Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell

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Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell

Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell , DL JP , ( October 21, 1850 - September 18, 1926 ) was a Scottish politician.

Life

Lyell was born in 1850 to Henry Lyell and his wife Katherine Murray Horner . He is the nephew of geologist Charles Lyell . Lyell graduated from the University of London with a Bachelor of Science degree . On July 4, 1874, he married Mary Stirling , with whom he had three children, Mary Leonora , Eleanor Katherine and Charles Henry Lyell (* 1875). In 1876 Lyell acquired the Pitmuies estate near Friockheim . However, he did not live in Pitmuies House himself, but leased the property and stayed in his villa in Kirriemuir .

Lyell served as both Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace . In January 1894 he was given the title of Baronet , of Kinnordy in the County of Forfar, and on July 4, 1914, he was promoted to Baron Lyell , of Kinnordy in the County of Forfar. Since his only son had died in World War I in 1918, his grandson Charles Anthony Lyell inherited his title of nobility in 1926.

Political career

For the first time Lyell appeared in the general election in 1880 to elections at the national level. In his constituency of South Essex , however, he could not achieve the necessary majority. In the general election of 1885 , Lyell ran as a candidate for the Liberal Party for the constituency of Orkney and Shetland . He prevailed with a 63.3% share of the vote against the conservative candidate Cospatrick Thomas Dundas and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . He inherited his party colleague Samuel Laing , who no longer ran for these elections. In the following elections in 1886 , 1892 and 1895 Lyell defended his mandate against various candidates from the Liberal Unionists. In the general election in 1900 Lyell was defeated by a vote difference of only 40 votes to his opponent Cathcart Wason and left the House of Commons. His son Charles Henry later received the lower house mandates for the constituencies of East Dorset and Edinburgh South . With the baron title bestowed on him in 1914, a seat in the House of Lords was connected, to which he belonged until his death in 1926.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell on thepeerage.com , accessed April 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ^ Biographical information
  4. ^ Results of the general election in 1885
  5. ↑ George Fisher Russell Barker, Milverton Godfrey Dauglish: Historical and Political Handbook. Chapman & Hall, London 1886, p. 256 .
  6. ^ Mansons ′ Shetland Almanac and Directory for 1893. Vol. 2, 1893, p. 18 .
  7. ^ Daily Mail and Empire: British Politics , August 12, 1895.
  8. ^ The Press: The Orkney and Shetland Election , March 28, 1906.

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predecessor Office successor
New title created Baron Lyell
1914-1926 		Charles Lyell
personal data
SURNAME Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1850
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1926