LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (eld. child of Walter Landor, physician,
_d._ 1805). _b._ Ipsley court, Warwick 30 Jany. 1775; ed. at
Rugby 1785–91; commoner of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793, rusticated
for a year in 1794 but never returned to Oxf.; raised some
volunteers with whom he joined Blake’s army in Gallicia Aug.
1808, returned to England Nov. 1808; bought estate of Llanthony
abbey, Monmouthshire 1809; lived at Florence 1821–35 and 1859 to
death, at Bath 1838–58; is drawn by Dickens in Bleak House as
Lawrence Boythorn; author of Poems 1795; Gebir: a poem in seven
books 1798, anon., 2 ed. Oxford 1803; Count Julian, a tragedy
1812, anon.; Imaginary Conversations, vols. 1 and 2, 1824, 2 ed.
1826, vols. 3 and 4, 1828, vol. 5, 1829; Pericles and Aspasia
1836, anon.; The Pentameron and Pentalogia 1837; Collected works
2 vols. 1846 and 8 vols. 1876; The last fruit off an old tree
1853, includes 18 new imaginary conversations, and other books.
_d._ Via Nunziatina, Florence 17 Sep. 1864, portrait by Wm.
Fisher exhibited at the R.A. 1840, bequeathed by H. C. Robinson
to National portrait gallery March 1867; mural monument with
bust, unveiled in St. Mary’s church, Warwick 30 Jany. 1888. _J.
Forster’s Life of W. S. Landor 2 vols._ (1869), _portrait_; _J.
Devey’s A comparative estimate of modern English poets_ (1873)
166–83; _R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age_, _i_ 151–76
(1844); _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876)
437–45; _Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington_,
_ii_ 336–95 (1855); _De Quincey’s Works_, _viii_ 284–332 (1862),
_xi_ 176–98 (1862); _H. D. Traill’s New Lucian_ (1884) 59–84;
_I.L.N. xlv_ 385, 386 (1864), _portrait_.
NOTE.--In 1857 he published a book entitled Dry Sticks fagoted by W.
S. Landor, in which he grossly insulted the wife of the Rev. Morris
Yescombe of Bath; they brought an action for libel against him, tried
at Bristol assizes 23 Aug. 1858, the jury gave them £1000 damages,
Landor had transferred all his English estates to his son and left
England for France 14 July 1858, he was eventually obliged to pay
the £1000 with £362 for costs under order of the court of chancery,
which left him completely destitute. _C. Beavan’s Reports xxviii_ 80–7
(1861); _Bristol Mercury 28 Aug. 1858 Suppl. p._ 1.
LANDSBOROUGH, DAVID. _b._ Dalry, Glen Kens, Galloway 11
Aug. 1779; ed. at Dumfries and univ. of Edinb.; minister of
Stevenston, Ayrshire 1811–43; minister of the free church
at Saltcoats 1843; A.L.S. 1849; chief founder of Ayrshire
Naturalists’ club 1850; discovered nearly 70 species of plants
and animals new to Scotland, earned title of ‘the Gilbert White
of Ardrossan’; received degree of D.D. from an American college
1849; author of Arran, a poem 1828; Ayrshire sketches 1839;
Arran, a poem and excursions to Arran 1847; A popular history of
British seaweeds 1849; A popular history of British zoophytes