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Patrick Lyon (1769, Edinburgh, Scotland – April 15, 1829, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Scottish-born American blacksmith, mechanic and inventor. After being falsely accused and imprisoned for a 1798 bank robbery, he became a working class hero. [1]
Patrick Lyon, 1st Lord Glamis (1402 – 21 March 1459) P.C. was a Scottish nobleman, created Lord Glamis on 28 June 1445. He was a son of Sir John Lyon of Glamis ( c. 1377 – c. 1435) and Elizabeth Graham, daughter of Sir Patrick Graham of Dundaff and Kincardine and Euphemia Stewart, Countess of Strathearn. Sir John was the son of ...
Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (29 May 1643 – 15 May 1695) was a Scottish peer and nobleman. He was the son of John Lyon, 2nd Earl of Kinghorne and his wife Lady Elizabeth Maule, daughter of Patrick Maule, 1st Earl of Panmure and Frances Stanhope.
- 29 May 1643
- 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
- Helen Middleton
Patrick Lyon was a Scottish-born Philadelphia blacksmith. In 1798, he was arrested and wrongfully imprisoned for robbing the Bank of Pennsylvania. In response, he filed and won one of the first malicious prosecution suits in the history of the United States.
This is the story of Patrick Lyon, who was falsely accused, wrongly-imprisoned and eventually vindicated. Lyon grew up in Edinburgh , Scotland, and started his mechanical studies at the age...
Brigitte Weinsteiger Penn State University Center for Medieval Studies. John Neagle’s Pat Lyon at the Forge; 1826-1827; Oil on canvas; 93” x 68” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Herman and Zoe Oliver Sherman Fund. Introduction. The portrait of Pat Lyon by the artist, John Neagle, revolutionized the realm of American portraiture.
Patrick Lyon, who suffered three months severe imprisonment on merely a vague suspicion for the internal robbery of the Bank of Pennsylvania / 'grav'd by J [ames] Akin [Philadelphia]. Summary. Portrait of the Philadelphia blacksmith and locksmith who became a well-known victim of judicial injustice.
