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cemetery at Ushaw; portrait by James Lonsdale in hall of Ushaw college; tablet to his memory in Hornby parish church. _J. Lingard’s History of England 6 ed. vol._ 1 (1854), _portrait_; _Fortunes made in business_, _ii_ 99–105 (1884); _Metropolitan and provincial catholic almanac for 1854 pp._ 3–25, _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvi_ 323–5 (1851); _I.L.N. xviii_ 117, 118 (1851), _portrait_. LINKLATER, JOHN. _b._ 1817; attorney at 111 St. Martin’s lane, London 1838; head of firm of Linklater, Hackwood and Addison, 7 Walbrook to death; author of Digest and index to the Bankruptcy act, the Debtor’s act, and the Bankruptcy repeal and insolvent court act 1870, 2 ed. 1870. _d._ Toulon, France 26 May 1870. LINLEY, GEORGE. _b._ Leeds 1798 or 1799; resided in Doncaster and Edinburgh short time, then in London to death; wrote and composed upwards of 450 songs 1830–65; wrote the songs and music for Francesca Doria, play by V. Morris produced at Princess’s theatre 3 March 1849; his operetta The Toymakers was brought out at Covent Garden 19 Nov. 1861, and his comedietta Law versus Love at Princess’s 6 Dec. 1862; author of Musical cynics of London, a satire 1862, one part only; The Modern Hudibras 1864, 2 ed. 1864. _d._ Alfred cottage, Victoria road, Kensington, London 10 Sep. 1865. LINLEY, GEORGE (son of the preceding). Author of The Goldseeker and other poems 1860; Old Saws newly set 1864; (_m._ 4 Oct. 1862 Emma youngest sister of Sims Reeves, singer). _d._ 28 April 1869. LINN, HENRY, stage name of Alexander Cumming Rutherford Crawford. _b._ Greenock 1846; with his brother acted as negro comedians; champion clog dancer 1864; a Scottish vocalist, his songs The highland man’s toast, Jock M’Craw, and Bonnie Jeanie Deans were very popular, others were My name is Jim, and Poor and Needy; a great favourite in Liverpool; last sang at Carlisle 1890; author of Harry Linn’s Fireside song book. Glasgow 1884. _d._ Royal infirmary, Edinburgh 11 June 1890. _bur._ 15 June. LINNELL, JOHN (2 son of James Linnell, carver and gilder, _d._ 1837). _b._ Plumtree st. St. Giles’s, London 16 June 1792; drew portraits at 10 years old; entered schools of the R.A. 1805; portrait painter to 1847, then landscape painter, engraved his portraits; exhibited 176 pictures at R.A. and 91 at B.I. 1807–79; member of Society of painters in oil and water-colours 1812–20, treasurer 1817, exhibited 52 works there 1813–20; his landscape ‘Removing timber’ sold for £3360 at the Price sale April 1892; there was a large collection of his works at winter exhibition of the R.A. 1882–3; author of The royal gallery of pictures, selections from collection at Buckingham palace 1840; The royal academy a national institution 1869; Selection of cabinet paintings at Buckingham palace 1877. _d._ Redstone Wood, Redhill, Surrey 20 Jany. 1882. _bur._ Reigate cemet. 25 Jany. _A. T. Story’s Life of John Linnell 2 vols._ (1892), _two portraits_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xc_ 535, _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 125 (1882), _portrait_; _Black and White 25 Feb. 1893 p._ 228, _portrait_. LINSELL, RICHARD. _b._ Great Dunmow, Essex 24 May 1765; apprenticed to Thomas White of Felstead, carpenter 1780–7; general carrier between Dunmow and London 1791 to 1807; a builder at Dunmow 1807–9; carrier at Stebbing 1809; landlord of the King’s Head inn, Stebbing 1812–15; a farmer near Stebbing 1815–19; landlord of the Swan inn, Clare, Suffolk 1820–33 and of the Cricketers’ arms near Clare 1834–43. _Life of Richard Linsell. By A Friend._ (_Rusticus_) _Tottenham_ (1855). NOTE.