(dau. of Edward Gilbert, ensign 44 foot, _d._ Dinapore, India
1825). _b._ Limerick 1818; ed. at Montrose and in Paris; resided
at Bath with her mother; ran away to Ireland with Thomas James,
captain 21 Bengal N.I., whom she married at Meath 23 July 1837;
she returned from India to England early in 1842; he obtained an
order for a divorce in consistory court, London 15 Dec. 1842,
retired from the army 28 Feb. 1856 and _d._ 17 May 1871; made
her début at Her Majesty’s theatre 3 June 1843 as ‘Lola Montez
Spanish dancer,’ but being badly received did not appear again;
danced at Dresden, Berlin, Warsaw and St. Petersburg; appeared
as a dancer at Munich 1847 when she captivated the king of
Bavaria, Ludwig Carl Augustus, naturalised by a royal ordinance
7 March 1847, created baronne de Rosenthal and comtesse de
Lansfeld, the king built a splendid mansion for her and gave
her a pension of 20,000 florins; ruled the kingdom of Bavaria
with great ability, banished March 1848 and the king was forced
to abdicate 21 March; _m._ at St. George’s, Hanover sq. 19 July
1849 George Trafford Heald, cornet 2nd life guards, she fled
with him to Spain Aug. 1849 to avoid punishment for bigamy, he
sold out 1849 and was drowned at Lisbon 1853 or 1856; danced in
ballet of Betley the Tyrolean, at Broadway theatre, New York 29
Dec. 1851, and played Lola Montez in Ware’s drama ‘Lola Montez
in Bavaria’ 18 May 1852; _m._ in California 2 Aug. 1853 P. P.
Hull, proprietor of the ‘San Francisco Whig’ but soon left
him; played at Victoria theatre, Sydney, N.S.W. 23 Aug. 1855;
played at Melbourne 1856 where she horsewhipped Mr. Seekamp,
editor of the Ballarat Times, for reflecting on her character;
appeared at Green st. theatre, New York 1857 in The Eton Boy,
The follies of a night, and Lola in Bavaria; a public lecturer
in the United States 1858, lectured at St. James’s hall, London
7 April 1859; spent her time visiting the female outcasts at
the Magdalen hospital near New York 1859–60. _d._ in a sanitary
asylum at Asteria, New York 17 Jany. 1861. _bur._ Greenwood
cemet. 19 Jany. _Autobiography and lectures of Lola Montez_
(1858), _portrait_; _Les Contemporains, Lola Montes. Par Eugène
de Mirecourt. Paris_ (1870), _portrait_; _F. L. Hawks’s Story
of a penitent, Lola Montez. New York_ (1867); _C. H. Ross’s
Painted Faces_ (1891) 78–88; _H. H. Phelps’s Players of a
century_ (1880) 265–7, 297; _Temple Bar_, _July 1880 pp._ 362–7;
_Mortemar’s Folly’s Queens_ (1882) 10–14, _portrait_; _You have
heard of them. By Q._ (1854) 98–106; _I.L.N. x_ 180 (1847),
_portrait_.
LOMAS, JOHN (son of rev. Robert Lomas _d._ 1810). _b._ Hull 13
Dec. 1798; master Kingswood sch. 1820–23; Wesleyan methodist
minister at Manchester 1827–33, 1842–5, 1851–4, at Bristol
1833–6, 1855–8, at Birmingham 1836–9, in London 1845–51,
1858–61; theological tutor Richmond coll. 1861–8 and at
Headingley coll. 1868–73; president of the Conference 1853;
author of Jesus Christ the propitiation for our sins. The third
Fernley lecture 1872. _d._ Redland, Bristol 20 Aug. 1877.
_Wesleyan Methodist Mag. ci_ 9, 134, 207, 283 (1878).
LOMAX, JAMES (3 son of Richard Grimshaw Lomax _d._ 1837). _b._
Clayton hall, Accrington, Lancs. 1803; ed. at Stonyhurst;
succeeded to family estates on death of his brother John Lomax
1849; a prominent Roman Catholic in the north of England, and a
munificent donor to R.C. organizations in Lancashire, erected at
his own cost church of Our Lady and St. Hubert, Great Harwood;
created knight commander of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX.
