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Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 6276 people with the Lyon surname? In that year Lyon was ranked number 660 for popularity in the UK.

"Originally de Leonne. The family came into England with the Conqueror. Sir Roger de Lyon settled in Scotland in 1098, where he received a grant of lands in Perthshire, which he called Glen Lyon. Afterwards John de Lyon obtained from David II a grant of the baronies of Forteviot and Fergundeny in Perthshire and Drumgawan in Aberdeenshire; his son, Sir John Lyon, was Secretary to Robert II, whose youngest daughter, Lady Jane Stewart, he married, and was created Lord Glamis, made Great Chamberlain, and Lord Chancellor of Scotland, and received grants of the Thanedom of Glamis in Forfarshire, and of the Barony of Kinghorn in Fifeshire, and was authorized to surround his arms with a double tressure in honor of his alliance with the royal family. "_{(The origin and signification of Scottish surnames. Clifford Stanley Sims, 1862)}

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"LYON. "According to the family tradition the Lyons came to Scotland from France, by way of England, in the course of the twelfth century" (Ross, The Lyons of Cossins, Edinburgh, 1901). The name was not uncommon in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and landowners of the name were in occupation in several of the English shires in the reigns of Edward i and Edward n. The first of the name recorded in Scotland, probably an English soldier, was Thomas Lyon, crossbowman, who formed one of the garrison of Linlithgow peel in the pay of Edward 11, in 1311-12 (Bain, m, 412). The first known Scots of the name recorded are John the son of Lyon and Hugo the son of Lyon ( (Johannes filius Leonis, Hugo filius Leonis), members of an inquest on the lands of Rostinot in 1321-22 (RMS., i, App. i, 29). John Lyon had a charter of the lands of Forteviot and Forgundenny, Perthshire, c. 134243 from David n. John Lyon or Lyoun, clerk and secretary to David n, had a charter from Robert n in 1371-72 of the thanage of Glaumysse (Glamis) as a free barony (RMS., i, 411, 549). He had other charters from the same king in which he is described as 'carissimus filius nosier' and 'dilectus filius noster' (ibid., 679, 693). James Lyoune was vicar of St. Giles, Edinburgh, 1393 (Egidli, p. 29), John Lyon was chaplain to the Lord of the Isles in 1411 (Bain, iv, 806), and Patrick Lyon, one of the hostages for King James i in 1425 (ibid., rv, 947, 981, 983) was ennobled as Baron Glamis in 1445. David Lioun had a precept of the Hospital of Balgonyesse with the lands and mill in 1499 (RSS., i, 418), Patrick Lione was bailie of Glasgow, 1525 (LCD., p. 103), and David Lyoune was a witness there, 1550 (Protocols). Cosmo Innes says (p. 24): "I have seen petitions of some small clans of the Braes of Angus to be allowed to take the name of Lyon, and to be counted clansmen of the Strathmores." Queen Elizabeth is a daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore. Leon (of Glamis) 1646. Lyona, Lyowne. "_{(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)}

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