Modern English biography

cemet. Edinb. LORING, SIR JOHN WENTWORTH (son of Joshua Loring, high sheriff of Massachusetts). _b._ America 13 Oct. 1775; entered navy June 1789, captain 28 April 1802; commanded the Niobe 38 guns on coast of France 1805–13; commanded the Impregnable in the North Sea 1813–4; superintendent of the ordinary at Sheerness 1816–9; lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 4 Nov. 1819 to 10 Jany. 1837; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral 8 July 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840, K.C.H. 30 April 1837. _d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 29 July 1852. LORT, _William_. One of the best judges of live stock in England, and constantly employed in judging horses, cattle and dogs; went with Assheton Smith in his yacht Pandora upon a sporting expedition to the North Pole; a fine swimmer; a supporter of Birmingham National dog show from its beginning; an originator of Crystal palace dog show and of the Kennel club; F.R.G.S. _d._ Vaynol park, Bangor 23 May 1891. LORTON, ROBERT EDWARD KING, 1 Viscount (2 son of 2 earl of Kingston 1754–99). _b._ Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 12 Aug. 1773; ensign 27 foot 30 June 1792; major 92 foot 7 March 1794; lieut. col. 127 foot 20 Dec. 1794, regiment reduced 1795 but he was retained on full pay; colonel of Roscommon militia 24 Nov. 1797 to death; created an Irish peer by title of baron Erris of Boyle, co. Roscommon 29 Dec. 1800; created viscount Lorton of Boyle, co. Roscommon 28 May 1806; a representative peer of Ireland 8 Feb. 1823 to death; general 22 July 1830; lord lieut. of co. Roscommon 1831 to death. _d._ Rockingham, Boyle, co. Roscommon 20 Nov. 1854. NOTE.--He was _bur._ at 4 o’clock in the morning according to the custom of his family in the church of Boyle 24 Nov. 1854. He was the last commoner raised to the peerage of Ireland before the union with England. LOSCOMBE, CLIFTON WINTRINGHAM. Resided at Pickwick house, Corsham, where he obtained possession of a hoard of coins and antiquities which was discovered at Sevington, Wilts., Jany. 1834; an original member of Numismatic Soc. 1836. _d._ Clifton 17 Dec. 1853. _Numismatic Chronicle_, _xvii Proceedings p._ 16 (1855); _Archæologia_, _xxvii_ 301–5 (1838). LOSH, JAMES (son of James Losh, recorder of Newcastle, _d._ 23 Sep. 1833 aged 71). _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; went northern circuit; judge of county courts, No. 1 circuit, Northumberland, May 1853 to death, took his seat 25 May 1853; attacked with paralysis Aug. 1858. _d._ 24 Clayton st. west, Newcastle on Tyne 1 Oct. 1858. LOSH, SARAH (1 dau. of John Losh of Woodside near Carlisle). _b._ Woodside 1 Jany. 1786; ed. in Bath and London, and became proficient in Italian, French, Latin, Greek, music and mathematics; gave a school endowed with 30 acres to Wreay 1830; laid out and gave to the city of Carlisle a cemetery 1835; erected a mausoleum in Wreay ch. yard for the remains of her sister Katherine Isabella Losh who _d._ Feb. 1835; erected a church at Wreay in 1842 at cost of £1200; a woman of much learning who associated with Dr. William Paley and other scholars. _d._ Woodside near Carlisle 29 March 1853. _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland_ (1873) 197–238, _portrait_. LOSH, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Woodside 1770; ed. at Erfurt; manager of alkali works at Walker on the Tyne 1796; one of founders of the Walker iron works; resided for some time in Sweden; patented a wheel for railway carriages 1830; took out patents with George Stephenson for railways 1816; consul for Sweden and Prussia at Newcastle. _d._ Newcastle 4 Aug. 1861. _H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland_ (1873) 153–85. LOTHIAN, CECIL CHETWYND KERR, Marchioness of (younger dau. of 2 earl Talbot 1777–1849). _b._ Ingestre hall, Staffs. 17 April 1808; (_m._ 19 July 1831 seventh marquess of Lothian 1794–1841); built church at Jedburgh; joined church of Rome; founded a R.C. mission with chapel and school at Jedburgh; built church of St. David at Dalkeith; founded a mission with a chapel at Pathhead; a founder of the Home of Refuge for women discharged from prison, conducted by sisters of the Good Shepherd; went to Germany to convey to the R.C. bishops the sympathy of the catholics of England; promoted the pilgrimages to Paray-le-Monial and to Pontigny in 1873 and 1874. _d._ Hôtel de Rome, Rome 13 May 1877; the Pope sent her a special benediction and a triduum was offered for her in the church of the Virgin, at Rome, May 1877; _bur._ in cemetery of San Lorenzo. _P. Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck_ (1890) 125–63, _portrait_; _Times 14 May 1877 p._ 7, _15 May p._ 10. LÖTTNER, FRIEDRICH. Professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology and assistant librarian at Trinity college, Dublin 1863–71. _d._ Dublin, middle of April 1873. LOUDON, JANE (dau. of Thomas Webb _d._ 1824). _b._ Ritwell house near Birmingham 1807; edited The ladies’ magazine of gardening 1842; The ladies’ companion 1850–1 and several of her husband’s works 1845–55; granted civil list pension of £100, 22 April 1846; author of Prose and Verse 1824; The Mummy, a tale of the twenty-second century 3 vols. 1827, anon., new ed. 1872; Stories of a bride 1829; The ladies’ companion to the flower garden 1841, 9 ed. 1879, which circulated 20,000 copies; The first book of botany 1841, new ed. 1870; The ladies’ flower garden of perennials 2 vols. 1843–4; The ladies’ country companion 1845, 4 ed. 1852, and 20 other books; (_m._ 14 Sep. 1830 John Claudius Loudon, landscape gardener, _d._ 14 Dec. 1843 aged 60). She _d._ 3 Porchester terrace, Bayswater, London 13 July 1858. _Cottage Gardener_, _xx_ 248, 255–9 (1858). LOUGH, JOHN GRAHAM (son of a small farmer at Greenhead near Hexham, Northumberland). _b._ 1806; an ornamental sculptor at Newcastle; exhibited at the R.A. 1826 a bas-relief The Death of Turnus; exhibited 49 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 16 at B.I. 1826–63; exhibited his works in London 1827; studied in Rome 1834–8; executed the statues of queen Victoria in the royal exchange 1845, of prince Albert at Lloyd’s 1847 and of marquis of Hastings at Malta 1848; 7 of his statues were in Great Exhibition of 1851. _d._ 42 Harewood sq. London 8 April 1876. _Graphic_, _xiii_ 416 (1876), _portrait_; _Handbook of statues comprising the Lough models in Elswick hall_ (1879). LOUIS, SIR JOHN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas Louis, 1 baronet, _d._ 17 May 1807). _b._ 1785; entered navy Sep. 1795, captain 22 Jany. 1806; commander of L’Aigle 36 guns 1811–15; superintendent of Malta dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 6 Jany. 1843; R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral superintendent at Plymouth 16 Dec. 1846 to 9 Feb. 1850; V.A. 9 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 27 Sep. 1855, pensioned 2 May 1860. _d._ 61 Eaton place, London 30 March 1863. LOUIS, WILLIAM (2 son of preceding). _b._ 21 May 1810; entered R.N. 7 Dec. 1824; capt. 9 Nov. 1846; commander of Stromboli steam vessel 1841–3; retired 1 July 1864; admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ 46 Connaught sq. London 20 Nov. 1885. LOUISE, MADAME, stage name of Louise Miller. _b._ 1810; première danseuse of Her Majesty’s theatre under Benjamin Lumley’s management; ballet mistress of Drury Lane under the managements of Alfred Bunn, James Anderson and E. T. Smith to 1859. _d._ 5 Feb. 1892. _bur._ Fulham cemet. LOUND, THOMAS. _b._ 1802; member of a firm of brewers at Norwich; an amateur painter, excelled in river views; painted the scenery in Wales and Yorkshire and near Cromer; exhibited much in Norwich; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 10 at B.I. 1846–57. _d._ King st. Norwich 18 Jany. 1861. LOVAT, THOMAS ALEXANDER FRASER, 1 Baron (1 son of Alexander Fraser of Strichen, Aberdeen). _b._ Strichen house, Aberdeen 17 June 1802; cr. baron Lovat of Lovat, co. Inverness, in peerage of U.K. 28 Jany. 1837; established his right to Scottish barony of Lovat, attainder of which was reversed in his favor by 17 & 18 Vict. cap. 39, 10 July 1854; vice lieut. and sheriff principal of Invernessshire 30 Aug. 1853 to 1873; K.T. 1865. _d._ Beaufort castle, Invernessshire 28 June 1875. _I.L.N. lxvii_ 47 (1875). LOVAT, SIMON FRASER, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Beaufort castle 21 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. commandant of Inverness, Banff, Moray and Nairn militia 10 Dec. 1855 to death; deputy lieut. of Inverness 1853–72, vice lieut. 1872, lord lieut. 