Charles Layard (priest)

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

↑ "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

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Hallam	Dean of Bristol 1800–1803	Succeeded by Bowyer Sparke

Deans of Bristol

Early modern	William Snow John Whiteheare/Whythere George Carew Henry Joliffe John Sprint Anthony Watson Simon Robson Edward Chetwynd Matthew Nicholas Henry Glemham Richard Towgood Samuel Crossman Richard Thompson William Levett George Royse The Hon Robert Booth Samuel Creswick Thomas Chamberlayne William Warburton Samuel Squire Francis Ayscough Cutts Barton John Hallam

Late modern	Charles Layard Bowyer Sparke John Parsons Henry Beeke Thomas Musgrave John Lamb Gilbert Elliot Francis Pigou Wynne Willson Edward Burroughs Henry de Candole Harry Blackburne Evered Lunt Douglas Harrison Horace Dammers Wesley Carr Robert Grimley David Hoyle

Diocese of Bristol

Bristol Cathedral Bishop's Office, Bristol Hillside House, Bristol

Office holders	Mike Hill, Bishop of Bristol Lee Rayfield, Bishop suffragan of Swindon AEO: Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet David Hoyle, Dean of Bristol Christine Froude, Archdeacon of Malmesbury & Acting Archdeacon of Bristol

Historic offices	Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol (1836–1897; see Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol) Bishop suffragan of Malmesbury (1927–1994; renamed to Swindon) Archdeacon of Dorset (1542–1836; returned to Salisbury) Archdeacon of North Wilts (1904–1919; renamed to Swindon) Archdeacon of Swindon (1919–1999; renamed to Malmesbury)

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