What are its origins?
As with many grant-giving trusts, John Lyon's Charity has a very old and distinguished history. While it has only been distributing grants since 1991, the charity and its endowment is still constituted on the basis of a 16th century Royal Charter.
John Lyon was a yeoman farmer from the village of Preston in Harrow. In 1572 he was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I to found a free grammar school for boys: Harrow School.
The charter also anticipated that John Lyon would endow a trust for maintaining two roads between London and Harrow, now known as the Edgware Road and Harrow Road, and in 1578 John Lyon provided an endowment in the form of a farm of some 48 acres in the area now known as Maida Vale for this purpose.
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