1888. They had two sons who both joined the Armed Forces. Christopher Francis Aden Ley was the elder, born in 1893. He joined the South Nottinghamshire Hussars and became a captain in the Royal Flying Corps. He died in March 1918 having survived the 1915 Gallipoli campaign and outlived his younger brother. Maurice Aden Ley was two years younger and a Lieutenant; he died in November 1914. Honours and legacy Ley bought Epperstone Manor in Nottinghamshire and he was created a Baronet, of Epperstone Manor, on 27 December 1905. Earlier the same year he was appointed High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire. When Ley died he owned the company and Derby County F.C.'s sports ground. He also owned 6,500 aces of farmland and was the Lord of the Manor at Epperstone, Lazonby, Staffield, Glassonby around Kirkoswald in Cumbria. His Manor and grounds have been converted to residential dwellings, and there is an industrial estate named after him in Derby. Notes References 1846 births 1916 deaths Ley, Sir Francis, 1st Baronet High Sheriffs of Nottinghamshire People from Derby People from Epperstone People from Derbyshire (before 1895) 19th-century English businesspeople Baseball in the United Kingdom