(1876).
LEDGER, CHARLES. _b._ England; clerk in house of Messrs. Naylor
at Lima 1836–8, and then at their establishment at Tacna where
he purchased the alpaca wools from the Indians 1838–42; in
business at Tacna from 1842; exported a flock of 276 alpacas to
Sydney 28 Nov. 1858, which the government purchased for £15,000
and gave him £1300 a year to manage it. _Illust. News of the
World 17 Sep. 1859 pp._ 173–4, _portrait_; _Sporting Rev. Feb.
1863 pp._ 127–9.
LEDGER, FREDERIC. _b._ 1816; editor and proprietor of The Era,
a London weekly sporting and dramatic paper 1850 to death; an
enthusiastic mason. _d._ Gothic house, Devonshire road, Balham
hill 14 June 1874. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 20 June. _Era 21 June
1874 p._ 9 _col._ 2.
LEDWARD, RICHARD ARTHUR (son of Richard Perry Ledward). _b._
Burslem, Staffs. 1857; studied at Burslem school of art and at
South Kensington, gold medallist; a master of modelling in the
schools; modelling master at Westminster and Blackheath schools
of art; his sculpture of A Young Mother, showed great promise.
_d._ of rheumatism at 53 Beaufort st. Chelsea 28 Oct. 1890.
_bur._ Perivale church near Ealing.
LEDWICH, THOMAS HAWKESWORTH (son of Edward Ledwich of Waterford,
attorney). _b._ Pembroke 1823; studied medicine in Dublin;
M.R.C.S.I. 1844, F.R.C.S.I. 1845; lecturer on anatomy at The
original school of medicine, Peter st. Dublin 1847 to death,
when name was changed to the Ledwich school of medicine 1858;
formed a valuable pathological museum; surgeon to the Meath
hospital, Dublin, July 1858; author with his brother Edward
Ledwich, M.D. of The practical and descriptive anatomy of the
human body 1852, 3 ed. 1877, which is still much used in Dublin.
_d._ York st. Dublin 29 Sep. 1858. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet.
_Sir C. A. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland_
(1886) 534–35, 613–14; _Ormsby’s History of Meath hospital_
(1888) 215–6.
NOTE.--Edward Ledwich was _b._ Pembroke 1817, F.R.C.S.I. 13 Oct. 1852,
a most successful teacher of anatomy, _d._ 7 Harcourt st. Dublin 18
Feb. 1879.
LEE, _Mrs._ Governess to the prince of Naples, eld. son of
Humbert king of Italy, at Rome Nov. 1869 to 1881 during which
time she never left him; watched over the prince’s health and
aided him in making a collection of coins illustrating Italian
history 1881 to death. _d._ Quirinal palace, Rome 3 April 1884.
LEE, ALFRED THEOPHILUS (youngest son of Sir John Theophilus
Lee of Lauriston hall, Torquay 1786–1843). _b._ the Elms,
Bedhampton, Hants. 28 June 1829; scholar of Christ’s coll.
Camb. 1850; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of Houghton-le-Spring,
Durham 1853–5; P.C. of Elson, Hants. 1856–8; R of Ahoghill,
co. Antrim 1858–72; hon. LLD. Dublin 1866, D.C.L. Oxf. 1867;
sec. to Church defence instit. and tithe redemption trust 1871
to death; preacher at Gray’s Inn 5 Nov. 1879 to death; author
of The history of the town and parish of Tetbury 1857; Facts
respecting the present state of the church in Ireland 1863,
sixtieth thousand issued 1868; Some account of the parish church
of St. Colananell, Ahoghill 1867. _d._ Lauriston house, Ealing,
Middlesex 19 July 1883. _Church portrait journal_, _i_ 25
(1876), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 315–20 (1881).
LEE, BENJAMIN. _b._ Worcester 10 Feb. 1788; enlisted in 14
dragoons Jany. 1804; served in the Peninsula 1808–14, in America
1815; sergeant major 1814, retired 1829; went to New South Wales
and resided at Parramatta 1829 to death. _d._ Parramatta 13
April 1879, left upwards of 100 children and grandchildren.
