LIGHTFOOT, John Emanuel. b. Gisburn 1802; partner in firm of F. W. Grafton & Co. Broad Oak print works, Accrington; first mayor of Accrington 1878, also in 1882; the father of Lancashire methodism. d. Quarry Hill, Accrington 24 April 1893.
LIGHTFOOT, John Prideaux (1 son of Nicholas Lightfoot, R. of Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devon, d. 1847). b. Crediton 23 March 1803; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., fellow 1824–34, tutor 1824–34; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B. and D.D. 1854; R. of Wootton, Northants. 1834–54; hon. canon of Peterborough 1853 to death; rector of Ex. coll. 18 March 1854 to death; R. of Kidlington, Oxf. 1854 to death; member of first hebdomadal council 1854; vice chancellor 1862–6, entertained prince and princess of Wales at dinner in Ex. coll. hall 17 June 1863; opened the Petrean fellowships to Northants by conveying ground in Wootton to Lord Petre 1847. d. the rectory, Ex. coll. on anniversary of his birth 23 March 1887. Boase’s Exeter college (1879) 125.
LIGHTFOOT, Joseph Barber (son of John Jackson Lightfoot, accountant, d. 1843). b. 84 Duke st. Liverpool 13 April 1828; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. 1844–7; pensioner at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1847, scholar 1849, fellow 1852–71, tutor 1853–62; 31st wrangler and senior classic 1851; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854, D.D. 1864; Norrisian prizeman 1853, select preacher 1858, a founder of the Journal of classical and sacred philology, and one of the editors March 1854 to Dec. 1859; member of council of Oxford senate 1860–78 except 2 years; Hulsean professor of divinity 1861–75; chaplain to Prince Consort, Feb. 1861; chaplain to the Queen 24 March 1862–79; deputy clerk of the closet 1875–9; Whitehall preacher 1866–7; select preacher at Oxf. 1874–5; exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1862–9, to archbishop of Canterbury 1869–79; Lady Margaret’s professor of divinity at Cambridge 26 May 1875 to 1879; canon of St. Paul’s cath. 23 Feb. 1871; an original member of New Testament company of revisers July 1870 to Nov. 1880; a comr. for Cambridge under Universities of Oxford and Cambridge act 1877, 1877–81; declined bishopric of Lichfield 1867; bishop of Durham 15 March 1879 to death, consecrated in Westminster abbey 25 April, expended all his episcopal income for purposes within the diocese; trained about 80 graduates at his seat Auckland Castle free of charge; endowed univ. of Durham with the Richard de Bury scholarship 1882; presided at church congress at Newcastle 1881 and at British archæological assoc. at Darlington 1886; the ‘White Cross’ movement took its rise at Auckland Castle 1883; author of Commentary on epistle to the Galatians 1865; On a fresh revision of the English New Testament 1871, 2 ed. 1872; The apostolic fathers. St. Clement 1 vol. 1877, St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp 2 vols. 1885; The epistles of Paul. Philippians. A revised text 1879; Cambridge sermons 1890; Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy 1890; Sermons preached in St. Paul’s cathedral 1891; Sermons preached on special occasions 1891. d. the Imperial hotel, Bournemouth 21 Dec. 1889. bur. in chapel of Auckland Castle 27 Dec., portrait by W. B. Richmond in Auckland Castle, memorial altar tomb unveiled in Durham cath. 20 Oct. 1892. C. Bullock’s The two bishops (1890) 33–56, portrait; Biograph, vi 579–82 (1881); I.L.N. lxxiv 201 (1879), portrait; Graphic 28 Dec. 1889 p. 791, portrait.
Note.—In 1870 he transferred to Univ. of Camb. £4500 for the foundation of three scholarships for the encouragement of the study of ecclesiastical history in itself and in connection with general history. The Lady Margaret’s professorship being endowed with the rectory of Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk, he restored the chancel of that church in 1878–9 at a cost of £2140. By his will he created a trust called ‘The Lightfoot fund for the diocese of Durham’ for the erection of buildings for church purposes and for other purposes at discretion of the trustees, to whom he assigned his works and copyrights. His library was divided between the univ. of Durham and the Cambridge divinity school.
LIGHTFOOT, Thomas. b. 1775; ensign 5 foot Aug. 1799; captain 45 foot 15 Dec. 1804, major 7 Oct. 1813 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; extra A.D.C. to the Sovereign 6 May 1831 to 23 Nov. 1841; colonel 62 foot 11 April 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Barbourne house, Worcester 15 Nov. 1858.
LIGHTFOOT, Thomas (son of the preceding). b. 27 Dec. 1820; ensign 84 foot 1 June 1838, lieut.-col. 4 April 1859, placed on h.p. 5 May 1869; brigade major, Lucknow, Nov. 1857 to Jany. 1858; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 27 Dec. 1882; C.B. 14 May 1859. d. 16 Victoria park, Dover 3 March 1888.
LIGHTON, Sir Christopher Robert, 6 Baronet. b. Earlsgift, co. Tyrone 28 May 1819; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; succeeded his brother sir John H. Lighton 29 April 1844; V. of Ellastone, Staffs. 1848 to death; author of Does Rome teach salvation by Christ alone, if not is her teaching christian? d. Ellastone 12 April 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 402 (1875).
LILLEY, John (3 son of a carrier between Spillsby and Boston). b. Lincolnshire 1823; enlisted in 6 regt. Inniskilling dragoons 25 Jany. 1844, corporal 1848, sergeant 1852, troop sergeant major 1853, regimental sergeant major 1855; served at Scutari 1855; went to India 1857; summoned as a witness at the court martial on Capt. Thomas W. Smales, ordered by lieut.-col. Thomas Robert Crawley at Mhow, Bombay 1862; accused of speaking disparagingly of col. Crawley, a charge which he entirely denied, put under close confinement at Mhow 26 April 1862, where he d. 25 May 1862; Crawley was court martialed and “honorably acquitted,” but the full facts of the case were never brought out. Samuel Lilley’s Military despotism or the Iniskilling dragoon (1863); Military despotism. Addenda to the case (1863).
LILLEY, Samuel (eld. son of Samuel Isaac Lilley of Peckham, Surrey). b. 1805; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1829–32; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1830; a member of the bar committee 1883; a revising barrister for Surrey 1885 to death; prosecutor for the treasury at Surrey sessions, d. Southsea 22 June 1887. Law Journal 2 July 1887 pp. 373, 381.
LILLIE, John. b. Kelso, Roxburghshire 16 Dec. 1812; ed. Edinb. univ., B.A. 1833, D.D. 1855, and at New Brunswick seminary; pastor of Dutch reformed church, Kingston, New York 1836–41; master of New York gram. sch. 1841–3; editor of the Jewish Chronicle 1844–8; a translator for the American Bible union 1851–7; pastor of the presbyterian church, Kingston 1858 to death; author of Lectures on the Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians. New York 1860; Lectures on the first and second Epistles of Peter, New York and London 1869. d. Kingston 23 Feb. 1867. G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars (1867) 128–30.