Nicholas Lyons
KStJ DL
Lyons in 2023
694th Lord Mayor of London
In office
11 November 2022 – 10 November 2023
Preceded byVincent Keaveny
Succeeded byMichael Mainelli
Personal details
Born
Nicholas Stephen Leland Lyons

(1958-12-20) 20 December 1958
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Spouse
Felicity Parker
​
(m. 1986)​
Children4
EducationKing's School, Canterbury
Alma materGonville and Caius College, Cambridge
OccupationFinancier
Awards Knight of St John
Coronation Medal

Nicholas Stephen Leland Lyons KStJ DL (born 20 December 1958) is an Anglo-Irish financier who served as the 694th Lord Mayor of London for the 2022–23 term.[1]

Biography

The younger son of Dr Leland Lyons, FBA, FRSL, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin,[2] descended from a cadet branch of the landed gentry Lyons family, formerly of Old Park, Belfast,[3] he was educated at King's School, Canterbury, before going up to read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating as BA (proceeding MA).

Lyons first worked as a political research assistant in London and then for the EEC Directorate-General for External Relations in Brussels, before joining Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York in London in 1982 where he worked for 12 years, then at Salomon Brothers from 1994 to 1995 and then moved with a team to Lehman Brothers where he worked from 1995 until 2003.[4]

KStJ insignia

A Court Assistant of the Merchant Taylors' and Bakers' companies, Lyons was elected Lord Mayor of London, taking office on 11 November 2022.[5] He was appointed KStJ in 2022[6] and awarded an Hon DLitt by City University in 2023.[7] He is taking a sabbatical from being Chairman of Phoenix Group Holdings, the largest player in the UK retirement and long-term savings industry and a FTSE 100 company.[8]

As Lord Mayor,[9] Lyons seeks to build upon Charles Booth's pensions work by championing ‘Financing our Future’.[10] Lyons represented the City of London in the Royal Procession at the Coronation of Charles III, attired in the Lord Mayor's Coronation robes.[11]

In 1986 Lyons married Felicity née Parker,[12] by whom he has 4 children.[13] In the run-up to the Coronation, as Lady Mayoress she deputised at various civic events, such as presenting the Curriers' Company London History Essay Prize at the Guildhall.

Lord Mayor Lyons beside First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in Edinburgh (2023)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "City of London Corporation elects business veteran Nicholas Lyons as 694th Lord Mayor". CityAM. September 29, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Lyons, Francis Stewart Leland | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie.
  3. ↑ "Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland 1958". Archived from the original on 2023-02-25. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  4. ↑ Master, The Web (September 30, 2022). "Nicholas Lyons elected 694th Lord Mayor of the City of London".
  5. ↑ "Lord Mayor biography". City of London.
  6. ↑ "Order of St John | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  7. ↑ "A bumper year for City's winter graduation ceremonies | City, University of London". www.city.ac.uk. 2023-01-18. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  8. ↑ "Nick Lyons | Miller". www.miller-insurance.com.
  9. ↑ www.royal.uk
  10. ↑ www.pensioncorporation.com
  11. ↑ "Coronation order of service in full". BBC News. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  12. ↑ "A Glittering Guildhall Emerald Tiara for the Duchess of Gloucester". The Court Jeweller. November 23, 2022.
  13. ↑ "www.cityconsorts.org" (PDF).
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