About Hugh Lyle Smyth
Lived 1834 – 1911 (aged 77). Hugh Lyle Smyth was a businessperson and merchant.
Hugh Lyle Smyth (15 Nov 1834 – 25 May 1911) was a wealthy merchant and a JP who was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1895.
He was born in Derry to Ross Thompson Smyth and Sarah Lyle. He married Eliza Turner of Rusholme Park on 5 June 1862. They had eleven children. Their family home was Crabwall Hall, in the village of Mollington, Cheshire. He had a large country house, Barrowmore Hall in Great Barrow, Cheshire, designed by the architect, John Douglas (1829–1911) and completed c. 1881. His daughter Una Maud Lyle Smyth was a novelist who wrote under the name Marius Lyle.
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Who was Hugh Lyle Smyth?
businessperson (1834–1911)
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Hugh Lyle Smyth was born on 15 February 1834 in Derry.
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Hugh Lyle Smyth died on 25 May 1911.
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Hugh Lyle Smyth was a businessperson and merchant.
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