Modern English biography

_vii_ 9, 15 (1874). LLOYD, HORATIO FREDERICK (son of Mr. Lloyd, hatter). _b._ Strand, London 9 Nov. 1808; first appeared theatre royal, Newcastle 1829; played in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow 1829–32; commenced an engagement at the theatre royal, Edinburgh 1 Oct. 1832 and remained there 16 years; played in Glasgow 1848–51; manager theatre royal, Edinburgh 22 Nov. 1851 to 10 July 1852 when he was ruined; principal low comedian Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow 1853–64; took his farewell of the stage at theatre royal, Glasgow, May 1889. _d._ Glasgow 28 Nov. 1889. _bur._ South necropolis, Glasgow 3 Dec. NOTE.--He was educated at a school kept by a Mr. Shaw in Yorkshire, who was the Mr. Squeers of Nicholas Nickleby. Shaw is said really to have been a kind and considerate schoolmaster who was entirely ruined by Dickens’ description, he was buried in Greta Bridge churchyard. LLOYD, HUMPHREY (brother of Bartholomew Clifford Lloyd 1808–72). _b._ Dublin 16 April 1800; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1815, scholar 1818, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1827, D.D. 1840; junior fellow 1824, senior fellow 18 Sep. 1843 to March 1867; Erasmus Smith’s professor of natural and experimental philosophy 19 Dec. 1831 to 1843; established the existence of conical refraction in biaxial crystals 1833, also the law by which the polarisation of the rays composing the luminous cone is governed; manager of magnetic observatory of Trin. coll. Dublin for which he devised the instruments; vice provost of Trin. coll. Aug. 1862, provost Feb. 1867 to death; pres. of Royal Irish academy 1846–51, Cunningham gold medallist 1862; pres. of British Association at Dublin 1857; F.R.S. 21 Jany. 1836; F.R.S. Edinb. 27 Feb. 1832; D.C.L. Oxford 1855; granted German order ‘Pour le Merite’ 1874; author of A treatise on light and vision 1831; Account of the induction inclinometer 1842; Lectures on the wave theory of light 1841, 3 ed. 1873; Observations made at the magnetical observatory, Trinity college, Dublin 1865; Of the power of the keys or of the authority to bind and to loose 1873; A treatise on magnetism 1874; Miscellaneous papers 1877. _d._ the provost’s house, Trinity college, Dublin 17 Jany. 1881, bust by A. B. Joy placed in library of Trin. coll. 1892. _Proc. of Royal soc. xxxi_ 21–6 (1881); _Proc. of R.I. Academy_, _v_ 165–6 (1883); _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 125 (1881), _portrait_. LLOYD, JACOB YOUDE WILLIAM (eld. son of Jacob Wm. Hinde of Ulverstone, Lancs.) _b._ 1816; ed. at Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1874; C. of Banhaglog, Montgomeryshire 1841–8; joined Church of Rome; served in the Pontifical Zouaves; knight of order of St. Gregory, knight of the Saviour of Greece; assumed name of Lloyd in lieu of Hinde on inheriting property of Youde of Plasmadog, Denbighshire; restored parish church of Llangurig at cost of £10,000; author of The history of the princes, the lords marcher and the ancient nobility of Powys Fadog ... 6 vols. 1881–7 and several other genealogical works; resided Clochfaen, Montgomeryshire. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 14 Oct. 1887. LLOYD, JOHN AUGUSTUS (youngest son of John Lloyd of Lynn, Norfolk). _b._ London 1 May 1800; ed. at Tooting and Winchester; went to Tortola, aide de camp to the governor; a captain of engineers on staff of Simon Bolivar the liberator of Colombia, South America, became lieut.-col.; surveyed Isthmus of Panama for Bolivar and reported on best means of inter-oceanic communication 1827–9, the report appeared in Philos. Trans. 