Lethbridge 1804–75). _b._ Pulteney st. Bath 1798; ed. at
Eton; lieut.-col. 2 Somerset militia to 1839; member of Mr.
Farquharson’s hunt in Dorset; at the Bedford spring meeting
riding his horse Trump won a match of one mile leaping two
hurdles 1837; succeeded 17 Oct. 1849. _d._ 6 Hillsborough
terrace, Ilfracombe 1 March 1873. _New Sporting mag. xiv_ 286
(1838), _portrait_.
LETHBRIDGE, THOMAS BRIDGEMAN. _b._ 28 Oct. 1828; naval cadet 9
March 1842, captain 19 Sep. 1863, R.A. 31 Dec. 1878; commanded
the Renown wooden steam battle ship 1858; flag capt. in the
Northumberland and the Black Prince and to sir W. K. Hall at
Sheerness 1863; senior officer on the coast of Ireland 1883–5;
commander in chief at the Nore 1888, retired 1890; resided at
Southsea. _d._ 51 Curzon st. Mayfair, London, the res. of his
son in law James Davis 30 Dec. 1892.
LETHEBY, HENRY. _b._ Plymouth 1816; L.S.A. 1837; M.B. London
1842; M.A. and Ph. D. of a German university; lecturer on
chemistry and toxicology at London hospital; medical officer
of health and analyst of food for city of London, Oct. 1855,
resigned 1874; chief examiner of gas for metropolis under board
of trade; F.L.S., F.C.S.; wrote many papers in The Lancet and
other scientific periodicals; author of Reports on the sanitary
condition of London 3 vols. 1856–7; Reports to the commissioners
of sewers 3 vols. 1856–58; On food, its varieties, composition,
nutritive value, adulteration, etc. Cantor lectures 1870, 2 ed.
1872. _d._ 17 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 28 March 1876.
_bur._ Highgate cemet. 1 April. _Medical Press and Circular_,
_i_ 290–91, 306 (1876); _I.L.N. lxviii_ 373, 374 (1876),
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 366, 381 (1876), _portrait_.
LE THIERE, SOPHIE ADÉLE GUILLON (eld. dau. of Madame Michaud,
professor of dancing). Professor of dancing under name of Madame
Adelaide at 109 New Bond st. London 1855 to death. _d._ 109 New
Bond st. 5 March 1883.
LETTS, THOMAS (son of John Letts of London, bookbinder).
_b._ Stockwell, London 1803; stationer with his father at 95
Cornhill, succeeded to the business, carried it on at 8 Royal
Exchange 1838 to death; devoted himself specially to manufacture
of diaries, of which he was issuing 28 varieties in 1839, also
issued interest tables, medical diaries, office calendars, &c.
of which he sold several hundred thousand annually; erected
large factories at North road, New Cross 1865, the business was
turned into a limited liability company shortly after his death,
but in 1885 the company went into liquidation, and the business
was purchased by Cassell & Co.; Lett’s Diaries are descanted on
by Thackeray in his Roundabout Papers No. 18 in Cornhill Mag.
Jany. 1862. _d._ Granville park, Lewisham 9 Aug. 1873.
LETTSOM, WILLIAM GARROW. _b._ 1804; attaché at Berlin 5 Aug.
1831, at Munich 1834; paid attaché at Washington 21 Dec. 1840;
sec. of legation at Mexico 12 July 1854, and chargé d’affaires
4 May 1855 to 19 May 1858; chargé d’affaires and consul
general to Uruguay 9 Sep. 1859, retired on a pension of £900,
29 July 1869; F.R.A.S.; author with R. P. Greg of Manual of the
mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland 1858. _d._ 142 Norwood
road, Lower Norwood, Surrey 14 Dec. 1887.
LETTSOM, WILLIAM NANSON (son of John Miers Lettsom, physician
1771–99). _b._ 4 Feb. 1796; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, where he printed Epigrammata numismate
annuo dignata 1816; Poema numismate annus dignatum 1816; author
of The fall of the Nibelungers: otherwise the book of Kriemhild,
a translation 1850, 2 ed. 1873; The song of Flogawaya 1856,
anon., a parody on Hiawatha; edited W. S. Walker’s Shakespeare’s
Versification 1854 and his A critical examination of the text of
Shakespeare 1860. _d._ 43 Westbourne park, London 3 Sep. 1865.
LEUPOLT, CHARLES BENJAMIN. _b._ 1805; ed. Missionary coll.
