Daniel & Samuel Lysons

Daniel and Samuel Lysons were the sons of the Rev. Samuel Lysons (1730-1804) and Mary Peach Lysons of Gloucestershire, England. Daniel Lysons (1762-1834) graduated from Oxford, and served as the curate of Putney (London, England) from 1789 to 1800. He was a noteworthy antiquary and topographer, and published Environs of London in four volumes from 1792 to 1796. After attending Bath grammar school and St. Mary Hall, Oxford, Lysons became, in 1790, curate of Putney, where he began work on The Environs. Horace Walpole, ever the bustling antiquarian, encouraged Lysons and appointed him his personal chaplain. The work is dedicated to Walpole. 5 volumes, 4to In 1800, he inherited the family estates at Gloucestershire from his uncle, and the following year married Sarah Hardy (ca. 1780-1808). In 1813, he married Josepha Catherine Susanna Cooper (ca. 1781-1868). Daniel's younger brother Samuel Lysons (1763-1819) began studying law in Bath in 1780, where he first befriended Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821) in January of 1784. He later courted two of Mrs. Piozzi's daughters, unsuccessfully. He relocated to London, was called to the bar in 1798, then served as Keeper of the Records in London from 1803 until his death in 1819. Samuel was also an engraver and antiquary, serving as director of the Society of Antiquaries from 1798 to 1809. He illustrated his brother's Environs of London, and the two collaborated on Magna Britannia, Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain, published in several volumes from 1806 to 1822. The work was cut short by Samuel's death in 1819.

 

Cambridgeshire, List of plates l. Map of Cambridgeshire, 1I. Plan of the 'ancient Conventual Church at Ely, and Specimens of the Capitals and Arches of the same, III. Part of the South. end of the Transept of Ely Cathedral, IV. Door-way, on -the South side of the Nave of Ely Cathedral; V. Part 'of the Nave of Ely Cathedral, VI. Specimen of the Architecture of Sto Sepulchre's Church at Cambridge, \VII. Part of the Inside of the Western Tower of Ely Cathedral, VIII. Plan of the Belfry -story of the Great Western Tower of EIy Cathedral, IX. Elevation of part of the Western Transept of EIy CathedraI, X. Part of the GalIilee at the Westend of Ely CathedraI, XI. One of the Second tier of Arches in the Old part of the Presbytery 'in Ely Cathedral, XII. One of the Lower tier of Arches in that part of the Presbytery of Ely Cathedral, rebuilt in 1322, XIII. One of the Second tier of Arches in the same, XIV. One of the Niches on the North side of St Mary's Chapel in Ely Cathedral, XV. Part of the Nave of King's College Chapel in Cambridge, XVI. Ancient painted Glass in Trumpington Church" .. XVIL Ancient Fonts in St Peter's Church in Cambridge, and in Leverington Church, and Inscription on the base of a cross which formerly stood at Haddenham, and is now in Ely Cathedral, XVIII. Monuments of Bishop Kilkenny, and Bishop Northwold, in Ely Cathedral, XIX. Monument of Bishop De Luda in Ely Cathedral, XXI Monument of Sir John de Freville in Littlle Shelford Church, Gravestone of William de Fulburne, in Fulbourn Church, XXII. Gravestone of a Knight Supposed to be Sir John dé Creke his Lady, in Westley.'Waterless Church, XXIII. Gravestone of one. of the Trumpington family, in Trumpington .Church XXIV.. Gravestone of John de Sleford, in Balsham Church, XXV. Gravestone of Sir Thomas de Braunston, in the Church of Wisbech.St Peter, XXVI. Brass plates on the monument' of Thomas Peyton; 'Esq. and his Wives, in Isleham ;church, XXVII. Plan of the University and Town of Cambridge XX VIII. Ancient Cup belonging to Pembroke Hall, in Cambridge, presented to that College by their foundress, Countesss of Pembroke, in the reign of King Edward 111 XXIX. Plan of King's College Chapel, in Cambridge, XXX. Design for the Tower of King's Collge, Cambridge, from an original Drawing in the British Museum, XXXI. Plan of Ely Cathedral, XXXII. West View of Sto Mary's Church,. Whittlesea XXXIII.' Inside View of an ancient Chapel in Willingham Church"