Layard
SIR AUSTIN HENRY, an English archæologist; born in Paris, France, March 5, 1817. In 1839 and following years he traveled in the East, and in 1845 began his celebrated excavations on the site of ancient Nineveh, publish ing the results in 1849-1853. In 1852 he entered Parliament in the Liberal interest; terest; became under-secretary for foraffairs in 1860, commissioner of works in 1869, and ambassador to the Porte in 1877 under Lord Beaconsfield's government, when he accomplished the annexation of Cyprus. He is best known by his books : "Nineveh and its Remains" (1849), and "Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon" (1853). He died in London, England, July 5, 1894.