LOCHORE, Robert. b. Strathaven, Lanarkshire 7 July 1762; a shoemaker 1775, a master shoemaker at Glasgow; founded Glasgow annuity society 4 Jany. 1808; edited the Kilmarnock Mirror about 1817; an intimate acquaintance of Robert Burns; published two poetical tracts Willie’s Vision 1795 and The Foppish Taylor 1796; author of Tales in rhyme and minor pieces about 1815, anon.; his song ‘Now, Jenny, lass, my bonnie bird,’ has been attributed to Burns. d. Glasgow 27 April 1852. J. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland, i 382–6 (1876); C. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel, iv 91–7 (1857).

LOCHRANE, Osborne Augustus. b. Middleton, Armagh, Ireland 22 Aug. 1829; arrived in New York 21 Dec. 1846; studied law at Athens, Georgia, admitted to the bar 1849; in practice in Savannah, March 1850, removed to Macon, Oct. 1850; judge of the Macon circuit Sep. 1861 to 1865; judge of Atlanta circuit Aug. 1870; chief judge of the supreme court of Georgia, Jany. 1871, resigned Dec. 1871; attorney for Pullman palace car co.; many of his speeches and orations were published. d. Atlanta, Georgia 17 June 1887.

LOCK, George. b. Dorchester, Feb. 1832; articled to an agricultural chemist at Salisbury to 1853; partner with E. Ward as booksellers at 158 Fleet st. London 1854–66, removed to 1 Amen Corner and 107 Dorset st. 1866, then to newly erected premises called Warwick house in Salisbury sq. 1878, Charles Tyler became a partner in 1865 when the firm was Ward, Lock and Tyler for a few years; published Webster’s Speller, Milner and Downer’s Atlases, an edition of Webster’s Dictionary 1856, educational works and books for children; purchased S. O. Beeton’s stock and copyrights for £1900 Sep. 1866, Edward Moxon & Co.’s publications 1877 and William Tegg’s publications about 1882, the firm of Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co. was converted into a limited liability co. April 1893. d. 7 Warltersville road, Hornsey Rise, London 8 Aug. 1891. The Bookseller 5 Sep. 1891 pp. 836–7; Athenæum 15 Aug. 1891 p. 224.

LOCKE, John (only son of John Locke of Herne Hill, Surrey, surveyor). b. London 1805; ed. at Dulwich coll. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 3 May 1833, bencher 24 Nov. 1857 to death, reader 1870, treasurer 1871; one of common pleaders of City of London 13 March 1845 to June 1857; Q.C. 23 June 1857; recorder of Brighton 19 April 1861 to June 1879; contested Hastings 9 July 1852; M.P. for Southwark 31 March 1857 to death; author of The game laws, comprising all the acts now in force 1840, 5 ed. 1866; The law and practice of foreign attachment in the lord mayor’s court 1853. d. 63 Eaton place, London 28 Jany. 1880. I.L.N. xxx 479 (1857), portrait, lxxvi 157 (1880), portrait.

LOCKE, Joseph (youngest son of Wm. Locke, colliery manager). b. Attercliffe near Sheffield 9 Aug. 1805; articled to George Stephenson, civil engineer, Newcastle 1823, aided him in construction of Manchester and Liverpool railway opened 14 Sep. 1830; constructed the following lines, Grand Junction 1835–7, London and Southampton 1836–40, Sheffield and Manchester 1836–40, Paris to Rouen 1841–3, Rouen to Havre 1843; partner with John Edward Errington 1840, they constructed the Caledonian railway 1848 and a line from Mantes to Caen and Cherbourg 1852 for which Locke was created an officer of Legion of Honour; originated the double-headed rail, first used on the Grand Junction railway; designed the Crewe engine in which all the parts were capable of fitting any engine; F.R.S. 22 Feb. 1838; pres. of Instit. of C.E. 1858–60; M.P. Honiton, Devon 28 July 1847 to death; purchased manor of Honiton including all the borough for £80,000 Aug. 1846; his widow presented to town of Barnsley, Yorkshire, the Locke park about 1869, where is statue of him by Marochetti. d. Moffat, Dumfries 18 Sep. 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet., memorial window in Westminster abbey. J. Devey’s Life of Joseph Locke (1862), portrait; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx 141–8 (1861).

LOCKER, Arthur (youngest son of Edward Hawke Locker, F.R.S.) b. Greenwich hospital, Kent 2 July 1828; ed. at Charterhouse and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851; resided in Australia and in India; contributed reviews to The Times 1865–70; edited The Graphic from May or June 1870 till December 1891 when he went to Madeira for his health; translated V. M. Hugo’s The history of a crime 1877; printed Mrs. Ralph Greening’s First lodger in A. Halliday’s Savage Club papers 1868 pp. 100–17; author of Sir Goodwin’s folly 3 vols. 1864; Sweet seventeen 3 vols. 2 ed. 1866; On a coral reef 1869; Stephen Scudamore 1871; The village surgeon 1874. d. 19 West-hill, Highgate, London 23 June 1893. I.L.N. 19 Dec. 1891 p. 791, portrait.

LOCKHART, Allan Eliott (2 son of William Eliott Lockhart, M.P. Selkirkshire, d. 1832). b. 1803; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; advocate 1824; M.P. Selkirkshire 1846–61; lord lieut. of Selkirkshire 19 Nov. 1867 to death. d. Borthwickbrae, Hawick 15 March 1878.

LOCKHART, Archibald Inglis. b. 1810; ensign 92 foot 31 Dec. 1828; commanded a field force in Central India 2 Aug. to 17 Sep. 1858, including the action near Rajhghar; commanded a brigade in Central India field force 18 Sep. to 6 Dec. 1858; lieut.-col. 26 Dec. 1857 to 14 March 1865 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Edinburgh 17 Sep. 1879.

LOCKHART, John Gibson (2 son of rev. John Lockhart 1761–1842, minister of Cambusnethan). b. in the manse of Cambusnethan 14 July 1794; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Glasgow 1805–9; Snell exhibitioner at Balliol coll. Oxf. 1809, B.C.L. 1817, D.C.L. 1834; an advocate 1816; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from Oct. 1817; edited The Quarterly Review, Oct. 1825 to April 1853, wrote more than 100 articles; lived at 24 Sussex place, Regent’s park 1826 to 1853; superintended Murray’s ‘Family Library’ from 1829, for which he wrote the first work History of Napoleon Buonaparte 2 vols. 1829, anon.; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; auditor of the duchy of Lancaster 1843 to death; edited Motteux’s translation of Don Quixote 5 vols. 1822; author of Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk. By Peter Morris the Odontist. 3 vols. 1819; Valerius, a Roman story 1821; Some passages in the life of Mr. Adam Blair 1822, anon.; Reginald Dalton, a story of English university life 1823; Ancient Spanish ballads translated 1823, several editions; The history of Matthew Wald 1824, a novel, anon.; Life of Robert Burns 1828, 8 ed. 1888; History of the late war 1832; Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott 7 vols. 1837–8, 4 ed. 1850; The Ballantyne humbug handled 1839. d. Abbotsford, Roxburghshire 25 Nov. 1854. bur. next Sir Walter Scott in Dryburgh abbey. Law Review, xxi 354–6 (1855); Quarterly Review, Oct. 1864 pp. 439–82; J. G. Lockhart’s Ancient Spanish ballads (1856) memoir 7 leaves, portrait; H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches 4 ed. (1876) 344–52; Bookseller, Aug. 1860 pp. 505–8; National Review, iii 745–62 (1884); Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 7–13, portrait; I.L.N. xxv 559, 564 (1854), portrait.

LOCKHART, Laurence (brother of the preceding). b. 1796; presbyterian minister Inchinnan 13 Jany. 1822; D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1 May 1849; succeeded to Milton-Lockhart estate 1857; author of Address to the people of Inchinnan 1843; Facts for the times. Paisley 1843; Facts not fiction, address to the people of Inchinnan 1843; Facts not falsehood. By a Parish Minister 1845; Answer to the protest of the Free church 1846. d. 1876. H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, vol. 2 part 1 p. 221 (1868).

