Modern English biography

LUCET, JOACHIM SIMEON. _b._ 1797; professor de belles lettres; author of Langue Française. Simples notes grammaticales 1843. _d._ 49 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 11 April 1855. LUCETTE, CATHERINE. Made her first appearance at theatre royal, Plymouth; first seen in London at Drury Lane as Susan in William and Susan 28 Feb. 1859; appeared at Metropolitan theatre, New York as Pauline in Delicate Ground 23 May 1859; with her husband M. Price had a drawing room entertainment at Brooklyn, New York 25 Aug. 1868; played Ariel in the Tempest at Grand Opera house, New York 1869; toured for some years in North of England playing Leonie in The Sutler Girl; _m._ (1) Morton Price, actor whose right name was Horton Rhys _d._ 8 May 1876 aged 52; _m._ (2) Charles Medwin. She _d._ 20 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Norwood cemetery. _Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 226, 243. LUCKRAFT, ALFRED. _b._ 2 April 1792; entered navy Jany. 1801; present at Trafalgar 1805, was in the trenches 12 days besieging Morea Castle in the Peloponnesus Oct. 1828, obtained insignia of legion of honor and of Redeemer of Greece; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. _d._ Eastney barracks, Portsmouth 15 Oct. 1871. LUCY, CHARLES. _b._ Hertford 1814; studied under Delaroche in Paris and at the R.A.; copied old masters at the Hague and Paris; lived at Barbizon near Fontainebleau 16 years; obtained a premium of £200 at Westminster hall competition 1847 for his painting of The departure of the primitive puritans to the coast of America, A.D. 1620; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1838–73; instructor at a drawing school in Camden Town many years; chairman of committee of new British Institution; painted a series of portraits of eminent men for sir Joshua Walmesley who bequeathed them to the South Kensington museum. _d._ 13 Ladbroke crescent, Notting Hill, London 19 May