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Chapter 02

<Strategic Human Resource Management>

True / False Questions

1. The goal of strategic management in an organization is to deploy and allocate resources in a way that
it provides the company with a competitive advantage.

True False

2. To be maximally effective, the human resource management function of a company must be isolated
from the company's strategic management process.

True False

3. Strategic planning groups decide on a strategic direction during the strategy implementation phase.

True False

4. Strategy implementation includes structuring an organization and allocating resources.

True False

5. In a two-way linkage, an organization is restricted from considering the human resource issues while
formulating its strategic plan.

True False

6. Untapped labor pools are an example of a strategic threat to an organization's operating

environment.

True False

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7. External analysis attempts to identify an organization's strategic opportunities and threats.

True False

8. Strategic choice describes the way an organization attempts to fulfill its mission and achieve its long-
term goals.

True False

9. Job design addresses what tasks should be grouped into a particular job.

True False

10. The strategy a company is pursuing does not have an impact on the types of employees that it seeks
to recruit and select.

True False

11. Training is a planned effort to facilitate the learning of job-related knowledge, skills, and behavior by
employees.

True False

12. Companies that are not diversified use objective measures of performance to evaluate managers.

True False

13. Executives who have extensive knowledge of the behaviors that lead to effective performance tend to
focus on evaluating the objective performance results of their subordinate managers.

True False

14. By tying pay to performance, a company can elicit specific activities and levels of performance from
employees.

True False

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15. Concentration strategies require that an organization bring radical change to the current skills that
exist in the organization.

True False

16. An overall cost leadership strategy is achieved primarily by offering unique product features.

True False

17. Companies engaged in a cost strategy require employees to have reduced concern for quantity and a
short-term focus.

True False

18. Companies engaged in cost strategies develop internally consistent pay systems with negligible pay
differentials between superiors and subordinates.

True False

19. Employees in companies with a differentiation strategy need to have only a moderate concern for
quantity.

True False

20. Differentiation companies will have compensation systems that are geared toward internal rather than
external equity.

True False

21. Strategies emphasizing market share or operating costs are called "external growth" strategies.

True False

22. Companies using concentration strategies attempt to focus on what they do best within their
established markets.

True False

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LEDWARD, R A (son of Richard Perry Ledward). b.
Burslem, Staffs. 1857; studied at Burslem school of art and at South
Kensington, gold medallist; a master of modelling in the schools;
modelling master at Westminster and Blackheath schools of art; his
sculpture of A Young Mother, showed great promise. d. of
rheumatism at 53 Beaufort st. Chelsea 28 Oct. 1890. bur. Perivale
church near Ealing.
LEDWICH, T H (son of Edward Ledwich of
Waterford, attorney). b. Pembroke 1823; studied medicine in
Dublin; M.R.C.S.I. 1844, F.R.C.S.I. 1845; lecturer on anatomy at
The original school of medicine, Peter st. Dublin 1847 to death,
when name was changed to the Ledwich school of medicine 1858;
formed a valuable pathological museum; surgeon to the Meath
hospital, Dublin, July 1858; author with his brother Edward
Ledwich, M.D. of The practical and descriptive anatomy of the
human body 1852, 3 ed. 1877, which is still much used in Dublin.
d. York st. Dublin 29 Sep. 1858. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. Sir C. A.
Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland (1886) 534–35,
613–14; Ormsby’s History of Meath hospital (1888) 215–6.
N .—Edward Ledwich was b. Pembroke 1817, F.R.C.S.I. 13 Oct. 1852, a most successful
teacher of anatomy, d. 7 Harcourt st. Dublin 18 Feb. 1879.