LOCKHART, Laurence William Maxwell (2 son of the preceding). b. 1831; entered Glasgow univ. 1845 and Caius coll. Camb. 1850, B.A. 1855, M.A. 1861; ensign 92 foot 9 Feb. 1855, captain 19 Jany. 1864, sold out 12 Sep. 1865, served in Crimean war 1855–6; major 2nd royal Lanark militia 7 June 1870, lieut.-col. 8 April 1877 to death; Times correspondent for Franco-German war July 1870; with the French army at battle of Forbach, then with the German army; author of Doubles and Quits 2 vols. 1869; Fair to see 3 vols. 1871; and Mine is thine 3 vols. 1878, novels reprinted from Blackwood’s Mag. d. Mentone, France 23 March 1882. Blackwood’s Mag. April 1882 pp. 675–80.

LOCKHART, William (brother of Laurence Lockhart 1796–1876). b. 1787; M.P. co. Lanark 1841 to death; dean of faculties of univ. of Glasgow 1853 to death; lieut.-col. commandant Lanarkshire yeomanry cavalry. d. Milton-Lockhart 25 Nov. 1856.

LOCKHART, William (only son of rev. Alexander Lockhart d. 1831, V. of Stone, Bucks. 1821–30). b. at Warlingham, Surrey 22 Aug. 1819; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842; joined John Henry Newman at Littlemore 1842; received into church of Rome, Aug. 1843, being the first of the tractarians who went over; studied under the Rosminians in Rome 1843–5; entered the Order of Charity 1845, procurator general; R. of St. Etheldreda’s, Ely place, Holborn, London 1876 to death, which he purchased for £5,300 and restored at cost of £6,000; edited The Lamp when renamed The Illust. Catholic mag. 5 vols. 1871–3; author of The communion of saints, or our relation to the Virgin, the angels and the saints 3 ed. 1869; Non possumus or the temporal sovereignty of the Pope 1870, 2 ed. 1870; Life of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, vol. 2, 1886; Cardinal Newman, a reminiscence of 50 years 1891; found dead in his bed at the Presbytery, St. Etheldreda’s, Holborn, London 15 May 1892. The Biograph, iv 432–3 (1880).

LOCKWOOD, Adolphus Raven. b. 1841; ed. by Frederick Chatterton; patronised by duke of Cambridge; with his brother and sister Ernest and Fanny Lockwood first appeared as harpists at Hanover sq. rooms, London, May 1847, music written for them and taught them by Gerhard Taylor; harpist to king of Bavaria. d. Munich 22 Jany. 1885. I.L.N. xii 106 (1848), portrait.

LOCKWOOD, Frederick Vernon (2 son of Thomas Lockwood of Dan-y-Craig, Glamorganshire). b. 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; C. of Sturry, Kent 1826; R. of Musham, Kent 7 March 1827 to 21 Jany. 1840; preb. of Lincoln 24 Jany. 1828 to March 1845; chaplain to House of Commons 1830–2; canon of Canterbury 16 Nov. 1838 to death; V. of Minster in Thanet 21 Jany. 1840 to death. d. the Precincts, Canterbury 1 July 1851. bur. in the cathedral 5 July.

LOCKWOOD, Sir George Henry (brother of the preceding). b. 25 March 1804; ed. at Eton; cornet 3 light dragoons 10 March 1825, lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1846, placed on h.p. 12 May 1853; served in Afghanistan 1842 and the Punjaub 1848–9; commanded a brigade at battle of Goojerat; A.D.C. to the Queen 2 Aug. 1850 to 27 Nov. 1874; col. 12 lancers 12 March 1861 to 1 Jany. 1872; col. 3 hussars 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 22 Oct. 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 18 Wilton st. Belgrave sq. London 15 April 1884.

LOCKWOOD, Henry Francis. b. Doncaster 1811; articled to Peter Robinson, London; superintended rebuilding of York castle 1832; commenced practice at Hull 1834; removed to Bradford 1849, in partnership with William and Richard Mawsom, built Bradford town hall, the Exchange and Airedale coll.; erected rifle factory at Enfield Lock 1856; removed to London 1874, competed for the law courts, built the City Temple 1874 and Inns of court hotel 1866; architect to sir Titus Salt at Saltaire; author with A. H. Cates of The history and antiquities of the fortifications to the city of York 1834. d. Heron court, Richmond, Surrey 20 July 1878. The Builder 27 July 1878 p. 788.

LOCKWOOD, Mark (son of Mr. Lockwood a farmer near Leeds). b. 25 April 1798; employed by his uncle Benjamin Crosby of Stationers’ hall court, London, bookseller 1812–14 and by his successors Simpkin and Marshall 1814–35, admitted a partner with them 1835, superintended the buying department and country trade 1839 to death; became the greatest book buyer in the world. d. 16 Highbury place, Islington 23 Nov. 1857. bur. Highgate cemetery 28 Nov. G.M. iv 106 (1858).

LOCKYER, Henry Frederick. b. 1797; ensign 71 foot 25 March 1813; lieut. 3 foot 1820, captain 1822; major 97 foot 26 June 1835, lieut.-col. 26 Oct. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1858; commanded forces in Ceylon 1855–60; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H. 1837; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; granted distinguished service reward 9 Feb. 1855. d. on board steamship Ripon on his way home from Ceylon 30 Aug. 1860.

LOCKYER, Thomas. b. Old Town, Croydon, Surrey 1 Nov. 1826; a bricklayer; the best wicket keeper of his day, a hard hitter with a wonderful eye, a round-arm fast bowler; first played at Lord’s in Middlesex v. Surrey 20 May 1850; manager of the Surrey county eleven and United England eleven matches; landlord of Prince Albert inn, Mitcham road, Croydon 8 Feb. 1860 to 1863; landlord of Sheldon Arms inn, Croydon 17 Nov. 1865 to death. d. Sheldon Arms inn, Whitgift st. Croydon 22 Dec. 1869. bur. Ch. Ch. Broad Green, Croydon. F. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, iv 114 (1863); Sporting Review, lxiii 11 (1870); Illust. sporting news, iii 329 (1864), portrait; Illust. Times 10 Aug. 1861 p. 93, portrait; R. Daft’s Kings of cricket (1893) 36, portrait.

LOCOCK, Sir Charles, 1 Baronet (3 son of Henry Locock, M.D. 1763–1843). b. Northampton 21 April 1799; resident private pupil of sir Benjamin Brodie in London; M.D. Edinb. 1821; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1836, member of council 1840–2; had the best practice in London as an obstetric physician; physician to Westminster Lying-in hospital many years; fellow of university of London 1836 to death; first physician accoucheur to the Queen 1840–75, attended at birth of all her children; created a baronet 5 May 1857; F.R.S.; pres. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1857; discovered the efficacy of bromide of potassium in epilepsy 1857; contested Isle of Wight 22 July 1865; D.C.L. Oxf. 1868; resided 26 Hertford st. Mayfair, London. d. Binstead, Isle of Wight 23 July 1875. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 28 July. Munk’s College of Physicians, iii 270 (1878); I.L.N. lxvii 119, 124, 239 (1875), portrait; Graphic, xii 123 (1875), portrait.

LOCOCK, Sidney (3 son of the preceding). b. 9 Hanover sq. London 14 May 1834; unpaid attaché at Athens 7 May 1853; secretary of legation in Japan 1865, at the Hague 1868; secretary of embassy at Constantinople 1872; minister resident and consul general to republics of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador 23 May 1874 to 12 Feb. 1881; minister resident in Servia 16 April 1881; appointed envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to emperor of Brazil 11 Feb. 1885 but did not proceed. d. 22 Southwick st. Hyde park, London 30 Aug. 1885. Foreign Office List (1886) 213.

LODER, Edward James (eld. son of John David Loder, violinist 1788–1846). b. Bath 1813; pupil of Ferdinand Ries at Frankfort 1826–34; composed music for J. S. Arnold’s drama Nourjahad produced at English opera house, London, July 1834; musical director at Princess’s theatre about 1846–50, then conductor at Manchester; composed the operas of The Dice of Death 1835, The Foresters 1845, The Deerstalkers 1845, The Night Dancers produced at Princess’s Oct. 1846, revived there 1850, and at Covent Garden 1860; Raymond and Agnes produced at Manchester 1855 and at St. James’s theatre London 1859 and other operas; published three sets of Songs 1837–8; his name is attached to 150 pieces of music; author of First principles of singing 1838; The modern pianoforte tutor 18—, new ed. 1870. d. London 5 April 1865. I.L.N. xxxiii 491 (1858), portrait.

