Charles Layard (priest)

On 1 December 1777, Layard was married to Elizabeth Ward (d. 1796), a daughter of Joseph Ward and Ruth (née Carver) Ward of Greenwich, Kent. Together, they were the parents of:^[3]

• Brownlow Villiers Layard (1779–1861), the eldest son, an army officer who served as aide-de-camp and Chaplain to The Duke of Kent.^[7]
• Charlotte Susanna Elizabeth (1780–1858), married, as his second wife, Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey.^[8][9] After his death in September 1818, she married, the Rev. William Peter Pegus in April 1821.^[10]
• Marianne Layard (1781–1840), who died unmarried.^[11]
• Henrietta Margaret Layard (1782–1855), who died unmarried.^[11]
• Henry Peter John Layard (1783–1834), of the Ceylon civil service who married Marianne Austen, a daughter of Nathaniel Austen, in 1814.^[12]
• Sophia Catherine Layard (1784–1785), who died unmarried.^[11]
• Charles Edward Layard (1786–1852), who married Barbara Bridgetina Mooyaart, a daughter of Gualterus Mooyaart, in 1804.^[3]
• Caroline Bethia Layard (1787–1827), who married Lewis Gibson, a son of William Gibson, in 1806.^[11]
• Louisa Frances Layard (1789–1851), who married Lt.-Col. Clement Martin Edwards in 1807.^[11]
• Mary Sarah Sophia Layard (1791–1868), who died unmarried.^[11]
• Elizabeth Frances Layard (1793–1857), who died unmarried.^[11]
• Jane Isabella Layard (1795–1796), who died unmarried.^[11]

After the death of his first wife in 1796, he married, secondly, to Elizabeth Carver on 24 October 1798.^[3]

Layard died on 11 April 1803.^[3]

Through his daughter Charlotte's first marriage, he was posthumously a grandfather of three: Lady Charlotte Guest, George Bertie, 10th Earl of Lindsey, and Montague Bertie, 11th Earl of Lindsey.^[10] From her second marriage, he was, again posthumously, a grandfather of Maria Antoinetta Pegus (c. 1821–1893), who married Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly (the widower of Lady Elizabeth Henrietta Conyngham, the eldest daughter of Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham), in 1844.^[13]

Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of Sir Charles Peter Layard (1806–1893), the first Mayor of Colombo and the Government Agent for the Western Provinces of Ceylon.^[14] Sir Charles was the father of Charles Peter Layard (1849–1916), the 18th Chief Justice of Ceylon, and the grandfather of Sir Herbert Layard Dowbiggin (1880–1966), the British colonial Inspector General of Police of Ceylon.^[15]

Through his son Henry, he was a grandfather of Austen Henry Layard, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

• Hutchinson, John (1892). "Charles Peter Layard" . Men of Kent and Kentishmen (Subscription ed.). Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. pp. 88–89.