Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H. Frederic Boase
A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866; author of The national income 1868; The taxation of the United Kingdom 1869; English parties and conservatism 1870; The national debts of the various states of the world 1871. d. 13 Oak hill, Frognal, Hampstead 20 May 1875. Min. of Proc. of instit. of C.E. xlii, 259–61 (1875); I.L.N. lxvi, 547 (1875), portrait.
BAXTER, William. Curator of botanic garden at Oxford 1813–54; established a library for the use of Oxford gardeners; F.L.S. 1817; author of British phænogamous botany, or figures and descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants 6 vols. 1834–43. d. Oxford 1 Nov. 1871 in 84 year.
BAXTER, William Raleigh. L.R.C.S. 1840, LLD. Aberdeen 1843; senior surgeon Osmanli horse artillery 1854; volunteer surgeon major in French army at Constantinople; author of A treatise on certain abnormal sounds of the heart; A handbook of chemistry 1851; edited Medical Record. d. Emsworth, Hants 26 Oct. 1875 aged 63.
BAYES, Cordelia (dau. of Thomas Williams of Cambridge). b. Cambridge 1797; admitted into membership with Society of Friends 1825; a Minister 1837; laboured amongst the very poor in the lowest parts of London 1840–45; visited United States and Canada 1851–53. (m. 1820 James Kirbell Bayes he d. 1842). d. Stoke Newington, London 11 April 1865. Annual Monitor for 1866 pp. 8–34.
BAYLEE, Rev. Joseph. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D. 1852; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Birkenhead, Liverpool 1842–64; founder of St. Aidan’s theological college Birkenhead 1846, and principal 1846–69, present college building opened 1856; V. of Shepscombe, Gloucs. 1871 to death; author of The institutions of the Church of England are of divine origin, 3 ed. 1838; Unitarianism a rejection of the word of God 1852; The intermediate state of the blessed dead 1864; Introduction to the study of the Bible 2 ed. 3 vols. 1870; The Apocalypse with an exegetical commentary 1876. d. Shepscombe vicarage 7 July 1883 in 76 year.
BAYLEY, Charles John. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1839, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; colonial sec. of Mauritius 1849; governor of Bahama islands Feb. 1857 to 1864; C.B. 23 July 1862. d. 6 July 1873.
BAYLEY, Sir Edward Clive (son of Edward Clive Bayley of St. Petersburg). b. St. Petersburg 17 Oct. 1821; entered Bengal civil service 1841; barrister M.T. 12 June 1857; sec. to government of India, home department March 1862 to 1872; vice chancellor of Univ. of Calcutta 1869–74; member of council of Governor general of India 19 April 1873 to April 1878 when he retired upon the annuity fund; pres. of Bengal Asiatic Society 5 times, and of Royal Asiatic Society 3 years; K.C.S.I. 1 Jany. 1877. (m. 6 March 1850 Emily Anne Theophila, eld. dau. of Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, Baronet). d. Wilmington lodge, Keymer Sussex 30 April 1884. Annual report of Royal Asiatic Society 1884.
BAYLEY, Frederick William Naylor. b. Ireland; went to Barbadoes 1825, returned 1829; literary dramatic and musical critic on the Morning Post about 1831; started and edited the National Omnibus, a penny weekly paper; edited the Illustrated London News May 1842 to 1848; author of Four years residence in the West Indies 1830; Scenes and stories by a clergyman in debt 3 vols. 1835; Tales of the late revolutions 1831; issued a series of songs set to music under the title of The Nosegay 1832; wrote many popular songs including The Newfoundland dog; author of New tale of a tub 1841; Comic nursery rhymes 1842; The model of the earth 1851. d. from delirium tremens New Bull’s Head Inn, Digbeth, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1852 aged 40. Rev. J. Richardson’s Recollections of the last half century ii, 197–203 (1855).
BAYLEY, Henry Vincent (eld. son of Wm. Butterworth Bayley, who d. 29 May 1860 aged 78). b. 1815; ed. at Eton; entered Bengal civil service 1834; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta 13 May 1862 to death. d. Calcutta 2 Feb. 1873.
BAYLEY, John. b. Upper Green, Mitcham, Surrey 17 May 1794; a tailor there; a practice bowler at Lord’s cricket ground London 1823–54; played in many great matches; a slow round-armed bowler; lived at Mitcham all his life. d. Upper Green, Mitcham 7 Nov. 1874.
