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 181 LYON — LYONS. "Charles Tovmtkend tic Lynn Regis, CO. Norfolk, Clir.," hiking hie sent iu his father's Barony of TWns/icmi of Lynn Rtijis (it. llitil), but being in the journals of the House of Lords (erroneously) styled " LORD LYNN,"(») such designation being, it is presumed, for the purpose of distinguishing him from his father, Yiseount Toionshaul of Baynhaui, to whoso peerage he sue. in 173S ; see that dignity. LYON. i.e., " Lt<a» and Glamis," Bawny [S.] {Lyon), er. 1G0G with the Earldom ok Kinghorn [S.], which see. After 1677, however, the designation of " Kinghorn " was changed to Strathmore and Kinuuorn. LYONS OF CHRISTCHURCH. Barony. 1. Edmund Lyons, 4th s. of John Lyons, of Lyons in I 185G Antigua and St. Austins, Hants, by Catharine, da. of Main Swete ' Waluond, of Antigua and of Montrath House, Devon, was b. 21 Nov. 1790, at Whites Hayes in Burton, near Christchurch, co. Southampton ; ed. at Hyde Abbey Bcbool, Winchester ; entered the Navy, June 1S01 ; was iu several actions during the French war ; was in command at the taking of Morea Castle from the Turks in 1S2S ; was from 1853 to 1S55 second, and from 1855 first in command of the Mediterranean Fleet, giving (as such) most effective assistance to the Crimean Expedition, ami becoming finally, (Jet. 1857, Vice Admiral of the White. He had meanwhile been made a Knight of St. Louis of France, 1828; Knight Com. of the Redeemer of Greece iu or soon after 1S33, and K.C.H. , 13 .Tan. 1834. He was Knighted at the Pavilion in Brighton, 23 Jan. 1S35 ; was Minister to Athens, July 1S35 : cr. a Baronet (as 11 Captain in the Navy ") 20 July 1840 ; G.C.B. (civil) 10 July 1S44 ; was Minister to Berne, 1850; Minister to Stockholm, 1851; Knight of the Medjidie of Turkey, 1st class, 17 May 1855; G.C.B. (Military), 5 July 1S55 ;(>') Grand Cross of the Military Order of Savoy, 14 Feb. 185b' ; D.C.L. of Oxford, 4 June 1800, being er. (on account of his services in the Crimea), 25 June 1856 (at which date he was Bear Admiral of the Bed), BABON LYONS OF CHBISTCHUBCH, co. Southampton ; Grand Cross of the legion of honour of France, 6 Aug. 1S56. He m- IS July 1S14, at Southwick, Hants, Augusta Louisa, 2d da. and coheir of Josiah ROGERS, of Lymington, Hants, Captain B.N. She d. 10 March 1852, at Stockholm. He rf. 23 Nov. 1S5S, at Arundel Castle, Sussex (the seat of his sou in law, the Duke of Norfolk), aged 08. II. 1858, 2 and J. Riciiaiid Bickerton( c ) Pemell (Lyons),, Baron Lyons ok Christchurch, also a Baronet, 1st and only surv. VivuiULtcy, s,. llul h b 2G April ]S17j. lt Lymington; ed. at Winchester I. 1881, and at Ch. Ch., Oxford; B.A. and Hon. 4th in classics, 1838; to M.A., 1845 ; Attache at Athens (unpaid) 1839 and (paid) 1844 ; 1887. ** Dresden, 1852 ; at Florence, 1853 ; Sec. of legation at Florence, 1856, and Charge D'affaires, there, 1857 ; Spec. Envoy to Naples, March to July 1858 ; Minister to Florence, June 1858 ; sue. to the peerage, 23 Nov. 1858; Minister to Washington, 1858-64 ; K.C.B., 11 Dec. 1860; Conway of Conway Castle, was sum. as Baron Conway of Bagley. He me. to his father's peerage in 1631. In 1680 the s. and h. ap. of a Baron, possessing two Baronies (Conyers and Darcy) was so summoned. (") " The same erroneous course was pursued," says Courthope, when John Poulett, s. and h. ap. of the 1st Earl Poulett, was placed in 1733, in his father's Barony of Poulett of JJinlon St. Oeorge (cr. 1627), tho' his name appears iu the list of Peers as Lord Hinton. On the other hand, George Stevens Byug (s. and h. ap. of the 1st Earl of Strafford), who was sum. in 1853, in his father's Barony of Strafford of Harmonds- worth {cr. 1835), took his seat " by his proper designation of Lord Strafford." ( b ) He thus possessed the rare distinction of holding the highest grade in both of the classes (Military and Civil) of the order of tho Bath. ( c ) Admiral Sir liichard Biekerton was one of his godfathers. {&) His yr. br. Edmund Mowbray Lyons, C'apt. B.N., d. unm. and v. p. being killed in the Crimean campaign.