After his attack on Marrack, Lyons’s health deteriorated and he returned to Britain.
In 1814, he was promoted to captain and commanded the sloop HMS Rinaldo in the fleet that escorted the French King Louis XVIII and other allied sovereigns from England to France.
On 18 July 1814, at Southwick, Hampshire, he married Augusta Louisa (1792–1852), daughter of Captain Josias Rogers of the navy.
He was unemployed until 1828, whilst he and his wife had two sons and two daughters:
Anne Theresa Bickerton Lyons (1815–1894), who married Philip Hartmann Veit von Würtzburg, Baron von Würtzburg, in Bavaria, in 1839.

Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons (1817–1887).
Eminent diplomat who served during the American Civil War and solved the Trent affair and founded the Lyons School of Diplomacy.
He was a favourite of Queen Victoria who stated that she would allow him to represent her ‘at any court in the world’.
Richard was granted the higher noble titles of Viscount (1881) and Earl (1887), but he died, unmarried and without issue, before he had formally received the latter.

Edmund Moubray Lyons (1819–1855).
Captain in the Royal Navy.
He was killed in the Crimean War and died without issue.

Augusta Mary Minna Catherine Lyons (1821–1886), who married, in, 1839, Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk.
Her grandson was Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian.
After his attack on Marrack, Lyons’s health deteriorated and he returned to Britain. In 1814, he was promoted to captain and commanded the sloop HMS Rinaldo in the fleet that escorted the French King Louis XVIII and other allied sovereigns from England to France. On 18 July 1814, at Southwick, Hampshire, he married Augusta Louisa (1792–1852), daughter of Captain Josias Rogers of the navy. He was unemployed until 1828, whilst he and his wife had two sons and two daughters:
Anne Theresa Bickerton Lyons (1815–1894), who married Philip Hartmann Veit von Würtzburg, Baron von Würtzburg, in Bavaria, in 1839.
Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons (1817–1887). Eminent diplomat who served during the American Civil War and solved the Trent affair and founded the Lyons School of Diplomacy. He was a favourite of Queen Victoria who stated that she would allow him to represent her ‘at any court in the world’. Richard was granted the higher noble titles of Viscount (1881) and Earl (1887), but he died, unmarried and without issue, before he had formally received the latter.
Edmund Moubray Lyons (1819–1855). Captain in the Royal Navy. He was killed in the Crimean War and died without issue.
Augusta Mary Minna Catherine Lyons (1821–1886), who married, in, 1839, Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk. Her grandson was Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian.
Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons