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BAXTER—BAYFIELD—BAYLEY—BAYLY. BAXTER. 

entered the Navy, 15 Nov. 1803, as Midshipman, on board the 80, Capt. Peter Puget, hearing the flags in succession of Sir Thos. Graves and Sir John Borlase Warren; and while in that ship, besides participating in various skirmishes with the Brest fleet, witnessed the capture, 13 March, 1806, of the Marengo of 80 guns, carrying the flag of Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. Rejoining Capt. Puget, in April, 1807, on board the 74, he accompanied the ensuing expedition to Copenhagen; after which event he removed to the  74, successive flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Sir Rich. Strachan and Philip Chas. Durham, and in Aug. 1809, while under the temporary command of Capt. Andrew King, contributed to the fall of Flushing. On ultimately proceeding to the East Indies, as Master’s Mate of the 74, Capt. Sir Home Popham, Mr. Baxter joined, in Sept. 1813, the  36, Capt. John Bowen. After acting for some time as Lieutenant, both in that ship and in the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Burlton, he was confirmed in his present rank by commission dated 20 Sept. 1815. He was paid off at Portsmouth in the following January, and has not since been employed. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 BAYFIELD. 

is, we believe, related to a family of high distinction, the Bayflelds, of Bayfield Hall, co. Norfolk; and a connexion of Sir Gregory Osborne Page Turner, Bart., of Ambrosden, co. Oxford.

This officer entered the Navy, 29 Sept. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capts. Fras. Newcombe and Wm. Brooking Dolling, under the former of whom, while cruizing in the Downs, he assisted at the capture, on different occasions, of three heavy privateers, carrying in the whole 44 guns and 155 men. Having further witnessed Lord Cochrane’s destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads, and attained the rating of Midshipman, he rejoined Capt. Newcombe, in April, 1811, on board the 20, and during the three following years was employed on the West India, Halifax, and Lisbon and Spanish stations. He served in Canada during the latter part of the American War; and since Sept. 1816, has been engaged in the survey of lakes Ontario, Erie, and Huron, the river St. Lawrence, and the coast of Labrador. He obtained his first commission 20 March, 1815; acquired the rank of Commander 8 Nov. 1826; and was posted for his services as a Maritime Surveyor 4 June, 1834.

Capt. Bayfield married, 2 April, 1838, Fanny, only daughter of Capt. C. Wright, R.E., by whom he has issue. – Hallett and Robinson.

 BAYLEY. 

passed his examination 7 Sept. 1836; and served as Mate, chiefly in the Mediterranean, on board the 104, Capt. Thos. Forrest, 72, Capt. Sir Geo. Rose Sartorius, steamer, Lieut.-Commanders John Jeayes and Fred. Lowe, and steam-sloop, Lieut.-Commanders Edw. Chas. Miller and John Hay Crang. He obtained his commission 6 Dec. 1845; and has been since employed on the same station in the 104, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker.

 BAYLY. 

entered the Navy 1 Sept. 1823; passed his examination 1 Dec. 1830; and from 29 July, 1840, until the early part of 1842, served in the Coast Guard. He was promoted, during the latter period, to the rank he now holds by commission dated 23 Nov. 1841; and since 15 May, 1843, has been again employed in the Coast Guard.

 BAYLY. 

entered the Navy, in June, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt., afterwards Rear-Admiral, Rich. Goodwin Keats; under whom (with the exception of a brief attachment, in 1809-10, to the and  74’s, Capts. Robt. Hall and John Poo Beresford) he continued to serve, in the same ship, and in the  74, and  110, until 1813; during which period he co-operated in the attack upon Copenhagen in 1807, and assisted at the subsequent defence of Cadiz. Joining next the 120, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, he took part in an encounter with the French fleet off Toulon, 5 Feb. 1814; shortly after which event he joined the 98, Capt. Robt. Rolles, and served as Acting-Lieutenant at the reduction of Genoa. His official promotion taking place 17 June following, he was next appointed, 13 March, 1815, to the 36, Capt. Jas. Galloway, on accompanying whom to North America he was wrecked in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on 30 April in the same year. Mr. Bayly on that occasion experienced such intense suffering from the cold and the hardships he endured, as never yet to have recovered his health. He has not been able to procure further employment.

He is married, and has issue.

 BAYLY. 

, born in 1785, at Nenagh, is son of the Rev. Henry Bayly, Rector of Nenagh and Nigh, co. Tipperary; grandson of John Bayly, Esq., of Debsborough; brother of Capt. Benj. Bayly, late 21st Fusileers, of Lieut. Peter Bayly, R.N., and of the late Capts. John Bayly, of the 2nd Bengal Light Cavalry, and Wm. Bayly, of the 92nd Highlanders; and brother-in-law of Sir Wm. Rowan Hamilton, Astronomer Royal of Ireland, and of Wm. Rathbone, Esq., late High Sheriff of Dublin.

This officer entered the Navy, 6 March, 1799, as a Volunteer, on hoard the 36, commanded by his relative Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood; and on 31 March, 1800, while at the blockade of Malta, assisted at the hard-wrought capture of Le Guillaume Tell, of 84 guns and 1000 men, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Decrès. After attending, as Midshipman, the expedition to Egypt, he successively joined, between May, 1802, and Oct. 1805, the 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Rich. Strachan, 44, Capt. Geo. Chas. Mackenzie, 88, Capt. John Poo Beresford, and  36, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood. For his conduct in the latter frigate at the battle of Trafalgar, on which occasion he had the honour of conveying Lord Collingwood on board, he was at once appointed Acting-Lieutenant of that nobleman’s flag-ship, the 100. He was officially promoted on 22 Dec. in the same year, 1805; and was afterwards appointed – 19 April, 1806, to the 74, Capt. Peter Halkett, in which ship he witnessed the capture, 27 Sept. 1806, of Le Président French frigate, and the subsequent reduction of Copenhagen – 11 March, 1808, to the  74, Capt. Hon. H. Blackwood, stationed in the Mediterranean – 22 Oct. 1810, as First (for his co-exertions in having rescued the, and  brig, from six of the enemy’s line-of-battle ships in a gale off Toulon), to the  38, Capt. Anselm John Griffiths, also in the Mediterranean – 1 Jan. 1811, to the  74, Capt. Walter Bathurst, with whom he returned to England an invalid – 25 Oct. 1811, and 11 Oct. 1813, to the  16, and  36, Capts. Alex. Renny and Nathaniel Day Cochrane, on the Cork and West India stations, the latter of which ships he left in May, 1815 – and, in 1827, to the 120, bearing the flag at the Nore of his old friend, Hon. H. Blackwood, at whose recommendation, on memorialising the Lord High Admiral, he was advanced to his present rank, 25 Aug. 1828.

Commander Bayly married, 12 Sept. 1831, Miss Tripe.

