of Dublin, physician, _d._ 1813). _b._ 20 June 1803; ed. Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.B. 1828; L.R.C.S.I 1830, F.R.C.S.I.
1844; government comr. of loan funds 1841; inspector general of
prisons, Ireland 1854–77; governor of Richmond district lunatic
asylum; sheriff of Monaghan 1844; contested co. Dublin 26 July
1852; a comr. of national education Ireland 1861 to death;
president of Zoological soc; president of Statistical soc.;
M.R.I.A.; C.B. 27 March 1873, K.C.B. 28 April 1880; knighted by
lord lieut. of Ireland at Dublin castle 28 April 1880; knight of
order of Pius IX. _d._ 1 Great Denmark st. Dublin 12 Nov. 1886.
LENTHALL, FRANCIS KYFFIN (3 son of Kyffin John William Lenthall
1789–1870). _b._ 30 March 1824; a lineal descendant of William
Lenthall the speaker, through whom he owned Besselsleigh manor
near Abingdon; barrister L.I. 1 May 1846; recorder of Woodstock,
Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1885; assist. revising barrister for county
and city of Worcester 1868, and for Gloucestershire 1869;
author of Correspondence by F. K. Lenthall and others respecting
the memorial to Lord Romilly 1866. _d._ Besselsleigh manor,
Berks. Jany. 1892.
LEONARD, DENIS. _b._ Kilkenny 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; an
attorney; appeared at a minor London theatre under name of Mr.
O’Neil; played sir Lucius O’Trigger at the Haymarket; acted in
America, the Southern States and Canada; acted in the provinces;
again visited America; the leading Irish actor of his time;
played Richmond to Kean’s Richard III. in Belfast 1830; played
all Tyrone Power’s Irish parts at the Haymarket, at the T.R.
Dublin 1843 &c. and in America; his drama The Foster Brothers
produced in Belfast about 1867; an attorney in Belfast and
law agent for marquess of Downshire. _d._ 8 Cromwell terrace,
Belfast 31 May 1878.
LEONARD, JOHN PATRICK. _b._ Ireland; connected with sir C. G.
Duffy in the 1848 movement in Ireland; a resident in Paris from
1849; professor of English in the Collége Chaptal to death; a
medical man in Franco-German war, attended marshall Mac Mahon
when wounded outside Sedan Aug. 1870, very friendly with the
marshall and the duchess of Magenta; published Sermon on behalf
of the distressed Irish by G. Mermillod, bishop of Hebron, a
translation 1862. _d._ Paris, Aug. 1889. _bur._ Ballymor near
Queenstown 27 Oct.
LEONARD, PETER. _b._ St. Vigeans, Arbroath 1801; L.R.C.S. Edinb.
1822; M.D. of St. Andrew’s 1851; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon
R.N. 6 March 1823, fleet surgeon 1829; inspector general of
hospitals 15 March 1865, retired 19 Sep. 1866; first inspector
general under contagious diseases act and organizer of the
administration 1866; wrote a Naval medical journal of services
in South America, for which he received sir G. Blaine’s gold
medal; deputy inspector general at Chatham, then at Haslar;
granted Greenwich hospital pension of £100 a year 24 March 1871;
author of Records of a voyage to the Western coast of Africa and
of the service in that station for the suppression of the slave
trade. Edinb. 1833. _d._ Arbroath 2 May 1888.
LEOPOLD, GEORGE CHRISTIAN FREDERICK, king of the Belgians
as Leopold I. (3 son of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of
Saxe-Cobourg 1750–1806). _b._ Cobourg 16 Dec. 1790; came to
England in 1814 and lived in lodgings at a grocer’s at 21 High
st. Marylebone; came to England 20 Feb. 1816; naturalized by act
56 George III. cap. 13, 29 March 1816; granted Claremont house
and grounds for his life. _m._ 2 May 1816 the princess Charlotte
Augusta only child of George IV., she _d._ at Claremont 6 Nov.
1817; G.C.H. 22 March 1816; a general 2 May 1816 and field
marshall 24 May 1816; G.C.B. 23 May 1816; K.G. 23 May 1816; P.C.
