Baron Ironside, of Archangel and of Ironside in the County of Aberdeen, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1941 for Field Marshal Sir Edmund Ironside

Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside

Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside GCB, CMG, CBE, DSO, was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first year of the Second World War....

, previously Governor of Gibraltar

Governor of Gibraltar

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 and Chief of the Imperial General Staff. the title is held by his only son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1959. He was Deputy Chairman of the House of Lords

House of Lords

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 from 1974 to 1977. However, Lord Ironside lost his seat in parliament after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999

House of Lords Act 1999

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Barons Ironside (1941)

• (William) Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
  Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
  Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside GCB, CMG, CBE, DSO, was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first year of the Second World War....
  
   (1880–1959)
• Edmund Oslac Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside
  Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside
  Edmund Oslac Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside is a British hereditary peer, who sat in the House of Lords from 1959 to 1999. Prior to entering the Lords, he served in the Royal Navy and worked for Marconi; on the death of his father, Field-Marshal Lord Ironside, he inherited the peerage in...
  
   (b. 1924)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Charles Edmund Grenville Ironside (b. 1956)

The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son Frederick Thomas Grenville Ironside (b. 1991)