Baron Lyle of Westbourne
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Baron Lyle of Westbourne, of Canford Cliffs in the County of Dorset, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created on 13 September 1945 for Sir Leonard Lyle, 1st Baronet
Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne
Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician.He was born in London, the only son of Charles Lyle and his wife, Mary, née Brown...

, the former Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 for Stratford
Stratford West Ham (UK Parliament constituency)
Stratford was a parliamentary constituency in the Borough of West Ham in the South-West of Essex , which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.The constituency was created for the 1918...

, Epping
Epping (UK Parliament constituency)
Epping was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1974. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election...

 and Bournemouth
Bournemouth (UK Parliament constituency)
Bournemouth is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. The seaside resort was created as a parliamentary borough in 1918 and the seat existed until it was divided in 1950...

. He had already been created a Baronet, of Westbourne in the County of Southampton, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 June 1932. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baron in 1976.

The first Baron was the nephew of Sir Robert Lyle, 1st Baronet, and of Sir Alexander Lyle, 1st Baronet (see Lyle Baronets
Lyle Baronets
There have been three Baronetcies created for members of the Lyle family, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2010....

).

Barons Lyle of Westbourne (1945)

  • (Charles Ernest) Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne
    Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne
    Leonard Lyle, 1st Baron Lyle of Westbourne was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician.He was born in London, the only son of Charles Lyle and his wife, Mary, née Brown...

    (1882–1954)
  • Charles John Leonard Lyle, 2nd Baron Lyle of Westbourne (1905–1976)
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