March 1829; ed. at Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1849–56, B.A. 1851,
M.A. 1862; V. of Whitwell near York 1858–73; R. of Stokesley,
Yorks. 1873 to death; edited Ploughing and sowing, or annals of
an evening school. By M. E. S. 1861; More about farm lads. By M.
E. S. 1865; Gleanings, being a sequel to Ploughing and sowing
1876. _d._ Westhorpe house, Scarborough 20 Nov. 1883.
LEGÉR, THÉODORE. _b._ Paris 1799; educ. Paris; M.D.; resided
in Mexico, acquired and spent two fortunes; acted as a medical
mesmeriser 1850; discovered the magnetism of the phrenological
organs of the brain and established psychology as a mathematical
science; lectured at Hungerford hall, London on phrenology 1851;
gave séances and examined heads at 20 Gerrard st. Soho 1852;
edited Higia Periódico de salud, por las Senores D. T. Leger y
D. G. Villette No. 1–8. Mexico 1833; author of Considerations
sur l’endurcissement du tissu cellulaire chez les nouveaux nés.
Paris 1823; Animal magnetism or psychodunamy. New York 1846; The
magnetoscope, the magnetoid characteristics and their relations
to the organisation of man 1852. _d._ 20 Gerrard st. Soho,
London 6 Oct. 1853. _J. Ashburner’s Notes on animal magnetism_
(1867) 57–81.
LE GEYT, CHARLES JAMES (son of Philip Le Geyt, chaplain to duke
of Kent, _d._ 1847). _b._ 1829; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1853
and Magd. coll. M.A. 1855; V. of St. Matthias, Stoke Newington
1858 to death; author of Digging against the wells, a sermon at
short services for business men 1866; Catholic ritual of the
church in England 1867; Incense at the Magnificat not Mariolatry
1867. _d._ Calais 27 Dec. 1877.
LE GEYT, GEORGE. _b._ Canterbury 20 March 1777; entered navy
March 1791; retired captain 12 Aug. 1812, retired admiral 11
Feb. 1861; C.B. 4 July 1840. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 23 Sep.
1861. _O’Byrne p._ 645.
LEGGE, ARTHUR CHARLES. _b._ 25 June 1800; ensign 28 foot 23 May
1816; lieut. 1 life guards 1820, captain 1822–37, placed on h.p.
23 June 1837; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. 1 Staffordshire rifle
volunteers 8 May 1868 to death. _d._ Caynton, Shiffnal 18 May
1890.
LEGGE, MARY (dau. of Mr. Jones _d._ 1843). _b._ London, May
1802. _m._ 24 Sep. 1827 rev. Wm. Legge, congregational minister,
Fakenham 1828, where he also received students from 1837,
_d._ Fakenham 13 Dec. 1859; author of A pastoral letter to
the congregational church at Fakenham 1852; A reading book of
English history and biography 1863; with F. J. Gladman, The
handybook of English history 1874; she assisted her husband in
teaching the students; resided at Birkenhead from 18 June 1860.
_d._ Birkenhead 31 Dec. 1879. _bur._ Fakenham cemet. 4 Jany.
1880. _A life of consecration, memorials of Mrs. Mary Legge_
(1883) _with 2 portraits and portrait of W. Legge_.
LEGGETT, JOSEPH. Entered Madras army 1808; ensign 3 Madras N.I.
28 May 1810, lieut.-col. 25 July 1838 to 1840; lieut.-col. of 48
N.I. 1840 to 1845, of 52 N.I. 1845 to 1846, of 22 N.I. 1846 to
1847; brigadier at Saugor 3 April 1846 to 19 Oct. 1847; col. of
26 N.I. 20 Oct. 1847 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Dedham,
Essex 15 Oct. 1857 aged 65.
LEGH, EDMUND CORNWALL. Ensign 97 foot 5 July 1839, lieut.-col.
28 July 1857 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ Banda, Central
India 3 June 1859.
