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Algernon Islay de Courcy Lyons was born on 7 March, 1922, is a Welsh photographer, novelist, and linguist (1922–1993). Discover Algernon Islay de Courcy Lyons's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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1922

Algernon Islay de Courcy Lyons (1922–1993) was a Welsh photographer, novelist and linguist.

Born in Langland, Glamorgan, Wales on 7 March 1922, the son of Captain John Algernon de Courcy Lyons, M.C. and Doris Ada née Campbell Young.

In his lifetime, he was normally just called Islay (pronounced eye-la).

Lyons was educated at Bradfield College, Berkshire and Grenoble University.

He was at Grenoble when World War II broke out.

He made a daring escape over the Pyrenees, was caught and imprisoned in Spain from where he managed to escape and work his way back to England where he joined up and served in the Royal Air Force for the rest of the war.

He served first in North Africa and then he was sent to the Far East to learn Japanese in three months.

He did this with amongst others, Richard Mason, who was a lifelong friend and cousin by marriage.

Lyons is portrayed by the character 'Peter' in Mason's book The Wind Cannot Read.)

The photographs of Lyons illustrate the works of several twentieth century literary figures, including Bryher and Graham Greene.

Lyons was the friend of the film-maker, Kenneth Macpherson, both of them living in the ‘Villa Tuoro’ on Capri, where Norman Douglas was their constant companion during the last years of Douglas’s life.

Both Macpherson and Lyons were at Norman Douglas’s bedside when he died.

1968

London: Harvill (1968).

An historical novel set in the time of Galen.

1993

Lyons died on 17 November 1993, in Chiang-Mai, Thailand.

Part of Lyons’s bequest to his fostered Thai son, Manop Charoensuk, was a large quantity of photos, books, and letters related to the life of Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, the novelist and poet.

It is believed that Fersen bequeathed his collection to Norman Douglas, who bequeathed it to Kenneth Macpherson.

On Macpherson’s death, Lyons inherited the estate.

Charoensuk sold it to an American millionaire.

2002

In 2002, the complete collection was offered by Sotheby’s in London to the American antiquarian bookseller David Deiss, but it was eventually bought by an unknown British dealer.

2008

It is probable, although unconfirmed, that most, if not all of this memorabilia is what the Beinecke acquired in 2008 and forms part of their Norman Douglas Collection.

Some of de Courcy Lyons’s work is held in the United States, including the Catherine Walston/Graham Greene Papers at Georgetown Library, the Nancy Cunard Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and the Norman Douglas Collection (2008 Addition) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

The Lyre & the Lotus.