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MACDONALD, SIR ARCHIBALD, BART., son of Sir Alexander Macdonald, Bart., and his second wife Lady Margaret Montgomerie, dau. of Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton (S); b. 13 Jul 1747; adm.; KS 1760; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1764, matr. 30 Jun 1764, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1764 – Dec 1776, Faculty Student 7 Dec 1776 – res 23 Dec 1777; BA 1768; MA 1772; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Nov 1765, called to bar 24 Nov 1770, Bencher 12 Feb 1778, Treasurer 1789; patent of precedence at Bar 22 Jan 1778; Second Justice of Carmarthen 1780-4; Solicitor-Gen., 7 Apr 1784 – Jun 1788; knighted 27 Jun 1788; Attorney-Gen., 28 Jun 1788 – Feb 1793; MP Hindon 9 Feb 1777-80, Newcastle-under-Lyme 1780 – Feb 1793; Serjeant-at-law 12 Feb 1793; Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 12 Feb 1793 – Nov 1813; Privy Councillor 15 Feb 1793; created baronet 27 Nov 1813; FSA 19 Dec 1788; Busby Trustee 21 May 1808; noted for his agreeable manners and conversational talents; m. 26 Dec 1777 Lady Louisa Leveson Gower, eldest dau. of Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford (qv), and his second wife; d. 18 May 1826. DNB.

Lyttelton, Oliver, Viscount Chandos of Aldershot, only son of the Right Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, M. P., sometime Secretary of State for the Colonies, by his second wife, Edith Sophy, daughter of Archibald Balfour (q.v.); b. March 15, 1893; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (R); left Easter 1906 and went to Eton; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1912; Lieut. Grenadier Guards July 15, 1915; temp. Capt. Oct. 18, 1915; served in Great War I; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 4 and Dec. 11, 1917; D.S.O., Oct. 20, 1916; M.C. July 26, 1918; played golf for Cambridge 1913; M. P. Aldershot 1940-54; Controller of Non-Ferrous Metals 1939-40; P. C. 1940; President of the Board of Trade 1940-1 and May-July 1945; Minister of State and Member of War Cabinet 1941-2; Minister of Production and Member of War Cabinet 1942-5; Secretary of State for the Colonies 1951-4; created Viscount Chandos of Aldershot Sept. 10, 1954; chairman of Associated Electrical Insudtries Ltd. 1945-51 and since 1954; m. Jan. 30, 1920, Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, fourth daughter of George, 10th Duke of Leeds; d. 21 Jan. 1972.

LYNDE (or LINDE), SIR HUMPHREY, son of Cuthbert Lynde, Westminster, citizen and grocer, and Margery Baylie; bapt. 27 Aug 1579; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1596, matr. 14 Jan 1596/7, Westminster Stufdent to 1601; BA 1600; adm. Middle Temple 12 Jun 1601; of Cobham, Surrey; knighted 29 Oct 1613; MP Breconshire Feb – Jun 1626; a puritan controversialist, being “a severe enemy to the ponteficians as well in his common discourse, as in his writings” (Wood, Ath. Oxon., ii, dci); author, Via Tuta, the safe way to the true, antient, and Catholic faith, now professed in the Church of England, 1628, and other works; d. 8 Jun 1636. DNB.

LUTWYCHE, THOMAS, son of Edward Lutwyche, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and Anne, dau. of Sir Timothy Turnour, Kt, Bold, Aston Botterell, Shropshire, Serjeant-at-law; bapt. 21 Sep 1674; adm.; KS 1688; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1692, matr. 4 Jul 1692, but never adm. as Westminster Student; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 28 Nov 1697, Bencher 12 Nov 1710, Treasurer 1722; QC c. 1710; MP Appleby 1710-22, Callington 1722-7, Amersham from Feb 1727/8; an able lawyer and Tory politician; of Lutwich, Rushbury, Shropshire; Busby Trustee 11 Mar 1728/9; his reports of cases in the Queen’s Bench, temp. Queen Anne, were published as part xi of Modern Reports, 1781; m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Bagnall, Bretforton, Worcs.; d. 13 Nov 1734. DNB.

LUTTRELL, HON. TEMPLE SIMON, brother of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton (qv) (I); b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1750/1 (Porten's); MP Milborne Port 10 Feb 1775-80; arrested at Boulogne 18 Sep 1793 and confined in the Abbaye and Luxembourg prisons in Paris 24 Oct 1793 – 14 Feb 1795; m. 26 Apr 1778 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Henry Gould, Kt, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; d. in Paris 14 Jan 1803. DNB.

