LUBY, Thomas (son of John Luby). b. Clonmel, co. Tipperary 1800; a sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar 1819, junior fellow 1831, senior fellow 6 Nov. 1847 to death; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1840; senior dean and lecturer of his college, Donegal lecturer 1832–47; Regius professor of Greek, univ. of Dublin 1852–5; M.R.I.A.; author of The elements of plane trigonometry 1825, 3 ed. 1852; An introductory treatise to physical astronomy 1828; edited J. Brinkley’s Elements of plane astronomy. Dublin 1836. d. 43 Leeson st. Dublin 12 June 1870. bur. Aberystwith. Taylor’s History of university of Dublin p. 524.

LUCAN, George Charles Bingham, 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of Lucan 1764–1839). b. St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 16 April 1800; ed. at Westminster; known as lord Bingham 1800–39; ensign 6 foot 29 Aug. 1816; lieut. 8 foot 20 Jany. 1820; capt. 1 life guards 20 June 1822, major 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1825 and lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1826, placed on h.p. 14 April 1837; served on staff of Russian army in Bulgaria 1828; M.P. co. Mayo 1826–30; lord lieut. of Mayo 1845; succeeded 30 June 1839; major general in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1854; commanded a division of cavalry as lieut. general in Russian war 18 Aug. 1854 to 18 Feb. 1855; present at the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869; col. 8 light dragoons 17 Nov. 1855; col. 1 life guards 22 Feb. 1865 to death; general 28 Aug. 1865, field marshal 21 June 1887; elected an Irish representative peer 1840; lord lieut. of Mayo 14 Feb. 1845 to death. d. 12 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1888. The drawing room portrait gallery 4 Ser. (1860), portrait; Nolan’s Russian war, i 544–50, ii 725 (1855), portrait; G. Ryan’s Our heroes (1855) 36–40; I.L.N. 13 May 1854 pp. 429–30, portrait; Graphic 24 Nov. 1888 pp. 542, 544, portrait.

LUCAS, Charles (son of Wm. Lucas of Daventry). b. 1769; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 July 1786; C. of Avebury, Wiltshire 1791–1816; resided at Devizes 1816 to death; author of A descriptive account in verse of the old serpentine temple of the Druids at Avebury 1795, 2 ed. 1801; The castle of St. Donat’s, or the history of Jack Smith 3 vols. 1798; The infernal Quixote, a tale of the day 4 vols. 1801; Joseph, a religious poem 2 vols. 1810; The Abissinian (sic) reformer or the bible and the sabre 1808. d. Devizes 1854.

LUCAS, Charles (son of Mr. Lucas of Salisbury, alderman). b. Salisbury 28 July 1808; chorister in Salisbury cathedral 8 years; studied at R.A. of Music, conductor 1832, principal 1859–66; member of queen Adelaide’s private band 1830; associate of Philharmonic Soc. 1835, member 1839, a director 1840–55 and 1864 to death; organist of Hanover chapel, Regent st. 1839; conductor of Choral harmonists society; member of firm of Addison, Hollier and Lucas music publishers 1856 to June 1865; succeeded Robert Lindley as violoncello player at the opera and leading festivals and concerts; composed an opera The Regicide 1840; three symphonies, string quartets, anthems and songs; edited Esther 1851 for Handel Soc. d. 9 Louvaine road, Wandsworth, London 23 March 1869. bur. Woking cemet. 27 March. Mag. of Music, Oct. 1890 p. 183, portrait; W. W. Cazalet’s History of royal academy of music (1854) 306.

LUCAS, Charles. b. 1805; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 19 Dec. 1820; col. 18 Feb. 1861 to 26 April 1866; inspector of artillery Bombay 1 Nov. 1862 to 29 April 1867; M.G. 26 April 1866. d. 44 Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 11 June 1873.

LUCAS, Edward (only child of Charles Lucas of Castle Shane, co. Monaghan, d. 1796). b. 27 Sep. 1787; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; sheriff of co. Monaghan 1817; M.P. co. Monaghan 1834–41; under sec. of state for Ireland 15 Sep. 1841 to 21 Aug. 1845; P.C. Ireland 1845. d. Castle Shane, co. Monaghan 12 Nov. 1871. Portraits of eminent conservatives (1846), portrait; I.L.N. lix 507 (1871).

LUCAS, Frederick (2 son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, corn-merchant and a Quaker). b. Westminster 30 March 1812; ed. at Darlington and London univ.; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; left the Soc. of Friends and joined church of Rome being received by Father Lythgoe of the Soc. of Jesus, Jany. 1839; started the Tablet 16 May 1840, a weekly R.C. newspaper which he removed to Dublin 1849, edited to his death; M.P. co. Meath 1852 to death; one of secretaries of Irish tenant league 1850; contributed frequently to Dublin Review; author of Reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic, especially addressed to the society of Friends 1839. d. at the residence of his brother in law Skidmore Ashby at Staines 22 Oct. 1855. bur. Brompton cemet. 27 Oct. Life of F. Lucas. By his brother E. Lucas 2 vols. (1886); F. Lucas: a biography. By C. J. Riethmüller (1862); Duffy’s League of North and South (1886) 330.

