Samuel Bayliss (1821-1898)
Samuel Bayliss (1821-1898)
1899 Obituary [1]
SAMUEL BAYLISS was born on the 27th October, 1821, and, on leaving school, was articled to Richard Prosser, Civil Engineer, of Birmingham, with whom he remained for some years.
About the year 1857 he proceeded to Egypt, where he was engaged on the construction of railways, including a bridge over the River Nile at Beimar.
He then went to Brazil, where for nearly four years he was occupied as Resident Engineer on the Dom Pedro Segundo Railway.
Subsequently he became identified with the Smyrna and Cassaba Railway in Asia Minor, and, after its completion, he projected and carried out an extension of that railway to Alascheir.
Mr. Bayliss had other important matters in hand in Turkey, but the breaking out of the Russo-Turkish War in 1877 prevented their being carried out, and he then retired from active life, having on his retirement received from the Sultan of Turkey the Order of the Medjidieh for distinguished services to that country.
He spent the remaining years of his life in England. Early last year his health began to fail, and he died on the 27th November, 1898, in his 78th year.
Mr. Bayliss was elected an Associate of the Institution on the 2nd February, 1864.