Note.—His petition to the House of Commons, states that he was then in the 70th year of his age, was one of those persons, who during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus act, were arrested and confined in prison for long periods of time on charges of traitorously conspiring against the King’s person and government, of which persons he was nearly the sole survivor, alleges his innocence of the charges brought against him, and prays that the House would be pleased to take his petition into consideration and afford him redress. It was presented and read and ordered to lie upon the table 13 Aug. 1846, ordered to be printed 14 Aug.
LEMAN, James. b. 1794; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1819 to death; member of council of incorporated law society 19 June 1851 to 1869, vice pres. 1862–3, pres. 1863–64. d. 29 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 9 April 1876. Solicitors’ Journal, xx 492 (1876).
LEMANN, Charles Morgan. b. London 1806; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1828, M.D. 1833; Fellow Linnean soc. 1831; F.C.P. Lond. 1836; physician to lord Warwick’s family in Italy 1834–5; formed an herbarium of plants from Spain, Italy, America, Brazil, Guinea, the Cape and Australia consisting of 30,000 specimens, which was given by his brother Frederick Lemann to the university of Cambridge. d. Bathampton near Bath 26 Aug. 1852. Proc. of Linnean Soc. ii 234–5 (1855).
LE MARCHANT, Sir Denis, 1 Baronet (2 son of John Gaspard Le Marchant, major general 1766–1812). b. Newcastle 3 July 1795; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; chief sec. to lord chancellor Brougham 1830–34; clerk of the crown in chancery 30 July 1834 to 1836; sec. to board of trade 1836–40 and 1848–50; joint sec. to the treasury 19 June 1841 to 21 May 1844; baronet 14 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Worcester 1846 to 1847; under sec. of state for home department 1847–8; chief clerk to house of commons 30 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1871; author of Report of the proceedings of the house of lords in the claim to the barony of Gardner 1828; The reform ministry and the reform parliament 1834, nine editions; Memoirs of general Le Marchant 1841, privately printed 90 copies; Memoirs of John Charles, viscount Althorp 1876; edited Horace Walpole’s Memoirs of the reign of George III. with notes 1845. d. 21 Belgrave road, London 30 Oct. 1874. I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1851, portrait, lxv 475, 489 (1874) portrait, lxvi 187 (1875); Law Times 7 Nov. 1874 p. 17.
LE MARCHANT, Sir John Gaspard (brother of the preceding). b. 1803; ensign 10 foot 26 Oct. 1820; lieut. 57 foot 1821, captain 1825; captain 98 foot 1826, major 1832–5; adjutant general to Anglo-Spanish legion and brigadier general in the Spanish army 1835–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838 for his service in Spain; permitted to wear Spanish decorations of San Fernando and Charles III.; lieut.-col. 99 foot 18 Oct. 1839 to 27 Sep. 1842; inspecting field officer recruiting district South of Ireland 1842–6; lieut. col. of 85 foot 19 June 1846 to 29 Dec. 1846; lieut. governor of Newfoundland 1846–52 and of Nova Scotia 1852–57; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1859 to 15 Nov. 1864; commander-in-chief at Madras 25 May 1865 to 8 Nov. 1867; col. of 11 foot 3 Sep. 1862 to death; general 6 May 1872; G.C.M.G. 1860; K.C.B. 9 Oct. 1865. d. 80 St. George’s square, London 6 Feb. 1874.
LE MESSURIER, Alexander Peter. b. 1797 or 1798; entered Bombay army 1819; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 8 Oct. 1839, lieut.-col. 1 Dec. 1851 to 28 Nov. 1854; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I. 28 Nov. 1854 to 1856, of 10 N.I. 1856–7, of 12 N.I. 1857–60, of 10 N.I. again 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with rank of M.G. d. 5 Inverness place, Hyde park, London 17 Feb. 1876.
LE MESSURIER, Augustus Smith. b. 1800; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1821; practised with great success at Bombay 30 years; advocate general of presidency of Bombay 1847 to 1857 when he returned to England. d. 50 Upper Baker st. Portman square, London 8 Dec. 1876. Solicitors’ Journal 16 Dec. 1876 p. 132.
LE MESSURIER, George Paul. Entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 2 Bombay N.I. 4 Jany. 1819; captain 14 N.I. 22 July 1826, major 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 March 1846; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 1846–8, of 24 N.I. 1848–9, of 22 N.I. 1849 to death. d. Wimpole st. London 6 Feb. 1852.
LEMOINNE, John Emile. b. London 17 Oct. 1815, and first educated in England; joined staff of the Journal des Débats 1840, with which paper he remained to his death; member of French academy 13 May 1875; a life senator 23 Feb. 1880; author of Wellington from a French point of view 1852; Etudes critiques et biographiques 1862; and of Letters of J. Lemoinne on the exhibition of 1851, in D. Lardner’s The Great exhibition 1852. d. Paris 14 Dec. 1892. The Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p. 14, portrait.
LEMON, Sir Charles, 2 Baronet (3 son of sir Wm. Lemon 1748–1824). b. Whitehall, London 30 Sep. 1784; ed. Harrow; M.A. of Camb. univ. 1833; M.P. Penryn 1807–12, and 1830–31; M.P. Cornwall 1831–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832–41 and 1842–57; F.R.S. 23 May 1822; a founder of Statistical soc. 1834, and a trustee 1838; president R. Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1833 to death; president R. Geological soc. of Cornwall 1840–50; provincial grand master of freemasons of Cornwall 1843–63; a commissioner for enquiring into state of British museum 11 June 1847; special deputy warden of the Stannaries 1852; made a collection of exotic trees and shrubs at Carclew; author of On the proposed tariff as it affects tin, copper and timber used in mines 1842, and other pamphlets. d. Carclew near Penryn, Cornwall 12 Feb. 1868. bur. Mylor ch. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 314–15, 1267.