LODER, George (son of George Loder of Bath, flute-player). b. Bath about 1816; resided at Baltimore, U.S. of America, some years; musical director of Olympic theatre, New York 1839; principal of New York vocal institute 1844; conductor for Anna Bishop at Adelaide 1856; conductor with Lyster’s opera troupe; organist, vocalist, conductor and composer in London 1860; published in 1861 his comic operetta Pets of the Parterre, which had been produced at Lyceum theatre; published his musical entertainment The old house at home 1862; The New York glee book 1844 contains several part-songs by him; published The middle voice 1860, 12 solfeggi, and various separate songs. d. the hospital, Adelaide, S. Australia 15 July 1868.

LODER, Giles. b. 9 Oct. 1786; Russia merchant at 5 Adam’s court, Old Broad st. City of London 1839; purchased estate of Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, from Lord Southampton’s trustees for £335,000. d. 1 Clarendon place, Hyde park gardens, London 19 Aug. 1871, personalty sworn under £3,000,000, 31 Aug. I.L.N. 9 Sep. 1871 p. 235.

LODER, John Fawcett (brother of Edward James Loder 1813–65). b. 1812; orchestral leader and manager of concerts at Bath; violinist in London, and leader of concerts and festivals; played the viola in Dando’s quartet at Crosby hall, London 1842–53. d. Hawley crescent, London 16 April 1853. Grove’s Dict. of Music, i 429, ii 159 (1879–80).

LODER, Sir Robert, 1 Baronet (son of Giles Loder 1786–1871). b. 7 Aug. 1823; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb.; inherited from his father the income of nearly two and a half millions of money, with power of appointment among his children, besides estates 1871; sheriff of Northampton 1877; M.P. Shoreham 1880–5; cr. baronet 27 July 1887; had estates in England, Russia and Sweden; a scientific farmer. d. Beach house, Worthing 27 May 1888, leaving more than £2,500,000 personalty.

LODGE, Robert John. b. April 1810; manager of Marine Insurance Co. 1839–88; salved from wreck of Royal Charter in 1859 £322,103 at a cost of 5⅓ per cent., and from the wreck of the Alfonso XII. in 1885 £90,000 from a depth of 26⅔ fathoms, these and other successes revolutionized the premium rate on specie; presented with a farewell address signed by 20 marine insurance companies and 60 members of Lloyd’s 1888; treasurer of Highgate literary and scientific institution. d. 7 The Grove, Highgate 1 April 1893.

LODWICK, Peter. Entered Bombay army 1799; lieut. marine battalion 26 May 1800, captain 23 May 1811; captain 11 N.I. 1818; lieut.-col. 6 N.I. 182- to 1829 or 1830; lieut.-col. 3 N.I. 1829 or 1830 to 1831; lieut.-col. 4 N.I. 1831 to 18 April 1833; lieut.-col. 11 N.I. 18 April 1833 to 1835 or 1836; lieut.-col. 20 N.I. 1835 or 1836 to 28 June 1838; col. 16 N.I. 9 Nov. 1840 to 1869; general 25 Jany. 1861. d. Bagnéres de Bigorre, France 28 Aug. 1873. Report of proceedings in case of The King, on the prosecution of J. Asplin v. Lodwick for a libel 1810.

LOEWE, Louis. b. of Jewish parents at Zülz Prussian Silesia 1809; ed. at univ. of Berlin, Ph. D.; travelled in the East 1836–9; lecturer on oriental languages to Duke of Sussex 1839; went to the East 13 times as secretary with sir Moses Montefiore 1839–74; principal of Jews’ College, Finsbury sq. London 1856; opened a Jewish boarding school at Brighton 1858; naturalised in England 12 July 1862; principal of the Judith theological college at Ramsgate 1868–88; member of Numismatic Soc. 27 Feb. 1845 and a contributor to the Chronicle 1856 etc.; translated J. B. Levinsohn’s Efés Dammim Conversations at Jerusalem 1841; author of A dictionary of the Circassian language 1854; edited Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore 2 vols. 1890. d. 53 Warwick road, Maida hill, London 5 Nov. 1888. Morais’s Eminent Israelites (1880) 208–11; Numismatic Chronicle 3 Series vol. ix Proceedings 22–3 (1889).

LOFFT, Capel (4 son of Capel Lofft, miscellaneous writer 1751–1824). b. Troston hall, Suffolk 19 Feb. 1806; ed. at Eton 1814–25, and King’s coll. Camb., fellow to 1837, Craven univ. scholar 1827, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 6 June 1834; author of Self-Formation, or the history of an individual mind. By A fellow of a college 2 vols. 1837; Ernest 1839, anon., a poem, 2 ed. with title of Ernest the rule of right 1868; New Testament, suggestions for reformation of Greek text. By R. E. Storer (i.e. Restorer) 1868; published at New York in 1861 an edition of the Self-Communion of Marcus Antoninus, with notes. d. at his estate Millmead in Virginia, U.S. of A. 1 Oct. 1873.

LOFTHOUSE, Mary (dau. of Thomas B. W. Forster of Holt Manor, Wiltshire, landscape painter). b. 1853; water-colour painter; her pictures were exhibited at the exhibition of lady artists, Great Marlborough st. London; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A. 1876–80; an associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 1884; (m. 3 June 1884 Samuel Hill Smith Lofthouse, barrister L.I. 7 June 1869). d. Elmbank, Lower Halliford-on-Thames 2 May 1885.

LOFTUS, Arthur John (only son of Arthur Loftus, captain R.N.) b. 1817; ensign 97 foot 15 Dec. 1840; lieut. 10 royal hussars 1 May 1846; captain 18 hussars 26 Feb. 1858, sold out 21 Sep. 1860; Lucknow medal and clasp 1857; gentleman usher to the queen 1878–83; keeper of the crown jewels 23 April 1883 to death. d. Brighton 3 Sep. 1891.

LOFTUS, Ferrars (4 son of general Wm. Loftus, lieut. of Tower of London). b. 24 June 1798; ensign grenadier guards 1815, captain 27 Dec. 1833, sold out 1840; colonel 3 West York militia 25 April 1870 to death. d. Tyringham, Bucks. 9 Oct. 1877.

LOFTUS, George William (2 son of 2 marquess of Ely 1770–1845). b. 11 May 1815; ed. at Harrow; 2 lieut. rifle corps 22 June 1833; ensign grenadier guards 12 Sep. 1834, sold out 1839; fought a duel with lord Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, at Boulogne 10 Dec. 1839, they exchanged shots without effect; bankrupt 2 May 1862 and 9 April 1867. d. Nice, France 19 Jany. 1877. Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a life (1891) 2–4.

LOFTUS, William Francis Bentinck (brother of Ferrars Loftus 1798–1877). b. 17 Aug. 1784; cornet 15 dragoons 30 Aug. 1799, captain 20 April 1804; major 38 foot 9 April 1807 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; colonel 50 foot 11 April 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Chacombe priory, Northamptonshire 13 Sep. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 635 (1852).

LOFTUS, William James (eld. son of the preceding). b. 7 Jany. 1822; ensign 38 foot 9 Nov. 1838, lieut.-col. 16 Jany. 1863, placed on h.p. 22 Dec. 1863; served in North America and the West Indies 1840–51; present at the Alma, at Inkerman, and in siege of Sebastopol, Crimean medal with 3 clasps; served in Indian mutiny, in siege and capture of Lucknow, Indian medal with clasps 1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; general on the retired list July 1881. d. Birtley Bramley, Guildford 29 March 1887.

