Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB Epitome 33

This listing page belongs to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography, spun out of the “missing article” project, and is concerned with checking whether Wikipedia has articles for all those listed in the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), a 63-volume British biographical dictionary published 1885-1900 and now in the public domain. This page relates to volume 33 running from name Leighton to name Lluelyn.

Scope of the subproject:

It is envisaged that the following work will be done:

  • Checks made that links on this page point to a wikipedia article about the same person;
  • Addition of new articles for all red-links based on DNB text;
  • Checking whether blue-linked articles would benefit from additional text from DNB.

Listings are posted as bulleted lists, with footnotes taken from the DNB summaries published in 1904. The listings and notes are taken from scanned text that is often corrupt and in need of correction. Not all the entries on the list correspond to actual DNB articles; some are “redirects” and there are a few articles devoted to families rather than individuals.

If you are engaged in this work you will probably find quite a number of unreferenced articles among the blue links. You are also encouraged to mention the DNB as a reference on such articles whenever they correspond to the summary, as part of the broader campaign for good sourcing. A suggested template is {{DNB}}.

Locating the full text:

DNB text is now available on Wikisource for all first edition articles, on the page s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Vol 33 Leighton - Lluelyn. Names here are not inverted, as they are in the original: Joe Bloggs would be found at Wikisource s:Bloggs, Joe (DNB00). The text for the first supplement is available too: NB that this Epitome listing includes those supplement articles also.

List maintenance and protocols:

List maintenance tasks are to check and manipulate links in the list with piping or descriptive parenthetical disambiguators, and to mark list entries with templates to denote their status; whilst as far as possible retaining the original DNB names:

  • piping: [[Charles Abbot]] -> [[Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester|Charles Abbot]]
  • descriptive parenthetical disambiguators [[Charles Abbot]] -> [[Charles Abbot (botanist)]]
  • both combined [[Charles Abbot]] -> [[Charles Abbot (botanist)|Charles Abbot]]

The work involves:

  • Checking that bluelinks link to the correct person; if so, {{tick}} them. If not, try to find the correct article and pipe or disambiguate the link.
  • Check whether redlinks can be linked to an article by piping or disambiguation.
  • Create articles based on the DNB text for redlinks for which no wikipedia article can be found
  • Check whether existing blue-linked articles could benefit from an input of DNB text (e.g. the article is a stub), and if so, update the article from DNB

A number of templates are provided to mark-up entries:

  • {{mnl}} the link runs to a wrong person; - produces the text: [link currently leads to a wrong person]. It is preferable to amend the link by adding a disambiguator to make it red, if an article for the correct person cannot be found
  • {{dn}} the link runs to a dab page - produces the text [disambiguation needed]. It is preferable to amend the link by adding a disambiguator to make it red, if an article for the correct person cannot be found
  • {{tick}} the link has been checked and runs to the correct person - checkY
  • {{tick}} {{tick}} the text of the linked article has been checked against DNB text and would not benefit from additional DNB text - checkY checkY
  • {{tick}} {{cross}} the text of the linked article looks short enough to suggest it would benefit from additional DNB text - checkY ☒N

Note that before creating new articles based on DNB text you should undertake searches to check that the article's subject does not already have an article. It is easily possible that the disambiguation used in this page is not the disambiguation used in an existing wikipedia article. Equally, feel free to improve upon the disambiguation used in redlinks on this page by amending them.

Supplement articles:

Because of the provenance of the listing, a number of the original articles will not in fact be in the announced volume, but in one of the three supplement volumes published in 1901. Since the DNB did not include articles about living people, this will be the case whenever the date of death is after the publication date of the attributed volume. In due course there will be a separate listing.

General thoughts:

This project is intended as a new generation in “merging encyclopedias”, as well as being one of the most ambitious attempted. For general ideas of where we are, and some justification of the approach being taken, see the essay Wikipedia:Merging encyclopedias.

Helpful access templates:

helpful templates

There are two templates to help link to the correct page: {{Cite DNBIE}} and {{DNBIE}}. The page number automatically link to the correct url for the page at the Internet Archive site.

