Miss Ada Ellen Bayly (1857-1903) was born in Brighton the youngest daughter of Robert Bayly Esq., barrister-at-law. She was home schooled, but enjoyed annual visits to her aunts home, Badmondesfield Hall, Suffolk, a timber framed romantic building dating from the reign of Edward III. At the end of her life she was a semi-invalid, she died aged just 45 at her home in College Road, Eastbourne. Her ashes were place in Bosbury churchyard, where her brother was the vicar.