Rev Charles Clement LAYARD [27272]

  General Notes:

Charles Clement . Layard
College: ST JOHN'S
Entered: Michs. 1836
More Information: Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, July 7, 1836. Of Rutland. [S. of the Rev. Brownlow Villiers (above).] School, Stamford (Mr Gretton). Matric. Michs. 1836; Scholar. At St Bees, 1842-3. Ord. deacon, 1843; priest, 1844. Chaplain of Trinity House almshouses, Mile End, Middlesex, 1849-58. Presented in 1855 to the P.C. of Escot, Devon, by Sir John Kenneway, but the Bishop of Exeter thought him unsound on baptismal regeneration and refused to induct him. Petitions on his behalf to both Houses of Parliament were abortive. V. of Mayfield, Staffs., 1858. V. of St John's, Wembley, Middlesex, 1858-71. C. of Christ Church, Ramsgate, 1872-3. R. of Combe-Hay, Somerset, 1873-84. C. of Winsley, Wilts., 1884-9. Married (1) June 3, 1847, Sarah, dau. of S. J. Somes, of Stratford Green, Essex; (2) July 4, 1888, Madeline, dau. of H. Hill. Resided subsequently at Bath, where he died Nov. 1, 1895, aged 78. Father of Clement V. (1868) and George S. (1876); half-brother of John T. (1841). (Scott, MSS.; Crockford; The Standard, Nov. 4, 1895; Clerical Journal, III. 317, 328, 367; F. P. White.)

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Charles married Sarah SOMES [27274] [MRIN: 9796] on 3 Jun 1847 in Essex. (Sarah SOMES [27274] was born on 27 Aug 1818 in Tower Hamlets LND and died on 22 May 1886 in Bradford-on-Avon WIL.)

Charles next married Madeline HILL [27275] [MRIN: 9797], daughter of Harcourt HILL [35785] and Unknown, on 4 Jul 1888 in Acton Ealing LON. (Madeline HILL [27275] was born in 1841 in Chardstock DOR and died on 5 Sep 1920 in Bath SOM.)