Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore was a Scottish nobleman, and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1735, when he resigned upon succeeding to the peerage as Earl of Strathmore.
Lyon was baptized on 6 July 1704, the seventh son of John Lyon, 4th Earl of [Strathmore and Kinghorne], and his wife Lady Elizabeth Stanhope daughter of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield.
Lyon was returned as Tory member of parliament for Forfarshire on the Strathmore interest at the 1734 British general election. He vacated his seat when he succeeded his brother to the peerage on 4 January 1735.
On 20 July 1736, Strathmore married Joan Nicholson, daughter of James Nicholson of West Rainton, county Durham at Houghton-le-Spring. He died on 18 January 1753, leaving three sons and four daughters:
- John Lyon, who changed his name and became John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
- James Philip Lyon
- Thomas Lyon. MP for Aberdeen Burghs. Married Mary Wren. Their daughter Charlotte Lyon married Revd Henry George Liddell . The children of Charlotte Lyon and Revd Henry George Liddell were the Very Revd Henry George Liddell and Charles Liddell
- Mary Lyon
- Susan Lyon
- Anne Lyon. In 1768 she married John Simpson, of Bradley Hall, Durham, son of John Simpson, of Bradley Hall. Their daughter Maria Susannah Simpson married Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth. Their youngest daughter, Frances Eleanor Simpson married in 1799 Sir John Dean Paul, 1st Bart. of Rodborough, Co. of Gloucester, and had three sons and four daughters.
- Jane Lyon