LYNDE (or LINDE), SIR HUMPHREY, son of Cuthbert Lynde, Westminster, citizen and grocer, and Margery Baylie; bapt. 27 Aug 1579; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1596, matr. 14 Jan 1596/7, Westminster Stufdent to 1601; BA 1600; adm. Middle Temple 12 Jun 1601; of Cobham, Surrey; knighted 29 Oct 1613; MP Breconshire Feb – Jun 1626; a puritan controversialist, being “a severe enemy to the ponteficians as well in his common discourse, as in his writings” (Wood, Ath. Oxon., ii, dci); author, Via Tuta, the safe way to the true, antient, and Catholic faith, now professed in the Church of England, 1628, and other works; d. 8 Jun 1636. DNB.

LYNDON, RICHARD, third son of Sir John Lyndon, Kt, Judge of the King’s Bench Division (I), and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm.; KS 1690; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1693, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1693, aged 17, scholar 20 Apr 1694, matr. 1693; migr. to Trinity Coll. Dublin; BA 1697; MA 1700 (ad eundem Cambridge).

Lyne-Pirkis, Richard Hugh Godfrey, son of George Cecil Middleton Lyne-Pirkis, solicitor, of Blackheath, and Winifred Emily, d. of Charles Methley of Barnsley, Yorks; b. 30 Sept. 1916; adm. Sept. 1930 (B); left July 1935; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1935, BA 1938, MA 1942; 2nd Lieut. RA (TA) Dec. 1937, Lieut. 1940; Univ. Coll. Hosp. Med. Sch., MB 1946, MRCP DCH 1948; practised at Godalming, Surrey 1948-81; police surgeon SW Surrey 1950-71, asst DPM Guildford & Godalming Hosp. 1966-71; retd 1981; m. 23 Nov. 1940 Ellinor Bessie Maureen, d. of Col. Frederick Cecil Kyle Austin MD RAMC of Londonderry, N. Ireland; d. 5 Aug. 1991.

LYNN, FRANCIS, brother of John Lynn (qv); b. 2 Nov 1675; adm.; Min. Can. 1687; KS (Capt. ) 1689; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1691, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1691, scholar 8 Apr 1692; BA 1694/5; Clerk, Admiralty Dec 1702 – Feb 1706; Secretary to Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen Feb 1706 – May 1715, when office abolished; Secretary to Royal African Society from 11 Jun 1720; an account of his expenses at Westminster and Cambridge is printed from his diary in C. B. Phillimore, Alum. Westmon., 217-20; among the items is the payment of ten shillings “for the election board and putting up my name in gold letters on the tables”, which proves the existence of the custom in the old chamber of the Queen Scholars; lic. to m. 1696/7 Mary Thomson, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, dau. of Elizabeth Moreland, alias Thomson, wife of Christopher Moreland; d. 5 Apr 1731.

LYON, GEORGE, youngest son of Benjamin Lyon, Jamaica, West Indies, and London, and Elizabeth Ann --- (IGI); bapt. St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 8 Sep 1771; adm. 19 Oct 1786; KS (aged 15) 1787; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 Apr 1790; BA 1794; adm. Middle Temple 12 Feb 1791, called to bar 17 Nov 1797; d. at Spanish Town, Jamaica 1799.

Lyon, Peter, son of Graham Lyon of Haddenham, Bucks; b. 12 June 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (R); left Apr. 1938 and went to Bryanston Sch.

LYON, WILLIAM JOHN, fourth son of Joseph Lyon, Ashfield Neston, Cheshire, and Bloomsbury Square, London, barrister, and Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Winder, Vaynor Park, Montgomeryshire; b. 14 Jan 1791; adm.; Min. Can. 1803; in school lists May and Oct 1803; KS 1804; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1808, adm. pens. 28 May 1808, scholar 1809; BA 1812; adm. Gray’s Inn 15 Jun 1808; Cornet, 14th Light Dragoons 28 Apr 1812; Lieut., 10 Jun 1813; served in Peninsular War; killed in action in South of France 18 Mar 1814.

Lyster, Ernest Algernon; b. Nov. 23, 1882; adm. May 6, 1897 (H); left Dec. 1897.

Lyttelton, Oliver, Viscount Chandos of Aldershot, only son of the Right Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, M. P., sometime Secretary of State for the Colonies, by his second wife, Edith Sophy, daughter of Archibald Balfour (q.v.); b. March 15, 1893; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (R); left Easter 1906 and went to Eton; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1912; Lieut. Grenadier Guards July 15, 1915; temp. Capt. Oct. 18, 1915; served in Great War I; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 4 and Dec. 11, 1917; D.S.O., Oct. 20, 1916; M.C. July 26, 1918; played golf for Cambridge 1913; M. P. Aldershot 1940-54; Controller of Non-Ferrous Metals 1939-40; P. C. 1940; President of the Board of Trade 1940-1 and May-July 1945; Minister of State and Member of War Cabinet 1941-2; Minister of Production and Member of War Cabinet 1942-5; Secretary of State for the Colonies 1951-4; created Viscount Chandos of Aldershot Sept. 10, 1954; chairman of Associated Electrical Insudtries Ltd. 1945-51 and since 1954; m. Jan. 30, 1920, Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, fourth daughter of George, 10th Duke of Leeds; d. 21 Jan. 1972.

Mabey, Charles Henry Cecil, son of Charles Henry Mabey, of Surrey, by Emily Sarah, daughter of Samuel Prince Catterson, of Eastbourne, Sussex; b. April 16, 1894; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (A); left July 1911; joined the Inns of Court O. T. C.; 2nd Lieut. Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry Aug. 20, 1916; Lieut. Devon Regt. Feb. 20, 1918; served in France in Great War I; demob. Jan. 1919; a chartered accountant in practice in London; A. C. A. Aug. 1919; F. C. A. 1926; retired 1959; m. 1st April 29, 1922, Norah Eileen, daughter of Walter George Kirby, of Marine Parade, Worthing, Sussex; 2nd July 28, 1945, Winifred Eileen, elder daughter of H. A. Cook, of Sutton, Surrey; d. 1971.