Henry Richards Luard (25 August 1825 – 1 May 1891) was a British medieval historian and antiquary.[1]
Luard was born on 25 August 1825 in London, the son of Henry Luard. His uncle was Lt.-Col.John Luard, and his cousins included Lt.-Gen.Richard George Amherst Luard and the organistBertram Luard-Selby. He received his early education atCheam School, Surrey. He graduated fromTrinity College, Cambridge in 1847; and in 1849 was elected to aFellowship.[2] He entered holy orders, and served asvicar of theChurch of St Mary the Great, Cambridge from 1860 to 1887.[3][4] Luard Road in Cambridge is named after him.[5]
Luard was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and ofKing's College London; and wasRegistrary of theUniversity of Cambridge, where he worked on cataloguing the manuscripts in theCambridge University Library. He edited 17 volumes of medieval chronicles and other texts for theRolls Series,[6] and was an early scholarly editor of the papers ofIsaac Newton.[7]
In 1862 Luard married Louisa Calthorpe, youngest daughter ofGeorge Hodson,Archdeacon of Stafford. She pre-deceased him in 1889. Luard died on 1 May 1891 in Cambridge. Both Luard and his wife are buried atParish of the Ascension Burial Ground, Cambridge.