_d._ Clayton hall 26 March 1886.
LOMAX, THOMAS GEORGE (eld. son of rev. James Lomax of Druid
Heath house, Staffs.) _b._ 1783; bookseller at the Johnson’s
head, Lichfield 1 Jany. 1810 to death; purchased relics of Dr.
Johnson from his black servant Francis Barber; senior bailiff of
Lichfield 1833, mayor 1843. _d._ the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 3
Jany. 1873. _bur._ St. Chad’s cemetery. _Bookseller_, _Feb. 1873
p._ 79.
LONDESBOROUGH, ALBERT DENISON DENISON, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry
Conyngham, 1 marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). _b._ 8 Stanhope
st. Piccadilly, London 21 Oct. 1805; ed. Eton; cornet in the
army 21 Sep. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 24 July 1823,
sold out 1824; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Vienna 1825, sec. of
legation, Florence 1826 and at Berlin 1829–31; K.C.H. 1829;
M.P. Canterbury 1835–41 and 1847–50; assumed name of Denison
in lieu of Conyngham 4 Sep. 1849; cr. baron Londesborough
of Londesborough, Yorkshire 4 March 1850; pres. of British
Archæological association at its first meeting at Canterbury
1843; V.P. of Archæological Instit. 1849; pres. of London and
Middlesex Archæological society 1855; purchased the Selby
estate, Yorkshire, Aug. 1853 for £270,000; held 60,000 acres of
land, producing income of £100,000; F.S.A. 1840; F.R.S. 13 June
1850; most unlucky as a breeder and runner of horses; printed
Wanderings in search of health 1849; Miscellanea Graphica 1857;
An illustrative catalogue of antique silver 1860. _d._ 8 Carlton
house terrace, London 15 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Grimston 24 Jany.
_Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii_ 171–5 (1861); _I.L.N.
xxiii_ 225 (1853) _portrait_, _xxxvi_ 108 (1860); _Taylor’s
Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 228–32, 482–3; _W. W. Morrell’s
History of Selby_ (1867) 275–7; _Sporting Review_, _xliii_ 80–81
(1860); _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections_, _i_ 262–8 (1883) _and
Collectanea Antigua_, _v_ 261–69 (1861).
LONDONDERRY, CHARLES WILLIAM VANE, 3 Marquess of (2 son of
Robert Stewart, 1 marquess of Londonderry 1739–1821). _b._ Mary
st. Dublin 18 May 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 108 foot 11 Oct.
1794; major 106 foot 31 July 1795; lieut.-colonel 5 dragoons
1 Jany. 1797 to 6 April 1799 when the regiment was disbanded
for insubordination; lieut.-col. 18 hussars 12 April 1799 to
20 Nov. 1813; M.P. Thomastown in Irish parliament 1798–1800,
M.P. co. Londonderry 1801 to June 1814; under sec. of state for
war and colonies 1807 to 1808; commanded a brigade of hussars
in Portugal 1808; adjutant general to army under sir Arthur
Wellesley 1809–12; K.B. 1 Feb. 1813; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815;
G.C.H. 1816; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Berlin 7
April 1813; colonel 25 light dragoons 20 Nov. 1813; created a
peer of the realm by title of baron Stewart of Stewart’s court
and Ballilawn 1 July 1814; a lord of the bedchamber 25 June
1814 to Aug. 1827; P.C. 27 July 1814; ambassador to Vienna 27
Aug. 1814; assumed surname of Vane 1819; colonel 10 hussars 3
Feb. 1820 to 23 June 1843; succeeded his half-brother as 3
marquess 12 Aug. 1822; cr. earl Vane and viscount Seaham 28
March 1823; general 10 Jany. 1837; lord lieut. of Durham 27
April 1842; col. 2 life guards 23 June 1843 to death; K.G. 19
Jany. 1853; made a harbour at Seaham, opened 29 July 1835, which
cost £250,000; published Suggestions for the improvement of the
force of the British empire 1805; A narrative of the Peninsular
war 1808–13, 2 vols. 1828–9; Memoirs and correspondence of Lord
Castlereagh 8 vols. 1848–51. _d._ Holderness house, Park lane,
London 6 March 1854. _bur._ Long Newton 16 March. _J. E. Doyle’s
Official baronage_, _iii_ 552–4 (1886), _portrait_; _Portraits
of eminent conservatives and statesmen. First series 5 pages_
(1836), _portrait_ 10; _Royal military calendar 3 ed. ii_ 411–20
(1820); _St. Stephen’s. By Mask_ (1839) 78–88; _H. Martineau’s
Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 188–92; _H. Heaviside’s
Annals of Stockton on Tees_ (1865) 111–14.
