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Date transcribed	2011-05-01
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note 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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