Modern English biography

LOFTUS, WILLIAM FRANCIS BENTINCK (brother of Ferrars Loftus 1798–1877). _b._ 17 Aug. 1784; cornet 15 dragoons 30 Aug. 1799, captain 20 April 1804; major 38 foot 9 April 1807 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; colonel 50 foot 11 April 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Chacombe priory, Northamptonshire 13 Sep. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 635 (1852). LOFTUS, WILLIAM JAMES (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 7 Jany. 1822; ensign 38 foot 9 Nov. 1838, lieut.-col. 16 Jany. 1863, placed on h.p. 22 Dec. 1863; served in North America and the West Indies 1840–51; present at the Alma, at Inkerman, and in siege of Sebastopol, Crimean medal with 3 clasps; served in Indian mutiny, in siege and capture of Lucknow, Indian medal with clasps 1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; general on the retired list July 1881. _d._ Birtley Bramley, Guildford 29 March 1887. LOFTUS, WILLIAM KENNETT. _b._ Rye, Sussex about 1821; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch., at Twickenham, and Caius coll. Camb. 1840; secretary to Newcastle Natural history soc.; geologist on staff of sir W. F. Williams on Turco-Persian frontier commission 1849–52; sent out to Babylon and Nineveh by Assyrian excavation fund 1853, returned 1855 with collections of tablets, &c. now in British Museum; issued a volume of Lithograph facsimilies of cuneiform inscriptions from 1852; author of Travels and researches in Chaldea and Susiana, with account of excavations at Nimrod and Shúsh 1857. _d._ on board the Tyburnia on his way to England from Rangoon, Nov. 1858. LOGAN, ALEXANDER STUART (son of minister of Relief church, St. Ninians, Stirlingshire). _b._ St. Ninians 1810; ed. Glasgow and Edinb. universities; advocate at Scottish bar 1835; senior advocate depute Dec. 1853; sheriff of Forfarshire 4 Feb. 1854 to death; held many briefs at bar of General Assembly; author of On Robert Burns, an address, and Judas the Betrayer, a poetical fragment 1871. _d._ 12 York place, Edinburgh 2 Feb. 1862, marble bust in Court buildings, Dundee. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 207–8. LOGAN, ARCHIBALD SPIERS. _b._ 1802; entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 47 Madras N.I. 182-, captain 11 Sep. 1832; captain 33 N.I. 1835, lieut.-col. 7 Aug. 1846 to 1855; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 1855 to 24 Oct. 1858; commandant at Vellore 14 March 1856 to 1858; col. of 45 N.I. 9 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. _d._ Elm bank, Malvern 10 May 1873. LOGAN, GEORGE. Entered Madras army 1819; captain 41 Madras N.I. 27 Jany. 1831, major 19 Sep. 1843 to 6 Oct. 1851; lieut.-col. of 2 European regiment 6 Oct. 1851 to 1853 and 1854–5; lieut.-col. of 41 N.I. 1855–60, of 6 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Eastbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 4 Nov. 1870. LOGAN, JAMES (son of a merchant). _b._ Aberdeen about 1794; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal college, Aberdeen; his reading ticket at British museum dated from 1821; a journalist in London, afterwards clerk in an architect’s office; made a pedestrian tour in Scotland 1826; a transcriber on catalogue of British museum Dec. 1838 to July 1840; secretary of Highland society of London several years; wrote much in Transactions of the Gaelic society of London, of which he was the Father; a brother of the Charterhouse, London, expelled 1866; F.S.A.; author of The Scottish Gael or Celtic manners as preserved among the Highlanders 2 vols. 1831, 2 ed. 1876; Gaelic gatherings or the highlanders at home 1848; and of the letterpress to R. R. Mac Ian’s The clans of the Scottish Highlands 2 vols. 1843–9, new ed. 1857. _d._ London, April 1872. _James Logan’s Scottish Gael_, _new ed._ (1876) _memoir pp. ix–xx_; _R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 310–11. LOGAN, JAMES RICHARDSON. Went to the Straits Settlements about 1835; settled at Penang, Prince of Wales’s Island; started at Singapore in 1847 the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, which he edited for about 10 years; started and edited the Penang Gazette; notary public of supreme court of Prince of Wales’s Island; a member of Asiatic Society. _d._ Penang 20 Oct. 1869. LOGAN, ROBERT ABRAHAM (son of Patrick Logan, captain 57 foot). _b._ 26 July 1824; ensign 41 foot 26 Oct. 1841; ensign 57 foot 19 Nov. 1841, lieut.