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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haseley, William de

​HASELEY, WILLIAM de (fl. 1266), a monk of Westminster, 'magister novitorum,' and finally sub-prior there, compiled, at the request of Richard de la Ware, abbot of Westminster, in 1266 the 'Consuetudinarium Monachorum Westmonasteriensium,' part of which is extant among the Cotton. MSS. (Otho C. xi.) On 3 May 1283 Hugh Balsham (or Belesale), then bishop of Ely, granted an indulgence of twenty days to all persons visiting Westminster Abbey and praying at Haseley's tomb. A copy of the indulgence is among the muniments of Westminster Abbey (Hist. MSS. Comm. 4th Rep. p. 183).
[Tanner's Bibl. Brit.]
W. J. H-y.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hasell, Elizabeth Julia

​HASELL, ELIZABETH JULIA (1830–1887), miscellaneous writer, was the second daughter of Edward Williams Hasell of Dalemain, near Penrith. She was born on 17 Jan. 1830, and was carefully educated at home. At the same time she taught herself, with little or no assistance, Latin, Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese. About 1858 she began to contribute to ‘Blackwood's Magazine’ and also to the ‘Quarterly Review,’ reviewing in the latter Lord Derby's translation of the ‘Iliad.’ At this time her attention was largely concentrated on Greek literature. Subsequently she devoted herself chiefly to the literatures of Southern Europe, of which she acquired a knowledge at once accurate and extensive; and after writing sundry magazine articles on Spanish and Portuguese authors, she compiled two of the most scholarly volumes in the series of ‘Foreign Classics for English Readers,’ those on Calderon and Tasso, both published in 1877. She also reviewed occasionally in the ‘Athenæum.’ But besides pursuing her studies she gave a large portion of her time to promoting education and the general welfare of the district in which she lived, walking long distances across the hills to teach in village schools or deliver extempore addresses, in which she showed a quite unusual facility. Her philanthropic exertions probably hastened her death, as in her desire to do good to a scattered population she made light of fatigue and exposure to rain and cold. A deeply religious woman, she was well read in theology, and published:
* ‘The Rock: and other short lectures on passages of Holy Scripture,’ 1867.
* ‘Short Family Prayers,’ 1879, 1884.
* ‘Bible Partings,’ 1883.
A devotional work, ‘Via Crucis et Lucis,’ was the last book she wrote. She died on 16 Nov. 1887.
[Private information; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
N. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Harwood, Edward (1586?-1632)

​HARWOOD, Sir EDWARD (1586?–1632), colonel, descendant of a Lincolnshire family, was born about 1586. According to Fuller, ‘his having killed a man in a quarrel put a period to all his carnal mirth’ (Worthies, ‘Lincolnshire,’ ed. 1662, pp. 162–3). He was one of the four standing colonels in the Low Countries, and was shot at the siege of Maestricht in 1632. His will, dated 14 June 1632, was proved at London on the following 11 Sept. (P.C.C. 94, Awdley). In 1642 his brother George, a merchant of London, published ‘The Advice of Sir E. Harwood, written by King Charles his Command, upon occasion of the French King's preparation, and presented in his life time by his owne hand, to his Majestie: … also a Relation of his life and death’ [by Hugh Peters], &c., 4to, London (reprinted in ‘Harleian Miscellany,’ ed. Park, iv. 268).
[Authorities quoted; Visitation of London (Harl. Soc.); Gent. Mag. xc, i. 397–8.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Harwood, Edward (d.1814)

​HARWOOD, EDWARD (d. 1814), numismatist, was the eldest son of Edward Harwood, D.D. [q. v.] He was for many years a surgeon in the navy, and served under Captain (afterwards Admiral) William Bligh [q. v.] on board the Providence in 1791–4 (see Gent. Mag. 1793, ii. 994). He was a collector of ancient coins, and his cabinet of Greek and Roman large brass coins, together with his books, was sold at Leigh & Sotheby's on 28–30 April 1814 (Sale Catalogue, 1814). The first seven lots in the sale consisted of the coins illustrated in the plates of his published work, ‘Populorum et Urbium selecta numismata Græca ex aere descripta,’ London, 1812, 4to (with brief notes and a list of places that issued autonomous and Greek imperial coins). Harwood is described as ‘a benevolent friend and an elegant scholar.’ He died on 6 Jan. 1814 at Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, London.
[Gent. Mag. 1814, lxxxiv. pt. i. p. 200; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
W. W.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haselden, Thomas

