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Chapter 02

Reviewing Financial Statements

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which financial statement reports a firm's assets, liabilities, and equity at a particular point in time?

A. Balance sheet

B. Income statement

C. Statement of retained earnings

D. Statement of cash flows

2. Which financial statement shows the total revenues that a firm earns and the total expenses the
firm incurs to generate those revenues over a specific period of time—generally one year?

A. Balance sheet

B. Income statement

C. Statement of retained earnings

D. Statement of cash flows

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3. Which financial statement reports the amounts of cash that the firm generated and distributed

during a particular time period?

A. Balance sheet

B. Income statement

C. Statement of retained Earnings

D. Statement of cash Flows

4. Which financial statement reconciles net income earned during a given period and any cash

dividends paid within that period using the change in retained earnings between the beginning

and end of the period?

A. Balance sheet

B. Income statement

C. Statement of retained earnings

D. Statement of cash flows

5. On which of the four major financial statements would you find the common stock and paid-in

surplus?

A. Balance sheet

B. Income statement

C. Statement of cash flows

D. Statement of retained earnings

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6. On which of the four major financial statements would you find the increase in inventory?

A. Balance sheet

B. Income statement

C. Statement of cash flows

D. Statement of retained earnings

7. On which of the four major financial statements would you find net plant and equipment?

A. Balance sheet

B. Income statement

C. Statement of cash flows

D. Statement of retained earnings

8. Financial statements of publicly traded firms can be found in a number of places. Which of the

following is NOT an option for finding publicly traded firms' financial statements?

