univ., M.A. 1836; licensed preacher in Church of Scotland 1838;
minister of Monimail 1843–59; principal of the univ. of Queen’s
coll. Canada 1859 to death, assist. to professor Nichol in univ.
observatory; moderator of the synod of the church of Scotland,
Canada 1862; a senator and an examiner in the univ. Toronto;
president of Botanical Soc. of Canada and a writer in its
Transactions 1861; a contributor to Kitto’s Journal of Sacred
Literature, Good Words and other periodicals; author of God’s
glory in the heavens 1862, 3 ed. 1866. _d._ Kingston, Upper
Canada 9 May 1864. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 221.
LEITCH, WILLIAM LEIGHTON. _b._ The Townhead, Glasgow 2 Nov.
1804; a weaver 1819, a house painter; scene painter at theatre
royal, Glasgow, Aug. 1824 at 20s. a week; spent 2 years at
Mauchline painting snuffboxes; scene painter at Queen’s theatre,
Tottenham st. London to 1832; studied and taught painting in
Italy 1833–7; a successful teacher in London from 1837; drawing
master to the queen and royal family from 1842 for 22 years;
last of the great English teachers of landscape painting; member
of Institute of painters in water-colours 1862, vice pres. to
death, a collection of his works was exhibited at their rooms
Piccadilly 1883; exhibited 11 pictures at R. A., 2 at B.I. and
2 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; his sketches with a few drawings and
oil pictures were sold at Christie’s, March 1884 for £9,000;
illustrated G. N. Wright’s The Rhine, Italy and Greece 1840; G.
N. Wright’s The shores of the Mediterranean 1840; J. Sherer’s
The classic lands of Europe 1879. _d._ 124 Alexandra road,
St. John’s Wood, London 25 April 1883. _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 604
(1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 432 (1883), _portrait_; _Mac
George’s W. L. Leitch, a memoir_ (1884), _portrait_.
LEITH, SIR ALEXANDER (eld. son of Alexander Leith of Freefield,
co. Aberdeen, _d._ 1828). _b._ Cobardie, Forgue, Aberdeenshire
1774; ensign 42 foot 8 Aug. 1792; captain 109 foot 1794; captain
31 foot 1795, lieut.-col. 7 Feb. 1811 to 25 May 1815 when placed
on h.p.; commanded 31 foot at battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees,
Nivelle, Nive and Orthes; colonel 90 foot 2 Sep. 1841 to 14 June
1853; colonel 31 foot 14 June 1853 to death; general 20 June
1854; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815. _d._ Freefield, co. Aberdeen 19 Feb.
1859.
LEITH, EDWARD TYRRELL (2 son of John Farley Leith, Q.C.) _b._
Calcutta 12 March 1842; ed. in Germany and Trin. coll. Camb.
1869; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1866; practised at Bombay 1867–85;
professor of law at government law school, Bombay 1869–85;
lived at Stuttgart, Germany 1886 to death; gave much attention
to ethnological studies and contributed to various papers The
funeral rites of the Parsees; The religion of the Non-Aryan
races of India; The primitive disposal of the dead by exposure;
Cannibalism in India; and The dog in myth and custom; author of
Divination by Házirát among the Indian Mussulmáns 1886. _d._
Heidelberg 10 Dec. 1888. _Law Times_, _lxxxvi_ 167, 230 (1889).
LEITH, HARRY. _b._ 1796; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1817;
presbyterian minister at Cornwall, Upper Canada 6 June 1822;
minister of Rothiemay 23 May 1827 to death; took part with the
minority in the dispute regarding the presentation to Marnoch
and was rebuked at the bar of the supreme civil court 26 May
1843 for breach of interdict and fined £5 and expenses. _d._
Rothiemay 20 Aug. 1854. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 3, _part_ 1,
_p._ 216.
