17 Aug. 1825; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Camb.
1843, scholar 1846–9, fellow 1849–60, junior bursar 1853–61,
assistant tutor 1855–65, 14th wrangler 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A.
1850, B.D. 1875, D.D. 1878; V. of Great St. Mary’s, Cambridge
1860–87; registrary of Univ. of Camb. Jany. 1862 to death,
and editor of 2 editions of Graduati Cantabrigienses 1873 and
1884; hon. fellow of King’s coll. London 1875; edited for the
Rolls Series, Lives of Edward the Confessor 1858; Bartholomæi
de Cotton Historia Anglicana 1859; Roberti Grosseteste Epistolæ
1861; Annales Monastici 5 vols. 1864–9; Matthew Paris, Historia
Major 7 vols. 1872–84; Flores Historiarum 1890; author of Index
to the catalogue of manuscripts in the University library,
Cambridge 1867, and of many memoirs of mediæval writers and
classical scholars in Dict. of Nat. Biog. vols. 1–32 (1885–92);
with W. G. Clark projected an edition of Shakespeare with the
variations of the quartos and folios and printed Act 1 of
Richard III. 1860, work afterwards completed by W. G. Clark
and W. A. Wright 9 vols. 1863–66. _d._ 4 St. Peter’s terrace,
Cambridge 1 May 1891, memorial clock placed in tower of Great
St. Mary’s church, Cambridge, Dec. 1892. _The Biograph_, _Feb.
1882 pp._ 140–2.
LUARD, JOHN (brother of Henry Luard 1792–1856). _b._ 5 May 1790;
served in R.N. 1802–7; cornet 4 dragoons 25 May 1809; lieut.
16 light dragoons 2 March 1815, captain 13 Dec. 1821, placed
on h.p. 17 Oct. 1834; lieut.-col. 30 foot 4 Aug. 1848 but sold
out same day; served in the Peninsula 1810–14 and was present
at Waterloo; served in India 1825, instructed his regiment in
the use of the lance and was the first to use it in the British
army, namely at Bhurtpoor 1825; published Views in India, St.
Helena and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone by
himself 1838; author of A history of the dress of the British
soldier 1852. _d._ The Cedars, Farnham, Surrey 24 Oct. 1875.
_Times 28 Oct. 1875 p._ 11, _2 Nov. p._ 7; _Graphic_, _xii_ 515,
518 (1875), _portrait_.
LUARD, JOHN DALBIAC (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Blyborough,
Lincs. 30 Oct. 1830; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 63 foot 22 Dec.
1848; ensign 82 foot 16 Feb. 1849, lieut. 3 Dec. 1852, sold out
13 Jany 1854; pupil of John Phillip, R.A.; spent the winter of
1855–6 in the Crimea; exhibited 4 pictures at the R.A. 1855–8;
his picture ‘The welcome arrival’ was engraved. _d._ Winterslow
near Salisbury 9 Aug. 1860. _The Critic_, _March 1861 pp._ 317–8.
LUARD, JOHN KYNASTON (3 son of John Luard of Wickham Place,
Essex). _b._ 1803; entered Madras army 1818; lieut. 6 Madras
N.I. 13 June 1819; captain 16 N.I. 21 July 1825, major 10 Oct.
1836 to 26 Aug. 1841; lieut.-col. of 2 N.I. 23 June 1841 to
1847, of 42 N.I. 1847–8, of 16 N.I. 1848–9, of 11 N.I. 1849–51,
of 25 N.I. 1851–2; commandant at Masulipatam 5 Feb. 1851 to 9
Dec. 1851, at Jaulnah 9 Dec. 1851 to 21 July 1854, at Saugor and
Nerbudda 21 July 1854 to 16 Oct. 1855; col. of 11 N.I. 24 March
1852 to 1869; general 25 June 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ 29
Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 18 Oct. 1880.