1 July 1816; entered into a marriage contract with Karoline
Bauer a German actress 2 July 1829 and lived with her in London
till June 1830 when contract was dissolved; declined the throne
of Greece, May 1830; resided at Claremont till 16 July 1831;
elected king of the Belgians 4 June and ascended the throne 22
July 1831. _m._ (2) 9 Aug. 1832 the princess Louise eld. dau.
of Louis Philippe king of the French, she _d._ 11 Oct. 1850;
the income of £50,000 settled on him in 1816 he continued to
hold after he became king, but after paying for keeping up
Claremont, servants’ pensions, &c. he annually returned the
balance of about £38,000 into the exchequer. _d._ Palace of
Laeken 10 Dec. 1865. _Lady Rose Weigall’s Brief memoir of the
Princess Charlotte_ (1874); _The Princess Charlotte of Wales.
By Mrs. C. R. Jones_ (1885), _portraits_; _Authentic Memoirs of
the princess Charlotte_ (1817) _portrait_; _Memoirs of prince
Leopold_ (1817), _portrait_; _Westminster Review_, _April 1885
pp._ 460–88; _Posthumous memoirs of Karoline Bauer ii_ 34–336
(1884); _Martin’s Life of prince consort_, _ii_ 249 (1876),
_portrait_; _Illustrated Times 30 Dec. 1865 p._ 413, _portrait_.
LEOTARD, MONSIEUR. _b._ Toulouse, France 1 Aug. 1838; performer
on the flying trapèze abroad; introduced the trapèze performance
into England, first appearing at the Alhambra palace, London 20
May 1861; performed at Alhambra again 1866 and reappeared there
9 April 1868; broke his leg performing at Madrid, May 1865;
made his début in America at Academy of Music, New York 29 Oct.
1868, returned to Europe 14 Nov. having made a great failure
in New York. _d._ of small pox at Toulouse about 16 Aug. 1870.
_Memoires de Léotard. Paris_ (1860), _portrait_; _C. Spencer’s
Modern gymnast_ (1866) 102 _etc._
LEPARD, JOHN. Bookseller at 108 Strand, London 1818–20; member
of firm of booksellers known as Lackington, Hughes, Harding,
Mavor and Lepard at the Temple of the Muses, 23 Finsbury place,
London 1820–5; partner with Joseph Harding at 4 Pall Mall east
1825–39; connected with Day & Martin, blacking manufacturers, 97
High Holborn in 1859. _d._ Hampstead 16 Oct. 1878 aged 87.
LEPPINGTON, JOHN CROSBY (son of rev. John C. Leppington _d._
1833). _b._ Sunderland 21 Oct. 1807; ed. at Woodhouse grove
school 1815; preached when quite a child; Wesleyan Methodist
minister at Melton Mowbray 1832; became a supernumerary in
London 1849 refusing to receive any support from the Connexional
funds; wrote much for the Wesleyan Mag.; author of The
confessional in the Church of England, and other essays on the
Anglican controversy 1860. _d._ near London 7 July 1859. _bur._
Highgate cemetery.
LE QUESNE, CHARLES (eld. son of Nicholas Le Quesne a jurat of
the royal court, Jersey, _d._ 1847). _b._ Jersey 1811; a jurat
of the royal court, Jersey 2 July 1850 to death; president of
Jersey chamber of commerce; a member of the states of Jersey;
an officer in Jersey artillery many years; author of Ireland
and the Channel islands, or a remedy for Ireland 1848; A
constitutional history of Jersey 1856. _d._ Gloucester st. St.
Heliers, Jersey 18 Aug. 1856. _bur._ Green st. cemetery 22 Aug.
_J. B. Payne’s Armorial of Jersey_ (1865) 250; _The Jersey
Independent 23 Aug. 1856 p._ 2.
LESCHALLAS, JOHN. Builder at 10 Booth st. Spitalfields, London
to death; resided at Page green, Tottenham, Middlesex, where he
_d._ 18 Oct. 1877 in 86 year; will proved 3 Dec. under £500,000;
left sums of £500 each to 13 hospitals and institutions. _The
Times 7 Dec. 1877 p._ 9.
