Modern English biography

_H. Martineau’s Biog. sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 91–9; _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _v_ (1834), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _i_ 14 (1846), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain_, _ii_ 143–53 (1854), _iii_ 156–67 (1854); _Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 171, _portrait_; _Hayward’s Essays_, _ii_ 303–19 (1870); _Illustrated Times 14 Feb. 1863 p._ 109, _portrait_. NOTE.--He first appears in Gillray’s prints in 1805. His personalty was sworn under £350,000, 20 June 1863. LANSDOWNE, HENRY PETTY FITZMAURICE, 4 Marquess of (2 son of the preceding). _b._ Lansdowne house, London 5 Jany. 1816; ed. Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.; known as lord Henry Petty Fitzmaurice 1818–36 and as earl of Shelburne 1836–63; M.P. Calne 1837–56; lieut. Wiltshire yeomanry 23 Jany. 1837, lieut.-col. 3 May 1861 to death; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Dec. 1847 to Aug. 1848; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 5 July 1856 to 26 Feb. 1858; summoned to house of lords in his father’s barony of Wycombe 11 July 1856; chairman of Great Western railway 1859–63; succeeded his father as 4 Marquess 31 Jany. 1863; K.G. 10 Oct. 1864. _d._ Lansdowne house, 54 Berkeley square, London 5 July 1866. _I.L.N. xl_ 175 (1862), _portrait_. LANWARNE, NICHOLAS. Admitted attorney and solicitor 1833; practised at Hereford 1833 to death; clerk to the Hereford union 1837 and to Dore union 1842 to death; coroner for Herefordshire 1838 to death; clerk to the Dore magistrates 1859 to death; one of the charity trustees for city of Hereford to death. _d._ The Vineyard near Hereford, midnight 10 Dec. 1864 aged 54. LANYON, SIR CHARLES (son of John Jenkinson Lanyon of Eastbourne). _b._ Eastbourne 6 Jany. 1813; articled to Jacob Owen of Dublin, civil engineer; county surveyor of Kildare 1835, of co. Antrim 1836–60; made the Belfast and Ballymena railway, the Carrickfergus and Larne and other railways; architect of the Queen’s college, the court-house and other public buildings in Belfast; mayor of Belfast 1862; M.P. Belfast 1866–68, contested Belfast 1868; pres. of Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland 1862–8; knighted by duke of Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868; sheriff of co. Antrim 1876; provincial grand master of Antrim. _d._ The Abbey, White Abbey near Belfast 31 May 1889. _R. F. Gould’s History of freemasonry_, _iv_ 388 (1885), _portrait_. NOTE.--His second son Charles Mortimer Lanyon _b._ Belfast 1840; ed. at Bromsgrove and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1863; barrister I.T. 26 Jany.