​HASELDEN, THOMAS (d. 1740), mathematician, was for some time schoolmaster at Wapping Old Stairs, and afterwards ‘head-master of the Royal Academy at Portsmouth.’ In 1722 he published ‘Description and Use of … that most excellent Invention commonly call'd Mercator's Chart; to which is added the Description of a new Scale whereby Distances may be measured at one extent of a Pair of Compasses.’ To this was prefixed a letter to Dr. Halley, concerning the Globular Chart, which produced a reply the same year by Henry Wilson in his ‘Description of the Globular Chart,’ with ‘proof that his [i.e. Haselden's] principal argument is false, the rest invalid, and the whole incoherent.’ Haselden soon after printed ‘Reply to Mr. Wilson's Answer to my Letter,’ with a further vindication of the ‘Mercator's Chart,’ and a second letter to Dr. Halley prefixed (1722, 8vo). At that time Haselden designates himself ‘Teacher of Mathematics to his Majesty's Volunteers in the Royal Navy.’ In 1730 he published ‘Mathematic Lessons for Students in the Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, composed by the Abbot de Molières; done into English by T. H.’ In 1788 there was issued a new edition of the ‘Seaman's Daily Assistant,’ said to be by Haselden. Haselden was elected to the Royal Society 17 Jan. 1739–40; but from the tables in Thomson's history of the society it seems doubtful if he was admitted fellow. He died in May 1740. His portrait by T. Faye (1735) was engraved by Faber (1740).
[Evans's Cat. of Engraved Portraits, vol. ii.; Thomson's Hist. Roy. Soc. p. xli.]
R. E. A.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Littlewood, William Edensor

​LITTLEWOOD, WILLIAM EDENSOR (1831–1886), miscellaneous writer, born at London 2 Aug. 1831, was only son of George Littlewood, printer, of London, by Catherine, his wife. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, which he entered on 12 June 1850. He gained in 1851 the chancellor's medal by an English poem of more than average merit on Gustavus Adolphus, printed in ‘A Complete Collection of English Poems,’ Cambridge, 1859, 8vo. He graduated B.A. in 1854, taking a third class in classics and being bracketed thirty-fifth wrangler. He proceeded M.A. in 1860, was ordained deacon in 1857, and priest in 1858. He was curate of St. John's, Wakefield, in 1857–61, head-master of Hipperholme grammar school, Halifax, Yorkshire, 1861–8, curate of Southall, Middlesex, 1868–70, perpetual curate of Ironville, Derbyshire, 1870–2, vicar of St. James's, Bath, 1872–81, and afterwards home missionary in charge of St. Thomas's, Finsbury Park, London. He died on 3 Sept. 1886. Besides various contributions to the ‘Sunday at Home,’ Littlewood published: 1. ‘A Garland from the Parables,’ a volume of religious verse, London, 1858, 8vo. 2. ‘Essentials of English History,’ London, 1862, 8vo; 2nd edit. 1865. 3. ‘An Elementary History of Britain’ (in ‘Cassell's Primary Series’), London, 1869, 8vo. 4. ‘England at Home. Being a familiar Description of the principal Physical, Social, Commercial, and Topographical features of England and Wales,’ London, 1870, 8vo. 5. ‘Essentials of New Testament Study. Intended as a Companion to the New Testament’ (a work of considerable and well-digested learning), London, 1872, 8vo; 6. ‘Down in Dingyshire,’ 1872. 7. ‘The Story of the Wanderer,’ 1874. 8. ‘Lovely in their Lives: a book for earnest boys,’ London, 1876, 8vo. 9. ‘The Visitation of the Poor: a practical Manual for District Visitors,’ &c., Bath, 1876, 16mo. 10. ‘Bible Biographies, or Stories from the Old Testament,’ London, 1878, 8vo.
[Robinson's Merchant Taylors' School Reg.; information from the Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge; obituary notice in the Record, 10 Sept. 1886; Grad. Cant.; Cambr. Univ. Cal. 1852–61; Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1886; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Kirk's Suppl. to Allibone's Dict. of Engl. Lit.]
J. M. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Liulf

