colonel 23 Feb. 1856 to 30 May 1862; M.G. 30 May 1862; C.B. 5
July 1855. _d._ Wellesley house, Shooter’s hill, Kent 19 May
1864.
LAKIN, JOHN. _b._ 1787; took part in whole of Peninsular war
with the 16 lancers; serjeant major; keeper in Windsor great
park about 1826 to death; the oldest royal servant of Her
Majesty. _d._ Queen Anne’s Gate, Windsor great park 23 Feb. 1877.
LALOR, JOHN (son of John Lalor, merchant). _b._ Dublin 1814; ed.
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1837; assistant poor law commissioner,
Ireland to 1836; one of principal editors of Morning Chronicle,
London; solicitor Dublin 1838; left R.C. ch., became a unitarian
and edited The Inquirer a weekly paper; author of The Educator,
a prize essay 1839; Money and morals, a book for the times 1852.
_d._ Holly hill, Hampstead, London 3 Feb. 1856. _G.M. xlv_
319–20 (1856).
LALOR, PETER (eld. son of Patrick Lalor, M.P. for Queen’s
co., gentleman farmer). _b._ Tinakill, Queen’s co. Ireland
1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; a civil engineer; sailed
for Melbourne 1852; commanded the rebel miners at the Eureka
stockade riot near Ballarat 3 Dec. 1854 when he received a ball
near the shoulder which caused loss of his left arm; member of
legislative assembly for Ballarat Nov. 1855, for South Grant
1856–71 and again 1875–88, chairman of committees 1859–68;
inspector of railways 1855; chairman of the Clunes water
commission; comr. for trade and customs 1877–80, post master
general 1878–80, speaker of the assembly 22 July 1880 to 29 Sep.
1887, awarded a grant of £4000 on his retirement. _d._ Melbourne
9 Feb. 1889.
LAMB, SIR CHARLES MONTOLIEU, 2 Baronet. _b._ Nantcribba hall,
Montgomeryshire 8 July 1785; succeeded 13 Oct. 1824; knight
marshal of the royal household 30 Jany. 1825 to death; knight
marshal of the lists at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839;
lord prior of English langue of knights of Malta 24 June 1847 to
death. _d._ Beauport, Battle, Sussex 21 March 1860. _Nixon and
Richardson’s Eglinton tournament_ (1843), _portrait plate iii_.
LAMB, EDWARD BUCKTON. _b._ 1806; an architect in the modern
Gothic style with a large practice; exhibited 57 designs at R.A.
and 5 at Suffolk st. 1824–69; some of his designs were published
in lithography; published Etchings of Gothic ornament 1830;
Studies of ancient domestic architecture 1846. _d._ 3 Hinde st.
Manchester sq. London 30 Aug. 1869.
LAMB, ROBERT (son of Thomas Lamb of Cockeram, Lancs.). _b._
1812; ed. St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1840; C. of
Kirkham, Lancs. 1837–40; principal of Western gram. sch.
Brompton, London 1840–44; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Preston 1844–49;
R. of St. Paul’s, Manchester 1849 to 1871; contributed many
articles to Fraser’s Mag. under pseudonym of A Manchester Man;
author of Sermons on passing seasons and events 1853; Selections
from articles contributed to Fraser’s Magazine 2 vols. 1866;
Sermons preached in St. Paul’s church 2 vols. 1870; Yarndale: an
unsentimental story 3 vols. 1872. _d._ Haycarr near Lancaster 24
Dec. 1872.
LAMB, THOMAS. _b._ Lamb’s lane, Forebank, Dundee 1801; grocer
and spirit dealer, Murraygate, Dundee; became a convinced
teetotaller and destroyed all the liquor he had in stock 1828;
opened a coffee house in the Murraygate which became the head
quarters of the literary societies and clubs of Dundee; a
refreshment contractor for festive meetings; opened refreshment
rooms and tea gardens 1843; opened Lamb’s Temperance hotel 30
July 1852 which he much enlarged in 1867; kept a dairy farm.
