co. Tyrone 28 May 1819; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1843,
M.A. 1846; succeeded his brother sir John H. Lighton 29 April
1844; V. of Ellastone, Staffs. 1848 to death; author of Does
Rome teach salvation by Christ alone, if not is her teaching
christian? _d._ Ellastone 12 April 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 402
(1875).
LILLEY, JOHN (3 son of a carrier between Spillsby and Boston).
_b._ Lincolnshire 1823; enlisted in 6 regt. Inniskilling
dragoons 25 Jany. 1844, corporal 1848, sergeant 1852, troop
sergeant major 1853, regimental sergeant major 1855; served at
Scutari 1855; went to India 1857; summoned as a witness at the
court martial on Capt. Thomas W. Smales, ordered by lieut.-col.
Thomas Robert Crawley at Mhow, Bombay 1862; accused of speaking
disparagingly of col. Crawley, a charge which he entirely
denied, put under close confinement at Mhow 26 April 1862, where
he _d._ 25 May 1862; Crawley was court martialed and “honorably
acquitted,” but the full facts of the case were never brought
out. _Samuel Lilley’s Military despotism or the Iniskilling
dragoon_ (1863); _Military despotism. Addenda to the case_
(1863).
LILLEY, SAMUEL (eld. son of Samuel Isaac Lilley of Peckham,
Surrey). _b._ 1805; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1829–32;
B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1830; a member of
the bar committee 1883; a revising barrister for Surrey 1885
to death; prosecutor for the treasury at Surrey sessions, _d._
Southsea 22 June 1887. _Law Journal 2 July 1887 pp._ 373, 381.
LILLIE, JOHN. _b._ Kelso, Roxburghshire 16 Dec. 1812; ed.
Edinb. univ., B.A. 1833, D.D. 1855, and at New Brunswick
seminary; pastor of Dutch reformed church, Kingston, New York
1836–41; master of New York gram. sch. 1841–3; editor of the
Jewish Chronicle 1844–8; a translator for the American Bible
union 1851–7; pastor of the presbyterian church, Kingston 1858
to death; author of Lectures on the Epistle of Paul to the
Thessalonians. New York 1860; Lectures on the first and second
Epistles of Peter, New York and London 1869. _d._ Kingston 23
Feb. 1867. _G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars_ (1867) 128–30.
LILLIE, SIR JOHN SCOTT (eld. son of Philip Lillie of Drimdoe
castle, Roscommon). _b._ Drimdoe castle 1790; ensign 6 foot 3
March 1807; captain 60 foot 1813, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818;
entered Portuguese army; commanded 7th Cacadores at battles
of the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse; organised and
commanded an expedition to Portugal to support claims of Queen
Donna Maria 1831; captain 46 foot 6 Dec. 1827, placed on h.p.
27 March 1828; knighted 6 March 1816; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831;
lieut.-col. in the army 10 Jany. 1837, retired from the army
1855; author of An historical sketch of the origin and progress
of parliamentary corruption 1832; Observations on parliamentary
corruption and on the consequences of parliamentary reform 1832.
_d._ 1 Norfolk terrace, Bayswater, London 29 June 1868. _I.L.N.
liii_ 47 (1868).
NOTE.--He was severely wounded at the battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814
and left for 48 hours on the field of battle supposed to have been
killed.
LILLY, JOSEPH. _b._ Birmingham 1804; employed by Lackington and
Co. of Finsbury circus, London, booksellers 1820; bookseller
at 3 Museum st. Bloomsbury 1831–5, at 19 King st. Bedford st.
1835–50 and 1851–7, at 7 Pall Mall 1850–3, at 15 Bedford st.
1857–63, and at 17 New st. Covent Garden 1863 to death; bought
and sold more copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s
works than any other bookseller on record; largely concerned
in formation of Henry Huth’s library; the first portion of his
stock was sold at Sotheby’s 15 March 1871 and 9 following days;
published A collection of ballads and broadsides printed between
1559 and 1597, with a preface 1867. _d._ 31 Mornington crescent,
London 29 Oct. 1870. _Bookseller 1 Dec. 1870 p._ 1071.