LOFTUS, William Kennett. b. Rye, Sussex about 1821; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch., at Twickenham, and Caius coll. Camb. 1840; secretary to Newcastle Natural history soc.; geologist on staff of sir W. F. Williams on Turco-Persian frontier commission 1849–52; sent out to Babylon and Nineveh by Assyrian excavation fund 1853, returned 1855 with collections of tablets, &c. now in British Museum; issued a volume of Lithograph facsimilies of cuneiform inscriptions from 1852; author of Travels and researches in Chaldea and Susiana, with account of excavations at Nimrod and Shúsh 1857. d. on board the Tyburnia on his way to England from Rangoon, Nov. 1858.

LOGAN, Alexander Stuart (son of minister of Relief church, St. Ninians, Stirlingshire). b. St. Ninians 1810; ed. Glasgow and Edinb. universities; advocate at Scottish bar 1835; senior advocate depute Dec. 1853; sheriff of Forfarshire 4 Feb. 1854 to death; held many briefs at bar of General Assembly; author of On Robert Burns, an address, and Judas the Betrayer, a poetical fragment 1871. d. 12 York place, Edinburgh 2 Feb. 1862, marble bust in Court buildings, Dundee. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 207–8.

LOGAN, Archibald Spiers. b. 1802; entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 47 Madras N.I. 182-, captain 11 Sep. 1832; captain 33 N.I. 1835, lieut.-col. 7 Aug. 1846 to 1855; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 1855 to 24 Oct. 1858; commandant at Vellore 14 March 1856 to 1858; col. of 45 N.I. 9 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Elm bank, Malvern 10 May 1873.

LOGAN, George. Entered Madras army 1819; captain 41 Madras N.I. 27 Jany. 1831, major 19 Sep. 1843 to 6 Oct. 1851; lieut.-col. of 2 European regiment 6 Oct. 1851 to 1853 and 1854–5; lieut.-col. of 41 N.I. 1855–60, of 6 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Eastbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 4 Nov. 1870.

LOGAN, James (son of a merchant). b. Aberdeen about 1794; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal college, Aberdeen; his reading ticket at British museum dated from 1821; a journalist in London, afterwards clerk in an architect’s office; made a pedestrian tour in Scotland 1826; a transcriber on catalogue of British museum Dec. 1838 to July 1840; secretary of Highland society of London several years; wrote much in Transactions of the Gaelic society of London, of which he was the Father; a brother of the Charterhouse, London, expelled 1866; F.S.A.; author of The Scottish Gael or Celtic manners as preserved among the Highlanders 2 vols. 1831, 2 ed. 1876; Gaelic gatherings or the highlanders at home 1848; and of the letterpress to R. R. Mac Ian’s The clans of the Scottish Highlands 2 vols. 1843–9, new ed. 1857. d. London, April 1872. James Logan’s Scottish Gael, new ed. (1876) memoir pp. ix–xx; R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 310–11.

LOGAN, James Richardson. Went to the Straits Settlements about 1835; settled at Penang, Prince of Wales’s Island; started at Singapore in 1847 the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, which he edited for about 10 years; started and edited the Penang Gazette; notary public of supreme court of Prince of Wales’s Island; a member of Asiatic Society. d. Penang 20 Oct. 1869.

LOGAN, Robert Abraham (son of Patrick Logan, captain 57 foot). b. 26 July 1824; ensign 41 foot 26 Oct. 1841; ensign 57 foot 19 Nov. 1841, lieut.-col. 24 April 1872, placed on h.p. 26 July 1876; commanded 57 foot in New Zealand war 1861, took the Maori Pah 1863; commanded brigade depots 49 and 50 at Hounslow 1877; M.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 6 May 1882; C.B. 5 July 1865. d. 28 Glen Eldon road, Streatham near London 27 Jany. 1890.

LOGAN, William (son of a customer weaver). b. Damhead near Hamilton, Lanarkshire 1813; a loom weaver; a district missionary in St. Giles’, London, then in Leeds, Rochdale 1840, Glasgow, again at Rochdale and at Bradford; established a temperance dining room, the profits of which he distributed to the poor; attended persons stricken with fever; great friend of David Gray of Luggie the poet, and the soother of his dying hours 1861; the friend of Janet Hamilton the poet of Coatbridge, who d. 1873; author of An exposure of female prostitution in London, Leeds and Rochdale 1843; The moral statistics of Glasgow 1849; Words of comfort for parents bereaved of little children 1861, 8 ed. 1874; The great social evil 1871; The early heroes of the temperance reformation 1873. d. Glasgow 16 Sep. 1879. W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of one hundred Glasgow men, ii 177–8 (1886), portrait.

LOGAN, Sir William Edmond (2 son of Wm. Logan, baker, d. 1841). b. Montreal 20 April 1798; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; in counting-house of his uncle Hart Logan in London 1818–29; manager of copper-smelting works at Swansea 1831–8; demonstrated the important fact that the stratum of clay underlying coal-beds was the soil in which the coal vegetation grew; director of the geological survey of Canada 1842–70; discovered the Eozoon Canadense, the earliest known life, in Laurentian strata 1858; Canadian comr. at Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862, and at Paris exhibition 1855; F.R.S. 5 June 1851, royal medallist 1867; received cross of Legion of Honour 1855; Wollaston medallist of Geological Soc. 1856; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856; founded at cost of 20,000 dollars the Logan chair of geology in McGill university, Montreal 1872; D.C.L. of Lennoxville univ. 1855; LL.D. of McGill univ. 1856; F.G.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; author with T. S. Hunt of A sketch of the geology of Canada 1856. d. Castle Malgwin, Pembrokeshire 22 June 1875. bur. Llechryd church, Cardiganshire. B. J. Harrington’s Life of W. E. Logan. Montreal (1883), portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 228–34; Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxii 76–80 (1876); Wallich’s Eminent men of the day (1870), portrait ix; I.L.N. xviii 487–8 (1851), portrait.

LOGAN, William Hugh (son of a writer to the signet). Apprentice to a bank in Edinb.; manager of a bank at Berwick-on-Tweed; banker at Berwick; twice mayor of Berwick; sheriff; supplied Mr. R. H. Wyndham with all his occasional addresses, dramas and burlesques for theatre royal, Edinb.; edited Edinburgh theatrical and musical review, numbers 5 to 34 the last 1835; writer of Le Bas Bleu, farce, T.R. Edinb. 30 March 1836; Rummio and Judy, burlesque 183-; Absent without leave, farce, Strand theatre, London 1837; Babes in the wood, pantomime, Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 19 Dec. 1859; Shadows, farce, Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 1862 and many other pieces; author of Memoir of Archibald Maclaren, dramatist. Edinb. 1835, anon.; The Scottish banker 1839, 3 ed. 1847; On the law and practice of bills of exchange; and of a short-lived serial called The dramatic spectator. By Poz, Quiz and Co. Edinb. 1837; edited Fragmenta Scoto-Dramatica 1715–1758. Edinb. 1835, anon.; A Pedlar’s pack of ballads and songs. Edinb. 1869. d. Jany. 1883. R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland (1868) 66–8; J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage (1888) 34, 474, 478.

LOGIE, William. b. Kirkwall 23 Feb. 1786; presbyterian minister Ladykirk 1811–24; minister of Kirkwall 1824 to death; D.D. of Edinb. univ. March 1854; author of God sending and withdrawing the pestilence 1832; Sermons on the services of the church, with memoir and portrait. Lond. 1857. d. Kirkwall 5 Sep. 1856.

LOGIN, Sir John Spencer (eld. son of John Login of Stromness, Orkney). b. Stromness 9 Nov. 1809; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1831; surgeon to Bengal horse artillery 1832, to the Nizam’s army 1834, in Afghan campaign 1838 and in mission to Herat 1839; surgeon British residency, Lucknow; postmaster in Oude, superintendent of hospitals to king of Oude 1841; in Punjaub army 1848–9, in charge of treasuries of Sikh government, the citadel of Lahore, the post office in the Punjaub; guardian of maharajah Duleep Singh 1849 to 1858; surgeon 17 April 1848, retired 18 April 1858; knighted at Windsor castle 14 Nov. 1854; resided 5 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London. d. Felixstowe, Suffolk 18 Oct. 1863. Sir John Login and Duleep Singh (1890), portrait.

LOGIN, Thomas. b. Stromness, Orkney 1823; in public works department India 1844, engaged in construction of Ganges canal 1847–54; executive engineer of the Darjeeling roads 1857; superintending engineer at Umballa 1870; author of papers on Benefit of irrigation in India and on construction of irrigating canals, for which he received Telford premium from Instit. of Civil engineers; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; M.I.C.E. 19 May 1868. d. while inspecting the Thibet road in the Punjaub 5 June 1874. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix 205 (1878).

LOLA MONTEZ, stage name of Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert (dau. of Edward Gilbert, ensign 44 foot, d. Dinapore, India 1825). b. Limerick 1818; ed. at Montrose and in Paris; resided at Bath with her mother; ran away to Ireland with Thomas James, captain 21 Bengal N.I., whom she married at Meath 23 July 1837; she returned from India to England early in 1842; he obtained an order for a divorce in consistory court, London 15 Dec. 1842, retired from the army 28 Feb. 1856 and d. 17 May 1871; made her début at Her Majesty’s theatre 3 June 1843 as ‘Lola Montez Spanish dancer,’ but being badly received did not appear again; danced at Dresden, Berlin, Warsaw and St. Petersburg; appeared as a dancer at Munich 1847 when she captivated the king of Bavaria, Ludwig Carl Augustus, naturalised by a royal ordinance 7 March 1847, created baronne de Rosenthal and comtesse de Lansfeld, the king built a splendid mansion for her and gave her a pension of 20,000 florins; ruled the kingdom of Bavaria with great ability, banished March 1848 and the king was forced to abdicate 21 March; m. at St. George’s, Hanover sq. 19 July 1849 George Trafford Heald, cornet 2nd life guards, she fled with him to Spain Aug. 1849 to avoid punishment for bigamy, he sold out 1849 and was drowned at Lisbon 1853 or 1856; danced in ballet of Betley the Tyrolean, at Broadway theatre, New York 29 Dec. 1851, and played Lola Montez in Ware’s drama ‘Lola Montez in Bavaria’ 18 May 1852; m. in California 2 Aug. 1853 P. P. Hull, proprietor of the ‘San Francisco Whig’ but soon left him; played at Victoria theatre, Sydney, N.S.W. 23 Aug. 1855; played at Melbourne 1856 where she horsewhipped Mr. Seekamp, editor of the Ballarat Times, for reflecting on her character; appeared at Green st. theatre, New York 1857 in The Eton Boy, The follies of a night, and Lola in Bavaria; a public lecturer in the United States 1858, lectured at St. James’s hall, London 7 April 1859; spent her time visiting the female outcasts at the Magdalen hospital near New York 1859–60. d. in a sanitary asylum at Asteria, New York 17 Jany. 1861. bur. Greenwood cemet. 19 Jany. Autobiography and lectures of Lola Montez (1858), portrait; Les Contemporains, Lola Montes. Par Eugène de Mirecourt. Paris (1870), portrait; F. L. Hawks’s Story of a penitent, Lola Montez. New York (1867); C. H. Ross’s Painted Faces (1891) 78–88; H. H. Phelps’s Players of a century (1880) 265–7, 297; Temple Bar, July 1880 pp. 362–7; Mortemar’s Folly’s Queens (1882) 10–14, portrait; You have heard of them. By Q. (1854) 98–106; I.L.N. x 180 (1847), portrait.

LOMAS, John (son of rev. Robert Lomas d. 1810). b. Hull 13 Dec. 1798; master Kingswood sch. 1820–23; Wesleyan methodist minister at Manchester 1827–33, 1842–5, 1851–4, at Bristol 1833–6, 1855–8, at Birmingham 1836–9, in London 1845–51, 1858–61; theological tutor Richmond coll. 1861–8 and at Headingley coll. 1868–73; president of the Conference 1853; author of Jesus Christ the propitiation for our sins. The third Fernley lecture 1872. d. Redland, Bristol 20 Aug. 1877. Wesleyan Methodist Mag. ci 9, 134, 207, 283 (1878).

LOMAX, James (3 son of Richard Grimshaw Lomax d. 1837). b. Clayton hall, Accrington, Lancs. 1803; ed. at Stonyhurst; succeeded to family estates on death of his brother John Lomax 1849; a prominent Roman Catholic in the north of England, and a munificent donor to R.C. organizations in Lancashire, erected at his own cost church of Our Lady and St. Hubert, Great Harwood; created knight commander of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX. d. Clayton hall 26 March 1886.

LOMAX, Thomas George (eld. son of rev. James Lomax of Druid Heath house, Staffs.) b. 1783; bookseller at the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 1 Jany. 1810 to death; purchased relics of Dr. Johnson from his black servant Francis Barber; senior bailiff of Lichfield 1833, mayor 1843. d. the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 3 Jany. 1873. bur. St. Chad’s cemetery. Bookseller, Feb. 1873 p. 79.

LONDESBOROUGH, Albert Denison Denison, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry Conyngham, 1 marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). b. 8 Stanhope st. Piccadilly, London 21 Oct. 1805; ed. Eton; cornet in the army 21 Sep. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 24 July 1823, sold out 1824; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Vienna 1825, sec. of legation, Florence 1826 and at Berlin 1829–31; K.C.H. 1829; M.P. Canterbury 1835–41 and 1847–50; assumed name of Denison in lieu of Conyngham 4 Sep. 1849; cr. baron Londesborough of Londesborough, Yorkshire 4 March 1850; pres. of British Archæological association at its first meeting at Canterbury 1843; V.P. of Archæological Instit. 1849; pres. of London and Middlesex Archæological society 1855; purchased the Selby estate, Yorkshire, Aug. 1853 for £270,000; held 60,000 acres of land, producing income of £100,000; F.S.A. 1840; F.R.S. 13 June 1850; most unlucky as a breeder and runner of horses; printed Wanderings in search of health 1849; Miscellanea Graphica 1857; An illustrative catalogue of antique silver 1860. d. 8 Carlton house terrace, London 15 Jany. 1860. bur. Grimston 24 Jany. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii 171–5 (1861); I.L.N. xxiii 225 (1853) portrait, xxxvi 108 (1860); Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 228–32, 482–3; W. W. Morrell’s History of Selby (1867) 275–7; Sporting Review, xliii 80–81 (1860); C. R. Smith’s Retrospections, i 262–8 (1883) and Collectanea Antigua, v 261–69 (1861).

LONDONDERRY, Charles William Vane, 3 Marquess of (2 son of Robert Stewart, 1 marquess of Londonderry 1739–1821). b. Mary st. Dublin 18 May 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 108 foot 11 Oct. 1794; major 106 foot 31 July 1795; lieut.-colonel 5 dragoons 1 Jany. 1797 to 6 April 1799 when the regiment was disbanded for insubordination; lieut.-col. 18 hussars 12 April 1799 to 20 Nov. 1813; M.P. Thomastown in Irish parliament 1798–1800, M.P. co. Londonderry 1801 to June 1814; under sec. of state for war and colonies 1807 to 1808; commanded a brigade of hussars in Portugal 1808; adjutant general to army under sir Arthur Wellesley 1809–12; K.B. 1 Feb. 1813; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; G.C.H. 1816; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Berlin 7 April 1813; colonel 25 light dragoons 20 Nov. 1813; created a peer of the realm by title of baron Stewart of Stewart’s court and Ballilawn 1 July 1814; a lord of the bedchamber 25 June 1814 to Aug. 1827; P.C. 27 July 1814; ambassador to Vienna 27 Aug. 1814; assumed surname of Vane 1819; colonel 10 hussars 3 Feb. 1820 to 23 June 1843; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marquess 12 Aug. 1822; cr. earl Vane and viscount Seaham 28 March 1823; general 10 Jany. 1837; lord lieut. of Durham 27 April 1842; col. 2 life guards 23 June 1843 to death; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; made a harbour at Seaham, opened 29 July 1835, which cost £250,000; published Suggestions for the improvement of the force of the British empire 1805; A narrative of the Peninsular war 1808–13, 2 vols. 1828–9; Memoirs and correspondence of Lord Castlereagh 8 vols. 1848–51. d. Holderness house, Park lane, London 6 March 1854. bur. Long Newton 16 March. J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage, iii 552–4 (1886), portrait; Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen. First series 5 pages (1836), portrait 10; Royal military calendar 3 ed. ii 411–20 (1820); St. Stephen’s. By Mask (1839) 78–88; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 188–92; H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees (1865) 111–14.

