Street, the City, and Oxbridge circles. Among their contemporaries were Maynard Keynes, William Beveridge, Gilbert Murray, and Seebohm Rowntree. Layton would later chair the executive committee of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry which produced the celebrated Yellow Book of 1928. Marriage and children Lord Layton married Eleanor Dorothea Osmaston, daughter of Francis Beresford Plumptre Osmaston, in 1910. They had seven children: The Hon. Margaret Dorothea Layton MA (13 March 1911 – 5 July 1962), married Alfred Geiringer (1911-1996) of Reuters, four children Michael John Layton, 2nd Baron Layton (28 September 1912 – 23 January 1989), married Dorothy Rose Cross (1916-1994), two children Lt. Col. the Hon. David Layton MBE BA (5 July 1914 – 31 July 2009), educ. Gresham's School and Cambridge University, married (1) (Joan) Elizabeth Gray, three children; married (2) Joy Parkinson (d. 2013) The Hon. Jean Mary Layton (14 April 1916 – 8 July 2017), violinist and music therapist, 100th birthday marked by Classic FM in 2016, married Paul Eisler (d.1966), two children The Hon. Olive Shirley Layton (18 December 1918 – 22 June 2009), actress, married Peter Gellhorn, composer and conductor (1912-2004), four children The Hon. (Elizabeth) Ruth Frances Layton (27 April 1923 – 4 June 2016), served in ATS, married Edward Gutierrez Pegna (1919-2009), four children The Hon. Christopher Walter Layton (born 31 December 1929), married (1) Anneliese Margaret von Thadden, two children; married (2) Margaret Ann Moon, three children; married (3) Wendy Elizabeth Christine Bartlett, one child Layton died in February 1966, aged 81, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son. Great great grandfather to SP. References Further reading Hubback, David. No Ordinary Press Baron: A Life of Walter Layton, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985 Grayson, Richard S. Walter Layton in Brack & Randall (eds.) The Dictionary of Liberal Thought, Politico's Publishing, 2007 pp206–208 Grayson, Richard S. Walter Thomas Layton in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography OUP, 2004–09 Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, Layton, Christopher. Walter Layton (Lord Layton) in Brack et al. (eds.) Dictionary of Liberal Biography, Politico's Publishing 1998 pp217–219 Oxbury, Harold. Great Britons: Twentieth Century Lives. Oxford University Press, 1984. External links Photograph (1953-01-10): Jean Monnet and Lord Layton on European NAvigator 1884 births 1966 deaths Alumni of University College London British magazine editors Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of Gonville and Caius College,