LAWLEY, Francis (1782-1851), of Middleton Hall, nr. Tamworth, Staffs. and 18 Grosvenor Square, Mdx.
Cornet Warws. yeoman cav. 1803, capt. 1805, maj. 1818, lt.-col. 1845, res. 1848.
LAWLEY, Francis (1782-1851)
Cornet Warws. yeoman cav. 1803, capt. 1805, maj. 1818, lt.-col. 1845, res. 1848.
LAWLEY, Francis (1782-1851)
MP [I] 1794 – 1800.
Sheriff, co. Kildare 1797 – 98.
Commdt. Kilcullen yeoman cav. 1798.
Dir. Farming Soc. of Ireland 1815 – 24, Barrow Navigation Co. 1837.
LATOUCHE, Robert (1773-1844)
Cornet 1 Drag. Gds. 1820, lt. 1821; lt. (half-pay) 24 Drag. 1823, ret. 1832.
Sheriff, Surr. 1837–8.
ALCOCK, Thomas (1801-1866)
Ensign 1 Ft. Gds. 1817, half-pay 1818, ret. 1837.
PC 22 July 1847; comptroller of household July 1847 – d.
LASCELLES, Hon. William Saunders Sebright (1798-1851)
Sheriff, Oxon. 1819 – 20; verderer, Wychwood Forest.
LANGSTON, James Haughton (?1797-1863)
Ensign and lt. 1 Ft. Gds. 1814, lt. and capt. 1820, ret. 1822.
LANE FOX, Sackville Walter (1797-1874)
LANE FOX, George (1793-1848)
Cornet 1 Drag. 1809, lt. 1810, ret. 1811.
Ld. privy seal Nov. 1830 – Mar. 1833; PC 22 Nov. 1830; spec. mission to Prussia, Russia and Austria 1832; ambassador extraordinary to Russia 1835 – 37; gov.-gen. Canada Jan.-Dec. 1838.
High steward, Hull 1836.
See S.J. Reid, Life and Letters of Lord Durham (1906) and C.W. New, Lord Durham (1929). L. Cooper, Radical Jack (1959) draws heavily on these and adds little. See also Oxford DNB.
LAMBTON, John George (1792-1840)
Sheriff, co. Galway 1814 – 15.
LAMBERT, James Staunton (1789-1867)
Chief sec. to ld. lt. [I] Apr. 1827 – June 1828; PC [UK] 30 Apr. 1827 and [I] 16 July 1827; sec. of state for home affairs Nov. 1830 – July 1834; first ld. of treasury 16 July – 17 Nov. 1834, 18 Apr. 1835–3 Sept. 1841.
Capt. Herts. vol. inf. 1803, maj. 1804.
The best biography is P. Ziegler, Melbourne (1976); the 1987 edn. has been used here. L.G. Mitchell, Lord Melbourne (1997) offers an updated version of the psychological study by Lord D. Cecil in The Young Melbourne (1939) and Lord M (1954). See also W.M. Torrens, Mems. Visct. Melbourne (1878), Lord Melbourne’s Pprs. ed. L.C. Sanders (1889) and D. Marshall, Lord Melbourne (1975).
LAMB, Hon. William (1779-1848)