Viscount Lyons

Viscount Lyons, of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, was a title in Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 November 1881 for the former Ambassador to the United States and France Richard Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons. In 1887 it was announced that he was to be created an Earl but he died before the patent was sealed. On his death all his titles became extinct. The title of Baron Lyons, of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, had been created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 25 June 1856 for his father, the naval commander and fellow diplomat Admiral Edmund Lyons, the son of John Lyons of Antigua. Lyons had already been created a Baronet, of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, on 29 July 1840.

Barons Lyons (1856)

*Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons (1790–1858)
*Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons (1817–1887) (created Viscount Lyons in 1881)

Viscounts Lyons (1881)

*Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons (1817–1887)

References

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