John Bayley (antiquary)
John Whitcomb Bayley
Life
Bayley was born in 1787, the second son of farmer John Bayley of
A committee was appointed to inquire into the circumstances, and, after meeting no fewer than seventeen times, issued a report, of which twenty-five copies were printed for the private use of the board. His demands upon the corporation of Liverpool, to whom he charged between £3,000 and £4,000 for searches, formed the subject of a separate inquiry. Owing to his long absence, Bayley's office at the Tower was declared vacant in May 1834. He had been admitted to the Inner Temple in August 1815, but was never called to the bar.
During the rest of his life he resided mostly at Cheltenham, but later at Paris, where he died on 25 March 1869. He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (elected 1819) and of the Royal Society (elected 1823).
Works
Bayley's History and Antiquities of the Tower of London appeared in two parts in 1821–5, and an abridgment was published in 1830. He announced, but did not publish, a history of London. He had also made considerable progress on a complete parliamentary history of England, and for this he obtained copious abstracts of the returns to parliament, 1702–10, from the original records in the
Family
In September 1824, Bayley married Sophia Anne, daughter of the Right Hon. Colonel Robert Ward and granddaughter of Viscount Bangor. She died before him, on 17 June 1854, leaving a son and daughter.[2][3]
External links
References
- ISBN 9780806314327. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
- ^ Cave, Edward; Nichols, John (1854). "Obituary". The Gentleman's Magazine. Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868]: 202.
John Whitcomb Bayley.
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1914. p. 175. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Bayley, John (d.1869)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.