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This listing page belongs to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography, spun out of the “missing article” project, and is concerned with checking whether Wikipedia has articles for all those listed in the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), a 63-volume British biographical dictionary published 1885-1900 and now in the public domain. This page relates to volume 32 running from name Lambe to name Leigh.

Scope of the subproject:

It is envisaged that the following work will be done:

  • Checks made that links on this page point to a wikipedia article about the same person;
  • Addition of new articles for all red-links based on DNB text;
  • Checking whether blue-linked articles would benefit from additional text from DNB.

Listings are posted as bulleted lists, with footnotes taken from the DNB summaries published in 1904. The listings and notes are taken from scanned text that is often corrupt and in need of correction. Not all the entries on the list correspond to actual DNB articles; some are “redirects” and there are a few articles devoted to families rather than individuals.

If you are engaged in this work you will probably find quite a number of unreferenced articles among the blue links. You are also encouraged to mention the DNB as a reference on such articles whenever they correspond to the summary, as part of the broader campaign for good sourcing. A suggested template is {{DNB}}.

Locating the full text:

DNB text is now available on Wikisource for all first edition articles, on the page s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Vol 32 Lambe - Leigh. Names here are not inverted, as they are in the original: Joe Bloggs would be found at Wikisource s:Bloggs, Joe (DNB00). The text for the first supplement is available too: NB that this Epitome listing includes those supplement articles also.

List maintenance and protocols:

List maintenance tasks are to check and manipulate links in the list with piping or descriptive parenthetical disambiguators, and to mark list entries with templates to denote their status; whilst as far as possible retaining the original DNB names:

  • piping: [[Charles Abbot]] -> [[Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester|Charles Abbot]]
  • descriptive parenthetical disambiguators [[Charles Abbot]] -> [[Charles Abbot (botanist)]]
  • both combined [[Charles Abbot]] -> [[Charles Abbot (botanist)|Charles Abbot]]

The work involves:

  • Checking that bluelinks link to the correct person; if so, {{tick}} them. If not, try to find the correct article and pipe or disambiguate the link.
  • Check whether redlinks can be linked to an article by piping or disambiguation.
  • Create articles based on the DNB text for redlinks for which no wikipedia article can be found
  • Check whether existing blue-linked articles could benefit from an input of DNB text (e.g. the article is a stub), and if so, update the article from DNB

A number of templates are provided to mark-up entries:

  • {{mnl}} the link runs to a wrong person; - produces the text: [link currently leads to a wrong person]. It is preferable to amend the link by adding a disambiguator to make it red, if an article for the correct person cannot be found
  • {{dn}} the link runs to a dab page - produces the text [disambiguation needed]. It is preferable to amend the link by adding a disambiguator to make it red, if an article for the correct person cannot be found
  • {{tick}} the link has been checked and runs to the correct person - checkY
  • {{tick}} {{tick}} the text of the linked article has been checked against DNB text and would not benefit from additional DNB text - checkY checkY
  • {{tick}} {{cross}} the text of the linked article looks short enough to suggest it would benefit from additional DNB text - checkY ☒N

Note that before creating new articles based on DNB text you should undertake searches to check that the article's subject does not already have an article. It is easily possible that the disambiguation used in this page is not the disambiguation used in an existing wikipedia article. Equally, feel free to improve upon the disambiguation used in redlinks on this page by amending them.

Supplement articles:

Because of the provenance of the listing, a number of the original articles will not in fact be in the announced volume, but in one of the three supplement volumes published in 1901. Since the DNB did not include articles about living people, this will be the case whenever the date of death is after the publication date of the attributed volume. In due course there will be a separate listing.

General thoughts:

This project is intended as a new generation in “merging encyclopedias”, as well as being one of the most ambitious attempted. For general ideas of where we are, and some justification of the approach being taken, see the essay Wikipedia:Merging encyclopedias.

Helpful access templates:

helpful templates

There are two templates to help link to the correct page: {{Cite DNBIE}} and {{DNBIE}}. The page number automatically link to the correct url for the page at the Internet Archive site.

{{Cite DNBIE|title=Dove, John|page=358}}
Public Domain Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Dove, John". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 358.

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Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Dove, John". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 358.

if a wstitle= parameter is used in place of title= then the templates also link the DNB article on Wikisource:

{{cite DNBIE|wstitle=Dove, John (d.1665?)|page=358}}
Public Domain Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Dove, John (d.1665?)". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 358.

