Hinckley, Leics. May 1820; pugilist, always known as Nat.
Langham, height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 11 stone; beat Wm.
Ellis 1843, Tom Lowe 1844 and Doctor Campbell 1845; beat George
Gutteridge £25 a side at Bourne, Lincs. 23 Sep. 1846; beat Wm.
Sparkes the Australian £50 a side at Woking Common 4 May 1847;
beaten by Harry Orme £50 a side 117 rounds in 176 minutes at
Lower Hope Point down the river Thames 6 May 1851; beat Tom
Sayers £100 a side, 61 rounds in 122 minutes near Lakenheath,
Suffolk 18 Oct. 1853; fought Ben Caunt £200 a side, 60 rounds
in 89 minutes at Standing Creek, Medway 21 Sep. 1857, not
decided; won 6 out of 7 fights, is the only man who ever beat
Tom Sayers; kept the Ram inn, Bridge st. Cambridge 1851 to 1853,
the Cambrian Stores, 12 Castle st. Leicester sq. London 1853 to
1861, and the Cambridge Stores at 12 Castle st. 1870 to death;
kept the Mitre tavern, 62 St. Martin’s lane, London 1862 to
1869; bankrupt 2 March 1869, discharged 29 March 1870. _d._ the
Cambridge Stores, Castle st. London 1 Sep. 1871. _bur._ Brompton
cemetery 7 Sep. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica_, _iii_ 234–52
(1881), _portrait_; _F. W. J. Henning’s Prize Ring_ (1888)
160–7; _Illust. sporting news_, _ii_ 277 (1863), _portrait_.
LANGLEY, ALBERT GORDON (eld. son of Charles Langley of
Chudleigh, South Devon). A student of Middle Temple 15 Jany.
1837, certificate of honour Nov. 1857, studentship May 1858,
barrister M.T. 30 April 1859, admitted ad eundem at L.I. 2 Nov.
1863; author of A reading of the act to further amend the law
of property and to relieve trustees 1860; An essay on the law of
pleading by way of claim for alternative relief 1881; edited E.
E. Deacon’s The law and practice of bankruptcy 3 ed. 1864. _d._
19 Lee terrace, Blackheath 29 Jany. 1888.
LANGLEY, DANIEL BAXTER. _b._ 1797 or 1798; ed. St. John’s coll.
Camb., S.C.L. 1828, LLD. 1841; V. of Olney, Bucks. 1834–56;
R. of Yardley-Hastings with Denton, Northants. 1856 to death;
author of Olney lectures delivered in the parish church of
Olney 1840; Morning and evening prayers compiled from the
Common Prayer Book 1862; Christian laconics, or many things in
few words 1862; The destruction of earthly hopes a reason for
the cultivation of heavenly affections 1865, 2 ed. 1868. _d._
Yardley-Hastings rectory 15 March 1881.
LANGLEY, EDWARD (son of Mr. Langley who lived to be 93, by his
wife who lived to be 105). _b._ 1763; a surgeon at Riseley,
Beds. 1803–28 when he retired. _d._ St. John st. Bedford 25
Jany. 1859 aged 96.
NOTE.--His mother’s father lived to be 103, and her grandfather 100.
LANGRIDGE, GEORGE DAVID. _b._ Kent 1829; emigrated to Australia;
represented Collingwood in legislative assembly of Victoria 1874
to death; comr. of public works Aug. 1880 to July 1881; comr. of
trade and customs March 1883 to Feb. 1886; chief secretary and
minister of customs Nov. 1890 to death. _d._ Melbourne 24 March
1891.
LANGSLOW, ROBERT. Barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1823; attorney general
of Malta 5 July 1832 to Nov. 1838 when granted pension of £300
on abolition of the office; judge of district court of Colombo
No. 1 South, Ceylon 8 June 1840, suspended from his office for
dilatoriness in discharge of his duty 11 Dec. 1843, removed
July 1844; was residing 6 Powis place, Bloomsbury, London in
1846. _d._ New Inn, London 9 Dec. 1853. _In the privy council.
Petition from R. Langslow late judge of district court of
Colombo_ (1847).
