LENDY, AUGUSTE FREDERIC. _b._ 1826; captain of the French army
staff; came to England as military tutor to the Orlean princes
1848; started a private military college at Sunbury house,
Sunbury-on-Thames; a successful ‘crammer’ for the army; lieut.
4th or royal South Middlesex militia 24 Nov. 1862, captain
2 May 1866, retired with hon. rank of major 1 Feb. 1879; an
amateur grower of orchids; author of The principles of war 1853;
Elements of fortification 1857; Maxims, advice and instruction
on the art of war 1857, new ed. 1864; Campaigns of Napoleon
and of Wellington 1861, nineteen parts; A practical course of
military surveying 1864. _d._ Riverside house, Sunbury-on-Thames
10 Oct. 1889. _Broad Arrow 19 Oct. 1889 p._ 479; _Gardener’s
Mag. 19 Oct. 1889_.
LENNARD, THOMAS BARRETT (1 son of sir T. B. Lennard, bart.
1761–1857). _b._ 4 Oct. 1788; ed. Charterhouse and Jesus coll.
Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; M.P. Ipswich 1820–6; M.P. Maldon
1826–37 and 1847–52; contested Maldon 26 July 1837; F.S.A. 22
May 1851. _d._ Brighton 9 June 1856.
LENNIE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1779; taught English at Edinburgh 1802 to
death; author of The principles of English grammar 1821, 85th
ed. Edinb. 1886; left an endowment of £10 a year to a school
at Craigend, Perthshire; left by his will to town council of
Edinburgh the lands of Auchenresch, Dumfriesshire for founding
in univ. of Edinb. four bursaries of £12 each to be called the
Lennie bursaries. _d._ 23 St. Andrew’s sq. Edinburgh 20 July
1852.
LENNOCK, GEORGE GUSTAVUS. _b._ 1776 or 1777; entered navy April
1789; in command of the Raven 16 guns attacked 14 brigs at
Flushing and drove 3 of them on shore 3 July 1812; captain 4
June 1814; in command of the Esk 20 guns had an action with
the Grampus and Terpsichore two American vessels 1814; retired
admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Broomrig, co. Dumfries 12 May 1866.
LENNOX, ALEXANDER FRANCIS CHARLES GORDON (son of 5 duke of
Richmond 1791–1860). _b._ 14 June 1825; cornet royal horse
guards 8 Feb. 1842, capt. 30 March 1847, sold out 14 May 1852;
M.P. Shoreham 1849–59. _d._ 25 Pont st. London 22 Jany. 1892.
LENNOX, ARTHUR GORDON (7 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819).
_b._ 2 Oct. 1806; ensign 71 foot 24 June 1823, major 6 July 1838
to 14 April 1843; lieut.-col. 72 foot 14 April 1843, placed
on h.p. 25 Feb. 1845; lieut.-col. 68 foot 14 Sep. 1852, sold
out 30 Dec. 1853; a lord of the treasury 21 May 1844 to 8 Aug.
1845; a clerk of the ordnance 7 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; M.P. for
Chichester 1831–46 when he voted for free trade and accepted the
Chiltern hundreds; returned for Yarmouth 29 July 1847, unseated
on petition 8 July 1848; lieut.-col. commandant 1 royal Sussex
militia 14 Dec. 1854 to death. _d._ Ovington sq. Brompton,
London 15 Jany. 1864.
LENNOX, GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (4 son of 5 duke of Richmond
1791–1860). _b._ Goodwood 22 Oct. 1829; cornet royal horse
guards 3 April 1846, lieut. 14 May 1852, sold out 22 April 1853;
M.P. Lymington 1860–74. _d._ 27 Berkeley square, London 27 Feb.
1877.
LENNOX, HENRY GEORGE CHARLES GORDON (brother of the preceding).
