Cheshire 8 Sep. 1833; lodge boy to Joseph Whitworth, engineer,
Manchester 1847, foreman of shops where he improved the
machinery, managed the manufactory of guns and rifles; conducted
the heavy gun trials Whitworth versus Armstrong 1863–4;
introduced the Whitworth small arms to the volunteers; sighted
the rifle for the Queen at Wimbledon 2 July 1860; hit the target
5 times in succession at 1000 yards; present at meetings for
trial of light field guns at Versailles and Chalon; member of
war office ordnance committee; managing director of sir J.
Whitworth & Co.; M.I.C.E. 6 May 1879. _d._ Melbourne, Australia
13 Jany. 1886. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxv_ 399
(1886).
LEECH, JOHN (son of John Leech, proprietor of the London
Coffee-house, Ludgate Hill, London, bankrupt 6 Jany. 1832).
_b._ Bennett st. Stamford st. London 29 Aug. 1817; ed. at the
Charterhouse 1824–33; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital;
published Etchings and Sketchings. By A. Pen 1835; employed on
Bell’s Life in London; illustrated Theodore Hook’s novel Jack
Brag 1837; contributed to fourth number of Punch 7 Aug. 1841 a
full-page illustration entitled Foreign Affairs, signed with
the Leech in the bottle as well as John Leech; chief artist
on Punch 1842 to death, executed 600 cartoons and 2400 small
drawings for which he received about £40,000; illustrated
the Ingoldsby Legends and Albert Smith’s novels in Bentley’s
Miscellany; supplied etchings or cuts for New Monthly Mag.
1842–4, Illuminated Mag. 1843–5, Dickens’ Christmas Stories
1843–8, R. S. Surtees’ sporting novels 1853–65, Once a Week
1859–64, Illustrated London News, Punch’s Pocket Book and many
other works; published Portraits of the children of the nobility
1841; Pictures of life, from Punch 5 series 1854–69 and other
books; exhibited a series of sketches in oil at Egyptian Hall,
Piccadilly, June–Aug. 1862; hunted with the Puckeridge and
Pytchley hounds; his portrait by sir John Millais was exhibited
at the R.A. 1855. _d._ 6 The Terrace, Kensington 29 Oct. 1864.
_bur._ Kensal Green 4 Nov. An exhibition of outlines by J. Leech
held at 9 Conduit st. London 1872. _W. P. Frith’s John Leech 2
vols._ (1891), _portrait_; _F. G. Kitton’s John Leech_ (1884);
_John Leech and other papers. By John Brown_ (1882) 1–79; _Fine
Art. By W. A. Rossetti_ (1867) 282–9; _Illust. Review iv_
289–98, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. ix_ 58–65 (1864), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. vii_ 329 (1845), _portrait_.
NOTE.--His widow Anne Leech was granted a civil list pension of £100,
19 June 1865; his only son C. W. Leech was drowned off Port Adelaide
on his voyage home from Australia 29 March 1876 aged 20. He drew a
portrait of himself as the clarionet player next to the conductor of
the orchestra in the two-page cartoon entitled ‘Mr. Punch’s fancy ball’
in Punch 9 Jany. 1847.
LEEDS, FRANCIS GODOLPHIN D’ARCY DARCY-OSBORNE, 7 Duke of. _b._
21 May 1798; styled marquess of Carmarthen 1799–1838; cornet
10 hussars 19 Sep. 1817, lieut. 1821–5; capt. 17 lancers 1825;
capt. 2 life guards 1826–8; M.P. Helston 1826–30; summoned to
house of lords as baron Osborne 2 July 1838; succeeded as 7
duke 10 July 1838; col. in chief of North York militia 11 Feb.
