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LYON, ---, son of Joseph Lyon, Ashfield Neston, Cheshire, and Bloomsbury Square, London, barrister, and Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Winder, Vaynor Park, Montgomeryshire; an older brother of William John Lyon (qv); b.; adm.; “went out of his mind at Lisbon 1811” (Whitmore, but no source for his education at Westminster quoted)

LYNN, JOHN, son of John Lynn, Westminster; b.; at school under Busby (diary of his brother Francis Lynn (qv) ).

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.

LYNN, CHARLES, brother of John Lynn (qv); b.; at school under Busby (diary of his brother Francis Lynn (qv)).

LYNN, ---; b.; adm. 3 Feb 1767; in school lists 1770.

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.

LYNDSEY, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 8) May 1719; in under school list 1723.

LYNDSEY, RICHARD; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1722; in under school list 1726.

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).

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.