_Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. xlviii_ 266–9 (1877).
LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (3 son of Theophilus Lane, preb. of
Hereford cath. _d._ 1814). _b._ Hereford 17 Sep. 1801; ed. at
Bath and Hereford gram. schools; learnt engraving under Charles
Heath, London; went to Alexandria, July 1825 where he soon
spoke Arabic and wore the native dress, studied and sketched at
Thebes 1826–7; resided in Cairo, Dec. 1833 to Aug. 1835 under
the name of Mansoor Effendi; resided in Cairo 1842–49 compiling
his Arabic lexicon; resided at Worthing working on his Arabic
lexicon 1850 to death; had grants from Fund for special services
1848–63 and civil list pension of £100 from 18 June 1863; the
chief Arabic scholar in Europe; author of An account of the
manners and customs of the modern Egyptians 1836, 6 ed. 1871;
The thousand and one nights, a translation 1838–40, came out in
monthly parts, 2 ed. 1859; Selections from the Kuran 1843; An
Arabic English lexicon 8 parts 1863–92; his life-sized statue
in Egyptian dress was executed by his brother Richard Lane; his
widow Anastasia granted civil list pension of £100, 5 Dec. 1876.
_d._ Worthing 10 Aug. 1876. _Stanley Lane Poole’s Life of E. W.
Lane_ (1877); _I.L.N. lxix_ 213, 214 (1876), _portrait_.
LANE, GEORGE. Ensign 5 Middlesex militia 17 Nov. 1854, captain
17 Dec. 1857 to 13 May 1861; gentleman at arms 8 Nov. 1860 to
death, _d._ 19 Redcliffe gardens, London 7 May 1870.
LANE, HAMMER, cognomen of John Lane). _b._ Birmingham 15 Dec.
1815; a pugilist, fighting weight 10 st. 10 lbs.; beat Harry
Ball and Hewson 1833; beat Jack Green £25 a side 17 March 1835;
beat Tass Parker £25 a side 15 Sep. 1835 and again £50 a side
in 96 rounds lasting 2 hours at Woodstock 7 March 1837; beat
Owen Swift £50 a side in 104 rounds lasting 123 minutes at Four
Shire Stone, Warwickshire 10 May 1836; beat Jack Adams £50 a
side at Woodstock 23 Aug. 1836; beat Byng Stocks £50 a side near
Bicester, Oxon. 15 Jany. 1838; beaten by Young Molyneux the
Black £100 a side at Worksop Common, Notts. 9 June 1840; beaten
by Yankee Sullivan alias James Ambrose £50 a side at Crookham
Common 2 Feb. 1841; beaten by Tom Davis £50 a side 40 rounds
in 67 minutes at Noman’s Heath near Tamworth 25 June 1850;
fought Jack Grant £100 a side at Kingswood Common, Shropshire
28 June 1864, drawn battle; kept The Gunmaker’s Arms, Moore st.
Birmingham from 1841. _John Hannan’s Guide to British boxing_
(1850) 49–52; _Illust. sporting news_, _iii_ 228, 229 (1864),
_portrait_.
NOTE.--Three of his brothers were also pugilists, George, James and Tom
who was _b._ Feb. 1825, fought John Walker a drawn battle of £200 a
side at Hythe near Folkestone 15 Feb. 1848 and _d._ Birmingham 7 Sep.
1868.
LANE, JAMES HUNTER. L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1829; M.D. Edinb. 1830;
hon. phys. to cholera hospital, Liverpool 1831–2; physician to
Lock hospital of Liverpool infirmary 1833; senior physician
of Lancaster infirmary 1840; pres. of Royal Medical Society
of Edinb. about 1841; edited Liverpool Medical Gazette; The
monthly archives of the medical sciences 1834, one volume; lived
latterly at 58 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London; author of A
compendium of materia medica and pharmacy 1840; author with J.
M. Gully of a translation of Frederick Tiedemann’s A systematic
treatise on comparative physiology 2 vols. 1834. _d._ Brighton
23 June 1853.
LANE, JOHN BRYANT (son of Samuel Lane, chemist). _b._ Helston,
Cornwall 1788; ed. at Truro; a painter in London 1802–17;
engaged at Rome 1817–27 on a gigantic picture ‘The vision of
Joseph,’ which he exhibited at Rome 1827, for which he was
expelled by the papal authorities, exhibited it at the Royal
Mews, Charing Cross, London 1827, it was a failure and went to
decay in the Pantechnicon, Belgrave sq.; painted portraits of
Sir Hussey Vivian, Lord de Dunstanville and others; exhibited 16
portraits at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1808–34. _d._
45 Clarendon sq. Somer’s Town, London 4 April 1868.
LANE, RICHARD JAMES (brother of Edward Wm. Lane 1801–76).
