LAMB, CHARLES 1893-1964

Charles Lamb was born in Portadown, County Armagh and was educated at Portadown Technical School. He was apprenticed to his father, who was a painter and decorator, and in 1913 he attended evening classes at the Belfast School of Art. He won a scholarship to the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin in 1917. He began to exhibit in the Royal Hibernian Academy and was elected as a member in 1938. He is known for his paintings of Carraroe in the Connemara Gaeltacht, where he settled permanently. He lived for one year in Brittany, and spent another year painting in the Aran Islands. He had an exhibition in New York in 1929 and was represented in the Irish Exhibition in Brussels. He illustrated Mairtin O Cadhain's book Cre na Cille and exhibited in Los Angeles and Chicago and at the Royal Academy.

LAMBERT, OLIVER d.1618

Oliver Lambert came to Ireland in 1580. He was a soldier in the English army. In 1584 he fought against the Scots in Ulster, and in 1601 he was appointed supreme military commander of Connacht. He was given land in Roscommon and at Clonmahon in County Cavan.

LAMONT (LA MONT), ELISH c.1800-1870

Elish Lamont was born in Belfast. As an artist she was self-taught and was a most successful miniature painter. She went to England and was acquainted with Charles Dickens who had given readings in Belfast. She exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, from 1842 to 1857, and published with her sister Frances, Christmas Rhymes, Three Nights' Revelry, which she had illustrated. The book was dedicated to the Right Honorable the Lady Dufferin and Clandeboye. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1846, and among her miniatures was one of Lady Dufferin. She lived in Dublin for a period, and moved to England where she died.

LANGBRIDGE, ROSAMUND b.1880

Rosamund Langbridge was born in Glenalla, County Donegal and was educated in Limerick. She was a journalist who contributed to the Manchester Guardian and other newspapers. She published many novels which included The Flame and the Flood (1903); Land of the Ever Young and The Green Banks of Shannon.

LANGHAM, HERBERT CHARLES ARTHUR

Charles Langham, 13th baronet of Tempo, was born in Cottsbrooke, Northamptonshire and was educated at Eton. He became lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Regiment. He married Ethel Tennent and came to live in Tempo, County Fermanagh. He was deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for the county. In 1930 he was appointed High Sherrif. He was a npoted amateur photographer and naturalist, and his large collection of butterflies is now housed in the Ulster Museum.

LANYON, CHARLES 1813-1889

Charles Lanyon was born in Sussex but came to Ireland as a young man. He was apprenticed to Jacob Owen of the Board of Public Works in Dublin, was appointed Surveyor of Kildare, and then of County Antrim in 1835. In 1836 he built the Gledun Road viaduct from local stone, and 'The Frosses' road between Ballymena and Ballymoney, where avenues of fir trees were planted so that their roots would support the road and prevent it from sinking into the bog. In addition to being County Surveyor, he undertook private commissions and designed at least fourteen churches. At the age of twenty-six he designed the palm house in the Botanic Gardens, Belfast, and in 1846 built Crumlin Road Gaol. He became one of Belfast's leading architects. Among other buildings in the city designed by him are Queen's College (now Queen's University) in 1849, the Presbyterian Theological College in College Park, the Custom House, Sinclair Seamen's Church, Corporation Square and the Ulster Club. In 1865, he and W. H. Lynn built the Old Library at Queen's University. In 1866 he was elected member of parliament for Belfast, and in 1867, President of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland. He was knighted in 1868.

LANYON, WILLIAM OWEN 1842-1887

William Lanyon was born in County Antrim and joined the army in 1860. He served in Jamaica and South Africa, where he became an administrator. He was involved in the Egyptian campaign of 1882 and the Nile expedition of 1884. He was knighted in 1880 and died in New York.

LARCOM, THOMAS AISKEW 1801-1879

Thomas Larcom was born in Gosport, Hampshire, and attended the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. In 1821 he was stationed at the Royal Engineers' Depot, Chatham, and for the next three years in Gibraltar. In 1824 he was employed by the Ordnance Survey in England, and two years later transferred to the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. By 1828 he was in charge of the survey's headquarters office in Dublin and in 1833 the first full maps were published. He invented the limelight for surveying, later used to light the stage in theatres. It was his idea to accompany the maps with a written account of Ireland's physical and human resources, which became known as the Ordance Survey Memoirs. The first was published in 1837 of Templemore, County Londonderry, under Larcom's editorship. Though many memoirs had been compiled in draft, they were not published because of excessive cost. In 1841 Larcom was appointed commissioner for the census of population in Ireland, and two years later a census report was published. In 1845 he was employed on the commission which chose a site for a university in Ulster and he opted for Belfast. The Ordnance Survey of Ireland's six inch maps were completed in 1846, and Larcom then joined the Irish Board of Works where he supervised the first collection of agricultural statistics of Ireland. In 1848 he worked on the revision of the boundaries of the Irish Poor Law Unions and the District Electoral Divisions and two years later was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Irish Board of Works. From 1853 to 1868 he served as Under-Secretary of Ireland. He died in Hampshire.

