Leonard Lord was born in November 1896. In 1954 he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). In 1962 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lambury, of Northfield in the County of Warwick.
Lord Lambury married Ethel Lily in 1921. They had three daughters. He died in September 1967, when the barony became extinct.