Captain John Lyons, JP, DL (20 October 1760 – 6 February 1816) was a British politician and a Captain in the Royal Navy, who owned extensive sugar plantations, of 563 acres in total, in Antigua.
He married Catherine Walrond, the daughter of the 5th Marquis de Vallado and Sarah Lyons (1731-1764).
[1][2] The family is not Irish in origin, but a noble Norman-English family descended from the Norman Baron Sir John de Lyons, who arrived in England with the Norman Conquest and was granted lands at Warkworth, Northamptonshire, where the family seat was Warkworth Castle (Northamptonshire).
[3][4][5] John's mother was Jane Harman (1733-1792), the daughter of Colonel Samuel Harman, who was elected a Member of Assembly for Nonsuch in 1727 and later a Member of Council and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
[1] After the death of their second child, in 1803, John and his wife, Catherine, returned to England and settled at St Austin's, a 190-acre estate in the New Forest, Lymington, Hampshire.