LONSDALE, James John (2 son of James Lonsdale the artist 1777–1839). b. 5 April 1810; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1836; sec. to criminal law commission 1842; recorder of Folkestone 5 Aug. 1847 to death; judge of circuit No. 11 West Riding of Yorkshire 14 Feb. 1855 to 19 March 1867; judge of circuit No. 48 Kent 19 March 1867 to March 1884; author of The statute criminal law of England 1839; The odes of Horace. Book 1 a verse translation 1879. d. The Cottage, Sandgate, Kent 11 Nov. 1886. Law Times, vol. 82 p. 111 (1886).
LONSDALE, John (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1737–1807, vicar of Darfield, d. 1807 aged 70). b. Newmillerdam near Wakefield 17 Jany. 1788; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow 1809–15, tutor 1814–5 and 1820–1, univ. scholar 1809; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1824, D.D. 1844; student at Lincoln’s Inn, Dec. 1811; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1816; assistant preacher at the Temple 1816; R. of Musham, Kent 1822–7; preb. of Lincoln 1825–8; fellow of Eton 1827–8; precentor of Lichfield 1828–31; preb. of St. Paul’s 1831–43; R. of St. George’s, Bloomsbury 1828–34; preacher of Lincoln’s inn Jany. 1836; R. of Southfleet, Kent 1836; principal of King’s coll. London Jany. 1839 to 1844, chief founder of King’s coll. hospital 1839; declined provostship of Eton 1840; archdeacon of Middlesex 20 Jany. 1843 to Nov. 1843, installed 1 July 1843; bishop of Lichfield 23 Nov. 1843 to death, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 3 Dec.; consecrated and reopened about 300 churches; chairman of royal commission for enquiring into effect of marriage act of 1835, 1847; chairman of Cambridge univ. commission 1857; pres. of church congress at Wolverhampton, Oct. 1867; author of Some popular objections against christianity considered 1820; The testimonies of nature, reason and revelation respecting a future judgment 1821; Some account of the life of the rev. T. Rennell 1824; The four gospels with annotations 1849. d. suddenly at his dinner table Eccleshall castle, Staffs. 19 Oct. 1867. E. B. Denison’s Life of John Lonsdale (1868), portrait; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 4 series (1860), portrait; The church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859), portrait 48; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 163–66; F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, i 206–11 (1875); E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 415–16.
LONSDALE, William (youngest son of Wm. Lonsdale). b. Bath 9 Sep. 1794; ensign 4 foot 1 Feb. 1810, lieut. 15 May 1812, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; served in Peninsular war and at Waterloo where he was the only officer in the 4th foot not wounded; curator of natural history department of Bath museum 1826–9; F.G.S. 15 May 1829, curator and librarian of the society 1829–42, the Wollaston fund was awarded him 1832 and 3 times afterwards, Wollaston medallist 1846; investigated the oolite districts of Gloucestershire; co-originator with Murchison and Sedgwick of the theory of the independence of Devonian system; author of On the age of the limestones of South Devonshire and other papers in Transactions and Journal of Geol. Soc. d. City road, Bristol 11 Nov. 1871. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxviii 35–6 (1872); W. S. Mitchell’s Notes on the early geologists connected with neighbourhood of Bath (1872) 31–9.
LOPES, Sir Ralph, 2 Baronet (only son of Abraham Franco, merchant, London). b. 10 Sep. 1788; succeeded his uncle sir Manasseh Massey Lopes 26 March 1831; assumed surname of Lopes in lieu of Franco by r.l. 4 May 1831; M.P. Westbury, Wilts. 1814–20, 1831–37 and 1841–7; contested Westbury 26 July 1837; M.P. South Devon 13 Feb. 1849 to death. d. Maristowe near Plymouth 26 Jany. 1854; personalty sworn under £180,000, March 1854. J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history (1875) 304–306.
LORD, Henry William (eld. son of Charles Francis James Lord of Hampstead). b. 1834; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1859–62, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1859; revising barrister for Kent; registrar of court of probate for co. of Lancaster 1881–91; one of the four registrars of chief probate registry at Somerset House at salary of £1500 Jany. 1891 to death; author of The highway of the sea in time of war. Camb. 1862. d. 5 Dorset sq. London 27 May 1893.
LORD, John Keast (son of Edward Lord). b. Tavistock 1818; apprenticed to chemists at Tavistock; entered royal veterinary college, London 1842, M.R.C.V.S. 29 May 1844; veterinary surgeon at Tavistock; a trapper in Minnesota and the Hudson’s Bay fur countries; veterinary surgeon in British army 19 June 1855, served with artillery of Turkish contingent in Crimea, lieut. 4 Jany. 1856, veterinary surgeon and lieut. of Osmanli horse artillery in Aug. 1856; naturalist to the commission for separating British Columbia from the United States territory 1 Feb. 1858, returned to England 14 July 1862; resided in Vancouver’s Island some time; his valuable collections of mammals, birds, fishes and insects are now in the Natural history museum, South Kensington; employed in archæological and scientific researches by viceroy of Egypt about 1868; manager of the Brighton Aquarium opened 10 Aug. 1872 to death; contributed many papers to Land and Water under signature of The Wanderer 1866–72; collected coleoptera in Egypt; author of The naturalist in Vancouver’s Island and British Colombia 2 vols. 1866; At home in the wilderness. By The Wanderer 1867, 3 ed. 1876; Handbook of sea-fishing. d. 17 Dorset gardens, Brighton 9 Dec. 1872. Leisure Hour, xxii 696–9 (1873), portrait; Land and Water 14 Dec. 1872 pp. 387, 395; Graphic, vii 3, 12 (1873), portrait.
LORD, John William (son of Isaac Lord, baptist minister, Birmingham). Ed. Cambridge house, Birmingham, and Amershall school, Reading; matric. univ. of London, June 1868, B.A. 1870, M.A. 1874; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1870, foundation scholar 1872–6; rowed in his college boat; senior wrangler Jany. 1875, fellow of Trin. coll. 10 Oct. 1876 to 1881. d. Clarens, Lake of Geneva 4 Sep. 1883.
LORD, William. b. Bacup 11 May 1791; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1811, at Birmingham 1824–6, at Manchester 1828–31, president of United Connexion conference 1834; representative to American general conference 1835; minister at Bristol 1836–9, at Hull 1839–42; governor of Woodhouse grove school 1843–58; president of Canadian conference; a supernumerary from 1861 to death; revisited Woodhouse school when he was eighty. d. Manningham, Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1873. J. T. Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) 74–8.
LORD, William Satterley (eld. son of rev. Wm. Edward Lord, D.D., of Northiam, Sussex). b. 1841; ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., B.A. 1866, M.A. 1869; admitted by Inner Temple special pleader below the bar Jany. 1869; barrister I.T. 7 June 1873; advocate of high court of Griqualand West, April 1876, acting attorney general April to Aug. 1877 and Dec. 1877 to Sep. 1879, Q.C. there March 1879; M.P. for Kimberley in legislative assembly of Cape Colony. d. on board the Norman Castle on his way home from Cape Town 9 Sep. 1889.
LORIMER, George. A builder in Edinburgh; lord dean of guild 1864; killed in the fire of the theatre royal, Edinburgh, by the north wall falling on him when trying to save lives 13 Jany. 1865. J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage (1888) 477–8; A.R. (1865) 3–5; I.L.N. xlvi 97 (1865).