LEGH, GEORGE CORNWALL. _b._ 30 Aug. 1804; sheriff of Cheshire
1838; M.P. for North Cheshire 1841–47 and 1848–68; major 2 royal
Cheshire militia 30 July 1853, lieut.-col. 20 March 1869 to 16
July 1873. _d._ 16 June 1877.
LEGH, Thomas (eld. son of colonel Thomas Peter Legh of Lyme,
Cheshire, _d._ 1797). _b._ 1793; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf.,
D.C.L. 1817; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1814–32 when borough was
disfranchised; colonel Lancashire fencible cavalry; F.R.S. 12
June 1817; author of Narrative of a journey in Egypt and the
country beyond the cataracts 1816, 2 ed. 1817; resided at Lyme
park, Cheshire. _d._ Milford lodge, Lymington, Hants. 8 May 1857.
LE GRAND, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ Ireland 1805; studied medicine
in Cork and Dublin; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1844; entered
R.N. Feb. 1828; a skilful operator; served at Cape of Good Hope,
East Indies, &c.; surgeon naval hospital, Malta 1836–9, in
Syrian war 1840; in charge of Australian convict ships 1848–52;
served in war in the Baltic 1854; surgeon to Haslar hospital
1855–8, to Deptford dockyard 1858–64; granted Greenwich hospital
good service pension 28 March 1866. _d._ 22 Manor road, New
Cross, Kent 4 Nov. 1874. _Medical Times 5 Dec. 1874 p._ 649.
LEGREW, JAMES (son of James Legrew 1769–1856, R. of Caterham,
Surrey). _b._ Caterham 1803; studied sculpture under sir F.
L. Chantrey; a student of the R.A., silver medallist 1824 and
gold 1829; travelled in Italy 1840–2; sent two works The last
prayer of Ajax, and Milton dictating to his daughter, to the
Westminster Hall competition 1844; exhibited 30 pieces of
sculpture at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1826–57;
author of A few remarks on the sculpture of the nations referred
to in the Old Testament deduced from an examination of some of
their idols 1845; committed suicide at his house, 1 St. Alban’s
road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1857.
LE GRICE, CHARLES VALENTINE (eld. child of Charles Le Grice,
R. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, _d._ 1792). _b._ Bury St.
Edmunds 14 Feb. 1773; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1781–92; friend
of S. T. Coleridge and Charles Lamb; admitted sizar of Trin.
coll. Camb. 16 June 1792, scholar 17 April 1795, B.A. 1796,
M.A. 1805; tutor to Wm. John Godolphin Nicholls of Trereife
near Penzance 1796; P.C. of St. Mary’s church, Penzance 31 July
1806 to June 1831; contributed articles to the Gentleman’s Mag.
during more than 60 years, including College reminiscences of
Coleridge reprinted in C. Carlyon’s Early Years 1843; author of
The Tineum, containing estianomy or the art of stirring a fire
1794; Analysis of Paley’s Principles of moral and political
philosophy 1795, 8 ed. 1822; Daphnis and Chloe, a pastoral novel
1803; The petition of an old uninhabited house in Penzance to
its master in town 1811, 3 ed. 1858, and a number of pamphlets.
_d._ Trereife near Penzance 24 Dec. 1858. _Boase and Courtney’s
Bibl. Cornub. i_ 311–14, _iii_ 1266–7, 1432; _Boase’s Collect.
Cornub._ (1890) 485–7; _G.M. i_ 322–4 (1859); _Letters of
Charles Lamb, edited by A. Ainge_, _i_ 2–6 (1888).
LEHMANN, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. _b._ 1826; senior partner in
firm of Naylor, Benzon & Co., merchants, 20 Abchurch lane,
London; F.R.G.S.; made a fine collection of paintings; resided
at 15 Berkeley sq., and Woodlands, Southwood lane, Highgate.
_d._ Coombe cottage, Kingston-on-Thames, the residence of his
son-in-law 22 Aug. 1891, will proved for £543,980 18s. 4d.
_I.L.N. 5 Sep. 1891 p._ 303.