-col. 24 April 1872, placed on h.p. 26 July 1876; commanded 57 foot in New Zealand war 1861, took the Maori Pah 1863; commanded brigade depots 49 and 50 at Hounslow 1877; M.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 6 May 1882; C.B. 5 July 1865. _d._ 28 Glen Eldon road, Streatham near London 27 Jany. 1890. LOGAN, WILLIAM (son of a customer weaver). _b._ Damhead near Hamilton, Lanarkshire 1813; a loom weaver; a district missionary in St. Giles’, London, then in Leeds, Rochdale 1840, Glasgow, again at Rochdale and at Bradford; established a temperance dining room, the profits of which he distributed to the poor; attended persons stricken with fever; great friend of David Gray of Luggie the poet, and the soother of his dying hours 1861; the friend of Janet Hamilton the poet of Coatbridge, who _d._ 1873; author of An exposure of female prostitution in London, Leeds and Rochdale 1843; The moral statistics of Glasgow 1849; Words of comfort for parents bereaved of little children 1861, 8 ed. 1874; The great social evil 1871; The early heroes of the temperance reformation 1873. _d._ Glasgow 16 Sep. 1879. _W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of one hundred Glasgow men_, _ii_ 177–8 (1886), _portrait_. LOGAN, SIR WILLIAM EDMOND (2 son of Wm. Logan, baker, _d._ 1841). _b._ Montreal 20 April 1798; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; in counting-house of his uncle Hart Logan in London 1818–29; manager of copper-smelting works at Swansea 1831–8; demonstrated the important fact that the stratum of clay underlying coal-beds was the soil in which the coal vegetation grew; director of the geological survey of Canada 1842–70; discovered the Eozoon Canadense, the earliest known life, in Laurentian strata 1858; Canadian comr. at Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862, and at Paris exhibition 1855; F.R.S. 5 June 1851, royal medallist 1867; received cross of Legion of Honour 1855; Wollaston medallist of Geological Soc. 1856; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856; founded at cost of 20,000 dollars the Logan chair of geology in McGill university, Montreal 1872; D.C.L. of Lennoxville univ. 1855; LL.D. of McGill univ. 1856; F.G.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; author with T. S. Hunt of A sketch of the geology of Canada 1856. _d._ Castle Malgwin, Pembrokeshire 22 June 1875. _bur._ Llechryd church, Cardiganshire. _B. J. Harrington’s Life of W. E. Logan. Montreal_ (1883), _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 228–34; _Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxii_ 76–80 (1876); _Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870), _portrait ix_; _I.L.N. xviii_ 487–8 (1851), _portrait_. LOGAN, WILLIAM HUGH (son of a writer to the signet). Apprentice to a bank in Edinb.; manager of a bank at Berwick-on-Tweed; banker at Berwick; twice mayor of Berwick; sheriff; supplied Mr. R. H. Wyndham with all his occasional addresses, dramas and burlesques for theatre royal, Edinb.; edited Edinburgh theatrical and musical review, numbers 5 to 34 the last 1835; writer of Le Bas Bleu, farce, T.R. Edinb. 30 March 1836; Rummio and Judy, burlesque 183-; Absent without leave, farce, Strand theatre, London 1837; Babes in the wood, pantomime, Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 19 Dec. 1859; Shadows, farce, Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 1862 and many other pieces; author of Memoir of Archibald Maclaren, dramatist. Edinb. 1835, anon.; The Scottish banker 1839, 3 ed. 1847; On the law and practice of bills of exchange; and of a short-lived serial called The dramatic spectator. By Poz, Quiz and Co. Edinb. 