the university 8 ed. 1884; The divinity of Jesus Christ, eight lectures before the university on the foundation of John Bampton 1867, 14 ed. 1890; Some elements of religion, Lent lectures 1872, 5 ed. 1885; Sermons preached before the university. Second series 1879, 4 ed. 1887; Selections from the writing of H. P. Liddon 1882, 2 ed. 1883; Edward Bouverie Pusey, a sermon 1884, 2 ed. 1884; Easter in St. Paul’s, sermons on the resurrection 2 vols. 1885, 2 ed. 1891; Forty sermons preached in St. Paul’s, London. Four series 1886; Advent in St. Paul’s, sermons 2 vols. 1889, 2 ed. 1889; The magnificat, sermons in St. Paul’s 1889, 3 ed. 1891, and 60 other works. d. Claremont crescent, Weston-super-Mare 9 Sep. 1890. bur. crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 16 Sep.; portrait by G. Richmond at Keble coll., and another by H. Herkomer in Ch. Ch. hall. C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London (1874) 141–52, 2 Ser. (1875) 396–400; F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, ii 153–66 (1875); Church quarterly review, Oct. 1890 pp. 212–18; Temple Bar, lxxii 334–8 (1884); The Biograph, v 360–2 (1881); I.L.N. 20 Sep. 1890 p. 353, portrait.
LIEBSTEIN, Hermann (5 son of David Liebstein of Lemberg, Gallicia, Austria, merchant). b. Austria 1829; naturalised in England 16 June 1855; barrister G.I. 17 Nov. 1858; equity draftsman; author of Notes of Expository addresses on the book of Revelation 1876; Eternal life, where to find it and how to obtain it 1882. d. at his house, 40 Highbury hill near London 13 July 1882.
LIECHTENSTEIN, Marie, Princess of (adopted daughter of Henry 4 baron Holland who d. Naples 18 Dec. 1859, and known as Miss Marie Fox). b. 21 Dec. 1850; (m. at pro-cathedral, Kensington 27 June 1872 Prince Aloys or Louis Liechtenstein 2 son of François prince de Liechtenstein 1802–87, he was b. Prague 18 Nov. 1846, lieut. of hussars, a knight of Malta, secretary of legation); author of Holland House 2 vols. 1874; Nora, a novel taken from the German of the baroness F. Von Brackel 1877. d. Burgstall in Styria 26 Dec. 1878. Morning Post 28 June 1872 p. 5.
LIEFDE, Jacob B. de (of Dutch parentage). b. 1847; ed. in Holland; war correspondent of the Daily News with the German army outside Paris and during the Commune 1870–71; author of The beggars or the founders of the Dutch republic 1868, 5 ed. 1883; Walter’s escape or the capture of Breda 1870; The great Dutch admirals 1873; Hereditary bondsmen, or is it all in vain 3 vols. 1875; The maid of Stralsund 1876; A brave resolve or the siege of Stralsund 2 ed. 1883. d. Twickenham, Middlesex 6 Feb. 1878.
LIFFORD, James Hewitt, 3 Viscount (1 son of 2 viscount Lifford 1750–1830). b. 29 Aug. 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1804; student Inner Temple 1805; succeeded 15 April 1830; author of Ireland and the Irish church 1842; Thoughts on the present state of Ireland 1849. d. Brighton 22 April 1855.
LIGAR, Charles Whybrow. b. Ceylon 1809; ed. Sandhurst; 2 lieut. royal engineers, resigned; engaged on ordnance survey in Ireland till 1840; surveyor general New Zealand 1840–56; col. and commandant of New Zealand militia, took part in the war at the Bay of Islands; surveyor general of Victoria, Australia 1858, retired on a pension 1869; settled in Texas. d. 1879.
LIGGINS, Joseph. b. London 1791; West India merchant and ship owner, 37 Mincing lane, London 1830 to death; chairman of Southampton dock co. nearly 20 years; author of A refutation of the calumnies circulated by the Anti-Slavery agency committee against the West India planters. Signed Joseph Liggins, Mincing lane, London 1833. d. Homer villa, 33 Addison road, Kensington 22 June 1860.
LIGGINS, Joseph Henry (son of a baker of Nuneaton, Warwickshire). b. 1800; educ. at Cambridge but was rusticated; a tutor; resided in Isle of Man and at Liverpool and was on the staff of a Liverpool newspaper; borrowed money from all his friends, which he never repaid; claimed to have written Adam Bede 1859 and on the strength of this claim received many sums of money; was found destitute in lodgings and removed by the relieving officer to Chilvers Coton workhouse near Nuneaton, where after some months he died 29 May 1872 aged 72. The Times 2, 6, 11, 13 Feb. 1885; Cross’s Life of G. Eliot, i 449, ii 97–100, 107, 136 (1885).
LIGHT, Sir Henry (son of Wm. Light of the Madras civil service). b. 1783; ed. at Rugby and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Aug. 1799, captain 20 Dec. 1814, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1819; lieut. governor of Antigua 13 April 1836; governor and commander in chief of British Guiana 1 May 1838 to 1844, retired on a pension; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Lebanon and Cyprus in 1814. 1818. d. Falmouth 3 March 1870. I.L.N. lvi 307 (1870).
