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Name: Date: Course: Stamler/Yiu: Test: Chapter 03


Community Health
Nursing: A
Canadian
Perspective, Third
Canadian Edition

1. Contrast three of the practice settings of community health nurses (CHNs) in terms of role focus and unique
characteristics of nursing practice. Give an example for each practice setting of where the CHN might work.

2. Discuss the role of two professional nursing associations as they relate to community health nurses (CHNs).

3. What level of prevention is evident in screening school children's vision and hearing?
a. Secondary
b. Health promotion
c. Primary
d. Tertiary

4. What type of health care is described in the statement, "Health care that is made universally accessible to
individuals and families, through their full participation, and at a cost the community can afford"?
a. Disease and injury prevention
b. Global health care
c. Primary health care
d. Population health promotion

5. What activity is an example of a public health nurse (PHN) working at the level of the individual?
a. Delivering palliative care in a home
b. Providing school health education services
c. Developing a web-based community resources guide
d. Working in a travel immunization clinic

6. What example best illustrates an inclusive definition of a family?


a. Group members related by blood or marriage
b. A man and a woman united in marriage
c. People who are living together under common law
d. Significant others for any given person

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Name: Date: Course: Stamler/Yiu: Test: Chapter 03
Community Health
Nursing: A
Canadian
Perspective, Third
Canadian Edition

7. A nurse is working with a public coalition to lobby for water fluoridation. What macro health promotion strategy is
illustrated in this example?
a. Social marketing
b. Community mobilization
c. Downstream thinking
d. Secondary prevention

8. A community health nurse is assisting Ms. Halladay to complete a grant application to obtain funding for specialized
health care equipment for her ill daughter. What community health nursing competency is evident in this scenario?
a. Understanding and utilization of ethics and culture care principles
b. Understanding scope of practice or professional expectations
c. Knowledge of community resources in order to link the client to appropriate resources
d. Knowledge of advocacy, health policy development, and the overall health system

9. What factor has been shown to enable community health nurses to practise to their full scope?
a. Existing nurse/physician collaboration
b. Access to learning resources
c. The work environment
d. Professional development opportunities

10. What statement best describes health promotion?


a. Does not involve care and support for chronic conditions
b. Includes the spectrum of health enhancement to disease prevention
c. The process of controlling people's health
d. The exclusive responsibility of nurses

11. What effect has the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome and West Nile virus had on public health
nursing (PHN)?
a. Large public health initiatives are the domain of the physician.
b. There has been no effect as PHNs are not involved in communicable disease control.
c. Public health nurses no longer do contact tracing with individual clients.
d. There has been increased involvement in emergency preparedness planning and education.

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Name: Date: Course: Stamler/Yiu: Test: Chapter 03
Community Health
Nursing: A
Canadian
Perspective, Third
Canadian Edition

12. What activity by a public health nurse best illustrates group as client?
a. Visits a diabetic woman and her husband every day
b. Delivers nursing care to families living in a housing complex
c. Conducts discharge planning rounds at a local hospital
d. Provides prenatal classes at a community centre

13. How does the role of the nurse practitioner differ from that of a public health nurse?
a. Is the owner of a business that offers nursing services
b. Provides health services within the prison system
c. Provides specialized clinical care in the home
d. Autonomously diagnoses and orders diagnostics

14. What public health nursing initiative would be an example of macro health promotion?
a. Educate a small segment of the population about a health issue
b. Produce effective behaviour change through health education
c. Deliver services in isolation from other strategies
d. Work with an entire community on a food security policy

15. What is the primary focus of a forensic nurse’s work?


a. Providing health care services within psychiatric institutions
b. Caring for survivors of violence including sexual assault
c. Consulting for ethics review boards
d. Working at a summer camp for troubled youth

16. What action is required if a community health nurse wants to become a primary health care nurse practitioner
(PHCNP)?
a. Gather additional skills to be able to assist physicians
b. Take additional nursing education with a focus on advanced clinical nursing practice
c. Write the national nurse practitioner examination
d. Work in the United States as this position is not available in Canada