--He first appeared as a cricketer at Prior’s hall, Lay, parish of Linsell 1 May 1790; raced the coach from London to Dunmow 37 miles in 5 hours, gaining by 15 minutes 23 Aug. 1796; at Woodford ran 1 mile in 4 min. 57 sec. 28 Aug. 1796; threw a stone 137 yards Oct. 1796; beat Mr. Parsley in a quoit match 27 April 1797; from 1788 for 30 years he stood open to play any man in England at 20 different games. LINSKILL, MARY (eld. child of Thomas Linskill a worker in jet). _b._ Whitby, Yorkshire 13 Dec. 1840; apprenticed to a milliner; an amanuensis; a painter; many of her novels appeared originally in Good Words; author of Tales of the North Riding. By Stephen Yorke 2 vols. 1871; Cleveden 2 vols. 1875, new ed. 1892; Carl Forrester’s faith 1883; The magic flute 1884; Between the heather and the northern sea 3 vols. 1884, new ed. 1890; A lost son and the glover’s daughter 1885; The haven under the hill 3 vols. 1886, new ed. 1892; A garland of seven lilies 1886; Hagar, a north Yorkshire pastoral 1887; Robert Holt’s illusion, and other stories 1888. _d._ Stakesby Vale, Whitby 9 April 1891. _Mary Linskill’s In exchange for a soul_, _new ed._ (1892), _memoir pp. xi–xix_. LINTON, HENRY (eld. son of rev. Henry Linton 1804–87, V. of Diddington, Hunts.) _b._ 1839; ed. at Harrow and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1860; in the Harrow cricket eleven 1854–7; entered Madras civil service 1861; head assistant to collector and magistrate of Nellore to death. _d._ Madras 24 Aug. 1866. LINTON, THOMAS. Superintendent of police at Edinburgh 1851–78, public prosecutor 1851 to death. _d._ suddenly in his room next the police court, Edinburgh 19 Aug. 1892. LINTON, WILLIAM. _b._ Liverpool 22 April 1791; a landscape painter in London; a founder of Society of British artists 1824, a member to 1842; exhibited 57 pictures at R.A., 78 at B.I. and 101 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–71; author of Ancient and modern colours, with their chemical and artistical properties 1852; The scenery of Greece and its islands 1856, 2 ed. 1869; Colossal vestiges of the older nations 1862. _d._ 7 Lodge place, St. John’s Wood road, London 18 Aug. 1876. _Art Journal_ (1850) 252, _portrait_, (1858) 9–11, (1876) 329. LINTON, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Jabez Linton of Hardrigg lodge, Dumfriesshire). _b._ Kirkpatrick Fleming, co. Dumfries 1801; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; spent four summer vacations as surgeon on a whaler in the Arctic regions; L.R.C.S. 1826; M.D. Glasgow 1834; assistant surgeon 66 foot 18 Jany. 1827 to 1841; surgeon in the army 2 July 1841; staff surgeon of first class 17 March 1848, deputy inspector general of hospitals of first division of army in the Crimea 1854, had charge of the great hospital at Scutari 1855, inspector general of hospitals 1 Oct. 1858, placed on h.p. 1 May 1863; principal medical officer of English army in India 1858–9; hon. physician to the Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. _d._ Skairfield, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire 9 Oct. 1880. LINWOOD, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Linwood of Birmingham). _b._ 1817; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1837–51; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; Hertford, Ireland and Craven scholar 1836, Boden Sanskrit scholar 1839; ordained deacon; assistant master at Shrewsbury; public examiner at Oxford 1850–1; published A lexicon to Æschylus 1843, 2 ed. 1847; Sophoclis Tragœdiæ superstites, with Latin notes 1846, 4 ed. 1877; A treatise on Greek tragic metres with the choric parts of Sophocles metrically arranged 1855. _d._ Birchfield, Handsworth, Staffs. 7 Sep. 1878. _Academy 28 Sep. 1878 p._ 315. LIPTRAP, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1817; lieut. 