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LOFTUS, WILLIAM FRANCIS BENTINCK (brother of Ferrars Loftus
1798–1877). _b._ 17 Aug. 1784; cornet 15 dragoons 30 Aug. 1799,
captain 20 April 1804; major 38 foot 9 April 1807 to 25 Dec.
1814 when placed on h.p.; colonel 50 foot 11 April 1851 to
death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Chacombe priory, Northamptonshire
13 Sep. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 635 (1852).
LOFTUS, WILLIAM JAMES (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 7 Jany.
1822; ensign 38 foot 9 Nov. 1838, lieut.-col. 16 Jany. 1863,
placed on h.p. 22 Dec. 1863; served in North America and the
West Indies 1840–51; present at the Alma, at Inkerman, and in
siege of Sebastopol, Crimean medal with 3 clasps; served in
Indian mutiny, in siege and capture of Lucknow, Indian medal
with clasps 1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; general on the retired list
July 1881. _d._ Birtley Bramley, Guildford 29 March 1887.
LOFTUS, WILLIAM KENNETT. _b._ Rye, Sussex about 1821; ed. at
Newcastle gr. sch., at Twickenham, and Caius coll. Camb. 1840;
secretary to Newcastle Natural history soc.; geologist on staff
of sir W. F. Williams on Turco-Persian frontier commission
1849–52; sent out to Babylon and Nineveh by Assyrian excavation
fund 1853, returned 1855 with collections of tablets, &c. now
in British Museum; issued a volume of Lithograph facsimilies
of cuneiform inscriptions from 1852; author of Travels and
researches in Chaldea and Susiana, with account of excavations
at Nimrod and Shúsh 1857. _d._ on board the Tyburnia on his way
to England from Rangoon, Nov. 1858.
LOGAN, ALEXANDER STUART (son of minister of Relief church, St.
Ninians, Stirlingshire). _b._ St. Ninians 1810; ed. Glasgow
and Edinb. universities; advocate at Scottish bar 1835; senior
advocate depute Dec. 1853; sheriff of Forfarshire 4 Feb. 1854 to
death; held many briefs at bar of General Assembly; author of
On Robert Burns, an address, and Judas the Betrayer, a poetical
fragment 1871. _d._ 12 York place, Edinburgh 2 Feb. 1862, marble
bust in Court buildings, Dundee. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_
(1873) 207–8.
LOGAN, ARCHIBALD SPIERS. _b._ 1802; entered Madras army 1819;
lieut. 47 Madras N.I. 182-, captain 11 Sep. 1832; captain 33
N.I. 1835, lieut.-col. 7 Aug. 1846 to 1855; lieut.-col. of 15
N.I. 1855 to 24 Oct. 1858; commandant at Vellore 14 March 1856
to 1858; col. of 45 N.I. 9 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870.
_d._ Elm bank, Malvern 10 May 1873.
LOGAN, GEORGE. Entered Madras army 1819; captain 41 Madras N.I.
27 Jany. 1831, major 19 Sep. 1843 to 6 Oct. 1851; lieut.-col. of
2 European regiment 6 Oct. 1851 to 1853 and 1854–5; lieut.-col.
of 41 N.I. 1855–60, of 6 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G.
31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Eastbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 4 Nov.
1870.
LOGAN, JAMES (son of a merchant). _b._ Aberdeen about 1794; ed.
at gr. sch. and Marischal college, Aberdeen; his reading ticket
at British museum dated from 1821; a journalist in London,
afterwards clerk in an architect’s office; made a pedestrian
tour in Scotland 1826; a transcriber on catalogue of British
museum Dec. 1838 to July 1840; secretary of Highland society
of London several years; wrote much in Transactions of the
Gaelic society of London, of which he was the Father; a brother
of the Charterhouse, London, expelled 1866; F.S.A.; author of
The Scottish Gael or Celtic manners as preserved among the
Highlanders 2 vols. 1831, 2 ed. 1876; Gaelic gatherings or the
highlanders at home 1848; and of the letterpress to R. R. Mac
Ian’s The clans of the Scottish Highlands 2 vols. 1843–9, new
ed. 1857. _d._ London, April 1872. _James Logan’s Scottish
Gael_, _new ed._ (1876) _memoir pp. ix–xx_; _R. Cowtan’s
Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 310–11.
