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William Lyall (priest)

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William Rowe Lyall (11 February 1788 – 17 February 1857) was an English churchman,^[1] Dean of Canterbury from 1845 to 1857.^[2]

Life

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He was born in Stepney, Middlesex, the fifth son of John Lyall and Jane Comyn.^[3] He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A. 1816).^[4] In 1817 he married Catherine Brandreth (1792–1863), daughter of Dr. Brandreth of Liverpool.^[5]

Lyall was editor of the British Critic 1816–17^[6] and associated with the Hackney Phalanx, the high-church group.^[7] Together with Hugh James Rose he became editor of the Rivington's Theological Library (1832–46).^[8] He early recognized a Catholic tendency in John Henry Newman's writing.^[9] His appointment as Warburton Lecturer led to a major work, Propædia Prophetica (1840).^[10] Lyall's abilities and potential came to the attention of William Howley, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who shaped his career.^[11]

Lyall became Archdeacon of Colchester (1824–1842),^[12] Archdeacon of Maidstone (1842–1845),^[13] simultaneously Canon of the Ninth Prebend, Canterbury Cathedral (1841–1845),^[14] and finally Dean of Canterbury (1845^[15]–1857).^[16] He died at Canterbury, Kent. There is a monumental tomb in the north aisle of the nave at Canterbury, said to be designed after a model by the sculptor John Birnie Philip (1824–1875),^[17] but his remains are in fact buried at the parish church of St Michael in the nearby village of Harbledown, alongside his wife's.^[18]

Literary works

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He wrote a number of dissertations on religious topics, and was a regular contributor to the Quarterly Review, albeit anonymously. His major published work was Propædia Prophetica (Preparation of Prophesy), in 1840.^[19] It was re-published in 1854 and again posthumously in 1885, this time with a preface by his nephew George C. Pearson.^[20] He also contributed to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, an ambitious enterprise to disseminate knowledge: he was invited to write sections of the History Division, in particular: History of Greece, Macedonia and Syria.^[21] Co-authors of this work were Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain, George Cecil Renouard and Michael Russell.^[22]

Family

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His eldest brother was George Lyall, Snr, sometime MP for the City of London (UK Parliament constituency), and Chairman of the East India Company.^[23] One of his famous nephews was Alfred Comyn Lyall, the Indian civil servant (1835–1911).^[24] Another was James Broadwood Lyall (1838–1916), also an Indian civil servant, who became Governor of the Punjab.^[25]

Notes

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^ Clergy of the Church of England database
^ 'The Dean of Canterbury' The Times Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1857 Issue 22607 p. 1
^ JJHC
^ "Lyall, William Rowe (LL804WR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ Garfield, Simon (2002). The Last Journey of William Huskisson. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-21048-1.
^ Murphy, G. Martin. "Lyall, William Rowe". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17237. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Gibson, William (1994). Church, State and Society, 1760–1850. New York: St. Martin's Press. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-23204-8. ISBN 978-0-333-58757-7.
^ Robert Wilson Evans (1839). Biography of the Early Church. M. Aurel, Fr. p. 6.
^ Christopher John Murray (13 May 2013). Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850. Routledge. p. 803. ISBN 978-1-135-45579-8.
^ William Rowe Lyall (1840). Propædia Prophetica: A View of the Use and Design of the Old Testament. Followed by Two Dissertations : I. On the Causes of the Rapid Propagation of the Gospel Among the Heathen. II. On the Credibility of the Facts Related in the New Testament. J.G.F. & J. Rivington. p. vi.
^ The Passing of Barchester, Dewey, C. Hambledon Press, London (1991).ISBN 9781847250490
^ "Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity" Richardson,E p196: Cambridge, CUP, 2013 ISBN 978-1-107-02677-3
^ Horn, Joyce M. (1974), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, p. 17
^ British History On-line
^ 'The New Dean of Canterbury' The Times Saturday, Nov. 29, 1845 Issue 19094p. 7 Article
^ "Lyall, William Rowe (LL804WR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge., consulted 14/7/2011
^ Katharine Eustace, 'The Post-Reformation Monuments', in: A History of Canterbury Cathedral, ed. P. Collinson, N. Ramsay, M. Sparks, (OUP: 1995, revised edition 2002) p.539–40; illustration, plate 154.
^ "Life of the Right Hon. Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, P. C., K. C. B., G. C. I. E., D. C. L., LL. D" Durand, M p20 William Edinburgh; Blackwood and Sons; 1913
^ Google Books
^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Pearson, George Charles" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Encyclopaedia s.v. Encyclopaedia Metropolitana". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 381.
^ "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
^ Creffield, C. A. "Lyall, Alfred". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17234. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Dewey, Clive (1993). Anglo-Indian Attitudes: Mind of the Indian Civil Service. A. & C. Black. ISBN 978-0-82643-254-4.
^ "University of the Punjab - Former Vice Chancellors". University of the Punjab. Archived from the original on 6 July 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2018.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Inaugural incumbent	Archdeacon of Maidstone 1841–1845	Succeeded by Benjamin Harrison
Preceded by Richard Bagot	Dean of Canterbury 1845–1857	Succeeded by Henry Alford

v t e Archdeacons of Maidstone
William Lyall Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Smith Henry Spooner John Macmillan Karl Sopwith Alexander Sargent Julian Bickersteth Gordon Strutt Michael Nott Thomas Prichard Niel Nye Michael Percival Smith Patrick Evans Philip Down Stephen Taylor Andrew Sewell

v t e Deans of Canterbury
Early modern	Nicholas Wotton Thomas Godwin Richard Rogers Thomas Nevile Charles Fotherby John Boys Isaac Bargrave George Aglionby Thomas Turner John Tillotson John Sharp George Hooper George Stanhope Elias Sydall John Lynch William Freind John Potter Brownlow North John Moore James Cornwallis George Horne William Buller Folliott Cornewall
Late modern	Thomas Powys Gerrard Andrewes Hugh Percy Richard Bagot William Lyall Henry Alford Robert Payne Smith Frederic Farrar Henry Wace George Bell Dick Sheppard Hewlett Johnson Ian White-Thomson Victor de Waal John Simpson Robert Willis David Monteith

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