Lyons Sir Edmund Lions

Lyons, Sir Edmund Lions, Fiest Loed, naval officer, was born in 1790, and was made a lieutenant in 1801. He distinguished himself at the capture of Banda Neira in 1810, and at the storming of Marrack in 1811, and was made a commander in 1812, and a captain in 1814. In 1835 he was knighted and made minister-plenipotentiary to Greece, and he was created a baronet in 1840 and a G.C.B. in 1844. He became a rear-admiral in 1850; and in 1854-56 was commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean with temporary rank as admiral. For his services during the Russian War he was created a peer in 1856. Promotion to vice-admiral's rank followed in 1857, but Lord Lyons died in 1858.