Laycock is an English surname, likely originating from the placename

Lacock Lacock is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) south of the town of Chippenham, and about outside the Cotswolds area. The village is owned almost in its entirety by the National Trust a ...

, in

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...

(which is pronounced ''Laycock'') or Laycock in West Yorkshire. According to the 1990 United States Census, Laycock is the 22,119th most common surname. Notable people with this

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

include: * Bill Laycock, Australian rugby union player *

Craven Laycock Craven Laycock (1866–1940) was the dean of Dartmouth College from 1911 to 1934. He is perhaps best known as the dean who suspended Theodor Seuss Geisel from editing the Dartmouth humor magazine, after which Geisel wrote under the pen name Dr. S ...

, dean of Dartmouth College, 1911–1934 * David Laycock, English cricketer *

Donald Laycock Donald Laycock (1936–1988) was an Australian linguist and anthropologist. He is best remembered for his work on the languages of Papua New Guinea. Biography He was a graduate of University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and later ...

, Australian linguist and anthropologist *

Donald Laycock (artist) Donald Gordon Laycock (born 4 April 1931) is an Australian artist. He is a painter and is best known as the creator of the interior paintings of Hamer Hall in Melbourne, Australia. Life and work He attended the National Gallery of Victoria A ...

, Australian artist *

Douglas Laycock Douglas Laycock is the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and a leading scholar in the areas of religious liberty and the law of remedies. He also serves as the 2nd Vice President of the American ...

, American law professor * Elias C. Laycock, Australian rower * Fred Laycock, English footballer *

Gloria Laycock Gloria Laycock was the founding Director of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London (UCL), and ran UCL's Centre for Security & Crime Science. She is an internationally renowned expert in crime prevention, and es ...

, British criminologist *

Henry Laycock Henry Laycock (March 14, 1842 – May 2, 1929) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Biography Laycock was born on March 14, 1842 in Yorkshire, England. During the American Civil War, he served with the 8th Regiment Illinois Volunteer C ...

, American politician *

Jason Laycock Jason Laycock (born 4 November 1984) is an Australian rules football player. He played for the Essendon Football Club as a ruckman in the Australian Football League (AFL) from 2004 to 2010. He was drafted by Essendon from East Devonport Footb ...

, Australian footballer *

Jimmye Laycock Jimmye McFarland Laycock (born February 6, 1948) is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at the College of William & Mary from 1980 through 2018, retiring with the third-longest continuous head coaching tenure in ...

, American college football coach *

John Laycock Christopher John Laycock (1887 – 3 December 1960) was a British lawyer, the founder of one of Singapore's earliest law firms, Laycock and Ong. He was also one of the founders of the Singapore Progressive Party. Early life Laycock grew up in ...

, English rock climber and Singaporean lawyer *

John Laycock (Australian politician) John Connell Laycock (2 December 1818 – 30 November 1897) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to storekeeper and pastoralist Thomas Laycock and Margaret Connell. He owned land at Yamba. On 1 February 1843 he married Mary ...

, an Australian politician *

Joseph Frederick Laycock Brigadier-General Sir Joseph Frederick Laycock (12 June 1867 – 10 January 1952), sometimes known as Joe Laycock, was a British Army officer and Olympic sailor. He was at one time a Deputy Lieutenant, Lord Lieutenant and, in 1906, High She ...

, British soldier and Olympian *

Malcolm Laycock Malcolm Richard Laycock (1 November 1938 – 8 November 2009)Peter VacheObituary ''The Guardian'', 10 November 2009 was an English radio presenter who hosted jazz, big band, and dance band programmes for BBC Radio 2 and the BBC World Service. ...

(1938–2009), British radio presenter and producer * Mitsuki Laycock, Japanese-American singer-songwriter *

Robert Laycock Major-General Sir Robert Edward Laycock, (18 April 1907 – 10 March 1968) was a senior British Army officer best known for his influential role in the establishment and command of British Commandos during the Second World War. Early life L ...

, World War II British commando *

Robert Laycock (MP) Robert Laycock (1833 – 14 August 1881) was a Liberal Party politician. Laycock was elected Liberal MP for North Lincolnshire in 1880, but died just over a year later. He had also previously contested North Nottinghamshire in February 1872 and ...

, English politician * Samuel Laycock, English poet *

Scott Laycock Scott Laycock (born 15 September 1971) is an Australian professional golfer. Laycock won the Victorian Open in 2001 in Australia. He shot an aggregate of 270, 18 under par. This was a tournament record, but has since been broken by Min Woo Lee ...

, Australian golfer *

Steve Laycock Stephen "Steve" Laycock (born October 29, 1982 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon. He currently skips his own team out of Saskatoon. Career In 2003, Laycock skipped Team Saskatchewan to a Canadian Junior Curling Ch ...

, Canadian curler *

Stuart Laycock Stuart Laycock is a British historian and author best known for the popular-history book ''All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To''. He has also written extensively on Roman and post-Roman Britain. ''All the Coun ...

, British historian *

Thomas Laycock Thomas Laycock (1786 – 7 November 1823) was an English soldier, explorer, and later businessman, who served in North America during the War of 1812, but is most famous for being the first European to travel overland through the interior of Ta ...

, English soldier and explorer *

Thomas Laycock (physiologist) Thomas Laycock FRSE FRCPE (10 August 1812 – 21 September 1876) was an English physician and neurophysiologist who was a native of Bedale near York. Among medical historians, he is best known for his influence on John Hughlings Jackson an ...

, English physiologist

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