LONGWORTH, John Augustus. Consul at Monastir, Tunis 29 Sep. 1851; employed on several special services 1854–58; consul general in Servia 13 Feb. 1860 to 14 Feb. 1875 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; author of A year among the Circassians 2 vols. 1840. d. 16 Westbourne park villas, Bayswater, London 23 July 1875.
LONGWORTH, Maria Theresa (7 child of Thomas Longworth of Manchester, silk manufacturer, d. Altrincham, Cheshire 1854). b. Fairyhill, Cheetwood near Manchester 1827; ed. at a convent in Staffs. and at an Ursuline convent school at Boulogne; began a correspondence 1853 with Wm. Charles Yelverton afterwards 4 viscount Avonmore, met him again when she was a nurse at Galata hospital, Constantinople, during Crimean war, Aug. 1855 and they became engaged; he read aloud the Church of England marriage service at her lodgings 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh 12 April 1857, they were afterwards married by rev. Bernard Mooney at R.C. chapel at Kilbroney near Rostrevor in Ireland, and lived together in Ireland and Scotland till April 1858; Yelverton married Emily widow of professor Edward Forbes 26 June 1858; Miss Longworth sued Yelverton for restitution of conjugal rights in probate court, London 31 Oct. 1859 but the court decided that it had no jurisdiction; the Scottish court of session upheld the marriage 19 Dec. 1862 but this judgment was reversed by the house of lords 28 July 1864; her attempt to reopen the case at Edinburgh in March 1865, failed and the house of lords supported the Scottish court 30 July 1867, her appeal to court of session to set aside judgment of house of lords was rejected 28 Oct. 1868; a subscription in her behalf was raised in Manchester; gave her first reading at Hanover square rooms, London 6 April 1866; author of Martyrs to circumstances 2 vols. 1861; The Yelverton correspondence 1863; Zanita, a tale of the Yosemite 1872; Teresina Peregrina 2 vols. 1874; Teresina in America 2 vols. 1875; lived at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, about March 1880 to her death there 13 Sep. 1881. J. F. Macqueen’s Reports in the House of Lords, iv 745–912 (1866); Law mag. and law review, xi 215–34 (1861); Illust. Times 9 March 1861 p. 143, portrait; A.R. (1861) 528–42; Reynolds’s Miscellany, xxvii 336 (1862), portrait; Illust. sporting news, v 117 (1866), portrait.
Note.—J. R. O’Flanagan’s novel entitled Gentle blood or the secret marriage 1861 is founded on the Yelverton marriage case, Miss Longworth is called in the novel Sybilla Longsword and Yelverton figures as Rodulphus Silverton.
LONSDALE, William Lowther, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844). b. 30 July 1787; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1808; styled viscount Lowther 1807–44; M.P. Cockermouth 1808–13; M.P. Westmoreland 1813–31; M.P. Dunwich 1831–2; M.P. Westmoreland 1832–41; F.R.S. 5 July 1810; a lord of the admiralty 24 Nov. 1809 to 1 May 1810; a commissioner for affairs of India 7 July 1810 to 17 July 1818; a lord of the treasury 25 Nov. 1813 to 30 April 1827; lieut.-col. commandant of Westmoreland militia 9 June 1818 to 26 Feb. 1861; chief comr. of woods and forests 14 June 1828 to 13 Dec. 1830; P.C. 30 May 1828; treasurer of the navy 27 Dec. 1834 to 22 April 1835; vice pres. of board of trade 20 Dec. 1834 to 6 May 1835; summoned to parliament as baron Lowther of Whitehaven 8 Sep. 1841; postmaster general 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 Jany. 1846; succeeded his father as 2 earl 19 March 1844; lord lieut. of Cumberland and Westmoreland 17 April 1844 to 2 Dec. 1868; lord pres. of privy council 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; bought Armathwaite castle, Cumberland, Aug. 1845. d. 14 Carlton house terrace, London 4 March 1872; personalty sworn under £700,000 6 April 1872. I.L.N. lx 261, 267, 339 (1872), portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of art, iii 260–65 (1854).
Note.—He is the original of Lord Colchicum in Thackeray’s Pendennis and of Lord Eskdale in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby.
