in Salisbury Cathedral), and Lieut-General John Thomas Layard (died 1828, and buried in Walcote Church, Bath) had no descendants. The eldest son was the Very Rev. Charles Peter Layard, D.D., F.R.S., Dean of Bristol. He was born in the parish of St. Ann’s, Westminster, 19th February 1749; he married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Ward of Greenwich, and, secondly, Elizabeth, co-heiress of Rev. John Carver.
Dean Layard (whose early preferment was the Vicarage of Warle and Kewston) was a graduate of Cambridge with honours, M.A. in 1773, and S.T.P. in 1787. In 1789 he preached a Sermon at the consecration of Bishop Horsley, which was published. During his ministry in Oxendon Chapel, London, he was greatly followed and admired as a most eloquent and excellent preacher;[1] he was Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty, and Librarian of Archbishop Tenison’s Library, in St. Martin’s Parish. On the resignation of Dr. Hallam he was made Dean of Bristol in January 1801, and died at the Deanery, 10th April 1803. His daughter, Charlotte Susanah Elizabeth, renewed the family alliance with the Berties, by her marriage on 15th November 1809, with George Albemarle, ninth Earl of Lindsey; this Countess died in 1858, being the mother of the tenth Earl. Another daughter of Dean Layard was Caroline Bethia, wife of Louis Gibson, Esq.
Three branches of the Layard family sprang from the three sons of Dean Layard, who were —
1st. The Rev. Brownlow Villiers Layard, M.A., Rector of Uffington, Lincolnshire (born 1779, died 1861), who married, first (in 1803), Louisa, daughter of John Port, of Ham Hall, Staffordshire, and, secondly (in 1821), Sarah Jane, daughter of Thomas Margary of Clapham Common.
2nd. Henry Peter John Layard, Esq., of the Ceylon Civil Service (born 1782, died 1834), who married Marianne, only daughter of Nathaniel Austen, Esq., of Ramsgate. (To this branch belong the Right Honourable Sir Henry Austen Layard, and his brother, Lieut-General Frederic Peter Layard; to the latter I am indebted for an abstract of the family papers.)
3d. Charles Edward Layard, Esq., of the Ceylon Civil Service (born 1786, died 1852), who married Barbara Bridgetina, daughter of Gualterus Mooyart, the last Dutch Governor of Ceylon. He had a family of twenty-six children, of whom at one time seventeen were living. One of them is Sir Charles Peter Layard, K.C.M.G., Government Agent in Ceylon (born 18th May 1806).
The heir of the first branch, Lieutenant-Colonel Brownlow Villiers Layard, M.P. for Carlow, died in his father’s lifetime in 1853, aged forty-nine. He had married in 1835 Elizabeth, daughter of Captain John Deane Digby, of the 5th Irish Dragoons. He left an only child, born in 1838, Lieut-Colonel Brownlow Villiers Layard, a military officer, the present head of the family, whose heir-apparent is Brownlow Villiers Layard (born 24th August 1884). A younger brother of the late Lieut-Colonel B. V. Layard, was Lieut-Colonel Bernard Granville Layard (born 1813, died 1872), who edited an abridgement of his great-grandfather’s essay on the Cattle Plague.
III. Croze and Despaignol.
Susanna, heiress of James Samuel Balaire, and widow of James Crozé (or Croissé or Croissy), Captain in the Dutch Navy, died in London 16th March 1716, and was buried in St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields. Her husband had died in Amsterdam in 1710, being a Huguenot refuguee born at Loudun in France. Their children were James Samuel Crozé (born 1697, died 1714), and two daughters Mary Anne and Susanne Mary.
Mary Anne was born at Rotterdam, 8th April 1693 (General F. Layard says 1689), and was married in London at St. Benet’s, Paul’s Wharf, to Major Peter Layard, whom she survived till June 16th, 1768; she was buried at Kensington on 23d June, when her deceased husband’s coffin was laid beside hers.
Samuel Despaignol, Esq., born at La Bastide, in France, in 1689, married in 1722 Susanna Mary Crozé. She was born in 1700, and died 3d June 1737. He survived till 1743. Their son was Peter Despaignol, Esq. (born 1733, died 1769). Their daughter was Elizabeth Despaignol (born in 1728), wife of the Very Rev. David Palairet, Dean of Bristol, to whom she was married on the 31st March 1765.
- ↑ I shall give a specimen of his pulpit eloquence in my memoir of Matthew Maty, M.D.
