chess player in England about 1807; the leading player many
years after Sarratt’s death in 1821; a great and original chess
analyst and one of the finest players in Europe; when W. de
Kempelen’s automaton chessplayer was exhibited in London in
1819, Lewis officiated for some months as the hidden conductor
of the Turk’s games, losing only 6 games in 300 though always
giving the odds of pawn and move; played a match at Paris with
Alexander L. H. L. Des Chapelles the leading chess-player in
France 1821; a teacher of chess at 5 Nassau st. Soho, London,
Alexander McDonnell was one of his pupils; author of A treatise
on the game of chess 1814; Oriental chess, or specimens of
Hindostanee excellence in that celebrated game 2 vols. 1817;
Carera’s A treatise on the game of chess, to which is added
the art of playing without seeing the board 1822; Fifty games
at chess, most of which occurred between the author and some
of the best players in England, France and Germany 1832. _d._
about 16 Nov. 1870. _Quarterly Review_, _June 1849 pp._ 90–5;
_W. G. Walker’s Selection of games at chess_ (1836) 273; _W.
G. Walker’s Thousand games at chess_ (18--) _ix_ 82–4; _Chess
Players’ Chronicle_, _i_ 9, 33 (1841); _I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1870 p._
555.
LEWIS, WILLIAM DAVID (brother of sir Charles E. Lewis). _b._
1823; pupil of John Rudall, conveyancer 1838; a conveyancer at
10 Serle st. 1842, being the youngest conveyancer on record;
barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1844, bencher 1859; Q.C. June 1859;
reader on law of real property and conveyancing at Gray’s Inn
26 May 1847 to June 1852, delivered every year 60 original and
elaborate lectures; a comr. on registration of title to land
18 Jany. 1854, the report is dated 15 May 1857 and contains
sketches of two bills by Lewis; founded the Juridical society
10 Feb. 1855; author of A practical treatise on the law of
perpetuity 1843, unparalleled in the history of legal authorship
as the achievement of a youth under 20 years of age. _d._ 1
Kensington sq. London 24 Jany. 1861 in 38 year. _Solicitors’
Journal_, _v_ 242–4 (1861).
NOTE.--His only son Wm. Arnold Lewis, barrister Inner Temple 17 Nov.
1869, was killed by accident on the Lyskamm near Zermatt 6 Sep. 1877.
LEWIS, WILLIAM GARRETT (eld. son of Wm. Garrett Lewis, minister
of Zion chapel, Chatham in 1824). _b._ Margate 5 Aug. 1821;
articled to Dr. Gray of Brixton, London, schoolmaster 1837–40;
clerk in the post office, London 1840–7; minister of Baptist
chapel in Silver st. Kensington, Sep. 1847, new chapel built
for him in Ledbury road, Westbourne Grove, opened 6 April 1853,
preached there to Dec. 1880, presented by his congregation with
400 guineas 3 Jany. 1881; minister of chapel in Dagnal st. St.
Albans, Jany. 1881 to death; a founder of the London Baptist
association 1865, sec. 1865–9, pres. 1870; edited The Baptist
Magazine 20 years; author of The religion of Rome examined, a
course of lectures 1851; Westbourne Grove sermons 1872; The
trades and industrial occupations of the Bible 1874. _d._
Victoria st. St. Albans 16 Jany. 1885. _bur._ Kensal Green 21
Jany. _Baptist Mag. March ]885 pp._ 97–102.
LEY, WILLIAM (son of rev. Mr. Ley). _b._ Devonshire 1806; ed. at
Ottery, Devon, and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1831,
L.S.A. 1835; resident medical officer of Fever hospital 4 years;
surgeon Crawford st. Portman sq. London, and surgeon to Western
general dispensary, Stafford st.; studied insanity in Hanwell
asylum; medical superintendent of Oxford and Berks. asylum,
Littlemore 1845–66, where he treated all the patients with
gentleness; the first to introduce cannabis Indica. _d._ while
visiting the superintendent at Littlemore 7 March 1869. _Medical
Times_, _i_ 345–6 (1869).
