Newington, Middlesex). _b._ 1828; went to Western Australia
1833, member of legislative council of W.A., and the first
speaker 26 June 1872 to death; knighted by patent 19 Aug. 1876.
_d._ Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. London 1 May 1886.
LEAKE, ROBERT MARTIN. Ensign 14 foot 2 Oct. 1805; captain 63
foot 14 Feb. 1811, major 18 July 1822 to 26 Oct. 1824 when
placed on h.p.; general 25 Oct. 1871. _d._ Woodhurst, Oxted,
Surrey 26 Aug. 1873.
LEAKE, WILLIAM MARTIN (brother of John Martin Leake 1773–1862).
_b._ Bolton row, Mayfair, London 14 Jany. 1777; 1 lieut. R.A. 14
Aug. 1794, lieut.-col. 29 July 1820, sold out 1823; served in
West Indies 1794–9 and with Turkish army in Egypt 1800; made a
general survey of Egypt 1801–2; surveyed the Morea and Northern
Greece 1805–7; sent on a mission to Ali Pacha 1808; sent as
resident to the Swiss confederation 1815; granted £600 per annum
5 Jany. 1812 in consideration of his services in Turkey since
1799; F.R.S. 13 April 1815; F.R.G.S.; D.C.L. Oxf. 26 June 1816
collected in Greece, bronzes, vases, gems and coins, now in
the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge; author of The topography
of Athens 1821, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1841; Journal of a tour in Asia
Minor 1824; An historical outline of the Greek revolution 1825,
2 ed. 1826; Numismata Hellenica 1854, supplement 1859; author
with C. P. Yorke of Les principaux monumens Egyptiens du musée
Britannique 1827. _d._ Brighton 6 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet. London. _J. H. Marsden’s Memoir of W. M. Leake_
(1864); _Numismatic Chronicle_, _xx_ 35–8; _Proc. of Royal Soc.
xi_ 7–9 (1860).
LEAKEY, CAROLINE WOOLMER (4 dau. of the succeeding). _b._ Exeter
8 March 1827; lived at Hobart Town, Tasmania with her married
sister 1847–53; wrote in The Sunday at Home 1854, Girls Own
Paper and other periodicals; established the Exeter Home and
rescue 1861 and worked for it to 1881; author of Lyra Australis,
or attempts to sing in a strange land 1854; The broad arrow,
being passages from the history of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer. By
Oline Keese 1859, new ed. 1886; God’s Tenth 1861, the first of
a series of new year addresses 1861–81; Fine weather Dick and
other sketches 1882. _d._ Exeter 12 July 1881. _Clear Shining
Light, a memoir of C. W. Leakey. By Emily Leakey_ (1882).
LEAKEY, JAMES (son of John Leakey of Exeter, wool merchant).
_b._ Exeter 20 Sep. 1775; painter at Exeter of portraits,
miniatures, landscapes and small interiors; painted miniatures
in oils on ivory; lived in London 1821–5; exhibited 12 pictures
at R.A. 1821–46, including The Marvellous Tale 1821, The Fortune
Teller 1822 and The Distressed Wife 1846. _d._ Exeter 16 Feb.
1865. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 82–5.
LEAPINGWELL, GEORGE. _b._ 1801; ed. at C.C. coll. Camb., B.A.
1823, M. A. 1826, LLD. 1851; esquire bedel of univ. of Camb.
1826 to death; barrister I.T. 25 June 1830; comr. of bankrupts
for Cambridge and district; deputy recorder for Cambridge;
deputy judge of borough court of pleas, Cambridge; deputy
professor of political economy at Camb.; author of A manual
of the Roman civil law, arranged after the analysis of Dr.
Hallifax. Camb. 1859. _d._ Cambridge 24 Dec. 1863. _Gent. Mag.
xvi_ 264, 400 (1864).