1830 pp. 59–68; F.R.S. 11 March 1830; scientifically employed by the admiralty and royal society; colonial civil engineer and surveyor general of Mauritius 31 Aug. 1831 to 4 April 1849; ascended the Peter Botte mountain, previously regarded as inaccessible 1832; special comr. for Exhibition of 1851, 9 July 1850; A.I.C.E. 1849, member of council; British chargé d’affaires in Bolivia 4 Dec. 1851; started on a mission to stir up the Circassians against Russia 13 May 1854; author of numerous scientific papers; his widow Fanny Drummond Lloyd was granted civil list pension of £100, 4 March 1856 and _d._ 28 Sep. 1856. He _d._ of cholera at Therapia 10 Oct. 1854. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiv_ 161–5 (1855); _I.L.N. xviii_ 623, 624 (1851), _portrait_. LLOYD, JOHN FREDERICK (brother of Humphry Lloyd 1800–81). _b._ 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; C. of Kilmore 1840–8; fellow of St. John’s coll. Auckland, New Zealand 1849–53; Inc. of St. Paul, Auckland 1853–65; archdeacon of Waitemata, Auckland 1865–70; R. of Kirk-Ireton, Derbyshire 1870–4; R. of Newton Wold, Lincs. 1874 to death. _d._ 8 Sep. 1875. LLOYD, JOHN HORATIO (son of John Lloyd, attorney and prothonotary of the counties of Chester and Flint). _b._ Stockport 1 Sep. 1798; ed. Stockport gram. sch. and Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; fellow of Brasenose coll. 1823–6; barrister I.T. 6 May 1826; M.P. Stockport 1832–4; chief authority on legal matters connected with railways, devised the securities known as Lloyd’s Bonds before 1864, without which many railways could not have been constructed; by his advice the new company for laying the Atlantic cable was formed 1860; retired from practice 1876; A.I.C.E. 1860, member of council 1867–8; author with F. M. Danson of Reports of cases relating to commerce, manufactures, &c. in courts of common law 1828–29. 1830; author with W. N. Welsby of Reports of cases relating to commerce, manufacture, &c. determined in the courts of common law 1829 and 1830. 1829–30; edited third ed. of W. Paley’s A treatise on the law of principal and agent 1833. _d._ 100 Lancaster gate, London 18 July 1884. _bur._ Hendon 23 July. _Min. of proc. of I.C.E. lxxviii_ 450–4 (1884); _Law Times_, _xxxix_ 538, 551 (1864). LLOYD, JOSEPH SKIPP. Adjutant of corps of Gentlemen at Arms 5 May 1852 to 10 April 1856. _d._ Brighton 25 March 1891. LLOYD, JULIUS (son of Francis Lloyd, manufacturer, London). _b._ 10 Sep. 1830; ed. at Blackheath and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 3 May 1851; 22 wrangler 1852, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855; C. of Brentwood, Essex 1855–7; C. of St. Peter, Wolverhampton 1858–62; C. of Trysull, Staffs. 1862–6; C. of St. Peter, Pimlico, London 1866–8; V. of High Cross, Herts. 1868–71; Inc. of St. John, Greenock 1871–80; R. of St. Ann, Manchester 1880–6; V. of Leesfield, Lancs. 1886–91; hon. canon of Manchester 1886–91; canon residentiary of Manchester 1891 to death; R. of St. Philip, Salford 1891 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop of Manchester 1881 to death; author of The life of sir Philip Sydney 1862; An analysis of the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis with reference to the Hebrew grammar of Gesenius 1869; Christian politics, a study of the principles of politics according to the New Testament 1877; History of the English church 1879; Sermons on the prophets of the Old Testament 1889 and 15 other books. _d._ just as he had finished addressing a meeting of the Church Day schools association in Manchester town hall 27 May 1892. LLOYD, LLEWELYN. _b._ 1792; resided over 20 years in the north of Europe; author of Field sports of the north of Europe 2 vols. 1830; Scandinavian adventures, with account of northern fauna 2 vols. 1854; The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway, with an account of the seals and salt water fishes 1867; Peasant life in Sweden 1870. _d._ near Gothenbergh, Sweden 17 Feb. 1876. LLOYD, RIDGWAY ROBERT SYERS CHRISTIAN CODNER (son of Francis Brown Lloyd, surgeon). _b._ Devonport 20 Dec. 1842; studied at Guy’s hospital, M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1866; house surgeon in Peterborough infirmary 1867–70; practised at St. Albans 1870 to death; author of An account of the altars, monuments and tombs existing 1428 in St. Albans’ abbey. By J. Amundesham, translated from the Latin. St. Albans 1873 and of many papers on archæological subjects. _d._ from typhoid fever at Bricket road, St. Albans 1 June 1884. LLOYD, ROBERT CLIFFORD (brother of John Frederick Lloyd 1810–75). _b._ 1809; ensign 76 foot 30 Dec. 1826, lieut.