LEITH, Harry. b. 1796; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1817; presbyterian minister at Cornwall, Upper Canada 6 June 1822; minister of Rothiemay 23 May 1827 to death; took part with the minority in the dispute regarding the presentation to Marnoch and was rebuked at the bar of the supreme civil court 26 May 1843 for breach of interdict and fined £5 and expenses. d. Rothiemay 20 Aug. 1854. Scott’s Fasti, vol. 3, part 1, p. 216.
LEITH, James (son of sir Alexander Leith). b. 1827; cornet 14 hussars 4 May 1849, lieut. 1853; captain 2 dragoons 1859, placed on h.p. 31 Dec. 1861; served in Persian campaign 1857, at suppression of mutiny at Aurungabad, with Malwa field force at siege of Dhar, and at advance on Calpee; at Betwah 1 April 1858 charged alone and rescued Capt. Need from the rebel infantry for which he was awarded Victoria cross 24 Dec. 1858; gentleman at arms 5 May 1863 to death. d. Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 13 May 1869.
LEITH, John (2 son of general Alexander Leith Hay). b. Leith hall, co. Aberdeen; entered navy 11 June 1803; captain 11 Nov. 1825; commander of the Seringapatam 46 guns and in charge of the Barbadoes station 6 Feb. 1837 to July 1841; R.A. 11 Feb. 1854. d. 25 Oct. 1854. O’Byrne p. 647.
LEITH, John Farley (eld. son of James Urquhart Murray Leith, capt. 68 regt., killed at Orthes 1814). b. Aberdeen 5 May 1808; ed. at gr. sch., Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 7 May 1874 to death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1872; advocate in supreme court at Calcutta 1840–9; professor of law East India college, Haileybury 1853–7 or 8; practised before judicial committee of P.C.; contested city of Aberdeen 2 April 1857; M.P. city of Aberdeen 1872–80. d. 8 Dorset sq. Marylebone, London 4 April 1887. Law Times, lxxxii 479 (1887).
LEITH, John Macdonald. b. 26 Dec. 1839; ed. at Cheltenham; ensign 79 highlanders 17 March 1854, lieut.-col. 1 July 1881, placed on h.p. 1 July 1885; brevet colonel 31 Dec. 1882; served in Egypt 1882; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. d. Gibraltar 22 May 1888.
LEITH, Robert William Disney (2 son of sir Alexander Leith 1774–1859). b. Glenkindy, Aberdeenshire 28 Feb. 1819; ensign 1 Bombay European fusiliers 4 Sep. 1837; served in Persian gulf 1838–41, in the Punjaub 1848–9, led storming party at capture of Mooltan 1849; adjutant March to Aug. 1846; A.A.G. Bombay 1855–59; lieut.-col. 106 foot 1 Jany. 1862, on h.p. 29 May 1866, lieut. general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Northcourt, Isle of Wight 20 June 1892.
LEITRIM, Nathaniel Clements, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 Earl of Leitrim 1732–1804). b. Dublin 9 May 1768; known as viscount Clements 1783–1804; M.P. Carrick 1790–7; M.P. Leitrim 1798–1800; M.P. Leitrim in first parliament of United Kingdom 1801–4; succeeded 27 July 1804; lord lieut. of Leitrim 1831 to death; cr. baron Clements of Kilmacrenan, co. Donegal in peerage of U.K. 20 June 1831; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland; col. of Donegal militia. d. Killadoon, co. Kildare 31 Dec. 1854.
LEITRIM, William Sydney Clements, 3 Earl of (2 son of the preceding). b. Dublin 1806; known as viscount Clements 1804–54; ensign 43 foot 9 Dec. 1824, captain 5 April 1831; placed on h.p. 20 March 1835; sold his commission 20 June 1854; M.P. Leitrim 1839–47; col. of Leitrim militia 1843; succeeded 31 Dec. 1854; a magistrate for Galway, Leitrim and Donegal, superseded Oct. 1863; gave orders to the manager of the hotel at Maam a tenant of his own, to refuse admission to the earl of Carlisle, the lord lieutenant, which was done accordingly; a severe landlord who evicted many of his tenants; while driving on a car with a clerk and a driver, shot dead at Cratlaghwood near Milford, co. Donegal 2 April 1878, the driver and the clerk being also killed. Graphic, xvii 364 (1878), portrait; I.L.N. lxxii 329 (1878), portrait; A.R. 1878 pp. 35–36.
LE KEUX, Henry (son of Peter Le Keux of Bishopsgate, London, pewter manufacturer). b. 13 June 1787; apprenticed to James Basire, engraver, worked for him on the Oxford almanacs and on the plates for Society of Antiquaries; engraved for the Annals 1820–40; member of Associated Society of Engravers, engraved for the Soc. some pictures by Claude and Canaletto in the national gallery; joined in starting a crape manufactory at Bocking in Essex about 1838; engraved views for Specimens of the architecture of Normandy by J. Britton 1873; author with J. Le Keux of Historical essays, a series of architectural antiquities of Normandy 1828. d. Bocking 3 Oct. 1868. bur. Halstead, Essex.
LEMAITRE, Paul Thomas. b. 1776; a gold watch case maker at 13 Denmark st. Soho; arrested 27 Sep. 1794 for treasonable practices as being a delegate of the London Corresponding Society, in connection with John Smith of the Pop Gun, Portsmouth st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, to assassinate George the Third by means of a poisoned arrow; examined by the Privy Council 28–30 Sep.; the first person sent to the new prison at Cold Bath Fields, confined there 32 weeks, liberated 9 May 1795 on giving bail for £50, tried at the Old Bailey 11 May 1796 and discharged; his case was for many years before parliament; Henry Warburton, M.P. got a petition drawn up for him in Aug. 1846. High treason. Narrative of the arrest of P. T. Lemaitre 2 ed. (1795).