LUTTRELL, HENRY LAWES, 2ND EARL OF CARHAMPTON (I), eldest son of Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton (I) MP, and Maria, dau. of Sir Nicholas Lawes, Kt, Governor of Jamaica; b. 7 Aug 1737; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1750/1 (Porten's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Jan 1755; Ensign, 48th Foot 21 Nov 1757; Lieut., 34th Foot 27 Mar 1759; Capt., 16th Dragoons 6 Aug 1759; Deputy Adjutant-Gen. to Forces in Portugal and Brevet Maj., 14 Apr 1762; local rank of Lieut. -Col. in Portugal 8 Oct 1762; Lieut. -Col., 1st Horse 13 Feb 1765; Brevet Col., 29 Aug 1777; Maj. -Gen., 20 Nov 1782; Col., 6th Dragoon Guards, from 10 Jul 1788; Lieut. -Gen., 12 Oct 1793; Gen., 1 Jan 1798; Adjutant-Gen., Ireland 8 Sep 1770-83; Lieut. -Gen. of Ordnance (I) 12 Oct 1789—Jul 1797, Master Gen. 19 Jul 1797- Aug 1800; entrusted with suppression of the “Defenders” and the pacification of Connaught 1795; Commander-in-Chief, Ireland 1796-7; MP Bossinney 1768 – Mar 1769, Middlesex 15 Apr 1769-74, Bossinney 1774-84, Plympton Erle 1790 – Feb 1794, Ludgershall from 28 Jun 1817; he was defeated by John Wilkes in the celebrated contest for Middlesex in 1769, but was declared elected by the House of Commons; MP (I) Old Leighton 1783 – 14 Jan 1787; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Carhampton (I) 14 Jan 1787; m. 25 Jun 1776 Jane, dau. of George Boyd, Dublin; d. 25 Apr 1821. DNB.

LOWTHER, JAMES, son of Sir Charles Hugh Lowther, Bart., and Isabella, dau. of Rev. Robert Morehead DD, Rector of Easington, Yorks.; nephew of Sir John Henry Lowther, Bart. (qv); b. 1 Dec 1840; adm. Jun 1854 (James'); left Whitsun 1859; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Oct 1858, matr. Mich. 1859; BA 1863; MA 1866; adm. Inner Temple 1 Nov 1861, called to bar 17 Nov 1864; MP (Conservative) York 1865-80, North Lincolnshire 1881-5, Isle of Thanet from 1888; Parliamentary Secretary, Poor Law Board 1867-8; Under-Secretary, Colonial Office 1874-8; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1878-80; Privy Councillor 2 Feb 1878; JP Yorkshire North Riding 1869, also DL; Alderman, Yorkshire North Riding County Council; racehorse owner 1873-1903; member Jockey Club 1877, Steward 1880; President, Elizabethan Club 1864-7, 1890-5, Vice-Pres. 1885-90 and from 1896; Busby Trustee 19 Jun 1877-90; d. unm. 12 Sep 1904. DNB.

LOWTHER, HENRY, 3RD EARL OF LONSDALE, eldest son of Hon. Henry Cecil Lowther (qv); b. 27 Mar 1818; adm. 26 Apr 1830 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jul 1834, fellow commoner 20 Oct 1835; MA 1838; Cornet, 1st Life Guards 24 Sep 1841; Lieut., 5 Sep 1843; Capt., 9 Mar 1849; sold out 1 Dec 1854; MP (Conservative) West Cumberland 1847 – 4 Mar 1872; DL Cumberland 1867, Lord Lieut. Cumberland and Westmorland from 14 Dec 1868; succ. uncle as 3rd Earl of Lonsdale 4 Mar 1872; member Jockey Club, Steward 1844-5; m. 31 Jul 1852 Emily Susan, eldest dau. of St. George Francis Caulfield, Donamon Castle, co. Roscommon; d. 15 Aug 1876.

LOW, SIR FREDERICK, eldest son of Stephen Philpot Low, Sydenham, Kent, banker, and Hannah, dau. of Arthur Austin, Little Shelford, Cambs.; b. 21 Nov 1856; adm. 22 Sep 1870 (G); left Aug 1871; adm. solicitor Apr 1878; practised in King Street, Cheapside, City of London, firm Turner and Low; adm. Middle Temple 16 May 1889, called to bar 30 Apr 1890, Bencher 26 Jan 1911; South-Eastern Circuit; KC 1902; Recorder of Ipswich 1906-15; a Commissioner of Assize 1912-5; contested (Liberal) Salisbury 1900 Clapham 1906; MP (Liberal) Norwich Jan 1910 – Jan 1915; knighted 1909; a Judge of the High Court, King’s Bench Division, from Jan 1915; m. 28 Jun 1882 Katherine, fourth dau. of Charles Thompson, Park Square, Regent’s Park, London; d. 4 Sep 1917.

LONG, SIR JAMES TYLNEY, BART., eldest son of Sir Robert Long, Bart. (qv); b. 1736; adm. Sep 1749 (Hutton's); in school list 1754; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 Nov 1756; MP Marlborough 11 May 1762-80, Devizes 1780 – Dec 1788, Wiltshire from 14 Dec 1788; travelled in Italy 1764, 1769 and 1777; succ. father as 7th baronet 10 Feb 1767; assumed additional name of Tylney 9 Jun 1775; inherited estates of his uncle John Child Tylney, 2nd Earl Tylney (qv), in 1784; m. 1st, 11 Jul 1775 Hon. Harriett Bouverie, fourth dau. of Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone; m. 2nd, 26 Jul 1785 Lady Catherine Sidney Windsor, dau. of Other Lewis Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth; d. 28 Nov 1794 (M. I. Draycot, Wilts. ).