Emily Anne Theophila, Lady Clive Bayley ( Metcalfe; 31 August 1830 – 6 March 1911) was an English memoirist. A book of her reminiscences was published in 1980. Edited by

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, it was called ''The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi: Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and by Her Father Sir Thomas Metcalfe''. In 1844, her father sent her an

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that he had commissioned. Known as the

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, it is currently housed in the

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Life

Bayley was born in India, the daughter of Grace (born Clarke) and

Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, 4th Baronet, (2 January 1795 – 3 November 1853) was an East India Company civil servant and agent of the Governor General of India at the imperial court of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar. Biography Sir T ...

, a British civil servant in India known as the British Resident (de facto Ambassador). She was educated in England before rejoining her father in

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at the age of seventeen. Her father had built two houses called

Metcalfe House Metcalfe House is the name given to two residential houses built in the 19th century in Delhi; one is near Old Delhi Civil Lines and the other is in Mehrauli, South Delhi. These were built by Sir Thomas Metcalfe (1795–1853), a civil servant, ...

in Delhi and he created a book for her known as the

which he had sent to her in 1844 while she was still in England. This remained with her family after her death in 1911 until it was discovered by Lt.-Col. John Mildmay Ricketts M.C. The resulting book was built around the thoughts recorded by Emily's father and illustrated by the paintings he commissioned. This is in the British Museum. To this is added a narrative created by Emily Bayley and then these are then presented by the popular writer M. M. Kaye. in a contemporary book. Bayley collected coins, and sold 75 Indian copper coins to the

in 1889.

Personal life

In 1850, Bayley married

Edward Clive Bayley Sir Edward Clive Bayley (17 October 1821 – 30 April 1884), was an Anglo-Indian civil servant, statesman and archaeologist. Early life Bayley was the only son of Edward Clive Bayley, of Hope Hall, Eccles, Lancashire, and Margaret Fenton. He ...

. He became Knight Commander of the

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in 1877, and Emily became "Lady Clive Bayley". They had a family of one son and seven daughters. One of their daughters, Georgiana was a writer who helped with higher education for women in London. She died at The Wilderness, her residence at

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, aged 80.

References

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