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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (LECLERCQ LOIZILLON.) 



was the author of more than a hundred books 

 for children, of which the most popular, Chick- 

 seed without Chickweed, reached a sale of half 

 a million copies. Among her other books are 

 Children of Scripture; Mamma's Bible Stories; 

 Conquerors and Captives (1875); In the Begin- 

 ning, or From Eden to Canaan (1875) ; The Star 

 of Promise (1875); The Story of Stories (1875); 

 and Requiescat (1888). 



Leclercq, Hose (Mrs. Rose Fuller), English 

 actress, born in Liverpool in 1846: died in Lon- 

 don, March 25, 1899. She was the daughter of 

 Charles and Margaret Leclercq, and sister of Car- 

 lotta Leclercq and Charles Leclercq, all players of 

 high reputation. Her first appearance in a speak- 

 ing part was as Ceres in The Tempest before 

 Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. She went 

 first before a London audience June 26, 1854, as 

 first dancer in the ballet at the Princess's Thea- 

 ter, and continued at this theater as a dancer and 

 actress in burlesques until 1860. On Sept. 28, 

 1861, her first notable success was made in the 

 part of Mrs. Waverly in John Brougham's Play- 

 ing with Fire. She originated the part of Mary 

 Vance in Burnand's The Deal Boatman, Sept. 21, 

 1863, and thenceforward was a popular player of 

 emotional and serious characters. She played 

 then for several seasons outside of London in 

 Shakespearean and standard drama. When Dion 

 Boucicault's After Dark was produced, Aug. 12, 

 1868, she was the original Eliza, the heroine, and 

 by her fine acting contributed much toward the 

 wonderful popularity of that drama and its long 

 run. At the Adelphi, in 1869, she was the orig- 

 inal Kate Jessop in the same author's Lost at 

 Sea, the success of which was nearly equal to that 

 of the previously noted play. A long engagement 

 at the Princess's Theater in London began March 

 7, 1870, when she appeared as the heroine in the 

 first performance of Boucicault's Paul Lafarge. 

 In 1871 she played Margaret in the King o' Scots, 

 Marguerite in Faust and Marguerite, and Miss 

 Sterling in The Clandestine Marriage, and was 

 the original Ellen Moriarty in Falconer's Eileen 

 Oge, June 29, 1871. When Charles Fechter re- 

 vived Ruy Bias at the Adelphi, March 2, 1872, 

 she played the Queen. She played Desdemona 

 with Samuel Phelps at the Princess's on Sept. 28, 

 1873, and Mrs. Ford in The Merry Wives of 

 Windsor, Dec. 19, 1874. She was the original 

 Claire Ffoilliot in The Shaughraun at Drury 

 Lane, Sept. 4, 1875, and the heroine of That Lass 

 o' Lowrie's at The Opera Comique, Sept. 1, 1877. 

 It may be said that from 1870 she was the most 

 popular actress of the English stage. Other parts 

 in which she was a favorite with the English 

 people were Galatea in Pygmalion and Galatea, 

 Princess Zeolide in The Palace of Truth, Lady 

 Hilda in Broken Hearts, Suzanne in A Scrap of 

 Paper, Countess d'Autreval in the Ladies' Battle, 

 and Ruth in Ruth's Romance. She played Olivia 

 in a successful revival of Twelfth Night at the 

 Lyceum, July 8, 1884. In 1888 she was engaged 

 for the Haymarket Theater stock company, and 

 appeared as Maria Leczinska in The Pompadour, 

 March 31, and in Captain Swift, Sept. 1, as Lady 

 Staunton. She was the Mistress Page in Beer- 

 bohm Tree's production of The Merry Wives of 

 Windsor, and afterward Mrs. Palfreyman in 

 Wealth. When The Dancing Girl was produced 

 at the Haymarket, Jan. 15, 1891, she was Lady 

 Bawtrey, and thereafter she remained in London, 

 playing granges dames. Her last performance 

 was Lady Beechinor in The Manoeuvres of Jane, 

 March 25, 1899. 



