1794–1881). _b._ Cirencester 16 July 1783; apprenticed to
John Abernethy the surgeon 1799, and his demonstrator at St.
Bartholomew’s hosp. 1802–14, assistant surgeon there March 1813,
surgeon 19 May 1824 to 1865, lecturer on surgery 1829–62;
F.R.S. 11 Nov. 1813; surgeon to London infirmary for diseases of
the eye 1814; surgeon to Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals 1815;
M.R.C.S. 1805, professor of anatomy and surgery 1815, member of
council 1828, Hunterian orator 1834 and 1846, examiner 1840–67,
pres. 1846 and 1855; surgeon extraordinary to the Queen 1837–58,
serjeant surgeon 24 March 1858 to death; member of general
medical council 1858–63; created baronet 8 April 1867; author
of A treatise on ruptures 1810, 3 ed. 1816, 5 ed. 1838; A short
system of comparative anatomy translated from the German 1807, 2
ed. 1827; An introduction to comparative anatomy and physiology
1816; Lectures on physiology, zoology and the natural history of
man 1819, 9 ed. 1848; Lectures on surgery at St. Bartholomew’s
hospital 1830; A treatise on the venereal diseases of the eye
1830; A treatise on the diseases of the eye 1833, 2 ed. 1841;
The Hunterian orations 2 vols. 1834 and 1846. _d._ 18 Whitehall
place, London 5 July 1867, portrait in committee room of St.
Bartholomew’s hospital, and bust in College of Surgeons. _Memoir
by Sir W. S. Savory in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports for
1868 pp._ 1–18; _Traits of character. By A Contemporary_, _i_
145–66 (1860); _Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi_ 25–30 (1868); _Medical
Circular_, _iv_ 191–3, 209–10, 227–9 (1854), _portrait_; _W. C.
Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _ii_ 29, _portrait_; _T. J.
Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery_, _ii_ (1840), _portrait_.
NOTE.--He married 14 Aug. 1828 Louisa younger dau. of James Senior of
Broughton house, Aylesbury, Bucks. At Drayton green until 1840 and
afterwards at Ealing park, she was well known for her devotion to
horticulture. The queen and Prince Albert sometimes visited the gardens
at Ealing, where she at one time received Sir Robert Peel and all the
ministers at a fête given in their honour. She _d._ Ealing park 14 Aug.
1855.
LAWRENCE, WILLIAM HUDSON. _b._ 21 Jany. 1793; 2 lieut. R.A. 28
April 1810, captain 2 Feb. 1832, retired on half pay 31 July
1840; held several government appointments at Corfu. _d._ Bath
13 March 1884, probably oldest officer in the R.A.
LAWRENSON, JOHN (son of major Lawrenson). _b._ Ireland 1801;
cornet 13 light dragoons 12 Nov. 1818; lieut. 4 dragoon guards
1822; capt. 17 lancers 1827, major 31 Dec. 1839; lieut.-col.
13 light dragoons 27 June 1845 to 23 June 1848; lieut.-col. 17
lancers 18 April 1851, on h.p. 30 Sep. 1856; brigadier general
in Crimea 30 July 1855 to 2 July 1856; inspector general of
cavalry at head quarters of army 1860–65; col. of 8 hussars
22 Feb. 1865, of 13 hussars 10 Dec. 1868 to death; general 2
Nov. 1875; hunted with the Atherstone hounds 1847–8, afterwards
with the Pytchley, then at Brixworth; rode in military steeple
chases. _d._ Alexandra hotel, Hyde park corner, London 30 Oct.
1883. _Baily’s Mag. xli_ 367–9, 429 (1883).
LAWRIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 26 June 1818; blind from early
infancy; an excellent pianist, composer and virtuoso of music;
organist of St. James’s episcopal church, Edinb. many years,
then of rev. Mr. Kirk’s ch. Brighton st. Edinb.; published many
pieces for the pianoforte; wrote some good hymn tunes. _d._
Edinburgh, Dec. 1880.
LAWRIE, JAMES ADAIR (son of rev. Archibald Lawrie of Loudoun,
friend of Robert Burns the poet). _b._ 1801 or 1802; M.D.