BAYLEY, Sir John Edward George, 2 Baronet. b. London 23 Dec. 1793; barrister M.T. 6 May 1835; clerk of assize northern circuit 1836 to death; succeeded 10 Oct. 1841. d. Stanhope lodge, Kensington Gore, London 23 Dec. 1871.
BAYLEY, John Whitcomb (2 son of John Bayley of Hempstead, Gloucs., farmer). A junior clerk in Record office, Tower of London, chief clerk 1819; sub-commissioner on the public records to May 1834; edited Calendars of the proceedings in Chancery in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 3 vols. fol. 1827–32, for which he received £2,739; student of Inner Temple Aug. 1815; author of History and antiquities of the Tower of London 2 parts 1821–25; F.S.A. 1819, F.R.S. 1823. d. Paris 25 March 1869.
BAYLEY, Robert. Ed. at Highbury theological college; independent minister at Howard st. chapel Sheffield 1835–45, at Ratcliff Highway, London 1845–57 and at Hereford 1857 to death; started a monthly periodical called The people’s college journal 1846; author of A history of Louth; Nature considered as a revelation 1836; Lectures on the early history of the Christian church; A new concordance to the Hebrew Bible juxta editionem Hooghtianam. d. Hereford 14 Nov. 1859.
BAYLEY, William. b. 1810; vicar choral at St. Paul’s and organist of St. John’s Southwark; composed some beautiful cavatinas including Softly ring ye gay bluebells and Come sister come. d. London Nov. 1858.
BAYLEY, William Butterworth (6 son of Thomas Butterworth Bayley of Hope hall, Eccles 1744–1802). b. 1782; ed. at Eton, and the college Fort William, Calcutta; sec. in revenue and judicial department 1814; chief sec. to supreme government of India 1819–25; member of the council 1825 to 11 Nov. 1830; governor general of India 13 March to 4 July 1828; a director of East India company 23 July 1833, deputy chairman 1839, chairman 1840. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 29 May 1860.
BAYLIS, Alexander John. b. 1812; undersheriff of London 1846 and 1869; solicitor to Comrs. of Sewers Dec. 1862 to death, d. at an hotel near Redhill railway station 16 May 1882.
BAYLIS, Charles Olives. b. Jany. 1815; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1837, F.S.A. 1839, M.R.C.S. England 1843; practised at Birkenhead; medical officer of health there 1866–73; medical officer for new combined district of West Kent 1873–83. d. 62 Windsor road, Southport, Lancs. 12 Dec. 1884.
BAYLIS, Edward. Clerk in Alliance insurance office; founded between 1838 and 1854 a series of life offices all of which have disappeared except the English and Scottish Law office; went to Cape of Good Hope about 1859; author of The arithmetic of annuities and life assurances or compound interest simplified 1844. d. Cape of Good Hope 12 Sep. 1861 aged about 70.
BAYLIS, Thomas Hutchinson (son of the preceding). Manager of the Trafalgar life insurance office 1850; founded Unity general life insurance office and the Unity bank about 1852, manager of them both to Oct. 1856; founded British foreign and colonial insurance association 1857 and the Consols life association 1858; invented the Positive life assurance, an ingenious form of life policy 1869. d. 17 Vere St. Cavendish sq. 17 Nov. 1876 aged 53.
BAYLY, Sir Henry (2 son of Zachary Bayly of Bideford). b. Bath 1790; ensign 51 foot 30 April 1807; captain 24 April 1817 to 15 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1835; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. d. Burly, Lyme Regis, Dorset 31 Jany. 1867.
BAYLY, Thomas Davis (4 son of Charles Bayly of Frome Selwood, Somerset, solicitor). b. 1805; barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1836; comr. in Court of bankruptcy Dorset and Somerset 1838–43; bencher of his inn 1 March 1875. d. 20 Aug. 1879.
BAYNES, Sir Edward Stuart. Deputy assistant commissary general 16 Dec. 1813; secretary general of Ionian islands April 1828–1838; Consul at St. Petersburgh 24 April 1838 to Sep. 1849; British agent and consul general in regency of Tunis 25 Oct. 1849 to death; C.M.G. 9 Feb. 1833, K.C.M.G. 26 June 1833. d. Tunis 23 July 1855 aged 64.
BAYNES, Edwin Donald. b. 1828; colonial sec. and treasurer of Montserrat 1850–54; colonial sec. of Antigua 1863; acting lieut. governor of Dominica 1871; colonial sec. of