Brighton 7 Sep. 1875. _Sport in many lands. By H.A.L. 2 vols._
(1879), _memoir vol. i pp. xv–xxxii_, _portrait_; _Illust. sp.
and dr. news_, _iii_ 585, 587 (1875), _portrait_.
LEVETT, JOHN. _b._ Battersea, Surrey 1 June 1826; ran John
Tetlow of Hollingwood 4 miles for £50, Hyde Park, Sheffield 16
March 1852; ran George Frost the Suffolk stag for £100, the
championship and belt, Copenhagen grounds, Islington 22 March
1852 running 10 miles and 252 yards in 52 min. 35 sec.; won the
20 mile race at Copenhagen grounds 29 March 1852; ran Richard
Manks the Warwickshire Antelope for £50 at Hyde park, Sheffield
3 Dec. 1855 eleven miles in 1 hour; one of best known long
distance runners; sprained his tendon Achilles about 1861 and
had to give up running; a trainer of pedestrians; wrote a series
of papers on How to train, in Illust. Sport. News 1862; wrote
a farce produced at Queen’s Royal theatre, Dublin, in which he
himself appeared 1861. _Illust. Sporting News_ (1862) 53, 100, 2
_portraits_.
LEVEY, GEORGE. _b._ at place afterwards known as Westward
Ho, Devon 12 Oct. 1802; member of firm of Levey, Robson and
Franklyn, printers at 46 St. Martin’s lane, London 1836–41, then
at 24 Great New st. 1841–64, carried on business alone at same
address 1864–70, afterwards at 1 and 2 West Harding st. 1870 to
death; author of Specimens of printing types in office of Levey,
Robson and Franklyn 1850, in 20 languages. _d._ Camberwell 2
Feb. 1873.
LEVEY, JOHN (youngest son of Richard Michael Levey of Dublin).
An Irish character actor; dramatist; author of many pantomimes
played in Yorkshire and Lancashire; lessee of several theatres.
_d._ Seaforth, Liverpool 17 Sep. 1891. _bur._ in ground of R.C.
chapel, Crosby.
LEVI, LEONE (2 son of Isaac Levi a Jewish merchant at Ancona).
_b._ Ancona 6 June 1821; entered office of his brother a
merchant 1836; merchant at Liverpool 1844–7; naturalised 16
Jany. 1847; clerk in a mercantile house at Liverpool; advocated
chambers of commerce; hon. sec. of Liverpool chamber of commerce
1849; lectured in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and elsewhere
1851–2; professor of principles and practice of commerce at
King’s college, London 1852 to death; fellow of Statistical
Soc. 1851, member of council 1860, vice pres. 1885; F.S.A. 14
Dec. 1854; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; a knight of the Italian
orders of SS. Mauritius and Lazarus and of the Crown of Italy;
became a member of Presbyterian church in England about 1846;
author of Commercial law, its principles and administration
2 vols. 1851–2, 2nd ed. entitled International commercial law
2 vols. 1863; The law of nature and nations as affected by
divine law 1855; Annals of British legislation 18 vols. 1856–68;
History of British commerce and of the economic progress of the
British nation 1763–1870. 1872, 2 ed. 1880. _d._ 31 Highbury
grove, Highbury, London 7 May 1888. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 12
May. _L. Levi’s The story of my life. Privately printed_ (1888);
_Journal of royal statistical soc. li_ 340–2 (1888); _I.L.N.
xxvi_ 653, 654 (1855), _portrait_; _London Figaro 19 May 1888
p._ 11, _portrait_; _Law Journal_, _xxiii_ 259 (1888).
LEVICKE, HENRY. The first European who took up his permanent
abode at Suez 1846; pioneer of the mail service through Egypt;
assisted lieut. Waghorn in arranging overland route 1845, often
accompanied the dromedary mail across the desert; the first
English acting vice-consul at Suez 1839 to June 1851; packet
agent and postmaster to Her Majesty and agent to the H.E.I.Co.;
the government ignored his claim to a pension for 41 years
service. _d._ Dieppe, Oct. 1887. _bur._ there 28 Oct., left a
widow and 22 children.
LEVIEN, EDWARD (1 son of John Levien of Marylebone). _b._ 1819;
ed. Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846;
connected with univ. of Glasgow; assistant in MS. department,
British museum 6 May 1850 to 1874; hon. sec. of British Archæol.
Association, editor of the Annual Proceedings and writer of many
papers in the Journal; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1858; author of A brief
description of the town of Hadleigh in Suffolk 1853; Outlines
of the history of Greece by W. D. Hamilton and E. Levien 1853;
Outlines of the history of Rome 2 vols. 1855–6, never finished;
Memoirs of Socrates for English readers, with notes 1872. _d._
24 Camden st. London 7 Nov. 1874. _Journal British Archæol.
Assoc. xxi_ 229 (1875).
LEVINGE, SIR RICHARD GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 7 Baronet (eld. son of
Sir Richard Levinge, 6 baronet 1765–1848). _b._ 1 Nov. 1811;
ensign 43 foot 25 Nov. 1828, lieut. 8 April 1834; served in
suppression of Canadian rebellion 1837–8; placed on h.p. with
rank of captain 15 May 1840; captain 5 dragoon guards 27 Jany.
1843, sold out same day; lieut.-col. of Westmeath militia 3
Jany. 1846 to 22 Aug. 1850; sheriff of Westmeath 1851; contested
Westmeath 22 July 1852 and 13 Feb. 1874; M.P. for Westmeath 1857
to 1865; author of Echoes from the backwoods, or sketches of
transatlantic life 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1859; Historical notices
of the Levinge family. Ledestown 1853; A day with the Brookside
harriers at Brighton 1858; Historical records of the forty third
regiment Monmouthshire light infantry 1868. _d._ Brussels 28
Sep. 1884.
