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Luard
Luard is a surname, and may refer to: * Arthur John Hamilton Luard (1861−1944), British cricket player * Bertram Luard-Selby (1853−1918), British organist and composer * Caroline Mary Luard (née Hartley) (d. 1908), British murder victim * Charles Camac Luard (1867–1947), British army officer * Constance Mary Luard (née Wilson) (1881−1955), British tennis player * Edward Chauncey Luard (1856−1900), British planter and philatelist * Elisabeth Baron Luard (née Longmore) (born 1942), British food writer * David Evan Trant Luard (1926–1991), British Labour and SDP politician * Henry Richards Luard (1825–1891), British antiquarian * John Luard (1790–1875), British army officer * Kate Evelyn Luard (1872-1962), British nurse * Lowes Dalbiac Luard (1872−1944), British painter * Nicholas Lamert Luard (1937–2004), British writer * Richard George Amherst Luard (1827–1891), British army officer * William Garnham Luard (1820–1910), British naval officer Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Mary Luard
Caroline Mary Luard (''née'' Hartley; 1850 – 24 August 1908) was the victim of an unsolved murder, known as the Seal Chart Murder, after she was mysteriously shot and killed at an isolated summerhouse in a heavily wooded area near Ightham, Kent. Her husband, Major-General Luard, later committed suicide. It has since been suggested that John Dickman, who was hanged for killing a passenger on a train in 1910, may have been involved in her death. Background Caroline Luard was born Caroline Mary Hartley in the last quarter of 1850, in Egremont, Cumberland, youngest daughter of Thomas Hartley of Gillfoot. In the summer of 1875 she married Charles Edward Luard and had two sons by him – Charles Elmhirst Luard, born in August 1876, and Eric Dalbiac Luard, born April 1878. Elmhirst was the surname of Charles Luard's mother, while Dalbiac referred back to Charles's grandmother, Louisa Dalbiac (1761–1830), who had married Captain Peter John Luard (1754–1830) in 1784. Charles E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Luard
John Luard (1790–1875) was a British Army officer and author of ''History of the Dress of the British Soldier'' Life He was fourth son of Captain Peter John Luard of the 4th Dragoons, of Blyborough, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, and his wife Louisa, daughter of Charles Dalbiac of Hungerford Park, Berkshire, born on 5 May 1790. His seven brothers included Henry Luard, a banker (father of the antiquarian Henry Luard, Henry Richards Luard) and Robert (father of the organist Bertram Luard-Selby). He served in the Royal Navy 1802–7, and on 25 May 1809 obtained a cornetcy without purchase in his father's old regiment. Luard served in the 4th Dragoons through the Peninsular War campaigns of 1810–14, gaining a Military General Service Medal with clasps for the battles of battle of Albuera, Albuera, battle of Salamanca, Salamanca, and battle of Toulouse (1814), Toulouse. Afterwards he served with the 16th Light Dragoons as lieutenant at the battle of Waterloo (Waterloo Medal, medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luard Family
The Luard family is an English family of Huguenot origin associated with Blyborough in Lincolnshire and Witham in Essex that was involved in several areas of public life.Johanna Merz, ''The Luards of Blyborough Hall'' (2014). Members include: * Arthur John Hamilton Luard (1861−1944), British cricket player and army officer, great-nephew of John * Bertram Luard-Selby (1853−1918), British organist and composer, nephew of John, cousin of Henry and Richard * Caroline Mary Luard (née Hartley) (d. 1908), British murder victim, whose husband was a half-brother of Bertram, nephew of John, and cousin of Henry and Richard * Charles Camac Luard (1867–1947), British army officer, son of Richard * Constance Mary Luard (née Wilson) (1881−1955), British tennis player, whose husband was a nephew of Richard and cousin of Charles * Edward Chauncey Luard (1856−1900), British planter and philatelist, nephew of Henry * Henry Richards Luard (1825–1891), British antiquarian, nephew of J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Chauncey Luard
