Viscount Lyons

Viscount Lyons, of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, was a title in Peerage of the United Kingdom.

[1] In 1887 it was announced that he was to be created an Earl but he died before the patent was sealed.

On his death all his titles became extinct.

The title of Baron Lyons, of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, had been created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 25 June 1856 for his father, the naval commander and fellow diplomat Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, 1st Baronet.

[2] He had already been created a baronet, of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 29 July 1840.