LEIFCHILD, HENRY STORMONTH (4 son of Wm. Gerard Leifchild of
Moorgate st. London). _b._ 1823; studied at British Museum and
R.A., also in Rome 1848–51; exhibited his statue of Rizpah, at
Great Exhibition 1851; executed the Guards’ memorial at Chelsea
hospital; designed a mortuary chapel in Warriston cemetery,
Edinburgh; his statue of Erinna is at Holloway College; excelled
as a draughtsman, carver and musician; exhibited 38 pieces of
sculpture at R.A. 1844–76; resided at 243 Stanhope st. Regent’s
Park, London. _d._ 15 Kirkstall road, Streatham Hill, Surrey 11
Nov. 1884. _Magazine of Art_, _July 1891_.
LEIFCHILD, JOHN (son of John Leifchild). _b._ Barnet, Herts.
15 Feb. 1780; studied at Hoxton academy 1804–8; minister of
independent chapel in Hornton st. Kensington, London 1808–24;
minister of church in Bridge st. Bristol 1824–30, and of
Craven chapel, Bayswater, London 1831–54; preached at Queen’s
sq. chapel, Brighton 1854–6; edited with rev. Dr. Redford The
Evangelist, monthly mag. May 1837 to June 1839; author of A help
to the reading of the scriptures, an arrangement of the books
in chronological order 1829; Directions for the right reading
of the scriptures 1842; The christian emigrant 1849; Remarkable
facts, illustrative of different portions of scripture 1867, the
6 ed. is entitled Brief expositions of scripture 1879. _d._ 4
Fitzroy terrace, Gloucester road North, Regent’s Park, London
29 June 1862. _J. R. Leifchild’s John Leifchild, D.D._ (1863),
_portrait_; _James B. Brown’s John Leifchild_ (1862).
LEIGH, AUGUSTA MARY (only dau. of Capt. John Byron _d._
Valencienne, France 2 Aug. 1791, by his wife the baroness
Conyers). _b._ 26 Jany. 1783; half sister of George Gordon, lord
Byron, the only relative for whom he retained any affection,
to whom some of his poems are dedicated, and the last person
to whom he wrote a letter. _m._ 17 Aug. 1807 her cousin George
Leigh lieut.-col. of 10 light dragoons, he _d._ May 1850;
accused by Harriet Beecher Stowe in an article in the Atlantic
Monthly of Sep. 1869 of having committed incest with her brother
in 1814, but no one believed the accusation; under Byron’s will
of 29 July 1815 she inherited all her brother’s disposable
property, Lady Byron being already well provided for. _d._
Marlborough court, St. James’ palace, London 12 Oct. 1851. _H.
B. Stowe’s Lady Byron vindicated_ (1870); _C. Mackay’s Medora
Leigh_ (1869); _The true story of lord and lady Byron in answer
to Mrs. Stowe_ (1869), _portrait_.
LEIGH, EGERTON (only son of Egerton Leigh of West Hall, High
Leigh, Cheshire 1779–1865). _b._ Broadwell manor house, Gloucs.
17 March 1815; ed. at Eton; cornet 2 dragoon guards 12 April
1833, captain 18 Dec. 1840 to 31 March 1843; captain 4 dragoon
guards 31 March 1843, sold out 14 July 1843; major 1 royal
Cheshire militia 30 Aug. 1853 to 16 April 1873; sheriff of
Cheshire 1872; M.P. for Mid-Cheshire division 7 March 1873 to
death; edited Ballads and Legends of Cheshire 1867; author of
Pets 1859; The guide to Eton. _d._ Cox’s hotel, 55 Jermyn st.
London 1 July 1876. _bur._ churchyard of Rostherne, Cheshire.
_Egerton Leigh’s Glossary of words used in the dialect of
Cheshire_ (1877), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 69 (1876),
_portrait_.