1846 to death; took the name of Darcy 6 Aug. 1849; celebrated
as a huntsman and deer stalker. _d._ Clarendon hotel, 169 New
Bond st. London 4 May 1859. _m._ 24 April 1828 Louisa Catherine
3 dau. of Richard Caton and widow of sir F. E. B. Harvey,
bart. who _d._ 1819. She _d._ 8 April 1874. _Burke’s Portrait
gallery_, _ii_ 87, 90 (1833), _portrait of the Duchess_; _I.L.N.
xxv_ 616 (1854) _portrait_, _xxxiv_ 478, 485 (1859) _portrait_.
LEEDS, ROBERT. _b._ 1811; rented a large farm at Holkham
and resided at Keswick Old Hall for many years; assisted in
formation of company which built Agricultural hall, Islington
1861 and was chairman 1862, and chief mover in the annual horse
shows there; chairman of Smithfield club, then vice president;
oldest member of Farmers’ club; on council of R. Agricultural
Soc. of England 1869–89. _d._ Norwich 27 June 1890. _I.L.N. 12
July 1890 p._ 53, _portrait_.
LEEDS, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1786; engaged in commercial
pursuits; an architectural critic 30 years; wrote much in
the Foreign quarterly review and other periodicals; wrote
many of the articles on architecture in the Penny Cyclopædia;
published Moller’s Memorials of German-Gothic architecture,
part 1 translated by W. H. Leeds 1836; Illustrations of the
public buildings of London 1838; An essay on the present
state of architectural study and the revival of the Italian
style, Printed in Studies and examples of school of English
architecture 1839 pp. 1–28; Rudimentary architecture, the orders
and their æsthetic principles 1848, 2 ed. 1852; A treatise on
the decorative part of civil architecture, by sir W. Chambers,
revised 1862. _d._ 26 Charlotte st. Portland place, London 1 May
1866.
LEEKE, SIR HENRY JOHN (son of Samuel Leeke of St. John’s, Isle
of Wight). _b._ St. John’s 1794; entered navy 28 Sep. 1803;
served in the Mediterranean during the war 1806; commanded
the Myrmidon sloop on west coast of Africa 1819–22, where he
surveyed 600 miles of coast; captain 27 May 1826; knighted
at St. James’s palace 1 April 1835; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836;
flag captain to admiral sir John West at Devonport 1845–8;
superintendent and commander-in-chief of Indian navy 23 March
1852 to 7 July 1857; bombarded Bushir in the Persian war 10
Nov. 1856; admiral 11 Jany. 1864; M.P. for Dover 1859–65; C.B.
21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 1 Oct. 1858. _d._ Uplands near Fareham
26 Feb. 1870. _C. R. Low’s History of the Indian navy_, _ii_
240–382 (1877).
LEEKE, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1798; ensign
52 light infantry 4 May 1815, lieutenant 1823, on h.p. 2 Sep.
1824; carried the regimental colours at Waterloo; ed. at Queen’s
college, Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; C. of Westham, Sussex
1829–31; C. of Brailsford, Derby 1831–39; V. of Holbrooke,
Derbyshire 1840–77; author of A few suggestions for increasing
the incomes of many of the smaller livings. Derby 1838; The
history of lord Seaton’s regiment, the 52nd light infantry, at
Waterloo, with the author’s reminiscences of his military and
clerical careers 2 vols. 1866–71. _d._ Holbrooke hall near Derby
1 June 1879.
LEEMAN, GEORGE (son of George Leeman of York). _b._ York, Aug.
1809; solicitor at York 1835 to death; head of firm of Leeman,
Wilkinson and Leeman of York and Beverley; clerk of the peace
for East Riding to death; alderman of York 1850, lord mayor
1853, 1860 and 1870; chairman of Yorkshire banking co.; chairman
of North eastern railway Feb. 1874 to 1880; M.P. York 1865–68
and 1871–80; his statue erected near railway station at York.
_d._ 3 Belmont terrace, Scarborough 25 Feb. 1882.
LEEMAN, JOSEPH JOHNSON (younger son of the preceding). _b._
Fulford near York 1842; solicitor at York 1865 to death; M.P.
