_d._ London about 1831). _b._ 1811; ed. at Birmingham gr.
sch.; assumed name of Lumley; solicitor at 42 Chancery lane,
London, Nov. 1832, at 6 Quality court 1833–9; a parliamentary
agent in Parliament st. 1837–42; superintended finances of Her
Majesty’s theatre for Laporte 1836–41, manager of the theatre
1842–52 and 1856–8, the famous pas de quatre was danced there
by Taglioni, Cerito, Lucile Grahn and Rosati 1845; Sir Michael
Costa seceded from Her Majesty’s in 1847 with Mario, Grisi and
greater part of the orchestra; Jenny Lind sang at Her Majesty’s
1847–9, Sontag in 1851; managed the Italian opera house in Paris
1850 to 2 Dec. 1851; purchased lease of Her Majesty’s 1845,
which in 1856 he assigned to lord Ward, being in debt to him;
gave up the theatre 10 Aug. 1858 being unable to pay the rent;
bankrupt 3 Nov. 1862, discharged 22 Jany. 1863; four benefit
performances were given him at Her Majesty’s 1863; produced 30
Italian operas new to England 1842–58; parliamentary agent at 22
Sackville st. Piccadilly 1864 to death; author of Parliamentary
practice on passing private bills through the House of Commons
1838; Sirenia, a fantastic account of the life of sirens in
their retreats, their origin, mission and pursuits 1862, anon.;
The earl of Dudley, Mr. Lumley and Her Majesty’s theatre, a
narrative of facts 2 ed. 1863; Reminiscences of the opera 1864;
Another world, or fragments from the star city of Montallagal.
By Hermes 1873, 3 ed. 1873. _d._ 8 Kensington crescent, London
17 March 1875. _bur._ West Ham cemet. _I.L.N. iii_ 124 (1843)
_portrait_, _iv_ 237 (1844) _portrait_, _xi_ 96 (1847) _view of
testimonial_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _ii_ 622 (1875).
LUMLEY, WILLIAM GOLDEN. _b._ 1802; ed. at Christ’s hospital and
Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb.; fellow of Trin. hall 1825,
LL.B. 1825, LL.M. 1859; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; a revising
barrister under the reform act 1832; professor of English law
in univ. of London 1834–38; reported for the Law Journal 1835;
secretary of poor law board 23 April 1839 to 17 Feb. 1847;
assistant sec. local government board 18 Dec. 1847 to 19 Aug.
1871; Q.C. 8 Dec. 1868; counsel to local government board 1872;
author of The law of annuities and rent charges 1833; The law
of parochial assessments explained 1844, 7 ed. 1882; Manual
of duties of poor law officers, medical officer 1849, 3 ed.
1871; The poor law election manual 1855, 5 ed. 1886; The union
assessment committee act 1862, 10 ed. 1881; The local board
election manual 1869, 4 ed. 1886; An essay on bye-laws 1877.
_d._ 10 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 8 May 1878. _Law
Times_, _lxv_ 110 (1878); _Solicitors’ Journal xxii_ 565 (1878).
LUMSDEN, JAMES (son of James Lumsden, engraver and stationer).
_b._ 43 Argyll street, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1778; apprentice to his
father, a partner in the business 1799; a patron of Horatio
MacCulloch and sir Daniel Macnee artists, and of Dugald Moore
poet; lord provost of Glasgow 1843–45; president of Incorporated
company of stationers, Glasgow 1815, 1822 and 1830; a founder
of the Clydesdale bank 1838; founded a bursary in Glasgow univ.
1856; issued The Glasgow commercial memorandum book 1816, an
annual; author of American memoranda by a Mercantile Man 1844,
preface signed J.L. _d._ St. Vincent st. Glasgow 16 May 1856.
_W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men_, _ii_ 179–81 (1886),
_portrait_; _The Glasgow Herald 19 May 1856 p._ 6.