-col. 17 July 1857; lieut.-col. 68 foot 8 July 1859, sold out 2 Dec. 1862; brevet colonel 9 Sep. 1859. _d._ Avignon, France, Jany.-March 1863. LLOYD, SAMPSON (7 son of Samuel Lloyd of Birmingham, banker). _b._ Birmingham 7 June 1808; held quarter share in firm of Lloyds, Fosters & Co. colliers 1835 to Jany. 1867 when business was transferred to Patent shaft and axletree company limited, vice chairman and manager of it 1867–73; A.I.C.E. 7 April 1857; one of founders of Institution of mechanical engineers at Birmingham 1847. _d._ Areley house near Stourport 26 Sep. 1874. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_ 292 (1875). LLOYD, THOMAS. _b._ Portsea 29 Oct. 1803; ed. at school of naval architecture 1819–26; inspector of steam machinery at Woolwich 19 Jany. 1833; chief engineer at Woolwich 16 Nov. 1842 to 6 April 1847; a chief engineer of the navy 6 April 1847 to 1869; C.B. 25 Aug. 1868; M.I.C.E. 18 May 1841. _d._ 84 Finchley road, Hampstead 23 March 1875. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xli_ 217–20 (1875). LLOYD, SIR THOMAS DAVIES, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Lloyd of Bronwydd, co. Cardigan, _d._ 18 June 1845). _b._ Swansea 23 May 1820; ed. at Sunbury, Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; cornet 13 light dragoons 2 Oct. 1840; ensign 82 foot 14 July 1843, sold out 1846; sheriff of co. Cardigan 1850; created a baronet 21 Jany. 1863; M.P. Cardiganshire 1865–8; M.P. district of Cardigan 1864–74. _d._ Bronwydd, co. Cardigan 21 July 1877. LLOYD, T. G. B. (1 son of Dr. Lloyd of Birmingham). _b._ 15 Aug. 1829; civil engineer; employed surveying in Spain, the United States, Canada and Newfoundland; investigated the documents and traditions of the extinct Beothucs or Red Indians of Newfoundland and sent three papers to the Proceedings of the Anthropological Institute; made investigations on recent and fossil beavers; F.G.S. 1864. _d._ 3 Feb. 1876. _Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xxxii_ 87–8 (1876). LLOYD, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Richard Middleton Massie Lloyd of Brynestyn near Wrexham, Denbighshire). _b._ Wrexham 1782; sheriff of Denbighshire 1829; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. _d._ Llandudno near Conway 16 May 1857. LLOYD, WILLIAM FORSTER (only son of rev. Wm. Lloyd of Bradenham, Bucks.) _b._ Bradenham 1794; ed. at Westminster 1806–12, captain 1811–2, student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812–37; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; Greek reader 1823; Drummond professor of political economy 1832–7; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; was in holy orders; author of Prices of corn in Oxford in the beginning of the fourteenth century, also from 1583 to present time. Oxford 1830; Two lectures on the checks to population. Oxford 1833; Four lectures on poor laws 1835; Two lectures on the justice of poor laws and one lecture on rent 1837. _d._ Prestwood, Missenden, Bucks. 2 June 1852. LLOYD, WILLIAM FREEMAN. _b._ Uley, Gloucs. 22 Dec. 1791; engaged in commercial pursuits in London to 1825; sec. of Sunday school union 1810; on committee of Religious tract society 1816; with others edited The Youths’ magazine 1805; author of The Bible catechism, all the answers being in the exact words of scripture 1822, 4 ed. 1830; Sketch of the life of R. Raikes and of the history of Sunday schools 1826; Catechisms for the young 1850; Scripture selections for the young 1850. _d._ King’s Stanley, Gloucs. 