LARKIN, DELIA late 19th century

Delia Larkin, the sister of James Larkin, founded a small shirt manufacturing co-operative which employed girls victimised after the lock-out. She was the first Secretary of the Women's Labour Union, which was closely allied to the Suffrage Movement. She instigated improved coverage of Suffrage meetings in Labour journals.

LARKIN, JAMES 1876-1947

James Larkin was born of Irish parents in Liverpool and became a docker. He was a member of the National Union of Dock Labourers, and as an official he went to Scotland where he remained until 1907. He came to Belfast and led a successful dockers' strike which resulted in wage increases and recognition for the union. He became General Secretary of the newly established Irish Transport and General Workers' Union in 1909, was involved with unskilled workers and organised the Dublin workers' strike in 1913, which led to a lock-out by the employers. Larkin was arrested at a protest rally and later imprisoned for a short time. From 1914 to 1923 he was in America, but returned to Ireland and reoccupied his post with the union until his expulsion in 1924 when he formed the Workers' Union of Ireland and became its General Secretary. For two brief periods, 1937-1938 and 1943-1944, he was Dail deputy for North-East Dublin. Sean O'Casey says of him 'Lectures, Concerts and other activities, he brought into Liberty Hall and the social centre he organised in Croydon Park coloured the life of the Dublin workers.' He was a powerful orator. His statue was erected in O'Connell Street in 1979.

LARKIN, PHILIP ARTHUR 1922-1985

Philip Larkin was born in Coventry, Warwickshire. He was educated in Coventry and at St John's College, Oxford. He became a librarian, and spent from 1950 at Queen's university, Belfast, moving to Hull in 1955. He published two novels, Jill, 1946, and A Girl in Winter, 1947. He edited the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse in 1973. Among his poetry collections are The North Ship, 1945; The Less Deceived, 1955; The Whitsun Weddings, 1964 and High windows in 1974. The Collected Poems were published posthumously in 1988. His articles on jazz were collected in All What Jazz? in 1970, and a volume of essays, Required Writing, was published in 1983. His Selected Letters 1941-1985 were published in 1992.

LARMOR, JOSEPH 1857-1942

Joseph Larmor was born at Magheragall, County Antrim, and was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen's College, Belfast, and St John's College, Cambridge. He was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at Queen's College, Galway, in 1880, but returned to St John's five years later as a lecturer in Mathematics. He was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge in 1903, the chair once occupied by Sir Isaac Newton. He published a book, Aether and Matter in 1900, and it is for this that he is remembered, as well as for the formula for radiation of energy from an accelerated electron, and for an explanation of the effect of a magnetic field in splitting the lines of the spectrum into multiple lines. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1892 and became its Secretary, having earlier received the Society's Royal Medal and the Copley Medal. In 1909 he was knighted and became Unionist Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge for eleven years from 1911. He was given the freedom of the city of Belfast and many honorary degrees. He died in Holywood, County Down.

LATIMER, WILLIAM THOMAS 1842-1919

William Latimer was born in Ballynahetty, County Tyrone, and was educated at Queen's College, Belfast. He was ordained in Eglish, County Tyrone, and became a Doctor of Divinity in 1915. Among his publications are History of the Irish Presbyterians; Ulster Biographies relating to 1798; a Life of Dr Cooke and many articles in Irish periodicals.

LAVERY, CECIL 1894-1967

Cecil Lavery was born in Armagh and educated at St Patrick's College, Armagh, St Vincent's College, Castleknock, and University College, Dublin. In 1915 he was called to the Bar. During the first meeting of the Irish Volunteers he joined the Armagh division, and though he was prepared to command them in Easter Week 1916, he was not called upon to do so. From 1921 to 1922 he was a judge in the Dail Courts, took silk in 1927 and served on the bench of the King's Inns. He was a member of the Dail for North County Dublin for three years from 1935 and acted as Attorney-General in the first inter-party government in 1948, subsequently becoming a senator. He helped to draft the Convention of Human Rights for the Council of Europe, and the Republic of Ireland Bill in 1948, and attended a meeting which decided Ireland's relationship with the Commonwealth. In 1950 he was appointed to the Supreme Court, and he was a Steward of the Turf Club.