LESLIE, ARTHUR. _b._ 1817; ensign 8 foot 20 Nov. 1838; captain
40 foot 19 June 1846, lieut.-col. 6 Aug. 1858 to 8 June 1867;
C.B. 2 May 1862. _d._ Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 12 Sep.
1878.
LESLIE, CHARLES (1 son of John Leslie 1772–1854, bishop of
Elphin 1819). _b._ 7 Oct. 1810; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833,
M.A. 1836; incumbent of Drung, co. Cavan; vicar general of
Ardagh to March 1870; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh,
March 1870, consecrated 19 April 1870, enthroned in Kilmore
cathedral 26 May 1870; the first bp. appointed after the
disestablishment of the Irish ch. _d._ the Parsonage house,
Drung, co. Cavan 8 July 1870. _bur._ Kilmore 14 July. _The Times
11 July 1870 p._ 5.
LESLIE, CHARLES JOSEPH (4 son of John Leslie 1751–1828). _b._
1785; ensign 29 foot 18 Dec. 1806; captain 60 rifles 17 May
1820, major 18 Dec. 1828 to 28 Dec. 1832 when placed on h.p.;
K.H. 1836; author of Historical records of the family of Leslie
1869. _d._ Slindon house near Arundel 10 Jany. 1870.
LESLIE, CHARLES POWELL (eld. son of Charles Powell Leslie of
Glasslough, co. Monaghan, M.P. for Monaghan, _d._ 15 Nov. 1831).
_b._ 13 Sep. 1821; ed. at Harrow, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 16
Oct. 1839; M.P. co. Monaghan 1842 to death; lord lieut. of co.
Monaghan 1858 to death; col. of Monaghan militia 6 Aug. 1857 to
death. _d._ Castle Leslie, Glasslough 26 June 1871.
LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Leslie of
Philadelphia, clockmaker, _d._ 1804). _b._ Clerkenwell, London
19 Oct. 1794; taken to Philadelphia 1800, apprenticed there to
Bradford and Inskeep, publishers 1808; a student at the R.A.
in London, Dec. 1811; his picture called Murder, exhibited at
R.A. 1813; A.R.A. Nov. 1821, R.A. 1826; visited Sir Walter
Scott at Abbotsford and painted his portrait 1824; professor
of painting at the R.A. 1848–52; exhibited 76 pictures at R.A.
and 11 at B.I. 1813–59; many of his best works are in the
National Gallery, London; author of Memoirs of the life of John
Constable, R.A. 1843, 2 ed. 1845; A hand-book for young painters
1855, 2 ed. 1870; Life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds 2 vols.
1865. _d._ 2 Abercorn place, St. John’s Wood, London 5 May 1859.
_C. R. Leslie’s Autobiographical Recollections edited by Tom
Taylor 2 vols._ (1860), _portrait_; _James Dafforne’s Pictures
by C. R. Leslie, R.A._ (1872); _Wedmore’s Masters of genre
painting_ (1879); _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_,
_ii_ 20–26; _W. Sandby’s History of Royal academy_, _ii_ 39–47
(1862); _W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art_ (1869)
127–31; _Redgrave’s Century of Painters_, _ii_ 230–55, 326–46
(1866).
LESLIE, FRANK, pen name of Henry Carter (son of Joseph Carter,
glove maker). _b._ Ipswich 29 March 1821; in a dry goods house
London 1838; sent sketches to Illust. London News, May 1842
signed Frank Leslie, superintendent of the engraving department
of the paper to 1848; went to U.S. America 1848; took name of
Frank Leslie by legislative act; employed on Gleason’s Pictorial
in Boston; published The Gazette of fashion, a periodical 1854;
The New York Journal; produced first number of Frank Leslie’s
Illustrated Newspaper 14 Dec. 1855; established The Chimney
corner 1865 and afterwards other periodicals; commissioner to
Paris exhibition 1867, received gold medal; president of New
York centennial commission 1876; spent large sums of money and
in 1877 assigned his property to a trust. _d._ Fifth Avenue, New
York 10 Jany. 1880; his widow Miriam Florence assumed by legal
process name of Frank Leslie. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_
696 (1887).
