{"id":444,"date":"2012-10-12T23:04:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T23:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/?p=444"},"modified":"2012-10-13T23:06:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T23:06:28","slug":"george-seymour-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/index.php\/george-seymour-lyon\/","title":{"rendered":"George Seymour Lyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By James McTavish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>George Seymour Lyon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robinson Lyon&#8217;s son, George Seymour Lyon, was born and raised in Richmond, later moving to Toronto.\u00a0 This grandson of Captain George Lyon gained notoriety as an athlete, golf and cricket in particular. \u00a0 He was the World Amateur Golf Champion and the last Olympic Champion in golf (the St. Louis Olympics of 1904).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/George-S.-Lyon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-449\" title=\"George S. Lyon\" src=\"http:\/\/images.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/George-S.-Lyon-1024x641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/George-S.-Lyon-1024x641.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/George-S.-Lyon-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/images.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/George-Seymour-Lyon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-451\" title=\"George Seymour Lyon\" src=\"http:\/\/images.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/George-Seymour-Lyon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/George-Seymour-Lyon.jpg 510w, http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/George-Seymour-Lyon-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/images.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/G.S.Lyon_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-453\" title=\"G.S.Lyon\" src=\"http:\/\/images.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/G.S.Lyon_-1024x612.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/G.S.Lyon_-1024x612.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/G.S.Lyon_-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/G.S.Lyon_.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James McTavish George Seymour Lyon Robinson Lyon&#8217;s son, George Seymour Lyon, was born and raised in Richmond, later moving to Toronto.\u00a0 This grandson of Captain George Lyon gained notoriety as an athlete, golf and cricket in particular. \u00a0 He &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/index.php\/george-seymour-lyon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richmondheritage.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}