York 2 April 1880 to death. _d._ Acomb priory, York 2 Nov. 1883.
LEES, _Asa_ (2 son of Samuel Lees of Oldham, machine
manufacturer, _d._ about 1847). _b._ 1816; machine maker at
Oldham about 1847–65 when he converted his business into a
private company, the works were sold to a limited liability
company in 1872, he received £112,000 for his share. _d._ Albert
house, Ashton under Lyne 26 May 1882. _Oldham Chronicle 3 June
1882 p._ 6, _col._ 3.
LEES, CATHCART. _b._ 1810; M.B. of Trin. coll. Dublin 1837,
F.K.Q.C.P. 1845; physician to Meath hospital to 1861 and
lecturer on practice of medicine; phys. to Bank of Ireland to
1861; wrote many essays in Dublin Journal of medical science,
Dublin hospital gazette, and the Quarterly Journal; author of
Lectures on diseases of the stomach and indigestion. Dublin
1857. _d._ 17 Lower Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 16 Dec. 1861.
LEES, CHARLES. _b._ Cupar, Fifeshire 1800; studied art at
Rome some years; portrait painter at Edinburgh; fellow of
Royal Scottish academy 1835 where he exhibited regularly,
treasurer 1865 and a trustee; two pictures by him of curling
and golf matches were engraved; his picture Summer Moonlight,
bait-gatherers, is in Scottish national gallery; exhibited 6
pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1832–63. _d._
19 Scotland st. Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1880. _The Scotsman 1 March
1880 p._ 4.
LEES, EDWIN. _b._ Worcester 1800; printer and stationer at 87
High st. Worcester, retired early and became a local botanist;
founded Worcester Literary and scientific institute 12 Jany.
1829, joint sec.; F.L.S., F.G.S.; one of the first to pay regard
to forms of brambles, commemorated botanically by his discovery
of Rubus Leesii; author of Christmas and the new year 2 ed.
1828, a masque in verse; Guide to the city and cathedral of
Worcester. By Ambrose Florence; published The Worcestershire
miscellany 5 numbers 1829; author of Botany of the Malvern
hills 1843, 3 ed. 1868; The botany of Worcestershire 1867; The
botanical looker-out among the wild flowers 1842, 2 ed. 1851;
Pictures of nature around the Malvern hills 1856; Scenery and
thought in poetical pictures of landscape scenes and incidents
1880. _d._ Greenhill Summit, Worcester 21 Oct. 1887. _bur._
Pendock. _Journal of botany_ (1887) 384.
LEES, SIR HARCOURT, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir John Lees, 1
baronet 1739–1811). _b._ 29 Nov. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802; R. and V. of Killaney, co. Down; preb.
of Fennor in Cashel church 21 Nov. 1800 to July 1806; preb. of
Tullycorbet in Clogher church 1801 to July 1806; author of The
Antidote, or nouvelles à la main, recommended to the serious
attention of the right hon. W. C. Plunket and other advocates
of unrestricted civil and religious liberty. By a clergyman of
the established church and no saint. Dublin 1819, reprinted with
a supplement entitled L’Abeja or a bee among the evangelicals.
Dublin 1820, and 8 other pamphlets chiefly in support of
protestant ascendancy. _d._ Blackrock near Dublin 7 March 1852.
_G.M. xxxvii_ 518–9 (1852); _I.L.N. xx_ 219 (1852).
NOTE.--See also these works, Most important, trial of sir H. Lees
before chief justice B---- and sergeant Flummery 11 Jan. 1823 by a jury
of special dust churchmen on charges of barretry and eavesdropping.
Dublin 1823. A warning letter to the queen!! on the communication made
to government by sir H. L. relative to a conspiracy out of which arose
the attempt to murder her majesty 1840.
