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 LYALL, SIR CHARLES JAMES (1845–)

I.C.S. : born March g, 1845 : son of Charles Lyall : educated at King's College School and College, and at Balliol College, Oxford : went to the N.W.P. in the Bengal Civil Service, 1867 : Assistant Under Secretary in the Foreign Department of the Government of India, 1872 : Under Secretary in the Revenue, Agriculture and Commerce Department, 1873–80 : Secretary to Chief Commissioner, Assam, 1880–3: Judge and Commissioner, Assam, 1883–4 : Secretary to Government of India in the Department of Revenue and Agricul- ture, 1886 : returned to Assam, 1887–9 : Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, 1889–94 : Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces, 1895–8 : Secretary at the India Office in the Judicial and Public Department, 1898 : C.I.E., 1880 : K.C.S.I., 1897 : author of Translations in Arabic Poetry, 1885; Ten Arabic Poems, 1894; and contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

LYALL, DAVID ROBERT (1841–)

I.C.S. : born Nov. 24, 1841 : son of David Lyall : educated at Edinburgh Academy : went to Lower Bengal in the Civil Service, 1861 : Inspr-General of Police, L.P., 1883–7 : Commissioner of Chittagong, 1887–91 : Commissioner of Patna, 1891–2 : Member of Board of Revenue, 1892–6 : retired, 1896 : Political Officer with the Chin-Lushai expedition, 1888 : C.S.I. : Superintendent of the Cooch Behar State, 1896–9.

LYALL, SIR JAMES BROADWOOD (1838–)

I.C.S. : born March 6, 1838 : son of Rev. Alfred Lyall : educated at Eton and Haileybury : went to the Pan jab in the Bengal Civil Service, 1858–9 : Financial Commissioner in the Pan jab : Resident in Mysore, 1883–7 : Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab, 1887–92 : Member of the Royal Opium Commission, 1893–4 : President of the Indian Famine Commission, 1898 : K.C.S.L, 1888: G.C.I. E., 1892.

LYALL, JOHN EDWARDES (1811–1845)

Son of George Lyall, M.P. : educated at Eton, Haileybury, Balliol College, Oxford : called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1837 : appointed by the Court of Durectors in 1842 to be Advocate-General, Bengal: applied himself to education of the Hindus : Member of the Council of Education: highly esteemed by the natives, for whose welfare and happiness he exerted himself: the law students of the Hindu College erected there a tablet to him as "the zealous friend of the native, and the first gratuitous lecturer on jurisprudence in this Hall" : died of cholera at Government House, Barrackpur, March 9, 1845.

LYNCH, HENRY BLOSSE (1807–1873)

Captain : son of Major Henry Blosse Lynch : born Nov. 24, 1807 : joined the Indian Navy, 1823 : employed in the Survey of the Persian Gulf, acting as interpreter in Persian and Arabic to the Squadron, 1829–32 : commanded the Enterprise, 1830–2, and examined S. Persia : shipwrecked in the Red Sea : served in command of the expedition under Col. F. R. Chesney to explore the Euphrates route to India, 1834 : in command of it, 1837 : ascended the Tigris, and completed the map of it, 1839 : extended, by his explorations, the geographical knowledge of Mesopotamia : had charge of the postal service across Syria till 1842 : commanded a flotilla to co-operate with Sir C. Napier in Sind, 1843 : held various naval shore appointments in Bombay, 1844–51 : in the second Burmese war commanded a squadron in the naval operations : C.B., 1853 : retired to Paris, 1856 : after the Persian war, of 1856–7, conducted at Paris the negotiations with the Persian Ambassador which led to the Treaty of Paris, March 4, 1857 : made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion and Sun : died April 14, 1873.

LYON, ISIDORE BERNADOTTE (1839–)

Born May 28, 1839 : educated at Edinburgh High School, and University College, London : joined the Indian Medical Service, 1865 : Professor of Anatomy, Grant Medical College, Bombay, 1866, and of Chemistry, 1867, and subsequently of Medical Jurisprudence : retired, 1892 : C.I.E., 1889 : author of Food Tables for India, 1877; Text Book of Medical lurisprudence for India, 1889, 1890 : Brig-Surgeon : Lt-Colonel : M.R.C.S. : F.C.S. : F.I.C.