1771–1842). _b._ 11 Feb. 1809; ed. Westminster 1822–4; head
of firm of J. Dickinson & Co. paper makers, 65 Old Bailey and
1 Irongate wharf, Praed st. London; F.G.S. 1862; dropped down
_dead_ in his park, Shendish near Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 4
Jany. 1873; will proved 15 Feb. 1873, personalty under £200,000.
LONGMAN, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1804; ed. at
Glasgow univ.; partner in Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green,
publishers 38 Paternoster row 1832, head of the firm 1842 to
death; superintended production of The New Testament illustrated
with engravings on wood after paintings by Fra Angelico, Pietro
Perugino and other great masters 1864, 250 copies at ten guineas
each, 2 ed. 1864, reprinted 1883; published lord Macaulay’s
works, sent him a cheque for £20,000 dated 13 March 1856 for
his share of profits of his History of England vols. 3 and
4; the firm purchased business and stock of John W. Parker
publisher 1863; purchased copyright of Disraeli’s novels 1870;
bought Farnborough hall, Hants. for nearly £100,000, 1859. _d._
Farnborough hall 30 Aug. 1879. _History of the house of Longman.
By Francis Espinasse in The Critic_, _xx_ 366, 431, 483 (1860);
_Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 79–109.
LONGMAN, THOMAS TUCKER (son of John Longman). _b._ Castle Cary,
Somerset 1818; ed. St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; one of first to
take B.A. degree at univ. of London 1841; ordained priest
1840; missioner at Wolverhampton, at Bloxwich, at Hampton hill,
and at Warwick where he built the R.C. church; administrator
of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1867, canon of the cath. 1873,
vicar general of the diocese 1873–91; in charge of St. Peter’s,
Leamington 1884–91; dignity of Monsignor conferred on him by
the Pope, June 1890; member of Birmingham school board. _d._
Leamington 14 Dec. 1892. _Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 3,
_portrait_.
LONGMAN, _William_ (brother of Thomas Longman 1804–79). _b._ 9
Feb. 1813; entered service of Longman & Co. publishers 1828, a
partner 1839 to death; freeman of Stationers’ Co. 1834; an early
member of Alpine club 1857, pres. 1871–4; F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1873;
author of A catalogue of works in all departments of English
literature classified, anon., Second edition 1848; Journal of
six weeks’ adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont and the Italian
lakes. By W. Longman and H. Trower. Privately printed 1856;
Lectures on the history of England to the close of the reign of
Edward II. 1859; The history of the life and times of Edward
III. 2 vols. 1869; A history of the three cathedrals dedicated
to St. Paul in London 1873. _d._ Ashlyns, Great Berkhampstead 13
Aug. 1877. _William Longman. By H. R. (Henry Reeve) in Fraser’s
Mag. for Oct. 1877 pp._ 417–21; _Publishers’ Circular_ (1877)
605–6; _Graphic_, _xvi_ 204 (1877), _portrait_.
LONGMIRE, MARGARET (dau. of John and Margaret Atkinson). _b._
Westmoreland 15 April 1765; _bapt._ Windermere 19 May 1777; a
servant on various farms; _m._ James Longmire of Crawmire’s,
he _d._ 19 Jany. 1831; a sick nurse; had parochial relief.
_d._ Troutbeck 30 May 1868 aged 103 years and 6 weeks. She was
grandmother of Thomas Longmire the champion wrestler of England.
_W. J. Thom’s Longevity of Man_ (1879) 272–80.
LONGMUIR, JOHN (son of John Longmuir). _b._ Stonehaven,
Kincardineshire 13 Nov. 1803; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and
Marischal coll., M.A., LL.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1859; English
master Anderson’s Institution, Forres; licensed by presbytery of
Forres, July 1833; evening lecturer in Trinity chapel, Aberdeen
1837; minister of Mariners’ church, Aberdeen Sep. 1840; minister
of Free church, Aberdeen 1843–81; lecturer on geology at King’s
coll. Aberdeen to 1859; author of The College and other poems.
Aberdeen 1825, anon.; Bible Lays 1838, 2 ed. 1877; Ocean Lays
1854, new ed. 1864; Lays for the lambs 1860; A run through the
land of Burns and the covenanters 1872; edited Rhythmical index
to the English language 1877; Walker and Webster combined in
a dictionary of the English language 1864, 2 ed. 1876. _d._
Aberdeen 7 May 1883. _W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord_ (1887)
407–14; _Edwards’s Modern Scottish Poets 2nd series_.