LEES, JAMES. _b._ Cupar 1804; ed. Madras coll. St. Andrew’s
and in Edinburgh; manager for Smith and Carnegie, Dundee 1828;
writer to the signet in Dundee to 1834; manager for John
Anderson, bailie, Dundee 1834–54; author of The laws of shipping
and insurance 1845, 10 ed. 1877; A manual for shipmasters on
their qualifications, duties, &c. 1845, 4 ed. 1851; The laws of
the customs, with the tariff or customs’ tables and customs’
forms 1859; The merchant seaman’s act 1845; The merchant
shipping act 1855, 3 ed. 1876. _d._ Broughty Ferry, Dundee 5
July 1868. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 310–11.
LEES, SIR JOHN CAMPBELL (eld. son of James Lees, R.E.) _b._
Enfield, Middlesex 1796; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833; chief
justice and judge of court of admiralty of Bahama Islands 1 Aug.
1836 to 1865 when he retired; president of legislative council
of Bahama islands; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865;
author of Meteorological journal for 1839. Nassau, Bahamas 1839.
_d._ Victoria station on Metropolitan district railway 17 Oct.
1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 399 (1873).
LEES, JOHN FREDERICK (eld. son of Edward Lees of Oldham). _b._
1810; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831; M.P. for Oldham 8
July 1835 to 18 July 1837; contested Oldham 28 July 1837. _d._
Cheltenham 18 Sep. 1867.
LEES, TOM. _b._ 1821; one of the best riders at Astley’s
amphitheatre, gymnast and summersault thrower and the champion
of the ring; with Cooke’s circus from childhood, and with it
travelled in the provinces; played in pantomime at Cremorne
gardens, Melbourne, under George Coppin’s management; lived some
years in New Zealand. _m._ Emma Cooke pantomimist and dancer,
sister of James Cooke equestrian manager. _d._ Dunedin hospital,
New Zealand 24 July 1878. _The Era 29 Sep. 1878 p._ 5.
LEES, WILLIAM NASSAU (4 son of rev. sir Harcourt Lees
1776–1852). _b._ 21 Feb. 1825; ed. at Nut Grove and Trin.
coll. Dublin; ensign 42 Bengal N.I. 8 March 1846, captain 11
Sep. 1858; lieut.-col. Bengal infantry 8 June 1868; placed
on unemployed supernumerary list 21 Feb. 1884; M.G. 28
Nov. 1885; principal of the Madrásá or Mahommedan college,
Calcutta 1856–72, also professor of law, logic, literature and
mathematics; sec. to College of Fort William 1853; Persian
translator to government; government examiner in Arabic, Persian
and Urdu for all branches of the service; part proprietor of
Times of India newspaper some years; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1857
and Ph. Doc. Berlin; member of Royal Asiatic Soc. of London
1872; contested Gloucester 1868 and Helston 1874; author of A
biographical sketch of the mystic philosopher and poet Jami
1859; A memorandum after a tour through the tea districts of
Eastern Bengal 1866; The drain of silver to the East and the
currency of India 1864; The land and labour of India 1867;
Indian Musalmáns 1871. _d._ Grosvenor st. London 9 March 1889.
LEESON, HENRY BEAUMONT. _b._ about 1800; ed. at Caius coll.
Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; incorporated M.A. at Trin. coll.
Oxf. 1838, M.B. and M.D. 1840; M.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1847;
F.C.S.; M.R.I.; physician and lecturer on chemistry and forensic
medicine to St. Thomas’s hospital, London; F.R.S. _d._ The
Maples near Ventnor, Isle of Wight 8 Nov. 1872. _Times 9 Nov.
1872 p._ 5, _col._ 6.
LEESON, JOHN SACKVILLE. Entered Bombay army 1817; 1 lieut.
Bombay artillery 1 Sep. 1818, lieut.-col. Bombay artillery 15
April 1850, col. 28 March 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._
Paris 7 May 1859.
LEESON, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD (youngest son of hon. Robert Leeson
1773–1850). _b._ Feb. 1801; cornet 7 dragoon guards 2 Dec.