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Manchester 1850–69; a consulting engineer and exporter of
machinery 1869, established businesses at Manchester, Liverpool
and Boston, Massachusetts; patented the twin-screws for steamers
18 July 1849, since come into general use; invented the self-
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and the loose-boss top roller; patented 19 inventions 1849–70;
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inherited a large fortune; kept a large stud and extensive kennels at
Luton Hoo park, Beds.; master of the Hertford hunt 1866; member
of Four in hand club; ran steeple chases under name of Mr. Lynton,
won the Liverpool with Half-Caste 1851; breeder of cattle, took
prizes at Smithfield club shows. d. 138 Piccadilly, London 24 Feb.
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1872 pp. 311–12, portrait.
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Rugby; solicitor at Liverpool 1823–48; mayor of Liverpool 1841,
alderman 1844–48; sheriff of Beds. 1856; founded a scholarship at
Liverpool collegiate institution. d. 138 Piccadilly, London 15 June
1871. bur. Walton on the hill near Liverpool 21 June.
LEIGH, P (son of Leonard Leigh of St. Cross, Winchester). b.
Haddington 3 Nov. 1813; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A.
1834, M.R.C.S. 1835; on the staff of Punch 1841 to death, was the
last survivor of the early writers; played Oliver Cob in Ben Jonson’s
Every man in his humour, at Miss Kelly’s theatre 21 Sep. 1845;
lived at 10 Bedford street Bloomsbury, afterwards at Hammersmith
to death; author of The comic Latin grammar 1840; The comic
English grammar 1840; Portraits of children of the mobility 1841,
all three illustrated by John Leech; Manners and customs of ye
English: drawn from ye quick by Richard Doyle 1849, 2 ed. 1876,
this appeared originally in Punch; Paul Prendergast, or the comic
schoolmaster 1859. d. Oak cottage, 221 Hammersmith road 24 Oct.
1889. W. P. Frith’s John Leech vol. 1, chapters iii and xiii (1891).
N .—There is a portrait of him in John Leech’s two-page cartoon called “Mr. Punch’s fancy
ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 where he is playing the double bass in the orchestra between the
cornet and the violin.