LONGSTAFF, GEORGE DIXON. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827; M.D. Edinb.
1828; assist. professor of chemistry Edinb. univ., where he was
the first teacher of practical chemistry to medical students;
physician at Hull some years; in America some years; engaged
in commerce in England; superintendent of special constables
in Chartist riots 1848; a founder 1841 and V.P. of Chemical
Soc. of London; chairman of royal maternity charity, London;
first member of Wandsworth district board of works; author of
Dissertatio inauguralis de calorico 1828. _d._ Butterknowle,
Southfields, Wandsworth, Surrey 23 Sep. 1892.
LONGWORTH, JOHN AUGUSTUS. Consul at Monastir, Tunis 29 Sep.
1851; employed on several special services 1854–58; consul
general in Servia 13 Feb. 1860 to 14 Feb. 1875 when he retired
on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; author of A year among the
Circassians 2 vols. 1840. _d._ 16 Westbourne park villas,
Bayswater, London 23 July 1875.
LONGWORTH, MARIA THERESA (7 child of Thomas Longworth of
Manchester, silk manufacturer, _d._ Altrincham, Cheshire 1854).
_b._ Fairyhill, Cheetwood near Manchester 1827; ed. at a convent
in Staffs. and at an Ursuline convent school at Boulogne; began
a correspondence 1853 with Wm. Charles Yelverton afterwards 4
viscount Avonmore, met him again when she was a nurse at Galata
hospital, Constantinople, during Crimean war, Aug. 1855 and they
became engaged; he read aloud the Church of England marriage
service at her lodgings 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh 12 April
1857, they were afterwards married by rev. Bernard Mooney at
R.C. chapel at Kilbroney near Rostrevor in Ireland, and lived
together in Ireland and Scotland till April 1858; Yelverton
married Emily widow of professor Edward Forbes 26 June 1858;
Miss Longworth sued Yelverton for restitution of conjugal rights
in probate court, London 31 Oct. 1859 but the court decided that
it had no jurisdiction; the Scottish court of session upheld
the marriage 19 Dec. 1862 but this judgment was reversed by the
house of lords 28 July 1864; her attempt to reopen the case at
Edinburgh in March 1865, failed and the house of lords supported
the Scottish court 30 July 1867, her appeal to court of session
to set aside judgment of house of lords was rejected 28 Oct.
1868; a subscription in her behalf was raised in Manchester;
gave her first reading at Hanover square rooms, London 6 April
1866; author of Martyrs to circumstances 2 vols. 1861; The
Yelverton correspondence 1863; Zanita, a tale of the Yosemite
1872; Teresina Peregrina 2 vols. 1874; Teresina in America 2
vols. 1875; lived at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, about March 1880
to her death there 13 Sep. 1881. _J. F. Macqueen’s Reports in
the House of Lords_, _iv_ 745–912 (1866); _Law mag. and law
review_, _xi_ 215–34 (1861); _Illust. Times 9 March 1861 p._
143, _portrait_; _A.R._ (1861) 528–42; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_,
_xxvii_ 336 (1862), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _v_ 117
(1866), _portrait_.
NOTE.--J. R. O’Flanagan’s novel entitled Gentle blood or the secret
marriage 1861 is founded on the Yelverton marriage case, Miss Longworth
is called in the novel Sybilla Longsword and Yelverton figures as
Rodulphus Silverton.
LONSDALE, WILLIAM LOWTHER, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 earl of
Lonsdale 1757–1844). _b._ 30 July 1787; ed. at Harrow and Trin.
coll. Camb., M.A. 1808; styled viscount Lowther 1807–44; M.P.
Cockermouth 1808–13; M.P. Westmoreland 1813–31; M.P. Dunwich
1831–2; M.P. Westmoreland 1832–41; F.R.S. 5 July 1810; a lord
of the admiralty 24 Nov. 1809 to 1 May 1810; a commissioner for
affairs of India 7 July 1810 to 17 July 1818; a lord of the
treasury 25 Nov. 1813 to 30 April 1827; lieut.-col. commandant
of Westmoreland militia 9 June 1818 to 26 Feb. 1861; chief
comr. of woods and forests 14 June 1828 to 13 Dec. 1830; P.C.
30 May 1828; treasurer of the navy 27 Dec. 1834 to 22 April
1835; vice pres. of board of trade 20 Dec. 1834 to 6 May 1835;
summoned to parliament as baron Lowther of Whitehaven 8 Sep.
