_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _iv_ 149 (1862); _Illust.
sporting and dramatic news_, _ii_ 107 (1874), _portrait_.
NOTE.--In the Illustrated Sporting News 25 Oct. 1862 p. 276 and 18
April 1866 pp. 501, 504, are portraits of the late John Lillywhite
described as the leviathan of cricket and a player at Lord’s Cricket
ground.
LIMBIRD, JOHN. _b._ 1796; printer, publisher and stationer 143
Strand, London 1823–52, at 11 Exeter Exchange, Strand 1852–4;
engraver and stationer 344 Strand 1854–68; the pioneer of
cheap literature; published a periodical called the ‘Londoner’
(edited by John Humffreys Parry) April 1822, but it only ran
to 5 numbers; projected the ‘Mirror’ (the parent of all weekly
illustrated papers) No. 1 dated 22 Nov. 1822, edited by Thos.
Byerley the ‘Reuben’ of the Percy anecdotes up to his death;
author of Limbird’s Handbook guide to London 1851. _d._ 157
Wandsworth road 30 Oct. 1883. _Bookseller_, _Nov. 1859 p._ 1326.
LIMPUS, RICHARD. _b._ 10 Sep. 1824; studied at R.A. of Music;
organist of Brentford, of St. Andrew, Undershaft, St. Mary Axe,
and of St. Michael’s, Cornhill; founded the College of Organists
in London 1864, secretary to death; professor of music; composed
some sacred and secular music. _d._ 41 Queen sq. Bloomsbury,
London 15 March 1875.
LIND, JOHANNA MARIA, known as Jenny Lind (daughter of Niclas
Jonas Lind, accountant). _b._ Stockholm 6 Oct. 1821; first
appeared at royal theatre, Stockholm 7 March 1838 as Agathe in
Der Freischütz; appointed court singer Jany. 1840 and member of
royal Swedish academy of music; pupil of Manuel Garcia in Paris
1840–2; sang in Sweden and Germany 1843–6; first appeared in
London at Her Majesty’s theatre 4 May 1847 as Alice in Roberto
il Diavolo; sang in 9 operas only during her career in London,
last appeared in opera 18 May 1849; sang in oratorio of Elijah
at Exeter hall 15 Dec. 1848; toured in U.S. of America 1850–2;
founded scholarships, &c. in Sweden with the £20,000 she had
earned in U.S. of A.; sang in Germany, Austria and Holland
1854–5; made a tour in Great Britain 1855–6; sang at concerts
given in aid of charities 1855, 1861, 1863, 1864 and 1866;
chief professor of singing at royal college of music, London
1883–6; last sang in public at the Spa, Malvern 23 July 1883;
she was always known as the Swedish Nightingale, her voice
was a soprano two octaves in compass from D to D. (_m._ at
Boston, U.S. of America 5 Feb. 1852 Otto Goldschmidt, musical
conductor, he was naturalised in England 12 Aug. 1859). She
_d._ Wynds Point, Colwell near Ledbury, Herefordshire 2 Nov.
1887, value of her personalty declared at £40,630. _Rev. H. S.
Holland and W. S. Rockstro’s Memoir of Jenny Lind Goldschmidt 2
vols._ (1891), _portrait_; _Tallis’s Dramatic magazine_ (1850)
5–9, _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song_, _ii_ 330–66
(1863); _H. F. Chorley’s Thirty years musical recollections_,
_i_ 299–312 (1862); _A Review of the performances of Jenny Lind
during her engagement at Her Majesty’s theatre, with a notice
of her life_ (1847), _portrait_; _B. Lumley’s Reminiscences_
(1864); _Memoranda of the life of Jenny Lind. By N. P. Willis.
Philadelphia_ (1851); _Theatre_, _xi_ 1–12 (1888); _H. F.
Tuckerman’s Mental Portraits_ (1853) 125–47; _Ireland’s Records
of the New York stage_, _ii_ 571–2 (1867).
