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Eton and at Trinity College, Cam- bridge. He was csdled to the bai* at the Inner Temple in 1856. In 1863 he was first elected M.P. for Beading, in the Liberal interest, and he has continued to be one of the representatives of that borough down to the present time. He was a Lord of the Admiralty from May to July, 1866 ; Secretary to the Board of Trade from Dec. 1868, to Jan. 1871 ; Secretary to the Admi- ralty from the last date to Feb. 1874, and again from April, 1880, to the following November, when he was appointed First Commissioner of Works and Buildings in succes- sion to Mr. Adam, who had resigned that office on being appointed Governor of Madras. Mr. Shaw- Lef evre was elected a bencher of the Inner Temple in Nov. 1882. He is the author of an important article on " Public Works in London,'' in the Nineteenth Century (Nov. 1882). LE FLO, Adolphe Emmanuel Chables, a French general and diplomatist, born at Lesneven (Finist^re), Nov. 2, 1804, after passing through the usual course of instruction at the military school of Saint Cyr, served with distinction in Algeria, and was, for his gallant conduct before Con- stanlnne, advanced to the rank of Major. He became a Colonel in 1844, and a General of Brigade in 1848. He was returned for Finis- t^re to the Constituent Assembly in Sept. 1848, but took no part in its deliberations until March, 1849, he having been in the meantime em- ployed on a diplomatic mission at the Eussian court. On his return he voted with the Kight and sup- ported the policy of Louis Napo- leon, which, however, he subse- quently opposed in the Legislative Assembly, the result being that after the coujp d'etat he was placed imder arrest and banished from the country. General Le F16 so- journed for some years in Belgium and Jersey, but in 1859 returned to his native country. On the forma-

tion of the Government of the National Defence in Sept., 1870, he was appointed Minister for War, and he held that XK>sition in the

fovemment of M. Thiers until uly, 1871, when he was selected to fill the post of Ambassador at St. Petersburg, in lieu of the Duke de Noailles. He was replaced as am- bassador by General Chanzy, Feb. 18, 1879. General Le F16, who is now living in retirement at his chdteau near Morlaiz, is said to be preparing for publication the me- moirs of his diplomatic career.

LEGGE, Edward, having served a hard apprenticeship to journalism, began an active career as a special correspondent for the Irish Times, in the war between Germany and France, in 1870. Early in the fol- lowing year he joined the Morning Post, and represented that journal at all the principal royal and other ceremonies, until 1876. He re- corded for the Morning Post the entry of the victorious German troops into Berlin in 1871 ; the arrival of the Shah of Persia in Belgium; the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh at St. Petersburg, in 1874; the death and funeral of Napoleon III. ; accompanied the suite of Don Al- fonso from Paris to Spain when the young King was caUed to the throne ; and chronicled many home events of importance between 1871 and 1876. Mr. Legge was called to the bar of the Middle Temple in 1875. In 1876 he originated The Whitehall Review, a weekly social and literary journal. He is the author of "Wayside Sketches," and " Killed at Saarbrticken ! "

LEGGE, James, M.A., was born at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, in 1815, and educated at Huntly, and the grammar schools of Aberdeen and Old Aberdeen. He entered King's College and University in 1831 : graduated M.A. in 1836; studied subsequently at Highbury Theo- logical College, London, and re- ceived from the University of