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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,

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. He fought in the

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(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". He was further honoured when he was created a baronet, of St James's Place in the City of Westminster, in 1937 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

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. 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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ennisdale, Henry Lyons, 1st Baron 1877 births 1963 deaths British Army personnel of the Second Boer War British Army personnel of World War I British Army major generals Officers of the Order of the British Empire Liberal Party (UK) hereditary peers Barons created by George VI