[1] In 1825, aged 31, his portrait was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, then president of the Royal Academy and at the peak of his career.

[3] Lyon Junior was a Tory Member of Parliament for Bere Alston, a so-called rotten borough, controlled by Lord Beverley.

As a dutiful son-in-law he seems to have settled all her debts, and Lady Charlotte lived with the couple, who appeared to be very happy, at least to Benjamin Disraeli.

But a year later, the same paper carries the announcement by David that she is absenting herself without cause from his house and will not honour any debts she made.

Apart from his two country estates, David Lyon owned a London house at 31 South Street, Park Lane.

Lyon left Goring and Balintore to his only surviving brother William, and other property in Sussex to his nephew Arthur James Fremantle.

[10] At his death, Blanche Lyon – quoted as "long estranged from her husband" – was sued by her butcher-cum-moneylender, in which case it is stated that though she had £1,300 a year, she still lived far beyond her means.