Modern English biography

LOVELACE, AUGUSTA ADA KING, Countess of (only child of George Gordon, 6 baron Byron, the poet 1788–1824). _b._ 13 Piccadilly terrace, London 10 Dec. 1815; last seen by her father when she was only one month old; some of her hair sent to her father at Pisa, Nov. 1821; he alludes to her in Childe Harold, canto 3, line 2, as Ada sole daughter of my house and heart; translated and edited with notes, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, esq. By L. F. Menabrea, Turin. Signed A. A. L. in R. Taylor’s Scientific memoirs, iii 666–731 (1843); corresponded with Andrew Crosse on electricity, &c. 1841–2; (_m._ at Fordhook, her mother’s residence, 8 July 1835 William King 8 baron King and Ockham 4 June 1833, cr. earl Lovelace 30 June 1838). _d._ 6 Great Cumberland place, London 27 Nov. 1852. _bur._ Hucknall Torcard church near her father. _monu._ placed in Newstead abbey, Aug. 1863. _Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xxxiii_ 69–73 (1853), _portrait_; _Argosy 1 Nov. 1869 pp._ 358–61; _Finden’s Portraits of female aristocracy_ (1849) _vol. ii_, _portrait_ 21; _Journal of Statistical Soc. xxxiv_ 414 (1871); _Moore’s Life of Byron_ (1846) 290, 720; _I.L.N. xxi_ 499 (1852); _G.M. Jany. 1853 pp._ 89–90. NOTE.--The third book of Childe Harold written in 1816 begins and concludes with lines addressed to Byron’s daughter and she is again spoken of in the verses Fare thee well, 17 March 1816. LOVELL, EDWARD BOURNE. Barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; author of Chancery orders 1850 with cases decided 1850; Index to the stamp duties arranged analytically 1850; Digest of law cases, statutes, &c. 1850–54, 4 vols. 1852–5. _d._ Godshill, Isle of Wight 28 July 1883 aged 78. NOTE.--He was also author of The joint-stock companies’ winding-up acts 1848–1849 with notes, published by Wildy, Dec. 1849. Stevens and Norton obtained an injunction against Wildy in the Vice-Chancellor’s court 1 Feb. 1850, Lovell having made use of a great deal of matter previously printed in J. M. Ludlow’s Joint-stock companies’ winding-up act 1848 published by Stevens and Norton 1 Dec. 1848, Wildy was obliged to give up all the copies of the pirated book and pay the costs about £250, which sum Wildy recovered against Lovell in the court of Common Pleas 29 Nov. 1853. _Law Journal Reports n.s. xix pt._ 1 _pp._ 190–3 (1850); _Law Times 3 Dec. 1853 p._ 106. LOVELL, EDWIN (youngest son of Joseph Lovell Lovell of Chilcote manor, solicitor). _b._ 7 May 1808; ed. at Eton 1823; solicitor at Wells 1831 to death; clerk of peace for Somerset 13 Aug. 1846 to death; registrar of Wells county court 1847 to death; member of the order of The Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother Glastonbury 23 Sep. 1835. _d._ Sharcombe house, Dinder near Wells 21 May 1877. _Wright’s The Blue Friars_ (1889) 97, 218, _portrait_. LOVELL, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ 1804; secretary of Phœnix Insurance Co. 1850 to death; author of the following plays, The Avenger, produced at Surrey theatre 1835; The provost of Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; Love’s sacrifice or the rival merchants, Covent Garden 12 Sep. 1842; Look before you leap, Haymarket 29 Oct. 1846; The wife’s secret, purchased by Charles Kean for £400 before it was written, produced at Park theatre, New York 12 Oct. 1846, and at Haymarket 17 Jany. 1848 when it ran 36 nights and has since kept the stage; The trial of love, Princess’s 7 Jany. 1852, ran 23 nights; published a novel called The Trustee 3 vols. 1841. _d._ 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 13 May 1878. _I.L.N. lxii_ 533 (1878), _portrait_. LOVELL, JOHN. _b._ Farnham, Surrey 1836; reporter and sub-editor on Sheffield Times and Birmingham Daily Post; editor of Cassell’s Mag. 1868; manager of Press Association 1869–80, a director, chairman of finance committee; a founder and editor of the Printing Times, Jany. 1873; editor of the Liverpool Mercury 1880 to death; the best known journalist on the English press. _d._ 17 Gambier ter. Liverpool 20 Feb. 1890. _Sell’s World’s Press_ (1891) 82, _portrait_; _London Figaro 1 March 1890 p._ 12, _portrait_; _Academy_, _i_ 152 (1890). LOVELL, JOHN WILLIAMSON. _b._ 1824; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 June 1841, col. 3 Aug. 