LEE, Mrs. Governess to the prince of Naples, eld. son of Humbert king
of Italy, at Rome Nov. 1869 to 1881 during which time she never
left him; watched over the prince’s health and aided him in making
a collection of coins illustrating Italian history 1881 to death. d.
Quirinal palace, Rome 3 April 1884.
LEE, A T (youngest son of Sir John Theophilus Lee of
Lauriston hall, Torquay 1786–1843). b. the Elms, Bedhampton,
Hants. 28 June 1829; scholar of Christ’s coll. Camb. 1850; B.A.
1853, M.A. 1856; C. of Houghton-le-Spring, Durham 1853–5; P.C.
of Elson, Hants. 1856–8; R of Ahoghill, co. Antrim 1858–72; hon.
LLD. Dublin 1866, D.C.L. Oxf. 1867; sec. to Church defence instit.
and tithe redemption trust 1871 to death; preacher at Gray’s Inn 5
Nov. 1879 to death; author of The history of the town and parish of
Tetbury 1857; Facts respecting the present state of the church in
Ireland 1863, sixtieth thousand issued 1868; Some account of the
parish church of St. Colananell, Ahoghill 1867. d. Lauriston house,
Ealing, Middlesex 19 July 1883. Church portrait journal, i 25
(1876), portrait; Biograph, vi 315–20 (1881).
LEE, B . b. Worcester 10 Feb. 1788; enlisted in 14 dragoons
Jany. 1804; served in the Peninsula 1808–14, in America 1815;
sergeant major 1814, retired 1829; went to New South Wales and
resided at Parramatta 1829 to death. d. Parramatta 13 April 1879,
left upwards of 100 children and grandchildren.
LEE, D M P . b. 11 Feb. 1804; editor and proprietor of
Bermuda royal gazette; vice consul for France and Italy. d.
Hamilton, Bermuda 11 Feb. 1883.
LEE, E . Articled pupil of royal college of surgeons, London,
Jacksonian prizeman 1838 for dissertation on Comparative
advantages of lithotomy and lithotrity; studied at St. George’s
hospital 1824, house surgeon 1830–3; M.C.S. 1829; M.D.
Gottingen 1846 or before; member of medical societies of Paris,
Berlin and Naples; fellow of royal medico-chirurgical soc.; resided
much at the Continental watering places; author of upwards of 60
works including A treatise on some nervous disorders 1833, 2 ed.
1838; The principal baths of Germany 2 vols. 1840–1. d. Mentone 3
June 1870. The Lancet 18 June 1870 pp. 891–2.
LEE, F H (eld. son of Frederick William Lee). Editor of
Hull Herald and proprietor of Sussex Advertiser, Lewes. d.
Cooksbridge near Lewes 14 Aug. 1853 aged 42.
LEE, F R . b. Barnstaple 1799; ensign 56 foot 6 Dec.
1813, placed on h.p. 21 Dec. 1815; served in the Netherlands;
studied painting at the R.A. 1818; exhibited 171 paintings at R.A.,
131 at B.I. and 24 at Suffolk st. 1822–70; his most popular works
were English landscapes; 4 of his pictures are in the National
Gallery; A.R.A. 1834, R.A. 1838, retired R.A. 1871. d. Vlees farm,
Herman station in division of Malmsay, South Africa 5 June 1879.
Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 159–61 (1862); Pycroft’s Art
in Devonshire (1883) 85–8.
LEE, G A (son of Henry Lee, pugilist and landlord of
the Anti-Gallican tavern, Shire lane, Temple Bar 1808). b. 1802; in
Lord Barrymore’s service as a tiger, being the first to bear that title;
tenor singer at Dublin theatre 1825; sang at the Haymarket, London
1826, musical conductor there 1827; kept a music shop at 86
Quadrant, Regent st. 1829–31; bankrupt 18 Nov. 1831 and 21 May
1833; lessee with Melrose and J. K. Chapman of the Tottenham st.
theatre 1829–30; lessee of Drury Lane theatre 1830–31; directed the
 Lenten oratorios at Drury Lane and Covent Garden 1831; composer
and musical director to Strand theatre 1832–45, to Olympic theatre
1845; succeeded George Hodson as musical conductor at the Poses
Plastiques, Garrick’s Head, Bow st. 1847; wrote the music to The
Sublime and the Beautiful 1828; The Invincibles 1828; The Nymph
of the Grotto 1829; The Witness 1829; The Devil’s Brother 1831;
The Legion of Honour 1831 and other dramatic pieces; published
two sets of eight songs Beauties of Byron and Loves of the
Butterflies 1828; composed altogether upwards of 250 pieces of
music 1826–51; author of A complete course of instruction for
singing 1872. (m. Mrs. Waylett, ballad singer, she d. 26 April 1851);
found dead in his old lodgings at Newton terrace, Kennington road,
London 8 Oct. 1851. bur. Norwood cemet. Rev. J. Richardson’s
Recollections, ii 129–35 (1856).
LEE, S G P (youngest son of Edward Lee of London).
Lieut. of the yeomen of the guard 13 March 1843 to 23 July 1857;
knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. d. Windlesham
court, Bagshot 1 Sep. 1870.
LEE, H (dau. of John Lee, actor, d. 1781). b. London 1757; kept a
private school with her sister Sophia Lee at Belvidere house, Bath
1781–1803; carried on a correspondence with Wm. Godwin the
novelist, April to Aug. 1798, declined his offer of marriage 1798;
author of The errors of innocence 5 vols. 1786; The new peerage or
our eyes may deceive us, a comedy Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1787, acted
9 times; Clara Lennox 2 vols. 1797, translated into French 1798;
The mysterious marriage or the heirship of Roselva, a 3 act play
1790, never acted; Canterbury Tales 5 vols. 1797–1805, containing
12 stories (2 of which were written by her sister Sophia Lee who d.
1824), she dramatised one of the tales ‘Kruitzner’ under title of The
Three Strangers, performed at Covent Garden 10 Dec. 1825, acted 4
times, Lord Byron also dramatised it under title of Werner or the
Inheritance 1822. d. Vyvyan terrace, Clifton 1 Aug. 1851.
LEE, H I (eld. dau. of Henry Lee, manager of theatres
in west of England). First appeared in London as Constantia in ‘The
man of the world’ 19 Oct. 1831; played at Covent Garden and
Drury Lane, at Olympic theatre during Madame Vestris’
management to 1839, at Lyceum theatre 1847–48. d. at her
lodgings, Orange st. Bloomsbury sq. London 23 May 1866. Era 27
May 1866 p. 10.
LEE, H . b. 1826; naturalist of the Brighton Aquarium 1872, a
director for a time, printed Aquarium Notes for the use of visitors; a
contributor to Land and Water; his museum of natural history was
one of most valuable private collections in England; author of The
Octopus or the devil fish of fiction and fact 1874; Sea fables
explained 1883 and of Sea monsters unmasked 1883, in Fisheries’
Exhibition handbooks; The vegetable lamb of Tartary, a fable of the
cotton plant 1887. d. Renton house, 343 Brixton road, London 31
Oct. 1888. Land and Water 10 Nov. 1888 p. 568.
LEE, J N. Edited Bell’s Weekly Messenger and Farmers’ Journal to
death. d. at his lodgings, Laurel grove, Oakfield road, Penge 11
March 1880 aged 72.
LEE, J P (eld. son of Stephen Lee, sec. and librarian of royal
society). b. London 28 July 1804; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. 1813–24,
captain 1822–4 when he entered Trin. coll. Camb., Craven scholar
1827, fellow Oct. 1829; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; one of the best
Greek scholars of his time; a master at Rugby 1830–8; head master
of King Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1838–47; hon. canon of
Worcester 6 Sep. 1847; bishop of Manchester 23 Oct. 1847,
consecrated at Whitehall chapel 23 Jany. 1848; held 63 ordinations
at which he ordained 471 priests and 522 deacons; consecrated 130
churches 1848–69; promoted Manchester free library, opened Sep.
1852; author of Sermons and fragments attributed to Isaac Barrow,
D.D. now first collected and edited from the MSS. in the University
and Trinity college libraries Cambridge 1834, these manuscripts
turned out to be spurious; Suggestions for a practical use of the
papal aggression 1851. d. Mauldeth hall, Burnage near Manchester
24 Dec. 1869. bur. St. John’s ch. Heaton, Mersey 31 Dec. E. W.
Benson’s Memorial Sermon 2 ed. (1880); John Evans’s Lancashire
Authors (1850) 153–7; Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series
(1859), portrait; I.L.N. xii 51 (1848) portrait, lvi 55 (1870),
portrait.
N .—He bequeathed his library to Owen’s college Manchester, his widow in Sep. 1875 left
£1000 to the college to provide two annual prizes for encouraging the study of the New
Testament in Greek.

LEE, J . b. Torwoodlie-Mains, parish of Stow, Midlothian 22 Nov.

