LOLA MONTEZ, stage name of Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert (dau. of Edward Gilbert, ensign 44 foot, d. Dinapore, India 1825). b. Limerick 1818; ed. at Montrose and in Paris; resided at Bath with her mother; ran away to Ireland with Thomas James, captain 21 Bengal N.I., whom she married at Meath 23 July 1837; she returned from India to England early in 1842; he obtained an order for a divorce in consistory court, London 15 Dec. 1842, retired from the army 28 Feb. 1856 and d. 17 May 1871; made her début at Her Majesty’s theatre 3 June 1843 as ‘Lola Montez Spanish dancer,’ but being badly received did not appear again; danced at Dresden, Berlin, Warsaw and St. Petersburg; appeared as a dancer at Munich 1847 when she captivated the king of Bavaria, Ludwig Carl Augustus, naturalised by a royal ordinance 7 March 1847, created baronne de Rosenthal and comtesse de Lansfeld, the king built a splendid mansion for her and gave her a pension of 20,000 florins; ruled the kingdom of Bavaria with great ability, banished March 1848 and the king was forced to abdicate 21 March; m. at St. George’s, Hanover sq. 19 July 1849 George Trafford Heald, cornet 2nd life guards, she fled with him to Spain Aug. 1849 to avoid punishment for bigamy, he sold out 1849 and was drowned at Lisbon 1853 or 1856; danced in ballet of Betley the Tyrolean, at Broadway theatre, New York 29 Dec. 1851, and played Lola Montez in Ware’s drama ‘Lola Montez in Bavaria’ 18 May 1852; m. in California 2 Aug. 1853 P. P. Hull, proprietor of the ‘San Francisco Whig’ but soon left him; played at Victoria theatre, Sydney, N.S.W. 23 Aug. 1855; played at Melbourne 1856 where she horsewhipped Mr. Seekamp, editor of the Ballarat Times, for reflecting on her character; appeared at Green st. theatre, New York 1857 in The Eton Boy, The follies of a night, and Lola in Bavaria; a public lecturer in the United States 1858, lectured at St. James’s hall, London 7 April 1859; spent her time visiting the female outcasts at the Magdalen hospital near New York 1859–60. d. in a sanitary asylum at Asteria, New York 17 Jany. 1861. bur. Greenwood cemet. 19 Jany. Autobiography and lectures of Lola Montez (1858), portrait; Les Contemporains, Lola Montes. Par Eugène de Mirecourt. Paris (1870), portrait; F. L. Hawks’s Story of a penitent, Lola Montez. New York (1867); C. H. Ross’s Painted Faces (1891) 78–88; H. H. Phelps’s Players of a century (1880) 265–7, 297; Temple Bar, July 1880 pp. 362–7; Mortemar’s Folly’s Queens (1882) 10–14, portrait; You have heard of them. By Q. (1854) 98–106; I.L.N. x 180 (1847), portrait.
LOMAS, John (son of rev. Robert Lomas d. 1810). b. Hull 13 Dec. 1798; master Kingswood sch. 1820–23; Wesleyan methodist minister at Manchester 1827–33, 1842–5, 1851–4, at Bristol 1833–6, 1855–8, at Birmingham 1836–9, in London 1845–51, 1858–61; theological tutor Richmond coll. 1861–8 and at Headingley coll. 1868–73; president of the Conference 1853; author of Jesus Christ the propitiation for our sins. The third Fernley lecture 1872. d. Redland, Bristol 20 Aug. 1877. Wesleyan Methodist Mag. ci 9, 134, 207, 283 (1878).
LOMAX, James (3 son of Richard Grimshaw Lomax d. 1837). b. Clayton hall, Accrington, Lancs. 1803; ed. at Stonyhurst; succeeded to family estates on death of his brother John Lomax 1849; a prominent Roman Catholic in the north of England, and a munificent donor to R.C. organizations in Lancashire, erected at his own cost church of Our Lady and St. Hubert, Great Harwood; created knight commander of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX. d. Clayton hall 26 March 1886.
LOMAX, Thomas George (eld. son of rev. James Lomax of Druid Heath house, Staffs.) b. 1783; bookseller at the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 1 Jany. 1810 to death; purchased relics of Dr. Johnson from his black servant Francis Barber; senior bailiff of Lichfield 1833, mayor 1843. d. the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 3 Jany. 1873. bur. St. Chad’s cemetery. Bookseller, Feb. 1873 p. 79.
LONDESBOROUGH, Albert Denison Denison, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry Conyngham, 1 marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). b. 8 Stanhope st. Piccadilly, London 21 Oct. 1805; ed. Eton; cornet in the army 21 Sep. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 24 July 1823, sold out 1824; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Vienna 1825, sec. of legation, Florence 1826 and at Berlin 1829–31; K.C.H. 1829; M.P. Canterbury 1835–41 and 1847–50; assumed name of Denison in lieu of Conyngham 4 Sep. 1849; cr. baron Londesborough of Londesborough, Yorkshire 4 March 1850; pres. of British Archæological association at its first meeting at Canterbury 1843; V.P. of Archæological Instit. 1849; pres. of London and Middlesex Archæological society 1855; purchased the Selby estate, Yorkshire, Aug. 1853 for £270,000; held 60,000 acres of land, producing income of £100,000; F.S.A. 1840; F.R.S. 13 June 1850; most unlucky as a breeder and runner of horses; printed Wanderings in search of health 1849; Miscellanea Graphica 1857; An illustrative catalogue of antique silver 1860. d. 8 Carlton house terrace, London 15 Jany. 1860. bur. Grimston 24 Jany. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii 171–5 (1861); I.L.N. xxiii 225 (1853) portrait, xxxvi 108 (1860); Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 228–32, 482–3; W. W. Morrell’s History of Selby (1867) 275–7; Sporting Review, xliii 80–81 (1860); C. R. Smith’s Retrospections, i 262–8 (1883) and Collectanea Antigua, v 261–69 (1861).
