Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 24 - Layard
Layard. — Many descendants of the good refugees have served in the army. I have already mentioned (see chapter xv.) his grandsons, brothers of the Dean of Bristol, Lieut.-General Anthony Lewis Layard, and Lieut- General John Thomas Layard. The Dean’s eldest son, founder of the first branch of the Layard family, Rev. Brownlow Villiers Layard, served in his youth as a lieutenant in the 7th Fusiliers; two of his sons were Lieutenant-Colonels, as is his grandson and principal representative; three other sons were in the army, viz., Lieut. George Henry Layard of the 89th Foot (born 1806, died 1848), Captain John Beville Layard of the 22nd Madras Native Infantry (born 1809, died 1846), and Lieut. Augustus Villiers Layard of the 23rd Madras Native Infantry, who died in 1848.
As to the second branch, represented by Sir Henry Austen Layard, I have already named Lieut.-General Frederic Peter Layard, born 6th May 1818; he was of the Bengal Staff Corps, having entered the army on 11th November 1838, and became a Lieut.-General on 7th September 1884; his son Julian Henry Layard, an officer of the 37th Foot, died near the Shipka Pass during the Russo-Turkish War on 24th September 1877; another son is Lieut. Arthur Austen MacGregor Layard of the Royal Engineers. General Layard had a brother, Captain Arthur John Layard of the 38th Foot. Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General of the Second Division in the Crimea, who died at Balaclava on 7th August 1855, aged thirty-six.
As to the third branch, Sir Charles Peter Layard has two brothers in the army, viz., Captain Brownlow Edward Layard of the Ceylon Rifles, born 15th April 1810; and General William Twistleton Layard, born 4th August 1813; he entered the army on 22nd February 1833; he earned a medal for services in Burmah, and commanded the troops in the Kornegalle district of Ceylon in the year 1848; he was in active service as a Colonel in i860; his son Colonel Charles Edmund Layard, born 18th September 1838, is Lieut.-Colonel in command of a battalion of the East Yorkshire regiment, and became a Colonel in the army in 1885.