Modern English biography

LESLIE, JAMES (son of James Leslie, quarter master at taking of Quebec). _b._ Kair, Kincardineshire 1786; merchant at Montreal; served with Montreal volunteers in war of 1812, lieut.-col. 1862; member for Montreal in Lower Canada assembly 1824 and in the Dominion assembly for Verchēres 1844–8; member of legislative council 1848, president March to Sep. 1848; provincial sec. 1848–51; member of the senate 1867 to death. _d._ Montreal 1873. LESLIE, JOHN (younger son of Charles Powell Leslie of Glasslough, M.P. for co. Monaghan, _d._ 1800). _b._ Glasslough, co. Monaghan 12 Oct. 1772; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1794, M.A. 1805; dean of Cork 5 Oct. 1807 to 1812; prebendary of Armagh 19 March 1808 to 1812; bishop of Dromore by patent 14 Jany. 1812, consecrated at Armagh 26 Jany., enthroned by proxy 27 Feb.; translated to Elphin 16 Nov. 1819; bishop of united dioceses of Kilmore, Ardagh and Elphin, Oct. 1841 to death. _d._ The Palace, Kilmore 22 July 1854. LESLIE, JOHN. Ensign 69 foot 7 Aug. 1806, major 1 Jany. 1819 to 29 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 4 foot 25 Jany. 1839 to 29 Dec. 1848 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 35 foot 26 Sep. 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858. _d._ Brighton 12 Feb. 1861 aged 70. LESLIE, JOHN ROBERT. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, fellow 1858 to death; B.A. 1852, M.A. 1856; Erasmus Smith’s professor of natural and experimental philosophy 1870 to death. _d._ Finea, co. Westmeath 2 Jany. 1881. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery 5 Jany. LESLIE, MARTIN EDWARD (2 son of Thomas Haworth of Balham Wood, Herts.) _b._ 1810; ed. at Eton; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 28 Sep. 1826, captain 27 Oct. 1837, sold out 17 Nov. 1837; an extra foreign service messenger at Constantinople 4 Jany. 1855 to 30 Sep. 1858, a queen’s foreign service messenger 7 Nov. 1859, resigned 13 May 1872; master of the Hampshire hounds; assisted in revival of coaching and in placing the Old Times on the London and Brighton road, which he often drove 1868; author of The silver greyhound, incidents of travel 1880; Road scrapings, coaches and coaching 1880. _m._ 11 Aug. 1835 Mary Elizabeth (2 dau. of George Gwythyr by Henrietta countess of Rothes). She was _b._ 9 July 1811, became 16 countess of Rothes 1886 when her husband assumed name of Leslie 20 March 1886. He _d._ 26 York st. Portman sq. London 2 Nov. 1886. _bur._ Kensal green. _Baily’s Mag. xlvi_ 522–3 (1886). LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE (2 son of Edward Leslie 1792–1865, R. of Annahilt, co. Down). _b._ co. Wexford 21 June 1826; ed. at King William’s coll. Isle of Man, and Trin. coll. Dublin, classical scholar 1845, B.A. 1847, LL.B. 1851, hon. LL.D.; called to Irish bar 1850; professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen’s college, Belfast 1853; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858, never practised; examiner and professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen’s Univ. Ireland 1871 to death; contributed to Fraser’s Mag., Macmillan’s Mag. and other periodicals; elected without ballot member of Athenæum club, London Feb. 1880; author of The military systems of Europe economically considered. Belfast 1856; Land systems and industrial economy of Ireland, England and continental countries 1870; Financial reform 1872, 2 ed. 1872; Essays in political and moral philosophy 1878. _d._ Botanic Avenue, Belfast 27 Jany. 1882. _T. E. Cliffe Leslie. Memorial to W. E. Gladstone. Privately printed January 1882_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 23–26 (1881); _Times 30 Jany. 1882 p._ 7 _col._ 2; _Irish Law Times_, _xvi_ 65 (1882). LESLIE, THOMAS JEFFERSON (brother of Charles Robert Leslie 1794–1859). _b._ London 2 Nov. 1796; ed. at United States military academy; paymaster of engineers 1815–38, 2 lieut. 