LILLY, MRS. _b._ 1790; attended Queen Victoria as monthly nurse
at the births of her 9 children 1840–57. _d._ Camberwell 26
April 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 1 May.
LILLYWHITE, FREDERICK (son of the succeeding). _b._ Hove, Sussex
23 July 1829; first played at Lord’s in Sussex _v._ Marylebone
26 June 1848; reporter for Bell’s Life in London; a printer of
scores on cricket grounds; partner with John Wisden at 2 New
Coventry st. Leicester sq. London as a dealer in articles for
cricket to 1858; resided at 15 Kennington Oval from 1858, where
he published F. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores and biographies of
cricketers 3 vols. 1862–3; edited The guide to cricketers 1849,
23 ed. 1866; The public school matches; English cricketers’
trip to Canada 1860, 2 ed. 1861. _d._ Brighton 15 Sep. 1866.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iii_ 605 (1863); _Illust.
sporting news_, _i_ 33 (1866), _portrait_, _v_ 424 (1866),
_portrait_.
LILLYWHITE, FREDERICK WILLIAM (son of the manager of the duke
of Richmond’s brick fields). _b._ West Hampnett near Goodwood
13 June 1792; a bricklayer, removed to Brighton 12 Dec. 1822;
manager over bricklayers at Hove; played for Sussex against
England in his first cricket match at Lord’s 18–19 June 1827;
the first great round-arm bowler, known as the ‘Nonpareil
Bowler,’ his average was 7 runs per wicket; went in first and
came out last in two matches 1839 and 1845; kept the Royal
Sovereign inn, Preston st. Brighton with cricket ground attached
1837–44; bowler to Marylebone cricket club 1844 to death, had
a benefit in 1853; professional at Winchester school 1851–3;
generally called William Lillywhite; author of Illustrated
handbook of cricket 1844, 3 ed. 184-; kept a cricket shop at 10
Prince’s terrace, Caledonian road, Islington, London, where he
_d._ of cholera 21 Aug. 1854. _bur._ Highgate cemet. where is
monument. _Denison’s Cricket_ (1846) 34–53; _F. Lillywhite’s
Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 9–12(1862); _I.L.N. 22 July 1843 p._ 59,
_portrait_; _Illust. news of the world 22 May 1858 pp._ 252,
254, _view of monument_.
LILLYWHITE, HENRY. _b._ Hawkley, Hampshire 1789; believed to be
a relative of William Lillywhite the Sussex bowler; a player in
Hampshire; played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Hampshire 16 July
1821. _d._ Ropley, Hants. Jany. or Feb. 1858. _F. Lillywhite’s
Cricket Scores_, _i_ 444 (1862).
LILLYWHITE, JAMES (son of the preceding). _b._ Hove, Brighton
29 Oct. 1825; bowled at Cambridge 1845–51, at Westminster sch.
1849–51, permanently engaged by Cheltenham sch. 1855 to 1880;
first played at Lords in Marylebone _v._ Middlesex 26 May
1851; a good twisting round-arm bowler of middle speed and an
average batsman. _d._ 3 Queen’s circus, Cheltenham 24 Nov. 1882.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 230 (1863).
LILLYWHITE, JOHN (brother of the preceding). _b._ Hove,
Brighton 10 Nov. 1826; bowled at Lord’s 1844; coach to Rugby
school 1850–5; partner with his father and brothers James and
Frederick as manufacturers of cricketing articles at 10 Princes
ter. Caledonia road, Islington 1850–6, in business alone at
5 Seymour st. Euston sq. 1856 to death; engaged at Harrow
school from 1861; a fine and powerful hitter, a good field,
generally at cover point, a round-arm bowler delivering slow
twisters; published vol. iv. of Lillywhite’s Cricket scores at
5 Seymour st. Euston sq. 1863. _d._ Euston sq. London 27 Oct.
1874. _Illust. Sporting News_, _i_ 244 (1862), 4 _portraits_;
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 149 (1862); _Illust.
sporting and dramatic news_, _ii_ 107 (1874), _portrait_.
