Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell

Charles Lyell Lord Lyell
Born	March 27, 1939 (1939-03-27) (age 72)
Occupation	Politician
Political party	Conservative

Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell (born 27 March 1939) is a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Lord Lyell is the son of Charles Anthony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell and Sophie Mary Trafford. He succeeded to the peerage in 1943 at the age of 4 when his father was killed in action during the Second World War and was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. On the formation of a Conservative government after the 1979 general election, Lord Lyell was made a House of Lords whip, serving until 1984. He was then moved to the Northern Ireland Office as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State where he remained until he left the government in 1989.

With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, Lord Lyell along with almost all other hereditary peers lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. He was however elected as one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords pending completion of House of Lords reform.

He is a supporter of Everton Football Club and a shareholder. He said "I have been a great supporter, all round the world, of Everton Football Club. I am 200 miles from there now and 300 miles away when I am in Scotland. But thanks to the BBC World Service, when I have been in, for example, Seattle or elsewhere around the world, great happiness, or perhaps sometimes sadness, has been caused by Everton's results. I declare an interest also in that I am a shareholder."^[1]

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Lyell	Baron Lyell 1943–present	Incumbent

References

1. ^ "Daily Hansard". Parliament.uk. February 2000. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/vo000214/text/00214-23.htm. Retrieved 21 November 2009. 

• Ministerial posts
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages – Peerages beginning with "L" (part 4)

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