thumb|200px|Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons
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 was announced that he was to be created an Earl but he died before the patent was sealed. On his death all 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 Royal Navy Admiral and British diplomat Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, 1st Baronet, who also had been created a baronet, also of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, on 29 July 1840.
The first Baron was the son of landowner Captain John Lyons of Antigua; and the brother 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 brother of Lieutenant-General Humphrey Lyons; and the uncle of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon Lyons.
Barons Lyons (1856)
- Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons (1790–1858)
- Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons (1817–1887)
Viscounts Lyons (1881)
- Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons (1817–1887)
Earls Lyons (1887)
- Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons (1817–1887). (He died before he had formally received the title of Earl Lyons: but, because the notice of his investiture with the title of Earl had appeared in the London Gazette, he is usually, nevertheless, termed 1st Earl Lyons, as in his most recent biography (2014) by Brian Jenkins).