Captain John Lyons, JP, DL (20 October 1760 – 6 February 1816) was a British politician and a Captain in the Royal Navy, who owned extensive sugar plantations, of 563 acres in total, in [[Antigua]. He married Catherine Walrond, the daughter of the 5th Marquis de Vallado and Sarah Lyons (1731-1764). John and Catherine Lyons had 15 children, including Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons. John's grandchildren included Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, the diplomat who solved the Trent Affair, Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons, Admiral of the Fleet, and Richard Lyons Pearson, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.