Author: Joseph Goodson Lyall
Author: Joseph Goodson Lyall (1856–1939)
Biography: Joseph Goodson Lyall was born in 1856 in Normanby le Wold, the son of Joseph Lyall and his wife Susannah (née Goodson). He trained at Swallowbeck as a racehorse trainer and he had several winners on the flat and under National Hunt rules. In the 1890s, he wrote a witty memoir of his life as an auctioneer and horse trainer called The Merry Gee-Gee (1899). He followed it with a novel Norrington Le Vale (1899). In 1878, he married Eleanor Jane Rowell and the couple had sixteen children. Five of his sons followed his interest in horses, including one who won the Grand National in 1931. Lyall lived long enough to celebrate his diamond wedding anniversary. He died on 17 September 1939 in Lincoln.
References: British Census (1901); Grimsby Daily Telegraph (19 September 1939); Literary Year-Book (1900)
Fiction Titles:
- Norrington le Vale. 1 vol. London: F. V. White, 1899.