Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, journalist, and barrister. Alternative signature: G. S. Layard. 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)