LANGSTON, JAMES HAUGHTON. _b._ 1797; M.P. Woodstock 1820–26;
M.P. Oxford 1826 to 30 Dec. 1834 and 1841 to death; sheriff of
co. Oxford 1819. _d._ Sarsden house, Chipping Norton, Oxon. 19
Oct. 1863.
LANGTON, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Langton of Liverpool, Russian
merchant, _d._ 1838). _b._ Farfield near Addingham, Yorkshire 17
April 1803; engaged in business at Liverpool 1821–9; employed
in Messrs. Heywoods’ bank, Manchester 1829–54; managing
director of Manchester and Salford bank 1854 to Oct. 1876;
one of the 3 founders of Manchester Athenæum 1836, to which a
marble medallion bust of him was presented 1881; an original
member of Chetham Society 1843, treasurer, afterwards hon. sec.
to 1869, edited for the society Chetham Miscellanies 3 vols.
1851–56–62, Lancashire Inquisitiones post mortem 2 vols. 1875
and Benalt’s Visitation of Lancashire 1533, 2 vols. 1876–82; a
memorial Langton scholarship was founded in his honour at Owen’s
college, Manchester at cost of £5000 in 1876 or 1877. _d._
Ingatestone, Essex 29 Sep. 1881. _bur._ Fryerning churchyard,
Essex. _Publications of Chetham Society_, _vol. cx_, _memoir pp.
iii–x_, _portrait_.
LANGWORTHY, EDWARD RYLEY. _b._ 1796; mayor of Salford 1848–9 and
1850–1; a trustee of Manchester gram. sch. 1849; chief founder
of Salford free library, the first established under Ewart’s
act, and gave to it £6000, 1854; M.P. Salford 2 Feb. to 21 March
1857. _d._ Victoria park, Manchester 7 April 1874, personalty
sworn under £1,200,000 13 June 1874.
NOTE.--Left £10,000 to build a wing to the Peel park museum which was
opened 14 Aug. 1878; £10,000 to Owen’s college and £20,000 to the
grammar school.
LANKESTER, EDWIN (son of Wm. Lankester of Melton near
Woodbridge, Suffolk, builder). _b._ Melton 23 April 1814;
studied at London univ. 1834–7; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D.
Heidelberg 1839; practised in London from 1839; sec. of the
Ray Society 1844; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1845; professor of natural
history in New College, London 1850; lecturer on anatomy and
physiology at Grosvenor place school of medicine 1853; joint
editor of Quarterly Journal of microscopical science 1853–71,
pres. of Microscopical Soc. of London 1859; examiner in botany
to science and art department 1862; superintendent of food
collection at South Kensington museum 1858–62; medical officer
of health for parish of St. James, Westminster 1856 to death;
coroner for Central Middlesex 9 July 1862 to death, his annual
reports are printed in the Journal of Social Science which he
founded 1865 and edited 1865 to death; author of An account
of Askern and its mineral springs 1842; Half hours with the
microscope [by E. L.] 1859, 4 ed. 1873; The use of animals as
applied to the industry of man 1860, four numbers; Vegetable
physiology 1869; Dr. Lankester’s Sanitary handbills 1870, three
numbers; A school manual of health, being an introduction to
physiology 1868, 6 ed. 1876; Haydn’s Dictionary of medicine and
hygiene, ed. by E. Lankester 1874, new ed. 1878. _d._ Margate
30 Oct. 1874. _Barker’s Photographs of medical men_ (1867)
47–51, _portrait_; _Nature_, _xi_ 15–16 (1875); _I.L.N. xli_ 100
(1862), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _x_ 463, 465 (1874), _portrait_.
LANSDOWNE, HENRY PETTY FITZMAURICE, 3 Marquess of (younger son
of 1 marquess of Lansdowne 1737–1805). _b._ Shelburne (now
Lansdowne) house, 54 Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1780; known as
lord Henry Petty 1784–1809; ed. at Westminster sch. at Edinb.
and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1801, LLD. 1811; M.P. Calne 1802–6;
M.P. univ. of Camb. 1806–7; M.P. Camelford 1807–9; chancellor
of the exchequer 10 Feb. 1806 to 31 March 1807; P.C. 5 Feb.
