Modern English biography

sworn under £500,000, 2 June 1866. LAMINGTON, ALEXANDER DUNDAS ROSS WISHART BAILLIE-COCHRANE, 1 Baron (1 son of admiral sir Thomas John Cochrane, G.C.B. 1789–1872). _b._ 27 Nov. 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1837; contested Bridport 29 June 1841, M.P. Bridport 1841–52; M.P. co. Lanark, Feb. to April 1857; a member of the Young England party; M.P. Honiton 1859–68; M.P. Isle of Wight 1870–80; trustee of National Portrait Gallery 1876; cr. baron Lamington of Lamington, co. Lanark 3 May 1880; author of Poems 1838; The Morea, a poem 1841, 2 ed. 1841; Ernest Vane 2 vols. 1849; Young Italy 1850; Florence the beautiful 2 vols. 1854; The map of Italy 1856; Historical pictures 2 vols. 1865; Francis the first 2 vols. 1870; Historic châteaux, Blois, Fontainebleau, Vincennes 1877. _d._ 26 Wilton crescent, London 15 Feb. 1890. _I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1890 p._ 231, _portrait_; _Times 17, 25 Feb. 1890_. LAMONT, JOHANN VON (son of a custom-house officer, who _d._ 1816). _b._ Braemar, Aberdeenshire 13 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. James’s monastery, Ratisbon; assistant astronomer at observatory of Bogenhausen near Munich, March 1828, director of the observatory 18 July 1835; his zone observations of 34,674 small stars between latitudes +27° and -33° were his most important astronomical work; built a magnetic observatory at Bogenhausen 1840; executed with his travelling theodolite, magnetic surveys of Bavaria 1849–52, France and Spain 1856–7, North Germany and Denmark 1858; F.R.A.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edin. 1845, F.R.S. 1852; professor of astronomy in univ. of Munich 1852 to death; decorated with orders of Gregory the Great, of the Northern star of Sweden and of the Crown of Bavaria, which carried with it a title of nobility; author of Handbuch des Erdmagnetismus. Berlin 1849; Astronomie und Erdmagnetismus. Stuttgart 1851, and upwards of 20 other books printed at Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart 1824–71. _d._ Munich 6 Aug. 1879. _bur._ in churchyard at Bogenhausen. _Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. xl_ 208–12 (1880); _Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. x_ 358 (1880). LAMPSON, SIR CURTIS MIRANDA, 1 Baronet (4 son of Wm. Lampson of Newhaven, Vermont). _b._ Vermont 21 Sep. 1806; a fur merchant at 37 Friday st. Cheapside, London 1830; senior partner in firm of C. M. Lampson & Co. 9 Queen st. place, Upper Thames st., merchants; naturalised 14 May 1849; a director of Atlantic telegraph co. 1856, vice-chairman; deputy governor of Hudson’s Bay company 1863–72; created baronet 16 Nov. 1866. _d._ 80 Eaton sq. London 12 March 1885, personalty sworn at £401,000, 7 May. _I.L.N. xlix_ 545, 558 (1866), _portrait_. LAMSON, GEORGE HENRY (son of rev. W. O. Lamson, chaplain to the American ambulance during Franco-German war 1870). _b._ New York 8 Sep. 1852; resided with his parents in Paris 1858–70; studied medicine in Paris 1869–70; assistant surgeon to the American ambulance during Franco-German war 1870; surgeon in Paris during the siege, for which he received the bronze cross; graduated M.D. in Univ. of Pennsylvania 1872; a surgeon at Ferry Town, New York to 1874; at Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1874–6; came to England, Sep. 1876 at invitation of secretary of the League in aid of the Christians in Turkey; surgeon-in-chief to military hospital at Semendria, received a gold medal for bravery; chief of the English military hospital at Costo Foro, Bucharest, during Russo-Turkish war Aug. 1877 to March 1878; was snowed up six days without food on his way back from Plevna to Bucharest; received Star of Roumania and Turkish order of the Medjidie at end of the war 1878; L.R.C.P. Edinb., L.R.C.S. Edinb. and L.M.C.S. Edinb. May 1878; practised at Rotherfield, Tunbridge Wells, May 1878; bought a practice at Bournemouth for £400, 1879; went