LEYBOURNE, GEORGE. _b._ 1842; sang in the provinces many years;
next to Alfred G. Vance he was the best known comic singer of
his time, had an excellent voice, sang at all the London music
halls; his songs Champagne Charlie 1867, Mouse-traps, and She
danced like a fairy, were very popular; made his last appearance
at Queen’s palace, Poplar 1884; author of The Barber’s
apprentice boy, song 1868; Twelve of G. Leybourne’s comic songs
1878; reported to have died 24 Nov. 1876. _d._ of consumption,
Englefield road, Islington 15 Sep. 1884. _bur._ Abney park
cemetery 19 Sep. _The Entr’acte 2 Dec. 1876 p._ 3, _20 Sep. 1884
p._ 11, _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. News 21 April 1866 pp._ 227,
236, _portrait_.
NOTE.--His dau. Florrie Leybourne is a music hall artiste. A matinée
benefit was given for his widow at the Royal Holborn music hall on
27 Sep. 1884. On one occasion when Leybourne was singing for William
Holland at the Canterbury music hall, under a clause in his agreement
he had to drive out in a coach and four whenever required to do so, and
was frequently seen in public in his carriage.
LEYLAND, JOHN. _b._ 1815; founded the Boys Home and Surrey
reformatory, Spanish road, Wandsworth, London 1852, also the
Surrey Industrial school, High st. Wandsworth, of both of which
he was hon. manager. _d._ Rosemount, Byfleet, Surrey 7 Oct. 1882.
LEYLAND, JOSEPH BENTLEY (2 son of Robert Leyland, naturalist).
_b._ Halifax 31 March 1811; exhibited at Manchester the model
of a greyhound and a colossal statue of Spartacus 1832; studied
design under B. R. Haydon in London; his statue of Dr. Beckwith
of York was placed in York minster; exhibited models of groups
of hounds at Suffolk st. gallery 1834 and 1839; his group
of African bloodhounds and his colossal figure The Thracian
Falconer, are in the Salford museum. _d._ Halifax 26 Jany. 1851.
LIARDET, FRANCIS (2 son of John Liardet). _b._ Chelsea 14 June
1798; entered navy 14 June 1809; second captain of the Powerful
84 guns 12 Jany. 1839 to 1840, served in the Mediterranean on
the coast of Syria and at bombardment of St. Jean d’ Acre;
captain 4 Nov. 1840; placed on h.p. Jany. 1841; agent for New
Zealand company at Taranaki, Sep. 1841 to Feb. 1842; lost
sight of one eye by an explosion 29 Nov. 1841; a captain of
Greenwich hospital Jany. 1856 to death; author of Professional
recollections on points of seamanship, discipline, &c. 1849;
The midshipman’s companion 1851; Friendly hints to the young
naval lieutenant 1858. _d._ Greenwich hospital 1 March 1863,
marble bust of him by T. Milnes is in the painted hall. _E. G.
Wakefield’s Adventure in New Zealand_, _ii_ 68, 163 (1845).
LIBRI-CARRUCCI DALLA SOMMAIA, GUGLIELMO BRUTO ICILIO TIMOLEONE,
Count. _b._ Florence 2 Jany. 1803; professor of mathematical
physics, univ. of Pisa 1823 professor at faculté des sciences,
Paris 1832; naturalized in France 2 Jany. 1833; inspector
general of public libraries in France; accused of pilfering from
the libraries, which, he entirely denied, fled to England 28
Feb. 1848, sentenced in his absence to 10 years imprisonment by
the cour d’ assize of the department of the Seine 22 June 1850;
sold his MSS. to Bertram 4 earl of Ashburnham, they are now
in the Laurenzian library at Florence; his books were sold by
Sotheby 1859–66, sales taking 25 days; returned to Tuscany 1868;
author of Histoire des sciences mathématiques en Italie 4 vols.