_d._ Dundee 31 Oct. 1869. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873)
342–9.
LAMBE, GEORGE. _b._ 1786 or 1787; assistant surgeon Bengal army
27 March 1808, surgeon 1 July 1823; superintending surgeon Dacca
31 Jany. 1844 to 10 April 1847; inspector general of hospitals,
Bengal 10 April 1847, surgeon general 24 July 1848, phys.
general 10 Feb. 1849 to 10 April 1852 when he retired. _d._ very
suddenly 3 Feb. 1862.
LAMBERT, GEORGE JACKSON (son of George Lambert, organist of
Beverley Minster 40 years, _d._ 15 July 1818). _b._ Beverley
16 Nov. 1794; organist of Beverley Minster 1818–74, 56 years;
a fine violoncello and violin player; published overtures,
instrumental chamber music, organ fugues, &c.; printed Duett for
two performers on the piano 1815; A favourite French air with
variations 1820; Major Campbell’s waltz with variations 1830.
_d._ Beverley 24 Jany. 1880.
LAMBERT, SIR GEORGE ROBERT (5 son of Robert Alexander Lambert,
captain R.N. 1732–1801). _b._ 8 Sep. 1795; entered R.N. April
1809; in the Walcheren expedition; captain 8 Aug. 1825; served
in West Indies 1845–47; commodore at Jamaica 23 Jany. 1847;
did good service in the war with Burmah; R.A. 21 Jany. 1854,
admiral on h.p. 15 Dec. 1863; granted service pension 5 March
1864; K.C.B. 9 Dec. 1853, G.C.B. 7 June 1865. _d._ suddenly in
billiard room of United Service club, 116 Pall Mall, London 5
June 1869.
LAMBERT, JAMES STAUNTON (eld. son of Walter Lambert of Creg
Clare, co. Galway, _d._ 25 Sep. 1832). _b._ 5 March 1789; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin; sheriff of Galway 1813; M.P. co. Galway 6
July 1826 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ Budleigh Salterton, South Devon 1
July 1867.
LAMBERT, SIR JOHN (son of Daniel Lambert of Hindon, surgeon).
_b._ Bridzor, Wiltshire 4 Feb. 1815; ed. Downside coll. Bath;
solicitor at Salisbury 1836–57; mayor of Salisbury 1854 being
the first Roman Catholic mayor of a cathedral city since
the Reformation; a poor law inspector 1857; superintended
administration of the Public Works (manufacturing districts)
Act 1863; receiver of metropolitan common poor fund under
Metropolitan Poor Act 1867; member of parliamentary boundaries
commission 1867 and of the sanitary commission; the first
permanent secretary of local government board 31 Aug. 1871
to Nov. 1882; chairman of commission which drew up census of
landed proprietors in Great Britain 1872; chairman of boundaries
commission 1884–5; C.B. 5 May 1871, K.C.B. 31 May 1879; P.C.
19 May 1885; profoundly versed in ecclesiastical music of the
middle ages; author of many musical works in Latin and English;
edited A grammar of ritual music by Janssen 1849; The vesper
psalter 1849. _d._ Milford house, Elms road, Clapham common near
London 27 Jany. 1892. _bur._ St. Osmund’s ch. Salisbury which he
had founded. _Downside Review_, _vol. viii No._ 1, _and vol. xi
No._ 1; _I.L.N. 6 Feb. 1892 p._ 166, _portrait_.
LAMBERT, JOHN ARTHUR (eld. son of sir John Lambert, G.C.B. _d._
1846). _b._ 30 Sep. 1817; ensign grenadier guards 10 July 1835,
lieut.-col. 12 March 1861 to 27 Dec. 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877;
col. royal Irish Fusiliers 25 April 1880 to death; placed on
retired list 1 July 1881. _d._ Weston house, Thames Ditton 17
Sep. 1887.
