Lewis Bayly

Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, (28 September 1857 – 16 May 1938) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the First World War. Early life and career Bayly was born at Woolwich on 28 September 1857. He was a great-grandnephew of Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats. Bayly joined the Royal Navy in 1870. He served in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War in 1873 and against pirates in the Congo Basin in 1875. He later served on the armoured frigate and in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882. Bayly married in 1892 Yves Henrietta Stella, daughter of Henry Annesley Voysey; there was no issue of the marriage. In July 1902, Bayly became commanding officer of the protected cruiser , serving on the China Station. He was given command of the destroyers of the Home Fleet (1907–1908) with the scout cruiser as his flagship. On 22 March 1908, Bayly was appointed a naval aide-de-camp to King Edward VII. He was then given a shore command as president of the Royal Naval War College (1908–1911). Before the outbreak of the First World War he was given command successively of the 1st Cruiser Squadron (1911–1912), the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron (1912–13), and the 3rd Battle Squadron (1913–1914). First World War During the early months of the First World War, Bayly commanded the 1st Battle Squadron. He was in command of the rescue operation when the dreadnought battleship was mined and sunk on 27 October 1914.