_d._ 1805). _b._ 1795; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1818; C. of Findon 1829–32; V. of Godmersham, Kent 1837–45;
R. of Harbledown, Kent 1845 to death; contributed to the
Encyclopædia Metropolitana; edited the Annual Register 1822–7
and 1837–8; author of Rambles in Madeira and Portugal 1827; A
review of the principles of truth in reference to the doctrines
of Hume and Reid 1830; Agonistes or philosophical strictures
1856. _d._ Llangollen, Wales 11 Sep. 1865. _bur._ Harbledown.
LYALL, GEORGE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1784; succeeded
his father as a merchant and shipowner 1805; chairman of the
Shipowners’ Society committee several years; instrumental in
forming company which made Shoreham harbour; a director of
East India Co. 1830–51, deputy chairman 1840, chairman 1841;
contested City of London 12 Dec. 1832 and 5 Jany. 1835; M.P.
City of London 1833–5 and 1841–7; introduced and carried the
Merchant Seamen’s Widows’ bill 1834; retired from public life
1847. _d._ 17 Park crescent, Regent’s park, London 1 Sep. 1853.
_Portraits of eminent conservatives. Second series_, _portrait_
26 (1846).
LYALL, GEORGE. _b._ London 29 Aug. 1819; ed. at Winchester 1832
and Geneva 1835; M.P. Whitehaven 1857–65; a director of bank
of England 1857 to death, deputy governor 1869–71, governor
1871–73. _d._ Cleve hill, Downend, Bristol 12 Oct. 1881.
LYALL, WILLIAM ROWE (brother of George Lyall 1784–1853). _b._
London 11 Feb. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, B.A.
1810, M.A. 1816; C. of Fawley, Hampshire 1812–15; chaplain to
St. Thomas’s hospital 1817; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn;
exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1822; R. of Weeley, Essex
1823–33; archdeacon of Colchester 4 June 1824; Warburtonian
lecturer Lincoln’s Inn 1826; R. of Fairsted, Essex 1827–33; R
of Hadleigh 1833–42; archdeacon of Maidstone 11 June 1841 to
1845; preb. of Canterbury 11 June 1841 to 1845; R. of Great
Chart, Kent 1842–52; dean of Canterbury 26 Nov. 1845 to death;
edited The British Critic 1816–7; reorganised the Encyclopædia
Metropolitana 1820 and contributed to its pages; edited with
St. J. Rose the Theological Library vols. i–xiv 1832–46; author
of Propædia Prophetica, a view of the use and design of the Old
Testament 1840, 3 ed. 1885. _d._ the deanery, Canterbury 17 Feb.
1857. _bur._ Harbledown churchyard 26 Feb. _G.M. April 1857 pp._
491–2.
LYCETT, SIR FRANCIS (son of Philip Francis Lycett of Worcester).
_b._ Worcester 1803; ed. at Dr. Simpson’s, Worcester; in his
father’s glove works; manager for Dent and Allcroft, glovers,
London 1832, a partner 1845–65, acquired a large fortune and
retired; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1866–67; knighted at
Osborne 3 Aug. 1867; contested Woodstock 17 Nov. 1868, Liskeard
11 May 1869 and St. Ives 30 Dec. 1874; a great friend to the
Wesleyan Methodist connexion; member of London school board,
Finsbury division, Nov. 1870. _d._ 18 Highbury grove, London
29 Oct. 1880. _Christian Miscellany_, _Jany. 1881 pp._ 15–18,
_portrait_.
LYDE, SAMUEL. _b._ 1825; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., fellow, B.A.
1848, M.A. 1859; author of The Ansyreeh and Ismaeleeh, a visit
to the secret sects of Northern Syria 1853; The Asian mystery
illustrated in the history of the Ansaireeh or Nusairis of Syria
1860. _d._ Alexandria 1 April 1860 aged 35.