LEAR, EDWARD. _b._ Holloway, London 12 May 1812; the youngest
of 21 children; made tinted drawings of birds, &c. 1827, which
he sold at from 9d. to 4s. each; draughtsman in gardens of
Zoological Society 1831; engaged at Knowsley residence of Earl
of Derby 1832–6, drew the plates for The Knowsley Menagerie
1846; a drawing master at Rome 1837 etc.; originator of the
nonsense verse of which he published 4 volumes; travelled in
South Europe and Palestine sketching 1847 etc.; gave drawing
lessons to the Queen about 1840; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A.,
5 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1836–73; Tennyson wrote verses
addressed To E. Lear on his travels in Greece in ‘Travels
in Albania’ 1846; author of Illustrations of the family of
the Psittacidæ 1832; Views in Rome and its environs 1841;
Illustrated excursions in Italy 1846; The Book of Nonsense 1846,
27 ed. 1889; Journal of a landscape painter in Albania 1851;
published Poems and songs by A. Tennyson, set to music by E.
L., London 1859, nine numbers. _d._ Villa Tennyson, San Remo 29
Jany. 1888. _Tennyson’s Poems illustrated by E. Lear_ (1889),
_portrait_; _E. Lear’s Nonsense songs and stories 6 ed._ (1888)
_memoir pp._ 5–7.
LEARED, ARTHUR. _b._ Wexford 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1845, M.B. 1847, M.D. 1860; admitted M.D. at Oxford 7 Feb.
1861; physician in co. Wexford; went to India 1851; practised
in London 1852; M.R.C.P. 1854, F.R.C.P. 1871; phys. to British
civil hospital at Smyrna during Crimean war 1854–6; visited
Iceland 4 times 1862–74, America 1870, and Morocco 1872, 1877
and 1879; identified site of Roman station, Volubilis; claimed
to have invented the double stethoscope; author of The causes
and treatment of imperfect digestion 1860, 7 ed. 1882 with
portrait; Morocco and the Moors 1876, 2 ed. 1891; A visit to the
court of Morocco 1879. _d._ 12 Old Burlington st. London 16 Oct.
1879. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc._ (1879) 802; _British Medical
Journal 25 Oct. 1879 pp._ 663–4.
LEARMONTH, ALEXANDER (1 son of the succeeding). _b._ Edinburgh
26 Aug. 1829; ed. at Eton, matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 17
March 1847; a student I.T. 1847; cornet 17 lancers 21 Aug.
1849, major 30 Sep. 1856, lieut.-col. 1 July 1859, sold out
same day; served in the Crimea and in the Indian mutiny; hon.
col. Midlothian rifle volunteers 18 June 1879 to death; M.P.
Colchester 1870–80. _d._ 44 Park lane, London 10 March 1887.
_The Times 11 March 1887 p._ 8.
LEARMONTH, JOHN. _b._ 1789; coach builder 4 Princes st.
Edinburgh, where he made a large fortune; built at his own
expense the Dean bridge across the water of Leith, finished in
1833; lord provost of Edinb. 1832–3; contested city of Edinb.
31 May 1834. _d._ 6 Moray place, Edinb. 17 Dec. 1858. _Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882) 152–3, _portrait_.
LEASH, WILLIAM. _b._ England 1812; a clerk and book-keeper;
a clerk in Edinburgh, returned to England about 1839;
Congregational minister at Dover to 1846, at Esher st.
Kennington, London 1846–57, at Ware, Herts., then at Maberly
chapel, Kingsland 1865; edited the Christian Weekly News; edited
the Christian Times 1864, and The Rainbow a magazine 1864–5;
author of The Hall of Vision, a poem in three books. Manchester
1837; Philosophical Lectures. Dover 1846; The great redemption,
an essay on the mediatorial system 1849; The beauties of
the Bible 1852, 2 ed. 1856; Lays of the future 1853. _d._
Sandringham road, West Hackney, London 6 Nov. 1884. _Struggles
for life: an autobiography_ (1864).