Edward Chauncey Luard (1856 — 22 September 1900) was a British planter in Demerara, British Guiana (now Guyana). He was influential among the planter community in British Guiana and was a member of the Court of Policy for East Demerara. He led the campaign to introduce a ballot into the colony's constitution in 1895. A noted philatelist, Luard's collection of the stamps of British Guiana included examples of the " cottonreel" issues, some of which are now part of the Royal Philatelic Collection. Early life and family Edward Luard was the eldest son of William Charles Luard of Llandaff, South Wales, and Clara Julia Jane. He was christened in 1856 at Saint John, Cardiff. In 1886, he married Lucy Amelia (Mamie) Winter, daughter of Nathaniel Winter, of Blenheim Plantation, Leguan.'' The Argosy'' (Demerara), 4 September 1886, p. 4. Career Luard arrived in British Guiana as a young man, working first at Plantation Peter's Hall, a sugar plantation on the east bank of the Demera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Luard
Arthur John Hamilton Luard (3 September 1861 — 22 May 1944) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the British Army. Early life and military career Luard was born at British India in Waltair in September 1861, the son of Colonel George Francis Luard (a nephew of Lieutenant Colonel John Luard) and Jane Hamilton, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Johnstone Hamilton. He was educated in England at Denstone College, before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Norfolk Regiment as a lieutenant in May 1882, and saw action in the Burma Expedition from 1885. He was promoted to captain in May 1889, and was seconded to the staff in April 1899, where he held the appointment of Superintendent of Gymnasia at Portsmouth until January 1900. With the beginning of the Second Boer War in 1899, he went with his regiment to South Africa to serve in the war from 1900 to 1902. While there, he was wounded in action near Brandfort in March 1900 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowes Dalbiac Luard
Lowes Dalbiac Luard (27 August 1872 – 1944) was a British painter. Early life Luard was born in Calcutta, the son of Col. Charles Henry Luard of the Royal Engineers and grandson of Lt.-Col. John Luard. Educated in England, and having won a place at the University of Oxford to study mathematics at Balliol, he decided instead to study art, and in 1892 enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where his contemporaries included Augustus John and Ambrose McEvoy. He left the Slade in 1897 and then studied in Paris under Lucien Simon and Rene Menard. He moved to Paris in 1905 with his wife Louey and their baby daughter Veronica and, except for the war years, lived in the city for almost thirty years. In Paris he became well known for his paintings and drawings of large working horses. Two of his most notable paintings, ''Timberhauling on the Seine'' (1914) and ''Percherons at Water'' (1911), are from this period. World War I Lowes Luard enlisted in the British Arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Luard
Elisabeth Luard (born 1942) née Longmore is a food writer, artist and broadcaster. She is Chair Emerita of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. She was born in 1942, shortly before her father Richard Longmore was killed in action as wing commander of CXX squadron while engaging U-539. Her mother, Millicent Baron, remarried a diplomat who took her to his postings in Uruguay, Spain and Mexico. She worked at the satirical magazine ''Private Eye'' where she met and married the proprietor, Nicholas Luard Nicholas Lamert Luard (26 June 1937 Hampstead, London – 25 May 2004 Kensington, London) was a writer and politician. Background He was educated at Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and was taught by F. ..., in 1962. They had four children. Publications * ''European Peasant Cookery: The Rich Tradition'' (1986) * ''The Princess and the Pheasant and other recipes'' (1987) * ''The Barricaded Larder: Food from the Storecupboards of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Luard
Admiral Sir William Garnham Luard (7 April 1820 – 19 May 1910) was a leading British naval figure during the latter half of the 19th century. Naval career Born in 1820, he was the eldest son of a local magistrate, William Wright Luard J.P., D.L. of Witham Lodge, Witham, Essex (formerly of Hatfield Peverel Priory) and Charlotte Garnham, only child of Thomas Garnham of Felsham Hall, Suffolk. The Luards were a prominent family of Protestant Huguenot merchants who had fled to England in the late 17th century as part of the mass exodus of Huguenots from France to England that followed the Edict of Fontainebleau, 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Luard entered the Royal Naval College (formerly the Royal Naval Academy) at Portsmouth at the age of 13 and later studied at Portsmouth Naval College. He served extensively and saw action in the South China Sea, for which he was recognized in dispatches and decorated for gallantry and bravery several times including being named Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertram Luard-Selby
