LAWSON, William John. Ed. at Christ’s hospital, London till 16 years old; clerk in banking house of Barclay, Bevan & Co. 15 years; a founder of The Bank of London 1855; established Lawson’s Merchant’s magazine, statist and commercial review 1852; author of History of banking in Scotland 1845; The history of banking 1850, 2 ed. 1855; A handy-book on the law of banking 1859, this work was suppressed and 1500 copies destroyed, 16th thousand of an altered edition 1871; The bank of England as it is and as it ought to be 1865; living in London in March 1865.
LAWTON, George. b. Manchester, Feb. 1808; a scholar in Bennett st. Sunday sch., a teacher, a superintendent, senior visitor and manager March 1848 to death; librarian Manchester mechanics’ institution 1832–45; collector of Manchester royal infirmary 1845 to death; director of Mechanics’ institution 1850. d. Stretford, Manchester 7 Sep. 1853. G. Milner’s ed. of B. Braidley’s Bennett st. memorials. Manchester (1880) 194–228, portrait.
LAWTON, George. b. York 6 May 1779; admitted a proctor 3 Nov. 1808; a solicitor and notary public at York to 1863; registrar of archdeaconry of East Riding of Yorkshire; author of The Marriage act 4 George IV. c. 76, 1823; A brief treatise of Bona Notabilia 1825; Collectio rerum ecclesiasticarum 2 vols. 1840, 2 ed. 1842; The religious houses of Yorkshire 1853. d. Nunthorpe near York 2 Dec. 1869.
LAXTON, William (son of Wm. Robert Laxton, surveyor). b. London 30 March 1802; ed. at Christ hospital; surveyed and laid down several lines of railway; constructed water works at Falmouth 1848 and at Stonehouse; joint engineer with Robert Stephenson of the Watford water company for supplying London with water from the chalk formation; projected and edited The civil engineer and architect’s journal a monthly periodical Oct. 1837, purchased a weekly journal called The architect and building gazette which he united to The civil engineer; laid out large part of Hove, Brighton; surveyor to the Farmers’ and General fire and life insurance company 1840 to death; author of The improved builder’s price book 1828; The builder’s price book 1844. d. 19 Arundel st. Strand, London 31 May 1854. Civil Engineer, July 1854 pp. 270–1; G.M. Aug. 1854 pp. 199–200.
LAYARD, Frederic Peter. b. 6 May 1818; ensign 19 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1838, captain 30 April 1851 to 11 March 1864; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 11 March 1864, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889; author of A Hugenot relic, an ivory box with the arms of Charles de Nocé and Marguerite de Rembouillet 1886, d. 3 Cavendish road, St. John’s Wood, London 21 May 1891.
LAYARD, William Twisleton. b. 4 Aug. 1813; ensign Ceylon rifle regiment 22 Feb. 1833, lieut.-col. 12 June 1859 to 3 Feb. 1872 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881. d. Friedland, Wandsworth, London 16 Jany. 1891.
LAYCOCK, James Campey. b. Appleton near York 6 May 1796; solicitor Huddersfield 1820–76, clerk to the justices 1828–72, presented with a silver salver; clerk to the borough bench 1868–72; a large donor to the parish ch. schools; president of Huddersfield infirmary 1860 to death; the last survivor of the original shareholders in Huddersfield banking co. d. Huddersfield 17 Feb. 1885. Hulbert’s Supplementary annals of Almondbury (1885) 133–7; Solicitors’ Journal 14 March 1885 p. 326.
LAYCOCK, Robert (only son of Joseph Laycock of Low Gosforth hall, Northumberland, b. 1798, d. 2 Aug. 1881, personalty sworn under £464,000, 14 Jany. 1882). b. Winlaton, co. Durham 1833; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1857; sheriff of Notts. 1878; contested North Notts. 26 Feb. 1872 and Nottingham 5 Feb. 1874; M.P. North Lincoln, April 1880 to death. d. Eastbourne 14 Aug. 1881.
LAYCOCK, Thomas (son of rev. Thomas Laycock, Wesleyan minister, d. 1833). b. Wetherby, Yorkshire 10 Aug. 1812; ed. at Wesleyan academy, Woodhouse Grove and Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1835; M.D. Göttingen 1839; sec. of the British Assoc. 1844; lecturer on clinical medicine at York school of medicine 1846; professor of practice of physic, univ. of Edin. 5 Nov. 1855 to death, being the only Englishman ever elected; F.R.S. Edin. 1861; phys. in ordinary to the Queen for Scotland 1 Oct. 1869 to death; author of A treatise on the nervous diseases of women 1840; Lectures on the principles and methods of medical observation and research. Edinb. 1856, 2 ed. 1864; Mind and Brain, or the correlations of consciousness and organisation. Edinb. 2 vols. 1859, 2 ed. 1869, and of 300 articles in medical journals. d. 13 Walker st. Edinburgh 21 Sep. 1876. Revue des cours scientifiques, ii 808 (1876); Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) 211, 276.
LAYTON, Frederick William Hanham (son of Thomas Layton d. 1844). b. 1805; ed. at Shrewsbury and Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1828; C. of Wem, Shropshire, resigned 1835; angel of Catholic Apostolic ch. Duncan st. Islington 14 July 1835 to death; author of The instant coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 1866; On the decadence and fall of Christendom 1868; The parables of Christ considered with reference to their meaning by H. W. J. Thiersch, a translation 1869; On spiritual and true worship 1871. d. 11 Highbury grove, London 21 Oct. 1878.