Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus
la-mar', Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus (1825-1893), a noted American jurist. He was born in Putnam County, Georgia, September 1, 1825, and died at Macon, January 23, 1893. He was graduated from Emory College, Georgia, and was admitted to the bar at Macon in 1847. The outbreak of the Civil War found him in Congress as a representative of Mississippi. He resigned his seat. He drafted the ordinance of secession for Mississippi, and was lieutenant colonel of the first Confederate regiment enlisted in that state. At the close of the war he accepted a chair in the University of Mississippi, and was again sent to Congress. He was secretary of the interior during the first administration of Grover Cleveland. In 1888 he was appointed associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, which position he held until his death. He was considered a man of integrity and of large views. Two of his best known addresses were eulogies on Charles Sumner and John C. Calhoun. The first of these is a landmark in the restoration of good feeling between North and South.
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Lamartine, Alphonse
la-mar-ten', Alphonse (1790-1869), a French historian. He was well educated and well connected. The family fled the country at the time of the French Revolution , but returned to favor at the downfall of Napoleon and the restoration of the Bourbons. Lamartine entered the Bourbon army and later saw service as a diplomat. Toward the close of the Bourbon reign he became democratic in his thinking. During the short interval between the Bourbons and Napoleon III he was minister of war and a man of influence in national matters. Though his views were broad he had little ability as a man of affairs and soon dropped out of politics. As a youth and a young man he wrote poetry. Political pamphlets engaged his attention. In 1847 his History of the Girondists appeared. Later works were a History of the Revolution of 1848, a History of the Restoration, a History of Turkey, and a History of Russia, all written from a democratic point of view. He held aloof from Louis Napoleon, yet, falling into poverty in his old age, accepted a pension, an act for which he was criticised by his republican friends. He did not live to see the Franco Prussian War and the establishment of the French Republic.
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Lambayeque
a seacoast province Peru. Situated Beaccast of in the N. W. pa The N. W. that country it is traversed by many averned by mountain ranges. The soil is poor, but crops of sugar, tobacco and cotton are raised. The capital of the province is Chiclayo. Pop. about 130,000. 130,7700.
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Lambert
JOHN, an English Paran Englis liamentary general during the English ring the Civil War; born in Kirby Malhamdale, irby Mathe Yorkshire, Sept. 7, 1619. He entered the Parliamentary army under Fairfax, was der Fai colonel at Marston Moor, and Major- Loor, and General in the war in Scotland. He took Scotland the lead in the council of officers who gave the protectorate to Cromwell, but to Crosswe he afterward fell into disgrace, and was lisgrace, bäl '), MARIE deprived by Cromwell of all his commis- OF SAVOY- sions, though a pension of $ 10,000 was of $10,000 was allowed. He headed the confederacy the confederacy a daughter of the which deposed Richard Cromwell, and in Crom wall, and in in Turin, Sept. 1660 set out for the N. to encounter to encounter by Marie An- Monk, but was deserted by his troops, of the royal seized, and committed to the Tower. At the Tower. At and compan- the Restoration he was tried and contwied and conproved her de- demned to death, but had his sentence bad his sentence France ( whence commuted to banishment to Guernsey, nt to Guernsey, where he died in 1683. mua lambertiana,
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Lambert Pine
Pinus lambertiana, a gigantic tree, discovered by Douglas in ed by Douglas in New Albion. Trunk, lofty and erect; lofty and erect; leaves fine, rather stiff, bright green, , bright green, with no sheaths; cones very large and pendulous; seeds large and used for food. nd used for food.
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Lambese
or LAMBESSA (lam-bes'sä), a town of Algeria, department of and 62 miles S. W. of the town W. of the town of Constantine. It is the site of the the site of the ancient Lambæsa, and has important has important Roman remains.
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Lambeth
one of the English metroe English metropolitan parliamentary boroughs, S. of boroughs, S. of the Thames, in the county of Surrey, anty of Surrey, and forming part of the S. W. quarter •S. W. quarter of London. Lambeth Palace has been Falece has been the official residence of the archbishops the archbishops of Canterbury since 1197. It contains 17. It contains a splendid series of portraits of the archtaita of the archbishops, and a valuable library. The In library. The Lollards' Tower dates from 1434. The From 1434. The Lambeth Articles, drawn up in 1595 by up in 1595 by Archbishop Whitgift and others, were nd olders, were nine in number, and pronouncedly Calonouncedly Calvinistic in doctrine. They were disapberware disapproved by Queen Elizabeth, and were never in force.
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Lambeth Palace
the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is situated in the parish and parliamentary borough of Lambeth, on the south side of the Thames, about a mile and a half southwest of St. Paul's. It lies up stream and across the Thames from Westminster Abbey . Lambeth was acquired by the archbishop in 1197. The present palace was begun soon after. It contains a fine library of 30,000 volumes, including the official records of the archbishop in forty volumes. The Lollards' Tower is a massive square keep. A room known as the prison, situated in a staircase turret, still contains wall inscriptions written by prisoners. Imprisoned heretics were chained, so tradition runs, to eight large iron rings yet hanging form the walls. The general chamber, sixty feet long, contains a series of oil portraits of the archbishops. The Hall, ninety-two feet by forty, has witnessed ecclesiastical meetings of importance. The chapel is the room where Archbishop Laud, immediately after his appointment, gave offense by restoring the communion table to its historic but prelatic position at the east end. Steps lead down to the Thames, long the historic thoroughfare between Lambeth Palace and Westminster, the Tower, and the city.
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