1779; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1801; served in the army hospital
service a short time; presbyterian minister of Peebles 1807;
professor of church history at St. Mary’s college, St. Andrew’s
 1812–21, rector of St. Andrew’s univ. three times; professor of
moral philosophy in King’s college, Aberdeen 1820–1; minister of
Canongate ch. Edinb. 1821–5; D.D. St. Andrew’s 1821; minister of
Lady Yester’s ch. Edinb. 1825–34; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign
1840 to death; principal clerk of the general assembly 1827;
minister of St. Giles’s ch. Edinb. 1834–7; principal of united college
of St. Andrew’s 1837–40; dean of chapel royal, Stirling 1840 to
death; principal of univ. of Edinb. 12 March 1840 to death,
professor of divinity 14 June 1844 to death, being the first principal
who also held a professorship since the year 1620; moderator of
general assembly 1844; collected a library of 20,000 vols., is
described in John Hill Burton’s Bookhunter as Archdeacon
Meadows the bibliomaniac; author of Memorials of the Bible
Society in Scotland 1829; Lectures on the history of the church of
Scotland 1860; The University of Edinburgh from 1583 to 1839.
1880. d. at his residence in Univ. of Edinburgh 2 May 1859.
Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 135–7 portrait; Sir A. Grant’s
Univ. of Edinburgh, ii 271–4 (1884); Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb.
iv 212–17 (1862); Scott’s Fasti, vol. i, part 1, pp. 12–13, 64 (1866).
LEE, J (eld. son of John Fiott of London, merchant 1749–97). b. 28
April 1783; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1808–15; fifth
wrangler 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, LLD. 1816; travelling
bachelor of the univ. 1807–10; took his mother’s name of Lee by r.l.
4 Oct. 1815; member of College of Advocates 3 Nov. 1816, steward
July 1824 to June 1826, librarian 1826–7, treasurer 1828–9;
barrister G.I. 13 July 1863, gave the society £500 to found an
annual prize for an essay on law 7 May 1864, bencher of G.I. 9
Nov. 1864 to death; Q.C. 7 July 1864; built an observatory in south
portico of Hartwell house, Bucks. 1830; an original member of
Royal Astronom. Soc. 1820, treasurer 1831–40, pres. 1861–2, gave
the advowson of Hartwell to the Soc. 1836 and the advowson of
Stone, Bucks. 1866, founded the Lee fund for relief of widows and
children of deceased fellows; F.S.A. 1828; F.R.S. 24 Feb. 1831;
pres. and treasurer of Numismatic Soc. 1837; member of
Chronological institute of London, Dec. 1850, pres. 21 Dec. 1853 to
1858 when institute ceased; pres. of meeting of British
Archæological Assoc. at Leicester 1862; contested Aylesbury 1835,
1841, 1852 and 1863; edited Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities
at Hartwell House, chiefly arranged by Joseph Bonomi 1858. d.
 Hartwell house near Aylesbury 25 Feb. 1866. Memoir of John Lee.
Aylesbury (1870); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxiii 302–5
(1867); Catalogue of law books in the library at Hartwell (1855);
Catalogue of theological books in the library of Hartwell house
(1855).
LEE, J . b. Bath 25 Oct. 1795; served in the army; first appeared at
Drury Lane as Laertes 1 Oct. 1828; sec. to Edmund Kean 1826–33
and stage manager Richmond theatre, and it was in his arms that the
tragedian died at Richmond 15 May 1833; acted Jingle in
Moncrieff’s Sam Weller or the Pickwickians at Strand theatre July
1837; theatrical agent at 24 Bow st. Covent Garden 1847–55;
manager of the Café de l’Europe, Haymarket, London, on decease
of Henry Hemming 1849; reappeared at T.R. Richmond as Shylock
1 July 1869; resided in Jersey many years. d. Wilton house, New St.
John’s road, Jersey 5 Oct. 1881. The Era 15 Oct. 1881 p. 8; Actors
by gaslight (1838) 33–34, portrait.
LEE, J . b. 1831; general manager of Drinking fountain association;
F.R.G.S. d. Balmain, Anerley road, Surrey 3 Feb. 1884. bur. Crystal
palace district cemetery 7 Feb.
LEE, J B . b. 15 Jany. 1811; admitted attorney 1834; of firm
of Lee, Bolton and Lee, 2 The Sanctuary, Westminster, and 5 Dean’s
court, Doctors’ commons, London; legal secretary to 20 bishops,
including 2 primates and 3 bishops of London; legal secretary to
abp. of Canterbury and to bishops of London, Winchester, Durham,
Carlisle, Ely, Hereford, Norwich, Worcester and Ripon to death;
chapter clerk and registrar and steward of courts of St. Paul’s
cathedral; registrar of diocese of London to death; a personal friend
of archbishop Tait 1856; resided at Sonning near Reading. d. The
Charterhouse, London 10 April 1889. Law Times, lxxxvii 13 (1889).
LEE, J E . b. Hull 21 Dec. 1808; visited Russia and
Scandinavia; resided at Caerleon Priory, Monmouth, then at
Torquay; F.G.S. 1859; presented his fine collection of fossils to
British Museum 1885; author of Delineation of Roman antiquities