LUARD, RICHARD GEORGE AMHERST (eld. son of John Luard
1790–1875). _b._ 29 July 1827; ensign 51 foot 6 July 1845;
ensign 3 foot 11 Nov. 1845, captain 1852; major 62 foot 2 May
1865, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1865; D.A.A.G. in Crimea 30 June
1855 to 23 July 1856; assistant inspector of volunteers 1860–5;
col. Bristol engineer volunteer corps 7 Dec. 1881 to death; L.G.
1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 1 May 1890; C.B. 21 June
1887. _d._ Eastbourne 24 July 1891.
LUBBOCK, SIR JOHN WILLIAM, 3 Baronet (only child of sir John
Wm. Lubbock, 2 baronet 1774–1840). _b._ Duke st. Westminster
26 March 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825,
M.A. 1833; partner in bank of Lubbock and Co. London 1825,
sole working partner 1840–60 when firm became Robarts, Lubbock
and Co.; F.R.A.S. 1828, F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1829, royal medallist
1834, treasurer and vice pres. 1830–5 and 1838–45; fellow of
univ. of London 1836 to death, vice chancellor 28 Nov. 1836
to 15 June 1842; hon. M.I.C.E. 5 March 1839; a treasurer of
Great Exhibition of 1851; sheriff of Kent 1852; author of On
the theory of the moon and on the perturbation of the planets
11 parts 1833–61; An elementary treatise on the tides 1839;
On the clearing of the London bankers 1860. _d._ High Elms,
Farnborough, Kent 20 June 1865. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xv_ 32–7
(1867); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxv_ 510–2 (1866).
NOTE.--He was author with J. E. Drinkwater afterwards Drinkwater
Bethune of Probability 1830 a volume in the Library of Useful
Knowledge, this work was anonymous, but a binder chose to letter it as
De Morgan on Probability. Augustus De Morgan stated in a letter to the
Times that he could not in 15 years succeed in restoring the book to
its true authors.
LUBY, THOMAS (son of John Luby). _b._ Clonmel, co. Tipperary
1800; a sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar 1819, junior
fellow 1831, senior fellow 6 Nov. 1847 to death; B.A. 1821,
M.A. 1825, D.D. 1840; senior dean and lecturer of his college,
Donegal lecturer 1832–47; Regius professor of Greek, univ.
of Dublin 1852–5; M.R.I.A.; author of The elements of plane
trigonometry 1825, 3 ed. 1852; An introductory treatise to
physical astronomy 1828; edited J. Brinkley’s Elements of plane
astronomy. Dublin 1836. _d._ 43 Leeson st. Dublin 12 June 1870.
_bur._ Aberystwith. _Taylor’s History of university of Dublin
p._ 524.
LUCAN, GEORGE CHARLES BINGHAM, 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of
Lucan 1764–1839). _b._ St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 16 April
1800; ed. at Westminster; known as lord Bingham 1800–39; ensign
6 foot 29 Aug. 1816; lieut. 8 foot 20 Jany. 1820; capt. 1 life
guards 20 June 1822, major 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1825 and
lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1826, placed on h.p. 14 April 1837; served on
staff of Russian army in Bulgaria 1828; M.P. co. Mayo 1826–30;
lord lieut. of Mayo 1845; succeeded 30 June 1839; major general
in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1854; commanded a division
of cavalry as lieut. general in Russian war 18 Aug. 1854 to 18
Feb. 1855; present at the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and siege
of Sebastopol; recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb.
1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869; col. 8 light
dragoons 17 Nov. 1855; col. 1 life guards 22 Feb. 1865 to death;
general 28 Aug. 1865, field marshal 21 June 1887; elected an
Irish representative peer 1840; lord lieut. of Mayo 14 Feb. 1845
to death. _d._ 12 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1888.
_The drawing room portrait gallery 4 Ser._ (1860), _portrait_;
_Nolan’s Russian war_, _i_ 544–50, _ii_ 725 (1855), _portrait_;
_G. Ryan’s Our heroes_ (1855) 36–40; _I.L.N. 13 May 1854 pp._
429–30, _portrait_; _Graphic 24 Nov. 1888 pp._ 542, 544,
_portrait_.
