Viscount Lyons, of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, was a title in Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 November 1881 for the diplomat Richard Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons. It later was announced that he was to be created an Earl, but he died before that title's patent was sealed, after which all of his titles became extinct.
The title of Baron Lyons, of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, had been created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, on 25 June 1856, for his father, the British Admiral and diplomat Sir Edmund Lyons, 1st Baronet, who previously had been created a baronet, also of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, on 29 July 1840.
Viscount Lyons was the grandson of the landowner Captain John Lyons of Antigua; and the nephew of Vice-Admiral John Lyons (1787 - 1872) who had fought on HMS Victory at Battle of Trafalgar and served as British Ambassador in Egypt; and the nephew of Lieutenant-General Humphrey Lyons; and the first cousin of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon Lyons.