LEITH, JAMES (son of sir Alexander Leith). _b._ 1827; cornet
14 hussars 4 May 1849, lieut. 1853; captain 2 dragoons 1859,
placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1861; served in Persian campaign 1857, at
suppression of mutiny at Aurungabad, with Malwa field force at
siege of Dhar, and at advance on Calpee; at Betwah 1 April 1858
charged alone and rescued Capt. Need from the rebel infantry
for which he was awarded Victoria cross 24 Dec. 1858; gentleman
at arms 5 May 1863 to death. _d._ Gloucester place, Hyde park,
London 13 May 1869.
LEITH, JOHN (2 son of general Alexander Leith Hay). _b._ Leith
hall, co. Aberdeen; entered navy 11 June 1803; captain 11 Nov.
1825; commander of the Seringapatam 46 guns and in charge of the
Barbadoes station 6 Feb. 1837 to July 1841; R.A. 11 Feb. 1854.
_d._ 25 Oct. 1854. _O’Byrne p._ 647.
LEITH, JOHN FARLEY (eld. son of James Urquhart Murray Leith,
capt. 68 regt., killed at Orthes 1814). _b._ Aberdeen 5 May
1808; ed. at gr. sch., Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen,
M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 7 May 1874 to
death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1872; advocate in supreme court at Calcutta
1840–9; professor of law East India college, Haileybury 1853–7
or 8; practised before judicial committee of P.C.; contested
city of Aberdeen 2 April 1857; M.P. city of Aberdeen 1872–80.
_d._ 8 Dorset sq. Marylebone, London 4 April 1887. _Law Times_,
_lxxxii_ 479 (1887).
LEITH, JOHN MACDONALD. _b._ 26 Dec. 1839; ed. at Cheltenham;
ensign 79 highlanders 17 March 1854, lieut.-col. 1 July 1881,
placed on h.p. 1 July 1885; brevet colonel 31 Dec. 1882; served
in Egypt 1882; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. _d._ Gibraltar 22 May 1888.
LEITH, ROBERT WILLIAM DISNEY (2 son of sir Alexander Leith
1774–1859). _b._ Glenkindy, Aberdeenshire 28 Feb. 1819; ensign
1 Bombay European fusiliers 4 Sep. 1837; served in Persian gulf
1838–41, in the Punjaub 1848–9, led storming party at capture
of Mooltan 1849; adjutant March to Aug. 1846; A.A.G. Bombay
1855–59; lieut.-col. 106 foot 1 Jany. 1862, on h.p. 29 May 1866,
lieut. general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Northcourt,
Isle of Wight 20 June 1892.
LEITRIM, NATHANIEL CLEMENTS, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 Earl of
Leitrim 1732–1804). _b._ Dublin 9 May 1768; known as viscount
Clements 1783–1804; M.P. Carrick 1790–7; M.P. Leitrim 1798–1800;
M.P. Leitrim in first parliament of United Kingdom 1801–4;
succeeded 27 July 1804; lord lieut. of Leitrim 1831 to death;
cr. baron Clements of Kilmacrenan, co. Donegal in peerage of
U.K. 20 June 1831; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland; col. of
Donegal militia. _d._ Killadoon, co. Kildare 31 Dec. 1854.
LEITRIM, WILLIAM SYDNEY CLEMENTS, 3 Earl of (2 son of the
preceding). _b._ Dublin 1806; known as viscount Clements
1804–54; ensign 43 foot 9 Dec. 1824, captain 5 April 1831;
placed on h.p. 20 March 1835; sold his commission 20 June 1854;
M.P. Leitrim 1839–47; col. of Leitrim militia 1843; succeeded
31 Dec. 1854; a magistrate for Galway, Leitrim and Donegal,
superseded Oct. 1863; gave orders to the manager of the hotel
at Maam a tenant of his own, to refuse admission to the earl of
Carlisle, the lord lieutenant, which was done accordingly; a
severe landlord who evicted many of his tenants; while driving
on a car with a clerk and a driver, shot dead at Cratlaghwood
near Milford, co. Donegal 2 April 1878, the driver and the clerk
being also killed. _Graphic_, _xvii_ 364 (1878), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. lxxii_ 329 (1878), _portrait_; _A.R._ 1878 _pp._ 35–36.
