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Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell

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Scottish Liberal politician

The Right HonourableThe Lord LyellDL
Lyell in 1898
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
8 July 1914 – 18 September 1926
Hereditary peerage
Preceded byPeerage created
Succeeded byThe 2nd Baron Lyell
Member of Parliament for
Orkney and Shetland
In office
18 December 1885 – 24 October 1900
Preceded bySamuel Laing
Succeeded byCathcart Wason
Personal details
Born21 October 1850
Died18 September 1926 (aged 75)
Political partyLiberal

Sir Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell, Bt DL (21 October 1850 – 18 September 1926), was a Scottish Liberal politician.

The eldest son of Colonel Henry Lyell and Katharine Murray Lyell, he was a nephew of Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, the geologist.

He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland from 1885 to 1900, and was commissioned a deputy lieutenant for Forfarshire in December 1901.

He was created a baronet in 1894 and raised to the peerage as Baron Lyell of Kinnordy in the County of Forfar, on 8 July 1914.

He married Mary Stirling in 1874, and had one son, Charles Henry (1875–1918) and two daughters, Mary Leonora (Nora), born 1877, and Helen (Nelly), born 1878.

His only son Charles Henry Lyell was also a Liberal MP but as he died in 1918 his son Charles Anthony Lyell succeeded to both the baronetcy and barony.

Arms

Coat of arms of Baron Lyell
Crest
Upon a rock a dexter cubit arm erect in armour proper, charged with a cross parted and fretty gules, the hand grasping a sword in bend sinister also proper.
Escutcheon
Or a cross parted and fretty azure between four crosses patée gules, all within a bordure of the last.
Supporters
No supporters recorded at the College of Arms
Motto
Forti non Ignavo (To the brave, not to the dastardly).

References

  1. "No. 27387". The London Gazette. 13 December 1901. p. 8840.
  2. "No. 26479". The London Gazette. 26 January 1894. p. 508.
  3. "No. 28849". The London Gazette. 14 July 1914. p. 5448.
  4. Debrett's peerage and baronetage 2003. Debrett's Peerage Ltd. 2002. p. 1020.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded bySamuel Laing Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland
1885–1900 		Succeeded byCathcart Wason
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Lyell
1914–1926 		Succeeded byCharles Anthony Lyell
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Kinnordy)
1894–1926 		Succeeded byCharles Anthony Lyell


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