Glasgow, L. and F.F.P.S. Glasgow; surgeon H.E.I.C.S. Bengal;
professor of surgery in Andersonian univ. Glasgow; professor
of surgery in Glasgow univ. 1850 to death; in practice at 18
Brandon place, Glasgow; edited with W. Weir The Glasgow Medical
Journal, vol. v. 1832; author of Essay on cholera founded on
observations of the disease in India and in Sunderland 1832.
_d._ Bridge of Allan 23 Nov. 1859. _Memoirs of one hundred
Glasgow men_ (1886) 171, _portrait_.
LAWRY, WALTER (son of Joseph Lawry _d._ 1832). _b._ Ruthern,
St. Gorran, Cornwall 3 Aug. 1793; Wesleyan minister in New
South Wales 1817–20, in Friendly Isles 1820–22, 1823–25, in Van
Diemen’s land 1822–23, in England 1825–43, in New Zealand and
Australia 1843 to death; general superintendent of Wesleyan
missions in New Zealand 1844–51; author of Friendly and
Feejee islands, a missionary visit 1850, 2 ed. 1850; A second
missionary visit to the Friendly islands 1851. _d._ Paramatta,
N.S.W. 30 March 1859. _Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand_
(1878) 314–20.
LAWSON, CECIL GORDON (5 son of Wm. Lawson, Scottish portrait
painter). _b._ Wellington, Shropshire 3 Dec. 1851; commenced
painting in oils at the age of four; sketched in the open air
at the age of 10, at the age of 14 was selling his sketches
to the dealers; made his first sketching tour in Kent, Surrey
and Sussex 1866; landscape painter; his pictures refused by
the Royal Academy 1866, exhibited 13 pictures at R.A. and 5 at
Suffolk st. 1869–80; first exhibited at New British Instit. Bond
st. 1868; Cheyne walk, Chelsea, exhibited at R.A. 1870; his
large picture painted at Wrotham in Kent, ‘The hop gardens of
England,’ was not accepted at the R.A. 1875, but in 1876 was
hung in a good position. _d._ 15 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 10 June
1882. _bur._ Haslemere 17 June. _Cecil Lawson, a memoir. By
E. W. Gosse_ (1883), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxvi_ 68 (1882),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxi_ 56 (1882), _portrait_; _London
Society_, _xliii_ 345 (1882), _portrait_.
LAWSON, HENRY (younger son of Johnson Lawson, dean of Battle,
_d._ 25 Nov. 1778). _b._ Greenwich 23 March 1774; apprenticed
to Edward Nairne of Cornhill, optician, his mother’s third
husband; member of Spectacle makers’ company, and twice
master; one of original members of Askesian society 1796;
lived at Hereford 1823–41, equipped an observatory there with
a five-foot refractor 1826 and with one of 11 feet 1834, the
finest telescope ever made by Dollond, he afterwards presented
the latter to royal naval school at Greenwich; removed to 7
Lansdown crescent, Bath 1841 where he formed an observatory on
the roof of his house; silver medallist of Royal soc. of arts
for his invention of an observing chair called Reclinea; F.R.
Astron. Soc. 1833; F.R.S. 21 May 1840; published Register of the
quantity of rain that has fallen in the city of Hereford 1836; A
paper on the arrangement of an observatory 1844. _d._ 7 Lansdown
crescent, Bath 23 Aug. 1855.
LAWSON, JAMES. _b._ Glasgow 9 Nov. 1799; ed. at Glasgow univ.;
entered counting house of his uncle at New York 1815; partner
in a mercantile house which failed 1826; associate editor of
Morning Courier 1827–9 and of Mercantile Advertiser 1829–33;
marine insurance agent in New York 1833; author of Tales and
sketches. By A Cosmopolite. New York 1830; Poems. Gleanings
from spare hours of a business life. New York 1857; Giordano,
a tragedy produced at Park theatre, New York, Nov. 1828;
Liddesdale or the border chief, a tragedy 1859; contributed many
articles to periodicals. _d._ Yonkers, New York 20 March 1880.
_Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland_, _ii_ 208–10 (1876).