LAMBERT, NATHANIEL GRACE (son of Richard Lambert). _b._
Newcastle-on-Tyne 1811; a coalowner; sheriff of Bucks. 1865;
M.P. Bucks. 1868–80; captain commandant Taplow yeomanry lancers.
_d._ Denham court near Uxbridge 9 Dec. 1882.
LAMBERT, ROWLEY. _b._ 22 April 1828; entered navy 1841; captain
29 Sep. 1855; commodore on Australian station 28 May 1867 to 8
April 1870; commanded detached squadron for particular service 8
June 1875 to 1877; V.A. 21 March 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._
Grosvenor hotel, Victoria station, London 22 July 1880.
LAMBERT, WILLIAM. _b._ Burstow, Surrey 1779; a miller at
Nutfield, also in the fuller’s earth trade; in match Lord’s _v._
England 20 July 1801; not allowed to play at Lord’s after 1818
being accused of selling the England _v._ Nottingham match by
not playing his best; one of the most successful of cricketers,
excelling in batting, bowling, fielding, keeping wicket and in
single wicket playing; one of the few cricketers who has made
100 runs twice in the same match 1817; beat at single wicket two
of the best players Lord F. Beauclerk and T. C. Howard, Lord’s
6 and 7 July 1810, a sum of money was paid by the defeated
to prevent this match being reported in Bentley; author of
The cricketer’s guide. Lewes 1816; Instructions and rules for
playing cricket 1816; a great bell ringer. _d._ Nutfield 19
April 1851. _bur._ Burstow.
LAMBERT, WILLIAM BLAKE. _b._ Berwick on Tweed 1816; chief
engineer of General screw steam shipping co. to 1856; engineer
at Portsmouth dockyard 1856–59; chief engineer to the Russian
navy 1859–66. _d._ St. Petersburg 18 Feb. 1874.
LAMBTON, HEDWORTH (3 son of Wm. Henry Lambton 1764–97, M.P. city
of Durham 1787–97). _b._ 26 March 1797; M.P. North Durham 21
Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847. _d._ 8 Lansdowne place, Brighton 16
Sep. 1876.
LAMBTON, WILLIAM HENRY (brother of preceding). _b._ 27 March
1793. _d._ 17 Chesham place, London 3 April 1866, personalty
sworn under £500,000, 2 June 1866.
LAMINGTON, ALEXANDER DUNDAS ROSS WISHART BAILLIE-COCHRANE,
1 Baron (1 son of admiral sir Thomas John Cochrane, G.C.B.
1789–1872). _b._ 27 Nov. 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1837; contested Bridport 29 June 1841, M.P. Bridport
1841–52; M.P. co. Lanark, Feb. to April 1857; a member of the
Young England party; M.P. Honiton 1859–68; M.P. Isle of Wight
1870–80; trustee of National Portrait Gallery 1876; cr. baron
Lamington of Lamington, co. Lanark 3 May 1880; author of Poems
1838; The Morea, a poem 1841, 2 ed. 1841; Ernest Vane 2 vols.
1849; Young Italy 1850; Florence the beautiful 2 vols. 1854; The
map of Italy 1856; Historical pictures 2 vols. 1865; Francis the
first 2 vols. 1870; Historic châteaux, Blois, Fontainebleau,
Vincennes 1877. _d._ 26 Wilton crescent, London 15 Feb. 1890.
_I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1890 p._ 231, _portrait_; _Times 17, 25 Feb.
1890_.
LAMONT, JOHANN VON (son of a custom-house officer, who _d._
1816). _b._ Braemar, Aberdeenshire 13 Dec. 1805; ed. at St.
James’s monastery, Ratisbon; assistant astronomer at observatory
of Bogenhausen near Munich, March 1828, director of the
observatory 18 July 1835; his zone observations of 34,674 small
stars between latitudes +27° and -33° were his most important
astronomical work; built a magnetic observatory at Bogenhausen
1840; executed with his travelling theodolite, magnetic surveys
of Bavaria 1849–52, France and Spain 1856–7, North Germany
and Denmark 1858; F.R.A.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edin. 1845, F.R.S.
