1880. _A life of consecration, memorials of Mrs. Mary Legge_

(1883) _with 2 portraits and portrait of W. Legge_. LEGGETT, JOSEPH. Entered Madras army 1808; ensign 3 Madras N.I. 28 May 1810, lieut.-col. 25 July 1838 to 1840; lieut.-col. of 48 N.I. 1840 to 1845, of 52 N.I. 1845 to 1846, of 22 N.I. 1846 to 1847; brigadier at Saugor 3 April 1846 to 19 Oct. 1847; col. of 26 N.I. 20 Oct. 1847 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Dedham, Essex 15 Oct. 1857 aged 65. LEGH, EDMUND CORNWALL. Ensign 97 foot 5 July 1839, lieut.-col. 28 July 1857 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ Banda, Central India 3 June 1859. LEGH, GEORGE CORNWALL. _b._ 30 Aug. 1804; sheriff of Cheshire 1838; M.P. for North Cheshire 1841–47 and 1848–68; major 2 royal Cheshire militia 30 July 1853, lieut.-col. 20 March 1869 to 16 July 1873. _d._ 16 June 1877. LEGH, Thomas (eld. son of colonel Thomas Peter Legh of Lyme, Cheshire, _d._ 1797). _b._ 1793; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., D.C.L. 1817; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1814–32 when borough was disfranchised; colonel Lancashire fencible cavalry; F.R.S. 12 June 1817; author of Narrative of a journey in Egypt and the country beyond the cataracts 1816, 2 ed. 1817; resided at Lyme park, Cheshire. _d._ Milford lodge, Lymington, Hants. 8 May 1857. LE GRAND, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ Ireland 1805; studied medicine in Cork and Dublin; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1844; entered R.N. Feb. 1828; a skilful operator; served at Cape of Good Hope, East Indies, &c.; surgeon naval hospital, Malta 1836–9, in Syrian war 1840; in charge of Australian convict ships 1848–52; served in war in the Baltic 1854; surgeon to Haslar hospital 1855–8, to Deptford dockyard 1858–64; granted Greenwich hospital good service pension 28 March 1866. _d._ 22 Manor road, New Cross, Kent 4 Nov. 1874. _Medical Times 5 Dec. 1874 p._ 649. LEGREW, JAMES (son of James Legrew 1769–1856, R. of Caterham, Surrey). _b._ Caterham 1803; studied sculpture under sir F. L. Chantrey; a student of the R.A., silver medallist 1824 and gold 1829; travelled in Italy 1840–2; sent two works The last prayer of Ajax, and Milton dictating to his daughter, to the Westminster Hall competition 1844; exhibited 30 pieces of sculpture at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1826–57; author of A few remarks on the sculpture of the nations referred to in the Old Testament deduced from an examination of some of their idols 1845; committed suicide at his house, 1 St. Alban’s road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1857. LE GRICE, CHARLES VALENTINE (eld. child of Charles Le Grice, R. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, _d._ 1792). _b._ Bury St. Edmunds 14 Feb. 1773; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1781–92; friend of S. T. Coleridge and Charles Lamb; admitted sizar of Trin. coll. Camb. 16 June 1792, scholar 17 April 1795, B.A. 1796, M.A. 1805; tutor to Wm. John Godolphin Nicholls of Trereife near Penzance 1796; P.C. of St. Mary’s church, Penzance 31 July 1806 to June 1831; contributed articles to the Gentleman’s Mag. during more than 60 years, including College reminiscences of Coleridge reprinted in C. Carlyon’s Early Years 1843; author of The Tineum, containing estianomy or the art of stirring a fire 1794; Analysis of Paley’s Principles of moral and political philosophy 1795, 8 ed. 1822; Daphnis and Chloe, a pastoral novel 1803; The petition of an old uninhabited house in Penzance to its master in town 1811, 3 ed. 1858, and a number of pamphlets. _d._ Trereife near Penzance 24 Dec. 1858. