Charles Layard (priest)

Charles Peter Layard, F.R.S., D.D. (19 February 1750 – 11 April 1803) was Dean of Bristol from 1800 until his death.

Layard was educated at St John's College, Cambridge 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.