for a six months’ trip to America, April 1880; sold his practice and left Bournemouth, April 1881. (_m._ 16 Oct. 1878 Kate eld. child of Wm. John of Manchester, merchant); poisoned his brother-in-law Percy Malcolm John with aconitine at Wm. Henry Bedbrook’s school, Blenheim house, 2 and 4 St. George’s road, Wimbledon 3 Dec. 1881; surrendered himself at Scotland yard 7 Dec. 1881; tried before sir Henry Hawkins at the Old Bailey 9–14 March 1882, when found guilty and sentenced to death; reprieved twice to enable his friends in America to produce evidence of his insanity; confessed his guilt 27 April 1882; hanged in Wandsworth gaol 28 April 1882. _Central criminal court sessions paper._ _Minutes of evidence_, _xcv_ 547–90 (1882); _Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883) 514–67; _Law Journal 24 Oct. 1891 pp._ 652–3; _Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 294–300, 348–63; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 257 (1882), _portrait_. L’AMY, JAMES. _b._ Dunkenny 8 July 1772; advocate at Scotch bar 1794; sheriff of Forfarshire, July 1819 to death. _d._ Dundee 15 Jany. 1854. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) _p._ 155. LANAWAY, CHARLES. _b._ Henfield, Sussex 16 March 1793; played in Brighton and Sussex elevens; a butcher at Brighton 1819; first match at Lord’s, Sussex _v._ England 7 July 1828; underhand bowler. _d._ 49 London road, Brighton 6 Feb. 1870. _bur._ Henfield. LANCASTER, CHARLES WILLIAM (eld. son of Charles Lancaster of 151 New Bond st. London, gunmaker, _d._ 1847). _b._ York st. Portman sq. London 24 June 1820; in his father’s factory, succeeded to the business 1847; solved the problem of rifled cannon 1844–5; conceived the idea of the oval bore as proper form for all rifled arms and cannon 1850; superintended production of guns in Royal Arsenal, Woolwich; the Lancaster carbine was adopted as the arm for the royal engineers Jany. 1855, superseded by Martini-Henry rifle 1869; took out upwards of 20 patents 1850–72; the Czar of Russia had a large gold medal struck in his honour; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852. _d._ 151 New Bond st. London 24 April 1878. _Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. liii_ 289–92 (1878); _Sporting Mirror_, _iii_ 21–2 (1882). LANCASTER, HENRY HILL (son of Thomas Lancaster, merchant). _b._ Glasgow 10 Jany. 1829; ed. at Glasgow high school and univ.; Snell exhibitioner Balliol coll. Oxf. 1849; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1872, Arnold prizeman 1854; advocate at Edinburgh 1858, advocate depute 1868–74; sec. to commission of inquiry into state of King’s and Marischal colleges, Aberdeen 1858; member of royal commission on Scottish educational establishments 1872; wrote essays in North British and Edinburgh Reviews, more important of which were reprinted privately in 2 vols. 1876 and published in 1 vol. as Essays and Reviews Edinb. 1876. _d._ suddenly from apoplexy at 5 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 24 Dec. 1875. _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _Feb. 1876 p._ 107. LANCASTER, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1820; scene painter in London about 1840 to death; connected with the leading London and provincial theatres. _d._ 57 Grosvenor park, Camberwell, London 2 May 1892. _bur._ Nunhead cemetery. LANCASTER, JOHN (son of John Lancaster). _b._ Radcliffe near Bury, Lancs. 19 Sep. 1815; manager of Patricroft colliery 1841; mineral agent for lord Mostyn at Mostyn colliery 1847 etc.; manager earl Granville’s iron works and collieries, Shelton, Staffs. 