Norman Bayles

Norman Bayles (1 February 1865 25 September 1946) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Prahran to merchant and politician William Bayles and Isobel Buist. He attended Toorak College and Scotch College before studying law at the University of Melbourne. He became a solicitor from 1887, working as a partner in Bayles, Hamilton and Wilks. On 18 February 1897 he married Marion Elizabeth Clarke; she died in 1915 and on 11 September 1917 he married Roma Mary Hill Neill, with whom he had one son. In 1906 he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Toorak. He voted against the Bent government and served as a Liberal and later a Nationalist. Bayles retired in 1920 and died in Toorak in 1946.[1]

References

  1. Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Bayles, Norman". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
George Fairbairn
Member for Toorak
19061920
Succeeded by
Stanley Argyle
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