NOTE.--At the battle of Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 Capt. Nolan brought the
earl of Lucan an order from Lord Raglan to advance against the Russians
and prevent them carrying away the guns. The exact meaning of the order
was not clear, but it led to the famous charge of the light brigade,
when out of 608 men only 198 returned. The earl of Lucan was recalled
from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855. _Kinglake’s Invasion of
the Crimea_, _ii_ 379, _iii_ 235, _iv_ 5, _v_ 3, _vii_ 471, _ix_ 354
(1877).
LUCAS, CHARLES (son of Wm. Lucas of Daventry). _b._ 1769;
matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 July 1786; C. of Avebury,
Wiltshire 1791–1816; resided at Devizes 1816 to death; author
of A descriptive account in verse of the old serpentine temple
of the Druids at Avebury 1795, 2 ed. 1801; The castle of St.
Donat’s, or the history of Jack Smith 3 vols. 1798; The infernal
Quixote, a tale of the day 4 vols. 1801; Joseph, a religious
poem 2 vols. 1810; The Abissinian (sic) reformer or the bible
and the sabre 1808. _d._ Devizes 1854.
LUCAS, CHARLES (son of Mr. Lucas of Salisbury, alderman).
_b._ Salisbury 28 July 1808; chorister in Salisbury cathedral
8 years; studied at R.A. of Music, conductor 1832, principal
1859–66; member of queen Adelaide’s private band 1830; associate
of Philharmonic Soc. 1835, member 1839, a director 1840–55
and 1864 to death; organist of Hanover chapel, Regent st.
1839; conductor of Choral harmonists society; member of firm
of Addison, Hollier and Lucas music publishers 1856 to June
1865; succeeded Robert Lindley as violoncello player at the
opera and leading festivals and concerts; composed an opera
The Regicide 1840; three symphonies, string quartets, anthems
and songs; edited Esther 1851 for Handel Soc. _d._ 9 Louvaine
road, Wandsworth, London 23 March 1869. _bur._ Woking cemet. 27
March. _Mag. of Music_, _Oct. 1890 p._ 183, _portrait_; _W. W.
Cazalet’s History of royal academy of music_ (1854) 306.
LUCAS, CHARLES. _b._ 1805; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 19 Dec.
1820; col. 18 Feb. 1861 to 26 April 1866; inspector of artillery
Bombay 1 Nov. 1862 to 29 April 1867; M.G. 26 April 1866. _d._ 44
Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 11 June 1873.
LUCAS, EDWARD (only child of Charles Lucas of Castle Shane,
co. Monaghan, _d._ 1796). _b._ 27 Sep. 1787; ed. at Harrow and
Ch. Ch. Oxf.; sheriff of co. Monaghan 1817; M.P. co. Monaghan
1834–41; under sec. of state for Ireland 15 Sep. 1841 to 21 Aug.
1845; P.C. Ireland 1845. _d._ Castle Shane, co. Monaghan 12 Nov.
1871. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_ (1846), _portrait_;
_I.L.N. lix_ 507 (1871).
LUCAS, FREDERICK (2 son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, corn-merchant
and a Quaker). _b._ Westminster 30 March 1812; ed. at Darlington
and London univ.; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; left the Soc.
of Friends and joined church of Rome being received by Father
Lythgoe of the Soc. of Jesus, Jany. 1839; started the Tablet 16
May 1840, a weekly R.C. newspaper which he removed to Dublin
1849, edited to his death; M.P. co. Meath 1852 to death; one of
secretaries of Irish tenant league 1850; contributed frequently
to Dublin Review; author of Reasons for becoming a Roman
Catholic, especially addressed to the society of Friends 1839.
