Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons

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Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, G.C.B., K.C.H., was born at Whitehayes House, Burton, near Christchurch, Hampshire, 21 November 1790. He died at Arundel Castle, Sussex, 23 November 1858. He was the fourth son of John Lyons of Antigua and St. Austin's, Hants, and Catherine (née Walrond), daughter of Maine Swete Walrond, 5th Marquis de Vallado.^[1]

Edmund led a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, culminating with the Crimean War and his appointment as Commander of the Black Sea Fleet. He also held various diplomatic posts for Her Majesty's government, including ambassadorial positions in Sweden, Switzerland and to the newly established court of King Otto of Greece.

Edmund was created a knight 1835, Baronet 1840 and then elevated to the peerage as Baron Lyons, of Christchurch in 1856. He was the recipient of various other foreign honours, namely:

• 1828 - Knight of the Order of St Louis (France)
• 1833 - Knight Commander of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece)
• 185? - Order of the Mejidie, 1st Class (Ottoman Empire)

Edmund, Lord Lyons, died on 23 November 1858. His body was interred in the vault beneath the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel Castle. A full lifesize marble statue by Matthew Noble was erected to his memory in 1860 in St. Pauls Cathedral, London.

In 1814 Edmund married Augusta Louisa Rogers (1791–1852), younger daughter and co-heiress of Captain Josias Rogers, R.N., by whom he had two sons and two daughters:

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Name	Birth	Death	Notes
Anne Theresa Bickerton Lyons	1815	1894	married 1839, Philip Hartmann Veit von Würtzburg, Baron von Würtzburg
Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons	1817	1887	2nd Baron Lyons, 1st Viscount (1881), gazetted an Earl (1887)
Edmund Moubray Lyons	1819	1855	Captain R.N.; killed in the Crimean War
Augusta Mary Minna Catherine Lyons	1821	1886	married 1839, Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, Lord Fitzalan, later 14th Duke of Norfolk

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Preceded by New Creation	Baron Lyons 1856–1858	Succeeded by Richard Lyons
	Baronet (of Christchurch, Hampshire) 1840–1858