Marion Jean Lyon

Marion Jean Lyon (married name Raven-Hill; 15 January 1885 – 20 February 1940) was a British advertising executive, particularly known for her long association with the magazine Punch (1910–40), as its advertising manager from 1922 – the first woman advertising manager of a major British periodical. She was the founding president of the Women's Advertising Club of London and a director of the feminist literary magazine, Time and Tide.

Early life Lyon was born on 15 January 1885 in Townhead, Strathaven, Lanarkshire, Scotland, to Marion (née Young) and Andrew Wallace Lyon, a solicitor. She had three sisters and two brothers. Her appointment was noted in a letter to The Spectator, which described the position as "one of the most important and highly paid in Fleet Street". Other founding members included Jessie Reynolds (later chair of the Samson Clark agency) and Margaret and Florence Sangster (at W. S. Crawford's). The impetus for the club's foundation was to prepare for a major international convention on advertising in Wembley, planned for 1924 as part of the British Empire Exhibition. as Lyon was also on the executive council of the convention. During the convention, she hosted an event at the Savoy Hotel on 13 July 1924, with more than 400 women in the advertising business from various countries, and was the welcoming speaker; her speech was covered in The Times and The Daily Telegraph, as well as specialist publications such as Advertising World and Advertiser's Weekly. After the Wembley convention, the club continued to foster women sharing expertise with each other, for example, organising an all-woman session at the male-dominated Advertising Association's annual conventions, and worked to increase the profile of women in advertising.

In 1929, she was one of the few women to speak at the International Advertising Association convention in Berlin.