# Modern English Biography/Volume 2 (I - Q)

LONSDALE, James John (2 son of James Lonsdale the artist 1777-1839), b. 5 April 1810; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1836; sec. to criminal law commission 1842; recorder of Folkestone 5 Aug 1847 to death; judge of circuit No. 11 West Riding of Yorkshire 14 Feb. 1855 to 19 March 1867; judge of circuit No. 48 Kent 19 March 1867 to March 1884; author of The statute criminal law of England 1839; The odes of Horace. Book 1 a verse translation 1879. d. The Cottage, Sandgate, Kent 11 Nov. 1886. Law Times, vol. 82 p. 111 (1886).
KER, Charles Henry Bellenden (son of John Bellenden Ker, botanist 1765-1842). b. about 1785; barrister L.I. 28 June 1814; a member of the boundary commission 1830-2, of the public records commission, of the criminal and statute law commission 1833; head of the board to consider consolidation of statute law 1853 and of the royal commission on same subject 1854; suggested and prepared the Leases and Sales of settled estates act 1856 and Lord Cranworth's act 1860; conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1852-60; recorder of Andover 1842 to July 1855; one of the first private growers of orchids; wrote a series of articles in the Gardeners' Chronicle under the psuedonym 'Dodman'; F.R.S. to 1831; lived at Cannes 1860 to death; author of The question of registry or no registry considered, with reference to the interests of landholders 1830; Shall we register our deeds? 1853. d. Cannes 2 Nov. 1871.
LAWSON, William John. Ed. at Christ's hospital, London till 16 years old; clerk in banking house of Barclay, Bevan & Co. 15 years; a founder of The Bank of London 1855; established Lawson's Merchant Magazine, satirist and commercial review 1852; author of History of banking in Scotland 1845; The history of banking 1850, 2 ed. 1855: A handy-book on the laws of banking 1859, this work was suppressed and 1500 copies destroyed, 16th thousand of an altered edition 1871; The bank of England as it is and as it ought to be 1865; living in London in March 1865.
MAIR, Robert Henry (son of Francis Henry Mair of Wragg Marsh hall, Lincs.) b. 1832; edited Debrett's Illustrated house of commons and judicial bench 1867 to death; Debrett's Illustrated baronetage and knightage 1870 to death; and Debrett's Illustrated peerage 1870 to death; author of Mair's School list 1861;
OAKES, Charles Henry (youngest son of lieut. general sir Henry Oakes, 2 baronet 1756-1827), b. 25 Nov. 1810; barrister M.T. 5 May 1837; edited Who's Who 1851 to death. d. 16 May 1864.
LINDSAY, William Schaw (3 son of Joseph Lindsay of Ayr). b. Ayr 1816; a cabin boy in the Isabella, West Indiaman 1831, second mate 1834; chief mate of the olive branch 1835, Captain 1836, retired 1840; fitter at Hartlepool to Castle Eden coal company 1841-5, represented the company in London 1845; mainly instrumental in getting Hartlepool made an independent port 6 Jany. 1845; founded firm of W. S. Lindsay & Co. shipbrokers, 11 Abchurch Lane, London 1849, which became one of the largest in the world, retired 1864; contested Monmouth, April 1852 and Dartmouth, July 1852; M.P. Tynemouth and North Shields 1854-9 ; M.P. Sunderland 1859-65; author of Our navigation and mercantile marine laws considered with a view to their revision and consolidation 1852, 2 ed. 1853; History of merchant shipping and ancient, 4 vols. 1874-6; Manning of the Royal Navy and mercantile marine 1877. d. Manor house, Shepperton, Middlesex 28 Aug, 1877.
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