LUCAS, Horatio Joseph (4 son of Louis Lucas, West India merchant, d. 1862). b. London 27 May 1839; ed. at Brighton and Univ. coll. London; pupil of F. S. Cary; member of the Langham sketching club; exhibited 9 etchings at R.A. 1870–3; exhibited at the Salon in Paris; contributed to various Black and White exhibitions; a selection from his etchings is in the print room, British Museum; a good musician; member of firm of Lucas, Micholls and Co. merchants 13 New Broad st. London 1862 to death; illustrated A new year’s gift to sick children 1865. d. 18 Dec. 1873. Jewish Chronicle 26 Dec. 1873 p. 654.

LUCAS, James (2 son of James Lucas of Liverpool, West India merchant, d. 1830). b. London 21 Dec. 1813; studied medicine with Mr. Hicks of Whitwell near Hitchin, Herts.; inherited family estate at Redcoats Green, Great Wymondley, Herts. on death of his mother 24 Oct. 1849; he was so attached to his mother that he deferred interment of her body until 12 Jany. 1850 when the burial was enforced; lived in the kitchen of his residence, Elmwood house, Redcoats Green, used no furniture, gave up washing and slept on a bed of cinders; gave money and drink to all the tramps who passed by; retained two armed watchmen for his protection; visited by lord Lytton, sir Arthur Helps, John Forster and Charles Dickens who described him under the name of Mr. Mopes in Tom Tiddler’s Ground in the Christmas number of All the Year round 1861. d. of apoplexy at the house of Mr. Chapman a farmer and his tenant near his own house 19 April 1874. bur. beside his mother in Hackney churchyard 21 April. The history of the hermit of Hertfordshire. Hitchin (1874), portrait; An account of Lucas the hermit. Hitchin (1874); Journal of mental science, Oct. 1874 pp. 361–72; Popular science monthly, vi 301 (1874); Graphic, ix 480 (1874), portrait.

LUCAS, John (son of William Lucas, sub-editor of The Sun newspaper, London). b. London 4 July 1807; apprenticed to S. W. Reynolds, mezzotint-engraver; a portrait-painter with a very large practice; painted portraits of queen Adelaide, prince Consort, princess Royal, duke of Wellington and many of the court beauties; exhibited 96 portraits at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–74; many of his portraits were engraved, some of them by himself in mezzotint. d. 22 St. John’s Wood road, London 30 April 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 473, 474 (1874), portrait.

LUCAS, John Templeton (eld. son of the preceding). b. London 1836; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 30 at Suffolk st. gallery 1859–76; his farce Browne the Martyr produced at Court theatre 20 Jany. 1872 and printed in Lacy’s acting edition of plays vol. xcvi; author of fairy tales entitled Prince Ubbely Bubble’s New story book 1871; and of Edwin Landseer 1873, memorial verses. d. Whitby, Sep. 1880.

LUCAS, Louis Arthur (son of Philip Lucas of Manchester). b. 22 Sep. 1851; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London; travelled in U.S. of America 1872 and in Egypt 1873; organised an expedition to explore the Congo, left London 2 Sep. 1875, arrived at Khartoum Jany. 1876, left Khartoum April 1876; went with colonel Gordon to the Albert Nyanza and navigated northern part of the lake in the first steamboat ever launched on it; returned to Khartoum Aug. 1876, reached Suakim 18 Nov.; compiled a vocabulary of Bishareen words published in Journal of Anthropological Institute, vi 191–4. d. in a steamboat between Suakim and Suez 20 Nov. 1876. bur. Jeddah. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xxi 418–21, 465; Athenæum 9 Dec. 1876 p. 766, 23 Dec. p. 838.

LUCAS, Margaret (youngest dau. of Jacob Bright and youngest sister of John Bright, M.P.) b. Greenbank, Rochdale, Lancs. 14 July 1818; a total abstainer from 1834; (m. 1839 Samuel Lucas 1811–65, journalist); a Good Templar 1872, Grand Worthy Vice Templar; visited U.S. of America 1870; engaged in the work of Association for the abolition of state regulation of vice; one of chief founders and president of British women’s temperance association; visited U.S. of America 1886 to attend convention at Minneapolis as president of the World’s Women’s temperance union; advocated political enfranchisement of women, on public platforms in Great Britain. d. 7 Charlotte st. Bedford sq. London 4 Feb. 1890. bur. Highgate cemet. 7 Feb. H. J. B. Heath’s M. B. Lucas (1890), portrait.

LUCAS, Philip Bennett. b. 1803; F.R.C.S.; practised at Boulogne some years; author of A concise anatomical description of the arteries of the human body 1836; A practical treatise on the cure of strabismus or squint 1840. d. Pau, France 22 May 1856.