LUMSDEN, JAMES. _b._ 1811; minister of Inverbrothock to 1838;
minister of Barrie 1838–43; joined the Free secession 1843;
professor of divinity, Free ch. coll. Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1856
to death, and principal 1864 to death; D.D. of St. Andrew’s
univ. 13 Feb. 1869; author of Sweden, its religious state and
prospects 1855; Infant baptism, its nature and objects 1856.
_d._ Aberdeen 17 Oct. 1875. _Scott’s Fasti_, _iii part_ 2 _p._
792 (1871).
LUMSDEN, SIR JAMES (eld. son of James Lumsden 1778–1856). _b._
Glasgow 1808; ed. at Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; partner in firm
of J. Lumsden & Co. stationers, Glasgow, retired from business
1876; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1860–2 and lord provost
1866–69; knighted by patent 3 Nov. 1868 after entertaining
prince of Wales at luncheon. _d._ 194 Bath st. Glasgow 22 March
1879. _W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men_ (1886), _ii_
183–4 (1886), _portrait_.
LUND, JOHN. Joined the Metropolitan police 1837; a prominent
officer in detective department at Scotland Yard; arrested Mr.
and Mrs. Manning for murder of O’Connor 1849; had charge of
detective arrangements at Great Exhibition 1851; superintendent
of the P. or Walworth division of metropolitan police to 1859
when he retired on pension of £156; superintendent of Leamington
police 1859–80 when he retired on pension of £166; captured
James Torpey the diamond robber 1870. _d._ Leamington 24 Aug.
1888.
LUND, THOMAS. _b._ Blackburn 2 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Camb., 4 wr. 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1838; fell.
of his coll. 1829–41; R. of Morton, Derbyshire 1841–64; R. of
Brindle, Lancs. 1864 to death; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1864 to
death; author of An appendix to Wood’s Algebra 1840; A short
and easy course of algebra 1850, 6 ed. 1863; The elements of
algebra by D. Wood, 14 ed. 1852, 17 ed. 1876; A companion to
Wood’s Algebra 4 ed. 1878; Elements of geometry and mensuration
3 parts 1854–9, 2 ed. 1864; A key to Bishop Colenso’s Biblical
arithmetic 1863, 3 ed. 1865; with J. Baily A treatise on the
differential calculus 1838. _d._ Brindle rectory 14 May 1877.
LUNDGREN, EGRON SELLIF. _b._ Stockholm 18 Dec. 1815;
water-colour painter; resided at Seville 1849–52; accompanied
sir Colin Campbell’s expedition on the campaign in Oudh
1857 when he made a series of about 500 sketches which were
exhibited in London, then purchased by Samuel Mendel and
sold at Christie’s 16 April 1875; associate of Royal Soc. of
painters in water-colours 1864, member 1865; knight of order of
Gustavus Vasa of Sweden 1861; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1862;
illustrated G. O. Hyltén-Cavallius and G. Stephens’ Svenska
Folksagor 1875 and Old Norse fairy tales 1882. _d._ Stockholm 16
Dec. 1875. _Graphic_, _xiii_ 28, 36 (1876), _portrait_.
LUNING, JACOB WILLIAM (3 child of Meinhard Conrad Luning
1732–83, pastor of Hamelvörden, Hanover). _b._ Hamelvörden 19
May 1767; came to London 1790, a boarder at Duff’s school,
Tooting; naturalised 1796; book-keeper in some of the first
mercantile houses in the city down to 1858; admitted a member
of Morden college, Blackheath 30 March 1859; _m._ at Spalding,
Lincs. 4 Aug. 1796 Eleanor dau. of captain Sands and had issue
15 children. _d._ Morden college, Blackheath 23 June 1870 aged
103. _Thoms’ Human longevity_ (1879) 255–63.
NOTE.--Having insured his life for £200 in the Equitable Society at
the age of 36 namely in 1803, the bonuses at his death had raised the
policy to £1292 10s., the largest addition ever paid by the Equitable
or probably by any other Insurance company.
