1. Nicholas Lyell's mother died when he was 11, leaving Lyell and his sister Prue to continue their mother's work to preserve the work of their grandfather.
11 Facts About Nicholas Lyell
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Nicholas Lyell read modern history at Christ Church, Oxford, where he joined the Bullingdon club, and after National Service with the Royal Artillery trained as a lawyer.
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Nicholas Lyell trained with the firm associated with his stepmother's family, Walter Runciman and Co, and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1965.
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Nicholas Lyell served his pupillage with Gordon Slynn, and after being part of the team that debated a case over the world's first onion-peeling machine, specialised in commercial and public law.
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Nicholas Lyell was one of very few lawyers to have combined a successful career in Parliament and a major private practice.
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Nicholas Lyell was the longest continuously serving law officer for more than 100 years.
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Nicholas Lyell stood down as an MP at the 2001 election.
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Nick Nicholas Lyell served his country and his party extremely well as attorney general and in a number of other senior roles in the last Conservative Government and he has been a tireless servant of his constituents during his 21 years in Parliament.
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Nicholas Lyell was at the centre of the Matrix Churchill affair, the controversy to sell arms to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
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Nicholas Lyell was an underwriting 'Name' at the Lloyd's of London insurance market.
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Nicholas Lyell died in the Hospice of St Francis in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire after a 12-year battle with cancer on 30 August 2010.