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LE MESURIER, THOMAS, brother of Havilland Le Mesurier (qv); b. 14 Jul 1788; adm.; left 1805; d. at Palermo, Sicily.

LE MESURIER, HENRY, brother of Havilland Le Mesurier (qv); b.; adm. 13 Sep 1802; in school lists May and Oct 1803 (name up School 1806); Ensign, 48th Foot 13 May 1812; Lieut., 1st Garrison Battn. 31 Dec 1812; Deputy Assistant Commissary-Gen., 4 May 1814; half-pay 25 Dec 1815; lost his right arm at battle of Salamanca 21 Jul 1812; settled in Canada on retirement from Army; timber agent and exporter, Quebec, firm Le Mesurier, Tilstone & Co; member Quebec Committee of Trade 1832, President 1833-8; Master of Trinity House, Quebec, from 1846, previously Deputy Master; director, railway and other companies; m. 3 Oct 1815 Julia, dau. of Pierre-Guillaume Guérout, merchant, Richelieu, Canada; d. at Quebec, Canada 25 May 1861. See Canadian Dictionary of Biography.

LE MESURIER, HAVILLAND, son of Havilland Le Mesurier, Austin Friars, City of London, merchant, formerly Commissary-Gen., Southern District, England, and Eliza Dobree, Guernsey; b. 8 Apr 1783; at school 1793; in school list 1795; left 1800; went to Berlin to learn German, intending to enter his father’s business, but changed his mind; Ensign, Royal Staffs Corps 2 Jan 1801; 20th Foot 14 May 1801; Lieut., 18 Jun 1801; 83rd Foot 1 Oct 1802; Capt., 21st Foot 25 Aug 1804; Maj., 13 Apr 1809; served as D. A. Q. G. under Sir John Moore in Sweden and during Corunna campaign; Portuguese Military Secretary to Wellington Apr 1811; supernumerary Lieut. -Col., 14th Portuguese Infantry 3 Oct 1811; Commandant, Almeida Mar 1812; commanding 12th Portuguese Infantry from May 1813; translator of two French military textbooks; d. 31 Jul 1813, from wounds received while leading his troops in battle of the Pyrenees 28 Jul. DNB.

LE MESURIER, FREDERIC, brother of Havilland Le Mesurier (qv); b. 6 Apr 1786; in school list 1795; left Midsummer 1803; Lieut., Royal Navy 3 Mar 1804; lost in wreck of HMS Blenheim near island of Rodriguez, East Indies 1 Feb 1807.

LE MESURIER, EDWARD, brother of Havilland Le Mesurier (qv); b.; adm.; left Whitsun 1806; entered Royal Navy as 1st cl. Volunteer Sep 1807; Lieut., 24 Mar 1815; retd. 16 Oct 1817; m. 17 Jul 1822 Amelia Augusta, dau. of S. Wright, Spring Gardens, London; d. at Genoa 11 Feb 1855.

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 Mesurier, Bulkeley George, son of Rev. Thomas Le Mesurier, Rector of Haughton-le-Skerne, co. Durham, and Margaret, d. of Rev. James Bandinel, Rector of Netherbury; b. 28 Feb 1816; adm. 10 Jan 1825; entered Royal Navy; Lieut., 27 Apr 1840; killed at bombardment of Acre 3 Nov 1840.

LE HUNTE, WILLIAM, third son of George Le Hunte, St. Martin’s, Pembroke, and Alice, dau. of Col. William Legge, Cappagh, co. Tipperary; b.; at school under Knipe (Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Atterbury, 1869, i, 173-4); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 Jan 1709/10, aged 17, Canoneer Student 6 Aug 1713 – void 27 Aug 1730 (expiry year of grace as V. Kidderminster), Tutor 1717-27, Senior Censor 1721-3; BA 1713; MA 1716; BD 7 Mar 1725/6; Proctor 1724; tutor to Osborn Atterbury (qv); ordained deacon 25 Sep 1720; Vicar of Kidderminster, Worcs., 6 Aug 1729; Rector of Oxhill, Warwicks., 1730/1 (disp. to hold with Kidderminster); m. --- Richards; d. 30 Apr 1746.

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.