Edward Clive Bayley

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Sir Edward Clive Bayley

Anglo-Indian
civil servant, statesman and archæologist.

Early life

Edward Clive Bayley, standing second from right, with John Lawrence, Viceroy of India and other council members. c. 1864

Bayley was the only son of Edward Clive Bayley, of Hope Hall, Eccles,

St. Petersburg in October 1821, and educated at the East India Company College.[1]

Career

Bayley entered the

India in the foreign department, under Sir Henry Elliot. Two years later he became deputy-commissioner of the Kangra district, but in 1854 was compelled by poor health to take leave.[1]

In England Bayley studied law, and he was

Calcutta by Lord Canning in May 1861, to fill the post of foreign secretary pending the arrival of Sir Henry Marion Durand.[1]

In March 1862 Bayley became home secretary, an office he held for ten years, and was then selected by Lord Northbrook to fill a temporary vacancy on his council. The next year, 1873, he was appointed a member of the supreme council, on which he served until his retirement in April 1878, after 36 years of public service.[1]

Bayley was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India on 1 January 1877. He married, in 1850, the writer Emily Metcalfe. His father in law was Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe. They had a family of one son and seven daughters.[1] One of his daughters, Georgiana was a writer who helped with higher education for women in London.[2]

Works

Bayley's leisure was spent in the study of the history and antiquities of India, and he published some fifteen papers in the Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society, mainly on Indian inscriptions, sculptures, and coins, which he collected.[1]

He also contributed to the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of London (1882–83) some articles on the 'Genealogy of Modern Numerals,' and to the Numismatic Chronicle (1882) a paper on 'Certain Dates on the Coins of the Hindu Kings of Kabul.' At the time of his death, he had nearly completed the editing of the ninth volume of

Asiatic Society of Bengal.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Bayley, Edward Clive". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52742. Retrieved 11 October 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Bayley, Edward Clive". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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