NOTE.--He left personal property of value of £335,000 exclusive of vast
estates in England and Ireland, his widow’s personalty was sworn under
£400,000, 24 June 1865. He was the lord high marshal at the Eglinton
tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839. He is drawn in Vivian Grey as Col. Von
Trumpetson. In 1824 he was challenged to a duel by Wm. Battier, who was
gazetted cornet 10 hussars 27 Feb. 1823 and _d._ Paris 27 April 1839.
On 13 June 1839 Lord Londonderry met Henry Grattan, M.P., on Wimbledon
common, Grattan fired and missed and his lordship discharged his pistol
in the air.
LONDONDERRY, FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERT STEWART, 4 Marquess of
(1 son of preceding). _b._ South st. Grosvenor sq. London 7
July 1805; M.P. for co. Down 1826–52; a lord of the admiralty
1829–30; vice chamberlain of the household 27 Dec. 1834 to June
1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; colonel North Down militia 1837; lord
lieut. of Down 1845–64; M.P. co. Down 1826–52; succeeded as 4
marquess 6 March 1854; K.P. 1855. _d._ Hastings 25 Nov. 1872.
_I.L.N. lxi_ 550 (1872).
LONDONDERRY, GEORGE HENRY ROBERT CHARLES WILLIAM VANE-TEMPEST,
5 Marquess of (half-brother of preceding). _b._ Vienna 26 April
1821; styled viscount Seaham 1823–54; ed. at Eton; matric. Ball.
coll. Oxf. 14 June 1839, B.A. and M.A. 1867, hon. D.C.L. Durham;
cornet 1 life guards 13 Jany. 1843, lieut. 1845, sold out 1848;
M.P. North Durham 1847–54; succeeded his father as 2 earl Vane 6
March 1854; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry 1859–73; lieut.-col.
commandant 2 Durham militia 1853–62; assumed additional name of
Tempest by r.l. 28 June 1854; appointed to proceed on a special
mission to St. Petersburg to invest emperor Alexander II.
with insignia and habit of order of the garter 21 July 1867;
provincial grand master free masons co. Durham 1880; succeeded
his brother as 5 marquess 25 Nov. 1872; K.P. 31 Aug. 1874; lord
lieut. of Durham 8 June 1880 to death. _d._ Plas Machynlleth,
Montgomeryshire 5 Nov. 1884. _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 501 (1884),
_portrait_; _R. F. Gould’s Freemasonry_, _iv_ 276 (1885),
_portrait_.
LONEY, ROBERT. _b._ 1787; entered navy Sep. 1797; commander on
h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; captain on h.p. 6 Aug. 1852; retired admiral
15 June 1879; edited The China pilot 1855. _d._ Woodbine villa,
Mannamead, Plymouth 22 Feb. 1882.
LONG, CATHARINE (youngest dau. of Horatio Walpole, 2 earl of
Orford 1752–1822). _b._ 1798; (_m._ 25 July 1822 Henry Lawes
Long of Hampton lodge near Farnham, Surrey, _d._ 1868); edited
The story of a drop of water 1856; author of Sir Roland Ashton,
a tale of the times 2 vols. 1844, 2 ed. 1854; The Midsummer
souvenir, thoughts original and selected 1846; Heavenly thoughts
for morning hours 1851; Heavenly thoughts for evening hours
1856; The first lieutenant’s story 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1856;
Story of a specific prayer 1863; An Agnus Dei for four or five
voices 1848, and other pieces of sacred music. _d._ suddenly
from alarm in a thunderstorm at Landthorne Hatch near Farnham 20
Aug. 1867. _Times 21 Aug. 1867 p._ 10.
