Modern English biography

Times_, _vol._ 82 _p._ 111 (1886). LONSDALE, JOHN (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1737–1807, vicar of Darfield, _d._ 1807 aged 70). _b._ Newmillerdam near Wakefield 17 Jany. 1788; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow 1809–15, tutor 1814–5 and 1820–1, univ. scholar 1809; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1824, D.D. 1844; student at Lincoln’s Inn, Dec. 1811; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1816; assistant preacher at the Temple 1816; R. of Musham, Kent 1822–7; preb. of Lincoln 1825–8; fellow of Eton 1827–8; precentor of Lichfield 1828–31; preb. of St. Paul’s 1831–43; R. of St. George’s, Bloomsbury 1828–34; preacher of Lincoln’s inn Jany. 1836; R. of Southfleet, Kent 1836; principal of King’s coll. London Jany. 1839 to 1844, chief founder of King’s coll. hospital 1839; declined provostship of Eton 1840; archdeacon of Middlesex 20 Jany. 1843 to Nov. 1843, installed 1 July 1843; bishop of Lichfield 23 Nov. 1843 to death, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 3 Dec.; consecrated and reopened about 300 churches; chairman of royal commission for enquiring into effect of marriage act of 1835, 1847; chairman of Cambridge univ. commission 1857; pres. of church congress at Wolverhampton, Oct. 1867; author of Some popular objections against christianity considered 1820; The testimonies of nature, reason and revelation respecting a future judgment 1821; Some account of the life of the rev. T. Rennell 1824; The four gospels with annotations 1849. _d._ suddenly at his dinner table Eccleshall castle, Staffs. 19 Oct. 1867. _E. B. Denison’s Life of John Lonsdale_ (1868), _portrait_; _The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 4 series_ (1860), _portrait_; _The church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 48; _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 163–66; _F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans_, _i_ 206–11 (1875); _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 415–16. LONSDALE, WILLIAM (youngest son of Wm. Lonsdale). _b._ Bath 9 Sep. 1794; ensign 4 foot 1 Feb. 1810, lieut. 15 May 1812, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; served in Peninsular war and at Waterloo where he was the only officer in the 4th foot not wounded; curator of natural history department of Bath museum 1826–9; F.G.S. 15 May 1829, curator and librarian of the society 1829–42, the Wollaston fund was awarded him 1832 and 3 times afterwards, Wollaston medallist 1846; investigated the oolite districts of Gloucestershire; co-originator with Murchison and Sedgwick of the theory of the independence of Devonian system; author of On the age of the limestones of South Devonshire and other papers in Transactions and Journal of Geol. Soc. _d._ City road, Bristol 11 Nov. 1871. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxviii_ 35–6 (1872); _W. S. Mitchell’s Notes on the early geologists connected with neighbourhood of Bath_ (1872) 31–9. LOPES, SIR RALPH, 2 Baronet (only son of Abraham Franco, merchant, London). _b._ 10 Sep. 1788; succeeded his uncle sir Manasseh Massey Lopes 26 March 1831; assumed surname of Lopes in lieu of Franco by r.l. 4 May 1831; M.P. Westbury, Wilts. 1814–20, 1831–37 and 1841–7; contested Westbury 26 July 1837; M.P. South Devon 13 Feb. 1849 to death. _d._ Maristowe near Plymouth 26 Jany. 1854; personalty sworn under £180,000, March