Humphrey Lyons
Humphrey Lyons
was a senior Indian Army officer.
Military career
Humphrey Lyons was born at St Austins, Hampshire, on 8 July 1802. He was the ninth of twelve sons of John Lyons of Antigua and St Austin's, by Catherine , daughter of Maine Swete Walrond, 5th Marquis de Vallado. Humphrey's brothers included Vice-Admiral John Lyons and Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons.Lyons entered the 23rd Bombay Native Infantry on 25 May 1817. He was promoted to lieutenant-general on 20 May 1871. He died on 25 May 1873.
Family
Lyons married twice. In 1829, he married Elizabeth Bennett, by whom he had the following children:- Augusta Catherine Lyons
- Edmund Willoughby Lyons. Edmund was a Colonel in the Indian Army. He married twice and had issue.
- Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons. Admiral of the Fleet.
- George Maughan Lyons, Major in the Indian Army.
- Henry Maine Lyons
- Charlotte Salter Lyons. She married, in 1859, Colonel Alexander Learmonth, by whom she had issue.
- Minna Louisa Lyons. She married, in 1858, Jameson Alers-Hankey, by whom she had issue.