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Treasures of art_, _iii_ 260–65 (1854). NOTE.--He is the original of Lord Colchicum in Thackeray’s Pendennis and of Lord Eskdale in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby. LONSDALE, HENRY LOWTHER, 3 Earl of (1 son of Henry Cecil Lowther, M.P. 1790–1867). _b._ London 27 March 1818; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; styled Henry Lowther 1836–72; cornet 1 life guards 24 Sep. 1841, capt. 9 March 1849, sold out 1 Dec. 1854; M.P. West Cumberland 1847–72; hon. col. Cumberland rifle volunteers 16 Aug. 1862; hon. col. Cumberland militia 24 Feb. 1868 to death; lord lieut. of Cumberland and Westmoreland 2 Dec. 1868 to death; succeeded his uncle as 3 earl 4 March 1872; lieut.-col. Westmoreland and Cumberland yeomanry 11 May 1872; steward of the Jockey club 1844 and 1845; won many cups at Newmarket, Goodwood and Stamford; a regular huntsman, lest his horses should be misused after he had done with them, he always shot them. _d._ Whitehaven castle, Cumberland 15 Aug. 1876. _Athenæum 21 Feb. 1874 pp._ 260–3; _Baily’s Mag. viii_ 219–21 (1864), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiv_ 204 (1876), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 208, 213 (1876), _portrait_. LONSDALE, ST. GEORGE HENRY LOWTHER, 4 Earl of (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Wilton crescent, London 4 Oct. 1855; ed. at Eton; styled viscount Lowther 1872–76; succeeded as 4 earl 15 Aug. 1876; hon. col. Cumberland militia 3 March 1877; vice admiral Cumberland and Westmoreland, March 1877; master of the Cottesmore hounds 2 years; kept a racing stud, Pilgrimage won the 2000 and 1000 guineas in 1878. _d._ 14 Carlton house terrace, London 8 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Lowther ch. 14 Feb. _Graphic_, _xxv_ 220 (1882), _portrait_; _Illust. sport. and dram. news_, _xvi_ 549, 563 (1882), _portrait_. LONSDALE, EDWARD FRANCIS. M.R.C.S. 1834, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; one of founders of Institution for Cure of club feet, afterwards the Royal orthopædic hospital, 6 Bloomsbury sq. 1838, and surgeon there; member Med. & Chir. Soc. 1844; a skilful surgeon in orthopædic cases; author of A practical treatise on fractures 1838; Observations on the treatment of lateral curvature of the spine 1847, 2 ed. 1852. _d._ 26 Montague st. Russell sq. London 11 Sep. 1857. _Proc. R. Med. & Chir. Soc. ii_ 50 (1858). LONSDALE, HENRY (son of Henry Lonsdale, tradesman). _b._ Carlisle 1816; studied medicine at univ. of Edinb. and in Paris; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; M.D. Edinb. 1838; partner with Robert Knox in Edinb. 1840–5; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1841; physician to royal public dispensary, Edinb. 1841–5, where he introduced use of cod-liver oil; practised at Carlisle from 1846, phys. to Cumberland infirmary 1846–68; the friend of Mazzini, Kossuth and Garibaldi; author of A biographical sketch of William Blamire formerly M.P. for Cumberland 1862; The life and works of Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson, sculptor 1866; The worthies of Cumberland 6 vols. 1867–75; A sketch of the life and writings of Robert Knox the anatomist 1870. _d._ Rosehill, Carlisle 23 July 1876. LONSDALE, JAMES GYLBY (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1788–1867). _b._ Clapham, London 14 Oct. 1816; ed. at Laleham sch. and at Eton, Newcastle scholar March 1843; scholar of Balliol coll. Oxf. 29 Nov. 1833, fellow 1838–64, tutor 1840; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; a student of L.I. 1838; chaplain to bishop of Gibraltar 1842–7; chaplain to bishop of Lichfield 1847–67; tutor in univ. of Durham 1851–6; professor of classical literature at King’s coll. London 1865–70; R. of South Luffenham, Rutland 1870–3; R. of Huntspill, Somerset 1873–8; author with Samuel Lee of The works of Virgil rendered into English prose 1871; The works of Horace rendered into English prose 1873. _d._ Bath 25 April 1892, memorial tablet in Balliol college chapel. _R. Duckworth’s Memoir of J. G. Lonsdale_ (1893), _portrait_. LONSDALE, JAMES JOHN (2 son of James Lonsdale the artist 1777–1839). _b._ 5 April 1810; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1836; sec. to criminal law commission 1842; recorder of Folkestone 5 Aug. 1847 to death; judge of circuit No. 11 West Riding of Yorkshire 14 Feb. 1855 to 19 March 1867; judge of circuit No. 48 Kent 19 March 1867 to March 1884; author of The statute criminal law of England 1839; The odes of Horace. Book 1 a verse translation