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{{Short description|English sportsman and Royal Navy officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox military person
| name = George Hamilton D'Oyly Lyon
| image=File:Admiral Sir George D'Oyly Lyon. 20 April 1943, Dover. A16391 (cropped).jpg
| caption=Lyon in 1943
| birth_date ={{birth-date|3 October 1883}}
| death_date ={{death-date and age|19 August 1947|3 October 1883}}
| birth_place =[[Bankipur (Bihar)|Bankipore]], [[Bihar]], [[India]]
| death_place =[[Midhurst]], [[Sussex]], [[England]]
| placeofburial_coordinates = 
| allegiance ={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
| branch =[[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|23px]] [[Royal Navy]]
| serviceyears =1899–1943
| rank =[[Admiral (Royal Navy)|Admiral]]
| commands =[[3rd Cruiser Squadron]] [[Cape of Good Hope Station|Africa Station]] [[Commander-in-Chief, The Nore|Nore Command]]
| battles =[[World War I]] - [[Battle of Jutland|Jutland]]
| awards =Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Bath]]; [[Order of the Redeemer of Greece|Commander, Order of the Redeemer of Greece]]; Grand Cross [[Order of Aviz]] of Portugal
}}
{{Infobox rugby biography

|ru_position = [[Fullback (rugby union)|Fullback]]
|repteam1 = [[England national rugby union team|England]]
|repyears1 = 1908-1909
|repcaps1 = 2
|reppoints1 = 0
|clubs1 = [[United Services Portsmouth Rugby Football Club|United Services Portsmouth]]
}}

[[Admiral (Royal Navy)|Admiral]] '''Sir George Hamilton D'Oyly Lyon''', [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] (3 October 1883 – 19 August 1947) was a distinguished [[Royal Navy]] officer as well as an English sportsman who played [[first-class cricket]] and represented the [[England national rugby union team]].

==Naval career==
Educated at Bruton School and at the [[Britannia Royal Naval College|Royal Naval College, Dartmouth]], Lyon joined the Navy on 15 June 1899, and saw active service at the [[Battle of Jutland]], aboard [[HMS Monarch (1911)|HMS ''Monarch'']].<ref name=lh>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/LYON2.shtml Sir George Hamilton D'Oyly Lyon] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives</ref>

He was appointed Head of the British Naval Mission to [[Greece]] in 1929 and Commodore Commanding, Home Fleet Destroyers in 1932.<ref name=lh/> He then became Rear Admiral commanding the 3rd Cruiser Squadron in 1935 and [[Commander-in-Chief, Africa (Royal Navy)|Commander-in-Chief, Africa]] in 1938 (the Africa Station became the [[South Atlantic Station]] in 1939).<ref name=lh/>

He served in [[World War II]] as [[Commander-in-Chief, The Nore]] from 1941 and retired in 1943.<ref name=lh/>

==Sporting career==
Lyon, in four first-class cricket matches, made 185 runs at 26.42 and took 7 wickets at 20.00. A right-arm medium pace bowler and right-handed batsman, he played twice for [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] in the 1907 County Championship. On debut, his only significant contribution was dismissing Worcestershire opener [[Harry Foster (cricketer)|Harry Foster]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7372.html|title=Hampshire v Worcestershire 1907| publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> while in the other match for Hampshire, he claimed the wicket of [[Ernest Killick]], of Sussex, after Lyon made his then highest score of 29.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7326.html|title=Hampshire v Sussex 1907| publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref>

Capped twice for England at rugby union, Lyon was a full-back and made his Test debut at Inverleith, in a loss to Scotland during the [[1908 Home Nations Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scrum.com/england/rugby/match/19112.html|title=Home Nations – Inverleith, 21 March 1908|publisher=Scrum.com}}</ref> When he appeared in his second and final Test the following year, it was as captain and against Australia at Blackheath. England once again lost the fixture but were awarding no less than nine players their first Test caps.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scrum.com/england/rugby/match/19117.html|title=Australia tour – Blackheath, 9 January 1909|publisher=Scrum.com}}</ref>

His return to first-class cricket in 1911 was much more successful, with an appearance for an Army and Navy cricket team against the Oxford and Cambridge Universities team at Portsmouth. Despite batting down the order at nine, Lyon was the top scorer for the Army and Navy in their first innings, with 90. He then managed career best figures of 4/51 and one of those, [[Ronald Lagden]], was also an English rugby union international.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8484.html|title=Army and Navy v Oxford and Cambridge Universities 1911| publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> Lyon's final first-class match came eleven years later when he lined up for the [[Royal Navy Cricket Club|Royal Navy]] against the [[British Army cricket team|Army]] at Lord's. He contributed scores of 22 and 32 but couldn't stop the Army winning by 9 wickets.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10499.html|title=Army v Royal Navy 1922| publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref>

==Family==
His son, Patrick Maxwell Lyon, was a second lieutenant in the [[Middlesex Regiment]]. He was killed in the [[German invasion of Belgium (1940)|Belgian campaign]] of May 1940.<ref>{{cite web |title=Second Lieutenant Patrick Maxwell Lyon |url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2774969/ |website=Commonwealth War Graves Commission database |access-date=12 January 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|George Hamilton D'Oyly Lyon}}
*[http://content.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/16383.html Cricinfo: George Lyon]
*[http://www.scrum.com/england/rugby/player/1956.html Scrum: George Lyon]

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[[Category:Royal Navy admirals of World War II]]
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[[Category:Military personnel of British India]]
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