William John Lyon

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William John (Jack) Lyon (1898 – 26 May 1941) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

He represented the Waitemata electorate from the 1935 general election to 1941. He enlisted in the New Zealand Army, and was a Captain when he was killed during the Battle for Crete.

He was born in England, and educated at a Brighton Grammar School. He won a scholarship to Oxford University, but did not take it up as he enlisted in the British army, becoming an officer in the Royal Sussex Regiment. His health was damaged by mustard gas, so he emigrated to New Zealand in 1927 where he lived in Hastings (serving on the Hastings Borough Council and Napier Harbour Board), and then to Auckland in 1931.

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  • New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, 4th edition, Government Printer, Wellington)
  • From the Cradle to the Grave: a biography of Michael Joseph Savage by Barry Gustafson (1986, Reed Methuen, Auckland) ISBN 0474001385 (Biographical Appendix of MPs, page 286)