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LIND, MONTAGUE, son of Edward George Lind, and Elizabeth, dau. of James Ainslie; b. 11 Sep 1788; at school 1800 (Clapham); in school list 1801; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 14 Aug 1805, matr. Mich. 1805; Lieut., 1st Life Guards 6 Jun 1807; Capt., 22 Jun 1810; killed at battle of Waterloo 18 Jun 1815.

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.

Lillie, Handley William Russell, son of Cecil Firmin Lillie, M. D., by Caroline Margaret Lucy, daughter of the Rev. George Booth Perry-Ayscough, Vicar of Brabourne, Kent; b. Feb. 2, 1902; adm. from the Abbey Choir School May 4, 1916 (R); left Dec. 1918; Campion Hall, Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1926; B.A. 1929; M.A. 1933; director of music, Beaumont Coll. 1929-31; asst. master 1936-7; Rector 1937-41; President of the Roman Catholic Head­ masters' Conference 1939; asst. priest, Farm St. Church, Mayfair, 1946; on the staff of Manresa Coll., Roehampton 1958; served in Great War I as Chaplain to the Forces 4th class; d. 1967.

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.

Lidwill, Mark Cowley, son of Robert Atkins Lidwill, of Kensington, by Mary Jane Cowan, daughter of William Florance, M. D., of Melbourne, Australia; b. April 7, 1878; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (G); left Dec. 1893; went to the Church of England Grammar School at Melbourne 1894-5; Melbourne Univ. 1897; M.B. and B. S. 1902; M. D. 1905; M. D. Sydney 1911; Tutor in Anaesthetics, Sydney Univ., 1911; practises in Sydney, N.S.W.; author of The Open-air Treatment of Tuberculosis (1909); m. July 19, 1906, Constance Emily, daughter of Sir Philip Sydney Jones, Kt., M. D., F.R.C.S., Vice-Chancellor of Sydney Univ.; d. 1969.

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.

The house was named after Henry Liddell, Head Master from 1846 to 1855, who rescued the school from its early nineteenth-century decline, when prospective parents preferred boarding schools in the country to the unwholesome airs of London and pupil numbers dipped beneath 80. Liddell later became Dean of Christ Church and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. His daughter, Alice Liddell, was the inspiration for 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Alice through the Looking Glass'.

LIDDELL, HENRY GEORGE, younger son of Sir Henry George Liddell, Bart., and Elizabeth, sister of Thomas Steele (KS 1766, qv); b. 25 Jul 1787; adm. 21 Feb 1802 (Clapham); in school list 1803; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Dec 1805; BA 1809; MA 1812; ordained deacon 23 Oct 1810, priest 22 Sep 1811 (both Durham); Rector of Redmarshall, co. Durham 13 Dec 1811-24; Rector of Romaldkirk, Yorks., 22 May 1824-32 (disp. to hold with R. Bolton, Durham 1824); Rector of Whickham, co. Durham 27 Jan 1829; Rector of Easington, co. Durham 14 Aug 1832-62; JP co. Durham; father of Henry George Liddell, Head Master; m. 11 Nov 1809 Charlotte, dau. of Hon. Thomas Lyon MP, Hetton House, co. Durham; d. 9 Mar 1872.