1837; edited Fragmenta Scoto-Dramatica 1715–1758. Edinb. 1835, anon.; A Pedlar’s pack of ballads and songs. Edinb. 1869. _d._ Jany. 1883. _R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland_ (1868) 66–8; _J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage_ (1888) 34, 474, 478. LOGIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Kirkwall 23 Feb. 1786; presbyterian minister Ladykirk 1811–24; minister of Kirkwall 1824 to death; D.D. of Edinb. univ. March 1854; author of God sending and withdrawing the pestilence 1832; Sermons on the services of the church, with memoir and portrait. Lond. 1857. _d._ Kirkwall 5 Sep. 1856. LOGIN, SIR JOHN SPENCER (eld. son of John Login of Stromness, Orkney). _b._ Stromness 9 Nov. 1809; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1831; surgeon to Bengal horse artillery 1832, to the Nizam’s army 1834, in Afghan campaign 1838 and in mission to Herat 1839; surgeon British residency, Lucknow; postmaster in Oude, superintendent of hospitals to king of Oude 1841; in Punjaub army 1848–9, in charge of treasuries of Sikh government, the citadel of Lahore, the post office in the Punjaub; guardian of maharajah Duleep Singh 1849 to 1858; surgeon 17 April 1848, retired 18 April 1858; knighted at Windsor castle 14 Nov. 1854; resided 5 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London. _d._ Felixstowe, Suffolk 18 Oct. 1863. _Sir John Login and Duleep Singh_ (1890), _portrait_. LOGIN, THOMAS. _b._ Stromness, Orkney 1823; in public works department India 1844, engaged in construction of Ganges canal 1847–54; executive engineer of the Darjeeling roads 1857; superintending engineer at Umballa 1870; author of papers on Benefit of irrigation in India and on construction of irrigating canals, for which he received Telford premium from Instit. of Civil engineers; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; M.I.C.E. 19 May 1868. _d._ while inspecting the Thibet road in the Punjaub 5 June 1874. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix_ 205 (1878). LOLA MONTEZ, stage name of Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert (dau. of Edward Gilbert, ensign 44 foot, _d._ Dinapore, India 1825). _b._ Limerick 1818; ed. at Montrose and in Paris; resided at Bath with her mother; ran away to Ireland with Thomas James, captain 21 Bengal N.I., whom she married at Meath 23 July 1837; she returned from India to England early in 1842; he obtained an order for a divorce in consistory court, London 15 Dec. 1842, retired from the army 28 Feb. 1856 and _d._ 17 May 1871; made her début at Her Majesty’s theatre 3 June 1843 as ‘Lola Montez Spanish dancer,’ but being badly received did not appear again; danced at Dresden, Berlin, Warsaw and St. Petersburg; appeared as a dancer at Munich 1847 when she captivated the king of Bavaria, Ludwig Carl Augustus, naturalised by a royal ordinance 7 March 1847, created baronne de Rosenthal and comtesse de Lansfeld, the king built a splendid mansion for her and gave her a pension of 20,000 florins; ruled the kingdom of Bavaria with great ability, banished March 1848 and the king was forced to abdicate 21 March; _m._ at St. George’s, Hanover sq. 19 July 1849 George Trafford Heald, cornet 2nd life guards, she fled with him to Spain Aug. 1849 to avoid punishment for bigamy, he sold out 1849 and was drowned at Lisbon 1853 or 1856; danced in ballet of Betley the Tyrolean, at Broadway theatre, New York 29 Dec. 1851, and played Lola Montez in Ware’s drama ‘Lola Montez in Bavaria’ 18 May 1852; _m._ in California 2 Aug. 1853 P. P. Hull, proprietor of the ‘San Francisco Whig’ but soon left him; played at Victoria theatre, Sydney, N.S.W. 23 Aug. 1855; played at Melbourne 1856 where she horsewhipped Mr. Seekamp, editor of the Ballarat Times, for reflecting on her character; appeared at Green st. theatre, New York 1857 in The Eton Boy, The follies of a night, and Lola in Bavaria; a public lecturer in the United States 1858, lectured at St. James’s hall, London 7 April 1859; spent her time visiting the female outcasts at the Magdalen hospital near New York 1859–60. _d._ in a sanitary asylum at Asteria, New York 17 Jany. 1861. _bur._ Greenwood cemet. 