custom of his family in the church of Boyle 24 Nov. 1854. He was the
last commoner raised to the peerage of Ireland before the union with
England.
LOSCOMBE, CLIFTON WINTRINGHAM. Resided at Pickwick house,
Corsham, where he obtained possession of a hoard of coins and
antiquities which was discovered at Sevington, Wilts., Jany.
1834; an original member of Numismatic Soc. 1836. _d._ Clifton
17 Dec. 1853. _Numismatic Chronicle_, _xvii Proceedings p._ 16
(1855); _Archæologia_, _xxvii_ 301–5 (1838).
LOSH, JAMES (son of James Losh, recorder of Newcastle, _d._ 23
Sep. 1833 aged 71). _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; went northern
circuit; judge of county courts, No. 1 circuit, Northumberland,
May 1853 to death, took his seat 25 May 1853; attacked with
paralysis Aug. 1858. _d._ 24 Clayton st. west, Newcastle on Tyne
1 Oct. 1858.
LOSH, SARAH (1 dau. of John Losh of Woodside near Carlisle).
_b._ Woodside 1 Jany. 1786; ed. in Bath and London, and
became proficient in Italian, French, Latin, Greek, music and
mathematics; gave a school endowed with 30 acres to Wreay
1830; laid out and gave to the city of Carlisle a cemetery
1835; erected a mausoleum in Wreay ch. yard for the remains
of her sister Katherine Isabella Losh who _d._ Feb. 1835;
erected a church at Wreay in 1842 at cost of £1200; a woman
of much learning who associated with Dr. William Paley and
other scholars. _d._ Woodside near Carlisle 29 March 1853. _H.
Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland_ (1873) 197–238, _portrait_.
LOSH, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Woodside 1770;
ed. at Erfurt; manager of alkali works at Walker on the Tyne
1796; one of founders of the Walker iron works; resided for
some time in Sweden; patented a wheel for railway carriages
1830; took out patents with George Stephenson for railways 1816;
consul for Sweden and Prussia at Newcastle. _d._ Newcastle 4
Aug. 1861. _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland_ (1873) 153–85.
LOTHIAN, CECIL CHETWYND KERR, Marchioness of (younger dau. of
2 earl Talbot 1777–1849). _b._ Ingestre hall, Staffs. 17 April
1808; (_m._ 19 July 1831 seventh marquess of Lothian 1794–1841);
built church at Jedburgh; joined church of Rome; founded a
R.C. mission with chapel and school at Jedburgh; built church
of St. David at Dalkeith; founded a mission with a chapel at
Pathhead; a founder of the Home of Refuge for women discharged
from prison, conducted by sisters of the Good Shepherd;
went to Germany to convey to the R.C. bishops the sympathy
of the catholics of England; promoted the pilgrimages to
Paray-le-Monial and to Pontigny in 1873 and 1874. _d._ Hôtel de
Rome, Rome 13 May 1877; the Pope sent her a special benediction
and a triduum was offered for her in the church of the Virgin,
at Rome, May 1877; _bur._ in cemetery of San Lorenzo. _P.
Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890) 125–63, _portrait_;
_Times 14 May 1877 p._ 7, _15 May p._ 10.
LÖTTNER, FRIEDRICH. Professor of Sanskrit and comparative
philology and assistant librarian at Trinity college, Dublin
1863–71. _d._ Dublin, middle of April 1873.
LOUDON, JANE (dau. of Thomas Webb _d._ 1824). _b._ Ritwell house
near Birmingham 1807; edited The ladies’ magazine of gardening
1842; The ladies’ companion 1850–1 and several of her husband’s
works 1845–55; granted civil list pension of £100, 22 April
1846; author of Prose and Verse 1824; The Mummy, a tale of the
twenty-second century 3 vols. 1827, anon., new ed. 1872; Stories
of a bride 1829; The ladies’ companion to the flower garden
1841, 9 ed. 1879, which circulated 20,000 copies; The first
book of botany 1841, new ed. 1870; The ladies’ flower garden of
perennials 2 vols. 1843–4; The ladies’ country companion 1845, 4
ed. 1852, and 20 other books; (_m._ 14 Sep. 1830 John Claudius
Loudon, landscape gardener, _d._ 14 Dec. 1843 aged 60). She _d._
3 Porchester terrace, Bayswater, London 13 July 1858. _Cottage
Gardener_, _xx_ 248, 255–9 (1858).