LIGHTFOOT, John Emanuel. b. Gisburn 1802; partner in firm of F. W. Grafton & Co. Broad Oak print works, Accrington; first mayor of Accrington 1878, also in 1882; the father of Lancashire methodism. d. Quarry Hill, Accrington 24 April 1893.
LIGHTFOOT, John Prideaux (1 son of Nicholas Lightfoot, R. of Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devon, d. 1847). b. Crediton 23 March 1803; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., fellow 1824–34, tutor 1824–34; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B. and D.D. 1854; R. of Wootton, Northants. 1834–54; hon. canon of Peterborough 1853 to death; rector of Ex. coll. 18 March 1854 to death; R. of Kidlington, Oxf. 1854 to death; member of first hebdomadal council 1854; vice chancellor 1862–6, entertained prince and princess of Wales at dinner in Ex. coll. hall 17 June 1863; opened the Petrean fellowships to Northants by conveying ground in Wootton to Lord Petre 1847. d. the rectory, Ex. coll. on anniversary of his birth 23 March 1887. Boase’s Exeter college (1879) 125.
LIGHTFOOT, Joseph Barber (son of John Jackson Lightfoot, accountant, d. 1843). b. 84 Duke st. Liverpool 13 April 1828; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. 1844–7; pensioner at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1847, scholar 1849, fellow 1852–71, tutor 1853–62; 31st wrangler and senior classic 1851; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854, D.D. 1864; Norrisian prizeman 1853, select preacher 1858, a founder of the Journal of classical and sacred philology, and one of the editors March 1854 to Dec. 1859; member of council of Oxford senate 1860–78 except 2 years; Hulsean professor of divinity 1861–75; chaplain to Prince Consort, Feb. 1861; chaplain to the Queen 24 March 1862–79; deputy clerk of the closet 1875–9; Whitehall preacher 1866–7; select preacher at Oxf. 1874–5; exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1862–9, to archbishop of Canterbury 1869–79; Lady Margaret’s professor of divinity at Cambridge 26 May 1875 to 1879; canon of St. Paul’s cath. 23 Feb. 1871; an original member of New Testament company of revisers July 1870 to Nov. 1880; a comr. for Cambridge under Universities of Oxford and Cambridge act 1877, 1877–81; declined bishopric of Lichfield 1867; bishop of Durham 15 March 1879 to death, consecrated in Westminster abbey 25 April, expended all his episcopal income for purposes within the diocese; trained about 80 graduates at his seat Auckland Castle free of charge; endowed univ. of Durham with the Richard de Bury scholarship 1882; presided at church congress at Newcastle 1881 and at British archæological assoc. at Darlington 1886; the ‘White Cross’ movement took its rise at Auckland Castle 1883; author of Commentary on epistle to the Galatians 1865; On a fresh revision of the English New Testament 1871, 2 ed. 1872; The apostolic fathers. St. Clement 1 vol. 1877, St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp 2 vols. 1885; The epistles of Paul. Philippians. A revised text 1879; Cambridge sermons 1890; Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy 1890; Sermons preached in St. Paul’s cathedral 1891; Sermons preached on special occasions 1891. d. the Imperial hotel, Bournemouth 21 Dec. 1889. bur. in chapel of Auckland Castle 27 Dec., portrait by W. B. Richmond in Auckland Castle, memorial altar tomb unveiled in Durham cath. 20 Oct. 1892. C. Bullock’s The two bishops (1890) 33–56, portrait; Biograph, vi 579–82 (1881); I.L.N. lxxiv 201 (1879), portrait; Graphic 28 Dec. 1889 p. 791, portrait.
Note.—In 1870 he transferred to Univ. of Camb. £4500 for the foundation of three scholarships for the encouragement of the study of ecclesiastical history in itself and in connection with general history. The Lady Margaret’s professorship being endowed with the rectory of Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk, he restored the chancel of that church in 1878–9 at a cost of £2140. By his will he created a trust called ‘The Lightfoot fund for the diocese of Durham’ for the erection of buildings for church purposes and for other purposes at discretion of the trustees, to whom he assigned his works and copyrights. His library was divided between the univ. of Durham and the Cambridge divinity school.
LIGHTFOOT, Thomas. b. 1775; ensign 5 foot Aug. 1799; captain 45 foot 15 Dec. 1804, major 7 Oct. 1813 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; extra A.D.C. to the Sovereign 6 May 1831 to 23 Nov. 1841; colonel 62 foot 11 April 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Barbourne house, Worcester 15 Nov. 1858.
LIGHTFOOT, Thomas (son of the preceding). b. 27 Dec. 1820; ensign 84 foot 1 June 1838, lieut.-col. 4 April 1859, placed on h.p. 5 May 1869; brigade major, Lucknow, Nov. 1857 to Jany. 1858; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 27 Dec. 1882; C.B. 14 May 1859. d. 16 Victoria park, Dover 3 March 1888.
LIGHTON, Sir Christopher Robert, 6 Baronet. b. Earlsgift, co. Tyrone 28 May 1819; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; succeeded his brother sir John H. Lighton 29 April 1844; V. of Ellastone, Staffs. 1848 to death; author of Does Rome teach salvation by Christ alone, if not is her teaching christian? d. Ellastone 12 April 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 402 (1875).