Leitner, Gottlieb William, Anglo-Indian 

 educator, born in Pesth, Hungary, in 1840; died 



in Bonn, Germany, March 22, 1899. He was edu- 

 cated in Constantinople and Brussa, in Moham- 

 medan schools, becoming familiar with the Le- 

 vant to such an extent that he was appointed 

 chief interpreter to the British commissariat in 

 the Crimean War. He completed his studies in 

 King's College, London, and was appointed Pro- 

 fessor of Arabic, Turkish, and Modern Greek in 

 1859, and in 1861, when the Oriental section of 

 the college was founded, Professor of Arabic and 

 Mohammedan Law. A few years afterward he 

 went to India to take charge of the Government 

 college at Lahore. Later he founded the Punjab 

 University, where Western science was taught in 

 the vernacular for the first time in northern India 

 with the approval of Hindu pandits and Moham- 

 medan mullahs, and with the aid of endowments 

 contributed by the maharajahs and rajahs of the 

 native states. Dr. Leitner also founded many 

 public libraries in India, and published journals 

 in Urdu, Arabic, and English. In 1866 he ex- 

 plored for the Government the countries between 

 Kashmir and Cabul. After returning to Europe 

 he edited for ten years the Asiatic Quarterly 

 Review. He founded at Woking the Indian insti- 

 tute for the training of aristocratic young In- 

 dians. He was one of the most accomplished of 

 modern linguists, having an acquaintance with 

 about fifty languages, many of which he spoke 

 fluently. Among his published works are Dardis- 

 tan, The Races of Turkey, Philosophical Gram- 

 mar of Arabic, and Sinin ul Islam: The History 

 and Literature of Mohammedanism in their Re- 

 lations to Universal History. 



Lisbourne, John, English actor, born in Man- 

 chester in 1866; died there, July 6, 1899. He 

 was first engaged as a pantomimist, and played 

 Fripps and the Cabman in Round the Clock, at 

 Stockton-on-Tees, and in the same play at the 

 Fourteenth Street Theater, New York. During 

 his stay in the United .States he was a member 

 of Forepaugh's Circus for several months. On 

 his return to England he took up Irish comedy, 

 and was so successful that he traveled three years 

 in England, Ireland, and Scotland, playing Wid- 

 ow O'Brien and Tommy Cranberry in Fun on 

 the Bristol. His latest successful character was 

 Mrs. Muldoon in the English tours of Muldoon's 

 Picnic, in which he also played Mulcahey. He 

 was especially popular in Dublin and Manchester. 



Lloyd, Daniel Lewis, Welsh prelate, born 

 Nov. 23, 1843; died Aug. 4, 1899. He was edu- 

 cated at Oxford, and was curate from 1867 to 



1872 of Dolgelly, Merionethshire, W 7 ales, and head 

 master of the grammar school there. His abili- 

 ties as an educator were already marked when in 



1873 he became head master of the Friars' School 

 at Bangor, an institution that had a rapid growth 

 under his rule, which continued until 1878. In 

 that year he went to Christ's College at Brecon 

 as its head master, and he continued in that office 

 till in 1890 he was consecrated Bishop of Bangor. 

 As an educator he made a deep and lasting im- 

 pression, and stood easily first in that respect 

 among the Welshmen of his time. As a prelate 

 his success was much less marked. He had a 

 strong aversion to controversy, and as the years 

 following his consecration were full of danger to 

 the Welsh establishment, active defense was nat- 

 urally to be looked for from its four prelates. 

 Bishop Lloyd was incapacitated by temperament 

 from exertion of this kind, and in 1898 he re- 

 signed his bishopric. He was a finished Welsh 

 scholar, and his Emyniadur yr Eglys is a valued 

 addition to Welsh hymnology. 



Loizillon, Gen., French soldier, born in Paris 

 in 1829; died in Dammarie-les-Lys, May 4, 1899. 



