LE MESURIER, CECIL JOHN REGINALD, eldest son of Col. Cecil Brooke Le Mesurier CB, Royal Artillery, and Nicolina, Contessa Zancarol, eldest dau. of Count Spiridon Zancarol, Corfu, Greece; b. 7 Feb 1855; adm. 19 Oct 1868 (G); QS 1870; left May 1873; Ceylon Civil Service 1875; Assistant to Government Agent, Aunradhapura May 1877; Assistant Collector, Trincomalee Jul 1877, Jaffna Sep 1880; District Judge, Matara 1884; Police Magistrate, Kalutara 1887-95; m. 5 Feb 1883 Juliette Beatrice Armanda, second dau. of Leon Lenoir, Auteuil, Paris, France.

LE HUNTE, RICHARD, eldest son of George Le Hunte, Ballymartin, co. Wexford, and Editha Jones; nephew of William Le Hunte (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1732/3; KS 1737; Capt. of the School 1741; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1742, matr. 19 Jun 1742, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1742, Tutor 1753-5; BA 1746; MA 1749; ordained deacon 24 May 1752, priest 17 Jun 1753 (both Oxford); d. by 10 Jul 1755.

Le Hardy, William Henry Clement, son of William John Hardy, of St. Albans, Herts, by Margaret, daughter of Henry Page, and grandson of Sir William Hardy, Kt., deputy keeper of the Public Record Office; b. Aug. 5, 1889; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (H); left July 1908; Exeter Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1908; B.A. 1913; Capt. 3rd Batt. Royal Sussex Regt. Sept. 20, 1915; served on the western front and was wounded at Loos Dec. 23, 1914, and Sept. 25, 1915; M.C. Feb. 18, 1918; assumed the surname of Le Hardy in lieu of Hardy in 1920; Lieut.-Col. 23rd London Regt. (T. A.) Nov. 1, 1932; brevet Col. Nov. 5, 1936; reverted to rank of Major T. A. R. O. and was employed at the War Office Sept. 12, 1940; restored to Lieut.-Col. Oct. 11, 1942; D. A. A. G. 10th Corps in England and Middle East 1942; A. Q. M. G., G. H. Q. Middle East, 1942-3; O. C. Troops, Winchester Castle, 1943-4; G. S. O. 1, S. H. A. E. F., 1945; O. C. Troops, El Kantara, Egypt, 1945-6; F. S. A. 1923; part-time county archivist for Middlesex and also for Herts 1946-56 and was instrumental in recovering some early Middle­sex records which include the coroner's inquest on the boy killed in Westminster Hall by John Elles (q.v.); full-time county archivist for Herts Jan. 1957; edited Notes and Extracts from the Sessions Records of the liberty of St. Alban' s div., forming vol. iv of the Herts County Records (1923), and the Calendar to the Records belonging to the County of Middlesex; m. 1st April 30, 1922, Doris Margaret, daughter of George Johnston, of Christleton, Cheshire; 2nd Sept. 24, 1932, Lucy Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Percival Fox Tuckett, of Porchester Terrace, London; d. Dec. 28, 1961.

LE BROCQ, PHILIP GEORGE; b. 29 Sep. 1833; adm. 1 Oct 1846 (Rigaud's).

LE BRETON, JAMES EDWARD, brother of Philip Hemery Le Breton (qv); b. 20 Apr 1809; adm. 14 Jan 1822 (Du Brieux's); left 1822; a merchant at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; m. 30 Nov 1843 Eleanor Ann, dau. of Joseph Dickinson, Headingley, Yorks.; d. 21 Oct 1855.

Lazarus, Sir Peter Esmond, son of Kenneth Michaelis Lazarus, metal merchant, and Mary Rebecca, d. of Arthur Washington Halsted, co. dir.; b. 2 Apr. 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (R); left July 1944; RA 1945-8 (Lieut. ); Wadham Coll. Oxf., matric. 1948 but did not graduate; Min. of Transport 1949, Private Sec. to Minister 1961-2; asst. Sec. 1962-8, Under Sec. 1968-70; Under Sec. Treasury 1970-2; Dep. Sec. DOE (Housing) 1973-6, (Transport) 1976-82; Perm. Sec. Dept. of Transport 1982-5; CB 1975, KCB 1985; member Civil Aviation Authority 1986-92; dir. Manchester Ship Canal Co. 1986-93; m. 26 Apr. 1950 Elizabeth Anne Marjorie, d. of Leslie Henry Atwell OBE, chocolate manufacturer; d. 19 Oct. 1995.

LAYFIELD, JOHN, son of Rev. Edward Layfield, St. Peter-le-Poer, London [presumably Rector of Fulham, Middlesex, and Prebendary of London]; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1577, adm. scholar 18 Apr 1578, matr. Lent 1577/8; BA 1581/2; MA 1585; BD 1592; DD 1603; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1583, Major Fellow 29 Apr 1585-1603; ordained; probably Chaplain to George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, during his expedition to the West Indies 1598; Rector of Aldwinkle St. Peter’s, Northants 30 Sep 1598-1602; Rector of St. Clement Danes, London, from 23 Mar 1601/2; Rector of Graveley-cum-Chivesfield, Herts., 10 Oct 1605; one of the revisers of the Bible 1606; Fellow, Chelsea College 1610; author, A Large Relation of the Porto Ricco Voiage, printed in Purchas, Pilgrims, 1625, iv, 1155; m. 24 Jan 1602/3 Bridget, widow of John Brickett, St. Ethelburga, London, merchant, dau. of John Robinson, Reading, Berks., and half-sister of Most Rev. William Laud DD, Archbishop of Canterbury; d. 6 Nov 1617. DNB.

LAYE, HENRY THOMAS, son of Francis Laye, Doncaster, Yorks.; bapt. Doncaster, Yorks. 19 Mar 1778 (IGI); adm. 10 Feb 1793 (Clapham); KS (aged 15) 1795; played cricket v. Eton on Hounslow Heath 25 Jul 1796; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1797, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 May 1797; ordained deacon 19 Oct 1800, priest 18 Jul 1802 (both York); Vicar of Rampton, Notts., 1802; Vicar of Pickering, Yorks., 1804; m. 23 Feb 1807 Nancy, dau. of Josiah Maynard, Pickering, Yorks.; d. 29 Jun 1809.