LAVERY, JOHN 1856-1941

John Lavery was born in Belfast and was left an orphan at the age of three. He was sent to relatives near Miora, County Down, and attended Magheralin National School. At the age of ten, he went to live with relatives in Scotland and was apprenticed at the age of seventeen to a painter-photographer in Glasgow. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and in London and Paris. In 1886 the Royal Academy showed his 'Tennis Party', which was bought for Munich. In 1888 he was commissioned to paint the state visit of Queen Victoria to the Glasgow Exhibition. He was knighted in 1918, was elected to the Royal Academy in 1921, was a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Academies of Scotland, Rome, Antwerp, Milan, Brussels and Stockholm. He received honorary degrees from Queen's University, Belfast, and Trinity College, Dublin, and was made a freeman of both cities. In 1940 his autobiography, The Life of a Painter, was published. His paintings are exhibited in galleries all over the world.

LAW, EDWARD FITZGERALD 1846-1908

Edward Law was born in Rostrevor, County Down, and was educated at Woolwich, after which he entered the Royal Artillery in 1868. He resigned after four years and became consul at St Petersburg in Russia. In 1885 he served in the Sudan and was later Finance Minister of India. He was knighted in 1898 and died in Paris. He invented a flying machine. [Biography, 1911]

LAW, HUGH 1818-1883

Hugh Law was born in County Down and was educated at Dungannon and Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Bar in 1840 and was made Queen's Counsel in 1860. He was responsible for drafting the Irish Church Disestablishment Bill (1869) and Gladstone's First Land Bill (1870), and from 1874 served as member of parliament for County Londonderry. In 1880 he was appointed Attorney-General, and in 1881 he became Lord Chancellor. He died at Rathmullen, County Donegal.

LAWLESS, JOHN 1773-1837

John Lawless was born in Dublin and having been refused admission to the Bar, investigated brewing as an occupation. He became a journalist in Newry with the Ulster Recorder, in Belfast with the Ulster Register from 1817 to 1819, and with The Irishman. He was a strong supporter of Catholic Emancipation and his exemplary behaviour which helped to prevent bloodshed at a demonstration at Ballybay is said to have softened Wellington's attitude to the issue of Emancipation. His most important works are A Compendium of the History of Ireland and An Address to the Catholics of Ireland. He died in London.

LAWLOR, HUGH JACKSON 1860-1938

Hugh Lawlor was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he later became Professor of Ecclesistical History, a post which he occupied from 1898 to 1933. From 1924 to 1933 he was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral and from 1919 until 1930 he was Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy. Among his publications are Chapters on the Book of Mulling; The Manuscripts of the Vita S. Columbani; The Reformation and the Irish Episcopate; Saint Malachy of Armagh and The Martyrology of Tallaght.

LAWRENCE, ALEXANDER 1764-1835

Alexander Lawrence was born in Coleraine, County Londonderry. He served in the 19th and 77th Regiments. He returned after fifteen years service in India, having risen to the rank of colonel. He had four sons, three of whom served with distinction in India: Sir George Alexander Lawrence (1804-1884); Sir Henry Lawrence (1806-1857); Lord John Lawrence (1811-1879).

LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR 1811-1879

John Lawrence was educated at Bristol, Foyle College, Derry, Bath and Haileybury. He joined the East India Company in Calcutta in 1830 and served as administrator and magistrate and finally became Chief Commissioner for the Punjab from 1853 to 1857. In 1857, during the Indian Mutiny, he recaptured Delhi from the mutineers. He was Viceroy of India from 1863 to 1869, when he was created first Baron Lawrence of the Punjab and of Grately. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM 1862-1940

William Lawrence was born in Belfast and was a drama critic for The Stage as well as being an historian of the Elizabethan theatre. His books include Pre-Restoration Stage Studies; The Physical Conditions of the Elizabethan Public Play-House; Shakespeare's Workshop; Those Nut-Cracking Elizabethans; Old Theatre Days and Ways and Speeding up Shakespeare in 1937.

LAWSON, JOHN 1709-1759

John Lawson was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a Doctor of Divinity in 1745. He was a lecturer in history and oratory and later Professor of Divinity. In 1743 he was appointed the first librarian of the college. He published many of his sermons and was a distinguished linguist.

LECKY, EMILIA c.1788-c.1844

Emilia Lecky was born in Dublin. She moved to Derry, but later returned to Dublin. From 1826 to 1842 she exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Society. She painted portraits, where generally the sitter was anonymous, as well as religious and historical themes. Her portrait of the Honorable William Porter, Attorney General of the Cape of Good Hope, suggests that her subjects were prominent members of society. There are no known examples of her work.

LECKY, THORNTON STRATFORD 1838-1902

Thornton Lecky was born in Downpatrick, County Down, and was educated at Gracehill. In 1852 he went to sea, conducted many sea surveys and was involved in charting. He was commodore captain of the American Line and Marine Superintendent of the Great Western Railway. Much of his writing deals with navigation. He died in Las Palmas.