LESLIE, FREDERICK, stage name of Frederick Hobson (son of
Charles Hobson of 49 Artillery place, Woolwich, military
outfitter). _b._ Woolwich 1 April 1855; ed. in France for
an architect; sang under name of Mr. Owen Hobbs at local
entertainments at Woolwich; joined amateur company at R.A.
theatre, Woolwich; appeared in London at Royalty theatre, Feb.
1878 as Colonel Hardy in Paul Pry; played at Folly theatre
1879; played at Alhambra, Marquis of Manicamp in La petite
mademoiselle 6 Oct. 1879, and Duc de la Volta in La fille
du tambour majeur 19 April 1880; played in United States of
America 1881–2, 8 months and 1883–4; acted Rip Van Winkle in
Planquette’s opera Rip Van Winkle at Comedy theatre 14 Oct. 1882
to Oct. 1883 and 6 Sep. 1884; played Ayala in The grand mogul
at Comedy 17 Dec. 1884; member of Gaiety company Dec. 1885 to
death; his chief parts at Gaiety were Jonathan Wild in Little
Jack Sheppard 26 Dec. 1885, Noitier in Monte Christo junior 23
Dec. 1886, the Monster in Frankenstein 24 Dec. 1887, Don Cæsar
de Bazan in Ruy Blas and the blasé roué 27 Sep. 1889; played
in America and Australia 1890–1; played in Cinder-Ellen Up Too
Late, as a Servant to the Prince of Belgravia, at Gaiety 24 Dec.
1891 to 25 Nov. 1892; purchased a residence at Clacton-on-Sea,
Essex; author under nom de plume of A. C. Torr (actor) with
Herbert F. Clark of Ruy Blas and the blasé roué, and with W. T.
Vincent of Cinder-Ellen up too late; wrote and composed Love in
the Lowther, a song which was very popular. _d._ 8 Tavistock
chambers, Bloomsbury, London 7 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Charlton
cemetery 10 Dec. _Theatre 2 June 1884 pp._ 322–3, _portrait_;
_Illust. sp. and dram. news 6 Nov. 1886 pp._ 200, 207,
_portrait_; _The Pelican_, _Christmas number 1892_, _portrait_;
_Strand Mag. Jany. 1893 p._ 58, _five portraits_.
LESLIE, HENRY. _b._ Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire 6 Jany. 1830;
first came on the stage at Ipswich, Aug. 1847; lessee with
Rollison of Edinburgh theatre royal 4 Sep. 1852 to 26 Jany.
1853, sole lessee 26 Jany. to 12 March 1853; first appeared in
London at Drury lane as Roderigo, Sep. 1853, at the Olympic
1853–8; started The Stage college of dramatic tuition, 36
Queen’s crescent, Haverstock hill, London, Aug. 1866; manager
of Amphitheatre and theatre royal, Liverpool for the Misses
Copeland 1868–70; manager with Mr. Pearson of Prince of Wales’
theatre, Liverpool 1870; travelled in the provinces with his own
company playing Offenbach’s Princess of Trebizond 1871; manager
of the Amphitheatre, Liverpool alone 1871, then with Lindo
Courtenay 1873–9; lessee of theatre royal, Leeds, Easter 1880
to 1881; author of The mariner’s compass, a novel 1865; How the
ghost walked. Printed in A. Halliday’s Savage Club Papers 1868;
and of the following dramas, Adrienne or the secret of a life,
Lyceum 12 Nov. 1860; The trail of sin, Victoria, Sep. 1863;
The orange girl, Surrey theatre 24 Oct. 1864; The mariner’s
compass, Astley’s theatre 4 March 1865; The sin and the sorrow,
Grecian theatre 17 Sep. 1866; Tide and time, Surrey 9 March
1867; Friendship; Love and truth; The village blacksmith. _d._
Paignton, Devon 4 March 1881.
LESLIE, HENRY JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1833; Q.C. 23 Feb.