LUNN, JOSEPH. _b._ 1784; an original member of the Dramatic
Authors’ Society; his chief plays were The sorrows of Werther,
a burlesque, Covent Garden 6 May 1818, revived at St. James’s
13 Oct. 1836; Family Jars, a farce, Haymarket 26 Aug. 1822;
Fish out of water, a farce 26 Aug. 1823; Hide and Seek, petit
opera 22 Oct. 1824, revived at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1830; Roses
and Thorns or two houses under one roof, comedy 24 Aug. 1825;
Lunn’s Management or the prompter puzzled, a comic interlude 29
Sep. 1828, all these four were produced at Haymarket; author of
Horæ Jocosæ, or the doggerel Decameron 1823. _d._ Grand parade,
Brighton 12 Dec. 1863.
LUNN, WILLIAM ARTHUR BROWN. Invented sequential system of
musical notes 1844; published under pseudonym of Arthur
Wallbridge, Bizarre fables 1842; The sequential system of
musical notation, a new method of writing music 1844, 6 ed. with
his name 1873; Torrington hall, an account of two days passed at
that establishment for the insane 1845; The council of four, a
game at definitions 1848; Miscellanies, consisting of jest and
earnest 1851; The Wallbridge miscellanies 1874, 3 ed. 1877. _d._
London 4 April 1879.
LUPTON, JAMES (son of James Lupton of York). _b._ 1800;
matriculated from Ch. Ch. Oxf. as a servitor 7 July 1819, B.A.
1823, M.A. 1825; V. of Blackbourton, Oxon. 1827 to death; minor
canon of St. Paul’s cath. 1829 to death and of Westminster
abbey 1829 to death; R. of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe, London
1832 to death; editor of The Temple by G. Herbert, with a life
of the author 1865; The poetical works of A. Pope, with life
of the author 1867; Gulliver’s Travels edited by A Clergyman
1867. _d._ The Cloisters, Westminster abbey 21 Dec. 1873. _bur._
Westminster abbey 27 Dec.
LUPTON, THOMAS GOFF (son of Wm. Lupton, working goldsmith).
_b._ Clerkenwell, London 3 Sep. 1791; pupil of George Clint,
engraver; assistant to Samuel Wm. Reynolds; exhibited 4
engravings at R.A. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–25;
executed 4 of the plates in Turner’s Liber Studiorum; introduced
steel for mezzotint engraving for which he received the Isis
medal of Society of Arts 1822; six of his plates after Turner
were published as Views of the ports of England 1825, reissued
with 6 more of his plates as The harbours of England 1856; pres.
of Artists’ annuity fund 1836; resided at 4 Keppel st. Russell
sq. London 1837 to death, _d._ there 18 May 1873.
LURGAN, CHARLES BROWNLOW, 2 Baron (son of 1 baron Brownlow
1795–1847). _b._ Eaton place, London 10 April 1831; ed. at Eton;
ensign 26 foot 15 March 1850, sold out 23 Jany. 1852; lord
lieut. of Armagh 7 July 1864 to death; raced under name of Mr.
Stafford; a breeder of greyhounds from 1854, won the Waterloo
cup with Master M’Grath at Altcar 1868, first time an Irish dog
took the cup, won again in 1869 and 1871, the dog was sent for
the queen to see him on 1 March 1871 and _d._ 24 Dec. 1871; K.P.
1864; a lord in waiting to the queen 1869–74. _d._ Brighton 16
Jany. 1882. _Baily’s Mag. April 1869 pp._ 213–16, _portrait_;
_The Sporting Rev. Feb. 1869 pp._ 129–32, _portrait of Master
M’Grath_.
LUSH, JOHN ALFRED (1 son of John Lush of Berwick St. John,
Wilts). _b._ 21 March 1815; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. St.
Andrews 1864; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1872; in practice at East Knoyle,
removed to Salisbury; with Corbin Finch proprietor of Fisherton
house asylum, Salisbury 1862; mayor of Salisbury 1866; M.P.
