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 businessman, politician and soldier.
Lyons was the son of John Edward Lyons, of Ennis, County Clare. He fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War,[1] and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1919. He gained great wealth as an insurance broker.[2] He was a member of the Liberal National Council and Executive Committee[3] and was knighted in 1933,[4] "for political and public services".[3] He was further honoured when he was created a baronet, of St James's Place in the City of Westminster, in 1937[5] and raised to the peerage as Baron Ennisdale, of Grateley in the County of Southampton, in 1939.[6] 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.[7]
Lord Ennisdale married Helen, daughter of Frank Bishop, in 1905. He died in August 1963, aged 85. The baronetcy and barony died with him.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b thepeerage.com Maj.-Gen. Henry Edward Lyons, 1st and last Baron Ennisdale
- ^ W. D. Rubinstein. Men of property: the very wealthy in Britain since the Industrial Revolution, page 240. Croom Helm, London, 1981.
- ^ a b "No. 33946". The London Gazette. 2 June 1933. p. 3800.
- ^ "No. 33960". The London Gazette. 14 July 1933. p. 4716.
- ^ "No. 34379". The London Gazette. 12 March 1937. p. 1640.
- ^ "No. 34645". The London Gazette. 14 July 1939. p. 4833.
- ^ Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Henry Lyons