LYE, THOMAS. _b._ Spinney-gate, Deansgate, Manchester 1795;
well known jockey; often mentioned by Alfred Highflyer in the
Sporting Mag.; won the Oaks on Lilias 1826, on Queen of Trumps
1835 and on Our Nell 1842; won the St. Leger on Queen of Trumps
1835 and on Blue Bonnet 1842. _d._ Middleham 27 May 1866.
_Sporting Review_, _lvi_ 79–80 (1866).
LYELL, SIR CHARLES, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Lyell of
Kinnordy, Fifeshire, botanist 1767–1849). _b._ Kinnordy 14 Nov.
1797; ed. at Ringwood, Salisbury, Midhurst and Ex. coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1819, M.A. 1821, hon. D.C.L 1855; F.L.S. 1819; F.G.S. 1819,
secretary 1823–6, foreign sec. 1826, pres. 1835–6 and 1849–50,
Wollaston medallist 1866; F.R.S. 1826, royal medallist 1835,
Copley medallist 1858; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; professor of
geology King’s college, London, Oct. 1831 to 1833 or 1834; gave
7 lectures at Royal Institution 1832; knighted at Balmoral 19
Sep. 1848; baronet 22 Aug. 1864; pres. of British Assoc. at Bath
1864; presented with freedom of Turners’ company 25 June 1874;
author of Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain
the former changes of the earth’s surface by reference to
causes now in operation 3 vols. 1830–33, 12 ed. 1875; Elements
of geology 1838, 6 ed. 1865; Travels in North America 2 vols.
1845; A second visit to the United States of North America 2
vols. 1849; The geological evidences of the antiquity of man
1863, 4 ed. 1873; The students’ elements of geology 1871, 3 ed.
1878. _d._ 43 Harley st. London 22 Feb. 1875. _bur._ in nave of
Westminster abbey 27 Feb. _Life of Sir Charles Lyell 2 vols._
(1881), 2 _portraits_; _Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxxii_
53–69 (1876); _Proc. of Royal soc. xxv_ 11–14 (1877); _Nature_,
_xii_ 325 (1875), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xlvi_ 227, 230 (1865),
_portrait_.
LYGON, EDWARD PYNDAR (youngest son of 1 Earl Beauchamp
1747–1816). _b._ about 1786; sub lieut. 2 life guards 1 June
1803, commanded 2 life guards at Waterloo, lieut.-col. 14 April
1818 to 10 Jany. 1837; inspector general of cavalry to death;
colonel 13 light dragoons 29 Jany. 1845 to death; general 20
June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq.
London 11 Nov. 1860.
LYLE, _Acheson_ (2 son of Samuel Lyle of the lodge, co.
Londonderry 1761–1815). _b._ 13 March 1795; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1832; called to the Irish bar 1818;
assistant barrister for the Queen’s county; second remembrancer
of court of exchequer, Ireland 1835–44, chief remembrancer 1844;
bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1837; a master in chancery,
Ireland, Nov. 1852; lord lieut. co. Londonderry, April 1860 to
death. _d._ The Oaks, Londonderry 22 April 1870. _Irish law
times 30 April 1870 p._ 326.
LYLE, THOMAS. _b._ Paisley 10 Sep. 1792; ed. at Glasgow univ.,
took diploma of surgeon 1816; practised at Glasgow and Airth,
Stirlingshire; returned to Glasgow 1835; collected ancient airs
and songs; wrote the beautiful song ‘Let us haste to Kelvin
Grove, bonnie lassie, O,’ first published anonymously in the
Harp of Renfrewshire 1820; contributed to R. A. Smith’s Irish
Minstrel; edited Ancient ballads and songs 1827. _d._ Glasgow
19 April 1859. _Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_ 129–30
(1877); _Brown’s Poets of Paisley_, _i_ 269.
LYNCH, DAVID (son of David Lynch of Dublin, merchant). _b._
1812; ed. at the Feinaglian institution Luxembourg and Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831; called to bar in Ireland 1833; leader
of Leinster circuit; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; bencher of King’s inns
1860; chairman of quarter sessions co. Louth 1857–59; judge of
bankruptcy court 1859 to Jany. 1867; judge of landed estates
court Jany. 1867 to death. _d._ 27 Merrion sq. Dublin 18 Dec.
