Modern English biography

_bur._ Highgate cemet. 1 April. _Medical Press and Circular_, _i_ 290–91, 306 (1876); _I.L.N. lxviii_ 373, 374 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 366, 381 (1876), _portrait_. LE THIERE, SOPHIE ADÉLE GUILLON (eld. dau. of Madame Michaud, professor of dancing). Professor of dancing under name of Madame Adelaide at 109 New Bond st. London 1855 to death. _d._ 109 New Bond st. 5 March 1883. LETTS, THOMAS (son of John Letts of London, bookbinder). _b._ Stockwell, London 1803; stationer with his father at 95 Cornhill, succeeded to the business, carried it on at 8 Royal Exchange 1838 to death; devoted himself specially to manufacture of diaries, of which he was issuing 28 varieties in 1839, also issued interest tables, medical diaries, office calendars, &c. of which he sold several hundred thousand annually; erected large factories at North road, New Cross 1865, the business was turned into a limited liability company shortly after his death, but in 1885 the company went into liquidation, and the business was purchased by Cassell & Co.; Lett’s Diaries are descanted on by Thackeray in his Roundabout Papers No. 18 in Cornhill Mag. Jany. 1862. _d._ Granville park, Lewisham 9 Aug. 1873. LETTSOM, WILLIAM GARROW. _b._ 1804; attaché at Berlin 5 Aug. 1831, at Munich 1834; paid attaché at Washington 21 Dec. 1840; sec. of legation at Mexico 12 July 1854, and chargé d’affaires 4 May 1855 to 19 May 1858; chargé d’affaires and consul general to Uruguay 9 Sep. 1859, retired on a pension of £900, 29 July 1869; F.R.A.S.; author with R. P. Greg of Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland 1858. _d._ 142 Norwood road, Lower Norwood, Surrey 14 Dec. 1887. LETTSOM, WILLIAM NANSON (son of John Miers Lettsom, physician 1771–99). _b._ 4 Feb. 1796; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, where he printed Epigrammata numismate annuo dignata 1816; Poema numismate annus dignatum 1816; author of The fall of the Nibelungers: otherwise the book of Kriemhild, a translation 1850, 2 ed. 1873; The song of Flogawaya 1856, anon., a parody on Hiawatha; edited W. S. Walker’s Shakespeare’s Versification 1854 and his A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare 1860. _d._ 43 Westbourne park, London 3 Sep. 1865. LEUPOLT, CHARLES BENJAMIN. _b._ 1805; ed. Missionary coll. Basel, Switzerland; ordained by Bp. of Lincoln 1831; missionary of Church missionary soc. at Benares 1832–72; R. of Brampton, Norfolk 1874 to death; author of Recollections of an Indian missionary 1846, 2 ed. 1863; Further recollections of an Indian missionary 1884, portrait. _d._ Marsham hall, Norwich 16 Dec. 1884. LEVANDER, HENRY CHARLES (1 son of James Levander). _b._ Norwich 1826; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1863; a classical master in Univ. coll. sch. London 1866–84; a great freemason; F.R.A.S. 12 April 1872; author of The public school French grammar by A. Brachet, revised by P. H. E. Brette and H. C. Levander 1884, new ed. 1884. _d._ 30 North villas, Camden sq. London 4 Dec. 1884. _bur._ West Hampstead cemetery 6 Dec. _Monthly notices R. Astronom. soc. xlv_ 193 (1885). LEVEN and MELVILLE, DAVID LESLIE-MELVILLE, Earl of. _b._ Spring gardens, London 22 June 1785; styled Viscount Balgonie 1785–1820; lieut. R.N. 8 Aug. 1806, captain 28 Feb. 1812; succeeded his father as 11 Earl of Leven and 8 Earl of Melville 22 Feb. 1820; R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired V.A. 27 Sep. 1855; representative peer for Scotland 1831 to death. _d._ Melville house, Fifeshire 8 Oct. 1860. LEVEN and MELVILLE, JOHN THORNTON LESLIE-MELVILLE, Earl of. _b._ 18 Dec. 1786; succeeded his brother 8 Oct. 1860 as 12 Earl of Leven and 9 Earl of Melville; a representative peer for Scotland 1865 to death. _d._ Glenferness near Dunphail, Nairnshire 18 Sep. 1876, personalty under £300,000, 2 Oct. 1876. _I.L.N. lxix_ 324, 327 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 337, 339 (1876), _portrait_. LEVER, CHARLES (son of Ellis Lever). _b._ Gorton near Manchester 15 Feb. 1862; member of majority of the electrical societies in Europe and America; patented his electric lamp 1881; had a diploma for his services at London fisheries exhibition 1883; resided at Culcheth hall, Bowden, Cheshire; found dead in his bed at the res. of his father Tan-y-Bryn, Colwyn bay, Carnarvon 5 Jany. 1890. _I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p._ 111, _portrait_. LEVER, _Charles James_ (younger son of James Lever of Dublin, builder 1763–1833). _b._ Amiens st. Dublin 31 Aug. