Sir John Scott Lillie (1790 – 29 June 1868) was a decorated officer of the
British Army
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and
Portuguese Army
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who fought in the
Peninsular War
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(1808–1814). He was a landowner, entrepreneur and inventor. He was
Deputy Lieutenant of the
County of Middlesex
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and Chairman of the
Middlesex Quarter Sessions
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, a freemason, a radical politician and supporter of the great Irish statesman
Daniel O'Connell
Daniel O'Connell (I) ( ga, Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilizat ...
. He was an early
antivivisection
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ist and writer.
Background
John Lillie was the eldest son of Philip Lillie Esq., of Drumdoe Castle,
Co. Roscommon and his wife Alicia, née Stafford. One source gives his birth date as 1789. He was heir to properties in Roscommon,
Dublin
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and
Bath
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Plac ...
. The family were said to be related to the
Duke of Portland
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through his mother, Henrietta daughter of
General John Scott
Major General John Scott (1725–1775) "of Balcomie and Scotstarvit" in Scotland, was a Scottish politician and senior British Army officer. He was nicknamed Pawky Scott (Pawky being in Scots dialect "sly, shrewd or one who tricks you").
...
of
Fife
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, but the connection has yet to be established. Lillie's sister, Alicia, married as his second wife, Hugh Mill Bunbury of Guyana; their daughter became a noted
Carmelite
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nun, while their youngest son, Charles Thomas fought in the
Crimean War
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Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...
and was promoted Colonel. Having completed his education, Lillie sought his fortune in the British army. On his return to civilian life, having been thrice wounded in the
Peninsula Campaign, Lillie married Louisa Sutherland (b. 1791), daughter of Capt. Andrew Sutherland RN, Commissioner of
Gibraltar
)
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and his wife Louisa Colebrooke, on 22 January 1820 at St. George Hanover Square, Middlesex. The Lillies had a daughter and three sons, the youngest of whom,
George Arthur Howard, became a Buddhist while out in
India
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as an officer.
Military career
Lillie joined the
6th Warwickshire Regiment of Foot in 1807 as an ensign. The following year he embarked under Sir
Brent Spencer
General Sir Brent Spencer ( – 29 December 1828) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army, seeing active service during the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Peninsular War he became General Wellesl ...
in first expeditionary force to
Portugal
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for service in Barbary, Cadiz and the Tagus. He joined the Lusitanian Legion of the Portuguese Army in the rank of captain, when still only 19 years old, under the watchful eye of Lieutenant-General
William Carr Beresford
General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, (; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he foug ...
, who raised the famous élite corps of light infantry, the
Caçadores
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. Having taken part in engagements in defence of Portugal, Lillie was promoted lieutenant in 1810. He fought at the
Battle of Bussaco
The Battle of Buçaco () or Bussaco, fought on 27 September 1810 during the Peninsular War in the Portuguese mountain range of Serra do Buçaco, resulted in the defeat of French forces by Lord Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese Army.
Having o ...
and took part in the retreat to the
Torres Vedras Lines. In 1812 at the
Battle of Salamanca
The Battle of Salamanca (in French and Spanish known as the Battle of Arapiles) on 22July 1812 was a battle in which an Anglo-Portuguese army under the Earl of Wellington defeated Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces at Arapiles, so ...
, he was reputed to have personally seized the Colours of the 116th French Line Regiment during the struggle for
Arapiles. As commander of the 7th Caçadores, he led his troops into the
Battle of the Pyrenees
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,
Battle of Nivelle
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(1813),
Battle of Orthez
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(1814) and finally, the
Battle of Toulouse (1814)
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, where he was gravely wounded (for the third time) and left for dead for 48 hours on the battlefield. He was awarded the
Decoration of The Lily
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Background
From the end of 1813, Napoleon's armies were fighting on their own soil, c ...
by the French. By the British he was awarded the
Army Gold Cross
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, (later) he was honoured with the
Military General Service Medal
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. In
Wellington's army his progression was somewhat slow; he left the
Peninsula Campaign in the rank of major and in 1816 he was knighted by patent. In the
1831 Coronation Honours, he was made a
Companion of the Bath
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. Also that year,
Pedro of Portugal, promoted him to the rank of major general in the Portuguese Army. By the time he took formal retirement from the British Army, in 1855, he had attained the rank of lieutenant colonel with the commensurate pension. He left a record of his experiences in the war.
The entrepreneur and inventor
![010-brompton-cemetery-15c and Kensington Canal by William Cowen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/010-brompton-cemetery-15c_and_Kensington_Canal_by_William_Cowen.jpg)
Still employed by the Army, but too disabled to serve and so on half pay, and recently married, he was received into the Prince of Wales (
Freemasonry
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) Lodge (1923). On 'sick leave', Sir John sought to apply his energy and experience in London society. In 1822, he had bought 'the Hermitage', a grand villa once owned by the dramatist,
Samuel Foote
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Early l ...
