1297 Edward Bayley

Constituency : Camberwell  North 1892-5

Edward  took  Camberwell  North  from  the  Tories. A  major  issue  in  the  campaign  was  extending  the  tramways  into  South  London  which  Edward  favoured  but  his  opponent  did  not. He  won  by  845  votes.

Edward  was  the  son  of  a  pastor  in  the  Swedenborgian  New  Church. He  was  born  in  Accrington  and  educated  across  Europe. He  set  up  his  own  business  in  London  building  railway  stock  and  fire  escapes. He  was  chairman  of  three  other  transport  companies. He  founded  an  orphanage  after  the  death  of  his  first  wife  in  1881. He  contested  Camberwell  North  in  1886  after  the  retirement  of  Richard  Strong.

In  1893  Edward  refused  to  pay  the  painter  of   his  Common  portrait  as  neither  he  nor  his  wife  were  satisfied  with  it. The  court  found  for  the  artist.

In  1895  Edward  called  for  a  select  committee  on  whether  the  lifeboat  service  should  be  publicly  funded.

Edward  was  defeated in  1895.

Edward  continued  to  be  active  in  the  transport  business.

He  died  in  1938  aged  96.