LECKY, WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE (pseud. HIBERNICUS) 1838-1903

William Lecky was born in County Dublin, and was educated in Armagh, Cheltenham and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a member of parliament for Dublin University from 1895 until a few months before his death, and was in favour of a Catholic University. His manuscripts, both published and unpublished are in Trinity College, Dublin, and under the pseudonym 'Hibernicus' he was author of a volume Friendship and other poems. He published anonymously Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland and in 1865, under his own name, the History of Rationalism, followed by History of European Morals. For nineteen years he worked on his History of England and it finally appeared in eight volumes. Other works include Democracy and Liberty and The Map of Life though he was probably best known for his five volume History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, published in 1892. He received the Order of Merit in 1902. The Lecky Chair of History at Trinity College, Dublin, was endowed by his widow. [Biography by his wife, 1909]

LEE, ALEXANDER b.1870

Alex Lee was born in Barrow-in-Furness, though his family had just moved from Ballycastle, County Antrim. They then moved to Blackpool, where they lived next door to a photographer. Alex and his elder brother, Robert, had a photographic studio in Cape Town, and when they returned from South Africa, Alex set up studios Bath Cottage in Portrush. He went from there to the Giant's Causeway once a week, and photographed people in front of the rock formation known as the wishing chair. With the introduction of the amateur camera, Alex bought a Kodak dealership, which meant that he was permitted to sell cameras and films, and process films. Many of the views of Portrush which he took were sold as postcards. The photographs were endorsed in gold lettering with 'Lee's Studios at Cape Town, Portrush and the Giant's Causeway'. His brother Robert and his sister Henrietta also had photographic studios in Portrush.

LEE, SAMUEL 1871-1944

Sammy Lee was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, played for the North of Ireland Football Club and was an international rugby player. Between 1891 and 1898 he won nineteen international caps for Ireland. He captained Ireland in the 1892-1893 season and again in 1895-1896. In 1894 he was a member of Ireland's first Triple Crown triumph. In 1899 to 1900 he was president of the Irish Rugby Football Union and was also a selector. In 1904 he refereed the Scotland v England match.

LEES, HARCOURT 1776-1852

Harcourt Lees was born in Dublin, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Cambridge. He was Vicar of Killaney, County Down. He published a number of anti-catholic tracts and was an ardent advocate of the Protestant ascendancy. He died in Blackrock.

LENNON, JOHN 1768-1842

John Lennon was born in Downpatrick, County Down and was a sailor. He is remembered for having brought his ship, the Hibernia, through the American fleet in 1812. He died in Devonport.

LENTAIGNE, JOHN FRANCIS O'NEILL 1805-1886

John Lentaigne was born in Dublin and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in medicine and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was appointed the Commissioner of Loan Funds and served as Inspector-General of Prisons, Reformatories and Industrial Schools from 1854 until 1877. He was elected President of the Statistical Society from 1877 to 1888. He was Deputy Lieutenant for County Monaghan and from 1861 to 1886 was a Commissioner of National Education. He was knighted in 1880.

LEPPER, JOHN HERON b.1878

John Lepper was born in Belfast and was educated in Scotland and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a barrister and wrote several novels, including A Tory in Arms and The North-East Corner. He also published short stories and a book Famous Secret Societies. In 1914 he moved to London.

LESLIE, CHARLES 1650-1722

Charles Leslie was born in Dublin and was educated at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and Trinity College, Dublin. He is best known for his numerous theological works, though as Chancellor of Connor he refused to take the oath of allegiance to William III and wrote Answer to the King's State of Protestants and a Short and Easy Method with Deists. He died at Glaslough, County Monaghan. [Biography by Leslie, 1885]

LESLIE, JOHN 1571-1671

John Leslie was born in Scotland and lived in Europe for many years. In 1633, having been Bishop of the Isles, he was translated to Raphoe. He built a fortified palace there, and when the 1641 rebellion broke out he raised a company of foot soldiers who fought for the king. He became known as 'the fighting bishop'. He became Bishop of Clogher in 1661 and was granted money by parliament. He wrote many books and collected European manuscripts, all of which were destroyed. He bought property at Glaslough, County Monaghan, where he died.

LESLIE, JOHN 1882-1916

John Leslie was born in County Monaghan. He was educated at Harrow and Oxford. He served as a member of parliament for Monaghan from 1871 to 1880. He was an artist and exhibited for many years in the Royal Academy. His picture, 'Peter denying Christ', was presented to the City of Belfast Public Library. He received a letter of commendation from Prince Albert for his picture 'Children, Christ Died For You'. He won the Grand Military Steeplechase on his own horse.

