Modern English biography

LEWIS, THOMAS. Ed. Lancashire Independent coll. and Owen’s coll.; independent minister 1873; professor at Bala coll. 1873 and then principal on the coll. being removed to Bangor, when it became known as Bala-Bangor independent college; member of council of University coll. of North Wales. _d._ Naples 12 Feb. 1892. LEWIS, T. D. (son of Wm. Thomas Lewis, actor 1748–1811). Succeeded his father as lessee and manager of theatre royal, Liverpool 1811, retired on expiration of his lease. _d._ London 1852. LEWIS, SIR THOMAS FRANKLAND, 1 Baronet (only son of John Lewis of Harpton court, Radnorshire 1738–97). _b._ London 14 May 1780; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1798; lieut.-col. of Radnorshire militia 1806–15; M.P. Beaumaris 1812–26; M.P. Ennis 1826–8; M.P. Radnorshire 1828–35; M.P. Radnor burghs 1847 to death; comr. of enquiry into revenue of Great Britain and Ireland 1822–5; first comr. of enquiry into education in Ireland 1825–8; joint sec. to treasury 4 Sep. 1827 to 28 Jany. 1828; vice pres. of board of trade 5 Feb. to 30 May 1828; P.C. 5 Feb. 1828; treasurer of the navy 17 Feb. 1830; chairman of English poor law commission 18 Aug. 1834 to 23 Jany. 1839; a comr. for enquiry into state of laws in South Wales 7 Oct. 1843; created a baronet 27 June 1846; chairman of Economic life assurance co. _d._ Harpton court, Radnorshire 22 Jany. 1855. LEWIS, THOMAS TAYLOR. _b._ Ludlow, Shropshire 1801; ed. at Cheam school, Surrey; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. 5 Oct. 1819; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; C. of Aymestrey, Herefordshire 1826; P.C. of Leinthall Earls, Herefordshire 1832 to 1841; V. of Bridstow near Ross 1841 to death; formed large collections of fossils, several local fossils have been called after him namely, Lingula Lewisii, Spirorbis Lewisii and Cephalapis Lewisii; edited for the Camden Society The letters of Lady Brilliana Harley 1853. _d._ Bridstow 28 Oct. 1858. LEWIS, TIMOTHY RICHARDS. _b._ 31 Oct. 1841; ed. Univ. coll. London and Aberdeen univ., M.D. and C.M. 1867; assist. surgeon in army 31 March 1868, surgeon major 31 March 1880; sent to Germany with David Cunningham by the War Office to study pathology; assistant professor of pathology in the army medical school, Netley; recommended for election as F.R.S. in April 1886; sent with D. Cunningham to India to investigate cholera cases; made the discovery of the filaria in the urine of patients in general hospital, Calcutta 1869; author of A report on the microscopic objects found in cholera evacuations. Calcutta 1870; On hæmatozoon inhabiting human blood 1872, 2 ed. 1874; The pathological significance of nematode hæmatozoa 1874; Physiological and pathological researches 1888; with David Cunningham he wrote A report of researches into the nature of cholera 1872, 2 series 1874; The soil in its relation to disease 1875; Leprosy in India 1877. _d._ Bywood, Woolston 7 May 1886. _Lancet_, _i_ 955, 993 (1886). LEWIS, W. Calvinistic Methodist minister; one of first Welsh missionaries sent to India, laboured in North-eastern Bengal; went through the whole of the Indian mutiny; reduced the Khasia language to writing and translated the New Testament into Khassei. _d._ May 1891. LEWIS, WALLER AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1817; ed. Univ. coll. London and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.B. 1849; L.S.A. 1839, M.R.C.P. 1859; metropolitan comr. of sewers 1855–6; senior medical officer of General post office at £1000 a year; medical superintendent inspector General Board of Health and Sanitary commissioner Home office; author of Report on the state of the burial vaults of metropolitan churches; On the origin and spread of epidemic cholera; On the laws in France for regulation of noxious trades and occupations 1855. _d._ Whitby 7 Sep. 1882. LEWIS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1787; pupil of J. H. Sarratt the best chess player in England about 1807; the leading player many years after Sarratt’s death in 1821; a great and original chess analyst and one of the finest players in Europe; when W. de Kempelen’s automaton chessplayer was exhibited in London in 1819, Lewis officiated for some months as the