1841; postmaster general 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 Jany. 1846; succeeded
his father as 2 earl 19 March 1844; lord lieut. of Cumberland
and Westmoreland 17 April 1844 to 2 Dec. 1868; lord pres. of
privy council 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; bought Armathwaite
castle, Cumberland, Aug. 1845. _d._ 14 Carlton house terrace,
London 4 March 1872; personalty sworn under £700,000 6 April
1872. _I.L.N. lx_ 261, 267, 339 (1872), _portrait_; _Waagen’s
Treasures of art_, _iii_ 260–65 (1854).
NOTE.--He is the original of Lord Colchicum in Thackeray’s Pendennis
and of Lord Eskdale in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby.
LONSDALE, HENRY LOWTHER, 3 Earl of (1 son of Henry Cecil
Lowther, M.P. 1790–1867). _b._ London 27 March 1818; ed. at
Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; styled Henry
Lowther 1836–72; cornet 1 life guards 24 Sep. 1841, capt. 9
March 1849, sold out 1 Dec. 1854; M.P. West Cumberland 1847–72;
hon. col. Cumberland rifle volunteers 16 Aug. 1862; hon. col.
Cumberland militia 24 Feb. 1868 to death; lord lieut. of
Cumberland and Westmoreland 2 Dec. 1868 to death; succeeded
his uncle as 3 earl 4 March 1872; lieut.-col. Westmoreland and
Cumberland yeomanry 11 May 1872; steward of the Jockey club 1844
and 1845; won many cups at Newmarket, Goodwood and Stamford;
a regular huntsman, lest his horses should be misused after
he had done with them, he always shot them. _d._ Whitehaven
castle, Cumberland 15 Aug. 1876. _Athenæum 21 Feb. 1874 pp._
260–3; _Baily’s Mag. viii_ 219–21 (1864), _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xiv_ 204 (1876), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 208, 213 (1876),
_portrait_.
LONSDALE, ST. GEORGE HENRY LOWTHER, 4 Earl of (1 son of the
preceding). _b._ Wilton crescent, London 4 Oct. 1855; ed. at
Eton; styled viscount Lowther 1872–76; succeeded as 4 earl 15
Aug. 1876; hon. col. Cumberland militia 3 March 1877; vice
admiral Cumberland and Westmoreland, March 1877; master of
the Cottesmore hounds 2 years; kept a racing stud, Pilgrimage
won the 2000 and 1000 guineas in 1878. _d._ 14 Carlton house
terrace, London 8 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Lowther ch. 14 Feb.
_Graphic_, _xxv_ 220 (1882), _portrait_; _Illust. sport. and
dram. news_, _xvi_ 549, 563 (1882), _portrait_.
LONSDALE, EDWARD FRANCIS. M.R.C.S. 1834, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; one
of founders of Institution for Cure of club feet, afterwards the
Royal orthopædic hospital, 6 Bloomsbury sq. 1838, and surgeon
there; member Med. & Chir. Soc. 1844; a skilful surgeon in
orthopædic cases; author of A practical treatise on fractures
1838; Observations on the treatment of lateral curvature of the
spine 1847, 2 ed. 1852. _d._ 26 Montague st. Russell sq. London
11 Sep. 1857. _Proc. R. Med. & Chir. Soc. ii_ 50 (1858).
LONSDALE, HENRY (son of Henry Lonsdale, tradesman). _b._
Carlisle 1816; studied medicine at univ. of Edinb. and in
Paris; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; M.D. Edinb. 1838; partner with
Robert Knox in Edinb. 1840–5; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1841; physician
to royal public dispensary, Edinb. 1841–5, where he introduced
use of cod-liver oil; practised at Carlisle from 1846, phys. to
Cumberland infirmary 1846–68; the friend of Mazzini, Kossuth
and Garibaldi; author of A biographical sketch of William
Blamire formerly M.P. for Cumberland 1862; The life and works
of Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson, sculptor 1866; The worthies of
Cumberland 6 vols. 1867–75; A sketch of the life and writings of
Robert Knox the anatomist 1870. _d._ Rosehill, Carlisle 23 July
1876.
LONSDALE, JAMES GYLBY (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1788–1867).
_b._ Clapham, London 14 Oct. 1816; ed. at Laleham sch. and at
Eton, Newcastle scholar March 1843; scholar of Balliol coll.
Oxf. 29 Nov. 1833, fellow 1838–64, tutor 1840; B.A. 1837, M.A.
