William Lyall (other)
William Lyall may refer to: * William Lyall (politician), Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly * William Lyall (priest), English churchman * William Lyall (businessman) Scottish–American merchant and businessman * William John Campbell Lyall, Scottish rugby union player * Bill Lyall, Canadian politician, member of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly * Billy Lyall William Lyall (26 March 1953 – 1 December 1989) was a Scottish musician, known for his work with Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, and the Bay City Rollers. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Lyall was a singer, keyboard player and flautist with Pi ...

William Lyall (politician)
William Lyall (June 1821 – 20 January 1888) was a Melbourne businessman and, later, pastoralist, who established a model farm in Murrumbeena, Victoria, to experiment with novel agricultural and animal husbandry methods. He lived with his family for many years on a working station at Tooradin in the Westernport Bay district. He pursued practical and adventurous farming practices, and also held a number of public offices. Lyall was born in Foveran, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the family emigrated to Van Diemen's Land (later named Tasmania) when he was in his teens. He moved to Melbourne in 1847 and started a business, later joining with two others to form the successful livestock importing and shipping firm, Mickle, Bakewell & Lyall. Lyall married Annabella Brown (born in Glasgow in 1827) on 29 January 1849 in Launceston, Tasmania; they lived at Tooradin station, south east of Cranbourne, from 1852 until, in 1854 he took his family to Britain, where he studied agricultur ...
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William Lyall (priest)
William Rowe Lyall (11 February 1788 – 17 February 1857) was an English churchman, Dean of Canterbury from 1845 to 1857. Life He was born in Stepney, Middlesex, the fifth son of John Lyall and Jane Comyn. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A. 1816). In 1817 he married Catherine Brandreth (1792–1863), daughter of Dr. Brandreth of Liverpool. Lyall was editor of the ''British Critic'' 1816–17 and associated with the Hackney Phalanx, the high-church group. He became editor of the '' Theological Library'' (1832–46). He early recognized a Catholic tendency in John Henry Newman's writing. His appointment as Warburton Lecturer led to a major work, ''Propædia Prophetica'' (1840). Lyall's abilities and potential came to the attention of William Howley, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who shaped his career. Lyall became Archdeacon of Colchester (1824–1842), Archdeacon of Maidstone (1842–1845), simultaneously Canon of the Ninth Prebend, Canterbury Cathedral ( ...
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William Lyall (businessman)
William Lyall (October 20, 1840 – January 13, 1916) was a Scottish–American merchant and businessman. Early life Lyall was born on October 20, 1840. He was the son of the former Mary Cooper, a native of Perth, Scotland, and Charles Lyall, a native of Dunfermline, Scotland who emigrated to the United States in 1840. His elder brother James Lyall was born an Auchterarder, Scotland in 1836. Career After "youthful studies in the New York schools," Lyall became a member of various mercantile firms, including the Planet Mills, the United States Corset Company, and the Chelsea Jute Mills Company. Along with his brother, inventor James Lyall, he established the J. & W. Lyall Loom and Machine Works, which manufactured textile machinery. Their loom was awarded the first Great Gold Medal of Honor and several awards from the Centennial Exposition of 1876. For many years, Lyall was president of the Brighton Mills in Passaic, New Jersey, until his retirement , as well as a director of seve ...
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William John Campbell Lyall
William Lyall (27 January 1848 – 22 April 1931) was a Scottish international rugby union player who played for Edinburgh Academicals in Edinburgh. Born in Edinburgh in 1848 to David and Isabella Lyall, William Lyall played as a Forward. Lyall played in the first ever rugby union international match for Scotland against England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ... in 27 March 1871 References 1848 births 1931 deaths Scottish rugby union players Rugby union players from Edinburgh Scotland international rugby union players Edinburgh Academicals rugby union players Rugby union forwards {{Scotland-rugbyunion-bio-stub ...
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Bill Lyall
William Lyall (born 1941 in Fort Ross - 28 December 2021), known as Bill Lyall, of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada, was a territorial politician. Lyall was elected to the 8th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly in the 1975 election. Lyall grew up in Taloyoak, known then as Spence Bay, Northwest Territories, one of ten children of Ernie and Nipisha Lyall. He attended Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife and then a technology college in Alberta. After returning to Taloyoak, he later moved to Cambridge Bay. In 1975, he was elected to the NWT Legislature. He ran again in the 1979 election, as did his younger brother Bobby Lyall, but the election was won by Kane Tologanak. In 1978, Lyall was elected president of the Ikaluktutiak Co-op in Cambridge Bay, a position he still holds. By 1993, he had helped the Co-op grow from $300,000 in assets to $2.3 million. Later in the 1970s he became a director of Canadian Arctic Producers, a native owned arts and crafts wholesaler ...
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