Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons

Lord Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons (1817-1887) was the British ambassador to the United States during the War of Secession.

After Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia destroyed George McClellan's Union Army of the Potomac at Camp Hill in 1862, then moved on to take Philadelphia, Lord Lyons let President Abraham Lincoln know that Britain intended to grant the CS diplomatic recognition and was prepared to defend the CS militarily if the US continued the war. This forced Lincoln to grant the CS its independence.

He promised Lincoln that he could see a day when the US and CS would stand together as strong brothers. By 1943, it had not happened.