LANGLEY, Edward (son of Mr. Langley who lived to be 93, by his wife who lived to be 105). b. 1763; a surgeon at Riseley, Beds. 1803–28 when he retired. d. St. John st. Bedford 25 Jany. 1859 aged 96.
Note.—His mother’s father lived to be 103, and her grandfather 100.
LANGRIDGE, George David. b. Kent 1829; emigrated to Australia; represented Collingwood in legislative assembly of Victoria 1874 to death; comr. of public works Aug. 1880 to July 1881; comr. of trade and customs March 1883 to Feb. 1886; chief secretary and minister of customs Nov. 1890 to death. d. Melbourne 24 March 1891.
LANGSLOW, Robert. Barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1823; attorney general of Malta 5 July 1832 to Nov. 1838 when granted pension of £300 on abolition of the office; judge of district court of Colombo No. 1 South, Ceylon 8 June 1840, suspended from his office for dilatoriness in discharge of his duty 11 Dec. 1843, removed July 1844; was residing 6 Powis place, Bloomsbury, London in 1846. d. New Inn, London 9 Dec. 1853. In the privy council. Petition from R. Langslow late judge of district court of Colombo (1847).
LANGSTON, James Haughton. b. 1797; M.P. Woodstock 1820–26; M.P. Oxford 1826 to 30 Dec. 1834 and 1841 to death; sheriff of co. Oxford 1819. d. Sarsden house, Chipping Norton, Oxon. 19 Oct. 1863.
LANGTON, William (son of Thomas Langton of Liverpool, Russian merchant, d. 1838). b. Farfield near Addingham, Yorkshire 17 April 1803; engaged in business at Liverpool 1821–9; employed in Messrs. Heywoods’ bank, Manchester 1829–54; managing director of Manchester and Salford bank 1854 to Oct. 1876; one of the 3 founders of Manchester Athenæum 1836, to which a marble medallion bust of him was presented 1881; an original member of Chetham Society 1843, treasurer, afterwards hon. sec. to 1869, edited for the society Chetham Miscellanies 3 vols. 1851–56–62, Lancashire Inquisitiones post mortem 2 vols. 1875 and Benalt’s Visitation of Lancashire 1533, 2 vols. 1876–82; a memorial Langton scholarship was founded in his honour at Owen’s college, Manchester at cost of £5000 in 1876 or 1877. d. Ingatestone, Essex 29 Sep. 1881. bur. Fryerning churchyard, Essex. Publications of Chetham Society, vol. cx, memoir pp. iii–x, portrait.
LANGWORTHY, Edward Ryley. b. 1796; mayor of Salford 1848–9 and 1850–1; a trustee of Manchester gram. sch. 1849; chief founder of Salford free library, the first established under Ewart’s act, and gave to it £6000, 1854; M.P. Salford 2 Feb. to 21 March 1857. d. Victoria park, Manchester 7 April 1874, personalty sworn under £1,200,000 13 June 1874.
Note.—Left £10,000 to build a wing to the Peel park museum which was opened 14 Aug. 1878; £10,000 to Owen’s college and £20,000 to the grammar school.
LANKESTER, Edwin (son of Wm. Lankester of Melton near Woodbridge, Suffolk, builder). b. Melton 23 April 1814; studied at London univ. 1834–7; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. Heidelberg 1839; practised in London from 1839; sec. of the Ray Society 1844; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1845; professor of natural history in New College, London 1850; lecturer on anatomy and physiology at Grosvenor place school of medicine 1853; joint editor of Quarterly Journal of microscopical science 1853–71, pres. of Microscopical Soc. of London 1859; examiner in botany to science and art department 1862; superintendent of food collection at South Kensington museum 1858–62; medical officer of health for parish of St. James, Westminster 1856 to death; coroner for Central Middlesex 9 July 1862 to death, his annual reports are printed in the Journal of Social Science which he founded 1865 and edited 1865 to death; author of An account of Askern and its mineral springs 1842; Half hours with the microscope [by E. L.] 1859, 4 ed. 1873; The use of animals as applied to the industry of man 1860, four numbers; Vegetable physiology 1869; Dr. Lankester’s Sanitary handbills 1870, three numbers; A school manual of health, being an introduction to physiology 1868, 6 ed. 1876; Haydn’s Dictionary of medicine and hygiene, ed. by E. Lankester 1874, new ed. 1878. d. Margate 30 Oct. 1874. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1867) 47–51, portrait; Nature, xi 15–16 (1875); I.L.N. xli 100 (1862), portrait; Graphic, x 463, 465 (1874), portrait.
LANSDOWNE, Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3 Marquess of (younger son of 1 marquess of Lansdowne 1737–1805). b. Shelburne (now Lansdowne) house, 54 Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1780; known as lord Henry Petty 1784–1809; ed. at Westminster sch. at Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1801, LLD. 1811; M.P. Calne 1802–6; M.P. univ. of Camb. 1806–7; M.P. Camelford 1807–9; chancellor of the exchequer 10 Feb. 1806 to 31 March 1807; P.C. 5 Feb. 1806; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marquess 15 Nov. 1809, and his cousin as 4 Earl of Kerry 4 July 1818; sec. of state for home department 16 July 1827 to 26 Jany. 1828; lord pres. of the council 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Dec. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841 and 6 July 1846 to 27 Feb. 1852; leader of opposition in house of lords 1841–6; F.R.S. 4 April 1811; K.G. 5 Feb. 1836; refused the premiership 1852; held a seat in the cabinet without office Dec. 1852 to March 1858; many of his speeches were printed 1806 etc. d. Bowood park, Calne, Wilts. 31 Jany. 1863. Men of the time: British statesmen. (1854) 44–69; H. Martineau’s Biog. sketches 4 ed. (1876) 91–9; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, v (1834), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, i 14 (1846), portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain, ii 143–53 (1854), iii 156–67 (1854); Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 171, portrait; Hayward’s Essays, ii 303–19 (1870); Illustrated Times 14 Feb. 1863 p. 109, portrait.