found at Caerleon 1845; Description of a Roman building
discovered at Caerleon 1850; Selections from an antiquarian sketch
book 1859; Isca Silurum, or an illustrated catalogue of the museum
of antiquities at Caerleon 1862; Roman imperial profiles, one
hundred and sixty lithographs 1874; Note-book of an amateur
 geologist 1881; translated F. Keller’s Lake-dwellings of Switzerland
1866, 2 ed. 1878. d. Villa Syracuse, Daddy Hole plain, Torquay 18
Aug. 1887. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2nd series, xii 142–3 (1888).
LEE, J L (son of William Hanning d. 1834, by Harriet dau. of
Edward Lee). b. 11 Dec. 1802; educ. Westminster 1813–7, matric.
Ch. Ch. Oxf. 10 Feb. 1821; assumed name of Lee in place of
Hanning 1820; M.P. for Wells 1831–37; sheriff of Somerset 1845.
d. Dillington park, Somerset 16 Aug. 1874.
LEE, J Y . b. 1801; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1828; practised as a
conveyancer; a comr. of bankrupts 1838; registrar of Liverpool
court of bankruptcy 28 Aug. 1844 to 31 Dec. 1869 when he retired
on full salary; author of A treatise on the evidence of abstracts of
titles to real property 1843. d. Bebington, Cheshire 10 March 1876.
Law Times, lx 422 (1876).
LEE, J . b. 1780; painted miniatures in enamel from the life, and
copied pictures in enamel; enamel painter to Princess Charlotte of
Wales 1818 and to the Duke of Sussex, painted portraits of them,
also of George IV. after Sir Thomas Lawrence; exhibited 27
enamels at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1809–53. d. 13 Stone st.
Gravesend 26 Dec. 1859.
LEE, L . b. 1817; a vaulter in the circus company of Wm. Batty at
Portsmouth and Southampton 1840; performed at Lambeth Baths,
London, which Batty opened as the Olympic Arena, Nov. 1841; on
his benefit night April or May 1842 he vaulted over 14 horses,
threw a back somersault on a horse going at full speed and turned
21 forward somersaults without the aid of a spring-board. d. 17
Kersley st. Battersea, London 18 March 1891. bur. Norwood
cemetery.
LEE, M H (4 son of Joseph Lee of Redbrook, Whitchurch,
Salop). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 28 May 1850 aged 18,
scholar 1850–4, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; C. of Longsight,
Manchester 1856–7; C. of Morland near Penrith 1857–67; V. of
Hanmer, Flintshire 1867 to death, church burnt Feb. 1889 when he
rescued register and plate, church rebuilding at time of his decease;
a contributor to the Archæologia Cambrensis; edited Diaries and
letters of Philip Henry 1882. d. about 13 Dec. 1890.
LEE, R N (younger son of lieut.-col. Richard Lee). b. Kew
8 Jany. 1806; first acted in The Miller and his Man, at private
theatre, Rawstorne st. Islington; played as an amateur at Deptford,
then in ‘utility’ business at Royalty theatre; acted with John
Richardson the showman 1821; went on tour in 1821 with Gyngell
the conjuror who d. 1833; performed as a juggler at Adelphi and
other London theatres 1822; played at Surrey theatre, opening as
harlequin, under Elliston 7 years from 24 June 1827; wrote the
pantomimes 1831–3 and played harlequin at Adelphi theatre 1834–
36; managed Sadler’s Wells theatre for F. Osbaldiston 1836;
proprietor with John Johnson of ‘Richardson’s Show’ Oct. 1836,
they promoted and organised the fair in Hyde Park on the Queen’s
coronation 28 June 1838; they purchased Julius Haydon’s portable
theatre Oct. 1838; ‘Richardson’s Show’ was burnt in a field at
Dartford 1845 causing a loss of £1700, they began business with a
new theatre 1847; they appeared at Greenwich fair for the last time
1852; ‘Richardson’s Show’ was sold by auction at Horsemonger
lane, Borough 1853, when the property was completely dispersed;
manager with J. Johnson of the Marylebone, of Pavilion, of
Standard 1845, of City of London 1849–63, sole lessee of City of
London 3 Oct. 1863 to 1868 when he sold it to Great Eastern
railway co. for £6000; author of The life of a fairy illustrated by
Alfred Crowquill 1850; wrote 209 pantomimes, all of which were
played. d. Shrubland road, Dalston 2 Jany. 1872. bur. Abney park
cemetery 5 Jany. T. Frost’s The Old Showman (1874) 247, 254, 320,
346–58; The Mask (1868) 21, portrait; Illust. Sporting News, v 420
(1866), portrait.
N .—His father lieut.-col. Lee was on duty at Nelson’s funeral in St. Paul’s cathedral 9
Jany. 1806, this was probably Richard Lee who died in India about 1811. The certificate of R. N.
Lee’s baptism could not be obtained as the registers from 1791 to 1845 were stolen out of Kew
church some years ago and have never been recovered. The inscription on his tombstone in
Abney Park cemetery is, To the memory of Nelson Lee who departed this life January 2nd 1872
aged 65, also of Amelia Lee his beloved wife who departed this life December 30th 1870 aged
53, also of Theresa Kate Lee youngest daughter of the above who departed this life September
28th 1870 aged 17.

