Frederic Peter Layard
1818–91
Army officer. Served in the Bengal army, 1838–81. General, 1889. Curator of conchology of the museum of the Ceylon branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Cousin of Edgar Leopold Layard.
Source
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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