LE KEUX, HENRY (son of Peter Le Keux of Bishopsgate, London,
pewter manufacturer). _b._ 13 June 1787; apprenticed to James
Basire, engraver, worked for him on the Oxford almanacs and on
the plates for Society of Antiquaries; engraved for the Annals
1820–40; member of Associated Society of Engravers, engraved
for the Soc. some pictures by Claude and Canaletto in the
national gallery; joined in starting a crape manufactory at
Bocking in Essex about 1838; engraved views for Specimens of the
architecture of Normandy by J. Britton 1873; author with J. Le
Keux of Historical essays, a series of architectural antiquities
of Normandy 1828. _d._ Bocking 3 Oct. 1868. _bur._ Halstead,
Essex.
LEMAITRE, PAUL THOMAS. _b._ 1776; a gold watch case maker at
13 Denmark st. Soho; arrested 27 Sep. 1794 for treasonable
practices as being a delegate of the London Corresponding
Society, in connection with John Smith of the Pop Gun,
Portsmouth st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, to assassinate George
the Third by means of a poisoned arrow; examined by the Privy
Council 28–30 Sep.; the first person sent to the new prison at
Cold Bath Fields, confined there 32 weeks, liberated 9 May 1795
on giving bail for £50, tried at the Old Bailey 11 May 1796 and
discharged; his case was for many years before parliament; Henry
Warburton, M.P. got a petition drawn up for him in Aug. 1846.
_High treason. Narrative of the arrest of P. T. Lemaitre 2 ed._
(1795).
NOTE.--His petition to the House of Commons, states that he was then
in the 70th year of his age, was one of those persons, who during the
suspension of the Habeas Corpus act, were arrested and confined in
prison for long periods of time on charges of traitorously conspiring
against the King’s person and government, of which persons he was
nearly the sole survivor, alleges his innocence of the charges brought
against him, and prays that the House would be pleased to take his
petition into consideration and afford him redress. It was presented
and read and ordered to lie upon the table 13 Aug. 1846, ordered to be
printed 14 Aug.
LEMAN, JAMES. _b._ 1794; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1819
to death; member of council of incorporated law society 19 June
1851 to 1869, vice pres. 1862–3, pres. 1863–64. _d._ 29 Chester
terrace, Regent’s park, London 9 April 1876. _Solicitors’
Journal_, _xx_ 492 (1876).
LEMANN, CHARLES MORGAN. _b._ London 1806; ed. Trin. coll.
Camb., M.B. 1828, M.D. 1833; Fellow Linnean soc. 1831; F.C.P.
Lond. 1836; physician to lord Warwick’s family in Italy 1834–5;
formed an herbarium of plants from Spain, Italy, America,
Brazil, Guinea, the Cape and Australia consisting of 30,000
specimens, which was given by his brother Frederick Lemann to
the university of Cambridge. _d._ Bathampton near Bath 26 Aug.
1852. _Proc. of Linnean Soc. ii_ 234–5 (1855).
LE MARCHANT, SIR DENIS, 1 Baronet (2 son of John Gaspard Le
Marchant, major general 1766–1812). _b._ Newcastle 3 July 1795;
ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822;
chief sec. to lord chancellor Brougham 1830–34; clerk of the
crown in chancery 30 July 1834 to 1836; sec. to board of trade
1836–40 and 1848–50; joint sec. to the treasury 19 June 1841
to 21 May 1844; baronet 14 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Worcester 1846
to 1847; under sec. of state for home department 1847–8; chief
clerk to house of commons 30 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1871; author of
Report of the proceedings of the house of lords in the claim to
the barony of Gardner 1828; The reform ministry and the reform
parliament 1834, nine editions; Memoirs of general Le Marchant
1841, privately printed 90 copies; Memoirs of John Charles,
viscount Althorp 1876; edited Horace Walpole’s Memoirs of the
reign of George III. with notes 1845. _d._ 21 Belgrave road,
London 30 Oct. 1874. _I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1851_, _portrait_, _lxv_
475, 489 (1874) _portrait_, _lxvi_ 187 (1875); _Law Times 7 Nov.
