Modern English biography

the investigation at the Royal hospital, Chelsea, upon charges brought by the Major against the apothecary_ 1830. LE BRETON, ANNA LETITIA (dau. of Charles Rochemont Aikin, surgeon). _b._ 4 Broad st. buildings, London 30 June 1808; edited Correspondence of W. E. Channing and Lucy Aikin 1874; author of Memoirs of Mrs. Barbauld 1874; Memories of seventy years. By One of a literary family [Mrs. Le Breton], edited by Mrs. Hubert Martin 1883. (_m._ 6 Aug. 1833 the succeeding). _d._ 6 Worsley road, Hampstead 29 Sep. 1885. _Memoirs of Seventy years_ (1883) 3, 135 _et seq._ LE BRETON, PHILIP HEMERY (eld. son of rev. Philip Le Breton, R. of St. Saviour’s, Jersey). _b._ St. Saviour’s rectory, Jersey 30 Oct. 1806; ed. at Mr. Cogan’s school, Walthamstow with Benjamin Disraeli and Milner Gibson; also at Westminster and Paris; solicitor in London 1828–51; barrister I.T. 1 May 1854; revising barrister for West Surrey several years; lived at Hampstead 1851 to death; member for Hampstead of Metropolitan board of works 1 July 1859 to Nov. 1879; presented with a public testimonial including gift of £500 for his activity in preserving Hampstead Heath 1871. _d._ 6 Worsley road, Hampstead 6 Aug. 1884. _bur._ in old Hampstead churchyard. _F. E. Baines’s Records of Hampstead_ (1890) 152, 184, 320, 362, 453–5. LE BRETON, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Le Breton, attorney general and bailiff of Jersey). _b._ Colomberie, St. Helier’s, Jersey 1790; educ. at Caen, Normandy as an American under the name of Burgh 1810–12 and fought several duels; advocate of Jersey bar 8 Aug. 1812; col. of Jersey Town regt. 17 July 1820 to 1850; shot Aaron de Ste Croix in a duel 1820; attorney general 25 March 1824; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Feb. 1847, after the visit of the Queen to Jersey in Sep. 1846; bailiff of Jersey 22 June 1848 to death. _d._ The Terrace, St. Helier’s, Jersey 24 Nov. 1857. _The Jersey Independent 25 Nov. 1857 p._ 2. LE BRETON, WILLIAM CORBET (only son of William Le Breton). _b._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 1815; ed. Winchester and at Pemb. coll. Oxf. 1831–37, Morley scholar; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1837 to 8 July 1842; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; dean of Jersey 26 Dec. 1849 to death; R. of St. Saviour’s, Jersey 1850–75; R. of St. Helier’s, Jersey 1875 to death; father of Lilian Langtry, actress. _d._ London 28 Feb. 1888. LE BRUN, John. _b._ Switzerland; ed. at Gosport, Hampshire; ordained Congregationalist in Jersey 25 Nov. 1813; minister of the London missionary society at Port Louis, Mauritius 18 May 1814 to 1832 and 27 Dec. 1841 to death; returned to Mauritius on his own account 1834, built a chapel at Port Louis and established schools in Mauritius. _d._ Port Louis 21 Feb. 1865. LECHMERE-CHARLTON, EDMUND (elder son of Nicholas Lechmere of Hanley castle and Ludlow, who assumed additional surname of Charlton 1784). _b._ 20 Sep. 1789; M.P. for Ludlow 8 Jany. 1835 to 18 July 1837. _d._ 1857. LECKENBY, JOHN. _b._ Ripon 20 Sep. 1814; managed different branches of Yorkshire banking company; treasurer of Scarborough many years; F.G.S. 1859. _d._ Scarton 7 April 1877. LECKIE, ELIZABETH (dau. of John Horner of Edinburgh, linen factor). _m._ George Leckie; author of The Village School, a story. Edinb. 1837; The power of conscience, a dramatic poem 1841; The stepmother 1842; The Hebrew boy 1842; The guardian 1843; The dream of the western shepherd 1845. _d._ Edinburgh, March 1856. LECLERCQ, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Clark. _b._ 20 Sep. 1797; made his first appearance on opening night of the Sans Pareil theatre, London as a dancer 27 Nov. 1806; chief dancer and inventor of the ballets at Surrey and Coburg theatres; manager of the Olympic about 1826; ballet master at Adelphi theatre, Glasgow 1844; ballet master at Olympic 1846, at Haymarket 1851 to death; his second wife Margaret Leclercq was well known as a dancer, she _d._ Bedford house, Carlyle sq. London 28 June 1889 aged 77. He _d._ 16 Albert st. Regent’s park, London 26 Nov. 1861. _Era 1 Dec. 1861 p._ 10. NOTE.--His son Arthur Leclercq played harlequin in the pantomime Undine or the spirit of the waters, at Haymarket theatre Dec. 1858 to Feb. 1859, he was subsequently acting manager for Charles Fechter until his death in 1879 when he became acting manager for Mr. O’Neil; he died at his residence Fort Hamilton, Long Island, U.S. of America about 18 January 1890. LECONFIELD, GEORGE WYNDHAM, 1 Baron (eld. natural child of 3 Earl of Egremont 1751–1837). _b._ St. Marylebone, London 5 June 1787; cornet 5 dragoon guards 31 March 1803; captain 72 foot 19 Sep. 1805; lieut. 1 foot guards 13 Nov. 1807; major 78 foot 31 Jany. 1811; major 12 light dragoons 25 April 1811; lieut.-col. 20 light dragoons 10 Dec. 1812, placed on h.p. 25 June 1816; served in Spain and Portugal, taken prisoner by the French Aug. 1810; came into the estate of Petworth, Sussex and others adjoining and £60,000 on his father’s death 1837; sheriff of Sussex 1842; created baron Leconfield of Leconfield in the east riding of the county of York 14 April 1859. _d._ Petworth, Sussex 18 March 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000 22 May