Printed book order signed to the SPCK, 1814

LAYARD (The Rev B.V.)

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Printed order form addressed "To The Rev. Dr. GASKIN, Secy to The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge" inscribed by B.V. Layard with his book order, signed by him and initialled by George Gaskin: 1p. 4to (imprint of "Anne Rivington, Printer, St. John s Square, London"), 15 December 1814. Sometime mildly cropped at head and tail; slightly marked on verso. Writing from St James's Hotel, Jermyn Street, B.V. Layard puts in an order for "4 Bibles 8vo Apocrypha / 4 Do minion Do / 12 Synge on the Sacrament / 100 Papers on the Sacrament, / on Public Worship agt Drunkenness &c". Brownlow Villiers Layard (1779-1861), Rector of Uffington, Lincolnshire, was the son of the Very Rev Charles Peter Layard, Dean of Bristol and then Chaplain-in-Ordinary to King George III; he himself was first aide-de-camp and then chaplain to the Duke of Kent. An uncle of the archaeologist Sir Austen Layard, he married Louisa Port, great-niece of Mrs Delany. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge was founded in 1698 by Thomas Bray, later Vicar of St Botolph's, Aldgate, who died in 1730. George Gaskin (1751-1829) succeeded his father-in-law, Thomas Broughton, in the post of SPCK Secretary in 1783. Broughton, Rector of All Hallows, Lombard Street, and Wotton, Surrey, had served from 1743 to 1777; Gaskin, from 1797 Rector of Stoke Newington, resigned in 1823 in favour of his own son-in-law, William Parker. Seller Inventory # TM00043

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Title: Printed book order signed to the SPCK, 1814

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

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