Basel, Switzerland; ordained by Bp. of Lincoln 1831; missionary
of Church missionary soc. at Benares 1832–72; R. of Brampton,
Norfolk 1874 to death; author of Recollections of an Indian
missionary 1846, 2 ed. 1863; Further recollections of an Indian
missionary 1884, portrait. _d._ Marsham hall, Norwich 16 Dec.
1884.
LEVANDER, HENRY CHARLES (1 son of James Levander). _b._ Norwich
1826; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850,
M.A. 1863; a classical master in Univ. coll. sch. London
1866–84; a great freemason; F.R.A.S. 12 April 1872; author of
The public school French grammar by A. Brachet, revised by P. H.
E. Brette and H. C. Levander 1884, new ed. 1884. _d._ 30 North
villas, Camden sq. London 4 Dec. 1884. _bur._ West Hampstead
cemetery 6 Dec. _Monthly notices R. Astronom. soc. xlv_ 193
(1885).
LEVEN and MELVILLE, DAVID LESLIE-MELVILLE, Earl of. _b._
Spring gardens, London 22 June 1785; styled Viscount Balgonie
1785–1820; lieut. R.N. 8 Aug. 1806, captain 28 Feb. 1812;
succeeded his father as 11 Earl of Leven and 8 Earl of Melville
22 Feb. 1820; R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired V.A. 27 Sep. 1855;
representative peer for Scotland 1831 to death. _d._ Melville
house, Fifeshire 8 Oct. 1860.
LEVEN and MELVILLE, JOHN THORNTON LESLIE-MELVILLE, Earl of. _b._
18 Dec. 1786; succeeded his brother 8 Oct. 1860 as 12 Earl of
Leven and 9 Earl of Melville; a representative peer for Scotland
1865 to death. _d._ Glenferness near Dunphail, Nairnshire 18
Sep. 1876, personalty under £300,000, 2 Oct. 1876. _I.L.N. lxix_
324, 327 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 337, 339 (1876),
_portrait_.
LEVER, CHARLES (son of Ellis Lever). _b._ Gorton near Manchester
15 Feb. 1862; member of majority of the electrical societies
in Europe and America; patented his electric lamp 1881; had a
diploma for his services at London fisheries exhibition 1883;
resided at Culcheth hall, Bowden, Cheshire; found dead in his
bed at the res. of his father Tan-y-Bryn, Colwyn bay, Carnarvon
5 Jany. 1890. _I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 111, _portrait_.
LEVER, _Charles James_ (younger son of James Lever of Dublin,
builder 1763–1833). _b._ Amiens st. Dublin 31 Aug. 1806; entered
Trin. coll. Dublin as a pensioner 14 Oct. 1822, B.A. 1827, B.M.
1831, LL.D. 1871; M.D. Louvain; practised as a physician at
Derry and Coleraine; became a contributor to Dublin Univ. mag.
May 1836 and editor March 1842 to 1845; physician at Brussels
1837–41; travelled in Germany and Italy 1845–58; vice consul
at Spezzia 26 Nov. 1858 to 13 Feb. 1867 when the post was
abolished; consul general at Trieste 2 March 1867 to death;
author of The confessions of Harry Lorrequer. Dublin 1839,
anon.; Charles O’Malley the Irish dragoon. Edited by Harry
Lorrequer 2 vols. 1841; Arthur O’Leary: his wanderings and
ponderings in many lands. Edited by his friend Harry Lorrequer
3 vols. 1844; Our Mess, vol. 1 Jack Hinton the guardsman, vols.
2 and 3 Tom Burke of ours 3 vols. 1843; The knight of Gwynne
2 vols. 1847; The O’Donoghue 1845; Diary and notes of Horace
Templeton, Esq. 2 vols. 1848, anon.; The confessions of Con
Cregan the Irish Gil Blas 2 vols. 1849, anon.; Roland Cashel 2
vols. 1850; The Daltons 2 vols. 1852; Lord Kilgobbin 3 vols.
1872; Novels, new ed. illustrated 33 vols. 1876–8. _d._ Trieste
1 June 1872. _Fitzpatrick’s Life of C. Lever 2 vols._ (1879),
_New ed._ (1884), _portrait_; _Illustrated Rev. ii_ 1–5 (1870),
_portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 98–100, _portrait_;
_Modern men of letters by J. H. Friswell_ (1870) 171–82 _Dublin
Univ. Mag._ (1880) 465, 570; _Blackwood’s Mag. April 1862 pp._
452–72, _July 1872 pp._ 129–30, _and Sep. 1872 pp._ 327–60;
_I.L.N. lx_ 581, 582 (1872), _portrait_, _lxi_ 431 (1872);
_Graphic_, _v_ 600, 611 (1872), _portrait_.
