Charles Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell

Charles Antony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell, VC, 2nd Bt (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.

Charles Antony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell
Born14 June 1913
Chelsea, London
Died27 April 1943(1943-04-27) (aged 29)
Dj Bou Arada, Tunisia
Buried
Massicault War Cemetery
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankCaptain
UnitScots Guards
Battles/warsWorld War II
Awards Victoria Cross
RelationsCharles Henry Lyell (father)
Other workCounty Councillor for Angus

Background

He was the son of Charles Henry Lyell and his wife Rosalind Margaret Watney.[1] His father died in 1918 and he succeeded his grandfather as Baron Lyell in 1926. He was educated at Eton 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, Angus before the war where he was a county councillor.

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.[2]

Victoria Cross action

Lyell was 29 years old, and a temporary captain in the 1st Battalion, Scots Guards, British Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

During the period 22–27 April 1943 near Dj Bou Arada, Tunisia, Captain Lord Lyell's outstanding leadership and gallantry enabled his company to take its objective. On 27 April accompanied by a sergeant, a lance-corporal and two guardsmen, he led an attack on an enemy post consisting of an 88mm gun and a heavy machine-gun in two separate pits. He destroyed the crew of the machine-gun with a hand grenade and then, three of the party having become casualties, and with the lance-corporal to give covering fire he leapt into the second pit, killing several of the crew before being overwhelmed and killed. Both the guns had been silenced.[3]

He is buried in the Massicault War Cemetery, southwest of Tunis.[4]

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gollark: Those aren't heaven and hell, silly.
gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972
gollark: This is because it canonically receives 50 times the light Earth does.
gollark: Heaven is in fact hotter.

References
  1. "Charles Antony LYELL, Christ Church, Oxford". Archived from the original on 24 February 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  2. Billcliffe, Roger (1987) James McIntosh Patrick p.50
  3. "No. 36129". The London Gazette. 10 August 1943. p. 3625.
  4. CWGC record
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Leonard Lyell		 Baron Lyell
1926 – 1943		 Succeeded by
Charles Lyell
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