1874 p._ 17.
LE MARCHANT, SIR JOHN GASPARD (brother of the preceding). _b._
1803; ensign 10 foot 26 Oct. 1820; lieut. 57 foot 1821, captain
1825; captain 98 foot 1826, major 1832–5; adjutant general
to Anglo-Spanish legion and brigadier general in the Spanish
army 1835–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838 for his
service in Spain; permitted to wear Spanish decorations of San
Fernando and Charles III.; lieut.-col. 99 foot 18 Oct. 1839 to
27 Sep. 1842; inspecting field officer recruiting district South
of Ireland 1842–6; lieut. col. of 85 foot 19 June 1846 to 29
Dec. 1846; lieut. governor of Newfoundland 1846–52 and of Nova
Scotia 1852–57; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1859 to 15 Nov. 1864;
commander-in-chief at Madras 25 May 1865 to 8 Nov. 1867; col. of
11 foot 3 Sep. 1862 to death; general 6 May 1872; G.C.M.G. 1860;
K.C.B. 9 Oct. 1865. _d._ 80 St. George’s square, London 6 Feb.
1874.
LE MESSURIER, ALEXANDER PETER. _b._ 1797 or 1798; entered Bombay
army 1819; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 8 Oct. 1839,
lieut.-col. 1 Dec. 1851 to 28 Nov. 1854; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I.
28 Nov. 1854 to 1856, of 10 N.I. 1856–7, of 12 N.I. 1857–60, of
10 N.I. again 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with rank of
M.G. _d._ 5 Inverness place, Hyde park, London 17 Feb. 1876.
LE MESSURIER, AUGUSTUS SMITH. _b._ 1800; barrister L.I. 22 Nov.
1821; practised with great success at Bombay 30 years; advocate
general of presidency of Bombay 1847 to 1857 when he returned to
England. _d._ 50 Upper Baker st. Portman square, London 8 Dec.
1876. _Solicitors’ Journal 16 Dec. 1876 p._ 132.
LE MESSURIER, GEORGE PAUL. Entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 2
Bombay N.I. 4 Jany. 1819; captain 14 N.I. 22 July 1826, major 15
Sep. 1841 to 2 March 1846; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 1846–8, of 24
N.I. 1848–9, of 22 N.I. 1849 to death. _d._ Wimpole st. London 6
Feb. 1852.
LEMOINNE, JOHN EMILE. _b._ London 17 Oct. 1815, and first
educated in England; joined staff of the Journal des Débats
1840, with which paper he remained to his death; member of
French academy 13 May 1875; a life senator 23 Feb. 1880; author
of Wellington from a French point of view 1852; Etudes critiques
et biographiques 1862; and of Letters of J. Lemoinne on the
exhibition of 1851, in D. Lardner’s The Great exhibition 1852.
_d._ Paris 14 Dec. 1892. _The Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 14,
_portrait_.
LEMON, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (3 son of sir Wm. Lemon
1748–1824). _b._ Whitehall, London 30 Sep. 1784; ed. Harrow;
M.A. of Camb. univ. 1833; M.P. Penryn 1807–12, and 1830–31; M.P.
Cornwall 1831–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832–41 and 1842–57; F.R.S.
23 May 1822; a founder of Statistical soc. 1834, and a trustee
1838; president R. Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1833 to death;
president R. Geological soc. of Cornwall 1840–50; provincial
grand master of freemasons of Cornwall 1843–63; a commissioner
for enquiring into state of British museum 11 June 1847; special
deputy warden of the Stannaries 1852; made a collection of
exotic trees and shrubs at Carclew; author of On the proposed
tariff as it affects tin, copper and timber used in mines 1842,
and other pamphlets. _d._ Carclew near Penryn, Cornwall 12 Feb.
