LACY, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS 1656 (Christmas quarter) (school lists 1656).
LACY, GILBERT DE LACY, eldest son of Rev. Charles Lacy, Rector of All Hallows, London Wall, London, and Mary, dau. of Benjamin Houghton Prickett, Aylesbury, Bucks.; b. 26 Feb 1834; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1844-5; adm. 17 Jun 1846 (G); QS 1848; left 1852; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1852; Ensign, 63rd Foot 14 Mar 1855; Lieut., 12th Foot 12 Jan 1858; Capt., 16 Aug 1864 (still in Army List 1867, not 1868); served in Crimean War; won Prince Consort’s Prize at first prize meeting of National Rifle Association on Wimbledon Common Jul 1860; went out to Buenos Aires and later settled in South Africa; m. 8 Aug 1860 Maria, eldest dau. of Lieut. -Col. Richard Manners, Chesterfield, King’s Co., Ireland; d. at Mount Frere, South Africa 7 Jun 1878.
LACY, NATHANIEL, son of Rev. Nathaniel Lacy, Rector of Greensted, Essex; b.; adm.; KS 1670; did not secure election to either University 1672, but elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1673, matr. 31 May 1673, aged 16, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1673 – void 1677; adm. Inner Temple 1676; Padua Univ.; became physician to Queen of Spain; see a letter about him written from Düsseldorf by George Stepney (qv) to Sir William Trumbull, 10 Jan 1696 (HMC Downshire, ii, 607, and Elizabethan xviii, 240-1).
Ladell, Harry Simpson, only son of Henry Richard Ladell, Head Master of the International Coll., Isleworth, Middlesex, by Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. William Cross, of Wakefield, Yorks; b. May 8, 1874; adm. Sept. 26, 1889 (G); left July 1893; Sidney Sussex Coll. Camb., matric. Oct. 1893; B.A. 1896; an asst. master at Streete Court, Westgate-on-Sea, and later a film producer under the name of Harold Simpson; m. April 22, 1902, Ethel Maud Florence, widow of Howard C. Jobson, and daughter of the Rev. William Reyner Cosens, D.D.; d. Nov. 18, 1955.
Ladell, Richard Palgrave Simpson, son of Harry Simpson Ladell (q.v.); b. April 2, 1903; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (G); left Dec. 1920; has assumed the additional Christian name of Simpson; an electrical engineer; m. April 30, 1938, Marjorie Evelyn, daughter of Henry Farmer, of Beckenham, Kent.
Laing, Thomas Elliot, son of James Laing, of Sunderland, Durham, by Emily Cecilia, daughter of Thomas Elliot Harrison, of Sunderland; b. Aug. 28, 1889; adm. Sept. 22, 1904, from Wellington Coll. (H); left Easter 1905; Brasenose Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1908; 2nd Lieut. R. F. C. Nov. 11, 1914; Lieut. (Hon. Capt.) April 1, 1918; served in France; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 1 1916.
Laing, Walter Kenneth, son of Walter Laing of Hawick, Scotland, and Jean Corry, d. of Arthur Gotto of Belfast; b. 5 June 1910; adm. Jan. 1924 (A); left Dec. 1924; Worcester Coll. Oxf., matric. 1929, BA 1933, MA 1938; asst master Moseley Sec. Sch. Birmingham 1933-5, Worksop Coll. 1935-9; 2nd Lieut. Sherwood Foresters (TA)July 1939, p.o.w. (Norway) Apr. 1940; asst master Peter Symond's Sch. Winchester 1945-70, retd; m. 20 Dec. 1947 Joan Elizabeth, d. of Rev. Charles Bostock, Master of St Cross Hospital Winchester; d. 30 Nov. 1978.
LAKE, JAMES, son of Rev. James Lake, Rector of Black Torrington, Devon; bapt. 6 Mar 1673 (IGI); adm.; KS 1689; left 1690; Jesus Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Mar 1691/2, aged 18.
LAKE, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS 1668; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1671, adm. pens. 13 Nov 1669, scholar 1672, matr. 1671; 9th in “ordo” 1674/5; BA 1674/5; MA 1678; Thyrsis, a poem on his death by his friend Thomas Power (qv), is printed in Examen Poeticum, 1698; d. young.
Laking, Sir Guy Francis, Bart., only son of Sir Francis Henry Laking, Bart., G. C. V. O., K.C. B., M. D., Physician in Ordinary to Edward VII, by his first wife, Emma Ann, daughter of Joseph Mansell, of Kensington; b. Oct. 21, 1875; adm. May 10, 1888 (H); left May 1891; art expert, employed by the firm of Christie, Manson, and Woods, King Street, St. James's; Keeper of the King's Armoury from 1902; Keeper of the London Museum from 1911; succ. as 2nd baronet May 21, 1914; M. V. O. Dec. 24, 1901; C. B. June 22, 1914; author of The Armoury of Windsor Castle (1904) and A Record of European Armour and Arms (1920-2), the latter published after his death; m. July 21, 1898, Beatrice Ida, daughter of Charles Mylne Barker (q.v.); d. Nov. 22, 1919.