LEVIEN, Edward (1 son of John Levien of Marylebone). b. 1819; ed. Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846; connected with univ. of Glasgow; assistant in MS. department, British museum 6 May 1850 to 1874; hon. sec. of British Archæol. Association, editor of the Annual Proceedings and writer of many papers in the Journal; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1858; author of A brief description of the town of Hadleigh in Suffolk 1853; Outlines of the history of Greece by W. D. Hamilton and E. Levien 1853; Outlines of the history of Rome 2 vols. 1855–6, never finished; Memoirs of Socrates for English readers, with notes 1872. d. 24 Camden st. London 7 Nov. 1874. Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xxi 229 (1875).
LEVINGE, Sir Richard George Augustus, 7 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Richard Levinge, 6 baronet 1765–1848). b. 1 Nov. 1811; ensign 43 foot 25 Nov. 1828, lieut. 8 April 1834; served in suppression of Canadian rebellion 1837–8; placed on h.p. with rank of captain 15 May 1840; captain 5 dragoon guards 27 Jany. 1843, sold out same day; lieut.-col. of Westmeath militia 3 Jany. 1846 to 22 Aug. 1850; sheriff of Westmeath 1851; contested Westmeath 22 July 1852 and 13 Feb. 1874; M.P. for Westmeath 1857 to 1865; author of Echoes from the backwoods, or sketches of transatlantic life 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1859; Historical notices of the Levinge family. Ledestown 1853; A day with the Brookside harriers at Brighton 1858; Historical records of the forty third regiment Monmouthshire light infantry 1868. d. Brussels 28 Sep. 1884.
LEVY, Amy (2 dau. of Lewis Levy of London). b. 16 Percy place, Clapham road, Surrey 1862; ed. at Brighton and Newnham coll. Camb. 1880–81; wrote poetry at 12 years of age; a writer in Dublin Univ. Mag., Temple Bar, Atalanta, London Society, The Jewish Chronicle, &c.; author of Xantippe and other verse. Cambridge 1881; A minor poet and other verses 1884; The romance of a shop 1888; Reuben Sachs 1888; A London plane tree and other verse 1889; Miss Meredith 1889; translated Jean Baptiste Pérès’ brochure Comme quoi Napoléon n’a jamais existé, Paris 1876 under title of Historic doubts or the non-existence of Napoleon proved. Edited by Lily 1885; committed suicide by inhaling fumes of charcoal at her father’s residence, 7 Endsleigh gardens, London 10 Sep. 1889, cremated at Woking 13 Sep., ashes bur. Balls Pond cemetery 15 Sep. The Jewish Chronicle 13 Sep. 1889 p. 6 and 20 Sep. p. 7; The Woman’s World, Nov. 1889 pp. 51–2, portrait; Universal Review, April 1890 pp. 492–507.
LEVY, John. b. 1805; a journalist many years; called to Irish bar 1845; reported for Irish Jurist, Irish Law Reports and Irish Law Times; author of The law and practice of bankruptcy and insolvency. Dublin 4 ed. 1862; fell down dead in Dame st. Dublin 17 May 1870.
LEVY, Joseph Moses (son of Moses Lionel Levy d. 1830 aged 65). b. London 15 Dec. 1812; ed. at Bruce Castle school and in Germany; printer in Shoe lane, Fleet st. London; chief proprietor of the Sunday Times 1855–6, conducted it 1855–6; took over the Daily Telegraph from Col. B. W. A. Sleigh and issued it at a penny 17 Sep. 1855, being the first London daily penny paper, managed the paper to his death. d. Florence cottage, Ramsgate 12 Oct. 1888. bur. Balls Pond cemet. London, personalty over £525,000.
