_d._ 1805). _b._ Ipsley court, Warwick 30 Jany. 1775; ed. at
Rugby 1785–91; commoner of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793, rusticated
for a year in 1794 but never returned to Oxf.; raised some
volunteers with whom he joined Blake’s army in Gallicia Aug.
1808, returned to England Nov. 1808; bought estate of Llanthony
abbey, Monmouthshire 1809; lived at Florence 1821–35 and 1859 to
death, at Bath 1838–58; is drawn by Dickens in Bleak House as
Lawrence Boythorn; author of Poems 1795; Gebir: a poem in seven
books 1798, anon., 2 ed. Oxford 1803; Count Julian, a tragedy
1812, anon.; Imaginary Conversations, vols. 1 and 2, 1824, 2 ed.
1826, vols. 3 and 4, 1828, vol. 5, 1829; Pericles and Aspasia
1836, anon.; The Pentameron and Pentalogia 1837; Collected works
2 vols. 1846 and 8 vols. 1876; The last fruit off an old tree
1853, includes 18 new imaginary conversations, and other books.
_d._ Via Nunziatina, Florence 17 Sep. 1864, portrait by Wm.
Fisher exhibited at the R.A. 1840, bequeathed by H. C. Robinson
to National portrait gallery March 1867; mural monument with
bust, unveiled in St. Mary’s church, Warwick 30 Jany. 1888. _J.
Forster’s Life of W. S. Landor 2 vols._ (1869), _portrait_; _J.
Devey’s A comparative estimate of modern English poets_ (1873)
166–83; _R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age_, _i_ 151–76
(1844); _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876)
437–45; _Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington_,
_ii_ 336–95 (1855); _De Quincey’s Works_, _viii_ 284–332 (1862),
_xi_ 176–98 (1862); _H. D. Traill’s New Lucian_ (1884) 59–84;
_I.L.N. xlv_ 385, 386 (1864), _portrait_.
NOTE.--In 1857 he published a book entitled Dry Sticks fagoted by W.
S. Landor, in which he grossly insulted the wife of the Rev. Morris
Yescombe of Bath; they brought an action for libel against him, tried
at Bristol assizes 23 Aug. 1858, the jury gave them £1000 damages,
Landor had transferred all his English estates to his son and left
England for France 14 July 1858, he was eventually obliged to pay
the £1000 with £362 for costs under order of the court of chancery,
which left him completely destitute. _C. Beavan’s Reports xxviii_ 80–7
(1861); _Bristol Mercury 28 Aug. 1858 Suppl. p._ 1.
LANDSBOROUGH, DAVID. _b._ Dalry, Glen Kens, Galloway 11
Aug. 1779; ed. at Dumfries and univ. of Edinb.; minister of
Stevenston, Ayrshire 1811–43; minister of the free church
at Saltcoats 1843; A.L.S. 1849; chief founder of Ayrshire
Naturalists’ club 1850; discovered nearly 70 species of plants
and animals new to Scotland, earned title of ‘the Gilbert White
of Ardrossan’; received degree of D.D. from an American college
1849; author of Arran, a poem 1828; Ayrshire sketches 1839;
Arran, a poem and excursions to Arran 1847; A popular history of
British seaweeds 1849; A popular history of British zoophytes
1852. _d._ of cholera at Saltcoats 12 Sep. 1854. _Arran, by the
Landsboroughs father and son_ (1875), _memoir pp._ 157–228;
_Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 2, _part_ 1, _p._ 188 (1868); _W.
Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 715 (1863).
LANDSBOROUGH, WILLIAM (son of the preceding). _b._ Stevenston,
Ayrshire; went to Australia; discovered Mount Nebo and Fort
Cooper 1856, discovered sources of the Thomson river 1860;
searched for Burke and Wills the explorers 1861; crossed
Australia from Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne 1862; presented
with a service of plate valued at £500, 12 Nov. 1862; member
of Queensland assembly 1864–5; government resident in Burke
district 1865–8; discovered with G. Phillips the Western river;
inspector of brands for East Moreton, Queensland 1868, awarded
a grant of £2000. _d._ Brisbane 16 March 1886. _Journal of
Landsborough’s expedition in search of Burke and Wills_ (1862).
LANDSEER, CHARLES (2 son of John Landseer 1769–1852). _b._
1799; pupil of B. R. Haydon, entered schools of the R.A. 1816;
A.R.A. 1837, R.A. 1845, keeper of the R.A. 1851 to May 1873;
exhibited 73 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 11 at Suffolk st.