22 April 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 668 (1853). LLOYD, WILLIAM HENRY CYNRIC (4 son of Bell Lloyd of Woodstock, _d._ July 1845). _b._ 1802; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1819–29; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; V. of Ronton, Staffs. 1826–49; R. of Norbury, Staffs. 1826–49; archdeacon of Durban 1869 to death. _d._ The Glebe, Port Natal 3 Jany. 1881. LLUELLYN, SIR RICHARD (son of Richard Lluellyn of South Witham, co. Lincoln). _b._ 1783; entered army as captain with temporary rank 1799, served as such in 52 foot in Spain and the Mediterranean 1800–1801, placed on h.p. 1802; purchased an ensigncy dated July 1802; captain 28 foot 28 Feb. 1805 to 25 Feb. 1817 when placed on half pay; served in Peninsula and Netherlands; colonel of 39 foot 17 Jany. 1853 to death; general 18 Jany. 1861; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ 20 Montagu sq. London 7 Dec. 1867. LOBB, HARRY WILLIAM. _b._ 1829; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1850; surgeon London Galvanic hospital; surgeon St. Andrew’s hospital, Well st. London 1884 to death; author of Hygiene or the book of health 1855; On some of the more obscure forms of nervous affections 1858; A popular treatise on curative electricity 1867, 3 ed. 1873; Hypogastria of the male 1871, 3 ed. 1880; Nervous exhaustion, dyspepsia and diabetes 1872. _d._ 66 Russell sq. London 20 Jany. 1889. LOCCO, SIGNOR. _b._ Palermo 1798; painter to the court of Naples; resided at intervals in England 1849 to death; painted miniatures on ivory of the Queen and prince and princess of Wales; painted on ivory the head of Christ and ‘The End of the world.’ _d._ Cardiff 14 Feb. 1889. LOCH, FRANCIS ADAM ELLIS. _b._ 3 May 1827; cornet 1 Bombay cavalry 9 Oct. 1844, captain 29 May 1857; lieut.-col. Bombay staff corps 7 April 1870; commandant of Sind frontier force 1873–6; brigadier general Bombay 10 May 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 4 March 1887; general 22 Jany. 1889; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ 2 Albany gardens, King’s road, Richmond, Surrey 27 July 1891. LOCH, FRANCIS ERSKINE. _b._ April 1788; entered navy 1 Sep. 1799, captain 29 Sep. 1814; naval aide de camp to the queen 4 May 1847 to 2 Sep. 1850; R.A. 2 Sep. 1850, V.A. 14 May 1857, admiral on h.p. 16 June 1862, pensioned 25 June 1863. _d._ 2 Lansdown crescent, Cheltenham 13 Feb. 1868. LOCH, GEORGE (brother of the succeeding). _b._ London 6 July 1811; ed. at the Charterhouse; barrister M.T. 28 May 1847, bencher 17 Nov. 1863 to death, treasurer 1875; Q.C. 20 June 1863; attorney general to prince of Wales 18 April 1873 to death; contested Falkirk 14 Feb. 1851 and Manchester 9 July 1852; M.P. Wick burghs 1868–72. _d._ The Cottage, Bishopsgate, Staines 18 Aug. 1877. LOCH, GRANVILLE GOWER (2 son of James Loch of Drylaw 1780–1855). _b._ 28 Feb. 1813; entered navy 23 Feb. 1826; captain 26 Aug. 1841; extra aide de camp to sir Hugh Gough in China 1842; visited India 1843; commanded the Alarm frigate in West Indies 1846–9; sent to coast of Nicaragua, Feb. 1848 to enforce redress for certain outrages, carried and dismantled a fort at Serapaqui, the demands were conceded and a treaty arranged; C.B. 30 May 1848; captain of the Winchester 50 guns the flagship on China and East Indian station 16 March 1852 to death; author of The closing events of the campaign in China, the operations in the Yang-tze-Kiang and the treaty of Nanking 1843; led a joint naval and military expedition against Nya-Myat-Toon a Burmese robber chief at Donablew; shot through the body 4 Feb. and _d._ 6 Feb. 1853. _bur._ at Rangoon, memorial monu. in St. Paul’s cath. London. LOCH, JAMES (eld. son of George Loch of Drylaw, Mid-Lothian). _b._ 7 May 1780; admitted advocate 1801; barrister L.I. 15 Nov. 1806; auditor to marquess of Stafford, to lord Francis Egerton, to earl of Carlisle and others; carried out the Sutherlandshire clearings 1811–20, by which 15,000 crofters were removed from inland to the sea-coast; M.P. St. Germans 1827–30, M.P. Wick burghs 1830–52, contested