Herbert Naylor-Leyland
Sir Herbert Scarisbrick Naylor-Leyland, 1st Baronet, was a British politician.
Biography
Early life
Naylor-Leyland was the only son of Colonel Tom Naylor-Leyland, of Nantclwyd Hall, Ruthin, Denbighshire, by Mary Anne, only daughter of the late Charles Scarisbrick, of Scarisbrick and Wrightington, Lancashire, and was born on 24 January 1864. He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and entered the Second Life Guards in 1882, becoming Captain in 1891. From 1892, he pursued a political career.Career
Naylor-Leyland was returned to Parliament for Colchester as a Conservative in 1892, a seat he held until 1895 when he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The latter year he was created a Baronet, of Hyde Park House, Albert Gate, in the County of London. He took his title from Hyde Park House, a mansion built in 1855 for his grandfather, the banker Thomas Leyland, by Thomas Cubitt. He then broke with the Conservatives and joined the Liberal Party, and represented Southport in this party's interest between 1898 and his early death in May 1899 of laryngitis, aged only 35.Personal life
He was married at St George's, Hanover Square, London, on 14 September 1889 to Jeanie Willson Chamberlain, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Selah Chamberlain, of Cleveland, Ohio, USA; they had two sons:- Albert Edward Herbert Naylor-Leyland, who succeeded 1899 to his father's baronetcy, aged 8.
- George Vyvyan Naylor-Leyland, who was educated at Eton.