Cornelius Bayley (1751–2 April 1812), was an English Anglican cleric.

Biography

He was born in 1751 at Ashe, near

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. His father seems to have migrated to

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while Cornelius was young, and to have been a leather-maker there. He was educated at the Whitchurch Grammar School, Shropshire, of which for a short time he acted as master. He became a Methodist preacher, but later took orders in the

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. That was in 1781, and he went on to serve as curate to

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at Madeley, and

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. Bayley was the first incumbent of St. James' Church, Manchester, a "proprietary church", which he built in 1787. The degree of B.D., taken by the ten-year route, was conferred on him at

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in 1792, and that of

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in 1800. Bayley died on 2 April 1812 at Manchester.

Publications

In 1782 Bayley published a Hebrew grammar, ''An Entrance into the Sacred Tongue''. A second edition was issued after his death. He wrote notes and a preface to an edition of the ''

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'' of the church, published at Manchester in 1811. His other published writings were sermons and pamphlets, one being on the ''

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Doctrine of the Trinity'' (1785).

References

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