LONGFORD, William Lygon Pakenham, 4 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Longford 1774–1838). b. Pakenham hall 31 Jany. 1819; ed. Winchester; ensign 52 foot 25 Aug. 1837; lieut. 7 foot 1838, captain 1844, placed on h.p. 6 July 1852; A.Q.M.G. Crimea 1854–5, A.A.G. 1855, A.G. 1855–6; in battles of Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman, and at siege of Sebastopol, medal with 4 clasps; A.G. Bengal, Feb. 1858 to 2 July 1860; succeeded his brother as 4 earl 27 March 1860; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 June 1861, G.C.B. 24 May 1881; under sec. of state for war 7 July 1866 to 8 Dec. 1868; lord lieut. of Longford 21 March 1874 to death; col. 5 Northumberland fusiliers 11 Sep. 1878 to death; general 31 July 1879; placed on retired list 1881. d. 24 Bruton st. London 19 April 1887.
LONGLANDS, Henry (son of Thomas Longlands of Greenwich). b. 1781; ed. at Westminster, King’s scholar 1796; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1809, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1851; secretary to West India Dock co. 1818–38. d. Blackheath road, Old Charlton 9 Feb. 1857.
LONGLEY, Charles Thomas (5 son of John Longley, recorder of Rochester, d. 1822). b. Boley Hill, Rochester 28 July 1794; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; King’s scholar at Westminster 1808; student at Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812, Greek reader 1822, tutor and censor 1825–8; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1829; proctor of the univ. 1827; C. of Cowley, Oxon. 1818, P.C. of Cowley 1823–7; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1827–9; head master of Harrow school 21 March 1829 to Oct. 1836; bishop of Ripon 15 Oct. 1836, consecrated in York cath. 6 Nov. 1836; translated to see of Durham 13 Oct. 1856; archbishop of York 1 June 1860; P.C. 9 June 1860; archbishop of Canterbury 20 Oct. 1862 to death, installed 12 Dec. 1862; the Lambeth or Pan-Anglican synod of 78 British, colonial and foreign prelates met in London under his presidency 24–27 Sep. 1867; translated Koch’s Tableau des révolutions de l’Europe 1831; author of A letter to the parishioners of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1851. d. Addington park near Croydon 27 Oct. 1868. F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, i 161–8 (1875); Macmillan’s Mag. March 1883 pp. 346–58; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait; Illustrated times 25 Oct. 1862 p. 417, portrait, 20 Dec. 1862 p. 541 view of installation.
LONGMAN, Charles (2 son of Thomas Norton Longman, publisher 1771–1842). b. 11 Feb. 1809; ed. Westminster 1822–4; head of firm of J. Dickinson & Co. paper makers, 65 Old Bailey and 1 Irongate wharf, Praed st. London; F.G.S. 1862; dropped down dead in his park, Shendish near Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 4 Jany. 1873; will proved 15 Feb. 1873, personalty under £200,000.
LONGMAN, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1804; ed. at Glasgow univ.; partner in Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, publishers 38 Paternoster row 1832, head of the firm 1842 to death; superintended production of The New Testament illustrated with engravings on wood after paintings by Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino and other great masters 1864, 250 copies at ten guineas each, 2 ed. 1864, reprinted 1883; published lord Macaulay’s works, sent him a cheque for £20,000 dated 13 March 1856 for his share of profits of his History of England vols. 3 and 4; the firm purchased business and stock of John W. Parker publisher 1863; purchased copyright of Disraeli’s novels 1870; bought Farnborough hall, Hants. for nearly £100,000, 1859. d. Farnborough hall 30 Aug. 1879. History of the house of Longman. By Francis Espinasse in The Critic, xx 366, 431, 483 (1860); Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 79–109.
LONGMAN, Thomas Tucker (son of John Longman). b. Castle Cary, Somerset 1818; ed. St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; one of first to take B.A. degree at univ. of London 1841; ordained priest 1840; missioner at Wolverhampton, at Bloxwich, at Hampton hill, and at Warwick where he built the R.C. church; administrator of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1867, canon of the cath. 1873, vicar general of the diocese 1873–91; in charge of St. Peter’s, Leamington 1884–91; dignity of Monsignor conferred on him by the Pope, June 1890; member of Birmingham school board. d. Leamington 14 Dec. 1892. Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p. 3, portrait.
LONGMAN, William (brother of Thomas Longman 1804–79). b. 9 Feb. 1813; entered service of Longman & Co. publishers 1828, a partner 1839 to death; freeman of Stationers’ Co. 1834; an early member of Alpine club 1857, pres. 1871–4; F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1873; author of A catalogue of works in all departments of English literature classified, anon., Second edition 1848; Journal of six weeks’ adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont and the Italian lakes. By W. Longman and H. Trower. Privately printed 1856; Lectures on the history of England to the close of the reign of Edward II. 1859; The history of the life and times of Edward III. 2 vols. 1869; A history of the three cathedrals dedicated to St. Paul in London 1873. d. Ashlyns, Great Berkhampstead 13 Aug. 1877. William Longman. By H. R. (Henry Reeve) in Fraser’s Mag. for Oct. 1877 pp. 417–21; Publishers’ Circular (1877) 605–6; Graphic, xvi 204 (1877), portrait.
LONGMIRE, Margaret (dau. of John and Margaret Atkinson). b. Westmoreland 15 April 1765; bapt. Windermere 19 May 1777; a servant on various farms; m. James Longmire of Crawmire’s, he d. 19 Jany. 1831; a sick nurse; had parochial relief. d. Troutbeck 30 May 1868 aged 103 years and 6 weeks. She was grandmother of Thomas Longmire the champion wrestler of England. W. J. Thom’s Longevity of Man (1879) 272–80.
LONGMUIR, John (son of John Longmuir). b. Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 13 Nov. 1803; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal coll., M.A., LL.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1859; English master Anderson’s Institution, Forres; licensed by presbytery of Forres, July 1833; evening lecturer in Trinity chapel, Aberdeen 1837; minister of Mariners’ church, Aberdeen Sep. 1840; minister of Free church, Aberdeen 1843–81; lecturer on geology at King’s coll. Aberdeen to 1859; author of The College and other poems. Aberdeen 1825, anon.; Bible Lays 1838, 2 ed. 1877; Ocean Lays 1854, new ed. 1864; Lays for the lambs 1860; A run through the land of Burns and the covenanters 1872; edited Rhythmical index to the English language 1877; Walker and Webster combined in a dictionary of the English language 1864, 2 ed. 1876. d. Aberdeen 7 May 1883. W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord (1887) 407–14; Edwards’s Modern Scottish Poets 2nd series.
LONGSTAFF, George Dixon. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827; M.D. Edinb. 1828; assist. professor of chemistry Edinb. univ., where he was the first teacher of practical chemistry to medical students; physician at Hull some years; in America some years; engaged in commerce in England; superintendent of special constables in Chartist riots 1848; a founder 1841 and V.P. of Chemical Soc. of London; chairman of royal maternity charity, London; first member of Wandsworth district board of works; author of Dissertatio inauguralis de calorico 1828. d. Butterknowle, Southfields, Wandsworth, Surrey 23 Sep. 1892.