LARKING, Lambert Blackwell (brother of the preceding). b. Clare house, East Malling, Kent 2 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton 1808–16 and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; founded University lodge of freemasons 1819; C. of East Peckham near Tunbridge 1820; V. of Ryarsh near Maidstone 14 April 1830 to death; V. of Burham near Rochester 28 Jany. 1837 to death; hon. sec. of Kent Archæological soc. 19 Sep. 1857 to 1861, vice pres. 1861; wrote many articles in the Archæologia Cantiana; member of council of Camden Soc. 1852 to death, ed. for the soc. Certain considerations upon the government of England by Sir R. Twysden 1849, The knights hospitallers 1857 and Proceedings in the county of Kent 1862; author of The late Thomas Streatfield 1861; A description of the heartshrine in Leybourne church 1864; with rev. T. Streatfield collected materials for a history of Kent, the first part called Hasted’s History of Kent corrected, enlarged and continued. Ed. by H. H. Drake Part 1 The hundred of Blackheath was published in 1886 with portrait of L. B. Larking. d. Ryarsh vicarage 2 Aug. 1868. Archæologia Cantiana, vii 323–29 (1868).
LARPENT, Sir George Gerard De Hochepied-, 1 Baronet (youngest son of John Larpent 1741–1824, inspector of plays). b. London 16 Feb. 1786; entered East India house of Cockerell and Larpent; took additional name of De Hochepied by r.l. 14 June 1819; chairman of Oriental and China Assoc.; deputy chairman of St. Katharine’s Docks co.; contested Ludlow, May 1840 and Nottingham, April 1841; M.P. Nottingham 28 June 1841 to July 1842; contested city of London 1847; created baronet 13 Oct. 1841; edited The Private Journals of Francis Seymour Larpent 3 vols. 1853, 3 ed. 1853; and Turkey, its history and progress by Sir J. Porter, continued to the present time 1854; author of Some remarks on the negotiations between the board of control and the East India Co. 1833. d. Conduit st. Regent st. London 8 March 1855.
LASCELLES, Edwin (4 son of 2 earl of Harewood 1767–1841). b. 25 Dec. 1799; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1822 to death; B.C.L. 1826, D.C.L. 1831; barrister I.T. 10 Feb. 1826; contested Northallerton, Yorkshire 1841; M.P. Ripon 1846–57; chairman of quarter sessions of West riding of Yorkshire to death. d. Wighill park near Wetherby, Yorkshire 25 April 1865.
LASCELLES, William Saunders Sebright (3 son of 2 earl of Harewood 1767–1841). b. 29 Oct. 1798; M.P. Northallerton 1820–26, 1831–32; M.P. East Looe 1826–30; M.P. Wakefield 1837–41, 1842–47; M.P. Knaresborough 1847 to death; P.C. 22 July 1847; comptroller of H.M.’s household 24 July 1847 to death. d. Bute house, Campden hill, Kensington 2 July 1851. G.M. xxxvi 193–4 (1851); I.L.N. xix 42 (1851).
LASLETT, William Emerson (only son of Thomas Emerson Laslett). b. 1801; solicitor at Worcester 1831–52; barrister I.T. 30 April 1856; practised at Worcester; M.P. Worcester city 1852–60 and 1868–74; contested East Worcestershire 1868 and 1874; gave 25 acres of land in Astwood road, Worcester for a public cemetery; founded by his will Laslett’s Almshouses 33 in number in Whiteladies’ close, Worcester; gave estates of 2,000 acres in Gloucestershire valued at £85,000 in trust for religious and charitable purposes. d. Abberton hall, Pershore 26 Jany. 1884. I.L.N. xxxii 561, 562 (1858), portrait.
LASSELL, William (son of Mr. Lassell of Bolton, d. 1810). b. Bolton 18 June 1799; apprenticed to a Liverpool merchant 1814–21; a brewer about 1825; commenced constructing reflecting telescopes 1820; built an observatory at Starfield near Liverpool, which he moved to Bradstones near there 1854; invented a new machine for grinding specula; member of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1839, pres. 1870–2, discovered the satellites of Uranus 10 Oct. 1846; received gold medal of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1849; the first to clearly ascertain composition of the Uranian system; mounted a four-foot reflecting telescope at Valetta in Malta 1861, worked there 3 years and catalogued 600 new nebulæ; set up a two-foot reflector at Ray lodge near Maidenhead 1865; F.R.S. 7 June 1849, royal medallist 1858; F.R.S. Edin.; hon. LL.D. Cambridge 1874; his specula have never been surpassed; ranks with sir Wm. Herschel and lord Rosse among the perfecters of the reflecting telescope. d. in his sleep at Ray Lodge, Maidenhead 5 Oct. 1880. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxi 7–10 (1881); Wallich’s Eminent men of the day (1870), portrait No. 13; Nature, xxii 565–6 (1880).
LAST, Edward. Ensign 90 foot 13 Oct. 1814; captain 99 foot 22 May 1829, major 18 Oct. 1839; lieut.-col. 21 foot 26 March 1858 to 21 Oct. 1859 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 5 Sep. 1865. d. East Malling near Maidstone 27 Jany. 1870.
LAST, Joseph William. b. 1809; printer at 3 Edward st. Hampstead road, London 1834–8; bankrupt 1 March 1839; printer at 3 Crane court, Fleet st. 1840–3, at 59 West Smithfield 1847–50, at 1 Pickett place, Strand 1851–2, at Savoy st. Strand 1861–3, at Heathcock court, 414 Strand 1866–9, at Prince’s st. Lincoln’s Inns Fields 1869–72; J. W. Last and Co. carried on business at last address 1873–7 and at Wych court, Wych st. 1877–80; printer and proprietor of a weekly paper entitled The Town, a journal of original essays, &c. 156 numbers 3 June 1837 to 23 May 1840; The Crown, another weekly paper 42 numbers 1 July 1838 to 14 April 1839; The Squib: a granulation of wit, satire and amusement 30 numbers 29 May to 17 Dec. 1842; printed Punch, first number published 17 July 1841, held a third share in it, which he sold to Ebenezer Landells 25 Sep. 1841; managing printer of Illustrated London News 1842; one of the first who executed illustrated works with a cylinder machine, and the first to print a six-sheet poster. d. last week of March 1880. Mr. Punch, his origin and career [1870] 13–32.
LATCHFORD, Benjamin. Bridle, bit, stirrup and spur maker to the Queen at 11 Upper St. Martin’s lane, London 1844. d. Walton on Naze 20 June 1886 aged 93.
LATEY, John Lash. b. Tiverton 14 June 1808; wrote in North Devon newspapers; contributed to Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper 1842; wrote in first number of Illust. London News 14 May 1842, editor 1858 to 31 Dec. 1890; author of The ballot 1839; The pattern book of letters for working people 1840. d. 11 North villas, Camden sq. London 6 Jany. 1891. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 224, portrait; I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p. 38, portrait.