LEDGER, Frederic. b. 1816; editor and proprietor of The Era, a London weekly sporting and dramatic paper 1850 to death; an enthusiastic mason. d. Gothic house, Devonshire road, Balham hill 14 June 1874. bur. Norwood cemetery 20 June. Era 21 June 1874 p. 9 col. 2.
LEDWARD, Richard Arthur (son of Richard Perry Ledward). b. Burslem, Staffs. 1857; studied at Burslem school of art and at South Kensington, gold medallist; a master of modelling in the schools; modelling master at Westminster and Blackheath schools of art; his sculpture of A Young Mother, showed great promise. d. of rheumatism at 53 Beaufort st. Chelsea 28 Oct. 1890. bur. Perivale church near Ealing.
LEDWICH, Thomas Hawkesworth (son of Edward Ledwich of Waterford, attorney). b. Pembroke 1823; studied medicine in Dublin; M.R.C.S.I. 1844, F.R.C.S.I. 1845; lecturer on anatomy at The original school of medicine, Peter st. Dublin 1847 to death, when name was changed to the Ledwich school of medicine 1858; formed a valuable pathological museum; surgeon to the Meath hospital, Dublin, July 1858; author with his brother Edward Ledwich, M.D. of The practical and descriptive anatomy of the human body 1852, 3 ed. 1877, which is still much used in Dublin. d. York st. Dublin 29 Sep. 1858. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. Sir C. A. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland (1886) 534–35, 613–14; Ormsby’s History of Meath hospital (1888) 215–6.
Note.—Edward Ledwich was b. Pembroke 1817, F.R.C.S.I. 13 Oct. 1852, a most successful teacher of anatomy, d. 7 Harcourt st. Dublin 18 Feb. 1879.
LEE, Mrs. Governess to the prince of Naples, eld. son of Humbert king of Italy, at Rome Nov. 1869 to 1881 during which time she never left him; watched over the prince’s health and aided him in making a collection of coins illustrating Italian history 1881 to death. d. Quirinal palace, Rome 3 April 1884.
LEE, Alfred Theophilus (youngest son of Sir John Theophilus Lee of Lauriston hall, Torquay 1786–1843). b. the Elms, Bedhampton, Hants. 28 June 1829; scholar of Christ’s coll. Camb. 1850; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of Houghton-le-Spring, Durham 1853–5; P.C. of Elson, Hants. 1856–8; R of Ahoghill, co. Antrim 1858–72; hon. LLD. Dublin 1866, D.C.L. Oxf. 1867; sec. to Church defence instit. and tithe redemption trust 1871 to death; preacher at Gray’s Inn 5 Nov. 1879 to death; author of The history of the town and parish of Tetbury 1857; Facts respecting the present state of the church in Ireland 1863, sixtieth thousand issued 1868; Some account of the parish church of St. Colananell, Ahoghill 1867. d. Lauriston house, Ealing, Middlesex 19 July 1883. Church portrait journal, i 25 (1876), portrait; Biograph, vi 315–20 (1881).
LEE, Benjamin. b. Worcester 10 Feb. 1788; enlisted in 14 dragoons Jany. 1804; served in the Peninsula 1808–14, in America 1815; sergeant major 1814, retired 1829; went to New South Wales and resided at Parramatta 1829 to death. d. Parramatta 13 April 1879, left upwards of 100 children and grandchildren.
LEE, Donald Mc Phee. b. 11 Feb. 1804; editor and proprietor of Bermuda royal gazette; vice consul for France and Italy. d. Hamilton, Bermuda 11 Feb. 1883.
LEE, Edwin. Articled pupil of royal college of surgeons, London, Jacksonian prizeman 1838 for dissertation on Comparative advantages of lithotomy and lithotrity; studied at St. George’s hospital 1824, house surgeon 1830–3; M.C.S. 1829; M.D. Gottingen 1846 or before; member of medical societies of Paris, Berlin and Naples; fellow of royal medico-chirurgical soc.; resided much at the Continental watering places; author of upwards of 60 works including A treatise on some nervous disorders 1833, 2 ed. 1838; The principal baths of Germany 2 vols. 1840–1. d. Mentone 3 June 1870. The Lancet 18 June 1870 pp. 891–2.
LEE, Frederick Henry (eld. son of Frederick William Lee). Editor of Hull Herald and proprietor of Sussex Advertiser, Lewes. d. Cooksbridge near Lewes 14 Aug. 1853 aged 42.