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James Lyon, 7th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

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The Right Honourable
The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Bornca. 1702
Died1735
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityScottish
Title7th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
SpouseMary Oliphant
Parent(s)John Lyon, 4th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Lady Elizabeth Stanhope

James Lyon, 7th Earl of Strathmore (circa 1702 – 1735) was a Scottish peer and freemason.

He was the son of John Lyon, 4th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Lady Elizabeth Stanhope. He was christened on 24 December 1702. He succeeded as Earl of Strathmore following the stabbing of Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in a drunken altercation in 1728.[1] On 6 March 1731 he married Mary Oliphant, daughter of Charles Oliphant (brother of William Oliphant, 11th Lord Oliphant). He died without issue on 4 January 1735 at Edinburgh, Scotland.

He was succeeded as earl by his younger brother, Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

Ancestry

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Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
1728–1735 		Succeeded by
Masonic offices
Preceded by Grand Master of the Premier
Grand Lodge of England
1733 		Succeeded by

References

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  1. ^ Matthew Forster Conolly, Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife of Past and Present Times, 1866, p. 309
  • Charles Whitlock Moore, The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine, 1845, p. 265


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