Commander Lutwidge married Mary, daughter of Taylor, Esq., of Osbaston Hall, co. Leicester.
LYALL. (Lieut., 1825. f-p., 13; h-p., 21.)
George Lyall, born 6 Jan. 1799, is second son of the late Capt. Wm. Lyall, R.N., who fell into the hands of the enemy during his passage home in a packet from Halifax, suffered a consequent captivity of eight years, and died in June, 1814, three days only after his return to England. His brother, James, is a Purser and Paymaster R.N. (1833).
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 9 Dec. 1813; and embarked, 10 Dec. 1816, as Midshipman, on board the Larne 20, Capt. Abraham Lowe, under whom he was for two years employed in the West Indies, and was often sent away in the boats for the purpose of cruizing after pirates and slavers. Joining, in Jan. 1819, the Active 46, to which ship, commanded by Capts. Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon and Andrew King, he continued attached, in the capacity of Admiralty-Midshipman, until Sept. 1824, he partook of much special service, and was for several months engaged at the blockade of Algiers. On the date last mentioned (having passed his examination in 1822) he removed, as Mate, to the Dartmouth 42, Capts. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude and Henry Dundas, and was again ordered to the West Indies, where his conduct in boarding and carrying, in a boat with only 11 men, a piratical schooner off the north coast of Cuba, on which occasion he was slightly wounded in the left leg, procured him a commission dated 1 July, 1825. He remained in the Dartmouth until the following Dec.; and was then received as a Supernumerary into the Eden 26, Capt. John Lawrence. He has not been afloat since July, 1826.
The Lieutenant married, 6 Nov. 1827, Catherine, youngest daughter of the late Robt. Lindsay, Esq., of Almeriecloss, Forfar, N.B., by whom he has issue five children.
LYDE. (Lieutenant, 1814. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
George Lyde entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Prince of Wales 98, Capt. Wm. Cuming, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Calder. After sharing in the action fought off Cape Finisterre 22 July, 1805, he successively followed Capt. Cuming, in 1806, into the Isis 50, and Sampson 64 – escorting Rear-Admiral Chas. Stirling, in the latter ship, to the Rio de la Plata, and a convoy thence to the Cape of Good Hope. Returning to Europe in the early part of 1807, he served from May in that year until promoted to his present rank 9 Sept. 1814, chiefly as Master’s Mate, although for a short time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Inflexible 64, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson, Éclair 18, Capt. Chas. Kempthorne Quash, Bombay 74, Capts. Wm. Cuming, Norborne Thompson, and Geo. Parker, and Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, on the Home, Baltic, and Mediterranean stations. He has since been on half-pay. He had served in the Bombay from 19 Oct. 1808 until 20 April, 1814, and had passed his examination in 1809.
Lieut. Lyde married, 14 Dec. 1830, Catherine, youngest daughter of Commander Wm. West, R.N., who died in 1811. He has issue six children.
LYDIARD. (Captain, 1842.)
George William Charles Lydiard entered the Royal Naval College 22 Sept. 1815; and embarked, 17 Jan. 1818, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Queen Charlotte 100, Capt. Edm. Boger, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Thornbrough at Portsmouth; whence, after having been for a short time borne on the books of the Drake sloop, Capt. Henry Shiffner, he proceeded to the Mediterranean in the Spey 20, commanded at first by Capt. Jas. Kearney White, and next by Capts. Jas. Barnwell Tattnell and John Donaldson Boswall. In May, 1821, and Aug. 1822, being still on the station last named, he was there received in succession into the Rochfort 80, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore, and Larne sloop, Capt. Robt. Tait. His appointments in the capacity of Lieutenant, a rank he attained 20 March, 1823, appear to have been – 2 Sept. 1824, to the Owen Glendower 42, Capt. Hood Hanway Christian, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he obtained leave to return – 18 Sept. 1829, to the Ganges 84, Capts. John Hayes, Edw. Stirling Dickson, and Geo. Burdett, again in the Mediterranean – 7 Nov. 1833, as Senior, after 20 months of half-pay, to the Blonde 46, Capt. Fras. Mason, fitting for South America – 7 Oct. 1834, to the acting-command of the Satellite 18, on the latter station – and, 19 Feb. 1835, again to the Blonde. He was promoted to the rank of Commander, on that ship being put out of commission, 5 Dec. 1837; and was lastly, from 31 July, 1838, until paid off at the close of 1841, employed as Second-Captain of the Donegal 78, and Britannia 120, flag-ships of Sir John Acworth Ommanney on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations. He was posted 30 Aug. 1842.
LYE. (Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 1841. f-p., 18; h-p., 33)
William Jones Lye was born 9 June, 1783, and died 7 March, 1846, at Bath. He was brother of Capt. Leigh Lye, who served throughout the Peninsular war and at Waterloo in the 11th Dragoons.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Aug. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Formidable 98, Capts. Berkeley and Murray, bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Roger Curtis. In 1799, after he had cruized with that Admiral off the coast of Ireland, and off Cadiz and Gibraltar, as Midshipman of the Prince 98, he sailed with him in the Lancaster 64, for the Cape of Good Hope, where, on 12 Sept. 1801, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Tremendous 74, Capt. John Osborn. While in that ship, to which he was confirmed 15 Jan. 1802, we find him commanding a boat at the destruction of a vessel under the enemy’s forts on the Isle of France. On 19 March and 26 May, 1805, Mr. Lye successively assumed the acting-command of the Cornwallis 44, and Rattlesnake 18; and on 22 May, 1806 (having been officially appointed to the latter vessel on 31 of the preceding Jan.), he was posted into the Bombay, alias Ceylon, 32.[1] Removing, in April, 1810, to the Doris 36, he was intrusted, in the course of that year, with the conduct of two expeditions that sailed from Madras and Bombay for the Mauritius and Bourbon; and he afterwarde, in Dec. 1810 and Sept. 1811, took part in the operations which led to the reduction of the islands of France and Java. On the former occasion he commanded a division of boats at the landing of the army. At Java he had charge, at first, of a small blockading squadron. After its subjugation he was for some time Senior officer at Batavia. He returned to England with Sir Sam. Hood’s despatches (having been upwards of 13 years absent on the Cape of Good Hope and East India stations), and was paid off in Dec. 1812. The latter was Capt. Lye’s last appointment. He attained Flag-rank 23 Nov. 1841.
The Rear-Admiral married, 29 Jan. 1817, Eliza, daughter of Benjamin Cobb, Esq., of New Romney, co. Kent, by whom ho has left issue four children. His two eldest sons are in the East India Service.
LYELL. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
Thomas Lyell is second son of Chas. Lyell, Esq., of Kinnordy, co. Angus, a Magistrate and Vice-Lieutenant of that shire, by Frances, only daughter of Thomas Smith, Esq., of Maker Hall, Swaledale, co. York; and elder brother of Capt. Henry Lyell, of the 43rd Bengal Light Infantry. One of his aunts married Capt. Gilbert Heathcote R.N., brother of the present Admiral Sir Henry Heathcote, Kt.
This officer entered the Navy 14 July, 1813; obtained his commission 8 July, 1824; and was subse-
- ↑ The Bombay made prize, 10 July, 1807, of the French national brig Le Jaseur of 12 guns and 55 men, after a chase of nine hours. – Vide Gaz. 1808, p. 71.