LEE, DONALD MC PHEE. _b._ 11 Feb. 1804; editor and proprietor of
Bermuda royal gazette; vice consul for France and Italy. _d._
Hamilton, Bermuda 11 Feb. 1883.
LEE, EDWIN. Articled pupil of royal college of surgeons, London,
Jacksonian prizeman 1838 for dissertation on Comparative
advantages of lithotomy and lithotrity; studied at St. George’s
hospital 1824, house surgeon 1830–3; M.C.S. 1829; M.D. Gottingen
1846 or before; member of medical societies of Paris, Berlin and
Naples; fellow of royal medico-chirurgical soc.; resided much at
the Continental watering places; author of upwards of 60 works
including A treatise on some nervous disorders 1833, 2 ed. 1838;
The principal baths of Germany 2 vols. 1840–1. _d._ Mentone 3
June 1870. _The Lancet 18 June 1870 pp._ 891–2.
LEE, FREDERICK HENRY (eld. son of Frederick William Lee). Editor
of Hull Herald and proprietor of Sussex Advertiser, Lewes. _d._
Cooksbridge near Lewes 14 Aug. 1853 aged 42.
LEE, FREDERICK RICHARD. _b._ Barnstaple 1799; ensign 56 foot
6 Dec. 1813, placed on h.p. 21 Dec. 1815; served in the
Netherlands; studied painting at the R.A. 1818; exhibited 171
paintings at R.A., 131 at B.I. and 24 at Suffolk st. 1822–70;
his most popular works were English landscapes; 4 of his
pictures are in the National Gallery; A.R.A. 1834, R.A. 1838,
retired R.A. 1871. _d._ Vlees farm, Herman station in division
of Malmsay, South Africa 5 June 1879. _Sandby’s History of royal
academy_, _ii_ 159–61 (1862); _Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_
(1883) 85–8.
LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of Henry Lee, pugilist and landlord
of the Anti-Gallican tavern, Shire lane, Temple Bar 1808). _b._
1802; in Lord Barrymore’s service as a tiger, being the first to
bear that title; tenor singer at Dublin theatre 1825; sang at
the Haymarket, London 1826, musical conductor there 1827; kept a
music shop at 86 Quadrant, Regent st. 1829–31; bankrupt 18 Nov.
1831 and 21 May 1833; lessee with Melrose and J. K. Chapman of
the Tottenham st. theatre 1829–30; lessee of Drury Lane theatre
1830–31; directed the Lenten oratorios at Drury Lane and Covent
Garden 1831; composer and musical director to Strand theatre
1832–45, to Olympic theatre 1845; succeeded George Hodson as
musical conductor at the Poses Plastiques, Garrick’s Head, Bow
st. 1847; wrote the music to The Sublime and the Beautiful 1828;
The Invincibles 1828; The Nymph of the Grotto 1829; The Witness
1829; The Devil’s Brother 1831; The Legion of Honour 1831
and other dramatic pieces; published two sets of eight songs
Beauties of Byron and Loves of the Butterflies 1828; composed
altogether upwards of 250 pieces of music 1826–51; author
of A complete course of instruction for singing 1872. (_m._
Mrs. Waylett, ballad singer, she _d._ 26 April 1851); found
dead in his old lodgings at Newton terrace, Kennington road,
London 8 Oct. 1851. _bur._ Norwood cemet. _Rev. J. Richardson’s
Recollections_, _ii_ 129–35 (1856).
LEE, SIR GEORGE PHILIP (youngest son of Edward Lee of London).
Lieut. of the yeomen of the guard 13 March 1843 to 23 July 1857;
knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. _d._ Windlesham
court, Bagshot 1 Sep. 1870.