19 Jany. _Autobiography and lectures of Lola Montez_ (1858), _portrait_; _Les Contemporains, Lola Montes. Par Eugène de Mirecourt. Paris_ (1870), _portrait_; _F. L. Hawks’s Story of a penitent, Lola Montez. New York_ (1867); _C. H. Ross’s Painted Faces_ (1891) 78–88; _H. H. Phelps’s Players of a century_ (1880) 265–7, 297; _Temple Bar_, _July 1880 pp._ 362–7; _Mortemar’s Folly’s Queens_ (1882) 10–14, _portrait_; _You have heard of them. By Q._ (1854) 98–106; _I.L.N. x_ 180 (1847), _portrait_. LOMAS, JOHN (son of rev. Robert Lomas _d._ 1810). _b._ Hull 13 Dec. 1798; master Kingswood sch. 1820–23; Wesleyan methodist minister at Manchester 1827–33, 1842–5, 1851–4, at Bristol 1833–6, 1855–8, at Birmingham 1836–9, in London 1845–51, 1858–61; theological tutor Richmond coll. 1861–8 and at Headingley coll. 1868–73; president of the Conference 1853; author of Jesus Christ the propitiation for our sins. The third Fernley lecture 1872. _d._ Redland, Bristol 20 Aug. 1877. _Wesleyan Methodist Mag. ci_ 9, 134, 207, 283 (1878). LOMAX, JAMES (3 son of Richard Grimshaw Lomax _d._ 1837). _b._ Clayton hall, Accrington, Lancs. 1803; ed. at Stonyhurst; succeeded to family estates on death of his brother John Lomax 1849; a prominent Roman Catholic in the north of England, and a munificent donor to R.C. organizations in Lancashire, erected at his own cost church of Our Lady and St. Hubert, Great Harwood; created knight commander of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX. _d._ Clayton hall 26 March 1886. LOMAX, THOMAS GEORGE (eld. son of rev. James Lomax of Druid Heath house, Staffs.) _b._ 1783; bookseller at the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 1 Jany. 1810 to death; purchased relics of Dr. Johnson from his black servant Francis Barber; senior bailiff of Lichfield 1833, mayor 1843. _d._ the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 3 Jany. 1873. _bur._ St. Chad’s cemetery. _Bookseller_, _Feb. 1873 p._ 79. LONDESBOROUGH, ALBERT DENISON DENISON, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry Conyngham, 1 marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). _b._ 8 Stanhope st. Piccadilly, London 21 Oct. 1805; ed. Eton; cornet in the army 21 Sep. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 24 July 1823, sold out 1824; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Vienna 1825, sec. of legation, Florence 1826 and at Berlin 1829–31; K.C.H. 1829; M.P. Canterbury 1835–41 and 1847–50; assumed name of Denison in lieu of Conyngham 4 Sep. 1849; cr. baron Londesborough of Londesborough, Yorkshire 4 March 1850; pres. of British Archæological association at its first meeting at Canterbury 1843; V.P. of Archæological Instit. 1849; pres. of London and Middlesex Archæological society 1855; purchased the Selby estate, Yorkshire, Aug. 1853 for £270,000; held 60,000 acres of land, producing income of £100,000; F.S.A. 1840; F.R.S. 13 June 1850; most unlucky as a breeder and runner of horses; printed Wanderings in search of health 1849; Miscellanea Graphica 1857; An illustrative catalogue of antique silver 1860. _d._ 8 Carlton house terrace, London 15 Jany. 1860. _bur._ Grimston 24 Jany. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii_ 171–5 (1861); _I.L.N. xxiii_ 225 (1853) _portrait_, _xxxvi_ 108 (1860); _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 228–32, 482–3; _W. W. Morrell’s History of Selby_ (1867) 275–7; _Sporting Review_, _xliii_ 80–81 (1860); _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections_, _i_ 262–8 (1883) _and Collectanea Antigua_, _v_ 261–69 (1861). LONDONDERRY, CHARLES WILLIAM VANE, 3 Marquess of (2 son of Robert Stewart, 1 marquess of Londonderry 1739–1821). _b._ Mary st. Dublin 18 May 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 108 foot 11 Oct. 1794; major 106 foot 31 July 1795; lieut.