F. S. L. Lyons

Francis Stewart Leland Lyons FBA (11 November 1923 – 21 September 1983) was an Irish historian and academic who served as the 40th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1974 to 1981.

He became the founding Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent in 1964,[4][5] serving also as Master of Eliot College from 1969 to 1972.

Lyons was also awarded honorary doctorates by five universities and had fellowships at the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.

[4] His principal works include Ireland Since the Famine, the standard university textbook for Irish history from the mid-19th to late-20th century, which The Times called "the definitive work of modern Irish history" and a biography of Charles Stewart Parnell.

[7] Lyons married his wife Jennifer Ann Stuart McAlister[8] in 1954, and had two sons,[9] one of whom, Nicholas, is a former Lord Mayor of London.