LEIGH, EVAN (son of Peter Leigh of Ashton-under-Lyne,
cotton-spinner). _b._ Ashton 21 Dec. 1810; manager of his
father’s business 1831–50, partner with his father; effected
an improvement in the spinning mule, which reduced cost of
spinning from 5d. to about 3d. per lb. 1831; a manufacturer of
machinery at Miles Platting, Manchester 1850–69; a consulting
engineer and exporter of machinery 1869, established businesses
at Manchester, Liverpool and Boston, Massachusetts; patented the
twin-screws for steamers 18 July 1849, since come into general
use; invented the self-stripping carding engine, coupled mules
with putting-up motion, and the loose-boss top roller; patented
19 inventions 1849–70; A.I.C.E. 1872; author of Plan for
conveying railway trains across the straits of Dover 1870; The
science of modern cotton-spinning 2 vols. 1871, 4 ed. 1877. _d._
Clarence house, Chorlton near Manchester 2 Feb. 1876, portrait
in collection of portraits of inventors at South Kensington
Museum. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xliv_ 229–31 (1876).
LEIGH, GILBERT HENRY CHANDOS (eld. son of 2 baron Leigh _b._
1824). _b._ 30 Portman sq. London 1 Sep. 1851; ed. Harrow and
Magd. coll. Camb., B.A. 1874, M.A. 1878; capt. Warwickshire
yeomanry cavalry 10 Nov. 1877 to death; M.P. South Warwickshire
7 April 1880 to death. _d._ by a fall from a precipice while
shooting in the Big-Horn mountains, Wyoming 15 Sep. 1884.
_bur._ Stoneleigh churchyard 22 Oct. _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 373 (1884),
_portrait_.
LEIGH, HENRY SAMBROOKE (son of the succeeding). _b._ London 29
March 1837; edited The Arrow, 10 numbers 2 Aug. to 7 Dec. 1864;
wrote Falsacappa, music by Offenbach, produced at Globe theatre
22 April 1871; Le Roi Carotte at the Alhambra 3 June 1872;
Bridge of Sighs opera-bouffe at St. James’s 18 Nov. 1872; White
Cat, a fairy spectacle at New Queen’s 2 Dec. 1875; Voyage dans
la Lune, opera-bouffe Alhambra 15 April 1876; author of Carols
of Cockayne 1869, 5 ed. 1888; Gillott and Goosequill 1871; A
Town garland: a collection of lyrics 1878; Strains from the
Strand: trifles in verse 1882. _d._ Lowther’s private hotel,
35 Strand, London 16 June 1883. _I.L.N. 30 June 1883 p._ 648,
_portrait_.
LEIGH, JAMES MATHEWS (son of Samuel Leigh of 145 Strand, London,
bookseller). _b._ 1808; studied under Wm. Etty, R.A.; painter of
sacred subjects and portraits; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A.,
23 at B.I. and 29 at Suffolk st. 1825–49; kept the General
practical school of art at 79 Newman st. Oxford st. London 1848
to death; author of Cromwell, an historical play in five acts
1838; The Rhenish Album 1836, anon. _d._ 79 Newman st. London 20
April 1860.
LEIGH, JOHN (younger son of John Leigh of Consall, Staffs.).
_b._ Consall 1809; barrister I.T. 8 May 1835; judge of court
of appeal, Jamaica 1840–46; police magistrate at Wolverhampton
1846–60 and at Worship st. London 1860 to May 1864; bankrupt for
£29,000, 23 March 1864; wrote Juvenile offenders and destitute
pauper children, in Meliora, Second series by C. J. Talbot,
viscount Ingestre 1853 pp. 81–89. _d._ Balham, Surrey, Nov. or
Dec. 1880. _bur._ Tooting cemetery.
LEIGH, JOHN. _b._ Foxdenton hall, Lancs. 8 June 1813; L.S.A.
1834, M.R.C.S. 1837; resident medical officer Manchester
infirmary and lecturer there; medical officer of health,
Manchester 4 March 1868; author of Sir Percy Legh and other
ballads 1861; Coal smoke, report to the health and nuisance
committee of corporation of Manchester 1883; and with Ner
Gardiner, History of the cholera in Manchester 1850. _d._ 1887.