LOUGH, JOHN GRAHAM (son of a small farmer at Greenhead near
Hexham, Northumberland). _b._ 1806; an ornamental sculptor at
Newcastle; exhibited at the R.A. 1826 a bas-relief The Death
of Turnus; exhibited 49 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 16 at
B.I. 1826–63; exhibited his works in London 1827; studied in
Rome 1834–8; executed the statues of queen Victoria in the royal
exchange 1845, of prince Albert at Lloyd’s 1847 and of marquis
of Hastings at Malta 1848; 7 of his statues were in Great
Exhibition of 1851. _d._ 42 Harewood sq. London 8 April 1876.
_Graphic_, _xiii_ 416 (1876), _portrait_; _Handbook of statues
comprising the Lough models in Elswick hall_ (1879).
LOUIS, SIR JOHN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas Louis, 1
baronet, _d._ 17 May 1807). _b._ 1785; entered navy Sep. 1795,
captain 22 Jany. 1806; commander of L’Aigle 36 guns 1811–15;
superintendent of Malta dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 6 Jany. 1843;
R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral superintendent at Plymouth 16 Dec.
1846 to 9 Feb. 1850; V.A. 9 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 27 Sep.
1855, pensioned 2 May 1860. _d._ 61 Eaton place, London 30 March
1863.
LOUIS, WILLIAM (2 son of preceding). _b._ 21 May 1810; entered
R.N. 7 Dec. 1824; capt. 9 Nov. 1846; commander of Stromboli
steam vessel 1841–3; retired 1 July 1864; admiral 1 Aug. 1877.
_d._ 46 Connaught sq. London 20 Nov. 1885.
LOUISE, MADAME, stage name of Louise Miller. _b._ 1810; première
danseuse of Her Majesty’s theatre under Benjamin Lumley’s
management; ballet mistress of Drury Lane under the managements
of Alfred Bunn, James Anderson and E. T. Smith to 1859. _d._ 5
Feb. 1892. _bur._ Fulham cemet.
LOUND, THOMAS. _b._ 1802; member of a firm of brewers at
Norwich; an amateur painter, excelled in river views; painted
the scenery in Wales and Yorkshire and near Cromer; exhibited
much in Norwich; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 10 at B.I.
1846–57. _d._ King st. Norwich 18 Jany. 1861.
LOVAT, THOMAS ALEXANDER FRASER, 1 Baron (1 son of Alexander
Fraser of Strichen, Aberdeen). _b._ Strichen house, Aberdeen 17
June 1802; cr. baron Lovat of Lovat, co. Inverness, in peerage
of U.K. 28 Jany. 1837; established his right to Scottish barony
of Lovat, attainder of which was reversed in his favor by 17
& 18 Vict. cap. 39, 10 July 1854; vice lieut. and sheriff
principal of Invernessshire 30 Aug. 1853 to 1873; K.T. 1865.
_d._ Beaufort castle, Invernessshire 28 June 1875. _I.L.N.
lxvii_ 47 (1875).
LOVAT, SIMON FRASER, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). _b._
Beaufort castle 21 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. commandant of
Inverness, Banff, Moray and Nairn militia 10 Dec. 1855 to death;
deputy lieut. of Inverness 1853–72, vice lieut. 1872, lord
lieut. 18 April 1873 to death; succeeded 28 June 1875. _d._
suddenly while shooting on a grouse moor near Inverness 6 Sep.
1887.
