William Butterworth Bayley

William Butterworth Bayley (born November 3, 1781 , † May 20, 1860 in St Leonards-on-Sea , Sussex ) was a British official and from March 13 to July 4, 1828 interim Governor General of Fort William in British India .

He was the younger son of a family of gentry of Lancashire . He attended Eton College and Trinity College at the University of Cambridge . In 1799 he took up a job with the public civil administration in Bengal . There he attended the College of Fort William and joined the Bengal Civil Service . Bayley served as a judge and became Chief Secretary to the Government in 1819 . In 1825 he became a member of the Supreme Council . In 1828 he took over the office of Governor General of India on an interim basis, from the departure of Lord Amherst on March 13th to the arrival of Lord William Bentinck on July 4th, 1828. At the end of 1830 he returned to England. From July 23, 1833 to 1854 he was director of the British East India Company .

In February 1809 he married Anne Augusta Jackson in Calcutta .

Bayley died on May 20, 1860 in St Leonards-on-sea.

literature

• Henry Morse Stephens: Bayley, William Butterworth . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 3, Smith, Elder & Co., London 1885, p. 446.