LUCENA, Lorenzo. b. 1806; ed. coll. of St. Pelagio in univ. of Seville, professor of theology there 8 years and provisional president 3 years; minister of a protestant congregation of Spaniards at Gibraltar on appointment by S.P.C.K.; hon. canon of Gibraltar cathedral 1842–60; reader in Spanish language and literature in the Taylor institute, Oxford 1858 to death; cr. M.A. of univ. of Oxf. 5 June 1877; assisted in preparing new ed. of Spanish Bible founded on Cipriano de Valera’s text, Oxford 1862. d. Oxford 24 Aug. 1881.
LUCET, Joachim Simeon. b. 1797; professor de belles lettres; author of Langue Française. Simples notes grammaticales 1843. d. 49 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 11 April 1855.
LUCETTE, Catherine. Made her first appearance at theatre royal, Plymouth; first seen in London at Drury Lane as Susan in William and Susan 28 Feb. 1859; appeared at Metropolitan theatre, New York as Pauline in Delicate Ground 23 May 1859; with her husband M. Price had a drawing room entertainment at Brooklyn, New York 25 Aug. 1868; played Ariel in the Tempest at Grand Opera house, New York 1869; toured for some years in North of England playing Leonie in The Sutler Girl; m. (1) Morton Price, actor whose right name was Horton Rhys d. 8 May 1876 aged 52; m. (2) Charles Medwin. She d. 20 Oct. 1892. bur. Norwood cemetery. Brown’s American stage (1870) 226, 243.
LUCKRAFT, Alfred. b. 2 April 1792; entered navy Jany. 1801; present at Trafalgar 1805, was in the trenches 12 days besieging Morea Castle in the Peloponnesus Oct. 1828, obtained insignia of legion of honor and of Redeemer of Greece; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. d. Eastney barracks, Portsmouth 15 Oct. 1871.
LUCY, Charles. b. Hertford 1814; studied under Delaroche in Paris and at the R.A.; copied old masters at the Hague and Paris; lived at Barbizon near Fontainebleau 16 years; obtained a premium of £200 at Westminster hall competition 1847 for his painting of The departure of the primitive puritans to the coast of America, A.D. 1620; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1838–73; instructor at a drawing school in Camden Town many years; chairman of committee of new British Institution; painted a series of portraits of eminent men for sir Joshua Walmesley who bequeathed them to the South Kensington museum. d. 13 Ladbroke crescent, Notting Hill, London 19 May 1873. Anne Lucy his widow granted civil list pension of £70, 24 Nov. 1881. I.L.N. lxii 544 (1873).
LUCY, Henry Spencer (2 son of George Lucy, M.P. 1798–1845). b. 28 Nov. 1830; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 May 1850; sheriff of Warwickshire 1857; succeeded on death of his brother William 1 July 1848; kept harriers and hunted the borders of Warwick, Worcester and Gloucester; master of the Warwickshire hounds 1866, hunted 5 days a week; resided at Chalcote park, Warwick. Baily’s Mag. xxvi 373–5 (1875), portrait.
LUCY, William Wootten. b. 1802; bookseller at Marlborough from 1829; postmaster Marlborough 1829–69; mayor of Marlborough twice. d. Marlborough 16 Nov. 1869. The Marlborough Times 20 Nov. 1869 p. 4.
LUDLAM, Henry. b. 14 Oct. 1824; a land surveyor; engaged in commercial pursuits; made one of the finest private collections of minerals in the kingdom; he bequeathed his collections which included those made by Charles H. Turner and Wm. Nevill, to the Museum of practical geology in Jermyn st. London; F.G.S., F.M.S. d. 174 Piccadilly, London 23 June 1880. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvii 47 (1881).
LUDLOW, Ebenezer (son of Ebenezer Ludlow of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucester). b. 1777; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1795, M.A. 1821; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1805; town clerk of Bristol 22 July 1819, resigned 1836 on pension of £533; serjeant at law 25 June 1827; comr. of bankruptcy for Liverpool district 21 Oct. 1842 and for Bristol district 1849 to death; chairman of Gloucestershire quarter sessions, April 1842 to 1849. d. Almondsbury near Bristol 25 March 1851. G.M. xxxv 666 (1851).
LUDLOW, John. b. 16 May 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; entered Bengal army 1818; lieut. 3 Bengal N.I. 15 Aug. 1820; captain 6 N.I. 1 April 1829, major 20 Dec. 1843 to 6 April 1850; lieut.-col. of 12 N.I. 6 April 1850, of 9 N.I. 7 June 1853, of 36 N.I. 1854 to 9 Aug. 1854 when he retired with rank of M.G. d. Yotes court, Kent 30 Nov. 1882.