LETHEBY, Henry. b. Plymouth 1816; L.S.A. 1837; M.B. London 1842; M.A. and Ph. D. of a German university; lecturer on chemistry and toxicology at London hospital; medical officer of health and analyst of food for city of London, Oct. 1855, resigned 1874; chief examiner of gas for metropolis under board of trade; F.L.S., F.C.S.; wrote many papers in The Lancet and other scientific periodicals; author of Reports on the sanitary condition of London 3 vols. 1856–7; Reports to the commissioners of sewers 3 vols. 1856–58; On food, its varieties, composition, nutritive value, adulteration, etc. Cantor lectures 1870, 2 ed. 1872. d. 17 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 28 March 1876. bur. Highgate cemet. 1 April. Medical Press and Circular, i 290–91, 306 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii 373, 374 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xiii 366, 381 (1876), portrait.
LE THIERE, Sophie Adéle Guillon (eld. dau. of Madame Michaud, professor of dancing). Professor of dancing under name of Madame Adelaide at 109 New Bond st. London 1855 to death. d. 109 New Bond st. 5 March 1883.
LETTS, Thomas (son of John Letts of London, bookbinder). b. Stockwell, London 1803; stationer with his father at 95 Cornhill, succeeded to the business, carried it on at 8 Royal Exchange 1838 to death; devoted himself specially to manufacture of diaries, of which he was issuing 28 varieties in 1839, also issued interest tables, medical diaries, office calendars, &c. of which he sold several hundred thousand annually; erected large factories at North road, New Cross 1865, the business was turned into a limited liability company shortly after his death, but in 1885 the company went into liquidation, and the business was purchased by Cassell & Co.; Lett’s Diaries are descanted on by Thackeray in his Roundabout Papers No. 18 in Cornhill Mag. Jany. 1862. d. Granville park, Lewisham 9 Aug. 1873.
LETTSOM, William Garrow. b. 1804; attaché at Berlin 5 Aug. 1831, at Munich 1834; paid attaché at Washington 21 Dec. 1840; sec. of legation at Mexico 12 July 1854, and chargé d’affaires 4 May 1855 to 19 May 1858; chargé d’affaires and consul general to Uruguay 9 Sep. 1859, retired on a pension of £900, 29 July 1869; F.R.A.S.; author with R. P. Greg of Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland 1858. d. 142 Norwood road, Lower Norwood, Surrey 14 Dec. 1887.
LETTSOM, William Nanson (son of John Miers Lettsom, physician 1771–99). b. 4 Feb. 1796; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, where he printed Epigrammata numismate annuo dignata 1816; Poema numismate annus dignatum 1816; author of The fall of the Nibelungers: otherwise the book of Kriemhild, a translation 1850, 2 ed. 1873; The song of Flogawaya 1856, anon., a parody on Hiawatha; edited W. S. Walker’s Shakespeare’s Versification 1854 and his A critical examination of the text of Shakespeare 1860. d. 43 Westbourne park, London 3 Sep. 1865.
LEUPOLT, Charles Benjamin. b. 1805; ed. Missionary coll. Basel, Switzerland; ordained by Bp. of Lincoln 1831; missionary of Church missionary soc. at Benares 1832–72; R. of Brampton, Norfolk 1874 to death; author of Recollections of an Indian missionary 1846, 2 ed. 1863; Further recollections of an Indian missionary 1884, portrait. d. Marsham hall, Norwich 16 Dec. 1884.
LEVANDER, Henry Charles (1 son of James Levander). b. Norwich 1826; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1863; a classical master in Univ. coll. sch. London 1866–84; a great freemason; F.R.A.S. 12 April 1872; author of The public school French grammar by A. Brachet, revised by P. H. E. Brette and H. C. Levander 1884, new ed. 1884. d. 30 North villas, Camden sq. London 4 Dec. 1884. bur. West Hampstead cemetery 6 Dec. Monthly notices R. Astronom. soc. xlv 193 (1885).
LEVEN and MELVILLE, David Leslie-Melville, Earl of. b. Spring gardens, London 22 June 1785; styled Viscount Balgonie 1785–1820; lieut. R.N. 8 Aug. 1806, captain 28 Feb. 1812; succeeded his father as 11 Earl of Leven and 8 Earl of Melville 22 Feb. 1820; R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired V.A. 27 Sep. 1855; representative peer for Scotland 1831 to death. d. Melville house, Fifeshire 8 Oct. 1860.
LEVEN and MELVILLE, John Thornton Leslie-Melville, Earl of. b. 18 Dec. 1786; succeeded his brother 8 Oct. 1860 as 12 Earl of Leven and 9 Earl of Melville; a representative peer for Scotland 1865 to death. d. Glenferness near Dunphail, Nairnshire 18 Sep. 1876, personalty under £300,000, 2 Oct. 1876. I.L.N. lxix 324, 327 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xiv 337, 339 (1876), portrait.
LEVER, Charles (son of Ellis Lever). b. Gorton near Manchester 15 Feb. 1862; member of majority of the electrical societies in Europe and America; patented his electric lamp 1881; had a diploma for his services at London fisheries exhibition 1883; resided at Culcheth hall, Bowden, Cheshire; found dead in his bed at the res. of his father Tan-y-Bryn, Colwyn bay, Carnarvon 5 Jany. 1890. I.L.N. 25 Jany. 1890 p. 111, portrait.