, with a fourteen-acre estate at
North End, in the Parish of
Fulham
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in the
County of Middlesex
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. At that time, his new neighbours, the
Edwardes
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* David Edwardes ( fl. 1532), English anatom ...
and the
Gunters were engaged in catching up with the canal boom and the burgeoning transportation revolution. Lillie, who was already a shareholder in the
Hammersmith Bridge
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project, next became a major investor and actor in the
Kensington Canal
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company, a scheme eventually bitterly opposed by
Lord Holland. His strategy was to link the new Hammersmith river crossing with the village of
Brompton, further downriver and closer to London. For that purpose, he donated some of his land in 1825 for a new stretch of public highway, joining Crown Lane and North End Lane to
Counter's Creek
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(which was then being developed into the Kensington Canal), and the new canal bridge, built by Gunter.
![Lillie Langtry pub (formerly, 'The Lillie Arms) 1835](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Lillie_Langtry_pub_%28formerly%2C_%27The_Lillie_Arms%29_1835.jpg)
To service the canal and wharf construction on land that are today's Langtry Place, Rickett Street and Roxby Place, he laid out two further stretches of unmade road either side of the new highway, named initially as the Richmond Road. The unmade roads were eventually called Richmond Gardens – later Empress Place – and Seagrave Road in Fulham. Around 1830, he also built the 'North End Brewery' and tavern to the South of the highway, together with a
maltings
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to the north on the shorter stretch, initially managed by a Miss Goslin. To commemorate his development of the area and as its original freeholder, the 1835 tavern became known as the "Lillie Arms" (now renamed 'The
Lillie Langtry
Emilie Charlotte, Lady de Bathe (née Le Breton, formerly Langtry; 13 October 1853 – 12 February 1929), known as Lillie (or Lily) Langtry and nicknamed "The Jersey Lily", was a British socialite, stage actress and producer.
Born on the isl ...
', after the actress and mistress, among others, of the
Prince Of Wales
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). The Fulham stretch of Richmond Road and the canal bridge were eventually renamed Lillie Road and Lillie Bridge respectively. The canal project was dogged by financial difficulties and was an ill-considered venture, whose time had passed. It eventually gave way to the railways, as first one track was laid along the canal, and in the 1860s that was filled in and a second rail track put down.
Sir John Lillie decided to leave North End in 1837 and moved with his family to
Chelsea
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in the County of Middlesex, where he occupied 12,
Cheyne Walk
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, a 'noble'
Georgian
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mansion, to which he made major structural additions. From there, he moved to
Kensington
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The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...
, probably in the late 1840s, where he remained to the end of his days.
Patent holder
During his lifetime, Sir John Scott Lillie took out upwards of 30 patents for all manner of improvements ranging from mechanisms for kneading dough, tilling fields, the chemical composition of stucco to propulsion engines on land and in the water. In 1836, he designed a power unit intended for propelling carriages and barges for which he was granted a patent. His military background influenced his design of the 'Lillie Rifle battery' an early form of machine gun.
Aware of the challenges for transport caused by the transformation of open fields into industrialised areas, Lillie applied himself to the creation of durable street paving. He designed a system using layers of wood and asphalt to make it weather-proof and was granted a patent.
In 1863, he was a founding member of the 'Institute of Inventors' and took the chair at the first annual general meeting, styled as 'General Sir John Scott Lillie'.
The politician and activist
While living in North End, Fulham, Lillie took up civic duties. He was swept up in the debate over
parliamentary reform
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. In 1831, with the accession of a
new king, he published a pamphlet about the redistribution of power in Parliament and the curbing of corruption in the electoral system. He was connected with the
Whig politician,
John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford
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. In January 1835 Sir John Lillie stood for election as a
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in the borough (constituency) of
King's Lynn
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in the County of Norfolk, but despite loud support, he only managed to come third. His Irish roots and connections led Lillie to an active interest in
Catholic emancipation
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. He was a friend and supporter of
Daniel O'Connell
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. In his role as magistrate, Sir John intervened in 1840 in the matter of 'non-restraint of lunatics' at
Hanwell Asylum
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, where it was reported that a lax approach was leading to self-harm by some patients. The matter was taken up in the press and in ''
The Lancet
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The journal publishes original research articles, ...
''.
Even in advanced old age, Lillie took a stance against the cruel treatment of animals in experiments, witness his letter to ''The Lancet'' in January 1861. He was still writing to the press on the power of musketry in 1866. Sir John Lillie was widowed in May 1860, when his wife Dame Louisa died at
Dover
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. He then married widow Elisabeth Hannah Carew on 26 June 1862 at the British Embassy in Paris. She survived him. He himself died at his residence in Norfolk Terrace, Kensington on 29 June 1868 and was buried at
Brompton Cemetery
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, very close to his earlier efforts on behalf of transport development in
Fulham
Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea. The area faces Wandsworth ...
