Percy Hugh Beverley Lyon
Percy Hugh Beverley Lyon ( 1893 - 1986 ) was a British school principal and writer. During World War I he served as a lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry and received a Military Cross for his bravery. Nevertheless, he got into German captivity, where he saw the end of the war.
Lyon, who had studied at Oriel College at Oxford University , had already published poetry in the magazine Oxford Poetry between 1910 and 1914 . In 1918 he was awarded the Newdigate Prize for his poem France . In the 1920s, Lyon published poetry in a number of magazines such as the London Mercury , The Oxford Magazine , The Spectator and the Westminster Gazette .
Lyon was director of the rugby school from 1931 to 1948 .
Works by Percy Hugh Berverley Lyon
- Songs of War & Youth (1918)
- Turn Fortune (1923)
Contributions in edited volumes:
- More Songs By the Fighting Men (Soldier Poets Second Series; London: Erskine MacDonald Ltd., 1917)
- Valor & Vision: Poems of the War (1920)
- Selections from Modern Poets , ed. JC Squire
- Later English Poems, 1901-1922 , Ed. James Elgin Wetherell
- Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914-1918 , Ed. Brian Gardner (1964)
Individual evidence
- ↑ All finished on the Western Front , in: Guardian , November 11, 1998
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| SURNAME | Lyon, Percy Hugh Beverley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British school principal and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1893 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1986 |