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Charles Peter Layard was born on 9 December 1806 in Colombo, the first son of Charles Edward Layard [1] (1786–1852) and Barbara Brigentina née Mooyart (1789–1845). His father migrated to Ceylon in 1804, where he took up an appointment as the Second Assistant to the Agent of Revenue in Jaffna. He had twenty other siblings.
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