Abraham Lyons

Abraham Montagu Lyons (10 February 1894 – 29 November 1961[1]) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author, who served as a Conservative member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Leicester East, and as Recorder of Great Grimsby.

[3] He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the British Army on 23 October 1914, following the outbreak of World War I.

[4] Lyons was called to the Middle Temple on 28 June 1922, at which time he was a solicitor living in West Bridgford;[5] became "leader" of the Midland circuit,[6] and "took silk" in 1933.

He was the author of The Law and Procedure Relating to Bastardy Orders (London: Stevens and Sons, 1923) and (with S.W.

Magnus) of Advertisement Control (Leigh-on-Sea: Thames Bank, 1949), a commentary on the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, and on the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations, 1948.