_b._ Goodwood, Sussex 2 Nov. 1821; ed. at Westminster 1836–40
and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; M.P. Chichester 1846–85;
a lord of the treasury 28 Feb. 1852 to 20 Dec. 1852 and 1 March
1858 to 14 March 1859; sec. to admiralty July 1866 to Dec. 1868;
P.C. 7 July 1874; president of board of works Feb. 1874 to July
1876; author of A winter in Madeira 1881; Forewarned, forearmed,
a statement of the strength of the English and French navies
1882, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ at his res. near Chichester 28 Aug. 1886.
LENNOX, JOHN GEORGE GORDON (2 son of 4 duke of Richmond.
1764–1819). _b._ 3 Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster; cornet 13
dragoons 24 Oct. 1811; captain 9 dragoons 27 June 1816, placed
on h.p. 25 June 1823; A.D.C. to duke of Wellington 1813;
lieut.-col. in the army 12 June 1823; gentleman of bedchamber to
prince Albert; M.P. Chichester 1819–31; M.P. Sussex 1831–2; M.P.
West Sussex 1832–41. _d._ Darland, Chatham 10 Nov. 1873. _I.L.N.
lxiii_ 495 (1873).
LENNOX, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ 1797 or 1798; entered Bengal army
1817; ensign 22 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1818; captain 43 N.I. 23
April 1830, major 11 Nov. 1847 to 14 July 1853; lieut.-col. of
67 N.I. 14 July 1853–4, of 38 N.I. 1854–6, of 22 N.I. 1856–7, of
34 N.I. 1857–9, of 63 N.I. 1859–61, of 9 N.I. 1861; retired with
rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Glasgow 5 May 1884.
LENNOX, WILLIAM PITT (4 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819).
_b._ Winestead abbey, Yorkshire 20 Sep. 1799; ed. at Westminster
1808–13; cornet royal horse guards 13 May 1813, captain 28
March 1822, sold out 25 March 1829; went to Paris with Duke of
Wellington as attaché 8 Aug. 1814, A.D.C. to the Duke 1815–8;
an extra A.D.C. to his father while governor general of Canada
1818–9; one of the pages at coronation of George IV. 19 July
1821; M.P. King’s Lynn 10 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; edited
The Review newspaper 1858; contributed to the Annuals, Once a
Week and the Court Journal; gave many lectures; is depicted by
Disraeli in Vivian Grey as Lord Prima Donna; author of Compton
Audley, or hands not hearts 3 vols. 1841; The tuft hunter 3
vols. 1843; The story of my life 3 vols. 1857; Recreations of a
sportsman 2 vols. 1862; Life of the Fifth Duke of Richmond 1862,
anon., and many other books. _d._ 34 Hans place, Sloane st.
London 18 Feb. 1881. _W. P. Lennox’s Fifty years reminiscences 2
vols._ (1863); _W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections 2 vols._ (1874).
LENTAIGNE, SIR JOHN FRANCIS O’NEILL (1 son of Benjamin Lentaigne
of Dublin, physician, _d._ 1813). _b._ 20 June 1803; ed. Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.B. 1828; L.R.C.S.I 1830, F.R.C.S.I.
1844; government comr. of loan funds 1841; inspector general of
prisons, Ireland 1854–77; governor of Richmond district lunatic
asylum; sheriff of Monaghan 1844; contested co. Dublin 26 July
1852; a comr. of national education Ireland 1861 to death;
president of Zoological soc; president of Statistical soc.;
M.R.I.A.; C.B. 27 March 1873, K.C.B. 28 April 1880; knighted by
lord lieut. of Ireland at Dublin castle 28 April 1880; knight of
order of Pius IX. _d._ 1 Great Denmark st. Dublin 12 Nov. 1886.
LENTHALL, FRANCIS KYFFIN (3 son of Kyffin John William Lenthall
1789–1870). _b._ 30 March 1824; a lineal descendant of William
Lenthall the speaker, through whom he owned Besselsleigh manor
near Abingdon; barrister L.I. 1 May 1846; recorder of Woodstock,
Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1885; assist. revising barrister for county
and city of Worcester 1868, and for Gloucestershire 1869;
author of Correspondence by F. K. Lenthall and others respecting
the memorial to Lord Romilly 1866. _d._ Besselsleigh manor,
Berks. Jany. 1892.