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  1. ^ John Lambe (d. 1628), astrologer; indicted for the practice of execrable arts 1608-23; imprisoned for fifteen years; protected by the Duke of Buckingham, 1623; fatally injured by a mob of apprentices, who denounced him as the duke's devil.
  2. ^ Sir John Lambe (1666?–1647), civilian ; M.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1690: registrar of diocese of Ely, 1600; chancellor of the diocese of Peterborough; vicar, official, and commissary-general to the bishop of Peterborough. 1615; LL.D., 1616; commissary to the dean and chapter of Lincoln, 1617: knighted, 1621; member of the high commission court and an active supporter of Laud; dean of the arches court of Canterbury. 1633; chancellor and keeper of the great seal to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1640.
  3. ^ Robert (1712–1796), author; B.A. St. Joon-TOolleie, Cambridge, 1734; his chief work, An BMctaixi Circumstantial History of the Battle f riodden. in verae. written aboat the time of Queen Elizabeth m
  4. ^ Thomas Lambe or Lamb (d. 1686), philanthropist m fomtp* nonconformist; preached in London, 1641 1661; returned to the established church, ir.r.s; remarkable for his philanthropic work; published religious work*, 1642-56.
  5. ^ William (1498–1580), London merchant and benefactor; gentleman of the Chapel Royal to Henry VIII: master of the Clothworkers Company, 1569-70: established a free grammar school and almshouse at Sutton Valence, Kent, his native town: an adherent of :;, NfenMd td 00b
  6. ^ William (1765–1847), physician; educated at St. John's College Cambridge; B.D., 1786; fellow, 1788; M.D., 1808; F.R.C.P., 1804; censor and frequently Croonian lecturer between 1806 and 1828; Harveian orator, 1818; published medical works.
  7. ^ Lambert or LANBRIHT (l. 791). See Jaenbert.
  8. ^ ylmer Bourke Lambert (1761-1842), botanist; educated at St. Mary Hall, Oxfonl; an original P.LA, 1788, and vice-president, 1796-1842; contributed papers on loology and botany to its Transactions; P.ltS., 1791;A Description of the genus Cinchona his first independent work, 1797; chief work, a monograph of the genus Finns (vol. i. 1803, vol. ii. 1824, TOL iii. 1837).
  9. ^ Daniel Lambert (1770–1809), the most corpulent man of whom authentic record exists; keeper of Leicester gaol, 1791-1805; weighed thirty-two stone in 1793; received company daily in London, 1806-7; weighed at death fifty-two and three-quarters stone.
  10. ^ George Lambert (1710-1765), landscape and scene painter; studied under Warner Hassells and John Wootton; had a painting loft at Covent Garden Theatre, where distinguished men resorted to sup with him, the Beefsteak Club arising out of these meetings; a friend of Hogarth, who painted his portrait; exhibited with the Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1761-4.
  11. ^ George Jackson Lambert (1794–1880), organist and compober; organist of Beverley Minster, 1818-75; a fine violoncello and violin player; composed overtures, instrumental chamber music, organ fugues, and other works.
  12. ^ Henry Lambert (d. 1813), naval captain; entered navy, 1795: lieutenant, 1801; commander, 1803; captain, 1804; employed in the blockade of Mauritius and in the attack on the French squadron in Grand Port, when he surrendered and was detained as prisoner, 1810; mortally wounded in action off Brazil, 1812; buried at San Salvador.
  13. ^ James Lambert (1725–1788), musician and painter; tint painted inn-sign.-; best known by a series of water-colour drawings illustrating the antiquities of Sussex; exhibited at the Royal Academy and (1761-88) at the Society of Artists; organist of the Church of St. Tbomas-at-Cliffe, Lewes.
  14. ^ James Lambert (1741–1823), Greek professor at Cambridge; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1760:, fellow, 1766; M.A., 1767; regius professor of Greek, 17711780; bursar of his college, 1789-99.
  15. ^ John Lambert (d. 1538), martyr; his real name Nicholson; educated at Cambridge ; B.A. and fellow of ! QueensCollege, 1521; converted to protestantism and ordained; suffered persecution and took name of Lambert; chaplain to the English factory at Antwerp; im prisoned, 161*; released on the death of Archbishop Warham, 1532: condemned to death by Cranmer for denying the real presence, and burnt at the stake.
  16. ^ John Lambert (1619–1683), soldier" tookup arms for the parliament at the beginning of the civil war; commissary-general of Fairfax's army. Hill: in command of a regiment in the new model, 1646; assisted Ireton in drawing up the Heads of the Proposals of Army 1647; commander of the army in the north, 1647; engaged against the royalist Scottish army, 1648; took part in the battle of Dnubar, 1650, of Worcester, 1651; deputy lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1652; president of the council appointed by the officers of the army, 1653: was the leading spirit in the council of officers who offered the post of protector to Cromwell, and a member of the Protector's council of state; major-general of the army; a lord of the Cinque ports; retired on account of a breach with Cromwell about the regal title; M.P., Pontefract, 1659; supported Richard Cromwell and recovered his old position; member of the committee of safety and of the council of state, 1659; major-geiieral of the army sent to oppose Monck's advance into England; deprived of his commands, 1660; arrested and committed to the Tower; escaped and collected troops, but without success, 1660; again committed to the Tower, 1661; sent to Guernsey, 1661; tried for high treason and condemned to death, 1662; sent back to Guernsey; imprisoned till death, 16641683.
  17. ^ John Lambert (. 1811), traveller ; visited North i America with a view to fostering the cultivation of hemp in Canada, 1806; publishedTravels through Lower Canada and the United States of North America, 1806 1808 1810.
  18. ^ Sir John Lambert (1772–1847), general; ensign, 1st foot guards, 1791; captain, 1793; lieutenant-colonel, 1801; served hi Portugal and Spain, 1808, and in Walcheren expedition, 1809; brevet colonel, 1810; in Spain, 1811-14; major-general, 1813; K.O.B., 1815; served with Sir Edward Michael Pakenham in America, 1815; at Waterloo, 1815; lieutenant-general, 1825; general, 1841; colonel of 10th regiment, 1824; G.O.B., 1838.
  19. ^ Sir John Lambert (1815–1892), civil servant; mayor of Salisbury, 1854; poor law inspector, 1857; superintended administration of the Public Works Act, i 1865; receiver of the metropolitan common poor fund, 1867; permanent secretary to the local government board, , 1871-82; K.C.B., 1879; privy councillor, 1885; author of IThe Modern Domesday Book 1872, and of several 1 musical publications.
  20. ^ Mark Lambert (d. 1601).
  21. ^ William de Lamberton (d. 1328), bishop of St. Andrews; chancellor of Glasgow Cathedral, 1292; bishop of St. Andrews, 1297; a supporter.of William Wallace; although swearing fealty to Edward I, 1304, assisted at coronation of Robert the Bruce, 1306; imprisoned for treason, 1306-8; subsequently worked in the interests of both parties at once.
  22. ^ Peter Spendelowe Lamborn (1722–1774), engraver and miniature-painter; studied under Isaac Basire (1704-1768); member of and (1764-74) exhibitor with the Incorporated Society of Artists; executed architectural drawings and etchings.
  23. ^ Reginald Lamborn (ft. 1363), astronomer; D.D. Merton College, Oxford, 1367: entered the Franciscan order at Oxford; two letters (1364 and 1367) of his on astronomical subjects extant in manuscript.
  24. ^ John Lambton (1710–1794), general; ensign, 1732; lieutenant, 1739; regimental quartermaster, 17421745; captain and lieutenant-colonel, 1746; colonel, 1758; M.P., Durham, 1761-87.
  25. ^ John George Lambton , first EARL OP DURHAM (1792-1840), grandson of John Lambton; educated at Eton; cornet in the dragoons, 1809; lieutenant, 1810; retired from the army, 1811; M.P. for Durham county, 1813-28; created Baron Durham of the city of Durham and of Lambton Castle; privy councillor and lord privy seal, 1830; assisted in preparation of first Reform Bill; ambassador extraordinary to St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna, 1832; created Viscount Lambton and Earl of Durham, 1833; headed the advanced section of the whigs; ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to St. Petersburg, 1835-7; G.C.B., 1837; high commissioner for the adjustment of important questions in Lower and Upper Canada and governor-general of the British provinces in North America, 1838; his high-banded proceedings denounced and disallowed in England; resigned and returned to England, 1838; the policy of all his successors guided by his Report on the Affairs of British North America(1K3U), which is said to have beeu mostly written by Charles Bullcr.
  26. ^ William Lambton (1756–1823), b colonel, and geodesiat; stu.linl matlu-matics under Dr. Charles Button; ensign, 1781-3; lieutenant, 1794: barrack-master at St. John's, New Brunswick, till 1796; took part in the capture of Seringapataiu, 179; con a survey coiirnvtiii Malabar and Coromaudel coasts, 1800-16; F.R.S. and R.A.S.; died at Hingahghat, near Nagpoor; author of papers on geodesy,
  27. ^ Baron Lamington (1816–1890). See Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart Baillie-Cochrane.
  28. ^ David Lamont (1762–1837), Scottish divine: D.D. Edinburgh, 1780; chaplain to the Prince of Wales, 178ft; moderator of the general assembly, 1822: chaplain-inordinary for Scotland, 1824; popular preacher; published sermons.
  29. ^ Johann von Lamont (1806–1879), astronomer and magnetician; born at Braemar; educated in mathematics by the prior of the Scottish Benedictine monastery at Ratisbon; extraordinary member of the Munich Academy of Sciences, 1827; director of the observatory of Bogeiihausen near Munich, 1836; executed umgm-ti.surveys of Bavaria (1849-62), France and Spain (1866-7), and North Germany and Denmark (1868): professor of astronomy in the university of Munich, 1862; died at Munich; author of important works on terrestrial magnetism.
  30. ^ John Lamont (ft. 1671), chronicler; his 'Diary,' 1649-71 (first published under the title of theChronicle of Fife 1810), of great value to the Scottish genealogist.
  31. ^ Claude Grostête de La Mothe (1647-1713), theologian; born at Orleans: educated at Orleans University; joined the Paris bar, 1666; abandoned law for theology, and became a protestant pastor; on revocation of the edict of Nantes came to London, 1686: naturalised, 1688; minister of Savoy Church, 1694-1713.
  32. '^ John La Motte (1570?- 1666), merchant of London; educated at Ghent and probably at Heidelberg University; established a foreign church at Sandtoft, 1636.
  33. ^ John Frederick Lampe (1703?–1751), musical composer; born probably in Saxony; came to London, 1726: one of the finest bassoonists of his time: composer of comic operas and songs; published two works on the theory of music.
  34. ^ John Lamphire (1614–1688), principal of Hart Hall, Oxford; educatedat Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, 1636-48; M.A., 1642; Camden professor of history, I860; M.D., 1660; principal of New Inn Hall, 1662; of Hart Hall, 1663: owner of many manuscripts, some of which he published.
  35. ^ Thomas Lamplugh (1616–1691), bishop of Exeter and archbishop of York; educated at Queen's College, Oxford; M.A., 1642; D.D., 1660; archdeacon of London, 1664; dean of Rochester, 1673; bishop of Exeter, 16761688; archbishop of York, 1688-91; assisted at the coronation of William III, 1689.
  36. ^ Curtis Miranda Lampson, first baronet (1806-1886), advocate of the Atlantic cable; born in Vermont; came to England and set up business as a merchant, 1830; naturalised, 1849; vice-chairman of the company for laying the Atlantic telegraph, 1866-66; created baronet, 1866.
  37. ^ Earl of Lanark . See HAMILTON, WILLIAM, second DUKE OF HAMILTON, 1616-1661.
  38. ^ Dukes Ok Lancaster . See HENRY OF LANCaster 1299?-1361 : JOHN OF GAUNT, 1840–1899; Henry IV , KING OF ENGLAND, 1367–1413.
  39. ^ Earls of Lancaster . See THOMAS, 1277?–1322: LAXCASTKR, EDMUND, 1246-1296; HKNRV,1281?1346.
  40. ^ Charles William Lancaster (1820–1878), improver of rifle? and cannon: constructed a model rifle which bad great success in 1846; elected associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1861; hU carbine adopted tot the royal engineers, 1866; invented the ovai-boral .mam.
  41. ^ Edmund Lancaster , KAIIL OF (1S46-1SM), culled Crouchback; Moond KM of Henry III and u-e; Htyled king of Sicily by the pope. 1266: n-nmuu-,,1 all, laim to the kingdom Sicily, mil crusader, 1271; married Blanche, daughter of the Count of Artois, younger son of Louis VIII of France and widow of Henry of Navarre, 1276; took part in the Welsh war, 1277-82; unsuccessfully commanded the English army in Gascony, 1296; buried in Westminster Abbey.
  42. ^ Henry Hill Lancaster (1829–1876) essayist; educated at the high school and university of Glasgow and at Balliol College, Oxford; M.A., 1872; pa.-oi M H.i.u,-;it, in Ubtarfh, i*:.-: *** depute, 1868-74; took active interest in education and contributed to the North British and Edinburgh i his articles published in a single volume entitled, Bwyi and Reviews (with prefatory notice by Professor Jowett), 1876.
  43. ^ Hume Lancaster (d. 1860), marine painter: exhibited, 1886-49, at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artiste, and the British Institution.
  44. ^ Sir James Lancaster (d. 1618), pioneer of the English trade with the East Indies; took part in the Armada, 1588; sailed in the first English voyage to the East Indies, 1591; returned with a rich booty, 1594; appointed to command the first fleet of the East India Company, 1600; knighted, 1603.
  45. ^ John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, (1389-1435).
  46. ^ John Lancaster (d. 1619), bishop of Waterford and Lismore; bishop of Waterford and Lismore, 1608-19.
  47. ^ Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), founder of the Lancasterian system of education; joined the Society of Friends; began teaching poor children before 1801, and soon had a free school of a thousand boys; set forth the results of his experience in a pamphlet, Improvements in Education 1803; opposed by members of the established church; published Report of Joseph Lancaster's progress from 1798, 1810; suffered from pecuniary difficulties and went to America, 1818; established a school, which failed, at Montreal; his last pamphlet, Epitome of some of the chief Events and Transactions in the Life of J. Lancaster, containing an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Lancasterian system of Education &c., published, 1833; public interest in education aroused by his work.
  48. ^ Nathaniel Lancaster (1701–1776), author; chaplain to Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1733: D.D. Lambeth, 1733; wrote several books on manners between 1744 and 1767.
  49. ^ Thomas Lancaster (d. 1683), archbishop of Armagh; probably educated at Oxford; an enthusiastic protestant; bishop of Kildare, 1549-53; dean of Ossory, 15522: treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral, 1560; a royal chaplain, 1560; accompanied Sir Henry Sidney to Ireland, 1565; archbishop of Armagh, 1568-83.
  50. ^ Thomas William Lancaster (1787–1869), Bampton lecturer; entered Oriel College, Oxford, 1804; fellow of Queen's College, 1809; M.A., 1810; ordained priest, 1812; preached Bampton lectures on The Popular Evidence of Christianity 1831; select preacher to the university, 1832; under-master of Magdalen College school, Oxford, 1840-9; published his Bampton lectures and theological works.
  51. ^ William Lancaster (1650–1717), divine; of Queen's College, Oxford; M.A., 1678: fellow, 1679; bursar, 1686-90; D.D., 1692; archdeacon of Middlesex, 1705-17; vice-chancellor of Oxford, 1708-10.
  52. ^ George Lance (1802–1864), painter; pupil of Haydon; exhibited from 1824 at the British Institution, the Society of British Artiste, and the Royal Academy; a painter of still-life.
  53. ^ Prosper Henri Lancrinck ( '.028–1692). See Lankrink.
  54. ^ Edward Land (1815-1 876) vocalist and composer of popular songs.
  55. ^ William Landel (d. 1385), bishop of St. Andrews. 1342-85; visited toe shrine of St. James at Compostella, 1361, Rome, 1362; crowned Robert II, 1370.
  56. ^ Ebenezer Landells 1808–1860), wood-engraver and projector of Punch apprenticed to Thomas Bewick, wood-engraver: MpatafcaM the fine-art engraving department of the firm of Branston & Vizetelly; contributed chiefly to illustrated periodical literature; conceived the idea of Punch the first number of which appeared 17 July 1841; contributed to the early numbers of the Illustrated London News; started the Lady's Newspaper (now incorporated with the Queen), 1847; Birket Foster and the Dalziels among his pupils.
  57. ^ Robert Thomas Landells (1833–1877), artist and special war correspondent: eldest son of Ebenezer LandeUs: educated principally in France; studied drawing and painting in London; special artist for the Illustrated London News in the Crimea, 1856, in the war between Germany and Denmark, 1863, in the war between Prussia and Austria, 1866, and in the Franco-German war, 1870; employed by Queen Victoria to paint memorial pictures of several ceremonials attended by her.
  58. ^ John Landen (1719–1790) mathematician; published Mathematical Lucubrations 1755; F.R.S., 1766; discovered a theorem known by his name expressing a hyperbolic arc in terms of two elliptic arcs, 1775; failed to develop and combine his discoveries.
  59. ^ John Lander (1807–1839), African traveller; younger brother of Richard Lemon Lander; accompanied his brother in his exploration of the Niger, 1810-1; his journal incorporated with that of his brother, published, 1832.
  60. ^ Richard Lemon Lander (1804–1834), African traveller; went to Cape Colony, 1823; accompanied Lieutenant Hugh Clapperton to Western Africa; published journal and records of Clapperton's last expedition to Africa, 1830; made an expedition to explore the Niger, 1830-1; published Journal of an Expedition to explore the Course and Termination of the Niger 1832; conducted a second expedition to the Niger, 1832; mortally wounded in a fight with natives at Ingiamma; died at Fernando Po; the question of the course and outlet of the river Niger settled by his exploration.
  61. ^ George Thomas Landmann (1779–1854), lieutenant-colonel, royal engineers; son of Isaac Landmann ; entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1793; first lieutenant, 1797; employed in construction of fortifications in Canada, 1797-1802; captain, 1806 on active service in the Peninsular war, 1808-12; brevetmajor, 1813; lieutenant-colonel, 1814; retired, 1824author of books on Portugal and on his own adventures and recollections.
  62. ^ Isaac Landmann (1741–1826?), professor of artillery and fortification; held an appointment at the Royal Military School in Paris; professor of artillery and fortification at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, 1777-1816; wrote on tactics and fortification.
  63. ^ Letitia Elizabeth Lahdoh , afterwards Mrs. Maclean (1802–1838), poetess under the initials L. E. L.' her first poem,Rome published in theLiterary 1820: *** Pate of A iel*Meublished 1821 ,, published, 1821; published poems between 1824 and 1829; contributed to albums and annuals, and edited the Drawing Scrap Book from 1832; published novels, 1831 and 1834; her Trait* and Trials of Early Life(supposed to be *2? aph,! Cal) brou * ht out !836, and heVbest novel, Btbd Churchill 1837; married George Maclean, governo! 1  ? *F Sf* Caatt * 18S8: arrlved at Cape Coast in ; died mysteriously, probably from an accidental overdose of prussic acid, in October. Collected editions of her poems published, 1860 and 1873.
  64. ^ Robert Eyres Landor (1781-1869), author; youngest brother of Walter Savage Landor Fa v 1: scholar and fellow of Worcester college Oxford author of a tragedy, Count Arez, (1823), which only sold while it was mistaken for a work of Byron; published other tragedies between 1841 and 1848.
  65. ^ Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), author of Imaginary Conversations; educated at Rugby; entered Trinity College, Oxford, 1793; rusticated, 1794; lived for three years at Tenby and Swansea; his Gebir published, 1798; visited Paris, 1802; lived in Bath, Bristol, and Wells, with occasional visits to London: saw some fighting as a volunteer in Spain; published Tragedy of Count Julian 1811; bought Llanthony Abbey, Monmouthshire, and married Julia Thuillier, 1811; quarrelled with the authorities at Llanthony; went to Jersey and thence to France, 1814; started for Italy, 1816; lived for three years at Como; insulted the authorities in a Latin poem and was ordered to leave, 1818; at Pisa, 1818-21; at Florence, 1821-35; first two volumes ofImaginary Conversationspublished, 1824 (second edition, 1826), third volume, 1828, fourth and fifth, 1829: bought a villa at Fiesole; visited England. 1832; publishedCitation and Examination of William Shakespeare... touching Deer-stealing 1834; quarrelled with his wife and left Italy, 1835; published The Pentameron 1837; lived at Bath, 1838-58; his collected works published, 1846; returned to Florence, 1868; transferred his English estates to his son, and so became entirely dependent on his family; assisted by Robert Browning, the poet; visited by Mr. A. C. Swinburne, 1864; a classical enthusiast and an admirable writer of English prose; died at Florence.
  66. ^ David Landsborough (1779–1854), naturalist; educated at Edinburgh University; ordained minister of the church of Scotland, 1811; studied natural history; discovered Ectocarpus Landsburgii (alga), and contributed to the Phycplogia Britannica of William Henry Harvey; joined the free kirk and became minister of Salteoats, 1843; published Excursions to Arran, Ailsa Craig, and the two Cumbraes 1847 (second series, 1852),Popular History of British Sea- weeds 1849 (3rd edit. 1857); published Popular History of British Zoophytes or Corallines; said to have discovered nearly seventy species of plants and animals new to Scotland,
  67. ^ William Landsborough (d. 1886), Australian explorer; son of David Landsborough; an Australian squatter; made explorations chiefly in Queensland between 1856 and 1862; member of the Queensland parliament, 1864; government resident in Burke district, 1866-9; explored the Gulf of Carpentaria; died at Brisbane,
  68. ^ Charles Landseer (1799 - 1879), historical painter; second son of John Landseer: entered the Royal Academy schools, 1816; first exhibited at Royal Academy, 1828; R. A., 1846; keeper of Royal Academy. 1851-73; gave 10,0007. to Royal Academy for the foundation of Landseer scholarships.
  69. ^ Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873), animal-painter; youngest son of John Landseer; entered the Royal Academy schools, 1816; began to exhibit, 1817; visited Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford and drew the poet and his dogs, 1824; R.A., 1831; excelled in painting portraits of children; frequently painted Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort and their children between 1839 and 1866; his most famous pictures painted between 1842 and 1850; knighted, 1850; the only English artist who received the large gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1856; declined presidency of the Royal Academy, 1865; completed the lions for the Nelson monument, Trafalgar Square, 1866; buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. He struck out a new path by treating pictorially the analogy between the characters of animals and men; 434 etchings and engravings were made from his works up to 1876.
  70. ^ Jessica Landseer (1810–1880), landscape and miniature painter; daughter of John Landseer; exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution between 1816 and 1866.
  71. ^ John Landseer (1769–1852), painter, engraver, and author; apprenticed to William Byrne; delivered lectures on engraving at the Royal Institution, 1806; tried, but without success, to induce the Royal Academy to place engraving on the same footing as In academies abroad; turned his attention to archaeology and published a work on engraved views, 1817; made engravings after drawings and pictures by his son, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer; F..S.A.; engraver to William IV.