1852; professor of astronomy in univ. of Munich 1852 to death;
decorated with orders of Gregory the Great, of the Northern star
of Sweden and of the Crown of Bavaria, which carried with it a
title of nobility; author of Handbuch des Erdmagnetismus. Berlin
1849; Astronomie und Erdmagnetismus. Stuttgart 1851, and upwards
of 20 other books printed at Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart
1824–71. _d._ Munich 6 Aug. 1879. _bur._ in churchyard at
Bogenhausen. _Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. xl_ 208–12
(1880); _Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. x_ 358 (1880).
LAMPSON, SIR CURTIS MIRANDA, 1 Baronet (4 son of Wm. Lampson of
Newhaven, Vermont). _b._ Vermont 21 Sep. 1806; a fur merchant
at 37 Friday st. Cheapside, London 1830; senior partner in firm
of C. M. Lampson & Co. 9 Queen st. place, Upper Thames st.,
merchants; naturalised 14 May 1849; a director of Atlantic
telegraph co. 1856, vice-chairman; deputy governor of Hudson’s
Bay company 1863–72; created baronet 16 Nov. 1866. _d._ 80 Eaton
sq. London 12 March 1885, personalty sworn at £401,000, 7 May.
_I.L.N. xlix_ 545, 558 (1866), _portrait_.
LAMSON, GEORGE HENRY (son of rev. W. O. Lamson, chaplain to the
American ambulance during Franco-German war 1870). _b._ New
York 8 Sep. 1852; resided with his parents in Paris 1858–70;
studied medicine in Paris 1869–70; assistant surgeon to the
American ambulance during Franco-German war 1870; surgeon in
Paris during the siege, for which he received the bronze cross;
graduated M.D. in Univ. of Pennsylvania 1872; a surgeon at Ferry
Town, New York to 1874; at Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1874–6;
came to England, Sep. 1876 at invitation of secretary of the
League in aid of the Christians in Turkey; surgeon-in-chief
to military hospital at Semendria, received a gold medal for
bravery; chief of the English military hospital at Costo Foro,
Bucharest, during Russo-Turkish war Aug. 1877 to March 1878; was
snowed up six days without food on his way back from Plevna
to Bucharest; received Star of Roumania and Turkish order of
the Medjidie at end of the war 1878; L.R.C.P. Edinb., L.R.C.S.
Edinb. and L.M.C.S. Edinb. May 1878; practised at Rotherfield,
Tunbridge Wells, May 1878; bought a practice at Bournemouth for
£400, 1879; went for a six months’ trip to America, April 1880;
sold his practice and left Bournemouth, April 1881. (_m._ 16
Oct. 1878 Kate eld. child of Wm. John of Manchester, merchant);
poisoned his brother-in-law Percy Malcolm John with aconitine
at Wm. Henry Bedbrook’s school, Blenheim house, 2 and 4 St.
George’s road, Wimbledon 3 Dec. 1881; surrendered himself at
Scotland yard 7 Dec. 1881; tried before sir Henry Hawkins at
the Old Bailey 9–14 March 1882, when found guilty and sentenced
to death; reprieved twice to enable his friends in America to
produce evidence of his insanity; confessed his guilt 27 April
1882; hanged in Wandsworth gaol 28 April 1882. _Central criminal
court sessions paper._ _Minutes of evidence_, _xcv_ 547–90
(1882); _Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883) 514–67;
_Law Journal 24 Oct. 1891 pp._ 652–3; _Montagu Williams’s Leaves
of a life_ (1891) 294–300, 348–63; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 257 (1882),
_portrait_.
L’AMY, JAMES. _b._ Dunkenny 8 July 1772; advocate at Scotch bar
1794; sheriff of Forfarshire, July 1819 to death. _d._ Dundee 15
Jany. 1854. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) _p._ 155.