A. Facebook

B. A firm's website

C. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) website

D. Websites such as finance.yahoo.com

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death; dean of St. David’s 26 March 1840 to death, the last non-
resident dean; author of Reply to N. Davies’s Notes on the cathedral
church of St. David’s 1853, 2 ed. 1853. d. about 30 Nov. 1878.
LEWES, C L (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1843; ed. at
Hofwyl, Switzerland; clerk in the Post Office, London, Aug. 1860
to Oct. 1886; one of the secretaries of Hampstead Heath extension
committee, which raised £52,000 for purchase of Parliament hill
1887; member of the first London county council for the St. Pancras
district 7 Jany. 1889 to death; contributed to Nineteenth Century
and Blackwood’s Mag.; residuary legatee of “George Eliot” 1880
and owner of the copyright of all her works and those of his father;
edited Essays and leaves from a note book, by George Eliot 1884;
translator of In the year ’13, a tale of Mecklenburg life by Fritz
Reuter 1867; Emilia Galotti by G. E. Lessing 1868; Count Bismarck
by L. Bamberger 1869. d. Luxor, Egypt 26 Feb. 1891.
LEWES, G H (grandson of Charles Lee Lewes, actor 1740–
1803). b. London 18 April 1817; ed. in London, Jersey, Brittany and
at Greenwich; in a notary’s office; employed by a Russian
merchant; a medical student a short time; visited Germany 1838;
appeared at the Whitehall theatre in Garrick’s comedy The
Guardian 1841, played in Dickens’ amateur company 1848, played
Shylock 1849; acted in his own tragedy The Noble Heart, at the
Olympic Feb. 1850 and in the provinces 1850; wrote many articles
in the quarterly reviews; wrote The game of speculation, produced
at Lyceum 2 Oct. 1851 and 9 other plays produced at Lyceum, all
written under pseudonyms of Slingsby Lawrence and Frank
Churchill; founded with T. L. Hunt The Leader 1850, editor for
literary subjects to July 1854. m. 18 Feb. 1841 Agnes eld. dau. of
Swynfen Stevens Jervis, M.P. for Bridport, he left her in July 1854
and went to Germany with Mary Ann Evans known as “George
Eliot,” he passed as her husband for the rest of his life; edited
Fortnightly Review, May 1865 to Dec. 1866; lived at the Priory, St.
John’s Wood, London 1863 to death; author of The life of
Maximilien Robespierre 1845; A biographical history of philosophy
4 vols. 1845–6, 5 ed. 1 vol. 1880; The Spanish drama, Lope de Vega
and Calderon 1846; Rose, Blanche and Violet 3 vols. 1848; The life
and works of Goethe 2 vols. 1855; Studies in animal life 1862;
Problems of life and mind 5 vols. 1874–9; Our actors and the art of
acting 1875. d. The Priory, 21 North bank, St. John’s Wood, London
30 Nov. 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 4 Dec. T. Ribot’s English
Psychology (1873) 255–314; H. D. Traill’s New Lucian (1884) 268–
87; Fortnightly Review Jany. 1879 pp. 15–24; Graphic, xviii 624
(1878), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiii 565 (1878), portrait.
LEWIN, F A (4 son of Robert Lewin of Cuddington,
Surrey). b. Jany. 1842; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 7th wrangler 1864,
B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867; fellow of his college 1864–9; barrister L.I.
26 Jany. 1867; equity draftsman and conveyancer; author of The
law of apportionment 1869; edited Thomas Lewin’s A practical
treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 6 ed. 1875, 7 ed. 1878, 8 ed.
1885. d. suddenly from heart disease, 9 Bolton gardens west,
Kensington 25 June 1887.
LEWIN, M . b. 1800; judge of the Sudder court at Madras 1841–
7; member of council 1845–7; author of Is the practice of torture in
Madras with the sanction of the authorities in Leadenhall street
1856; Torture in Madras 1857; The government of the East India
company and its monopolies 1857; The way to lose India 1857, 2
ed. 1857; The way to regain India 1858. d. 31 Gloucester gardens,
Hyde park, London 5 March 1869.
LEWIN, T (5 son of Spencer James Lewin, V. of Ifield, Sussex, d.
1842 aged 76). b. Ifield 19 April 1805; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and
Worcester coll. Oxf.; scholar of Trin. coll. 1825; B.A. 1828, M.A.
1831; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1833; a conveyancing counsel to court
of chancery 1852 to death; F.S.A. 19 March 1863; visited Jerusalem
1863; author of A practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees
1837, 5 ed. 1867, 9 ed. by C. C. M. Dale 1891; The life and epistles
of St. Paul 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1875; The invasion of Britain by
Julius Cæsar 1859, 2 ed. 1862; The siege of Jerusalem by Titus
1863; Fasti Sacri, or a key to the chronology of the new testament
1865. d. 6 Queen’s gate place, London 5 Jany. 1877.
LEWIS, A (youngest son of Joseph Lewis of St. Vincent, West
Indies, merchant). b. 1835; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870; Q.C. St.
Vincent 27 Aug. 1879; attorney general of Tobago 1879; acting
chief justice of St. Lucia and Tobago 1884–5; judge of assistant
court of appeal of Barbadoes to death. d. 1 March 1889.
LEWIS, A J (son of general Robert Lewis, quartermaster
general to the Bombay army, d. 4 Sep. 1838 aged 74). b. Bombay
1801; named after his godfather the duke of Wellington; ed. at Eton
and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 16 May 1828;
advocate general of Bombay 1857 to death; member of council of
governor of Bombay for making laws and regulations. d. in a room
adjoining high court of Bombay 14 Nov. 1865.
LEWIS, C B . b. 1854; ed. King’s coll. London; won the mile
challenge cup in the United hospital athletic sports several years in
succession; M.R.C.S. 1877; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1880; surgeon in the
army 5 Feb. 1881; while with the army in Egypt d. of cholera at El
Warden 30 July 1883; a brass to his memory erected in chapel of
Royal Victoria hospital, Netley, Jany. 1885. Medical Times 24 Jany.
1885 p. 117.
LEWIS, C C (3 son of John Lewis 1768–1853, R. of
Ingatestone, Essex). b. Ingatestone rectory 28 Feb. 1807; articled to
Charles Parker of Chelmsford; solicitor at Brentwood 1829 to
death; coroner for South Essex 1833 to death. d. the Mansion house,
Brentwood 26 July 1882. bur. at Ingatestone.
LEWIS, S C E , 1 Baronet (3 son of rev. George Wm.
Lewis, minister of chapel of ease, Ramsgate, d. 1858). b. Wakefield,
Yorkshire 25 Dec. 1825; solicitor in London, Jany. 1847, retired
Nov. 1876; partner with John Harrison at 14 New Boswell court,