_d._ at the residence of his brother in law Skidmore Ashby at
Staines 22 Oct. 1855. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 27 Oct. _Life of
F. Lucas. By his brother E. Lucas 2 vols._ (1886); _F. Lucas:
a biography. By C. J. Riethmüller_ (1862); _Duffy’s League of
North and South_ (1886) 330.
LUCAS, HORATIO JOSEPH (4 son of Louis Lucas, West India
merchant, _d._ 1862). _b._ London 27 May 1839; ed. at Brighton
and Univ. coll. London; pupil of F. S. Cary; member of the
Langham sketching club; exhibited 9 etchings at R.A. 1870–3;
exhibited at the Salon in Paris; contributed to various Black
and White exhibitions; a selection from his etchings is in the
print room, British Museum; a good musician; member of firm of
Lucas, Micholls and Co. merchants 13 New Broad st. London 1862
to death; illustrated A new year’s gift to sick children 1865.
_d._ 18 Dec. 1873. _Jewish Chronicle 26 Dec. 1873 p._ 654.
LUCAS, JAMES (2 son of James Lucas of Liverpool, West India
merchant, _d._ 1830). _b._ London 21 Dec. 1813; studied medicine
with Mr. Hicks of Whitwell near Hitchin, Herts.; inherited
family estate at Redcoats Green, Great Wymondley, Herts. on
death of his mother 24 Oct. 1849; he was so attached to his
mother that he deferred interment of her body until 12 Jany.
1850 when the burial was enforced; lived in the kitchen of his
residence, Elmwood house, Redcoats Green, used no furniture,
gave up washing and slept on a bed of cinders; gave money and
drink to all the tramps who passed by; retained two armed
watchmen for his protection; visited by lord Lytton, sir Arthur
Helps, John Forster and Charles Dickens who described him under
the name of Mr. Mopes in Tom Tiddler’s Ground in the Christmas
number of All the Year round 1861. _d._ of apoplexy at the house
of Mr. Chapman a farmer and his tenant near his own house 19
April 1874. _bur._ beside his mother in Hackney churchyard 21
April. _The history of the hermit of Hertfordshire. Hitchin_
(1874), _portrait_; _An account of Lucas the hermit. Hitchin_
(1874); _Journal of mental science_, _Oct. 1874 pp._ 361–72;
_Popular science monthly_, _vi_ 301 (1874); _Graphic_, _ix_ 480
(1874), _portrait_.
LUCAS, _John_ (son of William Lucas, sub-editor of The Sun
newspaper, London). _b._ London 4 July 1807; apprenticed to S.
W. Reynolds, mezzotint-engraver; a portrait-painter with a very
large practice; painted portraits of queen Adelaide, prince
Consort, princess Royal, duke of Wellington and many of the
court beauties; exhibited 96 portraits at R.A., 13 at B.I. and
8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–74; many of his portraits were
engraved, some of them by himself in mezzotint. _d._ 22 St.
John’s Wood road, London 30 April 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 473, 474
(1874), _portrait_.
LUCAS, JOHN TEMPLETON (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ London
1836; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 30 at
Suffolk st. gallery 1859–76; his farce Browne the Martyr
produced at Court theatre 20 Jany. 1872 and printed in Lacy’s
acting edition of plays vol. xcvi; author of fairy tales
entitled Prince Ubbely Bubble’s New story book 1871; and of
Edwin Landseer 1873, memorial verses. _d._ Whitby, Sep. 1880.
LUCAS, LOUIS ARTHUR (son of Philip Lucas of Manchester). _b._
22 Sep. 1851; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London;
travelled in U.S. of America 1872 and in Egypt 1873; organised
an expedition to explore the Congo, left London 2 Sep. 1875,
arrived at Khartoum Jany. 1876, left Khartoum April 1876;
went with colonel Gordon to the Albert Nyanza and navigated
northern part of the lake in the first steamboat ever launched
on it; returned to Khartoum Aug. 1876, reached Suakim 18 Nov.;
compiled a vocabulary of Bishareen words published in Journal of
Anthropological Institute, vi 191–4. _d._ in a steamboat between
Suakim and Suez 20 Nov. 1876. _bur._ Jeddah. _Proc. of Royal
Geog. Soc. xxi_ 418–21, 465; _Athenæum 9 Dec. 1876 p._ 766, _23
Dec. p._ 838.
