Leicester

Leicester, county town of Leicestershire, on the Soar, 40 m. E. of Birmingham; is an ancient town, with several historic buildings; has grown rapidly of late owing to its hosiery, boot and shoe, and iron-founding industries; it sends two members to Parliament.

Population (circa 1900) given as 209,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Leibnitz * Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of
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Le Gallienne, Richard
Legate
Legendre, Adrien Marie
Legge, James
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Leibnitz
Leicester
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of
Leicestershire
Leigh, Aurora
Leighton, Frederick, Lord
Leighton, Robert
Leiotrichi
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Leith
Leitha
Leland, Charles

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Leicester in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

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