LARDNER

Dionysius (son of Wm. O’B. Lardner of 88 Marl borough st. Dublin, solicitor, who d. 1808). b. Dublin 3 April 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1819, LLB. and LLD. 1827; took holy orders, chaplain of his college; profe or of natural philosophy and astronomy in London univ. 1827 to 1832; published the Cabinet Cyclopædia 133 vols. 1829–46, in which he wrote the treatises on hydrostatics and pneumatics, arithmetic and geometry; published Dr. Lardner’s Cabinet Library 9 vols. 1830–2; edited the Edinburgh Cabinet Library 38 vols. 1830–44; The Museum of science and art 12 vols. 1856; lectured in the United States and Cuba 1840–5, cleared £40,000; lived at Paris 1845 to death; Paris correspondent of Daily News; is satirised by Thackeray in his Miscellanies as Dionysius Diddler, and in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellow plush as Doctor Diolesius Larner, Doctor A than as i us Lardner and Doctor Ignatius Loyola. d. Naples 29 April 1859. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 122–5, portrait ; A.R. (1849) 289 and (1859) 446; The works of W. M. Thackeray , xii 404–14 (1869). Note. —He married in the parish church of St. Paul, Dublin 19 Dec. 1815 Cecilia dau. of Henry Flood of Dublin, barrister, she left him 20 Oct. 1820 and lived near Dublin with Samuel Booth Williams Murphy to 20 Jany. 1829 when he died. Lardner obtained a sentence of divorce in consistory court of Dublin 1832 and his marriage was di olved by 2 and 3 Vict. cap. 53, 14 June 1839. On 13 March 1840 he eloped with Mary wife of captain Richard He avi side of Brighton, who obtained £8000 damages against him in an action tried at town hall, Lewes 1 Aug. 1840. He avi side obtained a sentence of divorce in consistory court of London 3 March 1841 and his marriage was di olved by 8 and 9 Vict. cap. 35, 31 July 1845. Lardner married the lady 2 Aug. 1846 at Paris, where she resided until her death about 30 April 1891.