LUXMOORE, Charles Scott (eld. son of John Luxmoore, bishop of Hereford and St. Asaph, d. 21 Jany. 1830 aged 73). b. 1792; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bromyard 2nd portion 1815 to death; R. of Cradley, Herefordshire 1816 to death; R. of Darowen, co. Montgomery 1819 to death; canon of Hereford 30 Oct. 1815 to death; preb. of St. Asaph 16 Oct. 1816 to 1842; dean of St. Asaph 26 June 1826 to death. d. Cradley 27 April 1854. bur. in St. Asaph cathedral.
LUXMOORE, Thomas Coryndon. b. 1795; second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1814, lieut.-col. 1 July 1849 to 1 April 1852 when placed on retired list; general 8 June 1871; wrote On the groins used in Sussex for preventing encroachment of the sea, in Papers of Corps of Engineers vol. i (1884). d. Tunbridge Wells 26 Nov. 1878.
LYALL, Alfred (youngest son of John Lyall of Findon, Sussex, 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.