Modern English biography

May 1889. _Illust. Sporting News_, _ii_ 445 (1864), _portrait_, _v_ 808 (1866), _portrait_; _Illust. Sport and Dram. News_, _ii_ 268 (1874), _portrait_. LAURI, JOHN, stage name of John George Lowe (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1829; played harlequin at Her Majesty’s, Dec. 1860, at Princess’s, Dec. 1861 to 21 Feb. 1862, at Adelphi, Dec. 1862; played harlequin in New York with his brother 1869; a ballet master in London; his 2 daughters were dancers known as Stella and Luna. _d._ 14 Baker st. Clerkenwell, London 27 Sep. 1881. LAURIE, JAMES. Wine merchant 9 Billiter st. city of London 1833 to death; author of Tables of simple interest at 5, 4½ etc. per cent. 1831, 21 ed. 1861; Tables of simple interest at 5, 6 etc. per cent., also tables of commission 1842, 4 ed. 1854; Tables of exchange between Madeira and London 1844; Tables of exchange between Paris, Bourdeaux, &c. 1845; British and foreign share tables 1847; Manual of foreign exchange 1851, 5th thousand 1867; Universal exchange tables 1852; Decimal coinage 1854. _d._ 28 Aug. 1854. LAURIE, John. _b._ 1792; entered Madras army 1809; ensign 9 Madras N.I. 29 July 1810, major 31 Oct. 1835 to 5 Aug. 1840; lieut.-col. 45 Madras N.I. 5 Aug. 1840 to 1845; lieut.-col. of 35 N.I. 1845–6, of 9 N.I. 1846–50, of 36 N.I. 1850 to 6 June 1851; col. of 1st European regiment 6 June 1851 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Llandulas, North Wales 20 July 1861. LAURIE, JOHN (son of Benjamin Snaddon of Barrowstown, co. Linlithgow, who _m._ Agnes dau. of John Laurie and took the name of Laurie 1824). _b._ Scotland 1797; merchant in London and government contractor; partner in Laurie and Marner, coach builders, Oxford st. London; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1845–6; M.P. Barnstaple 25 Aug. 1854 but unseated on petition; M.P. Barnstaple 1857–59; author of Voice of humanity a voice of mercy 1852. _d._ 2 Aug. 1864. _I.L.N. xxxii_ 561, 562 (1858), _portrait_. LAURIE, SIR PETER (son of John Laurie of Stichell, Roxburghshire, farmer). _b._ Stichell 1778 or 1779; a saddler at 296 Oxford st. London 1806; became a contractor for the Indian army, made his fortune, retired 1827; governor of the Union bank of London 1839 to death; sheriff of London 1823–4, alderman for Aldersgate ward 6 July 1826 to death, contested the mayoralty 1831, lord mayor 1832–3; knighted at Carlton house 7 April 1824; master of the Saddlers’ company 1833, in whose hall there is a portrait presented to him by the company 24 Feb. 1853; pres. of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals; author of Maxims 1833; Killing no murder, or the effects of separate confinement in prisons and gaols 1846; A letter on the disadvantages and extravagance of the separate system of prison discipline 1848. _d._ 7 Park square, Regent’s Park, London 3 Dec. 1861 aged 83. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 10 Dec. _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters_ (1841) 120–53; _I.L.N. ii_ 40 (1843), _portrait_. NOTE.--He is ridiculed by Dickens in one of his Christmas books under an opprobrious pseudonym. LAURIE, RICHARD HOLMES (son of Robert Laurie of Fleet st. London, publisher, _d._ May 1836 aged 81). _b._ Fleet st. London 2 Dec. 1777; map, chart and print seller with James Whittle at 53 Fleet st. 1813 to Dec. 1818 when Whittle died and Laurie then carried on the business till his death; published Laurie’s Sailing directions for the Southern Atlantic 1855; Sailing directions for the North Sea 1855; Sailing directions for the straits of Gibraltar 1856. _d._ 53 Fleet st. London 19 Jany.