edition of the Moravian hymn tunes. _d._ Berthelsdorf near
Herrnhut, Saxony 24 Sep. 1863.
LATTER, HENRY JOSEPH. Engaged in bank of England till 1863;
general manager of East London bank afterwards called Central
bank of London 1863 to death. _d._ Goddendene, Farnborough, Kent
9 Jany. 1891.
LATTER, ROBERT JAMES (3 son of Mr. Latter _d._ 30 June 1829).
_b._ London 1783; midshipman 1794; entered Bengal army 1795;
lieut. 8 Bengal N.I. 30 Oct. 1797, captain 21 Sep. 1804;
major 30 Bengal N.I. 16 Dec. 1814, lieut.-col. 21 March 1819;
lieut.-col. 66 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1824, col. 1829 to death;
general 20 June 1854. _d._ London 24 Feb. 1855. _Memoir of
general Latter. By Mrs. Baillie_ (1870), _portrait_.
LATTER, THOMAS (son of Barré R. W. Latter, major 13 Bengal
N.I.). _b._ India 1816; ensign 48 Bengal N.I. 12 Sep. 1836;
lieut. 67 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1840 to death; chief interpreter
to sir Henry Thomas Godwin in the second Burmese war; captain
in the army 6 Feb. 1851; led the storming party against eastern
entrance of the Shwé Dagon pagoda 14 April 1852; resident deputy
comr. at Prome 30 Dec. 1852; author of A note on Boodhism and
the cave temples of India 1844; A grammar of the language of
Burmah 1845; murdered in his bed at Prome by the Burmese at 2
a.m. 8 Dec. 1853.
LAUDER, JAMES ECKFORD (son of a tanner). _b._ Silvermills,
Edinburgh 15 Aug. 1811; studied painting at the Trustees’
academy 1830–3; lived in Italy 1834–8; painter in Edinburgh 1838
to death; A.R.S.A. 1839, R.S.A. 1846, a regular contributor
to its exhibitions from 1832; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 7
at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. gallery 1841–53; his picture The
Parable of Forgiveness gained a prize of £200 at Westminster
Hall competition 1847; his picture Hagar is in the National
Gallery of Scotland. _d._ Edinburgh 29 March 1869. _Reg. and
Mag. of Biog. May 1869 p._ 413.
LAUDER, ROBERT SCOTT (brother of the preceding). _b._
Silvermills, Edinburgh 25 June 1803; subject painter in Edinb.
1826–33; associate of Royal Institution, Edinb. 1828; member of
Scottish academy 18 July 1829; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A.
and 11 at B.I. 1827–49; studied in Italy 1833–8; resided in
London 1838–52; the first pres. of National Institution of the
fine arts, Portland gallery, Regent st.; principal teacher in
drawing, academy of Board of Trustees, Edinb. Feb. 1852 to 1861;
his greatest picture is the ‘Trial of Effie Deans’ 1840, now at
Hospitalfields, Arbroath; several of his pictures with his bust
in marble by John Hutcheson, R.S.A. are in National gallery of
Scotland. _d._ 3 Wardie avenue, Ferry road, Edinburgh 21 April
1869, marble monument with medallion portrait erected over his
grave at Edinb. Jany. 1872. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. June 1869
pp._ 477–8; _I.L.N. lx_ 52 (1872), _portrait_.
LAUDERDALE, ANTHONY MAITLAND, 10 Earl of (brother of the 9th
Earl). _b._ 10 June 1785; entered navy 2 Oct. 1795; captain 25
Sep. 1806; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 10
Nov. 1862; K.C.M.G. 20 Feb. 1820; admiral 18 June 1857; M.P.
Haddington burghs 1813–18, M.P. Berwickshire 1826–32; succeeded
22 Aug. 1860. _d._ Thirlestane castle 22 March 1863.
LAUDERDALE, CHARLES BARCLAY MAITLAND, 12 Earl of (only son of
rev. Charles Maitland, R. of Little Lingford, Wilts., _d._
1844). _b._ 29 Sep. 1822; in the army but name not in army list;
a railway porter, a station master; succeeded his cousin 1
Sep. 1878; struck by lightning while shooting on his moor near
Lauder, Berwickshire, removed to Braidshawrigg, Westruther,
where he _d._ the same day 12 Aug. 1884. _Annual Register_
(1885) 149–50.
LAUDERDALE, JAMES MAITLAND, 9 Earl of (eld. son of 8 earl of
Lauderdale 1759–1839). _b._ Wimpole st. London 12 May 1784;
M.P. Camelford 1806–7, M.P. Richmond 1818–20, M.P. Appleby
1820–31; succeeded 15 Sep. 1839; lieutenant sheriff principal
of Berwickshire 3 Nov. 1841 to death. _d._ Thirlestane castle,
Berwickshire 22 Aug. 1860.
LAUDERDALE, THOMAS MAITLAND, 11 Earl of (only son of hon. Wm.