LEE, HARRIET (dau. of John Lee, actor, _d._ 1781). _b._ London
1757; kept a private school with her sister Sophia Lee at
Belvidere house, Bath 1781–1803; carried on a correspondence
with Wm. Godwin the novelist, April to Aug. 1798, declined
his offer of marriage 1798; author of The errors of innocence
5 vols. 1786; The new peerage or our eyes may deceive us, a
comedy Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1787, acted 9 times; Clara Lennox 2
vols. 1797, translated into French 1798; The mysterious marriage
or the heirship of Roselva, a 3 act play 1790, never acted;
Canterbury Tales 5 vols. 1797–1805, containing 12 stories (2
of which were written by her sister Sophia Lee who _d._ 1824),
she dramatised one of the tales ‘Kruitzner’ under title of The
Three Strangers, performed at Covent Garden 10 Dec. 1825, acted
4 times, Lord Byron also dramatised it under title of Werner or
the Inheritance 1822. _d._ Vyvyan terrace, Clifton 1 Aug. 1851.
LEE, HENRIETTA INCLEDON (eld. dau. of Henry Lee, manager of
theatres in west of England). First appeared in London as
Constantia in ‘The man of the world’ 19 Oct. 1831; played at
Covent Garden and Drury Lane, at Olympic theatre during Madame
Vestris’ management to 1839, at Lyceum theatre 1847–48. _d._ at
her lodgings, Orange st. Bloomsbury sq. London 23 May 1866. _Era
27 May 1866 p._ 10.
LEE, HENRY. _b._ 1826; naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium 1872,
a director for a time, printed Aquarium Notes for the use of
visitors; a contributor to Land and Water; his museum of natural
history was one of most valuable private collections in England;
author of The Octopus or the devil fish of fiction and fact
1874; Sea fables explained 1883 and of Sea monsters unmasked
1883, in Fisheries’ Exhibition handbooks; The vegetable lamb of
Tartary, a fable of the cotton plant 1887. _d._ Renton house,
343 Brixton road, London 31 Oct. 1888. _Land and Water 10 Nov.
1888 p._ 568.
LEE, JAMES N. Edited Bell’s Weekly Messenger and Farmers’
Journal to death. _d._ at his lodgings, Laurel grove, Oakfield
road, Penge 11 March 1880 aged 72.
LEE, JAMES PRINCE (eld. son of Stephen Lee, sec. and librarian
of royal society). _b._ London 28 July 1804; ed. at St. Paul’s
sch. 1813–24, captain 1822–4 when he entered Trin. coll. Camb.,
Craven scholar 1827, fellow Oct. 1829; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831;
one of the best Greek scholars of his time; a master at Rugby
1830–8; head master of King Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1838–47;
hon. canon of Worcester 6 Sep. 1847; bishop of Manchester 23
Oct. 1847, consecrated at Whitehall chapel 23 Jany. 1848;
held 63 ordinations at which he ordained 471 priests and 522
deacons; consecrated 130 churches 1848–69; promoted Manchester
free library, opened Sep. 1852; author of Sermons and fragments
attributed to Isaac Barrow, D.D. now first collected and edited
from the MSS. in the University and Trinity college libraries
Cambridge 1834, these manuscripts turned out to be spurious;
Suggestions for a practical use of the papal aggression 1851.
_d._ Mauldeth hall, Burnage near Manchester 24 Dec. 1869. _bur._
St. John’s ch. Heaton, Mersey 31 Dec. _E. W. Benson’s Memorial
Sermon 2 ed._ (1880); _John Evans’s Lancashire Authors_ (1850)
153–7; _Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series_ (1859),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 51 (1848) _portrait_, _lvi_ 55 (1870),
_portrait_.
NOTE.--He bequeathed his library to Owen’s college Manchester, his
widow in Sep. 1875 left £1000 to the college to provide two annual
prizes for encouraging the study of the New Testament in Greek.
LEE, JOHN. _b._ Torwoodlie-Mains, parish of Stow, Midlothian
22 Nov. 1779; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1801; served in
the army hospital service a short time; presbyterian minister
of Peebles 1807; professor of church history at St. Mary’s
college, St. Andrew’s 1812–21, rector of St. Andrew’s univ.
three times; professor of moral philosophy in King’s college,
Aberdeen 1820–1; minister of Canongate ch. Edinb. 1821–5; D.D.
