Roland Kitson, 3rd Baron Airedale

Captain Roland Dudley Kitson, 3rd Baron Airedale DSO, MC (19 July 1882 – 20 March 1958), businessman, was born in Leeds, son of Sir James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale and his second wife, Mary Laura, daughter of Edward Fisher Smith.

Roland's elder half-brother was Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale.

R. D. Kitson", he is recorded in April 1913 as working as a Leeds magistrate alongside Alderman Francis Martineau Lupton, whose first cousin (once removed) was Florence, Baroness Airedale, Kitson's sister-in-law.

[1] He served in the 1914–1918 war with the West Yorkshire Regiment winning a DSO[2] and the Military Cross.

His directorships included: He succeeded to the titles of 3rd Baron Airedale, of Gledhow, and 3rd Baronet on the death of his elder half-brother, 11 March 1944.