_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.
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