LONG, CHARLES EDWARD (elder son of Charles Beckford Long of
Langley hall, Berkshire, _d._ 1836 aged 65). _b._ Benham park,
Berkshire 28 July 1796; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; author of Imperial and papal Rome, a poem
1818, 4 ed. 1859; Considerations on the game laws 1824, anon.;
Letter on the Jamaica house of assembly, abandonment of its
legislative functions 1839; Royal descents, a genealogical list
of the several persons entitled to quarter the arms of the royal
houses of England 1845; edited for the Camden Society, The diary
of the marches of the royal army during the great civil war,
kept by Richard Symonds 1859. _d._ Lord Warden hotel, Dover 25
Sep. 1861. _bur._ Seale churchyard, Surrey.
LONG, CHARLES MAITLAND (younger son of Samuel Long of
Carshalton, M.P. Ilchester _d._ 1807). _b._ 16 Aug. 1803; ed.
at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830;
R. of Whitchurch, Salop 1834–46; R. of Settrington, Yorkshire
1846 to death; archdeacon of East Riding of Yorkshire 1854–73;
prebendary of Fridaythorpe in York cathedral 1855 to death. _d._
43 Berkeley sq. London 6 Oct. 1875.
LONG, EDWIN LONGSDEN (son of Edwin Long an artist). _b._ Bath
12 July 1829; pupil of James Matthew Leigh; a portrait painter,
afterwards painted oriental scenes; resided in Spain with
John Phillip, R.A.; A.R.A. 26 Jany. 1876, R.A. 13 July 1881;
exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st.
1855–80; exhibited his pictures at his own gallery 168 New Bond
st. 1883 to death, after which his pictures were exhibited at
the Doré gallery 35 New Bond st., his pictures The Babylonian
marriage market 1875 and the Egyptian feast 1877 were much
noticed. _d._ Kelston, Netherall gardens, Hampstead 15 May 1891.
_I.L.N. lxviii_ 436, 437 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic 23 May
1891 p._ 585, _portrait_; _M. B. Huish’s The year’s art_ (1888)
32, _portrait_.
LONG, GEORGE (2 son of Joseph Long of Shopwick near Chichester).
_b._ 1780; special pleader in London 1809–11; barrister G.I.
11 Feb. 1811, bencher 1834 to death, treasurer 1837; deputy
steward of the Palace court 1825–33; a comr. for inquiring into
state of municipal corporations 18 July 1833; magistrate at
Great Marlborough st. police court 1839, at Marylebone police
court June 1841 to Dec. 1859; recorder of Coventry 1840 to 1854;
author of Observations on a bill to amend the laws relating to
the relief of the poor 1821; A treatise on the law relative to
sales of personal property 1821; An essay on the moral nature
of man 1841; The conduct of life, a series of essays 1845;
An enquiry concerning religion 1855. _d._ 51 Queen Anne st.
Cavendish sq. London 26 June 1868. _bur._ Willesden cemet. _Law
Times_, _xlv_ 250 (1868).
LONG, GEORGE (eld. son of James Long, merchant). _b._ Poulton,
Lancs. 4 Nov. 1800; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin.
coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1821, 30th wrangler and senior
chancellor’s medallist 1822; B.A. 1822; fellow of Trin. coll.
