Modern English biography

LENDY, AUGUSTE FREDERIC. _b._ 1826; captain of the French army staff; came to England as military tutor to the Orlean princes 1848; started a private military college at Sunbury house, Sunbury-on-Thames; a successful ‘crammer’ for the army; lieut. 4th or royal South Middlesex militia 24 Nov. 1862, captain 2 May 1866, retired with hon. rank of major 1 Feb. 1879; an amateur grower of orchids; author of The principles of war 1853; Elements of fortification 1857; Maxims, advice and instruction on the art of war 1857, new ed. 1864; Campaigns of Napoleon and of Wellington 1861, nineteen parts; A practical course of military surveying 1864. _d._ Riverside house, Sunbury-on-Thames 10 Oct. 1889. _Broad Arrow 19 Oct. 1889 p._ 479; _Gardener’s Mag. 19 Oct. 1889_. LENNARD, THOMAS BARRETT (1 son of sir T. B. Lennard, bart. 1761–1857). _b._ 4 Oct. 1788; ed. Charterhouse and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; M.P. Ipswich 1820–6; M.P. Maldon 1826–37 and 1847–52; contested Maldon 26 July 1837; F.S.A. 22 May 1851. _d._ Brighton 9 June 1856. LENNIE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1779; taught English at Edinburgh 1802 to death; author of The principles of English grammar 1821, 85th ed. Edinb. 1886; left an endowment of £10 a year to a school at Craigend, Perthshire; left by his will to town council of Edinburgh the lands of Auchenresch, Dumfriesshire for founding in univ. of Edinb. four bursaries of £12 each to be called the Lennie bursaries. _d._ 23 St. Andrew’s sq. Edinburgh 20 July 1852. LENNOCK, GEORGE GUSTAVUS. _b._ 1776 or 1777; entered navy April 1789; in command of the Raven 16 guns attacked 14 brigs at Flushing and drove 3 of them on shore 3 July 1812; captain 4 June 1814; in command of the Esk 20 guns had an action with the Grampus and Terpsichore two American vessels 1814; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Broomrig, co. Dumfries 12 May 1866. LENNOX, ALEXANDER FRANCIS CHARLES GORDON (son of 5 duke of Richmond 1791–1860). _b._ 14 June 1825; cornet royal horse guards 8 Feb. 1842, capt. 30 March 1847, sold out 14 May 1852; M.P. Shoreham 1849–59. _d._ 25 Pont st. London 22 Jany. 1892. LENNOX, ARTHUR GORDON (7 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819). _b._ 2 Oct. 1806; ensign 71 foot 24 June 1823, major 6 July 1838 to 14 April 1843; lieut.-col. 72 foot 14 April 1843, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1845; lieut.-col. 68 foot 14 Sep. 1852, sold out 30 Dec. 1853; a lord of the treasury 21 May 1844 to 8 Aug. 1845; a clerk of the ordnance 7 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; M.P. for Chichester 1831–46 when he voted for free trade and accepted the Chiltern hundreds; returned for Yarmouth 29 July 1847, unseated on petition 8 July 1848; lieut.-col. commandant 1 royal Sussex militia 14 Dec. 1854 to death. _d._ Ovington sq. Brompton, London 15 Jany. 1864. LENNOX, GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (4 son of 5 duke of Richmond 1791–1860). _b._ Goodwood 22 Oct. 1829; cornet royal horse guards 3 April 1846, lieut. 14 May 1852, sold out 22 April 1853; M.P. Lymington 1860–74. _d._ 27 Berkeley square, London 27 Feb. 1877. LENNOX, HENRY GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (brother of the preceding). _b._ Goodwood, Sussex 2 Nov. 1821; ed. at Westminster 1836–40 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; M.P. Chichester 1846–85; a lord of the treasury 28 Feb. 1852 to 20 Dec. 1852 and 1 March 1858 to 14 March 1859; sec. to admiralty July 1866 to Dec. 1868; P.C. 7 July 1874; president of board of works Feb. 1874 to July 1876; author of A winter in Madeira 1881; Forewarned, forearmed, a statement of the strength of the English and French navies 1882, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ at his res. near Chichester 28 Aug. 1886. LENNOX, JOHN GEORGE GORDON (2 son of 4 duke of Richmond. 1764–1819). _b._ 3 Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster; cornet 13 dragoons 24 Oct. 1811; captain 9 dragoons 27 June 1816, placed on h.p. 25 June 1823; A.D.C. to duke of Wellington 1813; lieut.-col. in the army 12 June 1823; gentleman of bedchamber to prince Albert; M.P. Chichester 1819–31; M.P. Sussex 1831–2; M.P. West Sussex 1832–41. _d._ Darland, Chatham 10 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 495 (1873). LENNOX, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ 1797 or 1798; entered Bengal army 1817; ensign 22 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1818; captain 43 N.I. 23 April 1830, major 11 Nov. 1847 to 14 July 1853; lieut.