Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell

Sir Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell, Bt DL (21 October 1850 – 18 September 1926), was a Scottish Liberal politician.


The Lord Lyell

Lyell in 1898
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
8 July 1914  18 September 1926
Hereditary peerage
Preceded byPeerage created
Succeeded byThe 2nd Baron Lyell
Member of Parliament for
Orkney and Shetland
In office
18 December 1885  24 October 1900
Preceded bySamuel Laing
Succeeded byCathcart Wason
Personal details
Born21 October 1850
Died18 September 1926 (aged 75)
Political partyLiberal

The eldest son of Colonel Henry Lyell and Katharine Murray Lyell, he was a nephew of Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, the geologist.

He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland from 1885 to 1900, and was commissioned a Deputy Lieutenant for Forfarshire in December 1901.[1]

He was created a baronet in 1894[2] and raised to the peerage as Baron Lyell of Kinnordy in the County of Forfar, on 8 July 1914.[3]

He married Mary Stirling in 1874, and had one son, Charles Henry (1875-1918) and two daughters, Mary Leonora (Nora), born 1877, and Helen (Nelly), born 1878.

His only son Charles Henry Lyell was also a Liberal MP but as he died in 1918 his son Charles Anthony Lyell succeeded to both the baronetcy and barony.

References

  1. "No. 27387". The London Gazette. 13 December 1901. p. 8840.
  2. "No. 26479". The London Gazette. 26 January 1894. p. 508.
  3. "No. 28849". The London Gazette. 14 July 1914. p. 5448.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Samuel Laing
Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland
18851900
Succeeded by
Cathcart Wason
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Lyell
1914–1926
Succeeded by
Charles Anthony Lyell
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Kinnordy)
1894–1926
Succeeded by
Charles Anthony Lyell


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