James Lyall (9 April 1827 – 10 September 1905) was a Presbyterian minister in the early days of Adelaide, South Australia.
He served as a home missionary in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Alloa for 10 years before being called to Adelaide as a long overdue replacement for Rev.
He was active in the Temperance cause,[4] the South Australian Sunday School Teachers' Union,[5] London Missionary Society,[6] British and Foreign Bible Society,[7] Missions for the Heathen,[8] Aborigines' Friends' Association[9] and others.
He was moderator of the Federal Assembly of the Presbyterian Churches of Australia, and in that capacity visited the New Hebrides Mission, where his brother-in-law Dr. John Gibson Paton was a missionary, and attended the annual mission meeting at Aneityum.
Their family included: Mrs Lyall's sister Margaret "Maggie" Whitecross (c. 1840 – 16 May 1905) married missionary Dr. John Gibson Paton (24 May 1824 – 28 January 1907)[16] Rev.