Lord Lyle Explained

The title Lord Lyle was a Lordship of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland created for Sir Robert Lyle of Duchal, a Renfrewshire knight c. 1452. The title became extinct upon the death of the 4th Lord Lyle c. 1551.^[1]

Lords Lyle

• Robert Lyle, 1st Lord Lyle (d.c. 1470)
• Robert Lyle, 2nd Lord Lyle (d.c. 1492), Lord Chief Justice
• Robert Lyle, 3rd Lord Lyle (d.c. 1500). According to a biography of the Lords Lyle, "The history of the third Lord Lyle is very scanty, and his life does not seem to have been very eventful."^[2]
• John Lyle, 4th Lord Lyle (d.c. 1551)

References

Sources

• Balfour Paul, Sir James, The Scots Peerage IX vols, Edinburgh 1904. https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun05pauluoft
• Book: Lyle, Wm. . "De Insula" or The Lyles of Renfrewshire . 1936.

Notes and References

1. Balfour Paul, vol v, pp549-558
2. Lyle, Wm., p. 98