LUCAS, MARGARET (youngest dau. of Jacob Bright and youngest
sister of John Bright, M.P.) _b._ Greenbank, Rochdale, Lancs. 14
July 1818; a total abstainer from 1834; (_m._ 1839 Samuel Lucas
1811–65, journalist); a Good Templar 1872, Grand Worthy Vice
Templar; visited U.S. of America 1870; engaged in the work of
Association for the abolition of state regulation of vice; one
of chief founders and president of British women’s temperance
association; visited U.S. of America 1886 to attend convention
at Minneapolis as president of the World’s Women’s temperance
union; advocated political enfranchisement of women, on public
platforms in Great Britain. _d._ 7 Charlotte st. Bedford sq.
London 4 Feb. 1890. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 7 Feb. _H. J. B.
Heath’s M. B. Lucas_ (1890), _portrait_.
LUCAS, PHILIP BENNETT. _b._ 1803; F.R.C.S.; practised at
Boulogne some years; author of A concise anatomical description
of the arteries of the human body 1836; A practical treatise on
the cure of strabismus or squint 1840. _d._ Pau, France 22 May
1856.
LUCAS, RICHARD COCKLE (son of Richard Lucas). _b._ Salisbury
24 Oct. 1800; apprenticed to his uncle a cutler at Winchester
1812; a sculptor with a good practice; executed statues of Dr.
Johnson at Lichfield, Dr. Watts at Southampton and sir R. C.
Hoare in Salisbury cath.; his medallion portraits in marble, wax
and ivory have much merit; exhibited 89 sculptures at R.A., 12
at B.I. and 61 at Suffolk st. 1829–59; sent ivory carvings and
imitation bronzes to Great Exhibition of 1851; produced a large
number of etchings; granted civil list pension of £150, 19 June
1865; author of Remarks on the pantheon 1845; The artist’s dream
realised, being a residence designed and built [at Chilworth
near Romsey] by R. C. Lucas, sculptor 1854, etched and described
1856; On the mausoleum of Halicarnassus 1859; An essay on art,
especially that of painting 1870. _d._ Chilworth near Romsey 18
Jany. 1883.
LUCAS, SAMUEL (brother of Frederick Lucas 1812–55). _b._
1811; partner in a cotton mill at Manchester 1845; joined the
anti-cornlaw league; a founder of Lancashire public schools
assoc. Aug. 1847; a corn merchant in London from 1850; managing
proprietor of The Morning Star daily paper 17 March 1856 to
1865; one of founders of the Emancipation Society for slaves
1862; author of Plan for the establishment of a general system
of secular education in the county of Lancaster 1847; edited
a vol. of essays entitled National education not necessarily
governmental, sectarian or irreligious 1850. _d._ 4 Gordon st.
Gordon sq. London 16 April 1865. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Fox
Bourne’s English Newspapers_, _ii_ 238, 271 (1887); _Morning
Star 17 April 1865 p._ 4.
LUCAS, SAMUEL (eld. son of Thomas Lucas of Bristol, merchant).
_b._ Bristol 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A.
1846; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1846; founder and editor of The
Press newspaper 1853; contributed reviews to The Times from
1855; edited Once a Week, June 1859 to 1865; projected and
edited The Shilling Magazine 1865 which ceased Dec. 1865; author
of The Sandwich Islands, a prize poem 1841; Charters of the old
English colonies in America 1850; Illustrations of the history
of Bristol and its neighbourhood 1853; Dacoitee in excelsis,
or the spoliation of Oude 1857, anon.; Eminent men and popular
books, from the Times 1859, anon.; Biography and criticism from
the Times 1860, anon.; Secularia or surveys on the mainstream
of history 1862; edited Thomas Hood’s Poems 2 vols. 1867. _d._
Eastbourne 27 Nov. 1868. _Newspaper Press_, _iii_ 38 (1869).
