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.