LEE, R . b. Tweedmouth, Northumberland 11 Nov. 1804; ed. at

Berwick-on-Tweed gr. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ. 1824–34, D.D.
1844; minister of St. Vigean’s presbyterian chapel of ease at
Arbroath, Forfarshire 1833, removed to parish of Campsie,
Stirlingshire 1836; minister of church and parish of Old Greyfriars,
Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1843 to death, his church was burnt down 19
 Jany. 1845, preached in the Assembly Hall until 14 June 1857 when
restored church opened, introduced stained glass into some of the
windows 1857 and the first organ used in national church 22 April
1865; professor of biblical criticism and antiquities in univ. of
Edinb., dean of chapel royal Holyrood and royal chaplain 17 Dec.
1846 to death; censured by the presbytery 14 March 1866 and by
the synod 7 May for celebrating a marriage in his church 6 Dec.
1865; Isabella Carrick his widow was granted a civil list pension of
£100, 17 Nov. 1868; author of A handbook of devotion 1845; The
Holy Bible with about 60,000 marginal references and various
readings 1854; Prayers for public worship 2 ed. 1858; Prayers for
family worship 1861, 3 ed. 1884; The family and its duties 1863;
The reform of the church of Scotland in worship, government and
doctrine. Part 1 Worship 1864. d. Torquay 12 March 1868. bur.
Grange cemetery, Edinb. 20 March. R. H. Story’s Life of R. Lee,
D.D. 2 vols. (1870), portrait; Grant’s Story of Univ. of Edinb. ii
461–64 (1884).
LEE, R (2 son of John Lee of Melrose, Roxburghshire). b. Melrose
1793; entered univ. of Edinb. 1806, M.D. 1814; L.R.C.P. 1823,
F.R.C.P. 1841, Lumleian lecturer 1856–7, Croonian lecturer 1862,
Harveian orator 1864; physician to Prince Woronzow governor
general of the Crimea, Oct. 1824 to Dec. 1826; obstetric phys. in
London 1826–75; phys. to British lying-in hospital 1827; lecturer
on midwifery in the Webb st. school 1829; F.R.S. 25 March 1830;
sec. to Royal med. and chir. soc. 1830–5; regius professor of
midwifery, univ. of Glasgow 1834, but resigned it after delivering
his introductory address; lecturer on midwifery at St. George’s
hospital 1835–66; author of On the structure of the human placenta
and its connection with the uterus 1832; Clinical Midwifery 1842, 2
ed. 1848; The last days of Alexander and the first days of Nicholas,
emperors of Russia 1854; Three hundred consultations in midwifery
1864; A treatise on hysteria 1871. d. 15 The Avenue, Surbiton Hill,
Surrey 6 Feb. 1877. bur. Kensal Green cemet. R. Lee’s Memoirs on
the Ganglia and nerves of the uterus (1849); Munk’s College of
physicians, iii 266–9 (1878); Lancet, i 332–7 (1851), portrait.
LEE, R (7 son of John Lee 1779–1859). b. Edinburgh 1830; ed. at
academy and univ. of Edinb.; member of Faculty of advocates 1853;
procurator for Ch. of Scotland 1869; sheriff of Stirling and
Dumbarton 1875; sheriff of Perthshire 1877; judge of second
 division of the court of session, Edinb., with title of Lord Lee, April
1880 to death. d. 12 Rothesay place, Edinburgh 11 Oct. 1890.
LEE, S . b. Longnor near Shrewsbury 14 May 1783; apprenticed to
a carpenter at Shrewsbury 1795; taught himself Greek and Hebrew;
teacher in Bowdler’s foundation school, Shrewsbury; entered
Queen’s coll. Camb. 1813, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1819, B.D. 1827, D.D.
1833; D.D. Halle 1822; professor of Arabic in univ. of Camb. 11
March 1819–31, regius professor of Hebrew 1831–48; chaplain of
Cambridge gaol 1823; R. of Bilton with Harrogate, Yorkshire 1825–
31; preb. of Bristol cathedral 5 July 1831 to death; V. of Banwell,
Somerset 1831–8; R. of Barley, Herts. 1838 to death; a profound
linguist, knew about 20 languages; author of A grammar of the
Hebrew language 1827; A brief enquiry into the question whether a
christian can object to pay tithes. Bristol 1832; The duties of
observing the christian sabbath 1833, 2 ed. 1834; Dissent
unscriptural and unjustiable 1834; A lexicon Hebrew, Chaldee and
English 1840; The doctrine of the keys 1846; An enquiry into the
nature, progress and end of prophecy 1849. d. Barley rectory 16
Dec. 1852, portrait by Richard Evans in public newsroom,
Shrewsbury. Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, vol. 5 (1834),
portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, i 52 (1846),
portrait; G.M. xxxix 203–7 (1853).
LEE, S . King of the gipsy tribe of the Lees. d. Little Baddow hill,
Essex 23 Sep. 1859 aged 86. bur. Little Baddow ch. yard 27 Sep.
when 16 gipsies attended the funeral.
LEE, S (2 son of John Lee of Whitchurch, Salop). b. 1837; ed.
Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1860, M.A. 1866; barrister L.I. 26 Jany.
1872; member of board of examiners to Inns of Court 1877–8 and
1881–3; member of Athenæum club; author of The works of Virgil
rendered into English prose, with introductions. Globe edition 1871;
author with J. Lonsdale of The works of Horace rendered into
English prose 1873. d. 8 Tavistock place, Tavistock sq. London 14
April 1892.
LEE, S (only dau. of John Eglinton Wallis of Colchester). b.
Colchester 10 Sep. 1791. m. (1) 1813 Thomas Edward Bowdich,
naturalist, travelled with him in Africa 1815 and 1823, he d.
Bathurst on the Gambia river 10 Jany. 1824; she m. (2) about Oct.
1829 Robert Lee; studied Cuvier’s collections in Paris 1818–22;
 termed herself a member of the Wetteravian society; granted civil
list pension of £50, 20 April 1854; author of The Freshwater fishes
of Great Britain 1828, 12 parts, only four perfect copies are known,
the plates of fish by herself are exquisitely done; Memoirs of Baron
Cuvier 1833; Adventures in Australia 1851, many editions;
Anecdotes of the habits and instincts of animals 1852; Sir Thomas
or the adventures of a Cornish baronet 1856; she also edited and
contributed to many works by her husband T. E. Bowdich. d. at her
daughter’s residence, Erith, Kent 22 Sep. 1856. Literary Gazette 11
Oct. 1856 p. 784; G.M. Nov. 1856 pp. 653–4.
LEE, S . b. Devonport 1838; clerk in the stamp office, Devonport;
reporter on Western Daily Mercury, then on Western Morning
News; correspondent of The Era; on staff of Illustrated Sporting
News 15 March 1862 to death; wrote ‘Tom’s Wife’ acted at the
Surrey theatre, and ‘Great Sensation’ acted at Sadler’s Wells. d.
Tottenham court road, London 3 Feb. 1866. bur. Finchley 7 Feb.
Illust. Sporting News, v 78, 152 (1866), portrait.
LEE, T (son of Mr. Lee of Dublin and the Haymarket, London). b.