LOGAN, JAMES RICHARDSON. Went to the Straits Settlements about
1835; settled at Penang, Prince of Wales’s Island; started at
Singapore in 1847 the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and
Eastern Asia, which he edited for about 10 years; started and
edited the Penang Gazette; notary public of supreme court of
Prince of Wales’s Island; a member of Asiatic Society. _d._
Penang 20 Oct. 1869.
LOGAN, ROBERT ABRAHAM (son of Patrick Logan, captain 57 foot).
_b._ 26 July 1824; ensign 41 foot 26 Oct. 1841; ensign 57 foot
19 Nov. 1841, lieut.-col. 24 April 1872, placed on h.p. 26 July
1876; commanded 57 foot in New Zealand war 1861, took the Maori
Pah 1863; commanded brigade depots 49 and 50 at Hounslow 1877;
M.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G.
6 May 1882; C.B. 5 July 1865. _d._ 28 Glen Eldon road, Streatham
near London 27 Jany. 1890.
LOGAN, WILLIAM (son of a customer weaver). _b._ Damhead near
Hamilton, Lanarkshire 1813; a loom weaver; a district missionary
in St. Giles’, London, then in Leeds, Rochdale 1840, Glasgow,
again at Rochdale and at Bradford; established a temperance
dining room, the profits of which he distributed to the poor;
attended persons stricken with fever; great friend of David Gray
of Luggie the poet, and the soother of his dying hours 1861;
the friend of Janet Hamilton the poet of Coatbridge, who _d._
1873; author of An exposure of female prostitution in London,
Leeds and Rochdale 1843; The moral statistics of Glasgow 1849;
Words of comfort for parents bereaved of little children 1861,
8 ed. 1874; The great social evil 1871; The early heroes of the
temperance reformation 1873. _d._ Glasgow 16 Sep. 1879. _W. C.
Maclehouse’s Memoirs of one hundred Glasgow men_, _ii_ 177–8
(1886), _portrait_.
LOGAN, SIR WILLIAM EDMOND (2 son of Wm. Logan, baker, _d._
1841). _b._ Montreal 20 April 1798; ed. at high sch. and univ.
of Edinb.; in counting-house of his uncle Hart Logan in London
1818–29; manager of copper-smelting works at Swansea 1831–8;
demonstrated the important fact that the stratum of clay
underlying coal-beds was the soil in which the coal vegetation
grew; director of the geological survey of Canada 1842–70;
discovered the Eozoon Canadense, the earliest known life, in
Laurentian strata 1858; Canadian comr. at Great Exhibitions
of 1851 and 1862, and at Paris exhibition 1855; F.R.S. 5 June
1851, royal medallist 1867; received cross of Legion of Honour
1855; Wollaston medallist of Geological Soc. 1856; knighted at
Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856; founded at cost of 20,000
dollars the Logan chair of geology in McGill university,
Montreal 1872; D.C.L. of Lennoxville univ. 1855; LL.D. of
McGill univ. 1856; F.G.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; author with
T. S. Hunt of A sketch of the geology of Canada 1856. _d._
Castle Malgwin, Pembrokeshire 22 June 1875. _bur._ Llechryd
church, Cardiganshire. _B. J. Harrington’s Life of W. E. Logan.
Montreal_ (1883), _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_
(1867) 228–34; _Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxii_ 76–80
(1876); _Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870), _portrait
ix_; _I.L.N. xviii_ 487–8 (1851), _portrait_.