LUCAS, Richard Cockle (son of Richard Lucas). b. Salisbury 24 Oct. 1800; apprenticed to his uncle a cutler at Winchester 1812; a sculptor with a good practice; executed statues of Dr. Johnson at Lichfield, Dr. Watts at Southampton and sir R. C. Hoare in Salisbury cath.; his medallion portraits in marble, wax and ivory have much merit; exhibited 89 sculptures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 61 at Suffolk st. 1829–59; sent ivory carvings and imitation bronzes to Great Exhibition of 1851; produced a large number of etchings; granted civil list pension of £150, 19 June 1865; author of Remarks on the pantheon 1845; The artist’s dream realised, being a residence designed and built [at Chilworth near Romsey] by R. C. Lucas, sculptor 1854, etched and described 1856; On the mausoleum of Halicarnassus 1859; An essay on art, especially that of painting 1870. d. Chilworth near Romsey 18 Jany. 1883.

LUCAS, Samuel (brother of Frederick Lucas 1812–55). b. 1811; partner in a cotton mill at Manchester 1845; joined the anti-cornlaw league; a founder of Lancashire public schools assoc. Aug. 1847; a corn merchant in London from 1850; managing proprietor of The Morning Star daily paper 17 March 1856 to 1865; one of founders of the Emancipation Society for slaves 1862; author of Plan for the establishment of a general system of secular education in the county of Lancaster 1847; edited a vol. of essays entitled National education not necessarily governmental, sectarian or irreligious 1850. d. 4 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 16 April 1865. bur. Highgate cemet. Fox Bourne’s English Newspapers, ii 238, 271 (1887); Morning Star 17 April 1865 p. 4.

LUCAS, Samuel (eld. son of Thomas Lucas of Bristol, merchant). b. Bristol 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1846; founder and editor of The Press newspaper 1853; contributed reviews to The Times from 1855; edited Once a Week, June 1859 to 1865; projected and edited The Shilling Magazine 1865 which ceased Dec. 1865; author of The Sandwich Islands, a prize poem 1841; Charters of the old English colonies in America 1850; Illustrations of the history of Bristol and its neighbourhood 1853; Dacoitee in excelsis, or the spoliation of Oude 1857, anon.; Eminent men and popular books, from the Times 1859, anon.; Biography and criticism from the Times 1860, anon.; Secularia or surveys on the mainstream of history 1862; edited Thomas Hood’s Poems 2 vols. 1867. d. Eastbourne 27 Nov. 1868. Newspaper Press, iii 38 (1869).

LUCAS, Samuel (2 son of Wm. Lucas). b. Hitchin, Herts. 1805; ed. Friends’ committee school, Fishponds, Bristol; apprentice at Southwick and Harris’ wharf, Wapping: an auditor of Great Northern railway; partner in a provision house in London; a brewer and maltster at Hitchin to death; clerk to quarterly meeting at Hitchin; painter of landscapes, animals and flowers in oil and water colours; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1830–61; some of his drawings of flowers were engraved in The Florist. d. 29 March 1870. Biographical catalogue of Friends (1888) 440–3.

LUCE, Thomas (son of Thomas Luce). b. Weymouth 1790; M.P. Malmesbury 1852–9; a director of the Bank of London. d. Malmesbury 6 Aug. 1875.

LUCENA, Lorenzo. b. 1806; ed. coll. of St. Pelagio in univ. of Seville, professor of theology there 8 years and provisional president 3 years; minister of a protestant congregation of Spaniards at Gibraltar on appointment by S.P.C.K.; hon. canon of Gibraltar cathedral 1842–60; reader in Spanish language and literature in the Taylor institute, Oxford 1858 to death; cr. M.A. of univ. of Oxf. 5 June 1877; assisted in preparing new ed. of Spanish Bible founded on Cipriano de Valera’s text, Oxford 1862. d. Oxford 24 Aug. 1881.

LUCET, Joachim Simeon. b. 1797; professor de belles lettres; author of Langue Française. Simples notes grammaticales 1843. d. 49 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 11 April 1855.

LUCETTE, Catherine. Made her first appearance at theatre royal, Plymouth; first seen in London at Drury Lane as Susan in William and Susan 28 Feb. 1859; appeared at Metropolitan theatre, New York as Pauline in Delicate Ground 23 May 1859; with her husband M. Price had a drawing room entertainment at Brooklyn, New York 25 Aug. 1868; played Ariel in the Tempest at Grand Opera house, New York 1869; toured for some years in North of England playing Leonie in The Sutler Girl; m. (1) Morton Price, actor whose right name was Horton Rhys d. 8 May 1876 aged 52; m. (2) Charles Medwin. She d. 20 Oct. 1892. bur. Norwood cemetery. Brown’s American stage (1870) 226, 243.

LUCKRAFT, Alfred. b. 2 April 1792; entered navy Jany. 1801; present at Trafalgar 1805, was in the trenches 12 days besieging Morea Castle in the Peloponnesus Oct. 1828, obtained insignia of legion of honor and of Redeemer of Greece; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. d. Eastney barracks, Portsmouth 15 Oct. 1871.

