Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, journalist, and barrister. Born in Clifton, Bristol. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Contributed to the Encyclopedia Brittanica and Dictionary of National Biography. Malvern Hill Conservator (1900-1902). Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Layard’s To a Jilt, published on 17 November 1894, lists his address as Lorraine Cottages, Great Malvern (NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical information: Venn, vol. 4, part 2, p. 118; M. G. Dauglish, editor, The Harrow School Register, 1801-1900, second edition, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1901, p. 423. (AC, CC)