{{Cite DNBIE|title=Dove, John|page=358}}
Public Domain Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Dove, John". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 358.

and

{{DNBIE|title=Dove, John|page=358}}
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Dove, John". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 358.

if a wstitle= parameter is used in place of title= then the templates also link the DNB article on Wikisource:

{{cite DNBIE|wstitle=Dove, John (d.1665?)|page=358}}
Public Domain Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Dove, John (d.1665?)". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 358.


  1. ^ Alexander Leighton (1568–1649), physician and divine: studied at St. Andrews and Leyden universities: M.A. St. Andrews; publishedSpeculum Belli sacri, or the Looking Glass of the Holy War 1624, and An Appeal to the Parliament, or Sion's Plea against the Prelacie 1628; arrested and condemned by Star-chamber to mutilation and life-long imprisonment, 1630; released by Long parliament, 1640; keeper of Lambeth House, 1642.
  2. ^ Alexander Leighton (1800–1874), editor of Tales of the Borders; edited and helped to write Tales of the Borders 1835-40; re-edited the complete Tales of the Borders 1857; published Romance of the Old Town of Edinburgh 1867.
  3. ^ Charles Blair Leighton (1823–1855), artist ; painted portraits and figure-pieces; occasionally exhibited at the Royal Academy.
  4. ^ Sir Elisha Leighton (d. 1685), courtier : son of Alexander Leighton (1568-1649); colonel in the royalist army; joined royalist party abroad after Charles I's execution; appointed by Charles secretary for English affairs in Scotland, 1650; knighted, 1669; F.R-S., 1663-77: one of the secretaries of the prize office, 1664; LL.D. Cambridge, 1666; secretary to the lordlieutenant of Ireland, 1670; recorder of Dublin, 167*.
  5. ^ Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton of Stretton (1830-1896) painter and president of the Royal Academy: educated at London and various continental towns; studied art at Florence, Frankfort, at Paris, again at Frankfort under Jobann Ediiard Steinle (1810-86), and at Rome; exhibited Cimabue's " Madonna " carried through Streets of Florence at Royal Academy, 1865: A.R.A., 1866; exhibitedVenus disrobing for the Bath 1866; lived in Holland Park Road from 1866: RJU 1869: made journey, 1873, to the East, which resulted in several oriental pictures: P.RJL, 1878-96: knighted, 1878; painted two wall-pictures in Victoria and Albert Museum, and walldecoration on canvas for Royal Exchange (finished, 1895): raised to peerage by patent dated 24 Jan. 1896, the day before his death: bon. D.C.L. Oxford, LL.D. Cambridge and Edinburgh, 1879; buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, where an elaborate monument wae erected. HisAddresses delivered to students of the Royal Academy appeared, 1896. Among his best work* areHercules wrestling with Death and The Summer Moon (1871-2), Athlete straggling with a Python (1877, sculpture), The Bath of Psyche(1WO),Peweua and Andromeda (1891), The Garden of the Hesperides (1892), and Wedded (1882).
  6. ^ Henry Leighton, Lichton, or Lychton (d. 1440), bishop successively of Moray and Aberdeen; bishop of Moray, 1415, of Aberdeen, 1423; built a great part of Aberdeen Cathedral; employed on diplomatic missions.
  7. ^ Henry Leighton (f. 1669), French scholar; educated in France: obtained Oxford M.A. by fraud, 1642; taught French at Oxford: published Linguae Gallicae addiacendae Regulae 1659.
  8. ^ Robert Leighton (1611–1684), archbishop of Glasgow; son of Alexander Leighton (1568-1649); student at Edinbnrgh University, 1627; M.A., 1631; traTdled on the continent; licensed priest, 1641; a famous preacher; principal of Edinburgh University, 1653, and professor of divinity at Edinburgh; bishop of Dunblane, 1M1: archbishop of Glasgow, 1669-74; his sermons published, 1692-1708.
  9. ^ Robert Leighton (1822–1869), Scottish poet; entered the office of his brother, a shipowner, 1837; went round the world as a supercargo, 1842-3; managed the business of a firm of seed- merchants, 1854-67; published poems in 1856, 1861, 1866; other poems by him, some in the vernacular, posthumously published.
