Florance Irby, 5th Baron Boston

Florance George Henry Irby, 5th Baron Boston (9 May 1837 – 4 January 1877) was a British peer.

Early life George Florance Irby was born on 9 May 1837. He was the eldest son of George Irby, 4th Baron Boston and Fanny Elizabeth Hopkins-Northey (d. 1860). After the death of his mother in 1860, his father married his wife's elder sister, Hon. Caroline Amelia Saumarez, in 1861.

Career Upon the death of his father on 22 December 1869, he succeeded as the 5th Baron Boston, of Boston, Lincolnshire in the Peerage of Great Britain, as well as the 6th Baronet Irby, of Whaplode and Boston, Lincolnshire in the Baronetage of Great Britain. Together, they were the parents of: Hon. Cecil Saumarez Irby (1862–1935), who married Florence Augusta Dormer, daughter of Clement Upton-Cottrell-Dormer of Rousham House and Florence Anne Upton, in 1885. who married Gordon Frederic Deedes, eldest son of Rev. Canon Gordon Frederick Deedes, in 1890. Hon. Gilbert Neville Smyth (1864–1940), who married Esmé Edwards, daughter of George Oldham Edwards and Emily Frances Way, in 1891. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, George. Upon his death without issue in 1941, the barony passed to Greville Northey Irby and Cecil Eustace Irby, both sons of his second son, Cecil.