1806; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marquess 15 Nov. 1809,
and his cousin as 4 Earl of Kerry 4 July 1818; sec. of state
for home department 16 July 1827 to 26 Jany. 1828; lord pres.
of the council 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Dec. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 3
Sep. 1841 and 6 July 1846 to 27 Feb. 1852; leader of opposition
in house of lords 1841–6; F.R.S. 4 April 1811; K.G. 5 Feb.
1836; refused the premiership 1852; held a seat in the cabinet
without office Dec. 1852 to March 1858; many of his speeches
were printed 1806 etc. _d._ Bowood park, Calne, Wilts. 31 Jany.
1863. _Men of the time: British statesmen._ (1854) 44–69;
_H. Martineau’s Biog. sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 91–9; _Jerdan’s
National portrait gallery_, _v_ (1834), _portrait_; _W. C.
Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _i_ 14 (1846), _portrait_;
_Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain_, _ii_ 143–53
(1854), _iii_ 156–67 (1854); _Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_
(1840) 171, _portrait_; _Hayward’s Essays_, _ii_ 303–19 (1870);
_Illustrated Times 14 Feb. 1863 p._ 109, _portrait_.
NOTE.--He first appears in Gillray’s prints in 1805. His personalty was
sworn under £350,000, 20 June 1863.
LANSDOWNE, HENRY PETTY FITZMAURICE, 4 Marquess of (2 son of
the preceding). _b._ Lansdowne house, London 5 Jany. 1816; ed.
Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.; known as lord Henry Petty
Fitzmaurice 1818–36 and as earl of Shelburne 1836–63; M.P. Calne
1837–56; lieut. Wiltshire yeomanry 23 Jany. 1837, lieut.-col. 3
May 1861 to death; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Dec. 1847
to Aug. 1848; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 5 July
1856 to 26 Feb. 1858; summoned to house of lords in his father’s
barony of Wycombe 11 July 1856; chairman of Great Western
railway 1859–63; succeeded his father as 4 Marquess 31 Jany.
1863; K.G. 10 Oct. 1864. _d._ Lansdowne house, 54 Berkeley
square, London 5 July 1866. _I.L.N. xl_ 175 (1862), _portrait_.
LANWARNE, NICHOLAS. Admitted attorney and solicitor 1833;
practised at Hereford 1833 to death; clerk to the Hereford union
1837 and to Dore union 1842 to death; coroner for Herefordshire
1838 to death; clerk to the Dore magistrates 1859 to death; one
of the charity trustees for city of Hereford to death. _d._ The
Vineyard near Hereford, midnight 10 Dec. 1864 aged 54.
LANYON, SIR CHARLES (son of John Jenkinson Lanyon of
Eastbourne). _b._ Eastbourne 6 Jany. 1813; articled to Jacob
Owen of Dublin, civil engineer; county surveyor of Kildare 1835,
of co. Antrim 1836–60; made the Belfast and Ballymena railway,
the Carrickfergus and Larne and other railways; architect of the
Queen’s college, the court-house and other public buildings in
Belfast; mayor of Belfast 1862; M.P. Belfast 1866–68, contested
Belfast 1868; pres. of Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland
1862–8; knighted by duke of Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868; sheriff of
co. Antrim 1876; provincial grand master of Antrim. _d._ The
Abbey, White Abbey near Belfast 31 May 1889. _R. F. Gould’s
History of freemasonry_, _iv_ 388 (1885), _portrait_.
NOTE.--His second son Charles Mortimer Lanyon _b._ Belfast 1840; ed.
at Bromsgrove and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1863; barrister I.T. 26 Jany.
1865. _d._ London 27 Feb. 1877. _Law Times 31 March 1877 p._ 397.
LANYON, SIR WILLIAM OWEN (3 son of the preceding). _b._ co.
Antrim 21 July 1842; ed. at Bromsgrove gr. sch.; ensign 6 foot
21 Dec. 1860; lieut. 2 West India regiment 11 Jany. 1867,
lieut.-col. 2 Feb. 1878, placed on h.p. 1 Jany. 1883; A.D.C.
and private sec. to sir John Peter Grant, governor of Jamaica
1868–73; A.D.C. to sir Garnet Wolseley in Ashantee campaign Oct.