LONDONDERRY, Frederick William Robert Stewart, 4 Marquess of (1 son of preceding). b. South st. Grosvenor sq. London 7 July 1805; M.P. for co. Down 1826–52; a lord of the admiralty 1829–30; vice chamberlain of the household 27 Dec. 1834 to June 1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; colonel North Down militia 1837; lord lieut. of Down 1845–64; M.P. co. Down 1826–52; succeeded as 4 marquess 6 March 1854; K.P. 1855. d. Hastings 25 Nov. 1872. I.L.N. lxi 550 (1872).

LONDONDERRY, George Henry Robert Charles William Vane-Tempest, 5 Marquess of (half-brother of preceding). b. Vienna 26 April 1821; styled viscount Seaham 1823–54; ed. at Eton; matric. Ball. coll. Oxf. 14 June 1839, B.A. and M.A. 1867, hon. D.C.L. Durham; cornet 1 life guards 13 Jany. 1843, lieut. 1845, sold out 1848; M.P. North Durham 1847–54; succeeded his father as 2 earl Vane 6 March 1854; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry 1859–73; lieut.-col. commandant 2 Durham militia 1853–62; assumed additional name of Tempest by r.l. 28 June 1854; appointed to proceed on a special mission to St. Petersburg to invest emperor Alexander II. with insignia and habit of order of the garter 21 July 1867; provincial grand master free masons co. Durham 1880; succeeded his brother as 5 marquess 25 Nov. 1872; K.P. 31 Aug. 1874; lord lieut. of Durham 8 June 1880 to death. d. Plas Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 5 Nov. 1884. I.L.N. lxxxv 501 (1884), portrait; R. F. Gould’s Freemasonry, iv 276 (1885), portrait.

LONEY, Robert. b. 1787; entered navy Sep. 1797; commander on h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; captain on h.p. 6 Aug. 1852; retired admiral 15 June 1879; edited The China pilot 1855. d. Woodbine villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 22 Feb. 1882.

LONG, Catharine (youngest dau. of Horatio Walpole, 2 earl of Orford 1752–1822). b. 1798; (m. 25 July 1822 Henry Lawes Long of Hampton lodge near Farnham, Surrey, d. 1868); edited The story of a drop of water 1856; author of Sir Roland Ashton, a tale of the times 2 vols. 1844, 2 ed. 1854; The Midsummer souvenir, thoughts original and selected 1846; Heavenly thoughts for morning hours 1851; Heavenly thoughts for evening hours 1856; The first lieutenant’s story 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1856; Story of a specific prayer 1863; An Agnus Dei for four or five voices 1848, and other pieces of sacred music. d. suddenly from alarm in a thunderstorm at Landthorne Hatch near Farnham 20 Aug. 1867. Times 21 Aug. 1867 p. 10.

LONG, Charles Edward (elder son of Charles Beckford Long of Langley hall, Berkshire, d. 1836 aged 65). b. Benham park, Berkshire 28 July 1796; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; author of Imperial and papal Rome, a poem 1818, 4 ed. 1859; Considerations on the game laws 1824, anon.; Letter on the Jamaica house of assembly, abandonment of its legislative functions 1839; Royal descents, a genealogical list of the several persons entitled to quarter the arms of the royal houses of England 1845; edited for the Camden Society, The diary of the marches of the royal army during the great civil war, kept by Richard Symonds 1859. d. Lord Warden hotel, Dover 25 Sep. 1861. bur. Seale churchyard, Surrey.

LONG, Charles Maitland (younger son of Samuel Long of Carshalton, M.P. Ilchester d. 1807). b. 16 Aug. 1803; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830; R. of Whitchurch, Salop 1834–46; R. of Settrington, Yorkshire 1846 to death; archdeacon of East Riding of Yorkshire 1854–73; prebendary of Fridaythorpe in York cathedral 1855 to death. d. 43 Berkeley sq. London 6 Oct. 1875.

LONG, Edwin Longsden (son of Edwin Long an artist). b. Bath 12 July 1829; pupil of James Matthew Leigh; a portrait painter, afterwards painted oriental scenes; resided in Spain with John Phillip, R.A.; A.R.A. 26 Jany. 1876, R.A. 13 July 1881; exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1855–80; exhibited his pictures at his own gallery 168 New Bond st. 1883 to death, after which his pictures were exhibited at the Doré gallery 35 New Bond st., his pictures The Babylonian marriage market 1875 and the Egyptian feast 1877 were much noticed. d. Kelston, Netherall gardens, Hampstead 15 May 1891. I.L.N. lxviii 436, 437 (1876), portrait; Graphic 23 May 1891 p. 585, portrait; M. B. Huish’s The year’s art (1888) 32, portrait.

LONG, George (2 son of Joseph Long of Shopwick near Chichester). b. 1780; special pleader in London 1809–11; barrister G.I. 11 Feb. 1811, bencher 1834 to death, treasurer 1837; deputy steward of the Palace court 1825–33; a comr. for inquiring into state of municipal corporations 18 July 1833; magistrate at Great Marlborough st. police court 1839, at Marylebone police court June 1841 to Dec. 1859; recorder of Coventry 1840 to 1854; author of Observations on a bill to amend the laws relating to the relief of the poor 1821; A treatise on the law relative to sales of personal property 1821; An essay on the moral nature of man 1841; The conduct of life, a series of essays 1845; An enquiry concerning religion 1855. d. 51 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 26 June 1868. bur. Willesden cemet. Law Times, xlv 250 (1868).

LONG, George (eld. son of James Long, merchant). b. Poulton, Lancs. 4 Nov. 1800; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1821, 30th wrangler and senior chancellor’s medallist 1822; B.A. 1822; fellow of Trin. coll. 1823–7; professor of ancient languages in univ. of Virginia at Charlottesville 1824–8; professor of Greek in London univ., Gower st. London 1 Oct. 1828, resigned 1831; a founder of royal geographical soc. 1830, hon. sec. 1846–8; edited Quarterly journal of education 10 vols. 1831–5; The Penny cyclopædia 29 vols. 1833–46, published in monthly parts; edited and contributed to The biographical dictionary of the Society for diffusion of useful knowledge 7 vols. 1842–4, letter A only; professor of Latin in Univ. coll. London 1842–6, when he was presented with a silver tea and coffee service; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837, reader on jurisprudence and civil law at Inner Temple April 1846 to 1849; classical lecturer at Brighton college 1849–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 7 Aug. 1873; author of The civil wars of Rome. Select lives from Plutarch 5 vols. 1844–8; France and its revolutions, a pictorial history 1850; An old man’s thoughts about many things 1862, anon.; The decline of the Roman republic 5 vols. 1864; compiled The standard cyclopædia of political knowledge 4 vols. 1848, and edited with rev. Arthur John Macleane the Bibliotheca Classica 27 vols. 1851–84. d. Portfield, Chichester 10 Aug. 1879. H. J. Mathews’s In memoriam. George Long (1879).

LONG, James. b. 1814; resided in Russia; deacon in Church of England 1839, priest 1840; went to India as a missionary of Church missionary society about 1846, stationed at Thakurpukur near Calcutta; known as Padre Long, returned to England 1872; member of Bengal Asiatic Society; F.R.G.S.; fined 1000 rupees and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for adversely criticising the English press at Calcutta and the indigo planters in his preface to a Bengali drama entitled Niladarpana Nataka 1861; assigned to Church Missionary Soc. £2000 to provide popular lectures on the religions of the East; author of Handbook of Bengal missions 1848; A descriptive catalogue of Bengali works 1855; Prabád Málá or the wit of Bengali ryots 1869; Eastern proverbs and emblems 1881; contributed to Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Calcutta review and the Indian magazine. d. 3 Adam st. Adelphi, London 23 March 1887. Trubner’s Literary Record (1887) 24; Academy 9 April 1887 p. 255.

