Modern English biography

LORD, JOHN KEAST (son of Edward Lord). _b._ Tavistock 1818; apprenticed to chemists at Tavistock; entered royal veterinary college, London 1842, M.R.C.V.S. 29 May 1844; veterinary surgeon at Tavistock; a trapper in Minnesota and the Hudson’s Bay fur countries; veterinary surgeon in British army 19 June 1855, served with artillery of Turkish contingent in Crimea, lieut. 4 Jany. 1856, veterinary surgeon and lieut. of Osmanli horse artillery in Aug. 1856; naturalist to the commission for separating British Columbia from the United States territory 1 Feb. 1858, returned to England 14 July 1862; resided in Vancouver’s Island some time; his valuable collections of mammals, birds, fishes and insects are now in the Natural history museum, South Kensington; employed in archæological and scientific researches by viceroy of Egypt about 1868; manager of the Brighton Aquarium opened 10 Aug. 1872 to death; contributed many papers to Land and Water under signature of The Wanderer 1866–72; collected coleoptera in Egypt; author of The naturalist in Vancouver’s Island and British Colombia 2 vols. 1866; At home in the wilderness. By The Wanderer 1867, 3 ed. 1876; Handbook of sea-fishing. _d._ 17 Dorset gardens, Brighton 9 Dec. 1872. _Leisure Hour_, _xxii_ 696–9 (1873), _portrait_; _Land and Water 14 Dec. 1872 pp._ 387, 395; _Graphic_, _vii_ 3, 12 (1873), _portrait_. LORD, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Isaac Lord, baptist minister, Birmingham). Ed. Cambridge house, Birmingham, and Amershall school, Reading; matric. univ. of London, June 1868, B.A. 1870, M.A. 1874; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1870, foundation scholar 1872–6; rowed in his college boat; senior wrangler Jany. 1875, fellow of Trin. coll. 10 Oct. 1876 to 1881. _d._ Clarens, Lake of Geneva 4 Sep. 1883. LORD, WILLIAM. _b._ Bacup 11 May 1791; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1811, at Birmingham 1824–6, at Manchester 1828–31, president of United Connexion conference 1834; representative to American general conference 1835; minister at Bristol 1836–9, at Hull 1839–42; governor of Woodhouse grove school 1843–58; president of Canadian conference; a supernumerary from 1861 to death; revisited Woodhouse school when he was eighty. _d._ Manningham, Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1873. _J. T. Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school_ (1885) 74–8. LORD, WILLIAM SATTERLEY (eld. son of rev. Wm. Edward Lord, D.D., of Northiam, Sussex). _b._ 1841; ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., B.A. 1866, M.A. 1869; admitted by Inner Temple special pleader below the bar Jany. 1869; barrister I.T. 7 June 1873; advocate of high court of Griqualand West, April 1876, acting attorney general April to Aug. 1877 and Dec. 1877 to Sep. 1879, Q.C. there March 1879; M.P. for Kimberley in legislative assembly of Cape Colony. _d._ on board the Norman Castle on his way home from Cape Town 9 Sep. 1889. LORIMER, George. A builder in Edinburgh; lord dean of guild 1864; _killed_ in the fire of the theatre royal, Edinburgh, by the north wall falling on him when trying to save lives 13 Jany.