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Lyell is a surname of Scotland traced to Radulphus de Insula, 11th-century Lord of Duchal Castle. "De insula" was subsequently translated into the Old French "de l'isle" and developed into a number of variants ([de] Lyell; [de] Lisle; [de] Lyle; see below). John Lyell in 1706 emigrated to Virginia and is the progenitor of the American Lyells. Lyell may refer to: People (ordered chronologically) * Thomas Lyell or Lyel (1300s–1400s), Scottish clergyman * Henry Lyell (1665–1731), Swedish-born English businessman * Charles Lyell (botanist) (1767–1849), Scottish botanist :* Charles Lyell (1797–1875), British geologist; son of the botanist; 1st Baronet Lyell of Kinnordy :* Mary Horner Lyell (1808–1873), conchologist; wife of the geologist :* Katharine Murray Lyell (1817–1915), British botanist and author; sister-in-law of the geologist :::* Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell (1850–1926), Scottish Liberal politician; son of Katharine Murray Lyell ::::* James Patrick Ron ...
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In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to name change, change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. C ...
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Charles Anthony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell
Captain Charles Antony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell, VC (14 June 1913 – 27 April 1943) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Background He was the son of Charles Henry Lyell and his wife Rosalind Margaret Watney. His father died in 1918 and he succeeded his grandfather as Baron Lyell in 1926. He was educated at Eton College and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1932, graduating in 1936. Both his father and his grandfather, Leonard Lyell were Liberal MPs. Between 1936 and his death, Lord Lyell was a member of Boodle's club in St James's, London. He moved to his family's estate in Kirriemuir in Angus, where he was a county councillor before the Second World War . He married Sophie Mary Trafford on 4 July 1938. They had one son, who became Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell. His portrait was painted by James McIntosh Patrick in 1940. Vi ...
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Lisle (other)
Lisle may refer to: Music * Lisle (band) People * Baron Lisle * Viscount Lisle ;Given name * Lisle Atkinson (1940–2019), American musician *Lisle Blackbourn (1899–1983), American football coach * Lisle C. Carter (1925–2009), American administrator *Lisle Ellis (born 1951), Canadian musician and composer * Lisle Wilson (1943–2010), American actor ;Surname * Lady Alice Lisle (1617–1685), member of the English nobility * Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760–1836), French army officer * Edward Lisle (1692–1753), English landowner and politician * Harriet Lisle (1717–1794), English painter * Jim Lisle, Australian rugby footballer * Sir John Lisle (1610–1664), English lawyer and politician * John Lisle (died 1408), English Member of Parliament * John Lisle (died 1429), English Member of Parliament * Sir John VI Lisle (1406–1471), English landowner, soldier, administrator, and politician * John de Lisle (other) * Jordan Lisle (born 1990), Australian rule ...
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Delisle (other)
Delisle or De Lisle or de Lisle may refer to: People * Delisle (surname) *DeLisle Worrell, a former governor of the Central Bank of Barbados Places ;Canada * Delisle, Quebec, a former municipality that is now part of Alma, in RCM of Lac-Saint-Jean-Est, in administrative region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in Quebec * Richmond Gulf (French: Lac Guillaume-Delisle), a waterbody in Nunavik, in administrative region of Nord-du-Québec, in Quebec, Canada * Sector Delisle, a sector of Alma, Quebec, in Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality, in administrative region of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in Quebec * Delisle, Saskatchewan, a town in Saskatchewan ;United States *DeLisle, Mississippi, a census-designated place * Delisle, Ohio, an unincorporated community ;The Moon *Mons Delisle, a mountain on the moon *Delisle (crater), a lunar crater Other uses * Delisle scale, a temperature scale * De Lisle carbine, a World War II silent rifle *De Lisle College, a Roman Catholic school in ...
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Lyell (Martian Crater)
Lyell is a surname of Scotland traced to Radulphus de Insula, 11th-century Lord of Duchal Castle. "De insula" was subsequently translated into the Old French "de l'isle" and developed into a number of variants ([de] Lyell; [de] Lisle; [de] Lyle; see below). John Lyell in 1706 emigrated to Virginia and is the progenitor of the American Lyells. Lyell may refer to: People (ordered chronologically) * Thomas Lyell or Lyel (1300s–1400s), Scottish clergyman * Henry Lyell (1665–1731), Swedish-born English businessman * Charles Lyell (botanist) (1767–1849), Scottish botanist :* Charles Lyell (1797–1875), British geologist; son of the botanist; 1st Baronet Lyell of Kinnordy :* Mary Horner Lyell (1808–1873), conchologist; wife of the geologist :* Katharine Murray Lyell (1817–1915), British botanist and author; sister-in-law of the geologist :::* Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell (1850–1926), Scottish Liberal politician; son of Katharine Murray Lyell ::::* James Patrick Ron ...