Dublin 1 Dec. 1810; apprenticed to a goldsmith and jeweller
London 1823; played in Suil Dhur the Coiner at Sadler’s Wells
1827; played in The Irish Tutor at Victoria theatre 1833 or 1834;
acted in the provinces 1834–7; played at Sadler’s Wells 1837; acted
Pat Rooney in The Omnibus at Covent Garden 23 Oct. 1838;
proprietor of Beckford’s Head tavern, 38 Old st. St. Luke’s 1838–
54; proprietor of The Adam and Eve, Eve’s terrace, Old St. Pancras
road 1854–6, and of the Hoop and Adze, 37 St. John st. Clerkenwell
1856, where he d. 11 Aug. 1856. Actors by daylight, i 281–2 (1838),
portrait; Theatrical Times, ii 153 (1847), portrait; The Era 17 Aug.
1856 p. 10.
LEE, W . b. 1809; painter in water-colours of English rustic figures
and of scenes on the French coast; assoc. of Instit. of Painters in
water-colours 1845, a member 1848; member and sec. of Langham
Sketching club, All Souls’ Place, London; exhibited 3 pictures at
R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1844–55; published Classes of the capital,
a sketch book of London life from tinted studies by W. Lee 1841,
two parts only. d. 177 Euston road, London 22 Jany. 1865. Art
Journal (1865) 139.
LEE, W . Barrister I.T. 2 July 1813, bencher 1845 to death, reader
1858; Richard Bethel afterwards lord chancellor Westbury was his
pupil 1822; Q.C. Feb. 1845; a learned real property lawyer, his
opinion was much esteemed by the chancery judges; often called
upon by lord justice Knight-Bruce to give his opinion as amicus
curiæ; lacked business habits, which prevented success in his
profession. d. Brighton 7 July 1869. Law Times 17 July 1869 p.
262; T. A. Nash’s Life of lord Westbury, i 37–8, 43 (1888).
LEE, W (son of Henry Lee). b. Lewisham, Kent 1801; partner in
firm of Lee, Son & Co., lime and cement merchants of London and
Rochester; contested Maidstone 8 July 1852 and 30 March 1857;
M.P. Maidstone 1853–57 and 1859–70. d. Holborough court near
Rochester 29 Sep. 1881.
LEE, W (son of Wm. Lee, rector of Emly. d. Aug. 1835). b.
Newport, Tipperary 3 Nov. 1815; ed. at Clonmel endowed sch.
1825–31 and Trinity college, Dublin; gained first or classical
scholarship 1834, junior fellow 1839; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D.
and D.D. 1857; professor of ecclesiastical history in univ. of Dublin
1857–63; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 1863; R. of Arboe,
Armagh 1862–4; exam. chaplain to abp. Trench 1863–4;
archdeacon of Dublin 1864 to death; R. of St. Peter, Dublin 1864 to
death; member of convocation and of convention of ch. of Ireland;
member of new testament revision company Feb. 1870 to 1880;
author of The inspiration of holy scripture, its nature and proof
1854, 5 ed. 1882; Three introductory lectures on ecclesiastical
history 1858; Commentary on the Revelation of St. John 1882, on
which he had been working since 1864. d. 64 Merrion square south,
Dublin 11 May 1883. W. Lee’s University Sermons. Dublin (1886),
memoir vii–xiv.
LEE, W (2 son of John Lee 1779–1859). b. 18 George st.
Edinburgh 6 Nov. 1817; ed. univ. of Edinb., D.D. 1868;
presbyterian minister at Roxburgh 1844–74; professor of
ecclesiastical history in univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1874 to death;
author of The increase of faith 1867, 2 ed. 1868; The days of the
Son of Man 1872; edited his father’s Lectures on the history of the
church of Scotland 2 vols. 1860; The autobiography of Dr.
Somerville of Jedburgh. d. 8 The College, Glasgow 10 Oct. 1866.
The Glasgow Herald 12 Oct. 1886 p. 4.
LEECE, J (1 son of John Leece). b. Edgley, Stockport, Cheshire 8
Sep. 1833; lodge boy to Joseph Whitworth, engineer, Manchester
1847, foreman of shops where he improved the machinery,
managed the manufactory of guns and rifles; conducted the heavy
gun trials Whitworth versus Armstrong 1863–4; introduced the
Whitworth small arms to the volunteers; sighted the rifle for the
Queen at Wimbledon 2 July 1860; hit the target 5 times in
succession at 1000 yards; present at meetings for trial of light field
guns at Versailles and Chalon; member of war office ordnance
committee; managing director of sir J. Whitworth & Co.; M.I.C.E. 6
May 1879. d. Melbourne, Australia 13 Jany. 1886. Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. lxxxv 399 (1886).
LEECH, J (son of John Leech, proprietor of the London Coffee-
house, Ludgate Hill, London, bankrupt 6 Jany. 1832). b. Bennett st.
Stamford st. London 29 Aug. 1817; ed. at the Charterhouse 1824–
33; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; published Etchings and
Sketchings. By A. Pen 1835; employed on Bell’s Life in London;
illustrated Theodore Hook’s novel Jack Brag 1837; contributed to
fourth number of Punch 7 Aug. 1841 a full-page illustration entitled
Foreign Affairs, signed with the Leech in the bottle as well as John
Leech; chief artist on Punch 1842 to death, executed 600 cartoons
and 2400 small drawings for which he received about £40,000;
illustrated the Ingoldsby Legends and Albert Smith’s novels in
Bentley’s Miscellany; supplied etchings or cuts for New Monthly
Mag. 1842–4, Illuminated Mag. 1843–5, Dickens’ Christmas
Stories 1843–8, R. S. Surtees’ sporting novels 1853–65, Once a
Week 1859–64, Illustrated London News, Punch’s Pocket Book and
many other works; published Portraits of the children of the nobility
1841; Pictures of life, from Punch 5 series 1854–69 and other
books; exhibited a series of sketches in oil at Egyptian Hall,
Piccadilly, June–Aug. 1862; hunted with the Puckeridge and
Pytchley hounds; his portrait by sir John Millais was exhibited at
the R.A. 1855. d. 6 The Terrace, Kensington 29 Oct. 1864. bur.
Kensal Green 4 Nov. An exhibition of outlines by J. Leech held at 9
Conduit st. London 1872. W. P. Frith’s John Leech 2 vols. (1891),
portrait; F. G. Kitton’s John Leech (1884); John Leech and other
papers. By John Brown (1882) 1–79; Fine Art. By W. A. Rossetti
(1867) 282–9; Illust. Review iv 289–98, portrait; Baily’s Mag. ix
58–65 (1864), portrait; I.L.N. vii 329 (1845), portrait.
 N .—His widow Anne Leech was granted a civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1865; his
only son C. W. Leech was drowned off Port Adelaide on his voyage home from Australia 29
March 1876 aged 20. He drew a portrait of himself as the clarionet player next to the conductor
of the orchestra in the two-page cartoon entitled ‘Mr. Punch’s fancy ball’ in Punch 9 Jany. 1847.

