- 'A Dissertation on the non-Infallibility of the Cow-pox, with an Examination of the principal Arguments of Drs. Jenner, Pearson, Woodville, Lettsom, Adams, and Thornton,' 8vo, London, 1806.
- 'Cow-pox exploded, or the Inconsistencies, Absurdities, and Falsehoods of some of its Defenders exposed,' 8vo, London, 1806.
- 'A Dissertation on the Failure and Mischiefs of the Cow-pox,' 8vo, London, 1806.
- 'Cautions and Reflections on Canine Madness, with the Method of preventing the Hydrophobia in Persons who have been bitten,' 8vo, London, 1807.
- 'A History of Canine Madness and Hydrophobia,' 8vo, London, 1809.
- 'Observations on Contagion as it relates to the Plague and other epidemical Diseases, and refers to the Regulations of Quarantine,' 8vo, London, 1819.
- 'A Grammar of Medicine, with Plan of the Grammar of Chemistry,' 8vo.
and Private Families … extracted from the Writings of Dimsdale, Sutton,' &c., 8vo, London, 1806.
His miscellaneous works include:
- 'The Grey Friar, or the Black Spirit of the Wye,' 8vo, London, 1810.
- 'Modern Times, or Anecdotes of the English Family,' 8vo.
- 'The Capricious Mother,' 8vo.
- 'Observations on the High Price of Provisions and the Monopoly of Farms,' 8vo.
He edited the 'Clerical Guide' for 1821, and published two volumes of 'Sermons,' besides furnishing divines with many single discourses. He likewise composed hymns and anthems for charity schools on various occasions.
[Gent. Mag. 1847, pt. i. pp. 88-90.]
LIPSCOMB, WILLIAM (1754–1842), miscellaneous writer, baptised on 9 July 1754, was the son of Thomas Lipscomb, surgeon, of Winchester. He entered Winchester College in 1765 (Kirby, Winchester Scholars, p. 260), whence he matriculated at Oxford as a scholar of Corpus Christi College on 6 July 1770 (Foster, Alumni Oxon. 1715–1886, iii. 855). In 1772 he won the prize for English verse, the subject being the ‘Beneficial Effects of Inoculation.’ It was printed in 1793, and in the ‘Oxford Prize Poems’ in 1807 and 1810. He graduated B.A. in 1774, and M.A. in 1784. For some years he was private tutor and subsequently chaplain to the Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle, Durham. In 1789 he was presented to the rectory of Welbury in the North Riding of Yorkshire, which he was allowed to hand over to his son Francis in 1832. He was also master of St. John's Hospital, Barnard Castle, Durham. He died at Brompton, London, on 25 May 1842. By his marriage in 1780 with Margaret, second daughter of Francis Cooke, cashier of the navy, he had a large family. His eldest son, Christopher (1781–1843), was appointed in 1824 the first bishop of Jamaica (Gent. Mag. new ser. xx. 210–2; Kirby, p. 285).
Lipscomb wrote:
- ‘Poems. … To which are added Translations of select Italian Sonnets,’ &c., 4to, Oxford, 1784.
- ‘The Pardoner's Tale from Chaucer,’ modernised, 8vo, London, 1792.
- ‘The Case of the War considered in a Letter to Henry Duncombe, Esq.,’ 8vo, London, 1794.
- ‘A Second Letter to Henry Duncombe, Esq.’ 8vo, London, 1795.
- ‘The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer completed in a Modern Version,’ 3 vols. 8vo, London, 1795. George Lipscomb, M.D. [q. v.], was his cousin.
[Gent. Mag. 1842, pt. ii. pp. 100–1.]
LISGAR, Lord (1807–1876), colonial governor. [See Young, John.]
LISLE, Lords. [See Plantagenet, Arthur, d. 1542; Sidney, Philip, 1619–1698.]
LISLE, ALICE (1614?–1685), victim of a judicial murder, born about 1614, was daughter and heiress of Sir White Beckenshaw of Moyles Court, Ellingham, near Ringwood, Hampshire. The registers at Ellingham are not extant at the period of her birth, about 1614. In 1630 she became the second wife of John Lisle [q. v.] William Lilly, the astrologer, states in his autobiography (p. 63) that Mrs. Lisle visited him in 1643 to consult him about the illness of her friend Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke. A note states that at the date of Charles I's execution she was reported to have exclaimed that ‘her heart leaped within her to see the tyrant fall;’ but she herself asserted many years later that she ‘shed more tears’ for Charles I ‘than any woman then living did’ (State Trials, xi. 360), and she claimed to have been at the time on intimate terms with the Countess of Monmouth, the Countess of Marlborough, and Edward Hyde, afterwards lord chancellor. She probably shared her husband's fortunes till his death at Lausanne in 1664. Subsequently she lived quietly at Moyles Court, which she inherited from her father, and she showed while there some sympathy with the dissenting ministers in their trials during Charles II's reign. Her husband had been a member of Cromwell's House of Lords, and she was therefore often spoken of as Lady or Lady Alice Lisle. At the time of Monmouth's rebellion