hidden conductor of the Turk’s games, losing only 6 games in 300 though always giving the odds of pawn and move; played a match at Paris with Alexander L. H. L. Des Chapelles the leading chess-player in France 1821; a teacher of chess at 5 Nassau st. Soho, London, Alexander McDonnell was one of his pupils; author of A treatise on the game of chess 1814; Oriental chess, or specimens of Hindostanee excellence in that celebrated game 2 vols. 1817; Carera’s A treatise on the game of chess, to which is added the art of playing without seeing the board 1822; Fifty games at chess, most of which occurred between the author and some of the best players in England, France and Germany 1832. _d._ about 16 Nov. 1870. _Quarterly Review_, _June 1849 pp._ 90–5; _W. G. Walker’s Selection of games at chess_ (1836) 273; _W. G. Walker’s Thousand games at chess_ (18--) _ix_ 82–4; _Chess Players’ Chronicle_, _i_ 9, 33 (1841); _I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1870 p._ 555. LEWIS, WILLIAM DAVID (brother of sir Charles E. Lewis). _b._ 1823; pupil of John Rudall, conveyancer 1838; a conveyancer at 10 Serle st. 1842, being the youngest conveyancer on record; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1844, bencher 1859; Q.C. June 1859; reader on law of real property and conveyancing at Gray’s Inn 26 May 1847 to June 1852, delivered every year 60 original and elaborate lectures; a comr. on registration of title to land 18 Jany. 1854, the report is dated 15 May 1857 and contains sketches of two bills by Lewis; founded the Juridical society 10 Feb. 1855; author of A practical treatise on the law of perpetuity 1843, unparalleled in the history of legal authorship as the achievement of a youth under 20 years of age. _d._ 1 Kensington sq. London 24 Jany. 1861 in 38 year. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _v_ 242–4 (1861). NOTE.--His only son Wm. Arnold Lewis, barrister Inner Temple 17 Nov. 1869, was killed by accident on the Lyskamm near Zermatt 6 Sep. 1877. LEWIS, WILLIAM GARRETT (eld. son of Wm. Garrett Lewis, minister of Zion chapel, Chatham in 1824). _b._ Margate 5 Aug. 1821; articled to Dr. Gray of Brixton, London, schoolmaster 1837–40; clerk in the post office, London 1840–7; minister of Baptist chapel in Silver st. Kensington, Sep. 1847, new chapel built for him in Ledbury road, Westbourne Grove, opened 6 April 1853, preached there to Dec. 1880, presented by his congregation with 400 guineas 3 Jany. 1881; minister of chapel in Dagnal st. St. Albans, Jany. 1881 to death; a founder of the London Baptist association 1865, sec. 1865–9, pres. 1870; edited The Baptist Magazine 20 years; author of The religion of Rome examined, a course of lectures 1851; Westbourne Grove sermons 1872; The trades and industrial occupations of the Bible 1874. _d._ Victoria st. St. Albans 16 Jany. 1885. _bur._ Kensal Green 21 Jany. _Baptist Mag. March ]885 pp._ 97–102. LEY, WILLIAM (son of rev. Mr. Ley). _b._ Devonshire 1806; ed. at Ottery, Devon, and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1831, L.S.A. 1835; resident medical officer of Fever hospital 4 years; surgeon Crawford st. Portman sq. London, and surgeon to Western general dispensary, Stafford st.; studied insanity in Hanwell asylum; medical superintendent of Oxford and Berks. asylum, Littlemore 1845–66, where he treated all the patients with gentleness; the first to introduce cannabis Indica. _d._ while visiting the superintendent at Littlemore 7 March 1869. _Medical Times_, _i_ 345–6 (1869). LEYBOURNE, GEORGE. _b._ 1842; sang in the provinces many years; next to Alfred G. Vance he was the best known comic singer of his time, had an excellent voice, sang at all the London music halls; his songs Champagne Charlie 1867, Mouse-traps, and She danced like a fairy, were very popular; made his last appearance at Queen’s palace, Poplar 1884; author of The Barber’s apprentice boy, song 1868; Twelve of G. Leybourne’s comic songs 1878; reported to have died 24 Nov. 1876. _d._ of consumption, Englefield road, Islington 15 Sep. 1884. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 19 Sep. _The Entr’acte 2 Dec. 1876 p._ 3, _20 Sep. 1884 p._ 11, _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. News 21 April 1866 pp._ 227, 236, _portrait_. NOTE.