NOTE.--In the Illustrated Sporting News 25 Oct. 1862 p. 276 and 18
April 1866 pp. 501, 504, are portraits of the late John Lillywhite
described as the leviathan of cricket and a player at Lord’s Cricket
ground.
LIMBIRD, JOHN. _b._ 1796; printer, publisher and stationer 143
Strand, London 1823–52, at 11 Exeter Exchange, Strand 1852–4;
engraver and stationer 344 Strand 1854–68; the pioneer of
cheap literature; published a periodical called the ‘Londoner’
(edited by John Humffreys Parry) April 1822, but it only ran
to 5 numbers; projected the ‘Mirror’ (the parent of all weekly
illustrated papers) No. 1 dated 22 Nov. 1822, edited by Thos.
Byerley the ‘Reuben’ of the Percy anecdotes up to his death;
author of Limbird’s Handbook guide to London 1851. _d._ 157
Wandsworth road 30 Oct. 1883. _Bookseller_, _Nov. 1859 p._ 1326.
LIMPUS, RICHARD. _b._ 10 Sep. 1824; studied at R.A. of Music;
organist of Brentford, of St. Andrew, Undershaft, St. Mary Axe,
and of St. Michael’s, Cornhill; founded the College of Organists
in London 1864, secretary to death; professor of music; composed
some sacred and secular music. _d._ 41 Queen sq. Bloomsbury,
London 15 March 1875.
LIND, JOHANNA MARIA, known as Jenny Lind (daughter of Niclas
Jonas Lind, accountant). _b._ Stockholm 6 Oct. 1821; first
appeared at royal theatre, Stockholm 7 March 1838 as Agathe in
Der Freischütz; appointed court singer Jany. 1840 and member of
royal Swedish academy of music; pupil of Manuel Garcia in Paris
1840–2; sang in Sweden and Germany 1843–6; first appeared in
London at Her Majesty’s theatre 4 May 1847 as Alice in Roberto
il Diavolo; sang in 9 operas only during her career in London,
last appeared in opera 18 May 1849; sang in oratorio of Elijah
at Exeter hall 15 Dec. 1848; toured in U.S. of America 1850–2;
founded scholarships, &c. in Sweden with the £20,000 she had
earned in U.S. of A.; sang in Germany, Austria and Holland
1854–5; made a tour in Great Britain 1855–6; sang at concerts
given in aid of charities 1855, 1861, 1863, 1864 and 1866;
chief professor of singing at royal college of music, London
1883–6; last sang in public at the Spa, Malvern 23 July 1883;
she was always known as the Swedish Nightingale, her voice
was a soprano two octaves in compass from D to D. (_m._ at
Boston, U.S. of America 5 Feb. 1852 Otto Goldschmidt, musical
conductor, he was naturalised in England 12 Aug. 1859). She
_d._ Wynds Point, Colwell near Ledbury, Herefordshire 2 Nov.
1887, value of her personalty declared at £40,630. _Rev. H. S.
Holland and W. S. Rockstro’s Memoir of Jenny Lind Goldschmidt 2
vols._ (1891), _portrait_; _Tallis’s Dramatic magazine_ (1850)
5–9, _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song_, _ii_ 330–66
(1863); _H. F. Chorley’s Thirty years musical recollections_,
_i_ 299–312 (1862); _A Review of the performances of Jenny Lind
during her engagement at Her Majesty’s theatre, with a notice
of her life_ (1847), _portrait_; _B. Lumley’s Reminiscences_
(1864); _Memoranda of the life of Jenny Lind. By N. P. Willis.