1823–7; professor of ancient languages in univ. of Virginia at
Charlottesville 1824–8; professor of Greek in London univ.,
Gower st. London 1 Oct. 1828, resigned 1831; a founder of royal
geographical soc. 1830, hon. sec. 1846–8; edited Quarterly
journal of education 10 vols. 1831–5; The Penny cyclopædia
29 vols. 1833–46, published in monthly parts; edited and
contributed to The biographical dictionary of the Society for
diffusion of useful knowledge 7 vols. 1842–4, letter A only;
professor of Latin in Univ. coll. London 1842–6, when he was
presented with a silver tea and coffee service; barrister I.T. 9
June 1837, reader on jurisprudence and civil law at Inner Temple
April 1846 to 1849; classical lecturer at Brighton college
1849–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 7 Aug. 1873;
author of The civil wars of Rome. Select lives from Plutarch 5
vols. 1844–8; France and its revolutions, a pictorial history
1850; An old man’s thoughts about many things 1862, anon.;
The decline of the Roman republic 5 vols. 1864; compiled The
standard cyclopædia of political knowledge 4 vols. 1848, and
edited with rev. Arthur John Macleane the Bibliotheca Classica
27 vols. 1851–84. _d._ Portfield, Chichester 10 Aug. 1879. _H.
J. Mathews’s In memoriam. George Long_ (1879).
LONG, JAMES. _b._ 1814; resided in Russia; deacon in Church of
England 1839, priest 1840; went to India as a missionary of
Church missionary society about 1846, stationed at Thakurpukur
near Calcutta; known as Padre Long, returned to England
1872; member of Bengal Asiatic Society; F.R.G.S.; fined 1000
rupees and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for adversely
criticising the English press at Calcutta and the indigo
planters in his preface to a Bengali drama entitled Niladarpana
Nataka 1861; assigned to Church Missionary Soc. £2000 to
provide popular lectures on the religions of the East; author
of Handbook of Bengal missions 1848; A descriptive catalogue
of Bengali works 1855; Prabád Málá or the wit of Bengali
ryots 1869; Eastern proverbs and emblems 1881; contributed to
Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Calcutta review and the
Indian magazine. _d._ 3 Adam st. Adelphi, London 23 March 1887.
_Trubner’s Literary Record_ (1887) 24; _Academy 9 April 1887 p._
255.
LONG, RICHARD PENRUDDOCK (2 son of Walter Long 1793–1867).
_b._ Baynton house, Wiltshire 19 Dec. 1825; ed. at Harrow and
Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; first played at Lord’s
in Harrow _v._ Winchester 27 July 1842; one of the largest
landed proprietors in England; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1858;
nominated for sheriff of Wilts. 1875; contested South Wilts. 16
July 1852; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; M.P. North Wilts. 1865–8.
d. Cannes, France 16 Feb. 1875. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_,
_iii_ 106 (1863).
LONG, SAMUEL (eld. son of Charles Maitland Long 1803–75). _b._
5 Jany. 1840; cadet R.N. 8 Dec. 1852; served in Crimean war and
was present at bombardment of Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; captain
12 Dec. 1876; commander of Vernon torpedo instruction ship
Portsmouth, organised and delivered the night attack on the
fleet at Spithead and on the naval force protected by a boom at
Southampton 1889; captain superintendent at Pembroke dockyard
Jany. 1889 to Aug. 1891; aide de camp to the queen 1 Jany. 1889
to 27 Aug. 1891; R.A. 27 Aug. 1891; author of several papers
on torpedo warfare; thrown from his horse and injured, _d._
Blendworth lodge, Horndean near Portsmouth 25 April 1893.
LONG, SIMON (son of David Long, Gretna Green priest, _d._ 1827
in his 72 year). The last of the Gretna Green priests. _d._
Falling near Newcastle on Tyne 24 April 1872.
LONG, WALTER (1 son of Richard Godolphin Long, M.P., 1761–1835).
_b._ 10 Oct. 1793; ed. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1809,
M.A. 1812; M.P. North Wilts. 1835–65; major R. Wilts, yeomanry
cavalry; resided Rood Ashton, Wilts., _d._ Torquay 31 Jany.
1867. _G.M. iii_ 399 (1867).
LONG, WILLIAM. Stable boy in employ of 5 duke of Beaufort in
Oxfordshire 1803; whipper-in to hounds of 6 duke of Beaufort at
Badminton about 1814–26; huntsman to 6 and 7 dukes of Beaufort
1826–55. _d._ Didmarton, Gloucestershire 31 Jany. 1877 aged 84.
