Jack Lyons

Who was Jack Lyons?

Isidore Jack Lyons was a British financier and philanthropist. He was known as Jack Lyons CBE and Sir Jack Lyons CBE until he was stripped of those titles.

After building up a substantial retail business, he was charged in 1987 in the Guinness share-trading fraud. He was convicted, stripped of his knighthood and CBE, and was heavily fined. Subsequent judgments from the European Court of Human Rights held that his trial was not fair. However, the convictions of Lyons and the other members of the Guinness Four were upheld by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and the House of Lords.