Philadelphia_ (1851); _Theatre_, _xi_ 1–12 (1888); _H. F.
Tuckerman’s Mental Portraits_ (1853) 125–47; _Ireland’s Records
of the New York stage_, _ii_ 571–2 (1867).
NOTE.--Alfred Bunn engaged Jenny Lind to sing 20 times at Drury Lane in
opera in 1845, she broke her engagement and Bunn brought an action in
the queen’s bench 22 Feb. 1848 laying his damages at £10,000, the jury
gave him £2,500 but Bunn accepted £2,000. _A. Bunn’s The case of Bunn
versus Lind_ (1848).
The other characters in opera she appeared in, in England were, Amina;
Maria in La Figlia; Norma; Amalia in I. Masnadieri; Susanna in Le
Nozzi; Elvira in I. Puritani; and Adina in L’Elisir.
LINDAM, JACOB OLE (2 son of Peder Holger Lindam 1752–99, a
factor in Danish East India company’s service). _b._ India 13
April 1789; ensign 2nd light infantry battalion of the German
legion 17 May 1810, lieut. 8 July 1811, placed on h.p. 24 Feb.
1816; served in the Peninsula 1811–14, distinguished himself at
siege of Bayonne 14 April 1814; severely wounded at battle of
Waterloo; lieut.-col. in Hanoverian army 25 May 1866; decorated
with the Peninsula (five clasps) and Waterloo medals; K.H. May
or June 1818. _d._ Rough Down, Boxmoor, Herts. 20 Dec. 1881.
_Times 11 Jany. 1882 p._ 6.
LINDLEY, JOHN (son of George Lindley of Catton near Norwich,
nurseryman). _b._ Catton 5 Feb. 1799; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.;
agent for a London seed merchant in Belgium 1815; assistant
librarian to sir Joseph Banks in London 1819–22; garden
assistant secretary to Horticultural Soc. 1822, sole assistant
sec. 1826–41, vice sec. 1841–58, member of council and hon.
sec. 1858–62; professor of botany in London Univ. 1829–36,
in Univ. college, London 1836–60, emeritus professor 1860 to
death; lecturer on botany to Apothecaries company at Chelsea
1836–53; took charge of the entire colonial department of the
International exhibition 1862; his name has been given to the
genus Lindleya of the order Rosaceæ; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1828,
royal medallist 1857; edited Collectanea Britannica 1821, eight
numbers; The Botanical Register 1847 etc.; Journal of the
horticultural society 1846–55; chief editor of the Gardener’s
Chronicle 1841 to death; author of Rosarum monographia or a
botanical history of roses 1820; A synopsis of the British flora
1829 vol. 1 only, 3 ed. 1859; An introduction to botany 1832,
4 ed. 2 vols. 1848; Flora medica 1838; Outlines of the first
principles of botany 18--, 6 ed. called Elements of botany 1849;
The vegetable kingdom 1846, 3 ed. 1853; Folia orchidacea 1852–9,
nine parts; Descriptive botany 1858; with W. Hutton The fossil
flora of Great Britain 3 vols. 1831–7; with J. Paxton Paxton’s
Flower garden 3 vols. 1850–3; with T. Moore The treasury of
botany 1866. _d._ Acton Green, Middlesex 1 Nov. 1865, portrait
by Eddis in rooms of Horticultural Soc. _H. Field’s Memoirs of
botanic garden at Chelsea_ (1878) 189–214; _The Naturalist_,
_iv_ 434–42 (1839), _portrait_; _The Gardener’s Chronicle_
(1865) 1058, 1082; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xv_ 30–7 (1867).
LINDLEY, ROBERT (son of Shirley Lindley of Masbro). _b._
Rotherham, Yorkshire 4 March 1776; pupil of Cervetto the
violoncellist 1792; played at Brighton theatre 1792; principal
violoncello at the opera and at all important concerts
1794–1851; the best English performer on the violoncello;
professor of R.A. of Music 1822; composed about 35 solos and
duets for the violoncello, &c.; published A handbook for the
violoncello 1855. _d._ Percy st. Rathbone place, London 13 June
1855. _Dramatic and musical review_, _iii_ 379 (1844).
