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| name = Emily Bayley<br />
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| birth_name = Emily Anne Theophila Metcalfe <br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1830|8|31|df=y}}<ref name="birth">''India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786–1947''</ref><br />
| birth_place = [[Meerut]], [[Bengal]], British India<ref name="birth"/><br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1911|3|6|1830|8|31|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Ascot, Berkshire]], England<br />
| known_for = Memoirist<br />
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| spouse = {{marriage|Sir [[Edward Clive Bayley]]|1850|1884|end=his death}}<br />
| children = 11, including [[Georgiana Chapman]]<br />
| parents = Grace ({{nee}} Clarke) and [[Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet]]<br />
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'''Emily Anne Theophila, Lady Clive Bayley''' ({{nee}} '''Metcalfe'''; 31 August 1830 – 6 March 1911) was an English memoirist. A book of her reminiscences was published in 1980. Edited by [[M. M. Kaye]], it was called ''The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi: Reminiscences by Emily, Lady Clive Bayley, and by Her Father Sir Thomas Metcalfe''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bayley |first1=Lady Emily |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4FwwAQAAIAAJ&q=The+Golden+Calm:+An+English+Lady's+Life+in+Moghul+Delhi:+Reminiscences+by+Emily,+Lady+Clive+Bayley |title=The Golden Calm: An English Lady's Life in Moghul Delhi : Reminiscences |last2=Metcalfe |first2=Sir Thomas |date=1980 |publisher=Viking Press |isbn=978-0-670-34400-0 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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In 1844, her father sent her an [[illustrated book]] that he had commissioned. Known as the [[Delhi Book]], it is currently housed in the [[British Museum]].<br />
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==Life==<br />
Bayley was born in India, the daughter of Grace (born Clarke) and [[Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet]], a [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|British civil servant in India]]<ref name=page47>{{cite book|last1=Anderson|first1=Tracy|title=The Afterlives of Monuments|chapter=The Lives and Afterlives of Charlotte, Lady Canning (1817–1861): Gender, Commemoration, and Narratives of Loss|date=2015|publisher=[[Routledge]]|page=47|isbn=9781317704515|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hD-DCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|access-date=6 February 2016}}</ref> known as the British Resident (de facto Ambassador).<ref name=book/> She was educated in England before rejoining her father in [[Delhi]] at the age of seventeen. <br />
[[File:A_panorama_in_12_folds_showing_the_procession_of_the_Emperor_Bahadur_Shah_to_celebrate_the_feast_of_the_%27Id.,_1843.jpg|thumb|One of the illustrations from the book created by her father for her]]<br />
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Her father had built two houses called [[Metcalfe House]] in Delhi<ref name=page47/> and he created a book for her known as the [[Delhi Book]] which he had sent to her in 1844 while she was still in England.<ref name=book>{{Cite web |date=2003-08-16 |title=William Dalrymple on The Dehlie Book |url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2003/aug/16/art.highereducation |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> This remained with her family after her death in 1911 until it was discovered by Lt.-Col. John Mildmay Ricketts M.C. The resulting book was built around the thoughts recorded by Emily's father and illustrated by the paintings he commissioned. This is in the British Museum. To this is added a narrative created by Emily Bayley and then these are then presented by the popular writer M. M. Kaye. in a contemporary book.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fuller |first=Edward |date=22 December 1980 |title=review (as recorded by M M Kaye) |pages=https://www.mmkaye.com/ReviewGoldenCalm.html |work=Wall Street Journal}}</ref><br />
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Bayley [[coin collecting|collected coins]], and sold 75 [[Coinage of India|Indian copper coins]] to the [[British Museum]] in 1889.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lady Emily Anne Theophila Bayley |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG8345 |publisher=[[British Museum]] |access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life ==<br />
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In 1850, Bayley married [[Edward Clive Bayley]]. He became Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Star of India]] in 1877, and Emily became "Lady Clive Bayley". They had a family of one son and seven daughters. One of their daughters, [[Georgiana Chapman|Georgiana]] was a writer who helped with higher education for women in London.<ref name="ONB">{{cite ODNB |title=Chapman [née Bayley], Georgiana Charlotte Clive, Lady Chapman (1855–1941), college administrator |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/52742 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/52742 |access-date=11 October 2022 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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She died at The Wilderness, her residence at [[Ascot, Berkshire]], aged 80.<ref name="obit">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Lady Bayley |work=[[The Times]] |date=8 March 1911 |page=11 }}</ref><br />
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