Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, designer and teacher who studied at Central School of Arts and Crafts. During World War II he served in the Directorate of Camouflage and worked for the Air Ministry in Leamington Spa. After the war Ironside, a sociable, flamboyant character, worked for the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, then as education officer for the Council of Industrial Design, 1946–8. Taught at Maidstone School of Art and Royal College of Art. Ironside was a painterly painter who shared two exhibitions with his brother, Robin Ironside, at Redfern Gallery in 1944 and Arthur Jeffress in 1960. Also with Robin he collaborated on theatrical designs and postage stamps, including Frederick Ashton’s production of the ballet Sylvia for Sadler’s Wells Ballet at Covent Garden in 1952 and one of the 1964 Shakespeare commemoration issues.