LONG, Richard Penruddock (2 son of Walter Long 1793–1867). b. Baynton house, Wiltshire 19 Dec. 1825; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; first played at Lord’s in Harrow v. Winchester 27 July 1842; one of the largest landed proprietors in England; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1858; nominated for sheriff of Wilts. 1875; contested South Wilts. 16 July 1852; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; M.P. North Wilts. 1865–8. d. Cannes, France 16 Feb. 1875. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, iii 106 (1863).

LONG, Samuel (eld. son of Charles Maitland Long 1803–75). b. 5 Jany. 1840; cadet R.N. 8 Dec. 1852; served in Crimean war and was present at bombardment of Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; captain 12 Dec. 1876; commander of Vernon torpedo instruction ship Portsmouth, organised and delivered the night attack on the fleet at Spithead and on the naval force protected by a boom at Southampton 1889; captain superintendent at Pembroke dockyard Jany. 1889 to Aug. 1891; aide de camp to the queen 1 Jany. 1889 to 27 Aug. 1891; R.A. 27 Aug. 1891; author of several papers on torpedo warfare; thrown from his horse and injured, d. Blendworth lodge, Horndean near Portsmouth 25 April 1893.

LONG, Simon (son of David Long, Gretna Green priest, d. 1827 in his 72 year). The last of the Gretna Green priests. d. Falling near Newcastle on Tyne 24 April 1872.

LONG, Walter (1 son of Richard Godolphin Long, M.P., 1761–1835). b. 10 Oct. 1793; ed. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; M.P. North Wilts. 1835–65; major R. Wilts, yeomanry cavalry; resided Rood Ashton, Wilts., d. Torquay 31 Jany. 1867. G.M. iii 399 (1867).

LONG, William. Stable boy in employ of 5 duke of Beaufort in Oxfordshire 1803; whipper-in to hounds of 6 duke of Beaufort at Badminton about 1814–26; huntsman to 6 and 7 dukes of Beaufort 1826–55. d. Didmarton, Gloucestershire 31 Jany. 1877 aged 84. Cecil’s Records of the chase (1887) 162, 175–80.

LONG, William (2 son of Walter Long of Preshaw house near Bishop’s Waltham, Hants. 1788–1871). b. 15 Aug. 1817; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; author of Avebury illustrated. Devizes 1858; Stonehenge and its burrows. Devizes 1876. d. Onslow gardens, London 14 April 1886. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xi 375 (1886).

LONGDEN, Sir Henry Errington (son of Thomas Hayter Longden). b. 14 Jany. 1819; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 10 foot 16 Sep. 1836, lieut.-col. 20 July 1858, placed on h.p. 14 June 1864; served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, in Punjaub campaign 1848–9; buried under the ruins of Mooltan 12 Sep. 1849 and after some hours dug out unhurt; in battle of Goojerat; medal and 2 clasps; employed in surveying forests of the Himalayas 1849–52; in Indian mutiny 1857–8, took part in capture of Lucknow, chief of the staff to Lugard’s force 1859, Indian medal and 2 clasps; adjutant general Bengal 17 Jany. 1866 to 16 March 1869; general 1 July 1881; col. of second battalion Hampshire regiment, late 67 foot, 24 June 1883 to 11 Nov. 1888; col. of the Lincolnshire regiment, late 10 foot, 11 Nov. 1888 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; C.S.I. 28 May 1870. d. Bournemouth 29 Jany. 1890.

LONGDEN, Sir James Robert (youngest son of John Robert Longden of Doctors’ commons, London, proctor). b. 1827; government clerk in the Falkland islands 1844, colonial secretary there to 1861; pres. of Virgin Islands 1861; lieut. governor of Dominica 5 Sep. 1865; governor of British Honduras 5 Dec. 1867; governor of Trinidad 18 July 1870; governor of British Guiana 14 March 1874; governor of Ceylon 30 June 1877 to 1883; C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871, K.C.M.G. 13 March 1876, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1883; alderman of Hertfordshire under Local government act. d. Longhope near Watford, Herts. 4 Oct. 1891; cremated at Woking cemet. 9 Oct.

LONGFIELD, George (4 son of rev. Mountifort Longfield, V. of Desertserges, co. Cork). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1837–42, fellow 1842 to death; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, B.D. 1864, D.D. 1866; professor of Hebrew, univ. of Dublin 1869 to death; treasurer of St. Patrick’s cathedral 1877; author of An introduction to the study of the Chaldee language 1859. d. 3 Nov. 1878.

LONGFIELD, John (2 son of John Longfield of Longueville, co. Cork 1767–1842). b. Dublin 18 Sep. 1804; ensign 8 foot 28 June 1825, lieut.-col. 3 April 1846 to 1 June 1860 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 1855, 1856 and 1857–59; col. 29 foot 19 April 1868 to 19 Dec. 1881; general 19 July 1876; col. Liverpool regiment, 8 foot, 19 Dec. 1881 to death; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858. d. Kilcoleman, Bandon, co. Cork 27 Feb. 1889. History of Eighth foot 2 ed. p. 283.

LONGFIELD, Mountifort (brother of George Longfield d. 3 Nov. 1878). b. South of Ireland 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829, LL.D. 1831; fellow of Trin. coll. 1825–34; professor of political economy univ. of Dublin 1832–6, regius professor of feudal and English law 29 Nov. 1834 to death, discharged his duties by deputy from 1871; called to Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842, bencher of King’s inns 1859; comr. of Incumbered estates court 1849–58, a judge of Landed estates court 1858–67; comr. of Irish national education 1853; P.C. Ireland 1867; author of Four lectures on poor laws 1834; Lectures on political economy 1834; Remarks on the safety and advantages of commutation if accepted by the clergy generally 1870; Elementary treatise on series 1872. d. 47 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 21 Nov. 1884. Irish Law Times 29 Nov. 1884 p. 606.

LONGFIELD, Richard (brother of John Longfield 1804–89). b. Longueville, co. Cork 1802; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824; sheriff of Cork 1833; contested co. Cork 24 Jany. 1835 and seated on petition 5 June; contested co. Cork 18 Aug. 1837 and 15 July 1841. d. Longueville house, Mallow 19 June 1889.

LONGFIELD, Robert (brother of Mountifort Longfield 1802–84). b. co. Cork 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A 1832; called to Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; law adviser of crown for Ireland 1866 to death; chairman of quarter sessions, co. Galway, Dec. 1867 to death; law adviser to the castle, Dublin; M.P. Mallow, May 1859 to 1865; author of The laws of distress and replevin in Ireland. Dublin 1841; A treatise on the action of ejectment in the superior courts in Ireland 2 ed. 1846; The origin of freemasonry 1857; The fishery laws of Ireland 1863; The game laws of Ireland 1864. d. 33 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 27 April 1868.

LONGFORD, William Lygon Pakenham, 4 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Longford 1774–1838). b. Pakenham hall 31 Jany. 1819; ed. Winchester; ensign 52 foot 25 Aug. 1837; lieut. 7 foot 1838, captain 1844, placed on h.p. 6 July 1852; A.Q.M.G. Crimea 1854–5, A.A.G. 1855, A.G. 1855–6; in battles of Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman, and at siege of Sebastopol, medal with 4 clasps; A.G. Bengal, Feb. 1858 to 2 July 1860; succeeded his brother as 4 earl 27 March 1860; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 June 1861, G.C.B. 24 May 1881; under sec. of state for war 7 July 1866 to 8 Dec. 1868; lord lieut. of Longford 21 March 1874 to death; col. 5 Northumberland fusiliers 11 Sep. 1878 to death; general 31 July 1879; placed on retired list 1881. d. 24 Bruton st. London 19 April 1887.

LONGLANDS, Henry (son of Thomas Longlands of Greenwich). b. 1781; ed. at Westminster, King’s scholar 1796; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1809, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1851; secretary to West India Dock co. 1818–38. d. Blackheath road, Old Charlton 9 Feb. 1857.