.
Awards and honours
* The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, CB (Great Britain)
* Army Gold Cross, (Great Britain), for Pyrenees, three clasps, Nivelle, Orthez, Toulouse
* Military General Service, (Great Britain) seven clasps, for
Battle of Roliça
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,
Battle of Vimeiro
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, Bussaco,
Battle of Badajoz (1812)
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,
Battle of Salamanca
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,
Battle of Vitoria
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and
Battle of Nive
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*
Order of the Tower and Sword
The Ancient and Most Noble Military Order of the Tower and of the Sword, of the Valour, Loyalty and Merit ( pt, Antiga e Muito Nobre Ordem Militar da Torre e Espada, do Valor, Lealdade e Mérito), before 1910 Royal Military Order of the Tower an ...
, Knight's breast Badge (
Portugal
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)
* Commander's Cross for Five Actions (Portugal): Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthez and Toulouse
* Campaign Cross for 4 Years, (Portugal)
* Decoration of the Lily, (France)
Honour for rescuing a boy from drowning
In 1827 Lillie was on board a paquet in the
Thames
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when it was involved in a collision with the works by the
Tower
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. The boat seems to have disintegrated and sank immediately, leaving passengers and crew in the water. Other craft were quickly despatched to rescue the luckless victims and Lillie, being a strong swimmer, assisted a nine-year-old boy who had been with the party and could not swim. They were both picked and taken to safety. For this act of bravery, Sir John Scott Lillie was honoured by the
Royal Humane Society
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in January 1827.
Bibliography
* Lillie, J.S. and Mayne, William. (2014) ''The Loyal Lusitanian Legion during the Peninsular War: The Campaign of Wellington's Portuguese Troops, 1809–11'' published by Leonaur Ltd.
* Lillie, Sir John Scott. ''An Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Parliamentary Corruption, and of the evils arising therefrom; in order to prove the ... necessity of parliamentary reform'', London: Effingham Wilson, 1831, 86 pages.
* * Polytechnisches Journal. 63. Band, Jahrgang 1837, N.F. 13. Band, Hefte 1-6 komplett. (= 18. Jahrgang, 1.-6. Heft ). Eine Zeitschrift zur Verbreitung gemeinnüziger Kenntnisse im Gebiete der Naturwissenschaft, der Chemie, der Pharmacie, der Mechanik, der Manufakturen, Fabriken, Künste, Gewerbe, der Handlung, der Haus- und Landwirthschaft etc. Herausgegeben von Johann Gottfried und Emil Maximilian Dingler.
Polytechnisches Journal. Hrsg. v. Johann Gottfried Dingler, Emil Maximilian Dingler und Julius Hermann Schultes:
Published by Stuttgart in der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung (1837)., 1837 (in German) - includes Lillie's invention.
Items named after Lillie
*
Lillie Road
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(Fulham)
*
Lillie Bridge
The Lillie Bridge Grounds was a sports ground on the Fulham side of West Brompton, London. It opened in 1866, coinciding with the opening of West Brompton station. It was named after the local landowner, Sir John Scott Lillie (1790–1868) and ...
, rebuilt by rail engineer,
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet
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, 1866
*
Lillie Bridge Grounds
The Lillie Bridge Grounds was a sports ground on the Fulham side of West Brompton, London. It opened in 1866, coinciding with the opening of West Brompton station. It was named after the local landowner, Sir John Scott Lillie (1790–1868) and ...
, athletics and cricket grounds in Fulham where a number of records were achieved
*
Lillie Rec
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Spor ...
, The Lillie Road Recreation Ground, a park at the junction with the Fulham Palace Road
*
Lillie Bridge Railway Depot, 1872, engineering workshop for
London Underground
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*
Lillie Hall
Lillie Hall was a disused roller skating or ice skating rink off Seagrave Road (just south of Roxby Place, next to the rail line), Fulham, London, that in 1902 (or January 1903) became Charles Rolls' first car showroom, to sell imported French Peu ...
, Seagrave Road, Fulham - briefly a roller-skating venue, then taken over by
Charles Rolls
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(later of
Rolls-Royce
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company) in 1903 as a car showroom (demolished)
* ''The Lillie Arms'' 1835 public house in Lillie Road, now renamed after '
Lillie Langtry
Emilie Charlotte, Lady de Bathe (née Le Breton, formerly Langtry; 13 October 1853 – 12 February 1929), known as Lillie (or Lily) Langtry and nicknamed "The Jersey Lily", was a British socialite, stage actress and producer.
Born on the isl ...
' (opposite the
Arts and crafts
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public house 'the Prince of Wales' destined for demolition in 2016)
* The Lillie Rifle battery
* Sir John Lillie Primary School (Fulham)
See also
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Napoleonic Wars
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister o ...
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History of the British canal system
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Radicals (UK)
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John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford
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The Westminster Review
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