Charles Layard (priest)

Charles Peter Layard, F.R.S., D.D. (19 February 1750 – 11 April 1803)[1] was Dean of Bristol from 1800 until his death.

Layard and his fiancée Elizabeth Ward, by Francis Wheatley, c. 1778

Layard was educated at St John's College, Cambridge[2] He was ordained deacon on 21 December 1771; and priest on 27 February 1774. He was the Minister at the Oxenden Chapel, a daughter church of St Martin-in-the-Fields before holding incumbencies in Wootton Bassett, Uffington and Kewstoke.[3]

Family

Layard married Elizabeth Ward (died 1796) with issue including:

• Brownlow Villiers Layard (1779–1861), the eldest son, an army officer who became a cleric.[4]
• Charlotte Susanna Elizabeth (1780–1858), married, as his second wife, Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey and was mother of Lady Charlotte Guest.[5][6]
• Henry Peter John Layard (1783–1834), of the Ceylon civil service, father of Austen Henry Layard[7][8]

References

1. "Deaths" Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, April 16, 1803; Issue 2607
2. Alumni Cantabrigienses, Venn,. Vol. iv. Kahlenberg – Oyler, 1947 p118: Cambridge, CUP, 1951
3. Clergy Database
4. "Layard, Brownlow Villiers (LRT803BV)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
5. Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1825. p. 123.
6. John, Angela V. "Schreiber, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24832. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
7. "Kindred Britain, Henry Peter John Layard". Stanford University. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
8. Parry, Jonathan. "Layard, Austen Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16218. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Hallam	Dean of Bristol 1800–1803	Succeeded by Bowyer Sparke