LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan (elder son of Thomas Philip Le Fanu, dean of Emly). b. Dublin 28 Aug. 1814; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1833; joined staff of Dublin Univ. Mag. 1837, editor and proprietor 1869–72; called to Irish bar 1839; purchased two Dublin papers, The Warder in 1839 and The Dublin Evening Packet, part proprietor of the Dublin Evening Mail, amalgamated the three papers under title of The Evening Mail with a weekly reprint entitled The Warder; author of The Cock and the anchor 1845; The fortunes of colonel Torlogh O’Brien 1847; The house by the churchyard 3 vols. 1863; Uncle Silas 3 vols. 1864; Wylder’s hand 3 vols. 1864; Guy Deverell 3 vols. 1865; All in the dark 2 vols. 1866; The tenants of Malory 3 vols. 1867; Haunted lives 3 vols. 1868; A lost name 3 vols. 1868; The Wyvern mystery 3 vols. 1869; Checkmate 3 vols. 1871; Chronicles of Golden Friars 3 vols. 1871; The rose and the key 3 vols. 1871; In a glass darkly 3 vols. 1872; Willing to die 3 vols. 1873; Morley court 1873, anon. d. 18 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 7 Feb. 1873. J. S. Le Fanu’s Purcell Papers with memoir by A. P. Graves, vol. 1 pp. v–xxxi (1880); Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxi 319–20 (1873); Temple Bar, l 504–17 (1877).
LEFEBVRE, Nicholas. b. 1803; entered navy 18 Jany. 1811; captain 20 Oct. 1853, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880. d. Rue Lefebvre, Guernsey 7 Oct. 1884.
LEFEVRE, Sir John George Shaw (2 son of Charles Shaw Lefevre, M.P. Reading, d. 1823). b. Bedford sq. London 24 Jany. 1797; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1819; sen. wrangler and B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; F.R.S. 16 Nov. 1820; barrister I.T. 11 Feb. 1825, bencher 21 Nov. 1854 to death, reader 1868; M.P. Petersfield 1832–4; under sec. of state for colonies 1833–4; poor law commissioner 18 Aug. 1834 to 1 Dec. 1841; joint assist. sec. to board of trade 19 June 1841 to 14 May 1848; second church estate commissioner 24 Aug. 1850; deputy clerk of the parliaments 4 April 1848 and clerk 6 April 1856, resigned March 1875 when he retired on pension of £2,500; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 22 Jany. 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. 20 Nov. 1847; a founder of the univ. of London 1836 and V.C. 1842–62; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1858; hon. LLD. Dublin 1860; civil service comr., resigned 1862; one of founders of Athenæum club 1823; he knew all the European languages and Hebrew. d. Cliftonville near Brighton 20 Aug. 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix 15–18 (1879); Graphic, xi 291, 292 (1875), portrait; I.L.N. ii 93 (1843), portrait.
LEFFLER, Adam (son of James Henry Leffler, organist and bassoon player, d. 1819). b. 1808; chorister in Westminster abbey; appeared at Exeter at a festival 1829; first appeared in London at Lyceum 31 Aug. 1836 as Hela in the Mountain Sylph; appeared at Park theatre, New York as a tenor singer Aug. 1840; played at Covent Garden, at the Lyceum, at Surrey theatre; sang at concerts; professor of music at 12 Spencer place, Brixton road, London; a bass singer, his compass extended from E below the stave to G above it. d. 23 Osborne terrace, Clapham road, London 18 March 1857. Era 5 April 1857 p. 10.
LE FLEMING, George Cumberland Hughes- (son of John Cumberland Hughes of Bath). b. 21 July 1807; entered Madras army 1823; captain 13 Madras N.I. 23 Dec. 1842, lieut.-col. 5 June 1854 to 1857; lieut.-col. of 19 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 European regiment 1858–9, of 50 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with rank of M.G.; assumed additional surname of Le Fleming by r.l. 1 April 1862. d. 7 June 1877.
