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LITTLEDALE, ARTHUR, son of Charles Littledale (qv); b. 12 Dec 1815; adm. 12 Jun 1828 (Stikeman's); KS 1829; left 1833; at Haileybury Coll. 1834; Writer, EICS Bengal 1834; arrived in India 26 Sep 1835; Assistant to Commissioner of Revenue and Circuit, Bauleah 30 Aug 1836, Dacca 1838; Magistrate at Faridpur, Dacca, Murshidabad and Mymensingh 1843, Tipperah 1849, Sylhet 1850, Rajeshahye 1851, Purnea 1854; Collector, Sarun 1857; Civil and Sessions Judge, Nudda 1859; retd. 1 Aug 1861; m. 1st, 28 Oct 1835 Henrietta Catherine, only dau. of George Ewan Law (qv); m. 2nd, 20 Jan 1853 Emily, dau. of Richard Barnes; d. 2 Sep 1888.

Little, William John Neil, son of Ernest Muirhead Little (q.v.); b. June 17, 1894; adm. as K.S. Sept. 24, 1908; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1913, matric. Michaelmas 1913; B.A. and M.A. 1922; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. Beds Regt. Sept. 1, 1914; Lieut. May 1, 1915; Major Aug. 16, 1918; served in France with 1st Batt. April-Dec. 1915, and with M. G. C. Dec. 1915-May 1918; Instructor to 77th and 30th Divs. U. S. A. Army May-July 1918; seconded to 58th M. G. Batt. Aug. 1918-March 1919; mentioned in despatches L. G. May 23 and Dec. 27, 1918; member of section, International Labour Office of the League of Nations Nov. 1921-40; asst. Chief of Section 1943-6; Counsellor 1947; retired 1954; Lieut. General List Jan. 15, 1941; Staff Capt. War Office 1941-2; Major, D. A. A. G., War Office 1942-3.

LITTLE, THOMAS, son of Thomas Little, York; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 224).

LISTER, HENRY, son of Lieut. -Col. William Lister, 3rd Foot Guards, Twickenham, Middlesex, and Sarah Nicol, Nevile House, Twickenham; b.; adm. (aged 14 ) Sep 1740 (Hawkins'); KS 1741; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1745, but never adm .; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 9 Mar 1744/5; Lieut. and Capt., 29 Mar 1748; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 4 May 1758; Brevet Col., 25 May 1772; Second Major, 2nd Foot Guards 15 Dec 1773, First Major 8 Sep 1775; Maj. -Gen., 29 Aug 1777; Lieut. -Col. commanding 2nd Foot Guards 21 Nov 1777; Lieut. -Gen., 26 Nov 1782; served on expedition to Cherbourg 1759; ADC to George III; m. 23 Oct 1760 Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Henry Stratford, Overstone Hall, Northants; d. 17 Nov 1785.

LIPSCOMB, WILLIAM HENRY, brother of Howley Christopher Lipscomb (qv); b. 14 May 1836; adm. 6 Jan 1844; QS 1851; left 1854; clerk, Paymaster-General’s Office, Dublin; d. 16 Nov 1905.

LIPSCOMB, HOWLEY CHRISTOPHER, son of Right Rev. Christopher Lipscomb DD, Bishop of Jamaica, and his second wife Mary Harriett, eldest dau. of William Page (KS 1791, qv); b. 10 Dec 1834; adm. 6 Jan 1844; QS 1849; left 1851; Clerk, 3rd cl., War Office Dec 1855 – Apr 1865; lunatic, in hospital for insane at Exeter, Devon (1881 Census).

LINFIELD, JAMES; b.; adm.; KS 1665; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1669, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1669, scholar 1670; BA 1672/3; MA 1676; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1674 – c. 1695, Tutor 1677.

LINDSAY, WILLIAM, son of Sir David Lindsay, Bart. [? Lieut. -Gen., Col. 59th Foot], and Susanna Charlotte, widow of George Ellis, Jamaica, and dau. of Samuel Long, Jamaica; b.; adm. 8 Jun 1773; KS (aged 13) 1776; one of five Westminster boys convicted at Middlesex QS 21 May 1779, of a gross assault on a man in Dean’s Yard (Annual Register 1779, 213); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1780, matr. 24 May 1780, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1780 – void for absence 12 Jun 1784; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 11 Jun 1781; Secretary of Legation, St. Petersburg Jul 1788-91; Secretary to Embassy, Paris 1792; Governor of Tobago 1794; d. Jun 1796.

LIMITER (or LEMETAYER), CHARLES, eldest son of George Limiter, Receiver-Gen. and Solicitor to Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and Anne ---; b.; adm.; KS 16 Nov 1610; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1615, matr. 31 Dec 1616, aged 17, Westminster Student to 1626; BA 1618 (incorp. Cambridge 1619); MA 1621; Receiver-Gen. and Solicitor to Dean and Chapter, Westminster, jointly with his father, 1621; ordained; Rector of Stone, Kent 1624-35.

Lilly, Geoffrey Laurence, son of Rev. Christopher Charles Campbell Lilly, Rector of Aldborough, Norfolk, and Margaret, d. of Edward Gay and granddaughter of Thomas Nelson Waterfield (qv); b. 10 Aug. 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (KS); left July 1937; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1937, BA 1941, MA 1944; Roy. Norfolk Regt (TA) 1939-41 (Lieut.), Queen's Roy. Regt (Capt.), wounded Tunisia; TD; dir. Aldborough Hall Estates Ltd and William Gaymer & Sons Ltd (cider makers) of Attleborough, Norfolk; m. 18 Oct. 1958 Antoinette Loftus Airey Fitzroy, d. of Lieut.-Col. J. L. Garstin; d. 6 Sept. 2000.