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Authority recordLongridge [née Mallory], Annie Victoria (1887-1989), sister of mountaineer George Mallory
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- 1887-1989
Annie Victoria, known as Avie was the younger sister of George Mallory [there were four siblings - Avie, Mary, George and Trafford]. Avie married Harry Longridge in 1910 and they had five children.
Longstaff, Tom (1875-1964), doctor, explorer and mountaineer
- Person
- 1875-1964
Dr Tom Longstaff was a member of the 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition, serving as medical officer.
Tom Longstaff was the first person to climb a summit of over 7,000 metres in elevation, Trisul, in the India/Pakistan Himalayas in 1907. He also made important explorations and climbs in Tibet, Nepal, the Karakoram, Spitsbergen, Greenland, and Baffin Island. He was president of the (British) Alpine Club from 1947 to 1949 and a founding member of The Alpine Ski Club in 1908. He was the chief medical officer and naturalist on the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition.
Lons, Dirk Evertsz. (1599-1666), engraver and publisher
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- 1599-1666
Lonsdale, James (1777-1839), artist
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- 16 May 1777 – 17 January 1839
A fashionable and prolific English portrait painter who exhibited some 138 works at the Royal Academy between 1802 and 1838, and was one of the founders of the Society of British Artists. His work was influenced and overshadowed by his more successful contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830). Lonsdale was a pupil of George Romney (1734–1802).
Lonsdale, who started off as a pattern designer at Margerison and Glover's print-works in Catterall, was encouraged as an artist by the Lancaster architect Richard Threlfall, of whom he exhibited a portrait in 1809. Lord Archibald, impressed by the quality of his painting and drawing, invited him to Ashton Hall. Here he met two of Lord Archibald's daughters, Lady Anne Hamilton and Lady Susan, the Countess of Dunmore. Feeling that his future would hold more promise in the city, he moved to London, becoming a favourite pupil of Romney's, accompanying him abroad on several occasions. He enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools on 23 October 1801. Lonsdale married a Lancastrian, Miss Thornton, and set up a residence in Southgate.
Louis XIII (1601-1643), King of France
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- 1601-1643
King of France (1610–43). Son of son of Henry IV.
Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France
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- 1638-1715
King of France (1643–1715). Known for maintaining a system of absolute rule: the king ruled unhampered by challenges from representative institutions but with the aid of ministers and councils subject to his will.
Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France
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- 1754-1793
The last king of France (1774–92) before the French Revolution.
Louis XVII (1785–1795), son of Louis XVI
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- 1785-1795
Son of Louis XVI, proclaimed King of France by royalists in 1793. Placed in the care of a shoemaker by the Republican government after the execution of his father, he probably died of neglect.
Low, Sir David Alexander Cecil (1891–1963), cartoonist
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- 7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963
A New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney in 1911, and ultimately to London (1919), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his satirising of the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times.
Lowe, Samuel (1775/76 - 1834), clergyman and President of Magdalene College, Cambridge
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- c. 1775/76 - 24 November 1834
Educated at Southwell School, Nottinghamshire, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
He was a Fellow of Magdalene College from 1802-1814, and President from 1805-1810. He referred to himself as the 'Pepys Librarian' but there is currently no further evidence to support that he was appointed to this post. After leaving Magdalene College he became the Rector of Darlaston, Staffordshire, until his death.
Lubbock, Percy (1879-1965), Pepys librarian and writer
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- 4 June 1879 - 2 August 1965
Percy Lubbock was born on 4 June 1879 in London, the fourth child of Frederic Lubbock, merchant banker, and his wife, Catherine. He was educated at Eton College, then at King's College, Cambridge, where he was placed in the first class for the classical tripos in 1901.
After university Lubbock worked for the Board of Education in a post he found 'uncongenial'. In 1906 he was elected Pepys Librarian at Magdalene College. In that year his first book, Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her Letters, was published. In 1908 he gave up his post in order to devote himself to writing, and in 1909 he published Samuel Pepys.
Lubbock contributed regularly to the Times Literary Supplement between 1908 and 1914 and during the First World War worked on behalf of the Red Cross. Henry James was his idol and friend and after James's death in 1916 Lubbock orchestrated the publication of the unfinished works (The Ivory Tower, The Sense of the Past, and The Middle Years), a two-volume collection of letters, and a memoir.
In 1925 he published an edition of A. C. Benson's Diary, commemorating the Eton schoolmaster whose recommendation had secured Lubbock the post of Pepys Librarian.
In 1926 Lubbock married Lady Sybil Marjorie Scott (1879–1943). They lived at Villa Medici in Fiesole, Italy, for the next fourteen years. In the late 1940s Lubbock moved to Lerici on the Gulf of La Spezia and into his much prized Gli Scafari. He was appointed CBE in 1952. He died at Gli Scafari on 2 August 1965 and was buried at Lerici.
Lucas, John (1807-1874), portrait painter
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- 1807-1874
Luchini, Pietro (1800-1883), artist
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- 1800-1883
Lupton, Thomas Goff (1791–1873), landscape, portrait, and subject engraver
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- 3 September 1791 - 18 May 1873
Luyck, Hans van (active 1580-), engraver, print dealer, publisher and goldsmith
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- active 1580-
Lyell, Sir Charles (1797-1875), 1st Baronet, geologist
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- 14 November 1797 - 24 April 1875
Lys, Pierre (1779-1849), lawyer and politician
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- 11 August 1779 - 14 May 1849
Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer (1803-1873), 1st Baron Lytton, writer and politician
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- 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873
Macfarlane-Grieve, Gavin Malcolm (1893-1974), Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
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- 1893 - 12 April 1974
Educated at the Perse School, Cambridge and Durham University before serving in the First World War. He was stationed at Magdalene as Officer attached to a Short Course and dined frequently with the Master and Fellows. Due to the respect and affection he inspired he was formally admitted to the College at the end of the war at the age of 27 with the unusual status of Fellow-Commoner which gave him dining rights at High Table. He proceeded to his BA in 1923 by means of the examination allowances made to ex-servicemen. He retained his Fellow Commonorship until 1970 when he was made an Honorary Fellow.
He taught Music and Religious Knowledge at the Perse School and became a Governor on his retirement. He was a Scout Master and lived at Toft Manor.
Mackenzie, K. (active 1799-1810), engraver
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- active 1799-1810
Mackinnon, William Alexander (1784–1870), politician and chief of clan Mackinnon
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- 2 August 1784 - 30 April 1840
Mackintosh, Sir James of Kyllachy (1765–1832), political writer and politician
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- 24 October 1765 - 30 May 1832
Scottish political writer and politician.
Maclise, Daniel (1806-1870), painter
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- 1806-1870
Irish-born painter, specializing in historical subject paintings.
Macmillan, Alexander (1818-1896), publisher
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- 3 October 1818 - 25 January 1896
Alexander Macmillan was born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, and was cofounder of Macmillan Publishers in 1843, with his brother Daniel.
Alexander was the partner who developed the literary reputation of the company while Daniel took charge of the business and commercial side. Originally called Macmillan & Co., the firm started as a successful bookshop in Cambridge. The brothers soon started publishing books as well as selling them. After Daniel's death in 1857, Alexander continued to run the firm.
Madou, Jean-Baptiste (1796-1877), painter and lithographer
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- 3 February 1796 - 3 April 1877
Maertens, Jean (1803-1857), politician
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- 1803-1857
Magrath, Edward (1790-1861), secretary of the Athenaeum Club
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- 1790-1861
Secretary of the Athenaeum Club