Sir Lionel Darell, 6th Baronet

Colonel Sir Lionel Edward Hamilton Marmaduke Darell, 6th Baronet DSO JP DL (2 April 1876 – 27 May 1954) was an English soldier and landowner.

Early life He was the eldest son of Sir Lionel Darell, 5th Baronet and Helen Frances Marshland.

The Darell family derived its fortune from service in the East India Company in the late eighteenth century. His paternal grandparents were the Rev. Sir William Darell, 4th Baronet and Harriet Mary Tierny (a daughter of Sir Edward Tierney, 2nd Baronet). His maternal grandfather was Edward Marshland of Henbury Park, Cheshire. His paternal aunt, Flora Mary Darell, was the wife of Edward Stopford Claremont (a son of Edward Stopford Claremont).

He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.

Career Darell served as aide-de-camp to General Officer Commanding of Cape Colony between 1909 and 1912, reaching the rank of Major in the 1st Life Guards. He fought in World War I between 1914 and 1917, serving in Egypt, Gallipoli, Sinai, and Palestine. Together, they were the parents of:

Margaret Eleanor Phyllis Darell (d. 1994), who married Baron Helmut William Bruno Schröder of Schroders, only surviving son of Baron Bruno Schröder, in 1930.

Lady Darell died on 6 July 1953. Sir Lionel died less than a year later on 27 May 1954 at the home of his daughter Margaret in Chelsea Square, London. As he was predeceased by his only son, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew, William Oswald Darell.

Descendants Through his daughter Nancy, he was a grandfather of two, Maj.-Gen. Bernard Gordon Lennox, Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin, and Col. David Henry Charles Gordon Lennox of Saxham Hall, High Sheriff of Suffolk.

Through his daughter Margaret, he was a grandfather of British banker and billionaire Baron Bruno Schroder and Baroness Charmaine Brenda Schröder (who married merchant banker George von Mallinckrodt).