Mr Lyttleton Holyoake BAYLEY (1827 - 1910)**

Date of Birth: 06/05/1827 Place of Birth: England Date of Death: 04/08/1910 Place of Death: Parkestone, Dorset, England

Parliamentary Service

Position Start End Period Notes Member of the NSW Legislative Council 19 Jan 1859 28 Apr 1859 3mth(s) 10day(s) First (Quinquennal) appointments under the Constitution Act: Date of Writ of Summons 18 January 1859 Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 18 Jun 1859 26 Nov 1859 5mth(s) 9day(s) Member for Mudgee 18 Jun 1859 26 Nov 1859 5mth(s) 9day(s) 3rd (1859 - 1860) Attorney General 21 Feb 1859 26 Oct 1859 8mth(s) 6day(s) Representative of the Government in the Legislative Council 23 Feb 1859 28 Apr 1859 2mth(s) 6day(s) Library Committee No.3 1 Sep 1859 4 Jul 1860 10mths 4days 3rd (1859 - 1860) Secondary Punishment Committee No.8 14 Sep 1859 4 Jul 1860 9mths 21days 3rd (1859 - 1860)

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Lawyer (barrister). Educated at Eton and perhaps Trinity College, Cambridge. Called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1850. Arrived in New South Wales 1858, bringing 'large capital' for investment. Left for Melbourne in December 1859, where his wife died on 9 April 1860. Practised as barrister, but soon returned to England. Went to India in 1862 when appointed Under-Secretary to Government of Bombay; Judge of High Court of Bombay 1869-1895.

Military Service

Lieutenant - Colonel in the Volunteer Bombay Rifle Company. Briefly aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India.

Honours Received

Knight Bachelor in 1896.

Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held

Advocate-General and Member of the Legislative Council of Bombay, 1866.

Personal

Younger son of Sir John Edward George Bayley, 2nd Baronet, and Charlotte Mary Fector. Married Isabella Mactier on 12 May 1852 and they had 2 sons and 2 daughters. Church of England.

Additional Information

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3

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