LUCY, Charles. b. Hertford 1814; studied under Delaroche in Paris and at the R.A.; copied old masters at the Hague and Paris; lived at Barbizon near Fontainebleau 16 years; obtained a premium of £200 at Westminster hall competition 1847 for his painting of The departure of the primitive puritans to the coast of America, A.D. 1620; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1838–73; instructor at a drawing school in Camden Town many years; chairman of committee of new British Institution; painted a series of portraits of eminent men for sir Joshua Walmesley who bequeathed them to the South Kensington museum. d. 13 Ladbroke crescent, Notting Hill, London 19 May 1873. Anne Lucy his widow granted civil list pension of £70, 24 Nov. 1881. I.L.N. lxii 544 (1873).

LUCY, Henry Spencer (2 son of George Lucy, M.P. 1798–1845). b. 28 Nov. 1830; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 May 1850; sheriff of Warwickshire 1857; succeeded on death of his brother William 1 July 1848; kept harriers and hunted the borders of Warwick, Worcester and Gloucester; master of the Warwickshire hounds 1866, hunted 5 days a week; resided at Chalcote park, Warwick. Baily’s Mag. xxvi 373–5 (1875), portrait.

LUCY, William Wootten. b. 1802; bookseller at Marlborough from 1829; postmaster Marlborough 1829–69; mayor of Marlborough twice. d. Marlborough 16 Nov. 1869. The Marlborough Times 20 Nov. 1869 p. 4.

LUDLAM, Henry. b. 14 Oct. 1824; a land surveyor; engaged in commercial pursuits; made one of the finest private collections of minerals in the kingdom; he bequeathed his collections which included those made by Charles H. Turner and Wm. Nevill, to the Museum of practical geology in Jermyn st. London; F.G.S., F.M.S. d. 174 Piccadilly, London 23 June 1880. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvii 47 (1881).

LUDLOW, Ebenezer (son of Ebenezer Ludlow of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucester). b. 1777; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1795, M.A. 1821; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1805; town clerk of Bristol 22 July 1819, resigned 1836 on pension of £533; serjeant at law 25 June 1827; comr. of bankruptcy for Liverpool district 21 Oct. 1842 and for Bristol district 1849 to death; chairman of Gloucestershire quarter sessions, April 1842 to 1849. d. Almondsbury near Bristol 25 March 1851. G.M. xxxv 666 (1851).

LUDLOW, John. b. 16 May 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; entered Bengal army 1818; lieut. 3 Bengal N.I. 15 Aug. 1820; captain 6 N.I. 1 April 1829, major 20 Dec. 1843 to 6 April 1850; lieut.-col. of 12 N.I. 6 April 1850, of 9 N.I. 7 June 1853, of 36 N.I. 1854 to 9 Aug. 1854 when he retired with rank of M.G. d. Yotes court, Kent 30 Nov. 1882.

LUDLOW-BRUGES, William Heald (eld. son of Benjamin Pennell Ludlow of Melksham, Wilts.) b. Melksham 1796; ed. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; member of chancery bar, retired 1826; recorder of Devizes 7 June 1833 to 1844; chairman of north Wiltshire quarter sessions; M.P. Bath 1837–41; M.P. Devizes 28 July 1847 to Feb. 1848 when he retired; took additional name of Bruges by r.l. 1835. d. Sund, Wilts. 25 Sep. 1855.

LUKE, James. b. 1799; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1843, president 1853 and 1862, Hunterian orator; lecturer on anatomy London hospital 1823, assist. surgeon 1827, a principal surgeon 1833 and consulting surgeon 1861; adopted an improved operation for hernia, which has saved many lives 1841; retired from practice and resided at Woolley lodge, Maidenhead; contributed to Medical Gazette 1841 &c., Proc. R. Med. and Chir. Soc. 1843 &c. and to The Lancet 1845 &c.; F.R.S. 7 June 1855. d. Fingest grove, Wycombe, Bucks. 15 Aug. 1881. Lancet, ii 360 (1881); Barker’s Eminent medical men, i 27–30 (1865), portrait.

LUMB, Henry. Attorney at Wakefield, Yorkshire 1798 to death; deputy steward of manor of Wakefield many years; presented by his brother solicitors with his full-length portrait 14 Dec. 1859. d. 22 Feb. 1862 aged 87. Law Times 24 Dec. 1859 p. 156 and 19 April 1862 p. 323.

