LORIMER, James (son of James Lorimer, manager of Earl of Kinnoul’s estates). b. Aberdalgie, Perthshire 4 Nov. 1818; ed. at high school Perth and the univs. of Edinb., Berlin and Bonn and academy of Geneva; member of Faculty of advocates 1845; acted as sheriff substitute of Midlothian; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; professor of public law in univ. of Edinb. 15 May 1865 to death, where he introduced graduation in law; a founder of The institute of international law 1873; author of The universities of Scotland, past, present and possible 1854; A handbook of the law of Scotland 1859, 5 ed. 1885; Constitutionalism of the future, or parliament the mirror of the nation 1865, 2 ed. 1867; The institutes of law, a treatise of jurisprudence as determined by nature 1872, 2 ed. 1880; The institutes of the law of nations 2 vols. 1883–4, and of 19 lectures and 14 pamphlets. d. 1 Bruntsfield crescent, Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1890, portrait by his son J. H. Lorimer, R.S.A. in senate hall of univ. of Edinb. James Lorimer’s Studies national and international (1890); Juridical Review, April 1890 pp. 113–21, portrait.
LORIMER, John Gordon (2 son of rev. Robert Lorimer 1765–1848, minister of Haddington). b. Haddington; minister of Torryburn 1829; minister of St. David’s or Ram’s Horn parish, Glasgow 1832 to 1843; minister of St. David’s Free ch. Glasgow 1843 to death; D.D. of coll. of New Jersey 27 June 1849; author of The past and present condition of religion and morality in the United States 1833; The eldership of the church of Scotland 1841; Historical sketch of the protestant church of France 1841; The deaconship 1842; Sermons on Sabbath profanation 184-. d. Glasgow 9 Oct. 1868. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 349–58.
LORIMER, Peter (eld. son of John Lorimer, builder). b. Edinburgh 1812; bursar in univ. of Edinb. 1827; minister of presbyterian ch. River terrace, London 1836–44; professor of theology in English presbyterian college, London 1844–78, principal 1878 to death; D.D. New Jersey, June 1857; author of Precursors of Knox, or memoirs of Patrick Hamilton, Alexander Alane or Alesius, and Sir David Lindsay of the Mount Edinburgh 1857; The evidential value of the early epistles of St. Paul viewed as historical documents 1874, 3 ed. 1880; The evidence to Christianity arising from its adaptation to all the deeper wants of the human heart 1876; John Knox and the church of England 1875. d. Whitehaven, Cumberland 29 July 1879. bur. in Grange cemet. Edinb.
LORING, Sir John Wentworth (son of Joshua Loring, high sheriff of Massachusetts). b. America 13 Oct. 1775; entered navy June 1789, captain 28 April 1802; commanded the Niobe 38 guns on coast of France 1805–13; commanded the Impregnable in the North Sea 1813–4; superintendent of the ordinary at Sheerness 1816–9; lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 4 Nov. 1819 to 10 Jany. 1837; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral 8 July 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840, K.C.H. 30 April 1837. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 29 July 1852.
LORT, William. One of the best judges of live stock in England, and constantly employed in judging horses, cattle and dogs; went with Assheton Smith in his yacht Pandora upon a sporting expedition to the North Pole; a fine swimmer; a supporter of Birmingham National dog show from its beginning; an originator of Crystal palace dog show and of the Kennel club; F.R.G.S. d. Vaynol park, Bangor 23 May 1891.
LORTON, Robert Edward King, 1 Viscount (2 son of 2 earl of Kingston 1754–99). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 12 Aug. 1773; ensign 27 foot 30 June 1792; major 92 foot 7 March 1794; lieut. col. 127 foot 20 Dec. 1794, regiment reduced 1795 but he was retained on full pay; colonel of Roscommon militia 24 Nov. 1797 to death; created an Irish peer by title of baron Erris of Boyle, co. Roscommon 29 Dec. 1800; created viscount Lorton of Boyle, co. Roscommon 28 May 1806; a representative peer of Ireland 8 Feb. 1823 to death; general 22 July 1830; lord lieut. of co. Roscommon 1831 to death. d. Rockingham, Boyle, co. Roscommon 20 Nov. 1854.
Note.—He was bur. at 4 o’clock in the morning according to the custom of his family in the church of Boyle 24 Nov. 1854. He was the last commoner raised to the peerage of Ireland before the union with England.
LOSCOMBE, Clifton Wintringham. Resided at Pickwick house, Corsham, where he obtained possession of a hoard of coins and antiquities which was discovered at Sevington, Wilts., Jany. 1834; an original member of Numismatic Soc. 1836. d. Clifton 17 Dec. 1853. Numismatic Chronicle, xvii Proceedings p. 16 (1855); Archæologia, xxvii 301–5 (1838).
LOSH, James (son of James Losh, recorder of Newcastle, d. 23 Sep. 1833 aged 71). b. 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; went northern circuit; judge of county courts, No. 1 circuit, Northumberland, May 1853 to death, took his seat 25 May 1853; attacked with paralysis Aug. 1858. d. 24 Clayton st. west, Newcastle on Tyne 1 Oct. 1858.
LOSH, Sarah (1 dau. of John Losh of Woodside near Carlisle). b. Woodside 1 Jany. 1786; ed. in Bath and London, and became proficient in Italian, French, Latin, Greek, music and mathematics; gave a school endowed with 30 acres to Wreay 1830; laid out and gave to the city of Carlisle a cemetery 1835; erected a mausoleum in Wreay ch. yard for the remains of her sister Katherine Isabella Losh who d. Feb. 1835; erected a church at Wreay in 1842 at cost of £1200; a woman of much learning who associated with Dr. William Paley and other scholars. d. Woodside near Carlisle 29 March 1853. H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland (1873) 197–238, portrait.