Beverley Hamilton Lyon (19 January 1902 – 22 June 1970) was an English cricketer who played for Oxford University and Gloucestershire.

[1] He was a bespectacled middle-order batsman and a fine close fielder who held forthright and, for his time, outspoken views on cricket captaincy and cricket traditions and who was given full rein by his county, Gloucestershire, to express his views as captain for six years from 1929.

Some of Lyon's views – on Sunday cricket and on a knockout cup, for instance – were by some distance too far ahead of their time.

Lyon was aided, no doubt, by having Wally Hammond, perhaps England's finest batsman of the time in the side.

[3] And in 1930, in the match between Somerset and Gloucestershire at Taunton, Dar scored 210 after being dropped twice by Goddard, but Bev replied with a century of his own and led his side to victory by eight wickets.