1822–79; left £10,000 to the R.A. for foundation of Landseer
scholarships. _d._ 35 Grove End road, London 22 July 1879,
portrait by himself exhibited at the R.A. 1879. _Sandby’s
History of Royal academy_, _ii_ 176 (1862); _I.L.N. lxxv_ 109
(1879), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xx_ 128 (1879), _portrait_.
LANDSEER, SIR EDWIN HENRY (brother of the preceding). _b._ 71
Queen Anne st. East (now 33 Foley st.), London 7 March 1802;
learnt to draw, etch and paint 1808–14; entered schools of the
R.A. 1816, A.R.A. 1826, R.A. 1831, declined the presidency 24
Jany. 1866; lived at 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 1826 to
death; painted many portraits of the Queen and royal family
1839–66; taught the queen and prince Albert to etch; knighted
at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; received large gold medal at
Paris universal exhibition 1855; received the commission for
4 lions in bronze for base of the Nelson column in Trafalgar
sq. 1859, they were uncovered 31 Jany. 1867; exhibited 179
pictures at R.A., 94 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1815–73;
434 etchings and engravings were made from his works down to
1875; his Monarch of the Glen was sold for £7000 April 1892 and
£10,000 have been given for the Stag at bay and for the Otter
Hunt; a large collection of his works was exhibited at the R.A.
1873–4; illustrated Portraits of the children of the nobility by
L. Fairlie 1839 and other works. _d._ 1 St. John’s Wood road,
London 1 Oct. 1873. _bur._ in crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 11 Oct.
_F. G. Stephen’s Memoirs of Sir E. Landseer_ (1874), _portrait_;
_Illustrated Review_, _vol. v_ 137–44, _portrait_; _James
Dafforne’s Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A._ (1874); _J.
Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_, _i_ 78–95; _Sandby’s Royal
Academy_, _ii_ 143–46 (1862); _The Landseer gallery with memoir_
(1871); _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876)
468–74; _Illust. Times 9 Feb. 1867 p._ 88, _portrait_, _and p._
89 _lions in Trafalgar square_.
LANDSEER, GEORGE (son of Thomas Landseer 1795–1880). _b._
1829; exhibited 21 figure pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 1
at Suffolk st. 1850–58. _d._ 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 10
March 1878.
LANDSEER, JESSICA (dau. of the succeeding). _b._ 29 Jany. 1810;
landscape and miniature painter; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A.,
7 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1816–66. _d._ Folkestone 29 Aug.
1880.
LANDSEER, John (son of a jeweller). _b._ Lincoln 1769; landscape
engraver; delivered a series of lectures on engraving at Royal
Institution 1806; an advocate for the recognition of the claims
of engravers by Royal academy; associate engraver of the R.A.
1806; began a periodical Review of Publications of Art 1808, 2
vols., and The Probe 1837; engraver to William IV.; exhibited 1
engraving at Soc. of artists, 17 at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st.
1791–1852; author of Lectures on the art of engraving 1807;
Observations on the engraved gems brought from Babylon 1817;
Sabean researches 1823; Essay on the carnivora 1823; A series of
engravings illustrating events recorded in the scriptures 1833;
A descriptive catalogue of fifty of the earliest pictures in
the National gallery 1834. _d._ London 29 Feb. 1852. _Sandby’s
History of royal academy_, _i_ 402–3 (1862); _G.M. xxxvii_ 523–4
(1852).
LANDSEER, THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 71 Queen Anne
st. east (now 33 Foley st.), London 1795; pupil of B. R. Haydon;
etched and engraved more than 125 of the drawings and pictures
of his brother Sir Edwin H. Landseer; engraved Rosa Bonheur’s
The Horse Fair about 1860; A.R.A. 1868; exhibited 35 engravings
at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–77; illustrated
Monkey-ana or men in miniature 1828 and other works; author of
The life and letters of William Bewick 1871. _d._ 11 Grove End
road, St. John’s Wood, London 20 Jany. 1880. _I.L.N. lii_ 169
(1868), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news_, _xii_
501 (1880), _portrait_.
LANE, CHARLES EDWARD WILLIAM (son of John Lane). _bapt._ St.
Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London 29 Oct. 1786; ensign 1 Bengal
N.I. 13 Aug. 1807; sought to change his name to Mattenby in
1824 but was not permitted to do so; served in Arracan 1825; in
charge of the commissariat at Dinapore 1832; lieut.-col. of 2
Bengal N.I. 26 Dec. 1841–43, of 13 N.I. 1843 to 10 Dec. 1847,
of 74 N.I. 10 Dec. 1847 to 25 May 1852; commanded garrison of
Candahar when assaulted by the Afghans 10 March 1842; C.B. 27
Dec. 1842; col. 6 Bengal N.I. 25 May 1852 to 1858; general 25
June 1870. _d._ Jersey 18 Feb. 1872.
LANE, CHARLTON (son of Wm. Lane of Croydon, Surrey). _b._ 1797;
ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. and Jesus coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; C. of Lambeth 1828–32; P.C. of St. Mark’s,
Kennington, London 1832–64; R.D. of Southwark 1854–64; V. of
Hampstead 1864–72; professor of rhetoric, Gresham college,
London 1863 to death; printed 12 sermons and was author of To
the parishioners of Kennington, Stockwell and South Lambeth, how
to meet the cholera 1854. _d._ 14 St. John’s Wood park, London
28 May 1875. _bur._ churchyard of St. John, Hampstead.
LANE, CHARLTON GEORGE (son of the preceding). _b._ Kennington
parsonage 11 June 1836; ed. at Westminster 1849–54 (in the
cricket eleven 5 years, captain 1853) and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; known
as the Admirable Crichton of Oxford, usually called White Lane
to distinguish him from Ernald Lane of Balliol; rowed No. 3 in
the Univ. Eight 1858–9; played in the Univ. Eleven 1856 and
1858–60, captain 1860; won the Univ. racquets; played for Surrey
1856–61, played for Gentlemen against the Players 1857–61,
played in the First Eleven of England _v._ Next Fourteen 1860;
played for the Veterans against Marylebone cricket club in the
M.C.C. centenary week at Lord’s 1887 when he scored double
figures in each innings; a brilliant batsman and fine field
especially at long-leg; member of the Hogarth club at Oxford;
C. of Great Witley, Worcs. 1862–5; C. of Little Gaddesden,
Herts. 1868–70, rector 16 Jany. 1870 to death; member of the
Mercers’ Co., master 1890. _d._ Little Gaddesden rectory 2 Nov.
1892. _Illustrated Times 10 Aug. 1861 p._ 93, _portrait_; _The
Guardian 16 Nov. 1892 p._ 1766.
LANE, CHRISTOPHER BAGOT. _b._ Nurney house, co. Kildare 1814;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin and univ. of Edinb.; admitted into
London office of I. K. Brunel, Dec. 1837; professor of civil
engineering at Trin. coll. Dublin 1846–49 and at Queen’s
college, Cork 1849–53; consulting engineer for railways to
Brazilian government July 1853 to 1861; resided at Rio Janeiro
1853–60; joint engineer with E. Bagot of various railway lines
in South Wales 1864–72; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849, M.I.C.E. 2 Dec.
1856. _d._ 24 Clifton villas, Maida hill, London 11 Jany. 1877.
_Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. xlviii_ 266–9 (1877).
LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (3 son of Theophilus Lane, preb. of
Hereford cath. _d._ 1814). _b._ Hereford 17 Sep. 1801; ed. at
Bath and Hereford gram. schools; learnt engraving under Charles
Heath, London; went to Alexandria, July 1825 where he soon
spoke Arabic and wore the native dress, studied and sketched at
Thebes 1826–7; resided in Cairo, Dec. 1833 to Aug. 1835 under
the name of Mansoor Effendi; resided in Cairo 1842–49 compiling
his Arabic lexicon; resided at Worthing working on his Arabic
lexicon 1850 to death; had grants from Fund for special services
1848–63 and civil list pension of £100 from 18 June 1863; the
chief Arabic scholar in Europe; author of An account of the
manners and customs of the modern Egyptians 1836, 6 ed. 1871;
The thousand and one nights, a translation 1838–40, came out in
monthly parts, 2 ed. 1859; Selections from the Kuran 1843; An
Arabic English lexicon 8 parts 1863–92; his life-sized statue
in Egyptian dress was executed by his brother Richard Lane; his
widow Anastasia granted civil list pension of £100, 5 Dec. 1876.
_d._ Worthing 10 Aug. 1876. _Stanley Lane Poole’s Life of E. W.
Lane_ (1877); _I.L.N. lxix_ 213, 214 (1876), _portrait_.