1819, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; chamberlain at Dublin castle
1835; knight usher of the black rod to the order of St. Patrick
1838–41 and genealogist 1841 to death; knighted at Dublin May or
June 1838. _d._ Caen, Normandy 21 April 1885.
LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN (elder son of Thomas Philip Le Fanu,
dean of Emly). _b._ Dublin 28 Aug. 1814; entered Trin. coll.
Dublin 1833; joined staff of Dublin Univ. Mag. 1837, editor
and proprietor 1869–72; called to Irish bar 1839; purchased
two Dublin papers, The Warder in 1839 and The Dublin Evening
Packet, part proprietor of the Dublin Evening Mail, amalgamated
the three papers under title of The Evening Mail with a weekly
reprint entitled The Warder; author of The Cock and the anchor
1845; The fortunes of colonel Torlogh O’Brien 1847; The house by
the churchyard 3 vols. 1863; Uncle Silas 3 vols. 1864; Wylder’s
hand 3 vols. 1864; Guy Deverell 3 vols. 1865; All in the dark 2
vols. 1866; The tenants of Malory 3 vols. 1867; Haunted lives
3 vols. 1868; A lost name 3 vols. 1868; The Wyvern mystery 3
vols. 1869; Checkmate 3 vols. 1871; Chronicles of Golden Friars
3 vols. 1871; The rose and the key 3 vols. 1871; In a glass
darkly 3 vols. 1872; Willing to die 3 vols. 1873; Morley court
1873, anon. _d._ 18 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 7 Feb. 1873. _J.
S. Le Fanu’s Purcell Papers with memoir by A. P. Graves_, _vol._
1 _pp. v–xxxi_ (1880); _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxi_ 319–20 (1873);
_Temple Bar_, _l_ 504–17 (1877).
LEFEBVRE, NICHOLAS. _b._ 1803; entered navy 18 Jany. 1811;
captain 20 Oct. 1853, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 9
Jany. 1880. _d._ Rue Lefebvre, Guernsey 7 Oct. 1884.
LEFEVRE, SIR JOHN GEORGE SHAW (2 son of Charles Shaw Lefevre,
M.P. Reading, _d._ 1823). _b._ Bedford sq. London 24 Jany. 1797;
ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1819; sen. wrangler and
B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; F.R.S. 16 Nov. 1820; barrister I.T. 11
Feb. 1825, bencher 21 Nov. 1854 to death, reader 1868; M.P.
Petersfield 1832–4; under sec. of state for colonies 1833–4;
poor law commissioner 18 Aug. 1834 to 1 Dec. 1841; joint assist.
sec. to board of trade 19 June 1841 to 14 May 1848; second
church estate commissioner 24 Aug. 1850; deputy clerk of the
parliaments 4 April 1848 and clerk 6 April 1856, resigned March
1875 when he retired on pension of £2,500; C.B. 27 April 1848,
K.C.B. 22 Jany. 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. 20 Nov. 1847;
a founder of the univ. of London 1836 and V.C. 1842–62; hon.
D.C.L. Oxf. 1858; hon. LLD. Dublin 1860; civil service comr.,
resigned 1862; one of founders of Athenæum club 1823; he knew
all the European languages and Hebrew. _d._ Cliftonville near
Brighton 20 Aug. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix_ 15–18 (1879);
_Graphic_, _xi_ 291, 292 (1875), _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 93
(1843), _portrait_.
LEFFLER, ADAM (son of James Henry Leffler, organist and bassoon
player, _d._ 1819). _b._ 1808; chorister in Westminster abbey;
appeared at Exeter at a festival 1829; first appeared in London
at Lyceum 31 Aug. 1836 as Hela in the Mountain Sylph; appeared
at Park theatre, New York as a tenor singer Aug. 1840; played
at Covent Garden, at the Lyceum, at Surrey theatre; sang at
concerts; professor of music at 12 Spencer place, Brixton road,
London; a bass singer, his compass extended from E below the
stave to G above it. _d._ 23 Osborne terrace, Clapham road,
London 18 March 1857. _Era 5 April 1857 p._ 10.
