Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton

A notable economist, Layton worked for the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War, then at the fledgling Economic and Financial Organization of the League of Nations.

He fought Burnley in 1922, Cardiff South in 1923 and in 1929 he switched again to fight the London University seat.

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.

[5] They had seven children: Layton died in February 1966, aged 81, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son.