Layard

American  

[laird, lay-erd] / lɛərd, ˈleɪ ərd /

noun

1. Sir Austen Henry 1817–94, English archaeologist, writer, and diplomat.

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Layard British  

/ lɛəd /

noun

1. Sir Austen Henry. 1817–94, English archaeologist, noted for his excavations at Nimrud and Nineveh

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Layard

In 2007, the economist Richard Layard was made the UK’s happiness tsar.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2020

In 2005 David Clark, a professor of psychology at Oxford University, and the economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that providing therapy to people like Oliver made economic sense.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2017

By 2012, more than a million people had received free therapy as a result of the initiative Layard helped push through, working with the Oxford psychologist David Clark.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2016

Where Layard - like so many European Orientalists - delighted in dressing up in eastern clothes, Rassam did his best to present himself as a Victorian Englishman.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2015

Thus Mr. Plowden showed conclusively that the reckless attack which Mr. Layard so chivalrously made, five years after his death, upon an officer who had nobly performed most difficult duties, was altogether without foundation.

From March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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