Background
Bayley was the second son of Sir John Edward George Bayley, 2nd Baronet (1793–1871), and brother of Sir John Robert Laurie Emilias Laurie, Baronet., and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Bayley was the second son of Sir John Edward George Bayley, 2nd Baronet (1793–1871), and brother of Sir John Robert Laurie Emilias Laurie, Baronet., and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Eton College; Trinity College.
Bayley captained the 1844 cricket team at Eton and played first-class cricket from 1846 to 1848. He emigrated to Australia, and was Attorney-General of New South Wales in the second Charles Cowper Government from March to October 1859, in succession to Alfred Lutwyche. His appointment gave great offence to the legal fraternity, as he had been but a short time in the colony.
And Daniel Deniehy moved a resolution censuring his nomination.
lieutenant was not, however, carried. In 1866 Bayley was appointed Advocate-General at Bombay, India, and Puisne Judge in 1869.
Bayley briefly acted as aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India. Bayley died on 4 August 1910 at Parkstone, Dorset, England.