1873 to 20 Jany. 1874 when invalided; went to the Gold Coast
on a special mission 1874; administrator of Griqualand West 1
Sep. 1875 to April 1880, raised a volunteer force which he led
against a Ratlapin chief named Botlasitsie, whom he defeated
in ten actions and subdued 1878; colonel in the army 11 Nov.
1878; administrator of the Transvaal 21 April 1880 to 8 Aug.
1881; col. on the staff in Egypt 1882 and 1885; A.A. and Q.M.G.
Southern district of England 1883–5 and in Egypt 19 Feb. to 8
May 1885; C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, K.C.M.G. 6 April 1880; C.B. 11
Nov. 1878. _d._ New York 6 April 1887. _The Graphic_, _xxiii_
217 (1881), _portrait_; _The London Figaro 16 April 1887 p._ 3,
_portrait_.
LANZA, GESUALDO (son of Giuseppe Lanza, musical composer).
_b._ Naples 1779; a singing master in London; music seller at
Chesterfield st. Pancras New road, bankrupt 27 Aug. 1830; opened
singing classes at 75 Newman st. 1842; taught Miss M. Tree, Miss
Stephens, Miss Bolton and Mrs. Donald King; author of The desert
of Arabia, an operatical entertainment written by F. Reynolds
1806; The elements of singing in the Italian and English styles
3 vols. 1809; The elements of singing familiarly explained 1813;
Grand messa di gloria 1835; Sunday evening recreations 1840;
Signor Lanza’s New method of teaching class singing 1843, and
upwards of 30 pieces of music. _d._ London 12 March 1859. _bur._
Highgate cemet. His daughter Rosalie Lanza was a well known
operatic singer.
LAPHAM, GEORGE. _b._ Bath 1804; assistant to William Hone,
publisher 1822–5; publisher of The Examiner 1826 to death. _d._
9 Wellington st. Strand, London 10 Oct. 1871.
LAPIDGE, EDWARD (son of Mr. Lapidge, chief gardener at Hampton
Court palace). Architect in London; built bridge over the Thames
at Kingston 1825–8, church of St. Peter, Hammersmith 1827–9,
chapel of St. Andrew on Ham Common, Surrey 1832; competed
for new houses of parliament 1836 and for Fitzwilliam museum
Cambridge 1836; surveyor of bridges and public works for Surrey;
F.I.B.A. _d._ March 1860.
LAPILETIERE, FRANCES MARY DE (dau. of Hugh Goldicutt). _b._
Bury st. St. James’, London 27 Aug. 1788. (_m._ V. C. J. De
Lapiletiere). _d._ at her residence, Worthing 3 Dec. 1891 in
104th year.
LAPORTE, GEORGE HENRY (son of John Laporte, water-colour painter
1761–1839). Animal painter; exhibited 9 sporting subjects at
R.A., 21 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. gallery 1821–50; an
original member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1831,
where he also exhibited; some of his works were engraved in the
New Sporting Mag.; animal painter to the king of Hanover. _d._
13 Norfolk sq. Hyde park, London 23 Oct. 1873.
LAPPIN, JAMES. _b._ 1824; partner with Job May and then with
Richard A. Webster as stockbrokers, Liverpool; chairman of
Liverpool stock exchange; a correspondent of The Times on forged
transfers of railway stock; ran to catch his train and died in a
carriage between Seaforth and Liverpool 25 Oct. 1890. _bur._ St.
James’ cemet. 28 Oct. _The Times 27 Oct. 1890 p._ 10.
LAPWORTH, JAMES. _b._ Warwick 1798; clerk in office of Gregory
and Adlington, 1 Bedford row, London 1820–37; admitted attorney
1831; private sec. to Sir Wm. Follett 1837–46; clerk to the
Home Office 1846–7; librarian to the Incorporated Law Society,
Chancery lane, London, March 1847 to Dec. 1877 when he retired
on pension of £300; compiled catalogues of the books in the
library of the Law Society 1851 and 1869. _d._ 7 Blenheim road,
Bedford park, London 21 June 1888.