_Cecil’s Records of the chase_ (1887) 162, 175–80.
LONG, WILLIAM (2 son of Walter Long of Preshaw house near
Bishop’s Waltham, Hants. 1788–1871). _b._ 15 Aug. 1817; ed. at
Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871;
author of Avebury illustrated. Devizes 1858; Stonehenge and its
burrows. Devizes 1876. _d._ Onslow gardens, London 14 April
1886. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xi_ 375 (1886).
LONGDEN, SIR HENRY ERRINGTON (son of Thomas Hayter Longden).
_b._ 14 Jany. 1819; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 10 foot
16 Sep. 1836, lieut.-col. 20 July 1858, placed on h.p. 14 June
1864; served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, in Punjaub campaign
1848–9; buried under the ruins of Mooltan 12 Sep. 1849 and after
some hours dug out unhurt; in battle of Goojerat; medal and 2
clasps; employed in surveying forests of the Himalayas 1849–52;
in Indian mutiny 1857–8, took part in capture of Lucknow, chief
of the staff to Lugard’s force 1859, Indian medal and 2 clasps;
adjutant general Bengal 17 Jany. 1866 to 16 March 1869; general
1 July 1881; col. of second battalion Hampshire regiment, late
67 foot, 24 June 1883 to 11 Nov. 1888; col. of the Lincolnshire
regiment, late 10 foot, 11 Nov. 1888 to death; C.B. 21 March
1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; C.S.I. 28 May 1870. _d._ Bournemouth
29 Jany. 1890.
LONGDEN, SIR JAMES ROBERT (youngest son of John Robert Longden
of Doctors’ commons, London, proctor). _b._ 1827; government
clerk in the Falkland islands 1844, colonial secretary there to
1861; pres. of Virgin Islands 1861; lieut. governor of Dominica
5 Sep. 1865; governor of British Honduras 5 Dec. 1867; governor
of Trinidad 18 July 1870; governor of British Guiana 14 March
1874; governor of Ceylon 30 June 1877 to 1883; C.M.G. 23 Feb.
1871, K.C.M.G. 13 March 1876, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1883; alderman of
Hertfordshire under Local government act. _d._ Longhope near
Watford, Herts. 4 Oct. 1891; cremated at Woking cemet. 9 Oct.
LONGFIELD, GEORGE (4 son of rev. Mountifort Longfield, V. of
Desertserges, co. Cork). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar
1837–42, fellow 1842 to death; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, B.D.
1864, D.D. 1866; professor of Hebrew, univ. of Dublin 1869 to
death; treasurer of St. Patrick’s cathedral 1877; author of An
introduction to the study of the Chaldee language 1859. _d._ 3
Nov. 1878.
LONGFIELD, JOHN (2 son of John Longfield of Longueville, co.
Cork 1767–1842). _b._ Dublin 18 Sep. 1804; ensign 8 foot 28 June
1825, lieut.-col. 3 April 1846 to 1 June 1860 when placed on
h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 1855, 1856 and 1857–59; col. 29
foot 19 April 1868 to 19 Dec. 1881; general 19 July 1876; col.
Liverpool regiment, 8 foot, 19 Dec. 1881 to death; C.B. 21 Jany.
1858. _d._ Kilcoleman, Bandon, co. Cork 27 Feb. 1889. _History
of Eighth foot 2 ed. p._ 283.
LONGFIELD, MOUNTIFORT (brother of George Longfield _d._ 3
Nov. 1878). _b._ South of Ireland 1802; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829, LL.D. 1831; fellow of Trin. coll.
1825–34; professor of political economy univ. of Dublin 1832–6,
regius professor of feudal and English law 29 Nov. 1834 to
death, discharged his duties by deputy from 1871; called to
Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842, bencher of King’s inns 1859;
comr. of Incumbered estates court 1849–58, a judge of Landed
estates court 1858–67; comr. of Irish national education 1853;
P.C. Ireland 1867; author of Four lectures on poor laws 1834;
Lectures on political economy 1834; Remarks on the safety and
advantages of commutation if accepted by the clergy generally
1870; Elementary treatise on series 1872. _d._ 47 Fitzwilliam
sq. Dublin 21 Nov. 1884. _Irish Law Times 29 Nov. 1884 p._ 606.