LONDONDERRY, Charles William Vane, 3 Marquess of (2 son of Robert Stewart, 1 marquess of Londonderry 1739–1821). b. Mary st. Dublin 18 May 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 108 foot 11 Oct. 1794; major 106 foot 31 July 1795; lieut.-colonel 5 dragoons 1 Jany. 1797 to 6 April 1799 when the regiment was disbanded for insubordination; lieut.-col. 18 hussars 12 April 1799 to 20 Nov. 1813; M.P. Thomastown in Irish parliament 1798–1800, M.P. co. Londonderry 1801 to June 1814; under sec. of state for war and colonies 1807 to 1808; commanded a brigade of hussars in Portugal 1808; adjutant general to army under sir Arthur Wellesley 1809–12; K.B. 1 Feb. 1813; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; G.C.H. 1816; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Berlin 7 April 1813; colonel 25 light dragoons 20 Nov. 1813; created a peer of the realm by title of baron Stewart of Stewart’s court and Ballilawn 1 July 1814; a lord of the bedchamber 25 June 1814 to Aug. 1827; P.C. 27 July 1814; ambassador to Vienna 27 Aug. 1814; assumed surname of Vane 1819; colonel 10 hussars 3 Feb. 1820 to 23 June 1843; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marquess 12 Aug. 1822; cr. earl Vane and viscount Seaham 28 March 1823; general 10 Jany. 1837; lord lieut. of Durham 27 April 1842; col. 2 life guards 23 June 1843 to death; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; made a harbour at Seaham, opened 29 July 1835, which cost £250,000; published Suggestions for the improvement of the force of the British empire 1805; A narrative of the Peninsular war 1808–13, 2 vols. 1828–9; Memoirs and correspondence of Lord Castlereagh 8 vols. 1848–51. d. Holderness house, Park lane, London 6 March 1854. bur. Long Newton 16 March. J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage, iii 552–4 (1886), portrait; Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen. First series 5 pages (1836), portrait 10; Royal military calendar 3 ed. ii 411–20 (1820); St. Stephen’s. By Mask (1839) 78–88; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 188–92; H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees (1865) 111–14.
Note.—He left personal property of value of £335,000 exclusive of vast estates in England and Ireland, his widow’s personalty was sworn under £400,000, 24 June 1865. He was the lord high marshal at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839. He is drawn in Vivian Grey as Col. Von Trumpetson. In 1824 he was challenged to a duel by Wm. Battier, who was gazetted cornet 10 hussars 27 Feb. 1823 and d. Paris 27 April 1839. On 13 June 1839 Lord Londonderry met Henry Grattan, M.P., on Wimbledon common, Grattan fired and missed and his lordship discharged his pistol in the air.
LONDONDERRY, Frederick William Robert Stewart, 4 Marquess of (1 son of preceding). b. South st. Grosvenor sq. London 7 July 1805; M.P. for co. Down 1826–52; a lord of the admiralty 1829–30; vice chamberlain of the household 27 Dec. 1834 to June 1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; colonel North Down militia 1837; lord lieut. of Down 1845–64; M.P. co. Down 1826–52; succeeded as 4 marquess 6 March 1854; K.P. 1855. d. Hastings 25 Nov. 1872. I.L.N. lxi 550 (1872).
LONDONDERRY, George Henry Robert Charles William Vane-Tempest, 5 Marquess of (half-brother of preceding). b. Vienna 26 April 1821; styled viscount Seaham 1823–54; ed. at Eton; matric. Ball. coll. Oxf. 14 June 1839, B.A. and M.A. 1867, hon. D.C.L. Durham; cornet 1 life guards 13 Jany. 1843, lieut. 1845, sold out 1848; M.P. North Durham 1847–54; succeeded his father as 2 earl Vane 6 March 1854; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry 1859–73; lieut.-col. commandant 2 Durham militia 1853–62; assumed additional name of Tempest by r.l. 28 June 1854; appointed to proceed on a special mission to St. Petersburg to invest emperor Alexander II. with insignia and habit of order of the garter 21 July 1867; provincial grand master free masons co. Durham 1880; succeeded his brother as 5 marquess 25 Nov. 1872; K.P. 31 Aug. 1874; lord lieut. of Durham 8 June 1880 to death. d. Plas Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 5 Nov. 1884. I.L.N. lxxxv 501 (1884), portrait; R. F. Gould’s Freemasonry, iv 276 (1885), portrait.
LONEY, Robert. b. 1787; entered navy Sep. 1797; commander on h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; captain on h.p. 6 Aug. 1852; retired admiral 15 June 1879; edited The China pilot 1855. d. Woodbine villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 22 Feb. 1882.