the seat 26 July 1852; F.G.S., F.S.S. and F.Z.S.; author of An account of the improvements on the estate of Sutherland 1815, another ed. 1820; Memoir of George Granville late duke of Sutherland 1834. _d._ 12 Albemarle st. London 5 July 1855. LOCH, JOHN (brother of preceding). _b._ 8 Sep. 1781; served in naval service of H.E.I.Co. to 1821 when he retired; in command of H.E.I. Co.’s ship Scaleby castle beat off the Piedmontese a French frigate of 44 guns 1808; a director of H.E.I.Co. 1821–54, deputy chairman 1828 and 1836, chairman 1829 and 1833; M.P. for Hythe 26 March 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ at the res. of his son in law, the Hall, Bushey, Herts. 19 Feb. 1868. _G.M. v_ 679 (1868); _I.L.N. xvi_ 184 (1850), _portrait_. NOTE.--On the 15 March 1837 he was dangerously wounded with a knife in a murderous attack made upon him at the India house, Leadenhall st. London by a man called Kearney who had been employed as a conductor of ordnance in India. Kearney destroyed himself by poison in Giltspur street compter in March 1837. _Annual Register 1837 p._ 26. LOCHORE, ROBERT. _b._ Strathaven, Lanarkshire 7 July 1762; a shoemaker 1775, a master shoemaker at Glasgow; founded Glasgow annuity society 4 Jany. 1808; edited the Kilmarnock Mirror about 1817; an intimate acquaintance of Robert Burns; published two poetical tracts Willie’s Vision 1795 and The Foppish Taylor 1796; author of Tales in rhyme and minor pieces about 1815, anon.; his song ‘Now, Jenny, lass, my bonnie bird,’ has been attributed to Burns. _d._ Glasgow 27 April 1852. _J. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _i_ 382–6 (1876); _C. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel_, _iv_ 91–7 (1857). LOCHRANE, OSBORNE AUGUSTUS. _b._ Middleton, Armagh, Ireland 22 Aug. 1829; arrived in New York 21 Dec. 1846; studied law at Athens, Georgia, admitted to the bar 1849; in practice in Savannah, March 1850, removed to Macon, Oct. 1850; judge of the Macon circuit Sep. 1861 to 1865; judge of Atlanta circuit Aug. 1870; chief judge of the supreme court of Georgia, Jany. 1871, resigned Dec. 1871; attorney for Pullman palace car co.; many of his speeches and orations were published. _d._ Atlanta, Georgia 17 June 1887. LOCK, GEORGE. _b._ Dorchester, Feb. 1832; articled to an agricultural chemist at Salisbury to 1853; partner with E. Ward as booksellers at 158 Fleet st. London 1854–66, removed to 1 Amen Corner and 107 Dorset st. 1866, then to newly erected premises called Warwick house in Salisbury sq. 1878, Charles Tyler became a partner in 1865 when the firm was Ward, Lock and Tyler for a few years; published Webster’s Speller, Milner and Downer’s Atlases, an edition of Webster’s Dictionary 1856, educational works and books for children; purchased S. O. Beeton’s stock and copyrights for £1900 Sep. 1866, Edward Moxon & Co.’s publications 1877 and William Tegg’s publications about 1882, the firm of Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co. was converted into a limited liability co. April 1893. _d._ 7 Warltersville road, Hornsey Rise, London 8 Aug. 1891. _The Bookseller 5 Sep. 1891 pp._ 836–7; _Athenæum 15 Aug. 1891 p._ 224. LOCKE, JOHN (only son of John Locke of Herne Hill, Surrey, surveyor). _b._ London 1805; ed. at Dulwich coll. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 3 May 1833, bencher 24 Nov. 1857 to death, reader 1870, treasurer 1871; one of common pleaders of City of London 13 March 1845 to June 1857; Q.C. 23 June 1857; recorder of Brighton 19 April 1861 to June 1879; contested Hastings 9 July 1852; M.P. for Southwark 31 March 1857 to death; author of The game laws, comprising all the acts now in force 1840, 5 ed. 1866; The law and practice of foreign attachment in the lord mayor’s court 1853. _d._ 63 Eaton place, London 28 Jany. 1880. _I.L.N. xxx_ 479 (1857), _portrait_, _lxxvi_ 157 (1880), _portrait_. LOCKE, JOSEPH (youngest son of Wm. Locke, colliery manager). _b._ Attercliffe near Sheffield 9 Aug. 