LANE, GEORGE. Ensign 5 Middlesex militia 17 Nov. 1854, captain
17 Dec. 1857 to 13 May 1861; gentleman at arms 8 Nov. 1860 to
death, _d._ 19 Redcliffe gardens, London 7 May 1870.
LANE, HAMMER, cognomen of John Lane). _b._ Birmingham 15 Dec.
1815; a pugilist, fighting weight 10 st. 10 lbs.; beat Harry
Ball and Hewson 1833; beat Jack Green £25 a side 17 March 1835;
beat Tass Parker £25 a side 15 Sep. 1835 and again £50 a side
in 96 rounds lasting 2 hours at Woodstock 7 March 1837; beat
Owen Swift £50 a side in 104 rounds lasting 123 minutes at Four
Shire Stone, Warwickshire 10 May 1836; beat Jack Adams £50 a
side at Woodstock 23 Aug. 1836; beat Byng Stocks £50 a side near
Bicester, Oxon. 15 Jany. 1838; beaten by Young Molyneux the
Black £100 a side at Worksop Common, Notts. 9 June 1840; beaten
by Yankee Sullivan alias James Ambrose £50 a side at Crookham
Common 2 Feb. 1841; beaten by Tom Davis £50 a side 40 rounds
in 67 minutes at Noman’s Heath near Tamworth 25 June 1850;
fought Jack Grant £100 a side at Kingswood Common, Shropshire
28 June 1864, drawn battle; kept The Gunmaker’s Arms, Moore st.
Birmingham from 1841. _John Hannan’s Guide to British boxing_
(1850) 49–52; _Illust. sporting news_, _iii_ 228, 229 (1864),
_portrait_.
NOTE.--Three of his brothers were also pugilists, George, James and Tom
who was _b._ Feb. 1825, fought John Walker a drawn battle of £200 a
side at Hythe near Folkestone 15 Feb. 1848 and _d._ Birmingham 7 Sep.
1868.
LANE, JAMES HUNTER. L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1829; M.D. Edinb. 1830;
hon. phys. to cholera hospital, Liverpool 1831–2; physician to
Lock hospital of Liverpool infirmary 1833; senior physician
of Lancaster infirmary 1840; pres. of Royal Medical Society
of Edinb. about 1841; edited Liverpool Medical Gazette; The
monthly archives of the medical sciences 1834, one volume; lived
latterly at 58 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London; author of A
compendium of materia medica and pharmacy 1840; author with J.
M. Gully of a translation of Frederick Tiedemann’s A systematic
treatise on comparative physiology 2 vols. 1834. _d._ Brighton
23 June 1853.
LANE, JOHN BRYANT (son of Samuel Lane, chemist). _b._ Helston,
Cornwall 1788; ed. at Truro; a painter in London 1802–17;
engaged at Rome 1817–27 on a gigantic picture ‘The vision of
Joseph,’ which he exhibited at Rome 1827, for which he was
expelled by the papal authorities, exhibited it at the Royal
Mews, Charing Cross, London 1827, it was a failure and went to
decay in the Pantechnicon, Belgrave sq.; painted portraits of
Sir Hussey Vivian, Lord de Dunstanville and others; exhibited 16
portraits at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1808–34. _d._
45 Clarendon sq. Somer’s Town, London 4 April 1868.
LANE, RICHARD JAMES (brother of Edward Wm. Lane 1801–76).
_b._ Berkeley Castle 16 Feb. 1800; articled to Charles Heath,
line-engraver 1816; line-engraver and lithographer; exhibited
67 lithographs at R.A. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1824–72; associate
engraver of the R.A. 1827; executed pencil and chalk sketches
of most of the best-known people of the day; never surpassed as
a lithographer; lithographed several hundred of the pictures
of leading artists; lithographer to the Queen 1837, to Prince
Albert 1840; director of etching class in science and art
department, South Kensington 1864–72; edited Charles Kemble’s
Readings from Shakspeare 3 vols. 1870; author of Life at the
water cure, or a month at Malvern 1846, new ed. 1851, 3 ed.
1855; Spirits and water, by R. J. L. 1855. d. 19 Gloucester
terrace, Campden Hill, London 21 Nov. 1872. _Sandby’s History
of royal academy_, _ii_ 71 (1862); _I.L.N. xxx_ 419, 420 (1857)
_portrait_, _lxi_ 548 (1872) _portrait_; _Magazine of art_
(1881) 431–2.