1849–56; manager Shireoak colliery near Worksop 1855–58; built 5 blast furnaces at Kirkless hall iron works 1856–60 which were the second set in Lancs.; chairman Wigan coal and iron co. 1865–70; chairman West Cumberland iron and steel works 1870 to death; contested Wigan July 1865, M.P. Wigan 1868–74; F.G.S., M.I.M.E. 1863; rescued the crew of Confederate cruiser Alabama when she was sunk by the Federal war-steamer Kearsage off Cherbourg 19 June 1864. _d._ 58 Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead 21 April 1884. _Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers_ (1884) 402–3. LANCASTER, THOMAS WILLIAM (son of rev. Thomas Lancaster of Wimbledon, Surrey). _b._ Fulham, Middlesex 24 Aug. 1787; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810; Michel scholar at Queen’s coll. 1808, Michel fellow 1809–16; C. of Banbury 1812 and vicar 1815–49; R. of Over Worton near Woodstock 1849 to death; Bampton lecturer 1831; select preacher to univ. of Oxf. 1832, public examiner 1832–3; under master of Magdalen college school 1840–9; author of The alliance of education and civil government with strictures on the university of London 1828; A treatise on confirmation 1830, 2 ed. 1861; Vindiciæ symbolicæ or a treatise on creeds, articles of faith and articles of doctrine 1848; Sermons 1860; found dead in his bed at his lodgings, High st. Oxford 12 Dec. 1859. _bur._ Holywell cemetery. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college_, _iii_ 270–1 (1863). LANCE, GEORGE (son of Mr. Lance, inspector of Bow st. horse patrol). _b._ manor-house of Little Easton near Dunmow, Essex 24 March 1802; pupil of B. R. Haydon in London 1816–23; painter chiefly of fruit and flowers; exhibited 38 pictures at R.A., 135 at B.I. and 48 at Suffolk st. 1824–64; 2 fruit pieces and a portrait of himself are in the South Kensington museum. _d._ Sunnyside near Birkenhead 18 June 1864. _Art Journal_ (1857) 305–7, (1864) 242; _The Critic_, _xxi_ 416 (1860), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxix_ 647, 648 (1861), _portrait_. LANCE, GEORGE EDWIN (son of rev. John Edwin Lance of Buckland St. Mary, Somerset). _b._ 1824; ed. at Haileybury college; went to India 1844; chief magistrate at Cawnpore, where he rendered conspicuous service during the mutiny; converted a tract of marsh land into a memorial garden at Cawnpore; retired on the annuity fund 1872. _d._ Cheduba, Festing road, Southsea 9 April 1890. LANCE, JOHN HENRY. _b._ 1793; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1820; comr. of arbitration at Surinam, Guiana, South America; commissary judge to the British and Netherland court of commission at Surinam for prevention of illegal traffic in slaves 21 Oct. 1828, retired upon a superannuation allowance 31 March 1834. _d._ The Holmwood, Dorking, Surrey 12 Jany. 1878. LAND, EDWARD. _b._ London 1815; sang at the chapel royal; accompanist to John Wilson, afterwards to David Kennedy both Scotch singers; second tenor of the Glee and Madrigal union; secretary of the Noblemen and Gentlemen’s catch club; composed Bird of Beauty 1852, The Angel’s Watch 1853 and other popular songs; wrote many original pieces for the pianoforte. _d._ 4 Cambridge place, Regent’s park, London 29 Nov. 1876. LANDELLS, EBENEZER (3 son of Ebenezer Landells, merchant). _b._ Newcastle 13 April 1808; apprenticed to Thomas Bewick, wood engraver 1822–9; wood engraver in London 1829; superintended fine-art engraving department of Branston and Vizetelly; started an illustrated journal called The Cosmorama; exhibited 2 wood engravings at Suffolk st. 1833–37; the original projector and one of the 3 original proprietors of Punch or the London Charivari, first number was published at 3 Wellington st. Strand 17 July 1841; engraved much for the Illustrated London News 1842; engraved title page of the Lady’s Newspaper, first number dated 2 Jany. 1847; supplied all the woodcuts for the Illuminated Mag. 1843; author of The boy’s own toymaker 1859, 10 ed. 1881; The illustrated paper model maker 1861. _d._ at his lodgings, Victoria Grove, West Brompton, London 1 Oct. 1860. LANDELLS, ROBERT THOMAS (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ London 1 Aug. 1833; special war correspondent for the Illustrated London News in the Crimea 1856; present as artist in war between Germany and Denmark 1863 receiving decorations from both sides, and in war between Prussia and Austria 1866; attached to staff of the crown prince in Franco-German war 1870 and received order of the Iron Cross for his attention to the sick; painted memorial pictures of ceremonials for the queen; exhibited 24 pictures at Suffolk st. 1863–76; illustrated The young franctireurs by G. A. Henty 1872. _d._ 49 Winchester terrace, Chelsea 6 Jany. 1877. _I.L.N. lxx_ 61 (1877), _portrait_. LANDERS, JOHN EDMONDSTOUNE. _b._ 1803; ensign 27 Bengal N.I. 10 Jany. 1820; lieut. 