LESLIE, JOHN RANDOLPH (SHANE) 1885-1971

Shane Leslie was born in Glaslough, County Monaghan, and was educated at Eton, Paris and King's College, Cambridge. On a visit to Russia in 1907 he met Tolstoy. In 1908 he became a Catholic. In two elections he stood for Derry as a Nationalist candidate and in 1911 went on a fund-raising mission to the USA. In 1916 he was appointed editor of the Dublin Review. He was a prolific writer of poetry, prose, biography and stories of the supernatural. Among his works are An Anthology of Catholic Poets; The Skull of Swift; Verses in Peace and War; The Film of Memory; From Cabin Boy to Archbishop; The Irish Tangle for English Readers; Shane Leslie's Ghost Book; The Oxford Movement and George the Fourth. He was an Associate Member of the Irish Academy of Letters and was made a Privy Chamberlain by Pope Pius XI. He succeeded his father as baronet in 1944 and was subsequently knighted. He presented a 9th-century manuscript to the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, of which he was Rosenbach Fellow of Bibliography.

LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE 1825-1882

Thomas Leslie was born in Wexford and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1853 he became Professor of Political Economy at Queen's College, Belfast. Among numerous articles and pamphlets he published Land Systems in 1870 and Essays in 1879. He died in Belfast.

LESTER, SEAN 1888-1959

Sean Lester was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, and was educated at Methodist College, Belfast. He worked as a journalist on the North Down Herald and later the Freeman's Journal. In 1922 he joined the new Department of External Affairs of the Irish Free State, and in 1929 he was the Irish representative at Geneva. When he was appointed to the High Commission for the League of Nations he protested vehemently against the Nazi persecution of the Jews. In 1940 he became the League's Acting Secretary-General. He stayed in Europe until 1947 to supervise the winding-up of the League, before retiring to Galway where he died. He received for his services the Woodrow Wilson Award and honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland and Trinity College, Dublin.

LETHLOBAR d.873

Lethlobar was King of Dalriada and was reputed to have defeated the Danes in County Down. He overcame the invading forces of Aed Finfliath mac Neill. He eventually died eventually of wounds received in battle.

LETTS, EDMUND ALBERT 1852-1918

Edmund Letts was born in Kent and was educated at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, King's College, London, and briefly at the Universities of Vienna and Berlin. At the age of twenty he became chief assistant in the Chemistry Department of Edinburgh University. Four years later he was appointed the first Professor of Chemistry at University College, Bristol. In 1879 he became Professor of Chemistry at Queen's College, Belfast, where he remained for thirty-eight years. His main areas of research were: the chemistry of organic compounds of sulphur and phosphorus; the determination of carbon dioxide in air and water (his methods were employed by the first Scott Antarctic expedition); and the pollution of rivers and tidal waters. He published Some Fundamental Problems of Chemistry, Old and New and many papers in journals. He was a prominent member of the Belfast Natural History Society and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Institute of Chemistry. Upon the foundation of Queen's University, Belfast, he was one of the first members of Senate. He returned to England and was killed in a cycling accident.

LEVER, CHARLES 1806-1872

Charles Lever was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He went to Gottingen and Louvain to study medicine and then to travel in Canada and America. In 1832, having worked in Dublin throughout the cholera epidemic, he was appointed medical officer at the dispensary at Portstewart, County Londonderry. As a student his Log Book of a Rambler had been published in the Dublin Literary Gazette, and his novel Harry Lorrequer had been serialised in the Dublin University Magazine, of which he became editor in 1842. After a stay in Belgium, Germany and Italy he was appointed British consul at La Spezia and in 1867 became the consul at Trieste. His other novels include Con Cregan; Arthur O'Leary; Charles O'Malley; The Knight of Gwynne and The Bramleys of Bishop's Folly.

LEWIS, ANDREW c.1720/1730-c.1781

Andrew Lewis was born in County Donegal into a Huguenot family of settlers, who later emigrated to America. They are said to be the first white settlers in Augusta County, Virginia. He volunteered for the expedition in Ohio in 1754, and at the surrender of Fort Necessity served with Washington. He was promoted to the rank of major, commanded the Sandy Creek expedition and the expedition of Major Grant, after which he was taken prisoner in Montreal. He was appointed commissioner with the Six Nations in 1768 and was brigadier-general in command of the Virginia troops who gained a victory against an Indian force. During the war of the revolution he was made colonel. He contracted a fever, having driven Lord Dunmore from Gwynne's Island, and died in Bedford County, Virginia. His statue stands on one of the pedestals around the Washington Monument at Richmond.

LEWIS, CLIVE STAPLES 1898-1963

C. S. Lewis was born in Belfast and was educated at Malvern College and University College, Oxford. During the First World War he interrupted his studies to serve with the Somerset Light Infantry. He graduated with a triple first. From 1925 to 1954 he was a fellow and tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford, before being appointed Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. His book The Allegory of Love won the Hawthornden Prize, and he published many other works, including The Discarded Image; The Problem of Pain and The Screwtape Letters. His autobiography, Surprised by Joy, was published in 1955, and his 'Narnia' books are a great favourite with children everywhere. He died in Cambridge.