LOVE, EMMA SARAH (dau. of W. E. Love, lieutenant in H.M.
service, _d._ about 1814). _b._ Cheapside, London 10 Sep. 1801;
ed. in music by D. Corri; appeared at English opera house as
Mrs. Courtly in Free and Easy 1817; took leading vocal parts
under Samuel J. Arnold at Lyceum theatre; appeared at Covent
Garden 1822 with great success, then at the Haymarket 1823;
played Marina in the operatic entertainment Cortez; acted in
the provinces; played Lilla in Cobb’s comic opera The siege of
Belgrade, at Drury Lane 1828; a very beautiful woman who sang
‘What is more dear to the heart of the brave’ and ‘Little love
is a mischievous boy’ to perfection; believed by The Era of 23
Dec. 1882 to be then living. _Cumberland’s British theatre_,
_vol. xx_ (1828), _portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography_,
_iii_ 163–74 (1825), _portrait_.
LOVE, FREDERIC. _b._ 1816; homœopathic practitioner; in practice
in Paris 50 years, where he had many aristocratic and artistic
patients; was very active in the cholera outbreak of 1859. _d._
Paris 3 June 1891.
LOVE, HENRY OMMANNEY (1 son of commander Wm. Love 1764–1839).
_b._ 1 March 1793; entered navy 23 Dec. 1808; captain 5 Dec.
1837; retired admiral 3 July 1869; claimed to have suggested use
of paddles instead of wheels for steam vessels; sub-commissioner
of pilotage, Southampton; superintendent of lights for Isle of
Wight district; mayor of Yarmouth 3 times. _d._ Yarmouth, Isle
of Wight 16 Sep. 1872.
LOVE, HORATIO N. _b._ 1801; stock-jobber at 2 Capel court,
City of London 1847; chairman of Eastern counties railway co.
1857–63. _d._ Margate 14 March 1882.
LOVE, SIR JAMES FREDERICK (son of John Love). _b._ London 1789;
ensign 52 foot 26 Oct. 1804; captain 11 July 1811, placed on
h.p. 11 Aug. 1825; served in Sweden and Portugal 1808, in the
retreat from Corunna 1809, in Portugal again 1809–12; received
4 wounds in the famous charge of the 52nd on the imperial guard
at Waterloo; inspecting field officer of militia, New Brunswick
1825–30; major 11 foot 9 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 76 foot 6 Sep.
1834; lieut.-col. 73 foot 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 23 Sep.
1845; British resident at Zante 1835–8; governor of Jersey
1852–6; commanded at Shorncliffe camp 1856; inspector general of
infantry 1857 to April 1862; col. of 57 foot 24 Sep. 1856 to 5
Sep. 1865; col. of 43 foot 5 Sep. 1865 to death; general 10 Aug.
1864; K.H. 1831; C.B. 30 March 1839, K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B.
28 March 1865. _d._ 17 Ovington sq. London 13 Jany. 1866.
LOVE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1795; a pit boy in the capacity of a trapper,
a hewer; owner of a large number of collieries both in the
eastern and western coal fields; built and endowed many chapels,
built a chapel at High Shincliffe near Durham at cost of £1000;
member of Methodist New Connexion. _d._ near Durham 21 Feb.
1875, personalty sworn under £1,000,000, 17 April 1875.
LOVE, WILLIAM EDWARD (son of a merchant in the City to 1812).
_b._ London 6 Feb. 1806; ed. at Harlow in Essex and at Nelson
house, Wimbledon; commenced practising ventriloquism 1818;
connected with London journalism 1820–6; appeared for a benefit
at Olympic theatre in a solo entertainment entitled The False
Alarm 1826; performed in England and France 1827, in Dublin
1828; produced The peregrinations of a polyphonist, June 1849,
with which he visited chief towns in England; opened at Oxford
with a piece called Ignes Fatui 1833; played at Almack’s 1833,
at City of London assembly rooms, Bishopsgate st. during summer
seasons of 1834–8; appeared on alternate nights at St. James’s
theatre and in the City 1836; visited United States, West Indies
and South America 1838; played at Strand theatre and 6 other
places in London 1839–54; produced the ‘London Season’ at 69
Quadrant, Regent st. London 26 Dec. 1854, played there 8 Feb.