LAWSON, JAMES ANTHONY (eld. son of James Lawson). _b._ Waterford
1817; ed. at Waterford and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1836,
senior moderator 1837, gold medallist; B.A. 1838, LLB. 1841,
LLD. 1850; Whately professor of political economy 1840–45;
called to Irish bar 1840; Q.C. 29 Jany. 1857; bencher of King’s
Inns 1861; legal adviser to the crown in Ireland 1858–9;
solicitor general for Ireland Feb. 1861, attorney general
1865 to 1866; P.C. Ireland 1865; suppressed the ‘Irish
People’ newspaper 1865; contested Univ. of Dublin 1857; M.P.
Portarlington 1865–8; contested Portarlington 1868; justice of
Court of Common Pleas, Ireland, Dec. 1868; justice of Queen’s
Bench division June 1882 to death; an Irish church comr. July
1869; P.C. 18 May 1870; a comr. for the great seal March to
Dec. 1874; Patrick Delany attempted to murder him while walking
in Kildare st. Dublin 11 Nov. 1882; author of Five lectures on
political economy 1844; author with H. Connor of Reports of
cases in high court of chancery of Ireland during the time of
lord chancellor Sugden 1865. _d._ Shankhill near Dublin 10 Aug.
1887. _Irish Law Times_, _xi_ 464 (1887).
LAWSON, JOHN JOSEPH (2 son of James Lawson of Norwood). _b._
1802; publisher of the Times newspaper to death. _d._ Downshire
hill, Hampstead 24 March 1852. _The Times testimonial. Report
of the trial Bogle versus Lawson_ 1841; _The Nelson sword v.
Lord Denman’s law_. _The summing up of the judge in Evans versus
Lawson for libel_ 1848.
LAWSON, JOHN PARKER. Minister in episcopal church of Scotland;
chaplain in the army; lived in Edinburgh; author of The life
of George Wishart of Pitarrow. Edinb. 1827; Life and times of
William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury 2 vols. 1829; The Roman
Catholic church in Scotland 1836; History of the Scottish
episcopal church from the revolution to the present time. Edinb.
1843; Scotland delineated in a series of views, with letter
press by J. P. Lawson 2 vols. 1847–54, 2 ed. 1858. _d._ 1852.
LAWSON, LIONEL. _b._ 1824; ed. in Germany; inherited a fortune
from his father; established a manufactory of printing ink
at St. Ouen, France, where he made a fortune, and then sold
business; printing ink manufacturer at 1 Bouverie st. Fleet
st. and at Old Ford, Bow; purchased a large share in The Daily
Telegraph, but never took any active part in management of
the paper. _d._ 2 Brook st. Hanover sq. London 20 Sep. 1879,
personalty sworn under £900,000, 11 Oct. 1879. _I.L.N. lxxv_
361, 362 (1879), _portrait_.
LAWSON, SIR WILFRID, 1 Baronet (5 son of Thomas Wybergh of
Clifton hall, Westmoreland 1757–1827). _b._ Bramhope hall,
Yorkshire 5 Oct. 1795; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; assumed name of
Lawson by r.l. 26 Sep. 1812 on inheriting estate of his maternal
uncle sir W. Lawson; sheriff of Cumberland 1820; cr. baronet 30
Sep. 1831. _d._ Brayton, Cumberland 12 June 1867.
LAWSON, WILLIAM. _b._ Lanark; a ploughboy; entered the army
1837; a non-commissioned officer 1839–54; served through Crimean
war 1854–6; ensign 42nd (Royal Highland) foot 5 Nov. 1854,
captain 10 Aug. 1858 to death, instructor of musketry to his
regiment 1856; left England for Calcutta, Aug. 1857; commanded
the picket of 37 men which defended themselves against 2000
rebels on the banks of the Suarda 15 Jany. 1858. _d._ Nynee Tal,
Bengal 18 Aug. 1859.
LAWSON, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (2 son of John Wright of Kelvedon
hall, Essex 1763–1826). _b._ Middleton lodge, Middleton Tyas,
Yorkshire 8 May 1796; assumed by r.l. name of Lawson in lieu of
Wright 5 May 1834; cr. a baronet 8 Sep. 1841; received order of
Christ from Pope Gregory XVI. 1844. _d._ Brough hall, Catterick,
Yorkshire 22 June 1865.
LAWSON, WILLIAM JOHN. Ed. at Christ’s hospital, London till
16 years old; clerk in banking house of Barclay, Bevan & Co.