LINDON, PATRICK d.1734

Patrick Lindon was born in Fews, County Armagh. He was a poet and song-writer, and his songs were extremely popular. One of his manuscripts is in the British Library.

LINDSAY, HAROLD A. late 19th century

Harry Lindsay was born in Armagh and was educated at Santry College. Between 1893 and 1898 he was capped thirteen times for Ireland. He was a member of the Triple Crown-winning Irish side of 1894 and the International Championship-winning side of 1896.

LINDSAY, JAMES GAVIN 1835-1903

James Lindsay was born in Downhill, County Londonderry. He entered the Madras army and served through the Indian Mutiny in 1857. He was chief engineer during the construction of many Indian railways and was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1882. He took part in the great march to Kandahar, and died at sea.

LITTLE, JAMES 1837-1916

James Little was born in Newry, County Down, and was educated in Armagh and Dublin. In 1856 he became Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and spent the next three years in India. He became a Doctor of Medicine in Edinburgh in 1861, after which he settled in Dublin, where he became a Professor of Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, consulting physician to several hospitals, Regis Professor of Medicine, and Physician to the King. He served as President of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland and of the Royal Academy of Medicine. He edited the Journal of Medical Science and published many medical works. He died in Dublin.

LLOYD, RICHARD AVERIL 1891-1950

Dickie Lloyd was born in Tamnamore Dungannon, County Tyrone. He player rugby for Dublin University and Liverpool Between 1910 he was capped nineteen times for Ireland. He captained Ireland on eleven occasions. He was also an international cricketer.

LOFTIE, WILLIAM JOHN 1839-1911

William Loftie was born in Tandragee, County Armagh, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in 1865 and for the next thirty years preached in many English churches. He was a prolific writer and wrote much on art, architecture and on the history and antiquities of London, as well as editing the People's Magazine. He died in Kensington.

LOFTUS, ADAM 1533-1605

Adam Loftus was born in Yorkshire and was appointed Archbishop of Armagh in 1562. Five years later he became Archbishop of Dublin and was appointed as an ecclesiastical commissioner to further the Reformation in Ireland. From 1582 to 1584 he was Lord Justice, and he became the first Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, where there are two portraits of him. There is another portrait in the Archbishop's Palace, Armagh.

LOGAN, JAMES 1674-1751

James Logan was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, and was educated by his father, a Quaker schoolmaster. He was apprenticed to a Dublin linen draper, and it would appear that he taught for some years in England and was involved in trade between Dublin and Bristol. He went to America as the secretary of William Penn in 1699. He became Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, Mayor of Philadelphia, and State Governor in 1736. He is remembered for his considerate treatment of the Indians. He became interested in botany and natural science and Linnaeus named the Loganiacae for him. He contributed papers on scientific subjects to the Royal Society, and his translation of Cicero's De Senectute was published. He bequeathed his extensive library to Philadelphia. He died on his estate at Germantown.

LOGUE, MICHAEL 1840-1924

Michael Logue was born in Carrigart, County Donegal. He was educated at a hedge school, a school in Buncrana, and at Maynooth. In 1866 he was appointed Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Irish College in Paris, where he had been ordained. He returned to Donegal as a curate in 1874. In 1879 he became Bishop of Raphoe; he was translated to Armagh in 1887 and in 1893 was created a cardinal. His denunciation of Parnell after the O'Shea divorce case had a significantly adverse effect on the politician's career. In 1880 he went to America to raise funds to relieve the famine, and further fund-raising efforts by him resulted in the completion of Armagh Cathedral in 1904. He was a native Irish speaker and supported the Gaelic League. He disapproved of Sinn Fein's use of physical force and was opposed to partition.

LOMBARD, PETER 1560-1625

Peter Lombard was born in Waterford. In 1572 he went to Louvain where he later became Professor of Philosophy and then Professor of Theology. He served as Provost of Cambric Cathedral from 1594. Four years later he was sent to Rome where he became O' Neill's agent. He was appointed Archbishop of Armagh by Pope Clement VIII in 1601. Among his works are Commentaries on the Kingdom of Ireland which was written in Latin, and published posthumously in 1632. Latterly he abandoned O'Neill and sought agreement with James I. He was involved in debates in the church, and sat on the committee which tried Galileo. He established a Catholic diocesan system. He never came to Ireland as Archbishop of Armagh and died in Rome.

LONDONDERRY, LADY EDITH HELEN VANE-TEMPEST-STEWART (nee CHAPLIN) 1878-1949

Edith, Lady Londonderry, was active in many war-time organisations and charities. She hosted many functions for the Conservative Party and was also very friendly with the Labour Party leader, Ramsay MacDonald. She was President of the Women's Advisory Committee of the Northern Counties Provisional Area of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. She was also President of the War Service Legion and Chairman of the Queen's Institute of District Nursing. She was in charge of the Red Cross Casualty Station at Mount Stewart.

