Viscount Lyons, of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, was a title in 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 24 November 1881 for the diplomat Richard Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons

Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons

Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, GCB, GCMG, PC, DCL was an eminent British diplomat.-Biography:...

. In 1887 it was announced that he was to be created an Earl but he died before the patent was sealed. On his death all his titles became extinct. The title of Baron Lyons, of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, had been created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 25 June 1856 for his father, the naval commander and fellow diplomat Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, 1st Baronet

Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons

Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, GCB, KCH was a British naval commander and diplomat who led a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, culminating with the Crimean War and his appointment as Commander of the Black Sea Fleet...

. He had already been created a Baronet, of Christchurch

Christchurch, Dorset

Christchurch is a borough and town in the county of Dorset on the south coast of England. The town adjoins Bournemouth in the west and the New Forest lies to the east. Historically in Hampshire, it joined Dorset with the reorganisation of local government in 1974 and is the most easterly borough in...

 in the County of Southampton

Hampshire

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...

, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 29 July 1840.

The first Baron was the son of John Lyons, the brother of Humphrey Lyons

Humphrey Lyons

Humphrey Lyons was born Hampshire, England in 1802, the ninth of twelve sons of John Lyons of Antigua and St Austin's, Hants, and Catherine , daughter of Maine Swete Walrond, 5th Marquis de Vallado....

 and the uncle of Sir Algernon Lyons.

Barons Lyons (1856)

• Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons
  Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons
  Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, GCB, KCH was a British naval commander and diplomat who led a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, culminating with the Crimean War and his appointment as Commander of the Black Sea Fleet...
  
   (1790–1858)
• Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons
  Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons
  Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, GCB, GCMG, PC, DCL was an eminent British diplomat.-Biography:...
  
   (1817–1887) (created Viscount Lyons in 1881)

Viscounts Lyons (1881)

• Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons
  Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons
  Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, GCB, GCMG, PC, DCL was an eminent British diplomat.-Biography:...
  
  (1817–1887)