Modern English biography

Blackheath, Kent 19 Sep. 1891. _Academy 3 Oct. 1891 p._ 284. LEFROY, JEFFREY (brother of Anthony Lefroy 1800–90). _b._ 1809 or 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1848, member of the senate; R. of Aghaderg, co. Down 1836 to death; dean of Dromore 1876 to death. _d._ Aghaderg Glebe 10 Dec. 1885. LEFROY, SIR JOHN HENRY (son of John Henry George Lefroy, R. of Ashe, Hants., _d._ 1823). _b._ Ashe 28 Jany. 1817; ed. at Alton, Richmond, and R.M. acad. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec 1834, col. 9 Feb. 1865, col. commandant 13 Feb. 1881 to death; sec. of the Royal artillery institution 1838–9 and again 1849; director of magnetical observatory at St. Helena 1840–2 and at Toronto 1842–53; travelled to Lachim and Hudson’s Bay 1843–4, determined approximate position of American forces of magnetic intensity; founded the Canadian institute at Toronto 1849; sec. of the Patriotic Fund 1854; a senior clerk in the war office 1854; scientific adviser on subjects of artillery and inventions at war office 1854–5; prepared a detailed scheme of military education 1856; inspector general of army schools Feb. 1857 to 1860 when office abolished; sent on a special mission to the Mediterranean fortresses; sec. of ordnance select committee 1860, pres. 1864; director general of ordnance 9 Dec. 1868 to March 1870; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda 8 April 1871 to 10 May 1877; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; governor of Tasmania, Oct. 1880 to Dec. 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 10 May 1882; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.G.S. 1853; F.S.A. 1884; C.B. 31 March 1870; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of A handbook for field service 1854, 4 ed. 1867; Observations made at St. Helena 1847; Notes and documents relating to the family of Loffroy 1868; Memorials of the discovery of the Bermudas or Somers island 2 vols. 1877–9; Diary of a magnetic survey of a portion of the dominion of Canada 1883. _d._ Lewarne near Liskeard, Cornwall 11 April 1890. _bur._ at Croudall, Hants. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 139–40 (1891); _Numismatic Chronicle_ (1890) 31–2; _Graphic 26 April 1890 p._ 533, _portrait_. LEFROY, PERCY, otherwise Percy Lefroy Mapleton (son of Henry Mapleton commander R.N. _d._ 1879, by Mary Trent dau. of Henry Seale colonial sec. of St. Helena). _b._ Alpha place, Queen’s road, Deptford 23 Feb. 1860; journalist writing for the weekly papers; author of two dramas which were not successful; shot and murdered Frederick Isaac Gold a retired London tradesman aged 64, in a railway carriage on London and Brighton and South coast railway while going through the Balcombe tunnel 27 June 1881, arrested on suspicion 8 July, tried at Maidstone assizes 5–7 Nov., confessed his guilt, hanged inside Lewes prison 29 Nov. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxix_ 37, 461 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxiv_ 96 (1881), _portrait_; _Temple Bar_, _Jany. 1886 pp._ 73–82; _Montagu Williams’ Leaves of a Life_ (1891) 277–94, 335–48. LEFROY, THOMAS EDWARD PRESTON (3 son of Antony Lefroy of Falford, Yorkshire, captain 65 foot). _b._ 30 Aug. 1815; a special pleader; barrister M.T. 7 June 1844; a revising barrister on the Northern circuit Aug. 1855; deputy judge of Bloomsbury county court 1857–65; judge of county courts, circuit 55 (Dorset and Somerset) 1 Jany. 1868, retired 10 Oct. 1880 on pension of £1000; author with H. I. Nicholl, J. M. Carrow and others of Cases relating to railways and canals 5 vols. 1840–50. _d._ Cambray, Bournemouth 25 July 1887. LEFROY, THOMAS LANGLOIS (eld. son of Anthony Lefroy of Carrickglass, co. Longford, lieut.-col. 9 light dragoons, _d._ 1819). _b._ co. Limerick 8 Jany. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795, LL.B. and LL.D. 1827; called to Irish bar 1797, practised in court of chancery; K.C. 1806; third serjeant at law in Ireland Dec. 1818, 2nd serjeant 1820, first serjeant 1822–30; bencher of King’s Inns 1819; a comr. of assize 1822, 1824; M.P. for univ. of Dublin 1830–41; fourth baron of court of exchequer, Ireland, Nov. 1841; lord chief justice of queen’s bench, Ireland, March 1852, resigned May 1866; author of Observations on the proceedings by elegit for the recovery of judgment debts. Dublin 1802; author with John Schoales of Reports of cases argued and determined in the high court of chancery in Ireland during the time of Lord Redesdale from Easter term 1802 to Easter term 1806, 2 vols. Dublin 1806–10. _d._ Newcourt villa, Bray near Dublin 4 May 1869. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 11 May. _T. Lefroy’s Memoir of chief justice Lefroy_ (1871), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxix_ 65–74 (1872); _Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 2 series_ (1846), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 346 (1848), _portrait_. LEFROY, THOMAS PAUL (2 son of the preceding). _b._ 31 Dec. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827; called to Irish bar 1831; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; bencher of King’s Inns 1860 to death; chairman of quarter sessions of co. Kildare 27 Dec. 1858 to Dec. 1890; county court judge of Armagh 1875, of Down 1880 to Dec. 1890; chancellor of diocesan court of Down, Connor and Dromore to