Lord Chancellor
the highest judicial officer of the Crown, law adviser to the Government, and Keeper of the Great Seal. He ranks next to the royal family and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Privy Councillor and member of the Cabinet, and a presiding officer of the House of Lords. He appoints all justices of the peace in the Kingdom and in general all judges of the Superior Courts except chief judges. Is also Chief Judge of the Court of Chancery. The salary is £10,000 with an annuity of £5,000 on retirement from office. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE (England). The official title of the Chief-Justice of the King's Bench Division of the Supreme Court of Judication in England. While the King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, the three superior courts, hold about equal power, yet the King's (or Queen's) has always enjoyed a certain pre-eminence, the Chief-Justice of that court having precedence over the Chief-Justice of Common Pleas and the Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The Lord Chief-Justice is a lord of Parliament, and in court and abroad is entitled to be addressed as "Lord."
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Lord Mayor
the title given to the chief magistrates of London and York, England, and of Dublin, Ireland, during the year for which they hold office.
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Lord's Prayer
the prayer which Jesus taught His disciples (Matt. vi: 9-13; Luke xi: 2-4).
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Lord's Supper
a term first used by St. Paul in I Cor. xi: 20, of a ceremonial ordinance observed in the Corinthian and doubtless in other churches. The night on which Jesus was betrayed, He took bread, blessed it, brake it, and gave it to His disciples to eat, with wine former in the Protestant view symbolizing His broken Body, the latter His shed Blood. (Matt. xxvi: 26-29; Mark xiv: 22-25; Luke xxii: 14-20). St. Luke records that Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me" (xxii: 19). St. Paul evidently considered that these words, addressed originally to the apostles, were designed for the Church of all ages. The term Lord's supper is used chiefly by those who hold the ordinance to be a commemorative one. See COMMUNION: EUCHARIST: MASS.
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Lord-Lieutenant
a British official of high rank, representing the sovereign, as: (1) The Viceroy, or Lordlieutenant of Ireland, who is a member of the ministry, retiring from office with them. He has the control of the government of the country, subject to the approval of the ministry in office, and nearly all the patronage is also vested in him. He can confer knighthood. In his government he is assisted by a privy council nominated by the sovereign. (2) The lord-lieutenant of a county, the principal official of a county, at whose recommendation all deputy-lieutenants and justices of the peace are appointed, and first commissions in the yeomanry, militia, and volunteers are given.
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Loree
LEONOR FRESNEL, railway president, born in Fulton City, Ill., 1858. Graduating from Rutgers in 1877, he entered the service of the Pa. R. R. as assistant in the engineer corps. Two years later he became transitman in the Engineers Corps, U. S. A. After two years' service he resumed railroad work. In 1896 he became general manager of the Pa. R. R. and fourth vice-president in 1901. He was successively president of the B. & O. R. R. (1901-1904); R. I. Co. of N. J. (1904); D. & H. R. R. Co. (1907). From 1899 to 1901 he was president of the American Railway Association. Was a delegate to the International Railway Congress in Paris in 1900.
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Lorenz
ADOLF, an orthopædic surgeon of Vienna, Austria. In 1880 he became assistant to Professor Albert, who occupied the chair of surgery at the University of Vienna. Instead of taking up general surgery he specialized in orthopædic surgery. He became famous as the "bloodless surgeon" because of his reduction of the dislocation of the hip joint by manipulation rather than cutting. In 1902 he visited the United States and England, holding clinics in the more important hospitals.
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Loreto
an interior department of Peru, in the N. E. part of the Republic, watered for thousands of miles by the Marañon and its tributaries; area (est.) 288,500 square miles; pop. (est.) 100,000 (chiefly Indians). Vast portions of the department are still unexplored, being covered with thick forests. The climate is hot and unhealthy. Chief products: rubber, salt, quinine, tobacco, tropical fruits. Capital, Iquitos.
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Loretto
or LORETO, a city of Italy, in the province of Ancona, about 15 miles S. E. of Ancona. It is a famous resort of pilgrims, who come to visit the Casa Santa or Holy House of Loretto, which is said to have been the house of the Holy Family at Nazareth, and to have been miraculously conveyed by the angels first to Fiume in Dalmatia, and afterward to Loretto. The Holy House is in the center of a beautiful church built by Majano and Bramante (1464-1587). The number of pilgrims amounts to 50,000 yearly. The town is the seat of a bishop since 1586. Pop. about 7,000.
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Lorimer
GEORGE HORACE, American editor, born in Louisville, Ky, 1868, graduated from Yale, then devoted himself to general newspaper work, till 1899, when he became editor of the " Saturday Evening Post, " for whose wide popularity his ability was largely responsible. He is also known as a humorous writer. Among the most popular of his books are "Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son" (1902) and "Jack Spurlock-Prodigal" (1908).
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Loring
WILLIAM WING, an American military officer; born in Wilmington, N. C., Dec. 4, 1818; participated in the Seminole War, the war for Texan independence, the Mexican War, Indian wars, etc. In May, 1861, he resigned his commission; became a Brigadier-General in the Confederate army and later Major- General. He went to Egypt in 1869 and reorganized the army of the Khedive. In 1879 he returned to the United States and published "A Confederate Soldier in Egypt" (1883). He died Dec. 30, 1886. LORRAINE. See ALSACE-LORRAINE.
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Lorna Doone
lori'na doon, a novel by Richard Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance of Exmoor. It is written in autobiographical style, the writer purporting to be John Ridd, the son of a farmer who was slain by the Doones, a band of outlaws. The Doones made their home in an almost inaccessible rocky defile in Bagworthy Forest. John Ridd, while still a boy, accidentally meets Lorna Doone, the pretty little "Queen" of the Doones. He never forgets the little girl and determines to win her for his wife. His dangerous wooing, their marriage, the plot of the Doones to destroy his home, and the final defeat of the outlaws, make up an exciting story which carries the reader away to a free out-of-door life, with the rush of falling water, the sweep of wild winds, and the courage and daring of a brave-hearted, strong-willed youth. The simple, somewhat quaint language of the story is in keeping with the times and with the character and mental equipment of honest John Ridd. Lorna Doone is the best known of Blackmore's writings and is as popular in America as in England. See Blackmore
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