1816, 1 lieut. 1819, major and paymaster 1838; chief of paymaster’s department, New York district, during the civil war 1861–5; brevet brigadier general 1865; retired 1869. _d._ New York city 25 Nov. 1874. LESLIE, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Leslie of Warthill, Pitcraple, Aberdeenshire). _b._ Warthill 16 March 1814; a partner in Dent and Co., China; M.P. co. Aberdeen 1861–66. _d._ Warthill 4 March 1880. LESSLIE, JAMES. _b._ Dundee 1802; bookseller and stationer Kingston, Canada 1820, removed to York afterward named Toronto; member of Toronto first city council; one of the founders of the House of industry 1836; president of the Bank of the People, which was merged in the Bank of Montreal; arrested at commencement of insurrection of 1837 but released; purchased Examiner newspaper, Toronto 1844, editor from 1845 till he sold it in 1854; retired from business 1855. _d._ Eglinton, Ontario 19 April 1885. LESTER, ADA (dau. of James Akhurst, wine merchant, London). First appeared in London at Opera Comique 16 Oct. 1875 as Sophie Creyke in W. J. Austin’s farce A Tempting Bait; leading actress with Wm. Creswick in Australia 1877 &c.; played Florence Bertram in H. Williamson’s drama Estranged, at Globe theatre 3 Aug. 1881; sailed from Liverpool in company with eleven artists to fulfil an engagement in Bombay 17 Oct. 1881; drowned in the Clan Macduff in the Irish sea 19 Oct. 1881. _The Era 29 Oct. 1881 p._ 9. LESTER, FREDERICK PARKINSON (3 son of John Lester of 1 Racquet court, Fleet st. London, coal merchant). _b._ 3 Feb. 1795; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 25 Oct. 1811, col. 23 Feb. 1852 to death; served 37 years in India; commissary of stores; secretary to military board, member of military board; introduced a system of bookkeeping by double entry 1834; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; inspector general ordnance commissariat department 27 Aug. 1856 to 14 April 1857; commanded Southern division of Bombay army at Belgaum 14 April 1857 to death; prevented the mutiny spreading to Western India by his wise measures; found _dead_ in his bed at Belgaum 3 July 1858. _Sir George Le Grand Jacob’s Western India_ (1871) 213–16; _W. K. Stuart’s Reminiscences of a soldier_, _ii_ 292–5 (1874). LESTER, JOSEPH DUNN (1 son of John Lester of Aberystwith). _b._ 1842; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1861–5, B.A. 1865; assistant master in Wellington coll. Wokingham 1867 to death; author of A short German accidence for the use of Wellington college 1867; A German accidence with a minor syntax 1870; Germanica, exercises in German composition 1872. _d._ Crawthorne, Wokingham 2 Dec. 1875. LESTOURGEON, CHARLES (son of a surgeon). _b._ Cambridge 1808; ed. Trin. coll. as a foundation scholar, 15 wrangler and B.A. 1828, M.A. 1833; L.S.A. 1841; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Cambridge with an extensive practice; surgeon to Addenbrooke’s hospital 25 years; an examiner in surgery at Camb. and member of the board of medical studies. _d._ The Close, Huntingdon road, Cambridge 22 Feb. 1891. L’ESTRANGE, FRANCIS. Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; F.R.C.S.I. 1833; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1859; L.M. Rotunda hospital 1859; surgeon dentist 39 Dawson st. Dublin to 1872; state surgeon dentist to lord lieutenant; invented Patent truss and Screw lithotrite tourniquet. _d._ Landour, Raglan road, Dublin 6 Jany. 1875 aged 72. L’ESTRANGE, SIR GEORGE BURDETT (2 son of Henry Peisley L’Estrange of Moystown, King’s county). _b._ 1796; ed. at Westminster sch. 1807–10; ensign 31 regt. 1812; present at Vittoria; ensign 3 foot guards 2 July 1815, placed on h.p. 11 July 1822; chamberlain to Earl St. Germans, viceroy of Ireland 1853–55; gentleman usher of the black rod to order of St. Patrick 1858 to death; knighted by Earl of Carlisle at Dublin