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin as a pensioner 14 Oct. 1822, B.A. 1827, B.M. 1831, LL.D. 1871; M.D. Louvain; practised as a physician at Derry and Coleraine; became a contributor to Dublin Univ. mag. May 1836 and editor March 1842 to 1845; physician at Brussels 1837–41; travelled in Germany and Italy 1845–58; vice consul at Spezzia 26 Nov. 1858 to 13 Feb. 1867 when the post was abolished; consul general at Trieste 2 March 1867 to death; author of The confessions of Harry Lorrequer. Dublin 1839, anon.; Charles O’Malley the Irish dragoon. Edited by Harry Lorrequer 2 vols. 1841; Arthur O’Leary: his wanderings and ponderings in many lands. Edited by his friend Harry Lorrequer 3 vols. 1844; Our Mess, vol. 1 Jack Hinton the guardsman, vols. 2 and 3 Tom Burke of ours 3 vols. 1843; The knight of Gwynne 2 vols. 1847; The O’Donoghue 1845; Diary and notes of Horace Templeton, Esq. 2 vols. 1848, anon.; The confessions of Con Cregan the Irish Gil Blas 2 vols. 1849, anon.; Roland Cashel 2 vols. 1850; The Daltons 2 vols. 1852; Lord Kilgobbin 3 vols. 1872; Novels, new ed. illustrated 33 vols. 1876–8. _d._ Trieste 1 June 1872. _Fitzpatrick’s Life of C. Lever 2 vols._ (1879), _New ed._ (1884), _portrait_; _Illustrated Rev. ii_ 1–5 (1870), _portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 98–100, _portrait_; _Modern men of letters by J. H. Friswell_ (1870) 171–82 _Dublin Univ. Mag._ (1880) 465, 570; _Blackwood’s Mag. April 1862 pp._ 452–72, _July 1872 pp._ 129–30, _and Sep. 1872 pp._ 327–60; _I.L.N. lx_ 581, 582 (1872), _portrait_, _lxi_ 431 (1872); _Graphic_, _v_ 600, 611 (1872), _portrait_. NOTE.--His only son Charles Sidney Lever, lieutenant 2 dragoon guards 1860–2, _d._ Florence 28 Sep. 1863 aged 26. LEVER, JOHN CHARLES WEAVER. _b._ Plumstead, Kent 28 Sep. 1811; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1834; M.D. Giessen 1842; M.R.C.P. 1842; surgeon Bridgehouse place, Newington-causeway, Surrey 1834–42; president Hunterian soc.; physician 12 Wellington st. London bridge 1842 to death, he almost monopolized the consulting practice of the south of London; lecturer on midwifery and physician-accoucheur Guy’s hospital 1845; author of Case of hidrosis or hidrotic fever 1837; A treatise on diseases of the uterus 1843. d. London 29 Dec. 1858. _Lancet_, _i_ 75 (1859); _Catalogue Surgeon general’s library_, _viii_ 89 (1887). LEVERELL, W. H. _b._ London 1 Dec. 1832; ed. Kingston gram. sch.; apprentice to Cox & Son, printers, London; a sculler; took part in the swimming races 1846–53; swam many times at the Holborn baths, where in 1852 he was the champion swimmer; in the light division in the Crimea 1854–5, attached to the land transport corps, went on two expeditions to Kertch, received Sebastopol and Turkish medals; again a printer; on staff of Bell’s Life in London from March 1870; connected also with The Field and The Glowworm. _d._ London 24 April 1886. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 30 April. _Sporting Mirror_, _ii_ 165–6 (1881), _portrait_. LEVESON, HENRY ASTBURY. _b._ 18 June 1828; entered Madras army 10 Jany. 1845, ensign 13 Madras N.I. 2 April 1845, lieut. 15 Dec. 1846, resigned 15 April 1853; a well known sportsman in India 1845–53; on Turkish staff in Crimean war, being only English officer so employed; at the Alma, at Inkerman and at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served with Garibaldi in 1860; colonial sec. at Lagos 1863, where in fighting the natives he received an iron bullet in his head, from the effect of which he never fully recovered, invalided home 8 Feb. 1864, voted £500 by the colony and £500 by parliament; served in the Abyssinian war 1868; killed more game in all parts of the world than any other man; author of The spear and the rifle, or recollections of sport in India. By An Old Shekarree 1860; The hunting grounds of the old world 1860; England rendered impregnable by the organisation and equipment of national forces 1871; The forest and the field. By H.A.L., the Old Shekarree 1867, 2 ed. 1874; Camp life and its acquirements for soldiers, travellers and sportsmen 1872; Wrinkles or hints to sportsmen and travellers