Lyall was born in Chester, England, the son of an itinerant evangelist who died when Leslie was five years old. Educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Lyall was a leader of the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union in the period that the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions was coming into being.[1]
Bibliography
Leslie Lyall, John Sung (1954, ret 1961), Come Wind, Come Weather: The Present Experience of the Church in China (1961)
The Church Local and Universal (1962)
Urgent Harvest (1962)
A Passion for the Impossible: The Continuing Story of the Mission Hudson Taylor Began (1965, ret 1976)
Red Sky at Night (1969)
A World to Win (1972)
Three of China's Mighty Men (1973)
New Spring in China: A Christian Appraisal' (1979)
Sources
Obituaries: The Independent, 24 February 1996; Daily Telegraph, 19 February 1996; The Guardian, 16 February 1996
Douglas Johnson, Contending for the Faith: A History of the Evangelical Movement in the Universities and Colleges (1979)