1872 to death; surveying in Turkey 1854; present at battles of Alma and Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; commander of R.E. at Chatham; L.G. 5 Jany. 1869; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Halifax, Nova Scotia 24 April 1880. LOVELL, SIR LOVELL BENJAMIN (eld. son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock of Little Missenden hall, Bucks.) _b._ 1786; ed. at Eton; cornet 14 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1805, captain 12 Dec. 1811; served in Peninsular war 1809–14 for which he received Peninsular medal with 11 clasps; major 8 hussars 28 Oct. 1824, placed on h.p. 21 Nov. 1828; lieut.-col. 15 hussars 21 March 1834, placed on h.p. 8 March 1850; col. of 12 lancers 29 Nov. 1856 to death; L.G. 1 April 1860; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; assumed surname of Lovell 10 April 1840. _d._ Brunswick terrace, Brighton 11 March 1861. LOVELL, MARIA ANNE (dau. of Willoughby Lacy, patentee of Drury Lane, _d._ 1831). _b._ London 15 July 1803; appeared as Mrs. Haller at Belfast 1818; acted Belvidera in Venice preserved, at Covent Garden 9 Oct. 1822; excelled in pathetic parts; (_m._ 1830 George William Lovell 1804–78 when she retired from the stage); wrote Ingomar the barbarian, Drury Lane, June 1851, revived by Mary Anderson, Lyceum 1 Sep. 1883; The beginning of the end, Haymarket 27 Oct. 1855. _d._ 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 2 April 1877. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses_, _i_ 250–5 (1855). LOVELL, WILLIAM STANHOPE (brother of Sir Lovell B. Lovell 1786–1861). _b._ about 1788; entered navy May 1799; present in battle of Trafalgar; captain 21 Aug. 1815, retired 1 Oct. 1846; assumed name of Lovell 1840; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; author of Personal narrative of events from 1799 to 1815, 2 ed. 1879. _d._ Great Yarmouth 20 May 1859. LOVER, SAMUEL (eld. son of a member of the Dublin stock exchange). _b._ Dublin 24 Feb. 1797; a portrait painter, especially in miniatures to 1844; member of Royal Hibernian academy 1828, secretary 1830; wrote Rory O’More 1826, best known of his ballads; his miniature of Paganini exhibited at Dublin academy 1832 and at R.A. London 1833; removed to London 1835; wrote The Olympic picnic for Madame Vestris 1835; published Rory O’More, a national romance 1837, his dramatised version of which was acted at Adelphi theatre Oct. 1837 and ran over 100 nights; composed a musical drama The Greek Boy, of which he wrote both music and words, Covent Garden 1838; his burlesque opera Il Paddy Whack in Italia was produced at English opera house 1838; produced his own entertainment called Irish Evenings, at Princess’s Concert Rooms, March 1844 and in Canada and U.S. of America 1846–8; produced an entertainment called Paddy’s Portfolio, in London 1848; wrote the libretti of two operas for Balfe; his drama the Sentinel of the Alma was produced at Haymarket theatre; author of Legends and stories of Ireland 1831; Songs and Ballads 1839; Handy Andy 1842; L. S. D. 1844, new ed. under title of Treasure Trove 1844; Rival rhymes in honour of Burns. Collected and edited by Ben Trovato 1859, and of many popular songs; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 March 1856. _d._ St. Helier’s, Jersey 6 July 1868. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. London 15 July. _B. Bernard’s Life of Samuel Lover 2 vols._ (1874), _portrait_; _N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs 2 ed._ 1851 _pp._ 196–9; _The Critic_, _xix_ 229 (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N. iv_ 208 (1844), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii_ 196, _portrait_. LOVESY, CONWAY WHITHORNE (2 son of Conway Whithorne Lovesy of Charlton Kings, Gloucs.) _b._ 6 April 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; a police magistrate in Trinidad 1871–3; a puisne judge of supreme court of British Guiana 1873–8; author of The churchwarden’s guide 8 ed. 1871; The law of arbitration between masters and workmen 1867; The law of house invasion and defence 1879; edited J. F. Archbold’s The practice of the court of quarter sessions 3 ed. 1869. _d._ Keynsham Bank, Cheltenham 15 Nov. 1885. LOVETT, WILLIAM (son of William Lovett, master mariner, drowned 1800). _b._ Church lane, Newlyn near Penzance 8 