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_ 311–14, _iii_ 1266–7, 1432; _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 485–7; _G.M. i_ 322–4 (1859); _Letters of Charles Lamb, edited by A. Ainge_, _i_ 2–6 (1888). LEHMANN, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. _b._ 1826; senior partner in firm of Naylor, Benzon & Co., merchants, 20 Abchurch lane, London; F.R.G.S.; made a fine collection of paintings; resided at 15 Berkeley sq., and Woodlands, Southwood lane, Highgate. _d._ Coombe cottage, Kingston-on-Thames, the residence of his son-in-law 22 Aug. 1891, will proved for £543,980 18s. 4d. _I.L.N. 5 Sep. 1891 p._ 303. LEIFCHILD, HENRY STORMONTH (4 son of Wm. Gerard Leifchild of Moorgate st. London). _b._ 1823; studied at British Museum and R.A., also in Rome 1848–51; exhibited his statue of Rizpah, at Great Exhibition 1851; executed the Guards’ memorial at Chelsea hospital; designed a mortuary chapel in Warriston cemetery, Edinburgh; his statue of Erinna is at Holloway College; excelled as a draughtsman, carver and musician; exhibited 38 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1844–76; resided at 243 Stanhope st. Regent’s Park, London. _d._ 15 Kirkstall road, Streatham Hill, Surrey 11 Nov. 1884. _Magazine of Art_, _July 1891_. LEIFCHILD, JOHN (son of John Leifchild). _b._ Barnet, Herts. 15 Feb. 1780; studied at Hoxton academy 1804–8; minister of independent chapel in Hornton st. Kensington, London 1808–24; minister of church in Bridge st. Bristol 1824–30, and of Craven chapel, Bayswater, London 1831–54; preached at Queen’s sq. chapel, Brighton 1854–6; edited with rev. Dr. Redford The Evangelist, monthly mag. May 1837 to June 1839; author of A help to the reading of the scriptures, an arrangement of the books in chronological order 1829; Directions for the right reading of the scriptures 1842; The christian emigrant 1849; Remarkable facts, illustrative of different portions of scripture 1867, the 6 ed. is entitled Brief expositions of scripture 1879. _d._ 4 Fitzroy terrace, Gloucester road North, Regent’s Park, London 29 June 1862. _J. R. Leifchild’s John Leifchild, D.D._ (1863), _portrait_; _James B. Brown’s John Leifchild_ (1862). LEIGH, AUGUSTA MARY (only dau. of Capt. John Byron _d._ Valencienne, France 2 Aug. 1791, by his wife the baroness Conyers). _b._ 26 Jany. 1783; half sister of George Gordon, lord Byron, the only relative for whom he retained any affection, to whom some of his poems are dedicated, and the last person to whom he wrote a letter. _m._ 17 Aug. 1807 her cousin George Leigh lieut.-col. of 10 light dragoons, he _d._ May 1850; accused by Harriet Beecher Stowe in an article in the Atlantic Monthly of Sep. 1869 of having committed incest with her brother in 1814, but no one believed the accusation; under Byron’s will of 29 July 1815 she inherited all her brother’s disposable property, Lady Byron being already well provided for. _d._ Marlborough court, St. James’ palace, London 12 Oct. 1851. _H. B. Stowe’s Lady Byron vindicated_ (1870); _C. Mackay’s Medora Leigh_ (1869); _The true story of lord and lady Byron in answer to Mrs. Stowe_ (1869), _portrait_. LEIGH, EGERTON (only son of Egerton Leigh of West Hall, High Leigh, Cheshire 1779–1865). _b._ Broadwell manor house, Gloucs. 17 March 1815; ed. at Eton; cornet 2 dragoon guards 12 April 1833, captain 18 Dec. 1840 to 31 March 1843; captain 4 dragoon guards 31 March 1843, sold out 14 July 1843; major 1 royal Cheshire militia 30 Aug. 1853 to 16 April 1873; sheriff of Cheshire 1872; M.P. for Mid-Cheshire division 7 March 1873 to death; edited Ballads and Legends of Cheshire 1867; author of Pets 1859; The guide to Eton. _d._ Cox’s hotel, 55 Jermyn st. London 1 July 1876. _bur._ churchyard of Rostherne, Cheshire. _Egerton Leigh’s Glossary of words used in the dialect of Cheshire_ (1877), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 69 (1876), _portrait_. LEIGH, EVAN (son of Peter Leigh of Ashton-under-Lyne, cotton-spinner). _b._ Ashton 21 Dec. 1810; manager of his father’s business 1831–50, partner with his father; effected an improvement in the spinning mule, which reduced cost of spinning from 5d. to about 3d. per lb. 1831; a manufacturer of machinery at Miles Platting, Manchester 1850–69; a consulting engineer and exporter of machinery 1869, established businesses at Manchester, Liverpool and Boston, Massachusetts; patented the twin-screws for steamers 18 July 1849, since come into general use; invented the self-stripping carding engine, coupled mules with putting-up motion, and the loose-boss top roller; patented 19 inventions 1849–70; A.I.C.E. 1872; author of Plan for conveying railway trains across the straits of Dover 1870; The science of modern cotton-spinning 2 vols. 1871, 4 ed. 1877. _d._ Clarence house, Chorlton near Manchester 2 Feb. 1876, portrait in collection of portraits of inventors at South Kensington Museum. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xliv_ 229–31 (1876). LEIGH, GILBERT HENRY CHANDOS (eld. son of 2 baron Leigh _b._ 1824). _b._ 30 Portman sq. London 1 Sep. 1851; ed. Harrow and Magd. coll. Camb., B.A. 1874, M.A. 1878; capt. Warwickshire yeomanry cavalry 10 Nov. 1877 to death; M.P. South Warwickshire 7 April 1880 to death. _d._ by a fall from a precipice while shooting in the Big-Horn mountains, Wyoming 15 Sep. 1884. _bur._ Stoneleigh churchyard 22 Oct. _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 373 (1884), _portrait_. LEIGH, HENRY SAMBROOKE (son of the succeeding). _b._ London 29 March 1837; edited The Arrow, 10 numbers 2 Aug. to 7 Dec. 1864; wrote Falsacappa, music by Offenbach, produced at Globe theatre 22 April 1871; Le Roi Carotte at the Alhambra 3 June 1872; Bridge of Sighs opera-bouffe at St. James’s 18 Nov. 1872; White Cat, a fairy spectacle at New Queen’s 2 Dec. 1875; Voyage dans la Lune, opera-bouffe Alhambra 15 April 1876; author of Carols of Cockayne 1869, 5 ed. 1888; Gillott and Goosequill 1871; A Town garland: a collection of lyrics 1878; Strains from the Strand: trifles in verse 1882. _d._ Lowther’s private hotel, 35 Strand, London 16 June 1883. _I.L.N. 30 June 1883 p._ 648, _portrait_. LEIGH, JAMES MATHEWS (son of Samuel Leigh of 145 Strand, London, bookseller). _b._ 1808; studied under Wm. Etty, R.A.; painter of sacred subjects and portraits; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A., 23 at B.I. and 29 at Suffolk st. 1825–49; kept the General practical school of art at 79 Newman st. Oxford st. London 1848 to death; author of Cromwell, an historical play in five acts 1838; The Rhenish Album 1836, anon. _d._ 79 Newman st. London 20 April 1860. LEIGH, JOHN (younger son of John Leigh of Consall, Staffs.). _b._ Consall 1809; barrister I.T. 8 May 1835; judge of court of appeal, Jamaica 1840–46; police magistrate at Wolverhampton 1846–60 and at Worship st. London 1860 to May 1864; bankrupt for £29,000, 23 March 1864; wrote Juvenile offenders and destitute pauper children, in Meliora, Second series by C. J. Talbot, viscount Ingestre 1853 pp. 81–89. _d._ Balham, Surrey, Nov. or Dec. 1880. _bur._ Tooting cemetery. LEIGH, JOHN. _b._ Foxdenton hall, Lancs. 8 June 1813; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1837; resident medical officer Manchester infirmary and lecturer there; medical officer of health, Manchester 4 March 1868; author of Sir Percy Legh and other ballads 1861; Coal smoke, report to the health and nuisance committee of corporation of Manchester 1883; and with Ner Gardiner, History of the cholera in Manchester 1850. _d._ 1887. LEIGH, JOHN GERARD (1 son of John Shaw Leigh 1791–1871). _b._ 1821; ed. Eton and Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1841; student of Lincoln’s inn 1843; inherited a large fortune; kept a large stud and extensive kennels at Luton Hoo park, Beds.; master of the Hertford hunt 1866; member of Four in hand club; ran steeple chases under name of Mr. Lynton, won the Liverpool with Half-Caste 1851; breeder of cattle, took prizes at Smithfield club shows. _d._ 138 Piccadilly, London 24 Feb. 1875. _Bell’s Life in London 27 Feb. 1875 p._ 6; _Baily’s Mag. April 1872 pp._ 311–12, _portrait_. LEIGH, JOHN SHAW (son of John Leigh _d._ 1823). _b._ 26 July 1791; ed. Rugby; solicitor at Liverpool 1823–48; mayor of Liverpool 1841, alderman 1844–48; sheriff of Beds. 1856; founded a scholarship at Liverpool collegiate institution. _d._ 138 Piccadilly, London 15 June 1871. _bur._ Walton on the hill near Liverpool 