LEIGH, S . b. Milton, Staffs. 1 Sep. 1785; an Independent lay


helper; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Shaftesbury 1812–13, at
Montreal, Canada 1814–15, in New South Wales, Australia 10 Aug.
1815 to 1820 and 1826–31, first Methodist minister in Australia,
held his first service Sydney 16 March 1816, his first convert being
a convict; minister in New Zealand 1820–25 where he established
the first Methodist station; in England 1832 to death. d. Reading 2
May 1852. A. Strachan’s Remarkable incidents in the life of rev. S.
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LEIGHTON, A . b. Dundee 1800; clerk to a lawyer at Edinb.;
Wilson’s Tales of the borders. Revised by A. Leighton 20 vols.
1857–9, New ed. with 4 additional volumes 6 vols. 1863–69; author
of Curious storied traditions of Scottish life, two series 1860–1; The
court of Cacus or the story of Burke and Hare 2 ed. 1861;
Mysterious legends of Edinburgh 1864; Shellburn 1865, a tale;
Romances of the old town of Edinburgh 1867. d. 24 Dec. 1874.
LEIGHTON, S B , (7 Baronet). b. Sunderland 14 May 1805;
ed. Rugby; succeeded 13 Nov. 1828; chairman of quarter sessions,
Salop, Dec. 1855; M.P. South Salop 1859–65; contested South
Salop 15 July 1865. d. Morton hall, Daventry 26 Feb. 1871. I.L.N.
lviii 250, 619 (1871).
LEIGHTON, Charles Blair (son of Stephen Leighton). b. 6 March 1823;
apprenticed to a silver-engraver 1837–44; a student of the R.A.;
painted portraits and figure pieces; a chromolithographer with his
brother George Cargill Leighton. d. 6 Feb. 1855.
LEIGHTON, S D (son of Thomas Leighton of Brechin,
Forfarshire). b. 1774; entered Bombay army 1795; lieut. 4 Bombay
N.I., lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1813 to 1818; adjutant of the 2nd battalion 7
July 1800 to 12 Oct. 1802; lieut.-col. 9 Bombay N.I. 1818–1821;
adjutant general Bombay army 1817 to 1826; commanded
Presidency division 1826 to 1831; lieut.-col. commandant 7 N.I. 4
July 1821, col. 5 June 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 23
July 1823, K.C.B. 10 March 1837. d. Bafford house, Charlton
Kings near Cheltenham 1 June 1860.
LEIGHTON, F K (only son of Francis K. Leighton of
Ipswich). b. 1807; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., demy of Magdalen 1823–9;
fellow of All Souls’ 1829–43; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1858;
P.C. of Great Ilford, Essex 1836–41; R. of Harpsden 1841–58; R. of
Lockinge and Warden of All Souls’ 18 March 1858 to death; V.C.
of univ. of Oxf. 1866–70; canon of Westminster 11 Nov. 1868 to
death; on the council of Keble coll. 1871–80; author of Montes
Pyrenæi, carmen Latinum, in theatro Sheldoniano recitatum 1826.
d. All Souls’ college 13 Oct. 1881. bur. college chapel 18 Oct.,
portrait by Richmond in the college hall. J. R. Bloxam’s Register of
Magdalen College, vii 290–1 (1881).
LEIGHTON, R (son of David L. Leighton d. 1828). b. Murray
gate, Dundee 20 Feb. 1822; in a merchant’s office in Dundee; went
round the world as a supercargo in one of his brother’s ships 1842–
3; clerk in locomotive department of London and North-Western
railway at Preston 1843–54; managed at Ayr a branch business of a
firm of Liverpool seed merchants 1854–59, after that in the
Liverpool house and travelled for the firm in Great Britain and
Ireland 1859–67; author of Rhymes and poems, By Robin 1855, 2
ed. 1861; Poems 1866, 2 ed. 1869; Scotch words and the
Bapteesement o’ the bairn 1869, 3 ed. 1869; Reuben and other
poems 1875; Records and other poems 1880. d. Liverpool 10 May
1869. J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland, ii 432–37 (1877); Norrie’s
Dundee Celebrities (1873) 327.
LEIGHTON, R (son of Archibald Leighton a bookbinder at 55
Exmouth st. Clerkenwell and the inventor of cloth binding 1822, d.
1841). b. London 1822; apprentice to his father; head of firm of
Leighton and Eeles, bookbinders 54 and 55 Exmouth st. 1841,
business removed to Angel court, Strand, then to Harp alley and to
13 Shoe lane; W. Hodge became a partner 1853 and R. Leighton
junr. in 1885; removed to 16 New st. sq. 1870, firm became
Leighton, Son and Hodge, the first to use steam machinery in
binding; invented the backing and trimming machine; the first to
use steam power for blocking in gold and to use aluminium and
black and coloured inks for cloth cases; invented printing on the