1867. _d._ Belfield, Dundrum, co. Dublin 16 Sep. 1888.
LESLIE, JAMES (son of James Leslie, quarter master at taking
of Quebec). _b._ Kair, Kincardineshire 1786; merchant at
Montreal; served with Montreal volunteers in war of 1812,
lieut.-col. 1862; member for Montreal in Lower Canada assembly
1824 and in the Dominion assembly for Verchēres 1844–8; member
of legislative council 1848, president March to Sep. 1848;
provincial sec. 1848–51; member of the senate 1867 to death.
_d._ Montreal 1873.
LESLIE, JOHN (younger son of Charles Powell Leslie of
Glasslough, M.P. for co. Monaghan, _d._ 1800). _b._ Glasslough,
co. Monaghan 12 Oct. 1772; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1794, M.A. 1805; dean of Cork 5 Oct. 1807 to 1812; prebendary
of Armagh 19 March 1808 to 1812; bishop of Dromore by patent 14
Jany. 1812, consecrated at Armagh 26 Jany., enthroned by proxy
27 Feb.; translated to Elphin 16 Nov. 1819; bishop of united
dioceses of Kilmore, Ardagh and Elphin, Oct. 1841 to death. _d._
The Palace, Kilmore 22 July 1854.
LESLIE, JOHN. Ensign 69 foot 7 Aug. 1806, major 1 Jany. 1819 to
29 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 4 foot 25 Jany.
1839 to 29 Dec. 1848 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 35 foot 26
Sep. 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858. _d._ Brighton 12 Feb.
1861 aged 70.
LESLIE, JOHN ROBERT. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, fellow 1858
to death; B.A. 1852, M.A. 1856; Erasmus Smith’s professor of
natural and experimental philosophy 1870 to death. _d._ Finea,
co. Westmeath 2 Jany. 1881. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery 5 Jany.
LESLIE, MARTIN EDWARD (2 son of Thomas Haworth of Balham Wood,
Herts.) _b._ 1810; ed. at Eton; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 28 Sep. 1826,
captain 27 Oct. 1837, sold out 17 Nov. 1837; an extra foreign
service messenger at Constantinople 4 Jany. 1855 to 30 Sep.
1858, a queen’s foreign service messenger 7 Nov. 1859, resigned
13 May 1872; master of the Hampshire hounds; assisted in revival
of coaching and in placing the Old Times on the London and
Brighton road, which he often drove 1868; author of The silver
greyhound, incidents of travel 1880; Road scrapings, coaches
and coaching 1880. _m._ 11 Aug. 1835 Mary Elizabeth (2 dau. of
George Gwythyr by Henrietta countess of Rothes). She was _b._ 9
July 1811, became 16 countess of Rothes 1886 when her husband
assumed name of Leslie 20 March 1886. He _d._ 26 York st.
Portman sq. London 2 Nov. 1886. _bur._ Kensal green. _Baily’s
Mag. xlvi_ 522–3 (1886).
LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE (2 son of Edward Leslie 1792–1865,
R. of Annahilt, co. Down). _b._ co. Wexford 21 June 1826; ed.
at King William’s coll. Isle of Man, and Trin. coll. Dublin,
classical scholar 1845, B.A. 1847, LL.B. 1851, hon. LL.D.;
called to Irish bar 1850; professor of jurisprudence and
political economy in Queen’s college, Belfast 1853; barrister
L.I. 17 Nov. 1858, never practised; examiner and professor of
jurisprudence and political economy in Queen’s Univ. Ireland
1871 to death; contributed to Fraser’s Mag., Macmillan’s Mag.
and other periodicals; elected without ballot member of Athenæum
club, London Feb. 1880; author of The military systems of
Europe economically considered. Belfast 1856; Land systems and
industrial economy of Ireland, England and continental countries
1870; Financial reform 1872, 2 ed. 1872; Essays in political
and moral philosophy 1878. _d._ Botanic Avenue, Belfast 27
Jany. 1882. _T. E. Cliffe Leslie. Memorial to W. E. Gladstone.
