There was a crash. A heavy glass water-pitcher hit the cement walk immediately before him. “After that, I didn’t expect them to find out anything, and they did their best not to disappoint me. I saw that if anybody was going to do the Sherlock Holmes’ act, it must be Ropes and me. LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, 1 Baron (4 son of John Lyons of Antigua). _b._ Burton near Christchurch, Hants. It broke into a million pieces. He glared up. We sat tight at the Washington Irving, and looked around; but at the end of a fortnight no one was any wiser than at the beginning.
Then what should happen but the dear old Colonel and Pilar popped down to see if they could help. 22 Nov. 1790; ed. The pitcher would have hit him if it hadn't been for a twitching eyelid that had brought him to a stop. The window of the room he'd just left was open, but there was no way to prove that a patient had gotten out of bed to heave the pitcher. Oh, and I forgot to tell you that meanwhile the people at Carmona’s palace had cleared out. They’d gone back to Seville again by train; and what should happen but the Colonel and Pilar met Carmona face to face in the station.” at Hyde Abbey school near Winchester; entered navy June 1801; took the Dutch fort of Marrach, 74 miles west of Batavia, by surprise 30 July 1811 without orders to do so; captain 7 June 1814; commanded the Blonde frigate in the Mediterranean 1828, co-operated with French troops in reduction of Kastro Morea Oct. 1828 for which he received French order of St.
And it had broken into too many pieces to offer fingerprint evidence. Louis and Greek order of the Redeemer; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted 23 Jany. 1835; minister and plenipotentiary at Athens 2 July 1835 to Feb. 1849; created baronet 29 July 1840; K.C.B. 10 July 1844, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; minister to the Swiss confederation 1849–51; minister at Stockholm 1851–3; R.A. 14 Jany.
1850, V.A. 19 March 1857; second in command of Mediterranean fleet Nov. 1853, commander-in-chief 14 Feb. 1855 to 22 Feb. 1858; the practical commander of the fleet throughout the Crimean war 1853–55; received grand cross of legion of honour and Medjidie of 1st class; created baron Lyons of Christchurch 23 June 1856; (_m._ 18 July 1814 Augusta Louisa 2 dau. of Josias Rogers, captain R.N., she was author of three novels, Olivia 1848, Sir Philip Hetherington 1851, The lover upon trial 1853, all published in the Parlour library, she _d._ 10 March 1852). He _d._ Arundel Castle 24 Nov. 1858, portrait at the naval exhibition 1891. _Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series_ (1859), _portrait_; _E.
Nolan’s Illustrated history of war against Russia_, _i_ 398 (1857), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 15 March 1862 p._ 164, portrait.