15 years; a founder of The Bank of London 1855; established
Lawson’s Merchant’s magazine, statist and commercial review
1852; author of History of banking in Scotland 1845; The history
of banking 1850, 2 ed. 1855; A handy-book on the law of banking
1859, this work was suppressed and 1500 copies destroyed, 16th
thousand of an altered edition 1871; The bank of England as it
is and as it ought to be 1865; living in London in March 1865.
LAWTON, GEORGE. _b._ Manchester, Feb. 1808; a scholar in Bennett
st. Sunday sch., a teacher, a superintendent, senior visitor and
manager March 1848 to death; librarian Manchester mechanics’
institution 1832–45; collector of Manchester royal infirmary
1845 to death; director of Mechanics’ institution 1850. _d._
Stretford, Manchester 7 Sep. 1853. _G. Milner’s ed. of B.
Braidley’s Bennett st. memorials. Manchester_ (1880) 194–228,
_portrait_.
LAWTON, GEORGE. _b._ York 6 May 1779; admitted a proctor 3 Nov.
1808; a solicitor and notary public at York to 1863; registrar
of archdeaconry of East Riding of Yorkshire; author of The
Marriage act 4 George IV. c. 76, 1823; A brief treatise of Bona
Notabilia 1825; Collectio rerum ecclesiasticarum 2 vols. 1840, 2
ed. 1842; The religious houses of Yorkshire 1853. _d._ Nunthorpe
near York 2 Dec. 1869.
LAXTON, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Robert Laxton, surveyor). _b._
London 30 March 1802; ed. at Christ hospital; surveyed and
laid down several lines of railway; constructed water works
at Falmouth 1848 and at Stonehouse; joint engineer with Robert
Stephenson of the Watford water company for supplying London
with water from the chalk formation; projected and edited The
civil engineer and architect’s journal a monthly periodical
Oct. 1837, purchased a weekly journal called The architect and
building gazette which he united to The civil engineer; laid
out large part of Hove, Brighton; surveyor to the Farmers’ and
General fire and life insurance company 1840 to death; author of
The improved builder’s price book 1828; The builder’s price book
1844. _d._ 19 Arundel st. Strand, London 31 May 1854. _Civil
Engineer, July 1854 pp._ 270–1; _G.M. Aug. 1854 pp._ 199–200.
LAYARD, FREDERIC PETER. _b._ 6 May 1818; ensign 19 Bengal N.I. 3
Dec. 1838, captain 30 April 1851 to 11 March 1864; lieut.-col.
Bengal staff corps 11 March 1864, placed on unemployed
supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889; author of
A Hugenot relic, an ivory box with the arms of Charles de Nocé
and Marguerite de Rembouillet 1886, _d._ 3 Cavendish road, St.
John’s Wood, London 21 May 1891.
LAYARD, WILLIAM TWISLETON. _b._ 4 Aug. 1813; ensign Ceylon
rifle regiment 22 Feb. 1833, lieut.-col. 12 June 1859 to 3 Feb.
1872 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired
list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881. _d._ Friedland,
Wandsworth, London 16 Jany. 1891.
LAYCOCK, JAMES CAMPEY. _b._ Appleton near York 6 May 1796;
solicitor Huddersfield 1820–76, clerk to the justices 1828–72,
presented with a silver salver; clerk to the borough bench
1868–72; a large donor to the parish ch. schools; president
of Huddersfield infirmary 1860 to death; the last survivor of
the original shareholders in Huddersfield banking co. _d._
Huddersfield 17 Feb. 1885. _Hulbert’s Supplementary annals of
Almondbury_ (1885) 133–7; _Solicitors’ Journal 14 March 1885 p._
326.
LAYCOCK, ROBERT (only son of Joseph Laycock of Low Gosforth
hall, Northumberland, _b._ 1798, _d._ 2 Aug. 1881, personalty
sworn under £464,000, 14 Jany. 1882). _b._ Winlaton, co. Durham
1833; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister
I.T. 17 Nov. 1857; sheriff of Notts. 1878; contested North
Notts. 26 Feb. 1872 and Nottingham 5 Feb. 1874; M.P. North
Lincoln, April 1880 to death. _d._ Eastbourne 14 Aug. 1881.
LAYCOCK, THOMAS (son of rev. Thomas Laycock, Wesleyan minister,
_d._ 1833). _b._ Wetherby, Yorkshire 10 Aug. 1812; ed. at
Wesleyan academy, Woodhouse Grove and Univ. coll. London;
M.R.C.S. 1835; M.D. Göttingen 1839; sec. of the British Assoc.
1844; lecturer on clinical medicine at York school of medicine
1846; professor of practice of physic, univ. of Edin. 5 Nov.
1855 to death, being the only Englishman ever elected; F.R.S.
Edin. 1861; phys. in ordinary to the Queen for Scotland 1 Oct.
1869 to death; author of A treatise on the nervous diseases of
women 1840; Lectures on the principles and methods of medical
observation and research. Edinb. 1856, 2 ed. 1864; Mind and
Brain, or the correlations of consciousness and organisation.
Edinb. 2 vols. 1859, 2 ed. 1869, and of 300 articles in medical
journals. _d._ 13 Walker st. Edinburgh 21 Sep. 1876. _Revue des
cours scientifiques_, _ii_ 808 (1876); _Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove
school_ (1885) 211, 276.
LAYTON, FREDERICK WILLIAM HANHAM (son of Thomas Layton _d._
1844). _b._ 1805; ed. at Shrewsbury and Peter house, Camb., B.A.
1828; C. of Wem, Shropshire, resigned 1835; angel of Catholic
Apostolic ch. Duncan st. Islington 14 July 1835 to death; author
of The instant coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 1866; On the
decadence and fall of Christendom 1868; The parables of Christ
considered with reference to their meaning by H. W. J. Thiersch,
a translation 1869; On spiritual and true worship 1871. _d._ 11
Highbury grove, London 21 Oct. 1878.
LAYTON, HENRY (2 son of rev. Thomas Layton, V. of Chigwell,
Essex, _d._ 1833). _b._ Chigwell 2 Feb. 1799; entered navy 3 May
1812; captain 9 Nov. 1846; retired R.A. 15 June 1864; retired
admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ Castle hill, Reading 3 March 1882.
_O’Byrne p._ 640.
LEA, GEORGE (son of John Lea, carpet manufacturer). _b._
Kidderminster 22 Oct. 1804; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826,
M.A. 1829; C. of Waddington, Lincs. 1827–9; P.C. Christ Church,
Birmingham 1840–64; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1840–64; V. of St.
George’s, Edgbaston 1864, resigned 25 March 1883; leader of the
evangelical party in Birmingham; author of Memoir of rev. John
Davis, rector of St. Clement’s, Worcester 1859; Sermons preached
in memory of G. Lea, to which are added his last two sermons
1883. _d._ Edgbaston 10 May 1883. _Edgbastonia_, _June 1883 pp._
81–3, _portrait_.
LEA, WILLIAM (1 son of William Lea of Stone, Warwickshire). _b._
1 Dec. 1820; ed. Rugby and at Brasenose coll. Oxf.; rowed No. 6
in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 14 April 1841; B.A. 1842,
M.A. 1859; V. of St. Peter’s, Droitwich 1849–87; hon. canon of
Worcester 1858–81; archdeacon of Worcester May 1881 to death;
author of Sermons on the prayer book preached in Rome 1866;
Small farms, how they can be made to answer by fruit growing
1872; Church plate in the archdeaconry of Worcester 1884. _d._
Orchardlea, Droitwich 24 Sep. 1889.
LEACH, ALFRED. L.S.A. 1883; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1884; M.D. and C.M.
Aberdeen 1888; M.R.C.P. Edinb. 1889; assistant house surgeon
Rotherham hospital; house phys. Bath hospital; phys. Pimlico
road free dispensary, London to death; invented a flexible
cautery; a good linguist, speaking Arabic, Italian and French;
author of The quadrangle by moonlight, or meditations in
Marischal college. Aberdeen 1879; The letter H, past, present
and future: a treatise with rules for the silent H, and notes on
WH. 1880. _d._ 21 Belgrave road, London 14 Sep. 1892 aged 35.
LEACH, JONATHAN. _b._ 1784; ensign 70 foot 7 Aug. 1801, captain
1804; captain 95th rifles 1 May 1806; major rifle brigade 9 Sep.
