Family
He married Barbara Bodichon Ayrton (1888-1950), suffragette and after his death on the Labour National Executive and a Labour Party MP 1945-1950; she was daughter of the scientists William Edward Ayrton and Hertha Marks Ayrton. The artist Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) was their son.
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