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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
Born	ca. 1702
Died	1735 Edinburgh, Scotland
Nationality	Scottish
Title	7th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Spouse	Mary 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[edit]

Ancestors of James Lyon, 7th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

16. Patrick Lyon 1st Earl of Kinghorne

8. John Lyon, 2nd Earl of Kinghorne

17. Lady Anne Murray

4. Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

18. Patrick Maule, 1st Earl of Panmure

9. Lady Elizabeth Maule

19. Frances Stanhope

2. John Lyon, 4th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

20. Robert Middleton

10. John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton

21. Elizabeth Strachan

5. Lady Helen Middleton

22. James Durham

11. Grizel Durham

23. Janet Wishart

1. James Lyon, 7th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

24. Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield

12. Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope

25. Catherine Hastings

6. Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield

26. Thomas Wotton, 2nd Baron Wotton

13. Hon. Katherine Wotton

27. Mary Throckmorton

3. Lady Elizabeth Stanhope

28. Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles

14. James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde

29. Elizabeth Poyntz

7. Lady Elizabeth Butler

30. Richard Preston, 1st Earl of Desmond

15. Lady Elizabeth Preston, 2nd Lady Dingwall

31. Lady Elizabeth Butler

Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Charles Lyon	Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne 1728–1735	Succeeded by Thomas Lyon
Masonic offices
Preceded by Anthony Browne, 7th Viscount Montagu	Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England 1733	Succeeded by John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford

References[edit]

^ Matthew Forster Conolly, Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife of Past and Present Times, 1866, p. 309

thePeerage.com. Retrieved 16 August 2008
thePeerage.com. Retrieved 28 May 2009
Charles Whitlock Moore, The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine, 1845, p. 265

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