LEFROY, Anthony (eld. son of Thomas Langlois Lefroy 1776–1869). b. Dublin 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1864; M.P. co. Longford 1830–32, 1833–7 and 1842–7; contested co. Longford 1832, 1837, 1841 and 1857; M.P. univ. of Dublin 1858–70; sheriff of Longford 1849. d. Carriglass manor, co. Longford 12 Jany. 1890.
LEFROY, Edward Cracroft (son of George Benjamin Austin Lefroy of 13 Victoria st. Westminster). b. 1855; ed. Keble coll. Oxf., B.A. 1877, M.A. 1881; C. of St. John’s, Woolwich 1880–82; author of Undergraduate Oxford. Articles reprinted from The Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates journal 1878; The christian ideal and other sermons 1883; Counsels for the common life, six addresses to senior boys 1885; Echoes from Theocritus and other sonnets 1885. d. at the res. of his father, 42 Shooter’s hill road, Blackheath, Kent 19 Sep. 1891. Academy 3 Oct. 1891 p. 284.
LEFROY, Jeffrey (brother of Anthony Lefroy 1800–90). b. 1809 or 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1848, member of the senate; R. of Aghaderg, co. Down 1836 to death; dean of Dromore 1876 to death. d. Aghaderg Glebe 10 Dec. 1885.
LEFROY, Sir John Henry (son of John Henry George Lefroy, R. of Ashe, Hants., d. 1823). b. Ashe 28 Jany. 1817; ed. at Alton, Richmond, and R.M. acad. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec 1834, col. 9 Feb. 1865, col. commandant 13 Feb. 1881 to death; sec. of the Royal artillery institution 1838–9 and again 1849; director of magnetical observatory at St. Helena 1840–2 and at Toronto 1842–53; travelled to Lachim and Hudson’s Bay 1843–4, determined approximate position of American forces of magnetic intensity; founded the Canadian institute at Toronto 1849; sec. of the Patriotic Fund 1854; a senior clerk in the war office 1854; scientific adviser on subjects of artillery and inventions at war office 1854–5; prepared a detailed scheme of military education 1856; inspector general of army schools Feb. 1857 to 1860 when office abolished; sent on a special mission to the Mediterranean fortresses; sec. of ordnance select committee 1860, pres. 1864; director general of ordnance 9 Dec. 1868 to March 1870; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda 8 April 1871 to 10 May 1877; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; governor of Tasmania, Oct. 1880 to Dec. 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 10 May 1882; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.G.S. 1853; F.S.A. 1884; C.B. 31 March 1870; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of A handbook for field service 1854, 4 ed. 1867; Observations made at St. Helena 1847; Notes and documents relating to the family of Loffroy 1868; Memorials of the discovery of the Bermudas or Somers island 2 vols. 1877–9; Diary of a magnetic survey of a portion of the dominion of Canada 1883. d. Lewarne near Liskeard, Cornwall 11 April 1890. bur. at Croudall, Hants. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii 139–40 (1891); Numismatic Chronicle (1890) 31–2; Graphic 26 April 1890 p. 533, portrait.
LEFROY, Percy, otherwise Percy Lefroy Mapleton (son of Henry Mapleton commander R.N. d. 1879, by Mary Trent dau. of Henry Seale colonial sec. of St. Helena). b. Alpha place, Queen’s road, Deptford 23 Feb. 1860; journalist writing for the weekly papers; author of two dramas which were not successful; shot and murdered Frederick Isaac Gold a retired London tradesman aged 64, in a railway carriage on London and Brighton and South coast railway while going through the Balcombe tunnel 27 June 1881, arrested on suspicion 8 July, tried at Maidstone assizes 5–7 Nov., confessed his guilt, hanged inside Lewes prison 29 Nov. 1881. I.L.N. lxxix 37, 461 (1881), portrait; Graphic, xxiv 96 (1881), portrait; Temple Bar, Jany. 1886 pp. 73–82; Montagu Williams’ Leaves of a Life (1891) 277–94, 335–48.