LARBUSCH, FREDERICK. Claimed to have been _b._ London 9 March
1766, probably _b._ Germany 1786; ensign 60 foot 16 Nov. 1809;
lieut. as F. Lahrbusch 29 Oct. 1810; known as F. De Lahrbusch
1815; cashiered in 1819 as lieut. De Lahrbush of 60 foot;
resided in New York from 1848; entertained at a breakfast in
New York to celebrate what he called his 107th birthday 9 March
1873. _W. J. Thoms’ Longevity of man_ (1879) 207–24; _Historical
Mag. and American Notes and Queries_, _April 1867 pp._ 211–12.
LARCOM, SIR THOMAS AISKEW (2 son of Joseph Larcom 1764–1843,
captain R.N.). _b._ 22 April 1801; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 June 1820,
lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1854 to 1 April 1858 when placed on
retired full pay with rank of M.G.; assistant in the central
organisation of the Irish ordnance survey at Mountjoy, Phœnix
park near Dublin 1828–46; the beauty of his county maps of
Ireland has never been exceeded; a census comr. in Ireland
1841; a comr. of public works in Ireland 1846; chief director
of the public relief works 1846; deputy chairman of Irish board
of works 1850; under sec. of state for Ireland Feb. 1853 to
Nov. 1868; C.B. 5 March 1858, K.C.B. 19 June 1860; cr. baronet
7 Dec. 1868; P.C. Ireland 1868; edited Sir W. Petty’s The
history of the survey of Ireland, for the Irish Archæological
soc. 1851; Memoirs of life of Capt. Drummond, in Papers of
Corps of Royal Engineers vol. 4 pp. ix–xxiv (1850) and Memoir
of city of Londonderry, in Ordnance Survey of Ireland 1837.
_d._ Heathfield, Fareham, Hants. 15 June 1879. _Proc. of royal
society_, _xxix_ 10–15 (1879).
LARDNER, DIONYSIUS (son of Wm. O’B. Lardner of 88 Marlborough
st. Dublin, solicitor, who _d._ 1808). _b._ Dublin 3 April 1793;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1819, LLB. and LLD.
1827; took holy orders, chaplain of his college; professor of
natural philosophy and astronomy in London univ. 1827 to 1832;
published the Cabinet Cyclopædia 133 vols. 1829–46, in which he
wrote the treatises on hydrostatics and pneumatics, arithmetic
and geometry; published Dr. Lardner’s Cabinet Library 9 vols.
1830–2; edited the Edinburgh Cabinet Library 38 vols. 1830–44;
The Museum of science and art 12 vols. 1856; lectured in the
United States and Cuba 1840–5, cleared £40,000; lived at Paris
1845 to death; Paris correspondent of Daily News; is satirised
by Thackeray in his Miscellanies as Dionysius Diddler, and in
his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Doctor Diolesius
Larner, Doctor Athanasius Lardner and Doctor Ignatius Loyola.
_d._ Naples 29 April 1859. _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_
(1883) 122–5, _portrait_; _A.R._ (1849) 289 _and_ (1859) 446;
_The works of W. M. Thackeray_, _xii_ 404–14 (1869).
NOTE.--He married in the parish church of St. Paul, Dublin 19 Dec.
1815 Cecilia dau. of Henry Flood of Dublin, barrister, she left him
20 Oct. 1820 and lived near Dublin with Samuel Booth Williams Murphy
to 20 Jany. 1829 when he died. Lardner obtained a sentence of divorce
in consistory court of Dublin 1832 and his marriage was dissolved by
2 and 3 Vict. cap. 53, 14 June 1839. On 13 March 1840 he eloped with
Mary wife of captain Richard Heaviside of Brighton, who obtained £8000
damages against him in an action tried at town hall, Lewes 1 Aug. 1840.
Heaviside obtained a sentence of divorce in consistory court of London
3 March 1841 and his marriage was dissolved by 8 and 9 Vict. cap. 35,
31 July 1845. Lardner married the lady 2 Aug. 1846 at Paris, where she
resided until her death about 30 April 1891.
