NOTE.--Having insured his life for £200 in the Equitable Society at
the age of 36 namely in 1803, the bonuses at his death had raised the
policy to £1292 10s., the largest addition ever paid by the Equitable
or probably by any other Insurance company.
LUNN, JOSEPH. _b._ 1784; an original member of the Dramatic
Authors’ Society; his chief plays were The sorrows of Werther,
a burlesque, Covent Garden 6 May 1818, revived at St. James’s
13 Oct. 1836; Family Jars, a farce, Haymarket 26 Aug. 1822;
Fish out of water, a farce 26 Aug. 1823; Hide and Seek, petit
opera 22 Oct. 1824, revived at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1830; Roses
and Thorns or two houses under one roof, comedy 24 Aug. 1825;
Lunn’s Management or the prompter puzzled, a comic interlude 29
Sep. 1828, all these four were produced at Haymarket; author of
Horæ Jocosæ, or the doggerel Decameron 1823. _d._ Grand parade,
Brighton 12 Dec. 1863.
LUNN, WILLIAM ARTHUR BROWN. Invented sequential system of
musical notes 1844; published under pseudonym of Arthur
Wallbridge, Bizarre fables 1842; The sequential system of
musical notation, a new method of writing music 1844, 6 ed. with
his name 1873; Torrington hall, an account of two days passed at
that establishment for the insane 1845; The council of four, a
game at definitions 1848; Miscellanies, consisting of jest and
earnest 1851; The Wallbridge miscellanies 1874, 3 ed. 1877. _d._
London 4 April 1879.
LUPTON, JAMES (son of James Lupton of York). _b._ 1800;
matriculated from Ch. Ch. Oxf. as a servitor 7 July 1819, B.A.
1823, M.A. 1825; V. of Blackbourton, Oxon. 1827 to death; minor
canon of St. Paul’s cath. 1829 to death and of Westminster
abbey 1829 to death; R. of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe, London
1832 to death; editor of The Temple by G. Herbert, with a life
of the author 1865; The poetical works of A. Pope, with life
of the author 1867; Gulliver’s Travels edited by A Clergyman