LEROY “--OBITUARY . 
89 
Wednesday , December 10 th t 1873. 
Dr. Knaggs President in the Chair. 
The following donation was announced, “ Journal of the 
Society of Arts,” Nos. 1092 — 95 from the Society. 
The following Obituary notice of the late Hon. L A. 
LeBoy was read by the President 
It falls to my lot, gentlemen, to bring under your notice 
the loss that this Association has recently sustained by the 
death of one of its oldest and most respected members, and 
I regret that the task is not in the hands of one better 
qualified by personal knowledge of the deceased for its 
performance, though in justice to myself, I claim a tho- 
rough appreciation of his sterling good qualities. 
The Hon. Louis Alexander LeEoy was born at Ajaccio 
in Corsica, in November 1820 ; his father, who afterwards 
died as Governor of Lille in Flanders, being a Captain in 
the French service, and friend and companion-in-arms of 
the illustrious and unfortunate Hey, and his mother being 
a lineal descendant of the Comneni of Constantinople 
(1080.) 
Mr. LeEoy was educated in France, was brought to 
„ Trinidad in 1839 by the late Mrs. Devenish, and on the 
Peru Estate, Mucurapo, prepared for the profession of 
a planter, which he subsequently embraced, and success- 
fully pursued at Savanetta : no small portion of this suc- 
cess being due to his honesty, energy and talent. 
In 1843 Mr. LeEoy married the youngest daughter of 
Mr. P. D’Abadie of this Island, and the grand daughter of 
St. H. Begorrat, who lives to mourn her irreparable loss. 
He died in Marseilles of pneumonia after a few days 
illness on the 27th of October 1873, and the telegram that 
announced his death told of the unexpected bereavement 