18 April 1873 to death; succeeded 28 June 1875. _d._ suddenly while shooting on a grouse moor near Inverness 6 Sep. 1887. LOVE, EMMA SARAH (dau. of W. E. Love, lieutenant in H.M. service, _d._ about 1814). _b._ Cheapside, London 10 Sep. 1801; ed. in music by D. Corri; appeared at English opera house as Mrs. Courtly in Free and Easy 1817; took leading vocal parts under Samuel J. Arnold at Lyceum theatre; appeared at Covent Garden 1822 with great success, then at the Haymarket 1823; played Marina in the operatic entertainment Cortez; acted in the provinces; played Lilla in Cobb’s comic opera The siege of Belgrade, at Drury Lane 1828; a very beautiful woman who sang ‘What is more dear to the heart of the brave’ and ‘Little love is a mischievous boy’ to perfection; believed by The Era of 23 Dec. 1882 to be then living. _Cumberland’s British theatre_, _vol. xx_ (1828), _portrait_; _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography_, _iii_ 163–74 (1825), _portrait_. LOVE, FREDERIC. _b._ 1816; homœopathic practitioner; in practice in Paris 50 years, where he had many aristocratic and artistic patients; was very active in the cholera outbreak of 1859. _d._ Paris 3 June 1891. LOVE, HENRY OMMANNEY (1 son of commander Wm. Love 1764–1839). _b._ 1 March 1793; entered navy 23 Dec. 1808; captain 5 Dec. 1837; retired admiral 3 July 1869; claimed to have suggested use of paddles instead of wheels for steam vessels; sub-commissioner of pilotage, Southampton; superintendent of lights for Isle of Wight district; mayor of Yarmouth 3 times. _d._ Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 16 Sep. 1872. LOVE, HORATIO N. _b._ 1801; stock-jobber at 2 Capel court, City of London 1847; chairman of Eastern counties railway co. 1857–63. _d._ Margate 14 March 1882. LOVE, SIR JAMES FREDERICK (son of John Love). _b._ London 1789; ensign 52 foot 26 Oct. 1804; captain 11 July 1811, placed on h.p. 11 Aug. 1825; served in Sweden and Portugal 1808, in the retreat from Corunna 1809, in Portugal again 1809–12; received 4 wounds in the famous charge of the 52nd on the imperial guard at Waterloo; inspecting field officer of militia, New Brunswick 1825–30; major 11 foot 9 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 76 foot 6 Sep. 1834; lieut.-col. 73 foot 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 23 Sep. 1845; British resident at Zante 1835–8; governor of Jersey 1852–6; commanded at Shorncliffe camp 1856; inspector general of infantry 1857 to April 1862; col. of 57 foot 24 Sep. 1856 to 5 Sep. 1865; col. of 43 foot 5 Sep. 1865 to death; general 10 Aug. 1864; K.H. 1831; C.B. 30 March 1839, K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. _d._ 17 Ovington sq. London 13 Jany. 1866. LOVE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1795; a pit boy in the capacity of a trapper, a hewer; owner of a large number of collieries both in the eastern and western coal fields; built and endowed many chapels, built a chapel at High Shincliffe near Durham at cost of £1000; member of Methodist New Connexion. _d._ near Durham 21 Feb. 1875, personalty sworn under £1,000,000, 17 April 1875. LOVE, WILLIAM EDWARD (son of a merchant in the City to 1812). _b._ London 6 Feb. 1806; ed. at Harlow in Essex and at Nelson house, Wimbledon; commenced practising ventriloquism 1818; connected with London journalism 1820–6; appeared for a benefit at Olympic theatre in a solo entertainment entitled The False Alarm 1826; performed in England and France 1827, in Dublin 1828; produced The peregrinations of a polyphonist, June 1849, with which he visited chief towns in England; opened at Oxford with a piece called Ignes Fatui 1833; played at Almack’s 1833, at City of London assembly rooms, Bishopsgate st. during summer seasons of 1834–8; appeared on alternate nights at St. James’s theatre and in the City 1836; visited United States, West Indies and South America 1838; played at Strand theatre and 6 other places in London 1839–54; produced the ‘London Season’ at 69 Quadrant, Regent st. London 26 Dec. 1854, played there 8 Feb. 1856 the 300th consecutive night and his 2,406th performance in London; paralysed 1858, had a benefit at Sadler’s Wells; the best English ventriloquist on record, played in upwards of 15 distinct entertainments, in which he assumed various characters making rapid changes of his dress. _d._ 33 Arundel st. Strand, London 16 March 1867. _Memoirs of W. E. Love_ (1834); _G. Smith’s Memoirs of Mr. Love, Boston, U.S._ (1850); _Ireland’s New York Stage_, _ii_ 273, 317 (1867); _I.L.N. 25 March 1843 p._ 215, _portrait_, _27 Jany. 1855 p._ 84, _portrait_. LOVEDAY, Ely. _b._ 1800; an actress 1817; played leading business with Edmund Kean, Elton, Liston and Macready; saw the 4 Kembles, Stephen, John, Charles and Mrs. Siddons play in Henry VIII.; played at most of the London theatres, retired 1852; (_m._ W. Loveday an actor at Drury Lane theatre). _d._ 11 Nov.