Bio:John C. Bayliss

From an obituary in St Catherine's Magazine 2009, page 91.: "On 18 August 2008, John Clifford Bayliss of Thames Village, Chiswick, and Taunton, Somerset. John won an Exhibition to St Catharine’s from Latymer Upper School to read English and was editor of The Granta magazine. He initially registered as a conscientious objector during the war and worked on the land, but he joined the RAF in 1941, serving at Bomber Command HQ and in India. He published several books of poetry in the 1940s and won a bursary from the Society of Authors in 1947. After the war, he worked as an Editor for the publishers Macmillan and at the Colonial Office, then as Editorial Officer at the Northern Rhodesian and Nyasaland Publications Bureau. In the 1960s and 1970s he was involved in the low-priced book scheme for overseas students at the Central Office of Information, becoming Director of this scheme at the British Council; he was awarded the OBE for this work in 1971. He retired in 1979."