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BAYLY—BAYNES—BAYNTON. BAYLY. 

is brother of

This officer entered the Navy, 8 April, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 26, Capts. Robt. Larkan and Edw. Brace. After serving for some time off Newfoundland, and being obliged to put, in great distress, into Cork, in consequence of the having overset, he became successively attached, as Midshipman, between 1802 and 1809, to the  36, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood,  74, Capt. Solomon Ferris,  38, Capt. Robt. Honyman, 64, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, 74, Capt. Edw. Dumford King, and 32, Commodore Edw. Henry Columbine. While in the, Mr. Bayly was present, 29 April, 1803, in a successful attack on a division of gun-boats off Boulogne – co-operated in the reduction, in Jan. 1806, of the Cape of Good Hope – witnessed the capture, 21 Feb. and 4 March following, of the Rolla brig and Volontaire frigate, in Table Bay – and, accompanying Sir Home Popham to the Rio de la Plata, took an active part in all the operations which preceded the final evacuation of Spanish America by the British in the summer of 1807. On the occasion of the re-capture of Buenos Ayres by its original possessors he narrowly escaped being involved in the destruction of a prize-schooner which he had set on fire; and at the storming of Monte Video, where he commanded a party of 40 seamen employed to co-operate with the troops, he was wounded in the face while assisting an officer of the Royal Artillery to hoist the union-jack on the citadel. During his continuance in the, Mr. Bayly on one occasion fell from the main-yard into the waist, in consequence of which he was for several weeks speechless; and on another, he tripped from the maindeck head foremost into an empty peas-cask in the after hold, and was taken out apparently lifeless. He afterwards, in the, acted as Secretary to Admiral Rowley; made a voyage, in the , to the East Indies; and in his passage to England in 1808, after having participated in the capture of a valuable Dutch settlement, broke his collar-bone in three places, and was for a twelvemonth deprived of the use of his right arm. He was ultimately confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 31 Aug. 1809, in the 20, Capt. John Tetley, and on his return home from the coast of Africa was appointed, towards the close of the same year, to the  26, Capt. John Tower. Continuing to serve in that frigate for a period of six years, he commanded a squadron of gun-boats at the taking of Genoa in April, 1814; and on one occasion succeeded, in a six-oared gig with 8 men, in boarding and capturing, when six other boats had failed, a French brig lying at anchor under a heavy battery. While hastening, however, to rejoin his ship, the prize was unfortunately struck by a shot under water, and immediately went down, scarcely affording time to himself and crew to effect their escape. On at length reaching the, the Captain presented him, in presence of the officers and crew, with the colours he had brought off and gave him every hope of promotion. The coming peace, however, blighted his expectations. He was paid off in Sept. 1815, and has not since been afloat.

Lieut. Bayly had the honour of dining with Buonaparte when King of Elba, and frequently with King Murat, by whom he was presented with an elegant diamond ring valued at 260l. He married 20 Jan. 1816, and has issue four sons and a daughter. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 BAYNES, C.B., K.R.G.

Robert_Lambert_Baynes entered the Navy, 19 April, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington, stationed off the coast of Catalonia, where he served, latterly as Midshipman, until May, 1813. Until the receipt of his first commission, 8 April, 1818, we next find him successively employed, on various stations, in the 74, and  100, both commanded by Capt. Robt. Lambert Baynes, 80, flag-ship of Sir Alex. Cochrane, 38, commanded during the expedition to New Orleans, by Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon, 20, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll, and 74, bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral Robt. Plampin. His appointments as Lieutenant were, 12 Nov. 1819, to the 74, Capt. Thos. Brown, at St. Helena – 2 Dec. 1822, and 28 Aug. 1823, to the 46, Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell, and  42, Capt. Thos. Brown, both on the South American station – and, 6 Oct. 1826, to the 84, equipping at Portsmouth for the flag of Sir Edw. Codrington. He was advanced to the command, 8 July, 1827, of the sloop, on the Mediterranean station, but being soon afterwards re-appointed, as Second-Captain, to the, was present in that ship, and distinguished himself by his exemplary conduct, at the ensuing battle of Navarin. Obtaining Post-rank 8 July, 1828, he subsequently commanded the 26, on the Cape station, from 2 Feb. 1838, to March, 1843. He has since been on half-pay.

Capt. Baynes, for his conduct at Navarin, was nominated a C.B., and presented with the Order of the Redeemer of Greece. He married, 8 July, 1846, Frances, daughter of Lord Denman, Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, and sister of Hon. Capt. Denman, R.N.

 BAYNTON. 

, born 17 Sept. 1789, in Wales, is son of the late Major Benj. Baynton, of Duncannon Fort.

This officer entered;the Navy, 3 Nov. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol, on board the 36, Capt. Edw. Kendall, lying off Lymington; and, on subsequently proceeding to the Mediterranean, in the 100, flag-ship of Lord Nelson, in which he assisted at the capture of the French 32-gun frigate Ambuscade, became Midshipman, in Aug. 1803, of the  32, Capt. Sam. Sutton, under whom we find him contributing to the capture of three Spanish frigates laden with treasure, and the destruction of a fourth, off Cape St. Mary, 5 Oct. 1804. While next attached to the 16, Capt. Henry Whitmarsh Pearse, he was on four occasions engaged with divisions of Spanish gunboats – assisted, during an encounter with an armed vessel off Malaga, in taking the enemy’s launch, 17 Oct. 1805 – was instrumental in effecting the capture, after a gallant action with three privateers, of the largest, the Neptuno Dios de los Mares, of 14 guns and 72 men, 13 Dec. 1806 – commanded a mortar-boat in an attack on the French batteries at Scylla, in Feb. 1808 – was constantly, from 12 May to 27 June following, employed in a tender against the enemy in the Faro of Messina and on the coast of Calabria – contributed, on 8 Sept. in the same year, to the reduction of the town of Diamante, and seizure of a flotilla of vessels anchored under its protection – and was farther present at the ensuing defence of the island of Capri. After acting for eleven months as Lieutenant of the 98, bearing the flag of Lord Collingwood, and of the  40, Capt. Fras. Wm. Fane, he was at length confirmed to the latter ship, by commission dated 2 Jan. 1810. In the following September he co-operated in the reduction of a French battery at Bagur, on the coast of Catalonia; and he afterwards obtained the thanks of the patriot General O’Donnell for his conduct at the storming of a fort near Palamos, on which occasion the boat of which he had command was struck by a shot, and sank almost before the wounded and the powder could be removed. On 13 of the following December Mr. Baynton took charge of the ’s boats in an attack made, in conjunction with those of the and  74’s, and  and  sloops, on an enemy’s convoy in the mole of Palamos; and