EDMUND DAVID LYON (1825–1891)

Lyon served in the British Army 1845–1854 and was Governor of Dublin District Military Prison 1854–1856. Traveling to India he opened his photographic studio in Ootacamund in 1865. A series of photographs of the Nilgiris was shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1867. Under a commission firstly from the Madras governments and later the Bombay government, he photographed archaeological sites and architectural antiquities during 1867–1868 assisted by his wife Grace. In 1871 his book ‘Notes to Accompany a Series of Photographs Designed to Illustrate the Ancient Architecture of Western India’ was published. Lyon photographed Malta on his return to England and eventually settled there in the late 1880s