John Lyons (Royal Navy officer, born 1760)

Captain John Lyons, JP, DL (20 October 1760 – 6 February 1816) was an Antiguan politician and a Captain in the Royal Navy, who owned extensive sugar plantations, of 563 acres in total, in Antigua.

He married Catherine Walrond, who was the daughter of the 5th Marquis de Vallado and Sarah Lyons (1731-1764), by whom he had 15 children, including Vice-Admiral John Lyons and Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons. His grandsons included Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, the diplomat who solved the Trent Affair, and Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons, Admiral of the Fleet.

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