Ligulf in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
​LIULF or LIGULF (d. 1080), Anglo-Saxon nobleman, was the friend of Walcher, bishop of Durham. Nothing is known of his parentage, but he claimed large possessions in many parts of England by hereditary right (Flor. Wig. s.a. 1080). He married Ealdgyth, a daughter of Ealdred, earl of Northumbria. The lady was first cousin to Gospatric, earl of Northumberland (1067–1072) [q. v.], and sister of Æthelflæd, the mother of Waltheof, his successor, 1072–85 (Sym. Dunelm. ed. Hinde, p. 92). Florence of Worcester says that Liulf retired to Durham with his men because of the depredations of the Normans, and because of his devotion to St. Cuthbert, who was wont, so he used to tell Archbishop Aldred [q. v.], to appear to him. As the friend of Bishop Walcher he excited the envy of Leobwine, the bishop's chaplain, who, indignant at the share Liulf had in all the bishop's councils and exasperated by a rebuke, at length plotted Liulf's death. Leobwine was joined in the plot by Gilbert, a Lotharingian and kinsman of the bishop, who had committed Northumbria to his charge. Leobwine and Gilbert marched to the vill where Liulf lived and killed him, with most of his household, in 1080. In revenge for this murder, Walcher, who was believed to be privy to it, was himself slain at Gateshead. Liulf had two sons, Uhtred and Morkere; Morkere was placed by his cousin Waltheof in the monastery of Jarrow during Liulf's lifetime (ib. Ges. Reg. s.a. 1080; Monasticon, i. 236).
[Simeon of Durham's Ges. Reg., ed. Hinde (Surtees Soc.), p. 98; Florence of Worcester, ed. Thorpe, p. 14.]
M. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Livesay, Richard

​LIVESAY, RICHARD (d. 1823?), portrait and landscape painter, was a pupil of Benjamin West, and commenced his career in London, exhibiting for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1776. Between 1777 and 1785 he lodged with Hogarth's widow in Leicester Fields, and executed for her a series of facsimiles of drawings by Hogarth, among them the seven illustrating the well-known ‘Tour,’ published in 1782. Being engaged by West to copy pictures at Windsor, Livesay went to reside there about 1790, ​and gave lessons in drawing to some of the royal children. While at Windsor he was much employed in painting portraits of young Etonians, generally small whole-lengths, and an interesting picture by him of ‘Eton Boys going to Montem’ is in the possession of the college, to which it was presented by the Duke of Newcastle in 1891. In 1796, having been appointed drawing-master to the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, Livesay removed to Portsea; there he painted some of the English warships and their French prizes, and in 1800 published a set of four plates of the reviews of the Isle of Wight volunteers, aquatinted by Wells. On an address card which he issued at that time he described himself as ‘Portrait, Landscape, and Marine Painter, Drawing-Master to the Royal Academy, Portsmouth, 61 Hanover Street, Portsea.’ Livesay painted a large picture of the review of the Hertfordshire volunteers by the king in Hatfield Park, 13 June 1800, which was engraved by J. C. Stadler, and now hangs in Lord Salisbury's town house, 20 Arlington Street. Livesay was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy of portraits and domestic subjects up to 1821; his ‘Genius and Industry,’ ‘Cottage Spinsters,’ and ‘Young Foresters’ were mezzotinted by G. Dawe and J. Murphy, and his portraits of Queen Charlotte, Dr. Willis, George Byng, M.P., Dr. Fothergill, Sir Thomas Louis, bart., and others, have been engraved. His portrait of the Earl of Charlemont is in the National Portrait Gallery. Livesay is said to have died at Southsea about 1823, but the fact is not recorded in the burial registers of Portsmouth or Portsea.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1760–1880; Holland's Catalogue of Pictures at Hatfield House, 1891; Anderdon's Royal Academy Catalogues in Brit. Mus. vol. iv. No. 1556.]
F. M. O'D.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Livesey, James

