LEVER, Charles James (younger son of James Lever of Dublin, builder 1763–1833). b. Amiens st. Dublin 31 Aug. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin as a pensioner 14 Oct. 1822, B.A. 1827, B.M. 1831, LL.D. 1871; M.D. Louvain; practised as a physician at Derry and Coleraine; became a contributor to Dublin Univ. mag. May 1836 and editor March 1842 to 1845; physician at Brussels 1837–41; travelled in Germany and Italy 1845–58; vice consul at Spezzia 26 Nov. 1858 to 13 Feb. 1867 when the post was abolished; consul general at Trieste 2 March 1867 to death; author of The confessions of Harry Lorrequer. Dublin 1839, anon.; Charles O’Malley the Irish dragoon. Edited by Harry Lorrequer 2 vols. 1841; Arthur O’Leary: his wanderings and ponderings in many lands. Edited by his friend Harry Lorrequer 3 vols. 1844; Our Mess, vol. 1 Jack Hinton the guardsman, vols. 2 and 3 Tom Burke of ours 3 vols. 1843; The knight of Gwynne 2 vols. 1847; The O’Donoghue 1845; Diary and notes of Horace Templeton, Esq. 2 vols. 1848, anon.; The confessions of Con Cregan the Irish Gil Blas 2 vols. 1849, anon.; Roland Cashel 2 vols. 1850; The Daltons 2 vols. 1852; Lord Kilgobbin 3 vols. 1872; Novels, new ed. illustrated 33 vols. 1876–8. d. Trieste 1 June 1872. Fitzpatrick’s Life of C. Lever 2 vols. (1879), New ed. (1884), portrait; Illustrated Rev. ii 1–5 (1870), portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 98–100, portrait; Modern men of letters by J. H. Friswell (1870) 171–82 Dublin Univ. Mag. (1880) 465, 570; Blackwood’s Mag. April 1862 pp. 452–72, July 1872 pp. 129–30, and Sep. 1872 pp. 327–60; I.L.N. lx 581, 582 (1872), portrait, lxi 431 (1872); Graphic, v 600, 611 (1872), portrait.
Note.—His only son Charles Sidney Lever, lieutenant 2 dragoon guards 1860–2, d. Florence 28 Sep. 1863 aged 26.
LEVER, John Charles Weaver. b. Plumstead, Kent 28 Sep. 1811; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1834; M.D. Giessen 1842; M.R.C.P. 1842; surgeon Bridgehouse place, Newington-causeway, Surrey 1834–42; president Hunterian soc.; physician 12 Wellington st. London bridge 1842 to death, he almost monopolized the consulting practice of the south of London; lecturer on midwifery and physician-accoucheur Guy’s hospital 1845; author of Case of hidrosis or hidrotic fever 1837; A treatise on diseases of the uterus 1843. d. London 29 Dec. 1858. Lancet, i 75 (1859); Catalogue Surgeon general’s library, viii 89 (1887).
LEVERELL, W. H. b. London 1 Dec. 1832; ed. Kingston gram. sch.; apprentice to Cox & Son, printers, London; a sculler; took part in the swimming races 1846–53; swam many times at the Holborn baths, where in 1852 he was the champion swimmer; in the light division in the Crimea 1854–5, attached to the land transport corps, went on two expeditions to Kertch, received Sebastopol and Turkish medals; again a printer; on staff of Bell’s Life in London from March 1870; connected also with The Field and The Glowworm. d. London 24 April 1886. bur. Brompton cemetery 30 April. Sporting Mirror, ii 165–6 (1881), portrait.
LEVESON, Henry Astbury. b. 18 June 1828; entered Madras army 10 Jany. 1845, ensign 13 Madras N.I. 2 April 1845, lieut. 15 Dec. 1846, resigned 15 April 1853; a well known sportsman in India 1845–53; on Turkish staff in Crimean war, being only English officer so employed; at the Alma, at Inkerman and at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served with Garibaldi in 1860; colonial sec. at Lagos 1863, where in fighting the natives he received an iron bullet in his head, from the effect of which he never fully recovered, invalided home 8 Feb. 1864, voted £500 by the colony and £500 by parliament; served in the Abyssinian war 1868; killed more game in all parts of the world than any other man; author of The spear and the rifle, or recollections of sport in India. By An Old Shekarree 1860; The hunting grounds of the old world 1860; England rendered impregnable by the organisation and equipment of national forces 1871; The forest and the field. By H.A.L., the Old Shekarree 1867, 2 ed. 1874; Camp life and its acquirements for soldiers, travellers and sportsmen 1872; Wrinkles or hints to sportsmen and travellers 1874. d. at residence of his mother 4 Lansdowne terrace west, Brighton 7 Sep. 1875. Sport in many lands. By H.A.L. 2 vols. (1879), memoir vol. i pp. xv–xxxii, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, iii 585, 587 (1875), portrait.