NOTE.--His son Wm. Lindley _b._ 1802 was a good violinist and excelled
in orchestral playing, he _d._ at Manchester 12 Aug. 1869.
LINDO, ELIAS HIAM. Merchant in City of London 1828 to death;
author of A Jewish calendar for sixty-four years to which are
added tables for continuing the calendar to A.M. 6000–2240 C.Æ.
1838; The history of the Jews of Spain and Portugal from the
earliest times to their expulsion from those kingdoms 1848. _d._
1865.
LINDO, MARK PRAGER. _b._ London 19 Feb. 1819; studied at
Dusseldorf and Bonn; M.D. Utrecht 1853; lived in Holland about
1847 to death; made many translations of works by Dickens,
Fielding, Scott, Sheridan and Thackeray into Dutch, which he
published at Amsterdam, Arnhem and Gravenhage 1846–77; author
of Readings in English prose. Arnhem 1854; Kompleete werken
van den Ouden Heer Smits _i.e._ M. P. Lindo 5 vols. Gravenhage
1877–9. _d._ at the Hague 9 March 1877.
LINDSAY, SIR ALEXANDER (2 son of James Smyth Lindsay 1751–1837).
_b._ 14 Jany. 1785; ensign in Captain Meyrick’s Independent
company of foot 9 Jany. 1795; lieut. 104 foot 3 March 1795,
regiment disbanded 1795, lieut. on h.p. 31 Aug. 1795 to death;
studied at R.M.A. Woolwich to 1803; 1 lieut. Bengal artillery 14
Aug. 1804, col. commandant 2 July 1835 to death; at sieges of
Kamonah, Ganaori and Gohad 1809, in Nipal war 1816, at siege of
Hathras 1817, in Pindari and Mahrata war 1817–19; superintendent
of telegraphs between Calcutta and Chunar; agent for manufacture
of gunpowder at Allahabad; general 11 Sep. 1859; C.B. 26 Sep.
1831, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ Earlybank, Perth 22 Jany. 1872.
_Stubbs’s History of Bengal artillery_, _i_ 298 _etc._ (1877).
LINDSAY, CHARLES HUGH (3 son of 24 Earl of Crawford 1783–1869).
_b._ Muncaster castle, Cumberland 11 Nov. 1816; ensign 43 foot
5 June 1835, captain 9 May 1845; lieut. grenadier guards 1846,
captain 14 July 1854, sold out 1855; served in Canada 1837–42
and in the Crimea 1854–6; master of the horse to lord lieut.
of Ireland 1845; groom in waiting to the Queen Aug. 1866 to
Dec. 1868 and Feb. 1876 to death; lieut.-col. 6 Middlesex (St.
George’s) rifle volunteers 23 Feb. 1861, hon. col. 24 Jany. 1885
to death; M.P. Abingdon 1865–74; C.B. 24 May 1881. _d._ Lyons 25
March 1889.
LINDSAY, COLIN (brother of the preceding). _b._ 6 Dec. 1819;
ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; churchwarden at time of restoration
of Wigan parish church 1856; president of the Manchester Church
society which in May 1860 was associated with other societies as
the Church of England protection society, afterwards the English
Church Union of which he was pres. to April 1868; received into
Church of Rome 5 Dec. 1868; received from Pius IX. special
permission to have mass celebrated in any house where he might
happen to live, a privilege rarely given; author of Union and
Unity, an address 1860; The evidence for the Papacy 1869; De
ecclesia et cathedra, or the empire church of Jesus Christ: an
epistle 2 vols. 1877; Mary, queen of Scots, and her marriage
with Bothwell 1888. _d._ 22 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London
28 Jany. 1892.
LINDSAY, HUGH HAMILTON (only son of Hugh Lindsay 1765–1844, M.P.
