Algernon McLennan Lyons

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Algernon McLennan Lyons was a prominent figure in the Royal Navy who rose to become Admiral of the Fleet.

He was born in Satara, India on August 2, 1833, the second of three sons of Humphrey Lyons (a Lieutenant-General in the Indian (Bombay) Army) and Eliza Bennett.

Lyons saw service with the Royal Navy in the Crimean War where he was appointed flag-lieutenant to his uncle, Sir Edmund Lyons (later 1st Baron Lyons of Christchurch). Following the war, he led a distinguished career, which included appointments as Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, North America and the West Indies and Plymouth (1893). In 1895 he was appointed First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria.

In 1889 Algernon Lyons was created a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (KCB), subsequently raised to a Grand Commander (GCB) in 1897. On August 23, 1897, he was promoted to the penultimate position of Admiral of the Fleet. He was also a Justice of the Peace and Deputy-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire.

Algernon married Louisa Jane Penrice (1853-1935) of Kilvrough, near Swansea, Glamorgan, the sole heiress of her father, Thomas Penrice (1820-1897) and had issue.


[edit] Issue

Name Birth Death Notes
Thomas Humphrey Lyons 1880 1918 Diplomat; married 1917, Alexina McEwen
Winifred Lyons 1885 1969 married 1919, Harry Othwell Lavallin-Puxley
Maud Lyons 1885 1978 married 1915, Edgar Walter Mead
Algernon Edmund Penrice-Lyons, DSO 1886 1969 Commander RN, who assumed the additional surname of Penrice via deed poll in 1922; married Isabel Little.


Lyons died at Kilvrough in 1908.

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