LONGLEY, Charles Thomas (5 son of John Longley, recorder of Rochester, d. 1822). b. Boley Hill, Rochester 28 July 1794; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; King’s scholar at Westminster 1808; student at Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812, Greek reader 1822, tutor and censor 1825–8; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1829; proctor of the univ. 1827; C. of Cowley, Oxon. 1818, P.C. of Cowley 1823–7; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1827–9; head master of Harrow school 21 March 1829 to Oct. 1836; bishop of Ripon 15 Oct. 1836, consecrated in York cath. 6 Nov. 1836; translated to see of Durham 13 Oct. 1856; archbishop of York 1 June 1860; P.C. 9 June 1860; archbishop of Canterbury 20 Oct. 1862 to death, installed 12 Dec. 1862; the Lambeth or Pan-Anglican synod of 78 British, colonial and foreign prelates met in London under his presidency 24–27 Sep. 1867; translated Koch’s Tableau des révolutions de l’Europe 1831; author of A letter to the parishioners of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1851. d. Addington park near Croydon 27 Oct. 1868. F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, i 161–8 (1875); Macmillan’s Mag. March 1883 pp. 346–58; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait; Illustrated times 25 Oct. 1862 p. 417, portrait, 20 Dec. 1862 p. 541 view of installation.

LONGMAN, Charles (2 son of Thomas Norton Longman, publisher 1771–1842). b. 11 Feb. 1809; ed. Westminster 1822–4; head of firm of J. Dickinson & Co. paper makers, 65 Old Bailey and 1 Irongate wharf, Praed st. London; F.G.S. 1862; dropped down dead in his park, Shendish near Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 4 Jany. 1873; will proved 15 Feb. 1873, personalty under £200,000.

LONGMAN, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1804; ed. at Glasgow univ.; partner in Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, publishers 38 Paternoster row 1832, head of the firm 1842 to death; superintended production of The New Testament illustrated with engravings on wood after paintings by Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino and other great masters 1864, 250 copies at ten guineas each, 2 ed. 1864, reprinted 1883; published lord Macaulay’s works, sent him a cheque for £20,000 dated 13 March 1856 for his share of profits of his History of England vols. 3 and 4; the firm purchased business and stock of John W. Parker publisher 1863; purchased copyright of Disraeli’s novels 1870; bought Farnborough hall, Hants. for nearly £100,000, 1859. d. Farnborough hall 30 Aug. 1879. History of the house of Longman. By Francis Espinasse in The Critic, xx 366, 431, 483 (1860); Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 79–109.

LONGMAN, Thomas Tucker (son of John Longman). b. Castle Cary, Somerset 1818; ed. St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; one of first to take B.A. degree at univ. of London 1841; ordained priest 1840; missioner at Wolverhampton, at Bloxwich, at Hampton hill, and at Warwick where he built the R.C. church; administrator of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1867, canon of the cath. 1873, vicar general of the diocese 1873–91; in charge of St. Peter’s, Leamington 1884–91; dignity of Monsignor conferred on him by the Pope, June 1890; member of Birmingham school board. d. Leamington 14 Dec. 1892. Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p. 3, portrait.

LONGMAN, William (brother of Thomas Longman 1804–79). b. 9 Feb. 1813; entered service of Longman & Co. publishers 1828, a partner 1839 to death; freeman of Stationers’ Co. 1834; an early member of Alpine club 1857, pres. 1871–4; F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1873; author of A catalogue of works in all departments of English literature classified, anon., Second edition 1848; Journal of six weeks’ adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont and the Italian lakes. By W. Longman and H. Trower. Privately printed 1856; Lectures on the history of England to the close of the reign of Edward II. 1859; The history of the life and times of Edward III. 2 vols. 1869; A history of the three cathedrals dedicated to St. Paul in London 1873. d. Ashlyns, Great Berkhampstead 13 Aug. 1877. William Longman. By H. R. (Henry Reeve) in Fraser’s Mag. for Oct. 1877 pp. 417–21; Publishers’ Circular (1877) 605–6; Graphic, xvi 204 (1877), portrait.

LONGMIRE, Margaret (dau. of John and Margaret Atkinson). b. Westmoreland 15 April 1765; bapt. Windermere 19 May 1777; a servant on various farms; m. James Longmire of Crawmire’s, he d. 19 Jany. 1831; a sick nurse; had parochial relief. d. Troutbeck 30 May 1868 aged 103 years and 6 weeks. She was grandmother of Thomas Longmire the champion wrestler of England. W. J. Thom’s Longevity of Man (1879) 272–80.

LONGMUIR, John (son of John Longmuir). b. Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 13 Nov. 1803; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal coll., M.A., LL.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1859; English master Anderson’s Institution, Forres; licensed by presbytery of Forres, July 1833; evening lecturer in Trinity chapel, Aberdeen 1837; minister of Mariners’ church, Aberdeen Sep. 1840; minister of Free church, Aberdeen 1843–81; lecturer on geology at King’s coll. Aberdeen to 1859; author of The College and other poems. Aberdeen 1825, anon.; Bible Lays 1838, 2 ed. 1877; Ocean Lays 1854, new ed. 1864; Lays for the lambs 1860; A run through the land of Burns and the covenanters 1872; edited Rhythmical index to the English language 1877; Walker and Webster combined in a dictionary of the English language 1864, 2 ed. 1876. d. Aberdeen 7 May 1883. W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord (1887) 407–14; Edwards’s Modern Scottish Poets 2nd series.

LONGSTAFF, George Dixon. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827; M.D. Edinb. 1828; assist. professor of chemistry Edinb. univ., where he was the first teacher of practical chemistry to medical students; physician at Hull some years; in America some years; engaged in commerce in England; superintendent of special constables in Chartist riots 1848; a founder 1841 and V.P. of Chemical Soc. of London; chairman of royal maternity charity, London; first member of Wandsworth district board of works; author of Dissertatio inauguralis de calorico 1828. d. Butterknowle, Southfields, Wandsworth, Surrey 23 Sep. 1892.

LONGWORTH, John Augustus. Consul at Monastir, Tunis 29 Sep. 1851; employed on several special services 1854–58; consul general in Servia 13 Feb. 1860 to 14 Feb. 1875 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; author of A year among the Circassians 2 vols. 1840. d. 16 Westbourne park villas, Bayswater, London 23 July 1875.

LONGWORTH, Maria Theresa (7 child of Thomas Longworth of Manchester, silk manufacturer, d. Altrincham, Cheshire 1854). b. Fairyhill, Cheetwood near Manchester 1827; ed. at a convent in Staffs. and at an Ursuline convent school at Boulogne; began a correspondence 1853 with Wm. Charles Yelverton afterwards 4 viscount Avonmore, met him again when she was a nurse at Galata hospital, Constantinople, during Crimean war, Aug. 1855 and they became engaged; he read aloud the Church of England marriage service at her lodgings 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh 12 April 1857, they were afterwards married by rev. Bernard Mooney at R.C. chapel at Kilbroney near Rostrevor in Ireland, and lived together in Ireland and Scotland till April 1858; Yelverton married Emily widow of professor Edward Forbes 26 June 1858; Miss Longworth sued Yelverton for restitution of conjugal rights in probate court, London 31 Oct. 1859 but the court decided that it had no jurisdiction; the Scottish court of session upheld the marriage 19 Dec. 1862 but this judgment was reversed by the house of lords 28 July 1864; her attempt to reopen the case at Edinburgh in March 1865, failed and the house of lords supported the Scottish court 30 July 1867, her appeal to court of session to set aside judgment of house of lords was rejected 28 Oct. 1868; a subscription in her behalf was raised in Manchester; gave her first reading at Hanover square rooms, London 6 April 1866; author of Martyrs to circumstances 2 vols. 1861; The Yelverton correspondence 1863; Zanita, a tale of the Yosemite 1872; Teresina Peregrina 2 vols. 1874; Teresina in America 2 vols. 1875; lived at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, about March 1880 to her death there 13 Sep. 1881. J. F. Macqueen’s Reports in the House of Lords, iv 745–912 (1866); Law mag. and law review, xi 215–34 (1861); Illust. Times 9 March 1861 p. 143, portrait; A.R. (1861) 528–42; Reynolds’s Miscellany, xxvii 336 (1862), portrait; Illust. sporting news, v 117 (1866), portrait.