LEATHAM, WILLIAM HENRY (2 child of Wm. Leatham, banker, _d._
1842). _b._ Wakefield 6 July 1815; entered his father’s bank
1834; banker at Wakefield and Pontefract 1836, retired 1851;
contested Wakefield 9 July 1852; M.P. for Wakefield 2 May
1859 by three votes, unseated on petition and writ suspended
until 1862; M.P. for Wakefield 1865–8; M.P. for West riding of
Yorkshire, southern division 1880–5; a Quaker but joined Church
of England in 1843; purchased Hemsworth hall near Pontefract
1851; author of Poems 1840; Strafford, a tragedy 1842; Oliver
Cromwell, a drama 1843; The Batuecas, also Francisco Alvarez and
other poems 1844; Tales of English life and Miscellanies 2 vols.
1858. _d._ Carleton near Pontefract 14 Nov. 1889. _Biograph_,
_v_ 209–213 (1881); _Colburn’s New monthly mag. vol._ 168 _p._
421, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1880 p._ 41, _portrait_.
LEATHER, JOHN TOWLERTON (1 son of James Leather, colliery
proprietor, _d._ 1849). _b._ Yorkshire 30 Aug. 1804; engineer
of Sheffield waterworks 1833; contractor with Mr. Waring 1839,
made Chester and Crewe section of London and North Western
line; sole contractor for Erewash valley line of the Midland
1847–50; constructed the dam and the siphons for the repairs of
the Middle Level 1862; constructor of the Portland breakwater
1849–56 and of the Sea forts at Spithead 1861–72; made the
extension of the Portsmouth dock yard costing £2,000,000,
1867–77; M.I.C.E. 23 Feb. 1836; F.S.A. 11 Feb. 1869; sheriff of
Northumberland 1875. _d._ Leventhorpe hall near Leeds 6 June
1885. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxiii_ 433–6 (1886).
LEATHER, JOHN WIGNALL (eld. son of George Leather, M.I.C.E.).
_b._ near Leeds 26 April 1810; entered his father’s office and
was with him engaged on the Leeds water supply works 1833–51
and on the Bradford water supply 1838–57; employed on the Fen
drainage 1845; engineer of Aire and Calder navigation; made
Hartlepool and Stockton railway 1838–41 which included the
Greatham viaduct of 92 arches; laid out Birmingham, Dudley and
Wolverhampton railway 1835; retired from business 1877; M.I.C.E.
6 March 1849; author of Report to the Leeds town council on an
effectual sewerage for Leeds 1845. _d._ De Grey lodge, Leeds
31 Jany. 1887. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix_ 473–9
(1887).
LEATHERLAND, JOHN A. (son of a carpenter). _b._ Kettering 11
May 1812; a shoemaker, a loom weaver, a ribbon weaver 1829–37,
a velvet weaver, a maker of velvet waistcoats which he sold
throughout the county till 1850; local reporter to Northampton
Herald 1849 and other newspapers; living in High st. Kettering
in 1869; author of Psyche, a prize essay on the immateriality
of the mind and the immortality of the soul. Northampton 1853;
On courtesy. Essay xiii. in J. Cassell’s Social Science 1861;
Essays and poems, with a brief autobiographical memoir 1862,
memoir pp. 1–39. _d._ probably before 1877.
LEATHES, EDMUND JOHN, stage name of Edmund Donaldson (2 son of
John William Donaldson, D.D., Greek scholar 1811–61). _b._ Bury
St. Edmunds 23 March 1847; ed. Marlborough 1861–64 where he won
the mile race in 4 min. 38 sec.; sheep farming in New Zealand;
studied medicine in Edinb.; acted at Old Theatre royal, Dublin,
April 1869 and then in Sydney, New Zealand, Honolulu, San
Francisco, Nevada, New York and Boston; at Princess’s theatre,
London 1 March 1873 as Gratiano in Merchant of Venice; acted
James Annesley in C. Reade’s The Wandering Heir, Queen’s theatre
15 Nov. 1873; played Laertes 200 nights Lyceum 30 Oct. 1874 to
29 June 1875 and Matthew Hawker in Human Nature, Drury Lane 12
Sep. 1885; a teacher of the dramatic art and literature; wrote
The actor’s wife a novel 3 vols. 1880 and An actor abroad or
gossip from the recollections of an actor in Australia, New
Zealand, &c. 1883; produced his blank verse play For king and
country, at Gaiety 1 May 1883 and another drama The actor’s
wife. _d._ Tenterfield, Bina gardens, South Kensington, London
6 June 1891. _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 4 May 1878 p._ 149,
_portrait_.