Paris 1838–41. _d._ Fiesole near Florence 28 Sep. 1869. _Memoir
of Augustus de Morgan_ (1882) _passim_; _Saturday Rev. lv_ 266–7
(1883); _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Nov. 1869 pp._ 259–61.
LICHFIELD, THOMAS WILLIAM ANSON, 1 Earl of (1 son of 1 viscount
Anson 1767–1818). _b._ Shugborough, Staffs. 20 Oct. 1795; capt.
Staffordshire yeomanry 1812, lieut.-col. 1829, lieut.-col.
commandant 1833 to death; M.P. Yarmouth 19 June 1818; succeeded
as 2 viscount Anson 31 July 1818; master of the Atherstone
hounds 1821–30; master of the buckhounds 24 Nov. 1830 to 30 Dec.
1834; P.C. 24 Nov. 1830; created earl of Lichfield 15 Sep. 1831;
postmaster general 30 May 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841; high steward of
Great Yarmouth 22 Feb. 1836; won the St. Leger with Elis 1836
and the 2000 guineas with Corsair 1839; sold all his pictures,
sculpture, &c. in a 12 days sale Aug. 1842. _d._ 2 Great
Stanhope st. Mayfair, London 18 March 1854.
LICHFIELD, THOMAS GEORGE ANSON, 2 Earl of (1 son of the
preceding). _b._ Shugborough, Staffs. 8 Aug. 1825; ed. at Eton;
styled viscount Anson 1831–54; capt. Staffordshire yeomanry 16
Nov. 1844, major 17 April 1863; precis writer to lord Palmerston
at foreign office 1846–7; M.P. Lichfield 1847–54; succeeded as
2 earl of Lichfield 18 March 1854; lord lieut. of Staffordshire
1863–71; high steward of Stafford 1878; first chairman of Soc.
for reformation of juvenile offenders and a founder of the
reformatory at Saltley. _d._ at his residence in London 7 Jany.
1892. _Mrs. Fairlie’s Portraits of children of the nobility 3
Ser. plate_ 2 (1841).
LICHTENSTEIN, GEORGE. _b._ Hungary 1823; ed. for legal
profession; a political refugee in England; naturalized 18
Dec. 1854; professor of music at Edinburgh 1856 to death;
tutor to duke of Edinburgh; composer of My dream waltz for the
pianoforte, with cornet ad lib. 1854; Tempi futuri, polka 1854;
Pensées patriotiques, mélodies originales pour piano 1855; War
march for the piano 1855. _d._ Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1893.
LIDDELL, _Sir Adolphus Frederick Octavius_ (youngest son of 1
baron Ravensworth 1775–1855). _b._ 15 Jany. 1818; ed. at Eton
and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; fellow of All Souls’
1840–6; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1844, bencher 30 April 1861 to
death, treasurer 1875; contested Grateshead 9 July 1852; Q.C.
22 Feb. 1861; permanent under sec. of state for home department
1867 to death; K.C.B. 20 April 1880. _d._ 49 Rutland gate,
London 27 June 1885.
LIDDELL, ANDREW (son of Mr. Liddell of Bainsford near Falkirk,
schoolmaster). _b._ Bainsford 1786; an ironmonger in Glasgow
1815–44; carried on most extensive manufacture in Scotland of
wrought iron tubes; member of philosophical society of Glasgow
1819, pres. of it frequently, treasurer many years; A.I.C.E.
1843; pastor of baptist chapel in Brown st. Glasgow 1844, which
he purchased and presented to his congregation; wrote Life
of David Dale, for Blackie’s Lives of eminent Scotsmen. _d._
Bardowie house, Glasgow 15 Nov. 1855.
