About Edmund Moubray Lyons
Lived 1819 – 1855 (aged 35). Edmund Moubray Lyons was a naval officer.
Captain Edmund Moubray Lyons (27 October 1819 – 23 June 1855) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He was fatally wounded whilst commanding in the Crimean War.
Early life Edmund Lyons was born on 27 October 1819. He was the second son of Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, and Augusta Louisa (née Rogers).
The British Black Sea Fleet paid for a memorial to him at Therapia, and the officers and crew of HMS Miranda paid for a memorial to him in the south aisle of the nave of St Paul's Cathedral, London, and erected a gravestone in his memory that is now in Haydarpaşa Cemetery, Üsküdar, Istanbul.
He appears as a character in the books The Valiant Sailors, Hazard of Huntress, and other works, by V.A. Stuart.
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British naval officer (1819-1855)
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Edmund Moubray Lyons was born on 27 October 1819.
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Edmund Moubray Lyons died on 23 June 1855.
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Edmund Moubray Lyons was a naval officer.
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