Salisbury 1868–80; entertained prince of Wales at a banquet
Sep. 1872; removed to 13 Redcliffe square, South Kensington,
London 1880. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Aug. 1888. _The
Salisbury Journal 11 Aug. 1888 p._ 5.
LUSH, SIR ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Lush of Shaftesbury,
Dorset). _b._ Shaftesbury 25 Oct. 1807; in a solicitor’s office;
a special pleader in London 1839; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840,
bencher 4 Nov. 1857 to Nov. 1865, treasurer 1859; Q.C. June
1857; leader with sir Wm. Bovill of the home circuit; serjeant
at law 2 Nov. 1865; justice of court of queen’s bench 2 Nov.
1865 to 5 Nov. 1880; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865;
one of the three judges who tried the Tichborne claimant 1873–4;
member of the judicature commission, settled at chambers the
practice under the judicature acts Nov.-Dec. 1875; member of
commission on the penal code 1878; P.C. 17 May 1879; lord
justice of court of appeal 5 Nov. 1880 to death; author of The
act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process with notes
1838; The act for the amendment of the law with respect to wills
1837, 2 ed. 1838; Practice of the superior courts of law at
Westminster in actions and proceedings over which they have a
common jurisdiction 1840, 3 ed. by J. Dixon 2 vols. 1865; edited
J. Chitty’s The practice of the law in all its departments, vol.
iii, 3 ed. 1842; J. S. Saunders’s Law of pleading and evidence
in civil actions 2 ed. 2 vols. 1851. _d._ 60 Avenue road,
Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1881. _Baptist Worthies. By W.
Landels_ (1884) 373–411, _portrait_; _A generation of Judges.
By their reporter_ (1886) 21–9; _I.L.N. xlvii_ 513 (1865),
_portrait_; _Illust. Times 18 Nov. 1865 p._ 307, _portrait_;
_Graphic_, _xxv_ 20 (1882), _portrait_.
LUSHINGTON, _Charles_ (3 son of sir Stephen Lushington, 1
baronet 1744–1807). _b._ London 14 April 1785; served in Bengal
civil service 1800–27; chief secretary to government of Bengal
1823, retired on annuity 1827; M.P. Ashburton 1833–41; M.P.
Westminster 1847–52; an original director of Crystal palace
company 1852; resided at Edgware many years; president of
Whittington club, Arundel st. Strand 1850; author of The history
of the religious institutions founded in Calcutta. Calcutta
1824; A short notice of John Adams, Esq. Calcutta 1825; A
remonstrance addressed to the bishop of London on the sanction
given in his charge to the calumnies against the dissenters 2
ed. 1834; Dilemmas of a churchman arising from the discordant
doctrine of the clergy 1838, 2 ed. 1838. _d._ 118 Marine parade,
Brighton 23 Sep. 1866.
LUSHINGTON, CHARLES MANNERS (youngest son of Stephen Rumbold
Lushington 1776–1868). _b._ 1819; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Souls’ college 1843–6;
private sec. to president of board of control 1843 to July
1854; M.P. Canterbury 1854–7; resided Norton court, Kent. _d._
Boulogne-Sur-Mer 27 Nov. 1864.
LUSHINGTON, EDMUND LAW (1 son of Edmund Henry Lushington,
puisne judge Ceylon, _d._ 1839). _b._ 10 Jany. 1811; ed. at
Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; senior
classic and senior chancellor’s medallist 1832; fellow and tutor
of his college; professor of Greek at univ. of Glasgow 1838–75,
lord rector 15 Nov. 1884, only noncontested election on record;
married 14 Oct. 1842 Cecilia sister of Lord Tennyson; edited
with sir A. Grant, J. F. Ferrier’s Lectures on Greek philosophy
1866 and J. F. Ferrier’s Philosophical works vols. ii, iii
1875. _d._ Maidstone 13 July 1893. _A. P. Martin’s Life of Lord
Sherbrooke_ (1893).
