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Date transcribed2011-05-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Lyall    
First Name(s)  John Edwardes    
Year of Birth  1811    
Year of Death  1845    
Entry  Son of George Lyall, M.P. : educated at Eton, Haileybury, Balliol College, Oxford : called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1837 : appointed by the Court of Directors in 1842 to be Advocate- General, Bengal: applied himself to education of the Hindus : Member of the Council of Education: highly esteemed by the natives, for whose welfare and happiness he exerted himself: the law students of the Hindu College erected there a tablet to him as ""the zealous friend of the native, and the first gratuitous lecturer on jurisprudence in this Hall "" : died of cholera at Government House, Barrackpur, March 9, 1845.     
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