LILLEY, John (3 son of a carrier between Spillsby and Boston). b. Lincolnshire 1823; enlisted in 6 regt. Inniskilling dragoons 25 Jany. 1844, corporal 1848, sergeant 1852, troop sergeant major 1853, regimental sergeant major 1855; served at Scutari 1855; went to India 1857; summoned as a witness at the court martial on Capt. Thomas W. Smales, ordered by lieut.-col. Thomas Robert Crawley at Mhow, Bombay 1862; accused of speaking disparagingly of col. Crawley, a charge which he entirely denied, put under close confinement at Mhow 26 April 1862, where he d. 25 May 1862; Crawley was court martialed and “honorably acquitted,” but the full facts of the case were never brought out. Samuel Lilley’s Military despotism or the Iniskilling dragoon (1863); Military despotism. Addenda to the case (1863).
LILLEY, Samuel (eld. son of Samuel Isaac Lilley of Peckham, Surrey). b. 1805; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1829–32; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1830; a member of the bar committee 1883; a revising barrister for Surrey 1885 to death; prosecutor for the treasury at Surrey sessions, d. Southsea 22 June 1887. Law Journal 2 July 1887 pp. 373, 381.
LILLIE, John. b. Kelso, Roxburghshire 16 Dec. 1812; ed. Edinb. univ., B.A. 1833, D.D. 1855, and at New Brunswick seminary; pastor of Dutch reformed church, Kingston, New York 1836–41; master of New York gram. sch. 1841–3; editor of the Jewish Chronicle 1844–8; a translator for the American Bible union 1851–7; pastor of the presbyterian church, Kingston 1858 to death; author of Lectures on the Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians. New York 1860; Lectures on the first and second Epistles of Peter, New York and London 1869. d. Kingston 23 Feb. 1867. G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars (1867) 128–30.
LILLIE, Sir John Scott (eld. son of Philip Lillie of Drimdoe castle, Roscommon). b. Drimdoe castle 1790; ensign 6 foot 3 March 1807; captain 60 foot 1813, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818; entered Portuguese army; commanded 7th Cacadores at battles of the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse; organised and commanded an expedition to Portugal to support claims of Queen Donna Maria 1831; captain 46 foot 6 Dec. 1827, placed on h.p. 27 March 1828; knighted 6 March 1816; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; lieut.-col. in the army 10 Jany. 1837, retired from the army 1855; author of An historical sketch of the origin and progress of parliamentary corruption 1832; Observations on parliamentary corruption and on the consequences of parliamentary reform 1832. d. 1 Norfolk terrace, Bayswater, London 29 June 1868. I.L.N. liii 47 (1868).
Note.—He was severely wounded at the battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814 and left for 48 hours on the field of battle supposed to have been killed.
LILLY, Joseph. b. Birmingham 1804; employed by Lackington and Co. of Finsbury circus, London, booksellers 1820; bookseller at 3 Museum st. Bloomsbury 1831–5, at 19 King st. Bedford st. 1835–50 and 1851–7, at 7 Pall Mall 1850–3, at 15 Bedford st. 1857–63, and at 17 New st. Covent Garden 1863 to death; bought and sold more copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s works than any other bookseller on record; largely concerned in formation of Henry Huth’s library; the first portion of his stock was sold at Sotheby’s 15 March 1871 and 9 following days; published A collection of ballads and broadsides printed between 1559 and 1597, with a preface 1867. d. 31 Mornington crescent, London 29 Oct. 1870. Bookseller 1 Dec. 1870 p. 1071.
LILLY, Mrs. b. 1790; attended Queen Victoria as monthly nurse at the births of her 9 children 1840–57. d. Camberwell 26 April 1882. bur. Highgate cemetery 1 May.
LILLYWHITE, Frederick (son of the succeeding). b. Hove, Sussex 23 July 1829; first played at Lord’s in Sussex v. Marylebone 26 June 1848; reporter for Bell’s Life in London; a printer of scores on cricket grounds; partner with John Wisden at 2 New Coventry st. Leicester sq. London as a dealer in articles for cricket to 1858; resided at 15 Kennington Oval from 1858, where he published F. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores and biographies of cricketers 3 vols. 1862–3; edited The guide to cricketers 1849, 23 ed. 1866; The public school matches; English cricketers’ trip to Canada 1860, 2 ed. 1861. d. Brighton 15 Sep. 1866. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, iii 605 (1863); Illust. sporting news, i 33 (1866), portrait, v 424 (1866), portrait.
LILLYWHITE, Frederick William (son of the manager of the duke of Richmond’s brick fields). b. West Hampnett near Goodwood 13 June 1792; a bricklayer, removed to Brighton 12 Dec. 1822; manager over bricklayers at Hove; played for Sussex against England in his first cricket match at Lord’s 18–19 June 1827; the first great round-arm bowler, known as the ‘Nonpareil Bowler,’ his average was 7 runs per wicket; went in first and came out last in two matches 1839 and 1845; kept the Royal Sovereign inn, Preston st. Brighton with cricket ground attached 1837–44; bowler to Marylebone cricket club 1844 to death, had a benefit in 1853; professional at Winchester school 1851–3; generally called William Lillywhite; author of Illustrated handbook of cricket 1844, 3 ed. 184-; kept a cricket shop at 10 Prince’s terrace, Caledonian road, Islington, London, where he d. of cholera 21 Aug. 1854. bur. Highgate cemet. where is monument. Denison’s Cricket (1846) 34–53; F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii 9–12(1862); I.L.N. 22 July 1843 p. 59, portrait; Illust. news of the world 22 May 1858 pp. 252, 254, view of monument.