-colonel 5 dragoons 1 Jany. 1797 to 6 April 1799 when the regiment was disbanded for insubordination; lieut.-col. 18 hussars 12 April 1799 to 20 Nov. 1813; M.P. Thomastown in Irish parliament 1798–1800, M.P. co. Londonderry 1801 to June 1814; under sec. of state for war and colonies 1807 to 1808; commanded a brigade of hussars in Portugal 1808; adjutant general to army under sir Arthur Wellesley 1809–12; K.B. 1 Feb. 1813; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; G.C.H. 1816; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Berlin 7 April 1813; colonel 25 light dragoons 20 Nov. 1813; created a peer of the realm by title of baron Stewart of Stewart’s court and Ballilawn 1 July 1814; a lord of the bedchamber 25 June 1814 to Aug. 1827; P.C. 27 July 1814; ambassador to Vienna 27 Aug. 1814; assumed surname of Vane 1819; colonel 10 hussars 3 Feb. 1820 to 23 June 1843; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marquess 12 Aug. 1822; cr. earl Vane and viscount Seaham 28 March 1823; general 10 Jany. 1837; lord lieut. of Durham 27 April 1842; col. 2 life guards 23 June 1843 to death; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; made a harbour at Seaham, opened 29 July 1835, which cost £250,000; published Suggestions for the improvement of the force of the British empire 1805; A narrative of the Peninsular war 1808–13, 2 vols. 1828–9; Memoirs and correspondence of Lord Castlereagh 8 vols. 1848–51. _d._ Holderness house, Park lane, London 6 March 1854. _bur._ Long Newton 16 March. _J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage_, _iii_ 552–4 (1886), _portrait_; _Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen. First series 5 pages_ (1836), _portrait_ 10; _Royal military calendar 3 ed. ii_ 411–20 (1820); _St. Stephen’s. By Mask_ (1839) 78–88; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 188–92; _H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees_ (1865) 111–14. NOTE.--He left personal property of value of £335,000 exclusive of vast estates in England and Ireland, his widow’s personalty was sworn under £400,000, 24 June 1865. He was the lord high marshal at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839. He is drawn in Vivian Grey as Col. Von Trumpetson. In 1824 he was challenged to a duel by Wm. Battier, who was gazetted cornet 10 hussars 27 Feb. 1823 and _d._ Paris 27 April 1839. On 13 June 1839 Lord Londonderry met Henry Grattan, M.P., on Wimbledon common, Grattan fired and missed and his lordship discharged his pistol in the air. LONDONDERRY, FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERT STEWART, 4 Marquess of (1 son of preceding). _b._ South st. Grosvenor sq. London 7 July 1805; M.P. for co. Down 1826–52; a lord of the admiralty 1829–30; vice chamberlain of the household 27 Dec. 1834 to June 1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; colonel North Down militia 1837; lord lieut. of Down 1845–64; M.P. co. Down 1826–52; succeeded as 4 marquess 6 March 1854; K.P. 1855. _d._ Hastings 25 Nov. 1872. _I.L.N. lxi_ 550 (1872). LONDONDERRY, GEORGE HENRY ROBERT CHARLES WILLIAM VANE-TEMPEST, 5 Marquess of (half-brother of preceding). _b._ Vienna 26 April 1821; styled viscount Seaham 1823–54; ed. at Eton; matric. Ball. coll. Oxf. 14 June 1839, B.A. and M.A. 1867, hon. D.C.L. Durham; cornet 1 life guards 13 Jany. 1843, lieut. 1845, sold out 1848; M.P. North Durham 1847–54; succeeded his father as 2 earl Vane 6 March 1854; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry 1859–73; lieut.