From FreeBMD: Registration of birth of Christopher Digby Leyland in 1893

January to March 1893: Registration of birth of Christopher Digby Leyland; in Scarborough, Yorkshire (Volume 9d, Page 358)

From London Gazette Issue 28578 Tuesday, 6 February 1912 Page 880

Cavalry: 1st Life Guards, Christopher Digby Leyland to be Second Lieutenant (on probation). Dated Wednesday, 7 February 1912.

From London Gazette Issue 28799 Friday, 6 February 1914 Page 984

Cavalry: 1st Life Guards, Second Lieutenant (on probation) Christopher Digby Leyland to be Second Lieutenant. Dated Saturday, 7 February 1914.

From FreeBMD: Registration of marriage of Christopher D Leyland in 1916 and FreeBMD: Registration of marriage of Sylvia E. Cotterell in 1916

• October to December 1916: Registration of marriage of Sylvia E. Cotterell and Leyland; in St George Hanover Square, London (Volume 1a, Page 996)
• October to December 1916: Registration of marriage of Christopher D Leyland and Cotterell; in St George Hanover Square, London (Volume 1a, Page 996)

From The National Archives: Divorce Court File: 1386. Appellant: Christopher Digby Leyland. Respondent: Sylvia...

• Reference: J 77/2619/1386
• Divorce Court File: 1386. Appellant: Christopher Digby Leyland. Respondent: Sylvia Evelyn Leyland. Co-respondent: Roland Norris Fawcett. Type: Husband's petition for divorce HD
• Date: 1929
• Held by: The National Archives, Kew
• Legal status: Public Record(s)
• Language: English
• Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

From FreeBMD: Registration of marriage of Christopher D. Leyland in 1930 and FreeBMD: Registration of marriage of Enid C. Turner in 1930

• October to December 1930: Registration of marriage of Enid C. Turner and Leyland; in St Martin, London (Volume 1a, Page 1190)
• October to December 1930: Registration of marriage of Christopher D. Leyland and Turner; in St Martin, London (Volume 1a, Page 1190)

Comment entry reads Turner or Swan for Spouse's name

From British Newspaper Archive: Leeds Mercury Tuesday, 2 December 1930 Page 10 A Yorkshire Hunting Wedding

A Yorkshire Hunting Wedding. — Captain Christopher Digby Leyland and his bride, Mrs. Enid Turner, daughter of the late Colonel and Mrs. R. Clayton-Swan, after their wedding at the Savoy Chapel, London. They will reside at Wetherby Grange and will take hunting with the Bramham Moor.

From British Newspaper Archive: Berwick Advertiser Thursday, 4 December 1930 Page 5 Married in London: Captain C. D. Leyland and Mrs Turner

The marriage took place on Monday afternoon, 1 December 1930 at the Savoy Chapel, Savoy Hill, Westminster, London WC2R 0DA 51.5105, -0.1199 of Captain Christopher Digby Leyland, late the 1st Life Guards, Wetherby Grange, Yorkshire, eldest son of the late Mr C. J. Leyland, of Haggerston Castle 55.687, -1.935, Northumberland, and of Mrs Leyland, and Mrs Enid Turner, second daughter of the late Colonel and Mrs R. Clayton-Swan. The Rev. G. P. Young officiated.

The bride, who was given away by her uncle, Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. S. Gordon, wore a gown of ruby-red panne velvet, cut with a long fluted skirt, falling from points at the hips, and deep V neckline, fastened with a diamond clip brooch. Her short rounded coat, also of ruby-red velvet, had long sleeves with deep cuffs of smoke-grey fox fur, with a collar to match, and a deep border of fur at the hem, and she wore a close-fitting hat of red velvet, forming a bow at one side and held at the other with a diamond Married in London. mauve carnations. There were no attendants, and Mr Thomas Naylor was best man.

After the ceremony a reception was held at 53, Great Cumberland Place, lent by Mrs Hague-Cook, aunt of the bride, and later in the day the bride and bridegroom left for a short honeymoon, which they are spending In England.

Among the guests present at the church were: — Mrs R. G. S. Gordon, Mrs Hague-Cook, Miss Marigold and Miss Pamela Leyland, Master Michael Leyland, Master Tan Turner. Miss Patricia Turner, Mrs Alford, Mr N. C. Swan. Miss Swan. Mr S. C. Leyland, Mr and Mrs Harcourt Vallance. Mr Ronald Higham, Mrs Leigh Pemberton, the Hon. Charles and Mrs Forester, J. R. Tilden, the Misses Tilden, Mrs Radon. Mr and the Hon. Mrs John Naylor. Miss Drummond, Captain A. J. K. Todd. M.P., and Mrs Todd. Mrs Winterbotham, Captain and Mrs A. L. Goodson, Mr and Mrs A. Hall Watt, and the staff of Wetherby Grange, Yorkshire.

From British Newspaper Archive: Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Saturday, 20 December 1930 Page 40 A Newly-Married Life Guardsman at Home in Yorkshire

A Newly-Married Life Guardsman at Home in Yorkshire: Capt. C. D. Leyland and Mrs. Leyland, Formerly Mrs. Enid Turner, at Wetherby Grange 53.918111, -1.379500.

Captain and Mrs. Christopher Leyland, who were recently married at the Savoy Chapel, have gone into residence at Wetherby Grange, the Yorkshire seat of Sir Ronald Gunter, from whom Captain Leyland has rented it. Captain Leyland, formerly of the Life Guards, is the eldest son of the late Mr. C. J. Leyland, of Haggerston Castle, Northumberland, and Mrs. Leyland, and his bride, formerly Mrs. Enid Turner, is the second daughter of the late Colonel and Mrs. R. Clayton Swan.

From British Newspaper Archive: Leeds Mercury Tuesday, 2 December 1930 Page 10 A Yorkshire Hunting Wedding

A Yorkshire Hunting Wedding. — Captain Christopher Digby Leyland and his bride, Mrs. Enid Turner, daughter of the late Colonel and Mrs. R. Clayton-Swan, after their wedding at the Savoy Chapel, London. They will reside at Wetherby Grange 53.918111, -1.379500 and will take hunting with the Bramham Moor Hunt, West Yorkshire 53.8800, -1.3516.

From FreeBMD: Registration of death of Christopher Digby Leyland in 1971

October to December 1971: Registration of death of Christopher Digby Leyland; born 24 December 1892 [aged 79]; in Exmoor, Somerset (Volume 7c, Page 974)