Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bayley, Sir Steuart Colvin
BAYLEY, SIR STEUART COLVIN (1836–)
I.C.S.: born Aug. 26, 1836: the youngest son of W. Butterworth B. (q.v.): educated at Eton and Haileybury: arrived in India, March, 1856: held minor appointments in Bengal: was Commissioner of Patna during the Bihar famine of 1874: C.S.I., 1875: Secretary to the Government of Bengal, 1877: Additional Secretary to the Government of India, 1877: Personal Assistant to the Viceroy (Lord Lytton) for famine affairs, 1877: K.C.S.I., 1878: Home Secretary, 1878: Chief Commissioner of Assam, 1878–80: Resident at Hyderabad, 1881–2: C.I.E., 1881: Member of the Supreme Council, 1882–7: Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal from July to Dec, 1879, and from 1887–90; on leaving India he became Secretary in the Political Department at the India Office, 1890–95: Member of the Council of India, 1895.