Modern English biography

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