1840; a student of L.I. 1838; chaplain to bishop of Gibraltar
1842–7; chaplain to bishop of Lichfield 1847–67; tutor in univ.
of Durham 1851–6; professor of classical literature at King’s
coll. London 1865–70; R. of South Luffenham, Rutland 1870–3; R.
of Huntspill, Somerset 1873–8; author with Samuel Lee of The
works of Virgil rendered into English prose 1871; The works of
Horace rendered into English prose 1873. _d._ Bath 25 April
1892, memorial tablet in Balliol college chapel. _R. Duckworth’s
Memoir of J. G. Lonsdale_ (1893), _portrait_.
LONSDALE, JAMES JOHN (2 son of James Lonsdale the artist
1777–1839). _b._ 5 April 1810; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1836; sec.
to criminal law commission 1842; recorder of Folkestone 5 Aug.
1847 to death; judge of circuit No. 11 West Riding of Yorkshire
14 Feb. 1855 to 19 March 1867; judge of circuit No. 48 Kent 19
March 1867 to March 1884; author of The statute criminal law of
England 1839; The odes of Horace. Book 1 a verse translation
1879. _d._ The Cottage, Sandgate, Kent 11 Nov. 1886. _Law
Times_, _vol._ 82 _p._ 111 (1886).
LONSDALE, JOHN (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1737–1807, vicar of
Darfield, _d._ 1807 aged 70). _b._ Newmillerdam near Wakefield
17 Jany. 1788; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow
1809–15, tutor 1814–5 and 1820–1, univ. scholar 1809; B.A. 1811,
M.A. 1814, B.D. 1824, D.D. 1844; student at Lincoln’s Inn, Dec.
1811; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1816; assistant preacher
at the Temple 1816; R. of Musham, Kent 1822–7; preb. of Lincoln
1825–8; fellow of Eton 1827–8; precentor of Lichfield 1828–31;
preb. of St. Paul’s 1831–43; R. of St. George’s, Bloomsbury
1828–34; preacher of Lincoln’s inn Jany. 1836; R. of Southfleet,
Kent 1836; principal of King’s coll. London Jany. 1839 to
1844, chief founder of King’s coll. hospital 1839; declined
provostship of Eton 1840; archdeacon of Middlesex 20 Jany.
1843 to Nov. 1843, installed 1 July 1843; bishop of Lichfield
23 Nov. 1843 to death, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 3 Dec.;
consecrated and reopened about 300 churches; chairman of royal
commission for enquiring into effect of marriage act of 1835,
1847; chairman of Cambridge univ. commission 1857; pres. of
church congress at Wolverhampton, Oct. 1867; author of Some
popular objections against christianity considered 1820; The
testimonies of nature, reason and revelation respecting a future
judgment 1821; Some account of the life of the rev. T. Rennell
1824; The four gospels with annotations 1849. _d._ suddenly at
his dinner table Eccleshall castle, Staffs. 19 Oct. 1867. _E.
B. Denison’s Life of John Lonsdale_ (1868), _portrait_; _The
drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 4 series_
(1860), _portrait_; _The church of England photographic portrait
gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 48; _The Eton portrait gallery_
(1876) 163–66; _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _i_ 206–11
(1875); _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 415–16.
LONSDALE, WILLIAM (youngest son of Wm. Lonsdale). _b._ Bath
9 Sep. 1794; ensign 4 foot 1 Feb. 1810, lieut. 15 May 1812,
placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; served in Peninsular war and at
Waterloo where he was the only officer in the 4th foot not
wounded; curator of natural history department of Bath museum
1826–9; F.G.S. 15 May 1829, curator and librarian of the society
1829–42, the Wollaston fund was awarded him 1832 and 3 times
afterwards, Wollaston medallist 1846; investigated the oolite
districts of Gloucestershire; co-originator with Murchison and
Sedgwick of the theory of the independence of Devonian system;
author of On the age of the limestones of South Devonshire and
other papers in Transactions and Journal of Geol. Soc. _d._
City road, Bristol 11 Nov. 1871. _Quarterly Journal of Geol.
Soc. xxviii_ 35–6 (1872); _W. S. Mitchell’s Notes on the early
geologists connected with neighbourhood of Bath_ (1872) 31–9.
LOPES, SIR RALPH, 2 Baronet (only son of Abraham Franco,
merchant, London). _b._ 10 Sep. 1788; succeeded his uncle sir
Manasseh Massey Lopes 26 March 1831; assumed surname of Lopes
in lieu of Franco by r.l. 4 May 1831; M.P. Westbury, Wilts.
