Blackheath, Kent 19 Sep. 1891. _Academy 3 Oct. 1891 p._ 284.
LEFROY, JEFFREY (brother of Anthony Lefroy 1800–90). _b._ 1809
or 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1848, member
of the senate; R. of Aghaderg, co. Down 1836 to death; dean of
Dromore 1876 to death. _d._ Aghaderg Glebe 10 Dec. 1885.
LEFROY, SIR JOHN HENRY (son of John Henry George Lefroy, R.
of Ashe, Hants., _d._ 1823). _b._ Ashe 28 Jany. 1817; ed. at
Alton, Richmond, and R.M. acad. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec
1834, col. 9 Feb. 1865, col. commandant 13 Feb. 1881 to death;
sec. of the Royal artillery institution 1838–9 and again 1849;
director of magnetical observatory at St. Helena 1840–2 and at
Toronto 1842–53; travelled to Lachim and Hudson’s Bay 1843–4,
determined approximate position of American forces of magnetic
intensity; founded the Canadian institute at Toronto 1849; sec.
of the Patriotic Fund 1854; a senior clerk in the war office
1854; scientific adviser on subjects of artillery and inventions
at war office 1854–5; prepared a detailed scheme of military
education 1856; inspector general of army schools Feb. 1857 to
1860 when office abolished; sent on a special mission to the
Mediterranean fortresses; sec. of ordnance select committee
1860, pres. 1864; director general of ordnance 9 Dec. 1868 to
March 1870; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda 8 April
1871 to 10 May 1877; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; governor of Tasmania,
Oct. 1880 to Dec. 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of
general 10 May 1882; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.G.S. 1853; F.S.A.
1884; C.B. 31 March 1870; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of A
handbook for field service 1854, 4 ed. 1867; Observations made
at St. Helena 1847; Notes and documents relating to the family
of Loffroy 1868; Memorials of the discovery of the Bermudas or
Somers island 2 vols. 1877–9; Diary of a magnetic survey of
a portion of the dominion of Canada 1883. _d._ Lewarne near
Liskeard, Cornwall 11 April 1890. _bur._ at Croudall, Hants.
_Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 139–40 (1891); _Numismatic
Chronicle_ (1890) 31–2; _Graphic 26 April 1890 p._ 533,
_portrait_.
LEFROY, PERCY, otherwise Percy Lefroy Mapleton (son of Henry
Mapleton commander R.N. _d._ 1879, by Mary Trent dau. of Henry
Seale colonial sec. of St. Helena). _b._ Alpha place, Queen’s
road, Deptford 23 Feb. 1860; journalist writing for the weekly
papers; author of two dramas which were not successful; shot
and murdered Frederick Isaac Gold a retired London tradesman
aged 64, in a railway carriage on London and Brighton and South
coast railway while going through the Balcombe tunnel 27 June
1881, arrested on suspicion 8 July, tried at Maidstone assizes
5–7 Nov., confessed his guilt, hanged inside Lewes prison 29
Nov. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxix_ 37, 461 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xxiv_ 96 (1881), _portrait_; _Temple Bar_, _Jany. 1886 pp._
73–82; _Montagu Williams’ Leaves of a Life_ (1891) 277–94,
335–48.
LEFROY, THOMAS EDWARD PRESTON (3 son of Antony Lefroy of
Falford, Yorkshire, captain 65 foot). _b._ 30 Aug. 1815;
a special pleader; barrister M.T. 7 June 1844; a revising
barrister on the Northern circuit Aug. 1855; deputy judge of
Bloomsbury county court 1857–65; judge of county courts, circuit
55 (Dorset and Somerset) 1 Jany. 1868, retired 10 Oct. 1880 on
pension of £1000; author with H. I. Nicholl, J. M. Carrow and
others of Cases relating to railways and canals 5 vols. 1840–50.
_d._ Cambray, Bournemouth 25 July 1887.
LEFROY, THOMAS LANGLOIS (eld. son of Anthony Lefroy of
Carrickglass, co. Longford, lieut.-col. 9 light dragoons, _d._
1819). _b._ co. Limerick 8 Jany. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1795, LL.B. and LL.D. 1827; called to Irish bar
1797, practised in court of chancery; K.C. 1806; third serjeant
at law in Ireland Dec. 1818, 2nd serjeant 1820, first serjeant
1822–30; bencher of King’s Inns 1819; a comr. of assize 1822,
1824; M.P. for univ. of Dublin 1830–41; fourth baron of court
of exchequer, Ireland, Nov. 1841; lord chief justice of
queen’s bench, Ireland, March 1852, resigned May 1866; author
of Observations on the proceedings by elegit for the recovery
of judgment debts. Dublin 1802; author with John Schoales of
Reports of cases argued and determined in the high court of
chancery in Ireland during the time of Lord Redesdale from
Easter term 1802 to Easter term 1806, 2 vols. Dublin 1806–10.
_d._ Newcourt villa, Bray near Dublin 4 May 1869. _bur._
Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 11 May. _T. Lefroy’s Memoir of
chief justice Lefroy_ (1871), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag.
lxxix_ 65–74 (1872); _Portraits of eminent conservatives and
statesmen 2 series_ (1846), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_ 346 (1848),
_portrait_.
LEFROY, THOMAS PAUL (2 son of the preceding). _b._ 31 Dec. 1806;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827; called to Irish bar 1831;
Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; bencher of King’s Inns 1860 to death; chairman
of quarter sessions of co. Kildare 27 Dec. 1858 to Dec. 1890;
county court judge of Armagh 1875, of Down 1880 to Dec. 1890;
chancellor of diocesan court of Down, Connor and Dromore to