LONDONDERRY, LADY FRANCES ANNE (nee VANE-TEMPEST)

Frances, Marchioness of Londonderry, was the Countess of Antrim in her own right. She corresponded with major political and diplomatic figures of her day, such as Benjamin Disraeli, Prince Gortchekov, Count Brunov and Mary, Duchess of Gloucester. Among her letters are many from Tzar Alexander I. She travelled widely, visiting the continent and Russia, and kept journals of these visits. She also wrote a history of the Vane-Tempest family.

LONDONDERRY, LADY THERESA VANE-TEMPEST-STEWART 1856-1919

Theresa, Lady Londonderry, was known as the foremost Tory political hostess of her day. She entertained royalty both at Wynyard Park, County Durham, and at Mount Stewart, County Down. The Londonderrys: A Family Portrait, published in 1979 by H. Montgomery Hyde, refers to her as 'one of the most striking and dominating feminine personalities of our time...with unrivalled experience of men, and things social and political'.

LONG, ARTHUR W. b.1874

Arthur Long was born in Coleraine, County Londonderry and was educated at Coleraine Model School. He emigrated to South Africa and worked for a leather merchant. He took up the study of astronomy in 1910 and two years later was one of the founders of the Cape Astronomical Association, serving as its president from 1919 to 1921. This association combined with the Johannesburg Astronomical association to form the Astronomical Society of South Africa. In 1921 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Association. He wrote articles for the Cape Times and was active as a lecturer and demonstrator. He was the first astronomer to map the southern sky, and in 1922 published a star atlas for the southern hemisphere. His special interest was variable stars.

LOUGHLIN, JOHN 1817-1891

John Loughlin was born in County Down and went to America as a boy. He was educated there and ordained in Albany in 1840. In 1853 he was consecrated first Bishop of Brooklyn, and began building the cathedral there in 1868. He died in Brooklyn.

LOWRY, CHARLES GIBSON 1880-1951

Charles Lowry was born in Limavady, County Londonderry and was educated at Foyle College, Derry, and Queen's College, Belfast, where he obtained a degree in medicine. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and became consultant surgeon at the Ulster Hospital for Women. He was consultant gynaecologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and was Pro-Chancellor and Emeritus Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology at Queen's University, Belfast.

LOWRY, ROBERT WILLIAM 1824-1905

Robert Lowry was born in Drumreagh, County Tyrone, and was educated in Dungannon and Belfast. He joined the 47th Regiment and served in the Crimea and the Ionian islands. In 1863 he was promoted to the rank of colonel and commanded field forces in the defence of Canada in 1866. He eventually became a lieutenant-general and was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath.

LOWRY, STRICKLAND 1737-c.1785

Strickland Lowry was a portrait painter who came from Cumberland, and worked in Ireland. He came to Belfast around 1762. He contributed thirteen engraved views of churches, which appeared in History and Antiquities of Shrewsbury (1779). He was patronised by Sir John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira.

LOWRY-CORRY, DOROTHY 1885-1967

Dorothy Lowry-Corry was born at Castlecoole, County Fermanagh. She was interested in history and genealogy and particularly in archaeology of the Early Christian period. She was Vice-President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries. She contributed many papers to the Royal Irish Academy; perhaps the most important was the recording of the Boa Island and Lustymore stone figures. When the Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee was established, she represented County Fermanagh. She conducted a survey of the monuments of County Fermanagh, and discovered the Corracloona megalithic tomb in County Leitrim. She contributed many articles to the Ulster Journal of Archaeology.

LOWRY-CORRY, SOMERSET 1835-1913

Somerset Lowry-Corny was born in London and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He was appointed Under-Secretary for Home Affairs, and in 1867, privy councillor. Having governed New South Wales, and received a knighthood, he became Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone. He published several books on the history and landscape of Tyrone and Fermanagh.

LUKE, JOHN 1906-1975

John Luke was born in Belfast, and was educted at Hillman Street National School, and became a riveter's boy in the shipyards. He later worked in the York Street Flax-spinning Co. and attended the School of Art for evening classes. He won the Sorella Scholarship, which enabled him to attend day classes. In 1927 the Dunville award meant he was able to study at the Slade School of Art, London, and during his stay he won the Robert Ross Scholarship. He worked for a short period in London, exhibiting at the Westminster School of Art, but returned to Belfast in 1931. He exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, and in 1938 assisted Morris Harding in the work for the Northern Ireland government's pavilion at the Glasgow Empire Exhibition. During the air raids in Belfast in 1941, he went to live in Killylea, County Armagh. A one-man exhibition was held in 1946 in the Ulster Museum. He painted a large mural in the dome of the City Hall, Belfast, which was commissioned to commemorate the Festival of Britain in 1951. Another of his murals is in the Masonic Hall in Rosemary Street, Belfast. He was a member of the Royal Ulster Academy. He carved two coats of arms for Lord Wakehurst and Lord Erskine, both in Hillsborough. The Ulster Museum has 'Natas', his self-portrait, painted in 1928. Other works include 'The Rehearsal'; 'The Dancer' and a portrait of Roberta Hewitt.

