LEMON, Mark (eld. son of Martin Lemon, hop merchant, who m. 27 Dec. 1808 Alice Collis and d. 21 Jany. 1818 aged 32). b. Oxford st. London 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; learnt business of a hop merchant from his uncle Thomas Collis of Boston, Lincoln 1824; manager of Verey’s brewery, Kentish Town, London; retailer of beer at 24 Lambeth Walk, Vauxhall 1837–41; his first play, P.L. or No. 30 Strand, was produced at Strand theatre 25 April 1835; his 5 act drama in blank verse Arnold of Winkelried produced at Surrey theatre, July 1835; The Avenge produced at City of London theatre opening night 27 April 1837; his 5 act play The Turf produced at Covent Garden 1842; Hearts are trumps, at Strand theatre 1849; wrote about 60 plays; lived at 11 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 1852–9; contributed to Household Works, Once a Week, &c.; edited The London Journal 1858–9, The Family Herald, Once a Week; started The Field 1 Jany. 1853, edited it; secretary to Herbert Ingram founder of Illustrated London News, for which he wrote the first Christmas supplement; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner with Henry Mayhew of a third share in it, edited it to his death, at a salary originally 30/-a week and latterly £1500 per annum; an amateur actor from 1845; gave a series of lectures called About London, at Gallery of Illustration 6 Jany. 1862 to 1863; arranged and played chief part in a series of scenes from the Merry Wives of Windsor entitled Falstaff, at Gallery of Illustration, Regent st. from 12 Oct. 1868, and in North of England and Scotland 1868–9; author of The enchanted doll 1849 and other fairy tales; also of Wait for the end 3 vols. 1863 and other novels and about 100 songs. (m. 28 Sep. 1839 Helen dau. of John Romer of Upper Chelsea, jeweller, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 3 May 1872 and d. Nov. 1890). He d. Vine cottage, Crawley, Sussex 23 May 1870. bur. Ifield 27 May. Illustrated Rev. 15 Feb. 1872 pp. 481–88, portrait; J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 49–60; Appleton’s Journal, viii 493–5, portrait; E. Walford’s Representative men (1868), portrait; J. Hatton’s With a show in the north. Reminiscences of Mark Lemon (1871), portrait; The Mask (1868) 65–7, portrait; I.L.N. vii 348 (1845), portrait.
Note.—Mr. Edward Walford, M.A., states in Notes and Queries 16 June 1888 p. 478 that Mark Lemon told him the place of his birth was a house included in the Crystal Palace bazaar just behind Peter Robinson’s emporium, this was probably the present No. 228 Oxford St. formerly No. 108 down to 1881 when all the houses in Oxford st. west of Tottenham Court road were renumbered. There is a portrait of Lemon by John Leech in his two-page cartoon called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 as the conductor of the orchestra. In Alfred Bunn’s A word with Punch 1847 Lemon is spoken of as Thickhead, there is a portrait representing him as a pot boy and it is suggested that he was a tailor and vastly like Moses. He wrote the first article in the first number of Punch entitled The Moral of Punch. The rev. J. Richardson, LL.B. states in his Recollections of the last half century vol. 1 (1856) 80–2 that Lemon kept the Shakespeare’s Head tavern in Wych st. Strand for one year after his marriage. In “Mr. Punch: his origin and career” [1870] there is a facsimile of the original prospectus of Punch in the handwriting of Lemon.
LEMON, Robert (son of Robert Lemon, archivist 1779–1835). b. 1800; employed in state paper office under his father, senior clerk Nov. 1835; compiled indexes to Valor ecclesiasticus temp. Hen. VIII. 1834; suggested publishing the Calendars of state papers and interpreted a cypher which had rendered many of them unintelligible; edited Calendars of state papers Domestic series 1547–90, 2 vols. 1856–65; F.S.A. 3 March 1836, rearranged the society’s library 1846; author of Catalogue of a collection of broadsides 1866. d. 10 Ovington sq. Brompton, London 3 Jany. 1867. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. iii 481–2 (1867).
LEMON, Thomas (1 son of Thomas Lemon, lieut.-col. R.M. d. 4 Aug. 1856). b. St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester 22 June 1807; 2 lieut. R.M. 8 Oct. 1827; col. commandant 6 March 1862 to death; L.G. 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 20 May 1859. d. Plymouth 22 Feb. 1875.
LEMPRIERE, George Ourry. b. 11 March 1787; captain R.N. 27 May 1825; retired admiral 3 Dec. 1863. d. Pelham, Hants. 16 Jany. 1864.
LENDRICK, James William John. b. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist and Law’s mathematical prizeman 1810; B. A. 1810, M.A. 1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 16 June 1859; chairman of quarter sessions for counties of Londonderry and Wicklow nearly 34 years. d. 114 Pembroke road, Dublin 19 Jany. 1872. Irish Law Times 27 Jany. 1872 p. 47.
LENDY, Auguste Frederic. b. 1826; captain of the French army staff; came to England as military tutor to the Orlean princes 1848; started a private military college at Sunbury house, Sunbury-on-Thames; a successful ‘crammer’ for the army; lieut. 4th or royal South Middlesex militia 24 Nov. 1862, captain 2 May 1866, retired with hon. rank of major 1 Feb. 1879; an amateur grower of orchids; author of The principles of war 1853; Elements of fortification 1857; Maxims, advice and instruction on the art of war 1857, new ed. 1864; Campaigns of Napoleon and of Wellington 1861, nineteen parts; A practical course of military surveying 1864. d. Riverside house, Sunbury-on-Thames 10 Oct. 1889. Broad Arrow 19 Oct. 1889 p. 479; Gardener’s Mag. 19 Oct. 1889.
LENNARD, Thomas Barrett (1 son of sir T. B. Lennard, bart. 1761–1857). b. 4 Oct. 1788; ed. Charterhouse and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; M.P. Ipswich 1820–6; M.P. Maldon 1826–37 and 1847–52; contested Maldon 26 July 1837; F.S.A. 22 May 1851. d. Brighton 9 June 1856.
LENNIE, William. b. 1779; taught English at Edinburgh 1802 to death; author of The principles of English grammar 1821, 85th ed. Edinb. 1886; left an endowment of £10 a year to a school at Craigend, Perthshire; left by his will to town council of Edinburgh the lands of Auchenresch, Dumfriesshire for founding in univ. of Edinb. four bursaries of £12 each to be called the Lennie bursaries. d. 23 St. Andrew’s sq. Edinburgh 20 July 1852.
LENNOCK, George Gustavus. b. 1776 or 1777; entered navy April 1789; in command of the Raven 16 guns attacked 14 brigs at Flushing and drove 3 of them on shore 3 July 1812; captain 4 June 1814; in command of the Esk 20 guns had an action with the Grampus and Terpsichore two American vessels 1814; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Broomrig, co. Dumfries 12 May 1866.