  72. ^ Thomas Landseer (1795–1880), engraver ; eldest son of John Landseer; his life mainly devoted to etching and engraving the drawings and pictures of his brother Sir Edwin Henry Landseer; A.H.A.. 1868; published The Life and Letters of William Bewick 1871.
  73. ^ Charles Edward William Lane (1786–1872), general in the Indian army; ensign, 1807; lieutenant, 1812; captain, 1824; major, 1835; lieutenantcolonel, 1841; commanded the garrison of Candahar, and repulsed an attack of the Afghans, 1842; O.B., 1842; colonel, 1852; major-general, 1854; lieutenant-general, 1866; general, 1870.
  74. ^ Edward Lane (1605–1685), theological writer ; educated at St. Paul's School, London and St. John's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1629; incumbent of Sparsholt for fifty years; M.A. Oxford, 1639; published Look unto Jesus 1663, and Mercy Triumphant 1680.
  75. ^ Edward William Lane (1801–1876), Arabic liohir; went to Egypt for the sake of his health, 1825; made voyages up the Nile, 1826 and 1827; studied the people of Cairo, 1833-5; spoke Arabic fluently and adopted the dress and manners of the Egyptian man of learning; published in two volumes Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians 1836 (still the standard authority on the subject); published a translation of the Thousand and one Nights (the first accurate version), 1838-40; again in Egypt, 1842-9; compiled an exhaustive thesaurus of the Arabic language from native lexicons, published at intervals, 1863-92; the acknowledged chief of Arabic scholars in Europe,
  76. ^ Hunter Lane (d. 1853), medical writer; licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1829; M.D. Edinburgh, 1830; published his Compendium of Materia Medica and Pharmacy 1840; president of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.
  77. ^ Jane Lane , afterwards LADY FISHER (d. 1689), heroine: distinguished herself by her courage and devotion in the service of Charles II after the battle of Worcester, 1651; helped Charles to escape his enemies in the disguise of her man-servant: Sed to France and finally entered the service of the Princess of Orange; rewarded by Charles at the Restoration and her pension continued by William III; married Sir Clement Fisher, baronet, of Packington Magna, Warwickshire.
  78. ^ John Lane (fl. 1620), verse-writer; friend of Milton's father; left many poems in manuscript, but only published a poem denouncing the vices of Elizabethan society, 1600, and an elegy upon the death of Queen Elizabeth, 1603; completed in manuscript Chaucer's unfinished Squire's Tale
  79. ^ John Bryant Lane (1788–1868), painter ; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1808-13; lived at Rome, 1817-27; devoted himself to portrait-painting; exhibited at the Royal Academy till 1864.
  80. ^ Sir Ralph Lane (d. 1603), first governor of Virginia; sailed for North America in the expedition under Sir Richard Grenville, 1583; governor of colony established at Wokokan, 1585; moved to Roanoke; brought home by Sir Francis Drake with all the colonists, 1586, the settlement being a failure; employed in carrying out measures for the defence of the coast, 1587-8; muster-master in Drake's Portuguese expedition, 1589; served under Hawkyns, 1590; fought in Ireland, 1592-4; knighted, 1593.
  81. ^ Sir Richard Lane (1584–1650), lord keeper; barrister, Middle Temple; practised in the court of exchequer; deputy-recorder of Northampton, 1615; reader to the Middle Temple, 1630; attorney-general to the Prince of Wales, 1634; treasurer of the Middle Temple, 1637; defended Stratford, 1641; knighted, 1644; lord chief baron, 1644; D.O.L. Oxford, 1644; lord keeper, 1645; followed Charles II into exile; died at Jersey; author of Reports in the Court of Exchequer from 1605 to 1612 (first published, 1657).
  82. ^ ripiiiT..-l-l.-r brother of Edward U~"" ~J EL (1780-1859), portrait-painter: p!i r..riiigtou and under Sir ; contributed to the Royal William Lane  : fail,.,,!- K,r his pencil and chalk sketches, specially for his portrait of Princess Victoria, 18; the beat examples of his work in l.tl.ography, theSketches from Gainsborough lithographer to Queen Victoria, 18S7, and to the prince consort, 1840; helped to obtain the admission of engraven to the honour of full academician in 1865.
  83. ^ Samuel Lane studied under Joseph Thomas Lawrence q. Academy, 1804-54.
  84. ^ Theodore Lane (1800–1828), painter ; came into notice as a painter of water-colour portraits and miniatures; etched printo of sporting and social life with delicate finish; took up oil-painting, 1825.
  85. ^ Thomas Lane (. 1696), civilian : entered 8t John's College, Cambridge, 1674; B.A., 1677; B.A. Oxford, 1678; entered Merton College, Oxford, 1680; M.A., 1683; LL.D., 1686; bursar of Merton, 1688; left suddenly, ciirrying with him a largesum of money; wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of the Boyne, 1689; released, 1690; practised as an advocate in DoctorsCommons, 1695.
  86. ^ William Lane (1746–1819), portrait draughtsman; engraver of gems in the manner of the antique; engraved small copperplates after Reynolds and Cos way, 1788-92; became a successful artist in crayon portraits; contributed to the exhibitions, 1797-1815.
  87. ^ Robert Laneham (fl. of 1575; educated at St. Paul's 1575), writer on the Kenilworth festivities School, London; apprenticed to a London mercer; travelled abroad for trade purposes and became efficient linguist; door-keeper of the council chamber; present in this capacity at the entertainment given by Leicester to Queen Elizabeth, 1575; published anonymously a description of the festivities in a letter dated 1675 (copies in the British Museum and Bodleian libraries). The work was reissued in 1784 and again in 1821.
  88. ^ Benjamin Laney (1591–1675), bishop successively of Peterborough, Lincoln, and Ely; educated at Christ's College, Cambridge; B.A., 1611; entered Pembroke Hall: M.A., 1615; M.A. of Oxford, 1617; B.D., 1622; D.D. and master of Pembroke Hall, 1630: vice-chancellor, 1632-3; chaplain to Charles I,: deprived of his preferments as a royalist and high churchman: ejected from Cambridge, 1643-4; at Restoration recovered his mastership and other preferments; bishop of Peterborough, 1660, of Lincoln. 1663, of Ely, 1667-75. His sermons were published in 1668-9, and Observations upon a letter of Hobbes of Malmesbury (anonymous, 1677).
  89. ^ Lanfranc (1006?-1089). archbishop of Canterbury ; born at Pa via: educated in the secular learning of the time and in Greek; studied law; set up a school at Avranches ( in Normandy, 1039; gained a great reputation as a teacher; became a monk and entered the convent of Herlwin at Bee; prior, 1046: opened school in the monastery, to which scholars docked from all parts of Europe: took part in the controversy with Berengar on the question of trans instantiation before Pope Leo IX, 1050; confuted Berengar at the council of Tours, 1055, and in the Lateran council held by Pope Nicholas II, 1059; abbot of St. Stephen's, Caen, 1066; archbishop of Canterbury, 1070-89; worked in full accord with William the Conqueror; rebuilt Canterbury Cathedral after the fire of 1067 in Norman style; crowned William II, 1087; buried in Canterbury Cathedral; his collected works first published by Luc d'Achery, 1648.
  90. ^ John Dunmore Lang (1799–1878), writer on Australia: M.A. Glasgow, 1820: ordained, 182J: went to New South Wales, 1823; D.D. Glasgow, 1826: formed a church at Sydney in connection with the established church of Scotland: founded theColonist a weekly journal which lasted from 1835-40; edited first number of theColonial Journal 1841; edited the Press 1881-2; encouraged emigration; New Zealand taken possession of for Queen Victoria in consequence of his representations. 1840; one of the six members for Port Phillip district to tbe legislative council which then ruled New South Wales, 1843-6; lectured in England on the advantages of Australia 1846-9: represented various constituencies in prilainent of New South Wales, 1860-64: wrote largely oo emigration and colonisation; died in Sydney.
  91. ^ Gerard Langbaine, the elder (1609–1658), provost of Queen's College, Oxford: entered Queen's College, Oxford, 1626; M.A. and fellow, 1633; keeper of the archives of the university, 1644; provost of Queen's College and D.D. 1646; wrote literary and political pamphlet*; a zealous royalist and supporter of episcopacy; left twenty-one volumes of collections of notes in manuscript to the Bodleian Library.
  92. ^ Gerard Langbaine, the younger (1656–1692), dramatic biographer and critic; son of Gerard Langbaine the elder; of University College, Oxford; married young and settled in London, where he led a gay and idle life; retired to Oxfordshire; published his best-known work, An Account of the English Dramatic Poets, or Some Observations and Remarks on the Lives and Writings of all those that have published either Comedies, Tragedies, Tragicomedies, Pastorals, Masques, Interludes, Farces, or Operas, in the English tongue, valuable as a work of reference, but weak in bibliographical details, 1691.
  93. ^ Alban Langdaile or Langdale (fl. 1584), Roman catholic divine; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; fellow of St. John's, 1534; M.A., 1535; proctor, 1639: BJ) n 1544; took part in disputations concerning transubstantiation, 1549; D.D., 1554; archdeacon of Chicbester, 1655; chancellor of Lichfield Cathedral. 1569: refused to take oath of supremacy and was deprived of preferment; included in a list of popish recusants, 1661; retired to the continent; published controversial works.
  94. ^ Baron Langdale (1783–1851). See Henry Bickersteth.
  95. ^ Charles Langdale (1787–1868), Roman catholic layman and biographer of Mrs. Fitzherbert; third son of Charles Philip Stourton, sixteenth Lord Stourton; assumed his mother's maiden name of Langdale, 1815; one of the first English Roman catholics to enter parliament: M.P., Beverley, 1834, Knaresborough, 18371841; published Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert 1856, to vindicate her character see FITZHERBERT, MARIA ANXK.
  96. ^ Marmaduke Langdale, first Baron Langdale (1598?-1661), knighted, 1628; opposed ship-money, 1639, but adopted the king's cause, 1642; raised regiment of foot, 1643; distinguished as a cavalry commander in the civil war; routed at Preston and captured, 1648: escaped to the continent and entered the Venetian service; created Baron Langdale by Charles II, 1658.
  97. ^ John Langdon (d. 1434), bishop of Rochester; monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, 1398; studied at Oxford; B.D., 1400; one of the twelve Oxford scholars appointed to inquire into Wycliffe's doctrines, 1411; bishop of Rochester, 1421; engaged on an embassy to France, 1432; died and was buried at Basle.
  98. ^ Richard Langdon (1730–1803), organist and composer; organist of Exeter Cathedral, 1753; Mus. Bac. Oxford, 1761; organist of Bristol Cathedral, 1767, of Armagh Cathedral, 1782-94; composed anthems and songs.
  99. ^ Abraham Langford (1711–1774), auctioneer and playwright; produced a ballad-opera, The Lover bis own Rival 1736; auctioneer in Covent Garden, 1748; the foremost auctioneer of the period.
  100. ^ Thomas Langford (fl. 1420), historian; a Dominican friar; said to have written a chronicle and other works.
  101. ^ Simon Langham (d. 1376), archbishop of Canterbury, chancellor of England, and cardinal: became monk of 8t, Peter's, Westminster, c. 1335; abbot, 1349; treasurer of England, 1360; bishop of Ely, 1361; chancellor of England. 1363; the first to deliver speeches in parliament in Knglish; archbteho of Canterbury, 1366; removed Wycliffe from the headship of Canterbury Hall; created cardinal-priest, 1368, and forced to resign his archbishopric, 1868; cardinal-bishop of Praeneste, 1373; died at Avignon; buried first at Avignon, but his body transferred to Westminster Abbey, 1379.
  102. ^ Daniel Langhorne (d. 1681), antiquary; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1657; fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1663: B.D., 1664; university preacher, 1664; wrote antiquarian works in Latin and English.
  103. ^ John Langhorne (1735–1779), poet; entered Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1760; commenced writing for the 4 Monthly Review 1764; assistant-preacher at Lincoln's Inn, 1766; publishedPoetical Works 1766; translated Plutarch's Lives in collaboration with his brother William, 1770 (fifth edition, 1792); prebendary of Wells Cathedral, 1777; best remembered as the translator of Plutarch.
  104. ^ Richard Langhorne (d. 1679), one of Titus Oates's victims; barrister, Inner Temple, 1654; accused by Oates of being a ringleader in the Popish plot of 1678; tried, condemned, and executed next year.
  105. ^ Sir William Langhorne, first baronet (1629-1715), governor of Madras; of the Inner Temple; succeeded to his father's East India trade; created baronet, 1668; governor of Madras, 1670-7.
  106. ^ William Langhorne (1721–1772), poet and translator; brother of John Langhorne; assisted him in his translation of Plutarch, and published sermons and poetical paraphrases of some books of the bible.
  107. ^ John Langland (1473–1547). See Longland.
  108. ^ William Langland (1330?–1400?) poet; details of his life chiefly supplied from his one work, The Vision of Piers the Plowman; native of the Western Midlands; probably educated at the monastery of Great Malvern; went to London; engaged on his great poem, 1362-92; produced it in at least three versions (first, 1362, second, 1377, third, 1392), treating in them philosophical and social questions in the unrhymed alliterative line of the old English metre; possibly the author of Richard the Redeless, a poem written to remonstrate with Richard II.
  109. ^ Batty Langley (1696–1751), architectural writer; attempted to remodel Gothic architecture by the invention of five orders for that style in imitation of classical architecture; did good work in the mechanical branches of his art; wrote twenty-one works on architecture.
  110. ^ Edmund de Langley, first Duke of York (1341-1402), fifth son of Edward III; accompanied his father to the French wars, 1359; K.G., 1361; created Earl of Cambridge, 1362; accompanied the Black Prince to Spain, 1367; sent to France, 1369; shared in sack of Limoges, 1370; married Isabel of Castile, daughter of Pedro the Cruel, 1372; king's lieutenant in Brittany, 1374; constable of Dover, 1376-81; member of the council of regency to Richard II, 1377; took part in the king's expedition to Scotland, 1385; created Duke of York, 1385; regent during the king's absences, 1394-9; went over to the sideof Henry of Lancaster (afterwards Henry IV); retired from the court after Henry IV's coronation, 1399.
  111. ^ Henry Langley (1611–1679), puritan divine; of Pembroke College, Oxford; M.A., 1635; master of Pembroke College, Oxford, 1647-60; canon of Christ Church, 1648; D.D., 1649.
  112. ^ John Langley (d. 1657), grammarian ; entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1619; high-master of the College School, Gloucester, 1617-27 and 1628-35; of St. Paul's School, 1640; a licenser of the press, 1643; published a work on rhetoric for St. Paul's School, 1644, and an Introduction to Grammar
  113. ^ Thomas Langley (fl. 1320?), writer on poetry ; monk of St. Benet Hulme, Norfolk; author of Liber de Varietate Carminum in capitulis xviii distinctus cum prologo of which ten chapters are preserved in manuscript at the Bodleian.
  114. ^ Thomas Langley or Longley (d. 1437), bishop of Durham, cardinal, and chancellor; educated at Cambridge; in his youth attached to the family of John of Gaunt; canon of York, 1400; dean, 1401; keeper of the privy seal, 1403; chancellor, 1405-7; bishop of Durham, 1406; sent on embassies by the king, 1409, 1410, 1414; cardinal, 1411; again chancellor, 1417 (retiring, 1424); Mrtrtcd at Henry VI's coronation, 1429; statesman and canonist.
  115. ^ Thomas Langley (d. 1581), canon of Winchester; B.A. Cambridge, 1538; chaplain to Cranmer, 1548; canon of Winchester, 1557; B.D. Oxford, 1560; chief work, an abridged English edition of Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum published, 1546.
  116. ^ Thomas Langley (d. 1745), engraver of antiquities, &c.; brother of Batty Langley; drew and engraved for his brother's books.
  117. ^ Thomas Langley (1769–1801), topographer; of Eton and Hertford College, Oxford: M.A., 1794; lu-M livings in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire; published The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough and Deanery of Wycombe in Buckinghamshire 1797.
  118. ^ Thomas Pitt Langmead afterwards Taswell-Langmead (1840–1882), writer on constitutional law and history; educated at King's College, London; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1863: B.A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1866; practised as a conveyancer; tutor in constitutional law and legal history at the Inns of Court; joint-editor of the Law Magazine and Review 1876-82: professor of constitutional law and legal history at University College, London, 1882; edited for Camden Society, 1858, Sir Edward Lake's Account of his Interviews with Charles I, on being created a Baronet; published a pamphlet, 'Parish Registers: a Plea for their Preservation 172, and English Constitutional History,* 1875.
  119. ^ Browne Langrish (d. 1759), physician ; extra licentiate of the College of Physicians; F.R.S., 1734; published The Modern Theory and Practice of Physic 1735; delivered the Croouian lectures; graduated M.D., 1747.
  120. ^ Sir Hercules Langrishe , first baronet (1731–1811), Irish politician; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1763; M.P. for Knocktopher in the Irish parliament, 1760-1801; commissioner of barracks, 1766-74; supervisor of accounts, 1767-75; commissioner of revenue, 1774-1801; commissioner of excise, 1780-1801; opposed every effort to reform the Irish parliament; created baronet, 1777; privy councillor, 1777; introduced his Catholic Relief Bill, 1792; supported the union scheme, 1799; some of his speeches published.
  121. ^ John Langshaw (1718–1798), organist; employed in London by the Earl of Bute, c. 1761; organist of Lancaster parish church, 1772.
  122. ^ John Langshaw (fl. 1798), organist: son of John Langshaw (1718-1798); succeeded his father as organist at Lancaster, 1798; published hymns, chants, songs, and pianoforte concertos.
  123. ^ John Langston (1641?–1704), independent divine; entered Pembroke College, Oxford, 1655; took out licence to preach, 1672; ministered in Ipswich, 1686-1704; author of two schoolbooks.
  124. ^ Peter of Langtoft (d. 1307?), rhyming chronicler; author of a history of England up to the death of Edward I in French verse, the latter part of which was translated into English by Robert of Brunue (first published in the Rolls Series, 1866 and 1868).
  125. ^ Bennet Langton (1737–1801), friend of Dr. Johnson; as a lad obtained an introduction to the doctor, who visited him at Trinity College, Ox ford, 1769; member of the Literary Club, 1764; M.A., 1769; famous for his Greek scholarship; professor of ancient literature at the Royal Academy, 1788; D.C.L. Oxford, 1790.
  126. ^ Christopher Langton (1521–1578), physician ; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge; B.A.. 1642; published treatises in English on medicine, 1547, 1660, and 1552; M.D. Cambridge, 1552; F.R.O.P., 1652-8; expelled for profligate conduct, 1558.
  127. ^ John de Langton (d. 1337), bishop of Chichester and chancellor of England; clerk in the royal chancery and keeper of the rolls; chancellor, 1292-1302; treasurer of Wells, 1294; bishop of Chichester, 1305; chancellor, 1307-9; built the chapter-house at Chichester.
  128. ^ John Langton (fl. 1390), Carmelite; studied at Oxford, and was bachelor of theology; took part in the trial (1392) of the lollard Henry Crump, and wrote an account of it.
  129. ^ Robert Langton (d. 1524), divine and traveller; nephew of Thomas Langton; educated at Queen's College, Oxford: prebendary of Lincoln, 1483-1517; archdeacon of Dorset, 1486-1514: D.C.L., 1501; treasurer of York Minster, 1509-14; prebendary of York, 1514-24.
  130. ^ Simon Langton (d. 1248), archdeacon of Canterbury: brother of Stephen Langton; shared his brother's exile; returned to England, 1213; adopted the barons' cause; chancellor to Louis of France when he came to claim the English crown, li'ltt; exiled, 1217-37: Hr'lniii-i.ii of l!;iiit:rtmry, 1287; rose into high favour with the king and pope; author of a treatiec on the Book of Canticles.
  131. ^ Stephen Langton (d. 12*8), archbishop of Canterbury and cardinal; studied at Paris University; became a doctor in arts and theology; went to Rome and was made cardinal-priest, 1208: archbishop of Canterbury, 1207-28; at first rejected by King John, 1207; remained at Pontigny for the next five years after the interdict of 1*08; tried to act as peacemaker between John and the pope (Innocent III); visited Dover in the hope of making terms, but bad to return intoexile, 1209; received by John, 1213; acted as mediator during the business of the Great Charter, which he supported, 1216; held at Osney a church council, which is to the ecclesiastical history of England what the assembly at Runnymede (1215) is to her secular history, 1222; occupied in political affairs during the earlier years of Henry III's reign; a famous theologian, historian, and poet.
  132. ^ Thomas Langton (d. 1501), bishop of Winchester and archbishop-elect of Canterbury; fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1461; took degrees in canon law at Cambridge; chaplain to Edward IV before 1476; sent on embassies to France, 1467, 1476, 1477, 1478, and 1480: treasurer of Exeter, 1478; prebendary of Wells, 1478; prebendary of Lincoln, 1483; bishop of St. David's, 1483; bishop of Salisbury, 1486; provost of Queen's College, Oxford, 1487-95; bishop of Winchester, 1493-1600; elected archbishop of Canterbury, 22 Jan. 1501; died of the plague, 27 Jan.
  133. ^ Walter Langton (d. 1321), bishop of Lichfield and treasurer; clerk of the king's chancery: keeper of the king's wardrobe, 1292; a favourite councillor of Edward I; treasurer, 1295; bishop of Lichfield, 1297; accused of various crimes, 1301; formally absolved, 1303; accompanied Edward I to Scotland, and was present at his death, 1307; arrested by Edward II for misdemeanors as treasurer; imprisoned, 1308-12; liberated and restored to office of treasurer, 1312; in the king's council, 1316-18.
  134. ^ William Langton (1803–1881), antiquary and financier; engaged in business in Liverpool, 1821-9; in Messrs. Heywood's bank, Manchester, 1829-54; managing director, Manchester and Salford bank, 1854-76; member of the Chetham Society, editing for it three volumes of miscellanies; an accurate genealogist, herald, and antiquary, philologist, and writer of English and Italian verse.
  135. ^ Zachary Langton (1698–1786), divine; of Magdalen Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1724; published anonymously An Essay Concerning the Human Rational Soul, 1753.
  136. ^ Benjamin Langwith (1684?–1743), antiquary and natural philosopher; educated at QueensCollege, Cambridge; AI.A., 1708; D.D., 1717; prebendary of Chichester, 1725; assisted Francis Drake with bis Eboracum; published scientific dissertations,
  137. ^ Sir John Lanier (d. 1692), military commander ; governor of Jersey under Charles II; knighted: lieutenant-general, 1688: served in Ireland under William 111, 1689-91; one of the king's generals of horse in Flanders, 1692; mortally wounded at buttle of Steinkirk.
  138. ^ Nicholas Lanier (1568–1646?),eU-hcr; possibly cousin of Nicholas Lanier (1588 1666)
  139. ^ Nicholas Lanier or Laniere (1688–1666), musician and amateur of art; a musician in the royal household: composed music for masque by Campion, 1613, for Ben Jousou's Lovers made Men and the* Vision of Delight 1617; master of the king's music, 16*6; sent by Charles I to Italy to collect pictures and statues for the royal oollecUon; followed the royal family iuto exile reinstated as master of the king's music, 1660.
  140. ^ John Lanigan (1758–1828), Irish ecclesiastics historian; ordained at Rome; appointed to the chairs of Hebrew ecclesiastical history ami divinity in the university of Pavia: published the first part of his Institutions BlblidB 1793: D.D. Pavia, 1794; returned to Ireland 1796: assistant-librarian, foreign correspondent, and general literary supervisor to the Royal Dublin Society, 1799: assisted to found Gaelic Society of Dublin, 1808; principal work,An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, from the first Introduction of Christianity among the Irish to the beginning of the thirteenth Century 1822.
