Henry Lyons, 1st Baron Ennisdale

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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,[http://thepeerage.com/p23385.htm#i233849 thepeerage.com Maj.-Gen. Henry Edward Lyons, 1st and last Baron Ennisdale] and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1919. He gained great wealth as an insurance broker.[https://books.google.com/books?id=MtUOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA236 W. D. Rubinstein. Men of property: the very wealthy in Britain since the Industrial Revolution, page 240. Croom Helm, London, 1981.] He was a member of the Liberal National Council and Executive Committee{{London Gazette |issue=33946 |date=2 June 1933 |page=3800 }} and was knighted in 1933,{{London Gazette |issue=33960 |date=14 July 1933 |page=4716 }} "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{{London Gazette |issue=34379 |date=12 March 1937 |page=1640 }} and raised to the peerage as Baron Ennisdale, of Grateley in the County of Southampton, in 1939.{{London Gazette |issue=34645 |date=14 July 1939 |page=4833 }} 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.{{Hansard-contribs | mr-henry-lyons | Mr Henry Lyons}}

Lord Ennisdale married Helen, daughter of Frank Bishop, in 1905. He died in August 1963, aged 85. The baronetcy and barony died with him.