Steuart Bayley

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Sir Steuart Colvin Bayley

Sir Steuart Colvin Bayley

CIE (26 November 1836 โ€“ 3 June 1925) was a British civil servant and Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
from 1887 to 1890.

Early life

He was the son of

Haileybury College
.

Career

Bayley entered the

Hyderabad in 1881. He held the office of Member of the Governor-General's Council in 1882.[1] Bayley held the office of Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal between 1887 and 1890.[2] He was Secretary of the Political and Secret Department, India Office
in 1891. In 1888, he accompanied the Sikkim expedition and was awarded the India General Service Medal (1854-95) with clasp for 'Sikkim 1888'.

Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London

Personal life

Bayley married Anna Farquharson, daughter of Robert Nesham Farquharson, on 21 November 1860 at Patna, India. They had 13 children.

Later life

Bayley died in 1925 and was interred in

National Portrait Gallery.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Buckland, Charles Edward (1906). Dictionary of Indian Biography. London: Swan & Co. p. 31.
  2. ^ Buckland, Charles Edward (1901). Bengal Under The Lieutenant-Governors. Vol. 2. Calcutta: S. K. Lahiri & Co. p. 837.
  3. ^ Portrait at www.npg.org.uk
Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson
Lieutenant-governor of Bengal

1887โ€“1890
Succeeded by