21 June. LEIGH, PERCIVAL (son of Leonard Leigh of St. Cross, Winchester). _b._ Haddington 3 Nov. 1813; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1835; on the staff of Punch 1841 to death, was the last survivor of the early writers; played Oliver Cob in Ben Jonson’s Every man in his humour, at Miss Kelly’s theatre 21 Sep. 1845; lived at 10 Bedford street Bloomsbury, afterwards at Hammersmith to death; author of The comic Latin grammar 1840; The comic English grammar 1840; Portraits of children of the mobility 1841, all three illustrated by John Leech; Manners and customs of ye English: drawn from ye quick by Richard Doyle 1849, 2 ed. 1876, this appeared originally in Punch; Paul Prendergast, or the comic schoolmaster 1859. _d._ Oak cottage, 221 Hammersmith road 24 Oct. 1889. _W. P. Frith’s John Leech vol._ 1, _chapters iii and xiii_ (1891). NOTE.--There is a portrait of him in John Leech’s two-page cartoon called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 where he is playing the double bass in the orchestra between the cornet and the violin. LEIGH, SAMUEL. _b._ Milton, Staffs. 1 Sep. 1785; an Independent lay helper; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Shaftesbury 1812–13, at Montreal, Canada 1814–15, in New South Wales, Australia 10 Aug. 1815 to 1820 and 1826–31, first Methodist minister in Australia, held his first service Sydney 16 March 1816, his first convert being a convict; minister in New Zealand 1820–25 where he established the first Methodist station; in England 1832 to death. _d._ Reading 2 May 1852. _A. Strachan’s Remarkable incidents in the life of rev. S. Leigh_ (1853), _portrait_; _Leben und werken von Samuel Leigh. Bremen_ 1864; _Jas. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand_ (1878) 272–7. LEIGHTON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Dundee 1800; clerk to a lawyer at Edinb.; Wilson’s Tales of the borders. Revised by A. Leighton 20 vols. 1857–9, New ed. with 4 additional volumes 6 vols. 1863–69; author of Curious storied traditions of Scottish life, two series 1860–1; The court of Cacus or the story of Burke and Hare 2 ed. 1861; Mysterious legends of Edinburgh 1864; Shellburn 1865, a tale; Romances of the old town of Edinburgh 1867. _d._ 24 Dec. 1874. LEIGHTON, SIR BALDWIN, (7 Baronet). _b._ Sunderland 14 May 1805; ed. Rugby; succeeded 13 Nov. 1828; chairman of quarter sessions, Salop, Dec. 1855; M.P. South Salop 1859–65; contested South Salop 15 July 1865. _d._ Morton hall, Daventry 26 Feb. 1871. _I.L.N. lviii_ 250, 619 (1871). LEIGHTON, _Charles Blair_ (son of Stephen Leighton). _b._ 6 March 1823; apprenticed to a silver-engraver 1837–44; a student of the R.A.; painted portraits and figure pieces; a chromolithographer with his brother George Cargill Leighton. _d._ 6 Feb. 1855. LEIGHTON, SIR DAVID (son of Thomas Leighton of Brechin, Forfarshire). _b._ 1774; entered Bombay army 1795; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I., lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1813 to 1818; adjutant of the 2nd battalion 7 July 1800 to 12 Oct. 1802; lieut.-col. 9 Bombay N.I. 1818–1821; adjutant general Bombay army 1817 to 1826; commanded Presidency division 1826 to 1831; lieut.-col. commandant 7 N.I. 4 July 1821, col. 5 June 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 23 July 1823, K.C.B. 10 March 1837. _d._ Bafford house, Charlton Kings near Cheltenham 1 June 1860. LEIGHTON, FRANCIS KNYVETT (only son of Francis K. Leighton of Ipswich). _b._ 1807; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., demy of Magdalen 1823–9; fellow of All Souls’ 1829–43; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1858; P.C. of Great Ilford, Essex 1836–41; R. of Harpsden 1841–58; R. of Lockinge and Warden of All Souls’ 18 March 1858 to death; V.C. of univ. of Oxf. 1866–70; canon of Westminster 11 Nov. 1868 to death; on the council of Keble coll. 1871–80; author of Montes Pyrenæi, carmen Latinum, in theatro Sheldoniano recitatum 1826. _d._ All Souls’ college 13 Oct. 1881. _bur._ college chapel 18 Oct., portrait by Richmond in the college hall. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen College_, _vii_ 290–1 (1881). LEIGHTON, ROBERT (son of David L. Leighton _d._ 1828). _b._ Murray gate, Dundee 20 Feb. 1822; in a merchant’s office in Dundee; went round the world as a supercargo in one of his brother’s ships 1842–3; clerk in locomotive department of London and North-Western railway at Preston 1843–54; managed at Ayr a branch business of a firm of Liverpool seed merchants 1854–59, after that in the Liverpool house and travelled for the firm in Great Britain and Ireland 1859–67; author of Rhymes and poems, By Robin 1855, 2 ed. 1861; Poems 1866, 2 ed. 1869; Scotch words and the Bapteesement o’ the bairn 1869, 3 ed. 1869; Reuben and other poems 1875; Records and other poems 1880. _d._ Liverpool 10 May 1869. _J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_ 432–37 (1877); _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 327. LEIGHTON, ROBERT (son of Archibald Leighton a bookbinder at 55 Exmouth st. Clerkenwell and the inventor of cloth binding 1822, _d._ 1841). _b._ London 1822; apprentice to his father; head of firm of Leighton and Eeles, bookbinders 54 and 55 Exmouth st. 1841, business removed to Angel court, Strand, then to Harp alley and to 13 Shoe lane; W. Hodge became a partner 1853 and R. Leighton junr. in 1885; removed to 16 New st. sq. 1870, firm became Leighton, Son and Hodge, the first to use steam machinery in binding; invented the backing and trimming machine; the first to use steam power for blocking in gold and to use aluminium and black and coloured inks for cloth cases; invented printing on the edges of books; the chief binders of drawing room table books. _d._ Oakdale road, Coventry park, Streatham 14 Dec. 1888. _The Bookseller_, _Jany. 1889 p._ 8. LEIGHTON, THOMAS. Entered Bombay army 1807; ensign 7 Bombay N.I. 5 Nov. 1808, lieut. 1 Jany. 1814; captain 14 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 29 Sep. 1832 to 28 June 1838; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 28 June 1838 to 1841, of 12 N.I. 1841 to 1843, of 26 N.I. 1843–45, of 2 N.I. 1845–46, of 1 N.I. 1846–8, of 21 N.I. 1848–9; commandant at Candeish 4 Feb. 1848 to 1 Oct. 1849; col. of 2 N.I. 20 Sep. 1849 to death. _d._ Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Feb. 1855. LEIGHTON, WILLIAM (son of David Leighton a master baker). _b._ Dundee 3 Feb. 1841; taken to Liverpool 1847; clerk to a Spanish merchant 1854; employed in a Brazilian house 1864 to death; contributed poems to The Compass a local literary paper, and to the Liverpool Mercury; author of Poems 1870, 2 ed. 1870; Hymns 1871; Baby died to-day and other poems 1875. _d._ of typhoid fever 22 April 1869. _bur._ Anfield cemetery, Liverpool, memorial window in St. Ann’s church, Brookfield, Highgate Rise, London. _Poems by the late William Leighton_ (1870), _memoir pp. v–vi_; _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 325. LEIGHTON, WILLIAM ALLPORT (only son of Wm. Leighton, landlord of the Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury). _b._ Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury 17 May 1805; articled to a solicitor in Shrewsbury 1822; studied at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1833; C. of St. Giles’s, Shrewsbury 1845–8; gave his collection of lichens to Kew Gardens 1880; author of Catalogue of the cellulares or flowerless plants of Great Britain 1837; A flora of Shropshire 1841; A guide through the town of Shrewsbury 1855; The lichen-flora of Great Britain 1871, 2 ed. 1872; Wanderings among old churches in neighbourhood of Rhyl 1881. _d._ Lucifelde, Shrewsbury 28 Feb. 1889. LEINSTER, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK FITZGERALD 3 Duke of (eld. son of 2 duke of Leinster 1749–1804). _b._ Carton house, Maynooth 21 Aug. 1791; styled marquess of Kildare 1791–1804; succeeded his father 20 Oct. 1804; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 Oct. 1810; P.C. Ireland 9 May 1831; P.C. 29 June 1831; lord high constable