1856 the 300th consecutive night and his 2,406th performance in
London; paralysed 1858, had a benefit at Sadler’s Wells; the
best English ventriloquist on record, played in upwards of 15
distinct entertainments, in which he assumed various characters
making rapid changes of his dress. _d._ 33 Arundel st. Strand,
London 16 March 1867. _Memoirs of W. E. Love_ (1834); _G.
Smith’s Memoirs of Mr. Love, Boston, U.S._ (1850); _Ireland’s
New York Stage_, _ii_ 273, 317 (1867); _I.L.N. 25 March 1843 p._
215, _portrait_, _27 Jany. 1855 p._ 84, _portrait_.
LOVEDAY, Ely. _b._ 1800; an actress 1817; played leading
business with Edmund Kean, Elton, Liston and Macready; saw the 4
Kembles, Stephen, John, Charles and Mrs. Siddons play in Henry
VIII.; played at most of the London theatres, retired 1852;
(_m._ W. Loveday an actor at Drury Lane theatre). _d._ 11 Nov.
1892. _bur._ Kensal Green 15 Nov.
LOVEDAY, GEORGE BEAUMONT (son of the preceding). _b._ 1833;
fiddler, dramatic manager, operatic entrepreneur; with his
brother Henry J. Loveday introduced Faust in English; known
as The Prince because of his good looks; acting manager and
confidential adviser to J. L. Toole 1867–87; (_m._ 25 Jany. 1877
Annie only dau. of John Dickey Creelman, she was known on the
stage as Annie Tremaine and later on as Madame Amadi). _d._ 8
Woburn place, London 21 Dec. 1887. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery
24 Dec. _J. Hatton’s Reminiscences of J. L. Toole 3 ed._ (1889)
30–4.
LOVEDEN, PRYSE (son of Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, Cardigan, _d._
1849). _b._ Woodstock 1 June 1815; M.P. Cardigan district of
boroughs 1849 to death; resumed by r.l. original name of Loveden
1849. _d._ Glo’ster hotel, 76 Piccadilly, London 1 Feb. 1855.
LOVELACE, AUGUSTA ADA KING, Countess of (only child of George
Gordon, 6 baron Byron, the poet 1788–1824). _b._ 13 Piccadilly
terrace, London 10 Dec. 1815; last seen by her father when she
was only one month old; some of her hair sent to her father at
Pisa, Nov. 1821; he alludes to her in Childe Harold, canto 3,
line 2, as Ada sole daughter of my house and heart; translated
and edited with notes, Sketch of the analytical engine invented
by Charles Babbage, esq. By L. F. Menabrea, Turin. Signed A.
A. L. in R. Taylor’s Scientific memoirs, iii 666–731 (1843);
corresponded with Andrew Crosse on electricity, &c. 1841–2;
(_m._ at Fordhook, her mother’s residence, 8 July 1835 William
King 8 baron King and Ockham 4 June 1833, cr. earl Lovelace 30
June 1838). _d._ 6 Great Cumberland place, London 27 Nov. 1852.
_bur._ Hucknall Torcard church near her father. _monu._ placed
in Newstead abbey, Aug. 1863. _Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xxxiii_
69–73 (1853), _portrait_; _Argosy 1 Nov. 1869 pp._ 358–61;
_Finden’s Portraits of female aristocracy_ (1849) _vol. ii_,
_portrait_ 21; _Journal of Statistical Soc. xxxiv_ 414 (1871);
_Moore’s Life of Byron_ (1846) 290, 720; _I.L.N. xxi_ 499
(1852); _G.M. Jany. 1853 pp._ 89–90.
NOTE.--The third book of Childe Harold written in 1816 begins and
concludes with lines addressed to Byron’s daughter and she is again
spoken of in the verses Fare thee well, 17 March 1816.