LILLYWHITE, Henry. b. Hawkley, Hampshire 1789; believed to be a relative of William Lillywhite the Sussex bowler; a player in Hampshire; played at Lord’s in Marylebone v. Hampshire 16 July 1821. d. Ropley, Hants. Jany. or Feb. 1858. F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, i 444 (1862).
LILLYWHITE, James (son of the preceding). b. Hove, Brighton 29 Oct. 1825; bowled at Cambridge 1845–51, at Westminster sch. 1849–51, permanently engaged by Cheltenham sch. 1855 to 1880; first played at Lords in Marylebone v. Middlesex 26 May 1851; a good twisting round-arm bowler of middle speed and an average batsman. d. 3 Queen’s circus, Cheltenham 24 Nov. 1882. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, iv 230 (1863).
LILLYWHITE, John (brother of the preceding). b. Hove, Brighton 10 Nov. 1826; bowled at Lord’s 1844; coach to Rugby school 1850–5; partner with his father and brothers James and Frederick as manufacturers of cricketing articles at 10 Princes ter. Caledonia road, Islington 1850–6, in business alone at 5 Seymour st. Euston sq. 1856 to death; engaged at Harrow school from 1861; a fine and powerful hitter, a good field, generally at cover point, a round-arm bowler delivering slow twisters; published vol. iv. of Lillywhite’s Cricket scores at 5 Seymour st. Euston sq. 1863. d. Euston sq. London 27 Oct. 1874. Illust. Sporting News, i 244 (1862), 4 portraits; Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, iv 149 (1862); Illust. sporting and dramatic news, ii 107 (1874), portrait.
Note.—In the Illustrated Sporting News 25 Oct. 1862 p. 276 and 18 April 1866 pp. 501, 504, are portraits of the late John Lillywhite described as the leviathan of cricket and a player at Lord’s Cricket ground.
LIMBIRD, John. b. 1796; printer, publisher and stationer 143 Strand, London 1823–52, at 11 Exeter Exchange, Strand 1852–4; engraver and stationer 344 Strand 1854–68; the pioneer of cheap literature; published a periodical called the ‘Londoner’ (edited by John Humffreys Parry) April 1822, but it only ran to 5 numbers; projected the ‘Mirror’ (the parent of all weekly illustrated papers) No. 1 dated 22 Nov. 1822, edited by Thos. Byerley the ‘Reuben’ of the Percy anecdotes up to his death; author of Limbird’s Handbook guide to London 1851. d. 157 Wandsworth road 30 Oct. 1883. Bookseller, Nov. 1859 p. 1326.
LIMPUS, Richard. b. 10 Sep. 1824; studied at R.A. of Music; organist of Brentford, of St. Andrew, Undershaft, St. Mary Axe, and of St. Michael’s, Cornhill; founded the College of Organists in London 1864, secretary to death; professor of music; composed some sacred and secular music. d. 41 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London 15 March 1875.
LIND, Johanna Maria, known as Jenny Lind (daughter of Niclas Jonas Lind, accountant). b. Stockholm 6 Oct. 1821; first appeared at royal theatre, Stockholm 7 March 1838 as Agathe in Der Freischütz; appointed court singer Jany. 1840 and member of royal Swedish academy of music; pupil of Manuel Garcia in Paris 1840–2; sang in Sweden and Germany 1843–6; first appeared in London at Her Majesty’s theatre 4 May 1847 as Alice in Roberto il Diavolo; sang in 9 operas only during her career in London, last appeared in opera 18 May 1849; sang in oratorio of Elijah at Exeter hall 15 Dec. 1848; toured in U.S. of America 1850–2; founded scholarships, &c. in Sweden with the £20,000 she had earned in U.S. of A.; sang in Germany, Austria and Holland 1854–5; made a tour in Great Britain 1855–6; sang at concerts given in aid of charities 1855, 1861, 1863, 1864 and 1866; chief professor of singing at royal college of music, London 1883–6; last sang in public at the Spa, Malvern 23 July 1883; she was always known as the Swedish Nightingale, her voice was a soprano two octaves in compass from D to D. (m. at Boston, U.S. of America 5 Feb. 1852 Otto Goldschmidt, musical conductor, he was naturalised in England 12 Aug. 1859). She d. Wynds Point, Colwell near Ledbury, Herefordshire 2 Nov. 1887, value of her personalty declared at £40,630. Rev. H. S. Holland and W. S. Rockstro’s Memoir of Jenny Lind Goldschmidt 2 vols. (1891), portrait; Tallis’s Dramatic magazine (1850) 5–9, portrait; E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song, ii 330–66 (1863); H. F. Chorley’s Thirty years musical recollections, i 299–312 (1862); A Review of the performances of Jenny Lind during her engagement at Her Majesty’s theatre, with a notice of her life (1847), portrait; B. Lumley’s Reminiscences (1864); Memoranda of the life of Jenny Lind. By N. P. Willis. Philadelphia (1851); Theatre, xi 1–12 (1888); H. F. Tuckerman’s Mental Portraits (1853) 125–47; Ireland’s Records of the New York stage, ii 571–2 (1867).