edges of books; the chief binders of drawing room table books. d.
Oakdale road, Coventry park, Streatham 14 Dec. 1888. The
Bookseller, Jany. 1889 p. 8.
LEIGHTON, T . Entered Bombay army 1807; ensign 7 Bombay
N.I. 5 Nov. 1808, lieut. 1 Jany. 1814; captain 14 N.I. 1 May 1824,
major 29 Sep. 1832 to 28 June 1838; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 28 June
1838 to 1841, of 12 N.I. 1841 to 1843, of 26 N.I. 1843–45, of 2 N.I.
1845–46, of 1 N.I. 1846–8, of 21 N.I. 1848–9; commandant at
Candeish 4 Feb. 1848 to 1 Oct. 1849; col. of 2 N.I. 20 Sep. 1849 to
death. d. Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Feb. 1855.
LEIGHTON, W (son of David Leighton a master baker). b.
Dundee 3 Feb. 1841; taken to Liverpool 1847; clerk to a Spanish
merchant 1854; employed in a Brazilian house 1864 to death;
contributed poems to The Compass a local literary paper, and to the
Liverpool Mercury; author of Poems 1870, 2 ed. 1870; Hymns
1871; Baby died to-day and other poems 1875. d. of typhoid fever
22 April 1869. bur. Anfield cemetery, Liverpool, memorial window
in St. Ann’s church, Brookfield, Highgate Rise, London. Poems by
the late William Leighton (1870), memoir pp. v–vi; Norrie’s Dundee
Celebrities (1873) 325.
LEIGHTON, W A (only son of Wm. Leighton, landlord of
the Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury). b. Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury 17 May
1805; articled to a solicitor in Shrewsbury 1822; studied at St.
John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1833; C. of St. Giles’s, Shrewsbury 1845–
8; gave his collection of lichens to Kew Gardens 1880; author of
Catalogue of the cellulares or flowerless plants of Great Britain
1837; A flora of Shropshire 1841; A guide through the town of
Shrewsbury 1855; The lichen-flora of Great Britain 1871, 2 ed.
1872; Wanderings among old churches in neighbourhood of Rhyl
1881. d. Lucifelde, Shrewsbury 28 Feb. 1889.
LEINSTER, A F F 3 Duke of (eld. son of 2
duke of Leinster 1749–1804). b. Carton house, Maynooth 21 Aug.
1791; styled marquess of Kildare 1791–1804; succeeded his father
20 Oct. 1804; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 Oct. 1810;
P.C. Ireland 9 May 1831; P.C. 29 June 1831; lord high constable of
Ireland for coronations of William IV. and Victoria; lord lieut. of co.
Kildare 7 Oct. 1831 to death; grand master of Irish grand lodge of
freemasons 24 June 1813 to death; president of National
Agricultural Soc. 1841; a resident landlord who much improved his
estate, the Leinster lease was a well known document; his masonic
jubilee was celebrated 24 June 1863; premier duke, marquess and
earl of Ireland. d. Carton house 10 Oct. 1874. Dublin Univ. Mag.
lxxxiv 42–57 (1874), portrait; I.L.N. lxv 369, 378 (1874), portrait;
Graphic, x 391 (1874), portrait.
LEINSTER, C W F , 4 Duke of (son of the
preceding). b. Dublin 30 March 1819; styled marquess of Kildare
1819–74; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1852; comr. of
national education in Ireland 1841; sheriff co. Kildare 1842–3; M.P.
co. Kildare 1847–52; lieut.-col. royal Dublin militia 1849–72, hon.
col. 11 May 1872 to death; summoned to parliament as baron
Kildare 28 April 1870; chancellor of Queen’s univ. Ireland 1870;
succeeded as 4 duke 10 Oct. 1874; author of The earls of Kildare
and their ancestors 2 ed. with Addenda. Dublin 1858–62, 3 ed.
1858. d. Carton, Maynooth 10 Feb. 1887. I.L.N. xviii 105, 106
(1851), portrait.
LEISHMAN, M (son of a manufacturer). b. Paisley; presbyterian
minister at Goran, Oct. 1820; a leader of the party termed The Forty
1839; D.D. Glasgow 18 Dec. 1840; moderator of general assembly
20 May 1858; edited for Maitland club, R. Wodrow’s Collections
upon the lives of the reformers 2 vols. 1834 and R. Wodrow’s
Analecta, a history of remarkable providences 2 vols. 1842; The
works of A. Binning 1847. Scott’s Fasti vol. 2, part 1, p. 70; J.
Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 300–306.
LEITCH, W . b. Rothesay, Isle of Bute 1814; ed. Glasgow univ.,
M.A. 1836; licensed preacher in Church of Scotland 1838; minister
of Monimail 1843–59; principal of the univ. of Queen’s coll.
Canada 1859 to death, assist. to professor Nichol in univ.
observatory; moderator of the synod of the church of Scotland,
Canada 1862; a senator and an examiner in the univ. Toronto;
president of Botanical Soc. of Canada and a writer in its