LOGAN, WILLIAM HUGH (son of a writer to the signet). Apprentice
to a bank in Edinb.; manager of a bank at Berwick-on-Tweed;
banker at Berwick; twice mayor of Berwick; sheriff; supplied
Mr. R. H. Wyndham with all his occasional addresses, dramas
and burlesques for theatre royal, Edinb.; edited Edinburgh
theatrical and musical review, numbers 5 to 34 the last 1835;
writer of Le Bas Bleu, farce, T.R. Edinb. 30 March 1836; Rummio
and Judy, burlesque 183-; Absent without leave, farce, Strand
theatre, London 1837; Babes in the wood, pantomime, Queen’s
theatre, Edinb. 19 Dec. 1859; Shadows, farce, Queen’s theatre,
Edinb. 1862 and many other pieces; author of Memoir of Archibald
Maclaren, dramatist. Edinb. 1835, anon.; The Scottish banker
1839, 3 ed. 1847; On the law and practice of bills of exchange;
and of a short-lived serial called The dramatic spectator. By
Poz, Quiz and Co. Edinb. 1837; edited Fragmenta Scoto-Dramatica
1715–1758. Edinb. 1835, anon.; A Pedlar’s pack of ballads and
songs. Edinb. 1869. _d._ Jany. 1883. _R. Inglis’s Dramatic
writers of Scotland_ (1868) 66–8; _J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh
stage_ (1888) 34, 474, 478.
LOGIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Kirkwall 23 Feb. 1786; presbyterian
minister Ladykirk 1811–24; minister of Kirkwall 1824 to death;
D.D. of Edinb. univ. March 1854; author of God sending and
withdrawing the pestilence 1832; Sermons on the services of the
church, with memoir and portrait. Lond. 1857. _d._ Kirkwall 5
Sep. 1856.
LOGIN, SIR JOHN SPENCER (eld. son of John Login of Stromness,
Orkney). _b._ Stromness 9 Nov. 1809; ed. at univ. of Edinb.,
M.D. 1831; surgeon to Bengal horse artillery 1832, to the
Nizam’s army 1834, in Afghan campaign 1838 and in mission to
Herat 1839; surgeon British residency, Lucknow; postmaster in
Oude, superintendent of hospitals to king of Oude 1841; in
Punjaub army 1848–9, in charge of treasuries of Sikh government,
the citadel of Lahore, the post office in the Punjaub; guardian
of maharajah Duleep Singh 1849 to 1858; surgeon 17 April 1848,
retired 18 April 1858; knighted at Windsor castle 14 Nov. 1854;
resided 5 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London. _d._ Felixstowe,
Suffolk 18 Oct. 1863. _Sir John Login and Duleep Singh_ (1890),
_portrait_.
LOGIN, THOMAS. _b._ Stromness, Orkney 1823; in public works
department India 1844, engaged in construction of Ganges canal
1847–54; executive engineer of the Darjeeling roads 1857;
superintending engineer at Umballa 1870; author of papers on
Benefit of irrigation in India and on construction of irrigating
canals, for which he received Telford premium from Instit. of
Civil engineers; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; M.I.C.E. 19 May 1868. _d._
while inspecting the Thibet road in the Punjaub 5 June 1874.
_Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix_ 205 (1878).