Note.—Alfred Bunn engaged Jenny Lind to sing 20 times at Drury Lane in opera in 1845, she broke her engagement and Bunn brought an action in the queen’s bench 22 Feb. 1848 laying his damages at £10,000, the jury gave him £2,500 but Bunn accepted £2,000. A. Bunn’s The case of Bunn versus Lind (1848).
The other characters in opera she appeared in, in England were, Amina; Maria in La Figlia; Norma; Amalia in I. Masnadieri; Susanna in Le Nozzi; Elvira in I. Puritani; and Adina in L’Elisir.
LINDAM, Jacob Ole (2 son of Peder Holger Lindam 1752–99, a factor in Danish East India company’s service). b. India 13 April 1789; ensign 2nd light infantry battalion of the German legion 17 May 1810, lieut. 8 July 1811, placed on h.p. 24 Feb. 1816; served in the Peninsula 1811–14, distinguished himself at siege of Bayonne 14 April 1814; severely wounded at battle of Waterloo; lieut.-col. in Hanoverian army 25 May 1866; decorated with the Peninsula (five clasps) and Waterloo medals; K.H. May or June 1818. d. Rough Down, Boxmoor, Herts. 20 Dec. 1881. Times 11 Jany. 1882 p. 6.
LINDLEY, John (son of George Lindley of Catton near Norwich, nurseryman). b. Catton 5 Feb. 1799; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; agent for a London seed merchant in Belgium 1815; assistant librarian to sir Joseph Banks in London 1819–22; garden assistant secretary to Horticultural Soc. 1822, sole assistant sec. 1826–41, vice sec. 1841–58, member of council and hon. sec. 1858–62; professor of botany in London Univ. 1829–36, in Univ. college, London 1836–60, emeritus professor 1860 to death; lecturer on botany to Apothecaries company at Chelsea 1836–53; took charge of the entire colonial department of the International exhibition 1862; his name has been given to the genus Lindleya of the order Rosaceæ; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1828, royal medallist 1857; edited Collectanea Britannica 1821, eight numbers; The Botanical Register 1847 etc.; Journal of the horticultural society 1846–55; chief editor of the Gardener’s Chronicle 1841 to death; author of Rosarum monographia or a botanical history of roses 1820; A synopsis of the British flora 1829 vol. 1 only, 3 ed. 1859; An introduction to botany 1832, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1848; Flora medica 1838; Outlines of the first principles of botany 18—, 6 ed. called Elements of botany 1849; The vegetable kingdom 1846, 3 ed. 1853; Folia orchidacea 1852–9, nine parts; Descriptive botany 1858; with W. Hutton The fossil flora of Great Britain 3 vols. 1831–7; with J. Paxton Paxton’s Flower garden 3 vols. 1850–3; with T. Moore The treasury of botany 1866. d. Acton Green, Middlesex 1 Nov. 1865, portrait by Eddis in rooms of Horticultural Soc. H. Field’s Memoirs of botanic garden at Chelsea (1878) 189–214; The Naturalist, iv 434–42 (1839), portrait; The Gardener’s Chronicle (1865) 1058, 1082; Proc. of Royal Soc. xv 30–7 (1867).
LINDLEY, Robert (son of Shirley Lindley of Masbro). b. Rotherham, Yorkshire 4 March 1776; pupil of Cervetto the violoncellist 1792; played at Brighton theatre 1792; principal violoncello at the opera and at all important concerts 1794–1851; the best English performer on the violoncello; professor of R.A. of Music 1822; composed about 35 solos and duets for the violoncello, &c.; published A handbook for the violoncello 1855. d. Percy st. Rathbone place, London 13 June 1855. Dramatic and musical review, iii 379 (1844).
Note.—His son Wm. Lindley b. 1802 was a good violinist and excelled in orchestral playing, he d. at Manchester 12 Aug. 1869.
LINDO, Elias Hiam. Merchant in City of London 1828 to death; author of A Jewish calendar for sixty-four years to which are added tables for continuing the calendar to A.M. 6000–2240 C.Æ. 1838; The history of the Jews of Spain and Portugal from the earliest times to their expulsion from those kingdoms 1848. d. 1865.
LINDO, Mark Prager. b. London 19 Feb. 1819; studied at Dusseldorf and Bonn; M.D. Utrecht 1853; lived in Holland about 1847 to death; made many translations of works by Dickens, Fielding, Scott, Sheridan and Thackeray into Dutch, which he published at Amsterdam, Arnhem and Gravenhage 1846–77; author of Readings in English prose. Arnhem 1854; Kompleete werken van den Ouden Heer Smits i.e. M. P. Lindo 5 vols. Gravenhage 1877–9. d. at the Hague 9 March 1877.
