Walter Lyon

Walter John Lyon (28 February 1841 – 16 March 1918) was an English cricketer who played in first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University between 1861 and 1863. He was born at Barton-under-Needwood in Staffordshire and died at Tutbury, also in Staffordshire.

Lyon was educated at a private school called Highstead in Torquay, Devon and at Trinity College, Cambridge. As a cricketer, he played in six first-class matches over three seasons, five for Cambridge University and one for a "Gentlemen of the North" side for whom he made his highest score of 22. He did not appear in the University Matches with Oxford in 1862 and 1863. He played a lot of amateur non-first-class cricket for teams such as Free Foresters through to the 1880s and beyond. The cotton mill was transferred to Rocester in 1888, after which the mill in Tutbury was used for grinding locally mined gypsum. Tutbury being sited on the county boundary, Lyon was a Justice of the Peace for both Staffordshire and Derbyshire.