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George Somes Layard

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Name
  
George Layard


Died
  
1925

Books
  
Tennyson and his pre-Raphaelite illustrators, The Life and Work of Kate Greenaway

George Somes Layard (1857–1925) was an English barrister and man of letters.

Contents

Life

He was the third son of Charles Clement Layard, rector of Combe Hay in Somerset, born at Clifton, Bristol; Nina Frances Layard was his sister. He was educated at Monkton Combe school and Harrow School. Matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1876, he graduated B.A. in 1881, and was called to the bar that year at the Inner Temple, which he had joined in 1877.

Layard became an author, journalist and bibliophile.

Works

  • The Life and Letters of Charles Samuel Keene (1892) [1]
  • Tennyson and his pre-Raphaelite illustrators. A book about a book (1894) [2]
  • Portraits of Cruikshank by Himself (1897)
  • Mrs. Lynn Linton ; her life, letters, and opinions (1901) [3]
  • The Life and Work of Kate Greenaway (A. & C. Black, London 1905) with Marion Harry Spielmann [4]
  • Sir Thomas Lawrence's Letter-bag (George Allen, London 1906)
  • Suppressed plates, wood engravings, &c., together with other curiosities germane thereto; being an account of certain matters peculiarly alluring to the collector (A. & C. Black, London 1907) [5]
  • A Great "Punch" Editor: Being the Life, Letters, and Diaries of Shirley Brooks (1907) [6]
  • The Headless Horseman: Pierre Lombart's Engraving, Charles or Cromwell? (1922)
  • An Amateur Detective (1925)
  • Catalogue RaisonnĂ© of Engraved British Portraits from altered plates (Philip Allan & Co, London 1927)

    • Family

    Layard married Eleanor Byng Gribble. John Willoughby Layard was their second child.

    References

    George Somes Layard Wikipedia
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