BAYLY (afterwards WALLIS), Lewis (1775-1848), of Ilchester, Som. and Peterwell, Card.

Bayly’s father appointed his widow and Albany Wallis, the prominent London solicitor,Gent. Mag. (1800), ii. 908; N. and Q. (ser. 12), iii. 155; PCC 691 Adderley. guardians of the son of his old age. On 3 Sept. 1800 Wallis died leaving nearly the whole of his estate, valued between £70,000 and £80,000, to Lady Bayly for her life with remainder to Lewis, who accordingly changed his name to Wallis a fortnight later. He had been an army officer and was already in Parliament, having been returned on a vacancy for Ilchester, by arrangement with his guardian’s business partner Richard Troward, the proprietor, to whom Wallis apparently owed £30,000 towards the purchase of the borough at the time of his death.

Wallis made no mark in Parliament and did not seek re-election at the dissolution of 1802. In April he had disposed of his interest at Ilchester to Sir William Manners, the price quoted being £53,000.The Times , 12 Apr. 1802. He died 10 Aug. 1848, aged 73, on board his yacht.Gent. Mag. (1848), ii. 445.