LART, CHARLES EDMUND, son of Capt. Edmund Lart, War Office, and his first wife Christiania, third dau. of David Dewar, Dunfermline, Fifeshire; b. 17 Mar 1867; adm. 26 Jan 1882 (H); left Mar 1886; Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1886; BA 1889; author, The Church Invisible, 1920, and other works; publications editor, Huguenot Society of London; served 1914-18 war; Capt., 4th battn. Devon Regt., 1 Jun 1916, invalided; officer instructor attached New Zealand Forces 1916-7; TD; m. 12 Jan 1897 Amy Vincent, dau. of Rev. Edward Collis Watson, Vicar of Meltham, Yorks.; d. 29 Jun 1947.

Lart, Ernest Howard, brother of Frederick Arthur Lart (q.v.); b. May 8, 1875; adm. April 28, 1887 (A); left Dec. 1893; served in France in Great War I; gunner in the H. A. C.; 2nd Lieut. A. S. C. Dec. 4, 1916; temp. Lieut. June 4, 1918; Lieut. June 9, 1919; farmed in Chile 1907-15; employed in the British Consulate, Mazagan, Morocco, 1920-2; secretary of the British Chamber of Commerce for the French zone in Morocco 1923; m. Oct. 21, 1907, Dorothy, daughter of George Tomlinson, of Huddersfield, Yorks; d. Jan. 6, 1941.

Lart, Frederick Arthur, son of Capt. Edmund Lart, of the War Office, by his second wife, Catherine Mary, daughter of George Cowdell Neale, of Skeffington, Leics., and half-brother of Charles Edmund Lart (q.v.); b. Aug. 25, 1870; adm. April 30, 1886 (A); left Dec. 1888; Assoc. M.Inst.C.E. Dec. 4, 1900; d. Dec. 17, 1943.

LARYMORE, HENRY DOUGLAS, eldest son of Alexander Douglas Larymore, Deputy Inspector of Jails, Bengal, and Margaret Amelia, dau. of Henry Scott; b. 16 Sep 1867; adm. 27 Sep 1880 (H); left Mar 1881; joined Army 1886; Capt. Royal Artillery (from Militia) 1 Sep 1897; Maj., 14 Feb 1906; retd. 5 Jun 1907; employed West Africa 1891-7, attached Gold Coast Constabulary; served as staff officer in expedition against the Jebus, Lagos, Nigeria 1892; despatches LG 1 Jul 1892; ADC on Ashanti expedition 1895-6, despatches; CMG 10 Apr 1896; acted as British Resident at Kumassi; served in India 1897-1901; Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 24 Apr 1903, on scholarship to study Hausa; served West Africa (Northern Nigeria) 1904; Resident, Northern Nigeria 1907; rejoined Royal Artillery on Inspection Staff 15 Jan 1915; went to USA in charge of Explosives Section of Munitions Commission; m. 1897 Constance, youngest dau. of Rev. Andrew Holmes Belcher, Rector of St. Andrew’s, Fasque, Kincardineshire; d. 30 Jan 1946.

Lasbrey, Geoffrey Arthur, son of the Rev. Percy Urwick Lasbrey, Rector of Brinkley. Cambs.; b. March 22, 1902; adm. Sept. 21, 1916 (H); left July 1919; a director of Bosanquet & Skrine Ltd., Colombo, Ceylon; m. 1st Jan. 13, 1934, Doreen, elder daughter of Gordon Dabell, of South Kensington; 2nd Dec. 30, 1948, Margaret, daughter of Capt. O. E. Hallifax, D.S.O., R. N., of Rowledge, Hants.; d. 1 Dec. 1979.

Lasbrey, James Arthur, son of Arthur Oakley Lasbrey, of South Kensington, by Edith Maria, daughter of Guy Abbotts, of Derby; b. Aug. 13, 1898; adm. May 2, 1913 (H); left Dec. 1915; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1916; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. East Surrey Regt. May 1, 1917; served in France and Italy Oct. 1917-Aug. 1918, when he was wounded, on the Ancre: invalided April 16, 1919; an actor, producer and lecturer on drama under the name of Jack Carlton; entertainments manager of the Festival Gardens, Battersea Park, for the Festival of Britain 1950; 2nd Lieut. General List May 6, 1940; Lieut.-Col.; D. A. P. M. 2nd Armoured Division; Senior Welfare Officer 9th Army in the Middle East; Commandant, Central Pool of Artistes, War Office 1945-6; M.B.E. June 1, 1952; m. 1950, Enid Maye Bennett (née Chapman); d. 15 Oct. 1986.

LASCELLES, HERBERT, brother of Edward Robert Lascelles (qv); b. 20 May 1812; adm. 18 Sep 1820; KS 1827; St. Catharine’s Hall, Cambridge; BA 1835; ordained priest (Chester) 24 Feb 1839; Assistant Chaplain, EICS Bengal 1843 - 8 Dec 1856, ret.; living Brighton, Sussex, in 1881 (1881 Census); m. 20 Jun 1870 Emma Marsh (IGI); d. 7 Dec 1885.

Lashmore, Donald Evans, son of Engineer Rear-Admiral Harry Lashmore CB DSO RN of Horndean, Hants, and Beatrice, d. of John Evans of Cardiff; b. 31 May 1905; adm. Apr. 1920 (G); left July 1923; 2nd Lieut. Hampshire Regt Sept. 1925, Lieut. Sept. 1927; Roy. W. African Frontier Force 1928-35; Brevet Maj. RARO Mar. 1945; m.; d. 11 Oct. 1947.

Laski, Philip Michael, son of Neville Jonas Laski QC, Judge of Appeal, Isle of Man, and Phina Emily, d. of Haham Moses Gaster DPhil, Chief Rabbi to the Sephardim, lecturer in Graeco­-Slavonic Literature, Univ. of Oxford; b. 5 Aug. 1918; adm. Jan. 1932 (H); left Dec. 1933; an art historian; Commander Legion d'Honneur 1945; author of Magritte 1961; m. July 1939 Madelaine von Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduchess of Austria-Hungary; d. 3 Dec. 1998.

Lassetter, Frederic Macquarie, only son of Col. Harry Beauchamp Lassetter, C. B., of Westminster, by Elizabeth Anne, daughter of J. M. Anthill, of Jarvisfield; b. July 30, 1892; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (R); left July 1911; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1911; B.A. and M.A. 1919; enlisted in the London Scottish 1914; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. K.O.Y.L.I. April 27, 1915; served in France 1914, 1917, and 1918; invalided April 1918; Capt. London Scottish Aug. 25, 1923; m. April 30, 1921, Nancy, elder daughter of Col. Henry Kilgour, Northumber­land Fusiliers; d. Feb. 24, 1940.