LE MESSURIER, GEORGE PAUL. Entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 2
Bombay N.I. 4 Jany. 1819; captain 14 N.I. 22 July 1826, major 15
Sep. 1841 to 2 March 1846; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 1846–8, of 24
N.I. 1848–9, of 22 N.I. 1849 to death. _d._ Wimpole st. London 6
Feb. 1852.
LEMOINNE, JOHN EMILE. _b._ London 17 Oct. 1815, and first
educated in England; joined staff of the Journal des Débats
1840, with which paper he remained to his death; member of
French academy 13 May 1875; a life senator 23 Feb. 1880; author
of Wellington from a French point of view 1852; Etudes critiques
et biographiques 1862; and of Letters of J. Lemoinne on the
exhibition of 1851, in D. Lardner’s The Great exhibition 1852.
_d._ Paris 14 Dec. 1892. _The Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 14,
_portrait_.
LEMON, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (3 son of sir Wm. Lemon
1748–1824). _b._ Whitehall, London 30 Sep. 1784; ed. Harrow;
M.A. of Camb. univ. 1833; M.P. Penryn 1807–12, and 1830–31; M.P.
Cornwall 1831–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832–41 and 1842–57; F.R.S.
23 May 1822; a founder of Statistical soc. 1834, and a trustee
1838; president R. Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1833 to death;
president R. Geological soc. of Cornwall 1840–50; provincial
grand master of freemasons of Cornwall 1843–63; a commissioner
for enquiring into state of British museum 11 June 1847; special
deputy warden of the Stannaries 1852; made a collection of
exotic trees and shrubs at Carclew; author of On the proposed
tariff as it affects tin, copper and timber used in mines 1842,
and other pamphlets. _d._ Carclew near Penryn, Cornwall 12 Feb.