Norman Bayles (1 February 1865 – 25 September 1946) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to merchant and politician

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and Isobel Buist. He attended

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and Scotch College before studying law at the

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. He became a solicitor from 1887, working as a partner in Bayles, Hamilton and Wilks. On 18 February 1897 he married Marion Elizabeth Clarke; she died in 1915 and on 11 September 1917 he married Roma Mary Hill Neill, with whom he had one son. In 1906 he won a by-election for the

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seat of Toorak. He voted against the Bent government and served as a Liberal and later a

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. Bayles retired in 1920 and died in Toorak in 1946.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bayles, Norman 1865 births 1946 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly