Austen Henry Layard

1817 - 1894  (77 years)

• Name	Austen Henry Layard
  Born	05 Mar 1817	Paris, France
  Died	05 Jul 1894	1 Queen Anne St, London
  Buried	09 Jul 1894	Woking, Surrey   [1]
  Person ID	I01342	Eliots of Port Eliot
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2021

  
  

  Wife	Mary Enid "Enid" Evelyn Guest,   b. 01 Jul 1843, Dowlais House, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales ,   d. 01 Nov 1912, Ca Capello, Venice, Italy  (Age 69 years)
  Married	09 Mar 1869	St George Hanover Square, London   [2]
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2021
  Family ID	F00412	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  --- "Paradise of Cities: Venice in the Nineteenth Century" by John Julius Norwich, 2007, page 155-6: On 9 March 1894 Henry and Enid Layard celebrated twenty-five years of marriage with a dinner dance at Ca Cappello. "When I married," he wrote, "I could not have believed that I should reach my silver wedding. Well, I have been very fortunate, and I can say, what few men can say, that my wife and I have never been separated by one single day and that we have never had a quarrel." Less than four months later he was dead. On 3 April his doctor tentatively diagnosed a malignant tumor in the groin and advised his immediate return to England for a specialist opinion. His fears were confirmed, and it soon became clear that the patient was not going to recover. He died, in their London house at no. 1 Queen Anne Street, on 5 Jul and was buried four days later in teh cemetery at Woking. He was seventy-seven.

  
  

• Sources

  "Paradise of Cities: Venice in the Nineteenth Century" by John Julius Norwich, 2007, page 155-6. Scan of Original Marriage Record.