Modern English biography

_xxv_ 528 (1882), _portrait_. LAFONTAINE, SIR LOUIS HYPOLITE; 1 Baronet (3 son of Antoine Menard Lafontaine, farmer 1772–1813). _b._ Boucherville, Lower Canada, Oct. 1807; ed. at Montreal coll. to 1822; called to Toronto bar; a leader of national movement in Canada; arrested on charge of high treason 4 Nov. 1838; went to England as a delegate from constitutional association of Lower Canada 1838; M.P. for North York, Upper Canada 1840–51; attorney general and member of Canadian executive council Sep. 1842 to 28 Nov. 1844 and March 1848 to Oct. 1851; chief justice of court of queen’s bench, Lower Canada 13 Aug. 1853 to death; baronet of the United Kingdom 28 Aug. 1854. _d._ Toronto, after an apoplectic fit in his court there, 24 Feb. 1864. _bur._ in R.C. cath. Toronto 29 Feb. _L. O. David’s Sir Ls. H. Lafontaine. Montreal_ (1872), _portrait_. NOTE.--He was the first person of French Canadian extraction who held the highest legal offices in Lower Canada after it became a part of the British empire. LAGRANGE, COMTE FRÉDÉRIC DE (son of general Joseph Lagrange, who _d._ 1825). _b._ 1816; kept a stud farm at Dangu in Normandy; won the Goodwood cup with Monarque 1857, also the Newmarket handicap 1858; won the Oaks with Fille de l’Air 1864; won the Two thousand guineas, Derby, Grand prix de Paris and St. Leger with Gladiateur 1865, being the only horse that ever won all four races; refused £16,000 for Gladiateur 1869, sold him for £6000, 1870; sold all his horses at Tattersalls, Nov. 1870 but kept another stud 1872–82; won the One thousand guineas with Camelia 1876; won the Two thousand guineas with Chamant 1877; won the St. Leger with Rayon d’Or 1879. _d._ at his villa near Paris 22 Nov. 1883. _Baily’s Mag. iv_ 1–5 (1862), _portrait_; _L. H. Curzon’s The blue ribbon of the turf_ (1890) 142–53, 340; _J. Rice’s British Turf_, _i_ 343–6 (1879); _Illust. Times 10 June 1865 p._ 365, _portrait of Gladiateur_. LAING, ALEXANDER (son of James Laing, agricultural labourer). _b._ Brechin, Forfarshire 14 May 1787; a herd boy; a flax dresser 1803–17; a pedlar in Forfarshire 1817–57; known as The Brechin poet; contributed to the Dundee Courier, Harp of Renfrewshire 1819, R. A. Smith’s Scottish Minstrel 1820, Struthers’s Harp of Caledonia 1821, Whitelaw’s Book of Scottish song 1844 and Whistle Binkie 1832–47; edited editions of Robert Burns and of Robert Tannahill; edited The Thistle of Scotland, a selection of ballads. Aberdeen 1823; published his poems entitled Wayside flowers 1846, 3 ed. 1857. _d._ Brechin 14 Oct.