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Lisle — Loftt.
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for Winchester in 1639, and again in 1640, and whilst in Parliament distinguished himself as a violent anti-royalist and supporter of Cromwell. He was one of the most active in promoting the King's trial, and was the draftsman of the sentence. In 1648-9 he was placed upon the Council of State, and in 1653 took a leading part in nominating the Lord Protector. In 1654 he was elected for Southampton, of which town he was Recorder. la 1657 he became a member of the Protector's House of Peers. At the Restoration Lisle fled to Switzerland, where he was shot dead by Thomas Macdonnell, an Irishman, 11 Aug. 1664. He was buried at Lausanne.


LIVINGSTONE, WILLIAM.
American Statesman.
1723—1790.

Admitted 29 October, 1742.

Son of Colonel Philip Livingstone of New York. He was born at Albany, N.Y., 30 Nov. 1723. The year before his entry at the Temple he graduate at Yale University. In 1752 he published a Digest of the Colony Laws, and in 1758 was elected a member of the New York Assembly. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress, and was one of the framers of the United States Constitution. In 1776 he became Governor of New Jersey, in which State he died 25 July, 1790. He published several treatises of a political character, -and a poem entitled Philosophical Solitude. A Memoir of his life was published by Theodore Sedgwick, his great-grandson, in 1833.


LLOYD, Sir RICHARD.
Judge.
d. 1761.

Admitted 9 February, 1719-20.

Son and heir of Talbot Lloyd of Lichen (Lichfield). He was called to the Bar 24 May, 1723, elected a Bencher 27 Oct. 1728, appointed Reader in 1741, and was Treasurer of the Inn in 1747. Entering Parliament in 1745 he served the office of Solicitor-General in 1754, and became a Judge of the Exchequer in 1759. He died 1761.


LOCKE. See LOK.


LOFFT, CAPELL.
Scholar and Poet.
1806—1873.

Admitted 15 April, 1831.

Second son of Capell Lofft of Troston, Suffolk, a well-known writer. He was born 19 Feb. 1805, at Troston Hall, Suffolk. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he had a distinguished career. He was called to the Bar 6 June, 1834, but soon abandoned law for literature, and in 1837 published anonymously his first work on Self-Formation, or the History of an Individual Mind. His second work was a poem in twelve books entitled Ernest, published in 1839. During the Civil War in America Lofft visited that country and, whilst there, published an edition of Marcus Antoninus, with Critical Notes (1861); and in 1868 Suggestions for the Reformation of the Greek Text of the New Testament. He died at Millmead in Virginia, 1 Oct. 1873.