Major-General Robert Lyon CB OBE (24 October 1923 – 13 November 2019) was a British Army officer.
Educated at Ayr Academy, Lyon was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in August 1943 and saw action in Europe during the Second World War.
[1] His last appointment was as General Officer Commanding South West District in 1975 before retiring in 1978.
[2] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1976 New Year Honours.
[3] In 1951 he married Constance Margaret Gordon; they had one son and one daughter.