Robert Dyer Lyons

He became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in the following year, and in 1855 was appointed chief pathological commissioner to the British Army in the Crimea, where he reported on the disease then prevalent in the trenches before Sevastopol.

In 1856, he married Marie, daughter of David Richard Pigot, Lord Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and his wife Catherine Page.

[1] In 1857, he undertook a voluntary mission to Lisbon to investigate the pathological anatomy of yellow fever which was raging there, and for his report on that subject received from King Pedro V of Portugal the cross and insignia of the Ancient Order of Christ.

He enthusiastically recommended the reafforesting of Ireland, and with the concurrence of government collected information on forests from foreign countries, which was embodied in an article in the Journal of Forestry and Estate Management, February 1883, pp. 656–9.

[1] He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Dublin City as a Liberal from April 1880 till the general election in 1885, and spoke on the Parliamentary Oaths Act 1 May 1883.