LUMLEY, Benjamin (son of Louis Levy a Jewish merchant of Canada, d. London about 1831). b. 1811; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch.; assumed name of Lumley; solicitor at 42 Chancery lane, London, Nov. 1832, at 6 Quality court 1833–9; a parliamentary agent in Parliament st. 1837–42; superintended finances of Her Majesty’s theatre for Laporte 1836–41, manager of the theatre 1842–52 and 1856–8, the famous pas de quatre was danced there by Taglioni, Cerito, Lucile Grahn and Rosati 1845; Sir Michael Costa seceded from Her Majesty’s in 1847 with Mario, Grisi and greater part of the orchestra; Jenny Lind sang at Her Majesty’s 1847–9, Sontag in 1851; managed the Italian opera house in Paris 1850 to 2 Dec. 1851; purchased lease of Her Majesty’s 1845, which in 1856 he assigned to lord Ward, being in debt to him; gave up the theatre 10 Aug. 1858 being unable to pay the rent; bankrupt 3 Nov. 1862, discharged 22 Jany. 1863; four benefit performances were given him at Her Majesty’s 1863; produced 30 Italian operas new to England 1842–58; parliamentary agent at 22 Sackville st. Piccadilly 1864 to death; author of Parliamentary practice on passing private bills through the House of Commons 1838; Sirenia, a fantastic account of the life of sirens in their retreats, their origin, mission and pursuits 1862, anon.; The earl of Dudley, Mr. Lumley and Her Majesty’s theatre, a narrative of facts 2 ed. 1863; Reminiscences of the opera 1864; Another world, or fragments from the star city of Montallagal. By Hermes 1873, 3 ed. 1873. d. 8 Kensington crescent, London 17 March 1875. bur. West Ham cemet. I.L.N. iii 124 (1843) portrait, iv 237 (1844) portrait, xi 96 (1847) view of testimonial; Illust. sp. and dr. news, ii 622 (1875).

LUMLEY, William Golden. b. 1802; ed. at Christ’s hospital and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb.; fellow of Trin. hall 1825, LL.B. 1825, LL.M. 1859; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; a revising barrister under the reform act 1832; professor of English law in univ. of London 1834–38; reported for the Law Journal 1835; secretary of poor law board 23 April 1839 to 17 Feb. 1847; assistant sec. local government board 18 Dec. 1847 to 19 Aug. 1871; Q.C. 8 Dec. 1868; counsel to local government board 1872; author of The law of annuities and rent charges 1833; The law of parochial assessments explained 1844, 7 ed. 1882; Manual of duties of poor law officers, medical officer 1849, 3 ed. 1871; The poor law election manual 1855, 5 ed. 1886; The union assessment committee act 1862, 10 ed. 1881; The local board election manual 1869, 4 ed. 1886; An essay on bye-laws 1877. d. 10 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 8 May 1878. Law Times, lxv 110 (1878); Solicitors’ Journal xxii 565 (1878).

LUMSDEN, James (son of James Lumsden, engraver and stationer). b. 43 Argyll street, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1778; apprentice to his father, a partner in the business 1799; a patron of Horatio MacCulloch and sir Daniel Macnee artists, and of Dugald Moore poet; lord provost of Glasgow 1843–45; president of Incorporated company of stationers, Glasgow 1815, 1822 and 1830; a founder of the Clydesdale bank 1838; founded a bursary in Glasgow univ. 1856; issued The Glasgow commercial memorandum book 1816, an annual; author of American memoranda by a Mercantile Man 1844, preface signed J.L. d. St. Vincent st. Glasgow 16 May 1856. W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men, ii 179–81 (1886), portrait; The Glasgow Herald 19 May 1856 p. 6.

LUMSDEN, James. b. 1811; minister of Inverbrothock to 1838; minister of Barrie 1838–43; joined the Free secession 1843; professor of divinity, Free ch. coll. Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1856 to death, and principal 1864 to death; D.D. of St. Andrew’s univ. 13 Feb. 1869; author of Sweden, its religious state and prospects 1855; Infant baptism, its nature and objects 1856. d. Aberdeen 17 Oct. 1875. Scott’s Fasti, iii part 2 p. 792 (1871).

LUMSDEN, Sir James (eld. son of James Lumsden 1778–1856). b. Glasgow 1808; ed. at Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; partner in firm of J. Lumsden & Co. stationers, Glasgow, retired from business 1876; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1860–2 and lord provost 1866–69; knighted by patent 3 Nov. 1868 after entertaining prince of Wales at luncheon. d. 194 Bath st. Glasgow 22 March 1879. W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men (1886), ii 183–4 (1886), portrait.

LUND, John. Joined the Metropolitan police 1837; a prominent officer in detective department at Scotland Yard; arrested Mr. and Mrs. Manning for murder of O’Connor 1849; had charge of detective arrangements at Great Exhibition 1851; superintendent of the P. or Walworth division of metropolitan police to 1859 when he retired on pension of £156; superintendent of Leamington police 1859–80 when he retired on pension of £166; captured James Torpey the diamond robber 1870. d. Leamington 24 Aug. 1888.

