Background
Born on 4 December 1774, he was the eldest son of John Weyland (1744–1825) of Woodrising in Norfolk and Woodeaton in Oxfordshire, by his wife Elizabeth Johanna (d 1822), daughter of John Nourse of Woodeaton.
Born on 4 December 1774, he was the eldest son of John Weyland (1744–1825) of Woodrising in Norfolk and Woodeaton in Oxfordshire, by his wife Elizabeth Johanna (d 1822), daughter of John Nourse of Woodeaton.
He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 10 November 1792, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1800. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Weyland founded the British Review and London Critical Journal with William Roberts in 1811, as a quarterly that appeared to 1825.
Weyland after the initial issues handed over the editorship to Roberts.
lieutenant took an evangelical Christian editorial line. On 31 July 1830 Weyland was returned to parliament for Hindon in Wiltshire, and retained his seat until December 1832.
He died, without issue, at Woodrising on 8 May 1854.
Royal Society.