Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside

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, Field Marshal Lord Ironside, in 1959, he succeeded to the title.

Education and career Ironside was the son of Mariot Ysobel (Cheyne) and William Edmund Ironside. Educated at Tonbridge School, Ironside joined the Royal Navy in 1943. He served until 1952, when he retired with the rank of Lieutenant, and joined Marconi Company. He left Marconi in 1959, joining English Electric Leo Computers, moving to Cryosystems Ltd. in 1964. In 1968 he joined the International Research and Development Company, where he spent sixteen years, before moving to manage defence sales at Northern Engineering Industries in 1984. When they were acquired by Rolls-Royce in 1989, he was kept on as a defence consultant, and finally retired from industrial work in 1995.

He was President of the Electric Vehicle Association and the European Electric Road Vehicle Association, the vice-president of the Institute of Patentees and Inventors, and the chairman of the advisory committee of the Science Reference Library. He also sat on the organising committee for the British Library at the time of its foundation in 1973, and was a member of the Court and the Council for City University and the University of Essex. 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: 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. From this point on, unlike his father, who had not spoken in the almost twenty years he held a peerage, and he declined to participate in any subsequent by-election to the Lords.

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