Author: Bayly, Henry
Biography:
BAYLY, Henry (1811-61: O’Hart)
He was the son of Peter Bayly, a Dublin attorney, and his third wife, Harriot Cowell, a celebrated beauty, and was probably born in Dublin. In Aug. 1831 he married Anne Jordan. He worked in Lisburn, possibly for the estate of the Marquis of Hertford, and the preface to his Topographical and Historical Account of Lisburn refers to him as “the Lisburn poet.” Likely he is the Irish Henry Bayly who sent Sir Robert Peel a copy of his book in 1835 and sought a subscription to a forthcoming work. Peel declined to subscribe and Bayly’s reply condemned him as “selfish, avaricious, mean, rotten, contemptible, and despicable.” Despite this, Peel sent him £5. Bayly died in 1861, leaving one child, a son. (John O’Hart, Irish Pedigrees 2 [1892] 39; Charles Stuart Parker, Sir Robert Peel from his Private Papers 2 [1899] 370-72) SR