Died 1894-07-05.
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Austen Henry Layard
Sir Austen Henry Layard was a British Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Most…
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Born 5 March 1817 · Died 5 July 1894 · Q275013
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1894· 3 entries
“I have always believed that successes would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to fill the right place.”
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Shortly after the author's death, with a brief introductory notice by Lord Aberdare
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1887· 1 entry
Published, from notes taken at the time, a record of his first journey to the East, entitled Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia
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1878· 1 entry
On the occasion of the Berlin Congress, he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
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1877· 2 entries
Career landmark: ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Ottoman Empire (1877–1880).
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Was appointed by Lord Beaconsfield Ambassador at Constantinople, where he remained until Gladstone's return to power in 1880, when he finally retired from public life
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1869· 2 entries
Career landmark: Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to Spain (1869–1877).
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On being sent as envoy extraordinary to Madrid
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1868· 4 entries
Won Royal Gold Medal (1868).
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Under William Ewart Gladstone, Layard was made First Commissioner of Works and sworn of the Privy Council
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Career landmark: member of the 20th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1868–1870).
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Career landmark: First Commissioner of Works (1868–1869).
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1866· 1 entry
Was appointed a trustee of the British Museum
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1865· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1865–1868).
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1860· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1860–1865).
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1859· 1 entry
But was elected for Southwark in 1860, and from 1861 to 1866 was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the successive administrations of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell
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1857· 1 entry
Visited India to investigate the causes of the Indian Mutiny
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1855· 2 entries
Career landmark: Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen (1855–1858).
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Refused from Lord Palmerston an office not connected with foreign affairs, was elected lord rector of Aberdeen University, and on 15 June moved a resolution in the House of Commons (defeated by a 359–46 majority) decl
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1852· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the 16th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1852–1857).
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Was for a few weeks Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, but afterwards freely criticised the government, especially in connection with army administration
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Career landmark: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1852–1852).
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1849· 1 entry
Won Founder’s Medal (1849).
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1848· 1 entry
Published Nineveh and Its Remains (2 vols
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1845· 1 entry
Encouraged and assisted by Canning, Layard left Constantinople to make those explorations among the ruins of Assyria with which his name is chiefly associated
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1842· 1 entry
To the Ottoman capital Constantinople where he made the acquaintance of Sir Stratford Canning, the British Ambassador, who employed him in various unofficial diplomatic missions in European Turkey
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1839· 1 entry
With the intention of making an overland journey across Asia
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1817· 1 entry
Born 1817-03-05.
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