LIDDELL, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (6 son of 1 baron Ravensworth
1775–1855). _b._ 28 July 1812; ed. at Eton; ensign Scots
fusilier guards 27 Nov. 1828, captain 8 Sep. 1846, placed on
h.p. 6 July 1849; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; lieut.-col. 6
dragoons 15 Feb. 1861, sold out same day; played his first
cricket match at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ St. John’s Wood club
1 June 1840, a hard forward driver and active in the field,
on committee of Marylebone club; comptroller of the household
and equerry to duchess of Gloucester 1845–58; groom in waiting
to the Queen 1858–82; treasurer to duke of Edinburgh 1866–71;
deputy ranger of Richmond park 1850–71; deputy ranger of Windsor
park 1871–83. _d._ South Lawn, Eton 14 Dec. 1888. _Lillywhite’s
Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 549 (1862).
LIDDELL, SIR JOHN. _b._ Dunblane, Scotland 1794; ed. at univ. of
Edinb., M.D.; L.R.C.S. 1821; assistant surgeon in the navy 1812;
director of the hospital at Malta 1827; inspector of fleets and
hospitals 1844; deputy inspector general of Haslar hospital
1840; inspector general of Greenwich hospital 1844–54; director
general of medical department of the navy April 1854 to 1864;
hon. phys. to the queen 13 May 1859 to death; knighted at St.
James’s palace 17 May 1848; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850, K.C.B. 9 Feb.
1864; F.R.S. 18 June 1846; knight of Russian order of St. Anne
and of Greek order of the Redeemer. _d._ 72 Chester sq. London
28 May 1868.
LIDDELL, ROBERT (brother of G. A. F. Liddell 1812–88). _b._ 24
Sep. 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1829, M.A.
1834; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1831–6; V. of Barking, Essex
1836–51; V. of St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge with St. Barnabas,
Pimlico, London 1851–81, he erected crosses, &c. in both these
churches, Messrs. Westerton and Beale proceeded against him in
the Consistory court, Dr. Lushington delivered judgment against
him 5 Dec. 1855, which was confirmed by sir J. Dodson in the
Arches court 20 Dec. 1856, but the privy council decided partly
for both parties, each to pay his own costs 21 March 1857;
author of The seven deadly sins, lectures in St. Paul’s 1858;
The fruits of penitential sorrow, lectures 1860; The christian
priesthood, altar and sacrifice, four sermons 1867; The lay of
the last angler. By a Sexagenarian 1867, 3 ed. 1883; A pastoral
farewell to the parishioners of St. Paul’s 1881, and 25 other
books. _d._ 12 New Cavendish st. London 29 June 1888. _J. E.
Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed._ (1858) 40–9.
LIDDERDALE, THOMAS WILLIAM (2 son of Thomas Robertson
Liddersdale of St. Mary’s isle, Kirkcudbright, ensign 6 W.I.
regt.) _b._ 1830; in British museum 30 years, latterly as a
first class assistant in printed book department; a student in
Scandinavian literature and Icelandic bibliography; assisted P.
H. M’Kerlie in his History of Galloway 5 vols. 1870–9; compiled
Catalogue of the books printed in Iceland from A.D. 1578 to 1880
in the library of the British museum. 1885; taken ill in the
street, went into the shop of Daniel Margetts metal worker 16
York st. Covent Garden, where he fell on the floor, conveyed to
Charing Cross hospital, where he _d._ same day 4 Sep. 1884.
LIDDON, HENRY PARRY (eld. son of Matthew Liddon, captain R.N.,
_d._ 1869 aged 77). _b._ North Stoneham, Hampshire 20 Aug.
1829; ed. at Lyme Regis, Dorset 1839–41 and at King’s coll.
sch. London 1841–6; entered Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1846, student 1847 to
death; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853, B.D., D.D. and D.C.L. 1870, Johnson
theological scholar 1851; C. of Wantage 1852–4; vice principal
of Cuddesdon theological college 1854–9; vice principal of St.