Lincoln’s Inn, then head of firm of Lewis, Munns and Longden 8
Old Jewry; election agent for the conservatives in West Kent 1857–
74; M.P. city of Londonderry 22 Nov. 1872 to Oct. 1886 when
unseated on petition; M.P. North Antrim 1887–92; created baronet 6
April 1887; author of The four reformed parliaments 1842; The
election manual for England and Wales 1857, 3 ed. 1865; The
bankruptcy manual 1861, 4 ed. 1861; Two lectures on a short visit
to America 1876. d. 36 Hyde park gate, London 10 Feb. 1893. J.
Diprose’s Parish of St. Clement Danes, ii 36–7 (1876), portrait;
Biograph, iii 209–11 (1880).
LEWIS, C G (2 son of Frederick Christian Lewis 1779–
1856). b. Enfield, Middlesex 13 June 1808; learnt drawing and
engraving from his father; engraved many plates after Sir Edwin
Landseer, Rosa Bonheur and other painters; exhibited an engraving
at R.A. 1875; retired about 1877. d. Felpham near Bognor, Sussex
16 June 1880.
LEWIS, C J . b. London 1830; painter of landscapes and
genre subjects; exhibited 40 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 35 at
Suffolk st. gallery 1853–80; member of Royal Institute of painters
in water-colours 1882; exhibited also at Dudley and Portland
galleries; resided at Cheyne house, Upper Cheyne row, Chelsea
1859–84, and from 1884 to death at 122 Cheyne Walk, where he d.
28 Jany. 1892. M. B. Huish’s The year’s art for 1892 p. 106,
portrait; Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 1892 p. 4, portrait.
LEWIS, E A B (dau. of John Robinson a wealthy
planter of Anglo-Spanish birth). b. near Baltimore, U.S. America,
April 1824; while at school she translated the Æneid into English
verse, and composed The Forsaken, a ballad much praised by Edgar
A. Poe; (m. 1841 Sidney D. Lewis of Brooklyn, New York,
barrister); she resided many years in England; Lamartine called her
the ‘Female Petrarch’ and Poe ‘the rival of Sappho’; author of
Records of the heart. By Stella. New York 1844, another ed. New
York 1857, another ed. entitled Poems. London 1866; Sappho of
Lesbos. London 1868, a tragedy which reached a 7th ed. and was
translated into modern Greek and played at Athens. d. 29 Bedford
place, London 24 Nov. 1880. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 29 Nov.
Appleton’s American Biog. iii 703 (1887), portrait; S. J. Hale’s
Woman’s Record 2 ed. (1855), 727, portrait.
LEWIS, E (son of an architect). b. Cefn-y-bryn, Newtown,
Glamorgan 20 July 1825; studied at Airedale college; B.A. London
1852; independent minister at Barton-on-Humber 1853–8, at
Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1858–63, at Oak st. chapel,
Accrington, Lancs. 1863–6, at Grimshaw st. chapel, Preston 1866–
8, and at Offord st. chapel, Islington, Oct. 1868 to death; F.R.G.S.
and fellow of Ethnological Soc.; author of The wines the Saviour
made, used and sanctioned 1856; Two dialogues on the use of
Bands of Hope 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The two twilights, or the saint and
the sinner in life and death 1860, a poem; God’s week of work, an
examination of the Mosaic six days 1865. d. 29 Offord road,
Islington 19 Feb. 1869. bur. Abney park cemet. Congregational
Year book (1870) 303–5.
LEWIS, F C (son of Johann Ludwig a political
refugee from Hanover). b. London 14 March 1779; aquatinted
Girtin’s etchings of Paris published 1803; engraved the plates for
second issue of John Chamberlain’s Original designs of the most
celebrated masters in the royal collection 1812; engraved Sir
Thomas Lawrence’s crayon portraits and many of his drawings;
engraver of drawings to Princess Charlotte, Prince Leopold, George
IV., William IV. and Victoria; landscape painter in oils and water-
colours; exhibited 56 pictures at R.A., 51 at B.I. and 24 at Suffolk
st. 1802–53; published Scenery of the river Thames 1821, 35
aquatints; The scenery of the rivers Tamar and Tavy 1823, 47
plates; The scenery of the river Exe 1827, 30 views; Scenery on the
Devonshire rivers 1843. d. Bull’s Cross, Enfield, Middlesex 18 Dec.
1856.
LEWIS, F C (3 son of the preceding). b. 1813; studied
under Sir Thomas Lawrence; resided some years in India from
1834, painted many large pictures of state ceremonials for the
native princes, some of which were engraved by his father and
published in England; travelled collecting materials for an
ethnographical work which was never published. d. suddenly at
Genoa 26 May 1875.
LEWIS, G . Second lieut. R.M. 25 April 1793, captain 1801–18
when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. R.M. 28 Sep. 1826 to 10 July 1837
when he retired on full pay; col. commandant R.M. 10 July 1837 to
death; C.B. 4 June 1815; L.G. 20 June 1854; commanded a
battalion of marines in American war 1812–4. d. Stonehouse,
Plymouth 14 Sep. 1854 aged 84.
LEWIS, G . b. Glasgow; presbyterian minister Middle church,
Perth to 1839; minister of St. David’s church, Dundee 6 June 1839–
43; one of a deputation sent to America respecting slavery; minister
of the Free church, Ormiston 1849–65; editor of Scottish Guardian
newspaper; author of The state of St. David’s parish. Dundee 1841;
Tracts on Scottish church principles. Dundee 1843, six numbers;
Impressions of America and the American churches 1845; The
Bible, the missal and the breviary 2 vols. 1853; The doctrines of the
Bible developed in the facts of the Bible 1854. d. Jersey. J. Smith’s
Our Scottish clergy 2 series (1849) 353–8; Scott’s Fasti, vol. 3, pt.
2, p. 698.
LEWIS, G C H . b. 1805 or 1806; attorney at 10
Ely place, Holborn, London 1834 to death; partner with his brother
James Graham Lewis 1834, succeeded him as head of firm of Lewis
and Lewis 22 Jany. 1873; deputy clerk of the peace and clerk to the
licensing justices for the liberty of the Tower 1848 to death;
solicitor to the Dramatic Authors’ Society. d. 20 Woburn place,
Russell sq. London 13 March 1879. Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a
life (1891) 42.
LEWIS, S G C , 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Thomas
Frankland Lewis 1780–1855). b. London 21 April 1806; ed. at Eton,
Jany. 1819 to Dec. 1823, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1828 to 1839;
B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831, D.C.L. 1857; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1831;
assistant comr. to enquire into condition of poorer classes in Ireland
1833; a comr. of inquiry into state of instruction in Ireland 4 June
1834; joint comr. with John Austin to inquire into affairs of Malta
10 Sep. 1836; a poor law comr. for England and Wales, Jany. 1839
to July 1847; M.P. for Herefordshire, Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852; one