  10. ^ Sir William Leighton (fl. 1603–1614), poet and composer; published a poem in praise of James I, 1603; knighted, 1603; published the Teares or Lamentations of a sorrowful Soule 1613, and Musicall Ayres 1614.
  11. ^ William Leighton (1841–1869), Scottish poet, nephew of Robert Leighton (1822-1869); employed in a Brazilian business house, 1864-9.Poems by the kite William Leighton appeared, 1870; and other volumes in 1872 and 1875.
  12. ^ William Allport Leighton (1805–1889), botanist; educated at St. John's College. Cambridge; B.A., 1833; published Flora of Shropshire 1841, and other works, including Lichen Flora of Great Britain 1871.
  13. ^ Dukes of Leinster . See Schomber, Meinhard, first Duke of the first creation, 1641–1719 ; FITZJames Gerald , first Duke of the second creation, 1722 177*.
  14. ^ Earl of Leinster (1584?–1659). See Robert Cholmondeley.
  15. ^ Thomas Leintwarden or Leyntwwardyn (d. 1421) chancellor of St. Paul's Cathedral, London; educated at Oxford; D.D. Oxford; chancellor of St. Paul's 1401; provost of Oriel College, Oxford, 1417-21; wrote commentary on St. Paul's Epistles.
  16. ^ William Leighton Leitch (1804–1883), watercolour painter; scene-painter at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 1824, and lateral the Queen's Theatre, London; a successful teacher of drawing and water-colours; drawing-master to Queen Victoria and the royal family for twenty-two years; member of the Institute of Painters in Water-colours, 1862; the last of the great English teachers of landscape-painting.
  17. ^ Alexander Leith (1758–1838). See Alexander Leith Hay.
  18. ^ Sir James Leith (1763-1816) lieutenant-general; educated at Aberdeen and Lille; served in Toulons operations, 1793; colonel, 1794: brigadier-general, 1804; preSSiVr l 2 t %i ? rUt 1809: wlth Pe toular army, 2: K.B 1813: heutenant-general, 1813; command tf forces in Ue*t Indies and governor of the Leeward islands, 1814; Q.C.B., 1816; died at Barbados.
  19. ^ Theodore Forbes Leith(1746-1819), physician; Edinburgh University; M.D. 1768; ; LAC.P., 1788.
  20. ^ Henry Le Keux (1787-1868), engraver; brother mi* r eux tq. v.; apprenticed to James Basire 2Si } Cq V-1: engraved for fashionable annuals.
  21. '^ John Le Keux (1783-1846), engraver; apprenticed to James Basire (1730-1802); engraved plates for tbe architectural publications of John Britton, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, John Preston Neale, and similar works.
  22. '^ John Henry Le Keux (1812-1896), architectural engraver and draughtsman; son of John Le Keux ; exhibited at Royal Academy, 1853-65; engraved plates for Raskin'sModern PaintersandStones of Venice
  23. ^ Robert Lekprevick (ft. 1661–1588), Scottish printer; principal printer for the reform party in Scotland; king's printer, 1568-88; imprisoned for printing a pamphlet which reflected on the Regent Morton, 1574.
  24. ^ John Leland or Leylond, the elder (d. 1428), grammarian; taught as a grammarian at Oxford; wrote grammatical works in Latin.
  25. ^ John Leland or Leyland (1506?–1552), tbe earliest of modern English antiquaries; educated at St. Paul's School, London, and Christ's College, Cambridge; B.A., 1522; studied at Paris; took holy orders; library keeper to Henry VIII before 1530; king's antiquary, 1533; made an antiquarian tour through England, 1534-43; intended his researches to be the basis of a great work on the History and Antiquities of this Nation; in A New Year's Gift 1545, described to the king the manner and aims of his researches; became insane, 1550. Leland's Itinerary was first published at Oxford in nine volumes, 1710, and his Collectanea in six, 1715.
  26. ^ John Leland (1691–1766), divine; a nonconformist minister; D.D. Aberdeen, 1739; attacked the deists in A View of the principal Deistical Writers that have appeared in England during the last and present Century 1754-6, and other works.