LANAWAY, CHARLES. _b._ Henfield, Sussex 16 March 1793; played in
Brighton and Sussex elevens; a butcher at Brighton 1819; first
match at Lord’s, Sussex _v._ England 7 July 1828; underhand
bowler. _d._ 49 London road, Brighton 6 Feb. 1870. _bur._
Henfield.
LANCASTER, CHARLES WILLIAM (eld. son of Charles Lancaster of 151
New Bond st. London, gunmaker, _d._ 1847). _b._ York st. Portman
sq. London 24 June 1820; in his father’s factory, succeeded to
the business 1847; solved the problem of rifled cannon 1844–5;
conceived the idea of the oval bore as proper form for all
rifled arms and cannon 1850; superintended production of guns
in Royal Arsenal, Woolwich; the Lancaster carbine was adopted
as the arm for the royal engineers Jany. 1855, superseded
by Martini-Henry rifle 1869; took out upwards of 20 patents
1850–72; the Czar of Russia had a large gold medal struck in
his honour; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852. _d._ 151 New Bond st. London
24 April 1878. _Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. liii_ 289–92
(1878); _Sporting Mirror_, _iii_ 21–2 (1882).
LANCASTER, HENRY HILL (son of Thomas Lancaster, merchant). _b._
Glasgow 10 Jany. 1829; ed. at Glasgow high school and univ.;
Snell exhibitioner Balliol coll. Oxf. 1849; B.A. 1853, M.A.
1872, Arnold prizeman 1854; advocate at Edinburgh 1858, advocate
depute 1868–74; sec. to commission of inquiry into state of
King’s and Marischal colleges, Aberdeen 1858; member of royal
commission on Scottish educational establishments 1872; wrote
essays in North British and Edinburgh Reviews, more important
of which were reprinted privately in 2 vols. 1876 and published
in 1 vol. as Essays and Reviews Edinb. 1876. _d._ suddenly from
apoplexy at 5 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1875. _Journal of
Jurisprudence_, _Feb. 1876 p._ 107.
LANCASTER, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1820; scene painter in London about
1840 to death; connected with the leading London and provincial
theatres. _d._ 57 Grosvenor park, Camberwell, London 2 May 1892.
_bur._ Nunhead cemetery.
LANCASTER, JOHN (son of John Lancaster). _b._ Radcliffe near
Bury, Lancs. 19 Sep. 1815; manager of Patricroft colliery 1841;
mineral agent for lord Mostyn at Mostyn colliery 1847 etc.;
manager earl Granville’s iron works and collieries, Shelton,
Staffs. 1849–56; manager Shireoak colliery near Worksop 1855–58;
built 5 blast furnaces at Kirkless hall iron works 1856–60
which were the second set in Lancs.; chairman Wigan coal and
iron co. 1865–70; chairman West Cumberland iron and steel works
1870 to death; contested Wigan July 1865, M.P. Wigan 1868–74;
F.G.S., M.I.M.E. 1863; rescued the crew of Confederate cruiser
Alabama when she was sunk by the Federal war-steamer Kearsage
off Cherbourg 19 June 1864. _d._ 58 Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead
21 April 1884. _Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers_ (1884)
402–3.
LANCASTER, THOMAS WILLIAM (son of rev. Thomas Lancaster of
Wimbledon, Surrey). _b._ Fulham, Middlesex 24 Aug. 1787; ed.
at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810; Michel scholar at
Queen’s coll. 1808, Michel fellow 1809–16; C. of Banbury 1812
and vicar 1815–49; R. of Over Worton near Woodstock 1849 to
death; Bampton lecturer 1831; select preacher to univ. of Oxf.
1832, public examiner 1832–3; under master of Magdalen college
school 1840–9; author of The alliance of education and civil
government with strictures on the university of London 1828; A
treatise on confirmation 1830, 2 ed. 1861; Vindiciæ symbolicæ or
a treatise on creeds, articles of faith and articles of doctrine
1848; Sermons 1860; found dead in his bed at his lodgings,
High st. Oxford 12 Dec. 1859. _bur._ Holywell cemetery. _J. R.
Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college_, _iii_ 270–1 (1863).
LANCE, GEORGE (son of Mr. Lance, inspector of Bow st. horse
patrol). _b._ manor-house of Little Easton near Dunmow, Essex
24 March 1802; pupil of B. R. Haydon in London 1816–23; painter
chiefly of fruit and flowers; exhibited 38 pictures at R.A.,
135 at B.I. and 48 at Suffolk st. 1824–64; 2 fruit pieces and
a portrait of himself are in the South Kensington museum. _d._
Sunnyside near Birkenhead 18 June 1864. _Art Journal_ (1857)
305–7, (1864) 242; _The Critic_, _xxi_ 416 (1860), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xxxix_ 647, 648 (1861), _portrait_.
LANCE, GEORGE EDWIN (son of rev. John Edwin Lance of Buckland
St. Mary, Somerset). _b._ 1824; ed. at Haileybury college; went
to India 1844; chief magistrate at Cawnpore, where he rendered
conspicuous service during the mutiny; converted a tract of
marsh land into a memorial garden at Cawnpore; retired on the
annuity fund 1872. _d._ Cheduba, Festing road, Southsea 9 April
1890.
LANCE, JOHN HENRY. _b._ 1793; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1820; comr.
of arbitration at Surinam, Guiana, South America; commissary
judge to the British and Netherland court of commission at
Surinam for prevention of illegal traffic in slaves 21 Oct.
1828, retired upon a superannuation allowance 31 March 1834.
_d._ The Holmwood, Dorking, Surrey 12 Jany. 1878.
LAND, EDWARD. _b._ London 1815; sang at the chapel royal;
accompanist to John Wilson, afterwards to David Kennedy both
Scotch singers; second tenor of the Glee and Madrigal union;
secretary of the Noblemen and Gentlemen’s catch club; composed
Bird of Beauty 1852, The Angel’s Watch 1853 and other popular
songs; wrote many original pieces for the pianoforte. _d._ 4
Cambridge place, Regent’s park, London 29 Nov. 1876.
LANDELLS, EBENEZER (3 son of Ebenezer Landells, merchant). _b._
Newcastle 13 April 1808; apprenticed to Thomas Bewick, wood
engraver 1822–9; wood engraver in London 1829; superintended
fine-art engraving department of Branston and Vizetelly; started
an illustrated journal called The Cosmorama; exhibited 2 wood
engravings at Suffolk st. 1833–37; the original projector
and one of the 3 original proprietors of Punch or the London
Charivari, first number was published at 3 Wellington st.
Strand 17 July 1841; engraved much for the Illustrated London
News 1842; engraved title page of the Lady’s Newspaper, first
number dated 2 Jany. 1847; supplied all the woodcuts for the
Illuminated Mag. 1843; author of The boy’s own toymaker 1859, 10
ed. 1881; The illustrated paper model maker 1861. _d._ at his
lodgings, Victoria Grove, West Brompton, London 1 Oct. 1860.
LANDELLS, ROBERT THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ London
1 Aug. 1833; special war correspondent for the Illustrated
London News in the Crimea 1856; present as artist in war between
Germany and Denmark 1863 receiving decorations from both sides,
and in war between Prussia and Austria 1866; attached to staff
of the crown prince in Franco-German war 1870 and received
order of the Iron Cross for his attention to the sick; painted
memorial pictures of ceremonials for the queen; exhibited
24 pictures at Suffolk st. 1863–76; illustrated The young
franctireurs by G. A. Henty 1872. _d._ 49 Winchester terrace,
Chelsea 6 Jany. 1877. _I.L.N. lxx_ 61 (1877), _portrait_.