of secretaries to board of control 30 Nov. 1847 to 16 May 1848;
under sec. for home department 15 May 1848 to 9 July 1850;
financial sec. to treasury 9 July 1850 to Feb. 1852; contested
Herefordshire 19 July 1852 and Peterborough 6 Dec. 1852; editor of
the Edinburgh Review, Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; refused
governorship of Bombay 1853; succeeded as 2 baronet 22 Jany.
1855; M.P. Radnor boroughs Feb. 1855 to death; chancellor of the
exchequer 5 March 1855 to Feb. 1858; P.C. 28 Feb. 1855; carried
the Newspaper stamp duties bill 1855; home secretary 18 June 1859
to July 1861; sec. for war 23 July 1861 to death; an ecclesiastical
comr. for England 1859–61 and 1862 to death; author of An essay
on the origin and formation of the romance languages 1839, 2 ed.
1862; An essay on the government of dependencies 1841; An essay
on the influence of authority in matters of opinion 1849, 2 ed. 1875;
An enquiry into the credibility of the early Roman history 2 vols.
1855; On foreign jurisdiction and the extradition of criminals 1859;
An historical survey of the astronomy of the ancients 1862; A
dialogue on the best form of government 1863. d. Harpton court,
Radnorshire 13 April 1863, bust by H. Weeks placed in
Westminster abbey Sep. 1864, statue by Marochetti at Hereford
unveiled 3 Sep. 1864. Letters of sir G. C. Lewis to Friends (1870),
portrait; Creasy’s Memoirs of Etonians (1876) 576–78; The
drawing room portrait gallery 3 series (1860), portrait; The Eton
portrait gallery (1876) 409–12; I.L.N. xvi 388 (1850), portrait;
Illust. Times 24 Sep. 1864 p. 205, view of statue at Hereford.
LEWIS, G R (brother of Frederick Christian Lewis 1779–
1856). b. London 27 March 1782; studied under Henry Fuseli in
schools of the R.A.; went with Dr. T. F. Dibdin as draughtsman to
the Continent 1818, illustrated Dibdin’s Bibliographical and
picturesque tour through France and Germany 1821; exhibited 45
pictures at R.A., 18 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–59;
published An address on education as connected with design in
British manufacture. Hereford 1838; Illustrations of phrenology
1841, No. 1, no more published; Illustrations of Kilpeck church,
Herefordshire 1842; The early fonts of England 1843; The early
church of Shobdon, Herefordshire 1852. d. at res. of his son John
Lewis, 1 Haverstock ter. (now Belsize grove) Hampstead 15 May
1871. Barnes’s Hampstead (1890) 394–6.
LEWIS, G G . b. Woolwich 10 Nov. 1784; 2 lieut. R.E. 15
March 1803, col. 23 Nov. 1841, col. commandant 23 Nov. 1858 to
death; served in Spain 1813; lost his leg at siege of St. Sebastian 25
July 1813; served in Newfoundland 1819–27; commanded the R.E.
at Jersey 1830–6, at Cape of Good Hope 1836–42, in Ireland 1843–
7 and at Portsmouth 1847–51; governor of royal military academy,
Woolwich, April 1851 to July 1856; C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 12
Aug. 1858; editor with J. Williams of Papers on subjects connected
with the duties of the corps of royal engineers, vols. 1–3 1851–4, in
which he wrote many papers. d. Brighton 24 Oct. 1859.
LEWIS, H H . b. 1804; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., 21st wr. 1827,
B.A. 1827, M.A. 1840; lecturer on natural philosophy at college of
civil engineers, London. d. 18 Coburn place, Upper Kennington
place, London 17 March 1865.
LEWIS, H N (son of an officer in the army). b. 27 April 1816;
ed. Hambly house academy, Streatham; played a round of parts at
Catherine st. theatre; acted under Davidge’s management; at the
Lyceum theatre 6 years, being a very quick study he often was a
substitute for Keely, Wrench, Oxberry, Bland and others; played
Old Men under Gladstanes at Pavilion; at St. James’; at Surrey 8
years; appeared at all the London theatres and acted with many of
the stars. Theatrical Times, iii 415, 440 (1848), portrait.
LEWIS, H (2 son of Walter Clapham Lewis of Upper Norland
house, Kensington). b. 23 March 1825; entered Emm. coll. Camb.
Dec. 1844, scholar, B.A. 1848; barrister M.T. 1 May 1854;
conveyancing and equity draftsman at Bradford 1857 to 1860, in
London at 34 Cursitor st. 1860 to death; author of Principles of
conveyancing explained by concise precedents 1863; Principles of
equity drafting 1865; The ancient laws of Wales viewed in regard to
the light they throw upon the origin of some English institutions.
Edited by J. E. Lloyd 1889; almost entirely rewrote George
Goldsmith’s The doctrine and practice of equity 6 ed. 1871. d. 20
Dalby sq. Margate 6 March 1884. H. Lewis’s Ancient laws of Wales
(1889), preface.
LEWIS, J . b. Scotland; presbyterian minister at St. John’s ch. Leith
19 Jany. 1832 to 1843; joined the Free ch. 1843; went to Rome in
1864 and opened his house for religious services, until in 1867 the
Papal government ordered him to discontinue the services; rented a
room and opened public services outside the gates of the city of
Rome 1867, with money contributed from Scotland, Rome and
America built a church there, which was dedicated 1871; D.D. of
Princetown univ. 1871; author of The church of Scotland obeying
the law of the land in her opposition to the civil courts 1840; The
church of Scotland, the crisis and preparation 1843; Finance of the
Free church of Scotland 1843; The necessity for sabbath trains tried
and disposed of 1847; Indian government in relation to christianity
1858. d. of diphtheria Rome 29 Jany. 1872. Scott’s Fasti, vol. 1, pt.
1, p. 109.
LEWIS, J G . b. Jany. 1804; attorney at 10 Ely place,
Holborn, London 1829 to death; clerk of indictments, Midland
circuit 1829–54; head of firm of Lewis & Lewis 1834 to death, with
the best criminal practice in London. d. 53 Euston sq. London 22
Jany. 1873.
LEWIS, J H (eld. son of James Lewis of Ebley near Stroud,
cloth manufacturer). b. parish of King’s Stanley, Gloucs. Aug. 1786;
teacher of writing, arithmetic, bookkeeping and shorthand at 104
High Holborn, London, at 13 Wellington terrace, Waterloo road to
1834, at 113 Strand 1835 to June 1853 when he retired; taught and
lectured on writing and stenography in the chief towns of the United
Kingdom; founder of Society of reporters; author of The art of
writing with the velocity of speech 1812 anon., 5 ed. 1820; The
ready writer or ne plus ultra of shorthand, invented and published
by J. H. Lewis 1812, 95th ed. 1862; An historical account of
shorthand 1815; Lewis’s Orations on the battle of Waterloo 1815;
The art of making a good pen 10 ed. 1825; The Lewisian system of
shorthand 1826, 68 ed. 1834; The shorthand prayer book 1832, 2
ed. 1835; The quick and easy method of teaching bookkeeping 14
ed. 1860; his library of 317 books on shorthand was sold in 1872. d.
49 Milton road, Gravesend 30 Nov. 1853. bur. Kensal Green cemet.
T. Anderson’s History of shorthand (1882) 113, 266–76; J. W.
Gibson’s Bibliography of shorthand (1887) 110–15.
LEWIS, J D (son of John Delaware Lewis, Russian
merchant). b. St. Petersburgh 1828; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858; M.P.
Devonport 1868 to 1874, contested Devonport 5 Feb. 1874 and 2
April 1880 and Oxford 16 March 1874; author of Sketches of
Cantabs. By John Smith of Smith-Hall gent. 1849, 3 ed. 1858;
Across the Atlantic 1850; Our college, leaves from an
undergraduate’s scribbling book 1857; Hints for the evidences of
spiritualism. By M.P. 1872, 2 ed. 1875; Juvenalis Satiræ with a
literal English prose translation 1873, 2 ed. 1882; Esprit des Grecs
et des Romains 1881; Causes Celebres. Paris 1883. d. Westbury
house, Petersfield, Hampshire 31 July 1884. Academy 9 Aug. 1884
p. 94.
LEWIS, J F (eld. son of Frederick Christian Lewis 1779–
1856). b. 71 Queen Anne street East (now 33 Foley street), London
14 July 1805; made studies of animals in the menagerie, Exeter
Change, Strand 1820 etc.; painter of Italian, Spanish and Oriental
subjects; exhibited 83 pictures at R.A., 25 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st.
gallery 1820–77; etched six studies of wild animals, published
about 1825; associate of Soc. of painters in water-colours 30 March
1827, member 1 June 1829 to 1858, president 1856–8; travelled in
Spain 1832–3 and in the East 1839–51; lived at Walton on Thames
1851 to death; A.R.A. 1859, R.A. 1865, resigned June 1876; hon.
R.S.A. 1853; sold his copies of the great works of Spanish and
Venetian schools to royal Scottish academy; published A collection
of etchings 1825; Lewis’s Sketches and drawings of the Alhambra
1835; Lewis’s Sketches of Spain and Spanish characters 1836;
Sporting. By Nimrod, embellished from pictures by J. F. Lewis
1838. d. The Holme, Walton on Thames 15 Aug. 1876. bur.
Frimley, Surrey. Sandby’s Royal Academy, ii 339–43 (1862);
Redgrave’s Century of Painters (1878) 271; Roget’s History of the
old water-colour society, i 540 etc., ii 89, 453 (1891); Thackeray’s
From Cornhill to Cairo (1891) 324–30, portrait; Illust. Times 25
March 1865 p. 177, portrait; Graphic, xiv 204 (1876), portrait.
LEWIS, J H (son of Wm. Lewis of Harlech house, co.
Dublin). b. Dublin 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.A.
1838; called to Irish bar 1838, retired 1850; sheriff of Kildare 1857;
contested Bodmin 28 March 1857 and Hull 30 April and 20 Aug.
1859; M.P. Marylebone 19 April 1861 to 26 Jany. 1874; a strong
advocate of the ballot and of the disestablishment of Irish church. d.
Hotel Windsor, Monte Carlo 23 Oct. 1888. bur. Brompton cemetery,
London. Gray v. Lewis. Law Reports. Equity Cases, viii 526–46
(1869), Chancery Appeals, viii 1036–56 (1873).
LEWIS, L D (eld. son of David Lewis, physician). b.
London 1828; ed. at King’s coll. school; solicitor at 4 Skinner’s
place, Size lane, London 1850–75; conducted with Alfred
Thompson, The Mask, a humorous and fantastic review Feb. to
Dec. 1868; adapted a drama called The Bells from Le Juif Polonais
by M. M. Erckmann-Chatrian produced at Lyceum theatre 25 Nov.
1871 which was played 151 times; his other dramas were The
Wandering Jew, Adelphi theatre 14 April 1873; Give a dog a bad
name, Adelphi 18 Nov. 1876; and The Foundlings, Sadler’s Wells 8
Oct. 1881; author of A peal of merry bells 3 vols. 1880. d. Royal
free hospital, Gray’s Inn road, London 23 Feb. 1890. bur. Kensal
Green cemet. The Mask (1868) p. iii, portrait; St. Stephen’s Review
1 March 1890 p. 8, and 8 March p. 18, portrait.
LEWIS, L A . b. Nov. 1802; apprenticed to J. and A. Arch of
Cornhill, London, booksellers and auctioneers; a literary auctioneer
and bookseller at the Bank coffee house, Bank buildings, Cornhill
1825–7, at 15 Poultry 1827–39, at 125 Fleet st. 1839–61, at 24 Bell
yard, Fleet st. 1863–9 and at 17 Portugal st. Lincoln’s Inn 1870 to
death; bankrupt 6 July 1841. d. Surbiton, Surrey 28 June 1877. bur.
Kensal green cemet. Bookseller, July 1877 p. 667; J. Diprose’s St.
Clement’s, ii 53 (1876).
LEWIS, M T (only dau. of hon. George Villiers 1759–1827,
younger brother of John 3 earl of Clarendon 1757–1838). b. Upper
Grosvenor st. London 8 March 1803; granted precedence of an
earl’s daughter Feb. 1839; edited Extracts of the journals and
correspondence of Miss Berry from the year 1783 to 1852, 3 vols.
1865, 2 ed. 1866; The semi-detached house. By the hon. Emily
Eden 1859; author of The story of beauty and the beast, dramatized
for juvenile performers 1844; The story of Cinderella, dramatized
1844; Lives of the friends and contemporaries of lord chancellor
Clarendon 3 vols. 1852. (m. (1) 6 Nov. 1830 Thomas Henry Lister,
novelist and dramatist 1800–42; m. (2) 26 Oct. 1844 Sir George
Cornewall Lewis, statesman 1806–63). She d. the principal’s
lodgings, Brasenose college, Oxford 9 Nov. 1865.
LEWIS, R . A parliamentary reporter; secretary to National
lifeboat institution 1850 to death; barrister I.T. 30 April 1862. d.
Cannes 17 March 1883. I.L.N. lxxxii 317 (1883), portrait.
LEWIS, S . Publisher as S. Lewis & Co. at 87 Aldersgate st.
London 1838–42, at 87 Hatton Garden 1842–5 and at 13 Finsbury
place south 1845–52; published A topographical dictionary of
England with maps and a plan of London 4 vols. 1831, 7 ed. 1849;
A topographical dictionary of Wales 2 vols. 1833, 4 ed. 1849; A
topographical dictionary of Ireland 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1842; An
atlas comprising maps of the counties of England and Wales 1842;
A topographical dictionary of Scotland 3 vols. 1846. d. 19 Compton
terrace, Islington 28 Feb. 1865.
LEWIS, S (son of the preceding). Author of The history and
topography of the parish of St. Mary, Islington 1842; Islington as it
was and as it is 1854; The book of English rivers 1855. d. 1 Priory
villas, Canonbury, London 4 May 1862.
LEWIS, S S (youngest son of Wm. Jones Lewis of Croydon,
surgeon). b. 7 Spital sq. Bishopsgate, London 13 July 1836; ed. at
City of London school 1844–54, Carpenter scholar 1847; matric.
from St. John’s coll. Camb. 10 Oct. 1854 when his sight failed;
practised farming in England 1856–7; studied farming, lived in
Canada 1857–60; his eyes twice operated on by George Critchett
1864; returned to Camb. 1864, migrated to C.C. coll. 1865, B.A.
1869, M.A. 1872; fellow of C.C. coll. 1869 to 1887, librarian 1870–
