LOSH, William (brother of the preceding). b. Woodside 1770; ed. at Erfurt; manager of alkali works at Walker on the Tyne 1796; one of founders of the Walker iron works; resided for some time in Sweden; patented a wheel for railway carriages 1830; took out patents with George Stephenson for railways 1816; consul for Sweden and Prussia at Newcastle. d. Newcastle 4 Aug. 1861. H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland (1873) 153–85.
LOTHIAN, Cecil Chetwynd Kerr, Marchioness of (younger dau. of 2 earl Talbot 1777–1849). b. Ingestre hall, Staffs. 17 April 1808; (m. 19 July 1831 seventh marquess of Lothian 1794–1841); built church at Jedburgh; joined church of Rome; founded a R.C. mission with chapel and school at Jedburgh; built church of St. David at Dalkeith; founded a mission with a chapel at Pathhead; a founder of the Home of Refuge for women discharged from prison, conducted by sisters of the Good Shepherd; went to Germany to convey to the R.C. bishops the sympathy of the catholics of England; promoted the pilgrimages to Paray-le-Monial and to Pontigny in 1873 and 1874. d. Hôtel de Rome, Rome 13 May 1877; the Pope sent her a special benediction and a triduum was offered for her in the church of the Virgin, at Rome, May 1877; bur. in cemetery of San Lorenzo. P. Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck (1890) 125–63, portrait; Times 14 May 1877 p. 7, 15 May p. 10.
LÖTTNER, Friedrich. Professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology and assistant librarian at Trinity college, Dublin 1863–71. d. Dublin, middle of April 1873.
LOUDON, Jane (dau. of Thomas Webb d. 1824). b. Ritwell house near Birmingham 1807; edited The ladies’ magazine of gardening 1842; The ladies’ companion 1850–1 and several of her husband’s works 1845–55; granted civil list pension of £100, 22 April 1846; author of Prose and Verse 1824; The Mummy, a tale of the twenty-second century 3 vols. 1827, anon., new ed. 1872; Stories of a bride 1829; The ladies’ companion to the flower garden 1841, 9 ed. 1879, which circulated 20,000 copies; The first book of botany 1841, new ed. 1870; The ladies’ flower garden of perennials 2 vols. 1843–4; The ladies’ country companion 1845, 4 ed. 1852, and 20 other books; (m. 14 Sep. 1830 John Claudius Loudon, landscape gardener, d. 14 Dec. 1843 aged 60). She d. 3 Porchester terrace, Bayswater, London 13 July 1858. Cottage Gardener, xx 248, 255–9 (1858).
LOUGH, John Graham (son of a small farmer at Greenhead near Hexham, Northumberland). b. 1806; an ornamental sculptor at Newcastle; exhibited at the R.A. 1826 a bas-relief The Death of Turnus; exhibited 49 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 16 at B.I. 1826–63; exhibited his works in London 1827; studied in Rome 1834–8; executed the statues of queen Victoria in the royal exchange 1845, of prince Albert at Lloyd’s 1847 and of marquis of Hastings at Malta 1848; 7 of his statues were in Great Exhibition of 1851. d. 42 Harewood sq. London 8 April 1876. Graphic, xiii 416 (1876), portrait; Handbook of statues comprising the Lough models in Elswick hall (1879).
LOUIS, Sir John, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas Louis, 1 baronet, d. 17 May 1807). b. 1785; entered navy Sep. 1795, captain 22 Jany. 1806; commander of L’Aigle 36 guns 1811–15; superintendent of Malta dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 6 Jany. 1843; R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral superintendent at Plymouth 16 Dec. 1846 to 9 Feb. 1850; V.A. 9 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 27 Sep. 1855, pensioned 2 May 1860. d. 61 Eaton place, London 30 March 1863.
LOUIS, William (2 son of preceding). b. 21 May 1810; entered R.N. 7 Dec. 1824; capt. 9 Nov. 1846; commander of Stromboli steam vessel 1841–3; retired 1 July 1864; admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. 46 Connaught sq. London 20 Nov. 1885.
LOUISE, Madame, stage name of Louise Miller. b. 1810; première danseuse of Her Majesty’s theatre under Benjamin Lumley’s management; ballet mistress of Drury Lane under the managements of Alfred Bunn, James Anderson and E. T. Smith to 1859. d. 5 Feb. 1892. bur. Fulham cemet.
LOUND, Thomas. b. 1802; member of a firm of brewers at Norwich; an amateur painter, excelled in river views; painted the scenery in Wales and Yorkshire and near Cromer; exhibited much in Norwich; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 10 at B.I. 1846–57. d. King st. Norwich 18 Jany. 1861.
LOVAT, Thomas Alexander Fraser, 1 Baron (1 son of Alexander Fraser of Strichen, Aberdeen). b. Strichen house, Aberdeen 17 June 1802; cr. baron Lovat of Lovat, co. Inverness, in peerage of U.K. 28 Jany. 1837; established his right to Scottish barony of Lovat, attainder of which was reversed in his favor by 17 & 18 Vict. cap. 39, 10 July 1854; vice lieut. and sheriff principal of Invernessshire 30 Aug. 1853 to 1873; K.T. 1865. d. Beaufort castle, Invernessshire 28 June 1875. I.L.N. lxvii 47 (1875).