LEONARD, DENIS. _b._ Kilkenny 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; an
attorney; appeared at a minor London theatre under name of Mr.
O’Neil; played sir Lucius O’Trigger at the Haymarket; acted in
America, the Southern States and Canada; acted in the provinces;
again visited America; the leading Irish actor of his time;
played Richmond to Kean’s Richard III. in Belfast 1830; played
all Tyrone Power’s Irish parts at the Haymarket, at the T.R.
Dublin 1843 &c. and in America; his drama The Foster Brothers
produced in Belfast about 1867; an attorney in Belfast and
law agent for marquess of Downshire. _d._ 8 Cromwell terrace,
Belfast 31 May 1878.
LEONARD, JOHN PATRICK. _b._ Ireland; connected with sir C. G.
Duffy in the 1848 movement in Ireland; a resident in Paris from
1849; professor of English in the Collége Chaptal to death; a
medical man in Franco-German war, attended marshall Mac Mahon
when wounded outside Sedan Aug. 1870, very friendly with the
marshall and the duchess of Magenta; published Sermon on behalf
of the distressed Irish by G. Mermillod, bishop of Hebron, a
translation 1862. _d._ Paris, Aug. 1889. _bur._ Ballymor near
Queenstown 27 Oct.
LEONARD, PETER. _b._ St. Vigeans, Arbroath 1801; L.R.C.S. Edinb.
1822; M.D. of St. Andrew’s 1851; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon
R.N. 6 March 1823, fleet surgeon 1829; inspector general of
hospitals 15 March 1865, retired 19 Sep. 1866; first inspector
general under contagious diseases act and organizer of the
administration 1866; wrote a Naval medical journal of services
in South America, for which he received sir G. Blaine’s gold
medal; deputy inspector general at Chatham, then at Haslar;
granted Greenwich hospital pension of £100 a year 24 March 1871;
author of Records of a voyage to the Western coast of Africa and
of the service in that station for the suppression of the slave
trade. Edinb. 1833. _d._ Arbroath 2 May 1888.
LEOPOLD, GEORGE CHRISTIAN FREDERICK, king of the Belgians
as Leopold I. (3 son of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of
Saxe-Cobourg 1750–1806). _b._ Cobourg 16 Dec. 1790; came to
England in 1814 and lived in lodgings at a grocer’s at 21 High
st. Marylebone; came to England 20 Feb. 1816; naturalized by act
56 George III. cap. 13, 29 March 1816; granted Claremont house
and grounds for his life. _m._ 2 May 1816 the princess Charlotte
Augusta only child of George IV., she _d._ at Claremont 6 Nov.
1817; G.C.H. 22 March 1816; a general 2 May 1816 and field
marshall 24 May 1816; G.C.B. 23 May 1816; K.G. 23 May 1816; P.C.
1 July 1816; entered into a marriage contract with Karoline
Bauer a German actress 2 July 1829 and lived with her in London
till June 1830 when contract was dissolved; declined the throne
of Greece, May 1830; resided at Claremont till 16 July 1831;
elected king of the Belgians 4 June and ascended the throne 22
July 1831. _m._ (2) 9 Aug. 1832 the princess Louise eld. dau.
of Louis Philippe king of the French, she _d._ 11 Oct. 1850;
the income of £50,000 settled on him in 1816 he continued to
hold after he became king, but after paying for keeping up
Claremont, servants’ pensions, &c. he annually returned the
balance of about £38,000 into the exchequer. _d._ Palace of
Laeken 10 Dec. 1865. _Lady Rose Weigall’s Brief memoir of the
Princess Charlotte_ (1874); _The Princess Charlotte of Wales.
By Mrs. C. R. Jones_ (1885), _portraits_; _Authentic Memoirs of
the princess Charlotte_ (1817) _portrait_; _Memoirs of prince
Leopold_ (1817), _portrait_; _Westminster Review_, _April 1885
pp._ 460–88; _Posthumous memoirs of Karoline Bauer ii_ 34–336
(1884); _Martin’s Life of prince consort_, _ii_ 249 (1876),
_portrait_; _Illustrated Times 30 Dec. 1865 p._ 413, _portrait_.
