Algernon Lyons

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons (30 August 1833 – 9 February 1908) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as first and principal naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria.

Lyons also served as commander-in-chief, Pacific Station, commander-in-chief, North America and West Indies Station, and then commander-in-chief, Plymouth. He was described as 'a very smart seaman of the old school, and a good and popular officer'. His grandfather was Captain John Lyons of Antigua.

Lyons was privately educated in Twickenham, Middlesex.

Naval career Lyons joined the Royal Navy in 1847, when he was appointed to the fifth-rate HMS Cambrian on the East Indies and China Station. He was transferred to the second-rate HMS Albion, flagship of his uncle, Sir Edmund Lyons, who was Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet, in 1853. He was promoted to commander on 9 August. in 1875. In April 1878 he became commanding officer of the armoured turret ship HMS Monarch in the Mediterranean Fleet. He became Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station, with his flag in the armoured ship HMS Swiftsure, in December 1881. He became Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station in September 1886: with his flagship the central battery ship HMS Bellerophon. and appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1889 Birthday Honours. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, in June 1892. In February 1895, he was appointed First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria, and was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 23 August 1897. He retired from the Navy on 30 August 1903.

Civic Life He was a Deputy Lieutenant, Justice of the Peace,

He was a member of the Army and Navy Club and the United Service Club.

His eldest son Thomas Humphrey Lyons (b. 1880) was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and was a member of the St James's Club, and entered the diplomatic service, but died in November 1918.

Kilvrough Manor was inherited by his eldest surviving son Commander Algernon Edmund Penrice Lyons of Glazebrook House, South Brent, Devon, who sold it in 1920. Algernon Edmund Penrice Lyons owned Glazebrook House from 1945 to 1970, after which it was converted into a hotel.