  141. ^ Edwin Lankester (1814–1874), man of science; articled to a surgeon; studied at London University, 1W4-7: M.R.C.S. and I*S.A., 1887; MJ. Heidelberg, 1839: secretary of the Ray Society, 1844; F.R&, 1845; professor of natural history in New College, London, 1850: joint-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 1863-71; president of the Microscopical Society of London, 1859: examiner in botany to the science and art department, 1862: engaged in important sanitary investigations: medical officer of health for the parish of St. James's, Westminster, 1856-74; coroner for Central Middlesex, 1862-74; published works on physiology and sanitary science.
  142. ^ Prosper Henricus Lankrink (1628–1692), painter; born in Germany: studied at Antwerp; visited Italy: came to England and was employed by Lely to paint the accessories In his portraits.
  143. ^ Lanquet or LANZET, THOMAS (1521–1546), chronicler: studied at Oxford and devoted himself to historical research; at his death was engaged on a useful general history, completed by Thomas Cooper (1517 ?-1594)
  144. ^ Marquises of Lansdowne . See PETTY, WILLiam first MARQUIS, 1737–1805; PETTY-FITZMAURICE, Henry third MARQUIS, 1780–1863; PETTY-FITZMAU-, Henry Thomas Rick , fourth MARQUIS, 1816–1866.
  145. ^ Lansdowne first BARON (1667–1736 1 See GRANVille or GRKNVILLK, GEORGE.
  146. ^ Thomas Lant (1556?–1600), herald and draughtsman; originally servant to Sir Philip Sidney q. v.1; entered College of Arms as Portcullis pursuivant, 1588 Windsor herald, 1597; wrote on heraldry,
  147. ^ Lantfred or Lamfrid (. 980), hagiographer ; author of De Miraculls Swithuni printed partly in the Acta Sanctorum, the whole work being contained in the Cotton MSS.
  148. ^ Sir Charles Lanyon (1813–1889), civil engineer surveyor of co. Antrim, 1836-60; architect of some of the principal buildings in Belfast; mayor of Belfast, 1862; prwfcknit of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, 1868-8; M.P., Belfast, 1866; knighted, 1868; high sheriff of co. Antrim, 1876.
  149. ^ Sir William Owen Lanyon (1842–1887), colonel and colonial administrator: son of Sir Charles Lanyon 10;. served in Jamaica during native disturbances,  : UM.G., 1874: administrator of Griqualand West 1885 -8, of the Transvaal, 1879-81; K.C.M.G., 1880; served in Egyptian campaign, 1882, with Nile expedition, 1884-5 died at New York.
  150. ^ Gesualdo Lanza (1779–1859), teacher of music tx.rn in Naples; became known in London as a singing ma.Hter; delivered lectures and wrote various works on the f singing.
  151. ^ Edward Lapidge (d. 1860), architect; sent Mnoui.draw.iigs to the Royal Academy; built a bridge buUtveS* PWSV?*i an1 altered II" 1 t several churches; F.R.I.B.A.; surveyor of bridges and public works for Surrey. xxxii. f 8
  152. ^ George Henry Laporte (rf. 1878), animal painter; Jobn Laporte: exhibited 8portin K * the Academy, British Institution, and Suffolk . 1*2, from 1818:oHwlHtion member of the Institute of Painters in Water-colours.
  153. ^ John Laporte (1761–1839), water-colour painter ; drawing-master at the military academy at Addiscombe; exhibited landscapes at the Royal Academy and British Institution from 1786; in conjunction with William Frederick Wells executed a set of seventy-two etchings from Gainsborough, 1819; published work- on art.
  154. ^ John Lapraik (1727–1807), confined for a time as debtor after the collapse of the Ayr bank, 1772; conducted a public-house and the village post-office at Muirkirk after 1796; published Poems on Several Occasions 1788; three famousEpistlesaddressed to him by Burns.
  155. ^ Edward Lapworth (1574–1636), physician and Latin poet; M.A. Exeter College, Oxford, 1595; master of Magdalen College school, Oxford, 1598-1610; licensed to practise medicine, 1605; M.D., 1611: first Sedleian reader in natural philosophy, 1618; Linacre physic lecturer 1019-35.
  156. ^ Sir Thomas Aiskew Larcom (1801–1879), Irish official; educated at the Royal Academy, Woolwich; employed on the ordnance survey of England and Wales, 1824-6, of Ireland, 1828-46; published admirable maps of Ireland; census commissioner, 1841; commissioner of public works, 1846; deputy-chairman of the board of works, 1860; under-secretary for Ireland, 1853; K.C.B., 1860; his administration marked by a steady increase of prosperity.
  157. ^ Dionysius Lardner (1793–1859), scientific writer; of Trinity College, Dublin: M.A., 1819; LL.D., 1827; took holy orders, but devoted himself to literary and scientific work: professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in London University, now University College, 1827; his principal work, the Cabinet Cyclopaedia completed in 133 volumes, 1849; edited the Edinburgh Cabinet Library 1830-44; lectured in the United States and Cuba, 1840-5; settled at Paris, 1845; wrote at Paris works on railway economy and natural philosophy; died at Naples.
  158. ^ Nathaniel Lardner (1684–1768), biblical and patristic scholar; preached his first sermon, 1709; lectured on theCredibility of the Gospel History out of which grew his great work, 1723; first two volumes of part i. of hisCredibility published, 1727; part ii. vols. i-xii., 1733-65; founder of the modern school of critical research in the field of early Christian literature, and remains the leading authority on the conservative side D.D. Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1745.
  159. ^ Thomas Larkham (1602–1669), puritan divine ; M.A. Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1626; in trouble through his puritan proclivities; fled to New England before 1641; returned, 1642; vicar of Tavi stock before 1649; resigned his benefice, 1660; wrote controversial pamphlets.
  160. ^ Lambert Blackwell Larking (1797–1868), antiquary; educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford; M.A., 1823; founder of the university lodge of Freemasons; hou. sec. Kent Archaeological Society, 18571861; vice-president, 1861; edited volumes for the Camden Society, 1849, 1867, and 1861; the Domesday Book of Kent published, 1869; made extensive preparations for a revision of Hasted's History of Kent the first instalment, of which the Hundred of Blackheath appeared 1886.
  161. ^ James Laroche (fl. 1696–1713), singer ; appeared while a boy as Cupid in Motteux's Loves of Mars and enus 1697; in a musical interlude, The Raree Show 713
  162. ^ Marcellus Laroon or Lauron, the elder (1653 702), painter and engraver; born at the Hague; migrated England; best known by his drawings, The Cryes of London; painted draperies for Sir Godfrey Kneller.
  163. ^ Maroellus Laroon , the younger (1679–1772), ainter and captain in the army; second son of Marcellus Laroon the elder; studied painting and music; actor and singer at Drury Lane Theatre, London; joined he footguards, 1707; fought at Oudenarde, 1708; deputy quarter-master-general of the English troops in Spain; returned to England, 1712: captain, 1732; a friend and imitator of William Hogarth; best known for his conversation pieces.
  164. ^ Francis Seymour Larpent (1776–1845), civil servant; eldest son of John Larpent; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; fi-llo-.v, 17l; M.A., called to the l:ir; deputy judge-advoite-gpiii-r:il to tinforces in the 1'cnin-nla, 1812-14; commissioner of nistom-. 1814; civil and admiralty judge for Gibraltar: employed in secret service with reference to the Princess Caroline, 1815 and 1820; chairman of the board of audit of the public accounts, 1826-43; hisPrivate JournalspuMishwl, 1853. Portrait at File:Francis Seymour Larpent; Charlotte Rosamund Larpent (née Arnold) from NPG.jpg
  165. ^ George Gerard de Hochepied Larpent, first baronet (1786-1855), politician; son of John Larpent ; entered East India House of Cockerell & Larpent; chairman of the Oriental and China Association; deputychairman of St. Katharine's Docks Company; M.P., Nottingham, 1841; created baronet, 1841; wrote pamphlets and edited works by his grandfather and his half-brother, Francis Seymour Larpent
  166. ^ John Larpent (1741–1824), inspector of plays : educated at Westminster; entered the foreign office; secretary to the Duke of Bedford at the peace of Paris, 1763; inspector of plays, 1778.
  167. ^ Lascelle 8, MRS. ANN (1745–1789). See Ann Catley.
  168. ^ Henry Lascelles, second EARL OP HAREWOOD (1767-1841), M.P., Yorkshire, 1796, 1802, and 1812, Westbury, 1807, Northallerton, 1818; styled Viscount Lascelles after death of his elder brother (1814), and succeeded his father, the first earl, 1820.
  169. ^ Rowley Lascelles (1771–1841), antiquary and miscellaneous writer; educated at Harrow; barrister, Middle Temple, 1797; practised at the Irish bar for twenty years; selected by the record commissioners for Ireland (1813) to edit lists of all public officers recorded in Irish court of chancery from 1540 to 1774, the work appearing asLiber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae, ab an. 1152 usque ad 1827(vol. i. 1824, vol. ii. 1830); prefixed to it a history of Ireland which gave so much offence that the book was suppressed (reissued, 1852); author of works on miscellaneous subjects.
  170. ^ Thomas Lascelles (1670–1751), colonel; chief engineer of Great Britain and deputy quartermastergeneral of the forces; served as volunteer in Ireland, 1689-91; in the expedition to Cadiz, 1702; joined regular army, 1704; present at nearly all Marlborough's battles; wounded at Blenheim, 1704: employed in the demolition of the fortifications, &c., of Dunkirk, 1713-16, 1720-5, and 1729-32; deputy quartermaster-general of the forces, 1715; director of engineers, 1722; master-surveyor of the ordnance and chief engineer of Great Britain, 1742.
  171. ^ John Laski or A LASCO (1499–1560), reformer; born in Poland; mistakenly claimed descent from Henry de Lacy, third earl of Lincoln; at Bologna University, 1514-18; canon of Leczyc, 1517, of Cracow and Plock, 1518, and dean of Gnesen, 1521; lived at Basle in Erasmus's house, 1524-5; bishop of Vesprim, 1529; archdeacon of Warsaw, 1538; pastor of a congregation of reformers at Emdeu in East Frisia, 1542-8; superintendent of the London church of foreign protestants, 1550; had great influence at Edward VI's court; promoted the reformation in Poland, 1556-60; an austere Calvinist; published tracts advocating the reformation,
  172. ^ William Lassell (1799–1880), astronomer ; educated at a school at Rochdale; apprenticed in a merchant's office at Liverpool, 1814-21; brewer at Liverpool, 1S25; built observatory at Starficld, near Liverpool, and erected a nine-inch Newtonian, the first example of the adaptation to reflectors of the equatoreal plan of mounting, and with it followed the course of comets further than was possible at any public observatory; invented a new machine mounted at Starfield, 1846; verified discovery of Neptune by its aid, 1847; gold medallist, Royal Astronomical Society, 1849, and F.R.S., 1849; the first to ascertain clearly the composition of the Dranian system, 1851; removed his observatory to Bradstones, 1864; royal medallist, 1858; constructed a reflecting telescope of four feet aperture, 1859-60; mounted and worked with it at Valetta, 1861-4; set up an observatory near Maidenhead on his return to England; hou. LL.D. Cambridge, 1874.
  173. ^ Richard Lassels (1608?-1668), Roman catholic divine; educated probably at Oxford; student of the English college at Douay, 1623; profemor of classics at Dooay. 1629; ordainui,,r-..-t. 1632; published account of travels in Italy, 1670; dial at Mont (
  174. ^ Charles Lates (fl. 1794), organist and musical composer; son of John James Late*; pupil of Dr. Philip Haye*; entered Magdalen College, Oxford, 1793; HUB. Bac., 1794, composed an anthem, aud sonata* for the pianoforte.
  175. ^ John James Lates (d. 1777?), organist : violinist and teacher of the violin at Oxford; probably organist of St. John's College, Oxford; composed solos and dnets for the violin and violoncello.
  176. ^ Richard Latewar (1660–1601), scholar; educated at Merchant TaylorsSchool. London; scholar, 1580, and later fellow of St John's College, Oxford; M.A., 1588; D.D., 1597; accompanied Charles Blount, eighth baron Mountjoy, to Ireland, and died of a wound received at Benburb, co. Tyrone; wrote Latin poem*.
  177. ^ Gilbert Latey (1626–1706), qnaker ; joined the Society of Friends, 1664; suffered imprisonment for his belief; exerted his influence successfully on behalf of the quakers with James II and William and Mary; by persistently petitioning the king obtained act of 1697 (made perpetual, 1715), by which the quaker affirmation equivalent to an oath; author of several religious
  178. ^ Henry Latham (1794–1866), poetical writer: third sou of John Latham (1761-1843); educated at Brasenose College, Oxford; entered the church; publishedSertum Shakesperianum, subnexis aliquot inferioris notes floribus 1863.
  179. ^ James Latham (d. 1750?), portrait-painter ; called the Irish Vandyck Among his sitters were Margaret Woffington and Bishop Berkeley.
  180. ^ John Latham (1740–1837), ornithologist; educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London; studied anatomy under Hunter; M.D. Erlaugen, 1795; studied archaeology; F.S.A., 1774; F.R.S., 1775; assisted to form the Linnean Society, 1788; chief work, A General History of Birds 1821-8.
  181. ^ John Latham (1761–1843), physician; entered Brasenose College, Oxford, 1778; B.A., 1782; studied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, 1782-4; M.A., 1784; M.B., 1786; physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, 1787; M.D., 1788; F.R.O.P., 1789; physician to the Middlesex Hospital, 1789-93, to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1793-1802; Gulstonian lecturer, 1793; Harveiau orator, 1794; Croonian lecturer, 1795; physician extraordinary to the Prince of Wales. 1795: published pamphlet on rheumatism and gout, 1796, and works on clinical medicine.
  182. ^ John Latham (1787–1853), poetical writer; eldest son of John Latham (1761-1843); educated at Brasenose College, Oxford: elected fellow of All Souls College while an undergraduate, 1806; published anonymously a volume of poems, 1836; English and Latin poems by him published posthumously, 1853.
  183. ^ Peter Mere Latham (1789–1875), physician; second son of John Latham (1761-1843) -, educated at Brasenose College, Oxford; B.A., 181 commenced studying at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, 1810; M.A., 1813; M.B.. 1814: physician to the Middlesex Hospital, 1816-24; M.D., 1816; F.R.C.P., 1818: Gulstonian lecturer, 1819; physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1824-41: joint-lecturer on medicine in the school of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1836; physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria, 1837; Harveian orator, 1839; chief work, Lectures on Clinical Medicine, comprising Diseases of the Heart 1845.
  184. ^ Robert Gordon Latham (1812–1888), ethnologist and philologist: of Eton and King's College. Cambridge; B.A., 1832; studied in Germany, Denmark, and Norway: professor of English language and literature in University College, London, 1839: produced his wellknown text-book on the English language, 1841: studied medicine; L.R.O.P., 1842; M.D. London; director of the ethnological department of the Crystal Palace, 1862; made protest against the Central Asian theory of the origin of the Aryans, 1W2; completed his revision..f Johnson's dictionary, 187U; published philological aiul ethnological works, 1840-78.
  185. ^ Simon Latham (ft. 1618), falconer; published Latham's Falconry or the Faulcons Lure and Cure, in two Books 1615-18.
  186. ^ John Lathbery (fl. 1350), Franciscan; famous as a theologian throughout the later Middle DJ. Oxford, after 1860; his bent-known work, Commentary on Lamentations one of the earliest books iMoed by the university press, printed at Oxford, 1482.
  187. ^ Thomas Lathbury (1798–1865), ecclesiastical historian; of St, Edmund Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1827; vicar of St. Simon's, Baptist Mills, Bristol, 1848. His works include a history of convocation and A History of the Nonjurors, 1846.
  188. ^ Francis Lathom (1777–1832), novelist and dramatist: acted at and wrote for the Norwich Theatre before 1801; wrote several successful comedies and novels between 1796 and 1830.
  189. ^ John Lathrop (d. 1663). See Lothropp.
  190. ^ Thomas Pike Lathy (fl. 1820), novelist; published Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV 1819; perpetrated a successful plagiaristic fraud in the Angler, a poem in ten cantos 1819 (copied fromThe Anglers. Eight Dialogues In Verse 1768); author ofReparation, or the School for Libertines performed at the Boston Theatre, United States, 1800.
  191. ^ Barons Latimer . See LATIMER, WILLIAM, first Baron of the second creation, d. 1304 ; LATIMER, WILLIAM fourth BARON, 1329?-1381; NEVILLE, RICHARD, second BARON of the third creation, 1468-1630; NEVILLE, JOHN third BARON, 1490 ?-1643.
  192. ^ Hugh Latimer (1486?–1555), bishop of Worcester; sent to Cambridge, 1600; fellow of Clare Hall and B.A. 1510: M.A., 1514; took priest's orders; refused to refute Luther's doctrines, 1526; compelled to explain himself before Wolsey and dismissed, with liberty to preach throughout England; preached his famous sermonson the card 1529; master in theology, Oxford, by 1530 preached before Henry VIII at Windsor, 1530; accused of heresy and brought before convocation by the bishop of London, and absolved on a complete submission, 1532; bishop of Worcester, 1535; preached Jane Seymour's funeral sermon, 1537; encouraged puritanism in his diocese; resigned his bishopric because he could not support the Act of the Six Articles, 1539; kept in custody for nearly a year; resumed preaching after eight years silence and preached his famous sermon of the plough 1548; committed to the Tower on Mary's accession 1553; sent to Oxford with Ridley and Cranmer to defend his views before the leading divines of the university 1554 condemned as a heretic and burnt at Oxford with Ridley 1555; his extant writings edited for the Parker Society 1844-5.
  193. ^ William Latimer, first Baron Latimer (d 1304), served in Wales, 1276 and 1282; took part in the expedition to Gascony, 1292; employed in Scotland present at the battle of Stirling, 1297, aithe battle of Falkirk, 1298.
  194. ^ William Latimer, second Baron Latimer (1276?-1327), son of William Latimer, first baron Latimer ; employed in Scotland, 1297-1303; taken prisoner at Bannockburn, 1314; released, 1315; a supporter of Thomas of Lancaster, but afterwards of Edward II.
  195. ^ William Latimer, fourth Baron Latimer (1329?-1381), son of William, third baron; served in Gascony, 1359; governor of Bécherel in Brittany, 1360; K.G., 1361; chamberlain of the king's household, 1369; constable of Dover Castle and warden of the Cinque Ports 1374; in great favour with John of Gaunt; impeached
  196. ^ William Latimer (1460?-1545), classical scholar; fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1489; studied at Padua; M.A. Oxford, 1513; tutor to Reginald Cardinal Pole; prebendary of Salisbury; a great friend of Sir Thomas More; his Epistolae ad Erasmum alone extant.
  197. ^ William George Digges La Touche (1747-1803), resident at Jassorah; entered St. Paul's School, London, 1767; proceeded to Bassorah, 1764; became British resident there; gained the goodwill of the natives and showed kindness to the principal citizens during the siege, 1776; returned to England, 1784; partner in La Touche's bank in Dublin.
  198. ^ Charles Joseph Latrobe (1801–1875), Australian governor and traveller; son of Christian Ignatius Latrobe; educated for the Moravian ministry, but abandoned the design; travelled in Switzerland, ascending mountains and unexplored passes, 1824-6; travelled in America, 1832-4; superintendent at the time of the gold fever of the Port Phillip district of New South Wales, 1839 (the post converted into the lieutenant-governorship of Victoria, 1851); retired, 1854; O.B., 1858; published descriptions of his travels.
  199. ^ Christian Ignatius Latrobe (1768–1836), musical composer; studied at the Moravian College, Niesky, Upper Lusatia, 1771; teacher in the high school there; returned to England, 1784; secretary to the Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel, 1787, of the Unity of the Brethren in England, 1795; the last to hold the office ofsenior civilisat the Herrnhut synod, 1801; undertook a visitation in South Africa in connection with his church, 1815-16; published an account of his travels, 1818; composed anthems, chorales, and some instrumental works; editor of the first English edition of the Moravian Hymn Tune Book; chiefly remembered for his Selection of Sacred Music from the works of the most eminent Composers of Germany and Italy 1806-25.
  200. ^ John Antes Latrobe (1799–1878), writer on music; son of Christian Ignatius Latrobe; educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1829; took orders; honorary canon of Carlisle Cathedral, 1858; author of The Music of the Church considered in its various branches, Congregational and Choral (1831), and of two volumes of hymns.
  201. ^ Peter Latrobe (1796–1863), Moravian; son of Christian Ignatius Latrobe; took orders In the Moravian church and became secretary of the Moravian mission; wrote an Introduction on the Progress of the Church Psalmody for an edition of the Moravian Hymn Tunes
  202. ^ Mary Latter (1725–1777), authoress ; published Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse 1769; published tragedy, The Siege of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian in 1763 (accepted for Coveut Garden by Rich, who died before it could be produced; proved unsuccessful at Reading, 1768).
  203. ^ Thomas Latter (1816–1853). soldier and Burmese scholar; born in India; published a Burmese grammar, the first scholarly treatise on the subject, 1845; chief interpreter in second Burmese war, and shared in the fighting, 1852: resident deputy-commissioner at Prome, where he was murdered, 1853.
  204. ^ William Laud (1573–1645), archbishop of Canterbury; entered St. John's College, Oxford, 1589; fellow, 1593; M.A., 1698; ordained, 1601; B.D., 1604; D.D., 1608; president of St. John's College, Oxford, 1611; archdeacon of Huntingdon, 1616; dean of Gloucester, 1616; bishop of St. David's, 1621-6; became predominant in the church of England at Charles I's accession, 1625; supported the king in his struggle with the Commons; dean of the Chapel Royal, 1626; bishop of Bath and Wells, 1626-8; privy councillor, 1627; bishop of London, 1628-33; chancellor of the university of Oxford, 1629; archbishop of Canterbury, 1633; adopted the policy of compelling compulsory uniformity of action on the part of churchmen; interfered disastrously with the Scottish church; impeached of high treason by the Long parliament, 1640; committed to the Tower, 1641; tried, 1644; condemned and beheaded, 1645. In his ecclesiastical policy he failed to allow for the diversity of the elements which made up the national church. His sermons were published, 1651, and a collected edition of his works appeared, 1695-1700.
  205. ^ George Lauder (. 1677), Scottish poet; grandon of Sir Richard Maitlaud, Lord Lethington; M.A. Edinburgh, c. 1620; entered the English army ami became a colonel; as a royalist spent many years on tincontinent ami probably joined the army of the Prince of r;iu_'o; his poems mainly patriotic and military.
  206. ^ James Eckford Lauder (1811–1869), painter: younger brother of Robert Scott Laudcr; stii-lir-l at the TrusteesAcademy, r-xlinburirh, 1N30-3; contributed to the exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy from 1832; studied in Italy, 1834-8; member R.S.A., 1846; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1841-53.
  207. ^ Lauder Sm JOHN, of Fountainhall, Lord Fountainhall (1646–1722), M.A. Edinburgh, 1664 : travelled and studied on the continent, 1665-6; passed advocate at the Scottish bar, 1668; member of the Scottish parliament for Haddlngtoushire, 1685, 16901702, and 17U2-7; a protestant and supporter of the revolution; a lord of session with the title of Lord Fouutaiuhall, 1689; opposed the union; chronicler and diarist; a portion of his diary, entitledChronological Notes of Scottish Affairs from 1680 till 1701 published by Sir Walter Scott, 1822, the full diary printed by the Bannatyne Olnb, 1840.