LEIGH, JOHN GERARD (1 son of John Shaw Leigh 1791–1871).
_b._ 1821; ed. Eton and Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1841; student of
Lincoln’s inn 1843; inherited a large fortune; kept a large
stud and extensive kennels at Luton Hoo park, Beds.; master
of the Hertford hunt 1866; member of Four in hand club; ran
steeple chases under name of Mr. Lynton, won the Liverpool with
Half-Caste 1851; breeder of cattle, took prizes at Smithfield
club shows. _d._ 138 Piccadilly, London 24 Feb. 1875. _Bell’s
Life in London 27 Feb. 1875 p._ 6; _Baily’s Mag. April 1872 pp._
311–12, _portrait_.
LEIGH, JOHN SHAW (son of John Leigh _d._ 1823). _b._ 26 July
1791; ed. Rugby; solicitor at Liverpool 1823–48; mayor of
Liverpool 1841, alderman 1844–48; sheriff of Beds. 1856; founded
a scholarship at Liverpool collegiate institution. _d._ 138
Piccadilly, London 15 June 1871. _bur._ Walton on the hill near
Liverpool 21 June.
LEIGH, PERCIVAL (son of Leonard Leigh of St. Cross, Winchester).
_b._ Haddington 3 Nov. 1813; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital;
L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1835; on the staff of Punch 1841 to death,
was the last survivor of the early writers; played Oliver Cob in
Ben Jonson’s Every man in his humour, at Miss Kelly’s theatre
21 Sep. 1845; lived at 10 Bedford street Bloomsbury, afterwards
at Hammersmith to death; author of The comic Latin grammar 1840;
The comic English grammar 1840; Portraits of children of the
mobility 1841, all three illustrated by John Leech; Manners and
customs of ye English: drawn from ye quick by Richard Doyle
1849, 2 ed. 1876, this appeared originally in Punch; Paul
Prendergast, or the comic schoolmaster 1859. _d._ Oak cottage,
221 Hammersmith road 24 Oct. 1889. _W. P. Frith’s John Leech
vol._ 1, _chapters iii and xiii_ (1891).
NOTE.--There is a portrait of him in John Leech’s two-page cartoon
called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 where he is
playing the double bass in the orchestra between the cornet and the
violin.
LEIGH, SAMUEL. _b._ Milton, Staffs. 1 Sep. 1785; an Independent
lay helper; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Shaftesbury 1812–13,
at Montreal, Canada 1814–15, in New South Wales, Australia
10 Aug. 1815 to 1820 and 1826–31, first Methodist minister
in Australia, held his first service Sydney 16 March 1816,
his first convert being a convict; minister in New Zealand
1820–25 where he established the first Methodist station; in
England 1832 to death. _d._ Reading 2 May 1852. _A. Strachan’s
Remarkable incidents in the life of rev. S. Leigh_ (1853),
_portrait_; _Leben und werken von Samuel Leigh. Bremen_ 1864;
_Jas. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand_ (1878) 272–7.
LEIGHTON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Dundee 1800; clerk to a lawyer at
Edinb.; Wilson’s Tales of the borders. Revised by A. Leighton
20 vols. 1857–9, New ed. with 4 additional volumes 6 vols.
1863–69; author of Curious storied traditions of Scottish life,
two series 1860–1; The court of Cacus or the story of Burke and
Hare 2 ed. 1861; Mysterious legends of Edinburgh 1864; Shellburn
1865, a tale; Romances of the old town of Edinburgh 1867. _d._
24 Dec. 1874.
LEIGHTON, SIR BALDWIN, (7 Baronet). _b._ Sunderland 14 May 1805;
ed. Rugby; succeeded 13 Nov. 1828; chairman of quarter sessions,
Salop, Dec. 1855; M.P. South Salop 1859–65; contested South
Salop 15 July 1865. _d._ Morton hall, Daventry 26 Feb. 1871.
