Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet

Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet (25 September 1742 – 30 October 1803) was an English politician and East India Company official.

He was the eldest son of Lionel Darell of Bedford Row, Holborn, and Honoria Hardwick.

[2] Darell was a senior merchant with the East India Company in 1768, keeper of account deposits in 1770 and served as director from 1780 to 1783, 1785 to 1788, 1790 to 1793, 1795 to 1798, and from 1800 until his death in 1803.

[3] From 1775 to 1795, he lived in a Georgian townhouse at 69 Dean Street, Soho, London, built between 1732 and 1735 on the former Pitt estate.

[5] He was created a baronet of Richmond Hill in the County of Surrey, in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 12 May 1795.