George Fosbery Lyster

George Fosbery Lyster FRSE (1821–1899) succeeded John Hartley as Engineer in Chief to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.

He was born on 7 September 1821 at Mount Talbot in County Roscommon in Ireland.

He widened the River Shannon and in the 1850s built the Great Harbour of Refuge at Holyhead.

In 1861 he succeeded John Bernard Hartley as Engineer-in-Chief to Liverpool Docks.

[4] He was father to Anthony George Lyster (1852-1920), also a harbour engineer.