1872. _bur._ Prospect cemetery, Glasnevin 21 Dec. _Irish law
times_, _vi_ 647, 662 (1872).
LYNCH, DAVID. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1864; called to
bar in Ireland 1865; Q.C. 5 July 1884. _d._ Somerville, Howth 27
Oct. 1889 aged 47.
LYNCH, HENRY BLOSSE (3 son of Henry Blois Lynch of Partry house,
Ballinrobe, co. Mayo, major in the army, _d._ 1843). _b._ 24
Nov. 1807; joined Indian navy as a volunteer 1823, lieut. 1829,
Persian and Arabic interpreter to the Persian Gulf squadron
1829–33; second in command of expedition despatched to explore
Euphrates route to India 1834–7, commander of it 1837; commanded
the steamer Tigris which foundered 21 May 1836; completed map
of the river Tigris 1839; commanded a flotilla off mouth of
the Indus 1843; assistant to superintendent of Indian navy
1843–51; founded the Indian navy club at Bombay; captain 13 Sep.
1847; commodore in command of a squadron in second Burmese war
1851–3; retired from the service 13 April 1856; C.B. 3 Dec.
1853; resided in Paris 1856 to death; conducted negotiations
with Persian plenipotentiary which resulted in treaty of Paris
4 March 1857, for which the Shah nominated him to the highest
class of the Lion and Sun. _d._ 6 Rue royal, Faubourg St.
Honoré, Paris 14 April 1873.
LYNCH, PATRICK NIESEN. _b._ Clones, Ireland 10 March 1817;
taken to U.S. of America 1819; ed. at coll. of the propaganda,
Rome, D.D. 1840; assist. pastor of Charlestown cath. 1840–44;
pastor of St. Mary’s ch. 1844–55; administrator of the see
of Charlestown 1855–58, and bishop 14 March 1858 to death,
cathedral and residence burnt down 1861; sent on a mission to
the Pope with a letter from Jefferson Davis 1862; ruined and
involved in debt by the civil war 1865; attended on the yellow
fever patients in 1848 and 1871; author of Miraculous existence
of the church. A sermon at Second plenary council, Baltimore
1866. _d._ Charlestown 26 Feb. 1882. _Appleton’s American
Biography_, _iv_ 64 (1888).
LYNCH, THEODORA ELIZABETH (dau. of Arthur Foulks of Jamaica,
sugar-planter). _b._ Dale park, Sussex 1812; _m._ 28 Dec. 1835
Henry Mark Lynch, 2 son of John Lynch of Kingston, Jamaica,
_b._ Kingston 29 Oct. 1814, barrister M.T. 12 June 1840, _d._
Kingston 15 July 1845; author of Lays of the sea and other poems
By Personne 1846, 2 ed. 1850; The cotton tree, or Emily the
little West Indian 1847, another ed. 1853; The family sepulchre,
a tale of Jamaica 1848, and 14 other stories for children. _d._
81 St. John’s Wood terrace, London 27 June 1885.
LYNCH, THOMAS KERR (younger brother of Henry Blosse Lynch
1807–73). _b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; served with
his brother during second Euphrates expedition 1837–42; set up
in business at Baghdad; bore the expense of trading-steamers
constructed for the rivers Euphrates and Tigris; travelled in
Mesopotamia and Persia; an Arabic and Persian scholar; consul
general for Persia, in London 1869–75; knight of the Lion and
Sun on the Shah’s visit to England 1873; author of A visit to
the Suez canal 1866; F.R.G.S. _d._ 31 Cleveland sq. London 27
Dec. 1891. _Times 29 Dec. 1891 p._ 5.