LE BAS, CHARLES WEBB (son of Charles Le Bas, linen draper). _b._
20 New Bond st. London 26 April 1779; ed. at Hyde abbey school
near Winchester; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1796, scholar, Craven
scholar 1799 and member’s prizeman, fellow 1801–14; fourth
wrangler, B.A. and chancellor’s medallist 1800; barrister L.I.
1806; ordained deacon 1809; R. of St. Paul’s, Shadwell 1811;
preb. of Lincoln cath. 23 May 1812; professor of mathematics and
dean in East India college, Haileybury 1813, principal 1837 to
31 Dec. 1843; the Le Bas prize at Cambridge for the best essay
on an historical subject was founded in 1848 by his old pupils
at cost of £1920; wrote nearly 80 articles for The British
Critic 1827–38; author of Considerations on miracles 1828;
Sermons on various occasions 3 vols. 1822–34; The life of Thomas
Fanshaw Middleton, bishop of Calcutta 2 vols. 1831; Memoir of
Henry Vincent Bailey, archdeacon of Stow 1846; Life of Wicliff
1832; Life of Cranmer 1833; Life of Jewel 1835 and Life of Laud
1836, being vols. 1, 4, 5, 11 and 13 of The Theological Library
edited by H. J. Rose and W. R. Lyall. _d._ 74 Montpelier road,
Brighton 25 Jany. 1861.
LE BLANC, HENRY. _b._ 1776; ensign 71 foot 9 July 1792, major 12
June 1806; lieut.-col. 5 veteran battalion 5 Feb. 1807 to 1814
when battalion was reduced and he retired on full pay; major
of Chelsea hospital 22 Sep. 1814 to death; colonel in the army
28 Nov. 1854; served at siege of Pondicherry and capture of
Cape of Good Hope 1806; lost a leg at capture of Buenos Ayres
1807. _d._ Clifton Down, Bristol 13 July 1855. _Particulars of
the investigation at the Royal hospital, Chelsea, upon charges
brought by the Major against the apothecary_ 1830.
LE BRETON, ANNA LETITIA (dau. of Charles Rochemont Aikin,
surgeon). _b._ 4 Broad st. buildings, London 30 June 1808;
edited Correspondence of W. E. Channing and Lucy Aikin 1874;
author of Memoirs of Mrs. Barbauld 1874; Memories of seventy
years. By One of a literary family [Mrs. Le Breton], edited by
Mrs. Hubert Martin 1883. (_m._ 6 Aug. 1833 the succeeding). _d._
6 Worsley road, Hampstead 29 Sep. 1885. _Memoirs of Seventy
years_ (1883) 3, 135 _et seq._
LE BRETON, PHILIP HEMERY (eld. son of rev. Philip Le Breton, R.
of St. Saviour’s, Jersey). _b._ St. Saviour’s rectory, Jersey
30 Oct. 1806; ed. at Mr. Cogan’s school, Walthamstow with
Benjamin Disraeli and Milner Gibson; also at Westminster and
Paris; solicitor in London 1828–51; barrister I.T. 1 May 1854;
revising barrister for West Surrey several years; lived at
Hampstead 1851 to death; member for Hampstead of Metropolitan
board of works 1 July 1859 to Nov. 1879; presented with a
public testimonial including gift of £500 for his activity in
preserving Hampstead Heath 1871. _d._ 6 Worsley road, Hampstead
6 Aug. 1884. _bur._ in old Hampstead churchyard. _F. E. Baines’s
Records of Hampstead_ (1890) 152, 184, 320, 362, 453–5.