91; F.S.A. 22 March 1872; ordained 1872; classical lecturer C.C.
coll. 1874; Latin lecturer to Assoc. for higher education of women
1875–7; collected coins, gems and seals from all parts of Europe,
which he left by will to his college; contributed papers to Camb.
Philos. Soc, Royal Soc. of literature, &c.; author of Report on the
age of the Utrecht psalter 1874; The library of Corpus Christi
college 1891, and other antiquarian papers; (m. 12 Dec. 1887 Agnes
Smith author of novels). d. suddenly in the train near Oxford 31
March 1891. A. S. Lewis’ Life of S. S. Lewis (1892), portrait.
LEWIS, T . Ed. Lancashire Independent coll. and Owen’s coll.;
independent minister 1873; professor at Bala coll. 1873 and then
principal on the coll. being removed to Bangor, when it became
known as Bala-Bangor independent college; member of council of
University coll. of North Wales. d. Naples 12 Feb. 1892.
LEWIS, T. D. (son of Wm. Thomas Lewis, actor 1748–1811). Succeeded
his father as lessee and manager of theatre royal, Liverpool 1811,
retired on expiration of his lease. d. London 1852.
LEWIS, S T F , 1 Baronet (only son of John Lewis of
Harpton court, Radnorshire 1738–97). b. London 14 May 1780;
matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1798; lieut.-col. of Radnorshire militia
1806–15; M.P. Beaumaris 1812–26; M.P. Ennis 1826–8; M.P.
Radnorshire 1828–35; M.P. Radnor burghs 1847 to death; comr. of
enquiry into revenue of Great Britain and Ireland 1822–5; first
comr. of enquiry into education in Ireland 1825–8; joint sec. to
treasury 4 Sep. 1827 to 28 Jany. 1828; vice pres. of board of trade 5
Feb. to 30 May 1828; P.C. 5 Feb. 1828; treasurer of the navy 17
Feb. 1830; chairman of English poor law commission 18 Aug. 1834
to 23 Jany. 1839; a comr. for enquiry into state of laws in South
Wales 7 Oct. 1843; created a baronet 27 June 1846; chairman of
Economic life assurance co. d. Harpton court, Radnorshire 22 Jany.
1855.
LEWIS, T T . b. Ludlow, Shropshire 1801; ed. at Cheam
school, Surrey; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. 5 Oct. 1819; B.A.
1825, M.A. 1828; C. of Aymestrey, Herefordshire 1826; P.C. of
Leinthall Earls, Herefordshire 1832 to 1841; V. of Bridstow near
Ross 1841 to death; formed large collections of fossils, several local
fossils have been called after him namely, Lingula Lewisii,
Spirorbis Lewisii and Cephalapis Lewisii; edited for the Camden
Society The letters of Lady Brilliana Harley 1853. d. Bridstow 28
Oct. 1858.
LEWIS, T R . b. 31 Oct. 1841; ed. Univ. coll. London and
Aberdeen univ., M.D. and C.M. 1867; assist. surgeon in army 31
March 1868, surgeon major 31 March 1880; sent to Germany with
David Cunningham by the War Office to study pathology; assistant
professor of pathology in the army medical school, Netley;
recommended for election as F.R.S. in April 1886; sent with D.
Cunningham to India to investigate cholera cases; made the
discovery of the filaria in the urine of patients in general hospital,
Calcutta 1869; author of A report on the microscopic objects found
in cholera evacuations. Calcutta 1870; On hæmatozoon inhabiting
human blood 1872, 2 ed. 1874; The pathological significance of
nematode hæmatozoa 1874; Physiological and pathological
researches 1888; with David Cunningham he wrote A report of
researches into the nature of cholera 1872, 2 series 1874; The soil in
its relation to disease 1875; Leprosy in India 1877. d. Bywood,
Woolston 7 May 1886. Lancet, i 955, 993 (1886).
LEWIS, W. Calvinistic Methodist minister; one of first Welsh
missionaries sent to India, laboured in North-eastern Bengal; went
through the whole of the Indian mutiny; reduced the Khasia
language to writing and translated the New Testament into Khassei.
d. May 1891.
LEWIS, W A . b. 1817; ed. Univ. coll. London and Caius
coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.B. 1849; L.S.A. 1839, M.R.C.P. 1859;
metropolitan comr. of sewers 1855–6; senior medical officer of
General post office at £1000 a year; medical superintendent
inspector General Board of Health and Sanitary commissioner
Home office; author of Report on the state of the burial vaults of
metropolitan churches; On the origin and spread of epidemic
cholera; On the laws in France for regulation of noxious trades and
occupations 1855. d. Whitby 7 Sep. 1882.
LEWIS, W . b. 1787; pupil of J. H. Sarratt the best chess player in
England about 1807; the leading player many years after Sarratt’s
death in 1821; a great and original chess analyst and one of the
finest players in Europe; when W. de Kempelen’s automaton
chessplayer was exhibited in London in 1819, Lewis officiated for
some months as the hidden conductor of the Turk’s games, losing
only 6 games in 300 though always giving the odds of pawn and
move; played a match at Paris with Alexander L. H. L. Des
Chapelles the leading chess-player in France 1821; a teacher of
chess at 5 Nassau st. Soho, London, Alexander McDonnell was one
of his pupils; author of A treatise on the game of chess 1814;
Oriental chess, or specimens of Hindostanee excellence in that
celebrated game 2 vols. 1817; Carera’s A treatise on the game of
chess, to which is added the art of playing without seeing the board
1822; Fifty games at chess, most of which occurred between the
author and some of the best players in England, France and
Germany 1832. d. about 16 Nov. 1870. Quarterly Review, June
1849 pp. 90–5; W. G. Walker’s Selection of games at chess (1836)
273; W. G. Walker’s Thousand games at chess (18—) ix 82–4;
Chess Players’ Chronicle, i 9, 33 (1841); I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1870 p.
555.
LEWIS, W D (brother of sir Charles E. Lewis). b. 1823; pupil
of John Rudall, conveyancer 1838; a conveyancer at 10 Serle st.
1842, being the youngest conveyancer on record; barrister L.I. 29
Jany. 1844, bencher 1859; Q.C. June 1859; reader on law of real
property and conveyancing at Gray’s Inn 26 May 1847 to June
1852, delivered every year 60 original and elaborate lectures; a
comr. on registration of title to land 18 Jany. 1854, the report is
dated 15 May 1857 and contains sketches of two bills by Lewis;
founded the Juridical society 10 Feb. 1855; author of A practical
treatise on the law of perpetuity 1843, unparalleled in the history of
legal authorship as the achievement of a youth under 20 years of
age. d. 1 Kensington sq. London 24 Jany. 1861 in 38 year.
Solicitors’ Journal , v 242–4 (1861).
N .—His only son Wm. Arnold Lewis, barrister Inner Temple 17 Nov. 1869, was killed by
accident on the Lyskamm near Zermatt 6 Sep. 1877.

