George Somes Layard

George Somes Layard (1857–1925) was an English barrister and man of letters.

He was the third son of Charles Clement Layard, rector of Combe Hay in Somerset, born at Clifton, Bristol; Nina Frances Layard was his sister. He was educated at Monkton Combe school and Harrow School. Matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1876, he graduated B.A. in 1881, and was called to the bar that year at the Inner Temple, which he had joined in 1877.

Layard became an author, journalist and bibliophile.

Layard married Eleanor Byng Gribble. John Willoughby Layard was their second child.