Charles Peter Layard [SEP] position held
Charles Peter Layard
Sir Charles Peter Layard, KCMG (9 December 1806 – 17 July 1893), was the first Mayor of Colombo (1866–1877) and the Government Agent for the Western Provinces of Ceylon.
Biography.
Charles Peter Layard was born on 9 December 1806 in Colombo, the first son of Charles Edward Layard (1786–1852) and Barbara Brigentina née Mooyart (1789–1845). His father migrated to Ceylon in 1804, where he took up an appointment as the Second Assistant to the Agent of Revenue in Jaffna
, to an English family of Huguenot descent, Layard was the youngest of seven sons (two of the earlier siblings died in infancy) of Henry Peter John Layard of the Ceylon Civil Service (the son of Charles Peter Layard, dean of Bristol, and grandson of Daniel Peter Layard the physician) with his wife Marianne, a daughter of Nathaniel Austen, banker, of Ramsgate. Through her, he was partly of Spanish descent. His uncle was Benjamin Austen, a London solicitor and close friend of Benjamin Disraeli in the