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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.

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.

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.

LYNCH, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1554 (Chapter Muniments).

LYNCELL, RICHARD; b. ; adm. ; KS 1540 (Chapter Muniments 6478).

LYNCELL, MORYS; b. ; adm. ; KS Midsummer 1544 (Chapter Muniments 37044). [perhaps plaintiff in a fine relating to lands at Roding and Margaret Roding, Essex, 44 Elizabeth I]

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.

Lutyens, William Frederick, eldest son of Frederick Mansfield Lutyens (q.v.); b. April 26, 1891; adm. as K.S. Sept. 28, 1905; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1910, scholar (Nat. Science) 1910, matric. Michaelmas 1910; ran for Oxford against Cambridge 1911; B.A. 1913; 2nd Lieut. Lancs Hussars (T.F.) Nov. 9, 1914; seconded May 1915 to the Ministry of Munitions for the manufacture of high explosives; technical works manager to Brunner Mond & Co., Northwich, Cheshire, 1919-30; chairman of I.C.I. (Alkali) Ltd. 1931-9 and director of L.C.I. Ltd. 1941-53; m. Oct. 31, 1916, Edith Mary, only daughter of Herbert Heape, of Ludlow, Salop.; d. 26 June 1971.

LUTYENS, FREDERICK MANSFIELD, third son of Capt. Charles Henry Augustus Lutyens, 20th Foot, Onslow Square, London, painter of horses and hounds, and Mary, dau. of Maj. --- Gallwey, Deputy Inspector-Gen., Royal Irish Constabulary; brother of Sir Edwin Lutyens OM RA, architect; b. 19 Jan 1860; adm. 26 Jan 1872; QS 21 Jan 1875; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Triplett) 1878, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1878; BA 1882; an artist; exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery 1889-91; m. 20 May 1890 Susannah Gertrude, dau. of Rev. Francis Holland Addams, Vicar of St. Peter’s, Bayswater, London; d. 17 Jul 1924.