LUND, Thomas. b. Blackburn 2 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 4 wr. 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1838; fell. of his coll. 1829–41; R. of Morton, Derbyshire 1841–64; R. of Brindle, Lancs. 1864 to death; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1864 to death; author of An appendix to Wood’s Algebra 1840; A short and easy course of algebra 1850, 6 ed. 1863; The elements of algebra by D. Wood, 14 ed. 1852, 17 ed. 1876; A companion to Wood’s Algebra 4 ed. 1878; Elements of geometry and mensuration 3 parts 1854–9, 2 ed. 1864; A key to Bishop Colenso’s Biblical arithmetic 1863, 3 ed. 1865; with J. Baily A treatise on the differential calculus 1838. d. Brindle rectory 14 May 1877.

LUNDGREN, Egron Sellif. b. Stockholm 18 Dec. 1815; water-colour painter; resided at Seville 1849–52; accompanied sir Colin Campbell’s expedition on the campaign in Oudh 1857 when he made a series of about 500 sketches which were exhibited in London, then purchased by Samuel Mendel and sold at Christie’s 16 April 1875; associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 1864, member 1865; knight of order of Gustavus Vasa of Sweden 1861; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1862; illustrated G. O. Hyltén-Cavallius and G. Stephens’ Svenska Folksagor 1875 and Old Norse fairy tales 1882. d. Stockholm 16 Dec. 1875. Graphic, xiii 28, 36 (1876), portrait.

LUNING, Jacob William (3 child of Meinhard Conrad Luning 1732–83, pastor of Hamelvörden, Hanover). b. Hamelvörden 19 May 1767; came to London 1790, a boarder at Duff’s school, Tooting; naturalised 1796; book-keeper in some of the first mercantile houses in the city down to 1858; admitted a member of Morden college, Blackheath 30 March 1859; m. at Spalding, Lincs. 4 Aug. 1796 Eleanor dau. of captain Sands and had issue 15 children. d. Morden college, Blackheath 23 June 1870 aged 103. Thoms’ Human longevity (1879) 255–63.

LUNN, Joseph. b. 1784; an original member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society; his chief plays were The sorrows of Werther, a burlesque, Covent Garden 6 May 1818, revived at St. James’s 13 Oct. 1836; Family Jars, a farce, Haymarket 26 Aug. 1822; Fish out of water, a farce 26 Aug. 1823; Hide and Seek, petit opera 22 Oct. 1824, revived at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1830; Roses and Thorns or two houses under one roof, comedy 24 Aug. 1825; Lunn’s Management or the prompter puzzled, a comic interlude 29 Sep. 1828, all these four were produced at Haymarket; author of Horæ Jocosæ, or the doggerel Decameron 1823. d. Grand parade, Brighton 12 Dec. 1863.

LUNN, William Arthur Brown. Invented sequential system of musical notes 1844; published under pseudonym of Arthur Wallbridge, Bizarre fables 1842; The sequential system of musical notation, a new method of writing music 1844, 6 ed. with his name 1873; Torrington hall, an account of two days passed at that establishment for the insane 1845; The council of four, a game at definitions 1848; Miscellanies, consisting of jest and earnest 1851; The Wallbridge miscellanies 1874, 3 ed. 1877. d. London 4 April 1879.

LUPTON, James (son of James Lupton of York). b. 1800; matriculated from Ch. Ch. Oxf. as a servitor 7 July 1819, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1825; V. of Blackbourton, Oxon. 1827 to death; minor canon of St. Paul’s cath. 1829 to death and of Westminster abbey 1829 to death; R. of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe, London 1832 to death; editor of The Temple by G. Herbert, with a life of the author 1865; The poetical works of A. Pope, with life of the author 1867; Gulliver’s Travels edited by A Clergyman 1867. d. The Cloisters, Westminster abbey 21 Dec. 1873. bur. Westminster abbey 27 Dec.

LUPTON, Thomas Goff (son of Wm. Lupton, working goldsmith). b. Clerkenwell, London 3 Sep. 1791; pupil of George Clint, engraver; assistant to Samuel Wm. Reynolds; exhibited 4 engravings at R.A. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–25; executed 4 of the plates in Turner’s Liber Studiorum; introduced steel for mezzotint engraving for which he received the Isis medal of Society of Arts 1822; six of his plates after Turner were published as Views of the ports of England 1825, reissued with 6 more of his plates as The harbours of England 1856; pres. of Artists’ annuity fund 1836; resided at 4 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 1837 to death, d. there 18 May 1873.

LURGAN, Charles Brownlow, 2 Baron (son of 1 baron Brownlow 1795–1847). b. Eaton place, London 10 April 1831; ed. at Eton; ensign 26 foot 15 March 1850, sold out 23 Jany. 1852; lord lieut. of Armagh 7 July 1864 to death; raced under name of Mr. Stafford; a breeder of greyhounds from 1854, won the Waterloo cup with Master M’Grath at Altcar 1868, first time an Irish dog took the cup, won again in 1869 and 1871, the dog was sent for the queen to see him on 1 March 1871 and d. 24 Dec. 1871; K.P. 1864; a lord in waiting to the queen 1869–74. d. Brighton 16 Jany. 1882. Baily’s Mag. April 1869 pp. 213–16, portrait; The Sporting Rev. Feb. 1869 pp. 129–32, portrait of Master M’Grath.