Privately printed January 1882_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 23–26 (1881);
_Times 30 Jany. 1882 p._ 7 _col._ 2; _Irish Law Times_, _xvi_ 65
(1882).
LESLIE, THOMAS JEFFERSON (brother of Charles Robert Leslie
1794–1859). _b._ London 2 Nov. 1796; ed. at United States
military academy; paymaster of engineers 1815–38, 2 lieut. 1816,
1 lieut. 1819, major and paymaster 1838; chief of paymaster’s
department, New York district, during the civil war 1861–5;
brevet brigadier general 1865; retired 1869. _d._ New York city
25 Nov. 1874.
LESLIE, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Leslie of Warthill, Pitcraple,
Aberdeenshire). _b._ Warthill 16 March 1814; a partner in Dent
and Co., China; M.P. co. Aberdeen 1861–66. _d._ Warthill 4 March
1880.
LESSLIE, JAMES. _b._ Dundee 1802; bookseller and stationer
Kingston, Canada 1820, removed to York afterward named Toronto;
member of Toronto first city council; one of the founders
of the House of industry 1836; president of the Bank of the
People, which was merged in the Bank of Montreal; arrested at
commencement of insurrection of 1837 but released; purchased
Examiner newspaper, Toronto 1844, editor from 1845 till he sold
it in 1854; retired from business 1855. _d._ Eglinton, Ontario
19 April 1885.
LESTER, ADA (dau. of James Akhurst, wine merchant, London).
First appeared in London at Opera Comique 16 Oct. 1875 as Sophie
Creyke in W. J. Austin’s farce A Tempting Bait; leading actress
with Wm. Creswick in Australia 1877 &c.; played Florence Bertram
in H. Williamson’s drama Estranged, at Globe theatre 3 Aug.
1881; sailed from Liverpool in company with eleven artists to
fulfil an engagement in Bombay 17 Oct. 1881; drowned in the Clan
Macduff in the Irish sea 19 Oct. 1881. _The Era 29 Oct. 1881 p._
9.
LESTER, FREDERICK PARKINSON (3 son of John Lester of 1 Racquet
court, Fleet st. London, coal merchant). _b._ 3 Feb. 1795; 2
lieut. Bombay artillery 25 Oct. 1811, col. 23 Feb. 1852 to
death; served 37 years in India; commissary of stores; secretary
to military board, member of military board; introduced a
system of bookkeeping by double entry 1834; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854;
inspector general ordnance commissariat department 27 Aug.
1856 to 14 April 1857; commanded Southern division of Bombay
army at Belgaum 14 April 1857 to death; prevented the mutiny
spreading to Western India by his wise measures; found _dead_
in his bed at Belgaum 3 July 1858. _Sir George Le Grand Jacob’s
Western India_ (1871) 213–16; _W. K. Stuart’s Reminiscences of a
soldier_, _ii_ 292–5 (1874).
LESTER, JOSEPH DUNN (1 son of John Lester of Aberystwith).
_b._ 1842; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1861–5, B.A.
1865; assistant master in Wellington coll. Wokingham 1867
to death; author of A short German accidence for the use of
Wellington college 1867; A German accidence with a minor syntax
1870; Germanica, exercises in German composition 1872. _d._
Crawthorne, Wokingham 2 Dec. 1875.
LESTOURGEON, CHARLES (son of a surgeon). _b._ Cambridge 1808;
ed. Trin. coll. as a foundation scholar, 15 wrangler and B.A.
1828, M.A. 1833; L.S.A. 1841; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at
Cambridge with an extensive practice; surgeon to Addenbrooke’s
hospital 25 years; an examiner in surgery at Camb. and member of
the board of medical studies. _d._ The Close, Huntingdon road,
Cambridge 22 Feb. 1891.
L’ESTRANGE, FRANCIS. Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A.
1832; F.R.C.S.I. 1833; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1859; L.M. Rotunda hospital
1859; surgeon dentist 39 Dawson st. Dublin to 1872; state
surgeon dentist to lord lieutenant; invented Patent truss and
Screw lithotrite tourniquet. _d._ Landour, Raglan road, Dublin 6
Jany. 1875 aged 72.