Forfar burghs 1820–30). _b._ 12 Aug. 1802; M.P. Sandwich 11 May
1841 to 23 July 1847; author of Letter to viscount Palmerston on
British relations with China 1836, 3 ed. 1836; Is the war with
China a just one? 1840; The Eastern Archipelago company and Sir
J. Brooke 1853. _d._ 14 Wyndham place, Bryanston sq. London 29
May 1881.
LINDSAY, JAMES (eld. son of hon. Robert Lindsay 1754–1836).
_b._ 17 April 1793; ensign 1 foot guards 16 Dec. 1807, captain
grenadier guards 20 Nov. 1823, placed on h.p. 19 Nov. 1830;
served in Walcheren expedition 1809 and defence of Cadiz 1811;
severely wounded at Bergen-op-Zoom, March 1814; L.G. 18 May
1855; M.P. Fifeshire 1831–2; contested Fifeshire 23 Jany. 1835.
_d._ Genoa 5 Dec. 1855.
LINDSAY, SIR JAMES (brother of Colin Lindsay 1819–92). _b._
Muncaster castle 25 Aug. 1815; ed. at Eton; ensign grenadier
guards 16 March 1832, lieut.-col. 31 Aug. 1860 to 12 March 1861;
major general on the staff Canada 5 June 1863 to 1 Jany. 1867;
inspecting general of the foot guards 1 Jany. 1867 to 1 April
1868; inspector general of reserve forces 1 April 1868 to 1870;
K.C.M.G. 22 Dec. 1870; colonel of 3 foot 15 Sep. 1870 to death;
L.G. 10 Oct. 1870; M.P. Wigan 1845–57 and 1859–66; contested
Wigan 28 March 1857. _d._ Cranmer house, Mitcham, Surrey 13 Aug.
1874.
LINDSAY, JAMES BOWMAN. _b._ Carmyllie, Forfarshire 8 Sep. 1799;
a weaver; student at St. Andrew’s univ. 1821–33; lecturer and
teacher at Watt institution, Dundee 1829; teacher at Dundee
prison, March 1841 to Oct. 1858; an early discoverer of the
electric light, which he exhibited at the Thistle hall, Dundee
15 Jany. 1836; suggested possibility of extending electric
telegraph to America in a letter to the Northern Warder
newspaper 26 June 1845; lectured in Glasgow on his plan of
forming an electric communication between Great Britain and
other countries without the employment of submarine wires, he
patented this invention 5 June 1854; telegraphed successfully
across the river Tay at Glencarse half a mile 17 May 1859; a
member of the Free Church 1843–61 when he joined the Baptists;
granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; studied all
the eclipses mentioned by historians, the result of which
he published at Dundee in Jany. 1858 under title of The
Chrono-astrolabe, which attracted attention of the astronomers;
author of A treatise on the mode and subjects of baptism 1861;
occupied himself from 1836 to death preparing a dictionary in 50
languages to be entitled A Pentecontaglossal Dictionary, nearly
completed at his death, but never published. _d._ 11 South Union
st. Dundee 29 June 1862. _bur._ Western cemet. Dundee 2 July,
date of death on his tombstone is wrongly stated as 1863. _W.
Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 212–19.
LINDSAY, JOHN. _b._ Cork, April 1789; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin;
while yet a boy collected Greek and Roman coins; author of A
view of the coinage of Ireland. Cork 1839; A view of the coinage
of the heptarchy 1842; A view of the coinage of Scotland 2 parts
1845–59; Notices of mediæval coins 1849; A view of the coinage
of the Parthians 1852. _d._ Maryville, Blackrock, Cork 31 Dec.
1870. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii_ 307 (1872).