LUCAS, SAMUEL (2 son of Wm. Lucas). _b._ Hitchin, Herts. 1805;
ed. Friends’ committee school, Fishponds, Bristol; apprentice
at Southwick and Harris’ wharf, Wapping: an auditor of Great
Northern railway; partner in a provision house in London; a
brewer and maltster at Hitchin to death; clerk to quarterly
meeting at Hitchin; painter of landscapes, animals and flowers
in oil and water colours; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 4
at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1830–61; some of his drawings
of flowers were engraved in The Florist. _d._ 29 March 1870.
_Biographical catalogue of Friends_ (1888) 440–3.
LUCE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Luce). _b._ Weymouth 1790; M.P.
Malmesbury 1852–9; a director of the Bank of London. _d._
Malmesbury 6 Aug. 1875.
LUCENA, LORENZO. _b._ 1806; ed. coll. of St. Pelagio in univ.
of Seville, professor of theology there 8 years and provisional
president 3 years; minister of a protestant congregation of
Spaniards at Gibraltar on appointment by S.P.C.K.; hon. canon
of Gibraltar cathedral 1842–60; reader in Spanish language and
literature in the Taylor institute, Oxford 1858 to death; cr.
M.A. of univ. of Oxf. 5 June 1877; assisted in preparing new ed.
of Spanish Bible founded on Cipriano de Valera’s text, Oxford
1862. _d._ Oxford 24 Aug. 1881.
LUCET, JOACHIM SIMEON. _b._ 1797; professor de belles lettres;
author of Langue Française. Simples notes grammaticales 1843.
_d._ 49 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 11 April 1855.
LUCETTE, CATHERINE. Made her first appearance at theatre royal,
Plymouth; first seen in London at Drury Lane as Susan in William
and Susan 28 Feb. 1859; appeared at Metropolitan theatre, New
York as Pauline in Delicate Ground 23 May 1859; with her husband
M. Price had a drawing room entertainment at Brooklyn, New York
25 Aug. 1868; played Ariel in the Tempest at Grand Opera house,
New York 1869; toured for some years in North of England playing
Leonie in The Sutler Girl; _m._ (1) Morton Price, actor whose
right name was Horton Rhys _d._ 8 May 1876 aged 52; _m._ (2)
Charles Medwin. She _d._ 20 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Norwood cemetery.
_Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 226, 243.
LUCKRAFT, ALFRED. _b._ 2 April 1792; entered navy Jany. 1801;
present at Trafalgar 1805, was in the trenches 12 days besieging
Morea Castle in the Peloponnesus Oct. 1828, obtained insignia of
legion of honor and of Redeemer of Greece; retired admiral 10
Sep. 1869. _d._ Eastney barracks, Portsmouth 15 Oct. 1871.
LUCY, CHARLES. _b._ Hertford 1814; studied under Delaroche in
Paris and at the R.A.; copied old masters at the Hague and
Paris; lived at Barbizon near Fontainebleau 16 years; obtained
a premium of £200 at Westminster hall competition 1847 for his
painting of The departure of the primitive puritans to the coast
of America, A.D. 1620; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I.
and 7 at Suffolk st. 1838–73; instructor at a drawing school in
Camden Town many years; chairman of committee of new British
Institution; painted a series of portraits of eminent men for
sir Joshua Walmesley who bequeathed them to the South Kensington
museum. _d._ 13 Ladbroke crescent, Notting Hill, London 19 May
1873. Anne Lucy his widow granted civil list pension of £70, 24
Nov. 1881. _I.L.N. lxii_ 544 (1873).
