Stuart Lyons

Fellow Benefactor of King’s. Stuart has been a business leader in the consumer product, retail and service industries. He was appointed CBE for services to the china industry, is an honorary DLitt of Keele University, has an LLB from the Open University, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Wharton, USA. His public roles have included chairmanship of the British Ceramic Confederation and the West Midlands Development Agency, and membership of the Monopolies & Mergers Commission. He was awarded the 2020 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation and is the author of ‘Xu Zhimo in Cambridge - life and poetry’, available from the College shop, and is the author of three books on the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo, who studied at King’s in 1921-22.