LADBROOKE, John Berney (brother of the preceding). b. 1803; pupil of his uncle John Crome whom he excelled as a painter of woodland scenery; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A., 10 at B.I. and 35 at Suffolk st. 1821–72. d. Kett’s Castle cottage, Mousehold, Norwich 11 July 1879.
LADELL, Edward. b. 1821; a painter of fruit subjects; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1856–80. d. Prospect park, Exeter 9 Nov. 1886.
LADEUIL, Leonard Morel-. b. 1820; sculptor at 13 Camden road, then of St. John’s Wood, London; chevalier de la légion d’honneur; exhibited at R.A. 1865; employed at Messrs. Elkington’s, Birmingham. d. Boulogne 15 March 1888.
LAFFAN, Sir Robert Michael (3 son of John Laffan of Skehana, co. Clare). b. 14 Aug. 1819; 2 lieut. R.E. 5 May 1837, col. 9 Feb. 1870 to 1 Oct. 1877; an inspector of railways under board of trade 1847–52; M.P. St. Ives, Cornwall 1852–7; deputy inspector general of fortifications at the war office 1855–9; commanded R.E. at Malta 1860–65, at Aldershot 1866–70 where the old Queen’s birthday parade has been renamed Laffan’s Plain in his memory, and at Gibraltar 1872–77; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda 9 Aug. 1877 to death; L.G. 1 July 1881; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. Mount Langton, Bermuda 22 March 1882. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. iv 314 (1882); Graphic, xxv 528 (1882), portrait.
LAFONTAINE, Sir Louis Hypolite; 1 Baronet (3 son of Antoine Menard Lafontaine, farmer 1772–1813). b. Boucherville, Lower Canada, Oct. 1807; ed. at Montreal coll. to 1822; called to Toronto bar; a leader of national movement in Canada; arrested on charge of high treason 4 Nov. 1838; went to England as a delegate from constitutional association of Lower Canada 1838; M.P. for North York, Upper Canada 1840–51; attorney general and member of Canadian executive council Sep. 1842 to 28 Nov. 1844 and March 1848 to Oct. 1851; chief justice of court of queen’s bench, Lower Canada 13 Aug. 1853 to death; baronet of the United Kingdom 28 Aug. 1854. d. Toronto, after an apoplectic fit in his court there, 24 Feb. 1864. bur. in R.C. cath. Toronto 29 Feb. L. O. David’s Sir Ls. H. Lafontaine. Montreal (1872), portrait.
Note.—He was the first person of French Canadian extraction who held the highest legal offices in Lower Canada after it became a part of the British empire.
LAGRANGE, Comte Frédéric De (son of general Joseph Lagrange, who d. 1825). b. 1816; kept a stud farm at Dangu in Normandy; won the Goodwood cup with Monarque 1857, also the Newmarket handicap 1858; won the Oaks with Fille de l’Air 1864; won the Two thousand guineas, Derby, Grand prix de Paris and St. Leger with Gladiateur 1865, being the only horse that ever won all four races; refused £16,000 for Gladiateur 1869, sold him for £6000, 1870; sold all his horses at Tattersalls, Nov. 1870 but kept another stud 1872–82; won the One thousand guineas with Camelia 1876; won the Two thousand guineas with Chamant 1877; won the St. Leger with Rayon d’Or 1879. d. at his villa near Paris 22 Nov. 1883. Baily’s Mag. iv 1–5 (1862), portrait; L. H. Curzon’s The blue ribbon of the turf (1890) 142–53, 340; J. Rice’s British Turf, i 343–6 (1879); Illust. Times 10 June 1865 p. 365, portrait of Gladiateur.
LAING, Alexander (son of James Laing, agricultural labourer). b. Brechin, Forfarshire 14 May 1787; a herd boy; a flax dresser 1803–17; a pedlar in Forfarshire 1817–57; known as The Brechin poet; contributed to the Dundee Courier, Harp of Renfrewshire 1819, R. A. Smith’s Scottish Minstrel 1820, Struthers’s Harp of Caledonia 1821, Whitelaw’s Book of Scottish song 1844 and Whistle Binkie 1832–47; edited editions of Robert Burns and of Robert Tannahill; edited The Thistle of Scotland, a selection of ballads. Aberdeen 1823; published his poems entitled Wayside flowers 1846, 3 ed. 1857. d. Brechin 14 Oct. 1857. The poetry of Scottish rural life, a sketch of A. Laing. Brechin (1874); G. Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland, ii 93–98 (1877).
LAING, Allan Stewart (son of James Laing of Isle of Dominica). b. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; barrister M.T. 17 April 1812; magistrate at Hatton Garden police court, London 20 Oct. 1820 to 1837 when removed by the home secretary for his bad temper; is drawn by Dickens in Oliver Twist chapter 11 as Mr. Fang the magistrate. d. 3 Tanfield court, Inner Temple, London 12 Feb. 1862. J. Foster’s Life of C. Dickens, iii 4.
LAING, David (son of Mr. Laing, merchant). b. City of London 1774; articled to sir John Soane 1790; surveyor of buildings at the Custom house 1811, designed a new Custom house built 1813–17, the front fell down 26 Jany. 1825; joint architect with W. Tite of church of St. Dunstan in the East 1817–20, opened 14 Jany. 1821; F.S.A.; published Hints for dwellings 1800, new ed. 1841; Plans of buildings executed in various parts of England, including the Custom house, London, engraved on 59 plates 1818. d. 5 Elm place, West Brompton, London 27 March 1856. G.M. June 1856 p. 650; The Builder 5 April 1856 p. 189.