Edmund’s hall, Oxford 1859–61; exam. chaplain to bishop of
Salisbury 1864, preb. of Salisbury 1864–70; select preacher to
univ. of Oxf. 1863, 1870, 1877 and 1884; Ireland professor of
exegesis at Oxf. June 1870 to 1882; gave a series of lectures
in St. James’s hall, Piccadilly, London 1870; member of council
of Keble coll. Oxf. 1870 to death; canon of St. Paul’s cath.
27 April 1870 to death, chancellor 1886 to death; the foremost
preacher in the ch. of England and the most powerful champion
of the high church party; took a leading part in the Bonn
conferences 10–16 Aug. 1875; select preacher at Cambridge 1884
and 1889, hon. LL.D. June 1889; elected bishop of Edinburgh,
June 1886 but declined the charge; author of Some words for God,
sermons before the university of Oxford 1865, republished as
Sermons before the university 8 ed. 1884; The divinity of Jesus
Christ, eight lectures before the university on the foundation
of John Bampton 1867, 14 ed. 1890; Some elements of religion,
Lent lectures 1872, 5 ed. 1885; Sermons preached before the
university. Second series 1879, 4 ed. 1887; Selections from the
writing of H. P. Liddon 1882, 2 ed. 1883; Edward Bouverie Pusey,
a sermon 1884, 2 ed. 1884; Easter in St. Paul’s, sermons on the
resurrection 2 vols. 1885, 2 ed. 1891; Forty sermons preached
in St. Paul’s, London. Four series 1886; Advent in St. Paul’s,
sermons 2 vols. 1889, 2 ed. 1889; The magnificat, sermons in
St. Paul’s 1889, 3 ed. 1891, and 60 other works. _d._ Claremont
crescent, Weston-super-Mare 9 Sep. 1890. _bur._ crypt of St.
Paul’s cath. 16 Sep.; portrait by G. Richmond at Keble coll.,
and another by H. Herkomer in Ch. Ch. hall. _C. M. Davies’s
Orthodox London_ (1874) 141–52, _2 Ser._ (1875) 396–400; _F.
Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _ii_ 153–66 (1875); _Church
quarterly review_, _Oct. 1890 pp._ 212–18; _Temple Bar_, _lxxii_
334–8 (1884); _The Biograph_, _v_ 360–2 (1881); _I.L.N. 20 Sep.
1890 p._ 353, _portrait_.
LIEBSTEIN, HERMANN (5 son of David Liebstein of Lemberg,
Gallicia, Austria, merchant). _b._ Austria 1829; naturalised
in England 16 June 1855; barrister G.I. 17 Nov. 1858; equity
draftsman; author of Notes of Expository addresses on the book
of Revelation 1876; Eternal life, where to find it and how to
obtain it 1882. _d._ at his house, 40 Highbury hill near London
13 July 1882.
LIECHTENSTEIN, MARIE, Princess of (adopted daughter of Henry
4 baron Holland who _d._ Naples 18 Dec. 1859, and known as
Miss Marie Fox). _b._ 21 Dec. 1850; (_m._ at pro-cathedral,
Kensington 27 June 1872 Prince Aloys or Louis Liechtenstein 2
son of François prince de Liechtenstein 1802–87, he was _b._
Prague 18 Nov. 1846, lieut. of hussars, a knight of Malta,
secretary of legation); author of Holland House 2 vols. 1874;
Nora, a novel taken from the German of the baroness F. Von
Brackel 1877. _d._ Burgstall in Styria 26 Dec. 1878. _Morning
Post 28 June 1872 p._ 5.
LIEFDE, JACOB B. DE (of Dutch parentage). _b._ 1847; ed. in
Holland; war correspondent of the Daily News with the German
army outside Paris and during the Commune 1870–71; author of The
beggars or the founders of the Dutch republic 1868, 5 ed. 1883;
Walter’s escape or the capture of Breda 1870; The great Dutch
admirals 1873; Hereditary bondsmen, or is it all in vain 3 vols.
1875; The maid of Stralsund 1876; A brave resolve or the siege
of Stralsund 2 ed. 1883. _d._ Twickenham, Middlesex 6 Feb. 1878.
