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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 Glamorgan shire. Algernon married Louisa Jane Penrice (1853-1935) of ''Kilvrough'', near Swansea , Glamorgan, the sole heiress of her father, Thomas Penrice (1820-1897). Their four children were:
Lyons died at ''Kilvrough'' in 1908. |
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