LOLA MONTEZ, stage name of Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert
(dau. of Edward Gilbert, ensign 44 foot, _d._ Dinapore, India
1825). _b._ Limerick 1818; ed. at Montrose and in Paris; resided
at Bath with her mother; ran away to Ireland with Thomas James,
captain 21 Bengal N.I., whom she married at Meath 23 July 1837;
she returned from India to England early in 1842; he obtained an
order for a divorce in consistory court, London 15 Dec. 1842,
retired from the army 28 Feb. 1856 and _d._ 17 May 1871; made
her début at Her Majesty’s theatre 3 June 1843 as ‘Lola Montez
Spanish dancer,’ but being badly received did not appear again;
danced at Dresden, Berlin, Warsaw and St. Petersburg; appeared
as a dancer at Munich 1847 when she captivated the king of
Bavaria, Ludwig Carl Augustus, naturalised by a royal ordinance
7 March 1847, created baronne de Rosenthal and comtesse de
Lansfeld, the king built a splendid mansion for her and gave
her a pension of 20,000 florins; ruled the kingdom of Bavaria
with great ability, banished March 1848 and the king was forced
to abdicate 21 March; _m._ at St. George’s, Hanover sq. 19 July
1849 George Trafford Heald, cornet 2nd life guards, she fled
with him to Spain Aug. 1849 to avoid punishment for bigamy, he
sold out 1849 and was drowned at Lisbon 1853 or 1856; danced in
ballet of Betley the Tyrolean, at Broadway theatre, New York 29
Dec. 1851, and played Lola Montez in Ware’s drama ‘Lola Montez
in Bavaria’ 18 May 1852; _m._ in California 2 Aug. 1853 P. P.
Hull, proprietor of the ‘San Francisco Whig’ but soon left
him; played at Victoria theatre, Sydney, N.S.W. 23 Aug. 1855;
played at Melbourne 1856 where she horsewhipped Mr. Seekamp,
editor of the Ballarat Times, for reflecting on her character;
appeared at Green st. theatre, New York 1857 in The Eton Boy,
The follies of a night, and Lola in Bavaria; a public lecturer
in the United States 1858, lectured at St. James’s hall, London
7 April 1859; spent her time visiting the female outcasts at
the Magdalen hospital near New York 1859–60. _d._ in a sanitary
asylum at Asteria, New York 17 Jany. 1861. _bur._ Greenwood
cemet. 19 Jany. _Autobiography and lectures of Lola Montez_
(1858), _portrait_; _Les Contemporains, Lola Montes. Par Eugène
de Mirecourt. Paris_ (1870), _portrait_; _F. L. Hawks’s Story
of a penitent, Lola Montez. New York_ (1867); _C. H. Ross’s
Painted Faces_ (1891) 78–88; _H. H. Phelps’s Players of a
century_ (1880) 265–7, 297; _Temple Bar_, _July 1880 pp._ 362–7;
_Mortemar’s Folly’s Queens_ (1882) 10–14, _portrait_; _You have
heard of them. By Q._ (1854) 98–106; _I.L.N. x_ 180 (1847),
_portrait_.
LOMAS, JOHN (son of rev. Robert Lomas _d._ 1810). _b._ Hull 13
Dec. 1798; master Kingswood sch. 1820–23; Wesleyan methodist
minister at Manchester 1827–33, 1842–5, 1851–4, at Bristol
1833–6, 1855–8, at Birmingham 1836–9, in London 1845–51,
1858–61; theological tutor Richmond coll. 1861–8 and at
Headingley coll. 1868–73; president of the Conference 1853;
author of Jesus Christ the propitiation for our sins. The third
Fernley lecture 1872. _d._ Redland, Bristol 20 Aug. 1877.
_Wesleyan Methodist Mag. ci_ 9, 134, 207, 283 (1878).
LOMAX, JAMES (3 son of Richard Grimshaw Lomax _d._ 1837). _b._
Clayton hall, Accrington, Lancs. 1803; ed. at Stonyhurst;
succeeded to family estates on death of his brother John Lomax
1849; a prominent Roman Catholic in the north of England, and a
munificent donor to R.C. organizations in Lancashire, erected at
his own cost church of Our Lady and St. Hubert, Great Harwood;
created knight commander of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX.
_d._ Clayton hall 26 March 1886.
LOMAX, THOMAS GEORGE (eld. son of rev. James Lomax of Druid
Heath house, Staffs.) _b._ 1783; bookseller at the Johnson’s
head, Lichfield 1 Jany. 1810 to death; purchased relics of Dr.