_b._ Berkeley Castle 16 Feb. 1800; articled to Charles Heath,
line-engraver 1816; line-engraver and lithographer; exhibited
67 lithographs at R.A. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1824–72; associate
engraver of the R.A. 1827; executed pencil and chalk sketches
of most of the best-known people of the day; never surpassed as
a lithographer; lithographed several hundred of the pictures
of leading artists; lithographer to the Queen 1837, to Prince
Albert 1840; director of etching class in science and art
department, South Kensington 1864–72; edited Charles Kemble’s
Readings from Shakspeare 3 vols. 1870; author of Life at the
water cure, or a month at Malvern 1846, new ed. 1851, 3 ed.
1855; Spirits and water, by R. J. L. 1855. d. 19 Gloucester
terrace, Campden Hill, London 21 Nov. 1872. _Sandby’s History
of royal academy_, _ii_ 71 (1862); _I.L.N. xxx_ 419, 420 (1857)
_portrait_, _lxi_ 548 (1872) _portrait_; _Magazine of art_
(1881) 431–2.
LANE, RICHARD JAMES. _b._ 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1826; a leader of the
Munster circuit; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; a comr. of Irish fisheries
many years; public auditor of friendly societies in Ireland to
death; crown prosecutor for co. Kerry. _d._ 123 Lower Bagot
st. Dublin 1 Oct. 1885. _Law mag. and law review_, _iii_ 204–6
(1857).
LANE, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Lane). _b._ King’s Lynn 26 July
1780; became deaf and partially dumb from falling into the water
26 July 1786; pupil of sir Thomas Lawrence, and one of his
chief assistants; had a large practice in London as a portrait
painter; exhibited 217 portraits at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 4 at
Suffolk st. 1804–57; lived at 60 Greek st. Soho 1823–53, at
Ipswich 1853 to death. _d._ 2 Paragon Buildings, Lower Brook st.
Ipswich 29 July 1859.
LANE, SAMUEL ARMSTRONG. _b._ 1802; M.R.C.S. 1829, F.R.C.S.
1843; surgeon and lecturer on surgery, St. Mary’s hospital,
London; consulting surgeon Lock hospital; founder and principal
of school of medicine, 1 Grosvenor place, London, adjoining
St. George’s hospital 1830; edited S. Cooper’s Dictionary of
practical surgery, brought down to the present time 1861. _d._
Ealing 2 Aug. 1892.
LANE, SAMUEL HAYCROFT. _b._ 1804; landlord of a beer shop in
Shoreditch, London 1832–41; opened Royal Britannia Saloon, 188
Hoxton Old Town 12 April 1841, with concert opera, vaudeville,
rope and other dancing, ballet and farce; bankrupt 18 Feb. 1842,
discharged 14 June 1842; enlarged the Saloon Nov. 1850, closed
it 29 June 1858; built the Britannia theatre on the same site
at cost of £25,000, opened it 8 Nov. 1858. (_m._ Sep. 1843 Sara
dau. of Wm. Borrow, actor, she was _b._ Clerkenwell 22 Sep. 1824
and has been owner of Britannia theatre since husband’s death).
_d._ the Elms, West green road, Tottenham 27 Dec. 1871. _bur._
Kensal Green cemetery 4 Jany. 1872. _H. B. Baker’s The London
Stage_, _ii_ 257–9 (1889); _The Era 14 Jany. 1872 p._ 12.
LANERTON, EDWARD GRANVILLE GEORGE HOWARD, 1 Baron (4 son of 6
Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848). _b._ 23 Dec. 1809; entered navy
5 April 1823, captain 27 Dec. 1838; admiral on h.p. 1 April
1870; M.P. Morpeth 1848–52; created baron Lanerton of Naworth,
Cumberland 8 Jany. 1874. _d._ 29 Grosvenor sq. London 8 Oct.
1880.
LANG, DAVID (son of James L. Lang, writer). _b._ Glasgow 1846;
ed. Glasgow univ., M.A., LLB.; admitted an advocate 1870;
entertained at a public dinner 1884; a great fisherman. _d._
Glasgow 29 April 1886. _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _xxx_ 322–24
(1886).
LANG, GAVIN. _b._ Paisley; ed. Glasgow univ.; assistant minister
of Presbyterian churches at Houstand and Killalan 1826; assist.
minister West Kilbride 1828; minister in Shelburne, Nova Scotia,
May 1828–32; minister of Glasford, Lanarkshire 1832; author of
The Holy Gospel in continuous narrative 1884. _J. Smith’s Our
Scottish clergy_, _3 S._ (1851) 219.
LANG, JOHN. _b._ Australia; in India and Europe 20 years; wrote
in Household Words and the Welcome Guest; author of Too clever
by half, or the Harroways. By the Mofussilite 1853; Too much
alike or the three calendars 1854; The forger’s wife or Emily
Orford 1855; Will he marry her? a novel 1858, new ed. 1871
and five other novels; also of Botany Bay 1859, new ed. under
title of Clever Criminals 1878; Wanderings in India, and other
sketches of life in Hindostan 1859.
