Algernon Lyons

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons, GCB was a prominent figure in the Royal Navy who rose to become Admiral of the Fleet.

He was born in Satara, India on August 2, 1833, the second of three sons of Humphrey Lyons (a Lieutenant-General in the Indian (Bombay) Army) and Eliza Bennett.

Lyons saw service with the Royal Navy in the Crimean War where he was appointed flag-lieutenant to his uncle, Sir Edmund Lyons (later 1st Baron Lyons of Christchurch). Following the war, he led a distinguished career, which included appointments as Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, North America and the West Indies and Plymouth (1893). In 1895 he was appointed First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria.

In 1889 Algernon Lyons was created a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (KCB), subsequently raised to a Grand Commander (GCB) in 1897. On August 23, 1897, he was promoted to the penultimate position of Admiral of the Fleet. He was also a Justice of the Peace and Deputy-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire.

Algernon married Louisa Jane Penrice (1853-1935) of Kilvrough, near Swansea, Glamorgan, the sole heiress of her father, Thomas Penrice (1820-1897) and had issue.

Issue

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
Thomas Humphrey Lyons	1880	1918	Diplomat; married 1917, Alexina McEwen
Winifred Lyons	1885	1969	married 1919, Harry Othwell Lavallin-Puxley
Maud Lyons	1885	1978	married 1915, Edgar Walter Mead
Algernon Edmund Penrice-Lyons, DSO	1886	1969	Commander RN, who assumed the additional surname of Penrice via deed poll in 1922; married Isabel Little.

Lyons died at Kilvrough in 1908.