LANE, RICHARD JAMES. _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1826; a leader of the
Munster circuit; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; a comr. of Irish fisheries
many years; public auditor of friendly societies in Ireland to
death; crown prosecutor for co. Kerry. _d._ 123 Lower Bagot
st. Dublin 1 Oct. 1885. _Law mag. and law review_, _iii_ 204–6
(1857).
LANE, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Lane). _b._ King’s Lynn 26 July
1780; became deaf and partially dumb from falling into the water
26 July 1786; pupil of sir Thomas Lawrence, and one of his
chief assistants; had a large practice in London as a portrait
painter; exhibited 217 portraits at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 4 at
Suffolk st. 1804–57; lived at 60 Greek st. Soho 1823–53, at
Ipswich 1853 to death. _d._ 2 Paragon Buildings, Lower Brook st.
Ipswich 29 July 1859.
LANE, SAMUEL ARMSTRONG. _b._ 1802; M.R.C.S. 1829, F.R.C.S.
1843; surgeon and lecturer on surgery, St. Mary’s hospital,
London; consulting surgeon Lock hospital; founder and principal
of school of medicine, 1 Grosvenor place, London, adjoining
St. George’s hospital 1830; edited S. Cooper’s Dictionary of
practical surgery, brought down to the present time 1861. _d._
Ealing 2 Aug. 1892.
LANE, SAMUEL HAYCROFT. _b._ 1804; landlord of a beer shop in
Shoreditch, London 1832–41; opened Royal Britannia Saloon, 188
Hoxton Old Town 12 April 1841, with concert opera, vaudeville,
rope and other dancing, ballet and farce; bankrupt 18 Feb. 1842,
discharged 14 June 1842; enlarged the Saloon Nov. 1850, closed
it 29 June 1858; built the Britannia theatre on the same site
at cost of £25,000, opened it 8 Nov. 1858. (_m._ Sep. 1843 Sara
dau. of Wm. Borrow, actor, she was _b._ Clerkenwell 22 Sep. 1824
and has been owner of Britannia theatre since husband’s death).
_d._ the Elms, West green road, Tottenham 27 Dec. 1871. _bur._
Kensal Green cemetery 4 Jany. 1872. _H. B. Baker’s The London
Stage_, _ii_ 257–9 (1889); _The Era 14 Jany. 1872 p._ 12.
LANERTON, EDWARD GRANVILLE GEORGE HOWARD, 1 Baron (4 son of 6
Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848). _b._ 23 Dec. 1809; entered navy
5 April 1823, captain 27 Dec. 1838; admiral on h.p. 1 April
1870; M.P. Morpeth 1848–52; created baron Lanerton of Naworth,
Cumberland 8 Jany. 1874. _d._ 29 Grosvenor sq. London 8 Oct.
1880.
LANG, DAVID (son of James L. Lang, writer). _b._ Glasgow 1846;
ed. Glasgow univ., M.A., LLB.; admitted an advocate 1870;
entertained at a public dinner 1884; a great fisherman. _d._
Glasgow 29 April 1886. _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _xxx_ 322–24
(1886).
LANG, GAVIN. _b._ Paisley; ed. Glasgow univ.; assistant minister
of Presbyterian churches at Houstand and Killalan 1826; assist.
minister West Kilbride 1828; minister in Shelburne, Nova Scotia,
May 1828–32; minister of Glasford, Lanarkshire 1832; author of
The Holy Gospel in continuous narrative 1884. _J. Smith’s Our
Scottish clergy_, _3 S._ (1851) 219.
LANG, JOHN. _b._ Australia; in India and Europe 20 years; wrote
in Household Words and the Welcome Guest; author of Too clever
by half, or the Harroways. By the Mofussilite 1853; Too much
alike or the three calendars 1854; The forger’s wife or Emily
Orford 1855; Will he marry her? a novel 1858, new ed. 1871
and five other novels; also of Botany Bay 1859, new ed. under
title of Clever Criminals 1878; Wanderings in India, and other
sketches of life in Hindostan 1859.
LANG, JOHN. _b._ 1826; connected with the Manchester Times 1840,
managed it when under name of Manchester Examiner to 1889. _d._
Manchester about 1 Jany. 1891.
LANG, JOHN DUNMORE. _b._ Greenock, Scotland 25 Aug. 1799; ed. at
Largs and univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1820, D.D. 1825; licensed to
preach by presbytery of Irvine 1 June 1820, ordained Sep. 1822;
arrived in Australia, May 1823; minister of the Scots church,
Church Hill, Sydney; started The Colonist, a weekly journal 1
Jany. 1835 which lasted until 1840; started The Colonial Journal
7 Oct. 1841; edited The Press, a weekly paper 1851–2; one of the
6 members for Port Phillip in the legislative council of N.S.W.