LYNCH, THOMAS TOKE (10 child of John Burke Lynch, surgeon,
_d._ 1820). _b._ Dunmow, Essex 5 July 1818; ed. at a school
in Islington, London, afterwards an usher in the school; a
Sunday school teacher and preacher 1841; pastor of Highgate
independent church 1847–9; pastor of a congregation in Mortimer
st. London 1849, which migrated to Grafton st. Fitzroy sq.
1852, resigned 1859; pastor of independent church in Gower st.
1860, which removed to Mornington crescent, Hampstead road
1862 to death; author of Thoughts on a day 1844; Memorials of
Theophilus Trinal 1850, 4 ed. 1882; Essays on some of the forms
of literature 1853; The Rivulet, a contribution to sacred song
1855, 3 ed. 1868; these hymns said to be pantheistic, gave rise
to a long discussion known as The Rivulet controversy, Lynch
replied to his opponents in The ethics of quotation 1856 and
Songs Controversial 1856, both issued under pseudonym of ‘Silent
Long’; A Christmas address 1856, 3 ed. 1872. _d._ 76 Arlington
st. Mornington crescent 9 May 1871. _White’s Memoirs of T. T.
Lynch_ (1874), _portrait_; _A critical and descriptive notice
of Rev. T. T. Lynch_ (1859); _Miller’s Singers and songs of the
church_ (1869) 560–61; _Waddington’s Congregational history_,
_v_ 134–69 (1880); _J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit_, _2 ed._
(1858) 101–10 _and his Religious Life in London_ (1870) 187–92.
LYNCH, WILLIAM WILTSHIRE. _b._ 1 April 1831; ensign 70 foot
17 Sep. 1850; captain 2 foot 1858, major 1873 to 1875 when
placed on h.p.; brigade major Chatham 1866–70; deputy judge
advocate 1875–6; lieut.-col. 10 foot 3 May 1876 to 3 May 1881;
lieut.-col. regimental district 1881–6; M.G. 1 April 1887; M.G.
Bengal 31 March 1888 to death. _d._ of cholera at Allahabad 4
Aug. 1888.
LYNCH-BLOSSE, HENRY (elder son of sir Robert Lynch-Blosse, 8
bart. 1784–1818). _b._ 11 Feb. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1835, M.A. 1860; V. of Newcastle, Glamorganshire, with
V. of Bettws, C. of Laleston and C. of Tythegston 1839–77;
archdeacon and canon of Llandaff 17 June 1859 to 1877; dean of
Llandaff 1877 to death. _d._ Llandaff deanery 28 Jany. 1879.
LYNDHURST, JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, 1 Baron (eld. son of John
Singleton Copley of Boston, U.S., afterwards of London, painter,
1737–1815). _b._ Boston 21 May 1772; brought to England, June
1775; pensioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 8 July 1790, 2 wr. and
Smith’s prizeman 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1796; junior fellow
of his coll. 2 Oct. 1795, senior fellow 5 July 1797 to 1804;
travelling bachelor of Camb. univ. 1795–8, high steward of the
univ. 1840; member of Lincoln’s inn 19 May 1794; practised as
a special pleader; barrister L.I. 8 June 1804; serjeant at law
6 July 1813; leader of Midland circuit 1816; M.P. Yarmouth,
Isle of Wight 1818; M.P. Ashburton 1818–26; M.P. univ. of Camb.
1826–7; king’s serjeant and chief justice of Chester Dec. 1818
to July 1819; solicitor general 24 July 1819, knighted Oct.
1819; attorney general 9 Jany. 1824 to 14 Sep. 1826; master of
the rolls 13 Sep. 1826 to April 1827; recorder of Bristol, Sep.
1826 to April 1827; lord chancellor 20 April 1827 to 22 Nov.
1830; lord chief baron of the exchequer 18 Jany. 1831 to 1834,
lord chancellor again 21 Nov. 1834 to 23 April 1835, and 3 Sep.
1841 to 4 July 1846; created baron Lyndhurst of Lyndhurst in the
county of Southampton 25 April 1827. _d._ 25 George st. Hanover
sq. London 12 Oct. 1863. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 17 Oct.
