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[[File:Leonard Lyell.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Leonard Lyall in 1898.]]

'''Leonard Lyell''', 1st Baron Lyell (b. 21 October 1850, d. 18 September 1926) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland.

==Biography==
The eldest son of Colonel Henry Lyell and Katharine Murray Lyell, he was a nephew of Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, the geologist. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland from 1885 to 1900, and was commissioned a Deputy Lieutenant for Forfarshire in December 1901.

He was created a baronet in 1894 and raised to the peerage as Baron Lyell of Kinnordy in the County of Forfar, on 4 July 1914. His only son Charles Henry Lyell was also a Liberal MP but as he died in 1918 his son Charles Anthony Lyell succeeded to both the baronetcy and barony.

{{MPs|Preceded by<br>'''[[Samuel Laing]]'''|'''Member of Parliament for<br>[[Orkney and Shetland (Constituency)|Orkney and Shetland]]'''<br>1885-1900|Succeeded by<br>'''[[Cathcart Wason]]}}{{Template:PoUK}}

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