LEIGHTON, Thomas. Entered Bombay army 1807; ensign 7 Bombay N.I. 5 Nov. 1808, lieut. 1 Jany. 1814; captain 14 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 29 Sep. 1832 to 28 June 1838; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 28 June 1838 to 1841, of 12 N.I. 1841 to 1843, of 26 N.I. 1843–45, of 2 N.I. 1845–46, of 1 N.I. 1846–8, of 21 N.I. 1848–9; commandant at Candeish 4 Feb. 1848 to 1 Oct. 1849; col. of 2 N.I. 20 Sep. 1849 to death. d. Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Feb. 1855.
LEIGHTON, William (son of David Leighton a master baker). b. Dundee 3 Feb. 1841; taken to Liverpool 1847; clerk to a Spanish merchant 1854; employed in a Brazilian house 1864 to death; contributed poems to The Compass a local literary paper, and to the Liverpool Mercury; author of Poems 1870, 2 ed. 1870; Hymns 1871; Baby died to-day and other poems 1875. d. of typhoid fever 22 April 1869. bur. Anfield cemetery, Liverpool, memorial window in St. Ann’s church, Brookfield, Highgate Rise, London. Poems by the late William Leighton (1870), memoir pp. v–vi; Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 325.
LEIGHTON, William Allport (only son of Wm. Leighton, landlord of the Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury). b. Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury 17 May 1805; articled to a solicitor in Shrewsbury 1822; studied at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1833; C. of St. Giles’s, Shrewsbury 1845–8; gave his collection of lichens to Kew Gardens 1880; author of Catalogue of the cellulares or flowerless plants of Great Britain 1837; A flora of Shropshire 1841; A guide through the town of Shrewsbury 1855; The lichen-flora of Great Britain 1871, 2 ed. 1872; Wanderings among old churches in neighbourhood of Rhyl 1881. d. Lucifelde, Shrewsbury 28 Feb. 1889.
LEINSTER, Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald 3 Duke of (eld. son of 2 duke of Leinster 1749–1804). b. Carton house, Maynooth 21 Aug. 1791; styled marquess of Kildare 1791–1804; succeeded his father 20 Oct. 1804; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 Oct. 1810; P.C. Ireland 9 May 1831; P.C. 29 June 1831; lord high constable of Ireland for coronations of William IV. and Victoria; lord lieut. of co. Kildare 7 Oct. 1831 to death; grand master of Irish grand lodge of freemasons 24 June 1813 to death; president of National Agricultural Soc. 1841; a resident landlord who much improved his estate, the Leinster lease was a well known document; his masonic jubilee was celebrated 24 June 1863; premier duke, marquess and earl of Ireland. d. Carton house 10 Oct. 1874. Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxiv 42–57 (1874), portrait; I.L.N. lxv 369, 378 (1874), portrait; Graphic, x 391 (1874), portrait.
LEINSTER, Charles William Fitzgerald, 4 Duke of (son of the preceding). b. Dublin 30 March 1819; styled marquess of Kildare 1819–74; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1852; comr. of national education in Ireland 1841; sheriff co. Kildare 1842–3; M.P. co. Kildare 1847–52; lieut.-col. royal Dublin militia 1849–72, hon. col. 11 May 1872 to death; summoned to parliament as baron Kildare 28 April 1870; chancellor of Queen’s univ. Ireland 1870; succeeded as 4 duke 10 Oct. 1874; author of The earls of Kildare and their ancestors 2 ed. with Addenda. Dublin 1858–62, 3 ed. 1858. d. Carton, Maynooth 10 Feb. 1887. I.L.N. xviii 105, 106 (1851), portrait.
LEISHMAN, Matthew (son of a manufacturer). b. Paisley; presbyterian minister at Goran, Oct. 1820; a leader of the party termed The Forty 1839; D.D. Glasgow 18 Dec. 1840; moderator of general assembly 20 May 1858; edited for Maitland club, R. Wodrow’s Collections upon the lives of the reformers 2 vols. 1834 and R. Wodrow’s Analecta, a history of remarkable providences 2 vols. 1842; The works of A. Binning 1847. Scott’s Fasti vol. 2, part 1, p. 70; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 300–306.
LEITCH, William. b. Rothesay, Isle of Bute 1814; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A. 1836; licensed preacher in Church of Scotland 1838; minister of Monimail 1843–59; principal of the univ. of Queen’s coll. Canada 1859 to death, assist. to professor Nichol in univ. observatory; moderator of the synod of the church of Scotland, Canada 1862; a senator and an examiner in the univ. Toronto; president of Botanical Soc. of Canada and a writer in its Transactions 1861; a contributor to Kitto’s Journal of Sacred Literature, Good Words and other periodicals; author of God’s glory in the heavens 1862, 3 ed. 1866. d. Kingston, Upper Canada 9 May 1864. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 221.
LEITCH, William Leighton. b. The Townhead, Glasgow 2 Nov. 1804; a weaver 1819, a house painter; scene painter at theatre royal, Glasgow, Aug. 1824 at 20s. a week; spent 2 years at Mauchline painting snuffboxes; scene painter at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st. London to 1832; studied and taught painting in Italy 1833–7; a successful teacher in London from 1837; drawing master to the queen and royal family from 1842 for 22 years; last of the great English teachers of landscape painting; member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1862, vice pres. to death, a collection of his works was exhibited at their rooms Piccadilly 1883; exhibited 11 pictures at R. A., 2 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; his sketches with a few drawings and oil pictures were sold at Christie’s, March 1884 for £9,000; illustrated G. N. Wright’s The Rhine, Italy and Greece 1840; G. N. Wright’s The shores of the Mediterranean 1840; J. Sherer’s The classic lands of Europe 1879. d. 124 Alexandra road, St. John’s Wood, London 25 April 1883. Graphic, xxvii 604 (1883), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxii 432 (1883), portrait; Mac George’s W. L. Leitch, a memoir (1884), portrait.
LEITH, Sir Alexander (eld. son of Alexander Leith of Freefield, co. Aberdeen, d. 1828). b. Cobardie, Forgue, Aberdeenshire 1774; ensign 42 foot 8 Aug. 1792; captain 109 foot 1794; captain 31 foot 1795, lieut.-col. 7 Feb. 1811 to 25 May 1815 when placed on h.p.; commanded 31 foot at battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive and Orthes; colonel 90 foot 2 Sep. 1841 to 14 June 1853; colonel 31 foot 14 June 1853 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815. d. Freefield, co. Aberdeen 19 Feb. 1859.
LEITH, Edward Tyrrell (2 son of John Farley Leith, Q.C.) b. Calcutta 12 March 1842; ed. in Germany and Trin. coll. Camb. 1869; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1866; practised at Bombay 1867–85; professor of law at government law school, Bombay 1869–85; lived at Stuttgart, Germany 1886 to death; gave much attention to ethnological studies and contributed to various papers The funeral rites of the Parsees; The religion of the Non-Aryan races of India; The primitive disposal of the dead by exposure; Cannibalism in India; and The dog in myth and custom; author of Divination by Házirát among the Indian Mussulmáns 1886. d. Heidelberg 10 Dec. 1888. Law Times, lxxxvi 167, 230 (1889).