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_.
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.