LITTLE, THOMAS, son of Thomas Little, York; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 224).
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.