​LIVESEY, JAMES (1625?–1682), divine, was born about 1625 (he describes himself as having completed his fifty-second year on 6 April 1677). He was appointed minister of Turton, near Bolton in Lancashire, in 1650, but in 1651 removed to Atherton or Chowbent in the adjoining parish of Leigh. He remained there till 1657, when he was presented by the dean and chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, to the vicarage of Great Budworth, Cheshire. His name is omitted from the list of the vicars of Great Budworth, given in Ormerod's ‘History of Cheshire,’ both old and new editions, and he is also said in other publications to have been ejected thence in 1662, but to have continued to live in the parish. This is inaccurate, as he held that important vicarage till his death in February 1681–2. He married, about 1652, Elizabeth, daughter of George Chetham of Turton Tower (brother of Humphrey Chetham [q. v.] of Manchester), by whom he had a large family. His works, three in number, now all of great rarity, show him to have been a man of good scholastic attainments, thoroughly familiar with Latin and Greek writers, whom he quotes freely. He is described as A.M. on the title of his last work, but not on the earlier ones. His name, however, is not to be found either at Oxford or Cambridge, although he held a Christ Church living.
His publications are: 1. ‘Enchiridion Judicum … a Sermon before the Judges … at Lancaster, March 26, 1655, together with Catastrophe Magnatum … a Sermon … at the Funeral of … John Atherton of Atherton, Esq. …,’ London, 1657. At the end of this volume are a number of verses on John Atherton's death in English and Latin, by him and others, and a short treatise by him in Latin, ‘Series Decretorum Dei,’ &c., dedicated to two well-known Lancashire clergymen. 2. ‘Ψυχησήμια, or The greatest Loss … a short Discourse occasioned by the … loss of … Mr. Humphrey Chetham, who died at Turton Tower, Feb. 13 1658–9 …,’ London, 1660. 3. ‘Πνευματοπολογία, or an Apology for the Power and Liberty of the Spirit … in three Sermons preacht at Great Budworth …,’ London, 1674.
J. P. E.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Liverseege, Henry

​LIVERSEEGE, HENRY (1803–1832), painter, was born on 4 Sept. 1803 at Manchester, where his father was employed in a cotton-mill. Neglected by his father, he owed his early education to an uncle, and was encouraged to pursue the profession of an artist, for which he showed an early proclivity. His earliest attempts at painting were in portraiture, but he soon devoted himself to romantic or supernatural subjects. He also excelled as an amateur actor and was devoted to the stage. Some small pictures of ‘Banditti’ exhibited in Manchester in 1827 attracted notice, and about the end of that year he came to London to study at the British Museum, and also to copy the works of old masters at the British Institution. Through some informality in his application, he failed to obtain admission as a student of the Royal Academy. He returned to Manchester in 1828 and resumed portrait-painting, but in that year he exhibited at Birmingham ‘Hudibras in the Stocks,’ and at the Royal Academy in London, ‘Wildrake presenting Col. Everard's Challenge to Charles II’ (now in the possession of Mr. W. Barclay Squire). He visited London again in 1829, but in 1830 returned to Manchester, where his mother died. He paid one more visit to London, where he was patronised by the Duke of Devonshire. Liverseege suffered through life from ill-health, which produced a nervous and despondent manner; after returning to Manchester in 1831 his health completely broke down, and he died on 13 Jan. 1832, in his twenty-ninth year. He was buried in St. Luke's churchyard, Manchester.
Liverseege was a painter of some promise, and his small pictures have much dramatic force, though they show defects of drawing, and have not preserved their colour. Among the best were ‘The Recruit,’ ‘Catherine Seyton,’ ‘The Grave-diggers’ (engraved by S. Smith), ‘Captain Macheath in Prison,’ ‘Benedicite’ (purchased by Charles Heath and engraved in ‘The Keepsake,’ 1833), and ‘Don Quixote reading in his Study.’ A set of thirty-five mezzotint engravings from his pictures was published in 1875, with a portrait engraved from a painting by his friend William Bradley. Another portrait appeared in Arnold's ‘Library of the Fine Arts’ for February 1832.
[Arnold's Library of the Fine Arts, iii. 147; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; biography prefixed to Engravings from the Works of Henry Liverseege.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Livesey, Joseph