Johnson from his black servant Francis Barber; senior bailiff of
Lichfield 1833, mayor 1843. _d._ the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 3
Jany. 1873. _bur._ St. Chad’s cemetery. _Bookseller_, _Feb. 1873
p._ 79.
LONDESBOROUGH, ALBERT DENISON DENISON, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry
Conyngham, 1 marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). _b._ 8 Stanhope
st. Piccadilly, London 21 Oct. 1805; ed. Eton; cornet in the
army 21 Sep. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 24 July 1823,
sold out 1824; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Vienna 1825, sec. of
legation, Florence 1826 and at Berlin 1829–31; K.C.H. 1829;
M.P. Canterbury 1835–41 and 1847–50; assumed name of Denison
in lieu of Conyngham 4 Sep. 1849; cr. baron Londesborough
of Londesborough, Yorkshire 4 March 1850; pres. of British
Archæological association at its first meeting at Canterbury
1843; V.P. of Archæological Instit. 1849; pres. of London and
Middlesex Archæological society 1855; purchased the Selby
estate, Yorkshire, Aug. 1853 for £270,000; held 60,000 acres of
land, producing income of £100,000; F.S.A. 1840; F.R.S. 13 June
1850; most unlucky as a breeder and runner of horses; printed
Wanderings in search of health 1849; Miscellanea Graphica 1857;
An illustrative catalogue of antique silver 1860. _d._ 8 Carlton
house terrace, London 15 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Grimston 24 Jany.
_Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii_ 171–5 (1861); _I.L.N.
xxiii_ 225 (1853) _portrait_, _xxxvi_ 108 (1860); _Taylor’s
Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 228–32, 482–3; _W. W. Morrell’s
History of Selby_ (1867) 275–7; _Sporting Review_, _xliii_ 80–81
(1860); _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections_, _i_ 262–8 (1883) _and
Collectanea Antigua_, _v_ 261–69 (1861).
LONDONDERRY, CHARLES WILLIAM VANE, 3 Marquess of (2 son of
Robert Stewart, 1 marquess of Londonderry 1739–1821). _b._ Mary
st. Dublin 18 May 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 108 foot 11 Oct.
1794; major 106 foot 31 July 1795; lieut.-colonel 5 dragoons
1 Jany. 1797 to 6 April 1799 when the regiment was disbanded
for insubordination; lieut.-col. 18 hussars 12 April 1799 to
20 Nov. 1813; M.P. Thomastown in Irish parliament 1798–1800,
M.P. co. Londonderry 1801 to June 1814; under sec. of state for
war and colonies 1807 to 1808; commanded a brigade of hussars
in Portugal 1808; adjutant general to army under sir Arthur
Wellesley 1809–12; K.B. 1 Feb. 1813; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815;
G.C.H. 1816; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Berlin 7
April 1813; colonel 25 light dragoons 20 Nov. 1813; created a
peer of the realm by title of baron Stewart of Stewart’s court
and Ballilawn 1 July 1814; a lord of the bedchamber 25 June
1814 to Aug. 1827; P.C. 27 July 1814; ambassador to Vienna 27
Aug. 1814; assumed surname of Vane 1819; colonel 10 hussars 3
Feb. 1820 to 23 June 1843; succeeded his half-brother as 3
marquess 12 Aug. 1822; cr. earl Vane and viscount Seaham 28
March 1823; general 10 Jany. 1837; lord lieut. of Durham 27
April 1842; col. 2 life guards 23 June 1843 to death; K.G. 19
Jany. 1853; made a harbour at Seaham, opened 29 July 1835, which
cost £250,000; published Suggestions for the improvement of the
force of the British empire 1805; A narrative of the Peninsular
war 1808–13, 2 vols. 1828–9; Memoirs and correspondence of Lord
Castlereagh 8 vols. 1848–51. _d._ Holderness house, Park lane,
London 6 March 1854. _bur._ Long Newton 16 March. _J. E. Doyle’s
Official baronage_, _iii_ 552–4 (1886), _portrait_; _Portraits
of eminent conservatives and statesmen. First series 5 pages_
(1836), _portrait_ 10; _Royal military calendar 3 ed. ii_ 411–20
(1820); _St. Stephen’s. By Mask_ (1839) 78–88; _H. Martineau’s
Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 188–92; _H. Heaviside’s
Annals of Stockton on Tees_ (1865) 111–14.
