Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet (1709 – 9 December 1782), was a British landowner and

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Background and education

Bayly was the eldest son of Sir Edward Bayly, 1st Baronet, and Dorothy, daughter of the Hon. Oliver Lambart. He was educated at

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. He succeeded his father as second Baronet in 1741, inheriting Plas Newydd near Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey.thepeerage.com Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Bt.
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Political career

Bayly was returned to Parliament for

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in 1734, a seat he held until 1741, and again between 1747 and 1761 and 1770 and 1774. In 1761 he was appointed

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, which he remained until shortly before his death in 1782.

Family

Bayly married firstly Caroline Paget, daughter of

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, and Mary Whitcombe, in 1737. They had six sons and five daughters: # Edward, died unmarried on 30 June 1753 #

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, who succeeded to the baronetcy # Nicholas Bayly, who died on 7 June 1812, leaving a widow and ten children # Thomas, died as an infant # Brownlow, died as an infant # Paget Bayly, who was born in 1753 and died 15 November 1804, having married on 25 August 1791 a Miss Colepepper and had issue: an only son, who died 1 November 1801; Louisa Augusta, who married in April 1810 Sir Edward Perrott; and Rose Maria, who married in December 1812 G. A. Coleman # Mary, who died 20 October 1790, having married Stephen Metcalfe, of Sereby, Lincolnshire # Dorothy, who died 24 September 1764, having married the Hon. George Forbes. # Caroline, died in 1786, unmarried # Gertrude, died in 1761, unmarried # Louisa, born 4 December 1750, and married 6 April 1789 Captain Thomas Poplett, RN.

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After his first wife's death on 7 February 1766, Bayly married secondly Anne (née Hunter). They had a son

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in 1775, Lewis later added the surname Wallis and became a General in the Army. Bayly died in December 1782 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son from his first marriage,

, who had already succeeded as 10th Baron Paget through his mother in 1769 and was later created Earl of Uxbridge. He was the father of

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, hero of the

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. Lady Bayly died in May 1818.

References

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