LEVETT, John. b. Battersea, Surrey 1 June 1826; ran John Tetlow of Hollingwood 4 miles for £50, Hyde Park, Sheffield 16 March 1852; ran George Frost the Suffolk stag for £100, the championship and belt, Copenhagen grounds, Islington 22 March 1852 running 10 miles and 252 yards in 52 min. 35 sec.; won the 20 mile race at Copenhagen grounds 29 March 1852; ran Richard Manks the Warwickshire Antelope for £50 at Hyde park, Sheffield 3 Dec. 1855 eleven miles in 1 hour; one of best known long distance runners; sprained his tendon Achilles about 1861 and had to give up running; a trainer of pedestrians; wrote a series of papers on How to train, in Illust. Sport. News 1862; wrote a farce produced at Queen’s Royal theatre, Dublin, in which he himself appeared 1861. Illust. Sporting News (1862) 53, 100, 2 portraits.
LEVEY, George. b. at place afterwards known as Westward Ho, Devon 12 Oct. 1802; member of firm of Levey, Robson and Franklyn, printers at 46 St. Martin’s lane, London 1836–41, then at 24 Great New st. 1841–64, carried on business alone at same address 1864–70, afterwards at 1 and 2 West Harding st. 1870 to death; author of Specimens of printing types in office of Levey, Robson and Franklyn 1850, in 20 languages. d. Camberwell 2 Feb. 1873.
LEVEY, John (youngest son of Richard Michael Levey of Dublin). An Irish character actor; dramatist; author of many pantomimes played in Yorkshire and Lancashire; lessee of several theatres. d. Seaforth, Liverpool 17 Sep. 1891. bur. in ground of R.C. chapel, Crosby.
LEVI, Leone (2 son of Isaac Levi a Jewish merchant at Ancona). b. Ancona 6 June 1821; entered office of his brother a merchant 1836; merchant at Liverpool 1844–7; naturalised 16 Jany. 1847; clerk in a mercantile house at Liverpool; advocated chambers of commerce; hon. sec. of Liverpool chamber of commerce 1849; lectured in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and elsewhere 1851–2; professor of principles and practice of commerce at King’s college, London 1852 to death; fellow of Statistical Soc. 1851, member of council 1860, vice pres. 1885; F.S.A. 14 Dec. 1854; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; a knight of the Italian orders of SS. Mauritius and Lazarus and of the Crown of Italy; became a member of Presbyterian church in England about 1846; author of Commercial law, its principles and administration 2 vols. 1851–2, 2nd ed. entitled International commercial law 2 vols. 1863; The law of nature and nations as affected by divine law 1855; Annals of British legislation 18 vols. 1856–68; History of British commerce and of the economic progress of the British nation 1763–1870. 1872, 2 ed. 1880. d. 31 Highbury grove, Highbury, London 7 May 1888. bur. Highgate cemet. 12 May. L. Levi’s The story of my life. Privately printed (1888); Journal of royal statistical soc. li 340–2 (1888); I.L.N. xxvi 653, 654 (1855), portrait; London Figaro 19 May 1888 p. 11, portrait; Law Journal, xxiii 259 (1888).
LEVICKE, Henry. The first European who took up his permanent abode at Suez 1846; pioneer of the mail service through Egypt; assisted lieut. Waghorn in arranging overland route 1845, often accompanied the dromedary mail across the desert; the first English acting vice-consul at Suez 1839 to June 1851; packet agent and postmaster to Her Majesty and agent to the H.E.I.Co.; the government ignored his claim to a pension for 41 years service. d. Dieppe, Oct. 1887. bur. there 28 Oct., left a widow and 22 children.