NOTE.--He left personal property of value of £335,000 exclusive of vast
estates in England and Ireland, his widow’s personalty was sworn under
£400,000, 24 June 1865. He was the lord high marshal at the Eglinton
tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839. He is drawn in Vivian Grey as Col. Von
Trumpetson. In 1824 he was challenged to a duel by Wm. Battier, who was
gazetted cornet 10 hussars 27 Feb. 1823 and _d._ Paris 27 April 1839.
On 13 June 1839 Lord Londonderry met Henry Grattan, M.P., on Wimbledon
common, Grattan fired and missed and his lordship discharged his pistol
in the air.
LONDONDERRY, FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERT STEWART, 4 Marquess of
(1 son of preceding). _b._ South st. Grosvenor sq. London 7
July 1805; M.P. for co. Down 1826–52; a lord of the admiralty
1829–30; vice chamberlain of the household 27 Dec. 1834 to June
1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; colonel North Down militia 1837; lord
lieut. of Down 1845–64; M.P. co. Down 1826–52; succeeded as 4
marquess 6 March 1854; K.P. 1855. _d._ Hastings 25 Nov. 1872.
_I.L.N. lxi_ 550 (1872).
LONDONDERRY, GEORGE HENRY ROBERT CHARLES WILLIAM VANE-TEMPEST,
5 Marquess of (half-brother of preceding). _b._ Vienna 26 April
1821; styled viscount Seaham 1823–54; ed. at Eton; matric. Ball.
coll. Oxf. 14 June 1839, B.A. and M.A. 1867, hon. D.C.L. Durham;
cornet 1 life guards 13 Jany. 1843, lieut. 1845, sold out 1848;
M.P. North Durham 1847–54; succeeded his father as 2 earl Vane 6
March 1854; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry 1859–73; lieut.-col.
commandant 2 Durham militia 1853–62; assumed additional name of
Tempest by r.l. 28 June 1854; appointed to proceed on a special
mission to St. Petersburg to invest emperor Alexander II.
with insignia and habit of order of the garter 21 July 1867;
provincial grand master free masons co. Durham 1880; succeeded
his brother as 5 marquess 25 Nov. 1872; K.P. 31 Aug. 1874; lord
lieut. of Durham 8 June 1880 to death. _d._ Plas Machynlleth,
Montgomeryshire 5 Nov. 1884. _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 501 (1884),
_portrait_; _R. F. Gould’s Freemasonry_, _iv_ 276 (1885),
_portrait_.
LONEY, ROBERT. _b._ 1787; entered navy Sep. 1797; commander on
h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; captain on h.p. 6 Aug. 1852; retired admiral
15 June 1879; edited The China pilot 1855. _d._ Woodbine villa,
Mannamead, Plymouth 22 Feb. 1882.
LONG, CATHARINE (youngest dau. of Horatio Walpole, 2 earl of
Orford 1752–1822). _b._ 1798; (_m._ 25 July 1822 Henry Lawes
Long of Hampton lodge near Farnham, Surrey, _d._ 1868); edited
The story of a drop of water 1856; author of Sir Roland Ashton,
a tale of the times 2 vols. 1844, 2 ed. 1854; The Midsummer
souvenir, thoughts original and selected 1846; Heavenly thoughts
for morning hours 1851; Heavenly thoughts for evening hours
1856; The first lieutenant’s story 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1856;
Story of a specific prayer 1863; An Agnus Dei for four or five
voices 1848, and other pieces of sacred music. _d._ suddenly
from alarm in a thunderstorm at Landthorne Hatch near Farnham 20
Aug. 1867. _Times 21 Aug. 1867 p._ 10.
