March 13, 1821, York, Eng­land.

March 13, 1886.

Lyth was ed­u­cat­ed at Mr. Heig­ham’s Acad­e­my in Don­cas­ter, Eng­land, and Pe­ter’s School in York. He was then ap­pren­ticed to a print­er and a deal­er in Hull. Short­ly af­ter his old­er bro­ther went to Fi­ji as a mis­sion­a­ry in 1839, Lyth be­gan serv­ing as a lay preach­er, work­ing in Col­ches­ter, Stroud, Glou­ces­ter, Dept­ford, Nott­ing­ham, Hal­i­fax and Burn­ley. He seems to have done ear­ly miss­ion­a­ry work in Cey­lon (now Sri Lan­ka), and lat­er went to Würt­tem­berg, Ger­ma­ny, as the first Meth­od­ist miss­ion­a­ry to Ger­ma­ny; he was Gen­er­al Su­per­in­tend­ent of the Wes­ley­an Meth­o­dist com­mun­i­ty there, 1859-1865. On his re­turn from Ger­ma­ny, he be­gan re­gu­lar cir­cuit work in Great Bri­tain, serv­ing in Shef­field, Hull, and other large towns un­til 1883, when he re­tired. His works in­clude:

• History of Meth­od­ism in York, 1843
• Wild Flowers; or, a Se­lect­ion of Orig­in­al Po­e­try, ed­it­ed by J. L., 1843

1. There Is a Bet­ter World
2. We Won’t Give Up the Sab­bath