of Ireland for coronations of William IV. and Victoria; lord lieut. of co. Kildare 7 Oct. 1831 to death; grand master of Irish grand lodge of freemasons 24 June 1813 to death; president of National Agricultural Soc. 1841; a resident landlord who much improved his estate, the Leinster lease was a well known document; his masonic jubilee was celebrated 24 June 1863; premier duke, marquess and earl of Ireland. d. Carton house 10 Oct. 1874. _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxiv_ 42–57 (1874), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 369, 378 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _x_ 391 (1874), _portrait_. LEINSTER, CHARLES WILLIAM FITZGERALD, 4 Duke of (son of the preceding). _b._ Dublin 30 March 1819; styled marquess of Kildare 1819–74; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1852; comr. of national education in Ireland 1841; sheriff co. Kildare 1842–3; M.P. co. Kildare 1847–52; lieut.-col. royal Dublin militia 1849–72, hon. col. 11 May 1872 to death; summoned to parliament as baron Kildare 28 April 1870; chancellor of Queen’s univ. Ireland 1870; succeeded as 4 duke 10 Oct. 1874; author of The earls of Kildare and their ancestors 2 ed. with Addenda. Dublin 1858–62, 3 ed. 1858. _d._ Carton, Maynooth 10 Feb. 1887. _I.L.N. xviii_ 105, 106 (1851), _portrait_. LEISHMAN, MATTHEW (son of a manufacturer). _b._ Paisley; presbyterian minister at Goran, Oct. 1820; a leader of the party termed The Forty 1839; D.D. Glasgow 18 Dec. 1840; moderator of general assembly 20 May 1858; edited for Maitland club, R. Wodrow’s Collections upon the lives of the reformers 2 vols. 1834 and R. Wodrow’s Analecta, a history of remarkable providences 2 vols. 1842; The works of A. Binning 1847. _Scott’s Fasti vol._ 2, _part_ 1, _p._ 70; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 300–306. LEITCH, WILLIAM. _b._ Rothesay, Isle of Bute 1814; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A. 1836; licensed preacher in Church of Scotland 1838; minister of Monimail 1843–59; principal of the univ. of Queen’s coll. Canada 1859 to death, assist. to professor Nichol in univ. observatory; moderator of the synod of the church of Scotland, Canada 1862; a senator and an examiner in the univ. Toronto; president of Botanical Soc. of Canada and a writer in its Transactions 1861; a contributor to Kitto’s Journal of Sacred Literature, Good Words and other periodicals; author of God’s glory in the heavens 1862, 3 ed. 1866. _d._ Kingston, Upper Canada 9 May 1864. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 221. LEITCH, WILLIAM LEIGHTON. _b._ The Townhead, Glasgow 2 Nov. 1804; a weaver 1819, a house painter; scene painter at theatre royal, Glasgow, Aug. 1824 at 20s. a week; spent 2 years at Mauchline painting snuffboxes; scene painter at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st. London to 1832; studied and taught painting in Italy 1833–7; a successful teacher in London from 1837; drawing master to the queen and royal family from 1842 for 22 years; last of the great English teachers of landscape painting; member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1862, vice pres. to death, a collection of his works was exhibited at their rooms Piccadilly 1883; exhibited 11 pictures at R. A., 2 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; his sketches with a few drawings and oil pictures were sold at Christie’s, March 1884 for £9,000; illustrated G. N. Wright’s The Rhine, Italy and Greece 1840; G. N. Wright’s The shores of the Mediterranean 1840; J. Sherer’s The classic lands of Europe 1879. _d._ 124 Alexandra road, St. John’s Wood, London 25 April 1883. _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 604 (1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 432 (1883), _portrait_; _Mac George’s W. L. Leitch, a memoir_ (1884), _portrait_. LEITH, SIR ALEXANDER (eld. son of Alexander Leith of Freefield, co. Aberdeen, _d._ 1828). _b._ Cobardie, Forgue, Aberdeenshire 1774; ensign 42 foot 8 Aug. 1792; captain 109 foot 1794; captain 31 foot 1795, lieut.