LOVEDEN, Pryse (son of Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, Cardigan, d. 1849). b. Woodstock 1 June 1815; M.P. Cardigan district of boroughs 1849 to death; resumed by r.l. original name of Loveden 1849. d. Glo’ster hotel, 76 Piccadilly, London 1 Feb. 1855.
LOVELACE, Augusta Ada King, Countess of (only child of George Gordon, 6 baron Byron, the poet 1788–1824). b. 13 Piccadilly terrace, London 10 Dec. 1815; last seen by her father when she was only one month old; some of her hair sent to her father at Pisa, Nov. 1821; he alludes to her in Childe Harold, canto 3, line 2, as Ada sole daughter of my house and heart; translated and edited with notes, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, esq. By L. F. Menabrea, Turin. Signed A. A. L. in R. Taylor’s Scientific memoirs, iii 666–731 (1843); corresponded with Andrew Crosse on electricity, &c. 1841–2; (m. at Fordhook, her mother’s residence, 8 July 1835 William King 8 baron King and Ockham 4 June 1833, cr. earl Lovelace 30 June 1838). d. 6 Great Cumberland place, London 27 Nov. 1852. bur. Hucknall Torcard church near her father. monu. placed in Newstead abbey, Aug. 1863. Bentley’s Miscellany, xxxiii 69–73 (1853), portrait; Argosy 1 Nov. 1869 pp. 358–61; Finden’s Portraits of female aristocracy (1849) vol. ii, portrait 21; Journal of Statistical Soc. xxxiv 414 (1871); Moore’s Life of Byron (1846) 290, 720; I.L.N. xxi 499 (1852); G.M. Jany. 1853 pp. 89–90.
Note.—The third book of Childe Harold written in 1816 begins and concludes with lines addressed to Byron’s daughter and she is again spoken of in the verses Fare thee well, 17 March 1816.
LOVELL, Edward Bourne. Barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; author of Chancery orders 1850 with cases decided 1850; Index to the stamp duties arranged analytically 1850; Digest of law cases, statutes, &c. 1850–54, 4 vols. 1852–5. d. Godshill, Isle of Wight 28 July 1883 aged 78.
Note.—He was also author of The joint-stock companies’ winding-up acts 1848–1849 with notes, published by Wildy, Dec. 1849. Stevens and Norton obtained an injunction against Wildy in the Vice-Chancellor’s court 1 Feb. 1850, Lovell having made use of a great deal of matter previously printed in J. M. Ludlow’s Joint-stock companies’ winding-up act 1848 published by Stevens and Norton 1 Dec. 1848, Wildy was obliged to give up all the copies of the pirated book and pay the costs about £250, which sum Wildy recovered against Lovell in the court of Common Pleas 29 Nov. 1853. Law Journal Reports n.s. xix pt. 1 pp. 190–3 (1850); Law Times 3 Dec. 1853 p. 106.
LOVELL, Edwin (youngest son of Joseph Lovell Lovell of Chilcote manor, solicitor). b. 7 May 1808; ed. at Eton 1823; solicitor at Wells 1831 to death; clerk of peace for Somerset 13 Aug. 1846 to death; registrar of Wells county court 1847 to death; member of the order of The Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother Glastonbury 23 Sep. 1835. d. Sharcombe house, Dinder near Wells 21 May 1877. Wright’s The Blue Friars (1889) 97, 218, portrait.
LOVELL, George William. b. 1804; secretary of Phœnix Insurance Co. 1850 to death; author of the following plays, The Avenger, produced at Surrey theatre 1835; The provost of Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; Love’s sacrifice or the rival merchants, Covent Garden 12 Sep. 1842; Look before you leap, Haymarket 29 Oct. 1846; The wife’s secret, purchased by Charles Kean for £400 before it was written, produced at Park theatre, New York 12 Oct. 1846, and at Haymarket 17 Jany. 1848 when it ran 36 nights and has since kept the stage; The trial of love, Princess’s 7 Jany. 1852, ran 23 nights; published a novel called The Trustee 3 vols. 1841. d. 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 13 May 1878. I.L.N. lxii 533 (1878), portrait.
LOVELL, John. b. Farnham, Surrey 1836; reporter and sub-editor on Sheffield Times and Birmingham Daily Post; editor of Cassell’s Mag. 1868; manager of Press Association 1869–80, a director, chairman of finance committee; a founder and editor of the Printing Times, Jany. 1873; editor of the Liverpool Mercury 1880 to death; the best known journalist on the English press. d. 17 Gambier ter. Liverpool 20 Feb. 1890. Sell’s World’s Press (1891) 82, portrait; London Figaro 1 March 1890 p. 12, portrait; Academy, i 152 (1890).
LOVELL, John Williamson. b. 1824; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 June 1841, col. 3 Aug. 1872 to death; surveying in Turkey 1854; present at battles of Alma and Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; commander of R.E. at Chatham; L.G. 5 Jany. 1869; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Halifax, Nova Scotia 24 April 1880.
LOVELL, Sir Lovell Benjamin (eld. son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock of Little Missenden hall, Bucks.) b. 1786; ed. at Eton; cornet 14 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1805, captain 12 Dec. 1811; served in Peninsular war 1809–14 for which he received Peninsular medal with 11 clasps; major 8 hussars 28 Oct. 1824, placed on h.p. 21 Nov. 1828; lieut.-col. 15 hussars 21 March 1834, placed on h.p. 8 March 1850; col. of 12 lancers 29 Nov. 1856 to death; L.G. 1 April 1860; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; assumed surname of Lovell 10 April 1840. d. Brunswick terrace, Brighton 11 March 1861.