LE BRETON, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Le Breton, attorney
general and bailiff of Jersey). _b._ Colomberie, St. Helier’s,
Jersey 1790; educ. at Caen, Normandy as an American under
the name of Burgh 1810–12 and fought several duels; advocate
of Jersey bar 8 Aug. 1812; col. of Jersey Town regt. 17 July
1820 to 1850; shot Aaron de Ste Croix in a duel 1820; attorney
general 25 March 1824; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Feb.
1847, after the visit of the Queen to Jersey in Sep. 1846;
bailiff of Jersey 22 June 1848 to death. _d._ The Terrace, St.
Helier’s, Jersey 24 Nov. 1857. _The Jersey Independent 25 Nov.
1857 p._ 2.
LE BRETON, WILLIAM CORBET (only son of William Le Breton). _b._
St. Helier’s, Jersey 1815; ed. Winchester and at Pemb. coll.
Oxf. 1831–37, Morley scholar; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June
1837 to 8 July 1842; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; dean of Jersey 26
Dec. 1849 to death; R. of St. Saviour’s, Jersey 1850–75; R. of
St. Helier’s, Jersey 1875 to death; father of Lilian Langtry,
actress. _d._ London 28 Feb. 1888.
LE BRUN, John. _b._ Switzerland; ed. at Gosport, Hampshire;
ordained Congregationalist in Jersey 25 Nov. 1813; minister of
the London missionary society at Port Louis, Mauritius 18 May
1814 to 1832 and 27 Dec. 1841 to death; returned to Mauritius
on his own account 1834, built a chapel at Port Louis and
established schools in Mauritius. _d._ Port Louis 21 Feb. 1865.
LECHMERE-CHARLTON, EDMUND (elder son of Nicholas Lechmere of
Hanley castle and Ludlow, who assumed additional surname of
Charlton 1784). _b._ 20 Sep. 1789; M.P. for Ludlow 8 Jany. 1835
to 18 July 1837. _d._ 1857.
LECKENBY, JOHN. _b._ Ripon 20 Sep. 1814; managed different
branches of Yorkshire banking company; treasurer of Scarborough
many years; F.G.S. 1859. _d._ Scarton 7 April 1877.
LECKIE, ELIZABETH (dau. of John Horner of Edinburgh, linen
factor). _m._ George Leckie; author of The Village School, a
story. Edinb. 1837; The power of conscience, a dramatic poem
1841; The stepmother 1842; The Hebrew boy 1842; The guardian
1843; The dream of the western shepherd 1845. _d._ Edinburgh,
March 1856.
LECLERCQ, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Clark. _b._ 20 Sep.
1797; made his first appearance on opening night of the Sans
Pareil theatre, London as a dancer 27 Nov. 1806; chief dancer
and inventor of the ballets at Surrey and Coburg theatres;
manager of the Olympic about 1826; ballet master at Adelphi
theatre, Glasgow 1844; ballet master at Olympic 1846, at
Haymarket 1851 to death; his second wife Margaret Leclercq was
well known as a dancer, she _d._ Bedford house, Carlyle sq.
London 28 June 1889 aged 77. He _d._ 16 Albert st. Regent’s
park, London 26 Nov. 1861. _Era 1 Dec. 1861 p._ 10.
NOTE.--His son Arthur Leclercq played harlequin in the pantomime Undine
or the spirit of the waters, at Haymarket theatre Dec. 1858 to Feb.
1859, he was subsequently acting manager for Charles Fechter until his
death in 1879 when he became acting manager for Mr. O’Neil; he died
at his residence Fort Hamilton, Long Island, U.S. of America about 18
January 1890.
