Algernon Lyons

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Algernon Lyons : biography

26 August 1833 – 9 February 1908

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons GCB (26 August 1833 – 9 February 1908) was a British naval officer.

Family

In 1870 he married Louisa Jane Penrice: they had two sons and two daughters:

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 by deed poll in 1922; married Isabel Little.

Naval career

Born the second sons of Lieutenant General Humphrey Lyons, Lyons joined the Royal Navy in 1847 and saw service in the Crimean War, where he was appointed flag-lieutenant to his uncle, Lord Lyons. Following the war, he led a distinguished career, which included appointments as Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station (1881–1884), Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Stations (1886–1888), and Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth (1893–1896). From 1895 to 1897 he was First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to The Queen.

In 1889, Lyons was created a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (KCB), and in 1897 was elevated to Knight Grand Cross (GCB). On 23 August 1897, he was promoted Admiral of the Fleet.

He was also a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Glamorganshire.

He died at Kilvrough in Glamorgan in 1908.