LEEDS, F G D’A D -O , 7 Duke of. b.

21 May 1798; styled marquess of Carmarthen 1799–1838; cornet 10
hussars 19 Sep. 1817, lieut. 1821–5; capt. 17 lancers 1825; capt. 2
life guards 1826–8; M.P. Helston 1826–30; summoned to house of
lords as baron Osborne 2 July 1838; succeeded as 7 duke 10 July
1838; col. in chief of North York militia 11 Feb. 1846 to death; took
the name of Darcy 6 Aug. 1849; celebrated as a huntsman and deer
stalker. d. Clarendon hotel, 169 New Bond st. London 4 May 1859.
m. 24 April 1828 Louisa Catherine 3 dau. of Richard Caton and
widow of sir F. E. B. Harvey, bart. who d. 1819. She d. 8 April
1874. Burke’s Portrait gallery, ii 87, 90 (1833), portrait of the
Duchess; I.L.N. xxv 616 (1854) portrait, xxxiv 478, 485 (1859)
portrait.
LEEDS, R . b. 1811; rented a large farm at Holkham and resided at
Keswick Old Hall for many years; assisted in formation of company
which built Agricultural hall, Islington 1861 and was chairman
1862, and chief mover in the annual horse shows there; chairman of
Smithfield club, then vice president; oldest member of Farmers’
club; on council of R. Agricultural Soc. of England 1869–89. d.
Norwich 27 June 1890. I.L.N. 12 July 1890 p. 53, portrait.
LEEDS, W H . b. 1786; engaged in commercial pursuits; an
architectural critic 30 years; wrote much in the Foreign quarterly
review and other periodicals; wrote many of the articles on
architecture in the Penny Cyclopædia; published Moller’s
Memorials of German-Gothic architecture, part 1 translated by W.
H. Leeds 1836; Illustrations of the public buildings of London
1838; An essay on the present state of architectural study and the
revival of the Italian style, Printed in Studies and examples of
school of English architecture 1839 pp. 1–28; Rudimentary
architecture, the orders and their æsthetic principles 1848, 2 ed.
1852; A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture, by sir
W. Chambers, revised 1862. d. 26 Charlotte st. Portland place,
London 1 May 1866.
LEEKE, S H J (son of Samuel Leeke of St. John’s, Isle of
Wight). b. St. John’s 1794; entered navy 28 Sep. 1803; served in the
 Mediterranean during the war 1806; commanded the Myrmidon
sloop on west coast of Africa 1819–22, where he surveyed 600
miles of coast; captain 27 May 1826; knighted at St. James’s palace
1 April 1835; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; flag captain to admiral sir John
West at Devonport 1845–8; superintendent and commander-in-chief
of Indian navy 23 March 1852 to 7 July 1857; bombarded Bushir in
the Persian war 10 Nov. 1856; admiral 11 Jany. 1864; M.P. for
Dover 1859–65; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 1 Oct. 1858. d.
Uplands near Fareham 26 Feb. 1870. C. R. Low’s History of the
Indian navy, ii 240–382 (1877).
LEEKE, W (brother of the preceding). b. 1798; ensign 52 light
infantry 4 May 1815, lieutenant 1823, on h.p. 2 Sep. 1824; carried
the regimental colours at Waterloo; ed. at Queen’s college, Camb.,
B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; C. of Westham, Sussex 1829–31; C. of
Brailsford, Derby 1831–39; V. of Holbrooke, Derbyshire 1840–77;
author of A few suggestions for increasing the incomes of many of
the smaller livings. Derby 1838; The history of lord Seaton’s
regiment, the 52nd light infantry, at Waterloo, with the author’s
reminiscences of his military and clerical careers 2 vols. 1866–71.
d. Holbrooke hall near Derby 1 June 1879.
LEEMAN, G (son of George Leeman of York). b. York, Aug.
1809; solicitor at York 1835 to death; head of firm of Leeman,
Wilkinson and Leeman of York and Beverley; clerk of the peace for
East Riding to death; alderman of York 1850, lord mayor 1853,
1860 and 1870; chairman of Yorkshire banking co.; chairman of
North eastern railway Feb. 1874 to 1880; M.P. York 1865–68 and
1871–80; his statue erected near railway station at York. d. 3
Belmont terrace, Scarborough 25 Feb. 1882.
LEEMAN, J J (younger son of the preceding). b. Fulford
near York 1842; solicitor at York 1865 to death; M.P. York 2 April
1880 to death. d. Acomb priory, York 2 Nov. 1883.
LEES, Asa (2 son of Samuel Lees of Oldham, machine manufacturer, d.
about 1847). b. 1816; machine maker at Oldham about 1847–65
when he converted his business into a private company, the works
were sold to a limited liability company in 1872, he received
£112,000 for his share. d. Albert house, Ashton under Lyne 26 May
1882. Oldham Chronicle 3 June 1882 p. 6, col. 3.
LEES, C . b. 1810; M.B. of Trin. coll. Dublin 1837, F.K.Q.C.P.
1845; physician to Meath hospital to 1861 and lecturer on practice
of medicine; phys. to Bank of Ireland to 1861; wrote many essays in
Dublin Journal of medical science, Dublin hospital gazette, and the
Quarterly Journal; author of Lectures on diseases of the stomach
and indigestion. Dublin 1857. d. 17 Lower Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 16
Dec. 1861.
LEES, C . b. Cupar, Fifeshire 1800; studied art at Rome some
years; portrait painter at Edinburgh; fellow of Royal Scottish
academy 1835 where he exhibited regularly, treasurer 1865 and a
trustee; two pictures by him of curling and golf matches were
engraved; his picture Summer Moonlight, bait-gatherers, is in
Scottish national gallery; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and
1 at Suffolk st. 1832–63. d. 19 Scotland st. Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1880.
The Scotsman 1 March 1880 p. 4.
LEES, E . b. Worcester 1800; printer and stationer at 87 High st.
Worcester, retired early and became a local botanist; founded
Worcester Literary and scientific institute 12 Jany. 1829, joint sec.;
F.L.S., F.G.S.; one of the first to pay regard to forms of brambles,
commemorated botanically by his discovery of Rubus Leesii; author
of Christmas and the new year 2 ed. 1828, a masque in verse; Guide
to the city and cathedral of Worcester. By Ambrose Florence;
published The Worcestershire miscellany 5 numbers 1829; author of
Botany of the Malvern hills 1843, 3 ed. 1868; The botany of
Worcestershire 1867; The botanical looker-out among the wild
flowers 1842, 2 ed. 1851; Pictures of nature around the Malvern
hills 1856; Scenery and thought in poetical pictures of landscape
scenes and incidents 1880. d. Greenhill Summit, Worcester 21 Oct.
1887. bur. Pendock. Journal of botany (1887) 384.
LEES, S H , 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir John Lees, 1 baronet
1739–1811). b. 29 Nov. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1799,
M.A. 1802; R. and V. of Killaney, co. Down; preb. of Fennor in
Cashel church 21 Nov. 1800 to July 1806; preb. of Tullycorbet in
Clogher church 1801 to July 1806; author of The Antidote, or
nouvelles à la main, recommended to the serious attention of the
right hon. W. C. Plunket and other advocates of unrestricted civil
and religious liberty. By a clergyman of the established church and
no saint. Dublin 1819, reprinted with a supplement entitled L’Abeja
or a bee among the evangelicals. Dublin 1820, and 8 other
 pamphlets chiefly in support of protestant ascendancy. d. Blackrock
near Dublin 7 March 1852. G.M. xxxvii 518–9 (1852); I.L.N. xx 219
(1852).
N .—See also these works, Most important, trial of sir H. Lees before chief justice B——
and sergeant Flummery 11 Jan. 1823 by a jury of special dust churchmen on charges of barretry
and eavesdropping. Dublin 1823. A warning letter to the queen!! on the communication made to
government by sir H. L. relative to a conspiracy out of which arose the attempt to murder her
majesty 1840.