L’ESTRANGE, SIR GEORGE BURDETT (2 son of Henry Peisley
L’Estrange of Moystown, King’s county). _b._ 1796; ed. at
Westminster sch. 1807–10; ensign 31 regt. 1812; present at
Vittoria; ensign 3 foot guards 2 July 1815, placed on h.p. 11
July 1822; chamberlain to Earl St. Germans, viceroy of Ireland
1853–55; gentleman usher of the black rod to order of St.
Patrick 1858 to death; knighted by Earl of Carlisle at Dublin
1860. _d._ Harcourt road, Dublin 5 Feb. 1878. _Recollections of
sir G. B. L’Estrange_ (1874).
LE STRANGE, HENRY L’ESTRANGE STYLEMAN (only son of Henry
Styleman of Hunstanton, Norfolk). _b._ 25 Jany. 1815; ed. at
Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1837; travelled in Portugal, Spain
and Egypt; assumed additional name of Le Strange by r.l. 1839;
declared by House of Lords coheir of barony of Camoys 1839 and
coheir of barony of Hastings 1841; contested West Norfolk 1847;
drew a design for decoration of tower of Ely cathedral 1853,
carried out by him 1855, painted half the roof of the nave
1858–62; made the cartoons for St. Albans, Holborn 1860–2, the
work was carried out by his cousin Frederick Preedy; member
of royal commission on fresco-painting in England, Feb. 1862.
_d._ suddenly of heart disease in London 27 July 1862. _bur._
Hunstanton.
L’ESTRANGE, JOHN. _b._ Norwich 18 Jany. 1836; clerk in the
stamp office at Norwich; made large collections for history of
Norfolk and city of Norwich, most of which came into possession
of Walter Rye who edited and published his Calendar of the
freemen of Norwich from 1317 to 1603, 1888; transcribed four of
the churchwardens’ books of Norwich; his collections from the
wills of the Norwich registry are bound in 4 vols. folio; edited
Eastern Counties Collectanea 24 numbers Jany. 1872 to Dec.
1873; author of The church bells of Norfolk. Norwich 1874. _d._
13 Oct. 1877.
LETBY, RICHARD. _b._ York 7 Jany. 1809; livery stable keeper
and landlord of the Cricketer’s Arms, York; the crack batsman
at York; connected with the York club 30 years; played in York
_v._ Harewood at York 30 May 1833; presented with a handsome
testimonial by the members of the York club 7 Sep. 1859.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 211 (1862).
LETHBRIDGE, AMBROSE GODDARD (3 son of sir Thomas Buckler
Lethbridge, 2 baronet 1778–1849). _b._ Pulteney st. Bath 15 Aug.
1804; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831;
fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1827–52; proctor of the univ. 1839;
barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832; recorder of Wells 1834–52. _d._
Eastbrooke house, Taunton 21 Nov. 1875. _Law Times_, _lx_ 114
(1875).
LETHBRIDGE, JOHN ARSCOTT. _b._ Okehampton, Devon 28 Feb. 1787;
ed. at Christ hospital where he gained many silver medals;
midshipman H.E.I.Co.’s navy Dec. 1802; paymaster R.N. 13 Jany.
1808; sec. of Greenwich hospital 6 April 1834 to 21 Oct. 1853.
_d._ Greenwich 16 July 1854. _G.M. xlii_ 310 (1854).
LETHBRIDGE, JOSEPH WATTS. _b._ Plymouth 20 Jany. 1817; entered
Cheshunt college 1843; a minister of Lady Huntingdon’s connexion
at Kidderminster 1846, at Rochdale, at Melbourne, Derbyshire
1850–5; became Independent minister at Byfield, Northamptonshire
to 1862, at Leicester 1862–8; town missionary at Wellingborough
1873–83; author of The Shakspere almanac for 1849; Woman the
glory of man 1856; Loving thoughts for human hearts 1860; The
Idyls of Solomon: the Hebrew marriage week arranged in dialogue
1878. _d._ Wellingborough 27 July 1885. _Congregational Year
Book_ (1886) 190.