LONG, CHARLES EDWARD (elder son of Charles Beckford Long of
Langley hall, Berkshire, _d._ 1836 aged 65). _b._ Benham park,
Berkshire 28 July 1796; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; author of Imperial and papal Rome, a poem
1818, 4 ed. 1859; Considerations on the game laws 1824, anon.;
Letter on the Jamaica house of assembly, abandonment of its
legislative functions 1839; Royal descents, a genealogical list
of the several persons entitled to quarter the arms of the royal
houses of England 1845; edited for the Camden Society, The diary
of the marches of the royal army during the great civil war,
kept by Richard Symonds 1859. _d._ Lord Warden hotel, Dover 25
Sep. 1861. _bur._ Seale churchyard, Surrey.
LONG, CHARLES MAITLAND (younger son of Samuel Long of
Carshalton, M.P. Ilchester _d._ 1807). _b._ 16 Aug. 1803; ed.
at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830;
R. of Whitchurch, Salop 1834–46; R. of Settrington, Yorkshire
1846 to death; archdeacon of East Riding of Yorkshire 1854–73;
prebendary of Fridaythorpe in York cathedral 1855 to death. _d._
43 Berkeley sq. London 6 Oct. 1875.
LONG, EDWIN LONGSDEN (son of Edwin Long an artist). _b._ Bath
12 July 1829; pupil of James Matthew Leigh; a portrait painter,
afterwards painted oriental scenes; resided in Spain with
John Phillip, R.A.; A.R.A. 26 Jany. 1876, R.A. 13 July 1881;
exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st.
1855–80; exhibited his pictures at his own gallery 168 New Bond
st. 1883 to death, after which his pictures were exhibited at
the Doré gallery 35 New Bond st., his pictures The Babylonian
marriage market 1875 and the Egyptian feast 1877 were much
noticed. _d._ Kelston, Netherall gardens, Hampstead 15 May 1891.
_I.L.N. lxviii_ 436, 437 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic 23 May
1891 p._ 585, _portrait_; _M. B. Huish’s The year’s art_ (1888)
32, _portrait_.
LONG, GEORGE (2 son of Joseph Long of Shopwick near Chichester).
_b._ 1780; special pleader in London 1809–11; barrister G.I.
11 Feb. 1811, bencher 1834 to death, treasurer 1837; deputy
steward of the Palace court 1825–33; a comr. for inquiring into
state of municipal corporations 18 July 1833; magistrate at
Great Marlborough st. police court 1839, at Marylebone police
court June 1841 to Dec. 1859; recorder of Coventry 1840 to 1854;
author of Observations on a bill to amend the laws relating to
the relief of the poor 1821; A treatise on the law relative to
sales of personal property 1821; An essay on the moral nature
of man 1841; The conduct of life, a series of essays 1845;
An enquiry concerning religion 1855. _d._ 51 Queen Anne st.
Cavendish sq. London 26 June 1868. _bur._ Willesden cemet. _Law
Times_, _xlv_ 250 (1868).
LONG, GEORGE (eld. son of James Long, merchant). _b._ Poulton,
Lancs. 4 Nov. 1800; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin.
coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1821, 30th wrangler and senior
chancellor’s medallist 1822; B.A. 1822; fellow of Trin. coll.
