LENNOX, Alexander Francis Charles Gordon (son of 5 duke of Richmond 1791–1860). b. 14 June 1825; cornet royal horse guards 8 Feb. 1842, capt. 30 March 1847, sold out 14 May 1852; M.P. Shoreham 1849–59. d. 25 Pont st. London 22 Jany. 1892.
LENNOX, Arthur Gordon (7 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819). b. 2 Oct. 1806; ensign 71 foot 24 June 1823, major 6 July 1838 to 14 April 1843; lieut.-col. 72 foot 14 April 1843, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1845; lieut.-col. 68 foot 14 Sep. 1852, sold out 30 Dec. 1853; a lord of the treasury 21 May 1844 to 8 Aug. 1845; a clerk of the ordnance 7 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; M.P. for Chichester 1831–46 when he voted for free trade and accepted the Chiltern hundreds; returned for Yarmouth 29 July 1847, unseated on petition 8 July 1848; lieut.-col. commandant 1 royal Sussex militia 14 Dec. 1854 to death. d. Ovington sq. Brompton, London 15 Jany. 1864.
LENNOX, George Charles Gordon (4 son of 5 duke of Richmond 1791–1860). b. Goodwood 22 Oct. 1829; cornet royal horse guards 3 April 1846, lieut. 14 May 1852, sold out 22 April 1853; M.P. Lymington 1860–74. d. 27 Berkeley square, London 27 Feb. 1877.
LENNOX, Henry George Charles Gordon (brother of the preceding). b. Goodwood, Sussex 2 Nov. 1821; ed. at Westminster 1836–40 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; M.P. Chichester 1846–85; a lord of the treasury 28 Feb. 1852 to 20 Dec. 1852 and 1 March 1858 to 14 March 1859; sec. to admiralty July 1866 to Dec. 1868; P.C. 7 July 1874; president of board of works Feb. 1874 to July 1876; author of A winter in Madeira 1881; Forewarned, forearmed, a statement of the strength of the English and French navies 1882, 2 ed. 1882. d. at his res. near Chichester 28 Aug. 1886.
LENNOX, John George Gordon (2 son of 4 duke of Richmond. 1764–1819). b. 3 Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster; cornet 13 dragoons 24 Oct. 1811; captain 9 dragoons 27 June 1816, placed on h.p. 25 June 1823; A.D.C. to duke of Wellington 1813; lieut.-col. in the army 12 June 1823; gentleman of bedchamber to prince Albert; M.P. Chichester 1819–31; M.P. Sussex 1831–2; M.P. West Sussex 1832–41. d. Darland, Chatham 10 Nov. 1873. I.L.N. lxiii 495 (1873).
LENNOX, William George. b. 1797 or 1798; entered Bengal army 1817; ensign 22 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1818; captain 43 N.I. 23 April 1830, major 11 Nov. 1847 to 14 July 1853; lieut.-col. of 67 N.I. 14 July 1853–4, of 38 N.I. 1854–6, of 22 N.I. 1856–7, of 34 N.I. 1857–9, of 63 N.I. 1859–61, of 9 N.I. 1861; retired with rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Glasgow 5 May 1884.
LENNOX, William Pitt (4 son of 4 duke of Richmond 1764–1819). b. Winestead abbey, Yorkshire 20 Sep. 1799; ed. at Westminster 1808–13; cornet royal horse guards 13 May 1813, captain 28 March 1822, sold out 25 March 1829; went to Paris with Duke of Wellington as attaché 8 Aug. 1814, A.D.C. to the Duke 1815–8; an extra A.D.C. to his father while governor general of Canada 1818–9; one of the pages at coronation of George IV. 19 July 1821; M.P. King’s Lynn 10 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; edited The Review newspaper 1858; contributed to the Annuals, Once a Week and the Court Journal; gave many lectures; is depicted by Disraeli in Vivian Grey as Lord Prima Donna; author of Compton Audley, or hands not hearts 3 vols. 1841; The tuft hunter 3 vols. 1843; The story of my life 3 vols. 1857; Recreations of a sportsman 2 vols. 1862; Life of the Fifth Duke of Richmond 1862, anon., and many other books. d. 34 Hans place, Sloane st. London 18 Feb. 1881. W. P. Lennox’s Fifty years reminiscences 2 vols. (1863); W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections 2 vols. (1874).
LENTAIGNE, Sir John Francis O’Neill (1 son of Benjamin Lentaigne of Dublin, physician, d. 1813). b. 20 June 1803; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.B. 1828; L.R.C.S.I 1830, F.R.C.S.I. 1844; government comr. of loan funds 1841; inspector general of prisons, Ireland 1854–77; governor of Richmond district lunatic asylum; sheriff of Monaghan 1844; contested co. Dublin 26 July 1852; a comr. of national education Ireland 1861 to death; president of Zoological soc; president of Statistical soc.; M.R.I.A.; C.B. 27 March 1873, K.C.B. 28 April 1880; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland at Dublin castle 28 April 1880; knight of order of Pius IX. d. 1 Great Denmark st. Dublin 12 Nov. 1886.
LENTHALL, Francis Kyffin (3 son of Kyffin John William Lenthall 1789–1870). b. 30 March 1824; a lineal descendant of William Lenthall the speaker, through whom he owned Besselsleigh manor near Abingdon; barrister L.I. 1 May 1846; recorder of Woodstock, Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1885; assist. revising barrister for county and city of Worcester 1868, and for Gloucestershire 1869; author of Correspondence by F. K. Lenthall and others respecting the memorial to Lord Romilly 1866. d. Besselsleigh manor, Berks. Jany. 1892.
LEONARD, Denis. b. Kilkenny 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; an attorney; appeared at a minor London theatre under name of Mr. O’Neil; played sir Lucius O’Trigger at the Haymarket; acted in America, the Southern States and Canada; acted in the provinces; again visited America; the leading Irish actor of his time; played Richmond to Kean’s Richard III. in Belfast 1830; played all Tyrone Power’s Irish parts at the Haymarket, at the T.R. Dublin 1843 &c. and in America; his drama The Foster Brothers produced in Belfast about 1867; an attorney in Belfast and law agent for marquess of Downshire. d. 8 Cromwell terrace, Belfast 31 May 1878.