William Bayles (1 November 1820 – 8 October 1903), was a mayor of

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, Australia. Bayles was the second son of William Bayles of

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, Yorkshire, was born in 1820, and emigrated to

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in 1846. Removing to Melbourne in 1852, he went into business as a merchant and shipowner, and was

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in 1865, in which year he retired from active business. In 1864 he was elected to the

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for Villiers and Heytesbury, and was Commissioner of Trade and Customs in the short-lived Sladen ministry from May to July 1868. He had for some years past taken no part in public life. He married, in 1854, Isabel, third daughter of Arthur Buist, of

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, Tasmania. He died on 8 October 1903 in

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