-col. of 67 N.I. 14 July 1853–4, of 38 N.I. 1854–6, of 22 N.I. 1856–7, of 34 N.I. 1857–9, of 63 N.I. 1859–61, of 9 N.I. 1861; retired with rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Glasgow 5 May 1884. LENNOX, WILLIAM PITT (4 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819). _b._ Winestead abbey, Yorkshire 20 Sep. 1799; ed. at Westminster 1808–13; cornet royal horse guards 13 May 1813, captain 28 March 1822, sold out 25 March 1829; went to Paris with Duke of Wellington as attaché 8 Aug. 1814, A.D.C. to the Duke 1815–8; an extra A.D.C. to his father while governor general of Canada 1818–9; one of the pages at coronation of George IV. 19 July 1821; M.P. King’s Lynn 10 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; edited The Review newspaper 1858; contributed to the Annuals, Once a Week and the Court Journal; gave many lectures; is depicted by Disraeli in Vivian Grey as Lord Prima Donna; author of Compton Audley, or hands not hearts 3 vols. 1841; The tuft hunter 3 vols. 1843; The story of my life 3 vols. 1857; Recreations of a sportsman 2 vols. 1862; Life of the Fifth Duke of Richmond 1862, anon., and many other books. _d._ 34 Hans place, Sloane st. London 18 Feb. 1881. _W. P. Lennox’s Fifty years reminiscences 2 vols._ (1863); _W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections 2 vols._ (1874). LENTAIGNE, SIR JOHN FRANCIS O’NEILL (1 son of Benjamin Lentaigne of Dublin, physician, _d._ 1813). _b._ 20 June 1803; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.B. 1828; L.R.C.S.I 1830, F.R.C.S.I. 1844; government comr. of loan funds 1841; inspector general of prisons, Ireland 1854–77; governor of Richmond district lunatic asylum; sheriff of Monaghan 1844; contested co. Dublin 26 July 1852; a comr. of national education Ireland 1861 to death; president of Zoological soc; president of Statistical soc.; M.R.I.A.; C.B. 27 March 1873, K.C.B. 28 April 1880; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland at Dublin castle 28 April 1880; knight of order of Pius IX. _d._ 1 Great Denmark st. Dublin 12 Nov. 1886. LENTHALL, FRANCIS KYFFIN (3 son of Kyffin John William Lenthall 1789–1870). _b._ 30 March 1824; a lineal descendant of William Lenthall the speaker, through whom he owned Besselsleigh manor near Abingdon; barrister L.I. 1 May 1846; recorder of Woodstock, Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1885; assist. revising barrister for county and city of Worcester 1868, and for Gloucestershire 1869; author of Correspondence by F. K. Lenthall and others respecting the memorial to Lord Romilly 1866. _d._ Besselsleigh manor, Berks. Jany. 1892. LEONARD, DENIS. _b._ Kilkenny 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; an attorney; appeared at a minor London theatre under name of Mr. O’Neil; played sir Lucius O’Trigger at the Haymarket; acted in America, the Southern States and Canada; acted in the provinces; again visited America; the leading Irish actor of his time; played Richmond to Kean’s Richard III. in Belfast 1830; played all Tyrone Power’s Irish parts at the Haymarket, at the T.R. Dublin 1843 &c. and in America; his drama The Foster Brothers produced in Belfast about 1867; an attorney in Belfast and law agent for marquess of Downshire. _d._ 8 Cromwell terrace, Belfast 31 May 1878. LEONARD, JOHN PATRICK. _b._ Ireland; connected with sir C. G. Duffy in the 1848 movement in Ireland; a resident in Paris from 1849; professor of English in the Collége Chaptal to death; a medical man in Franco-German war, attended marshall Mac Mahon when wounded outside Sedan Aug. 1870, very friendly with the marshall and the duchess of Magenta; published Sermon on behalf of the distressed Irish by G. Mermillod, bishop of Hebron, a translation 1862. _d._ Paris, Aug. 1889. _bur._ Ballymor near Queenstown 27 Oct. LEONARD, PETER. _b._ St. Vigeans, Arbroath 1801; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1822; M.D. of St. Andrew’s 1851; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon R.N. 6 March 1823, fleet surgeon 1829; inspector general of hospitals 15 March 1865, retired 19 Sep. 1866; first inspector general under contagious diseases act and organizer of the administration 1866; wrote a Naval medical journal of services in South America, for which he received sir G. Blaine’s gold medal; deputy inspector general at Chatham, then at Haslar; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £100 a year 24 March 1871; author of Records of a voyage to the Western coast of Africa and of the service in that station for the suppression of the slave trade. Edinb. 