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| Brief Description: Portrait of Richard Bickerton Pemell, 2nd Baron and 1st Earl Lyons, published in 1878. |
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| Subject Date: 1878 |
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| Creator: Whitehall Review |
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| Owner: Hampshire Library and Information Service |
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| Contributor: Hampshire Library and Information Service |
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| Full Description: Our subject came from a Lymington family. His grandfather, of St Austen's near Lymington, had been Vice-President of the Lymington Agricultural Society in 1799. Richard was born at Lymington on 26 April 1817. He served in 1829 as a midshipman on board his father's ship HMS Blonde. Educated at Winchester College and Christ Church College, Oxford, Richard entered the diplomatic service in 1839.
In 1858 he succeeded his father (Edmund Lyons, Admiral and 1st Baron), and was appointed British minister at Washington on the eve of the American Civil War. He was involved in the difficult negotiations over the 'Trent affair', when the British mail steamer Trent was stopped by the Federal cruiser San Jacinto. In 1865 he was appointed ambassador at Constantinople, and in 1867 ambassador at Paris, a post he held for twenty years, which included the Franco-Prussian War.
In November 1881, he was created Viscount Lyons of Christchurch, and in 1887 Earl Lyons. He died in the same year and is buried at Arundel. He left no issue, and the titles became extinct at his death.
The portrait was published in The Whitehall Review, 23 March 1878. |
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| Collection: The Hampshire Collection |
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| Place: Lymington, New Forest, Hampshire |
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| Subject: portrait, Lord Lyons, Viscount Lyons, Earl Lyons, Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell, St Austen's, ambassador, diplomat, Trent affair |
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| Name Subject: Richard Bickerton Pemell, Lord Lyons, Earl Lyons |
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| Content Type: Print |
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| Location: Winchester Library - Jewry Street |
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| Local Ref: H 15.4 LYO; 395 |
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| Unique ID: hs-hl-hs6307-i-00-000.jpg |
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