-col. 7 Feb. 1811 to 25 May 1815 when placed on h.p.; commanded 31 foot at battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive and Orthes; colonel 90 foot 2 Sep. 1841 to 14 June 1853; colonel 31 foot 14 June 1853 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815. _d._ Freefield, co. Aberdeen 19 Feb. 1859. LEITH, EDWARD TYRRELL (2 son of John Farley Leith, Q.C.) _b._ Calcutta 12 March 1842; ed. in Germany and Trin. coll. Camb. 1869; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1866; practised at Bombay 1867–85; professor of law at government law school, Bombay 1869–85; lived at Stuttgart, Germany 1886 to death; gave much attention to ethnological studies and contributed to various papers The funeral rites of the Parsees; The religion of the Non-Aryan races of India; The primitive disposal of the dead by exposure; Cannibalism in India; and The dog in myth and custom; author of Divination by Házirát among the Indian Mussulmáns 1886. _d._ Heidelberg 10 Dec. 1888. _Law Times_, _lxxxvi_ 167, 230 (1889). LEITH, HARRY. _b._ 1796; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1817; presbyterian minister at Cornwall, Upper Canada 6 June 1822; minister of Rothiemay 23 May 1827 to death; took part with the minority in the dispute regarding the presentation to Marnoch and was rebuked at the bar of the supreme civil court 26 May 1843 for breach of interdict and fined £5 and expenses. _d._ Rothiemay 20 Aug. 1854. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 3, _part_ 1, _p._ 216. LEITH, JAMES (son of sir Alexander Leith). _b._ 1827; cornet 14 hussars 4 May 1849, lieut. 1853; captain 2 dragoons 1859, placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1861; served in Persian campaign 1857, at suppression of mutiny at Aurungabad, with Malwa field force at siege of Dhar, and at advance on Calpee; at Betwah 1 April 1858 charged alone and rescued Capt. Need from the rebel infantry for which he was awarded Victoria cross 24 Dec. 1858; gentleman at arms 5 May 1863 to death. _d._ Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 13 May 1869. LEITH, JOHN (2 son of general Alexander Leith Hay). _b._ Leith hall, co. Aberdeen; entered navy 11 June 1803; captain 11 Nov. 1825; commander of the Seringapatam 46 guns and in charge of the Barbadoes station 6 Feb. 1837 to July 1841; R.A. 11 Feb. 1854. _d._ 25 Oct. 1854. _O’Byrne p._ 647. LEITH, JOHN FARLEY (eld. son of James Urquhart Murray Leith, capt. 68 regt., killed at Orthes 1814). _b._ Aberdeen 5 May 1808; ed. at gr. sch., Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 7 May 1874 to death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1872; advocate in supreme court at Calcutta 1840–9; professor of law East India college, Haileybury 1853–7 or 8; practised before judicial committee of P.C.; contested city of Aberdeen 2 April 1857; M.P. city of Aberdeen 1872–80. _d._ 8 Dorset sq. Marylebone, London 4 April 1887. _Law Times_, _lxxxii_ 479 (1887). LEITH, JOHN MACDONALD. _b._ 26 Dec. 1839; ed. at Cheltenham; ensign 79 highlanders 17 March 1854, lieut.-col. 1 July 1881, placed on h.p. 1 July 1885; brevet colonel 31 Dec. 1882; served in Egypt 1882; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. _d._ Gibraltar 22 May 1888. LEITH, ROBERT WILLIAM DISNEY (2 son of sir Alexander Leith 1774–1859). _b._ Glenkindy, Aberdeenshire 28 Feb. 1819; ensign 1 Bombay European fusiliers 4 Sep. 1837; served in Persian gulf 1838–41, in the Punjaub 1848–9, led storming party at capture of Mooltan 1849; adjutant March to Aug. 1846; A.A.G. Bombay 1855–59; lieut.