to France by Louis XVIII., to resume his position among the Noblesse of the kingdom. This invitation he begged leave to decline. The French king accordingly, in 1819, created him Baron De Teissier by patent to himself and his heirs male, without requiring him to renounce his English citizenship. The Prince Regent of Great Britain gave formal sanction to this creation. The second Baron De Teissier (James Fitzherbert De Teissier) was the eldest son and heir of the first baron; he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in our army, and. died at Brighton on 17th August 1884; he was succeeded by his next brother, Philippe Antoine, third baron. Other brothers are General Henry Price De Teissier of the Artillery, and Rev. George Frederick De Teissier, B.D., late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Rector of Church-Brampton, near Northampton, and Rural Dean, author of two series of Village Sermons (1863-5), and “The House of Prayer” (1866), also of various translations in Wellesley’s Anthologia Polyglotta (1849).
Vicomte Henri de Vismes. — The Viscount was the next brother of William, Comte De Vismes (or, De Visme), who, by permission of the French government, succeeded to the titles appertaining at the epoch of the Edict of the Revocation to his refugee chief, Gerard De Vismes. Philippe, son of Gerard, married in 1716. His sons were Philippe, Andrew, Louis (British Ambassador at Stockholm), Stephen, Gerard, Leo, William, and Benjamin. William continued the family by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Elisee Auriol. His daughter was Elizabeth, Mrs. Edward Auriol Hay Drummond. His eldest son was Elisee William De Vismes (born 1758, died 1840) of the Coldstream Guards, who formally proved his nobility, and resumed his title and residence in France, where he died, and was succeeded by his eldest son, whose brother, Henry (entitled in France to the courtesy title of Viscount) represented the refugees, as an Englishman, till his death in 1874. His son, Captain Henry Auriol Douglas De Vismes, is now Baron De Vismes.
Layard. G.C.B., and Privy Councillor. — Henry Austen Layard,[1] eldest son of Henry Peter John Layard, Esq., and Marianne Austen, was born in Paris on 5th March 1817, during a temporary stay of his parents in that capital. He spent much of his youth in Florence, and came to England to study law, a study which presented no attractions to one who was so accomplished both with the pen and the pencil. He began his historic career as a traveller in 1839. In his great energy and ready adaptation to the habits of life in foreign countries he reminds us of his expatriated forefathers. His wonderful researches resulted in his celebrated volumes with their accompanying engravings from his own drawings, “Nineveh and its Remains” (London, 1849), and “Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the Desert” (London in 1853). He is also the author of condensed narratives of these discoveries, with the elucidations of Holy Scripture which they so abundantly furnished. He has obtained the honours of D.C.L. of Oxford, the Lord Rectorship of Aberdeen University, and the Royal Gold Medal of the British Institute of Architects. He has also laboured well in the field of politics, and has represented Aylesbury and Southwark in the House of Commons. He has been in office as Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings, and is a Privy Councillor. He has been our Ambassador at Madrid and at Constantinople, and for his eminent services he was made K.C.B. and G.C.B. By his marriage in 1869 he renewed the alliance between the Layards and the Berties. Charlotte Susannah Elizabeth Layard (daughter of Dean Layard) was married to the ninth Earl of Lindsey, whose daughter, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie, was the wife of Sir Josiah John Guest, Bart., whose daughter, Mary Enid Evelyn Guest, is the wife of Right Hon. Sir Henry Austen Layard, G.C.B.
Amyand, Baronet. — Isaac Amiand, aliàs Amyand, and his family were refugees from Mornac in Xaintonge. They were naturalised at Westminster on 9th September 1698 (see List xxiii.) — viz., Isaac Amiand; Anne, his wife; and Charles, Isaac, Claudius, John, Theodore, Benjamin, and Mary, their children. The patriarchal refugee died on 1 8th September 1704; his wife, whose maiden name was Ann Hottot, survived till 1728. The eldest son, Charles, was the father of Isaac Amyand of Charles Town, South Carolina, who died in London in 1739, unmarried, his executor in England being his uncle Claudius, and in Charles Town Gabriel Manigault. The second son of the refugee, Isaac, served in the Royal Navy, and died in 1721. The third son Claudius Amyand, the founder of the English family, was Principal Surgeon to George II., and F.R.S.; he married, on 5th
- ↑ As an author Sir Henry called himself Austen Henry Layard, but the true Christian name is as I have given it.