-col. commandant 2 Durham militia 1853–62; assumed additional name of Tempest by r.l. 28 June 1854; appointed to proceed on a special mission to St. Petersburg to invest emperor Alexander II. with insignia and habit of order of the garter 21 July 1867; provincial grand master free masons co. Durham 1880; succeeded his brother as 5 marquess 25 Nov. 1872; K.P. 31 Aug. 1874; lord lieut. of Durham 8 June 1880 to death. _d._ Plas Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 5 Nov. 1884. _I.L.N. lxxxv_ 501 (1884), _portrait_; _R. F. Gould’s Freemasonry_, _iv_ 276 (1885), _portrait_. LONEY, ROBERT. _b._ 1787; entered navy Sep. 1797; commander on h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; captain on h.p. 6 Aug. 1852; retired admiral 15 June 1879; edited The China pilot 1855. _d._ Woodbine villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 22 Feb. 1882. LONG, CATHARINE (youngest dau. of Horatio Walpole, 2 earl of Orford 1752–1822). _b._ 1798; (_m._ 25 July 1822 Henry Lawes Long of Hampton lodge near Farnham, Surrey, _d._ 1868); edited The story of a drop of water 1856; author of Sir Roland Ashton, a tale of the times 2 vols. 1844, 2 ed. 1854; The Midsummer souvenir, thoughts original and selected 1846; Heavenly thoughts for morning hours 1851; Heavenly thoughts for evening hours 1856; The first lieutenant’s story 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1856; Story of a specific prayer 1863; An Agnus Dei for four or five voices 1848, and other pieces of sacred music. _d._ suddenly from alarm in a thunderstorm at Landthorne Hatch near Farnham 20 Aug. 1867. _Times 21 Aug. 1867 p._ 10. LONG, CHARLES EDWARD (elder son of Charles Beckford Long of Langley hall, Berkshire, _d._ 1836 aged 65). _b._ Benham park, Berkshire 28 July 1796; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; author of Imperial and papal Rome, a poem 1818, 4 ed. 1859; Considerations on the game laws 1824, anon.; Letter on the Jamaica house of assembly, abandonment of its legislative functions 1839; Royal descents, a genealogical list of the several persons entitled to quarter the arms of the royal houses of England 1845; edited for the Camden Society, The diary of the marches of the royal army during the great civil war, kept by Richard Symonds 1859. _d._ Lord Warden hotel, Dover 25 Sep. 1861. _bur._ Seale churchyard, Surrey. LONG, CHARLES MAITLAND (younger son of Samuel Long of Carshalton, M.P. Ilchester _d._ 1807). _b._ 16 Aug. 1803; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830; R. of Whitchurch, Salop 1834–46; R. of Settrington, Yorkshire 1846 to death; archdeacon of East Riding of Yorkshire 1854–73; prebendary of Fridaythorpe in York cathedral 1855 to death. _d._ 43 Berkeley sq. London 6 Oct. 1875. LONG, EDWIN LONGSDEN (son of Edwin Long an artist). _b._ Bath 12 July 1829; pupil of James Matthew Leigh; a portrait painter, afterwards painted oriental scenes; resided in Spain with John Phillip, R.A.; A.R.A. 26 Jany. 1876, R.A. 13 July 1881; exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1855–80; exhibited his pictures at his own gallery 168 New Bond st. 1883 to death, after which his pictures were exhibited at the Doré gallery 35 New Bond st., his pictures The Babylonian marriage market 1875 and the Egyptian feast 1877 were much noticed. _d._ Kelston, Netherall gardens, Hampstead 15 May 1891. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 436, 437 (1876), _portrait_; _Graphic 23 May 1891 p._ 585, _portrait_; _M. B. Huish’s The year’s art_ (1888) 32, _portrait_. LONG, GEORGE (2 son of Joseph Long of Shopwick near Chichester). _b._ 1780; special pleader in London 1809–11; barrister G.I. 11 Feb. 1811, bencher 1834 to death, treasurer 1837; deputy steward of the Palace court 1825–33; a comr. for inquiring into state of municipal corporations 18 July 1833; magistrate at Great Marlborough st. police court 1839, at Marylebone police court June 1841 to Dec. 1859; recorder of Coventry 1840 to 1854; author of Observations on a bill to amend the laws relating to the relief of the poor 1821; A treatise on the law relative to sales of personal property 1821; An essay on the moral nature of man 1841; The conduct of life, a series of essays 1845; An enquiry concerning religion 1855. _d._ 51 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 26 June 1868. _bur._ Willesden cemet. _Law Times_, _xlv_ 250 (1868). LONG, GEORGE (eld. son of James Long, merchant). _b._ Poulton, Lancs. 