Constituency : East Dorset 1904-10, Edinburgh South 1910-17
Charles took East Dorset when the Tory succeeded to a barony.
Charles was the son of the former Orkney and Shetland MP Leonard Lyell. He was educated at Eton and Oxford.
Charles's parliamentary interventions were usually on military matters
In 1906 Leonard became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Edward Grey at the Foreign Office.
In January 1910 Charles abandoned East Dorset to stand in Edinburgh West but was unsuccessful. He returned for Edinburgh South in December.
Charles became Asquith's PPS. in 1911.
Charles had been an active Volunteer and in 1914 became a captain in the Fife Royal Garrison Artillery. In May 1915 he was promoted to major.
Charles resigned his seat in 1917 and became military Attache to the USA.
Charles died of pneumonia just three weeks before the end of the war aged 43.
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