Modern English biography

Brighton 7 Sep. 1875. _Sport in many lands. By H.A.L. 2 vols._ (1879), _memoir vol. i pp. xv–xxxii_, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _iii_ 585, 587 (1875), _portrait_. LEVETT, JOHN. _b._ Battersea, Surrey 1 June 1826; ran John Tetlow of Hollingwood 4 miles for £50, Hyde Park, Sheffield 16 March 1852; ran George Frost the Suffolk stag for £100, the championship and belt, Copenhagen grounds, Islington 22 March 1852 running 10 miles and 252 yards in 52 min. 35 sec.; won the 20 mile race at Copenhagen grounds 29 March 1852; ran Richard Manks the Warwickshire Antelope for £50 at Hyde park, Sheffield 3 Dec. 1855 eleven miles in 1 hour; one of best known long distance runners; sprained his tendon Achilles about 1861 and had to give up running; a trainer of pedestrians; wrote a series of papers on How to train, in Illust. Sport. News 1862; wrote a farce produced at Queen’s Royal theatre, Dublin, in which he himself appeared 1861. _Illust. Sporting News_ (1862) 53, 100, 2 _portraits_. LEVEY, GEORGE. _b._ at place afterwards known as Westward Ho, Devon 12 Oct. 1802; member of firm of Levey, Robson and Franklyn, printers at 46 St. Martin’s lane, London 1836–41, then at 24 Great New st. 1841–64, carried on business alone at same address 1864–70, afterwards at 1 and 2 West Harding st. 1870 to death; author of Specimens of printing types in office of Levey, Robson and Franklyn 1850, in 20 languages. _d._ Camberwell 2 Feb. 1873. LEVEY, JOHN (youngest son of Richard Michael Levey of Dublin). An Irish character actor; dramatist; author of many pantomimes played in Yorkshire and Lancashire; lessee of several theatres. _d._ Seaforth, Liverpool 17 Sep. 1891. _bur._ in ground of R.C. chapel, Crosby. LEVI, LEONE (2 son of Isaac Levi a Jewish merchant at Ancona). _b._ Ancona 6 June 1821; entered office of his brother a merchant 1836; merchant at Liverpool 1844–7; naturalised 16 Jany. 1847; clerk in a mercantile house at Liverpool; advocated chambers of commerce; hon. sec. of Liverpool chamber of commerce 1849; lectured in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and elsewhere 1851–2; professor of principles and practice of commerce at King’s college, London 1852 to death; fellow of Statistical Soc. 1851, member of council 1860, vice pres. 1885; F.S.A. 14 Dec. 1854; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; a knight of the Italian orders of SS. Mauritius and Lazarus and of the Crown of Italy; became a member of Presbyterian church in England about 1846; author of Commercial law, its principles and administration 2 vols. 1851–2, 2nd ed. entitled International commercial law 2 vols. 1863; The law of nature and nations as affected by divine law 1855; Annals of British legislation 18 vols. 1856–68; History of British commerce and of the economic progress of the British nation 1763–1870. 1872, 2 ed. 1880. _d._ 31 Highbury grove, Highbury, London 7 May 1888. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 12 May. _L. Levi’s The story of my life. Privately printed_ (1888); _Journal of royal statistical soc. li_ 340–2 (1888); _I.L.N. xxvi_ 653, 654 (1855), _portrait_; _London Figaro 19 May 1888 p._ 11, _portrait_; _Law Journal_, _xxiii_ 259 (1888). LEVICKE, HENRY. The first European who took up his permanent abode at Suez 1846; pioneer of the mail service through Egypt; assisted lieut. Waghorn in arranging overland route 1845, often accompanied the dromedary mail across the desert; the first English acting vice-consul at Suez 1839 to June 1851; packet agent and postmaster to Her Majesty and agent to the H.E.I.Co.; the government ignored his claim to a pension for 41 years service. _d._ Dieppe, Oct. 1887. _bur._ there 28 Oct., left a widow and 22 children. LEVIEN, EDWARD (1 son of John Levien of Marylebone). _b._ 1819; ed. Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846; connected with univ. of Glasgow; assistant in MS. department, British museum 6 May 1850 to 1874; hon. sec. of British Archæol. Association, editor of the Annual Proceedings and writer of many papers in the Journal; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1858; author of A brief description of the town of Hadleigh in Suffolk 1853; Outlines of the history of Greece by W. D. Hamilton and E. Levien 1853; Outlines of the history of Rome 2 vols. 1855–6, never finished; Memoirs of Socrates for English readers, with notes 1872. _d._ 24 Camden st. London 7 Nov. 1874. _Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xxi_ 229 (1875). LEVINGE, SIR RICHARD GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 7 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Richard Levinge, 6 baronet 1765–1848). _b._ 1 Nov. 1811; ensign 43 foot 25 Nov. 1828, lieut. 8 April 1834; served in suppression of Canadian rebellion 1837–8; placed on h.p. with rank of captain 15 May 1840; captain 5 dragoon guards 27 Jany. 1843, sold out same day; lieut.