LEGGETT, Joseph. Entered Madras army 1808; ensign 3 Madras N.I. 28 May 1810, lieut.-col. 25 July 1838 to 1840; lieut.-col. of 48 N.I. 1840 to 1845, of 52 N.I. 1845 to 1846, of 22 N.I. 1846 to 1847; brigadier at Saugor 3 April 1846 to 19 Oct. 1847; col. of 26 N.I. 20 Oct. 1847 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Dedham, Essex 15 Oct. 1857 aged 65.
LEGH, Edmund Cornwall. Ensign 97 foot 5 July 1839, lieut.-col. 28 July 1857 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. d. Banda, Central India 3 June 1859.
LEGH, George Cornwall. b. 30 Aug. 1804; sheriff of Cheshire 1838; M.P. for North Cheshire 1841–47 and 1848–68; major 2 royal Cheshire militia 30 July 1853, lieut.-col. 20 March 1869 to 16 July 1873. d. 16 June 1877.
LEGH, Thomas (eld. son of colonel Thomas Peter Legh of Lyme, Cheshire, d. 1797). b. 1793; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., D.C.L. 1817; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1814–32 when borough was disfranchised; colonel Lancashire fencible cavalry; F.R.S. 12 June 1817; author of Narrative of a journey in Egypt and the country beyond the cataracts 1816, 2 ed. 1817; resided at Lyme park, Cheshire. d. Milford lodge, Lymington, Hants. 8 May 1857.
LE GRAND, Frederick William. b. Ireland 1805; studied medicine in Cork and Dublin; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1844; entered R.N. Feb. 1828; a skilful operator; served at Cape of Good Hope, East Indies, &c.; surgeon naval hospital, Malta 1836–9, in Syrian war 1840; in charge of Australian convict ships 1848–52; served in war in the Baltic 1854; surgeon to Haslar hospital 1855–8, to Deptford dockyard 1858–64; granted Greenwich hospital good service pension 28 March 1866. d. 22 Manor road, New Cross, Kent 4 Nov. 1874. Medical Times 5 Dec. 1874 p. 649.
LEGREW, James (son of James Legrew 1769–1856, R. of Caterham, Surrey). b. Caterham 1803; studied sculpture under sir F. L. Chantrey; a student of the R.A., silver medallist 1824 and gold 1829; travelled in Italy 1840–2; sent two works The last prayer of Ajax, and Milton dictating to his daughter, to the Westminster Hall competition 1844; exhibited 30 pieces of sculpture at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1826–57; author of A few remarks on the sculpture of the nations referred to in the Old Testament deduced from an examination of some of their idols 1845; committed suicide at his house, 1 St. Alban’s road, Kensington 15 Sep. 1857.
LE GRICE, Charles Valentine (eld. child of Charles Le Grice, R. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, d. 1792). b. Bury St. Edmunds 14 Feb. 1773; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1781–92; friend of S. T. Coleridge and Charles Lamb; admitted sizar of Trin. coll. Camb. 16 June 1792, scholar 17 April 1795, B.A. 1796, M.A. 1805; tutor to Wm. John Godolphin Nicholls of Trereife near Penzance 1796; P.C. of St. Mary’s church, Penzance 31 July 1806 to June 1831; contributed articles to the Gentleman’s Mag. during more than 60 years, including College reminiscences of Coleridge reprinted in C. Carlyon’s Early Years 1843; author of The Tineum, containing estianomy or the art of stirring a fire 1794; Analysis of Paley’s Principles of moral and political philosophy 1795, 8 ed. 1822; Daphnis and Chloe, a pastoral novel 1803; The petition of an old uninhabited house in Penzance to its master in town 1811, 3 ed. 1858, and a number of pamphlets. d. Trereife near Penzance 24 Dec. 1858. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 311–14, iii 1266–7, 1432; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 485–7; G.M. i 322–4 (1859); Letters of Charles Lamb, edited by A. Ainge, i 2–6 (1888).
LEHMANN, Augustus Frederick. b. 1826; senior partner in firm of Naylor, Benzon & Co., merchants, 20 Abchurch lane, London; F.R.G.S.; made a fine collection of paintings; resided at 15 Berkeley sq., and Woodlands, Southwood lane, Highgate. d. Coombe cottage, Kingston-on-Thames, the residence of his son-in-law 22 Aug. 1891, will proved for £543,980 18s. 4d. I.L.N. 5 Sep. 1891 p. 303.
LEIFCHILD, Henry Stormonth (4 son of Wm. Gerard Leifchild of Moorgate st. London). b. 1823; studied at British Museum and R.A., also in Rome 1848–51; exhibited his statue of Rizpah, at Great Exhibition 1851; executed the Guards’ memorial at Chelsea hospital; designed a mortuary chapel in Warriston cemetery, Edinburgh; his statue of Erinna is at Holloway College; excelled as a draughtsman, carver and musician; exhibited 38 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1844–76; resided at 243 Stanhope st. Regent’s Park, London. d. 15 Kirkstall road, Streatham Hill, Surrey 11 Nov. 1884. Magazine of Art, July 1891.
LEIFCHILD, John (son of John Leifchild). b. Barnet, Herts. 15 Feb. 1780; studied at Hoxton academy 1804–8; minister of independent chapel in Hornton st. Kensington, London 1808–24; minister of church in Bridge st. Bristol 1824–30, and of Craven chapel, Bayswater, London 1831–54; preached at Queen’s sq. chapel, Brighton 1854–6; edited with rev. Dr. Redford The Evangelist, monthly mag. May 1837 to June 1839; author of A help to the reading of the scriptures, an arrangement of the books in chronological order 1829; Directions for the right reading of the scriptures 1842; The christian emigrant 1849; Remarkable facts, illustrative of different portions of scripture 1867, the 6 ed. is entitled Brief expositions of scripture 1879. d. 4 Fitzroy terrace, Gloucester road North, Regent’s Park, London 29 June 1862. J. R. Leifchild’s John Leifchild, D.D. (1863), portrait; James B. Brown’s John Leifchild (1862).