James Lyons 1887-1983
No Ancestry tree . Dentist. A Plymouth Brethren
1887 . James Lyons was born at Knox Street, Sligo on 4/6/1887 to Richard Lyons , merchant, & Mary Waugh , their address Ratcliffe St., Sligo . He was their only child who survived infancy
1889. A brother William Alexander Lyons born Ratcliffe St., Sligo, 31/7/1889 - seen birth entry on above site . But he dies, aged 4 weeks on 30/8/1889 of diarrhoea & exhaustion
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James as a child, ~1897, with his parents . James in later life
1901C. James Lyons, 13, was a pupil at Clevedon school, for about 50 boys aged 9-16 in Walton & Gordano, Long Ashton, Somerset . - FMP. His parents were in Kilkeel, Co. Down _ they were 'Brethren' so thought this was maybe a Brethren school: but does not seem to have been
Then on to Edinburgh Universisity to study dental surgery, qualifying in 1912
1911C. . James Lyons, 23, dental student, b. Ireland, is living at 63 Warrenden Park Road, Edinburgh with his parents and a servant.
1916. James Lyons, 29, Licentiate of Dental Surgery, married Catherine Arnold Myles, 25, in Crieff. His parents Richard Lyons, a retired retail draper & Mary Waugh. Her parents George Myles, a retired cabinet maker, and Jane Pinkerton . His address 187 Antrim Road, Belfast. Hers Laurel House, Comrie Road, Crieff . Witnesses: John William Myles, her elder brother, & Isabella Frances Thomson, a hospital nurse.
Photo of the wedding. Maybe James' father, Richard, reading something next to him . Her parents, George & Jane Myles, on the right?
Writing on the back of above photo
1918. His father, Richard Lyons, 73, married, retired draper, dies on 17/1/1918 at 6 College Park East, Belfast, of prostatic enlargement & Cardic Failure[operation]. Usual address 187 Antrim Road, home of his son James. Informant was James' father in law, George Myles, of Laurel House, Crieff, Perthshire, present at the death . Seemingly no detailed obituary in Irish Newspaper Archives . Buried in Carmoney Cemetery
1920. Evangeline Lyons was born on 11/6/1920 at 187 Antrim Road to James , dentist, and Catherine. Informant Isobel C McDowell of 22 Landscape Terrace
1928. A son was born to James & Kathleen 10/2/1928 at Hartington House, Antrim Road - Irish Newspapers
James & Catherine/Kathleen had 3 children: Arnold Richard Lyons 1917-2003; Evangeline Lyons 1920-2009 & Martin James Lyons 1928. Arnold James Lyons had sons Richard & Tim
1941. He chairman of the Northern Iraland War Committee- convening a meeting - FMP Newspapers 27/10/1941.
1983. James Lyons, 96, died. Buried in Carmoney Cemetery 5/8/1983 - no Civil death records after 1965 . No obituary found on FMP. But there was one in the British Dental Journal on 14/9/1983
Portrait of James Lyons by Penelope
Owner of Harrison-dePledge/waugh Ancestry tree is Jane Begg: she seemingly the daughter of Arnold Lyons 1917 and has a brother Tim Lyons, with whom the Rainsburys are in contact
Obituary of Arnold Richard Lyons, written by his son Timothy J Lyons in 2003:
After qualifying, Arnold Lyons served for five years in the second world war as a medical officer in the Royal Air Force. His acute realisation of the human consequences of aerial bombardment led to a lifelong revulsion towards modern warfare. Following the war and postgraduate study, he cared for patients with cancer, which was to be his main life's work. His interests included photography, painting, writing, and literature. Predeceased by his wife, Doris, he leaves two sons and a grandson.
house physician and surgeon Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, 1940-1; Royal Air
Force 1941-6; registrar and senior registrar, internal medicine, Royal
Victoria Hospital, Belfast, 1946-50; senior registrar, radiotherapy, Edinburgh
Royal Infirmary 1950-3 and Northern Ireland Radiotherapy Centre 1953-5;
consultant radiotherapist Northern Ireland Radiotherapy Centre 1955-84.
Education and qualifications: Royal Belfast Academical Institution 1928-35;
Queen’s University of Belfast 1935-40;
Although Arnold Lyons grew up in a busy professional household in Belfast,
he felt privileged to have lived as a small boy, for six months of each
year, in an old cottage with few amenities in Islandmagee, County Antrim.
In those days many tramps, liners, and even sailing ships were to be seen,
as were the daily crossings of the Larne-Stranraer boat, as it was then
known. With the aid of field glasses, an excellent German field telescope,
and an air pistol for shooting at balloons on the water, he acquired a
great and lasting love for the sea.
<p>His early schooling was under the tutelage of three grim ladies at a
private school in the north of Belfast. At age 10, he moved to "Inst" where,
among 600 other boys, he was fascinated only by the subject of astronomy.
This he regarded with awe: it gave him a sense of happenings of such magnitude
that time and ordinary affairs seemed trivial. Meantime his hopes of being
a sailor were dashed; he had short sight.
<p>It was when he left Inst and took up the study of medicine that he felt
his life really began. He considered it a great privilege to be a doctor,
allowing as it does a unique relationship with people, one that can be
exercised in a multitude of ways and in any part of the world. He graduated
shortly after the outbreak of the second world war, and after a house officer
post in the Royal Victoria Hospital, he served as a medical officer in
the Royal Air Force for five years. This experience affected him deeply.
His exposure to so many intelligent and talented<i> </i>young aircrew who
lost their lives in Bomber Command, and an acute realisation of the human
consequences of aerial bombardment, led to a lifelong revulsion toward
modern warfare. He came to understand bravery and courage as stark realities.
<p>After the war and further postgraduate study, he took up the care of
patients with cancer, which was to be the main work of his life. Again
he learned the meaning of courage in the face of death. He loved his patients
in a very real way, and he hoped and believed that many of them found in
him a real friend. He believed passionately that a doctor should be apolitical,
and that before the frightening heights and depths of severe illness and
impending death, many seemingly important things declared themselves trivialities.
His association with colleagues far and near in the Province was a source
of great satisfaction, and many friendships were formed. It saddened him
that the camaraderie expressed so easily in the Ulster character could
not find expression everywhere in society as it did in medicine. He partook
in the training of junior colleagues, many from overseas, and welcomed
them to visit his home. Both his sons followed him into medicine.
<p>The other great passion in his life was his family. To be with Doris
and the boys at weekends and on holidays in the south and west of Ireland,
and to meet there with friends, made him feel a very privileged person;
happy days of youth and content. His interests and talents were wide, and
included photography, painting, writing, and literature; he was a compulsive
reader. These interests stood him in good stead during the eight years
he cared for Doris, at home, as she deteriorated with Alzheimer’s disease,
and for seven years after her death. He was fully active until the end,
which came suddenly from a subdural haemorrhage after a minor fall.
<p>As a child his mother gave him a text: "Remember now thy creator in
the days of thy youth." He considered it very important, and throughout
his life verses of scripture would frequently come to mind. Two were particularly
important in a paradoxical way: "From a child thou hast known the holy
Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation." The other,
very important: "Lord I believe, help thou my unbelief." [<b>Timothy J
Lyons</b>]
James Lyons was our Mother’s dentist when she first moved to Northern Ireland after the war and Arnold Lyons, James Lyons son, was a great friend of our Father. He was a a radiotherapist in Belfast.-Fi