LIPTROTT, John. b. 29 Jany. 1813; ensign 31 Bengal N.I. 14 Sep. 1829; commandant 16 Irregular cavalry 24 Jany. 1846, commandant 17 Irregular cavalry 1847 to 7 Jany. 1860; lieut.-col. 14 Bengal N.I. 28 Nov. 1859 to 1862, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 1 Dec. 1888. d. 7 Clarendon road, Southsea 25 Feb. 1890. I.L.N. 15 March 1890 p. 325, portrait.
LISBURNE, Ernest Augustus Vaughan, 4 Earl of (eld. son of 3 Earl of Lisburne 1769–1831). b. 30 Oct. 1800; sheriff of Cardiganshire 1851; M.P. for Cardiganshire 1854–9. d. Crosswood, Aberystwith, Cardiganshire 9 Nov. 1873.
LISGAR, Sir John Young, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir William Young, 1 baronet, d. 1848). b. Bombay 31 Aug. 1807; ed. at Eton and C.C. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 1824; M.P. Cavan 1831–55; a lord of the treasury 16 Sep. 1841 to 21 May 1844; one of the secretaries to the treasury 21 May 1844 to 7 July 1846; succeeded as 2 baronet 10 March 1848; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland 1852–55; P.C. 28 Dec. 1852; lord high commissioner of Ionian islands 1855–9; governor general and com. in chief of New South Wales 22 March 1861 to 24 Dec. 1867; governor general of dominion of Canada 2 Jany. 1869–1872; cr. Baron Lisgar 26 Oct. 1870; lord lieut. of Cavan 9 March 1871 to death; G.C.M.G. 20 March 1855; K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1859, G.C.B. 13 Nov. 1868. d. Lisgar house, Ballieborough, co. Cavan 6 Oct. 1876. Eclectic Mag. lxxviii 129, 244 (1872), portrait.
LISTER, Frederick George. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 26 Bengal N.I. 14 Aug. 1806, lieut. 9 Oct. 1808; captain 52 N.I. 16 March 1824, major 8 Oct. 1839 to 30 Sep. 1845; commandant of Sylhet light infantry battalion 14 March 1828 to 18 July 1854; lieut-col. 8 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1849, of 70 N.I. 1849–50, of 53 N.I. 1850 to 13 April 1855; political agent Cossiah Hills 11 Feb. 1841 to 1854; col. of 31 N.I. 13 April 1855 to 1861, of 2 N.I. 1861 to 1869; L.G. 23 Aug. 1869. d. St. Helier’s, Jersey 28 Feb. 1870.
LISTER, Joseph Jackson (son of John Lister of Stoke Newington, wine merchant). b. Lothbury, London 11 Jany. 1786; ed. at Hitchin and at Compton in Dorset; wine merchant in partnership with his father and then sole proprietor; a founder of the London Institution in King’s Arms yard 1805; discovered principle upon which the modern microscope is constructed, and made an improved lens; a founder of Microscopical Soc. 1839; invented the tripod for supporting the camera now used by photographers; the first to ascertain the true form of the red corpuscle of mammalian blood; aided the opticians in construction of the microscope; Lister’s law of the aplanatic foci, remains the guiding principle as the source of all the microscopy of the age; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832. d. Upton house, Upton, Essex 24 Oct. 1869. bur. Stoke Newington. Biographical Catalogue of Friends (1888) 433–8.
LISTER, Thomas (14 child of Joseph Lister a quaker gardener). b. Old Mill wharf, Barnsley 11 Feb. 1810; ed. at Ackworth school 1821–4; worked with his father as a gardener to 1832, then in a linen warehouse at Barnsley; postmaster at Barnsley 1839–70 when he was presented with a testimonial; a constant attendant and contributor of papers at annual meetings of British Association; president of Barnsley Naturalists’ Society; is referred to by name in Mrs. G. L. Banks’s Yorkshire story entitled Wooers and winners 1880; author of The rustic wreath poems, moral, descriptive and miscellaneous 1834; Temperance Rhymes 1837; Rhymes of progress 1862, and of many poems and translations in Tait’s Magazine 1838–9. d. Barnsley 25 March 1888. W. Andrews’s Modern Yorkshire Poets (1885) 146–53; W. C. Newsam’s Poets of Yorkshire (1845) 163–5; W. Grainge’s Poets of Yorkshire, ii 444–6 (1868); J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school (1889) 22.
LISTON, Maria (dau. of Mr. Simpson a tradesman in the Strand, London). b. about 1834; first appeared Drury Lane boxing night 1858 as Sylvia in Robin Hood; played in the burlesques at the Strand theatre 1865 etc.; (m. Wm. Henry Liston, lessee of Olympic theatre, London 1869–72, he d. 9 April 1876 aged 46); played chief roles at the Olympic 1869–72; acted at the Criterion and the Royalty theatres. d. Carlton house, 4 Bridge avenue, Hammersmith 25 Feb. 1879. bur. Kensal green cemetery 1 March. The Era 2 March 1879 p. 6.
LISTON, Sarah (dau. of Mr. Tyrer). b. London 1780; pupil of M. Kelly and Mrs. Crouch; sang at concerts in the Rotunda, Dublin; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 21 Aug. 1801 as Winifred in Morton’s Zorinski; played at Drury Lane 1801–2; acted Queen Dollalolla in O’Hara’s burlesque Tom Thumb at Haymarket 27 July 1805; the original Minna in Dimond’s Adrian and Orilla at Covent Garden 15 Nov. 1806 and the original Anna in Reynold’s Exile 10 Nov. 1808; made her last appearance on the stage at Covent Garden 31 May 1822 when she spoke a farewell address; (m. 23 March 1807 John Liston the comedian, who d. George’s ter. Hyde park corner 22 March 1846 aged 70). She d. 15 Alexander sq. Brompton 19 Sep. 1854. Biography of the British stage (1824) 177; Theatrical Inquisitor, June 1813, portrait; The British Stage, i 121 (1817), portrait; G.M. 1846 pt. i, pp. 547, 660.
LISTOWEL, William Hare, 2 Earl of (eld. son of hon. Richard Hare 1773–1827). b. Bally Ellis near Mallow 22 Sep. 1801; M.P. co. Kerry 1826–30; succeeded his grandfather 13 July 1837; vice admiral of Munster 1838 to death; M.P. St. Alban’s 1841–7; a lord in waiting to the queen 1840 to Sep. 1841 and Oct. 1853 to death; K.P. 1839. d. Morrison’s hotel, 1 Dawson st. Dublin 4 Feb. 1856.
LITCHFIELD, George Augustus. b. 1784; entered Bombay army 1799; lieut.-col. of 3 Bombay light cavalry 1829 or 1830 to 1832 and 1833–5, of 2 light cavalry 1832–3, of 1 light cavalry 1835 to 1838; commandant at Deesa 1831–3, at Hursole 1833–5 and at Sholapore 1835–8; M.G. on retired list 28 Feb. 1838. d. Marine hotel, Exmouth 18 June 1857.