LIVESEY, Joseph. b. Walton near Preston 5 March 1794; brought up as a weaver; a cheese-factor at Preston 1815 to death; drafted the first teetotal pledge 1 Sep. 1832; brought out Livesey’s Moral Reformer, 23 numbers Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1833 and Jany. 1838 to Feb. 1839; issued in Jany. 1834 The Preston temperance advocate, which he edited 4 years, this was the first English teetotal publication; agitated against the corn laws 1841, issuing The Struggle a weekly paper, 235 numbers Dec. 1841 till the repeal of the laws 1846; published the Teetotal Progressionist, Aug. 1851 to May 1852, and the Staunch Teetotaller 24 numbers Jany. 1867 to Dec. 1868 with a portrait of himself; he and his sons managed The Preston Guardian, weekly paper 1844–59; author of Reminiscences of early teetotalism 1868; The autobiography of Joseph Livesey. Preston 1881, 2 ed. London 1885. d. Bank parade, Preston 2 Sep. 1884. J. Weston’s Joseph Livesey, the story of his life (1884); J. Pearce’s Life and teachings of Joseph Livesey (1885); Cassell’s Mag. March 1882 pp. 243–5, portrait.
LIVESEY, Thomas. b. 1807; manager of South Metropolitan gas company 1839, secretary 1842 to death; resided at Dulwich Common. d. in the surgery of his physician’s house 10 Oct. 1871. Times 14 Oct. 1871 p. 5; W. H. Blanch’s Ye parish of Camerwell (1877) 347.
LIVESEY, Thomas J. Lecturer on method and school management, St. Mary’s R.C. training college, Brook Green, Hammersmith 1865 to death; author of How to teach arithmetic 1877; The primer of English history 1877; How to teach grammar 1881; Moffatt’s How to prepare notes of lessons 1882; The Granville illustrated history of England 1885; translated F. S. Hattler’s Flowers from the catholic kindergarten 1890. d. 19 July 1890. bur. St. Mary Magdalen, Mortlake 23 July. The Tablet 26 July 1890 p. 147.
LIVINGSTONE, Charles (son of Neill Livingstone of Blantyre near Glasgow, tea-dealer). b. Blantyre 28 Feb. 1821; in a lace manufacturing warehouse in Hamilton; emigrated to Western states of America 1840; entered Union theological college, New York city 1847 where he took his degree 1850; had a pastoral charge in Massachusetts; came to England, April 1857 and went with his brother David Livingstone as secretary to the expedition for exploring Eastern and Central Africa, March 1858, invalided home 1863; British consul at Fernando Po 17 Oct. 1864, the Bight of Benin and Biafra were added to his consular district 24 June 1867, the seat of the consulate was removed to Old Calabar 1 April 1872. d. of African fever near Lagos 28 Oct. 1873. Proc. of Royal Geographical Soc. xviii 512–14 (1874).
LIVINGSTONE, David (brother of preceding). b. Blantyre 19 March 1813; a piecer at a cotton factory 1823, a cotton spinner 1832; studied medicine in Anderson college and Greek and divinity in Glasgow univ. 1836–8; studied medicine in London 1839; licentiate of faculty of phys. and surgeons Glasgow 1840; ordained a missionary of London Missionary Soc. in Albion chapel, London 20 Nov. 1840; landed at Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, May 1841; crossed the Kalahari desert in search of Lake Ngami, which he found 1 Aug. 1849; discovered the Zambesi, June 1851; discovered the Victoria falls Nov. 1855; arrived in London 12 Dec. 1856, presented with gold medal of Royal Geog. Soc. 15 Dec.; received freedom of city of London 21 May 1857 and of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee 1857; LL.D. Glasgow, Dec. 1854; D.C.L. Oxford 1857; F.R.S. 1857; severed his connection with London missionary soc. 1857; British consul at Quilimane 15 Jany. 1858; commanded expedition to explore Eastern and Central Africa, March 1858, explored the Zambesi, Shira and Rovuma, discovered Lake Nyassa 16 Sep. 1859, received a despatch recalling the expedition 2 July 1863, arrived in England 23 July 1864; author of Missionary travels and researches in South Africa 1857; with C. Livingstone Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and of the discovery of lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1865; consul in the territories of all African kings and chiefs in the interior of Africa not subject to the authority of the kings of Portugal or Abyssinia or of the viceroy of Egypt 15 March 1865 to death; discovered lakes Meoro and Bangweolo 1869; returned to Ujiji where he found H. M. Stanley who had been sent to look for him 28 Oct. 1871, returned to lake Bangweolo where he became very ill; found dead on his knees at Chitambo’s village in Ilala 1 May 1873, body embalmed, brought to England and bur. in nave of Westminster abbey 18 April 1874. The last journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to his death, continued by H. Waller 2 vols. (1874), portrait; Life and finding of Dr. Livingstone. Containing the original letters written by H. M. Stanley. With an account of Dr. Livingstone’s death and latest discoveries (1874), portraits; H. M. Stanley’s How I found Livingstone (1872); Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. xviii 6 et seq. 497–512 (1874); Illustrated Review, i 519–23 (1870), portrait; The weaver boy who became a missionary. By H. G. Adams (1867); Illustrated news of the world, i (1858), portrait; The personal life of David Livingstone. By W. G. Blaikie (1880), portrait; J. Waddington’s Congregational history, v 78–106 (1880).
Note.—A civil list pension was granted him 19 June 1873, 7 weeks after his death. His surviving son Wm. Oswell Livingstone b. South Africa 1850 took part in the expedition sent out in 1872 to find his father, he practised as a physician at St. Albans and d. at Maida villa, Lattimore road, St. Albans 30 Dec. 1889.
LIVINGSTONE, Sir Thomas, 10 Baronet (son of sir Alexander Livingstone, 9 baronet, d. 1795). Entered navy 17 Sep. 1782; captain 13 June 1800, R.A. 22 July 1830, admiral 1 June 1848. d. Westquarter, Falkirk 1 April 1853.
LIVIUS, Charles Barham. Author of Maid or wife or the deceiver deceived, a musical comedy. The music by the author. Drury Lane 5 Nov. 1821; The Freyschütz or the wild huntsman of Bohemia, romantic opera, Covent Garden 14 Oct. 1824; composer of Where shall the lover rest, song 1810; Variations sur un air favori pour le pianoforte 1835. d. Worthing 14 Jany. 1865.
LIZARS, Alexander Jardine. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1831; professor of anatomy Marischall coll. and univ. of Aberdeen 1841 to 15 Sep. 1860; professor of anatomy Aberdeen univ. 15 Sep. 1860 to 1863; author of Elements of anatomy intended as a text-book for students 3 parts. Edinb. 1844. d. Ambleside 12 June 1866.
LIZARS, John (son of Daniel Lizars, publisher and engraver, d. 1812). b. Edinburgh about 1787; ed. at Edinb. high sch. and univ.; surgeon in the navy during Peninsular war; F.R.C.S. Edinb. 1815; partner with John Bell and Robert Allan as surgeons in Edinb. 1815; professor of surgery in royal college of surgeons Edinb. 1831 to death; senior operating surgeon of royal infirmary 1831, introduced operation for removal of the upper jaw, the well-known ‘Lizars’ lines’ are called after him; author of A system of anatomical plates of the human body, accompanied with descriptions and observations. 12 parts Edinburgh 1822–6; Observations on extraction of diseased ovaria 1825; A system of practical surgery with plates 2 parts 1838, 1840; Practical observations on the use and abuse of tobacco 1854, 8 ed. 1859. d. 15 South Charlotte st. Edinburgh 21 May 1860.