Layard, Sir Austen Henry, (1817-1894), Knight, politician, diplomat and archaeologist

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Surname:	Layard
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	Austen Henry
Gender:	Male
Date:	1817-1894
Title:	Knight
Biography:	ODNB link for Layard, Sir Austen Henry (1817-1894) Knight Politician Diplomat Archaeologist
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P152614 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P16941 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Austen Henry Layard

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1817-1894: corresp and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 38931-39164, 40637, 46153-70, 50149, 50182, 58149-202	See HMC Papers of British politicians 1782-1900, 1989
2	1843-1896: letters received	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 58222-23	See HMC Private papers of British diplomats 1782-1900, 1985
3	1853-1855: letters and lecture papers	Aberdeen University, Special Collections Centre	MS 2287	NRA 16128
4	1869-1915: notebooks and papers	National Gallery Research Centre	NG7/292	NRA 23846 National Gallery
5	1850-1859: election agent's papers	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/TL	NRA 17264 Tindal
6	1851: letter to Benjamin Austin	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 62943
7	1862: letter to Lady Ashburton	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 62551
8	1865-1891: letters to Oscar Browning	Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre	OB	NRA 21235 Browning
9	1842-1852: corresp with Stratford Canning	The National Archives	FO 352
10	1857-1864: letters to Richard Cobden	West Sussex Record Office	Cobden papers	NRA 10616 Cobden
11	1852-1867: corresp with Lord Cowley	The National Archives	FO 519
12	c1874-1878: corresp with Lord Derby	Liverpool Record Office	920 DER	NRA 20761
13	1877-1879: letters (34) to Benjamin Disraeli	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Disraeli	NRA 842 Disraeli
14	1876-1877: letters to Sir Henry Elliot	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS 13077	NRA 10476 Minto
15	1861-1883: corresp with WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 44396-623 passim
16	1861-1881: letters to Sir Mountstuart Grant-Duff	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 234	NRA 24627 Grant-Duff
17	1845-1857: letters to MK Kellogg	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 42711
18	1877-1882: letters (52) to Earl of Lytton	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	DE/K	NRA 4598
19	c1854-1876: corresp with Sir Robert Morier	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections		NRA 26599 Morier
20	letetrs to Sir Henry Rawlinson	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 47659
21	1855-1873: corresp with Lord Ripon	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 43550
22	1847-1856: letters from Henry Ross	Oxford University: St Antony's College: Middle East Centre Archive		NRA 20811 St Antony's College
23	letters from Janet Ross	British Institute of Florence	WAT	See information from website
24	1852-1870: corresp with Lord John Russell	The National Archives	PRO30/22
25	1861-1883: corresp with Odo Russell	The National Archives	FO 918
26	letters to John Swinton	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS200	NRA 10561
27	1852-1894: letters to RH White and others	Suffolk Archives - Ipswich	MS 289, 648	NRA 7051 White
28	1857-1891: corresp with Sir William White	The National Archives	FO 364/1-11
29	1841-1884: letters (23) to various recipients	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 62551 S
30	1860-1894: misc corresp incl David Livingstone and Lord Rosebery	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 10150, 10715, 10768, 10780 passim
31	1862-1869: photocopy: letters (8) from W Buckland, J.D Hooker and R Owen, originals in the American Philosophical Society library, Philadelphia	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L MSS LAY	See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
32	1468-1994: corresp, commonplace and recipe books	Newcastle University: Special Collections	AHL	See Annual Return 2016

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1	Layard, Mary Enid Evelyn, (1843-1912), diarist	spouse		Family
2	Layard, Mary Enid Evelyn, (1843-1912), diarist	Spouse		Family