LUSHINGTON, FRANKLIN (4 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet
1775–1863). _b._ 20 April 1811; ensign 9 foot 16 July 1829,
captain 30 Oct. 1838; major 37 foot 26 Nov. 1847 to 15 July
1854; captain Scots Fusilier guards 15 July 1854, sold out 28
Nov. 1856; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. _d._ Hansham, Kent’s road, Torquay
18 Jany. 1890.
LUSHINGTON, HENRY (2 son of Edmund Henry Lushington 1766–1839,
master of the crown office, London). _b._ Singleton, Lancs. 13
April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1823–8, head boy 1827–8; student
of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1829, fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A.
1837; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; chief secretary to government
of Malta 1847 to 1855, brought forward proposed code of laws
before Malta legislative council 1849; Tennyson dedicated The
Princess to him 1847; author of Fellow commoners and honorary
degrees 1837; A great country’s little wars, or England,
Afghanistan and Sinde 1844; The broad and narrow guage 1846 and
other books; author with G. S. Venables of Joint Compositions
1840, a book of verses; and with his brother F. Lushington of La
nation boutiquière 1855; Two battle pieces 1855. _d._ Paris 11
Aug. 1855. _bur._ Boxley, Kent. _Henry Lushington’s The Italian
war_ (1859), _memoir pp. ix–ci_.
LUSHINGTON, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Stephen
Lushington, Bart. 1744–1807). _b._ 27 Oct. 1775; succeeded 12
Jany. 1807; consul general at Naples 1815–32. _d._ 32 Montague
square, London 25 Jany. 1863.
LUSHINGTON, SIR JAMES LAW (3 son of rev. James Stephen
Lushington, preb. of Carlisle, _d._ 17 June 1801). _b._
Bottesham, Cambs. 1779; entered Madras army 1796; col. 3
Madras light cavalry 1831–49; col. 4 Madras light cavalry 1849
to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. Petersfield 1825, M.P.
Hastings 1826, M.P. Carlisle 1827–32; a director of East India
company 25 July 1827 to 1854, deputy chairman 1837, 1841 and
1847, and chairman 1838, 1842 and 1848; C.B. 14 Oct. 1818,
K.C.B. 10 March 1837, G.C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ 26 Dorset
square, London 29 May 1859.
LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN (brother of sir Henry Lushington 1775–1863).
_b._ Harley st. London 14 Jany. 1782; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806, B.C.L. 1807, D.C.L. 1808; fellow of
All Souls’ coll. to 1821; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1806, bencher
1840–72, reader 1850, treasurer 1851; member of college of
advocates 3 Nov. 1808; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1806 to 1808; M.P.
Ilchester 1820–6; M.P. Tregony 1826–30; contested Reading
1830; M.P. Winchelsea 4 April 1831; returned for Winchelsea
and Ilchester 1831 but sat for Ilchester; M.P. Tower Hamlets
1832–41; one of the counsel for Queen Caroline, made a speech
in her defence 26 Oct. 1820, present at her death 7 Aug. 1821,
one of her executors attended her funeral at Brunswick; voted
freedom of city of London 7 Dec. 1820, admitted 2 June 1821;
judge of consistory court of London 16 Feb. 1828 to 2 July 1858;
judge of high court of admiralty 17 Oct. 1838 to 30 July 1867;
P.C. 5 Nov. 1838; dean of arches 2 July 1858, resigned 30 July
1867; chancellor of diocese of Rochester 1826–56; chancellor of
diocese of London 1828–58; served on many royal commissions; an
ardent reformer, supported sir T. F. Buxton in the anti-slavery
struggle; author of The reply of Dr. Lushington in support
of the bill for the regulation of chimney sweepers, and the
preventing the employment of boys in climbing chimneys 1818.
_d._ Ockham park, Ripley, Surrey 19 Jany. 1873. _Law Times_,
_liv_ 225–6, 240–1 (1873); _I.L.N. lxii_ 91, 95, 211 (1873),
_portrait_.