NOTE.--His only son Charles Sidney Lever, lieutenant 2 dragoon guards
1860–2, _d._ Florence 28 Sep. 1863 aged 26.
LEVER, JOHN CHARLES WEAVER. _b._ Plumstead, Kent 28 Sep. 1811;
M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1834; M.D. Giessen 1842; M.R.C.P. 1842;
surgeon Bridgehouse place, Newington-causeway, Surrey 1834–42;
president Hunterian soc.; physician 12 Wellington st. London
bridge 1842 to death, he almost monopolized the consulting
practice of the south of London; lecturer on midwifery and
physician-accoucheur Guy’s hospital 1845; author of Case of
hidrosis or hidrotic fever 1837; A treatise on diseases of the
uterus 1843. d. London 29 Dec. 1858. _Lancet_, _i_ 75 (1859);
_Catalogue Surgeon general’s library_, _viii_ 89 (1887).
LEVERELL, W. H. _b._ London 1 Dec. 1832; ed. Kingston gram.
sch.; apprentice to Cox & Son, printers, London; a sculler;
took part in the swimming races 1846–53; swam many times at the
Holborn baths, where in 1852 he was the champion swimmer; in
the light division in the Crimea 1854–5, attached to the land
transport corps, went on two expeditions to Kertch, received
Sebastopol and Turkish medals; again a printer; on staff of
Bell’s Life in London from March 1870; connected also with
The Field and The Glowworm. _d._ London 24 April 1886. _bur._
Brompton cemetery 30 April. _Sporting Mirror_, _ii_ 165–6
(1881), _portrait_.
LEVESON, HENRY ASTBURY. _b._ 18 June 1828; entered Madras army
10 Jany. 1845, ensign 13 Madras N.I. 2 April 1845, lieut. 15
Dec. 1846, resigned 15 April 1853; a well known sportsman in
India 1845–53; on Turkish staff in Crimean war, being only
English officer so employed; at the Alma, at Inkerman and at
siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served with Garibaldi in 1860;
colonial sec. at Lagos 1863, where in fighting the natives he
received an iron bullet in his head, from the effect of which he
never fully recovered, invalided home 8 Feb. 1864, voted £500
by the colony and £500 by parliament; served in the Abyssinian
war 1868; killed more game in all parts of the world than any
other man; author of The spear and the rifle, or recollections
of sport in India. By An Old Shekarree 1860; The hunting grounds
of the old world 1860; England rendered impregnable by the
organisation and equipment of national forces 1871; The forest
and the field. By H.A.L., the Old Shekarree 1867, 2 ed. 1874;
Camp life and its acquirements for soldiers, travellers and
sportsmen 1872; Wrinkles or hints to sportsmen and travellers
1874. _d._ at residence of his mother 4 Lansdowne terrace west,
Brighton 7 Sep. 1875. _Sport in many lands. By H.A.L. 2 vols._
(1879), _memoir vol. i pp. xv–xxxii_, _portrait_; _Illust. sp.
and dr. news_, _iii_ 585, 587 (1875), _portrait_.
LEVETT, JOHN. _b._ Battersea, Surrey 1 June 1826; ran John
Tetlow of Hollingwood 4 miles for £50, Hyde Park, Sheffield 16
March 1852; ran George Frost the Suffolk stag for £100, the
championship and belt, Copenhagen grounds, Islington 22 March
1852 running 10 miles and 252 yards in 52 min. 35 sec.; won the
20 mile race at Copenhagen grounds 29 March 1852; ran Richard
Manks the Warwickshire Antelope for £50 at Hyde park, Sheffield
3 Dec. 1855 eleven miles in 1 hour; one of best known long
distance runners; sprained his tendon Achilles about 1861 and
had to give up running; a trainer of pedestrians; wrote a series
of papers on How to train, in Illust. Sport. News 1862; wrote
a farce produced at Queen’s Royal theatre, Dublin, in which he
himself appeared 1861. _Illust. Sporting News_ (1862) 53, 100, 2
_portraits_.
LEVEY, GEORGE. _b._ at place afterwards known as Westward
Ho, Devon 12 Oct. 1802; member of firm of Levey, Robson and
Franklyn, printers at 46 St. Martin’s lane, London 1836–41, then
at 24 Great New st. 1841–64, carried on business alone at same
address 1864–70, afterwards at 1 and 2 West Harding st. 1870 to
death; author of Specimens of printing types in office of Levey,
Robson and Franklyn 1850, in 20 languages. _d._ Camberwell 2
Feb. 1873.
