CaptainJohn Lyons, JP,DL (20 October 1760 – 6 February 1816) was a British owner of extensive sugar plantations, of 563 acres in total, in
Antigua, where he served as a politician and a Captain in the
Royal Navy.
John was born in
Antigua on 20 October 1760.[1] He was the eldest of 11 children.[1] His father was John Lyons (1731-1775), who had succeeded to the 563-acre Lyons Estate in Antigua in 1748 and served as a member of the Council of Antigua from 1764 to 1775.[1] His grandfather and great-grandfather had also been members of the council.[1]
John's great-grandfather
Major Henry Lyons had emigrated from
River Lyons, King's County, Ireland, the Irish seat of the Lyons family.[1][2]
The family is not
Irish in origin, but a noble
Norman-English family descended from the Norman Baron Sir John de Lyons, who arrived in England with the
Norman Conquest and was granted lands at
Warkworth, Northamptonshire, where the family seat was Warkworth Castle (Northamptonshire).[3][4][5]
John's mother was Jane Harman (1733-1792), the daughter of Colonel Samuel Harman, who was elected a Member of Assembly for Nonsuch in 1727 and later a Member of Council and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.[1]
Life
John Lyons succeeded to the 563-acre Lyons Estate in Antigua.[1] He was sworn in as a member of the Council of Antigua in 1782.[1] After the death of their second child, in 1803, John and his wife, Catherine, returned to England and settled at St Austin's, a 190-acre estate in the New Forest, Lymington, Hampshire.[2]
John Lyons died 6 February 1816 in
England.[1] A memorial inscription to him exists at
Boldre, near
Lymington.[1]
Family
Lyons married Catherine Walrond in 1784, daughter of Maine Swete Walrond, 5th
Marquis de Vallado.[1] The couple had 15 children: five of the sons entered the service of the
East India Company, one entered the
British Army, and three entered the
Royal Navy.[1][2] Following Catherine's premature death in 1803, John married Elizabeth Robbins (26 November 1767 – 18 October 1820), daughter of William Robbins of Salisbury,
Wiltshire, on 17 March 1804.[1]
The following are those children by John's first marriage to Catherine Walrond:[1]
Charles Bethel Lyons, (1803-1864).[1] Married, in 1826, Mrs. Susannah Elizabeth Sockett (d.1847), and, secondly, in 1848, Henrietta Moore (d.1880).[1]
The following are the children of John by his second wife Elizabeth:[1]
Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Athill Lyons (1805 - 1881), Indian (Bengal) Army.[1] Married Sophia (d.1840), daughter of Colonel Logie, and, secondly, in 1842, Mary Wall (d.1893).[1]
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