21 Bengal N.I. 4 Nov. 1818; captain 42 N.I. 19 June 1831, major 17 Feb. 1850 to 7 May 1855; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 7 May 1855 to 1856, of 45 N.I. 1856 to 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ London 21 Sep. 1878. LIPTROTT, JOHN. _b._ 29 Jany. 1813; ensign 31 Bengal N.I. 14 Sep. 1829; commandant 16 Irregular cavalry 24 Jany. 1846, commandant 17 Irregular cavalry 1847 to 7 Jany. 1860; lieut.-col. 14 Bengal N.I. 28 Nov. 1859 to 1862, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 1 Dec. 1888. _d._ 7 Clarendon road, Southsea 25 Feb. 1890. _I.L.N. 15 March 1890 p._ 325, _portrait_. LISBURNE, ERNEST AUGUSTUS VAUGHAN, 4 Earl of (eld. son of 3 Earl of Lisburne 1769–1831). _b._ 30 Oct. 1800; sheriff of Cardiganshire 1851; M.P. for Cardiganshire 1854–9. _d._ Crosswood, Aberystwith, Cardiganshire 9 Nov. 1873. LISGAR, SIR JOHN YOUNG, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir William Young, 1 baronet, _d._ 1848). _b._ Bombay 31 Aug. 1807; ed. at Eton and C.C. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 1824; M.P. Cavan 1831–55; a lord of the treasury 16 Sep. 1841 to 21 May 1844; one of the secretaries to the treasury 21 May 1844 to 7 July 1846; succeeded as 2 baronet 10 March 1848; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland 1852–55; P.C. 28 Dec. 1852; lord high commissioner of Ionian islands 1855–9; governor general and com. in chief of New South Wales 22 March 1861 to 24 Dec. 1867; governor general of dominion of Canada 2 Jany. 1869–1872; cr. Baron Lisgar 26 Oct. 1870; lord lieut. of Cavan 9 March 1871 to death; G.C.M.G. 20 March 1855; K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1859, G.C.B. 13 Nov. 1868. _d._ Lisgar house, Ballieborough, co. Cavan 6 Oct. 1876. _Eclectic Mag. lxxviii_ 129, 244 (1872), _portrait_. LISTER, FREDERICK GEORGE. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 26 Bengal N.I. 14 Aug. 1806, lieut. 9 Oct. 1808; captain 52 N.I. 16 March 1824, major 8 Oct. 1839 to 30 Sep. 1845; commandant of Sylhet light infantry battalion 14 March 1828 to 18 July 1854; lieut-col. 8 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1849, of 70 N.I. 1849–50, of 53 N.I. 1850 to 13 April 1855; political agent Cossiah Hills 11 Feb. 1841 to 1854; col. of 31 N.I. 13 April 1855 to 1861, of 2 N.I. 1861 to 1869; L.G. 23 Aug. 1869. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 28 Feb. 1870. LISTER, JOSEPH JACKSON (son of John Lister of Stoke Newington, wine merchant). _b._ Lothbury, London 11 Jany. 1786; ed. at Hitchin and at Compton in Dorset; wine merchant in partnership with his father and then sole proprietor; a founder of the London Institution in King’s Arms yard 1805; discovered principle upon which the modern microscope is constructed, and made an improved lens; a founder of Microscopical Soc. 1839; invented the tripod for supporting the camera now used by photographers; the first to ascertain the true form of the red corpuscle of mammalian blood; aided the opticians in construction of the microscope; Lister’s law of the aplanatic foci, remains the guiding principle as the source of all the microscopy of the age; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832. _d._ Upton house, Upton, Essex 24 Oct. 1869. _bur._ Stoke Newington. _Biographical Catalogue of Friends_ (1888) 433–8. LISTER, THOMAS (14 child of Joseph Lister a quaker gardener). _b._ Old Mill wharf, Barnsley 11 Feb. 1810; ed. at Ackworth school 1821–4; worked with his father as a gardener to 1832, then in a linen warehouse at Barnsley; postmaster at Barnsley 1839–70 when he was presented with a testimonial; a constant attendant and contributor of papers at annual meetings of British Association; president of Barnsley Naturalists’ Society; is referred to by name in Mrs. G. L. Banks’s Yorkshire story entitled Wooers and winners 1880; author of The rustic wreath poems, moral, descriptive and miscellaneous 1834; Temperance Rhymes 1837; Rhymes of progress 1862, and of many poems and translations in Tait’s Magazine 1838–9. _d._ Barnsley 25 March