_I.L.N. lviii_ 250, 619 (1871).
LEIGHTON, _Charles Blair_ (son of Stephen Leighton). _b._
6 March 1823; apprenticed to a silver-engraver 1837–44; a
student of the R.A.; painted portraits and figure pieces; a
chromolithographer with his brother George Cargill Leighton.
_d._ 6 Feb. 1855.
LEIGHTON, SIR DAVID (son of Thomas Leighton of Brechin,
Forfarshire). _b._ 1774; entered Bombay army 1795; lieut. 4
Bombay N.I., lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1813 to 1818; adjutant of
the 2nd battalion 7 July 1800 to 12 Oct. 1802; lieut.-col. 9
Bombay N.I. 1818–1821; adjutant general Bombay army 1817 to
1826; commanded Presidency division 1826 to 1831; lieut.-col.
commandant 7 N.I. 4 July 1821, col. 5 June 1829 to death;
general 20 June 1854; C.B. 23 July 1823, K.C.B. 10 March 1837.
_d._ Bafford house, Charlton Kings near Cheltenham 1 June 1860.
LEIGHTON, FRANCIS KNYVETT (only son of Francis K. Leighton of
Ipswich). _b._ 1807; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., demy of Magdalen
1823–9; fellow of All Souls’ 1829–43; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831,
D.D. 1858; P.C. of Great Ilford, Essex 1836–41; R. of Harpsden
1841–58; R. of Lockinge and Warden of All Souls’ 18 March 1858
to death; V.C. of univ. of Oxf. 1866–70; canon of Westminster
11 Nov. 1868 to death; on the council of Keble coll. 1871–80;
author of Montes Pyrenæi, carmen Latinum, in theatro Sheldoniano
recitatum 1826. _d._ All Souls’ college 13 Oct. 1881. _bur._
college chapel 18 Oct., portrait by Richmond in the college
hall. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen College_, _vii_ 290–1
(1881).
LEIGHTON, ROBERT (son of David L. Leighton _d._ 1828). _b._
Murray gate, Dundee 20 Feb. 1822; in a merchant’s office in
Dundee; went round the world as a supercargo in one of his
brother’s ships 1842–3; clerk in locomotive department of London
and North-Western railway at Preston 1843–54; managed at Ayr a
branch business of a firm of Liverpool seed merchants 1854–59,
after that in the Liverpool house and travelled for the firm in
Great Britain and Ireland 1859–67; author of Rhymes and poems,
By Robin 1855, 2 ed. 1861; Poems 1866, 2 ed. 1869; Scotch words
and the Bapteesement o’ the bairn 1869, 3 ed. 1869; Reuben and
other poems 1875; Records and other poems 1880. _d._ Liverpool
10 May 1869. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_ 432–37
(1877); _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 327.
LEIGHTON, ROBERT (son of Archibald Leighton a bookbinder at 55
Exmouth st. Clerkenwell and the inventor of cloth binding 1822,
_d._ 1841). _b._ London 1822; apprentice to his father; head
of firm of Leighton and Eeles, bookbinders 54 and 55 Exmouth
st. 1841, business removed to Angel court, Strand, then to Harp
alley and to 13 Shoe lane; W. Hodge became a partner 1853 and R.
Leighton junr. in 1885; removed to 16 New st. sq. 1870, firm
became Leighton, Son and Hodge, the first to use steam machinery
in binding; invented the backing and trimming machine; the first
to use steam power for blocking in gold and to use aluminium
and black and coloured inks for cloth cases; invented printing
on the edges of books; the chief binders of drawing room table
books. _d._ Oakdale road, Coventry park, Streatham 14 Dec. 1888.
_The Bookseller_, _Jany. 1889 p._ 8.
LEIGHTON, THOMAS. Entered Bombay army 1807; ensign 7 Bombay
N.I. 5 Nov. 1808, lieut. 1 Jany. 1814; captain 14 N.I. 1 May
1824, major 29 Sep. 1832 to 28 June 1838; lieut.-col. of 16
N.I. 28 June 1838 to 1841, of 12 N.I. 1841 to 1843, of 26 N.I.
