LYNCH, William Wiltshire. b. 1 April 1831; ensign 70 foot 17 Sep. 1850; captain 2 foot 1858, major 1873 to 1875 when placed on h.p.; brigade major Chatham 1866–70; deputy judge advocate 1875–6; lieut.-col. 10 foot 3 May 1876 to 3 May 1881; lieut.-col. regimental district 1881–6; M.G. 1 April 1887; M.G. Bengal 31 March 1888 to death. d. of cholera at Allahabad 4 Aug. 1888.
LYNCH-BLOSSE, Henry (elder son of sir Robert Lynch-Blosse, 8 bart. 1784–1818). b. 11 Feb. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1860; V. of Newcastle, Glamorganshire, with V. of Bettws, C. of Laleston and C. of Tythegston 1839–77; archdeacon and canon of Llandaff 17 June 1859 to 1877; dean of Llandaff 1877 to death. d. Llandaff deanery 28 Jany. 1879.
LYNDHURST, John Singleton Copley, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Singleton Copley of Boston, U.S., afterwards of London, painter, 1737–1815). b. Boston 21 May 1772; brought to England, June 1775; pensioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 8 July 1790, 2 wr. and Smith’s prizeman 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1796; junior fellow of his coll. 2 Oct. 1795, senior fellow 5 July 1797 to 1804; travelling bachelor of Camb. univ. 1795–8, high steward of the univ. 1840; member of Lincoln’s inn 19 May 1794; practised as a special pleader; barrister L.I. 8 June 1804; serjeant at law 6 July 1813; leader of Midland circuit 1816; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1818; M.P. Ashburton 1818–26; M.P. univ. of Camb. 1826–7; king’s serjeant and chief justice of Chester Dec. 1818 to July 1819; solicitor general 24 July 1819, knighted Oct. 1819; attorney general 9 Jany. 1824 to 14 Sep. 1826; master of the rolls 13 Sep. 1826 to April 1827; recorder of Bristol, Sep. 1826 to April 1827; lord chancellor 20 April 1827 to 22 Nov. 1830; lord chief baron of the exchequer 18 Jany. 1831 to 1834, lord chancellor again 21 Nov. 1834 to 23 April 1835, and 3 Sep. 1841 to 4 July 1846; created baron Lyndhurst of Lyndhurst in the county of Southampton 25 April 1827. d. 25 George st. Hanover sq. London 12 Oct. 1863. bur. Highgate cemetery 17 Oct. 1863. Sir T. Martin’s Life of Lord Lyndhurst 2 ed. (1884), 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.