Sir Steuart Colvin Bayley GCSI

Order of the Star of India

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, CIE

Order of the Indian Empire

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 (26 November 1836 – 3 June 1925) was a British civil servant and Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal from 1879–1882.

Early life

He was the son of William Butterworth Bayley

William Butterworth Bayley

William Butterworth Bayley was acting Governor-General of India during the period March–July 1828.Bayley was a member of the Bengal Civil Service and a director and chairman of the British East India Company ....

, who rose to be acting Governor-General of India, and Anne Augusta Jackson. His middle name is a reference to the well-connected Colvin family of Anglo-Indian administrators, just as John Russell Colvin

John Russell Colvin

John Russell Colvin, Esq. was a British civil servant in India, part of the illustrious Anglo-Indian Colvin family. He was lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces of British India during the mutiny of 1857, at the height of which he died.-Life:Colvin's was an Anglo-Indian family of...

 named his son after his boss, George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland

George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland

George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, GCB, PC was a British Whig politician and colonial administrator. He was thrice First Lord of the Admiralty and also served as Governor-General of India between 1836 and 1842....

. He was educated at Eton

Eton College

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 and Haileybury College.

Career

Bayley entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1856. He held the office of Commissioner of the Patna Division in 1873. He was invested as a Knight Commander, Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in 1878. He held the office of Chief Commissioner of Assam

Assam

Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...

 in 1878. He held the office of Resident at Hyderabad in 1881. He held the office of Member of the Governor-General's Council in 1882. Bayley held the office of Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal in 1887. He was Secretary of the Political and Secret Department, India Office

India Office

The India Office was a British government department created in 1858 to oversee the colonial administration of India, i.e. the modern-day nations of Bangladesh, Burma, India, and Pakistan, as well as territories in South-east and Central Asia, the Middle East, and parts of the east coast of Africa...

 in 1891.

Personal life

Bayley married Anna Farquharson, daughter of Robert Nesham Farquharson, on 21 November 1860 at Patna

Patna

Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...

, India. They had 13 children.

Later life

Bayley died in 1925 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery

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, London. His portrait is held by the National Portrait Gallery.