LUSH, John Alfred (1 son of John Lush of Berwick St. John, Wilts). b. 21 March 1815; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. St. Andrews 1864; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1872; in practice at East Knoyle, removed to Salisbury; with Corbin Finch proprietor of Fisherton house asylum, Salisbury 1862; mayor of Salisbury 1866; M.P. Salisbury 1868–80; entertained prince of Wales at a banquet Sep. 1872; removed to 13 Redcliffe square, South Kensington, London 1880. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Aug. 1888. The Salisbury Journal 11 Aug. 1888 p. 5.

LUSH, Sir Robert (eld. son of Robert Lush of Shaftesbury, Dorset). b. Shaftesbury 25 Oct. 1807; in a solicitor’s office; a special pleader in London 1839; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840, bencher 4 Nov. 1857 to Nov. 1865, treasurer 1859; Q.C. June 1857; leader with sir Wm. Bovill of the home circuit; serjeant at law 2 Nov. 1865; justice of court of queen’s bench 2 Nov. 1865 to 5 Nov. 1880; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; one of the three judges who tried the Tichborne claimant 1873–4; member of the judicature commission, settled at chambers the practice under the judicature acts Nov.-Dec. 1875; member of commission on the penal code 1878; P.C. 17 May 1879; lord justice of court of appeal 5 Nov. 1880 to death; author of The act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process with notes 1838; The act for the amendment of the law with respect to wills 1837, 2 ed. 1838; Practice of the superior courts of law at Westminster in actions and proceedings over which they have a common jurisdiction 1840, 3 ed. by J. Dixon 2 vols. 1865; edited J. Chitty’s The practice of the law in all its departments, vol. iii, 3 ed. 1842; J. S. Saunders’s Law of pleading and evidence in civil actions 2 ed. 2 vols. 1851. d. 60 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1881. Baptist Worthies. By W. Landels (1884) 373–411, portrait; A generation of Judges. By their reporter (1886) 21–9; I.L.N. xlvii 513 (1865), portrait; Illust. Times 18 Nov. 1865 p. 307, portrait; Graphic, xxv 20 (1882), portrait.

LUSHINGTON, Charles (3 son of sir Stephen Lushington, 1 baronet 1744–1807). b. London 14 April 1785; served in Bengal civil service 1800–27; chief secretary to government of Bengal 1823, retired on annuity 1827; M.P. Ashburton 1833–41; M.P. Westminster 1847–52; an original director of Crystal palace company 1852; resided at Edgware many years; president of Whittington club, Arundel st. Strand 1850; author of The history of the religious institutions founded in Calcutta. Calcutta 1824; A short notice of John Adams, Esq. Calcutta 1825; A remonstrance addressed to the bishop of London on the sanction given in his charge to the calumnies against the dissenters 2 ed. 1834; Dilemmas of a churchman arising from the discordant doctrine of the clergy 1838, 2 ed. 1838. d. 118 Marine parade, Brighton 23 Sep. 1866.

LUSHINGTON, Charles Manners (youngest son of Stephen Rumbold Lushington 1776–1868). b. 1819; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Souls’ college 1843–6; private sec. to president of board of control 1843 to July 1854; M.P. Canterbury 1854–7; resided Norton court, Kent. d. Boulogne-Sur-Mer 27 Nov. 1864.

LUSHINGTON, Edmund Law (1 son of Edmund Henry Lushington, puisne judge Ceylon, d. 1839). b. 10 Jany. 1811; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; senior classic and senior chancellor’s medallist 1832; fellow and tutor of his college; professor of Greek at univ. of Glasgow 1838–75, lord rector 15 Nov. 1884, only noncontested election on record; married 14 Oct. 1842 Cecilia sister of Lord Tennyson; edited with sir A. Grant, J. F. Ferrier’s Lectures on Greek philosophy 1866 and J. F. Ferrier’s Philosophical works vols. ii, iii 1875. d. Maidstone 13 July 1893. A. P. Martin’s Life of Lord Sherbrooke (1893).

LUSHINGTON, Franklin (4 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet 1775–1863). b. 20 April 1811; ensign 9 foot 16 July 1829, captain 30 Oct. 1838; major 37 foot 26 Nov. 1847 to 15 July 1854; captain Scots Fusilier guards 15 July 1854, sold out 28 Nov. 1856; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Hansham, Kent’s road, Torquay 18 Jany. 1890.

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

LUSHINGTON, Sir Henry, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Stephen Lushington, Bart. 1744–1807). b. 27 Oct. 1775; succeeded 12 Jany. 1807; consul general at Naples 1815–32. d. 32 Montague square, London 25 Jany. 1863.

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

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

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

LUSHINGTON, Stephen George (eld. son of the succeeding). Comr. of customs 3 Jany. 1825 to death. d. Norton court, Faversham, Kent 15 Feb. 1853.

