Thomas Rice Lyster was the son of Colonel Anthony Lyster, "a substantial Irish landowner with an aristocratic lineage traceable to the reign of Elizabeth I" (cf. DNB). Lyster appears, in 1838, as a subscriber to Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers. The 1842 New Army List shows that he was made a second lieutenant on 18 December 1835, perhaps around the time that he completed the present manuscript. He was promoted to first lieutenant on 20 November 1837, but died while serving in the Royal Engineers Corps in Barbados in February, 1842.
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Lyster, Thomas Rice, -1842. | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. | Artillery -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Artillery drill and tactics -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Gun-carriages -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Ordnance -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Military art and science. | Military law -- Great Britain. | Military cadets -- Great Britain. | Military cadets -- Education -- Great Britain.