-col. of Westmeath militia 3 Jany. 1846 to 22 Aug. 1850; sheriff of Westmeath 1851; contested Westmeath 22 July 1852 and 13 Feb. 1874; M.P. for Westmeath 1857 to 1865; author of Echoes from the backwoods, or sketches of transatlantic life 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1859; Historical notices of the Levinge family. Ledestown 1853; A day with the Brookside harriers at Brighton 1858; Historical records of the forty third regiment Monmouthshire light infantry 1868. _d._ Brussels 28 Sep. 1884. LEVY, AMY (2 dau. of Lewis Levy of London). _b._ 16 Percy place, Clapham road, Surrey 1862; ed. at Brighton and Newnham coll. Camb. 1880–81; wrote poetry at 12 years of age; a writer in Dublin Univ. Mag., Temple Bar, Atalanta, London Society, The Jewish Chronicle, &c.; author of Xantippe and other verse. Cambridge 1881; A minor poet and other verses 1884; The romance of a shop 1888; Reuben Sachs 1888; A London plane tree and other verse 1889; Miss Meredith 1889; translated Jean Baptiste Pérès’ brochure Comme quoi Napoléon n’a jamais existé, Paris 1876 under title of Historic doubts or the non-existence of Napoleon proved. Edited by Lily 1885; committed suicide by inhaling fumes of charcoal at her father’s residence, 7 Endsleigh gardens, London 10 Sep. 1889, cremated at Woking 13 Sep., ashes _bur._ Balls Pond cemetery 15 Sep. _The Jewish Chronicle 13 Sep. 1889 p._ 6 _and 20 Sep. p._ 7; _The Woman’s World_, _Nov. 1889 pp._ 51–2, _portrait_; _Universal Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 492–507. LEVY, JOHN. _b._ 1805; a journalist many years; called to Irish bar 1845; reported for Irish Jurist, Irish Law Reports and Irish Law Times; author of The law and practice of bankruptcy and insolvency. Dublin 4 ed. 1862; fell down dead in Dame st. Dublin 17 May 1870. LEVY, JOSEPH MOSES (son of Moses Lionel Levy _d._ 1830 aged 65). _b._ London 15 Dec. 1812; ed. at Bruce Castle school and in Germany; printer in Shoe lane, Fleet st. London; chief proprietor of the Sunday Times 1855–6, conducted it 1855–6; took over the Daily Telegraph from Col. B. W. A. Sleigh and issued it at a penny 17 Sep. 1855, being the first London daily penny paper, managed the paper to his death. _d._ Florence cottage, Ramsgate 12 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Balls Pond cemet. London, personalty over £525,000. LEWELLIN, _Llewelyn_ (son of Richard Lewellin of Coyty, Glamorganshire). _b._ 1799; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1821–6; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1829; master of the schools Oxf. 1825–26; preb. of St. David’s 1827; principal of St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827 to death; V. of Pembryn, Cardiganshire 1832; V. of Lampeter 15 Oct. 1833 to death; sinecure R. of Llangelen 1843 to death; dean of St. David’s 26 March 1840 to death, the last non-resident dean; author of Reply to N. Davies’s Notes on the cathedral church of St. David’s 1853, 2 ed. 1853. _d._ about 30 Nov. 1878. LEWES, CHARLES LEE (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 1843; ed. at Hofwyl, Switzerland; clerk in the Post Office, London, Aug. 1860 to Oct. 1886; one of the secretaries of Hampstead Heath extension committee, which raised £52,000 for purchase of Parliament hill 1887; member of the first London county council for the St. Pancras district 7 Jany. 1889 to death; contributed to Nineteenth Century and Blackwood’s Mag.; residuary legatee of “George Eliot” 1880 and owner of the copyright of all her works and those of his father; edited Essays and leaves from a note book, by George Eliot 1884; translator of In the year ’13, a tale of Mecklenburg life by Fritz Reuter 1867; Emilia Galotti by G. E. Lessing 1868; Count Bismarck by L. Bamberger 1869. _d._ Luxor, Egypt 26 Feb. 1891. LEWES, GEORGE HENRY (grandson of Charles Lee Lewes, actor 1740–1803). _b._ London 18 April 1817; ed. in London, Jersey, Brittany and at Greenwich; in a notary’s office; employed by a Russian merchant; a medical student a short time; visited Germany 1838; appeared at the Whitehall theatre in Garrick’s comedy The Guardian 1841, played in Dickens’ amateur company 1848, played Shylock 1849; acted in his own tragedy The Noble Heart, at the Olympic Feb. 1850 and in the provinces 1850; wrote many articles in the quarterly reviews; wrote The game of speculation, produced at Lyceum 2 Oct. 1851 and 9 other plays produced at Lyceum, all written under pseudonyms of Slingsby Lawrence and Frank Churchill; founded with T. L. Hunt The Leader 1850, editor for literary subjects to July 1854. _m._ 18 Feb. 1841 Agnes eld. dau. of Swynfen Stevens Jervis, M.P. for Bridport, he left her in July 1854 and went to Germany with Mary Ann Evans known as “George Eliot,” he passed as her husband for the rest of his life; edited Fortnightly Review, May 1865 to Dec. 1866; lived at the Priory, St. John’s Wood, London 1863 to death; author of The life of Maximilien Robespierre 1845; A biographical history of philosophy 4 vols. 1845–6, 5 ed. 1 vol. 1880; The Spanish drama, Lope de Vega and Calderon 1846; Rose, Blanche and Violet 3 vols. 1848; The life and works of Goethe 2 vols. 1855; Studies in animal life 1862; Problems of life and mind 5 vols. 1874–9; Our actors and the art of acting