1814–20, 1831–37 and 1841–7; contested Westbury 26 July 1837;
M.P. South Devon 13 Feb. 1849 to death. _d._ Maristowe near
Plymouth 26 Jany. 1854; personalty sworn under £180,000, March
1854. _J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history_ (1875)
304–306.
LORD, _Henry William_ (eld. son of Charles Francis James Lord of
Hampstead). _b._ 1834; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1859–62,
B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1859; revising
barrister for Kent; registrar of court of probate for co. of
Lancaster 1881–91; one of the four registrars of chief probate
registry at Somerset House at salary of £1500 Jany. 1891 to
death; author of The highway of the sea in time of war. Camb.
1862. _d._ 5 Dorset sq. London 27 May 1893.
LORD, JOHN KEAST (son of Edward Lord). _b._ Tavistock 1818;
apprenticed to chemists at Tavistock; entered royal veterinary
college, London 1842, M.R.C.V.S. 29 May 1844; veterinary
surgeon at Tavistock; a trapper in Minnesota and the Hudson’s
Bay fur countries; veterinary surgeon in British army 19 June
1855, served with artillery of Turkish contingent in Crimea,
lieut. 4 Jany. 1856, veterinary surgeon and lieut. of Osmanli
horse artillery in Aug. 1856; naturalist to the commission for
separating British Columbia from the United States territory
1 Feb. 1858, returned to England 14 July 1862; resided in
Vancouver’s Island some time; his valuable collections of
mammals, birds, fishes and insects are now in the Natural
history museum, South Kensington; employed in archæological and
scientific researches by viceroy of Egypt about 1868; manager of
the Brighton Aquarium opened 10 Aug. 1872 to death; contributed
many papers to Land and Water under signature of The Wanderer
1866–72; collected coleoptera in Egypt; author of The naturalist
in Vancouver’s Island and British Colombia 2 vols. 1866; At home
in the wilderness. By The Wanderer 1867, 3 ed. 1876; Handbook
of sea-fishing. _d._ 17 Dorset gardens, Brighton 9 Dec. 1872.
_Leisure Hour_, _xxii_ 696–9 (1873), _portrait_; _Land and Water
14 Dec. 1872 pp._ 387, 395; _Graphic_, _vii_ 3, 12 (1873),
_portrait_.
LORD, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Isaac Lord, baptist minister,
Birmingham). Ed. Cambridge house, Birmingham, and Amershall
school, Reading; matric. univ. of London, June 1868, B.A. 1870,
M.A. 1874; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1870, foundation scholar
1872–6; rowed in his college boat; senior wrangler Jany. 1875,
fellow of Trin. coll. 10 Oct. 1876 to 1881. _d._ Clarens, Lake
of Geneva 4 Sep. 1883.
LORD, WILLIAM. _b._ Bacup 11 May 1791; Wesleyan Methodist
minister 1811, at Birmingham 1824–6, at Manchester 1828–31,
president of United Connexion conference 1834; representative to
American general conference 1835; minister at Bristol 1836–9,
at Hull 1839–42; governor of Woodhouse grove school 1843–58;
president of Canadian conference; a supernumerary from 1861
to death; revisited Woodhouse school when he was eighty. _d._
Manningham, Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1873. _J. T. Slugg’s Woodhouse
Grove school_ (1885) 74–8.
LORD, WILLIAM SATTERLEY (eld. son of rev. Wm. Edward Lord, D.D.,
of Northiam, Sussex). _b._ 1841; ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., B.A.
1866, M.A. 1869; admitted by Inner Temple special pleader below
the bar Jany. 1869; barrister I.T. 7 June 1873; advocate of high
court of Griqualand West, April 1876, acting attorney general
April to Aug. 1877 and Dec. 1877 to Sep. 1879, Q.C. there March
1879; M.P. for Kimberley in legislative assembly of Cape Colony.
_d._ on board the Norman Castle on his way home from Cape Town 9
Sep. 1889.
LORIMER, George. A builder in Edinburgh; lord dean of guild
1864; _killed_ in the fire of the theatre royal, Edinburgh, by
the north wall falling on him when trying to save lives 13 Jany.
1865. _J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage_ (1888) 477–8; _A.R._
(1865) 3–5; _I.L.N. xlvi_ 97 (1865).