Transactions 1861; a contributor to Kitto’s Journal of Sacred
Literature, Good Words and other periodicals; author of God’s glory
in the heavens 1862, 3 ed. 1866. d. Kingston, Upper Canada 9 May
1864. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 221.
LEITCH, W L . b. The Townhead, Glasgow 2 Nov. 1804;
a weaver 1819, a house painter; scene painter at theatre royal,
Glasgow, Aug. 1824 at 20s. a week; spent 2 years at Mauchline
painting snuffboxes; scene painter at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st.
London to 1832; studied and taught painting in Italy 1833–7; a
successful teacher in London from 1837; drawing master to the
queen and royal family from 1842 for 22 years; last of the great
English teachers of landscape painting; member of Institute of
painters in water-colours 1862, vice pres. to death, a collection of
his works was exhibited at their rooms Piccadilly 1883; exhibited
11 pictures at R. A., 2 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; his
sketches with a few drawings and oil pictures were sold at
Christie’s, March 1884 for £9,000; illustrated G. N. Wright’s The
Rhine, Italy and Greece 1840; G. N. Wright’s The shores of the
Mediterranean 1840; J. Sherer’s The classic lands of Europe 1879.
d. 124 Alexandra road, St. John’s Wood, London 25 April 1883.
Graphic, xxvii 604 (1883), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxii 432 (1883),
portrait; Mac George’s W. L. Leitch, a memoir (1884), portrait.
LEITH, S A (eld. son of Alexander Leith of Freefield, co.
Aberdeen, d. 1828). b. Cobardie, Forgue, Aberdeenshire 1774;
ensign 42 foot 8 Aug. 1792; captain 109 foot 1794; captain 31 foot
1795, lieut.-col. 7 Feb. 1811 to 25 May 1815 when placed on h.p.;
commanded 31 foot at battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive
and Orthes; colonel 90 foot 2 Sep. 1841 to 14 June 1853; colonel 31
foot 14 June 1853 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 2 Jany.
1815. d. Freefield, co. Aberdeen 19 Feb. 1859.
LEITH, E T (2 son of John Farley Leith, Q.C.) b. Calcutta
12 March 1842; ed. in Germany and Trin. coll. Camb. 1869;
barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1866; practised at Bombay 1867–85;
professor of law at government law school, Bombay 1869–85; lived
at Stuttgart, Germany 1886 to death; gave much attention to
ethnological studies and contributed to various papers The funeral
rites of the Parsees; The religion of the Non-Aryan races of India;
The primitive disposal of the dead by exposure; Cannibalism in
India; and The dog in myth and custom; author of Divination by
Házirát among the Indian Mussulmáns 1886. d. Heidelberg 10 Dec.
1888. Law Times, lxxxvi 167, 230 (1889).
LEITH, H . b. 1796; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1817; presbyterian
minister at Cornwall, Upper Canada 6 June 1822; minister of
Rothiemay 23 May 1827 to death; took part with the minority in the
dispute regarding the presentation to Marnoch and was rebuked at
the bar of the supreme civil court 26 May 1843 for breach of
interdict and fined £5 and expenses. d. Rothiemay 20 Aug. 1854.
Scott’s Fasti, vol. 3, part 1, p. 216.
LEITH, J (son of sir Alexander Leith). b. 1827; cornet 14 hussars 4
May 1849, lieut. 1853; captain 2 dragoons 1859, placed on h.p. 31
Dec. 1861; served in Persian campaign 1857, at suppression of
mutiny at Aurungabad, with Malwa field force at siege of Dhar, and
at advance on Calpee; at Betwah 1 April 1858 charged alone and
rescued Capt. Need from the rebel infantry for which he was
awarded Victoria cross 24 Dec. 1858; gentleman at arms 5 May
1863 to death. d. Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 13 May
1869.
LEITH, J (2 son of general Alexander Leith Hay). b. Leith hall, co.
Aberdeen; entered navy 11 June 1803; captain 11 Nov. 1825;
commander of the Seringapatam 46 guns and in charge of the
Barbadoes station 6 Feb. 1837 to July 1841; R.A. 11 Feb. 1854. d.
25 Oct. 1854. O’Byrne p. 647.
LEITH, J F (eld. son of James Urquhart Murray Leith, capt. 68
regt., killed at Orthes 1814). b. Aberdeen 5 May 1808; ed. at gr.
sch., Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen, M.A. 1825; barrister
M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 7 May 1874 to death; Q.C. 1 Nov.
1872; advocate in supreme court at Calcutta 1840–9; professor of
law East India college, Haileybury 1853–7 or 8; practised before
