Background
Edwin was born in Wolverhampton, on Merridale Road, the eldest son of Samuel Bayliss (b 1848) and Emma Bayliss (née Butler, b1849).
Edwin was born in Wolverhampton, on Merridale Road, the eldest son of Samuel Bayliss (b 1848) and Emma Bayliss (née Butler, b1849).
From twelve he attended the Rydal Mount School (now named the Rydal Penrhos School), a boarding school in Colwyn Bay, Wales where he became a prefect.
He spent his childhood in Finchfield and Tettenhall, Wolverhampton. At eighteen he returned to his family"s large house in Tettenhall, The Woodhouse. He joined his father"s manufacturing firm, but at twenty-seven he had left to pursue his artistic ambitions.