  208. ^ Robert Scott Lauder (1803–1869), subject painter; brother of James Eckford Lauder; studied at Edinburgh and London, 1822-9; member of the Scottish Academy, 1829; exhibited there and at Royal Academy and British Institution, London, 1827-49; studied in Italy, 1833-8; principal teacher in the Drawing Academy of the Board of Trustees, Edinburgh, 1852-61; his greatest picture the Trial of Effle Deans
  209. ^ Thomas Lauder (1395–1481), bishop of Dunkeld ; master of the hospital of Soltre or Soltry, Midlothian, 1437; preceptor to James II; bishop of Dunkeld, 1462; finished the church of Dunkeld (begun by his predecessor, James Kennedy (1406 ?-1466) ), 1464; built bridge over the Tay, 1461; wrote life of Bishop John Scott, one of his predecessors, and a volume of sermons.
  210. ^ Sir Thomas Dick Lauder , seventh baronet (1784-1848), author; son of the sixth baronet of Fountainhall,and a descendant of Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall; contributed scientific papers to theAnnals of Philosophy from 1816; succeeded to baronetcy, 1820; his most popular work,Account of the great Moray Floods of 1829 published, 1830: secretary to the board of Scottish manufactures, 1839; encouraged the foundation of technical and art schools; published works on Scotland, 1837-48.
  211. ^ William Lauder (d. 1425), lord chancellor of Scotland and bishop of Glasgow; archdeacon of Lothian; bishop of Glasgow, 1408; lord chancellor, 1423-5.
  212. ^ William Lauder (1520?–1573), Scottish poet ; educated at St. Andrews University; took priest's orders; celebrated as a deviser of court pageants, 1649-58; joined the reformers, 1560; appointed minister, c. 1563. His published verse, of which there are five separate volumes, consists mainly of denunciation of the immoral practices current in Scotland in his time.
  213. ^ William Lauder (d. 1771), literary forger ; educated at Edinburgh University; M.A., 1696; a good classical scholar and student of modern Latin verse: published (1739)Poetarum Scotorum Musae Sacra published articles in theGentleman's Magazineto prove that Paradise Lost was largely plagiarised from seventeenth-century Latin poets, 1747 (reprinted as An Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his " Paradise Lost," with a preface by Dr. Johnson, 1750). It was proved by John Douglas, afterwards bishop of Salisbury, that Lauder had himself interpolated in the works of Masenius and Staphorstius (seventeenthcentury Latin poets) extracts from a Latin verse rendering of Paradise Lost He confessed and apologised inA Letter to the Reverend Mr. Douglas 1761, and emigrated to Barbados, where he died. Incidentally he proved that Milton had deeply studied the works of modern Latin poete.
  214. ^ Duke of Lauderdale (1616–1682). See John Maitland.
  215. ^ Lauderdale In m ,-.,K'. 1697). See Elizabeth Murray.
  216. ^ Earlk of Lauderdale . See MAITLAXD, JOHX, second BAKU 1616-1682; M MI..KH, third' . IC'Jl ; M ni.Ai.. Riciuitn, fourth EARU, 1653–1695; MAITLAND, JOHN, fifth EAIIL. 1650V-1710; MAITLAND, JAMES, eighth BARL, 1759-1839; MA: AMIIMNV, u-nth Kuu 1785-1863; MAITHM, TIL. MA.-. eleventh EARI,, 1803-1878.
  217. ^ Rowland Lauoharne (ft. 1848), soldier ; took up arms for the parliament, 1642; Commander-in-chief of the forces in Pembrokeshire; appointed commander-lnchief of the counties of Glamorgan, Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Pembroke, 1646; deserted to the king. 1648; forced to surrender to Cromwell, 1648; coart-martlalled; was condemned to death with two others, but escaped through being, with his companions, allowed to cast lots for his life, 1649; pensioned by Charles II, 1660.
  218. ^ George Laughton (1736–1800), divine ; educated at Wadham College, Oxford; M.A., 1771; D.D., 1771 chief works, "The History of Ancient Egypt 1774, and 'The Progress and Establishment of Christianity, in reply to... Mr. Gibbon 1780.
  219. ^ Richard Laughton (1668?–1723), prebendary of Worcester; M.A. Clare College, Cambridge, 1691: ardently supported the Newtonian philosophy; prebendary of Worcester, 1717.
  220. ^ Edward Laurence or Lawrence (*. 1740?), land surveyor; brother of John Laurence; an expert on agricultural subjects, and famous for hi* books of maps; wrote on surveying and farming.
  221. ^ French Laurence (1757–1809), civilian ; brother of Richard Laurence; educated at Winchester School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; M.A., 1781: devoted himself to civil law; D.O.L., 1787; contributed to theRolliad helped Burke in preparing the preliminary case against Warren Hastings, and was retained as counsel, 1788; friend and literary executor of Burke ; regius professor of civil law at Oxford, 1796; M.P., Peterborough, 1796; chancellor of the diocese of Oxford; a judge of the court of admiralty of the Cinque ports; hisPoetical Remains published with those of his brother, Richard Laurence , 1872.
  222. ^ John Laurence (d. 1732), writer on gardening ; entered Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1665: B.A., 1668; fellow of Clare Hall; prebendary of Sarum; published sermons, and works on gardening.
  223. ^ Richard Laurence (1760–1838), archbishop of Cashel; brother of French Laurence; educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford; M.A., 1785; entered holy orders; D.C.L., 1794; deputy professor of civil law, Oxford, 1796: Bampton lecturer, 1804; regius professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford, 1814; archbishop of Cashel, Ireland, 1822. His writings include Latin and English translations of Ethiopic versions of apocryphal books of the bible.
  224. ^ Roger Laurence (1670–1736), nonjuror; educated at Christ's Hospital; studied divinity; ordained, 1714; headed a new party among the nonjurors, who objected to lay baptism; author of controversial pamphlets on lay baptism.
  225. ^ Samuel Laurence (1812–1884), portrait-painter : executed oil or crayon portraits of contemporary celebrities; exhibited at the Society of British Artists, 18341853, at the Royal Academy, 1836-88.
  226. ^ Thomas Laurence (1598–1667), master of Balliol College, Oxford; educated at Balliol; fellow of All SoulsCollege before 1618, M.A., 1621; M.A. Oambridge, 1627; B.D., 1629; chaplain to Charles I; master of Balliol, 1637-48; Margaret professor of divinity, 1638-48; received certificate, 1648, attesting that be engaged to preach only practical divinity; appointed to an Irish bishopric by Charles II, but died before he could be consecrated; published three sermon-.
  227. ^ Laurence O'Toole (1130?–1180). See O'Toole.
  228. ^ Peter Edmund Laurent (1796–1837), classical scholar: born in Plcardy; educated at the Polytechnic School, Paris; taught modern languages at Oxford University: French master at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth; visited Italy and Greece, 1818-19; published Recollections of a Classical Tour 1821.
  229. ^ Laurentius (d. 619), second archbishop of Canterbury. See Lawrence.
  230. ^ Sir Peter Laurie (1779?–1861), lord mayor of London; saddler in London, becoming contractor for the Indian army; sheriff, 1823; knighted, 1824; alderman, 1898; lord mayor, 1832; master of the Saddlers Company, 1833; chairman of the Union Bank, 1839-61; published two works on prison reform.
  231. ^ Robert Laurie (1765?-1836), mezzotint engraver; his earliest portrait* in mezzotint, 1771; acted as pubUsher of engravings, maps, charts, and nautical works, 1794-1818. His plates include both subject-pictures and portraits,
  232. ^ Robert Lavenham or Lavyngham (fl.–1380) Carmelite: Carmelite friar at Ipswich; studied at Oxford; prior of the Carmelite house at Bristol; confessor to Richard II; more than sixty treatises ascribed to him.
  233. ^ Baron Lavinoton (1738?–1807). See Ralph Payne.
  234. ^ George Lavington (1684–1762), bishop of Exeter: educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; fellow of New College, Oxford, 1708; B.C.L., 1713; D.C.L., 1732; bishop of Exeter, 1747-62; opponent of methodism.
  235. ^ Sir John Lavington (1690?–1759), presbyterian divine; ordained, 1715: drew up the formula of orthodoxy (1718) that was for thirty-five years the condition of ordination by the Exeter assembly; instituted a 'Western academy' at Ottery St. Mary, 1752; his pamphlets dealing with the Exeter controversy published anonymously, 1719-20.
  236. ^ John Lavington (d. 1764), nonconformist tutor; son of John Lavington (1690?-1759); ordained, 1739; principal tutor at the Western academy; published sermons, 1743-59.
  237. ^ Augustus Henry Law (1833–1880), Jesuit; eldest son of William Towry Law; joined Jesuits, 1H&4; with the mission in Demerara, 1866-71; joined first missionary staff to the Zambesi, 1879; died at King Umzila's kraal.
  238. ^ Charles Ewan Law (1792–1850), recorder of London; second son of Edward Law, first baron Ellenborough: educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1812; barrister, Inner Temple, 1817; a judge of the sheriff's court, 1828; K.C., 1829; common serjeant, 1830: recorder of London, 1833-50; M.P. for Cambridge University, 1835-50; treasurer, Inner Temple, 1839; LL.D. Cambridge, 1847.
  239. ^ Edmund Law (1703–1787), bishop of Carlisle; educated at St John's College, Cambridge; fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1727; published Essay on the Origin of Evil 1731, Enquiry into the Ideas of Space and Time 1734,Considerations on the State of the World with regard to the Theory of Religion 1745; a disciple of Locke in his philosophical opinions and a whig in politics; master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1756-68; librarian of the university of Cambridge, 1760; Knightbridge professor of moral philosophy, 1764; bishop of Carlisle, 1768-87; published anonymously a pamphlet Considerations on the Propriety of requiring Subscription to Articles of Faith advocating religious tolerance, 1774; edited Locke's Works 1777.
  240. ^ Edward Law, first Baron Ellenborough (1750- 1818), lord chief justice of England; fourth son of Edmund Law; educated at the Charterhouse (1761-7) and Peternouse, Cambridge; fellow, 1771; M.A., 1774; com- practice as a special pleader, 1776; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1780; K.O.. 1787; retained as leading oooMd for Warren Hastings, 1788; opened the defence, 17M; attorney-general, 179*: serjeant of the count* palatine of Lancaster, 17M; counsel for the crown at various state trials, 1794-180*; knighted, 1801; M.P. fcrHtwtown, Isle of Wight, 1801; lord chief-justice of England, created Baron Ellenborough and privy councillor, 1802; speaker of the House of Lords, 1805; admitted to the cabinet of All the Talents without office, 1806; councillor to George III's queen during the regency, 1811; resigned office, 1818.
  241. ^ Edward Law, first Earl of Ellenborough (1790-1871), governor-general of India; eldest son of Edward Law, first baron Ellenborough; educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1809: tory M.P., St. Michael's, Cornwall, 1813; succeeded his father as second baron, 1818; lord privy seal, 1828: member of the board of control, whence began his connection with Indian affairs, 1828-30; governor-general of India, 1841; successfully contended with great difficulties in China and Afghanistan, 1842; responsible for the annexation of Soinde, 1842; unpopular with the civilians; subjugated Gwalior, 1844; recalled and created Earl of Ellenborough, 1844; first lord of the admiralty in Sir Robert Peel's reconstituted ministry, 1846; president of the board of control under Lord Derby, 1858.
  242. ^ George Henry Law (1761–1845), bishop successively of Chester and of Bath and Wells; son of Edmund Law; educated at Charterhouse and Queens College, Cambridge; fellow, 1781; M.A., 1784; D.D., 1804; bishop of Chester, 1812-24; bishop of Bath and Wells, 1824-46; F.R.S. and F.S.A.; published sermons, charges, and addresses.
  243. ^ Henry Law (1797–1884), dean of Gloucester; son of George Henry Law; educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge; fellow, 1821; M.A., 1823; one of the first examiners in the classical tripos, 1824-5; archdeacon of Richmond, 1824, of Wells, 1826; residentiary canon of Wells, 1828; dean of Gloucester, 1862-84; one of the leaders of the evangelical party in the church; author of Christ is All vols. i-iv., The Gospel in the Pentateuch 1854-8, other theological works, and numerous tracts.
  244. ^ Hugh Law (1818–1883), lord chancellor of Ireland; educated at Trinity College, Dublin: B.A., 1839; called to the bar, 1840; Q.C., 1860; drafted the Irish Church Act; legal adviser to lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1868; bencher of the King's Inns, Dublin, 1870; solicitorgeneral for Ireland, 1872; Irish privy councillor and attorney-general for Ireland, 1873; M.P., Londonderry, 1874; attorney-general again under Gladstone, 1880; lord-chancellor for Ireland, 1881; LL.D.
  245. ^ James Law (1560?–1632), archbishop of Glasgow ; graduated at St. Andrews, 1681; minister of Kirkliston, 1585; a royal chaplain, 1601; titular bishop of Orkney, 1605; moderator of the general assembly, 1608; bishop of St. Andrews, 1611-15; archbishop of Glasgow, 1615; zealously supported James I's ecclesiastical policy.
  246. ^ James Law A. B. (1768–1828), general in the French army; grandnephew of John Law (1671-1729) ; a distinguished general in the French army, a favourite aide-de-camp of Napoleon I; made a marshal of France by Louis XVIII; created Oomte de Lauriston.
  247. ^ James Thomas Law (1790–1876), chancellor of Lichfield; eldest son of George Henry Law; educated at Christ's College, Cambridge; fellow, 1812; took orders, 1814; M.A., 1815; prebendary of Lichfleld, 1818; chancellor of Lichfield, 1821; commissary of archdeaconry of Richmond, 1824; special commissary of diocese of Bath and Wells, 1840; published works on ecclesiastical law.
  248. ^ John Law (1671–1729), of Lauriston; controller-general of French finance; son of the great-grandnephew of James Law; educated at Edinburgh; migrated to London; killed Edward Wilson, known as Beau Wilson, in a duel, 1694, and was sentenced to death for murder; escaped from prison and fled to the continent; issued anonymously pamphlets dealing with Scottish finance, 1701 and 1709; established the Banque Generate, the first bank of any kind in France, 1716; his Mississippi scheme incorporated as the Western Company 1717; enlarged its sphere of action, 1718-20; entered the Roman catholic church; appointed controller-general of the finances, 1720; fled from France on the full of the company, 1720; died and was buried at Venice; allowed by French historians to have furthered French industry and commercial enterprise.
  249. ^ John Law (1746–1810), bishop of Elphin; eldest son of Edmund Law; of Charterhouse and Christ's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1769; fellow of his college; prebendary of Carlisle 177:i; archdeacon of Carlisle, 1777; D.D., 1785; bishop of Clonfert, 1785-7, of Killala, 1787-95, of Elphin, 1795-1810; published two sermons.
  250. ^ Robert Law (d. 1690?), covenanting preacher; grandson of James Law (15607-1632); M.A. Glasgow, 1646; sided with the protesters against episcopacy, and was deprived of bis benefice, 1662; arrested on charge of preaching at conventicles, 1674; accepted the indulgence of 1679; author of Memorialls, or the Memorable Thing? that fell out within this Island of Brittain from 1638 to 1684 (edited, 1818).
  251. ^ Thomas Law (1769-1 834), of Washington; son of Edmund Law; in the service of the East India Company, 1773-91; went to America, 1793; tried to establish a national currency there; died at Washington; published works on finance.
  252. ^ William Law (1686–1761), author of the ' Serious Call entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1705; ordained and elected fellow, 1711; M.A., 1712; declined to take the oaths of allegiance to George I; attacked Mandeville's Fable of the Bees 1723; published the first of his practical treatises onChristian Perfection 1726; founded school for fourteen girls at Kings Cliffe, 1727: entered family of Edward Gibbon (1666-1736) as tutor to his son, afterwards father of the historian; published theSerious Call a work of much logical power, 1728: became an ardent disciple of the mystic, Jacob Behmen, 1737; retired to Kings Oliffe, 1740: joined by Mrs. Hutcheson and Miss Hester Gibbon (the historian's aunt), who wished to carry oat literally the precepts of the 'Serious Call 1743-4. His works were collected in nine volumes, 1762.
  253. ^ William John Law (1786–1869), commissioner of insolvent court; grandson of Edmund Law; educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he held a studentship, 1804-14; M.A., 1810: barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1813: a commissioner of bankruptcy, 1825: chief commissioner of the insolvent court, 1853-61; published works on the bankruptcy law, also a treatise On the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps 1866.
  254. ^ William Towry Law (1809–1886), youngest son of Edward Law, first baron Ellenborough; entered the army, but subsequently took holy orders; chancellor of the diocese of Bath and Wells; joined the church of Rome, 1851.
  255. ^ Sir John Bennet Lawes first baronet (1814-1900) agriculturist; educated at Eton and Braseuose College, Oxford; studied chemistry; resided on family estate at Rothamsted from 1834: conducted important agricultural experiments and started, 1843, on a regular basis the Rothamsted agricultural experiment station; patented, 1842, and started at Deptford, 1843, manufacture of mineral superphosphate for manure; published indepeMdemly,u,,i with hi* coadjutor and technical adviser. cnca avser, ) Joseph Henry Gilbert. numerous report* on experimente; joined Royal Agricultural Society, 1846; vice-president, 1878; i; and gold medallist 1867: received Albert medal from Society of Arta, 1877; LL.D. Edinburgh, 1*77; D.C.I, Kford, 1891; ScJD. cW l ri -": " -r""". i--..,-. i...,. ir.;,:;.,,. minions and committee*.
  256. ^ William Lawes (d. 1645), ram teal oomnowr elder brother of Henry Lawea; gentleman of toe Chapel Royal, 1603; wrote the music for Shirley's masque. The Triumph of Peace performed, 1634; lost his life fighting for the royaliste at the siege of Chester.
  257. ^ John Lawern (fl. 1448), theologian ; Benedictine monk of Worcester; student at Gloucester Hall (now Worcester College, Oxford). A manuscript volume of sermons and letters by him is In the Bodleian.
  258. ^ Henry Lawes (1596-1662), musician; received his early musical education from Giovanni Coperario (Cooper) ; gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1626; connected with the household of the Earl of Bridgewater, probably before 1633; suggested to Milton the composition of 'Comus(performed, 1634), for which he wrote the, music; his edition of Comus published, 1637; published 'Choice Psalmes put into Musick for Three Voices 1648,; Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two, and Three Voyces; 1653; lost his appointments at outbreak of the civil wars: his third book of Ayres brought out, 1658: restored to his offices in the Chapel Royal, 1660; the first Englishman who studied and practised with success the proper accentuation of words, and made the sense of the poem of paramount importance.
  259. ^ John Lawless (177S-18J7), IrUh t j monly known as Honest Jack Lawless; a distant oousin of Valentine Browne Lawless, second baron Cloncorry : refused admission to the bar in consequence of his intimacy with the leaders of the UniteI Irish movement; editor of the Ulster Register a political and literary magazine and subsequently of the 4 Belfast Magazlnt energetic member of the committee of the Catholic Aseociation; strong opponent of O'Connell; chief work, A Compendium of the History of Ireland from the earliest period to the Reign of George I 1814.
  260. ^ Matthew James Lawless (1837–1864), artist : drew illustrations forOnce a Week the Oornhill." and Punch his best-known oil-painting,The Bick Call exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1863.
  261. ^ Valentine Browne Lawless , second BARON Cloncurry (1773–1853), B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1792: sworn a United Irishman; entered the Middle Temple, 1795; published his first pamphlet on the projected union of Great Britain and Ireland, 1797; arrested on a charge of suspicion of high treason and discharged, 1798; arrested a second time and committed to the Tower, 1799-1801: for several years took no active part in politics; opponent of O'Connell during the viceroyalties of Henry William Paget, marquis of Anglesey, 1828 and 1830-4; published his Personal Reminiscences 1849.
  262. ^ William Lawless (1772–1824), French general; born at Dublin; joined the United Irishmen; outlawed; entered the French army; captain of the Irish legion, 1803; distinguished himself at Flushing, 1806; decorated by Napoleon with the legion of honour and made a lieutenant-colonel; colonel, 1812; wounded at Lbwenberg, 1813; placed on half -pay with rank of brigadier-general, 1814; died at Paris.
  263. ^ Mary Lawrance , afterwards MRS. KKARSK (Jl. 1794-1830), flower-painter; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1795-1830; published plates Illustrating "The Various Kinds of Roses cultivated in England 1796-9; married Mr. Kearse, 1813.
  264. ^ Lawrence or LAURENTIUS (. 619), second archbishop of Canterbury; landed hi Thanet with Angustine, 697; archbishop of Canterbury, 604.
  265. ^ Lawrence (d. 1154), prior of Durham and Latin poet; a Benedictine monk at Durham; prior, 1147; bishop of Durham, 1153: went to Rome for couflccration and died in France on his return journey; wrote Latin
  266. ^ Lawrence (rf. 1175), abbot of Westminster; a monk of St. Albans: abbot of Westminster, e. 1169; obtained the canonisation of Edward the Confessor from the pope, 1163.
  267. ^ Andrew Lawrence (1708–1747), engraver; known in France as AXDR* LATTRKXT; studied engraving at Paris, where he died. His etchings are mostly after the Flemish seventeenth-century painters.
  268. ^ Charles Lawrence (d. 1760), governor of Nova Scotia; ensign, 1727: captain-lieutenant, 1741; captain, 1742; major, 1747; accompanied his regiment to Nova Scotia; appointed a member of council, 1749; commanded expedition which built Fort Lawrence at the head of the bay of Fundy, 1750; governor, 1768; brigadier-general 3c 1757; died at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  269. ^ Charles Lawrence (1794–1881), agriculturist : brother of Sir William Lawrence; took leading part in founding and organising Royal Agricultural College at Oirencester, 1848-6; published hlaHandy Book for Young Farmer* 1869; contributed papers to the Transactions of the Royal Agricultural Society.
  270. ^ Lawrence or LAT7RENCE, EDWARD (1623–1096), nonconformist minister; educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge: B.A., 1648; M.A., 1664; ejected from his living of Baschurch, Shropshire, 1662; arrested for preaching under the Conventicle Act, 1670; published
  271. ^ Frederick Lawrence (1821–1867), barrister and journalist; employed in the printed book department of British Museum, 1846-9; barrister, Middle Temple, 1849; practised at the Middlesex sessions and the Old Bailey: contributed to the periodical press; published The Life of Henry Fielding 1886.
  272. ^ George Lawrence (1616–1696?), puritan divine ; educated at St. Paul's School and New Inn Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1639; took the covenant; minister of the hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, before 1660; ejected, 1660; published sermons and pamphlets against the royalists.
  273. ^ George Alfred Lawrence (1827–1876), author ofGuy Livingstone; entered Rugby, 1841, Balliol College, Oxford, 1848; B.A. from New Inn Hall, 1860; barrister, Inner Temple, 1862; abandoned law for literature; publishedGuy Livingstone, or Thorough 1867, and Sword and Gown 1869; went to the United States with the intention of joining the confederate army, but was imprisoned before he reached the confederate lines; released on condition of returning to England; recorded the adventure in Border and Bastile 1863.