LEVY, AMY (2 dau. of Lewis Levy of London). _b._ 16 Percy
place, Clapham road, Surrey 1862; ed. at Brighton and Newnham
coll. Camb. 1880–81; wrote poetry at 12 years of age; a writer
in Dublin Univ. Mag., Temple Bar, Atalanta, London Society,
The Jewish Chronicle, &c.; author of Xantippe and other verse.
Cambridge 1881; A minor poet and other verses 1884; The romance
of a shop 1888; Reuben Sachs 1888; A London plane tree and other
verse 1889; Miss Meredith 1889; translated Jean Baptiste Pérès’
brochure Comme quoi Napoléon n’a jamais existé, Paris 1876
under title of Historic doubts or the non-existence of Napoleon
proved. Edited by Lily 1885; committed suicide by inhaling fumes
of charcoal at her father’s residence, 7 Endsleigh gardens,
London 10 Sep. 1889, cremated at Woking 13 Sep., ashes _bur._
Balls Pond cemetery 15 Sep. _The Jewish Chronicle 13 Sep. 1889
p._ 6 _and 20 Sep. p._ 7; _The Woman’s World_, _Nov. 1889 pp._
51–2, _portrait_; _Universal Review_, _April 1890 pp._ 492–507.
LEVY, JOHN. _b._ 1805; a journalist many years; called to Irish
bar 1845; reported for Irish Jurist, Irish Law Reports and Irish
Law Times; author of The law and practice of bankruptcy and
insolvency. Dublin 4 ed. 1862; fell down dead in Dame st. Dublin
17 May 1870.
LEVY, JOSEPH MOSES (son of Moses Lionel Levy _d._ 1830 aged
65). _b._ London 15 Dec. 1812; ed. at Bruce Castle school and
in Germany; printer in Shoe lane, Fleet st. London; chief
proprietor of the Sunday Times 1855–6, conducted it 1855–6;
took over the Daily Telegraph from Col. B. W. A. Sleigh and
issued it at a penny 17 Sep. 1855, being the first London daily
penny paper, managed the paper to his death. _d._ Florence
cottage, Ramsgate 12 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Balls Pond cemet. London,
personalty over £525,000.
LEWELLIN, _Llewelyn_ (son of Richard Lewellin of Coyty,
Glamorganshire). _b._ 1799; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar
1821–6; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1829; master of the
schools Oxf. 1825–26; preb. of St. David’s 1827; principal of
St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827 to death; V. of Pembryn,
Cardiganshire 1832; V. of Lampeter 15 Oct. 1833 to death;
sinecure R. of Llangelen 1843 to death; dean of St. David’s 26
March 1840 to death, the last non-resident dean; author of Reply
to N. Davies’s Notes on the cathedral church of St. David’s
1853, 2 ed. 1853. _d._ about 30 Nov. 1878.
LEWES, CHARLES LEE (eld. son of the succeeding). _b._ 1843;
ed. at Hofwyl, Switzerland; clerk in the Post Office, London,
Aug. 1860 to Oct. 1886; one of the secretaries of Hampstead
Heath extension committee, which raised £52,000 for purchase of
Parliament hill 1887; member of the first London county council
for the St. Pancras district 7 Jany. 1889 to death; contributed
to Nineteenth Century and Blackwood’s Mag.; residuary legatee
of “George Eliot” 1880 and owner of the copyright of all her
works and those of his father; edited Essays and leaves from a
note book, by George Eliot 1884; translator of In the year ’13,
a tale of Mecklenburg life by Fritz Reuter 1867; Emilia Galotti
by G. E. Lessing 1868; Count Bismarck by L. Bamberger 1869. _d._
Luxor, Egypt 26 Feb. 1891.
LEWES, GEORGE HENRY (grandson of Charles Lee Lewes, actor
1740–1803). _b._ London 18 April 1817; ed. in London, Jersey,
Brittany and at Greenwich; in a notary’s office; employed by
a Russian merchant; a medical student a short time; visited
Germany 1838; appeared at the Whitehall theatre in Garrick’s
comedy The Guardian 1841, played in Dickens’ amateur company
1848, played Shylock 1849; acted in his own tragedy The Noble
Heart, at the Olympic Feb. 1850 and in the provinces 1850;
wrote many articles in the quarterly reviews; wrote The game of
speculation, produced at Lyceum 2 Oct. 1851 and 9 other plays
produced at Lyceum, all written under pseudonyms of Slingsby
Lawrence and Frank Churchill; founded with T. L. Hunt The
Leader 1850, editor for literary subjects to July 1854. _m._ 18
Feb. 1841 Agnes eld. dau. of Swynfen Stevens Jervis, M.P. for
Bridport, he left her in July 1854 and went to Germany with Mary
Ann Evans known as “George Eliot,” he passed as her husband for
the rest of his life; edited Fortnightly Review, May 1865 to
Dec. 1866; lived at the Priory, St. John’s Wood, London 1863
to death; author of The life of Maximilien Robespierre 1845;
A biographical history of philosophy 4 vols. 1845–6, 5 ed. 1
vol. 1880; The Spanish drama, Lope de Vega and Calderon 1846;
Rose, Blanche and Violet 3 vols. 1848; The life and works of
Goethe 2 vols. 1855; Studies in animal life 1862; Problems of
life and mind 5 vols. 1874–9; Our actors and the art of acting