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LISTER, HENRY, son of Lieut. -Col. William Lister, 3rd Foot Guards, Twickenham, Middlesex, and Sarah Nicol, Nevile House, Twickenham; b.; adm. (aged 14 ) Sep 1740 (Hawkins'); KS 1741; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1745, but never adm .; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 9 Mar 1744/5; Lieut. and Capt., 29 Mar 1748; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 4 May 1758; Brevet Col., 25 May 1772; Second Major, 2nd Foot Guards 15 Dec 1773, First Major 8 Sep 1775; Maj. -Gen., 29 Aug 1777; Lieut. -Col. commanding 2nd Foot Guards 21 Nov 1777; Lieut. -Gen., 26 Nov 1782; served on expedition to Cherbourg 1759; ADC to George III; m. 23 Oct 1760 Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Henry Stratford, Overstone Hall, Northants; d. 17 Nov 1785.

LIPSCOMB, WILLIAM HENRY, brother of Howley Christopher Lipscomb (qv); b. 14 May 1836; adm. 6 Jan 1844; QS 1851; left 1854; clerk, Paymaster-General’s Office, Dublin; d. 16 Nov 1905.

LIPSCOMB, HOWLEY CHRISTOPHER, son of Right Rev. Christopher Lipscomb DD, Bishop of Jamaica, and his second wife Mary Harriett, eldest dau. of William Page (KS 1791, qv); b. 10 Dec 1834; adm. 6 Jan 1844; QS 1849; left 1851; Clerk, 3rd cl., War Office Dec 1855 – Apr 1865; lunatic, in hospital for insane at Exeter, Devon (1881 Census).

LINFIELD, JAMES; b.; adm.; KS 1665; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1669, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1669, scholar 1670; BA 1672/3; MA 1676; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1674 – c. 1695, Tutor 1677.

LINDSAY, WILLIAM, son of Sir David Lindsay, Bart. [? Lieut. -Gen., Col. 59th Foot], and Susanna Charlotte, widow of George Ellis, Jamaica, and dau. of Samuel Long, Jamaica; b.; adm. 8 Jun 1773; KS (aged 13) 1776; one of five Westminster boys convicted at Middlesex QS 21 May 1779, of a gross assault on a man in Dean’s Yard (Annual Register 1779, 213); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1780, matr. 24 May 1780, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1780 – void for absence 12 Jun 1784; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 11 Jun 1781; Secretary of Legation, St. Petersburg Jul 1788-91; Secretary to Embassy, Paris 1792; Governor of Tobago 1794; d. Jun 1796.

LIMITER (or LEMETAYER), CHARLES, eldest son of George Limiter, Receiver-Gen. and Solicitor to Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and Anne ---; b.; adm.; KS 16 Nov 1610; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1615, matr. 31 Dec 1616, aged 17, Westminster Student to 1626; BA 1618 (incorp. Cambridge 1619); MA 1621; Receiver-Gen. and Solicitor to Dean and Chapter, Westminster, jointly with his father, 1621; ordained; Rector of Stone, Kent 1624-35.

Lilly, Geoffrey Laurence, son of Rev. Christopher Charles Campbell Lilly, Rector of Aldborough, Norfolk, and Margaret, d. of Edward Gay and granddaughter of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (qv); b. 10 Aug. 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (KS); left July 1937; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1937, BA 1941, MA 1944; Roy. Norfolk Regt (TA) 1939-41 (Lieut.), Queen's Roy. Regt (Capt.), wounded Tunisia; TD; dir. Aldborough Hall Estates Ltd and William Gaymer & Sons Ltd (cider makers) of Attleborough, Norfolk; m. 18 Oct. 1958 Antoinette Loftus Airey Fitzroy, d. of Lieut.-Col. J. L. Garstin; d. 6 Sept. 2000.

LIGHTLYE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

LIFFORD, RICHARD, described in Parentelae of 1807 as son of Richard Lifford, Plymouth, Devon, but in fact a natural son of HRH Frederick, Duke of York; b.; in school list 1803; KS (Capt., aged 13) 1807; left 1809; Ensign, 52nd Foot 8 Aug 1809; Lieut., 2 Jul 1811; a great friend of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond (qv) (see Memoirs, 1862, pp. 10-1); d. c. 13 Aug 1811, of wounds received during pursuit of French from Santarem 12 Mar 1811.

Liddiard, Alexander Rockley, son of Edgar Stratton Liddiard MBE JCS, of Long Ditton, Surrey, and Mabel Audrey, d. of Herbert Richard Brooke, sometime asst master Tonbridge Sch., of Parkstone, Dorset; b. 26 Nov. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (KS); left Apr. 1934; St Cath. Coll. Camb., matric. 1934, BA 1937; RA 1940-1 (Lieut.), RE 1942-6 (Maj.); Gordon Woodroffe & Co. Madras 1946-66, dir. 1952, man. dir. 1964, retd 1966; farming in Lanarkshire; m. 30 Mar. 1946 Agnes Thomson, d. of George Hazell Milln of Airdrie, Lanarkshire; d. 16 Aug. 1991.