Ross Campbell Geddes, 2nd Baron Geddes

Ross Campbell Geddes, 2nd Baron Geddes (20 July 1907 – 2 February 1975) was a British peer and business man, a member of the House of Lords from 1954 until his death.

Early life The eldest son of Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes, and his wife Isabella Gamble Ross, a daughter of W. A. Ross of New York City, he was educated at Rugby School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating BA and MA. Some of his summers were spent in Washington D.C., where his father was British ambassador between 1920 and 1924.

Geddes's sister Margaret (1913–1997) married Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, a brother-in-law of Philip Mountbatten, and he was a nephew of Eric Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty during the First World War, who later planned the Geddes Axe. In 1958, he became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, then in 1970 a Knight Commander of the same order. Margaret Ross Geddes (born 1934)