High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson PC, PC (Ire.), Kt, QC (9 February 1854, Dublin, Ireland – 22 October 1935, Kent, England), often known as Sir Edward Carson or Lord Carson, was a barrister, judge and politician from Ireland. He was leader of the Irish Unionist Alliance and Ulster Unionist Party between 1910 and 1921, held numerous positions in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom and served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. Upon his death, in 1935, he was one of the few non-monarchs to receive a British state funeral.