John Edwardes Lyall

(1811-1845)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Lyall, John Edwardes (1811-1845) Advocate General in Bengal LBT ID: JoLyall1845	B/BAP: 1811 DIED: 1845-03-09
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (July 1845) 83
The son of George Lyall MP; educated at Eton, Haileybury, and Balliol College, Oxford, he practised law on the Home circuit before being appointed advocate general of Bengal. He died of cholera.
REFERENCES TO John Edwardes Lyall: Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) VISCOUNT HARDINGE Found 1: ¶ 33