Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale

Albert Ernest Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale (7 October 1863 – 11 March 1944) was a British peer. He was inter alia a director of Midlands Bank, now HSBC.

Kitson was the son of James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale, an iron and steel manufacturer in Leeds. He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a BA, before following his father into the family business.

On 23 January 1890 at the Unitarian Mill Hill Chapel in Leeds, Kitson married Florence Schunck (1868–1942), daughter of Edward, Baron von Schunck (1816–1889) and Kate Lupton (1832–1913).

As reported in The Yorkshire Post, wedding guests included Herbert Gladstone, son of Prime Minister William Gladstone. Kate was the daughter of Darnton Lupton of Potternewton Hall. He was Mayor of Leeds in 1844/45. Kate's first cousin, politician Francis Martineau Lupton, and his mother were also guests at the wedding.

Kitson succeeded to the titles of 2nd Baron Airedale, of Gledhow, and 2nd Baronet Kitson on 16 March 1911. As peers of the realm, the Kitsons were invited to pay homage to King George V at his coronation at Westminster Abbey on 22 June of that year. Florence Kitson's mother, Kate Schunck, was also invited but she "may have been too frail to attend as she died in 1913".

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