4 Nov. 1800; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1821, 30th wrangler and senior chancellor’s medallist 1822; B.A. 1822; fellow of Trin. coll. 1823–7; professor of ancient languages in univ. of Virginia at Charlottesville 1824–8; professor of Greek in London univ., Gower st. London 1 Oct. 1828, resigned 1831; a founder of royal geographical soc. 1830, hon. sec. 1846–8; edited Quarterly journal of education 10 vols. 1831–5; The Penny cyclopædia 29 vols. 1833–46, published in monthly parts; edited and contributed to The biographical dictionary of the Society for diffusion of useful knowledge 7 vols. 1842–4, letter A only; professor of Latin in Univ. coll. London 1842–6, when he was presented with a silver tea and coffee service; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837, reader on jurisprudence and civil law at Inner Temple April 1846 to 1849; classical lecturer at Brighton college 1849–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 7 Aug. 1873; author of The civil wars of Rome. Select lives from Plutarch 5 vols. 1844–8; France and its revolutions, a pictorial history 1850; An old man’s thoughts about many things 1862, anon.; The decline of the Roman republic 5 vols. 1864; compiled The standard cyclopædia of political knowledge 4 vols. 1848, and edited with rev. Arthur John Macleane the Bibliotheca Classica 27 vols. 1851–84. _d._ Portfield, Chichester 10 Aug. 1879. _H. J. Mathews’s In memoriam. George Long_ (1879). LONG, JAMES. _b._ 1814; resided in Russia; deacon in Church of England 1839, priest 1840; went to India as a missionary of Church missionary society about 1846, stationed at Thakurpukur near Calcutta; known as Padre Long, returned to England 1872; member of Bengal Asiatic Society; F.R.G.S.; fined 1000 rupees and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for adversely criticising the English press at Calcutta and the indigo planters in his preface to a Bengali drama entitled Niladarpana Nataka 1861; assigned to Church Missionary Soc. £2000 to provide popular lectures on the religions of the East; author of Handbook of Bengal missions 1848; A descriptive catalogue of Bengali works 1855; Prabád Málá or the wit of Bengali ryots 1869; Eastern proverbs and emblems 1881; contributed to Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Calcutta review and the Indian magazine. _d._ 3 Adam st. Adelphi, London 23 March 1887. _Trubner’s Literary Record_ (1887) 24; _Academy 9 April 1887 p._ 255. LONG, RICHARD PENRUDDOCK (2 son of Walter Long 1793–1867). _b._ Baynton house, Wiltshire 19 Dec. 1825; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; first played at Lord’s in Harrow _v._ Winchester 27 July 1842; one of the largest landed proprietors in England; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1858; nominated for sheriff of Wilts. 1875; contested South Wilts. 16 July 1852; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; M.P. North Wilts. 1865–8. d. Cannes, France 16 Feb. 1875. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iii_ 106 (1863). LONG, SAMUEL (eld. son of Charles Maitland Long 1803–75). _b._ 5 Jany. 1840; cadet R.N. 8 Dec. 1852; served in Crimean war and was present at bombardment of Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; captain 12 Dec. 1876; commander of Vernon torpedo instruction ship Portsmouth, organised and delivered the night attack on the fleet at Spithead and on the naval force protected by a boom at Southampton 1889; captain superintendent at Pembroke dockyard Jany. 1889 to Aug. 1891; aide de camp to the queen 1 Jany. 1889 to 27 Aug. 1891; R.A. 27 Aug. 1891; author of several papers on torpedo warfare; thrown from his horse and injured, _d._ Blendworth lodge, Horndean near Portsmouth 25 April 1893. LONG, SIMON (son of David Long, Gretna Green priest, _d._ 1827 in his 72 year). The last of the Gretna Green priests. _d._ Falling near Newcastle on Tyne 24 April 1872. LONG, WALTER (1 son of Richard Godolphin Long, M.P., 1761–1835). _b._ 10 Oct. 1793; ed. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; M.P. North Wilts. 1835–65; major R. Wilts, yeomanry cavalry; resided Rood Ashton, Wilts., _d._ Torquay 31 Jany.