1868. _bur._ Mylor ch. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._
314–15, 1267.
LEMON, MARK (eld. son of Martin Lemon, hop merchant, who _m._
27 Dec. 1808 Alice Collis and _d._ 21 Jany. 1818 aged 32).
_b._ Oxford st. London 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at Cheam, Surrey;
learnt business of a hop merchant from his uncle Thomas Collis
of Boston, Lincoln 1824; manager of Verey’s brewery, Kentish
Town, London; retailer of beer at 24 Lambeth Walk, Vauxhall
1837–41; his first play, P.L. or No. 30 Strand, was produced at
Strand theatre 25 April 1835; his 5 act drama in blank verse
Arnold of Winkelried produced at Surrey theatre, July 1835;
The Avenge produced at City of London theatre opening night 27
April 1837; his 5 act play The Turf produced at Covent Garden
1842; Hearts are trumps, at Strand theatre 1849; wrote about
60 plays; lived at 11 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 1852–9;
contributed to Household Works, Once a Week, &c.; edited The
London Journal 1858–9, The Family Herald, Once a Week; started
The Field 1 Jany. 1853, edited it; secretary to Herbert Ingram
founder of Illustrated London News, for which he wrote the first
Christmas supplement; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner
with Henry Mayhew of a third share in it, edited it to his
death, at a salary originally 30/-a week and latterly £1500 per
annum; an amateur actor from 1845; gave a series of lectures
called About London, at Gallery of Illustration 6 Jany. 1862
to 1863; arranged and played chief part in a series of scenes
from the Merry Wives of Windsor entitled Falstaff, at Gallery
of Illustration, Regent st. from 12 Oct. 1868, and in North of
England and Scotland 1868–9; author of The enchanted doll 1849
and other fairy tales; also of Wait for the end 3 vols. 1863
and other novels and about 100 songs. (_m._ 28 Sep. 1839 Helen
dau. of John Romer of Upper Chelsea, jeweller, she was granted
civil list pension of £100, 3 May 1872 and _d._ Nov. 1890). He
_d._ Vine cottage, Crawley, Sussex 23 May 1870. _bur._ Ifield 27
May. _Illustrated Rev. 15 Feb. 1872 pp._ 481–88, _portrait_; _J.
H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters_ (1870) 49–60; _Appleton’s
Journal_, _viii_ 493–5, _portrait_; _E. Walford’s Representative
men_ (1868), _portrait_; _J. Hatton’s With a show in the north.
Reminiscences of Mark Lemon_ (1871), _portrait_; _The Mask_
(1868) 65–7, _portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 348 (1845), _portrait_.
NOTE.--Mr. Edward Walford, M.A., states in Notes and Queries 16 June
1888 p. 478 that Mark Lemon told him the place of his birth was a house
included in the Crystal Palace bazaar just behind Peter Robinson’s
emporium, this was probably the present No. 228 Oxford St. formerly No.
108 down to 1881 when all the houses in Oxford st. west of Tottenham
Court road were renumbered. There is a portrait of Lemon by John Leech
in his two-page cartoon called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9
Jany. 1847 as the conductor of the orchestra. In Alfred Bunn’s A word
with Punch 1847 Lemon is spoken of as Thickhead, there is a portrait
representing him as a pot boy and it is suggested that he was a tailor
and vastly like Moses. He wrote the first article in the first number
of Punch entitled The Moral of Punch. The rev. J. Richardson, LL.B.
states in his Recollections of the last half century vol. 1 (1856)
80–2 that Lemon kept the Shakespeare’s Head tavern in Wych st. Strand
for one year after his marriage. In “Mr. Punch: his origin and career”
[1870] there is a facsimile of the original prospectus of Punch in the
handwriting of Lemon.
LEMON, ROBERT (son of Robert Lemon, archivist 1779–1835). _b._
1800; employed in state paper office under his father, senior
clerk Nov. 1835; compiled indexes to Valor ecclesiasticus temp.