  274. ^ Sir George St Patrick Lawrence (1804-1884), general; brother of Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence and of John Laird Mair Lawrence, first baron LawTence; born at Trincomalee; entered Addiscombe College, 1819; joined the 2nd regiment of light cavalry in Bengal. 1822; adjutant, 1825-34; took part in the Afghan war, 1838-9; political assistant and (1839-41) military secretary to Sir William Hay Macnaghten, the envoy of Afghanistan: in charge of the ladies and children in the retreat from Cabul, 1842; assistant political agent in the Punjab, 1846; taken prisoner during the second Sikh war, 1848: released, 1849; brevet lieutenant-colonel, 1849; deputy-commissioner of Peshawur, 1849; political agent in Mewar, 1860-7; resident for the llajputana states, 1887-64; held chief command of the forces there, 1867; C.B. (civil), 1860; major-general, 1861; K.C.S.L and retired from the army, 1866; honorary lieutenantgeneral, 1867; published Forty-three Years in India I 174.
  275. ^ Giles Lawrence (ft. 1639–1584), professor of , Greek at Oxford: member of Corpus Christ! College i Oxford, 1539; became fellow of All Souls c. 1542; regius professor of Greek, 1560-4 and 1559-84; D.O.L., 1556 archdeacon of Wiltshire, 1564-78, of St. Albans, 1681.
  276. ^ Henry Lawrence (1600–1664), puritan statesman; of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; M.A., 1627 commissioner of plantations, 1648; commissioner for Ireland, 1652; M.P., Hertfordshire, and keeper of the library at St. James's House, 1653; lord president of the council of state, 1646-9; M.P., Carnarvonshire, 1646-7 published pamphlets on the doctrine of baptism.
  277. ^ Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (1806–1887), brigadier-general, chief commissioner in Oudh; brother of Sir George St. Patrick Lawrence and of John Laird Mair Lawrence, first baron Lawrence; born at Mature, Ceylon: educated at schools at Londonderry and Bristol; entered Addiscoinbe College, 1820 second lieutenant in the Bengal artillery, 1822; reached Calcutta, 1828; first lieutenant and adjutant, 1825; deputy commissary of ordnance at Akyab, 1826; posted to the foot artillery at Kurnaul, 1830; transferred to the bone artillery at Meerut, 1831; assistant revenue surveyor in the north-west provinces, 1833-5, full surveyor, ISM; optin,1837; appointed to take civil charge of Ferowpore, 18J9; took part in Cabul expedition, 1842; promoted brevet-major; resident of Nepaul, 1843-6; founded the Lawrence Asylum for the Children of European Soldiers; governor-general's agent for foreign rt'lations and the affairs of the Punjaub and the northwest frontier, and promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel, 1846; resident at Lahore, 1847; K.C.B., 1848; president of the board of rduiinistration for the affairs of the Punjaub and agent to the governor-general, 1849-53; agent to the governor-general in Rajpootana, 1853; colonel, 1854; chief commissioner and agent to the governorgeneral in Oudh, 1856; at breaking out of mutiny promoted brigadier-general, with military command over all troops in Oudh, 1857; killed while holding Lucknow successfully against the mutineers; a voluminous contributor to the Indian press.
  278. ^ James Henry Lawrence (1773–1840), miscellaneous writer; a descendant of Henry Lawrence; educated at Eton and in Germany; published a romance dealing with the Nair caste in Malabar in German, 1800; subsequently wrote a French version (an English version published, 1811); arrested in France and detained several years at Verdun, 1803: published A Picture of Verdun, or the English detained in France 1810, and a work On the Nobility of the British Gentry 1834 (4th edit. 1840).
  279. ^ John Lawrence ffN (1753–1839), writer on horses ; began to write for the press, 1787; published his Philosophical and Practical Treatise on Horses 1796-8 (3rd edit. 1810); insisted on the duty of humanity to animals.
  280. ^ John Laird Mair Lawrence , first BARON Lawrence (1811–1879), governor-general of India; brother of Sir George St. Patrick Lawrence and of Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence; educated at Bristol, Londonderry, Bath, and Haileybury; took up his appointment under the East India Company first at Calcutta, 1830; assistant-magistrate and collector at Delhi, 1830-4; in charge of the northern or Paniput division of the Delhi territory, 1834, of the southern or Gurgaon division, 1837; magistrate and collector of the districts of Paniput aiid Delhi, 1844; administrator of the newly constituted district, the Jullundur Doab, 18461848; member of the board of s.dministration for the Punjaub, 1848-52; chief commissioner for the Punjaub, 1853-7; K.C.B., 1856; the capture of Delhi from the mutineers due to his advice and action, 1857; created baronet, 1858; privy councillor, 1858; in England at the India office, 1859-62; viceroy of India, 1863-9; sanitation, irrigation, railway extension, and peace the chief aims of his administration; created Baron Lawrence of the Punjaub and of Grately, 1869; chairman of the London school board, 1870-3: opposed the proceedings (by a series of letters in the Times) that led to tne Afghan war of 1878-9; buried in Westminster Abbey.
  281. ^ Richard Lawrence (fl. 1657), author of Gospel Separation separated from its Abuses 1657; of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
  282. ^ Richard Lawrence (d. 1643–1682), parliamentarian colonel; marshal-general of the horse in Cromwell's new model, 1645; published pamphlet on ecclesiastical abuses, 1647; employed in Ireland, 1651-9; member of the council of trade, 1660-80; published The Interest of Ireland in its Trade and Wealth stated 1682.
  283. ^ Samuel Lawrence (1661–1712), nonconformist divine; nephew of Edward Lawrence; minister of the presbyterian congregation of Nantwich, Cheshire, 1688-1712.
  284. ^ Sir Soulden Lawrence (1751–1814), judge: son of Thomas Lawrence (1711-1783); educated at St. Paul's School and St. John's College, Cambridge; M.A. and fellow, 1774: barrister, Inner Temple, 1784; serjeant-at-law, 1787; justice of the common pleas and knighted, 1794; transferred to the court of king's bench; resigned the king's bench and returned to the common pleas, 1808; retired, 1812.
  285. ^ Stringer Lawrence (1697 - 1775), majorgeneral; father of the Indian army; served at Gibraltar, 1727; lieutenant, 1736; served in Flanders, after Fontenoy, 1745, and fought at Culloden, 1746; went to India as major in the East Indies only to command all the company's troops there, 1748; taken prisoner by the French, but released at peace of Aix-la-Chapelle; civil governor and military commandant of Fort St. David, 1749; received local rank of lieutenant-colonel, 1754, and of brigadier-general, 1757; commanded Fort St. George during its siege by the French, 1758-9; received local rank of major-general, 1759, and left India, 1759.
  286. ^ Thomas Lawrence (1711–1783), physician; educated at Trinity College, Oxford; M.A., 1733: studied medicine in London; M.D. Oxford, 1740; anatomical reader at Oxford; F.R.O.P., 1744; president, 1767-74; friend and physician of Dr. Johnson; published medical treatises in Latin.
  287. ^ Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) president of the Royal Academy; supported his family at Bath by his pencil, 1779; his studio before be was twelve years old the favourite resort of the beauty and fashion of Bath; entered the schools of the Royal Academy, London, 1787; obtained court patronage; painted George III, 1792; appointed principal portrait-painter in ordinary to the king, 1792; R.A., 1794; painted the poet Cowper, 1795, and John Kemble as Hamlet, 1801; knighted, 1816; sent to Aix-la-Chapelle to paint the assembled sovereigns, 1815; visited Vienna and Rome; P.R.A., 1820; sent by the king to Paris to paint Charles X and the dauphin, 1825; bis portraits distinguished for their courtliness and social elegance: formed a fine collection of the drawings of Michael Angelo and Raphael; buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
  288. ^ William Lawrence (1611?–1681), lawyer; of Trinity College, Oxford; barrister. Middle Temple; commissioner for the administration of justice in Scotland, 1653; M.P., Isle of Wight, 1656, Newtown, Dorset, 1659; wrote on divorce, the right of primogeniture iu succession, and political affairs.
  289. ^ Sir William Lawrence , first baronet (1783–1867), surgeon; brother of Charles Lawrence (1794-1881) ; apprenticed to John Abernethy, 1799: M.R.C.S., 1805, and F.R.S., 1813: surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1824-66; lecturer on surgery there, 18291862; president of the College of Surgeons, 1846 and 1855; created baronet, 1867; printed his lectures on anatomy, 1816 and 1819, and on surgery, 1863.
  290. ^ Thomas Lawrenson (. 1760–1777), painter; exhibited at the Society of Artists, 1760-77; fellow of the Society of Incorporated Artists, 1774.
  291. ^ William Lawrenson (ft. 1760–1780), painter ; son of Thomas Lawrenson; exhibited at the Incorporated Society of Artists, 1762-72; fellow of the Incorporated Society of Artists, 1766; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1774-80.
  292. ^ William Lawrie (d. 1700?) tutor of Blackwood; factor to James Douglas, second marquis of Douglas, 1670-99; imprisoned for befriending covenanters, 1683-8.
  293. ^ Cecil Gordon Lawson (1851–1882), landscapepainter; learned elements of painting in the studio of his father, a Scottish portrait-painter; exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1870-82; his work influenced by the realistic and impressionist tendencies of his time.
  294. ^ George Lawson (d. 1678), divine ; a supporter of the parliament and a valued critic of Baxter; not identical with George Lawson, the ejected vicar of Mears Ashby; published political and theological works.
  295. ^ George Lawson (1749–1820), Scottish associate clergyman; educated at Edinburgh University; ordained pastor of the burgher seoeders, 1771; professor of theology in the burgher church of Scotland, 1787-1820; D.D. Aberdeen, 1806; published theological works.
  296. ^ Henry Lawson (1774–1855), astronomer ; apprenticed at the optical establishment of Edward Nairne ; equipped an observatory at Hereford, 1826; member of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1833; F.RA, 1840; published On the A rrangemeut of an Observatory for Practical Astronomy and Meteorology 1844; member of the British Meteorological Society, 1850.
  297. ^ Isaac Lawson (d. 1747), physician ; M.D., 1737 ; friend of Linnajus; became a physician to the British army; died at Oosterhout, Holland.
  298. ^ James Lawson (1538–1584) sucessor to John Knox in the church of St. Giles, Edinburgh; educated at St. Andrews; taught Hebrew (the first to do so in Scotland) at St. Andrews, 1567 or 1568; sub-principal of King's College, Aberdeen, 1569; leader of the reformed clergy in the north of Scotland; admitted to the ministry of St. Giles, Edinburgh, 1*72; encouraged a mistaken policy of intolerance.
  299. ^ James Anthony Lawson (1817–1887). judge of queen's bench, Ireland; B.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1838; Whately professor of political economy, 1840-5; called to the Irish bar, 1840; LL.D. Dublin, 1850: Q.O., 1857; legal adviser to the crown in Ireland, 1868-9; bencher of King's Inn, Dublin, 1861; solicitor-general for Ireland, 1801; attorney-general, 1866; Irian priry councillor, 1865; M.I, I'ortarlington, 1866-8; justice of the common pleas, Ireland, 1868-82; judge of queen's lench, 1882-7; D.C.L. Oxford, 1884; published bis lectures on political economy.
  300. ^ Sir John Lawson (d. 1868), admiral ; in command of ships in the parliament's service, 1642-6, 1661-3, 1654-6; dismissed from the public service, apparently on political grounds, 1656; anabaptist and republican; implicated in the conspiracy of the Fifth monarchy men and arrested, 1657; commander-in-chief of the fleet, 1659; co-operated with Monck in the Restoration, 1660; knighted, 1660; vice-admiral of the red squadron in the war with the Dutch, 1665; died of a wound received in action.
  301. ^ John Lawson (d. 1712), traveller; surveyor1 general of North Carolina, 1700; recorded his impresi sions of travel in A New Voyage to Carolina, Ac. 1709; I was murdered by Indians.
  302. ^ John Lawson (1712–1759), writer on oratory ; , M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1734: senior fellow and first librarian, 1743; D.D., 1745; lecturer on oratory and , history on the foundation of Erasmus Smith, 1753; I published Lectures concerning Oratory 1758; selected sermons published, 1764.
  303. ^ John Lawson (1723–1779), mathematician ; educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; fellow, 1747; M.A. and mathematical lecturer, 1749; B.D., 1756; published anonymously a Dissertation on the Geometrical Analysis of the Antiente, with a Collection of Theorems and Problems with Solutions 1774; printed ;do other mathematical works and some sermons.
  304. ^ John Parker Lawson (d. 1852), historical and miscellaneous writer; a minister in the episcopal church of Scotland, and for some time a chaplain in tharmy; wrote works dealing with English and Scottish history for Edinburgh booksellers, 1827-47.
  305. ^ Robert Lawson (d. 1816), lieutenant-general; colonel-commandant, royal artillery; entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1758; lieutenant-fireworker, royal artillery, 1759; at the siege of Belle Isle, 1761; second lieutenant, 1766: first lieutenant, 1771; served in America, where he invented a field-carriage for small guns, 1776-83; captain, 1782; in command of the artillery in Jamaica, 1783-6; appointed to command the first formed troop of the royal horse artillery, 1793; lieutenant-colonel, 1794; appointed to command the artillery of the Mediterranean expeditionary force, 1800; colonel, 1801; major-general, 1808; lieutenant-general, 1813.
  306. ^ Thomas Lawson (1630 - 1691), quaker and botanist; said to have been educated at Cambridge: joined the Quakers, 1653; a noted herbalist; published religious works and left botanical manuscripts.
  307. ^ Thomas Lawson (1620? –1695), independent divine; educated at Catharine Hall, Cambridge; M.A.; fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; became a member of the independent church at Norwich, 1649.
  308. ^ William Lawson (. 1618), writer on gardening; publishedA New Orchard and Garden, or ti.best Way for Planting, Grafting &c., 1618. stating it to be the result of forty-eight yearsexperience.
  309. ^ Charlwood Lawton (1660–1721 friend of William Penn; educated at Wadham College, Oxford; barrister, Middle Temple, 1688: acted as Penn's agent, 1700: said to have left papers relating to contemporary affair*.
  310. ^ George Lawton (1779–1869), antiquary; registrar of the archdeaconry of the East Ruling of Yorkshire: served in the ecclesiastical courts under five archbishops of York: ceased practice, 1863; hisOollectio Reruui BockBiasticarum 1840, still an authority,
  311. ^ William Lax (1761–1836), astronomer: educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; fellow, 1786: M.A., 1788; Lowndes's professor of astronomy and geometry, Cambridge, 1796: F.RJ3., 1796; published Remarks on a opposed Error in the Elements of Euclid 1807, and 'Tables to be used with the Nautical Almanac 1821.
  312. ^ Sir William Laxton (d. 1556), lord mayor of London; alderman and sheriff of London, 1540; lord mayor, 1544; founded almshouse and school (still maintained by the Grocers Company) at Oundle, Northamptonshire.
  313. ^ William Laxton (1802–1854), one of the authors of the Builder's Price Book; educated at Christ's Hospital, London: surveyed and laid down several lines of railway and constructed waterworks; established The Oiril Engineer and Architect's Journal 1837: conducted the 1 Builder's Price Book a standard work in the profession and in the courts of law for thirty years,
  314. ^ Benjamin Lay (1677–1759), eccentric opponent of slavery; emigrated to Barbados and commenced business as a merchant, 1718: became interested in the condition of the slaves; removed to Philadelphia, where he lived in an eccentric manner, 1731; continued there his crusade against slavery. His pamphlets had considerable influence on the younger Quakers of the district.
  315. ^ Layamon (ft. 1200), author of 'Brut,' a poem in English: only known through statements of his own; connected with the church of Areley Regis in North Worcestershire; his poem based on Wace's Roman de Brut composed 1155, but not completed till beginning of the thirteenth century; an enthusiastic reader and collector of early British legends. TheBrutis extant in two manuscripts in the British Museum,
  316. ^ Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894), excavator of Nineveh and politician; born in Paris; in solicitor's office in London 1833-9; travelled in Turkey and Persia; visited Mosul with Emil Botta, then French consul there, who had begun excavations in the mounds near the site of Nineveh; employed by Stratford Canning (afterward* Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe) to travel unofficially through Western Turkey and report affairs; commissioned by Canning to explore site of Nineveh, 1846; began operations at Nimrud, which was afterwards identified as site of the Assyrian city of Oalah; superintended for British Museum excavations at, Kal'at Skerkatrsite of city of Ashur) and at Kuyunjik, 1846; published Nineveh and its Remains 1848-9, in- I correctly supposing Nimrud to be within precincts of Nineveh; attach to embassy at Constantinople, 1849-51; i superintended excavations at Kuyunjik and Nebi-Yunus published Nineveh and Babylon 1863; lord rector of Aberdeen University, 1865; liberal M.P. for Aylesbury, 1858-7, and for Southwark, 1860; under-secretary for foreign affairs, 1862 and 1861-6; chief commissioner of work*, 186K-9; privy councillor, 1868; British minister at Madrid, 1869-77, and Constantinople, 1877-80; Q.C.B, H; published Early Adventures in Persia, Susiaua, and Babylonia 1887, and writings on art.
  317. ^ Daniel Peter Layard (1721–1802), physician M Rhrims 174S; hon. D.C.L. Oxford, 1792;authS of medical works. xxxii -j
  318. ^ Thomas Laycock (1818–1876), mental physiologist: educated at University College, London; studied anatomy and physiology at Paris, 1834; M.R.O.S., 1835: D. Gofctagen, 1889; publishedA Treatise on the Nervous Diseases of Women 1840: the first to promulgate the theory of the reflex action of the brain, 1844S5 fa T2,i 0f tb P ractl Pbyric in Edinburgh Univer: fill lL P ubllshed hi important work, Mind and Brain 1869; contributed to medical journals.
  319. ^ Christopher Layer (1683–1723), Jacobite conspirator; barrister, Middle Temple; obtained a large practice; went to Rome and unfolded to the Pretender 'a wondrous plot 1721: arrested, tried, and condemned to death, 1722; was executed at Tyburn.
  320. ^ John Layer (1586?–1641), Cambridge antiquary ; educated as lawyer, but devoted himself chiefly to antiquarian pursuits at Bhcpreth, Cambridgeshire; left manuscripts relating to history of Cambridgeshire.
  321. ^ John Layfield (d. 1617), divine; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge: fellow, 1585-1603; lector lingua; Grecae, 1593; examinator grammatices, 1599; D.D.; rector of St. Clement Danes, London, 1601-17; one of the revisers of the bible, 1606.
  322. ^ William Layman (1768–1826), commander in the navy; entered navy, 1782; on the home station till 1786; in the West Indies, 1786-8; joined the merchant service and was employed in the East India and China trade: returned to the navy, 1800, and served under Nelson, 18001803; commander, 1804; allowed his ship to drift inside the Spanish squadron, 1805; found guilty of carelessness by court-martial, and placed at the bottom of the list, 1805; wrote pamphlets on nautical or naval subjects.
  323. ^ Henry Layton (1622–1705), author of pamphlets on the question of the immortality of the soul published anonymously between 1692 and 1704.
  324. ^ Richard Layton (1500?–1544), dean of York and chief agent in the suppression of monasteries; educated at Cambridge: B.C.L., 1622; archdeacon of Buckinghamshire, 1534; clerk to the privy council, 1536; made a visitation of the university of Oxford, and instituted many reforms, 1535; began visiting monasteries, 1535; took part in trial of Anne Boleyn, 1536; master in chancery, 1538; dean of York, 1539: English ambassador at Brussels, 1543; died at Brussels.
  325. ^ James Leach (1762–1798), musical composer: member of the king's band; published A new Sett of Hymn and Psalm Tunes 1789, A Second Sett of Hymn and Psalm Tunes c. 1794; composed anthems and trios for stringed instruments.
  326. ^ Sir John Leach (1760–1834), master of the rolls; educated at Bedford grammar school; barrister, Middle Temple, 1790; recorder of Seaford, 1795; M.P., Seaford, 1806-16; K.O., 1807; bencher, 1807; chancellor of the duchy of Cornwall, 1816; chief-justice of Chester, 1817; privy councillor, 1817; vice-chancellor of England, 1818; knighted, 1818; master of the rolls, 1827; deputy-speaker of the House of Lords, 1827; member of judicial committee of privy council, 1833.
  327. ^ Thomas Leach (1746–1818), legal writer ; police magistrate at Hatton Garden, 1790-1818; published legal works.
  328. ^ William Elford Leach (1790–1836), naturalist; studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and at Edinburgh; M.D. Edinburgh, 1812; assistantlibrarian in the British Museum, 1813; published first part of his history of British Crustacea, 1815: F.R.S., 1817; assistant-keeper of the natural history department, British Museum, 1821; died in Italy; author of important work on Crustacea, his knowledge of them being superior to that of any other naturalist of his time.
  329. ^ Lead or Leade (1623–1704), mystic : daughter of Schildknap Ward; married William Lead, 1644; deeply impressed by the mystic revelations of Jacob Boehme; recorded her prophetic visions in a spiritual diary entitled A Fountain of Gardens from 1670: published The Heavenly Cloud 1681, and The Revelation of Revelations (account of her visions), 1683; her disciples styled Philadelphians.
  330. ^ Mary Leadbeater (1758–1826), authoress: granddaughter of Abraham Shackleton; belonged to the quakers; married William Leadbeater, 1791; corresponded with Burke; published Poems 1808; her best work the 4 Annals of Ballitore an admirable representation of Irish life from 1766-1823, printed, 1862.
  331. ^ Charles Leadbetter (. 1728), astronomer; ganger in the royal excise; author of treatises on astronomy and mathematics; one of the fir*t commentators on Newtou.
  332. ^ Arthur Leahy (1830–1878), colonel, royal engineers; educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; lieutenant, 1848; fought through the Crimean war; second captain, 1867; assistant-director of the works in the fortifications branch of the war office, 1864; brevet lieutenant-colonel, 1868; instructor of field works at the school of military engineering at Chatham, 1871; regimental lieutenant-colonel, 1873; brevet-colonel, 1877.
  333. ^ Edward Daniel Leahy (1797- IS??)? portrait and subject painter; exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution, 1820-63; resided in Italy, 1837-43; painted portraits of many leading Irishman. shop
  334. ^ Patrick Leahy (1806–1876), archbishop of Cashel; educated at Maynooth; vioe-rector of the catholic university of Dublin, 1864; archbishop of Cashel, 1867-75; strong advocate of temperance.
  335. ^ Sir Andrew Leake (d. 1704), captain in the navy; took part in Dutch war, 1690; commodore on the Newfoundland station, 1699-1700; flag-captain during the campaign of 1702; knighted, 1702; mortally wounded in attack on Gibraltar.
  336. ^ Leake Sm JOHN (1666–1720), admiral of the fleet ; son of Richard Leake; governor and commander-inchief at Newfoundland, 1702; knighted, 1704; took part in reduction of Gibraltar, 1704; employed on coast of Spain, 1704-6; admiral of the white, 1708; admiral and commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, 1708; M.P., Rochester, 1708-14; rear-admiral of Great Britain; a lord of the admiralty, 1709.
  337. ^ John Leake (1729–1792), man-midwife; M.D. Rheims, 1763; L.R.C.P., 1766; author of medical works, addressed rather to women than to physicians, the chief beingThe Chronic Diseases of Women 1777.
  338. ^ Richard Leake (1629–1696), master-gunner of England; served in the navy under the parliament, in the Dutch army, and as commander of an English merchant-ship; a master-gunner of England, 1677.
  339. ^ Stephen Martin Leake (1702–1773), herald and numismatist; son of Captain Martin: assumed surname of Leake on being adopted as the heir of Admiral Leake, 1721; of the Middle Temple: F.S.A-, 1727; F.R.S.; Lancaster herald, 1727, Norroy, 1729, Clarenceux, 1741, Garter, 1764; consistently maintained the rights and privileges of the College of Arms.
