Lyon(s) Coat of Arms & Family Crest - Symbols, Bearers, History

Lyon or Lyons “Family Crest” or Coat of Arms - Lyon Family History & Surname
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1) borne by Sir John Lyons (d. 1349) at the second Dunstable tournament in 1331, effigy, Warkworth, Northampton - Argent a lion rampant gules.

2) Purpure a lion rampant argent

3) Lyon of Appleton Hall, co. Cheshire - Thomas Lyon (1786-1859), Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant - purchased Appleton Hall in 1820 – he descended from Thomas Lyon (c. 1626-1694), of ancient Scottish descent, who served in the Scots Greys and settled at Warrington, co. Lancashire - Argent a lion rampant vert. Crest—A lion’s head erased proper.

4) Rev. Ralph Lyon (1795-1856), D.D., Rector of Bishop’s Caudle, co. Dorset, son of William Lyon, a weaver and linen manufacturer - Ermine a lion rampant within an orle flory within azure and charged with eight crosses pattée argent. Crest—A lion ramрant azure charged on the body with three crosses pattée azure, and resting the sinister forepaw upon a cross moline Or.

5) Lieutenant-General Sir James Lyon (1775-1842), Army officer and Governor of Barbados, son of Captain James Lyon, of the 35th Regiment of Foot, similar to arms of his ancestor, Patrick Lyon (d. 1459), who was created Lord Glamis c. 1445 - Argent a lion ramрant azure between three cinquefoils gules all within a double tressure flory counterflory of the last. Crest—A demi lady proper attired or and azure holding in the dexter hand a thistle, and in the sinister a chaplet of laurel proper.

6) Old Park, co. Antrim, Northern Ireland - granted to William Lyons Esq. (1781-1849) of Old Park, near Belfast, grandson of David Lyons (1701-1772) of Belfast, and to their descendants – the family descended from David Lyons of Belfast, son of Thomas Lyons (1624-1693) - Per fess or and gules a lion ramp. within a tressure flory counterchanged, holding in the paws an annulet azure and in chief two trefoils vert. Crest—A demi lion rampant Azure holding in the paws an annulet or, thereon a trefoil vert.

7) Ladestown, co. Westmeath - Major John Charles Lyons (1792-1874), Justice of the Peace, of ‘Ladiston’ near Mullingar, co. Westmeath, Ireland, built his own printing press and grew orchids in a glasshouse that he heated and watered by filling it from a stream with his own invention, only child of Captain Charles John Lyons (1766 - 1796) - Sable a chevron ermine between three lions sejant guardant argent. Crest—On a chapeau gules turned up ermine a lion’s head erased argent.

8) Lyons of the Island of Antigua - Captain John Lyons (1760-1816), British owner of extensive sugar plantations in Antigua, where he served as a politician and a Captain in the Royal Navy, eldest of the 11 children of John Lyons (1731-1775) - John's great-grandfather Major Henry Lyons had emigrated from River Lyons, King's County, Ireland - Sable a chevron between three lions sejant guardant argent. Crest—On a chapeau gules turned up ermine a lion’s head erased argent.

9) Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, (1790 –1858), 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 (1854–1855), son of Captain John Lyons.

10) Sir William Lyons (1794-1886), Mayor of Cork, Ireland, knighted 1849 on the occasion of Her Majesty’s visit to that city. - Argent a royal crown proper between two lions passant guardant in chief sable and in base an ancient ship of three masts of the second between two flowers gules being part of the arms of the city of Cork. Crest—A demi lion rampant sable.

11) co. Hereford, London, and West Twyford, co. Middlesex – Sir John Lyon (d. 1564), a London grocer and future mayor of London, purchased West Twyford in 1540, had sons Henry and John, and nephew Richard Lyon (d. 1580) - Azure on a fesse or, between three plates, each charged with a griffin’s head erased sable a lion passant between two cinquefoils gules. Crest—On a pink flowered gules leaved vert a lion’s head erased paly quarterly ermine and ermines.

12) impaled on monument in Long Ashton, co. Somerset to Sir Richard Choke (d. 1483) whose wife was Enid Witheridge Lyons (1422-1483), born in South Moulton, co. Somerset – similar to the arms of Thomas de Lyons, recorded c. 1380 - Argent a chevron sable between three lions dormant cowarded gules.

13) Thomas Lyons Esq. had a daughter who married into the Raynesford family of Great Lew, co. Oxfordshire - Per pale or and azure a chevron ermine.

14) Charles Connell Esq. of Cork, Ireland on assuming the surname (by royal license) of Lyons in 1814, in remembrance of his maternal uncle, James Lyons, Esq., of Cork - Argent on a bend between two lions rampant gules thr....

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