May 1800; apprenticed to a ropemaker; went to London 1821; worked as a carpenter; employed in the first London co-operative association; secretary of British Association for promoting co-operative knowledge about 1830–4; joined National union of the working classes 1831; opened a coffee house in Greville st. Hatton Garden 1833 which failed; a founder of London Working Mens’ Association, 6 Upper North place, Gray’s Inn road 16 June 1836; secretary of the general committee of trades of London 1838, drafted the bill known as the ‘Peoples Charter’ published 8 May 1838; secretary of the Chartist Convention 4 Feb. 1839; tried at Warwick assizes for seditious libel 6 Aug. 1839 when sentenced to 12 months imprisonment; bookseller at 183 Tottenham court road 1840; manager of the school supported by the National Association 1849–57; a member of working-class committee of Great Exhibition 1850; a teacher of anatomy in St. Thomas, Charterhouse schools and in Richardson’s gr. sch. Gray’s Inn road 1857; author of A proposal for the considerations of the friends of progress 1847; Elementary anatomy and physiology. With lessons on diet 1851; Social and political morality 1853; Woman’s mission 1856, a poem. _d._ 137 Euston road, London 8 Aug. 1877. _bur._ Highgate. _The life and struggles of W. Lovett_ (1876); _The trial of W. Lovett 2 ed._ (1839); _G. J. Holyoake’s_ _History of Co-operation_, _i_ 127, _ii_ 411–13 (1875–9); _R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism_ (1854) 120 _etc._; _Who were the Chartists?_ in _Century Mag. xxiii_ 421–30 (1882), _portrait_. LOW, ALEXANDER (son of James Low, farmer, Clatt, Aberdeen). _b._ 1800; M.A. of Marischall coll. and univ. Aberdeen 3 April 1819; schoolmaster of Clatt 1825; presbyterian minister of Keig, Banffshire 27 June 1834 to death; author of The history of Scotland from the earliest period to the middle of the ninth century 1826; Scottish heroes in the days of Wallace and Bruce 2 vols. 1856. _d._ in the manse of Keig 3 May 1873. LOW, DAVID (son of a tradesman). _b._ Brechin, Forfarshire, Nov. 1768; ed. at Marischal college, Aberdeen; episcopal minister at Pittenweem, Fifeshire, Sep. 1789 to death; bishop of united dioceses of Ross, Argyll and the Isles 1819 to 19 Dec. 1850, consecrated 14 Nov. 1819; LL.D. Aberdeen, April 1820; chief founder of Gaelic Episcopal Society 1831; the diocese of Moray was added to his diocese July 1838, he effected separation of Argyll and the Isles from Ross and Moray 1847 and endowed the new see with £8,000; D.D. Hartford and Geneva in state of New York 1848; _d._ The priory, Pittenweem 26 Jany. 1855. _M. F. Conolly’s Biographical sketch of David Low_ (1859), _portrait_; _W. Blatch’s Memoir of D. Low_ (1855); _Conolly’s Biog. Dict. of Fife_ (1866) 299–305. LOW, DAVID (eld. son of Alexander Low of Laws, Berwickshire, land-agent). _b._ 1786; ed. at Perth academy and univ. of Edinb.; assisted his father on his farms; settled in Edinburgh 1825; edited Quarterly Journal of agriculture 1828–32; professor of agriculture in univ. of Edinb. 1831–54, the agricultural museum was founded at cost of £3,000 of which he gave £1,200, 1833; author of Observations on the present state of landed property 1823; Elements of practical agriculture 1834, 4 ed. 1843, translated into French and German; The breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands 2 vols. 1842, translated into French 1842; An inquiry into the nature of the simple bodies of chemistry 1844, 3 ed. 1856. _d._ Mayfield, Edinburgh 7 Jany. 1859. _Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 717–8 (1863); _Grant’s Univ. of Edinburgh_, _ii_ 457 (1884). LOW, HERBERT MOREY (son of Edwin Low of city of London, solicitor). _b._ 1852; partner with his father 1877 to death; originated the City Law library and reading room at 25 Abchurch lane 1888; hon. sec. of London Gregorian choral assoc. many years. _d._ 110 Elgin crescent, Notting hill, London 1 Jany. 1891. LOW, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1811; ensign 25 Madras N.I. 25 June 1812; captain 46 N.I. 1826, major 23 Nov. 1839; retired lieut.-col. 21 Nov. 1845; in civil charge of province of Wellesley in the Straits Settlements many years; author of A grammar of the T’hai or Siamese language. Calcutta 1828; A dissertation on the soil and agriculture of Penang. Singapore