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LYGON, HON. EDWARD PYNDAR, brother of William Lygon, 2nd Earl Beauchamp (qv); bapt. Madresfield, Worcs. 3 Apr 1786 (IGI); at school 1799, 1800; Sub-Lieut., 2nd Life Guards 11 Jun 1803; Lieut., 7 Nov 1805; Capt., 15 Feb 1808; Lieut. -Col., 27 Apr 1815; Col., 27 Apr 1822; Maj. -Gen., 10 Jan 1837; Lieut. -Gen., 9 Nov 1846; Gen., 20 Jun 1854; Col., 13th Light Dragoons, from 29 Jan 1845; served in Peninsular War and at battle of Waterloo; CB 22 Jun 1815; MP Callington 1818 – 12 Jun 1820; d. unm. 11 Nov 1860.

Lyell, Malcolm Charles Alastair, son of Capt. Angus Chambers Lyell MC, 60 Rifles, and Ida Angela, d. of Thomas Smith; b. 9 Jan. 1922; adm. Sept. 1936 (R); left July 1939; Lieut. (Special List) TARO 1943-5, attd Roy. Welch Fusiliers; Univ. Coll. of N. Wales, BSc 1946; dir. Westley Richards & Co., gun and rifle makers, 1948, man. dir. 1956-60; man. dir. Holland & Holland Ltd 1960, dep. chairman 1984-8; retd Jan. 1989; m. 22 Apr. 1949 Mary Patricia Rosamunde, d. of Douglas H. Wilmer, solicitor, of Calcutta; d. 18 Jan 2011.

LYELL, ---; b.; in under school list 1723. [probably = Thomas Lisle (qv)]

LYDIARD, WILLIAM, brother of Charles Lydiard (qv); b. 27 Jan 1805; adm. 22 Oct 1819 ( (G); left 27 Mar 1823; Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1823; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 17 Nov 1823; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1825; Ensign, unattached 15 Mar 1826; 11th Bengal Native Infantry 3 May 1827; Lieut., 1 Dec 1836; Brevet Capt., 15 Mar 1841, 11th Native Infantry 27 Mar 1846; Brevet Maj., 20 Jun 1854, 11th Native Infantry 13 Apr 1860; ret., with rank Col., 31 Dec 1861; Assistant Adj. -Gen., Dinajpur Division 21 Jun 1843-59; served in Indian Mutiny; m. at Simla, India 26 Oct 1843 Victoria Hannah, dau. of Maj. Henry White, 74th Foot, Portsmouth; d. 28 Aug 1896.

LYDIARD, CHARLES, second son of Capt. Charles Lydiard, Royal Navy; b. 3 Sep 1803; adm. 19 Sep 1817 (G); one of the leaders of the rebellion caused by Goodenough’s order that fags were no longer to be compelled to clean shoes, grates and candlesticks (Autobiography and Journals of Adm. Lord Clarence E. Paget, 1896, 6, 7); left Whitsun 1821. [Mother probably Elizabeth Hill (IGI)]. [Perhaps m. 31 Oct 1832 Sarah Gibbons]

LYDALL, RICHARD, son of John Lydall, Uxmore, Oxfordshire, and his second wife Joan, dau. of Richard Stevens, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1633; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1635, adm. pens. 14 May 1635, scholar 1636, matr. Easter 1635; migrated to Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Jan 1637/8, aged 17; BA 1641; MA 1647 (incorp. Cambridge 1650); MB 1656; MD 1657; Fellow of Merton Coll. Oxford 1641; said to have served in royalist army during Civil War; submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 1648, but put out of commons for a week and publicly admonished by the Warden of Merton for drinking the King’s health in hall “with a Tertiavit” and “standing bare” on Gaudy day 1648 (Burrows, 262 and note); Warden of Merton from 27 Nov 1693; according to Wood, Lydall was “a packhorse in the practical and old Galenical way of physick, knows nothing else, buys no books, nor understands what learning is, or the world, how the affairs thereof passeth” (Wood, Ath. Oxon., i, cxvi); m. 1st, Elizabeth, dau. of Ralph Deane, Chalgrove, Bucks.; m. 2nd, Mary, dau. of Edward Perrot, Northleigh, Oxfordshire; m. 3rd, 30 Jul 1667 Sarah, dau. of Richard Zouch LLD, Regius Professor of Civil Law, Oxford; d. 5 Mar 1703/4.

LYCETT, THOMAS, son of Joseph Lycett, Golden Square, Westminster, Yeoman Keeper of Salt Stores, Royal Household, and his second wife Susannah Wigsell, Sanderstead, Surrey; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1764; left Dec 1764.

LYCETT, ---; b.; in scholl list 1765; left 1765.