LEONARD, John Patrick. b. Ireland; connected with sir C. G. Duffy in the 1848 movement in Ireland; a resident in Paris from 1849; professor of English in the Collége Chaptal to death; a medical man in Franco-German war, attended marshall Mac Mahon when wounded outside Sedan Aug. 1870, very friendly with the marshall and the duchess of Magenta; published Sermon on behalf of the distressed Irish by G. Mermillod, bishop of Hebron, a translation 1862. d. Paris, Aug. 1889. bur. Ballymor near Queenstown 27 Oct.
LEONARD, Peter. b. St. Vigeans, Arbroath 1801; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1822; M.D. of St. Andrew’s 1851; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; surgeon R.N. 6 March 1823, fleet surgeon 1829; inspector general of hospitals 15 March 1865, retired 19 Sep. 1866; first inspector general under contagious diseases act and organizer of the administration 1866; wrote a Naval medical journal of services in South America, for which he received sir G. Blaine’s gold medal; deputy inspector general at Chatham, then at Haslar; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £100 a year 24 March 1871; author of Records of a voyage to the Western coast of Africa and of the service in that station for the suppression of the slave trade. Edinb. 1833. d. Arbroath 2 May 1888.
LEOPOLD, George Christian Frederick, king of the Belgians as Leopold I. (3 son of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of Saxe-Cobourg 1750–1806). b. Cobourg 16 Dec. 1790; came to England in 1814 and lived in lodgings at a grocer’s at 21 High st. Marylebone; came to England 20 Feb. 1816; naturalized by act 56 George III. cap. 13, 29 March 1816; granted Claremont house and grounds for his life. m. 2 May 1816 the princess Charlotte Augusta only child of George IV., she d. at Claremont 6 Nov. 1817; G.C.H. 22 March 1816; a general 2 May 1816 and field marshall 24 May 1816; G.C.B. 23 May 1816; K.G. 23 May 1816; P.C. 1 July 1816; entered into a marriage contract with Karoline Bauer a German actress 2 July 1829 and lived with her in London till June 1830 when contract was dissolved; declined the throne of Greece, May 1830; resided at Claremont till 16 July 1831; elected king of the Belgians 4 June and ascended the throne 22 July 1831. m. (2) 9 Aug. 1832 the princess Louise eld. dau. of Louis Philippe king of the French, she d. 11 Oct. 1850; the income of £50,000 settled on him in 1816 he continued to hold after he became king, but after paying for keeping up Claremont, servants’ pensions, &c. he annually returned the balance of about £38,000 into the exchequer. d. Palace of Laeken 10 Dec. 1865. Lady Rose Weigall’s Brief memoir of the Princess Charlotte (1874); The Princess Charlotte of Wales. By Mrs. C. R. Jones (1885), portraits; Authentic Memoirs of the princess Charlotte (1817) portrait; Memoirs of prince Leopold (1817), portrait; Westminster Review, April 1885 pp. 460–88; Posthumous memoirs of Karoline Bauer ii 34–336 (1884); Martin’s Life of prince consort, ii 249 (1876), portrait; Illustrated Times 30 Dec. 1865 p. 413, portrait.
LEOTARD, Monsieur. b. Toulouse, France 1 Aug. 1838; performer on the flying trapèze abroad; introduced the trapèze performance into England, first appearing at the Alhambra palace, London 20 May 1861; performed at Alhambra again 1866 and reappeared there 9 April 1868; broke his leg performing at Madrid, May 1865; made his début in America at Academy of Music, New York 29 Oct. 1868, returned to Europe 14 Nov. having made a great failure in New York. d. of small pox at Toulouse about 16 Aug. 1870. Memoires de Léotard. Paris (1860), portrait; C. Spencer’s Modern gymnast (1866) 102 etc.
LEPARD, John. Bookseller at 108 Strand, London 1818–20; member of firm of booksellers known as Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Lepard at the Temple of the Muses, 23 Finsbury place, London 1820–5; partner with Joseph Harding at 4 Pall Mall east 1825–39; connected with Day & Martin, blacking manufacturers, 97 High Holborn in 1859. d. Hampstead 16 Oct. 1878 aged 87.
LEPPINGTON, John Crosby (son of rev. John C. Leppington d. 1833). b. Sunderland 21 Oct. 1807; ed. at Woodhouse grove school 1815; preached when quite a child; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Melton Mowbray 1832; became a supernumerary in London 1849 refusing to receive any support from the Connexional funds; wrote much for the Wesleyan Mag.; author of The confessional in the Church of England, and other essays on the Anglican controversy 1860. d. near London 7 July 1859. bur. Highgate cemetery.
LE QUESNE, Charles (eld. son of Nicholas Le Quesne a jurat of the royal court, Jersey, d. 1847). b. Jersey 1811; a jurat of the royal court, Jersey 2 July 1850 to death; president of Jersey chamber of commerce; a member of the states of Jersey; an officer in Jersey artillery many years; author of Ireland and the Channel islands, or a remedy for Ireland 1848; A constitutional history of Jersey 1856. d. Gloucester st. St. Heliers, Jersey 18 Aug. 1856. bur. Green st. cemetery 22 Aug. J. B. Payne’s Armorial of Jersey (1865) 250; The Jersey Independent 23 Aug. 1856 p. 2.
LESCHALLAS, John. Builder at 10 Booth st. Spitalfields, London to death; resided at Page green, Tottenham, Middlesex, where he d. 18 Oct. 1877 in 86 year; will proved 3 Dec. under £500,000; left sums of £500 each to 13 hospitals and institutions. The Times 7 Dec. 1877 p. 9.
LESLIE, Arthur. b. 1817; ensign 8 foot 20 Nov. 1838; captain 40 foot 19 June 1846, lieut.-col. 6 Aug. 1858 to 8 June 1867; C.B. 2 May 1862. d. Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 12 Sep. 1878.
LESLIE, Charles (1 son of John Leslie 1772–1854, bishop of Elphin 1819). b. 7 Oct. 1810; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; incumbent of Drung, co. Cavan; vicar general of Ardagh to March 1870; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, March 1870, consecrated 19 April 1870, enthroned in Kilmore cathedral 26 May 1870; the first bp. appointed after the disestablishment of the Irish ch. d. the Parsonage house, Drung, co. Cavan 8 July 1870. bur. Kilmore 14 July. The Times 11 July 1870 p. 5.