Daniel Peter Layard, (1721–1802) was an
English physician
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and
midwife
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.
Biography
Daniel Peter Layard was the son of Pierre Raymond de Layard (1666-1747), a
Huguenot
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of good parentage of
Monflanquin in Guienne (
Lot et Garonne), who fled from France following the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
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. Pierre Raymond came to England as a member of the Corps of Noble Cadets of
William III, and rose to the rank of
Major
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* Major (rank), a military rank
* Academic major, an academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits
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in the British army in 1710, at which time he was in General Vezey's Regiment of Foot. Having become naturalized British in 1713, he settled in
Canterbury
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, and married, at the French Protestant chapel at the
Savoy Chapel
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in London in February 1715, to a much younger wife, Marie Anne la Crozé. They had several children, most of whom died and were buried at St Alphege, Canterbury. Daniel Peter Delayard was born 28 March and baptized 8 April 1720 at the French Huguenot chapel of Des Grecs, Crown Street, Westminster. His father died in Westminster in 1747. His mother lived down to 1773, and died testate in London.
Layard graduated
Doctor of Medicine
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at
Reims University on 9 March 1742. On 9 August of the following year (as Surgeon, of St Anne's Westminster), he married Suzanna Henrietta Boisragon at the Savoy chapel. In April 1747 he was appointed
physician-''accoucheur'' at
Middlesex Hospital
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, but shortly afterwards he resigned on account of ill health and travelled abroad.
In 1750 Layard settled at
Huntingdon
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, practising there for twelve years. On 3 July 1752 he was admitted a Licentiate of the
College of Physicians (now the Royal College of Physicians of London). In ''c''. 1762 he returned to
London
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, where he soon obtained an extensive practice as an
''accoucheur''.
Layard was physician to
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess, and Dowager Princess, of Wales. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
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and a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Sciences of Göttingen (now the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities). Layard was a founder of the British Lying-in Hospital, of which he was later appointed a Vice President. On 20 June 1792 he was admitted to the degree of
Doctor of Civil Law
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At Oxford, the degree is a higher doctorate usually awarded on the basis of except ...
''honoris causa'' at the
University of Oxford
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.
Layard died at
Greenwich
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Greenwich is notable for its maritime hi ...
in February 1802,
leaving a will, and requested burial in a private crypt in
St Benet's, Paul's Wharf, and that his late wife's remains should be brought there from their original burial-place at
St Martin in the Fields. He refers to the King's pleasure his wish that his unpublished manuscripts should be published for the financial benefit of his children; he refers particularly to the national services he has performed for the prevention and cure of afflictions of black cattle in Great Britain and other European countries between 1769 and 1793, for which he anticipates reward or compensation of not less than £20,000; and he appoints
Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
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Early life
B ...
to be his executor.
[Will of Doctor Daniel Peter Layard, Doctor of Laws and of Physic of Saint Alphege (P.C.C. 1802).]
His son
Charles
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had become
Dean of Bristol
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Early modern
*1542–1551 William Sn ...
.
Works
Layard contributed papers to the ''
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
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'' and published:
* ''An Essay on the Nature, Causes, and Cure of the Contagious Distemper among the Horned Cattle in these Kingdoms'' (London, 1757)
* ''An Essay on the Bite of a Mad Dog'' (London, 1762)
* ''An Account of the Somersham Water in the County of Huntingdon'' (London, 1767)
* ''Pharmacopœia in usum Gravidarum Puerperarum'' (London, 1776)
Family
Layard was the father of Charles Peter Layard (born 1748; successively
Prebendary
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of
Bangor Cathedral
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, in 1793
Prebendary
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of
Worcester Cathedral
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, and in 1800
Dean of Bristol
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*1542–1551 William Sn ...
; died 1808),
and great-grandfather of
Austen Henry Layard
Sir Austen Henry Layard (; 5 March 18175 July 1894) was an English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in It ...
. He was the great-great-grandfather of
Nina Frances Layard, and the great-great-great-grandfather of
John Willoughby Layard.
Notes
;Attribution
. Goodwin depends largely upon Munk (1878).
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18th-century English medical doctors
Fellows of the Royal Society
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English people of French descent
Place of birth missing
People from Westminster
Reims University (1548–1793) alumni
1721 births
1802 deaths
People from Canterbury
Physician-accoucheurs
Medical doctors from London
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London