NOTE.--Alfred Bunn engaged Jenny Lind to sing 20 times at Drury Lane in
opera in 1845, she broke her engagement and Bunn brought an action in
the queen’s bench 22 Feb. 1848 laying his damages at £10,000, the jury
gave him £2,500 but Bunn accepted £2,000. _A. Bunn’s The case of Bunn
versus Lind_ (1848).
The other characters in opera she appeared in, in England were, Amina;
Maria in La Figlia; Norma; Amalia in I. Masnadieri; Susanna in Le
Nozzi; Elvira in I. Puritani; and Adina in L’Elisir.
LINDAM, JACOB OLE (2 son of Peder Holger Lindam 1752–99, a
factor in Danish East India company’s service). _b._ India 13
April 1789; ensign 2nd light infantry battalion of the German
legion 17 May 1810, lieut. 8 July 1811, placed on h.p. 24 Feb.
1816; served in the Peninsula 1811–14, distinguished himself at
siege of Bayonne 14 April 1814; severely wounded at battle of
Waterloo; lieut.-col. in Hanoverian army 25 May 1866; decorated
with the Peninsula (five clasps) and Waterloo medals; K.H. May
or June 1818. _d._ Rough Down, Boxmoor, Herts. 20 Dec. 1881.
_Times 11 Jany. 1882 p._ 6.
LINDLEY, JOHN (son of George Lindley of Catton near Norwich,
nurseryman). _b._ Catton 5 Feb. 1799; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.;
agent for a London seed merchant in Belgium 1815; assistant
librarian to sir Joseph Banks in London 1819–22; garden
assistant secretary to Horticultural Soc. 1822, sole assistant
sec. 1826–41, vice sec. 1841–58, member of council and hon.
sec. 1858–62; professor of botany in London Univ. 1829–36,
in Univ. college, London 1836–60, emeritus professor 1860 to
death; lecturer on botany to Apothecaries company at Chelsea
1836–53; took charge of the entire colonial department of the
International exhibition 1862; his name has been given to the
genus Lindleya of the order Rosaceæ; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1828,
royal medallist 1857; edited Collectanea Britannica 1821, eight
numbers; The Botanical Register 1847 etc.; Journal of the
horticultural society 1846–55; chief editor of the Gardener’s
Chronicle 1841 to death; author of Rosarum monographia or a
botanical history of roses 1820; A synopsis of the British flora
1829 vol. 1 only, 3 ed. 1859; An introduction to botany 1832,
4 ed. 2 vols. 1848; Flora medica 1838; Outlines of the first
principles of botany 18--, 6 ed. called Elements of botany 1849;
The vegetable kingdom 1846, 3 ed. 1853; Folia orchidacea 1852–9,
nine parts; Descriptive botany 1858; with W. Hutton The fossil
flora of Great Britain 3 vols. 1831–7; with J. Paxton Paxton’s
Flower garden 3 vols. 1850–3; with T. Moore The treasury of
botany 1866. _d._ Acton Green, Middlesex 1 Nov. 1865, portrait
by Eddis in rooms of Horticultural Soc. _H. Field’s Memoirs of
botanic garden at Chelsea_ (1878) 189–214; _The Naturalist_,
_iv_ 434–42 (1839), _portrait_; _The Gardener’s Chronicle_
(1865) 1058, 1082; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xv_ 30–7 (1867).
LINDLEY, ROBERT (son of Shirley Lindley of Masbro). _b._
Rotherham, Yorkshire 4 March 1776; pupil of Cervetto the
violoncellist 1792; played at Brighton theatre 1792; principal
violoncello at the opera and at all important concerts
1794–1851; the best English performer on the violoncello;
professor of R.A. of Music 1822; composed about 35 solos and
duets for the violoncello, &c.; published A handbook for the
violoncello 1855. _d._ Percy st. Rathbone place, London 13 June