LECONFIELD, GEORGE WYNDHAM, 1 Baron (eld. natural child of 3
Earl of Egremont 1751–1837). _b._ St. Marylebone, London 5
June 1787; cornet 5 dragoon guards 31 March 1803; captain 72
foot 19 Sep. 1805; lieut. 1 foot guards 13 Nov. 1807; major
78 foot 31 Jany. 1811; major 12 light dragoons 25 April 1811;
lieut.-col. 20 light dragoons 10 Dec. 1812, placed on h.p. 25
June 1816; served in Spain and Portugal, taken prisoner by the
French Aug. 1810; came into the estate of Petworth, Sussex and
others adjoining and £60,000 on his father’s death 1837; sheriff
of Sussex 1842; created baron Leconfield of Leconfield in the
east riding of the county of York 14 April 1859. _d._ Petworth,
Sussex 18 March 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000 22 May
1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 385–6, _ii_ 54 (1869).
LE COUTEUR, SIR JOHN (eld. son of lieut.-gen. John Le Couteur
_d._ 23 April 1835 aged 74). _b._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 1794;
ensign 96 foot 15 Nov. 1810; lieut. 104 foot 21 Nov. 1811,
placed on h.p. 25 Aug. 1817; brevet lieut.-col. 11 Nov. 1851;
A.D.C. to the sovereign 27 Aug. 1830, resigned 1872; adjutant
general of Jersey militia 1853–72; sold out of the army 1857;
viscount or sheriff of island of Jersey 1842 to death, coroner
there 1872 to death; F.R.S.; sec. and founder of Jersey
agricultural and horticultural soc.; knighted by patent 17 Aug.
1872; published On the varieties, properties and classification
of wheat 1836, 2 ed. 1872; On the rise, progress and state of
agriculture in Jersey 1852; The rifle, its effects on the war
1855. _d._ Bellevue, Jersey 24 Dec. 1875. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 311
(1876).
LEDGER, CHARLES. _b._ England; clerk in house of Messrs. Naylor
at Lima 1836–8, and then at their establishment at Tacna where
he purchased the alpaca wools from the Indians 1838–42; in
business at Tacna from 1842; exported a flock of 276 alpacas to
Sydney 28 Nov. 1858, which the government purchased for £15,000
and gave him £1300 a year to manage it. _Illust. News of the
World 17 Sep. 1859 pp._ 173–4, _portrait_; _Sporting Rev. Feb.
1863 pp._ 127–9.
LEDGER, FREDERIC. _b._ 1816; editor and proprietor of The Era,
a London weekly sporting and dramatic paper 1850 to death; an
enthusiastic mason. _d._ Gothic house, Devonshire road, Balham
hill 14 June 1874. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 20 June. _Era 21 June
1874 p._ 9 _col._ 2.
LEDWARD, RICHARD ARTHUR (son of Richard Perry Ledward). _b._
Burslem, Staffs. 1857; studied at Burslem school of art and at
South Kensington, gold medallist; a master of modelling in the
schools; modelling master at Westminster and Blackheath schools
of art; his sculpture of A Young Mother, showed great promise.
_d._ of rheumatism at 53 Beaufort st. Chelsea 28 Oct. 1890.
_bur._ Perivale church near Ealing.
LEDWICH, THOMAS HAWKESWORTH (son of Edward Ledwich of Waterford,
attorney). _b._ Pembroke 1823; studied medicine in Dublin;
M.R.C.S.I. 1844, F.R.C.S.I. 1845; lecturer on anatomy at The
original school of medicine, Peter st. Dublin 1847 to death,
when name was changed to the Ledwich school of medicine 1858;
formed a valuable pathological museum; surgeon to the Meath
hospital, Dublin, July 1858; author with his brother Edward
Ledwich, M.D. of The practical and descriptive anatomy of the
human body 1852, 3 ed. 1877, which is still much used in Dublin.
_d._ York st. Dublin 29 Sep. 1858. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet.