LINDSAY, Sir Alexander (2 son of James Smyth Lindsay 1751–1837). b. 14 Jany. 1785; ensign in Captain Meyrick’s Independent company of foot 9 Jany. 1795; lieut. 104 foot 3 March 1795, regiment disbanded 1795, lieut. on h.p. 31 Aug. 1795 to death; studied at R.M.A. Woolwich to 1803; 1 lieut. Bengal artillery 14 Aug. 1804, col. commandant 2 July 1835 to death; at sieges of Kamonah, Ganaori and Gohad 1809, in Nipal war 1816, at siege of Hathras 1817, in Pindari and Mahrata war 1817–19; superintendent of telegraphs between Calcutta and Chunar; agent for manufacture of gunpowder at Allahabad; general 11 Sep. 1859; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. Earlybank, Perth 22 Jany. 1872. Stubbs’s History of Bengal artillery, i 298 etc. (1877).
LINDSAY, Charles Hugh (3 son of 24 Earl of Crawford 1783–1869). b. Muncaster castle, Cumberland 11 Nov. 1816; ensign 43 foot 5 June 1835, captain 9 May 1845; lieut. grenadier guards 1846, captain 14 July 1854, sold out 1855; served in Canada 1837–42 and in the Crimea 1854–6; master of the horse to lord lieut. of Ireland 1845; groom in waiting to the Queen Aug. 1866 to Dec. 1868 and Feb. 1876 to death; lieut.-col. 6 Middlesex (St. George’s) rifle volunteers 23 Feb. 1861, hon. col. 24 Jany. 1885 to death; M.P. Abingdon 1865–74; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Lyons 25 March 1889.
LINDSAY, Colin (brother of the preceding). b. 6 Dec. 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; churchwarden at time of restoration of Wigan parish church 1856; president of the Manchester Church society which in May 1860 was associated with other societies as the Church of England protection society, afterwards the English Church Union of which he was pres. to April 1868; received into Church of Rome 5 Dec. 1868; received from Pius IX. special permission to have mass celebrated in any house where he might happen to live, a privilege rarely given; author of Union and Unity, an address 1860; The evidence for the Papacy 1869; De ecclesia et cathedra, or the empire church of Jesus Christ: an epistle 2 vols. 1877; Mary, queen of Scots, and her marriage with Bothwell 1888. d. 22 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London 28 Jany. 1892.
LINDSAY, Hugh Hamilton (only son of Hugh Lindsay 1765–1844, M.P. Forfar burghs 1820–30). b. 12 Aug. 1802; M.P. Sandwich 11 May 1841 to 23 July 1847; author of Letter to viscount Palmerston on British relations with China 1836, 3 ed. 1836; Is the war with China a just one? 1840; The Eastern Archipelago company and Sir J. Brooke 1853. d. 14 Wyndham place, Bryanston sq. London 29 May 1881.
LINDSAY, James (eld. son of hon. Robert Lindsay 1754–1836). b. 17 April 1793; ensign 1 foot guards 16 Dec. 1807, captain grenadier guards 20 Nov. 1823, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1830; served in Walcheren expedition 1809 and defence of Cadiz 1811; severely wounded at Bergen-op-Zoom, March 1814; L.G. 18 May 1855; M.P. Fifeshire 1831–2; contested Fifeshire 23 Jany. 1835. d. Genoa 5 Dec. 1855.
LINDSAY, Sir James (brother of Colin Lindsay 1819–92). b. Muncaster castle 25 Aug. 1815; ed. at Eton; ensign grenadier guards 16 March 1832, lieut.-col. 31 Aug. 1860 to 12 March 1861; major general on the staff Canada 5 June 1863 to 1 Jany. 1867; inspecting general of the foot guards 1 Jany. 1867 to 1 April 1868; inspector general of reserve forces 1 April 1868 to 1870; K.C.M.G. 22 Dec. 1870; colonel of 3 foot 15 Sep. 1870 to death; L.G. 10 Oct. 1870; M.P. Wigan 1845–57 and 1859–66; contested Wigan 28 March 1857. d. Cranmer house, Mitcham, Surrey 13 Aug. 1874.
LINDSAY, James Bowman. b. Carmyllie, Forfarshire 8 Sep. 1799; a weaver; student at St. Andrew’s univ. 1821–33; lecturer and teacher at Watt institution, Dundee 1829; teacher at Dundee prison, March 1841 to Oct. 1858; an early discoverer of the electric light, which he exhibited at the Thistle hall, Dundee 15 Jany. 1836; suggested possibility of extending electric telegraph to America in a letter to the Northern Warder newspaper 26 June 1845; lectured in Glasgow on his plan of forming an electric communication between Great Britain and other countries without the employment of submarine wires, he patented this invention 5 June 1854; telegraphed successfully across the river Tay at Glencarse half a mile 17 May 1859; a member of the Free Church 1843–61 when he joined the Baptists; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; studied all the eclipses mentioned by historians, the result of which he published at Dundee in Jany. 1858 under title of The Chrono-astrolabe, which attracted attention of the astronomers; author of A treatise on the mode and subjects of baptism 1861; occupied himself from 1836 to death preparing a dictionary in 50 languages to be entitled A Pentecontaglossal Dictionary, nearly completed at his death, but never published. d. 11 South Union st. Dundee 29 June 1862. bur. Western cemet. Dundee 2 July, date of death on his tombstone is wrongly stated as 1863. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 212–19.
