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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO

Comic Opera, "Matrimony"; Cantata, "Annabel Lee"; Orchestral "Serenade" (Suite) in E; Incidental Music to "A Fairy Fantasy," "The Queen's Maries," "Chastelar"; Overture in A Minor, "Celtic"; String Quartet in E; Song Cycle, "The Heart's Desire"; Anthem, "Like as the Hart"; Magnificat and Nunc Dumittis in F; Benediction Service in B flat; Two Volumes of "Irish Tunes for Irish Regiments"; Some 60 songs with pianoforte accompaniment. Literary—"Notes on Irish Music"; "Song and Ballad Music," etc., etc. Recns.: chess and reading. Res.: 2 York Terrace, Cork. Club: Member Savage Club, London, 1892-1917.

LAIDLAW, The Right Hon. Thomas Kennedy, P.C. (1922), J.P. Co. Dublin (High Sheriff, 1919). Res.: Somerton, Castleknock, Co. Dublin.

LAIRD, John, M.A (Edin.), B.A. (Cantab.) Educ.: Aberdeen Grammar School and George Watson's College, Edinburgh; Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities. Assistant in Moral Philosophy at St. Andrews University, 1911-12; Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., 1912-13; Professor of Physic and Metaphysics Queen's University, Belfast, 1913; b May 17th, 1887; eldest son of Rev. D. M. W. Laird, then of Durris, Kincardineshire. Pubns.: Problems of the Self, London, 1917; A Study in Realism, Cambridge, 1920. Res.: 4 Cranmore Gardens, Belfast.

LAKIN, Capt. Michael Laurence, D.S.O. (1915), M.C. (1916), Capt. 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars (Special Reserve). Entered army, 1900; Captain, 1908; retired, 1911; served South Africa, 1900 (medal); European War, 1914-18 (despatches twice, D.S.O., M.C); b. 24th Nov., 1881; m. 1914, Kathleen, dau. of late Lord Maurice FitzGerald, second son of 4th Duke of Leinster, and Lady Adelaide Jane Frances Forbes, dau. of 7th Earl of Granard, and has issue one son. Res.: Horetown, Foulks Mills, Co. Wexford. Club: Cavalry.

LAMBART, Hon. Lionel John Olive, D.S.O. (1916), Capt. R.N. (ret.); a J.P. for Dorset; served in European War, 1915-16; second son of 9th Earl of Cavan, and heir-presumptive to Earldom: b. 1873; m. 1906, Adelaide, dau. of late Capt. A. R. Randolph, 15th Hussars, of East Court, Wilts, and has issue. Res.: Marsh Court, Sherborne, Dorset.

LAMBART, Sir Gustavus Francis William, Baronet (Unit. Kgd., 1911), C.V.O (1903), J.P. Co. Meath; Secretary to Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick from 1887; Page to Earl of Eglinton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Chamberlain to Viceroy of Ireland (Duke of Marlborough), 1876-80; Gentleman-in-Waiting to Viceroy of Ireland (Earl of Carnarvon), 1885; Comptroller to Viceroy of Ireland (Earl of Dudley), 1902, and Chamberlain, 1903; late Major and Hon. Lieut.-Col 5th Batt. Leinster Regt. Recns.: farming, motoring, fishing; eldest son of G. W. Lambart (d. 1886), J.P., of Beau Pare, Co. Meath, and Lady Fanny Lambart (d. 1898), dau. of 3rd Marquess of Lambart . b. 1848; m. 13th Sept, 1911, Kathleen Barbara Sophia, eldest dau. of the late Col. John Arthur Henry Moore-Brabazon, of Tara Hill, Co. Meath, and has issue one son. Res.: Beau Pare, Co. Meath. Clubs: Carlton, London, S.W.; Kildare Street, Dublin; Royal St. George Yacht, Kingstown.

LAMBERT, Richard Anderson, A.B. (Trinity College, Dublin), M.D. (Edin.); represents the head of one of the few Wexford families still remaining which link the present time with the days of Strongbow and Dermot MacMorrogh (the last native Chief of Leinster) from whom they obtained grants of land as early as A.D. 1171. Educ.: studied 1stly scientific subjects at Trinity College, Dublin, but subsequently studied medicine and graduated as M.D. at the University of Edinburgh in 1877; practised medicine for several years in England and elsewhere but has since retired; has written certain original and important articles on University Education and Degrees in some of the leading journals which elicited the approbation of various eminent authorities, and which have contributed more or less to alter and improve the older methods of teaching and examination in some of our leading Universities. Recns.: Antiquarian and Genealogical researches; scientific studies, gardening, etc. Res.: John's Hill, Waterford.

LANESBOROUGH, Earl of, 1756: Viscount Lanesborough, 1728; Baron of Newtown-Butler, 1715 (Irld.), Charles John Brinsley Butler. 7th Earl, M.V.O., 4th class (1909), elected a Representative Peer for Ireland 1913; Major Coldstream Guards, 1904-14; Lieut-Col. 10th London Regt., 1915-17; Assist. Mil. Sec. to H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, 1908-09: Mil. Sec. to H.E. the Governor-General of Canada, 1909-10: son of John Vansittart Danvers, 6th Earl, and Anne Elizabeth (d. 1900), only child of the late Rev. John Dixon Clark, of Belford Hall, Northumberland: b. 12th Dec. 1865; s. his father 12th Sept., 1905; m. 31st Jan., 1891 Dorothea Gwladys, eldest dau. of the late Major-Gen. Sir Henry Tombs, K.C.B., V.C. and has issue living two daus Res.: Lanesborough Lodge, Belturbet, Co. Cavan: Swithland Hall, Loughborough, Leicestershire: 16 Queen's Street, London, W. Clubs: Carlton, Wellington, Guards, and Turf, London.