LYONS, John (eld. son of John Lyons of Lyons, Antigua, and St. Austin’s, Hants.) b. 1 Sep. 1787; entered navy 20 Sep. 1798; took part in battle of Trafalgar; captain 22 July 1830; employed for the government in Egypt; retired admiral 2 April 1866. d. Worthing 15 Dec. 1872.
LYONS, John Charles (only child of Charles John Lyons 1766–96, captain 12 light dragoons). b. 22 Aug. 1792; matric. from Pemb. coll. Oxf. 21 May 1810; sheriff of Westmeath 1816; author of Treatise on the management of orchidaceous plants, with a catalogue of more than one thousand species 2 ed. Dublin 1845; A book of surveys and distribution of the estates forfeited in the county of Westmeath in the year 1641. Ledestown 1852; The grand juries of Westmeath from 1727 to 1853. Ledestown 1853. d. Ledestown, Westmeath 3 Sep. 1874. bur. in churchyard of Mullingar, co. Westmeath.
LYONS, Louisa, stage name of A. C. Lyons (dau. of a woman who kept a glove shop in Carlton st. Regent st. London in 1828). b. about 1820; sat for the Madonna to Stephanoff and Chalon for their quasi-religious pictures; a pupil of royal academy of music Jany. 1835 to Dec. 1836; sang in the chorus at the Italian opera and at Exeter hall; first appeared as an actress at the Queen’s theatre, London 13 June 1839; mistress of the Marquis of Waterford 1839–42; played Giovanni in Giovanni in London, at Victoria theatre 23 Sep. 1844; played at the Strand theatre before 1845 as Miss Lyons her real name; played afterwards under name of Turner at Olympic and Lyceum; lived in splendid style at Bayswater; made a first-rate matrimonial match. Baron Nicholson’s Autobiography (1860) 53, 250.
LYONS, Robert Spencer Dyer (2 son of sir Wm. Lyons 1794–1858). b. Cork 1826; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.B. 1848; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1849; the first in Ireland to lecture on use of microscope in relation to disease; chief pathological comr. to the army in the Crimea 1855; awarded Crimean and Turkish medals and clasps for Sebastopol 8 Sep. 1855; investigated pathological anatomy of yellow fever raging at Lisbon 1857, for which he received cross and insignia of Ancient Order of Christ; physician and teacher in St. George’s hospital, Dublin 1858; professor of medicine in R. C. university medical school; physician to house of industry hospitals; a comr. of inquiry into treatment of Irish treason-felony prisoners in English gaols 1870; enquired into treatment of French political prisoners 1870; a senator of the royal univ. 1880; crown nominee for Ireland in general medical council of the U.K. 29 Nov. 1881; M.P. city of Dublin 1880–5; author of An apology for the microscope 1851; A handbook of hospital practice 1859; A treatise on fever 1861; Forest acres in Europe and America and probable future timber supplies 1884. d. 89 Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Dec. 1886. Midland medical miscellany 1 Feb. 1884 pp. 33–5, portrait; Biograph, iii 396–400 (1880).
LYONS, Sir William (2 son of Wm. Lyons of Cork, merchant). b. Cork 28 Aug. 1794; a merchant at Cork; sheriff of Cork; mayor of Cork 1848 and 1849; knighted by the queen on board the ‘Fairy’ yacht at Cork 3 Aug. 1849. d. 27 Dec. 1858.
LYSAGHT, Arthur. b. 22 Nov. 1782; entered navy 30 June 1795; captain 25 Sep. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half pay 18 June 1857. d. Twickenham 19 March 1859.
LYSLEY, William John (only son of William Lysley d. 1792). b. 12 Dec. 1791; barrister I.T. 25 Nov. 1825; sheriff of Herts. 1851; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; contested Chippenham 12 July 1865; F.S.A. d. St. Leonards on Sea 14 Jany. 1873.
LYSONS, Samuel (2 son of rev. Daniel Lysons, topographer 1762–1834). b. 17 March 1806; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836; R. of Rodmarton, Gloucs. 1833 to death; built St. Luke’s ch. High Orchard, Gloucester, consecrated 21 April 1841; rural dean of Gloucester 1865–76; hon. canon of Gloucester cath. 24 Dec. 1867 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; author of Conjectures concerning the identity of the patriarch Job, his family, the time in which he lived and the locality of the land of Uz. Oxford 1832; The Romans in Gloucestershire 1860; Claudia and Pudens, a tale of the first century 1861; The model merchant of the middle ages, Whittington and his cat 1861; Our British ancestors, who and what they were 1865. d. Hempsted court, Gloucester 27 March 1877. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, ii 514–6, 533.
LYSTER, James (eld. son of col. Anthony Lyster of Lysterfield, co. Roscommon, d. 1841). b. 7 Sep. 1810; C. of Edgworthstown; V. of Rufagh and C. of Street; R. of Tashinny, Ardagh 1851; dean of Leighlin and R. of Wells 1854–64; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1863; R. of St. George’s cath. Kingston and dean of Ontario 1863, non-resident by leave of the bishop with consent of parishioners. d. Plas Isaaf, Ruthin, North Wales 2 Sep. 1891.
LYSTER, William Saurin (son of captain Chaworth Lyster of Greenane, Queen’s co.). b. Dublin 21 March 1827; engaged in the production of operas in the Australian colonies and New Zealand 1861–81 where the Lyster opera companies were very well known; up to 1878 had superintended 1750 performances in Melbourne where he was a proprietor and managing director of the new Opera House opened 1872. d. Melbourne 26 Nov. 1880.