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 in Trinity College, Dublin, in History, English Literature, and Irish; graduated with Senior Moderatorship and gold medal in History, Political Economy, and Law; University Philosophical Society's medal in Composition; College Historical Society's medal in History. President of the University Philosophical Society, 1878-79; various cups in University Rowing Club; in the University 1st football XV.; Road Club medal 100 miles in 12 hours (solid tyre); cups for long dive, Marlborough, Wicklow, and Skerries; Irish record long-distance swim (Bray Head to Dalkey Island), 51 miles in 121 minutes, July 22nd, 1884; won cruisers races. Skerries Regattas, 1898 and 1899. Some time Chairman, Dublin Musical Society; contested (U.) S. Fermanagh, 1900-1910; Vice-President, City of Dublin Unionist Association and Member of Council of S. Co. Dublin Unionist Association; Executive Committee Feis Ceoil. Pubns.: Compensation to Landlords the corollary to the Land Act; The Fiscal Question in the United States; Grand Jury Laws of Ireland; Irish Election Law; Municipal Elections; The Pocket Pleader. Recns.: yachting, summing, cycling, golf, tennis, croquet; b. 17th April, 1855; son of Fras. Battersby, M.D., F.R.C.S.I., and Elizabeth Crooke; in. 18S3, Jeanie, dau. of Samuel Gerrard Solicitor; one son two daus. Res.: 45 Upper Mount Street, Dublin; Shenick Lodge, Skerries, Co. Dublin. Clubs: Royal Ulster Yacht, Skerries Golf.

'''BATTLEY, Lieut.-Col. D'Oyly Cade''', D.L. J.P., Co. Wicklow (High Sheriff, 1889), J.P., Cos. Cork and Dublin (High Sheriff, 1911); Lieut.-Col. late 3rd Batt. Middlesex Regt.; eldest son of Major D'Oyly William Battley, late 77th Regt., of Belvedere Hall, Bray, Co. Wicklow; b. 1841; m. 1868, Annie, dau. of William Henry Jackson, of Inane, Co. Tipperary. Res.: Belvedere Hall, Bray, Co. Wicklow. United Service and Constitutional Clubs, London.

BAXTER, James Sinclair, M.A., Hon. LL.D., Dublin, LL.B. (Lond.); Regius Professor of Feudal and English Law. Trinity College, Dublin; Professor of English Law, Queen's University, Belfast; Barrister-at-Law; m. 1901, Susan Byers; one son, one dau. Res.: 8 Northbrook Road, Dublin. Clubs: University, Dublin; Common Room, Trinity College.

BAYLY, Major Edward Archibald Theodore, D.S.O. (1917), Major Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Educ.: Radley College: University College, Oxford. Attached Egyptian Army, 1908-1918; served S. African War, 1899-1902; Relief of Ladysmith, actions at Colenso, Tugela Heights, Pieter's Hill, operations in Transvaal and Cape Colony; (severely wounded; Queen's medal with 5 clasps; King's medal with 2 clasps); Sudan, 1908; operations in Jebel Nyima District of S. Kordofan (Egyptian medal with clasp): Sudan, 1910; operations in S. Kordofan (Sudan medal with clasp); Sudan, 1916; conquest of Darfur (despatches, clasp to Sudan medal, D.S.O.); Sudan, 1917; operations against Lan Miers (in command; despatches, 3rd class Order of the Nile, clasp to Sudan medal); Palestine, 1918: b. 19th June, 1877; eldest son of late Col. E. R. Bayly, D.L., of Ballyarthur, Woodenbridge, Co. Wicklow. Res.: Ballyarthur, Woodenbridge, Co. Wicklow. Clubs: Sports; Kildare Street, Dublin.

BAYNE, Samuel Gamble, Banker; b. Ulster, Ireland, Nov. 11th, 1844; son of Peter and Margaret Bayne. Educ. Royal Acad. Institution and Queen's College, Belfast; m. 1874, Emily Kelsey, of New York; started business in office of Sir James Hamilton, Belfast; later linen manufacturer in Belfast until March, 1869; came to U.S.; went to oil regions, 1870; drilled many wells there; went around the world, 1874-5; started in banking business in Bradford, Pa., organised first Nat. Bank and became its first President; afterwards organised Nat. Banks in Tex., Kan., Miss., Minn., and Ohio; organised Seaboard Nat. Rank, 1883, now its President; Treasurer Produce Exchange Deposit Vaults; President Atlas Improvement Co., Riverside Drive Property Association. Club: New York Athletic. Author: Pith of Astronomy, 1896; On an Irish Jaunting Car; Through Donegal and Connemara, 1902. Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel, 1909. Res.: White Plains, New York, and Riverside Driven and 108th Street. Office: 18 Broadway, New York.

BEAMISH, Richard Henrik, D.L., J.P., City of Cork (High Sheriff, 1906 and 1911); eldest son of late Richd. Pigott Beamish, D.L.. of Ashbourne, Co. Cork, and Hulda (d. 1892), only dau. and heiress of Chas. G. Mozander, Knt., North Star of Sweden; m. 1903, Violet, only dau. of Gen. Gilbert. Res.: Ashbourne, Glounthaune, Co. Cork. Reform Club, London.

BEASLAI, Piaras, Commandant-General, T.D.; son of P. L. Beazley, Editor, "Catholic Times," England; T.D for East Kerry, 1918-1921, and for Co. Kerry and West Limerick from 1921; Army Publicity Director, with rank of Commandant-General, G.H.Q., Irish National Army; Vice-President of Gaelic League; President and Founder of "An Fainne": President of "Na hAisteoiri" (a Gaelic dramatic society); Author of numerous plays, novels, translations, and a volume of verse in Irish; b. 1885. Res.: Dublin.