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_