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Edmund Oslac Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside (born 21 September 1924) 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. Upon the death of his father, Field Marshal Lord Ironside, in 1959, he succeeded to the title. ==Personal life== Educated at Tonbridge School, Ironside joined the Royal Navy in 1943. He served until 1952, when he retired with the rank of Lieutenant, and joined Marconi Company. He left Marconi in 1959, joining English Electric Leo Computers, moving to Cryosystems Ltd. in 1964. In 1968 he joined the International Research and Development Company, where he spent sixteen years, before moving to manage defence sales at Northern Engineering Industries in 1984. When they were acquired by Rolls Royce in 1989, he was kept on as a defence consultant, and finally retired from industrial work in 1995.〔''Who's Who〕 He was President of the Electric Vehicle Association and the European Electric Road Vehicle Association, the vice-president of the Institute of Patentees and Inventors, and the chairman of the advisory committee of the Science Reference Library. He also sat on the organising committee for the British Library at the time of its foundation in 1973, and was a member of the Court and the Council for City University and the University of Essex.〔 Ironside married Audrey Morgan-Grenville in 1950; they have one son and one daughter.〔 He edited the second volume of his father's diaries, ''High Road to Command'', published in 1972.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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