sentences:  His father Nicholas was a Protestant landowner in southern Ireland, a soldier he served with William III's invading Orange army at the Battle of Boyne in 1689 as a Colonel of Horse.John's grandfather, also named John Lysaght was a Cornet in the army under Lord Inchiquin who was engaged to quell the Catholic rising in 1641 that led to a bloody massacre in the north of protestant scots settler of the Ulster Plantation.The ensuing row in the House of Commons precipitated the fall of the Earl of Strafford, and the opening conflict of English Civil War the following year.