Sir Edward Clive Bayley (17 October 1821 – 30 April 1884), was an

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civil servant, statesman and archaeologist.

Early life

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

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, and Margaret Fenton. He was born at

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in October 1821, and educated at the

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Career

Bayley entered the

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in 1842, and served at

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, and

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. On the annexation of the

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he was appointed deputy-commissioner at

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in April 1849, and in November under-secretary to the government of

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in the foreign department, under Sir Henry Elliot. Two years later he became deputy-commissioner of the

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, but in 1854 was compelled by poor health to take leave. In England Bayley studied law, and he was

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in 1857; he returned to India on the outbreak of the mutiny later that year. In September 1857 he was ordered to

, where he served as an under-secretary in Sir John Peter Grant's provisional government, and held various posts in that city during the next eighteen months. In 1859 he was appointed judge in the

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, and, after serving in a judicial capacity at

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and

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, was called to

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by Lord Canning in May 1861, to fill the post of foreign secretary pending the arrival of Sir

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. 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. Bayley was invested as a Knight Commander of the

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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. One of his daughters, Georgiana was a writer who helped with higher education for women in London.

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. 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

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s of Kabul.' At the time of his death, he had nearly completed the editing of the ninth volume of H. M. Elliot's ''History of India as told by its own Historians'' (1886). He held the post of vice-chancellor of the

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for five years and was five times president of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bayley, Edward Clive 1821 births 1884 deaths Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire British archaeologists 19th-century Indian archaeologists British East India Company civil servants Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Vice-chancellors of the University of Calcutta People from Eccles, Greater Manchester Presidents of The Asiatic Society