1823–7; professor of ancient languages in univ. of Virginia at
Charlottesville 1824–8; professor of Greek in London univ.,
Gower st. London 1 Oct. 1828, resigned 1831; a founder of royal
geographical soc. 1830, hon. sec. 1846–8; edited Quarterly
journal of education 10 vols. 1831–5; The Penny cyclopædia
29 vols. 1833–46, published in monthly parts; edited and
contributed to The biographical dictionary of the Society for
diffusion of useful knowledge 7 vols. 1842–4, letter A only;
professor of Latin in Univ. coll. London 1842–6, when he was
presented with a silver tea and coffee service; barrister I.T. 9
June 1837, reader on jurisprudence and civil law at Inner Temple
April 1846 to 1849; classical lecturer at Brighton college
1849–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 7 Aug. 1873;
author of The civil wars of Rome. Select lives from Plutarch 5
vols. 1844–8; France and its revolutions, a pictorial history
1850; An old man’s thoughts about many things 1862, anon.;
The decline of the Roman republic 5 vols. 1864; compiled The
standard cyclopædia of political knowledge 4 vols. 1848, and
edited with rev. Arthur John Macleane the Bibliotheca Classica
27 vols. 1851–84. _d._ Portfield, Chichester 10 Aug. 1879. _H.
J. Mathews’s In memoriam. George Long_ (1879).
LONG, JAMES. _b._ 1814; resided in Russia; deacon in Church of
England 1839, priest 1840; went to India as a missionary of
Church missionary society about 1846, stationed at Thakurpukur
near Calcutta; known as Padre Long, returned to England
1872; member of Bengal Asiatic Society; F.R.G.S.; fined 1000
rupees and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for adversely
criticising the English press at Calcutta and the indigo
planters in his preface to a Bengali drama entitled Niladarpana
Nataka 1861; assigned to Church Missionary Soc. £2000 to
provide popular lectures on the religions of the East; author
of Handbook of Bengal missions 1848; A descriptive catalogue
of Bengali works 1855; Prabád Málá or the wit of Bengali
ryots 1869; Eastern proverbs and emblems 1881; contributed to
Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Calcutta review and the
Indian magazine. _d._ 3 Adam st. Adelphi, London 23 March 1887.
_Trubner’s Literary Record_ (1887) 24; _Academy 9 April 1887 p._
255.
LONG, RICHARD PENRUDDOCK (2 son of Walter Long 1793–1867).
_b._ Baynton house, Wiltshire 19 Dec. 1825; ed. at Harrow and
Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; first played at Lord’s
in Harrow _v._ Winchester 27 July 1842; one of the largest
landed proprietors in England; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1858;
nominated for sheriff of Wilts. 1875; contested South Wilts. 16
July 1852; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; M.P. North Wilts. 1865–8.
d. Cannes, France 16 Feb. 1875. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_,
_iii_ 106 (1863).
LONG, SAMUEL (eld. son of Charles Maitland Long 1803–75). _b._
5 Jany. 1840; cadet R.N. 8 Dec. 1852; served in Crimean war and
was present at bombardment of Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; captain
12 Dec. 1876; commander of Vernon torpedo instruction ship
Portsmouth, organised and delivered the night attack on the
fleet at Spithead and on the naval force protected by a boom at
Southampton 1889; captain superintendent at Pembroke dockyard
Jany. 1889 to Aug. 1891; aide de camp to the queen 1 Jany. 1889
to 27 Aug. 1891; R.A. 27 Aug. 1891; author of several papers
on torpedo warfare; thrown from his horse and injured, _d._
Blendworth lodge, Horndean near Portsmouth 25 April 1893.
LONG, SIMON (son of David Long, Gretna Green priest, _d._ 1827
in his 72 year). The last of the Gretna Green priests. _d._
Falling near Newcastle on Tyne 24 April 1872.
LONG, WALTER (1 son of Richard Godolphin Long, M.P., 1761–1835).
_b._ 10 Oct. 1793; ed. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1809,
M.A. 1812; M.P. North Wilts. 1835–65; major R. Wilts, yeomanry
cavalry; resided Rood Ashton, Wilts., _d._ Torquay 31 Jany.
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