Oliver James Vandeleur Kitson, 4th Baron Airedale (22 April 1915 – 19 March 1996), "an able and devoted"''Nancy Seear'

''The Independent'', Thursday, 4 April 1996 politician, member of the Liberal Party and then of the Liberal Democrats, was a British peer. He was the son of Sir Roland Dudley Kitson, 3rd Baron Airedale and his first wife Sheila Grace, daughter of F. E. Vandeleur. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge and was

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, Inner Temple, in 1941. He lived at Ufford Hall near Stamford, Lincolnshire. He succeeded to the titles of 4th Baron Airedale, of Gledhow, and 4th Baronet on 20 March 1958. he was an active member of the House of Lords for 38 years: he was Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords from 1962 to 1996, Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords in 1961, and was a long-standing member of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments. Airedale did not marry and the titles became extinct on his death.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Airedale, Oliver James Vandeleur Kitson, 4th Baron 4 Liberal Democrats (UK) hereditary peers People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 1915 births 1996 deaths English barristers