1863. _Sir T. Martin’s Life of Lord Lyndhurst 2 ed._ (1884),
_portrait_; _W. S. Gibson’s Brief memoir of Lord Lyndhurst_
(1869); _Lord Campbell’s Lives of the lord chancellors_,
_viii_ 1–212 (1869); _Misrepresentations in Campbell’s Lives
of Lyndhurst and Brougham. Corrected by St. Leonards_ (1869);
_Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 394–7, _portrait_; _W. H.
Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England and Austria. New
York_ (1863) _pp._ 173–79; _Law Magazine_, _liv_ 321–68 (1856);
_Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1st series_
(1836), _portrait_; _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _ii_
(1831), _portrait_; _Orators of the age. By G. H. Francis_
(1847) 142–59; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._
(1876) 100–107.
NOTE.--He was sketched under name of Lord Harderly in The life of a
lawyer. Written by himself [By Sir James Stewart] 1830. In 1831 he
heard the equity case of Small _v_ Attwood, which occupied a greater
number of hours than the trial of Warren Hastings, he delivered 1
Nov. 1832 by all accounts the most wonderful judgment ever heard in
Westminster Hall. No Chancellor received the Great Seal so often from
different sovereigns since the Plantaganet reigns.
LYNDON, PATRICK FRANCIS. _b._ Ireland 1812; ed. R.C. seminary,
Montreal, Canada, and college of St. Sulpice, Paris; a priest
at Boston, U.S. America; in charge of St. Mary’s parish,
Charlestown, Mass. till 1852; pastor of St. Peter and Paul,
south Boston 1853 and vicar general 1866; member of Boston
school committee 7 years. _d._ Boston 19 April 1878. _Appleton’s
Annual Cyclop. for 1878_ (1883) _p._ 641.
LYNE, CHARLES (son of rev. Richard Lyne 1760–1834). _b._ Castle
hill, Liskeard, Cornwall, Aug. 1802; R. of Roche 1834–41; V.
of Tywardreath 1841–47 and 1851–63; prebendary of Exeter 31
March 1843 to death; cr. M.A. of Lambeth 27 May 1843; author
of An old man’s wanderings, a tour through the manufacturing
districts 1845; A tract entitled Little Salem 1850 is attributed
to C. Lyne and led to The Little Salem controversy. _d._ Colby
villa, Dawlish 5 May 1873. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._
(1874–82) 329–30, 1272.
LYNE, FRANCIS (3 son of Joseph Lyne, merchant, Lisbon
1766–1823). _b._ Lisbon 27 Dec. 1800, registered at St. Ive
church, Cornwall, April 1809; F.R.G.S.; father of the rev.
Joseph Leycester Lyne known as Father Ignatius; author of
Tribunals of commerce 5 vols. 1851–76; Dr. Pusey’s Defence of
Father Ignatius 1881. _d._ 54 Montague sq. London 15 May 1888.
NOTE.--Lyne _v._ Sampson Low and others _The Times 17–19 Feb. 1873_.
This was an action respecting the defendants refusing to publish
Tribunals of Commerce, after agreeing to do so, because it contained
libellous matter. The plaintiff was non-suited.
LYNE, LEWIS CLIFTON (son of Charles Lyne, stock-broker
1790–1861). _b._ 8 March 1835; of the Office of Works, London
to 1876; sub-editor of Household Words 1876 to which he
contributed several serial stories; wrote under name of Lewis
Clifton in conjunction with Joseph J. Dilley, Tom Pinch, a
comedy Vaudeville theatre 10 March 1881; Lady Lovelace; La
Rosiere, a comic opera, music by Walter A. Slaughter; Marjorie,
a comic opera, Prince of Wales 18 July 1889. _d._ 38 East st.
Bloomsbury, London 2 Dec. 1889. _bur._ Woking cemetery.
LYNN, SAMUEL FERRIS. _b._ Belfast 1836; student at the R.A.
