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Charles Layard (priest)

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

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

  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
Church of England titles
Preceded by Dean of Bristol
1800–1803
Succeeded by