  340. ^ William Martin Leake (1777–1860), classical topographer and numismatist; grandson of Stephen .Martin Leake; with his regiment in the West Indies, 1794-8; employed in instructing Turkish troops at Constantinople, 1799; travelled in Asia Minor (his Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor published, 1824), 1800: engaged in general survey of Egypt, 1801-2, of European Turkey and Greece, 1804-7; resided in Greece, 1808-10; published Researches in Greece 1814; his collection of marbles presented to the British Museum, 1839; his vases, gems, and coins purchased by the university of Cambridge. His reputation rests chiefly on the topographical researches embodied in hisAthens 1821,Morea 1830, and Northern Greece 1835.
  341. ^ Caroline Woolmer Leakey (1827–1881), religious writer; daughter of James Leakey; resided in Tasmania; published 4 Lyra Australis 1854, andThe Broad Arrow 1859.
  342. ^ James Leakey (1775–1865), artist and miniaturist; exhibited portraits, landscapes, and interiors at the Royal Academy.
  343. ^ Leander A SANCTO MARTINO (1575–1636). Benedictine. See John Jones.
  344. ^ John Leanerd (fl. 1679), author of comedies published 1677 and 1678, and perhaps of The Counterfeits 1679; described as 'a confident plagiary'.
  345. ^ Mary Leapor (17W-1746) poet; her Several Occasions published in 1748 (vol. LX and 1751 (v'l. ii.)
  346. ^ Edward Lear (1812–1888), artist and author; his Family of the Psittacidse one of the earliest volume* of coloured plates of birds on a large scale published in England; gave lessons in drawing to Queen Victoria, 1846; inventedBook of Nonsense(published, 1846) for the grandchildren of hie patron, the Earl of Derby, a book of which there have been twenty-six editions exhibited landscapes at the Suffolk Street Gallery and the Royal Academy; published journals of his travels; died at San Remo.
  347. ^ Arthur Leared (1822–1879), traveller ; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; B.A., 1845; M.D., 1860; visited India, 1851, Smyrna and the Holy Land, 1854, Iceland (four times between 1862 and 1874), America, 1870, Morocco, 1872, 1877, and 1879; published Morocco and the Moors 1876, and A Visit to the Court of Morocco 1879, and some medical treatises.
  348. ^ Learmont or Leirmond (A 10?1297 ?
  349. ^ William Leask (1812–1884) dissenting divine; entered congregational ministry, and held several charges from 1839; edited the Christian World and other nonconformist journals; author of sermons, lectures, and works on theological and moral questions,
  350. ^ Nicholas Leate (d. 1631), a London merchant : member of the Levant Company; as the leading merchant in the Turkey trade furnished the government with news from abroad, obtained through his agents and correspondents; master of the Company of Ironmongers, 1616, 1626, and 1627; introduced rare exotics for cultivation in England.
  351. ^ William Henry Leatham (1815–1889), versewriter and member of parliament; entered his father's bank at Wakefield, 1834; toured on the continent, 1835; publishedA Traveller's Thoughts, or Lines suggested by a Tour on the Continent 1841; M.P. for Wakefield, 1865-8; for the South-west Riding of Yorkshire, 1880-6; published several volumes of poems, 1841-79.
  352. ^ Stanley Leathes (1830–1900), hebraist; B.A. Jesus College, Cambridge, 1852; first Tyrwhitt's Hebrew scholar, 1853; M.A., 1855; honorary fellow, 1885; ordained priest, 1857; professor of Hebrew at King's College, London, 1863; member of Old Testament revision committee, 1870-85; prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral 1876; rector of Cliffe-at-Hoo, Kent, 1880-9, and of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, 1889-1900; published lectures, and theological and other writings.
  353. ^ Charles Webb Le Bas (1779-1861), principal of the East India College, Haileybury; of Trinity College, Cambridge; fellow, 1800; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1806; abandoned the law and entered holy orders, 1809; prebendary of Lincoln, 1812; mathematical professor and dean of Haileybury, 1813; principal, 1887-43; the Le Bas prize at Cambridge for an historical essay founded by his friends, 1848; contributed to theBritish Critic 18271838; wrote sermons and biographies of divines.
  354. ^ Sir Simon Le Blanc (d. 1816) judge; entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1766; LL.B., 1773; barrister, Inner Temple, 1773; fellow of his college, 1779; serjeant-at-law, 1787; counsel to his university, 1791; puisne judge of the king's bench, 1799; knighted, 1799.
  355. ^ Jacques Christophe Le Blon (1670-1741), painter, engraver, and printer in colours; born at Frankfort-on-the- Maine; studied at Zurich, Paris, and Rome; lived for a time at Amsterdam; came to London; his invention of painting engravings In colour to imitate painting pecuniarily unsuccessful; published an account of his process, 1730; the inventor of the modem his process, system of chromolithography.
  356. ^ Anna Letitia Le Breton (1808-1886) author: daughter of Charles Rochemont Aikin; married Philip Henry Ic Breton, 1833; assisted her husband in his memoirs of Lucy Aikin, 1864; edited Miss Aikin's correspondence with Dr. Channing, 1874; published a memoir of Mrs. Barbauld, and Memories of Seventy Years 1883.
  357. ^ John Le Brun (d. 1865) Independent missionary in Mauritius; born in Switzerland: ordained for the congregational ministry, 1813; began to work at Port Louis, Mauritius, under the auspices of the London Missionary Society, 1814: returned to England, 1833, the society subsequently abandoning its efforts in Mauritius in consequence of official opposition; returned on his own account, 1834; reappointed agent of the Society, 1841; died at Port Louis.
  358. ^ Saint Lebwin, Lebuinus, or Liafwine (fl. 755); of English parentage; went as missionary to the Germans: dwelt by the river Yssel and built two churches; opposed by the heathen Saxon?; the collegiate church at Derenter dedicated to him.
  359. ^ John Le Capelain (1814 7-1848), painter; native of Jersey; presented drawings of the scenery of Jersey to Queen Victoria; commissioned by her to paint pictures of the Isle of Wight.
  360. '^ Major Henri Le Caron (1841-1894), government spy. See Thomas Beach.
  361. ^ Charles Le Cène (16477-1703), Huguenot refugee; born at Caen, Normandy; studied at Sedan, 1667-9, at Geneva, 1669-70, at Saumur, 1770-2; ordained protestant minister, 1672; came to England at the revocation of the edict of Nantes, 1685, and retired to Holland, 1691; returned to England, 1699; author of French theological works.
  362. ^ Edmund Lechmere (d. 1640?), Roman catholic divine. See Stratford.
  363. ^ Sir Nicholas Lechmere (1613–1701), judge; nephew of Sir Thomas Overbury; B.A. Wadham College, Oxford; barrister. Middle Temple, 1641; bencher, 1666; sided with the parliament on outbreak of the civil war; MJ M Bewdley, 1648; present at the battle of Worcester, 1681: M.P., Worcester, 1654, 1656, 1658-9; attorneygeneral to the duchy of Lancaster, 1654; reader at his inn, 169; serjeant-at-law, 1689; knighted, 1689; judge of the exchequer bench, 1689-1700.
  364. ^ Nicholas Lechmere , first BARON LECHMERE (1675-17271 educated at Merton College, Oxford; barrister, Middle Temple, 1698; M.P., Appleby, 1708, for Oockermouth, 1710, 1713, and 1715, and for Tewkesbury, 1717-20; Q.C., 1708; a collaborator of Steele inThe, Crisis 1714; solicitor-general, 1714-18; privy councillor, 1718; attorney-general, 1718-20, and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, 1718-27; raised to the peerage, "
  365. ^ Carlotta Leclerc (1840?-1893), actress ; Ariel Tempest), Nerissa Merchant of Venice), Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Page ( Merry Wives, and Rosalind As You Like It ), among her parts; acted with Charles Albert Fechter in England and America.
  366. ^ Rose Leclerc (1845?-1899), actress; sister of Oarlotta Leclercq; Mrs. Page, and the queen in La Tosca among her parts; the best representative of the grand style in comedy.
  367. ^ John Le Couteur (1761-1836), lieutenant-general; ofa Jersey family; ensign, 1780; lieutenant and went to India, 1781; taken prisoner by Tippoo Sahib, 1783; re T: i * 178ft: ma i r 17 7; Heutenantikmel, 1798; inspecting officer of militia and niMlihmt qiiartermaster-general in Jersey, 1799; lieutenant-governor of Curacoa, 1813; lieutenant-general, 1821; author of two works in French relating his military experiences.
  368. ^ Edward Le Davis (1640?-1684?) engraver; practised his art first in Paris and afterwards in London.
  369. ^ William Leddra (d. 1661), Quaker; emigrated to Rhode Island, 1658; passed to Connecticut, where he was arrested and banished; proceeded to Salem; imprisoned at Boston; condemned and executed on Boston Comon ; the last Quaker executed in New England.
  370. ^ Richard de Lederede or Ledred (fl. 1350), bishopn of Ossory; English Franciscan; appointed to see of Ossory, 1316; conducted prosecutions for heresy and sorcery; Latin verses ascribed to him extant in the Red Book of Ossory.
  371. ^ (1708-1781 See Francis Dashwood.
  372. ^ Thomas Lediard (1685–1743), miscellaneous writer: attached to the staff of the Duke of Marlborougb, accompanying him on his visit to Charles XII of Sweden, 1707; returned to Encrland before 1732; produced various historical and biographical works, 1735-6; author of a pamphlet dealing with a scheme for building bridge at Westminster, 1738; F.R.S., 1742;agent and surveyor of Westminster Bridge 1738-43; author of several works in German and an English opera, * Britannia
  373. ^ Richard Arthur Ledward (1857–1890), sculptor; studied at South Kensington art school; exhibited busts at the Royal Academy, 1882.
  374. ^ Edward Ledwioh (1738–1823), antiquary ; entered Trinity College, Dublin, 1755; B.A., 1760; LL.B., 1763; became a priest in the established church; published Antiquities of Ireland 1790; his best work A Statistical Account of the Parish of Aghaboe published, 1796; not identical with the Edward Ledwich (d. 1782) who was dean of Kildare, 1772.
  375. ^ Thomas Hawkesworth Ledwich (1823–1858), anatomist and surgeon; grandson of Edward Ledwich; studied medicine in Dublin; member, Irish College of Surgeons, 1845; a successful lecturer on Anatomy; his great work The Anatomy of the Human Body published, 1852.
  376. ^ John Ledyard (1751–1788), traveller; born at Groton in Connecticut, U.S.A.; made his way to New York, worked his passage to Plymouth in England, and tramped to London, c. 1771; enlisted in the marines, and (1776) accompanied Captain Cook in the Resolution; published account of the voyage, 1783; resolved to travel on foot to the east of Asia, as a preliminary to open up trade to the north-west coast of America; reached St. Petersburg, 1787; made his way to Yakutsk; returned to London, undertook a journey of exploration in Africa on behalf of the African Association.but died at Cairo.
  377. ^ Lord Lee (d. 1674). See James Lockwood.
  378. ^ Alfred Theophilus Lee (1829–1883), miscellaneous writer; of Christ's College, Cambridge; B. A., 1853: held various livings, 1853-68; M.A., 1856; honorary LL.D. Trinity College, Dublin, 1866; D.C.L. Oxford, 1867; held various clerical offices in Ireland, 1869-71; preacher at Gray's Inn, 1879; published articles on the church defence question, sermons, and pamphlets.
  379. ^ Ann Lee (1736–1784), foundress of the American Society of Shakers: factory-hand and afterwards cook in Manchester; joined a band of seceders from the Society of Friends, 1758, who were nicknamed the Shaking Quakers orShakers married Abraham Standerin, 1762; discovered celibacy to be the holy state; was sent to prison as a Sabbath-breaker, 1770; resumed preaching on her release: acknowledged by the shakers as spiritual head; sailed for America, 1774: founded first American Shaker Society, 1776; claimed the power of discerning spirits and working miracles; died at Watervliet, near Albany.
  380. ^ Charles Lee (1731–1782), American major-general; ensign, 1746; went to America as lieutenant; present at the disaster at Fort Duquesne; wounded at Ticonderoga, 1768; present at the capture of Montreal; attached to staff of Portuguese army, 1762; accompanied the Polish embassy to Constantinople, 1766; went to New York, 1 773; supported the revolutionary plans; appointed second major-general, 1775; appointed second in command to Washington; taken prisoner by the English, 1776: exchanged, 1778: blamed for disaster and court-martialled, 1778; retired, 1779; died at Philadelphia; buriedat Washington,
  381. ^ Cromwell Lee (d. 1601), compiler of an Italian dictionary; brother of Sir Henry Lee; educated at Oxford, where, after travelling in Italy, he settled and compiled part of an Italian-English dictionary, never
  382. ^ Edward Lee (1482?–1544), archbishop of York : fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1500; M.A. Cambridge, 1504; ordained, 1504; B.D., 1615; opposed Erasmus, 1519-20; sent on various embassies, 1523-30; prebendary of York and Westminster, 1530; D.D. Oxford, 1530; archbishop of York, 1531; while- anxious to avoid displeasing the king, was opposed to the party of the new learning and inclined to Roman usages; author of theological works in Latin and English.
  383. ^ Edwin Lee (1870), medical writer; M.R.C.S., 1829; awarded the Jacksonian prize for his dissertation on lithotrity. 13H; M.I). (Jittiniri'n, isiG; lxt known lv n handbooks to continental health resorts.
  384. ^ Fitzroy Henry Lee (1699–1760), vice-admiral : entered navy, 1717: lieutenant, 1721; captain, 1728; governor of Newfoundland, 1735-8; commodore and connnander-in-chief on the Leeward islands station, 1746; rear-admiral, 1747; vk-e-admiral of the white, 1748; probably the original of Smollett's Commodore Trunnion.
  385. ^ Francis Lee (1661–1719), miscellaneous writer; entered St. John's College, Oxford, 1679; B.A., 1683; M.A., 1687; studied medicine at Leyden, 1692; became a disciple of Jane Lead, 1694; M.D.; one of the founders of the Philadelphian Society, 1697; L.C.P. London, 1708; died at Gravelines, Flanders; his works (all unclaimed) said to have been very numerous.
  386. ^ Frederick Richard Lee (1799–1879), painter and royal academician; student of the Royal Academy, 1818; exhibitor at the British Institution from 1822, and at the Royal Academy, 1824-70; painted Devonshire, Scottish, and French landscape; R.A., 1838; died in South Africa.
  387. ^ Sir George Lee (1700–1768), lawyer and politician; brother of Sir William Lee; entered Christ Church, Oxford, 1720; B.C.L.,1724; D.C.L.,1729; M.P., Brackley, Northamptonshire, 1733-42; lord of admiralty, 1742; M.P., Devizes, 1742-7, Liskeard, 1747-64; dean of arches, 1761-8; judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury, 1751-8; privy councillor, 1752; knighted, 1762; M.P., Launceston, 1754-8.
  388. ^ George Alexander Lee (1802–1851), musical composer; tenor at the Dublin Theatre, 1825; musical conductor at various London theatres, 1827-51; composed the music to several dramatic pieces, songs, and ballads.
  389. ^ George Augustus Lee (1761–1826), Manchester cotton-spinner; son of John Lee (d. 1781); distinguished for his readiness to adopt new inventions in his factories.
  390. ^ George Henry Lee , third EARL OF LICHFIKM) (1718-1772), chancellor of Oxford University; created M.A. St. John's College, Oxford, 1737; M.P., Oxfordshire, 1740 and 1741-3; succeeded to the earldom, 1743: privy councillor, 1762; chancellor of Oxford, 1762-72; D.C.L., 1762; founded by bequest Lichfield clinical professorship at Oxford.
  391. ^ Harriet Lee (1757–1851), novelist and dramatist ; daughter of John Lee (d. 1781), and sister of Sophia Lee; publishedThe Errors of Innocence (a novel), 1786; her comedy,The New Peerage performed at Drury Lane, 1787; published another novel, 'Clara Lennox 1797; the first two volumes of her chief work, in which her sister Sophia assisted her, The Canterbury Tales was published, 1797-8, and the remaining three volumes, 1806; refused offer of marriage from William Godwin the elder, 1798; a version of her story,Kruitzner dramatised by herself asThe Three Strangers performed at Covent Garden, 1825, published, 1826, the story being dramatised by Byron in Werner 1822.
  392. ^ Sir Henry Lee (1630–1610), master of the ordnance; educated by his uncle, Sir Thomas Wyatt; entered service of Henry VIII, 1545; clerk of the armoury, 1549-60: knighted, 1663; M.P., Buckinghamshire, 1658 and 1572; personal champion to Queen Elizabeth, 1559-90; master of the ordnance, 1590; visited by Queen Elizabeth at his country house, 1592; K.G., 1597; a great sheep-farmer and builder.
  393. ^ Henry Lee (1765–1836), author of 'Caleb Quotem'; became an actor; his farce, Caleb Quotem written 1789, brought out at the Haymarket as Throw Physic to the Dogs 1789; charged George Colman the younger q. v. with plagiarising it in The Review 1800; author of some poems, and a volume of desultory reminiscences.
  394. ^ Henry Lee (1826–1888), naturalist; naturalist to the Brighton Aquarium, 1872; wrote popular account of the octopus, 1874.
  395. ^ Holme Lee (pseudonym). See Harriet Parr, 1828-1900.
  396. ^ James Lee (1716–1796), nurseryman; introduced cultivation of the fuchsia in England; translated part of Linnaeus's works into English, 1760.
  397. ^ James Prince Lee (1804–1869), bishop of Manchester; educated at St. Paul's School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge; fellow, 1829; ordained, 1830: a master at Rugby, 1830-8; M.A., 1881; head-master of King Edward's School, Hirmingliam, 1838-47; bishop of Manchester, 1847.
  398. ^ John Lee (d. 1781) actor and adapter of plays; acted In London under Gar rick (with a short break in 1749-50), 1747-61; manager at Edinburgh, 1768-6; again in London under Garrick, 1761-6; manager of the Bath Theatre, 1778-9; tampered with many of Shakespeare's plays and other dramatic masterpieces.
  399. ^ John Lee (1733–1793), lawyer and politician; barrister, Lincoln's Inn; attorney-general for county palatine of Lancaster; recorder of Doncaster, 1769; K.C., 1780; solicitor-general and M.P. for Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire; attorney-general, 1783.
  400. ^ John Lee (d. 1804), wood-engraver; engraved the cuts for The Cheap Repository 1794-8, and part of the designs by William Marshall Craig in Scripture Illustrated.
  401. ^ John Lee (1779-1859), principal of Edinburgh University; entered Edinburgh University, 1794; M.D., 1801; licensed as a preacher, 1807; professor of church history at St. Mary's College, St. Andrews, 1812-21: minister of the Canongate Church, Edinburgh, 1821; D.D. St. Andrews, 1821; chaplain in ordinary to the king, 1830; principal of Edinburgh University, 1840-69; professor of divinity, 1843-59; especially learned in Scottish literary and ecclesiastical history.
  402. ^ John Lee (1783–1866), collector of antiquities and man of science; son of John Fiott; educated at St John's College, Cambridge; made a tour through Europe and the East collecting objects of antiquity, 1807-10: M.A., 1809; assumed name of Lee by royal license, 1816; F.S.A., 1828; built observatory on his estate, 1830; F.R.S., 1831; practising member of the ecclesiastical courts till 1858; Q.C., 1864; published scientific and antiquarian works.
  403. ^ John Edward Lee (1808–1887), antiquary and geologist; his chief work, Isca Silurum: or an Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Antiquities at Caerleon, published, 1862; translated foreign works on prehistoric archaeology; presented his fine collection of fossils to the British Museum, 1885.
  404. ^ Joseph Lee (1780–1859), enamel-painter: enamelpainter to Princess Charlotte of Wales, 1818; occasionally exhibited at the Royal Academy till 1863.
  405. ^ Matthew Lee (1694–1755), benefactor to Christ Church, Oxford; educated at Westminster School and Christ Church; M.A., 1720; M.D., 1726; F.R.C.P., 1732; Harveian orator, 1736; physician to Frederick, prince of Wales, 1739; founded an anatomical lectureship at Christ Church, 1750.
  406. ^ Nathaniel Lee (1653?–1692), dramatist; educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A., 1668; drew the plots of his tragedies mainly from classical history; Nero his earliest effort, produced, 1675; wrote Gloriana and Sophonisba, two rhyming plays, 1676; his best-known tragedy, The Rival Queens produced, 1677; collaborated with Dryden in Oedipus 1679, and The Duke of Guise 1682; his last tragedy, Constantine the Great produced, 1684: lost his reason through intemperance, 1684, and confined in Bethlehem till 1689. Many of his plays (a collected edition appeared In 2 vols. In 1713) long kept the stage, and great actors performed the chief parts.
  407. ^ Mrs Rachel Fanny Antonina Lee (1774?-1829), heroine of a criminal trial, and the subject of chap. iv. of De Quincey's Autobiographic Sketches; a natural daughter of Francis Dashwood, lord le Despenser; married Matthew Lee. 1794. but soon separated from him; eloped with Loudoun Gordon, accompanied by his brother Lockhart, 1804: appeared as a witness against the brothers when they were brought to trial for her abduction which resulted in their acquittal, 1804: published Essay on Government 1808.
  408. ^ Sir Richard Lee (1513?–1576), military engineer; surveyor of the king's works, 1540; knighted for services in Scotland, 1544; employed intermittently in improving th fortifications of Berwick and the Scottish border, 1557-65; received part of the domain of the monastery of St. Albans from Henry VIII.
  409. '^ Richard Nelson Lee (1806–1872) actor and dramatist; acted at the Surrey Theatre, 1827-34; became proprietor of Richardson's Show 1836; author of pantomimes and plays.
  410. ^ Robert Lee (1804–1868), professor at Edinburgh; educated at St. Andrews University; minister of the old Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, 1843-68: D.D. St. Andrews, 1844; professor of biblical criticism in Edinburgh University, 1847; dean of the Chapel Royal, Edinburgh, 1847; endeavoured to liberalize the church of Scotland; introduced stained-glass windows, 1857, and an organ, 1864: publishedThe Reform of the Church in Worship, Government, and Doctrine 1864; often censured by the Edinburgh presbytery for his innovations; author of theological works and books of prayers.
  411. ^ Robert Lee (1793–1877), obstetric physician; educated at Edinburgh University; M.D., 1814; physician to Prince Woronzow, governor-general of the Crimea, 18241826; P.R.S, 1830; lecturer on midwifery and diseases of women at St. George's Hospital, 1835-66; F.R.C.P., 1841; Lumleian lecturer, 1856-7; Croonian lecturer, 1862; Harveian orator, 1864; retired, 1875; made discoveries of permanent value; unfairly treated by the Royal Society; published works on the diseases of women,
  412. ^ Rowland Lee or Legh (d. 1543), bishop of Coventry and Lichfleld and lord president of the council in the marches of Wales; educated at Cambridge; ordained priest, 1512; doctor of decrees, 1520; prebendary of Lichfield, 1527; employed under Wolsey in the suppression of the monasteries, 1528-9; royal chaplain and master in chancery; bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1534-13, and president of the king's council in the marches of Wales, 1634; devoted his energies to suppressing Welsh disorder, 1534-40.
  413. ^ Samuel Lee (1625–1691), puritan divine ; educated at St. Paul's School, London, and Magdalen Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1648; fellow of All Souls, 1650; dean of Wadham College, 1653-6; minister of various congregations in London, 1655-60; migrated to New England, 1686; sailed for home from Boston, 1691; taken by the French, his hip being seized, to St. Malo, where he died; author of theological works.
  414. ^ Samuel Lee (1783–1852), orientalist; of humble origin; taught himself Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Hindustani, and other Eastern languages; entered Queens' College, Cambridge, 1813; M.A., 1819; professor of Arabic at Cambridge, 1819-31; B.D., 1827; regius professor of Hebrew, Cambridge, 1831-48; D.D., 1833. His chief works were his editions of the New Testament in Syriac, 1816, and of the Old Testament, 1823, and a translation of the book of Job from the original Hebrew, 1837.
  415. ^ Mrs Sarah Lee (1791–1856), artist and authoress ; daughter of John Eglinton Wallis; married Thomas Edward Bowdich, 1813; shared her husband's tastes and travelled with him in Africa, 1814, 1816, and 1823 married Robert Lee as her second husband, 1829; devoted the rest of her life to popularising natural science: published books on natural history, many illustrated by heridf, and Memoirs of Baron Cnvter 1833.