LIFFORD, JAMES HEWITT, 3 Viscount (1 son of 2 viscount Lifford
1750–1830). _b._ 29 Aug. 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1804;
student Inner Temple 1805; succeeded 15 April 1830; author of
Ireland and the Irish church 1842; Thoughts on the present state
of Ireland 1849. _d._ Brighton 22 April 1855.
LIGAR, CHARLES WHYBROW. _b._ Ceylon 1809; ed. Sandhurst; 2
lieut. royal engineers, resigned; engaged on ordnance survey in
Ireland till 1840; surveyor general New Zealand 1840–56; col.
and commandant of New Zealand militia, took part in the war at
the Bay of Islands; surveyor general of Victoria, Australia
1858, retired on a pension 1869; settled in Texas. _d._ 1879.
LIGGINS, JOSEPH. _b._ London 1791; West India merchant and
ship owner, 37 Mincing lane, London 1830 to death; chairman of
Southampton dock co. nearly 20 years; author of A refutation of
the calumnies circulated by the Anti-Slavery agency committee
against the West India planters. Signed Joseph Liggins, Mincing
lane, London 1833. _d._ Homer villa, 33 Addison road, Kensington
22 June 1860.
LIGGINS, JOSEPH HENRY (son of a baker of Nuneaton,
Warwickshire). _b._ 1800; educ. at Cambridge but was rusticated;
a tutor; resided in Isle of Man and at Liverpool and was on the
staff of a Liverpool newspaper; borrowed money from all his
friends, which he never repaid; claimed to have written Adam
Bede 1859 and on the strength of this claim received many sums
of money; was found destitute in lodgings and removed by the
relieving officer to Chilvers Coton workhouse near Nuneaton,
where after some months he died 29 May 1872 aged 72. _The Times
2, 6, 11, 13 Feb. 1885_; _Cross’s Life of G. Eliot_, _i_ 449,
_ii_ 97–100, 107, 136 (1885).
LIGHT, SIR HENRY (son of Wm. Light of the Madras civil service).
_b._ 1783; ed. at Rugby and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Aug.
1799, captain 20 Dec. 1814, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1819; lieut.
governor of Antigua 13 April 1836; governor and commander
in chief of British Guiana 1 May 1838 to 1844, retired on a
pension; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of Travels in Egypt,
Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Lebanon and Cyprus in 1814. 1818. _d._
Falmouth 3 March 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_ 307 (1870).
LIGHTFOOT, JOHN EMANUEL. _b._ Gisburn 1802; partner in firm of
F. W. Grafton & Co. Broad Oak print works, Accrington; first
mayor of Accrington 1878, also in 1882; the father of Lancashire
methodism. _d._ Quarry Hill, Accrington 24 April 1893.
LIGHTFOOT, JOHN PRIDEAUX (1 son of Nicholas Lightfoot, R. of
Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devon, _d._ 1847). _b._ Crediton 23 March
1803; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., fellow 1824–34, tutor 1824–34; B.A.
1824, M.A. 1827, B. and D.D. 1854; R. of Wootton, Northants.
1834–54; hon. canon of Peterborough 1853 to death; rector of Ex.
coll. 18 March 1854 to death; R. of Kidlington, Oxf. 1854 to
death; member of first hebdomadal council 1854; vice chancellor
1862–6, entertained prince and princess of Wales at dinner in
Ex. coll. hall 17 June 1863; opened the Petrean fellowships to
Northants by conveying ground in Wootton to Lord Petre 1847.
_d._ the rectory, Ex. coll. on anniversary of his birth 23 March
1887. _Boase’s Exeter college_ (1879) 125.
LIGHTFOOT, JOSEPH BARBER (son of John Jackson Lightfoot,
accountant, _d._ 1843). _b._ 84 Duke st. Liverpool 13 April
1828; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. 1844–7; pensioner at Trin.
coll. Camb. Oct. 1847, scholar 1849, fellow 1852–71, tutor
1853–62; 31st wrangler and senior classic 1851; B.A. 1851, M.A.
