Modern English biography

_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