Henry Richards Luard (25 August 1825 – 1 May 1891) was a British medieval historian and antiquary.
[2] He entered holy orders, and served as vicar of the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge from 1860 to 1887.
He edited 17 volumes of medieval chronicles and other texts for the Rolls Series,[6] and was an early scholarly editor of the papers of Isaac Newton.
[7] In 1862 Luard married Louisa Calthorpe, youngest daughter of George Hodson, Archdeacon of Stafford.
Both Luard and his wife are buried at Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground, Cambridge.