Edgar Leopold Calthrop LAYARD [27185]

  General Notes:

Edgar and his father joined the Joppa Free Masons Lodge of Cape Town in 1869, he was described as a Commissioner, his father a Gentleman.

Edgar Leopold Calthorp Layard
Initiation Age: 21
Birth Year: abt 1848
Initiation Date: 6 Oct 1869
First Payment Year on Register: 1869
Year Range: 1863-1887
Profession: Gentleman
Lodge: The Joppa Lodge
Lodge Location: Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope
Lodge Number: 864, 1166
Folio Number: 65

Leo followed his father as Vice Consul for New Hebrides 1876

In the 1891 Census Leo was described as a retired Consul living on his own means, born Ceylon.

Leo married late in life, he and his wife Julia had no issue

EDGAR LEOPOLD CALTHROP LAYARD, Deceased.
Pursuant to the Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 and 23 Viet., c. 35). NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and other persons having any debts, claims or demands upon or against the estate of Edgar Leopold Calthrop Layard, late of Dark-lane House, Budleigh Salterton, in the county of Devon, deceased (who died on the 14th day of February, 1921, and whose will was proved by the Public Trustee, the sole executor therein named, on the 20th day of April, 1921, in the Principal Probate Registry), are hereby required to send in the particulars of their debts, claims or demands to the undersigned, the Solicitors for the said executor, on or before the 1st day'of July, 1921; and notice is hereby also given, that after that date the said executor will proceed to distribute the assets of the deceased among the parties entitled thereto, haying regard only to the claims and demands of which the said executor shall then have notice; and that he will not be liable for the assets, or any part thereof, so distributed, to any person or persons of whose debts, claims or demands he shall not then have had notice.
Dated this 9th day of May, 1921.
ROBERTS and ANDREW,
10, Bedford-circus,
J23 Exeter,
Solicitors for the said Executor

Probate London 20 Apr 1921. Of Dark Lane House Budleigh Salterton DEV died 14 Feb 1921 Effects £16674 11s 5d

  Research Notes:

Image Courtesy Fiji National Archives Suva.

  Other Records

1. Edgar Leopold Calthrop Layard: Poem written after viewing the South African College, from Devils Peak.
Leo Layard in this poem records his dislike and lack of respect for his Alma Mater, South African College, which he attended 1863 - 1866.

2. Edgar Layard: Dark Lane Salterton Devon.
Dark Lane House by Dark Lane is on the edge of a small Common on Salterton Hill, was an ancient trackway for pack horses, it was gradually carved out of the hill by it being ploughed over the centuries to remove ruts, and the loose material being carted away.
Ref: Mates Illustrated - Salterton
Image and Poem courtesy of G Hutchins the last member of the family to own Dark Lane House - 2018

3. Census: England, 2 Apr 1911, Budleigh Salterton DEV. Leo is recorded as head of a two room house aged 62 single living on private means born Colombo Ceylon.
He was the only occupant of the premises.

Edgar married Julia HUTCHINS [27355] [MRIN: 9824], daughter of David HUTCHINS [27515] and Sarah PAGE [27518], 2 Qtr 1914 in Budleigh Salterton DEV. (Julia HUTCHINS [27355] was born on 7 Jul 1857 in Lambeth SRY and died on 15 Mar 1948 in Budleigh Salterton DEV.)