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Nicholas Lyons
Lawyer and 694th Lord Mayor of London

Nicholas Lyons

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Lawyer and 694th Lord Mayor of London
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Nicholas Stephen Leland Lyons KStJ DL (born 20 December 1958) is an Anglo-Irish financier who served as the 694th Lord Mayor of London for the 2022–23 term.

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The younger son of Dr Leland Lyons, , Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, descended from a cadet branch of the landed gentry Lyons family, formerly of Old Park, Belfast, he was educated at King's School, Canterbury, before going up to read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating as BA (proceeding MA).

Lyons first worked as a political research assistant in London and then for the EEC Directorate-General for External Relations in Brussels, before joining Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York in London in 1982 where he worked for 12 years, then at Salomon Brothers from 1994 to 1995 and then moved with a team to Lehman Brothers where he worked from 1995 until 2003.

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A Court Assistant of the Merchant Taylors' and Bakers' companies, Lyons was elected Lord Mayor of London, taking office on 11 November 2022. He was appointed KStJ in 2022 and awarded an Hon DLitt by City University in 2023. He is taking a sabbatical from being Chairman of Phoenix Group Holdings, the largest player in the UK retirement and long-term savings industry and a FTSE 100 company.

As Lord Mayor, Lyons seeks to build upon Charles Booth's pensions work by championing ‘Financing our Future’.Lyons represented the City of London in the Royal Procession at the Coronation of Charles III, attired in the Lord Mayor's Coronation robes.

In 1986 Lyons married Felicity née Parker, by whom he has 4 children.In the run-up to the Coronation, as Lady Mayoress she deputised at various civic events, such as presenting the Curriers' Company London History Essay Prize at the Guildhall.

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