LEWIS, W G (eld. son of Wm. Garrett Lewis, minister of


Zion chapel, Chatham in 1824). b. Margate 5 Aug. 1821; articled to
Dr. Gray of Brixton, London, schoolmaster 1837–40; clerk in the
post office, London 1840–7; minister of Baptist chapel in Silver st.
Kensington, Sep. 1847, new chapel built for him in Ledbury road,
Westbourne Grove, opened 6 April 1853, preached there to Dec.
1880, presented by his congregation with 400 guineas 3 Jany. 1881;
minister of chapel in Dagnal st. St. Albans, Jany. 1881 to death; a
founder of the London Baptist association 1865, sec. 1865–9, pres.
1870; edited The Baptist Magazine 20 years; author of The religion
of Rome examined, a course of lectures 1851; Westbourne Grove
sermons 1872; The trades and industrial occupations of the Bible
1874. d. Victoria st. St. Albans 16 Jany. 1885. bur. Kensal Green 21
Jany. Baptist Mag. March ]885 pp. 97–102.
LEY, W (son of rev. Mr. Ley). b. Devonshire 1806; ed. at Ottery,
Devon, and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1831, L.S.A.
1835; resident medical officer of Fever hospital 4 years; surgeon
Crawford st. Portman sq. London, and surgeon to Western general
dispensary, Stafford st.; studied insanity in Hanwell asylum;
medical superintendent of Oxford and Berks. asylum, Littlemore
1845–66, where he treated all the patients with gentleness; the first
to introduce cannabis Indica. d. while visiting the superintendent at
Littlemore 7 March 1869. Medical Times, i 345–6 (1869).
LEYBOURNE, G . b. 1842; sang in the provinces many years;
next to Alfred G. Vance he was the best known comic singer of his
time, had an excellent voice, sang at all the London music halls; his
songs Champagne Charlie 1867, Mouse-traps, and She danced like
a fairy, were very popular; made his last appearance at Queen’s
palace, Poplar 1884; author of The Barber’s apprentice boy, song
1868; Twelve of G. Leybourne’s comic songs 1878; reported to
have died 24 Nov. 1876. d. of consumption, Englefield road,
Islington 15 Sep. 1884. bur. Abney park cemetery 19 Sep. The
Entr’acte 2 Dec. 1876 p. 3, 20 Sep. 1884 p. 11, portrait; Illust.
Sport. News 21 April 1866 pp. 227, 236, portrait.
N .—His dau. Florrie Leybourne is a music hall artiste. A matinée benefit was given for his
widow at the Royal Holborn music hall on 27 Sep. 1884. On one occasion when Leybourne was
singing for William Holland at the Canterbury music hall, under a clause in his agreement he had
to drive out in a coach and four whenever required to do so, and was frequently seen in public in
his carriage.

