Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Charles Peter Layard
Charles Peter Layard,
DIVINE AND POET,
Charles Peter Layard belonged to a noble French family settled in Kent. His father was a physician at Greenwich, where he was born in 1748. He was educated at Westminster School and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained the Seatonian Prize in 1773 and 1775. On taking orders he was appointed minister of Oxenden Chapel, and librarian of Tennison's Library, Westminster. He became one of the most popular preachers of the day, and was presented to the Deanery of Bristol in 1800, in which office he died in 1803. He was the author of some poems and sermons. He was the grandfather of Sir Henry Austen Layard, so famous for his discoveries at Nineveh and in the East.
[See "Gentleman's Magazine," 1803.]