LINDSAY, WILLIAM. _b._ Irvine, Ayrshire 1802; ed. at Glasgow
univ., D.D. 1844; studied at theological hall, Paisley 1824–30;
ordained minister of relief church 27 April 1830; minister
at Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1830–2; colleague of John Barr at
Dovehill relief church, Glasgow 22 Nov. 1832, in sole charge
1839; removed to a new church in Cathedral st. Glasgow, Dec.
1844, held this charge to his death; appointed by the relief
synod professor of exegetical theology and biblical criticism
Nov. 1841; professor of sacred languages and biblical criticism
in United Presbyterian hall 1847, professor of exegetical
theology there Oct. 1858 to death; author of Inquiry into the
christian law as to the relationships which bar marriage.
Glasgow 1855, 2 ed. 1871; Lectures on the epistle to the Hebrews
2 vols. 1867. _d._ 153 Hill st. Garnett hill, Glasgow 3 June
1866. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 108–12; _W.
Mc.Kelvie’s Annals of the United Presbyterian Church_ (1873) 298.
LINDSAY, WILLIAM LAUDER (eld. son of James Lindsay of the Sasine
office, Register house, Edinburgh). _b._ Edinburgh 19 Dec. 1829;
ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1852; L.R.C.S. Edinb.
and L.M. 1852; F.L.S. 1858; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; medical officer
to Murray’s royal institution for the insane at Perth 1854; the
first Neill gold medallist of Royal Soc. of Edinb. 1859 for
his History of British lichens 1856; studied the flora of New
Zealand, North Germany, Norway and Iceland; author of A popular
history of British lichens 1856; Contributions to New Zealand
botany 1868; Memoirs on the spermogones and pyonides of lichens
1870; Mind in the lower animals in health and disease 1879. _d._
3 Hartington gardens, Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1880.
LINDSAY, WILLIAM SCHAW (3 son of Joseph Lindsay of Ayr). _b._
Ayr 1816; a cabin boy in the Isabella, West Indiaman 1831,
second mate 1834; chief mate of the Olive Branch 1835, captain
1836, retired 1840; fitter at Hartlepool to Castle Eden coal
company 1841–5, represented the company in London 1845; mainly
instrumental in getting Hartlepool made an independent port 6
Jany. 1845; founded firm of W. S. Lindsay & Co. ship-brokers,
11 Abchurch lane, London 1849, which became one of the largest
in the world, retired 1864; contested Monmouth, April 1852, and
Dartmouth, July 1852; M.P. Tynemouth and North Shields 1854–9;
M.P. Sunderland 1859–65; author of Our navigation and mercantile
marine laws considered with a view to their revision and
consolidation 1852, 2 ed. 1853; History of merchant shipping and
ancient commerce 4 vols. 1874–6; Manning of the royal navy and
mercantile marine 1877. _d._ Manor house, Shepperton, Middlesex
28 Aug. 1877.
LINEN, JAMES. _b._ Scotland 1808; a book binder in city of New
York; spent some years in California; contributed poems to the
Knickerbocker Mag. and the Scottish American; author of Songs of
the seasons and other poems. New York 1852; Poetical and prose
writings. San Francisco 1865; The poetical and prose writings.
New York 1865; The golden gate 1869. _d._ city of New York 20
Nov. 1873. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 732 (1887).
LINES, SAMUEL. _b._ Allesley near Coventry 1778; apprenticed
to Mr. Keeling of Birmingham, clock-dial enameller 1794;
employed as designer by Mr. Clay the papier-mâché maker and
by Wyon and Halliday die engravers; started a drawing school
in Newhall st. Birmingham 1807; built a house in Temple Row,
lived there rest of his life; established with other artists
a life academy in Peck lane, New st. 1809, which was removed
to Union passage 1814; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. 1817–25;
helped to found Birmingham school of art 1821; treasurer
and curator of Birmingham society of artists to 1858; was a
good landscape-painter and teacher. _d._ 3 Temple row west,
Birmingham 22 Nov. 1863, portrait by W. T. Roden in Birmingham
museum and art gallery.