Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore (1704 – 18 January 1753) was a Scottish nobleman, and Tory politician who sat in the

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from 1734 to 1735, when he resigned upon succeeding to the peerage as

Earl of Strathmore Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne is a title in the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was first created as Earl of Kinghorne in the Peerage of Scotland in 1606 for Patrick Lyon. In 1677, the designation of the earldom ...

. Lyon was baptized on 6 July 1704, the seventh son of

John Lyon, 4th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne John Lyon, 4th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (16631712) was a Scottish nobleman and peer. He was the son of Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. He married Elizabeth Stanhope on 21 September 1691 and was succeeded as Earl by hi ...

, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Stanhope daughter of

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. Lyon was returned as Tory

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(MP) for

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on the Strathmore interest at the

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. He vacated his seat when he succeeded his brother to the peerage on 4 January 1735. On 20 July 1736, Strathmore married Joan (or Jean) Nicholson, daughter of James Nicholson of West Rainton, county Durham at

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. He died on 18 January 1753, leaving three sons and four daughters: *John Lyon, who changed his name and became

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(1737–1776) *James Philip Lyon (1738–1763) * Thomas Lyon (1741–1796). MP for Aberdeen Burghs. Married Mary Wren. Their daughter Charlotte Lyon (died 1871) married Revd

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(died 1872) (son of Sir Henry Liddell 5th Bart). The children of Charlotte Lyon and Revd Henry George Liddell were the Very Revd Henry George Liddell (d. 1898) and Charles Liddell (d. 1894) *Mary Lyon (died 1767) *Susan Lyon (died 26 February 1769) *Anne Lyon (22 April 1746 – 1811). In 1768 she married John Simpson (1740–1802), of Bradley Hall, Durham, son of John Simpson, of Bradley Hall. Their daughter Maria Susannah Simpson (1773–1845) married

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(youngest son of Sir Henry Liddell 5th Bart, younger brother of Revd Henry George Liddell died 1872). Their youngest daughter, Frances Eleanor (1775 or 1776 – 15 April 1833) married in 1799 Sir John Dean Paul, 1st Bart. of Rodborough, Co. of Gloucester, (1775–1852) and had three sons and four daughters. *Jane Lyon (died 1836)

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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies British MPs 1734–1741 {{Scotland-GreatBritain-MP-stub