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Henry Lyons, 1st Baron Ennisdale

1877 – 1963

British Army general

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Lived 1877 – 1963 (aged 85). Henry Lyons, 1st Baron Ennisdale was a British military personnel and politician.

Major-General Henry Edward Lyons, 1st Baron Ennisdale, OBE (29 August 1877 – 17 August 1963), known as Sir Henry Lyons, Bt, between 1937 and 1939, was a British Army officer, businessman and politician.

Lyons was the son of John Edward Lyons, of Ennis, County Clare. He fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1919. He gained great wealth as an insurance broker. He was a member of the Liberal National Council and Executive Committee and was knighted in 1933, "for political and public services". and raised to the peerage as Baron Ennisdale, of Grateley in the County of Southampton, in 1939. Despite being entitled to a seat in parliament after his elevation to the peerage he is not recorded as having ever spoken in the House of Lords.

Lord Ennisdale married Helen, daughter of Frank Bishop, in 1905. He died in August 1963, aged 85. The baronetcy and barony died with him.

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Member of the House of Lords
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Also known as
Maj.-Gen. Henry Edward Lyons, 1st and last Baron Ennisdale

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British Army general (1877-1963)

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Henry Lyons, 1st Baron Ennisdale was born on 29 August 1877.

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Henry Lyons, 1st Baron Ennisdale died on 17 August 1963.

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Henry Lyons, 1st Baron Ennisdale was a military personnel and politician.

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Henry Lyons, 1st Baron Ennisdale was British.

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· Wikipedia: Henry Lyons, 1st Baron Ennisdale

· Wikidata: Q15967381

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