Name Humphrey Lyons Rank Lieutenant general | Died May 25, 1873 | |
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Lieutenant-General Humphrey Lyons (8 July 1802 - 25 May 1873) was an Indian Army officer.
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Military career
Humphrey Lyons was born at St Austins in the English county of Hampshire on 8 July 1802. He was the ninth of twelve sons of John Lyons of Antigua and St Austin's (1760-1816), and Catherine (1763-1803) (née Walrond), daughter of Maine Swete Walrond, 5th Marquis de Vallado. Humphrey's Brothers included Admiral John Lyons (1787 - 1872) and Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons.
Lyons went out to India where he 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 married Elizabeth Bennett (1798 - 1859), by whom he had the following children:
Humphrey Lyons married, secondly, on 7 July 1860, the Hon. Adelaide Matilda Yelverton (1821-1884), the daughter of the 3rd Viscount Avonmore. Humphrey and Adelaide had no issue.