LOVELL, EDWARD BOURNE. Barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; author of
Chancery orders 1850 with cases decided 1850; Index to the
stamp duties arranged analytically 1850; Digest of law cases,
statutes, &c. 1850–54, 4 vols. 1852–5. _d._ Godshill, Isle of
Wight 28 July 1883 aged 78.
NOTE.--He was also author of The joint-stock companies’ winding-up acts
1848–1849 with notes, published by Wildy, Dec. 1849. Stevens and Norton
obtained an injunction against Wildy in the Vice-Chancellor’s court 1
Feb. 1850, Lovell having made use of a great deal of matter previously
printed in J. M. Ludlow’s Joint-stock companies’ winding-up act 1848
published by Stevens and Norton 1 Dec. 1848, Wildy was obliged to give
up all the copies of the pirated book and pay the costs about £250,
which sum Wildy recovered against Lovell in the court of Common Pleas
29 Nov. 1853. _Law Journal Reports n.s. xix pt._ 1 _pp._ 190–3 (1850);
_Law Times 3 Dec. 1853 p._ 106.
LOVELL, EDWIN (youngest son of Joseph Lovell Lovell of Chilcote
manor, solicitor). _b._ 7 May 1808; ed. at Eton 1823; solicitor
at Wells 1831 to death; clerk of peace for Somerset 13 Aug. 1846
to death; registrar of Wells county court 1847 to death; member
of the order of The Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother
Glastonbury 23 Sep. 1835. _d._ Sharcombe house, Dinder near
Wells 21 May 1877. _Wright’s The Blue Friars_ (1889) 97, 218,
_portrait_.
LOVELL, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ 1804; secretary of Phœnix Insurance
Co. 1850 to death; author of the following plays, The Avenger,
produced at Surrey theatre 1835; The provost of Bruges, at Drury
Lane 10 Feb. 1836; Love’s sacrifice or the rival merchants,
Covent Garden 12 Sep. 1842; Look before you leap, Haymarket 29
Oct. 1846; The wife’s secret, purchased by Charles Kean for £400
before it was written, produced at Park theatre, New York 12
Oct. 1846, and at Haymarket 17 Jany. 1848 when it ran 36 nights
and has since kept the stage; The trial of love, Princess’s 7
Jany. 1852, ran 23 nights; published a novel called The Trustee
3 vols. 1841. _d._ 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 13 May 1878.
_I.L.N. lxii_ 533 (1878), _portrait_.
LOVELL, JOHN. _b._ Farnham, Surrey 1836; reporter and sub-editor
on Sheffield Times and Birmingham Daily Post; editor of
Cassell’s Mag. 1868; manager of Press Association 1869–80, a
director, chairman of finance committee; a founder and editor of
the Printing Times, Jany. 1873; editor of the Liverpool Mercury
1880 to death; the best known journalist on the English press.
_d._ 17 Gambier ter. Liverpool 20 Feb. 1890. _Sell’s World’s
Press_ (1891) 82, _portrait_; _London Figaro 1 March 1890 p._
12, _portrait_; _Academy_, _i_ 152 (1890).
LOVELL, JOHN WILLIAMSON. _b._ 1824; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 June 1841,
col. 3 Aug. 1872 to death; surveying in Turkey 1854; present at
battles of Alma and Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; commander
of R.E. at Chatham; L.G. 5 Jany. 1869; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._
Halifax, Nova Scotia 24 April 1880.
LOVELL, SIR LOVELL BENJAMIN (eld. son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock
of Little Missenden hall, Bucks.) _b._ 1786; ed. at Eton; cornet
14 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1805, captain 12 Dec. 1811; served in
Peninsular war 1809–14 for which he received Peninsular medal
with 11 clasps; major 8 hussars 28 Oct. 1824, placed on h.p. 21
Nov. 1828; lieut.-col. 15 hussars 21 March 1834, placed on h.p.