LUSHINGTON, SIR STEPHEN (2 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2
baronet 1775–1863). _b._ Bedford sq. London 12 Dec. 1803;
entered navy 1816; commander of the Ætna bomb 13 May 1828; took
part in reduction of Kastro Morea 30 Oct. 1828 for which he was
nominated chevalier of orders of St. Louis and the Redeemer,
of Greece; captain 28 Oct. 1829; superintendent of Indian navy
Nov. 1848 to 23 March 1852; captain of the Albion, July 1852;
commanded naval brigade on shore at siege of Sebastopol 1855;
R.A. 4 July 1855; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital 17 May
1862 to 2 Dec. 1865; admiral on h.p. 2 Dec. 1865; K.C.B. 5 July
1855, G.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Oak lodge, Thornton Heath,
Surrey 28 May 1877.
LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN GEORGE (eld. son of the succeeding). Comr.
of customs 3 Jany. 1825 to death. _d._ Norton court, Faversham,
Kent 15 Feb. 1853.
LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN RUMBOLD (2 son of James Stephen Lushington,
V. of Newcastle and preb. of Carlisle, _d._ 1801). _b._ Bendish
house, Bottesham, Cambs. 6 May 1776; ed. at Rugby; D.C.L.
of Oxf. univ. 12 June 1839; entered Madras civil service 4
Sep. 1790; assistant in the military, political and secret
department, Madras 1792; collector at Tinnevelly 1801; registrar
of Sudder and Foujdarry Adowlut 14 Jany. 1803, left the service
1807; M.P. Rye 1807–12; M.P. Canterbury 1812–30 and 1835–7;
chairman of committees in house of commons to 1814; joint
secretary of the treasury 1814 to 19 April 1827; P.C. 30 June
1827; governor of Madras 18 Oct. 1827 to 25 Oct. 1832; author
of The life and services of general lord Harris 1840. _d._
Norton hall near Faversham, Kent 5 Aug. 1868. _An account of the
refusal of church rates by S. R. Lushington_ (1841).
LUTHER, ROBERT. _b._ 1800; farmed 1000 acres under earl Powis
at Acton to death; a judge of Hereford and Shropshire cattle;
huntsman of the Union hunt for Mr. Frank Beddows from about 1830
to death; in his last hours he sent for some of his hounds to
come to his bedside. _d._ Acton 7 Sep. 1862. _Sporting Review_,
_xlviii_ 412–13 (1862).
LÜTHY, ROBERT (son of Victor Lüthy a veterinary surgeon, and
one of a family of 21 children). _b._ Solothurn, Switzerland
24 Sep. 1840; draughtsman to R. and L. R. Bodmer, London 1862;
in service of Hick, Hargreaves & Co. of Bolton 1864 to death;
designed hydraulic cotton presses and balanced valves 1863;
experimented on cold air machines for freezing meat 1876, went
to Australia in connection with the business of shipping frozen
meat 1883; member Instit. Mechanical engineers 1878. _d._ Bolton
3 July 1884. _Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers_ (1884)
403–4.
LUTTON, ANNE (youngest child of Ralph Lutton). _b._ Ireland 16
Dec. 1791; held meetings for women 1818; an Italian and Spanish
scholar; held drawing room meetings; head of a class meeting at
Bristol 1834; held religious meetings in England and Ireland;
author of Poems on moral and religious subjects. Dublin 1829, 2
ed. 1842. _d._ Bristol 22 Aug. 1881. _bur._ Arno’s Vale cemetery
27 Aug. _Memorials of a consecrated life_ (1883), _portrait_;
_Light on the christian’s daily path, compiled from the
unpublished letters of A. Lutton, ed. by A. S. Webb_ (1886).
LUTTRELL, ALEXANDER FOWNES (4 son of John Fownes Luttrell, M.P.
1752–1816). _b._ 1793; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf.
6 May 1812; R. of East Quantoxhead, Somerset 2 May 1818 to
death, having been rector 70 years. _d._ 12 Oct. 1888.
