Hugh Lyle Smyth

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Hugh Lyle Smyth (15 Nov 1834 – 25 May 1911) was a wealthy merchant and a JP who was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1895.[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/26606/pages/1455 London Gazette: no. 26606. p. 1455. 12 March 1895]

He was born in Derry to Ross Thompson Smyth and Sarah Lyle.[http://records.ancestry.com/Hugh_Lyle_Smyth_records.ashx?pid=19095580 Hugh Lyle Smyth at Ancestry.com] He married Eliza Turner of Rusholme Park on 5 June 1862.[http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Manchester/Rusholme/stjames/marriages_1837-1896.htmlr Marriages at St James in the District of Rusholme, Manchester]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} They had eleven children. Their family home was Crabwall Hall, in the village of Mollington, Cheshire. He had a large country house, Barrowmore Hall in Great Barrow, Cheshire, designed by the architect, John Douglas (1829–1911) and completed c. 1881.Hubbard, Edward (1991), The Work of John Douglas, London: The Victorian Society, pp. 117–118, 252 {{ISBN|0-901657-16-6}} His daughter Una Maud Lyle Smyth was a novelist who wrote under the name Marius Lyle.