  27. ^ Thomas Leland (1722–1785), historian; entered Trinity College, Dublin, 1737; B.A., 1741; fellow, 1746; published Latin translation of the Philippics of Demosthenes, 1754, and English translation, 1754-61; published i the History of Philip, King of Macedon 1758; presented the Irish manuscript chronicle, Annals of Loch Ce to Trinity College Library, 1766; vicar of St. Anne's, Dublin, 1773; D.D.; published History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II, with a preliminary Discourse on the ancient State of that Kingdom 1773.
  28. ^ Sir Peter Lely (1618–1680), portrait-painter; born at Soest by Amersfoort, near Utrecht; studied at Haarlem; came to England, 1641; introduced to Charles I, 1647; painted Charles I's portrait during his captivity at Hampton Court; painted Cromwell and enjoyed considerable private practice under him; in high favour with Charles II; painted portraits of the beauties of Charles IPs court, and of the admirals and commanders in the naval victory at Solebay, 1665; knighted, 1679.
  29. ^ Sir John Leman (1544–1632), lord mayor of London; alderman, 1605; sheriff, 1606; lord mayor, 1616-17, and knighted, 1617.
  30. ^ Thomas Leman (1751–1826), antiquary ; educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; B.A., 1774: fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge; M.A., 1778; Dixie (bye) fellow of Emmanuel College, 1783; chancellor of Oloyne, 17961802; visited every Roman and British road and station in Great Britain, and communicated his observations to county historians; F.S.A., 1788.
  31. ^ Sir Denis Le Marchant, first baronet (1796-1874), politician; son of John Gaspard le Marchant ; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1823; clerk of the crown in chancery, 1834; edited a highly successful pamphlet, The Reform Ministry and the Reform Parliament 1834; secretary to the board of trade, 1836-41; created baronet, 1841; liberal M.P., Worcester, 1846-7; under-secretary for the home department, 1847; secretary of the board of trade, 1848; chief clerk to the House of Commons, 1860-71; edited Walpole's Memoirs of the reign of George III 1846.
  32. ^ John Gaspard Le Marchant (1766-1812), major-general; ensign, 1781; intimate with George III; in Flemish campaigns, 1793-4; major, 1795: devised a system of cavalry sword-exercise, and suggested pattern for improved sword; lieutenant-colonel, 1797; projected schools of instruction for officers, which were the beginnings of Sandhurst; lieutenant-governor of the echonK 1801-10; major-general in the Peninsula, 1810-12; mortally wounded at Salamanca, 1812; wrote on military subjects.
  33. ^ Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant (1803-1874), lieutenant-general, colonial administrator; son of John Gaspard le Marchant; ensign, 1820: major in the new 98th foot, 1832; served at the Oapc, 1832: as brigadier-Kem-rul in the Carlist war, 1835-7; lieutenant-governor of Newfoundland, 1847-52, of Nova Scotia, 1852-7; governor of Malta, 1859-64; G.O.M.G., 1860; commander-in-chief at Madras, 1865-8; K.C.B., 1865.
  34. ^ LBalthasar Van Lemens (1637–1704). See Van Lemens.
  35. ^ Havilland Le Mesurier (1758-1806), commissary-general; son of John Le Mesurier; adjutant commissary-general of stores, supplies, and storage to the forces on the continent, 1793; with the army during winter retreat through Holland, 1794-6; serval later in Egypt, Malta, Naples, and elsewhere: published pamphlets on commissariat matters.
  36. ^ Havilland Le Mesurier (1783-1813), lieutenant-colonel; son of Havilland Le Mesurier (17681806): educated at Westminster; ensign, 1801; served under Sir John Moore in Sweden and at Corufta; brevet lieutenant-colonel, 1811; commandant-of Almeida, 1811; shot in the battle of the Pyrenees; translated French military works.
  37. ^ John Le Mesurier (1781-1843), major-general, last hereditary governor of Alderney: nephew of Havilland Le Mesurier (1783-1813); ensign, 1794; served in Ireland, 1798; at the occupation of Messina, 1799-1800 1; in Egypt, 1801; govenior of Alderney, 1803-24.
  38. ^ Paul Le Mesurier (1755-1805), lord mayor of London; brother of Havilland Le Mesurier (1768-1806) ; as a proprietor of the East India Company opposed Fox's India bill, 1783; M.P., Southwark, 1783; sheriff, 1787; colonel of the honourable artillery company, 1794; lord mayor, 1794.