1833. _d._ Arbroath 2 May 1888. LEOPOLD, GEORGE CHRISTIAN FREDERICK, king of the Belgians as Leopold I. (3 son of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of Saxe-Cobourg 1750–1806). _b._ Cobourg 16 Dec. 1790; came to England in 1814 and lived in lodgings at a grocer’s at 21 High st. Marylebone; came to England 20 Feb. 1816; naturalized by act 56 George III. cap. 13, 29 March 1816; granted Claremont house and grounds for his life. _m._ 2 May 1816 the princess Charlotte Augusta only child of George IV., she _d._ at Claremont 6 Nov. 1817; G.C.H. 22 March 1816; a general 2 May 1816 and field marshall 24 May 1816; G.C.B. 23 May 1816; K.G. 23 May 1816; P.C. 1 July 1816; entered into a marriage contract with Karoline Bauer a German actress 2 July 1829 and lived with her in London till June 1830 when contract was dissolved; declined the throne of Greece, May 1830; resided at Claremont till 16 July 1831; elected king of the Belgians 4 June and ascended the throne 22 July 1831. _m._ (2) 9 Aug. 1832 the princess Louise eld. dau. of Louis Philippe king of the French, she _d._ 11 Oct. 1850; the income of £50,000 settled on him in 1816 he continued to hold after he became king, but after paying for keeping up Claremont, servants’ pensions, &c. he annually returned the balance of about £38,000 into the exchequer. _d._ Palace of Laeken 10 Dec. 1865. _Lady Rose Weigall’s Brief memoir of the Princess Charlotte_ (1874); _The Princess Charlotte of Wales. By Mrs. C. R. Jones_ (1885), _portraits_; _Authentic Memoirs of the princess Charlotte_ (1817) _portrait_; _Memoirs of prince Leopold_ (1817), _portrait_; _Westminster Review_, _April 1885 pp._ 460–88; _Posthumous memoirs of Karoline Bauer ii_ 34–336 (1884); _Martin’s Life of prince consort_, _ii_ 249 (1876), _portrait_; _Illustrated Times 30 Dec. 1865 p._ 413, _portrait_. LEOTARD, MONSIEUR. _b._ Toulouse, France 1 Aug. 1838; performer on the flying trapèze abroad; introduced the trapèze performance into England, first appearing at the Alhambra palace, London 20 May 1861; performed at Alhambra again 1866 and reappeared there 9 April 1868; broke his leg performing at Madrid, May 1865; made his début in America at Academy of Music, New York 29 Oct. 1868, returned to Europe 14 Nov. having made a great failure in New York. _d._ of small pox at Toulouse about 16 Aug. 1870. _Memoires de Léotard. Paris_ (1860), _portrait_; _C. Spencer’s Modern gymnast_ (1866) 102 _etc._ LEPARD, JOHN. Bookseller at 108 Strand, London 1818–20; member of firm of booksellers known as Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Lepard at the Temple of the Muses, 23 Finsbury place, London 1820–5; partner with Joseph Harding at 4 Pall Mall east 1825–39; connected with Day & Martin, blacking manufacturers, 97 High Holborn in 1859. _d._ Hampstead 16 Oct. 1878 aged 87. LEPPINGTON, JOHN CROSBY (son of rev. John C. Leppington _d._ 1833). _b._ Sunderland 21 Oct. 1807; ed. at Woodhouse grove school 1815; preached when quite a child; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Melton Mowbray 1832; became a supernumerary in London 1849 refusing to receive any support from the Connexional funds; wrote much for the Wesleyan Mag.; author of The confessional in the Church of England, and other essays on the Anglican controversy 1860. _d._ near London 7 July 1859. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. LE QUESNE, CHARLES (eld. son of Nicholas Le Quesne a jurat of the royal court, Jersey, _d._ 1847). _b._ Jersey 1811; a jurat of the royal court, Jersey 2 July 1850 to death; president of Jersey chamber of commerce; a member of the states of Jersey; an officer in Jersey artillery many years; author of Ireland and the Channel islands, or a remedy for Ireland 1848; A constitutional history of Jersey 1856. _d._ Gloucester st. St. Heliers, Jersey 18 Aug. 1856. _bur._ Green st. cemetery 22 Aug. _J. B. Payne’s Armorial of Jersey_ (1865) 250; _The Jersey Independent 23 Aug. 1856 p._ 2. LESCHALLAS, JOHN. Builder at 10 Booth st. Spitalfields, London to death; resided at Page green, Tottenham, Middlesex, where he _d._ 18 Oct. 1877 in 86 year; will proved 3 Dec. under £500,000; left sums of £500 each to 13 hospitals and institutions. _The Times 7 Dec. 1877 p._ 9. LESLIE, ARTHUR. _b._ 1817; ensign 8 foot 20 Nov. 1838; captain 40 foot 19 June 1846, lieut.-col. 6 Aug. 1858 to 8 June 1867; C.B. 2 May 1862. _d._ Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 12 Sep. 1878. LESLIE, CHARLES (1 son of John Leslie 1772–1854, bishop of Elphin 1819). _b._ 7 Oct. 1810; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; incumbent of Drung, co. Cavan; vicar general of Ardagh to March 1870; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, March 1870, consecrated 19 April 1870, enthroned in Kilmore cathedral 26 May 1870; the first bp. appointed after the disestablishment of the Irish ch. _d._ the Parsonage house, Drung, co. Cavan 8 July 1870. _bur._ Kilmore 14 July. _The Times 11 July 1870 p._ 5. LESLIE, CHARLES JOSEPH (4 son of John Leslie 1751–1828). _b._ 1785; ensign 29 foot 18 Dec. 1806; captain 60 rifles 17 May 1820, major 18 Dec. 1828 to 28 Dec. 1832 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1836; author of Historical records of the family of Leslie