1843–45, of 2 N.I. 1845–46, of 1 N.I. 1846–8, of 21 N.I. 1848–9;
commandant at Candeish 4 Feb. 1848 to 1 Oct. 1849; col. of 2
N.I. 20 Sep. 1849 to death. _d._ Cambridge terrace, Hyde park,
London 1 Feb. 1855.
LEIGHTON, WILLIAM (son of David Leighton a master baker). _b._
Dundee 3 Feb. 1841; taken to Liverpool 1847; clerk to a Spanish
merchant 1854; employed in a Brazilian house 1864 to death;
contributed poems to The Compass a local literary paper, and
to the Liverpool Mercury; author of Poems 1870, 2 ed. 1870;
Hymns 1871; Baby died to-day and other poems 1875. _d._ of
typhoid fever 22 April 1869. _bur._ Anfield cemetery, Liverpool,
memorial window in St. Ann’s church, Brookfield, Highgate Rise,
London. _Poems by the late William Leighton_ (1870), _memoir pp.
v–vi_; _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 325.
LEIGHTON, WILLIAM ALLPORT (only son of Wm. Leighton, landlord of
the Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury). _b._ Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury 17
May 1805; articled to a solicitor in Shrewsbury 1822; studied at
St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1833; C. of St. Giles’s, Shrewsbury
1845–8; gave his collection of lichens to Kew Gardens 1880;
author of Catalogue of the cellulares or flowerless plants of
Great Britain 1837; A flora of Shropshire 1841; A guide through
the town of Shrewsbury 1855; The lichen-flora of Great Britain
1871, 2 ed. 1872; Wanderings among old churches in neighbourhood
of Rhyl 1881. _d._ Lucifelde, Shrewsbury 28 Feb. 1889.
LEINSTER, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK FITZGERALD 3 Duke of (eld. son
of 2 duke of Leinster 1749–1804). _b._ Carton house, Maynooth
21 Aug. 1791; styled marquess of Kildare 1791–1804; succeeded
his father 20 Oct. 1804; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch.
Oxf. 23 Oct. 1810; P.C. Ireland 9 May 1831; P.C. 29 June 1831;
lord high constable of Ireland for coronations of William IV.
and Victoria; lord lieut. of co. Kildare 7 Oct. 1831 to death;
grand master of Irish grand lodge of freemasons 24 June 1813 to
death; president of National Agricultural Soc. 1841; a resident
landlord who much improved his estate, the Leinster lease was
a well known document; his masonic jubilee was celebrated 24
June 1863; premier duke, marquess and earl of Ireland. d. Carton
house 10 Oct. 1874. _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxiv_ 42–57 (1874),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 369, 378 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_x_ 391 (1874), _portrait_.
LEINSTER, CHARLES WILLIAM FITZGERALD, 4 Duke of (son of the
preceding). _b._ Dublin 30 March 1819; styled marquess of
Kildare 1819–74; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1852; comr.
of national education in Ireland 1841; sheriff co. Kildare
1842–3; M.P. co. Kildare 1847–52; lieut.-col. royal Dublin
militia 1849–72, hon. col. 11 May 1872 to death; summoned to
parliament as baron Kildare 28 April 1870; chancellor of Queen’s
univ. Ireland 1870; succeeded as 4 duke 10 Oct. 1874; author of
The earls of Kildare and their ancestors 2 ed. with Addenda.
Dublin 1858–62, 3 ed. 1858. _d._ Carton, Maynooth 10 Feb. 1887.
_I.L.N. xviii_ 105, 106 (1851), _portrait_.
LEISHMAN, MATTHEW (son of a manufacturer). _b._ Paisley;
presbyterian minister at Goran, Oct. 1820; a leader of the party
termed The Forty 1839; D.D. Glasgow 18 Dec. 1840; moderator
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