Baron Lyell, of Kinnordy in the County of Forfar, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1914 for the Scottish Liberal

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 politician Sir Leonard Lyell, 1st Baronet

Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell

Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell Bt was a Scottish Liberal politician.The eldest son of Colonel Henry Lyell and Katherine Horner, he was a nephew of Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, the geologist....

. He had already been created a Baronet, of Kinnordy in the County of Forfar, in 1894. He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baron. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross

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 for his actions in North Africa

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 during the Second World War. the titles are held by his son, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1943. Lord Lyell is one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords

House of Lords

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 after the passing of the House of Lords Act of 1999, and sits on the Conservative

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 benches.

The first Baron Lyell was the nephew of the geologist Sir Charles Lyell, 1st and last Baronet, of Kinnordy.

Barons Lyell (1914)

• Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell
  Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell
  Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell Bt was a Scottish Liberal politician.The eldest son of Colonel Henry Lyell and Katherine Horner, he was a nephew of Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, the geologist....
  
   (1850–1926)
• Charles Anthony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell (1913–1943)
• Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell
  Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell
  Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell is a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords.Lord Lyell is the son of Charles Anthony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell and Sophie Mary Trafford. He succeeded to the peerage in 1943 at the age of 4 when his father was killed in action during the Second...
  
  (b. 1939)

There is no heir to the barony and baronetcy.