LANG, JOHN. _b._ 1826; connected with the Manchester Times 1840,
managed it when under name of Manchester Examiner to 1889. _d._
Manchester about 1 Jany. 1891.
LANG, JOHN DUNMORE. _b._ Greenock, Scotland 25 Aug. 1799; ed. at
Largs and univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1820, D.D. 1825; licensed to
preach by presbytery of Irvine 1 June 1820, ordained Sep. 1822;
arrived in Australia, May 1823; minister of the Scots church,
Church Hill, Sydney; started The Colonist, a weekly journal 1
Jany. 1835 which lasted until 1840; started The Colonial Journal
7 Oct. 1841; edited The Press, a weekly paper 1851–2; one of the
6 members for Port Phillip in the legislative council of N.S.W.
1843–6, member for Sydney 1850–2, for co. of Stanley, Moreton
Bay 1854, for West Sydney 1859 to Nov. 1869; lectured in England
on Australia 1846–9; author of An historical and statistical
account of New South Wales 2 vols. 1834, 4 ed. 1874; Freedom
and independence for the golden lands of Australia 1852, 2 ed.
1857 and about 20 other books. _d._ Sydney 8 Aug. 1878, statue
of him in Wynyard sq. Sydney unveiled by widow 26 Jany. 1891.
_J. D. Lang’s Brief sketch of my parliamentary life_ (1870);
_Barton’s Poets of New South Wales_ (1866) 33–7; _Daily Graphic
11 March 1891 p._ 9, _view of his statue_.
LANG, OLIVER. _b._ 1778; an apprentice in Devonport dockyard;
foreman of shipwrights at Deptford yard; master shipwright
Devonport; assist. surveyor to navy board at Somerset house;
master shipwright Sheerness yard 1823–6 and at Woolwich 22
July 1826 to death; offered knighthood by George IV.; designed
the Comet paddle wheel steamship, the first steam ship in the
navy, she was commissioned 23 April 1836; introduced many
improvements in ships and steamers; author of Improvements in
naval architecture. Woolwich 1848. _d._ Woolwich 12 April 1853.
His widow Charlotte granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Oct.
1853.
LANG, THOMAS BAMFORD. _b._ 1820; controller of general post
office, Edinburgh, Feb. 1855 to death; author of An historical
summary of the post office in Scotland compiled from authentic
records 1856. _d._ Edinburgh 6 April 1868.
LANG, WILLIAM. Entered Bombay army 1821; lieut. 21 Bombay N.I.
21 May 1824, major 10 May 1847 to 25 June 1852; political agent
at Kattiwar 23 Sep. 1846 to 1859; lieut.-col. of 26 Bombay N.I.
25 June 1852 to 1854 and 1859–60, of 9 N.I. 1854–5, of 28 N.I.
1855–6, of 3 European regiment 1856–9, of 1 N.I. 1862 to 29 June
1863; M.G. 29 June 1863. _d._ Rossie house, Bridge of Earn 3
Jany. 1870.
LANGDALE, HENRY BICKERSTETH, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry
Bickersteth, surgeon and apothecary, _d._ May 1821). _b._ Kirkby
Lonsdale, Westmoreland 18 June 1783; apprenticed to his father,
Midsummer 1797; entered Caius coll. Camb. as Hewitt scholar
Oct. 1802, fellow 1808, senior fellow 1814–31; senior wr. and
1 Smith’s prizeman 1808, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; barrister I.T.
22 Nov. 1811, bencher 1827 to death, reader 1835, treasurer
1836; K.C. May 1827; P.C. 16 Jany. 1835; master of the rolls
19 Jany. 1835, resigned 28 March 1851; cr. Baron Langdale of
Langdale, Westmoreland 23 Jany. 1835; head of the commission
temporarily issued for custody of the great seal 19 June to 15
July 1850. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 18 April 1851. _bur._ in vault
of Temple church, London 24 April. _Memoirs. By T. D. Hardy 2
vols._ (1852), _portrait_; _Law Magazine_, _xlv_ 283–93 (1851);
_Leisure Hour iii_ 251.
LANGDALE, CHARLES (3 son of 16 baron Stourton 1752–1816). _b._
19 Sep. 1787; assumed his mother’s maiden name Langdale instead
of Stourton by r.l. 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. Beverley 1832–4, M.P.
Knaresborough 1837–41; the foremost man among the Roman catholic
laity in England 50 years; a lay brother of the Society of Jesus
1868; author of Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert, with an account of
her marriage with H.R.H. the prince of Wales afterwards king
George the Fourth 1856. _d._ 5 Queen st. Mayfair, London 1 Dec.