Admiral of the Fleet

Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)

Admiral of the fleet is the highest rank of the British Royal Navy and other navies, which equates to the NATO rank code OF-10. The rank still exists in the Royal Navy but routine appointments ceased in 1996....

 Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons GCB

Order of the Bath

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 (26 August 1833 – 9 February 1908) was a British

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 naval officer.

Naval career

Born the second sons of Lieutenant General Humphrey Lyons

Humphrey Lyons

Humphrey Lyons was born Hampshire, England in 1802, the ninth of twelve sons of John Lyons of Antigua and St Austin's, Hants, and Catherine , daughter of Maine Swete Walrond, 5th Marquis de Vallado....

, Lyons joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1847 and saw service in the Crimean War

Crimean War

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, where he was appointed flag-lieutenant to his uncle, Lord Lyons

Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons

Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, GCB, KCH was a British naval commander and diplomat who led a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, culminating with the Crimean War and his appointment as Commander of the Black Sea Fleet...

. Following the war, he led a distinguished career, which included appointments as Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station

Pacific Station

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 (1881–1884), Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Stations (1886–1888), and Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth

Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth

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 (1893–1896). From 1895 to 1897 he was First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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.

In 1889, Lyons was created a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

 (KCB), and in 1897 was elevated to Knight Grand Cross (GCB). On August 23, 1897, he was promoted Admiral of the Fleet.

He was also a Justice of the Peace

Justice of the Peace

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 and Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 of Glamorgan

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shire.

He died at Kilvrough in Glamorgan

Glamorgan

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 in 1908.

Family

In 1870 he married Louisa Jane Penrice: they had two sons and two daughters:

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
Thomas Humphrey Lyons	1880	1918	Diplomat; married 1917, Alexina McEwen
Winifred Lyons	1885	1969	married 1919, Harry Othwell Lavallin-Puxley
Maud Lyons	1885	1978	married 1915, Edgar Walter Mead
Algernon Edmund Penrice-Lyons, DSO Distinguished Service Order The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...	1886	1969	Commander RN Royal Navy The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service... , who assumed the additional surname of Penrice by deed poll Deed poll A deed poll is a legal document binding only to a single person or several persons acting jointly to express an active intention... in 1922; married Isabel Little.