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 long list of works, upon which his reputation as an historian will chiefly rest. The text is edited with scrupulous care, and the indices compiled with almost painful minuteness, but at the same time the introductions are distinguished by wide historical knowledge and a powerful grasp of the subject. The first of these, ‘Lives of Edward the Confessor,’ was published in 1858, when the editor was still a beginner at his difficult task. The principal piece in the volume is a metrical life of the saint in old French, to which Luard appended a translation and glossary. Sixteen years afterwards Professor Robert Atkinson of Dublin published ‘Strictures on Mr. Luard's Edition of a French Poem on the Life of Edward the Confessor’ in ‘Hermathena,’ vol. i. That Luard had made mistakes neither he nor anybody else would wish to deny; but no mistakes could justify the needless severity of his tardy antagonist. Luard made no reply, but it is well known that the attack affected him greatly, and probably precipitated the nervous malady from which he suffered between 1877 and 1880. During those years he was obliged to go abroad and to ask the university to appoint a deputy registrary. For a time his health seemed completely restored, but after the death in 1889 of his wife, to whom he was devotedly attached, other symptoms supervened, and he died, after a long period of weakness and suffering, on 1 May 1891.

Luard was by temperament and conviction a conservative, and he was opposed to most of the recent changes in the university and in Trinity College, against which he wrote several flysheets and short pamphlets. But he never allowed his opinions to interfere with his friendships, and some of his most intimate and habitual associates were those from whom he differed most widely. Luard, who was a frequent contributor of articles on mediæval writers and classical scholars to this Dictionary (vols. i–xxxii.), published, exclusive of flysheets, the following works: 1. ‘Remarks on the Cambridge University Commissioners' Draft of proposed new Statutes for Trinity College,’ Cambridge, 1858. 2. ‘Lives of Edward the Confessor’ (Rolls Ser.), 1858. 3. ‘Bartholomæi de Cotton Historia Anglicana’ (Rolls Ser.), 1859. 4. ‘Remarks on the present Condition and proposed Restoration of the Church of Great St. Mary's,’ Cambridge, 1860. 5. ‘The Diary (1709–1720) of Edward Rud … [with] several unpublished Letters of Dr. Bentley,’ Cambridge, 1860. 6. ‘Roberti Grosseteste Epistolæ’ (Rolls Ser.), 1861. 7. ‘Annales Monastici’ (Rolls Ser.), 1864–9. 8. ‘Suggestions on (1) the Election of the Council; (2) the Duties of the Vice-chancellor; (3) the establishment of a Historical Tripos,’ Cambridge, 1866. 9. ‘Correspondence of Richard Porson,’ Cambridge, 1867. 10. ‘Index to the Catalogue of Manuscripts in the University Library,’ Cambridge, 1867. 11. ‘Chronological List of the Graces [etc.] in the University Registry which concern the University Library,’ 1870. 12. ‘Sermon on the Recovery of the Prince of Wales, 27 Feb.,’ Cambridge, 1872. 13. ‘Sermon on the Death of the Rev. J. F. D. Maurice, 7 April,’ Cambridge, 1872. 14. ‘Matthew Paris, Historia Major,’ 1872–1884 (Rolls Ser.). 15. ‘List of the Documents in the University Registry from the Year 1266 to the Year 1544,’ Cambridge, 1876. 16. ‘On the Relations between England and Rome during the earlier Portion of the Reign of Henry III,’ Cambridge, 1877. 17. ‘The Unity of the Members of a Material Church: Sermon, 5 Feb.,’ Cambridge, 1888. 18. ‘Flores Historiarum’ (Rolls Ser.), 1890.

 LUARD, JOHN (1790–1875), lieutenant-colonel, author of the ‘History of the Dress of the British Soldier,’ was fourth son of Captain Peter John Luard of the 4th dragoons (now hussars) and of Blyborough, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, and his wife Louisa, daughter of Charles Dalbiac of Hungerford Park, Berkshire. He was born on 5 May 1790, served in the royal navy 1802–7, and on 25 May 1809 obtained a cornetcy without purchase in his father's old regiment, with which he served through the Peninsular campaigns of 1810–14 (medal with clasp for ‘Albuera,’ ‘Salamanca,’ and ‘Toulouse’). Afterwards he served with the 16th light dragoons (now lancers) as lieutenant at Waterloo (medal), and as captain at Bhurtpore in 1825 (medal). He exchanged to the 30th foot in 1832, retired as major in 1834, and obtained a brevet lieutenant-colonelcy in 1838. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel William Scott, H.E.I.C.S., by whom he had a family. He died on 24 Oct. 1875.

Like others of his family, Luard had much artistic talent. He published ‘Views in India, St. Helena, and Car Nicobar’ (London, 1835, fol.), drawn from nature and on stone by himself, and ‘History of the Dress of the British Soldier,’ a handsome quarto, published by subscription in 1852, which includes some interesting original sketches of military characters and costume in the Peninsular days.

His second son, (1830–1860), born at Blyborough on 31 Oct. 1830, was educated at Sandhurst, 