LORIMER, JAMES (son of James Lorimer, manager of Earl of
Kinnoul’s estates). _b._ Aberdalgie, Perthshire 4 Nov. 1818;
ed. at high school Perth and the univs. of Edinb., Berlin and
Bonn and academy of Geneva; member of Faculty of advocates
1845; acted as sheriff substitute of Midlothian; F.R.S. Edinb.
1861; professor of public law in univ. of Edinb. 15 May 1865 to
death, where he introduced graduation in law; a founder of The
institute of international law 1873; author of The universities
of Scotland, past, present and possible 1854; A handbook of
the law of Scotland 1859, 5 ed. 1885; Constitutionalism of the
future, or parliament the mirror of the nation 1865, 2 ed. 1867;
The institutes of law, a treatise of jurisprudence as determined
by nature 1872, 2 ed. 1880; The institutes of the law of nations
2 vols. 1883–4, and of 19 lectures and 14 pamphlets. _d._ 1
Bruntsfield crescent, Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1890, portrait by his
son J. H. Lorimer, R.S.A. in senate hall of univ. of Edinb.
_James Lorimer’s Studies national and international_ (1890);
_Juridical Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 113–21, _portrait_.
LORIMER, JOHN GORDON (2 son of rev. Robert Lorimer 1765–1848,
minister of Haddington). _b._ Haddington; minister of Torryburn
1829; minister of St. David’s or Ram’s Horn parish, Glasgow
1832 to 1843; minister of St. David’s Free ch. Glasgow 1843
to death; D.D. of coll. of New Jersey 27 June 1849; author of
The past and present condition of religion and morality in the
United States 1833; The eldership of the church of Scotland
1841; Historical sketch of the protestant church of France 1841;
The deaconship 1842; Sermons on Sabbath profanation 184-. _d._
Glasgow 9 Oct. 1868. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848)
349–58.
LORIMER, PETER (eld. son of John Lorimer, builder). _b._
Edinburgh 1812; bursar in univ. of Edinb. 1827; minister of
presbyterian ch. River terrace, London 1836–44; professor of
theology in English presbyterian college, London 1844–78,
principal 1878 to death; D.D. New Jersey, June 1857; author of
Precursors of Knox, or memoirs of Patrick Hamilton, Alexander
Alane or Alesius, and Sir David Lindsay of the Mount Edinburgh
1857; The evidential value of the early epistles of St. Paul
viewed as historical documents 1874, 3 ed. 1880; The evidence to
Christianity arising from its adaptation to all the deeper wants
of the human heart 1876; John Knox and the church of England
1875. _d._ Whitehaven, Cumberland 29 July 1879. _bur._ in Grange
cemet. Edinb.
LORING, SIR JOHN WENTWORTH (son of Joshua Loring, high sheriff
of Massachusetts). _b._ America 13 Oct. 1775; entered navy June
1789, captain 28 April 1802; commanded the Niobe 38 guns on
coast of France 1805–13; commanded the Impregnable in the North
Sea 1813–4; superintendent of the ordinary at Sheerness 1816–9;
lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 4 Nov. 1819
to 10 Jany. 1837; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral 8 July 1851; C.B.
4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840, K.C.H. 30 April 1837. _d._
Ryde, Isle of Wight 29 July 1852.
LORT, _William_. One of the best judges of live stock in
England, and constantly employed in judging horses, cattle
and dogs; went with Assheton Smith in his yacht Pandora upon
a sporting expedition to the North Pole; a fine swimmer; a
supporter of Birmingham National dog show from its beginning; an
originator of Crystal palace dog show and of the Kennel club;
F.R.G.S. _d._ Vaynol park, Bangor 23 May 1891.
LORTON, ROBERT EDWARD KING, 1 Viscount (2 son of 2 earl of
Kingston 1754–99). _b._ Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 12 Aug.
1773; ensign 27 foot 30 June 1792; major 92 foot 7 March 1794;
lieut. col. 127 foot 20 Dec. 1794, regiment reduced 1795 but he
was retained on full pay; colonel of Roscommon militia 24 Nov.
1797 to death; created an Irish peer by title of baron Erris
of Boyle, co. Roscommon 29 Dec. 1800; created viscount Lorton
of Boyle, co. Roscommon 28 May 1806; a representative peer of
Ireland 8 Feb. 1823 to death; general 22 July 1830; lord lieut.
of co. Roscommon 1831 to death. _d._ Rockingham, Boyle, co.
Roscommon 20 Nov. 1854.