John Lafayette

John Lafayette was a linguist and professor of linguistics at Oxford around the turn of the 20th century. In December 1901, he was on an archaeological expedition to Babylon when he stumbled across an unearthly silver road that led him to Babylon in 570 B.C. There he met Professor Bernice Summerfield, who had travelled there from 2594, and who was on a desperate quest to save Babylon from being eradicated from history. (BNA:Walking to Babylon, BFBS:Walking to Babylon (audio drama))

Family tradition held that the Lafayettes had "the second sight"; John, at least, was a time-sensitive, able to detect objects or people that had been displaced in time.

John had a younger cousin, Celia Dora, who lived on Guernsey Island. He was likely quite close to his cousin, as he shared the whole story of his trip to Ancient Babylon with her.