Sidney Royse Lysaght

Sidney Royse Lysaght (1856 - 1941)[1] (pronounced LYE-suht) was a British writer of Irish ancestry. He was born in Bristol.[2]

In his early adulthood he worked for the family iron making concern, John Lysaght, at its factory in Bristol.[3] He lived at Banwell Castle in Somerset. He visited Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, in 1894. Edward MacLysaght (1887-1986), writer and authority on Irish family history, was his son.

Works
  • A Modern Ideal (1886) poems
  • The Marplot (1893)
  • One of the Grenvilles (1899)
  • Poems of the Unknown Way (1901)
  • Her Majesty's Rebels (1907)
  • Horizons and Landmarks (1911) poems
  • My Tower in Desmond (1925)
  • The Immortal Jew (1931)
  • A Reading of Poetry; an essay (1934)
  • A Reading of Life (1936)

References
  1. Lysaght, S. R. in The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction
  2. England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915, Volume 6a, page 61
  3. Forlorn Britain: The Orb Steelworks Archived 2013-11-15 at the Wayback Machine


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