LEVEY, JOHN (youngest son of Richard Michael Levey of Dublin).
An Irish character actor; dramatist; author of many pantomimes
played in Yorkshire and Lancashire; lessee of several theatres.
_d._ Seaforth, Liverpool 17 Sep. 1891. _bur._ in ground of R.C.
chapel, Crosby.
LEVI, LEONE (2 son of Isaac Levi a Jewish merchant at Ancona).
_b._ Ancona 6 June 1821; entered office of his brother a
merchant 1836; merchant at Liverpool 1844–7; naturalised 16
Jany. 1847; clerk in a mercantile house at Liverpool; advocated
chambers of commerce; hon. sec. of Liverpool chamber of commerce
1849; lectured in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and elsewhere
1851–2; professor of principles and practice of commerce at
King’s college, London 1852 to death; fellow of Statistical
Soc. 1851, member of council 1860, vice pres. 1885; F.S.A. 14
Dec. 1854; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; a knight of the Italian
orders of SS. Mauritius and Lazarus and of the Crown of Italy;
became a member of Presbyterian church in England about 1846;
author of Commercial law, its principles and administration
2 vols. 1851–2, 2nd ed. entitled International commercial law
2 vols. 1863; The law of nature and nations as affected by
divine law 1855; Annals of British legislation 18 vols. 1856–68;
History of British commerce and of the economic progress of the
British nation 1763–1870. 1872, 2 ed. 1880. _d._ 31 Highbury
grove, Highbury, London 7 May 1888. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 12
May. _L. Levi’s The story of my life. Privately printed_ (1888);
_Journal of royal statistical soc. li_ 340–2 (1888); _I.L.N.
xxvi_ 653, 654 (1855), _portrait_; _London Figaro 19 May 1888
p._ 11, _portrait_; _Law Journal_, _xxiii_ 259 (1888).
LEVICKE, HENRY. The first European who took up his permanent
abode at Suez 1846; pioneer of the mail service through Egypt;
assisted lieut. Waghorn in arranging overland route 1845, often
accompanied the dromedary mail across the desert; the first
English acting vice-consul at Suez 1839 to June 1851; packet
agent and postmaster to Her Majesty and agent to the H.E.I.Co.;
the government ignored his claim to a pension for 41 years
service. _d._ Dieppe, Oct. 1887. _bur._ there 28 Oct., left a
widow and 22 children.
LEVIEN, EDWARD (1 son of John Levien of Marylebone). _b._ 1819;
ed. Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846;
connected with univ. of Glasgow; assistant in MS. department,
British museum 6 May 1850 to 1874; hon. sec. of British Archæol.
Association, editor of the Annual Proceedings and writer of many
papers in the Journal; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1858; author of A brief
description of the town of Hadleigh in Suffolk 1853; Outlines
of the history of Greece by W. D. Hamilton and E. Levien 1853;
Outlines of the history of Rome 2 vols. 1855–6, never finished;
Memoirs of Socrates for English readers, with notes 1872. _d._
24 Camden st. London 7 Nov. 1874. _Journal British Archæol.
Assoc. xxi_ 229 (1875).
LEVINGE, SIR RICHARD GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 7 Baronet (eld. son of
Sir Richard Levinge, 6 baronet 1765–1848). _b._ 1 Nov. 1811;
ensign 43 foot 25 Nov. 1828, lieut. 8 April 1834; served in
suppression of Canadian rebellion 1837–8; placed on h.p. with
rank of captain 15 May 1840; captain 5 dragoon guards 27 Jany.
1843, sold out same day; lieut.-col. of Westmeath militia 3
Jany. 1846 to 22 Aug. 1850; sheriff of Westmeath 1851; contested
Westmeath 22 July 1852 and 13 Feb. 1874; M.P. for Westmeath 1857
to 1865; author of Echoes from the backwoods, or sketches of
transatlantic life 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1859; Historical notices
of the Levinge family. Ledestown 1853; A day with the Brookside
harriers at Brighton 1858; Historical records of the forty third
regiment Monmouthshire light infantry 1868. _d._ Brussels 28
Sep. 1884.
