Viscount Lyons
Viscount Lyons , of Christ Church in the County of Southampton , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .
Award and subordinate titles
The title was created on November 24, 1881 for the diplomat Richard Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons .
The Viscount had inherited the subordinate titles Baron Lyons , of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, and Baronet , of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, from his father in 1858 , which he inherited on June 25, 1856 and July 29, 1840, respectively had been awarded.
On November 24, 1887 it was announced that the Viscount should also be made Earl Lyons , but he died before the corresponding Letters patent had been issued. Since the Viscount remained unmarried and childless, all his titles expired on his death on December 5, 1887.
List of Barons and Viscounts Lyons
Barons Lyons (1856)
- Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons (1790-1858)
- Richard Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons (1817–1887) (promoted to Viscount Lyons in 1881 )
Viscounts Lyons (1881)
- Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons (1817-1887)
See also
- Baron Lyons of Brighton (Life Peerage 1975)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The London Gazette : No. 25039, p. 5616 , November 18, 1881.
- ^ The London Gazette: 21895, 2205 , June 24, 1856.
- ^ The London Gazette: 19858, 1246 , May 22, 1840.