8 March 1850; col. of 12 lancers 29 Nov. 1856 to death; L.G. 1
April 1860; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; assumed surname of
Lovell 10 April 1840. _d._ Brunswick terrace, Brighton 11 March
1861.
LOVELL, MARIA ANNE (dau. of Willoughby Lacy, patentee of Drury
Lane, _d._ 1831). _b._ London 15 July 1803; appeared as Mrs.
Haller at Belfast 1818; acted Belvidera in Venice preserved, at
Covent Garden 9 Oct. 1822; excelled in pathetic parts; (_m._
1830 George William Lovell 1804–78 when she retired from the
stage); wrote Ingomar the barbarian, Drury Lane, June 1851,
revived by Mary Anderson, Lyceum 1 Sep. 1883; The beginning
of the end, Haymarket 27 Oct. 1855. _d._ 18 Lyndhurst road,
Hampstead 2 April 1877. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses_, _i_
250–5 (1855).
LOVELL, WILLIAM STANHOPE (brother of Sir Lovell B. Lovell
1786–1861). _b._ about 1788; entered navy May 1799; present in
battle of Trafalgar; captain 21 Aug. 1815, retired 1 Oct. 1846;
assumed name of Lovell 1840; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; K.H. 25
Jany. 1836; author of Personal narrative of events from 1799 to
1815, 2 ed. 1879. _d._ Great Yarmouth 20 May 1859.
LOVER, SAMUEL (eld. son of a member of the Dublin stock
exchange). _b._ Dublin 24 Feb. 1797; a portrait painter,
especially in miniatures to 1844; member of Royal Hibernian
academy 1828, secretary 1830; wrote Rory O’More 1826, best known
of his ballads; his miniature of Paganini exhibited at Dublin
academy 1832 and at R.A. London 1833; removed to London 1835;
wrote The Olympic picnic for Madame Vestris 1835; published Rory
O’More, a national romance 1837, his dramatised version of which
was acted at Adelphi theatre Oct. 1837 and ran over 100 nights;
composed a musical drama The Greek Boy, of which he wrote
both music and words, Covent Garden 1838; his burlesque opera
Il Paddy Whack in Italia was produced at English opera house
1838; produced his own entertainment called Irish Evenings, at
Princess’s Concert Rooms, March 1844 and in Canada and U.S.
of America 1846–8; produced an entertainment called Paddy’s
Portfolio, in London 1848; wrote the libretti of two operas
for Balfe; his drama the Sentinel of the Alma was produced at
Haymarket theatre; author of Legends and stories of Ireland
1831; Songs and Ballads 1839; Handy Andy 1842; L. S. D. 1844,
new ed. under title of Treasure Trove 1844; Rival rhymes in
honour of Burns. Collected and edited by Ben Trovato 1859, and
of many popular songs; granted civil list pension of £100, 4
March 1856. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 6 July 1868. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet. London 15 July. _B. Bernard’s Life of Samuel Lover
2 vols._ (1874), _portrait_; _N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs 2 ed._
1851 _pp._ 196–9; _The Critic_, _xix_ 229 (1859), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. iv_ 208 (1844), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii_
196, _portrait_.
LOVESY, CONWAY WHITHORNE (2 son of Conway Whithorne Lovesy of
Charlton Kings, Gloucs.) _b._ 6 April 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; a
police magistrate in Trinidad 1871–3; a puisne judge of supreme
court of British Guiana 1873–8; author of The churchwarden’s
guide 8 ed. 1871; The law of arbitration between masters and
workmen 1867; The law of house invasion and defence 1879; edited
J. F. Archbold’s The practice of the court of quarter sessions 3
ed. 1869. _d._ Keynsham Bank, Cheltenham 15 Nov. 1885.
LOVETT, WILLIAM (son of William Lovett, master mariner,
drowned 1800). _b._ Church lane, Newlyn near Penzance 8 May
1800; apprenticed to a ropemaker; went to London 1821; worked
as a carpenter; employed in the first London co-operative
association; secretary of British Association for promoting
co-operative knowledge about 1830–4; joined National union of
the working classes 1831; opened a coffee house in Greville st.