LARDNER, LEOPOLD JAMES. _b._ Holland 1816; private tutor in
family of Jacob van Lennep poet in Holland many years; entered
British Museum 1846 where he superintended the transcription of
the catalogue of books extending to 300 volumes to his death;
frequently employed by the Foreign Office in translating from
the Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Danish; threw himself from the
window of his residence 9 Cornwall villas, Kentish Town, London
27 Nov. 1855. _Times 3 Dec. 1855 p._ 6 _col._ 6.
LARKIN, NATHANIEL JOHN. _b._ London 5 Dec. 1781; the first sec.
of society of civil engineers 1825; manufacturer of mathematical
models at 29 Baker st. Spa Fields, London 1829; author of An
essay on a mosaic pavement formed of right angled triangles of
different colours 1818; An introduction to solid geometry 1820;
The rudiments of linear, plane and solid geometry 1820. _d._ 21
Oct. 1855.
LARKING, JOHN WINGFIELD (son of John Larking 1755–1838). _b._
Clare house 1801; English consul in Egypt; negotiated terms of
peace between Mehemet Ali and the Sultan and probably prevented
a war between France and England 1839; the first Englishman who
acquired influence in Egypt, a favourite with Mehemet, Said and
Ismail; received order of Medjidie; at his expense Dr. Henry
Holman Drake re-wrote and published the Hundred of Blackheath, a
portion of Hasted’s History of Kent 1886; resided at The Firs,
Old road, Lee, Kent from 1858, _d._ there 18 May 1891. _Times 21
May 1891 p._ 7; _Blackheath Local Guide 23 May 1891 pp._ 10, 13.
LARKING, LAMBERT BLACKWELL (brother of the preceding). _b._
Clare house, East Malling, Kent 2 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton
1808–16 and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; founded
University lodge of freemasons 1819; C. of East Peckham near
Tunbridge 1820; V. of Ryarsh near Maidstone 14 April 1830 to
death; V. of Burham near Rochester 28 Jany. 1837 to death; hon.
sec. of Kent Archæological soc. 19 Sep. 1857 to 1861, vice
pres. 1861; wrote many articles in the Archæologia Cantiana;
member of council of Camden Soc. 1852 to death, ed. for the soc.
Certain considerations upon the government of England by Sir R.
Twysden 1849, The knights hospitallers 1857 and Proceedings in
the county of Kent 1862; author of The late Thomas Streatfield
1861; A description of the heartshrine in Leybourne church 1864;
with rev. T. Streatfield collected materials for a history of
Kent, the first part called Hasted’s History of Kent corrected,
enlarged and continued. Ed. by H. H. Drake Part 1 The hundred of
Blackheath was published in 1886 with portrait of L. B. Larking.
_d._ Ryarsh vicarage 2 Aug. 1868. _Archæologia Cantiana_, _vii_
323–29 (1868).
LARPENT, SIR GEORGE GERARD DE HOCHEPIED-, 1 Baronet (youngest
son of John Larpent 1741–1824, inspector of plays). _b._
London 16 Feb. 1786; entered East India house of Cockerell and
Larpent; took additional name of De Hochepied by r.l. 14 June
1819; chairman of Oriental and China Assoc.; deputy chairman
of St. Katharine’s Docks co.; contested Ludlow, May 1840 and
Nottingham, April 1841; M.P. Nottingham 28 June 1841 to July
1842; contested city of London 1847; created baronet 13 Oct.
1841; edited The Private Journals of Francis Seymour Larpent 3
vols. 1853, 3 ed. 1853; and Turkey, its history and progress by
Sir J. Porter, continued to the present time 1854; author of
Some remarks on the negotiations between the board of control
and the East India Co. 1833. _d._ Conduit st. Regent st. London
8 March 1855.
LASCELLES, EDWIN (4 son of 2 earl of Harewood 1767–1841). _b._
25 Dec. 1799; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; fellow of All Souls’
coll. 1822 to death; B.C.L. 1826, D.C.L. 1831; barrister I.T.
