Sidney Royse Lysaght (1856 - 1941) (pronounced LYE-suht) was a British writer of Irish ancestry.
Early life
Lysaght was born near Mallow, County Cork, son of architect Thomas Royse Lysaght (1827-1890) and Emily (née Moss; died 1905). Thomas's father, William, was a small landowner at Hazelwood, Mallow, distantly connected with the Barons Lisle. He was educated at a preparatory school and an English public school before Trinity College Dublin.
Career
Business
His uncle, John Lysaght, was head of the family iron making concern, John Lysaght; Sidney, who became a "successful and wealthy businessman", spent most of his life with the firm, along with his brother William. He was particularly involved in the development of corrugated iron. Having travelled "extensively throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Polynesia", he visited Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa in 1894.