_Sir C. A. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland_
(1886) 534–35, 613–14; _Ormsby’s History of Meath hospital_
(1888) 215–6.
NOTE.--Edward Ledwich was _b._ Pembroke 1817, F.R.C.S.I. 13 Oct. 1852,
a most successful teacher of anatomy, _d._ 7 Harcourt st. Dublin 18
Feb. 1879.
LEE, _Mrs._ Governess to the prince of Naples, eld. son of
Humbert king of Italy, at Rome Nov. 1869 to 1881 during which
time she never left him; watched over the prince’s health and
aided him in making a collection of coins illustrating Italian
history 1881 to death. _d._ Quirinal palace, Rome 3 April 1884.
LEE, ALFRED THEOPHILUS (youngest son of Sir John Theophilus
Lee of Lauriston hall, Torquay 1786–1843). _b._ the Elms,
Bedhampton, Hants. 28 June 1829; scholar of Christ’s coll.
Camb. 1850; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of Houghton-le-Spring,
Durham 1853–5; P.C. of Elson, Hants. 1856–8; R of Ahoghill,
co. Antrim 1858–72; hon. LLD. Dublin 1866, D.C.L. Oxf. 1867;
sec. to Church defence instit. and tithe redemption trust 1871
to death; preacher at Gray’s Inn 5 Nov. 1879 to death; author
of The history of the town and parish of Tetbury 1857; Facts
respecting the present state of the church in Ireland 1863,
sixtieth thousand issued 1868; Some account of the parish church
of St. Colananell, Ahoghill 1867. _d._ Lauriston house, Ealing,
Middlesex 19 July 1883. _Church portrait journal_, _i_ 25
(1876), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 315–20 (1881).
LEE, BENJAMIN. _b._ Worcester 10 Feb. 1788; enlisted in 14
dragoons Jany. 1804; served in the Peninsula 1808–14, in America
1815; sergeant major 1814, retired 1829; went to New South Wales
and resided at Parramatta 1829 to death. _d._ Parramatta 13
April 1879, left upwards of 100 children and grandchildren.
LEE, DONALD MC PHEE. _b._ 11 Feb. 1804; editor and proprietor of
Bermuda royal gazette; vice consul for France and Italy. _d._
Hamilton, Bermuda 11 Feb. 1883.
LEE, EDWIN. Articled pupil of royal college of surgeons, London,
Jacksonian prizeman 1838 for dissertation on Comparative
advantages of lithotomy and lithotrity; studied at St. George’s
hospital 1824, house surgeon 1830–3; M.C.S. 1829; M.D. Gottingen
1846 or before; member of medical societies of Paris, Berlin and
Naples; fellow of royal medico-chirurgical soc.; resided much at
the Continental watering places; author of upwards of 60 works
including A treatise on some nervous disorders 1833, 2 ed. 1838;
The principal baths of Germany 2 vols. 1840–1. _d._ Mentone 3
June 1870. _The Lancet 18 June 1870 pp._ 891–2.
LEE, FREDERICK HENRY (eld. son of Frederick William Lee). Editor
of Hull Herald and proprietor of Sussex Advertiser, Lewes. _d._
Cooksbridge near Lewes 14 Aug. 1853 aged 42.
LEE, FREDERICK RICHARD. _b._ Barnstaple 1799; ensign 56 foot
6 Dec. 1813, placed on h.p. 21 Dec. 1815; served in the
Netherlands; studied painting at the R.A. 1818; exhibited 171
paintings at R.A., 131 at B.I. and 24 at Suffolk st. 1822–70;
his most popular works were English landscapes; 4 of his
pictures are in the National Gallery; A.R.A. 1834, R.A. 1838,
retired R.A. 1871. _d._ Vlees farm, Herman station in division
of Malmsay, South Africa 5 June 1879. _Sandby’s History of royal
academy_, _ii_ 159–61 (1862); _Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_
(1883) 85–8.