1819, sold out 24 Oct. 1821; lieut.-col. in the army 18 June
1815; C.B. 22 June 1815; served in the West Indies 1803–5, at
siege of Copenhagen 1807, in the Peninsula and France 1808–14,
present at Quatre Bras and Waterloo; author of Rough sketches of
the life of an old soldier 1831; Sketches of the services of the
rifle brigade from its formation to Waterloo 1838; Rambles along
the Styx 1847. _d._ Worthing 14 Jany. 1855.
LEACH, RICHARD HOWELL (2 son of Thomas Leach of 58 Doughty st.
London). _b._ 1814; entered office of Registrar of court of
chancery 1832, senior registrar 1868–82; largely assisted in
drawing up the Chancery funds rules of 1872 and 1874; one of the
editors of H. W. Seton’s Forms of decrees in equity 2 ed. 1854,
3 ed. 2 vols. 1862 and 4 ed. 2 vols. in 3, 1877–9. _d._ Ernstein
house, Tunbridge Wells 4 Aug. 1883.
LEACH, WILLIAM TURNBULL. _b._ Berwick-on-Tweed 2 March 1805;
ed. at univ. of Edinb.; pastor of St. Andrew’s presbyterian
church, Toronto 1832; joined Church of England and became the
first incumbent of St. George’s, Montreal 1841; fellow, dean of
the faculty of arts, professor of logic and moral philosophy
and Molson professor of English literature in University McGill
coll. Montreal; canon of Ch. Ch. cath. Montreal 1854–65;
archdeacon of Montreal 1865 to death; author of Discourse on the
nature and duties of the military profession 1840; Introductory
lecture for the Mercantile Library association 1854. _d._ 16
University st. Montreal 13 Oct. 1886.
LEADAM, THOMAS ROBINSON. _b._ 22 Nov. 1809; ed. Merchant
Taylors’ sch. and at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1830; M.R.C.S. 1832;
L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1837; author of Case of hydrophobia treated
homœopathically 1849; Homœopathy as applied to the diseases
of females and of early childhood 1851; The diseases of women
homœopathically treated 2 ed. 1874; A popular treatise on the
safe management of labour 1876. _d._ 1879.
LEADBETTER, JOHN. _b._ Penicuik on the Esk river 2 May 1788;
clerk in a Glasgow firm, became a partner; established John
Leadbetter & Co., linen manufacturers 1815, had branch houses in
Dundee and Belfast; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1844–5; erected
a building for the Glasgow Mechanics’ institution; chairman of
Edinburgh and Glasgow railway opened 1842; retired from business
1848. _d._ Glenallon, Torquay 17 March 1865. _Memoirs of 100
Glasgow men_, _ii_ 173–6 (1886), _portrait_.
LEADBITTER, GEORGE. _b._ Hexham 1787; one of the officers at
Bow st. police court 1832, much employed in post office and
bank business; was 6 feet 2½ inches in height and weighed 19
stone; resided in Longacre; succeeded John Townsend (who _d._ 10
July 1832 aged 73) in heading the police who attended the king
on public occasions; had 25 guineas a year from the Doncaster
corporation to attend the autumn meetings and preserve order
in the grand stand enclosure 1832–52 where he was the means
of securing many criminals, also engaged at Epsom; defendant
in case of Wood _v._ Leadbitter in Court of exchequer 1845
respecting his expelling from the grand stand by order of the
stewards one Wood a defaulter; _killed_ by being overturned in
a cab near The Bag of Nails tavern, 1 Victoria road, Pimlico 3
Dec. 1852. _bur._ Brompton cemetery. _Sporting Review_, _xxix_
71–2, 292 (1853); _The Town_, _i_ 22 (1837); _Times 7 Dec. 1852
p._ 5 _col._ 3; _13 Meeson and Welsby’s Reports pp._ 838–56
(1845).
LEADER, NICHOLAS PHILPOT (eld. son of Nicholas Philpot Leader
_d._ 1836). _b._ 1808; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; M.P.
co. Cork 1861–68; of Dromagh castle, co. Cork. _d._ London 31
March 1880.