Mordaunt Maitland general in army, who _d._ 24 June 1841). _b._
Frankfort, co. Cork 3 Feb. 1803; entered navy 22 Sep. 1816;
captain 10 Jany. 1837; C.B. 1841, K.C.B. 1865, G.C.B. 24 May
1873; knighted by patent 3 April 1843; naval A.D.C. to the Queen
2 Feb. 1855 to 18 June 1857; commander in chief on Pacific
station 5 May 1860 to 31 Oct. 1862; succeeded his cousin as 11
Earl 22 March 1863; first and principal naval A.D.C. to the
Queen 22 Nov. 1866 to 8 Feb. 1873, assigned his pay of £300 a
year as A.D.C. to Royal benevolent society Dec. 1866; admiral
8 April 1868; admiral of the fleet 27 Dec. 1877; lectured on
The defence of the protected territories on the Gold Coast,
at R. United Service Instit. 1873. _d._ Thirlestane castle,
Berwickshire 1 Sep. 1878, personalty sworn under £466,000, 8
Feb. 1879.
LAUGHLIN, FREDERICK HAMILTON. _b._ Dublin; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1866; C. of St. Peter, Saffron Hill, London
1867–72; a reader and preacher at the College of pensioners,
Chelsea; an assistant librarian in British museum 1857–76. _d._
in an asylum, London 23 Aug. 1877.
LAURENCE, JOHN. _b._ Crieff 1839; taught himself Latin and
German; a superior shorthand writer; chief editor of the
Bulletin, Glasgow; edited the Scottish Banner, a newspaper
1861; reporter for The Kilmarnock Standard 1865 to death. _d._
Langlands st. Kilmarnock 13 May 1866. _bur._ Crieff 18 May.
LAURENCE, JOHN ZACHARIAH. _b._ 1828 or 1829; studied at univ.
coll. London; M.B. London 1857; F.R.C.S. 1855; surgeon of
hospital for epilepsy and paralysis; ophthalmic surgeon St.
Bartholomew’s hospital; in practice at 30 Devonshire st.
Portland place, London; edited Ophthalmic Review 3 vols.
1864–67; author of The diagnosis of surgical cancer (Liston
gold medal) 1855, 2 ed. 1858; Illustrations of the pathology
of cancer 1856; The progress of ophthalmic surgery from the
invention of the ophthalmoscope 1863; The optical defects of the
eye and their consequences, asthenopia and strabismus 1865. _d._
3 St. Peter’s sq. Hammersmith, Middlesex 18 July 1870.
LAURENCE, ROBERT FRENCH (5 son of John Laurence of Eltham,
Kent). _b._ 2 April 1807; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., student 1824–33; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; P.C. of Great
and Little Hampton, Worcs. 17 April to 28 July 1832; V. of
Chalgrave with chapel of Berwick, Oxon. 28 July 1832 to 1885;
author of An order for the visitation of the sick 1851; An essay
on confession, penance and absolution 1852; The churchman’s
assistant at holy communion 1860. _d._ 1886.
LAURENCE, SAMUEL. _b._ Guildford, Surrey 1812; portrait painter;
exhibited 90 pictures at R.A. and 14 at Suffolk st. 1834–79;
great friend of James Spedding, G. H. Lewes and T. Leigh
Hunt; visited U.S. of America 1854, stayed with Longfellow in
Massachusetts. _d._ 6 Wells st. Oxford st. London 28 Feb. 1884.
LAURENT, CHARLES EMILE. _b._ 1819; musician in London; member
of Royal Soc. of musicians; converted the Royal Adelaide
gallery of practical science, 7 Adelaide st. Strand, which had
been opened in 1832, into Laurent’s Casino Royal 5 Oct. 1846
and was conductor there to May 1849; conductor at the Argyll
Subscription rooms, Great Windmill st. Oct. 1849. _d._ 23 May
1857.
LAURENT, HENRI (brother of preceding). _b._ 1827; operatic and
vocal composer; published The Argyll galop 1857; H. Laurent’s
Album of dance music 1858; A maiden’s blush waltz 1862 and
upwards of 70 other pieces of dance music 1849–72. _d._ London
20 March 1861.
LAURI, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Lowe (eld. child of
John Francis Lowe or Lauri _d._ 22 Jany. 1887 aged 77). _b._
1833; at Sadler’s Wells with his brothers John and Frederick
1840; pantomimist and clown, one of the first to introduce the
trap business being shot up from beneath the stage into the
air; engaged at Drury Lane 1851; clown in E. L. Blanchard’s
pantomime Harlequin and the golden goose, at Sadler’s Wells 26
Dec. 1860; appeared before the Queen at Her Majesty’s 14 Feb.
1861 as clown in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Harlequin and Tom
Thumb; played clown at Sadler’s Wells 1861–2, Drury Lane 1863–8
and 1878; played clown at Wallack’s theatre, New York 7 June
1869, afterwards at Niblo’s Garden and the Tammany, New York;
played in all the principal theatres in Great Britain and on the
Continent; last appearance was at Grand theatre, Glasgow, Jany.