Lyell, Thomas
clergyman, was born May 13, 1775, in Richmond county, Va.
He labored on the Frederick circuit in Virginia, and subsequently in Providence, R. I., and was chaplain to congress during the closing years of the administration of John Adams and the early part of that of Thomas Jefferson. In 1804 he became rector of Christ church, New York city, where he remained for over forty years.
He was secretary of the convention of the diocese from 1811-16. He died March 4, 1848, in New York city.