Hen. VIII. 1834; suggested publishing the Calendars of state
papers and interpreted a cypher which had rendered many of them
unintelligible; edited Calendars of state papers Domestic series
1547–90, 2 vols. 1856–65; F.S.A. 3 March 1836, rearranged the
society’s library 1846; author of Catalogue of a collection of
broadsides 1866. _d._ 10 Ovington sq. Brompton, London 3 Jany.
1867. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. iii_ 481–2 (1867).
LEMON, THOMAS (1 son of Thomas Lemon, lieut.-col. R.M. _d._ 4
Aug. 1856). _b._ St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester 22 June 1807; 2
lieut. R.M. 8 Oct. 1827; col. commandant 6 March 1862 to death;
L.G. 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 20 May 1859. _d._ Plymouth 22 Feb. 1875.
LEMPRIERE, GEORGE OURRY. _b._ 11 March 1787; captain R.N. 27 May
1825; retired admiral 3 Dec. 1863. _d._ Pelham, Hants. 16 Jany.
1864.
LENDRICK, JAMES WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ 1790; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, gold medallist and Law’s mathematical prizeman 1810; B.
A. 1810, M.A. 1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 16 June 1859;
chairman of quarter sessions for counties of Londonderry and
Wicklow nearly 34 years. _d._ 114 Pembroke road, Dublin 19 Jany.
1872. _Irish Law Times 27 Jany. 1872 p._ 47.
LENDY, AUGUSTE FREDERIC. _b._ 1826; captain of the French army
staff; came to England as military tutor to the Orlean princes
1848; started a private military college at Sunbury house,
Sunbury-on-Thames; a successful ‘crammer’ for the army; lieut.
4th or royal South Middlesex militia 24 Nov. 1862, captain
2 May 1866, retired with hon. rank of major 1 Feb. 1879; an
amateur grower of orchids; author of The principles of war 1853;
Elements of fortification 1857; Maxims, advice and instruction
on the art of war 1857, new ed. 1864; Campaigns of Napoleon
and of Wellington 1861, nineteen parts; A practical course of
military surveying 1864. _d._ Riverside house, Sunbury-on-Thames
10 Oct. 1889. _Broad Arrow 19 Oct. 1889 p._ 479; _Gardener’s
Mag. 19 Oct. 1889_.
LENNARD, THOMAS BARRETT (1 son of sir T. B. Lennard, bart.
1761–1857). _b._ 4 Oct. 1788; ed. Charterhouse and Jesus coll.
Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; M.P. Ipswich 1820–6; M.P. Maldon
1826–37 and 1847–52; contested Maldon 26 July 1837; F.S.A. 22
May 1851. _d._ Brighton 9 June 1856.
LENNIE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1779; taught English at Edinburgh 1802 to
death; author of The principles of English grammar 1821, 85th
ed. Edinb. 1886; left an endowment of £10 a year to a school
at Craigend, Perthshire; left by his will to town council of
Edinburgh the lands of Auchenresch, Dumfriesshire for founding
in univ. of Edinb. four bursaries of £12 each to be called the
Lennie bursaries. _d._ 23 St. Andrew’s sq. Edinburgh 20 July
1852.
LENNOCK, GEORGE GUSTAVUS. _b._ 1776 or 1777; entered navy April
1789; in command of the Raven 16 guns attacked 14 brigs at
Flushing and drove 3 of them on shore 3 July 1812; captain 4
June 1814; in command of the Esk 20 guns had an action with
the Grampus and Terpsichore two American vessels 1814; retired
admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Broomrig, co. Dumfries 12 May 1866.
LENNOX, ALEXANDER FRANCIS CHARLES GORDON (son of 5 duke of
Richmond 1791–1860). _b._ 14 June 1825; cornet royal horse
guards 8 Feb. 1842, capt. 30 March 1847, sold out 14 May 1852;
M.P. Shoreham 1849–59. _d._ 25 Pont st. London 22 Jany. 1892.
LENNOX, ARTHUR GORDON (7 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819).