9 Bengal N.I. 1824, major 3 Oct. 1848; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 24 Dec. 1853, col. 28 March 1865; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 7 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 6 April 1885. LANDMANN, GEORGE THOMAS (son of Isaac Landmann 1741–1826, professor of artillery at the R.M. academy, Woolwich). _b._ Woolwich 1779; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 May 1795, lieut.-col. 16 May 1814, sold out 29 Dec. 1824; lieut.-col. in the Spanish engineers 22 Feb. 1809; col. of infantry in Spanish army 25 March 1810; commanding engineer of the Thames district 1815–7, of the Yorkshire district 1817–9; author of Historical military and picturesque observations in Portugal 2 vols. 1818; Adventures and recollections of colonel Landmann 2 vols. 1852; Recollections of my military life 2 vols. 1854. _d._ Shacklewell near Hackney, London 27 Aug. 1854. LANDON, ARTHUR JERMYN (2 son of Francis Newcombe Landon of Brentwood, Essex). _b._ 29 June 1851; studied at St. Bartholomew’s; ed. at Netley, passed first in list and took prize for military surgery; L.S.A. 1877, M.R.C.S. 1878; surgeon in the army 4 Aug. 1878; helped to remove the wounded at Laing’s Nek 28 Jany. 1881, present at Majuba hill 27 Feb. where he remained on the field with the wounded, a bullet passed through his body, but he still administered to the fallen, brought into camp the next day where he died 28 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Mount Prospect, South Africa. _United Service Mag. Oct. 1883 pp._ 424–30. LANDON, JAMES TIMOTHY BAINBRIDGE (only son of James Landon, V. of Aberford, Yorkshire, _d._ 1850). _b._ Aberford 11 Nov. 1816; ed. Rugby and Wadham coll. Oxf. 1835, scholar of Worcester coll. 1835–43, fellow of Magdalen coll. 1843–47, senior dean of arts 1845; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; public examiner 1849–50; chaplain Bromley coll. Kent 1846–55; V. of Ledsham, Yorks. 1854 to death; canon of York 1877 to death; supposed author of The rime of the new-made baccalere. Oxford 1840; author of Eureka: a sequel to Lord John Russell’s post-bag. Oxford 1851, and of Eureka No. II.: a sequel to a sequel to Lord John Russell’s post-bag. Oxford 1853, both anon.; Homer. Iliad A, translated into English hexameters 1862. _d._ Ledsham vicarage 7 March 1890. LANDOR, EDWARD WILSON (son of Walter Landor of Rugeley, solicitor). Admitted a solicitor 1837; practised at Rugeley 1837–41; went to Australia 1841; practised in the city of London 1847–60; at Perth, West Australia 1860; police magistrate Perth 1865 to death; published Adventures in the north of Europe 2 vols. 1836; The bushman 1847; Lofoden or the exiles of Norway 2 vols. 1849. _d._ Perth 24 Oct. 1878. _Solicitor’s Journal_, _xx_ 254 (1879). LANDOR, ROBERT EYRES (youngest son of Walter Landor, physician, _d._ 1805). _b._ St. Nicholas, Warwick, May 1781; ed. at Worcester coll. Oxf., scholar, fellow; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; V. of Hitchenden, Bucks. 1817–25; chaplain in ord. to Prince Regent; R. of Nafford with Birlingham, Worcs. 11 April 1829 to death, never absent from his Sunday duty, the church was restored with money left by him; author of The Count Arezzi, a tragedy 1824; The impious feast, a poem 1828; The earl of Brecon, a tragedy; Faith’s Fraud, a tragedy; The Ferryman, a drama 1841; The Fawn of Sertorius 1846; The Fountain of Arethusa