LEFROY, Thomas Edward Preston (3 son of Antony Lefroy of Falford, Yorkshire, captain 65 foot). b. 30 Aug. 1815; a special pleader; barrister M.T. 7 June 1844; a revising barrister on the Northern circuit Aug. 1855; deputy judge of Bloomsbury county court 1857–65; judge of county courts, circuit 55 (Dorset and Somerset) 1 Jany. 1868, retired 10 Oct. 1880 on pension of £1000; author with H. I. Nicholl, J. M. Carrow and others of Cases relating to railways and canals 5 vols. 1840–50. d. Cambray, Bournemouth 25 July 1887.
LEFROY, Thomas Langlois (eld. son of Anthony Lefroy of Carrickglass, co. Longford, lieut.-col. 9 light dragoons, d. 1819). b. co. Limerick 8 Jany. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795, LL.B. and LL.D. 1827; called to Irish bar 1797, practised in court of chancery; K.C. 1806; third serjeant at law in Ireland Dec. 1818, 2nd serjeant 1820, first serjeant 1822–30; bencher of King’s Inns 1819; a comr. of assize 1822, 1824; M.P. for univ. of Dublin 1830–41; fourth baron of court of exchequer, Ireland, Nov. 1841; lord chief justice of queen’s bench, Ireland, March 1852, resigned May 1866; author of Observations on the proceedings by elegit for the recovery of judgment debts. Dublin 1802; author with John Schoales of Reports of cases argued and determined in the high court of chancery in Ireland during the time of Lord Redesdale from Easter term 1802 to Easter term 1806, 2 vols. Dublin 1806–10. d. Newcourt villa, Bray near Dublin 4 May 1869. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 11 May. T. Lefroy’s Memoir of chief justice Lefroy (1871), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxix 65–74 (1872); Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 2 series (1846), portrait; I.L.N. xii 346 (1848), portrait.
LEFROY, Thomas Paul (2 son of the preceding). b. 31 Dec. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827; called to Irish bar 1831; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; bencher of King’s Inns 1860 to death; chairman of quarter sessions of co. Kildare 27 Dec. 1858 to Dec. 1890; county court judge of Armagh 1875, of Down 1880 to Dec. 1890; chancellor of diocesan court of Down, Connor and Dromore to 1890. d. Haddington terrace, Kingstown, co. Dublin 29 Jany. 1891. Law Times 14 Feb. 1891 p. 291.
LEFTLEY, Charles Dakin. b. 1789; proprietor of business of Dulau & Co. foreign booksellers, 37 Soho square, London. d. 21 Victoria road, Clapham common, Surrey 29 April 1873.
LEGARD, Francis Digby (1 son of George Legard of York). b. 13 March 1829; ed. at Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1849–56, B.A. 1851, M.A. 1862; V. of Whitwell near York 1858–73; R. of Stokesley, Yorks. 1873 to death; edited Ploughing and sowing, or annals of an evening school. By M. E. S. 1861; More about farm lads. By M. E. S. 1865; Gleanings, being a sequel to Ploughing and sowing 1876. d. Westhorpe house, Scarborough 20 Nov. 1883.
LEGÉR, Théodore. b. Paris 1799; educ. Paris; M.D.; resided in Mexico, acquired and spent two fortunes; acted as a medical mesmeriser 1850; discovered the magnetism of the phrenological organs of the brain and established psychology as a mathematical science; lectured at Hungerford hall, London on phrenology 1851; gave séances and examined heads at 20 Gerrard st. Soho 1852; edited Higia Periódico de salud, por las Senores D. T. Leger y D. G. Villette No. 1–8. Mexico 1833; author of Considerations sur l’endurcissement du tissu cellulaire chez les nouveaux nés. Paris 1823; Animal magnetism or psychodunamy. New York 1846; The magnetoscope, the magnetoid characteristics and their relations to the organisation of man 1852. d. 20 Gerrard st. Soho, London 6 Oct. 1853. J. Ashburner’s Notes on animal magnetism (1867) 57–81.
LE GEYT, Charles James (son of Philip Le Geyt, chaplain to duke of Kent, d. 1847). b. 1829; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1853 and Magd. coll. M.A. 1855; V. of St. Matthias, Stoke Newington 1858 to death; author of Digging against the wells, a sermon at short services for business men 1866; Catholic ritual of the church in England 1867; Incense at the Magnificat not Mariolatry 1867. d. Calais 27 Dec. 1877.
LE GEYT, George. b. Canterbury 20 March 1777; entered navy March 1791; retired captain 12 Aug. 1812, retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861; C.B. 4 July 1840. d. St. Helier’s, Jersey 23 Sep. 1861. O’Byrne p. 645.
LEGGE, Arthur Charles. b. 25 June 1800; ensign 28 foot 23 May 1816; lieut. 1 life guards 1820, captain 1822–37, placed on h.p. 23 June 1837; general 1 Oct. 1877; col. 1 Staffordshire rifle volunteers 8 May 1868 to death. d. Caynton, Shiffnal 18 May 1890.
LEGGE, Mary (dau. of Mr. Jones d. 1843). b. London, May 1802. m. 24 Sep. 1827 rev. Wm. Legge, congregational minister, Fakenham 1828, where he also received students from 1837, d. Fakenham 13 Dec. 1859; author of A pastoral letter to the congregational church at Fakenham 1852; A reading book of English history and biography 1863; with F. J. Gladman, The handybook of English history 1874; she assisted her husband in teaching the students; resided at Birkenhead from 18 June 1860. d. Birkenhead 31 Dec. 1879. bur. Fakenham cemet. 4 Jany. 1880. A life of consecration, memorials of Mrs. Mary Legge (1883) with 2 portraits and portrait of W. Legge.