  39. ^ Abraham Le Moine (d. 1757), theological controversialist; probably son of a Huguenot refugee; chaplain to the French hospital in London, 1723-49, the Duke of Portland, 1729; chief work, a Treatise on Miracles (reply to Thomas Chubb ), 1747; also published French translations of theological works.
  40. ^ Henry Lemoine (1756–1812), author and bookseller; son of a French protestant refugee; purchased a bookstall in the Little Minories, 1777; contributed to the magazines; published miscellaneous works; started and edited various periodicals: published anonymous books and pamphlets; contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine; described as one of the best judges of old books in England, and an authority on foreign and Jewish literature,
  41. ^ George William Lemon (1726–1797), master of Norwich school; BJL QueensCollege, Cambridge, 1747; took holy orders and held several livings; master of Norwich free grammar school, 1769-78; published educational works, 1774-92.
  42. ^ Mark Lemon (1809–1870), editor of 'Punch'; began his career as a playwright, 1835; published farces, melodramas, and operas; contributed to Household Words the Illustrated London News and other periodicals, and edited the Family Herald and Once a Week; best known as one of the founders and the first editor of Punch (first number published 17 July 1841); edited Punch 1841-70; began writing novels late in life with indifferent success; known among bis friends as Uncle Mark
  43. ^ Robert Lemon (1779–1835), archivist ; educated at Norwich Grammar school; under his uncle, George William Lemon, helped to compile appendix to the Report on Internal Defence 1798; deputy-keeper of the state paper office, 1818; F.S.A., 1824.
  44. ^ Robert Lemon (1800–1867), archivist ; son of Robert Lemon (1779-1835); employed under his father in the state paper office: interpreted a certain cypher found in some state papers; FAA., 1836, rearranging society's library, 1848.
  45. ^ John Lemprière (1765? - 1824), classical scholar; educated at Winchester College and Pembroke College, Oxford; M.A., 1792; master of Grammar School at Bolton, Lancashire, 1791; of Grammar School at Abingdon, 1792-1808 (or 1809); D.D. Oxford, 1803; master of Exeter Free Grammar School, 1809-1819; chief works, A Classical Dictionary (1788) and a Universal Biography... of Eminent Persons in all Ages and Countries, (1808 and 1812).
  46. ^ Michael Lemprière (Jl. 1640–1660), seigneur of Maufant, and one of the leader* of the parliamentary party in Jersey; as a jurat of the royal court actively ppoeed the bailiff of the island, Sir Philip de Carteret [q. v.]; succeeded De Carteret as bailiff, 1643; royal warrant issued for his arrest, 1643; in exile, 1643-51; on return of parliamentary party to power resumed hi office of bailiff, 1651; removed from the bench of jurats, but allowed to retain his estates, 1660; highly esteemed by Cromwell.
  47. ^ William Lemprière (,i. 1834), traveller and medical writer; entered the army medical service; went to Morocco to attend the emperor's son, 1789, and also attended the ladies of the harem: published account of bis travels, 1791; army surgeon in Jamaica, 1794-9; published medical pamphlets.
  48. ^ Remigius Van Lemput (1609?-1676). See Van Leemput.
  49. ^ Auguste Frederick Lendy (1826 - 1889), military tutor and author; set up a private military college at Sunbury-on-Thames, c. 1854; held a commission in the army, 1869-79; published works on military subjects.
  50. ^ John Le Neve (1679-1741), antiquary; of Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; his greatest work, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, or an Essay towards a regular Succession of all the principal Dignitaries &c., published, 1716; took holy orders; imprisoned for insolvency, 1722.
  51. ^ Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norfolk antiquary; entered Merchant Taylors School, London, 1673; president of the Antiquarian Society, 1687- 1724; F.R.S.; Rouge Croix pursuivant, 1689-90; Richmond herald and Norroy king-at-arms, 1704; collected much material, but printed nothing; many of his manuscripts preserved in Bodleian, British Museum, HeraldsCollege, and elsewhere. His copious notes form the backbone of the history of Norfolk, begun by Blomefield and completed by Parkin.