LINDSAY, John. b. Cork, April 1789; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; while yet a boy collected Greek and Roman coins; author of A view of the coinage of Ireland. Cork 1839; A view of the coinage of the heptarchy 1842; A view of the coinage of Scotland 2 parts 1845–59; Notices of mediæval coins 1849; A view of the coinage of the Parthians 1852. d. Maryville, Blackrock, Cork 31 Dec. 1870. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii 307 (1872).
LINDSAY, William. b. Irvine, Ayrshire 1802; ed. at Glasgow univ., D.D. 1844; studied at theological hall, Paisley 1824–30; ordained minister of relief church 27 April 1830; minister at Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1830–2; colleague of John Barr at Dovehill relief church, Glasgow 22 Nov. 1832, in sole charge 1839; removed to a new church in Cathedral st. Glasgow, Dec. 1844, held this charge to his death; appointed by the relief synod professor of exegetical theology and biblical criticism Nov. 1841; professor of sacred languages and biblical criticism in United Presbyterian hall 1847, professor of exegetical theology there Oct. 1858 to death; author of Inquiry into the christian law as to the relationships which bar marriage. Glasgow 1855, 2 ed. 1871; Lectures on the epistle to the Hebrews 2 vols. 1867. d. 153 Hill st. Garnett hill, Glasgow 3 June 1866. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 108–12; W. Mc.Kelvie’s Annals of the United Presbyterian Church (1873) 298.
LINDSAY, William Lauder (eld. son of James Lindsay of the Sasine office, Register house, Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 19 Dec. 1829; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1852; L.R.C.S. Edinb. and L.M. 1852; F.L.S. 1858; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; medical officer to Murray’s royal institution for the insane at Perth 1854; the first Neill gold medallist of Royal Soc. of Edinb. 1859 for his History of British lichens 1856; studied the flora of New Zealand, North Germany, Norway and Iceland; author of A popular history of British lichens 1856; Contributions to New Zealand botany 1868; Memoirs on the spermogones and pyonides of lichens 1870; Mind in the lower animals in health and disease 1879. d. 3 Hartington gardens, Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1880.
LINDSAY, William Schaw (3 son of Joseph Lindsay of Ayr). b. Ayr 1816; a cabin boy in the Isabella, West Indiaman 1831, second mate 1834; chief mate of the Olive Branch 1835, captain 1836, retired 1840; fitter at Hartlepool to Castle Eden coal company 1841–5, represented the company in London 1845; mainly instrumental in getting Hartlepool made an independent port 6 Jany. 1845; founded firm of W. S. Lindsay & Co. ship-brokers, 11 Abchurch lane, London 1849, which became one of the largest in the world, retired 1864; contested Monmouth, April 1852, and Dartmouth, July 1852; M.P. Tynemouth and North Shields 1854–9; M.P. Sunderland 1859–65; author of Our navigation and mercantile marine laws considered with a view to their revision and consolidation 1852, 2 ed. 1853; History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce 4 vols. 1874–6; Manning of the royal navy and mercantile marine 1877. d. Manor house, Shepperton, Middlesex 28 Aug. 1877.
LINEN, James. b. Scotland 1808; a book binder in city of New York; spent some years in California; contributed poems to the Knickerbocker Mag. and the Scottish American; author of Songs of the seasons and other poems. New York 1852; Poetical and prose writings. San Francisco 1865; The poetical and prose writings. New York 1865; The golden gate 1869. d. city of New York 20 Nov. 1873. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 732 (1887).
LINES, Samuel. b. Allesley near Coventry 1778; apprenticed to Mr. Keeling of Birmingham, clock-dial enameller 1794; employed as designer by Mr. Clay the papier-mâché maker and by Wyon and Halliday die engravers; started a drawing school in Newhall st. Birmingham 1807; built a house in Temple Row, lived there rest of his life; established with other artists a life academy in Peck lane, New st. 1809, which was removed to Union passage 1814; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. 1817–25; helped to found Birmingham school of art 1821; treasurer and curator of Birmingham society of artists to 1858; was a good landscape-painter and teacher. d. 3 Temple row west, Birmingham 22 Nov. 1863, portrait by W. T. Roden in Birmingham museum and art gallery.
LINGARD, James W. b. London 8 Jany. 1823; made his debut at Garrick theatre, London as Ralph Reckless in Twice killed; went to U.S. America in 1848; appeared at Purdy’s National theatre, New York as Alley Croaker in the Miseries of human life 18 April 1853; played Deacon Perry in Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Purdy’s 18 July 1853, and then played Uncle Tom for 368 consecutive nights; an actor of old men characters; manager of Bowery theatre N. Y. 1858 and several seasons; revenue collector New York 1868; kept a saloon in the Broadway 1869; committed suicide in New York, July 1870. Brown’s American Stage (1870) p. 221, portrait.
