Edward Ironside (Lord Mayor of London)

Edward Ironside (25 February 1705 – 1753) was a British banker and Lord Mayor of London in 1753.

He was apprenticed to his father on 8 November 1720 for seven years and was granted freedom of the city on 2 October 1728, and admitted to the Goldsmiths Company on 5 March 1729.

[1] He was one of the members of the so-called 'Benn's Club', a group of Aldermen with Jacobite sympathies under the leadership of Alderman William Benn.

Alderman Benn rode in the State Coach and performed the honours of the day in his place.

[3] Ironside's health did not improve, and he died on 27 November 1753, and was buried in the chancel of the church of St. Edmund, King and Martyr, Lombard Street.