John Lyons junior

Compensation for Lyons estate in Antigua was awarded to Norborne Thompson and Henry Shepherd Pearson (each of whom q.v.) as trustees under the will of 'John Lyons deceased.' Although neither Thompson nor Pearson was named in the will of John Lyons junior (1760-1816) as a trustee (the executors of the will were Joseph Lyons Walrond and John Lyons junior's [second] wife Elizabeth Lyons, and the trustees were Maine Swete Walrond and Samuel Athill), Pearson was John Lyons junior's son-in-law and the will referred to must be that of John Lyons junior (1760-1816) of Antigua and Saint Austin's, Hampshire, who was the son of John Lyons senior (1731-1775) of Bath and Antigua (q.v.). Counterclaims were lodged by the three daughters of Rev. Samuel Lyons (1768-1827), 'co-heiresses and residuary legatees of the will of the Rev Honble Samuel Lyons dated January 29th 1827 who was a son and legatee of John Lyons [senior]'.

This entry relates to John Lyons junior.

1. “John Lyons of Antigua and St. Austin’s, co. Hants, born 20 Oct. 1760; Member of Council 1782; died 6 Feb. 1816; bur. and M.I. at Boldre near Leamington, co. Hants. Will dated 5 Oct. 1804, Codicils 1813 and1815; proved by his widow Elizabeth 9 April 1816.” Son of John Lyons (1731-1775) and Jane Harman (1733-1792). Married firstly, Catherine (1763-1803), his second cousin, 3rd daughter of Maine Swete Walrond of Antigua by Sarah Lyons. Married secondly, Elizabeth (1767-1820), 1st daughter of William Robbins of Endless Street, Salisbury.

2. Children of John Lyons were, with his first wife, Jane (1785-), Eliza (1786-), John (1787-1872), Theodore (1788-1825), Henry (1789-1807), Edmund, Lord Lyons (1790-1858), Anne (1792-1816), Catherine (1794-1857), William (1795-), George Rose (1796-1828), William Mills (1797-1881), Maine Walrond (1798-1827), Humphrey (1802-1873), Charles Bethel (1803-1865); and with his second wife, Samuel Athill (1805-1881), Frances Walrond (1806-1884), Edward Robbins (1807-1849).

3. Edmund, Lord Lyons, has an entry in the ODNB as 'naval officer and diplomatist.'

T71/877 Antigua claim no. 266 (Lyons estate).

1. Langford Vere Oliver, History of the Island of Antigua (London, Mitchell and Hughes, 1894) Vol. 2 pp. 214-217.

2. ibid.

3. Andrew Lambert, ‘Lyons, Edmund, first Baron Lyons (1790–1858)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17288, accessed 29 Jan 2014]