Henry Dennis Readett-Bayley, Sir, K.B.E., D.L.
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Membership
1919-1920, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Associate Member; Address: K.B.E., Lenton Abbey, Beeston, Nottingham. Transactions to be sent c/o The Digby Colliery Company, Limited,17, Derby Road, Nottingham.
Biographical Notes
Readett-Bayley, Sir Henry Dennis, K.B.E., D.L. (East Yorkshire), J.P. (Notts.) M.Inst.M.E. ; Member of the Nottingham County Council; Lt.-Col. R.A. M.C. (v); Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem; High Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1920-21. Second son of late Thomas Bayley, J.P., of Lenton Abbey and Langar Hall, Nottingham (who was for some years M.P. for the Chesterfield Division) and Annie Mary Bradley Bayley, daughter of Hcnry Farmer of Lenton, Notts. Sir Dennis married in 1903 Audrey Cecil, daughter of Sir John Turney, one son, four daughters. Educated Tetyhanger Lodge, St. Albans; Uppingham; private tutors; Royal Agricultural College, Ciren cester. Founder and organizer of the Dennis Bayley Fund for the transport of wounded which raised ú700,000 for the provision of motor ambulances, hospital boats and other equipment, principally contributed by the coal owners and coal miners of Great Britain. Mentioned in F.M. Sir John French's Despatches, December, 1915; a Governor British Ambulance Committee; Member of British Red Cross Society, and Order St. John's War Executive Committee, Collections Committee and Motor Ambulance Committee. Officer of the Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre.
Source: 1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
Biographical Notes
Readett-Bayley, Sir Henry Dennis, K.B.E., D.L., J.P. Coal owner and ironmaster. President of the Erewash Valley Coal Association. Member of the Nottinghamshire District Miners' Welfare Committee. Private Address: Gedling House, Notts.
Source: 1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
Biographical Notes
Readett-Bayley, Lt.-Col. Sir Henry Dennis, K.B.E., D.L., J.P. Born December 8th, 1878. Educated at Uppingham, St. Andrew's and the Royal Agricultural College. Cirencester. Joined the Royal Fifeshire Voluntary Artillery. Lieut.-Colonel, Honorary, Royal Army Medical Corps. Honorary Captain, General Service. Knight Commander Order of the British Empire. High Sheriff of Yorkshire, 19 19-1920. Deputy Lieutenant, East Riding of Yorkshire. Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. Justice of the Peace of Nottinghamshire-Acting Senior Magistrate at the Shire Hall. For many years a Member of the Nottinghamshire County Council. Mining Appointments: Twenty-five years Chairman of the Erewash & Leen Valley Coal Owners' Association. Member of the Miners' Welfare Committee since its inception. Twice President and Vice-President of the Notts., Derby and Lincolnshire Coal Trade Benevolent Association. Member of the Institute of Mining Engineers, and of the Nottingham Society of Engineers. Served for twenty-five years on the Council of the Mining Association of Great Britain, and for the same number of years an active member of the Notts. & Derby Coal Association (Owners'). Made a Mining Tour of South Africa in 1919. Colliery Owner, Mining Engineer, Ironmaster, Leather Manufacturer and Land Owner. Twenty-five years Managing Director of the Digby Colliery Co. Ltd. Twenty-five years Director of the Manners Colliery Co. Ltd., Renishaw Iron Company and Smith Brothers & Co., Brass Founders. Address: Burton Joyce Hall, Nottingham.
Source: 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
- 1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- Transactions of the Institute of Mining Engineers, Volume LIX published in 1920
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