Died 19 March 1996 | ||
Education Trinity College, Cambridge, Eton College | ||
Oliver James Vandeleur Kitson, 4th Baron Airedale (22 April 1915 – 19 March 1996), "an able and devoted" politician, member of the Liberal Party and later of the Liberal Democrat Party, was a British peer.
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Career
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1941. He lived at Ufford Hall near Stamford, Lincolnshire.
As Lord Airedale 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; he was Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords in 1961; and he was a long-standing member of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments.
Title
He was the son of Sir Roland Dudley Kitson, 3rd Baron Airedale and his first wife Sheila Grace, daughter of F E Vandeleur.
He succeeded to the titles of 4th Baron Airedale, of Gledhow, and 4th Baronet on 20 March 1958. Airedale did not marry and the titles became extinct on his death.