Lyell is a
surname
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 give ...
of
Scotland
Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...
traced to
Radulphus de Insula, 11th-century Lord of
Duchal Castle. "De insula" was subsequently translated into the
Old French
Old French (, , ; ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th [2-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ...
"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)
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Thomas Lyell or Lyel (1300s–1400s), Scottish clergyman
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Henry Lyell (1665–1731), Swedish-born English businessman
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Charles Lyell (botanist) (1767–1849), Scottish botanist
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Charles Lyell
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth's history. He is best known today for his association with Charles ...
(1797–1875), British geologist; son of the botanist; 1st Baronet Lyell of Kinnordy
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Mary Horner Lyell (1808–1873), conchologist; wife of the geologist
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Katharine Murray Lyell (1817–1915), British botanist and author; sister-in-law of the geologist
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Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell (1850–1926), Scottish Liberal politician; son of Katharine Murray Lyell
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James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871–1948), British solicitor, author, book collector, and bibliographer
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Charles Henry Lyell (1875–1918), Liberal MP; son of Leonard Lyell
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Charles Anthony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell (1913–1943), Victoria Cross recipient; son of Charles Henry Lyell
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Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell (1939–2017), Conservative member of the House of Lords; son of Charles Anthony Lyell
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George Lyell (1866–1951) Australian naturalist
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Maurice Lyell (1901–1975), lawyer
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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 t ...
(1938–2010), British Conservative politician at the centre of the Matrix Churchill affair, son of Maurice
Places
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Lyell Island, in Canada
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Mount Lyell (disambiguation)
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Lyell, New Zealand, a historic gold mining settlement
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Lyells, Virginia, a crossroads in Richmond County, Virginia
* A panorama of
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 E ...
, Mars, taken by the Opportunity Rover
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Lyell (lunar crater)
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Lyell (Martian crater)
See also
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Delisle (disambiguation)
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Lisle (disambiguation)
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Lyall (disambiguation)
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Lyle (disambiguation)
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