1805; articled to George Stephenson, civil engineer, Newcastle 1823, aided him in construction of Manchester and Liverpool railway opened 14 Sep. 1830; constructed the following lines, Grand Junction 1835–7, London and Southampton 1836–40, Sheffield and Manchester 1836–40, Paris to Rouen 1841–3, Rouen to Havre 1843; partner with John Edward Errington 1840, they constructed the Caledonian railway 1848 and a line from Mantes to Caen and Cherbourg 1852 for which Locke was created an officer of Legion of Honour; originated the double-headed rail, first used on the Grand Junction railway; designed the Crewe engine in which all the parts were capable of fitting any engine; F.R.S. 22 Feb. 1838; pres. of Instit. of C.E. 1858–60; M.P. Honiton, Devon 28 July 1847 to death; purchased manor of Honiton including all the borough for £80,000 Aug. 1846; his widow presented to town of Barnsley, Yorkshire, the Locke park about 1869, where is statue of him by Marochetti. _d._ Moffat, Dumfries 18 Sep. 1860. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet., memorial window in Westminster abbey. _J. Devey’s Life of Joseph Locke_ (1862), _portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx_ 141–8 (1861). LOCKER, ARTHUR (youngest son of Edward Hawke Locker, F.R.S.) _b._ Greenwich hospital, Kent 2 July 1828; ed. at Charterhouse and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851; resided in Australia and in India; contributed reviews to The Times 1865–70; edited The Graphic from May or June 1870 till December 1891 when he went to Madeira for his health; translated V. M. Hugo’s The history of a crime 1877; printed Mrs. Ralph Greening’s First lodger in A. Halliday’s Savage Club papers 1868 pp. 100–17; author of Sir Goodwin’s folly 3 vols. 1864; Sweet seventeen 3 vols. 2 ed. 1866; On a coral reef 1869; Stephen Scudamore 1871; The village surgeon 1874. _d._ 19 West-hill, Highgate, London 23 June 1893. _I.L.N. 19 Dec. 1891 p._ 791, _portrait_. LOCKHART, ALLAN ELIOTT (2 son of William Eliott Lockhart, M.P. Selkirkshire, _d._ 1832). _b._ 1803; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; advocate 1824; M.P. Selkirkshire 1846–61; lord lieut. of Selkirkshire 19 Nov. 1867 to death. _d._ Borthwickbrae, Hawick 15 March 1878. LOCKHART, ARCHIBALD INGLIS. _b._ 1810; ensign 92 foot 31 Dec. 1828; commanded a field force in Central India 2 Aug. to 17 Sep. 1858, including the action near Rajhghar; commanded a brigade in Central India field force 18 Sep. to 6 Dec. 1858; lieut.-col. 26 Dec. 1857 to 14 March 1865 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ Edinburgh 17 Sep. 1879. LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON (2 son of rev. John Lockhart 1761–1842, minister of Cambusnethan). _b._ in the manse of Cambusnethan 14 July 1794; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Glasgow 1805–9; Snell exhibitioner at Balliol coll. Oxf. 1809, B.C.L. 1817, D.C.L. 1834; an advocate 1816; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. from Oct. 1817; edited The Quarterly Review, Oct. 1825 to April 1853, wrote more than 100 articles; lived at 24 Sussex place, Regent’s park 1826 to 1853; superintended Murray’s ‘Family Library’ from 1829, for which he wrote the first work History of Napoleon Buonaparte 2 vols. 1829, anon.; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; auditor of the duchy of Lancaster 1843 to death; edited Motteux’s translation of Don Quixote 5 vols. 1822; author of Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk. By Peter Morris the Odontist. 3 vols. 1819; Valerius, a Roman story 1821; Some passages in the life of Mr. Adam Blair 1822, anon.; Reginald Dalton, a story of English university life 1823; Ancient Spanish ballads translated 1823, several editions; The history of Matthew Wald 1824, a novel, anon.; Life of Robert Burns 1828, 8 ed. 1888; History of the late war 1832; Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott 7 vols. 1837–8, 4 ed. 1850; The Ballantyne humbug handled