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Leonard Lyell, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Lyell

1850–1926

Politician. Eldest son of Henry Lyell, Charles Lyell’s brother, and Katharine Murray Lyell. MP for Orkney and Shetland, 1885–1900. Created baronet, 1894; baron, 1914.

Source

Burke’s peerage 1980.

Bibliography

Burke’s peerage: A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s peerage and baronetage. 1st– edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1826–.

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