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 1839. d. White Hart tavern, 197 High st. Shoreditch, London 23 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 1861. d. Haverford 2 Jany. 1868.