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John Lyon (4 March 1803, Glasgow – 28 November 1889) was a 19th-century Scottish Latter Day Saint poet and hymn writer. ==Biography== Born into a poor and illiterate family in Glasgow, Lyon became an apprentice weaver at age nine. In adulthood, he moved to Kilmarnock, where he met and married Janet Thomson. In the 1830s, he became involved with the Baptist church, but he left them and in March 1844, he was baptised into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Lyon has been described as the best Mormon poet of the 19th century, but he only learned to read in 1828, at the age of 25. By the 1840s, he had worked for seven papers in Ayrshire, and assisted in the production of several poetry anthologies of other people's work. As a Mormon convert he was atypical, and was described as a rather irreverent "Saul among the prophets". He had over a dozen children, and was frequently visited in Kilmarnock by Mormon dignitaries who had travelled to Scotland. Amongst these were Levi Richards, Samuel W. Richards and Franklin D. Richards. And on one such visit, on 1 December 1847, the Richards brothers travelled with Lyon to Robert Burns' birthplace in Alloway. Lyons served a three-year mission in Worcester, England, and later emigrated to Utah Territory. In 1872, Wilford Woodruff ordained him to be a patriarch in the LDS Church. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Lyon (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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