LEVY, AMY (2 dau. of Lewis Levy of London). _b._ 16 Percy
place, Clapham road, Surrey 1862; ed. at Brighton and Newnham
coll. Camb. 1880–81; wrote poetry at 12 years of age; a writer
in Dublin Univ. Mag., Temple Bar, Atalanta, London Society,
The Jewish Chronicle, &c.; author of Xantippe and other verse.
Cambridge 1881; A minor poet and other verses 1884; The romance
of a shop 1888; Reuben Sachs 1888; A London plane tree and other
verse 1889; Miss Meredith 1889; translated Jean Baptiste Pérès’
brochure Comme quoi Napoléon n’a jamais existé, Paris 1876
under title of Historic doubts or the non-existence of Napoleon
proved. Edited by Lily 1885; committed suicide by inhaling fumes
of charcoal at her father’s residence, 7 Endsleigh gardens,
London 10 Sep. 1889, cremated at Woking 13 Sep., ashes _bur._
Balls Pond cemetery 15 Sep. _The Jewish Chronicle 13 Sep. 1889
p._ 6 _and 20 Sep. p._ 7; _The Woman’s World_, _Nov. 1889 pp._
51–2, _portrait_; _Universal Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 492–507.
LEVY, JOHN. _b._ 1805; a journalist many years; called to Irish
bar 1845; reported for Irish Jurist, Irish Law Reports and Irish
Law Times; author of The law and practice of bankruptcy and
insolvency. Dublin 4 ed. 1862; fell down dead in Dame st. Dublin
17 May 1870.
LEVY, JOSEPH MOSES (son of Moses Lionel Levy _d._ 1830 aged
65). _b._ London 15 Dec. 1812; ed. at Bruce Castle school and
in Germany; printer in Shoe lane, Fleet st. London; chief
proprietor of the Sunday Times 1855–6, conducted it 1855–6;
took over the Daily Telegraph from Col. B. W. A. Sleigh and
issued it at a penny 17 Sep. 1855, being the first London daily
penny paper, managed the paper to his death. _d._ Florence
cottage, Ramsgate 12 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Balls Pond cemet. London,
personalty over £525,000.
LEWELLIN, _Llewelyn_ (son of Richard Lewellin of Coyty,
Glamorganshire). _b._ 1799; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar
1821–6; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1829; master of the
schools Oxf. 1825–26; preb. of St. David’s 1827; principal of
St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827 to death; V. of Pembryn,
Cardiganshire 1832; V. of Lampeter 15 Oct. 1833 to death;
sinecure R. of Llangelen 1843 to death; dean of St. David’s 26
March 1840 to death, the last non-resident dean; author of Reply
to N. Davies’s Notes on the cathedral church of St. David’s
1853, 2 ed. 1853. _d._ about 30 Nov. 1878.
LEWES, CHARLES LEE (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 1843;
ed. at Hofwyl, Switzerland; clerk in the Post Office, London,
Aug. 1860 to Oct. 1886; one of the secretaries of Hampstead
Heath extension committee, which raised £52,000 for purchase of
Parliament hill 1887; member of the first London county council
for the St. Pancras district 7 Jany. 1889 to death; contributed
to Nineteenth Century and Blackwood’s Mag.; residuary legatee
of “George Eliot” 1880 and owner of the copyright of all her
works and those of his father; edited Essays and leaves from a
note book, by George Eliot 1884; translator of In the year ’13,
a tale of Mecklenburg life by Fritz Reuter 1867; Emilia Galotti
by G. E. Lessing 1868; Count Bismarck by L. Bamberger 1869. _d._
Luxor, Egypt 26 Feb. 1891.
