LEAPINGWELL, GEORGE. _b._ 1801; ed. at C.C. coll. Camb., B.A.
1823, M. A. 1826, LLD. 1851; esquire bedel of univ. of Camb.
1826 to death; barrister I.T. 25 June 1830; comr. of bankrupts
for Cambridge and district; deputy recorder for Cambridge;
deputy judge of borough court of pleas, Cambridge; deputy
professor of political economy at Camb.; author of A manual
of the Roman civil law, arranged after the analysis of Dr.
Hallifax. Camb. 1859. _d._ Cambridge 24 Dec. 1863. _Gent. Mag.
xvi_ 264, 400 (1864).
LEAR, EDWARD. _b._ Holloway, London 12 May 1812; the youngest
of 21 children; made tinted drawings of birds, &c. 1827, which
he sold at from 9d. to 4s. each; draughtsman in gardens of
Zoological Society 1831; engaged at Knowsley residence of Earl
of Derby 1832–6, drew the plates for The Knowsley Menagerie
1846; a drawing master at Rome 1837 etc.; originator of the
nonsense verse of which he published 4 volumes; travelled in
South Europe and Palestine sketching 1847 etc.; gave drawing
lessons to the Queen about 1840; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A.,
5 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1836–73; Tennyson wrote verses
addressed To E. Lear on his travels in Greece in ‘Travels
in Albania’ 1846; author of Illustrations of the family of
the Psittacidæ 1832; Views in Rome and its environs 1841;
Illustrated excursions in Italy 1846; The Book of Nonsense 1846,
27 ed. 1889; Journal of a landscape painter in Albania 1851;
published Poems and songs by A. Tennyson, set to music by E.
L., London 1859, nine numbers. _d._ Villa Tennyson, San Remo 29
Jany. 1888. _Tennyson’s Poems illustrated by E. Lear_ (1889),
_portrait_; _E. Lear’s Nonsense songs and stories 6 ed._ (1888)
_memoir pp._ 5–7.
LEARED, ARTHUR. _b._ Wexford 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1845, M.B. 1847, M.D. 1860; admitted M.D. at Oxford 7 Feb.
1861; physician in co. Wexford; went to India 1851; practised
in London 1852; M.R.C.P. 1854, F.R.C.P. 1871; phys. to British
civil hospital at Smyrna during Crimean war 1854–6; visited
Iceland 4 times 1862–74, America 1870, and Morocco 1872, 1877
and 1879; identified site of Roman station, Volubilis; claimed
to have invented the double stethoscope; author of The causes
and treatment of imperfect digestion 1860, 7 ed. 1882 with
portrait; Morocco and the Moors 1876, 2 ed. 1891; A visit to the
court of Morocco 1879. _d._ 12 Old Burlington st. London 16 Oct.