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.
LIGHTLYE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
LIFFORD, RICHARD, described in Parentelae of 1807 as son of Richard Lifford, Plymouth, Devon, but in fact a natural son of HRH Frederick, Duke of York; b.; in school list 1803; KS (Capt., aged 13) 1807; left 1809; Ensign, 52nd Foot 8 Aug 1809; Lieut., 2 Jul 1811; a great friend of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond (qv) (see Memoirs, 1862, pp. 10-1); d. c. 13 Aug 1811, of wounds received during pursuit of French from Santarem 12 Mar 1811.
Liddiard, Alexander Rockley, son of Edgar Stratton Liddiard MBE JCS, of Long Ditton, Surrey, and Mabel Audrey, d. of Herbert Richard Brooke, sometime asst master Tonbridge Sch., of Parkstone, Dorset; b. 26 Nov. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (KS); left Apr. 1934; St Cath. Coll. Camb., matric. 1934, BA 1937; RA 1940-1 (Lieut.), RE 1942-6 (Maj.); Gordon Woodroffe & Co. Madras 1946-66, dir. 1952, man. dir. 1964, retd 1966; farming in Lanarkshire; m. 30 Mar. 1946 Agnes Thomson, d. of George Hazell Milln of Airdrie, Lanarkshire; d. 16 Aug. 1991.
LEYBORNE, ROBERT, son of Anthony Leyborne, London, and Anne, sister of William Shippen (qv); b. London; adm.; QS (aged 15) 1708; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Mar 1710/1, but did not go into residence; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1712, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1712 – void Oct 1715 (on election as Fellow, Brasenose); BA 19 Jan 1714/5; MA 1717; BD and DD 1731; Fellow, Brasenose Coll. Oxford 10 Oct 1715 – 5 Dec 1730, Junior Bursar 1727-8; Proctor 1723; ordained; Rector of St. Dunstan’s, Stepney, Middlesex, from 21 Jul 1730, and of St. Anne’s, Limehouse, from 25 Sep 1730; Principal of St. Alban Hall, Oxford, from 1736; m. 1st, ---; lic. to m. 2nd, 20 Jan 1732/3 Rebeccah Towne, St. Mary’s, Stratford at Bow, Essex; d. 13 May 1759.
LEY, JOHN HENRY, eldest son of Henry Ley, Trehill, Devon, Town Clerk of Exeter, and Mary, dau. of Capt. Charles Smith RN, Lieut. -Gov. Greenwich Hospital; b. 28 Jan 1777; adm.; Min. Can. 1790; KS 1791; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1795, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 May 1795, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1796 – void 25 Jun 1807; BA 1799; MA 1801; adm. Middle Temple 27 Jun 1797, called to bar 10 Jun 1803, Bencher 31 Jan 1843; Second Clerk Assistant, House of Commons Jul 1801-14, Clerk Assistant 1814-20, Chief Clerk from 31 Oct 1820; of Trehill, Devon; m. 23 Oct 1809 Lady Dorothy Frances Hay, second dau. of George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale (S); d. 21 Aug 1850.
LEY, JACOB, son of Rev. Jacob Ley, Rector of Ashprington, Devon, and Caroline, dau. of Rev. John Hill; b. 18 Jun 1803; adm. 11 Oct 1816 (Packharness'); KS 1818; St. Alban Hall, Oxford, matr. 18 May 1822; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1822, Westminster Student (still 1847), Tutor, Censor, Catechist, Librarian; BA 1826; MA 1828; BD 1840; Proctor 1839; ordained deacon 1827, priest 1828 (both Oxford); Vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford 1845-58; Vicar of Staverton, Northants, from 24 May 1858; d. unm. 10 Apr 1881.