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of Eighth foot 2 ed. p._ 283. LONGFIELD, MOUNTIFORT (brother of George Longfield _d._ 3 Nov. 1878). _b._ South of Ireland 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829, LL.D. 1831; fellow of Trin. coll. 1825–34; professor of political economy univ. of Dublin 1832–6, regius professor of feudal and English law 29 Nov. 1834 to death, discharged his duties by deputy from 1871; called to Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842, bencher of King’s inns 1859; comr. of Incumbered estates court 1849–58, a judge of Landed estates court 1858–67; comr. of Irish national education 1853; P.C. Ireland 1867; author of Four lectures on poor laws 1834; Lectures on political economy 1834; Remarks on the safety and advantages of commutation if accepted by the clergy generally 1870; Elementary treatise on series 1872. _d._ 47 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 21 Nov. 1884. _Irish Law Times 29 Nov. 1884 p._ 606. LONGFIELD, RICHARD (brother of John Longfield 1804–89). _b._ Longueville, co. Cork 1802; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824; sheriff of Cork 1833; contested co. Cork 24 Jany. 1835 and seated on petition 5 June; contested co. Cork 18 Aug. 1837 and 15 July 1841. _d._ Longueville house, Mallow 19 June 1889. LONGFIELD, ROBERT (brother of Mountifort Longfield 1802–84). _b._ co. Cork 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A 1832; called to Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; law adviser of crown for Ireland 1866 to death; chairman of quarter sessions, co. Galway, Dec. 1867 to death; law adviser to the castle, Dublin; M.P. Mallow, May 1859 to 1865; author of The laws of distress and replevin in Ireland. Dublin 1841; A treatise on the action of ejectment in the superior courts in Ireland 2 ed. 1846; The origin of freemasonry 1857; The fishery laws of Ireland 1863; The game laws of Ireland 1864. _d._ 33 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 27 April 1868. LONGFORD, WILLIAM LYGON PAKENHAM, 4 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Longford 1774–1838). _b._ Pakenham hall 31 Jany. 1819; ed. Winchester; ensign 52 foot 25 Aug. 1837; lieut. 7 foot 1838, captain 1844, placed on h.p. 6 July 1852; A.Q.M.G. Crimea 1854–5, A.A.G. 1855, A.G. 1855–6; in battles of Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman, and at siege of Sebastopol, medal with 4 clasps; A.G. Bengal, Feb. 1858 to 2 July 1860; succeeded his brother as 4 earl 27 March 1860; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 June 1861, G.C.B. 24 May 1881; under sec. of state for war 7 July 1866 to 8 Dec. 1868; lord lieut. of Longford 21 March 1874 to death; col. 5 Northumberland fusiliers 11 Sep. 1878 to death; general 31 July 1879; placed on retired list 1881. _d._ 24 Bruton st. London 19 April 1887. LONGLANDS, HENRY (son of Thomas Longlands of Greenwich). _b._ 1781; ed. at Westminster, King’s scholar 1796; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1809, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1851; secretary to West India Dock co. 1818–38. _d._ Blackheath road, Old Charlton 9 Feb. 1857. LONGLEY, CHARLES THOMAS (5 son of John Longley, recorder of Rochester, _d._ 1822). _b._ Boley Hill, Rochester 28 July 1794; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; King’s scholar at Westminster 1808; student at Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812, Greek reader 1822, tutor and censor 1825–8; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1829; proctor of the univ. 1827; C. of Cowley, Oxon. 1818, P.C. of Cowley 1823–7; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1827–9; head master of Harrow school 21 March 1829 to Oct. 1836; bishop of Ripon 15 Oct. 1836, consecrated in York cath. 6 Nov. 1836; translated to see of Durham 13 Oct. 1856; archbishop of York 1 June 1860; P.C. 9 June 1860; archbishop of Canterbury 20 Oct. 1862 to death, installed 12 Dec. 1862; the Lambeth or Pan-Anglican synod of 78 British, colonial and foreign prelates met in London under his presidency 24–27 Sep. 1867; translated Koch’s Tableau des révolutions de l’Europe 1831; author of A letter to the parishioners of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1851. _d._ Addington park near Croydon 27 Oct. 1868. _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _i_ 161–8 (1875); _Macmillan’s Mag. March 1883 pp._ 346–58; _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ (1861), _portrait_; _Illustrated times 25 Oct. 1862 p._ 