LEADER, ROBERT (son of Robert Leader of Sheffield, bookseller,
_d._ 1861). _b._ Carver st. Sheffield 4 Oct. 1809; apprentice
in office of Sheffield Iris to 1830; proprietor with his father
of Sheffield and Rotherham Independent from Jany. 1830, sole
proprietor 1842 till 1875 when he made it over to his two sons,
editor till 1875; a town trustee 1860, a town councillor 1876
and alderman 1880. _d._ Moor End, Sheffield 31 Oct. 1885. _bur._
Burngreave cemet. 4 Nov. _Sheffield Independent 31 Oct._, 2, _5
Nov. 1885_.
LEAF, WILLIAM. _b._ 1791 or 1792; warehouseman at 39 Old Change,
city of London 1821–74; made a large collection of water-colour
pictures and drawings, sold at Christie’s 6–8 May 1875. _d._
Park hill, Streatham common, Surrey 3 July 1874.
LEAHY, ARTHUR (7 son of John Leahy of South Hill, Killarney
1770–1846). _b._ 5 Aug. 1830; 2 lieut. R.E. 27 June 1848,
lieut.-col. 10 Dec. 1873 to death; present at battles of Alma
and Inkerman; D.A.Q.G. for the R.E.; assistant director of works
in fortification branch of the war office 1864; instructor
of field works at school of military engineering, Chatham 13
Nov. 1871; second in command of the R.E. at Gibraltar, March
1876; colonel in the army 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Netley hospital,
Southampton 13 July 1878.
LEAHY, EDWARD DANIEL. _b._ London 1797; portrait and subject
painter; painted portraits of Duke of Sussex, Marquess of
Bristol and of many prominent Irishmen; exhibited 33 pictures at
R.A., 25 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1820–52; lived in Italy
1837–43. _d._ Brighton 9 Feb. 1875.
LEAHY, JOHN (brother of Arthur Leahy 1830–78). _b._ 1810; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830; called to bar in Ireland 1833;
Q.C. 1 Aug. 1859; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Limerick
1864 to death. _d._ Newcastle West, Ireland 13 Oct. 1874. _Irish
law times_, _viii_ 549, 553 (1874).
LEAHY, JOHN PIERS (son of Daniel Leahy). _b._ Cork 25 June
1802; ed. at Cork and Bloomfield near Dublin; studied at Corpo
Santo, Lisbon, entered order of St. Dominic there 8 Sep. 1817,
professed 9 Sep. 1818; acting rector of Corpo Santo, Oct.
1829 to 1836; prior of Dominican convent, Cork 3 times; prior
provincial of Irish Dominicans, June 1848; coadjutor bishop of
Dromore 14 July 1854, consecrated in St. Mary’s cath. Cork 1
Oct. 1854; bishop of Dromore 29 Feb. 1860 to death; author of
The book of the rosary to which is annexed the rule of the
third order of St. Dominick. Dublin 1842. _d._ Newry 6 Sep.
1890. _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _i_ 305 (1876), _ii_ 365
(1876).
LEAHY, PATRICK (son of Patrick Leahy, civil engineer). _b._ near
Thurles, Tipperary 31 May 1806; ed. Maynooth; C. of Scartheen,
Cashel; professor of theology St. Patrick’s coll. Thurles, pres.
of college; one of secretaries of synod of Thurles 22 Aug. 1850,
priest of Thurles; preb. of diocese of Cashel, then precentor;
vice-rector of Catholic univ. of Ireland at establishment 18
May 1854, also professor of sacred scripture 1854–7; archbishop
of Cashel 27 April 1857 to death, consecrated 29 June; issued
address condemning agrarian murders 16 May 1869; cathedral
at Thurles built by his energy at cost of £45,000, commenced
1857, consecrated 21 June 1879, when 21 bishops and 280 priests
were present. _d._ near Thurles 26 Jany. 1875. _bur._ Thurles
cathedral. 3 Feb. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 139 (1875).
LEAKE, JOHN MARTIN (eld. son of John Martin Leake of Thorpe near
Colchester, Essex, _d._ 7 April 1836 aged 97). _b._ 5 Dec. 1773;
ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1797,
bencher 1836 to death; chairman of Essex quarter sessions. _d._
Thorpe hall, Essex 16 May 1862.