John Edwardes Lyall (1811 – 6 December 1845) was a British lawyer who was Advocate-General of Bengal.
[1] He was born the eldest son of George Lyall, Member of Parliament for the City of London and was educated at Eton College.
From Oxford he entered the Inner Temple to study law and after practicing in England for some years accepted the post of Advocate-General of Bengal in 1842.
He had married Julia, the daughter of Samuel Davis of Birdhirst Lodge, Croydon.
Their only daughter Maida Henrietta married Alexander S. Creyke, son of the Archdeacon of York.