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The Lyons family is an Anglo-Norman landed gentry family descended from Ingelram de Lyons The Elder, who arrived in England with the Norman Conquest of 1066 and fought at the Battle of Hastings. His s
Admiral Lord Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons
Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, photographed by Mathew Brady
Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Earl Lyons, was the leading British diplomat during the four great crises of the second half of the 19th century: Italian unification, the American Civil War, the E
Lyons family
…who fought on HMS Victory at Battle of Trafalgar; Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, who led the Royal Navy to victory during the Crimean War; Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, the British Ambassador to France and to the USA who resolved the Trent Affair; and Sir Algernon Lyons, Admiral of the Fleet. The family derives its…
Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, then 1st Viscount Lyons
Lyons explored the Mediterranean on his father's ship, HMS Blonde
Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons caricature in Vanity Fair (April 6, 1878). Lyons's diplomatic influence is demonstrated by the subtitle used instead of his name: 'Diplomacy'.