judicial committee of P.C.; contested city of Aberdeen 2 April 1857;
M.P. city of Aberdeen 1872–80. d. 8 Dorset sq. Marylebone,
London 4 April 1887. Law Times, lxxxii 479 (1887).
LEITH, J M . b. 26 Dec. 1839; ed. at Cheltenham; ensign
79 highlanders 17 March 1854, lieut.-col. 1 July 1881, placed on
h.p. 1 July 1885; brevet colonel 31 Dec. 1882; served in Egypt
1882; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. d. Gibraltar 22 May 1888.
LEITH, R W D (2 son of sir Alexander Leith 1774–
1859). b. Glenkindy, Aberdeenshire 28 Feb. 1819; ensign 1 Bombay
European fusiliers 4 Sep. 1837; served in Persian gulf 1838–41, in
the Punjaub 1848–9, led storming party at capture of Mooltan 1849;
adjutant March to Aug. 1846; A.A.G. Bombay 1855–59; lieut.-col.
106 foot 1 Jany. 1862, on h.p. 29 May 1866, lieut. general 1 Oct.
1877; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Northcourt, Isle of Wight 20 June 1892.
LEITRIM, N C , 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 Earl of
Leitrim 1732–1804). b. Dublin 9 May 1768; known as viscount
Clements 1783–1804; M.P. Carrick 1790–7; M.P. Leitrim 1798–
1800; M.P. Leitrim in first parliament of United Kingdom 1801–4;
succeeded 27 July 1804; lord lieut. of Leitrim 1831 to death; cr.
baron Clements of Kilmacrenan, co. Donegal in peerage of U.K. 20
June 1831; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland; col. of Donegal militia.
d. Killadoon, co. Kildare 31 Dec. 1854.
LEITRIM, W S C , 3 Earl of (2 son of the
preceding). b. Dublin 1806; known as viscount Clements 1804–54;
ensign 43 foot 9 Dec. 1824, captain 5 April 1831; placed on h.p. 20
March 1835; sold his commission 20 June 1854; M.P. Leitrim
1839–47; col. of Leitrim militia 1843; succeeded 31 Dec. 1854; a
magistrate for Galway, Leitrim and Donegal, superseded Oct. 1863;
gave orders to the manager of the hotel at Maam a tenant of his
own, to refuse admission to the earl of Carlisle, the lord lieutenant,
which was done accordingly; a severe landlord who evicted many
of his tenants; while driving on a car with a clerk and a driver, shot
dead at Cratlaghwood near Milford, co. Donegal 2 April 1878, the
driver and the clerk being also killed. Graphic, xvii 364 (1878),
portrait; I.L.N. lxxii 329 (1878), portrait; A.R. 1878 pp. 35–36.
LE KEUX, H (son of Peter Le Keux of Bishopsgate, London,
pewter manufacturer). b. 13 June 1787; apprenticed to James
Basire, engraver, worked for him on the Oxford almanacs and on
the plates for Society of Antiquaries; engraved for the Annals 1820–
40; member of Associated Society of Engravers, engraved for the
Soc. some pictures by Claude and Canaletto in the national gallery;
joined in starting a crape manufactory at Bocking in Essex about
1838; engraved views for Specimens of the architecture of
Normandy by J. Britton 1873; author with J. Le Keux of Historical
essays, a series of architectural antiquities of Normandy 1828. d.
Bocking 3 Oct. 1868. bur. Halstead, Essex.
LEMAITRE, P T . b. 1776; a gold watch case maker at 13
Denmark st. Soho; arrested 27 Sep. 1794 for treasonable practices
as being a delegate of the London Corresponding Society, in
connection with John Smith of the Pop Gun, Portsmouth st.
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, to assassinate George the Third by means of a
poisoned arrow; examined by the Privy Council 28–30 Sep.; the
first person sent to the new prison at Cold Bath Fields, confined
there 32 weeks, liberated 9 May 1795 on giving bail for £50, tried at
the Old Bailey 11 May 1796 and discharged; his case was for many
years before parliament; Henry Warburton, M.P. got a petition
drawn up for him in Aug. 1846. High treason. Narrative of the
arrest of P. T. Lemaitre 2 ed. (1795).
N .—His petition to the House of Commons, states that he was then in the 70th year of his
age, was one of those persons, who during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus act, were
arrested and confined in prison for long periods of time on charges of traitorously conspiring
against the King’s person and government, of which persons he was nearly the sole survivor,
alleges his innocence of the charges brought against him, and prays that the House would be
pleased to take his petition into consideration and afford him redress. It was presented and read
and ordered to lie upon the table 13 Aug. 1846, ordered to be printed 14 Aug.

