Editing Nicholas Lyell (section)

==Early life==
Born in London, he was the son of Sir [[Maurice Lyell]], a [[High Court of Justice|High Court judge]], and Veronica Luard, a sculptor and designer whose father, [[Lowes Dalbiac Luard]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3RVXAAAAYAAJ&dq=luard+family+genealogy&pg=RA1-PA1135 Sir Bernard Burke, ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry''], 14th ed. (London 1925), pp. 1135–1137.</ref> had been a contemporary of [[Augustus John]] and [[Walter Sickert]]. His 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.<ref name=GuardObit/>

Educated at [[Wellesley House School]] in the coastal town of [[Broadstairs]] in Kent and at [[Stowe School]], he was his father's [[best man]] when he married the also widowed Kitty, Lady Farrar, younger daughter of [[Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford]].<ref name=GuardObit/> 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}