Layard

American  

[laird, ley-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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Example Sentences

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

This has been especially true in the UK since the economist Richard Layard, a vigorous CBT evangelist, became Tony Blair’s “happiness czar”.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2016

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

They are now solemnly protesting against the right of Sir A. H. Layard and Count Zichy to take a short vacation, so long as this question remains unsettled.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various