LONSDALE, Henry Lowther, 3 Earl of (1 son of Henry Cecil Lowther, M.P. 1790–1867). b. London 27 March 1818; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; styled Henry Lowther 1836–72; cornet 1 life guards 24 Sep. 1841, capt. 9 March 1849, sold out 1 Dec. 1854; M.P. West Cumberland 1847–72; hon. col. Cumberland rifle volunteers 16 Aug. 1862; hon. col. Cumberland militia 24 Feb. 1868 to death; lord lieut. of Cumberland and Westmoreland 2 Dec. 1868 to death; succeeded his uncle as 3 earl 4 March 1872; lieut.-col. Westmoreland and Cumberland yeomanry 11 May 1872; steward of the Jockey club 1844 and 1845; won many cups at Newmarket, Goodwood and Stamford; a regular huntsman, lest his horses should be misused after he had done with them, he always shot them. d. Whitehaven castle, Cumberland 15 Aug. 1876. Athenæum 21 Feb. 1874 pp. 260–3; Baily’s Mag. viii 219–21 (1864), portrait; Graphic, xiv 204 (1876), portrait; I.L.N. lxix 208, 213 (1876), portrait.
LONSDALE, St. George Henry Lowther, 4 Earl of (1 son of the preceding). b. Wilton crescent, London 4 Oct. 1855; ed. at Eton; styled viscount Lowther 1872–76; succeeded as 4 earl 15 Aug. 1876; hon. col. Cumberland militia 3 March 1877; vice admiral Cumberland and Westmoreland, March 1877; master of the Cottesmore hounds 2 years; kept a racing stud, Pilgrimage won the 2000 and 1000 guineas in 1878. d. 14 Carlton house terrace, London 8 Feb. 1882. bur. Lowther ch. 14 Feb. Graphic, xxv 220 (1882), portrait; Illust. sport. and dram. news, xvi 549, 563 (1882), portrait.
LONSDALE, Edward Francis. M.R.C.S. 1834, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; one of founders of Institution for Cure of club feet, afterwards the Royal orthopædic hospital, 6 Bloomsbury sq. 1838, and surgeon there; member Med. & Chir. Soc. 1844; a skilful surgeon in orthopædic cases; author of A practical treatise on fractures 1838; Observations on the treatment of lateral curvature of the spine 1847, 2 ed. 1852. d. 26 Montague st. Russell sq. London 11 Sep. 1857. Proc. R. Med. & Chir. Soc. ii 50 (1858).
LONSDALE, Henry (son of Henry Lonsdale, tradesman). b. Carlisle 1816; studied medicine at univ. of Edinb. and in Paris; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; M.D. Edinb. 1838; partner with Robert Knox in Edinb. 1840–5; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1841; physician to royal public dispensary, Edinb. 1841–5, where he introduced use of cod-liver oil; practised at Carlisle from 1846, phys. to Cumberland infirmary 1846–68; the friend of Mazzini, Kossuth and Garibaldi; author of A biographical sketch of William Blamire formerly M.P. for Cumberland 1862; The life and works of Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson, sculptor 1866; The worthies of Cumberland 6 vols. 1867–75; A sketch of the life and writings of Robert Knox the anatomist 1870. d. Rosehill, Carlisle 23 July 1876.
LONSDALE, James Gylby (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1788–1867). b. Clapham, London 14 Oct. 1816; ed. at Laleham sch. and at Eton, Newcastle scholar March 1843; scholar of Balliol coll. Oxf. 29 Nov. 1833, fellow 1838–64, tutor 1840; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; a student of L.I. 1838; chaplain to bishop of Gibraltar 1842–7; chaplain to bishop of Lichfield 1847–67; tutor in univ. of Durham 1851–6; professor of classical literature at King’s coll. London 1865–70; R. of South Luffenham, Rutland 1870–3; R. of Huntspill, Somerset 1873–8; author with Samuel Lee of The works of Virgil rendered into English prose 1871; The works of Horace rendered into English prose 1873. d. Bath 25 April 1892, memorial tablet in Balliol college chapel. R. Duckworth’s Memoir of J. G. Lonsdale (1893), portrait.