Bertram Luard-Selby (12 February 1853 – 26 December 1918) was an English composer and cathedral organist. As an organist, he served in Salisbury Cathedral and Rochester Cathedral. As a composer, he wrote prolifically for the church, the concert-hall and the theatre. Life and works Luard-Selby was born at Ightham Mote, Kent.''The Musical Times'', March 1908, p. 159 He studied the organ at the Leipzig Conservatoire under Carl Reinecke and was appointed organist at, successively, St. Barnabas, Marylebone, and Highgate School (1876); Salisbury Cathedral (1881); St John's Church, Torquay, 1884; and St. Barnabas, Pimlico, 1887. He was appointed organist of Rochester Cathedral on the death of the incumbent, John Hopkins, in 1900, and held the post until 1916, when he resigned to take up a post at Bradfield College. He was the musical editor of ''Hymns Ancient and Modern'', published in 1904. He also gave chamber music concerts in London in the 1880s. Fuller Maitland, J. A. and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Luard
David Evan Trant Luard (31 October 1926 – 8 February 1991), most commonly known as Evan Luard, was a British Labour Party and Social Democratic Party (SDP) politician, and a renowned international relations scholar. Education and early career Luard was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, Felsted School and King's College, Cambridge, where he gained a First in Part I of the Modern Languages tripos. In 1950, Luard joined the Foreign Service, and after learning Chinese he was stationed in Peking from 1952 to 1954. In 1956 he resigned from the diplomatic service in protest of Britain's involvement in the Suez Crisis. He became a research fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, in 1957, where he was able to research Chinese relations with Britain. He was a Labour councillor on Oxford City Council from 1958 to 1961. Political career Having first contested the seat in 1964, Luard was elected as the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford in 1966. He served as MP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Luard
Lieutenant-General Richard George Amherst Luard (29 July 1827 – 24 July 1891) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada. Military career Born the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Luard and educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Luard was commissioned into the 51st Regiment of Foot in 1845. Later that year he transferred to the 3rd Regiment of Foot. In 1854 he transferred to the 77th Regiment of Foot and served in the Crimean War as a Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General: he was mentioned in despatches for his part in the Siege of Sevastopol. He served in the Second Opium War taking part in an expedition to China in 1857. In 1860 he was appointed Assistant Inspector of Volunteers and in 1875 he was made assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general for the Northern District in England. In 1880 he became General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada. He sought to introduce permanent infantry training schools b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Evelyn Luard
Kate Evelyn Luard, (29 June 1872 – 16 August 1962), was a British nurse in the Second Boer War and First World War who was awarded the Royal Red Cross and Medal bar, Bar. She was the author of two books describing her experiences. Early life Luard was born in Aveley vicarage on 29 June 1872. Her father was Bixby Garnham Luard, the vicar of Aveley between 1871 and 1895. Her mother was Clara Isabella Sandford Bramston. She had twelve brothers and sisters, three of whom were born after her. She subsequently moved to Birch, Essex after her father was appointed to that living. She was educated at Croydon High School, where the headmistress, Dorinda Neligan, had served as a nurse at the Siege of Metz (1870), Siege of Metz during the Franco Prussian War in 1870–71. Luard worked as a teacher and governess in order to pay for nursing training at King's College Hospital, London. War service Luard served as a nurse in the Second Boer War and was one of the first nurses to join the Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
