Henry Lyons, 1st Baron Ennisdale

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,^[1] and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1919. He gained great wealth as an insurance broker.^[2] He was a member of the Liberal National Council and Executive Committee^[3] and was knighted in 1933,^[4] "for political and public services".^[3] He was further honoured when he was created a baronet, of St James's Place in the City of Westminster, in 1937^[5] and raised to the peerage as Baron Ennisdale, of Grateley in the County of Southampton, in 1939.^[6] 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.^[7]

Lord Ennisdale married Helen, daughter of Frank Bishop, in 1905. He died in August 1963, aged 85. The baronetcy and barony died with him.^[1]