Treasures of art_, _iii_ 260–65 (1854).
NOTE.--He is the original of Lord Colchicum in Thackeray’s Pendennis
and of Lord Eskdale in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby.
LONSDALE, HENRY LOWTHER, 3 Earl of (1 son of Henry Cecil
Lowther, M.P. 1790–1867). _b._ London 27 March 1818; ed. at
Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; styled Henry
Lowther 1836–72; cornet 1 life guards 24 Sep. 1841, capt. 9
March 1849, sold out 1 Dec. 1854; M.P. West Cumberland 1847–72;
hon. col. Cumberland rifle volunteers 16 Aug. 1862; hon. col.
Cumberland militia 24 Feb. 1868 to death; lord lieut. of
Cumberland and Westmoreland 2 Dec. 1868 to death; succeeded
his uncle as 3 earl 4 March 1872; lieut.-col. Westmoreland and
Cumberland yeomanry 11 May 1872; steward of the Jockey club 1844
and 1845; won many cups at Newmarket, Goodwood and Stamford;
a regular huntsman, lest his horses should be misused after
he had done with them, he always shot them. _d._ Whitehaven
castle, Cumberland 15 Aug. 1876. _Athenæum 21 Feb. 1874 pp._
260–3; _Baily’s Mag. viii_ 219–21 (1864), _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xiv_ 204 (1876), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_ 208, 213 (1876),
_portrait_.
LONSDALE, ST. GEORGE HENRY LOWTHER, 4 Earl of (1 son of the
preceding). _b._ Wilton crescent, London 4 Oct. 1855; ed. at
Eton; styled viscount Lowther 1872–76; succeeded as 4 earl 15
Aug. 1876; hon. col. Cumberland militia 3 March 1877; vice
admiral Cumberland and Westmoreland, March 1877; master of
the Cottesmore hounds 2 years; kept a racing stud, Pilgrimage
won the 2000 and 1000 guineas in 1878. _d._ 14 Carlton house
terrace, London 8 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Lowther ch. 14 Feb.
_Graphic_, _xxv_ 220 (1882), _portrait_; _Illust. sport. and
dram. news_, _xvi_ 549, 563 (1882), _portrait_.
LONSDALE, EDWARD FRANCIS. M.R.C.S. 1834, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; one
of founders of Institution for Cure of club feet, afterwards the
Royal orthopædic hospital, 6 Bloomsbury sq. 1838, and surgeon
there; member Med. & Chir. Soc. 1844; a skilful surgeon in
orthopædic cases; author of A practical treatise on fractures
1838; Observations on the treatment of lateral curvature of the
spine 1847, 2 ed. 1852. _d._ 26 Montague st. Russell sq. London
11 Sep. 1857. _Proc. R. Med. & Chir. Soc. ii_ 50 (1858).
LONSDALE, HENRY (son of Henry Lonsdale, tradesman). _b._
Carlisle 1816; studied medicine at univ. of Edinb. and in
Paris; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; M.D. Edinb. 1838; partner with
Robert Knox in Edinb. 1840–5; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1841; physician
to royal public dispensary, Edinb. 1841–5, where he introduced
use of cod-liver oil; practised at Carlisle from 1846, phys. to
Cumberland infirmary 1846–68; the friend of Mazzini, Kossuth
and Garibaldi; author of A biographical sketch of William
Blamire formerly M.P. for Cumberland 1862; The life and works
of Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson, sculptor 1866; The worthies of
Cumberland 6 vols. 1867–75; A sketch of the life and writings of
Robert Knox the anatomist 1870. _d._ Rosehill, Carlisle 23 July
1876.
LONSDALE, JAMES GYLBY (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1788–1867).
_b._ Clapham, London 14 Oct. 1816; ed. at Laleham sch. and at
Eton, Newcastle scholar March 1843; scholar of Balliol coll.
Oxf. 29 Nov. 1833, fellow 1838–64, tutor 1840; B.A. 1837, M.A.
1840; a student of L.I. 1838; chaplain to bishop of Gibraltar
1842–7; chaplain to bishop of Lichfield 1847–67; tutor in univ.
of Durham 1851–6; professor of classical literature at King’s
coll. London 1865–70; R. of South Luffenham, Rutland 1870–3; R.
of Huntspill, Somerset 1873–8; author with Samuel Lee of The
works of Virgil rendered into English prose 1871; The works of
Horace rendered into English prose 1873. _d._ Bath 25 April
1892, memorial tablet in Balliol college chapel. _R. Duckworth’s
Memoir of J. G. Lonsdale_ (1893), _portrait_.
LONSDALE, JAMES JOHN (2 son of James Lonsdale the artist
1777–1839). _b._ 5 April 1810; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1836; sec.
to criminal law commission 1842; recorder of Folkestone 5 Aug.
1847 to death; judge of circuit No. 11 West Riding of Yorkshire
14 Feb. 1855 to 19 March 1867; judge of circuit No. 48 Kent 19
March 1867 to March 1884; author of The statute criminal law of
England 1839; The odes of Horace. Book 1 a verse translation