LEES, J . b. Cupar 1804; ed. Madras coll. St. Andrew’s and in

Edinburgh; manager for Smith and Carnegie, Dundee 1828; writer
to the signet in Dundee to 1834; manager for John Anderson, bailie,
Dundee 1834–54; author of The laws of shipping and insurance
1845, 10 ed. 1877; A manual for shipmasters on their qualifications,
duties, &c. 1845, 4 ed. 1851; The laws of the customs, with the
tariff or customs’ tables and customs’ forms 1859; The merchant
seaman’s act 1845; The merchant shipping act 1855, 3 ed. 1876. d.
Broughty Ferry, Dundee 5 July 1868. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities
(1873) 310–11.
LEES, S J C (eld. son of James Lees, R.E.) b. Enfield,
Middlesex 1796; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833; chief justice and judge
of court of admiralty of Bahama Islands 1 Aug. 1836 to 1865 when
he retired; president of legislative council of Bahama islands;
knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; author of Meteorological
journal for 1839. Nassau, Bahamas 1839. d. Victoria station on
Metropolitan district railway 17 Oct. 1873. I.L.N. lxiii 399 (1873).
LEES, J F (eld. son of Edward Lees of Oldham). b. 1810;
ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831; M.P. for Oldham 8 July
1835 to 18 July 1837; contested Oldham 28 July 1837. d.
Cheltenham 18 Sep. 1867.
LEES, T . b. 1821; one of the best riders at Astley’s amphitheatre,
gymnast and summersault thrower and the champion of the ring;
with Cooke’s circus from childhood, and with it travelled in the
provinces; played in pantomime at Cremorne gardens, Melbourne,
under George Coppin’s management; lived some years in New
Zealand. m. Emma Cooke pantomimist and dancer, sister of James
Cooke equestrian manager. d. Dunedin hospital, New Zealand 24
July 1878. The Era 29 Sep. 1878 p. 5.
LEES, W N (4 son of rev. sir Harcourt Lees 1776–1852). b.
21 Feb. 1825; ed. at Nut Grove and Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign 42
 Bengal N.I. 8 March 1846, captain 11 Sep. 1858; lieut.-col. Bengal
infantry 8 June 1868; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 21
Feb. 1884; M.G. 28 Nov. 1885; principal of the Madrásá or
Mahommedan college, Calcutta 1856–72, also professor of law,
logic, literature and mathematics; sec. to College of Fort William
1853; Persian translator to government; government examiner in
Arabic, Persian and Urdu for all branches of the service; part
proprietor of Times of India newspaper some years; hon. LL.D.
Dublin 1857 and Ph. Doc. Berlin; member of Royal Asiatic Soc. of
London 1872; contested Gloucester 1868 and Helston 1874; author
of A biographical sketch of the mystic philosopher and poet Jami
1859; A memorandum after a tour through the tea districts of
Eastern Bengal 1866; The drain of silver to the East and the
currency of India 1864; The land and labour of India 1867; Indian
Musalmáns 1871. d. Grosvenor st. London 9 March 1889.
LEESON, H B . b. about 1800; ed. at Caius coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; incorporated M.A. at Trin. coll. Oxf. 1838,
M.B. and M.D. 1840; M.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1847; F.C.S.; M.R.I.;
physician and lecturer on chemistry and forensic medicine to St.
Thomas’s hospital, London; F.R.S. d. The Maples near Ventnor, Isle
of Wight 8 Nov. 1872. Times 9 Nov. 1872 p. 5, col. 6.
LEESON, J S . Entered Bombay army 1817; 1 lieut.
Bombay artillery 1 Sep. 1818, lieut.-col. Bombay artillery 15 April
1850, col. 28 March 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Paris 7
May 1859.
LEESON, S W E (youngest son of hon. Robert Leeson
1773–1850). b. Feb. 1801; cornet 7 dragoon guards 2 Dec. 1819,
placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; chamberlain at Dublin castle 1835;
knight usher of the black rod to the order of St. Patrick 1838–41 and
genealogist 1841 to death; knighted at Dublin May or June 1838. d.
Caen, Normandy 21 April 1885.
LE FANU, J S (elder son of Thomas Philip Le Fanu, dean
of Emly). b. Dublin 28 Aug. 1814; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1833;
joined staff of Dublin Univ. Mag. 1837, editor and proprietor 1869–
72; called to Irish bar 1839; purchased two Dublin papers, The
Warder in 1839 and The Dublin Evening Packet, part proprietor of
the Dublin Evening Mail, amalgamated the three papers under title
of The Evening Mail with a weekly reprint entitled The Warder;
 author of The Cock and the anchor 1845; The fortunes of colonel
Torlogh O’Brien 1847; The house by the churchyard 3 vols. 1863;
Uncle Silas 3 vols. 1864; Wylder’s hand 3 vols. 1864; Guy Deverell
3 vols. 1865; All in the dark 2 vols. 1866; The tenants of Malory 3
vols. 1867; Haunted lives 3 vols. 1868; A lost name 3 vols. 1868;
The Wyvern mystery 3 vols. 1869; Checkmate 3 vols. 1871;
Chronicles of Golden Friars 3 vols. 1871; The rose and the key 3
vols. 1871; In a glass darkly 3 vols. 1872; Willing to die 3 vols.
1873; Morley court 1873, anon. d. 18 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 7
Feb. 1873. J. S. Le Fanu’s Purcell Papers with memoir by A. P.
Graves, vol. 1 pp. v–xxxi (1880); Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxi 319–20
(1873); Temple Bar, l 504–17 (1877).
LEFEBVRE, N . b. 1803; entered navy 18 Jany. 1811; captain 20
Oct. 1853, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880. d. Rue
Lefebvre, Guernsey 7 Oct. 1884.
LEFEVRE, S J G S (2 son of Charles Shaw Lefevre,
M.P. Reading, d. 1823). b. Bedford sq. London 24 Jany. 1797; ed.
Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1819; sen. wrangler and B.A.
1818, M.A. 1821; F.R.S. 16 Nov. 1820; barrister I.T. 11 Feb. 1825,
bencher 21 Nov. 1854 to death, reader 1868; M.P. Petersfield 1832–
4; under sec. of state for colonies 1833–4; poor law commissioner
18 Aug. 1834 to 1 Dec. 1841; joint assist. sec. to board of trade 19
June 1841 to 14 May 1848; second church estate commissioner 24
Aug. 1850; deputy clerk of the parliaments 4 April 1848 and clerk 6
April 1856, resigned March 1875 when he retired on pension of
£2,500; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 22 Jany. 1857; an ecclesiastical
comr. 20 Nov. 1847; a founder of the univ. of London 1836 and V.C.
1842–62; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1858; hon. LLD. Dublin 1860; civil
service comr., resigned 1862; one of founders of Athenæum club
1823; he knew all the European languages and Hebrew. d.
Cliftonville near Brighton 20 Aug. 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix
15–18 (1879); Graphic, xi 291, 292 (1875), portrait; I.L.N. ii 93
(1843), portrait.
LEFFLER, A (son of James Henry Leffler, organist and bassoon
player, d. 1819). b. 1808; chorister in Westminster abbey; appeared
at Exeter at a festival 1829; first appeared in London at Lyceum 31
Aug. 1836 as Hela in the Mountain Sylph; appeared at Park theatre,
New York as a tenor singer Aug. 1840; played at Covent Garden, at
the Lyceum, at Surrey theatre; sang at concerts; professor of music
 at 12 Spencer place, Brixton road, London; a bass singer, his
compass extended from E below the stave to G above it. d. 23
Osborne terrace, Clapham road, London 18 March 1857. Era 5
April 1857 p. 10.
LE FLEMING, G C H - (son of John
Cumberland Hughes of Bath). b. 21 July 1807; entered Madras
army 1823; captain 13 Madras N.I. 23 Dec. 1842, lieut.-col. 5 June
1854 to 1857; lieut.-col. of 19 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 European regiment
1858–9, of 50 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired with rank
of M.G.; assumed additional surname of Le Fleming by r.l. 1 April
1862. d. 7 June 1877.
LEFROY, A (eld. son of Thomas Langlois Lefroy 1776–1869).
b. Dublin 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1832, LL.B.
and LL.D. 1864; M.P. co. Longford 1830–32, 1833–7 and 1842–7;
contested co. Longford 1832, 1837, 1841 and 1857; M.P. univ. of
Dublin 1858–70; sheriff of Longford 1849. d. Carriglass manor, co.
Longford 12 Jany. 1890.
LEFROY, E C (son of George Benjamin Austin Lefroy
of 13 Victoria st. Westminster). b. 1855; ed. Keble coll. Oxf., B.A.
1877, M.A. 1881; C. of St. John’s, Woolwich 1880–82; author of
Undergraduate Oxford. Articles reprinted from The Oxford and
Cambridge undergraduates journal 1878; The christian ideal and
other sermons 1883; Counsels for the common life, six addresses to
senior boys 1885; Echoes from Theocritus and other sonnets 1885.
d. at the res. of his father, 42 Shooter’s hill road, Blackheath, Kent
19 Sep. 1891. Academy 3 Oct. 1891 p. 284.
LEFROY, J (brother of Anthony Lefroy 1800–90). b. 1809 or
1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1848, member of
the senate; R. of Aghaderg, co. Down 1836 to death; dean of
Dromore 1876 to death. d. Aghaderg Glebe 10 Dec. 1885.
LEFROY, S J H (son of John Henry George Lefroy, R. of
Ashe, Hants., d. 1823). b. Ashe 28 Jany. 1817; ed. at Alton,
Richmond, and R.M. acad. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec 1834,
col. 9 Feb. 1865, col. commandant 13 Feb. 1881 to death; sec. of
the Royal artillery institution 1838–9 and again 1849; director of
magnetical observatory at St. Helena 1840–2 and at Toronto 1842–
53; travelled to Lachim and Hudson’s Bay 1843–4, determined
approximate position of American forces of magnetic intensity;