Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons [SEP] date of death
Robert Dyer Lyons
Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons MP (13 August 1826 – 19 December 1886) was an Irish physician.
Life.
Lyons, born at Cork in 1826, was son of Sir William Lyons (1794–1858), a merchant there, who was mayor in 1848 and 1849, and was knighted by the queen on her visit to Cork on 3 August 1849. His mother was Harriet, daughter of Robert Spencer Dyer of Kinsale.
Robert was educated at Hamblin and Porter's Grammar School, Cork,
subjects were taught. A report card for a pupil grades him in Greek Testament, Lucian, Homer, Xenophon, Latin, Terence, Juvenal, Livy, Virgil, Horace, Exercise, Euclid (Geometry), Algebra, History and Writing.
Past Pupils.
Significant pupils include, physician Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons, Home Rule MP Joseph Philip Ronayne, Alderman Robert Day JP, architect/engineer William Henry Hill, balladeer, writer and nationalist Denny Lane, mathematician, theologian and Trinity provost George Salmon DD, FRS