​LIVESEY, JOSEPH (1794–1884), temperance advocate and philanthropist, born on 5 March 1794 at Walton, near Preston, Lancashire, lost both his parents at the age of seven, and was brought up as a weaver by his grandfather, Joseph Livesey. The hardships of his early life continued till after his marriage in 1815 with Jane Williams, when he removed to Preston, and abandoned his trade of weaving for the business of a cheese-factor. This calling he pursued successfully in Preston until his death. He engaged energetically in municipal politics, filled many public posts, and was a leader in every kind of philanthropic effort, specially identifying himself with the teetotal movement. He died on 2 Sept. 1884, leaving a large family.
From January 1831 to December 1833 Livesey brought out ‘The Moral Reformer,’ a monthly magazine, price 6d., in which he ​attempted to provide cheap and elevating reading. It ceased because Livesey was anxious to advocate teetotal principles, and for that purpose issued in January 1834 the ‘Preston Temperance Advocate,’ monthly, price 1d. This was the first teetotal publication produced in England. Livesey conducted it for four years, when it passed into other hands, and finally became the organ of the National Temperance League. In January 1838 the ‘Moral Reformer’ was revived, and continued till February 1839. In 1841 Livesey engaged in the agitation against the corn laws. From December 1841 till the repeal of the laws he issued ‘The Struggle’ weekly, price halfpenny. The influence of the 235 numbers issued was most valuable to the repealers (Morley, Cobden, People's edit. p. 29). From August 1851 till May 1852 he issued the ‘Teetotal Progressionist,’ and in January 1867 commenced a penny monthly, the ‘Staunch Teetotaler,’ which was continued for two years. From 1844 to 1859, under the management of Livesey and his sons, the ‘Preston Guardian,’ issued weekly, became the leading North Lancashire paper. In 1881 Livesey published his reminiscences, under the title of ‘The Autobiography of Joseph Livesey,’ Preston, 1881; 2nd edit. London, 1885, a striking record of untiring diligence and sturdy self-help. Livesey was also author of numerous tracts and lectures.
[James Weston's Joseph Livesey, the Story of his Life, 1884; J. Pearce's Life and Teachings of Joseph Livesey, 1885 (pp. clviii–lxiii for a list of his writings).]
R. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Eyston, Charles

​EYSTON, CHARLES (1667–1721), antiquary, eldest son of George Eyston, esq., of East Hendred, Berkshire, by Ann, daughter of Robert Dormer of Peterley, Buckinghamshire, was born in 1667. He became distinguished as an antiquary, and was a great friend of Thomas Hearne, who in his ‘Diary’ says: ‘He was a Roman catholick, and so charitable to the poor, that he is lamented by all that knew anything of him. … He was a man of a sweet temper and was an excellent scholar, but so modest that he did not care to have it at any time mentioned’ (Reliquiæ Hearnianæ, ed. 1869, ii. 144). He died on 5 Nov. 1721, and was buried in Hendred Church.
He married in 1692 Winefrid Dorothy, daughter of Basil Fitzherbert, esq., of Swinnerton, Staffordshire, and of Norbury, Derbyshire, and had a numerous family. One of his sons became a jesuit, and several of his ​daughters entered the religious state. His descendants are still seated at East Hendred.
He was the author of:
* 'A little Monument to the once famous Abbey and Borough of Glastonbury, or a short specimen of the History of that ancient Monastery and Town, with a Description of the remaming Ruins of Glastonbury,' 1716, manuscript at Hendred House, It was printed by Hearne in his 'History and Antiquities of Glastonbury,' 1722, and again in the Rev. Richard Warner's 'History of the Abbey of Glaston and the Town of Glastonbury,' 1826.
* 'A poor little Monument to all the old pious Dissolved Foundations of England; or a short History of Abbeys, all sorts of Monasteries, Colleges, Chapels, Chantries, &c.' Manuscript preserved at Hendred.
[Kirk's Biog. Collections, manuscript quoted in Gillow's Bibl. Dict.; Foley's Records, vii. 238, 238; Burke's Landed Gentry (1856), i. 601; Reliquæ Hearnianæ (1869), ii. 108, 108, 136, 143, 284, iii. 208.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Eyton, Stephen

​EYTON or EDON, STEPHEN (fl. 1320?), chronicler, was a canon of the Augustinian priory of Warter, near Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and possibly took his name from the neighbouring village of Etton. He wrote a work entitled 'Acta Edwardi II,' of which the opening worde were 'Post mortem toti mundo deflendam,' and of which Leland found a copy in the library of Fountains Abbey (Collect. iii. 45). It has not since been identified (Hardy, Decriptive Cat. iii. 368).
R. L. P.