2nd Baron Ironside (1924-2020)

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"Lord Edmund Oslac" Ironside died 13 January, aged 95, husband of the late Audrey, father of Charles and Fiona, grandfather of Oliver, Anthea, Emily, Alice, Freddie and Alexandra. Private burial. Memorial service on 13 February at St Peter's Church, Boxted, Essex.

Source: The Telegraph, 21 January 2020

Edmund Oslac Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside, was born 21 September 1924, son of 1st Lord Ironside and of his wife, Mariot Ysobel Cheyne.

married 1950 Audrey Marigold Morgan-Grenville, granddaughter of Lady Mary Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 11th Baroness Kinloss.

[Henry W]

He is succeeded by his only son, Charles Edmund Grenville IRONSIDE (born 1956). He 1st m 1985 (div 2000) Hon Elizabeth Mary LAW (born 1961), dau of 2nd Baron COLERAINE (born 1931), and a g-granddau of the sometime Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Andrew Bonar LAW, and 2nd m 2001 Katrina Ann ROWLEY. He has issue by his 1st m (Emily, Alice, Freddie in the notice), and 2nd m (Alexandra).

His ha is Frederick Thomas Grenville IRONSIDE (born 1991). To my knowledge, no marriage or issue. There are no further heirs.

[colinp]

Obituary in Daily Telegraph 24 January 2020 - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/01/23/lord-ironside-active-conservative-hereditary-peer-advocated/

EXTRACTS:-

The 2nd Baron Ironside, the son of the wartime field marshal, who has died aged 95, carved out a career as a defence sales engineer and a campaigner for electric vehicles, a then unfashionable cause.

Unlike his father, who did not speak in the House of Lords in the 20 years he held a peerage, Ironside was an active participant from the Conservative benches until his exclusion with most of the hereditaries in 1999.

Field Marshal Ironside died in 1959, his funeral being held in Westminster Abbey. Edmund succeeded him as 2nd Baron the day after his 35th birthday.

In 1972 Ironside published High Road to Command: The Diaries of Maj-Gen Sir Edmund Ironside 1920-22, set largely in the Near East during the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. He aroused some controversy by repeating the story that Lord Curzon, seeing his troops bathing behind the lines in Flanders, commented: “Dear me, I had no conception that the working classes had such white skins.”

Pressed by supporters of Curzon, Ironside said the comment had not come from his father’s day-to-day diaries but was a later recollection

Edmund Oslac Ironside was born on September 21 1924, the son of William Edmund Ironside and the former Mariot Cheyne. As a child he acquired the nickname Bing, after his godfather Lord Byng of Vimy.

He joined the Royal Navy straight from Tonbridge School, spent time postwar with the Mediterranean Fleet, then served in HMS Howe at Plymouth and Excellent at Portsmouth. He was invalided out as a lieutenant in 1952.

When in 1999 all but 92 hereditaries lost their seats, he put his name forward for one of the 42 ballotted places for Conservative peers, finishing 68th with a creditable 56 votes.

In the 1980s Ironside had to sell Broomwood Manor, near Chelmsford, and move to a smaller home after cancer treatment left his wife in constant pain, with a useless left arm.

Ironside was master of the Skinners’ Company in 1982. He was also at various times president of Chelmsford Sea Cadets, vice-president of the Institute of Patentees and Inventors, and a member of the court and council of City University and the University of Essex. In 2018 he gave a well-received account of his father’s life in Ironside: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Lord Ironside.

Lord Ironside married Audrey Morgan-Grenville in 1950; she died in 2015. He is survived by their son and daughter, and succeeded as 3rd Baron by his son, the Hon Charles Edmund Greville Ironside, born July 1 1956.

2nd Baron Ironside, born September 21 1924, died January 13 2020 

On Tuesday, 21 January 2020 12:46:03 UTC, dpth...@gmail.com wrote:

[colinp]

From the House of Lords MInutes of Proceedings 5 January 2022:

Barony of Ironside in the Peerage of the United Kingdom The Lord Chancellor reported that Charles Edmund Greenville Ironside had established his claim to the Barony of Ironside in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Clerk of the Parliaments was accordingly directed to enter Lord Ironside on the register of hereditary peers maintained under Standing Order 9(4)