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

LUTHER, Robert. b. 1800; farmed 1000 acres under earl Powis at Acton to death; a judge of Hereford and Shropshire cattle; huntsman of the Union hunt for Mr. Frank Beddows from about 1830 to death; in his last hours he sent for some of his hounds to come to his bedside. d. Acton 7 Sep. 1862. Sporting Review, xlviii 412–13 (1862).

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

LUTTON, Anne (youngest child of Ralph Lutton). b. Ireland 16 Dec. 1791; held meetings for women 1818; an Italian and Spanish scholar; held drawing room meetings; head of a class meeting at Bristol 1834; held religious meetings in England and Ireland; author of Poems on moral and religious subjects. Dublin 1829, 2 ed. 1842. d. Bristol 22 Aug. 1881. bur. Arno’s Vale cemetery 27 Aug. Memorials of a consecrated life (1883), portrait; Light on the christian’s daily path, compiled from the unpublished letters of A. Lutton, ed. by A. S. Webb (1886).

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

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

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

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

LUTWIDGE, Robert Wilfred Skeffington (2 son of Charles Lutwidge of Holmrook, Cumberland). b. London 1802; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 3 July 1827; commissioner in lunacy 1842–5 and 24 Dec. 1855 to death; secretary to lunacy commission 1845; comr. of inquiry into state of lunatic asylums in Ireland, Sep. 1856. d. Salisbury 28 May 1873. bur. Brompton cemetery 3 June. Law Times, lv 127 (1873).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LYNCH, Thomas Toke (10 child of John Burke Lynch, surgeon, d. 1820). b. Dunmow, Essex 5 July 1818; ed. at a school in Islington, London, afterwards an usher in the school; a Sunday school teacher and preacher 1841; pastor of Highgate independent church 1847–9; pastor of a congregation in Mortimer st. London 1849, which migrated to Grafton st. Fitzroy sq. 1852, resigned 1859; pastor of independent church in Gower st. 1860, which removed to Mornington crescent, Hampstead road 1862 to death; author of Thoughts on a day 1844; Memorials of Theophilus Trinal 1850, 4 ed. 1882; Essays on some of the forms of literature 1853; The Rivulet, a contribution to sacred song 1855, 3 ed. 1868; these hymns said to be pantheistic, gave rise to a long discussion known as The Rivulet controversy, Lynch replied to his opponents in The ethics of quotation 1856 and Songs Controversial 1856, both issued under pseudonym of ‘Silent Long’; A Christmas address 1856, 3 ed. 1872. d. 76 Arlington st. Mornington crescent 9 May 1871. White’s Memoirs of T. T. Lynch (1874), portrait; A critical and descriptive notice of Rev. T. T. Lynch (1859); Miller’s Singers and songs of the church (1869) 560–61; Waddington’s Congregational history, v 134–69 (1880); J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit, 2 ed. (1858) 101–10 and his Religious Life in London (1870) 187–92.

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

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

LYNDHURST, John Singleton Copley, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Singleton Copley of Boston, U.S., afterwards of London, painter, 1737–1815). b. Boston 21 May 1772; brought to England, June 1775; pensioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 8 July 1790, 2 wr. and Smith’s prizeman 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1796; junior fellow of his coll. 2 Oct. 1795, senior fellow 5 July 1797 to 1804; travelling bachelor of Camb. univ. 1795–8, high steward of the univ. 1840; member of Lincoln’s inn 19 May 1794; practised as a special pleader; barrister L.I. 8 June 1804; serjeant at law 6 July 1813; leader of Midland circuit 1816; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1818; M.P. Ashburton 1818–26; M.P. univ. of Camb. 1826–7; king’s serjeant and chief justice of Chester Dec. 1818 to July 1819; solicitor general 24 July 1819, knighted Oct. 1819; attorney general 9 Jany. 1824 to 14 Sep. 1826; master of the rolls 13 Sep. 1826 to April 1827; recorder of Bristol, Sep. 1826 to April 1827; lord chancellor 20 April 1827 to 22 Nov. 1830; lord chief baron of the exchequer 18 Jany. 1831 to 1834, lord chancellor again 21 Nov. 1834 to 23 April 1835, and 3 Sep. 1841 to 4 July 1846; created baron Lyndhurst of Lyndhurst in the county of Southampton 25 April 1827. d. 25 George st. Hanover sq. London 12 Oct. 1863. bur. Highgate cemetery 17 Oct. 1863. Sir T. Martin’s Life of Lord Lyndhurst 2 ed. (1884), portrait; W. S. Gibson’s Brief memoir of Lord Lyndhurst (1869); Lord Campbell’s Lives of the lord chancellors, viii 1–212 (1869); Misrepresentations in Campbell’s Lives of Lyndhurst and Brougham. Corrected by St. Leonards (1869); Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 394–7, portrait; W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England and Austria. New York (1863) pp. 173–79; Law Magazine, liv 321–68 (1856); Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1st series (1836), portrait; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, ii (1831), portrait; Orators of the age. By G. H. Francis (1847) 142–59; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 100–107.