Modern English biography

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.