LEEWARD ISLANDS

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LEEWARD ISLANDS , a group in the West Indies. They derive their name from being less exposed to the prevailing N.E. trade wind than the adjacent Windward Islands. They are the most northerly of the Lesser Antilles, and form a curved chain stretching S.W. from Puerto Rico to meet St Lucia, the most northerly of the Windward Islands. They consist of the Virgin Islands, with St Kitts,

Antigua

ANTIGUA

, Montserrat,

Guadeloupe

GUADELOUPE

, Dominica, Martinique and their various dependencies. The Virgin Islands are owned by

Great

GREAT

Britain and Denmark, Holland having St Eustatius, with .Saba, and part of St Martin. France possesses

Guadeloupe

GUADELOUPE

, Martinique, St Bartholomew and the remainder of St Martin. The rest of the islands are British, and (with the exception of Sombrero, a small

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

used only as a lighthouse-station) form, under one

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

, a colony divided into five presidencies, namely:

Antigua

ANTIGUA

(with Barbuda and Redonda), St Kitts (with Nevis and Anguilla), Dominica, Montserrat and the Virgin Islands. Total pop. (1901) 127,536. There is one federal executive council nominated by the crown, and one federal legislative councilten nominated and ten elected members. Of the latter, four are chosen by the unofficial members of the local legislative council of Antigua, two by those of Dominica, and four by the non-official members of the local legislative council of St Kitts-Nevis. The federal legislative council meets once annually, usually at St John, Antigua.
LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN (18141873), Irish journalist and author, was born of an old Huguenot family at Dublin on the 28th of August 1814. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1833. At an early age he had given proof of literary talent, and in 1837 he joined the staff of the Dublin University Magazine, of which he became later editor and proprietor. In 1837 he produced the Irish ballad Phaudhrig Croohore. which was
shortly afterwards followed by a second, Shamus O'Brien, successfully recited in the United States by Samuel Lover. In 1839 he became proprietor of the Warder, a Dublin newspaper, and, after purchasing the Evening Packet and a large

interest

INTEREST

in the Dublin Evening Mail, he combined the three papers under the title the Evening Mail, a weekly reprint from which was . issued as the Warder. After the death of his wife in 1858 he lived in retirement, and his best

work

WORK

was produced at this period of his life. He wrote some clever novels, of a sensational order, in which his vigorous imagination and his Irish love of the supernatural have full play. He died in Dublin on the 7th of February 1873. His best-known novels are The

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

by the Churchyard (1863) and Uncle Silas, a Tale of Bartram Haugh (1864). The Purcell Papers, Irish stories dating from his college clays, were edited with a memoir of the author by A. P.

Graves

GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846— )

in 1880.

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