1854, obtained gold medal there 1859 for a group of Lycaon
and Achilles; exhibited 26 statues at the R.A. 1856–75; his
Evangeline exhibited 1858 was engraved in the Art Journal 1865
p. 372; member of Institute of Sculptors 1861; associate of
Royal Hibernian academy; executed some important public works in
Dublin and Manchester. _d._ Belfast 20 April 1876.
LYNNE, HENRY. Edited a Hampshire paper; acted under Macready at
Drury Lane 1841; starred at the Princess’s with Miss Cushman
and J. W. Wallack 1844–45; first appeared in U.S. of America at
Broadway theatre, New York as Joseph Surface in The school for
scandal 27 Sep. 1847. _d._ St. Louis, Mobile 8 Aug. 1854.
LYON, FRANCIS. _b._ 11 Jany. 1834; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1851,
lieut.-col. 11 June 1877; served in Indian mutiny 1857–8, was at
siege of Lucknow; employed testing the powers of breech loading
guns and the resistance of targets; superintendent of royal
laboratory at Woolwich arsenal 1 April 1880 to death; invented
a sensitive base percussion fuse, during the trial of which at
the military school of gunnery at Shoeburyness the shell burst
and he was so much injured 26 Feb. 1885 that he _died_ same day.
_I.L.N. 21 March 1885 pp._ 303, 304, _portrait_.
LYON, HENRY (son of a house agent). _b._ St. Luke’s, London 15
March 1831; sang at concerts and theatres from 1837; learnt
fencing and imitating the Grecian statues; employed in Clark’s
circus and at shows in fairs; learnt the violin and the harp,
and with his brother performed in the street; a violinist in
Jersey as Mr. Dymont from America; kept a music shop in Bunhill
row, London; became a Wesleyan Methodist; a visitor for the
Strangers’ Friend Society; a gun barrel maker in the Enfield
works; a French polisher; a street preacher; a porter under
Pickford & Co.; a preacher in The Christian Community; with his
wife performed sacred music in the streets and sang hymns; a
preacher and singer in Southampton in 1865. _The life of Henry
Lyon_ (1865).
LYON, THOMAS EATON. _b._ Woolton near Liverpool 17 Oct. 1812;
first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre as Miles Bertram
in the Wreck ashore 29 Sep. 1836; acted Jonathan Wild in Jack
Sheppard there 28 Oct. 1839; played at the Surrey, at the City
of London, at the National Standard; last appeared on the stage
at City of London theatre as Job Thornbury in John Bull 28 Aug.
1867; one of the five originators of General theatrical fund
1839. _d._ White Hart tavern, 197 High st. Shoreditch, London 23
Jany. 1869. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 27 Jany. _Era 31 Jany.
1869 p._ 10.
LYON, WILLIAM (5 son of David Lyon of Jamaica and Portland
place, London). _b._ 1807; cornet 8 hussars 17 July 1823,
captain 30 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 2 Aug. 1833; M.P. for
Seaford 1831–2; contested Lewes 1837, Marylebone 1859,
Canterbury 1862 and 1865, and Shoreham 1874; member of bench
of Middlesex magistrates, always opposed the license of Argyle
Rooms; was in appearance exactly like the 2 baron Panmure; (_m._
1860 Louisa Maria Sporle elder dau. of Henry Valentine Smith
known as H. V. Swanborough, lessee of Strand theatre, she was
an actress at Strand theatre to 1860). _d._ Goring hall near
Worthing 5 April 1892.
LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, 1 Baron (4 son of John Lyons of Antigua).
