LYSONS, DANIEL, an eminent antiquarian and topographer, was rector of Rodmartin, in Gloucester, a living in which he succeeded his father in 1833. He was educated at Oxford, where he graduated in 1785. When a curate at Putney, he, in 1790, commenced his first topographical work, entitled The Environs of London; being an Historical Account of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets within 12
Lysons,
Samuel
Lyttelton,
George.
miles of that Capital; interspersed with Biographical Anecdotes, 2 vols. 4to, 1810; a work which he supplemented about the same time by An Historical Account of those Parishes of Middlesex not included in the Environs of London. In conjunction with his brother Samuel, he undertook, in 1806, his great work, the Magna Britannica, being a precise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, 6 vols. 4to; an undertaking which he left unfinished. He published a small work at Gloucester in 1824, containing A View of the Revenues of the Parochial Clergy of this Kingdom from the earliest times, 8vo. Lysons wrote, besides, some sermons, which are not much known. As an accurate, laborious, and useful writer of topography, he occupies a very high place. He presented, previous to his death in 1834, 64 volumes of MS. collections for the Magna Britannica to the British Museum.