page_title: Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons
section_title: Honours
hierarchical_section_title: Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons / Honours
caption_attribution_description: English: From a photograph by Kilburn. This image has been scanned from a photograph in the possession of the Lyons family. Originally uploaded by User talk:Lyonsn. Re-uploaded due to vandalism by another user.
context_page_description: Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, GCB, GCMG, KCH was an eminent British Admiral of the Royal Navy, and an eminent British diplomat, who was responsible for encouraging the Crimean War, during which he was Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, and for the securing the subsequent allied victory in the conflict, through his efforts at the Siege of Sevastopol with both the Navy and the British Army.
  As a consequence of his linguistic ability and favour with foreign aristocrats, Lyons was appointed to various diplomatic posts, including important ambassadorial positions in Sweden, Switzerland, and to the court of King King Otto of Greece. Lyons's temerity, ambition, and charisma, for which his white-blonde hair and pale complexion became a byword, made him popular with the High Commands of the Royal Navy and British Army and with the British aristocracy, with whom he maintained secret private correspondences to which his naval immediate superiors were not privy. His friendship with Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan facilitated the integration of deployments that ensured allied victory in the Crimean War.
context_section_description: Lyons received the following honours:
  1828 – Knight of the Order of St Louis (France)
  1833 – Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece)
  1835 – Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order (House of Guelph)
  1840 – Baronet (United Kingdom)
  1844 – Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Division of the Order of the Bath (United Kingdom)
  1855 – Knight Grand Cross of the Military Division of the Order of the Bath (United Kingdom)
  Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (United Kingdom)
  1855 – Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Medjidie, 1st Class (Ottoman Empire)
  1855/6 - Knight Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (France)
  1856 - Freedom of the City of London
  1856 – Grand Cross of the Military Order of Savoy (Italy)
  1856 – Raised to the Peerage of United Kingdom as Baron Lyons, of Christchurch, Hampshire, (United Kingdom).
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