LEMAN, J . b. 1794; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1819 to death;


member of council of incorporated law society 19 June 1851 to
1869, vice pres. 1862–3, pres. 1863–64. d. 29 Chester terrace,
Regent’s park, London 9 April 1876. Solicitors’ Journal, xx 492
(1876).
LEMANN, C M . b. London 1806; ed. Trin. coll. Camb.,
M.B. 1828, M.D. 1833; Fellow Linnean soc. 1831; F.C.P. Lond.
1836; physician to lord Warwick’s family in Italy 1834–5; formed
an herbarium of plants from Spain, Italy, America, Brazil, Guinea,
the Cape and Australia consisting of 30,000 specimens, which was
given by his brother Frederick Lemann to the university of
Cambridge. d. Bathampton near Bath 26 Aug. 1852. Proc. of
Linnean Soc. ii 234–5 (1855).
LE MARCHANT, S D , 1 Baronet (2 son of John Gaspard Le
Marchant, major general 1766–1812). b. Newcastle 3 July 1795; ed.
at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; chief sec.
to lord chancellor Brougham 1830–34; clerk of the crown in
chancery 30 July 1834 to 1836; sec. to board of trade 1836–40 and
1848–50; joint sec. to the treasury 19 June 1841 to 21 May 1844;
baronet 14 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Worcester 1846 to 1847; under sec.
of state for home department 1847–8; chief clerk to house of
commons 30 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1871; author of Report of the
proceedings of the house of lords in the claim to the barony of
Gardner 1828; The reform ministry and the reform parliament 1834,
nine editions; Memoirs of general Le Marchant 1841, privately
printed 90 copies; Memoirs of John Charles, viscount Althorp 1876;
edited Horace Walpole’s Memoirs of the reign of George III. with
notes 1845. d. 21 Belgrave road, London 30 Oct. 1874. I.L.N. 22
Feb. 1851, portrait, lxv 475, 489 (1874) portrait, lxvi 187 (1875);
Law Times 7 Nov. 1874 p. 17.
LE MARCHANT, S J G (brother of the preceding). b.
1803; ensign 10 foot 26 Oct. 1820; lieut. 57 foot 1821, captain
1825; captain 98 foot 1826, major 1832–5; adjutant general to
Anglo-Spanish legion and brigadier general in the Spanish army
1835–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838 for his service
in Spain; permitted to wear Spanish decorations of San Fernando
and Charles III.; lieut.-col. 99 foot 18 Oct. 1839 to 27 Sep. 1842;
inspecting field officer recruiting district South of Ireland 1842–6;
lieut. col. of 85 foot 19 June 1846 to 29 Dec. 1846; lieut. governor
of Newfoundland 1846–52 and of Nova Scotia 1852–57; governor
of Malta 1 Oct. 1859 to 15 Nov. 1864; commander-in-chief at
Madras 25 May 1865 to 8 Nov. 1867; col. of 11 foot 3 Sep. 1862 to
death; general 6 May 1872; G.C.M.G. 1860; K.C.B. 9 Oct. 1865. d.
80 St. George’s square, London 6 Feb. 1874.
LE MESSURIER, A P . b. 1797 or 1798; entered Bombay
army 1819; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 8 Oct. 1839,
lieut.-col. 1 Dec. 1851 to 28 Nov. 1854; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I. 28
Nov. 1854 to 1856, of 10 N.I. 1856–7, of 12 N.I. 1857–60, of 10
N.I. again 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with rank of M.G.
d. 5 Inverness place, Hyde park, London 17 Feb. 1876.
LE MESSURIER, A S . b. 1800; barrister L.I. 22 Nov.
1821; practised with great success at Bombay 30 years; advocate
general of presidency of Bombay 1847 to 1857 when he returned to
England. d. 50 Upper Baker st. Portman square, London 8 Dec.
1876. Solicitors’ Journal 16 Dec. 1876 p. 132.
LE MESSURIER, G P . Entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 2
Bombay N.I. 4 Jany. 1819; captain 14 N.I. 22 July 1826, major 15
Sep. 1841 to 2 March 1846; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 1846–8, of 24 N.I.
1848–9, of 22 N.I. 1849 to death. d. Wimpole st. London 6 Feb.
1852.
LEMOINNE, J E . b. London 17 Oct. 1815, and first educated in
England; joined staff of the Journal des Débats 1840, with which
paper he remained to his death; member of French academy 13 May
1875; a life senator 23 Feb. 1880; author of Wellington from a
French point of view 1852; Etudes critiques et biographiques 1862;
and of Letters of J. Lemoinne on the exhibition of 1851, in D.
Lardner’s The Great exhibition 1852. d. Paris 14 Dec. 1892. The
Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p. 14, portrait.
LEMON, S C , 2 Baronet (3 son of sir Wm. Lemon 1748–1824).
b. Whitehall, London 30 Sep. 1784; ed. Harrow; M.A. of Camb.
univ. 1833; M.P. Penryn 1807–12, and 1830–31; M.P. Cornwall
1831–32; M.P. West Cornwall 1832–41 and 1842–57; F.R.S. 23
May 1822; a founder of Statistical soc. 1834, and a trustee 1838;
president R. Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1833 to death; president R.
Geological soc. of Cornwall 1840–50; provincial grand master of
freemasons of Cornwall 1843–63; a commissioner for enquiring
into state of British museum 11 June 1847; special deputy warden
of the Stannaries 1852; made a collection of exotic trees and shrubs
at Carclew; author of On the proposed tariff as it affects tin, copper
and timber used in mines 1842, and other pamphlets. d. Carclew
near Penryn, Cornwall 12 Feb. 1868. bur. Mylor ch. Boase and
Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 314–15, 1267.
LEMON, M (eld. son of Martin Lemon, hop merchant, who m. 27
Dec. 1808 Alice Collis and d. 21 Jany. 1818 aged 32). b. Oxford st.
London 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; learnt business of a
hop merchant from his uncle Thomas Collis of Boston, Lincoln
1824; manager of Verey’s brewery, Kentish Town, London; retailer
of beer at 24 Lambeth Walk, Vauxhall 1837–41; his first play, P.L.
or No. 30 Strand, was produced at Strand theatre 25 April 1835; his
5 act drama in blank verse Arnold of Winkelried produced at Surrey
theatre, July 1835; The Avenge produced at City of London theatre
opening night 27 April 1837; his 5 act play The Turf produced at
Covent Garden 1842; Hearts are trumps, at Strand theatre 1849;
wrote about 60 plays; lived at 11 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London
1852–9; contributed to Household Works, Once a Week, &c.; edited
The London Journal 1858–9, The Family Herald, Once a Week;
started The Field 1 Jany. 1853, edited it; secretary to Herbert Ingram
founder of Illustrated London News, for which he wrote the first
Christmas supplement; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner
with Henry Mayhew of a third share in it, edited it to his death, at a
salary originally 30/-a week and latterly £1500 per annum; an
amateur actor from 1845; gave a series of lectures called About
London, at Gallery of Illustration 6 Jany. 1862 to 1863; arranged
and played chief part in a series of scenes from the Merry Wives of
Windsor entitled Falstaff, at Gallery of Illustration, Regent st. from
12 Oct. 1868, and in North of England and Scotland 1868–9; author
of The enchanted doll 1849 and other fairy tales; also of Wait for
the end 3 vols. 1863 and other novels and about 100 songs. (m. 28
Sep. 1839 Helen dau. of John Romer of Upper Chelsea, jeweller,
she was granted civil list pension of £100, 3 May 1872 and d. Nov.
1890). He d. Vine cottage, Crawley, Sussex 23 May 1870. bur.
Ifield 27 May. Illustrated Rev. 15 Feb. 1872 pp. 481–88, portrait; J.
H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 49–60; Appleton’s
Journal, viii 493–5, portrait; E. Walford’s Representative men
(1868), portrait; J. Hatton’s With a show in the north.
Reminiscences of Mark Lemon (1871), portrait; The Mask (1868)
65–7, portrait; I.L.N. vii 348 (1845), portrait.
N .—Mr. Edward Walford, M.A., states in Notes and Queries 16 June 1888 p. 478 that
Mark Lemon told him the place of his birth was a house included in the Crystal Palace bazaar just
behind Peter Robinson’s emporium, this was probably the present No. 228 Oxford St. formerly
No. 108 down to 1881 when all the houses in Oxford st. west of Tottenham Court road were
renumbered. There is a portrait of Lemon by John Leech in his two-page cartoon called “Mr.
Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847 as the conductor of the orchestra. In Alfred Bunn’s A
word with Punch 1847 Lemon is spoken of as Thickhead, there is a portrait representing him as a
pot boy and it is suggested that he was a tailor and vastly like Moses. He wrote the first article in
the first number of Punch entitled The Moral of Punch. The rev. J. Richardson, LL.B. states in his
Recollections of the last half century vol. 1 (1856) 80–2 that Lemon kept the Shakespeare’s Head
tavern in Wych st. Strand for one year after his marriage. In “Mr. Punch: his origin and career”
[1870] there is a facsimile of the original prospectus of Punch in the handwriting of Lemon.