_b._ Burton near Christchurch, Hants. 22 Nov. 1790; ed. at
Hyde Abbey school near Winchester; entered navy June 1801;
took the Dutch fort of Marrach, 74 miles west of Batavia, by
surprise 30 July 1811 without orders to do so; captain 7 June
1814; commanded the Blonde frigate in the Mediterranean 1828,
co-operated with French troops in reduction of Kastro Morea
Oct. 1828 for which he received French order of St. Louis and
Greek order of the Redeemer; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted 23
Jany. 1835; minister and plenipotentiary at Athens 2 July 1835
to Feb. 1849; created baronet 29 July 1840; K.C.B. 10 July 1844,
G.C.B. 5 July 1855; minister to the Swiss confederation 1849–51;
minister at Stockholm 1851–3; R.A. 14 Jany. 1850, V.A. 19 March
1857; second in command of Mediterranean fleet Nov. 1853,
commander-in-chief 14 Feb. 1855 to 22 Feb. 1858; the practical
commander of the fleet throughout the Crimean war 1853–55;
received grand cross of legion of honour and Medjidie of 1st
class; created baron Lyons of Christchurch 23 June 1856; (_m._
18 July 1814 Augusta Louisa 2 dau. of Josias Rogers, captain
R.N., she was author of three novels, Olivia 1848, Sir Philip
Hetherington 1851, The lover upon trial 1853, all published in
the Parlour library, she _d._ 10 March 1852). He _d._ Arundel
Castle 24 Nov. 1858, portrait at the naval exhibition 1891.
_Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series_ (1859), _portrait_;
_E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of war against Russia_, _i_
398 (1857), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 15 March 1862 p._ 164,
portrait.
LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL LYONS, 1 Viscount (elder son
of the preceding). _b._ Lymington, Hampshire 26 April 1817;
midshipman H.M.S. Blonde 1829; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1865; attaché at Athens
Feb. 1839, at Dresden April 1852 and at Florence 1853; sec. of
legation at Rome 1856, envoy extraord. and min. plenipotentiary
to Grand duke of Tuscany 16 June 1858; minister at Washington
13 Dec. 1858, returned to England 6 Dec. 1864, retired 28 Feb.
1865; voted freedom of city of London 28 Feb. 1856, admitted 19
May 1856; ambassador at Constantinople 10 Aug. 1865, at Paris
6 July 1867 to 1887, negotiated renewal of commercial treaty
of 1860, 1873; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1860, G.C.B. 24 Jany. 1862; P.C.
9 March 1865; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created viscount Lyons of
Christchurch in the county of Southampton 17 Nov. 1881; joined
Church of Rome shortly before his death; his decease prevented
his being created an earl. _d._ Norfolk house, 31 St. James’s
sq. London 5 Dec. 1887. _bur._ Arundel 10 Dec.
LYONS, FRANCIS. _b._ Cork 1797; ed. at univ. of Paris, M.D. 1822
but never practised; M.P. Cork 1859–65. _d._ 1865.
LYONS, HUMPHRY. _b._ 8 July 1802; entered Bombay army 1817;
lieut. 12 Bombay N.I. 9 July 1818; captain 23 N.I. 25 May 1827
to 21 Jany. 1846; major 28 N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, lieut.-col.
26 Oct. 1850 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 6 N.I. 1852–53, of 1
European regiment, right wing 1853–4, of 14 N.I. 1854–5, of
23 N.I. 1855–7; town major, Bombay 2 Dec. 1851 to 5 May 1859;
lieut.-col. of 1 N.I. 1857 to 7 Oct. 1860; col. of 18 N.I. 7
Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 20 May 1871. _d._ Widmore, Bromley, Kent
27 May 1873.
LYONS, JAMES GILBORNE. _b._ England; ordained in the church
of England; R. of St. Mary’s ch. Burlington, New Jersey, U.S.
America 1844; a teacher in Philadelphia 1861; principal of a
classical school, Haverford, Pennsylvania to death; author of
Christian songs, translations and other poems. Philadelphia
1861. _d._ Haverford 2 Jany. 1868.
LYONS, JOHN (eld. son of John Lyons of Lyons, Antigua, and St.
Austin’s, Hants.) _b._ 1 Sep. 1787; entered navy 20 Sep. 1798;
took part in battle of Trafalgar; captain 22 July 1830; employed
for the government in Egypt; retired admiral 2 April 1866. _d._
Worthing 15 Dec. 1872.