Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside
The Lord Ironside | |
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 10-year-old Ironside, by Bassano | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| In office 22 September 1959 – 11 November 1999 Hereditary Peerage | |
| Preceded by | 1st Baron Ironside |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Edmund Oslac Ironside 21 September 1924 |
| Died | 13 January 2020 (aged 95) Researcher |
Edmund Oslac Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside (21 September 1924 – 13 January 2020) was a British hereditary peer, who sat in the House of Lords from 1959 to 1999. Prior to entering the Lords, he served in the Royal Navy and worked for Marconi.
Upon the death of his father,
Education and career
Ironside was the son of Mariot Ysobel (Cheyne) and William Edmund Ironside.
He was President of the
He edited the second volume of his father's diaries, High Road to Command, published in 1972.[2]
Marriage and children
Ironside married Audrey Marigold Morgan-Grenville (15 February 1931- 3 December 2015)[3] on 29 April 1950. She was the daughter of Lt Col Hon Thomas George Breadalbane Morgan-Grenville, granddaughter of Mary Morgan-Grenville, 11th Lady Kinloss and great-granddaughter of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. The couple had two children:[4]
- Hon Fiona Georgina Ironside (born 12 September 1954)
- Charles Edmund Grenville Ironside, 3rd Baron Ironside (born 1 July 1956)
The family lived at Priory House, Boxted, Essex.
Politics
He inherited the peerage on his father's death in 1959, the day after his thirty-fifth birthday.[2] However, he did not make his maiden speech until 1965, some six years later.[5] From this point on, unlike his father, who had not spoken in the almost twenty years he held a peerage,[5] Ironside took an increasingly active part in the House of Lords. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a member of the European Community Select Committee, the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, the All-Party Energy Studies Group, and, in the 1990s, the All-Party Defence Study Group.[2] His contributions were mainly focused on scientific issues, though in later years he took an increased interest in defence procurement.
Under the House of Lords Act 1999, all but ninety-two hereditary peers lost their right to sit in the Lords. These ninety-two were selected by ballot, both from the whole House and by party groups; in the election of Conservative peers, Ironside received fifty-six votes, ranking him sixty-eighth out of 113 candidates. As only forty-two Conservatives were selected, Ironside ceased to have a seat in the Lords,[6] and he declined to participate in any subsequent by-election to the Lords.
Arms
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Notes
- ^ "Ladies' Who's who".
- ^ a b c d e Who's Who
- ^ "Baroness Ironside (d 2015)". Peerage News. 10 December 2015.
- ^ The peerage.com entry for 2nd Baron Ironside
- ^ a b Speech by Lord Ironside; Hansard, 3 November 1965
- ^ "House of Lords Elections". Archived from the original on 26 February 2000.
- ^ Burke's Peerage. 1999.
References
- "IRONSIDE, Edmund". (2009). In Who's Who 2010. Online edition.
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside