{{Short description|British wine merchant, businessman and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}} {{Use British English|date=July 2014}} '''Sir Christopher Leaver''' (born 3 November 1937)<ref name=":0" /> is a British wine merchant,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Desert Island Discs wine choices show how indulgent we've become|url=https://cluboenologique.com/story/why-wine-is-the-greatest-luxury-on-desert-island-discs/|access-date=2020-09-29|website=Club Oenologique|language=en}}</ref> businessman, and politician who was the 654th Lord Mayor of London in 1981–1982. He is the son of Dr Robert Leaver and was educated at Eastbourne College.<ref name="DeBrett" />{{dead link|date=September 2020}}
Leaver served as Alderman for Dowgate City (1974–2002),<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Sir Christopher Leaver, GBE DMus|url=http://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/sir-christopher-leaver-gbe-dmus/|access-date=2020-09-29|website=London Remembers|language=en}}</ref> as Sheriff of the City of London (1979),<ref name=":1" /> and as Lord Mayor of London (1981–82). He is also a Justice of the Peace. He was knighted as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1981 and appointed as a Knight of Justice of St John in 1982.<ref name="DeBrett">{{cite web|title=Christopher Leaver|url=http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/82553/Christopher-LEAVER|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707054417/http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/82553/Christopher-LEAVER|archive-date=7 July 2015|accessdate=18 August 2014|website=debretts.com}}</ref>
==Other== He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme ''Desert Island Discs'' on 13 February 1982.<ref name="DID">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mkyw|title=Desert Island Discs – Castaway : Sir Christopher Leaver|work=BBC Online|publisher=BBC|access-date=18 August 2014}}</ref>
==Personal life== He married Helen Mireille Molyneux Benton in 1975. They have a son and two daughters.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-24068|title=Leaver, Sir Christopher|publisher=Who's Who 2019|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U24068|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4|accessdate=1 March 2019}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/lord-mayor-of-london-sir-christopher-leaver-hosts-banquet-news-photo/3265400 Image of Leaver] in Lord Mayor's regalia
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