Major John Charles Lyons (1792 - 1874) was an Anglo-Irish landowner, politician, antiquary, and horticulturalist.
[1] The grandson of Sir Richard Lyons, who was Governor of Calais during the reign of Henry VIII, was Captain William Lyons, a Huguenot and supporter of Henry of Navarre who fled to England, after the Massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572, and entered the army of Elizabeth I, in which, in 1599, he commanded a company of cavalry, under the Earl of Essex, in the Tudor conquest of Ireland.
[1] William also bought the lands of Mullalough, Casement, Killeen, and Killowen, together constituting over 3000 acres, in the same County.
[4] The Irish seat of the Lyons family was Ledestown/Ledistown Hall, Mullingar, County Westmeath.
[1] One of his sons, Charles Lyons JP, DL, also served as High Sheriff of Westmeath.