Samuel Lyons (Australian politician)

Samuel Lyons (9 June 1826 – 25 August 1910) was an Australian politician.

He was the younger son of auctioneer, landowner and businessman Samuel Lyons (1791-1851) and Mary Murphy ( -1832), and attended the University of Liège and Cambridge University. On 24 March 1853 Lyons married Charlotte Margaret Fuller at St James' Church, Sydney, and they had three sons and a daughter.^[1]

Lyons took over his father's enterprises on his father's death in 1851, and was a respected businessman and property owner. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Canterbury at the 1859 election,^[2] but retired in 1860. He stood again for Canterbury at the December 1864 election, but was unsuccessful.^[3] He returned to the Legislative Assembly as the member for Central Cumberland at the 1868 by-election,^[4] but retired again in 1869.^[5]

Lyons died at Leura on 25 August 1910(1910-08-25) (aged 84).^[5]