1854, D.D. 1864; Norrisian prizeman 1853, select preacher 1858,
a founder of the Journal of classical and sacred philology, and
one of the editors March 1854 to Dec. 1859; member of council
of Oxford senate 1860–78 except 2 years; Hulsean professor
of divinity 1861–75; chaplain to Prince Consort, Feb. 1861;
chaplain to the Queen 24 March 1862–79; deputy clerk of the
closet 1875–9; Whitehall preacher 1866–7; select preacher at
Oxf. 1874–5; exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1862–9, to
archbishop of Canterbury 1869–79; Lady Margaret’s professor of
divinity at Cambridge 26 May 1875 to 1879; canon of St. Paul’s
cath. 23 Feb. 1871; an original member of New Testament company
of revisers July 1870 to Nov. 1880; a comr. for Cambridge under
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge act 1877, 1877–81; declined
bishopric of Lichfield 1867; bishop of Durham 15 March 1879 to
death, consecrated in Westminster abbey 25 April, expended all
his episcopal income for purposes within the diocese; trained
about 80 graduates at his seat Auckland Castle free of charge;
endowed univ. of Durham with the Richard de Bury scholarship
1882; presided at church congress at Newcastle 1881 and at
British archæological assoc. at Darlington 1886; the ‘White
Cross’ movement took its rise at Auckland Castle 1883; author of
Commentary on epistle to the Galatians 1865; On a fresh revision
of the English New Testament 1871, 2 ed. 1872; The apostolic
fathers. St. Clement 1 vol. 1877, St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp
2 vols. 1885; The epistles of Paul. Philippians. A revised text
1879; Cambridge sermons 1890; Ordination addresses and counsels
to clergy 1890; Sermons preached in St. Paul’s cathedral 1891;
Sermons preached on special occasions 1891. _d._ the Imperial
hotel, Bournemouth 21 Dec. 1889. _bur._ in chapel of Auckland
Castle 27 Dec., portrait by W. B. Richmond in Auckland Castle,
memorial altar tomb unveiled in Durham cath. 20 Oct. 1892. _C.
Bullock’s The two bishops_ (1890) 33–56, _portrait_; _Biograph_,
_vi_ 579–82 (1881); _I.L.N. lxxiv_ 201 (1879), _portrait_;
_Graphic 28 Dec. 1889 p._ 791, _portrait_.
NOTE.--In 1870 he transferred to Univ. of Camb. £4500 for the
foundation of three scholarships for the encouragement of the study
of ecclesiastical history in itself and in connection with general
history. The Lady Margaret’s professorship being endowed with the
rectory of Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk, he restored the chancel
of that church in 1878–9 at a cost of £2140. By his will he created
a trust called ‘The Lightfoot fund for the diocese of Durham’ for
the erection of buildings for church purposes and for other purposes
at discretion of the trustees, to whom he assigned his works and
copyrights. His library was divided between the univ. of Durham and the
Cambridge divinity school.
LIGHTFOOT, THOMAS. _b._ 1775; ensign 5 foot Aug. 1799; captain
45 foot 15 Dec. 1804, major 7 Oct. 1813 to 25 Dec. 1814 when
placed on h.p.; extra A.D.C. to the Sovereign 6 May 1831 to 23
Nov. 1841; colonel 62 foot 11 April 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov.
1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Barbourne house, Worcester 15 Nov.
1858.
LIGHTFOOT, THOMAS (son of the preceding). _b._ 27 Dec. 1820;
ensign 84 foot 1 June 1838, lieut.-col. 4 April 1859, placed on
h.p. 5 May 1869; brigade major, Lucknow, Nov. 1857 to Jany.
1858; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869,
placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 27 Dec. 1882; C.B.
14 May 1859. _d._ 16 Victoria park, Dover 3 March 1888.