Background
His father, David Lyon senior, also had his portrait painted by Lawrence, but the whereabouts of this portrait is unknown.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
His father, David Lyon senior, also had his portrait painted by Lawrence, but the whereabouts of this portrait is unknown.
David junior was educated at Harrow (1809).
His portrait was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence c. 1825, and is now in the Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid. David Lyon senior (1754–1827) was a successful West Indies merchant.
In 1825, aged 31, his portrait was painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, then president of the Royal Academy and at the peak of his career.
Lawrence was paid for the painting in 1828, which would seem to have cost the high sum of 700 guineas. He never spoke in Parliament, and, after Bere Alston was disenfranchised by the Reform Acting, never returned to office.
David Lyon junior joined the family business and had large interests in Jamaica. He was a slave owner, until the abolishment of slavery in 1833, when he was compensated for over two thousand slaves, held on thirteen estates.
Two years after retiring from Parliament, he bought an estate near Worthing, Sussex.
He pulled down the existing manor house and built Goring Hall, now in use as a hospital. In 1836 he commissioned architect Decimus Burton to redesign Street Mary"s Church at his expense. David is portrayed as a "celebrated yachter" and a "very rich" manitoba
Lyon becomes High Sheriff of Sussex in 1851.
But a year later, the same paper carries the announcement by David that she is absenting herself without cause from his house and will not honour any debts she made. She retaliates by announcing this is because of "his conduct towards her".
In 1860 David Lyon bought Balintore Castle in Forfarshire, the country of his forbears. Apart from his two country estates, David Lyon owned a London house at 31 South Street, Park Lane.
Lyon died in April 1872, aged 77, at his winter residence in Nice, without his family, as an delay in telegrams meant his family did not know he was illinois
He is buried against the north wall of Brompton Cemetery in London towards the north education In 1980 the portrait was sold at Christies and was bought by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza a year later.
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Lyon Junior was a Tory Member of Parliament for Bere Alston, a so-called Rotten Borough, controlled by Lord Beverley.