Charles Layard (priest)
Appearance
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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 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]
References
- ^ "Deaths" Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, April 16, 1803; Issue 2607
- ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses, Venn,. Vol. iv. Kahlenberg – Oyler, 1947 p118: Cambridge, CUP, 1951
- ^ Clergy Database