-col. 106 foot 1 Jany. 1862, on h.p. 29 May 1866, lieut. general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Northcourt, Isle of Wight 20 June 1892. LEITRIM, NATHANIEL CLEMENTS, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 Earl of Leitrim 1732–1804). _b._ Dublin 9 May 1768; known as viscount Clements 1783–1804; M.P. Carrick 1790–7; M.P. Leitrim 1798–1800; M.P. Leitrim in first parliament of United Kingdom 1801–4; succeeded 27 July 1804; lord lieut. of Leitrim 1831 to death; cr. baron Clements of Kilmacrenan, co. Donegal in peerage of U.K. 20 June 1831; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland; col. of Donegal militia. _d._ Killadoon, co. Kildare 31 Dec. 1854. LEITRIM, WILLIAM SYDNEY CLEMENTS, 3 Earl of (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Dublin 1806; known as viscount Clements 1804–54; ensign 43 foot 9 Dec. 1824, captain 5 April 1831; placed on h.p. 20 March 1835; sold his commission 20 June 1854; M.P. Leitrim 1839–47; col. of Leitrim militia 1843; succeeded 31 Dec. 1854; a magistrate for Galway, Leitrim and Donegal, superseded Oct. 1863; gave orders to the manager of the hotel at Maam a tenant of his own, to refuse admission to the earl of Carlisle, the lord lieutenant, which was done accordingly; a severe landlord who evicted many of his tenants; while driving on a car with a clerk and a driver, shot dead at Cratlaghwood near Milford, co. Donegal 2 April 1878, the driver and the clerk being also killed. _Graphic_, _xvii_ 364 (1878), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxii_ 329 (1878), _portrait_; _A.R._ 1878 _pp._ 35–36. LE KEUX, HENRY (son of Peter Le Keux of Bishopsgate, London, pewter manufacturer). _b._ 13 June 1787; apprenticed to James Basire, engraver, worked for him on the Oxford almanacs and on the plates for Society of Antiquaries; engraved for the Annals 1820–40; member of Associated Society of Engravers, engraved for the Soc. some pictures by Claude and Canaletto in the national gallery; joined in starting a crape manufactory at Bocking in Essex about 1838; engraved views for Specimens of the architecture of Normandy by J. Britton 1873; author with J. Le Keux of Historical essays, a series of architectural antiquities of Normandy 1828. _d._ Bocking 3 Oct. 1868. _bur._ Halstead, Essex. LEMAITRE, PAUL THOMAS. _b._ 1776; a gold watch case maker at 13 Denmark st. Soho; arrested 27 Sep. 1794 for treasonable practices as being a delegate of the London Corresponding Society, in connection with John Smith of the Pop Gun, Portsmouth st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, to assassinate George the Third by means of a poisoned arrow; examined by the Privy Council 28–30 Sep.; the first person sent to the new prison at Cold Bath Fields, confined there 32 weeks, liberated 9 May 1795 on giving bail for £50, tried at the Old Bailey 11 May 1796 and discharged; his case was for many years before parliament; Henry Warburton, M.P. got a petition drawn up for him in Aug. 1846. _High treason. Narrative of the arrest of P. T. Lemaitre 2 ed._ (1795). NOTE.--His petition to the House of Commons, states that he was then in the 70th year of his age, was one of those persons, who during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus act, were arrested and confined in prison for long periods of time on charges of traitorously conspiring against the King’s person and government, of which persons he was nearly the sole survivor, alleges his innocence of the charges brought against him, and prays that the House would be pleased to take his petition into consideration and afford him redress. It was presented and read and ordered to lie upon the table 13 Aug. 1846, ordered to be printed 14 Aug. LEMAN, JAMES. _b._ 1794; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1819 to death; member of council of incorporated law society 19 June 1851 to 1869, vice pres. 1862–3, pres. 1863–64. _d._ 29 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 9 April 1876. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xx_ 492 (1876). LEMANN, CHARLES MORGAN. _b._ London 1806; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1828, M.D. 1833; Fellow Linnean soc. 1831; F.C.P. Lond. 1836; physician to lord Warwick’s family in Italy 1834–5; formed an herbarium of plants from Spain, Italy, America, Brazil, Guinea, the Cape and Australia consisting of 30,000 specimens, which was given by his brother Frederick Lemann to the university of Cambridge. _d._ Bathampton near Bath 26 Aug.