LEMON, R (son of Robert Lemon, archivist 1779–1835). b. 1800;


employed in state paper office under his father, senior clerk Nov.
1835; compiled indexes to Valor ecclesiasticus temp. Hen. VIII.
1834; suggested publishing the Calendars of state papers and
interpreted a cypher which had rendered many of them
unintelligible; edited Calendars of state papers Domestic series
1547–90, 2 vols. 1856–65; F.S.A. 3 March 1836, rearranged the
society’s library 1846; author of Catalogue of a collection of
broadsides 1866. d. 10 Ovington sq. Brompton, London 3 Jany.
1867. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. iii 481–2 (1867).
LEMON, T (1 son of Thomas Lemon, lieut.-col. R.M. d. 4 Aug.
1856). b. St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester 22 June 1807; 2 lieut. R.M.
8 Oct. 1827; col. commandant 6 March 1862 to death; L.G. 13 Feb.
1867; C.B. 20 May 1859. d. Plymouth 22 Feb. 1875.
LEMPRIERE, G O . b. 11 March 1787; captain R.N. 27 May
1825; retired admiral 3 Dec. 1863. d. Pelham, Hants. 16 Jany. 1864.
LENDRICK, J W J . b. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
gold medallist and Law’s mathematical prizeman 1810; B. A. 1810,
M.A. 1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 16 June 1859; chairman
of quarter sessions for counties of Londonderry and Wicklow nearly
34 years. d. 114 Pembroke road, Dublin 19 Jany. 1872. Irish Law
Times 27 Jany. 1872 p. 47.
LENDY, A F . b. 1826; captain of the French army staff;
came to England as military tutor to the Orlean princes 1848;
started a private military college at Sunbury house, Sunbury-on-
Thames; a successful ‘crammer’ for the army; lieut. 4th or royal
South Middlesex militia 24 Nov. 1862, captain 2 May 1866, retired
with hon. rank of major 1 Feb. 1879; an amateur grower of orchids;
author of The principles of war 1853; Elements of fortification
1857; Maxims, advice and instruction on the art of war 1857, new
ed. 1864; Campaigns of Napoleon and of Wellington 1861, nineteen
parts; A practical course of military surveying 1864. d. Riverside
house, Sunbury-on-Thames 10 Oct. 1889. Broad Arrow 19 Oct.
1889 p. 479; Gardener’s Mag. 19 Oct. 1889.
LENNARD, T B (1 son of sir T. B. Lennard, bart. 1761–
1857). b. 4 Oct. 1788; ed. Charterhouse and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A.
1810, M.A. 1813; M.P. Ipswich 1820–6; M.P. Maldon 1826–37 and
1847–52; contested Maldon 26 July 1837; F.S.A. 22 May 1851. d.
Brighton 9 June 1856.
LENNIE, W . b. 1779; taught English at Edinburgh 1802 to death;
author of The principles of English grammar 1821, 85th ed. Edinb.
1886; left an endowment of £10 a year to a school at Craigend,
Perthshire; left by his will to town council of Edinburgh the lands of
Auchenresch, Dumfriesshire for founding in univ. of Edinb. four
bursaries of £12 each to be called the Lennie bursaries. d. 23 St.
Andrew’s sq. Edinburgh 20 July 1852.

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