_b._ 2 Oct. 1806; ensign 71 foot 24 June 1823, major 6 July 1838
to 14 April 1843; lieut.-col. 72 foot 14 April 1843, placed
on h.p. 25 Feb. 1845; lieut.-col. 68 foot 14 Sep. 1852, sold
out 30 Dec. 1853; a lord of the treasury 21 May 1844 to 8 Aug.
1845; a clerk of the ordnance 7 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; M.P. for
Chichester 1831–46 when he voted for free trade and accepted the
Chiltern hundreds; returned for Yarmouth 29 July 1847, unseated
on petition 8 July 1848; lieut.-col. commandant 1 royal Sussex
militia 14 Dec. 1854 to death. _d._ Ovington sq. Brompton,
London 15 Jany. 1864.
LENNOX, GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (4 son of 5 duke of Richmond
1791–1860). _b._ Goodwood 22 Oct. 1829; cornet royal horse
guards 3 April 1846, lieut. 14 May 1852, sold out 22 April 1853;
M.P. Lymington 1860–74. _d._ 27 Berkeley square, London 27 Feb.
1877.
LENNOX, HENRY GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (brother of the preceding).
_b._ Goodwood, Sussex 2 Nov. 1821; ed. at Westminster 1836–40
and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; M.P. Chichester 1846–85;
a lord of the treasury 28 Feb. 1852 to 20 Dec. 1852 and 1 March
1858 to 14 March 1859; sec. to admiralty July 1866 to Dec. 1868;
P.C. 7 July 1874; president of board of works Feb. 1874 to July
1876; author of A winter in Madeira 1881; Forewarned, forearmed,
a statement of the strength of the English and French navies
1882, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ at his res. near Chichester 28 Aug. 1886.
LENNOX, JOHN GEORGE GORDON (2 son of 4 duke of Richmond.
1764–1819). _b._ 3 Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster; cornet 13
dragoons 24 Oct. 1811; captain 9 dragoons 27 June 1816, placed
on h.p. 25 June 1823; A.D.C. to duke of Wellington 1813;
lieut.-col. in the army 12 June 1823; gentleman of bedchamber to
prince Albert; M.P. Chichester 1819–31; M.P. Sussex 1831–2; M.P.
West Sussex 1832–41. _d._ Darland, Chatham 10 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N.
lxiii_ 495 (1873).
LENNOX, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ 1797 or 1798; entered Bengal army
1817; ensign 22 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1818; captain 43 N.I. 23
April 1830, major 11 Nov. 1847 to 14 July 1853; lieut.-col. of
67 N.I. 14 July 1853–4, of 38 N.I. 1854–6, of 22 N.I. 1856–7, of
34 N.I. 1857–9, of 63 N.I. 1859–61, of 9 N.I. 1861; retired with
rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Glasgow 5 May 1884.
LENNOX, WILLIAM PITT (4 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819).
_b._ Winestead abbey, Yorkshire 20 Sep. 1799; ed. at Westminster
1808–13; cornet royal horse guards 13 May 1813, captain 28
March 1822, sold out 25 March 1829; went to Paris with Duke of
Wellington as attaché 8 Aug. 1814, A.D.C. to the Duke 1815–8;
an extra A.D.C. to his father while governor general of Canada
1818–9; one of the pages at coronation of George IV. 19 July
1821; M.P. King’s Lynn 10 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; edited
The Review newspaper 1858; contributed to the Annuals, Once a
Week and the Court Journal; gave many lectures; is depicted by
Disraeli in Vivian Grey as Lord Prima Donna; author of Compton
Audley, or hands not hearts 3 vols. 1841; The tuft hunter 3
vols. 1843; The story of my life 3 vols. 1857; Recreations of a
sportsman 2 vols. 1862; Life of the Fifth Duke of Richmond 1862,
anon., and many other books. _d._ 34 Hans place, Sloane st.
London 18 Feb. 1881. _W. P. Lennox’s Fifty years reminiscences 2
vols._ (1863); _W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections 2 vols._ (1874).