LUNDY, ROBERT 17th century

Robert Lundy was sent to Derry in 1688 to command a small garrison which had declared allegience to William III and opposition to James II. As soon as he was threatened with the approach of the opposing army, he announced his intentions of surrendering, and those who desired to resist removed him from office. He was permitted to escape to Scotland in disguise, where he was captured and was for a short time held in the Tower of London. His fate after his release is not known. His effigy is burnt each year when the siege of Derry is commemorated.

LYLE, THOMAS c.1857-1944

Thomas Lyle was born in Coleraine, County Londonderry, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was 100 yards sprinting champion and an international rugby player. He made important contributions to theories of transformers and alternators and was a pioneer in using the operator 'j' in alternating current theory. He became Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and held many public appointments in Australia. He received a knighthood.

LYNAS J. LANGTRY 1879-1956

Langtry Lynas was born at Greenock, Scotland, but came to Belfast in 1882. During his life he took many jobs, at one time house-painting and signwriting. In 1904 he went on a trip through Europe, and later spent a short time at Belfast School of Art. In 1928 he published Psychological Satyr or The Hounds of Hell, which he had written and illustrated. In 1935 Why was published. In 1939 he held an exhibition of sculpture, paintings and drawings at Magee's Gallery, Belfast. A self-portrait is in the Ulster Museum, and County Armagh Museum has his picture, 'Creation of Man'.

LYND, ROBERT WILSON 1879-1949

Robert Lynd was born in Belfast and was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Queen's College, Belfast, where he studied classics. Having trained with the Belfast daily, the Northern Whig, in 1901 he went to Manchester and then London, working as a freelance journalist and sharing a studio with Paul Henry, the artist, with whom he had graduated. He joined the staff of the Daily News (subsequently called the News Chronicle) and from 1912 to 1947 was its literary editor. As well as making contributions to the Nation he wrote a weekly essay under the pseudonym 'Y.Y.' for the New Statesman from 1913 to 1945. He was a Republican and a Gaelic Leaguer and taught Irish classes in London. He wrote for the Sinn Fein movement under the name of Riobard O Floinn, and edited some of the works of James Connolly. Among his books, which number over thirty, are Home Life in Ireland; Ireland a Nation; The Art of Letters and Doctor Johnson and Company. He died in Hampstead.

LYNN, SAMUEL FERRIS 1834-1876

Samuel Lynn was born in County Wexford. He was educated at the Royal Academy School, Belfast and studied architecture in his brother's Belfast office, at the same time attending classes at the Belfast School of Design. In 1854 he went to London and entered the Royal Academy, where, in 1875 one of his exhibits was a statue of Lord Lurgan's greyhound, Master McGrath, who had won the Waterloo Cup in 1868, 1869 and 1871 and had been beaten only once in thirty-seven races. He was an Associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy and a member of the Institute of Sculptors. Other works include the statues of Prince Albert on the Albert Memorial Clock, Belfast, of Dr Henry Cooke in Belfast and of Lord Downshire in Hillsborough. He died in Belfast.

LYONS, FRANCIS STEWART LELAND 1923-1983

F. S. L. Lyons was born in Derry and was educated at Tunbridge Wells, the High School, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a lecturer in history at Hull University and at Trinity College, Dublin, before becoming Professor of History at Kent University in 1964. In 1969 he was appointed Master of Eliot College on the Kent University campus. He became Provost of Trinity College, Dublin in 1974, but in 1981 he relinquished the post in order to devote himself to writing. He won the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and the Woolfson Literary Prize for History for his book Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, 1890-1939, published in 1979. Five universities awarded him honorary doctorates. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the British Academy and was Visiting Professor at Princeton University. Among his other publications are The Fall of Parnell; Charles Stewart Parnell, which won the Heinemann Prize in 1978; John Dillon, a Biography and Ireland since the Famine. He died in Dublin.

LYTLE, JAMES HILL and JOHN N. late 19th century

James Lytle and his brother were educated at Methodist College, Belfast and both were international rugby players. In the 1890's they played twelve times and eight times respectively for Ireland. James played in two Triple Crown wins in 1894 and 1899.

LYTTLE, WESLEY GUARD 1844-1896

Wesley Lyttle was born in Newtownards, County Down, and he wrote a great many poems and sketches in a County Down dialect. He gave readings which were published as Robin's Readings and these were very popular. He edited a newspaper, the North Down and Bangor Gazette, and he was one of the first people to teach shorthand in Belfast. He wrote several novels, among them Sons of the Sod and Betsy Gray: A Tale of Ninety-Eight.