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About Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons
Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Earl Lyons, was the leading British diplomat during the four great crises of the second half of the 19th century: Italian unification, the American Civil War, the Eastern Question, and the replacement of France by Germany as the dominant Continental power following the 1870 Franco-Prussian War.
Everything about Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons →- Occupation
- diplomat, politician
- Position held
- ambassador of the United Kingdom to France, ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Ottoman Empire, ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United States, ambassador of Tuscany to the Great Britain
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- April 6, 1817
- Died
- December 5, 1887