417, _portrait_, _20 Dec. 1862 p._ 541 _view of installation_. LONGMAN, CHARLES (2 son of Thomas Norton Longman, publisher 1771–1842). _b._ 11 Feb. 1809; ed. Westminster 1822–4; head of firm of J. Dickinson & Co. paper makers, 65 Old Bailey and 1 Irongate wharf, Praed st. London; F.G.S. 1862; dropped down _dead_ in his park, Shendish near Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 4 Jany. 1873; will proved 15 Feb. 1873, personalty under £200,000. LONGMAN, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1804; ed. at Glasgow univ.; partner in Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, publishers 38 Paternoster row 1832, head of the firm 1842 to death; superintended production of The New Testament illustrated with engravings on wood after paintings by Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino and other great masters 1864, 250 copies at ten guineas each, 2 ed. 1864, reprinted 1883; published lord Macaulay’s works, sent him a cheque for £20,000 dated 13 March 1856 for his share of profits of his History of England vols. 3 and 4; the firm purchased business and stock of John W. Parker publisher 1863; purchased copyright of Disraeli’s novels 1870; bought Farnborough hall, Hants. for nearly £100,000, 1859. _d._ Farnborough hall 30 Aug. 1879. _History of the house of Longman. By Francis Espinasse in The Critic_, _xx_ 366, 431, 483 (1860); _Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 79–109. LONGMAN, THOMAS TUCKER (son of John Longman). _b._ Castle Cary, Somerset 1818; ed. St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; one of first to take B.A. degree at univ. of London 1841; ordained priest 1840; missioner at Wolverhampton, at Bloxwich, at Hampton hill, and at Warwick where he built the R.C. church; administrator of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1867, canon of the cath. 1873, vicar general of the diocese 1873–91; in charge of St. Peter’s, Leamington 1884–91; dignity of Monsignor conferred on him by the Pope, June 1890; member of Birmingham school board. _d._ Leamington 14 Dec. 1892. _Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 3, _portrait_. LONGMAN, _William_ (brother of Thomas Longman 1804–79). _b._ 9 Feb. 1813; entered service of Longman & Co. publishers 1828, a partner 1839 to death; freeman of Stationers’ Co. 1834; an early member of Alpine club 1857, pres. 1871–4; F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1873; author of A catalogue of works in all departments of English literature classified, anon., Second edition 1848; Journal of six weeks’ adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont and the Italian lakes. By W. Longman and H. Trower. Privately printed 1856; Lectures on the history of England to the close of the reign of Edward II. 1859; The history of the life and times of Edward III. 2 vols. 1869; A history of the three cathedrals dedicated to St. Paul in London 1873. _d._ Ashlyns, Great Berkhampstead 13 Aug. 1877. _William Longman. By H. R. (Henry Reeve) in Fraser’s Mag. for Oct. 1877 pp._ 417–21; _Publishers’ Circular_ (1877) 605–6; _Graphic_, _xvi_ 204 (1877), _portrait_. LONGMIRE, MARGARET (dau. of John and Margaret Atkinson). _b._ Westmoreland 15 April 1765; _bapt._ Windermere 19 May 1777; a servant on various farms; _m._ James Longmire of Crawmire’s, he _d._ 19 Jany. 1831; a sick nurse; had parochial relief. _d._ Troutbeck 30 May 1868 aged 103 years and 6 weeks. She was grandmother of Thomas Longmire the champion wrestler of England. _W. J. Thom’s Longevity of Man_ (1879) 272–80. LONGMUIR, JOHN (son of John Longmuir). _b._ Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 13 Nov. 1803; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal coll., M.A., LL.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1859; English master Anderson’s Institution, Forres; licensed by presbytery of Forres, July 1833; evening lecturer in Trinity chapel, Aberdeen 1837; minister of Mariners’ church, Aberdeen Sep. 1840; minister of Free church, Aberdeen 1843–81; lecturer on geology at King’s coll. Aberdeen to 1859; author of The College and other poems. Aberdeen 1825, anon.; Bible Lays 1838, 2 ed. 1877; Ocean Lays 1854, new ed. 1864; Lays for the lambs 1860; A run through the land of Burns and the covenanters 1872; edited Rhythmical index to the English language 1877; Walker and Webster combined in a dictionary of the English language 1864, 2 ed. 1876. _d._ Aberdeen 7 May 1883. _W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord_ (1887) 407–14; _Edwards’s Modern Scottish Poets 2nd series_. LONGSTAFF, GEORGE DIXON. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827; M.D. Edinb. 1828; assist. professor of chemistry Edinb. univ., where he was the first teacher of practical chemistry to medical students; physician at Hull some years; in America some years; engaged in commerce in England; superintendent of special constables in Chartist riots 1848; a founder 1841 and V.P. of Chemical Soc. of London; chairman of royal maternity charity, London; first member of Wandsworth district board of works; author of Dissertatio inauguralis de calorico 1828. _d._ Butterknowle, Southfields, Wandsworth, Surrey 23 Sep. 1892. LONGWORTH, JOHN AUGUSTUS. Consul at Monastir, Tunis 29 Sep. 1851; employed on several special services 1854–58; consul general in Servia 13 Feb. 1860 to 14 Feb. 1875 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; author of A year among the Circassians 2 vols. 1840. _d._ 16 Westbourne park villas, Bayswater, London 23 July 1875. LONGWORTH, MARIA THERESA (7 child of Thomas Longworth of Manchester, silk manufacturer, _d._ Altrincham, Cheshire 1854). _b._ Fairyhill, Cheetwood near Manchester 1827; ed. at a convent in Staffs. and at an Ursuline convent school at Boulogne; began a correspondence 1853 with Wm. Charles Yelverton afterwards 4 viscount Avonmore, met him again when she was a nurse at Galata hospital, Constantinople, during Crimean war, Aug. 1855 and they became engaged; he read aloud the Church of England marriage service at her lodgings 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh 12 April 1857, they were afterwards married by rev. Bernard Mooney at R.C. chapel at Kilbroney near Rostrevor in Ireland, and lived together in Ireland and Scotland till April 1858; Yelverton married Emily widow of professor Edward Forbes 26 June 1858; Miss Longworth sued Yelverton for restitution of conjugal rights in probate court, London 31 Oct. 1859 but the court decided that it had no jurisdiction; the Scottish court of session upheld the marriage 19 Dec. 1862 but this judgment was reversed by the house of lords 28 July 1864; her attempt to reopen the case at Edinburgh in March 1865, failed and the house of lords supported the Scottish court 30 July 1867, her appeal to court of session to set aside judgment of house of lords was rejected 28 Oct. 1868; a subscription in her behalf was raised in Manchester; gave her first reading at Hanover square rooms, London 6 April 1866; author of Martyrs to circumstances 2 vols. 1861; The Yelverton correspondence 1863; Zanita, a tale of the Yosemite 1872; Teresina Peregrina 2 vols. 1874; Teresina in America 2 vols. 1875; lived at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, about March 1880 to her death there 13 Sep. 1881. _J. F. Macqueen’s Reports in the House of Lords_, _iv_ 745–912 (1866); _Law mag. and law review_, _xi_ 215–34 (1861); _Illust. Times 9 March 1861 p._ 143, _portrait_; _A.R._ (1861) 528–42; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _xxvii_ 336 (1862), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_, _v_ 117 (1866), _portrait_. NOTE.--J. R. O’Flanagan’s novel entitled Gentle blood or the secret marriage 1861 is founded on the Yelverton marriage case, Miss Longworth is called in the novel Sybilla Longsword and Yelverton figures as Rodulphus Silverton. LONSDALE, WILLIAM LOWTHER, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844). _b._ 30 July 1787; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1808; styled viscount Lowther 1807–44; M.P. Cockermouth 1808–13; M.P. Westmoreland 1813–31; M.P. Dunwich 1831–2; M.P. Westmoreland 1832–41; F.R.S. 5 July 1810; a lord of the admiralty 24 Nov. 1809 to 1 May 1810; a commissioner for affairs of India 7 July 1810 to 17 July 1818; a lord of the treasury 25 Nov. 1813 to 30 April 1827; lieut.-col. commandant of Westmoreland militia 9 June 1818 to 26 Feb. 1861; chief comr. of woods and forests 14 June 1828 to 13 Dec. 1830; P.C. 30 May 1828; treasurer of the navy 27 Dec. 1834 to 22 April 1835; vice pres. of board of trade 20 Dec. 1834 to 6 May 1835; summoned to parliament as baron Lowther of Whitehaven 8 Sep. 1841; postmaster general 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 Jany. 1846; succeeded his father as 2 earl 19 March 1844; lord lieut. of Cumberland and Westmoreland 17 April 1844 to 2 Dec. 1868; lord pres. of privy council 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; bought Armathwaite castle, Cumberland, Aug. 1845. _d._ 14 Carlton house terrace, London 4 March 1872; personalty sworn under £700,000 6 April