| Emily Bayley | |
|---|---|
| Born | Emily Anne Theophila Metcalfe (1830-08-31)31 August 1830 Meerut, Bengal, British India |
| Died | 6 March 1911(1911-03-06) (aged 80) Ascot, Berkshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Memoirist |
| Spouse |
Sir Edward Clive Bayley
(m. 1850; died 1884) |
| Children | 11, including Georgiana Chapman |
| Parent(s) | Grace (née Clarke) and Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet |
Emily Anne Theophila, Lady Clive Bayley (née Metcalfe; 31 August 1830 – 6 March 1911) was an English memoirist. A book of her reminiscences was published in 1980. Edited by M. M. Kaye, it was called The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi: Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and by Her Father Sir Thomas Metcalfe.
In 1844, her father sent her an illustrated book that he had commissioned. Known as the Delhi Book, it is currently housed in the British Museum.
Life
Bayley was born in India, the daughter of Grace (born Clarke) and Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet, a British civil servant in India known as the British Resident (de facto Ambassador). She was educated in England before rejoining her father in Delhi at the age of seventeen.
Her father had built two houses called Metcalfe House in Delhi and he created a book for her known as the Delhi Book which he had sent to her in 1844 while she was still in England. This remained with her family after her death in 1911 until it was discovered by Lt.-Col. John Mildmay Ricketts M.C. The resulting book was built around the thoughts recorded by Emily's father and illustrated by the paintings he commissioned. This is in the British Museum. To this is added a narrative created by Emily Bayley and then these are then presented by the popular writer M. M. Kaye. in a contemporary book.
Bayley collected coins, and sold 75 Indian copper coins to the British Museum in 1889.
Personal life
In 1850, Bayley married Edward Clive Bayley. He became Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1877, and Emily became "Lady Clive Bayley". They had a family of one son and seven daughters. One of their daughters, Georgianam was a writer who helped with higher education for women in London.
She died at The Wilderness, her residence at Ascot, Berkshire, aged 80.
References
- ^ India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786–1947
- Bayley, Lady Emily; Metcalfe, Sir Thomas (1980). The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi : Reminiscences. Viking Press. ISBN 978-0-670-34400-0.
- ^ Anderson, Tracy (2015). "The Lives and Afterlives of Charlotte, Lady Canning (1817–1861): Gender, Commemoration, and Narratives of Loss". The Afterlives of Monuments. Routledge. p. 47. ISBN 9781317704515. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
- ^ "William Dalrymple on The Dehlie Book". the Guardian. 16 August 2003. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
- Fuller, Edward (22 December 1980). "review (as recorded by M M Kaye)". Wall Street Journal. pp. https://www.mmkaye.com/ReviewGoldenCalm.html.
- "Lady Emily Anne Theophila Bayley". British Museum. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
- "Chapman [née Bayley], Georgiana Charlotte Clive, Lady Chapman (1855–1941), college administrator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52742. Retrieved 11 October 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- "Obituary: Lady Bayley". The Times. 8 March 1911. p. 11.