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Lye, Edward, an English philologist and clergy- man, was born at Totnes, Devonshire, and was educated at Hertford College, Oxford; took holy orders in 1719; was presented to the living of Haughton Parya, North- amptonshire; in 1750 became vicar of Yardley Hast- ings, and died in 1767. He acquired distinction by his researches in the Saxon language and hterature. See AUibone, Diet, of Brit, and A m. A uthors, vol. ii, s. v.
Lye, Thomas, an English Nonconformist clergy- man, flourished about the middle of the 17th century. While minister at All-Hallows, Lombard Street, London, he was called upon to take oath against the king; re- fusing, he was ejected in 1651 ; reinstated, he was once more expelled, because of his refusal to take the oath of luiiformity, in 1662. He was very pojiular among Puri- tan families. His Sermons were published (Lond. 1660, 4to; 1662; 1681). f^QC AWihoxie, Diet, of Brit, and Am. Authors, vol. ii, s. v.; Stoughton, Eccks. Hist, of Engl. (Church Restoration), i, 278.
Lyell, Thojlvs, D.D., a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born in liichmond County, Va., May 13, 1775. Though educated in the Protestant Epis- copal Church, he became in early life a IMethodist, and officiated on the Frederick Circuit, Va., also in Provi- dence, R. I., and was chaplain to Congress. In 1801, however, he became rector of Christ's Church, N. Y., and remained ever after in that connection. In 1803 he was made A.M. by Brown University, and in 1822 D.D. by Columbia College. Through a long ministry he held on the even tenor of his way, and was an active mem- ber of almost every institution connected with the dio- cese of New York. He died INIarch 4, 1848. — Sprague, Annals, v,495.
Lyford, William, an English theologian and zeal- ous Calvinist, was born in 1598 at Pcrpmere (Berk- shire) ; graduated at Oxford ; became a fellow of Mag- dalen College ; entered the Churcli ; became vicar of Sherborne, Dorsetshire, and spent the remainder of his life there. He died in 1653. Among other sermons and treatises are published. Cases of Conscience pro- pounded in the Time of Rebellion (which preaches tol- erance to all parties) : — Principles of Faith and of a good Conscience (Lond. 1642; Oxford, 1652, 8vo): — An Apol- ogy for our public Ministry and Infant Baj)tism (Lond. 1652, 1653, 4to) : — The plain Man's Senses exercised to discern both good and evil (ibid. 1655, 4to). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, vol. xxxii, s. v. ; Thomas, Diet, of Biog. and Mythol. s. v. ; AUibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. Authors, s. V.
Lyle, John, A.M., a Presbyterian minister, was bom in l;(nkl)ridge Connt_v,Va., October 20, 1769, and gradua- ted at Liberty Hall in 1794. Soon after he was employed in teaching, piu-sued his theological studies, and was li- censed in 1797. He was ordained in 1799, and in 1800 took charge of the churches of Salem and Sugar Ridge, in Clark County. In 1805 he was appointed a mission- ary within the bounds of the Cumberland Presbytery, and suliseciuently a commissioner of the General Assem- bly. He removed to Paris, Bourbon Co., Ky., in 1807, established an academy, and at the same time preached
to the churcnes of Cave Ridge and Concord. He next supplied the church of Mount Pleasant, in Cynthiana, Harrison County, and passed the summer of 1814 in the counties of Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas, and Fayette, preaching chiefly to the colored people. Having been instrumental, between 1815 and 1818, in the settlement of ministers on the field of his own labors, he devoted the rest of his life to missionary service, in which he was successfully engaged till his death in Paris, Ky., July 22, 1825. He published Contributions to Periodi- ccds: — A Neiv American English Grammar (1804): — ^1 Sermon on the Qualifications and Duties of Gospel Min- isters (1821). — Sprague, ^ ««a/s, iv, 178.
Lyman, Henry, an American missionary', was born at Northampton, ]\Iass., in 1810, and graduated at Am- herst College in 1829. He went as a missionary to Su- matra, and was killed there by the Battahs, with Mr. Munson, January 28, 1834. He published Condition 'of Females in Pagan Countries.
Lyman, Joseph, D.D., a Congregational minister, was born April 14, 1749, at Lebanon, Conn. He gradu- ated at Yale College in 1767, was chosen tutor in 1770, in which position he remained two years, and was installed pastor in Hatfield, IMass., INIarch 4, 1772, where he died March 27, 1828. He was elected president of the Hamp- shire Miss. Society in 1812, vice-president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1819, and president in 1823. Dr. Lyman pnbhshed several oc- casional Sermons (1787-1821). — ^^r&gne:, Annals, ii, 10.
Lyman, William, D.D., a Presbj'terian minister, was born about 1763, and was educated at Yale College, where he graduated in 1784. He was pastor at Haddam, Conn., and China, N. Y., and died in 1833. The College of New Jersey honored him with the doctorate in divin- ity in 1808. Dr. Lyman published four Occasional Se?-- nwns (1806, 1807, 1810). See Drake, Diet. Amer. Biog. p. 570 ; AUibone, Diet. Brit, and A mer. A uthors, ii, s. v.
Lynch, Thomas M., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Wilkerson Coun- ty, Miss., August 1, 1826, was converted at Oxford, Ga., while a student at the university, at once joined tlie Church, and was licensed to preach in 1847, and shortlj' after was admitted to the Alabama Conference. His cultivated mind, his rare gifts in oratory, and his deep piety at once commended him to the love and confidence of tiie Conference. I*;non Circuit was his first, and Ma- rianna and Appalachicola his second appointment, when, in 1849, his health faUed, and it became necessary for him to locate. By 1858 he had sufficiently recovered to re-enter upon his life-work, and he now consecutively served his church at Lowndesboro, Pineville, PrattviUe, and the Socapatoy Circuit. In the last-named placa his health was again affected by the extent of the work and arduousness of its duties, and he retired from active work. He died in Coosa County, Ala., April 18, 1867. "In all the relations of life he sustained the character of a gentleman of the highest type. Possessing a rich fund of knowledge, and gifted with conversational pow- ers that statesmen and courtiers might envy, he ever drew around him, by the affability of his manners and sweetness of his spirit, a large circle of friends, and held them by an indissoluble cord." As a preacher his ^^•ord had power and unction. See Minutes of Conferences of M. E. Church South, iii, 128.