Colonel Nicholas Bayly (1747 – 7 June 1812) was a British soldier and

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Background

Bayly was the third son of

Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet (1709 – 9 December 1782), was a British landowner and Member of Parliament. Background and education Bayly was the eldest son of Sir Edward Bayly, 1st Baronet, and Dorothy, daughter of the Hon. Oliver Lambart. ...

, and Caroline, daughter of

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Thomas Paget.
He was baptised on the 1 Jun 1747 at Llanedwen, Anglesey, Wales.
He was the younger brother of Henry Bayly-Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, and the uncle of

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (17 May 1768 – 29 April 1854), styled Lord Paget between 1784 and 1812 and known as the Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a member ...

. The family seat was Plas Newydd.
Press cutting - Oxford Journal 27 June 1812 - Deaths: At Weymouth, aged 64 years, Colonel Nicholas Bayly, brother to the Earl of Uxbridge.

Military and political career

Bayly was a

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in the

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and after he had begun his political career he was appointed

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of the part-time

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(a regiment in which several of his family also served) on 15 April 1788. He was returned to parliament for

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in 1784, a seat he held until 1790. He was succeeded as MP by his nephew

William Paget William Paget may refer to: *William Paget, 1st Baron Paget (1506–1563), English statesman * William Paget, 4th Baron Paget de Beaudesert (1572–1629), English colonist *William Paget, 5th Baron Paget (1609–1678), English peer *William Paget, ...

Family

Bayly married Fanny (''née'' Nettlefold). He died in June 1812. Their second son was Gen. Sir Henry Bayly.

References

1749 births 1814 deaths Grenadier Guards officers Middlesex Militia officers British MPs 1784–1790 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Welsh constituencies Younger sons of baronets

Nicholas Nicholas is a male given name and a surname. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglicanism, Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the n ...

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