LONGFIELD, RICHARD (brother of John Longfield 1804–89). _b._
Longueville, co. Cork 1802; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1824; sheriff of Cork 1833; contested co. Cork 24 Jany. 1835 and
seated on petition 5 June; contested co. Cork 18 Aug. 1837 and
15 July 1841. _d._ Longueville house, Mallow 19 June 1889.
LONGFIELD, ROBERT (brother of Mountifort Longfield 1802–84).
_b._ co. Cork 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A
1832; called to Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; law adviser of
crown for Ireland 1866 to death; chairman of quarter sessions,
co. Galway, Dec. 1867 to death; law adviser to the castle,
Dublin; M.P. Mallow, May 1859 to 1865; author of The laws of
distress and replevin in Ireland. Dublin 1841; A treatise on
the action of ejectment in the superior courts in Ireland 2
ed. 1846; The origin of freemasonry 1857; The fishery laws of
Ireland 1863; The game laws of Ireland 1864. _d._ 33 Merrion sq.
south, Dublin 27 April 1868.
LONGFORD, WILLIAM LYGON PAKENHAM, 4 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl
of Longford 1774–1838). _b._ Pakenham hall 31 Jany. 1819; ed.
Winchester; ensign 52 foot 25 Aug. 1837; lieut. 7 foot 1838,
captain 1844, placed on h.p. 6 July 1852; A.Q.M.G. Crimea
1854–5, A.A.G. 1855, A.G. 1855–6; in battles of Alma, Balaklava
and Inkerman, and at siege of Sebastopol, medal with 4 clasps;
A.G. Bengal, Feb. 1858 to 2 July 1860; succeeded his brother as
4 earl 27 March 1860; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 June 1861,
G.C.B. 24 May 1881; under sec. of state for war 7 July 1866 to
8 Dec. 1868; lord lieut. of Longford 21 March 1874 to death;
col. 5 Northumberland fusiliers 11 Sep. 1878 to death; general
31 July 1879; placed on retired list 1881. _d._ 24 Bruton st.
London 19 April 1887.
LONGLANDS, HENRY (son of Thomas Longlands of Greenwich). _b._
1781; ed. at Westminster, King’s scholar 1796; barrister M.T. 10
Feb. 1809, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1851; secretary to
West India Dock co. 1818–38. _d._ Blackheath road, Old Charlton
9 Feb. 1857.
LONGLEY, CHARLES THOMAS (5 son of John Longley, recorder of
Rochester, _d._ 1822). _b._ Boley Hill, Rochester 28 July
1794; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; King’s scholar at Westminster
1808; student at Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812, Greek reader 1822, tutor
and censor 1825–8; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1829;
proctor of the univ. 1827; C. of Cowley, Oxon. 1818, P.C. of
Cowley 1823–7; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1827–9; head master
of Harrow school 21 March 1829 to Oct. 1836; bishop of Ripon 15
Oct. 1836, consecrated in York cath. 6 Nov. 1836; translated
to see of Durham 13 Oct. 1856; archbishop of York 1 June 1860;
P.C. 9 June 1860; archbishop of Canterbury 20 Oct. 1862 to
death, installed 12 Dec. 1862; the Lambeth or Pan-Anglican
synod of 78 British, colonial and foreign prelates met in
London under his presidency 24–27 Sep. 1867; translated Koch’s
Tableau des révolutions de l’Europe 1831; author of A letter to
the parishioners of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1851. _d._ Addington
park near Croydon 27 Oct. 1868. _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and
deans_, _i_ 161–8 (1875); _Macmillan’s Mag. March 1883 pp._
346–58; _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ (1861), _portrait_;
_Illustrated times 25 Oct. 1862 p._ 417, _portrait_, _20 Dec.
1862 p._ 541 _view of installation_.