--His dau. Florrie Leybourne is a music hall artiste. A matinée benefit was given for his widow at the Royal Holborn music hall on 27 Sep. 1884. On one occasion when Leybourne was singing for William Holland at the Canterbury music hall, under a clause in his agreement he had to drive out in a coach and four whenever required to do so, and was frequently seen in public in his carriage. LEYLAND, JOHN. _b._ 1815; founded the Boys Home and Surrey reformatory, Spanish road, Wandsworth, London 1852, also the Surrey Industrial school, High st. Wandsworth, of both of which he was hon. manager. _d._ Rosemount, Byfleet, Surrey 7 Oct. 1882. LEYLAND, JOSEPH BENTLEY (2 son of Robert Leyland, naturalist). _b._ Halifax 31 March 1811; exhibited at Manchester the model of a greyhound and a colossal statue of Spartacus 1832; studied design under B. R. Haydon in London; his statue of Dr. Beckwith of York was placed in York minster; exhibited models of groups of hounds at Suffolk st. gallery 1834 and 1839; his group of African bloodhounds and his colossal figure The Thracian Falconer, are in the Salford museum. _d._ Halifax 26 Jany. 1851. LIARDET, FRANCIS (2 son of John Liardet). _b._ Chelsea 14 June 1798; entered navy 14 June 1809; second captain of the Powerful 84 guns 12 Jany. 1839 to 1840, served in the Mediterranean on the coast of Syria and at bombardment of St. Jean d’ Acre; captain 4 Nov. 1840; placed on h.p. Jany. 1841; agent for New Zealand company at Taranaki, Sep. 1841 to Feb. 1842; lost sight of one eye by an explosion 29 Nov. 1841; a captain of Greenwich hospital Jany. 1856 to death; author of Professional recollections on points of seamanship, discipline, &c. 1849; The midshipman’s companion 1851; Friendly hints to the young naval lieutenant 1858. _d._ Greenwich hospital 1 March 1863, marble bust of him by T. Milnes is in the painted hall. _E. G. Wakefield’s Adventure in New Zealand_, _ii_ 68, 163 (1845). LIBRI-CARRUCCI DALLA SOMMAIA, GUGLIELMO BRUTO ICILIO TIMOLEONE, Count. _b._ Florence 2 Jany. 1803; professor of mathematical physics, univ. of Pisa 1823 professor at faculté des sciences, Paris 1832; naturalized in France 2 Jany. 1833; inspector general of public libraries in France; accused of pilfering from the libraries, which, he entirely denied, fled to England 28 Feb. 1848, sentenced in his absence to 10 years imprisonment by the cour d’ assize of the department of the Seine 22 June 1850; sold his MSS. to Bertram 4 earl of Ashburnham, they are now in the Laurenzian library at Florence; his books were sold by Sotheby 1859–66, sales taking 25 days; returned to Tuscany 1868; author of Histoire des sciences mathématiques en Italie 4 vols. Paris 1838–41. _d._ Fiesole near Florence 28 Sep. 1869. _Memoir of Augustus de Morgan_ (1882) _passim_; _Saturday Rev. lv_ 266–7 (1883); _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Nov. 1869 pp._ 259–61. LICHFIELD, THOMAS WILLIAM ANSON, 1 Earl of (1 son of 1 viscount Anson 1767–1818). _b._ Shugborough, Staffs. 20 Oct. 1795; capt. Staffordshire yeomanry 1812, lieut.-col. 1829, lieut.-col. commandant 1833 to death; M.P. Yarmouth 19 June 1818; succeeded as 2 viscount Anson 31 July 1818; master of the Atherstone hounds 1821–30; master of the buckhounds 24 Nov. 1830 to 30 Dec. 1834; P.C. 24 Nov. 1830; created earl of Lichfield 15 Sep. 1831; postmaster general 30 May 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841; high steward of Great Yarmouth 22 Feb. 1836; won the St. Leger with Elis 1836 and the 2000 guineas with Corsair 1839; sold all his pictures, sculpture, &c. in a 12 days sale Aug. 1842. _d._ 2 Great Stanhope st. Mayfair, London 18 March 1854. LICHFIELD, THOMAS GEORGE ANSON, 2 Earl of (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Shugborough, Staffs. 8 Aug. 1825; ed. at Eton; styled viscount Anson 1831–54; capt. Staffordshire yeomanry 16 Nov. 1844, major 17 April 1863; precis writer to lord Palmerston at foreign office 1846–7; M.P. Lichfield 1847–54; succeeded as 2 earl of Lichfield 18 March 1854; lord lieut. of Staffordshire 1863–71; high steward of Stafford 1878; first chairman of Soc. for reformation of juvenile offenders and a founder of the reformatory at Saltley. _d._ at his residence in London 7 Jany.