LEWES, GEORGE HENRY (grandson of Charles Lee Lewes, actor
1740–1803). _b._ London 18 April 1817; ed. in London, Jersey,
Brittany and at Greenwich; in a notary’s office; employed by
a Russian merchant; a medical student a short time; visited
Germany 1838; appeared at the Whitehall theatre in Garrick’s
comedy The Guardian 1841, played in Dickens’ amateur company
1848, played Shylock 1849; acted in his own tragedy The Noble
Heart, at the Olympic Feb. 1850 and in the provinces 1850;
wrote many articles in the quarterly reviews; wrote The game of
speculation, produced at Lyceum 2 Oct. 1851 and 9 other plays
produced at Lyceum, all written under pseudonyms of Slingsby
Lawrence and Frank Churchill; founded with T. L. Hunt The
Leader 1850, editor for literary subjects to July 1854. _m._ 18
Feb. 1841 Agnes eld. dau. of Swynfen Stevens Jervis, M.P. for
Bridport, he left her in July 1854 and went to Germany with Mary
Ann Evans known as “George Eliot,” he passed as her husband for
the rest of his life; edited Fortnightly Review, May 1865 to
Dec. 1866; lived at the Priory, St. John’s Wood, London 1863
to death; author of The life of Maximilien Robespierre 1845;
A biographical history of philosophy 4 vols. 1845–6, 5 ed. 1
vol. 1880; The Spanish drama, Lope de Vega and Calderon 1846;
Rose, Blanche and Violet 3 vols. 1848; The life and works of
Goethe 2 vols. 1855; Studies in animal life 1862; Problems of
life and mind 5 vols. 1874–9; Our actors and the art of acting
1875. _d._ The Priory, 21 North bank, St. John’s Wood, London
30 Nov. 1878. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 4 Dec. _T. Ribot’s English
Psychology_ (1873) 255–314; _H. D. Traill’s New Lucian_ (1884)
268–87; _Fortnightly Review Jany. 1879 pp._ 15–24; _Graphic_,
_xviii_ 624 (1878), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiii_ 565 (1878),
_portrait_.
LEWIN, FREDERICK ALBERT (4 son of Robert Lewin of Cuddington,
Surrey). _b._ Jany. 1842; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 7th wrangler
1864, B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867; fellow of his college 1864–9;
barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; equity draftsman and conveyancer;
author of The law of apportionment 1869; edited Thomas Lewin’s
A practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 6 ed.
1875, 7 ed. 1878, 8 ed. 1885. _d._ suddenly from heart disease,
9 Bolton gardens west, Kensington 25 June 1887.
LEWIN, MALCOLM. _b._ 1800; judge of the Sudder court at Madras
1841–7; member of council 1845–7; author of Is the practice
of torture in Madras with the sanction of the authorities in
Leadenhall street 1856; Torture in Madras 1857; The government
of the East India company and its monopolies 1857; The way to
lose India 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The way to regain India 1858. _d._
31 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 5 March 1869.
LEWIN, THOMAS (5 son of Spencer James Lewin, V. of Ifield,
Sussex, _d._ 1842 aged 76). _b._ Ifield 19 April 1805; ed. at
Merchant Taylors’ and Worcester coll. Oxf.; scholar of Trin.
coll. 1825; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1833;
a conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1852 to death;
F.S.A. 19 March 1863; visited Jerusalem 1863; author of A
practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 1837, 5 ed.
1867, 9 ed. by C. C. M. Dale 1891; The life and epistles of St.
Paul 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1875; The invasion of Britain by Julius
Cæsar 1859, 2 ed. 1862; The siege of Jerusalem by Titus 1863;
Fasti Sacri, or a key to the chronology of the new testament
1865. _d._ 6 Queen’s gate place, London 5 Jany. 1877.
LEWIS, ALBERT (youngest son of Joseph Lewis of St. Vincent, West
Indies, merchant). _b._ 1835; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870;
Q.C. St. Vincent 27 Aug. 1879; attorney general of Tobago 1879;
acting chief justice of St. Lucia and Tobago 1884–5; judge of
assistant court of appeal of Barbadoes to death. _d._ 1 March
1889.
LEWIS, ARTHUR JAMES (son of general Robert Lewis, quartermaster
general to the Bombay army, _d._ 4 Sep. 1838 aged 74). _b._
Bombay 1801; named after his godfather the duke of Wellington;
ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 16
May 1828; advocate general of Bombay 1857 to death; member of
council of governor of Bombay for making laws and regulations.
_d._ in a room adjoining high court of Bombay 14 Nov. 1865.
LEWIS, CHARLES BLAKE. _b._ 1854; ed. King’s coll. London; won
the mile challenge cup in the United hospital athletic sports
several years in succession; M.R.C.S. 1877; L.R.C.P. Edinb.
1880; surgeon in the army 5 Feb. 1881; while with the army in
Egypt _d._ of cholera at El Warden 30 July 1883; a brass to his
memory erected in chapel of Royal Victoria hospital, Netley,
Jany. 1885. _Medical Times 24 Jany. 1885 p._ 117.
LEWIS, CHARLES CARNE (3 son of John Lewis 1768–1853, R. of
Ingatestone, Essex). _b._ Ingatestone rectory 28 Feb. 1807;
articled to Charles Parker of Chelmsford; solicitor at Brentwood
1829 to death; coroner for South Essex 1833 to death. _d._ the
Mansion house, Brentwood 26 July 1882. _bur._ at Ingatestone.