LEWELLIN, Llewelyn (son of Richard Lewellin of Coyty, Glamorganshire). b. 1799; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1821–6; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1829; master of the schools Oxf. 1825–26; preb. of St. David’s 1827; principal of St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827 to death; V. of Pembryn, Cardiganshire 1832; V. of Lampeter 15 Oct. 1833 to death; sinecure R. of Llangelen 1843 to death; dean of St. David’s 26 March 1840 to death, the last non-resident dean; author of Reply to N. Davies’s Notes on the cathedral church of St. David’s 1853, 2 ed. 1853. d. about 30 Nov. 1878.
LEWES, Charles Lee (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1843; ed. at Hofwyl, Switzerland; clerk in the Post Office, London, Aug. 1860 to Oct. 1886; one of the secretaries of Hampstead Heath extension committee, which raised £52,000 for purchase of Parliament hill 1887; member of the first London county council for the St. Pancras district 7 Jany. 1889 to death; contributed to Nineteenth Century and Blackwood’s Mag.; residuary legatee of “George Eliot” 1880 and owner of the copyright of all her works and those of his father; edited Essays and leaves from a note book, by George Eliot 1884; translator of In the year ’13, a tale of Mecklenburg life by Fritz Reuter 1867; Emilia Galotti by G. E. Lessing 1868; Count Bismarck by L. Bamberger 1869. d. Luxor, Egypt 26 Feb. 1891.
LEWES, George Henry (grandson of Charles Lee Lewes, actor 1740–1803). b. London 18 April 1817; ed. in London, Jersey, Brittany and at Greenwich; in a notary’s office; employed by a Russian merchant; a medical student a short time; visited Germany 1838; appeared at the Whitehall theatre in Garrick’s comedy The Guardian 1841, played in Dickens’ amateur company 1848, played Shylock 1849; acted in his own tragedy The Noble Heart, at the Olympic Feb. 1850 and in the provinces 1850; wrote many articles in the quarterly reviews; wrote The game of speculation, produced at Lyceum 2 Oct. 1851 and 9 other plays produced at Lyceum, all written under pseudonyms of Slingsby Lawrence and Frank Churchill; founded with T. L. Hunt The Leader 1850, editor for literary subjects to July 1854. m. 18 Feb. 1841 Agnes eld. dau. of Swynfen Stevens Jervis, M.P. for Bridport, he left her in July 1854 and went to Germany with Mary Ann Evans known as “George Eliot,” he passed as her husband for the rest of his life; edited Fortnightly Review, May 1865 to Dec. 1866; lived at the Priory, St. John’s Wood, London 1863 to death; author of The life of Maximilien Robespierre 1845; A biographical history of philosophy 4 vols. 1845–6, 5 ed. 1 vol. 1880; The Spanish drama, Lope de Vega and Calderon 1846; Rose, Blanche and Violet 3 vols. 1848; The life and works of Goethe 2 vols. 1855; Studies in animal life 1862; Problems of life and mind 5 vols. 1874–9; Our actors and the art of acting 1875. d. The Priory, 21 North bank, St. John’s Wood, London 30 Nov. 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 4 Dec. T. Ribot’s English Psychology (1873) 255–314; H. D. Traill’s New Lucian (1884) 268–87; Fortnightly Review Jany. 1879 pp. 15–24; Graphic, xviii 624 (1878), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiii 565 (1878), portrait.
LEWIN, Frederick Albert (4 son of Robert Lewin of Cuddington, Surrey). b. Jany. 1842; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 7th wrangler 1864, B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867; fellow of his college 1864–9; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; equity draftsman and conveyancer; author of The law of apportionment 1869; edited Thomas Lewin’s A practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 6 ed. 1875, 7 ed. 1878, 8 ed. 1885. d. suddenly from heart disease, 9 Bolton gardens west, Kensington 25 June 1887.
LEWIN, Malcolm. b. 1800; judge of the Sudder court at Madras 1841–7; member of council 1845–7; author of Is the practice of torture in Madras with the sanction of the authorities in Leadenhall street 1856; Torture in Madras 1857; The government of the East India company and its monopolies 1857; The way to lose India 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The way to regain India 1858. d. 31 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 5 March 1869.