10 Feb. 1826; contested Northallerton, Yorkshire 1841; M.P.
Ripon 1846–57; chairman of quarter sessions of West riding of
Yorkshire to death. _d._ Wighill park near Wetherby, Yorkshire
25 April 1865.
LASCELLES, WILLIAM SAUNDERS SEBRIGHT (3 son of 2 earl of
Harewood 1767–1841). _b._ 29 Oct. 1798; M.P. Northallerton
1820–26, 1831–32; M.P. East Looe 1826–30; M.P. Wakefield
1837–41, 1842–47; M.P. Knaresborough 1847 to death; P.C. 22 July
1847; comptroller of H.M.’s household 24 July 1847 to death.
_d._ Bute house, Campden hill, Kensington 2 July 1851. _G.M.
xxxvi_ 193–4 (1851); _I.L.N. xix_ 42 (1851).
LASLETT, WILLIAM EMERSON (only son of Thomas Emerson Laslett).
_b._ 1801; solicitor at Worcester 1831–52; barrister I.T. 30
April 1856; practised at Worcester; M.P. Worcester city 1852–60
and 1868–74; contested East Worcestershire 1868 and 1874;
gave 25 acres of land in Astwood road, Worcester for a public
cemetery; founded by his will Laslett’s Almshouses 33 in number
in Whiteladies’ close, Worcester; gave estates of 2,000 acres
in Gloucestershire valued at £85,000 in trust for religious and
charitable purposes. _d._ Abberton hall, Pershore 26 Jany. 1884.
_I.L.N. xxxii_ 561, 562 (1858), _portrait_.
LASSELL, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Lassell of Bolton, _d._ 1810).
_b._ Bolton 18 June 1799; apprenticed to a Liverpool merchant
1814–21; a brewer about 1825; commenced constructing reflecting
telescopes 1820; built an observatory at Starfield near
Liverpool, which he moved to Bradstones near there 1854;
invented a new machine for grinding specula; member of Royal
Astronom. Soc. 1839, pres. 1870–2, discovered the satellites of
Uranus 10 Oct. 1846; received gold medal of Royal Astronom. Soc.
1849; the first to clearly ascertain composition of the Uranian
system; mounted a four-foot reflecting telescope at Valetta in
Malta 1861, worked there 3 years and catalogued 600 new nebulæ;
set up a two-foot reflector at Ray lodge near Maidenhead 1865;
F.R.S. 7 June 1849, royal medallist 1858; F.R.S. Edin.; hon.
LL.D. Cambridge 1874; his specula have never been surpassed;
ranks with sir Wm. Herschel and lord Rosse among the perfecters
of the reflecting telescope. _d._ in his sleep at Ray Lodge,
Maidenhead 5 Oct. 1880. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxi_ 7–10 (1881);
_Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870), _portrait No._ 13;
_Nature, xxii_ 565–6 (1880).
LAST, EDWARD. Ensign 90 foot 13 Oct. 1814; captain 99 foot 22
May 1829, major 18 Oct. 1839; lieut.-col. 21 foot 26 March 1858
to 21 Oct. 1859 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 5 Sep.
1865. _d._ East Malling near Maidstone 27 Jany. 1870.
LAST, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ 1809; printer at 3 Edward st.
Hampstead road, London 1834–8; bankrupt 1 March 1839; printer at
3 Crane court, Fleet st. 1840–3, at 59 West Smithfield 1847–50,
at 1 Pickett place, Strand 1851–2, at Savoy st. Strand 1861–3,
at Heathcock court, 414 Strand 1866–9, at Prince’s st. Lincoln’s
Inns Fields 1869–72; J. W. Last and Co. carried on business at
last address 1873–7 and at Wych court, Wych st. 1877–80; printer
and proprietor of a weekly paper entitled The Town, a journal of
original essays, &c. 156 numbers 3 June 1837 to 23 May 1840; The
Crown, another weekly paper 42 numbers 1 July 1838 to 14 April
1839; The Squib: a granulation of wit, satire and amusement 30
numbers 29 May to 17 Dec. 1842; printed Punch, first number
published 17 July 1841, held a third share in it, which he
sold to Ebenezer Landells 25 Sep. 1841; managing printer of
Illustrated London News 1842; one of the first who executed
illustrated works with a cylinder machine, and the first to
print a six-sheet poster. _d._ last week of March 1880. _Mr.
Punch, his origin and career_ [1870] 13–32.