LOVAT, Simon Fraser, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). b. Beaufort castle 21 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. commandant of Inverness, Banff, Moray and Nairn militia 10 Dec. 1855 to death; deputy lieut. of Inverness 1853–72, vice lieut. 1872, lord lieut. 18 April 1873 to death; succeeded 28 June 1875. d. suddenly while shooting on a grouse moor near Inverness 6 Sep. 1887.
LOVE, Emma Sarah (dau. of W. E. Love, lieutenant in H.M. service, d. about 1814). b. Cheapside, London 10 Sep. 1801; ed. in music by D. Corri; appeared at English opera house as Mrs. Courtly in Free and Easy 1817; took leading vocal parts under Samuel J. Arnold at Lyceum theatre; appeared at Covent Garden 1822 with great success, then at the Haymarket 1823; played Marina in the operatic entertainment Cortez; acted in the provinces; played Lilla in Cobb’s comic opera The siege of Belgrade, at Drury Lane 1828; a very beautiful woman who sang ‘What is more dear to the heart of the brave’ and ‘Little love is a mischievous boy’ to perfection; believed by The Era of 23 Dec. 1882 to be then living. Cumberland’s British theatre, vol. xx (1828), portrait; Oxberry’s Dramatic biography, iii 163–74 (1825), portrait.
LOVE, Frederic. b. 1816; homœopathic practitioner; in practice in Paris 50 years, where he had many aristocratic and artistic patients; was very active in the cholera outbreak of 1859. d. Paris 3 June 1891.
LOVE, Henry Ommanney (1 son of commander Wm. Love 1764–1839). b. 1 March 1793; entered navy 23 Dec. 1808; captain 5 Dec. 1837; retired admiral 3 July 1869; claimed to have suggested use of paddles instead of wheels for steam vessels; sub-commissioner of pilotage, Southampton; superintendent of lights for Isle of Wight district; mayor of Yarmouth 3 times. d. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 16 Sep. 1872.
LOVE, Horatio N. b. 1801; stock-jobber at 2 Capel court, City of London 1847; chairman of Eastern counties railway co. 1857–63. d. Margate 14 March 1882.
LOVE, Sir James Frederick (son of John Love). b. London 1789; ensign 52 foot 26 Oct. 1804; captain 11 July 1811, placed on h.p. 11 Aug. 1825; served in Sweden and Portugal 1808, in the retreat from Corunna 1809, in Portugal again 1809–12; received 4 wounds in the famous charge of the 52nd on the imperial guard at Waterloo; inspecting field officer of militia, New Brunswick 1825–30; major 11 foot 9 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 76 foot 6 Sep. 1834; lieut.-col. 73 foot 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 23 Sep. 1845; British resident at Zante 1835–8; governor of Jersey 1852–6; commanded at Shorncliffe camp 1856; inspector general of infantry 1857 to April 1862; col. of 57 foot 24 Sep. 1856 to 5 Sep. 1865; col. of 43 foot 5 Sep. 1865 to death; general 10 Aug. 1864; K.H. 1831; C.B. 30 March 1839, K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 17 Ovington sq. London 13 Jany. 1866.
LOVE, Joseph. b. 1795; a pit boy in the capacity of a trapper, a hewer; owner of a large number of collieries both in the eastern and western coal fields; built and endowed many chapels, built a chapel at High Shincliffe near Durham at cost of £1000; member of Methodist New Connexion. d. near Durham 21 Feb. 1875, personalty sworn under £1,000,000, 17 April 1875.
LOVE, William Edward (son of a merchant in the City to 1812). b. London 6 Feb. 1806; ed. at Harlow in Essex and at Nelson house, Wimbledon; commenced practising ventriloquism 1818; connected with London journalism 1820–6; appeared for a benefit at Olympic theatre in a solo entertainment entitled The False Alarm 1826; performed in England and France 1827, in Dublin 1828; produced The peregrinations of a polyphonist, June 1849, with which he visited chief towns in England; opened at Oxford with a piece called Ignes Fatui 1833; played at Almack’s 1833, at City of London assembly rooms, Bishopsgate st. during summer seasons of 1834–8; appeared on alternate nights at St. James’s theatre and in the City 1836; visited United States, West Indies and South America 1838; played at Strand theatre and 6 other places in London 1839–54; produced the ‘London Season’ at 69 Quadrant, Regent st. London 26 Dec. 1854, played there 8 Feb. 1856 the 300th consecutive night and his 2,406th performance in London; paralysed 1858, had a benefit at Sadler’s Wells; the best English ventriloquist on record, played in upwards of 15 distinct entertainments, in which he assumed various characters making rapid changes of his dress. d. 33 Arundel st. Strand, London 16 March 1867. Memoirs of W. E. Love (1834); G. Smith’s Memoirs of Mr. Love, Boston, U.S. (1850); Ireland’s New York Stage, ii 273, 317 (1867); I.L.N. 25 March 1843 p. 215, portrait, 27 Jany. 1855 p. 84, portrait.
LOVEDAY, Ely. b. 1800; an actress 1817; played leading business with Edmund Kean, Elton, Liston and Macready; saw the 4 Kembles, Stephen, John, Charles and Mrs. Siddons play in Henry VIII.; played at most of the London theatres, retired 1852; (m. W. Loveday an actor at Drury Lane theatre). d. 11 Nov. 1892. bur. Kensal Green 15 Nov.
LOVEDAY, George Beaumont (son of the preceding). b. 1833; fiddler, dramatic manager, operatic entrepreneur; with his brother Henry J. Loveday introduced Faust in English; known as The Prince because of his good looks; acting manager and confidential adviser to J. L. Toole 1867–87; (m. 25 Jany. 1877 Annie only dau. of John Dickey Creelman, she was known on the stage as Annie Tremaine and later on as Madame Amadi). d. 8 Woburn place, London 21 Dec. 1887. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 24 Dec. J. Hatton’s Reminiscences of J. L. Toole 3 ed. (1889) 30–4.