LE FLEMING, GEORGE CUMBERLAND HUGHES- (son of John Cumberland
Hughes of Bath). _b._ 21 July 1807; entered Madras army 1823;
captain 13 Madras N.I. 23 Dec. 1842, lieut.-col. 5 June 1854
to 1857; lieut.-col. of 19 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 European regiment
1858–9, of 50 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with
rank of M.G.; assumed additional surname of Le Fleming by r.l. 1
April 1862. _d._ 7 June 1877.
LEFROY, ANTHONY (eld. son of Thomas Langlois Lefroy 1776–1869).
_b._ Dublin 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A.
1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1864; M.P. co. Longford 1830–32, 1833–7
and 1842–7; contested co. Longford 1832, 1837, 1841 and 1857;
M.P. univ. of Dublin 1858–70; sheriff of Longford 1849. _d._
Carriglass manor, co. Longford 12 Jany. 1890.
LEFROY, EDWARD CRACROFT (son of George Benjamin Austin Lefroy of
13 Victoria st. Westminster). _b._ 1855; ed. Keble coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1877, M.A. 1881; C. of St. John’s, Woolwich 1880–82; author
of Undergraduate Oxford. Articles reprinted from The Oxford and
Cambridge undergraduates journal 1878; The christian ideal and
other sermons 1883; Counsels for the common life, six addresses
to senior boys 1885; Echoes from Theocritus and other sonnets
1885. _d._ at the res. of his father, 42 Shooter’s hill road,
Blackheath, Kent 19 Sep. 1891. _Academy 3 Oct. 1891 p._ 284.
LEFROY, JEFFREY (brother of Anthony Lefroy 1800–90). _b._ 1809
or 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1848, member
of the senate; R. of Aghaderg, co. Down 1836 to death; dean of
Dromore 1876 to death. _d._ Aghaderg Glebe 10 Dec. 1885.
LEFROY, SIR JOHN HENRY (son of John Henry George Lefroy, R.
of Ashe, Hants., _d._ 1823). _b._ Ashe 28 Jany. 1817; ed. at
Alton, Richmond, and R.M. acad. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec
1834, col. 9 Feb. 1865, col. commandant 13 Feb. 1881 to death;
sec. of the Royal artillery institution 1838–9 and again 1849;
director of magnetical observatory at St. Helena 1840–2 and at
Toronto 1842–53; travelled to Lachim and Hudson’s Bay 1843–4,
determined approximate position of American forces of magnetic
intensity; founded the Canadian institute at Toronto 1849; sec.
of the Patriotic Fund 1854; a senior clerk in the war office
1854; scientific adviser on subjects of artillery and inventions
at war office 1854–5; prepared a detailed scheme of military
education 1856; inspector general of army schools Feb. 1857 to
1860 when office abolished; sent on a special mission to the
Mediterranean fortresses; sec. of ordnance select committee
1860, pres. 1864; director general of ordnance 9 Dec. 1868 to
March 1870; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda 8 April
1871 to 10 May 1877; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; governor of Tasmania,
Oct. 1880 to Dec. 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of
general 10 May 1882; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.G.S. 1853; F.S.A.
1884; C.B. 31 March 1870; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of A
handbook for field service 1854, 4 ed. 1867; Observations made
at St. Helena 1847; Notes and documents relating to the family
of Loffroy 1868; Memorials of the discovery of the Bermudas or
Somers island 2 vols. 1877–9; Diary of a magnetic survey of
a portion of the dominion of Canada 1883. _d._ Lewarne near
Liskeard, Cornwall 11 April 1890. _bur._ at Croudall, Hants.
_Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 139–40 (1891); _Numismatic
Chronicle_ (1890) 31–2; _Graphic 26 April 1890 p._ 533,
_portrait_.
LEFROY, PERCY, otherwise Percy Lefroy Mapleton (son of Henry
Mapleton commander R.N. _d._ 1879, by Mary Trent dau. of Henry
Seale colonial sec. of St. Helena). _b._ Alpha place, Queen’s
road, Deptford 23 Feb. 1860; journalist writing for the weekly
papers; author of two dramas which were not successful; shot
and murdered Frederick Isaac Gold a retired London tradesman
aged 64, in a railway carriage on London and Brighton and South
coast railway while going through the Balcombe tunnel 27 June
1881, arrested on suspicion 8 July, tried at Maidstone assizes
5–7 Nov., confessed his guilt, hanged inside Lewes prison 29
Nov. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxix_ 37, 461 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xxiv_ 96 (1881), _portrait_; _Temple Bar_, _Jany. 1886 pp._
73–82; _Montagu Williams’ Leaves of a Life_ (1891) 277–94,
335–48.
LEFROY, THOMAS EDWARD PRESTON (3 son of Antony Lefroy of
Falford, Yorkshire, captain 65 foot). _b._ 30 Aug. 1815;
a special pleader; barrister M.T. 7 June 1844; a revising
barrister on the Northern circuit Aug. 1855; deputy judge of
Bloomsbury county court 1857–65; judge of county courts, circuit
55 (Dorset and Somerset) 1 Jany. 1868, retired 10 Oct. 1880 on
pension of £1000; author with H. I. Nicholl, J. M. Carrow and
others of Cases relating to railways and canals 5 vols. 1840–50.
_d._ Cambray, Bournemouth 25 July 1887.
LEFROY, THOMAS LANGLOIS (eld. son of Anthony Lefroy of
Carrickglass, co. Longford, lieut.-col. 9 light dragoons, _d._
1819). _b._ co. Limerick 8 Jany. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1795, LL.B. and LL.D. 1827; called to Irish bar
1797, practised in court of chancery; K.C. 1806; third serjeant
at law in Ireland Dec. 1818, 2nd serjeant 1820, first serjeant
1822–30; bencher of King’s Inns 1819; a comr. of assize 1822,
1824; M.P. for univ. of Dublin 1830–41; fourth baron of court
of exchequer, Ireland, Nov. 1841; lord chief justice of
queen’s bench, Ireland, March 1852, resigned May 1866; author
of Observations on the proceedings by elegit for the recovery
of judgment debts. Dublin 1802; author with John Schoales of
Reports of cases argued and determined in the high court of
chancery in Ireland during the time of Lord Redesdale from
Easter term 1802 to Easter term 1806, 2 vols. Dublin 1806–10.
_d._ Newcourt villa, Bray near Dublin 4 May 1869. _bur._
Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 11 May. _T. Lefroy’s Memoir of
chief justice Lefroy_ (1871), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag.
lxxix_ 65–74 (1872); _Portraits of eminent conservatives and
statesmen 2 series_ (1846), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 346 (1848),
_portrait_.
LEFROY, THOMAS PAUL (2 son of the preceding). _b._ 31 Dec. 1806;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827; called to Irish bar 1831;
Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; bencher of King’s Inns 1860 to death; chairman
of quarter sessions of co. Kildare 27 Dec. 1858 to Dec. 1890;
county court judge of Armagh 1875, of Down 1880 to Dec. 1890;
chancellor of diocesan court of Down, Connor and Dromore to
1890. _d._ Haddington terrace, Kingstown, co. Dublin 29 Jany.
1891. _Law Times 14 Feb. 1891 p._ 291.
LEFTLEY, CHARLES DAKIN. _b._ 1789; proprietor of business of
Dulau & Co. foreign booksellers, 37 Soho square, London. _d._ 21
Victoria road, Clapham common, Surrey 29 April 1873.