Variants of the surname are Youd, Youde, and Yould, however Youds is not part of this group.The earliest record dates from 1679 when the name appears in Farnworth near Widnes, formerly in Lancashire.
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A scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation made it possible for him to pursue a writing career, beginning with The Winter Swan (Dennis Dobson, 1949) under the name Christopher Youd.