  416. ^ Sophia lee (1750–1824), novelist and dramatist ; daaghterof JohnLee(rf. 1781); her comedy, The Chapter of Accident* produced, 1780; conducted a girls :bool at Bath, 1781-1808; published "The Soitfi httorical romance, 1785, andAlmeyda, Queen of Grenada a tragedy In I. lank verse, produced, 1796; helped her tster, Harriet Lee, in theCanterbury Tales J 1 THOMAS (d. 1601 captain in Ireland and supPorter of Robert, earl of Eex; went to Ireland before We; twined in.uppnaalng rebellions ir Ireland, 1681 1S99; arrested for attempting to procure the release of . 1601; tried and executed, 1601; wrote an historirallv valuable tract on the government of Ireland (first published, 1772).
  417. ^ Sir Thomas Lee , first baronet (d. 1691), politician : created baronet, 1660; M.P. for Aylesbury, 1661-81 and 1689-91, and for Buckinghamshire in the Convention parliament,
  418. ^ William Lee (d. 1610?), inventor of the stockingframe; educated at Christ's and St. John's Colleges, Cambridge; B.A. St. John's College, 1583; invented the stocking-frame, 1589; his invention discouraged by Elizabeth and James I; settled at Rouen by invitation of Henry IV of France; died at Paris.
  419. ^ Sir William Lee (1688–1754), judge; brother of Sir George Lee; entered the Middle Temple, 1703: barrister, Middle Temple: Latin secretary to George I and George II, 1718-30; recorder of Buckingham, 1722; bencher of the Inner Temple, 1725; M.P., Chipping Wycombe, 1727; K.C., 1728; attorney-general to Frederick, prince of Wales, c. 1728: puisne judge of the king's bench, 1730; chief-justice of king's bench, 1737: knighted, 1737; privy councillor, 1737.
  420. ^ William Lee (1809–1865), water-colour painter ; member of the Institute of Painters in Water-colours, 1848; painter of English rustic figures and scenes on the French coast.
  421. ^ William Lee (1815–1883), archdeacon of Dublin; educated at Trinity College, Dublin: junior fellow, 1839; entered holy orders, 1841; D.D., 1857; professor of ecclesiastical history in the university of Dublin, 1857; Archbishop King's lecturer in divinity, 1862; archdeacon of Dublin, 1864; member of the New Testament revision company, 1870; author of theological works written from the conservative point of view.
  422. ^ David Leech, Leich or Leitch (fl. 1628–1653), poet; brother of John Leech (fi. 1623); sub-principal of King's College, Aberdeen, 1632; chaplain to Charles II; D.D. Aberdeen, 1653; left paraphrases of some of the Psalms in manuscript.
  423. ^ Humphrey Leech (1571–1629), Jesuit; educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and Cambridge; M.A. Cambridge (incorporated at Oxford, 1602); entered the English college at Rome, 1609; ordained priest, 1612; joined Jesuits, 1618; missioner in England, 1622-9.
  424. ^ John Leech or Leitch ('Leochius') 1623), epigrammatist; brother of David Leech: probably related to John Leech (1565-1650?); M.A. Aberdeen, 1614; published Latin epigrams, 1620 and 1623.
  425. ^ John Leech or Leach (1565–1650?), 'schoolmaster; educated at Brasenose College, Oxford: M.A., 1589; published a book of grammar questions, c. 1622.
  426. ^ John Leech (1817–1864), humorous artist; educated at Charterhouse, where he made the acquaintance of Thackeray; studied medicine by his father's desire; adopted art as a profession; his first work, Etchings and Sketchings, by A. Pen, Esq. published, 1835; his first popular hit, a caricature of Mulready's design for a universal envelope, 1840; contributed to Punch 1854-69; executed for it some three thousand drawings, six hundred being cartoons; illustrated several books, and supplied cuts to a number of magazines; his sporting sketches traceable to his love for hunting.
  427. ^ William Leechman (1706–1785), divine : studied at Edinburgh University; licensed to preach, 1731: professor of divinity at Glasgow University, 1743; principal, 1761; prefixed a life of the author to Hiitchcson'sSystem of Moral Philosophy 1765; published a few sermons.
  428. ^ Edward Leedes (1699?–1677), Jesuit. See Edward Courtney.
  429. ^ Edward Leedes (1627–1707), schoolmaster ; educated at Christ's College, Cambridge; M.A.: master of Bury St. Edmund's grammar school, 1663-1707: author of school-books.
  430. ^ Dukes of Leeds . See OSBORNE, SIR THOMAS, first DUKK, 1631-1712; OSIIOKXK, PKKKUKINB, second OUIO, 1658-1729; OSBORNK, FRANCIS, fifth DUKE. 1751
  431. ^ Edward Leeds (r. 1590), civilian: educated at Cambridge; M.A., 1545; prebendary of Kly, 1548-80: Advocate of DoctorsCommons, Knit); master of Glare Hall, Cambridge, 1560-71; LL.D., 156'J. xxxii. 39l'J
  432. ^ Edward Leeds (1695?-1758), serjeant-at-law: barrister, Inner Temple, 1718; took tbe coif, 1742: kinv'V Serjeant, 1748-56.
  433. ^ Edward Leeds (1728–1803), master in chancery ; sun of Edward Leeds (1695?-1758); barrister, Inner Temple: sheriff of Cambridgeshire, 1768; master in chancery, 1773; M.P., Reigate, 1784-7.
  434. ^ Sir Henry John Leeke (1790?–1870), admiral: entered navy, 1803; lieutenant, 1810; commander, 1814: knighted, 1835; flag-captain, 1845-8; superintendent and commander-in-chief of the Indian navy, 1852; rearadmiral, 1854; K.C.B., 1858; vice-admiral, 1860; admiral, 1864.
  435. ^ Laurence Leeke (d. 1357), prior of Norwich; appointed prior, 1352; author of * Historiola de Vita et Morte Reverend! domiui Willelmi Batemau Xorwicensis episcopi
  436. ^ Remigius Van Leemput (10 ?-1676). See Van Leemput.
  437. ^ Charles Lees (1800–1880), painter : fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy and a regular contributor to its exhibitions; painted portraits, historical and domestic subjects, and landscape.
  438. ^ Edwin Lees (1800–1887), botanist : began to publishThe Worcestershire Miscellany 1829; issued his 'Botany of the Malvern Hills 1843, andBotany of Worcestershire 1867: one of the first in England to pay regard to the forms of brambles.
  439. ^ Sir Harcourt Lees , second baronet (1776–1852), political pamphleteer; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1802; took holy orders; published pamphlets in support of protestant ascendency.
  440. ^ William Nassau Lees (1825–1889), major-general in the Indian army and orientalist; son of Sir Harcourt Lees, second baronet; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; ensign, Bengal native infantry, 1846: edited Arabic and Persian works between 1853 and 1864; lieutenant, 1853; hon. LL.D. Dublin, 1857; captain, 1858; major, 1866; lieutenant-colonel, 1868: member of Royal Asiatic Society, 1872; colonel, 1876; major-general, 1886.
  441. ^ William Leeves (1748–1828), poet and composer : entered tbe army, 1769; lieutenant, 1772; took holy orders, 1779; wrote the music to the song Auld Robin Gray by Lady Anne Barnard; author of other musical compositions, and of occasional poems.
  442. ^ Mrs Alicia Le Fanu (1763-1817), playwright; sister of the dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan; married Joseph Le Fanu, brother of Philip Le Fanu , divine, 1776; author of a comedy, Sons of Erin performed in London, 1812.
  443. ^ Alicia Le Fanu (fl. 1812-1826), daughter of Henry Le Fanu, a brother of Philip Le Fanu; published Memoirs of Mrs. Frances Sheridan 1824.
  444. ^ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), novelist and journalist; entered Trinity College, Dublin, 1833; devoted himself to journalism from 1839, when he began to Issue The Evening Mail a Dublin paper; published 'Uncle Silas 1864, and twelve other novels, 1865-75; edited the Dublin University Magazine 1869-72; stands next to Lever among modern Irish novelists.
  445. ^ Peter Le Fanu (fl. 1778), playwright: brother of Philip Le Fanu; his Smock Alley Secrets produced at Dublin, 1778.
  446. ^ Philip Le Fanu (fl. 1790), divine; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin, 1755; D.D., 1776; published translation of the Abbe Guenee's Lettres de certaines J dives a Monsieur Voltaire 1777.
  447. ^ Nicasius Lefebure or Nicolas (d. 1669). See Le Fevre.
  448. ^ Roland Lefebvre (1608–1677), painter: born at Anjou: residul at Venice; came to England, 1666; painted inudiotTc portrait* and small history pictures under the patronage of Prince Rupert.
  449. ^ Charles Shaw Lefevre , first Viscount Eversley. See Shaw-Lefevre.
  450. ^ Sir George William Lefevre (1798–184X) physician; xtudied at Edinburgh and at Gay's and St. Thomas hospitals, London; M.D. Aberdeen, 1819: travelled in France, Austria, Poland, and Kufiila as physician to a Polish nobleman; published The Life of a Travelling Physician 1843; afterwards practised at St. Petersburg, and became physician to tbe embassy; knighted; settled in London, 1843; F.R.C.P., 1841; Lumleian lecturer, 1846; committed suicide.
  451. ^ Sir John George Shaw Lefevre (1797–1879). See Shaw-Lefevre.
  452. ^ Nicasius Le Fevre (d. 1669), chemist; studied at Sedan; professor of chemistry to Charles II, and apothecary in ordinary to tbe royal household, 1660; F.R.S., 1663; published chemical works.
  453. ^ Sir John Henry Lefroy (1817–1890), governor of Bermuda and of Tasmania; educated at Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; lieutenant, royal artillery, 1837; engaged in a magnetical survey, chiefly at St. Helena, 1839-42; transferred to observatory at Toronto, 1849; engaged in magnetical survey of extreme north of America, 1843-4; worked at Toronto, 1844-53; captain, 1846; F.R.S.. 1848; founded the Canadian Institute, 1849; compiled The Handbook of Field Artillery for the use of Officers 1854; lieutenant-colonel, 1865: inspector-general of array schools, 1857; brevet-colonel, 1858; directorgeneral of ordnance, 1868; retired from the army, 1870; governor and commander-in-chief of the Bermudas, 18711877; K.C.M.G., 1877: governor of Tasmania, 1880-8: published the diary of his Canadian magnetic survey, 1883.
  454. ^ Thomas Langlois Lefroy (1776–1869), Irish judge; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; B.A., 1796: called to the Irish bar, 1797; K.C., 1806; king's Serjeant, 1808; bencher of the King's Inns, 1819; LL.D., 1827; M.P., university of Dublin, 1830-41; baron of the Irish court of exchequer, 1841-52; lord chief -justice of the queen's bench, 1862-66.
  455. ^ Francis Legat (1755–1809), engraver ; historical engraver to the Prince of Wales; engraved several pictures in Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery,
  456. ^ Hugh Legat (ft. 1400), Benedictine; studied at Oxford; of St. Albans Abbey; studied history, and prepared a commentary on John de Hauteville's 'Architrenius
  457. ^ Bartholomew Legate (1575?–1612), the last heretic burned at Smithfield: preacher among the 'Seekers denied divinity of Christ, 1604; proceedings taken against him in consistory court of London, 1611; committed to Newgate on charge of heresy: burned at Smithfleld.
  458. ^ John Legate , the elder (d. 1620?), printer to Cambridge University; freeman of StationersCompany, 1686; printer to Cambridge University, 1688-1609: afterwards carried on business in London.
  459. ^ John Legate , the younger (1600–1658), printer to Cambridge University: eldest son of John Legate the elder; freeman of the Stationers Company, 1619; succeeded to his father business, 1620; one of the Cambridge University printers, 1660-6.
  460. ^ Philip Le Geyt (1635-1716), writer on the laws of Jersey; born at St. Heller: educated at Saumur, Caen, and Paris; greffier of the royal court, 1660: jurat, 16661710; lieutenant-bailiff, 1676-94; his manuscript collections on the constitution and laws of Jersey published, 1846-7.
  461. ^ Edward Legge (1710–1747), commodore; fifth son of William Legge, first earl of Dartmouth: entered navy, 1726; lieutenant, 1734; captain, 1738; accompanied Anson's voyage to the Pacific, 1740-2; commodore and commander-in-chief at tbe Leeward islands, 1747.
  462. ^ George first Baron Dartmouth (1648- r-in-chief; eldest son of T.: of Westminster and in Dutch war. captain. 1667; in intervals of war by sea held Motoon land: groom of the bedchamber. 1668; at-rorernor of Portsmouth, 1670-8*: lieutenantI o the ordnance, 1672: master of the bone to the of York. 1673: commanded in Flanders, 1678; of ordnance. 1682: created Baron Dart. natter of Trinity Hoo*e, 1683: engaged in expedition. 168J-4: governor of the Tower, 1685: and commander-in-chief of the fleet, 1688-9: of conspiring against William III and committed to the Tower.
  463. ^ George Legge, third Earl of Dartmouth (1755-1810), statesman; son of William Legge, second earl; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1775: 1 778: M.P., Plymouth. 1778, Staffordshire, 1780; privy councillor, 1801: president of the board of control. 1801; succeeded his father, 1801; lord chamberlain. 1804.
  464. ^ James Legge (1815-1897), professor of Chinese at Oxford University; M.A. King's College, Aberdeen. 1835; appointed by London Missionary Society to Chinese mission at Malacca, 1839: principal of Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca, 1840, and later at Hong Kong: D.D. New York University, 1841: returned to England, 1873: LL.D. Aberdeen. 1870, and Edinburgh, 1884; first professor of Chinese at Oxford University and fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 1876; published numerous writings in Chinese and English, including an edition of Chinese
  465. ^ Heneage Legge (1704–1759) judge: second son of William Legge, first earl of Dartmouth; barrister, Inner Temple, 1728; raised to the exchequer bench, 1747.
  466. ^ Henry Bilson Legge (1708–1764), chancellor of the exchequer; fourth son of William Legge, first earl of Dartmouth; M.P., Bast Looe, 1740, Orford, 1741-59: a lord of the admiralty, 1745-7; a lord of the treasury, 1746: envoy-extraordinary to the king of Prussia, 1748; chancellor of the exchequer, 1754-5, 1756-7, 1757-61; M.P., Hampshire, 1769-64; had a great reputation as a financier.
  467. ^ Thomas Legge (1535–1607), master of Caius College, Cambridge, and Latin dramatist; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1560; fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1568: master of Caius College, 16731607; LLJX, 1576: regiu." professor of civil law, Cambridge: vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, 1587-3 and 1592-3; master in chancery, 1693; bis Latin tragedy of Richard III acted, 1579.
  468. ^ William Legge (1609?–1670), royalist; a leader in second army plot, 1641; joined the king's army, 1842; governor of Oxford, 1645; imprisoned for high treason, 1649-63; lieutenant-general of the ordnance, 1660.
  469. ^ William Legge , first Earl of Dartmouth (1672-1760), son of George Legge, first baron Dartmouth q. v.; of Westminster and King's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1689; succeeded his father in the Dartmouth barony, 1691; a commissioner of the board of trade and foreign plantations, 1702: privy councillor, 1702; secretary of state, 1710-13; created Earl of Dartmouth, 1711; lord keeper of the privy seal, 1713-14.
  470. ^ William Legge , second Earl of Dartmouth (1731-1801), grandson of William Legge, first earl of Dartmouth; educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Oxford: succeeded to earldom, 1760; M.A., 1761 P.S.A 1754: D.C.L., 1766; privy councillor. 1766; president of the board of trade and foreign plantations, 17651766; colonial secretary, 1772-5: lord privy seal, 1776-82 high steward of Oxford University, 1786: strongly attached to the metbodists; Dartmouth College in the United States (incorporated, 1769) named in his honour in chancery, 1537; employed in bouses, 1538-40; knighted, 1544.
  471. ^ Alexander Legh (d. 1601), ambassador; of wTi "* Kin * CambridgJ; M.A.; canon of * tatar, 14.;o. employed on embassies to Scotland, 1474, and later years; temporal chancellor of Durham Cathedral,
  472. ^ Gerard Legh (d. 1663) writer on heraldry ; pub. The Accedens of Armory 1562.
  473. ^ Sir Thomas Legh (d. 1545) visitor of the monasteries; B.C.L. (perhaps of King's College) Cambridge, 1627; D.C.L., 1531: ambassador to the king of Denmark, 1512-3; visited monasteries, 1535; master in Chancery; employed in suppressing religious houses 1538-40; knighted, 1544.
  474. ^ Gilbertus Leglaeus (fl. 1250). See Gilbert the Englishman.
  475. ^ Antoine Le Grand (d. 1699), Cartesian philosopher; native of Douay; Franciscan Recollect friar: as member of the English mission resided many years in I Oxfordshire; provincial of bis order, 1698-9; chief work, 'Institutio Philosophise, secundnm principia Renatt Descartes 1672 (Eng. trans., 1694),
  476. ^ James Legrew (1803–1857), sculptor ; studied I under Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey and at the Royal Academy schools; exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1826.
  477. ^ Charles Valentine Le Grice (1773-1858), friend of Coleridge and Lamb; educated at Christ's Hospital, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A 1796; ordained, 1798; M.A., 1805; conversationalist and author of small pieces in verse and prose.
  478. ^ Robert Le Grys (d. 1635), courtier and translator; published John Barclay his Argenis translated out of Latine into English 1629; knighted, 1629; his translation ofVelleins Patercnlns, his Romaine Historic published, 1632; captain of the castle of St. Mawes, 1633-4.
  479. ^ François Leguat (1638–1735), voyager and , author: born at Bresae, Savoy: Huguenot refugee in Holland, 1689; founded colony of French protestante in Mascarene islands, 1691; sailed to Mauritius (1693), where be was imprisoned: transferred to Batavia, 1696: came to England on being released, 1698; published account  ; of hia travels, 1708.
  480. ^ Walter Le Hart (d. 1472). See Lyhert.
  481. ^ Earls of Leicester . See BEAUMONT, ROBERT I DE, first EARL, 1104-1168; BEAUMONT, ROBERT DK, second EAKL, d. 1190; MONTFORT, SIMON OF, second Earl of the second creation, 1208?-1265 ; DUDLEY, Robert, first EARL of the fourth creation, 1532?-1688; , SIDNEY, ROBERT, first EARL of the fifth creation, 1563-1626; SIDNEY, ROBERT, second EARL, 1595-1677; Philip Sidney, third EARL, 1619–1698; TOWNSHEND, George, first EARL of the seventh creation, 1765–1811. of Holkham Leicester , EARL OF (1752–1842)
  482. ^ Sir John Fleming Leicester , first Baron de Tabley (1762–1827), art patron: succeeded as sixth baronet, 1770; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1784: collected examples of British art; M.P., Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 1791, Heytesbury, 1796, Stockbridge, 1807; created Baron de Tabley, 1826.
  483. ^ Lettice, Countess of Leicester (d. 1634),
  484. ^ Robert of Leicester (. 1320), Franciscan; D.D. Oxford, 1325; author of works on Hebrew chronology, written in 1294 and 1295.
  485. ^ William De Leicester , or WILLIAM DU MONT (d. 1213), theologian.
  486. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848), Australian explorer; born at Trebatecb, Prussia: studied at Gottingen and Berlin; went to New South Wales, 1841; crossed the Australian continent from east to north, 1844-6: published account of the expedition, 1847; explored Sturt's desert in the interior, 1847; started to cross the continent from east to west, 1848, and was never again heard of.
  487. ^ Henry Stormonth Leifchild (1823–1884), sculptor: studied at the British Museum, the Royal Academy, and (1848-51) at Rome; exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1846.
  488. ^ John Leifchild (1780–1862), independent minister; student in Hoxton Academy, 1804-8; minister il chapels between 1808 and 1K54; publish! religious works.
  489. ^ Anthony Leigh (rf. 1692), comedian: first pared on the stage, 1672; played many original parts of importance in plays by Dryden, Otway, and Mrs. Behn.
  490. ^ Chandos Leigh , first BARON LEIOH of the second creation (1791-1850), poet and author; descendant of Sir Thomas Leigh, first baron Leigh of a former creation ; educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford; wrote verges prized by the scholarly few, and took interest in social and political questions; created Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh, 1839; died at Bonn.
  491. ^ Charles Leigh (d. 1605), merchant and voyager : made a voyage to the St. Lawrence, partly for tixbiug and trade, and partly for plundering Spanish ships, 1597: sailed for Guiana with a view to establishing a colony to look for gold, 1604-5: died in Guiana.
  492. ^ Charles Leigh (1662–1701?), physician and naturalist; great-grandson of William Leigh;, educated at Brasenose College, Oxford; B.A., 1683; F.R.S., 1685; M.A. and M.D. Cambridge, 1689; published an unimportant Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak in Derbyshire 1700.
  493. ^ Edward Leigh (1602–1671), miscellaneous writer; M.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1623: his writings mostly compilations, the best-known being Critica Sacra, or Philologicall and Theologicall Observations upon all the Greek Words of the New Testament 1639; M.P., Stafford, 1644-8, when he was expelled the house for voting that the king's concessions were satisfactory.
  494. ^ Egerton Leigh (1815–1876), writer on dialect; educated at Eton; entered the army, 1833; captain, 1840; edited Ballads and Legends of Cheshire 1867; M.P. for Mid-Cheshire, 1873 and 1874. His Glossary of Words used in the Dialect of Cheshire published, 1877.
  495. ^ Evan Leigh (1811–1876), inventor; became a manufacturer of machinery, 1851; patented nineteen inventions between 1849 and 1870, the most useful for the improvement of the machinery of cotton manufacture; published The Science of Modern Cotton Spinning 1871.
  496. ^ Sir Ferdinand Leigh (1585?–1654), governor of the Isle of Man; knighted, 1617; deputy-governor of Man, 1625; fought in the war on the royalist side.
  497. ^ Francis Leigh , first EARL OP CHICHESTER (d. 1653), great-grandson of Sir Thomas Leigh (1504?-1571) ; created baronet, 1618; M.P., Warwick, 1625; created Baron Dunsmore, 1628; privy councillor, 1641; created Earl of Chichester, 1644.
  498. ^ Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837–1883), dramatist; son of James Mathews Leigh; engaged early in literary pursuits; publishedCarols of Cockayne 1869; translated and adapted French comic operas for the English stage, 1871.
  499. ^ James Mathews Leigh (1808–1860), painter and ' author; nephew of Charles Mathews the elder; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1830-49; published Cromwell historical play, 1838.
  500. ^ Jared Leigh (1724–1769), amateur artist ; painted chiefly sea-pieces and landscapes; exhibited with the Free Society of Artists, 1761-7.
  501. ^ John Leigh (1689–1726), dramatist and actor played important parts in London, 1714-26: author of a comedy, - The Pretenders 1720.
  502. ^ Sir Oliph Leigh or OLYFF (1560–1612), encourager of maritime enterprise; brother of Charles Leigh (. 1605); keeper of the great park at Eltham; sold the surrender of it, 1609.
  503. ^ Percival Leigh (1813–1889), comic writer: studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital; I 1834; M.K.C.S., 1835; abandoned medicine for literature; joined the staff of Punch 1841, to which he contributed tUl his death; satirised prevailing fashions inY Manners and Customs of y Bnglvsbe 1849.
  504. ^ Richard Leigh (6. 1649), poet ; educated at Queen's College, Oxford; B.A., 1669; actorin London; attacked Dryden in pamphlets published, 1678; author of Poems upon Several Occasions published, 167*.
  505. ^ Samuel Leigh (ft. 1688), author of a metrical version of the Psalms: born about 1636; educated at Merton College, Oxford; author ofSamnells Primitie, or an Essay towards a Metrical Version of the whole Book of Psalms 1661.
  506. ^ Sir Thomas Leigh (1604?–1671), lord mayor of London; warden of the MercersCompany, 1544 and 1552; master, 1544, 1558, and 1564; alderman, 15821571; sheriff, 1555; lord mayor and knighted, 1658.
  507. ^ Sir Thomas Leigh , first Baron Leigh of the first creation (d. 1671), second son of Sir Thomas Leigh (1604 ?1571); created baron Leigh of Stoneleigh, 1643: royalist. The barony became extinct, 1786.
  508. ^ Thomas Pemberton Leigh , first BARON Kingsdown (1793–1867).
  509. ^ Valentine Leigh (ft. 1562), miscellaneous writer; published Death's Generall Proclamation 1661, and The most Profitable and Commendable Science of Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments 1662.
  510. ^ William Leigh (1550–1639), divine; educated at Brasenose College, Oxford: fellow, 1573; M.A., 1578; a popular preacher; B.D., 1586; tutor to Prince Henry, eldest son of James I; published sermons and religious pieces between 16U2 and 1613.
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