Right Hon Austen Henry Layard DCL, British Ambassador to Constantinople mb-code 42-67624694 A steamboat full of passengers

A steamboat full of passengers arrives at the quay by Waterloo Bridge

Singing lesson

Wives and girlfriends of the Everton football team wave their last goodbye as the plane taking them off to Australia for a tour departs from Speke airport

Lieutenant-Colonel DM Lumsden

the president of the Southern States

Right Hon Austen Henry Layard DCL, British Ambassador to Constantinople mb-code 42-67624694 A steamboat full of passengersRight Hon Austen Henry Layard DCL, British Ambassador to Constantinople, 1877. Between 1845 and 1851, Layard (1817 1894) excavated the remains of the ancient Assyrian capitals of Nimrud and Nineveh and revealed the reliefs that decorated the royal palaces. These and other objects recovered from Mesopotamia astonished Europe and Layard's account of his discoveries became a best seller. In 1851 he retired from excavation to take up a life in politics.