LUTTRELL, HENRY (natural son of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2 earl
Carhampton 1743–1821). _b._ 1771; M.P. Clonmines, co. Wexford in
Irish parliament 1798; managed his father’s estates in the West
Indies about 1802; introduced to London society by the duchess
of Devonshire, a great talker and diner-out, a frequent guest
at Holland House where he uttered many of his best mots, Gronow
calls him the last of the conversationists; author of Letters to
Julia in rhyme, 3 ed. 1822; Advice to Julia, a letter in rhyme
1820. _d._ 31 Brompton crescent, London 19 Dec. 1851, portraits
of him at Holland House and at White’s club. _Clayden’s Rogers
and his contemporaries_ (1889) _passim_; _St. James’s Mag. Jany.
1878 pp._ 43–52.
LUTTRELL, HENRY ACLAND FOWNES (1 son of Alexander F. Luttrell
1793–1888). _b._ 1826; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1850, M.A. 1852; ensign Rifle brigade 11 Feb. 1855, lieut. 8
June 1855, sold out 1857 or 1858; lieut.-colonel 3 Somerset
rifle volunteers 1860–89, hon.-col. 1889 to death; major West
Somerset yeomanry 1858–80; a fine judge of horses and in great
request at exhibitions of horses; instrumental in reviving
the Bath and West of England agricultural soc.; sheriff of
Somerset 1881; C.B. 1887. _d._ Badgworth court, Axbridge,
Weston-Super-Mare 7 July 1893.
LUTTRELL, HENRY FOWNES (2 son of John F. Luttrell 1752–1816,
M.P.) _b._ 7 Feb. 1790; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1812;
M.P. Minehead 1816–22; a comr. of audit board 1822–49. _d._
Dunster castle, Somerset 6 Oct. 1867.
LUTWIDGE, ROBERT WILFRED SKEFFINGTON (2 son of Charles Lutwidge
of Holmrook, Cumberland). _b._ London 1802; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 3 July 1827;
commissioner in lunacy 1842–5 and 24 Dec. 1855 to death;
secretary to lunacy commission 1845; comr. of inquiry into state
of lunatic asylums in Ireland, Sep. 1856. _d._ Salisbury 28 May
1873. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 3 June. _Law Times_, _lv_ 127
(1873).
LUXFORD, GEORGE. _b._ Sutton, Surrey 7 April 1807; apprenticed
to Mr. Allingham a printer at Reigate 1818, stopped with him to
1834; removed to Birmingham 1834; a printer in London 1838–44;
sub-editor of Westminster Review some years; lecturer on botany
at St. Thomas’s hospital 1846–51; a compositor and reader in
Mr. Newman’s printing establishment 1851 to death; edited The
Phytologist 1841 to death; A.L.S. 1836; author of A flora of the
neighbourhood of Reigate, flowering plants and ferns 1838. _d._
Hill st. Walworth, London 12 June 1854. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc.
ii_ 426 (1855).
LUXMOORE, CHARLES SCOTT (eld. son of John Luxmoore, bishop
of Hereford and St. Asaph, _d._ 21 Jany. 1830 aged 73). _b._
1792; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A.
1818; R. of Bromyard 2nd portion 1815 to death; R. of Cradley,
Herefordshire 1816 to death; R. of Darowen, co. Montgomery 1819
to death; canon of Hereford 30 Oct. 1815 to death; preb. of St.
Asaph 16 Oct. 1816 to 1842; dean of St. Asaph 26 June 1826 to
death. _d._ Cradley 27 April 1854. _bur._ in St. Asaph cathedral.
LUXMOORE, THOMAS CORYNDON. _b._ 1795; second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany.
1814, lieut.-col. 1 July 1849 to 1 April 1852 when placed on
retired list; general 8 June 1871; wrote On the groins used in
Sussex for preventing encroachment of the sea, in Papers of
Corps of Engineers vol. i (1884). _d._ Tunbridge Wells 26 Nov.
1878.