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Lyell (lunar Crater)
Lyell is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that lies along the eastern edge of the Mare Tranquillitatis, at the northern arm of the bay designated Sinus Concordiae. It was named after Scottish geologist Charles Lyell. To the north along the edge of the lunar mare is the crater Franz (crater), Franz. The region of terrain to the east of Lyell is named Palus Somni. The outer rim of this crater is an irregular series of ridges in a roughly circular formation. There are multiple gaps through this rim, connected the interior to the mare in the west. The wall is at its thickest along the eastern side of the crater. The interior floor has been resurfaced by lava, leaving a level, featureless surface that has no markings or impacts of note. The central region of the inner floor has a relatively low albedo compared to the surrounding terrain, giving it a dark appearance that matches the nearby mare. Satellite craters By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by plac ...
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Victoria Crater
Victoria is an impact crater on Mars located at 2.05°S, 5.50°W in the Meridiani Planum extraterrestrial plain, lying situated within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars. This crater was first visited by the Mars Exploration Rover ''Opportunity''. It is roughly wide, nearly eight times the size of the crater Endurance, visited by ''Opportunity'' from sols 951 to 1630. It is informally named after '' Victoria'' – one of the five Spanish ships of Ferdinand Magellan and the first ship to circumnavigate the globe – and formally named after Victoria, Seychelles. Along the edges of the crater are many outcrops within recessed alcoves and promontories, named for bays and capes that Magellan discovered. ''Opportunity'' traveled for 21 months to Victoria before finally reaching its edge on September 26, 2006 (sol 951), at the newly named "Duck Bay". Around the rover were features dubbed "No Name", "Duck Crater", " Emma Dean", "Maid of the C ...
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Lyells, Virginia
Lyells is an unincorporated community in Richmond County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. Landmarks The Rochester House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 1991. The community also contains Beulah Baptist Church. References * Unincorporated communities in Virginia Unincorporated communities in Richmond County, Virginia {{RichmondCountyVA-geo-stub ...
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Lyell, New Zealand
Lyell is the site of a historic gold mining town in the Buller Gorge in the South Island of New Zealand. It lies on , northeast of Inangahua. Lyell was named by the geologist Julius von Haast after the British geologist Charles Lyell, a friend of Sir George Grey, whose writings had influenced Charles Darwin. The gold rush in Lyell began in 1862 when Māori prospectors found gold in Lyell Creek, a tributary of the Buller River. In 1869 two Italian miners, Antonio Zala and Giorgio Zanetti, discovered gold in quartz veins in the Lyell Creek area. The mine in this quartz reef was worked from 1872 until 1912. Gold in quartz reefs was successfully mined in only two places on the West Coast: Lyell and Reefton. The settlement grew quickly with a population of about 100 in 1863, despite the area being inaccessible, difficult to work and prone to flooding. In the 1870s Lyell had a main street, Cliff St, with banks, newspaper offices and hotels. The population grew to more than 2000 in ...
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Mount Lyell (other)
Mount Lyell may refer to: *Mount Lyell (California), U.S., in Yosemite National Park *Mount Lyell (Tasmania), Australia * Mount Lyell (Western Australia), in the Kimberley region * Mount Lyell (Canada), on the Alberta–British Columbia boundary See also *1912 North Mount Lyell disaster *Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company was a Tasmanian mining company formed on 29 March 1893, most commonly referred to as ''Mount Lyell''. Mount Lyell was the dominant copper mining company of the West Coast from 1893 to 1994, and was based in ...
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Lyell Island
Lyell Island, known also in the Haida language as Athlii Gwaii,Pacofi Bay Lodge Tour 2
is a large island in the archipelago on the , Canada. It is located on the east side of , just south of Laskeek Bay. The island is a part of the

Nicholas Lyell, Baron Lyell Of Markyate
Nicholas Walter Lyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate, PC, QC (6 December 1938 – 30 August 2010) was a British Conservative Party politician, known for much of his active political career as Sir Nicholas Lyell. Early life Born in London, he was the son of Sir Maurice Lyell, a High Court judge, and Veronica Luard, a sculptor and designer whose father, Lowes Dalbiac Luard, had been a contemporary of Augustus John and Walter Sickert. His mother died when he was 11, leaving Lyell and his sister Prue to continue their mother's work to preserve the work of their grandfather. Educated at Wellesley House School in the coastal town of Broadstairs in Kent and at Stowe School, he was his father's best man when he married the also widowed Kitty, Lady Farrar, younger daughter of Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford. Lyell read modern history at Christ Church, Oxford, where he joined the Bullingdon club, and after National Service with the Royal Artillery trained as a lawy ...
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