St. Andrew’s 1821; minister of Lady Yester’s ch. Edinb. 1825–34;
chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1840 to death; principal clerk
of the general assembly 1827; minister of St. Giles’s ch. Edinb.
1834–7; principal of united college of St. Andrew’s 1837–40;
dean of chapel royal, Stirling 1840 to death; principal of univ.
of Edinb. 12 March 1840 to death, professor of divinity 14
June 1844 to death, being the first principal who also held a
professorship since the year 1620; moderator of general assembly
1844; collected a library of 20,000 vols., is described in John
Hill Burton’s Bookhunter as Archdeacon Meadows the bibliomaniac;
author of Memorials of the Bible Society in Scotland 1829;
Lectures on the history of the church of Scotland 1860; The
University of Edinburgh from 1583 to 1839. 1880. _d._ at his
residence in Univ. of Edinburgh 2 May 1859. _Crombie’s Modern
Athenians_ (1882) 135–7 _portrait_; _Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of
Edinburgh_, _ii_ 271–4 (1884); _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb.
iv_ 212–17 (1862); _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol. i_, _part_ 1, _pp._
12–13, 64 (1866).
LEE, JOHN (eld. son of John Fiott of London, merchant 1749–97).
_b._ 28 April 1783; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow
1808–15; fifth wrangler 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, LLD. 1816;
travelling bachelor of the univ. 1807–10; took his mother’s name
of Lee by r.l. 4 Oct. 1815; member of College of Advocates 3
Nov. 1816, steward July 1824 to June 1826, librarian 1826–7,
treasurer 1828–9; barrister G.I. 13 July 1863, gave the society
£500 to found an annual prize for an essay on law 7 May 1864,
bencher of G.I. 9 Nov. 1864 to death; Q.C. 7 July 1864; built an
observatory in south portico of Hartwell house, Bucks. 1830; an
original member of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1820, treasurer 1831–40,
pres. 1861–2, gave the advowson of Hartwell to the Soc. 1836
and the advowson of Stone, Bucks. 1866, founded the Lee fund
for relief of widows and children of deceased fellows; F.S.A.
1828; F.R.S. 24 Feb. 1831; pres. and treasurer of Numismatic
Soc. 1837; member of Chronological institute of London, Dec.
1850, pres. 21 Dec. 1853 to 1858 when institute ceased; pres.
of meeting of British Archæological Assoc. at Leicester 1862;
contested Aylesbury 1835, 1841, 1852 and 1863; edited Catalogue
of the Egyptian antiquities at Hartwell House, chiefly arranged
by Joseph Bonomi 1858. _d._ Hartwell house near Aylesbury 25
Feb. 1866. _Memoir of John Lee. Aylesbury_ (1870); _Journal
of British Archæol. Assoc. xxiii_ 302–5 (1867); _Catalogue of
law books in the library at Hartwell_ (1855); _Catalogue of
theological books in the library of Hartwell house_ (1855).
LEE, JOHN. _b._ Bath 25 Oct. 1795; served in the army; first
appeared at Drury Lane as Laertes 1 Oct. 1828; sec. to Edmund
Kean 1826–33 and stage manager Richmond theatre, and it was in
his arms that the tragedian died at Richmond 15 May 1833; acted
Jingle in Moncrieff’s Sam Weller or the Pickwickians at Strand
theatre July 1837; theatrical agent at 24 Bow st. Covent Garden
1847–55; manager of the Café de l’Europe, Haymarket, London, on
decease of Henry Hemming 1849; reappeared at T.R. Richmond as
Shylock 1 July 1869; resided in Jersey many years. _d._ Wilton
house, New St. John’s road, Jersey 5 Oct. 1881. _The Era 15 Oct.
1881 p._ 8; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 33–34, _portrait_.
LEE, JOHN. _b._ 1831; general manager of Drinking fountain
association; F.R.G.S. _d._ Balmain, Anerley road, Surrey 3 Feb.