Note.—He first appears in Gillray’s prints in 1805. His personalty was sworn under £350,000, 20 June 1863.
LANSDOWNE, Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 4 Marquess of (2 son of the preceding). b. Lansdowne house, London 5 Jany. 1816; ed. Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.; known as lord Henry Petty Fitzmaurice 1818–36 and as earl of Shelburne 1836–63; M.P. Calne 1837–56; lieut. Wiltshire yeomanry 23 Jany. 1837, lieut.-col. 3 May 1861 to death; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Dec. 1847 to Aug. 1848; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 5 July 1856 to 26 Feb. 1858; summoned to house of lords in his father’s barony of Wycombe 11 July 1856; chairman of Great Western railway 1859–63; succeeded his father as 4 Marquess 31 Jany. 1863; K.G. 10 Oct. 1864. d. Lansdowne house, 54 Berkeley square, London 5 July 1866. I.L.N. xl 175 (1862), portrait.
LANWARNE, Nicholas. Admitted attorney and solicitor 1833; practised at Hereford 1833 to death; clerk to the Hereford union 1837 and to Dore union 1842 to death; coroner for Herefordshire 1838 to death; clerk to the Dore magistrates 1859 to death; one of the charity trustees for city of Hereford to death. d. The Vineyard near Hereford, midnight 10 Dec. 1864 aged 54.
LANYON, Sir Charles (son of John Jenkinson Lanyon of Eastbourne). b. Eastbourne 6 Jany. 1813; articled to Jacob Owen of Dublin, civil engineer; county surveyor of Kildare 1835, of co. Antrim 1836–60; made the Belfast and Ballymena railway, the Carrickfergus and Larne and other railways; architect of the Queen’s college, the court-house and other public buildings in Belfast; mayor of Belfast 1862; M.P. Belfast 1866–68, contested Belfast 1868; pres. of Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland 1862–8; knighted by duke of Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868; sheriff of co. Antrim 1876; provincial grand master of Antrim. d. The Abbey, White Abbey near Belfast 31 May 1889. R. F. Gould’s History of freemasonry, iv 388 (1885), portrait.
Note.—His second son Charles Mortimer Lanyon b. Belfast 1840; ed. at Bromsgrove and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1863; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1865. d. London 27 Feb. 1877. Law Times 31 March 1877 p. 397.
LANYON, Sir William Owen (3 son of the preceding). b. co. Antrim 21 July 1842; ed. at Bromsgrove gr. sch.; ensign 6 foot 21 Dec. 1860; lieut. 2 West India regiment 11 Jany. 1867, lieut.-col. 2 Feb. 1878, placed on h.p. 1 Jany. 1883; A.D.C. and private sec. to sir John Peter Grant, governor of Jamaica 1868–73; A.D.C. to sir Garnet Wolseley in Ashantee campaign Oct. 1873 to 20 Jany. 1874 when invalided; went to the Gold Coast on a special mission 1874; administrator of Griqualand West 1 Sep. 1875 to April 1880, raised a volunteer force which he led against a Ratlapin chief named Botlasitsie, whom he defeated in ten actions and subdued 1878; colonel in the army 11 Nov. 1878; administrator of the Transvaal 21 April 1880 to 8 Aug. 1881; col. on the staff in Egypt 1882 and 1885; A.A. and Q.M.G. Southern district of England 1883–5 and in Egypt 19 Feb. to 8 May 1885; C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, K.C.M.G. 6 April 1880; C.B. 11 Nov. 1878. d. New York 6 April 1887. The Graphic, xxiii 217 (1881), portrait; The London Figaro 16 April 1887 p. 3, portrait.
LANZA, Gesualdo (son of Giuseppe Lanza, musical composer). b. Naples 1779; a singing master in London; music seller at Chesterfield st. Pancras New road, bankrupt 27 Aug. 1830; opened singing classes at 75 Newman st. 1842; taught Miss M. Tree, Miss Stephens, Miss Bolton and Mrs. Donald King; author of The desert of Arabia, an operatical entertainment written by F. Reynolds 1806; The elements of singing in the Italian and English styles 3 vols. 1809; The elements of singing familiarly explained 1813; Grand messa di gloria 1835; Sunday evening recreations 1840; Signor Lanza’s New method of teaching class singing 1843, and upwards of 30 pieces of music. d. London 12 March 1859. bur. Highgate cemet. His daughter Rosalie Lanza was a well known operatic singer.
LAPHAM, George. b. Bath 1804; assistant to William Hone, publisher 1822–5; publisher of The Examiner 1826 to death. d. 9 Wellington st. Strand, London 10 Oct. 1871.
LAPIDGE, Edward (son of Mr. Lapidge, chief gardener at Hampton Court palace). Architect in London; built bridge over the Thames at Kingston 1825–8, church of St. Peter, Hammersmith 1827–9, chapel of St. Andrew on Ham Common, Surrey 1832; competed for new houses of parliament 1836 and for Fitzwilliam museum Cambridge 1836; surveyor of bridges and public works for Surrey; F.I.B.A. d. March 1860.
LAPILETIERE, Frances Mary De (dau. of Hugh Goldicutt). b. Bury st. St. James’, London 27 Aug. 1788. (m. V. C. J. De Lapiletiere). d. at her residence, Worthing 3 Dec. 1891 in 104th year.