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Engineer, July 1854 pp._ 270–1; _G.M. Aug. 1854 pp._ 199–200. LAYARD, FREDERIC PETER. _b._ 6 May 1818; ensign 19 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1838, captain 30 April 1851 to 11 March 1864; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 11 March 1864, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889; author of A Hugenot relic, an ivory box with the arms of Charles de Nocé and Marguerite de Rembouillet 1886, _d._ 3 Cavendish road, St. John’s Wood, London 21 May 1891. LAYARD, WILLIAM TWISLETON. _b._ 4 Aug. 1813; ensign Ceylon rifle regiment 22 Feb. 1833, lieut.-col. 12 June 1859 to 3 Feb. 1872 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881. _d._ Friedland, Wandsworth, London 16 Jany. 1891. LAYCOCK, JAMES CAMPEY. _b._ Appleton near York 6 May 1796; solicitor Huddersfield 1820–76, clerk to the justices 1828–72, presented with a silver salver; clerk to the borough bench 1868–72; a large donor to the parish ch. schools; president of Huddersfield infirmary 1860 to death; the last survivor of the original shareholders in Huddersfield banking co. _d._ Huddersfield 17 Feb. 1885. _Hulbert’s Supplementary annals of Almondbury_ (1885) 133–7; _Solicitors’ Journal 14 March 1885 p._ 326. LAYCOCK, ROBERT (only son of Joseph Laycock of Low Gosforth hall, Northumberland, _b._ 1798, _d._ 2 Aug. 1881, personalty sworn under £464,000, 14 Jany. 1882). _b._ Winlaton, co. Durham 1833; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1857; sheriff of Notts. 1878; contested North Notts. 26 Feb. 1872 and Nottingham 5 Feb. 1874; M.P. North Lincoln, April 1880 to death. _d._ Eastbourne 14 Aug. 1881. LAYCOCK, THOMAS (son of rev. Thomas Laycock, Wesleyan minister, _d._ 1833). _b._ Wetherby, Yorkshire 10 Aug. 1812; ed. at Wesleyan academy, Woodhouse Grove and Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1835; M.D. Göttingen 1839; sec. of the British Assoc. 1844; lecturer on clinical medicine at York school of medicine 1846; professor of practice of physic, univ. of Edin. 5 Nov. 1855 to death, being the only Englishman ever elected; F.R.S. Edin. 1861; phys. in ordinary to the Queen for Scotland 1 Oct. 1869 to death; author of A treatise on the nervous diseases of women 1840; Lectures on the principles and methods of medical observation and research. Edinb. 1856, 2 ed. 1864; Mind and Brain, or the correlations of consciousness and organisation. Edinb. 2 vols. 1859, 2 ed. 1869, and of 300 articles in medical journals. _d._ 13 Walker st. Edinburgh 21 Sep. 1876. _Revue des cours scientifiques_, _ii_ 808 (1876); _Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school_ (1885) 211, 276. LAYTON, FREDERICK WILLIAM HANHAM (son of Thomas Layton _d._ 1844). _b._ 1805; ed. at Shrewsbury and Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1828; C. of Wem, Shropshire, resigned 1835; angel of Catholic Apostolic ch. Duncan st. Islington 14 July 1835 to death; author of The instant coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 1866; On the decadence and fall of Christendom 1868; The parables of Christ considered with reference to their meaning by H. W. J. Thiersch, a translation 1869; On spiritual and true worship 1871. _d._ 11 Highbury grove, London 21 Oct. 1878. LAYTON, HENRY (2 son of rev. Thomas Layton, V. of Chigwell, Essex, _d._ 1833). _b._ Chigwell 2 Feb. 1799; entered navy 3 May 1812; captain 9 Nov. 1846; retired R.A. 15 June 1864; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ Castle hill, Reading 3 March 1882. _O’Byrne p._ 640. LEA, GEORGE (son of John Lea, carpet manufacturer). _b._ Kidderminster 22 Oct. 1804; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; C. of Waddington, Lincs. 1827–9; P.C. Christ Church, Birmingham 1840–64; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1840–64; V. of St. George’s, Edgbaston 1864, resigned 25 March 1883; leader of the evangelical party in Birmingham; author of Memoir of rev. John Davis, rector of St. Clement’s, Worcester 1859; Sermons preached in memory of G. Lea, to which are added his last two sermons