1843–6, member for Sydney 1850–2, for co. of Stanley, Moreton
Bay 1854, for West Sydney 1859 to Nov. 1869; lectured in England
on Australia 1846–9; author of An historical and statistical
account of New South Wales 2 vols. 1834, 4 ed. 1874; Freedom
and independence for the golden lands of Australia 1852, 2 ed.
1857 and about 20 other books. _d._ Sydney 8 Aug. 1878, statue
of him in Wynyard sq. Sydney unveiled by widow 26 Jany. 1891.
_J. D. Lang’s Brief sketch of my parliamentary life_ (1870);
_Barton’s Poets of New South Wales_ (1866) 33–7; _Daily Graphic
11 March 1891 p._ 9, _view of his statue_.
LANG, OLIVER. _b._ 1778; an apprentice in Devonport dockyard;
foreman of shipwrights at Deptford yard; master shipwright
Devonport; assist. surveyor to navy board at Somerset house;
master shipwright Sheerness yard 1823–6 and at Woolwich 22
July 1826 to death; offered knighthood by George IV.; designed
the Comet paddle wheel steamship, the first steam ship in the
navy, she was commissioned 23 April 1836; introduced many
improvements in ships and steamers; author of Improvements in
naval architecture. Woolwich 1848. _d._ Woolwich 12 April 1853.
His widow Charlotte granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Oct.
1853.
LANG, THOMAS BAMFORD. _b._ 1820; controller of general post
office, Edinburgh, Feb. 1855 to death; author of An historical
summary of the post office in Scotland compiled from authentic
records 1856. _d._ Edinburgh 6 April 1868.
LANG, WILLIAM. Entered Bombay army 1821; lieut. 21 Bombay N.I.
21 May 1824, major 10 May 1847 to 25 June 1852; political agent
at Kattiwar 23 Sep. 1846 to 1859; lieut.-col. of 26 Bombay N.I.
25 June 1852 to 1854 and 1859–60, of 9 N.I. 1854–5, of 28 N.I.
1855–6, of 3 European regiment 1856–9, of 1 N.I. 1862 to 29 June
1863; M.G. 29 June 1863. _d._ Rossie house, Bridge of Earn 3
Jany. 1870.
LANGDALE, HENRY BICKERSTETH, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry
Bickersteth, surgeon and apothecary, _d._ May 1821). _b._ Kirkby
Lonsdale, Westmoreland 18 June 1783; apprenticed to his father,
Midsummer 1797; entered Caius coll. Camb. as Hewitt scholar
Oct. 1802, fellow 1808, senior fellow 1814–31; senior wr. and
1 Smith’s prizeman 1808, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; barrister I.T.
22 Nov. 1811, bencher 1827 to death, reader 1835, treasurer
1836; K.C. May 1827; P.C. 16 Jany. 1835; master of the rolls
19 Jany. 1835, resigned 28 March 1851; cr. Baron Langdale of
Langdale, Westmoreland 23 Jany. 1835; head of the commission
temporarily issued for custody of the great seal 19 June to 15
July 1850. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 18 April 1851. _bur._ in vault
of Temple church, London 24 April. _Memoirs. By T. D. Hardy 2
vols._ (1852), _portrait_; _Law Magazine_, _xlv_ 283–93 (1851);
_Leisure Hour iii_ 251.
LANGDALE, CHARLES (3 son of 16 baron Stourton 1752–1816). _b._
19 Sep. 1787; assumed his mother’s maiden name Langdale instead
of Stourton by r.l. 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. Beverley 1832–4, M.P.
Knaresborough 1837–41; the foremost man among the Roman catholic
laity in England 50 years; a lay brother of the Society of Jesus
1868; author of Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert, with an account of
her marriage with H.R.H. the prince of Wales afterwards king
George the Fourth 1856. _d._ 5 Queen st. Mayfair, London 1 Dec.
1868. _Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890), _memoir
pp._ 19–61, _portrait_.
LANGFORD, JOSEPH MUNT. _b._ 1809; employed by Messrs. Blackwood,
publishers 1830, head of their London branch 1845–81; dramatic
critic of The Observer many years; part author of several dramas
produced at the Adelphi theatre, London about 1854. _d._ 2 The
Paragon, Winchester 28 Aug. 1884.