LEOTARD, MONSIEUR. _b._ Toulouse, France 1 Aug. 1838; performer
on the flying trapèze abroad; introduced the trapèze performance
into England, first appearing at the Alhambra palace, London 20
May 1861; performed at Alhambra again 1866 and reappeared there
9 April 1868; broke his leg performing at Madrid, May 1865;
made his début in America at Academy of Music, New York 29 Oct.
1868, returned to Europe 14 Nov. having made a great failure
in New York. _d._ of small pox at Toulouse about 16 Aug. 1870.
_Memoires de Léotard. Paris_ (1860), _portrait_; _C. Spencer’s
Modern gymnast_ (1866) 102 _etc._
LEPARD, JOHN. Bookseller at 108 Strand, London 1818–20; member
of firm of booksellers known as Lackington, Hughes, Harding,
Mavor and Lepard at the Temple of the Muses, 23 Finsbury place,
London 1820–5; partner with Joseph Harding at 4 Pall Mall east
1825–39; connected with Day & Martin, blacking manufacturers, 97
High Holborn in 1859. _d._ Hampstead 16 Oct. 1878 aged 87.
LEPPINGTON, JOHN CROSBY (son of rev. John C. Leppington _d._
1833). _b._ Sunderland 21 Oct. 1807; ed. at Woodhouse grove
school 1815; preached when quite a child; Wesleyan Methodist
minister at Melton Mowbray 1832; became a supernumerary in
London 1849 refusing to receive any support from the Connexional
funds; wrote much for the Wesleyan Mag.; author of The
confessional in the Church of England, and other essays on the
Anglican controversy 1860. _d._ near London 7 July 1859. _bur._
Highgate cemetery.
LE QUESNE, CHARLES (eld. son of Nicholas Le Quesne a jurat of
the royal court, Jersey, _d._ 1847). _b._ Jersey 1811; a jurat
of the royal court, Jersey 2 July 1850 to death; president of
Jersey chamber of commerce; a member of the states of Jersey;
an officer in Jersey artillery many years; author of Ireland
and the Channel islands, or a remedy for Ireland 1848; A
constitutional history of Jersey 1856. _d._ Gloucester st. St.
Heliers, Jersey 18 Aug. 1856. _bur._ Green st. cemetery 22 Aug.
_J. B. Payne’s Armorial of Jersey_ (1865) 250; _The Jersey
Independent 23 Aug. 1856 p._ 2.
LESCHALLAS, JOHN. Builder at 10 Booth st. Spitalfields, London
to death; resided at Page green, Tottenham, Middlesex, where he
_d._ 18 Oct. 1877 in 86 year; will proved 3 Dec. under £500,000;
left sums of £500 each to 13 hospitals and institutions. _The
Times 7 Dec. 1877 p._ 9.
LESLIE, ARTHUR. _b._ 1817; ensign 8 foot 20 Nov. 1838; captain
40 foot 19 June 1846, lieut.-col. 6 Aug. 1858 to 8 June 1867;
C.B. 2 May 1862. _d._ Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 12 Sep.
1878.
LESLIE, CHARLES (1 son of John Leslie 1772–1854, bishop of
Elphin 1819). _b._ 7 Oct. 1810; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833,
M.A. 1836; incumbent of Drung, co. Cavan; vicar general of
Ardagh to March 1870; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh,
March 1870, consecrated 19 April 1870, enthroned in Kilmore
cathedral 26 May 1870; the first bp. appointed after the
disestablishment of the Irish ch. _d._ the Parsonage house,
Drung, co. Cavan 8 July 1870. _bur._ Kilmore 14 July. _The Times
11 July 1870 p._ 5.
LESLIE, CHARLES JOSEPH (4 son of John Leslie 1751–1828). _b._
1785; ensign 29 foot 18 Dec. 1806; captain 60 rifles 17 May
1820, major 18 Dec. 1828 to 28 Dec. 1832 when placed on h.p.;
K.H. 1836; author of Historical records of the family of Leslie