Hatton Garden 1833 which failed; a founder of London Working
Mens’ Association, 6 Upper North place, Gray’s Inn road 16 June
1836; secretary of the general committee of trades of London
1838, drafted the bill known as the ‘Peoples Charter’ published
8 May 1838; secretary of the Chartist Convention 4 Feb. 1839;
tried at Warwick assizes for seditious libel 6 Aug. 1839 when
sentenced to 12 months imprisonment; bookseller at 183 Tottenham
court road 1840; manager of the school supported by the National
Association 1849–57; a member of working-class committee of
Great Exhibition 1850; a teacher of anatomy in St. Thomas,
Charterhouse schools and in Richardson’s gr. sch. Gray’s Inn
road 1857; author of A proposal for the considerations of the
friends of progress 1847; Elementary anatomy and physiology.
With lessons on diet 1851; Social and political morality 1853;
Woman’s mission 1856, a poem. _d._ 137 Euston road, London
8 Aug. 1877. _bur._ Highgate. _The life and struggles of W.
Lovett_ (1876); _The trial of W. Lovett 2 ed._ (1839); _G. J.
Holyoake’s_ _History of Co-operation_, _i_ 127, _ii_ 411–13
(1875–9); _R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism_ (1854) 120
_etc._; _Who were the Chartists?_ in _Century Mag. xxiii_ 421–30
(1882), _portrait_.
LOW, ALEXANDER (son of James Low, farmer, Clatt, Aberdeen).
_b._ 1800; M.A. of Marischall coll. and univ. Aberdeen 3 April
1819; schoolmaster of Clatt 1825; presbyterian minister of
Keig, Banffshire 27 June 1834 to death; author of The history
of Scotland from the earliest period to the middle of the ninth
century 1826; Scottish heroes in the days of Wallace and Bruce 2
vols. 1856. _d._ in the manse of Keig 3 May 1873.
LOW, DAVID (son of a tradesman). _b._ Brechin, Forfarshire, Nov.
1768; ed. at Marischal college, Aberdeen; episcopal minister
at Pittenweem, Fifeshire, Sep. 1789 to death; bishop of united
dioceses of Ross, Argyll and the Isles 1819 to 19 Dec. 1850,
consecrated 14 Nov. 1819; LL.D. Aberdeen, April 1820; chief
founder of Gaelic Episcopal Society 1831; the diocese of Moray
was added to his diocese July 1838, he effected separation of
Argyll and the Isles from Ross and Moray 1847 and endowed the
new see with £8,000; D.D. Hartford and Geneva in state of New
York 1848; _d._ The priory, Pittenweem 26 Jany. 1855. _M. F.
Conolly’s Biographical sketch of David Low_ (1859), _portrait_;
_W. Blatch’s Memoir of D. Low_ (1855); _Conolly’s Biog. Dict. of
Fife_ (1866) 299–305.
LOW, DAVID (eld. son of Alexander Low of Laws, Berwickshire,
land-agent). _b._ 1786; ed. at Perth academy and univ. of
Edinb.; assisted his father on his farms; settled in Edinburgh
1825; edited Quarterly Journal of agriculture 1828–32; professor
of agriculture in univ. of Edinb. 1831–54, the agricultural
museum was founded at cost of £3,000 of which he gave £1,200,
1833; author of Observations on the present state of landed
property 1823; Elements of practical agriculture 1834, 4 ed.
1843, translated into French and German; The breeds of the
domestic animals of the British Islands 2 vols. 1842, translated
into French 1842; An inquiry into the nature of the simple
bodies of chemistry 1844, 3 ed. 1856. _d._ Mayfield, Edinburgh
7 Jany. 1859. _Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 717–8 (1863);
_Grant’s Univ. of Edinburgh_, _ii_ 457 (1884).