LUCY, HENRY SPENCER (2 son of George Lucy, M.P. 1798–1845). _b._
28 Nov. 1830; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 May 1850; sheriff of
Warwickshire 1857; succeeded on death of his brother William
1 July 1848; kept harriers and hunted the borders of Warwick,
Worcester and Gloucester; master of the Warwickshire hounds
1866, hunted 5 days a week; resided at Chalcote park, Warwick.
_Baily’s Mag. xxvi_ 373–5 (1875), _portrait_.
LUCY, WILLIAM WOOTTEN. _b._ 1802; bookseller at Marlborough
from 1829; postmaster Marlborough 1829–69; mayor of Marlborough
twice. _d._ Marlborough 16 Nov. 1869. _The Marlborough Times 20
Nov. 1869 p._ 4.
LUDLAM, HENRY. _b._ 14 Oct. 1824; a land surveyor; engaged in
commercial pursuits; made one of the finest private collections
of minerals in the kingdom; he bequeathed his collections which
included those made by Charles H. Turner and Wm. Nevill, to the
Museum of practical geology in Jermyn st. London; F.G.S., F.M.S.
_d._ 174 Piccadilly, London 23 June 1880. _Quarterly Journal of
Geol. Soc. xxxvii_ 47 (1881).
LUDLOW, EBENEZER (son of Ebenezer Ludlow of Chipping Sodbury,
Gloucester). _b._ 1777; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1795,
M.A. 1821; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1805; town clerk of Bristol
22 July 1819, resigned 1836 on pension of £533; serjeant at
law 25 June 1827; comr. of bankruptcy for Liverpool district
21 Oct. 1842 and for Bristol district 1849 to death; chairman
of Gloucestershire quarter sessions, April 1842 to 1849. _d._
Almondsbury near Bristol 25 March 1851. _G.M. xxxv_ 666 (1851).
LUDLOW, JOHN. _b._ 16 May 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school;
entered Bengal army 1818; lieut. 3 Bengal N.I. 15 Aug. 1820;
captain 6 N.I. 1 April 1829, major 20 Dec. 1843 to 6 April 1850;
lieut.-col. of 12 N.I. 6 April 1850, of 9 N.I. 7 June 1853, of
36 N.I. 1854 to 9 Aug. 1854 when he retired with rank of M.G.
_d._ Yotes court, Kent 30 Nov. 1882.
LUDLOW-BRUGES, WILLIAM HEALD (eld. son of Benjamin Pennell
Ludlow of Melksham, Wilts.) _b._ Melksham 1796; ed. Queen’s
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821;
member of chancery bar, retired 1826; recorder of Devizes 7 June
1833 to 1844; chairman of north Wiltshire quarter sessions; M.P.
Bath 1837–41; M.P. Devizes 28 July 1847 to Feb. 1848 when he
retired; took additional name of Bruges by r.l. 1835. _d._ Sund,
Wilts. 25 Sep. 1855.
LUKE, JAMES. _b._ 1799; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1843,
president 1853 and 1862, Hunterian orator; lecturer on anatomy
London hospital 1823, assist. surgeon 1827, a principal surgeon
1833 and consulting surgeon 1861; adopted an improved operation
for hernia, which has saved many lives 1841; retired from
practice and resided at Woolley lodge, Maidenhead; contributed
to Medical Gazette 1841 &c., Proc. R. Med. and Chir. Soc. 1843
&c. and to The Lancet 1845 &c.; F.R.S. 7 June 1855. _d._ Fingest
grove, Wycombe, Bucks. 15 Aug. 1881. _Lancet_, _ii_ 360 (1881);
_Barker’s Eminent medical men_, _i_ 27–30 (1865), _portrait_.
LUMB, HENRY. Attorney at Wakefield, Yorkshire 1798 to death;
deputy steward of manor of Wakefield many years; presented by
his brother solicitors with his full-length portrait 14 Dec.
1859. _d._ 22 Feb. 1862 aged 87. _Law Times 24 Dec. 1859 p._ 156
_and 19 April 1862 p._ 323.