LINGARD, John (son of John Lingard of Claxby, Lincs., carpenter). b. Winchester 5 Feb. 1771; at English college at Douay 30 Sep. 1782 to 21 Feb. 1793; joined some of the Douay students at Tudhoe, Durham 1794, they migrated to Pontop hall 1794 and then to Crookhall near Durham; vice pres. of Crookhall college, prefect of studies, professor of natural and moral philosophy; ordained priest at York 18 April 1795; removed with the Crookhall community to St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw 1808, remained there till Sep. 1811; missioner at Hornby near Lancaster 1811 to death; visited Rome 1817 and 1825; created doctor of divinity and of the canon and civil law by Pius VII. 24 Aug. 1821; author of The antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon church 2 vols. 1806, 4 ed. 1858; A history of England from the first invasion by the Romans to the revolution in 1688, 8 vols. 1819–30, new ed. 10 vols. 1888 which was translated into French, Italian and German; A new version of the Four Gospels 1836. d. Hornby 17 July 1851. bur. in cloister of college cemetery at Ushaw; portrait by James Lonsdale in hall of Ushaw college; tablet to his memory in Hornby parish church. J. Lingard’s History of England 6 ed. vol. 1 (1854), portrait; Fortunes made in business, ii 99–105 (1884); Metropolitan and provincial catholic almanac for 1854 pp. 3–25, portrait; G.M. xxxvi 323–5 (1851); I.L.N. xviii 117, 118 (1851), portrait.
LINKLATER, John. b. 1817; attorney at 111 St. Martin’s lane, London 1838; head of firm of Linklater, Hackwood and Addison, 7 Walbrook to death; author of Digest and index to the Bankruptcy act, the Debtor’s act, and the Bankruptcy repeal and insolvent court act 1870, 2 ed. 1870. d. Toulon, France 26 May 1870.
LINLEY, George. b. Leeds 1798 or 1799; resided in Doncaster and Edinburgh short time, then in London to death; wrote and composed upwards of 450 songs 1830–65; wrote the songs and music for Francesca Doria, play by V. Morris produced at Princess’s theatre 3 March 1849; his operetta The Toymakers was brought out at Covent Garden 19 Nov. 1861, and his comedietta Law versus Love at Princess’s 6 Dec. 1862; author of Musical cynics of London, a satire 1862, one part only; The Modern Hudibras 1864, 2 ed. 1864. d. Alfred cottage, Victoria road, Kensington, London 10 Sep. 1865.
LINLEY, George (son of the preceding). Author of The Goldseeker and other poems 1860; Old Saws newly set 1864; (m. 4 Oct. 1862 Emma youngest sister of Sims Reeves, singer). d. 28 April 1869.
LINN, Henry, stage name of Alexander Cumming Rutherford Crawford. b. Greenock 1846; with his brother acted as negro comedians; champion clog dancer 1864; a Scottish vocalist, his songs The highland man’s toast, Jock M’Craw, and Bonnie Jeanie Deans were very popular, others were My name is Jim, and Poor and Needy; a great favourite in Liverpool; last sang at Carlisle 1890; author of Harry Linn’s Fireside song book. Glasgow 1884. d. Royal infirmary, Edinburgh 11 June 1890. bur. 15 June.
LINNELL, John (2 son of James Linnell, carver and gilder, d. 1837). b. Plumtree st. St. Giles’s, London 16 June 1792; drew portraits at 10 years old; entered schools of the R.A. 1805; portrait painter to 1847, then landscape painter, engraved his portraits; exhibited 176 pictures at R.A. and 91 at B.I. 1807–79; member of Society of painters in oil and water-colours 1812–20, treasurer 1817, exhibited 52 works there 1813–20; his landscape ‘Removing timber’ sold for £3360 at the Price sale April 1892; there was a large collection of his works at winter exhibition of the R.A. 1882–3; author of The royal gallery of pictures, selections from collection at Buckingham palace 1840; The royal academy a national institution 1869; Selection of cabinet paintings at Buckingham palace 1877. d. Redstone Wood, Redhill, Surrey 20 Jany. 1882. bur. Reigate cemet. 25 Jany. A. T. Story’s Life of John Linnell 2 vols. (1892), two portraits; Dublin Univ. Mag. xc 535, portrait; Graphic, xxv 125 (1882), portrait; Black and White 25 Feb. 1893 p. 228, portrait.
LINSELL, Richard. b. Great Dunmow, Essex 24 May 1765; apprenticed to Thomas White of Felstead, carpenter 1780–7; general carrier between Dunmow and London 1791 to 1807; a builder at Dunmow 1807–9; carrier at Stebbing 1809; landlord of the King’s Head inn, Stebbing 1812–15; a farmer near Stebbing 1815–19; landlord of the Swan inn, Clare, Suffolk 1820–33 and of the Cricketers’ arms near Clare 1834–43. Life of Richard Linsell. By A Friend. (Rusticus) Tottenham (1855).
Note.—He first appeared as a cricketer at Prior’s hall, Lay, parish of Linsell 1 May 1790; raced the coach from London to Dunmow 37 miles in 5 hours, gaining by 15 minutes 23 Aug. 1796; at Woodford ran 1 mile in 4 min. 57 sec. 28 Aug. 1796; threw a stone 137 yards Oct. 1796; beat Mr. Parsley in a quoit match 27 April 1797; from 1788 for 30 years he stood open to play any man in England at 20 different games.