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Nov. 1881. _I.L.N. lxii_ 544 (1873). LUCY, HENRY SPENCER (2 son of George Lucy, M.P. 1798–1845). _b._ 28 Nov. 1830; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 May 1850; sheriff of Warwickshire 1857; succeeded on death of his brother William 1 July 1848; kept harriers and hunted the borders of Warwick, Worcester and Gloucester; master of the Warwickshire hounds 1866, hunted 5 days a week; resided at Chalcote park, Warwick. _Baily’s Mag. xxvi_ 373–5 (1875), _portrait_. LUCY, WILLIAM WOOTTEN. _b._ 1802; bookseller at Marlborough from 1829; postmaster Marlborough 1829–69; mayor of Marlborough twice. _d._ Marlborough 16 Nov. 1869. _The Marlborough Times 20 Nov. 1869 p._ 4. LUDLAM, HENRY. _b._ 14 Oct. 1824; a land surveyor; engaged in commercial pursuits; made one of the finest private collections of minerals in the kingdom; he bequeathed his collections which included those made by Charles H. Turner and Wm. Nevill, to the Museum of practical geology in Jermyn st. London; F.G.S., F.M.S. _d._ 174 Piccadilly, London 23 June 1880. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvii_ 47 (1881). LUDLOW, EBENEZER (son of Ebenezer Ludlow of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucester). _b._ 1777; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1795, M.A. 1821; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1805; town clerk of Bristol 22 July 1819, resigned 1836 on pension of £533; serjeant at law 25 June 1827; comr. of bankruptcy for Liverpool district 21 Oct. 1842 and for Bristol district 1849 to death; chairman of Gloucestershire quarter sessions, April 1842 to 1849. _d._ Almondsbury near Bristol 25 March 1851. _G.M. xxxv_ 666 (1851). LUDLOW, JOHN. _b._ 16 May 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; entered Bengal army 1818; lieut. 3 Bengal N.I. 15 Aug. 1820; captain 6 N.I. 1 April 1829, major 20 Dec. 1843 to 6 April 1850; lieut.-col. of 12 N.I. 6 April 1850, of 9 N.I. 7 June 1853, of 36 N.I. 1854 to 9 Aug. 1854 when he retired with rank of M.G. _d._ Yotes court, Kent 30 Nov. 1882. LUDLOW-BRUGES, WILLIAM HEALD (eld. son of Benjamin Pennell Ludlow of Melksham, Wilts.) _b._ Melksham 1796; ed. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; member of chancery bar, retired 1826; recorder of Devizes 7 June 1833 to 1844; chairman of north Wiltshire quarter sessions; M.P. Bath 1837–41; M.P. Devizes 28 July 1847 to Feb. 1848 when he retired; took additional name of Bruges by r.l. 1835. _d._ Sund, Wilts. 25 Sep. 1855. LUKE, JAMES. _b._ 1799; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1843, president 1853 and 1862, Hunterian orator; lecturer on anatomy London hospital 1823, assist. surgeon 1827, a principal surgeon 1833 and consulting surgeon 1861; adopted an improved operation for hernia, which has saved many lives 1841; retired from practice and resided at Woolley lodge, Maidenhead; contributed to Medical Gazette 1841 &c., Proc. R. Med. and Chir. Soc. 1843 &c. and to The Lancet 1845 &c.; F.R.S. 7 June 1855. _d._ Fingest grove, Wycombe, Bucks. 15 Aug. 1881. _Lancet_, _ii_ 360 (1881); _Barker’s Eminent medical men_, _i_ 27–30 (1865), _portrait_. LUMB, HENRY. Attorney at Wakefield, Yorkshire 1798 to death; deputy steward of manor of Wakefield many years; presented by his brother solicitors with his full-length portrait 14 Dec.