LANDERS, JOHN EDMONDSTOUNE. _b._ 1803; ensign 27 Bengal N.I. 10
Jany. 1820; lieut. 9 Bengal N.I. 1824, major 3 Oct. 1848; lieut.
col. Bengal infantry 24 Dec. 1853, col. 28 March 1865; general 1
Oct. 1877. _d._ 7 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 6 April 1885.
LANDMANN, GEORGE THOMAS (son of Isaac Landmann 1741–1826,
professor of artillery at the R.M. academy, Woolwich). _b._
Woolwich 1779; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 May 1795, lieut.-col. 16 May
1814, sold out 29 Dec. 1824; lieut.-col. in the Spanish
engineers 22 Feb. 1809; col. of infantry in Spanish army
25 March 1810; commanding engineer of the Thames district
1815–7, of the Yorkshire district 1817–9; author of Historical
military and picturesque observations in Portugal 2 vols. 1818;
Adventures and recollections of colonel Landmann 2 vols. 1852;
Recollections of my military life 2 vols. 1854. _d._ Shacklewell
near Hackney, London 27 Aug. 1854.
LANDON, ARTHUR JERMYN (2 son of Francis Newcombe Landon
of Brentwood, Essex). _b._ 29 June 1851; studied at St.
Bartholomew’s; ed. at Netley, passed first in list and took
prize for military surgery; L.S.A. 1877, M.R.C.S. 1878; surgeon
in the army 4 Aug. 1878; helped to remove the wounded at Laing’s
Nek 28 Jany. 1881, present at Majuba hill 27 Feb. where he
remained on the field with the wounded, a bullet passed through
his body, but he still administered to the fallen, brought
into camp the next day where he died 28 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Mount
Prospect, South Africa. _United Service Mag. Oct. 1883 pp._
424–30.
LANDON, JAMES TIMOTHY BAINBRIDGE (only son of James Landon, V.
of Aberford, Yorkshire, _d._ 1850). _b._ Aberford 11 Nov. 1816;
ed. Rugby and Wadham coll. Oxf. 1835, scholar of Worcester coll.
1835–43, fellow of Magdalen coll. 1843–47, senior dean of arts
1845; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; public examiner 1849–50; chaplain
Bromley coll. Kent 1846–55; V. of Ledsham, Yorks. 1854 to death;
canon of York 1877 to death; supposed author of The rime of the
new-made baccalere. Oxford 1840; author of Eureka: a sequel
to Lord John Russell’s post-bag. Oxford 1851, and of Eureka
No. II.: a sequel to a sequel to Lord John Russell’s post-bag.
Oxford 1853, both anon.; Homer. Iliad A, translated into English
hexameters 1862. _d._ Ledsham vicarage 7 March 1890.
LANDOR, EDWARD WILSON (son of Walter Landor of Rugeley,
solicitor). Admitted a solicitor 1837; practised at Rugeley
1837–41; went to Australia 1841; practised in the city of London
1847–60; at Perth, West Australia 1860; police magistrate Perth
1865 to death; published Adventures in the north of Europe 2
vols. 1836; The bushman 1847; Lofoden or the exiles of Norway 2
vols. 1849. _d._ Perth 24 Oct. 1878. _Solicitor’s Journal_, _xx_
254 (1879).
LANDOR, ROBERT EYRES (youngest son of Walter Landor, physician,
_d._ 1805). _b._ St. Nicholas, Warwick, May 1781; ed. at
Worcester coll. Oxf., scholar, fellow; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804;
V. of Hitchenden, Bucks. 1817–25; chaplain in ord. to Prince
Regent; R. of Nafford with Birlingham, Worcs. 11 April 1829
to death, never absent from his Sunday duty, the church was
restored with money left by him; author of The Count Arezzi,
a tragedy 1824; The impious feast, a poem 1828; The earl of
Brecon, a tragedy; Faith’s Fraud, a tragedy; The Ferryman, a
drama 1841; The Fawn of Sertorius 1846; The Fountain of Arethusa
1848. _d._ Birlingham rectory 26 Jany. 1869.