LEYLAND, J . b. 1815; founded the Boys Home and Surrey


reformatory, Spanish road, Wandsworth, London 1852, also the
Surrey Industrial school, High st. Wandsworth, of both of which he
was hon. manager. d. Rosemount, Byfleet, Surrey 7 Oct. 1882.
LEYLAND, J B (2 son of Robert Leyland, naturalist). b.
Halifax 31 March 1811; exhibited at Manchester the model of a
greyhound and a colossal statue of Spartacus 1832; studied design
under B. R. Haydon in London; his statue of Dr. Beckwith of York
was placed in York minster; exhibited models of groups of hounds
at Suffolk st. gallery 1834 and 1839; his group of African
bloodhounds and his colossal figure The Thracian Falconer, are in
the Salford museum. d. Halifax 26 Jany. 1851.
LIARDET, F (2 son of John Liardet). b. Chelsea 14 June 1798;
entered navy 14 June 1809; second captain of the Powerful 84 guns
12 Jany. 1839 to 1840, served in the Mediterranean on the coast of
Syria and at bombardment of St. Jean d’ Acre; captain 4 Nov. 1840;
placed on h.p. Jany. 1841; agent for New Zealand company at
Taranaki, Sep. 1841 to Feb. 1842; lost sight of one eye by an
explosion 29 Nov. 1841; a captain of Greenwich hospital Jany. 1856
to death; author of Professional recollections on points of
seamanship, discipline, &c. 1849; The midshipman’s companion
1851; Friendly hints to the young naval lieutenant 1858. d.
Greenwich hospital 1 March 1863, marble bust of him by T. Milnes
is in the painted hall. E. G. Wakefield’s Adventure in New Zealand,
ii 68, 163 (1845).
LIBRI-CARRUCCI DALLA SOMMAIA, G B I
T , Count. b. Florence 2 Jany. 1803; professor of
mathematical physics, univ. of Pisa 1823 professor at faculté des
sciences, Paris 1832; naturalized in France 2 Jany. 1833; inspector
general of public libraries in France; accused of pilfering from the
libraries, which, he entirely denied, fled to England 28 Feb. 1848,
sentenced in his absence to 10 years imprisonment by the cour d’
assize of the department of the Seine 22 June 1850; sold his MSS.
to Bertram 4 earl of Ashburnham, they are now in the Laurenzian
library at Florence; his books were sold by Sotheby 1859–66, sales
taking 25 days; returned to Tuscany 1868; author of Histoire des
sciences mathématiques en Italie 4 vols. Paris 1838–41. d. Fiesole
near Florence 28 Sep. 1869. Memoir of Augustus de Morgan (1882)
passim; Saturday Rev. lv 266–7 (1883); Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Nov.
1869 pp. 259–61.
LICHFIELD, T W A , 1 Earl of (1 son of 1 viscount
Anson 1767–1818). b. Shugborough, Staffs. 20 Oct. 1795; capt.
Staffordshire yeomanry 1812, lieut.-col. 1829, lieut.-col.
commandant 1833 to death; M.P. Yarmouth 19 June 1818;
succeeded as 2 viscount Anson 31 July 1818; master of the
Atherstone hounds 1821–30; master of the buckhounds 24 Nov.
1830 to 30 Dec. 1834; P.C. 24 Nov. 1830; created earl of Lichfield
15 Sep. 1831; postmaster general 30 May 1835 to 3 Sep. 1841; high
steward of Great Yarmouth 22 Feb. 1836; won the St. Leger with
Elis 1836 and the 2000 guineas with Corsair 1839; sold all his
pictures, sculpture, &c. in a 12 days sale Aug. 1842. d. 2 Great
Stanhope st. Mayfair, London 18 March 1854.
LICHFIELD, T G A , 2 Earl of (1 son of the
preceding). b. Shugborough, Staffs. 8 Aug. 1825; ed. at Eton; styled
viscount Anson 1831–54; capt. Staffordshire yeomanry 16 Nov.
1844, major 17 April 1863; precis writer to lord Palmerston at
foreign office 1846–7; M.P. Lichfield 1847–54; succeeded as 2 earl
of Lichfield 18 March 1854; lord lieut. of Staffordshire 1863–71;
high steward of Stafford 1878; first chairman of Soc. for
reformation of juvenile offenders and a founder of the reformatory
at Saltley. d. at his residence in London 7 Jany. 1892. Mrs. Fairlie’s
Portraits of children of the nobility 3 Ser. plate 2 (1841).
LICHTENSTEIN, G . b. Hungary 1823; ed. for legal profession; a
political refugee in England; naturalized 18 Dec. 1854; professor of
music at Edinburgh 1856 to death; tutor to duke of Edinburgh;
composer of My dream waltz for the pianoforte, with cornet ad lib.
1854; Tempi futuri, polka 1854; Pensées patriotiques, mélodies
originales pour piano 1855; War march for the piano 1855. d.
Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1893.
LIDDELL, Sir Adolphus Frederick Octavius (youngest son of 1 baron
Ravensworth 1775–1855). b. 15 Jany. 1818; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; fellow of All Souls’ 1840–6; barrister
I.T. 30 Jany. 1844, bencher 30 April 1861 to death, treasurer 1875;
contested Grateshead 9 July 1852; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861; permanent
under sec. of state for home department 1867 to death; K.C.B. 20
April 1880. d. 49 Rutland gate, London 27 June 1885.
LIDDELL, A (son of Mr. Liddell of Bainsford near Falkirk,
schoolmaster). b. Bainsford 1786; an ironmonger in Glasgow 1815–
44; carried on most extensive manufacture in Scotland of wrought
iron tubes; member of philosophical society of Glasgow 1819, pres.
of it frequently, treasurer many years; A.I.C.E. 1843; pastor of
baptist chapel in Brown st. Glasgow 1844, which he purchased and
presented to his congregation; wrote Life of David Dale, for
Blackie’s Lives of eminent Scotsmen. d. Bardowie house, Glasgow
15 Nov. 1855.
LIDDELL, G A F (6 son of 1 baron
Ravensworth 1775–1855). b. 28 July 1812; ed. at Eton; ensign
Scots fusilier guards 27 Nov. 1828, captain 8 Sep. 1846, placed on
h.p. 6 July 1849; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; lieut.-col. 6 dragoons
15 Feb. 1861, sold out same day; played his first cricket match at
Lord’s in Marylebone v. St. John’s Wood club 1 June 1840, a hard
forward driver and active in the field, on committee of Marylebone
club; comptroller of the household and equerry to duchess of
Gloucester 1845–58; groom in waiting to the Queen 1858–82;
treasurer to duke of Edinburgh 1866–71; deputy ranger of
Richmond park 1850–71; deputy ranger of Windsor park 1871–83.
d. South Lawn, Eton 14 Dec. 1888. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii
549 (1862).
LIDDELL, S J . b. Dunblane, Scotland 1794; ed. at univ. of Edinb.,
M.D.; L.R.C.S. 1821; assistant surgeon in the navy 1812; director of
the hospital at Malta 1827; inspector of fleets and hospitals 1844;
deputy inspector general of Haslar hospital 1840; inspector general
of Greenwich hospital 1844–54; director general of medical
department of the navy April 1854 to 1864; hon. phys. to the queen
13 May 1859 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 May 1848;
C.B. 16 Aug. 1850, K.C.B. 9 Feb. 1864; F.R.S. 18 June 1846;
knight of Russian order of St. Anne and of Greek order of the
Redeemer. d. 72 Chester sq. London 28 May 1868.
LIDDELL, R (brother of G. A. F. Liddell 1812–88). b. 24 Sep.
1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834;
fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1831–6; V. of Barking, Essex 1836–51; V.
of St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge with St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London
1851–81, he erected crosses, &c. in both these churches, Messrs.
Westerton and Beale proceeded against him in the Consistory court,
Dr. Lushington delivered judgment against him 5 Dec. 1855, which
was confirmed by sir J. Dodson in the Arches court 20 Dec. 1856,
but the privy council decided partly for both parties, each to pay his
own costs 21 March 1857; author of The seven deadly sins, lectures
in St. Paul’s 1858; The fruits of penitential sorrow, lectures 1860;
The christian priesthood, altar and sacrifice, four sermons 1867;
The lay of the last angler. By a Sexagenarian 1867, 3 ed. 1883; A
pastoral farewell to the parishioners of St. Paul’s 1881, and 25 other
books. d. 12 New Cavendish st. London 29 June 1888. J. E.
Ritchie’s London Pulpit 2 ed. (1858) 40–9.
LIDDERDALE, T W (2 son of Thomas Robertson
Liddersdale of St. Mary’s isle, Kirkcudbright, ensign 6 W.I. regt.) b.
1830; in British museum 30 years, latterly as a first class assistant in
printed book department; a student in Scandinavian literature and
Icelandic bibliography; assisted P. H. M’Kerlie in his History of
Galloway 5 vols. 1870–9; compiled Catalogue of the books printed
in Iceland from . . 1578 to 1880 in the library of the British
museum. 1885; taken ill in the street, went into the shop of Daniel
Margetts metal worker 16 York st. Covent Garden, where he fell on
the floor, conveyed to Charing Cross hospital, where he d. same day
4 Sep. 1884.
LIDDON, H P (eld. son of Matthew Liddon, captain R.N., d.
1869 aged 77). b. North Stoneham, Hampshire 20 Aug. 1829; ed. at
Lyme Regis, Dorset 1839–41 and at King’s coll. sch. London 1841–
6; entered Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1846, student 1847 to death; B.A. 1850,
M.A. 1853, B.D., D.D. and D.C.L. 1870, Johnson theological
scholar 1851; C. of Wantage 1852–4; vice principal of Cuddesdon
theological college 1854–9; vice principal of St. Edmund’s hall,
Oxford 1859–61; exam. chaplain to bishop of Salisbury 1864, preb.
of Salisbury 1864–70; select preacher to univ. of Oxf. 1863, 1870,
1877 and 1884; Ireland professor of exegesis at Oxf. June 1870 to
1882; gave a series of lectures in St. James’s hall, Piccadilly,
London 1870; member of council of Keble coll. Oxf. 1870 to death;
canon of St. Paul’s cath. 27 April 1870 to death, chancellor 1886 to
death; the foremost preacher in the ch. of England and the most
powerful champion of the high church party; took a leading part in
the Bonn conferences 10–16 Aug. 1875; select preacher at
Cambridge 1884 and 1889, hon. LL.D. June 1889; elected bishop of
Edinburgh, June 1886 but declined the charge; author of Some
words for God, sermons before the university of Oxford 1865,
republished as Sermons before the university 8 ed. 1884; The
divinity of Jesus Christ, eight lectures before the university on the
foundation of John Bampton 1867, 14 ed. 1890; Some elements of
religion, Lent lectures 1872, 5 ed. 1885; Sermons preached before
the university. Second series 1879, 4 ed. 1887; Selections from the
writing of H. P. Liddon 1882, 2 ed. 1883; Edward Bouverie Pusey, a
sermon 1884, 2 ed. 1884; Easter in St. Paul’s, sermons on the
resurrection 2 vols. 1885, 2 ed. 1891; Forty sermons preached in St.
Paul’s, London. Four series 1886; Advent in St. Paul’s, sermons 2
vols. 1889, 2 ed. 1889; The magnificat, sermons in St. Paul’s 1889,
3 ed. 1891, and 60 other works. d. Claremont crescent, Weston-
super-Mare 9 Sep. 1890. bur. crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 16 Sep.;
portrait by G. Richmond at Keble coll., and another by H.
Herkomer in Ch. Ch. hall. C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London (1874)
141–52, 2 Ser. (1875) 396–400; F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans,
ii 153–66 (1875); Church quarterly review, Oct. 1890 pp. 212–18;
Temple Bar, lxxii 334–8 (1884); The Biograph, v 360–2 (1881);
I.L.N. 20 Sep. 1890 p. 353, portrait.
LIEBSTEIN, H (5 son of David Liebstein of Lemberg, Gallicia,
Austria, merchant). b. Austria 1829; naturalised in England 16 June
1855; barrister G.I. 17 Nov. 1858; equity draftsman; author of Notes
of Expository addresses on the book of Revelation 1876; Eternal
life, where to find it and how to obtain it 1882. d. at his house, 40
Highbury hill near London 13 July 1882.
LIECHTENSTEIN, M , Princess of (adopted daughter of Henry 4
baron Holland who d. Naples 18 Dec. 1859, and known as Miss
Marie Fox). b. 21 Dec. 1850; (m. at pro-cathedral, Kensington 27
June 1872 Prince Aloys or Louis Liechtenstein 2 son of François
prince de Liechtenstein 1802–87, he was b. Prague 18 Nov. 1846,
lieut. of hussars, a knight of Malta, secretary of legation); author of
Holland House 2 vols. 1874; Nora, a novel taken from the German
of the baroness F. Von Brackel 1877. d. Burgstall in Styria 26 Dec.
1878. Morning Post 28 June 1872 p. 5.
LIEFDE, J B. (of Dutch parentage). b. 1847; ed. in Holland; war
correspondent of the Daily News with the German army outside
Paris and during the Commune 1870–71; author of The beggars or
the founders of the Dutch republic 1868, 5 ed. 1883; Walter’s
escape or the capture of Breda 1870; The great Dutch admirals
1873; Hereditary bondsmen, or is it all in vain 3 vols. 1875; The
maid of Stralsund 1876; A brave resolve or the siege of Stralsund 2
ed. 1883. d. Twickenham, Middlesex 6 Feb. 1878.
LIFFORD, J H , 3 Viscount (1 son of 2 viscount Lifford 1750–
1830). b. 29 Aug. 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1804; student
Inner Temple 1805; succeeded 15 April 1830; author of Ireland and
the Irish church 1842; Thoughts on the present state of Ireland
1849. d. Brighton 22 April 1855.
LIGAR, C W . b. Ceylon 1809; ed. Sandhurst; 2 lieut.
royal engineers, resigned; engaged on ordnance survey in Ireland
till 1840; surveyor general New Zealand 1840–56; col. and
commandant of New Zealand militia, took part in the war at the Bay
of Islands; surveyor general of Victoria, Australia 1858, retired on a
pension 1869; settled in Texas. d. 1879.
LIGGINS, J . b. London 1791; West India merchant and ship
owner, 37 Mincing lane, London 1830 to death; chairman of
Southampton dock co. nearly 20 years; author of A refutation of the
calumnies circulated by the Anti-Slavery agency committee against

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