Lord Bobs. The later nickname of Lord Roberts since the close of the South African War.
Lord’s Cricket Ground. After Thomas Lord, the founder of the earliest private Cricket Club in London, in 1780. First in Dorset Square, and eventually on its present site--his own landed property--he set up a private pitch for genteel folk far from the haunts of the city apprentices and other enthusiasts of the game.
Lord’s Day. The name given to Sunday by the Quakers.
Lordship Lane. From the Lord of the Manor of Dulwich.
Loretto. Called by the Romans Lauretana after Laureta, the lady to whom the country villa, and a large tract of land on which the town was afterwards built, belonged.
Lorraine. Anciently Lotharingia, the duchy of Lotharius II., grandson of the Emperor Lewis I.
Los Angeles. Originally called by the Spaniards “Pueblo de los Angeles,” the city of the angels, on account of its delightful situation and climate.
Lo Spagnoletto. The surname of Guiseppe Ribera, the celebrated Spanish painter. It means “Little Spaniard.”
Lothbury. A corruption of “Lattenbury,” where the workers in latten ware, a species of bronze, had their shops in the Middle Ages. In the modern sense latten is a kind of sheet brass.
Loudoun Road. After the name of the builder on the estate.