Lyons, Joseph
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1847-1917) UK inventor, caterer (founder of Lyons Corner Houses), and author of The Master Crime (1907) with Cecil Raleigh, a Near Future tale involving an anarchist destabilization of Britain, causing the Bank of England to close its doors. Lyons was knighted in 1911. [JC]
Sir Joseph Nathaniel Lyons
born London: 29 December 1847
died London: 22 June 1917
works
- The Master Crime (London: Cassell and Company, 1907) with Cecil Raleigh [pb/nonpictorial]
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